A tag has been placed on The Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade (Export) (1972), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. Moreover, please add more verifiable sources, not only 3rd party sources. 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.
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to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Abductive (reasoning) 05:17, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
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Can you redo your fixes to The Hands Resist Him ? I reverted YouTube links, which we don´t use, but had to revert your edits also in order to do that. Thanks. --Againme (talk) 20:26, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
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FYI, you may now speedy Jacob Barron that you once tagged uncategorized. It appears that neither the league nor the team's site are aware of the guy's existence. The claimed awards were issued to other people. And the real (the other) Jacob Barron is a very skinny kid playing American football for UC Davis [1].
These uncategorized pages are one big can of worms. East of Borschov 18:40, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Rich,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom_Corridor_Genealogy_Project
I'm working hard on the article above. It is though my first time working with wiki. In the past few days I responded to the notablity comment in the article with adding many secondary references.
What am I doing wrong - why isn't the notice going away.
Hope you can help me. I'm currently not logged in, but my user is Ninabach2111.
Best,
Nina —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.36.20.102 (talk) 18:43, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
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rev 7199 adds ((Dead link)) to the list of templates that date is added when missing in AWB's general fixes. This will help you reduce SmackBot's extra code a bit. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:31, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Excellent. I have a feature request based on - I think - Bearcat's suggestion. That is to end-tag ((More categories)) where only birth/death, living cats are present. Rich Farmbrough, 16:31, 30 September 2010 (UTC).
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What's up with this page. I'm assuming it was created by accident. Does it need moved somewhere or deleted? --D•g Talk to me/What I've done 23:20, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
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FYI: Template talk:Pufc#Date error and this diff. I've changed ((puf)) so that at least new additions will use the new date parameter and have just about finished going through all transclusions to fixe the date/log parameter where it was passed incorrectly, but there's at least one bot and possibly some scripts that will still use the log parameter.
Amalthea 21:13, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
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An IP has removed the references section, if someone could fix that. Rich Farmbrough, 11:09, 29 September 2010 (UTC).
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The article Live At the Blue Note 11/14/2000 has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the ((dated prod))
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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing ((dated prod))
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Anyone that is wondering I will get back to that later. Rich Farmbrough, 17:40, 1 October 2010 (UTC).
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Rich hi :) Can you give your comments here please? Wifione ....... Leave a message 06:59, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
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To stop Smackbot, the instructions given at User talk:SmackBot are to place the string "STOP" in that page and a new section link is provided to do this. This "STOP" string continues to be the present, but the bot is making edits[2][3] including the very capitalisation changes under discussion[4]. Making edits while stopped appears to be a bug: please could you either (a) adjust the documentation to clearly state how to disable SmackBot, (b) fix the bot to not make article space edits when intentionally stopped following the instructions. —Sladen (talk) 14:52, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Yes. Firstly three edits is not "running" in any real sense of the word, there was not as Xeno said and "ongoing dispute over the nature of the edits" except with regards to the silicate=>Silicate which I missed at the time and others missed since, and is not really what the dispute is about, although peopel are trying to enlarge the scope aa much as they can,it would seem. The dispute was about the "Cite" templates - and even then at three different levels, one concerning diff noise in user edits, one diff noise in bot edits, and one "idontlikeit" addressing the actual change itself. I do respect all three arguments, the difficulty comes, as so often, when trying to hold a discussion with several people who hold the different views at the same time. And it is compounded when some of them jump into other threads on the page and try and weave all the disparate issues -even mild mannered requests for information- into a tapestry hung from a single nail. Xeno's comment to a dead thread (in which, incidentally, I had said i had no objection to the other editor's proposals, and then admitted I was wrong on the content of a guideline) was a case in point - as was your comment, I believe, on a thread about correcting dates. I made some attempts to refactor the page but decided it was simpler to just restart, as I had read everyone's comments, and everything would be on the archive page - which is clearly signed at the top of this page. I posted the nature of the problem in the top thread of this page. Doubtless I should have simply persevered with refactoring the page, or been clearer in the new thread that that was why I was archiving the page. Easy to be wise after the event.
Furthermore you and others misunderstood the nature of "stopping" which I have explained above. The purpose of leaving a message is to stop the bot not to block it. The bot was stopped. I tested the possibility of restarting a minor task, which does not touch Cite templates, and discarded it after a couple of edits, as too complex to do straight away. Not unreasonable actions. Rich Farmbrough, 20:31, 30 September 2010 (UTC).
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See here. –xenotalk 21:01, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
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Any idea what's up with the cleanup categories? Most of them are populated but redlinked. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 22:17, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
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Ho-oh should possibly dab to Fenghuang. Rich Farmbrough, 16:26, 30 September 2010 (UTC). --
ETA 2011-01-08 21:36:43... ?Rich Farmbrough, 16:39, 30 September 2010 (UTC). -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Femto Bot (talk • contribs) 14:30, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Could you spare a moment to comment at wp:ani (the section with your name on it). I know you are very busy man, but it was the reason you were unblocked for ;) Sf5xeplus (talk) 22:35, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
was just lying to get around the block
It's fairly evident that you guys will keep plugging away forever at this - it will be "Why did you split my comment on your talk page?" .. "when replying to the RFC about refactoring other people's comments you said "xx".. but .. Aha ! I have a diff proving that you were in fact editing an article on Chinese gunpowder at the time." If you actually have anything cogent to say, say it. Rich Farmbrough, 17:38, 1 October 2010 (UTC).
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((unblock|To join the discussions at ANI. Rich Farmbrough, 19:25, 30 September 2010 (UTC).))
Yes. Rich Farmbrough, 20:00, 30 September 2010 (UTC).
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It was in CAT:CSD. Nyttend (talk) 12:21, 2 October 2010 (UTC) --- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Femto Bot (talk • contribs) 16:20, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Recently, the AWB bot has been making totally unnecessary capitalization changes. These were being "discussed" on Rich Farmbrough's page, here and here. He said that he fixed the problem, but a day later, it was back. When brought up again, his response was to blank (archive) the page. Therefore, I request immediate halt to this use of this bot until this issue is addressed. Q Science (talk) 20:54, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Neither the bot nor I are editing at the moment, nor will we be for some time. I have revised the ruleset on Cite templates, as I said. When people start destroying the structure of the talk page the choice is to revert or archive. I had 35 threads, all pretty much dead, it seems reasonable to archive them - all accessible and new messages can still be left. I have now revised the rulset further and removed the Cite templates completely, restoring the status quo ante. Rich Farmbrough, 21:16, 28 September 2010 (UTC).
- Not so the page was approximately
- 2 outdated/test messages
- 1 technical discussion
- 1 thread about a template
- 1 about an IP vandal
- 1 about an apparently deleted item
- 1 about something from 2009
- 2 requests for article fixes
- 1 request for a feature
- 2 discussions about categorization (or not) of WADS and SWAT
- 2 thanks
- 4 notices
- 1 advice of an edit conflict
- 3 request to look at tagged articles
- 1 query about MediaWiki limitations
- 2 error reports
- 2 about the current issue, one an instruction to stop, one a query.
- and 1 *ahem* request to be a pen-pal.
- Rich Farmbrough, 06:32, 29 September 2010 (UTC).
- And 1 about header spacing. Rich Farmbrough, 09:57, 30 September 2010 (UTC).
There are three issues that I see here:
Those three issues, combined with the continuation of this for a long time, has resulted in a block. Unless you can give reasonable explanations for these three points, I see no other way to go except to remain blocked, and if necessary in the long run, a ban from operating automated tasks. (X! · talk) · @490 · 10:45, 29 September 2010 (UTC) OK let me address these:
Rich Farmbrough, 10:11, 30 September 2010 (UTC).
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I've henceforth blocked you from editing until the issues surrounding your unapproved bot are resolved. Despite the much good this bot has had, it's also creating much disruption. Just today, it tagged the Main Page as uncategorized. It took 12 minutes to self-revert. It is adding spacing changes which are clearly not uncontroversial. Despite multiple warnings, it continues to do so. Thus, I have blocked you until you can resolve these issues. (X! · talk) · @924 · 21:11, 28 September 2010 (UTC) --- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Femto Bot (talk • contribs) 17:35, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
I understand people feel strongly about things, but please try to keep your conversations in the appropriate threads. Rich Farmbrough, 20:23, 28 September 2010 (UTC). --
I'm off for a nap. Rich Farmbrough, 14:56, 2 October 2010 (UTC).
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Hello, this was initially an article written to be placed into 'website' catagory. Not sure how or why it changed or if it made it there and was removed or revised, but that is where it originated. I'd love to place it into a few cats but am not sure how to go about doing this at the moment. Your comments and help would be appreciated, thank you. Charvelguy Charvelguy (talk) 18:23, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
The contribution is listed as Thepublicrecord.com thanks, Charvelguy (talk) 20:23, 3 October 2010 (UTC) ---
Thank you! Charvelguy (talk) 17:31, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
[22] Philip Trueman (talk) 17:13, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
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There's no need to change it to a week because the IPs only do that once (it's a coordinated attack also). --Bsadowski1 21:37, 3 October 2010 (UTC) ---
I update my article Youssef Elsisi with categories and added more content and a new section for awards. Please let me know with any feedback. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Selsisi (talk • contribs) 01:55, 4 October 2010 (UTC) ---
Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bible study (Christian) since you contributed to the article.Jaque Hammer (talk) 14:23, 4 October 2010 (UTC) ---
I was looking at instances of "DNB00" in the main namespace, assuming that they should all be made now into uses of ((DNB)) and ((Cite DNB)). One thing that comes up in the search, which was mainly about catching the interwiki style of link s:Smith, John (DNB00) and replacing it, is that in some cases the floruit wikification has got into templates, and throws up a DNB00 as a result of "fl." being linked. I thought that these happenings, however caused, should be tracked down now. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:13, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
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"October 31–1 November 1918"→"31–1 October November 1918"[23] —Sladen (talk) 00:12, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
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Not that this really matters but the sticking point is stuff like
<Replacement> <Find>((\s*(Citation[ _]+style|Cleanup-references|Cleanup-citation|Ref-cleanup|Citationstyle|Citation-style|Refstyle|Reference[ _]+style|Reference-style|Cleanup-refs|Citestyle|Cleanrefs|Refclean|Refsclean|Source[ _]+Style|Sourced[ _]+wrong|Ref-style|Refcleanup) *([\|}\n])</Find> <Replace>((Citation style$2</Replace> <Comment /> <IsRegex>true</IsRegex> <Enabled>true</Enabled> <Minor>false</Minor> <RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions> </Replacement>
If you make this case sensitive you can catch all the [Cc] using the above trick, but you would have to at least split out the R and S templates giving 5 rules - so better to have two.
<Replacement> <Find>((\s*(Citation[ _]+style|Cleanup-references|Cleanup-citation|Ref-cleanup|Citationstyle|Citation-style|Refstyle|Reference[ _]+style|Reference-style|Cleanup-refs|Citestyle|Cleanrefs|Refclean|Refsclean|Source[ _]+Style|Sourced[ _]+wrong|Ref-style|Refcleanup) *([\|}\n])</Find> <Replace>((Citation style$2</Replace> <Comment /> <IsRegex>true</IsRegex> <Enabled>true</Enabled> <Minor>false</Minor> <RegularExpressionOptions></RegularExpressionOptions> </Replacement> <Replacement> <Find>((\s*(citation[ _]+style|cleanup-references|cleanup-citation|ref-cleanup|citationstyle|citation-style|refstyle|reference[ _]+style|reference-style|cleanup-refs|citestyle|cleanrefs|refclean|refsclean|source[ _]+Style|sourced[ _]+wrong|ref-style|refcleanup) *([\|}\n])</Find> <Replace>((citation style$2</Replace> <Comment /> <IsRegex>true</IsRegex> <Enabled>true</Enabled> <Minor>false</Minor> <RegularExpressionOptions></RegularExpressionOptions> </Replacement>
which isn't bad because it's only 569 more rules, not the 5000 odd you would get from breaking out the individual redirects - although the processing time should be roughly the same.
As it happens there is a far more efficient way to do it: but my point is that it is very easy for people from the outside to say "why don't you (or doesn't he) just do X" - like the software engineer who very kindly came and offered advice on building some assertions into the bot, completely missing the fact that AWB is an application, and therefore "sanity checks" like counting characters before/after was not an option. (Well again it is an option, albeit a slightly crazy one, but I only know that because I have been working with AWB regexes for years - and I am not even that good at regexes - although I did get them to perform arithmetic. ) Rich Farmbrough, 17:10, 2 October 2010 (UTC).
<!-- (1) Canonicalisation --> <Find>((\s+(clean(up)?-?(ref(erences|s)|citation)| |(cit(ation|e)|ref(erence)?|source?)-?([Ss]tyle|clean(up)?)| sourced[ _]+wrong)\s*([\|}\n])</Find> <Replace>((citation style$2</Replace> <!-- (2) Spaces to hyphens --> <Find>(((citation) (style)</Find> <Replace>$1-$2</Replace>
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lorem ipsum etc.. Rich Farmbrough, 19:52, 4 October 2010 (UTC).
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These edits did not date any tags and should not have been saved. [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:11, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, I stopped the bot because it is capitalising non-intuitively, see here: Defaultsort for UTF-8 is "UTF-8", not "Utf-8". Apart from changing from correct spelling, since not all UTF-pages are edited, the sorting order ends up wrong in Category:Unicode Transformation Formats. UTF-8 should be before UTF-9. The bot should not over wikipolice the rule (I know the DuBois situation). -DePiep (talk) 14:23, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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I think your edit summary in AWB is not correct any more, e.g. here. -DePiep (talk) 14:32, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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Replied at my talk. Amalthea 20:14, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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((Unblock|Not doing that any more.))
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Testing indicates that GFs will fully date 15% of the undated articles. Rich Farmbrough, 15:13, 4 October 2010 (UTC).
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Hi,
I'm wondering if I could add a mention that Lisa contributed an essay, "A Simple Run," to the 2010 book The Enough Moment, Fighting to End Africa's Worst Human Rights Crimes, by John Prendergast with Don Cheadle (pp. 221-223).
Or is that impossible, because there's not a third-party site that references her contribution to the book?
Thank you!
Nell 01:33, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
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((subt:Autp))
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Could you explain the purposing of putting </noinclude><noinclude> back-to-back.[30][31], still I suppose that it's legal... I am however baffled by the recursive <noinclude><noinclude>[32] on another edit. An adjective distance 237 km should have been 237-kilometre ...[33]. I believe Flag template renaming/recapitalisation/adjustments[34] (as you, not the bot) was something raised very recently, so probably preferable to rescind this before it is raised again/seen as antagonistic.[35] Hope that helps. 34/38 == 89%, passable, although not ideal. —Sladen (talk) 04:27, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
So 34/38 is now 37/38? or 38/38? Enquiring minds want to know. Rich Farmbrough, 14:53, 5 October 2010 (UTC).
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Hi, will you please remove orphan tag now?
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RF, your question at VP/T has been worked upon, maybe you want to take a look. -DePiep (talk) 16:01, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
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...to simply have AWB recognize when templates aren't capitalized and leave them as they were? Ditto = = spacing around headers == ? –xenotalk 14:46, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
I guess you didn't read my reply to Kingpin on ANI? Hang on I will do as you suggest and make a single demonstration edit. Rich Farmbrough, 14:27, 2 October 2010 (UTC).
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
will likely need refining/adjusting. To take an example such as:<Replacement>
<Find>((\s+Infobox </Find>
<Replace>((Infobox </Replace>
<Comment />
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<Minor>falsetrue</Minor>
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
</Replacement>
Please show the code for the "cite" template since that is what started all this. Looking at the example above, it looks like Replace is the problem, not RegularExpressionOptions. Q Science (talk) 16:25, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
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<Replacement> <Find>((\s*(Cite[ _]+bookzzzzzzzzzzzz) *([\|}\n])</Find> <Replace>((Cite bookzzzzzzzzzzzz$2</Replace> <Comment /> <IsRegex>true</IsRegex> <Enabled>true</Enabled> <Minor>false</Minor> <RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions> </Replacement> <Replacement> <Find>((\s*(Cite[ _]+journalzzzzzzzzzzzzz) *([\|}\n])</Find> <Replace>((Cite journalzzzzzzzzzzzzz$2</Replace> <Comment /> <IsRegex>true</IsRegex> <Enabled>true</Enabled> <Minor>false</Minor> <RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions> </Replacement> <Replacement> <Find>((\s*(Cite[ _]+newszzzzzzzzzzzz) *([\|}\n])</Find> <Replace>((Cite newszzzzzzzzzzzz$2</Replace> <Comment /> <IsRegex>true</IsRegex> <Enabled>true</Enabled> <Minor>false</Minor> <RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions> </Replacement> <Replacement> <Find>((\s*(Cite[ _]+webzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) *([\|}\n])</Find> <Replace>((Cite webzzzzzzzzzzzzzz$2</Replace> <Comment /> <IsRegex>true</IsRegex> <Enabled>true</Enabled> <Minor>false</Minor> <RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions> </Replacement> |
even re-formatted the code. Rich Farmbrough, 16:30, 2 October 2010 (UTC).
Proposed version User talk:Rich Farmbrough/SmackBot.xml Rich Farmbrough, 16:52, 2 October 2010 (UTC).
Thanks, that example is exactly what I wanted to see. (I tried the page you suggested, but did (do) not see anything similar.) I think the real problem is obvious - when the code makes the change, it is capitalizing the template name. (In other words, the problem has nothing to do with the search.) As you know, many computer languages are case sensitive. Even though this one is obviously not, it is my opinion that the style used in the examples should be followed by the script. In my opinion, this is less confusing for everyone. In the case of "cite", the examples are all lower case. When I add a citation to an article, I copy and paste the example code and modify that.
When a bot comes along and makes case changes, that is equivalent to telling me that I made a mistake and that I should not do that again.
Putting it another way if I were to say:
it would raise a few eyebrows to say the least. Rich Farmbrough, 09:27, 3 October 2010 (UTC).
Therefore, unless it really is a mistake, and the examples are changed to say that I am making a mistake, I strongly prefer that the code on web pages should also be lower case. I am not suggesting that lower case is better than upper case, but that automated tools should follow the examples. In those cases where the examples use upper case, so should the script.
That said, I propably won't support your changes. Perhaps you should read ANI:Changes to cite template to understand why. Q Science (talk) 01:28, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
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I'm glad my words helped you. I was afraid that they were too self-centered, partly because I don't want to come across as narcissistic but mostly because I have seen this same thing happen too fucking many times. Dedicated, skilled contributors -- who do more than I do here -- one day find that the chronic push-back has overwhelmed them, & in response act rashly not boldly. Maybe this could be avoided if established or senior editors were treated with more respect, but that would likely give certain individuals more power than they should have. (If I simply mention a certain ArbCom case opened in the last few days, will that point you to a sufficient example?) I don't know if that cure would be better than the illness. I'm not even certain that gradually reducing one's responsibilities here is the best cure. But I am certain that opening an account on a website like Wikipedia Review & ranting about the conditions here is not a good solution; better to just throw up our hands & move on than to let the dynamics here control us. -- llywrch (talk) 20:40, 5 October 2010 (UTC) ---
New messages at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot 2, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot 1 and WT:BAG ;). Cheers, - Kingpin13 (talk) 08:10, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Okay, I think I'll just go ahead and approve the 0, 1 and 2 BRfAs, but one more question about the latter two first: Are you just looking for approval for your own user space at the moment, and will you be creating a new BRfA in future if there is sufficient demand to make it worth your time allowing other users to use this system? As to the SmackBot stopping, that's fine, since it's only you who's got to put up with it ;). I do think it's a bit of a shame AWB insists on using this setting, and doesn't allow a separate stop page, but ah well :D (actually, while we're on this subject, I noticed you sometimes use Smackbot to edit User_talk:SmackBot, not really a problem, but not strictly in-line with BOTPOL). Cheers, - Kingpin13 (talk) 11:09, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi there. Do you have time to please take a look at this issue? A new editor is adamantly adding non-notable films into this list. The editor has received several cautions and explanations on his talk page, however he does not respond. With his additions he has vandalised the format of the page. Your administrator's intervention is required. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 18:36, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
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((refimprove))→((Refimprove)).[40] ((unreferenced))→((Unreferenced)).[41][42][43] ((cleanup))→((cleanup))[44] ...and those are all in the first dozen I happened to review just now. I thought we had stopped recapitalisation? Please stop. —Sladen (talk) 14:51, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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cuz its deleting my talk page
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Rich Farmbrough, 11:26, 8 October 2010 (UTC).
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Good day. Could you please investigate why your bot keeps breaking the inter-wiki links, as it keeps doing here (Note the link for "kh" at the bottom of the article.) Thank you. Socrates2008 (Talk) 09:51, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
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I can't believe I'm bothering you with this (my OCD kicking in !) Merriam doesn't have the hyphen in "reelection". I didn't change it back though; the hyphen looks better to me. We have been working real hard on the AL article for a failed FAC. We actually had one comment that we didn't have enough hyphens in the article. Anyway, we are expecting an second copy edit in a week or so, then may do a GAC. Thanks for your review.CheersCarmarg4 (talk) 14:41, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
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You may want to add ((sect-stub)) in your list of redirects, since SmackBot fails to add date to it. Check this diff.
You may better want to send this for deletion since the name is confusing and out of the standards for maintenance templates. Just let me know. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:20, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
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In this edit [46] the bot added bare subst tags again. There were several other edits with the same problem. — Carl (CBM · talk) 14:53, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
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Indeed SB never leaves them in ref tags, and should not anywhere, when it is running it's full ruleset. However since I am running at at GFs only, which is about 15% success rate on this particular task (and of course now it has been stopped, say half way through, will be maybe 8% for the next run, and about .25% for the run after that), the only way I have of checking I am not saving edits which don't date a tag is to look for stuff like ((subst:CURRENTYEAR)) post edit. Once I get the BRFA approved for bringing back the canonicalisation of tags, the hit rate will go back up to 99.5%+ (based on the fact that a run against 1000-ish generally leaves less than 5 undated - and some of those might be skipped). Until then T4700 will triumph. However, be of good cheer, such tags will bring the pages to the attention of SB every time it does a dating run. Rich Farmbrough, 16:37, 6 October 2010 (UTC).
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Hi Rich
I have replied on the Robotics page here. There is a previous discussion in the archive also here.
Sorry I didn't respond sooner but I have been away for just over a month due to holidays and flu and the parameters on the archiving were too short so I only just found your question in the archive.
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This "task" is making an awful lot of edits, around 100 or more just today. Perhaps you should have it report to a subpage, rather than your user talk page? –xenotalk 14:41, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks to Smack Bot for correcting the mistakes made on the citation text in my Allen Timpany update. If only Smack Bot could be used to correct all of Allen Timpany's mistakes the World would be a better place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.75.123.51 (talk) 11:02, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
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Smakbot is normally very useful, however in this edit it has merged references to the same urls and in the process has dumped and confused two different quotations that I had included which where different in each case. I suggest that references with quotes are not merged. I realise that I could go to the length of creating a notes group but that seemed like too much complexity for this modest article. Thanks. Note that I had already left this message on your normal talk page before noticing your request to 'stop the bot' if it was causing damage. PeterEastern (talk) 03:58, 9 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 04:17, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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Smakbot, normally very useful, however in this edit it has merged references to the same urls and in the process has dumped and confused two different quotations that I had included which where different in each case. I suggest that references with quotes are not merged. I realise that I could go to the length of creating a notes group but that seemed like too much complexity for this modest article. Thanks. PeterEastern (talk) 03:58, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Rich! I saw you deleted Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification under criterion C1. The category should have had an empty category template if it didn't. A bot recreated it automatically, but it looks like it was recreated broken. Could you see about restoring the deleted version, or if there was more to it than a simple C1, could you catch me up, please? Thanks. --Bsherr (talk) 16:57, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
I noticed your MirrorBot request a few weeks ago. Very clever! What's the ((cat/Cat affair you speak of? --Bsherr (talk) 18:06, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Oh, please. Big bot runners are backops celebrities. Spend a few months building meta templates with me and tell me how many barnstars you get. Perhaps eventually I'll get one promoted to featured template status? Oh wait... :-) --Bsherr (talk) 19:15, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Yup, Template:Uw-block is "mine" (with Mechamind's support in implementing). I've been trying really hard on Template:BLP (see User:Bsherr/sandbox1), but there's no consensus due to lack of quorum. I like the idea of having a way to call for help with a template. I think the best would be to branch off of Template:Help me. But then I think about the degree to which that might overlap with a prospective "code help" template, which I also think would be a good thing. And then, I think about whether there's enough volume on "Help me" to warrant subtypes in the first place, and that maybe "Help me" should just be promoted as being for template issues too (and code issues). So I'm not sure what's best. --Bsherr (talk) 19:34, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
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Yesterdays revision by you or one of the other Wikipedia savvy editors who did the last modifications requested citations on the use of Eurycoma longifolia in supplements for bodybuilders. I included such citations today. Naturally these citations refer to commercial sites. I worry that participants who patrol new edits may delete these citations as spam. It is not my intention to promote quackery by linking to it. But it's'hard to discuss quackery without citing quackery sites. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.82.66.204 (talk) 11:30, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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(95/100, 95%). —Sladen (talk) 22:21, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
It should be
Numbering by your diffs 1= comma, 2=reason (not-a-bug), 3=Date/date order effect, 4=reason (not-a-bug), 5=url. Rich Farmbrough, 23:55, 5 October 2010 (UTC).
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I've just mentioned your name at the move discussion over at Template talk:Plot2, hope that was ok. Actually, I wouldn't mind your input there, as you can probably offer more insight than I. Regards. PC78 (talk) 23:15, 12 October 2010 (UTC) ---
...is the task approval to replace a template with a template redirect? [53] –xenotalk 15:51, 12 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 15:57, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
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Why are you replacing the WPBiography template with a redirect? [58] Wishful thinking? If you want WPBiography to be moved, initiate a requested move discussion. Ditto ((Film)) [59]. –xenotalk 13:22, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
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As far as I can tell, this bot was unblocked in consideration of your expected adherence to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Rich Farmbrough#Conditions that would satisfy X!, Kingpin13, MSGJ, and others. It appears the bot is once again changing initial-letter capitalization without consensus/approval [60]. This appears to be done by AWB's general fixes or autotagger; that being said, you are responsible for your tools and ensuring they edit in a manner compliant with the unblock conditions. –xenotalk 13:06, 12 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 13:12, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
← Instead of arguing on Talk/talk header, I think we have to start tracking editors who add talk header to talk pages without any obvious reason. I tried to get this template deleted at some point but there were reactions. The result is that some editors solely add Talk headers in talk pages, sometimes they even create talk pages with only that. I asked to a Filter to avoid these cases but nothing happened. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:23, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hello Rich Farbrough, i would like to report this partly incorrect edit of your bot. Wikiproject magic is something different than wikiproject Magic:The gathering. greetings --Narayan (talk) 17:18, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Rich. The SmackBot is replacing ((Film)) with ((WikiProject Films)) on talk pages (comme ci), but the latter just redirects to the former. I don't know if you can change this or not, but thought I would let you know. BOVINEBOY2008 04:39, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Picking nits: Can you check the "do not use section edit summaries" ? –xenotalk 16:49, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
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Haven't you been requested many, many times to stop making capitalization changes? Why is SmackBot right now changing ((talk header)) to ((Talk header))? Phantasten (talk) 10:45, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hello (again). Sorry to bother you. I need a bot to do a simple swap of two terms in ~2000 articles. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Trains#Ignoring_right_or_wrong_-_can_we_fix_the_articles for all the sordid details. I've added a request at bot requests, but all I need is the name of a bot operator that has a bot that would do this. Can supply a list of containing the swaps. Do you know of such a bot, I'm sure one already exists.. Thanks.Sf5xeplus (talk) 19:36, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. Talk or harass. you choose. Now. -DePiep (talk) 23:44, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
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Yup, good spot. Fixed now (I think). Of course, it's still broken for people who try to rewrite the URL themselves, but there's no way to fix that AFAIK. - Jarry1250 [Who? Discuss.] 16:54, 13 October 2010 (UTC) ---
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you put an unreferenced banner in a 1 sentence stub? I find this ridiculous and will have it removed.
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[61] WP → WikiProject Islam? Where did that come from? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:24, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
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This bot, User:SmackBot, tagged an article as unreferenced with a category, plants.[62] Does this bot have a dump of such articles? Can this bot be used to locate and tag unreferenced articles in a specific category? I have used the Cat intersection tool to find some such articles, but it does not pull them all for some reason. I would like the unreferenced Algae articles added to a task page in the WikiProject Algae area, if possible. Is there a link to what this bot does? Yes, I still want the other link, also. Thanks. --KMLP (talk) 09:28, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, 01:35, 18 October 2010 (UTC).
Thanks, got them on their own page for work. --KMLP (talk) 01:40, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
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A bot made an entry about dates on Theater Aachen which I don't understand, please explain here, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:38, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
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I can see why you made this edit. However, the article's name was changed from Countries of Europe to List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe in order to exclude countries that are not sovereign states. Consequently, the discussions linked are no longer relevant to that page. Are you OK to delete the links, or shall I? Daicaregos (talk) 07:47, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
This edit [63] did not date any tags, despite the edit summary. The AWB people tell me that you can tell AWB not to save if only general fixes are applied. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:22, 18 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 11:35, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
[64]. I will block the bot if future runs have this problem. I have reported this on probably a dozen separate occasions now, it's time to fix it permanently as you said you would. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:46, 18 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 11:50, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
As a relatively significant contributor to the entry for Mārtiņš Lācis (the creator of the entry seems to have been banned), you might be interested to know that I proposed the Deletion of it, due to lack of notability. -The Gnome (talk) 15:15, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich! No big deal - I'm just a bit puzzled. This edit says you changed
but I can't spot the difference. Can you? Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 13:32, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Another critical error from today's run: [65]. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:53, 18 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 12:05, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
I think your edit here may have caused a glitch in the template. It now displays like this on all pages where it is used. --Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 20:22, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Yes. The way the template now displays in article space is not the same as it appears on the template page. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 20:25, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
I reverted your edit to the template for purely technical reasons. Feel free to reinsert what you were doing without accidentally breaking the template. :) --Conti|✉ 20:55, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
What changes did you make here? I am totally confused. Thanks Agricmarketing (talk) 19:26, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
I've undeleted Category:All accuracy disputes, which you deleted as an "empty category" as it has several hundred entries and is populated by a template - ((Self published)). --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:04, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
See Template talk:Refimprove#RFC: Should a link to a commercial search engine be included in the template Refimprove for the discussion.
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This [68] is really no big deal, but I assume you may wish to program the bot so it's not leaving behind both the ((cat improve)) and the ((uncat)) tags together. Regards -- WikHead (talk) 18:03, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Speaking about your edits today alone, you seem to have managed to break every single one of AWB's Rules of Use, as well as a number of other Wikipedia policies/guidelines - Presuming that it is AWB you are using to make your recent high speed edits. Frankly, why? You keep going on about how much you just want to help Wikipedia and dislike it when people get in your way. But your edits aren't helping Wikipedia..
I strongly suggest you stop making these edits.. - Kingpin13 (talk) 12:33, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
It's not an extreme example, it's something completely different. That's like comparing a polite offer to buy a coffee for a stranger in a McDonalds queue with pulling out a semi-automatic, spraying the customers and insisting on being served first. Rich Farmbrough, 23:25, 19 October 2010 (UTC).
See Kevin Yoder. I added the dead link template at the end of a ref, and the bot added SUBST and such which made the References section look very odd. Flatterworld (talk) 16:16, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
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Can I ask why SmackBot made this edit to Stacey Slater's talk page? From what I can see it doesn't seem to have changed anything, the links that the bot edited are still going to the same page and they didn't previously seem to have been redirected. Very confused as to why the bot has carried out the edits --5 albert square (talk) 02:00, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Your tasks say that SmackBot dates orphan tags, not that it places them. Can I see the task about adding orphan tags to articles? Is it somewhere else? Thanks. --KMLP (talk) 17:12, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
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Just for completeness. Rjwilmsi 19:53, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Do you never use ctrl-V or the edit-summary drop-down list? Rich Farmbrough, 20:00, 15 October 2010 (UTC).
I ask myself... today we have complaints of a typo in Rich's edit summary... So ^&#$(*#+ what??? --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 15:02, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Bot edits are not bold. The bot does not have authorization to rearrange references because doing so requires manual review. If someone intentionally put the references in a particular order, that order needs to be preserved - only by looking at the references themselves and evaluating them can you decide what order they belong in. If you don't read the references, or are a bot, there's no way to tell what order is best.
The AWB developers have set up a general method to allow bots like SmackBot to disable the reference reordering, so all that RF has to do is implement that properly. It's already a feature of AWB.
In the end, the bot task is just about adding dates to maintenance templates. So there is no reason in the task that the bot should be doing general fixes at all. However, if it is going to do some, it needs to stick to ones that do not require manual review, like changing "5th June" to "5 June". If the fixes are difficult to limit, they could just be disabled, and the bot's approved task would be unaffected.
Also, I'll point out that the error rate for the bot is quite high, higher than any other bot that frequently appears on my watchlist. Today it also resumed a type of breakage in which is adds un-substituted subst: tags to articles. This is another error that has been pointed out over and over, and apparently still isn't not fixed. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:36, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Pure case-changing of templates[72][73][74][75][76]. Again. There's also adjustment of ((self-published inline))[77]. —Sladen (talk) 14:57, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
:::Rich: I'd prefer to see you make this unblock request on the basis of contributing to the WP:ANI discussion, it is more immediate concern and would be easier to grant. Talk of "throwing hundreds more pages at SmackBot" may not endear everyone. —Sladen (talk) 19:14, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- Let us then say "Throwing hundreds more pages into Category:Articles_with_invalid_date_parameter_in_template which is going to create problems for me, and is unlikely to be addressed by anyone else." Rich Farmbrough, 19:24, 30 September 2010 (UTC).
You may have done this twice but the only time I am sure of was when you said:
Could you explain the purposing of putting </noinclude><noinclude> back-to-back.[78][79], still I suppose that it's legal... I am however baffled by the recursive <noinclude><noinclude>[80] on another edit. An adjective distance 237 km should have been 237-kilometre ...[81].
Since these were all correct (in the sense that for three of them you preferred option was a potential bug and what happened was fine, and for the fourth, the improvement, while sup-optimal, was still an improvement) , your "34/38" rating is wrong, and the actual rating is 100%, not that 38 edits is a decent sample. Rich Farmbrough, 15:08, 20 October 2010 (UTC).
Hi Rich, would you please take a look at this article? Keith Jolie seems to be copy-pasted, and after the first edit that created it, the next user (with an IP address), seems to have "edited" little else. The biography page of the guy's website is here: [82] It was, after all, the only "reference" on the page. Thanks. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 03:36, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
You seem to have a desire to always 'canonicalise' templates, so why, are you actually replacing a template with a tenmplate redirect as here?
If you think ((flagicon)) should be renamed to ((Flag icon)), please file a requested move discussion. –xenotalk 14:34, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
I actually started doing that 3 days ago. However all my time has been taken up here. Rich Farmbrough, 15:54, 20 October 2010 (UTC).
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Not sure that this edit actually helps, does it? PamD (talk) 22:30, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
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Is SmackBot still patrolling Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template? It currently has 550 page in it. --Pascal666 18:31, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Got a trail run , so half are are fixed. From the peak of 660. Rich Farmbrough, 16:25, 14 October 2010 (UTC).
Hi! Upon the request of another editor, I listed Category:Articles with specifically-marked weasel-worded phrases and its subcategories for speedy renaming (for a minor punctuation fix). I have a feeling that one of your bots (SmackBot, maybe?) may be checking this category occasionally or regularly to add a date parameter, and so I wanted to give you a "heads up" so that you would not be caught by surprise if a change is made. If I was wrong, then sorry for the bother. Cheers! : ) -- Black Falcon (talk) 06:43, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
For example, Category:Monthly clean up category (Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases) counter → Category:Monthly cleanup category (Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases) counter
But not really editing juts trying to clear the decks a bit. Rich Farmbrough, 00:01, 22 October 2010 (UTC).
Hi! For your information, I AM Perseus, Son of Zeus's IP address, if you look at the top of the talk page. Could you make my account's user page back to normal? Thanks! 173.49.140.141 (talk) 21:03, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
A discussion concerning your edits has been started at WP:ANI#Admin tools misuse by Rich Farmbrough. Fram (talk) 14:50, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
I've reverted this edit. Feel free to restore your comment, but do it outside mine. Yes, I am angry that you went out side the norm you have shown, and completely break up my comment, ruining any structure it had. I would expect more of someone who holds the mop. I didn't bother restoring your comment in a regular form because it destroyed mine so much a revert was the only next possible step.— Dædαlus Contribs 07:03, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm curious to what this bot does. Please tell me! [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 14:08, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi: at Category:Articles with specifically-marked weasel-worded phrases Fempto bot has made a bit of a mess with this category creation, so you may wish to check out what happened. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 07:32, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I noted a possible edit warring by you here. -DePiep (talk) 00:11, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
And yet again, the bot is decapitalising Prime Minister, this time at Feleti Sevele. This is at least the fourth time I've pointed this out.-gadfium 05:30, 25 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 15:59, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
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When you have a moment please extract SmackBot's list of dated templates and add them to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Dated_templates#Mainspace_rules, or post them to a sandbox and I'll reformat. Thanks Rjwilmsi 11:08, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Please pardon the newbie question. SmackBot put a comment up on the Swimming-induced pulmonary edema page that I needed to wikify (new article). I put a number of internal links in and I think it's compliant. Can I take the comment down, or will there be another bot sweep to do that, or is there some other process? I am new to the etiquitte. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sipe21 (talk • contribs) 22:31, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Terrific, thanks Sipe21 (talk) 22:34, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Take a look at the result of this: distinctly uglier than it had been before! -- Hoary (talk) 11:48, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
[X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 11:53, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Yes thanks, known bug. Caused by a MediaWiki bug. Corrected normally by SmackBot on the fly but since SmackBot is under interdiction for changing ((silicate-mineral-stub)) to ((Silicate-mineral-stub)) needs me to clean up after manually. Rich Farmbrough, 11:55, 23 October 2010 (UTC).
Please update SmackBot to the latest SVN of AWB which no longers makes unnecessary capitalization changes. Thanks, –xenotalk 02:39, 24 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 02:53, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Rich Farmbrough, just thought you should know that Femto Bot (talk · contribs) may need a tweak. It recently created Category:Articles with specifically-marked weasel-worded phrases, but the category and its subcategories were recently renamed to omit the hyphen between specifically and marked, see Category:Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases. — ξxplicit 07:00, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
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Only thing I spotted from the run the other day was that you left in the leader title -mayor so it now comes up with a { } error. Can you ensure they are removed like this?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:17, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
OK don't forget!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:53, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Crow&diff=140825854&oldid=135073655
I am looking for the name of the photographer. I think the URL above is an edit where you inserted the current American Crow image.
Steve Zaslaw zaslaw@charter.net —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.140.159.226 (talk) 06:47, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Ok had 10 days to read this...
What I meant was that it wasn't enough for you to stop making disruptive edits. You were just recently brought to AN/I and we would have thought that that AN/I case was sufficient to stop you from making further controversial edits without consultation with the community. I believe that you do have good and sincere intentions behind most of your edits, but you needing multiple warning within a short period is overstretching the limit. Bejinhan talks 02:48, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
RF again?! Sheesh, as if being sent to ANI barely three weeks ago wasn't enough, your response Uh well I haven't really edited since then.. So after that last time, you didn't really edit and on your return there is this.--Crossmr (talk) 07:31, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi! Since you deal with templates and categories alot I figured you would be a good person to ask. Would it be possible to take an undated maintenance category (specifically Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections populated by ((Copypaste))) and alter it so that it uses monthly subcats and takes a date parameter (and is preferably looked after by SmackBot like most/all? other dated maintenance templates)? VernoWhitney (talk) 22:39, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
SmakcBot backlog down to 9999! Off out imminently. Waves to Cambridge mob. <Fx; door slams. Grams: Up and over, Cage's 4:31> Rich Farmbrough, 11:27, 23 October 2010 (UTC).
Hi Rich. Many of the US place articles are in a mess. In particular many contain ugly lists of schools. Maybe you could run a bot to convert education section where a * is located to replace it with a , and convert to prose. The biggest issue with most of the articles is the poor formatting and short ugly sections with long lists and little prose. Also the Rambot data is now ten years out of date. I'd have thought there would be another census this year. Rambot should update with new data. If not then somebody else whould run a bot to update it. We talked about India and Pakistan settlements on wikipedia generally being a pigsty, seriously most of the American place articles are as bad and are in desperate need of a serious cleanup. Basically its areas which are open to a high number of IPs and traffic and things are added sporadically without knowing how to reference/write encyclopedia articles. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:24, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Something like this.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:45, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
This edit [84]:
An edit that claims to date maintenance tags, but does not, must not be saved. The maintenance tag dating task is all about dating tags, not about doing other things. There is no reason that the bot should even be looking at this article for the task of dating maintenance tags. — Carl (CBM · talk) 00:52, 24 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 00:53, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
This edit [85] has the edit summary "General fixes: using AWB (special CBM restricted version)". AWB should not be used to make only general fixes; that is a violation of the AWB terms of use. However, the actual edit appears to be dating maintenance tags, which is a bot task for SmackBot. Bot tasks should not be run under the maintainer's main account, only under the bot account. That's the purpose of bot accounts to begin with. — Carl (CBM · talk) 00:54, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
The question of whether people want to be a wp:DICK about the actual rules is another matter. Generally they don't - but certainly knowing what the rules are helps.
In addition to this edit [86] which should not be saved I have posted several serious errors to the operator's talk page. — Carl (CBM · talk) 01:30, 24 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 01:38, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
The bot needs to be stopped until the problem is fixed [87] [88] [89]. — Carl (CBM · talk) 16:42, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
[X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 16:55, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
#SmackBot & Gurnee mills for example. Rich Farmbrough, 17:02, 24 October 2010 (UTC).
SmackBot stopped to allow you time to comply to Wikipedia:Editing_restrictions#Placed_by_the_Wikipedia_community. - Kingpin13 (talk) 10:34, 26 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 10:41, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
You are creating a series of redirects like Allen, William (1793-1864) (DNB00) which are not only highly improbable, but worse, redirect from the mainspace to your userspace, which is not allowed. Please stop creating those, and DB-G6 the ones already created. Fram (talk) 11:31, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
If you can fix the redirect to point to a mainspace page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you are fixing the redirect. If you think the redirect should be retained as is for some reason, you can request that administrators wait a while before deleting it. To do this, affix the template ((hangon))
to the page and state your reasoning on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. DASHBot (talk) 12:00, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
The bot is still decapitalising Prime Minister. I've pointed this out before. Please fix your bot.-gadfium 05:20, 25 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 05:25, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
See problem report at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (capital letters)#Capitalisation of section titles --Kvng (talk) 13:44, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
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Rich Farmbrough, 18:06, 25 October 2010 (UTC).
Although its none of mu business I noticed the conversation on Xeno's talk page and thought you might be interested to know that I have fixed all the Find a Grave redirects to say Find a Grave and I am going through now and removing the unneeded parameters for |id=
, |grid=
and |name=
as well as adding {para|accessdate)) currentdate if the Find a Grave entry is used as a reference and pulling about 10 different variations of Retrieved on X date inside the template to to |
. I also did this with the Hall of Valor template. I am going to IMDb next followed by several others. --Kumioko (talk) 13:35, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Tanks for updating the watchlist. Any idea what FemtoBot is doing? It just deleted the update. Viriditas (talk) 21:41, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
- Not sure why Robin Black's engagement was deleted. I put it up after confirming with him in person. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.139.217.22 (talk) 22:56, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
First, thanks for all of the good work SmackBot does. I think I have encountered a bug, though, related to Template:Dead link. See this edit. It looks like the bot is having trouble substituting the date. Cheers! Novaseminary (talk) 21:45, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Can you please alter the SmackBot. It seems to be going through my articles and destroying my work. It's MMA, not Mma. Please stop your bot because I don't want to manually revert each and every one of your bots edits to MMA pages. Thank you. Paralympiakos (talk) 22:58, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Rich, can I borrow you for a question at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Template:Cleancat, 2nd nomination, please? --Bsherr (talk) 19:21, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Please be more careful and slow in testing your DNB bot edits. As far as I can tell, this is a so far unauthorized bot you are running, which has e.g. created so far 31 redirects from mainspace to user space which have had to be deleted, and placed 26 articles in user space in (incorrect) mainspace categories. If your bot wuold create less articles, and care would be taken that those few are correct, before proceeding with more tests, then less errors would be introduced and less cleanup would be needed. Fram (talk) 07:19, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
if (1==0){
- do this
}
executes will get a special barnstar.
As far as the second - I wouldn't worry about temporary additions to those categories, nobody who browses them is going to be thrown by a user page. Rich Farmbrough, 14:00, 27 October 2010 (UTC).
if ('false')
if you're using strings or something, you should use if ($string1 eq $string2)
although I don't know if this'll fix your problem, as I don't really know perl. - Kingpin13 (talk) 19:44, 27 October 2010 (UTC)Something went wrong here - the bot recognised the Disambiguation tag, but went on to call the page a stub. Wrong. PamD (talk) 21:58, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot is destroying my ability to manage my watchlist by clogging the database with trivial substitutions of the unsigned template. The argument for substituting that template is weak in any case. Forcing database edits merely for the purpose of that one substitution is counterproductive. Please pull that out of the list of SmackBot triggers. Rossami (talk) 00:24, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
I will request both you and your bot to be blocked if you continue making these changes without first gaining consensus for them. You are a valuable contributor, but you cannot simply "plow on ahead" with controversial changes without first gathering consensus after good faith objections are raised. –xenotalk 03:01, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
At 17:35, 13 August 2009, Template:Monthly cleanup category was moved to Template:Monthly clean up category, with the explanation "cleanup is a noun". However, "cleanup" should still be a compound word when it is used as a noun adjunct (a noun used as an attributive adjective next to an immediately following noun).
Could you please move Template:Monthly clean up category to Template:Monthly cleanup category, and move all the subpages to corresponding subpages? There is a related discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Templates#Template names with the same misspelling (permanent link here). (Your talk page is on my watchlist, and I will watch for your reply here.)
—Wavelength (talk) 02:08, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
I must admit, I kind of saw this coming but was too lazy to preempt it. Okay, here's the deal: please reverse the de-capitalization of section titles (like Band Members, Additional Personnel, etc. etc. etc. ad infinitum). These are NOT the same things as page titles and thus there are different rules when it comes to de-capitalization. If there were a page called "Band member", it is proper to de-capitalized the second word because it's a general encyclopedia entry (ideally, I think, both words should be de-capitalized - maybe you could build a SmackBot for this purpose?) But think of section titles as chapter titles. Chapter titles follow the same rules as, say, novels or albums (that is, capitalize all major words, de-capitalize connectors such as "of", "a", "the" [in almost all cases] etc.)
I do have a request. Could you get your SmackBot to change "Track listing" on album pages to "Tracklist"? - This is a much more economical (not to mention widely used) term.
Also, I have one more bone to pick. Could you please return the birthdays/years of people back to links? I find it very annoying now that I can't click on a birthday and see who shares it.
Cheers, Wikkitywack (talk) 01:03, 26 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 01:10, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, just bringing to your attention my conclusion of the AN discussion. I've declared the proposed editing restriction enacted (cf Wikipedia:Editing restrictions#Placed by the Wikipedia community). It should not be a particularly burdensome restriction, and I hope you will take on board the remarks I made there, which I'll quote here: "I will say to Rich that the community recognises and appreciates the work you do in using and maintaining a range of powerful tools, but that with power comes responsibility, and you do need to ensure that you err on the side of caution in ensuring that these powerful tools, and your use of them, has sufficiently strong community support." regards, Rd232 talk 09:46, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
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On Rockstar (drink) SmackBot changed an html entity to the character it represents. If you use the character then it requires that font to be installed. If you use the HTML Entity it just requires a capable font to be installed. It's a UTF-16 character too. Enlormn (talk) 22:54, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
A bunch of your articles (Martha Lipton et al.) is now at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2010 October 28. East of Borschov 07:53, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Expanded.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:57, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Hopefully Rosie and I can compile more sources and DYK it. We are missing hundreds even thousands of notable articles like this across world cultures. Any entry in a national biography is notable in my view and as usual the nominator is confusing lack of content with notability. A quick google books search should have been more than enough to rid of doubt. I have no problem with short stubs of course, I created many in the past myself when I was faced with a similar situation, how do we go about getting notable content onto wikipedia which is misisng enmasse and encourage more editors to develop wikipedia whilst making the initial stub worthwhile? I believe any stub stands a better chance of it becoming a fuller article than if it was missing as at least its identified. The problem of course is actually getting people to do the work and expand them given the already huge backlog of substandard articles.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:10, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
please fix the ref error♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:22, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
"removed stub tag"
You are welcome to contribute content which complies with our content policies and any applicable inclusion guidelines. However, please do not simply re-create the page with the same content. You may also wish to read our introduction to editing and guide to writing your first article.
Thank you. WikiTome Talk 22:01, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
You are welcome to contribute content which complies with our content policies and any applicable inclusion guidelines. However, please do not simply re-create the page with the same content. You may also wish to read our introduction to editing and guide to writing your first article.
Thank you. WikiTome Talk 22:02, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
I've just stub-sorted Janet Bragg. A couple of points occur:
Another thought (had to break off earlier because Mother wanted breakfast...): you could add ((bio-stub)). Might be better if there are a large number coming through at once which would flood the stubs category - on the other hand, a steady trickle will get themselves sorted more precisely, as in this case, by human stub-sorters. PamD (talk) 09:17, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
On-base plus slugging (OPS), McGhee, Brownie, Ascending chain condition (ACC), Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System and so on - were they part of a backlog for deletion of some kind? There's no specific reason given. Just curious.
--Shirt58 (talk) 09:02, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Please weigh in on Talk:List of The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes#Inclusion of episode segment links, so we can generate a consensus. Thanks, Fixblor (talk) 09:24, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Getting things done? That would be a first for many LOL! Some people should take a leaf out of our book instead of sitting aorund moaning at ANI!♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:33, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
User:Translate Bot. Mmm now if that bot could be programmed to translate content from other wikipedias.... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:34, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey Rich, would you happen to know how to fix the red link at Category:Articles needing additional categories from October 2010? and also the redlink'd category at the bottom of Category:Articles needing additional categories from September 2010? -- Ϫ 08:22, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
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Rich Farmbrough, 16:22, 30 October 2010 (UTC).
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LZ1&action=historysubmit&diff=393829877&oldid=304634038 Rich Farmbrough, 21:09, 30 October 2010 (UTC).
You created the stub Morris B. Moe Dalitz for a chap who was listed in ANB as "Morris B. "Moe" Dalitz". In fact there was an existing article at Moe Dalitz, with a redirect from Morris Dalitz. I think the ANB format of the name suggests that he's going to be listed as either "Moe Dalitz" or "Morris B. Dalitz", but not as "Morris B. Moe Dalitz". Perhaps names with quote marks should just flag up for manual attention? (I've turned your stub into a redirect, and added the ANB reference as "Further reading" to the existing article). PamD (talk) 21:31, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Really? Or did the middle letters of "Jesus Colon" get missed in a finger-fumble? PamD (talk) 23:06, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
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Template_talk:U.S._Roads_WikiProject#Renaming_to_WikiProject_U.S._Roads. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:38, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Smackbot made weird edit to Chelsea Dagger claiming it was a religous text. -- Horkana (talk) 18:07, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi!
I've just spotted that Femto Bot has created 52 monthly cleanup categories for December 2010, and they're filling up CAT:CSD cos they're empty (and should be for a month) - is this intentional, or a bug?
Thanks
[stwalkerster|talk] 02:41, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
The bot is adding "place of death" and "place of birth" parameters to Persondata when "PLACE OF DEATH" and "PLACE OF BIRTH" are already given, resulting in unnecessary duplication.[90][91] DrKiernan (talk) 08:33, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Eusebius (Bruno) of Angers. Since you had some involvement with the Eusebius (Bruno) of Angers redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Bridgeplayer (talk) 17:11, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Please see this edit. __meco (talk) 07:31, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
As an editor involved in prior discussions over AWB, templates and first letter casing please consider commenting on this discussion thread. Thanks Rjwilmsi 20:15, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
This sort of Smackbot edit adding a DEFAULTSORT with the page's exact title isn't even cosmetic: it seems entirely redundant. In any case, I don't think it should be happening (if there's a demonstrated consensus for it, please point me to it). Rd232 talk 09:25, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Whether's its useless is a matter of judgement. The issue is whether applying DEFAULTSORT in such cases automatically has consensus. Unless such consensus exists, it should cease. You're under edit restrictions requiring you not to make merely cosmetic changes (changes which have no effect on the rendered page) unless the changes have demonstrable consensus. DEFAULTSORT changes of any sort breach this restriction (unless they have demonstrable consensus). Where DEFAULTSORT leads to the article being sorted in categories under a different (better) letter heading, that consensus clearly exists from longstanding practice; by the time you get to the second and third word of a title, the sorting effects are comparatively trivial, and I'm not convinced there is a consensus for them. Maybe there is, but this is exactly the sort of thing you should be able to point somewhere and say "it's supported by this", or else stop and ask somewhere appropriate to confirm support. So please stop Smackbot making such DEFAULTSORT edits, unless or until you can show consensus for them. Rd232 talk 10:58, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing this edit to my attention, I have corrected the broken template which caused it. Rich Farmbrough, 11:53, 2 November 2010 (UTC).
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I'm letting you know because you recently moved the template. Auntof6 (talk) 05:01, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi - your work de-linking date fragments is generally much needed. Just thought I'd draw your attention to the May 1968 in France article to which May 1968 redirects - some of these links may need disambiguation rather than removal. Warofdreams talk 04:05, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Rich, edits like this by Smackbot are in breach of your edit restriction. Perhaps this wasn't clear, so let me make it clear: cosmetic changes that don't have demonstrated consensus are not acceptable even if combined with non-cosmetic changes. Thanks. Rd232 talk 12:11, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
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Nice edit: "born May 2007" ... [92]. Cheers. --Edcolins (talk) 21:13, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
I am currently trying to determine a way to find all the articles related to United States topics without any banners. Are you aware of anyway to do that? --Kumioko (talk) 17:23, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
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You might have left me a note about your change a few weeks ago to allow all-uppercase or all-lowercase parameter names for ((persondata)). Rjwilmsi 16:34, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
in this edit to Ian Muir. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 15:25, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
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Re my earlier message at User talk:Rich Farmbrough#SmackBot added Place of birth line to Persondata when the line was already present and correct. This is clearly not a one-off, see Willem Dafoe, Billy Ray Cyrus, etc. Probably duplicating the line does no harm, but probably I should have stopped it when I first noticed the problem before there were so many to be undone. Sorry if I've done the wrong thing. Struway2 (talk) 16:54, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
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<boilerplate>I have reviewed a sample of changes in the good faith to confirm that (hopefuly) that SmackBot is operating reliably; this is for the overall good of Wikipedia and without malice.</boilerplate>. SmackBot appears to need some love when it comes to renaming of capitalised templates (eg. it's doing ((imdb))
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((imdb name|…))
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Smackbot updated Leap second losing the date in the UpdateAfter template (diff). This means that the "dated flag" is showing for future events. Since this may lose information in a lot of articles I have stopped SmackBot. -- Q Chris (talk) 14:29, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
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I don't know if it's easy but I would like to have an idea of how many articles that transclude ((Infobox officeholder)) or one of its 150+ redirects have |honorific-prefix=
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Check Template_talk:Infobox_officeholder#honorific-prefix. Is it possible that you make a database scan for me? Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:00, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
On the entry for Gurnee Mills, the bot tried to add a date for a dl template, but ended up with more templates instead of the actual month and year. "((Dead link|date=((subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME)) ((subst:CURRENTYEAR))))" I manually updated it. Andyross (talk) 23:02, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Uh, well it was something I asked for, and given the MW bug is good, but right now it would mean SB making zero edits instead of a very few. Rich Farmbrough, 00:49, 23 October 2010 (UTC).
When you're not too busy dealing with that time sump ANI, there are a bunch of articles in this category and through (for example, all the subjects on List of colonial governors of Massachusetts), many of which are in mdy or a mixture of dmy/mdy dates, which could do with being aligned to dmy dates per WP:TIES. You can probably tag them all ((EngvarB)) while you are at it. Thanks, --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 08:29, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Doubt I am allowed to put invisible tags on pages. Rich Farmbrough, 17:28, 26 October 2010 (UTC).
It appears that there are some 6,000 articles which are linked month-year (ie [[September 2008]]). Could you in some way integrate unlinking these into your AWB schedule? I can only manage 50 a day, at which rate it will take me over 3 months. Gracias amigo. --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:19, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Hullo Mr. Farmbrough. I've started these. I was wondering if you could use AWB to edit III to XVI. Basically I need you to change the word "Governo" in each article to Government of and the word "Composizione del governo" to Composition of the government and also to remove the word "Dal" from appearing in each article. This would make it a lot easier. Perhaps you could also work out what the months are in english or check on Italian wikipedia to code something to do those too. E.g change "luglio" to July, "febbraio" to February, "marzo" to "March", "maggio" to "May" etc. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:40, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Yes or no?♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:50, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Excellent, thanks for that. Two things though "&endash;" is showing. Can you ensure it only shows the - not the coding? And it seems the custom for the govenrments is e.g Leone II Cabinet. Can you use AWB to change the links e.g from Government of Gasperi V to De Gasperi V Cabinet (his surname is De Gasperi not Gasperi) and Government of Rumor IV to Rumor IV Cabinet etc? User:Acterion is sorting out the page titles of the article he transferring from it wiki last night to ...Cabinet.. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:00, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
You're like Will Farell in Austin Powers 2.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:30, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
A while back you kindly did a search for me on section titles and redirect names containing the word "abuse". Please can you do exactly the same but with "workplace" this time.--Penbat (talk) 14:08, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
FYI - As someone who has worked on the page, it might interest you know that Archimedes, Inc. has been nominated for deletion. At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Archimedes,_Inc. Danieldis47 (talk) 20:56, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Any chance SmackBot can replace uses of ((imdb)) with ((IMDb name))? This only needs to be done in passing rather than en masse, but it's not ideal for an ambiguous template redirect to have so many transclusions. PC78 (talk) 16:19, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Incidentally mixed case trademarks are deprecated at MOSCAPS. Rich Farmbrough, 18:30, 25 October 2010 (UTC).
This one is similar, but for the references section. It was already present in the article, but SmackBot saved the edit anyway (and did not fix the problem) [96]. — Carl (CBM · talk) 01:21, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
This is a cumulative diff of several consecutive smackbot edits [97]. — Carl (CBM · talk) 01:25, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Can I urge editors to take things both less and more seriously.
Rich Farmbrough, 20:36, 26 October 2010 (UTC).
Please do not pipe/convert Wikilinks such as "Boston, Massachusetts" to "Boston, Massachusetts". The latter is twice as long in the source to the editor, and more ambiguous to the reader (WP:EGG, WP:ASTONISH). Other editors have previously notified you of this behaviour. Please alter your scripts to do the opposite, where possible. —Sladen (talk) 10:06, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Please stop de-canonicalising links where there is matching link and article text. These edits reduce the usefulness of the encyclopedia. —Sladen (talk) 14:38, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
You're still doing this, please get a clear, documented, consensus, or stop and work on edits that are uncontroversial. —Sladen (talk) 06:52, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for updating the persondata here; a quick note however that per WP:Persondata the birth and death dates should be in the format DD Month YYYY format or the Month DD, YYYY (with the month spelled out completely). Thank you, --Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 15:34, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Rich, it seems you are (automatically?) creating redirects (see WP:AN). It was noticed that some of these redirects contain a useless final punctuation (e.g. Geometric mean,). Is there a mistake in the script? --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:19, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
(edit conflict) Hi Rich. Just letting you know that the thread at AN is apparently still vaguely active, as Fram has just brought up your recent redirect creations there. What method are you using to create these redirects? It seems that your using the bolded text in the lede of the article to decided what redirects to create. This suggests to me that you're using semi-automated or automated methods. If you're using semi-automated (or automated), why is this not clear in your edit summary? If you're using semi-automated, then why are you making mistakes like the ones mentioned at AN? They aren't particularly difficult to spot. - Kingpin13 (talk) 10:21, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Another duplicate - already at Gustave Niebaum. Made into redirect and added the ANB as "Further reading". PamD (talk) 22:20, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
I was looking at pre-empting these, by creating redirects, unfortunately not all biogs have the middle name or initial in an obvious place. Rich Farmbrough, 03:45, 31 October 2010 (UTC).
I think what you are doing in adding these articles is very helpful, but I wonder if you intend to leave them as is, or to add more information. For example, I think the highest priorities would be to indicate why what they did was important enough to get them into the ANB in the first place, which is not always obvious. You're really in the best position to do this right at thetime you are making the article with the ANB entry in front of you--to do it later is considerably harder. And, if possible, it is very good to also have a freely-accessible reference. and google books makes it fairly easy. I think if you did these two things it would slow you down to maybe half speed, but it would make your work many times as useful. DGG ( talk ) 22:28, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
If you have a moment, would you mind taking a look at this comment and telling me if you think it is appropriate? Thank you. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 03:27, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Do you have approval for creating redirects from Lastname, Firstname to Firstname Lastname. I don't consider it harmful, but I thought you were under community sanctions. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 05:49, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Might be a one-ff but stopping since I wasn't sure. Bot replaced refimprive tage with one based on religion. Probably an easy fix but figured it was better to give you the heads up over having it throw the religion based template up on multiple unrelated articles.[98] Nice work besides the hiccup.Cptnono (talk) 07:55, 31 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 07:56, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:BOTPOL#Mass article creation and seek BRFA for any subsequent mass creation tasks; I think redirects are probably included in the spirit of this rule. –xenotalk 17:03, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
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This is in breach of the editing restriction. It does reflect a spelling correction renaming of the template, but nonetheless, it's exactly the sort of thing you're supposed not to do. Particularly as there are other issues arising at the moment, I must ask you to cease that specific change unless you can show consensus for it. Rd232 talk 11:11, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Thx for the quick revert. (I was still figuring out what to do when I saw it was gone. ;p) I can only say, if I'm going to be a sockpuppet, that's the guy I'd want to be puppeting (?) for. ;D TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura 07:35, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
As you are probably aware, I regularly spotcheck your contributions, and am glad to say that I haven't found real problems anymore (i.e. things that you should have checked and catched yourself instead of others). A few small remarks and questions: is there a reason that you remove the comment from the Persondata template, like here? And I think there is a small error in your script, where you first use the defaultsort for the persondata template, and then correct the defaultsort, instead of the other way around, e.g. here. Similarly, here you correct the defaultsort but not the same entry in the persondata. Perhaps you can reverse the order of checking these? Fram (talk) 21:50, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
This isn't a strong area for me, it's not clear to me why 2004 Governor General's Awards for example is sorting under "G". I poked around the templates it's transcluding, but I didn't see a defaultsort keyword in them. Gigs (talk) 14:44, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
[[Category:Governor General's Awards]] [[Category:2004 in Canada|Governor General's Awards]] [[Category:2004 literary awards|Governor General's Awards]]
Content categories should always be explicit, and almost always are. Rich Farmbrough, 17:40, 4 November 2010 (UTC).
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Thank you for creating the list of duplicate words at User:Rich_Farmbrough/temp113. Now (deep breath), how much extra effort would it be to create a list of the 16219 articles that contain "the the"? This is one of my pet projects; I've found and fixed several thousand "the the" errors using AWB Google search and regexps, but the AWB Google search is frustrating to work with. A full list would keep me quiet for a while! -- John of Reading (talk) 05:25, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Can you close VernoWhitney's RfA? Thanks! (looking for an admin to close; few online) Perseus!Talk to me 13:37, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
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Dear administrator Nagarjuna Akkineni - article semi protection requested. Unexplained dubious and disruptive edits BY -180.106.5.60 & 117.82.98.99 & Rajeshbieee -sock puppetry Administrator semi protection requested for this article immediately - USE TALK PAGE
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sure, will give explanation The user 180.106.5.60, 117.82.98.99 have used senseless edits and peacock terms like extraordinary, Most popular and extremly talented, to spoil the integrity and quality of article and are used excessively to defame and mask some of the facts in the article. some edits are also being done in removing the reflist Tag in the references section.
I request a strong scrutiny and surveillance on this article on the use of Unexplained edits by any IP ADDRESS AND USE OF PEACOCK TERMS. IN THE NEXT DUBIOUS EDIT USING PEACOCK TERMS OR DISRUPTING REFERENCE TAGS, PLEASE UNDO THE EDIT AND SEMI PROTECT THE ARTICLE. I am not interested in things like Height of the person. What I look for is a semi protection of this article. And peacock term which try to mislead real facts of the article.(Roughstrikes (talk) 15:11, 13 November 2010 (UTC)).
further,
Is there any chance to add the first image in the below link, as a profile picture in the article.
how to make the first image of the actor in the link licenced??? to add this in wiki???
is it possible for u to add it??? - the first image of the actor in the below link
http://www.shortfun.com/akkineni-nagarjuna-5263
(Roughstrikes (talk) 16:44, 13 November 2010 (UTC)).
sure will post image request,
but could this image be added???
http://www.extramirchi.com/events/filmfare-awards-south-exclusive-photo-gallery/attachment/56th-filmfare-south-awards-8/ or http://www.extramirchi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/56th-Filmfare-south-Awards-8.jpg
the above pic is not a copy right i guess, as it was freely uploaded by the originator
excluding person in white dress - who is KJ yesudas
(Roughstrikes (talk) 17:00, 13 November 2010 (UTC)).
Please be more careful when applying corrections, particularly in abbreviated journal names (which are highly variable). In this edit you created an error. I have fixed it for you. -- Scray (talk) 05:23, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
i forget now who the reflink bot is, but can you request it for this page.(Lihaas (talk) 00:25, 15 November 2010 (UTC)).
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ah. wasnt sure it was your bot. but i just nominated this for itn and there are bare refs. thanks in advance.(Lihaas (talk) 00:35, 15 November 2010 (UTC)).
messed up "Update after" in Leap second again so that it displayed "invalid expression" in the article diff. -- Q Chris (talk) 10:32, 15 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 10:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Template:Disputed chem does not have a parameter for the date. Hence, there is no use of such edits. --Leyo 12:48, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Blimey, that was quick! thanks! best wishes DBaK (talk) 16:22, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Eliminating such edits would save time of the editors who monitor recent changes and their watchlists. May I ask you to do so? Materialscientist (talk) 11:45, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, Just a suggestion that this could be done using the -adj switch in the Convert template. Cavrdg (talk) 07:08, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
49.30-mile (79.34-km)
((convert|49.30|mi|km|adj=on))
In thr last couple of days you seem to have resumed using your main account for automated editing. Please stop, get approval for this process and use a separate account for this. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:15, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, the only obstacle stopping this current GA candidate from GA i think is the references. But isn't there a bot which can fill out the references with cite web |url|title=|publisher=|accessdate=? If so can you arrange it to sort out the references?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:47, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Can you reply? I could have sworn there was a reference bot.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:45, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey, very good work, how did you generate that list?--Jimbo Wales (talk) 14:39, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
There were two articles entitled "The White Company". I was attempting to change the title to the first "The White Company" to "The White Company, The Novel - and the second article with same name to: "The White Company (The Medieval Mercenaries). I failed and my attempts to correct failed. Can you please correct. All criticism accepted - am deeply sorrow - will not attempt again until I am fully versed in how to do it, etc., etc., etc. Thanks. Mugginsx (talk) 20:40, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that smackbot is replacing _ characters in C typenames like size_t. It most recently did this in offsetof and I see that you fixed one of the changes. I wonder if a rule to exclude titles that match /.*_t$/ would be sufficient to avoid these pages. -- Autopilot (talk) 12:57, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
I have to admit I personally dont care where it goes but since it really doesnt affect the article and is usually not even displayed I admit there is a lot of logic ot your idea of putting at the end. Its really not a part of the article anyway other than to gather basic data about the articles for different reasons. What is the Person authority, Im not familiar with that one. --Kumioko (talk) 19:02, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Your subpage User:Rich Farmbrough/temp17 has a bunch of categories on it, or more accurately it is in a bunch of categories. I noticed because I was looking at the category for articles tagged for ((prose)) and it was in the oldest month. Did you want to change that to [[:category:... with the colon first so it is a link to the category or is it serving some purpose that didn't occur to me yet? RJFJR (talk) 18:43, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Rich, I happened upon you via the Wikiproject Biography. After looking at the edit history and Talk page on the Jacqueline Hernández article, it became clear to me that this article could use some help. While I do not know the subject of this article personally, I happened to meet her very briefly in part of my work within her industry. While on the subject of WP, she mentioned that the existing version of the Wikipedia article about her was created by a family member of hers who - as you can see - was entirely unaware of the policies and guidelines here on Wikipedia.
In the interest of bringing this article up to Wikipedia's own WP:BLP standards, I've drafted a proposed revision which currently lives in my userspace here: User:Jeff_Bedford/Proposed_draft_of_Jacqueline_Hernandez_article
The main revisions I've made in this draft include:
Normally I'd implement these proposed changes myself; however I thought it would be helpful to get a second set of eyes prior to doing so. If you have a moment, might you be able to take a peek and advise on whether my draft is a step in the right direction? Cheers, Jeff Bedford (talk) 22:02, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Why, when I planned ot get up at 5 this morning am I still on-wiki at 4:32? Rich Farmbrough, 04:32, 17 November 2010 (UTC).
Per your restrictions, would you please remove the capitalisation of ((death date)) from your AWB rules. See an example here, and in future please take more care when using AWB to spot these yourself. I've tried running the normal AWB, and it doesn't appear to change the template when testing at Anne Brontë. Cheers, - Kingpin13 (talk) 10:56, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
Update after uses numeric dates, see [99] for your bot's errors. 134.253.26.6 (talk) 16:38, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
He Rich, did I see correctly Smackbot making a null-edit here? No harm done, just harder for others to spot the changes made just before it... L.tak (talk) 16:51, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I sincerely apologise that this dispute on a user's financial COI has spilled on to your talk page. It shouldn't have escalated the way it did, but the issue has been resolved. This is my first time encountering a paid editor, and I apologise for any incovenience that the dispute may have caused.--res Laozi speak 05:50, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
For making edits like this and this and this. You need to sort this out: it is a violation of your editing restrictions and cannot be that hard to make the bot respect them. Rd232 talk 16:57, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Please fix. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:34, 15 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 17:48, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Please do not use AWB on radio station articles. In categories they are listed alphabetically by call name, and the user who created them decided to sort them using all upper case letters. AWB "fixes" this by changing the letters following the first to lower case, but this causes a sorting error in the categories, which are case sensitive. Thanks, 117Avenue (talk) 18:46, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, Rich! Category:Statements with common sense issues was correctly speedy deleted as C1, but Femto Bot recreated it. Could you reinstruct Femto Bot, and then redelete the category, please? --Bsherr (talk) 19:45, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
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Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 18:21, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
On 7 November 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Janet Bragg, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that aviator Janet Bragg was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial Pilot Licence? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The journal no longer makes those claims. Rich Farmbrough, 13:08, 18 November 2010 (UTC).
Hey! Hi there! [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 21:46, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Test Sb message cleaning. Rich Farmbrough, 11:51, 18 November 2010 (UTC).
Revise user page. Rich Farmbrough, 11:08, 18 November 2010 (UTC).
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As far as I can tell these edits [101] [102] [103] are a violation of your editing restriction. The thousands of other edits today with the same summary don't look particularly different. — Carl (CBM · talk) 01:26, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Looking at more edits, I noticed [104], which replaced "God is is" with "God it is". That was a manually reviewed edit. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:38, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
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some users have complained about smackbot captilising tags unecessary, you might want to check up the robot--Lerdthenerd (talk) 16:49, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Here are three more edits, since my first post today, which are actually SmackBot edits run under your main account [105] [106] [107]. It is clear from your edit history that you are actually performing the SmackBot task to date the "criticism section" template, but running it from your main account instead of the approved bot account. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:46, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
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Let's go back to basics here:
It's about time you figured this out, given your experience. My patience in terms of you not respecting your edit restrictions is starting to run a bit low. I've given you plenty of leeway to fix the issues, and it's about time you sorted things out so that you don't repeatedly breach them. Sort it out, or I'm going to seriously think about blocking you for violating the restrictions, something I had not seriously thought I'd have to contemplate. Rd232 talk 08:57, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
As a reminder, the edit restriction excludes "changes that are built-in to stock AWB". I've just tried to replicate your edit [109] using AWB, and was unable to. Now I'm not too hot on AWB, so if I've missed something please do explain, but it looks to me like this edit is only possible by programming AWB's find-and-replace function with the desired change. This clearly does not qualify as a change "built-in", any more than MediaWiki is "built-in" to PHP. Please clarify how you made the edit. Rd232 talk 14:12, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
((Citation needed|date=July2010))
fails, whereas ((Citation needed|date=July 2010))
is epic. Rich Farmbrough, 22:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC).Rd232 14:12. (first post in this sub-thread): "Please clarify how you made the edit."
Rd232, 22:38. "You haven't actually replied to the issue of why you made that edit." -- so no how, why (is your reply to Rd232?). -DePiep (talk) 22:52, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
In view of the minor nature of the block evasion mentioned above [111] (one laconic comment to a Wikipedia Signpost talk page), I'm not going to extend the block. Instead, I will take it into account if another block is necessary for not complying with the edit restrictions, so that it will be 72 hours instead of 48. Rd232 talk 14:12, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Can you please apply special scrutiny when delinking "March NNN", as you did here. Most instances of "March NNN" are likely to be racing car designations, not date fragments. Thanks. DH85868993 (talk) 21:56, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Note this and march 1968 on dating page... Rich Farmbrough, 19:30, 14 November 2010 (UTC).
...for a very welcome invitation. Do let me know how I can contribute, or...prevent de-tributing. --Bsherr (talk) 18:39, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
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Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 03:55, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
...you have a wikiproject for bacon?
Isn't that a bit...obsessive? HalfShadow 18:56, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
So after the discussion above you not only don't bother to reply, but continue to use AWB on your main account, and to do unvarnished template redirect replacements using AWB, which is an edit you know full well is in violation of your edit restrictions, and an edit which you should be manually reviewing. [112] Sorry, but enough is enough. If I have to block you for you to get the message that these edit restrictions are more than mere blather, so be it. At least it'll give you time to sort out your Smackbot and AWB programming so that the restrictions are respected. Rd232 talk 20:30, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Are you evading your block or is someone trying to give that impression? [114] Fram (talk) 10:14, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
(edit conflict) Rich, have you modified your AWB settings to prevent changes which only change casing, only change white space, (I believe this is as simply as checking two check boxes on the form - if those don't work, as I've said before I'm happy to lend any coding assistance that I can, or you could ask the AWB developers) or only change a template to a redirect? (in the case of template redirects, except those which are built into AWB and other substantive changes are being made at the same time). This is intended as a direct question, and I would appreciate a direct response. </ec> So why were you signed out at the time? That doesn't seem like "automatic" behaviour to me. Thanks, - Kingpin13 (talk) 11:29, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
18-Nov-2010: Well, I am getting hints, from everyone, about the bad news with the limited parser functions, but "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" or "parser-ade" (parser-aid). Due to concerns about moving templates to other wikis, we need to assume the worst-case, where many people will have dinky, limited versions of MediaWiki. We can quickly write work-around templates, because we finally know the performance limits, of how the 40-nest restriction is fatal (rather than some murky "Don't worry about performance"). The use of too many nested if-elses will cause a template to die, some day soon, when combined with other complex templates. For example, the current ((Str_len)) template (which counts length by checking 100s, 10s and ones) is using enough if-elses to devour 9-nest levels of the 40-nest limit. I am creating a ((Strlen_small)), by using older, simpler algorithms, which will only use 3-nest levels (rather than 9). I created one of the character templates to handle all the accented characters in foreign languages. Then, we can consider which infoboxes (and such) need to use optimized utility templates to avoid the 40-nest limit. Also, by listing template variations (under each "See also"), then casual users will be alerted that they might need to use a streamlined, more efficient version of a utility template. Meanwhile, if people keep discussing the primitive limits of MediaWiki, then eventually, the concerns might reach a "critical mass" where better parser-function sets become standard. I suspect that some people wanted to show each string-function "what-links-here" as proof that "80,000 articles" will use such functions if available. So, progress can be made, on many different fronts, to provide interim solutions, while also educating people about better parser-function sets in the next releases. The important strategy is to have multiple paths of success, like usernames on different wikis, so that progress can be made in a wide range of areas, when thwarted along some paths. I can take each better template to become a similar one on German Wikipedia, as a Vorlage:Strlen_klein, so that other-language Wikipedias can propagate those templates based on their knowledge of German WP. There are many different avenues to make improvements with these issues. -Wikid77 (talk) 04:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, i just noticed you editted loads of bacon related articles today, which was amusing, are you trying to tell us something or are you just erm hungry XD! any ways happy editting--Lerdthenerd (talk) 09:46, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Please revert your last edit to ((Geographic location)). The addition of ((PAGENAME)) causes the geobox to be preceded with the pagename, which is totally pointless (in most cases it's the same as the centre label anyway) and disruptive to formatting. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 00:08, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
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Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 03:55, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
OK, let's try and wrap up some recommendations:
On a related issue, it's not clear to me how redirects get into the AWB list. There is an unsatisfactory discussion here. Anyone? PS It would be good to see Smackbot up and running again, if you can sort out the coding to ensure it behaves in a manner consistent with the editing restriction. Rd232 talk 18:41, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Additional: if you have any issues when you start editing with AWB or programming Smackbot, then ask me or the community. Describe what you want to do, or do a single edit for demonstration purposes, and ask. Don't go off doing thousands of edits, mixing in ones which are near the border of the editing restrictions. Rd232 talk 22:46, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm starting to have issues with your attitude. You haven't engaged with this issue anything like as much as you could have done, and your last couple of remarks quite unhelpful - combined with a bit of needless block evasion. My response to your entirely inappropriate remark to Fram almost involved a wet fish; and since she's been involved with this issue for some time, a dismissive "stalker" is unhelpful. Nor was I defending her. Please, take a step back and consider that we all have the same objective, which is getting you back to making lots of improvements to Wikipedia - minus edits that don't have consensus, per your edit restrictions and AWB rules. Rd232 talk 00:22, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough. You worked on Jeff Ragsdale's page at one time. Ragsdale is currently being harassed by IP number 71.190.77.101. This person, whom we have identified through correct legal means, is a fellow actor and he started his attack on Ragsdale by submitting a fake resume regarding Ragsdale on craigslist. Then said person started a commentary regarding Jeff Ragsdale's Wikipedia "notability". This whole issue has now snowballed into a "notability" issue on Wikipedia because of IP number 71.190.77.101's false claims regarding Ragsdale. My question to you is can you leave a message on Theda's page about your sentiments regarding Ragsdale's notability? Theda has since reinserted the notability tag on Ragsdale's Wikipedia page. Ragsdale is clearly a notable person. One would just have to look at the rich sources, and all of his television and film credits, as well as his international activism. Or could you possibly point me in other directions? Richard Peterson 11-20-10 —Preceding unsigned comment added by RichardPeterson44 (talk • contribs) 03:12, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Any reason why you have yet again restarted your faulty script to create redirects from the capitalized words on articles that don't match the article title? You have for the third time created the redirect Lucius Caelius to Lactantius. You also created the redirect from Designations to Star designation, which is only one of the many possible targets (I changed it to a redirect to Designation instead). The fact that this kind of redirect creation is problematic has been shown to you before, so I wonder why you started it again. And wheren't you just blocked for making this kind of edits? It's not as if it is a one-off error, there is also this one... Fram (talk) 19:25, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
What is the intention of edits like this one? It does nothing to affect the article's position in the category listing for either of the categories it is in. Gurch (talk) 13:44, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
would be
Considering that most people defaultsorts have a "," after the first word (Locke, John), they sort different from every non-person "Locke" article anyway, so the argument that uppercase defaultsorts are needed because biographies have them is not very convincing. Fram (talk) 15:24, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
This edit from today [115] is a violation of your editing restriction.
Also, you appear to be inappropriately running SmackBot's "add references section" job on AWB under your main account. — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:29, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
This edit [116] is also quite odd. You added a reflist tag, but there are no footnotes. Your edit summary claimed to be moving a portal tag, but you didn't. If you're manually checking these, make sure the edit summary matches the actual edit. Otherwise, it has the appearance that you didn't actually check the edit at all. — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:41, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
I've unblocked SmackBot, presuming that you now understand what needs to be done to respect the edit restrictions. Please edit with appropriate caution in terms of testing and reviewing etc. Rd232 talk 00:48, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
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I don't think your addition of a Bacon Portal tag on this page is correct. The first line of the Bacon Portal reads Bacon is a cured meat prepared from a pig and, obviously, Turkey Bacon doesn't meet that criteria. It's also an inferior product to 'real' bacon and I think the addition of your Portal imbues it with undeserved kudos Obscurasky (talk) 18:55, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Len Garrison achievements are recognised as he was made one of the 100 Great Black Britons Igbo (talk) 21:12, 19 November 2010 (UTC)Lagosman
Can you please use capital letters when adding persondata? I know it doesn't make any difference but it's better to have everything in the same style. I suggest you use the built-in AWB feature instead of using a modified one. Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:12, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
I have twice reverted a faulty edit of yours to this article. Please can you check your code and, if en edit is reverted, do not make the same edit again? Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:16, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Two updates they might be interesting for you:
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rev 7419-- Magioladitis (talk) 15:00, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I don't think this edit was useful - the whole article content had previously been removed and replaced by the ((copyviocore)) template which says, amongst other things, "Do not edit this page until an administrator or an OTRS agent has resolved this issue.". As it was, the page turned up in the Category:Stubs for stub-sorting, though I had to look at a past version of the page to sort it... and then realised how daft it all was and reverted your changes instead! So whether by hand or by bot, perhaps you could avoid adding tags to articles in this state? Thanks. PamD (talk) 21:12, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
...of edits like this? LadyofShalott 01:17, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Do you know the full name of this Portuguese football player? Many sources affirm Mário Rodrigues João, while other ones state only Mário João. If you know something more, plese, write me here. --VAN ZANT (talk) 10:24, 23 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 11:01, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
I think the name says it all, but what does Translate Bot do? And the article list? Perseus, Son of Zeus 18:19, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Error introduced at this edit. - Station1 (talk) 05:44, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
When you are cleaning up the Smackbot errors of inserting Currentmonth into articles, perhaps it is easier if you at the same time also clean up the CurrentDay that Smackbot inserted in the same edits at the same position? [117],[118], ... Fram (talk) 22:05, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 November 27; your Category:Main page is up for merging. Nyttend (talk) 18:19, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot recently made a load of fixes to the article Borders of the oceans - diff here [119]. Whilst most things it did were valid, one change introduced an error - the third change shown in the diff.
The article contains some quotes with explanatory text given in square brackets. One of these square bracketed sections contains a wikilink at the end. Therefore in the code it ends with three ]'s. SmackBot removed one of these brackets, presumably because three brackets usually indicate an error. (Interestingly, other three-bracket groups in the article weren't amended by SmackBot.)
Is this something that can be amended in the Bot's code, or do you think that it will be such a rare occurrence that it's not worth fixing? Cheers, Bazonka (talk) 20:31, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Would you put WP:MED on the list for the recent changes page? Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:47, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
FYI, I've added SmackBot and Yobot's current edit war at Human hair growth to WP:LAME#Bot vs bot. —Angr (talk) 14:24, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Apart from the outright errors, noted a number of times before, and now again shown with the Centerville/Centreville redirect which I speedy deleted as a R2 implausibe redirect, you also create a fair number of redirects which should be disambiguations instead. looking only at the last ten Township redirects you created, Woodward to Swatara, four of them should not have been a redirect but instead a disambiguation: Woodbury Township, Windham Township, Wilmington Township and Todd Township. Fram (talk) 11:12, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
These need to be promoted to DAB pages, then Fram. I was aware that some of them probably would, a redirect is still better than no page at all. ( I often think of a redirect as equivalent to a DAB page with one entry./) Perhaps you would like to look at doing that? If you follow my talk page as closely as you seem you will know it is something on my mind. Rich Farmbrough, 14:01, 24 November 2010 (UTC).
<STATSUS> LOGGED OFF </STATUS>
Since it was questioned by Kumioko, and Rich ignored the issue, see Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Mass_article_creation. There is no specific exception for redirects, but (Kumioko) it applies to articles not talk pages so your task sounds exempt. Rich: I presume "RS" is directed at me (Rd232). First, creation of redirects which may plausibly involve a need for disambiguation should involve checking for that, and anyone creating such redirects on a substantial scale without checking would be asked to do that whether they submitted the edit using AWB or a carrier pigeon. Please stop taking the attitude that whatever you're doing is unimprovable and that any resulting problems should be cleaned up by people who find them. You're experienced enough to know better, and I find it increasingly bizarre that you find making minor course corrections such trouble. Rd232 talk 21:38, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
Just FYI. Smackbot clean wiped the United States diplomatic cables leak article. - Amog | Talk • contribs 19:56, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
((Converted)) was broken after your edit. Can you please fix it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:41, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I had a look at Francis Wingfield for DYK, and it seems to be coming up quite short of the required 1500 chars, especially since 2/3 of the article is a block quote. --Worm 11:08, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot messed up at Herbert Henry Dow High School -- blanked the page! --Orlady (talk) 16:26, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
I can't figure out why 73 of the monthly clean up categories for December are showing up at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. Since your bot works with the categories, I was wondering you had an idea as to why they're showing up. — ξxplicit 19:43, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
This edit and this edit to ((splitsection)) tags added a date as usual but removed a redlinked proposed article title. This resulted in the discussion talkpage link being misidentified as the proposed target page[120][121]. I manually corrected it. — AjaxSmack 02:18, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
[X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 02:19, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
The bot has made this edit twice; breaking the afd-merge-to template. Courcelles 00:40, 29 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 00:46, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Looking at the 25 most recent SmackBot edits (Goatse.cx to Brighton railway station), there are seven that only consist of removing an empty line from the page. I don't believe that this is what the bot is supposed to do.[122][123][124][125][126][127][128]. Fram (talk) 07:56, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Btw:
|date=november 2010
to |date=November 2010
.
Femto Bot recreated Category:Statements with common sense issues again. What to do? --Bsherr (talk) 15:14, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
The progress box for Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements is showing a negative number for the undated line. Any idea why or how to fix it? --Bsherr (talk) 18:51, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot is rearranging references again. [133] [134] I undid these edits once, thinking maybe it was just bad settings yesterday, and the bot made the same broken edits today. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:41, 29 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 17:53, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I had noticed that you changed to Capitalization on Cite on the references on Van Morrison article on Sept 28, 2010. I started using the Capitalization form myself but in the meantime, I have not found any other instances of the capital letter being used. If it shouldn't be this way will you change it back? Thanks so much. Agadant (talk) 15:52, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
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I've undone this edit by Femto Bot, as it looked like an error. Fram (talk) 10:13, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
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Richard, Why is Smackbot removing Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit as it did here? Regards, SunCreator (talk) 02:48, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
long ago, you commented on my edit to ace doubles. writing to yo about a huge problem for me with wiki: it appears (see url below) that people are repackaging wiki content and selling it. I personally, am not going to do one darn thing for wiki if this is allowed; that is my personal bottom line - do you have a feeling ? if you agree, "we" - the people who don't like this - need to speak up, or wiki really will die regarsCinnamon colbert (talk) 19:01, 30 November 2010 (UTC) http://www.amazon.com/Zeta-Potential-Lambert-M-Surhone/dp/6131060002/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291143235&sr=1-5
The bot is repeatedly asking for cites and references on the List of Aircraft, which is not right. You shouldn't be putting references on wikipages that are merely lists of other wikipages. Is there any way to turn this darn thing off in that application??? --Raymondwinn (talk) 08:22, 1 December 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 08:32, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Please stop editing my page. They took out everything at the bottom, which is not advertising, just general information.
Thanks.
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[X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 16:51, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Working the Mongol invasion of Europe... I just removed a ton-a-bunch of unref taggings in 1229-1242 and likely one or two more around the 1730-1740 period of the Conejohela War. Just so happens you made this edit about the same time as the person who'd tagged these summation (ALMANAC?) pages (and reminding me of your miserable existence! lol), so what's the skinny. Looks to me like that was an organized effort given his summation, and that a bot or AWB was employed.
Logic in my head says these pages make no sense to have local cites-- they provide links to detailed articles, not wordy explanations. Cites would make maintaining them a whole lot of trouble, vice a quick hit and run edit to update the year's details. Being summaries... I think someone's BOT ought to make sure they all be current untagged... and if necessary untag them as I was and will continue to do. if and when.
Note the balanced reaction and sentiment conveyed oh so diplomatically in my boilerplate following: <g> <x!--((unreferenced|date=November 2009)) summary page dum dum, see linked pages for cites --->
Nice to see ya again. // FrankB 14:27, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Please send the bot to Oliver Hazard Perry and Three hares. Thank you for your help on Barber's pole. Thank you and happy editing. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 19:55, 15 November 2010 (UTC) Stan
Hi, I want to run a bot on huwiki which adds dates to the maintenance tags, like your bot does it here. Can you tell me if it is a pywikipedia script or not? Can you upload it for me? Thanks, --Deni42 (talk) 20:21, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
(copied by RF)
OK, let's try and wrap up some recommendations:
On a related issue, it's not clear to me how redirects get into the AWB list. There is an unsatisfactory discussion here. Anyone? PS It would be good to see Smackbot up and running again, if you can sort out the coding to ensure it behaves in a manner consistent with the editing restriction. Rd232 talk 18:41, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I currently have a BRFA open at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KarlsenBot 6 for dating maintenance tags, in which your input has been requested. Is this a task you intend to continue running? Peter Karlsen (talk) 23:32, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, just letting you know that although you declined a PROD from this page, it's been speedied since, and again blatantly recreated. I've done all the possible WP:BEFORE and found this subject to be a non-notable career starter. and I've put a new CSD on it. If you don't agree, feel free to decline it, but it will still probably have to go to AfD. Cheers, --Kudpung (talk) 10:24, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
I have a question about a bot but Im not sure if its possible or if it already exists. Since FEMTO bot seems to have similar logic I thought I would ask you. I have recently stumbled across a few articles in the last few days that fall under WikiProject US but have unanswered comments. The problem as I see it is that its nearly impossible to actively monitor every article in WPUS manually. Here is my idea: Would it be possible to make a bot that would, once a week or so scan through the list of articles and drop a note on the talk page for WPUS with something like "The following articles for this project have unanswered comments older than 10 days". I think 10 days is a reasonable time to give for folks to answer. If they havent anseered it by then they probably won't IMO. Im not sure how many comments that might be but it might actually be necessary to list them in a subpage and then link that to the talk page. Any ideas? Thanks --Kumioko (talk) 22:21, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Regardining the information at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Test_Squadron ... our squadron graphic has changed. How do I get a new graphic update on the page? Ronald J. Martwick 17th Test Squadron Space Innovation and Development Center 719-567-6134 ronald.martwick of schriever.af.mil —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.31.3.196 (talk) 17:31, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed that some articles seem to have the wrong number of days left in Category:BLP articles proposed for deletion by days left. It looks like articles that had the BLPPROD template added today are currently showing up as having 1 day left. Since I think you were the one who created that categorization, I wanted to let you know so hopefully you can fix whatever isn't working. Calathan (talk) 22:13, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Rich, please take a look here. I don't see the list, only this date stamp: 05:06, 01 December 2010 (UTC) I tried to fix it, but I don't think it's supposed to work that way. -- Brangifer (talk) 23:22, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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Where did you get your information from when you previously edited the OFWGKTA discography i.e. Free Sweatshirt, The Sweaty Martian, Wolfpack etc.? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Howl5 (talk • contribs) 14:29, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
There is a section in the above article headed 'Root cause analysis'. Since RCA is a technical term, I changed this to 'Root cause analysis' so that there was a page link available to the 'Root cause analysis' wikipedia page by clicking the section heading. Smackbot has removed the page link and returned the heading to just being plain text. Can you help me understand the benefit of that please? My understanding of wikipedia guidelines is that links to other pages should be used.
Any help is much appreciated.
Best regards, Socheid (talk) 19:09, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Cheers Rich,
Socheid (talk) 23:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
rev 7446 discounts persondata from wikify evaluation. This fixes the problem with unnecessary wikify tags in stubs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:40, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
For the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii/Recent changes/Page2, nothing on there relates to Hawaii. It's totally about Wikiproject Texas. The most recent activity on there was a move by you. Do you think maybe it needs to be moved to WikiProject Texas? Maile66 (talk) 13:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Yet again Fram succeeds in getting SmackBot blocked. Congratulations. Rich Farmbrough, 21:55, 8 December 2010 (UTC).
rev 7451: Removes dated even if first digit is zero + removed comma between month and year. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:47, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Clearly this business with the editing restrictions isn't working. See WP:AN. Rd232 talk 00:54, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
An ANI section concerning your actions has been started at WP:ANI#WP:POINT violations through AWB by User:Rich Farmbrough. Fram (talk) 08:07, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Rich, am I going nuts, or are you here doing a template redirect which isn't on the AWB standard list? Rd232 talk 01:31, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Um, why are you using AWB on your main account when you have Smackbot? [135] Rd232 talk 14:14, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Checked the last ten edits of tonight, and again two of them are unnecessary and unwanted bot edits: this and this. Fram (talk) 09:15, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
And again: here. Fram (talk) 08:11, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
This is a completely different thing, go and look again. Rich Farmbrough, 00:02, 9 December 2010 (UTC).
AWB Rule 4 is "Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits." The community has imposed editing restrictions essentially to require Rich to respect this rule, and it is becoming increasingly tiresome that Rich is seemingly unable to cut out the unwanted edits (or parts of edits) from his Smackbot code and AWB use. His enormously prolific contributions are much valued, I just don't understand why it continues to be an issue so long after it was agreed what should happen. There have been some ambiguities and misunderstandings in discussing the precise applicability of restrictions, but those have been handled, and we're left with no obvious reason for the failure to fix a basically straightforward problem. Rd232 talk 21:02, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
As far as I understand many Smackbot's settings are like that in order to add and fix some difficult dated tags cases. I have a suggestion that probably will reduce the problem: Smackbot can first run in the list of undated tags only with built-in general fixes and then rerun to the remaining list with its customised settings. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for getting back to me. Sorry about the e-mail issues. I wanted to know if you would "follow" a new Dermatology and Dermatopathology forum proposal I am working on. Also, perhaps you could vote as to which questions you consider on/off topic? In general, I have enjoyed collaborating with you on Wikipedia, and would love to have you following this project as well. Thoughts? ---My Core Competency is Competency (talk) 22:19, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I've attempted to restart the AN discussion to focus on the long-term substantive issue. I urge you to be as helpful as you can there in explaining the concrete and practical difficulties you face in respecting the editing restrictions, and in coming up with solutions if you can.
On the Fram/Geoswan thing - I can't do any better than quote Fifelfoo in that thread: "You appear to be particularly combative at the moment Rich, considered taking a cup of tea?" You appear to have lost perspective on Fram and his actions for the moment, and I urge you to be mature enough to recognise that and act accordingly until this passes (compare being mature enough not to drive when drunk). Rd232 talk 13:16, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
There was nothing wrong with Fram's remark, and no good can come of pursuing it further. Rich, please strike your accusation, and Fram, just let it go. Rd232 talk 20:48, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
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There are several templates up for CSD at CSD, such as Template:ISO 3166 code Saint Kitts And Nevis
Are you fine with the deletion? I'm happy to do it, but wanted to make sure.--SPhilbrickT 20:58, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
((ISO 3166 code|Saint Kitts And Nevis))
=> KN. This means we can get the code from a country field. More: we can do this:This mean we can to some extent canonicalize place names up to level 2. Rich Farmbrough, 21:09, 9 December 2010 (UTC).
In case you did not notice. The BLP issues refer to the Guantanamo detainees. Please do not re-add the information. IQinn (talk) 00:40, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
I reverted you. You should not -re-revert without cause. Rich Farmbrough, 18:16, 12 December 2010 (UTC).
Hi, your automated AWB tool made edit to the fully-protected article Libertarianism without any discussion, removing a large swath of sourced content and tagging the edit as "minor". This is a highly contentious article; administrators should not be making unilateral major changes. I recommend you revert yourself. If your AWB tool is failing to recognize full protection, please refrain from using it. Thanks. ~Amatulić (talk) 16:47, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
I thought you weren't going to do stuff like this anymore? [138] –xenotalk 21:36, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Uh no. A couple of mis-clicks are quite reasonable. And I have always done most of the non-main space stuff manually. There are a zillion bots dating tags on articles - I've done maybe a couple hundred articles today just as preliminary testing. Rich Farmbrough, 21:58, 16 December 2010 (UTC).
So why are you dropping by to express these concerns? Were you disturbed to encounter a capital R? Or just lacking other things to do that peruse my contribs? Rich Farmbrough, 22:54, 16 December 2010 (UTC).
Hello Rich, I see that you're an administrator and that you make a lot of bot-assisted "general fixes", but I must ask: why did you decide to edit two of my sandbox pages like this and this? These are my personal pages, clearly marked with the "Userspace Draft" template. SteveStrummer (talk) 03:32, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Where to do I find it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:30, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Any list? -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:48, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Rich. In addition to there being no mention of WPBiography and WPMILHIST in the lists here are some of the things I noticed on the list that I think should be changed: I changed these (and some others) to point to the correct project page rather than a redirect
I added to the list I have and I recommend adding them to you
I was going to give you a list of the changes I made but I noticed you were pinned down by friendly fire so I created a page under my user name (User:Kumioko/Talkpage) for the WikiProject Banner cleanup talk page edits. Im not sure if you derived the list manually or mined it somehow but as I make changes to my list I will update this page as well. I have also been adding comments about when I changed it and basically what I did (but I didnt for the first couple days). Please feel free to use or modify this list so that we can all benefit from enhancements we all find and make. If you dont have time or whataver just drop a note on my talk page about the change you want me to make andn Ill do it as soon as I can. My XML skills are minimal so I usually just append to the bottom and then resort when I pull it into AWB rather than trying to find where it fits alphabetically. Here are a few of the things that I have been modifying as I find them:
I actually perform a couple hundred other edits (like deleting empty unused fields (not things like priority or class but empty taskforces and the like), fixing parameters that say things like +, -, _, etc instead of =, adding listas if missing, changing listas title to listas key) but I cut those out for the sake of not mising things up. If you think I should inlcude these as well please let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 04:20, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
(( WikiProject_________Bacon|
((WikiProject Eggs
(( WikiProject Black pudding
becomes
((WikiProject Bacon|
((WikiProject Eggs
((WikiProject Black pudding
Although perhaps removing the trailing space tampering would be good in those cases. In fact I can produce a smarter XML now, with a little effort. Rich Farmbrough, 08:53, 18 November 2010 (UTC).
Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. --Kumioko (talk) 18:30, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Cu-sect. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Cu-sect redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Kumioko (talk) 05:47, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, Rich, I have probably come to the wrong place for this one, but as you are part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography, maybe you can help me. I have been trying to find an online reliable source(s) to confirm and enhance the death details for Mr. Hilliard for months and months, without success. I asked on the article's talk page, and got some information (after a lengthy time period) but it still did not seem to get me anywhere. I am hoping to find something to better conclude his article, before I suffer the same fate as him ! Feel free to redirect me, if you are busy, or think somewhere else is more equipped for such a plea, from this miserable little pleader. Cheers,
Derek R Bullamore (talk) 20:43, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Rich, I know that you identify as a generalist, an inveterate "fixer" and copy editor as you say, so I thought I'd seek your input on this-- I've put together what should be a significant step in bringing the PepsiCo article up from its present rating of Start-/C-class status (ratings differed from one wikiproject to the next) towards an eventual goal of it meeting good article standards. This has been a complex subject matter to tackle, but I thought it to be worthwhile in the interest of building the encyclopedia (and making for one fewer low-graded Top-Importance article). If you have an inclination, might you be able to weigh in on this discussion: Talk:PepsiCo#Thoughts_on_revision? Happy holidays, Jeff Bedford (talk) 15:40, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Rich: Altering ((reflist))
→((Reflist))
is a "cosmetic change to wikicode". Could I remind you that per Wikipedia:Editing restrictions#Rich Farmbrough you are indefinitely restricted from doing this. Please comply. —Sladen (talk) 22:59, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
I am done verifying the talk page templates and I converted it from individual find and replaces to a C module. There are pluses and minues to doing this but I think its an improvement. For me it seems to work about twice the previous speed but it may be different for you. I added the code that I think you would be interested in here. A couple notes:
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. --Kumioko (talk) 17:13, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Blocked 48 hours for blatant violation of Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Mass_article_creation. [141]. Honestly, do you think policy doesn't apply to you just because it's inconvenient for you? Rd232 talk 13:45, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
The above discussion I believe conflates a number of dimensions:
- "Automation" - this is a continuum from, if you will, typing, through pop-up suggestions, java-script search and replace, browser based spell checking, manual edits where the whole change (or most) is automated but the commit is manual, batch processes, continuous processes to automatic on-wiki processes (cat counters etc.).
- "Simplicity" simple edits are not necessarily candidates for automation, nor are they necessarily automated.
- "Speed" the assumption is that fast editing is automated, slow editing is manual. Personally I prefer not to wait between manual edits, automted edits can happen while I'm doing something else (like sleeping).
- "Volume" not all automated tasks are high volume - notably daily updates, this is typical of FemtoBot - one of its tasks started at about 1 page per month. Similarly I manually tagged several thousand maps GFDL (because there was no AWB in those days) and did many thousands of AWB assisted album clean-ups (I forget which part I couldn't automate at the time).
- "Application" You can make automated edits with Firefox and manual edits with AWB - and it can be a sensible choice of application.
For these reasons the apparently attractive idea that you have a main account, and an AWB account (and a bot account) doesn't really fly. Yes I have User:Megaphone Duck - I'm not sure if it has AWB approval - but that was just to put a thumb in a dike, while I tried (and failed) to write the encyclopedia. Rich Farmbrough, 01:55, 17 December 2010 (UTC).
I don't suppose any ill intent in RD232's part. Those who jump up and down pointing, and singing "Ooh he broke a rule! Ooh he broke a rule!" receive a slightly less charitable view. However the net result is less articles get fixed, including the articles/disambiguation pages in question. I actually laughed when I tried to edit Ofcom a few seconds ago - it's not really my loss that there's a misplaced capital. Also the discussions I am involved with will lack the benefit of my counsel, which would doubtless be ignored anyway. For example BOTPOL now covers human edits, assisted or not. Effectively BAG now runs Wikipedia - which I'm sure is not the intention - however it is fairly harmless, exchanging one set of absentee landlords for another. Rich Farmbrough, 18:32, 18 December 2010 (UTC).
This is going to sound like a strange question but here goes. I wrote some code to replace various WikiProject redirects to the actual template: see here. My question is in regards to dealing with casing. I know that using regex I can put [Xx] to look for upper and lower case of letter X (X being whatever letter). Is there a way that you know of to make this so all of the whole group is case insensitive rather than having to designate each one individually? Thanks. --Kumioko (talk) 01:19, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
I have just had to do the reverse with all my redirect stuff, because REFLIST => Reflist was picking up reflist and causing the imminent death of the universe. Rich Farmbrough, 07:04, 18 December 2010 (UTC).
Can someone look at this rather strange reversion. The edit summary suggests that a real example is somehow wrong. I don't know what Fram's problem is exactly, but there clearly is one. Rich Farmbrough, 05:29, 19 December 2010 (UTC).
OK nevermind I'll go to the page itself presently. More important is the blanket revert, instead of just the bit he takes issue with. Rich Farmbrough, 14:43, 19 December 2010 (UTC).
Could you implement my idea?
http://m.jguk.org/2010/11/wikipedia-auto-link-article.html
Now3d (talk) 20:18, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
It is actually rather rare for these not to be linked in a complete graph. There are many robots roaming the interwikis and adding the (usually) appropriate links. The hope is, though, that technical improvements will allow a single link from each language version to a central repository of links, this will save millions of edits per year.
Simple Wikipedia has been around for a long time, and is a very Good Thing.
Rich Farmbrough.
13 December 2010 10:34
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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. Thank you. The thread is Curious actions of User:Megaphone Duck. Doc talk 23:26, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Note: this was a bug where the correct change was displayed but a blank page was written. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:32, 12 November 2015 (UTC).
Rich farmbrough was that you, if so sorry mate but i thought that was a new user being unconstructive--Lerdthenerd (talk) 09:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
I've blocked this account (bot?) for blanking pages. Nakon 21:51, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
This is your only warning. If you remove or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. —Farix (t | c) 22:39, 22 December 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 Curious actions of User:Megaphone Duck. Thank you. —Farix (t | c) 22:47, 22 December 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:Megaphone Duck by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 00:31, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Dear Editor,
You recently added a few flags to the HyperOffice page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperoffice. I had consulted with you way back on 23rd April 2009 even before I set up the page. I had referenced a number of entries in the same domain (online collaboration) before setting up the page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebEx, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box.net, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoho, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Desktop, and had it vetted by a number of editors and users before it went live. The article is exactly the same in tone as these other articles. Please reconsider your edits in light of the above. wikiliscious (talk) 13:29, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
You are using this template in the wrong namespace. Use this template on your talk page instead. You are using this template in the wrong namespace. Use this template on your talk page instead.
Rich, I'll say the same thing to you as I say at any unblock request or ANI posting: please make a case for yourself, and help us to understand the history, in as few words as possible, but with the most clarification possible, using diffs, paraphrases, etc. We can't decide until we know the whole history. Magog the Ogre (talk) 00:56, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Also, Rich, I see you mentioned something about re-writing this in perl. I strongly encourage you to do so, if we could get this into a "proper" programming language, it would make life so much easier :) - Kingpin13 (talk) 12:54, 22 December 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 01:51, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
As of rev 7500:
The latter fixes the problem of double-runs in many biography pages. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:18, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello, sir, I'm a new user and I don't know how to start... anything. Could you help? SpaceDiver221 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:15, 22 December 2010 (UTC).
The edit summaries are not appropriate or intelligable Active Banana (bananaphone 01:21, 23 December 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 01:24, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Can you please edit User:SmackBot#Tasks_and_authorisations and make clear(er) which tasks are one-off, inactive, still active? I am losing track.
I asked MSGJ to unblock SmackBot. The blocking reason isn't valid anymore. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:08, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
The dating of the Use DMY template goes wrong in your AWB edits, returning Use dmy dates from ((subst:currentmonthname)) ((subst:currentyear)), e.g. here, here and here. Fram (talk) 12:55, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Please if you have time and you know anything to it (I have seen that you have made edits in the article area which owns relations on it --- e.g. you have made the article: The Lord of the Rings (1955 radio series)) , please look on the article Audio theatre, somebody placed a erase discussion on it. after we have had a merge discussion. It would be interesting what you would say to the merge and the delete discussion. And possibly it could help to contact other people that they should help also. )-: Merry Xmas --Soenke Rahn (talk) 14:31, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
As I've told you time and again there are reasons we have processes in place to approve these kinds of task, rather than immediately creating hundreds of pages using an untested method. For example, scroll down this page which you created a couple of seconds ago, and you should notice a rather obvious problem with it. I suggest you go through your creations and review them properly, and in future you review them (and get them peer reviewed) before you start putting them into the main space. I hate to be blunt, but what will it take for you to actually start following bot policy - which the majority of the time is good practice and makes sense? - Kingpin13 (talk) 07:25, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
I think "peer review" would be a little over the top. However it all seems academic now. Rich Farmbrough, 17:13, 17 December 2010 (UTC).
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You seem to try to fix DEFAULTSORT invalid entries but... you don't. Check [144] and many others where the comma was missing. :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:56, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Yes the purpose of the exercise was to look at some 29,000 people articles with no comma in the DEFAULTSORT. Unfortunately I became so paranoid about he editing restriction that that got rather left by the wayside. I'm not sure that the comma is actually a good idea, I fear much hinges on the human name sorting decisions being made based on the paper, or at leas human targeted, methods of keying sorts. Rich Farmbrough, 18:33, 21 December 2010 (UTC).
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Dear Rich Farmbrough, Best wishes to you and your family this holiday season, whether you are celebrating Christmas or a different holiday. It's a special time of the year for almost everyone, and there's always a reason to spread the holiday spirit! ;) Love, --Meaghan [talk] ≈ 15:22, 22 December 2010 (UTC) |
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Not sure if you knew or if there is anything that can be done about it but I have noticed in almost every case when the WikiProject Banner template contains punctuation or diactratics it breaks. Two example are WikiProject Pokemon and WikiProject Children's literature. In both cases and others like them your script stopped after it got to Pok and Children. --Kumioko (talk) 17:31, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Since you have taken it upon yourself to rename the article, you obviously have administrative rights. Could you also place a redirect on this article as "American records in masters athletics"? That is a likely word substitution. Trackinfo (talk) 07:24, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
I am trying to get AWB's external processing started and use a perl script. How to I get a pl script to process a wiki page? Snowman (talk) 18:06, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
Using that style, then I presume that a file named "test.txt" is needed and a pl named "test.pl" is needed. Will this get the article lines into an array in a working pl script? I presume that I would need to write the processed file to the "test.txt" file, or can it be a different output file? Snowman (talk) 23:51, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
my $soursefile; $soursefile="test.txt"; # print "$soursefile\n"; open FILETEXT, "$soursefile"; @soursefile = <FILETEXT>; close (FILESTEXT);
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Howdy. Posting this here as you seem to be (or have been) the main creator of the ISO_639_name_XX templates - please do let me know if there's somewhere more relevant I've overlooked.
As part of an unrelated task I've generated a list of attempts to transclude missing templates starting 'ISO_639_name_'. We've around 3100 of them, ranging from the most popular Template:ISO_639_name_zh-Hani (422 attempted transclusions) down to 320 or so templates with only one attempted translcusion. The former and a few dozne like it represent either missing templates or a misunderstanding of thier purpose while the latter are probably mostly typos.
Would the details of these links be useful to you or anyone else ? - TB (talk) 13:50, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
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I would like to add Wikipedia:WikiProject Algae and Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary Medicine to this bot's project updates. How do I go about this? --Kleopatra (talk) 03:18, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
I would like to request the same for Wikipedia:WikiProject Hospitals and Wikipedia:WikiProject Dams. Thanks Rich! Ng.j (talk) 16:55, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks! Ng.j (talk) 12:02, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
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Howdy. Handy lists, but it looks like your bot picked up quite a few election articles in user-space. I've unlinked them for now on the assumption that this wasn't your intention. - TB (talk) 19:00, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Just wanted to ask a clarifying question - the user you unblocked, User:ICIWORLD, had requested a name change in the unblock template to Hojuhanguk. Were you (or someone else) going to go ahead and do that, or does he/she need to file a request at WP:CHU? Thanks!
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William J. Mann - putting a colon in front of template names, breaking templates. Yworo (talk) 19:07, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
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Dear Richard Farmbrough,
It seems to me that the recent SmackBot edit of Extremal principles in non-equilibrium thermodynamics is partly the work of a real person as well as of a robot; I have to say I don't really understand this bot process, and perhaps I am misinterpreting things.
Howsoever. The edit complains: "This article is written like a personal reflection or essay and may require cleanup. Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style. (December 2010)"
The subject matter here is conceptually difficult, and there are no simple answers that I have found by reading the literature within the scope of my admittedly limited ability.
The subject matter here attracts writing from people who think they understand it, but are really putting a point of view that I think is one of the many pseudo-scientific '-isms'. The serious experts, regrettably, don't write here, because they are publishing elsewhere. I regret that I cannot write a crisp dogmatic exposition of the subject; indeed I have my doubts that there are many who could do so. So far as I understand, the acronym Wiki stands for "what I know is". If I could write something more "encyclopaedic", I would do so, but that would make me a serious expert and I would probably not be writing in the Wikipedia on this subject. I have simply tried to assemble and summarize the most expert opinions I can find. I think it just a little over the top for a bot to complain that I am writing a "personal reflection or essay", and to demand a "cleanup". If, by some other means than such a bot tag, you can find a real expert to improve the article, I will be glad. But I fear that this bot tag is more likely to be read by pseudo-experts as an open invitation to write their points of view, than to be effective in persuading a real expert to do a real cleanup. It can be very tiresome to deal with pseudo-experts, who are often very convinced that they have "the answer", but in fact don't really even understand the problem. Therefore I would like to respectfully ask you to remove the bot tag, because I don't envisage it actually leading to a better article, and indeed I envisage that it might do more harm than good.Chjoaygame (talk) 00:03, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for this helpful advice.Chjoaygame (talk) 03:49, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I see you have been tweaking this article again but you still haven't cited a source for the bit about "forgiveness" vs. caning and in particular the ceremony of the two pairs of shorts. A year or two ago you told me you would get round to this. As it stands, it reads like original research. -- Alarics (talk) 09:57, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for flagging up uncited claim. I have rewritten until/unless I can get a citation 89.240.199.232 (talk) 18:15, 31 December 2010 (UTC)!
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Hi Rich - is this a mistake, or is there something I've missed in the discussion? Shouldn't this simply have been moved to Sharpeville? Grutness...wha? 05:17, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
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Just curious... You placed a ((hangon)) tag on Category:Void albums - did you mean to? Did you have some reason that category should be kept? Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 00:17, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
"perhaps you would do the featured wildlife section?" Huh? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 19:50, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
I think you might want to see Template_talk:!#Edit_request_from_Cymru.lass.2C_28_December_2010. Debresser (talk) 05:02, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I was thinking about using the above templates which you wrote, but they seem reversed. ((Today (mdy))) gives 2 January 2011 (live template here: August 28, 2024), and ((Today (dmy))) gives January 2, 2011 (live template here: 28 August 2024). As I understand it, 'mdy' format should put the month first, see Template:Use mdy dates. I'm happy to reverse them, but thought I'd check with you first. CuriousEricTalk 23:11, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
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You added [self-published source?] to this article. The reference is to an original article. I am not the author and the wikipedia article was not written by the same person. I think this article might be lifted from the article I cited. My point is my citation is to a bonafide article and any prob is with the wiki text. MarkDask 17:46, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
I have an idea for a consolidation of the stub templates relating to US and I wanted to solicit your opinion first. What I would like to do is make it so that we use a central template as a base and then use parameter to denote the substub so to speak. For example if we say that ((US-stub)) is the main stub template and then we make a parameter for Biography then we could eliminate that ((US-bio-stub)) template. I know this makes the logic a bit more complicated and makes the template a little more complicated to use but I think in the end it would simplify the use of the several hundred stub templates that are in use for the US related articles. I also want to clarify that I know that we cannot consolidate 400 templates into 1 but there are about 30 that relate just to high level US so I think if even some are consolidated it will be an improvement. --Kumioko (talk) 21:00, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
((stub|US))
or ((stub|US-bio))
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section parameter in expand section :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:44, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
I patrol all communities in Iowa and I just checked the edits you are changing to US state when it should be U.S. state. Just letting you know. --RifeIdeas Talk 02:37, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I opened a DRV here on the Sarah Palin thing for you. The restoring was out of line, but instead of starting a wheel war I'm just throwing it here. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 03:05, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I created a discussion at Define what falls under the responsibilities of the Bot Approval group regarding some of the comments made here so we can put a stop to this nonsense once and for all. --Kumioko (talk) 01:49, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
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Most instances I've found are replaceable with ((expand-section)) or ((incomplete)) so that's what I'm doing. I'm not zapping it unless the article doesn't seem to have any readily obvious need for expansion. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 13:31, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Not sure what you meant to do. --Muhandes (talk) 19:39, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hello! I am trying to correct/amend the Robert S. Wood page where you left two notes about phrases that needed clarification. The first was a quote calling The Global War Games "the largest gaming series in U.S. history." That was part of a larger description of Wood's responsibilities all linked to a reference, but to clarify I added an additional link to that reference right after the statement. Is that enough? (The description was a direct quote.) The second was to the phrase, "all U.S. Armed Forces Senior Service Schools," where you ask if that is the same as military service academies. The answer is no: the academies are undergraduate (West Point, Annapolis, etc), whereas "senior" is the term used (in the reference but also in general) for post-graduate military schools, like the Army, Navy, Air Force colleges of "command and general staff" and "war colleges." Unfortunately there is not one wiki phrase to incorporate them all like there is for the undergraduate schools -- although I guess I could try to create a page for "U.S. Military Senior Service Schools. For now, though, would it be enough to add the same reference to this phrase again or to explain in parenthesis what I just explained here? It is a description readily understood by most people familiar with military education, which is why it was used that way in the speaker's bio from which I "lifted" those words -- but I understand if you are saying that it should be readily understandable even by people unfamiliar with the military. Is that what you are saying? I would like to get this right, so with this additional info I've added here, perhaps you could either tell me what good phrasing might be, or feel free to add it yourself? In any event, I thank you for helping to make this a better article!! NearTheZoo (talk) 20:24, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
Re: Employee assistance program and section "Workplace Bullying & In-House EAP Concerns"
On Jan 3 you inserted 3 [dubious – discuss] tags in my edit "Workplace Bullying & In-House EAP Concerns" section. I've place the references to support my tagged edits on the discussion page as requested.
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In the article Special relativity, SmackBot changed "v_0" to "v 0" inside a <math> (in-line TeX, not display). This changed a correct formula to an incorrect one in the second modified paragraph. See this diff. JRSpriggs (talk) 06:15, 6 January 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 06:21, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, please stop using Smackbot for changes such as this - it's an utterly worthless edit and a complete waste of server time. I have my own preferences for how to format refs in articles where I'm the principal contributor, and it doesn't match up with your preferences - in this case I don't space "=", but I do place a space before "|" as that usually produces sensible wrapping for me when editing refs. It wouldn't matter so much if Smackbot did this for every parameter, but to do it just for the 'date' parameter, while leaving the others in my preferred style is just plain odd. --RexxS (talk) 00:55, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
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Cool. How do you do it? I would like to add this to AWB's code. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:56, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
They fail on header depths greater than 5, and on last sections, and on sections that are empty of content but have other tags.
For truly empty sections
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Rich Farmbrough, 21:16, 9 January 2011 (UTC).
I have proposed the renaming of a category, and wanted to know if you would consider commenting on the proposed renaming over at that link. ---My Core Competency is Competency (talk) 04:43, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Just noticed your AWB edit to Fetlar that included the hidden cat "Use dmy dates from January 2011". I have looked at this cat and its parent and I can't make much sense out of it. Is the implication is that in some unspecified time period a bot may run that changes the dates? Yrs, perplexed. Ben MacDui 10:32, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
or a combination. Rich Farmbrough, 11:29, 8 January 2011 (UTC).
chrly cole Iam victoria leader from victoria leader —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.140.180.251 (talk) 19:05, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
I've made attempts to make the article less US-centered, including an example of a European storm in the lead. Let me know if this is sufficient for the tag's removal. Thegreatdr (talk) 14:15, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. You suppressed interwiki link between and . Some people and bot are fighting to shrink this article, against opinion of membres of . For myself, i understand french and italian, if italian article is shorter than french, the topic is the same. So interwiki link is pertinent. Regards 92.145.183.148 (talk) 07:51, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Not sure what this bot's purpose is (you're probably just staking your claim) but if it's purpose were to translate other foreign language articles, all content generated would be deleted under db-a2. I think the purpose of that deletion policy is to prevent the translators from being overworked but I've been told that db-a2 even applies to translated content. Marcus Qwertyus 07:55, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
HI I saw that you said a citation is needed for Louise Camuto's education. I work for her and know for a fact that she attended these schools. It is listed as well on her personal linkedin profile. What will suffice as a source for this since there is not going to be any website to confirm this??--65.51.232.210 (talk) 16:48, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
First let me give a long-overdue thanks for all of smackbot's important work. But... has something changed to cause it to do what it does more quickly after an article has been human-edited? All of a sudden I find that, after making one edit, if I make another edit to the same article soon after I get an edit conflict against Smackbot's addition of datestamps and so on e.g. see January 6 in [145]. I don't remember this happening before, and it's very annoying. Could Smackbot to wait some fixed period before acting, to avoid this? I don't know if 5 minutes, or 5 hours, would be more appropriate. Thanks. EEng (talk) 14:50, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Are you still creating those new albums categories by script? Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:17, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
The article Dorsami Naidu has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the ((prod blp)) tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Mhiji 02:32, 16 January 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 02:35, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I'm not sure if you're aware, but Femto Bot (talk · contribs) continues to create Category:Articles with specifically-marked weasel-worded phrases from December 2010 and Category:Articles with specifically-marked weasel-worded phrases from January 2011 with the dash between "specifically" and "marked", despite the categories being renamed to omit the hyphen. Any chance you can get the bot stop creating the hyphened versions? They can't be populated anyhow. — ξxplicit 07:49, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
That category I've proposed for deletion was, in practice, empty. The only 3 or 4 (random?) articles categozied over there, on it.wiki were categorized as frazioni. The term località (locality), as for my studies and experiences travelling in Italy, suddenly may refer (apart from a general term used for places, zones, fields) to some very little rural villages (frazioni) composed by few scattered farms and suddenly considered simply as a group of houses. Another thing: Sometimes it happens that some municipalities decide (per municipal statute) to refer to their frazioni as località or contrade (wards, divisions). Italian law regarding hamlets is not so strictly defined as (for example) the ones in Poland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, or in almost all the countries of the former Yugoslavia. So, for example, a category for localities on it.wiki does not exists and (if I've well understood) it has been decided to categorize all of them simply as frazioni, also to avoid a possible confusing over-categorization. The term frazione is also, in colloquial Italian language, the most popular and largely diffused word to refer to this kind of populated places. That category, i repeat, had only 3 or 4 articles reguarding frazioni categorized in that way on it.wp. So they were not properly under their correct category (i've controlled the correspondant Italian articles: categories and notes were clear about it) and that's the reason because the cat località of Italy remained empty. I can also suppose that it may be not so simple to make a defined (and national) categorization about this different subjects, but if possible it could be a good thing, IMHO. If you will decide to start this structuring, i could help: feel free to do it, of course :-) . By now I don't remember to have found articles about a proper località. I hope to have done a good explanation of that situation. Best of regards and good work. --Dэя-Бøяg 16:35, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Frazioni are notable in my view and we should have an article on every one in Italy eventually but priority with Italy really is to expand the comune articles...♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:42, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You may be interested to note that User:Mhiji has taken an interest to nominating every category in Category:Empty categories for speedy deletion, regardless of whether the category was just created or not. He has nominated several categories you created, including Category:Compost Records albums. McLerristarr | Mclay1 06:42, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi again. I moved the contents from Category:Def American albums, which you just created, because Category:Def American Recordings albums already exists. May I check others you've created in this manner and correct them if necessary? That means some may be emptied out of process but I won't remove album label categories from album articles just because the label itself doesn't have an article like I was doing. It will just be for corrections (misspellings, full/actual label name, other existing label category). You'll know which ones I've cleared once they start populating Category:Empty categories. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 17:44, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
In Scientific opinion on climate changeSmackBot is reinstating a citation needed that an editor removed. I removed it and SmackBot again reinstated it. Dmcq (talk) 18:20, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Oops sorry I didn't go back far enough. Dmcq (talk) 18:22, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
What is the use dmy dates tag for? I've noticed your placement of this tag on several pages I watch. I don't know what it is, or what edits I could make to resolve an issue. All dates on the page are in date, month, year format to my knowledge. Thanks. --Powerten (talk) 18:55, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
None as of January 2011.
Or to make the structure into a list - which is better in some ways:
Hi! The sections you marked as empty in ATCvet code QI02 to ATCvet code QI20 (10 pages altogether) are meant to be empty. These sections of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System for veterinary medicinal products are (currently) empty, so there is nothing to add to our lists. Any problem if I revert you? And what can I do to prevent such edits in future? Thanks, ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 09:51, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
None as of January 2011.
None as of January 2011.
Or to make the structure into a list - which is better in some ways:
annomiebot is catching it. didnt even dateit in fact.(Lihaas (talk) 07:38, 15 January 2011 (UTC)).
Hi Rich. Femto Bot is recreating empty category pages: Category:Unreferenced BLPs from December 2006, Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from December 2009, Category:Articles to be split from January 2009 - this is the second time, I deleted this already earlier today. SilkTork *YES! 22:55, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Here SmackBot seems to have been doing much more than dating my ((source?)) addition. The page was fully blanked! L.tak (talk) 22:47, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
You might be interested in Template_talk:Lead_rewrite#Deleting_The_Categories_It_Is_Linking_To_Directly_And_Replacing_With_Category:Lead_section_needing_rewrite_Or_Something_Along_Those_Lines.3F.. Debresser (talk) 17:27, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
I request That The Test templates To not redict to the User Talk Messages. That is only because it says the "Old Grid can Be found here", so it will just lead to the same page, and if we remove the redirect, than the Wikipedians can see them easier.
Since you commented on 'Modern American Weapons' at CfD, the proposal has been modified somewhat. I thought I'd let you know in case you wanted to take another look at the modified proposal. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:07, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
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Seasons greetings. Smackbot wandered across my Watchlist:
Thank you. —Sladen (talk) 07:50, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
The bot is a little too active at the moment, its often times given edit conflicts today. can we slow down its work?(Lihaas (talk) 20:57, 30 December 2010 (UTC)).
Why on earthh did Smackbot remove an underline in sqrt(a_1) within math tags in the following edit [151], see the change for line 67. Dmcq (talk) 20:32, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
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Today Smackbot said that it dated the ((originalresearch)) tag on Pahlavi Dynasty whereas multiple changes were made to the article. The biggest change was the change from ((Wikicommons)) to ((:Commons)). The former created a little box that indicated that material relating to the article is available on WikiCommons. The latter dropped the entire contents of Commons in to the article. That edit was reverted by an unregistered editor and Smackbot came along later in the day and redid it. I found it because a DEFAULTSORT conflict was generated.
I am certain that this change was unintentional but why did Smackbot do it and how can you insure that it does not happen again? JimCubb (talk) 18:39, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Smackbot changes Level 2 and 3 Headline text from the right to the wrong format. Right is == Level 2 ==, wrong is ==Level 2== by default. To know what format is right you click on the "A" button in the icon row above the text window, this produces == Level 2 ==. Please fix this quickly, in long lists such as the linked Global spread of the printing press such sweeping changes can be annoying. Regards Gun Powder Ma (talk) 11:20, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Feel free to participate in the discussion at Template talk:Cfd all#Should the tags for nominating categories to be renamed be purple in stead of pink?. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:30, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Re my previous concern about Smackbot's over-promptness in adding datestamps and so on: this is beginning to really annoy me. Within seconds of an edit, it's in there modifying the article, so that my subsequent attempt to edit hits an edit conflict. Can you please add a substantial delay before Smackbot acts? I would recommend 60 minutes. I don't see what is lost by having it wait a bit. EEng (talk) 19:56, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm guessing you looked at [153]? EEng (talk) 20:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Why bother making edits such as this one in which there is nothing actually wrong with the article? As discussed at Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups/About fixing redirects and elsewhere, the encyclopedia gains nothing and may well be worse off for making such changes, especially if nothing else in the article needed to be changed. Alansohn (talk) 01:55, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about your category creations at WP:ANI#Automated creation of incorrect categories, with the suggestion of an edit restriction. Fram (talk) 10:13, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Can you please explain your comment on citations? Are there four there insufficient? How many would be sufficient? thanks Charleyrich (talk) 22:04, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much for agreeing to help.
Hi. I replied at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(accessibility)#Small_fonts. Yours, Dodoïste (talk) 10:30, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Duplicated entries. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:32, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
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Aren't you, under your Wikipedia:Editing restrictions, prohibited from making bot edits like [154],[155],[156],[157],[158],[159],[160] (all made within five minutes about a quarter ago)? Fram (talk) 14:01, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Just a question: Is your personalized signature compatible with archiver bots (such as MiszaBot, ClueBot, etc)? HeyMid (contribs) 15:27, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
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I'm finding an awful lot of duplicate categories that you've recently created.
and so on. I realise you are probably doing this through some sort of mechanical process, but really I think we need to a be a bit more careful in avoiding duplicates. These duplicate categories are even being placed on articles where the pre-existing one already exists, as with Rhyme Pays, which had Category:Ice-T albums and Category:Ice T albums on it. Good Ol’factory (talk) 09:46, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Template:Portal/Images/Wikipedia essays 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. Mhiji 21:40, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Whatever happened with trying to get rid of all-inclusive categories? Debresser (talk) 17:40, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_January_17#Category:Wikipedia_introduction_cleanup. Debresser (talk) 16:29, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
And on Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_January_17#Template:No_definition. Debresser (talk) 23:01, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
And on Template_talk:R_from_other_template#Mistake. Debresser (talk) 23:45, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Please be more careful when replacing a specific "other uses" template with a generic one. It turned a correct one in a redlinked one here (SmackBot) and here (RF through AWB). Also please don't use SmackBot for edits that don't do anything substantial, like here and here. Fram (talk) 09:13, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Accidents happen. During your clean up of Kingston Mill, Stockport you changed the word Mill to ill in the Infobox template. This then orphaned the NFC image,. File:Kingston Mill, Stockport 0004.png and the deletionistas at NFC tagged the image for destruction within 48 hours.See Wikipedia talk:Non-free content for the ongoing debate as to all the issues there that affect anyone that is documenting defunct companies. I have reverted the M and will follow the trail back to revert the tag. Thanks for your your other efforts though.--ClemRutter (talk) 09:34, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Please respond to Fram's recent post on your talk page about current Smackbot editing. Rd232 talk 15:02, 18 January 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 15:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
I made some moves and changes, as discussed in Template_talk:R_from_other_template#Mistake. There are 55 out of the more than 800 templates in Category:Redirects from warning templates that are protected. Could you edit them, please. This is an example of the most common edit I made. Debresser (talk) 15:19, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
On addition I noticed Category:Redirects to template from non-template namespace which has a empty cat notice, but as far as I understand, no template sorts therein, not even Template:R from other template which is mentioned specifically on the category page. So perhaps you could delete it? Debresser (talk) 15:31, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Please also see Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_January_18#Template:R_from_other_template. Debresser (talk) 15:48, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
this introduced a second references section, and still didn't fix the problem. This needs a references section, but despite the edit summary none was added. This produced a double references section header. This didn't solve the problem either. This adds the incorrect date parameters. As does this one. These are from checking the latest 25 edits only. Please stop. Fram (talk) 19:59, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
re U-Vistract I am new to writing articles, and I would appreciate a little more guidance. You ask for more reference. I listed 23. You don't think that is enough? Are there specific parts that you feel are deficient? Thx Camdoc2001 (talk) 02:52, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Please check the new id is worked. Carlos Henrique id isn't Carlos-Henrique. Matthew_hk tc 14:31, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Rich, how would you feel about this combined notice:
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Hi Rich. You may want to comment at this discussion. Actually, it would be great if you could. :) Ϫ 19:41, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
Did you see my reply above? --Kudpung (talk) 22:57, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
No , I hadn't noticed that the Oz box had gone because that whole section on the schools main page is a template of some kind and I don't know how it got there in the first place, so no changes show on my watchlist. My main problem is still how to automate the change over of the near 500 pages here. --Kudpung (talk) 23:20, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
You might want to pop back to this discussion as there's still some questions that users have about what you are doing. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:37, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
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Are you going to work on this? It's outside my range so I don't think I could help you any. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 06:14, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
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What does Category:Albums category uses with invalid parameters actually mean? A category for those categories which use the template "albums", but with invalid parameters? Wouldn't "Category:Albums template used with invalid parameters" be a better name? Fram (talk) 14:01, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Yes, it is still there. I suggest we continue this on our talk pages(or you can add me in Runescape, as i also seen you on the rswiki) so do you know what to do to fix it?Joeytje50 (talk) 20:39, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Greetings! Your name came up in a discussion at Template_talk:Unreferenced#Internal_References. The suggestion was that one of your minion bots might be helpful in cleaning up bannerspam on the years, decades, centuries pages. How would you feel about that?--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 21:30, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
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You may want to read the guidelines for specific types of articles: biographies, websites, bands, or companies. USchick (talk) 23:59, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hello! Brazilian people love U.S. citizens. Many flights from TX, CA, FL, NY, and GE to Brazil exists. You are very welcome. In FEBRUARY, in the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil will be aproved the *SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN BRAZIL* ([163]), and the pages LGBT rights in Brazil and Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil need of you. Because will generate a heavy traffic on these pages, and we need you to help in the English spelling of these pages, you understand me? Please help me. Hentzer (talk) 23:00, 23 January 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 02:37, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks! You are a great person! Help me, and read interest facts of Brazilian LGBT. Hentzer (talk) 08:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Please undelete The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Export & Technology (Combined) (1966). — Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs) [via e-mail]
I noticed your blog page. Im not sure if I should/can add to it, so I'll ask here. Unless sidelined to other WP activities, I usually do Random Article editing;commas, spelling, recasting, replace redundancy, etc. Reading your blog I realized how buzy an editor like you must be with all your interests, etc. Is there some simple mindless task that I could perform to assist you? (Emphasis on the simple) 40 years ago, I worked in a building as a Night Superintendant. The house carpenter worked at night, on his own time, creating beautiful dressers, etc. on consignment. I was his unpaid assistant and learned invaluable, life-long lessons in the Art of Carpentry. Maybe the same can happen for me at WP. Buster Seven Talk 19:30, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
((unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~))
, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Rd232 talk 20:11, 19 January 2011 (UTC)After you failed to respond at all to a recent notice of Smackbot issues, I've bumbled by to look at Smackbot's last 10 edits, and find 2 edits that are whitespace only [164] [165], 1 [166] which replaces a redirect not even on the AWB redirect list, without substantive other changes, and 1 [167] which isn't done carefully enough to notice a duplication of template redirects (both being replaced). After everything that's happened, this is just unacceptable. Rd232 talk 20:15, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Looking at the last edits before the block, there is also the introduction of an empty references section to a template[168], the addition of a duplicate "name" parameter to the persondata (it now has an empty "NAME" and an incorrectly capitalized name in "name")[169], and the introduction of unsubstituted date parameters (despite the fact that this was raised on this talk page in the last few days)[170][171]. Thta's quite a high percentage and diversity of errors. Fram (talk) 08:07, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Do you have anything else to say, Rich, either here or at the ANI thread (the block expires 8pm this evening, or you can comment here). Rd232 talk 13:52, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
What are Template:WMCSBM2 and Template:WMCSBM3? Do you still require them? Thanks, — This, that, and the other (talk) 10:49, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
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You are in Edit history as an editor on this article. It has been multiply tagged for improvement as an alternative to being recommended for deletion. This is a request for editorial intervention to improve this article. Please help if possible.
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Template:Rfd speedy has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. — This, that, and the other (talk) 04:43, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
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I don't know what happened to them. I don't remember how I encountered the situation; all I know is that I decided to check to see whether there were any subpages remaining, so I undeleted it, checked for subpages, and re-deleted it. Nyttend (talk) 02:41, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
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I advice you to update to latest snapshot. Tagger excludes categories from word/character counting giving more accurate wikify tags.
Btw, I still don't understand why you replace upper case parameters from Persondata with lowercase messing the order. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:28, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
You flagged Dan Goodwin's page as 'written like an advertisement'. In that there's substantial material on the page, could you be more specific as to what you believe is 'advertising'. Thank you. Echandada (talk) 20:26, 31 January 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Echandada (talk • contribs)
Hello, Wikid77 here. This is just a reminder that I am continuing to add more string templates, to make string processing 10x times faster by having an optimized template ready for each type of use. In particular, thank you for writing Template:Str_repc and the others, to extend Wikipedia's options for combining strings. Our big hindrance had been the expansion depth of {str_len} (nested 9-14 levels) and {str_find} (nested 18+ levels), so I have written shorter variations of them:
The "elephant in the room" of string usage seems to be ((Italic_title)), used in 353,000 pages, so I am rewriting it to be 12x faster, with discussions on the talk-page. I firmly believe {Italic_title} has been using {padleft} over 65 million times (not a good use of resources!).
Meanwhile, I am concerned about talk of preventing the use of string functions in the future of Wikipedia, so making things 10x faster should improve the image of string-handling templates. However, there is good reason to avoid using string templates for static data, such as article titles, because the power of string handling is with checking variable data, not in italicizing titles which remain the same for years. Yet, I understand the need to auto-italicize genus/species but not phylum, class, order (etc.), so that is actually a good reason to have built-in string functions to find and insert strings based on infobox usage. Overall, this is a frustrating situation. -Wikid77 02:04, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
He asked inquisitively. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 06:04, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
I just plugged into WikiEd this morning as suggested. WOW. It's like graduating from a 3 wheeler to 2 wheeler (w/training wheels of course). Are you sure I won't fall and hurt myself? How is the Queens Awards project going. Any new assignments? Buster Seven Talk 15:31, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Seems I got the category name wrong with Category:Populated places in Skye and Lochalsh. Can you quickly use AWB and rename all Category:Populated places in Skye?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:48, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for that. Can you delete Category:Populated places in Skye and Lochalsh? I am gradually trying to whittle down Category:Villages in Highland by districts that all.. The problem is that most of them are tiny hamlets so the populated places naming is better.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:12, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
I have just composed and uploaded an article entitled 'Fr Charles Sydney Beauclerk SJ' but I have now realised that 'Sydney' should be spelled 'Sidney'. I don't know how to make a correction to an article heading. Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Segalen4 (talk • contribs) 09:53, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you, I'm very grateful. Segalen4 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.39.71.30 (talk) 20:31, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Has SmackBot began to insert the code "template:" now? Why? See diff. Geschichte (talk) 22:27, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
The addition of DEFAULTSORT in this edit appears to be strange place to put it. Keith D (talk) 00:02, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you removed the ((uncategorized)) cleanup tag from Fishes of Invasive species in canada. A few months ago, Bearcat edited Category:Category needed to read "An article is not considered to be properly categorized if it does not have at least one permanent content category". I'm not sure whether there's consensus for this or not, but since no one's objected to the change, the proposed deletion categories might not be enough of a reason to remove ((uncategorized)). Feezo (Talk) 02:15, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Could you also restore the talk page archives? Archive 1 Archive 2 Archive 3 --Tothwolf (talk) 10:37, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
For the usages of ((Infobox England and Wales civil parish)) you have made this change to Anlaby with Anlaby Common which has broken the categorisation. As per the documentation East Riding of Yorkshire and Isle of Wright use the country field with a "the" in front as opposed to the county field to get the category correct with "the" in it. If you are making this change then the template needs revising to generate the correct category. Keith D (talk) 23:58, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Orphan tags belong below an AfD tag, not above. This edits changed the position of the tag from the correct position to the incorrect one, and made no other significant changes. This edit only replaced a redirect to a template with the actual template name, and thus made no significant change. It seems as if your most often used build (p604) is running without problems (from a sample check at least), while other builds (i.c. a595) are a lot more prone to errors. Fram (talk) 10:00, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
(AWB bug raised I think)
Rich Farmbrough, 10:12, 2 February 2011 (UTC).
If you have concerns over this page please start a discussion on the talk page. :)
Colinmotox11 (talk) 11:42, 2 February 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 11:55, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Do you really want this duplicate of Antjuan Tobias deleted? Is this some sort of test? Thanks, Borkificator (talk) 12:23, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Your current "correct caps in header" edits seem to be a violation of the bot policy, "Bot processes may not fix spelling or grammar mistakes or apply templates such as [weasel words] in an unattended fashion". While some of the edits also make more substantial changes, many of them are only cosmetic, and some have errors, like duplicating the "name" parameter in the persondata here (and is there any reason to intrioduce lowercase when the other ones are uppercase?). You even introduce the birthdate twice (in different formats and case) in one edit[172]. Fram (talk) 11:54, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
[173], [174]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:21, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
I am getting confused. Do you use perl for the bot and AWB for non-automated edits from this account? AWB shouldn't be changing the case like in here (line 89). Sorry for the repeated messages. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:59, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
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Not for the first time, Smackbot removes text from hidden comments, making them much less useful: [175]. Other edits also have problems, like the incorrect name in the persondata here. The order of fields in Persondata is also non-standard[176]. And the aproval for this task has also not been provided yet, giving the impression that this is an unapproved, bot policy violating task. Fram (talk) 13:28, 2 February 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 13:40, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
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Smackbot used a bizarre edit summary "Adding references section" when it repaired the refs and added an uncategrized template. However, the page was in around 12 categories, and Smackbot did not add a == References == section. diff Could it have anything to do with the pending changes protection? Reaper Eternal (talk) 11:36, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
As requested, please provide a link to the bot task approval for these changes. Fram (talk) 13:04, 2 February 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 13:12, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Spaces in section headers should not be changed en masse. They may be made consistent within an article, but they should not be changed from the version with spaces to the one without (or vice versa). You did this here, here and here. The same happened here, where you also add the Persondata parameters out of order. And you still haven't provided teh requested evidence of bot approval for this task, which otherwise is a violation of bot policy. Fram (talk) 15:19, 2 February 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 15:20, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
The block was for a variety of reasons, not just for "removing useless spacers in the headers". It was for running an unapproved task (until evidence of the contrary has been provided), with edits that violate bot policy (WP:BOTPOL#Spell-checking), contained errors (using the same parameter in Persondata twice with a different value) and inconsistencies (again in persondata, moving parameters out of order for no reason, and changing the capitalisation of one of the parameters while leaving the others with another capitalisation), and finally also removed spaces from headers even when all the headers in the article were in the same style, which is the kind of edit no bot or AWB user (or basically any user, even manually) is supposed to make per WP:MOS. Bots shouldn't be used to implement some personal layout preference to a large number of articles, when such preference is not supported by a clear policy or guideline, and has no benefits whatsoever. Fram (talk) 08:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
By the way, your AWB edits need more careful consideration as well, two errore and two dubious edits in four edits is a bit high... There is no reason, when a parameter is used twice to remove the one parameter that is in the right place, and to keep the one that is placed out of order[177]. You did the same here, but have at the same time made the capitalization of the parameters inconsistent. On to the actual errors: here you removed the actual full date of birth from the Persondata, and kept the one that only had the year (and was positioned incorrectly of course, and which has now been capitalized differently as well), and here you removed the correctly placed and capitalized one, and not only kept the one out of order, but changed the parameter name to something non-existent. Four AWB edits, none of them an improvement to the Persondata, two of them actually making things worse, none of them reverted or corrected. Fram (talk) 08:43, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
So, Rich, can you please try to gain some consensus for what you are doing? Maybe you think you are making easier for people to read but I and many other think you don't. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:25, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Any reason why you are still changing the capitalization of Persondata from upper- to lowercase? Even ignoring the cases where you add new persondata in lowercase, there are still ones like [178], [179] and [180] where the rest of the edit is improving the article, but for some reason the capitalization is changed as well. Fram (talk) 09:53, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
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I am missing something here. For a long time now you have been making, and are still making, mass automated edits capitalising templates. I thought this was just a matter of personal preference, making no operation difference to Wikipedia at all. But if this was the case then you wouldn't be wasting all these computer resources on such an unpleasant exercise, since it would look like you just wanted to show content editors who don't share your personal preference that you can use an automated tool to bulldoze and control them. So, please would you let me know what this is really about. Then I can see the light and start happily capitalizing templates too. Thanks. --Epipelagic (talk) 00:34, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Someone has messed with the Snoqualmie, Washington Page - the "Location" has trash in it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.136.218.242 (talk) 20:50, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
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I see youve eliminated about all of the pop culture section in the article. I tried eliminating it entirely (its nothing but trivia) but it got put back. Lets hope your edits stick. Ill do what I can.Thelmadatter (talk) 03:12, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Using AWB, on the Skatemill article, you changed the “Unreferenced-Stub” tag to a “Refimprove” tag here. Trouble is that this article is unreferenced, so the tag should not have been altered; and also your tagging was a duplicate tag as this article had been previously tagged for Refimprove since November 2010. I undid your edit here with the edit summery “please check your AWB edits before saving”. Inexplicably, again using AWB, you removed the Unreferenced tag and restored the duplicate Refimprove tag here. When using AWB it is important that you carefully check your edits before saving, and even more so when another editor has taken his time to correct your previous editing error. Dolovis (talk) 22:27, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
In this edit, why did the bot date a template that does not support a date parameter? Also, is it really supposed to be changing ((italictitle)) into ((Italic title))? Ucucha 14:41, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey! Just wanted you to know that your edit to 2009 Esiliiga made a mess in the standings table. Pelmeen10 14:28, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
In Blofeld's absence, may I suggest this film for a start? --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:52, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Very annoyed that you killed all my changes to the Sapient Corporation page from Feb 16, and reverted to information that is outdated and inaccurate.
Can you revert to how the page looked, end of evening Feb 16th, then tell me specifically what you want fixed?
Editing our profile is SO not user friendly. Requires coding skills to make changes then random editor decides to make copy changes even though his information on the company is not accurate or up-to-date.
Hello, CloudSafe was tagged by you because of WP:N, could you please have a look at Wikipedia:Deletion_review#CloudSafe and remove the tag? Best, Roberto valerio (talk) 16:29, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for requesting a citation. I don't have a hard copy of the necessary book at hand right now but am taking steps to provide the information required. Thanks also for adding a couple of links to other articles, if indeed you were the person who did that.
CRBW (talk) 16:31, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
I think you missed the olafdfull among all the project boxes: [181]. Cheers. walk victor falk talk 06:50, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Ed Whitson. The use of the word "likely" in my opinion makes the "By whom?" unnecessary. Read an old article about Whitson, and I think you will see that this is a reasonable statement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.3.20.47 (talk) 11:44, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Howdy. With this edit, why was the template dated February 2011 instead of May 2009?--Rockfang (talk) 01:59, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to tell you good luck on editing. Although I admit you have done some edits that were unneeded I also don't think its worth all the attention that you have been getting from Fram and some of the other editors. Its clear to me at this point that some of them won't stop until you are either banned or you give up in frustration. There is an old mantra that says "If you don't do nothing, you can't get blamed for nothing but if you do a lot there is a lot you can get blamed for." Wikipedia doesn't like editors like you and me that do a lot of edits. They like editors that do 1 or 2 edits and don't disturb anything. Anyway that's just my opinion of late but I wanted to wish you good luck anyway. --Kumioko (talk) 03:16, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Rich. User:Gbatterh (Special:Contributions/Gbatterh) continues to add and reinsert a commercial website for racquets in the Squash (sport) article and others. For example,
Can you help? It's on the verge of 3RR. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 16:44, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Template:All interwikis same name has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Magog the Ogre (talk) 04:54, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I'm quite new to using Huggle (and actually new to WP:RCP too). I notice that for some IP vandalism you leave a message on the talk page, while for others you don't - you just revert. Please could you tell me how to decide which to leave a user message for? Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 22:30, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
There are strong incentives for people to make it worse, but bit by bit we'll get it there... The mere existence of the article strikes me as a problem, a kind of Okrentian response to that other kind of terrorism with which we are most definitely not at war. On the other hand, there's one line in there which probably ought to be removed for lack of notability, but really should be removed because it illustrates just how deep one has to dig for examples of the article's supposed subject: It cites a bomb plot or somesuch by a fifteen (sic.) member militia. - Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 00:22, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I have some things needing doing. First is List of regencies and cities in Indonesia, The first two provinces are done but can you use AWB to add Category:Regency capitals of Indonesia to all of the articles in the capital columns which are the seats of the regencies. The other thing needing doing is to go through Category:Populated places in Caithness, Category:Populated places in Nairn and Category:Populated places in Lochaber and change the map from Scotland to the relative district like this.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:31, 25 February 2011 (UTC) Done
These pages are disambiguation pages:
These places have no infobox:
Heh, yeah, sorry.... I did kinda try to explain it to him at first. I'll try to get him to understand that (for me) typing his name is like playing finger twister. :P Ion Zone (talk) 15:34, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
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That looks like it was a lot of hard work. Very Useful. Well Done. --DavidCane (talk) 22:06, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Could you have a look at this? I added some links to the Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium article which I thought were appropriate to the article and this other editor (User:PGPirate), without discussion, keeps taking them out calling them either firstly "linkspam" or secondly "vandalism" -- neither of which I've ever engaged in in my six years editing Wikipedia. Cf. this attempt to discuss it also. --- Wikiklrsc (talk)
Thanks, Rich, very much for adding some civility to this matter. In no way had I or will I ever add "linkspam" or "vandalism" to any article. I had been researching another topic, on the manufacture process of the new scoreboard for this stadium, and in doing so, found some relevant links about the actual stadium. There seems to have been some confusion about the ranking of this new scoreboard, etc. So the information I found on another related topic whilst researching, I thought relevant to this article on the stadium. A comment made by User:PGPirate quoting "So stop putting your spam on the article" just isn't either the true case or useful or even civil. Thanks for your kindest help and attention. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 00:01, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Why is my article being deleted? I was hoping for more contributors to flesh it out which is why I made it so sparse. SuperSaiyaMan (talk) 20:10, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I was looking over the Star Wars Pages and noticed someone put a Speedy Deletion Tag on Star Wars: The Clone Wars (season 2 finale). could you look over this.174.29.90.139 (talk) 02:09, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
It looks as if AWb (or your version of it) is following the defaultsort to fill in the persondata, even when the defaultsort is completely different from the article title (because of a move, an error, or whatever reason). I would think that the article title should get preference over the defaultsort, or else that you should skip page with such discrepancies. E.g. [182] and [183]. Fram (talk) 09:53, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Also, adding or deleting templates isn't minor according to WP:MINOR. I suppose this applies even to templates with no actual use... -- JHunterJ (talk) 14:00, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
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Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 02:35, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Nice task, some minor problems. In some instances, the sort added to a category (mainly location-based ones) is not the best one: while e.g. here this is solved perfectly, in cases like this, this, this or this the sort added to one of the categories is not the correct one, since it is redundant to the cat (England vs. English, Dominican, ...). Finally, a capitalization error here (new instead of New). Fram (talk) 08:02, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
I see that you left several warnings on the revised Hope Abbey article. These are obviously boiler plate, but I found them patronizingly insulting, which appears to be contrary to the established Wikipedia policy of treating newbies with restraint. Let me ask, as gently as I can, what cleanup you had in mind. The edits I've made were precisely to clean up an inferior previous article. Though I confess to being new to the Wikipedia community, I've had many years of experience writing and editing, yet I don't have a clue what you want to see cleaned up, and you have left no hints.
CRBW 17:16, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi.
I'm new to Wikipedia. Please forgive me if I'm making some newbie mistakes. I saw that you felt the Peter Allen Golden entry needed more reliable third party sources and fewer primary sources. I have now added a dozen reliable third party sources, including The Worrall Community Newspapers, The Times Union (Albany), The Associated Press (in The New York Times), Independent Media Review Analysis, Israel Behind The News, The Daily News (New York), The Record (Troy), Publishers Weekly, Commentary (magazine), The Jerusalem Report and the New York State Bar Association. Please let me know if this satisfies you. And again, I'm new to Wikipedia so forgive me if I haven't followed the proper protocol. Any other advice you can give would be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DuncanCrary (talk • contribs) 20:49, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
SmackBot is changing (("Source need translation ..." is getting changed to (("Verify source ...". I don't think this is a good idea. The fact that a translation is needed to make a source work for an article is a very different message than a mere "we need a better source here" -- or at least, that's my take on it.
Here is the example I saw where SmackBot did this: [184]
Has some discussion occurred somewhere to get rid of the (("Source need translation..." template? As far as I know, it was still listed in the Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup last week. Cheers. N2e (talk) 21:01, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, There's been a citation needed tag put into this article today by Smackbot. There is a citation, but it's at the end of the para because the citation covers other issues in the para. I reverted and gave an edit summary, but Smackbot reverted again. I've left it now - but could you take a look please. Thanks. DeCausa (talk) 22:17, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
As a newbie, I don't understand the AWB reference you added to this article today about additional citations needed. There were no references in the original article and I have added two, one of them being a book I wrote on the area. These are the two authorities on the river, I don't know what other references you are looking for. Roland Neave (talk) 04:24, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
... getting a bot flag. This can get annoying :P --- c y m r u . l a s s (talk me, stalk me) 05:56, 10 February 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:Femto Bot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 06:16, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Done Rich Farmbrough, 03:49, 11 February 2011 (UTC).
Lots of transclusions of Template:ISO 639 name zh-Hani, but yet no template? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:44, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Parameter out of place and duplicated. [185]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:13, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Can you please help me out with this article-Ooty? I was editing the infobox when suddenly the whole article went out of shape. It's LIVE now! Please help--Suraj T 07:11, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but arent citations allowed in this infobox?--Suraj T 07:31, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. Do you have time to please assist me here? I've uploaded a CD cover from Earl Klugh's album Life Stories - unfortunately Wikipedia's server did not indicate during the upload that a file with the same name exists. The box with "Ignore any warnings" was not activated in the upload formular. As a result of the upload, the original picture used in this article is now overwritten with the file which I uploaded. I've reverted my edits on the file, yet the new file still remains. Could you please assist and delete / or rename the file which I've uploaded and undelete the original file? Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 18:21, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Done Rich Farmbrough, 18:26, 16 February 2011 (UTC).
Thank you for this, but when you update an "unref" tag to "refimprove", you should probably be changing the date, too. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:29, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
I haven't checked your edits for a few weeks now, but it is obvious that you are again violating your editing restrictions, making many AWB edits which have no effect on the page (yes, they remove a category you first created to be able to do the edits, but that's rather circular reasoning). The templates you changed, and the parameters you replaced, wored just as good before the replacement as afterwards, e.g. [186][187][188][189][190][191][192] ... Some others even hadn't the excuse of the self-created category.[193]. Here you add an incorrectly dated, and not needed, wikify tag. I note that you were also still changing the capitalisation of some of the Persondata parameters, despite clear opposition [194][195]. This one is a truly incorrect example of that. And here you change the capitalisation of all of them, which makes them consistent, but changes the general appearance to your preferred minority one. Still removing spaces from headers as well[196]
Basically, these are all things that have been discussed with you before, and for which you have an editing restrictions and subsequent blocks. Is there any reason you are still doing them despite all this? Fram (talk) 12:31, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Since you just continued with you edits despite the previous section, I have now started an ANI discussion at WP:ANI#Violating of editing restrictions by Rich Farmbrough (again). Note that you just continue with the errors listed above, like adding an incorrect month with your wikify tag: [197]. Fram (talk) 12:54, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. You helped us some time ago, which I really appreciate, and I wonder if you could do it again? So could you replace:
1) "[[Pilt:Med_1.png|Or]]" with "((Kuld))". Kuld
2) "[[Pilt:Med_2.png|Argent]]" with "((Hõbe))". Hõbe
3) "[[Pilt:Med_3.png|Bronze]]" with "((Pronks))". Pronks
The link is the place, where to find these. Thanks :) Pelmeen10 (talk) 13:09, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Something more:
Articles from one category to another (et:Kategooria:Suusatajad)
How familiar are you with the music of Bongwater? Because your bot tagged two items in the article with a "Says Who" tag. I'll send you a sound clip of "Ye Olde Backlash" if I can find it. ----DanTD (talk) 00:26, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello, sorry about my ignorance in Wikipedia procedures. In an article in which I participate (Flag of the Falkland Islands), appears a sign on top saying that the article needs references, posted by you. I looked for references and added them, but several times they have been removed by a user who says that the page doesn’t need them, but the sign saying that the article needs references is still there. So I add them again, and the user returns to reverse the changes. I think he hasn’t a logical argument to do that. I am asking to you what should I do? Another times, there were other people involved reviewing, but no this time. Thanks for the reply! (Moncho2002 (talk) 09:21, 20 February 2011 (UTC))
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Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 23:48, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
The article was tagged as poorly referenced. I added some references (essentially ISBN codes for the books he wrotes) and links to other internal Wikipedia articles (the publishing companies Springer, Wiley and Oxford, well known to the scientific community). The biographical notice is available from a short notice here. If you think is ok can you remove the tag ? Let me know anyhow. All the best. --CH-stat (talk) 15:23, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Has been expanded. Thanks for sorting out the decades.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:24, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. Maybe I'm a bit overzealous with wanting year articles for each year of each country. Maybe decades would be best as a start and can branch out late if they have a lot for each year... Its definitely a detailed historical timeline which is needed I think f we are truly to be comprehensive...♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:11, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
died preparing an attack “ on the apostate Rushdie”. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article531110.ece Pär Larsson (talk) 17:04, 21 February 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 22:27, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Rich, I don't want to sound pissy, and I appreciate that you're the only admin who's bothered to reply to my request at ANI—thankyou for that—but is it considered acceptable practice for a request to languish unresolved (and almost entirely uncommented on) on ANI for five days? I don't think I'm being entirely unreasonable in thinking that a better response is warranted. I had hoped that an admin would step in and revert the latest batch of vandalism, but since that request was ignored, I've had to do it myself.- Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 03:20, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi the bug is fixed but you still use old version I think you don't see my reply or dunno why you did not do it Petrb (talk) 21:12, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Regarding this, do you really think it is necessary to go through the entire Merge bureaucracy? The page could be PRODed, and all relevant material (if any) will be added to Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Is there any reason to think that starting full Merge procedure will get any more responses than the PROD did? --Muhandes (talk) 20:48, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your help. I had just left a message thanking you at my Village pump Merged Reflinks entry right before you left your message on my talk page. :-) Crakkerjakk (talk) 23:29, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
FYI - edit, JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 16:26, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I'm doing some cleanup and came across this edit of yours. If that was a scripted edit you may consider adding some logic to the script to remove empty "Heading text" sections entirely rather than tag them as empty, since they're almost certainly just an edit test. Cheers, 28bytes (talk) 20:58, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
[198]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:16, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
I appreciate your saying something to him, but I think you left out a couple important issues. One, his blanking of uncited entries was after an AFD already rejected his attempt to delete it for being uncited, and while another AFD was about to close as keep on the same kind of list for the same reasons. So his actions were directly contrary to established AFD consensus, and as J Greb said in the AN/I thread, POINTy and disruptive. Two, he abused a warning template after I reverted his blanking once. I'd like to see these issues addressed more expressly. Thanks, postdlf (talk) 15:50, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Heya, someone noticed User:Rich Farmbrough/temp19/redir (for some odd reason), and was prob kidding when they said "hey, can someone please rename a few thousand articles?" - however, they were a bit surprised when I said "sure, OK".
I skimmed over it, and I realise they all need a manual sanity-check before any action, but... if you wanted, I can deal w/ all those, on that specific page.
You may well be planning to do it your own way, and that's fine.
Otherwise - if you'd like me to take on that specific task - those renames, then I can. Of course, I would check them all before doing it, and I'd take full responsibility for my yada yada.
The offer is there if you want it; poke on my talk. Best, Chzz ► 23:17, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey SmackBot (Rich Farmbrough.) I'm just looking for a little more information on what exactly this bot is. It made an edit on a page I'm working on Atomic Energy Act of 1946. Thanks for any information you can provide, I'm just curious as to how the bot works. I'm doing this project as part of one of my college courses and my professor is also curious about SmackBot. Thanks! Ohheyheidi (talk) 21:09, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
At least two of your recent automatic edits changed Unicode characters to junk. I've corrected the two that were on my watchlist. —Tamfang (talk) 00:37, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi - You haven't responded, so I have no idea whether you saw this. Just pinging you here to make sure. -- Rick Block (talk) 01:18, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
[200] -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:39, 1 Marc-h 2011 (UTC)
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This edit shown properties to Template:Ambox that I didn't know about and that replace part of the usages of Template:DMCA (which I liked very much). Debresser (talk) 19:46, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Any reason why your sparse "copyedit" edits are going against the MOS and other guidelines in almost every respect? E.g. here: changing the capitalisation of templates for no good reason, changing U.S. to US against Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Abbreviations, and removing the spaces from around one header and leaving it all the the others (making it inconsistent), instead of leaving it well alone? Here, you mix some good things with again changing U.S. to US, and changing reflist to Reflist. This also just replaced one parameter for no good reason, changed the capitalization for no reason either, and improved one thing at the same time. While you are no longer doing it automated (or at an automated speed at least), you are still doing the same changes. Why is it so hard to leave spaces in headers and template capitalization alone? Fram (talk) 09:35, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Clobbers archive 75.57.242.120 (talk) 13:07, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Regarding the "Replace deprecated 'WikiProject Space' banner" job you are carrying out using your main account.
Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:06, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, 16:13, 1 March 2011 (UTC).
Any reason that you are still changing the capitalisation of Persondata parameters, despite clear opposition to this from a number of people?[202][203][204][205][206][207], ... It's not as if your code cant' handle it, here it works just fine. This is the kind of edit you shouldn't be making with AWB (lots of diff noise, but no actual change to the page or anything related to it). Your AWB edits also again contain errors which have been pointed out to you previously, like adding the same parameter twice with different values[208] or adding new tags with the wrong month[209][210][211]. Fram (talk) 07:49, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
So, you just continue with this[212][213]? What a surprise... By the way, any reason why you keep the "auto=yes" when you change "unreferenced" to "refimprove"? That parameter is not supported in that template, and I assume that you have actually chcked the articles, so the tag isn't "auto-"added anymore anyway... Oh, and the obligatory actual error is also present: here you have corrected the date you use in the new tags, but adding the year twice is not really helpful... Fram (talk) 13:23, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Apart from continuation of the above, you also violate your editing restriction with this. Any reason, by the way, why you are in many other edits also changing "reflist" and "references/" to "Reflist"? These are not included in Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects, and I thought you were not supposed to change the capitalization of templates (certainly not in cases wher you otherwise don't change it, like with reflist). Fram (talk) 15:41, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Above you said: "I'm not even changing every occurrence I come across, just those where a new parameter is added." Oh really? [215] Fram (talk) 15:47, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Considering my mistake above, I'll try to bring this one in a less snarky manner, but I think that this edit changed the capitalization of the Persondata parameters without any change to the values, and additionally it added a "date" parameter to the multiple issues tag, which doesn't use a "date" parameter... Herehere and here you use the capitalized version of the defaultsort for the persondata, instead of the article title (Mac vs. mac). You still use incorrect months in new tags[216]. And of course I still oppose you changing uppercase persondata parameters to lowercase ones, and Kumioko above does as well (and others did in other discussions). Please stop doing this until you have a consensus for it. Fram (talk) 08:24, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
|date=
is used only in conjunction with |expert=
when that parameter is used for the type of expert needed. Please don't go making one of your "I'm going to change a widely-used template without discussion because I think I know best" edits. Thanks. Anomie⚔ 19:05, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Since AnomieBot can do the tagging with no mistakes why the two bots don't cooperate? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:46, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
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Rich Farmbrough, 14:15, 10 March 2011 (UTC).
Hello! Seems to me you've made a mistake in the article. The term "notochaetae" usually refers to "bristles" not "tentacles". As far as I understood these worms have ten tentacle-like anterior appendages made of soft tissue. The notochaetae (dorsal bristles) are chitinous. You may find some details in the video. Possessing long anterior tentacles is rather common feature in polychaetes especially in cirratulid. However they are not so long in benthic forms. The morphology of notochaetes of Teuthidodrilus are posed as unusual in the abstract of Osborn's et al. paper. Unfortunately I've no access to the full text paper (possibly you have it) and can't get to know what does «concavo-convex paddles» look like and whether a paddle consists of single or multiple bristles. If it's just a paddle-like single notochaeta there's no wonder. Mithril (talk) 00:04, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Just went thru the history of CFX Bank.The bank was not formed in 2006.It was formed much earlier and in 2004 (not 2006) it merged with Century Bank. This link is useful - http://allafrica.com/stories/200404160641.html
Please follow the link which shows CFX Bank was in existance as of REGISTERED BANKING INSTITUTIONS: 30 JUNE, 2003 http://www.rbz.co.zw/300603/appendix2.asp
In addition look at the lastest report which shows CFX has been liquidated mostly due to the ownership dispute with EX-ENG Capital director.So on its History its relevant to include the ownership dispute which is well documented such that it cant be eliminated from CFX History.Please follow link.
http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2011-03-14-cfx-to-windup-operations
And this link too http://www.assetrecovery.org/kc/node/dc1241d3-4f52-11de-bacd-a7d8a60b2a36.0;jsessionid=809A69B1CD59C82ACE33458D59AEE7D7 — Preceding unsigned comment added by HAILTHECHIEF (talk • contribs) 21:59, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Smackbot, Rich, Spencer et al. Please let us know what we need to send to you so you can stop reverting the University School Wikipedia page. There are descriptions (such as "the Greater Cleveland Ohio area" that we want to use - why are these changes being reverted? Similar, "Other Championships" is an appropriate heading for Tennis and Lacrosse because these are not OHSAA sports. The list goes on and on... Please advise what we need to provide you to prevent the constant editing of our webpage. Thank you. K. Pleasant, University School Director of Marketing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kcpleasant (talk • contribs) 18:15, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I notice you have been going over my user sub-pages and wondered if there was an issue? Thanks Fæ (talk) 09:47, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
There is a vote taking place in which we could use your input. — GabeMc (talk) 00:48, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
It appears as if the script you use for the semi-automatic category replacement in album articles has an error (or the log file it is based on is not correct), since many of the more recent ones didn't do what they were supposed to do, according to the edit summary: [217][218][219][220][221]. Fram (talk) 14:06, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
See Mysterious glitch (cont.). 75.47.154.175 (talk) 19:23, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Please, read this discussion! --Treisijs (talk) 13:03, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, looks like there's a minor error with SmackBot doing a replacement on the ((tone)) tag. I noticed that in an article it replaced "tone" with ":Inappropriate tone"... the extra colon at the front broke the syntax (diff). I removed the colon at everything's fine now. --Drm310 (talk) 14:56, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
There are 5895 templates in Category:ISO 3166 code from name templates, 4060 in Category:ISO 3166 name from code templates, 245 in Category:ISO 3166 name from code country templates, and 1868 in Category:ISO 3166 code from name country templates, or in total some 12,000 templates you created over 6 months ago. At first glance, none of these is used anywhere. Can you indicate whether and where these are used (and if so, which categories of these are and which aren't), or if they aren't used, why they shouldn't be deleted (per WP:TFD, "Reasons to delete a template 3. The template is not used, either directly or by template substitution (the latter cannot be concluded from the absence of backlinks), and has no likelihood of being used") Fram (talk) 12:50, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated the lot at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 January 27. Fram (talk) 15:19, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Last month, the stubs guideline was edited so that it now recommends adding only one line, not two, before stub tags. I recall that, at one time, SmackBot performed these types of edits as part of gen-fixes; I am not sure if that is still the case but, in case it is, I wanted to let you know of the change. Best, -- Black Falcon (talk) 19:53, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
- Wikipedia_talk:Stub/Archive_7#.22But_before_the_inter-Wiki_links.22 The proposal for the text in the project page
- Wikipedia_talk:Stub/Archive_8#Spacing Extensive discussion which also came up with CSS as the solution.
- Rich Farmbrough, 09:11, 2 September 2009 (UTC).
This page shows that 2 blank lines are needed to have the desired spaceing. One and zero are the same as we said in the referenced discussion (referenced in the change to the docs). Rich Farmbrough, 22:01, 4 February 2011 (UTC).
I have reopened the discussion here. Debresser (talk) 09:59, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
SmackBot broke a Commons template, causing the Commons link to disappear, and creating a DEFAULTSORT conflict. This also happened a few days ago; if it helps, I could try to pore through my contributions to find where I fixed it. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 18:52, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
If you correct an error you made[222], please make sure that your correction (or your earlier edit) are actually relevant. Adding an "uncategorized" tag to a good article with 20 categories is not really appropriate.
And you didn't correct this instance of unsubstituted dates...
Hi Rich... just came across this in the list of wanted categories... should you perhaps think about uncoupling the cat from these tests, or are you still working on them? Grutness...wha? 14:09, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi with regards, to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Rasner how can I help, can you please clarify, how, or where this needs to be "cleanup" I would appreciate your thoughts, many thanks Theillusioner (talk) 04:35, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Many thanks for the reply; only your name is sited in the watch list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SmackBot
Anyhow, I will take your suggestions under consideration, thank you, I do feel it’s much better that editors take time explain where we go wrong, not just delete our work… “of acorns grow”
But pray tell, who keeps putting this "close connection with its subject" and closing off the article. Initially, thought I had written this in an "neutral point of view" I even corrected some errors here too;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_401#Credits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Streets#Cast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Visitation_%28film%29#Cast
If I may be candid, rather than just close off an article without any detailed explanation, or solution, I do think it would be more productive to open the talk page then we can discuss amicably, and I can help to comply and make the article a more notable piece…thank you
FYI I have never met or spoken to the subject
Theillusioner (talk) 10:21, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Rich! Are you taking any requests for bot maintenance runs at the moment? I have a relatively small batch of replacements that needs to be made. Please let me know either way. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 24, 2011; 16:20 (UTC)
Better download this http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/AutoWikiBrowser5201_rev7660.zip Optimised loading, much faster and less buggy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:25, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich: How can I best pursue a request to have the Barn Church page renamed? Please see my comments on that article's Talk page. Thanks Headhitter (talk) 21:22, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
How do I delete my Daniel Sargent article? I don't want to be considered a vandal, but I'm the one who made the article in the first place. I'm going to move his research from published works to the globalization article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Indevar (talk • contribs) 15:23, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
I may have missed something, but at first sight you violated AWB rules of use and your editing restriction when you made 300plus edits removing a ":" after "redirect", even though this doesn't change the way these redirects work or look at all (e.g. [223][224]). Any reason for this? Fram (talk) 07:46, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
ThisparticularobsoletesyntacisnotedforcausingproblemsforthatreasonIhaveapprovaltoremovethecolon.Ontheotherhandthefewwherethespacewasinsertedseemedworthwhilesavingasspacesareimortanttoreadabilityalthoughperhapsyoudontagree. Rich Farmbrough, 11:36, 11 April 2011 (UTC).
Hey, just a quick question. Is repeatedly accusing another editor of article ownership considered a personal attack? I am curious. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 20:52, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Why does this bot keep recreating Category:Articles with trivia sections from October 2007--Jac16888Talk 00:00, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
NL-Aid has published a list of evidence against the organisation. Less proof has been submitted for UFO's around the world. I would take it very serious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joop Versteggen (talk • contribs) 18:44, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
I can't figure out why, but your recent change to the template is causing {[[:Category:|Category:]]} to be added to image description pages. Could you take a look at it and see what's wrong? Reach Out to the Truth 16:36, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Does NASA have images without border boundaries? Answer here. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 22:33, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Rich, what was the point of this edit? Your edit summary "make categories explicit" doesn't make sense. A DEFAULTSORT has been added, true; but the rest has little to do with categorisation - some whitespace has been condensed, a ((end box))
was changed to ((s-end))
, and ((stationyears))
was moved. Regarding this last, it was doing no harm where it was - all it does is categorise the article, so I believe that it's best placed with the categories. All in all, I think your edit fails WP:AWB#Rules of use item 4, unless there's something subtle which I've missed. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:00, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Have added references from reliable 3rd party sources as Section 5.1. You may decide to remove tag. Classicalmusictherapy (talk) 00:22, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
hi, you are requested to visit the article entitled, Kapil Muni Tiwary and see the references provided there. I am sure some of the tags attached to the article are not necessary now. Thank you for your guidance. Suggestions for improvement are always welcome. --arunbandana 06:04, 13 March 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arunbandana (talk • contribs) 05:49, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Here. NW (Talk) 02:33, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
[233][234][235][236][237]. Fram (talk) 13:41, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Your bot slapped a "notability" notice on the Arimaa page. I'm sure just a couple of minutes perusing the links at the bottom of the page and a Google search will convince you of Arimaa's "notability." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa
Hello, please take a look at this page: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brânză topită. Burghiu (talk) 13:44, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect What is american. Since you had some involvement with the What is american redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Kumioko (talk) 15:16, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey, just to let you know I'm being bold and redirecting Category:Pages using magic words with template syntax to Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word. You created both, but the latter was created earlier and has an easier to understand title. If you disagree, feel free to revert and drop a note on my talk page :) Sorry to bug you! — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 20:11, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
[238] I could understand a human wanting a citation template after that sentence, but why would a bot want a citation there? It isn't replacing any previous template. Did it just drop a citation template randomly into an article? Art LaPella (talk) 20:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Booth Hi Rich, just been helping with correcting Archbishop Booth's page (& note you were helpfully suggesting where further refs required. My big problem now is how to get his coat of arms uploaded - I am finding this to be very difficult and can only presume it's to do with licensing. Once we are acquainted (ie upon you're reply) and can detail why this is a non-issue. Await yrs Richard —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.82.155.28 (talk) 03:17, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
I hadn't noticed until now, but when smackbot was unlinking years at the very end of 2009 (aha - I was away on holiday!) it unlinked 210 deliberate year links on the page range 1800 in New Zealand through to 2011 in New Zealand, so
which really kind of defeats the point! Could you please arrange for the bot to fix these? (some have been fixed manually already) dramatic (talk) 06:50, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Check out this SmackBot diff; lots of table lines marked as changes that aren't really changes. Is this a line-ending thing? 87.82.201.203 (talk) 11:25, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
SmackBot broke the math markup in transmission line with this edit which removed the trailing spaces from inside the math tags. I am guessing that the line was not recognised as being LaTeX because the tags were not on the same line. SpinningSpark 17:19, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Kindly clarify what clarification you would like to have on someone`s Date of birth, place of birth, Parents, etc. after & when they were quoted from a published reference source?--Kumaripriya (talk) 15:50, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your message, SmackBot does not generally add tags, but merely dates those that are already there. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 20:48, 23 April 2011 (UTC).
Hey RF, Just leaving a note here reminding you to take a look at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 40. Thanks! -- Tim1357 talk 05:04, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
About a year ago you ran a program that was making changes like this to ship articles that need a "by year" category. I can no longer find the threads where this was discussed but I believe that you ran this using another editor's script. If it's possible for you to dig up that script again I would be grateful if you could run it again. Brad (talk) 21:11, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
By year categories should be added when infobox ship career has:
Any other heading is too arbitrary to count on. The idea behind 'ship by year' was to identify what year the ship was built. Class articles are another challenge as classes of ships sometimes span a decade in which they're built. If a class of ships were built during the 1970s then 1970s ships would suffice. But some classes spanned decades and |Built range= is not always filled in for Infobox ship class overview. Any ideas on how ship class articles could be done? Brad (talk) 04:01, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. SmackBot has not touched Category talk:Pages with missing references list/fix log in over a month. Should it still be fixing pages with a missing references list? Thanks! — Jeff G. ツ 03:23, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Editor Marcus has again requested a move at Talk:Criticisms of socialism#Requested move 2, despite the failure of the 10 December 2010 to 21 January 2011 attempted move. I am notifying you as you were a commenter in the original discussion. --Bejnar (talk) 04:01, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm sure you will have a better idea of what you meant to do here than I do. As I'm sure you already know, redirecting the category will have no effect if the category is being populated by a template. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:42, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
In [239] this edit, SmackBot inserted a "who" tag. I don't think bots should insert such tags from context automatically. Did you insert it manually (which I think you should better not do with a botaccount for the obvious risk of confusion) or did the bot insert it by some rule? In this case I think enough cites for the "Many" are given after the next sentence, so I would personally just remove the tag... -- Windharp (talk) 16:09, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
There are supposed to be four articles in ((Copyedit_progress)) classified as "undated". However, upon clicking on the category, there are no articles. Any idea what could be causing the problem? --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:25, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to help a friend fixing her David L Boushey article, I usually work with webpages, but this is very different that using Dreamweaver to make a webpage (thing that I know how to do, that is why she ask me for help), So, I noticed that you and others "administrators" left some notes on top of the pages, I fixed already some of them, I think so, can you check that and be a little more specific in what part we still need to fix issues, thank you very much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.54.84 (talk) 03:15, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, could you please bring back this template? I am working on some Konkani language articles. I hope to use it there in the case of external links.
Joyson Noel Holla at me! 14:15, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
You don't do may AWB edits anymore, but some of them still have problems with Persondata, like here adding date of birth twice, with different values and capitalization: here you did the same for date of birth and date of death, but this one you corrected afterwards (but with a non-consensus change of uppercase to lowercase); here you changed the capitalization of one template and placed it out of order. Oh, and [240] is the kind of edit you (or anyone else for that matter) aren't supposed to make with AWB or other tools. It's not a lot that goes wrong, but with the limited number of AWB edits you make, it's still a significant percentage that has the same old problems. Fram (talk) 07:19, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
message me the code for me please — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nightnurse denise (talk • contribs) 20:46, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
I'm not too sure of the weasel word reference to the above article. Aboriginal , Aboriginal Australians and Indigenous Australians are all pretty much the same. The reason I linked Aboriginal back to Indigenous Australians is that this article includes all Australians considered as Indigenous (not just mainland). If an article existed for the specific peoples of the area I would have linked back to that (but there wasn't one). Could you please clarify as to why these are considered as weasel words? Or if you think linking back to Indigenous Australian is more appropriate then why not make the change? Hughesdarren (talk) 08:49, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
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Please don't replace an incorrect category with a correct one, if that correct one is already in the article. Removing the incorrect one is sufficient in that case. You duplicated a category on the 10th[242], and added it a third time on the 11th[243]. I have removed two of the three cases. Fram (talk) 12:08, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
...for your contribution to the article New Guinea Singing Dog. Chrisrus (talk) 02:56, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
What is wrong with the list of faculty members of the faculty and why is that dubious?
Take care, Borchica (talk) 21:41, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I really appreciate the feedback you left me on my page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii%27s_Opportunity_Probation_with_Enforcement_%28HOPE%29. I'm new to writing Wikipedia pages and can use all the help I can get! I've made some updates to the page. If you have time would you mind looking at them and making additional suggestions if needed?
Thank you, Maria (mcod8582) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcod8582 (talk • contribs) 00:56, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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Unsubstituted dates[244], and adding the same parameter twice, with different capitalization and different value, in Persondata[245]. Both have happened a lot before this, but it doesn't seem to be solved. Fram (talk) 06:48, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Your edit raises a couple/few questions. First, the commentator is the footnoted writer. "A commentator from the Financial Times ..."? "Jamil Anderlini of the Financial Times ..."? Any preference? I thought the comments, not the commentator, were the interesting part; given he's basically substantive, but to me at least otherwise unknown. I'd stick with my original.
Second, what's "Build p609," if I may ask, in your explanatory notes to the edit? I've found hints re "609" in a templates' search but nothing that seemed fruitful.
Thanks. Swliv (talk) 17:57, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, changes have since been made to the following article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmithStreetSolutions to amend its 'orphaned' status. Also, reference links have been added to ascertain notability. Would it be possible to have these tags removed? Please let me know any other ways we can improve the article. Thanks 116.228.36.134 (talk) 03:58, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi
I've just put in a couple of new categories for the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Welfare
I just want to check that I'm getting this right. There was an uncategorized link there but a couple of categories had already been added. I've added a couple more categories that seemed logical. I then deleted the uncategorized link, should I have done this? I'm only asking because the link was left in before when the first categories were added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kotch5 (talk • contribs) 12:24, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I just noticed you did this this. Can you fix em or move the templates so the edits don't produce red links? I've redirected templates so they are no longer red.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:07, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
It is rare I see a greater good argument on ANI. Thanks for brightening my day! PS. You may want to copy your bolded oppose to the beginning of your post, it is easy to miss. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:08, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:WPDinotopia. Since you had some involvement with the Template:WPDinotopia redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Kumioko (talk) 23:52, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich I've been working on improving the Wikipedia entry on Nicole Krauss - providing links and references and deleting at least one peacock statement. Is it OK for untagging now please? Thanks Headhitter (talk) 19:23, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice - I've now untagged it Headhitter (talk) 16:12, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
I've also been working on the Gwyneth Herbert article and have sourced and added references for all the biographical material. Could this be untagged now too please? Thanks. Headhitter (talk) 21:18, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
I now see that another user has already untagged it. Headhitter (talk) 16:13, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
got another - [246] the article remained like that for almost 6 months until this edit [247] i was watching it since a few days after it was like that (dont even remember how i got there) and wanted to see how long it would take to be fixed. was hoping a lot longer tbh...--Heardused99 (talk) 03:34, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Rich. I see that you've recently blanked a number of category redirects. In fact, I noticed because these are now appearing in Wikipedia:Database reports/Uncategorized categories. Had this been a single instance, I would have just reverted it as a likely mistake but clearly you're trying to do something and I don't want to get in the way. When you get the chance, let me know what your secret plan is. :-) Cheers, Pichpich (talk) 23:57, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hello Rich. SmackBot has put "Please consider expanding the lead" on Sven-Göran Eriksson but I think it's fine as it is. If I undo the SmackBot change will SmackBot come back and change it again? (Chorleypie (talk) 09:02, 2 May 2011 (UTC))
Hi Rich ;). Could you please take a look here. Some user (i dont say "SP" just because i'm not a check user here and i am a kind guy ;) is still deleting templates. Thanks. ;) --Lucas (talk) 22:05, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, there is currently a bug with the 'Look up x on Wiktionary, the free dictionary,' template. It currently sends you to the upppercase version of the page, which often does not exist and means needless clicking to the lowercase version if the auto-redirect fails to kick in for some reason (see e.g. here). I would try to correct it but I'm afraid I can't make head nor tail of it, but saw that you edited the template in the past, and so was hoping you could help. Thanks. It Is Me Here t / c 16:07, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
I was hoping you might be able to teach me about a template. I have noticed recently that template:Geographic location is sporadically placed on articles in different locations. I would like to make the location somewhat static, on the bottom, directly above the Defaultsort like the persondata. The template doesn't seem to specify a standard location though. Do you know where this thing should live on the article? It only seems to be used on about 10, 000 articles. --Kumioko (talk) 23:59, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Bug report: here, AWB added redundant line
|pop_2002census_ref=<ref name="PopCensus"/> <br>that broke references (because the reference was already present as |pop_2002census_ref=<ref name="PopCensus">((ru-pop-ref|2002Census))</ref>. I've removed that line. Regards. Materialscientist (talk) 06:56, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Category:Articles sourced by IMDB was renamed to Category:Articles sourced by IMDb per a CfD discussion, so Femto Bot should not still be creating monthly cleanup categories under that incorrect name. Thanks! Logan Talk Contributions 15:10, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
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Please stop this. You have changed nothing. Frietjes (talk) 15:11, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. For the life of me, I don't understand why the Keith Critchlow article has been nominated by User:NuclearWarfare for deletion. See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Keith Critchlow. I have no idea what the OTRS system is. Any ideas? Help? Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 17:56, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, Rich, for your reply. I still don't understand why it's being nominated for deletion. I can't see the back office ticket. And Dr. Critchlow is a well known figure and merits an article. The article's been there for a long time and it's not an orphan. Are you saying that Dr. Critchlow himself can request his article be removed? Is this the case? Why? --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 18:08, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
If Dr. Critchlow himself has requested his article be removed, has anyone verified it's really him requesting it? By phone or postal mail? And why should it be removed because it's requested as such? --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 18:23, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
I see. But there's nothing in the article which isn't factual, publicly known, etc. What possible reason is there for it to be deleted? The birth date? I just don't get it. It's still flagged as an AfD regardless of any "mootness" of the point. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 18:34, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Rich. I note that on May 14 you removed for renaming four items from the Cfd Speedy List. However, you only appear to have dealt with three on the item. The item still to be dealt with is the renaming of Category:Israeli sports awards to Category:Israeli sports trophies and awards. Davshul (talk) 09:22, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Is this your picture? And if so, when was it taken? According to Cinema Treasures the Palmadium, Palmers Green, closed in 1961 and has been demolished; the one in the picture doesn't have the colors given in the sources on the Palmers Green cinema, but they could have been painted over. I ask because I am trying to assemble the info on John Stanley Coombe Beard, and the Palmers Green cinema was one of his. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:44, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
I'm working on updating the open tasks list on the systemic bias project. You mentioned that Alcoholism had a North American bias. Has that long since been edited (mostly) away or am I missing the obvious? Thanks Cloveapple (talk) 16:17, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Beware of vandalism [250]. Materialscientist (talk) 04:10, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
How many more line refs do you want??? I think the article is very well referenced. Please consider removing your improve tag. I genuinely can't see what more can be written on this topic, there is simply a paucity of sources.(Lobsterthermidor (talk) 12:28, 14 May 2011 (UTC))
Huh? It's clearly a new editor that doesn't understand that he should experiment in the sandbox or his own userspace. The name is "Sample infobox" after all. How can you claim it is anything other than a test edit misplaced out of ignorance? -- DanielPenfield (talk) 13:45, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, SmackBot removes the line break between ((Infobox film
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FYI, the Santorum article we discussed at the meet-up is currently a topic of discussion on wikien-l, if you're interested. [251] and following. Cheers, --JN466 15:32, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Rich,
Nominated the above article for deletion. Think I got the 'reason' wrong though and prod was removed six minutes later by the venerable Hullaballoo WOlfowitz. Can you advise how to nom this properly? --82.41.20.82 (talk) 21:15, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
On 23 May 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Henry Walton Ellis, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Henry Walton Ellis was appointed an ensign in the 89th Regiment of Foot at birth, and when the regiment disbanded the baby was put on half-pay? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Habiger Hi Rich: The subject of this article asked me if I could rewrite it to address the three flags added by SmackBot in at 18:04 16 April 2011, namely Advert, Notability, Cat improve. I've rewritten the article, condensing duplication and rewriting sections in a more neutral point of view. I've added categories and edited citation links to go to more direct sources (many were to a Youtube archive channel his company set up). It's a stronger article now. I've listed these changes in the Talk page. Is it enough to be deflagged or is there more I should do and/or someplace else to ask? TIA Martin kelley (talk) 20:52, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Why did Smackbot tagged here the article with ibid? Every reference is clearly cited (really rarely case)... mabdul 08:12, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Rich! Could you please check the rules behind this edit? The census citation template does not have a parameter for the date, nor does it need one. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 27, 2011; 13:33 (UTC)
Rich - I will spare you the usual template nonsense, but this is to notify you that the article Lists of characters has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
I know you know what you can do about this. Also note that the page is an orphan, so its deletion will not break any links. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 09:20, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
[253] Non-substituted. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:14, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Done. Nedops —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.255.67.154 (talk) 01:03, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alchemy&action=history
Deal with it please. I see that others have complained before. 50.80.139.102 (talk) 05:01, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
This project may be merged into Wikipedia:WikiProject East Anglia. Wilbysuffolk Talk to me 19:11, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
You added the 6 foot gauge category to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. I take it this was an early gauge. ----DanTD (talk) 12:24, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
There is a Korean band which is managed by The Jonas Group and a Korean company called JYPE - every time there is TRUE and DOCUMENTED information placed on their wiki page it is deleted.
I have to point out that wikipedia does not make it easy for abuses like this to be addressed. I do not even know whether I am contacting the right person by posting this.
It is not right for an entertainment company to use wikipedia like this.
For instance, they keep posting that this group was the first group to break into the Billboard Hot 100 - this is a bit of a lie. They broke into the Hot 100 because they deliberately sold an entire CD for a "bargain-basement" price of $1. A manager for the group admitted this to a Korean newspaper. Please check below:
http://www.koreaherald.com/entertainment/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100511000742
http://www.koreaherald.com/entertainment/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100512000682
So to say that they were the first band to break into the hot 100 is NOT a neutral statement. It is a PROMOTIONAL statement. To neutralize this statement it was posted that the cd was sold for $1 - and the reputable Korean newspaper that printed this was cited. This was removed.
There are a NUMBER of factual statement that have been removed.
Please also note that those two articles referenced above were HUGE news stories in Korea. The korea Herald later stated this was the 6th biggest internet story of the ENTIRE year. In that story it was also revealed that young performers were ebing illegally housed in New York and that they were brought into the country in a manner their own president is quoated as saying was "illegal". The performers were also not being covered by health insurance. This is OBJECTIVE and DOCUMENTED. It has to be on this wiki page.
If the TRUTH is withheld from this wiki page then EVERYTHING should be withheld because without the TRUTH you just ahve a PROMO TOOL.
In order to promote this band, HISTORY - important CULTURAL HISTORY is being left off that site.
This is wrong!
I have donated to wikipedia in past fundraising campaigns and I love this site. This site should NOT be used as a PROMO tool.
All the factual and DOCUMENTED information about this group and the way it has been managed has to be reported objectively. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frazerrazor (talk • contribs) 03:00, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
It might seem silly, but take a look. Thanks! User talk:Catfish Jim/Petition --Leahtwosaints (talk) 16:23, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Might you look into User:Willygoat1 ( Special:Contributions/Willygoat1 ) who keeps messing up at least one article ( Dusty Hill ) despite my roll backs to a stable version. Thanks and bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 21:13, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Can you please explain why you reversed my admin action at Joél Celéstin Filsaime, and restored the page without prior consultation with me — and with zero edit summary in your log? Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 02:02, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
-- Cirt (talk) 02:08, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. -- Cirt (talk) 02:16, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich
See Template talk:Infobox Underground stock#Additional parameters. Peter Horn User talk 22:39, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Hey Rich, just noticed this edit you made. Was this template replacement a built-in one? If so, it needs to be fixed, seeing as Template:Hospital disambguation does not exist (should be Template:Hospital disambiguation). If not, then please just remove it from your personal rules. These kinds of errors are one of the main reasons why people are upset about large scale cosmetic changes - there is no improvement, but can be errors, leading to either no change or a net loss in quality, obviously it's simply not worth the risk. Also, either way, please stop making edits like these (you shouldn't be making purely cosmetic changes even if they are built into AWB), please take more care when using AWB in the future to examine the edit thoroughly before you hit save. Thanks, - Kingpin13 (talk) 22:07, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Civil Parish of Winterbourne , 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. Skinsmoke (talk) 10:13, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Category:DGC albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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☯ 23:05, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
FYI. You ate the infobox name :) I've fixed it, but you probably need to watch for this in future edits. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 23, 2011; 15:52 (UTC)
Here - [254] - tho "Exhas a long wayxolon" as my username was amusing. Exxolon (talk) 18:08, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I am sorry, Rich Farmbrough, I wish to admit I overreacted a bit in my comments to you at this page earlier. I have two family members who recently both had serious surgery, and I should have taken more time to compose my thoughts in a more kind and polite manner towards you. I apologize about that.
I hope you are doing well, -- Cirt (talk) 23:30, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
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tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).
http://www.iranian.com/main/blog/darius-kadivar/diplomatic-history-shah-iran-grants-assylum-kurdish-prince-dawood-beg-jaff-1958
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ecil J. Edmonds, Kurds, Turks and Arabs: Politics, Travel and Research in North-Eastern Iraq, 1919-1925, London, 1957. Ely Banister Soane, To Mesopotamia and Kurdistan in Disguise, London 2007 Hitchens, Keith. "Goran, Abdulla", In Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. Vol. 2. 3rd ed., completely rev. and enl. Edited by Steven R. Serafin and others, pp. 276-277. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999 Joyce Blau, “Written Kurdish Literature,” in Philip G. Kreyenbroek and Ulrich Marzolph, eds., History of Persian Literature, Companion Volume II: Persian Popular Literature; Literatures in Modern Iranian Languages other than Persian, 2010, pp. 103-28. P. Lory, "Shahrazuri" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition, ed. by H.A.R. Gibbs, B. Lewis, Ch. Pellat, C. Bosworth et al., 11 vols. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1960-2002), vol. 9, p. 219 Minorsky, The Tribes of Western Iran, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, pp.73-80, 1945. (p.78) Sadiq Safizade, Pishgouyiha-ye lI-Begi Jaff ('The Prophecies of Il-Begi Jaff'), Teheran 1988 W. Jwaideh, The Kurdish national movement: its origins and development, 419 pp., Syracuse University Press, 2006 Khanai Qobadi, Širin o Ḵosrow, ed. M. M. ʿEbd el Kerim, as Šīrīn ū Ḵusrew, akari ṝ‘irî nawdarî kurd Xanay Qubadi, Baghdad, 1975. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shajaf (talk • contribs) 00:24, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
In Sarah Geronimo article: "She is the first Filipino artist to receive a platinum award for a DVD copy of her concert The Other Side in 2005 and is currently the only artist who has a platinum record for 4 DVDs of her concert. Her fourth one was awarded with triple platinum status in December of 2010." - the claim is a fact. It is a fact in the music industry here in the Philippines that she is the only Filipino artist to have a platinum selling dvd's of her concert. You can visit all the major record stores here and ask for it. It was stated before in a Television show ASAP where she performs weekly for this fact. [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 16:32, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. I see that recently you have started moving pages out of redirected categories into the target categories. I can't tell whether you are doing this manually, but if you are, you might want to know that RussBot does it automatically on a daily basis. No need to waste your time if you don't want to. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:36, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Regarding two tags you placed on Figaro Systems: I disagree that the article reads like advertising and that notability is questionable. The company and its technology have been written about (see the article's refs) in many newspapers and other independent publications. Assistive technology is of interest and importance to various communities and, in fact, is used around the world. I think you overdid on this one. Leoniana (talk) 18:31, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the clarify tag in the corrosion chapter. I have added a comment and references and removed your tag. Okay? Since the article is quite technical, I would very much like, if you could find more points, where the article requires better phrasing for better understanding. More references are no problem; I have a list of many books and publications dealing with CMCs. --Leumar01 (talk) 13:08, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Rich: You (as Smackbot) tagged Figaro Systems as lacking notability. The tag asks for good refs. The refs (more than 20) include articles about the company and its technology from the New Mexico Business Weekly; the Albuquerque Journal; Auditoria; the United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent Full-Text and Image Database; Los Alamos Laboratory; Daily News Bulletin; New York Magazine; Public Radio News and Information in Houston, Texas, KUHF 88.7 FM Houston Public Radio; Entertainment Engineering; Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado); the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM; Appliance Magazine; Los Alamos National Laboratory News, Los Alamos National Security, LLC, US Department of Energy's NNSA -- and more. I think that's a reasonable number of good references and more than adequate evidence for notability. Leoniana (talk) 14:30, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
I ran across the ((Smack me)) template added to a controversial BLP article [256] and it struck me as something that could be taken in totally the wrong way. While the template doesn't visibly change the page, it really seems problematic to add something labeled ((Smack me)) to the article of a person currently being vilified in press. Maybe it will never be an issue, as it has been around awhile, but I thought I should at least raise it as a potential one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monty845 (talk • contribs)
rev 7708 More exceptions to Unicodify character list. Less problems with pages partially blanked. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:08, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
The edit you made with AWB messed up the internal readability of the citations and references in D. B. Cooper, so I have reverted it. Please turn off AWB's removal of appropriate whitespace and indentation which helps understand nesting of templates. Besides, adding ((Persondata))
to this article is pointless since even his name is unknown. —EncMstr (talk) 23:18, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Inline citation added as you requested to the Stronghold Kingdoms article. It shows as a quote from Simon Bradbury in the reference section. "Citation needed" now removed. Link to article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stronghold_Kingdoms VoltairSHK (talk) 02:02, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
I'm having a bit of a problem with the coding on this page. If you look near the image in the infobox, it has full of coding around it. Could you take a look and see what's wrong? ---StevenBjerke 13:26, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that the bot's edit to my templates on Viacom (simple dating) were not marked as minor. Since it's an AWB bot, I can understand this, but it's something you may want to look into :p demize (t · c) 01:32, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Yes, the binary 'minor' flag is a pain. Either setting will produce complaints. Sometimes inverting the setting in response to a complaint will produce a complaint in the opposite direction within a matter of hours. There should be a third option: 'No claim regarding minor or otherwise'. Lightmouse (talk) 11:53, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I know you do a lot of work in this area, so I thought you might know the answer to this one. Is there any reason for a standalone ((DEFAULTSORT:)) in an article? Example: 52. Or is this just cruft that I can delete if I'm in there cleaning up other stuff? Thanks, 28bytes (talk) 21:26, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, can Smackbot be instructed to respect the 'editing' tag, please? It is more than a little annoying to complete a long edit only to get an edit conflict due to the bot dating a tag. TerriersFan (talk) 17:03, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Rich, I reverted twice your insertion on nonbreaking spaces into table items in Overtone. That's not a fix to anything, as far as I can tell, just a complication. Dicklyon (talk) 01:50, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Would you mind, if I remove a DEFAULTSORT you've put into Template:Cleanup/doc? C.f. Template talk:Cleanup/doc! Best, JoergenB (talk) 19:44, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Can you add the templates in Category:Côte d'Ivoire subdivision templates to the relative articles using Category:Populated places in Côte d'Ivoire by region as a guidelines as I believe many communes are yet to be added to the templates. The vast majority are completely unused yet contain the articles. Can you use AWB to apply the relative template to the communes by department? Otherwise I fear they'll be deleted as unused.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:28, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:46, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your feedback on CANCER is Curable NOW. I am working on pulling together a list of resources and will edit it soon. Once I have I will let you know so that you can re-review it.
Thank you! Iconcalif (talk) 18:50, 13 May 2011 (UTC) User:Iconcalif
Hey just a heads up that your edit here broke the infobox image on the page. I've fixed it already but it might be something to look out for. Cheers, doomgaze (talk) 22:33, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed you contributed to Middlesex University entry on Wikipedia. If you studied at that University, please consider including this userbox on your userpage. Simply paste ((User:Invest in knowledge/mdx)) to your userpage. Thank you. Invest in knowledge (talk) 18:17, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Category:Swell Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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☯ 03:00, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
While investigating Wikipedia:Help desk#Expand Language template seems not to work I came by an apparent error and hopefully fixed it in [257] without screwing something up. I saw meta:List of Wikipedias#Languages without ISO 639 language code or duplicated or using incorrect code but I'm not used to ISO 639 and exotic languages. Can you check that I did right and what else should be done in that case? I guess Category:Pages translated from Vöro Wikipedia should be renamed to Category:Pages translated from Võro Wikipedia. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:08, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
You made the same edit on Chaitin's constant twice. Could you please explain, on the article's talk page, exactly what the purpose of the edit is? Please note that sortkeys are not case sensitive as of Mediawiki 1.17 [259], and that "minor edit" is not a descriptive edit summary in any sense. — Carl (CBM · talk) 22:16, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I notice that you have placed a ((Clean up)) and ((wikify)) on the Laman Jegan Joof article. Would you please check if it is now OK to remove those remarks?
Thanks
Tamsier (talk) 18:56, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rich_Fambrough,
I've noticed that you have improved the Laman Jegan Joof article. Thank you very much. The remarks are still there though. Can I remove them and if not what exactly can I do?
Thanks
Tamsier (talk) 20:47, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough,
Thanks for your advise. I will work on the article.
Thanks
Tamsier (talk) 00:40, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
I missed a change that you'd made to this page a couple months back and disagree with it. After being reverted for trying to adjust the section on WP:BLANKING to what I thought reflected consensus, I've started a discussion on the talk page. Your input would be appreciated.--Onorem♠Dil 14:24, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
In light of your participation in the discussion(s) regarding the treatment of disambiguation pages on the "Lists of mathematics articles" pages, please indicate your preference in the straw poll at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Straw poll regarding lists of mathematics articles. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:40, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
User:Toshio Yamaguchi/Template:Talkback2
Hello Rich. I see that your bot currently updates the recent changes list for WikiProject:United States. Could you all set it up to do so for Wikipedia:WikiProject West Virginia and Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR? The recent changes page for WikiProject: West Virginia has not been created, and I would assume to put the articles on Wikipedia:WikiProject West Virginia/Recent changes. On the other hand, the best place to add the articles for WikiProject: NASCAR could be Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Related Pages, unless it has to end with Recent changes. Our projects would really appreciate it. Thanks and happy editing. --Nascar1996 (talk • contribs) 01:58, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey Rich. I just noticed this edit where SmackBot de-substs the ((Contradict)) template. But I've seen other templates go...errr..."un-de-substed"...for quite some time without intervention. I don't see this in SmackBot's task list. Can you please provide some more info about what gets de-substed and when, just so I'm not needlessly making changes? Thanks! – RobinHood70 talk 23:04, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
I translated the German wikipedia and added some sourches but please correct my grammar mistakes. Greetings Goroth (talk) 14:33, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
No, not having multiples issues. Quite simply I noticed SmackBot setting a date for a Multiple Issues template. Has Multiple Issues does not use a date parameter, I presume that is not needed. Not a problem either (and good work, smacking those damn dates around!) - Nabla (talk) 12:48, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Petrocelli Dear Administrator,
I inform you that I've removed the two web links from the page and I have communicated to have the permission from the author. Would you please tell me how to remove the speedy deletion remove?
Many thanks in advance.
Best regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spiritbritishmusic (talk • contribs) 23:04, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Template:DNB AA has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. — This, that, and the other (talk) 08:10, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Rich. I have posted a question on Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_May_20#Template:DNB_AA that I think is primarily directed to you. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:45, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
In relation to this edit/ Doesn't that remove the general category from all articles with a monthly subcategory? I noticed, after testing, that it does leave the general category when no date is specified. In general, the cat parameter may always be removed when a cat-date parameter is present then? Debresser (talk) 15:21, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Could you please move Frank Garcia (magic) to its redirect Frank Garcia (magician). Only an admin can do it. Debresser (talk) 22:28, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Would it be reasonable to change ((Use dmy dates)) to use ((DMCA)) instead of ((DMCAT)). None of the other 5 "Use" templates (see Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month) do so. In addition, this template is transcluded on only 14 talkpages, out of almost 112,000 (!) transclusions. Debresser (talk) 00:01, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Smackbot isn't adding dates to ((Disambiguation needed)) from what I can tell, due to the number of pages which are in Category:Articles with links needing disambiguation but which are not in the dated subcategories. Could you add that tag to the list of ones which the bot dates? Thanks! –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 14:23, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Can you see the Argentina list of images at the bottom of my talk page. They are all PD-AR-Photo public domain in Argentina yet are marked with rationales and non free licenses. Can you use some coding to fix them to the PD-Ar-Photo and remove the rationales?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:21, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks mate!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:25, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Does ((Ambox | cat = Whatever | date = (({date|))} ))
do the same as ((DMCA | Whatever | from | (({date|))} ))
? Or are there differences, however slight? Debresser (talk) 01:21, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Are [260] and [261] some type of test edits? Debresser (talk) 18:46, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
In connection with this subject I have two remarks:
|substcheck=<includeonly>((subst:</includeonly><includeonly>substcheck))</includeonly>
line? Debresser (talk) 16:06, 29 June 2011 (UTC)I left out the name parameter deliberately since that's only a meta parameter, i.e. only useful if the template is used as a meta template, and never useful when you substitute it. You disagree? Amalthea 19:35, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
This project page is collecting ideas for getting on top of DNB cleanup. Your draft pages are not showing up in those searches, in that you don't use ((DNB)) attribution (yet). Charles Matthews (talk) 21:14, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Are you aware that defaultsorts with each word starting with an uppercase are no longer needed? Since a few months, the sorting is case-insensitive, which means that e.g. this defaultsort doesn't change the sorting in Category:Construction records any more, and an article like List of highest church naves, without a defaultsort, will automatically be sorted before the one you changed. The defaultsorts you add aren't incorrect, they are just completely unnecessary.
If this is standard AWB behaviour and not something specific to your version of it, I'll take it up on the AWB talk page. Fram (talk) 12:16, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
I made some changes to Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month. One of them is to change the order of the categories, to bring them closer to a-z. Btw, you are invited to check that, especially since I am not aware of the precise order of characters in ASCI.
Another is to add a temporary remark in from of categories that are not present in Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories with templates, with the purpose of adding them there. I hope that won't disturb your bot. In any case, I see it has already done its job for this month, and I don't plan to leave them that long.
I have a question (added there in remark tags). Why do we have both Category:Articles needing cleanup and category:Wikipedia articles needing cleanup? Debresser (talk) 18:02, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, My name is Natalia Olaru and I am a final year master student in the Corporate Communication programme at the Aarhus School of Business in Denmark. I am currently working on my final paper on the topic of the motivation of users to create content on collaborative media websites, the focus being Wikipedia. As a sample I chose the English and Danish portals. I would like to invite you for an online interview on the topic of what motivates you, as a user, to participate in editing and creating articles for this platform. Your real identity, and wikipedia account will be kept confidential through the paper. I plan on doing the actual interviews in the period between 6st and the 15th of May via Skype, MSN, Google Talk or Yahoo Messenger. I am, however, open to other channels of communication too. Please let me know if you would like to participate in this interview and the preferred channel. Thank you, Natalia Olaru Email: natalia.ioana.olaru at the domain gmail.com --MulgaEscu (talk) 12:48, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Smackbot had an issue with Family tree of William Jardine (1784-1843) on the grounds of notability. This guy was pretty important in the history of trade with China and the article (read tree) links to five other by definition notable articles (six if you include William Jardine himself) and now has a couple of references. I have therefore removed Smackbot's tag but I'm interested as to how he/she/it picked it up :). Best, ► Philg88 ◄ talk 11:26, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I just saw template ((Dn)). It is fully protected, so I can't do anything with it. I'd suggest to 1. add detection for substitution 2. add dated subcategories 3. spell out "Disambiguation needed" 4. add this template to Smackbot.
I improved the documentation somewhat. If you add dated subcategories or move the template to its full name, the documentation and category page should be updated with that also (I could do that later). Debresser (talk) 08:43, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
|cat-date=
parameter to the sandbox as well. Debresser (talk) 09:19, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Did you have this template? Template:Ambiguous I shaped it up considerably, but it might need some more editing. Smackbot doesn't know it, that I am sure of. At least it doesn't involve a new category structure. Debresser (talk) 11:05, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
I noticed Template:Ref quantity on the list of your contributions (just checking whether you are active, because I'm waiting for your answer on issue #2 above), and after looking in Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories with templates I found just the right category: Category:Wikipedia references cleanup.
This is one of the purposes of that list of categories with templates. Debresser (talk) 09:42, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
Hey Rich,
I'm new here, but just wanted to check in to see why you removed my edits to "Spectrum Equity Investors". The information was all accurate and off their website. Do I need to foot it to articles from NYT and stuff? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asparagus10 (talk • contribs) 23:24, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
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Please undo this edit. I did the same thing yesterday. But there are good reasons not to do it, see this edit summary. Debresser (talk) 20:09, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Let me show you: ((Cv-unsure|User:Debresser|url=http://www.wouldyoubelievethis.fyi/|date=July 2011)) results in: Huh? ((Copypaste|User:Debresser|url=http://www.wouldyoubelievethis.fyi/|date=July 2011)) results in: Then what went wrong on that documentation edit? Debresser (talk) 20:37, 3 July 2011 (UTC) |
This is a talk page template: I still think the sig should be after the template though. Rich Farmbrough, 20:50, 3 July 2011 (UTC).
I'm wondering if there should be a "Copy vio query resolved" template. Rich Farmbrough, 22:47, 3 July 2011 (UTC).
Why hasn't SmackBot done anything with the dated Cv-unsure instances on Talk:Bronchopleural fistula, Talk:Foresight (management), and Talk:James Brown (sportscaster)? Debresser (talk) 23:32, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Can I ask where consensus for any of these edits was obtained? I'm active in copyright work and have not seen these changes discussed anywhere and only noticed them when lots of your edits appeared on my watchlist. I'm particularly unhappy about the addition of a header above the tag. I think these should be treated the same way as a wikiproject tag and kept at the top of the talk page so as they're obvious, don't get archived etc. I also query the usefulness of a date tag - these tags are placed when someone has investigated and can't find a source but still has reasons for suspecting a copyvio. Dated tags suggest that it's something that needs dealing with and that there is a "backlog" That doesn't apply in this case. Dpmuk (talk) 10:42, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
I may need your help with the Best bet diet article. There really are few decent references about that subject (unless you include some silly websites about that diet) but I have added one reference, and if that is not enough, could you have the article deleted. The only reason I created this article was because it kept being merged with articles that had nothing to do with the best bet diet.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrx1 (talk • contribs) 14:54, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated the article Ni Hao, Kai-Lan for deletion and placed ((db-spam)) on the page due to it's description being written like an avertisement. If you like to decide whenever to delete or not, please contest it on my talk page. Thank you. StormContent (talk) 14:11, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. A while back a flag was placed on the Cold Spring Granite page and I have made several attempts to get a response from "request for feedback" on getting the flag removed. My apologies for not sending this to you first, but I am wondering if you could review the page and assist me in getting the flag removed. I have cleaned up the page and removed non-notable objects and sections to make it adhere to the guidelines better. If you could help, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance Wendyfables (talk) 14:44, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
The article Pixel Chix has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the ((proposed deletion/dated))
notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing ((proposed deletion/dated))
will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:18, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Category:At A Loss Recordings albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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☯ 09:06, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Rich, could you take a look at this? User talk:Stephen C Carpenter ... regarding the Edmund Snow Carpenter article. Thanks and bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 15:45, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.30.35.5 (talk) 03:47, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I see above that the dramaz continue, for which I feel kinda bad. I'm certainly not attempting to add to that, at all. I do hope that we (meaning yourself and I, and anyone else who wishes to say anything) can have a cordial and constructive discussion about SmackBot's name.
I know that this has been mentioned before in the past, but the talk page archives are so noisy with people's use of SmackBot's name that it's difficult to find old discussions on the issue. I was just wondering if you'd be receptive to the idea of changing the bot's name, at all? The bot's name isn't actually that big of a deal, but you've gotta know that "SmackBot" has a mildly negative connotation to it. I suspect that may be part of the "you're going off on your 'I know better then any of you' editing sprees again, aren't you?" perception issues that have been coming up recently. Something less snarky might help with the PR issues, is all. Regards,
— V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 18:20, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Category:-ismist Recordings albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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☯ 02:13, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
I just activated a wikipedia account and did my first wikipage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J_Wade
Two questions
1. Any suggestions on how to change the middle initial "J" to a "J." with a period? Please do so if you can.
2. How to disambiguate with "Michael Wade"?
Wingroras (talk) 15:39, 11 July 2011 (UTC)Wingroras
Rich Farmbrough, edits like these[264][265][266][267][268] seem to be in violation of your editing restriction: "indefinitely prohibited from making cosmetic changes to wikicode that have no effect on the rendered page".
Any reason why in this edit you once change "pmc" to "PMC", and once "PMC" to "pmc"? Either leaving it alone, or changing them consistenly, would have been better.
In this edit, you change "TV" to "television" inside the title field of a cite template, thereby "correcting" the official title of that page. Text inside such template should usually be left alone.
In this edit, you "correct" the word "eles" to "eels", even though "eles" is correct in this case. Similarly, in this edit you change "Mehet-weret" (another name of Hathor) to "Mehet-weren't", which is funny but wrong.
Please try to get your error rate on AWb edits down. Fram (talk) 13:37, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Why did you need 12 edits (5 by Pixie, 7 by yourself) to correct a simple error, and to change month-day format to day-month format (which, as far as I know, is normally not allowed: first editor preference is kept, not changed, without a very good reason)? You reverted your bot twice at the end to achieve absolutely nothing[269]? Very strange...
You were also reverting corrections made by other bots, like here. You eventually left both articles in a correct state, so no problem there, but it still is strange to see you make such edits. Fram (talk) 07:39, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Yesterday evening, you made two edits with your sock account User:Megaphone Duck: [271][272]. Both seem to be violations of your editing restriction, making no change to the page output (the first inserts a space before the ref tag, which is wrong: the second puts a space brfore blogs, which is also wrong). Please check your AWB edits, don't make inconsequential edits with it, and don't introduce too many errors (the occasional one is unavoidable). Fram (talk) 09:29, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Your bot is still dating the "multiple issues" tag, which doesn't have or need a date tag (it is specifically listed as a deprecated parameter on the template doc page):[273][274][275][276][277][278][279]. Fram (talk) 09:19, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
The bot is edit-warring with itself at Suffix and will be reported at the edit-warring incident page if immediate action is not taken. Jc3s5h (talk) 21:40, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Little blip in the above. Check out the edit she made here. Not sure why she is whipping out the | , but sure it's just a quick tweak :-) Best wishes Haruth (talk) 19:45, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Wouldn't be possible that you check TagUpdater's code and create a similar one in Perl? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:41, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi! A little mistake here. ((For)) does not recognise "other uses" in latter fields. Regards. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 09:31, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps first test one page to get it right, and only then continue? this, this and this are now three dreadful hatnotes. Fram (talk) 10:20, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Another hatnote error: a piped link should not be split into two links. Fram (talk) 12:42, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Both fixed, although "about" is not essential. Rich Farmbrough, 13:58, 13 July 2011 (UTC).
Just to let you know, I've had to revert your recent edit to ((cat improve)). I'm not sure if you just made a coding error, but your edit had the accidental effect of completely depopulating the entire Category:Articles needing additional categories backlog. Bearcat (talk) 18:49, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
|cat-date=
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parameter is specified, see ((Ambox/category)). Debresser (talk) 20:43, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
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What about the cat 'Portrait painter'? I found it in the wikipedia list. Second question:where can I find a cat called 'Lithographer'. Thanks for your answer. Kalaharih--Kalaharih (talk) 12:46, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Category:Scout Releases albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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☯ 18:55, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
I fixed it here and here. 198.102.153.2 (talk) 14:56, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
I fixed it here and here. 198.102.153.2 (talk) 14:56, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, "Legal status of Texas" and another, "Republic of Texas (group) has been proposed for a merge with Texas Secession Movement. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Otr500 (talk) 04:29, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
This edit is causing an Expression Error. Station1 (talk) 06:25, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Your "speedily approved" task 44 is making a lot of inconsequential, unnecessary edits, changing "reflist" to "Reflist" and nothing else.[280][281][282][283][284][285][286][287][288][289] ... These are all violations of your editing restriction. Fram (talk) 07:48, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
I just happened to walk into a problem with three related templates in the Russian Wikipedia when I looked up an article about a certain actress. The problem expressed itself in various redlinked categories. Posted an editprotected request, and now wait for my fixes to be implemented. It's fun to use my experience here on other wiki's as well. Debresser (talk) 03:24, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Your bot continues to date the "multiple issues" tag, something which you describe as "extra unecessary edits to claanup tags, which are suppsoed to be ephemeral." Please stop making these changes. An edit like this is a pure waste of resources.
The bot also dated "Puffery", which doesn't take a date[290]. Fram (talk) 07:45, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
"Helpful" Pixie Bot is now edit-warring to include this useless date tag, without making any other change[291]. Bots shouldn't be edit warring in general, and certainly not for when their edit isn't helpful in any way at all. Please correct this as soon as possible. Fram (talk) 13:57, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
Sorry about jumping the gun and doing some of the substitutions. I figured since it was a job for AWB I may as well download it and help out. I see now that you were getting permission for a bot to do it. There are still quite a few to do and I can stop to let your bot finish it or if you no longer wish to I will continue using AWB. Regards AIRcorn (talk) 13:25, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Please test new bot functionality in your userspace or a testwiki, not in the mainspace. Five big large errors in a row, and more in the past few days... Fram (talk) 13:48, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Please participate and leave your opinion in a thread I opened on MSGJ's talkpage. User_talk:MSGJ#Ambox_and_categories Debresser (talk) 20:21, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
And while we're at it, please tell me your opinion about a small issue on Template_talk:Cv-unsure#Who. Debresser (talk) 01:33, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
This time I concentrated to improve and hope that I succeeded today. I now understand the references, hope I did not overdo. I still want to shorten the article. Will try again. I also need to create an info box but don't know how. With kind regards, Kalaharih --Kalaharih (talk) 14:14, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
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Today I sent on request an article more elaborated than before about Museum van Bommel van Dam, as i was advised to make links possible, which the adjonction of:presence of early etchings of HH in that museum procures. Now that link just realized and sent, a totally new person tags the article with red flags of violation. I do not even have time to get the necessary material to write another article about things like professors or teachers mentioned in the article. Maybe you know for me what I should do. In the meantime thank you for the demand of more categories. I saw I could do that right. With regards Kalaharih--Kalaharih (talk) 20:51, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi, you had noted on this page (January 2010) that it had incorrect inline citations. I have since edited the page. Can you please recheck and remove the note if everything is now in order? Thanks! Eglobe55 (talk) 23:31, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements from August 2011 is empty, as well it should be. It was previously populated by Dangdang. Why doesn't it autonominate for speedy deletion? Doesn't that apply to future categories?Debresser (talk) 00:09, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
((#ifexpr:(((CURRENTYEAR))*12+((CURRENTMONTH))-(({year|0))}*12-(({monthno|0))})>1
in Template:Monthly clean-up category/core should use ABS (if such a function exists here). Debresser (talk) 01:44, 3 July 2011 (UTC)((#ifexpr:(((#expr: abs(((CURRENTYEAR))*12+((CURRENTMONTH))-(({year|0))}*12-(({monthno|0))}))))>1
It won't harm the deletion of past categories, will only add future ones. Btw, why is it ">1" and not ">0"? Does that mean that last months categories are kept, don't think so. So why the "1"? And how will that affect future categories? Or will the "1" mean that the present category will be nominated as well when absolute value is added? Debresser (talk) 23:19, 3 July 2011 (UTC)I would like to request the services of Femto Bot to help track the recent changes of WikiProject Connecticut pages. Per instructions, I have created the necessary WikiProject subpages here and here. I have recently seen the ability to easily track changes on WikiProject Conservatism, and I think it would be a useful addition to the Connecticut project. Many thanks. --Sgt. R.K. Blue (talk) 07:43, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
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For the services of your bot to help with tracking WikiProject Connecticut articles, I award you this barnstar and the title of Honorary Nutmegger. --Sgt. R.K. Blue (talk) 11:29, 3 July 2011 (UTC) |
Hello, I wondered if I could ask you for help? Some time ago someone started a stub for all the villages of North Cyprus. The problem is that they used the Greek names, which are today historical (they have not been used since the war in 1974). Today the Turkish names are used. Hence, as I understand it, according to WP:NAME (see the discussion on Gdańsk vs Danzig) the Turkish names should be used in the articles (Please correct me if I'm wrong).
I have started moving some of the villages of the Kyrenia District -however, it takes for ages for me to do so. I would very much appreciate some help. Thanks, Guestworker (talk) 01:56, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, this is my first time "trying" to edit a Wikipedia article (David L Boushey), I work on webpages with Adobe software (Dreamweaver, Flash, etc...) so my friend ask me for help on this (she thought that because I do webpages, I suppose to be good at this... wrong!), I did some changes trying to find more References, and I think that works, but still need some Citations, We are working on it, the problem we have now is about the "Autobiography", how we can fix that?, any help is really appreciated, thank you very much... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vinko2000 (talk • contribs) 07:16, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
In response to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_47, can you explain why citation needed was removed? I couldn't find any information as to why it's "officially" called Seaside Fwy. None of the signs call it that. Additionally it used to be called Seaside Ave at some point but any references to that have been removed. Also, http://www.cahighways.org/maps-sc-fwy-pt2.html mentions that Seaside Freeway/Expressway. This was a portion of Route 47. I was hoping someone would prove me otherwise as I don't have enough resources 'city planning' etc to find as a reference that it is still the case. Supagene (talk) 17:31, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
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I am going to be requesting a bot task in relation to the U.S. Collaboration of the Month and I was hoping I could ask you a couple questions. Right now I am just gathering data for the writup but basically I am trying to streamline and automate some of the manual functions that are required to maintain the Collaboration. Basically the bot would do the following things:
I have some other potential things that might be doable also but these are the main things. A couple of the others are:
Do you know if these are doable and if so do you know of a bot that might be useful for this? Thanks--Kumioko (talk) 17:00, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
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I'm very interested to having the bot generate a list for WikiProject Conservatism, but I have a question. RecentChangesLinked does not automatically show changes to associated talk pages, and it doesn't look like the bot generates entries for associated talk pages. Is there a way to also show changes to talk pages? – Lionel (talk) 16:25, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick response, Rich, much appreciated. Looking at the 2 pages, I wonder if it'll work in my scrolbox. This is what it looks like now:
((scroll box|((Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservatism/articles))))
Do I need the articles and talk pages combined in a single page? – Lionel (talk) 23:10, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
((Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservatism/Recent changes)) ((Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservatism/Recent changes talk))
and you are done. Rich Farmbrough, 23:23, 24 June 2011 (UTC).
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Hi, I cannot see why Smackbot is adding a date parameter to a reference as in this edit. The date for the reference is invalid as it is after the accessdate and if required should use month and year parameters as it is not a full date. Keith D (talk) 23:04, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Do you think you'll ever revisit Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 38? It seemed like a nice addition to SB's long list of small, helpful fixes. Tim1357 talk 01:28, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
Please clarify. (You didn't note this as a problem but you are a more experienced editor than me.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waugh_(artist) is an "orphan" because all of the links go out, and none come in? Is this what is meant by "incoming link"? thanks--Aichikawa (talk) 20:00, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
Trying to improve this article in general. Also Reverend Charisma article got messed up.Can you help with that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AnotherGenericUser (talk • contribs) 07:50, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
At the moment there are 85 categories in Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month. I found another 9. That is in addition to the 3 I asked you about above.
In addition I found that 17 of the categories there weren't mentioned in Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories with templates. Most of them I have added by now.
Of course, in the course of the research involved I stumbled upon a few things that need to be improved, or that I don't understand, or that I would like to do differently. Both in the categories as well as in the related templates.
So I have two questions: 1. Are you up to the issues I found with both the new categories and the others we had before? 2. Are you up to adding 9 (or 12) new categories with monthly subcategories to your system of automated creation and maintenance?
Understandably I could write all of it down here, and you could work through it on your own pace. Debresser (talk) 22:51, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
((DMCA|Wikipedia list cleanup|from|(({date|))))} to it?
- Done
- 2. I added Category:Articles needing expert attention to ((Technical-statement)), analogously to ((Technical)). But I am in doubt whether to also add Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical analogously to ((Technical)). The difference being that ((Technical)) refers to the whole article, while ((Technical-statement)) as an inline template refers to only 1 specific statement. I would argue that even 1 statement makes the whole article too technical. Even if one were to disagree with that argument, and say that a Category:Wikipedia articles with statements that are too technical (or something like that) should be created, I would argue that it might be preferable to use the existing Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical, which is at least closely related, rather than make a whole new category. What do you think?
- I'm neutral on this, however Occams razor may apply. Rich Farmbrough, 12:02, 1 July 2011 (UTC).
- 3. archived
- 4. Shouldn't Category:Vague or ambiguous time (uses the fully protected ((When))) be renamed to something like Category:Articles with vague or ambiguous time (or Category:Articles with vague or ambiguous time indicators/descriptions)? And the same for Category:Vague or ambiguous geographic scope (uses the fully protected ((Where))) to Category:Articles with vague or ambiguous geographic scope. Debresser (talk) 12:53, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
- Still waiting for your opinion, or, if you agree, just go ahead. Debresser (talk) 17:54, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I ask the question "is the qualifier needed to distinguish between content categories and maintenance categories" - notably things like "Category:Tools" needs to be distinct from "Category:Wikipedia tools" most of the other stuff I find overqualified, if anything, more so now that we have a largely hidden hierarchy. On top of this having "Articles .... " (while widely used) might mean we eventually end up with a parallel hierarchy for "Categories... " "Images..." "Templates...." and "Portal pages ....", so I'm inclined not to add "Articles...". Rich Farmbrough, 20:54, 2 July 2011 (UTC).
- I think the answer to your question is yes. Which is why I raised the subject. In addition, I seem to remember that I was one of those who were involved in the formulation of that question, and that it was meant to apply only to the word "Wikipedia" but not to the word "articles".
- The complication you mention, which has happened with ((Cleanup)), regrettably, could be avoided by using the word "pages". But that should probably be done across the board, and is not a solution to be used ad hoc. Debresser (talk) 20:59, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
- Pages is fairly widely used, for example: Category:Pages with several capitalization mistakes. Rich Farmbrough, 22:02, 2 July 2011 (UTC).
- I'd be in favor of implementing the word "Pages" instead of "Articles" and "Wikipedia articles", and certainly consider it preferable to having nothing as in this case. But I think that should be discussed and applied to all maintenance categories in one big step. Debresser (talk) 22:14, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
- 5. ((Update after)) actually uses the word "since" instead of "from". A remnant of a long-forgotten era. :) Note the double category structure in Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating. In addition, it has per year categories. Note that this tag is used to denote the date when updating is needed, not when the tag was placed. Something like ((As of)) but only for future dates. Which makes it interesting, because it may have future months. What do you say about using "from"? Btw, are you familiar with ((Dated update category))?
- 6. Please replace the category handling code of the fully protected ((Copypaste))
- from
<includeonly>((DMCA|Copied and pasted articles and sections|from|(({date|))}|All copied and pasted articles and sections))((#if:(({url|))}|(({category|[[Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections with url provided]]))))}</includeonly>
- to
((DMCA|Copied and pasted articles and sections|from|(({date|))}|All copied and pasted articles and sections))((#if:(({url|))}|((DMCA|Copied and pasted articles and sections with url provided|from|(({date|))))))}
, which adds dated subcategories for the "with url provided" category.
- Can these two be merged with an #if:, or is the space between the words a problem? That would have the advantage of removing double categorisation. I mean that at present an article with a specified url shows up in the general category as well.
- like
((DMCA|Copied and pasted articles and sections((#if:(({url|))}|&-#-32-;with url provided))|from|(({date|))}|All copied and pasted articles and sections))
Note what I had to do to that unicode.
- This can of course also be done by using
((#if:(({url|))}|((DMCA|Copied and pasted articles and sections with url provided|from|(({date|))}|All copied and pasted articles and sections))|((DMCA|Copied and pasted articles and sections|from|(({date|))}|All copied and pasted articles and sections))))
but the previous code is the most elegant.
- Editprotected request added to talkpage. Debresser (talk) 12:18, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- Closed, and my proposal implemented. Debresser (talk) 16:30, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- 7. I hope you agree with this edit and its rationale. Btw, why don't we add a section parameter to Template:COI, and rewrite ((COI-section)) like ((POV-section))? Is not immediately necessary, but might be a good idea.
- 8. You are welcome to comment on this Cfr.
So far so good
There are now 98 monthly categories in Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month whose templates are now all listed in Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories with templates. In this section we have two templates to be added to SmackBot and a few unresolved issues.
Larger issues are the one mentioned on MSGJ's talkpage below, all-inclusive categories (which I'd be happy to help tackle), and perhaps a rename of all relevant monthly maintenance categories to use the word "Pages" or "Wikipedia pages". Have to leave sth for the future. Debresser (talk) 23:11, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Template:Globalize/New Zealand
I created this template (my first) after it was used WP:BOLDly by another user and discussed it at [292]. My inclusion of the word Aotearoa was a deliberate considered act which I shared with others met no resistance. If there is a good reason to exclude it (I understand it changes the name of the corresponded category) that's fine, but I'm not keen on removing it just to tidy things. My use of the word is related to a local cultural movement summarised in part at Māori language revival. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:45, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, I understand that, and I should probably have dropped you a note. The Maori language revival is of course not unique, even as far as its extension to place names - as any visitor to Wales will confirm. This being the English language Wikipedia, we provide the names of places in other relevant languages in the articles pertaining to them, usually both in the lead and the infobox, but use the WP:Common name as the article title, and also in most contexts. There is of course the language Wikipedia which, by and large, I believe does things the same way (using the Maori name and providing the English version, (where appropriate) in the infobox). The other interesting parallel is of course the renaming (or respelling, depending how you look at it) of many places in India, here some of the revived versions such as Mumbai have become the common name in English (although I understand that in the city "Bombay" is still generally used) and we have moved the articles. Rich Farmbrough, 10:46, 9 July 2011 (UTC).
- Assume that this has been read... Rich Farmbrough, 19:37, 15 July 2011 (UTC).
Problem:this article needed more categories and I found categories that were accepted on the Dutch version in Wikimedia Commons. I suppose this is not how it is used on Wikipedia. Probably only
an administrator can find a solution, as the categories are now in red. Thank you, Kalaharih--Kalaharih (talk) 18:37, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
- Just need to find the right cats, is all. Rich Farmbrough, 23:13, 9 July 2011 (UTC).
Help
Can you help me in putting my name in the list of Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits. And tell me how can I check my recent edits count by date.--—AssassiN's Creed (talk) 11:38, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
- That page is updated intermittently, you just have to wait for the next update.
- Look here for instructions on how to opt in to SoxRed's monthly edit stats.
- Rich Farmbrough, 12:28, 10 July 2011 (UTC).
Issue 6
It would be nice to have some feedback on issues 7 and 8 also, especially since they take two minutes each, but issue 6 is the only one involving a protected template, so there I depend on you. Debresser (talk) 13:53, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
- On the issue of ((Update after)). You changed the monthly categories from "since" to "from", but not the yearly categories "since 2007, 2008, etc". And they are populated. What to do with them? Debresser (talk) 14:17, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
- After giving it some consideration, I'd say that since when the year alone is specified, the template is activated on January 1, we could change
((DMCA|Wikipedia articles in need of updating|since|(({1))))))}
to ((DMCA|Wikipedia articles in need of updating|from|January (({1))))))}
, and that's it. Debresser (talk) 20:52, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Hubertine Heijermans
Did my best not to forget an explanation for shorter text and more cats added, but I stumble on the demands for better work, still there. Could you give clarity. i am not impatient, but very unsure. Kalaharih--Kalaharih (talk) 15:23, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Just a question
I have a question to Smackbot's 40th task. Could this task be expanded to the following categories: Category:Current sports events, Category:Current sports seasons (and it's subcategories) and Category:Scheduled sports events? Armbrust Talk Contribs 20:39, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
- Yes. Rich Farmbrough, 20:47, 11 February 2011 (UTC).
- Doing. Rich Farmbrough, 20:04, 15 July 2011 (UTC).
SmackBot "in use" bug
Once again Smackbot gets in the way, this time at Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Does it not recognize the ((inuse))
tag? This is not the first time I have quarrelled about your bots, but I was just doing very complicated fixup of references and thanks to your bot, I lost the lot because of an edit conflict.
I think your bots are far more trouble than they are worth. But I know you have a different opinion.
Sincerely Rich I know you are committed to Wikipedia and do lots of good work, but this kind of annoyance from your bots is not helpful. Please take this in the same spirit of encouragement and good will, it may not seem so but I do mean it so. I don't think the bot should go meddling when there is an ((700|ft|m))
→ 700 feet (210 m) versus ((convert|-700|ft|m)) → −700 feet (−210 m)
Although it seems shoddy now, to round the negative amount as "−213.4" rather than −210, few users have noticed, because most measurements are positive numbers.
After the fix for negative numbers, I think we should eliminate all special treatment of "imperial units" versus "US customary units" by editing all those subtemplates, as a major step toward simplifying Convert; the plan to edit U.S. & imperial templates is discussed at:
- Template_talk:Convert/deletions - has steps to reduce U.S. & imperial templates.
In fact, I think most of those U.S./imperial subtemplates (as "Template:Convert/imp*" and "Template:Convert/us*") are basically unused, so most could be reduced to "semi-protection" to allow easier editing of each, as time permits. More later. -Wikid77 14:14, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Query; Lists of People
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Hi Rich. I hope all is well. A question ...
The rule as to lists of people is that, if an entry lacks both a wikipedia article and a ref -- it is properly deleted.
Many such lists are replete with such entries. I've spent a good deal of time cleaning up many nation lists the past two weeks. Is there any way for a bot to do it? And is there any way to block new entries that lack both indicia of notability? Many thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 06:53, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
- Short answer, yes to the first and no to the second. (Well you could use editfilters, but I suspect the edit filter people would say the overhead was not worth it.) Using a bot would have to be restricted to certain pages (like [[<Nationality> people]]) and would have to assume that any ref, web link or WP article blue link on the line meant it was OK. It would have a very small risk of breaking stuff even so. Rich Farmbrough, 13:41, 23 February 2011 (UTC).
- That would be fantastic -- even the first would be a great help, and relieve contributing editors of bot-work. How might we move that forward? Many thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 22:35, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
- Can you create a list of the pages? The I could put in a BRFA citing this thread and see what happens. My BRFAs do seem to take an inordinate amount of time right now. Rich Farmbrough, 22:48, 23 February 2011 (UTC).
- The hundreds of lists of people that are listed at the following page (and the indicated sub-categories) would be an amazing start:
- --Epeefleche (talk) 11:02, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, there are included pages such as List of names in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists, where it would be an error to remove the red-linked names. Rich Farmbrough, 13:16, 24 February 2011 (UTC).
- If the red-links there are not footnoted, I think they are subject to deletion, per wp:LISTPEOPLE. Which says: "If a person in a list does not have an article in Wikipedia about them, a citation (or link to another article) must be provided to establish their membership in the list's group and to establish their notability." But, if you think it better, perhaps we could start with a very small and clean group of lists, such as Category:Lists of people by U.S. cities. Or, (and this has more "gray" entries, which I could cull if you like) Category:Lists of people by nationality.--Epeefleche (talk) 13:31, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
- That is what I meant, pretty much, by a list of the pages. (The example I gave would escape the letter of the rule, but would fall foul of a bot, but there are others such as List of Swedish ambassadors to the Ukraine which are clearly not the sort of thing meant, but technically fall under the rule.) The purpose of the rule is to protect against massive, unmaintainable and (possibly) inaccurate lists. Rich Farmbrough, 13:55, 24 February 2011 (UTC).
- I've been asked that question, but didn't have the response: if the entry has no wikilink, I can see how it can be done. However, if the entry has a wikilink, is a bot capable of detecting it if there is no article behind it? --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:01, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, but AWB isn't. Use wget or similar to pull the HTML of the page and check for red links. I have the code for this somewhere, I'm trying to remember what I used it for. Rich Farmbrough, 13:12, 24 February 2011 (UTC).
- Is this what you are looking for? It is a first cut -- some 200 lists. More can (and should) be added (If the format is fine, and you would like me to, I can work on expanding the list for you). I wasn't certain what format you need (e.g., should I bluelink the lists for you?). Also, is it ok with you if I refer to this discussion at the wp:listpeople talkpage? Best.--Epeefleche (talk) 09:46, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, but it's going to need checking, for example List of Directors of the National Intelligence Service (South Korea) and predecessor organizations (which is table format anyway and so would be a little more tricky) is the type of thing where the whole list is referenced to one reference. And by all means refer to this discussion. Rich Farmbrough, 21:53, 27 February 2011 (UTC).
- Think this one won't fly as such. Rich Farmbrough, 16:26, 16 July 2011 (UTC).
Question about Femto bot and Recent changes
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Hey Rich I had a small question about how Femto bot updates the Recent changes for WikiProjects. On Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/Recent changes you will see that the list is getting quite long and I was going to trim out some of the earlier pages to say reflect only the last 30 or so. I assume that the highest number (in this case 75) is the most recent but when I look at the edit history of the pages they all seem to update regularly so I couldn't put my finger on how it was doing it or which was the most recent. Is it safe to delete some of these pages and if so how do I tell what the most current one is? Thanks. --Kumioko (talk) 02:34, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
- Yes the difficulty is this: the page size is limited, the bigger the pages the more likely the save is to fail - hence the splitting. The original idea was to transclude the pages from Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/Recent changes, enabling one to visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States/Recent_changes and pick up all the project related changes, however the page will not save with a full set of transclusions. The solution to this is to blank the transcluded pages and regenerate them, however I'm not sure if the main page would then ever succeed in picking up the changes. Rich Farmbrough, 20:43, 10 June 2011 (UTC).
Your expertise needed
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Would you please give your expert opinion (I hope) on the issue in Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Break? Debresser (talk) 00:50, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Talkback
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Hello, Rich Farmbrough. You have new messages at Template talk:Collab-gaming.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the ((Talkback)) or ((Tb)) template.
Autonominating future maintenance categories for speedy deletion
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Did adding abs work? You tested it? Debresser (talk) 20:51, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, it's all good. Rich Farmbrough, 08:58, 17 July 2011 (UTC).
AWB
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Are you still up for AWB? I need you to paste infoboxes into the Norwegian villages articles.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:43, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
A yes or a no would suffice...♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:58, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Yes I can do that I guess. Rich Farmbrough, 22:52, 12 April 2011 (UTC).
The Signpost: 4 July 2011
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Norway
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Hi Rich. A while back I began adding infoboxes to Norwegian villages, mostly unreferenced stubs lying around from 2006 which were created by Punkmorten (Geshicte). Given that he won't so much as make the tiniest edit to Norwegian geo articles these days, somebody has to do it.Basically it just adding an infobox with the location info county etc and a pin map like Kjelvik. I was wondering if you could copy the that infobox and use some sort of script to add infoboxes (and copy the coordinates from the bototm of the page into the infoboxes to the rest of the villages by county of the Category:Populated places in Norway. So far I've done Finnmark and Sog. Browse Category:Villages in Akershus for starters for example.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:57, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
What's troubling you Rich? I also need your help with User:Dr. Blofeld/Country year templates.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:42, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Questionable "written like a résumé" citation
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Please look into the bot edit at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Roberts
which I attempted to make slightly more conform to the "Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)" and, in the process, moved the “resume” warning bot edit to the bottom of the article right above the "stub" notice. What is in the present article is all the objective information I can gather about the person; I initially wrote the article to resolve a couple of red links to her and, although I met her briefly twice (in 2004 and 2005), I have no reason to promote her or in any other way write in a non-neutral tone but may appear to have done so because all the available information is all positive.
I thank you,
Vincent J. Lipsio (talk) 18:22, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
- Answered on user's talk page. Rich Farmbrough, 11:18, 20 July 2011 (UTC).
Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Boulevard Records albums
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Category:Boulevard Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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☯ 08:43, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Boulevard Records, and it appears to be a substantial copy of http://www.phatnoiz.com.
It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.
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Outstanding
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Sorry, I've lost count of the requests!! Yes Gare de all need moving to .... railway station I believe.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:50, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Museum van Bommel-van Dam
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Hello, on the 17th of july was added an external link this lemma. It looks VERY much like advertising or publishing and does not serve the interest of the reader about a Museum, please have a look, I have not yet encountered this kind of vandalism, which should be removed. I am myself hesitant of removing, but I ask you as you made a last correction on it. Thanks, Kalaharih--Kalaharih (talk) 13:05, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
- Yes it does look like it, but the left link was to a useful page about the museum. The right hand link (which I have now removed in favour of flat text) was to the top page of the site. Rich Farmbrough, 15:02, 21 July 2011 (UTC).
Museum van Bommel van Dam
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Thanks for your intervention, looks efficient against the unwanted pubicity. By the way, on my request by mail to this Museum about the work of HH, NOT visible on their 'Highlights', I
received a very positive answer, meant to be reassuring, of the actual Director himself, Mr. Rick Vercauteren: that 25 etchings and lithographs have been found and still belong to the collection. Written in Dutch, how would you suggest to use it as a valid reference, up to now uncertain. Greetings, Kalaharih--Kalaharih (talk) 21:14, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
- I would suggest referring to the catalogue of the museum: in standard academic works you would cite this as "personal communication" however that does not meet the verifiability criteria for Wikipedia. Clearly the catalogue is not as easy to verify as an on-line catalogue, or a widely circulated printed catalogue, but it is still verifiable by visiting the museum. Rich Farmbrough, 22:23, 21 July 2011 (UTC).
Incomplete lists
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Category:Incomplete lists has a few subcategories that don't sort under the appropriate letter of the alphabet. Code like [[Category:Incomplete lists| Video games]]
doesn't make Category:Incomplete video game lists sort under "V" in Category:Incomplete lists. Why is that, and how can that be fixed (without resorting to using special templates like ((Clean-up type category)))? Debresser (talk) 16:24, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
- Fixed I'm waiting for Rich to address a topic above and noticed your question. In this edit I removed the space before "Video", and now it seems to sort properly. So I went ahead and fixed the rest of them too. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 17:23, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Use ymd dates
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Why do we have a Category:Use ymd dates and Template:Use ymd dates at all? Isn't that an unusual way of dating? Debresser (talk) 14:35, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
- I suspect they were created for completeness originally. But they serve a (hypothetical at least) purpose of marking articles where there is an ISO style date for a good reason. Rich Farmbrough, 16:32, 25 July 2011 (UTC).
- I removed the template from 103 articles so far, emptying 5 categories, leaving only 6 instances. It seems to be added to all articles related to cryptography, regardless of whether they actually have dates at all and use ymd or not. When ymd was used only in citation templates for the date or accessdate parameters, I also removed the template, since the template would apply to the article also, and using ymd in articles is usually rather awkward. Debresser (talk) 21:07, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
- I seem to recall that I included the template in a small handful of articles, but realised its was unnecessary and stopped. --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:21, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Caps on HD
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I mentioned you on Wikipedia:Help_desk#How do I work out what the problem is re Capitalization? - hope you don't mind; I was trying to give a decent general answer to the question. Chzz ► 09:24, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
- Never mind, sorry ([293]) Chzz ► 10:12, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
- NPRich Farmbrough, 11:31, 26 July 2011 (UTC).
Images
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Rich can you somehow code something and save the images which Template:Filmbiorationale link to. The template doesn't work and is up for CFD and ther eis a load of valuable images which will be deleted.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:06, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
- Answered on user's talk page. Rich Farmbrough, 15:20, 21 July 2011 (UTC).
A barnstar for you!
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The Technical Barnstar
For being one of the biggest technical assets to wikipedia in its history. I salute you Sir Rich. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:05, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you kindly! Rich Farmbrough, 08:47, 21 July 2011 (UTC).
Mail for you
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Hello. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can ((You've got mail)) or ((ygm)) template.— at any time by removing the CT Cooper · talk 15:25, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
I will leave you to guess what it's about until tomorrow evening then! CT Cooper · talk 17:24, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
Please comment #2
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Was I right here? I remember this is what you told me. Or is that no longer true? Debresser (talk) 13:34, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Done Rich Farmbrough, 11:17, 31 July 2011 (UTC).
TfD
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Just letting you know about this TfD. I would imagine this is a fairly uncontroversial housekeeping matter, but of course one must not jump to conclusions. — This, that, and the other (talk) 10:30, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
db realty
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Hi, the information on the DB Realty page has been toned down, hope that works. The information on the page right now is linked to various media report. therefore request you to remove the advt and speedy deletion tag from it. Thanks.202.179.91.46 (talk) 09:57, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for your message, SmackBot does not generally add these kind of tags, but merely dates those that are already there. If you believe the issues have subsequently been addressed, it is perfectly OK to remove them. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 20:37, 16 July 2011 (UTC).
Hubertine Heijermans
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Thank you for the work you did on the article. I wonder why I do not see any change on the page ratings? It is also strange I do not get an answer on
simple questions or a remark, as for instance I was glad to have found useful reverences, like a list of the Musée Jenisch, where a click is enough to
consult the list of artists printmakers. Heijermans figures there. I asked whether it was sufficient material, as the warnings on top of the article remain. Hope you will help, if you can help. Greetings, Kalaharih--Kalaharih (talk) 13:53, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Improper edits by Helpful Pixie Bot
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Hi Rich! Could you please look at the two edits that Helpful Pixie Bot made in this edit? AWB removes |date=
from ((Multiple issues)), and Helpful Pixie Bot adds it back. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 05:06, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Rich - Helpful Pixie Bot is still dating Multiple issues: see this edit, for example. If the bot is using AWB, could it just use general fixes and WP:AWB/DT to determine which templates need to be dated? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:43, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Hubertine Heijermans
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Hello, many thanks you for your additions. I saw yesterday, that the Musée Jenisch in the town of Vevey has become by vote of a Swiss Organ responsible for regrouping museums of the country, that it has become a National museum. Unfortunately this triggered off the need to restore the building itself, so they closed in 2009 and will be closed until 2012. It makes a difference in this sense, that Musée Jenisch is no longer Cantonal or just of local interest. Regards, Kalaharih--Kalaharih (talk) 13:56, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
- You are welcome, good luck with the work. Rich Farmbrough, 12:56, 20 July 2011 (UTC).
The Signpost: 18 July 2011
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question about SmackBot
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please, what's the point for such "unreferenced marks" like this one?, for tv series episodes? what kind of references for what kind of information do you expect? thanks in advance for your next answer on this UT page 84.227.9.175 (talk) 07:18, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
- Try , for example,
- http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/seinfeld/episode_guide/?sl=episode_search
- Alternatively you could try any of the dozens of books on the subject.
Also there is no reason that the work itself cannot be cited. Rich Farmbrough, 10:58, 19 July 2011 (UTC).
Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Futura Records albums
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Category:Futura Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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☯ 23:37, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Monthly CfD categories
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Please note the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 August 4#Category:Categories for discussion by month. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:54, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
List of tephra layers
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Hi!
Thanks for the The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. You may improve this article, discuss the issue on the talk page, or create a new article, as appropriate. (Learn how and when to remove this message) message left by your User:Helpful Pixie Bot. The bot writes of 'first world'. This is a concept I am unfamiliar with. Is the bot referring to fairly recent time near the present geologically, a United States point of reference, or something else. The List of tephra layers is a relatively recent article creation that I will be expanding to go further into the past where there are radioactivity dates available and more around the world for extensive coverage, also where radioactivity dates exist. Is this what the bot is asking for, or is there something else?
I clicked on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias link, but did not find it helpful. A first impression is that the worldwide view being asked for is arealistic or unrealistic, but I may not be understanding. Marshallsumter (talk) 22:44, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Marshall, Rich's bot did not place the tag on the article, it only dated it. It was Dentren (talk · contribs) who placed the tag, so you would probably be best served to take the issue up with him. Best, Jenks24 (talk) 10:16, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Please comment
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Please comment again at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(article_message_boxes)#Categories. I have updated my answer considerably. It is unfortunate that discussion in that whole large section which discussed so many important additions to the template was restricted to two people mainly. Debresser (talk) 13:28, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Very impressed by your helpful pixie bot
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So I took to adding a date to tags to stop the smackbot from adding more edits and mucking up "(top)" markings in edit histories. So you brought in a "helpful pixie bot" that is clearly entirely helpful and undeniable relevant by... adding edits to ensure capitalisation of the date tag.
I'm impressed. In fact I'm so impressed that I will no longer add any date or other tags and let the bleeding bots sort out the mess. What, no quad-tilde-sig? No, some bot will do it for me. Might as well use that "service" since if I do it myself some hitherto unbeknownst to me other bot will find fault with what I do anyway.
One for your quotes file: "The question is, which is to be master — that's all." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.159.106.88 (talk) 15:41, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
- Answered on user talkpage. Although this might be a registered user editing without logging in. Debresser (talk) 20:02, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Boulevard Records
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== Proposed deletion of Boulevard Records ==
The article Boulevard Records has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Carrying out the Dab-CU that has been requested would render the Dab page subject to Speedy deletion via ((Db-disambig)). As to such CU & Speedy, the undersigned nominator
(1) will, if ((ProD)) is removed prior to deletion, defer carrying them out until the deadline set by this ProD, and
(2) if at least two WP articles disambiguated from each other by this Dab are in existence upon arrival of the deadline, will lack cause to carry out the Speedy.
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the ((proposed deletion/dated))
notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing ((proposed deletion/dated))
will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jerzy•t 05:50, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Whhaaa? That was you?! This feels like a classic ignoring by me of DTR! (Tho DTR seems to me to implicitly avoid including this mandated and non-griping template -- as it IMO should.) Perhaps it was a rescue attempt by you, and a mutual colleague not shown in the history deserves notification?
--Jerzy•t 05:50, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
- I'm confused here. There are two Boulevard Records labels (at least), and we mention both of them. It seems important that people know they are not the same company.
Looking at the template your refer to I see that it states that a dab page that does not point to other pages is a speedy candidate. How yet another class of pages got into speedy land, is a mystery. The page disambiguates the term, if it should happen to link to articles of the name that is cool too. Rich Farmbrough, 11:13, 10 August 2011 (UTC).
- OK reading {db-diambig} more carefully, it is not applicable because the page is not ed. Rich Farmbrough, 11:16, 10 August 2011 (UTC).
- Thanks for taking this time.
"Orphan" muddies the water, bcz our standard use means "page to which few or no articles link", not a collection of pointers to nowhere. In fact, "orphan" denotes an opportunity to increase an article's accessibility, and thus value, by adding links to it, not a deletable article.
What ((Db-disambig)) is about is that WP is a 'pedia, and while WP Dabs among articles, it is dictionaries and glossaries that Dab among terms. And it's about a Dab that can't lead anyone to encyclopedic info being able only to waste user's time on pursuing false promises.
Prima facie, (at least) two of the entries are not retainable, per DabRL. What optimism i was allowing for is that someone might have in mind existing red-lks, and existing WP info, for at least two of the entries.
--Jerzy•t 02:21, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
- Oh, and with only one entry left, that CSD will apply.
--Jerzy•t 02:26, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
- OK let's look at this carefully:
- With the dab page:
- Users will find a simple fact about the record label, that enables them to understand the nature of the label.
- Users will not believe (mistakenly) that the same label released for "The Chuckles" as released for "Tapps".
- Users will be able to create articles on any of the three record labels.
- Without it
- Users will find no information about any of record labels.
- Users might believe (mistakenly) that the same label released for "The Chuckles" as released for "Tapps".
- Users who to create articles on any of the three record labels might easily include wrong or misleading information.
- Rich Farmbrough, 15:12, 11 August 2011 (UTC).
- And incidentally, the dab page did follow the rules under read links:
- Unlink the entry word but still keep a blue link in the description. Red links should not be the only link in a given entry; link also to an existing article, so that a reader (as opposed to a contributing editor) will have somewhere to navigate to for additional information. The linked article should contain some meaningful information about the term.
- All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 15:16, 11 August 2011 (UTC).
- I think we've each made our respective approach clear. I'm posting a copy of this at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) for fresh input.
--Jerzy•t 03:55, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
- OK cool. Rich Farmbrough, 19:00, 12 August 2011 (UTC).
For your collection
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Reverted vandalism after 2 years. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:37, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, added. Rich Farmbrough, 20:50, 8 August 2011 (UTC).
The Signpost: 11 July 2011
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Pixiebot: wait before doing automated edits
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Hi,
When your bot adds a date to tags such as ((fact)), it breaks some of MediaWiki's binary mechanisms for indicating when a page has been modified. MediaWiki has these mechanisms so that editors can review subsequent changes. Obviously, no one will want to review the addition of a date to a meta tag, but your edit triggers MediaWiki's notifications all the same. Your bot thus causes editors to be notified about a dud edit of no interest, and since the notification mechanism is binary (page subsequently edited: 1|0), the editor then doesn't get any notification when a real edit is made to the page.
Given the job of your bot, there's no necessity for those edits to be made immediately. If your bot checked edits from 7 days ago, instead of edits made today, then it could do it's job equally well and wouldn't be interfering with Wikipedia's contributors. Or your bot could check edits as they happen, but instead of editing immediately, it could build a log of articles to revisit after seven days for whatever tweaks are necessary.
I hope I've explained the problem well. Gronky (talk) 22:24, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
- I agree. Gronky's suggestion would help to reduce the irritation when it's done with a template that doesn't even document that it has a date parameter (such as ((Use American English)), for which the date hardly matters much anyway). It would also help to work around the bug mentioned in the previous section. --Stfg (talk) 22:41, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
- I think a fix to the notification mechanism would be better, to ignore bot edits. Rich Farmbrough, 20:32, 16 July 2011 (UTC).
- An even better solution. Debresser (talk) 20:47, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
- Ok, but what do we do while waiting for the system guys to look into that? (It might take a year, or maybe it will be rejected and never happen.) Disabling Pixiebot would completely solve the problem, but Pixiebot does good work. My seven-day-delay idea solve the problem to a pretty high degree, and keeps Pixiebot active. What do you think? Gronky (talk) 23:18, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
- I have put a temporary fix in, see how it works for you. Rich Farmbrough, 14:39, 17 July 2011 (UTC).
Wikimedia Stories Project
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My name is Victor Grigas and I'm a Storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation. We're exploring new ways to explain why Wikipedia is so special and we’ve started a Wikipedia Stories Project, where we’re chronicling the inspiring stories of the Wikipedia community, especially editors and active contributors in the movement like you. I'll be traveling to Wikimania next month to collect stories for our 2011 Fundraiser. While there I'd love the chance to meet with you and hear your thoughts about Wikipedia. We’ll have a schedule of available times for you to sign up if you’re interested, but right now, we’d like to make the initial contact to gauge your interest. Please let me know by emailing me at vgrigas@wikimedia.org or responding on my talk page.
thank you,
Victor Grigas (talk) 00:00, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
- Answered on user's talk page. Rich Farmbrough, 15:07, 21 July 2011 (UTC).
- Hi!
Thank you for getting back to me so promptly! We're going to have 45 minute time slots available to us at Wikimania, so scheduling will be key. At your earliest convenience, I'd like to have a chat over the phone or over Skype to go over the topics we will discuss in the interview. After that we can schedule our time in Haifa. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
See you in Haifa!
Victor Grigas
vgrigas@wikimedia.org
Skype: victorgrigas
user:victorgrigas
User:victorgrigas, 16:07, 21 July 2011 (UTC). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vgrigas (talk • contribs)
- This attempt to meet was an epic fail. Rich Farmbrough, 15:50, 14 August 2011 (UTC).
Femtobot request
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Hi, I've got a maintenance template ((dablinks)) that adds articles to the category Category:Pages with excessive dablinks. It has a date parameter, and I'd also like to have categories such as Category:Pages with excessive dablinks from July 2011 - but don't want to have to manage the categories manually. If I did alter the template to add it to dated categories (using ((DMCA)), probably), would it be possible to have your bot create/delete the necessary dated categories? Thanks, --JaGatalk 20:08, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
- Yes it's easy enough. Rich Farmbrough, 20:11, 22 July 2011 (UTC).
- DoneRich Farmbrough, 22:26, 22 July 2011 (UTC).
- That was #100 in Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month. Debresser (talk) 10:37, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. Would you have time to please look into this issue? This IP editor, using different IP addresses, is adamantly vandalising BLP articles. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 08:58, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
- I think -
- Answered on user's talk page. Rich Farmbrough, 15:47, 14 August 2011 (UTC).
Scotland
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Rich can you add the relative maps to Category:Populated places in Sutherland and Category:Populated places in Ross and Cromarty? I'd rather not do it manually!...♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:51, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Also can you go through the mountains/volcanoes and possibly national parks of the following countries and change the pin maps in the infoboxes and add relief on the end of the pushpin countries. I've created new relief maps of Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Belarus, Lithuania, Argentina , Brazil, Chile, Honduras, and Bulgaria. We want the fabulous Template:location map Iceland relief etc to feature in such articles like this.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:49, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Oh, are you on a wikibreak or something? You've been relatively quiet of late.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:54, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Eh?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:47, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Yeah I know what you mean. Nobody thanks you for all of the good work you do and the moment you do something which they see as "controversial" or causing a minor problem they blow it into something massive, spout off negative comments at you as if you are some sort of annoying little vandal and then try to strictly control your freedom to edit and in doing so violate one of the core principles of wikipedia. You can think "well ignore the bastards" but then they start trying to threaten you with blocking or whatever if you don't listen and in doing so can cause an even bigger hash of the situation than any problem you had ever caused. I'm sure I saw you "reported" somewhere, an arb report or something or other, perhaps that's what's really bugging you. Not sure what its about but I personally think that people trying to impose bureacratic control over editors is one of the biggest issues on wikipedia at the moment. We need editors to have freedom and to work in good faith.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:05, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Well, sometimes WP:BOLD should be taken more seriously. Unfortunately the most prolific editors seem to come across opposition from time to time, I mean I was being bold and acting in good faith with my Australian template merger proposals a while back and I got a major grilling over it. Editing Djibouti roads for instance is unlikely to attract any moaning minnies but if say I mass removed nav boxes from places in some American city or Aussie county or something it would likely kick up a storm. I think its maybe because you've covered more articles on wikipedia that anybody in its history so from time to time you are undoubtedly going to to attract some unwanted attention I think by people who disagree with the edits.. Above all though its the lack of good faith and branding you as a vandal which is the most hurtful and zapping your motivation to edit. The bureacrat owes you an apology as his failure to recognise good faith edits is seriously concerning.
How are your bot coding skills from other websites? Because we could sure use your bot to create listed of British Listed buildings.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:33, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Are place names and coordinates copyrightable?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:50, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- Certainly not in the US - well to be more accurate a list isn't, provided there's no creative content. So I've Been Everywhere Man is, but the one we are talking about isn't. And I think we would be on fairly safe ground if we drive it off the EH site. They are, after all proclaiming it. Rich Farmbrough, 21:55, 8 March 2011 (UTC).
Names of places and coordinates would be fine to start with I think... I really need AWB help!!.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:00, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Have you had your AWB tools stripped or something?♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:13, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Can you do the requests when you have a moment? P.s. I'm getting a lot of city maps onto wikipedi using OSM. I could use some help at one point to set up a list of cities or something and to keep track of which maps we have and which we don't. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:38, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Well I was thinking of some sub pages of WP:Geography or something in which I can list all of the city maps we have on wikipedia, kind of like User:Nilfanion has in the commons keeping track of what he's uploaded. I think I'd start with capital cities but then branch out into say the top 20 or so cities and towns of each country. Just creating Template:Location map Libya Tripoli Old City for instance...♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:44, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Is there somebody else who can get these things done?♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:39, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Can you help or not??♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:45, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Time Records albums
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Category:Time Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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☯ 19:16, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Hubertine Heijermans
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About National papers in Switzerland, I confirm that the following on the official website are the papers considered Cantonal, in french, the German part has its own. A National newspaper does not exist. Bankrupcy or change of names mean a big change of a newspaper and it becoming smaller or more local. l'Est Vaudois and the 24 Heures in the 1970s-1990s were the biggest Swiss Cantonal newspapers. On the website 4 are not local: the article of a well-known journalist and artcritic Dominique Vollichard ( D.V.) Qui expose s'expose (24 Heures) in 1973, the one in the Delftsche Courant Galerie De Fiets, 1970. This paper was merged with the The Hague newspaper, a National Dutch paper. The Swiss Cantonal Est-Vaudois, 1994, De Saint-Triphon à Singapour. The Singapore Straits Times in 1994 about the Nancy Roach Gallery. In SIKART Zürich (ref.) I found under exhibits under exhibits search, on the name Heijermans-Tellander the last exhibit in Aubonne (near Lausanne) in 2004. Kalaharih--Kalaharih (talk) 22:25, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Image filters and categories
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I've replied at Talk:Image filter referendum/en. --213.168.119.238 (talk) 17:15, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Articles containing Sanskrit language text
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Articles with ibid
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Does anything populate Category:Articles with ibid? What is this category for, precisely? Debresser (talk) 12:20, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- If I may answer this one: Template:Ibid states: "If no date is given, articles will be added to the more general Category:Articles with ibid, until a robot adds the date." GoingBatty (talk) 16:59, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- Interesting. This template is in use, but the categories are all empty. I'll look into this tonight, and fix it. Debresser (talk) 17:06, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- It is because of a mistake Rich made in his last edit to this template. ((Ambox)) does not take a "cat-date" but does the same with "cat" and "date". He made this mistake in another template also. This template is fully protected, so if Rich or any admin could please change
|cat-date=
to just |cat=
. Debresser (talk) 17:09, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- Yes I remembered that mistake after you spotted it in the other template. BUt I am worriede there might be a third. Rich Farmbrough, 18:04, 2 August 2011 (UTC).
Jerusalem
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- Ok. Did you get my e-mail? I am Friday-Saturday (and perhaps also Sunday) in Haifa, for business of my own. But would be thrilled to meet you (and others, of course). My phone number is in that mail. Debresser (talk) 18:33, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, that would be good. I have to sort my schedule out. Rich Farmbrough, 18:49, 2 August 2011 (UTC).
- Very well. You sort it out. Then just let me know. Of course it would be nice to have an hour or so at our disposal, to sit down and have a drink somewhere. But just shaking hands and exchange a few words will also do. :) Give me a call or a text-message to let me know what and when would be convenient for you. Debresser (talk) 19:08, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, I didn't have Internet access these days. For which reason I gave my cellular number. It is mind-boggling that we actually stayed in the same hotel for three days, and didn't meet. I was there as the rabbi, accompanying a group of 40 youngsters from Russia on a tour of Israel. Debresser (talk) 10:31, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Hubertine Heijermans
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Hello Rich Farmbrough,
I hope you did read what has happened lately. But in case you did not I tell you now. At the moment I do my best to explain an unfortunate complication about the article we so much worked on. In fact I was more or less obliged to continue the work done by Paldopaldino, because of the schedules in his work as a steward. He asked me to do the last part myself. But as I always wrote as Kalaharih it was hard for me, as it started to look like an autobiography. But in reality, the main reason was that FRANCE eliminated the french article by Paldopaldino, and created a void. As I am Dutch I tried a small article in Dutch, but where I live people speak french. A few do master english, and my teachers were all Americans. Anyway, it is clear now that I am the same person as Kalaharih. And I did not know that the young man that helped me and for instance created the official website, made wikipedia mistakes with the copyrights, as he send messages saying the source was his own. That is why nobody believes, I am not 2 persons. I am old, and the website was a gesture of thanks for all my life's work from the Commune Ollon. One can find on Internet Ollon the same site they offered me. I have not the money to create a beautiful site like that. I just write this that it all was due to circumstances, that made that this young man, who has the job of flying in airplanes, was all the time absent and could not cope with the work since end of april, and he was afraid I would have problems if I wrote about myself. Therefore I had little choice, I would only like to do my best to reassure people like you that the article was done in an honest way. And I hope the work was not done for nothing as there is no intention of me nor Paldopaldino of publicity. The french article was already in short what the content was of a book written and edited by Mr. Pierre Alain Genillard in 2009, which he interviewed me for during 2008. This book is in fact at the origine of the official website (in french and in english). With greetings Kalaharih--Kalaharih (talk) 12:27, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
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Country houses
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Hi Rich. Rosie recently created Category:Country houses in the United Kingdom and Category:Country houses in England and Category:Manor houses in the United Kingdom. What I need is to merge manor houses into country houses category and then for you to go through the sub cats in Category:Houses in England, Wales , Scotland and N. Ireland by county and add this country house category. You'll find the vast majority will indeed be country houses so you can simply categorize them all. What I want is this category eventually to hold all country houses in England, and then the same with Wales, Scotland etc. Some time I will create a List of country houses in England which will attempt to list all country houses, manors, halls, stately homes etc and can route out the missing articles. But if you could fill this new category with anything which ends in Hall , Manor or House this would be of great help.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:23, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
- Hm, merging is a matter for CfD, I confess to finding this categorisation confusing and unclear - in real world terms as well as WP terms. For example Grovelands House was a country house when it was built, but would not be described as such today. Manor houses would be fairly well defined, although I suspect there would be some Foo Manors that are not manorial houses. Denbiegh Hall is (or was) a fairly modest residence, would we still classify it as a hall? Rich Farmbrough, some time in July 2011 (UTC).
Small question
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Which template adds Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories with missing months? Debresser (talk) 10:25, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
- Ok, found it. Template:DeletedMonths/month. Debresser (talk) 10:27, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
- I asked, because I found Template:WMCSBM1 and a few other templates in that category. Finding a template in a category of categories was what led me to think that perhaps you should add something like
((#ifeq:((NAMESPACE))|Category|etc.))
to the code of Template:DeletedMonths/month. Debresser (talk) 12:37, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
- I made the change I proposed, and the templates are gone. So that part seems to have worked. I hope there are no other aversive effects? Debresser (talk) 12:45, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
- Looks good. Rich Farmbrough, 08:09, 22 August 2011 (UTC).
Some maintenance
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At the moment ((Monthly maintenance category)) is, as you call it, a near-synonym to ((Monthly clean-up category)). I found 15 monthly categories using it. All these 15 categories were "Use" categories (like Use dmy dates, or Use Indian English). I agree that these are maintenance categories, rather than clean-up categories. Nevertheless I think that when the time comes to use ((Monthly maintenance category)), that should be done uniformly to all monthly categories of a parent category and in all relevant parent categories. Since the 15 I found are clearly a very tiny minority, and even in their own parent categories the usage of ((Monthly maintenance category)) wasn't uniformly, I have replaced these instances by ((Monthly clean-up category)).
With an eye on the future, I'd like to point out that when this time comes, I could image that there might be some parent categories of arguable status, I mean, whether they are just general maintenance categories, or specifically clean-up categories. In any case I'd appreciate it if you'd inform me of such a decision.
I have rephrased your "near-synonym" phrase in a way which I think is more correct. I hope you don't mind. Debresser (talk) 12:36, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
- I used that phrase because it is user documentation. It would still apply whether the template was called or the core part was called or a clone template was made. It doesn't greatly matter. Rich Farmbrough, 11:13, 26 July 2011 (UTC).
Rich, either you or your bot placed an Inline Citation and an NPOV tag on this page. The page has citations for most everything there. The NPOV issues were from 2007. But the page has been heavily edited, especially since the subject's death, and it's arrived at a consensus that there are no longer any NPOV issues to it. The recent mention of NPOV in the talk page was concerning a user's comment, not the page itself. I left a note there asking if anyone saw reason for the tags to remain and there have been no responses. If you have a specific reasoning, let me know and we'll try to address it. Otherwise I'll remove the tags soon. If it was the bot's misreading, then please disregard. MichaelNetzer (talk) 11:09, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
- Hi, it's User:Rms125a@hotmail.com that placed the tags, the bot mere;ly dated them. regards, Rich Farmbrough, 13:09, 4 August 2011 (UTC).
- Much appreciated and best wishes. MichaelNetzer (talk) 13:42, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
The article Henry Manners Chichester has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Fails GNG
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Template:Use British English progress
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I might have done something wrong when I copied over the template for this. I just noticed the total is zero although many months are not. Your help to sort this out would be appreciated. Regards,
--Ohconfucius ¡digame! 04:03, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
- The problem was a previous edit by User:Mclay1, with whom I have an ax to grind btw. Undid part of his edit, and all is fine now. You might want to point him to his mistake. Thanks for the catch. Debresser (talk) 07:40, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
About prose
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Hello, I help out with the Moxie Girlz article. I am still new to Wikipedia in terms of editing. I don't understand the two templates that were added at the top of the page.
When it comes to reference the only one missing is the direct designer... it is assumed to be the owner of MGA. Unicogirl (talk) 16:38, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- Probably worth discussing this with User:DreamGuy who added the templates. The part about prose is to some extent a matter of taste, but a little more prose is generally a god thing. Certainly some parts are unexplained. What is the "Message"? Is it on every Moxie Girlz box? In some Moxie Girlz comic? etc. Why is there a dictionary definition? If you have never seen Moxie Girlz some of these things need context.
- As to references, well, add what you can. For example there's talk of a lawsuit by Mattel (I think it was), certainly I would expect to see a reference there.
- All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 17:17, 16 August 2011 (UTC).
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A tag has been placed on John Shipp (soldier) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, individual animal(s), an organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject of the article is important or significant: that is, why an article about it should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.
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See the guidelines for specific types of articles: biographies, websites, bands, or companies. TomStar81 (Talk) 19:38, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
- At the time I judged the article to be outside the scope of what milhist considers a notable soldier, so I put the article up for deletion on csd-a7 grounds. As a rule, I tag for csd quickly with bio articles but with everything else I am usually more cautious. Why do you ask? 75.31.187.242 (talk) 04:22, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
- I did check his notability, and he failed all nine points of milhist 's personnel notability guidelines. The only reason I have not yet nominated the soldier for deletion is because I am waiting for the article to shape up some so that I can claim in good faith that the current article's composition is as good as its going to get. TomStar81 (Talk) 20:49, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
count discrepancies
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Rich, I have just realised that there are inconsistencies at Category:Use dmy dates. If we look at the subtotals generated by ((Use dmy dates progress)), some of the numbers don't match their respective month sub-categories. There are small differences for most months, but the difference is particularly large (some 250+ articles) for August 2011. This is all a bit confusing. What could be the reason? --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 09:00, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
- I refreshed it, and it's OK now. It seems that merely clearing the browser cache doesn't do the trick. --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 09:04, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, it has to be re-rendered at the server side I suppose. Rich Farmbrough, 14:00, 27 August 2011 (UTC).
I have a question about bots.
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Rich, this is probably a dumb question, but how do bots work? Are they autonomous? Are they AI? Your bot found a tag I'd put up on an article and then edited the article to add a date to the tag, all within a couple of minutes. And in all probability you were not even aware it was doing it. How? Is there any Idiot's Guide to Bots out there? Any Bot Programming Guide? Thanks. Trilobitealive (talk) 04:08, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
- They are generally autonomous to some extent. For example my bot monitors certain categories, and fixes up the articles in them, if it succeeds the article will no longer be in the category. Other bots monitor Special:Recent changes which is available over IRC, or are run daily or weekly by their owners, or on request. The main classes of bots are ones based on WP:AWB (which is a quick way of getting some task up and running), pywikipedia bots, based on a Python framework, and stand-alone bots which generally seem to be Perl or Python. Most bots use the WP:API for a lot of their work. Most bots wouldn't be classed as AI by most people, I'm not so sure however. There are guides to AWB, Pywikipedia, and the API, also some bot code is published (Anomie's Perl code is, for example, and is high quality code) as are the source for pywikipedia and AWB. Rich Farmbrough, 14:11, 27 August 2011 (UTC).
- Thanks, Rich. Reading WP:AWB and WP:API will keep me busy for a while.Trilobitealive (talk) 14:52, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Reverse6
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On links by user "Patriotledger" and subsequent items
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Hi Rich. Albeit a seeming post mortem, might you have a look at this and proffer an opinion?: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Contributions_by_User:Jm1106_redux. Best Wishes. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 20:14, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, Rich, for having a look. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 21:47, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Albany (town), Wisconsin (disambiguation) listed at Redirects for discussion
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Albany (town), Wisconsin (disambiguation). Since you had some involvement with the Albany (town), Wisconsin (disambiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). –Drilnoth (T/C) 22:18, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Bot edit summaries
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I took a look at some of your bots (I'm thinking HelpfulPixieBot) and it seems to me that its edit summaries could be vastly improved. See Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#General notice to bot owners about edit summaries for suggestions. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:21, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
- I already commented there. Rich Farmbrough, 20:25, 21 August 2011 (UTC).
bot speed
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can you slow down the bot to some 15 mins from last edit as we edit conflict a lot.?
ps- what happened to smackbot?(Lihaas (talk) 14:47, 30 July 2011 (UTC)).
- Done. Various people thought the name might be construed as unfriendly. And indeed, maybe even regulars read overtones into it what was merely a whimsical name. Rich Farmbrough, 01:14, 31 July 2011 (UTC).
Input appreciated
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Hello Rich, I'd appreciate your input on Apple Inc. litigation. There have been some differences there with a couple of reverted edits quite recently, and before hard feelings arise, it would be helpful to have another pair of eyes and viewpoint. Thanks in advance. Sctechlaw (talk) 17:34, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks much, and it looks as if another IP identified the problem as a sockpuppet. Sctechlaw (talk) 20:48, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Helpful Pixie Bot II
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Hi Rich. Is the Pixie the one who used to smack? Anyway, re this edit - any chance of modifying so that if the ((citation needed))
has a positional parameter, and that parameter contains a valid date (in this case "July 2011"), it could be replaced by the |date=
parameter? --Redrose64 (talk) 15:58, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
- Yes this is an old request which I have previously turned down for sound reasons, but I am happy to rethink this. Rich Farmbrough, 20:28, 16 July 2011 (UTC).
- Re-requested so archive this one... Rich Farmbrough, 22:46, 29 August 2011 (UTC).
Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Monthly clean up category (Merge by month) counter
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Category:Monthly clean up category (Merge by month) counter, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 04:03, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
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Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy
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Hello,
I have recommended this article for resolution. All I want is a fair representation of the information from both sides. The talk page shows a history of frustration with accomplishing this. I think it is time it gets done.
Nutritiondr (talk) 02:14, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
- Looks like this is being taken care of. Rich Farmbrough, 10:58, 30 August 2011 (UTC).
Hi! I was wondering, couldn't you put an other "stick"/note (don't know how it's called) for the article about Lenny Kravitz's song because you wrote it doesn't cite any source at all but it actually has two references and because there isn't yet much written I think it's a bit exaggerated. So does a note like "this article doesn't have enough sources please help improve" exist? Sofffie7 (talk) 19:27, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
- I changed it to "refimprove" - that previous tag was added by User:Richhoncho here, not by me. Rich Farmbrough, 23:44, 13 August 2011 (UTC).
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Please see Template_talk:Afd-merge_from#Category_problem, where a problem with categorising has been detected. Debresser (talk) 15:33, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
- I think you missed the point. The talkpage asks for input in the ddmmyyyy format, which DMC can't handle. Debresser (talk) 16:12, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rich Farmbrough, you showed interest in the topic of image filters, also on de.wikipedia and participated on de:Wikipedia Diskussion:Meinungsbilder/Einführung persönlicher Bildfilter; so you may also have a look at the attempted (with support of translate.google and dictionaries) translation de:Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Einführung persönlicher Bildfilter/en (and feel free to correct any errors of language, content and style), greetings --Schwalker (talk) 10:42, 29 August 2011 (UTC) (de:User:Rosenkohl)
- Thanks I have done a little tweaking. Rich Farmbrough, 13:08, 30 August 2011 (UTC).
Per your template on Death of Caylee Anthony article
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As to your template and suggestion here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death_of_Caylee_Anthony&action=edit§ion=6
What exactly more do you think should be mentioned about the Defense team? I ask because the article is getting very long-in-the-tooth and just plain long, and looking at other trial articles, David Westerfield murder trial, OJ Simpson murder trial, Susan Smith murder trial and Andrea Yates murder trial I do not see much of a mention specifically about the Defense Team. Perhaps I am misunderstand your observation? I would be happy to comply. Mugginsx (talk) 20:22, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
- You need to talk to User:Carolmooredc who added the template here. The pixies simply dated it. Rich Farmbrough, 20:30, 31 July 2011 (UTC).
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Just a question about the maintenance categories that FemtoBot automatically creates each month: I've noticed that the bot is frequently forced to recreate old, long-deleted monthly categories in the Category:Category needed queue, because an article got reverted to an old version for one reason or another and resulted in the old category being temporarily repopulated again. I'm just putting this forward as an idea for discussion, and am certainly not wedded to it — but just to keep things simpler for everyone, I wonder what you would think about the feasibility and/or desirability of recoding the bot so that when it encounters a repopulated old maintenance category, it would retag the article to the current month instead of recreating the old one? Bearcat (talk) 04:00, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
- That is certainly a possibility. However the re-creation does certainly flag up that a problem has occurred, I have been intending to recode to add the name of the page causing the re-creation. The other thing that would be nice would be if an admin-bot deleted the empty cats.Rich Farmbrough, 06:02, 5 August 2011 (UTC).
Indentured Servant
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Hello, and thank you for your interest in WP. I think you added a POV tag to the Indentured servant page. It is dated July 2011. The matter may have been satisfactorily addressed by interval modifications. As far as I can tell the major themes addressed on the talk page have reached resolution. Your further thoughts are accordingly solicited.FeatherPluma (talk) 00:30, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
- Here is where the tag was added, by an IP. The bot merely dates the tags. lookslike you have been worknig hard on the page, if you think the issues are addressed, then remove the tag. All the best. Rich Farmbrough, 00:56, 29 August 2011 (UTC).
Problem with image deletions
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I think there were some problems with some Commons images you deleted here that have different names on Commons - for example, File:SecJnShrmn.jpg. I just saw it was removed from John Sherman (Ohio) without being replaced. I know there were a bunch of other images I just reviewed with different names on Commons - I usually wait for User:OgreBot to do the automated replacements prior to local deletion. Kelly hi! 16:28, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
- Ah yes, Silly of me. I did the Ehrhardt one correctly, so I should have checked the rest, foolishly I took the "reviewed by" as meaning more than it does. I'll review them, thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 19:22, 31 August 2011 (UTC).
User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2011 September
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Cite error: There are <ref group=US State>
tags on this page, but the references will not show without a ((reflist|group=US State))
template (see the help page).