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:::::::::: <big><big> <nowiki> == REXX ... == </nowiki> </big></big> which I believe is the form that you are interested in changing.
::::: By the way, there was one more entry on that page that you missed. Also, the spelling of REXX is '''REXX''', not '''Rexx'''. Some people in past have used the other spelling, and at that time, it was miscounted (at least, in the sense that it was ''not'' counted under the '''REXX''' computer programming language). I corrected those (two) misspellings, and they were not easy to find. Those misspellings did show up under the '''Rexx''' programming language (or maybe a ''category'') somewhere, and they proved (at that time) difficult to locate and change as there wasn't a place for them be to listed. I had since changed my REXX program (used to count computer programming language entries as per the Rosetta Code task: ''Rank languages by popularity'') to allow a lowercase or mixed-case spelling to be considered the same programming language. It should be interesting to see how the changes you're making will change the counts for ranking languages by popularity. I'm going to re-run my program and update the results. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 17:39, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
::::::Ah. My apologies for the wrong spellings. I should have noticed that I was screwing it up. In my (very feeble) defence, I had been called in to work for an emergency last night and had only gotten about 2 hours of sleep so was not at my finest (assuming I have a finest...). Thanks for fixing my misspellings. Hopefully these changes don't cause other issues. --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 22:10, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
::::::: Not a problem. What you need is a clone to help you out. (As in the film ''Multiplicity''.)
:::: It looks like promoting [[https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reflection/List_methods Reflection/List methods]] to a full task has solved the problem as it's no longer showing up on the draft task list. With both [[https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Fivenum FiveNum]] and [[https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Mutex Mutex]] fixed too, all should now be well :) --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 00:54, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
::::: I was going to look into it when I got some spare time. I had thought there might be ''two'' versions (separate entries), one was a draft task, the other (slightly spelled different perhaps?) a (full) task, and I was going to compare the complete contents of one versus the other. I don't know what I would've found, if anything. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 06:37, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
:::::: Good work on sorting out the sub-pages that were causing some tasks to be double-counted which seems to have worked fine. There's one sub-page which still needs some attention which is the aptly-named [https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Python Psyco] which is showing as a task completed by Python even though it's a now defunct JIT compiler for that language. --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 15:05, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
:::::: Just checked and it's not in the overall Task Lists and is not therefore showing as a task authored by Hajo. --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 15:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
::::::: Fixed Psyco. There's still a few double counted or misrepresented task entries around. As I find them, I'll fix them. If you notice one, either fix it or point it out to me. Thanks. --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 23:12, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
:::::::: As far as misrepresented task entries (for counting), there are several, and I do not know where they all are. Such entries are where all the '''BASIC'''s were lumped into one section, and each flavor of BASIC was then entered under a sub-section (most often on a different page), and those sub-sections of BASIC aren't counted (as per all the types/flavors of BASIC). One such Rosetta Code task is '''99 Bottles of Beer''', (the BASIC section) where they were all clumped together under BASIC. This, if I remember, was part of a campaign to reduce the size of some (large) Rosetta Code pages by grouping the BASICs into one (sub-section), and then have a BASIC page for that Rosetta Code task. I have no idea how deep that project went. One by-product of that is, some Rosetta Code tasks have (for instance) '''Wee Basic''' under BASIC, others have it at the end of the programming language list, under the '''W'''s, making it a tad harder to locate a particular BASIC when browsing Rosetta Code tasks solutions. But the bottom line is that most flavors of '''BASIC''' are under-counted. And some BASICs like '''Locomotive Basic''' (note the difference in the capitalization of BASIC in these last two examples), according to some, shouldn't even belong under the BASIC umbrella). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 00:01, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
::::::::: <quote>If you notice one, either fix it or point it out to me.</quote> Ok, let me put some caveats on there. The whole Basic debacle is a can of worms I'm not willing to open right now. IMO it would have been better off to just give every dialect its own task header and not try to "group" Basic dialects together, but that was decision made and partially implemented by others and would be nightmarish to try to untangle at this point. Especially trying to do it manually through the web interface. So yeah, you're sure right about that, but I'm not taking it on right now. --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 01:18, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
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