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Hi NuclearWarfare, I noticed that you closed the request as "Username vio". Prekshit is actually a name, and it returns more than 200 Google search results. -- Joshua Issac ( talk) 21:03, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks to everyone who took the time and trouble to take part in my RfA whether support, oppose or neutral. All comments are valued and will be considered carefully in the coming weeks. Feel free to add more advice on my talk page if you think I need it.
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22:13, 16 April 2009 (UTC) In case you're wondering, the image is a smiley, just a little more aesthetic, but not as serious as the Mona Lisa |
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Thanks so much for reviewing List of judicial appointments made by George Washington. The list is better because of your suggestions. Have a great day! – Quadell ( talk) 13:02, 17 April 2009 (UTC) |
While surveying libraries, their outline-related resources, and our coverage of them, I came across something funny...
What subclass is the Bible in the Library of Congress Classification?
Do you think they'd like this one at WP:DYK?
(Nope. They didn't.)
For months, I've been sitting at a terminal in one of the largest libraries in the country, and I haven't even looked around at the available resources.
Until a few days ago.
I'm overwhelmed.
When compared to libraries, Wikipedia is small. (See Digest of Education Statistics 2008, Chapter 7:Libraries and Educational Technology Libraries, and turn to page 617).
But is that a fair comparison?
Yes.
Why?
Because we have growth potential. :)
And we cover everything, including libraries!
Guess what else I found?
I began to study libraries and librarians, since they are experts in organizing knowledge. And of course I turned to Wikipedia to see what we had on the things I came across...
And while doing so I kept running into outlines on Wikipedia that are not (yet) part of the Outline of knowledge.
When I come across non-OOK outlines, generally I rename them, and reformat them to our standard outline format. But there is the occasional exception.
Here are some outlines I just added:
The last 2 are outlines by their very nature, and so our standard outline subheadings didn't seem to fit. So I left them as is.
I renamed the first 2, but the last one is the name of the outline, that is, the topic itself is an outline, and that outline is presented as the article's content, so I left the name as is. For now. This needs more thought.
Of course, that's not all. Concerning those last 2 outlines above...
...not only are they outlines, but they are outlines of knowledge! Well, the top few levels, at least.
Uh, so?
What happens if we linkify them? :)
That is, what happens if we linkify their classifications to Wikipedia's outlines? :) :) :)
Yep.
I challenge you to find some outlines.
I dare you to take a look around Wikipedia for hidden outlines (that is, outlines not yet hooked into the OOK), and add your kills to WP:WPOOK#The hunt for hidden outlines.
My trophies are already there.
The Transhumanist 19:53, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Shubinator ( talk) 02:43, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Just wanted to huggle you :P And to pointlessly spam you on IRC. :P~ -- Mixwell! Talk 02:54, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
NuclearWarfare, Juliancolton has smiled at you! Smiles promote
WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{
subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
02:56, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
I suspect you reverted the edits because they were from an IP only, and there was a ton of small edits. But the person who added the material is actually perhaps the foremost expert in the world on dust jackets, whom I contacted after he wrote some interesting stuff on a book history forum. His site is http://nineteenthcenturydustjackets.com/, and he made those edits in good faith and from a position of knowledge. I will try to wikify and source the info, but please, please don't just revert them wholesale. J L G 4 1 0 4 11:02, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind if I copyedit/expand it. -- Dylan 620 Efforts · Toolbox 11:42, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Ty for the revert Chzz ► 18:55, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 19:00, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Royal broil 00:48, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
I've been rewriting the Outline article from scratch.
Before I move it to article space, it needs to be finished and completely referenced.
I need your help on it.
The Transhumanist 01:08, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Royal broil 12:04, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Can you expand your comments on this FLRC? I'm not exactly sure what is wrong with the list. Highlighting your concerns in a more specific manner might be beneficial, especially for people who want to fix the list. — sephiroth bcr ( converse) 06:02, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 04:35, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
You should be more careful, to leave me a message, just because I used the wrong tag. Instead it would be more appropriate to fix it. -- Juliaaltagracia ( talk) 02:23, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Julian. I really do not need your opinion in this. I saw it was you who removed the tag. Why didn´t you just fixed it. -- Juliaaltagracia ( talk) 02:32, 2 May 2009 (UTC) Julian stop following editors please.......-- Juliaaltagracia ( talk) 02:33, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Julian is always patrolling and blocking new users, instead of given then a chance. -- Juliaaltagracia ( talk) 03:12, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
I am not ignoring you. I read what you wrote. But when you say that you don’t like to repeat what you said, you really sound a little arrogant. Going to sleep and dedicate time to my family. Happy dreams to all of you. Not going to waist more time. Im not going to fix the world. Good night. -- Juliaaltagracia ( talk) 04:00, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Last night I was sleepy and did not go to this link attacks you placed. I hope my comments are not twisted by any skillful user of the wikipedia rules, to use it against me to have me block.
About being insulted for tagging an article for deletion, I disagree. User can always mend or improve the article. On the other hand, if the new user is blocked with his first article, then he has no chance to learn or to demonstrate what his intentions were. Please take note that I will not go any further in this discussion. Just letting you know, so that you don’t think that I’m ignoring anybody.-- Juliaaltagracia ( talk) 19:40, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I'm done with my once-over. I think it's looking good. I didn't look at the sources in-depth. One thing: I'm not crazy about that photo of Schaffer and Berdichevsky. It looks blurry to me and I have a huge screen—I imagine at more routine resolutions it won't look good at all. -- Laser brain (talk) 04:14, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
I honestly appreciate the barnstar. Many, many thanks for it and for all your good work. :) -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 20:21, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Okay, sorry to undo your removal of the file on Phineas and Ferb. I just didn't understand why you did it. — Excelsior, The Flash - ( Talk to me, talk to me, talk to me bay-bay!) 20:46, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
I've been working hard to bring to bring Victoria Pynchon's article to a fully sourced version -- done with outside sources. I've made some real progress and was hoping you could look at it when you get a chance. Thanks very much! AuthorAuthor ( talk) 01:08, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply over on Peter's talk page. I never noticed that feature before seeing it on his page. Thanks for sharing the info with me. The one thing that would have helped just a bit more would have been a link to WP:Editnotice. It goes into a bit more technical detail (which I love). Based on your response, it took me a little bit to figure out that "Editnotice" must be some sort of magical page name that triggers that action. Anyway, thanks for the help. I've got it working now. Take care! — Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 12:07, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Regarding this IP 121.54.100.146, I observed that user to be vandalizing the Wikipedia. Does he do the same stuff here? I was one of the people who have been reverting his edits (since it contain crude and false information) but the IP seems not giving exact references for such. I am, too, a viewer of the show he keeps on insisting but I haven't seen those stars. From: •LeMaR• 我爱土木工程! 07:58, 5 May 2009 (UTC) and Lemar (on Tagalog wiki).
The support is appreciated. Thank you. — BQZip01 — talk 01:24, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for taking the initiative to get the article up to snuff for FAC. I think it will easily pass. I'd been meaning to work on it but just never had the time. I should be having a lot more free time soon (1-2 weeks-ish) though and might take a stab at completing the Topics article. - Yohhans talk 00:36, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
New York's 20th congressional district special election, 2009 Best of luck if you decide to take it! ~ ωαdεstεr16 «talk stalk» 01:47, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for your edits to the above page. I have been reverting the nonsense that Solís was born in Nogales for, it seems, forever. I suppose that it is a form of urban legend, although any reputable biography lists his birthplace as Mexico City. Wishing you the best of the day,-- Lyricmac ( talk) 18:11, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
I would question your good-faith efforts to find sources for Bosavern Penlez, when Google Books indicates 613 texts mentioning him, ranging from 1750 to 1984. Sherurcij ( speaker for the dead) 19:47, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Development is moving steadily forward. We haven't created any new outlines lately, but a lot of editing of our existing outlines is taking place. Take a look at Buaidh's contributions. :)
I'm impressed.
I can safely say we now have another fanatic working on the project.
A big danger to new pages or pages that have low traffic are prods. These are deletion proposals that don't have to go through AfD. If a prod sits on a page, any page, 5 days without opposition, the page can be deleted without discussion.
Such pages can be undeleted without discussion too, but there's usually a delay, especially if you don't notice the page missing right away. Prods create undesirable gaps in the subject coverage of list sets.
I just caught one the other day, so keep an eye on the outline pages!
One of the benefits of reverse outlining is the discovery of problems (gaps in coverage, etc.) with the publication being outlined. We've come across several and have been fixing those as we go. Because hypertext tables of contents are only as good as the pages they link to, we've been cleaning up large sections of Wikipedia. This was something I did not foresee when I started this project.
One of the sets of pages we link to on the outlines is the set of indexes, formerly called "List of x topics". Unfortunately, the lists of topics were divided between 2 different sets competing for the same article names, and this impeded development of both sets. One of those sets were indexes, and the rest are outlines (more about these below).
So I set about splitting up the 2 sets, by renaming the indexes to "Index of x articles" or "Index of x-related articles".
All 450 or so of them.
Nobody has complained about the new names, but 2 or 3 people thought I was way too bold to attempt this without a proposal or discussion first. Just 2 or 3 people. That's about as much opposition as you could expect for moving a single page.
Not bad for a move of this volume.
There are many more indexes out there, but our main concern are those which are provided links on the outlines. Many of those are redlinks (gaps in coverage as mentioned above), and so we need a way to track these and direct editor attention to them so that somebody creates them...
So, I've created a page for the set, that parallels the OOK list:
The complete list of "Index of" articles can be found at User:The Transhumanist/Index, and this list needs to be gone over to make sure each article index listed is included on the portal page above. If you help with this, please put - placed after each entry that you check and place.
Thank you.
To further support the development of index pages, and provide a central place for people to go to find out more about indexes and what needs to be done, I've created the Index WikiProject.
There are outline pages hiding all over Wikipedia. They aren't in OOK's formats, but we can fix that. :)
Converting existing outlines and absorbing them into the OOK is a lot easier than creating outlines from scratch, and it avoids unnecessary duplication of effort. But before we can convert them, we have to find them...
A hunt is underway for non-OOK outlines. So far, User:Gimme danger is in the lead and has found the most. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge#The hunt for hidden outlines for more information.
Please don't rename any non-standard outlines you come across to OOK's standard naming until after you reformat them. Renaming them only after they are reformatted helps us keep track of which outlines have and have not been converted.
Thank you.
The way I usually do this is by substituting the relevant outline generator template at the beginning of the outline, which forces the existing outline to the bottom of the page. Then I add an "under construction" tag, and then move all the links from the original outline to the relevant sections in the standard structure. It is important to finish the conversion quickly, so as not to create confusion. Then I scour Wikipedia for missing links (using Google to do a site-specific search of Wikipedia), to make the upgraded outline more comprehensive than the converted outline. Be sure to check all related categories too. Add a lead paragraph, add external links, and voila!
Better than before.
The next phase in the evolution of this project is to increase participation by expanding the Wikipedia community's awareness of the Outline of knowledge, its purpose, and what needs to be done for any given subject.
This will entail placing banners on the outlines' talk pages, the talk page for the WikiProject associated with the subject of each outline and of each planned outline, and on the talk page of each article corresponding to each outline and to each planned outline.
Then instructions on improving subject access, including the creation and development of an outline for each subject, will be posted on every related WikiProject page. (There's a WikiProject for the subject of most outlines).
We will also be sending notices to every member of every WikiProject associated with the subject of each and every outline and planned outline.
But before this happens, the outline guidelines and the article draft for the topic "Outline" must be completed. Without these, many editors will not know what an outline is, or what to do to build and improve them.
And that's our current bottleneck.
Once those are ready (the guideline and article), we can take this project to the next level.
Well, that's all for now.
Until next time,
The Transhumanist 00:26, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Nuke,
We could use outlines on any major subject you are interested in.
I'm using "major subject" loosely here. That is, any subject with coverage extensive enough to support an outline.
We're mainly concerned about scholastic subjects for now (science, society, history, cats, dogs, etc.), to contrast with the portal project which is entertainment heavy.
The Transhumanist 00:26, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. Was starting to feel a bit harassed. Contaldo80 ( talk) 14:00, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind, but I slightly reworded your proposal in the content disputes RfC, because I don't think the discussion is supposed to be for the Committee's benefit, and it doesn't hurt to be explicit about who you are addressing. Sorry if I misrepresented your intentions, and please feel free to revert if you don't approve of the change. Sincerely, Skomorokh 15:00, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 22:10, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
My RFA passed today at 75/2/1 so I wanted to thank you for your participation in it. Special thanks go to GlassCobra and FlyingToaster for their nomination and support. Cheers! -- Rosiestep ( talk) 02:06, 12 May 2009 (UTC) |
Got you two suggestions [1]. Probably the most obvious ones, but I was amazed that neither one is registered or SULed. And it would mean the least trouble for you ;-) Regards So Why 20:53, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
If you have any further concerns about the article on Transparent alumina, please respond on the discussion page for that article. Thanks :-) -- logger9 ( talk)
Hello! In your close at here, you wrote "no other keep !votes". Anyway, I believe you mean "no other !delete votes". Best, -- A Nobody My talk 23:25, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I'm wondering why you removed the Orel external link. Is there any particular reason? It seems to be a bona fide link to worthwhile information, no different from dozens of others on other pages. -- Klein zach 02:34, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
When you add entries to this that were speedy renames, you might consider adding a link like this as well since speedies don't have a "per day page".-- Rockfang ( talk) 04:16, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
And if you create new categories manually in the WP:CFDS, please be sure to reproduce the old category exactly. This one you created was missing a parent category that was in the old category. (That's one reason doing it by bot is useful—the bot doesn't make boo-boos like that.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 08:26, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
The article doesn't say.
I'm interested, because I need to explain the benefits in the guideline on outlines I'm writing. (Outlines are a type of tree structure).
I've also asked the question at various reference desks, and these threads may help to jump start your brain on this question. :)
What benefits have you noticed?
How are Wikipedia's outlines useful to you?
I look forward to your answers on my talk page.
The Transhumanist 04:32, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for taking the time to review the images in this article. I should have been more clear in how I addressed the points you raised - specifically I didn't mentioned that I'd swapped out two of the images with others whose copyright status was easier to verify. Socrates2008 ( Talk) 08:35, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
I noticed your FLC work with Yohhans on United States Academic Decathlon. Do you have a wider interest in Athletics in general? If so you may be interested in the WikiProject Athletics proposal. Cheers! Sillyfolkboy ( talk) ( edits) WIKIPROJECT ATHLETICS NEEDS YOU! 11:37, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
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Unfortunately, my RFA was closed recently with a final tally of 75 ½/38/10. Though it didn't succeed, I wanted to thank you for your support and I hope I can count on it in the future. Even though it didn't pass, it had a nearly 2 to 1 ratio of support and I am quite encouraged by those results. I intend to review the support, oppose, and neutral !votes and see what I can do to address those concerns that were brought up and resubmit in a few months. If you would like to assist in my betterment and/or co-nominate me in the future, please let me know on my talk page. Special thanks go to Schmidt, MICHAEL Q., TomStar81, and henrik for their co-nominations and support. — BQZip01 — talk |
Hey NuclearWarfare. I would just to apologise for and explain the disruption you may have noticed on WP:Good articles/recent. Following a bot request, it became apparent that it would be handy to have a bot pipe new additions to WP:GA onto the /recent subpage. Now, I admit that the bot's been having a few problems (it's still officially in trial), but I hope these have now been worked out. It should mean that every 5 minutes the newest additions are added automatically, so all users like you have to do is add the newly listed GA to WP:GA and let the bot do the work. Of course, you're allowed to do it yourself, but you don't have to. That's the plan, anyhow, so it might be an idea to add the article to WP:GA, then wait ten minutes. If the bot hasn't added it yet, add it manually and come straight to me so I can fix the bot. Essentially though, you can either carry on as normal or take advantage of the bot, as you wish. Thanks for your patience and sorry for any disruption caused. - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 16:11, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
You've got mail. — Jake Wartenberg 16:38, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Orlady ( talk) 17:36, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
This project needs another shot in the arm.
So here it goes...
I've contacted all 59 members of the Countries WikiProject to help in designing and conducting contests for the further development of the country outlines.
You are invited too.
The guidelines and outline article still aren't complete.
Which means you will be needed to help explain to the newcomers mentioned above what outlines are and how to develop them.
Please participate in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries#Hosting country coverage contests.
The Transhumanist 22:21, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
What is going on at the LoE? There's a lot of edit warring, and the transclusion you were using has been abandoned for a full cut n paste, which is being eidt warred with for a colored chart with no information. ThuranX ( talk) 03:31, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Regarding your new section page, you should probably research Essjay's history here before using him in pretty much any fashion. ThuranX ( talk) 03:33, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
To promote work on the country outlines, maybe a contest between country WikiProjects could be run, to see which WikiProject could develop the best country outline.
What do you think?
(I look forward to your reply on my talk page).
The Transhumanist 23:56, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Is there any reason that you undid edits by an Arbitrator? Dabomb87 ( talk) 02:25, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Whacking with a wet trout or trouting is a common practice on Wikipedia when experienced editors slip up and make a silly mistake. It, along with
sentencing to the village stocks, is used to resolve one-off instances of seemingly silly behavior amongst normally constructive community members, as opposed to long term patterns of
disruptive edits, which earn
warnings and
blocks.
– Juliancolton | Talk 02:38, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
NW: Thanks for taking the time to do this. Much appreciated. wadester16 | Talk→ 03:12, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey there. Julian told me to ask you if you had any more AWB work for him, and to do some of it to help his workload. So, anything? NW ( Talk) ( How am I doing?) 03:07, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
In AWB, please make a list from User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox31, and filter out all pages that are not talk pages in the talk namespace. That is, you want the list you create to only have talk pages that correspond to articles in article space. Not any other talk space.
Set AWB to not skip pages that do not exist. (We want to edit the empty talk pages too).
Set AWB to skip pages with {{Outline of knowledge coverage}}
Set AWB to prepend {{Outline of knowledge coverage}}
Run AWB on the list.
Thank you.
Good luck.
The Transhumanist 03:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm going through all the ones you just did, and adding the subject's article name, starting with a small case letter.
Please help me finish these up.
I'm only online for another hour before this library closes.
Make sure the parameter matches the subject part of the outline's name, so the link turns blue.
The Transhumanist 03:53, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 13:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
OK, for this one, we're going to use a little substitution trick. (I think you'll like it).
In AWB, please make a list from User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox31 (I changed the contents), and filter out all pages that are not talk pages in the talk namespace. That is, you want the list you create to only have talk pages that correspond to articles in article space. Not any other talk space.
Set AWB to not skip pages that do not exist. (We want to edit the empty talk pages too).
Set AWB to skip pages with {{Outline of knowledge coverage
(note that I left off the closing brackets)
Set AWB to prepend {{subst:User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox07}}
That's the trick right there.
Run AWB on the list.
Then check them, because not all of them will match perfectly (some need "the" added in), etc.
But most of them should be blue, because the countries are capitalized by default.
Thank you.
Good luck.
The Transhumanist 04:35, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
I just tried it on a bunch, and it works great. After you've run AWB on this task, you'll have to go back and add "the" for the outlines about islands and "Republics of". Have fun. :) The Transhumanist 05:01, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
You seem to be adding lots of redlinks to pages. For example [2] and [3]. Please can you revert all these or fix them? Thanks, — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:38, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
For the articles listed at Category:Indexes of articles, please do the following:
Replace:
[[Category:Indexes of articles]]
With: nothing. That is, erase it.
Replace:
[[Category:Lists of topics by country
With:
[[Category:Indexes of articles by country
These can be done in the same pass.
Thank you.
Good luck.
The Transhumanist 23:42, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Somehow the pages in the above set got split between two categories.
So, in AWB make a list from Category:Lists of topics by country and use the filter feature to filter out all the pages that do not have "Index" in their titles.
Then set AWB to make the following search/replace:
Replace:
[[Category:Lists of topics by country
With:
[[Category:Indexes of articles by country
and run it.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 01:56, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Now to finish off the category (we've been moving all the pages in it to its subcategories).
Make a list from Category:Lists of topics by country and use the filter feature to keep all the pages with "List" in their titles.
Then set AWB to make the following search/replace:
Replace:
[[Category:Lists of topics by country
With:
[[Category:Outlines of countries
and run it.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 02:01, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
In all the pages listed at Category:Topical indexes,Replace:
[[Category:Topical indexes
With:
[[Category:Indexes of articles
Good luck.
Have fun.
(You're doing an amazing job.)
The Transhumanist 02:26, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, did you note the "Please do not edit this page manually" warning on that page? I'll try to implement your changes properly, but some of them will probably disappear after the next compilation by my bot. Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 06:33, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
...rewriting the old info over your cat info.
Please look into it.
The Transhumanist 20:05, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
P.S.: I'll have more tasks for you soon. The Transhumanist 20:05, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Since it has my signature on the messages, make sure you place "posted at The Transhumanist's request" in the edit summary. Or something to that effect.
Using AWB, please make a list from User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox34 (a list of all country outline talk pages).
Set AWB to append {{subst:User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox33}} to the page. (It's a bunch of messages, including notices on the problem with the government section, where to find the guideline draft, etc.)
Then run it.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 22:09, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
I changed the title from ONLY WARNING - YOU WILL BE BLOCKED. NW ( Talk) ( How am I doing?) 18:51, 23 May 2009 (UTC) If you ever place material like this on Wikipedia again, you will be indefinitely blocked from editing. NW ( Talk) ( How am I doing?) 18:04, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
I did not put anything objectionable. Another user did it. I just wrote under it. User F203 ( talk) 18:02, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
The trouble with threatening people is that they leave Wikipedia. I was going to leave but then thought that I should not be bullied by others, particularly since I am a productive editor. Please be nice to others. User F203 ( talk) 18:06, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
FYI: if you are referring to undoing my revert [or reverting my undo, if you like :)], I actually undid myself after having a closer look. No harm done, I shouldn't have undone in the first place. decltype ( talk) 18:56, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Oh, that! Those were just random numbers and random names and also not even the correct number of digits for a credit card.
It would be like saying Nuclear Warfare's Visa card number is 2839 4954 9320 3493 4054, issued by the Bank of the Klingon Empire.
But nice of you to be more civil today! User F203 ( talk) 19:03, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
I just recently learned how to redirect so I redirected User:NucularWarfare to you. I created that user name so that I could redirect that mis-spelt username to you. User F203 ( talk) 19:21, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
"Please don't post credit card numbers."
Just kidding.
The magic words to which I am referring are variables used in templates.
See this...
mw:Help:Magic words
This page is a
soft redirect.
The Transhumanist 23:59, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Filing a bot request, see below
Please set AWB not to skip non-existing pages.
To the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox37 (list of talk pages for state historical outlines),
please prepend (to the beginning) of each page the Outline of knowledge WikiProject's banner:
{{WikiProject Outline of knowledge}}
Thank you.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 00:08, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
In AWB, please make a list from User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox35 (list of talk pages for non-country outlines and outline drafts), and filter out all pages that are not talk pages (there are talk pages from article space and the Wikipedia namespace on there). That is, you want the list you create to only have talk pages that correspond to outlines and outline drafts.
Set AWB to not skip pages that do not exist. (We want to edit the empty talk pages too, if there are any).
Set AWB to append {{subst:User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox36}}
Then let 'er rip! :)
Thank you.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 00:36, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
P.S.: We're really pumping up your edit count this week, aren't we. :) I'm jealous.
Maybe...
I was experiencing mental block on the article draft for "outline" and on the outline guideline draft. And this was holding the whole project back. Without these (which are intended to explain the type of lists known as outlines in detail), the danger is higher that a controversy could go the wrong way.
I requested help on them, but there was none forthcoming.
So I went ahead and started us on the next phase of operations without those 2 pages...
Our AWB'ers and I have placed about 1600 notices all over Wikipedia. And the plan is to place several thousand more.
This generated only one complaint, but it was a very vocal one, and attracted a few other detractors who seemed unfamiliar with the concept of hierarchical outlines and their benefits. However, just as many or more editors came to the defense of the OOK, and there was no consensus formed. But, dab is still trying to rally opposition to outlines at the Village Pump. See below...
It appears that the banner placed on the talk page of the Outline of Switzerland caught the attention of an editor named Dbachmann who posted a rather forceful message on my talk page, another on WT:WPOOK, another at WP:VPP, and still another at WP:AN!
He went well out of his way to use negative hype to cause a stir.
It appears that Mr. Bachmann doesn't understand the nature of hierarchical outlines and their applications. And though he implied that he has never seen an OOK outline before, he was involved with a discussion on these when they were called "lists of basic topics".
His primary argument is that outlines are content forks of articles, and violate WP:CFORK.
But "topic lists", of which outlines are a type, have been around for almost as long as Wikipedia, and fall under the WP:LISTS and WP:STAND guidelines. They aren't intended as forks, as they are lists, bringing the benefits of lists to the corresponding subjects, such as grouping and navigation.
Someone suggested an MfD, but lists are articles, and are within the jurisdiction of AfD. Only the portal page, which merely lists the outline articles, falls within the scope of the MfD department.
The administrator's noticeboard was considered the wrong venue for the discussion, and the discussion was closed.
But Dab's discussion at the Village Pump is still active. Hopefully level heads will prevail there too.
Am I disheartened or deterred? Hell no. I say "full steam ahead!"
But we really need to finish the article draft and the guideline. Otherwise there will continue to be confusion.
Over the next week or two, we'll be posting another 1600 or so notices. It's a good thing we didn't send out 10,000 of them all at once. :)
The Transhumanist 23:17, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
P.S.: Another related thread has popped up at WP:VPR#OoK's expediency.
Thank you for participating in my
"RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (
Ceoil,
Noroton and
Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read
Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record. ~~~~~ |
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 03:56, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Input on the OOK threads at the Village Pump has died down (at both WP:VPP and WP:VPR), and there is currently no consensus on either.
For the number of notices we posted (over a thousand) the number of complaints we received (the two VP threads mentioned above) was quite low.
Considering most of the outlines are orphans, they get pretty good use.
Note that people who are happy with articles on Wikipedia generally don't say anything, so I simply interpret it as positive feedback.
Using Traffic, I compare the traffic of articles, their corresponding outlines, and their corresponding portals from time to time.
Outlines are starting to catch up to portals. Though the main portals, which are included in a navbar menu at the top of most portals are still way ahead of their outline counterparts.
Both outlines and portals are way behind the articles on the same subjects. Articles usually have 20 to 30 times the traffic.
Keep in mind that most outlines are orphans, with the primary link to them being Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge.
Traffic should improve once we include links on the corresponding subject pages, including the main subject as well as subjects that correspond to subheadings (e.g., History of x, and in the case of countries: Geography of x, Demographics of x, Culture of x, etc.)
I'm convinced the traffic of outlines will overtake portals once we've link-integrated them into the encyclopedia. And since outlines serve as tables of contents for each subject, it seems most fitting to place links to them in the form of hatnotes at the top of each subject's main articles (and the sub-subjects mentioned in the paragraph directly above).
By the way, there's another traffic counter called Wikirank, but I haven't tested it out much yet, but will do so in the coming weeks.
Once the traffic of outlines has overtaken portals, it will be time to replace portals on the Main Page, even if we need to spearhead a new main page redesign! This isn't a far-fetched idea. I was the one who jumpstarted and led the project responsible for the current main page design (until it hit critical mass and attracted other leaders), and I was also the most active editor on that project. I even created the WP:CBB on the Community Portal to promote the main page election. The second time around should be easier.
Targetting the Main Page is a few months off.
Right now, we need to continue posting notices and start link-integrating the OOK into the encyclopedia.
I have a whole slew of AWB tasks to assign. I hope you are ready. :)
WP:WPOOK needs members. Tell all your friends about the OOK, and get them to join.
The Transhumanist 02:29, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Nuke,
While you are waiting for bot approval, would you mind processing some other AWB tasks?
I've got a ton of them piled up.
The Transhumanist 02:29, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
"NukeBot". I like it. So I guess this means I can load you up with even more AWB tasks? :) Cool. The Transhumanist 22:02, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
I'll try to get more on tonight.
The Transhumanist 20:43, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello - thanks for the message, and I'm happy to help. As I said on my talk page, I'm a chronic AGFer and I don't like to block unless it's absolutely necessary.
In Toby's case, the damage was remedied by the time I got to the report, and I don't block editors for only one edit in the last 18 months unless it was really egregious. Although the page was deleted under CSD, it was pretty standard teenager/test edit stuff that we delete hundreds of times every day. It's the only edit he's made since January 2008. He'd never been warned appropriately. I consider that type of block as punishment, not prevention. Blocks stop ongoing, persistent vandalism or inappropriate page creation, etc. Toby was done, he only created the page once, so let's hold some hope that he'll turn out to be a good editor sometime down the road.
If you have questions, just let me know. Thanks again for the message! :-) Krakatoa Katie 03:30, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
(Please read the whole task through before you start).
Make a list from Category:Glossaries and its subcategories (by selecting the recursive option). Check the list carefully to make sure it didn't bleed out into the rest of the cat system - all the pages listed should be some type of glossary. (Though they are not all named "Glossary of").
Add to the list all the links listed at Portal:Contents/List of glossaries and then filter out all pages from the whole list that are not in the article namespace.
Once you have the list created, save it off to a file, and then edit the list so each article name starts with "Talk:".
Then clear the make list in AWB and load the saved page. Check carefully that AWB didn't truncate the list. There might be a bug in the list save feature that saves an unreadable byte here and there. So check the last page in the list when you reload it with the last page on the list file you saved. If they don't match, text search in the file for the last name in the AWB list and fix the typo. Repeat until the whole list reloads correctly.
Once fully loaded, set AWB to not skip pages that do not exist.
Then to each talk page on the list, prepend the following:
{{WikiProject Glossaries}}
Thank you.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 04:24, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
P.S.: If there is an easier way to make a list of the talk pages of the articles involved here, please let me know (so that I know for future reference).
Wikipedia:Outlines was growing so large that I split this section off as a separate page.
I look forward to your feedback and improvements.
The Transhumanist 22:32, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I notice that in a recent edit to Hastings Ismay, you removed all of the ndashes, replacing them with the "-" character. [4]. Is there a reason that you did this or was it the result of some accidental script interaction? WP:ENDASH, at least by my reading, stipulates that the endash should be used for page ranges, etc. as it was in the article prior to your edit. Am I missing something? Thanks. Cool3 ( talk) 22:07, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
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You should let them know you signed them up. ;) The Transhumanist 23:12, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi there,
Thanks for adding me to this list - but I have removed your addition, as I am already the second person on that list! :)
The Helpful One 16:42, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
I would like to thank you for coming out and participating in my Request for Adminship, which closed unsuccessfully at (48/8/6) based on my withdrawal. I withdrew because in my opinion I need to focus on problems with my content contributions before I can proceed with expanding my responsibilities. Overall I feel that the RfA has improved me as an editor and in turn some articles which in my eyes is successful. Thank you again for your participation. Cheers and happy editing.-- kelapstick ( talk) 18:57, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 22:46, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey Nuke, I think we have a convert! The Transhumanist 03:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
I hit mental block bad, so I sent out lots of requests for advice to people over at WP:ADOPT. Their answers have been streaming in, and I've been a bit overloaded.
But I'll get back to "collating" AWB tasks as soon as I can.
I feel guilty that your new bot is sitting idle because of me. :(
The Transhumanist 03:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
For taking the time and dedication to seek out and remove that reference spam. All 100+ instances of it... Until It Sleeps 04:08, 2 June 2009 (UTC) |
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
What UIS said. Benders Game 14:59, 2 June 2009 (UTC) |