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Quesiton about Template Parameters

Howdy! I have recently discovered your amazing Template parameters tool and had a question about it. I am trying to use it to analyze {{Infobox college football player}} specifically the Category:Pages using infobox college football player with unknown parameters (0). I added the template data but am still getting a “template not found” error on the template param tool. Does it take a little while for that to update? How does that all work. Thanks in advance! —Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 08:06, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Zackmann08: The parameters are updated once a month near the beginning of the month. I reran Septembers scan and the football template is now available here. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:00, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome! Thank you so much! —Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:20, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Follow up question for ya. I’m now working on {{Infobox football league season}}. Long story short a bunch of the parameters were missing from the TemplateData. If I wanted to get an updated report is it a pain for you to run for just one template? Is that something I can request or would you rather I just wait until the report regenerates next month… —Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 08:45, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Zackmann08: The program is designed to scan all templates in the 7 million articles. It is resource intensive on my server when it is run. So you will have to wait for Octobers run. --Bamyers99 (talk) 12:45, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Totally understood. Appreciate the explanation. Didn’t realize it ran across all articles. Makes sense that you only want to run that once a month.

Thanks for the explanation. — Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 20:45, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey… Remember me? I’m back.

Hate to be a bother, but any chance you can run the code for October? I’ve got a number of projects I’m waiting on starting until I have updated param reports. Really appreciate it!!! — Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 07:35, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Zackmann08: It runs automatically when the monthly data dump is available from Wikipedia. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:17, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stellar!! Thanks a ton. - Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 17:54, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel Alejandro Suárez Piñeres moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Daniel Alejandro Suárez Piñeres. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources and it is promotional and reads like an advertisement. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 19:50, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, B....99 - regarding your instant undo of my deletions on 9/25/25 I read the qualifiers for this category carefully and also the non-qualifiers, and I present the following information for you edification and consideration.

I am a Pequot War scholar and am friends with several other local PW scholars. We live where this actually took place and know their living descendants well. We have debated and shared perspectives on the very complex associated history, which of course was recorded by several participant officers and there are many countless number of papers, articles and books. Every one of them have many differing opinions and interpretations pertaining to various so called facts and numbers. There have always been controversies and there always will be for many generations ahead. Dr. Kevin Mcbride and his team of scholars at the Pequot Research Center spent years doing extensive research on the war and on Major John Mason. Their conclusions fully disproved many long standing "NOTIONS", such as, that there were NO warriors in the village and that they were all "murdered in their SLEEP" and that is was intentionally preplanned. Dr. Mcbride concluded that John Masons narrative was the most accurate and we all agree that Cave's book is very accurate, whereas Jennings book was twisted to suit his own crooked slant and goals. Have you read any of this ? Today's Pequot's and their sympathizers love to use the shock term genocide - which is a misnomer, because a scholar will educate them that the correct term for that era is Annihilation and that is what Sachem Sassacus was desperately attempting AND he was winning for the first 8 months. After the Pequot's did so much damage, killing people, livestock and crops - the Colonist's had no choice but to fight back or be annihilated. Even then, they were vastly outnumbered and if it were not for the fact that Mohegan Sachem Uncas allied with Mason and provided intelligence, guidance and warriors, the Pequot's probably would have won! John Mason states in his narrative that he intended to acquire the spoils which he could not attain if everything was burned. Only 20 men entered the fort and were quickly overwhelmed and suffered casualties; Mason himself was almost killed - at which point he opted to fire some wigwams and retreat to save their lives. The fact that the fire quickly spread due to the stiff breeze (provided by the Puritan's God), to engulf most of the village was unexpected and unfortunate, It was Not Intentional. Pity that most of the inhabitants were trapped and died in the smoke and flames.

Only a small number of warriors and combatants were actually murdered by the

Colonist's and their native allies. * Women & Children were NOT Specifically Targeted and it is an accepted fact that there usually are innocent casualties in most wars.

 Furthermore, when the remaining, fleeing Pequot's were trapped in the Fairfield

swamp, Mason sent in his interpreter Stanton to offer the women, children and elders the option to surrender, which proves that he was not intent on murdering them! Sassacus still escaped and was killed by the Mohawks - not John Mason; who was charged with a mission and with the help of Uncas, he happened to succeed. Uncas and Mason became blood brothers for life and for several generations to follow they lived and worked together - some of them dying while protecting each other !!! Mason went on to be a Magistrate, problem solver, Deputy and acting Governor and Patentee of the Charter, which eventually became the Conn. Constitution. He was a peacekeeper for the rest of his life, which is why he is The Preeminent Founder of the Connecticut Colony.

 * This is a true summary account of the Pequot War and Major John Mason *

This is why John Mason does NOT belong on those 3 murder links that you insist on including. So I suggest that You need to do further research and verification, then have the Wikipedia judges carefully consider this scenario and in the end, moving forward, some of those false notions will cease to be unfairly perpetuated as they have been for far to long. I welcome any replies and discussion that is grounded in reality - instead of mere hearsay or the hateful and vindictive rhetoric of the Pequot's oral history. Thank You for your consideration, hopefully with an open mind.

@MoonWaterMan: To remove an article (John Mason (colonist)) from a category (Category:American murderers of children), you edit the article page, not the category page. At the bottom of the article page are the categories. Regarding the sending of emails, that should only be used when a topic can't be discussed on the users talk page. --Bamyers99 (talk) 12:52, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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