You've added the remaining infoboxes? Awesome, I've been trying to get somebody to do it for yonks. Well done! Can you update Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes/Status then? I knew you were working on the French communes, I didn't really look to see what it was you wer edoing, I assumed you were just cleaning up existing infboxes and links. Now that is good news. Himalayan 20:37, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
I'll add an infobox settlement to those tomorrow perhaps as they aren't compatible. Would you support an update of the french communes infobox in a standard layout like the Italian comune box? Himalayan 20:41, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
Are you absolutely positive you've added an infobox to all the others? Good grief your edit count is going to be gigantic... 1,000,000 + edits Himalayan 20:42, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
If you are technically minded, admittedly I am not in regards to computer coding, you may want to converse with User:Fritzpoll. I am pretty sure he could give you some lessons although you do run smackbot so you obviously have some level of knowledge in regards to coding bots and are far more likely to understand them than I would. If we could utilize your sheer power on here into something much quicker than even AWB into a much more effective and efficent bot for some of your bigger tasks and you can get the WP:BAG group behind you I am pretty certain you could achieve some quite astounding tasks on here. The biggest problem in regards to standardisation articles on settlements on here and getting some consistency was that the people running bots are not willing to run them for long periods and consistnetly like yourself . They would typically do one country and then go into hiding. What we need is a bot to run making things consistent through every country on here like you have been doing with AWB so far but to speed up the process and allow you to get things done faster and more efficiently. It is for instance going to take me months adding infoboxes to Romanian communes for instance, with a bot would probably take a few days max... Himalayan 20:57, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
Nope, definately don't transfer infoboxes from Romanian wiki! Heavens no!! The best thing would be a bot to add infoboxes using the statistics website. As for the old translation project, Jen and I gave it an overhaul, most of the old pages are stale and inactive and should be deleted. Himalayan 11:32, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointer — the thing is that, while they're too big now, they weren't too big when I created the subpages. People have expanded the templates to the point that they're too large now. I'll fix the problem. Nyttend (talk) 01:17, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
The Pas de légumes article still has a problem with references, and I really cannot see what to do. Are you able to help at all? Thanks Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 10:13, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, 13:29, 1 October 2009 (UTC).
thank you! Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 14:46, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Why didn't you just redirect Template:Totally-disputed to Template:Disputed? I have done that now. If that was a mistake, please let me know. If you agree, you can add it to SmackBot. Debresser (talk) 10:14, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Please see Category:Pages using deprecated templates, to improve the explanatory text I have added as necessary, and to admire the result. Debresser (talk) 10:50, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Totally agree with you there. There are conversations basically saying don't let the editors have too much power, I will find them if you want. So this is a deliberate decision not to let us be able to do that. I have tried by hook or crook to do a regulare expression or a contex-free grammar and it simply will not let you. Hence my struggle at [[Infobox: Hungarian settlement] etc. Full disclosure: I have been a profesional software engineer since I was twelve years old, I have half a clue how to do this stuff. If you look at User:SimonTrew/reverse you will see exactly the problem. That would, without being stopped, reverse any set of letters. In fact it is meant as a test that we can reverse names from Eastern name order. But it DOES NOT WORK because it says template loop detected, which is of course the entire point, to let the template call itself. SimonTrew (talk) 14:46, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. FYI, as you have had interest in this in the recent past, there is now an RfC under way on this issue at Wikipedia:Mosnum/proposal_on_YYYY-MM-DD_numerical_dates.--Epeefleche (talk) 03:34, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
((cite))
still recommends it. So one is between a rock and a hard place. SimonTrew (talk) 15:05, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Please don't check this category for a few days. I'm using it for detection of something else. So far it has been empty, BTW. I'll update you when I'm finished. Please let me know ASAP if there are complications and I should not have done this. Debresser (talk) 11:02, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
It says in Help:Job_queue#Typical values:
During a period of low loads, the job queue might be zero. At Wikimedia, the job queue is, in practice, almost never zero. In off-peak hours, it might be a few hundreds to a thousand. During a busy day, it might be a few million, but it can quickly fluctuate by 10% or more.[1] The job queue length is reported at Special:Statistics.
Yesterday night I checked the job queue every ten seconds for two minutes, and it jumped from 9 to 24 and 243 thousand, back and forth. Would you have an explanation for that? Debresser (talk) 12:41, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
I noticed here that SmackBot added ((reflist)) to a page that already had ((reflist |refs=)). That caused all the references to appear as cite errors. I think I have seen SmackBot make the same edit to other pages.
Maybe SmackBot could be "taught" that ((reflist |refs=)) equals ((reflist)). 75.69.0.58 (talk) 13:50, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Should we deprecate Template:Tdeprecated-inline? Or even nominate it for deletion? It is not in use, and because it has none of the features of ((Tdeprecated)), I don't think it has any use. Debresser (talk) 14:09, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Can't see why not. Rich Farmbrough, 23:17, 1 October 2009 (UTC).
((#ifeq:((ARTICLESPACE))|Template | ((#ifeq:((PAGENAME))|((BASEPAGENAME))<!--Don't categorise /doc pages --> |((DMC|Templates deprecated|from|(({date|))}||Deprecated templates)) )) | [[Category:Pages using deprecated templates]] ))
With this code, transclusion of a deprecated template onto another template will result in the second template being categorised by DMC, not into Category:Pages using deprecated templates as should be. I checked this. To fix this, the code should be something like:
((#ifeq:((ARTICLESPACE))|Template | ((#ifeq:((PAGENAME))|((BASEPAGENAME))<!--Don't categorise /doc pages --> |((#ifeq:((PAGENAME))|(({1))} |((DMC|Templates deprecated|from|(({date|))}||Deprecated templates)) )) )) | [[Category:Pages using deprecated templates]] ))
Where (({1))} is the same pagename entered by the editor. Will that work? What will happen if the editor didn't use a capital as the first letter of the template name? Debresser (talk) 14:34, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Use:
((#ifeq:((ARTICLESPACE))|Template | ((#ifeq:((PAGENAME))|((BASEPAGENAME))<!--Don't categorise /doc pages --> |((#ifeq:((PAGENAME))|((#ucfirst:(({1))))}<!-- only for the deprecated template itself --> |((DMC|Templates deprecated|from|(({date|))}||Deprecated templates)) )) )) | [[Category:Pages using deprecated templates]] ))
Thanks. I didn't know about that #ucthing, but I see the idea was basically correct. Will you make the edit? Debresser (talk) 14:47, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Agree with your <sigh> at Wikipedia:Mosnum/proposal on YYYY-MM-DD numerical dates#Comment. When I first started citing web pages (after I started citing books), I checked Template:Cite web/doc, where for |accessdate=
it states "Full date when item was accessed, in the appropriate date format for the article", and I've been under the impression that this is a first-accessed date. However, at Template talk:Cite web#Discussion of second problem, Happy-melon tells me "Accessdates represent the most recent time when the link is known to have worked"; and nobody has shown me where to find a definitive guide one way or the other. Any ideas?
Re your statement "Shame most sites now hide the real creation date of their pages"; I usually do a "view source" and check the hidden code at to or bottom. Here I often find page creation date and author. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:13, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
I created ((Tfm)), ((Tfm2)), ((Tfm-inline)), ((Tfmnotice)) and documentation pages. And tested the whole thing. You are invited to have a look. I shall wait for your "Ok" before adding them to Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Header.
In connection with this, I would like to ask you to update ((Tfd)). Nothing major, just capitals and the word "please". But that still would be nice, in order that all templates and docpages look alike. Here is the code.
((#ifeq:((NAMESPACE))|Template |((Ombox |type=delete |image=none |text='''This [[Help:Template|template]] is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy|deletion policy]].'''<p>Please discuss this matter at '''[[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#(({2|Template:((ucfirst:(({1|((PAGENAME))))))))))|this template's entry]]''' at [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion|templates for deletion]] to help reach a consensus. ---- ''<small class="plainlinks" style="line-height:1.2em;">[[Wikipedia:Maintenance|Maintenance]] use only: Place ((tlx|Tfd)) or ((tlx|Tfd-inline)) on the template(s) nominated for deletion. Then [((fullurl:Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/((#time: Y F j))|action=edit&editintro=Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/editnotice§ion=1)) edit the Tfd log] to create the discussion entry. E.g.:'' ''((subst:Tfd2|(({1|((PAGENAME))))}|text= Your reason(s) for nominating the template. ~~~~ ))'' ''Please consider notifying the [((fullurl:((FULLPAGENAME))|action=history)) author(s)] by placing ((nowrap|((tlx|Tfdnotice|((PAGENAME))|((#ifeq:(({page|((PAGENAME))))}|((PAGENAME))||(({page))))}|subst=yes)) ~~~~)) on their talk page(s).</small>'' ))<includeonly>[[Category:Wikipedia templates for deletion|((PAGENAME))]]</includeonly> |<div class="boilerplate metadata plainlinks" id="tfd" style="background-color: transparent; padding: 0; font-size:xx-small; color:#000000; text-align: center; border-bottom:1px solid #AAAAAA;">‹ The [[Help:Template|template]] below ((#if:(({1|))}|(''[[Template:((ucfirst:(({1))))}|(({1))}]]'')|)) is being considered for deletion. See [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#(({2|Template:((ucfirst:(({1|((PAGENAME))))))))))|templates for deletion]] to help reach a consensus. ›</div> ))<noinclude> ((Pp-template)) ((Documentation)) <!-- Add cats and interwikis to the /doc subpage, please, not here! --> </noinclude>
Debresser (talk) 20:09, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
And another question. What category should these templates sort into: Category:Templates for deletion, Category:Items to be merged, or Category:Templates to be merged? Debresser (talk) 22:21, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Can Template:Tfd1-merge be deleted? It looks as though it was made to assist in substitution of ((Tfd)). Which is not practised (any more?). Debresser (talk) 00:13, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
And I know, the later it gets the harder it is to get answers from you. So if you could just answer my smal question in #Tdeprecated-inline and the bigger ones over here in this section. Now add to that my idea for a solution in #Merge templates and namespace, which I proposed to be tested oin Template_talk:Merge#Problem_when_using_with_templates. Debresser (talk) 02:56, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
See you tomorrow night after Sukkoth. Debresser (talk) 14:21, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
You probably won't have seen this: User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Talk Archive Index Martin451 (talk) 10:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you finish this after? Himalayan 15:04, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
OK thanks. Don't worry about Romania, this site has the 2002 census details. It is a task for a bot operator like Kotbot to do later.
I do, howveer, have a request with Colombian infoboxes. Can you go through the Category:Municipalities of Colombia subcats and ensure that the map is inserted into the infobox See Florencia, Caquetá. A basic edit like this. You'll find that all you have to do is add the actual image name, the infoboxes already have the caption ready. I think I only did the first one or two provinces manually starting with A.. Himalayan 18:35, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I understand you created the archive on Sir Howard Kippenberger, I'm his biological Grand Nephew and I was wondering first what it was that drove you to make this archive and second where you got the information? It would be a wonderful thing if I could learn more about my illustrious Grand Uncle and I'd like to give you my thanks for doing the work you have done thus far.
Allan Trainer --Radio-commander (talk) 05:07, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
It would be great if you could comment here. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:05, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Quick question. There are certain phrases (such as "passed away") that Wikipedia suggest should not be used (in lieu of, in that case, "died".) I that a fix that a bot could make? Of course it would have to have the intelligence or oversight not to change the phrase if it is within quotes. Thoughts? Many thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 04:21, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Please have alook at User_talk:Debresser#New_dated_categories. So far I only checked 1-3. Debresser (talk) 01:44, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
I finished updating everything. Please delete the redrects I listed on my talpage. Debresser (talk) 03:00, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Exactly. The person who created most of the Romanian commune articles did so by copying the statistics from crappy Romanian wiki which seems to relish getting things wrong. The current population figures are all false and unreferenced. This is why I began going through them adding infoboxes, references and correct population data. Hopefully Kotbot can do it. Himalayan 10:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Any chance you could use Magnus's upload bot or whatever the TUSC account is to upload the district maps of Riga from Latvian wiki? Himalayan 14:26, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
... some of the changes recently have left me way behind...however, here is a link that may answer a question you left me. Could you fix some part of this as it relates to Dr. Hamm's article ? Perhaps a template link at the bottom ? United States Ambassador to Chile
John5Russell3Finley (talk) 11:27, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
One of the problems of the three merge templates is that they automatically add the namespace to thename of any article to be merged. This is done in ((Pagelist)). Because of that feature, an editor who adds the namespace himself, ends up with a redlink. See Template_talk:Merge#Problem_when_using_with_templates. How could ((Pagelist)) be updated so to avoid this. It would be good if ((PAGENAME)) would behave like a template: ((PAGENAME|Template:X1)) = X1
. Debresser (talk) 11:55, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
((PAGENAME:Template:X1))
, which renders X1. Debresser (talk) 02:45, 2 October 2009 (UTC)-->((#if:(({3|))}|((#if:(({4|))}|,| and)) (({delim|))}[[:(({nspace|((NAMESPACE))))}:(({3))}|(({3))}]](({edelim|(({delim|))))))<!--to
-->((#if:(({3|))}|((#if:(({4|))}|,| and)) (({delim|))}[[:(({nspace|((NAMESPACE))))}:((PAGENAME:(({3))))}|(({3))}]](({edelim|(({delim|))))))<!--. And so forth from 1 to 20. And that would spare the abovementioned editor a redlink. Debresser (talk) 02:51, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
See Template talk:Pagelist that I tested it and it worked. Debresser (talk) 06:32, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich, if you're interested, can you change the formats for other Snow Patrol articles too? No problem if you cant though. Thanks for doing it on Up to Now, I had no idea the comma wasnt required, and I checked WP:DATE to make sure. Suede67 (talk) 12:48, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
In connection with the new Tfm templates and the update of the old Tfd templates, I would like to ask you to update ((Tfd)). Nothing major, just capitals and the word "please". But that still would be nice, in order that all templates and documentation pages look consistent. Here is the code.
((#ifeq:((NAMESPACE))|Template |((Ombox |type=delete |image=none |text='''This [[Help:Template|template]] is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy|deletion policy]].'''<p>Please discuss this matter at '''[[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#(({2|Template:((ucfirst:(({1|((PAGENAME))))))))))|this template's entry]]''' at [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion|templates for deletion]] to help reach a consensus. ---- ''<small class="plainlinks" style="line-height:1.2em;">[[Wikipedia:Maintenance|Maintenance]] use only: Place ((tlx|Tfd)) or ((tlx|Tfd-inline)) on the template(s) nominated for deletion. Then [((fullurl:Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/((#time: Y F j))|action=edit&editintro=Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/editnotice§ion=1)) edit the Tfd log] to create the discussion entry. E.g.:'' ''((subst:Tfd2|(({1|((PAGENAME))))}|text= Your reason(s) for nominating the template. ~~~~ ))'' ''Please consider notifying the [((fullurl:((FULLPAGENAME))|action=history)) author(s)] by placing ((nowrap|((tlx|Tfdnotice|((PAGENAME))|((#ifeq:(({page|((PAGENAME))))}|((PAGENAME))||(({page))))}|subst=yes)) ~~~~)) on their talk page(s).</small>'' ))<includeonly>[[Category:Wikipedia templates for deletion|((PAGENAME))]]</includeonly> |<div class="boilerplate metadata plainlinks" id="tfd" style="background-color: transparent; padding: 0; font-size:xx-small; color:#000000; text-align: center; border-bottom:1px solid #AAAAAA;">‹ The [[Help:Template|template]] below ((#if:(({1|))}|(''[[Template:((ucfirst:(({1))))}|(({1))}]]'')|)) is being considered for deletion. See [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#(({2|Template:((ucfirst:(({1|((PAGENAME))))))))))|templates for deletion]] to help reach a consensus. ›</div> ))<noinclude> ((Pp-template)) ((Documentation)) <!-- Add cats and interwikis to the /doc subpage, please, not here! --> </noinclude>
Debresser (talk) 20:09, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
I aksed what category these templates should sort into, and you said "Items, I reckon it's small enough". It's some 320 pages. Is that small enough? I have also asked input on Wikipedia_talk:Templates_for_deletion#Category, but nobody ever writes me anything there. Debresser (talk) 05:01, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Yes I would say 320 is reasnably small, will fit in 2 pages. Rich Farmbrough, 22:56, 4 October 2009 (UTC).
I see in the discussion you seem to oppose the motion to eliminate YYYY-MM-DD. Yet, you are using a script that removes them - and even changing to the European style on US-based articles. See this --JimWae (talk) 18:39, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
I see now there were other date format problems in that article, but you changed both text and accessdates to DD MMMM YYYY in a US article. Some people have been removing YYYY-MM-DD despite the vote being in progress & opposition being almost 2 to 1. I think doing so is very premature. I do not wish to see all usage of YYYY-MM-DD virtually banned. Btw, it is not established YYYY-MM-DD is ISO. I myself prefer YYYY-MMM-DD (which gives JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY,...) and set my computers to use that, since (especially in Canada) ##/##/YYYY is completely ambiguous - and I do not like to widen fields (and reduce what else can fit on the screen) with needlessly long monthnames in tables & such --JimWae (talk) 19:25, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Deleteme now requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding ((hangon))
to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. -- BigDom 18:44, 4 October 2009 (UTC) ((hangon))
What, assuming that you know, is the policy on the use of the italic title? I saw it for the first time this evening on The New York Times article, but do not see it on any other newspaper article that I have looked for. In theory, this could be used on any article which is a title, including books, magazines, albums, yet I have never seen it used before. Was its use in error? I am very curious about this, and hope you can clear it up. Cheers! ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 22:20, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Actually there is guidance on this. [1] says "Formatting, such as italics or bolding, is technically achievable in page titles, but is used only in special cases. An example of such an exception is to produce italics for taxonomic names of genera and species." and further down that the only currently agreed use is for flora and fauna. Rich Farmbrough, 05:27, 5 October 2009 (UTC).
Sometimes it's just funny how you come walzing in over everybody's heads. Like in Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:FR-in-universe. Thanks for that one BTW. Now perhaps you'll copy that ((Tfd)) also? BTW, I have written the Tfd guys to their talkpages, and they are waking up. We'll probably rename it to Wikipedia:Templates for discussion, and we'll have both Tfd and Tfm sort there. Category:Items to be merged will be let for anything that doesn't have its own deletion discussion. That seems more of a symmetry to me as well. Debresser (talk) 23:40, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Is this edit ok? Debresser (talk) 00:28, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the ((Tfd)). I just now noticed that all my template merge template were missing a parameter for the template to be merged with. So I spend some time adding that and updating the documentation pages. Debresser (talk) 02:50, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it intentional that your bot is making edits like this? It capitalised the first letter in the two templates (which appears to have no visual change) and added 1 line of whitespace above the stub templates. Are so minor of edits really necessary? I could understand if these were all being done while dates were added to maintenance templates, but that is not the case here.--Rockfang (talk) 00:37, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Is there any eason it should use substitution in the line "Please consider notifying the author(s) by placing ((subst:Tfmnotice|Tfm)) ~~~~ on their talk page(s)." in ((Tfm))? Debresser (talk) 02:57, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I got to the root of the problem and suggest a change to the talkback template at Template_talk:Talkback#Proposal. Debresser (talk) 10:52, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough - I had a quick query about an AWB-assisted edit at Negro (this edit). I'm not sure whether this was your intention, but that edit seems to have changed "[[02-24-04]]" to "4 zzz24zzz 2" in one of the references. I'm afraid I'm not well up on the current consensus on date formatting, but I thought I'd bring it to your attention anyway. --☇Kateshortforbob talk☄ 13:50, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Could you please do this edit to a template I am using now? Debresser (talk) 13:56, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I have two updates for you on my talkpage. Debresser (talk) 15:38, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Why has SmackBot removed division of periods in the big figures in this edit while MOS states that big figures must be divided into period (international system)? Thank you in advance, Srinivas 13:52, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I have rename Category:Duplicate Articles to Category:Duplicate articles. Would you delete the old one? Debresser (talk) 17:41, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Is that the way DEFAULTSORT should work: 0*001 instead of 1? See I Royal Bavarian Corps. Debresser (talk) 17:44, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
|needs-photo=yes
. However Template:Reqphoto sorts into Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of mammals. Now if you look at Category:Mammal articles needing photos you see that there are more subcategories of the type Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of .... It would make more sense IMHO to make Template:Mammal sort into there as well, since Template:Reqphoto has the broader structure. Debresser (talk) 22:45, 5 October 2009 (UTC) |TF_2_ASSESSMENT_CAT = Chinese cinema articles
line in ((WikiProject China)). I don't see an easy solution here. Debresser (talk) 22:59, 5 October 2009 (UTC)Anyway, Category:Wikipedia_non-empty_soft_redirected_categories is down from 24 to 4, of which 3 are because of that file bug. Debresser (talk) 00:25, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Amazing work, you work fast!! Himalayan 10:20, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
I do know your good faith and good work here. I am still suggesting it is not a good idea to create hundreds of thousands of essentially empty articles. I perfectly understand if you disagree but can we take this for consensus before SmackBot makes a million more
I edited, added, a few of the French communes. I know they would probably go not notable. But until people can read them in English I say let them stand. But to create hundreds of thousands of essentially blank articles does no good to a reader or an editor as far as I can see. Perhaps I am confused as to your motive. But it does no good to me. And I am trying my best as I know you are.
Best wishes. SimonTrew (talk) 15:33, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
You asked me to give you an example, I don't know if this is a good or bad one. Trun, Orne was botted not before I edited it but after SmackBot came in. I have no worries if it is fixing up details. But a non-bot had to write that first, however brief.
It is a French commune. I know you are very busy and I thank you for it. I know the article is brief but it at least has some content not entirely empty, UűI am not sure what more info you want to point you in the right direction (by my lights) I am not sure what you are missing here. Cos I know you are a good editor and said so, but I just think empty articles are unhelpful. Iwill try to find what I mean by an empty article but better savew this now before I lose it. Best wishes SimonTrew (talk) 17:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
OK I think I found one that you may see my point. Tura, Hungary Sod's law my partner will add some content to it tonight but it is all in the categories etc etc etc but has nothing to say. SimonTrew (talk) 17:42, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
I think it would be great if the bots could take the hard work out of just making the scaffolding, I will totally support you in that. I dunno if it is worse or better to scaffold up and have no bricks behind it. I think that definitely is worthy of discussion, but not sure where best to do it (and we should carry these with us when we do.) Somewhere on the translation space or something I would imagine, but cannot think of an obvious place to put it. I hang out sometimes in WP:CONVERT as in translating articles one must do the conversions, and User:Jimp will say where best to take it. He is a great editor as are you and he will suggest somewhere best to take it, cos it does not belong there as such, but it is to do with conversion. WP:MOSNUM is just a big edit war and I am fed up with it. Jimp tries to make it better not masturbate over style guides.
Please excuse my typos once it is properly dark I can see the keyboard but at dusk the sun is straight in my eyes and I miss the keys sometimes.
My best wishes as always SimonTrew (talk) 17:59, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
I see that this template edit adds a link to Category:Wikipedia soft redirected categories; did you notice that we already have Category:Wikipedia category redirects that has (or should have) exactly the same contents? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:08, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Can you please stop with moving articles as per WP:DASH as your moves are incorrect, and you will need to move them all back.
Many of the articles which you have moved were at their correct namespaces, and you should be moving them back to conform with the endash policy (pain in the arse it is to understand I know). Any probs, contact me, cheers --Russavia Dialogue 16:34, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Gah! Yes I can fix it. (Restoring the status quo ante.) There have been some SQL errors on page moves recently. Ho hum. Rich Farmbrough, 17:45, 6 October 2009 (UTC).
I deduced the alphabetisation of the country pairs had occurred. And I was in a discussion aout category redirects arising from this. But it's hard to pick up the whole story - although I should have known better from year-ranges vs. date ranges, I think another discussion about article renaming gave me the wrong idea. Rich Farmbrough, 20:33, 6 October 2009 (UTC).
Hi Rich. I started a thread here that I'd like to get some feedback on if you have the time .. thanks. — Ched : ? 20:51, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rich
You may have seen my bot request for User:Brunobot, who was supposed to fix templates that end in breaks. However, i had the idea that I could give the regex find/replace to you so SmackBot could fix the templates while it fixed other problems. That way a bot would only have to visit the page once. Tell me if you are interested. Tim1357 (talk) 23:05, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
((tlx| Merge | OtherArticle ))
, there are spaces before but not after the parameters?((Merge|OtherArticle))
See?Is there a template that "unlinks"? Enter "[[Whatever]]", exit "Whatever"? Debresser (talk) 19:55, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
((tl|merge|[[User_talk:Debresser]]))
, rendering((merge)). Debresser (talk) 22:23, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. The break is a problem, of course. I have updated the documentation pages of ((Str left)), ((Str right)), ((Str rightc)) and ((Trunc)). And of ((Unlink)), of course. Debresser (talk) 23:37, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
You'd better see what I did with ((Unlink))! Debresser (talk) 01:03, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Ok. Congratulations. That was a nice job. I moved the functionality of removing any given number of characters from the start and end of a string to ((Chop head and tail)). You may want to move it somewhere more appropriate. :)) BTW, that one also might need soe update, along the lines of ((Unlink)). Debresser (talk) 01:42, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Just saw that you had, through AWB, removed an [[Category:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot)|Erik9bot]] cat on the article Base course. In short, I think it was correct to remove the cat, as that article now has an Unref tag, and Erik9bot normally identifies articles with no refs AND no unref tag. However, I don't think the msg left in the comment was correct; that comment was: "(Remove unref category as article appears to have one or more refs. using AWB)" The article still has no references; so it is correct to remove the Eric9bot cat, but not to say that "the article appears to have one or more refs." You might want to look into this. Cheers. N2e (talk) 20:16, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Was this comment really meant for me? Debresser (talk) 23:58, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Any better? Himalayan 09:18, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. The concerning thing is that we have 2,740 articles about Swiss municipalities, most are similar one liners. Add to that the French communes, Italian comunes, Spanish, German and Austrian municipalities of similar lacking quality compared to the foreign version and it kind of puts you off as the task is such so huge as there must be over 50,000 stubs in this "communal" group! Someday maybe we will be able to click any article in any nav template at random and it will be beyond a stub!! Himalayan 10:09, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Any chance you could use Magnus's tools to upload these free Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 panorama images of Chexbres here? Just the ones by the same user Styeb. If you could do that I'll upload the ones from German wiki. Himalayan 10:54, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
I wasnt sure if you watched for my response or anything, but then i saw that you wanted me to reply here, but alas it was archived Tim1357 (talk) 10:56, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Aye, Amritsar population count looks kinda funny after correction, a bug in AWB or a typo perhaps?
Cheers, --Rayshade (talk) 10:52, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
You've probably dealt with this thought before, but it's not in your FAQ and I don't have the strength to browse your archive, so here 'tis:
You recently removed ((unref)) from Elm Bank. That was good, as there is a single reference to the National Register of Historic Places data base so ((unref)) doesn't apply. (And, I should add, it was I who incorrectly left the ((unref)) in place after adding the NRIS reference -- I didn't realize it applied only to cases where there are NO references.)
The article is still badly deficient of references, however; the National Register database is never enough information for an article. In the case where there's only one reference in an article, might it be better to swap out ((unref)) for ((refimprove))? Sure, that will be wrong in some cases, as one reference can be all that's needed, but I'll bet it's right more than it's wrong.
And BTW, thanks for doing a grunt task. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 16:42, 8 October 2009 (UTC) (I'd prefer to have any reply here, but feel free to use my Talk page as your header suggests you might.)
Please post on my talk Can you explain this edit? I am confused about the DEFAULTSORT and why you think it shouldn't be in an unreferenced category. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:42, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
I nominated all templates in Category:Items to be merged with Tfm. There are still 8 templates there, because they are editprotected. And one Template:Mergeto/testcases. Would you please do the editprotected request at Template:Infobox Television episode and 7 null-edits, to give me the satisfaction of seeing that category without templates? Debresser (talk) 00:13, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Please stop adding ((unreferenced)) to various calendar articles like February 2007 in Canada. Every section clearly has a news source cited at the end of every story. While it seems you were simply changing the edits from one editor to another style using a template, the original edit that declared the article was not sourced was incorrect. Please only make edits that are consistent with accurate information. For example a few years ago this happened with a bot, where a vandal had been making such edits and the bot was substantiating them. In this case, the bot made the error and then it is up to the editors to make the corrections and not simply laboriously changing the errors introduced by the bot. Thanks, Mkdwtalk 15:29, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
And after we've taken care of the niceties, did you notice this edit? Perhaps redirect Template:Soft redirect to Template:Category redirect? Or am I missing something? Debresser (talk) 17:09, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
You are making another puzzling mass edit. It is not being done consistently; this may be deliberate, I do not know.
I do not understand (a) why you do this at all, and (b) why you make default sort different for Phaeton and Imogen. Are you making an error?--Toddy1 (talk) 14:59, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
I don't know how to attain my goal at Template_talk:Album_cover_fur#Request_for_detection. Can you please help? Debresser (talk) 21:52, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
|other+information=
ddo not get added to Category:Other information (as far as I know). Debresser (talk) 02:58, 11 October 2009 (UTC)((#if:(({other_information))}|[[Category:Other information]]))
without a pipe. then I added the pipe and made it sort into Category:Other information2. Without the pipe it added all files using the templates with the detection, with the pipe only those with non-empty |other_information=
parameters. Debresser (talk) 23:06, 11 October 2009 (UTC)I can't say I am happy with your edits to ((Album cover fur)) and its documentation. They are going the precise opposite direction of my efforts. Debresser (talk) 00:37, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Your edit [2] indicates that the article has a ref or a tag. It has no ref, and the tag is a merge tag. Can you explain your logic for not including unref tag when there is a merge tag? thanks Widefox (talk) 22:20, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.49.55.137 (talk) 12:52, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm a newcomer to Wikipedia, but I'm an aspiring editor. I'm in a master's program right now, and I'm tracking revisions on Wikipedia articles and analyzing them for my thesis. I was just looking at your revisions to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and one of them confused me. What exactly is a default sort key? I'd appreciate it if you would explain it to me. Also, do you have any tips on understanding the revisions in Wikipedia? I'm comparing versions and noting the changes in red, but sometimes I can't tell what they mean or find them in the body of the article.
Thank you. Editor Lara (talk) 23:50, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for all the advice! It's very helpful. Quick question: do all the words in the default sort key have to be capitalized? I noticed you changed it from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Editor Lara (talk) 19:10, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
My last message indicated that the bot was adding ((reflist)) to pages that did not need it. You responded that you would skip those articles. But SmackBot is still doing it, see here, here and here. Thanks. 75.69.0.58 (talk) 04:10, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
May I understand that all entries in this category should be fixed by a bot, and that I should not have to do anything (now that we took care of the templates that automatically sort wrongly)? Debresser (talk) 15:43, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
((#if:(({year_end|))}|(({category|[[Category:(({year_end))} disestablishments|(({common_name))}, (({year_end))}]]))))}
. Since the user defined 220 AD (and he had to because only 220 would be ambiguous), so that is what the category will say. This of course gives rise to various possibilities like AD, CE. The only solution I see is to do it the other way around. Category:220 disestablishments is ambiguous, so use either 220 AD or CE (I prefer the last, but consensus is that both are acceptable, unless we would make a rule for practical purposes that in categorisation it must be which ever one of them). The easiest way out of this is to allow all, without soft redirects, which is what I am going to do for the mean time. Any other ideas? Debresser (talk) 16:22, 12 October 2009 (UTC)The answer is Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(dates_and_numbers)#Articles_on_years.2C_articles_on_numbers.2C_article_names_containing_non-date_numbers. A clear guideline to use numbers for CE and BC for BCE. So I am going to have with what to keep myself busy tomorrow, checking whether this is being maintained throughout. Debresser (talk) 00:02, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
A couple weeks ago SmackBot was busy doing translations like this one which are progress but unfortunately not quite correct. In particular:
lon_deg
should translate to longd
not lond
lon_min
should translate to longm
not lonm
lon_sec
should translate to longs
not lons
foto
should translate to image_skyline
not image
In addition, to make the geocoordinates work, the following parms need to be added:
latNS=N
longEW=E
I started to fix the affected articles by hand, but it's proving to be a slow and tedious process. I request that you send SmackBot on another pass over these articles to resolve these issues. --Stepheng3 (talk) 19:05, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Afbeelding:
namespace needs to be translated into English. --Stepheng3 (talk) 19:27, 12 October 2009 (UTC)I've been looking at revision histories, and I noticed some revisions have robot in the edit summary, but they are not marked with a b. Does this mean that the editor is human or a robot (or a combination of the two, LOL). Editor Lara (talk) 19:33, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
In this edit, SmackBot (1) added ((reflist)) even though there are no references, and (2) changed ((unreferenced)) → ((refimprove)). As far as I can see, both edits are wrong. — Miym (talk) 22:27, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
If we have now
| Low_resolution=<!-- -->((#if:(({Low_resolution|))}|(({Low_resolution))}. |Text.))
Will
| Low_resolution=<!-- -->((#if:(({Low_resolution|(({Low resolution|))))))|(({Low_resolution|(({Low resolution|)))))). |Text.))
work?
The obvious goal is to circumvent the hyphen in the future without changing old instances of the template. Debresser (talk) 23:53, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
I cleaned out all the transclusions of ((Tfd)). Have a look what I found in Template:Jazz/version 1. Now all that is left in transclusions is templates that are currently under discussion, and a bunch of userpages and usertalkpages. Debresser (talk) 02:38, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Could you get a bot at removing the Tfd templates from the 600+ userpages and usertalkpages?
((Tfd|Smile))
from User_talk:SlimVirgin/Archive_29#Smiles, User_talk:Dcoetzee/Archive_2007_2_21, User_talk:Sir_Nicholas_de_Mimsy-Porpington/Archive/Archive04, User_talk:Lostintherush/Archive_1, and change ((Tfd|Wr &c.))
to ((Tl|Wr &c.))
on User_talk:Trauma16? Debresser (talk) 19:17, 11 October 2009 (UTC)I saw your edit to Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories with templates. I am very happy with that. I checked and all |cat-date=
or |cat-date1=
parameters use "fom", without exeption. May I suggest building that into ((DatedAI)) and remove all the "from"'s from ((Article issues)). Something like Category:(({cat-date))} from ((checkdate|(({date))))}
. If worst would come to worst it would be trivial to make a wordaround. In the mean time I would like to see this as a significant step in the right direction. Debresser (talk) 11:05, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
i understand (je comprendre) that you are maintaining the éeventing european champ." page ?
if you are please check 1995
because
Lucy Thompson/Welton Romance (IRL)DIDN'T take part the event was won by Mary Elizabeth King (née Thomson)
bonne journée
un utilisateur français de Wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.249.104.8 (talk) 11:37, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I.e. what tools did you use to calculate this? I know how to do it in principle, but it is so many edits and copy pasting that it would take hours, so I'm sure you have a smarter way? Can AWB help with this? --Stefan talk 03:50, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I greatly need a locator map pin for Tibet. I've got one here. I was wondering if you knew how to enter the correct digits usong goole earth like Template:Location map China Yunnan province. At present the digits are for Yunnan. Any idea how we can get it to work? Himalayan 14:32, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Please at least respond... If you can't do something please say so! Himalayan 17:20, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Template:Location map. All it needs is the correct coordinates inserted into the box to control the pin..I believe you can find them on google earth apparently to north-south-east-west points of the Tibeta Autonomous Region... Himalayan 17:27, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Yes the projection of the map is off, so until we get a better quality accurate one this is the best we can do at present... We'll see how my Sichuan map goes. If it works out I may require your assistance, both of you for finding out the coordinates for the other province locator maps.. Himalayan 20:53, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Are you moving all templates, and thus the whole categories inevitably, or only part? Debresser (talk) 17:10, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
What is that detection doing? Since when are these templates subst'ed? Oh, I see, you are fishing out the future substitutions into a category of "to be replaced by unsubstituted templates", right? Debresser (talk) 17:50, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
<small? commenteed out
A solution was found [[ther, and implemented. See User:Debresser/Sandbox on how to call ((Coord)), and see the testcases, that it works marvelous. Debresser (talk) 13:40, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Something went wrong on Category:Userspace drafts created via the Article Wizard from October 2009. Debresser (talk) 23:33, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Not sure what's happening, but Category:Misplaced userspace drafts now has userspace pages in it! Can you check/fix ((Userspace draft))? (Incidentally ((userspace draft2)) only exists as a helper template because I couldn't get it to work as one template, but it would probably be better merged.) cheers, Rd232 talk 10:34, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Well anyway, thanks! Rd232 talk 13:00, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
You updated Template:Str_rightc/doc about the 100 characters. Part of the explanations were formulated incorrectly (not by you) and I changed them. A Great Rule is to keep it simple. People trying to be overly precise often end up saying things that are not completely true. Which was the case here. Then I updated Template:Str_right/doc (without the "c") along the same lines, because your changes have affected it in the same way. Debresser (talk) 13:42, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Why is SmackBot adding ((Reflist)) to files? See e.g. this edit. Debresser (talk) 07:27, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Calling ((Coord)):
At the moment I have ((Coord|(({lat_deg|))}|(({lat_min|))}|(({lat_sec|))}|N|(({lon_deg|))}|(({lon_min|))}|(({lon_sec|))}|E))
This renders a parser error when the calling template doesn't define one or more of these variables.
((Coord|(({lat_deg|0))}|(({lat_min|0))}|(({lat_sec|0))}|N|(({lon_deg|0))}|(({lon_min|0))}|(({lon_sec|0))}|E)) doesn't cause an error, but potentially leaves me with a buntch of zero's that I do not want to see.
((Coord|(({lat_deg|))}|((#if:(({lat_min|))}|(({lat_min|))))}|((#if:(({lat_sec|))}|(({lat_sec|))))}|N|(({lon_deg|0))}|((#if:(({lon_min|))}|(({lon_min|))))}|((#if:(({lon_sec|))}|(({lon_sec|))))}|E)) doesn't do the job, but carries the kernel of a solution in the understanding that I must call a variable only when it is defined. The problem remains though, because of the "|" separator, which causes the template to again expect something. Can it be substituted by a code of &#nnn; format? Debresser (talk) 01:27, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
&# 124; The 6th site I checked had it. Now let's try it out. Debresser (talk) 01:29, 14 October 2009 (UTC) ((!))
((Coord|(({lat_deg|))}((#if:(({lat_min|))}||(({lat_min|))))}((#if:(({lat_sec|))}||(({lat_sec|))))}|N|(({lon_deg|0))}((#if:(({lon_min|))}||(({lon_min|))))}((#if:(({lon_sec|))}||(({lon_sec|))))}|E)) is not working. The pipes just get copied onto the screen after losing their functionality. Debresser (talk) 01:34, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
((Coord|(({lat_deg|))}((#if:(({lat_min|))}|((!))(({lat_min|))))}((#if:(({lat_sec|))}|((!))(({lat_sec|))))}|N|(({lon_deg|0))}((#if:(({lon_min|))}|((!))(({lon_min|))))}((#if:(({lon_sec|))}|((!))(({lon_sec|))))}|E)) also didn't work. Debresser (talk) 01:40, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
What is it you did in the beginning of this edit? A mistake, no? Debresser (talk) 01:45, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
No problem with using numbered parameters, but first I need to get the idea of a separator through to it. :) Debresser (talk) 01:47, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
To get back to this issue. Your solution works, but has the abovementioned minus that it may potentially result in a lot of zeros. Do I understand correctly that we are at the end of our arsenal of tricks and I shall just have to live with this? Debresser (talk) 12:26, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
. Therefore if soemthing, like the Grenwich observatory, is at 0 00 00 we should display the zeros - they show we are being accurate. Arguably you could wrap coord thus: {if {lats|lons|} | {coord|1|2|3|E|5|6|7|S} {if {latm|lonm|} | {coord|1|2|E|5|6|S} {if {latd|lond|} | {coord|1|E|5|S} |} } }. Rich Farmbrough, 12:43, 14 October 2009 (UTC).
I moved with this to my sandbox and testcases, and I came to the conclusion that the problem is actually in ((Coord)). If we want to call it a problem. The thing is that it doesn't take undefined parameters. Meaning that something like ((Coord|34||N|55||E))
will return an error (two actually). Perhaps it will be easy to change that? Debresser (talk) 12:50, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
I have posted this issue at Template_talk:Coord#Undefined_parameters. Debresser (talk) 12:56, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
After the move of Wikipedia:Templates for deletion to Wikipedia:Templates for discussion, of which Iwas the instigator, and which I used for another few small improvements on the general chaos after such a thing, would you perhaps null-edit four editprotected pages left in Category:Wikipedia templates for deletion? I'd appreciate it. Debresser (talk) 16:31, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
After I was approached on my talkpage I answered that all is well. But is that so in fact? Erik9bot 9 is operated by User:Erik9 who is blocked as a sock puppet of the also blocked User:John254. Do you think it is safe to keep an unsupervised bot tagging 140,000+ articles into Category:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot)? Debresser (talk) 16:57, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
You won't believe what I found: Template:TVS-cleanup. Debresser (talk) 17:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
You forgot the all-inclusive category when you made this edit. Or did you? Debresser (talk) 14:13, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
rough|Farmbrough]], 18:28, 14 October 2009 (UTC).
So why don't I see an all-inclusve category in the progress templates on Category:Articles needing cleanup? 18:31, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
And why isn't there an old Wikify progress template? Debresser (talk) 18:42, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
BTW, it is a shame you didn't call it "Pages needing cleanup". Not only because that is the name of the all-inclusive category, but mainly because ((Cleanup)) is using DMC (without the "A") and not only articles get added, so "pages" is what it really should have been. Debresser (talk) 19:36, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
In use on a few pages. Probably keep it, but modernise it. I'll do that. Debresser (talk) 19:53, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
You may want to delete all old cleanup categories, progress boxes and whatever else. Debresser (talk) 20:16, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Will you make up your mind if it is "cleanup", "clean-up", or "clean up". BTW, I think your rename to "monthly clean up category" was a mistake in English (even though I am only a continental). Debresser (talk) 21:44, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
We now have
(({Resolution|(({Low_resolution))))))
. Will both
(({Resolution|(({Low_resolution|(({Low resolution|))))))))}
and
(({Resolution|(({Low_resolution|(({Low resolution))))))))}
(without the final pipe) work? Debresser (talk) 22:51, 14 October 2009 (UTC) If none of them are defined the second one will render as
(({Low resolution))}
Rich Farmbrough, 22:55, 14 October 2009 (UTC).
I know, which is what I want. But no difference in functionality? Debresser (talk) 22:57, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello, as you know User:Roux was given a week long block for disruptive conduct. This has not pleased some of Roux's friends who contacted the other user involved User:The Transhumanist and demanded apologies etc from him on Roux's behalf. As things went on one of Roux's friend's- User:Verbal has, seemingly taken to following Transhumanist around the project reverting his edits. Possibly justifiably in some cases yet it seems to be a little odd to me that he only suddenly took an interest in the articles Transhumanist edited after the dispute broke out. Examples of the conduct can be found by viewing first, Transhumanist's contributions and then the history pages of his top recently edited articles [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]. I can't help but feel this is totally against the ethos of Wikipedia- what can be done? Gavin (talk) 00:56, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Are the code of bots feely available? Specificly, is there a place to see the code of SmackBot? Debresser (talk) 01:50, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Did you mean to put this at Wikipedia:Cascade protected templates? It's currently in article space. (Or Wikipedia:Cascade-protected templates, even, if that is more correct.) • Anakin (talk) 02:20, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I just now noticeed you ended a run of references fixing with SmackBot, so I walked in to fix the remaining articles. I found two or three articles where SmackBot had added ((Reflist)), even though there was a <references/> tag. There is no need to do that. Debresser (talk) 02:31, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Karel van Wolferen article has been edited with references. Would it be alright to remove the tag that states there are no references in the article? (Would go ahead and do it myself, but want to notify you first). Thanks.Rayjameson (talk) 03:19, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I am confused by this. Is the left box or the right box the accurate numbers. BrianY (talk) 03:53, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello. You've just added category:Living people to Bert Millard and George Liddell, both born in the 19th century, both where the article states they're dead... cheers, Struway2 (talk) 11:06, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi, can you use AWB to apply this template to all the woredas articles linked in it? Cheers. Himalayan 12:19, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to alert you of a case where SmackBot appeared to hide a large deletion of text from an article. An anonymous user deleted a large amount of text in the Don Mattrick article (diff), but because this deletion included the ((reflist))
section, SmackBot subsequently added just that section back (diff). If I had not decided to look at the history of the article, this deletion could have been potentially missed. I realize this is a hard thing to address, but is there anything that can be done? —Umofomia (talk) 14:07, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
As of the last 24 hours Wikipedia:Templates for deletion has moved to Wikipedia:Templates for discussion. Debresser (talk) 04:34, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rich, you are the last one to edit Template:R to list entry, so I'm writing to ask why it doesn't have a [[Category:Redirects to list entries]] inside the <includeonly>? Note that the category does not display on redirects such as Aikidoka. -- ToET 07:32, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Just fyi here things didn't go quite right. 66.57.4.150 (talk) 17:30, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Oh, cool. I'll probably keep the user page up just as an extra precaution, but it's good to have a central page for this. Hersfold (t/a/c) 23:08, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Would it be easier to add the code to ((mbox)) and insert a parameter, rather than duplicating code all over the namespace? OrangeDog (talk • edits) 17:09, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
A minor point. I was a bit confused by the Expand lifetime template: consider using subst;l instead.. It should actually be subst:l as in ((subst:l|1901|1983|Bloggs, Fred)). --Big_iron (talk) 11:11, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Do the first letters of sort key terms always need to be capitalised? I'm asking in order to make sense of your edit here. Cheers. --Dominic Hardstaff (talk) 13:53, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Feel free to delete Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories. Debresser (talk) 17:14, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Congratulations on the simplification of ((Article issues)) and ((DatedAI))! Debresser (talk) 17:53, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
How do you make a bot automatic because I want to create a bot to help wikipedia. Thanks! RuneScape Adventure Sign! 19:18, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Why are you changing the dates on all the royalty articles? What's wrong with the American format? --Bookworm857158367 (talk) 01:54, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Some ignorant admin has made an edit to Template:Wikify that you will probably want to undo. Debresser (talk) 05:47, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Here, SmackBot moved the See also section in between the Footnotes and the References, which is something I think you will probably agree is not right (irrespective of what the MOS has to say about it). You may want to tweak your bot code a wee bit. Hesperian 11:18, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your cleaning and general fixes on all card games. Please, do go on ! Krenakarore (talk) 18:14, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for picking up the dodgy-looking 'rumour' about Port Askaig whisky. It didn't come from me and I share your scepticism. I'll watch it to see if anyone produces a source, but if they don't I'll edit it out. Dhmellor (talk) 08:23, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
hey bre —Preceding unsigned comment added by Musicmaker2013 (talk • contribs) 16:47, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
I have been a bit busy these last days, and have not taken care of Category:Pages with missing references list. Could you please let SB do a run first?
And might I ask you to consider adding a comment to Template_talk:Citation#Full_stop_at_the_end_of_the_template_2. Debresser (talk) 21:03, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Unrefsect (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 01:17, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it necessary to run all over the encyclopedia removing 1 character from hundreds of pages and cluttering histories and recent changes lists? Among other things you've modified someone's 3½-year-old monobook.js, old user talk page comments, this change which doesn't fit with the edit summary at all, and other templates and such that haven't been modified in years. "Deprecated" doesn't mean "doesn't work". • Anakin (talk) 06:01, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
See this edit, where SmackBot changed the correct "xn--bcher-kva" to the incorrect "xn—bcher-kva". The bot should leave the sequence "xn--" alone, since this is the prefix for the ASCII equivalents of non-ASCII domain labels, and is highly unlikely to be used in any other context. --Zundark (talk) 10:33, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
hey wats up? explain? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Musicmaker2013 (talk • contribs) 18:07, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rich, I was wondering if you could help me with some Regex. I want to:
put tag ((dead link header)) at the beginning of each section that contains the template: ((dead link)). I know there is some sort of lookforward buisness that needs to happen, I just don't understand well enough to write it. Tim1357 (talk) 21:41, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
(\n==+[^\n=]+==+ *\n)((?:[^=\n][^\n]*\n)*)([^=\n][^\n](([ _]*[Dd]ead[ _]+link[ _]*[\|}\n])
replace with
$1((dead link header))\n$2$3
Singleline of course. Rich Farmbrough, 22:14, 20 October 2009 (UTC).
I could add it to SB's normal run if there is consensus. Rich Farmbrough, 00:30, 21 October 2009 (UTC).
Hi. Can you provide you opinion on this matter? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 01:55, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Just notifying you of a bad edit. Dismas|(talk) 08:10, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Can you offer your thought on the template talk page of having a pointless map in a navigation templates such as Template:Postalhistorybycountry. It bloats an already oversized navigation templates and really has no purpose. If people are so dumb that they don't know where Asia is they can look... Dang it. Himalayan 10:31, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Could you have a look over ((cite IETF)) and see if I've missed anything obvious? I'd like to have a few more people look it over before it really starts getting used in articles. It went together pretty fast but I had been planning to create a proper citation template for these documents for quite awhile. --Tothwolf (talk) 15:46, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Please see this edit to "All My Loving". SmackBot changed "|pages=pp. 32-33" to "|pages=32-33". I know that is the proper thing to do for most of the templates in the "cite" family, but unfortunately, "cite album-notes" has a non-standard page parameter handling: it does not support "page=" and it does not include the "p." or "pp." prefix: editors must use "pages=" and supply the appropriate prefix manually.
I have considered changing "cite album-notes" to conform (see talk page), but I stopped when I realized that there were 1500+ references to it and changing the way the template works would break a great many of those. I knew one solution to that was to have a bot fix the existing uses, but I am not a bot writer and I did not know that SmackBot was already configured to fix the "pages=" parameter. (Does it do "page=", too?) That may mean that many of the calls to the "cite album-notes" templates are broken now (no prefix in parameter) and thus changing the template would actually do more good than harm.
I am very interested to know what you think should be done. My guess is that it may be less work to fix "cite album-notes" than to change SmackBot to handle an exception, and the former brings us closer to the ideal state. — John Cardinal (talk) 13:59, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello!
Here you have another template that automatically adds a category. Your edit to Template:Infobox Former Country was undone, claiming that it left articles without categories. Debresser (talk) 17:51, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
SmackBot keeps adding a date parameter to Template:BASEPAGENAME, which breaks it. Specifically, see these edits: [12][13] -Rrius (talk) 22:11, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi - I noticed this and I think I understand the point of the template (to prevent broken magic word usage)... however I was just wondering if it was used anywhere and noticed that people might end up getting there by using when following an example link like ((tl|BASEPAGENAME)) - as it is used in [14]. I am just wondering if you think either of the following would be useful: 1) a soft redirect from the template you've created to the WP:Magic words page and/or 2) protection of the page to prevent the kids from messing around. Clearly this isn't a big problem, and it may not even require a solution - just trying to preempt any issues that may come up. Thanks. 7 23:13, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
Its been a while that SmackBot has operated on the Hindi Wiki. Can you please invoke the Smackbot again. Thanks Gunjan (talk) 12:16, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. The current method of suppressing categories on some of our maintenance templates by specifying a blank |category=
seems rather unintuitive and also conflicts with the method used on some other templates, which require |category=no
. I wonder if you might comment on a discussion on my talk page. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:47, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Another all-inclusive category here. Count your blessings. Debresser (talk) 14:21, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Rich! Something the matter with SmackBot? Also, might you be Roman Catholic like me? Its last entry was on Saturday for the Catholic Church (as you already know, of couese)! Please have your robot to not place date maintenance tags on Paul McCartney's discography page, if you could. Thanks! Best, --Discographer (talk) 00:28, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
It is getting a lot of net-work time outs which don't help. But the original idea was to run at least once a month! Things have changed a bit since then. Rich Farmbrough, 15:52, 27 October 2009 (UTC).
I've tentatively mentioned your name as a possible 'closing admin' for the debate here. Hope that's OK! We want to find someone neutral to end what has been a difficult discussion and I saw that you'd done some work on this box. Reg. --Kleinzach 02:32, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
You bot is giving different pages from the same website the same name: [15]. This is the second time it has done this. Can you ask it to stop? Thanks, Mitsube (talk) 22:28, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your recent "date maintenance tags and general fixes" on the Little Richard article. I have been doing a lot of recent on the subject and have been working to make the article more informative and accurate. At the same time, it needs to be encyclopedic, so please feel free to relay feedback / input asI go along. I am fairly new to Wiki and can use the support that you can offer.--Smoovedogg (talk) 06:08, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I recently inserted a Ray Charles quote in the influence section with I think the appropriate citation info (please correct if I'm wrong) I pulled the quote out a day or so ago, as one editor wanted one the Bo Diddley quote in there or the Ray Charles one but not both (I think it looks okay with both, as they validate each other especially coming from those two music giants)) The quote farm that had been in there was edited out long ago. Your feedback is appreciated. Also, do you think it should be Penniman (the artists formal last name) or Little Richard mentioned through the article when referring to him, or sometimes one or the other? I am uncertain.--Smoovedogg (talk) 06:36, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Everything alright? You've been, well strangely quiet for you the last few days.... Himalayan 10:35, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
You added a globalize tag to a section of this article before. I moved it and that started a whole debate as I felt the entire article needs to be globalized, not just a section. Could you comment here Talk:2009_flu_pandemic#Worldwide_view as you've expressed an opinion on this before.--Crossmr (talk) 15:36, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
SmackBot moved a cleanup tag to the references section of this article. I moved it back. I am fairly sure these should be at the top? Thanks. Maidonian (talk) 13:01, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Could you please do another run of SB on Category:Pages with missing references list? Debresser (talk) 22:48, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
About User:Rich Farmbrough/temp52 (Citation templates : following character frequency).
When it says that the following characteris an "A", does that mean without spaces and without enters?
Can you make lists of these articles also? Debresser (talk) 11:49, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
What is the difference between => 5 and => 7409? The latter I would guess to be the enter, and the first a tab. Debresser (talk) 11:50, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
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( )
.Discussion at Template_talk:Citation#Full_stop_at_the_end_of_the_template_2 is at a dead point. Can you shake it up? Or do you have a better idea? Debresser (talk) 22:39, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rich. Might I ask you to look into this matter also? Ben (User:SchuminWeb and User talk:SchuminWeb#Homelessness_in_the_United_States) has kindly looked at it too. Confer Homelessness in the United States article, etc. and User_talk:76.126.50.198. It's situationally unmanageable as it stands and a huge unnecessary diversion from real work to do in WP. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 03:00, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I see you edited this so thought you might go to the article Kisber and put the photo in proper place in the box. Regret I can't as I inserted some text and saved it before trying to fix the photo location which I did not save. thanx. Handicapper (talk) 14:41, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that User:SmackBot standardizes ((Otheruses4)) templates to upper-case already, do you think it would make sense to convert them to ((About)) templates while we're at it now that the template was moved? It was moved because ((about)) is easier to remember than ((otheruses4)) with its arbitrary number. Cheers, — sligocki (talk) 18:36, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
It appears the problem with ksh_code has not been resolved fully, and we are with our horses midstream.
I see from many stub articles that they are using ksh_code to define the KSH code whereas ksh_code_2008 is the correct name for the fields. I also see that they link to the KSH page in the population_footnotes field.
I remember there was some discussion of changing the field name and add another that describes the date of the data. I am reasonably happy to do this, however, it has not been done and so the articles using ksh_code instead of ksh_code_2008 are not automatically generating a reference to the data, which was the intention.
I suggest you and I collaborate to fix this:
((Infobox Hungarian settlement))
and replace any instances of ksh_code_2008 with ksh_code. It should also remove the population footnotes (perhaps if they match a suitable regex) but retain the year, renaming it. e.g. for Csólyospálos it should change [http://portal.ksh.hu/pls/portal/cp.hnt_telep?NN=12025 Csólyospálos] at the [[Hungarian Central Statistical Office]] (Hungarian). 1 January 2008;
to be |ksh_data_as_of=1 January 2008
.This need only be a one-off run for SmackBot. It's a pity that in the confusion/arguments of before, it seems that a decision was taken to use a field that did not exist in preference to one that did. But I think all that can be done now is to repair having left it in the air, and I hope you can maybe use SmackBot to help automate that repair. If so, I will change the template at an appropriate time to the new names. I think it would be unwise to introduce the new fields as a synonym, but I imagine that only the few articles (i.e. mine and a few others' articles with real content) would actually be broken by this change, and more (i.e. the 250-odd articles that are almost empty except for scaffolding) would be fixed by it. I should appreciate your views. Best wishes Si Trew (talk) 20:42, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
When I saw that Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template has 77 pages, I decided it is time to create November's categories. Done. Debresser (talk) 18:27, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
I see you deprecated ((Geobox River)) and ((Geobox Mountain Range)). Can they simply be substitued by ((Geobox)), or do I need to change any parameters? Debresser (talk) 17:51, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Template:Tone-inline. I had to work on it a little, but now it is presentable. Debresser (talk) 19:20, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Just so you know, on the articles where you've been replacing the Erik9bot category with an unreferenced tag, the date you're entering is November 2006 and not 2009. --Sable232 (talk) 19:26, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Not sure I understand what you mean. There is a template for that site, but the documentation says it has to be subst'ed, but it won't subst inside ref tags so I was just copy/pasting the whole thing. --Sable232 (talk) 20:32, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I wrote the article for The City of London Migraine Clinic as a volunteer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_London_Migraine_Clinic). The SmackBot has put up a notification saying "This article may not meet the general notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged or deleted."
I don't feel it needs further referencing. Could you help me out by telling me what you feel is missing because I would like to remove the notification as soon as possible. I am also always interested in hearing an experience wiki persons opinion as this is the first article I have written.
Thank you very much, Simon Ssim24 (talk) 17:25, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you mean to create this category like this: Category:PAGES WITH INCORRECT FORMATTING TEMPLATES USE? JPG-GR (talk) 04:26, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
FYI, SmackBot replaces content like ((fact|October 2009)) with ((Citation needed|October 2009|date=November 2009))
24.60.190.107 (talk) 12:27, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Regarding this edit, [16], you added an unreferenced template with a date of January 2007, the first edit of the article.
According to Template:Unreferenced: "The date parameter, which is recommended, is used to indicate when the template was added to a page." Currently these dates should be November 2009. Aspects (talk) 19:19, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Same comment re 2002_NCAA_Women's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament. (Yes, it does need references, and I'll try to add some.)--SPhilbrickT 19:35, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible for you to put something in the edit summary to explain that the choice of January 2007 is intentional...to save editors like me the trouble of coming here? Stevage 14:27, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I just stumbled on ((ns0)) which is a template you made. I would like to redirect ((ns0)) to ((main other)). This is why:
--David Göthberg (talk) 13:39, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
You never got back to me on this so I basically am "relisting".
I think SmackBot or something else converted about 250 appropriate articles to use Template:Infobox Hungarian settlement (great, thanks!), but unfortunately it was using ksh_code
instead of ksh_code_2008
as the field name for the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) code. I see now e.g. at Magyarcsanád and Taksony that you have changed using AWB to use the correct fields, and I presume that you have done so for all articles?
Nevertheless (and I appreciate that this is really better discussed at the template talk page, and don't mind if you want to move the discussion there) it is probably my turn to fix the template to replace ksh_code_2008
with ksh_code
, and add a ksh_date
field (it could just be date
if you think that better). I can certainly do this, but would require another run at AWB to fix them all back again. In the alternate I can support both forms, but this is rather a faff since things like the reference, the area and the population is switched on whether the code is present, so would lead to quite a lot of duplication.
On a side note, other information such as the postal area etc. is also readily available from KSH, and could be dated as such. I note from another conversation that there was some mention of the date field on "unsourced fields", and wonder if we should just blanket supply it as a footnote. However, I also note that the blank_ fields in Template:Infobox settlement, while documented, are not actually supported.
Your advice would be appreciated, then I will get on and do it.
Si Trew (talk) 07:33, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
ksh_code
, not ksh_code_2008
. I agree with your sentiment that the date should be moved out of the field name (to ksh_code).ksh_code_2008
, so nothing breaks (under WP:OWNFEET) add ksh_year for the year of publication, then we can AWB or whatever the articles to migrate to the new field, then remove the old after. That way, nothing breaks along the way.A clever fellow such as you must find yourself leaning at least slightly in my favor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.100.86.2 (talk) 08:05, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Is there something as being an admin with limited possibilities? There is so many good things an editor can't do without being an admin. Like editing protected pages, or deleting pages (to help out in Cfd), etc.
On that other site I wrote you about, I started working just a few days ago as admin and bureaucrat. Not a big deal to be able to delete a page or set user group rights. Today they also made me webmaster, so now I started working with MediaWiki files like LocalSettings.php. I made a few changes already, but I'll read the MediaWiki manual, and then I'll know more about it. Debresser (talk) 15:58, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Si Trew (talk) 19:08, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
I have never seen another article use this style of reference formatting, it seems quite odd and awkward. Also, could you please use edit summaries? Thanks, Cirt (talk) 23:06, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to say "nice work" on the article, especially with the high number of edits being made, which, I think, has resulted in more than one edit conflict between the two of us! Anyway, it's good to see a neutral, well referenced, structured article taking form. I think you deserve this:
The Current Events Barnstar | ||
For your hard work creating and maintaining Fort Hood shooting HJMitchell You rang? 04:50, 6 November 2009 (UTC) |
Regards, HJMitchell You rang? 04:50, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Alleged until proven guilty. Casualties implies dead, whereas victims cover dead and wounded. Neuromancer (talk) 08:59, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
Victims implies a value judgement. It is a POV word we should avoid. Casualties does not mean dead. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/casualty Hasan is an alleged murderer, but not really an alleged gunman - no one is disputing that he was the gunman. He will not be tried for being a gunman, he will be tried most likely for murder. Rich Farmbrough, 09:06, 7 November 2009 (UTC).
I'm not using it as an RS. I would be if I was citing it in the article but I'm not.
On my travels, I found this oddball example of how some people link dates. For example, note the string "Vicki Gunvalson (born [[March]] [[27]], [[1962]]), at age 47" Due to the scope of the current operation, we will need to go and delink the lone months at some stage later or anyway, so could I ask you perhaps to look at a possible solution to incorporate into one of your bots? Ohconfucius ¡digame! 13:24, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, a discussion here concerns changes to the reflist format [17] & here [18]. If you need a hand fixing give me a shout. Leaky Caldron 17:24, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
I have a few lines of code in my monobook (from a script by Lightmouse) which I use to automatically insert an edit summary: 'function edit_summary()' or somesuch. To save me typing ((use dmy dates)) or ((use mdy dates)) each time, and so as not to annoy people by having the template at the top, I would like to build that into the relevant function to write it as the very last line of the file because it's usually part of the same edit. Could you suggest the code needed, please? Ohconfucius ¡digame! 14:18, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
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Still happening in 4.9+? Can you reproduce it on demand? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:35, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Is SmackBot adding dates to Category:Userspace drafts created via the Article Wizard, which is populated by ((Userspace draft))? Debresser (talk) 14:21, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Category:Unreviewed new articles and its subcategories moved to Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard. Debresser (talk) 01:04, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
You may find a slight amusement at Template:Time of day in words. Best wishes Si Trew (talk) 01:26, 9 November 2009 (UTC) (((Time of day in words|01|26)), Proper British Time)
Greetings, Rich Farmbrough. I noticed that in some articles you have replaced the category "articles lacking sources" with an Unreferenced template. Fine, but, I believe the Unreferenced template should not be backdated. If you put the current date on the template, other editors will then see how long the article has been tagged. Take a look at Template:Unreferenced#Usage, where it says, "The date parameter is used to indicate when the template was added to a page." (If you reply here I will see what you say.) — Mudwater (Talk) 01:36, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Dating the tags when they were added (or when the date was added) has always been a compromise. It was one I was aware of when I created the parameter and categories. I am also aware , because I deal with them on a daily basis, that articles move from category to category, and all sorts of strange things go on. It doesn't matter that some articles are "late" - even if it weren't a waste of human time to date the tag at all, people would make so many errors digging back (I get probably a couple hundred misdated tags a day as it is) that adding the current date or better still no date at all is the preferred option for human editors. The important thing is that the articles get references. But having said that I am reluctant to re-create old dated categories (though it happens often enough due to article reversion). Rich Farmbrough, 03:04, 9 November 2009 (UTC).
Rich, perhaps a couple parameters could make this usage more clear? Maybe something like |backdated=yes
and |auto=yes
to show it was added by a bot (auto) and placed in an older category (backdated) to prevent swamping the current category with 100,000+ articles. --Tothwolf (talk) 05:00, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Just saw this edit and have been pondering the usefulness of DEFAULTSORT on species articles. Would like your input and perhaps a lengthier discussion on the guideline itself in the proper place. If it isn't explicit already, I'd like to suggest an exception for the defaultsort usage guidelines for taxa articles.
So, any thoughts? If I wanted to bring this to a wider audience for discussion, where might I turn. Wikipedia talk:Categorization? Cheers, Rkitko (talk) 23:00, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
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Please have a look at this diff. What do you say? And if you think this is a good idea, would you consider merging Category:Articles for merging with no partner with Category:Merge templates that are incorrectly applied? And BTW, do you have a better name for that category, perhaps? Debresser (talk) 16:13, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
The redirect over at Major Nidal Malik Hasan is still pointing to the parent article. Could you get it fixed up? — C M B J 00:24, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
AFAIK, this is yet another "blast of news at event, blast of news at trial (which hasn't occurred), and then nothing" sort of article. NOTNEWS says that events like this need to be historically notable, and I don't believe a single home invasion is anything more than news, considering that all the information is culled from a whopping four sources. There will undoubtedly be more, but the content will be the same. Does NOTNEWs tend to hold up on AfD? MSJapan (talk) 06:50, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Smackbot made changes and left this message "Add references section and/or general fixes".
Why is Smackbot stripping indentation? Does not sound like a general fix to me. The indentation was put there deliberately. Indentation not only helps readability of the page source and it makes it easy for me to navigate using only the keyboard arrow and control keys.
Given that the bot needs to be programmed with a list of tasks I would appreciate if the status message could be a bit more clear about which of those tasks have been performed, and more specifically say what was done rather than "general fixes". Surely each time it goes through a condition the an additional note could be concatenated onto the summary string. It seems very odd that the summary says "And/or" when it is clearly "AND", it is a very definitive thing, when would be it be OR?
Please reply here, I've added this page to my watchlist -- Horkana (talk) 01:08, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rich,
SmackBot is formatting the date for the ((issue)) tag as "ZNovember" as seen here. I think that's not a good thing? 204.153.84.10 (talk) 23:38, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
The bot has stalled for three solid days now. I'm dropping you this note because some of us feel that reinforcements are indeed necessary. Please can you see what you can do? Thanks. Ohconfucius ¡digame! 12:29, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Rich, please help me understand some of the clean-up changes you are making. Firstly why are you deleting the spaces between the section heading codes (== etc) and the words when the Editor's guidelines, Cheatsheet and the Level 2 editing button all clearly show spaces separating the words from the code. Secondly, what is the logic for removing the links to dates? --Bermicourt (talk) 20:10, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Per your delinking[19] at Sumate, Venezuela uses dmy, not mdy. I'll ask Ohconfucious to fix that one up, since I've seen him do one before. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:14, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Red Star Congratulations, Rich Farmbrough! It's my pleasure to award you November 14, 2009's Red Star for being hard working, kind to others, and for being an excellent user in general. A record of this award will always be kept at User:Meaghan/Shining Stars. Enjoy! Meaghan guess who :) 00:15, 14 November 2009 (UTC) You could also receive the next higher up award, the Orange Star! |
Dates - can you use that AWB tool to change the dates in the GA list from 1994-02-25 to 25 February 1994 (my preference) or February 25, 1994 since those are easier to read - and prior to this date stuff the default was that dates ISO formatted were automatically converted to one of these formats unless the user had something different specified in their preferences. Thanks --Trödel 03:15, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Is there a better way to fix the merge template in Push–pull workout? Debresser (talk) 17:00, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Here is a bit strange edit: [20]. The good thing is that the bot reordered <ref name="foo"/> elements in the text so that a group of footnotes is in numerical order, I like it, thanks. However, for some reason the bot also changed the order of <ref name="foo">...</ref> elements inside a ((reflist)). First, I'm not sure if this is necessary at all – it does not change how the page is rendered. Second, I did not see any logic in the order that is produced by the bot: it does not seem to be alphabetical, numerical or anything. Third, the source code contained comments that were related to particular references, and those were misplaced by the bot. — Miym (talk) 12:44, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
Orange Star Congratulations, Rich Farmbrough! Within the past three days, you received the Red Star for being hard working, kind to others, and for being an excellent user in general. You've now been chosen to receive the next higher up award, the Orange Star. A record of this award will always be kept at User:Meaghan/Shining Stars. Enjoy! Meaghan guess who :) 14:09, 15 November 2009 (UTC) You could also receive the next higher up award, the Yellow Star! |
OOh Orange! Tasty! Is this progessing up the rainbow or the main sequence? Thanks! Rich Farmbrough, 14:20, 15 November 2009 (UTC).
Hi Rich. I don't know if you are still up for doing tasks using AWB but I could sure use your help correcting the settlement naming in infoboxes of the Village Development Committee's of Nepal. You see the articles either don't have any banners or they are wrongly labelled as towns or villages rather than Village Development Committee like Chobhar, Nepal. Would you be so kind as to standardise them all? Also many of them wrongly say so and so is a town. Definately wrong. Most of them except for the capital of the district are rural Village Development COmmittee's or municipalities not towns as such... Himalayan 22:29, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Rich, great work, but you may wish to adjust the code to avoid [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julio-Claudian_dynasty&diff=prev&o ldid=325832924 this]. Thanks. Tony (talk) 00:30, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
Rich but the point is Maidan, Nepal is not a small town. It is officially a Village Development Committee or at least a village anyway... Himalayan 11:55, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
Messy? Try looking at Indian villages..... Himalayan 17:32, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
Rich, This is my first time using Wikipidia and I am making a page for Vincent Ostrom for a class assignment. In response to my request to move the page (make it active), you said that I need to "add a source parameter using AWB." I'm not sure what this means, but in looking at the AWB instructions, it looks like one needs to have made 500+ Wiki edits before one can register to use AWB. I'm just starting. What should I do? Is this preventing the Ostrom page from becoming active? Advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.-Rachel Feeney User:R.G.Feeney —Preceding undated comment added 19:50, 15 November 2009 (UTC).
You seem to be getting all the awards lately :)--Coldplay Expért Let's talk 00:24, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Recently, you made this edit. Among the other changes you made, you changed the format of the accessdate parameter of the cite web template. Please don't do this. If you check the version of the page before your edit, you'll notice none of the access/retrieved on dates were linked. In fact, the template documentation suggests the date format that was used as an option. I've reverted your edit. You may want to check and see how many other articles (if any) you've done this on.--Rockfang (talk) 09:04, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you are still doing it. Could you respond here when you get a moment? Thank you.--Rockfang (talk) 09:42, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
... modern date style are quite unreadable enough without WP inventing its own months. See this diff at Bury. Regards, Mr Stephen (talk) 12:32, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Sorry it's taken me a few days to get back to you. I just reverted all of your defaultsort additions to the Drosera articles (WP:BRD). Since this point has at least two editors concerned about it (myself and Hesperian), I'd appreciate it if you might stop adding it to taxa articles while we discuss it. I would like to have this discussion with a wider audience so that we can get a feeling for consensus on this issue. I took a look at the Abies suggestion and it still irks me that this seems unnecessary for the reasons I stated earlier. And think of it less as an exception and more of a guideline on the proper usage - a sort of "use only when needed" guideline, not "use everywhere even when unnecessary" guide. That's my perspective. Appreciate your additional thoughts. Rkitko (talk) 15:49, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
I need ur help. if you do not know the the solution then please tell me whome to ask. There is a problem with my wikipedia account User:Brainlara73. i get logged in, it logged in, and suddenly when i open my wachlist or any other page of wikipiedia, it is logged off automatically. I think it has been hacked or any other problem. Please Help me out.
Regards. Talha
--121.52.145.185 (talk) 09:26, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
The User:Full-date unlinking bot is specified to only process articles once, in order to prevent edit-warring between editors who actually understand the articles, and bots which do not. Since your recent series of edits seems to accomplish similar goals to the Full-date unlinking bot, do you promise that you will not process an article that has already been processed by that bot? Do you further promise to coordinate with the bot so the bot will not process any article that you have processed? Jc3s5h (talk) 20:14, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rich, I have seen you around similar articles and was wondering if you could take a look at Al Qaeda#American operations (may be re-titled Al Qaeda#Fort Hood Shooting) for WP:SYNTH issues. One user feels that since al-Awlaki is linked to al Qaeda, and Nidal Hasan is linked to Awlaki, then Hasan must be working for al Qaeda. I feel this constitutes a serious WP:BLP issue. Thanks for the help. Grsz11 01:58, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
User_talk:Harej#Bot speed. Tony (talk) 11:22, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Recently, you (with AWB) appear to have started making automated edit like this one[21] with the summary "delinking ISO style dates using AWB". This edit in question does not appear to delink anything; but instead it has changed a large number of YYYY-mm-dd dates inside ((cite))
s to long-hand format. Template:Cite/doc clearly states "Note: Since "the date" is a single parameter in the code, the ISO 8601 date format (YYYY-MM-DD) should be used"; the subject is therefore misleading and the edit non-productive. —Sladen (talk) 14:00, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
I saw a similar change to Thiomersal, in which a few dates were delinked but a bunch of dates were converted from the article's YYYY-MM-DD style to some other style. There is no consensus to change YYYY-MM-DD date format to other date formats, and AWB should not be going through articles changing date formats like that. Is there any way that the damage already done can be undone? Eubulides (talk) 17:33, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
There have been partial or complete reverts of what Rich has done where ISO format is at issue. Not all ISO date formats were changed by Rich: some were simply unlinked, as described in the specs. Often, Sladen or Eubulides have simply reverted Rich, without making the dates uniform. In some cases, after the reverts, the reference section is a messy mixture of date formats: don't people care? I don't think these reversions are quite justified.
However, I must say that the bot was always conceived as performing a narrow, uncontroversial task. I trust that this task has not been widened. I don't know why all of these complaints are occurring now, but did not occur during bot testing. Tony (talk) 03:01, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
In the edit[27] the script does not appear to be actively parsing for date=
; it managed to managle date[[2008-03-29]]
to date29 March 2008
—ideally the script could do with tighter parsing rules. —Sladen (talk) 15:54, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
How is it making things worse? There appear to be about 500 missing "=" signs. Easy enough to fix them up. Rich Farmbrough, 18:11, 16 November 2009 (UTC).
The process should have a hyper-rigid definition of what is and is not a date, and anything that does not meet the definition of a date should not be processed. Among the criteria for being a date should be white space, equals sign, minus sign, hyphen, or some kind of dash to the left, and white space, colon, some type of dash, or terminal punctuation to the right. I suppose within a citation template, the vertical pipe could also be to the left or right. --Jc3s5h (talk) 19:01, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
date *= *(.+)[|}]
, accessdate *= *
, ... then yes dates were mis-identified. If the rule was only looking at the value ([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{1,2}-[0-9]{1,2})
) and relying on that, then no. Personally I would be happier if the context were carefully included in any rule.zzz
in them and some lost mark-up (which although undesirable) was clearly separating the datum from the previous word. —Sladen (talk) 19:28, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Somebody keeps disrupting this article by moving it from the correct Shannan Prefecture to Lhoka. Can you move it back and put some kind of protection against moving it or whatever? It is officially the Shannan Prefecture and we have maps, categories and inline text to this effect not to mention books I possess from neutral sources. That area has been called Shannan for centuries! Can you move it back? Cheers. Himalayan 19:09, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Yes, now, from what I gather it is the "official" PRC new name for the prefecture, despite it being called Shannan for over 1000 years, I had thought initially it was vandalism. Sad really that such a deep rooted name can change just like that. However as Lhoka will not be recognisable to many I've redirected to a double name title which seems the sensible thing to do. Himalayan 20:22, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Would you please recover the article that was deleted by adding the infobox. Thank you. (Salmon1 (talk) 14:14, 18 November 2009 (UTC))
The article name is Irving Kriesberg. Thank you fvery much. !Salmon1 (talk) 14:19, 18 November 2009 (UTC))
I cannot thank you enough for your help. I will try my best not to repeat my error. Very best regards, (Salmon1 (talk) 14:24, 18 November 2009 (UTC))
hello Rich Farmbrough, thanks for remark, i do it next time. Trabelsiismail (talk) 15:07, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Do you have a module for this? --John (talk) 04:44, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
* Spaces in header 3,571,002. * No spaces in header 9,967,810.
<-- I came to post on the same topic, so piling on. I've created pretty much 90% of the pages in Category:India women Test cricketers and Category:India women ODI cricketers, about 70% overlap between the two. When I created them I assumed that linking dates was a necessity as that's how I'd seen it elsewhere. Could you run your module on both these cats, or let me know how I could do it using AWB? Thanks. -SpacemanSpiff 04:11, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
[28] Use with caution and at your own risk. Rich Farmbrough, 07:44, 16 November 2009 (UTC).
I see the wonderful new AWB code you just wrote, and was wondering if...
you wouldn't mind seeking approval for a second bot to supplement the efforts of Full-date unlinking bot, perhaps using that code? It would be nice to have a bot that runs at the approved speed, doesn't pause for its 8-hour constitutional, doesn't work to rule. ;-) Ohconfucius ¡digame! 10:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
I appreciate your using the bot to tidy up references and formatting and stuff. I wanted to say that I research and write quickly, sometimes copying and pasting whatever date format I come across in my sources, and find it takes too much time to manually switch from 6/04/2007 to the proper format of 2007-06-04. But I trust your bot does this quickly, effortlessly, right? So it's a big time savings for me if I can work quickly.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 00:08, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
But I was wondering that perhaps you might know something that always is a nuisance for me, and might give me advice? When I finish putting together a new article, how do I find the proper categories? It seems I have to wade through tons of screens. The Wikimedia Commons has this great tool called "Common Sense"; do you know if WP has something similar? So, I could type in things like "doctor researcher medicine person manhattan" and it would find the categories for me?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 00:08, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Following up on #Please leave date format alone when unlinking above: this morning's big batch of date changes again changed the date formats of articles while unlinking them, for no good reason. For example, this edit to Neurotypical changed "Retrieved on 2007-11-24" to "Retrieved on 24 November 2007" even though the established style in references in that article was to use YYYY-MM-DD format. You indicated earlier that you had fixed your regular expressions to not do that, but apparently it's still doing that.
While you're fixing this, can you please let us know exactly which regular expressions you're using? That might help to avoid future problems like this. Thanks. Eubulides (talk) 19:08, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
I tend to agree with Rich on the knee jerk reaction thing. That was my reaction upon seeing the dreaded "AWB" edit summary on fully 1/3 of the pages on my watchlist, but ultimately there's nothing wrong with it. Seems like the arguments here are just... arguments. I mean, really: Who cares what China likes? They have their own Wikipedia (and can't even access half of that one anyway). That's really scraping the bottom of the argument barrel. At worst, the changes are quite harmless. I'd say overall, they're pretty helpful. Kafziel Complaint Department 00:19, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you, most kind! Rich Farmbrough, 01:25, 19 November 2009 (UTC).
With this edit you have inserted commas into two dates that ought not have them, being day month year. I shall remove them again. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:49, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, can you use a user with bot status when making massive automatic changes? That would ease for those watching the pages you have been doing those changes. Thank you.--Nutriveg (talk) 13:29, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Good work, but please check the MOS for the format for 'dd month yyyy' dates such as '17 November 2009'. I believe that commas are not allowed; they are only used in the 'month dd, yyyy' format, such as November 17, 2009. I am saying nothing about which format is preferred; I am only discussing the comma. Hmains (talk) 04:25, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
That is correct, the question of whether to remove the comma is not trivial "... the troops moral fell to an all time low by 19 November, 2009, however, saw a new turn of events...." Rich Farmbrough, 08:09, 18 November 2009 (UTC).
Since you partook in the first nomination, and I do not regularly see you on WP:CFD, I'd like to inform you of this nomination. Thank you, Debresser (talk) 15:08, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, on various pages including Talk:Gerard Crole, Talk:Thomas H. Swope and Talk:Michelle Michaels you added an extra listas parameter instead of filling in the existing blank one. I know that you're busy unlinking dates these days, but I figured I'd point this out for when you return to listas work. Of course, these edits were two months ago, so you may have already fixed your AWB settings.... MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 18:02, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich, another editor is considering asking for an upgrade on the article for "Echoes", the song from Pink Floyd. However, there's a huge white patch that I've seen a hundred times on Wikipedia, where the text vs. the infobox leaves a big blank spot. Could you have a look at it, and either fix it, give me a name of another editor who could do this, or ask me to bug off if I'm wrong to consider the layout of the piece? It would of course, be gratefully appreciated, as I am computer illiterate for the most part. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 22:20, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
What is wrong with the url and title in the example here? Debresser (talk) 12:30, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Could you help clarify the "piping" issue in Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_November_19#Categories_for_discussion, please. Debresser (talk) 13:32, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
I'm puzzled... User:SmackBot makes edits like this, removing the spaces from eg == References ==
to make ==References==
; yet User:MondalorBot does precisely the opposite. Which style should I follow for new section headers that I add to articles? --Redrose64 (talk) 13:39, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough. I'm Nonamer98, and I'm relatively new to wikipedia. I know the basics, but there are a few things that still puzzle me.
In the edit summary, how do you make it so that it says something like "Reverted/undid edit identified as vandalism by..." (I emphasized the important part)
Is there a format or something that I can't find? I know what vandalism looks like, and I only revert clear cases of vandalism.
You're input is greatly appreciated. Nonamer98 (talk) 03:05, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Reverted 1 edit by 24.186.95.71 identified as vandalism to last revision by Rich Farmbrough.
You recently accidentally deleted some links to stub using AWB (I have restored them). No doubt AWB mistakes these for something connected with stub-articles. This is not the first time this has happened (I believe). Is there some mechanism for protecting content from AWB? --catslash (talk) 22:33, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Wow! Congratulations on passing the 500,000 mark! Heh, I thought it was a big deal when I hit 50,000 edits about ten days ago; now, that seems so tiny compared to your half a million. Anyways, keep up the good work, and I'll be seeing you, as always, popping up all over my Watchlist. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 09:40, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Rich! Good morning! Or at least, I hope it's morning where you live! Anyway, the article Brazil is blocked due to a dispute over a content. I would like to know if you would be interested in giving your opinion to end it once and for all. In case you do not know much about the subject, I could explain it better to you. This is the link. All help is needed. Thank your very much and kind regards, --Lecen (talk) 11:35, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rich,
Thanks for taking the time out to fix the commas in the dates, but this this date is contained in the title of reference, and is therefore a direct quote, so shouldn't it be left out? Cheers, CP 15:28, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Rich! You probably aren't going to be as excited as the title of this post suggests, but I do indeed have work for you, if you have time and are willing to help. Basically, the gist is that I have upgraded ((Infobox Russian district)) to be more like ((Infobox Russian inhabited locality)), which means that the newly upgraded template also contains the "date=" parameter used internally to date uncited fields. Could you, please, add it to your bot workload the same way you did for the inhabited localities? Thanks much!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 22:45, November 2, 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Rich, I added a feature article from the LA TIMES concerning painter, Alexey Steele, and although I do not imagine myself to be as smart as a computer programmer like yourself, I think that confers notability on the man, since there are very few artists in the USA who ever manage to get a single word written about themselves in the LA Times, let alone an entire two page feature article. But I leave it to your judgment and discretion to determine if the tag should be removed or not. Cheers.
Big Media Articles (talk) 02:19, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Big Media Articles (talk) 02:48, 22 November 2009 (UTC) Answered on user's talk page.} Rich Farmbrough, 09:23, 22 November 2009 (UTC).
Big Media Articles (talk) 09:49, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Big Media Articles (talk) 20:07, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. Could you run SmackBot on references errors, please? Debresser (talk) 10:57, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
As politely as I can ask, in the sweetest of cute fluffy cutesy baby rabbit voices, please could you curtail the use of unvetted high-speed automated rules to attack YYYY-mm-dd dates. Eg. this edit[31] has modified an article that exclusively used YYYY-mm-dd dates in its references[32] section and now introduced multiple formats... (MOS:NUM#Format consistency). —Sladen (talk) 21:37, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
This diff has picked up 0-6-0 as a date instead of a railway engine type. Regards, Mr Stephen (talk) 22:40, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
This edit changes[44] "August 15th 2007" to "August 15 2007", rather than "August 15, 2007" (MOS:DATE). —Sladen (talk) 23:01, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi. In the course of other edits, I have delinked your purposeful date-linking here. Sorry, but I don't see how MOS:UNLINKDATES (and the bit about autoformatting) doesn't apply here. Persuade me otherwise if you wish. Cheers Bjenks (talk) 05:03, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
These consecutive edits[48][49] converts a YYYY-mm-dd date in a references section that exclusively uses YYYY-mm-dd dates. —Sladen (talk) 23:41, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi your edits were very good but have been reverted on topic Islam and Sikhism Thanks 5705noreply (talk) 05:06, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, I had to revert your edit to get at some vandalism. Thought I'd let you know in case you wanted to re-do it. —Aladdin Sane (talk) 19:20, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Since I noticed that Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template has been populated by them same articles for a few days, I decided to fix them. And walked into Template:Failed verification that does not yet have the substitution detection. Debresser (talk) 21:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Rich, pardon WP:STALK, but please strongly consider whether it's really possible for a human to accurately edit and review at seven articles per minute:
—Sladen (talk) 22:53, 23 November 2009 (UTC) (All from the top of Special:Contributions).
The SmackBot bot seems to have placed an ((advert)) tag on the article on Evan Kohlmann. I am surprised at this, thinking that either this would be a tag that only a real human being should apply, because it requires real human judgment -- or alternatively, if we can trust a bot's heuristics to apply it, the edit summary should link to the rules the bot used.
Is the bot still applying this tag? Geo Swan (talk) 02:54, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
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How can I change ==Header==
to == Header ==
using AWB? Debresser (talk) 15:19, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
There still remains something to fix. Sorry, but the regex article is still a bit hard for me, so if you could please help. Debresser (talk) 22:40, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you have changed the format on the headings and subheadings for the article. In my opinion I think it's less easy to read as a result. Is it possible for it to be changed back or has it been discussed somewhere that the new format is better than the previous one? If the page is to be kept in the current format should pages such as List of artists who have covered Van Morrison and the Beatles songs be changed as well to show consistency? Thanks Kitchen roll (talk) 21:59, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Could you please check/tweak some AWB rules: this edit[54] (a) breaks an image link; (b) replaces hyphen with instead of endash; (c) inserts the seventh month as September, not July (d) and linkifies a d-m-YYYY date. Same here[55], breaking a doi=
link. Thanks, —Sladen (talk) 16:03, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
This edit[56], appears to have made the article's table a mess of inconsistency. —Sladen (talk) 23:14, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
I don't understand how your AWB script works: of two identically formatted (ie linked, ISO) dates in one article, it only converts and delinks one... Ohconfucius ¡digame! 01:34, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Please try[58] to leave the comment <!--- See [[Wikipedia:Footnotes]] on how to create references using <ref></ref> tags which will then appear here automatically -->
intact. —Sladen (talk) 02:38, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Have a wikibreak. The articles on my watchlist invariably you have done more harm than good. I know you are a good editor. Take a break. Si Trew (talk) 16:54, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Is it you who has fixed almost half of the articles in Category:Cite web templates using unusual accessdate parameters? Debresser (talk) 19:13, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
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Could you stop putting dates out of Nihongo template? I don't think that's the convention. -- Taku (talk) 18:23, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks.I see you all over the place, quietly fixing articles. Your name constantly appears on my Watch list. Graham Colm Talk 10:51, 27 November 2009 (UTC) |
Template:Formatfootnotes Debresser (talk) 21:21, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Rich, may I draw your attention to this edit of mine? Debresser (talk) 23:07, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for this fix. Thought I went back and added the reflist template, but obviously not! Cheers Nouse4aname (talk) 16:06, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I have conglomerated this from List of Towns and Cities in Hungary A-M and List of Towns and Cities N-Z. Since it it is a list I can't see the point of having it split. Now I need your help.
The population figures - ignore that they are not quite matching the articles themselves, for now - are pushed together with the postal code. Which makes Bácsalmás have a population of 7,1611,6430, which of course is nonsense. I have gone through "A" and split them with align=right, but you may be able to do better with a bot I think. They are in separate table fields, just not aligned properly. And of course under WP:MOSNUM the spaces should be replaced by commas. Could you do this with a bot? It is fairly simple really but you are the bot expert not me.
I dunno whether to link the county names cos it could well be WP:OVERLINK. If you want to, subst ((Hungarian county link))
.
I should appreciate your advice. Letter A is now OK except if I made silly mistake, but the rest still needs doing. Si Trew (talk) 09:16, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I don't think removing your edit removing DEAULTSORT has anything to do with MOSUNLINKDATES. I'm not saying the edit is inappropriate, just that it's trivial. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 07:16, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Please don't forget this. I did ask you politely about the way to fix this up (with a bot assist and some template changes), twice. The second time you did not reply (as far as I can tell). I don't mind doing the template fixup but need your consensus first, if we need to run SmackBot over it. Si Trew (talk) 11:17, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
need to re-read/ Rich Farmbrough, 08:40, 21 November 2009 (UTC).
(oudent) You're right, I hadn't read it really, and it is just saying use ((tl))
. I thought there was something more curious, though, a little trick that would get round the parser and do that kind of trick, like one does with {((!))
and so on. But this isn't it.
It's not good form to edit content on user talk pages. You just can't help yourself can you. Si Trew (talk) 07:27, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
((Infobox settlement))
does not work. Or if it does it must have a bizarre set of rules which are not documented. Which means, it does not work.I will do the first bit now, as nothing gets broken. I was hoping to avoid the duplicatio, but so be it, nothing then gets broken by doing so. YOu might end up with three references in Csomád, who knows (and that is on the list for our translating it from HU:WP. So far we are only down to the end of A.)
Best wishes Si Trew (talk) 07:40, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
((pop_density))
in ((Infobox settlement))
which is somewhat annoying as one cannot then just put in free text, e.g. to knock down the precision or whatever. I think that it should be a free form text field, what do you think?((Magyar település infobox))
((Magyar település infobox))
. Acsa is fine, Sulyap, maybe has a diacritic? Rich Farmbrough, 12:45, 26 November 2009 (UTC).((Magyar település infobox))
. Did you change them to use ((Infobox Hungarian settlement))
? I checked "what links here" and it does seem nothing links to it. I dunno know whether it is better to delete it, now that Hungarian Infobox settlement works pretty well, or to leave it be, as it does no harm. What do you think? If you proposed it for deletion I would be neutral, but I can see a good argument for it being deleted. Frankly only Monkap and I actually do the translations of these articles and we can get along quite fine with the English version. Should we delete it? Si Trew (talk) 17:52, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Since you are dealing with films can you also remove obsolete parameters from Infobox film? Check Category:Film articles using deprecated parameters. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:29, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Bots should not remove stub tags from articles that have been manually assessed as stubs. I, personally, assessed Virtual Pool franchise as a stub, because it is missing probably at least 50% of the information it needs. Smackbot had no business making up it's "mind" that I'm wrong. If it is just going on article length or some rubric like that, it needs to stop. At very, very least it should never countermand WikiProject tag assessments on the article's talk page (as long as one still says "Stub", it's still a stub, unless a) only one such project tag says so, and b) that tag has |auto=yes
). I would also suggest strongly that it never remove stub tags when there is more than one stub tag, since it is fairly likely that this represents the human-mind judgement of 2 or more editors. At any rate, "stubness" is principally a factor of logical article depth and completion, not length in bytes or characters. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 22:18, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
At this edit, SmackBot deleted an image, leaving the summary "Standard headings &/or gen fixes. using AWB". It happened nearly two years ago, and it seems no one has noticed until now. Can you explain the edit, please? Moonraker2 (talk) 22:20, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Yesterday, I accidentally tripped filter 263 (Serafin - talk page abuse) and my autoconfirmed status had been revoked. I was trying to warn an IP about vandalism on an article on a profane word when the filter "recognize" that I abused the talk page (because of the profane word, when it is actually referring to the article). Fortunately, it's a false positive and I believe the filter has been fixed by User:Zzuuzz. See here. Will I ever trip the filter again and have my autoconfirmed status revoked if I warn a vandal regarding the article on a profane word on his talk page now, since the abuse filter is already fixed? Merlion 444 10:08, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Hey there, What does "Date Maintenance Tags and General Fixes" mean? I read it in the edit summary on Karl Rove. Is this automated? If so, it's really cool. How did you invent it? Any way to get an automaton to do all the editing on controversial topics? Would save a lot of green house gases from being expelled into the atmosphere. LOL. Malke 2010 (talk) 15:17, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
This edit[61]; rules for improvement... —Sladen (talk) 15:30, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Although I agree with the move, there are 20 templates that sorted into Category:Cite web templates using unusual accessdate parameters, and you changed only ((Cite web)) to Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters. The others are found on User:Debresser/My_work_on_Wikipedia#Accessdate. So it is either change all, or change none. Debresser (talk) 15:37, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Will you do talkpages, userpages and wikipedia pages as well? I'll of course fix anything you leave, but I do think your AWB does it 10 times quicker than I do. Debresser (talk) 22:36, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
You still didn't get a user with bot status to perform those massive automatic edits so I'm unable to automatically differentiate these irrelevant bot edits in my watchlist.--Nutriveg (talk) 18:22, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, this edit has broken linking of short-notes to references (including Harvard referencing) for ((cite journal))
. The field is documented as |ref=
, which is how it's used in hundreds of articles; but the template no longer recognises that - it's now looking for |Ref=
. Parameter names are case-sensitive, and it appears to be normal to use lower-case parameter names unless there is a good reason not to; I can't find a policy doc, but see User:Slambo's comments here. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:56, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps you'd be interested in copying infoboxes from Spanish wikipedia. They are in big need of sorting out and are very inconsistent. Even the ones were currently have are a mess with paramaters and dividers in the wrong place and just yuck. See User talk:Plastikspork. We have a wrapper template Template:Infobox Spanish municipality. I believe you can copy most of the infobox and it will wprk we now just need to find a way to transfer both maps and them to display like Nerha for instance. If you could discuss it with Plastikspork we can find out whats best and then if you are interested paerhaps you could do the prelimary interwiki copying and then Plastikspork at a later date can convert to infobox settlement. Either way it needs some discussion first to ensure it is done as efficiently as possible and to save possible time later.... Himalayan 21:23, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
The lists can be found in the categories of Category:Municipalities of Spain,,, Using Plastik's script it should work.... I'd say the vast majority are in need of replacement or are missing or have out of date data or have a grye infobox and needs replacing etc so it would probably best to do most of them and overide the current infoboxes (which even if they have an infobox settlement it is infobox city or a mess in terms of order...) . This will also ensure standardisation later. I think the top 10 spanish cities are OK though.... Himalayan 22:01, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_November_19#Categories_for_discussion
Now you should probably delete the January category,since that is premature. I'd leave the December one in place. Are all involved templates updated? Debresser (talk) 21:54, 29 November 2009 (UTC) Will you take care of ((Cfr)), ((Cfm)), ((Cfd)), ((Cfr-speedy)), ((Cfc nomination)), ((Cfm nomination)), ((Cfl nomination)). These should be all, but the Cfx_nomination ones are used by templates that perhaps may be simplified now. I'm not sure. Debresser (talk) 22:14, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
I tried my hand at it on ((Cfr-speedy)). Please check it as well. Debresser (talk) 22:29, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Just a reminder, don't change the beginning and end remarks, because that will break bots. Debresser (talk) 22:31, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
I did the Cfx_nomination ones as well, but I think there is still much superfluous code there. BTW, I didn't use DMC in any of them, because these templates use substitution. Is there a workaround? Debresser (talk) 22:40, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Can you do it now, because the new month is beginning. Debresser (talk) 15:38, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
I thought you might be interested to know there are several thousand articles which use date-autoformatting templates. As there is consensus against autoformatting, I have started removing those templates whilst aligning the date formats. Ohconfucius ¡digame! 15:14, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rich, I think your latest edit to ((Infobox film)) broke something. The poster images are not defaulting to 200px anymore. - kollision (talk) 15:44, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I'm just wondering why the change to spaced paramaters has been made? PC78 (talk) 15:26, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated for deletion an article you edited. You are welcome to comment in the discussion. LadyofShalott 21:24, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
I have tried too hard and messed up the references. Any chance of you reverting it? -I may cause further 'damage.' I will then sensibly add one new reference and some info!! Thanks for the assistance. Rosser Gruffydd 21:30, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Perfect. Thanks for your help. Rosser Gruffydd 21:57, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. Thanks for the infrastructure work on Project Wikify. One thing I've noticed is the summing of articles requiring wikification has some inconsistencies. For example, the the total given on the main page today at 22:22 UTC was 19905, where-as on the month-specific pages, such as for December 2007,the total was 19943. Then adding up the monthly numbers (shown on the Decemeber and other monthly pages), the total was 20721. This might just be an aretfact of the timing of scripts, but in case there might be an error within scripts (or elsewhere), I thought I'd raise it. Cheers! Heds (talk) 22:32, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Just a thought, but wouldn't it be easier for sorting for DS or pipes to only have the first letter of the first word capitalized?
- J Greb (talk) 22:38, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I saw that you went through and removed NYC-transport-stub from a number of New York City Subway station articles. Thank you. However, Jimmy Slade is still reverting! User:Me Three has asked him to stop re-adding the template to articles that are not stubs. I have asked him, begged him, etc. I don't have enough diffs for evidence to open an RFC on him. His Wikipedia:Disruptive editing and attempted ownership of articles is getting really old. What can we do? Acps110 (talk) 00:04, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that SmackBot "corrected" the title capitalization of Interactions (magazine) in September of 2008. However, the magazine title is properly all in lowercase (weird, I know). I don't want to correct it back if the bot is just going to reverse it again. Can you help? Netmouse (talk) 00:27, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi, please be careful when using AWB to delink date ranges on music-related pages, as some of those are album titles and shouldn't be delinked (i.e. [62], [63], [64], [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [70]). I have filed an AWB bug here. Thanks. Mushroom (Talk) 02:09, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I see you are changing 17th to Seventeenth [71]. Can you give me the MoS basis for this? On the face of it, this goes against normal editing rules. Thanks. --Kleinzach 02:22, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
See this edit. The changed text is not a date, it's the name of an album and should remain linked. — John Cardinal (talk) 03:10, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the copyedit to the infobox for László Németh for ((birth date))
and ((death date and age))
to put them into British date format (if I can use that term). I must admit that has been annoying me for some while because of course that is the format used in the article, but there were always bigger fish to fry. I suppose I should check the other articles where I've made infoboxes, too, but at the moment I am trying to spend some time sorting out Hungarian maps. Si Trew (talk) 22:14, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
There is a bot User:Full-date unlinking bot going around unlinking dates. I think it will unlink the type of dates you are unlinking. If that is right, then you could let the bot get to it and save some work. Bubba73 (the argument clinic), 00:00, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
This is just a question, not a complaint: Why does SmackBot capitalize the un-capitalized first character of a template's name (for example, change ((redirect|Yosemite]])) to ((Redirect|Yosemite})?[72] What does this accomplish?
Also, a fairly common human error (of mine, at least) in inserting dated template tags is filling in the date without the date=
label (for example, entering ((Citation needed|December 2009)) instead of ((Citation needed|date=December 2009)). When SmackBot fixes this type of error, it adds the full date parameter with the label to the template tag, but leaves the unlabeled date as well, as in this example: ((Unreferenced section|November 2009|date=November 2009)). Would it be feasible for SmackBot to delete the orphaned, unlabeled date parameter when it makes this fix? —Finell 03:13, 3 December 2009 (UTC) (To preserve the continuity of the conversation, I will watch for your reply here on your Talk page.)
Is this edit as stupid an idea as I think it is? I just happen to have this template watchlisted. It is protected, so I can't do anything. Debresser (talk) 21:40, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
When you made this edit, did you notice that all sources date from the first of the month? See when they were first introduced. I propose undoing your fix, delete all added "day=01" and perhaps the "month=abbr." also, and then refix the article. And then do the same wth User:Maha Yahia/Amino acid. What do you say? Debresser (talk) 23:24, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
[73] --John (talk) 02:49, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
|listas=
on the talk page was untouched. This is the main reason for having an explicit sort value on an article. There are too many editors with bots and AWB who muck up the sort value and leave no indication that such a change has been made. JimCubb (talk) 06:00, 4 December 2009 (UTC)Template:Says who. Debresser (talk) 13:04, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
FYI, this edit moved a disputed category outside of a comment. There was also another edit where you fixed a 'date2 => date', but didn't fix a 'month2' and 'year2', but I can't find a diff. It was clearly a malformed case. In any event, thanks for all the hard work! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:15, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
I believe that there is a Wiki guideline that indicates that location links of the form [[City, State]] are preferred over [[City, State|City]], [State]] but I cannot find it. For example, Chicago, Illinois (one link) is preferred over Chicago, Illinois (two links). Or maybe it's the other way around. Any idea where I can find the guideline? Thanks. Truthanado (talk) 01:33, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Reference your latest application, would you care to integrate and apply to uncap the bot speed but subject it to Maxlag? Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:37, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
You may want to check the diff of your edits with AWB. With this edit you left two "date" parameters in the Cite video template. Please use the Talkback template on my talk page if you reply. -- allen四names 06:47, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Not understanding if it was intentional, but this edit created an unnecessary redlink in the reference citation. Somehow, this isn't fitting within my definition of "tidy". —Aladdin Sane (talk) 08:37, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Rich, have you got a response to my comments about date and year parameters at Template talk:Cite video#Date parameters? I think we might need to retain |year=
so |ref=harv
will work. — John Cardinal (talk) 15:06, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Could you please take a look at this?...
Please check your AWB usage: this edit to Bayonetta recognized part of a page title (which uses a pipe character) as a parameter, even though I put "nowiki" tags around that part to prevent such an error. I've undone the edit. --an odd name 05:10, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
I saw the edit tht YOU made to Reinforced Concrete Box using AWB [removal of category]... How do you do tht? -_Rsrikanth05 (talk) 12:14, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
The discussion on this page is getting out of control, with editor's refactoring other's comments, or removing them entirely. I have no involvement with the page, and only took notice when I saw this inflammatory edit summary on recent changes: "Anti-American bias: I don’t have to clarify anything to you when I have already done so. Got a problem? Leave it at my talk page." That summary accompanied the removal of an entire discussion. Claims of bias are being thrown back and forth, and it is difficult to sort out the facts from the accusations. I think someone needs to step in and tell everybody to calm down a bit. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 15:45, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure if anyone informed you but SmackBot was blocked in accordance with Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#SmackBot_changing_referencing_style.2C_again_.28dearchived.29. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 19:56, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
In the edit summary for this edit to Luna Park Sydney, you noted that you removed "conclusion about heritage OR". However, no content related to the park's heritage listings has been removed or altered. Could you elaborate: did you want to remove such content and (a) forgot to or (b) decided that the referencing was appropriate (or at least borderline but needs firming up) and forgot to remove the message? Thanks -- saberwyn 23:22, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | ||
I hereby award this barnstar to Rich Farmbrough for his massive contribution to the project, including frequently appearing on my watchlist with high quality "minor" edits. FeydHuxtable (talk) 11:00, 7 December 2009 (UTC) |
Please stop stripping stub tags from articles that are still classified as stubs by one or more projects, as you did at Billiard table. That article is very much still a stub, since it has no information at all on the history of billiard rooms, or anything at all really other than minimal room dimensions, and only one source. Whether something is a stub or not is principally a matter of depth of (reliable) coverage, not length of verbiage. The article essentially provides one "fact" (room size), regardless how much wording it took to do that, and is missing a boatload of needed material. I don't frequently disagree with your gnoming decisions, but rapidfire AWBers with lots of pre-determined scripts, as well as bots, removing stub tags is something I find myself reverting more and more frequently. Please check the talk pages before doing this, unless it's really, really clear that the article isn't a stub (e.g. because it looks something like George Balabushka or Eight-ball not Joe Balsis or Seven-ball). :-) — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 21:07, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Nascarfans (talk) 23:39, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
First off thank for you taking time to notice. :-) Yes I know what you saying. Actually I'm the one that was citing both the Box Office and The-Numbers. But someone had this to say: "Wait, can we PLEASE clear up the box office totals? Before the edit, we had the movies having over 5.4 million. Now all of a sudden, they have a total of 4.9 million. Thats a huge difference! Personally, I think we should use ONE reference to get all of our information so the total will be consistant."
My response was that I used whatever site has the most posted is the most accurate. It seems that The-Numbers have the most accurate Foreign totals, while the Domestic are pretty much the same with Box Office Mojo. Also, most of BOM's foreign totals end with "000,000", and that really doesn't seem accurate at all. Anyways I made the decision to just use one source so it wouldn't cause any confusion in the future, and I also don't know the consensus via the Film Project. I probably should ask?
I personal believe it should be called Foreign or International (as both of those sites have it), so it's one short and to-the-point word, rather than 2 or 3 words, which the table cells doesn't appreciate. ;-)
My understanding is that we usually don't post the DVD sales (at least not under the box office table). I have wondered where that bit of info could go, because it should be posted somehow. --Mike Allen talk · contribs 18:07, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
You have flagged a bunch of pages as "Unreferenced|date=December 2009" unfortunately there is no template called "CURRENTMONTHNUMBER" so the flags are breaking. Please type in the month. eg. December 2009 or 2010-01 etc. Awg1010 (talk) 06:33, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
...for your help with Cocker Spaniel and Catch Dog.
I noticed you went through articles I watchlist and delink dates. As a AWB user myself, how do I pull that off? User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:37, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
See also User:Ohconfucius#Incorrectly_formatted_dates. Ohconfucius ¡digame! 19:35, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Can you explain on the talk page why you moved this article in October? Thanks.Prezbo (talk) 06:53, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I noticed your recent, massive delinkings and my first reaction was jealousy. I was waiting for the six month ban to expire, as it would have in six days, but I suppose the current interpretation is that when the bot went through it opened it up for human controlled editing too. That's fine by me.
I've joined the bandwagon. I glanced at the regexes (configs) you posted, and your list of strange things you've encountered is insightful. I need to do a little more work myself on setting up some baseline configs, but once I do, I wondered if you might take a look at what I cook up.
Today I whipped up this: \[\[([0-3]?[0-9]) *(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December)\]\] *\[\[([1-9][0-9]{2,})\]\] as the find, and $1 $2 $3 as the replace. I have a similar one for abbreviations.
In any case, I'd be appreciative of any exchange of info, and if you know of a central place where this is being loosely coordinated I'd appreciate that too. Thanks. Shadowjams (talk) 07:28, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Effectively you can co-ordinate with FDUB by not editing pages with the ranges it has completed (jan 1- feb 14 and dec 10-31), but it cannot currently, and is not currently required to, coordinate with you.
It is important I think that you catch effectively all the full dates on a page, so you should pick up the three main formats. Make sure you include an optional "." in your abbreviations. Sprinkling the regex with " *" is a good idea, although it is probably about .1% of articles that have these types of dates.
\[\[ *0?([1-3]?\d) *(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) *\]\] *\[\[ *([1-9]\d{2,}) *\]\]
for example picks up strangely spaced links and suppresses leading "0"s
\[\[ *0?([1-3]?\d)(st|rd|nd|st) *(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) *\]\] *\[\[ *([1-9]\d{2,}) *\]\]
also gets links like 1st September 1999, finally
\[\[ *0?([1-3]?\d)(st|rd|nd|st)[ _]*(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) *\]\][, ]*\[\[ *([1-9]\d{2,}) *\]\]
catches legal underscores between the parts in the first link.
For a test page copy User:Full-date unlinking bot/Test environment to your userspace. It tests for false negatives, I.E you should get everything on this page (and some more). It does not test for false negatives - for example two half dates split by a sentence end, or things that look like dates but aren't. I did find one Octember I think, the context made it clear what it actually was. Rich Farmbrough, 07:58, 9 December 2009 (UTC).
This request is to you so I'm not sure if it's right but would you have any problem if I reblocked to disable talk page use? He's gone far past the point of being productive and I really know I shouldn't be responding to him but it's just aggravating. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 10:29, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
All pages left in Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters are user(-talk) namespace, apart from 2 Wikipedia and 5 talk pages that should probably stay the way they are. Could you run the same fixes you did on articles on them as well, please? Debresser (talk) 23:00, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
And you also did Category:Pages with missing references list already, and I'll have to fix all 212 article by hand? Debresser (talk) 00:37, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
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Please stop delinking dates in articles, if that's the only change that you're making. You're slowing down the server with that extreme amount of edits, and it's not necessary, unless you want to make other fixes in the pages as well. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 09:17, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Fair point. Rich Farmbrough, 10:17, 10 December 2009 (UTC).
Thanks for fixing the reference link in Douglass High School Kingsport. I wasn't sure how to do it, and the directions were confusing.Csneed (talk) 14:23, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_December_9#Category:Articles_lacking_sources_.28Erik9bot.29 Debresser (talk) 18:29, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi. How do I get a wikisignpost on my user page pl? Wireless Fidelity Class One (talk 05:33, 11 December 2009 (UTC) Thanks. Got it. Wireless Fidelity Class One (talk 05:49, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Template:Primary source claim Debresser (talk) 09:22, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
You removed a stub template from the article, naughty bot, when the talk page had assessed it as being stub class. The fact that we are expanding the article does not change that assessment, so I am wondering under what criteria you did so. I could understand if a human assessor did so, but a bot should not. Naughty bot. Stick to your date fixing malarkey.
And stop changing the cases of template transclusions. They may be written that way for good reason, i.e. to give semantic information to editors. That ((Croatia-hist-stub))
is capital, but ((convert))
is not, is no mistake.
Si Trew (talk) 09:48, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Why does SmackBot change the order of references (for example in a recent edit to Hekla)? Whilst in general I doubt this will matter I could imagine that someone might write a paragraph based on several sources and might want to cite the main source first and then the less important ones after. JMiall₰ 13:42, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Two comments.
Thanks. SnowFire (talk) 21:41, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
There are a number of articles of British subjects which have been incorrectly maintained with the American date format, and there seems to be no reason why such an article should not be changed to dmy date formats. As most European nations also use dmy format, the same argument applies. Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:42, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
Hey there, remember that bot request from a while ago about a bot moving pages that contain hyphens? Well i filed a BRFA and i'd appreciate you're input. here is the link Tim1357 (talk) 06:09, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
Rich, thanks for that. I can only bow to your better knowledge about the definition, at least the one that is writ in stone. The basic problem is this: Different projects assess articles differently, and of course Battle of Pákozd, I think this was the one it did, may be assessed as stub class from the POV of military history, start class from the point of view of WikiProject Hungary, and not even on the radar from the POV of WikiProject Croatia. All of which is good and fine by me.
The point is then, under what criteria does SmackBot remove the stub template (and IIRC it was SmackBot who did it, not you, [here]. I could understand if you with human intervention had done so (and if you just accidentally did but were signed in as SmackBot I could understand that slip), but if SB is doing so I should like to know under what criteria it does so. What regex does it use to find a stub template, and how does it decide it is no longer a stub? Length, references, what? Even though articles in this series (except one) have been completely translated now from the Hungarian, to my mind they are still stubs. Others may disagree which is why there are project assessments for them on the talk page. Certainly I doubt SB checks the talk pages for projects' assessment, since that would probably be one regex too far.
I suspect that in fact it was you who took it out, not SmackBot, and accidentally you were signed in as SmackBot. As it happens I reversed the intervention because I had already got on to Military History project to ask how to go about reassessment of all this series of articles now they have been translated. I still suspect they will stay at stub class by their assessment, which is not of course to say they are still stubs, and as you say there is no clear definition of what a stub is, so it comes down to editorial judgment. i.e. not a bot's judgment. I don't see that SB can make that judgment, it needs a human editor to make it.
SB generally does a pretty good job and I thank you for it, but surprising behaviour like this should be documented I think. Indeed, generally SB should be documented. If it is, I should be glad if you would let me have the link.
Sincere best wishes, I know I am always griping but I just try to make it better, as I know you do. It's funny, I've been linking up these articles and every place I have been to now uses ((Infobox Hungarian settlement))
, thanks for doing that. We do fix them up as we pass over them for making sure the figures etc are correct, but even having that much is a great advance. I think it was wrong to remove ((Magyar télepüles infobox)), because it did a lot more fixup and basically meant you could just slap it in from HU:WP without change, but that argument is in the past.
Si Trew (talk) 06:22, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
Rich, would you mind taking a look at Talk:Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag#Style, and at this user's contributions. Perhaps I'm on the wrong track here, but I really don't want to be lectured to by an IP with minimum edits on WP, as I don't think he understand how WP works. If I'm wrong about the "style sheets" stuff, can you explain why? Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 09:37, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
((inuse))
tag
Does you respect the ((inuse))
tag? I've never come a cropper because of it, but if it were easy it would seem to make sense for you not to make any changes to an article if it is marked inuse. As far as I have seen, this template does tend to be used for its intended purpose i.e. to warn other editors that lots of changes are likely to be made very soon, so their own edits may well conflict. I haven't seen this tag abused at all, no doubt your owner Rich Farmbrough has, but on the whole I think it would make sence for you to hold off while inuse. I'll check that template now for "what links here" to see if there are gross cases of abuse.
((underconstruction))
I think should not get the same special treatment.
Best wishes as always
S.
((inuse))
puts articles into, has 17 members. So it seems it is not abused much. I'll check them in case one has been left by someone nodding, but on the whole I think it is safe to say inuse is not abused. Si Trew (talk) 05:12, 12 December 2009 (UTC)((under construction))
as they have been edited reasonably recently but are not inuse by the criteria on its doc page. I don't understand the relevance about footnotes, cos inuse is usually used at the top of the article, or section. I also don't understand what you mean about putting footnotes in numerical order being a blockable offence – I persobnally try, with multiple references, to have them run in numerical order, i.e. quote at first use. I doubt you mean that is blockable, so what do you mean?((inuse))
". Don't give me a clue which battle, would you: Yes it is a slip but are you being deliberately unhelpful because it sounds like it. And because you reply on other users' pages, not your own, nobody else can follow the conversation.((ksh 2008))
and ((Infobox Hungarian settlement))
, and crosslinked the others from there. I edited the two articles (Telekes and Sülysáp) that used KSH2008 so that they don't, and put them to Infobox Hungarian settlement. This afternoon Moo and I stuck in a good proportion of one of the battles, which is why it was legitimately marked as inuse. I also tidied up or created the doc at ((inuse))
, ((underconstruction))
, and ((newpage))
. I've also moved work to commons, asked at PNT for a German translation I am not too happy about, and am putting together a new map in SVG format. In short, I have not been idle.No it is perfectly fine that that article was in-use. I was just pointing out that when I reviewed the use of in-use, the only good use was that one. The others were all labelled in-use when we looked yesterday adn only one had been edited since. Maybe we could make inuse smarter, so that a few hours after editing it replaces itself with under construction and after a few days deletes itself altogether. No maybe not.... Rich Farmbrough, 20:31, 12 December 2009 (UTC).
((Infobox settlement))
and ((Infobox Hungarian settlement))
support. Some redlinks that I had put in are now blue links, grabbing the file from commons. The field in Hungarian WP is címer, in English it is image_shield. The uploader seems to have his wits about him, the form of the filename is "HUN placename COA.jpg". These were marked as not PD before, but on Commons they are marked very specifically with the laws saying they are public domain if they are Hungarian govt. properrty. I think this might be a nice job for your bot, it would be good to get these in if we could. I am not quite sure how far it has got now, as it happens I edited a Hungarian place starting with Z, but by sod's law it didn't have that stuff in it anyway.In this edit the order of two footnotes were transposed. While this puts them in numeric sequence, it puts them in the wrong order to support the information in the paragraph. So why make the edit? -- PBS (talk) 08:14, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
Could you consider popping over here to respond to the request. Cheers, NJA (t/c) 11:05, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
What do you think Rich? WT:Blocking IP addresses#Updates required? OrangeDog (τ • ε) 20:11, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
I write on behalf of the subject of this entry and am struggling to make contact with anybody at Wikipedia but have neither the expertise nor time to read the endless geeky pages on how to do so. It seems obvious that the people who run Wikipedia do not want to be reached. So please don't take this personally - you simply happen to be the topmost name in the history file for the entry on Maureen Cleave.
Ever since this entry was created in 2006, as far as I can see, the opening paragraph has contained a fundamental inaccuracy which makes all the rest questionable. No source has been given for ANY of the info presented in this item either then or now. In the meantime a fake MySpace page has been created citing a version of the Wikipedia entry which includes a defamatory statement which is the subject of a complaint to MySpace.
Why don't you delete this entry, rather than publishing pure hearsay, which at some stage will leave Wikipedia open to the UK libel laws, if not already? I cannot understand how to trawl the entire history of this item, so appeal to your better judgment. Thanks. 12 Dec 2009. "217.155.200.241 (talk) 21:06, 12 December 2009 (UTC)"
(copied from User talk:SmackBot/archive3) One of the tasks of SmackBot is to introduce ((start date)) and ((end date)) into infoboxes where they do not currently exist. These emit microformats, which are required to be in the ISO 8601 format and Gregorian calendar. How does the bot insure that the input dates are Gregorian dates in order to prevent falsely claiming the output dates are Gregorian, when in fact they might be in some other calendar? --Jc3s5h (talk) 22:13, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
(Reply copied from Editing User talk:Jc3s5h)
There is no way to ensure that the dates are Gregorian. However ISO 8601 does not apply to non-Gregorian dates. Rich Farmbrough, 23:51, 12 December 2009 (UTC).
The WP:AWB did a horrible job on the article when it attempted to remove links in headings on List of United States Presidents by military rank seen in the diff. Has been reverted, looks like this one needs to be done manually. — MrDolomite • Talk 06:59, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
hi Richard, i have an editing questioned on the page for Engelbert, 8th Duke of Arenberg , an so called editor, yopie is going around round pages on Wikipedia removing links without due process of discussion, in most cases he has not written or contributed to the articles in question but seems to be policing the links on these pages can he do this, and is this right, and i have not contributed my myself concerning these links or articles they have been put there by the contributors in question, please would you reply to this as i find it quite amazing that certain editors seem to have the powers to overwrite anyone a bit of a dictatorship rather than a democracy, regards henry mcdowall. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.181.128.17 (talk) 14:16, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
Hey there I wanted your input on a bot that you requested (and i scripted) see discussion here Tim1357 (talk) 17:57, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
Rich, following up to comments here, it was said that you were working on the category to reduce the amount. Out of curiosity, how in particular are you doing that? (It's kind of hard to see someone editing articles OUT of a category). Are you just having a bot follow Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Erik9bot_9 criteria? Wouldn't it be better to wait until the CFD is finished (I know I'm going to lose on the deletion question)? I've started a discussion at Category_talk:Articles_lacking_sources#Bot-created_category since that clearly is the best place to get the people most familiar on it. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:39, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
(This might sound silly, and of minor importance, but I'll give it a try)...
Could you explain this edit? When SmackBot is blocked, it is inappropriate for you to be running its tasks under your main account. The solution is to fix the bot. Please do not run any additional SmackBot tasks under your main account. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:27, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
Yes the error category can be found by doing a "what links here" from the log page. Rich Farmbrough, 14:46, 14 December 2009 (UTC).
The bot is not broken in respect of ordering references. There is no one that has actually said the bot reordering a reference was wrong, although a number have raised it all have either been satisfied once they knew it was not arbitrary or at worst said "someone might conceivably ... ". The other issue may have had more merit, but that is now resolved. Interestingly one of the reasons that issue was claimed to be important is that it stopped reference numbers from being strictly increasing - apparently this would cause academics to be unable to read the articles. This is a minor fix, like closing [] or {}, and is pretty uncontentious. Rich Farmbrough, 15:03, 14 December 2009 (UTC).
Please note: if you do not stop the current AWB "add references section" run within 10 minutes, I will block this account from editing as well. I have already pointed out that running SmackBot jobs on this account, in order to avoid resolving the block of SmackBot, is inappropriate. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:27, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
On a different SmackBot issue, I notice that Rich has not agreed to fix SmackBot so that it no longer marks up plain dates within infoboxes with the ((birth date)) family of templates. These templates require Gregorian dates, and the bot is incapable of deciding if the input date is or is not in the Gregorian calendar. I give notice that I will regard any further such changes as a knowingly reckless error, and will take whatever measures the Wikipedia community allows to stop SmackBot if this ever happens again.
A fix I would consider acceptable would be to not mark up any date with the ((birth date)) family of templates if the year is greater less than 1923 (the year Greece switched from Julian to Gregorian). --Jc3s5h (talk) 18:40, 14 December 2009 (UTC) revised 20:02 UT.
Yes it is possible that one day someone will have a convincing case where out-of-order superscripts are desirable.
The reason what you call 'out-of-order superscripts' are sometimes desirable is that the first citation is the main/best source for the information, whilst the other citations are supplementary or provide other alternative/contradictory sources. Unfortunately your bot destroys the information provided by this ordering.--Toddy1 (talk) 20:56, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
There is no need to "log a bug." Simply change the code that you actually run, just as you would change any other piece of general software to fit a specific need. As someone who runs several bots, I can't accept the argument that it is too hard for a bot operator to edit the source code of their own bot. On the other hand, since the bot is approved to do specific tasks, while GFs are just an add-on, if you would prefer to turn off GFs instead of recompiling, that's up to you. But just commenting out these particular features seems like a better choice to me. — Carl (CBM · talk) 22:15, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
The whole point of GFs is to get the maximum value from the edits. Debresser is right in the sense that the bot makes an edit with a purpose in mind and will not in general perform its other tasks, however it does, and pretty much always has performed GFs, which, due to the fact that AWB and SmackBot have grown up together , includes a lot of SB's functionality, for example dating Cite needed tags. This is a good thing since it cuts the number of edits, server load, network traffic, database size etc. However the pull between multifunction edits and many small edits has been obvious since day 1, SB's approach is clearly laid out on it's user page "Note, when Smackbot is using AWB, some of the general fixes options will usually be turned on, to get the most value from the edits. Hence most edit summaries say "and/or general fixes". Again usually, the motivating change will be made or none at all." Rich Farmbrough, 23:37, 14 December 2009 (UTC).
Yes, Tedder again. You closed the ANI discussion with Actions have been thoroughly reviewed. This is incorrect: Tedder's protect has been thoroughly reviewed; no admin has commented on the propiety of breaking 3RR or or revert-before-protect. This is merely a note to you to indicate that I disagree with the wording of your close; I don't expect any action from you William M. Connolley (talk) 09:13, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Hope you've been well. Question. I recently ran into an editor who thought is quite rude that a vandal had been warned a number of times, and yet nobody had been kind enough to welcome him. If there is indeed anything to that view (I'm unsure), why don't we simply have a bot welcome everyone? It seems a waste of time for editors to do it. And if its a necessary step to get some editors to agree that blocks, etc. are appropriate, it seems like perfect bot work. Thoughts? And happy holidays.--Epeefleche (talk) 02:43, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Michael Rosenzweig (composer) for deletion. I would be grateful if you could let the community know your opinion about this. Cheers--Karljoos (talk) 15:37, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Now that the new dating system of the various categories for discussion templates has been working fine for over a week, perhaps you would now agree to make the switch to DMC?
I have the templates ready for copy&paste on Template:Cfx/sandbox. I made a few very minor changes, as you can see in great detail in the history. (I mention it to you, so there should be no surprises). Debresser (talk) 16:53, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Is that a yes, a no, a later, or a I want to have a look a them a few days before I do such a thing? Debresser (talk) 00:38, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
There's a minor problem with the edits SmackBot is making to the Time travel article--twice on Dec. 16 2009 it changed the following citation:
cite journal | last = Uribe | first = Augusto | title = The First Time Machine: Enrique Gaspar's Anacronópete | journal = The New York Review of Science Fiction | volume = Vol. 11, No. 10 | issue = 130 | page = 12 |date=June 1999
To:
cite journal | last = Uribe | first = Augusto | title = The First Time Machine: Enrique Gaspar's Anacronópete | journal = The New York Review of Science Fiction | volume = 11| issue = 10 | issue = 130 | page = 12 |date=June 1999
In case it's not easy to spot, it changed "| volume = Vol. 11, No. 10 | issue = 130 |" to "| volume = 11| issue = 10 | issue = 130 |". But this is actually incorrect, the New York Review of Science Fiction has a separate "Number" and "Issue", they are not synonymous--see for example http://www.nyrsf.com/2009/04/issue-249-may-2009.html. Can you tweak SmackBot's program so it doesn't assume they are synonymous and automatically replace the first with the second? Thanks... Hypnosifl (talk) 17:45, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
FYI: Wikipedia:BON#SmackBot removal of stub templates. –xenotalk 21:06, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Brought this up before (my comment, your reply), but the bot seems to be back to taking commented-out categories and adding them for real; see this edit . Not a big deal in this case as this should probably just have been deleted ("House of Mendoza" is a subcategory of "Spanish noble houses" = Grandeza de España, which is a holdover from the Spanish version of the article), but figured I'd mention it. SnowFire (talk) 20:25, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
I have a photo to add to the meigs field listing and am not sure how to contribute it...
Here is link: [81]
I took this photo from a medical helicopter on April 6, 2003... I remember the closing... it was really ridiculous. Zargnut (talk) 23:49, 16 December 2009 (UTC)zargnut
Hi, What's the point in Smackbot assigning a default sort key if it isn't going to get it right? See Richard Moore (actor), where the article title was given as the sort key - despite the clues that it had two biographical categories, and that "Moore, Richard" had been set as the sort key within one of those categories? PamD (talk) 08:57, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I spend a lot of time stub-sorting, and it saves a couple of keystrokes if the generic tag is input as ((stub)) rather than ((Stub)) (ie I can use the existing lowercase "s" rather than having to delete the capital "S" first). I see that Smackbot uses the capital letter - any chance it could change to lower case? PamD (talk) 09:01, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
If you had tag the word Orphan in the article: Vision Four, then please see the message written in Talk:Vision Four. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheong Kok Chun (talk • contribs) 09:04, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
I fixed 15 userpages in Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters. All of them had deprecated parameters inside the ((Cite video)) template as their only problem. It would make sense to try that on the remaining ones, if your bot is up to that. Debresser (talk) 11:26, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Please check Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters. There are two pages by User:Geo Swan, that I do not feel I'd like to fix. Perhaps you are up to it. Debresser (talk) 22:43, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
This edit combined with the lack of Category:Pages with incorrectly substituted templates leads me to the conclusion that there is something wrong on ((Current)). Debresser (talk) 23:22, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Actually I dont know about the information and the manager of Vision Four because I did not create this page called: Vision Four. Please contact the user at User talk:Tyh27 because he is the creator of the page called: Vision Four. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheong Kok Chun (talk • contribs) 03:59, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Rich, I emailed you. Tony (talk) 12:27, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
I have noticed there are links to dates from various quarters of WP which may or may not have been considered for delinking as follows, for example:
Would you look into these, please? Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:58, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, this is OT to this thread: Rich, I quoted you as a reference in this discussion. I'm just trying to be polite; it seems polite to mention it when you quote others. —Aladdin Sane (talk) 08:11, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
One of the most elementary Wikipedia style rules is that any comments (questions, requests, suggestions etc.) *about* an article should go in its talk page, not in the article itself. Phrases such as "This explanation is incomplete" or "He was born in 1950 (someone please check this)", or "He was born in ????" in an article page should be deleted on sight and, and any relevant discussion should be carried out in the talk page.
So could someone please explain why editorial templates like ((Unreferenced)) or ((Merge-to)) are being inserted in *articles*, rather than their talk pages? What makes those editorial requests so important that it is OK to deface the articles with them?
As if that damage was not enough, those tags are being inserted before the leading paragraph (which is then not "leading" anymore!), waste from four to six lines of screen space to deliver a half-line message, and are ridiculously flashy (as if they were the most important thing that the reader should know about the topic).
Finally, some of those tags are being inserted by robots, which is quite unfair. For each mouse click by the tagger, some regular editor will have to spend a minute or two, at least, to remove the tag — even if the tag is unwarranted. Why should the tagger's opinion about the article be worth a hundred times more than that of a regular editor?
Please!... --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 21:28, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
No not immediately but within some reasonable period of time. And I would say the the fraction eligible for an unreferenced template is falling, I took maybe 7000 articles out of the unreferenced categories in the last month or so. We have over 1 million articles that use "<ref>" and a whole bunch (presumably nearly 2 million) that use other forms of referencing. If the community wants to move the tags to the talk page, they can - start a (modestly perennial) VP discussion - as I did on (unsuccessfully) getting rid of Orphan tags; some information is kept there systematically, like "needs infobox" and "needs photo" for biography articles. Alternatively find a suitable reference book and cites for a big bunch of articles! Rich Farmbrough, 09:00, 19 December 2009 (UTC).
Here's a final one for now, something I've been meaning to ask for a while: When it comes across a quantity separated from its unit by a space, SmackBot often replaces the space with . Eg "3 km" -> "3 km". Would it not be better to use ((convert)) instead? Eg "3 km" -> "((Convert|3|km|mi))". -Arb. (talk) 02:04, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
I believe the most recent edit you made to Template:DatedAI broke Template:Article issues/doc/Fulltext, because it stops the former template working in the Template namespace.—greenrd (talk) 14:50, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
XLinkBot adds a welcome when adding a warning, if the page is completely blank.--Epeefleche (talk) 23:24, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed a lot of AWB edits from you in which a musical group's name gets a "second word, first word" sortkey applied to it as if it were a person's name — do you have an automated function running that you're sometimes forgetting to turn off when you're doing other batch jobs? Just wondering... Bearcat (talk) 03:09, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
((NoCoins))
You may want to fix something.--Rockfang (talk) 13:01, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Look at this; the HTML comment makes it self-explanatory. I suggest that the bot only process the |pages=
, leaving |page=
alone, as books using chapter-and-page numbering differ in whether to use hyphens or dashes.
&sly;
is the entity for the soft hyphen (used to syllabify words and only visible if at the end of a line). The "normal" hyphen has no named entity, and the numerical entity is -
― A. di M. — 2nd Great Wikipedia Dramaout 13:58, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rich, can you fix Template:Unreferenced stub so that it doesn't float the box to the left making the text wrap around it? As can be seen at Kinglassie when the auto= parameter was removed. -- Ϫ 02:51, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
I see that you have recently de-linked several dates (e.g. on Scrapheap Challenge). Could you please take care when de-linking, to change the date format to one suitable for the variant of English used in the article. For example, Scrapheap Challenge is a UK show, so should say 12 April 1998, instead of April 12, 1998. Bluap (talk) 15:55, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
When removing the outdated Erik9bot category, SmackBot sometimes adds ((Unreferenced stub)) yet for some reason the expected message box seems not to be displayed. Is this deliberate? For examples see Frome Sports Club or Soesdyke-Linden Highway. -Arb. (talk) 01:12, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I am familiar with people taking a real or perceived problem and blaming all or part of it on something they don't like. I am not "threatening" to delete articles, just surprised that a manually created plant stub I came across is less well referenced than the several hundred sister articles in the same genus created en-bloc. To explain why I think that deleting these articles might be effective consider that if, by some mischance, we were to loose all the U president articles, they would undoubtedly be recreated in a couple of days, and most likely to an excellent standard. Similarly the "pre-2006" stubs of which you speak, are, while still stubs, probably (i.e. on average) of more interesting/notable/important topics than the ones created in Decmeber 2009. Therefore they would be likely to be re-created, properly referenced. Let me make it clear I am not proposing that we do that, simply pointing out that it is not a ridiculous idea. Rich Farmbrough, 23:55, 18 December 2009 (UTC).
You are the expert on date formatting... and you did your date reformatting thing on Abdelaziz Kareem Salim al-Noofayee. Recently another quality control volunteer did further date reformatting on that article. I asked them about the conversion of dates from yyyy-mm-dd format to dd Month yyyy format -- within ((cite)) templates. I thought I would let you know, in case their work wasn't in line with the date standards.
Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 15:14, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
I just looked at your FAQ. Could your smackbot be authorized to change every instance of a URL a site has stopped using to the URL the site now uses?
Originally the DoD made available one hundred .pdf files under http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/Reading_Room/Detainee_Related/ Then, for a period of time those files were available under that directory and http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/
But, for some time now, only the second directory, http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/, works.
There are over 2,000 places where URLs start with the first directory. Could smackbot correct all those URLs?
Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 15:14, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
HUllo Rich, yr pages re this trawler/minesweeper are helping me resolve a small mystery I have had since about 1960.I found this at ...."..In May 1946 Waiho and Waima were sold to Red Funnel Trawlers Pty. Ltd in Sydney. The ship was renamed by her new owners Matong ON 178379. Waiho was delived to Sydney in September by the Marine Department steamer Matai arriving 12 September.." Navy Museum. My own involvment was when my father "souvenired" the brass engine room plate in about 1960, as the ship waited for scrapping (?) in Sydney Harbor. He still has that plaque, and I hope to be able to Fwd it to the museum soon. Thanks for your help in tracing the ship ! Feroshki (talk) 02:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi! Wow you must have covered every topic imaginable now! Can you use AWB to remove a - from the coordinates display title of the villages in Jamaica statred by Kyle 1278. You see it works in the map display but adding a - and a W into the standard coordinate display make it an east! So they are currently displayed in south India! Can you quickly remove the - sign from the bottom coordinate display. Also he has wrongly added documentation which says AU, but it is Jamaica not Australia. Can you fix them like thisThanks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:57, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Hehe. Thanks. Happy Christmas! Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:43, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
I was wondering if you knew why www.mapsofworld.com is on our spam filter? Is it because it is a commercial site? Because that site contains a lot of useful information and even if not acceptable as a reference for some topics it is useful for further reading in external links. How do I go about requesting it to be cleared? I mean hell if fallingrain is not even on the spam filter I fail to understand why this site is.. This OK I found MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist to bitch about it!! Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:45, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
I noticed a problem with your date delinking in the yearly Masters Tournament series of articles, e.g. 1981 Masters Tournament. The comma in the date is getting incorrectly dropped when delinking (see this edit [82] for example). I've fixed all the Masters articles (by deleting the year which is redundant anyway) but thought you should be aware of the problem. - Tewapack (talk) 17:32, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. While fixing the default sort tags, I have identified two different sources of misclassification. There's Smackbot (via AWB as you say) and there's also User:DefaultsortBot. That bot is adding default sort tags to articles that lack them if they have a "listas" parameter in the WPBiography template on the talk page. If the "listas" parameter is wrong then DefaultsortBot gets it wrong. Smackbot changed many articles around Dec 11th. I have fixed many of them regarding band articles. Why widespread do you think this problem with the default sort tag is? Does it extend outside the band articles? One thing that might be able to prevent recurrence in the future is for Smackbot (or AWK) to check its default sort tag against the "listas" parameter. If what it wants to use matches the "listas" parameter then the edit can be assumed safe but if there's a discrepancy, then something is wrong. I am going to be away from Wikipedia mostly during the Christmas holiday so I'm afraid I won't be able to help much more for a while to fix more of the tags. Cheers, 00:27, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
I was starting to go through the above list, but am noticing some type of issue with links that have punctuation. For example Beau’s lines, even though there is a Beau's lines article. Perhaps there is an automatic way to fix this? Thanks again for your help! ---kilbad (talk) 02:50, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar | |
I award you this Barnstar because every time I look at my watchlist you have unlinked dates to at least four more of the pages that I patrol, Happy Holidays J04n(talk page) 15:12, 22 December 2009 (UTC) |
I have no idea how AWB works (and don't particularly want to know), but I hope that it is possible to avoid mistakes like this (the one in the recording section) in the future. (And I normally wouldn't bring it up, but my watchlist usually contains a lot of "Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) (Delink dates (WP:MOSUNLINKDATES) using Project:AWB" and I'd rather not have to go through and check all of them each time.) Thanks. Santa Claus of the Future (talk) 15:29, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
I've just used Twinkle to remove some advert sounding material by an IP address ([83]). For some reason Twinkle said in the edit summary that I had reverted your edits. I haven't and I want to make it clear that that was a mistake on Twinkle's part. I would like to apologise on Twinkle's behalf. Not sure if I can remove your name from the edit summary... any ideas? ~~ Dr Dec (Talk) ~~ 16:01, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to work on an article that was deleted, and rewrite or improve it. Could you put it on User:Debresser/Sauscony Lahaylia Valdoria Skolia please? Suppose you can guess what the title was. Debresser (talk) 12:06, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich - I see that you did a quick review of a page I created (Destiny Solutions). As this page has been up for a while and no one has taken down the This is a new unreviewed article marker. Could you take a full review of the page and take this marker down?
Thanks!Hollyroad (talk) 17:44, 22 December 2009 (UTC)Hollyroad
Rich Farmbrough, 19:02, 22 December 2009 (UTC).
I see my post about the Cfd templates was archived. I hope it is not forgotten though. Debresser (talk) 22:33, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
I left the following message on User talk:SmackBot:
Shortly thereafter SmackBot deleted the message without comment. Is this normal for SmackBot? If so, then I suggest modifying its talk page to tell other editors about this behavior.
More important, can you please fix SmackBot so that it doesn't change the capitalization of templates? It should just leave capitalization alone; there's no reason to change it. Thanks. Eubulides (talk) 01:49, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
OK I changed the date delinking to leave ((Reflist)) alone. We can talk about the use of case to aid readability another day. Rich Farmbrough, 04:40, 23 December 2009 (UTC).
((my temp|image=no))
. Also the template names are case sensitive in all but the first character. If you change the docs to say ((My temp|image=no))
then you confuse the users and they tend to do mistakes like ((My Temp|Image=No))
. So experience has taught us it is better to stick to all lower case everywhere when working with templates."OK I changed the date delinking to leave ((Reflist)) alone". Thanks, but it's still doing it now. See this recent edit to United Cigar Stores, done within the past half-hour. Could you please look again and test that your fix actually works? Also, can you please make sure that other template names are not also being capitalized? I assume the problem is not limited to ((reflist)). Thanks. Eubulides (talk) 20:02, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
Sorry about this, but one of my previous posts appears to have gotten sidetracked and has now been archived. I'd like to revive it:
I have noticed there are links to dates from various quarters of WP which may or may not have been considered for delinking as follows, for example:
Would you look into these, please? Ohconfucius ¡digame! 14:21, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
This FR is probably about SmarkBot: [84]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:43, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Rich. Thanks for all the great work you do. I see that you've got SmackBot running all out doing date delinking, but the user page still shows the date delinking proposal (SmackBot XXII) in a "Requested" status. Does that status need to be updated?
Also, could you publish the source code of the AWB module that you are using? I see that the SmackBot does a few things that FDUB doesn't do, such as month abbreviation expansion. I'd be interested in seeing the logic behind the scenes. Thanks. -- Tom N (tcncv) talk/contrib 05:16, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated J. R. R. Tolkien's (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. — The Man in Question (in question) 05:53, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
With this edit SmackBot changed the capitalisation of a template call ((anchor)) → ((Anchor)) but left the edit summary "Delink dates (WP:MOSUNLINKDATES) using Project:AWB".
I've not looked through the bot's full contributions, but all the other edits that it has made to articles on my watchlist with the same edit summary have actually been date unlinking. Thryduulf (talk) 10:54, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. In this edit you enforced WP:MOSUNLINKDATES in an article dealing with a recent year, but this is in disagreement with the guidelines, WP:RY, for such articles. Not sure which one takes precedence, but I guess it's the latter. Favonian (talk) 12:37, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to draw your collective (User:Rich Farmbrough and User:AnomieBOT) attention to the last three edits on 2006 Iditarod. I think this type of mistake can be easily avoided by AWB aided tools, and bots can easily fix them. Thank you for your efforts. Debresser (talk) 12:34, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Another type of fix that a bot or other tools can easily fix is this trivial one. Debresser (talk) 12:40, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
And yet another easy type in this edit. Debresser (talk) 12:44, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Happy Christmas Rich!! I may have a job lined up at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist. I've made a proposal to blacklist the fallingrain website which you've seen in countless Indian and Pakistani articles as a reference when there is ample proof that the site is unreliable and contains false population and often altitude data. One editor is conerned it would take 150 hours to remove the links to that site from 9,000 odd articles but I'm pretty sure it could be done in less that ten times that duration. I see it as a much needed cleanup task, I know that when I see fallingrain used as a reference I automatically think "unreliable" because I had so much experience of it being grossly inaccurate. The geo coordinates are about the only thing reliable... Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:53, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Good question. I know its used to reference population and more commonly altitude. I wonder if there would be a way to find falling rain in references first and fix that and then remove the loose external links in the other articles afterwards? Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:54, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
I noticed a problem with a recent Smackbot edit [85]. It left in a misplaced comma in a date - "[[dd mmm]], yyyy" to "dd mmm, yyyy" instead of dd mmm yyyy. - Tewapack (talk) 05:45, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
If you have a moment, could I get your input regarding acronyms in the list of cutaneous conditions? Thanks again for all your help! ---kilbad (talk) 20:40, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, 09:37, 28 December 2009 (UTC).
Please stop removing the date links from the calendars of saints pages (Current Roman Rite Calendar, Tridentine Calendar, General Roman Calendar of 1954, General Roman Calendar of 1962). The MOS specifically allows date links for these kinds of calendar-related pages, and as the date pages themselves have a listing of other saints as well as other observances, someone browsing the calendar might very well be interested to see what else is celebrated that day, so they have a purpose. PaulGS (talk) 21:29, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
[edit conflict] I was just about to note the same thing [that Arthur mentioned]. Dates are inherently relevant to other dates, and should be linked in date-related articles (just as much as people's names should be linked in bio articles). I've now reverted the bot twice on a couple date-related pages... Cosmic Latte (talk) 10:43, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
I keep finding many radio stations' & television stations' pages dates delinked and I think this is wrong. Here is why: places are allowed to remain linked and yet dates aren't. When answering "Who, What, Where, When, Why & How", the Where is allowed to remain linked but the When isn't. This is wrong because the When is just as important as the Where. Nor am I saying that I think the places should be delinked as well. Finally, all of this happened without a lot of us knowing it was being talked about and I think some Wikipedia-wide notice should have been given. Thank you for your efforts in wanting to clean up Wikipedia though.Stereorock (talk) 12:50, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm trying to help clean up the articles on WGBH -- I'm an employee and can verify most (maybe all) of the information that's in question in the articles. However, when I made a few edits, they were all reverted to previous versions, even minor grammatical corrections. Can you help me correct/verify items in the following articles? It seems like someone would want my assistance, since the Wikipedia article on WGBH-TV says at the top that it needs a lot of cleanup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGBH-TV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGBH_(FM)
Also, WGBH does a significant amount of educational outreach and materials, online and print. How should that info be included?
Thanks in advance. Daisykin (talk) 14:57, 28 December 2009 (UTC) Daisykin
please take a look at this article: Andrew Stahl, which one of your bots recently edited. (that is not the issue.) i am not certain, but it may be a total fiction. it has such fascinating facts as that he graduated from college before he was born.originally, he was listed as being on the team roster of the washington capitals, but that has disappeared.(that's how i came to see this.) in any event, neither he, nor the two alleged 'teammates' are now or have ever been associated with the washington capitals. the names of these individuals have appeared in recent vandalism of the caps article. there is an external link to imdb, but the individual there under that name is certainly not the guy this article describes. as i said, i can't decide what if anything in this is other than vandalism. it does seem to have a fairly extensive history. ????!!!! thanks. Toyokuni3 (talk) 15:30, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
Rich, WP:ENGVAR exists for a reason. Please be more careful so I don't have to do this over and over again. I really don't care whether the dates are linked or not, but if you must unlink them, please make sure to stick to just that task; don't switch the date format for no reason at all at the same time. Thank you.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:34, December 28, 2009 (UTC)
hi Richard, i have an editing questioned on the page for Engelbert, 8th Duke of Arenberg , an so called editor, yopie is going around round pages on Wikipedia removing links without due process of discussion, in most cases he has not written or contributed to the articles in question but seems to be policing the links on these pages can he do this, and is this right, and i have not contributed my myself concerning these links or articles they have been put there by the contributors in question, please would you reply to this as i find it quite amazing that certain editors seem to have the powers to overwrite anyone a bit of a dictatorship rather than a democracy, regards henry mcdowall. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.181.128.17 (talk) 14:17, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, Rick. Do you think it would be possible to format date automatically by using ((date)) template, while de-linking dates by bot? Beagel (talk) 05:50, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
A recent edit to 1610s in England was:
Accessdate removed: [86]. AWB error? -- Jeandré (talk), 2009-12-29t12:25z
حبيبتى يوليا.. العالم كله يعر فانى احبك. العالم كله يعرف قدرنا وانسانيتنا وقدراتنا ومحبتنا وصدقنا.. كيف نخشى ان نكون هكذا . ولماذا يعطلنا المجرمين بتلك السخافات المدمرة للحياة لماذا لم يحتمو باشياء نافعة للحياه.. هذا هو الفارق بيننا وبينهم هم كازبون ونحن نيتنا يصدقها العمل هم يريدون الدمار ونحن نحب العمال . هم يتأمرون على البشر ونحن نحب الخير للجميع بالحق هم يريدون اخذ ما ليس من حقهم ونحن نطالب بشرعية حقوقنا ومالى وحياتى وقلبى ليس لعبة الابالسة ليس لهؤلاء الحمقى الذين لم تصل عقولهم الى جزء من تفكيرنا لانهم محدودين فى الفكر بجرائمهم ونحن ورائنا اشياء كثيرة نافعة.. نحن نعرف غايتنا وهم لا يعرفون ان نهايتهم بتشبثهم فيما يجرموه نحن نعرف طريق الحياة وهم سلكو طريق الهلاك. نحن نريد الامان للشعوب وهم يريدون الخوف والغدر لهم نحن نريد المشاعر الحقيقية للانسانية وهم يشوشون ويخيلون ويعزبون ويضلون لانهم شياطين الارض اعداء البشر. نحن لا نهاب فى الحق لومة لائم وهم يخشون قول الحقيقة لانها الحياة التى لا يريدونها للعالم .. انهم يريدون طمس كل شىء وتزوير كل شىء والنهب على حسابات كل شىء انهم يقتلون الحياة ويقتلون انفسهم دون ان يشعرو لانهم اعتادو هذا الدمار والكزب من اجل ما يسرقوه لانهم اعتادو على ان يكونو وجوه باقنعة وليس على حقيقة الذات بما هم مكلفون به من مسؤلية. انهم مجموعة فيروسات لعينة ولابد من ايقاذهم ووقف جرائمهم . ونحن يجب ان نفتخر بما نصدى له وما نقوم به لاننا صادقين فى الحياة ونحب الخير وسننهتظر ماذا سيكون الغد بازن الله فيما اشير اليه وندعوهم بعدم اللعب بالموت لانهم اصبحو مكشوفين امام اعين العالم وانى منتظر بدء اتخاذ اجراءات السفر لاكون ببلدى اكرانيا ومعى ماطلبته من ثرواتى حتى نقوم بدورنا فى الحياة دون ازى الشياطين وفى حال غير ذلك فلا يلومون الا انفسهم. حسين امين —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.239.9.190 (talk) 18:18, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
As mentioned on User talk:SmackBot, this edit apparently by SmackBot destroyed date information in a table in the EchoStar article. I'm concerned SmackBot could have done damage to other articles as well! Could you check into it? Thanks! (sdsds - talk) 22:47, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi, need your help. I registered to Wikipedia having witnessed the user B. Fairbairn constant removal of Time references in many pages. I have Spielberg page on my watchlist as the user appears to be on a mission to edit out Time. On a sidenote, he makes agitating comments purely to stir...example, 10 June 2009, on the United States page on Broadway theatre, text below the image stated "host to many popular shows"... and he added "and some unpopular ones".. and in his reason for edit stated.."Being a realist here".
Having only been an observer on Wikipedia, i was prompted to register having seen this users work. Thanks for you assitance. XRyanPerryX (talk) 07:40, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
If you are looking for what to do, there are a few Cfd templates that are waiting for your attention. Debresser (talk) 16:14, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
So far there is less than 700 articles there. I can't believe that is all. I fixed all non-mainspace entries. Debresser (talk) 20:24, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I reverted this edit of yours; I think you might have mistaken a software package version (shown with dashes instead of dots in filenames, etc) as a date. Cheers, --Kjoonlee 14:01, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
In January 0, Smackbot mutilates one date [[March 0]] --> [[March ]] while still linking it (March 0 is up for deletion, on which I have no opinion, but it is a related nonstandard date) and delinks a See also entry for another nonstandard date, February 30, which is a standard article. Ephemeris is another article which lists January 0 and March 0 in See also. I'm not sure of the relevance for March 0 in Ephemeris, but January 0 is definitely relevant. — Joe Kress (talk) 19:40, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Are you calling both changes bugs, that is, "March 0" to March " as well as unlinking a date in See also, where every entry must be linked?
I am blocking SmackBot again, as it is removing stub tags without authorization. E.g. [87]. Please disable this feature, and I will unblock. — Carl (CBM · talk) 23:40, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
As I scanned the recent contribs, I found more instances where SmackBot has reformatted references. Before I unblock, I want a way to tell for certain that this feature has been disabled, for example a revision number in the edit summary. There is no reason that this should still be happening after so many blocks, and I would like this to be the last one. — Carl (CBM · talk) 23:58, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi there! I noticed you were the one who put the original citation needed in that little section in Greg Abbott's Wikipedia entry about the Van Orden v. Perry case. In that case, thanks ever so for doing that! The original wording gave completely the wrong impression about the gifting of those Ten Commandments monuments and I pointed to a source that told the actual story of what occurred, after changing the wording in the article. If you hadn't called out the article's need for a citation on this, it might've escaped my attention to look more into the story of how the monument in question was donated. So thanks! Arcana07 (talk) 06:10, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
The SmackBot parser doesn't seem to recognize HTML comments: [97]. — Carl (CBM · talk) 23:59, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
the bot is changing the valid |date=((Date|2009-12-23|mdy))
to the invalid |date=December 2009|mdy))
in this diff. —Chris Capoccia T⁄C 04:56, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Oh geeze, I almost got worked up over the wine article. I saw someone reverted your edits and I though to myself "I know Rich would never vandalize, what the hell is up with the reverting." I was about to go off on whoever it was when I saw you reverted yourself. False alarm.--v/r - TP 13:28, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Do I have to understand the latest history of William Waterhouse? Looks strange! Please answer here, I will check. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:43, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
يوليا .. شاهدت على البروفيل الخاص بكى بعض المقططفات الثقافية وطبعا انا اعرف جيدا تلك المحاورات وايضا اعرف جيدا انكى يعجبك الثقافة الاصيلة للشعوب المختلفة. ونحن معا فى ذلك وارى من خلال مشاهدتى بعض الاشياء الدالة على انها لم تكن جائت بالصدفة ولا يهمنا ذلك فهذه مواقع عامة ونحن من نختار فيها ما يعجبنا. ولكن يجب عليهم عدم التدخل فى شئوننا الخاصة وايضا يجب عليهم خروجى من دائرة تلصصهم التى نعرف جيدا اهدافها واذا كنت اخشى عليكى من اى شىء ليس معناه انى اخيفك من شىء لانى اعرفك قوة تفكيرك فى التعامل واعرف انكى رائدة فى ذلك وانا الان فى اليوتيب الصينى وقلبى ينبض معك متمنيا لقياكى فى اقرب وقت ممكن لاننا لنا اهدافنا فى الحياة ويجب ان نبدائها كما نرى. وعلى جميع المسئوليين ان يثبتو للعالم حقيقة هويتهم واهدافهم بما يفعلوه لاننا من الممكن ان نواجه كل متسلط بما يرتكبه ونحدد المسؤلية على من يرتكبون الجرائم ونستطيع ان نجعلهم فى وضع بمستوى تفكيرهم كما شاهدو فى بعض المشاهد المختلفة من الثقافات وايضا نستطيع ان نكون اكثر قوة فى التاثر الذى يخشونه وعليهم ان ينسحبو من حياتنا ويكونو غير معطلين لنا وعليهم ان يكفو عن ارهاب العقول حتى لا تاتى الرياح بما لا يشتهون وعليهم ان يعرفو ان عملية الرصد لاستهداف البشر فاشلة لانهم فى عقلى هم المرصودون رغم تشويشهم وازاهم . وعليهم ايضا ان يعرفو ان عواقب الاستهتار بتلك الجرائم مدمرة كما يدمرون فى الحياة. وان لم يستيقظو فالايام المقبلة ستثبت من المدركون ومن السكرانين فى غيابات جرمهم. والى ان نلتقى لكى منى قبلة حب خالصة من اى اسائة لكيدهم . لانهم يخشون من هوانا النقى المشروع واهدافنا الطموحة بالعدالة التى يفتقدوها وبحقائق الحياة الجميلة التى يريدون تقبيحها بافعالهم وغيهم.. ونحن نثق فى نجاح نهجنا لانه القيمة الحقيقية فى الحياة التى ستصبح لها طعم ولون ومعنى غصب عن انفسهم الشريرة. ومن راحتيا الى اكرانيا العظمى قبلة حب ايضا ولكل مثقافينا وقادتنا وابنائنا واطفالنا والى كل كأئن حى فى الحياة التى يريدو تدميرها. احبك وفى شوق للقائنا الطيب . المعطر بما تحبه الشعوب والطموح بما يتمناه الشباب والكبار حتى تامن الشعوب مكر وخطر المجرميين الكونيين. وحتى تعرف البشرية طريق امنها. حسين امين. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.239.9.190 (talk) 19:59, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
"Yulia: ... they should not interfere in our private... which we know is a good target... and if you are afraid of anything does not mean that I should avoid something I know is proper... force your mind to deal with it... we are together in that, I think... these are public sites... and all officials at the... that... to the world the truth of their identity and their objectives... because we could face... define the responsibility of those who commit crimes, and we can make them in the level of planning... also, we can be more powerful in emotion, that they fear they have to... our lives... and they have to... thinking about terrorism... the monitoring process to target human beings, because they failed in my opinion... They should also have consequences for their destructive lifestyle... the next days will prove... because of their guilt.... Because they fear being enslaved... clean the project... our ambitious objectives, which include justice and the realities of a truly beautiful life, though they want their wicked deeds and transgressions. We trust in the success of our approach, because it will bring true value to life with taste and colour and meaning, though they choose evil for themselves.... to Ukraine... love... to all our leaders and sons and children... including young people and adults so safe... and the risk of deception... human safety.... - Hussein Amin."
His talk page is easier to understand when translated using Google. He is at a conference in Ukraine, and he very much admires the Ukrainian prime minister, Yulia Timoshenko. So that is who Yulia is.--Toddy1 (talk) 02:36, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
...at which point, whatever smattering of Arabic I had acquired deserted me, except for one particular phrase, which I am sure related to the requirements for sealing a head gasket on a MK II Ford Cortina... Rich Farmbrough, 20:34, 30 December 2009 (UTC).
Hey Rich. I know you often generously generate lists for users who request them. I was hoping that you could make me a list of all articles that link to a [[Wikipedia:Books or [[Wikipedia talk:Books. This might be better suited for an SQL query, I don't know. Tell me if it is too much. Some regex:
\[\[[\s_]*?Wikipedia([\s_]*?talk|)[\s_]*?\:[\s_]*?Books
Thats python regex and Im not too good. I dunno if that helps. Tim1357 (talk) 01:32, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
((Foo | parameter 1 = bar | parameter 2 = ((template)) | parameter 3 = lolipop )) Thanks! Tim1357 (talk) 02:31, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Langley Flying School, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Langley Flying School. Thank you.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Ahunt (talk) 02:13, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
Would you consider ordering SmackBot to exclude the date pages (January 1, January 2, etc.) and the year pages (2009, 2008, etc.) from its WP:MOSUNLINKDATES edits? These are pages about dates and links to other date pages are relevant to the article's content. Thanks. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 02:19, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
The bot is apparently turning ((lede)) (lead too short) into its opposite: [98]--Father Goose (talk) 10:24, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
You recently moved the article Ngaio Railway Station to Ngaio railway station presumably for compliance with WP:CAPS. This article, along with all other articles on New Zealand railway stations, is within the scope of the WikiProject NZR. This project has a manual of style which provides the following guidelines on naming such articles:
Article titles should be "Place-Name Railway Station", as in Wellington Railway Station. An exception is the Britomart Transport Centre.
Please desist from renaming any articles in this scope in this way until such a change can be discussed by the project. With hundreds of articles named in this fashion and within the scope of this project such a change would be a significant undertaking. – Matthew25187 (talk) 11:45, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
I have speedied (i.e. nominated for speedy deletion) 12 pages in connection with Cfd templatesas I announced in User_talk:Rich_Farmbrough/Archive/2009Dec#DMC_-_repeated_request. If that gets done, I'll speedy Template:Cfx/sandbox as well. Debresser (talk) 00:05, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
|cat=
and |cat-date=
). Debresser (talk) 20:41, 31 December 2009 (UTC)Hi there I believe you have disputed the neutrality my article about hon.Ali Mirzad. I agree with your findings and did the necessary edits . please remove your Dispute Stamp at your earliest convenience. thank you --JamshidAwal (talk) 08:17, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
I've seen you do this on a very regular basis: running very large-scale tasks (often cosmetic changes that shouldn't done with AWB) on a bot-scale from your main account. You should not be doing automated edits from this account as you are circumventing proper procedures for approval for bot tasks. –xenotalk 16:31, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
Sigh. Except that people copy the cliché to other articles. And we want to keep the category virtually empty, for maintenance reasons. And the wikicode was passing the parameter to another template which was ignoring it, basically code cruft. Rich Farmbrough, 16:42, 31 December 2009 (UTC).
Making three edits to change ((date|XXXX-YY-ZZ)) to a hard-coded date seems particularly inefficient. If there is approval for this task, surely someone could write a smarter bot to do it in a single edit. –xenotalk 16:55, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
I hate to pile on here, but once again (I'm not actually sure it ever stopped), SmackBot is imposing a preference as to where certain tags go (top of article vs. within a section) -- such as the ((inline)), which it moves into the references section, rather than leaving at the top [100]. Again, this is a matter of preference.
I know "it's AWB's fault" and not yours, but I think you need to fix it anyway. If you can't, then we need to start a centralized discussion to determine the fate of SmackBot. As was once suggested, it might be time to make AWB's general fixes into a bot of its own, so that all its various tasks that get added constantly can be subject to BAG approval.
Thank you. Equazcion (talk) 16:57, 31 Dec 2009 (UTC)
I see some articles for the third consequetive day in Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template. What happened? Do you need some help? It would be nice to start a new month with an empty category. Debresser (talk) 17:33, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
well I can do them manaully, as long as they are VERY SLOW - or xeno gets annoyed. Sigh, being invisible was good. Rich Farmbrough, 18:10, 31 December 2009 (UTC).
Also I have to tweak it and do some manually because there is pollution form the date template. Rich Farmbrough, 18:19, 31 December 2009 (UTC).
Hello
I am wondering if you can help us with the Stephen Day musician page that keeps getting replaced by the Stephen Day politician page. How do we categorize the two as different so that one doesn't replace the other?Shmi222 (talk) 18:25, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Please see Category_talk:Pages_containing_cite_templates_with_deprecated_parameters#Add_access-date_too. Debresser (talk) 13:52, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
I don't understand what kind of template is populating Category:TestTemplates. Could you please explain that to me? Debresser (talk) 23:55, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
What I did was submit a fairly open-ended BRFA. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Xenobot 6, for example.
Function Overview: Find and replace jobs Edit period(s): Occasionally (when consensus exists for a job)
Then, when a user presents me with a find & replace job that has consensus, I can run it under this task without having to make a new BRFA. That's what I would suggest you do. –xenotalk 18:26, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
Really. Deceptively simple, yet fabulous. :) Now that I'm catching up a bit from the Christmas backlog, I just wanted to let you know how much I have appreciated your help with that. Sometimes looking for assistance on Wikipedia can get a wee bit frustrating. Thank you for taking my question seriously and helping me out. I am grateful. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:09, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
"However, the evidence for this once popular view is slim. It is more likely that the name refers to the place of his birth, ‘Ebrā, where the old road east of Malatya towards Kharput (modern Elazığ) and Amid (modern Diyarbakır) crossed the Euphrates.[2]" (BAR EBROYO)
Could you please give me some knowlegde about that paragraph. Everybody says that he is from malatya but according to that pharagraph he is from Elazığ. It is very important for us. Please tell me where did you read that and how can we learn more about that subject. Regards...
saratanoglu@superonline.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.233.108.125 (talk) 11:40, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
I've been away from WP for a while. What's happening with User:Pigsonthewing/to-do#Date conversions, please? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:52, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
I'd like the thankyou for your impressive edits you made in 2009. Wherever I look you've made some contribution towards formatting, consistency and cosmetics all over the encyclopedia. even if the subject is not to your fascination. Keep up the good work in 2010 and haope you have a happy new year. Best regards. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:47, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
Well, that's much appreciated all. Nice start to the new year. Rich Farmbrough, 02:54, 1 January 2010 (UTC).
You're absolutely right; in the deletion discussion, the template's purpose was completely missed. I hope that we can determine which articles the template was removed from. —David Levy 14:25, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
Please see Template_talk:Cite_book#date.2C_year.2C_or_either.3F, where a discussion is starting, which is closely related to the idea you mentioned of deprecating |month=
and |year=
. There seem to be repercursions to that. Debresser (talk) 18:04, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I went through the recent changes looking for an admin online, and you're it. I was wondering if you could add me to the list of users who may use the application Kissle. Tim Song is on vacation and can't at the moment, and asked that any requests be forwarded to another admin. Thanks, ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 00:56, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Rich Farmbrough
I noticed that you often removed ((date)) from articles, which formats dates according to Manual of Style and per user Preferences. I'm curious to know why. Is there something wrong with it? Fleet Command (talk) 12:39, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Ah I wasn't clear:
In other words I am not changing the appearance of the date.
The #formatdate function? See Wikipedia:Magic_words#formatting "there is considerable opposition to use of this function"
mf=y - this makes it clear that the choice of format is explicitly made not merely the default. I added df to "Birth date" and "death date and age" some years ago, maybe a better solution could have been found, but that propagated to the various templates of that ilk. Rich Farmbrough, 13:33, 1 January 2010 (UTC).
Could you please explain me your substitutions of the date template? I've looked at Template:Date and I have found no problem at all. - Esteban Zissou (talk) 13:47, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, some weeks ago you added the exact dates of his birth and death to the English Wikipedia. To you have a source for it? By the way at the time Karsten lived, Finnland was part of the Russian Empire, do you know if the dates are referring to the Julian or Gregorian Calendar?? --Hagen Graebner (talk) 15:59, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
I wrote you a message only to realize you weren't the appropriate individual. Terribly sorry about that!
91.39.4.135 (talk) 20:25, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
91.39.4.135 (talk) 20:09, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello Rich, thanks for your time. I searched for Mir-Hossein Mousavi's signature and actually found four same signatures in two formats: one in jpg and other three in svg format. It seems like the uploader has uploaded three of those in English Wikipedia and one in Commons. Since Wikipedia:IUP#Format clearly states that public domain images including signatures in svg formats are preferred, I believe the one in Commons should be kept and the other three should be deleted per Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#Files#F8. The files mentioned above are:
JuventiniFan (talk) 12:40, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Somebody vandalise Sporting Clube da Praia_ please block him his ip adress is 188.2.111.58 !!!! thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.189.219.231 (talk) 15:08, 5 January 2010 (UTC) or protect page from vandalisam please —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.189.219.231 (talk) 15:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Is there a template to turn all capitalised letter to uncapitalised? Something like ((Whatever|input=ABcdEF))
-> abcdef? Debresser (talk) 13:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
I believe I've figured out how to have an editable lead. See WT:CASC. You are receiving this message due to the banner at the top of the talk page. If you don't want such messages, remove yourself from the banner. Thanks, Thinboy00 @234, i.e. 04:36, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey rich Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 2 SmackBot came up in that BRFA, and I was wondering if you could answer some of our questions. — [Unsigned comment added by Tim1357 (talk • contribs).]
I have noticed (particularly in the article Where the Wild Things Are) that some editors are formatting citations in slightly odd ways. They are using the author parameter and writing "Farmbrough, Rich" rather than "Rich Farmbrough" or writing | first = Rich | last = Farmbrough and using the available parameters. Maybe this is more complicated than it seems but perhaps you would consider checking the author field and if it contains a comma then split it into first and last parameters? Thanks for your consideration. -- Horkana (talk) 16:18, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Rich can you use AWB to fix the year errors I made like this. The communes I've added population data to date....From now on they should be correct... Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:45, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Remember telling me that ArbCom is "horrendous"? Well, I am on it. See Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Chabad_movement_editors. Not that I think that I should be there, or even this case in general. Nor am I worried too much as to its outcome. Anyway. Debresser (talk) 00:10, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
|dateformat=
and |access-date=
, for that matter. Debresser (talk) 18:34, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
|access-date=
come from?Are you still up for removing falling rain links from wikipedia. Perhaps semi automated we can remove any bad referenced figures. Perhaps the way to do it would be to remove the external links first using AWB and then sort those which are referenced to falling rain afterwards. Its just we need to remove all of the links to that site before delisting.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:10, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Would you mind looking at two comments I posted at the medicine project at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Move_requested. Would you be willing to share your opinion/move that page? ---kilbad (talk) 04:44, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, can you please put the citations in the article Bangladesh International School, English Section, Riyadh properly. I ve provided some references but I dont know how to do the cite thing properly. Thanks in advance. Aceleo (talk • contribs) 13:10, 07 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Rich - I see that you changed some Fact tags that I had added to Citation Needed tags in the Dolphin Encounters article. Both of these display as "Citation Needed" in the article, so I wondered if the Citation Needed tag is the preferable choice? It's just that I can remember how to spell Fact but sometimes screw up with citation. :) Thanks. Bob98133 (talk) 15:48, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
This change (particularly, changing 'article=yes' to to 'article=January 2010' and adding a free-floating date parameter) seems to be contrary to the specifications for the ((Article issues)) template. Cnilep (talk) 23:05, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello Rich Farmbrough! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 9 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 903 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the ((unreferencedBLP)) tag. Here is the list:
Rich, this is in appreciation for your magnificent work on cleaning up the date mess with scripts/bots. It's a fine achievement. Thank you. Tony (talk) 11:30, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
I noticed a couple issues in today's bot edits. — Carl (CBM · talk) 14:06, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Sorry about that; the diff is [111]. I didn't think it was serious enough to stop the bot, but it made me scratch my head. — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:38, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me out with my article Bangladesh International School, English Section, Riyadh. Aceleo (talk • contribs) 21:21, 09 January 2010 (UTC)
This relatively old edit caused a citation error, is that fixed? Sole Soul (talk) 22:45, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
I have slowly crawling the above list and creating redirects. Often times, there are articles already present but redlinks due to difference in British verses American English. As a result, in addition to creating redirects when possible, I have added a footnote discussing these differences in spelling (see List_of_cutaneous_conditions#cite_note-ex03-16). I am estimating that within the next month we can bluelink the entire list. ---kilbad (talk) 22:11, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Could SmackBot run a it more in there? I think it was you that gave me a code that I can remove deprecated parameters (in fact delete lines having specific strings using Regex) but it was somewhere lost for ever. Could you write me something similar? -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:24, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
There is a new discussion going on at Template talk:Dmy, and I though you might have some views on the subject. Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:40, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, as you did at Alexander Schukoff. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.
Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.
If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. --bender235 (talk) 13:27, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
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The bot did this with the "New Yorkistan" heading here. I don't know if this is a good idea. I know links in headings are supposed to be avoided but it seems better to have one than to have no link in the article at all.Prezbo (talk) 08:56, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Just a suggestion. Smackbot recently edited Nilpotent operator to update a "Category:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot)" tag to an "Unreferenced" tag. However, the date it gave was December 2009 (when it edited the page), not July 2009 (when the old category tag was put in). Perhaps it would be helpful if the code was updated so that it inserts a date that reflects the original tagging, not the replacement tagging. I changed it manually in this case. :-)
Tcnuk (talk) 11:19, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
You recently tagged the G. W. Peck article as a "biography". But G. W. Peck is a "fictional mathematician". See Talk:G. W. Peck Jwesley78 14:23, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
This went wrong. Unfortunatly I noticed this after I transfered a bunch of images to Commons. Could you please apply the fix to the images in commons:Category:Files_moved_from_en.wikipedia_to_Commons_requiring_review_as_of_11_January_2010 too? multichill (talk) 22:43, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
I have fulfilled whatever said by wikipedia people, first they were emphasizing on its reliable source, to fulfill their demand some good reliable sources has been included but still they are considering for deletion
Its a information that this platform is providing, why it is different from others and Its like a new experience for software engineers they can get something out of it. Its not a advertisement.
Please look it into it once more. it has gone through many phases its size has been reduces from its normal to half. It is having capability that it is supporting other plaforms which were found rare in earlier platforms.Company's name has been included once (wherever necessary). so i don't think its a advertisement.
Thankyou--Nandssiib (talk) 07:11, 12 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nandssiib (talk • contribs) 07:09, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Diffs from today's run. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:17, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
Rich,
Smackbot's edit summaries end in "build 391:,". It seems a little peculiar. Is that intended behaviour? - Richard Cavell (talk) 05:59, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
Another thing: The title of this page is "Use Rich Farmbrough" on my machine (Firefox 3.5.7 on OS X). This is because of a DISPLAYTITLE template in the source. Is that what you intended? - Richard Cavell (talk) 06:02, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
I assume that you had something to do with the Article Issues posted on the Cube News 1 page. I replied in the talk quite a while ago, but nothing has happened. Hence, I am writing to whoever might be able to do something. dmelliott 14:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
As of rev 6013 AWB counts the number of incoming links to the article and its redirects excluding the number of redirects i.e. tagging is 99% safe. Only problem the number of incoming dab links but this was the big issue. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:32, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Here you are: http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/AutoWikiBrowser5001_rev6037.zip -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:10, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, 1hourflex, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1hourflex. Thank you.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Dbratland (talk) 00:04, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for digging up an old discussion but what do you mean This provides the flexibility that ((BirthDeathAge)) was supposed to, and it works. How is this template broken or in flexible? Gnevin (talk) 00:50, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Just wanted to call to your attention the preferred use of "gay and lesbian" over "homosexual". This is in regard to your changes to the Madeline Davis entry. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:IDENTITY#IdentitySee and http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/gays-anatomy/200810/the-terms-homosexual-and-the-n-word. Thanks--Aichikawa (talk) 19:21, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
FYI "auto=yes" is not a notation that a banner was added automatically, [116] it should only be used when automatically assessing as "stub" because the article page had a stub template. This came up here. Cheers, –xenotalk 13:31, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I was looking at File:Pepper's.jpg and I noticed that you are currently using it in your user-space at User:Rich Farmbrough/temp62. Unfortunately as the file is a non-free image it shouldn't really be used in user-space. There also appear to be a number of other non-free files used on the page. Would you mind removing them from your sandbox, or at least commenting them out until you are finished? Regards. Road Wizard (talk) 01:42, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
It appears you put a </references> tag on the page County Route S1 (California). This action has been reverted, for this template does not exist. Pzoxicuvybtnrm 03:33, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Nigerian towns need a huge cleanup..... Removing falling rain rmeoving spam etc. Nigeria "is like the Pakistan of Africa on wikipedia". Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:30, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Oh silent one, can you add svg maps like this to the amphoe of Chiang Mai Province. You just need to switch png with svg.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:44, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Rich Hi :) If you find time, do comment on the new proposal I've suggested here. Thanks ▒ Wirεłεşş ▒ Fidεłitұ ▒ Ćłâşş ▒ Θnε ▒ ―Œ ♣Łεâvε Ξ мεşşâgε♣ 04:32, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
I posted at Bot Requests, but the request/discussion seemed to be bogged down with some esoteric and rather surreal discussion. Anyway, can I enlist your help with the work to be done in delinking these?
As an aside, I notice that some portal space is posted by bots, which automatically post linked dates. I tried removing the links on a couple of occasions, but the bot restored them in the next edit as if it was programmed to link dates. Ohconfucius ¡digame! 17:41, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
I noticed you did some work on Template:Infobox Hungarian settlement. I did some work on it and the documentation page, related with references. I checked that it is working well. I think I found an elegant solution.
In addition I found a problem with this template, see Template_talk:Infobox_Hungarian_settlement#Coat of arms. Perhaps you can easily solve it. Debresser (talk) 00:06, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
I have checked with the Scout Association, PRC on the Woodbadge issue. Seems like it is confirmed that the Woodbadge Training Scheme indeed was released by the WOSM APR approved by Abdullah Rasheed the WOSM APR Rigional Director. There was communication email between the association & the Regional office. Feel free to advice if you need anything. Thanks.
Regards, Tsa-prc
Template:Museum key has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:16, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
I am glad that the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_for_Children has been fixed and all that could be taken with offense were removed. I had attempted to edit the article and became upset and offended by some of it's previous errors and phrasing of which I personally found unnecessary and offensive to me. Thus I left the article as it was, due to personal offense taken. Thanks so much for that much needed help. --Ladybrainbypass (talk) 14:40, 21 January 2010 (UTC)--Ladybrainbypass (talk) 14:42, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
I noticed you didn't answer detection of incorrect substitution to maintenance templates that use ((Fix)) like ((Dead link)), ((Dubious)), or ((Citation broken)). Is that on purpose?
What happened with Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template? Did the bureaucracy get to you? I also didn't do any wikignoming these past week-and-a-half because of that ArbCom case I'm involved with. It is really unsetteling to be falsely accused, not to mention unappreciated. Debresser (talk) 14:00, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
BTW, since all maintenance templates use either ((DMCA)) or ((Fix)), I wondered if it wouldn't be easier to build the detection into just these two templates? Or is that impossible? Debresser (talk) 14:01, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
It is found in the article [117] under Representation:
In my opinion 'Representation' belongs to a gallery guide but not to Wikipedia. What do you think? (Salmon1 (talk) 19:47, 21 January 2010 (UTC))
Hi Rich, sorry to trouble you. There's a band, Lovers Electric, whose photo I'm uploading now to Commons. I looked at the article history to see whose toes I'll be stepping on this time if I decide (as usual) to be bold, and fix any wording, wikification lapses or missing things, and saw that whomever the username is they call themselves Lovers Electric, which makes me assume it's either the band or their publicist. I very much remember the headaches with Josh Klinghoffer's publicity people last time he was to embark on tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I don't feel qualified to put the template that someone closely related to the band may be making edits for this page. Would you take a look? Also, I had a very nice email from a D.J. called "Redbeard" who has a global radio interview program called In the Studio with Redbeard. For some reason, after some chatting back and forth, he took a look at their page. I'm not sure what format it should take, and he wanted to update some now erroneous facts, but found he was blocked from "all but text at the bottom of the page". The next email revealed the entire recording studio's ISP was banned. I advised him to register, and to let people know he was the subject of the article, and promised I'd tell an Admin. here so they know he's just trying to keep it up to date and nothing promotional or whatnot. (He did a kickass interview with Pete Townshend about The Who's Tommy anniversary.. but that's beside the point.) Will it be OK for Redbeard to edit just to keep up to date if I keep an eye out for Peacock stuff? Will you handle the questionable Lovers Electric thing? Thanks.--Leahtwosaints (talk) 23:19, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Did you not edit Madeline Davis, changing some words from homosexual to gay? That's what my comment to you (now erased) was about.--Aichikawa (talk) 17:54, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
When you move page which have talk archives (as you did here), you should check for bot templates on the talk page and ensure they still work.--Oneiros (talk) 19:40, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Rich, I've emailed you. Tony (talk) 05:11, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Please register the account. :P (It's showing up at Ownerless pages in the user space (configuration).) --MZMcBride (talk) 17:43, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
I noticed you didn't answer detection of incorrect substitution to maintenance templates that use ((Fix)) like ((Dead link)), ((Dubious)), or ((Citation broken)). Is that on purpose?
BTW, since all maintenance templates use either ((DMCA)) or ((Fix)), I wondered if it wouldn't be easier to build the detection into just these two templates? Or is that impossible?
What happened with Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template? Did the bureaucracy get to you?
I also didn't do any wikignoming these past week-and-a-half because of that ArbCom case I'm involved with. It is really unsettling to be falsely accused, not to mention unappreciated. Debresser (talk)
Regarding this edit, what difference does it make which order the references are in? I'm just curious if there's some fine point of the guidelines that I've missed. Thanks, Dismas|(talk) 06:28, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Ne shume komente e diskutime te personave qe kane pasur pozicione te larta ne hierarkine shteterore,kan folur e flasin ende se Z.Sali Berisha kane qene e eshte nje agjent potencial i U.D.B se serbe. E vertete...?????? S'me besohet kurre. As qe mund te imagjinohet...!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.106.2.94 (talk) 19:56, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I'm not sure why, but SmackBot keeps mucking up the formatting of Sara Roy. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 20:48, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
I am considering adding a few more dermatology-related categories. I have posted a thread at: Talk:List_of_cutaneous_conditions#Additional_sections_.7C_categories. Could I get your feedback regarding this issue? ---kilbad (talk) 01:53, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
A template that we didn't have yet is Template:Examples. Debresser (talk) 21:30, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is List of basic geography topics. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and "What Wikipedia is not").
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what are you doing whith your user name on revision history kilcummin when you are making no comments. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.146.140 (talk) 14:48, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Rich, under what circumstances, and by what method, are DAB pages deleted? The question is not academic, or a matter of curiosity, rather, I believe the Blue Valentine (disambiguation) page is in need of deletion. One link, as you can see is red, which may or may not have an article in the near future. Either way, a dablink at the top of each article would be sufficient. A DAB page with two links is unnecessary. I was simply planning on reverting the page move, but decided against it. I would like your advice here. Thanks. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 16:03, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
I reported what I thought was an AWB bug on the appropriate page, and was told it was due to an edit of yours rather than AWB:
Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 16:42, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey can you help promote me to an Beaurucat? (OMGstrings (talk) 02:09, 29 January 2010 (UTC))
Hi Rich. The last time I proposed a policy change, your comments were valuable. Thanks for that. If you find time, do drop in again at the village pump here to give your views on a new category of established users I've proposed. Thanks ▒ Wirεłεşş ▒ Fidεłitұ ▒ Ćłâşş ▒ Θnε ▒ ―Œ ♣Łεâvε Ξ мεşşâgε♣ 13:37, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
What do you think about the template, and this proposal? Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:28, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Richard, Thank you for helping with the Adriano Espaillat article.
69.203.119.66 (talk) 06:12, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Re your AWB Unicode bug it seems like a rare error, we can convert to spaces if found, or do nothing. Which do you think? Thanks Rjwilmsi 14:36, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
I left a reply to you at my talk page, to try to keep things in one place. I will copy to BON if you want, but presumably you came here specifically to talk it with me not at BON. All I say here is that I have no problem with SB or you, just a very specific problem. I am sorry it was stopped.
I have been away from WP for a while IRL so I am sorry if my delay in replying seems like ignorance. I will do everything I can to help you get genfixes sorted out, which I have no prioblem with SB doing. I know you and SB do great work here, and it is kinda minor this, a rather side issue, I didn't want and didn't ask for it to stop genfixes. I never stopped this bot at all during this debate, or asked for it to be. I will do everything I can to say so to admin or whatever who stopped it for that, I haven't read up why, but this specifically is NOT genfixes and it should have genfixes I think, which everyone knows and loves so well. So I defintely support you to get genfixes back. Si Trew (talk) 17:47, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
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When SmackBot is fixing dates on templates, it would be nice if it could check if the unnamed parameter is a valid date, and if so use it instead of adding a new one: [118] [119] [120]. Thanks! --Pascal666 08:28, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello Rich. We interacted last year when I sought your help to remove a file that was redundant. The relevant segment is still on my talkpage. That particular problem was my own making, and you kindly assisted in correction of it.
The current problem is not originally my own making, but in the process of trying to correct the matter and have some semblance of sanity prevail again, I have contributed to it. The way I see it, the problems are readily fixable. It's just that I don't have the administrative ability to take a couple of the steps.
The problem is this: The article, Captain R.T. Claridge, which I created on 29 October 2009, and which has continued uncontroversially to date, was erroneously renamed by another editor. In the process of that renaming, a redirect page was created.
I took care of the erroneous article renaming, or so I thought. However, what I didn't realise, was that in the original (erroneous) renaming, a space was inserted between the R and the T of Captain R.T. Claridge. This meant, of course, that all of the links originally created to the Captain R.T. Claridge article 'needed' a redirect page, because links are format-sensitive, including for the presence of spaces between letters.
At first I thought little of this, thinking perhaps the redirect did serve a real function, as opposed to an illusory function created by its own existence. But I was wrong. A few very simple experiments with the Wikipedia search function, for say, C. D. Baker, or Captain E.G. Beaumont. The search brings up the same article (or in the case of Baker, the same disambiguation page), regardless of whether or not you use a space between the initials, for both names. So you take the space away from C. D., and the search works. Add a space to E.G., and it works.
What this means is that there is no need for a redirect page merely on the basis of a space between the initials. The initial redirect page took the links with no spaces to the article with the spaces. From the initial redirect page, a 'check of what links here' naturally listed all of the articles and archives that previously linked for the Captain R.T. Claridge article. This seemed to give the impression that the redirect page needed to exist to solve a real problem, rather than an illusory one.
When I realised all this, after much stuffing around I might add (because I refuse to let an idiotic situation prevail), I realised the only solution that makes sense.
I can't imagine many things more conceptually simple than the above solution. Since I don't have deletion authority, I initially tried to simply rename the Captain R. T. Claridge article to Captain R.T. Claridge (without spaces). But a red error message said Captain R.T. Claridge already existed. On the off-chance this was a byproduct of the name with spaces causing the problem, I renamed to R. T. Claridge, then tried going from there to Captain R.T. Claridge (without spaces). I got the same error message, saying the article exists. However, it allowed me to move the article to Captain R. T. Claridge (with spaces). This tells me that the article itself is not the problem. It must be the existence of something else named Captain R.T. Claridge (with no spaces). As far as I can tell, this brings me back to the redirect page. So I tried a couple of moves to see if renaming there made a difference. All I did was create a couple more redirect pages, as far as I can tell. I have now flagged all of the redirect pages for speedy deletion.
I really am only seeking one outcome, and one outcome alone. To get the Captain R. T. Claridge article back to its original name (Captain R.T. Claridge, without spaces) so the links which worked up until yesterday, all work again. I can't think of many things more conceptually simple. But I can't believe the Alice-in-Wonderland surreality that has transpired. But that doesn't mean I, or anyone else, has to settle for it. I seek your assistance if possible, as you seem to have a good track record of recognising simple, no-nonsense solutions, and implementing them, which is really all that is needed. Wotnow (talk) 07:59, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Based on that picture, are they saying that that store is still there and open to this day? Bob.--76.224.113.196 (talk) 17:20, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Richard, my attention has been drawn to your response that you've replied to my email. But I've not received it. Can you check the address? Tony (talk) 22:14, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Can recurring task 4 be modified to include ((pui)) and ((Puf)) ? Here are 2 examples that should have had dates placed by the "tagger" [121] [122]. Thanks. --After Midnight 0001 16:58, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Hey Dude, Have you had a chance to consider my emailed request for advice? Ohconfucius ¡digame! 15:06, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I need your assistance. Can you rename all of those sub cats (Except Bolivar) in Category:Provinces of Ecuador which have an unneccessary .,Ecuador on the end to the simple naming. So instead of Category:Manabí Province, Ecuador it would become simply Category:Manabí Province. I and Ser Amantio have tackled a few already but all of the empty categories afterwards which have ,Ecuador on the end need deleting like Category:Azuay Province, Ecuador etc as that has alreayd been done. Once thats done, can you go through the province articles e.g Azuay Province and correct the canton links in the articles from (canton) to Canton. Admittedly I am uncertain as to whether or not they should be capitalized. In fact I think they should probably be ... (canton). If you agree, then leave those links and move all the articles to (canton) instead but be sure to correct the existing links and names in the articles and also the navigation template.
What naming looks right to you Nabón Canton or Nabón (canton). Peronsally I am thinking it would be best to move them to the latter one. Any thoughts?
Also the current naming for the Cantons of Costa Rica is capitalised and for Venezuelan municpalities is .... Municipality too. I think the naming would be better (municipality) for Venezuela too like the Mexican ones... I think Province and District is capitals looks right but not for canton and municipality, any thoughts on this too? ‡ Himalayan ‡ ΨMonastery 19:45, 2 February 2010 (UTC) ‡ Himalayan ‡ ΨMonastery 19:10, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Is everything OK? ‡ Himalayan ‡ ΨMonastery 11:50, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Is it possible you could sort it out when you have time then? Its just its a lingering problem now as only some of them are done and we have some empty categories and inconsistency lying about.. ‡ Himalayan ‡ ΨMonastery 10:55, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Is SmackBot maintaining all these cases on regular basis? I need this information for handling a FR on AWB. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 14:59, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Most people who create articles via the Article Wizard leave the example.com link intact. Smackbot should remove those, and remove the external links section altogether if no other external links were inserted either by the creator or or a subsequent editor. -- Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 18:18, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you might want to look at this page, appears to have some errors at the bottom of the page after you added the sources. Larry Dunn (talk) 19:18, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Template:Unreferenced stub has been nominated for merging with Template:Unreferenced. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Fram (talk) 10:15, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
I'm puzzled at SmackBot's replacing of spaceless & # 0145 ; through & # 0148 ; with numbered boxes. Neither form is popular for reading and I think the former form is usually correctly interpreted by browsers. It looks like the edit page lets us click to insert curved quotation marks, but that's usually too cumbersome; I compose offline and paste in and don't want to have to click for each character.
I'm planning to restore the former form in the article that SmackBot edited and which I originally wrote. I don't know if I want to block bots since I may create an article but I don't own it, given WP's premise.
Also, I tend to use singular section titles like Reference and External link if there's only one reference or external link under the section title.
Thanks. Nick Levinson (talk) 04:26, 2 February 2010 (UTC) (Then I corrected 1 stupid error of my very own (and added this). Nick Levinson (talk) 04:45, 2 February 2010 (UTC))
Rich, I know you have helped to word the above guideline, and wanted to know if you would consider adding some additional text discussing the use of relevant redirect templates, which are found at: Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages (for an example, see [123]). I don't like to be the only one editing derm guideline pages. Regardless, thank you for your help in the past! ---kilbad (talk) 23:19, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
(This is my first time posting to one of these talk pages, so bear with me if I screw up.) I'm writing, Rich, about the Gordon Onslow Ford page that you edited. As a big fan of Onslow Ford, I'd like to see that his page has an image of at least one of his paintings, as do most of the other artist pages. But as a clueless newbie in Wiki-land, I don't know how to add such a pic or what the relevant rules might be. Would you be interested in adding it yourself? Or guiding me in the process? I can scan an appropriate pic or two with good resolution, etc.
Fiona-webster (talk) 00:51, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Rich
There is an issue which you (and perhaps your bots) need to be aware of: For the sake of consistency of dates in software infoboxes, especially consistency between dates generated by ((Start date)) and ((Start date and age)) as well as dates generated by two ((Start date and age)), I decided to rewrite the ((Start Date and Age)).
In case you already don't know: The current Start date and age template outputs date through ((#dateformat:)) parser, making it look different to users depending on user preferences. In addition, the output of ((start date and age|2009|08|01))
( = "August 1, 2009 ") is not consistent with ((start date and age|2009|8|1))
( = "August 1, 2009 "). Finally, another user in the template's discussion page has requested codes that causes the template to emit hCalendar microformat.
The new ((Start date and age)), which is nearly finished (Template:Start date and age/sandbox), has a new df=yes parameter which makes it print dates in DMY format suitable for software articles. Perhaps you need to reconfigure your bots or we need to reach a different consensus. In any case, your feedback will of high value to me. So, please let me know what you think.
Fleet Command (talk) 11:36, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Dear Rich,
Should you like to discuss the point I raised, trewy@live.co.uk. It has been going three months now. Have you ever considered being a politician, because the line I put in the opening sentence you never answered: WAS IT YOU OR SMACKBOT.
I know you are a good editor but when you have a bot you have responsibilities
S.
Hi, Rich! As I know you're both an admin and an expert on templates, I'm hoping might you fix a template issue for me. If you click on The Temptations discography and scroll on down to the bottom of the screen, where the template is, click on "v", you'll notice that this "view" is not for this template. The same goes with its talk page. Possibly, might you fix this, please? Thanks! Best, --Discographer (talk) 08:54, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
a dozen times a day I thought I'd return the favor. Or something. I recently created a category called Category: Hal Blaine Strikes Again and have been posting it on articles about the records that Hal Blaine played on. The title of the category refers to a rubber stamp that Blaine used to stamp his charts with. I realize that neither the category nor its name is mainstream, but, does everything need to be? Anyway, the category is up for deletion and I'm hoping that editors who at least are knowledgeable and care about this sort of thing will vote [[124]]. Vote any way that you wish, but do check it out. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 03:21, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
FYI Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 February 5#Template:Unreferenced stub -- PBS (talk) 03:54, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
namen marega anti —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.225.75.7 (talk) 04:39, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Sounds reasonable.
I looked at this... can't remember what happened. More progress boxes are good.
Hm. Not sure. It does no harm, maybe mark as historical.
Let me go and look again. Rich Farmbrough, 16:02, 8 February 2010 (UTC).
Rich - I have made further edits to the entry for Penny Templeton to remove any questionable POV language. It appears that you marked this entry as advertising. Please remove that edit from the page. Thanks. JediMaraJade (talk) 02:20, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
that the list that you generated is the basis for this article, or list. List of recordings of songs Hal Blaine has played on Thanks. eek aka Carptrash (talk) 17:42, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Could you please weigh in at Template_talk:Lead_too_short#Template_family_names_should_be_consistent, or just do the moves if you agree. Debresser (talk) 11:05, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
I've just had somebody ranting on at me because of those categories (interestingly it was Debresser above). If you couldn't do it why couldn't you say something like "I'm busy" or "I don't want to". That would have been fine and I could have done it myself. Thanks for all your help to date anyway, I won't ask again. ‡ Himalayan ‡ ΨMonastery 23:24, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
Yes , perhaps it should be discussed at CFD. Personally I think a category should only have a , Ecuador on the end if there is a province of the same name in another country. We typically go for minimalism with categorization. Imagine somebody is searching the simple province name category would be easier... ‡ Himalayan ‡ ΨMonastery 01:47, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
|Ecuador
from that template, but that might have other repercussions. Debresser (talk) 02:22, 14 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.152.25.99 (talk) 22:54, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
I am relatively new to Wikipedia and would like to get rid of the orphan tag. What is the proper way to do that? I introduced links to/from the article, do you have to remove the tag? Sorry for my ignorance. jdkscoop 19:38, 17 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Josephdklotz (talk • contribs)
Could you run this one again? You will probably need to update User:Rich_Farmbrough/temp23, since we've created a lot of journal entries in the last few months. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 21:02, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
you have email.
I am looking to get the list of sections that make up Rook's Textbook of Dermatology (see [125]). Restated, if you look at the link I provided to the google book version, if you use the "content" link located on the top middle of the page, I am looking for that type of listing, only complete. I ask for this, because I would like to use the outline of Rook's as a guide for the cutaneous conditions article, which is currently a real mess. Can you help me with this? ---kilbad (talk) 02:51, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I see your edit here and was wondering if this was done manually or (as I suspect) with a tool. If tool or script, mind sharing, since this is my favoured ref format? — Huntster (t @ c) 03:19, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Template:Worcs Mar2010
Please do not interpret my question as negative, in any way. I'm just, well, fascinated by what I'm seeing. First of all, you completely deserve any accolades for your copious contributions to this project, and you also deserve whatever privacy you wish, as well. But how can this provide you with any "privacy"? (Is that even the aim?) It just seems to me that, if the person in the #1 place removes his or her name, that it just increases the interest in that person.
Anyway, I know you don't owe me an answer as to why you have done this. I was just curious. HuskyHuskie (talk) 06:38, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Sorry this was added to the SmackBot page before I saw the comment on historical matters.
If I read things correctly you have entered [citation needed] against the statement 'Friction stir welding was introduced by The Welding Institute' on the page for The Welding Institute. But the term 'Friction Stir Welding' is a link to the Wiki page on that process where it states that The Welding Institute invented the process and holds several patents on it. I thought this was sufficient citation, is there anything more to be done?
Thanks Davemckeown 16:06, 24 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davemckeown (talk • contribs)
Thank you smackbot for the good things you do.Adam in MO Talk 08:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Deletion_discussions#Have_all_XfD_be_substituted_and_link_to_the_actual_page_of_discussion. I am sure you have something to say about this. Debresser (talk) 10:39, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Please see Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories with missing months that as soon as there is 1 article tagged with a non-existing month, all monthly categories show up there. Surely that can be fixed. Debresser (talk) 12:22, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
I saw Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template with over 100 pages. I did all non-main article namespace ones. Are you having problems, and should I make an effort to help out? Debresser (talk) 13:14, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Please read and help Free Wikipedia articles are on sale as printed books for 50 dollars each in Amazon.com with no prior warning Kasaalan (talk) 14:03, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Are you intending to do any more of these date conversions, which you kindly started some time ago, but which seem to have stalled? Please let me know if not, and I'll ask elsewhere. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 19:51, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Exactly what kind of references would be suitable for the removal of the tag on Mississippi Goddam? I just found out about that song for the first time, and the only one I can think of is a YouTube link, or perhaps some article from All-Music Guide if there is one(I'll try to find out if they have an article specifically on that song, although I can't imagine any reason for them not to. ----DanTD (talk) 23:36, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Can you remove all the ((Unreferenced|date=December 2009)) tags from, presumably, hundreds of pages in the "years in architecture" series? These pages are similar to lists on Wikipedia, and as such don't follow the same strict guidelines as articles. In addition, references for the facts in these pages are to be found within the articles themselves, and the duplication of the references would be impractical.
Example page: 1971 in architecture. Let me know if this works for you. Thanks, Dogears (talk) 04:24, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
I think SmackBot shouldn't remove date links that are the only links in a line on disambiguation pages. [127] I'll undo it. If I'm mistaken or it's controversial, let me know. -Galatee (talk) 15:45, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
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Just wanted to say how much I appreciated the work of SmackBot as it passed through. I kept it rather busy last night... :-o -- Haruth (talk) 01:04, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
I can't be entirely sure, but I think there may be a problem when SmackBot encounters the 'cite comic' template. If the date= field is only populated with a year, it converts the field name to year= . This results in the date being displayed as ((({date))}). Whilst many comics may be weekly or monthly publications, there are occasions when a comic is a one off and or the precise date or month of publication is unknown; hence the entry of a year only.
The most recent example of this I have noted is after SmackBot ran against the article Dalek variants on 19 February 2010. Regards, Donlock 18:08, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
I am working on the IUPAC article for a school project for Duquesne University. I appreciate the fixing some typos and fixing my wiki markup, but smackbot also added a tag for secondary sources. I have used the IUPAC website for most of the sources, but some of the ones that are hosted on that domain are actually publications.
I am doing my best to keep the article neutral and include any sources I can, but I can't seem to find a lot of sources that smackbot will find as being secondary. Could you give me some examples, or check my sources to see if they would even qualify as primary sources? Salamakajakawaka (talk) 13:46, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
I've just done a few tweaks on Princess Ileana's page.
I have her 1937 and 1938 Christmas cards sent to my mother, which I have scanned. They show her and her children and husband, and I feel they should be on her Page. But I don't know the copyright situation... I GUESS they are "public domain" by now ? I'm a WikiNovice... —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobinClay (talk • contribs) 20:21, 3 March 2010 (UTC) RobinClay (talk) 20:37, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot doesn't seem to be able to deal with the article issues template. I noticed this by its edit to Berserk (manga) on February 23. It changed "section=y" to "section=February 2010" and added "|date=February 2010" to the end of the template. This did not change the outward appearance of the article. AndrewTJ31 (talk) 01:33, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your help on the Willis Seaver Adams page. My students are about to go on vacation; hopefully, they will work a little on it then. We'll also invest more time with the page at the end of March.
Thanks again--Bill —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wscrowsnest (talk • contribs) 05:30, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Hey Rich,
I have taken a bit of a wikibreak but am back now (I am sure you are glad). Please let me assure you that my complaints etc against you are not in anyway personal, just vigorous. But today I have a slight bit of good news for you.
With ((tlx|Infobox Hungarian settlement}] it now pulls in the image shield by default, although that can be overridden. Thanks to Debresser and another for getting that to work. So we get a little better.
I kinda disagree with it because er you specialise classes to make them simpler for editors to use. Of course Infobox Settlement does everything, but it means it is incredibly long. That makes it slower, too. In other places there is ((Infobox writer))
then ((Infobox musician))
etc, which are based on an underlying template, but simplify its use and tweak it to what is appropriate. H. Info. does the same, and Infobox settlement is way too complex for a normal editor. And mostly just plain wrong.
Thanks for fixing the problems with the population field.
I've emailed you, Rich. Tony (talk) 11:22, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Is there a way you can "move" this article to Wings discography as the D should be lower-cased? Their use to be an article by that name, briefly, which was redirected to Paul McCartney discography. Thanks! Best, --Discographer (talk) 01:31, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Media planner, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Avicennasis @ 09:49, 11 March 2010 (UTC) Avicennasis @ 09:49, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Could you help me with my request here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Would_you_help_me_create_four_disease_stubs.3F? I think importing all those ICD codes could function as another required articles list that I could work through. ---kilbad (talk) 06:09, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot recently edited both these articles but fixed the dates in neither: Nikolai Bukharin Pravda. --Pascal666 20:09, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Hey Rich, I approved Smackbot XXV for trial. Good luck! Tim1357 (talk) 11:10, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
This may seem out of the blue, but what was the reasoning behind this? I ask because of this Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Policy in development--Jac16888Talk 04:22, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
This article has been linked to various articles of Wikipedia including brand architecture, sales management, account management, shopping malls, consumer behaviour, agricultural marketing, rural Marketing, EGADE, Institute of Rural Management and many more whch are more than ten articles of academic nature. Hence, the article on Rajagoapl (professor) is not Orphan. It would be highly appreciated if the tag of orphan article is removed from this article. Regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edo198 (talk • contribs) 05:26, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Thank you again so much for putting the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Dermatology_task_force/ILDS-ICD page together. It is providing some great redirects that will really improve the project! ---kilbad (talk) 02:37, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Recently the article that had been titled Baptist has been moved to Baptists. I have changed the link on all of the templates and major pages. Is it possible to have a bot change any links currently pointing to Baptist to link instead to Baptists, ideally keeping whatever visible text is there and only piping the link? Thanks! Novaseminary (talk) 14:19, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
I did a page move by mistake - (an error in judgement). I tried to revert the move, but it has the same title that I did the move under. I was trying to change "Nature Photonics" to "nature photonics" (all small letters). It is the way that the title is published. Anyway, the move produced "Nature photonics" - no help. First, that is not what I intended. Second, all the other Nature journal articles begin with capitals in both words, so this article is no longer consistent with these.
For example: Nature · Nature Biotechnology · Nature Cell Biology · Nature Chemical Biology · Nature Genetics Nature Nanotechnology · Nature Photonics · Nature Physics · Nature Chemistry etc., etc (There are many such articles. There is a template on the bottom of this article that lists them.)
If you have time - is there anyway to fix this? Just so you know I queried another administrator (Materialscientist) but this person will be unavailable for a couple more hours. Steve Quinn (formerly Ti-30X) (talk) 03:06, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Are you intending to do any more of these date conversions, which you kindly started some time ago, but which seem to have stalled? Please let me know if not, and I'll ask elsewhere. {This is the third time I've asked this here, recently; I don;t meant to harass, but you appear to have an over-eager archiving bot). Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:46, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Dear Smackbot,
my name is Cathrin Pokrant. I work for Swissôtel Le Plaza Basel and have contributed to the wikipedia page Swissôtel Le Plaza Basel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss%C3%B4tel_Le_Plaza_Basel). Unfortunately there are two comments on the page that indicate that our language might be too advertising. Could you please review our page again and tell me what I can change in order to get rid of the comments?
I appreciate your help and look forward to hearing from you. You can also contact me per e-mail cathrin.pokrant@swissotel.com
Kind regards, Cathrin Pokrant —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cat84 (talk • contribs) 13:19, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
It looks like this edit removed the millions separator from the population_total field. I will revert that part of it. --Stepheng3 (talk) 01:20, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
The mistaken edit that the SmackBot program made was this one. I corrected the problem by hand here. 67.86.75.96 (talk) 03:05, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
please check your email.
The page looked worse after this SmackBot edit than it did when you last edited it. I have attempted to correct the problems by hand. 67.86.75.96 (talk) 03:23, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
The article looked vandalised after this edit by SmackBot than it did after your last edit. I have tried to undo the damage done by SmackBot and add more material to the article since SmackBot last attacked it. 67.86.75.96 (talk) 03:28, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Please note: Template talk:Infobox person#Mergers, redux. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:32, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
What's with the ":build 402:" messages in every edit summary? We don't care. If you want to track your software versions, do it internally. Gurch (talk) 13:01, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Someone has marked Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot XXV as needing your input. Please visit that page to reply to the requests. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 19:40, 28 March 2010 (UTC) To opt out of these notifications, place ((bots|optout=operatorassistanceneeded)) anywhere on this page.
Thanks again for your help with the broken DoD links a few months ago. It was a big help.
Rather than setting a bot at the task I think you used a robot assisted editing tool to change them yourself.
There is a similar broken URL. And, I would like to use that robot assisted editing tool, or a similar one, to fix them myself. Do I need to be authorized to use that tool? Can you help me with some hints as to how to use that tool?
Would you please care to look into the issue indicated in this edit. Debresser (talk) 12:06, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
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Another useful bot, CorenSearchBot, accepts manual requests to check a page at User:CorenSearchBot/manual. Could you do something similar for SmackBot to allow users to request a SmackBot test of a page they have worked on? Eastmain (talk • contribs) 00:51, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/Index.aspx
1707 killed(US:1032, UK: 279, Others: 396)
8,938+ wounded(US: 5,393[1], UK: 3,545[2])119.152.83.251 (talk) 09:46, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Please be careful when using automated tools, because you broke a template in your recent edit of Soapy Smith. I have fixed the error. —Notyourbroom (talk) 16:21, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
I tried it out yesterday. I am afraid it seemed to me to be the kind of tool that only seems obviously easy to use to those already familiar.
I couldn't figure out, for example, the automatic find and replace, or the automated prepend feature.
I'll keep trying... Geo Swan (talk) 00:00, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Would you care to move ((Inuse)) to ((In use)), ((Increation)) to ((In creation)), and ((Newpage)) to ((New page))? Debresser (talk) 06:22, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Rich, your smackbot apparently found dead links and when I tried to correct one by substitute the archive.org link [128] and deleting the dead link notation between the (()) for reference 17, it still shows as a dead link. Maybe if you'll tell me why I can ask http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jared_Hunt to work on some others, as he worked on the original article and his bio notes he likes to fix references. BTW, grammatically, maybe the section title should be "respond" --Beth Wellington (talk) 05:25, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! It was 17 when I edited it????--Beth Wellington (talk) 08:51, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
It may be a mess, but I need to work on the Montcoal disaster, not this. Just happened by to look up a reference for my blog post on Fred Phelps, who is coming to Blacksburg. See: Shout out to the Naughty: Fred Phelps May Be Coming to Town. Just as he picketed the memorial service for the Sago Mine disaster, now he's also threatening to come to WV for the Montcoal disaster.
Do you have suggestions for what the Amish article needs, besides the dead links fixed?--Beth Wellington (talk) 09:25, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Oops, it appears that Mr. Hunt hasn't been on Wikipedia since maybe 2006. He started off going great guns, but something must have happened. Maybe I'll look through the history and find someone else later, but for now, I'm on to my other projects. Cheers.--Beth Wellington (talk) 10:13, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
AWB bug input: Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Issues_with_Template:Xxxx.2Fdoc_pages_.28part_II.29. I've addressed the {PAGENAME} issue. What, if anything is AWB needed to do over the DEFAULTSORT? Rjwilmsi 17:42, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
<includeonly>((template doc page transcluded))</includeonly><noinclude>((template doc page viewed directly))</noinclude>
with
<includeonly>((template doc page transcluded|defaultsort=Title Cased Template Name))</includeonly><noinclude>((template doc page viewed directly|defaultsort=Title Cased Documentation Name))</noinclude>
In this edit I had to restore the spelling "dead-end", to avoid problems with categorisation, although I think it should be "dead end". We also have Wikipedia:Dead-end pages. Should they be moved to "dead end"? Debresser (talk) 09:36, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
I left the following STOPnote on SmackBot's Talk page back on the 5th...
“ | Per WP:HN, hatnotes go to the TOP of an article page. SmackBot recently placed an Ibid maint. tag at the TOP of the Benjamin Franklin article above the hatnote. I will repair the article, but SmackBot should be programmed to leave hatnotes at the TOP of an article page. — Paine (Ellsworth's Climax) 10:31, 5 April 2010 (UTC) |
” |
The note's since been erased, but I haven't been notified of any action taken. Was the bot repaired?
— Paine (Ellsworth's Climax) 12:26, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Rich,
Since you've worked on the template in the past, could you please consider adding links to talk page to Template:Failed verification. Otherwise, could you comment at the discussion.
Thanks, SteveMcCluskey (talk) 22:16, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
A "bot" has apparently reversed some of the edits I made to antineutrino. I've been trying to merge it with neutrino--Robert Treat (talk) 22:38, 9 April 2010 (UTC).
Hi Rich,
I was wondering if you could help me.
On the Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Settings page, I have noticed a number of scripts written by you.
I clicked on one, Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Settings/Full date unlinking, which reveals a page of code.
I'm not quite sure of the next step.
Could you tell me how to import this code in AWB in order to make use of the feature?
Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 23:44, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot recently tagged SATA International destinations as an orphan [129]. However, in the case of articles such as this, their status as an orphan is entirely legitimate (the airline article, rather than the list, should be linked to). I'd actually removed the tag earlier in the day. How can situations like this be avoided? (See the discussion I've started at Wikipedia talk:Orphan#Airline destination lists.) Thanks, --RFBailey (talk) 04:05, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
What exactly was the point of most of this big edit? Is there not a general principle that if it is just editorial style changes that does not affect the view of the article, then such changes should not be made as it makes it difficult for editors to keep track of changes? -- PBS (talk) 01:37, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Task approved. Snowolf How can I help? 03:30, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich! Thank you for checking my new (and first) article. I added now links to diferent pages in Wiki so it would not be orphan anymore. "Stockholm Lisboa Project" page. One more question I don't know how to handle is . I created first the page with small caps on "lisboa" and "project", this was wrong. Then I created the page with big caps "Stockholm Lisboa Project" and moved the other to this. How to delete the first attempt with small "l" and small "p"?
Thank you! Regards Sergiosbox (talk) 06:14, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you could change:
Rationales:
TIA174.3.123.220 (talk) 20:53, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
The Too Short Template {Too Short} keeps giting confused by Smack Bot that it means Lead Too Short which it doesnt. And it removes the Too Short Template and puts
such as this edit Have any way to stop this STAT- Verse 07:07, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi; I've noticed that SmackBot changes "year" fields in citations to "date". However, User:RjwilmsiBot changes "date" fields in citations to "year". I see potential for conflict so I'm cross-posting this to both bot's owners. - JRBrown (talk) 01:49, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
|date=
for a year alone, without day or month, can break ((harv))
linking (it doesn't always do so, I can't yet determine the circumstances). Also in your changes to that article, I see no sensible reason for any of these changes, except for the DEFAULTSORT one.((stnlnk))
template (or one of its five aliases such as ((rws))
), so has this been discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways? --Redrose64 (talk) 12:41, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
|date=
contains all three components of a full date, it works fine. But if the day is unknown and therefore omitted, sometimes an incomplete |date=
works but sometimes it doesn't, so it's safest to omit |date=
and instead use |year=
(and |month=
if you have one).((sfn))
) correctly creates a link to #CITEREFOppitz2003; however, clicking any of these four does not move to the "Sources" section. Examination of the wikicode shows that the ((cite book))
has |date=2003
; but examination of the HTML source code shows that the generated anchor is <span class="citation book" id="CITEREFOppitz2010">
. I have absolutely no idea why "2010" has been used instead of "2003"; what I do know is that if I change |date=2003
to |year=2003
, as here, the generated HTML anchor becomes <span class="citation book" id="CITEREFOppitz2003">
and the shortened footnote now links correctly: #CITEREFOppitz2003.|year=1976
to |date=1976
you changed this:
|month=January
is now ignored.((stnlnk))
. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:45, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
In this edit, SmackBot moved a template (((dab))) from inside a comment to outside the comment. Probably not a good idea .... --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:04, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Any idea why SmackBot would have removed urls from two dead link templates in this edit? I think the url use follows the template correctly, and Wayback Machine archives do exist for these pages so the links serve a purpose. Ryan Paddy (talk) 20:23, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, in at least one article SmackBot has removed the single blank lines after section titles. As the WP MoS declares these lines optional and many editors, including myself, think that they make the article source more readable, the removal by SmackBot doesn't seem appropriate. Would you please modify the, otherwise much appreciated, bot accordingly? Many thanks, --EnOreg (talk) 09:40, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Here is a strange edit [130]. I'm leaving it here so as not to stop the bot. — Carl (CBM · talk) 04:37, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
More: [131]
I think that having a robot re-order the sequences of grouped citations is a bad idea. That the choice of which cite to put first is a part of editor content and should not be automatically undone by a robot. Sincerely North8000 (talk) 11:12, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello ! I saw that you've contributed to do the article on Kappa Opioid receptors and I wondered if you could tell me where they are situated in the brain (not in the spinal cord), in which part of the brain they are situated.
I am doing a work on salvia dovinorum and I talk a lot about Salvinorin A, so knowing where its agonist receptor (the opioid kappa) is located will help me a lot to know how Salvinorin A affects the brain !
And sorry for my english, it's really bad lol (I'm French ...^^)
please answer to b2o.marc of gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Evendar (talk • contribs) 17:19, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
1,733 killed(US:1047, UK: 281, Others: 405)[3]
9,967+ wounded(US: 5,629[4], UK: 3,608[5], Canada : +400[6], Germany: 166, Australia: 120[7], Romania: 44[8])
Please update War in Afghanistan(2001-present) article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29
119.152.61.170 (talk) 04:15, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi again Mr. Farmbrough. Apparently I'm involved in an edit war again with user annonymous who has been blanking information that I've been putting up. Is there anyway I can report this person to the Wikipedia administrators? Fellytone (talk) 16:52, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Are you still using this template? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:19, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
thanks Decora (talk) 13:49, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
Can you please comment in User_talk:Magioladitis#Another bot job? -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:32, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
I just now noticed Category:Too long article in ((Very long)). Shouldn't that be merged with Category:Articles that may be too long? If you think it shold, you could either do it, or I could nominate them at WP:CFD for a merge. Debresser (talk) 11:18, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Did you see the categories of Template:Very short?? Debresser (talk) 12:23, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Dear Rich, You left a citation note at the Bazooka article at the Korean War section for a reference on the Chinese copying the 3.5-inch. I thought that was incorrect but I dragged out a copy of Janes Infantry Weapon 1976 and it states the Chinese did indeed copy the 3.5-inch as the Type 51. I left a reference and I hope that is adequate. I can find nothing else. Jack --Jackehammond (talk) 06:06, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Dear Rich, Could you go to this Bazooka history page. It shows my account inserting a vandalism comment which I did not do?????? Jack--Jackehammond (talk) 17:16, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot has completely blanked the Paramore article except for issue tags, twice. One of those revisions is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paramore&oldid=358276715. Thought you should know. Katharineamy (talk) 21:22, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I see that you have been linking floruit or fl. in a large number of articles. Please note however that the linked article Floruit says that this term should only be used when the birth and death dates are both unknown, which is more often true for persons who lived centuries ago. For persons who are still alive or who lived more recently, the birth (and death) dates are often in the article (or else can be found quickly with Google). So it would really be better to check whether the fl. is appropriate before linking it. If not you could substitute the birth (and death) dates, as I have now done for Stanley Norman Cohen in Cohen (surname). Dirac66 (talk) 22:38, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
This Smackbot edit: [132] ruined the good article Thailand. −Woodstone (talk) 06:57, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I noticed that Template:Unsigned has been changed recently. Do you think you could implement the same changes to Template:Unsignedip? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 13:01, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, this edit is more than fixing typo's but I have no idea if it is correct or not. Since you created the template, could you have a look? Garion96 (talk) 13:56, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Rich,
By my reckoning, there must be at least 9,000 files/images which have linked dates or date fragments. Can you run SmackBot over these to delink the occurrences? Cheers, Ohconfucius ¡digame! 09:34, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your advises and suggestions to me! According to the lang-code used in Chinese Wikipedia, the related templates here become more and more complex on facing to the non-Chinese users, and I found that they may not standardized enough and even would possibly make confusion on some of other fields.
As the "yue"="Cantonese" is an easy definable code, we, the most of Chinese wikipedians, believe that "zh-hk" is for the different way/style of using phrases to describe a same object in Chinese, where not based on pronunciation but the writing system and culture differences, as well as the "zh-cn", "zh-tw", and "zh-sg". So, why using "zh-hk" for "Cantonese" again? Do English users think that Guangdong/Hongkong/Macao people only can speak their mother tang? It should be related to Mandarin Chinese and not fully associated with other dialects spoken in Chinese areas.
BTW, when I reading the source of templates, the customized name for displaying seems no more supported. For example, "((langicon|es|The Spanish Language))" will show as (in Spanish), where "The Spanish Language" after "es" is ignored.
For you to understand how we Chinese Wikipedians use it in usual, it to ensure that "zh-cn"="Simplified Chinese (PRC)", "zh-hk"="Traditional Chinese (HK/Macao)", "zh-tw"="Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)", and "zh-sg"="Simplified Chinese (SG/MYS)".
This article's edit history has you as the only editor. What's the story here? Was it a redirect, or something? Woogee (talk) 01:49, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich
Added links to the Silver Star Families of America and removed orphan tag. Thank you for your help my friend. Steven1969 (talk) 02:10, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
The note the bot left on Gert Potgieter contains a misspelling. "(add listas from aticle's DEFAULTSORT)" I assume it is misspelling "article" in all such notes.Trackinfo (talk) 18:01, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
By the way, please consider creating a manual review list of DEFAULTSORT edits. This has a one word title so was not needed. I have a, perhaps unfounded, concern that Quantum gravity may get a DEFAULTSORT of Gravity, quantum, without human review, or that the bot makes many unnecessary edits.
--Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 12:46, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Was (and is) a redirect to Dardenelles and had WPBio on it's talk page. Presumably some older version had biography of Lord Byron on it. Therin lies the rub, to follow or not to follow redirects? In this case SmackBot followed the redirect, and I too the WPBIO off the talk page. Rich Farmbrough, 00:09, 28 April 2010 (UTC).
Hellespont is ok because you fixed it yourself (thanks!) WPBio was added to Talk:Dardanelles by YoBot and ListasBot. If SmackBot followed ListasBot then I guess the problem lies there.
However, in the cases of Rockers Revenge [133] Ren Ng [134] and Steinunn Refsdóttir [135], it seems ListasBot did the right thing, but SmackBot still guessed incorrectly at a DEFAULTSORT. I wonder if this affected other articles in yesterday's run.
--Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 04:47, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
I added Ren as a Chinese surname, which may be wrong, I need to check. I will add Ng as a surname at some point, which can overrule the Chinese. Icelandic and Viking names will need treating differently, there are heavy hints for the former (the Iclandic name template for example). But I removed a very large number of items from the "articles without listas" category yesterday, and it is such a complex field I am relatively pleased with the outcome so far. Although there are still many more I can do, it is quite tedious, even bot assisted so I will likely not attack the problem again for a few days. Rich Farmbrough, 04:54, 28 April 2010 (UTC).
Good point. There remains some concern in my mind that when the bot goes beyond English-speaking countries, it may be making a noticeable proportion of errors that may be hard to spot and fix. I would guess that more than 5% errors would be too high, but my Mandarin Chinese is too poor to check, and I know none of the Norse languages. (My username looks Icelandic but is actually pinched from Old English.)
Anyway, I don't want to drag you into a new debate over things that I have no doubt you discussed elsewhere. Could you post a link to the relevant bot approval please?
--Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 05:16, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
There was little discussion, you will find more on the talk page of the listas category. Basically what I did was thin the list by insisting that the names be of the form Fred A. B. Bloggs, where Fred was a popular western first name, on this list I allowed AWB to have its way. Then I build another list of articles which should have an in-order DEFAULTSORT , DJ Bloggs, Blah blah (band), Xyz baronets, Milo XX and so forth. The sticking point has been "Arabic" names since these can have up to five parts, and we should in theory sort on the last, but we don't always have that bit, so they tend to be used unsorted, but no-one has bitten the bullet an actually given any of them DEFAUTLSORTS of listas (and some of the claimed Arabic names are actually Pashtun , but that's another story.) As a result since so many begin with "ab" the listas category has stayed pretty blocked. Rich Farmbrough, 05:56, 28 April 2010 (UTC).
Thanks for cleaning up List_of_English_Writers. Makes all the difference. Bmcln1 (talk) 12:05, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
When tagging a category for deletion, please use ((subst:cfd)), in stead of copying ((cfd full)). עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:56, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
How can I link this to the Alpha Phi Delta National Fraternity Page?
This is just one of the chapters.
Watch out what you are doing with AWB - you added an unneeded self-referencing wikilink in the Floruit article. :) LadyofShalott 16:00, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, You recently edited Orca (disambiguation) to add a link to floruit. I think that is not a good idea. I think the correct MOS here is MOS:DAB which reads, "Each bulleted entry should have exactly one navigable (blue) link to efficiently guide users to the most relevant article for each use of the ambiguous term. Do not wikilink any other words in the line." I think the point is that a dab page is designed to get a reader to the page that they really wanted to get to in the first place, it is not like a usual article where wikilinks are used for arborization. 018 (talk) 01:45, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
not knowing the meaning of fl. could easily lead to the wrong ramification. I think in those ambiguous cases, if we expand the abbreviation in English, or explain it, it would work better than a blue link. Not everyone is accurate with a mouse, and an extra blue link could be seriously annoying to someone using keyboard navigation or a screen reader. Just my 2 drachma. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 06:26, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. Do you have time to please look into this issue? There's a disruptive editor who goes against community consensus, and who apparently wants to engage me in an edit war. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 09:00, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot added tags to a page that has the ((nobots)) tag. I am not sure if this is a problem but it caused the maintenance tags to be transcluded onto Preamble to the United States Constitution. I have removed the maintenance tags. ~~ GB fan ~~ talk 11:34, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
A little concerned about SmackBot adding a Refs section to a disambiguation page -- shouldn't he know not to do that? Disambiguation pages should never have references. Propaniac (talk) 16:26, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
In this edit, the line "|orphan =April {2010" was added instead of "|orphan =April 2010". I didn't feel like it was important enough to stop the bot though. :) Sorafune +1 00:10, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Another example: [136] John of Reading (talk) 06:17, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
This page is an archive. Do not edit the contents of this page. Please direct any additional comments to the current main page. |
Hi, why are you making pointless whitespace changes like this with your AWB? Every once in a while I see people like you automatically converting articles to one style, then someone else comes along and converts them back to their preferred style. Nothing is improved, you only waste time of people who monitor their watchlist because it takes longer to figure out what content was changed. -- intgr [talk] 01:39, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Farmbrough,
I notice that you gave the coordinates here with your bot for this high school in BC, Canada. I have been adding some high res. photos to some schools in Surrey BC, Canada (in Metro Vancouver) and it would be nice, if you (or your bot) had some time, to add coordinates to other high school articles below which I provided photos for....just to give a sense of completion to them. Its a slightly long list below. So, please take your time--if you can--adding coordinates in your free time:
I hope you can help. PS: I am a trusted user on Commons but mastering metadata coordinates is beyond my scope. Regards from Canada, --Leoboudv (talk) 06:31, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
If you're going to continue running the AWB task for a long period of time, you might wanna fix the spelling of "Imperial" that you have. :-) I wasn't going to mention it, but it seems you have a long list. Killiondude (talk) 07:31, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Your plan sounds like a good one, but it would be great if we could use a term other than Imperial, since Imperial units are not square miles. The areadisp subtemplate has a list of alternatives. Or if there is an even better label not included here, we could always use that and convert all transclusions to that term using a bot. This could be a good idea, since we could then strip out all the other choices from the switch statement. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:13, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
See reply on my talk page. Vegaswikian (talk) 16:23, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Are you still using this, or should it be deleted? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:49, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
And Template:Blank alba infobox? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:57, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
I think it would be useful if you could do similar changes to Template:Portal box as you did at Template:Portal. Thanks -- WOSlinker (talk) 08:42, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rick and all, While going through this A12 page, i thought of posting a question related to this. In my view A12 authentication is not required at all. What is requires is return of MN-ID from AAA. Having said that i'd say AAA need not require to check for password value. AAA need to play a role of Authorizer only. AAA should get IMSI/ESN from request and return corrosponding MN-ID into RADIUS Callback-ID attribute. Please throw a proper light on same. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sumit.pandya (talk • contribs) 09:05, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
I haven't quite understood some of your edits to Discrete mathematics: you appear to have inserted some portal test code, which then interfered with your attempt to state the portal name directly. I've changed the portal reference to what I think you intended (diff). -- Radagast3 (talk) 09:25, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Template:Portal/Images/paleontology requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>((transclusionless))</noinclude>).
Thanks. Svick (talk) 09:30, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Template:Portal/Images/Paleontology requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>((transclusionless))</noinclude>).
Hello. I notice your edits titled "delinking ISO style dates using AWB" have been breaking all WebCite-archived sources. For instance, this edit replaced
http://webcitation.org/query?date=2007-08-11&url=http://www.pgwodehousesociety.org.uk/awwwnorman.htm
with
http://webcitation.org/query?date=11 August 2007&url=http://www.pgwodehousesociety.org.uk/awwwnorman.htm
Please check your logs to repair all that damage, and more importantly update your script. Thanks. 62.147.9.150 (talk) 11:37, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Aunt Dahlia and Gussie seem to be it. Rich Farmbrough, 13:19, 3 May 2010 (UTC).
What's up with Top Gun Talwar?
I am looking for information about Balko, OK. Why is it named Balko? Who was the first to settle there? Etc... Wbalko (talk) 14:51, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
You need to stop rearranging references. At your present edit rate, it is not possible that you are actually reading the text of the references and deciding which one is most relevant. Moreover, the AWB "rules of use" (see WP:AWB) are clear that one should not make edits merely to change the capitalization of templates. They also say that one should not do anything controversial with AWB - and rearranging references without reading them is certainly controversial. So edits such as [137] are inappropriate. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:11, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Regarding [139], the issue here is only for footnotes that are back-to-back, and the version you cited did not have any footnotes back to back, so it had nothing to say about them. The first edit to add named references put the footnotes out of order, so the "established style" for that article is that back-to-back footnotes do not need to be in numerical order. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:37, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
And this points out the essence of the problem: if you do not know about the topic of the article, and you have not read the references being given (not the citations, but the actual references), then you have no way to tell which order is better. In this case, the next edit [140] was not just a drive-by: the editor added a lot of information and apparently was familiar with the topic. That's the sort of person who should decide which reference is most important. In some cases, it may be better to rearrange them, but it requires careful article-by-article work, and cannot be done automatically. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:42, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
And this leads to a deeper problem: even if an article had in-order footnotes at some revision, the article could also be in the "most-important first" style. Without actually looking at the references of the article, there is no way to tell. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:48, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
It's also inappropriate to run bot tasks under your own account while the bot is blocked (look at the history of [141]). — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:39, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
In this edit [142] you changed "references" to "reflist". As WP:FOOT says, "The choice between ((Reflist)) and <references /> is a matter of style; Wikipedia does not have a general rule." As you are aware, WP:CITEHOW says not to change from one style to another at random. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:11, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm going to assume you have fixed the problem with your bot, and so I will not contest your unblocking of it, although I find it quite inappropriate to do so without contacting me. The next time that I need to block the bot, I'll take the matter to ANI as well. There is no reason that the same coding error should continue to (re)occur for months. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:29, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
do you have any plans on how Smackbot should handle ((expand)) and ((multiple issues|expand=...)), regarding the TFD? It could probably remove the tag if an article is marked as a stub, as suggested.
Just asking since I was asked to remove it from ((multiple issues)).
Cheers, Amalthea, watching your page. 12:37, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
How are you doing? You seem not yet reply me about this question for some weeks already.--Gzyeah (talk) 03:57, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello Rich,
Yes, some of the older stubs may have missing taxonomic cats. It is on my to do list to work on. Recently I have been making sure that the family categories do exist. I also make sure the articles do not link to disambiguation pages.
I think you are referring to the space in between <br and />. I will change it. Thanks for the tip. — Ganeshk (talk) 10:55, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, though SmackBot is one of the best bots (and me saying that, it's no mean compliment ;-) ), I find it a bit irritating that it shuffles categories to above the stub tags.
Because I have found it makes editing easier when one puts the stub tag at the end of the "actual" article, offset with 2 empty lines (so that it will be a bit offset in the article as displayed - I think it's ugly when the stub note creeps up so closely on the article itself). And below the stub tag, categories, interwiki, defaultsort... - all the automatic tags that do not belong to the article proper. IONO how other users do it, but I think it has been the usual way as long as I can remember. It might also mess with footer infoboxes - these drop-down things -, but I have not checked (the infoboxes must not be offset, they will only look good when separated by one empty line from the main article).
IONO if this can be fixed, but I think it should, because it makes editing easier to have a clearly offset bunch of code where all these tags go. Now, one gets categories directly below the article proper, then a break, then the stub tag and the interwiki tags. Doesn't affect the output, but looks strange in the code - I always mentally "stumble" over it. Cheers, Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 11:09, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Heya... Saw your note on D's talk page. How about splitting the difference... literally. Move only the "-stub" templates below the categories. In theory, those templates will eventually get removed anyway. Just a suggestion. (And I'm a SmackBot fan, too! *grins*) - UtherSRG (talk) 11:51, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
I think SmackBot is at least occasionally adding WPBIO templates incorrectly because the article has the above stub template eg [143] & [144]? Or that's what seems to be common to those 2, otherwise I can't work work out why it would be doing this. Misarxist (talk) 11:12, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
...that old habits die hard, but please see WP:NEWSECTION. Thanks! –xenotalk 17:00, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Can be javascipted? Anyone? Rich Farmbrough, 23:55, 4 May 2010 (UTC).
I am impressed. How did you generate this list? did you just run in subcategories of ...? Cheers, Magioladitis (talk) 15:15, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Just FYI, your edit added a really odd DEFAULTSORT, presumably an assistance script that choked on the malformatted existing category, or something. No biggie. Studerby (talk) 20:13, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Yes, you saw presumably that the was the apparent sort order of the only "category" there? maybe worth looking for more "non categories" like that, non-existant cats are already on my mind. Thanks for letting me know. Rich Farmbrough, 20:16, 5 May 2010 (UTC).
Thank you, for your portal updates. -- Cirt (talk) 01:08, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Not sure if your a bot or a real person! But if this is a bot pls be aware that it replacing portal links with there templates (this is great), however its doing it to the actual temples aswell, thus rendering the whole process useless. Pls see examples --> [145], [146] and [147] this are a few that i have seen. not sure if the bot has done this all over....just FYI i have fixed the ones i have seen...Moxy (talk) 01:20, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
I noticed on my watchlist that you removed the break= parameter from a portal call inside Template:maths rating. Unless you can point me to a discussion where it was agreed to remove break= from all portal template calls, you should not be removing it. Template:portal supports it; I checked. Removing the break parameter from portal templates would break other templates that depend on them, like our maths rating template would if it didn't call template:portal directly. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:34, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi - just wondering - are you aware that your span tag trick is also making your page name show as "Rrich Farmbrough" (at least I believe that's the cause)? 7 02:37, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot recently added a WPBio banner template to Talk:BabaKiueria, although BabaKiueria is a film, not a person. Do you know what caused the misclassification? —Paul A (talk) 02:43, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
I did not see any functional advantage to your edits to Template:Alabama portal, Template:Colorado portal, Template:Connecticut portal, Template:Florida portal, and Template:Nevada portal, so I reverted your edits. These templates were sized to have a uniform height, and they can be resized and left justified. Please see Wikipedia:List of U.S. state portals. Please let me know if these reversions cause you any grief, or if you have any other suggestions. Yours aye, Buaidh (talk) 03:30, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Greetings Rich Farmbrough - Just letting you know that I've courtesy blanked & db-bio tagged Rhiannon Casey Dewar!. I've just seen at its History that you editted there recently. Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 10:45, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi there - I have discovered i cannot load pictures and logo's to the pages. How would i go about doing this or do i need to ask somebody such as yourself to do it for me.
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Laurenfindley (talk • contribs) 13:45, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
What do you know about Father's Rights???? I'm one of the guys who invented it in 1993 with my first book: Surviving the Feminization of America. Asa Baber was my mentor. Jeff Leving tried to get me to write HIS book. I worked in D.C. with Stu Miller and the American Fathers coalition and published articles on fathers from Penthouse to the San Francisco Chronicle. I don't even know who Bettina Arendt is!!!!
And I don't know who you are.
Leave my stuff alone. Leave ALL my stuff alone or I am going to make sure whoever the hell runs wikipedia knows about you. Go find someone else to bother.
Rich Zubaty —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.253.135.100 (talk) 06:07, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I am having trouble understanding what happened on this SmackBot edit: [148]. It looks like the bot removed references. Thanks! Jminthorne (talk) 07:39, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you requested an svg version of File:UEFAEuropaLeague.png. See de:Datei:UEFA_Europa_League.svg. Maybe you want to upload it here, too. Cheers --Saibo (Δ)
Rich, this is a page Smackbot visited in March this year. I have reverted to the original page layout and translated the original article as was requested. I have left one paragraph for deletion with reasons on the discussion page and I am now about to add the references. I have started a discussion on whether this a world view article in the discussion page. Let me know if there is further to be done!! Thanks Jkslouth (talk) 15:46, 7 May 2010 (UTC)jkslouth
SmackBot added WPBiography to an article about a company. In trying to discover why this happened, the only clue I found in the article is that it contains ((UK-architect-stub)). That stub, unfortunately, applies to either an architect or a firm of architects. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 21:29, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that you attempted to get the deletion of Template:Expand reviewed by putting a "deletion opposed" template. Although that edit was reverted, I have now taken the matter to deletion review. Just letting you know. Best wishes. Immunize (talk) 18:28, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit to Artificial intelligence, you changed ((Main|Outline of artificial intelligence))
to ((Main))
, which doesn't work. AWB alone doesn't do that for me, so I think you have an error in one of your custom rules. Could you fix it? Thanks. Svick (talk) 15:36, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
(({inline))}
Hello Rich Farmbrough, I really like what you have done with the portals, such as what you did to the Augusto Rodriguez article here: [150], however I think that you should know (in case you didn'y already know) that User:CBM is undoing your portal work, example:[151]. Just thought that you should know in case you would like to discuss the issue with him/her. Take care. Tony the Marine (talk) 16:09, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
I have just added a date requirement to ((adoptoffer)) and there is no obvious way to persuade users to adapt to the changes quickly. Every time the template is added to a page - which will add that page to Category:Undated adoption offers - it needs the text |month=((subt:CURRENTMONTHNAME)) ((subst:CURRENTYEAR)) inserted before the final )). At Bot requests they recommended SmackBot - do you mind helping me out? strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 12:26, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Could you point out the bot request to change the syntax of the portal template? If there is not one, you should stop changing them immediately. I do not believe a massive overhaul of a widely-used template should be carried out without any public notice. — Carl (CBM · talk) 23:53, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I noticed this because of this edit on my watchlist, which seems to have removed several see also links without explanation. A separate benefit of bot requests is that they lead to code testing. — Carl (CBM · talk) 00:02, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
I have started a section on ANI here. Unless someone else has a strong reason not to, I plan to revert the portal changes as an unapproved bot job in a couple hours. — Carl (CBM · talk) 00:23, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Coming to this late, I've just noticed you made major changes to Template:Portal without any discussion beforehand. I would like to ask you not to do this in future. There may be merits in this system, but other editors should be given the change to evaluate them. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:03, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I am thinking about using the Citation needed template in Infobox weather, in an #if statement, to display when the source parameter isn't used. But dating it using the #time function would cause them all to have the current date, which is incorrect, it should be dated when the weather infobox got added to the article. I would have to keep the date parameter empty, my concern is that when the bot is alerted to an article using Citation needed without a date, but then can't find the Citation needed template, what will happen? 117Avenue (talk) 06:24, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, Rich Farmbrough! Thought you might be interested in Motto of the Day, a collaborative (and totally voluntary) effort by a group of Wikipedians to create original, inspirational mottos. Have a good motto idea? Share it here, comment on some of the mottos there or just pass this message onto your friends.
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Hello,
I have fixed the links problem of the IndiaStudyChannel page. More than 3 links are now pointing to it. Kindly remove the orphan tag from it.
Gyandeep Kaushal (talk) 15:55, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
AfD was closed as "no consensus", but I think obviously your suggestion was the most appropriate. I am going to make a Dab page for "Donaldson Report" to differentiate between the various reports referred to as such. Regarding the article I nominated (re: TWA 800), what can I do now? Is there another method (Prod?), or should I just make the Dab page, work on the TWA Flight 800 alternative theories for a while, then renominate the page at some later date? LoveUxoxo (talk) 01:36, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Rich, there's a serious problem here! I tried adding a video album to this template, which requires the "dot" that separates titles, anyway, as I done this, WP wouldn't accept this and one of those block notes appeared, saying something like "okay" or "cancel". Please fix and correct this "internal" problem, so I can resume editing! Thanks. Best, --Discographer (talk) 21:16, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Rich, I've had to turn off New Features and go back to Take Me Back because it does not enable anyone to edit a template with inserting the wiki "dot" without disruption, quickly ending the pending edit. Try it yourself, you will find I'm correct. Best, --Discographer (talk) 21:50, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi-just wanted you to know that whatever you did to change ((catmain)) is not working correctly. See the header at: Category:Recipients of the Order of Ushakov, it's just showing the soft redirect. --Funandtrvl (talk) 19:34, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
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See [152].. See the caption display? |250px|none|alt=|Location of Absdale]] - Please investigate. –xenotalk 22:12, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I have s.t. I wonder if you can help me with. I've been trying to clean up the IPA on WP, linking to the proper language keys and standardizing our transcriptions. However, there are a good number of articles that use the IPA without transcluding an IPA templates, which besides meaning that they don't display properly on IE, makes them difficult to find and verify.
Could you perhaps add onto one of your bots a side search for IPA characters that aren't enclosed in an ((IPA... or ((pron... template, and keep a list somewhere, or flag/categorize? I could then go through and fix them up.
Or is there maybe s.o. else I should ask? Or is there a way to do a search on my own for articles that contain character X?
Thanks — kwami (talk) 07:53, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
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Hi,
Some time ago you added an infobox to the Nootdorp article. You wrote: Adding infobox from nl. Wikipedia.
There seems to be a problem with the population reference though. Do you know how to fix that? It's the same code as on the Dutch version and it works there!
I think it's this bug (http://geometrus.com/wp/2010/03/uniq-qinu-bug-in-mediawiki/) but I don't know how to fix it.
Greetz,
VH —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vamhendriks (talk • contribs) 14:23, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
Thanks for the changes :-) I have one more question for you. I have just undone my revision of this afternoon. I deleted a paragraph with information on a rugby league team that after some searching seems to actually exist (apparently I missed it in the 29 years I've lived in Nootdorp, even though the home stadium is the footballclub where I played football myself!!!). I thought the rest of the paragraph was spam also, but having discovered that I was wrong on the rugby-thing, I'm not so sure anymore. Would you mind taking a look at this text:
The town is also well renowned for its cottage arms industry, producing approx. three quarters of the Netherlands' armaments during the first Gulf War [3]. The town has lost out on such industry in recent years, with industrial giants focusing largely on the teahouses of Amsterdam.
Not knowing if this is a true thing or not, I think some things are at least questionable:
What do you think?
VH —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vamhendriks (talk • contribs) 16:56, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
So I thought.. Thanks for the action :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.84.215.213 (talk) 18:24, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Hey, just a friendly note. This diff shows that you moved the comment from the cat line to the top. In the future this change shouldn't be made, because the comment doesn't make sense if it's above all the cats. Just an FYI. Wizard191 (talk) 16:45, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
When I looked through SmackBots BRFA list, I didn't see any of them that included rearranging references. So they all need to use a fixed version of AWB. If I missed something in the BRFA please let me know. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:12, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I have recently noticed that on some orphaned pages, you have made edits that have introduced bad wikitag formatting. Some examples are:
As you can see, the "multiple issues" tag has somehow been corrupted which is causing issues listed in the tag to not be properly tagged with their respective dates. Minor issue, I know, but I just thought I should bring it to your attention. Thanks. Matt.T.911 (talk) 13:53, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, Deleteme now. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as yourself. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - Dick the Mockingbird. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will to continue helping improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Dick the Mockingbird - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.
If you think that the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the deletion by adding ((hangon))
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My addition to the article on "Inherit the Wind" linked to the article on the Butler Act, which clearly indicates that Scopes was not subject to imprisonment for violating the Act. What further verification could be required for the statement that Scopes was never subject to a sentence of imprisonment? John Paul Parks (talk) 04:19, 21 May 2010 (UT
The user Johannes003 makes troublesome infections to many wiki articles and also he lacks respect . His edits lacks neutral point of view and serves as monopoly. Please warn him to stop his repetitive infections.The wind or breeze 10:31, 21 May 2010 (UTC) Thank you §The wind or breeze 10:42, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
IMDb agrees http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376076/awards. Rich Farmbrough, 10:54, 21 May 2010 (UTC). Why you have pasted this in my user talk ? I cant understand . The wind or breeze 11:02, 21 May 2010 (UTC)→ —Preceding unsigned comment added by The wind or breeze (talk • contribs) But it was for 2004 and its National Award and its not our issue which is [TAmilnadu's State Award] —Preceding unsigned comment added by The wind or breeze (talk • contribs) 11:08, 21 May 2010 (UTC) The discussion is for the year 1999 and its for Tamil Nadu State Film Special Award for Best Actor. You understood the other way around. The wind or breeze 11:22, 21 May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by The wind or breeze (talk • contribs)
Best discuss at Talk:Tamil_Nadu_State_Film_Award_(Special_Prizes)#1999. If you two can't find agreement, then ask for help from one of the film projects. Rich Farmbrough, 12:42, 21 May 2010 (UTC).
Hi i am designing a community project for Chelsea and want to make contact with all the Chelsea contributors to Wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarah farrugia (talk • contribs) 11:36, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, I added links which direct to this article from other articles. Is this sufficant? Minders1 (talk) 12:36, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
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I'd like to recognize your recent efforts on general cleanup of many US Air Force pages. The Wikipedia project is greatly improved by your efforts!--Ndunruh (talk) 13:17, 21 May 2010 (UTC) |
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Hello, I am working on reducing the Category:Pages with broken reference names. Two pages you created on May 21, List of allied military operations of the Vietnam War (1966) and List of allied military operations of the Vietnam War (1975) have broken references, I gather because you broke them out of the larger List of allied military operations of the Vietnam War. I'm unable to load the older version of the article to restore the references (because of the size, it keeps timing out, I'm only on moderate DSL) and would greatly appreciate it if you would go back and make the repairs yourself. thank you!! - Salamurai (talk) 18:37, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot has twice removed a stub tag from Video blogging, and I'm not really sure why. Is it from a size threshold or something? Either way, I don't really agree with the decision. And I had reverted the first edit that did it, only to have SmackBot come back and do it again. —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 00:43, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Re bot edits like this: ((lede)) was changed to be a redirect to ((Lead rewrite)) rather than ((Lead too long)). Cheers, cab (talk) 07:23, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I just wanted to stop and say good work on fixing the coding for the portalbox template, its much cleaner and easier to use now. One question, since the portal box template can work with 1 or many portals doesn't this make the portal template somewhat deprecated? If the portal box logic were applied to the portal template then there would be no need for the other and we could eliminate 1 of the templates. Just a suggestion. Cheers--Kumioko (talk) 14:25, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
I also want to stop by and say thanks for adding the Portal:Capital District box to a bunch of Capital District-related articles. We appreciate it! upstateNYer 21:26, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Can you help removing WPbiography for all articles in Category:United States visas by type. The tag was added accidentally by SmackBot. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:40, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Template:Too Short (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. The Evil IP address (talk) 21:24, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Please exclude Help:Cite errors and all subpages from SmackBot. There are several subpages that are used to demonstrate and maintain the error messages and should not be fixed. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 14:31, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Okay, I understand your dislike of ((BD)) and ((lifetime)) but it appears that you are putting more than one ((DEFAULTSORT)) on some pages and sometimes they are not identical thereby causing a conflict. I have found three instance in edits that you made in the last half-hour. Are you going to go back and fix those articles or should I continue to resolve the conflicts?
Also, could your clean-up include putting the value for ((DEFAULTSORT)) as the value of |listas=
on the Talk Page of the Articles?
Thank you. JimCubb (talk) 18:49, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Sorry. It seems you were taking care of the problem when I jumped into the middle of it. However, there is another problem.
The template "Northern Ireland by year" seems to have a ((DEFAULTSORT)) value hidden within it. The articles that use it are named appropriately "yyyy in Northern Ireland" and should probably be sorted that way as I am certain you agree since you put ((DEFAULTSORT)) on the 79 pages that use the template. I am not a template writer but you are. Would you please look at the syntax in the template and remove the hidden value? Thank you. JimCubb (talk) 19:05, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Somebody keeps vandalizing the Al B. Romano and I'm having trouble implementing the right procedure for preventing unregistered users from doing that. Does Wiki have such a procedure? Shaneymike (talk) 22:51, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot put up a notability question mark for the PsychoPy page. I think there is sufficient notability to it:
- it is software used by a significant number of people (the homepage has >1500 uniques visitors per month) - it is pointed at by other pages on wikipedia - it has 2 articles published about it (referenced on the page). Although these were written by the software author they have been through external peer-review as quality control - it is an open-source equivalent of other commercial packages, eg. Presentation_(Software) and e-Prime_(Software) that do have similar pages.
I guess the problem is that the page was principally written by me (the author of the software). But I've tried to be totally unbiased and reported solely what the software is and how it came about.
Is there any more I can/should do to convince you and/or SmackBot that this is a genuine page of encyclopedic interest to others? I cringe a little at presenting usage/download stats (e.g. the Presentation_(Software) page above lists their own claims of having 10,000 users as an external reference). But I can add stuff like that if it's needed.
cheers Jon.peirce (talk) 11:15, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
I have reported your resumption of the unapproved portal bot job at ANI, here. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:48, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Rich, your input would be welcome at the ANI thread (I'm especially interested to know if your editing was manual (and if so, how you managed to edit so fast, overlook mistakes, and edit at the same time as editing in other areas), semi-automatic, or fully automated), also, please turn off the bot while that and the BRfA request you just submitted are ongoing. - Kingpin13 (talk) 16:47, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich! I created the Slovakian villages in the wiki dark ages when I did not know about pin maps or infoboxes. They were created with rather redundant district maps. I was wondering if you could make a template like you did with Hungary and add infoboxes to all of the articles with coordinates for pin and remove these maps at the same time? Something like this. I believe that Slovak wiki has the infoboxes and the information can just be copied into English if that would be best...I've added a few to articles like Bruty but this sort of thing would best be done with what I suggested I think. How are you? We haven't spoken for a while. I rather got the impression you got tired of me, understandable.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:14, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
What do you mean broken? I see... Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:12, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
I like your rearrangement of Wikipedia:List of U.S. state portals. Originally, this was just a list of U.S. state portals and nothing more. As more things were added, they were put on the right. Your arrangement is much more logical. Yours aye, Buaidh (talk) 18:51, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Was this series of edits discussed anywhere? At least one (Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society) has no relationship whatsoever to London Transport, while Holborn Viaduct railway station has had a link to P:LT added immediately below :llan identical existing link. What criteria are you using in selecting which pages get this link added? – iridescent 20:58, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for making it. I'd been doing things wrong with the formatting of links, and I hadn't been looking forward to fixing them all by hand. It did all of that for me. Keep up the good work! =) Faceless Enemy (talk) 01:39, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Rich, I'm wondering why your development page User:Rich Farmbrough/temp60 has been added to the Led Zeppelin Project. Probably no big deal but the page is showing up in project stats as needing an assessment, etc. Please remove the project banner from that page when you get the chance. Thanks. --DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 21:36, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, SmackBot has twice deleted a reference on the page Comparison of regular expression engines, making the page kick out on Category:Pages with broken reference names. I don't know what its problem is, could you please make it stop or change the ref's name to something that it will like? Thanks. (Also, your user message on SmackBot's talk page has typos, you may want to fix.) - Salamurai (talk) 21:47, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
On SmackBot, when you "add a new section" a notice appears suggesting leaving a note here instead, that's where the typos were. I just discovered I can edit that notice (User talk:SmackBot/Editnotice) and have done so. (I spend a lot of time proofreading.) thanks for your help - Salamurai (talk) 22:42, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
I see you are doing something that makes a bit of a problem e.g. in Category:Articles needing additional references from June 2010, so I'll rely on you to make the categories this month. Unless you tell me I can go ahead. Debresser (talk) 10:01, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
I had quite some work cleaning up a few mistakes I made before I found out how everything works. In addition, I tried to add a whiteline in front of the TOC, just as there are extra whitelines in front and after the refresh button. I added it in Template:Monthly clean up category/core, but don't see any change. Could you have a look at it, please. Debresser (talk) 12:20, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Not completely. :) Sometimes a date-dependend interwiki is added to a cleanup category. Debresser (talk) 12:39, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
|datecat=
to solve the problem of subcategories, I see. Nice. Debresser (talk) 12:42, 31 May 2010 (UTC)The new button is too big. And inconveniently placed. Just keep the old one, but have it right above the TOC. Debresser (talk) 14:18, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Not sure what happened here, but it completely messed up the page. Xeworlebi (t•c) 16:35, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
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I'm hoping you've got a regex for the floruit AWB FR that I can put in the genfixes. Thanks Rjwilmsi 12:48, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi can you add this to the rest of the Tamil films 1942-present I think for these lists it looks bare without a side bar. Shortly I'll make one for Bengali cinema. SO if you could quickly add them using AWB this would be agreat help. \Yes also Bengali see this, If you could de clutter the bottom templatesd somwhat and add this side plate this would be great. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:42, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Don't worry the side bar is used in all of the film articles like British films of 1969 etc... It is normal.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:59, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Yeah that's the problem with Indian films is lack of credible sources. Most are fan blogs. Even Bollywood films you have a hard time finding decent sources, Even for 2000s films. So imagine trying to write an article about a 1946 Malayalam film...Somehow I managed to concoct Joymati and Indramalati which are Assamese! But only becayse they were the pioneering films.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:06, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Cheers. That was fast! Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:23, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 June 2 Debresser (talk) 09:49, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
I think we should all aspire to Not that bad. --Buaidh (talk) 18:35, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
It could always look worse. --Buaidh (talk) 18:51, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Category:Articles containing explicitly cited English language text, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:06, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
I found a new maintenance template, Template:Opinion Debresser (talk) 11:38, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. I'm more or less completely bot-ignorant, so let me begin by asking for a fool's pardon if what I'm suggesting is not feasible. I've noticed that many references in WP articles have duplicated periods, one before the ref tag and then a superfluous one after it (Macropsia#Epilepsy (note 20) and Macropsia#Viruses (note 24) are a couple of examples I've left uncorrected so you can see what I mean). Is deleting the extra period a task that might be added to SmackBot's chore list?
Similarly, in a stupefyingly large number of cases, ref tags are placed before punctuation rather than after it, where MOS:PAIC recommends they be placed. Superfluous spaces before punctuation marks are another abundant eyesore. Are these potential SmackBot-y tasks? Perhaps the consumption of resources outweighs the benefits of large numbers of trivial changes, but as a reader I find that poor copyediting damages my impression of an article's credibility, whereas even seemingly trivial improvements, if they contribute to an article's professional appearance, can considerably enhance it. Cheers. -- Rrburke (talk) 15:51, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Have you released your code for checking ISBNs for good hyphenation, good checksum, and assignment of language/publisher code (or could you, pretty please)? Thanks much. (You can reply only here.)—msh210℠ 17:49, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
I noticed you had a sub-page dealing with New York Hardcore and thought you might find this quote from Harley Flanagan of the Cro-Mags interesting (and hopefully not offensive):
The one obvious difference between way back in the day and now days is back then we didn't have the internet and shit like that, so now word travels faster and shit is able to spread quicker. Back then you really had to know what was up, you had to go and find out for yourself. Now you can google it, or even better Wikipedia it so you can make sure to get all your facts wrong.[155]
--Supertouch (talk) 21:39, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Since you seem to be the point man on this portal cleanup endeavor I thought I would let you know that I think I have completed the portal cleanup for the following portals: American Civil War, United States Army, United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. I can't say I did every one but I think between the 2 of us we covered most of them. I am currently working on United States Airforce and then I will work on World War I, World War II and Coast guard. Not necessarily in that order. Please let me know if there is anything else you would like me to look at. --Kumioko (talk) 18:11, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Farmbrough,
You put an "orphan" tag to the contribution "Ivan Samylovskii". This contribution was kindly formatted by your colleagues "Chase me ladies, I am the Cavalry" upon a request. My understanding was that this biography will be hosted by one of the Wikipedia Projects, and I hoped that the biography would be published under WikiProject Biography, and was puzzled to see the "orphan" tag. I added all reasonable and meaningful links to other Wikipedia article and will be very grateful if you could please take of the "orphan" tag. If you could kindly advise on whether there is anything I could/should do to have this biography with "WikiProject Biography" tag, please kindly let me know. All my apologies if I did something wrong, I am very new to Wikipedia and my only concern is to have Samylovskii's biography in the best possible format and in the most appropriate project.
I have noticed the biography is linked to "Soviet diplomats" page, but unfortunately, it is misplaced, and there is no way I can change it and place under the letter "S" by family name(to move it from the letter "I" where it is now since Ivan is the first name).
I would highly appreciate if you respond me. Look forward to hearing from you. The administrator mentioned above has all my contact details. Yours sincerely, ERASWK (talk) 19:29, 5 June 2010 (UTC) ERASWK
Hello, I have personally had multiple seizures induced by Hydrogen sulfide remaining in a medicinal Hash Called budder,
This hash is very rare and there have been 0 studies on it and its effects etc.
I have only my experiences and the experiences of 3 other patients who had seizures after smoking budder.
I edited the budder wiki a long time ago to add these as possible side effects to WARN PEOPLE OUT THERE that this is NOT A SAFE DRUG
Yet i find i have had to re-edit it maybe 20 times to combat against People who make/sell it, People who think im an idiot and have no idea what im talking about, And wikipedia mods who claim my research is unreferenced.
Your bot has been making edits on that page although its quite difficult for me to make out what he removed and what others have i have a couple questions.
Is there any way for me to setup a bot that re-posts the information i know to be true, As to inform the other possible victims of this drug of the dangers?
And could you possibly have your bot stop removing my section of the wiki if he is doing so?
I really appreciate your time, If people like you didnt exist the internet could be a terrible place filled with l33tspeak, gramatical errors, and false claims everywhere ;-)
Thanks again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budder —Preceding unsigned comment added by NotAlright (talk • contribs) 21:23, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Not sure if this was an AWB issue (and thus should be reported there) or something else, but something definitely went wrong with this edit. - TexasAndroid (talk) 15:19, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
AWB wrecked this article’s formatting with English-language_editions_of_The_Hobbit&diff=366408369&oldid=349577059. The formatting of the article is idiosyncratic and perhaps ought to be structured some other way, but I don’t know how to fix it, and clearly AWB doesn’t, either! ;^) Strebe (talk) 19:35, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello dear Rich,
A few months ago we have included an important insurance software company in Wikipedia, see this page: IDIT_I.D.I._Technologies
We would really appreciate to know why Wikipedia sais that this page is written like an advertisement, as we would like to fix it.
We appreciate your help. Thanks a lot! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.179.40.11 (talk) 13:20, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Rich, I'm not clear on how ((portal box)) supports multiple portals coming with named arguments (for doing the AWB portal merging FR). Can you put an example in the documentation as your portal settings link is a dead link? Thanks Rjwilmsi 13:23, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
[156] -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:52, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
One more comment: I would like that you comment on Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Succession table. If Headbomb os right we have to replace start box with s-start instead of only capitalising as you did [157]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:00, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Wrong removal of small tag. Problem in FixSmallTags in FixSyntax procedure in Parsers. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:19, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
The Smackbot is going around and adding a slash to the line breaks (i.e. turning <br> into <br />). But, based on a conversation I had awhile ago with the Line Break people (see here), it should not have the slash included...though it is ok to have, the correct way is without the slash. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 01:29, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Here. Have fun. - TexasAndroid (talk) 15:55, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
E.g. on Canopy clustering algorithm, SmackBot removed the orphan tag. However, the article is only linked from User:, WP: namespaces and "List of ..." pages. Cophenetic correlation is another example of a barely-reachable article, where SmackBot removed the just added orphan tag immediately. Maybe you should not count "List of ..." pages when considering removing the orphan tag? IMHO these articles needs to be linked better, and should thus keep the orphan tag. --Chire (talk) 09:35, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Just spotted you on Hilbert space ;-) Stephen B Streater (talk) 19:32, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
I love you SmackBot! :D Faceless Enemy (talk) 03:37, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I just wanted to point out that the following edit: "FIx up portal template" actually broken the portal template link. Please take these type of cases into consideration for future edits. --dbolton (talk) 04:17, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
[158], [159] = did not seem to work. Thoughts? -- Cirt (talk) 06:00, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I've added the only two special paramters to infoobox building so this template is OK for merging. There are four people in support on the talk page including Plastikspork who didn't comment. Can you use AWB to go through what link here to the mall template and replace with Infobox building? This way maps can be added to the infoboxes and the standard parameters added. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:54, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
If you compare here you'll see how these can be replaced. Really though the number of stores, number of anchors and parking should go further up in the Template:Infobox shopping mall. If you can account for the name variation perhaps you could create a wrapper template and use AWB to replace them or whatever way you do it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:04, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
That's because a wrapper template needs to be made and the template able to accomodate for both parameter names, like you;ve done previously. Once that is done the templates can be switched. It should have far more parameters than the example you gave like this. They can be filled out by other people over time. Probably some of the engineering sections and "antenna" could be taken out though. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:41, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Yeah looking at templates tired is never a good idea! Always best to look at them with a clear head. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:45, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, as can be seen in this edit, SmackBot is removing anti-italicizing marks in the work= parameters of my templates. In a discussion I held on that template's talk page, Template_talk:Cite_web#.22Work.22_vs_.22Publisher.22_parameters, I was wondering why the work= parameter had to be italicized when it was clearly used for websites. Most websites are not published journals and should not be italicized. I'm going to revert the bot's edits, but I won't stop the bot. I'd like your input. Thank you. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 19:40, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
I am not a wikipedia member, but I noticed an error on the Low Pass Filter article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-pass_filter) and have fixed the vandalism I found, but I don't know if any is present in other parts of the article. Also, I assume you have some way of blocking IP addresses so vandals can't just go back and vandalize whatever they want, so if you could block the vandal, that would be great.
Sorry if this isn't the 'official' way of fixing articles or whatever, but you happened to be the last actual member of wikipedia to do anything to the article, so I thought you could help.
Thanks, Josh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.117.21.76 (talk) 19:46, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for you assistance with my 330th Bombardment Group page!
SmackBot is being used to convert appropriate Wikitext like:
into gibberish like:
Could you please see who is doing this and ask them to restore the original Wikitext. Thanks, Buaidh (talk) 22:40, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that you removed a lot of Empty section tags. Do you think we have to modify the auto-tagger somehow? -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:32, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
We could omit 1-letter headers. The tagger can't help on lists a lot anyway. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:54, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
[0-9 –—-]+
for years. If the page is mature, the empty sections should be pulled out, subject to the problems mentioned above. Rich Farmbrough, 23:58, 8 June 2010 (UTC).I've found another portal box that you could convert. ((Hamburg portal)) -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:53, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that you have revised either Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri or Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire.
I intend to revise those articles following the Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines. There are more details on the discussion pages of those articles. I'd be interested in any comments you have. It would be best if your comments were on the discussion pages of the two articles.
Thank you.
«₯»« b nepali is the one of the most recognise able contry whhere the people living with cooperative thinking »À —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.171.240.110 (talk) 08:20, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Is your addition of Category:Templates with transitional syntax to Template:Portal intended as preparation for eliminating the named parameters, eliminating the positional parameters, or merely an act of terrorism? Yours aye, Buaidh (talk) 22:07, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I'm wondering why SmackBot removed the <small> formatting in this edit. I've fixed it, but I thought you might like to know. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 08:41, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
User_talk:Magioladitis#Follow-up_on_to_my_commons_cat_multi_question_on_the_AWB_FR_page. We need to simplify/merge stuff. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:18, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
I give up. Why is your user name on this page's title misspelled?--Bbb23 (talk) 00:06, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Good evening good sir! I wanted to ask you about the ongoing conversations regarding the commons templates. I left a comment/question in Mag's talk page and I was wondering if you were going to take a stab at fixing the coding or if you were under the impression I was doing it, which I am willing to try, but I am not very good with. --Kumioko (talk) 00:20, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
I have seen that you edited some volleyball articles. Some players articles, most of them looks outdated. I would like to improve players by country. Could you please choose a country to contribute with? Please take a look on Yekaterina Gamova, Hélia Souza, Serena Ortolani and Kenia Carcaces for a model to follow. Please can you please improve some volleyball players with infobox and some addons? References are very important. Let me know. Oscar987 22:08, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Rich, when SmackBot changes ((fact))
, ((cn))
etc. into ((Citation needed|date=June 2010))
, does it work from all existing redirects to that template, or just a list which you have set up? I'm asking because a lot of new redirects seem to have been created in the last few days, see Template talk:Unreferenced#Redirects, and the user concerned has also amended several redirects (some of which he created, and some which already existed) to point to different templates. Some of them have pointed to ((citation needed))
at some point, see here. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:18, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
((citation needed))
popping up in places where ((unreferenced))
was intended - or vice versa. BTW, I'm watching this page, because I like to keep threads in one place. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:34, 15 June 2010 (UTC)Rich, either my computer is messing up, or there's a serious problem with all the templates that just occured. Somebody's messing around with this! Please fix ASAP! Thanks. Best, --Discographer (talk) 23:34, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
This may explain the problem and provide a solution. Rich Farmbrough, 19:38, 15 June 2010 (UTC).
Sorry, it is necessary for this purpose, I may only have to stop here when I'm finally done with it. 84.86.199.99 (talk) 16:59, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I've dumped some more candidates into WP:PCQ. Since you've notified the talk pages of the last batch, would you do the same for those? Won't hurt, even though most of the concerns we got as feedback weren't actually coming from the article watchers I think.
If not I'll ask someone else, or do it myself tomorrow. :)
Cheers, Amalthea 22:47, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. In the USG article I am attempting to change the USG Civil War segment. The current Civil War segment on the USG article is to be transferred to a separate article, since it has outgrown this article. Having a separate article on USG and the Civil War will allow room for expansion. The rewrite on the Civil War section is only done to condense the USG article, not to make any drastic changes or cause edit wars. Rjensen approved. I have put the summary in the Talk page to get input and I am allowing others to review the USG Civil War summary and make comments. I have gotten valuable help on the edits. The summary in the talk page includes information on the Battle of North Anna and Lee's dysentary during the Overland Campaign. The purpose is to make the USG bio article stream line and give separate articles to longer life topics. A separate article can also be done on USG's world tour. Articles on his Presidency and Presidential scandals have already been done. The 150 Anniversary of the Civil War is coming up and it has been mention that a separate article on USG's civil war carreer would be good. {Cmguy777 (talk) 02:28, 17 June 2010 (UTC)}
Hi! smackbot. I am an adminn from hindi wikipedia. i observed that you made a very big contribution to make vaarta shirshak(talk pages). so we all give thank to you. but why you have stopped your bot now. please come in hindi wikipedia at some small intervals so that all talk pages may get form. I think mr gunjan verma there had already talked to you about this. so I request you to do your bot activity.regards--mayurkumar —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.242.100.137 (talk) 06:14, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Just wondering if there was some sort of discussion as to why the lists of baseball jargon were moved to "Glossary of baseball". Thanks. — KV5 • Talk • 11:42, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to let you know I have finished going through the articles that linked to portalpar. There are still about 5 that pop up but I can't figure out why but the other 4500+ are done. Now I am working on WWI and WWI portals. Ill let you know when I am done. --Kumioko (talk) 16:33, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Could you please have another look at your last edit to this template? I don't understand what your change was supposed to do. The infobox now always shows a weight value of "date= May 2010".
Cheers -- EdJogg (talk) 15:13, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
You might be interested in this project Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Hoxne_challenge... Are you a "FA Kinda guy"? Witty Lama 19:01, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
In this edit of Portal:Mars, SmackBot misunderstands the syntax. Iceblock (talk) 19:29, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey, the citation you left (House of Hair with Dee Snider) saying that Blackie Lawless was born in Staten Island, that doesn't actually say that he was born there, it only says that he was raised there. In an interview that I found on Youtube, Blackie said that he was born in the kitchen of the Rainbow Bar and Grill in Los Angeles California. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.120.163.23 (talk) 22:13, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Rich, I am a descendent of Lt. Col. Stephen Moulton. The information you have looks correct. I have much more on his genealogy if you think the entry deserves more.
Where did you get this picture and why do you know it is him?
Kirk Moulton bwsept@fast.net —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.69.241.122 (talk) 02:02, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi there - I just had a look at this edit and noticed that your fixes, particularly the removal of ndash from the bottom infoboxes, have caused years to display like 1909- 1910 instead of 1909 - 1910. It's occurred on a few Premier pages... and who knows how many others. Is there an easy way you can think to fix it? Timeshift (talk) 02:26, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Maybe you could help me with User_talk:Magioladitis#Yobot_bug.3F? I have limited access to network till Monday. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:53, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you recently made an edit to Monmouth Rebellion which added subst pagename to a Template = Gutenberg|no=9504. I don't understand what it was supposed to do but doesn't seem to have worked - if you look at ref 24 it includes ((Subst:PAGENAME)) at Project Gutenberg which I don't think should be there.— Rod talk 13:14, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
The few other recent Smackbot edits I've looked at seem fine, but this edit to DDT broke the formating in most of the references. It's been reverted. Yilloslime TC 16:06, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the clean up at Talk:Shakespeare authorship question/sandbox draft2 deeply appreciated. Any criticisms of the quality of the page also would be most welcome. Best regards Nishidani (talk) 11:13, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm using Cite from My Preferences option. It writes in "cite" not "Cite". So what? --Chris.urs-o (talk) 13:07, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Template:Articles needing chemical formulas progress has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Svick (talk) 20:51, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
In this edit, SmackBot broke ((infobox road)) by changing "country=USA" to "country=US". The infobox uses the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for countries, and that means "USA" is the correct parameter value for the United States. – TMF 01:27, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
I was expanding the List of tallest buildings in Springfield, Missouri, and while I was doing that, your bot came along and caused an edit conflict (not to mention that it seems that I am always on the wrong side of an edit conflict). I didn't want to lose my changes so I saved them and now the whole article is screwed up, and I have no idea how to fix it. Would you be able to help? Thanks. Zonafan39 (talk) 04:44, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
I was able to fix the error, don't worry about it, the article is fine now. Zonafan39 (talk) 05:13, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Check User_talk:Xeno#WPBS. Maybe we need your help. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:30, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
[161] "to this day" = "until today". not clear? cheers ;-) --FordPrefect42 (talk) 10:27, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Template:Unit-attn has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Axem Titanium (talk) 12:13, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Re your revert of User:Gzyeah, can you comment at Template talk:Language icon#zh-hk vs. yue? I don't understand these language codes very well, but something seems to be wrong here. Thanks, cab (talk) 01:18, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I was wondering if anything else happened with the migration you mentioned awhile back[162] If possible, would love it if it could be done throughout my archives, if nothing else, to make it less easy to connect the dots (though if it could also be done in my FA/GA stuff that would rock). -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 03:55, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks It's actually a little unlikely that I'll get to use that rule between me finishing off all the good articles and the bot request, but I might be able to apply that in the future. Thanks again. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:57, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey Rich,, regarding this,
How am I supposed to implement this if the template is not amended? I had placed the non-English ones at WP:CFDS to rename them as well to match. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:46, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, how can i change the title on the new template. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xeex (talk • contribs) 12:34, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Could you please check what happened to Template:New page and its talkpage and protection settings. Look slike a rogue admin to me. Debresser (talk) 12:49, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
As I am not on Wiki as often as I once was, thought I should draw someone's attention to this, and saw your name in the edits, and remembered previous contact. Hopefully that is not onerous. I came upon it accidentally, settling a debate, and noted it had previously been messed with on the 21st. Respect. Seasalt (talk) 12:46, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
See [163].. See the caption display? |250px|none|alt=|Location of Absdale]] - Please investigate. –xenotalk 22:12, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Might want to run a spell checker on your edit summary :-) ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 20:34, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
We warn newbies not to refactor other people's talk page comments. I have undone this edit because it completely misses the point about why those particular parameters have been used. Further, the bug which I described here still exists, so please don't replace |year=
, or month/year, with |date=
, unless a day is also present. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:25, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough, you seem to have a bot to timestamp the files in Category:User-created public domain images. Could you give it some extra botsnacks and fire it up to empty out the category? Please reply here, my watchlist works ;-) multichill (talk) 21:24, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, 17:13, 30 June 2010 (UTC).
It was just pointed out at WT:Pending changes#Some_positive_feedback that the edit page still says "When you click Save, your changes will immediately become visible to everyone" even when Level 1 or Level 2 protection is in place. Thought you might like to have this minor glitch reported to whoever is doing the programming work for WP:PEND. Thanks Rich. ... Kenosis (talk) 19:39, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello Rich, Smackbot in this edit changed the capitalization of a section, but the capitalization is part of a proper noun and thus should not be changed. Regards, -- Jeff3000 (talk) 00:17, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
In Alexander Mitchell Palmer you changed the heading "Attorney General" to "Attorney general", which is wrong. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 02:22, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Similarly, "Prime Minister" should always be capitalised, but the bot changed it in Feleti Sevele.-gadfium 06:42, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
I agree with most of this edit, but why remove <small> tags? They help readability by indicating levels of importance in text. HWV258. 04:52, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
I noted that in this edit SmackBot removed stub tags. Removing a stub tag should be the result of a specific human evaluation of the article; what criteria is SmackBot using to remove stubs? Beyond My Ken (talk) 15:01, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Rich, I can understand why the program would do it, but SmackBot shouldn't have lower-cased the name of the musical group The Band to The band in Robbie Robertson's article. --John (User:Jwy/talk) 15:15, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey Rich, we already sent you a message on runescape, but I thought I'd tell you here as well. SmackBot has been malfunctioning and was shutdown. It was adding "DUMMY" to the beginning of prices and dates. I noticed that this also happened in November of 2008. Just thought I'd tell you. CookMePlox (talk) 01:56, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Can you please tone down Smackbot? - I appreciate that some things can be checked automatically but it appears to make a lot of 'changes' that are totally invisible in a diff. If its invisible then why bother? Some changes that it does produce can be an arbitrary matter of taste which doesn't affect the final article. The meat of any genuine change is completely lost in the dozens of irrelevant alterations. E.g. Changing sub-headings from'== xxx ==' is very subjective and irrelevant to the ultimate format. (Personally, I think spaces make it easier to read, but there is no right or wrong answer here.) Removing carriage returns and splicing together lines is irrelevant, and just makes reading the diff impossible. Sifting through hundred of these changes is the sort of infuriating trivia that deters authors Ephebi (talk) 10:35, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Just letting you know that Smackbot went through and changed a bunch of the musician awards lists. Section headings for the "MTV Video Music Awards" were changed to "MTV Video music Awards", which looks odd given in terms of capitalization. (For example, List of awards and nominations received by Adele, with the edit being shown here). I went ahead and "undid" the changes to a few of the awards lists that were on my watchlist, but I am not sure if other lists need to be changed back as well. --Another Believer (Talk) 17:37, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Can you please ask Smackbot not to change "Formula Three" to "Formula three", as it did here. Thanks. DH85868993 (talk) 13:30, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Rich, this seems badly biased--the statements of those on the flotilla slant towards admitting violence, which is not congruent with what I've read in the press....I don't have the time to edit this and then have it reverted. Sorry. Hope you're well--Beth Wellington (talk) 16:57, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
for instance, see: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wirestory?id=10812607&page=3--Beth Wellington (talk) 17:09, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Also, support in Israel was not monolithic, even among the military. For instance, http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Article.aspx?id=180119--Beth Wellington (talk) 17:51, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Would you have any objections to changing this from "Flag of Connecticut.svg" to "Seal of Connecticut.svg" which is what the old PORTAL_IMG parameter was in ((WikiProject Connecticut))? I think it adds a little visual interest to the project banner since the flag is already used as the main image. I'd do it myself, but 1) the page is protected and 2) I'd be afraid of breaking everything. Thanks.Abby Kelleyite (talk) 20:01, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
I noticed you were the author of Template:ISO 3166 code, so I figured you're the person to ask: Is there any reason not to make Template:ISO 3166 code North Korea, Template:ISO 3166 code South Korea, or other such redirects? I'm using the ISO 3166 templates to make a new version of Template:Globalize at User:Closeapple/new/Globalize/testcases, in regard to the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 June 21#Template:Globalize/Australia. Is there some other template I should be using instead to make names canonical? --Closeapple (talk) 19:43, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a search with the contents of Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890), and it appears to be very similar to another Wikipedia page: Timeline of United States inventions. It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page— you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case. If you are intentionally trying to rename an article, please see Help:Moving a page for instructions on how to do this without copying and pasting. If you are trying to move or copy content from one article to a different one, please see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia and be sure you have acknowledged the duplication of material in an edit summary to preserve attribution history.
This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 11:39, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
just wanted to draw your attention to a botched mdy to dmy date range conversion I spotted. Now fixed. Ohconfucius ¡digame! 15:02, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Please remember to include a wikilink in the edit summary the next time you split an article or move content from one article to another. See WP:SPLIT and WP:CWW for more information. Theleftorium (talk) 21:05, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
This edit seems quite strange and I partially reverted it. Beagel (talk) 16:13, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey, can you look at the conversation here and weigh in some thoughts. Sadads (talk) 17:52, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Re this edit, what is Smackbot doing here? Mjroots (talk) 17:54, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Rich, often at night, I go through the Category:Musicians work group articles needing infoboxes and look for those that do exist, and cross them off the list, and also add infoboxes to articles with enough information to put into them. Today, I found someone had started an article, but it's TITLE is User:Christineargue -- I'd actually begun to work on it and it's talk page before realizing how screwed up this is. Can you handle this? Figure out what the editor is trying to do, etc.? I don't feel qualified to handle anything like this. Thanks. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 03:37, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Re: this change, "Court" is always capitalized when referring to the U.S. Supreme Court ("the Court"). The header should probably be changed to "The Supreme Court's decision", but in any event lower case is incorrect. postdlf (talk) 22:53, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
You need to "white list" or whatever you do so that "Baltimore Orioles" stays appropriately capitalized. I've reverted and marked with a commented sic (its in a heading) at Alan Wiggins. --John (User:Jwy/talk) 00:23, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi....I took a picture of Estelle Getty's grave when I was in LA a few weeks ago. I can't figure out how to add it to the page...can you do this?
here is the link: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4773696902_93be78157a_m.jpg
If you could upload this or give me instructions on how to do it myself I would appreciate it. I can make it larger if need be.
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.97.178.22 (talk) 05:20, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
You've added a NPOV template there without stating the dispute. In fact the article talk page is empty. IMHO these templates are rather worthless without an explanation on the talk page. --Pjacobi (talk) 13:49, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
hi rich, smackbot correctly flagged Euphoria Emporium as a orphan. I have linked the article to one other article, but am unsure of what other steps will appease Smackbot and convince it (him?her?) to remove the banner. Theinterior (talk) 19:43, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot just ran on Benny Kalama. Not a problem, but something interesting with the bot you might want to know. If I understand what it did, it "corrected cap in header" in the Birthdate in the infobox. The infobox changed it right back. Where that birthdate template came from is here: Template:Birth date So if it incorrectly has a cap, maybe somebody should get the template changed. If not, maybe it was just one of those things. Maile66 (talk) 21:07, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough, I'd like to let you know of this edit by SmackBot. It changed ===Theatre=== to ===Theatre==, accidentally removing one equal sign at the end. XLerate (talk) 02:39, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Helllooooo~! I wanna have kids, but I'm afraid my fiance won't want any. What should I do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.59.250.67 (talk) 02:44, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Rich--I'm looking for a a bot I can run against my personal wiki that will automatically build links. For example, if I create a new article I would like the bot to automatically scan the others and automatically wikify it by adding links in each section whenever it encounters the first occurrence of the new article. Any ideas? Thank you in advance!--P Todd (talk) 01:42, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Smackbot has introduced a minor grammar error changing "Roll of Honour" to "Roll of honour" on RFA Sir Tristram (L3505). Its usually written in upper case as a proper noun. Regards, Justin talk 18:30, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I have a problem with SmackBot. It has been changing the section titles of some of the FA Cup and Football League Cup articles so that instead of "Fifth Round Proper" or "Sixth Round Proper", they read "Fifth round proper" and "Sixth round proper". First of all, this is incorrect, as The Football Association refers to the rounds as proper nouns, so the words should all be capitalised. Second, the bot has been only changing the Fifth and Sixth Round sections, leaving rounds 1-4 alone. Any idea why this is? – PeeJay 12:40, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Sorry but I can't figure out how to upload that Estelle Getty grave picture. Your suggestion wasn't really any help at all for someone who doesn't have an account and a good sense of knowledge working with Wiki. Please pass it to someone who can if you cannot do it yourself.. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.97.178.22 (talk) 05:31, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Images for upload to request the upload of a free or fair use image available on the Internet.
This will direct you to Wikipedia:Files for upload/Wizard - if there's a problem with using this, let me know and I'll see about uploading it myself.
Most the other edits on the page seemed correct, but I'm not sure why it changed the chapter numbers on my references. If this bug was fixed then disregard this message, but it seems like a pretty big deal when it's changing the references. --Kraftlos (Talk | Contrib) 10:03, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 8. You would be most welcome. Charles Matthews (talk) 14:04, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
hi Rich, Can you tell me how to run a script present here on perl.I have installed strawberry perl on my pc, but donot know the procedure--वार्ताबाट (talk) 00:21, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, I saved it as varta.pl and then run it on command prompt by writing C:\>\strawberry\perl\bin\perl varta.pl, then the following result came as cannot locate Mediawikihindi.pm in , compilation aborted at varta.pl line 25. Can you check source of these scripts at वार्ताबाट/सोर्स and वार्ताबाट/सोर्स/MediaWikiHindi and make correct them or guide me.We all are grateful to you for your help.Regards--वार्ताबाट (talk) 10:58, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
I copied that script from an older bot whicj both scripts सदस्य:Bolbalabot/सोर्स/MediaWikiHindi and सदस्य:Bolbalabot/सोर्स. this user has left wikipedia.when i run his scripts then error was shown as Message content must be byte at Mediawikihindi.pm line 98. --वार्ताबाट (talk) 17:02, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 21:59, 10 July 2010 (UTC).
Thank you, but can you tell me the procedure stepwise that what should I do.I have strawberry perl installed. you have given me above scripts. but please tell me the steps in sequence now.You gave me and hindi wikipedia a lot of time, many many thanks for it.Regards--वार्ताबाट (talk) 22:24, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Now you are set up (provided directories are correct): Follow the instructions in readme.txt
Rich Farmbrough, 23:30, 10 July 2010 (UTC).
Thank you very much, finally it worked and double thanks for your come back to hindi wikipedia.We all are grateful to you for your humble assistance and great bot work in hindi wiki.At present time you are no 1 bot by contributions.I hope you will continue your contributions in hindi wiki. You are always welcome there.Regards--Mayurbot (talk) 15:33, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
actually I am वार्ताबाट but got bot status on mayurbot account.--Mayurbot (talk) 15:35, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your Smackbot fixing my edits on the Greater Green Snake page! I am not very good at the codes and formats, so any help is appreciated. Also, I had tried to add a photo that I'd added to wikimedia, but I apparently didn't know how to do it right. Could you take a look and tell me what I did wrong, and how to not mess it up in the future? The photo is here: [169] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reptileadventure (talk • contribs) 21:09, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
I closed this TFD and made a first attempt to convert it to a maintenance tag. However, the wording probably could use some improvement, as I was not entirely sure what in particular was being addressed. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:57, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Good afternoon - you added orphan tags to the Cold Spring Granite and Diamond grinding pages, but I'm not sure why. There are several categories at the bottom, two outside external links and several wikilinks throughout the Cold Spring Granite page and a similar amount for the other. These were both reviewed and approved by an administrator a while back before they went live after Requests for feedback was utilized. Could you please let me know what specifically you think needs changed on these pages? I understand that an orphan page means that there are few or not links coming to the page, but I thought they had enough from the previous admin's comments.
I appreciate your response and look forward to your comments and/or suggestions. Thank you in advance Wendyfables (talk) 16:25, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
In the article New Hampshire Department of Justice, Smackbot is changing a heading from "Attorney General" to "Attorney general". That would be fine, except that "Attorney General" is a title. I've changed it back once, but Smackbot has found it and changed it a second time. Can you tell it to ignore this heading? Thanks. --Ken Gallager (talk) 16:35, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Why did you delete 98% of the copy and images from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Lewis —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aflewis (talk • contribs) 21:12, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Can you "move" (i.e. rename) the Thomas Gates page from "Thomas Gates (governor)" to simply "Sir Thomas Gates"? I am not an autoconfirmed user. Also, someone altered a few things on the page, which I just performed an "undo" on. I'm assuming these were vandal edits as Gate's name was changed to "Austin Gleitz" in the subheading. I'm posting on your talk page because you made the last accurate edit for this page. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.48.142.100 (talk) 22:24, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I'm concerned about the use of ritual "of any kind" in the proper definition of Pragmatic Buddhism, as the organizations who apply Pragmatic Buddhism do sometimes carry out intentional practices, behavioral commitments, etc. that are virtually undifferentiable from "ritual" in a non-dogmatic definition of the term. I think the outright rejection of the term "ritual" is unnecessary, or at least unpragmatic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Abe2008 (talk • contribs) 13:02, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on List of Jewish chess players requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia, because it appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion process. If you can indicate how it is different from the previously posted material, place the template ((hangon)) underneath the other template on the article and put a note on the page's discussion page saying why this article should stay. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. If you believe the original discussion was unjustified, please contact the administrator who deleted the page or use deletion review instead of continuing to recreate the page. Thank you. SyG (talk) 15:19, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I just discovered a minor SmackBot issue, but it's from over two months ago, so I don't know if it's still relevant. (I looked through your talk page archive of that period and didn't see anything about this.) The bot added ((WPBiography)) at the top of a page which had an existing ((WikiProjectBannerShell)). The WPBiography should go inside the WikiProjectBannerShell, especially in cases like this, where the bot's edit caused two blp banners to display. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 00:44, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello, it's Lolly Pop, thank you for protecting and correcting my page... <3 Merci merci! xxx —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.63.244.3 (talk) 06:12, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Just wanted to let you know that at one time what is 17 was 17n and 2. I don't know how to edit the tables, so I won't try. But if you go to the NJ 17 article you'll see what route went where.
Keithdennison (talk) 15:04, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. Could you please assist me in the following issue? While trying to leave a message on the talk page of an editor, I found out that the talk page had been moved by the editor to a namespace article. I reverted the move only to have the namespace article now moved to the user talk page. I don't seem to know what exactly I did wrong, and I'd appreciate it if you could help me out here. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 18:16, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
could you help out here, please? I did a database scan which returned over 500 articles potentially with piped ISO-style, botched ISO dates (like 2007, 12-8), pseudo-ISO style dates (such as 12-8-2007). I have now delinked some, and corrected non-MOSNUM compliant ones. There are perhaps a hundred articles left on my list. But I am seriously bored doing it. As you can process these in a flash, can you take over, please? Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:32, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Rich! Just wanted to point out that this edit (which is one of several) is redundant as it adds an "empty section" tag to a section which is commented out anyway. Probably an easy tweak on your side; just thought you'd want to know. Also, what is the purpose of switching the order of the references? Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); July 19, 2010; 14:56 (UTC)
Template:Film title has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. —innotata 19:30, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
(I prefer you reply here.)
That is the description for the only one of my edits that seems essential. Maybe I should have left it thus, but I tweaked some other things in the 7-card sections of the article and left some suggestions on the Talk page. --P64 (talk) 21:55, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I wonder if having adjustments like this, i.e changing ((cn)) to ((Citation needed|date=July 2010)), a few hours after I had put the tag, with no visible effects on the page, and clogging the page history, is of any utility. In a few days, I will remove the tag (and also the phrase, if I do not see a reliable citation).
But it is not only your bot to do this: there is an intense traffic of any type of bots (adding ukrainian or vietnamese language, or adding ISBN, or modifying references in some other subtle way, or applying "general fixes") which have made the page histories unreadable. For me it is often difficult and time-consuming to discover who and why has written what.
I think there should a policy which limits small bot editings. For example one could propose: look for the fixes to be done, put them in a database, and apply them once a month, in a unique big editing, so to avoid the dozens of items we see on the histories. I don't know to whom this proposal can be told, so I am telling it to you.
Thanks--GianniG46 (talk) 13:27, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
P.S. I am leaving for a vacation this evening, so I will not be on line for a dozen of days.--GianniG46 (talk) 13:27, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
This edit categorised the article based on the date the unsourced statement was spotted. This isn't a useless edit. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:06, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Richard, please stop changing[170] the capitalisation of Template names. I remember seeing this raised on your Talk page months ago by other people, and IIRC it stopped for a while. The change adds nothing to articles, and instead makes template entries harder to read. Thank you —Sladen (talk) 13:57, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
((s-start))
and ((reflist))
please. Thank you. —Sladen (talk) 17:32, 21 July 2010 (UTC)I notice you moved this, and I think I know why: it's being used in the mainspace. It's not supposed to be - it should be replaced with ((cladogram)) in most instances, which largely duplicates the formatting and has a far more professional name.
FWIW after an RM reversed one of the moves, I undid them all. If this were to be spacified (though I don't see a need), it would be "userbox top", but I think that's even more confusing.
Let me know if you're interested in replacing the mainspace uses, otherwise I'll probably have a go at it. –xenotalk 03:15, 21 July 2010 (UTC) [do note there are a few other assorted uses, but not sure if there's enough to make another mainspace template, or if a suitable one exists]
Hi Rich. "Houston we have a problem..."
To begin with, this editor [171] is using AWB for multiples and multiples of trivial edits here [172]. This user did the same with WP Journals changing a large number to Wikiproject Academic Journals. Prior to this, and at the same time, if you view this person's talk page, there is recently - one section after another - editors are telling this user that his edits are insignifigant, or are causing a problem and to please stop. Instead of taking the constructive critism he just refuses to quit, and moves on to some other uselsess massive editing effort with this bot. I think an Admin needs to step in here. Also all the useless editing of the past week probably needs to be rolled back. I just left this same message with Materialscientist. Thanks----Steve Quinn (talk) 13:26, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Seems consensus here:
Suggest any further discussion at User talk:Magioladitis - I will try to be around, but can be prodded if you want my comments. Rich Farmbrough, 16:13, 21 July 2010 (UTC).
No one else has asked about this, so I will. Why are biologists entitled to have Begonia × tuberhybrida correctly italicized, but students of literature are not entitled to have titles of books correctly italicized? Does whatever discussion preceded this really rise to the level of Wikipedia policy, or can't expert subject editors be granted some judgement in the matter? P.S. I realize that this is possibly a brand-new feature of AWB, which you just happen to be the first to make widely effective; but even then I can't figure out how and where the decision was taken to start moving against the standards of well-edited English now. If the answer is last year's discussion here, I'd like to find out if the discussion can be had anew in a better forum where a wider range of informed editors can contribute (because the idea that biology may follow the conventions of published English while literature may not is bizarrely inconsistent). Wareh (talk) 14:58, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
It happened a few times that during a series of edits this bot got in an caused a edit conflict message. Maybe it should be set so that it kicks in only a few minutes, maybe an hour, after there has been no edit to the article.Sum (talk) 18:34, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Ur my hero —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.190.171 (talk) 01:26, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 16 -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:32, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot messed with the country parameter again here. – TMF 15:31, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Good day to you good sir I have another question today in regards to a bot. There has been some interest in started up the Alertbot bot again but it seems when the creator and maintainer (I meant to do that by the way) left WP they took the code with them. Is there any way to view this code on the tool server so we can get this bot running again? If we can locate the code I would be glad to take up the torch of monitoring and sort of leading it but I would need help from yourself or one of the other programmers in order to actually do the maintenance of the thing if bugs come up or it breaks. --Kumioko (talk) 18:26, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Pls see User_talk:Gadget850#Scout_template_moves — Rlevse • Talk • 23:32, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you with this but it seems that the list of folks who are good at template creation is pretty short, and your on the top, sorry :-) Anyway, I have thought for a while that certain "link" templates lacked substance and should be expanded. These include the ((findagrave)), ((hallofvalor)), ((imdb)) and others. Typically when these are created by users they say something to the effect of "Mons Monssen at Find a Grave Retrieved on 2008-10-29", see Mons Monssen for an example. I think that this template should allow and display more of the fields of the citation template. It seems the general format for these references are fundamentally the same containing a source, title, url, date, accessdate and author. I was thinking that creating a generic template for these might be appropriate and thought that using something like ((Include-USGov)) as a baseline seemed appropriate with the other templates using that code as the base. Of course it wouldn't include the wording of in the public domain and all that but I wanted to ask your opinion anyway. Do you think this is a worthwhile change or am I just wasting my time trying to change these links? --Kumioko (talk) 19:12, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
I went and made the changes to the Find a Grave template in the templates sandbox. I don't have rights to move it over though. The logic for the Congbio template is much more complicated, but I am going to go and change that in its sandbox as well. --Kumioko (talk) 12:53, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you are asking. Do you want me to move the pages to a different name?Philipmj24 (talk) 17:31, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
I was going to move them. Thanks anyways!Philipmj24 (talk) 18:46, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Please start an alexandra raisman page. I can build it, but not start page. A quick google will get a few real sources. She is an elite gymnasts on the national team, placed in several international and national meets. Trains with Alicia. Just start and I will build. Or build whole thing if you want. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.246.156.19 (talk) 01:43, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Just wondering if you could fix the template move for ((WikiProject The Beatles,)) as you've put a comma on the end of the name. You will also see that the template name without the comma redirects to a banner for userpages and it is in use on a few page (see [173]) so they will need changing first. -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:12, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Dear Rich, with all due respect, it would be nice if you could read the changes suggested by your bot prior to committing them. I've just been reading the "Component-based software engineering" which is cluttered with tags from your bot all over. The fact that your bot's tags annoyed me enough to be writing this should give enough of a clue. :-)
While a few of the tags are correct (for example, marking "some say" as weasel word), the majority of them is just utter nonsense and in all honesty a major annoyance when reading the article.
When reading through the article, one does not get the impression that these are actually helpful in increasing the quality of the article, but they look much more like a self-important person being, well, self-important. You could avoid that impression if you were checking your bot's modifications.
For example, two citation tags on the principles of OOP which are explained to show the contrast to CBSE is just ridiculous. Not only is that paragraph stating a well-known fact (see "Paris is the capital of France does not need a citation") in a well understandable and conclusive way, but there are also sufficient citations in the linked-to Wiki entries, if one really wanted to be pedantic about having as many citations as possible. The same is true about three who/weasel-word tags in the following paragraphs. While the inserted tags are technically correct, it would be much better to slightly change the wording of the otherwise perfectly correct paragraphs so they formally comply with the Wikipedia NPOV rules (Note: I am not the author of that page, just some random guy who came to read it). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.202.8.165 (talk) 12:30, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Although your still recent edit to Philomena was only a cleanup, I wonder if you would be so good as to look at what in practice has there unfortunately grown into an edit war (which for that reason I do not wish to continue) between me and a single-purpose editor who sometimes logs in as Merk1333 and at other times edits unlogged from Garland, Texas (obviously the same person). I have tried to engage the editor on the Talk page, so far without success. Can you either intervene yourself or advise me on how to proceed? Thanks for your attention. Esoglou (talk) 19:49, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
I don't understand the recent rename of ((reqphoto))
to ((request photo))
. I can't find a template naming guideline to govern this situation, and there has been no discussion on the talk page for this template or any of the other image request templates on my watchlist. Can you help? Thanks. Tim Pierce (talk) 04:38, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
I am looking for an editor or editors to take over administration of the US Air Force Portal. If you think you might be interested please see the Portal Administration section on the talk page to see what is involved and comment there if you’re interested or have any questions.Ndunruh (talk) 17:17, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Er, "Template:WikiProjec Record Labels Task Force,"? --Redrose64 (talk) 18:03, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
All sub-projects of WikiProject Meteorology and Weather Events would be better handled as paramaters into a main template and not with separate templates, don't you think so?
I guess the 4-5 tram templates could also merge to one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:47, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Sacramone page needs an update to reflect Cover Girl classics breakout performance:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2010-07-26-athlete-of-the-week_N.htm?POE=click-refer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.127.138.199 (talk) 04:50, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
I modified ((Congbio)) in its sandbox and left a comment on the talk page. Please let me know what you thoughts are on the changes I made! --Kumioko (talk) 15:09, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Templates you have included in Wikipedia:Templates with names differing only in capitalization; Template:Infobox Station Begin, Template:Infobox station begin, Template:Infobox Station Example, Template:Infobox station example, Template:Infobox Station Header, Template:Infobox station header, Template:Infobox Station Main, Template:Infobox station main, Template:Infobox Station Services and Template:Infobox station services, have been marked for deletion as a deprecated and orphaned templates. If, after 14 days, there has been no objection, the templates will be deleted. If you wish to object to their deletion, please list your objection here and feel free to remove the ((deprecated))
tag from the template. If you feel the deletion is appropriate, no further action is necessary. Thanks for your attention. Secondarywaltz (talk) 01:30, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
I 've been working with WikiProject banners for a while. First step in order to create a good function for working with WikiProject banners is that we can easily identify them. Recently I noticed that more people are working on that. Check Category:WikiProject banners with non-standard names and Wikipedia:Banner standardisation/data maintained by xeno and WOSlinker. I think almost all banners can be moved to WikiProject xxx scheme. Exception for me is WPBiography (with 600k+ transclusions and it will be a huge mistake to move it) and some others highly visible templates. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:16, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Can you be more careful when moving these templates? Some of those that you have moved today rely on /class and/or /importance subpages which have not been moved over, causing the templates to break. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:49, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
FYI, I have reverted your move of Template:WPAFC-admin->Template:WikiProject Articles for Creation. The problem is that we have a separate template at Template:WikiProject Articles for creation and it would be too confusing to have separate templates with different capitalisations. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:45, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
This is incredible! Thank you. Are you planning to update it now that most of them have been standardized? [I'm also curious how you generated that list] –xenotalk 04:06, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
I don't understand this system. I have started several small articles as a consequence of correcting an error in one other and discovering place names mentioned did not link. All the information I have added is within my personal knowledge and the articles I have started can be easily verified however I do not have the time or the expertise so to do it. Having started the articles it is my hope that those with better knowledge and/or time will add to them and make even better links than have been done already to articles about other places in Essex. If those articles are automatically removed even the small correct information I have provided will not be available to researchers from afar who will even now currently be assisted by the links I have provided. The article I amended was Messing Maypole Mill and the ones I started were Salcott cum Virley, Inworth, Layer Marney and Great Wigborough which is adjacent to Little Wigborough at which point I gave up!Stranger on the shore (talk) 08:43, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Template:Fact-now requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>((transclusionless</noinclude>))).
Thanks. Axem Titanium (talk) 10:57, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Two edits screwed up the display of the infobox, [174] and [175]. In the former, it broke the display of the auxiliary route information, and in both cases it reverted the color of the infobox headers to the default blue from the US/Canadian green. Can you please, please, PLEASE program SmackBot to ignore |country=USA
in the ((infobox road)) code. Consensus in revamping the template over a month ago was to use the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes for each country because as that article states so well, "they allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the two-letter alpha-2 codes." That way we would only need to set up support for one code for each country in the new subtemplates instead of creating redirects for each of the 6 or so subtemplates for each country from multiple input values. In the past we had users inputing various different abbreviations and even full country names. Now, please, this is the third time I've asked you, but |country=USA
is the correct coding for this template and it should not be changed. Such automatic bot changes are starting to smack of unintentional vandalism when I have to fix articles to clear them back out of the error categories. Imzadi 1979 → 11:02, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I have expanded the article on Meonstoke. However, as I am new to this game, I thought I’d contact people who have contributed to the article as it now stands before I change it. My proposed version is on my user talk page. If you are interested, I’d welcome any comment, changes, suggestions. Thanks Gramorak (talk) gramorak 12:00, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Rich, Can I just give you a nudge on this request for piped ISO dates, please? Cheers, Ohconfucius ¡digame! 18:34, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey, Smackbot is making a mistake with the multiple issues tag, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_International_School_Boston&action=historysubmit&diff=376782940&oldid=376775787 . It should be "unreferenced=August 2010", not "unreferenced date=August 2010"... Maashatra11 (talk) 18:43, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
I am trying to standarise Infoboxes based on the entries of Infobox person and Infobox officeholder which have the most of transclusions. I made a list in User:Magioladitis/Sandbox.
First aim should be that all infoboxes support birth_date / death_date even in addition to the already existing parameter.
Standarisation will enable us to use this fields for adding human categories via AWB. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:42, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
I am puzzling over a minor edit to DEFAULTSORT on a page here. The bot changed:
((DEFAULTSORT:Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy as International Phenomenon))
to:
((DEFAULTSORT:Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy As International Phenomenon))
I don't see that this edit achieves anything. (Also, if I change it back, will SmackBot fight me?) Please respond here. HairyWombat 04:33, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
hi,
i was wondering about the change in the meaning of the name since the previous meaning was there for a long time.... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Onuphrius&action=historysubmit&diff=367939566&oldid=334310491
thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Onoufrios d (talk • contribs) 17:17, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
If, in AWB in my Advanced find and replace, I want to find out in the "if" if an article with Infobox book contained the phrase variable and input "country = United States" how would I write that in regex? Regex is blowing my mind right now, don't really understand how it works. Sadads (talk) 06:13, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
You have edited a protects page without consolation or notification. Could you please undo this move and return to original ((reqphoto)) name until a consensus has been reached.--Traveler100 (talk) 05:27, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
hi , this is trevor guthrie.... not sure if you are the one to talk to, but i want this whole page completely revamped. we can skype an talk about it if you are able to fix it. thankyou
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.229.32.33 (talk) 23:27, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
hi , this is trevor guthrie.... please contact me to talk about my page....we can skype over webcam
oh yeah, sorry, we can start with an old email to contact me.
trevgdogg (at) aol.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.229.32.33 (talk) 23:31, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
thankyou for your response. i am not interested in uploading a picture of myself on wikipedia. the problemr Rich, is that the so called facts about me are written by fans dont realy have the facts.I dont like people writing things about be that are not true or inaccurate. they are just assumed correct. this is starting to cause problems for my career as well as my personal life. and i dont like discussing it here because everyone can read this. this is why i suggested we talk via email. sincerely Trevor Guthrie
trevgdogg@aol.com
Would you mind looking into this set of actions that appears to switch redirects with the actual title of the page here. The title in question is Wikipedia:IPA/Introduction. No rationale was supplied, but this would probably not make sense anyway.---- Steve Quinn (talk) 17:56, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Sorry about that. I thought I was on the talk page. ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 17:56, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
For this bug report I disabled MetaDataSorter for the category namespace. Is that any loss of functionality? Rjwilmsi 08:57, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I don't understand why in this edit SmackBot replaced a correctly piped link (to avoid a redirect). What is the reason for this (just curious)? --Crusio (talk) 11:45, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm not sure how bots work (whether you tell them which articles to edit, or they do them automatically?), but the bot has helped insert ref names to The Judd School in the past, and I was hoping you (or the bot!?) could do it again? Tom (talk) 23:01, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments on the Bulgarka Nature Park article - I have added links to the article from a number of other, related articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertsullivan1973 (talk • contribs) 07:50, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Category:Second Life residents, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Robofish (talk) 15:11, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
I've lately been building infoboses for musicians' work group articles missing them in my spare time in the evenings since it doesn't require a ton of thinking to fill out whatever you find in the article and stick it in the box. Lately, I'm finding lots of articles like: Kelly Hoppe. Usually they have no references, perhaps three unsupported sentences, etc. Am I crazy? Cause my first response is not friendly to that article. No wonder people think the level of editing in Wikipedia is a laugh. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 23:29, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
Category:PAGES WITH INCORRECT FORMATTING TEMPLATES USE, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:36, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello from Spain, could you write the article Au Pair (film) in spanish wikipedia, thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.125.198.106 (talk) 16:37, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
I am not sure that I know how to use this item. In your article on Knob Creek Church of Christ, you had some very interesting points. This church and the people mentioned in your article are my family. You talked about two daughters of John Simon Foy. I do not question you information, I have known only the two boys, William and James, William is my family. Could you tell me where you got your information, I have been looking for that for some time. Hilton Royster hroyster@bellsouth.net
A question about templates and regex at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history#Task_force_parameters_for_the_Milhist_banner would you mind taking a look?Sadads (talk) 14:35, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Sorry You posted on my talk, but I don't understand what you wrote. I'm sure that I'm just being too dense here, but what is it you want? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:06, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
I am curious why the bot is adding date parameters to infoboxes that do not have a date parameter such as in this edit, I thought that it was only supposed to add dates to maintenance templates? Thanks. Keith D (talk) 21:46, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Concerning this diff. Is there a reason why Smackbot is changing the dead-link date? Surely the earliest date is of interest, not the latest. The earliest date allows you to determine something other than when smackbot last saw the field. User A1 (talk) 00:10, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Re this edit - there were several template subst: tests going on, which you have broken. First, the parameters to ((citation/core))
are mostly of the form |Surname1=
etc., which you altered to |surname1=
etc - unlike template names, parameter names are not case-insensitive on first letter. Second, those subst'd templates had several categories within ((#if: ... ))
tests, the tests when resolved meant that the page was not placed in those categories - but you moved them outside the tests, collecting them at the bottom, so the page now incorrectly shows in five categories which it shouldn't be in, and wasn't in before. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:35, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
((userspace draft))
which is permitted on any kind of sandbox, regardless of what I happen to be doing in there? --Redrose64 (talk) 20:53, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Looks like your bot's (or you specifically) are editing many users sandbox pages, including mine. [[176]]. Whether you think you're helping or not, you should always ask first before barging in on someone else's work in progress. Ljmajer (talk) 19:51, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
The following discussion may interest you: Execration_text_places --Sreifa (talk) 04:56, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
Can you modify your bot so it won't make changes to a page that has the GOCEinuse template on it? That would prevent it from making changes while a major copy-edit is under way, resulting in edit conflicts and duplicated effort... Macwhiz (talk) 21:22, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
((inuse))
to avoid the bots, thanks. Macwhiz (talk) 21:35, 22 August 2010 (UTC)Hey, I noticed that you had recently edited the Pakistan Floods article, and I hoped that you could help out on another collaborative community edited project.
I run quippd, a collaboratively edited social news site, which mixes elements of Wikis, social networking, and social news sites. You can get some more information about what we are doing at: http://quippd.com/about/intro
Basically, we want to get good coverage on news stories, collaboratively edited, like Wikipedia. We are trying to take the ideas of WikiFactCheck -- to make news less biased and speedier (unlike something like Wikinews).
I hope you check us out -- and feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or concerns.
How do I put thumbnail in an article? I tried to put a thumbnail in "Paramjit Kaur Sirhind", but was unsuccessful. Sukhmani1978 (talk) 10:47, 23 August 2010 (UTC)Sukhmani1978Sukhmani1978 (talk) 10:47, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Rich,
What do I need to do for Smackbot (or any other bot, for that matter) to add dates to the templates ((dmy)), ((mdy)), ((EngvarB)), ((EngvarOx)) - in the way it's done for ((citation needed))? Are changes required to the templates themselves, or is it up to you to program these into the bot? --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 07:58, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
((use dmy dates))
, I have to work manually and I now realise that typing ((dmy))
saves me time as has fewer keystrokes.Also I have now created Category:Use mdy dates and Category:Use British (Oxford) English. Those small number of articles remaining unclassified within the category now have a home. --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:31, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
You may be interested in this one... SmackBot has just labelled Britt Allcroft as a 2010 birth! (See this edit).
Now, historically, people have often added birth dates for Ms Allcroft, but I have trawled many internet sites and no news article that I have found has given any indication of her age, less still her DoB. (So I have to keep reverting these edits.) Obviously your bot's edit is not quite along the same lines, but I thought you ought to know the background...
EdJogg (talk) 23:11, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Small matter: I'm baffled by changes of ((Imdb name)) to ((IMDB name)), e.g. here (SmackBot) or here (Rich Farmbrough). The former is the proper name of that template, the latter a REDIRECT. I've never seen a bot or you change a template invocation to a REDIRECT, only the other way round. What's the reasoning here? TIMWTK -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 02:17, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm concerned at some of the sections that have been removed from this article on the grounds that they are not notable. I would be grateful if this page could be protected - particularly given Cybermud's recent actions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dikaiosynenemesis (talk • contribs) 07:40, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Cybermud is now vandalising this page. The latest edit was something he had ever even referred to or mentioned before. Please take steps to protect this page from further vandalism by Cybermud. I fully agree, and have said so many times, that changes are needed but there is an extreme amount of nit-picking and unwarranted criticism of some of the content. I have already stated that the Nazi comments are a disgrace and are taking this too far, but the case studies are solidly sourced and need to be respected. Dikaiosynenemesis (talk) 12:25, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I noticed that, at least in this edit, SmackBot has been removing blank whitespacing lines between the == External links == section header and the first item residing within it. I'd suggest that, given the availability of server memory at costs orders of magnitudes lower than even 10 years ago, it makes better sense for SmackBot to ensure there are blank lines after all section and subsection headers, as a service to those editors working with small monitors. For those with large monitors, the blank whitespaced lines makes no real difference, but for those with eensy-teensy monitors, of which there are undoubtedly plenty worldwide, that extra blank line allows a better grasp of the material being edited, and would, IMHO, allow more accurate, error-free editing (no, I can't cite anything to support that -just my gut intuition and past user experience!). For the vary same reasons, I tend to add an extra blank line between the various groupings of extraneous article data at the very bottom, e.g.: two blank lines between External Links and the Category section and the interwiki links section, etc...; additionally extra blank spaces between the section header indicators and their titles looks way less cluttered, eg: ==Cluttered== vs. == Less cluttered == .
In any event keep up the good works, only 3M edits seems kind'a low, eh? Best: HarryZilber (talk) 14:11, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
* Spaces in header 2,246,272 * No spaces in header 10,398,391
* Blank line after header 1,417,076 * No blank line after header 10,713,717
Why did you do this edit? 117Avenue (talk) 04:33, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Howdy. I was wondering why your bot made this edit? It appeared to be a valid redirect of a template. The edit seemed kinda pointless. Also, doesn't this redirect guideline apply as well? If there is something here I'm missing, I apologize.--Rockfang (talk) 18:03, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Not sure why smackbot is setting defaultsort to titlename? - isn't that the default anyway? seems like an unnecessary addition.Sf5xeplus (talk) 18:41, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
I seek your advice on what should be a category. There is much more written about what should be an article.
I do not seek your vote for or against a category, just some insight on what is a category.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_August_23&diff=prev&oldid=380768883 for details.
There are certain funny things about Wikipedia. The link above gives a practical reason. However, sometimes bureaucratic reasons win discussions. I seek not to win a discussion but I seek discussion to confirm that my ideas are valid and not some crazy idea. Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 19:27, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
I hate to be a bother, but did you ever generate a final list of bypasses for the WikiProject banners? I'm about to commence another shelling task, and I don't want to have to reinvent the wheel. Thanks! –xenotalk 13:04, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
hi. i noticed the orphan tag has been removed from the Solidarity (Australia) page. but the majority of the article has no links whatsoever to any other wikipedia articles. apart from the intro (which i authored) it still seems like it needs a lot of work if it is not just intended to be an advertisement for the organisation.
cheers. Marxwasright (talk) 15:42, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi! If you think it is worth moving to get it in two words why small "c" in "Template:Now commons"? The name is Wikimedia Commons so the template should be "Now Wikimedia Commons" or "Now Commons". Or perhaps "This media is now available on Wikimedia Commons".
Further more bots uses the term "NowCommons" - have you filed a request to fix the bot scripts. --MGA73 (talk) 17:55, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Please fix the following. otherwise, great, and very logical, work!
Thank you. I am watching your page, so need to reply on mine. ---何献龙4993 (talk) 22:54, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
You are the #1 Wikipedian, so I recommend the WikiCup to you. Us441(talk) (contribs) 23:11, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Civil parishes in England, an article you have contributed to, has been reassessed to C class from Start class. Apparently many people watch and/or visit this page as an alternative to the broader Civil parishes article. I've quickly scanned it for needing a possible copy edit, but it already looks reasonably good to me. However, I did feel it just needs a little attention such as adding more inline refs. It's not tagged or anything, but if you can help ut with a source or two, it would be much appreciated. Perhaps from your other work on geography articles, you will know where to look, and we will be able to promote it to 'B'.Kudpung (talk) 12:54, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, International child abduction in Brazil, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International child abduction in Brazil. Thank you.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message.
See User talk:Ucucha#Cosmetic only changes. Ucucha 13:02, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
You recently moved ((Imdb name)) to ((IMDB name)). Do you intend to move ((Imdb title)) to ((IMDB title)) as well? (Small beer: you are aware that they style themselves IMDb?) -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:41, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for assisting in helping make my sources fit the wiki format on the Fawad Siddiqui actor article. As you can probably tell I'm not up to speed on it all. But the page was missing a lot of information that is out there and had a few little things wrong that I wanted to try and correct. That before it started to get attacked by people who obsess over the format with no regard whatsoever for the accuracy of the information and clearly weren't even reading the edits. There is no such city as Plainsfield, IN. It's Plainfield. Anyway, it just annoys me. Thank you for being nice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.148.146.39 (talk) 19:50, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for working on Peter Foster - the article needs all the maintenance it can get.Autarch (talk) 20:23, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for that. Hopefully someone will create some of those missing article, I'm sure there are dozens more articles about Israeli musicians that HeWiki has and we're missing. Hopefully they are created. Cheers, Ynhockey (Talk) 22:12, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
((Use dmy dates))
automatically?
When did SmackBot start applying the dmy tag automatically?
I don't really mind, just curious as it conflicts with the documentation at ((Use dmy dates))
(which I fixed) and also ((Use mdy dates))
, particularly "Bearing in mind the possibility of erroneous tagging if done by bot". It could also conflict with ((Use ymd dates))
if it were consistent with the other two. I'm happy to clean this up if you can point me to where it's approved or explained.
I'm sorry if I've missed where this is mentioned (I've searched User:SmackBot and User:Rich Farmbrough/Talk Archive Index). twilsonb (talk) 03:30, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
This page is an archive. Do not edit the contents of this page. Please direct any additional comments to the current main page. |
hey, why is Divya Singh page is appealed for deletion ? i am adding content to it. all the sources given their is true for the person. she is representing Indian team. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.177.162.236 (talk) 16:37, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Delete me now, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding ((hangon))
to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. ROCKOPREMtalk 13:09, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
I wonder if you can explain why you keep creating Delete me now? On the face of it you seem to be doing things which would be more appropriate in either a userspace page or the sandbox, rather than an article. I am intrigued to know your reason. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:16, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Please do no remove a CFD tag for something in progress. Thanks. Soundsboy (talk) 17:56, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
[178] LOL. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:27, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I have an AWB request for you. Can you split the giant category Category:Populated places in Slovenia by municipal category? I've done the first two but its best done with AWB. You can find the categories at User:Dr. Blofeld/Launch Pad 1. Dr. Blofeld 12:23, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Somethign went wrong with this. Also some of your recat claims don't recat and are just minor fixes.. Dr. Blofeld 17:59, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Yeah you;re forgetting the the Municipality of part to the categories. Please fix! Dr. Blofeld 18:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Wow, excellent job!! Yes you have a point about it seeming weird replacing the municipalities in the by municpality cats but they are both about the town and muncipality. Given the lack of info on them it would be unfeasible right now to split the town form the munciipality. You could place the articles in the relative municipal categories for the time being until I or Kaktus or any of the others has enough energy to split the towns from the muncipality with enough content? Ideally we should have seperate articles on the muncipalities form the main towns though.... Eventually I'm sure we will... Dr. Blofeld 18:15, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Dunno. OK we'll leave it for now then, i'll addressing the idea of splitting the municpialities form the towns at a later date. Dr. Blofeld 18:30, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for making the change clarifying the title. I had kicked that idea around and never got around to it. I went through and changed all 300+ articles that linked to it to the new one. Just wanted to let you know. --Kumioko (talk) 18:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I notice you've made a couple of edits to the MoMK article and and that you have accidentally buggered-up the template at the top of the page. Could you please fix it? The page is currently protected, so mere mortals such as me cannot fix the problem. I assume you have the necessary super-powers to do so. Thanks. Maybe there is a wider point too. The page has been protected to enforce editing by consensus only and the admins who are policing that protection have come in for some criticism for wielding their powers. I think it looks bad if another admin (you in this case) can just walk in and make edits without consensus. I appreciate that you are just tidying up mistakes in the article but it could be seen as an admin flaunting their privileges, especially by the several editors who are new to Wikipedia. At the very least, a note of what you are doing, in the talk page, might clarify things for those who have not necessarily worked it out for themselves. Cheers. Bluewave (talk) 08:09, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry - saw them redlinked after the others had been created yesterday, and I thought that a decision on renaming them had been taken. I'll tag them for deletion as soon as I can. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 18:25, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Thx for response. There is a fair chance that I may only need 1 search and that is to search for all section titles containing the word "abuse". It is not important that a bang uptodate version of Wikipedia is used. --Penbat (talk) 19:30, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Regarding your recent work on subcategorizing settlements in Slovenia, could I ask you to double-check the coding you're using to do it? Just between A and K alone, I've found at least a dozen articles today where your edit was a weirdly formatted error, such as "[[Category:Populated places in the Municipality of the [[Gorenja vas-Poljane]]" (complete with the excess brackets) instead of the actual Category:Populated places in the Municipality of Gorenja vas-Poljane or "[[Category:Populated places in the Municipality of City Municipality of Ljubljana]]" instead of the actual Category:Populated places in the Municipality of Ljubljana. Bearcat (talk) 06:56, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, can i now remove the uncategorized tag from the EVER_TEAM page since it has been categorized. thanks.--Sazarian (talk) 07:10, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
I've just spotted an edit SmackBot made[179] which added ((Use dmy dates)) to an article. This doesn't appear to be on the bot's list of tasks, so while I'm not objecting, I'm concerned that it's impossible for another editor to know whether this is SmackBot behaving as desired, or if it's malfunctioning and needs to be shut off. me_and (talk) 11:30, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
+++
Rich, thanks for making the picture on the Douglass High School - Kingsport article. When I uploaded the picture originally, it was huge and I had no way to make it smaller.
I would like to upload more pictures, but the resolution of the camera is rather high. Can you tell me how to lower it, or could I send you the pictures and you do it? I would appreciate it. I'd like for it to conform to WIKI standards, but I've a novice at adding pics to anything. Please get back to me at: douglassriverview@gmail.com Thanks!
Calvin
Hi there. Do you have time to please delete this subpage which I created last year and completely forgot about it? Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 19:56, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Could you explain the rationale behind using DEFAULTSORT only to capitalise the first letter in the second word of articles with >1 word titles? JFW | T@lk 22:37, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Generally, in order to sort categories without regard to case, and people by family name.
No, the name listed in the category will be the name of the article,
Diacritics are sorted differently from normal letters so they are replaced with the nearest typographical equivalent in the sort key.
There are many exceptions where specific categories have therr own sorting rules. These are best dealt with by giving each category entry its own explicit sort key.
There are also a few exceptions where numbers are best expressed in leading-zero numeric format rather than words or normal ordinals (third or 3rd might become 3, 03 or 003, depending on the nature of the article).
Hi Rich -I notice that in October last year (yeah - strange that it wasn't noticed earlier) SmackBot added both ((EAntarctica-geo-stub)) and ((Antarctica-stub)) to a bunch of geo-stubs. They should have had only the geo-stub, since the other one is redundant to them. Any chance of a quick bot-run to find anything tagged with both and remove the generic one? Cheers, Grutness...wha? 01:01, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
(Copied back ) Do you have an example? Rich Farmbrough, 01:07, 8 September 2010 (UTC).
I need data to reduce reparsing in AWB. For example I need reports like Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_17#Handling_format_parameter_after_removal_of_dead_end_in_references and Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_17#Adding_bullets_AND_removing_break_lines. Or cases like this one.
If you have any please report on AWB's bug page or my talk page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:46, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi
I notice on AWB's page you said that you had to install a new directory to get it to work. Can I ask how you did this? At the minute it won't even let me install :( --5 albert square (talk) 22:04, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there any way to stop SmackBot from doing this? It's defaultsorted Big Kenny as "Kenny, Big" several times. "Big Kenny" is treated as a stage name, not a first-lastname combo (his real middle name is Kenneth), so it should stay sorted under B. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 19:14, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
[180] and the two edits following. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:11, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
mtx stand for mazda transmission standard
75 is actually the ft/lb rating of the trans. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.227.148.56 (talk) 07:51, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot does a great job. However, I am puzzled by a change in build 513. I am curious what prompted adding code to change "cite" to "Cite" in the citation template. According to Template:Cite news: "All parameter names must be lower case." In a recent SmackBot edit to Lambert-St._Louis_International_Airport this edit occured. I also vaguely remember another bot recently changing "Cite" to "cite" in another article. --Dan Dassow (talk) 14:05, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to leave a message on the bot's talk page but it seems to be protected. Would it be possible to add ((userspace draft)) to the list of templates to which the bot adds dates? The Article Wizard covers most new drafts, but occasionally the template is added manually without the date parameter. I've asked at the template talk page about the advisability of it, but nobody has responded so I'm going to be bold and just request it. Thanks. 69.181.249.92 (talk) 03:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
UB-7 is found in August 2010 in Black Sea 15 miles south of Varna. First it was taught that this is S-34 /С-34/ Russian submarine sunk in 1942, but later it was found that this is UB-7 / sunk September 1916. Video: http://dnesplus.bg/VideoNews.aspx?n=502100
My e-mail: i.l.bekyarov@gmail.com
Bekyarov —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.190.193.153 (talk) 06:42, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Why does this change ((flagicon)) away from the direct transclusion to the redirect ((Flag icon))? example. Thanks, Rambo's Revenge (talk) 10:34, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
I am getting tired of seeing AWB or bot edits turning an unreferenced tag on a living people categorised page into a BLPunreferenced tag without checking that the article did actually lack references and the living person cat was valid. ie this article has references, so BLP sources is the appropriate tag to use. Please take full responsibility for your AWB edits, don't just assume both the tag and the cat are valid, and I'm going to call for a block on any bot that does likewise. Make a database list and go through it manually, if you want to, but please stop putting incorrect tags on articles.The-Pope (talk) 05:45, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
It is correct to say that the tag is wrong, however in this case it is the unref part of it that is wrong, not the BLP part. There's no reason we can't fix some unref. to refimprove (I thought we already did). Clearly we must assume that the BLP identifiers are correct, we need to err on the side of caution with BLP. Z-Bot has converting to BLP-unref as a specific task and Erik9-Bot tagged a large number (many htousands) articles as unreferenced, with very high accuracy - I was able to review that group automatically and remove several thousand that had had references added since. In short, what a bot can do (with moderate effort) is:
Automated systems cannot, without a lot of effort,
This means that of the six tag states an article can be in a bot can move articles only into five, and not from each of the other states.
From/To | Unref BLP | Refimprove BLP | Referenced BLP | Unref | Refimprove | Referenced |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unref BLP | No change | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Refimprove BLP | No | No change | No | No | No | No |
Referenced BLP | Yes | No | No change | No | No | No |
Unref | Yes | Yes | No | No change | Yes | No |
Refimprove | No | Yes | No | No | No change | No |
Referenced | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No change |
This is quite limited, and the agents currently running are even more conservative than this in their changes. I think that on the basis of this, it right to say that what has happened is an invalid tag has been replaced with another invalid tag, and it is also correct to say that a less conservative agent could have changed this to the valid tag you chose eventually (BLP sources) although spotting references conservatively would not guarantee that it would always be able to make such a change when it would be OK to do so. (For example, unref tagging will not tag an article with external links, but conversely an article with external links will not be promoted from unref to refimprove, let alone referenced.) I will look into this. Rich Farmbrough, 12:49, 9 September 2010 (UTC).
[Post-archive note:Of course the type was my (human) typo while investigating the editor's queries. RF.]
Rich, why did SmackBot remove this: (([[Template:Wikibooks|Wikibooks|How to reduce energy usage]])) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Energy_conservation_in_the_United_States&diff=380584021&oldid=380538082 and mark is deceptively as merely m (Date maintenance tags and general fixes: build 478:) --Elvey (talk) 21:59, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Someone has been deleting sources and references from a page about me. If there is a hidden reason for silent blindside attacks on a disabled pensioner you might want to let me know. Any claim made about me can be confirmed by talking to real people on the phone or emailing them. I want direct contact with the people who are editing reputable sources and a reference to an article in a News Limited publication. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dupisha (talk • contribs) 09:54, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, why is SmackBot removing stub templates from stubs? ((Uncategorized stub)) doesn't encompass what kind of stub a stub is. 70.29.210.72 (talk) 02:10, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Howdy. When you create new cats for articles with dead ext. links, you may want to add some parameters to fix what is displayed.--Rockfang (talk) 07:47, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
I noticed you tried to tag Category:Anotheca for deletion WP:CfD has the instructions for doing this. The same may apply to Corythomantis, Itapotihyla, Nyctimantis, and Scarthyla. All have a page in them. Rich Farmbrough, 04:33, 12 September 2010 (UTC).
Is there a good reason that Smack Bot is replacing transclusions of ((WPMILHIST)) with ((WikiProject Military History)) when the former is the correct title of the template? If there was a change in policy, we should have been informed of it, don't you think... -MBK004 04:54, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
It's dating the tag "((Use British English))" and doing minor clean-up at the same time. Rich Farmbrough, 18:23, 12 September 2010 (UTC).
Hi, with these edits you moved Template:Mirror to Template:Wikipedia mirror with edit summary "Clarify - and free name" and then protected the original template with "Protected Template:Mirror: Highly visible template ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))". Please could you reconsider those edits? The Template:Mirror mirror had been in use for some time in all the subpages of Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks. The move has caused the history of those pages to be practically unreadable. I agree with clarifying the name Mirror" to Wikipedia Mirror, but I do not agree with freeing the name, instead a redirect would be better. I had been using the history of those Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks subpages to determine when certain websites get entered there, and now the old versions are frankly messed up. I find it disturbing that such a template can be usurped without discussion. I do hope you will seriously consider this request. -84user (talk) 21:26, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I saw your reply at Wikipedia talk:Mirrors and forks/Abc#Blogspot and I determined that this revision is the once copied in the blog posting. Since you are a significant contributor to the article, you should file the copyright complaint, as I have not edited the article. RJaguar3 | u | t 03:57, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
You removed the Enron Trader Tapes section form California electricity crisis article. I wonder how it violates NPOV? —Preceding unsigned comment added by VinnieCool (talk • contribs) 04:11, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Line 188. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:38, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Why didn't you bother to discuss this with me before raising a DRV? Spartaz Humbug! 15:07, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Rich. Its been borught to my attnetion that the Counties of China by province are in need of cleaning. There are just too many parameters that will never be used. They need cleaning and condensing like this. Are you up for the task? If possible if the infobox doesn't ave a county map can you copy the one from German wikipedia, they generally have the county maps. Dr. Blofeld 12:15, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Yep, all in commons. See Xinjiang maps and locator maps of china. I believe the naming system is consistent too which may make the task easier. Dr. Blofeld 12:36, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hmm... Rich Farmbrough, 12:43, 14 September 2010 (UTC).
Some don't have infoboxes, mainly Sichuan I think like Garzê County etc. The majority do have infoboxes though. If you could ensure they are consistent with infoboxes and clean ones at that this would be great. NOte though that Prefectures are the second level divisions, counties are the third -level divisions. Dr. Blofeld 12:48, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Scarily there are 47,000 towns/townships in China and like a 1 million villages. Here is our current coverage of townships. About 15 out of 47,000. And some people think wikipedia has an article on everything known to man... Dr. Blofeld 13:41, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, certainly the Internet issue is partly the reason but actually the Hudong Encyclopedia has detailed info about most of the counties of China online in Chinese and lists the townships and summary of them at the bottom of the articles and often has population figures. So technically is is possible to compile lists, the problem is that half of them translate too literally into some thing like "Chicken Head Town" etc so only a few townships names can properly be compiled. Unless you speak fluent Chinese and are willing to list all 47,000 then at present its not possible. At some point I hope a comprehensive source will become available in english to just copy the names and make all of the lists. Dr. Blofeld 13:52, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
If you really look you may find some info about townships like this. But as I say finding the resources to make a full 47,000 list is a tremendous task. Dr. Blofeld 14:08, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
DNB? Well it seems there is general consensus that these articles are wanted, the main problem is transferring the texts and making them encyclopedia worthy with minimal manual work and adding a link to ONDB. If you can devise a way to do so and Charles,myself and the rest of the new project are content with it go for it. Dr. Blofeld 14:13, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Monsterous. List of townships of Anhui. At least if I can get the Chinese names written down I can hopefully motivate a Chinese speaking wikipedian to translate properly. This will take months to do but if I can get some support from WikiProject China to help it is possible. As far as I can see there is no english language documentation of Chinese townhips by province, perfecture and county on the Internet so this is a must I think. Dr. Blofeld 15:12, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Can you not remove image skyline, image map, area and population parameters? Those at least are important...At some point some has to add the population an area to the infoboxes so if the parameters are missing it makes it doubly time consuming. I just meant a trim like in the example above rather than removing all unused paramters... Also the documemtnation is showing see here. Dr. Blofeld 17:10, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Please respond and tell me why you removed the population, area and image map parameters? Dr. Blofeld 19:42, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
You've actually made it harder now to go through and add the basic info, I kind of asked for you to give it a hair cut and only remove the extra parameters that will never be filled not the bare essential ones, but you've given it a Blofeld hair do so to speak!!!... Also if I want to add the translit info now I have to go and find the name parameter just to list it. Instead of taking 30 seconds to add the info now it will at least 4 times as long. I thought I said that they need cleaning and condensing like this. I gave you that example for a specific reason. I wanted them like this so the info can be added and then anybody can add the other info at a later date. Dr. Blofeld 19:58, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
If you could add the essential parameters from here and copy those into the infoboxes that would at least allow me to go through adding the population/area data and map...20:12, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Well those are the parameters I really need bare minimum. The full sized templates did take up a ridiculous amount of kb but I really do need to have the image skyline, image map, population and area and chinese translit parameters empty ready for adding the data... Dr. Blofeld 21:05, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Almost but they were in the wrong order. Try http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qujiang_District,_Quzhou&action=edit. That would be perfect I think. Dr. Blofeld 21:10, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Excellent job Rich. Thanks for that. I'll begin the slow arduous process of adding data to the infoboxes shortly... Dr. Blofeld 10:12, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Please stop changing instances of [Ff]lagicon
to Flag icon
, as the latter is a redirect to the main template. A template with hundreds of thousands of transclusions needs to be brought to WP:Requested moves to change its name, but to be honest, I think that well-known template names like ((reflist)), ((navbox)), ((flagicon)), ((nowrap)), etc. are perfectly acceptable with names that aren't separate words. Thanks — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:42, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
This is a courtesy note to thank you for your assistance in date-sorting, and inform you that I have now written a script, whose objective is to render article dates compliant with WP:MOSNUM. FYI, it incorporates regex code written by User:Lightmouse and User:Plastikspork. --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:43, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
What was it you were saying about speaking to Charles? Dr. Blofeld 15:35, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
There is another contributor who slapped a ((userspace draft)) template on every subpage under User:Geo Swan, even though I asked, well over a dozen times not to. I asked, on WP:Village pump (technical), and had confirmed, to my satisfaction, that this template was redundant if a page already had a __NOWIKI__ on it.
I noticed that you tuned up many of those tags. I suspect you wouldn't have bothered if you had known that someone other than the author had applied those tags, and that those subpages were all, already, protected by a __NOWIKI__.
Do you concur with the advice I was given in the final answer to my question: "((userspace draft)) is the only one of the 3 that provides a visual note in addition to noindexing; if you don't care about the box, then yes, its redundant."
Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 16:53, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Let's be clear here there is no community consensus not to use the NOINDEX tag and ((userspace draft)) together. Geo does not own these pages and some of these pages might be even better deleted. Consider also that there are about 700 of these pages. Visual warnings are important as these are all biased controversial information about Guantanamo and the war on terror and we have to make sure that our readers do not get confused. IQinn (talk) 23:58, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey there
I've tweaked your template to disambiguate it. I think it is working, and I've checked a few times, but I thought you might be able to take a look. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 05:14, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
In regards to "1995 Palo Verde, Arizona derailment ", I have solid knowledge of the incident and wished to provided two reliable print sources to back up my information.
The previous editor removed my edits by stating "dead links"...but then suddenly...content not deemed reliable. How was content determined not to be reliable if it's a dead link? Everything was sourced accordingly, if it's not, then it was removed by someone. Here is the link, it is 100% valid. http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/165145/
I thought much more of Wiki, now I think it's total garbage. If editors don't like the content or it's too controversial, they remove it, even though facts are only being stated. What a joke WIKI is!!!!!!
Mark99199 (talk) 15:55, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
What is even more of a joke is the current version of information has absolutely NO references listed whatsoever, so how can you post this original version in the first place with no references to back up any of the article???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark99199 (talk • contribs) 16:05, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
7 months, 3 non-edits but nobody noticed an obvious vandalism in [181]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:30, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Battle of the bots: Reflinks vs. SmackBot. Thank you.--70.130.130.6 (talk) 04:48, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
I thought u were the 1 who contributed to the vandalism of TDWT. I'm sorry. (RealityShowsRock (talk) 17:10, 18 September 2010 (UTC))
SmackBot added "September", which is an error. ((Update after|2010|September|15))
Should have added "09" instead. ((Update after|2010|09|15))
Regards, --Bob K31416 (talk) 05:07, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
"Thanks for adding the merge notice. You have to separate the "date=" with a | ... "|date=September 2010))" or the system will think you are using a parameter called "this article is also about him date". Rich Farmbrough, 05:38, 20 September 2010 (UTC)."
Would you be so kind as to fix this for me? I've tried, and I can't figure out what I might be doing wrong. Worc63 (talk) 23:37, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Per AWB#2 - "Don't edit too quickly; consider opening a bot account if you are regularly making more than a few edits a minute." Maybe you should setup a bot to do these changes. Thanks. Lugnuts (talk) 07:25, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
Back in May you were able to filter the March 12 dump for unformated IPA.(discussion) I've finally gotten through it (actually, 9 articles to go, which I've asked for help with). Would you be able to do that again, with a more recent dump?
Slightly different search:
ɐɑɒɓɔɕɖɗɘɚɛɜɝɞɟɠɡɢɣɤɥɦɧɨɩɪɫɬɭɮɯɰɱɲɳɴɵɶɷɸɹɺɻɼɽɾɿʀʁʂʃʄʅʆʇʈʉʊʋʌʍʎʏʐʑʒʓʔʕʖʗʘʙʚʛʜʝʞʟʠʡʢʣʤʥʦʧʨʩʪʫʬʭʮˈˌːˑʰ˥ʷ˦ʲ˧ʱ˨ˠ˩ˤˀᵊⁿˡʼꜛꜜ
(No schwa this time--too many false hits--and adding some diacritics and tone marks. Is it possible to search for a combining diacritics as well, such as the ones on k̚t̪s̺s̻θ̼s̬n̥ŋ̊a̤a̰ə̆ə̯ə̃z̴ə̋ə́ə̄ə̀ə̏ə̌ə̂t͡ʃβ̞r̝?)
Thanks for your help, if you've got the time. — kwami (talk) 11:36, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
I seem to be hitting rather a lot of pages... the above are random examples. Rich Farmbrough, 12:56, 21 September 2010 (UTC).
Not sure you have the right β there? it's picking up thousands of additional articles. Rich Farmbrough, 19:14, 21 September 2010 (UTC).
About your recent edits, just so you know, large scale semi-automated page creations must be approved by BAG at WP:BRFA, please see Wikipedia:BOTPOL#Mass_article_creation. Cheers, - Kingpin13 (talk) 23:03, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Line 243. It's also weird that between two edits of SmackBot there wasn't any other edit and a "the" was removed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:32, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
OK, the replacing "catmain" with "catmore" was probably not necessary. But "Catmore" is the preferred template for use in the category namespace, while "main" is the preferred template for article and project namespace, so I stand by those edits. I had requested a bot task for this a few months ago, but at the time there were no bots available for the task. --Eastlaw talk ⁄ contribs 03:48, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I've noticed that Reflinks converts ((Cite web)) to ((cite web)) while SmackBot converts ((cite web)) to ((Cite web)), which seems rather silly. Is it possible to get these two to agree on one case? --AussieLegend (talk) 07:18, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
You were so kind to clean up June Card, thank you. But please explain, for me to learn, why you changed the order of references from oper/papageno to papageno/oper? Please reply here, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:52, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
When doing your cleanup you remove spacing from section headers. Why do you do that? ΔT The only constant 21:27, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I happened to click on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough/dabpages while I was looking what else links to an article which changed name. It appears clicking on that slowed my browser down that much that I believed it was completely hung. What is that list for? Any way to make it more invisible? Just imagine, people still use metered connections in some cases. Richiez (talk) 22:02, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
((Flag icon)) is a redirect to ((Flagicon)), but SmackBot (talk · contribs) changes it. Why? Armbrust Talk Contribs 11:48, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. In this edit by Smack, it removes the spacing between the equal signs and the header text. Whereas, the default format is with spaces (use the auto add header link to see for yourself). So just thought if it would be better to, I don't know, maybe recode the bot to not do that? ;) Thanks! Rehman(+) 12:54, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Candidate has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Magioladitis (talk) 12:17, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for all your proofreading and copy editing that makes Wikipedia a higher-quality encyclopedia! -- Ssilvers (talk) 13:47, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
You may want to adjust SmackBot's "general fixes" regarding the rewrite of links to the family of IMDb templates; they are currently all spelled "IMDb …". -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 15:34, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
((Mirror thread|7357))
The related Category:Cathead has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. |
SmackBot corrected a clarify tag in Scosta. This is how I incorrectly added the tag - ((Clarify| September 2010)). But is how SmackBot corrected - ((Clarify| September 2010|date=September 2010)). btw - What do you think of this link for bork. Slightsmile (talk) 21:11, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Like you did here (and presumably elsewhere). They are standardized to lowercase all across Wikipedia. Thanks. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:21, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Again, could you stop capitalizing those templates? It's really annoying. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 10:00, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
← You're still doing it as far as I can tell? [182] Please stop capitalizing template names - if the editors who put it there made a human decision to use small case, you should not use an automated process to change it absent consensus to do so. –xenotalk 13:58, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
WILL YOU STOP DOING THIS?. If you keep acting like a deficient bot, I swear next time I'm going to ask an admin to block you like they would a deficient bot. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:14, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello Rich, I've undone your edits to Template:Unreferenced because they were causing huge red letters to appear on articles that Template:Unreferenced was transcluded on. Regards, Airplaneman ✈ 03:47, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
121.54.29.98, who you blocked for 3 hours, is at it again, adding redundant cleanup tags with dates from 2-3 years ago, interwiki links to nonexistent articles, and linked dates inside ((Persondata))
. I got BOLD and blocked him for 31 hours instead of going through the motions at ANI, but if you think it would be more appropriate I can open up a thread there just to get consensus. rʨanaɢ (talk) 16:41, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Originally sourced and properly cited'Rahstrapati Award' a category of national awards before 1968 box info was deleted - Citation requested to support the editor named Shshshsh 24 hrs ago claim support needed. Please protect National Film Award article by vandalism list of national awards among 'Rashtrapati Award 'deleted in the last 24 hrs by that editor please try to undo the edit if he again commits to vandalism. support needed from you thank you. please protect if Shshshsh deletes the National award list again.Report him to the administrator full support requested, your originally edited National award article was completely deleted through vandalism by the user 'Shshshsh ' support requested to (Prabhu6 (talk) 12:02, 25 September 2010 (UTC)). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Prabhu6 (talk • contribs)
E.g. here the expansion of ((lifetime)) can lead to duplicate categories and DEFAULTSORT. Would you add logic for this (could invoke MetaDataSorter after such an expansion to clean up). Rjwilmsi 16:46, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Can you do a similar run for Burma like you did with Chinese counties cleaning the infoboxes. Basically the infoboxes of the towns and Townships of Burma need stripping like this. They are far too bloated and empty. ALso many of them contain "religion=Buddhism and an empty government parameter which should be removed as in the Tuimu example and replaced with the time zone given. Also the division names need linking properly. If you see Tuimu now you'll see what I mean. Can you go through the town by division/state Category:Populated places in Burma and clean them and the Townships of Burma. Note that some of them are called states not divisions so in the infobox you just need to change Division to "State". Please though can you at least keep the very basic paramters like image skyline, pushpin map option, area, population and altitude. You can remove flag/shield option too as obtaining those are unlikely.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:00, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Any response?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:24, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Nice one. That'll do. Don't worry about any more as I'm gradually going through anyway and replacing the infoboxes/cleaning up the articles.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:34, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
When Smackbot is adding categories such as Category:Living people or birth and death year categories to an article that's tagged as being uncategorized, would it be possible to also have it switch the tag from ((uncategorized)) to ((morecat))? Not a big deal if not, but I thought it worth asking anyway, because I've come across a few articles today where that would have been helpful. Bearcat (talk) 23:19, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
// skip article if contains any template except for stub templates // because templates may provide categories/references foreach (Match m in WikiRegexes.Template.Matches(articleText)) { if (!(WikiRegexes.Stub.IsMatch(m.Value) || WikiRegexes.Uncat.IsMatch(m.Value) || WikiRegexes.DeadEnd.IsMatch(m.Value) || WikiRegexes.Wikify.IsMatch(m.Value) || WikiRegexes.Orphan.IsMatch(m.Value) || WikiRegexes.ReferenceList.IsMatch(m.Value) || WikiRegexes.NewUnReviewedArticle.IsMatch(m.Value) || m.Value.Contains("subst"))) { summary = PrepareTaggerEditSummary(); return articleText; } }
In this edit SmackBot incorrectly tagged an article as uncategorized — there is a comment at the bottom of the article clearly state that the appropriate categories are present at redirects rather than at the article itself, but the comment is obviously human-readable only. Is there a way to automatically inform bots such as SmackBot that the categorization of articles such as this one is not problematic, to prevent it from coming around and making the same bad edit again? —David Eppstein (talk) 06:19, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich I added references to an article I am working on titled "Youssef Elsisi", could you please let me know if it satisfies the notability and/or references for wiki. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Regards.
The Redirect Barnstar | ||
Despite our disagreements on other sundry matters, I would like to extend my sincere thanks and gratitude for generating the AWB rules for the list of WikiProject banner redirects used in my WikiProject shelling task. –xenotalk 14:33, 26 September 2010 (UTC) |
At Carbon dioxide, you used AWB to change multiple occurrences of "cite web" to "Cite web". Why? The cite web template explicitly uses the lower case version. Q Science (talk) 15:49, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
all redirect to ((Cite web)), and from the 6 September I started to pick these up. Capitalising is an added bonus (the majority of templates are capitalised), although there are some people that have objected, notably Amalthea for reasons of watchlist noise (which seems valid), for that reason I have created a new manual version of the clean-up rules that skips some of these corrections. Rich Farmbrough, 04:20, 27 September 2010 (UTC).
((cite web|
to ((Cite web|
. I think I see your reasoning, and can see it as a good guideline to improve readability in meta templates. Not so much in articles though.I must have mis-read what was said above. The bot is still changing "cite journal" to "Cite journal". Also "cite news", "cite web", and more. Please stop. Q Science (talk) 19:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I just wondered why you interchanges ((flagicon)) with its redirect ((Flag icon)), like you did here and here amongst many? Anyway, I thought that general Wikipedia consensus is you don't make an edit to a page just to update the template name, according to WP:R? lil2mas (talk) 21:25, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Twice in this month, I've found some funky writing, and look to the talk page of the article, only to discover that the Kaki King article was being edited by one of her record label executives, using a copyrighted photo which had been hanging in King's MySpace ..."with King's permission". ?!! Today, the Easy Star All-Stars page had an album inserted into their article. A photo of former members from that band that I uploaded a year ago to Wikimedia Commons came under scrutiny by a new user at Commons, who asked to delete the image "because the people in the photo were no longer in the band". (I should have guessed this was the problem).. my response was to ask whether I should delete photographs of Mick Taylor since he no longer plays with The Rolling Stones! I was incredulous that anyone would ask to delete a photo that could be used in discussing the history of the band from Commons!! Today, I read on the talk page that the primary editor of what is a redundant article- with the text merely repeating the lead-- identifies themself as a new editor but never registered in the usual manner so it's not possible to leave a template on their talk page if they haven't got one! What to do with these people??!!--Leahtwosaints (talk) 01:59, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough/Talk Archive Mega 2! an article you have contributed to, has been selected for the Wikipedia Version 0.8. offline release on DVD and iPhone. If you would like to make any last minutes changes or improvements, you are most welcome to do so. Deadline is midnight UTC on Monday, 11 October. See also: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Worcestershire/Archive 1#Worcestershire articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release.--Kudpung (talk) 04:47, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
BTW if you're watching my tp anyway, I'll drop these silly tb templates.
Hello. Concerning your edit here, one minor point: Clicking on the icon "Level 2 headline" above gives automatically "== abc ==", not "==abc==", hence you should adapt your general fix accordingly or you will find yourself always editing against the general format trend. Regards Gun Powder Ma (talk) 10:02, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Rich
You posted an Orphan article notice on the article I posted about Radio City 1386AM any chance you can take another look I have added some more links just curious how many links are required for an article to not be classified an orphan?
Thanks David —Preceding unsigned comment added by DABenji (talk • contribs) 14:27, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks a lot, new to the Wiki World so not sure on the etiquette of removing what others have added.
David —Preceding unsigned comment added by DABenji (talk • contribs) 14:36, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Please, check the article "Tjaarke Maas", which was improved. since you tagged it. Thanks (Yuryo (talk) 16:18, 27 September 2010 (UTC))
Thanks Rich, for giving me a hand. Its looks better now.(93.45.20.221 (talk) 23:32, 27 September 2010 (UTC))
Hidden maintenance categories don't make an article properly categorized, and neither do the presence of categories on redirects. If SWAT and WADS conferences doesn't have at least one visible content category directly on it, then it's still an uncategorized article that needs to be tagged as an uncategorized article. Bearcat (talk) 18:42, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I got the following warning message in preview mode of my userpage. I'm not sufficiently technically-minded to appreciate what it means. Any help in deciphering it would be most appreciated:
Warning: This page contains too many expensive parser function calls. It should have less than 500 calls, there are now 546 calls.
I suspect it may have to do with the cleanup category boxes I just included there. Thanks. --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 01:32, 28 September 2010 (UTC) ((Dating maintenance categories progress box))
Hi Dude! Made a little AWB re-work (month days) for you here (See history record) with an edit conflict situation. I got most of it (your updates to the old) manually... but had to balance a stale edit I'd started hours back and left in my que. If it matters run the BOT again to lengthen those month names! Be well. // FrankB 01:37, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Regarding your recent edit to British Waterways article. I noticed that AWB changed the template names from cite to Cite. Reason for commenting is that the two cites I added last week used the new popup cite template tool in the editor: cite is being added by this new tool, rather than Cite. This would seem to be creating extra work for you (well, for AWB!) -- EdJogg (talk) 08:41, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Rich. Two things:
Do you want to correspond with me e-mail? I from Czech Republic and I want to be better in English. Write me on my takl page. Hi K123456 (talk) 10:36, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
192.93.164.28 (talk) 15:20, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey, Mr Farmbrough. Does Neuroscience stubs count as a category? Basket of Puppies 15:31, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
HI RIch I have another task request. Can you go through the Category:Townships of Burma by area and simply add Category:Township capitals of Burma to the capital/seat of the townships. Note don't add this category to the articles on townships themsevles but to the "principal towns". Effectively it should produce a very useful category of the main cities and towns in Burma and allow people to work through them later like Homalin etc. There should be over 300 although some of the townships and capitals have yet to be started majority are in place though.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:04, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Mmm maybe I'd better do it manually, give me a good chance to see what needs doing anyway..♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:01, 28 September 2010 (UTC)