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An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Koran_desecration_protests_1.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 00:18, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed you are adding Category:Year of birth missing to articles. Good job! Please keep in mind that when the person is alive, the use Category:Year of birth missing (living people) is recommended. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:27, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello again. I wonder would you kindly take a look at the links to Youtube in the "Listen and Compare" sections of the articles Dramatic soprano, Coloratura Soprano and similar, a list of which can be found in Soprano. In my view these violate Wikipedia:External_links#Restrictions_on_linking. I've pointed these out to User:Nrswanson here but to no avail. D7240 ( talk) 20:00, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I have recently had an encounter with an unapproved admin bot, and despite an extremely clear dictate by policy that these bots should be blocked, have been discouraged from doing so. Depending how this situation resolves, I will likely file an arbitration request to hopefully resolve this issue once and for all. You commented on Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Adminbots, stating that you ran an admin bot. To help get an idea of how widespread admin bots are, as well as get a uniform decision, I would like to ask: Do you still operate this bot, and does it operate when you are not present? Please reply on my talk page, thanks, Prodego talk 00:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Khaled al-Harbi.jpg. You've indicated that the image is being used under a claim of fair use, but you have not provided an adequate explanation for why it meets Wikipedia's requirements for such images. In particular, for each page the image is used on, the image must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Can you please check
This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. -- FairuseBot ( talk) 02:49, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
Please help me with Perlwikipedia since this is my first time programming in Perl. My bot could not post articles in Vietnamese language correctly, but a stuffs of mangled data, though I used the command:
encode('utf-8', $text_out);
Please see [1]. Thank you. Nguy?n Thanh Quang ( talk) 16:49, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
On your bot you make categories with no point. I noticed most only contain one article. Please make categories with more than 2 articles. Thanks -- Pomeapplepome ( talk) 00:19, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Dont make categories that small. Thanks. -- Pomeapplepome ( talk) 00:20, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Password game.jpg. You've indicated that the image is being used under a claim of fair use, but you have not provided an adequate explanation for why it meets Wikipedia's requirements for such images. In particular, for each page the image is used on, the image must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Can you please check
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Thanks for uploading Image:PuffTheMagicDragon.jpg. You've indicated that the image is being used under a claim of fair use, but you have not provided an adequate explanation for why it meets Wikipedia's requirements for such images. In particular, for each page the image is used on, the image must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Can you please check
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Could you undelete this so I could move it to Commons? Given the description it is clearly own work by uploader (and thus the no source deletion shouldn't apply). - Nard 16:25, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
If you are around, Wikipedia talk:Biographical metadata might interest you (I mentioned Polbot there). Carcharoth ( talk) 03:34, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there, I had a quick question. About a year ago, Polbot created a whole bunch of stubs on Japanese photographers from a sole source. A day or two, someone tagged one of them, Motokazu Kumagai, for notability and, with a quick search, I had to agree. In context, however, I assume there was some discussion about how all these individuals are notable but lack English sources, or about how that source is a definitive guide to Japanese photographers etc. etc. Anyhow, I was just wondering if you could clear this up because, if I hadn't seen that I was automatically created, this would otherwise be something I would probably at least PROD. Cheers, CP 21:18, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Table of all possible TLAs from AAA to DZZ ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. MBisanz talk 12:09, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm messaging you since you participated in a Village Pump discussion a while back on the subject. I've since put in a proposal for a bot to revert the addition of redlinks to a subset of list articles and/or list sections. The selection of such articles and the policy of operation of the bot is under discussion there. Your input would be welcome. Pseudomonas( talk) 16:48, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
We're considering deleting this work. It seems that you had moved it from Wikipedia to Wikibooks back in 2004; would you mind providing some input at b:WB:VFD? Thanks, — Mike. lifeguard | @en.wb 23:27, 17 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)
I recognize that writing is labor-intensive and sometimes tedious, but your Polbot automated product (the ultimate lazy writer's tool) basically creates plagiarized articles as it has with many of its culled contributions from http://bioguide.congress.gov... I presume it is not free-running on Wikipedia, but should you ever come back from retirement you may want to disable it & remove the article scripts it has copied from other websites, before it generates excessive intellectual property violations... Stevenmitchell ( talk) 23:44, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
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You have deleted
Image:CPSnowmaker.JPG because it was available on Commons. Please
tell me if the licence was GFDL with or without disclaimers.
Thanks --
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talk) 18:15, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Jane Roberts.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:
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Hi, see it says you have retired, but just dropping you a note about having listed some images you have uploaded at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/2008 December 20#More SXC images for the sake of "protocol" (and in case you still drop by), seeing as they appear to be sourced from http://www.sxc.hu and tagged as free licensed without a confirmation that the photographer who uploaded it to sxc.hu has granted permission to use this license. The images are File:Aster flower.jpg, File:Shoe 1.jpg, File:Shoe 2.jpg, File:Shoe 3.jpg and File:Shoe 4.jpg. -- Sherool (talk) 19:22, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
As a participant of WikiProject U.S. Congress, please consider placing {{ Project Congress to do}} at the top of your User_talk page. Thank you. — Markles 15:18, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
They changed edit rate to edit period a while back! :) You might want to adjust your answer to that field... - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 16:11, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Have you seen this? bd2412 T 05:01, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I'm looking for testimonies about Egyptian women pilots, I saw that you were the first to edit the article about Lotfia Elnadi and that in reference is only stated that the author had the story by someone. I would like to know this person if it's possible. Thank you very much. I will put your article on french wiki with other minor informations I found. Douzeff ( talk) 00:24, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you've revived this project despite your announced retirement! Thanks ... though it risks providing me with another excuse for wasting/spending too much time on Wikipedia to the detriment of everything else I should be getting on with. Thanks for your efforts in producing the lists, anyway. It's been quite a long time since we last had this game to play.
I've done a couple, but hit a bit of a worry: looking at John Adamson and John Adamson (Australian politician), which you list, I did a search and found John Adamson (antiquary), a long-established article. I wonder why your bot didn't find him? I seem to remember that last time round the listings included links to search for occurrences of the name - could be useful to include again?
Cheers, PamD ( talk) 11:39, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Greetings, PamD. Thanks for working on these! My bot just looks through certain categories (such as "Australian politicians"), and looks to see if there is already an article at a name that person might go by. It doesn't search to see if there are other people who might also have the same name. It never included a search link, although I could add that; I think you're probably thinking of the version by User:Eugene van der Pijll, who did batch 3. Yes, also, my bot has an annoying problem with underbars. I thought I took all those out manually, but I guess I missed a few. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 12:06, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
... for the Barnstar. Very kind! PamD ( talk) 16:28, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I'm getting the impression that none of the American people are labeled as such in your proposed dab entries: eg in this list why is Samuel H. Preston not "American sociologist" while Richard J. Price is "British artist"? I hope this isn't an assumption that all the world are Americans unless otherwise specified! Does your bot need to be re-educated for a global perspective? (And, by the way, thanks for the nice idea of picking up librarians and similar interesting groups of people!). PamD ( talk) 13:24, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Quadell. We don't know each other, but since I'm currently correcting errors while browsing WP:MW, I would like to inform you that your name has been removed from the list. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 09:39, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Happy to contribute! And as for a category suggestion, how about Category:American computer scientists? Best, Hqb ( talk) 21:10, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Do you think this might be a neat idea when there's enough information to justify one? I would ask on the BRFA, but... well, it shouldn't look like a negative comment. Good work so far, by the way - just give a quick yes/no and I'm sure we'll be able to (finally) approve it. - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 20:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
{{
Infobox Person}}
, or create a new infobox specifically for Federal judges? –
Quadell (
talk) 20:13, 3 March 2009 (UTC)It is an interesting thought - I've just finished putting together a skeleton page for Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges, and hopefully once a community comes together on that project we will have some ideas about the presentation of those pages. I've been adding succession boxes to the bottoms of the pages, which just indicate the court, dates of service, predecessor, and successor of the judge, but do not contain other details of interest such as birth and death dates, and appointing president. Having all of that in a sideline infobox might be nice, but I'd really like to get the community of interest united first and get a consensus. It should be easy enough to add infoboxes later the same way the articles are made in the first place, right? Cheers! bd2412 T 22:20, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, Jarry1250, I think I'd rather not for the time being. I can later add them to articles that need it (whether Polbot created them or not) as a separate bot request later. – Quadell ( talk) 22:25, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
This image is not a screenshot used under a fair use rationale. The screen capture has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. OTRS received the permissions email today, although it is has not been tagged by an OTRS volunteer yet. I was CC'd on the permissions email, if you'd like to take a look. Cheers, DickClarkMises ( talk) 03:09, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
The Polbot user has a great raft of articles in the user space that have mainspace categories on them. This of course makes for some real ugliness in the categories, see for example Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Studerby ( talk) 09:07, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Do these three changes fix the problems, as you see it? [2], [3], and [4]. – Quadell ( talk) 14:45, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi! Your bot created a subarticle for Robert W. Warren. I started the original article. Bob Warren was Attorney General of Wisconsin before he became a federal court judge.I have no problems with the 2 articles being merge. I have a modest suggestion that the citation from the Wisconsin Historical Society be kept in and also the WikiProject Wisconsin template be kept.Thank you- RFD ( talk) 15:15, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Work on Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges/judgestats. Love, me. – Quadell ( talk) 18:31, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
In light of the extended discussion at Wikipedia talk:External links, I'm going to change ==External links== to ==Sources== in all the Polbot-created articles, and all the articles I've made. Can Polbot help? Cheers! bd2412 T 04:21, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi! Your bot created more subarticles of individuals who have existing artcles-These came from the US District Court of Eastern Wisconsin:
Your bot generated subarticles can easily be merged into the existing articles.Thank you again- RFD ( talk) 12:47, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for Polbot's giant leap forward in turning the FJC bios into Wiki bios. Yesterday I merged the extra info on Gerald Heaney into his existing bio, so User:Polbot/fjc/Gerald William Heaney can be deleted. Wikijsmak ( talk) 19:45, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Former Iowa Congressman Walter I. Smith (old page) and Eighth Circuit judge Walter Inglewood Smith (new page) are the same person. Wikijsmak ( talk) 22:01, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Update: The merge (into the old page) is done; what's left is the disambiguation of the two names, and deletion of thet Walter Inglewood Smith page. Wikijsmak ( talk) 22:22, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Your bot created the aritcle George Theodore Mickelson. An article on the same person already exsisted at George T. Mickelson. Spiesr ( talk) 15:32, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
I've been thinking over this WP:EL thing, and I think I've hit on a solution, although this may be a pain to implement (you'll have to tell me). All of the Polbot-created entries reference nothing but the FJC, so Polbot could hit those articles again and, after the first sentence (the "Joe Smith was a federal judge" line) drop a <ref name=fjc>{{FJC Bio|###}}</ref>, and after each sentence after that, drop a <ref name=fjc/>, then change all my "Sources" headers to "References" and put a {{reflist}} template there. That way, in the future as these articles (hopefully) get expanded with additional material, all the things that can be referenced to the FJC will already by appropriately tagged as footnotes. Doable? bd2412 T 17:37, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you started the Price Hill article and there was a reference to St. Michael the Archangel Church. I made it into a link and have created a small article. I was at the parish the day it closed and had taken some photos. I'd be interested in your opinion on the article. Mfields1 ( talk) 01:23, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Former congressman and federal judge Edward Clayton Eicher's new page has been merged into his old page ( Edward C. Eicher), so that the new page can be safely deleted.Thanks! Wikijsmak ( talk) 05:35, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
User:Polbot/fjc/Jay S. Bybee I was told to write you about this bio. A better piece already exists under Jay Bybee. All of the polbot information is incorporated in the other article. The polbot piece should be deleted. Samantha1961 ( talk) 02:31, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Your bot created William Hiram Brawley. Please look at William H. Brawley - same guy I think although the middle name shows Huggins. Please merge or something. Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 17:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
User:Polbot/fjc/Smith McPherson has now been merged into Smith McPherson, and thus can be deleted. (And is there a way we can make this easier for you?) Wikijsmak ( talk) 12:48, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
{{
Delete FJC}}
template, and changed the {{
Merge FJC}}
template to explain it. Basically, you simply replace the {{
Merge FJC|Judge name}}
tag with a {{
Delete FJC|Judge name}}
tag, and that puts the page into a category for administrators to see it and delete it. All the best, –
Quadell (
talk) 13:51, 14 March 2009 (UTC)The Barnstar of Diligence | ||
This is for the great work you are doing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/biographies. I'll get back over there to help you shortly! Jokestress ( talk) 15:45, 21 March 2009 (UTC) |
Remember Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination, just in case. – Quadell ( talk) 18:40, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Also Category:Wikipedia pages with broken references. – Quadell ( talk) 21:14, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | ||
Thank you for participating in uncategorized Good Articles spring 2009 elimination drive. We value your assistance to ensure that the talk pages of GA are of good quality. OhanaUnited Talk page 00:26, 22 March 2009 (UTC) |