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I have found numerous instances where the coordinates provided by the bot miss the intended target. Many of these are years old, so I am not too worried, but I am wondering if any steps have been taken recently to improve the bot's performance? Abductive (reasoning) 23:44, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
In the spirit of kaizen, I agree with your suggestion that we should consider checking against other sources, probably on the basis of large-scale cross-correlation of sources. OSM is the obvious one, as it's both public and accurate, but there are several concerns with this, including license incompatibility, the problem of matching OSM entries to Wikipedia articles, and the instability of OSM identifiers. Given the license incompatibility, I think the best thing that could be done would be to use an automated process to flag some subset of Wikipedia ((coord)) tags as possibly incorrect, and then let the wiki process take over from there. There is an ongoing effort to add Wikidata identifiers to OSM, and that's probably the most promising avenue to explore for future work. -- The Anome (talk) 08:34, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
reading Labirut... removing ((coord missing)) tag... writing... ((coord|40|03|N|64|32|E|display=title|region:UZ_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki)) written, which is the correct rounding for the value you give above. -- The Anome (talk) 09:19, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
I have a longer-term strategy to make everything nicer again, as follows: we cannot use the data from OSM directly, because of the OSM license, but we can use it as a source of facts to cross-check the GNS data. What we could do would be to cross-correlate the Wikipedia and matching GNS data with the OSM data (using a combination of name, feature type and proximity to establish unambiguous correspondence), and if OSM confirms that the GNS data is sufficiently accurate, use the full-resolution GNS data instead of the rounded data. I could then run a big batch job using my bot to replace the lower-resolution coordinates with the better ones. (Also, if the OSM data shows the current coordinates are really badly off, the coordinates on Wikipedia could also be flagged as questionable, to help other editors improve them.)
Addendum: my reasoning behind my approach on this follows G. K. Chesterton's maxim "Anything [sufficiently] worth doing is worth doing [even somewhat] badly". That is to say, even poor-but-reasonable quality data is better than no data, provided that it does not give the impression of being anything else. It can then be used to a base on which to build improvements, which is very much the Wikipedia way. This contrasts with the OSM approach of "only the best is good enough", which is the other reasonable approach. Both are useful, and while mutually incompatible within a single project, they are both ways to advance the larger goal of growing and improving the overall information commons. -- The Anome (talk) 14:05, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
@Abductive: Don't worry, I'm on it. I'm just taking a long view on this: I've been running the bot since 2006, at a time when Wikipedia had almost no coordinates on it, and we've now reached the point where, almost a million bot edits later, and in a collaborative process across the entire editing community, we've now reached roughly 90% coverage of all potentially-geocodeable articles. Of those bot-added coordinates, about 14,000 were sourced from GNIS (which is good quality public domain dd/mm/ss data), about 90,000 from GNS, and 100,000 from interwiki links within Wikipedia, with most of the other bot edits being the addition of ((coord missing)). At the same time, we have over a million geocoded pages, the majority of which were not geocoded by my bot, but by the community.
Quality improvement is just one part of that process, and one I take an incremental, collaborative view on. If there is poor-resolution data, or people are getting things wrong, we can help them get things right. What might help is a tracking category to let people find GNS-sourced coordinates for future improvement. Another possibility might be a more generic system to flag geodata for smaller features (villages, buildings, monuments etc.) that have only DDMM data: I'll look into it. -- The Anome (talk) 18:39, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, I need some advice here. This page had undergone an Afd whereby the result was Delete. I think the subject of the article is still not notable for an article. Should I tag it for CSD or put it up again at Afd. Thanks Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 09:20, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
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20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
I came across your proactive contribution to Internalized sexism. I have recently started a new article @ Draft:Sexual politics and I am looking for some proactive support in updating and expansion of the article. Please do help in update and expansion if topic Draft:Sexual politics would interest you.
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Im undoing ur vandalism reverts to my editrs to Exclusive economic zone of India. Remember you must justify reverts, cite the policy violation to support your justification, prove intention to collaborate iteratively by offering sugegstion. blind reverts without justification and without informing the other editor is pure vandalism. You could be banned. Refain from such outright vandalism. Respect all editors, including IPs. Thanks. 58.182.176.169 (talk) 13:12, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
((coord missing|India))
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I've relaunched The Russia report off your redirect. Great work on the ISC article. No Swan So Fine (talk) 09:41, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
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Please see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_August_4#Former_subdivisions_in_D._R._Congo. – Fayenatic London 10:05, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello, The Anome. When you changed Computed tomography from a redirect into a disambiguation page, you may not have been aware of WP:FIXDABLINKS, which says:
It would be a great help if you would check the other Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Computed tomography" and fix them to take readers to the correct article. Thanks. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 00:44, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Say, I'm think that we should merge your article "Illusory pattern perception" into the Apophenia article, and make Illusory pattern perception a redirect. Sound reasonable? Skepticalgiraffe (talk) 13:20, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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20:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
vandalize a content page for rickr0ll = bad
make an discussion on a joke talk page and rickr0ll someone = not bad.
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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Cultural references in Pokemon. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 27#Cultural references in Pokemon until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 18:29, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
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Amenorrhea is absence of menses during the reproductive year's Can you please tell me what's wrong in this statement? I will appreciate your answer 🤓 AEMA2050 (talk) 19:50, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
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Category:COVID-19 denialism has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. 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. ~EdGl talk 21:08, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
Okay thank you, I'll continue to do further research. Thanks for your interest in the article topic, and my attempts to expand and improve the page, most appreciated, Right cite (talk) 13:31, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
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Hey Anome, no issue with your editing and obviously thanks for taking to the talk page but I left an alert on the other two user's talk pages, so in the interests of equity. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:52, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
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The lat/lon of Barry, Missouri town center is 39°14'47.9"N 94°36'07.9"W. I don't know how to add those to the article. 15:01, 21 November 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.82.165.112 (talk)
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Template:London bus and coach stations has been nominated for merging with Template:London bus, BRT and coach stations. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Hi, I noted recently that Template:London bus and coach stations which you created is almost identical to the newer Template:London bus, BRT and coach stations. As they are so similar, following advise at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London Transport I have suggested that they be merged into a single template. Dunarc (talk) 21:37, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
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21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi The Anome, regarding your edit at “West Bank Bantustans”, there is currently an active RFC on the talk page specifically requesting comments about the title. Your edit was reverted for that reason, but please feel free to contribute at the RFC on the talk page. Drsmoo (talk) 16:21, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hallo, your Anomebot2 is mildly malfunctioning: in this edit it added ((Coord missing)), appropriately, but in an inappropriate place: in the middle of the ((Cite web)) being used as an External link. A human editor checking their work would have noticed the red error message " line feed character in |journal= at position 170" it produced, but a bot is a bot and left to run unchecked, I suppose - thus all the more important to make sure that it behaves itself correctly. I've moved the Coords template to the right place, and refined the geog parameter (though as Kent wasn't mentioned in the categories I don't blame the bot for not using it!). Happy Editing. PamD 19:11, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hi. I get that the username name was based on a surname, but their sole edit summary seemed promotional. I forgot to write that. Does that change anything? Sorry, I am a bit new to UAA. Thanks. Scorpions13256 (talk) 13:26, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
I don't understand this block at all. This is a username violation how? --Bongwarrior (talk) 07:24, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Greetings,
Since I stumbled upon related sources I initiated an article draft Draft:Irrational beliefs. It seems you have earlier worked on article Irrationality. I would like to request your inputs plus some help in article expansion. Please do visit the draft, and help expand if feel interested in the topic.
Thanks and warm regards
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@The Anome:, I was expecting this question, which is as much in my own mind, and that is one of the reason to approached you to know your point of views. In fact approaching few other users has opened discussion @ Draft talk:Irrational beliefs#Related Articles.
Let me share my perception (/my original research); IMO Irrationality is a broader topic, Where in 'irrational thinking' is part of it; Irrational belief is 'self accepted or trusted thought with no or dubious rational' (here along with contesting of rational, emphasis is on 'self acknowledgement of some level of acceptance and or trust in given thought/thinking by some/one).
Cognitive distortion and Fallacy study irrationality in systematic manner.
Irrational beliefs when followed by more than one person over a period of time like a tradition need be called Superstition.
Now all of my own rambling above amounts to original research, If any one get to WP:link term 'Irrational beliefs' to any of articles like Cognitive distortion,Fallacy, Irrationality or Superstition all 'believing' Wikipedians will be asking vociferously for Reliable sources approachable to Wikipedia rules.
Until we work on Irrational beliefs, Which and how many Wikipedia acceptable reliable sources and scholars link Irrational beliefs to which concepts directly will remain unclear. So that is why my own take while starting the draft has been to do encyclopedic research and write let the draft wherever it goes and let Wikipedia community decide what to do with it in due course whether to maintain it independent or merge some where; in any case related Wikipedia article topics will improve is important for us.
I can not be sure on my own that, my above opinions are in right direction and hence would like to know your point of view and how we can improve coverage of the topic at hand.
Thanks and warm regards
Bookku (talk) 04:10, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hello you created the subject article 18 years ago. I genuinely appreciate it. I am always interested in topics related to textile history. It is one of the gems. I have made few edits on the same; kindly see and advise. RV (talk) 04:58, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
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I noticed that you moved the village page and created a disambiguation page. You have opened a can of worms as this move was controversial. It goes against a state naming convention of about 15 years. The political subdivisions of Wisconsin are unusual. There are hundreds of villages and cities in Wisconsin. The rural area outside of these municipalities are called towns. MANY towns have the same name as the municipalities but are 100% politically independent. Towns are 6 mile by 6 mile land masses but exclude area in municipalities. The consensus in the naming convention is to give the municipality the primary topic with a hatnote to the unrelated town. In some instances, there are towns with the same name in multiple counties too! Then a disambiguation page was created. The issue that you inadvertently stepped into comes up several times every year by unsuspecting edits [125]. Royalbroil 15:10, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
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Can something please be done about the vandals on Something for Everybody (Devo album) ASAP? CLCStudent (talk) 14:26, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
Can *Between gum and tooth be blocked as soon as possible? The account is evading the block of globally locked user Reaper EternaI [129]. Please check their contribs. --Ashleyyoursmile! 09:20, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, I happen to be building a table at Paleontology in South Dakota#Protected areas and creating a lot of redirects from NRHP list-articles over to rows in the table, e.g. Archeological Site 39FA86 for one in Fall River County, South Dakota, in the Black Hills. I notice in "what links here" for several of these your userpage User:The Anome/NHRP detaggables, indicating you have some interest? I think I am doing okay developing a little bit from one big South Dakota state report, but comments/suggestions/participation in development would be welcomed by me!--Doncram (talk) 04:15, 24 February 2021 (UTC)