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Error on Best Selling Video Game Franchises List[edit]

Hi,

I have noticed that you have recently made edits on the Best Selling Video Game Franchises List, which undid some of the typing I did. Problem is, now there is a Cite web error on the page and I am not sure what is causing it. Do you know how you can fix it?

And this part is just a postscript but you said that there is no sales figure source in the PDF, and this isn't true. The sales figure is in the PDF file, in page 7. The reason why it's not easy to find it is because the text that mention the sales figure is like a picture, you can't select, cut, copy, and paste with it. It may take a while, but you should see the 88.7 million sales figure. BlueCrystal7897 (talk) 23:43, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@BlueCrystal7897: The PDF that you first linked before I replaced it, Sony's March 1, 2023 statement, didn't mention anything about Battlefield's sales figures. Since all the text was searchable in that particular file, I wasn't able to find anything about specific sales figures for the Battlefield series, so I removed it. That's when I looked at the other citations. It turns out that the IGN article actually was reporting from a PC Gamer article about the same thing, and both of them were linking to an earlier statement made by Sony on October 28, 2022, which was actually the most recent statement Sony made to the CMA at the time those articles were written, making the 2023 statement even less useful, so I changed to linked PDF to that statement. And I already figured out as I made my edits that the sales figures were somehow embedded as an image in the 2022 PDF instead of searchable text; I don't know why the text in that PDF switch between from embedded text to embedded images, but I consider that a moot point now.

As for the Cite web error, I just checked the article and it looks like it's already resolved; turns out that somehow I entered a line break in the title field. Someone else has already fixed this problem with Citation bot since you left your message, so the error is no longer there. –WPA (talk) 05:17, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Summary Deletion[edit]

It accomplishes nothing positive to delete an action and state that one should not go about things in a particular way, or for a particular reason, without actually explaining how one should use the metro navbox as I did. Telling me I did something you consider wrong and providing a partial explanation does not lead to improving one's techniques, assuming that is what you had in mind with this public slap-down. Hushpuckena (talk) 01:23, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hushpuckena: You didn't actually add the Greater Boston navbox to the article; you added its source text (the full wikitext you see when editing the page using the source editor) to the page. Navboxes only need the name of the template (without the "Template:" namespace prefix at the beginning) added between a pair of curly brackets (i.e. {{Greater Boston}}) when adding it to an article or any other page on Wikipedia. The Navbox template itself should only be used on navigational template pages so that adding a navbox to an article would be easily transcluded as I explained. The fact that there was already a different navbox used on the page should've been easy enough to tell you how a navbox template is properly called upon for an article.

Also, there's no need to get so personal and accusational about a simple undo. Edit summaries have a maximum character limit, much of which was taken up by the added placeholder "Undid revision" text. I was not doing anything more than undo your edit and provide that brief summary; there's no need to get worked up about it. –WPA (talk) 02:15, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]