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Hi, Rich! A couple years ago you did a bot run for me to fix Russian Census references. I was wondering if you'd be able to complete a similar but a little bit more challenging task this time.
Currently, we have 2002 and 1989 Census figures in the majority of articles about Russian inhabited localities and administrative divisions. Typically, they are formatted as follows:
This seems to work fine, but note how none of the population figures quoted is referenced. To fix that, I developed a template ({{ ru-census}}), which pretty much leaves the formatting alone but adds the references. The example above, for example, would look like this:
Would it be possible to run the bot replacing the plain formatting with the template instances? Two pesky things to keep in mind are that the population sentence may list more than just the two Censuses (but the template allows for custom punctuation), and that the article should have a "References" section for the actual references to show up (and, of course, there may or may not already be the "References" section in articles being processed by the bot). Is this something your bot can do? If you have any alternative ideas, I'll gladly hear them out. The template is not yet widely deployed, so it can easily be tweaked if necessary. Thanks!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 20:35, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
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Hello Rich. New namespaces for URLs and ISBNs are being discussed at this thread on the Village Pump. What will they think of next! EdJohnston ( talk) 14:00, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
As a reply to User talk:JTragardh#Merge templates): I tried to use the subst:date-template but it seems like it didn't work as I anticipated. The article Oresund Bridge is now corrected. Thanks. JTragardh ( talk) 20:08, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi. You left me this note on my talk page:
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Do you mean please continue to leave or please do NOT leave more notes? (These were my first reports on SmackBot.)
I'm not familiar with how the Bot stopping works. Does leaving a note automatically stop the Bot, or does it notify you and you stop Bot? What initiates a restart of the Bot?
(I do appreciate the automated cleanup work being done, and the easy way to report problems. Thanks.) — ERcheck ( talk) 20:10, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
I've asked this before but didn't seem to get a response, so I'll ask again. Why does Smackbot change Reference to References (and External link to External Links) when there is only one reference? (or external link) Andrew nixon ( talk) 21:27, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up my Reader edits. Can you maybe explain why the link to Jim Holman has been deleted? It was part of the Reader article. nnplt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Unionpilot ( talk • contribs) 10:52, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, List of places in Bionicle, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places in Bionicle. Thank you. BJBot ( talk) 16:08, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich - A suggestion for SmackBot: I don't think it should change anything inside an HTML comment (as it did here). - SCEhard T 16:42, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Your SmackBot made a bad edit, see here. It somehow removed the braces from the DEFAULTSORT tag. I haven't found any other instances of that problem, though. -- fschoenm ( talk) 11:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
I've just reverted and reapplied an edit that Smackbot made when dating a {{ fact}} template transclusion on the article Marcus Hahnemann because it also removed duplicate instances of the {{ 0}} template when they're made consecutively. The template is used to align appearance figures, and so it's valid to have more than one next to each other. Could you amend the bot so that it doesn't remove such duplicates in future? Thanks! robwingfield « T• C» 17:54, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi thanks for the info. It took me ten minutes to find a tag i needed and all the ones before said you should subst. New to the game and sorry if it meant more work. If wikipedia was a bit more "user friendly" to new editors who think they know what they want but can't find it and want to help that would be better. thanks though for taking you time Bpeps ( talk) 18:39, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Just a quick reminder to reply at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Creating_a_template when/if you're back and have time. :-) -- Ddxc ( talk) 00:06, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed you expressed interest in the Birmingham meetup last October. Just letting you know, another UK meetup is in planning stages, here. We need input on where and when we will meet so comments would be much appreciated. Thanks. Majorly ( talk) 16:50, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Would you mind joining in on the discussion at Talk:Branches_of_Wing_Chun? We are in need of more comments... specifically on the Pruning of Lineages. Thanks. 68.5.147.32 ( talk) 06:05, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
While using AWB, you may want to consider turning off the "Show :'Using AWB' " check box. Dreamafter ⇔ 23:51, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
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Rich, I wanted to thank you for being so thorough in your examination of my AWB changes in regards to the interlanguage links, as well as being assiduous enough to go back and put things right on your own. Thanks for helping make Wikipedia a better place! Alekjds talk 16:05, 6 January 2008 (UTC) |
Hi Rich. Whats your view on the split of List of museums in the United States by state? Personally I think they are quite easily listed on one page and some of the ne wlists such as List of museums in Delaware are redundant. What do you think? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ Talk? 15:49, 7 January 2008 (UTC) Also why do many of the new pages still have the contents header for the other states -it makesit pretty awkward ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ Talk? 15:51, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
I'd back the state split if they were developed into more encyclopedic lists. E.g tables with details -e.g columns on Image -image of the museum, Location -e.g town etc, Founded -date it opened Focus -e.g what is specializes in and Summary a summary of the museum. What do you think? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ Talk? 15:58, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
How about something like this and have a table with them in like this?
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♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ Talk? 16:10, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
etc etc
Of course it would take time but the lists would be far more useful presented this way eventually. Obviously pages like List of museums in Delaware could be done in minutes unlike List of museums in Oklahoma which would take weeks!! I;m afraid I;m too tied at present to think about formatting it. Ah I saw your name in the editing history so thought you were also active with it. Anyway hope you are well. I;m currently trying to sort out the lack of coverage on south-east Asian articles such as Cambodia where entire provinces of hundreds of thousands are still one liners. I spent a good part of yesterday discussing the problem of systematic bias with Jimbo Wales and the others! Let me know if you interested in helping -I;d imagine you;re pretty tied at present but it would be great to have somebody other tha myself working on it. Regards ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ Talk? 16:29, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Well it would be relatively straightforward to put the titles of the museums into the tables for now. Data can then be filled in gradually and by several different people. This could be done within minutes for each state ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ Talk? 16:46, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
There we go like List of museums in Alabama. I've got shot of that huge big index with the unnecessary map and have made a more normal looking Template:Museums in the US for the articles. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ Talk? 18:17, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Which do you think is the best way to format the articles. Like List of museums in Alabama or List of museums in Kentucky. Personally I think that map navigation plate and symbol box is unnecessary. COuld you give some thoughts on the talk page of the US museum page. I;ve got to go now ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ Talk? 19:11, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
I see that you removed the 'Citation notice' from List of haunted locations. That page has required constant reverts because of editors not citing sources. It has not been quite as bad with the notice, but more often than not, when an entry is listed it must be removed for lack of a citation. With folklore of this type, one can manufacture the haunting legend quite easily. This is why the notice was there. I feel this is a very big mistake. Without this notice the list should probably be deleted as it becomes a farce and unmanageable. I would like to know your thoughts on this matter. Thanks, -- Historian 1000 ( talk) 18:33, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Your bot seems to have made an error here: [2]. It added a $2 at the end of {{ cleanup-afd}}, changing it to the nonexistent {{ Cleanup-afd$2}}. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:11, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
[3] -- NE2 11:09, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
ABSD-7
The post says it was at Mare Island until 1946! What time it spent at the Marshall Islands, Eniwetok? Maybe, I have the wrong Auxilary boat but my Dad was in the Navy from 1944-1946 and was on board ABSD-7 Sec. 52 and was at the Marshall Islands!
Is this the same ABSD-7? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.77.197.175 ( talk) 21:29, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
You need to get a life. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.207.90.183 ( talk) 03:10, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Another editor has added the "{{ prod}}" template to the article Saint Johns Park West, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{ prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot ( talk) 02:14, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, as one of the editors of Bombing of Dresden in World War II, would you mind commenting here about a possible name change? There is a proposal to call the article simply Bombing of Dresden. Cheers, SlimVirgin (talk) (contribs) 14:45, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
I hope this was ok. You were the only contributor to date, so I thought I'd better notify you. Dorf klatsch 13:59, January 10, 2008
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Rich Farmbrough, 14:23 11 January 2008 (GMT).
I request the deletion of the article of Ibraham Ahmed after this Doonhamer use his user and edit my article without any reason trying to affect the reputation of Ibraham Ahmed. Aparently me and this guy were in a forum discussing about the organization of Ibraham Ahmed and he get mad and came and edit my article. When I see that I get mad because using his user of wiki he edit the article and wiki permit this. Then, I fight back and try to edit the article from the forum that we were talking know like bullshido.net ( I'm guilty of this ) but for my surprise the article of bullshido I can't edit using my wiki user. But he could do it in my article of Ibraham Ahmed. Well, I decide to erase all parts of my articles that can affect my reputation and the reputation of Ibraham Ahmed from user like this using their powers of writing. I will not longer work in wiki for this reason, please continue erasing all the deletions that I have made. —Preceding unsigned comment added by WMACPR ( talk • contribs) 18:51, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
This guy intend to vandalims my article of Ibraham Ahmed and put personal words to it to damage their reputation. He is not cualified in the article of Ibraham Ahmed to talk about it, even he do not knows him, he used his wiki user login to do it see the history of the document.
XXX Entire text of some version of the article removed RF. XXX
Thats why I requets the inmediatly deletion from wikipedia.-- WMACPR ( talk) 19:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
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About the acusation of non-notable person of Taekwondo, any KMA expert person in the matter knows that a person that holds a rank of 7th Dan of higher tru an International Federation like the International Taekwondo Federation or like the World Taekwondo Federation it is notable because in a numbers of almost 10 millions of taekwondo practitioners world-wide they have achive a rank that aproximadly maybe just 300 people holds thru this organizations. If you do the numbers the porcentage of people that make this effort to get there are just a few. Thats is why the International Federation give to them the honor of hold the title of Grand Masters. This persons have to dedicate more than 30 years of their life to get to this achievement and have to prove to the International Federation that they have contribute to the grow and expantion of the Taekwondo to get there.
It is this not notable in Taekwondo, then what it is? When I see a 7th Dan or higher person of Taekwondo from the International Taekwondo Federation or from the World Taekwondo Federation inmediatly have my respect even if I do not know him, just because the International Federation (ITF or WTF) have confers in them the honor of be called Grand Masters. The intend of desacredited what these International Federations have honrate and honor it is an Intention also to dishonors the International Federation that granted, because they are saying "" that they have make a mistake when they honor this person and also try to desacreditate and question how the International Federation do it.
Also adding words like he sell ranks tru his school is an intention to dishonor this person, because this also dishonor the International Federations that he represents. The mayority of the time the persons who do this are from others Martial Arts backgroungs that have envy of what the Taekwondo have achieve until to date and also try to dishonor the Taekwondo tru his comments. They do it and then go to their students look "see this you can go there and they are saying that they do this...., that is why you are safe practicing our Martial Art and not that think that they call Taekwondo". this is not something new and still happen since the 1960's when Taekwondo change from Karate to his new name Taekwondo and create the style of Taekwondo that the Japanese and other saids that we are not a Martial Art with their recognition.
If wiki can save the document from any alteration that can damage the reputation of these person and the style or organizations that they represents I think that will be OK with me. They are many world wide people with envy of the Taekwondo there!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by WMACPR ( talk • contribs) 04:18, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
I enter to the document history and see that you have defend the original document very well againts these people!!! Amazing job and my congratulation to you, sorry I wasn't notice this before. I see that I can count with the support of wiki for the protection of the document. If you want you can restore the document like it was and sorry about this.-- WMACPR ( talk) 04:38, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
I just add to the Ibraham Ahmed wiki biography the external links for biography reference. You can compare what you have with those and compare the grammar to see that what you even have in wiki is not writed well. This persons that have edit the biography they do it little by little and at the end of two of three months they got what they want that is make a bad biography making look it bad and making look bad to wiki, Please can you re-edit the biography to make it final forever. And excuse me I know that this will take time from you, but I also need to work and attend my kids and do not have time for re-edit like it was or like it had to be, this little edits had make their purpose, I can compete agains 20 or 20 editors agains my article that do this little by little. They do it because envy or jealous, most of them do not have the expertise in the theme of Ibraham Ahmed, the Ibraham Ahmed email is [email protected] and he is the source, he can provided any evidence of the facts or explain it to you.-- WMACPR ( talk) 11:00, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
Just popped in to say that this is a great bot. I try and get the syntax right, but this cleans up goofs nicely and also serves as a tutor on the details. Cheers, Jack Merridew 13:41, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the ride home after the meetup tonight, I was wondering if you built SmackBot from scratch or used a framework. Poeloq ( talk) 04:18, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering why the entry foxsports.com got labeled by smackbot with a "advert" warning and what can be done to eliminate it. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.67.7.14 ( talk) 09:09, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Greetings venerable one, i'm glad you've finally made your way to the repository of human knowledge, I hope you enjoy your stay, but I can see you've already become profilic in your editing, which might indicate that you already are insert smile here. If you need any help, please don't hesitate to contact me. -- Ļıßζېấשּׂ~ۘ Ώƒ ﻚĢęخ ( talk) 01:30, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
On the chance that you are still "look[ing] forward" since
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Your latest edit to Template:Cleanup-laundry seems to have broken it on some pages. See, for example, the raw wikitext showing at the top of Online music store. I noticed it's the way you're handling the "date" parameter (in particular, when it's missing), but I don't have time to work out a fix myself. - dcljr ( talk) 13:13, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
What happened to {{ 3CC}}? Wasn't that the one that showed every three-letter-combination? I used to use that template when navigating Wikipedia, and I have used it in articles I created (such as CHW (disambiguation)).
I looked in the TfD to try and figure out why it was deleted, but I cannot seem to find any mention of it anywhere except in your deletion log, which says:
So if it has been deprecated, does that mean there is a replacement?
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Please remove this tag from Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde. “This article does not cite any references or sources. (January 2008) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.”
There is an adequate sources listed. In addition, this page is WORK IN PROGRESS. What is your point?
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This address -195.91.54.87 – is an address of the internet provider in Slovakia. I am one of many Wireless Users. I have nothing to do with Sala ….
DrewKE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.91.54.87 ( talk) 08:08, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
when you update a lot of those, your fingers sometimes get away from you.-- Crossmr ( talk) 14:14, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
It would be great if your bot could be trained to respect "inuse" tags, and not to make edits to pages so marked. Verisimilus T 17:20, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Just FYI - No personal response required - In this edit SmackBot did a weird thing to the date {{Unreferenced|date=January 2008date=June 2006}} The original date was June 2006. It looks like SmackBot was trying to clean up the open double pipe when it happened. P.S. Keep up the good work. Jeepday ( talk) 03:33, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Same thing occurred here a few days ago. — mjb ( talk) 02:18, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
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Rich Farmbrough, 13:55 30 January 2008 (GMT).
Hi, The bot is correcting singular nouns in sections like "Source" & "Reference" (see Tonary). I dont suppose it's serious and I usually make allowances for machines anyway, but if I hear the bot has learned to count I might start changing some of them back. ;-) Sparafucil ( talk) 05:26, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hey, I saw a page you were at least somewhat involved in editing regarding a Japanese singer, and wondered if you know of anyone who can help translate a page-- it's half in English and I don't want to mess it up; for Keisuke Kuwata. Can you help? Thanks. -- leahtwosaints ( talk) 06:32, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Can you please remove User:Rich_Farmbrough/AWB/daitMaintTags from cleanup categories? Thanks! -- Gary King ( talk) 15:43, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Cheers for picking up that wrong date with the Rainbow Drops...editing at 4am is totally not a good idea :) londonsista | Prod 17:20, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, there. Smackbot is removing line breaks from inside of multi-year venue succession boxes. Unfortunately, those need to be there to keep the years aligned horizontally until a new succession box for this type of situation is finalized (it's currently in discussion). See the before and after edit to Camp Randall Stadium and the DCI championships host succession box to see what's going on. Is there anything that can be done to prevent this? Thanks. - Gwguffey ( talk) 14:33, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
SmackBot broke some links at Apple TV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Foobaz ( talk • contribs) 16:50, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Would you like to tracked for WikiPoints? I just check your Special:Contributions/Rich Farmbrough. -- Jay Tur 1 ( Contribs) 17:20, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
The
Pomona Metrolink station article has been modified by SmackBot:Replaced: date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} → date=January 2008. But when you read the article, the date=January 2008 bit doesn't show.
I have no idea whether this is a SmackBot's problem, but I've decided to report it just in case.--
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Thanks. If you look at the diff you will see, more or less, what it's talking about. The change puts the article into Category:Articles with unsourced statements since January 2008 . Rich Farmbrough, 09:51 1 February 2008 (GMT).
sorry, i am a new people who have no idea where is right place to write.
hi, rich, thanks for reading. I am a sociological researcher who is really really interested in the form of wikipedia and wikipedians. This amazing result of sharing information around the whole world really have inspirited me a lot. I found you from the list of contributors. would you mind discuss with me about some questions of wikipedia and wikipedians, from which i would like to search on the incentive mechanism about wikipedia and give people the whole view of you and your partners who volunteerly contributed their knowledge and time.
I'm still not that used to most of the tags. I tend to just 'preview' and try things and see if they look like something lol, did I leave one looking like code/gibberish? Merkinsmum 20:34, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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I have left the following message on the Talk:Dudjom_Rinpoche [5] page in response to your raising of a NPOV objection without commenting as to why. Please state your reasons.
In future try to observe the regulations in the process of claiming to defend them.
Illegal NPOV behavior by Rich Farmbrough (SmackBot):
Rich Farmbrough [6] acting as SmackBot [7] has disputed the neutrality of the article but has not provided an explanation as required by the rules [8]. As a result the initiation of this NPOV is not proper and has commenced on an illegal footing. ( User:Thegone) 1:15, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply:
1- Who has raised the NPOV objection that you have dated?
2- What are the basis as they would have to state a reason, otherwise it is illegal?
3- The warnings on my page have all been by GlassFet. I maintained from the beginning that he was a sockpuppet of Ekajati who was banned and had many other illegal names too. Finally this was proven and he was banned. Someone, I do not know who, probably a bot or an admin, had set his warnings invisible. They are now again visible after your interaction. I consider them an honor. I will monitor for his presence in any way possible vigilantly in future. Are you in any form in contact with that person or his cult of Aro (in England) which is dismissed by Tibetan lamas and considered anti-Buddhist? [9]
4- If no comment on the objection is forthcoming, please reverse your dating action as it is reinforcing an illegal procedure.
I will post a copy of this reply in the article's talk page for the record as well.
Thanks. User:Thegone 5:29, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
I hadn't noticed SmackBot moving <ref> tags to follow punctuation before. Is that new? I had been doing that myself and would be happy to stop. -- Jtir ( talk) 15:55, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I see you congratulated me for something [10]...what did I do?-- MONGO 19:08, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks anyway though...I don't think the community is ready for my getting the tools back anytime soon...best wishes to you.-- MONGO 23:50, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. Your generally cool bot's edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=The_Stanley_Hotel&diff=next&oldid=187666550 is not incorrect, but the diff is unnecessarily huge. Is that a bug? What are you doing? Changing spacing? (Or is there a bug in the diff viewer itself?) -- 76.21.22.240 ( talk) 19:12, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Please proceed to further cleaning, if you can, and rid the article of the tag. Thanks?-- BobClive ( talk) 10:00, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Looks like User:SmackBot made a slight mistake on this page. See around line 58 of this change to MacBook Air. It looks like the bot broke the text 802.11n and converted it to 802�n. PaleAqua ( talk) 02:21, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
The article has been improved with further references to the publication sources quoted previously. Feel sufficient references/citation has been provided to have the tag at the top regarding unverified material be removed.
Article Name : A.W.H. Abeyesundere —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nibiruet ( talk • contribs) 02:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
It looks like when converting company-importance tag to Notability|Companies, SmackBot is adding a stray opening curly brace. See [11] [12] [13]. Jfire ( talk) 17:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I'm a little confused about why you think it's good to update the date on cleanup tags. Those dates really should never be changed, since they indicate how how the tag has been in place, a vlauable piece of information when evaluating whether the tag should be removed or not - don't you think? Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ( talk / cont) 21:10, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
The Smackbot has made a bit of a mess of the opening paragraph of Fiat X1/9 that I have corrected twice today. I'm not quite sure what it thinks it's doing but the result is a bit of a jumble, please take a look. Thanks. Dino246 ( talk) 22:47, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm a Luddite when it comes to things like this. In the Genesis section of the P-51 article, some Wiki-editor has asked for a citation regarding the increase in the Packard Merlin order. The data behind this is from Anthony Furse's biography of Wilfrid Freeman, which I have added to the bibilography.
Can you make head or tail of the way to add a citation, because I can't! pepperrell ( talk) 16:59, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Smackbot deleted an NPOV tag on this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_English_Campaign because it had no date, but the official page says dates are optional. What gives? It feels kind of like your bot just gets to make its own rules and hijack pages. I know that's not the intention, but at the moment, can you forgive a bit of frustration? Angela Harms ( talk) 15:00, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! Sorry... I've been letting this get to me. Silly, isn't it? Angela Harms ( talk) 16:02, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Rich. Please see here for my thoughts on the unblocking. Thanks. Carcharoth ( talk) 12:00, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Could you possibly gnerate another list of articles which are linking direc to the London Gazette, rather than via the template? In the meantime, I've noticed that www.gazette-online.co.uk also works (as opposed to www.gazettes-online.co.uk), so could you include that as well? David Underdown ( talk) 12:10, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
His name is actually Julio Jorge Lopez. Could you change this or let me know how. See: [14] (This official missing person report agrees with other accounts I've seen.)
The date is wrong on the chart, too. It should be September 18. The link to his record (footnote 1) is either wrong or broken. I couldn't find the correct one. See if you think the above link would be a sufficient replacement. Cheers, -- Beth Wellington ( talk) 22:28, 7 February 2008 (UTC) Jorge Julio López
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What is the point in replacing {{ citations}} with {{ nofootnotes}}? It seems just another pointless bot edit. Personally I wish there was a way of disabling these bots.-- Toddy1 ( talk) 21:13, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed this also... and aren't we getting a bit excessive with so tagging every last article? First, having that huge notice hanging over what should be authoritative text already makes it look like it isn't. Second, I think having umpteen citations (especially all going to the same source work, e.g. book quotes, or a biography), or a cite for every last statement in an article, is going to look more silly than authoritative, by the time it's done. (Besides, some of those citation lists get longer than the articles themselves, with full data.) I would settle for a list of works (specific books, articles, authors) to be referred to at the end, for a popular work such as Wikipedia. Zephyrad ( talk) 14:33, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I used the wikisearch and some filtering to find about 4000! Reformatting these is a little depressing since quite a few instances are in badly written or formatted articles. It's fun stretching my AWB legs again. -- Oldak Quill 03:19, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
I created that as a version of template:indefblocked that takes a parameter for the reason, and that template includes that category. Is there a reason why it shouldn't? — Random832 04:11, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Rich,Thanks for reading. I am a sociological researcher who really interested in wikipedia and wikipedians. The amazing result of contribution in wikipedia has inspirited me a lot. Would you mind to discuss with me about wikipedia and wikipedians, from which i would like to give people a whole view of wikipedians who have contributed in wikipedia volunteerly. and i also want to focus on the incentive mechenism of wikipedia. I really appreciate if you can give me some help. thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikizeyi ( talk • contribs) 13:55, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to interest you in having Smackbot add month/dates to the {{
current sport}} tags in use, as it does for {{
current}}. I decided to take a look at the usage of the "sport" template, and deleted about 100 senile uses of the template. (I think actually that the templete is used far too often, and without cause, but that's another discussion.) I don't know what changes are requred to implement this at the template itself, if any, nor how you revise redirects, consolidating the redirected templates into the primary {{
current sport}}.
Thoughts?
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Rich, I noticed that recently SmackBot has been changing articles only to capitalize a cleanup template, which strikes me as unnecessary. Generally it is doing much more useful work! ✤ JonHarder talk 20:52, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
At Liberty Van Zandt, with this edit, Smackbot changed {{Original research|date=}} and {{Plot|date=}} to {{Original research|date=February 2008date} and {{Plot|date=February 2008date}, somehow removing the } when it inserted the date. Cheers! -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 23:33, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
the ncite template got dleted. worth discussing at the fact template on wording? cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 10:41, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello Rich. In a conversation long ago, you suggested I consider this. If you have time, and can look at my Sandbox, I would welcome a review of my current draft of answers. You might check if I tell the story of the ISBN-fixing work properly, and you might see if I answered everything you'd expect. EdJohnston ( talk) 18:59, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. I'm not sure how to get smackbot to add the date to the newly-created {{ Images needed}} template. Can you please either do the required magic or tell me how to do so, as applicable? Thanks! — Scheinwerfermann ( talk) 23:25, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Were you referring to? Sorry, missed that completely? -- Ļıßζېấשּׂ~ۘ Ώƒ ﻚĢęخ ( talk) 23:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
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Good work on fixing these, and the new cat. There are a lot of templates that use the date parameter though. Rich Farmbrough, 11:34 14 February 2008 (GMT).
Say, thanks for the cleanup on Saddle bronc and bareback riding. While the article is locked down and only admins can get at it, could you also make one more tweak? Change the section header ==Saddle bronc vs. bareback riding== to read "Saddle bronc vs. bareback bronc riding" or something to that effect? I ask this because there is a different article titled bareback riding that is not about riding rough stock in rodeo and I think the clarification would be useful. I believe this would be non-controversial edit (Frankly I think the title of the whole article should also be changed in that fashion, but I want to check the PRCA site for absolutely correct names before doing an actual title move) Thanks Montanabw (talk) 18:02, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that SmackBot is running again, but I never heard if the bug was fixed. I reported it on his talk page. He deleted unrelated templates on 3 separate articles. He deleted the entire template (transclusion request), not just a single brace. JackSchmidt ( talk) 09:23, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
"Please cease and desist from removing the Notability template without reasonable justification" Why did you leave this message as the edit comment on my user page? The issue is nothing to do with templates. The issue is that the bot is misbehaving. Xxanthippe ( talk) 10:57, 18 February 2008 (UTC).
Wikipedia talk:Accessibility#Text size
I had exactly the same reaction after reading several sections that now have autogenerated small text size. Let me know what you think of my proposal. patsw ( talk) 20:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=SkyHawks_Parachute_Team&diff=174418223&oldid=170360601
A bit old, but just noticed this. Some stub-cats were removed. -- Ng.j ( talk) 00:05, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Template:Uncited-article/doc requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
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A tag has been placed on Template:Unreferenced/whatlinkshere requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
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Hi– I think I understand this category now and guess it would be categorized under Category:Wikipedia utility templates...? First, though, I'd like to recreate it (with no changes) as Category:Templates with transitional syntax (or something similar?). May I go ahead? Sardanaphalus ( talk) 16:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Howdy, I seem to disagree with people about what orphan means. I look at Special:Whatlinkshere/Analytic_subgroup and notice that only a single article links to it (and only as a see also that I myself added). Sure there are talk pages, and lists of articles needing cleanup, but within the content of the encyclopedia, there is only a single see also link. To me that qualifies as "there are few or no articles linking here."
However, both you and R.e.b. have removed orphan tags, so I'm thinking I must have the wrong idea about it. I want to suggest a de-orphaning taskforce to wikiproject math, but I also don't want to waste people's time if there are not any real orphans.
To be clear, I have no objection to analytic subgroup (heck, it has no content outside of Lie group anyways, and will be merged as soon as Lie group settles down), I just want to figure out if I'm crazy. JackSchmidt ( talk) 18:57, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
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How come it's "Silly" to redirect 'Psalm 69' to the Ministry album, when the bible verse has no special, common meaning? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.177.138.109 ( talk) 00:29, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
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A month ago, SmackBot made several edits, which, I assume, was to replace "Template:VC" with "Verify Credibility". Unfortunately, there exists "Template:VCS" which is for Volusia County Schools. This became "Verify CredibilityS". While I know that bots always make mistake, it would seem to me that this mistake could have been avoided. For instance,instead of using "Template:VC" possibly using "{{Template:VC}}". While I understand that it was a bit silly for the person who installed the template to use "{{Template:VCS}}" instead of "{{VCS}}" such mistakes should be forseen. For an example, please see this diff. I will fix the errors myself, I simply felt that you should be aware of this mistake.-- Vox Rationis ( Talk | contribs) 21:55, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your post on the Lubbers disc page on 12 February. Almost from the beginning I have been trying to get some serious discussion about the edits on the Ruud Lubbers page. So far I really haven't been succesful. If you have time to read carefully the discussion page you will get an idea of what has been going on. It is frustrating and I am not really impressed with how the WP admin has handled this either. It took me some time even to get a response from Godwin which included an off-wiki exchange where it was suggested that I had created my own problem and the insinuation on the disc page that I was a "professional critic". The only explanation I have seen as come from Fpbat who is clearly not representing WP and is clearly is unfamiliar with the way WP works. I have tried to make adjustments to the proposed text and have included quotes from Mr. Lubber's supporters as well as links to longer texts. I have waited vainly for some response. It seems to me time to move beyond the present text and try out the Revised Proposed Text, however, I don't want to get in an edit war. Finally, if you do have time to read the Disc page carefully, can you offer me some idea of mistakes that I made as well as alternative suggestions. If you can't find the time, can you suggest somebody who might be interested in helping. For the next month I will be in and out of China and will be in and out of contact with WP so that there may be delays in my edits. -- Joel Mc ( talk) 09:42, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Howdy, I just redirected completely multiplicative function to multiplicative function, since it was just a brief definition. I had checked the page history, but I misinterpreted your edits as cleaning up an existing article, not turning a redirect into an article. Oops. So I didn't mean to revert your edits.
Should I revert, and try expanding the article? I don't know how to make it much more than a stub, but I can wikify, stub sort, add cats, etc.
I guess what I'm asking is, what is the focus of the article, and why shouldn't it just be added to multiplicative function? I don't mind expanding, but I just wasn't sure how to get past my gut reaction of "this should be merged". JackSchmidt ( talk) 22:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
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I just reverted the tag from smackbot from my article, the references are now in the article. However, if they don't meet spec, please feel free to re-tag me and drop me a note on my talk page Thanks ! Kosh sezWe don't need no stinkin FUR!! 18:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hey Rich. Please see Wikipedia:Bot requests#Missing references section. References are added to many articles with the {{ GR}}-template, but the articles are missing a references section. I know you did something similar to this with a list made by User:SQL. Could you take a look at this. Rettetast ( talk) 21:27, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:John_Buscema#Request_for_Comment_-_Integrate_two_versions
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I just thought i would give you heads up that i have suggested the merger of {{ Mergeto}} to {{ Merge}}, athough they are not tagged yet until someone can add the merge tags. Simply south ( talk) 16:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
I have been trying to figure out how to create templates, and I have been having a lot of difficulty. I have been using Sandbox, but have not succeeded in making it work out.
In particular, I have been having trouble with making a page-top template. I want to make one called "Template:Barenotability" that can be placed on the top of an article that seems to barely meet notability requirements. I want it to say something like the following:
This page seems to just barely meet Wikipedia's notability requirements. This notability may be disputed, and it is possible this article may be proposed for deletion. Please help by adding references, or if no more can be found, merging this article.
The purpose of this template would be to motivate the improvement of existing articles that are minimally referenced.
I have also been trying to figure out how to create the templates that appear at the bottom of many pages that list many article within a category, but I think I have nearly mastered that. These have become popular, and I would like to create some myself. Hellno2 ( talk) 00:28, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I was tracking down how {{ nobots}} appeared in MacBook Air. [15] What is SB and what does it break in the article? Gimmetrow 00:36, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi SmackBot,
I have been writing an article entitled " Syngas Fermentation", and I have been trying to find users related to this article. If you do not mind, I want you to look at my article, and give your comments in terms of the article. I can change and include more information according to your comments.
Could you please check my article, and give your comments.
Thanks a lot Regards,
Ferit Isik —Preceding unsigned comment added by Feritisik ( talk • contribs) 04:45, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, it doesn't look like you quite got to the bottom of the inuse issue (22nd Jan) - I've just had an edit conflict with SmackBot over at Morphometrics which was tagged with {{ inuse}}. Thanks, Verisimilus T 14:52, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey. It seems that your bot has suddenly begun to change articles' interwiki sorting order from alphabetical word-based order to alphabetical two-letter codes. I don't know if you intended the bot to do that or not, but I think this is a very bad thing. There is no written policy, but the alphabetical order based on the local names of the languages has become the de facto guideline with the very large majority of articles using it. See Wikipedia:IL#Sorting. Thanks, Prolog ( talk) 22:56, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Nearly done; just fixing reference issue Verisimilus T 19:20, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I notice you've removed a POV-statement tag from the John Zizioulas page. It looks like you tried to replace it with a section template, but the formatting's not correct so the template doesn't come up. As the page is currently protected, could you correct the formatting so that the template appears properly on the page? Seminarist ( talk) 21:00, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Seminarist ( talk) 22:31, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Mind explaining why you just made the accessyear= parameter on {{ cite web}} optional? It seems to me that knowing a reference was archived on April 15th isn't any help in understanding it unless you also know what year it was archived in. Thanks! RossPatterson ( talk) 23:39, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
I don't believe that I got a response to the request below. Is there something I am not doing right, are you able to suggest a next step? If you are to busy or have any other reason for not being able to help, can you point me in a direction where I might find help. Thanks in advance.
-- Joel Mc ( talk) 02:42, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Hiya, I've been thinking that I'd like to get the articles in Category:Accuracy disputes sorted by date, so that we could tell which articles have been tagged for a long time. Currently the bot seems to be adding dates to the tag properly, but we don't currently have a set of "dated" categories. Could you please advise on how we might be able to get this rearranged, so we could sort the category a bit? Thanks, El on ka 21:19, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Whoops, which article did I subst a template on? I'll go back and undo it... but the only article I see in my history for March 12th wasn't substed...? -- bd_ ( talk) 04:03, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I have turned off the cascading of the protection of {{ Content}}, in accordance with the standard protection of templates. The template is still full-protected, but pages transcluded within it (such as its documentation page) are no longer covered by the protection. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:10, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich, thanks for letting me know about the subst info. Could I have an example where I've incorrectly subst'd something recently, though? I'm just curious as to when/where I made that kind of mistake; I just don't recall subst'ing a cleanup-related template recently, since I've tried not to do that. Thanks for letting me know about that, anyway! :) -- Jamie S93 11:38, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Smackbot just did this - I reversed it because it obviously seemed a bit strange. Is there anything you need to look at? Best wishes, RobertG ♬ talk 18:16, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am AOEgeek!I am hosting a contest on my talk page to see if anyone can guess who I was before AOEgeek.Look at it![ [16]] AOEgeek ( talk) 09:01, 15 March 2008 (UTC)AOEgeek
Uh, yeah.I am.Lucky guess.And it's MKguy42192, for your information.
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What are you saying? AOEgeek ( talk) 09:10, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Rotten.com&diff=197928727&oldid=197333825 -- Xyzzyplugh ( talk) 19:57, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I actually didn't realize I was substituting those maintenance tags - must have done it right after I left a talk page message or something. Thanks for catching it though. I'll be more careful in the future. -- Mosmof ( talk) 00:17, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich. User Special:Contributions/71.111.138.30 has made some POV and unsupported assertions in at least the Homelessness in the United States. I had to revert back the changes again. Can we lock the article ? You might look into this contributor. Any suggestions ? Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 20:40, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
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Rich Farmbrough, 18:27 9 March 2008 (GMT).
I am a Brazilian IP lawyer working on the Magic Tape trademark. I noticed that in the USPTO database, the first use in commerce in dated 30.08.1965, and not in 1961 as you state. See http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=gt3b7d.2.1
Rich, converting a list of properties of a software to prose is hard and does not make much sense IMHO, as a list is a lot easier to capture.
Hence I kindly ask you to exclude the Kolab article from being tagged by SmackBot.
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Last editing on 8th March 2008, inwhich word Akbar has been removed and Humanyu has been added. This is a wrong entry. It should be reverted to Akbar, because Humanyun had died in January 1556 and Akbar was made the King at a ceremony at Kalanaur in Punjab.So when HEMU attacked and won Agra and Delhi in September-October 1556, he had a victory against Akbar's forces and not Humanyu's. Please revert this edition.
Sudhirkbhargava
I have seen in several articles this bot (and perhaps other[s]) changing the capitalization of the key word in tags requesting citations, clarity, etc. The most recent one is in King Kong (comic). What possible difference can this make? The change certainly doesn't cause the tags to display any differently in the articles. Honestly, I am expecting a reply opening something like, "The difference is...." It's just that seeing these when I check the edit history of an article I am interested in/working on bugs me, and if I understood the point, they would slide right by me. Otherwise, I wonder if there isn't some better use for the energy/server space/whatever (that should give you some idea of how little I understand of how websites work from the technical perspective, and that I am wide open to a justification of this activity). Thanks. Ted Watson ( talk) 20:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Rich;
I'm curious as to why you added year autolinks to |accessyear on the cite web template. I've been specifically using "|access-" elements on pages to prevent having changes to year articles show up in the related changes, per the description of the elements on the template page. For example, on List of plesiosaurs, I don't see that there is a need to know about all the changes to 2005 and 2006 when someone checks related changes. In my view, they swamp the changes to articles that are germane to "List of plesiosaurs". Anyway, I just wanted to know your reasoning, and if there is a way to use the cite web template without running into this. J. Spencer ( talk) 01:37, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
May I ask you why have you changed the positions in Uruguayan 2007/2008 football article? Please, review the sources before making changes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.134.32.29 ( talk) 03:39, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
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In February I inquired if SmackBot might include the temporal template {{
current sport}} in its program of dating templates, similar to how {{
current}} is handled, so that it can be easily determined how old the template might be. I think you were going to check on it, and had thought the {{
current sport}} template was included. I checked a random 10 instances of the use of {{
current sport}}, and it seems these don't come under SmackBot's current attention. Canonicalizing all of the uses of redirects to {{
current sport}} would be appreciated too.
Many thanks,
Yellowdesk (
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Could User:Place holder be listed as a bot so that it isn't listed as a regular user in lists such as Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits? Gary King ( talk) 23:22, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, I noted today that SmackBot made a strange edit. A few days ago, SmackBot properly added the year to an "unreferencedsection" template. Then, a vandal changed the date from 2008 to 2069. SmackBot subsequently adjusted the date to "20069". Any ideas what happened? -- Laser brain ( talk) 14:14, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Good Job for being the most active editer of all wikipedians (besides bots)!-- RyRy5 talk 02:49, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
An extremely trivial edit to ask but could you include a space between the discussion and the date as it makes things easier to read...? Simply south ( talk) 19:27, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello! I agree that Talk pages can be skipped too. I've got another example here, and I noticed that in the third change in that diff, text was also changed inside nowiki tags. However such special casing is not really important if staying in the article namespace. Thanks. -- Sverdrup ( talk) 00:44, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
hi richard i have a note from your bot on Salt Spring Air saying may contain original data, i have listed a good number of external sites for pretty much each claim, comment made. could you visit the site and see if maybe i am placing the links in the wrong section or something. i am pretty new to wiki but do want to make things work. look forward to any direction you can give. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flymebc ( talk • contribs) 22:05, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, recently your bot changed a bunch of dates in a bunch of references (in article 2008 Canadian Commercial Seal Hunt). It changed the date from numbers to text (the month 03, became March), which is nice. The problem however, was that 2008-03-26 for example, became only March 2008. The day of the month disappeared. Bib ( talk) 12:12, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
greetings rich. first off, although you've probably heard it many times before, congrats and thanks for smackbot. it does good work, with few errors.
but (you knew there was going to be a but, didn't you), there's an exception:
it passed through French spacing and mungled the examples of different-width spacing in the unicode section. see the 2nd mod block HERE -- note the html charcodes   and   have been converted to their raw unicode equivalents, and in the latter example user-content becomes effectively invisible. even given my own knowledge of what should have been there (i created this section (by the miracle of copy-paste)), i thought the code had been completely deleted until i went to replace it and discovered by accident that there was an invisible essentially-zero-width character still between the last word and the exclamation mark.
now i'm in 2 minds as to doing this sort of thing anyway.
but clearly i need to keep SmackBot away from the typographic examples.
i looked at {nobots}, and was about to exclude poor ole smackbot despite his sterling service and well-meaning edits. then i stopped and thought.
i do NOT want to forever exclude smackbot from hoving to with dustpan and brush, monkeywrench and oilcan, tidying up and improving common errors that may be inserted in future by later editors (none of us will be here forever {existential angst} )
but i DO need him not to munge my spacing examples.
then a penny dropped.
SUGGESTION:
modify SmackBot to have a context-sensitive ruleset.
CASE: where an article is tagged Category:Typography, he does NOT execute the html-code-->unicode-char conversion rules.
"simple as that", he says, secure in the knowledge that it's not him that would have to be making them changes...
LESS ARCHITECTURALLY-ARDUOUS SUGGESTION (which in many ways is superior to the above) :
you the developer do one single personal manual pass through the code's config data for the unicode chars smackbot will seek to convert, and remove at devel-time any character with typographic significance (perhaps best defined as: invisible behaviour different from a typewriter font; in particular: spaces).
for now, i'm going to {nobotno,badbot,down!} the article. but it'd be nice not to have to.
Thanks for uploading Image:NASA-apollo11-AS11040-5904.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.
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Dude! I just saw your home page, and saw you kicked in for the Goon Show page. My esteeeeeeeeem and all-leather zeppelin for you just climbed immeasurably; yea, almost unto the point of climbing so high as to upset Nelson's Statue.
You realise... this means the END of the horse-drawn encyclopaedia!
Farewell!!
Grytpype-Thynne: And so saying, he climbed into his atomic dustbin and drove off.
Salgoon: Did I? Well, I might have been told a bit sooner than this.
FX: Clatter of lid. Insanely fast revving, enormous explosion, screeching of wheels (fades, with mad revving and intermittent explosions)
Salgoon: Hi! Someone's stolen my dustbin! After it in the key of E!
GRAMS: E#, suddenly sped up
Greenslade: I say, listeners. They've all gone.
FX: a piece of string
Moriarty: Owwwwwwww. Grytpyppe, Grytpyppeeeee... what was that?
Grytpyppe: Do you know, I haven't the faintest idea.
THEME TUNE
Saltation ( talk) 17:26, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. When creating new "Wikify by month" categories (e.g., Category:Wikify from April 2008), the dated tag in the message must be manually updated. If you simply copypaste from a previous category, that category's month will appear in the new category. If you know of a way that allows the month to be automatically updated when a category is created, please let me know. In any case, I've corrected the month in the "Wikify by April 2008" category. Cheers. – Liveste ( talk • edits) 18:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm just letting you know that another user has all but blanked this article and is now attempting to have it deleted. John celona ( talk) 02:18, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I was just wondering what the policy/advice on this was? I'm not challenging it, I'm just curious. I'm sure I read somewhere that centuries ought to be in number format (i.e. inline with the articles themselves - e.g. 12th century)? -- Jza84 | Talk 14:47, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you took part in the discussion over at Branches of wing chun, and we could now use your input at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Yuan_Kay-shan. Some guy not familiar with Chinese martial arts history is insisting on getting the Yuen Kay San article deleted. He'll probably move on to a lot of the other historical figures from there. -- Marty Goldberg ( talk) 17:23, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have started a discussion here about football templates. I'm sorry that I can't explain what I would like to happen in more technical language. The basic idea is that players appear in the Current squad on the team article and on the {{ Argentinos Juniors squad}} which is used on player articles. The information used in the two templates is basically the same.
What I propose is including all the information on each player in one template
and then using it to display something exactly like the navbox used at present on player articles, but having a function triggered bysomething like the inclusion of "clubarticle" which makes the template convert into something looking like the current squad section used at present in club articles. So that {{Argentinos Juniors current squad}} gives the navbox and {{Argentinos Juniors current squad|teamarticle}} gives the current squad.
The main reason for this is to reduce the huge maintenance workload for people who update football articles, by storing all the current squad information in one place instead of two. An additional benefit would be to stop the Current squad and the squad navboxes getting out of sync (as can be seen in the Argentinos Juniors squads used as examples).
I really need some help from someone who knows parser functions etc, but have not been able to find any yet. If you are unable to help could you please point me in the direction of someone who can. If I haven't made myself clear, please contact me on my talkpage. Regards English peasant 22:42, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
So my idea is to create a currentsquad template in each player infobox comprising something like this
{{Csquad|club=Argentinos Juniors|no=10|name=Nicolás Gianni|shirtname=Gianni|pos=MF|nat=ARG|source=http://whatever}}
which would generate
in the {{Argentinos Juniors current squad|teamarticle}} on the Argentinos Juniors page
and
in the {{Argentinos Juniors current squad}} navbox
Say he changes club to Boca Juniors, when I change the details on the club= parameter and provide a new source, it then takes him out of the Argentinos Juniors template and puts him into the Boca Juniors current squad and generates an automatic report to List of recent football transfers where it can be verified by other football obsessed wikipedans. Perhaps transfers where the club is changed but the source isn't could be marked as dubious/source required on the list.
The report would look like
Under the heading April 1 2008
and where the source isnt changed
I think the first idea is probably much easier to implement, but the second idea would cut the workload for each player transfer by 80% and drastically reduce the number of unsourced transfers based on rumours by giving WP:FOOTY a list of transfers to revert if neccessary.
Perhaps a How to do a football player transfer page to explain how all this works, and that unsourced transfers will be reverted would also be helpful.
I would really appreciate some feedback on this issue, let me know if you think I'm talking pie in the sky. All the best English peasant 12:05, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I've copied this from the bots request page. Would you be willing to help please? Nyttend ( talk) 19:56, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
As a result of this discussion, the various GR templates were changed from being references to Wikipedia:Geographic references to being various templates that produce standard-looking references. There was originally a different format for these links (like [[Geographic references#2|<sup>2</sup>]] for {{GR|2}}), most of which were removed years ago with edits like this one. However, there are a lot remaining, and since the GR templates are standard references now rather than being links to Wikipedia:Geographic references, the old-style ones are inferior. Could we have a bot simply to go around and put the respective GR templates in place of all instances of links to [[Geographic references]] with numbers?
To explain:
Nyttend ( talk) 16:56, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I converted the Harding Park, Bronx to a GR2. I'd advise that links like that, too, be converted (with the <ref> and </ref> templates being removed, since they're in the GR template code), since the big thing is getting rid of the self-references in favor of a complete listing. Nyttend ( talk) 04:38, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I see that in Blaine, Minnesota, SmackBot has recently converted a couple of links from the format [[name, state]] to [[name, state|name]] [[state]]. For example, it changed the link Anoka, Minnesota to Anoka, Minnesota. Could you point me to the WP:MOS or other section that indicates this is the current desired practice? Also, I don't see this task listed anywhere at User:SmackBot. Thanks. – Wdfarmer ( talk) 16:57, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
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Congratulations...you're a veteran editor! Bob 01:54, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
A tag was cited on Let Me Live In Your Life as not having a valid citation when referencing the album Rhapsody. If a user were to click on the latter album, anyone viewing the list could compare the tracklists and find that the six unnamed tracks from the former's list are also on the latter album. A citation is not required in this case as the songlists prove the statement in the Let Me Live In Your Life article. Am I required to otherwise link a citation for every single individual songlist, which is referenced in some cases on many sites? Or do I do a citation in Let Me Live In Your Life to the Rhapsody album? Or should I just reference each song that is repeated as such and maybe bold new titles?
I'm still fairly new, so if there is something I'm not understanding, I'm happy for advice. For now, I have removed the tag.
Cyclone CycloneGU ( talk) 02:52, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Received your reply on my page, Rich. Thanks. =) —Preceding unsigned comment added by CycloneGU ( talk • contribs) 11:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Suggestion: Most editors now favor the {{ reflist}} template over the bare <references/> tag. Would it be reasonable for SmackBot to insert reflist, when appropriate, instead of references? This recent edit is the first time I've noticed it doing either. Is that a new feature? Very helpful bot, by the way. — EncMstr 19:06, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
On a recent edit, your (otherwise fantastic) bot added <references>. Why not add {{reflist}} instead?— Markles 00:42, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the alteration to the references placement! Will the bot revisit those geographic articles previously edited? Huwmanbeing ☀ ★ 02:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Template:Citations missing has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Terraxos ( talk) 02:57, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi, today the 'bot removed the spaces in the heading:
== References ==
in ASUS Eee PC. This makes the heading much harder to read for humans, while editing. It looked like:
==References==
Is fixable? Ideally to add spaces if they are not there?
Thanks -- quota ( talk) 13:20, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Meetup? Hope it's not too short notice. Majorly ( talk) 14:45, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Since you have recently contributed a fair amount to the Celebrations of the September 11, 2001 attacks article, you may want to comment here I am Dr. Drakken ( talk) 15:00, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
At least two recent edits of about forty are leaving code debris in the articles:
Graeme Smith (Radio DJ and TV Presenter)
Graffiti Blasters
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Hi. SmackBot is leaving old code for references. The code should be {{reflist}}. Tim meh ! 14:23, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that SmackBot had touched up the merge template on John Doherty (baseball 1992–96) changing
but this meant the links in the template were suggesting a merge with the Talk page and so a broken Talk:Talk: link was shown. I assume this is not intended behaviour -- Que ( talk) 20:42, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
I have added references and edited the resignation section. I have tried to incoporate suggestions which add balance, but have left out scape goating accusations which are unsubstantiated. I leave in a couple of days trekking out of reacch of the www (as traumatic as it might seem) and would appreciate it if you could keep half an eye on the entry. -- Joel Mc ( talk) 13:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
See here. Thanks. -- Avi ( talk) 19:18, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Why did you change "&" for "and" - this was deliberate as the header then appears on one line rather than two - see http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:Infobox_Disease&diff=104205215&oldid=101946709 by Jfdwolff "(text generally overruns box boundaries on FireFox)", that was true for internet explorer too. David Ruben Talk 13:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey! Sorry I hadn't gotten back to you. I rewrote my old program this week, and just finished running it against the latest (3+Gb! They grew!) dump. No results... SQL Query me! 20:29, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Do you think your bot could
delink common units of measurement?
Lightmouse (
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Thank you for creating Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories. I have attempted to clear the list of articles for Wikification that include old categories from 2006, but I am unsure if I broke the template. In short, the list needs everything marked with 2006 for Wikification to be removed. Can you check that my edit did not affect other areas listed in this maintenance log? Guroadrunner ( talk) 23:57, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, 17:36 21 April 2008 (GMT).
Hi Smack Bot, Thanks for showing your interest in Oriya Literature . I want to project a true pics of Oriya Literature , which was un touched by any wikipedians .My motto is to paint a real and established pics of Oriya Literature not to make ita bias article .you have marked I am trying to bring all information about Oriya Culture,Oriya Celebrities ,Oriya Language and oriya Literature . I need your help to make the articles authentic, aesthatic and readable .Please help the project by editing the grammar portion of the articles .Ask me if you have any doubt for sources or references .We may usr the user talk page for our suitability . Again I am in hope for a poitive anticipation .
Kanu 786 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.200.224.39 ( talk) 01:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Made some edits ( [18] [19] [20] [21], and perhaps more) that caused cite errors in a few articles. It might not be that the bot's edits were faulty, as <ref name="ned" /> was in the infoboxes of the articles for some reason. Just letting you know. — Bob • ( talk) • 04:53, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, it seems that the bot quit before completing its run last week. Here is the last two weeks' worth of Signpost. Ralbot ( talk) 09:02, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
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The bot caused a problem on the players infobox, just thought i'd inform. Londo 06 10:44, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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As suggested, I rewrote the History section as prose and added Wikilinks and web citations. This is my first attempt at such a large edit, so your comments are welcome. Thomprod ( talk) 03:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure what this means, but Smackbot has just deleted all the {{sectstub}} tags I've placed in this article I'm editing: Spiritism. Is this an expected behavior? If so, why are these tags undesired? -- alexgieg ( talk) 22:08, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Please can you take a look at Wikipedia:Bot requests#DashBot? Thank you for your time. -- Adoniscik( t, c) 22:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich, a lot of the Space:1999 entries have been tagged with the "no citation or references" tag by a user who frankly seems to be a newbie, and as far as I know, that's all he's done. I asked him what sort of stuff he needed as I didn't see anything wrong with the page but he has yet to answer. Some help would be appreciated. It's the pages like the Eagle Transporter, Mark IX Hawk, Moonbase Alpha Technical Manual and so on. Douglasnicol ( talk) 16:16, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Can you please help to stop deletion of Dennis Oliver article?, this is a nice article and some people has removed nice pieces without obvious reasons.. the most good version is the one restored by the administrator of name Tatcher, but there is a user of name Pigman that after the administrator restored, Pigman returned and deleted again and placed deletion tag...at this point it looks malicious intention because the article has references to every single word noted on it, links to the actors database and newspapers. I understand that Dennis Oliver is not famous as John Deniro, but is does not mean that cannot be mentioned in Wikipedia. Please help to stop this deletion request and keep the article integrity. I've worked very hard in that article.. thank you! Ralicia ( talk) 13:31, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Ralicia
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In this edit, SmackBot updated a tag on a Talk page. The tag was being used to show the context of a disputed section as it was at the time of the dispute. Changing that tag has the potential to confuse the issue for future readers. I can't think of a case where a {{ fact}} tag would be used on a Talk page except in that sort of context. Unless there's a reason that's not obvious to me why those tags should be updated, would you consider pointing the bot away from Talk pages? Thanks. Rossami (talk) 06:22, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Sometimes an editor will say something like "why don't you add a {{fact}} tag?" in a Talk page without using nowiki. SmackBot comes along and dates the tag; even ones in Talk page archives. No biggie, of course, but something to think about fixing if you have some spare time burning a hole in your pocket. RedSpruce ( talk) 11:07, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I appears that SmackBot behaves strangely with {{ Lifetime}}. Both Category:Living people and Category:Year of death unknown was added. Also DEFAULTSORT was omitted. [22]. By the way, is it preferable to avoid this template? – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 14:31, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Dear Rich Farmbrough, I can see that you have visited Dennis Oliver article and because I do not know much the way around wikipedia, I am appealing to your help. An editor of name Ralicia has created an article about Dennis Oliver and an editor of name "Pigman" wants to delete it a any cost. An administrator of name "Tatcher" has restored after "Pigman" deleted it rareway. Then "Pigman" returned and placed the "deletion" tag. Because I placed my opinion to keep the article in the "articles for deletion page", Pigman is accusing me of "puppetry" which I understand it means of having more than one log in in wikipedia?, also accusing me of being another person of name Jorge M. Perez, who happens to be a multi-millonaire from Cuba!. I answered him that "I wish to be that person"!! .I do not understand why Pigman is so stubborn in to delete the article of Dennis Oliver. His excuse is that Dennis Oliver does not have notability as an actor. Because I am spanish and italian, I was reading all the links to spanish newspapers on Dennis article, and there are very good reports about him as an actor an as a assitant director, also in most of them is Dennis picture! which clearly shows his acting notability. Furthermore, not every actor is lucky enough to be famous as a Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise, but that does not mean that cannot have an article in wikipedia, right?... Wikipedia is not a printed book with limited space....and Dennis has a reputable career as an actor with important roles on theatrical pieces. Please, help me to prove to this person that it is wrong to delete Dennis article. Also, what really calls my attention is that always are the same three editors requesting the deletion of the article, everybody else seems to agree to the article stay but few are saying that. In Dennis article every single line is backed up by a link to prove it, including Dennis website and his listing in the actors database. Below I am attaching the link to Dennis-articles for deletion listed. Please help, Thank you for your help! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Dennis_Oliver justice all the way ( talk) 18:52, 1 May 2008 (UTC)justice all the way
{{main|LINK}
line at the top of the english-language article to make it clear it's there as a lingua franca useful stub. At least then, no matter what English-only speakers think, your article will survive in an area that people who DO find him important will see.
Saltation (
talk) 22:07, 1 May 2008 (UTC)Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.
If you consider yourself a very active Wikipedian who is willing to help newcomers, please either complete your information in the table or add your entry. If you do not want to be on the list, either remove your name or just disregard this message and your entry will be removed within 48 hours. The table can be found at User:Useight/Highly Active, as it has yet to have been moved into the Wikipedia namespace. Thank you for your help. Useight ( talk) 17:52, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to leave a note of thanks for the good work that your bot is doing. :) -- 217.44.216.204 ( talk) 10:36, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Can SmackBot be programmed not to edit articles that have the {{inuse}} template displayed please? Mjroots ( talk) 11:15, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
It appears that SmackBot adds dates to {{ dead link}} tags. I noticed a {{ deadlink}} tag on 1980s oil glut, which did not have a date. Note no space in deadlink; I think there are a few other templates that redirect to {{ dead link}}. If you look in Category:Articles_with_dead_external_links there are a few more articles that apparently have undated dead links for various reasons. Could you get SmackBot to fix them? (Also, I noticed that SmackBot's user page doesn't mention dating of dead links as one of its tasks.) — AlanBarrett 18:12, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Since you run Smackbot using AWB, how do you run a script through it? I went through Tools -> External processing but I don't know what to put in "Working Directory" "input/output file" etc. Your help is appreciated. Milk’s Favorite Cookie (Talk) 14:00, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your pointer. Cheers, ·:· Will Beback ·:· 11:34, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
·Add§hore· Talk/ Cont 12:11, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I'm puzzled by your edit
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Charles_C._Soludo&diff=prev&oldid=210309567
Cheers, Pdfpdf ( talk) 12:51, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Yes, but that's the one edit I wasn't asking about. :) Pdfpdf ( talk) 12:57, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
And what does "BAh Humans." mean? Pdfpdf ( talk) 13:01, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
And why remove the spaces? Pdfpdf ( talk) 13:14, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
I was just wondering. Is the bot meant to do this? [23]. Changing one after another. I know they were a few days apart and i know there is a good reason if you added an extra thing for the bot to do. Also does your bot get the list of articles from recent changes or something, or is it a manually added list? If it is from recent changes how? :D ·Add§hore· Talk/ Cont 16:17, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Just a question - What the hell is going on with this? [24] I actually started putting the date on the fact templates because i saw your bot do it to one of my edits. So why is it undoing this work? Strange non? Sillyfolkboy ( talk) 02:46, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Please check the edits by the bot at First Partition. If is breaks the tag again, I'll shut it off.-- Matthead Discuß 16:19, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
This edit doesn't seem quite right. Is it supposed to do this on archived pages? Foobaz· o< 00:12, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
<nowiki>{{citation needed}}</nowiki>
, or {{template|citation needed}}
. It was clearly intended to talk about the template, not invoke the template, so adding nowiki tags or using {{
template}} seems right. Changing from "citation needed" to "Fact" seems wrong. Similarly, in another part of the same edit, adding a date and changing the capitalisation seems wrong. —
AlanBarrett 07:23, 7 May 2008 (UTC)have you ever made a chatterbot? If so, what one?-- I am a Wikipedian ( talk) 01:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Oh Ok thanks guess it wasn't you :)-- I am a Wikipedian ( talk) 22:35, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Me again. What does "BAh Humans" mean please? Pdfpdf ( talk) 12:16, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
What did Smackbot do on the Clarke County page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matteosartori ( talk • contribs) 21:20, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
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Apparently this edit was before the bug was fixed that caused this bot to treat superscripts that way. I fixed it a few minutes ago. Is there some automated way to identify other such cases that may be left over from that time? Michael Hardy ( talk) 21:45, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
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Rich Farmbrough, 09:41 23 May 2008 (GMT).
Hi Rich. I noticed it was you who added the requirements for friendly AI here. Would you please explain further how the first-mover advantage fits in the context? Thanks, Waldir talk 17:22, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
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Just wondering; why did you do this? - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 19:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
any reason you reverted the bot, I thought maintenance tags needed dating. TravellingCari the Busy Bee 20:31, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Smackbot hasn't been adding date tags to {{deadend}} (well, making any edits at all) for a while. Is this temporary, or is a request for a new bot needed?
Thanks for all your past work. I see you'll be offline a lot -- hope all is well.-- Fabrictramp | talk to me 19:36, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks again for getting Smackbot back up! The work it does is appreciated, wrong month and all. :)-- Fabrictramp | talk to me 22:10, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. Fritz bot has been approved at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FritzpollBot for filling in a possible 1.8 million articles on settlements across the world. Now dabbing needs to be done for links which aren't sorted as the bot will bypass any blue links. and I need as many people as possible to help me with Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places to prepare for the bot. If you could tackle a page or two everything counts as it will be hard to do it alone. PLease also pass on the message to anybody else who you may think might be willing to help. Thankyou ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 12:23, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, It's not a lot yet, but there are 100+ articles in CAT:ORPHAN with undated orphan tags. As far as I know, SmackBot has always kept pretty current on that. Is the bot running behind?-- Aervanath's signature is boring 09:42, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Minor capitalization changes like this seem like they add unnecessary 'churn' to Recent changes etc.--maybe there's a way to make it less picky about whether the first letter of maintenance tags is capitalized or not? Other than that, you perform a great service with the bot. Shawisland ( talk) 07:55, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Right here. http://solidstaterecords.com/artist_bio.php?id=297 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sector311 ( talk • contribs) 13:47, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
If all that is "wrong" with a template entry is the first letter is in lower case ( as here with unreferenced) please don't "fix" it. -- Philip Baird Shearer ( talk) 13:59, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
pretty clever bot, fella, useful stuff!
however, please see this change here: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Bulgarian_language&diff=216614260&oldid=216480357
Please ask your bot not to revert it to the way it was before (which is did several days ago) - as non-unicode-compatible computers can't read the symbol it substitutes.
Thanx, and keep up the good work! 62.176.111.68 ( talk) 12:57, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at Wikipedia:Highly Active Users, SoxBot V, was blocked for its constant updating. With this bot out of operation, a patch is in the works. Until that patch is reviewed and accepted by the developers, some options have been presented to use as workarounds: 1) Qui monobook (not available in Internet Explorer); 2) User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate; 3) Manually updating User:StatusBot/Status/USERNAME; or 4) Not worry about it and wait for the patch to go through, which hopefully won't take long. If you have another method, you can use that, too. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Useight ( talk) 22:25, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
If you can, have a look at Drainage in New Orleans, it shouldn't be in the category, but I don't have time to figure out why it is. Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 10:23 4 June 2008 (GMT).
I have edited that Japanese alias article, split the 'how-to' stuff into a non-WP article, and put the Alien registration cardinfo into a separate WP article. I have applied for a peer review. If you would like to contribute to either article, please do so. If you need to discuss the article, pleased do it on the article discussion page, and not my talk page. Thanks.-- Mak Allen ( talk) 02:45, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Template:Ongoing event has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Yellowdesk ( talk) 03:20, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for explaining! Now I will know should I ever be the one to create the montly category again. ♦Tangerines♦· Talk 13:38, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. Strange edit by the bot [25]. Please check. Other edits appear to be good Alex Bakharev ( talk) 11:55, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
In the article
Yotare Minami-no-wari, Aza-take-no-gō, Ōaza-tobishima-shinden, Tobishima-mura, Ama-gun, Aichi-ken, Smackbot replaced {{Disputed_title}}
with {{Disputed title$2
in a
revision as of 22:41, 12 March 2008. Another user corrected that on 21:14, 23 May 2008, but Smackbot made the same edit again in a
revision as of 11:17, 6 June 2008. I have corrected it and added a date tag, so this particular article shouldn't be affected again. --
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In the vast majority of cases, such as in articles like this, only the city is relevant to the article. The state is included only in order to fully qualify the city name; the state is irrelevant to the context of the article and ought not be linked separately. So, changing City, State to City, State only complicates the markup in source and creates over-linking. — Centrx→ talk • 21:16, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
This edit doesn't seem helpful enough to warrant cluttering the article history with it. Is there some threshold below which smackbot realizes it could make an edit, but chooses not to do so? ( sdsds - talk) 03:11, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
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Can you add the four split templates ({{ Split}} {{ Split-apart}} {{ Splitsection}} {{ Splitsections}}) to the list of templates to which you add the date? -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 10:14, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
I left a message here but it was archived before you replied to it. I just want to make sure you don't loose track of it (in case you were thinking of replying to it -- if not please let me know). The message is now located at User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2008May#Requrements for Friendly AI. Cheers, Waldir talk 13:32, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi ! On the above page Tag on neutrality and POV has been put again. Page has only well researched and verifiable information, with all the citations and references. Still, some editors raise issues and create controversies. The administrators or editors are doing nothing to preserve the quality of the page. An action from your side is anticipated. Please respond!
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Do you have any idea what changed to make this jump from 40,000+ articles to 110,000+ articles? I can't figure out where they came from.-- BirgitteSB 16:32, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, could you check SmackBot's behavior in connection with the template {{ Tracklist}}? It appears to remove the extra line breaks between individual tracks (note that the diff could take a little to load), which are there to keep the overall template maintainable, much like those between groups in navboxes. – Cyrus XIII ( talk) 20:39, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
I believe that Army1987's last change was for headers, so I am surprised that SmackBot followed with a clean up date. You might reply on the talk page for Time in physics if you wish. -- Ancheta Wis ( talk) 00:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
It appears from this diff that the Smackbot is changing the date format on the AFD templates, now I've not noticed this before, and as the "wrong version" was generated by subst'ing the relevant template, I wasn't sure if this was in error, or if the syntax has changed recently and you're tidying up... -- Ratarsed ( talk) 07:59, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Smackbot went through Fire captain twice in rapid succession, leaving a mangled mergeto tag behind. [26] [27] I'm hand-fixing what it did, just bringing this up as a bug report. Thanks! Jclemens ( talk) 21:17, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
I forgot to notify you at the time, but (in an effort to help out another user) I nominated Scientific Mathod, a redirect that you created, at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2008 June 11. You may want to comment there. Deor ( talk) 02:06, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hello! I'd like to ask again that SmackBot be corrected so that when it finds the sequence:
{{Persondata...}} {{Lifetime...}}
It stop swapping their position, as happened in this case.
{{ Lifetime}} is expected to go below {{ Persondata}}, not above it. -- alexgieg ( talk) 17:30, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Keosauqua, IA got changed from 1,066 people, 467 households, and 270 familes to 5,2 and 2, in the demographics area. Bug? -- Vaevictus ( talk) 00:11, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich. As usual, the Homelessness article is getting creamed with vandalism especially from anonymous editors. It is a real chore to keep up with it. Any help ? Bests. -- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 22:30, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
This bot removes paragraph (<p>
) tags from text that's marked off with blockquote (<blockquote>
) tags. It should not do this. If a blockquote contains more than one paragraph, removing the paragraph tags will concatinate these paragraphs, even if they are separated in the source by line feeds. For instance, this bot's recent change to
Lucky duckies had this effect, but I've seen this bot cause the same problem on other pages as well. -
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Silly null edit You might want to make SmackBot stop doing things like this; it seems pointless. Let me know if there's something I'm missing here. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 05:33, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
In this diff of Snake dentition, SmackBot removed the stub template from an article. Why did it do this? Is there some critical size of page beyond which it will remove stub tags? Also, in this diff of Democratic Center Party, SmackBot changed {{ uncategorized}} to {{ uncategorizedstub}} when the article was already in a stub category (but not a normal category). Why did it do this? Is this correct? Rhebus ( talk) 12:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
[29]. Might indicate a more general problem of using templates within templates. Does your bot just look for the next }} and put the date in front of it? --- RockMFR 18:39, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello there. Unless there's a nuance I'm missing, this edit, where the already-dated {{fact|date=June 2008}} becomes {{Fact|date=June 2008}}, seems a bit on the redundant side. -- McGeddon ( talk) 23:10, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hello! It's the 3rd time (I think) I report this bug. As you can see in this diff, SmackBot takes {{ Lifetime}} and places it above {{ Persondata}}. This SHOULD NOT happen. "Lifetime" (and its redirects) are shorthands for "DEFAULTSORT" followed by two categories. Thus, it should always go below "Persondata".
Can you please fix SmackBot to avoid this behavior? Or if not, at least explain why not? -- alexgieg ( talk) 14:22, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
<!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]] --> {{Persondata |NAME = Macnab, Angus |ALTERNATIVE NAMES = |SHORT DESCRIPTION = Writer and historian on Medieval Spain |DATE OF BIRTH = 1906 |PLACE OF BIRTH = [[London]], [[United Kingdom]] |DATE OF DEATH = 1977 |PLACE OF DEATH = [[Madrid]], [[Spain]] }} {{Lifetime|1906|1977|Macnab, Angus}} [[Category:Study of religion]] [[Category:British medievalists]] [[Category:Traditionalism]] [[pt:Angus Macnab]]
<!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]] --> {{Lifetime|1906|1977|Macnab, Angus}} {{Persondata |NAME = Macnab, Angus |ALTERNATIVE NAMES = |SHORT DESCRIPTION = Writer and historian on Medieval Spain |DATE OF BIRTH = 1906 |PLACE OF BIRTH = [[London]], [[United Kingdom]] |DATE OF DEATH = 1977 |PLACE OF DEATH = [[Madrid]], [[Spain]] }} [[Category:Study of religion]] [[Category:British medievalists]] [[Category:Traditionalism]] [[pt:Angus Macnab]]
General SmackBot praise: Great general-purpose utility. Thanks for the contribution! Erobson ( Talk) 03:35, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Can you get SmackBot onto date sorting of the {{ split}} tags? Cheers. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 03:58, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
SmackBot erroneously removed {{ 1980s-play-stub}} from A Few Good Men. Perhaps it is not smart enough to be able to tell that an article about a play and its film adaptation could be a stub in one case but not the other. 67.100.127.220 ( talk) 03:50, 30 June 2008 (UTC).
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Hi -I think citation is needed for 'Allegation'section of Christmas Humphreys page. Secretly taped conversation between Andre McCallum and Christmas Humphreys appears in RUTH ELLIS MY SISTER'S SECRET LIFE. Perhaps this info could be uplifted please. Thanks. Charlton1 ( talk) 18:18, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
As you are the creator of SmackBot I was wondering if you could help me with this idea. I am willing to be responsible for running and maintaining it if you could help me with the first round of coding (I am an old semi-retired programmer but I have never created any WP software or bots before).
I am exploring the feasability of creating functionality similar to what I described here. The heart of this idea is to create a fair and objective way to determine what is "a reasonable amount of time for a response". For purposes of discussion (these numbers may change) I am assuming 3 days is reasonable but I am also assuming that many editors are not on Wikipedia every single day. My solution is to try and determine how often an article is editted (ie: Mean Time Between Edits) and give 3x that number (max=30) days suggested waiting period for a response. This would be advisory only and would not alter policy in any way.
My first thought was to make this a function that the template parser would handle (like the PROD template does) but now I am wondering if this could be implemented into a bot similar to SmackBot.
I see two options.
OPTION 1:
Have MTBEbot add more parameters to certain templates. Example, SmackBot currently changes
{{notability}} to {{notability|date=June 2008}}. What I propose is that MTBEbot would change it to:
or perhaps more simply just:
OPTION 2:
Have MTBEbot create a new section using a template in the talkpage which would include the above parameters and also the last 50-100 characters prior to the tag. I think it would look something like:
{{MTBEtag|fact|"...ew York City Mayor declared that he enjoyed meeting [[Marylin Monroe|Miss Monroe]] very much and looked forward to doing it with her next year."|timestamp=20080630235959|MTBE=3,9|RTR=23:59, 8 July 2008}}
This would of course be expanded into a meaningful message.
While I actually like this better I am not sure if this can be done ... can a WP bot pull data from a relative byte position within the article text?
Obviously the hardest part is calculating MTBE by analyzing the edit history. That is why I suggest a separate bot since it probably would run slower than SmackBot.
If you think such functionality could be developed I would pursue getting templates authorized for modification to take advantage of such parameters. These modified templates would then leave a small text comment at the bottom of the template saying something like:
"Analysis of the edit history of this page suggests a reasonable time to wait for a response on this tag would be 9 days, which would be sometime after 8 July 2008."
What do you think? Low Sea ( talk) 18:30, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
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I'm thinking it needs to be a tad bigger. I can barely see it. ;) Rockfang ( talk) 19:25, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
See this diff, where the bot incorrectly makes a substitution that afouls the template (see the rendered template). / Blaxthos ( t / c ) 04:13, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
As you may know, the StatusBot responsible for maintaining the status of the Highly Active Users was taken offline. We now have a replacement in the Qui status system. This semi-automatic system will allow you to easily update your status page found at Special:Mypage/Status which the HAU page code is now designed to read from. If you are already using Qui (or a compatible system) - great! - no action is needed (other than remembering to update your status as necessary). If not, consider installing Qui. You can also manually update this status by changing the page text to online, offline, or busy. While it is not mandatory, the nature of HAU is that people are often seeking a quick answer from someone who is online and keeping our statuses up-to-date will assist with this. Note if you were previously using your /Status page as something other than a one-word status indicator, your HAU entry may have been set to "status=n" to correct display issues. Please clear this parameter if you change things to be "HAU compatible". Further questions can be raised at WT:HAU. This message was delivered by xenobot 23:09, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Is this really a change worth making? — Tivedshambo ( t/ c) 22:43, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Since there's no actual change happening, can it be worth the bot's time and effort expenditure to just convert a lowercase to a capitalized template as here? — pd_THOR | =/\= | 03:40, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
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Edits like this seem completely unnecessary. Am I wrong? II | ( t - c) 07:26, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
I just reverted smackbot, which got confused at Skolem's paradox and deleted the name of a journal (possibly because some other editor did something odd with the references). R.e.b. ( talk) 03:12, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Any chance of adding the date parameter to the four {{ split}} tags? Cheers. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 23:28, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Thought I should mention that SmackBot recently
made an edit at
Year 2038 problem in which it removed the underscore in "<code>[[time_t]]</code>" (changing
time_t
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time t
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Smackbot seems to have placed an "inappropriate tone" label on this page which I think is not correct. I edited it out but it's still appearing there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_arms
Needs archiving. Rich Farmbrough, 08:46 27 June 2008 (GMT).
Here's the the link for original article on where the rumor started that Pandemic is developing the Dark Knight game.
Rumor: Pandemic to Develop New Batman Game by Matt Casamassina May 17, 2007 http://ps3.ign.com/articles/789/789648p1.html
I'm just signed up for Wikipedia and wasn't exactly sure how the editing process worked. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AzBat360 ( talk • contribs) 05:14, 4 April 2008 Needs archiving. Rich Farmbrough, 08:46 27 June 2008 (GMT).
I hope I am doing this correctly. I have no experience doing stuff with wikipedia.
Rich, I see that in 2005, you were one of the first people associated with the wikipedia entry on the Italian 10th army ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Tenth_Army). I am trying to find out what sources the article in question was drawn from.
thanks,
Tom ([email protected])
hi there, my name is omar abdel ghaffar khalifa, and i'm the grandson of dr. farkhonda hassan, i may have useful information on her personal life, photos, experience, anything you need. my email is [email protected]. feel free to contact me anytime.
best regards,
Omar Khalifa
"Some Laz living in Turkey do not accept the umbrella term "Kartvelian" no no no Anybody Lazs dont accept that fascist 'Kartveli' term.Stop vandalism and all Kartvelist attacks.Lazs arent Georgian.All Lazs living in Turkey believe that reality.In some Laz living Georgia believe.But not important.Because Kartvelism, Kartveli languages and Lazs and other Georgians what is this ? Are you insane ?Lazs arent Georgian.Lazs are a Caucasic claim in Georgia-Turkey.I'm a Laz(Ma Lazi vore-Me Lazi var) but im not brother of Kartvelians/Georgians.Lazs are brother claim of Mingrelian nation.And Lazs are cousin of Georgians.
In Georgia, The number of Mingrelian speakers is declining, and most Mingrelian speakers positively identify themselves as "Georgian" (Kartveli).There are no Mingrelian language schools, books, or newspapers, although there were periodic attempts at establishing Mingrelian as a literary language in the late czarist and early Soviet periods.The assimilation of Mingrelians by the Georgians, which accelerated in the nineteenth century under the impact of modernization, was completed after the Soviet annexation and MİSHA's Georgia's...
And i didnt see Georgian Catholic Laz :) This is stupidly lie. Yes a small minority(in Sakartvelo) Lazs are Orthodox Predominantly Lazs are Muslim.Not Catholic.
We know they.Stop "Georgianization" ATTACKS.Thats way please open Laz people page.And i shall change that falsesMy documents from MINORITYRIGHTS.COM gropus.Please we(Lazs) believe and much want. TuTastemre LAZ
Hi, did you get a chance yet to bring up SmackBot's removal of linebreaks in the {{ tracklist}} template? It still appears to be an issue. – Cyrus XIII ( talk) 08:36, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
I just saw this template. I assume you forgot about it, what to do with it? Garion96 (talk) 21:46, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Rich,
You (or your bot) left a neologism note at Social_Information_Processing, a page that I recently developed. Would you tell me the next step. Am I supposed to defend the term in some forum? If I don't is the page going to be deleted? I'm confused about what happens next.
Thanks.
-- RussAbbott ( talk) 19:38, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
P.S. Looking for other possible acceptable neologisms, I just checked today's Main page. It includes a pointer to History of Solidarity. Isn't that a neologism? It certainly isn't the name of a defined entity. It's simply a descriptive phrase that refers to the history of the Solidarity movement. My term, Social Information Processing, although fairly new, is the name of an actual conference sponsored by a respected organization ( AAAI) and held at a respected University ( Stanford). It also appears in the title of a paper published in a respected journal ( IEEE Internet Computing). This is an important field for which there is no other name. As it turns out, I have the time to devote to creating a page about the field. I hope that Wikipedia will be willing to accommodate it. -- RussAbbott ( talk) 19:57, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi again, Rich,
I'm not sure how to proceed. You neologism marker on the Social Information Processing page will discourage people from contributing. So I'm going to remove it. My response is in the P.S. above. Let me know what else we should do about this if anything.
If yuo want to continue this discussion, I'd appreciate it if you would continue it on Talk:Social Information Processing. Thanks -- RussAbbott ( talk) 03:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I work for RPA ( Rubin Postaer and Associates,) and I noticed that you revised the agency's article. I'm hoping you can provide some guidance on how to best edit our profile in order to remove the "The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia" message. I'm keen to understand how to make the entry more encyclopedic and where to address inappropriate tone.
Thank you, Britt McColl Bdainorpa ( talk) 20:30, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, I need to upload to some of the articles I started, but still I cannot do that? Could you tell me why and how can I do that please? Dhammika98 ( talk) 12:09, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Your bot sucks. It keeps trying to say articles are similar when in fact they are very different. Fix it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.209.52.69 ( talk) 07:00, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. As per your 2006 request (in the talk page about today's total solar eclipse), I have added a link to the definition of central eclipse in the article. CielProfond ( talk) 07:41, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Date: 13:00 onwards, Sunday 10 August 2008
Venue: Penderel's Oak pub, Holborn WC1 map
More information: Wikipedia:Meetup/London 12
Hello,
I noticed that you have listed yourself as a Wikipedian in London, so I thought you might like to come to one of our monthly social meetups. The next one is going to be on Sunday 10 August, which might well be rather short notice, but if you can't come this time, we try to have one every second Sunday of the month.
If you haven't been before, these meetups are mainly casual social events for Wikipedia enthusiasts in which we chat about Wikipedia and any other topics we fancy. It's a great way to meet some very keen Wikipedians, but we'd also love for you to come along if you're interested in finding out more about Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, or other collaborative wiki projects too.
The location is a pub that is quite quiet and family friendly on a Sunday lunchtime, so hopefully younger Wikipedians will also feel welcome and safe. Alcohol consumption is certainly not required!
Although the meetups are popular, many UK-based editors still don't know about them. It would be great to welcome some fresh faces, so I hope you can come along.
Yours,
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Please forgive the slightly impersonal mass-invite!
I'm trying to understand the criteria for removing biographical information. For example, why is the biographical information for one open source advocate and programmer relevant, while the biographical information for another is not?
Brianjfox ( talk) 14:08, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Which are article are you referring to? -- Ramu50 ( talk) 18:31, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Diff 2Aug08 Bot detected Template:VCT as a Verify Credibility template instance. 75.132.192.205 ( talk) 02:34, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
You're bot is undoing my hard work (here) over and over again. When I write an article, I format it properly. What I have done is set it like: [[Human|Humans]] to display the word "Humans" while linking to the article "Human." It continuously reverts my edits to format it as such: [[Human]]s. The result is a half-hyperlinked word. Cindy About/ T/ P/ C/ 02:28, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Added something to your list. Cheers, Face 08:12, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Is this article, namely Paleo, a self-advert ? Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 23:16, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Change_DATE_from_monthname_year_to_year-month a proposal is raised to change the DATE template. It will may affect the working of your bot. Is the proposal a way to go? Nsaa ( talk) 20:12, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Re: [30]: Why does the bot move the stub tag below the language links? The stub tag is temporary and is most relevant to the text of the article, and should not be lost below other meta-information. I would prefer it to go right below the text, otherwise it fails some of its purpose, but regardless above the category tags is normal. Could you set the bot not to move stub tags? — Centrx→ talk • 16:11, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Do you have any involvement with " Orval Hobart Mowrer"? If so, can you tell me what the unverified content is? ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rose bartram ( talk • contribs) 20:52, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
I saw several SmackBot edits today that are using May for the current month instead of August. [31] [32] [33] [34] — Chris Capoccia T⁄ C 07:30, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Here's another one [35] Edgepedia ( talk) 08:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Surely this is pointless? Clutters the edit history? Punkmorten ( talk) 13:23, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Fortunately it's a low key edit war. They haven't gotten to calling each other names, or making nasty comments on each other's user talk pages. :-) Still, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Harper%27s_Bazaar&action=history . I'll drop a similar note on the other bot maintainer's page - can the two of you straighten it out, please? -- GRuban ( talk) 20:38, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the date parameter on the split tags. A great help for maintenance. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 00:44, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
And self-promoting on wikipedia again. Not flogging the Beatles Last Memento anymore but a piece of his own: Make a Friend Out of Me which involves a duet between him and er.... a whale. Oh and there's another here: Halley's Comet (song)
DavidFarmbrough ( talk) 13:59, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the friendly notice about parameters for this template, which I do find quite useful. I have looked at the documentation once or twice, and somehow didn't understand the parameter calls. Perhaps I'll do a little copyediting there - cheers, Easchiff( talk) 15:52, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
You just made some date fix changes on the manga page (or your bot did), which leads to a question I've never seen answered to my satisfaction. The issue is so strange that it might warrant being included in your "Things that stayed too long" page. Thus -- and it's only one example of many:
Reference #63 in the Manga article arises from the following text:
The influence of manga on international cartooning has grown considerably in the last two decades. [3]
So we click on the October 22 link. Among a large number of other things, we get:
I admit that I did not read the entire list, but only gazed and skimmed. I didn't find anything about manga or about Daniel Pink or about the Manga Industrial Complex. So, my question, why link this particular example of "October 22" to the list of Hannibal, mysterious fires, and Emperor Kanmu?
Unfortunately, Wikipedia has its fill of people who don't like it when their ways are questioned. I hope that you're not one of them. I question the value and intention of linking the manga article to a list of really quite varied but irrelevant events that happened on October 22. And I can assure you that October 22 has no special relevance to manga.
I don't have the time to tilt at windmills and remove all these date links. But they have no meaning to, and convey no information about, the topic of the article.
So why is the date linked to an irrelevant list?
Timothy Perper ( talk) 16:35, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I agree with the protection of this template, however cascading protection prevents editing of the documentation which is transcluded onto it. There are only two relevant transclusions and they are already fully protected. Would you mind removing the cascade? Thanks. -- zzuuzz (talk) 16:02, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
you rock. your things that stayed too long always make me laugh when i look at them.-- Priorburst0 ( talk) 01:59, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
This user seems to be alright . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.142.89.25 ( talk) 02:53, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the corrections. I want to change the title to Raymond Harries, as that is his full name, do you how? Dapi89 ( talk) 16:36, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey Rich, I unfortunately have to disagree with your move there. Per WP:CAPS, titled works should have article titles in all uppercase with the exception of coordinating conjunctions and short prepositions. Since "Is" is a verb, and "My" is an adjective, they both should remain in uppercase, as per convention. (This is usually pretty consistent across all of the grammar books as well, such as Strunk/White and UChicago, IIRC.) Thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 20:07, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
I recently found your SmackBot disarrayed Language Links in article Dream of the Red Chamber (Problem Details) . The zh-classical: and ja: is replaced in a wrong place. Can you help fix this problem? 百家姓之四 討論 (Discussion) 03:41, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Mr Farmbrough. You do realise you bit has the highest edit count for a non admin or sysop. You are aware, arn't you?-- Andrzejestrować Zajaczajkowski Plecaxpiwórserafinowiczaświadzenie Poświadczyxwiadectwo-Bjornovich talk Special:Contributions/contribs 22:16, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry I haven't been sending this over the past few weeks. Ralbot ( talk) 05:47, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
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A little unusual: [36] is a bit weird as it included Category:Living persons to the article although the article also has Category:1929 deaths. Is this a bug? x42bn6 Talk Mess 08:41, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
would you please give your balanced opinion on the tagging that your Smackbot added to the "References in popular culture" section of the Tetragrammaton article ? I'm talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Tetragrammaton&oldid=206376574
I'm not well enough versed in Wikipedia culture to assess this situation. I started this section with a few entries, and I was satisfied to see various new contributions. By April 2008, it had become an intriguing list of a handful of references from all sides of popular culture.
At that moment, your Smackbot recommended avoiding such a trivia list. I can understand the imperative of not using Wikipedia as a free database of random shopping lists and cheat sheets ; on the other hand, I would think that a section like "References in popular culture", occurring in many articles, will always be of a somewhat diverse nature. What is the rule of thumb here ... ?
Unrelated to your Smackbot's intervention, somebody removed the section altogether some time later. I think on erroneous grounds, and I regret the loss of what I felt was interesting information, but I won't start debating it on the article's talk page, until your bot's guideline can be confirmed or revoked. After all, it might prove to have been a good thing that the bot's opinion was put into action.
Incidentally, this article seems controversy-prone and has a vivid history of edit wars. This one item is just the least of its worries. Even when you would agree that the section did belong in there like it once existed, I'm a bit timid about raking up the mud in that cesspool. Perhaps I should call in an editor or an arbitrator or something, but I doubt that I'm motivated that much.
Walter —Preceding
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Hi, just a note about SmackBot regarding [37] and [38]; "August" needs to have a capital "a" otherwise it doesn't categorise properly and the page ends up in Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template. It's no big deal as I'm keeping an eye on the category and fixing anything that shows up there but I just thought you would like to know. ~ AmeIiorate U T C @ 04:02, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, I seem to have found another chore for SmackBot. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 15:59, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
That was a section expander for a wiki-project that was recently brought up to latest code. There was a vote on it a while back and we were allowed to keep it. Please put votes up for these things before doing them. Lego3400: The Sage of Time ( talk) 04:05, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
SmackBot incorrectly removed underscores from links to dynamic_cast from the Comparison of programming languages (object-oriented programming) article. .-- Btx40 ( talk) 15:14, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Is this really necessary? Sometimes (as in my case) a userspace page remains as a shapshot of a historical version of the page (an edit sandbox as at the moment when the article was first released to public space). The bot tagged its "expand" boilerplates with August 2008 while in fact it was February 2007. I admit that leaving those boilerplates active was misleading but the bot shouldn't have been there! Regards, NVO ( talk) 09:34, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Your edits at Template:Lang broke some links on the bottom of the main page. I don't have time to look at what's going on, so I just reverted them. --- RockMFR 19:54, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Your bot continiously breaks this table: List of planetary bodies. Please stop.-- Dojarca ( talk) 06:48, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
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To avoid future confusion, I suggest adding all templates like {{ ISO 639 name tel}} to a category, say Category:Language name templates with an explanatory paragraph on the category page.
Regards, Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 21:37, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
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I didn't realize that was actually supposed to... well, be anything. You know what I mean. Try to look at it from my perspective there. ;) Sorry about the spam though! - Vianello ( talk) 03:29, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
Remember me? :) I've got something for smackbot! User:SQL/Reflist/1. I've re-written my software, and, gone back to analyzing references, if you're interested in a run, I've got about 7500 of them to work :) (The e-mail I sent you, had 30,000 that were not checked against the live wiki.... So, go ahead and disregard that :) SQL Query me! 04:35, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
The PersonData project states that PD comes before categories. I would take the template {{ Lifetime}} to be akin to categories, hence coming so PD precedes LT. I am wondering why SmackBot is going through and reversing the order. It seems unnecessary, and trivial. -- billinghurst ( talk) 15:07, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi. SmackBot just added a reference section and reflist to Bianco (surname). It's harmless, but in this case also pointless. Is there a reason? SamuelTheGhost ( talk) 21:36, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you might want to take a look at: [39], [40] and [41]. It seems that if there's a maintenance template right before where the reflist should go, SmackBot doesn't handle it right. Thanks, ~ AmeIiorate U T C @ 02:29, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi there Rich Farmbrough,
As a regularly contributing UK Wikipedian, we were wondering if you wanted to contribute to the Oxford bid to host the 2010 Wikimania conference. Please see here for details of how to get involved, we need all the help we can get if we are to put in a compelling bid.
We are also in the process of forming a new UK Wikimedia chapter to replace the soon to be folded old one. If you are interested in helping shape our plans, showing your support or becoming a future member or board member, please head over to the Wikimedia UK v2.0 page and let us know. We plan on holding an election in the next month to find the initial board, who will oversee the process of founding the company and accepting membership applications. They will then call an AGM to formally elect a new board who after obtaining charitable status will start the fund raising, promotion and active support for the UK Wikimedian community for which the chapter is being founded.
You may also wish to attend the next London meet-up if you are located near London at which both of these issues will be discussed. If you can't attend this meetup, you may want to watch Wikipedia:Meetup, for updates on future meets.
We look forward to hearing from you soon!
Thanks for reading.
·Add§hore· Talk/ Cont 08:17, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
On a different note but I will add this to the same section. Smack bot has a function of adding ref lists to articles that have the ef tag but no current ref list. I was wondering if you would be willing to share the code for this part of the bot so that I can try to develop it for another use. ·Add§hore· Talk/ Cont 12:07, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
I don't know if you fancy tackling these:
or whether you add them to SmackBot's tasks at some point in the future, once the bulk of the changes have been made by another bot?
From what I saw, these redirects you are creating are to themselves. Blanchardb - Me• MyEars• MyMouth- timed 17:49, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
The bot added a second reference section...it's not that big of a deal, but it might be a bad line of code or something? Just thought that I'd let you know. Sorry for the inconvenience...(see this edit.) the_ed 17 23:31, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
When adding {{reflist}} to an article that ends with an external reference, the bot placed it inside the closing square bracket. See http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Borrowash&oldid=235387109 -Arb. ( talk) 14:16, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich. It's at that name because the standard naming format for football league seasons is "League Name Year", e.g. The Football League 2007-08, so that's the 1. deild article for the 1983 season. Cheers, пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 14:44, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed edits like this were you/SmackBot removed the spaces out of headings. Please could you stop such edits (or start putting spaces into headings for better readability). Thanks, Cacycle ( talk) 19:13, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you may want to be aware of edits like this one where Smackbot changed the word from singular to plural. The singular is correct here as there is only one reference in the section. This came up previously at an attempt at featured article status and was agreed it should be singular. Redfarmer ( talk) 01:16, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Template:Citations missing has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ cont] ‹(-¿-)› 01:17, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I notice SmackBot added an uncat tag to 1932 in baseball. Although the article itself doesn't have any categories (as per the 1931, 1933...etc. articles), it is picking up a category (1932 in baseball) - presumably from a template, and so probably shouldn't be tagged. It's also curious that it picked on 1932, and not any of the other years.... :-) CultureDrone ( talk) 08:07, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Smacky thinks it's still August: [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], etc. — An gr 11:19, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Did you know your bot was adding {Reflist} to articles that also contained {reflist}, thereby producing double entries? See here [47]. MickMacNee ( talk) 15:06, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
As an editor who regularly works on WP:AIR aircraft articles, the removal of the line spaces within the {{ aircraft specifications}} and {{ aircontent}} templates is extremely annoying. The SPecs template in particular is very long, and the Aircontent one can be, and the line spaces help aid in spotting the correct group of fields quickly, especially to those whose eyes are no longer 20/20. Please have Smackbot stop removing these line spaces. Thanks for your consideration of the physical limitations of others over mere guidelines. - BillCJ ( talk) 19:12, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Why does Smackbot move the {{ Lifetime}} template outside of the category tags see http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Patrick_Rothfuss&diff=235794193&oldid=235702402? Thanks. -- Avi ( talk) 12:34, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Can you have a look at the discussion page for WikiJob? thank you! 86.0.221.59 ( talk) 18:30, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but there's another bot awaiting approval that does some of the same things as SmackBot. While reviewing its trial contributions, I noticed that SmackBot seems to be unwilling to yield the last word to anyone else. Since such edits are pretty useless, would it be possible for you to modify your bot so that it won't make edits that only affect the capitalization of template names? — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 01:54, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
THx for your help making a better article. -- Justindavila ( talk) 13:06, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
What's up with these? 1 2 3 The AWB Rules of use caution to avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits, as they waste resources and clog up watch lists. I am sure that an experienced bot-operator such as yourself is familiar with these guidelines, so are these somehow slipping through the cracks? Plasticup T/ C 19:25, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I've been mulling over the standard WP:Layout of our appendices, for a few months. Re: your latest comment at reflist - I really like the idea of moving the reflist below the usual navbox placement, to the end of the article. One problem is that it then separates the categories off by themselves. The categories/navboxes/seealsos all belong together... However! Your suggestion has led me to this idea for restructuring:
Just thinking out loud, feedback welcome. (I'm quite sure everyone has different opinions on ideal appendices ordering, and nothing is going to be a perfect fit for every situation. And this idea has probably been suggested before. But I thought I'd put it out...) -- Quiddity ( talk) 19:45, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm pretty amused by this, in general, but it should be looked at. At Sony Ericsson W890, over the course of two work passes over two days, the bot somehow decided that the article needed to be blanked. While the article is a little spammy, it's not *that* bad. :) - TexasAndroid ( talk) 18:23, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
One of the arbitrators has asked that every admin who is arguably involved in the events at Sarah Palin be notified of an arbitration case covering it. I therefore draw your attention to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#MZMcBride. In your case, you are, like me, one of those who made an edit to the article while it was full protected. GRBerry 19:45, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Does SmackBot check for misuse of {{ birth date}}, {{ death date}}, et al. For instance, as fixed in this edit? If not, please can it? Thank you. Andy Mabbett (aka Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy Mabbett; Andy Mabbett's contributions 08:50, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
this article has been posted for deletion..i have made the following appeal there:
if you can improve this article or if you believe that the article can be improved by removing the edit ban(say, exampple: semiprotect) and if you also concur that pok not equal to ajk, please help in saving this article from deleters with nationalistic (pakistani)/ religious(islamist?) motives for POK article removal(example: User:pahari sahib is pakistani)..please save the POKarticle... Kashmircloud ( talk) 10:13, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
AIUI, you check for badly-formatted ISBN numbers, but not badly formatted ISBN in in templates like that example. Can you, please? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy Mabbett; Andy Mabbett's contributions 15:14, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I wanted you to know that it hadn't escaped my notice, over time, that Smackbot provides a generally very useful set of functions for the community. Recall that I resisted the automatic dating of templates when it first started date tagging, because all the existing templates were at that point in time labeled with the same month. In due course, as the dates have spread out to be more representative of the actual dates of the tags, its date-tagging function has proven itself as a handy thing to have around. Just thought you might like to know. Good regards. ... Kenosis ( talk) 19:09, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich. User:Threesamagicnumber has only eight contributions Special:Contributions/Threesamagicnumber and they are all vandalism. I undid them. I'm not sure of the procedure to get a flag on the vandaliser so I'm reporting it to you. Maybe you can throw up a warning or check it out. Thanks and bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 13:46, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way for the bot to check for invalid months when fixing tags? see diff Should be September, not Sept Dbiel ( Talk) 02:35, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Smackbot just nominated Norma (female name) for deletion, but something tells me that combining Norma under Norman (name) would be more preferential rather than deleting. Please discuss any merging proposal you have about the section on my talkpage, if you must. Neurotic heart ( talk) 18:04, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich! I've been trying to add citations to the Nike Oregon Project article and improve it in general, but I am not a Wiki veteran and I have a question.
Do you know what these items mean?
This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims.
This article needs additional citations for verification.
There are no longer any "citations needed" marked, and I would have thought these comment items and their unsightly icons would have disappeared. Is there any additional info needed? (They're ugly! LOL)
Thanks for helping me out! Tracktowner Tracktowner ( talk) 03:30, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
If I was to accidentally press the off switch, would you be able to turn SmackBot back on again? I haven't done this, but I just want to rest assured.-- Editor510 drop us a line, mate 17:31, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello! I had started to write a much longer post about SmackBot editing piped links, only to find my objection was unfounded when I actually read the article as opposed to looking at the diff. I also learned something important about making piped links from the edit it made, which I can use in my editing from now on. :) But I also noticed SmackBot's userpage documentation stated that cleaning up piped links was an Abandoned Task. Since it does edit piped links, should that part of the page be changed? Thanks for your maintenance of the Bot and your time in reading this! LaughingVulcan 11:34, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
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Just trying to tidy these up . Your bot is excluded from Harry McNish/. If you can confirm it is wise to blockquote as on that page you could remove the bots template. Rich Farmbrough, 19:47 7 September 2008 (GMT).
Re
your comments on
my bot request for "birth dates" in templates generating hCards for organisations, etc. I have a 'better idea: I'll request the addition of class="bday"
to {{
Start date}}, which also allows YYYY and YYYY_MM dates.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
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Charles Peterson (disambiguation) - The only thing the bot did was move the disambig template after the Long Comment template, which is an invisible, maintenence template. I can sorta understand the bot doing this if it has other, additional work on the page, but if this is the only thing that the bot does to a page, it seems to me like it's a lot of wasted effort for a basically meaningless edit. So I'm wondering somewhat what it was that got the bot's attention in the first place, so that I can figure out if I can avoid catching it's attention. I place the comment template on a lot of pages, including disambiguation, and since it's a maintenance template, and not a part of the contents of the page, I generally want to place it after all valid contents of the page, which includes it being after the disambig templates. If there's something besides just the placement that I can avoid doing to avoid getting the bot's attention, it would be good to know. - TexasAndroid ( talk) 17:13, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
hi, i think you are administrator(forgive me for bothering you if you are not). can you semiprotect POK ARTICLE page to avoid vandalism by an anonymous 86 ip vandal..this dynamic ip vandal was previously banned as user: Nangparbat [48]..i am posting this message here because you had done an edit in the page that was later vandalised by that guy.. Kashmircloud ( talk) 21:28, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
I acknowledge your last message. Let me know when SmackBot gets fixed, okay? Oh, are you an admin? AdirondackMan ( talk) 23:23, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi. A quick question - is SmackBot the only (currently) automated means of tagging uncategorised tags with the {{uncat}} tag, and if so, is this bit still running ? I only ask as the list in the Category:Uncategorized pages is currently down to 411 which is about the lowest I've ever seen it - so either we've cleared the majority of the backlog and new articles are being categorised, or they're not getting tagged and there's a backlog/deluge/flood/catastrophe/armageddon (delete depending how poetic you feel) due to descend on that category....any thoughts ? :-) CultureDrone ( talk) 07:18, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
WP:AWB bots are all capable of tagging with (I think) orphan, uncat, wikify and stub:- SB generally has this option turned on. The problem is generating the list of candiates, Special:lonelypages for example has mostly disambiguation or already tagged orphans. I have done a few tagging runs agianst "Newpages" whic works quite well. Having said that there are a number of people who are expert catters, anbd uncat has usually been kept up with better than the other dated categories. I will look a little more closely when I return home later today or tomorrow. Rich Farmbrough, 12:02 11 September 2008 (GMT).
Hi, I added the template again to prevent that interwiki problem, dont know how to prevent it any other way --— Typ932 T | C 20:35, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to fix them all. Rich Farmbrough, 14:31 13 September 2008 (GMT).
Hi Rich. I'm trying to avoid a revert situation. User:Wikiworker12 has put " Bumvertising" stuff all over the Homelessness article. It's specious at best. It denigrates the homeless and isn't a veritable help or solution to it. Please advise. User:Wikiworker12 is not very cooperative and seems to be selling it. Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 00:51, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on SitaxseNtan, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo.
Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you believe that there is a reason to keep the redirect, you can request that
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Just wondering if the benefit of making sure that tags are properly capitalized exceeds the amount of unnecessary storage and database overhead caused by additional changes. The uncapitalized tags seem to display correctly. Bongomatic ( talk) 14:02, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
{{
Start date}} now outputs class="bday"
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[49] and
my bot request. It can also be used for YYYY and YYYY-MM dates. Any idea when you might start, please?
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Update: I'm now maintaining a list of templates needing the conversion, at User:Pigsonthewing/to-do#Date conversions. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 22:14, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
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I have nominated {{ Coordinate}} for deletion. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 19:22, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I hope I am writing this to the correct place, I am not very familiar with editing, communicating on Wikipedia.
I think you edited an entry, named Intellectual Decathlon. Placed some "citation needed" marks and removed a link, because of "copyrighted material"
1. Citation is not needed, because I am the author of Intellectual Decathlon and I made the Wikipedia entry on it. My name (Gabor Laufer, M.D.) is clearly stated in the Article and can be identified in the edit history as the original article creator too. Therefore, there can be no better citation than my own words about the program I wrote.
2. The same applies to the removed link to copyrighted material. I made the PC emulator version available for download, and since I own all the rights to the program, I have the right to put it up for download. The packaged Apple emulator is freeware.
In the extreme case, if you would think that MUSE owns the program, it does not. It didn't already when they went bankrupt and out of existence, because we had a 2 years contract which I refused to renew at the time.
Therefore, please undo the changes you made in August 2008.
You may reach me on [email protected], if you wish.
Thank You,
Gabor Laufer, M.D. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gabor Laufer ( talk • contribs) 22:16, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi I see that you have tagged this page as of questionable notability. I assume that you a) don't live in Monaco or you would know the importance it has there. b) Do not appreciate the significance of the Season being awarded HSH's High Patronage (the equivilent of a UK Royal Warrent) in its first year - other groups and artistic institutions have been in the Principality for YEARS and have never received High Patronage and c) are not involved in Theatre otherwise you would know what an important cultural initiative this is. Please accept the notability of this and remove the tag. Thank you. Crowley666 ( talk) 12:57, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
PS Also, please do not remove the correct form of address for HSH Prince Albert. This is a matter of form and not political, republican or any other reason. It is correct and polite to address anybody by their correct title. Crowley666 ( talk) 13:03, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your response, but I had not seen that tag there before. As I think that I have proved its notability, may I therefore remove the tag? Crowley666 ( talk) 16:55, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
It is not just one season. 2007 was the first season thats all. The new 2009 season has been announced and the details must NOT be merged with the Theatre Princess Grace for two reasons: 1) Theatre Princess Grace is a venue only, is not a producing venue and was not producing the season, just receiving it and 2) the 2009 season will be at a different venue in Monaco. I also notice that you have arbitrarily removed the wording "graciously awarded". This is the precise wording from the Royal Palace documents and it is expected that the correct wording should always be used. With great respect, I do not understand why these things should have to be explained retrospectively. The matter of their deletion should be discussed before someone, who may not necessarily know the proper form or wording, just takes it on themselves to change things. Would you not agree that it would be nice to see that Wikipedia was actually using the correct form of wording for once? Crowley666 ( talk) 18:27, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for that. The term High Patronage is indeed a technical and authoritative term, similar to your Royal Warrant, awarded to 'Suppliers of ... to the UK Royal Family'. The correct form would also include a capital H for "His High Patronage" but as it is obviously unsettling for you, perhaps you would prefer it as a lowercase h? Crowley666 ( talk) 19:41, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Link to Royal Warrant now included. Thanks. Crowley666 ( talk) 22:53, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Elastolin - Smackbot changed "REFERENCES" to "ReferenceS" - missing the cap in the last letter. Greetings, -- Janke | Talk 07:12, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
What was the point of this edit? - [50] - AnonMoos ( talk) 22:40, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I don't think it's working as you expect. On Wapping Hydraulic Power Station just now, Smackbot has done a change labelled "Embolden title and general fixes". What this actually amounted to was the removal of the double-square brackets on the first mention in the lead (which would have emboldened the title, by default) without their replacement with triple quotes. Hence the action 'Embolden title' has actually done the opposite! I've fixed the article, but I think the bot will need some attention...
EdJogg ( talk) 00:30, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Was this change a bug or intentional?-- Rockfang ( talk) 00:58, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
In Quark, your bot replaced a "By whom?" tag with a "Citation needed" tag. http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Quark&curid=25179&diff=241381336&oldid=241374700 -- A r m y 1 9 8 7 ! ! ! 20:18, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
take a look at this, where your name also appears, please: User_talk:Jennavecia#blanked_-_why.3F
Cesar Tort 16:48, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
The official chart positions of the singles: The Bleeding : #7 Never Enough : #8
Five Finger Death Punch - The Bleeding top position on Active Rock Charts was #7 proof: http://a911.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/116/l_6713f8944a49e5d2f3530dc7dece4826.jpg
The second single - Never Enough - top position on Active Rock Charts were #8 proof: http://a63.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/121/l_f2745bb18b3eeca4a9a52d2440fabfa6.jpg
Please stop changing it.
The albumsales: 189,896 copies Ref: Nielsen Soundscan
++ Thank You +++
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In this edit [51] to Landmark Center (St. Paul) the bot did some general fixes but failed to embolden the title (which was needed). Other examples include Orono High School and Island Station Power Plant. Thanks for your efforts!-- Appraiser ( talk) 16:30, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
In cases where the article title is emboldened by a self-link, your bot has been removing the self-link, thus disemboldening the title rather than emboldening it (e.g. [52], [53].) Spacepotato ( talk) 17:59, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Smackbot's edit here, which moved the Lifetime template before the categories was reverted here. The Lifetime template Usage guideline states that the Lifetime templateshould be placed after the last category, not before them. Would you please instruct Smackbot to correctly handle this, and to revert any changes that were done in error. Thanks. Truthanado ( talk) 01:55, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Are edits like this necessary? I thought these were discouraged as per here. 71.210.190.90 ( talk) 02:10, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Do you still have a need for Template:Testafd? If not, please list it for deletion. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 00:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
[54] It missed some full dates and a number of partial dates. See also WP:AN/I#SmackBot_changing_date_formatting_in_artlces_in_violation_of_MOS Gimmetrow 12:57, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
First, thank you for your edits. I take it that you are a common user who is familiar with this. I am a new user whose sources of updated information came from interviews shared with the public by Ray Parker, Jr. His original page sadly lacked updates as any musician should receive when new information becomes public so in gathering information about him and attempting to stay within Wikipedia guidelines, I have sources that I placed in however, there are still the warnings. Would you be kind enough to help me do what needs to be done in order for the page not to be deleted and it can stay 'verifiable'? Thank you
Cybdisco-- Cybdisco ( talk) 13:02, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed that (whilst making other edits) Smackbot is collapsing the blank lines before stubs (for example, this edit). This seems to go against the guidance at WP:STUB:
It is usually desirable to leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it.
And was wondering if this is a fault with the bot, or if there is a some other guidance that says "never have two blank lines" or something? -- ratarsed ( talk) 09:33, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Monoicous Bot mis-linking problems have started again. A non-English speaker began interwiki linking the articles incorrectly (again), and the bots are proliferating the same old problem again. -- EncycloPetey ( talk) 10:42, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich. We need some help with this. User:68.40.143.123) continues to vandalise the Subsidized housing article and essentially it is turning into a revert war which is useless. Other editors and I remove his POV ramblings inserted into the article and he keeps re-inserting it with no discussion. Can we get some protection ? Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 17:19, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Rich, right after the protection was lifted, the previous vandaliser ( User:68.40.143.123) resumed battering the article with the same edits which were rejected before by many people. Help ? He has been warned and editors tried to converse with him but there is no hope. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 16:33, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Rich, I did read and add some books and articles by Professor Patrick Minford, as you mentioned. Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 01:44, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Cheers. Need to watch my typing. (Rueful smile) Ka Faraq Gatri ( talk) 15:35, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Smackbot changed the correct spelling (Dantès) to an incorrect one (Dantes) of in a DEFAULTSORT tag for Edmond Dantès. Should it do that? -- Ccady ( talk) 14:32, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Looks like Smackbot isn't handling all the issues around apostrophes correctly. A common case is a name "X'Y" (such as O'Reilly), that sorts as "Xy" (e.g. Oreilly). Smackbot is leaving the "Y" capitalized. I can't think of case where the "Y" shouldn't be lower case; in essence, we're simulated case in-sensitive sorting by forcing each word to have a capitalized first letter and an all lower remainder. Studerby ( talk) 00:50, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
The bot is changing names like "Queen's College", which is correct, to "Queens College", which is incorrect and will get up the noses of members of that College who are always careful to get it right. It did the same with "Woman's College". I can not see a reason for it and it is wrong. -- Bduke (Discussion) 21:40, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
I have noticed that Smackbot has been breaking redirects by tagging them as stubs and orphans. Examples of this behavior are available
here,
here, and
here. The redirects being tagged are of the form #REDIRECT:[[target]]
and date from 2004, so this may be a case of Smackbot not recognizing an old redirect syntax. --
Allen3
talk 13:44, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Virgin America Hello, I'd ask that you please not edit a page that is protected, as your recent edit in removing capitalization on the phrase 'Main Cabin' is incorrect formatting. 'Main Cabin' is the official name of the cabin per Virgin America, and therefore is a proper noun and must be capitalized. In my opinion, it is unfair to take advantage of a page protection when most users cannot make corrections to your edits. Regards, NcSchu( Talk) 13:02, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
P.S. Neither of you asked me to revert my edit, that was what was needed. Since you didn't I almost assumed that it had been done by someone else - I have reverted. Rich Farmbrough, 16:17 7 October 2008 (UTC).
An article that you have been involved in editing, Texline Independent School District, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Texline Independent School District. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Whenaxis ( talk) 23:03, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, just writing regarding the recent edit SmackBot made to PRINCE2. I added a 'Clarify' tag (inline), to which SmackBot correctly added a pipe and date, but it changed '{{ Clarify}}' to '{{ Confusing}}' which is not inline, leaving a banner in the middle of a paragraph. I've reverted 'Confusing' to 'Clarify' and left the pipe. Cheers, Millstream3 ( talk) 09:58, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
I don't think changing dates to British format (day, then month) automatically is a good idea, since it affects even pages that should go the other way, as was recently done in Project for the New American Century. Maybe the bot can somehow sense which way the dates go on a page it's editing, and stick with that one? Korny O'Near ( talk) 16:33, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Well that article did contain four international dates, calling it damage is going a bit strong. Rich Farmbrough, 22:51 6 October 2008 (UTC).
Just noticing that Smackbot has created a number of redirects over the last couple of days, in the format "XXXX (disambiguation)", which redirects to "XXXX". I was wondering if there's a particular project or initiative that this is in support of? Taking an interest only because dab clean up is a primary focus for me. Thanks! Mlaffs ( talk) 02:36, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
SmackBot was stopped a few days ago with the complaint that it had inserted {{ Totally-disputed-section}} templates into Math equations. The bot has since been restarted, but I don't see any evidence that this problem was addressed. — Danorton ( talk) 18:06, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich - any reason why SmackBot is marking redirects as stubs? Grutness... wha? 23:44, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
An Airman's Letter to His Mother Hi, just want to point out that the bot erroneously changed the default sort for this article from "Airman's Letter to His Mother, An" to "Airmans Letter to His Mother, An", dropping the possessive apostrophe. [57] Ed Fitzgerald t / c 23:18, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough,
Greetings!
I just say your message here. Is it possible to generate a similar list for Malayalam wikipedia. http://ml.wikipedia.org/. -- Shijualex ( talk) 10:28, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. I am looking forward to see that :) -- Shijualex ( talk) 17:37, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed a few days (weeks?) ago, your bot doing DEFAULTSORT stuff (and I commented above on the sorting stuff), but would you be interested in Wikipedia:Biographical metadata? In particular, if there is stuff I've missed, I'd be grateful if you could help expand it. There is also some discussion on the talk page. Also, are you aware of {{ Lifetime}}, which has DEFAULTSORT filled in as a parameter? How does your bot handle that? Carcharoth ( talk) 15:51, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Why did SmackBot create a redirect under this name? -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:23, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I made several edits to comply with your advertisement image that was placed.
Thanks for the feedback - I think the new edits I made make it more editorial in nature.
Thanks!
Rich Nelson —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ragesteel ( talk • contribs) 14:19, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Rich - Could you take a look at the article again and see if it now qualifies for removal of that "advertisement" image. If it does not - please let me know what specifically I can do to make it more unbiased - I think it reads pretty well now -- your comments are appreciated -- thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ragesteel ( talk • contribs) 15:22, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey Rich,
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I looked at the page recently, and it looks good, but I haven't gone back in the history to check specifically what you or others have done so far. Thanks for your help. -- Seth Goldin ( talk) 21:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey how come you;ve suddenly become so active again!!! Your edit count seemd to have stabilised on 175,000 for ages but now it seems you are using AWB to make 500 edits ever half hour. You'll be doubling that count pretty soon!! Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 00:28, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Yes. The reason I said was that everytime I patrolled the recent changes your name was appearing several times a minute!! Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 08:22, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello Rich. Recently, User:Aacarling made an edit to the Digital divide article putting in a "hall of fame" by Certiport for people who "help out with digital literacy". Certiport are a commercial company involved in selling certification exams. Is it proper to have that award in the article ? Also, that user has made Digital literacy sound a bit like an advert to Certiport ? If you would have a look that would be appreciated. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 23:30, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Sometimes it seems like half the edits I see on my watchlist are from Smackbot, cleaning up after people. That's bothersome because it means that I have to look at the history to see the edit, and it increases the amount of edits that I have to scroll through in history (hiding minor edits is sometimes bad because people abuse it). At least one thing should be done: Smackbot should not need to capitalize fact to Fact. There's no reason for this to be case-sensitive. Further, I'm not sure these things even need to be dated, or that {{cn}} needs to be replaced. II | ( t - c) 03:16, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for editing the page about Munax. Would you please keep as much as possible of the original text, and keep it in it's original section, that would be great. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rick.nolan ( talk • contribs) 13:10, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
See this edit. Here, a template link to {{ R to disambiguation}} (which is a redirect) was already defined. + m t 14:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, A whole lot of your edits have just appeared on my watchlist, being pages where I'd put {{ R to disambiguation}} wrongly instead of {{ R to disambiguation page}}. But looking now at your contribs list, and investigating, leads me to find that {{ r to dab}} is all that I need to type as it redirects to the full version, so I'll type that minimal amount from now on when creating these redirects! Always something new to learn on WP. Cheers, PamD ( talk) 16:01, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Your bot recently marked Sleep log as an orphan in category:stub. I agree, and I'm guilty. I stubbed and orphaned it a while back, in favor of Sleep diary, after discussion on someone-or-other's talk page. Very unprofessional, I know. Sleep log should be a redirect to Sleep diary, but I don't know how to do that without losing history. -- Hordaland ( talk) 16:49, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Shome mishtake? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:51, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi. We have a large back log of French commune articles to add the infoboxes from French wikipedia Status check. All that needs doing is copying the infobox directly from the French wikipedia equivalent. Please see Vulaines. All that needs doing for each article is cutting and pasting the infobox from French wiki into every article which must be bot compatible. So for Vulaines all it requires is pasting the infobox into it from here and pasting it into the english wiki article. COuld somebody please programme a bot or use some form of coding to help complete the task in hours rather than months? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
This edit and other similar ones weren't necessary, as the redirect worked fine before. (See User:NE2/testing for a test with the colon.) -- NE2 03:34, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
Rich - the other day I came across some editing problems created by a new user ( User:Samanthadecanta), and have attempted to fix things. The situation was this - there previously was a page for "Darren Meade", an Irish soccer player. This new user insists that his name should be spelled "Darren Mead", so she just took over the existing Darren Meade page to create a bio for someone else (a bodybuilder) - wiping out the bio for the soccer player entirely. I made a DAB page at Darren Meade, restored the soccer player's bio at Darren Meade (soccer), and put the bodybuilder's page at Darren Meade (bodybuilder). I thought I should communicate with this new user to let her know why wiping out the old page was a bad idea, so I started a discussion on her talk page. Among other things, I'm trying to get the proper name for the soccer player straightened out. As you can see, I have cited a bunch of sources that confirm that the soccer player's name is "Darren Meade", and a search for "Darren Mead" only seemed to turn up references to an Australian Rules football player (who also has a WP entry). However, this user insists that she is right, and claims that she doesn't have to provide a citation to support her claim since I am not a paid employee of Wikipedia. So far, the only "source" she has provided that supports her claim is a Wikipedia entry at Meade (surname); her second link (to a newspaper article) is again referring to the Australian guy.
In any case, I'm trying to avoid " biting the newbie", but my suggestions to become familiar with standard Wikipedia procedure are clearly falling on deaf ears (since I lack "authority"). My concern isn't so much who's right or wrong regarding the name, but more the attitude - an apparent unwillingness to learn and follow standard WP policies and procedures, a closed mind when it comes to discussing a disagreement (it's simply "I'm right, no matter what sources prove otherwise"), and no interest in accepting suggestions or input from other users (unless they're "paid Wikipedia employess" with "authority") So perhaps a friendly suggestion or two from an admin might help. Thanks, Fbb_fan fbb_fan ( talk) 04:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
I saw you made some minor edits to the page I created for the Dept. Plant Sciences, Oxford. Thanks.
I wondered if you could help in making the page appear properly in the category page though as I notice it does not appear under 'P' but loose at the top of the category page? [[
]]
Any ideas - would love to know why.
earthtree ( talk) 17:01, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
The bot seems to be tagging some redirects which do have a redirect template, as here. It seems like it's because of the template's location. — TAnthony Talk 19:21, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
[58] on List of mystics looks like an error -- Rumping ( talk) 22:28, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Yes you are right. But the colon before the category isn't necessarily desireable (so I can't just put them in) because sometimes you want to list the redirect: arguably you should then have an explicit cat as well. So the solution is simply turn off the minor fixes whic do this moving, and review the last 500 coross-space redirects of which only a small percentage will have categories. Thanks again for letting me know. Rich Farmbrough 00:15 21 October 2008 (UTC).
Hi,
Did you get anywhere with the conversion of release/ foundation/ start dates in infoboxes, to use {{ Start date}}? I've compiled a list of relevant templates at User:Pigsonthewing/to-do#Date conversions. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 22:38, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Based on recent contributions, it's tagging any redirects in the Help: namespace as {{ R to other namespace}} even when they aren't. This could be an issue with the way most of the substantive contents are pushed from Meta, but I don't know for certain. I posted on the bot talk page to stop it, but I'm not going to be around, so feel free to restart without trying to reply to me, as long as the tagging issue is fixed. — Gavia immer ( talk) 16:33, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
What's happening with these edits? First one looks like an error, and the second a fix of the first edit, that introduces a separate syntax error.
BTW, file me under the list of people who find it odd that SB's changing the case of redirects, and indeed finds "sentence case" in that context rather odd in the first place. Alai ( talk) 02:55, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
malfunction. garbles text containing HTTP. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List_of_HTTP_headers&diff=246864819&oldid=246445274 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.154.205.47 ( talk) 10:46, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
SmackBot has now twice ( one, two) changed the format of a bulleted list which extended over four paragraphs in the article Nigger. According to Help:List#Paragraphs in lists, using the HTML tags <p>…</p> is the only way to format such paragraphs in lists. Please modify SmackBot to allow such constructs. Michael Bednarek ( talk) 11:52, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich, just noticed that SmackBot is interfering with links in merger tags, as seen here. I'm not sure why it is inserting the date into that tag, perhaps you could take a look at it. I did fix that page, but I don't know if it is doing that to all the merger tags or not. Cheers! Ariel ♥ Gold 00:22, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Rich - I've been attempting (with little success, I'm afraid) to help User talk:Samanthadecanta get her feet on the ground here. She's the one who was the primary editor of the "Darren Meade (bodybuilder)" page that was recently the subject of a AFD discussion. I believe you did a speedy delete on the page, but she recreated it, and User:Uncle G deleted it the second time. Anyway, on her talk page, she is now threatening legal action because of the perceived wrongs that have been committed against her. She is alleging religious persecution (believe it or not), and is also making allegations of a variety of inappropriate actions by other editors (which have no basis in reality, from what I can see in edit histories). Anyway, I'm starting to run out of ways to tactfully help her out, and I thought you might, as one of the alleged offending individuals, want to be aware of the threat for legal action. 71.233.6.118 ( talk) 01:45, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
as you have done. Thanks, -------- 71.10.88.69 ( talk) 02:21, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Ok, But still. I'm not going to add date=October 2008, because it's faster to just type fact. {{ fact}} {{ fact}} that was a test. to see if they do the same thing.03:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)03:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)03:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)03:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)03:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)~ <<<It's only seeming to add the date for my sig, not my IP address
I just noticed that your bot has started to edit the CAT: shortcuts. See for instance this edit. There are two odd things about those edits:
1: Your bot adds the template {{ R to other namespace}}. At a first glance that might seem correct, but I think it is wrong. The "CAT:" prefix is the standard prefix for shortcuts to categories. But now that your bot adds the {{R to other namespace}} template to them they get added to the Category:Cross namespace redirects. That category helps us keep track of and find cross namespace redirects. One reason to keep track of them is that many of the cross namespace redirects are considered a problem and needs fixing. But the CAT: shortcuts are correct and don't need to be fixed. Thus if you fill up Category:Cross namespace redirects with them you just make it harder to see the redirects that really need handling in that category. But it is of course good that your bot finds other cross namespace redirects for us. Although I recommend not adding that template to the prefixes listed at Wikipedia:Shortcut#List of prefixes.
2: Your bot changes all upper-case #REDIRECT [[]]
tags to lower-case #Redirect [[]]
tags. Both works, but pretty much all documentation here at Wikipedia and at Meta shows that tag in upper-case. And the redirect insert buttons in the edit window also inserts it as all upper-case. So it is unnecessary and confusing to change it to lower-case, and it breaches tradition.
Those two things are of course only minor issues, really mostly just a matter of opinion. But I suggest you change your bot's behaviour.
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 11:51, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
I noticed you moved the {{ Infobox German Location}} to {{ Infobox German location}}. Now, I'm not terribly well versed in these things, but it seems to me the pages Template:Infobox_German_Location/doc and Template:Infobox German Location/Instructions also need to be moved. Michael Bednarek ( talk) 11:53, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
You've made an error in this edit http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Publication&diff=247515709&oldid=247502345
You've changed the mergeto target to be the Talk page, and changed the discussion page to be a Talk:Talk: page.
I left a msg at the bot page first, sorry. Nurg ( talk) 03:13, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
PS. I have fixed the error, but I think you need to check the bot's operation in cases like that. Nurg ( talk) 03:25, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
I've just come across Shin Min-a (actress) (disambiguation), and was wondering why SmackBot would create such a pointless redirect. I wasn't sure what the rationale was or whether this is part of a series of newly created redirects, so I wanted to check before I listed it at RfD. Regards. PC78 ( talk) 13:25, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your mentioning on my talk page, 23 Oct. 2008, that clean-up templates are, most often, best not substituted. On a rare occasion I might use the template result and edit it, where it doesn't quite fit. May I asked what occasioned your comment? -- Bejnar ( talk) 22:15, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Not sure what happened here. Was this stub tag meant to have been removed? Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 23:23, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Wow. That's way back. :) I closed it as delete, got browbeaten by a few users and decided to relist it instead. It ended up being deleted the second go round. -- Woohookitty Woohoo! 11:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Can you help me to put this image "Angel-Locsin.jpg" on Angel Locsin?, Thank you!. Traders 21 ( talk) 08:33, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Mr. Farmbrough. Regarding this edit, that your bot made, I think I've found a glitch in it. If I put in ~~~~~ instead of the date, it makes a second parameter, which doesn't quite work as Template:Fact only has one parameter.-- Stereotyper ( talk) 18:12, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks re note. I keep being nagged by bots to use "subst", but I didn't understand where it is/isn't recommended (hence the accident with Norman Cota). Gordonofcartoon ( talk) 14:12, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilcox_(Canadian_musician)
Dear Richard - you seem to have edited out historic, accurate, and previously posted information - including my album credits! Kosenrufu ( talk) 18:50, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
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SmackBot seems to be making edits solely to capitalize the first letter of the template name ({{fact|date=Nov...}} to {{Fact|date=Nov...}}, as seen here. Seems a waste to me. -- Sable232 ( talk) 02:18, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi - I posted the section with the same name on my talk page. Could you take part in discussion ? Thanks ARP Apovolot ( talk) 22:37, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
User: Shotwell suggested (on my talk page) "I would endorse a WP:EXPERTADVICE page that outlined the wikipedia policies and goals for researchers in a way that enticed them to edit here in an appropriate fashion. Perhaps a well-maintained list of expert editors with institutional affiliation would facilitate this sort of highly informal review process. I don't think anyone would object to a well-maintained list of highly-qualified researchers with institutional affiliation (but then again, everyone seems to object to something)."
We could start with that if you would agree ... - could you help to push his idea through Wikipedia bureaucracy ? Apovolot ( talk) 16:25, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
You know more about bots and editing than anyone else I know, so I've got my fingers crossed that you can help me...
Can you use one of your bots, or create one, to pull a piece of data from one set of pages and place it on another set of pages?
What I've got are two items on a bunch of pages that need to be filled in.
One is
"Population: "
And the other is
"Size: "
These need to be filled in on the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list. The items to be filled in are in the "Geography of x" section (where "x" is the name of the respective country).
A few of them are already filled in. (I hope that doesn't present any problems).
The data is located in the infobox on the corresponding country articles.
Is this something you could do?
If so, it would sure save a lot of man hours. I don't currently have access to a machine upon which I could use macros or learn and apply Python, and I'd really like to avoid having to do these chores manually.
I requested bot approval at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Worldbot and was told that these tasks don't need bot approval - we can just go ahead and create and use bots on 'em.
The desired format for the data is presented at Topic outline of Algeria#Geography of Algeria, Topic outline of France#Geography of France and Topic outline of Germany#Geography of Germany.
I look forward to your reply.
The Transhumanist 23:37, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Good evening. In this edit, SmackBot created a redirect. From the edit summary, this was apparently a naming standardization. The redirect was recently proposed for deletion, causing several people to dig into the history. We can't figure out why SmackBot created the page. The target has never been a disambiguation page that I can tell (and I checked a fair number of edits on either side of the creation timestamp. Can you shed any light on why this redirect would have been created? Thanks. Rossami (talk) 03:24, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich - any reason why you deleted my comments here? Grutness... wha? 05:30, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Do we not use {{Expand|Date=November 2008}} any more? Thanks. -- DerRichter ( talk) 23:02, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
I may have got this wrong, but from what I can see, SmackBot changed HTTP/1.1 to http://1.1 on HTTP_ETag. I'm just letting you know in case that's a bug. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.61.156 ( talk) 14:33, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
With this edit, smackbot changed the publication date of a journal cited in a reference tag. SU Linguist ( talk) 21:36, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich. What's up with SmackBot changing "a_1" to "a 1" here? Paul August ☎ 22:26, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Hey Robot dude, Im happyjord11 and im extremely thankful for your edits on my article on The Secret Supper. Im relatively new to WikiPedia, and creating and editing articles, as I am only 12 years of age. I don't know very much about what the Wiki Jargon means, and I sort of need some help,
Any helpful tips and hints would be much appreciated.
Thanks again,
Happyjord11
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You bot got a bit confused; don't know how many more of those there are but it probably isn't the only one -- Gurch ( talk) 16:03, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
The replacement [62] was wrong: it converted Osmanya codes to codes from the Cyrillic block.-- Imz ( talk) 18:18, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
In the article Life of Pi, this bot changed a heading "===Tone===" to --> "===Tone = ==". Probably a glitch? WinterSpw ( talk) 20:04, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
It appears Smackbot is treating HTML comments as article text when moving comments to the bottom, resulting in category "headers" being floated out from between the categories. See Diocese of Quincy diff. I've put a couple of the comments on the same lines to avoid this now, but there are probably some other articles where this situation arises also, and WP:COMMENT doesn't address whether or not to do that. (HTML comments on Wikipedia are mostly used for circumstances that are unusual in the first place, I suppose.) I'm not sure what the fix would be, other than to consider comments between categories (or just before categories) to indicate grouping somehow; but I figure I'd give you a heads-up. -- Closeapple ( talk) 19:59, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I didn't quite understand this move. Has the MoS been changed recently? As far as I can see, most other Finnish names are spelled properly with their ä's and ö's on the English Wikipedia. In Finnish, ä and ö are independent letters, and in some cases you may get a completely different meaning if you omit the dots. -- Silvonen ( talk) 07:00, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Did you get anywhere with the conversion of release/ foundation/ start dates in infoboxes, to use {{ Start date}} (see also my earlier note)? If you're not able to oblige, please let me know, so that I can reissue my bot request, Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 13:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
SmackBot created an URL of the text "HTTP/1.1" in Virtual hosting. This results in a meaningless URL, " http://1.1", which is not the intent of the original text. See also the diff, line 11: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Virtual_hosting&diff=249417729&oldid=248024179 ; Allsvartr ( talk) 20:08, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
You know more about bots and editing than anyone else I know, so I've got my fingers crossed that you can help me. If you don't have time, I completely understand. Perhaps you can at least point me in the right direction.
Can you use one of your bots, or create one, to pull a piece of data from one set of pages and place it on another set of pages?
What I've got are two items on a bunch of pages that need to be filled in.
One is
"Population: "
And the other is
"Size: "
These need to be filled in on the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list. The items to be filled in are in the "Geography of x" section (where "x" is the name of the respective country).
A few of them are already filled in. (I hope that doesn't present any problems).
The data is located in the infobox on the corresponding country articles.
Is this something you could do?
If so, it would sure save a lot of man hours. I don't currently have access to a machine upon which I could use macros or learn and apply Python, and I'd really like to avoid having to do these chores manually.
I requested bot approval at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Worldbot and was told that these tasks don't need bot approval - we can just go ahead and create and use bots on 'em.
The desired format for the data is presented at Topic outline of Algeria#Geography of Algeria, Topic outline of France#Geography of France and Topic outline of Germany#Geography of Germany.
I look forward to your reply.
The Transhumanist 23:38, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for looking at that problem. Your suggested change would have helped in this case, but URLs these days generated by content management systems and databases produce such weird URL results that it is hard to figure out what character combinations you will find in them. In this case the full page URL was http://siris-thesauri.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=120981572FNL8.17&profile=planes&uri=link=3100020~!50828~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab13&menu=search&ri=2&source=~!sithesauri&term=Schweizer+SGU+1+1+SGP+1+1&index=, which is a bizarre URL. I create webpages by hand and give them simple names and short URLs. This actual URL is cited in several other articles, so thanks for at least fixing the =link= problem! - Ahunt ( talk) 15:14, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, Rich Farmborough. You're a big help
Thankyou for contributing the way you do.
( Happyjord11 ( talk) 06:02, 15 November 2008 (UTC))
Hi. May I ask why you're changing "14th century" to "fourteenth century", etc? This seems to go against Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Numbers as figures or words. Thanks. Epbr123 ( talk) 22:17, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
I saw that you (Smackbot) edited my page the other day - no complaint - I added categories today, and see that "Peter Fox (artist)" shows up in the Contemporary Painters list under "P" rather than under "F". Can you fix this? I have no idea how to do it myself or I wouldn't bother you with it ...
Thanks so much!
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Updated and cited story about the phantom Chief Justice. Tell me what you think! Foofighter20x ( talk) 19:58, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
Could you take a look at - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikijob#Blacklist - you commented way back on the domain being blacklisted - it's still blacklisted and no one has helped :( can you help? :) 86.0.221.59 ( talk) 01:20, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
You're not the person i used to know as Bilbo, at Orwell Park? Or who hit a child during his driving test? (Astonishing what we remember of past conversations.)
I've tried to find a way to contact you less publicly but can't - sorry if i'm doing this wrong, i'm a sad beginner. ;0) Mandmaybe ( talk) 15:52, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Your name is mentioned on the user subpage here. Wasn't sure what to make of it. -- Suntag ☼ 18:29, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
smackbot recently changed
{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Juana María de los Dolores de León}}
to
{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Juana Maria de los Dolores de Leon}}
(i.e. it removed the accented letters in favour of unaccented ones.) Now I only have very limited understanding of that particular construct, and the clause wasn't even inserted by me in the first place, so from my POV this may or may not make sense. But it certainly is not obvious from Smackbot's page that it would do things like that. Could you verify this edit made sense?
I'm a lazy editor, and quite like it how Smackbot adds the date to all my "fact" tags and so on. I have now created {{ BLPunsourced}} and the redirect {{ unsourcedBLP}}, which has dated subcategories like Category:Unreferenced BLPs from April 2007. Would it be possible to add these templates to SmackBot so that they are automatically dated (and thus added to the cats?). If I should have asked elsewhere, just give me a nudge in the right dierction... Fram ( talk) 13:27, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Richard, what needs to be done to remove "copyright infringement" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Terranova ?
I have e-mails approving my post and coming from the original source but I didn’t want to post them here as it can be publicly accessed
I simply was trying to create a link from Joe Terranova listed under fast money CNBC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Money_(CNBC) (look under Panelists)
I would like to get this resolved as soon as possible as there are no copy right issues…
Your help is greatly appreciated —Preceding
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Hi, I've noticed that SmackBot removes extra blank lines, which is normally fine. But, according to WP:Layout, "It is usually desirable to leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it." Could SmackBot keep two blank lines there when it finds them? As a matter of fact, it would be great if SmackBot would actually add blank lines there when it encounters situations where they're missing, during the course of its other maintenance duties. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:59, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
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Hey Rich, I'm the developer of the JavaScript tool Friendly that helps editors put maintenance tags on pages. One of the users of the script brought to my attention that SmackBot is performing fixes to tags left by Friendly that amount to capitalizing the first letter of the tag. For instance, tags were add by an editor using Friendly here and SmackBot came around and capitalized the first letter of the tags here (along with a couple of other tag fixes). I was under the impression that on Wikipedia, not using a capital first letter was not a problem because the software automatically understands it as a capital letter for you. I know that leaving lots of maintenance tags using redirected templates instead of the actual names is considered bad form, but is the lowercase first letter as well? Ioeth ( talk contribs friendly) 14:27, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Rich, why does your SmackBot replace HTML entities with characters from a random character set? The HTML entities have understood definitions that should be respected by any web browser, regardless of character set, and are much easier to use when editing content. Can you direct me to the Wikipedia convention that says that HTML entities should not be used? Thanks. — TedPavlic | ( talk) 14:12, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
SmackBot is currently responsible for ~0.6% of all edits ever made to Wikipedia, and ~1.0% of all edits to articles. Just wow. Dragons flight ( talk) 08:44, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello! Can you take a quick look at this diff. I think smackbot may have picked up part of the page to merge to (2600 hertz) as the year, and so changed that instead of adding a date. Thanks for the amazing bot -- h2g2bob ( talk) 01:59, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
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I am not sure what the second "categorize" message is about. Katzmik ( talk) 08:10, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
The issue mentioned before still persists; so does my request. To refresh your memory:
Michael Bednarek ( talk) 09:30, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Can you please program your bot to manage {{EmptySection}}? Many people who use that tag do not specify the section number, so I was asking if you would be able to program your bot to do it automatically. The template is supposed to be used like this: {{Emptysection|date=DATE|section=SECTION NUMBER}}, but most people put it like this: {{EmptySection}} or {{EmptySection|date=DATE}}. -- IRP ☎ 12:16, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11262008/tv/starr_report_140884.htm Hi, I am having trouble submitting this refrence on the Victor Borge page Electric Japan ( talk) 16:44, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Red balloon leanrer centres logo.gif. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information; to add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia.
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Hi there, I am Dr Karl Shuker and am concerned about the comments lately added to the Wikipedia article re me that have been left by user TheRedPenOfDoom immediately prior to your own tiding-up editing, especially as that user's user page has been repeatedly deleted recently. Does this mean that he/she has been responsible for attack pages? It certainly seems that my article has been the subject of attacks by this person as their comments do not seem justified. This user has claimed that the article re me needs to be more neutral, yet I cannot see anywhere where neutrality has not been maintained. Simiarly, the user states that citations and references are required, but to which sections of the article? All details re my books have the full reference to the books in question given, and my own website, cited at the bottom of the article, contains all of the info in the article. This article has existed in this same basic form for almost three years without anyone suggesting any such changes, so I would be grateful to receive any advice, explanations, or other information that you could offer. Obviously, I would be totally happy to make any changes to the article that seeem reasonable and justified, but I am presently baffled as to how I can go about this, faced by the criticisms levelled at the article by user TheRedPenOfDoom, so your advice would be very greatly appreciated. Thank you very much, Dr Karl P.N. Shuker, user czbiker Czbiker ( talk) 22:07, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Following my earlier message about the changes recently made to the Karl Shuker article about me by user TheRedPenOf Doom, I've just realised that this person has removed considerable sections of the article, reducing it to a stub, yet has remarked that the article needs to be more encyclopaedic! Yet the sections removed by him/her are the very ones that describe in detail my contributions via my books to the subject of cryptozoology! Moreover, even the full publishing reference details to books that I have acted as consultant or contributor have been removed by him/her. Consequently, I shall add them back to the article, and would greatly value your views as to what has bene happening here and also what needs to be done to improve this article. Many thanks, Dr Karl Shuker Czbiker ( talk) 22:50, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm not talking about the "stub" template; I'm talking about the "WHO-Recognized English Medium Medical Schools (China)" template that disappeared subsequent to you bots activity on the Dalian Medical University page.
Compendium wmc ( talk) 12:56, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Not meant to have many links. It's a sublist of Roman Catholic dioceses and a superlist of the individual episcopal conferences.
My bot software cannot proccess special pages. it will only proccess categories. Hintss talk 20:12, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello
The story about Chioma Ansoh is a untrue. She has sued The Mirror Newspaper in Nigeria and has refuted the story on several occassions and in Thisday Newspaper ,Nigeria. The Nigerian customs has also denied the allegations. She has never been charged for any such thing neither has she ever been arrested. She has never had an abortion for any man and is not Femi Fani-Kayode's girlfriend. This story is libellous and defamatory. I strongly advise that the story should be removed.
Below is the reference.
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=82302
Also the original created was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/femi Fani Kayode
but was changed to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/femi_Fani-Kayode
Pls help rename the back to the first http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/femi Fani Kayode
and make sure Chioma Ansoh story removed as the admin.
Thank you —Preceding
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Rich, on your User Page under Date project, would you mind adding the word "away" where you say, "But blow me..."? I think the expression "blow me away" is probably what you meant to say. I hesitated to change it myself since this is your User page. Dennis Fernkes ( talk) 23:04, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
See article [63] Dennis Fernkes ( talk) 19:55, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Fixes is ok. The Language is now better. Webmaster is different like Kauppinen. Can you help or show current revision —Preceding unsigned comment added by Finlandiana ( talk • contribs) 19:34, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Doesnt make a whole load of sense that bug...
Template:Sources --> Template:Refimprove
But then Template:Unreferenced doesnt go anywhere
Could you clarify what your asking for please?
Im presuming your wanting something adding/updating/tweaking in the AutoTagger?
Thanks
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You may be pleased to know I've removed this article from the orphan status you (or rather, your bot) set two months ago. I accidentally happened upon it today on a "What links here" search while considering a move of the "Through the Years" song page (others have also written songs using the title); I found the page in the search. Kenny Rogers' discography now links to it. =)
On to further importing of Rogers' discography. (Almost feels like "To Infinity and BEYOND!", the list is so long.)
CycloneGU ( talk) 04:57, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I need a bot for something, and since User:SmackBot is affected by my plans either way, I figured I'd ask you directly. :) Per the recent TfD debate, I proposed to let a bot automatically remove the recent death template after one week from the articles it's being added to. So I need a bot (preferably yours) to do that. Additionally, I need the bot to add a new "day" parameter to the templates (in addition to the "date" parameter that's already being added) if it's not already added by the user, so the bot knows when a week is over. At least that's my idea. If your bot could remove the template after one week without any additional parameters, that would be even better, of course, but I don't know if that is even possible. -- Conti| ✉ 16:40, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Could I get a copy of smackbot's article list formatted as a list of internal links, one on a line.
for example an entry with plane and car would look like this
[[plane]] [[car]]
Every article SB has edited? What for? It's probably several hundred thousand articles long. Rich Farmbrough, 14:53 2 December 2008 (UTC).
How much does SmackBot cost Wikipedia in terms of increased storage, server load, and bandwidth usage? What value does it add? Does that value overwhelm its costs? -- Mikeblas ( talk) 18:34, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
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Hi,
Did you get anywhere with the conversion of release/ foundation/ start dates in infoboxes, to use {{ Start date}} (see also my earlier note)? If you're not able to oblige, please let me know, so that I can reissue my bot request, Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 13:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Cfare jane ato budalleqet per Laberine ? Malloket dhe Lalucet dhe labet qenka me miret nga te gjithe... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.32.131 ( talk) 21:07, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
I have a "newbie" question about a page that I added: Melissa Bellin. Her page had been deleted twice in the past, and now there is the following notation listed on it: "This article may not meet the general notability guideline or one of the following specific guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. If notability cannot be established, the article is more likely to be considered for redirection, merging, or deletion, per Wikipedia:Guide to deletion."
My question is: how is it that her page is subject to deletion once already, and possible future deletion for "lack of notability"? How is she less notable than any of the other Nitro Girls who have their own pages? She was as popular, if not more, than any of the other Nitro Girls, in fact she was the choreographer for the group. I find it discouraging that pages get deleted for reasons that apparently have to do with the "deleter"'s personal dislike of the person the page is about. It makes me doubt whether I'll be making any more "contributions" to the Wiki project, due to there being people who have nothing better to do all day than to delete pages that they simply don't like, instead of making edits or notations that would improve the page.
Qzk1718 ( talk • contribs) 02:46, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. Would you consider adding to
User:SmackBot's tasks replacing <nowiki>'</nowiki>
with {{'}}
? The latter seems more compact to me.
It Is Me Here
t /
c 12:48, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, why is SmackBot adding {{
fact}} tags to lead sections of articles? Leads are supposed to be summaries of the main body of the article, so if the main body content is already properly referenced there is no reason to also add footnotes to the lead. — Cheers,
JackLee –
talk– 09:42, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Scratch that – the {{ fact}} tag was added by another editor, and SmackBot merely dated it. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 09:46, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Rich, I wondered if this template did anything useful. It gives an error and is not used anywhere, but templates are sometimes used in mysterious ways, so I thought I'ld better check it first. Fram ( talk) 14:15, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
"Cataloged" is an accepted spelling, so changing it to "catalogued" is not a spelling correction. 165.189.101.177 ( talk) 14:54, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Your "smackbot" recently tagged the page After the War (Novel), and I have recently made some changes. Can you have a look at the page and tell me if it meets wikipedias standards or do I need improvements. Itz sensation 03:15, 22 December 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Itz sensation ( talk • contribs)
Just was out perusing da'pedia and saw SmackBot had made some changes. Wondered why it is called SmackBot and if it would be easy to change its name to one a little friendlier sounding? 24.20.149.88 ( talk) 21:11, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Dear Smackbot,
thnx for help me to improve this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pál_Milkovics please help me how can I upload photo there. Thnx,
and Merry Christmas —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.99.93.184 ( talk) 22:28, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
The articles Sarajevo and Fayetteville, Arkansas are tagged with a red category Category:Articles with unsourced statements since November 2,008 (note the comma). Clearly the comma is the problem. I searched through the articles to find the malformed {{ cn}} or {{ fact}} tag, but I was unable to find it. It may be a problem with the code of the template. Perhaps you might be able to find the error. • Life of Riley ( talk) 00:09, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
{{Infobox Settlement |population_total = 72,208{{Fact|date=November 2008}} }}
You know more about bots and editing than anyone else I know, so I've got my fingers crossed that you can help me. If you don't have time, I completely understand. Perhaps you can at least point me in the right direction.
Can you use one of your bots, or create one, to pull a piece of data from one set of pages and place it on another set of pages?
What I've got are two items on a bunch of pages that need to be filled in.
One is
"Population: "
And the other is
"Size: "
These need to be filled in on the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list. The items to be filled in are in the "Geography of x" section (where "x" is the name of the respective country).
A few of them are already filled in. (I hope that doesn't present any problems).
The data is located in the infobox on the corresponding country articles.
Is this something you could do?
If so, it would sure save a lot of man hours. I don't currently have access to a machine upon which I could use macros or learn and apply Python, and I'd really like to avoid having to do these chores manually.
I requested bot approval at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Worldbot and was told that these tasks don't need bot approval - we can just go ahead and create and use bots on 'em.
The desired format for the data is presented at Topic outline of Algeria#Geography of Algeria, Topic outline of France#Geography of France and Topic outline of Germany#Geography of Germany.
I look forward to your reply.
The Transhumanist 23:38, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Islamic holy books article has so many sentenses which are not Quranic.when we talk about islam we must take Quran as reliable source and not the books or articles other than Qura. please compare bot articles and check which one is telling truth? the old one or new one with Quranic references.revert the article to know the truth as per quran.it is not NOR thanks-- Farrukh38 ( talk) 15:29, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
I fact checked all the places you listed and cleaned up the page.
can you please update the von bondies level/page. thanks suzie
LINK In question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_MT125
I'm getting notices about the page needing this, need that, needing internal links (has them), wanting grammar changes etc. Yet, with nothing specific all it doesn't help much and is a bit annoying. I'm new to wikipedia, but not technical writing (which the article is) so could you point me in the right direction to keep these thing from popping up?.
I appreciate the help.
Tom
USER Page Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tburklow
Hi SmactBot,
"....playing for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton at a total of 10 events"
He is known to many as "The Snowman" for his meteorological work
"Youngest person ever to perform at a State Dinner at the White House"
"Youngest accordionist ever to be the soloist with a symphony"
"The only person to major/graduate as an accordionist at the New England Conservatory of Music"
I'm not sure who the correct person is to talk with about making sure this article doesn't get deleted, but if you aren't the person, could you forward this message? His contact information is on his website and he's a Very nice person to talk with.
That says it all. They are minor edits, albeit importtant collectively. But, individually, each edit by the bot is minor by definition. Thanks. Paul Beardsell ( talk) 05:13, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
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I have been attaching comments to DEFAULTSORTs for names containing diacriticals to let other editors know that I omitted the diacriticals from the DEFAULTSORT entry so it would sort properly. When SmackBot touches such an entry, it removes the comment from the DEFAULTSORT and puts several blank lines between them, making the comment pointless. Is there a way to get around this? Rklear ( talk) 07:59, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
The issue you raise is related to these, and has been discussed in the past. The present arrangement is the result of consensus - this page is too long to be classified as a stub.
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In this change Smackbot removed a deliberate error, which was illustrating an incorrect way of writing Celsius temperatures. -- Gerry Ashton ( talk) 17:59, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi,
Did you get anywhere with the conversion of release/ foundation/ start dates in infoboxes, to use {{ Start date}} (see also my earlier note)? If you're not able to oblige, please let me know, so that I can reissue my bot request, Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 13:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
On February 7, 2008, SmackBot left a {{Nofootnotes|date=February 2008}} notice at Amahl and the Night Visitors. The article now has 15 citations from seven sources. I think the notice asking for more inline citations can be removed. What is the procedure for following up on such a notice? -- Thomprod ( talk) 08:07, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
You've uploaded File:Red balloon leanrer centres logo.gif, and indicated that it's used under Wikipedia's rules for non-free images. However, it's not presently used in any articles. Wikipedia policy requires that non-free images be either used or deleted, so if this image isn't used in an article in the next week, it will be deleted.
This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 11:13, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey! I saw your bot is changing {{ Current related}} to {{ Current-related}}, but the latter is a redirect to the first one – so no need to do this, I reckon. -- Eivind ( t) 08:14, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Template:Formatnum has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. –
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A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Extreme quality assurance, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:
All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's
criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "
What Wikipedia is not" and
Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{
dated prod}}
notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on
its talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Ismarc ( talk) 03:02, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
My current access to Wikipedia is slow.
I need to wait until I log on to a better machine in order to look over the list of pages you sent.
The Transhumanist 23:51, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
I think Smackbot could help with page patrol. Can you make it tag the following problems:
Andrewjlockley ( talk) 08:59, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
FYI Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Add_a_date_to_some_maintenance_tags - doing some of the stuff smackbot does extra (fact and such)... Just so you know they can be removed from your own scripts if wanted...
And also, whilst im here..
Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#.281.29_unicode_substitutions_mangle_Typographic_articles_.282.29_workaround_will_mangle_multi-paragraph_Blockquotes_in_future - What needs doing for this?
Thanks!
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from where did u got information about bulfati or burfat trible let me know...i wat to know more abt it..my e-mail id is [email protected]
Hello Rich. Thanks for looking at the Happiness article. I wrote to another party User:Schuminweb as well and he looked into it and dealt with it. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 15:30, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Things like this make no sense. (1) REDIRECT is generally the preferred style (at least it's the default when you press the little button). (2) REDIRECT == Redirect, so you were essentially bypassing a redirect, but not really 'cause you had zero effect. (3) Colons are optional after "#REDIRECT"; in fact, some projects have quite a lot of redirects with colons after the "#REDIRECT" bit. It doesn't harm anything to keep it there.
I realize you made the edits like three months ago, just wanted to let you know. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 01:53, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
I'd really like to see some kind of automation of page patrol. If a page has any of the following:
Then Smackbot should be able to come and tag it up, then mark it as patrolled. It would do this better than a human, as it won't 'forget' things. You could even have the article 'sandboxed' in some way until it had been sorted out by a human after smackbot's had a go at it. Currently, page patrol is a boring, robotic, soul-destroying task. I have no intention to waste my life doing something that Smackbot can do itself! :-) Andrewjlockley ( talk) 10:22, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
??? Rich Farmbrough, 19:48 12 January 2009 (UTC)
maybe put them all in a category by itself??
to input into my bot. thats why i want smackbot's article list. and if possible could you just give me a big category and include the category into the category pages.
heres a list of what i want you to do:
Hi smack bot, I'm curious what you think of my discussion on Michael Hochberg. I'm a first time wikipedia editor and I would appreciate your opinion on my thought process on this article.
Someone has pointed out to me that you've been simplifying the headings in the country outlines by removing the country names from the headings.
The reason we have the country names in the headings and in the list entry items on almost every line is because the country outlines share identical formats. Without the country names prominently displayed, it is very easy to forget which page you are looking at, especially when comparing countries.
Please see the discussion thread on my talk page.
Thank you.
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Thanks. I have a hard time figuring out when to use subst and not. AnyPerson ( talk) 04:40, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
You've saved a lot of time on the country outline project by inserting the area figures. I appreciate it. Thank you. The Transhumanist 22:07, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
I went looking for loc. cit. and op. cit. and ibid. in algorithm and didn't find any. So I reverted the banner. However, I do agree with the intent and will avoid such in the future. Bill Wvbailey ( talk) 23:28, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
WP:FOOTNOTES says, "Do not use ibid., op. cit. or similar abbreviations in footnotes." However Smackbot is tagging articles that used ibid. in Harvard references that are not footnotes, such as Brouwer-Hilbert controversy. While it is true that there is some risk of random cutting and pasting, I don't think the risk is so severe as to warrant tagging every article that includes the word ibid., but particularly, not the ones that don't use it in footnotes. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:02, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
While "ibid" should generally be avoided for various reasons of convenience, the task of tagging articles using this construction seems to require supervision. I suggest that it be added to AWB, if possible. siℓℓy rabbit ( talk) 01:47, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
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I noticed you plugged a few underscores into my refs. [64] Anything I need to do going forward? I'm kinda on bot tilt over Lightbot de-linking historical years (and WP:OWN on WP:MOSNUM), so you are catching a little "carry over" disappointment. Love your bot though! Most days.... I might be a lonely soul as far as using this style, so just let me know if we can split the difference somehow.... -- Kendrick7 talk 03:27, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Can you have a look at this diff - I can't see what the grounds are for placing the ibid tag in this article. The only thing I can see which might have misled it is the "cit" in "Tata gets $3 billion loan from Citi" in one of the refs. Cheers -- Timberframe ( talk) 20:52, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
This appears to be a false positive, the edit summaries are a bit off but both recent edits were removing vandalisms, not making them. I've already unblocked, and wanted to let you know what was up. -- Golbez ( talk) 21:11, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rich Farmbrough. I just wanted to make you aware (in case that you missed it) of the decision about dates noted here. Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Date_delinking/Proposed_decision#Temporary_injunction_against_automated_date_linking_or_delinking. Please don't take this the wrong way because I know that this is a contentious area on WikiP just at this moment. Also, I actually don't care about it one way or the other - I just hope that a decision gets made sometime soon. Bu I did want to let you know about this before someone who it does matter to notices the edits that you are making. Let me also offer my apologies if any of this causes offense. Cheers and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 22:01, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Dear SmackBot, I have revised the footnotes in the article on Bagha Jatin. You may remove the band now. Thanks for your interest.-- BobClive ( talk) 09:23, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Smackbot inserted an ibid template in the Blue Valley Creamery Company article. The offending op. cit. was actually a reference in a reference, but I changed it with the change appearing in square brackets. I am not sure what to do about the ibid template. Should I remove it or will Smackbot automatically do so later? (By the way, I had the wrong URL to the reference and the ibid template helped me catch that. Bad cut & paste methods on my part.)-- Rpclod ( talk) 13:39, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rich F., Thank you for visiting the article on Bagha Jatin with positive suggestions. As a solitary Wiki user, I appreciate it.-- BobClive ( talk) 14:08, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rich, You may remove the tag on the article on Bhavabhushan Mitra. Thanks.-- BobClive ( talk) 16:48, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Rich! You may undo the tag on Taraknath Das. Thanks.-- BobClive ( talk) 17:00, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Rich! You may remove the tag from Pingle. Thanks.-- BobClive ( talk) 17:09, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rich, Ignorant of the operation, I request you to remove the tag on the article Atulkrishna Ghosh. Thanks.-- BobClive ( talk) 08:39, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Rich! You may undo the tag on the article Yogendra Vidyabhushan; Thanks.-- BobClive ( talk) 08:48, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Rich, the article on Mokshada Samadhyayi can be rid of the tag. Thanks.-- BobClive ( talk) 09:13, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rich, You may remove the tag on Satish Chandra Mukherjee. Thanks.-- BobClive ( talk) 09:22, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Rich ! I have revised the last article of the series, Amarendra Chatterjee. You may remove the tag now. Thanks.-- BobClive ( talk) 09:38, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Do you realize that the recently created (nov 08) ibid template is higly controversial, and that several editors argue this template should not be added to mainspace. Nevertheless Smackbot is ruthlessly adding this template to articles, as you may have seen from all recent complaints.
Can you please disable this function of the bot ASAP. Thanks Arnoutf ( talk) 22:51, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
I dont know you removed the Notability tag on the article on Baburaoji Parkhe. If you did so, thanks for the same.It is my continuous endeavor to improve this artile and few others with notable and reliable information.
Currently it has 2 tags attached, one for Grammer and another for additional citiations. Now I have a lot of credible material on the subject along-with lot of news items in vernacular as well as english newspaper. I would be adding them soon and getting the english language straight.
Please let me know from whom and how to get the tags removed, once I am done with the article.
Regards,
Vin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.99.215.11 ( talk) 14:18, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Why do they have to go at the end? Is there a hard-and-fast rule that they have to go at the very end? That would mean that when there is a page-wide template such as the communes template, they would never be seen by anyone. The point of the stub templates is to indicate that we are aware that the article is insufficient. It should go at the end of the text of the article, not under all the frame. Ksnow ( talk) 16:42, 22 January 2009 (UTC)Ksnow
Yea, I don't know how to fix the templates, however, some of the ages DO need citations. I found some without them. Kagome 77 ( talk) 16:42, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the help and advice. You seem like a good person, there's quite a few "rude" people on here that would bite someone's head off for editing something because they find something wrong, but you're not one of them. Kagome 77 ( talk) 16:52, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, with this edit [65] you removed another report from AIV. Did you have an edit conflict when reporting? DuncanHill ( talk) 16:59, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Was removed a while ago due to constant edit struggles to maintain it. Talk:Brian_Griffin#THAT.22S_IT.21.21.21 for the discussion. But if you want to leave it restored, that's cool too. DP76764 ( Talk) 17:23, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Please could you stop smacking big templates at the top of articles just because they might have a couple of op. cits? This is really a small matter for editors and not something we need to alert the general readers to. I've just removed a couple of these templates after reformatting two op.cits/loc. cits from each of the two articles; even though they may be deprecated by the guidelines, in these cases they did not affect the comprehensibility of the notes, since the sources and page numbers were given as well. In my opinion, if an article makes a source clear, it is doing its job. Minor issues of tidying up do not require a template to be smacked on, surely. qp10qp ( talk) 17:52, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
As usual the tempest threatens to overwhelm the restraining capabilities of the teaup... Guy ( Help!) 20:04, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
But she's really about to be sacked, don't you get it? Why are you preventing me from inserting this piece of information in the article?
Lebedev appeared to confirm that the Standard's current editor, Veronica Wadley, would be stood down, saying he would reveal a new editor, widely tipped to be Tatler editor Geordie Grieg, next week. As reported here, Grieg is one of two shareholders in Evening Press Ltd, which now owns the Standard. The Russian oligarch's son, Evgeny Lebedev, is chairman. Lebedev also said he had no immediate plans to buy any other British papers: it had been rumoured he was sniffing around the Independent [66] 62.200.52.25 ( talk) 20:26, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Sorry! 62.200.52.25 ( talk) 20:35, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, When a warning was issued to Special:Contributions/62.200.52.25 I looked at the edit history of because the IP's talk page was on my watch list, and I am over 85% sure that it is User:Pionier in the UK. There is an entire category about this person - he has had over 20 blocked identities. Please be on the look out. His edit signature is very similar to User:Pionier. Please also see: User:History2007/Content_protection (that I still need to finish) that was based on him. Please pay attention to the edit signatures, for he is gradually learning to hide his vandal edits among normal edits. He likes to add and delete categories and usually edits Christian, Russian and Lithuaninan pages. Thanks History2007 ( talk) 21:20, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you added a clean-up template to House on the Rock and was wondering where the problem is? I was going to try to fix the issue, but I couldn't find it (probably because I am not really sure what I am looking for). Could you point the issue out in the article so I can fix it? Thanks Daniel J Simanek ( talk) 21:26, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
May I again remind you of Dates in infobox templates? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 22:22, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello I woulld like to inform you that charles vii assumed control of the armagnac party and took up the royal title as king of france but was a mere gesture since henry vi was the de jure king and so was theroticlly the soveriegn of both countries.charles vii was a rebel along with the other princes who followed him.charles later came to an official corination in 1429 so he was now the legal king. he was illigially the de facto of the south from 1422 to 1429.-- HENRY V OF ENGLAND ( talk) 22:34, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
If I have any more questions, do you mind if I ask? Spinach Monster ( talk) 17:26, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Ok, is this what you're talking about? Spinach Monster ( talk) 17:32, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. Spinach Monster ( talk) 19:33, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
I asked another guy on my talk page, how does one get "trusted"? This place is kind of cool so far, but i'm wondering if i'm doing it wrong. Spinach Monster ( talk) 15:48, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. Otherwise, am I doing ok at this? Spinach Monster ( talk) 16:16, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
Let me know if there's anything else I should know or talk to. I'd like to meet more of these people on here. Spinach Monster ( talk) 14:35, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
P.S - Caught someone committing the formatting error you showed me.
Dear Rich, Were you the person who ordered the bot messages discouraging the use of 'ibid' tags for Wikipedia articles? Personally, I was taught at University in the 1990's (in Canada) to use 'ibid' in my essays...but I don't mind if an article has an ibid reference or not. All I care is that people know which book was penned by an author...since some articles here may cite 2 books by a single author. Do you have a response? Thank you sir. -- Leoboudv ( talk) 06:14, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello Farnbrough, I would like ask if I could change Henry VI title from pretence to regnal .as already said Henry VI is de jure or legal king of france from 1422 to 1429 and charles VI orderd in 1421 the french crown should be passed to henry vi( henry v was heir but was suffering from dysentry badly so it looked he would die) SO WAS said from the preddescesor soveriegn himeself i.e charles vi.in the treaty of troyes the crown was to be passed to henry v and charles vii was removed from succesion but took illigial possetion as de facto of the south thus making him a rebel of charles vi and henry vi. In 1421 since henry vi was the heir of henry v upon his birth that made him dauphine legaly. conclusion: henry vi is a legal king of france and not in pretence but regnal however hes still a titular head since hes a baby king of france from 1422 to 1429. he was also a dauphine upon his birth in 1421 untill he became soveriegn of france in 1422 21st of october. please answer to this post thankyou.
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Hi SmackBot Thanks for helping me to improve on the article about Jorgen Sigurd Lien It was almost deleted becuase it gave the impression that it's a promotional material, which is not the case. I did a research papaer on eHelp Corporation and the founders and realised the important contributions that they made to the Silicon Valley, and would like others to have these information available to them. The information are not for promotional purposes because the comapny has been bought over by Macromedia. The main intention of the article is to preserve valuable information that would otherwise be lost through time. Thanks again for your help
Cheers, Charmaine —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charmainechen ( talk • contribs) 12:38, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
This bot turned the {{POV}} tag that I placed at the top of this article into in-line tag. I changed the tag to {{NPOV}} with an "N" so hopefully it should work now. It might be problematic if the bot is programmed to turn all POV tags into in-line tags. Best,-- brew crewer (yada, yada) 14:40, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section headings says:
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and the heading text are optional (==H2==
versus == H2 ==
). These extra spaces will not affect the appearance of the heading, except in the edit window.Is there a reason Smackbot removes the spaces? Diffs like [67] makes it hard to find the real changes.
Another thing, the only change in [68] was capitalizing the first letter in a template name. It seems unnecessary to clutter up watchlists and page histories for something like that. PrimeHunter ( talk) 15:12, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello again, since you're the expert I know, I figured i'd ask you. There's an article where somebody said something I edited wasn't germaine to the article. I think it is. How does one determine that? I don't want to go into an editing back and forth, but I think they're wrong and i'm right, so I don't want to let it go just yet. If the rules say i'm wrong, then i'm wrong and I'll leave it alone, but it's kind of bugging me for now. Spinach Monster ( talk) 16:03, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
There has been a dated call/tag placed near the foot of this article calling for further reference and citation. Please note, however, that fundamentally, kick to kick football - particularly in the older "end to end footy" format, is very much a fundamental informal, spontaneous, play activity - somewhat as in play activities such as marbles, etc. There is no formality to the activity, no clubs or associations which engage it, but it is a well-known, highly popular engagement to southern Australians. There is therefore very little written or other available material on this activity —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.187.1 ( talk) 15:58, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank you Rich. Eventually found the link at the top. So with reference to 'Kick to Kick', then, how are those tags and dates removed??
Rich/SmackBot: I'm not sure if this has been brought up before, but it appears that certain situations can cause SB to add an extra close bracket when adding dates. See this edit to Greta Salpeter (and this edit shows the change that needed to be made). This was probably caused because some idiot (*cough* it was me) added "date=" to the tag but forgot to actually add a date. Thanks, Jazz Man 20:18, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
84.59.202.75 needs guidance. I have written up just a few of the problems at User talk:84.59.202.75, but I really had more substantive edits in mind when I sat down at my PC today. It is the usual, ethnicity edits without citation, incomplete or undecipherable citations, trashing established Wikipedia usage, etc. I'd appreciate it if you could take a look at some of 84.59.202.75's edits. Thanks. -- Bejnar ( talk) 22:20, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you but... Regarding edits such as these (concerning the "dead link" aspect): I've seen the bot capitalise like this many times before. Are there any actual benefits to these kinds of edits? Surely it all links to the same template as initial letters are automatically capitalised? Sillyfolkboy ( talk) 19:50, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Rich, I think you have to adjust this. Check this one. I had added date tags only 5 minutes before you and Smackbot just capitalised Fact. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:36, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I'm a new user so please forgive any errors on my part. Was wondering if the notability tag was necessary on this page as third party sources have been added. please advise. thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wordfarmer ( talk • contribs) 03:47, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
On Vimperator, SmackBot recently removed the square brackets around the opening "Vimperator". That caused the conventional opening bold to be removed. I added explicit bold marks around Vimperator as a fix, but it was my impression that Wikification changes self-links to bold on purpose in order to enforce this convention. If that's the case, then SmackBot should at least leave opening self links alone. That is, if there is a self link within the first sentence or two, SmackBot should not make a change. Thanks. — TedPavlic ( talk) 02:32, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rich. A bit of a mess has been created in the Compiler article. I added some important and still relevant sources, which took me hours to find precisely and cite, and User:Derek farn just removes them saying they are too old and no longer relevant. I have been in this field for decades and know they form the basis of most modern compiler writing technology. I feel my effort has been wasted which is not terribly appealing. Might you have a look? My very best wishes and thanks in advance. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 15:13, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Is there any reason why it put a merge suggestion on National Gold bank Note, and Gold certificate? They are two diffrent things and The Gold Certificate Article lacks any references at all. Knowledgekid87 19:53, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
I make frequent use of some special characters to ensure line-end word-wraps look appropriate in all cases. They are the non-breaking hyphen, which has the ISO Latin-1 code ‑
, and the non-breaking space, which has the HTML Entity name
.
Pretty much everyone knows what the non-breaking space is for: you can code Then add a 25 kg sack of
and it will appear as Then add a 25 kg sack of… without worrying that it will do a line-end word wrap, like this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Then add a 25
kg bag of enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci back-strainuneum.
Similarly, the non-breaking hyphen, ‑
, prevents instances like this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. The United States’ F-
22 fighter plane enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation kickbuttotis.
My trouble here is with User:SmackBot. It replaces the code with the rendered characters. The trouble with this is that other editors—even myself—can no longer see where these special characters are being used and copy them for use elsewhere in an article. Worse still, it appears that when some users copy swaths of text for editing in a text editor using various Barbarian OS machines, the special nature of the non-breaking characters is lost when they paste back into the article.
Now, at $100 per terabyte, the server cost of leaving these special characters as their code names is an average of about 6×10−8 ¢ per occurrence. All hundred of these special characters that I might use over a period of several months, still might be a “Greg L overhead” of 6×10−6 ¢. Multiplied by the 1000 or so like-minded editors who might be inclined to do as I do, we’re still talking 6×10−3 ¢. So cost isn’t a factor here; less than a penny.
It would be far easier for other editors—particularly less experienced ones—if they wade into our
F-22 Raptor (for instance), if they can actually see F‑22
nearby and take a hint to copy and paste the thing instead of pounding away on the keyboard. And it would be infinitely easier for the editors who put them there in the first place and are still editing the article.
Don’t get me wrong here. I am all for having bots do cleanup where the rendered character is visually distinctive and identifiable and doesn’t have a visually identical cousin that functions differently. For instance, it is just fine if a bot converts the “Identical to” sign ≡
to the easy-to-distinguish ≡ character (enlarged here for detail). You can see, copy, and paste the rendered character just fine. I’m talking about just a very special, small class of characters, where bots should not be changing the non-breaking space and the non-breaking hyphen to their rendered character because they are indistinguishable from their identical-looking regular-functioning counterparts.
Greg L (
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P.S. Locke Cole created a {{ nbhyph}} template. That is in addition to the {{ nbsp}} template we’ve long had (but I didn’t know about). I’ve converted over an important article to these templates since there may well be other bots that will be converting ISO code and HTML entity names to rendered characters. I still would appreciate it if you could tweak your bot so it leaves non-breaking spaces, non-breaking hyphens, and something I didn’t mention before: thinspaces (which, though different in appearance from a regular space, it’s not much of a difference). Can you do this? Greg L ( talk) 01:21, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Kan ju help me i have write about sport in my home town Piteå in Sweden. Can you se my spelling. Wolfmann ( talk) 14:28, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Some time ago you indicated your support of the Oxford 2010 Wikimania Bid, and it was recieved with much gratitude. I now ask if you could could help support our bid by contributing to the bid page that is located at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Bids/Oxford. Now is the critical period for work to continue on the bid as the official bidding period has now started and the jury has been formed.
I do not ask for huge swathes of time, just enough that with eveyrone working on this, it can be completed in time to the high standard required in a bid. For the bid page, an excellent source of information is the travel wiki article on the City of Oxford which is found at: http://wikitravel.org/en/Oxford. The chance of bringing Wikimania to the UK is the best so far and i expect the best chance for many years. With a fresh and stong UK chapter we have an amazing opportunity to put ourselves on the map. If you have any questions, please mail them to the Wikimedia UK mailing list, email me or post a message on my talk page and i will answer as quickly as possible.
I look forward to working with you on the bid page. Many Thanks. Seddσn talk 15:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
I've removed the op.cits .Can you remove the box? Thanks. Ewen B. Maclachlan
Answered on user's talk page. Rich Farmbrough, 21:07 24 January 2009 (UTC).
FYI Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Rich Farmbrough. – xeno ( talk)
Dear Sir,
Its always usual that when Godman decends to earth, people deny to accept the reality. its sheer the play of God. Here if again if the very same Jesus comes in flesh and blood, He will certainly be Crusified again. from time immorial its usual that people comit the same mistake...
so only Lucky and chosen ones get the contact of Godman and Realise the truth...
thank you
Jai Sai Ram
Heenal Raichura Please check out the following citation for Unique Achievement Award and kindly have the tag removed.
Thanks
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The reason Laureates is capitalized is because that is how they do it at the website of the Nobel Foundation. [69] I really wish you would have discussed it first. -- Scorpion 0422 16:12, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
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Dear Sir, The Photo album in Nair section is good but all the poeple are already expired except Shashi Tharoor and Mohanlal. Don't we have any more great people living in the Nair Community at present? And what was AK Gopalan's contribution to Nair community? Please add photos of some living legends like Dr.G. Madhavan Nair (ISRO chairman), Lt. Gen Satish Nambiar (UN under secretary), Vijay Nambiar( Foreig secretay GOI) and atleast One living woman like Parvathy Omanakkuttan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.244.218 ( talk) 06:39, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
SmackBot removed some “+” signs that it shouldn't have from the vector space article ( the edit). It also added a “[” to “the polynomial ring Fx]]” where the correct fix would have been to remove the trailing “]” (but, of course, a bot couldn't be expected to know that).
Alksentrs ( talk) 11:12, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Smackbot is (I believe) changing some template names in a way that it shouldn't. You can see an example here. In particular, it's changing {{ or}} to {{ original research}} and {{ syn}} to {{ synthesis}}. Those templates aren't equivalent; in each case, the former is inline and the latter isn't. Is this a known bug, a feature, or ? Thanks. Dori ( Talk • Contribs) 00:32, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Is this because there was already a stub on the article? -- Closedmouth ( talk) 12:21, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
The "confusing" template is now putting code out onto the page on some of the pages on which it appears. I can't read wikicode well enough to tell whether your recent edit to the template is the reason for this or if it was like that before. Examples of what I mean: Admiral Kuznetsov class aircraft carrier, Solipsism#Neuroscience, Teletubbies#Overview. Not all pages seem to have the problem and I can't find any pattern which predicts whether it will appear properly or not. Since you recently edited the code near the area where the problem seems to be, I thought that you might know something about. Perhaps your edit fixed it on some pages but not on others. Would you mind looking it over to see if you can find out what's wrong? Soap Talk/ Contributions 22:45, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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Please review changes to E2m.org. Thank you Mike6491 ( talk) 13:44, 4 February 2009 (UTC) Michael Garjian
Development has been slow but continuous:
Penubag has done a fantastic job on the images for the awards we'll be using for our project's collaborations and contests. We now have 3 awards: a medal, a trophy, and a race ribbon. They all look tight. The trophy needs a small adjustment, but other than that, all 3 award images are complete and ready to use to create awards with.
Spartaz has warned us of (threatened to take) G4 (speedy delete) action if we run a competition that resembles the previously deleted Awards Center page. So whatever we do, any contests we run must differ substantially from the methods used there.
One type of competition I've been exploring is edit racing. I'm in the process of working the bugs out of this concept - the first race didn't work as expected - you see, because we only had an award for first place, the opponent didn't think it worthwhile to continue once it was clear who the winner would be. And since editors are in different time zones and usually need to start the race at different times, we need to base winning on personal start times - he who completes his assigned edits in the least time (rather than first), wins. And last but not least is quality control. What good is winning if your edits are ripe with errors? So I'll be exploring possibilities such as using a referee (whoever is overseeing a particular race), having participants watching each other for errors to knock them back, etc. I'm not sure yet.
Rich Farmbrough has been applying his bot expertise to filling in blanks in the country outlines (the population and area entries). I'm amazed at the number of edits he pumps out each day on a myriad of projects - ours makes up but a small time slice of his activity, and yet he has saved us many hours of manual work. Perhaps we should look into how he gets so much done. :)
Zlerman has chosen to work on one outline at a time, and is taking on Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. He also has been keen on noticing and reporting design issues pertaining to the whole set of country outlines. Keep up the good work!
Highfields has been filling in the names of capitals, and is our first race winner. Check out the award on his user pages.
As you probably know, this project has expanded to include working on any and all sets of pages that are linked to from the country outlines. Once the set of country outlines go live (in article space), traffic will likely increase for all the links included on them. The quality and usefulness of those pages will reflect heavily on the country outlines (the outlines, which are essentially lists of links, are only as good as the links they present), and therefore we've branched out to solve the biggest problems with those as well. So far, we've taken on:
Blackadam2 and Thehelpfulone have been helping out with the "demographics of" pages mentioned above.
And we have a couple speed addicts (addicted to wiki-velocity, not drugs)...
Both Robert Skyhawk and Thehelpfulone prefer (and excel at) simple AWB search/replaces. Robert hasn't actually joined our team yet, but he has been helping out quite a bit from the sidelines (via the WP:AWB/Tasks page. Unfortunately, there has recently been a non-AWB chore that has been holding things up on the AWB front - an edit to all the the headings which had to be reverted before too many new edits were made, because any new edits would make the reversion more difficult. The headings have been restored, so now the way is clear for AWB operations, and there are many search/replace tasks in the queue. AWB assignments have started again!
There's a similar bottleneck on the "Demographics of" pages (the "keying" mentioned above), but that's almost cleared too. :)
With my internet access somewhat crippled, I've been finding it difficult to keep up with you guys. However, I expect to be accessing a Linky-capable workstation on a faster server (I'm on it right now, as you can probably tell from my contributions list for today), and so I should really pick up speed. Feels goooooood. :)
Recruiting has been a bit slow (but steady), due in part to my crippled access, and because we've been waiting for the images for the awards to be completed. I expect the team to grow more rapidly as the bottlenecks are removed.
Well that's what's been happenin', and here's what's in the pipeline...
I'm about to begin work on a set of lists that corresponds to all the standard links on the country outlines, and these will be presented on the Topic outline of countries which will be organized exactly like the country outlines. Aside from being an extremely useful navigation aid, it will allow editors to easily see the state of country coverage on Wikipedia. I'll provide you with a link once I get up to speed on this.
In the meantime, keep up the good work!
Cheers,
The Transhumanist 05:29, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi. Do you know any idea what should add in the code that if someone tries to add Articleissues without any parameters to get an error message? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:01, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
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Your bot usually seems to do a great job but it somehow messed up with dn templates on Submarine. I fixed the damage but thought you should know. Rees11 ( talk) 14:00, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
In this edit smackbot changed a reference to "mod_python" to "mod python". The module name, and the article name, actually include the underscore, it's an error to remove it. TJRC ( talk) 01:06, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
The bot is removing dates from citation templates. [70] Was this intended? -- JonIsaksen ( talk) 01:37, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
The page has been rewritten to remove what I believe you were thinking was advertisment type text. Please give another look and if you agree, please remove your notice at the top. Thanks so much. MaddyStephens ( talk) 18:58, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
The nationalities (24/28) are visible on the memorial (photo : File:Neustad Holstein Cap Arcona.jpg). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.64.182.240 ( talk) 16:44, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
You're not supposed to remove {{ db-catempty}} notice from pages that you've created yourself. -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 18:46, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich, this edit [71] broke the infobox rendering on the El Greco article. I reverted it. cheers Tom B ( talk) 23:51, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, your bot didnt make this edit [72] properly, oddly it moved the wikilinks needing disambiguation out of the correctly location and to the top of the article. Russeasby ( talk) 01:19, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that Smackbot is changing "dead link" tags to "Dead link" ones. The Wikipedia:Dead_external_links even uses "dead link" for its example usage. Also most Wikipedia tags seem to start with a lowercase letter. Is there a reason why using "Dead link" is worth changing? Jason Quinn ( talk) 16:44, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Add {{dubious}} after a specific statement or alleged fact that is subject to dispute [...] To refer to a specific talk page section, use {{Dubious|talk page section name}}
check out Jason Guida and Mongkhon Wiwasuk and tell me WTF is going on. there are like 40 to 50 other pages with this problem. User:Sepulwiki 23:50, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
you dont see where it says headlinnig text over and over and over and it also says youtube sucks next to the dates? please tell me you see that.Sepulwiki 00:16, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I'm working through the backlog of outstanding AWB bugs and was wondering whether you could provide some more information about one you reported a few months ago: link simplification too greedy. I could do with some examples of incorrect edits and related correct ones to understand what the problem is here. Thanks in advance Rjwilmsi 20:08, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
SmartBot is changing article=y to article=February 2009 in articleissues tags. Is that what it wants to do? See this diff. The date does no harm, so it's not an urgent problem. -- Mtd2006 ( talk) 21:24, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
This edit. The {{ quotation}} template has a funny tendency to not line-break even in places where text normally would, so when working within a {{ quotation}}, you need to manually put in a bunch of <br> tags. In this edit ten days ago, SmackBot removed those necessary <br> tags, leaving incorrect line-breaking in the quotation.
Just FYI. Thanks, and best wishes! -- Steve ( talk) 05:19, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
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Edits like this one, where no date tag was added, IMHO, should be avoided. Smackbot is now forced to edit every single article. Can you adjust this in order Smackbot is not case sensitive? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:58, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
The bot tagged a page as needing to be wikified when it was already tagged as such: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=IberoAmerican_Federation_of_Mutual_Funds&diff=271272186&oldid=271269318 -- Sigma 7 ( talk) 04:43, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Please ask the bot why it removed this orphan tag. — RHaworth ( Talk | contribs) 04:57, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
SmackBot removed an orphan tag from Stealth conservative as well. Шизомби ( talk) 16:03, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
I think that your (very) recent change to this template has created an error. E.g. the article Hamza Marri shows an "ifexist" beneath this template which seems to be caused by this template. Fram ( talk) 13:51, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
(moved from User:Mtd2006 User talk:Mtd2006)
SB is explicitly coded to understand other template arameters, even the non-parameter "reason". I will investigate the cause of this bug forthwith. Rich Farmbrough 04:23 18 February 2009 (UTC).
Okay, I'll start on that right now. It's 3:30 AM here. For full disclosure, I've been seeding test cases for SB to get an idea how the bot works. I've used degenerate cases so that SB finds unexpected conditions.
Doing nothing is necessary when an unexpected event occurs. That's fail-safe. If something unexpected happens, do nothing, and the bot has done no harm.
I've looked at the template space... the ruleset for SB. It's complex and inconsistent -- not ideal for automated processing. The "dummy" parameters must cause havoc. I imagine the exception cases are becoming a maintenance headache. What you've done with SB is quite an accomplishment.
Is SB coded in Perl? I'll use Perl to explain some fail-safe tests if that works for you. My followup in e-mail. Regards, Mtd2006 ( talk) 10:38, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Is it necessary that your bot makes edits like this? It appears that the only thing changed was one space after the template name. It seems like a pointless edit. It worked fine with the space there.-- Rockfang ( talk) 16:50, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Actually it was a testing edit, I was hand testing some functionality, the bot won't genreally save white-space only changes. Rich Farmbrough, 19:48 18 February 2009 (UTC).
Hello there! User:The Transhumanist tells me that you have used a bot in the past to pull data from websites and put them in country outlines. Well, I'm currently running a bot for this project, and I'm wondering, do you think you could tell me how you did that? And if you're the open-source kind of guy, maybe give me the source codes? I understand that you are probably very busy, but if you could enable me to do this work that you once did, our project would greatly appreciate it. Hope to hear from you soon! Robert Skyhawk So sue me! ( You'll lose) 21:44, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
I have noticed a Strange edit by the bot. Please check Alex Bakharev ( talk) 23:49, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I am fairly new to Wikipedia. However, in looking at the CNN article, I noticed that in the beginning (fourth paragraph down) the following statement appears: "Among the general public, CNN has a more centrist perception.” The source for this proposition is FAIR, FAIR being a “progressive media criticism organization” whose “target invariably is bias on the right” [73]. Needless to say, FAIR is not a reliable source. On the other hand, the academic literature (i.e., peer-reviewed, scholarly journals) is full of articles addressing CNN's bias. They have concluded that the public perceives CNN to have a liberal bias:
The administrator who semi-protected this article knew, or was reckless in not knowing, that (1) FAIR is a blatently unreliable source, and - equally important - (2) actual,peer-reviewed studies suggest precisely the opposite of the proposition that CNN is perceived as "centrist." Would you please help in removing the unreliably-sourced, and inconsistent-with-real-literature statement concerning CNN's perceived "centrist" position (it's semi-protected)? I would also like some help in getting the aforementioned articles detailing CNN's perceived liberal bias included in the CNN article. Thank you so much for your time. Jm131284 ( talk) 04:33, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
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I noticed on the meme page that your bot swapped out the Template:Or to Template:Original research with this edit (while adding the date like usual). As you can see from the template pages they are not the same thing, so that might be a problem. Vicarious ( talk) 22:30, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hello, I added a Simpsons reference to the Pop culture reference part of the page - why did you delete it? What is more pop culture than the Simpsons?
Judy
Really? I have been dropping hints all over the place in the hope that some folks might jump into the fray. I hope your tag does some good.
Just so we don't bump into each other you should know that I am working from the back. I have cleared all the articles after Z and have started on the Z articles. I believe that there is a bot that is going through the articles and copying the DEFAULTSORT value from the article into the listas parameter on the Talk page but I do not know the scheme.
Glad to have you aboard!
See [75], [76], and [77]; Smackbot seems to have grabbed the wrong number for the year. I glanced at his other edits and didn't see that happening to anyone else's files, so I assume I just had my dates formatted in a way the bot wasn't programmed to handle? rʨanaɢ talk/ contribs 05:00, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich! SmackBot has dated File:WikiProject_Remembrance_Logo.png as October 2006 here. Why? The file was created and uploaded in May 2006, the page was only edited once, in August 2008, so I can't see where it got October 2006 from. Thanks! ➲ redvers see my arsenal 11:52, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I've noticed your bot has been tampering with a lot of my articles where I've tidely tacked the templates onto the bottom of the articles and nestled the stub templates on top. I'm not the only one who has complained about your bot making the bottom template untidy. I gather that the stub template always goes at the bottom of articles but in my view it should go at the bottom of the text NOT foot plates. PLease can you do something about this. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:13, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Mmm I'm not happy with that one, especially in stub articles it makes the article look a mess if there is a one liner and then a templates stuck half way in the articles and a big gap underneath because of the stub tag. For instance see Thoại Sơn District. Now compare it with Càng Long District. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:57, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
I guess. It wouldn't look so bad if the articles were fleshed out a little bit but when the gap is bigger than the length of the article it is not a good sight. A shame that few arr developing these articles. SOmebody has to do it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:31, 1 March 2009 (UTC) Best thing is to keep the template open at least for the time being. Looks better if the template is open not closed. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:39, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi! (It's been quite a while since our last interaction.)
Of no great importance, but regarding
this edit, if my understanding of "listas" is correct, (and it's entirely possible that my understanding is NOT correct), its main use is to treat the page (in certain circumstances) as though its name is as specified in the "listas". If that is indeed the case, then what's the advantage achieved by "listas" with the same name as the page?
Signed: Easily confused from Adelaide. (Cheers,
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I often see your Add listas parameter in my watchlist. Can you please put listas in quotes: Add "listas" parameter? It will make it more readable.
Thanks in advance. -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 14:57, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Rich Farmbrough, could you pause your bot until Commonshelper is fixed? A lot of images end up wrong at Commons because you're bot added a date to the template. Which templates do you plan on changing btw? multichill ( talk) 22:02, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
In " Jesus wept", SmackBot took out a pipe, changing {{unreferenced|section|date=December 2008}} to {{Unreferencedsection|date=December 2008}} and then came back again two days later to insert a space, {{Unreferenced section|date=December 2008}}. Can you set it to skip one edit? You may of course have fixed this already. RSVP here. - Fayenatic (talk) 13:57, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I'm a Belgian from Liège, I was reading the page of Wikipédia about belgium, and I'm surprided because I don't see "Pierre Marcolini" and "Galler" the better Belgian Chocolat in the liste of belgian chocolat, the problem is that I can't change, could you do it please?
Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ozalittle ( talk • contribs) 14:45, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, your bot removed the orphan tag from the article JEDMICS. Only one page links to this article - is this behaviour intended? -- Pgallert ( talk) 17:58, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
I saw your comment and I rewrote the article. Can you please remove the discussion box? Regards, Vasile Crist —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.85.57.219 ( talk) 00:39, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
A user called Ellipi is vandalising Turkish related articles. This can be seen clearly in Turkmeneli article. The article is suppose to be about the area where Iraqi Turkmen are concentrated, but the user keep refuse them as a race, and label Turkmeneli something nationalists have made up, and other unsources propaganda. Now I try to revert but I get this error: The edit could not be undone due to conflicting intermediate edits. I have sources that can improve the article, but I need the article to be the way it was, that is :(cur) (prev) 01:33, 1 March 2009 Eeekster (talk | contribs) m (775 bytes) (remove blogspot link) (undo)
I have come to know the user Ellipi is very stubborn and keep having revert wars, that's why I'm cautious. Please help. -- Bunifa88 ( talk) 23:02, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Do you ever worry that your large number of edits may crash the server? TeH nOmInAtOr ( talk) 13:02, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Greetings, Rich Farmbrough,
I am writing to you request your insights regarding how to provide additional validation of "Jersey's Talking," a TV program that was broadcast for years on News 12 New Jersey. The challenges: 1. Though a primetime program for years, "Jersey's Talking" was eventually canceled (as is common with all TV shows), and News 12 New Jersey subsequently removed any mention of it from their website or elsewhere. 2. In addition, at this point in history, the program is cited/mentioned only sparsely on the websites of former guests
However ... this program exists in the minds of many people who followed the program [in New Jersey, New York, and California (namely, Los Angeles)], and I continue to receive requests from viewers who ask that the show be noted on Wikipedia. My qualifications to present this entry are: 1. I am a former print journalism student 2. I spent several years as a paid, full-time journalist for news organizations in New Jersey 3. I personally produced the program from the beginning to the middle of its run, and am therefore a primary resource regarding it's inception, development, and previous guests).
Those who require a cultural footnote regarding this TV show (whether they be viewers, publicists, former guests, or current television programmers) will be corrected my knowledge of: 1. The proper name of the program 2. Former guests 3. The host 4. The program's duration in time
Please let me know what more I can provide to maintain the existence of this article, since Wikipedia is the last bastion of such entries.
Sincerely, -- Notablenews ( talk) 03:39, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
I'm hoping to get more discussion about a proposal to delete Cristina Schultz. I'm giving this message to all registered users who have contributed to Cristina Schultz or its talk page, except for some with no WP contributions in the last four months, and one WP:SPA with no talk page. Johnuniq ( talk) 07:29, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, would you mind expanding a little on your comment on Template talk:Unreferenced section? We had quite a long discussion on that page which resulted in the change. Reverting it without even an edit summary doesn't help us to understand what was wrong. Thanks, — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 15:02, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
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Sorry to butt in on this (gosh I am getting popular) isn't % pretty much undefined behavior for negative numbers? Well not undefined-- I think it has to be well-defined but the definition need not be the same on every platform (and sheesh programming against four platforms is a PITA). I was just looking at the new IEEE-754 spec for floating point today, lucky me, makes me feel old I remember the 1985 one, but of course that is FP and doesn't cover it as such.
SimonTrew ( talk) 01:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Sorry about the dup. there I knew you would catch it so left it. I dunno either. I have been editing rather esoteric articles on computing and your name cropped up. Sorry about that. I am still just getting used to this business, not sure how one goes about chatting out of band.
No worries (I hope) I am confused too. But hopefully my confusion is making Wikipedia better!
SimonTrew ( talk) 02:09, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
It deleted the orphan tag with only one real item linking in. Austin E. Knowlton Foundation
Please fix, as it must look for 3 items that link there, not 3 non-list articles. speednat ( talk) 22:11, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
It looks like SmackBot created 1984 (album) (disambiguation) , which has been nominated for deletion. Deletion seems correct in this case as having two parenthetical disambiguators is ugly and confusing in my opinion. Is SmackBot creating pages like these deliberately or was this an error? Note as a separate line of enquiry on this issue, I've put a note at WT:WPDAB#Strange page created by SmackBot to determine what members of the DAB project think about such pages, as I may very well be out-of-step with consensus in my views. Thanks, -- Rogerb67 ( talk) 23:07, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, on the Integrated business planning I used the wrong tag {{articleissues}} in stead of {{article issues}}.
Now SmackBot removed the tag, see here, instead of correction it.
Maybe this was your intention, maybe not. I just wanted to let you know. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker ( talk) 23:43, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
I just noticed an that made a change and removed one of the template closing braces (twice). Changes were (result has '}' rather than '}}'):
{{Advert|date=2009-02-15}}
→ {{Advert|date=February 2009}
{{fact|date=2009-02-15}}
→ {{Fact|date=February 2009}
An anon editor fixed one, and I fixed the other. This is just FYI. Johnuniq ( talk) 06:50, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Dodgy diff: [78]. Fixed some things properly but also broke some wikilinks. It appears to have been trying to remove links pointing to the page it's already at, which is right, but didn't quite do it right. Cheers! AllynJ ( talk | contribs) 15:10, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rich. If you have a moment, could you look at (or explain) why SmackBot removed {{uncat}}
here? Doesn't make sense to me. Thanks.
CIreland (
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I was not aware about that. Shall take care in future edits. Paalappoo ( talk) 13:57, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I just noticed this edit. Does SmackBot still does this job? If not, could it be turned on again. :) Garion96 (talk) 23:28, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, your bot removed the orphan tag from the article JEDMICS. Only one page links to this article - is this behaviour intended? -- Pgallert ( talk) 17:58, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Why is SmackBot removing {{expand}}
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This edit by SmackBot seems kind of silly. Even more so when you realize SmackBot came back and removed the tag entirely an hour and a half later. -- Pascal 666 19:05, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
I have a {{ cite book}} here where among other things the bot changed
-- Marc Kupper| talk 23:06, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for the advice about referring to articles or pages rather than assuming the other person knows-- it is kinda bleeding obvious in a way, but when you are on an article or whatever and have seen that someone else has made a recent edit etc I kinda assume they would link it up.
This assumption is quite patently false, but I am sure it will reoccur from time to time in the future, so let me apologise in advance if it happens to be you! We seem to have overlapping interests but not excessively: a couple of others I wonder sometimes if they are stalking me :) seems every time I make a change they are there.
Best wishes and keep up the good work! SimonTrew ( talk) 18:59, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
I saw on its deletion log that you had restored the Web 3.0 article back in 2006 (which keeps getting deleted). In my user space I am leisurely brainstorming ways to get the article to stick around. If you are interested in helping, or know anyone who might be interested in helping...the help would be greatly appreciated. --...but what do you think? ~ B F izz ( talk) 07:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
I have referenced the information on the Solarmer article. Please verify. Solarmer ( talk) 16:55, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Smackbot is moving said template to the very top of the page. In this case I don't think that's desireable because the redirect leads to that section. Is there a guideline that says the template should be at the top? If not, could you make the bot stop that particular action? (Maybe you could let it check if the redirect wears a {{R to list entry}} tag?) Regards, -- Goodraise ( talk) 00:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Out of curiosity, what is the reason for adding "|listas = Philitas of Cos" to Talk:Philitas of Cos? I had thought that when the article title was already sorted properly, there was no need for listas=. Eubulides ( talk) 00:30, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Smackbot made the first line ({| border="0" cellpadding="4") of a table within an image at Time zone#Skewing of zones a continuation of the caption without a break. Apparently all tables must begin on a new line or the wiki software doesn't recognize it as a valid table. I've fixed this but be forewarned. — Joe Kress ( talk) 03:38, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
E.g. here. At times, the order might not matter, but in general, I find ordering useful. For example, if one sentence contains two facts that should be sourced, the first reference should source the first fact. There might also be other cases in which one does want the order preserved (order by date or relevance). Having a bot order all these by, what I guess, is alphabetic, messes all that up. -- Xeeron ( talk) 10:39, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Can you create this article, mark it as patrolled, and delete it immediately? There is a bug with the newpage patrol backlog listing that prevents anyone from marking it as patrolled, yet it populates the list of articles to patrol.
Normally, the procedure in such a situation would be to create the article with a {{ g6}} tag, but in this case the article has been protected against recreation. -- Blanchardb - Me• MyEars• MyMouth- timed 00:35, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Could you somehow implement a "date=" parameter in this template so Smackbot can do its magic? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 13:35, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Can you please exclude talk pages of non-articles from Category:Biography articles without living parameter in WPBiography template as you did with listas? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:22, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Delievered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 04:29, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Rather late now, but I've just found this. You may wish to investigate the bots actions - I'll attempt to fix the problem with the article itself. — Tivedshambo ( t/ c) 15:52, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
SmackBot's recent edit to HD 80606 broke the maintenance tag. Seems to have incorrectly inserted the date in a nested template. [79] Icalanise ( talk) 19:02, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Please see this edit by SmackBot. I think there is some kind of bug related to the fixing of references' date, because the date 2006-01-03 for this reference was correct and March 2009 is not. Beagel ( talk) 16:57, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
This edit was not helpful; it changed a template instead of adding a piped date field. - LtNOWIS ( talk) 07:59, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
When the a tag like this is placed on article and it says that unsourced material may be challenged and removed by such a date, who decides to delete it or to keep it. I have seen many articles with a date a year old. -- Juliaaltagracia ( talk) 00:42, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
I have removed the cancellation section because of the above and items in the trivia section moved elsewhere in article REVUpminster ( talk) 10:33, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Appreciate your help in the past on Lichtenstein Medal. Can you help columnate American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame - I tried to copy what you did and failed miserably. Wikited ( talk) 00:14, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
See Template talk:By whom. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 08:15, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
This edit altered date formats which were part of a name of a book. -- PBS ( talk) 13:58, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
It looked as if you logged out after doing this, so I went to ANI first to get a quick reaction from an admin. See Talk:List of common misconceptions#Weasel Tags and WP:ANI#Important template broken and protected. -- Hans Adler ( talk) 15:55, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Delievered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 20:28, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Rich, I'm ask this here because you seem to know about template coding from our interactions in the past. I have a question regarding Template:TOClimit: Would it be possible to add a toggle to the TOClimit template itself that turns the limit off? (Or is there another TOC template that does both?) I use the TOC primarily to see the organization of an article I am editing, especially a longer one, at a glance. A set limit prevents that, but a toggle to show the full TOC would be a nice option. Another editor has been adding the TOClimit to many aircraft articles, and it's use is a bone of contention between us. WIth a toggle, I'd have no objection to its use at all, but as of now, there's no way to see full TOC when the limiter is used. If you aren't able to help me directly, do you know of someone who can? (I asked on the Template talk:TOClimit page, but got no response from anyone who could make the changes.) Thanks. - Thanks. - BillCJ ( talk) 10:05, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, Rich! Recently, I've seen an influx of edits such as this one by you. Could you, please, explain its purpose? Thanks!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 14:21, March 23, 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I am totally lost! I don't know how to wikify my article and then submit it for publishing. Here is the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Antonio_Mu%C3%B1oz_(actor)&oldid=280330011
Thanks for your help!
Hi Rich,
After adding the Fact template to a couple of articles I noticed your Smackbot added the date to it. I was under the impression I should just add the Fact part of the template and leave the bot to add the date - is this correct or should I be adding the date part straight away? (apologies, I am still at 'steep learning curve' stage.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hudson702 ( talk • contribs) 21:32, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Some of the recent edits by SmackBot have changed dates from April 2009 to March 2009, for example this edit. — Snigbrook 01:29, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Can you please fix this? Fram ( talk) 07:13, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Category:Current events ongoing, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold ( talk) 06:30, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rich, could you get SmackBot to replace {{ Unreferenced}} with {{ BLP unsourced}} and {{ Refimprove}} with {{ BLP sources}} on articles with Category:Living people? - kollision ( talk) 01:16, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Maybe this is an old hat already, but just in case: In this edit smackbot expanded the unrefswitch in WikiProject Germany template with the date and thereby made it useless. unref=yes was the correct entry. Agathoclea ( talk) 12:43, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Smackbot is doing some trivial and unnecessary edits.
In this edit, Smackbot replaced {{morefootnotes|date=March 2009}} with {{More footnotes|date=March 2009}}.
What's the purpose of that? Bypassing a redirect makes no difference to the reader or the maintenance categories, and there's much more server load from an edit that from a redirect. So why not just skip that page?
In any case, the tag was added using Friendly. Is the bot going to run around trivially reformatting the results of a widely-used script? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 16:05, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
I think you removed a parenthesis or something in this edit. See, for example, the redlinked category it put at the bottom of Manchu given name. rʨanaɢ talk/ contribs 07:00, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{date|}}}|from ({{{date}}}}}
just needs to be replaced with {{#if:{{{date|}}}|from ({{{date}}})}}
.
rʨanaɢ
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contribs 07:05, 6 April 2009 (UTC)Delievered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 19:36, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:BishopStopfordsSchoolLogo.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk) 04:21, 7 April 2009 (UTC) -- Skier Dude ( talk) 04:21, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich, after the third consecutive unconstructive edit to this article I have marked my undo as vandalism revert. Do you actually care about error notifications from other users? Next time (sure this won't take long) I'll attempt to switch SmackBot off. -- Pgallert ( talk) 10:16, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, quick question on Smack Bot's algorithim here. The article has sources, except for one section, which is really just a list of his books that we haven't been able to verify due to language issues. All things about the man are sourced, so is he really an unsourced BLP? Just curious, thanks! StarM 12:09, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Diane Webber You changed this to listing to say it is the biography of a living person. Diane passed away in 2008 Katsand ( talk) 18:27, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
What's your opinion on correct protocol? - At present, any changes obvious by using 'diff' I do not mention, ie I leave the Edit Summary section blank. I would, however, use it to describe an edit that merits further explanation, eg unbiasing, etc. Is this correct? Hudson702 ( talk) 09:01, 9 April 2009 (UTC))
...of Süper Lig 2008–09. For some odd reason, SmackBot inserted dates in each end every scoreline, thus bloating the code by nearly 5 kB. Since a general source for all results must be given in the footer of this set of templates, the bot seems to be misjudging. Could you please fix it? :-) -- Soccer-holic I hear voices in my head... 21:13, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
At Annie Oakley (diff) Smackbot moved a disambiguation subhead above a hidden header comment. This page is frequently mis-edited by young students, so it's important to have "READ THIS" be the first thing they see. Please fix Smackbot so that it ignores the position of hidden comments in making item move decisions. Thanks. (Please reply here if desired) Milo 06:38, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
A quick question. What sort of source is needed to verify the birth date? This date was confirmed to me by Eric Bibb's manager, but I suppose you need "durably archived". Cheers. -- ALGRIF talk 12:23, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting the Oxford bid to hold Wikimania 2010! We're currently in the final stages of the bid process - the jury will be announcing their decision by the 16th April. We're currently putting together the local team for the bid (who will do what if the bid wins); if you're able to be on the local team, please put your name in the appropriate place on m:Wikimania 2010/Bids/Oxford/Team. We'd also welcome anything you can do to help refine the bid in these last few days. If you have any questions, please let me or User:Seddon know. Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 21:45, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
I've left a comment at the talkpage of that template you may be interested in. Thank you. -- Pixelface ( talk) 05:58, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not sure what went wrong but something clearly did when SmackBot tried to edit the Scotch whisky article - http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Scotch_whisky&diff=282798520&oldid=282736457 I thought this should be brought to your attention. Richard Jackson ( talk) 23:17, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
See bottom of the diff the bot altered the dates within quotes which make up part of a book title. -- PBS ( talk) 15:54, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Please reply on my talk page Homebum ( talk) 22:15, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
{{ help me}}
I am not sure if Smack Bot is making a mistake here or not. I have a section in my article Classical_Hamiltonian_quaternions#Tensor that used to be part of an article tensor of a quaternion until they decided against my objections to roll both articles into one article.
So now there needs to be disambiguation for this section, because the word tensor has different meanings.
Smackbot may have found an error in the way I am doing these tags? What is the right way?
Homebum ( talk) 18:25, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for explaining that about the help me tag! I will put this question on my talk page! Homebum ( talk) 22:15, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Template:Linked-title has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. —
Remember the dot (
talk) 19:29, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. :)-- Thecurran ( talk) 00:58, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Delievered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 16:47, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Russian_apartment_bombings&diff=283658052&oldid=283589486
I think the non-breaking spaces nbsp;
your bot inserts are premature optimization. It may prevent from searching for exact titles, too. Thanks for the other fixes.--
ilgiz (
talk) 22:30, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
This edit is one of over a hundred in which SmackBot dropped two or three digits off the year. I've been correcting these by hand, but maybe the bot could do this quicker. -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 18:34, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi - cleaning up some double redirects and I noticed User:Rich_Farmbrough/dabpages - just wondering, can you tell me what this page is used for? Thanks. JCutter { talk to me } 23:00, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
I recently created this. Could this be made Smackbot-friendly? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 23:27, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Does your SmackBot fix image files also? See Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template that we have some 246 of them. Debresser ( talk) 11:04, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
BTW, do you know which bot fixes pages in Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. I've been told User:DumbBOT. And that there is another one. You know which one? Debresser ( talk) 23:04, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Re the Tony Hollingsworth piece, I have radically cut and altered this, removing aspects that could make it read like an advertisement. Do you think the "advertisement" and "neutrality" notices at the top could now be removed? Peter Elman ( talk) 08:23, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
This edit to Spinal Tap by SmackBot replaced a zero-width space HTML entity (​) with the actual Unicode character, which is invisible in the edit box. (The purpose of the zero-width space is to allow for a line break in long sequences which contain no characters that normally indicate where a line break may be inserted.) If the entity doesn't belong, it should be removed, but I don't see any guideline or policy that prohibits or recommends against it. — Danorton ( talk) 18:27, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Would you apply the Backlog tag to Category:Biography articles without living parameter? There are only 51,548 pages there but those pages have been used as a rationale for a change to the the WP Biog banner that was applied inappropriately in the interest of applying to the pages that need it. Thank you.
Hi, there's an ongoing RFC on User:Collect [81]. You've been an editor on Joe the Plumber so your perspective might be helpful. Mattnad ( talk) 15:15, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 19:08, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Dear Editor,
Before i make an entry live in article space, i would like a few editors to take a look at it and give their opinions. The entry is that of an online collaboration company and can be seen at http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Pankajunk/HyperOffice. The entries i referenced are 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
Looking forward to your opinions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pankajunk ( talk • contribs) 15:21, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
SmackBot is still adding non-breaking spaces to cartridge designations. [82] As I've explained before, these are more designations than actual measurements. It also seems to be doing this more often now, which is extremely annoying because it usually fixes other things in the same edit, which means the spaces have to be taken out manually. — DP 5 20:12, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Your bot flags the page for Stefan Th. Gries as lacking in terms of notability. I had already before added the following information in the discussion section that shows that the article meets notability criteria for academic researchers
Stefan Th. Gries meets the following criteria from the notability of academics page:
One criterion is: "The person's research has made significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources." Stefan Th. Gries has widely published in books (cf. the links at the bottom of the page) and peer-reviewed journals of his fields and performs editorial functions for several different journals in his fields.
Another criterion is "The person is or has been an editor-in-chief of a major well-established journal in their subject area." Stefan Th. Gries has been editor-in-chief of the journal Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory for the past five years, which has been ranked by the European Science Foundation and awarded the highest journal ranking class by the Norwegian Science Foundation.
Thus, plz let me know in what way you think the page violates notability in spite of the above or plz leave the page alone. Thx. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.6.107.124 ( talk) 15:09, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Farmbrough: Just a quick note regarding the posting of tagging banners upon the article John Serry, Sr. (requesting the removal of Peacock terms and General cleanup). As the primary author of the article I apologize for the limitations of the biography which I attribute to my lack of experience in submitting material to Wikipedia. I have attempted to remove language which might be construed as promotional or subjective while also deleting links to names of musicians who are not mentioned in Wikipedia. It is my hope that these actions result in an article which is more balanced for encyclopedic purposes. In light of these edits, kindly reconsider the use of these tags on the article and remove them if possible. As always I welcome any suggestions which you might have to improve the quality of the work. Thanks for your consideration. Respectfully, -- Pjs012915 ( talk) 20:17, 24 April 2009 (UTC) User:pjs012915
Thank you SmackBot my friend, you always are forgiving and unobtrusive, and have quite good timing too you seem not to come in too quickly nor too late. Nothing worse than an eager bot who disrupts an edit in process.
(And why SmackBot? You give a smack to editors, or you're high on smack?).
You're a good bot. Go tell you transwiki bot friends, who keep replacing good links with bad ones, that I told them so.
Also please give my regards to SignBot, poor thing must be getting lonely now I have got the habit of signing (always do sign, but I had styles from other places). SimonTrew ( talk) 21:15, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
I have no idea why I just got the message? Satu Suro 03:49, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
FYI. I noticed this edit by SmackBot that effectively blanked an article. Looks like there may be a new test case for your quality assurance efforts along with a new bug to track down and resolve. -- Allen3 talk 11:34, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Rich, in this edit, SmackBot changed (among other things) the template inclusion {{ 3LW}} to {{ 3CC}}. Problem: Template:3CC has been deleted, and Template:3LW is a navbox for some preteen-girl singing group. This "fix" should be removed from the bot. Thanks. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 09:33, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. Your bot modified a [ citation needed] I put in Roma minority of Hungary. I'm fairly new at editing Wikipedia. When I put a [ citation needed] in an article, would it be beneficial to include the date, as your bot did? Bloody Viking ( talk) 16:39, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Unfortunately Wikipedia:List of missing monthly maintenance categories is not working due to too many expensive parser function calls. I just modified {{ DeletedMonths}} to use Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories with missing months. Hopefully this will accomplish your goal. -- Pascal 666 21:30, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
Your bot moves the seealso comment from the Treatment chapter of the Major depressive disorder article to the article title. (see [83] [84]) Major depressive disorder is a featured article. Please stop your bot from messing it up. The Sceptical Chymist ( talk) 10:14, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I've noticed a batch of edits similar to the one made on the Willy Semmelrogge article that just moved the lifetime template to the foot of the categories. Lifetime acts as a replacement to defaultsort with added parameters, so I'm a bit puzzled to why this edit is being made. Thanks. Lugnuts ( talk) 17:15, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rich, I saw your comment about "in line" citations and I would be grateful if you can give me an example or two of a sentence you think merits an actual page number citation outside of the ones that are provided on the inclusive capitalism page. Thank you, Ambassadorial.
I need to delete a number of images I uploaded due to possible copyright issues can you please tell me how? I cant seem to figure out what to do. One of the images is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SANY0704.JPG Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Filmnerd ( talk • contribs) 03:42, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 04:43, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Your bot just made this edit and I undid a bit of it here. The commons cat bit was fine and I'll try and do that myself going forward. Moving the stub templates to after the categories seems quite wrong to me. The trailing templates of an article should all come after the usual prose but before categories; iwlinks should come very-last. Isn't this all quite standard? Edits such as the one the bot just did are introducing funny extra whitespace into pages. Such things should not be in the pages themselves, but in the templates and css rules per separation of presentation and content. Cheers, Jack Merridew 08:12, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
About my page "
List of films based on war books", some process keeps coming along and blowing away a
that I am using to create two paragraphs in a footnote.
What is wrong with paragraphs in a footnote?
Sincerely, Varlaam ( talk) 04:29, 30 April 2009 (UTC) (in Toronto)
Sorry, I meant <br /> . I didn't encapsulate this control code in the 1st paragraph.
I think I accidentally shut you off. Sorry about that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nappyrootslistener ( talk • contribs) 22:47, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
You have posted the following message in the discussion page of article PodUniversal "Is the section Some exclusive Podcasts necessary? It consists only of external links to individual podcasts from the site. --bonadea contributions talk 18:01, 25 April 2009 (UTC)"
My response
Since the podcasts relate to different categories of public interest, i have classified them properly and given external link. They would be useful for the public. Please advise. -- Varsha1990 ( talk) 04:09, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
User:SmackBot appears to have moved an existing {{Lifetime}} entry from one spot to another here [85]. I'm not sure why. The description of the edit was (Date maintenance tags and general fixes). Maybe it was confused by the accent in the article name? -- Big_iron ( talk) 08:29, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have been working on a single template to replace all these language name templates. This should make for easier maintenance. Just thought I'd get your response on this, as I think you're the one who created most of them! — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 13:34, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Isn't it common practice to discuss things with the editor of a page before slashing and burning your way through it?
Why is it that a page that has done things a certain way for THREE or FOUR YEARS all of a sudden doesn't meet with the approval of a certain "Mr. Rich Farmbrough", whoever the hell that is, so he is simply free to do as he pleases?
Varlaam ( talk) 17:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
You seem to have a lot of interest in a page you have NEVER CONTRIBUTED a bloody thing to.
How come your totally arbitrary personal opinion is more consequential than those of people who actually put CONTENT INTO WIKIPEDIA?
Eh?
In my years of contributing to Wikipedia, I've managed NEVER to blow away anybody else's good faith content EVER. Vandalism I've blown away 50 or 100 times. But content, never.
So who are you exactly?
Thank you for your help.
Yes I do need all the Sany images deleted but here's a list:
Thank you again. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Filmnerd (
talk •
contribs) 00:49, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Yesterday I did some touchup editing on Gerald Brashear that included adding a {{refimprove}} tag and a stub template. I notice that SmackBot has since removed the stub. I won't say that's a bad choice, but out of curiosity, what criteria does SmackBot use for stub removal? Rklear ( talk) 01:18, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
SmackBot appears to have been confused by the anthropomorphic nature of Herbie, Disney's Volkswagen from a string of movies. It tagged that article as a biography of a living person... here's the diff. (To be fair, it looks like someone tagged the article as a BLP, and SmackBot was just converting a {{ refimprove}}.) TheFeds 02:27, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Yes robots do have trouble telling the difference... Rich Farmbrough, 12:06 2 May 2009 (UTC).
"U.S." is an adjective. The nationality column contains NOUNS, not ADJECTIVES. Do you know the difference between a noun and a adjective? The nationality column now says "Germany" and "Belgium". You're going to be changing those to "German" and "Belgian" to keep it consistent, are you?
The guy who created that page years ago, an American, used "USA". I, a Canadian who lived in the USA as a boy, where I attended a Bobby Kennedy campaign rally, someone who still has traces of his Illinois accent, used "USA".
The Internet Movie Database, maybe you've heard of it, uses "USA":
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Thomas Mitchell ... Gerald O'Hara
Barbara O'Neil ... Ellen O'Hara - His Wife (as Barbara O'Neill)
Vivien Leigh ... Scarlett O'Hara - Their Daughter
Country:USA
Language:English
So why do you need to be different from the entire rest of the world?
Why don't you find something worthwhile to do with your time INSTEAD OF WASTING MINE?
Varlaam ( talk) 15:57, 2 May 2009 (UTC) (in Toronto)
Since, hey, it's my data. Or "original research" as you probably prefer to call it.
Varlaam ( talk) 16:12, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Howdy, SmackBot messed up a template by moving one of its arguments to the end of the file.
Thanks, JackSchmidt ( talk) 18:38, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
This edit of yours broke Ancient Greek grammar (tables), List of Greek place names, and List of Greek words with English derivatives such that they now trip Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls. -- Pascal 666 20:10, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
We can simply write something like {{#if:{{ISO 639 name {{{1|}}}}}|{{ISO 639 name {{{1|}}}}}|non English}} . Rich Farmbrough, 22:34 2 May 2009 (UTC).
Hello Rich Farmbrough. This edit by SmackBot seemed all fine and dandy, except that it changed one instance of "Pokémon" to "Pokemon". Why'd it do that? It's incorrect to spell it without the é. Cheers. - sesuPRIME talk • contribs 14:16, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, your changes to Template:Confusing section template to add the category for the proper date wasn't working. I first thought it was because the CDMA template that you added didn't exist so I changed it back, but that didn't fix it either. I changed the template back to the category addition that was there before you moved it. I didn't want to change the template anymore because I didn't want to make a mess. Can you recheck the change that you made and make it work? -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 05:10, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
hi man please help me to complete cheshme3vom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshme3vom
i dont know what am i doing ? olease help —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.165.15.39 ( talk) 13:48, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've noticed a couple of times recently that SmackBot changed a fact tag from the incorrect format
{{fact|May 2009}}
to the equally incorrect
{{fact|May 2009|date=May 2009}}
instead of to the correct
{{fact|date=May 2009}}.
This is the one I just came across. Ed Fitzgerald t / c 13:55, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Nice hack job!!! Wiki is not about sour fans leaving garbage under the name of an article. Pull this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.177.206.57 ( talk) 20:57, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Rich,
Could you please take a look at the Colorado Time Systems page you tagged with the {{nn}} tag that it didn't meet general notability guidelines? I have added references to relevant material. I am new to wikipedia and also have a few questions:
1. For references that are not inline citations, how do I determine whether I should put them under references or see also? 2. How many links to relevant articles is too many - too few?
Rich,
Thanks for the help. Can you please review the page again and remove the {{nn}} tag if it looks ok. If not, please explain.
Thanks Again, -- Ebgundy ( talk) 22:49, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
I have a couple of questions concerning your tags. You have written that List of Speakers of the National Assembly of Botswana belongs to a trivia section. In fact, legislative speakers is a subcategory in English Wikipedia. There are several separate articles containing names with legislative speakers of the world.
You have also added that the article might contain inappropriate or misinterpreted citations that do not verify the text. I can, however, inform you that my source is the Parliament of Botswana: http://www.parliament.gov.bw/pgcontent.php?UID=707.
Best wishes! Mbakkel2 ( talk) 15:59, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
This may be an ignorant question, because I do not understand the workings of, or how to program, a bot. Would it be possible to add the following to Smackbot's fixes:
p.
or pp.
and the page number(s)?p.
or pp.
with a non-breaking space?22,27,143
to 22, 27, 143
296–299
to 296–99
1296–1302
to 1296–302
Finell (Talk) 08:18, 9 May 2009 (UTC) (To preserve the continuity of the conversation, I will watch for your reply here on your Talk page.)
SmackBot is now changing "p." and "pp.", which is accepted citation form, to "pages" ( example diff), which is not. This leads to inconsistent, and incorrect, citations throughout the article. Also, saying "pages" before a singular page number is an incorrect use of the word. Finell (Talk) 12:43, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
I've also noticed the bot edit in the Copernicus article, and I do agree with the concerns voiced by Finell and David.-- Matthead Discuß 13:52, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
I just found Category:Articles to be expanded since Feb 2009. How hard would it be to get {{ Expand-section}} to use Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template so your bot can fix this kind of thing?
Also, thank you for your kind words at Template talk:DeletedMonths. -- Pascal 666 07:11, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
-- Pascal 666 07:48, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
I just realized you said you would not be updating the in-line templates. Mind if I ask why? It looks like you could update the majority of them by just editing {{ fix}}.
I also wonder how hard it would be to create something like {{ fix}} for the non-inline templates. -- Pascal 666 06:37, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
With this edit, why was there a |date=May 2009 added to the end of the {{ Article issues}} template?-- Rockfang ( talk) 23:36, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
In this edit Smackbot added a date parameter to {{ Article issues}}. This template only uses a date parameter if the expert parameter is also specified. As feature requests, it would also have been nice if Smackbot would have merged the {{ notability}} into {{ Article issues}} and dated {{ copypaste}}. Thanks! -- Pascal 666 18:52, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
SmackBot appears to have major issues with {{ Article issues}}: [86] [87] [88] -- Pascal 666 23:57, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Your fix to keep SmackBot from making no changes other than capilalizing a template does not appear to have worked: [89] -- Pascal 666 19:20, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
You have made mistakes in Template:Cleanup-rewrite, Template:Recently revised and Template:Needs table as of late. Each time with repercussions for many articles. Would you please be carefull next time. Debresser ( talk) 19:46, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
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Beeblebrox (
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In the article
R. H. King Academy, Smackbot seems to have created two identical parameters date= May 2009
while attempting to correct a {{
copypaste}} template. One replaced a full YYYY-MM-DD date, the other was added. Refer to the
edit log. When I added template to the article, I followed the example on how to use it from the
template documentation, which shows a full date rather than date= May 2009
. If the Smackbot correction is the WP standard, perhaps the documentation for Copypaste should be changed. Cheers. --
papageno (
talk) 17:17, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 22:17, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Rich, SmackBot is replacing "or", an inline template, with "original research" a section-oriented template. [90] I assume this is an error. ✤ JonHarder talk 21:26, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I cannot help being childishly amused to see that Erotic spanking has been edited by SmackBot! See here. Keep up the good work. Gaius Cornelius ( talk) 16:02, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for correcting the the "et. al." typo that is in some of the dermatology stubs I created. I apologize for that mistake. --- kilbad ( talk) 23:21, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, In this edit the bot removed two categorised stub tags. OK, the article was probably not really a stub (a previous editor had added an uncategorised stub tag), but the two stub tags I'd added gave it categories within parent categories. Removing them left it totally uncategorised. If the bot is removing such tags, could it add categories based on the parent categories? These may be broader than the ideal categories but will certainly be better than nothing. Here we could have had Category:American academics and Category:Archaeologists, if the bot was instructed to add any parent categories not including the word "stub". I do a lot of stub-sorting, but don't usually add them to my watchlist - because I'd moved this page, it came up on the list. I don't know how common it is for the bot to remove categorisation in this way! PamD ( talk) 11:46, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I just noticed this edit which changed the default formats around headings. Now this isn't some earthshaking matter, but I just wanted to share some observations with you. The Wikipedia defaults are that there are spaces in the heading between the text and the equals signs, and a blank line between the heading and the first line of text. You can check this by making a test edit here. Just click the "new section" tab, put in some letters in the "subject/headline" box and also in the body. Save it and then edit it. You'll see what I mean. I don't know why those are the default settings, but I find it easier to edit when they are left it place. It makes it easier for my old eyes to spot heading breaks, among other things. If you're going to make such changes, you're working against default settings and can keep going forever. It's futile effort, and it makes editing more difficult for me and probably others. I'm sure there are more important things to do. Thanks. -- Brangifer ( talk) 13:39, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Please see the result of this edit do you really think it is an improvement? -- PBS ( talk) 14:57, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Not really very important, but why does SmackBot convert {{ Infobox Settlement}} to the redirect {{ Infobox settlement}}, as here? -- Kotniski ( talk) 17:14, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
On longevity myths, bot changed template "or" to "Original research" repeatedly. The former is inline, the latter is a big graphic. If anything it should just change "or" to "Or". Thanks. JJB 20:09, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
An editor has nominated University of Atlanta, an article which you have created or worked on, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also " What Wikipedia is not").
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This discussion is centered on an edit made by you. You'll probably want to enter the discussion. Debresser ( talk) 14:34, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
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I, Bugboy52.4, award you for reaching 100,000 edits according to the List of Wikipedians by number of edits generated 11:45 pm, 24 February 2009. Keep up the good work!________________________________________________________________ |
Rich,
I would be grateful if you would examine the Effectrode article again and see if it meets Wikipedia's requirements.
Thanks in advance
Sam
More links are added to the person in the captioned subject/headline. Quite a lot of articles about her personal profile indeed.
Hello, I just made some edits to the page of our school, following the style of similar pages for other schools. I didn't want to remove the tags for the problems of the original version, in case this is considered rude or inappropriate. Can you take a look? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saigon_South_International_School Thanks.
Dr. Heenal Raichura
"However the title of youngest doctor in the UK ever now belongs to a student from the University of Birmingham in 2009 having just turned 22 a week before graduation."
Again this seems to be some type of vandalism and vendetta as there is no basis of this claim to be added on this web page.
The information is neither backed with the name of the person or any factual information and even if this is a fact, there are no citations.
Tomorrow you will mention that someone from the University of Timbuktu had become youngest doctor at the age of 5!
Hence you are requested to stop vandalising this page and immediately delete the above entry which has no relevance to facts about Dr. Heenal Raichura.
Hello;
I think you may be getting a superfluous period in some of your et al. changes when a comma is involved, for example in this change to Aerosteon. It looks like the AWB is trying to get the period inside of the italics, but the period outside of the italics is still there, so it ends up as "et al..," instead. J. Spencer ( talk) 03:16, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Standard abbreviation would be et. al. alia is "others", so "and others". but I find it better to write "and others". I rarely use "et cetera" or whatever for same reason. SimonTrew ( talk) 02:15, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
I thought this was a neat milestone. And no, I don't know why I pulled that up :P I don't suppose there's any way to know what its two millionth edit is, when it comes? Should be about two weeks, by the numbers. Anyway, just thought this was cool, thought I'd share if you hadn't checked it out. Nosleep break my slumber 10:20, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
I made an edit today--one edit--to the article Carrie Prejean and have not made an edit to the article in days, but yet another editor reversed my ONE edit and then reported me on the 3RR notice board. I find this to be a clear use of Wikipedia to win a debate about article content and direction. Prejean was called a series of negative things by Perez Hilton, most of the words are contemptuous and vile, such as the b-word and c-word. There are editors that believe that each and every one of Hilton's use of those words MUST be included in the article about Prejean. Now, I don't see the need to have an article about Prejean dominated by the words and comments of ONE individual (highly negative words at that) dominate the life story of Prejean. It is tantamount to having the words of Saddam Hussein concerning George W Bush dominate the Wikipedia article about Bush. It violates Wikipedia avowed goal of NPOV and it violates BLP. Now, I know that consensus in Wikipedia editing is one of the goals, but consensus does NOT override other valid Wikipedia ideals such as BLP. There can be a compromise made where the gist of Hilton's highly negative opinion is included in the article, but at the same time it does NOT dominate the life story of Prejean. Prejean is notable for many, many reasons, not just her public fight with Hilton. She is notable for being a successful model; she is notable for participating in Deal or No Deal; she is notable for being the current Miss California USA; and she is now notable for being a TV personality. My first question is: Can you at least review the article and see if the second, third, fourth, and fifth repetitions of the b-word and c-word violates BLP? I believe that it does. And my second question is: Is it appropriate to make a report on an editor for violating 3RR even though that editor has only made one edit? And my third question is: Is misusing 3RR to win a debate on the proper interpretation of BLP appropriate? I don't think so.-- InaMaka ( talk) 15:59, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
Some of your AWB edits are adding duplicate periods. See for example here. Can you fix this? Firsfron of Ronchester 18:14, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
these templates get changed to things like {{clarify me}}. while these may redirect there, the problem pointed out by the tag should not be changed. (still put in dates) Scientus ( talk) 09:15, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Rgds,
Why did your recent edit to Bicycle and motorcycle dynamics, which is described as fixing the spelling of et al., and appears to have been made with AWB, change the order of several citations. - AndrewDressel ( talk) 21:41, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, Your recent change of 'claygate beds' to a link currently redirects to the same section within London Clay. Were you intending to add an article? Pterre ( talk) 15:16, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, 15:45 19 May 2009 (UTC).
You made some recent changes there. I don't object, but I'm wondering about the rationale. I suspect that you know some things about references that I do not. If you could share a little of it, I'd be grateful. Lou Sander ( talk) 19:16, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rich
Thanks for your cleanup at PORBEAGLE.
I could swear I added a little note saying it is an anagram of BARGEPOLE. I know in a way that's not notable but is kinda funny (and useful if you play Scrabble). I know we have to be an encylopaedia but small little things like that can "accidentally" slip in, can't they?
I am up to a thousandth of your edits now!
Best wishes SimonTrew ( talk) 22:54, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
hi i see you did some edits on my page... not sure what you did but thanks i guess. did you take 2 of my notes/sources off. i had 16 now only 14. could you please tell me which ones and why? cheers-- Charliedylan ( talk) 00:02, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
===Reference shuffling===Seemingly random swapping around of references
[92]. The {{
fact}}
and endash fix were fine, but for the moment I've done a rollback until I understand what the bot was attempting to do. —
Sladen (
talk) 01:17, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
PS. I tried to stop the BOT, but the page to do that is protected ... which perhaps defeats the point of having the stop page option in the first place.
Please visit Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#CfD_categories_renamed
Hi Rich, at Council_for_European_Studies, there is still just the stub category, {{ uncat}} shouldn't be removed. -- User:Docu
Hi Rich, your bot did a bit of too much [93] changing names into months and rewriting links... -- Olaf Simons ( talk) 08:49, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
This is a very minor question, but is there any reason you are changing the name of infoboxes to lowercase such as Infobox Settlement to Infobox settlement in this diff (which I changed back to uppercase). The page is currently at Template:Infobox Settlement (capitalized), so why change this? Browsing your edits I noticed you doing this to other infoboxes like Template:Infobox Disease. I'm just curious why you are doing this. You can reply here. Thanks. LonelyMarble ( talk) 21:01, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, what I have done? Where is the problem for the template of Social Democratic Union of Macedonia?-- MacedonianBoy Oui? 22:47, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Rich, please could you consider changing the word "can't" at the top of this talk page (referring to replying preferences). Perhaps "won't" or "am unlikely to [watch your talk page]" would be more accurate. "Can't" (particularly in bold) implies a technical impossibility, whereas this appears to be a situation that is one of choice. Cordially, — Sladen ( talk) 23:19, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Based on Olaf's expressed concern above, I did a quick review of the last fifty edits on this account. I hope that any comments are useful or can help in refining any macros/expressions being used. These edits took place over a period of 25 minutes (an average of two edits per minute, and a highest rate of five edits per minute). Side-note: This speed of editing is probably verging on WP:BOTPOL territory, based on being faster than a human can carefully review. Within those 50 edits, I noted the following and like to highlight them in the hope that they can be useful:
{{
reflist}}
with a broken, capitalised, <References/>
tag
). This type of edit is harder to automate as each number requires checking the context.
WP:MOSNUM
{{
pp-semi-vandalism}}
→{{
Pp-semi-vandalism}}
looks quite strange; and iso probably a loosing battle because of the automated methods used to add it. (It might be worth considering not altering template capitalisation en masse (either Upcase, or downcase) unless it is actually causing a problem).
Just curious, what was the point of changing "Infobox Settlement" to "Infobox settlement" in this edit? Not complaining, since obviously it didn't hurt the page, but I don't understand how it helped. Nyttend ( talk) 00:57, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm sure that your zeal is appreciated, but you should be aware that in doing this in every case (specifically, where a file name uses "et al", with our without the final full stop) means that sometimes (as in Un ballo in maschera), you actually fail to make the link work.
If you look at the Ballo article under "Selected recordings" you'll see that it now works, but only because I have removed that final "full stop / period". A link with the missing "dot" works; by adding it, it doesn't. A simple test is to see if the link turns from blue to red.
So, BOTs are all very well, but they can be too literal for everyone's own good. Viva-Verdi ( talk) 01:30, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Your last change to this template is making articles show up in "Articles blah blah blah from (month year)", which are all red linked categories. Why did you switch it to from just to make hundreds of red links? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 01:48, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 13:26, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Lately you have been making minor edits and cleanups to dermatology-related pages, and given that activity, and your overall experience as a longstanding editor, from what you have seen, do you have any general comments regarding the dermatology related content on Wikipedia? Any feedback on how I and WP:DERM can work to make it better? Any thoughts on the current categorization scheme, etc? Regardless, thanks again for all your help! --- kilbad ( talk) 13:52, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Your recent contribution to [ Orcus] has a page error generated by AWB. Please consider upgrading to a newer version of AWB. HumphreyW ( talk) 20:04, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you edited Wikipedia:Manual of Style (icons) heavily recently. Could you perhaps give an opinion on the use of the template {{ POV-section}} there. The last time John tried to remove this tag but was inserted again by User:Oicumayberight, see also the discussion here and here. Since the RFC there was now really over I removed it but was obviously reverted again by User:Oicumayberight who seems to think there is a problem if only one user thinks there is a problem. Garion96 (talk) 00:31, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Troublefield Cemetery was added on May 26, 2008 to the list of cemeteries in Wedgefield, South Carolina. It remained until I reverted it May 22, 2009. clariosophic ( talk) 12:33, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Template:Infobox book series, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as at articles for deletion. Under the specified criteria, where an article has substantially identical content to that of an article deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{
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AnmaFinotera (
talk ·
contribs) 03:21, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I did a few, manually looking at the histories to determine when the tag had been placed; realised tis was going to redlink categories, and unilaterally pushed all the dates forward to the latest point when they could have been thus subst'ed: January 2007 (still very much bluelinked). It's off little consequence of course - I think unreferenced was the only tag subst'ed in this way now appear on the CW error list. But I diverge. - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 08:48, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Your change to the templates have incorrect grammar, whether or not they meet Wikipedia guidelines. Please move any appropriate categories back to where they were. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 09:14, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
I've reverted your edit to {{ Di-no source}}. There are two reasons for keeping the old category name: first, all the other deletion templates use the "as of" category names, and second, automated tools for dealing with unsourced images expect the category names to be in the "as of" format. -- Carnildo ( talk) 20:22, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Your edits are being discussed at ANI. Thanks, weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 09:21, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
The above discussion has been moved to the archive, and on Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion the discussion was officially closed. Debresser ( talk) 04:24, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 04:03, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
FYI. Do mind if I put commas in your signature in this section of my talk page? :) Rockfang ( talk) 01:14, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=IBM_3270&diff=292941693&oldid=292886041 - picked up that I'd missed a date=
parameter but could it be taught to recognise that I'd already added the correct date, just missed the date=
bit? --
ClickRick (
talk) 00:16, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. You do a great deal of cleaning up which I appreciate but please be aware of the capitalization issue noted above, resulting from this diff. English is not capitalized when used as as a term for sidespin in billiards disciplines, just as the "french" in french fries and is not capitalized. Cheers.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 14:28, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
I'd appreciate your imput here. I feel you might be the expert on the subject. Debresser ( talk) 18:42, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Are you the admin I'm looking for over there? Or is there such a thing as making me an admin for the completion this project only? Or do you have other suggestions? Debresser ( talk) 02:00, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Error in Template:Reply to: Username not given. Debresser ( talk) 15:41, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Part of the work can be done already. Where templates are not involved. I feel we can take our chances. Don't like pigs. That is ethnically determined in my case. :) Debresser ( talk) 16:26, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
I've done {{ Dead link}} and all its category pages (22). All should be well, but please keep an eye on it. Debresser ( talk) 00:04, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
I have two questions.
I see. Thanks. I would be happy to see them go also. The first point holds only for very small categories, of up to perhaps 50 pages at most. More than that will demotivate any single user to take up with it. The second point, and what can or can not be done with that parser function, is above my comprehension.
What do you say? This transition went well? Debresser ( talk) 00:35, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Could you please change "as of" to "from" in Template:Current and Template:Recent death. I've created the categories. Debresser ( talk) 14:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC) And Template:Current related. Debresser ( talk) 16:16, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Please delete Category:Current events as of February 2009, Category:Current events as of March 2009, Category:Current events as of April 2009, Category:Current events as of May 2009.
FYI, I make a list of all templates I find connected to a specific category for future reference at User:Debresser/My_work_on_Wikipedia#Since.2Ffrom.
Please consider having a look at Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Current_requests_for_unprotection, where I propose to lower the protection level of all three templates mentioned above. Debresser ( talk) 17:11, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Could you please repeat this edit in Template:Cfd, Template:Cfm, and Template:Cfr. Debresser ( talk) 22:08, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. But with this one there is a complication. These templates are usually substituted. Which means that our change will not affect any category that was tagged already. BTW, for this reason I think you can delete not only Category:CfD 2009-07, Category:CfD 2009-09, Category:CfD 2009-08, Category:CfD 2009-06, but also my Category:Categories for deletion from April 2009. Unless I change those 9 categories there manually. What do you say?
Something else, why didn't you remove whitespaces in those three templates? I checked Template:Cfr (not to check upon you, but because I updated Template:Cfr/doc) and there are 3 whitespaces to remove. Debresser ( talk) 22:59, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
A related question. Template:Cfd adds categories both to the specific monthly cat as well as to te general Category:Categories for deletion (see there). IMHO there is no reason not to deleted that line. Debresser ( talk) 23:07, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
The whitespaces are around cats, which are anyway invisible. So no reason not to remove them. Especially in front of <noinclude> there should not be a whitespace as it translates into a whiteline. Not that in this case that would be a big problem, but it is sloppy programming. I'm a matematician, after all. :) Debresser ( talk) 23:11, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
All these CfD, AfD, TfD, MfD are substituted. Don't know why, but in this case I feel sure there is a good reason. Debresser ( talk) 23:13, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Ok, it's visible if you look at the code. But not in the template as it shows. Compare Template:Cfr/doc which I condensed and Template:Cfr which you didn't. The only visible difference will be if you remove the whitespace in front of <noinclude>. The rest is just a matter of principle. So what do you say, shall I use AWB to transfer those cats that are already tagged? Debresser ( talk) 23:19, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Well... I just tested it on the sandbox, but there is no difference whatsoever. Perhaps that is because of the substitution, because I have upon occasion witnessed the disarranging consequences of that whitespace.
I'm waiting for two answers. About manually moving cats with a CfD to our newly created categories. About deleting the line in Template:Cfd adding Category:Categories for deletion as well. And I hope you'll delete those superfluous cats.
If you are going to do something to
Template:Cfd, consider removing the break in |
and change it to
| {{error:not substituted|cfd}}| | {{error:not substituted|Cfd}}
, and consider changing "cfd" and "cfd2" to "Cfd" and "Cfd2" as well.
Debresser (
talk) 00:45, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
We have the first category newly tagged. And it seems to work. Debresser ( talk) 00:51, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Don't delete Category:Categories for deletion from April 2009. I moved the pages there. Want to put a bot on moving the 438 or so pages from Category:CfD 2009-05 to Category:Categories for deletion from May 2009? Debresser ( talk) 01:03, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
I see you moved them and deleted the old cats. Thanks. What about updating
Template:Cfd with removing
Category:Categories for deletion, changing "cfd", "cfd2" and |
to "Cfd" and "Cfd2" and
| {{error:not substituted|cfd}}| | {{error:not substituted|Cfd}}
?
Debresser (
talk) 13:08, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
There's a LOT of noice about this last one on Wikipedia_talk:Categories_for_discussion#CfD_categories_renamed. Debresser ( talk) 20:53, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that from his style. Then I had a look at User talk:William Allen Simpson. I was just about to drop you a note that we have an agressive editor here, when I saw your last post. Just hope he is one of those who make more noice than actual trouble. Debresser ( talk) 21:29, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Does that discussion mean we have to have more discussion before we continue or since all the eight categories left are just from "since" to "from" is that trivial enough?
I was ready to propose changing Category:Templates deprecated since
to Category:Deprecated templates from
(sic!, as it was before the last edit) in
Template:Tdeprecated. Just take care to drop me a note right away if you make the change.
Debresser (
talk) 22:51, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
I had a real good look at it yesterday and didn't see anything out of the ordinary. A regular transcluded template, used within noinclude tags for obvious reasons, bestowing a simple datecategory like all others. And there's only 11 or so of them. Would you care to mention what is special about it? Debresser ( talk) 10:59, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
I know it isn't article namespace, and the regular queue will update it. I don't see the problem. I choose it because it is small and can be done with a single simple edit. Whatever you say. Debresser ( talk) 11:12, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Please add |from=yes
to {{
Verify source}} and {{
Verify credibility}}. All is ready.
And perhaps delete a few {{ db-g6}} I left from my mistakes (see Special:Contributions/Debresser for all 8 or so of them together). Debresser ( talk) 13:39, 22 May 2009 (UTC) Done by some admin. Debresser ( talk) 15:15, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Did you notice the articles with dead links from after 2007 don't disappear. (The categories from 2007 are empty and can be deleted.) A long queue? Debresser ( talk) 13:54, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Are you going to make a nomination for renaming CfD, or do you want to wait till things quit down and till we finish all other categories? Debresser ( talk) 15:25, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
If you'll be around in another 26 or so hours, we'll tackle {{ Original research}} with three editprotected templates. I'm going on my weekly wikibreak now. :) Debresser ( talk) 16:10, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
I found another template connected with Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification: {{ Expert-verify}}. Would you please change it. Pay head: only change the second instance of the word "since", connected with this category, at this time. Debresser ( talk) 18:45, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
No I didn't. What and where? Debresser ( talk) 18:57, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
You want to tell me it wasn't in Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification at all? Debresser ( talk) 19:02, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Good I am not an admin. I make too many mistakes.
Please add |from=yes
to {{
Fact}} and change "since" to "from" in {{
Citations missing}}.
Debresser (
talk) 19:20, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Please chnage "as of" to "from" in {{ Di-no source}} and afterwards null-edit {{ Nsd}}. Debresser ( talk) 19:35, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
I know {{ Nsd}} is substituted. I warned User:DumbBOT and User:MiszaBot. Since the oldest category there is 11 May, the troubles should be over within two weeks and will consist in some files showing up "as of" and others (with transclusion rather than substitution) in "from". Debresser ( talk) 19:46, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Please see [102]. Will you talk with him, or me? He probably wasn't aware I made all categories (which was a LOT harder than I thought. (see e.g. all my edits to Category:Wikipedia files with unknown source from 11 May 2009 ) Debresser ( talk) 20:34, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Please have a look at this diff. It seemed to me like a mistake, since {{ Citations missing}} didn't do that for over a year (if ever). Do you agree? Debresser ( talk) 21:16, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
See this diff that I have found the categories you created for {{ Verify credibility}}. Debresser ( talk) 21:24, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps re-revert him? We have tried to contact him, but he doesn't seem to be around. Debresser ( talk) 21:45, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Ok. I saw User:OrphanBot on those files. Didn't think he had to be contacted, so I wrote just to the other 2 bots. I think he can work it out though.
What I meant about the missing citations documentation is that it used to say "Adding this sorts the article into subcategories of Category:Articles lacking sources" which I think was a mistake, wasn't it? Especially since later on it says (correctly) "This template will categorise tagged articles into Category:All articles with unsourced statements and either Category:Articles with unsourced statements or a monthly category like Category:Articles with unsourced statements from May 2009, if a date is supplied."
Please add |from=yes
to {{
Failed verification}}. That should be the last template for this category.
Debresser (
talk) 22:06, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Please add |from=yes
to {{
Or}} and change "since" to "from" in {{
Original research}}. Also afterwards null-edit {{
Section OR}}.
Debresser (
talk) 22:40, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
I have no idea what "tiffing" and "bedding in " is. I'm from the continent. :) But that's fine. Would you care to give a third party opinion here? BTW, I found an extra non-protected template in this cat and two templates in the or cat were also non-protected, as well as two templates in Category:Articles with unsourced statements. See User:Debresser/My_work_on_Wikipedia#Articles. Debresser ( talk) 00:22, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I just found another template in Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification. But the thing that made me say "wow" was {{ Article issues}}. There are a lot of "since" there. If you feel like combing them, go ahead, but perhaps just boldly change all of them, because we've done most of them and will do the other two there tonight, God willing and you helping. Debresser ( talk) 19:41, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I have a question. I'd liketo create a cat Category:Articles needing expert attention by month to be a subcat of Category:Articles needing expert attention, just like we have Category:Articles to be expanded by month as a subcat of Category:Articles to be expanded. That would clean up the page a little. My question is, this won't interfere with the sorting mentioned on Category:Articles needing expert attention through {{ Expert-subject}}? Debresser ( talk) 19:55, 24 May 2009 (UTC) No problem here, so that's what I will do. Debresser ( talk) 20:26, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Could you please change "since" to "from" in {{ Expand}} and {{ Expand-section}}. Debresser ( talk) 20:22, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I thought of that. Check it after my next post to you, please, just to make sure. Debresser ( talk) 21:03, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I think you missed one "since" in {{ Article issues}}. Debresser ( talk) 21:27, 24 May 2009 (UTC) Now you got it.
I now understand what you meant in this message to me. Of course. I would start making them an hour or so before the first place on the globe changes to the new month.
Please change "since" to "from" in {{ Expert-subject}} and {{ Expert-verify}}, {{ Mergefrom}} and {{ Mergeto}}. Debresser ( talk) 21:42, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Please have a look at Category:Deprecated templates by month ("per month" and not "per date"). You can change "since" to "from" in {{ Tdeprecated}}. BTW, I wanted to change "Templates deprecated from" to "Deprecated templates from", but forgot about that. Debresser ( talk) 22:39, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
20 of what? Merge templates? Debresser ( talk) 22:44, 24 May 2009 (UTC) Ok, I saw them on your contributions. Debresser ( talk) 22:46, 24 May 2009 (UTC) I found the cat. Only 21 of the 33 templates used a dated category, it turnes out. If you didn't miss any. I'll check. Debresser ( talk) 22:50, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
About that includeonly tag on {{ Tdeprecated}}. I liked it better the way it was, when you could see what the template would loook like. Just seeing that yellow template will be already more than half of the answer for somebody who saw it instead of the template he expected. Debresser ( talk) 22:53, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I did {{User:Ajcfreak/Template:Mergetomultiple-with}} as well. It's in userspace, but better be bold than leaving him with a malfunctioning template. Debresser ( talk) 23:04, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I take it you disagree with me about {{ Tdeprecated}}? Did you check if SmackBot can work with Category:Articles to be expanded by month and Category:Articles needing expert attention by month? Debresser ( talk) 23:08, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
The last category: please take care of {{ Weasel-inline}}, {{ Who}} and {{ By whom}}. Does Smackbot update {{ Which}} => {{ Which?}} ?
One more thing. Many templates use {{
Fix}}. Do we want to change {{
Fix}} from a default of "since" to a default of "from"? And then delete the line |from=yes
from those templates? I would like that. Just that if yes, we had better wait a while, so that if there are any templates we missed, they will show up.
Debresser (
talk) 00:22, 25 May 2009 (UTC) I dont know the {{
DMC}}/{{
DMCA}} templates, although I thought about them. My conclusion was that they are probably used not only for "from". But for {{
Fix}} I have an idea: replace "since" by {{FULLPAGENAME}} and any case we forgot should show up as a template loop soon enough. Which I check every day anyway.
Debresser (
talk) 00:47, 25 May 2009 (UTC) Another bold idea is to delete all "since" categories and let
SmackBot null-edit all pages that show up with invalid date parameters.
Debresser (
talk) 00:50, 25 May 2009 (UTC) BTW, the second "since" in {{
Fix}} can already be changed.
Debresser (
talk) 00:51, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
I had a look at {{ DMC}} and {{ DMCA}}. They are obvious. {{ DMCA}} is {{ DMC}} for articles only, therefore the "A". Why didn't you use {{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}||{{DMC}}}}? Wanted it to be able to stand on its own? Debresser ( talk) 00:59, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
The trick is to change {{{2}}} to "from", or to make it default to "from" ({{{2|from}}}) (or sth like that). Debresser ( talk) 01:01, 25 May 2009 (UTC) On the other hand: the charm of {{ DMC}} is that it can take any variable. It would be a shame to limit such a potent template. Debresser ( talk) 01:09, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
You can delete Category:Deprecated templates by date and all its subcategories. Debresser ( talk) 01:20, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
You missed this and this. Do you have more such suprises for me? :) Debresser ( talk) 11:12, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
You have said nothing about my ideas for {{ Fix}}. Debresser ( talk) 11:33, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
This one was a lot more polite. And he reverted his edits. As to my previous questions and remarks about {{ DMC}}/{{ DMCA}} and {{ Fix}}: Error in Template:Reply to: Username not given.
When nudging I meant as to my wild ideas of boldly adding a template loop or deleting categories. I'd like to restate my opinion that it would be a shame to change {{ DMC}}. It has an appealing forcefull generality to it. Might I suggest changing only {{ DMCA}} for this purpose (which, it seems, is indeed the one used). Debresser ( talk) 16:45, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
I'll take my proposals are rejected. Now, as to finishing nicely with {{ Fix}} and {{ DMCA}}. On the list of all categories and templates we worked on, which I keep at User:Debresser/My_work_on_Wikipedia#Articles I added small notes indicating which templates are editprotected, which use {{ Fix}} and which {{ DMCA}}. Then, to make your live a little easier, I copied those without either and placed them in a special list at User:Debresser/My_work_on_Wikipedia#Waiting_for_DMCA_template. Hint: it would be very usefull if you could work {{ DMCA}} into those ten templates in the next few days. I'd do it without problem, but I would probably get it wrong. And two of them are editprotected. Debresser ( talk) 18:16, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
I added {{ DMCA}} to 8 of them. Could you please check I didn't make any mistakes?
That leaves just two editprotected templates: {{ Tdeprecated}} and {{ Article issues}} (about which last I forgot before). Debresser ( talk) 21:29, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Do you have any idea why these last two categories are done in one day and others are waiting almost a week now?
You're right about {{ Tdeprecated}} and I wouldn't use {{ DMC}} for it. What is the logic in standarising 1 template in a stand-alone group> If you get my point. So when we want to centralise the use of "from" (or whatever) we have to do that at {{ DMCA}}, {{ Fix}}, {{ DatedAI}}, {{ Article issues}} and {{ Tdeprecated}} (done). Debresser ( talk) 23:59, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
By the way, did you know about Category:Attempted de-orphan, using "in" as programmed in {{ Orphan}}? Could you rewrite it with {{ DMCA}} please? It's easy. If you want to use "from", let me know. Debresser ( talk) 00:09, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
I though we were close to done, but I forgot that I have information only about the catgories I worked upon together with you, which is only about 10 out of 43. I'll see if I have energy for all of them. But a good start would be to have {{ Article issues}} to use {{ DatedAI}} in all sections. Another thing is that {{ DatedAI}} should know that {{cat-date}} is {{cat-undate}}+" from". Which would simplify {{ Article issues}} and centralise the use of "from". What to do with the exeption, Category:Wikipedia cleanup and Category:Cleanup by month The obvious solution would be to rename Category:Cleanup by month and all its monthly categories to Category:Wikipedia cleanup by month. The best thing is probably to build the exeption into {{ DatedAI}} and discuss it later, after all is centralised. Debresser ( talk) 01:13, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Four last small notes:
{{#if:{{{cat-date|}}}|[[Category:{{{cat-date}}} {{checkdate|{{{name}}}}}]]}}|{{#if:{{{cat-undate|}}}|[[Category:{{{cat-undate}}}]]}}<nowiki></code> to <code><nowiki>{{#if:{{{cat-undate|}}}|[[Category:{{{cat-undate}}}]][[Category:{{{cate-undate}}} from {{checkdate|{{{name}}}}}]]}}
.
Debresser (
talk) 01:37, 26 May 2009 (UTC)Oh, I know you are a programmer, and I am not. It wrote this to explain what kind of change I had in mind. Words are ambiguous, code is not. Would it work the way I wrote it? I would be very proud if it would. I really am not a programmer. I just look a lot at what I see and try to understand the way things work. This is without the abovementioned exception. Debresser ( talk) 01:43, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
I was not being modest. I am not a programmer. When I was a child I learned the basics of Basic and in university the basics of Pascal and that's it. What language are these templates written in anyway? Another reason I wrote you the code is so that I shouldn't give the impression I am just inviting you to do all the hard thinking.
Now another thing. If we want this to work we must check all templates use either {{ Fix}} or {{ DMCA}}. Could you send me the list of all 423 templates you said ScmackBot dates. If up util now you could justify not sending me this list by claiming that I might actually find some more templates, that isn't true any more because now we are starting to standarise categories that are already at "from". BTW, did I find you any templates ScmackBot didn't know about? When I get the list I'll start sorting them per category and I'll add indicators like I did with the new "from" categories at User:Debresser/My_work_on_Wikipedia#Articles. BTW, I think we'll need to copy that section somewhere into Wikipedia namespace, for future reference. Probably something like Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories with templates. I'll do that.
Had a look at Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories with templates?
About User:Rich Farmbrough/temp5. Am I allowed to remove redlinks and update redirects? Nothing else. Debresser ( talk) 15:56, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Above questions waiting for answers. And I asked you once what language templates are written in on Wikipedia. As to my question, did I find you any templates ScmackBot didn't know about? The answer is: yes (at least {{ Season needed}}). You might want to add it. Or I could, if you tell me that's ok. Debresser ( talk) 17:12, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps I didn't understand you. Is User:Rich Farmbrough/temp5 supposed to have all redirects, or not, or doesn't it matter? Because if you say it is - I can add them, and if you say it isn't - I can remove them. So far I added 1 template, fixed 1 typo (=1 redlink), deleted all redlinks. Debresser ( talk) 21:09, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
BTW, I removed a few redirects from User:Rich Farmbrough/temp5. I also removed {{ Merge-school}}, because it doesn't use a date parameter in the category, but I forgot to mention its removal in the edit-summary. Debresser ( talk) 22:48, 26 May 2009 (UTC) Since it does take a date, just that it is not used in categories, I relisted it. Debresser ( talk) 10:23, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Why are you so quite? I mean, in connection with things here. Debresser ( talk) 20:46, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
What's interesting in {{ Fix}} at the moment? Debresser ( talk) 22:25, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Please add |from=yes
to {{
Attribution needed}}.
Debresser (
talk) 21:20, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
The section in {{
Article issues}} dealing with {{
Cite check}} is missing the line | cat-undate = Articles lacking sources
. Could you fix that?
Debresser (
talk) 00:31, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
A technical question: does {{DMCA|Articles lacking reliable references|from|{{{date|}}}|All articles lacking sources}}{{{category|[[Category:Articles needing more viewpoints|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}}
do the same as {{DMCA|Articles lacking reliable references|from|{{{date|}}}|All articles lacking sources}}[[Category:Articles needing more viewpoints]]
? Can {{
DMCA}} take both categories inside?
Debresser (
talk) 21:34, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
And in the same vein: can {{#if:{{{date|}}}|{{{category|[[Category:Articles with broken or outdated citations from {{{date}}}]]}}}|{{{category|[[Category:Articles with broken or outdated citations]]}}}}}{{{category|[[Category:All articles with broken or outdated citations]]}}}{{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}||{{#if:{{{date|}}}|{{#ifexist:Category:Articles with broken or outdated citations from {{{date}}}||[[Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template]]}}|}}}}
be replaced by {{DMCA|Articles with broken or outdated citations|All articles with broken or outdated citations}}
?
I'm checking all templates. Want me to do these first? Debresser ( talk) 23:05, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Please add |from=yes
to {{
Facts}}.
Debresser (
talk) 00:06, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Rich, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have no idea what you meant with that last post to me. I need simple answers, like "yes" or "no, because this does #1 and that does #2". Debresser ( talk) 21:56, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
I created Category:Articles with close paraphrasing from March 2009. Please have a look and tell me if I did right. Then I'll make the other 2 monthly categories needed here. Debresser ( talk) 22:45, 27 May 2009 (UTC) I made some changes, was content, and created the others. I also added it to Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month. Debresser ( talk) 22:56, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
I noticed {{
Clarify me}} a week ago. It uses "from" but the text is |from=from
. If you want, please change it to |from=yes
and remove that whitespace after the "cat-date" which is a thorn in my eyes. :)
Debresser (
talk) 23:11, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Would you have a less awkward solution for the beginning of {{ FalseStatement}}? That would centralise "from", I mean. Debresser ( talk) 00:10, 28 May 2009 (UTC) Ok. Deleting it was a nice idea. Debresser ( talk) 02:55, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Now if we want to work into {{
DatedAI}} the exeption for
Category:Wikipedia cleanup it shoud probably be something like {{#if:{{{cat-undate|}}}|[[Category:{{#ifeq:{{{cat-undate}}}|Cleanup|Wikipedia |}}{{{cat-undate}}}]][[Category:{{{cate-undate}}} from {{checkdate|{{{name}}}}}]]}}
. I seem to remember that within parser functions spaces are discarded so perhaps that should be Wikipedia & # 32 ;
.
When you finish {{ DatedAI}}, the next thing will be to make {{ Article issues}} use only {{ DatedAI}}. Which is up to you, because of the editprotection. The only three entries not yet using {{ DatedAI}} are "notable", "notability", and "Intro rewrite". Let me know when you finish, ok? Debresser ( talk) 09:44, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
{{ Chemformula}} has a dated category in it, but no dated categories exist. Apparently none have ever been created. I propose to remove it from the template. What do you say? Debresser ( talk) 22:06, 27 May 2009 (UTC) I see you changed it in a way that keeps the dated cat. I really don't think we need more than one category for all of them, since it is not in use at all. Debresser ( talk) 22:49, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Can't {{{category|{{#if:{{{date|}}}|[[Category:Chemistry articles with topics of unclear importance]]|[[Category:Chemistry articles with topics of unclear importance]]}}}}}
used in {{
Chemical-importance}} be replaced by [[Category:Chemistry articles with topics of unclear importance]]
? Or even by {{DMCA|||Chemistry articles with topics of unclear importance}}
?
Debresser (
talk) 21:45, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
You made some typos in {{ Episode}}. I fixed them. Debresser ( talk) 00:13, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm updating User:Rich Farmbrough/temp5. I remove the redirects up till #45. And added all templates I found from those you sent me. I'm afraid SmackBot will be one busy bot the next few days. Debresser ( talk) 00:17, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
I updated Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month and still have to update Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories with templates. No sleeping for me here. Debresser ( talk) 02:55, 28 May 2009 (UTC) Done. Debresser ( talk) 04:15, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
I added User:Debresser/What's up? to the top of my talk page. From it you can see that in another 2-3 hours I'll have a 2-day wikibreak. Debresser ( talk) 12:39, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Remember about "The obvious solution would be to rename Category:Cleanup by month and all its monthly categories to Category:Wikipedia cleanup by month"? Since there is discussion now at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_May_26#Category:Wikipedia_deletion and the two entries after that in the same vein, I think you should make that proposal now (and possibly even refer to those discussions). Debresser ( talk) 10:31, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
I saw {{ Catholic-cleanup}} which sorts into Category:Wikipedia cleanup, but is in content parallel to {{ 1911 POV}} which sorts into Category:NPOV disputes. I'd propose to have both sort into the same category, preferably something like Category:Articles with minor POV problems or Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating. Debresser ( talk) 03:40, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
I don't know how you made that list of templates using {{
Fix}} without the line |from=yes
, but I'd like you to try again. I'll be glad to here the result is "none found". Actually, I expect you'll still see {{
InlineXend}}. I don't know how to fix it, so I'll leave it to you.
Debresser (
talk) 00:15, 28 May 2009 (UTC) When you move the "from" into {{
Fix}} let me know, and I'll remove |from=yes
from all templates I can, while you have a look at
Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories with templates to find the editprotected ones.
Debresser (
talk) 04:17, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
|from=yes
from all templates, or do you still need some help?
Debresser (
talk) 19:22, 30 May 2009 (UTC) Which stuff did you mean here?
Debresser (
talk) 19:23, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Please have a quick look at #Closing reactions and then a longer one over here, because you have not replied to 2 of my questions. Debresser ( talk) 19:22, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
The category page of Category:Self-contradictory articles needs an update introducing a date parameter to the general public. Debresser ( talk) 23:28, 27 May 2009 (UTC) The same with {{ Csense}}. Debresser ( talk) 23:36, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
What is the difference between {{ Contradict-inline}} and {{ Contradiction-inline}}? Debresser ( talk) 01:47, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
BTW, the right moment to make the new monthly categories using Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month is at noon GMT. I'm not going to be around tomorrow at that time. So would you like me to create them today, or are you going to be around? Debresser ( talk) 20:31, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Please also notice my last edit to Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories. Debresser ( talk) 02:40, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
What happened to Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month/cat?? Why does it say "July" now? Debresser ( talk) 02:44, 31 May 2009 (UTC) In other words, why does {{#time:F Y|+1 month}} give August 2024, while {{#time:F Y}} gives July 2024? Debresser ( talk) 02:58, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
+30 days
solution has solved this.
Debresser (
talk) 09:22, 31 May 2009 (UTC)I promised not to make any more changes to categories without discussion. And we really shouldn't. It is an obvious proposal though. It might even be speedied. Debresser ( talk) 19:50, 30 May 2009 (UTC) The same for the proposal concerning the cleanup categories. You might consider finishing work on the last parts of {{ Article issues}} first. Debresser ( talk) 20:31, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
I've left a note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Notability#Template:Notability progress. Cheers, – BLACK FALCON ( TALK) 17:57, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Cheers for doing that. It took a fare while to update that template with a calculator. -- James Chenery ( talk) 18:05, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I have emailed you to ask whether you would agree to participate in a short survey on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies in articles pertaining to global warming and climate change. If interested, please email me Encyclopaedia21 ( talk) 18:40, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
See 1, 2 and then 3, if you want to have a good laugh. Hint: it has to do with a certain person we stumbled upon in a recent discussion. Debresser ( talk) 00:41, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Have another look at Wikipedia:Wikiquette_alerts#User:William_Allen_Simpson where the discussion has gone astray, but has been forcefully reversed to its course. You might have a look at User_talk:William_Allen_Simpson#Invitation also. I can't help feeling elated that justice is being meted out, as I percieve it. Debresser ( talk) 03:24, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
You can congratulate me. Now he's putting me on WP:WQA. :) Debresser ( talk) 11:20, 1 June 2009 (UTC) So far without any success. He isn't really trying either. If he does, I'll show argument after argument how it realy was "a lot of unfounded accusations", and he will be looking very badly indeed. Debresser ( talk) 15:19, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
I have a suggestion. SmackBot could leave educational edit summaries like "Please use capitals for names of months", "No comma should used between the name of the month and the year", "Please do not use dates when tagging templates, just the month and the year", "Please use only the current month and year when dating a template" (see e.g. [104]). This may be some work, although I think it shouldn't be too hard. I feel sure this would be beneficial. Debresser ( talk) 12:06, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
All the merge templates (see here) could use {{ DMCA}}. If that can be done (you never know, substitution and all), please do the three editprotected templates, and let me know there's no problem and I'll do the rest of them. Debresser ( talk) 02:55, 28 May 2009 (UTC) Why don't you answer about this one? Debresser ( talk) 00:45, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Did this edit of yours perhaps include a mistake, changing from Category:Wikipedia articles needing style editing to Category:NPOV disputes? Debresser ( talk) 21:37, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Yes i plan to expand article.-- 98.111.139.133 ( talk) 17:20, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
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the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.
Disturbed
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(Delete!) 19:41, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 22:54, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Please let me know ASAP: User:Rich Farmbrough/temp5 is for all templates that take a date parameter, not just those that sort in a dated category, right? Debresser ( talk) 19:30, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Rich Ffarmbrough, 21:00, 2 June 2009 (UTC).
|att=
parameter.
Debresser (
talk) 21:40, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
I updated the documentation page for {{
Csense}} a little. Please finish it, if you can. And tell me, please, wasn't I supposed to see some text when hovering with the mouse over the link, other than
Wikipedia:Common sense? I also updated the documentation for {{
Fix}}, removing mention of |from=yes
.
Debresser (
talk) 20:36, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
|date={{{date|}}}
in stead of just |date=
?Probably. Rich Ffarmbrough, 21:00, 2 June 2009 (UTC). I guess
|class = noprint Template-Fact
is breaking it. But that's css, not to hot on that. Rich Ffarmbrough, 21:04, 2 June 2009 (UTC).
I see you fixed it. Thanks. Debresser ( talk) 21:43, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
I introduced a "normal" date parameter to {{ Merge FJC}}. That was my first time. Does it look ok? Debresser ( talk) 19:55, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Rich - I think I was able to establish from the history of the page Metamaterial that you left the "expert needed tag." I re-wrote and expanded the whole introduction for this article. I'd like you to take a look and "hear" what you have to say. You may respond at my talk page or at the article's talk page.
And, please feel free to let your bot roam free through this article. If it does editing fixes I am all for it. Better the bot than me.
(or is that - "Better Ye than Me...")
Ti-30X (
talk) 05:39, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed you replaced all instances of µ with µ at R10000 as part of a clean up. May I enquire as to why? Is it required by WP:MoS, some other policy or guideline? Thanks! Rilak ( talk) 08:13, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
There is a "since" category in Naoki Miyanishi, probably because {{ Expand Japanese}} needs a null-edit. Debresser ( talk) 11:45, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Wrong. The reason is the editprotected {{ Expand language (non-Latin script)}}. Could you please change all instances of "since" to "from". Debresser ( talk) 18:21, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
You have another problem. See this diff. Debresser ( talk) 22:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Well the rule that spots there is a month followed by year as a default argument is case-insensitive - so it still works. The rule that replaces malformed month names is applied before that, and only to date= constructs. Cahnging the order of the rules would create more complexity, but maybe I will add another simple rule dealing with case only. Rich Farmbrough, 10:06, 4 June 2009 (UTC).
Should the 2nd, 3rd and 4th levels of the Category:Drugs by target organ system mirror the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System exactly, or be consolidated when possible?
Please read the more thorough description of this issue at WT:PHARM:CAT and post your comments there. Comments are much appreciated! Thanks --- kilbad ( talk) 00:24, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Additional links to other article have been done. Please review. I believe orphan template issue resolved. Thanks. Jrcrin001 ( talk) 07:57, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
I updated Category:Articles needing coordinates from June 2009. Both stylistically as in content. The thing is that the page of {{ Locate me}} claims that {{ Locate me}} is deprecated. In connection with this I have 2 questions:
Debresser ( talk) 19:34, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
No I don't think so. But the co-ord templates I will not do anything with until I have thought things through. Rich Farmbrough, 23:08, 3 June 2009 (UTC).
Since {{ Coord missing}} isn't on any talkpages, and {{ Locate me}} isn't in any articles, and the documentation is updated to clearly show this usage, and we have established that at present {{ Locate me}} is not deprecated, and there is no compelling reason to do so until {{ Coord missing}} becomes visible, I don't think this is of any immedeate concern to us now, and I propose to drop the thread. Debresser ( talk) 12:46, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Could you please change {{ PD-self}} to the following code? Copy from edit window to preserve formatting!
{{imbox
| type = license
| image = [[Image:PD-icon.svg|52px]]
| text =
''I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the '''[[w:public domain|public domain]]'''. This applies worldwide.''<br/>
In case this is not legally possible,<br/>
''I grant any entity the right to use this work '''for any purpose''', without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.''
}}{{File other
| {{DMC|User-created public domain images|from|{{{date|}}}|All user-created public domain images}}
}}{{free media}}<noinclude>
{{Documentation}}
<!-- Add categories and interwikis to the /doc subpage, not here! -->
</noinclude>
I noticed {{ Section rewrite}} is officially deprecated and not in use. Shouldn't it be deleted then? If so, what is the correct way? Should it be nominated at wp:afd, or can any admin delete it since it has been officially deprecated? Debresser ( talk) 20:09, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
SmackBot is replacing the inline {{ syn}} with the banner {{ synthesis}}. [105] Hrafn Talk Stalk( P) 04:38, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rich,
If you are feeling game, I have a saved a list of sources for adding in content on Charlie Lawson which are in the bottom of
my sandbox. You are welcome to appropriate them as you wish. I have been trying to get my hands on an expensive rare book on the subject but no luck so far. Keep up the good work!
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► (
(⊕)) 17:39, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Rich, when I look at an edit like this from an experienced editor like yourself, I don't doubt that it's correct. But I gotta ask you—how did you know that that needed to be changed? I mean, a) how do you know what it should actually be, and b) how did you come to see it? I'm just curious. Un sch ool 03:46, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
I saw here that you added a dated category to this template. That seems to me like a mistake, since {{ Ambox}} doesn't take such a parameter, so I removed it. Debresser ( talk) 22:03, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
<includeonly>...</includeonly>
tags to {{
DMCA}}?
Debresser (
talk) 22:47, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
May I suggest that this edit was a mistake. There are no monthly categories for Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements, just yearly. The previous version seems correct to me (if it worked). Debresser ( talk) 15:37, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Please note that {{ rp}} only takes a "date" parameter if the "needed" parameter is also specified. Adding "date" parameters to {{ rp}}s that actually have the page numbers listed as was done here is not necessary. -- Pascal 666 17:40, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
I finished checking all templates from User:Rich Farmbrough/temp5 and updating that same list. I added {{ DMCA}} where I could, and updated many a documentation page. I hope my updates to the list have been usefull to you and your bot. I won't be needing the list any more.
I have added all templates using a dated category to Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories with templates. I would appreciate it if you could update that list with any further templates using a dated category you may find. I made that list for future reference. In short perspective it may be used to see which templates still need to be standarised (with either {{ Fix}}, {{ DMCA}} or {{ DMC}}). There is many an editprotected template there that caneasily be standarised, and a few that need more thorough attention.
Since all tasks in furthering the standarisation of dated categories and their templates are now either to editprotected templates or above my technical abilities, apart from the proposals for category standarisation, I'll have to restrict myself to following your progress in these. Debresser ( talk) 16:02, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
On
Crusoe (TV series), SmackBot changed a US flag template (
United States) to a warning template ([
unreliable source?]). A bug?
Andyross (
talk) 21:31, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Nice work on {{ Progress box}}. I wonder how hard it would be to merge in the functionality of {{ DeletedMonths}}. -- Pascal 666 01:36, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
I hade a look at Template:Splitting progress. The "All articles" link is redlinked because it uses "All Articles" with a capital. That is a small oversight: don't just add "All", but also turn the capital "A" from "Articles" into a regular letter. Debresser ( talk) 00:34, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
See this edit for an example of a mistaking edit that needs to be fixed. I have seen many of these already, not thinking it was the bot who made this mistake. But then it became a little too often, and I checked who did this, and guess whom I found? Debresser ( talk) 13:27, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Don't bother searching for the mistaken edits. I'll clean them up. Debresser ( talk) 13:37, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
I just noticed that you deleted this template with the rationale "redirect to deleted template." In an above section, it is correctly stated that the template was deprecated, but it was not a redirect to a deleted template. Please advise. Thank you. — David Levy 12:08, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
SmackBot changed a "fact|June 2009" template coding to "Fact|June 2009|date=June 2009" earlier today in this George Washington article edit. I removed the extra "|June 2009" though you may wish to make a change so SmackBot only inserts "date=" in such situations. — ADavidB 19:07, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your useful bot work. A minor observation: noticed today that SmackBot doesn't appear to know that {{ Fact}} invites dummy parameters; I say this because those present in this appear to have caused SmackBot to see the pipe and assume a date was present. (I won't watch for a reply here but please use my talk page should you need to discuss.) PL290 ( talk) 13:36, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
I have added Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements to Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month. Do you think I could nominate Template:Cat ASOF for deletion? Debresser ( talk) 19:24, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
[[Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements {{#if:{{{2|}}}|from {{{1}}}{{!}} {{#ifexpr: {{{2}}} < 10|0}}{{MONTHNUMBER|{{{2}}}}}|{{!}} {{{1}}}}}]]
. Nothing here that isn't regular in other maintenance categories. Or is there? That's why I thought we should delete it, after discussion, since no other maintenance category has a template to create its monthly categories, and
Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month can do the same (and I have actually added a line there with precisely that purpose).
Debresser (
talk) 22:26, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
<includeonly>...</includeonly>
and <onlyinclude>...</onlyinclude>
tags. I would have thought the page of
Template:Cat ASOF should be empty, since all text is inside <onlyinclude>...</onlyinclude>
tags. Nor do I understand the need for the <includeonly>...</includeonly>
tags.I really appreciate it you update me about new templates, but in this case...
There are over 6700 articles in Category:Wikipedia articles needing context. Perhaps add a monthly category? Debresser ( talk) 23:19, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
I would very much appreciate some direct reaction to the other points I mentioned above. And of course any further updates about templates with a dated category, or new progress on {{ Article issues}} e.g. Debresser ( talk) 22:38, 6 June 2009 (UTC) But
So I see. Very nice. As soon as we make a little order in those categories that will allow for significant simplification. Did you notice who agreed to a template deletion proposal of mine, as well as to the category rename? Perhaps now you propose to rename one of the categories? Debresser ( talk) 22:40, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I tried to update the above template so it can take account of the latest changes to fields in German Wikipedia (without throwing away the existing ones), but it's protected. How can I get it updated? -- Bermicourt ( talk) 18:45, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Everytime it edits savant syndrome a cite error occurs.-- 125.14.233.56 ( talk) 07:41, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure why "et al." is preferred over "et al", however here is one case where it is not correct: this edit broke a template that has "et al" in its name. I must say that use of the template seems very odd to me, but I restored it (I was there replacing linkspam). This is just FYI, no need to reply. Johnuniq ( talk) 10:54, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Please do not do this, it makes work for other people to fix. Gurch ( talk) 19:08, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
A couple of days back, in this edit to Mono (software) SmackBot changed the wikilink to mod_mono to one for mod mono. Normally this would be the correct edit, but the name of the package and thus the page really does have the underscore in the name.
Can you add this as a special case to the bot's edit rules please?
Thanks Kiore ( talk) 06:36, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent clean up of this Bishampton article. This tiny village stub has been subject to constant vandalism since it was created. The various IPs are probably used by one person. If you have time, could you too please continue to help the Worcestershire project team keep an eye on it. Thanks.-- Kudpung ( talk) 09:57, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
In this edit [106], SmackBot destroyed the "year" unnamed parameter of template:update after. Furthermore, the "date" parameter it inserted is completely bogus, the template was put in the article already in March [107]. — Emil J. 13:49, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
It might have been better to discuss the move [108] on the talk page for {{ Infobox Software}} ahead of time so it could have instead been done at the same time as the next update of the template itself. Now ~1,100+ cached pages have to be needlessly rebuilt since the template was changed. Tothwolf ( talk) 20:39, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
As you know, Penubag is working on a banner to advertise the Outline WikiProject. And he's almost done.
The banner prominently presents the "Outline of chocolate", which of course will become the most widely advertised outline as soon as the banner goes live. The first thing many editors will do after seeing the banner is look for that outline.
The problem is, we don't have one.
So that's our first outline collaboration!
I started a draft this morning.
It needs to be finished and moved to the article namespace before we can start using Penubag's banner ad!
Come join in on the fun. It's chocolate!
The Transhumanist 22:00, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
I went back to correct the Newburgh Enlarged City School District as soon as I could get back to the computer, and you had already done it. Thank you. nbhtownclerk —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nghtownclerk ( talk • contribs) 00:58, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Template:Technical is made especially for talk pages. Nevertheless there are some (<75) instances where it is used in articles. I propose moving it from the articles to their talk pages. Could SmackBot do that? Do you think {{ Cleanup-jargon}} should be added to the articles instead? If it's too much trouble for the bot, I can always do it with AWB. Debresser ( talk) 21:32, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
I've replaced all instances in articles by {{ Technical (expert)}}. Could you program SmackBot to do this automatically in the future, please? Debresser ( talk) 10:08, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Your edit to this template causes it to be invisible on the template page. Which makes it a little hard to know what it looks like. Debresser ( talk) 14:47, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Now Template:Technical (expert) is not made for talk pages, but the documentation claims it should be put only on talk pages. It is in use one 20 tak pages and 10 articles, which seems to show that I am not the only one with this opinion. My proposal is to delete that line from the documentation page and move all of them to the articles. Debresser ( talk) 21:48, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
It even caries a category Article message boxes. So I removed that line. I replaced all transclusions on talkpages by Template:Technical. Could you program SmackBot to do this automatically in the future, please? Debresser ( talk) 09:46, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
I've revived this discussion here, adding a new proposal. Debresser ( talk) 20:01, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
In this edit I noticed your bot is doing what you have been reprimanded for doing on wp:AWB, namely removing the whitespaces in headers. Since there is no reason to do so, and Wikipedia default is otherwise (and I personally agree with that as being more clear), please tell the bot not to do this. Debresser ( talk) 21:39, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Debresser ( talk) 16:21, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi - Regarding The Fountains I added a PROD to it; it is totally unreferenced and it needs sources to show notability and verifiability. WhisperToMe ( talk) 00:56, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi RIck - boy, your bot is quick :) - I was in the middle of making a change to 59th (2nd_Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot (changing it from being merely a recursive redirect into a slightly informative stub (hm.. I should find out how to put in the 'Stub' notice) when it put it back to the original. Cheers, Csalmon ( talk) 01:32, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to report a problem with Smackbot. It recently broke the infobox on Republic of China by removing a "<br/>" tag (or maybe by replacing it by a line break) from the "footnote" field. See this edit. Laurent ( talk) 15:17, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Any all-encompassing cats should then be
And the daughter cats named appropriately.
This proposal of yours is a change to present guidelines, see point 2 here. Just taking notice.
I would not mind it if such a proposal were to be accepted, but myself feel fine with different standards for different categories. But, there should be uniformity within each category. Which brings me to the following point.
For the sake of simplifying {{ DatedAI}} and {tl|Article issues}} it will be a big step forward to reach this last condition: uniformity within each category. This is what my proposal is about. You do not think it is a good and realistic proposal? Debresser ( talk) 21:09, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Since a certain uncivil editor has reacted to this last nomination by bringing an example from Category:CfD 2009-06 I have nominated that category for renaming to Category:Categories for discussion from June 2009, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_June_9#Category:CfD_2009-06. Debresser ( talk) 17:35, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
I have informed all that have been part of the previous discussions. The opponents have shown up right away. I have refuted their argumetns with ease. Now I'm waiting for a few proponents. It was nice that the first reaction was positive. Debresser ( talk) 18:50, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Discussion is fierce. But to the point. Interesting. The discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_June_4#Category:Articles_to_be_split will be closed soon. I think it will be closed on the alternative. Which is fine with me. Shall I go ahead and create those pages, or should I wait? Debresser ( talk) 09:03, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
I feel I can use some support at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_June_9#Category:CfD_2009-06. Debresser ( talk) 23:55, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Another concern of mine is that the closing admin of most discussions is one who does not seems to overly appreciate my proposals. Do you have any good ideas? Debresser ( talk) 23:59, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_June_8#Category:Wikify_from_June_2009 needs some more opinions. Debresser ( talk) 01:05, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
And please have a look at Category_talk:Pages_for_discussion as well. Debresser ( talk) 01:05, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_June_4#Category:Articles_to_be_split is the only entry on the page that isn't closed yet. Although all 3 editors have agreed on the alternative. Please also don't forget to add your opinion to Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_June_8#Category:Wikify_from_June_2009 and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_June_9#Category:CfD_2009-06. Debresser ( talk) 06:20, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Great! Now WAS came back and "suddenly" changed his mind about that nomination that wasn't closed. Why wasn't it closed yesterday??? (frustration) Debresser ( talk) 12:47, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
You made the right decision there. Audacious. All templates and categories done. Debresser ( talk) 13:56, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
You moved the external links section to a wrong place here. Just to let you know. Happy editing, Spencer T♦ Nominate! 23:06, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Concerning this edit: The only pages in the article space linking to that article are two topics lists and a redirect page (if you click on "what links here", one of the two topics lists appears twice, with two different names, but it's actually only one list). Doesn't that qualify it as an "orphan"? Michael Hardy ( talk) 00:11, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
There very probably are articles that should link to this one, among those on statistics and those on epidemiology, and perhaps some on scientific experiments.
Do you mean that you have reservations about whether it is useful to label orphans as orphans? Or about whether the articles themselves are useful? If the former, the point would seem to be to call them to the attention of those who might know what links should be added. Michael Hardy ( talk) 03:57, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
I noticed this at Copthorne, West Sussex. User:Smackbot made these changes. otherplaces3 template moved to the top and Mid Sussex template moved above the categories. Almost immediately, User:Legobot reverted them. I do not know who is right, I am just bringing it to your attention. MortimerCat ( talk) 08:33, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
In the two days I've been out of editing there have appeared 140 articles in Category:Pages with missing references list. This is about the daily average, which I estimate to be close to 80. This is clearly too much for any editor to fix on a daily basis, and I am pretty much fed up with it. Do you have any ideas? BTW, Error in Template:Reply to: Username not given. as to my questions and remarks above. Debresser ( talk) 22:23, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Together with another user we once fixed over a thousand of them. We even awarded each other a Barnstar for that. For what unexplicable reason did SmackBot stop fixing this? In my experience, over 80% of the cases are either new articles or old articles receiving their first references and can be fixed by a bot adding a references section. The other articles, where e.g. a references section exists but was rendered inactive by a remark or reference tag without a closing remark or reference tag, can be fixed manually afterwards. That is because I do that anyway, but the numbers will be a lot more reasonable. Debresser ( talk) 22:37, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Does that mean that from now on SmackBot will try to fix this error category? There are now only 30 articles left. That would mean some 10-20 per day. That I can handle. Debresser ( talk) 00:12, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Oh, I just remembered something. Please make SmackBot fix only the articles, not anything else showing up here. We also have templates, category pages and help pages here, but those I prefer to fix manually. Debresser ( talk) 00:22, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
The category is filled with over 60 articles. What's with SmackBot? Debresser ( talk) 23:38, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Are you still running this fix? Please don't forget it. Why isn't it automated? Debresser ( talk) 21:40, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
The Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (categories) had recently been updated with a pretense of reflecting consensus on a subject discussion you initiated. But in fact it did not reflect consensus at all, but rather the opinion of the specific editor making that change. In this edit I changed that section to reflect consensus and reason. Debresser ( talk) 02:23, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Who would believe it? Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Edit_warring#William_Allen_Simpson_reported_by_User:Debresser_.28Result:_.29
BTW, see also User_talk:Aervanath#Advice_needed for some more things this editor is doing without consensus. Debresser ( talk) 13:41, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
See also this edit of mine. :) Debresser ( talk) 16:36, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Could you please have a look at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(categories)#Update_administrative_categories_section and tell me if my behavior in this conflict has been as it should be? Please also advice me what to do if William_Allen_Simpson will return to making these changes of his. If you please write me on my talkpage? Debresser ( talk) 18:25, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
The page has been protected. See the end of User_talk:William_Allen_Simpson. To help resolve the stranded discussion, perhaps you could return to the discussion? Debresser ( talk) 14:14, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
In the beginning the protected verion was the one last edited by me. Now it has been reverted to a version of about half a year ago, with the contested text which was added 2 1/2 years ago by WAS. I have a feeling WAS will not be in a hurry to comply with the expressed wish of the protecting admin to discuss. Debresser ( talk) 16:32, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
BTW, Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:William_Allen_Simpson. Debresser ( talk) 21:54, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Can you please explain what these names stand for? This doesn't appear to be documented anywhere, and the question was raised at Template talk:DMCA. (Like Jack Merridew, I immediately thought of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.) Thanks! — David Levy 20:51, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Changing {{main|}} to {{Main|}} is not necessary, and defies a certain convention of using lowercase for template tags. - Ste vertigo 21:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Can you fix it so that the template itself (not just the docs) is actually visible when you view the template page? So people can know what the template actually looks like? Like in Template:Technical (expert), you can still see the tmbox.. know what I mean? -- œ ™ 02:31, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 12:07, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
You can delete all categories with "since" in Category:Articles with unsourced statements and Category:Articles to be expanded by month.
The discussion at
Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_June_8#Category:Wikify_from_June_2009 is near its closure and you have not yet expressed your opinion. I'd strongly ask you to do so.
Debresser (
talk) 08:50, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Your closure of the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_June_4#Category:Articles_to_be_split has been reverted in this edit. Debresser ( talk) 12:36, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Rich? Debresser ( talk) 19:38, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
{{ DMCA}} and {{ DMC}} were merged and renamed. I wrote on the talkpage that I was not in favor of the rename. Was the merge correctly executed? It was done by an editor whom I know as an expert in templates, but you never know. Debresser ( talk) 13:13, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Why did SmackBot remove my wikify tag here? Who then was a gentleman? ( talk) 17:29, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, regarding the article Oxford Leadership Academy, we have been attempting to simply provide information about our company in a non promotional way but have had tags placed on the page. We have referred to similar articles eg McKinsey & Company and tried to compose the article in a similar way. we would very much appreciate some guidance on what should be added or removed in order to meet your criteria, so interested wikipedia users can find useful background info on the company and it's history. I look forward to your reply. Strategy2009 ( talk) 21:15, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Several members of the WikiProject have been hard at work.
Buaidh has been building and refining the outlines on the U.S. States, the states' historical outlines, and the Historical outline of the United States. Lately, his edits have dominated the project's watchlist readout. (I think he's overdue for a barnstar or two. hint hint)
Penubag has been working on medals for all the main branches of the OOK, and has completed the OOK WikiProject's animated advert banner (see below).
Highfields has been filling in the currencies for each country on their respective outlines.
NuclearWarfare and Thehelpfulone have been busy with WP:AWB, posting banners and notices, and helping our sister project, the Index WikiProject, get established. Indexes work hand-in-hand with the outlines and are prominently linked to from the top of most of them. And the outlines, which serve as tables of contents, are only as good as the pages they link to.
Since we started integrating (linking) the OOK and its support pages into the encyclopedia and into the Wikipedia community, activity on outlines has been increasing. Though there's still much left to do.
But I digress. There are a couple more...
Stefan is building the Outline of sharks.
MacMed has joined our advanced wiki-tools team, and is currently adding links to outlines in the corresponding subject articles' see also sections.
Be sure to stop by their talk pages and say "hi".
Penubag has finished this WikiProject's animated advert banner, and it is now being displayed on the Wikipedia ads template which in turn is displayed on about 2000 user pages. Each time someone access one of those pages, there is a 1 in 184 chance of them viewing this:
![]() | |
Wikipedia ads | file info – #184 |
If you'd like to display the banner on your userpage locked-on to the ad as above, use the following code:
{{Wikipedia ads|ad=184}}
(By the way, it's been awhile since we've barnstarred Penubag).
If you haven't already, please add the entire project's watchlist to your watchlist. Here's how:
I forgot to mention this step above. :)
I can't make heads or tails of 'em, but these links were on Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge:
I discovered an AfD discussion on possibly the first article named "Outline of", which was called Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics, and which was created 4 years ago. Of course they deleted it. But now it has many friends, and so it has risen from the dead. :)
See the DRV discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 June 7#Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics.
Recruiters needed. Drop me a note if you are interested.
I'm impressed with the level of enthusiasm and work going into the outlines. I'm proud to be working with each of you.
The Transhumanist 23:23, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rich Farmbrough, a recent edit you made to Sag Harbor, New York caused a disambiguation template to appear as normal text, rather than in its proper format. Your change deleted one of the braces ( { ) that appeared before otheruses4. The error has been fixed without reverting your other changes. Thanks. -- JBC3 ( talk) 09:26, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I also spotted this same error with your edits to Pretoria, Oklahoma City and Managua, and I corrected them. Tassedethe ( talk) 12:13, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello again Rich, another , this time to Glens Falls, New York, changed the order of consecutive refs such that, had I not caught it, the wrong ref would appear to be a deadlink. I checked most recent batch of the (many!) general fixes you made, and in all but this one I found no problems! Take care. -- JBC3 ( talk) 11:15, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if this is intended, and I figure it's easily reversed if it isn't, so I won't stop your bot. It's putting the nbsp; space in between units of measure and their abbreviation, ie: 50$nbsp;km. Seems unnecessary, perhaps it's from trying to make sure there's a space. Looks fine on the outside but my guess is that it's not optimal, so there you are. - BalthCat ( talk) 11:55, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
something went wrong here. 66.57.4.17 ( talk) 04:06, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Is a city - http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Magelang&diff=298044631&oldid=297897195 and the reason for settlement? Satu Suro 02:48, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
You have changed a considerable number of genuine Indonesian city articles city templates to 'settlement' (ugh) - any reason? Satu Suro 04:57, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Could you please explain why you added a Europeanized listas parameter to Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari?
Was this based on the advice of a robot assisted editing tool?
I am sorry to tell you that there are some robot assisted editing tools that routinely recommend Europeanized listas parameters for individuals where it is highly inappropriate. It is a maintenance nightmare, as it will be a lot more work to clean up after these rogue bots as it would be if the robot assisted editing tools stuck to the tasks which can be done by robots, and let humans figure out things that require human oversight.
Individuals with Arabic names should almost never have their name shoehorned into the European style of inherited lastname-surnames.
Over and above the problems with Arabic names, if you look at the Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari article you will see that the DoD transliterated his name over half a dozen different ways.
I regard this as a very serious problem. I'd appreciate help getting the authors of these bots to be more humble and responsible in the tasks they try to make their bots tackle.
Thanks! Geo Swan ( talk) 02:54, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 03:17, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
This could just be me but SmackBot seems to be going through articles reversing the order of cites. I always put them in the order information appears but I realise there might be some rule I'm not aware of. Here's an example anyway, would be good to know either way A Rush of Blood to the Head Cavie78 ( talk) 18:00, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Are edits like this really necessary? PC78 ( talk) 22:57, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
That was fun. :)
The Transhumanist 23:58, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
When was smack bot approved to move {{ Portal}} links from the "External links" to the "See also"? [109] WP:LAYOUT made the statement that the "See also" section is the "best place" for these links, but the guideline was not being absolute. For example, in the article Global warming, with the added portals links, the two templates hang into "Notes" section, disrupting the CSS dynamic columns. [110] ChyranandChloe ( talk) 05:17, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
There is a difference between the sister project Wikibooks and Wikipedia:Books. Wikipedia:Books are pdfs generated from articles on Wikipedia. They are compiled on Wiki, which removes it from being purely an external link. It's half and half because in addition allowing readers to download books, it also allows readers to purchase prints from the German company Pediapress. I swapped the two around using the "logical progression from on-wiki to off-wiki information" clause from WP:LAYOUT's entry to WP:PEREN. [112]
I'm approved to use AWB, [113] and you can turn off that feature. I'm looking for the bot approvals page. Your response fails to be satisfactory. Look, I know what you did was in good faith, but you're starting to sound tired. See you tomorrow. ChyranandChloe ( talk) 06:41, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
In recent edits to articles on Italian municipalities you have been changing {{ Infobox CityIT}} into {{ Infobox_settlementIT}}, which does not exist. (See Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_settlementIT for a list)
Would you mind reverting? Thanks. Ian Spackman ( talk) 07:38, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Wot up hommie G. I edited myasthenia gravis page by adding cholinergic crisis. You delelted the portion...saying they are different. You are right, althought there is still outstanding discussion in autoimmune specialist community whether they should be bundled as sub types of myasthenia or not, as for now they are considered seperate. But lot of people have lot of confusion distinguising these two and understanding the concept of crisis since both of them are type two autoimmne reactions and both have the same symptomps. If we keep them seperate then we still need to mention edrophonium test to differentiate both of them, I will do that now. Le me kno if you O K with it. Thx. Never mind too late someone has already included edrophium test under diagnosis still it would be appropriate to mention that before any other test, due to its importance. I am writing this stuff on your page but I am not very fmiliar with editing Wiki so if I screwedup something or if this is not how you wanted people to reply to you then I am sorry and you can delete this. Keep it real and keep fighting the good fight. — [ Unsigned comment added by Ninad 1999 ( talk • contribs).]
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Rich, I totally understand going through and fixing things like titles, subtitles, and templates that have the wrong case. But I'm confused, as I see you are also changing {{ coord}} to {{ Coord}}. Yes, Template:Coord is capped, but all of the documentation says {{ coord}}. Are you doing those changes by hand or with a tool? tedder ( talk) 20:48, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Have you changed the Infobox: Education in the United States to the proper lower case? Several of the pages you have updated now have a redlink to an infobox that apprently doesn't exist yet and I'd hate to go through and fix them back if they will be working soon. The "Infobox: school" is OK, but not the "Infobox: Education in the United States." -- JonRidinger ( talk) 02:21, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Please add a closing edit comment when you close these discussions. It makes finding closes a lot easier. Thanks. Vegaswikian ( talk) 06:17, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
We see that you have moved {{ Infobox Indian Jurisdiction}} to {{ Infobox Indian jurisdiction}}. This infobox is transculed to thousands of articles of Indian places. Looks like the template move have broken thousands of articles like Chhota Gobindpur. Can we revert it back ? See also related discussion here -- Tinu Cherian - 11:22, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Work is proceeding apace...
The current consensus is that we can't place a hatnote leading to an outline at the top of a subject articles unless the outline being presented is of at least the same quality-level as the article.
Improve outline quality by completing them.
Place hatnotes for the outlines of high enough quality.
Guidelines pertaining to outlines need to be updated. Outlines emerged as a class of pages only a few months ago, and most of the relevant guidelines don't cover them specifically. For example, Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists is incredibly out of date.
Invite wikignomes, wikielves, and wikifairies (all 2500+ of them) to help on the outlines .
Identify 600 more subjects with coverage extensive enough to justify outlines, create rudimentary drafts for them, and post notices to the corresponding WikiProjects and subject talk pages to help build them.
Convert outlines titled "List of" to outline articles, and add them to the OOK. There are a few hundred of these. Conversion instructions are needed.
Add a description of outlines to About Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Basic navigation, and add tips about outlines to the WP:TOTD and Tips library.
The Transhumanist 20:27, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
See [114]. Smackbot deleting orphan tag on orphan article, where there are no articles other than redirects pointing to it. I'm just guessing, but since there are four redirects, I suspect you're counting them. TJRC ( talk) 17:12, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure what happened here: [115]. There were no references on the page, so the changes don't make sense to me.— C45207 | Talk 04:48, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Please could you stop SmackBot dating {{ coord missing}} tags? It breaks my bot's current workflow: I could fix it by recoding various parts of the bot, but it would be much easier if you just stopped SmackBot from adding the date tags. Thanks. -- The Anome ( talk) 13:21, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Would you please review the following page again? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%B6rer_Minimum
I added the references which should have been there from the beginning and corrected the most serious errors such as the dates for the Spörer Minimum. If I get a chance I will review the other dates as time allows. In the case of the Spörer Minimum even last weeks New York Times got it wrong also.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/us/18eddy.html
And yes, I notified the NY Times of the error. Somewhere on the Internet there is another bad source which I will have to find and correct.
The 1976 paper by Dr. Eddy also makes the connection to the Little Ice Age. I included a link to a public PDF copy of the paper. Read the quotes by John. A. Eddy. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_A._Eddy
Michael Ronayne ( talk) 23:02, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
The bot changes templates to sentence-casing. It changes Infobox Film -> Infobox film when the former is correct. See Ice Age (film). BOVINEBOY2008 13:04, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Since you are one of the editors who has participated in the discussion about renaming Category:Pages for deletion to Category:Pages for discussion, I'd like to invite you to comment upon my proposals for this category here. Debresser ( talk) 16:07, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Minnecologies has done an incredible amount of work on Outline of forestry and posted a note to me on my talk page requesting feedback.
I've posted my observations at Talk:Outline of forestry#Finished outline review.
Please take a look at the outline and let Minnecologies know what you think of it on the outline's talk page.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 19:37, 29 June 2009 (UTC) Delivered by JCbot ( talk) at 20:16, 29 June 2009 (UTC).
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 02:26, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
You previously made some contributions to the article Law of Chastity, and there are some comments up for discussion on the talk page that you might like to weigh in on.
Thank you for your assistance so far.
I have made some edits (some appear to take and some not), not sure how my footnotes got the way that they are. How do I get the message removed that the entry will be deleted in 7 days?
Tomatoproducts ( talk) 23:42, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Some of my changes to references took, and some did not. I see you fixed the remainder. I very much appreciate your assistance as I learn my way through this process. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomatoproducts ( talk • contribs) 17:59, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Why have you moved this template? The lower case "f" is contrary to guidelines. PC78 ( talk) 16:34, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Can you reevaluate Landmark Marketing. I went over it to make it sound less like an advertisement and added references. How can I improve? WahooCommerce ( talk) 17:03, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Dear Smackbot sir, I think the article, Aurangabad, Maharashtra apart from the maintainance tag requires a morefootnotes tag, since there are hardly any references or sources mentioned in the article. Please do the needful. Nefirious ( talk) 14:43, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
I added some maint tags to an article on July 1 here in New Zealand. SmackBot changed the date to June. I guess it works on server time. Can you set up the bot so that it does not alter dates that are less than 12-24 hrs before the server time? Cheers. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 21:43, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
SmackBot converts following wiki code
<ul> <li> item 1 <p> blah-blah-blah <li> item 2 </ul>
into
<ul> <li> item 1
blah-blah-blah
<li> item 2 </ul>
Which renders differently in a browser:
blah-blah-blah
versus
// Stpasha ( talk) 19:14, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
You could look at using
* item 1 <br> blah-blah-blah * item 2
or
* item 1 :blah-blah-blah * item 2
You do realize you broke a ton of redirects with your move of Template:Infobox officeholder, right? You're supposed to fix them when you do things like that. john k ( talk) 19:07, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
You missed the one for mayor. I tried to fix it, but it's locked from editing. Paxsimius ( talk) 22:13, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
for retraining Smackbot regarding the citation-needed template - please feel appreciated Sssoul ( talk) 15:18, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi.
What was the point of your edits today to Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month? Debresser ( talk) 10:00, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I was wondering if you can help me write a Wiki Page. I am uneducated in the whole Wiki editing process.
I'd like to send you a bio and references for the article. The article is already written but of course I understand your editing magic will be necessary.
How do I send you the article request ? My email is: [email protected]
Please email me and I will send you the article to review, to see if you may be interested in helping. It is a short Wiki article. Nothing major.
Thanks ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by RadioMediaCorp ( talk • contribs) 12:16, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
I am new to wiki. I created this page. There are sources sited in this article so I am not sure why this is being tagged for deletion. Would renaming help?
Tomatoproducts ( talk) 18:18, 28 June 2009 (UTC)lhs
(user Tomatoproducts)
Dear Rich,
Please advice. With several persons involved in creating organizing and sailing the event " 2008 Vintage Yachting Games" we created this page and put references to sides of all involved authorities. Wat do we need to do to have the correct references so that the article will not be deleted. Please give us some advice/exapmples in relevans to the article involved. We are open for your advice and ready to learn from you but have no clue at this moment wat we are missing her.
Thanks in advance
Rudy den Outer ([email protected]) 84.105.17.54 ( talk) 17:47, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
The references will appear where you place this code
Of course inline is not necessarily appropriate for every article. Rich Farmbrough, 03:14, 6 July 2009 (UTC).
Hi, the SmackBot keeps adding a References section to the template:Current Men's Singles ATP Rankings, which causes some problems, as it makes the section appear in the middle of the articles where the template is used (as in 2009 ATP World Tour or Association of Tennis Professionals). I've reverted the Bot once, but it came back with the same edit a couple of days later. What do you think can be done ? -- Don Lope ( talk) 19:16, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!!Hey buddy wassup!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.170.121.170 ( talk) 10:41, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if this is a recurring problem, but with this edit, SmackBot added {{ reflist}} and a references section to a template. This seems undesirable? Or at least wrap them in noincludes? → ROUX ₪ 07:12, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
<noinclude>...</noinclude>
tags. Shouldn't be hard to program.
Debresser (
talk) 11:32, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Rich - I would like to request that you review an article which you flagged as an "orphan" a few months ago. I have been doing more research to gather more information before adding any more information about the company in reference. The link is: PPC worldwide. Please let me know if you have any further recommendations for this article. Thanks! Kruegsj ( talk) 20:20, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
I saw that you reverted a edit changing the church of scientology to cult of scientology?! i see that there are a lot of errors refering to the cult as a church and YOU ARE NOT HELPING!?!?! I will have to contact the owner of winkapedia if you continue abusing your ability to revert good edits.! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.200.177.76 ( talk) 23:19, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
See this edit; the chance in capitalisation SmackBot made to the defaultsort was incorrect. I've reverted, but the bot shouldn't be doing that. PC78 ( talk) 00:35, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I have a couple of requests about your changes to articles with the French commune template (for example this change).
Regards, Kiwipete ( talk) 09:17, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello Farmbrough,
It's possible to don't put again the cleanup and others box on top in the article because all article for the refineries in Canada and oil refining center are in construction. When you put that, i supposed you are against my articles.
Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fredoues ( talk • contribs) 13:05, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 03:25, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I would like to be able to cite and confirm notability to the page John Mann(comedian) but I do not know how. Could you either help me to or remove the Bot of Smack. You are lovely. Cheery24 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheery24 ( talk • contribs) 10:29, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Template:Cleanup-list-sort Debresser ( talk) 15:41, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I got a question here, plz help. I found that you had changed the information of Waste Management, Inc( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Management,_Inc.). Do you know whether the company have office in China? If have, could you help me to find out how to connect them (their phone number or address in china)? It'll help me a lot. Sorry for bother you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.13.84.106 ( talk) 08:03, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I will email them. Thank you for your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.13.84.106 ( talk) 02:06, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Rich (alias smackbot) - thanks for giving my entry a reference at Nuclear propulsion. I was trying to do so earlier today (many hours ago) and I couldn't get the reference to work. It wasn't reading the tags or something, at the time. Anyway, thanks. Ti-30X ( talk) 01:44, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry that I haven't been available to assign tasks lately. For the past 3 days (not including today) I've been almost totally consumed in discussions concerning the location and very existence of outlines. Today I finally broke free and got back to work on outlines. Felt good.
A great deal has been happening with outlines and behind the scenes. I just don't have time to tell you all about it this time around. Here's the best I can do...
If you'd like a bird's eye view of everything that's happening with respect to outlines, see this page:
Or go to these pages (and click on "Related changes" in the sidebar's toolbox menu):
These outline articles, which were named "List of...", have been converted to an OOK format:
There are a lot of "List of" articles that are outlines. Some of them are on the same subjects as the "Outline of" articles. The following one have been recently merged:
The Transhumanist 01:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
That smakbot is quite a useful tool. It really comes in handy. Ti-30X ( talk) 02:03, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich: Some time ago you made comments about the above referenced article that had several templates added by two users with a history of negative edits. Would you be so kind as to take another look at the text, citations, and templates and share your views at the talk page of David Ferguson (impresario)? There is also a discussion at the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard, however I have posted a request to move to the article's talk page; anything you could add to the discussion would be most appreciated. Thank you. -- deb ( talk) 05:37, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Dear sir, you have by mistake placed the additional references tag twice in the article Aurangabad, Maharashtra. It may be of appropriate for you to remove it or let me remove the same for you. 16:05, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Greetings Rich,
I'd just like to bring to your attention that, on some of the tennis articles, a certain user has been deleting the names of French (Roland Garros) champions, and changing the founding date of the championship. Even though outside sources, such as:
1. ESPN 2. Encylopedia Britannica 3. the Roland Garros website 4. the World Almanac
have supported the inclusion of all French Open winners to 1891, a single solitary user has been deleting the names of pre-1925 champions because it was "not open to international competition"--but that's a lie. The very first winner, in 1891, was a British man, and two other British men made it to the final in the 1890s.
Attempting to rewrite history with Wikipedia is what some people have done, rather than understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.
What do you think I should do next? User Fyunclick has refused to compromise or discuss the issue rationally. Ryoung122 00:46, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
A lot of views other than humans ? That was sarcastically said. Anyway, thanks for contributing and improving the article. Nefirious ( talk) 05:40, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
It's probably not worth stopping the bot over either, but look how it mangled the second reported dead link on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Alcohol_rub&diff=301597414&oldid=301594779
Bad bot. Naughty ;)
—Preceding
unsigned comment added by
82.132.136.198 (
talk) 22:01, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Well, I take it back. The links were naughty not the bot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.139.162 ( talk) 22:05, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Template:Formula missing descriptions Debresser ( talk) 11:39, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I have been watching the article BosWash for two years. It and the associated articles ChiPitts and SanSan concern the concept of a theoretical entity known as a Megalopolis. The talk page discussion Talk:BosWash#Isn't this kind of melodramatic? sums up the disputes I and another editor have with the form and content the article has taken on. My major problem with all three articles is that although the subject and title do exist as part of a theory published by Jean Gottmann in 1961, the articles themselves treat the three terms, BosWash, ChiPitts and SanSan as actual physical locations with real boundaries and constituent geographical members. Not only is this not true, it is unencyclopedic and supported only by original research that masquerades as fact within each article. I would like to place a {{ Disputed}} tag on each article. The documentation for the tag directs that a new section called "Disputed" be added to the article's talk page. I have two questions about how to proceed: in your opinion, is my proposed placement of the tag for these three articles warranted? and if so what is the best way to include the statements already made on the BosWash talk page within a new "Disputed" section, can they simply be copied into the section, and how can the discussion of all three pages be centralized? Sswonk ( talk) 16:02, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure the "Disputed" tag will add any value - we already know there's a dispute (or multiple disputes), the question is what are we going to do about it and who is going to support that. The talk pages for the articles are entirely about these disputes already.
You might want to also look at the Megapolitan article. I didn't create that article but have edited and added to it. It is mostly about one team's research, but the material is cited to them. I think it would be good to follow and compare different authors' varying ideas of a given American megalopolis through time within a single article.
The city lists in each article are chronic problems. I think we just have to continue efforts to trim or eliminate them unless they are based on cited material. I've also considered adding a request not to add detailed original city lists, but am not sure whether some might consider the request itself to be unencyclopedic. If we can cite different definitions from more than one author, this will also get across the message that there is no single definition the article is endorsing. -- JWB ( talk) 16:38, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Why do you have User:SmackBot/References Log added to Category:Pages with missing references list? Debresser ( talk) 00:12, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
I find this even more strange in view of the fact that User:SmackBot/References Log is already linked on that category page. Unless there is some special, technical reason, I propose to remove that category. Debresser ( talk) 00:17, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Can't you find a more elegant solution? :) Debresser ( talk) 16:49, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
You may wish to comment at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Undo Page Redirection. – xeno talk 14:25, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I need your help. I've been accessing Wikipedia from a library computer, which leaves me unable to do anything really fancy.
I was hoping you could update the following page for me:
The instructions are here:
I plan to use the list to contact prolific editors in various subject areas or who do a lot of particular types of edits.
It would also be nice to see who is active on Wikipedia this summer.
I look forward to your reply on my talk page.
Sincerely,
The Transhumanist 20:02, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the reply. WPinas by number of edits includes inactive editors. The above list only covers edits for the past 30 days. The Transhumanist 20:46, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you. The Transhumanist 20:56, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, an article that has been written has been vandalised and I have tried to delete the vandalism, but your bot (and I dont quite understand how they work) is being used to reverse the edits that are trying to take the article back to the original. IE someone is subscribing ( if that is the phrase) to your bot so that my corrections back to the original are seen as vandalism. How do I stop that? IE your bot is creating the vandalism and my corrections are seen as vandalism. I am not sure that this what your bot was set up to do. I am sure you are asking who is the vandal and who is the corrector? Given the vandal will read this i can provide details of the article by secure email if required. What do I do? Many thanks Goalcatcher ( talk) 16:54, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
I would counter your statement that the political points are being made to the original adder of the expense information. What about the positive stuff that is done by these people? Then wiki just becomes a political noticeboard and not an encyclopedic entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Goalcatcher ( talk • contribs) 11:59, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Your temp16 file should serve my purposes just fine. Thank you!
By the way, out of curiosity, how do you manage 18,000 edits in a month!?
The Transhumanist 02:16, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Just checking... The edit counts are for the past 30 days?
The Transhumanist 16:31, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Since (I'm assuming) you just downloaded Wikipedia, that reminds me of a wish I've had for a long time. Maybe you can grant it...
Can you make a new one of these: Wikipedia:List of base pages in the Wikipedia namespace?
(It's a copy of User:JesseW/WPindex. I contacted him with this request in 2007, but he never responded.)
It would be much better than the Special:AllPages index of the Wikipedia namespace, because that is choked with thousands upon thousands of AFD subpages, ANI archives, etc.
Such a page will allow us to actually see what's currently in the Wikipedia namespace, and it will be instrumental in updating pages like most of these:
And for updating the Help system, as there are a great many help pages in the Wikipedia namespace.
I'll make sure a link to it gets posted in all the right places.
The Transhumanist 17:58, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Do you have the templates I added today in Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories with templates? Debresser ( talk) 18:24, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that SmackBot edited the WGBH idents. There are lots of variants on the announcer and the logos. should i put them in the WGBH idents article itself or a seperate article. Meteorman7228 ( talk) 19:09, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
The manual of style says "Wikipedia does not use ordinal suffixes, articles, or leading zeros" for dates, but in this edit, SmackBot changed the date 2009-07-1 to 2009-07-01. I guess if no leading zeros are to be used, then the correct fix would have been to change 2009-07-1 to 2009-7-1? — Notyourbroom ( talk) 21:02, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Can you please remove this text "Ted Sycamore 10:57, 15 July 2009 (UTC)" at the start of the CAIRO GANG article.
I made an edit and this appeared. It was clearly not intended to appear there. Ted Sycamore 11:31, 16 July 2009 (UTC) —Preceding
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Done
Rich
Farmbrough, 15:30, 16 July 2009 (UTC).
Thank you for the visit. I have "un-orphaned" this entry and request that the orphan tag be removed. If there is anything else you would like updated prior to removing the tag, please advise...thanks a bunch Docbb1 ( talk) 22:24, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the follow up. I have removed the tag, as there are now relevant wikis tagging this article. Docbb1 ( talk) 18:43, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Nice to meet you. Just curious, Are you human? Cherry Blossom OK ( talk) 09:28, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Do you have {{ Prune}}? Debresser ( talk) 10:40, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
I hope you also saw the other ones from my previous posts. They're still on this talkpage. Please have a look at User_talk:Debresser#Prune. Debresser ( talk) 11:37, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
I am afraid that the table on demographics in the article is mis-formated in a way that distorts all the subsequent text. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about tables to fix the problem. Regards, Acad Ronin ( talk) 13:58, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
Normally I agree with moving templates to more normal English titles, but in this case the term howto is idiomatic. As that article suggests, maybe {{ how-to}} would be a suitable title; however, that might need discussed first. For now I've reverted the page move. Just thought I'd give you a heads-up. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 18:04, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Rich, just noticed (again) that there has been a tag since 2007 on this article. I went in the history to see who applied it, but maybe I missed something, so decided to write my favorite admin instead :). Could you peruse and see if the tag is still needed. If not, maybe you could remove it. If so, maybe you could give some idea of what types of changes need to be made in the discussion section. This article had been cited as excellent by a prof at WVU and I hate the idea that any traffic he drives to the article sees this tag. Thanks, as always. Cheers -- Beth Wellington ( talk) 16:07, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Oops. I just realized there were no citations in the the initial part. I'm working on it. Do you know anyone else who can help me?-- Beth Wellington ( talk) 16:52, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
How do I remove speedy deletion from MarketResearch.com?
Rich, Someone in our organization brought to my attention the notice, or banner, [This article needs references that appear in reliable third-party publications. Primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. Please add more appropriate citations from reliable sources. (July 2009)] on our Wikipedia site. Can you give me more info, or, more specifically, what should we fdix to meet Wiukipedia's criteria? I'm the STRATCOM Manager for the organization. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.149.1.36 ( talk) 17:57, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your note on the article I wrote. It really helped me understand where I could make improvements. SportsReport 20:13, 20 July 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by SportsReport ( talk • contribs)
Hi Rich.
At 03:32 on 17 July 2009, you edited the article Nantes, with the comment 'clean up using AWB'. Most of the changes were minor, like capitalising the first letters of various templates, and removing spaces in section titles.
But unfortunately one set of changes, that moved the | from one line to another around valign statements, completely broke the presentation of some in-text tabulations, resulting in the valigns appearing as text in the article. I have reverted this and all subsequent changes, and am in the process of rather laboriously reapplying those subsequent changes.
These things happen, but I just thought you would like to know, as this may indicate a bug in the tool you are using, which may affect other articles.
-- Starbois ( talk) 18:37, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
I reverted this edit you made with AWB. Hope you don't mind ;) Kiwipete ( talk) 21:23, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, seeking support to keep regarding Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/North Epping murders. Do you have an opinion on that? Thanks Ajayvius ( talk) 09:44, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Look at Roland Burris or Carol Moseley Braun for example. They all end up with 1. REDIRECT Template:Infobox officeholder at the top. From the other officeholders I saw, they *all* were affected.
Why did this bot remove the "more footnotes" tag at the start of the article here ? Hohum ( talk) 14:32, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi I was wondering if you could AWB or whatever you have to cleanup this list, remove the gaps and wikilink the names? Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:46, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rich,
I found several strange edits you made with AWB: [117], [118], [119], [120], [121], [122], [123], [124]. Do you know how this could have happened? Korg ( talk) 22:53, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
I found other buggy edits: [127], [128], [129], [130]. I just checked some of your contributions manually, and I probably have missed others. Could you please check them again? Alternatively, do you know an efficient way to spot the edits that need to be reverted? I'd like to ensure that no others remain. Thanks, Korg ( talk) 01:24, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
In this edit, SmackBot puts the dablink below the maintenance tags. Is this intentional? According to WP:LAYOUT, dablinks should go first. Iceblock ( talk) 22:35, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
A bot is still needed, please, to convert existing "first broadcast", "foundation", "founded", "opened", "released", or similar dates in infoboxes, to use {{ Start date}}, so that they are emitted as part of the included hCard or hCalendar microformats. Further details on my to-do page. You expressed interest in this last year, but were unable to help, at that time. The task can be sub-divided, if that helps. I'd be very grateful if you could assist. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 22:29, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
I came across this, a work in progress. Occuli ( talk) 13:00, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
A date of birth in an infobox disagreed with the same fact in the article's lead for over a year, occasionally getting fixed by sharp-eyed IP users but promptly getting reverted as vandalism on each occasion. [131] ClickRick ( talk) 13:39, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Just curious why SmackBot time-warped and changed some maintenance tags back to the previous month. See this. The article was originally tagged at 0045 UTC on August 1, and SmackBot made its changes at 1238 UTC on August 1, so it's unusual that it set the month to July. Maybe Smackbot is secretly yearning for Professor Brown and his Delorean? Truthanado ( talk) 15:39, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
It has actually been proposed, e.g. by Gordon Gallup who also proposed the semen displacement theory. [132]. It has been called "fertilization by proxy" and can happen in insects. I don't think it has been documented in humans. A section under Sperm competition might be an option. I'm not going to deprod. Fences& Windows 20:02, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Smackbot keeps messing up the above article by changing all the===subheadings to==headings. It's very tiresome to manually revert after there have been intermediate edits.~ Zythe Talk to me! 09:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey there, I like the current task adding {{ Start date}} to episode list articles ... can you add a function to do the same to dates currently formatted as mm/dd/yyyy? In List of Dynasty episodes, for example, most of them are incorrectly noted that way (I never got around to changing them) and the bot skipped those. Thanks!— TAnthony Talk 16:07, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
During the last hour, he has created half a dozen articles or more and they have all been speedy deleted. One speedy deleted article uses WP:NOT a game manual. The important thing is there's no reason to prod it as it keeps getting speedy deleted under various titles. BrianY ( talk) 20:00, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Regarding Shortland Street 2000 storyline - this piece was missing in the storylines for the soap and I reinstated by researching the previous writing on Wiki. The problem I have is that the box which normally appears at the top somehow got shunted towards the bottom above the cast list. Only references are those duplicated from similiar pages. user:Tuiland Tuiland 03:13, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
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Hi. A couple of us are wondering about your move of the above template, as your one word edit summary of "Readability" doesn't give many clues away for such a widely used template. If would be nice if you could comment at Template talk:Commons category. Arriva436 talk/ contribs 19:34, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
I am William James Austin. An article about me was recently submitted by the university professor, Dr. Marge Brown. One day after the article was posted, it was deleted, it seems, with a series of warnings in its place. Since I am the subject of the article, I've been asked by Dr. Brown to help.
1) There is no problem with copyright. Much of the information was taken from my website. That material is simply a list of facts, i.e. my publication and awards credits. She certainly has my permission to include material from my website.
2) If the fact that poets, writers, and artists know each other constitutes a neutrality problem, then Wikipedia is full of such problems. Artists are known to each other. Articles for Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Bennett and Cecil Touchon (in whose article I am named), for example, were written by other artists who know them. This is invevitable. We are all recognized members of the current avant-garde movement.
So I, in turn, ask for your help. If the problem is one of style, please advise. I admit that none of us is well versed in Wikipedia rules. Please help so that the article can once again see the light of day. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Austinwja ( talk • contribs) 20:30, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Smackbot added a Europeanized {{ defaultsort}} to Samoud Khan. But he is not a European. He is a pashtun. And their naming style is modeled after than used for Arabic speaking people -- in particular, no inherited lastname-surname.
When I see a bot add a Europeanized sort order to an article about someone without a European name I try to figure out how it came to happen. I didn't see a "listas" parameter anywhere. I've been told that all the robots that insert sort orders only do so if there is already an indication that a human left their opinion of the proper sort order.
But I think that some people are running instances of bots that are out of date. (I don't really understand bots. But back when I was a programmer, the first thing my programs did was check to see if they were an authorized version. It they found that they had been replaced by a new version they gave a polite explanation, and quit. And I wish all of our bots did that.
Can you help me figure out why this sort order was added?
Thanks! Geo Swan ( talk) 22:03, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
I have noticed a couple of times that SmackBot has added to articles about acids {{ DEFAULTSORT}} in which the sort key has capitalization that doesn't match the title of the article. Here and here are examples. Is there a specific reason for doing this? It seems unnecessary, but probably harmless. I'm just curious mostly. -- Ed ( Edgar181) 11:28, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
How goes the base page thing?
The Transhumanist 01:23, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by -- Tinu Cherian BOT - 12:35, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you've edited some articles related to North Minneapolis and I wanted to tell you about a project I'm involved in called InsideNorthside. It's basically a wikipedia for North Minneapolis, built on wikispaces (which is a bit more user-friendly then mediawiki, though not nearly as robust). Anyways, wanted you to know. I'm trying to find some wiki experts to help build an initial user base for the site. Check it out and let me know what you think. http://insidenorthside.org -- Ariahfine ( talk) 01:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
My last one is at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/The Transhumanist 5
The Transhumanist 03:26, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi – over at Noreen_Connell#References, I substed and then customized a template because I couldn't find an existing one for the message I wanted leave. Unfortunately, SmackBot here seems to keep wanting to "fix" it by forcing it back to the default template. Hence, I'm in a bit of an edit war with a bot. :) Is there any way I can set up my customized template so that your bot will leave it alone? Thanks, Iamcuriousblue ( talk) 04:02, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
<!-- {{Refimprove}} start -->
and <!-- {{Refimprove}} end -->
comments, which makes bots think that anything in between is a normal {{
refimprove}} and fair game. Remove those comments and the bot should leave it alone.
Chris Cunningham (not at work) -
talk 13:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)...to award Buaidh for all his hard work.
It's at User:Penubag/Sandbox3.
But it's not done yet. Feel free to help improve it.
I'm hoping that everyone involved with the WP:WPOOK will sign it (please sign without a timestamp).
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 23:02, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
It's cool that you have added another area, but you have to include a concise description of the problem (like the others). If you are working on this as I write I apologise - it looks as if you added the new area several hours ago but I could be misinterpreting the timestamp of your edit. Slrubenstein | Talk 16:20, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! Slrubenstein | Talk 18:18, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
I delivered the newsletter by hand using my own mailing list (it's the one I keep up-to-date), and didn't realize that the one I have Julian use was updated independently.
So I've reverted my post, sort of, leaving just a link, and have removed you from my mailing list.
Sorry for the mix up.
By the way, would you like to receive the newsletter as just a link?
The Transhumanist 21:46, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
G'day Rich,
Please don't capitalise species names in defaultsorts like this. It violates real-world laws of biological nomenclature, and it looks ridiculous. What you are doing here was recommended practice at Wikipedia:Categorization#Using sort keys a while back, but for no good reason, and has since been removed.
Cheers, Hesperian 00:21, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Abies looks good. I previously did Category:Banksia taxa by scientific name, which is a good example of mixing case. Hesperian 23:13, 3 August 2009 (UTC) I was using banksia as an example, but the Drydana stuff queers the pitch. Inevitable I got sidetracked on fixing up the Fir article and can see a lot of other work that needs doing to get common names indexed. I'll do a couple more categories. Rich Farmbrough, 23:17, 3 August 2009 (UTC).
"and am happy to do them all if there are no objections." <grin> There aren't many editors here who would so blithely take on a project involving tens of thousands of articles.
Hesperian 23:36, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Regarding Shortland Street 2000 storyline - this piece was missing in the storylines for the soap and I reinstated by researching the previous writing on Wiki. The problem I have is that the box which normally appears at the top somehow got shunted towards the bottom above the cast list. Only references are those duplicated from similiar pages. user:Tuiland Tuiland 03:13, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
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Rich, here's an interesting situation. I added a {{cn|date=August 2009}} at 19:34 CDT (UTC -5) on 31 July 2009 [133] and labeled it as August because the time was 00:34 UTC 1 August. SmackBot changed it to July. [134] I'm making several assumptions here, including that my math is correct, that timestamps for Wikipedia should generally go by UTC and that SmackBot isn't taking that into account. It's probably not a big deal in this case. ✤ JonHarder talk 17:58, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your comment on my talk page.
I would be quite happy to look at current problem pages.
Incidently, what I have actually been doing is a bit more than just dating the tags! I have looked at the list of unsourced articles with no date, and then following the rules below:
As you can see from my history, sometimes I do find citations, and often I find that this prods others into finding more (as they obviously appear on their watch list!) - and sometimes I will leave a message on the relevant WikiProject talk page asking for the project's members to help find citations (especially if the article is about a non-English-language subject)
Anyway, once again, yes I'd be happy to look at current problem pages.
Incidently, I did put a request on the 'bot request page, but since you are its owner, I might as well ask you: is it possible for it to change any tags that say "|Date=" to "|date="? Or does it do that, and I've just come across a few before it had changed them?
Regards, -- PhantomSteve ( Contact Me, My Contribs) 18:02, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
please refer to other similar pages and then start editing . Also include those images if you dint possess.
Dude, what gives? You're still capitalising the specific epithet. [135]. Did I misunderstand your response?
The only reason to capitalise every word is enforce case-insensitive sort order, and the suggestion that we would always want to do so is deprecated.
Hesperian 03:55, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 05:52, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
In this edit of Hard water, SmackBot changes °f to °F. Citing the version before SmackBot's: "** French degrees (°f) (letter to be written in lowercase to avoid confusion with degree Fahrenheit — not always adhered to)". Iceblock ( talk) 13:55, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
If you like, you might change the first "Leave a message" link on User talk:SmackBot by adding &preloadtitle=SmackBot and reword User_talk:Rich_Farmbrough/SmackBot_Message accordingly. This will preload "SmackBot" into the Subject/headline field. Not a big difference, but it will show up as ( →SmackBot: new section) in the history and in watchlists. Just a suggestion. Iceblock ( talk) 14:20, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Is there some purpose I'm not seeing to your recent edits such as this? Now that wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey is set to false, Talk:Lady Pank sorts as "Lady Pank" by default anyway. Algebraist 18:50, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Please have a look at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Request_to_revoke_sanction and the background discussion linked there. Perhaps you could give me an idea on how to attain my goal here? Debresser ( talk) 18:53, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, You seem to also be interested in this topic.
Would you be kind enough to look at this article's John E. Hamm's discussion section and if you agree with me that Bearcat may be being unreasonable could you let me know.
Russ John5Russell3Finley ( talk) 19:43, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi this is a cool dude calling for a special attention to nadar (caste)article. the list of notable personalities contains weasel words and names that cant be found not alone in the wiki but also in entire google data base. special deletion and auto deletion of such crap should be maintainted Protecting ( talk) 00:02, 5 August 2009 (UTC)§
Note I am in the middle of working on these, films 1980 -present I have to sort out. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
PLease stop. this removed our standard sidebar templates which should be there for the lists, move the footer templates if needs be. I am reverting all of your edits on these lists until you bother to reply. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:24, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Please restore {{ Argentinefilms}} to the top of the lists. If needs be remove the footer templates entirely from the lists anyway but please don't remove the side templates. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:27, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to yell at you! My watchlist just lit up like a Christmas tree that's all!!. I appreciate that you are moving the templates with spacing. For those lists if you want to remove the footer templates for Argentina entirely for the lists no probs as the side templates serve the purpose for navigaiton. As for the other articles, continue with your good fixes! Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:35, 5 August 2009 (UTC).
Yeah its a tricky one as the sideplates are most useful for navigation on the lists but they do affect the flow of the tables unfortunately.... Eventually though the idea is that the templates are split by letter so it should be sorted eventually... Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:46, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Just in case you had any doubts about a lot of the short stubs on the films the goal eventually is to have every article looking like La Guerra Gaucha. Unfourtunately there are few too many people working on Argentine cinema so the better articles tend to be the most recent ones... Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
The Transhumanist 01:41, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
...why AWB was applying the completely wrong code to some pages? (During your French commune task). I also had my bot do something peculiar on a page, that wasn't possible with the instructions it was given [142]. I've come to the conclusion that it was text meant for another page, but why did it get erroneously placed?... Bug report maybe... Not sure how to duplicate though! – xeno talk 21:24, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Rich, could you have smack bot go through this new article, Stealth technology as a pliable electromagnetic envelope when it has the chance. Ti-30X ( talk) 04:52, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Well I can run AWB against it and do some general fixes. Those were just my copyedits. Rich Farmbrough, 05:30, 7 August 2009 (UTC).
Well Known Person —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.125.156.122 ( talk) 14:22, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Yep, there is a lot to do certainly. Any chance you can merge the pages like Oriya films of 1969 into a List of Oriya films or at least by decade like Oriya films of the 1960s or something. As it is those pages are inadequate. Unfortunately a lot of Indian editors get over excited with lists like Bollywood films of 1970 and try to emulate them even if they are started devoid of real content All of the year pages for Oriya films should be deleted I think as the list is compiled on List of Oriya films. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:40, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Nice one, if needs be later they can be split by decade but definately not by year just yet... Thanks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:13, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
There is one more request actually, sorry to slow your film sorting errands down... As you may be aware a number of German politician articles started recently were deleted. However mine remain as I am sloughly ploughing through them manually, its exceedingly tough... I woundered if you could use AWB to remove the German wikipedia reference and replace it with the national party reference and fix layout like this. It doesn't have to be external linked yet but that would initially help to solve the BLP problem that was created. See List of German Christian Democratic Union politicians, so far I've replaced it from the beginning of A to Konrad Birkholz. Could you use AWB to add it to the rest like this, this would solve the initial problem and although they would still all be lacking at least they can be built upon? Over time then the specific page links on the CDU website or other references can be added. It is just to solve the initial problem.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:18, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Yes thats's right. If you see how much content is missing from German wikipedia in general you can see why there suddenly seemed a rush to try to start the mass of missing content. I learned the hard way though that it is not a good idea, partly why I've set up a new project to try to encourage morre editors to activcely translate and raise awareness of articles on other wikis. All of the articles started are immediately verifiable and can be expanded fully, it is just soooo much to do... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:25, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Awesome, your awareness of, well everything on here and what needs doing is second to none!! Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:27, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
The birth date is taken from the German wikipedia. Every politician or major party member who was or is a part of the party is mentioned on the CDU website or regional site. When they come to be filled out it will just be a case then of finding the exact url link.. and filling them out more fully... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:42, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Such a shame that WikiProject Germany is very unresponsive on here. All of the articles can be quickly expanded like Andreas Birkmann, sadly 99% of potential editors work on German wikipedia who might show an interest. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:17, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
That will be fine. Thanks. Don't remove the see also list of politicians though, eventually they will be worth visiting... Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:18, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Rich, if you haven't seen it, take a look at the title and then the talk page over at Stealth technology as a pliable electromagnetic envelope. Unbelievable! One user tried to revert your (our) move and ended up with an extended title Ti-30X ( talk) 00:16, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
I do appreciate your help with that article. Have you read my comment on it's talk page regarding the naming? I hoped you could reply before moving. Materialscientist ( talk) 00:29, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm starting to get very pissed off with you. There is no consensus for what you are doing. There is no guideline that recommends it. There is expressed opposition to it.
You seem to be pretending to engage in discussion whilst actually going on your merry way doing whatever the fuck you want.
Stop capitalising species epithets in defaultsort until you have secured consensus to do so, or I'll be taking formal dispute resolution steps regarding this.
Hesperian 05:36, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
This edit wasn't needed - the taxobox doesn't have a "name" parameter and therefore the title was already in italics. Smartse ( talk) 22:44, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
For some reason, SmackBot inserted a newline into the title of a citation template at [ Exabyte], thus breaking the reference. Is this a bug? Shreevatsa ( talk) 17:27, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, I had to amend your AWB edit here, which for some reason removed all of the page's content, and added the WP:WPNZ banner to the talk page (dc Talk is not related to New Zealand). Jamie S93 be kind to newcomers 20:46, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Rich, I thought I had the other editors organized to re-work the introduction together, but now one has put up a merger tag for the stealth section. This was a nice try, but the whole process is really bogged down. What do you think happened? My other question is this - Can I use the material that is not stealth related and unilaterly start another aritcle? (Controlling EM fields, negative refractive index, etc. etc. This is the material that I am most concerned with. This is the material that I worked hardest to understand and write about. Go ahead and reply here, and I will return. Thanks for all your help thus far. Ti-30X ( talk) 22:35, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Or should I just propose it to the group that this be a stand alone article. There are other merger tags that have been posted in the other sections. Ti-30X ( talk) 22:54, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Corella is a common name for a genus (or sub-genus) and it is not in italics, so I have reverted your edit. There may be a lot of taxa which have a common name which is used as the title of an article, and as far as I am aware, none of these should be in italics. "Corella" in the heading of the taxobox is not in italics, and perhaps a bot or perhaps regex in AWB would be able to automatically detect this. Snowman ( talk) 18:21, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Smack is moving References to below See Also. Up to now, it has always been above. Is this a change of policy pl? TerriersFan ( talk) 23:43, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
I did some work on it and its talkpage, added it to Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories with templates and dated all articles that used it without a date parameter (by checking with the articles' history).
Debresser ( talk) 11:34, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Template:Inappropriate tone you already have, but since it is protected, could you please change it to:
<!--{{Inappropriate tone}} start-->{{ ambox
| type = style
| text = This {{{1|article}}}'s '''[[WP:TONE|tone]] or style may not be appropriate for Wikipedia'''. Specific concerns may be found on the [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|talk page]]. See Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles|guide to writing better articles]] for suggestions. {{#if:{{{date|}}}|<small>''({{{date}}})''</small>}}
}}{{DMCA|Wikipedia articles needing style editing|from|{{{date|}}}|All articles needing style editing}}<!--{{Inappropriate tone}} end--><noinclude>{{documentation}}</noinclude>
Could you change this protected template to
<!--{{Recentism}} begin-->{{ambox
| type = content
| image = [[Image:Gnome globe current event.svg|50x40px]]
| imageright = [[Image:Unbalanced scales.svg|none|50x40px]]
| text = This {{{1|article or section}}} '''may be [[Wikipedia:Recentism|slanted towards recent events]].''' Please try to keep recent events in historical perspective. {{#if:{{{date|}}}|<small>''({{{date}}})''</small>}}
}}{{DMCA|Articles slanted towards recent events|from|{{{date|}}}}}<!--{{Recentism}} end--><noinclude>{{documentation}}</noinclude>
I think that should do the same. It is an article template, according to the docpage. Debresser ( talk) 15:33, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Please notice I created Category:Statements with common sense issues and Template:Statements with common sense issues progress. A little overactive of me, perhaps, but not any worse than Category:Articles needing chemical formulas and Template:Articles needing chemical formulas progress. One has to start small, doesn't one? Debresser ( talk) 15:50, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Please note that I renamed {{ Csense}} to {{ Common sense}}. Debresser ( talk) 15:54, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Template:Intro-disambig, Template:Obscure. Debresser ( talk) 15:06, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Also deleted are Template:English source, Template:Improve references (small), and Template:Said (I remember that discussion). Debresser ( talk) 21:49, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi
Since
I moved
Asal to
Asal (film), can you please fix
all the existing links to Asal . It is an AWB job I think..
Dr. Blofeld
White cat 15:44, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
what's the purpose of that page? Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 17:57, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rich Farmbrough
I did not find any problem at the SmackBot remark.
Best Regards Valueyou ( talk) 19:48, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Could you make a list of all the articles that contain
{{ Infobox journal}},{{ Infobox Journal}} ,{{ Infobox Academic Conference}}, {{ Infobox Magazine}}, {{ Academic-journal-stub}},{{ journal-stub}}, {{ humanities-journal-stub}}, {{ sci-journal-stub}}, {{ biology-journal-stub}}, {{ chem-journal-stub}}, {{ engineering-journal-stub}}, {{ med-journal-stub}}, {{ physics-journal-stub}}, {{ socialscience-journal-stub}} (and their redirects)
is that something that Perl can do? if yes then mail the list to the email listed on my user page (you have to answer a captcha first). Thanks-- Tim1357 ( talk) 22:00, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
This edit deleted all reference links etc to the MCAs own website. Hardly a balanced POV. Neither is the suggestion to rewrite my own words in my own words. Perhaps I need to invent a new language so as not to use any words that may have been used by others. Yergnaws ( talk) 23:39, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Somebody tried to deprecate Template:Section rewrite. He did a good job, since it is not in use in any article any more. But when he put the notice of its deprecation, he put in on the template's talkpage. Would you care to do it the right way? Debresser ( talk) 23:53, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
SmackBot is moving the template {{ More footnotes}} from the top, where it should be, to the references section - it's done it twice recently, eg Finnish Army. Could you please look at this? Regards Buckshot06( prof) 02:24, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Yes, there is another one that rightfully does belong down there, I think maybe AWB is a little overzealous, I'll check it out. Rich Farmbrough, 03:27, 11 August 2009 (UTC).
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 05:13, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
All the articles you just created contain one colon too many, which means that they don't subst. 94.212.31.237 ( talk) 12:08, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing that Asal yesterday. There is one thing. I had anticipated that Anome would be able to add the coordinates to the articles in the sub categories of Category:Cities, towns and villages in Yemen. However he tells me his bot is case sensitive. Could you move all of the pages in lower casing to capitals? So Abu diyan would become Abu Diyan etc. I think it is correct that place names are capitalised anyway, right? Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:20, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Article needing changing include Category:Cities, towns and villages in the Hadhramaut Governorate. and Category:Cities, towns and villages in the San‘a’ Governorate. They were only started in lower casing because the lists were generated by a site which has them in lower casing! Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:22, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Ah the thing is don't we have duplicate articles now? Wouldn't it have been best to move the pages? E.g move Abu diyan to Abu Diyan? I meant something like this Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:24, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm a little confused at your method.. As long as all of the lower casing articles have redirects rather than double articles in the end OK. Having double articles at present though seems to be a litttle confusing...!. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:00, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
I've done Abyan anyway... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:20, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Ah, I see what you did now. Thanks for your help. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:53, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
dear sir - not quite sure what you did - did you just delete the jokes or move them to separate article ? Politely suggest prev version better Cinnamon colbert ( talk) 13:51, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for the good work. Why is SmackBot removing the day from {{ cite news}} on South Uist? I think a newspaper citation should have the full date, not just the month. Finavon ( talk) 20:37, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, do we need Category:OS articles with publication dates needing sources ? If so, what does "OS" mean? John Vandenberg ( chat) 11:30, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I was suprised to find Category:Articles needing coordinates without any monthly subcategories. Then I noticed that this category is populated by 3 templates. 2 of them are talkpage templates that could add a dated category, but are not in use. Template:Coord missing is very much in use, but doesn't provide a dated category. Do you think that should be changed? Debresser ( talk) 00:01, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
BTW, why doesn't SmackBot date Template:Locate me? See e.g. Talk:Dogali. And what about Template:LocateMeLong? Debresser ( talk) 00:10, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
And where are those 7 undated articles in Template:Articles needing coordinates progress? I don't see them. If those are the 4 subcategories, 2 Wikipedia pages, and 1 article page, then that is not good. It should not list subcategories or Wikipedia pages. The same goes for all "progress" templates. Debresser ( talk) 00:19, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
OK this is something I meant to look in to. Locate me is more or less deprecated. I was dating Co-oord missing, but Alai said it was breaking their bot. IN terms of caluclating the undated numbers then I have built a fiddle factor into the progress vbocx template for that, if there's a better way, let me know. Rich Farmbrough, 22:27, 12 August 2009 (UTC).
Hi, I noticed you've been adding miles to km conversions to various French articles. As the km is the unit of measurement in France, wouldn't these be better if they were km to miles conversions? Mjroots ( talk) 04:55, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, You said you knew Roy. who are you and how did you know him? J —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.253.54.130 ( talk) 13:03, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 14:14, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
In
Template:Article issues, perhaps change It contains a '''plot summary''' that is too long compared to the rest of the article.
to It contains a '''[[Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary|plot summary]]''' that is too long compared to the rest of the article.
Done ?
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:22, 19 August 2009 (UTC).
I think we realy should delete Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories lower case. Debresser ( talk) 00:28, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
It claims that SmackBot picks up articles from here. It couldn't do that otherwise? I find that hard to believe. Debresser ( talk) 00:31, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
I updated it anyway (together with Wikipedia:List of empty monthly maintenance categories and Wikipedia:List of missing monthly maintenance categories, that both do not work) from Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories, which I have seriously updated today. Debresser ( talk) 00:36, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Done was more useful before the invalid date category.
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:22, 19 August 2009 (UTC).
I fixed Wikipedia:List of empty monthly maintenance categories, through Template:WMCSBM5 and (mainly) Template:EmptyMonths. But I have a problem.
That there are still blue (non-redlinked) categories in Wikipedia:List of empty monthly maintenance categories is normal. Those are categories that exist, but are empty, like e.g. Category:User-created public domain images without user-name from February 2009. But there are also some categories that were empty untill recently, e.g. Category:Articles needing coordinates from July 2009, which I created yesterday. But there are also categories that are far from empty, e.g. Category:Articles with disputed statements from July 2009. It just happens to be that all those are the very same categories that were previously at "since", and were created by us a few month ago. Do you get what is going on here? Debresser ( talk) 10:44, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Ok. I found the problem. It is not a matter of "since". From a certain point onwards, it just lists all categories. Appearently some overflow. This is indicated also by Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls. See Wikipedia:Template_limits#Expensive_parser_function_calls that 500 is the limit. When I put the first few categories in remark tags, the beginning of the remaining categories worked perfectly. Do you have a solution? Debresser ( talk) 10:51, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
I fixed Wikipedia:List of missing monthly maintenance categories, (mainly) through Template:DeletedMonths/month. I even added a missing dated category to Point Valid to see if it works. Debresser ( talk) 11:05, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
BTW, note that this page is twice as "expensive" as the previous one, because it uses both PAGESINCATEGORY and #ifexist. Debresser ( talk) 12:02, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
No complements for the good work here? Debresser ( talk) 22:46, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Saw the new page - just wondering whether the ` symbol is what is normally used for names like this? Any reason not to use the ' ? ninety: one 16:30, 12 August 2009 (UTC) )
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For moving Yemeni articles to their proper title instead of replacing them with "THHEY FASCISTS!!!!11111!!!!!" I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{ Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 16:53, 12 August 2009 (UTC) |
Yes I second that, thanks for your help! Yes I noticed unfortunately that the governorate link linked to Egypt not Yemen about 3/4 through. Always something! Obviously it should be linked to Governorates of Yemen not Egypt! Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:03, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I've spotted that most of the articles on Union Councils in Pakistan are also about the village. Could you use AWB to add Category:Cities, towns and villages in Jhelum District to the articles in Category:Union Councils of Jhelum District and any other district. As it stands a lot of articles we already have on settlements are not categorised as such. Actually you could kill two birds with one stone and replace punjab-geo stub with Jhelum-geo-stub etc. That would be useful. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:12, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
There is also gross abuse of File:Coat of arms of Pakistan.svg in many articles on towns. Completely redundant. Do you think you could remove it from all articles except the generic ones. E.g here. ON a lot of places too they have the flag of region which again is redundant on settlement articles. The paramteres are intended to display specific city flags not national ones. Otherwise every settlement article in the United States wuld have the American flag and state flag in big at the top. Annoying, Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:42, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
If you are busy let me know, I'll see if Ser Amantio can do it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:51, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
OK, the thing is though on rare occasions there are actually the official flags and coat of arms in the template. Most of the time time though it is the regional ones as you can see by the large number of articles. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:54, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
I've made a proposal at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2009 August 11 to merge the tehsil and union council templates into the Pakistani city template. They are practically identical paramters and it is pointless having seperate templates as a slight modification can be made to the main Pakistani templates to include them. See my proposal to User talk:Jack Merridew#Slight edit needed. The idea is that if it is a tehsil divsion you add tehsil=yes and it will display a blue bar in the template. All that would need doing is to change the name of the Pakistani city template to Template:Infobox Pakistani location. I know you made some editrs yesterday fixing the city name but please let me know what you think. Personally I don't like the idea of having too many unnecessary templates hanging around when you can simply use the same one. An example see Bagnotar, template looks crap to me. The Infobox Pakistan city template should be used. I would of course require your assistance to replace the tehsil and union council templates with the standard Pakistani city (location) template once the docemtation is added, which shouldn't take a minute.. I'll give you some peace then!! Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:01, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Dreadful, I know. Some of the worst geo articles on wikipedia this is why it caught my attention as they desperately need sorting out and cleanup. At least most of the African geo stubs with the exception of Nigeria don't contain lots of bad english and lots of names in capital letters of dubious notability. Bangladesh and Pakistan, followed by India are by far the worst settlement articles on wikipedia. These countries attract a number of ip and new one off editors who barely read english and are not aware of requirements. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:19, 14 August 2009 (UTC) Perfect example of the sorts of editors these pages get. This one from Lahore. I swear they teach Pakistanis and Bangladeshis in the shcools to type in cap locks. This kind of capital list really bugs me, looks hideously ugly. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:25, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Check out this. The state of these articles.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:26, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Mmm maybe we ought to mention it on the noticeboard as requiring serious attention. We need at least 10 editors to go through Pakistan and Bangladesh articles and just remove all these bad edits. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just a few but it is a high percentage of articles which are just really appalling. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:40, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
46%? Try 76% at least. With all due respect I have doubts in the running behind the project. From my experience I know of only two or three editors like Mr. Shahib, Brian Lara and another guy who do quality work. The majority of the members appear to be the itinerants who pop in once in a blue moon and make no real edits or quality edits. The rest are IPs and people who barely speak english. Same with the Bangladeshi project. At least you do get some evidence of peopl who speak english badly trying their best to add information but a scary amount of editors like to reel off like 100 local businesses, 200 schools and 300 local businessmen and leaders in capital letters mostly and think this is a good edit. A huge spick and span is needed, Pakistan and Bangladesh are the worst, rural India is also extremely bad. All sorts of stray IPs from villages add their POV "it is a beautiful village, famous" that sort of thing I'm sure you've seen it too. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:46, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Real headache material. Why can't all of the articles look like Harappa and have a standard infobox like that. It is far from perfect and needs a major copyedit but at least it looks above bog standard. I'm taking a break from Pakistan.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:42, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm seriously considering nuking the district template too see the nmess it creates on Rahim Yar Khan District. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:48, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Rich, ironically I just sent you an email regarding this article. You will see that it was necessary to email you. Please read it as soon as possible. Anyway if you have questions - email me back and leave a note on my talk page that you emailed. Ti-30X ( talk) 22:04, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
It's really irritating when your editing of a new article, actually part of an old article being sub-paged, is interrupted by demands before the ink is even dry. P0M ( talk) 01:16, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Rich, Patrick sent this to my talk page by mistake. I am sure this is for you: Ti-30X ( talk) 02:32, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
I've moved the intimidating-looking math onto a sub-page. I think I have not left readers with any false impressions the way most of the popularizations seem to do. One of the confusing things is that some of the published discussions talk about the physical measurements that one would have to do to make a lab proof of indeterminacy, and they sometimes succeed in making it seem that Heisenberg started with lab data, plugged it into matrices, and then calculated a tiny discrepancy out of all of the interference due to experimental error. But the experimental error would have been so large that I think he probably could not have done it. That may be one of the reasons that he chose to publish his "microscope" experiment even though Bohr warned him not to. I wonder whether there is any strategy for preventing readers from getting led astray on that account. The reliable sources so far seem to be Mehra and Aitchison. Mehra's three volumes are expensive and probably not in many libraries, and Aitchison et al. have the right information but it is very highly concentrated. P0M ( talk) 01:35, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Template:Birth event age has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.
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Weakly additive was marked as uncategorized, smackbot should have known better,it even added a DEFAULTSORT for the categories. Dmcq ( talk) 05:59, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
-- Rockfang ( talk) 18:45, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 03:49, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
I noticed SmackBot moves {{ no footnotes}} into the References section, if it's been placed at the top of an article. I see, despite the documentation, that there's currently no consensus on its correct placement, as with many maintenance tags. This is an ongoing debate that's yet to be settled, so in the meantime I think it's inappropriate for SmackBot to impose any preferred placement. Equazcion ( talk) 04:17, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Please stop Smackbot from moving {{No footnotes}} to the references section. In the case of Lviv, this produced results that a human editor would have recognised as mad.-- Toddy1 ( talk) 05:29, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Where did you raise the question. I'd like to add my few cents also. Debresser ( talk) 10:38, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
I just had a look at Template:Disambig-Class td. Doesn't SmackBot date the {{ Tdeprecated}} template? Debresser ( talk) 10:36, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Did you see my 2 questions in 2 sections above? Debresser ( talk) 17:14, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure what caused the notes section to screw so badly, but you might want to look at the article.-- Launchballer ( talk) 12:40, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for that.-- Launchballer ( talk) 19:20, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
The e-mail is there in case there are issues there regarding delivery and all the relative mumbo jumbo. Pardon the language used in the e-mail, but I go completely mad with profanity if not online.-- Launchballer ( talk) 20:32, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Pal, you delete the page about alpha tsentr and marked it as "vandalism", but i'm convinced that that page was a viral page built for viral markting reasons, and is therefore part of a future page about the "product". Just FYI. I know wikipedia is not for viral marketing, but that page has some value imo. I'm not anyhow related with this "thing", i'm just a random web lurker. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.230.122 ( talk) 19:13, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I added 2 books to line 151 (I think) for the Theory of Constraints. It disappeared so I pressed undo. Let me know if I needed to do that in another way. Also, I became a member after I made the change so it will not appear as Bob402.
Thanks,
Bob —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bob402 ( talk • contribs) 22:17, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
Was the delete of "Controversial deaths in UK police custody" necessary for "possible copyright infringement"? Could you not simply have removed the controversial element?
Thanks, Patrick Pftward ( talk) 23:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for helping to fix the article stub for 'Going Blind' -- could you please tell me what you did so that I do not make the same mistake in future edits?
Sincerely,
Logan.schmid ( talk) 14:44, 19 August 2009 (UTC)Logan Schmid
In this edit I saw SmackBot continues removing spaces in headers. Could you please stop doing that. This is definitely not a sanctioned change. I remember we discussed this before, perhaps somewhere on WP:AWB. I will await your reaction on my talkpage. Debresser ( talk) 11:57, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
A regex is a regular expression - basically something that matches a string. In its simplest for it will be the string itself.
this is the sort of thing you use in editors, for finding and search and replace.
When you get "wild cards" you can match other stuff, for example file names often use "*" for anything so grep.* matches all files called grep, whether they are grep.txt, grep.exe, grep.cfg....
However "real" regexes are more powerful For example I can find all headings in a source by matching something like ^==+[^=]+==+\s*\n - this says a line beginning with (^) 2 or more "=" (==+) followed by one or more characters that aren't "=" ([^=]+) followed by 2 or more "=" (==+) followed by none or some white-space (\s*) followed by a carriage return. This is how most AWB custom functionality works. Rich Farmbrough, 17:17, 19 August 2009 (UTC).
Would you mind commenting on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CVISION Technologies, Inc.? Please? Thanks! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 16:26, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
No idea I'm afraid. I can imagine a lot of those are used in a huge number of articles. Have you detected a fault with one of them? P.S I'll be back on the Pakistan cleanup job in a day or two.. India is as bad check out this. Why would they think the local social worker or kiosk owner is notable?. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:20, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the nice edits. (I shall have to learn about the AWB browser!) Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz ( talk) 14:18, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
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Nice work. Check my user page. Seeing those Pakistan, Indian and Bangladesh articles over the last weee or too and just the general poor quality of articles we should have fine articles on by now on really important subjects has made it time to change my priorities on here. I do hope the new intertranswiki project will find a way to generate new content much more efficiently than I ever could, that's all. If there was something in place which created new articles by the day using a good number of sources and making them a decent start I wouldn't have created new articles and would have concentrated on expanding. That was why I proposed that geobot thing also remember? Besides which I'm fed up of people moaning about them! So expanding/referencing articles like Ma-ubin will be on the cards for the future. I will still create new content when I come across notable articles missing but I won't me doing any mass creation anymore. Any stubs I do create will be fleshed out a little. There still remain the Argentine film problem. I had been going through the articles removing the redirects and replacing them with rather poor starter articles. I've reached 1981 I believe. Do you think we should nuke the redirects and remaining articles I haven't touched? Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:27, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Can you correct the redirects then? See List of Argentine films of 1983 for instance. Click a film lower down e,g Espérame mucho and it will link to the wrong page. Could you ensure the remaining articles actually redirects to the actual list page then. The reason for the redirects was because most of the lists contain summary info on the films until an editor can write an article. I believe the remaining ones are from 1981 to about 2000 I think. Hardly any films in the 90s. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:36, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for doing that, man you work quickly! The idea was that the tables are filled in and they provide info on the director/cast/genre and anything notable, then the article can be started once more info becomes available. You might however want to shut off the links in the 1981-1989 list of blue links which don't have an article. I did reactivate them the other day as I intended starting them but you can revert my edits. Oh no actually don't revert as such as I also sorted out the boldness linked titles into normal italics. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:48, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
OK. Back on Pakistan related stuff. The amendments of the existing city box have been attended to see this. The gap at the top will be sorted shortly. I think we should now rid of the tehsil and union council templates currently up for TFD and replace them with these. However I would move the infoboxes to Pakistani location rather than city. If this is too problematic let me know but basically I want to rid of all the nasty tehsil/uc templates and replace them at least with something a little more standard. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:59, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Ah, actually are there any double redirects now to Template:Infobox Pakistani location. Did you redirect something else to Pakistani city? If you don't want to edit them at the moment I can revert the template move until you are ready. Just let me know what you are thinking.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:02, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Why would SmackBot remove this {{Orphan}} tag? [144] Article has 7 incoming links, but 5 are from User: and User talk: pages. [145] 58.8.212.181 ( talk) 03:18, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Let the fun and games commence. I wonder how long it will take me to remove all those lists from the Pakistani articles... Himalayan Explorer 09:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Wasn't aware it needed fixing! It is actually one of the few settlement templates I actually don't mind! I quite like the pea soup color scheme... It makes the articles look unique.. Himalayan Explorer 09:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Any idea how long it will be before the confirmation thing goes away for "new" users. I keep adding infoboxes to articles like Răcăşdia and have to type in the annoying silly words because I have added an external reference. P.S. I will have lost my rollback and automatic New Page Patrol rights. Himalayan Explorer 09:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Awesome, I couldn't move my old account as Vibber said it would conk out the system for several hour apparently! Hopefully now I will avoid wiki drama and get on with improving/cleaning up wikipedia which is my intention...
Himalayan Explorer 09:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Rich, I've spotted a big category Category:Cities, towns and villages in Armenia. Any chance you could use AWB to sort them by province e.g split them into new categories like Category:Cities, towns and villages in Armavir Province. See Category:Armavir (province), the settlements can be found in that category, same for the others. See this for what needs doing.. Himalayan Explorer 09:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Funny thing is that I've often thought the same. However, there is supposed to be a "consensus" that all sub divisions should have a capitalised name Province or District rather than district etc. I believe the only exception on here is India (how ironic that is given their love of capitals) who insist they have it in lower casing. The reason why the category is not just e.g Yerevan. Yerevan is city and a province. If you categorize it as "in Yerevan" with no province on the end it confuses the reader into thinking it is in the city. E.g there should be Category:Yerevan for articles within the city and Category:Yerevan Province for artiles outside the metropolitan area in the surrounding province. I've done enough work on geo categories on here to know what is generally acceptable. You do have a point though about the capitalisation..
I don't have any objections to which way you want to do it. As long as we don't have double cats in the end!! Regards Himalayan Explorer 09:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Groan. For some reason Mr. Suarez has wrongly added the native name in with the main header to is make the pin maps on double lines. See this. Grrr the native name is supposed to appear where is says native name.... Himalayan Explorer 09:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure there is something on WP:English on it. That is why we have seperate paramters for native name. For instance Beijing and Yangon don't have the lettering on the maps.. Himalayan Explorer 09:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Nice one. Thanks. I'll see if Carlos Suarez can make some provincial nav templates.. Himalayan Explorer 09:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Yeah - that was back in my salad days. There was a site called fallingrain.com that I was using for a lot of things...turned out that it wasn't as reliable as I'd been led to believe, unfortunately. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 21:08, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Falling rain bums again eh? Then again my 1988 Hutchinson Encyclopedia claimed Bulkur was a village! Himalayan Explorer 09:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Template:Template reference list already includes "==References==". Smackbot should not be inserting both as was done here. -- Pascal 666 00:21, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Please preview the consequences of your date changes before saving to make sure that you do not change file names and thus remove images from articles as you did recently at Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden and Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland. Thanks. Law Lord ( talk) 03:56, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey! Thanks for fixing up my article, Kenneth Rush. Bejinhan Talk 11:31, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Thanks for your comments. I would initiate a discussion at Hindi wiki community portal and get approval from most of the active members. Please let me know what else information is required. It is indeed the same template you quoted. Thanks I would soon get back to you. Gunjan ( talk) 05:48, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
I noted your username in the template's edit history, and invite you to participate in this TfD discussion. Regards Skäpperöd ( talk) 14:39, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
There is a SmackBot posting at the top of the article saying that it doens't link to other articles, that too few link to it, and that it may need to be wikified. I believe I have corrected for these issues and was wondering if there was anything else that needed to be done to the article before that notice will be removed. Maurice J ( talk) 15:18, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
The last few just need to be re-categorized by which chart they hit #1 on, then Category:Number-one singles in Canada can remain as the parent. Were you unsure on the last few in that category? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 00:30, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Your should ignore redirects, such as Junes, when delinking dates. — RockMFR 02:44, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
I've approved SmackBot for task XVI. See the request page for more details. Cheers - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 06:27, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Please see these two edits: [146] & [147]. Subpages are not orphans and shouldn't be tagged as such. Especially since it causes the main page ( Mexican general election, 2006 in this case) to also transclude the template.
It looks like someone also objected to the DEFAULTSORT (see their comment when they removed it). I'm guessing for the transclusion reason also. In that case, the DEFAULTSORT could be embedded in <noinclude></noinclude>.
Can you please fix the bot to handle such pages? Thanks. -- JLaTondre ( talk) 22:03, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I was looking at unsourced articles (i.e. those with the {{unref}} tag with no date) when I came across Accuphase.
I am amazed that there are no citations for this article, which was created at 22:47, 27 November 2004. I have left a message on the talk page talk:Accuphase asking "A query about sources of information about Accuphase", quoting the hits I found on Google News Search, Google Book Search and Google Web search - all of which are basically advertising hits, reviews of equipment, copies of the Wikipedia article, etc - but nothing that seems reliable, or proving the notability of the company. I just want to emphasise that I have looked for reliable sources (although I only looked at the first 500-600 hits on Google Web Search, I felt that if I hadn't found it by then, the chances were remote that I'd find any past that point).
Now, my question is - if no one can add relevant (i.e. reliable, independent) citations showing notability in a reasonable amount of time, is it considered bad wiki etiquette to put this article up for an AfD? (With such an established article, I'm assuming that a PROD would be quickly contested!).
I know that I am doing it the right way - starting a discussion on the talk page. But how long is a reasonable time to wait for someone to prove that this company is notable from Wikipedia's criteria?
I don't want to put anybody's nose out of joint, but I feel that just because this article has existed for almost 5 years does not mean that we ignore the criteria!
Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated!
Could you please leave me a talkback if you respond to this missive? Thanks -- PhantomSteve ( Contact Me, My Contribs) 23:15, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Not a bug/error, but a question. I had thought SmackBot changed {{inline}} to {{morefootnotes}}; but today I found an article where it changed it to {{nofootnotes}} rather than morefootnotes. Has the behavior changed recently or has this pretty much been the operation for a while and I just had not noticed it before? Thanks for your work! and for SmackBot. N2e ( talk) 04:48, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Right, this edit has prompted me to renominate the template for deletion. Himalayan 10:57, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
You have a big swath of edits here that have nothing to do with unlinking June. Makes finding errors such as this harder then it should be.
Hi,
I noticed that for the Avionyx article, you removed some blank spaces that I had before the "History" section. The reason I had those lines was for the title "History" to be placed below the Table of Contents (TOC). This was the only way I could find to place the "History" section below the TOC. Now that you removed the spaces, the title is at the same level with the TOC and the article looks a little weird. I was wondering if there is a way to place the "History" section above the TOC without having to insert those blank lines?
Esanchi 08/27/2009:
Rich,
Thank you very much for the modifications done to the article. That is just the result I wanted to acheive. However, my knowledge about wikipedia are very limited, this is the first time a write something on the wiki. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Esanchi ( talk • contribs) 15:28, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
-- Esanchi ( talk) 21:51, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
You moved {{ Infobox Mountain}} to {{ Infobox mountain}}. I think standardizing case is great if that was the reason. I'm not questioning the move I'm just curios. – droll [chat] 22:30, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
AutoWikiBrowser says {{ Infobox Protected area}} is transcluded on 3180 pages in the main space. Shouldn't it be protected? Also as Infobox mountain was move shouldn't this be moved to Infobox protected area. I know I could do the move myself but I'm not that bold. Thanks. – droll [chat] 22:46, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Good work, though a couple of editors have reverted your changes at WP:OR (there's now some discussion that, of course, isn't being addressed with nearly the same speed as the reverts). You should check out Wikipedia:PROJPOL. I noticed that you edited Wikipedia:Administrator_policy - you might want to leave the redirect as is, and try a subpage of the policy, like WP:ADMIN/proposals or whatever. But really, it's way more effective to just revise the page directly. Also, if the big block removals don't go through, consider shortening and clarifying things. M 03:28, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Please help!
how to undo a move, some one had moved Jhelum Tehsil to Jhelum (city), but these should have different articles like all other cities and tehsils of Pakistan which have saperate articles. Template:Tehsils of Punjab (Pakistan) -- Talha Discuss © 11:28, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
During your cleanup of a considerable number of royalty-related articles (good work by the way!), one small mishap occurred. This edit [148] replaced the redirect Template:Infobox Portuguese Royalty with Template:Infobox royalty as intended, but also Template:Infobox Portuguese Royalty styles with the non-existing Template:Infobox royalty styles. I've reverted this particular edit, but not yet shoveled my way through all the Portuguese monarchs to see, if anything similar occurred elsewhere. Just wanted to tell you in case it's a symptom of a problem with the script you use to carry out the edits. Regards, Favonian ( talk) 13:18, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I was wondering if you could use AWB to switch maps as here. Basically its just to remove the old maps and replace them with a higher quality one... (no rush...., Pakistan permitting...) Himalayan 15:32, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rich jee,
I would like to give you thanks on behalf of all members and administrator of hindi wikipedia for your contribution. Please continue the good work. Thank you.--
Munita Prasad (
talk) 15:58, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Just noticed this edit [149] where you among other things standardize the date format to "date first". One small thing, which your script overlooked is the "date of death = {{Death date|1014|2|3|mf=y}}" resulting in a date format inconsistency. I've corrected this particular article, but there are probably others, considering how popular this template and its siblings are. Favonian ( talk) 22:23, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Template:Cleanup-university could do with some simplification along the lines of {{ DMCA}}, and you will want to add it to SmackBot's list. Debresser ( talk) 08:59, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
If you have a chance, could you have a look at {{ Infobox Pakistani location}}, {{ Infobox Tehsil Pakistan}}, {{ Union councils of Pakistan}}. I converted them to use {{ infobox settlement}} and the next step is to have a bot do the substitution, which will do all the necessary parameter conversion and replace these with the settlement infobox (as per the TFD). Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 19:14, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
I don't think creating a Pakistani jurisdiction is necessary, otherwise I wouldn't have placed the city one of for deletion after some effort to merge them. Standard is the way to go. P.S. are you still speaking to me, you haven't replied since I made a remark about you having a well deserved kip! Himalayan 16:21, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I was curious about this edit, and if that was the intended result. Perhaps I'm missing something (always a possibility), but it looks like the edit had the effect of blanking a large portion of the page. — Ched : ? 06:27, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
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Awarded to Rich Farm. for his awesome edits towards cleaning up Pakistan location articles at lightening pace. Your contribution to wikipedia in this area is greatly appreciated, not to mention elsewhere every day on here. But your work with infoboxes and categories and cleaning up these articles is especially appreciated... Keep up the good work! Himalayan 10:19, 29 August 2009 (UTC) |
Since you sort User:SmackBot/References Log in Category:Pages with missing references list, perhaps you could sort it under "!", just like the other 4 pages that are permanently there. It's completely trivial, but will look nicer. Thanks. Debresser ( talk) 22:02, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
</ref
and <ref/>
to </ref>
. It happens once in a while and no other bot does this (not even
AnomieBOT).
Debresser (
talk) 00:18, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
<ref/>
is always a mistake for </ref>
, so that is all assumption you need. If you want to be on the safe side, restrict it to when you are fixing articles from
Category:Pages with missing references list, as opposed to making it a general
SmackBot fix.What I didn't know was that you changed MediaWiki:Cite error group refs without references today... Now what should we do? Did you change the other ones sorting to "!" as well, or just that one? Debresser ( talk) 06:22, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
It's not working. See here where the change you did made the explanatory footnotes disappear. I tried a format tweak to make the "notes" section have quote marks, but that didn't do it either. Ealdgyth - Talk 22:07, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
User and talk pages were deliberately excluded from displaying the error and from inclusion in the maintenance category. There are editors monitoring the maintenance category and the consensus was to not monitor and fix problems in those namespaces. Sorting was worked out by those editors doing the cleanup. Please discuss at Help talk:Cite errors.
On a related note, you left a comment at Help talk:Cite errors that I did not understand. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 02:47, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I have inadvertently created a duplicate page for an audio file. I see from Help:Merging, that "Merging is a normal editing action, something any editor can do, and as such does not need to be proposed and processed", especially if such a merger would be uncontroversial, in which case no proposal is necessary, and one can be bold and simply do the job. In the current case, such a merger would indeed be uncontroversial, as the duplication was entirely accidental and unintended. Since it is a normal editing function, and since it is my error, I was of a mind to fix it myself. However, since merging the files requires the pagename, the very first problem I've encountered is the question of the name of the page. While I've successfully named and linked pages within other articles, I can't seem to find the name of my two files. Any ideas on this? I'm assuming that it's 'common knowledge' to more experienced editors.
How I came across yourself was courtesy of a referencing edit from your smackbot. I didn't bother completing the reference for the second, duplicate page, for two reasons. Firstly, I was of a mind to merge it with the original page. Secondly, the red inked error message helped me to see which page was which.
Since your smackbot edit, I've updated the duplicate page to be the correct one. This includes improved references, and downsizing the audio clip so that it is within the 10% copyright limit. However, the above problem remains. That is, I can't identify the pagenames in order to complete the mergers. Can you help please? Conversely, if you or someone else would care to do the merger, please be my guest. It's easy to spot the updated, more correct one. It has a smaller clip for starters (3m 57s). And my apologies for the error. I was doing okay up until this point. By the way, I was originally simply trying to create an audio clip to go alongside the relevant text in Last Goon Show of All. So even my original file page was unintended. But at least the clip was available until I figured out how to get it into the article. However, a duplicate page is too much, and I'd like to clean it up and be more careful in future (like use the sandbox more often) Wotnow ( talk) 03:47, 30 August 2009 (UTC)Wotnow
Hi again Rich. Thanks for replying so promptly. I see your point, and that of Drat's. I have now managed to reduce the audio clip to minimum requirements, and uploaded that to Last Goon Show of All. I've also utilised the audio file template from the All Along The Watchtower example cited on the Wikipedia:Music_samples page. There remains now the issue of the duplicate audio file page, and the merging of it with the updated one. Your thoughts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wotnow ( talk • contribs) 07:13, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
With the feedback and kind cooperation of yourself (and the initial feedback from Drat), the problem regarding the Last Goon show of All clip appears resolved. I commend you both. Wotnow ( talk) 09:40, 30 August 2009 (UTC)Wotnow
In
this edit, SmackBot replaced a {{
current related}}
template with {{
current}}
, causing some nonsensical text. I'm not sure if SmackBot was reprogrammed to do this on purpose after
this change to {{current related}}, but anyway I have since undone the change (I believe there is still a use for {{current related}} separate from {{current}}, but at the very least there is not consensus either way). Just thought I should let you know so you can make any changes to SmackBot accordingly, if necessary.
rʨanaɢ
talk/
contribs 04:00, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rich, SmackBot is of great help on hindi wiki. I am not able to see it for last few hours. Has the task complete. I have one request can we schedule SmackBot such that it is invoked periodically (say every Wednesday night). Thanks
Gunjan (
talk) 15:45, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Done
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:07, 1 September 2009 (UTC).
Eeesh, I just discovered this. The templates are written in German!!! Should they be written in english and maybe coverted to standard? Himalayan 15:52, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
HI. What are you doing at present? Could you use AWB to restore the following template to all of the articles linked within it. You see I did split them all by district but it seems the people working on them are happier with the merged template. As it is closed to default I don't see a problem. Could you replace all of the District templates with this again?
Like this. I'd do it manually but it would take me probably an hour. Perhaps we should rename the template as it is a pretty long name, perhaps it could be shortened and then added under a difference smaller name?
Template:Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War Himalayan 20:26, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Let me know what you think. Himalayan 20:33, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
That's cool. Yeah with Austria they still have that tiny map alongside the coat of arms with a huge locator dot. I understand France, Germany and Austrian municipalities were started by copying templates from the other wikipedia, Now though there is no reason why they need seperate templates.... Italy too. Anyway if you could take care of the Palestinian templates and restore the merged one and delete the district ones I created that would be a kudos to you as I think they say...
Himalayan 20:59, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Done
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:07, 1 September 2009 (UTC).
User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2009 September