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Yanno what? Forget it.
Rich
Farmbrough, 08:19, 12 September 2011 (UTC).
Please correct the typo "His coat of arm ".
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:51, 9 September 2011 (UTC).
Mind checking if this should be done? LikeLakers2 ( talk | Sign my guestbook!) 20:02, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Urged to formalise the project, I have just updated Wikipedia:Date formattings to incorporate what I do. I invite feedback and any amendments and changes to the project in the hope that we can expand the effort by recruiting some members. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 04:08, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
- It messed up the coding for the template at the bottom of the article, messed with, apparently, every line in the article. And when I tried to undo the damage it just redid it all again. And I'm not supposed to notice, or comment on that???? You delete any comments that point out the failings of this bot? I read a little about this bot, and even more at its apparent author's talk page, and this is not an unknown, or unidentified issue with this bot....SO WHY THE HECK IS IT ****STILL**** RUNNING?????? User:12.73.220.22 19:58, 18 September 2011
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First off, the bot is blocked, and has been since September 23.
Second, I can just imagine the bot frolicing through a garden (the garden being Wikipedia's location), looking like SmackBot, and waving to a few users occasionally. Not kidding, I can. :D LikeLakers2 ( talk | Sign my guestbook!) 21:09, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I'd like to find out why your use of AWB removes the GOCE template (e.g. at the bottom of this edit)? Thanks. GFHandel ♬ 01:14, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Category:DBK Works albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 08:25, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Category:Page Music albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 00:23, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you were keeping a log of db errors - I just encountered one like your "new one" above. When you've encountered them, how long have they persisted? When logged in, I can't view User talk:Lexein - it times out after a minute and produces this message
The problem seems to have started after this last change to the talk page (as alerted by my talk page alert email). So I asked on IRC #wikipedia, and got the suggestion to try adding ?action=purge, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lexein?action=purge still produces the timeout and error when I'm logged in. Interestingly, when I 'm logged out, there's no problem. If you have any suggestions for who to contact, please either email me or respond here on your talk page, since I can't conveniently see my talk page at all. -- Lexein ( talk) 14:48, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
-- Redrose64 ( talk) 21:18, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Can you unprotect the Asdas page and move Asdas, Yemen?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:09, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Please solve this mystery if you can...
On September 23rd, traffic to Portal:James Bond doubled, and has stayed at the new level since then. I can't figure out what happened.
See http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Portal%3AJames_Bond
Traffic to Outline of James Bond stayed the same (though it was at the higher-level already), which leads me to suspect changes made somewhere in Wikipedia.
See http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Outline%20of%20James_Bond
I'd like to find out what happened, in case it reveals helpful link placement tips that can double the traffic to outlines too!
I look forward to your reply on my talk page. The Transhumanist 23:24, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rich Farmbrough. I created the {{ cat handler}} template. Today I noticed that a year ago you were involved in trying to deploy {{cat handler}} in the {{ lang}} template, but that it didn't work. After some testing and staring at all versions of the code I finally found the error: {{cat handler}} was not the problem, instead you guys placed the ending brackets in the wrong place. The discussion at {{lang}} has already been archived, but for future reference I left a message in the archive explaining what went wrong. See Template talk:Lang/Archive 2#Change categorization method.
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 17:27, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
I appreciate what the bot does, but I have two complaints:
Thanks for taking a look at this. EEng ( talk) 22:08, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
I moved the ungrammatically name Template:Over detailed, which you'd semiprotected, to the grammatical name Template:Overly detailed, which has no such protection. The redir Template:Over-detailed, which is also grammatically correct, works too. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 20:54, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
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Category:JVC Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 21:09, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
...not to violate your editing restrictions (and AWB rules of use), with edits that don't change the rendered page like [1], [2], [3] (note that the change to Defaultsort doesn't do anything since defaultsort is case insensitive nowadays), [4], [5], [6], [7]. Fram ( talk) 13:18, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
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This is for creating the list of lists of lists. Brilliant work! :D Jon Harald Søby ( talk) 15:40, 5 August 2011 (UTC) |
Hi Rich, Isaac here how is the Project so far? I have talked with a few people in in WHO and I am awaiting their reply, Asaf from the foundation has also been here and is helping us out — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kipsizoo ( talk • contribs) 16:36, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Because of an editor raising some good questions on Template_talk:Cleanup-laundry#The_validity_of_this_template_is_disputed, I realised what always bother me in {{ Cleanup-laundry}}. 1. The vagueness of the term. 2. The parallel existence of {{ Cleanup-list}}. Could you clarify these two things for me? Or is a merge of "laundry" into "list" the best idea? Debresser ( talk) 23:12, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for that, I've sorted out Indonesian links. Now Scotland. Can you do the same thing with the maps in Category:Populated places in Inverness committee area and Category:Populated places in Sutherland? Once that's done I'll add the infoboxes to the remainder.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:22, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
What's the best place to suggest and get checked User:Lexein/Template:Expand-barerefs, as part of the Expand- family of templates? It appears to be desirable, based on discussion at WP:ANI#Koavf, specifically WP:ANI#Not_so_arbitrary_break. -- Lexein ( talk) 23:40, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
Cleanup-link rot}}
is the slightly inappropriately named template.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:47, 7 October 2011 (UTC).Hi Rich, SmackBot has been iconic and ecumenical, why change its name? Is there any chance he can go back to SmackBot? Thanks -- Camilo Sanchez ( talk) 01:14, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Clumsy lead.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:33, 10 September 2011 (UTC).
Tense problems.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:36, 10 September 2011 (UTC).
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Because helpful machines deserve love too!!! :D MusicLover650 ( talk) 22:49, 15 July 2011 (UTC) |
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Rich, with all your hard work I thought you may be in need of some refreshment ;-) Marek. 69 talk 10:29, 6 August 2011 (UTC) |
Hey - the Widener Law page has the "News Release" message at the top...I tried to format the page after the Temple Law and U. Penn Law pages. I think the content is neutral and comparable to information found on most college/university pages. Can I remove the "News Release" tag? (I know I physically can remove it, I just don't want to piss anybody off). If there is something you think should be changed/neutralized on the page, please let me know!
Thanks 98.235.125.61 ( talk) 01:22, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Rich! I really appreciate it! 98.235.125.61 ( talk) 21:45, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
I love that little statistic you provided. It's a fish. I need more.
500,000 per month, that's 6 million per year! My guess was 5.
'Give someone a fish and you feed him for a day; teach the person to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.' (See Distributism).
Please teach me how to fish. How did you generate that stat?
I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 17:28, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
LikeLakers2 ( talk | Sign my guestbook!) 21:07, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your comment on Talk:Kingsmill_massacre#Names_of_victims_2. I know you're busy but I'd be grateful if you could clarify it. My query is there after your post -- Flexdream ( talk) 11:33, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
"Bug bash sounds similar to eat one's own dog food" - this needs to go.
Rich
Farmbrough, 10:46, 13 September 2011 (UTC).
Don't cap Pinky.
Piezo not a proper noun.. sigh.
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:22, 13 September 2011 (UTC).
Database error From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia View logs for this page A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
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from within function "Block::purgeExpired". Database returned error "1213: Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction (10.0.6.46)".
Hi there! I just came across Category:Film incomplete lists while looking for some tidying-up work. It looks as though you created the category; thus may I ask, how is this category different from Category:Incomplete film lists? I do see that there's a different list template used for each: {{ Expand list}} or {{ inc-film}} and maybe you can explain that to me as well. Before I start sorting, I want to be sure of what goes where. Thanks. Humbly, Pegship ( talk) 23:08, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Needs sorting out.
Hi Rich; please see comment in this !vote. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 15:53, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Link first occurrence of Basing House, not the second
In this edit your bot again added the {{ Use dmy dates}} template without any good reason. Actually, the writer of this book is American. As I have said before, the incidental usage of a dmy type date is not reason to add the template. Please stop your bot from adding this template automatically. And I am serious about this... Debresser ( talk) 12:50, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
[X] copied from User talk:Helpful Pixie Bot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 16:03, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
The talk page was set up as a redirect to my talk page. I am just too busy (and too annoyed at the situation) right now to make further comment.
Rich
Farmbrough, 15:57, 23 September 2011 (UTC).
May need moving, certainly needs massive cleaning up.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:21, 14 September 2011 (UTC).
Replace body with
Luigj Gurakuqi University Library ( Albanian: Biblioteka e Universitetit të Shkodrës “Luigj Gurakuqi”) is the library of the Luigj Gurakuqi University of Shkodra in Shkodër, Albania. It traces its history to the establishment of the Pedagogical Institute in 1957 with a stock of about 1000 books, mainly in Albanian. Today, this library has about 150,000 books.It includes a holding of thirty two rare volumes form the early part of the sixteenth century. The older stick is in the process of digitization to ensure longevity of the items, and improve advisability. The library runs exchanges with Albanian and foreign libraries.
"The warden expresses the disappointment of Hanna in her anger towards Michael for not communicating with Hanna in any way other than the audio tapes." We can do better than this.
Rich
Farmbrough, 10:51, 13 September 2011 (UTC).
Done
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:06, 9 October 2011 (UTC).
Spurious caps all over the place. And may be a good merge candidate.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:15, 14 September 2011 (UTC).
Keyboard shortcuts:
Synonyms :
http://www.hypexr.org/bash_tutorial.php#emacs
Done
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:12, 9 October 2011 (UTC).
Done
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:11, 9 October 2011 (UTC).
Needs refs and parentage.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:41, 10 September 2011 (UTC).
I just wanted to let you know that one of your bots was being mentioned again recently on the Bot requests page. Not sure if your still interested but thought I would let you know. -- Kumioko ( talk) 14:16, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
m. Alice Brwon, Bristol 1 s etc..
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1870-1880_supp.pdf p. 425 Done
Done
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:52, 9 October 2011 (UTC).
The article Keith Griffin (economist) has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{ prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. joe decker talk to me 22:19, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Repetition.
please change october 2010 to october 2011 in Eshan Sharma — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.94.237.181 ( talk) 11:15, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Eshan Sharma should be deleted from wikipedia. its of no use and have no references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raul341 ( talk • contribs) 13:16, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich! Noticed you removed the transclusion. Was there a problem with the transclusion? – Lionel ( talk) 21:26, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Could you please explain what is being done [ here]? -- Jyothis ( talk) 22:59, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Thought that might be the case and was thinking of prodding it myself but decided to wait for things to calm down with the SPA so as not lead to an even more confusing situation. Once things have calmed down I'll prod it myself - a quick google search doesn't seem to find any usable sources. Dpmuk ( talk) 13:18, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. You helped me a few months ago with fixing some reflinks and I'm contacting you to see if you can help me out again since you have automated powers. I've worked on a few articles over the past few months and the reflinks are getting out of control. I basically just need help from someone with automated privileges who can shorten the follow-up reflinks for me to make the articles easier to navigate for future editors. I know I should have used "short-hand" follow-up reflinks when I originally wrote the pages, but I'll admit I just got lazy and didn't bother to type up a second code for every reflink (some pages have 40+ reflinks and it was just easier to keep pasting the original) but now some of the pages are becoming a nightmare to navigate for anyone who needs to edit them in the future. Some of the pages I've written that need follow-up reflinks shortened are Jay North, Academy Juvenile Award, and GLAAD Media Award, to name a few (there may be more, but I just can't think of them right now). It's not an emergency situation, but I was wondering if you could go to those pages when you have a few spare minutes and shorten the follow-up reflinks to <ref name="Reflink"/>. Thanks --- Crakkerjakk ( talk) 16:09, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
May I request you to inform the community before doing such things? :) -- Jyothis ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:39, 13 October 2011 (UTC).
Hi Rich. You have a lot of categories here - User:Rich Farmbrough/BO - that need to be disabled. -- Brangifer ( talk) 02:45, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Redlinked template
... now what was this?
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:04, 13 October 2011 (UTC).
If you could review the hook from Template:Did you know nominations/John Clapp (baseball) that would be great. The article itself has already been reviewed, just not the alts. Best, Albacore ( talk) 15:06, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
In this edit I noticed that you are still adding date templates, manually. I understand you add the template not only to articles which because of their subject matter should use a certain date format (like dmy in articles about England and mdy in articles about America), but even when you notice a preference for a certain date format which might have grown randomly, in order to further uniformity. Is that correct? Do you think that is also part of the intention of the date format templates? Debresser ( talk) 09:29, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
In a recent discussion on this talk page, you agreed to set a waiting time for HPbot, but you didn't set this for IP edits for some unknown reason. This creates siutatuions like [11] where 7 times in 20 minutes you edit the same article while an IP is actively editing it, thereby possibly creating edit conflicts only because the bot won't wait for an hour or so before making its edit.
The same happened e.g. here with three bot edits in five minutes.
I also notice that the waiting period for non-IP edits only seems to be about 10 minutes, even though you said that you had increased it to 1 hour [12]. Any reason that you don't actually wait for 1 hour, and for IPs as well? Fram ( talk) 13:34, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
In this edit, you not only claim to date the "currentrelated" template, which doesn't take a date template; you also didn't date this template, but the "!" template included in it: that one as well doesn't take a date template, of course. Fram ( talk) 13:42, 17 October 2011 (UTC
Birth and graduation dates need sourcing.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:30, 10 September 2011 (UTC).
In this edit, you not only claim to date the "currentrelated" template, which doesn't take a date template; you also didn't date this template, but the "!" template included in it: that one as well doesn't take a date template, of course. Fram ( talk) 13:42, 17 October 2011 (UTC
Your recent changes to Template:Noc have left it nonfunctioning. Please see the Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Yours aye, Buaidh 16:43, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. Came across your article on the Hilux Surf and you seem to be knowledgeable in this area, not many are including myself. I have a 1989 4Runner and for all general purposes it appears the 4th generation Hilux is basically a 1st generation 4Runner. Now when it comes to finding parts and pieces, accessories, etc. for my 4Runner it is darn near impossible, discontinued or made of gold for the price of a part if found or sold. My question I pose is, do you know if the two are interchangeable/compatible? Would sure ease my search for my restore.
Thanks for any input, Jason Chpfreak ( talk) 15:27, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
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Please be more careful when using AWB. Your edit to William Gouw Ferguson [14] has been reverted for being clearly incorrect. This was a good edit but a wrong edit summary. Here you change the date for a tag for no good reason, and again use the wrong edit summary. Fram ( talk) 07:24, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
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While it is obvious that something needs to be done about the template transclusion problem, it may be best to address this in a structured manner instead of creating and using new things without much coordination or care. I have reverted a number of your edits with the cite quick templates, because while they solved some problems (partially or completely), they introduced new errors as well. Please start a discussion about this problem, so that a general fix for it can be found (e.g. by simplyfying the existing cite templates), instead of this well-meaning effort with rather poor results. So far, I undid your changes at Philippines, Alzheimer's disease and Bacterial phyla, I'll check the other ones using the cite quick templates as well. If you want to reuse (Pixie Build p616), make sure it contains less errors. Fram ( talk) 09:10, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
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I notice that you have not responded to the comments above, and yet this bot is continuing with its editing. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 11:56, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Please check whether you have the templates and category in this edit, which I found today. Debresser ( talk) 22:58, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
You dated Category:Wikipedia articles without plot summaries. How did you do that? And, most interesting, how did you add dates like May 2008, if the Template:No plot was created only 22 September 2011? Debresser ( talk) 01:16, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Please be careful not to make empty edits like this one and this one (the added empty line doesn't alter the appearance of the page). Please also don't replace <references /> with {{Footnotes}} [15], there is no need to make such a change, and considering that footnotes is in itself a template redirect makes it a rather baffling replacement. Fram ( talk) 07:32, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
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Done
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Dear Sir, Could you please let me know why the article jayen Varma was deleted by you. Based on its credible links could you please bring it back?. Thanks. ( Musicindia1 ( talk) 14:59, 17 October 2011 (UTC))
Hello Rich Farmbrough! Could you please take another look at Karol Szymanowski article? It seems to me that Template:Refimprove could be removed? What do you think? Thank you and best regards, Semimartingale ( talk) 13:57, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rich, I see you have been generating some new articles using DNB articles on Wikisource. Did you use a semi automated method to do this or did you do by hand? If you used a simi-automated method I am sure there are other editors who would be interested.
The problem is that the template you used when generating them was the incorrect one. That is you used {{ cite DNB}} when we have a dedicated one called {{ DNB}} which does several things including filling out some of the relevant fields and puts in an attribute string. We have similar templates for a number of project basically:
One of the things that {{ cite DNB}} and {{ DNB}} have is the standard "title=" and "url=", but they also include another parameter called "wstitle=" which takes the DNB article name and adds onto it the necessary extra path information and puts in a intra-wiki link rather than an external URL link.
Your solution to endnotes was certainly imaginative, but it is non standard. One of four things is usually done, Either they are added as a "quotation=" parameter (but that is depreciated), or they are tagged on the end of the line (after some suitable explanation such as you gave, or they are added as an indented bullet point list. Or the are just ignored.
Adding a general reference as an attribution will do, but usually one should add inline citations at the end of each paragraph. {{ DNB}} has ref=harv set so you can use {{ sfn}} or {{ harvnb}} to link the short citations to the DNB template.
If the process you are using is automated, then to make sure that the TOC goes at the top of the page it is a good idea to break the line after the first clause and start a section called "Biography" or "Life". You will need to add the subjects name to the broken sentence. See as an example: George Beattie (poet) to which I have made minimal changes to your layout, to demonstrate what I mean. Note also that one has to be careful about the nationality of the subject particularly if they were born before 1707 for English and Scottish subjects and 1801 for Irish subjects. Subject in both meanings of the word as they were not British before those dates.
There is a project talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography where if you used a semi-automated method there would be interest. Also it would be helpful if you know what pages you have created using extracts from DNB text if you could list them there so that willing editors can alter them to call the {{ DNB}} rather than {{ Cite DNB}}. The one I know about to date (supplied by another editor) are: George Beattie (poet), George Steward Beatson, John Bearblock, Richard Butcher (antiquary), John Dunstall, Gabriel Dugrès, William Augustus Barron, Dubthach Maccu Lugir of which I have altered two so far George Beattie (poet) and John Bearblock.
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Please try again... [16]. Fram ( talk) 08:03, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
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In this edit, you changed [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] to [[Georgia (US state)|Georgia]], but the latter is a redirect to the former, and neither is visible to the reader anyway. In the same edit, you changed "Commented guitarist Billy Duffy: "We are very much looking forward to returning to our U.K. roots in many ways working with Cooking Vinyl."" to "Commented guitarist Billy Duffy: "We are very much looking forward to returning to our UK roots in many ways working with Cooking Vinyl."" even though the former is the correct quote [17]. We shouldn't go around changing quotes to match our MoS. You do the same here, changing "PwC's US arm "was the reviewer for the U.S. filings for Satyam."" to "PwC's US arm "was the reviewer for the US filings for Satyam."" In that same edit, you also replace the correct U.S. Steel with the redirect US Steel.
Oh, and if you change U.S. to US, make sure that the abbreviation didn't come at the end of a sentence: in that case, it should be "US." of course [18]. The same happens here.
In this edit, you change Dance Party USA to Dance Party US. Please, just don't. In that same edit, you also change two correct links to redirects.
Please be more careful with your changes of U.S. and USA to US, and check your contributions more carefully. All the above come from the 15 most recent such edits, so the rate of errors is quite high here. Fram ( talk) 07:52, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Again turned a bluelink into a redlink [20]... I have created the redirect for you, but please don't change links like that anymore. Fram ( talk) 13:19, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Rich. Might you have a look at this? User:204.144.15.20 keeps inserting a person "Christina Anastos" into "Notable people" in the Stoughton, Massachusetts article. I googled the person and not much came up. I reverted out the person but User:204.144.15.20 keeps re-inserting it. The IP address (204.144.15.20) is from Stonehill College where it would appear Christina Anastos is a student (see this link: http://www.stonehillskyhawks.com/news/2010-11/ADHR_Fall10 ) Nevertheless, the anonymous editor keeps adding " Christina Anastos - Javelin extraordinaire, competitive cyclist" to the article. Please advise and/or take action. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 17:57, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
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{{
InterWiki}}
seems to be broken. It does not work in any of the articles where I have checked. For instance, the very top right corner of
Kabardian language.
—Stephen (
talk) 01:14, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
{{
ISO 639 name kbd}}
.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:18, 7 November 2011 (UTC).I'm not sure what you were thinking when you added that image to a protected policy page, but please consider self-reverting at this time. Feel free to use the talk page to propose adding the image. Viriditas ( talk) 22:42, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
You have created over 40 templates in a very short time, which seems to violate your editing restriction on "indefinitely prohibited from mass creating pages in any namespace, unless prior community approval for the specific mass creation task is documented". Can you please indicate where such "prior community approval" for these creations can be found? Can you also indicate where you have found the official ISO 639 code for Simple English ( Template:ISO 639 name simple), since that one doesn't even seem to exist... Fram ( talk) 10:32, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
{{
InterWiki}}
. Secondly the specification for mass creation is undefined, but suggestions have been made that it would need to exceed 50 pages to constitute such. Thirdly, if you read the documentation on the ISO 639 name family of templates you will see that they are designed to be permissive, this avoids creating special cases and killing the servers. Fourthly why are you still stalking my edits? I have repeatedly asked you not to interact with me, the least you could do is restrict your interactions to things that actually concern you rather than following me around.
Rich
Farmbrough, 19:49, 7 November 2011 (UTC).So instead of substantiating your allegations, you WP:REDACT your statement while repeating the accusation in the edit summary? How low can you go? Fram ( talk) 08:56, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Category:My Own Planet albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 19:29, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:40, 13 November 2011 (UTC).
Hi there Rich. Since Femto Bot ( talk · contribs) takes the task of creating cleanup categories, I was wondering if I could drop a request. It seems that there's no bot set up to create monthly categories for Category:User pages that include images for deletion, so they have to be created manually. Several non-existent categories are currently populated (like Category:User pages that include images for deletion as of September 2007, just one of many examples). Can Femto Bot possibly be set up to create populated non-existent categories? Regards. — ξ xplicit 23:13, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
[21] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.232.64.245 ( talk) 16:08, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rich,
I was going through the following article and noticed that it has many issues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variator_(variable_valve_timing)
I really want to help improve the article but I cannot figure out how I can do so. The talk page of the article is blank and hence there is no other place where I could leave a message for help. Through the history of the article I noticed that you had left a message on it's talk page. I would be grateful if you could help me figure out how I can improve this article.
Thank you. Regards, Gunit. Gunit31 ( talk) 15:45, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey, who are you? Ross G. McMiller ( talk) 12:47, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
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FYI, there is a vote taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc ( talk) 03:23, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
I just noticed that some of my dated categories are showing up. They didn't before. This is the example in question. The simple undated categories still do not show up at the page bottom, and the {{ use mdy dates}} seems to be functioning without displaying the red categories. Any idea what could have made this happen? Is there anything wrong? Cheers, -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 15:21, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. It's about the Prostitution in Hong Kong article. See ersatz-discussion at Talk:Prostitution in Hong Kong. Might you look into this matter and act or advise? I think the material on "compensated dating" as reported by CNN isn't off-topic and in a category of its own as a trend. User:108.67.153.215 keeps removing the material and also keeps blanking his talk page to get rid of vandalism warnings in 2010 by other editors. Also the anonymous editor wrote as his summary of reversion:
"Bad faith accusations"??? I have no idea what the editor is talking about. We had no dialogue ever before that reversion. Unless he's talking about a previous re-insertion of the material by another non-anon editor:
Thanks and bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 05:33, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rich. User:216.3.102.114 keeps blanking out a valid and sourced section of the Like Crazy article. How does one stop it? Might you have a look and take some steps? Best. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 21:49, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
I fixed the template redirect at Template:Wikisource1911Enc Citation to automatically use the #1 parameter as a wstitle parameter, which will avoid the need to replace the template with a redirect, at least in the majority of cases. This one edit to the template redirect is more efficient than editing every page that used the old template. I looked at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects and this redirect change does not seem to be part of stock AWB. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 03:32, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
How about promoting Wikipedia:NOTCENSORED and the Main Page or something like it to Guideline status? I'm not even sure how that's accomplished (by discussion I suppose, but if there's an RfC and it fails does that mean the page is marked with a big red "failed proposal" X? Anyway I suppose it would need to be essentially rewritten to serve as a guideline? Just a thought. Herostratus ( talk) 03:47, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks, Fram ( talk) 09:19, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
[22], [23], [24], [25], [26]... it doesn't look like this would ever stop. Fram ( talk) 15:29, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
In general, Femto Bot on that page only looks forward, not backwards, so the page shown by the bot is in some cases not actually the oldest backlog page. E.g. Category:Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction is according to the bot starting in September 2007, but in reality the oldest page is July 2007. Similarly, Category:Userspace drafts doesn't start in December 2007, but in August 2007. Fram ( talk) 15:32, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you removed the year from the reference I added to this page, what is your reasoning behind doing this? Kat ( talk) 23:35, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
I noticed this was added to your user page, was this edit legitimate? Just making sure :) C(u) w(t) C(c) 05:33, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I was wondering if you could work out the best way to automatically place all of the cleanup cats from a month into a common cat - ie create a Category:Clean up categories from June 2011 and make it contain each of the June 2011 cleanup cats, ie Category:Accuracy disputes from June 2011, Category:Articles lacking in-text citations from June 2011, Category:Article sections to be split from June 2011 etc, without having to manually edit thousands of cats. I asked at WP:VPR and the response I got was that {{ Monthly clean-up category}} would be the place to change. I've had a look, but it's beyond my template comprehension level without a heap of research! As the main author of that template, can you help? I don't want to replace or modify any of the existing cats, just have a single cat that will contain everything by date, not just the current situation where you can only roll them up by issue. Can you help? The-Pope ( talk) 14:19, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|Clean up categories from {{{month name|}}} {{{year|}}||[[Category:Clean up categories from {{{month name|}}} {{{year|}}}]]}}
{{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|Clean up categories from {{{month name|}}} {{{year|}} | [[Category:Clean up categories from {{{year|}}}]] | [[Category:Clean up categories from {{{month name|}}} {{{year|}}}]]}}
While the habit you have of taking the state out of the link for American places is debatable (no idea if there is actual guidance on it, seems to be a case of imposing your personal preference over other people's one), there is no reason at all to do this in the Persondata, like you did here. Pipng links in what is essentially (largely unused) metadata only makes the article larger for no actual use at all. Fram ( talk) 07:47, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
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Concur with block, as those edits are a clear violation of the restriction. This user is understandably upset now, and I suggest that rational discussion is unlikely at this time, and so perhaps we should clear off this talk page for the time being rather than poking the bear? Any genuine queries can be answered in the next few days. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 17:23, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Not in that list, but this one seems a rather obvious example. Fram ( talk) 16:58, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Note that apart from separating related comments into different sections, Rich Farmbrough also added the section header "stirring it up". As it gives the impression that this was my section header, I thought it best to add this comment to avoid any confusion for any third parties. Fram ( talk) 17:10, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
That first one didn't just do nothing though, it also replaced a correct template Persondata with an incorrect one. I am not referring to the replacement of uppercase parameters with lowercase ones, a topic which has been raised countless times with Rich and which got a clear consensus that the parameters should be uppercase; I'm referring to the replacement of "short description" with "ahort description", "date of death" with "date fo death", and "place of death" with "palce of death. Fram ( talk) 16:49, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
I went to thank those involved in the Arb request for their time, only to find that I am blocked by a party to the case. Two of the four who I could loosely call "anti" have commented there since I was blocked. They might consider stepping away from the dead horse.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:18, 14 November 2011 (UTC).
Hi Rich Farmborough. I've open an RFC at The death of Abu Bakr ibn Umar. An editor states that it is not a proper RFC. Would you kindly check for me all is well before I respond to one of the editors.
Thanks
Tamsier ( talk) 13:20, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Rich for clearifying the policy.
Tamsier ( talk) 03:02, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
The restriction has been listed on WP:Editing restrictions since January. If there was not consensus to enact it, you have had 11 months to demonstrate that and get it removed. You were blocked under the same restriction for a week in September, and that block was not lifted early (according to your block log). So the argument that you are not actually under an editing restriction is very hard to make. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 17:14, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
— cyberpower ( Talk to Me)( Contributions) 15:51, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
Can you sort out the broken refs in Political career of Silvio Berlusconi and Silvio Berlusconi?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:41, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
I have blocked you for two weeks for semi-automated violations of this editing restriction. – xeno talk 16:03, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Rich: I just stumbled on your user page and saw your comments about some of your bot army not yet having edited any pages; if you're looking for something to keep them (and you) occupied for a brief, fairly straight forward single pass task, I was actually going to make a request at bot requests, but just haven't yet. The details of what I'm looking for are in this talk page conversation and are marked with a yellow sidebar; if you'd care to take a look. If you're interested in training one of your minions for this task, please let me know if you have any questions or if any clarification is needed. If you're uninterested, for whatever reason, no problem; I can make a bot request at the appropriate message board, I just thought that, since I came across your page, maybe that was a sign that you were looking for a reasonable little automated task. And, of course, I trust your bots are very careful to test themselves before running roughshot through a field of 10,000+ articles. Thx — Who R you? Talk 05:11, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
{{
Infobox Ice Hockey Player}}
to {{
Infobox ice hockey player}}
except where the page is being edited for other reasons - all generic AWB edits will fix this on the fly.
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:14, 14 November 2011 (UTC).
Template:Disc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Bulwersator (
talk) 10:06, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Could you help out with a suggestion on Template_talk:TfD_end#Dates, please? Debresser ( talk) 16:32, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Did you get a consensus out of this? Srobak ( talk) 16:36, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
When you copy text directly from a public domain source, it isn't sufficient to add it as a source, you have to properly attribute the text as well to make clear that it is not only the source for the information, but also for the actual text. The text you took and slightly altered from the Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois in Adjutant general of Illinois is not correctly attributed. Please correct this. Fram ( talk) 10:30, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, re
this edit - the subst: failed, because it's being used inside <ref>...</ref>
tags. As a result,
refs 1,2,3 at the bottom of the article now contain the text {{subst:PAGENAME}}, which is not what was intended. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 16:25, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Snowman has indicated that you might be interested (Josè Luis Copete sent it on today). If this is true, send me a line to [redacted] and then delete the e-mail here. I will send. Steve Pryor ( talk) 17:32, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
You deleted NHFFL (New Hampshire Fantasy Football League) as a G4, recreation of content that was deleted per a deletion discussion. However, all previous deletions of that page and the similar NHFFL were after a speedy, never after a deletion discussion. I may of course have missed the deletion discussion anyway (providing a link to it in cases where it was under a different name helps), but otherwise, could you please refrain from using G4 in cases where only speedy deletion has been used before? Fram ( talk) 09:45, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
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[extra cruft expurgated]
Sfan00 IMG (
talk) 18:03, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
It looks like the "nbsp" before the time in your signature is stopping the auto timezone correction from adjusting the date, would you consider changing it ? Mt king (edits) 20:22, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Rcsprinter (gossip) 11:43, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
The Master of Mayhem ( talk, contribs, email) 15:13, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. When making changes such as this one, please take care not to change direct quotations, as they must remain as they are in the original sources. Thanks! Powers T 01:52, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
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Another template for your bot to date-stamp, please: {{ Bad documentation}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:42, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
This seems to be a matter of personal preference; it is my understanding that there is no consensus to change <references> to {{Reflist}} just for the sake of changing it. See Wikipedia:Citing sources#How to create the list of citations, which suggests either may be used and Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Archive 30#References template vs. reflist tag where the topic of changing from one to the other en masse was explored. Please remove this rule from your ruleset. – xeno talk 14:42, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
|2
, |3
, and other parameters.
Debresser (
talk) 15:31, 28 November 2011 (UTC){{
Reflist}}
. The font size issue while very important, for accessibility, and one I have brought up on numerous occasions, is the same with both methods, as the presentation is entirely in CSS. The discussion you refer to was started by one user who conflated (regularly) what is meant by footnote style (as in Harvard, APS, parenthetical etc.) with just about any feature of referencing one could imagine. The majority of the discussion is then about columns rather than templates vs mark-up. Guidelines quite rightly enjoin us to minimise mark-up in articles, and this is one small way of doing it. I'm sure you'll see that clarity of the edit page is a critical part of new editor retention.
Rich
Farmbrough, 15:25, 28 November 2011 (UTC).WP:CITEVAR covers both the appearance of references and the method used to format them within wikitext. But since the appearance does not change, it would be a violation of R.F.'s editing restriction to be changing <references/> to {{ reflist}}. Unilateral "deprecation" of existing syntax is one of the things that the editing restrictions are intended to avoid. In this case <references/> is not deprecated, it is perfectly acceptable syntax. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 16:01, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
So are we now quorate or do we wait for MSGJ?
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:25, 28 November 2011 (UTC).
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Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 18:04, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
From this edit it follows that you didn't have Template:Refcleanup as a redirect of Template:Citation style. Debresser ( talk) 21:39, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Something to think about while you are blocked. Do you have any thoughts on using data in lists or websites to add details to bird pages with bots or semi-automatic tools. We have been discussing how to update many bird pages at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject_Birds#Repetitive_work. I hope to hear from you in about two weeks time. Snowman ( talk) 20:14, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello. When you moved Template:Infobox UK Legislation to Template:Infobox UK legislation, you did not move its talk page, Template talk:Infobox UK Legislation with it. I assume that this was a mistake. I am unable to fix it myself because the target page Template talk:Infobox UK legislation has a page history, and it does not appear to be possible to request the move of a talk page at Wikipedia:Requested Moves, unless I have misunderstood the instructions there. James500 ( talk) 22:08, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
In this edit [39] you changed "Infobox Military Unit" to "Infobox military unit". This is not listed at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects and is thus a violation of your editing restriction. Additional examples of this sort of violation are [40] [41]
In the same edit you changed "portal" to "Portal". AWB does not change the capitalization of first letters of templates, so this is also a violation of your editing restriction. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Additionally, in these edits you changed <references/> to {{ reflist}}. You just marked for archiving a discussion on your talk page admonishing you to avoid doing this. As it is not built into AWB and does not affect the rendered page, it is also a violation of your editing restriction. [42] [43] [44] [45]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:30, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
(/(References ?==\n)[\n\s]*(?:\{\{[Rr]eflist\}\}|<references\/>)/g, '$1{{reflist|colwidth=30em}}')
would make the change 'consequential' --
Ohconfucius
¡digame! 06:05, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
My biggest problem in all this is that if Rich's edits are so bad then why is it the same 4 or 5 editors crying wolf every time. I agree that some of the edits in the past were unnecessary and I also support the blocks due to the actualy errors that were introduced breaking certain articles. But when he bundles the inconsequential edits in with other more meaningful ones I don't think there is a problem. Even if there are 4 or 5 editors who are adminsn and self professed guardians of the Wiki that say other wise it doesn't make it against consensus. Additionally, by and large I think there is consensus for most of the changes with the exception of the same 4 or 5 editors. As for the UK to US spelling thats mixing apples and oranges into an already problematic discussion so lets try and stay on point. I also think arguments of edit volume are mostly kinda stupid BTW. Yes he did some edits that some thought to be pointless, so what, with the exception of the changes that actually broke the article the changes arguably made the article better, incrementally a little at a time. Just because one editor spends more time editing and less time discussing shouldn't be used as a blunt instrument in which to bludgeon them verbally! If he actually makles errors or does truly fruitless edits alone thats one thing but badgering him for this is nonsense and a waste of 99.99998% of the communities time. -- Kumioko ( talk) 14:38, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Xeno, the process of improving AWB is so bureaucratic and tedious. They still disconnect after some 15 seconds of idle time, even though that makes using it almost impossible, and many editors (!) have expressed their strongest feelings about it. Now, after that you can hardly expect anybody to take AWB as a standard. Debresser ( talk) 15:49, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Rich Farmbrough, and thanks for contributing to Wikipedia!
I wanted to let you know that some editors are discussing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Between Chaos and Creation (film) whether the article Between Chaos and Creation (film) should be in Wikipedia. I encourage you to comment there if you think the article should be kept in the encyclopedia.
The deletion discussion doesn't mean you did something wrong. In fact, other editors may have useful suggestions on how you can continue editing and improving Between Chaos and Creation (film), which I encourage you to do. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at the Help Desk.
Thanks again for your contributions! Gaijin42 ( talk) 16:13, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
See discussion at Template talk:IUCN and on WP bird talk page. These links have plagued the WP Birds project for a number of years. I guess that it would need scraping the website. Any thoughts. Snowman ( talk) 20:17, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Could you please elaborate on your answer in this RFC. It seems it is interpreted differently by me and User:Gerardw. Thanks. — Christoph Päper 08:19, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
I have reverted your changes to Template:Sockpuppet category, since it created errors on lots of Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets pages, i.e. every page with a user name longer than about 15 characters. E.g. Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of We had wheels on toast in the freezing rain started with Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of We had wheels omax index is 50 for str_sub=Suspected sock puppets of <span id="We had wheels omax index is 50 for str_sub" and so on, and was listed on Category:Pages with incorrect formatting templates use, which has at the time of writing still 580 pages, or more than one out of ten pages from the category. Fram ( talk) 15:42, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
We've got to find some way to resolve this. You're driving people mad, and they seem to be driving you mad. Can you stop doing some of the stuff that drives them mad, so you can carry on doing useful stuff? There was a lot of support for taking some sort of action to stop you making automated edits, and the final terms are actually milder than those supported by a lot of people.
Will you agree to the following
If you can't agree to these, then as the restrictions were as far as I can see legitimately imposed after proper and thorough discussions, then the consequences listed can legitimately be applied.-- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 23:02, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
{{
tocright}}
" and "We must keep confusing markup". Let me stress again it's pretty much the Fram and CBM show, here, with a little Xeno thrown in from time to time.{{
wfy}}
in the sure and certain knowledge that it would be replaced by something meaningful when it was dated. However the conclusion does not follow - for a whole bunch of reasons. Firstly we want to provide a simple interface to users, when we have some hundreds of clean-up templates and some thousands of redirects it is much easier to lean the smaller set than the larger. Moreover if we consistently use spaces in template names, and consistently use sentence case we really do lighten the cognitive load. Secondly not all redirects are benign, {{
Fact}}
was changed to {{
Citation needed}}
because the first was too bitey - it says, more or less, "Liar!", there were redirects to different templates that differed only by a space or a capital letter, there are redirects that are misleading. Because I approached this on a very gentle incremental approach, rather than making runs just to replace template redirects, this is something the community was (an is, despite a recent attempt to derail consensus) happy with. There is no problem with many hundreds of redirect replacements. There's a couple, mainly done by hand that have been picked on. This is where my patience runs thin, instead of coming and saying "Hey Infobox blah isn't on the AWB list, or better, adding it a
WP:POINT message is left on my talk page with very condescending instructions "not to do it again".{{
Infobox UK Legislation}}
to {{
Infobox UK legislation}}
would you go and look through a long list of allowed and almost identical infoboxes, then come back here and post that I was in violation of editing restrictions? It passes the quack test as pointy behaviour, and it's only because I cut them extra slack, being mathematicians and comics addicts, that I haven't classified it this way before.{{
cn}}
to {{
Citation needed}}
and changes a hyphen to an en-dash.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:06, 8 December 2011 (UTC).Contrary to what Rich Farmbrough states above, all I usually do is point out errors he makes, and do it here, not on noticeboards. In those cases where I was mistaken, I acknowledged this. I don't drag Rich Farmbrough to noticeboards for every edit I don't like, I don't post here every time he changes references/ to reflist, I don't post here even for every mistake he makes and I corrects. I only drag him to noticeboards when he makes a lot of errors and refuses to correct them or otherwise creates serious problems or seriously misuses tools. In nearly every case where I started a thread on a noticeboard, general (not unanimous) agreement was that there indeed was a problem with his edits, and some corrective action was taken. Only the ArbCom case, which I started in the hope of getting more eyes on this and putting this to rest, was rejected, but with a majority of arbitrators willing to take on the case (which doesn't mean that they saw a problem with Rich Farmbrough's edits of course). Apart from that, in most cases outside review of my actions resulted in agreement with me and disagreement with Rich. E.g. he recently complained about my deletions of some improbable redirects he made. To test this, I tagged three redirects he created for speedy deletion, and all three were deleted, by three different, uninvolved admins: Template:Jewish Encylopedia, Iran (Islamic Republic of ), and Bolivia (Plurinational State of ). Please also take a lok at other things I noted here, or things I reverted: I don't believe that is a case of me not getting things on a technical level, it's just Rich Farmbrough being careless (or stubborn or whatever other reason he has to continually create so many errors). Fram ( talk) 15:25, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Let me also state that I have not contacted anyone about this, either on or off-wiki. I don't email other users, I don't use IRC, all my wiki-related things are conducted on Wikipedia and free for everyone to check. Fram ( talk) 15:25, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Template:Singles category has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Bulwersator (
talk) 09:28, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Please don't protect templates before they are even in use anywhere, like you did with Template:Page name sub. Fram ( talk) 15:56, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Contrary to what Rich Farmbrough states above, all I usually do is point out errors he makes, and do it here, not on noticeboards. In those cases where I was mistaken, I acknowledged this. I don't drag Rich Farmbrough to noticeboards for every edit I don't like, I don't post here every time he changes references/ to reflist, I don't post here even for every mistake he makes and I corrects. I only drag him to noticeboards when he makes a lot of errors and refuses to correct them or otherwise creates serious problems or seriously misuses tools. In nearly every case where I started a thread on a noticeboard, general (not unanimous) agreement was that there indeed was a problem with his edits, and some corrective action was taken. Only the ArbCom case, which I started in the hope of getting more eyes on this and putting this to rest, was rejected, but with a majority of arbitrators willing to take on the case (which doesn't mean that they saw a problem with Rich Farmbrough's edits of course). Apart from that, in most cases outside review of my actions resulted in agreement with me and disagreement with Rich. E.g. he recently complained about my deletions of some improbable redirects he made. To test this, I tagged three redirects he created for speedy deletion, and all three were deleted, by three different, uninvolved admins: Template:Jewish Encylopedia, Iran (Islamic Republic of ), and Bolivia (Plurinational State of ). Please also take a lok at other things I noted here, or things I reverted: I don't believe that is a case of me not getting things on a technical level, it's just Rich Farmbrough being careless (or stubborn or whatever other reason he has to continually create so many errors). Fram ( talk) 15:25, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Let me also state that I have not contacted anyone about this, either on or off-wiki. I don't email other users, I don't use IRC, all my wiki-related things are conducted on Wikipedia and free for everyone to check. Fram ( talk) 15:25, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
I let that discussion at
WP:AN run itself into the ground, in the benighted hope that you would stop making the edits that are driving people mad. However, it appears that like everyone ele who runs bots (remember I'm on a committee with Xeno and Coren) you are an anal retentive with OCD on the autism spectrum. (remove dismal failure at humour. Just call me
Jeremy Clarkson ) Or at the very least, you can't figure why what you do is annoying people. So it falls to me,
Captain Swing the
Luddite to remind you that
regardless of the editing method (i.e. manual, semi-automatic, or automatic; from any account), Rich Farmbrough is indefinitely prohibited from making cosmetic changes to wikicode that have no effect on the rendered page (excepting those changes that are built-in to stock AWB or those that have demonstrable consensus or BAG approval). This includes but is not limited to: changing templates to template redirects, changing template redirects to templates (see here for AWB stock changes on this item, with the understanding that bypassing template redirects will only be done when there is a substantive edit being done), changing the spacing around headers and ordered lists (except to make an aberration consistent with the rest of the page), and changing the capitalization of templates. Furthermore, prior to orphaning/emptying and deleting categories or templates, the appropriate processes (WP:CFD/WP:TFD) should be engaged. Sanction imposed per this AN discussion, to be enforced by escalating blocks
Now you're an intelligent man, and it shouldn't come to this. So I want you to take all the code out of whatever instrument of the Devil it is that you use, that does things like this and changes <references/> to {{reflist}}, and switch cases the first letter of template names, and stuff like that. Because the next time that someone tells me that you have done it again, I will block you in the following sequence - 24hrs (in case you thought I wasn't serious), 1 week, 1 month, 1 year. And that would not be a good thing. Elen of the Roads ( talk) 21:32, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
{{
Tracklist}}
is a redirect to {{
Track listing}}
, "Track listing" is the preferred name for the section and the template follows suite. There is no benefit in having several versions of the template name in articles, those of us who speak languages other than Python prefer spaces between our words. Asking users (implicity) to remember that the section has one title and the template another is unnecessary cognitive load.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:34, 5 December 2011 (UTC).One more example. This edit [52] replaced the names of several templates and removed "example.jpg". But why was "example.jpg" there in the first place? The vandalism on the page - adding the name "Kailyn" - stands out both because it is in bold and because it is in a "see also" section but not linked. It's very odd to remove the image but not remove the rest of the vandalism. It is also not clear how the edit summary "copyedit" is applicable to that edit; cf. copyediting. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 14:22, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
He simply continues though, e.g. replacing here the deliberate and correct McCartney-Lennon with the reverse Lennon–McCartney. This one as well was not necessary at all. Fram ( talk) 15:25, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the same violations are still present after the warning above. [53] still replaces <references>; [54] replaces {{ tocright}}, which is not on the AWB list. Template:tocright is used on thousands of pages and is in no way deprecated by Template:TOC right.
There are also edits which remove the " Metadata: see Wikipedia:Persondata." comment from the "persondata" template [55]. AWB actually adds this comment by default, based on this diff from the AWB documentation [56], so in particular AWB does not remove this comment by default. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 15:47, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
{{
Persondata}}
comment, the information is visible on the template page, there's no need to direct editors off to Wikipedia space.On the Matter of John Shipp, I'm come to inform you that I will be leaving the article alone from here on out. Although I feel that the article is still questionable, consensus is clearly in your favor for the retention of the article. I tip my hat to you for the work and for being patient with even as I worked to get the article axed; most users are not that polite.
Sincerely,
TomStar81 ( Talk) 07:15, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich: Although I have edited on WP for years, I don't think I have run into quite the situation that now prevails in trying to add a section about Wikipedia administration to the article Wikipedia. I wonder if you can provide some perspective on the matter. Here is how I see things:
I've made a proposal for an addition to Wikipedia regarding its organization into four levels: the WikiMedia Foundation, WP:Bureaucrats, WP:Administrators, and WP:Arbitrators. Some details about their duties and the selection process by which they are appointed are added.
If the proposal is implemented upon the article page, it is immediately reverted with citation of WP:OR, WP:NPOV, which are completely inappropriate, without any attempt to show that the criteria have been violated. A more complicated objection is WP:Primary, although there is a caveat in this document that WP may be used as a source about itself.
No argument about the applicability of these criteria is engaged upon, and no attempt to analyze just what is objectionable about these facts is made. Does it help or hurt the article? Not a consideration.
So we have here a situation where a presentation of very simple facts cannot be made because there are perhaps four or five editors that will revert it on the basis of WP:OR, WP:NPOV, WP:Primary; applicable or not.
Am I correct in thinking that this is a perfect block to presenting this material? Can you conjecture as to the source of this opposition: what is so hard to swallow here? Brews ohare ( talk) 17:47, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
The proposed addition is here, in case you have forgotten about it. Brews ohare ( talk) 17:53, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
In a recent discussion on this talk page, you agreed to set a waiting time for HPbot, but you didn't set this for IP edits for some unknown reason. This creates siutatuions like [57] where 7 times in 20 minutes you edit the same article while an IP is actively editing it, thereby possibly creating edit conflicts only because the bot won't wait for an hour or so before making its edit.
The same happened e.g. here with three bot edits in five minutes.
I also notice that the waiting period for non-IP edits only seems to be about 10 minutes, even though you said that you had increased it to 1 hour [58]. Any reason that you don't actually wait for 1 hour, and for IPs as well? Fram ( talk) 13:34, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
I would also be interested in the answer to the questions above as it makes no sense to me. I see no compelling reason to unblock this bot considering all the factors (the number of errors it seems to make, and the lack of responsiveness from the operator, the number of complaints on this talk page, ...). Another bot performing the same task seems to receive no complaints and is doing the job perfectly well.
RE This isn't causing any complaints from the editors who are adding the tags, it was due precisely to complaints/feedback from the bot's "clients" that this delay is being demanded. Your dismissive response to User:EEng and failure to follow through showed how you respond to your "touchstone".
To summarise I propose leaving this bot blocked indefinitely as I foresee no end to the problems encountered so far. My patience is fairly well exhausted on this matter and other bots are doing the same work without any problems, so there is no loss to Wikipedia. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 13:02, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
If it means anything, I miss good old Smack bot; it was fast and reliable as a nuclear clock. At 22:48 I last laid down some tags @ Medal of Honor and as of 02:48 the "nicely behaved bot" has not placed dates. I also liked Smack bot because it fixed any irregularities in the article while it was in there. I used to ping Smack bot with the request template just to have it clean up articles. :) So this delay going on made go and look for what happened to your bot and I find this crap. I think they threw the baby out with the bathwater. Brad ( talk) 07:48, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
I created {{ Cat use dmy dates}} and {{ Cat use mdy dates}} and applied them to the most obvious categories having to do with ballet companies and dancers (which is all I really care about!)
They are crude copies of {{ Use dmy dates}} and {{ Use mdy dates}}, merely omitting the onlyarticles parameter.
I don't know whether there is an onlycategories parameter; but, if there were I would include it.
I just made the presence of the templates visible within the categories in which they are present: Articles in this category use dmy dates (and vice verse).
For the benefit of editors who do things the old-fashioned way, by hand.
This discussion began on my talk page, the Megan Fairchild section, which is now archived here.
Ohconfucius wrote that he uses a script to tag articles MDY or DMY and could use some help modifying it.
Rather than expect a script to search up and down the category tree for each article it seemed wiser to do so once and for all, tagging the categories by hand.
Ohconfucius' script needs to be modified to detect the presence of the Cat use dmy dates and Cat use mdy dates templates in any of the categories in which a given article directly resides.
NB There will be articles that lie in categories that are tagged both ways, Alexandra Ansanelli being a prime example; these ambiguous articles will need to be skipped by the script.
Ideally the script would put out a list of articles requiring human intevention — but this is far from an ideal world.
I would not be asking you, a veteran of the Date Wars, to re-enlist, but hope that this can be done discreetly and so avert future Date Wars.
You are absolutely right about how unimportant this, date format, is.
Indeed, I'd be happier if there were fewer scipts being run, ideally none, and people would do some real editing for a change! — Robert Greer ( talk) 21:21, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the advice! — Robert Greer ( talk) 01:30, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I have noticed your helpful edits on the Ariel A. Roth article, thanks.
I moved AfD to Afd. because "Articles for deletion" really should be "Afd". And because Cfd and Tfd are that way also. And I moved quite a few templates with the capital "D", together with their documentation pages. Just one page I couldn't move: Template:AfD in 3 steps. So I temporarily created Template:Afd in 3 steps with the lowercase "d", but now I need someone to delete it and do the move the way it should have been done. Could you please do that? Debresser ( talk) 06:04, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
And the same precisely for Template:AfD categories, Template:REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD, and Template:REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD/doc. Debresser ( talk) 06:26, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Please see the two sections I posted about this subject on Template_talk:Fix#Substitution_check and Template_talk:Fix#Method_of_substitution_check (one right after the other). I compare Ambox with Fix, asking a few questions and making a few suggestions. Debresser ( talk) 20:26, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I just wondered if the original creation of the article for the American TV series Kimchi Chronicles (which is fine as it is and I edited it recently as well) had a kind of flaw in its creation. It seems that the original article was created by an editor called "frappeinc" ( User:frappeinc) which happens to be the production company for the show and owned by Charles Pinsky in NYC: Frappé Inc.. That was the only contribution by that user. Was it a COI originally? Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 16:31, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich: You commented earlier upon this proposed addition to the page Wikipedia outlining the formal structure of WP. Since your comments, a number of further changes have been suggested and implemented. Could you take another look at this proposal and comment further? Thanks for your assistance. Brews ohare ( talk) 20:38, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hey, all! A quick update on how version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool is developing. I'm sending this to both newsletter recipients and regular participants, because I appreciate we've been a bit quiet :).
So, we're just wrapping up the first round of user contributions. A big thank you to everyone who has contributed ideas (a full list of which can be found at the top of the page); thanks almost entirely to contributions by editors, the tool looks totally different to how it did two months ago when we were starting out. Big ideas that have made it in include a comment voting system, courtesy of User:Bensin, an idea for a more available way of deploying the feedback box, suggested by User:Utar, and the eventual integration of both oversight and the existing spam filtering tools into the new version, courtesy of..well, everyone, really :).
For now, the devs are building the first prototypes, and all the features specifications have been finalised. That doesn't mean you can't help out, however; we'll have a big pile of shiny prototypes to play around with quite soon. If you're interested in testing those, we'll be unveiling it all at this week's office hours session, which will be held on Friday 2 December at 19:00 UTC. If you can't make it, just sign up here. After that, we have a glorious round of testing to undertake; we'll be finding out what form works the best, what wording works the best, and pretty much everything else under the sun. As part of that, we need editors - people who know just what to look for - to review some sample reader comments, and make calls on which ones are useful, which ones are spam, so on and so forth. If that's something you'd be interested in doing, drop an email to okeyes@wikimedia.org.
Thanks to everyone for their contributions so far. We're making good headway, and moving forward pretty quickly :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 16:41, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
There is a good question at Template_talk:Tfm#Notice_parameters. I couldn't really answer it. If the answer is that such a change could be made, go ahead. I'll update the documentation afterwards. Debresser ( talk) 15:52, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
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for equanimity under sustained criticism, that might be considered an attack. Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 21:35, 3 December 2011 (UTC) |
There is a good question at Template_talk:Tfm#Notice_parameters. I couldn't really answer it. If the answer is that such a change could be made, go ahead. I'll update the documentation afterwards. Debresser ( talk) 15:52, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
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for equanimity under sustained criticism, that might be considered an attack. Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 21:35, 3 December 2011 (UTC) |
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For the {{ Stable version}} template, a light-touch way to keep track of article stability and quality. Yaris678 ( talk) 16:19, 5 December 2011 (UTC) |
You may also be interested in Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Stable version and article milestones. Yaris678 ( talk) 16:19, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
We've got to find some way to resolve this. You're driving people mad, and they seem to be driving you mad. Can you stop doing some of the stuff that drives them mad, so you can carry on doing useful stuff? There was a lot of support for taking some sort of action to stop you making automated edits, and the final terms are actually milder than those supported by a lot of people.
Will you agree to the following
If you can't agree to these, then as the restrictions were as far as I can see legitimately imposed after proper and thorough discussions, then the consequences listed can legitimately be applied.-- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 23:02, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
{{
tocright}}
" and "We must keep confusing markup". Let me stress again it's pretty much the Fram and CBM show, here, with a little Xeno thrown in from time to time.{{
wfy}}
in the sure and certain knowledge that it would be replaced by something meaningful when it was dated. However the conclusion does not follow - for a whole bunch of reasons. Firstly we want to provide a simple interface to users, when we have some hundreds of clean-up templates and some thousands of redirects it is much easier to lean the smaller set than the larger. Moreover if we consistently use spaces in template names, and consistently use sentence case we really do lighten the cognitive load. Secondly not all redirects are benign, {{
Fact}}
was changed to {{
Citation needed}}
because the first was too bitey - it says, more or less, "Liar!", there were redirects to different templates that differed only by a space or a capital letter, there are redirects that are misleading. Because I approached this on a very gentle incremental approach, rather than making runs just to replace template redirects, this is something the community was (an is, despite a recent attempt to derail consensus) happy with. There is no problem with many hundreds of redirect replacements. There's a couple, mainly done by hand that have been picked on. This is where my patience runs thin, instead of coming and saying "Hey Infobox blah isn't on the AWB list, or better, adding it a
WP:POINT message is left on my talk page with very condescending instructions "not to do it again".{{
Infobox UK Legislation}}
to {{
Infobox UK legislation}}
would you go and look through a long list of allowed and almost identical infoboxes, then come back here and post that I was in violation of editing restrictions? It passes the quack test as pointy behaviour, and it's only because I cut them extra slack, being mathematicians and comics addicts, that I haven't classified it this way before.{{
cn}}
to {{
Citation needed}}
and changes a hyphen to an en-dash.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:06, 8 December 2011 (UTC).A description of WP organization is in this draft. Please look it over and make changes with accompanying discussion on its Talk page. Brews ohare ( talk) 17:36, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Now moved to this location. Brews ohare ( talk) 15:32, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
To those who have provided moral and intellectual support in these recent troubles, and especially the last days and weeks. It is, of course, irritating, annoying, frustrating and depressing when those who should know better nickel-and-dime over the most inane trivia that should have been sorted on day 2 of Wikipedia, but of course we have come to expect that after an eight year battle over the spelling of a dairy product. It is even more depressing to find that these folk have had some success in poisoning the well, as one ex-arb put it "anything repeated often enough becomes believed."
I never know quite why we loose users like some of the all-time greats we have lost this year. If they were blocked, was it justified, or was it "the cabal" or infighting? If they left have they thrown their toys out, or just been ground into submission, or is there indeed a difference? But I do, more and more, come to understand the sort of thing some of them have been on the receiving end of. Let me assure you, though, that I will not willingly join their number.
Despite the depressing nature of some recent events, and interactions, I am by nature an optimist. My optimism is buoyed whenever someone acts in a way that is for the betterment of the encyclopaedia, and especially when they can see the big picture. In particular coming out and speaking in support of what I am doing (albeit a minor part of what I am doing, but I believe important for a number of reasons, including, vitally, editor growth and retention) - in the face of some determined, some might say unswervable, opposition including some big "names" might not be considered fun. Nonetheless, they come, not just here, but on ANI and even at Arbcom, and for no more reason than to do what is right - many, indeed most, do not agree with me on everything, but they still take the time and effort to post their insights and support.
And for that I thank you.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:15, 9 December 2011 (UTC).
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Yep, not easy at all. Thanks for your efforts to improve WP. Even "inconsequential" changes have their place in one's scripts and editing repertoire – if nothing for more effective maintenance. I've been around long enough to see how through incremental change that WP becomes a better reader's (I didn't say "user") experience. Keep yer chin up! Ohconfucius ¡digame! 01:59, 9 December 2011 (UTC) |
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Hi, Rich! I was wondering if you have time/are willing to help with a simple, but voluminous task I'm facing. I am looking at replacing one parameter name of the {{ ru-census}} template with another in every article which transcludes this template. Is this something you can help with? I'll let you know the details of what needs to be changed if you can. Thanks!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); December 19, 2011; 16:12 (UTC)
What (free) text editor do you recommend for editing perl scripts? The Transhumanist 21:47, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Do you know of any (copyleft) text editors and/or word processors written in perl? I'd like to familiarize myself with how they work. The Transhumanist 21:49, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
These aren't Perl specific but try taking a look at notepad ++ here and Scintilla here. They may lead you to some helpful information. You can also check out Sourceforge fro some good stuff written in Perl. All three of these are Free open source software related. -- Kumioko ( talk) 00:07, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you for fixing the "Jaguar/Sandbox/3" problem. I'm afraid that I don't use Wikipedia anymore so I was not able to sort out the problem myself. Anyway, thanks! Jaguar ( talk) 17:10, 19 December 2011 (UTC) |
Just to let you know about this current discussion concerning a series of articles which you created. Exok ( talk) 22:31, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, there's currently an ongoing discussion about splitting the Stop Online Piracy Act page at Talk:Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#ONGOING_DISCUSSION_-_Splitting_the_Article. You've familiarized yourself with the entry before, and your insight and perspective on the matter would be appreciated. Hope to see you there, Sloggerbum ( talk) 23:44, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Help me to edit this article: Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian Qualifiers User:Banhtrung1 03:47, 11 December 2011 (UTC).
See also Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Golden_Glory_hijinks (in case you hadn't). Chzz ► 20:02, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
I wrote a short article about a Jewish youth organisation I am familiar with. Would you mind having a look at it, and perhaps make some changes or leave me a comment? Also, do you think it should perhaps be considered a stub? It is already in main article space at Ezra USA. Debresser ( talk) 17:11, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
You are now wheel warring on the fully protected page Template:Schooldis. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 14:33, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I've broke a drought of about a year to make a comment on the Stop Online Piracy Act. Could you have a look at Talk:Stop Online Piracy Act#Another article that misses crucial parts of the bill as I've a number of concerns that there are important sections of the proposed legislation that aren't addressed in the article.
I've no intention of making an account, and I don't wish to reveal who I am (no, I'm not banned) though it might be possible to work out who I am. But I'm bringing to your attention on the off chance that something can be done.
Thanks, anon - 114.76.227.0 ( talk) 00:06, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, I want to possibly add a watchlist patrol for WikiProject Nickelodeon, including the talk pages and Recent changes which I've created without a bot. Could someone add it? Thanks. JJ98 ( talk) 07:37, 18 December 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:Femto Bot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 07:40, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Wikiproject Cambridge is now part of Wikipedia:WikiProject East Anglia. Wilbysuffolk Talk to me 21:15, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Here's another bug I've found: [60]. The dates in Russian should not be converted to English even when they are actually just dates (a translation of the whole ref needs to be added, if only to maintain the style), but in this particular case these dates are in fact parts of the book title, so translating them mangles the ref completely. Cheers,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); December 20, 2011; 21:57 (UTC)
You are going to hate me, but can you also do a similar run for {{ ru-pop-ref}}, replacing the "2010Census" parameter with "2010Census_prelim"?— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); December 21, 2011; 18:04 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Duff (d.967). Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Jenks24 ( talk) 11:42, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I've restored this after you deleted it as I don't think it was anywhere near worthy of deletion under G11. I've removed some of the worst spammy stuff instead. Cheers SmartSE ( talk) 20:50, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Previously, you wrote:
I saw how to do #1 and #3 in your initial ("Stats") script. How do you do #2? The Transhumanist 22:01, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
(note both types of quotes work, they are subtlety different.)
But how do you put the data in a file ("print" just displays it on the screen, right?), and then how do you place it in a page on Wikipedia? The Transhumanist 03:21, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Nice. By the way, was that supposed to be "mypage.txt" (mypage dot txt)?
Thank you for the tip. I'm now reading the Input and Output chapter of the Llama book.
And I found
the documentation on get ()
(which you used in the initial script).
Okay, here's my next question...
Now that you have content in a file, how to you place that content on a Wikipedia page? The Transhumanist 23:53, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Duff (d.967). Since you had some involvement with the Duff (d.967) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Sandstein 17:41, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Greetings Rich. I noticed (as did others) that you were replacing {{ Portal box}} with {{ Portal}}. IMO all well and good however I have opened up a discussion on the Portal box talk page to solicate some opinions of eliminating portal box completely and just using Portal. Comments have already been made about also merging a couple of other Portal related templates and just using {{ Portal}} for those as well. So, in the mean time could you stop making the Portal box to Portal edits so that we can discuss the consolidation of these templates (then maybe we can do a bot request or something and just be done). This will eliminate the possibility of changing one and then end up changing it back again after the discussion is over. Thanks. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:49, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
There was a question on Template_talk:Merge#Avoid_blank_line_at_end about a template you made. I gave an answer, but you may have more to say. Debresser ( talk) 17:26, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Talk page followers might be interested in
Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser#RfC on Template redirects.
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:23, 1 December 2011 (UTC).
Hi, you've recently fixed some spelling in that article but the whole text is at times unreadable machine translation of its Italian version, it seems. :) What's the policy on that? WillNess ( talk) 11:16, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
I have posted on the talk page of Template:Stable_version and would like your input there. Great job, by the way, that's an excellent idea.
Falconus p t c 13:37, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Can you throw light on the point at Talk:Michael Tyson (antiquary), by any chance? PS you said Humph! re the recent Cambridge meetup. There was something screwy about the site notice, but not that I could see; so apologies if you were blind-sided. Charles Matthews ( talk) 12:24, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
You are using this template in the wrong namespace. Use this template on your talk page instead.
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You are using this template in the wrong namespace. Use this template on your talk page instead. Rich Farmbrough, 12:53, 28 December 2011 (UTC).
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Greetings Rich, I was just wondering how much longer we should wait before moving forward on this proposal. It seems the overwhelming majority Support this and even those that oppose seem to be doing it from a keeping the status quo standpoint. -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:05, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
WP:MOS#Block quotations explicitly gives <blockquote> as an example of how to format a block quote. There is no reason to replace this with {{ Block quote}}, as that template is only useful when the additional parameters are used. In particular this edit [61] is a violation of your editing restriction. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:42, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
With regards to this edit and its revert, please see Template talk:Wikisource1911Enc Citation#Redirect. -- PBS ( talk) 22:59, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Hey Rich Farmbrough/Talk Archive Mega 4; another Article Feedback Tool office hours session! This is going to be immediately after we start trialing the software publicly, so it's a pretty important one. If any of you want to attend, it will be held in #wikimedia-office on Friday 16th December at 19:00 UTC. As always, if you can't attend, drop me a line and I'm happy to link you to the logs when we're done. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 22:31, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia policy allows us to link to legal streamed copies of albums. It would be useful to draw up a guideline on how and when to link to such albums; however, there is concern that it may not be appropriate as the music would not be available in all parts of the world. Is the benefit of having access to the music for most users outweighed by the fact that some users will follow a link to find the music is not playable in their region? Your view would be helpful at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums. SilkTork ✔Tea time 02:33, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
I left you a belatedly reply at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Article message boxes#Classes - sorry, I didn't notice your question 'til now Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:26, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Saw you were in the talk about Portal box.. pls see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#December 22. Moxy ( talk) 04:48, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. An editor, User:Edenc1, removed the theatrical poster image for the 2011 film Footloose in the Kenny Wormald article. See:
Is this on the up and up? Happy New Year. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 19:24, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
That is, in its search replace commands, is there a way to specify the name of the current wikipedia page it is working on?
I'd like it to be able to insert that name, as the name and not as a sticky variable (I need the actual title of the page).
I'm guessing that regex can then be used to assign that name to a variable for modification.
The trouble I'm running into is that I often need to use the subject's name in replace strings, but the pages' names are "Outline of subject". This renders MediaWiki's variables useless. So if I can access the pagename within AWB, I think I can solve this problem using regex's variable manipulation.
Can AWB do this, and if so, how?
Also, if AWB can do this, where is the documentation on it? I'm sure there'd be other useful things in there.
I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 19:39, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: I'd like to do this all in one pass, if possible.
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You mentioned interest in starting a repository for perl scripts.
What should its structure be? That is, how should the perl scripts be presented? (Each on its own page, all on one page, or some other way?)
Here's a place to start: Wikipedia:Scripts/Perl scripts
This is something we can build as we go, while working on other perl-related projects, starting with the initial script you sent me. That script isn't proprietary, is it? (I figured I better ask before I deposit it).
Which reminds me, have you found the second script you were going to toss at me? The Transhumanist 00:41, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough, I've reverted your edits to this page. I don't think being "friendly" is necessary to users who attempt to create inappropriate pages. -- Bryce ( talk | contribs) 06:37, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Not sure who to ask, but I thought I'd try you since you seem knowledgeable about such things. Do you know what {{ ISO 639 name sux-Latn}} is, and why all the constellations transclude it? 28bytes ( talk) 20:22, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
{{
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Template:Awkward now also takes a date parameter. Debresser ( talk) 23:22, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
You were right to question this and I'll change the text.Lamas reduced the number of Morpho species without saying why.In fact synonymies (in any taxon) are seldom explained Funet being no exception.The problem is Le Moult and Real (with it's many faults) remains the standard work hence "many authorities". De Vries has faults too.Web names are variously derived and EOL and NHM opt out altogether (for many Valid name = Valid species so this term does not help in the least) I'll put something alng these lines on the articles talk page. Modified it can then replace the unrefed text.All the best and a Happy New Year Notafly ( talk) 09:29, 4 January 2012 (UTC) PS. What do the Japanese make of all this I wonder.
Template:First year of decade,
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Farmbrough, 17:20, 11 January 2012 (UTC).
Hi Rich,
I wanted to thank you for your reply at
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Hey Rich, could you doublecheck one of FemtoBot's edits here? It seems that the bot re-created an old cleanup category for September 2006 - but, near as I can tell, there are no articles to populate it. I can find no related changes that add (or remove) the category, so it's not like the category had an article earlier today. The kicker is that the bot termed the category as "Non-empty", which may point to the error. Not a huge deal, but thought you might want to look into it. Thanks! UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 14:02, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Please stop removing stub tags from short articles containing long lists (e.g. Kenneth Kent Mackenzie, Munidopsis, Draba, etc.) It is not helpful. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 07:48, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
You have made a recent edit to a page about me. I have tried a number of channels to try and remove factual inaccuracies about me on this page, all to no avail. How do I do it? Do you know? Can you help? Where can I be verified as myself??? They're not huge lies, it's just the boring kind of stuff I'm bored of answering whenever I'm interviewed... Cheers, Adrian Edmondson — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adrianedmondson ( talk • contribs) 00:17, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Template:NRIS dead link also takes a date parameter, and is quite full (with 800 articles), but there is no structure yet. Debresser ( talk) 01:19, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Another one is Template:Third-party-inline. Debresser ( talk) 01:39, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Why does this bot make edits to pages in userspace? I created an article "template" (containing the basic outline of an article without details) in my userspace to facilitate creation of articles with similar formats and it kept adding dates that I don't want in a blank template that I plan to use for future articles where the current date will not be applicable. I had to remove the {{ Userspace draft}} template from the page to get this bot to stop editing it. Why edit pages in userspace? The edits were invasive & unwanted and wouldn't stop until I removed that useful template from the article. DemonJuice ( talk) 21:29, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
{{
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Farmbrough, 21:39, 19 January 2012 (UTC).{{
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Farmbrough, 22:00, 19 January 2012 (UTC).Since you have taken part on the discussion about the reversion of the common-sense move of Template:Mathdab to Template:Mathematics disambiguation, you may wish to comment on a new move proposal. Lmatt ( talk) 03:47, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Please review the documentation on {{ linear-gradient}} and note the different parameter format then that of {{ gradient}}. — Edokter ( talk) — 18:31, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Please refrain from removing content from my user page; instead, please leave me a note on my talk page so I could reduce the "massive cruft" if it really bothered you. Thanks -- Bryce ( talk | contribs) 03:01, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
There is a question at Template_talk:Monthly_clean-up_category/core#Edit_request, which I think you are most qualified to answer. Debresser ( talk)
I notice both you and RjwilmsiBot are adding persondata to plenty of articles. I have been trying to add short description parameters and have noticed that in the last two days both of you have added the template to the above article. I'm not sure what category is being used to pick this up (possibly the WP: Biography talk page template) but is there any chance of blacklisting this article, It's hard enouogh clearing a 600,000+ category without articles being wrongly included by automatic edits. Thanks. Waacstats ( talk) 16:36, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Your recent edits to Template:Cleanup broke something. Even the view of the template on its documentation page is now screwed up. I suggest you revert to 15:43, 27 December 2011 until you can figure out what went wrong. — Quicksilver T @ 17:34, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at WP:AN#Rich Farmbrough. Fram ( talk) 13:12, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
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A revised version of WP:Formal organization is proposed for inclusion in the article Wikipedia and a RfC is posted. It is found here. Can you kindly take a look at this request for comment?
Thank you in advance. Brews ohare ( talk) 17:39, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Even with automated tools... that... is a large number. I have seen your work over a long time (far longer than Shajure has existed), and you do good stuff... and lots of it. I know you don't do it for a random thank-you... but thank you nevertheless. Shajure ( talk) 14:38, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you removed the date from {{ Bad documentation}}. It used to work when the template was still using Ambox. When it was changed to use Ombox, to avoid the template loop I asked you about above (nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more say no more), that functionality was lost. I added it back in the old-fashioned way, as you can see e.g. on Template:Infobox ukcave. Debresser ( talk) 02:30, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
See WT:WP DNB#Volume of the Month for a collaboration that I'm in the course of setting up. Everyone who signed up to the WikiProject for the Dictionary of National Biography is being notified, while there is still time to alter the way of working if need be. Charles Matthews ( talk) 12:27, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
You created a page at Template/DNB JMR. I moved it to Template:DNB JMR under the impression that it was your original intention? ... discospinster talk 03:04, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
A discussion regarding your edits can be found at WP:ANI#Rich Farmbrough violates editing restriction and creates errors. Fram ( talk) 13:39, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
I've recreated African revolution as a dab after a sort of inconclusive RFD verdict; however I've been a bit more concise than you suggested (I've just linked to events specifically referred to as revolutions, rather than uprisings, coups, etc) so you might want to take a look and flesh it out a bit. – hysteria18 ( talk) 18:22, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Check this
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Could you handle restoring the history and talk page of {{
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I asked Ironholds about it, but he is swamped with other community stuff right now and doesn't have time to work on it. --
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Done
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Hello Rich. I noticed you recently ran the AWB on Blackford County, Indiana, making some minor cleanups. Bots are currently beyond my ability, but can be especially helpful fixing my en–dash problem. Could you please run the same AWB on the Blackford County Courthouse article? TwoScars ( talk) 21:41, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, a month ago, you created Category:Wikipedia articles with citations needing edition. It's currently empty and there is no indication what template fills it. Is the category actually used by some template or not? If it is, I think the category page should link to that template. If it's not used, I think it should be deleted. User<Svick>. Talk() ; 18:28, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Fix cleanup tag - typo in month Feruary => January. Feruary 2012 => January 2012 -- PBS ( talk) 22:44, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
I noted your delisting of the RfC/U after it was already relisted. I actually went to Tarc's userpage and asked him to explain himself.
He never did answer my question and basically told me to, uh, "sit down, put a cork in it".
Needless to say, I believe this is one of those occasions where my response was justified. CycloneGU ( talk) 00:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. Could you please assist me in reverting a template move done by an editor without first seeking community consensus? I've tried to revert the move, but somehow I must have done it wrong. Here is the template: Template:Infobox African Movie Academy Awards Thank you. Amsaim ( talk) 17:43, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Although I agree that TMZ.com is not largely to be considered a reliable source for controversial statements about the biographies of living persons, I must point out that, in cases such as that of Sam the koala), TMZ.com can be considered a reliable source for statements like "TMZ.com officially apologized for having made hurtful statements". DS ( talk) 13:12, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
In this edit your AWB again added a date template without any intrinsic cause. Please Stop That! Debresser ( talk) 15:43, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
I think this is a plae where we just have different opinions.
Rich
Farmbrough, 15:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC).
Okay, I've been studying Perl, and today I finally took a crack at the script you sent me:
use LWP::Simple;
$month = "09";
$year = "2011";
$lang="en";
while (<>){
s/ /_/g;
print "$_";
$page=get ("http://stats.grok.se/$lang/$year$month/$_" );
$page =~ /has been viewed (\d+) times in/;
$total+=$1;
print " $total\n ";
}
print "\nTotal: $total";
It's a command with the syntax perl script list
You use LWP
, because that's the module where "get ()
" is.
The "$
" lines set literal variables to the values provided.
while
is a looping command, and in this case works on the default variable $_
. The default here appears to be each successive entry in the list specified.
The angle brackets <>
turn the script into a command that is executable from the command prompt in the same way that a Unix command is.
In the loop, you substitute all spaces for underscores, to make the entries work in URLs.
Then you print the current entry to the screen, but print;
would have done the same thing.
You follow that with pulling in the output from toolserver. For example
http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Outline_of_geography. In the same operation, you assign the output to the variable $page
.
Then you employ the bind operator to specify a pattern (regular expression) match from toolserver's output (taking the match from the content of the $page
variable), for the purpose of using the automatic match variable $1
. The \d
matches digits and the +
means one or more of them in a row.
Then you assign the matched string to $total
using a cumulative numeric assignment operator. Because it's a numeric operator, Perl automatically strips out the non-numerical stuff from the string (well, not quite, the stuff on the left of the numbers is set to zero, while the stuff on the right is dropped).
Basically, you've scraped the monthly page views from toolserver's output.
Then you print that value to the screen and advance to a new line.
And the loop repeats on the next item in the list.
When the loop is done, you repeat the final total at the end.
I'm ready for my next one. Please send me another simple but useful Wikipedia-related script. The Transhumanist 01:48, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
P.S.: Thank you for the Strawberry recommendation. It works fine.
P.P.S.: is there a collection of perl scripts on Wikipedia somewhere?
Greetings-
My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a graduate student at the University of Oregon, currently collecting data for my dissertation on Wikipedia editors who create and use bots and assisted editing tools, as well as editors involved in the initial and/or ongoing creation of bot policies on Wikipedia. As a member of the bot community and bot operator, I would very much like to interview you for the project at a time and in a method that is most convenient for you (Gchat, another IM client, Skype, email, telephone, etc.). I am completely flexible and can work with your schedule. The interview will take approximately 30-45 minutes.
My dissertation project has been approved both by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Oregon, and by the Research Committee at the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information on the project on my meta page.
Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to hearing from you to set up a time to chat. Thank you very much.
Randall Livingstone, School of Journalism & Communication, University of Oregon
UOJComm ( talk) 04:10, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
As to the issues in a section above:
Hey guys; apologies for the belated nature of this notification; as you can probably imagine, the whole blackout thing kinda messed with our timetables :P. Just a quick reminder that we've got an office hours session tomorrow at 19:00 in #wikimedia-office, where we'll be discussing the results of the hand-coding and previewing some new changes. Hope to see you there :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 21:47, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello. This edit removed the names of templates {{ Fb rbr footer}} and {{ Fb rs footer}} from calls to those templates, leaving the article in a bit of a mess. On a lesser point, it also added a date parameter to those template calls. I thought this parameter was only used if no source (s=) parameter is present; am I mistaken? I've undone the edit. cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 09:02, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
PixieBot is flagging a dead link on Ted Nelson. The link isn't dead -- at least not when I've checked it. I reverted, and PixieBot reverted my change. MarkBernstein ( talk) 18:07, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
{{
Dead link}}
. The {{
Dead link}}
was added by an IP, see history. I reverted the IP.
Hi Rich, I was wondering whether you'd be interested in this? Kind Regards -- Marek. 69 talk 02:57, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Hey, you might want to figure out why Smackbot did this, as there is a big possibility that it has done other edits similar to this, messing up a lot of pages in the process. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 16:48, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Another notification, guys; Article Feedback Tool office hours on Friday at 19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office :). If you can't attend, drop me a note and I'll send you the logs when we're done. We're also thinking of moving it to thursday at a later time: say, 22:00 UTC. Speak up if that'd appeal more :) Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 16:16, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
A while back a placed a request on Template talk:Multiple issues that hasn't received any feedback. The request was that the linkrot issue of multiple issues be changed to resemble template:linkrot in including a link to the reftool. As someone who has worked on this complicated template could you comment on my request? RJFJR ( talk) 17:21, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich! Been a while since you setup WPConservatism with Femto--and it's working marvelously btw. WP:CHRISTIANITY has been without a RecentChanges update since SQLBot went inactive in 2008 Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Watchlist (OK to change the title). I forget whether Femto uses a template or a category. Anyway we don't have a cat for all articles (although easy enough to modify the template). The template is {{ WikiProject Christianity}}. If you could setup Femto for us that would be great!!! – Lionel ( talk) 11:03, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
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The Christianity Barnstar | |
Thank you for your recent work in helping the Christianity WikiProject keep track of its content. It is very much appreciated. John Carter ( talk) 20:08, 6 February 2012 (UTC) |
As was explained to you a number of times (e.g. in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive227#Rich Farmbrough violating editing restriction and the subsequent Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Archive 2#Cite DNB, your copies from DNB, assuming they are not copyright violations (see the end of the discussion you started at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers), need to be correctly attributed, i.e. indicating that the DNB is not only the source for the information, but the actual source for the text. This can easily be done by using the "vb" parameter with the Template:Cite DNB, or by changing to the DNB template, as shown here. Wikipedia:Plagiarism has more info on this. Please also take care with your links, which often go to the wrong article or a disambiguation page, and please remove the DNB drafts category once the articles are in the mainspace. Fram ( talk) 09:29, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Rich
Farmbrough, 14:14, 13 February 2012 (UTC).
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:06, 15 February 2012 (UTC).
Hi. You're receiving this message because you recently edited Park51. Ed Poor has proposing splitting that off part of that article to create Ground Zero controversy. We're discussing it on the talk page here and would appreciate your feedback. Raul654 ( talk) 23:47, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Can you stop utilizing automated tool to remove the source. You are adding a cn tag where it is not needed. Tbhotch. ™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 21:15, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
I thank you very much for your help indeed. I am still relatively quite new in all of this. 213.249.218.39 ( talk) 00:21, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Rich Farmbrough,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Young June Sah -- Yjune.sah ( talk) 03:46, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Dougweller ( talk) 17:39, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
— David Levy — David Levy 20:21, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Might you have a look at this and please advise? Watch and User_talk:The_Magnificent_Clean-keeper#Watch_article. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 16:18, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. User:206.180.101.2 continues to remove the same sourced information from the Foxconn article. Might you look into it? Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 17:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- - -
Hi Rich. Other anonymous users are doing it now, like
User:76.188.129.97. I don't know exactly can be done. Semi-Protect from anons? Dunno. --- (Bob)
Wikiklrsc (
talk) 01:33, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
How is it you are manipulating your timestamp? Does your signature end with <small>
and you sign with ~~~~</small>
?—
cyberpower (
Chat)(
WP Edits: 517,697,904) 18:28, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich--I left a response to your note on ANI, "Continued legal threats by blocked user". Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 04:05, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Commons+cat. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Commons+cat redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). MGA73 ( talk) 12:29, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
You are still creating crappy DNB articles by script, instead of manually. The problematic character of these creations has been discussed before, but for some reason you still use the same script to create these (but then again, even after you had been blocked for these, you wanted to create them by bot, so it seems obvious that you don't see any major flaws in this script...). The rules you use for adding bluelinks are pretty useless, e.g. Thomas Bedingfield (1593?-1661) links to sentences, the name of the subject, disambiguation pages (including "Thomas"), ... Note that your link in the Cite DNB template doesn't work (due to the "?"). Other articles lack all categories (also an old problem), copy the poor transcriptions from Wikisource without any improvements (e.g. Charles Beckingham "He died 19 February 1780-31"), and have poor layout (see e.g. Thomas Bedford (fl.1650), which obviously had not any human oversight after it was script-created, as evidenced by the first lines' italicization, and the link to Baxter Bedford, which in reality is about Baxter and Bedford, not one person or entity).
Another old problem is your creation of articles from the DNB, for which already an article existed. E.g. John Danckerts already existed as Johan Danckerts, and Henry Danckerts as Hendrick Danckerts. Fram ( talk) 13:27, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
This sort of message might actually keep me reading to the end. I don't know why you think rudeness is the way to approach other people - perhaps it works for you in you personal life, it doesn't work on Wikipedia.
Rich
Farmbrough, 13:46, 27 February 2012 (UTC).
The incomplete template (see discussion Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_January_22) will likely go away soon. Would it make since to run a bot on the articles it's tagged to and:
Is that practical? Who might have a bot that could handle that? Sparkie82 ( t• c) 20:36, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I want to add the Recent changes for Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state) to monitor all articles automatically updated by a bot. Thanks. JJ98 ( Talk / Contributions) 08:17, 14 February 2012 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:Femto Bot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 08:28, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Mistress Selina Kyle (
Α⇔Ω ¦
⇒✉) has given you
a cup of tea, for taking the time to weather a dispute. Thanks for staying
calm and civil! Tea promotes
WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day ever so slightly better.
Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a tea, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy!
Spread the lovely, warm, refreshing goodness of tea by adding {{ subst:wikitea2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
--
Mistress Selina Kyle (
Α⇔Ω ¦
⇒✉) 07:58, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough, thanks for helping out with the Gopal Krishan article. However, you will notice that the exact same two images were readded today by a new user whose only contributions are to "Gopal Krishan" and "Vichitra veena". This is quite obviously the same user you warned under a new account, no? Best wishes Hekerui ( talk) 18:53, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Rand, Paul. Since you had some involvement with the Rand, Paul redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). – hysteria18 ( talk) 17:34, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
You participated in the discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#WP:TFD deletions by admin User:Fastily, which occured following the closure of Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 24#Template:New York cities and mayors of 100.2C000 population. Be advised that I have opened Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 February 27#User:TonyTheTiger/New York cities and mayors of 100,000 population.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 05:32, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey guys! Another month, another newsletter.
First off - the first bits of AFT5 are now deployed. As of early last week, the various different designs are deployed on 0.1 percent of articles, for a certain "bucket" of randomly-assigned readers. With the data flooding in from these, we were able to generate a big pool of comments for editors to categorise as "useful" or "not useful". This information will be used to work out which form is the "best" form, producing the most useful feedback and the least junk. Hopefully we'll have the data for you by the end of the week; I can't thank the editors who volunteered to hand-code enough; we wouldn't be where we are now without you.
All this useful information means we can move on to finalising the tool, and so we're holding an extra-important office hours session on Friday, 6th January at 19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. If you can't make it, drop me a note and I'll be happy to provide logs so you can see what went on - if you can make it, but will turn up late, bear in mind that I'll be hanging around until 23:00 UTC to deal with latecomers :).
Things we'll be discussing include:
If you can't make it to the session, all this stuff will be displayed on the talkpage soon after, so no worries ;). Hope to see you all there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 04:50, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Even if you can manage to create decent articles from the DNB, we do not need "… (DNB00)" redirects. Please stop creating them. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 13:32, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough. As an experienced admin, I kindly ask you to check these edits of user MarshallBagramyan. ( [62], [63], [64]) That clearly seems like edit war to me. While the source insists that this incident has happened and was the main reason behind these clashes, MarshallBagramyan clearly wants to erase this fact. Could you please help me in this, as I am very reluctant to engage any edit war against him. Regards, -- Verman1 ( talk) 07:52, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Please see the updated Request for help section. Debresser ( talk) 17:29, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, -- Beth Wellington ( talk) 22:22, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Can you stop with the cosmetic changes please? I find it annoying to have worse-than-pointless edits like this one constantly coming up on my watchlist. Hesperian 03:14, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
... on Category_talk:User-created_public_domain_images#Keep_local_files. I noticed you made this edit. -- MGA73 ( talk) 11:03, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
PD-author}}
which is a bit of a problem one - 11,000 images, most of which, it appears, are either PD-ueser or PD-old (or PD-maybe).
Rich
Farmbrough, 19:09, 29 February 2012 (UTC).{{
PD-author}}
does not sort the images in dated categories so it is not a big problem at the moment. {{
PD-user}}
put the files in the same category as {{
PD-self}}
so to make it work as planned {{
PD-user}}
should also be fixed. But it looks complex. --
MGA73 (
talk) 20:23, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Can you please fix the syntax after this edit, thanks.
Removing the CSS float is what was needed. Changing <div>
to <br>
is incorrect (and unnecessary) because it breaks the HTML nesting rules for %block;
contexts. More importantly, your edit now leaves a dangling </div>
closing tag that just shouldn't be there. Also <br/>
is a bogosity anyway, as that's XHTML and if we're embedding anything in MediaWiki wikitext, it's a HTML parsing model, not an XHTML one.
Thanks Andy Dingley ( talk) 20:05, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
Clear right}}
. (But I believe we are supposed to be XHTML compliant.) I am not sure if the un-named parameter belongs there.
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:14, 1 March 2012 (UTC).Hi, please see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Cleanup category population. Can you explain there why you made [//en.wikipedia.org/?title=Template%3ATrivia& diff=469030301 this edit]? Thanks, Goodvac ( talk) 23:46, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
I have added enough to document his publishing activities. But note that the identification with the DNB author is tenuous: see s:Author_talk:Arthur Hall. Common name. Charles Matthews ( talk) 14:30, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rich,
I created the Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof article and added these images: [66] and [67]. They are showing up in the English article but when I tried to use them in the corresponding French article [68] they do not work, even though I've given permission (atleast I thought). Do you know how to solve this problem? Thanks. Tamsier ( talk) 16:30, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Tamsier ( talk) 04:02, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Dear Rich, regarding an article about Pumpable ice technology. In order to understand your remarks deeply, please, show 2-3 examples. When I prepared this draft, my main target was to support Wiki requirements including the writing content from a neutral point of view. Of course, I've not got the experience to work with Wiki articles. That is why, please, show 1,2,3 external links that are not appropriated up to your point of view or Wiki standards. Thanks Swallow2011 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:08, 3 March 2012 (UTC).
Hey
Helpful Pixie Box has gone on a tagging binge - Rayment build 626 or something like that (see http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=South_Down_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&curid=865888&diff=480337792&oldid=465261465). Could you explain what this is, please, because I have almost every United Kingdom parliamentary constituency on my watchlist so I currently have either a lot of work to do or a lot of stuff to ignore.
Thanks! doktorb words deeds 16:05, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
Better source}}
has been inserted into the main {{
Rayment}}
template (which can be over-ridden when the template is used for external links, for example, instead of as a citation). This means that all occurrences needed dating. Generally I can spot this sort of thing coming (with template tags) and start dating the templates in advance, sometimes years, so that it's not a big bang when it becomes official, this one, however took me by surprise.
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:11, 5 March 2012 (UTC).In your latest edits, you are carefully making some minimal change so as not to violate the letter of your editing restriction. You are at the same time making errors though, duplicating the "Use British English" template [69] [70] [71] [72] [73]... Furthermore, you have now made a few hundred edits (basically to replace a redirected template to the target of the redirect name, not really very useful) with the rather non-informational edit summary "General fixes using", which seems to be the result of some tampering with a tool like AWB. Please provide more informational and less incomplete edit summaries, and be more careful when adding templates. Fram ( talk) 10:12, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Rich, I'm back. Hope you're well. How does one remove the [1] before the first external link...Thanks! -- Beth Wellington ( talk) 00:54, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Template:Category TOC exists has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (
talk) 13:20, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Is {{ Ref web}} going anywhere? ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 17:15, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Terrible restore. You should know better. You do know better. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 01:53, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
...has often proven to be at least as or more reliable than the so-called "reliable" sources. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:38, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Might you have a look at this and advise or act on it accordingly? User_talk:J3Mrs#MediaCityUK. Thanks and bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 21:32, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Here's a new outline.
You could help us Perl newbies by adding anything you think would be helpful. The Transhumanist 19:21, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Luk talk 10:29, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
I just wanted to let you know that I tweaked the stable version template a little; I made it collapsible, and added a link to the template documentation.
Thanks, Falconus p t c 14:43, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I created that discussion today in TIL. Currently, it's 3 on the TIL page. Go tell everybody in the discussion you're the most BA MFer on Wikipedia :)
HELLO. I see you helped edit the article I wrote about Larry N. Jordan that is undergoing some tweaking. I am wondering if you could also help me create a footnote? Near the end of the article I have cited a story that ran on Mr. Jordan in two Texas newspapers but I did not know how to create a link to a footnote so I merely made the actual newspaper names a link to the story. If you could modify this I'd appreciate it very much. Thanks, Lisa Brown LisaBrown2012 ( talk) 21:34, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
HELLO AGAIN. I noticed in re-reading Larry N. Jordan's Wikipedia page that someone removed the reference to Billboard magazine. But this is a MAJOR citation that should be included, especially since it appeared in the magazine recently when they did an interview with Mr. Jordan and it helps justify his accomplishment in writing a major new book on this iconic star Jim Reeves:
There is also a quote from the article I'd like to include, as follows: According to Billboard:
"Though the author is a Reeves fan, he didn't put the singer on a pedestal... The book is a balanced account of Reeves' life and career, his marriage to Mary...and his penchant for the opposite sex that might not have meshed with his 'Gentleman Jim' persona. However, Jordan spends a lot of time discussing what made Reeves fans all over the world: the music."
I'm a newbie and I have got in over my head in trying to do a good deed by posting to Wikipedia on a guy I think has some impressive accomplishments and yet I still don't quite understand the technical aspects here. If you could help again I'd sure thank you! -- Lisa Brown LisaBrown2012 ( talk) 01:55, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, just a minor problem with BOT in this edit where the BOT dates an already dated {{ Rp}} template, as well as 2 undated ones. Keith D ( talk) 01:24, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Farmbrough, your bot Femto Bot ( talk · contribs) blanked {{ wikification progress}} with this edit. Was this a mistake? I'm notifying you just in case; for now i have restored the template as it is used by WP:WWF. Cheers, benzband ( talk) 16:06, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 February 21#Template:More plot is closed as keep. However, these issues are still discussed in Template talk:More plot. Please join in discussion for more consensus. -- George Ho ( talk) 01:48, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Please don't use the same incorrect edit summary over and over again. You made 48 edits with "Fix refs and/or minor fixes Depov a little", but apart from the first one none of them did "depov" anything. Fram ( talk) 10:10, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
When an AfD concludes as "merge", you shouldn't simply delete the page and move another page over it. Please restore the history of Statesman (276 deleted edits, stertching back to 2003) and respect the result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Statesman and the general deletion rules. This was clearly an incorrect "G6" deletion. Fram ( talk) 10:16, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Since you don't seem inclined to do this, I have asked another admin to restore this at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive233#Restoration of page history requested. Fram ( talk) 12:58, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Your code to change "Reference" to "References" should only work when it is the only word in the section header, not in cases like this and this. I corrected them both, no idea if there are any others where the same happened. Fram ( talk) 15:33, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Doesn't seem to be completely corrected, notice e.g. [76] and [77] (both corrected now). Fram ( talk) 08:03, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Helpful Pixie Bot broke a number of URLs on an article I watchlist in this edit. I reverted and have temporarily indefinitely blocked the bot. Feel free to unblock without asking me whenever you get that bug fixed. Best, NW ( Talk) 18:46, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Re this edit, the {{ Disambiguation}} template doesn't need dating, as far as I know. Cheers! -- JHunterJ ( talk) 14:53, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Dated template "disambiguation" - see [78]. Hipocrite ( talk) 18:39, 14 March 2012 (UTC) Edit - I see someone said this. Ignore. Hipocrite ( talk) 18:39, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
would like you to take a look at the discussion. We have posting of misinformation which is then used to support what seems to be an overriding BIAS against those who seek elected public office couched in "notability" terms Yaloe ( talk) 03:25, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
The sources for this page have been verified. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnlowenstein ( talk • contribs) 23:30, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Why is the Helpfull Pixie Bot having a problem with "isbn= 2-06-008-099-0". That is exactly the ISBN as stated on the book cover. Could it give trouble because this is a French' ISBN? Night of the Big Wind talk 18:02, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
I don't have a clue where to start.
I'd like the table to list subjects down the left, with columns for traffic on the right. One traffic column for the corresponding outline, category, and portal for comparison purposes.
And totals at the bottom of each column.
If you whip something up, I'm sure I could help refine it.
I look forward to any perl code you can throw at me. The Transhumanist 02:29, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: Happy New Year!
Stamford,Outline of Stamford, Category:Stamford, Wikipedia:WikiProject Stamford
print_headers...
while (<>){
chomp;
if (/^([^,]*),([^,]*),([^,]*),([^,]*)$/){ # Note: this could be also done with the split function, in a different way
$name=$1;
$outline=$2
$cat=$3;
$project=$4;
}
else{
print "$_ does not match pattern; skipping.\n";
}
$outline_count=count($outline);
$cat_count=count($outline);
$project_count=count($project);
print "\|$name\|\|$outline_count\|\|$cat_count\|\|$project_count\n\|-\n"; # make a line of the table....
# keep track of the totals....
$outline_total+=$outline_count;
...
}
print_footers....
sub count{
# in some circumstances there would be error checking code here - what if the page doesn't exist,or the server is down?
$url=shift;
get the page...
$count= find the number..
return $count
}
Hi Rich. Do you know what this is all about? He keeps putting invitations on my talk page and I keep deleting them, and he keeps putting them back. A bot? I never heard of this editor: User talk:Walter55024. Please have a look. The message he keeps leaving on my talk page is:
Thanks and Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 23:53, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Category:Copro Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 07:29, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
HPB is "Delink USA (overlinking) and replace with US (MoS)" (e.g. here). I couldn't find the approval for this task. Can you indicate where this was approved? Fram ( talk) 07:52, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
E.g. edits like this one are unnecessary and don't do any other approved tasks at the same time. Fram ( talk) 07:56, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
So I know you have everything up to 1999 up, are you gonna be able to do 1998? Arjoccolenty ( talk)
You have been asked by some people on this page to stop with changing the ISBNs (hyphenation) through Helpful Pixie Bot while discussion about it is ongoing. On the other hand, the task to do this has been approved, but that was some years ago.
Now I notice that Helpful Pixie Bot is not only adding and changing hyphenation (e.g. here), but is also removing hyphenation [81] [82] [83] [84]...). Perhaps it would be better if you stopped with this task until it has become more clear whether there still is consensus for this. The tagging of incorrect ISBNs [85] is separate from this and seems undoubtedly useful, so no problem there. Fram ( talk) 09:13, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, I dropped by your page the other day on a completly different matter. I noticed that you're a programmer. I assume you work with the wikidatabase. I'm looking for two things:
Maybe you can point me in the right direction if you can't help? Thanks very much. Argolin ( talk) 15:08, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
I was looking for a .csv or tab delimited dump of all items in Category:WikiProject Canadian music articles not recent changes: I've done most of them! In fact, I need the sandbox dump to be able to run live anytime I choose. I'm sure you know the "articles" in the cat name refers to all main namespace class articles. That's what I want all 9,076 of them as at 20 February 2012.
Please ignore the above request. I can get it myself with AWB! I'm already woking on a 600+ list of music group biographies without a year of establishment. I posted my question at the AWB help: it was answered pdq! I figured I have bothered you enough. You gave me that one final push to sign up for AWB (which I'm diggin'). Thanks again. Argolin ( talk) 10:57, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Awhile back you got either an AFD or PROD notification, and it was during one of the
template testing project's experiments. If you could go
here and leave us some feedback about what you think about the new versions of the templates we tested, that would be very useful. We're specifically looking for info about whether the messages were more effective at communicating how people should participate in deletion processes as the author of the article. (You can also email me at swallingwikimedia.org if you want.) Thanks!
Steven Walling (WMF) •
talk 00:28, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Foxconn is still dicey after semi-protection expired. User:76.188.129.97 got back in there. Best. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 00:43, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
The current build of the bot is placing templates on articles to say they have one source - obvious and no inline citations - obvious. It could be said that the bot goads people into action - but I jyst find it a bit depressing to think of those BLPs that we added a ref to, to now have these templates. IMO Victuallers ( talk) 12:01, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Sister project link. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Sister project link redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). MGA73 ( talk) 15:57, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for removing the an(s) this edit, but why add the date parameter to the templates? As it will just change every time the template is called, I had considered doing it but decided that it just meant more execution every time the template is called. Was it done to shut up some sort of error report?
If so it will not work too well because doesn't the date parameter includes a day? I think the code that would be needed should look like this. But of course the real way to fix it is to pass in a parameter to the {{ Rayment}} with the Magic variables subst so it is set once in the article eg: |editdate={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} which will set "editdate=March 2012" -- PBS ( talk) 08:38, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
Rayment|date=February 2012}}
. Helpful Pixie Bot will take care of this. I am not keen on having clean-up tags wrapped in other templates, but it is a fairly common requirement, and this is a simple template.
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:36, 1 March 2012 (UTC).Hello,
Your bot tagged an ariticle I was working on for various things. I have worked this past few days to correct those thing and was hoping you could check and see if I have cleared up any of the issues. If I have not, could you provide guidance on what my next steps should be? Thank you very much. Trieka Ayer ( talk) 13:14, 5 March 2012 (UTC) Link to page: Dropa stones Trieka Ayer ( talk) 13:16, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey Rich Farmbrough. Would you mind if I call you Rich? The Category:Bongo Beat Records albums you created has been flagged for speedy deletion. By chance, I was working on The Diodes. The article claims that the band was signed to Bongo Beat Records. I haven't done much work to prove this. However, for some reason Bongo Beat Records is familiar for which now I can't recall. They were a legit record label as evidenced by one naming form Bongo Beat acoustic series. I've done a cursory search on wiki for others to add to this empty category with no results. There are many, many deletionists out there! Argolin ( talk) 02:49, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks one for the inclusionists! Argolin ( talk) 06:31, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
isbn help please. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 01:58, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
OK, but Lttljvd is the original one I wanted to talk to but I thought that he had left so I sort of went crazy. I'm sorry. It won't happen again. Arjoccolenty ( talk) 13:27, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. I ask you to at least temporarily stop using HPB for ISBN hyphenation, as there is no consensus that it's needed. You may join discussion at Wikipedia talk:ISBN. -- Eleassar my talk 08:55, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Hiya. Helpful Pixie Bot may be a bit confused, and dropping the year from date params: ''|date=March 15, 2012}}'' to ''|date=March }}'' For example [86] Thanks ;) Eclipsed (talk) (COI Declaration) 23:03, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
We recently updated two template doc pages that were unclear as to syntax usage. If the date option is added to the usage docs, it may save bot resources. Template:Missing information non-contentious/doc and Template:Missing information/doc.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 19:47, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
The article Angela Wright has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
notice, but please explain why in your
edit summary or on
the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
will stop the
proposed deletion process, but other
deletion processes exist. In particular, the
speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and
articles for deletion allows discussion to reach
consensus for deletion.
Sleddog116 (
talk) 04:58, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about making the Multiple issues template the new cleanup template here. Since you have edited this template several times in the past I thought you might have some insight into this idea. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:33, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Template:Wiktionary pipe has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯ 05:18, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
In the annotation Perl script you wrote...
What does $page do?
I tried opening a file into $page, and it didn't work:
open $page, "Outline.txt" or die $!;
while ($page =~ /\n\*\s*\[\[([^\])]*\]\]\s*\*/s ){
$bulleted = $1;
$entry = get ($bulleted);
$entry =~ s/.*?'''.*?'''//;
$entry =~ s/([^\.]*.[^\.]*.).*/$1/;
$page =~ s/(\n\*\s*\[\[$bulleted\]\]\s*)\*/$1 $entry/;
}
I used the following script to test the behavior of $page
:
open $page, "Outline.txt" or die $!;
while ($page){
chomp;
print "$_\n"
}
It just produced blank space.
I tried the above script without the "open" line, providing "Outline.txt" as a command line argument, and it still didn't work.
I use regex all the time, but file handling in perl has me stumped.
The Transhumanist 01:25, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
open FILE, "Outline.txt" or die $!;
@array=<FILE>;
$page=join "\n", @array;
close FILE;
while (<FILE>) {$page.=$_}
Is it normal for beginner Perl students' heads to spin? (Mine is spinning). :)
You provided the following script fragment in a previous thread:
while ($page =~ /\n\*\s*\[\[([^\])]*\]\]\s*\*/s ){
$bulleted = $1;
$entry = get ($bulleted);
$entry =~ s/.*?'''.*?'''//;
$entry =~ s/([^\.]*.[^\.]*.).*/$1/;
$page =~ s/(\n\*\s*\[\[$bulleted\]\]\s*)\*/$1 $entry/;
}
There is definitely something missing, because the script does not work when run, even when I replace the guts with
while ($page){
chomp;
print "$_\n";
}
I don't understand "$page". It's not defined in the script, and I don't know how to define it from the examples you just provided.
It doesn't appear that this fragment can be dropped into the new script you provided above.
What is missing? The Transhumanist 03:34, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
use strict;
open FILE, "Outline.txt" or die $!;
while (<FILE>) {$page.=$_}
close FILE;
while ($page =~ /\n\*\s*\[\[([^\])]*\]\]\s*\*/s ){
$bulleted = $1;
$entry = get ($bulleted);
$entry =~ s/.*?'''.*?'''//;
$entry =~ s/([^\.]*.[^\.]*.).*/$1/;
$page =~ s/(\n\*\s*\[\[$bulleted\]\]\s*)\*/$1 $entry/;
}
# Now do something with the text we have created.
open FILE, "Annotated.txt" or die $!;
print FILE $page;
close FILE;
the text was loaded from a file. There would need to be a subroutine to get the Wikipage $bulleted.
Rich
Farmbrough, 03:34, 19 March 2012 (UTC).
I swapped out the guts to test the file handling portion...
open FILE, "Outline.txt" or die $!;
while (<FILE>) {$page.=$_}
close FILE;
while ($page){
chomp;
print "$_\n";
}
...and it didn't work.
What did I do wrong? The Transhumanist 03:54, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: is there supposed to be a "." after "$page"? -TT
open FILE, "Outline.txt" or die $!;
while (<FILE>) {$page.=$_}
close FILE;
print $page;
would be all that was needed.
Rich
Farmbrough, 04:04, 19 March 2012 (UTC).
Hello Rich. An anonymous editor from Antwerp, Belgium keeps putting in erroneous and un-cited information about the name of the brother of Gabi Ashkenazi. His brother's name, as per the citation given, is Avi not Natan who's a military leader. I'm on the verge of a 3RR. Help? The anonymous editor(s) are User:91.176.220.231 and User:91.176.56.106. Help? Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 00:41, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. User:84.198.183.148 is back changing it from Avi to Natan. Another Antwerp, Belgium IP and anonymous editor. Help? --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 04:34, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. This bot just added hyphens to some ISBNs in Smith Act trials of communist party leaders. I'm preparing the article for WP:FA, and uniformity in citations is critical. So I need to have them all with hyphens, or all without hyphens. My preference is without (which is the way the article was before). I tried to "undo" the change, but intervening changes made that impossible. NOTE: I'm not cranky, and I love bots & appreciate the work the bot-creators do; but in this case the article became, from a FA/MOS/uniformity viewpoint, worse. I'll go ahead an manually undo; but I thought I'd give you all a heads-up since other editors will probably object to these sorts of changes. -- Noleander ( talk) 19:59, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rich. User:84.198.183.148 is back changing it from Avi to Natan in the Gabi Ashkenazi article after my prior query to you. Another Antwerp, Belgium IP and anonymous editor. Help? --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 12:46, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. User:Areyoureadyeddy keeps insisting on putting the full name in the Nantucket Sleighride (album) for West/Palmer, inconsistent with the way the other songs' composers are listed. It's a revert back and forth issue too by now. Any thoughts? Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 22:42, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
For creating Helpful Pixie Bot. Wikipedia depends on bots, including Helpful Pixie Bot, to keep a presentable appearance. Good work! ChromaNebula (talk) 18:06, 16 March 2012 (UTC) |
Possible Merges, proposed by User :Rich Farmbrough Balypu ( talk) 14:25, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at User talk:Steven (WMF)'s talk page.
I noticed your comment on the Invasions of the Rio de la Plata. You might be amused to know that I have just found out that Pretensión is the Spanish word for "Claim" so the heading that became a debate about a Point of View, "British pretentions", was almost certainly a linguistic misunderstanding and intended to be "British Claims". I would have found this out earlier but Google Translate needs the acute accent above the ó. :-) PS: thank you for sorting out the "sockpuppet". 86.4.27.128 but now: Argcontrib ( talk) 12:40, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Template: . *
Edits by:
Never edited by
BAG.
Last edit by me at 01:34, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by anyone was by
CBM at 01:58, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
Bottom edit was by
CBM at 01:58, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 02:17, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, quick question about scroll_box. Currently when scroll_box starts it defaults to the top row of the target page. Is there a way to scroll to the bottom row as the default? I was going to use scroll_box for a talk page. And I want to go to the newer threads first. Those are on the bottom of the talkpage. Thanks! – Lionel ( talk) 12:14, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, here's a blast from the past: WP:Bad links and its subpages, some of which are long lists, seem to be obsolete. I came across them when checking "what links here" from what is now a disambiguation page. Can they be nominated for deletion at MfD? I thought I'd ask you first as you seem to have been an active user of these pages several years ago. – Fayenatic L (talk) 19:25, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
I know that you mentioned you added a different wording to {{ cleanup}} in the last deletion debate and it was was "sadly reverted". Could you tell me which one? Curb Chain ( talk) 06:29, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello--I should have thanked you a while ago for your response, but I've been mostly off Wikipedia. I'm still wondering about it, but I'll probably go with the GFDL and CC-BY-SA. (Mostly I was wondering if including the "BY" part would create too much of a practical barrier for others to import my material into Wikimedia project. I suppose as long as I'm the one it's coming from, if I don't object, it's not a big deal.) Anyway, thanks! (I may not see any response as I'm falling off Wikipedia again .. right .. about .. now CRETOG8( t/ c) 23:30, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. I am a little puzzled by Statesman. The outcome of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Statesman was merge to Politician. It appears to me, as an uninvolved observer, that you just deleted the article without merging anything. And, since it is now deleted, no one other than an administrator will be able to merge anything in the future. In addition to this, what do you suggest should be done about the 1000+ other articles that contain links to Statesman? -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 13:13, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich Its my first time on wikipedia, thanks for the editing on my page. Have you any more ideas/edits that would improve the page.
The name "Gaham" no "e" on the end is actually in the bible, "Gahame" may be a variant of this? could I edit in "Gaham" as a similar name? Also "Gahan" was a surname used by my "forefathers" so could I mention "Gahan" as a similar surname.
Hope you can help me further with this.
Regards
Robert Gahame — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert gahame ( talk • contribs) 13:43, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, could you please modify the bot to not change whitespace around section titles when correcting them, like here or here. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 10:46, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm having to undo these changes on all the pages on my Watch list. Many articles/subjects are so small that they only have one main Reference, and will likely never have more than that one. Please remove this function from the Pixiebot's changes. Thank you. Softlavender ( talk) 05:02, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, would you mind if I call you Rich (you didn't really answer last time). This is somewhat a bizarro thing. I've found {{DISPLAYTITLE:''iTunes Originals – Barenaked Ladies''}} does what it says. When I try to use that syntax for DE9: Transitions it's a no go. I'm trying to put a "|" into the title per the opening line of the article (and before my edits). Maybe I'm stretching the wiki naming rules? Argolin ( talk) 06:12, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
Wrong title}}
which some people use where a title can't be fixed.
Rich
Farmbrough, 09:30, 13 March 2012 (UTC).Subject - Pumpable ice technology.
Dear Rich Farmbrough. I am sorry for my questions. In the present of your time, please, support/give me your recommendations about the following:
1.Dated clean-up tags in. The first, thank you for your fast answer. 2nd, I am sure, the text can be improved. Unfortunately, my knowledge in Wiki, really, is negligible. that is why, sorry for my request, please, remove Dated clean-up tags. If you can too, please, suggest the attractive article (by structure and subject closed to PIT) for improving. Thank you for your cooperation.
2.The user 70.52.128.71, changed text. I know that his redaction is not right. I checked his activities and he only pushes advertising of one company (Sunwell) that is in contradiction with one of main principles of Wiki – neutral point of view. In addition, his changes do not introduce a real history. What can I do? Thank you in advance.
I wish you the efficient activities in Wiki. BR Swallow2011 ( talk). —Preceding undated comment added 18:32, 16 March 2012 (UTC).
This edit seems confusing. There already was a date value passed to the {{
Deletable image-caption}} template (via positional parameter 1=
). I tried uncommenting this item and the added named parameter date=
appears to be ignored in preference to the positional one anyway.
DMacks (
talk) 18:01, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Your Helpful Pixie Bot is changing {{Cite ...}} to {{Template:Cite ...}} in various articles. For example: [87].
Is this intentional? It seems very strange to me. I am not aware of any new Wikipedia rule that requires (or even permits) the inclusion of the actual word Template: to be included when invoking a template in an article.
If this actually is the policy, does it apply to all templates? There are thousands -- probably millions -- of articles that include {{Infobox ...}} templates. Should all of these say {{Template:Infobox ...}} instead?
If that is a new policy, then your bot is not being consistent. For example, in the edit I cited above, your bot did not replace {{By whom}} with {{Template:By whom}}. — Lawrence King ( talk) 18:51, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
I came here with another example [88]. There cannot be a good reason for this. Spinning Spark 20:16, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Template: . *
Edits by:
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BAG.
Last edit by me at 01:34, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by anyone was by
Rich Farmbrough at 01:34, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
Bottom edit was by
Rich Farmbrough at 01:34, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 01:34, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Template: . *
Edits by:
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BAG.
Last edit by me at 14:17, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
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CBM at 16:46, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
Bottom edit was by
CBM at 16:46, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 16:49, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey Rich. I noticed up in
#Please stop the Pixie bot from changing "Reference" to "References" that your bot often changes ==Reference==
--> ==References==
, ==External link==
--> ==External links==
, etc. in headings. I thought it might be worth suggesting that you also change ==Source==
--> ==Sources==
, as that's one I come across every now and then and fix manually. You're always busy doing different things, so no rush, but I thought it might be something you're interested in. Cheers,
Jenks24 (
talk) 06:14, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Template:Capitalization has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Stfg (
talk) 20:30, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
It looks like they changed the output at http://stats.grok.se...
I tried running this script again (last time was in September), to get a new total for outline traffic, and it doesn't seem to work right. Just returns zeros now.
use LWP::Simple;
$month = "02";
$year = "2012";
$lang="en";
while (<>){
s/ /_/g;
print "$_";
$page=get ("http://stats.grok.se/$lang/$year$month/$_" );
$page =~ /has been viewed (\d+) times in/;
$total+=$1;
print " $total\n ";
}
print "\nTotal: $total";
On the command line I specified a file that is a list with bare unbracketed article names, one article name per line.
perl Pagestats Outlinelist.txt
Does the script work for you?
I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 00:53, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
I found the problem. Solved by removing " times in" from the script.
The new total is 586,206. The Transhumanist 01:33, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Otherplaces2. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Otherplaces2 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Magioladitis ( talk) 20:16, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Infobox CollegeFootballPlayer. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Infobox CollegeFootballPlayer redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Magioladitis ( talk) 20:56, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Adult bio. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Adult bio redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Magioladitis ( talk) 21:12, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Did a macro or something go awry tonight? — C.Fred ( talk) 01:30, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
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Rich Farmbrough at 15:12, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 15:13, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello - I'm curious to know what this is about? Thanks. Socrates2008 ( Talk) 08:27, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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Headbomb at 21:53, 25 March 2012 (UTC).
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Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 01:15, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Please don't change SC to smallcaps SC is widely used on wikisource if you go around changing {{ SC}} to {{ smallcaps}} it will only be time before some muppet puts {{ SC}} up for deletion, this will make cut and pasts from wikisource more difficult and time consuming. -- PBS ( talk) 15:32, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:04, 19 March 2012 (UTC).
You know, a truly helpful pixie bot would bother to tag the 20 other pages that needed an expand list, and not just insert a date on expand list tags already placed. :) -- Hooperswim ( talk) 16:56, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
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CBM at 23:58, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 00:34, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
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Headbomb at 20:38, 25 March 2012 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 21:00, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
I have a few Ambox and Fix related issues that I'd appreciate help with, if you have time, and if you have no reason to not want to interfere, of course.
Hey guys! A couple of highly important things to do over the next few weeks:
Regards, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 18:53, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
It appears that your bot is adding a citation needed tag at the end of every sentence that is not already specifically referenced. See [89] Is that your intent? Or is this a manual process with bot assistance?-- Hjal ( talk) 17:43, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
Cn}}
is {{
Citation needed}}
- just less readable.
Rich
Farmbrough, 17:45, 14 February 2012 (UTC).Hello Rich, I saw you added some tags that says the language of the article is like a magazine article. I changed it a bit and removed the tag. I hope it worked out. If you want, you can check and see and give an idea in tha talk page of the article or to me.rinduzahid( talk) 17:07, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Regarding your having removed the TMZ citation from the article, and replaced the statement that Michaele Salahi lacked an addition with the somewhat more euphemistic statement that she "did not meet the criteria", I took a closer look at the UPI source from which that latter, amended statement came from, and it also supports the statement that she lacked an addiction. It did indeed relate the statement from the network source that she did not meet the production's criteria, but only because it described what those criteria were beforehand:
The treatment program that 'Celebrity Rehab' documents is intended for individuals with serious substance abuse and addiction issues. Prior to the taping of the current season, producers were advised that Michaele Salahi met the criteria to be treated in this setting," VH1 said in a statement Tuesday. "However, professional assessments spanning from that time to the present, found that she did not meet such criteria.
Thus, there was no reason to remove that original point. Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 02:53, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
.. for the barnstar! I just wiki-gnome away, usually leaving the Dramahs to other folk, though seem to have got involved in a couple just lately. Pam D 17:54, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page. -- Timeshifter ( talk) 00:18, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your information regarding this new article I am creating. I presently have two books on the subject and more to come, but so far I have not made any connection with the two Merchant Adventurers that are in Wikipedia. I will have to continue to research to be certain but it clearly states that he started this particular Merchant Adventurers so I do not think they are connected. We will see and I study further. Anyway, thank you. Mugginsx ( talk) 17:01, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
The Helpful Pixie Bot is not so helpful at the moment. It is changing all heads "External link" to "External links", even when there is only ONE (1) external link. Stop this bot and let it check the number of external links first. I will revert the whole lot that showed up at my watchlist... Night of the Big Wind talk 11:26, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
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The next improvement I'd like to tackle is to provide some way to toggle an outline's annotations off/on (all at the same time) while viewing the outline in Wikipedia!!!
For example...
The user is browsing Wikipedia and has just arrived at an outline page. It's fully annotated, but he wants to look at the page uncluttered by the annotations.
How could we make it so that all he has to do is press a hot key to make (all of) the annotations disappear?
And then reappear by pressing a different hot key.
What are the possible approaches to implementing this?
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 23:54, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
BTW, I'm stuck on the thread preceding this one (extract/insert annotations). I posted a bunch of new questions up there for you (I mention them here just in case you missed them). The Transhumanist 23:14, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
At
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You might find {{ Wraps infobox}} useful. It currently adds a category; we could make that switchable. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:06, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I see two significant problems with adding the hyphens to ISBNs at this time:
I think we should focus on solving these two problems before converting all ISBNs on the Wikipedia to the hyphenated forms. I made a couple of suggestions for how we might be able to solve these problems at Wikipedia talk:ISBN, but you did not respond to these ideas, so I wonder whether you believe they are of no importance. I had some discussion with User:Michael Bednarek about how we might try to implement a workaround, so that hyphens could be added without creating the above two drawbacks. We agreed that the best approach would be to get the Wikisoftware modified so that the hyphenated ISBN is formatted as nowrap text in the page source code, and the unhyphenated ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 are automatically added as hidden text, which then serve as targets of search engines. I saved our discussion here. If you have a moment, would you please take a look at it. With your expertise and help, maybe we could get these problems solved and then proceed with making the encyclopedia consistent with the original ISBN hyphenation standard (which, as I know you are aware, has not been generally adopted on the web). -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 19:26, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
I think it may be browser dependent. On the page Samson and Delilah (opera). I'm not seeing wrapping in Firefox, but I do see it in Safari. Here's the source code from Firefox:
Here it is from Safari:
It looks identical to me, but behaves differently in the two browsers. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 09:21, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive743#Bot continues task despite objections and without apparent consensus to support it. Fram ( talk) 09:53, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. A mostly helpful bot. In that talk,
User:Diannaa pointed out a helpful fix (and my reply)
Here the bot changed an invalid 11 digit ISBN to drop the dashes, leaving a still invalid ISBN. Diannaa found the right one: ISBN 86-84433-00-9 and noted that there are about 3000 instances of the wrong ones in various Balkan village articles. I suggested that the bot could be tweaked to know about this ISBN and actively fix them up. This could become a feature that could be re-used to fix other similarly widely propagated bad ISBNs. Alarbus ( talk) 02:47, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
It's obvious that few people see a problem with this, and most people find it a good thing, so I'll close the ANI discussion and let you continue with this. At least (trying to give a positive twist to an unnecessary ANI section) now you have a more recent discussion showing support for this task. Fram ( talk) 07:40, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello there,
How on earth to you find these things, like the correct formatting of isbn numbers (where hypens go)? What brings you to them? Do you have a special role in WP? Do you respond to some kind of alert system? What does pixiebot mean when your name is Rich? Please let me know--I'm fascinated! Thanks for taking the time,-- Classicfilmbuff ( talk) 21:45, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
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Most of this edit is fine, but the bot proceeded to "fix" something in an HTML comment. Just a heads up. - Denimadept ( talk) 04:04, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hello RF, in looking through some things for the current BRFA, I noticed that Pixie Bot appears to be conducting cosmetic changes alongside its approved tasks. While this is permitted under WP:COSMETICBOT, it is not under your editing restriction regarding such changes. BAG does not explicitly approve such actions, only the task for which the bot is specifically programmed. Some examples I noted include:
These edits, and others like them, of which there are many, violate your editing restrictions as they do not affect the appearance of the article. Would you mind taking Pixie Bot offline temporarily until it can be reconfigured to avoid such actions, or request that BAG specifically permit these changes to be executed? Thank you. Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 22:19, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
"I'm going to ignore most of what you said" that is the rude and uncivil part. I understand that you fell for CBM's games, and that you probably either don't want to admit it or don't believe it yourself, but telling it like it is is not uncivil. Blocking the bot while I was coding is uncivil. Making judgements on things you are not familiar with, without taking the time to understand them is uncivil. making threats is uncivil. But I let that stuff wash over me. Wehn you then turn around and call me uncivil, it's getting a little rich.
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See [98]. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 04:13, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Could you please tweak Helpful Pixie Bot so that the insertion of {{ Please check ISBN}} into citation templates does not cause them to break? See this diff and the result. Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 07:06, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Example:
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This edit by Helpful Pixie Bot added dashes to what looks like an isbn but is actually a file name. Can you prevent this occurrence? Chris857 ( talk) 14:17, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
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About this template. It currently categorizes the category into category:x-importance articles, into category:project articles by importance and into category:project articles by quality and importance
For example: see Category:B-Class Education in India articles of Top-importance
Ideally I do not see why it needs to be a subcategory of anything except Category:Education in India articles by quality and importance (x-articles by quality and importance), Category:B-Class Education in India articles(y-class x articles) and Category:Top-importance Education in India articles(z-importance x-articles). I see that the template is used at a lot of places, and hence I'm a little wary about editing it. Maybe you should check how the other projects categorise and fix it accordingly. Thanks and regards.-- Siddhartha Ghai ( talk) 00:56, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm leaving this message for known script authors, recent contributors to Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts, and those who've shown interest in user scripts.
This scripts listing page is in dire need of cleanup. To facilitate this, I've created a new draft listing at Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts cleanup. You're invited to list scripts you know to be currently working and relevant. Eventually this draft page can replace the current scripts listing.
If you'd like to comment or collaborate on this proposal, see the discussion I started here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject User scripts#Scripts listing cleanup project. Thanks! Equazcion (talk) 04:32, 25 Mar 2012 (UTC)
Let's say I have the wikicode file "Outline of Stamford" saved on my computer, and I want a program that goes through the outline, finds the first bulleted entry lacking an annotation, pulls the article from Wikipedia for the subject in the entry, extracts the first two sentences of the lead paragraph, then inserts those two sentences as the annotation for that entry, then repeats for the next missing entry, until the all the entries have annotations.
This would be very helpful, as it would save tons of manual cutting and pasting.
How would you go about doing that with perl?
The Transhumanist 22:05, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
while ($page =~ /\n\*\s*\[\[([^\])]*\]\]\s*\*/s ){
$bulleted = $1;
$entry = get ($bulleted);
$entry =~ s/.*?'''.*?'''//;
$entry =~ s/([^\.]*.[^\.]*.).*/$1/;
$page =~ s/(\n\*\s*\[\[$bulleted\]\]\s*)\*/$1 $entry/;
}
here the handwaving is in the assumption that the Wikipeida articles are well-formed, and not exceptional.
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:27, 4 January 2012 (UTC).
Entries in outlines look like this:
Concerning list entries, an annotation is a dashed comment.
The entries "Photography" and "Sculpture" above lack annotations. Would the program you wrote above home in on those and add an annotation for each? The Transhumanist 03:41, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
(I had to return the programming books to the library).
I don't know what to do to be able to use the while loop you provided above on an outline.
That is, how do you make it read the outline file into the $page variable?
Also, what did you mean by "handwaving"?
Once the annotations are inserted, how do I save the outline back to disk?
When this script becomes fully operational, I expect it will do more than 50% of the work on outlines. Because inserting annotations by hand is tedious as hell, and all of the outlines have entries that need annotations. We're talking tens of thousands of annotation insertions. I can't stress how helpful this tool will be.
How fast do you think it could insert 100 annotations? [
I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 23:49, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:39, 27 March 2012 (UTC).
Thank you very much by your unselfish cooperation in Article "Biodiversity of New Caledonia". Muchas gracias por tu colaboración desinteresada en el articulo "Biodiversidad de Nueva Caledonia". 85.251.99.49 ( talk) 23:10, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I see that your edit summary here states "tag retracted paper". May I ask what you mean by a "retracted paper"? I suspect that it is not the meaning used by the publishing houses. Axl ¤ [Talk] 23:25, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I just wanted to let you know that I went ahead and submitted a proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Proposal to improve Wikipedia's ISBN Magic. Thanks for all your help with this. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 19:27, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich! Thanks for all your help with the bot! I've been thinking more about all the expand language templates, and it might make sense to combine them all into one master template with an article parameter and a language parameter, rather than having ~100 separate templates that need to be individually maintained. Would you be able/willing (I'm confident you are able to do this!) to code a bot to convert {{Expand French|articletitle}} to {{Translate|French|article=articletitle}} for all articles currently tagged? (First I would need to get permission to repurpose {{ Translate}}, which is currently a redirect.) Hopefully, this would be a one-time task. I had always wanted to keep the template super simple for users, and now instead of having to specify the articletitle parameter (which they can now just ignore), they'd just have to specify the language parameter. Any thoughts about this? The only thing that is currently inconsistent in any significant way across the templates is the use of different topic categories for different languages, but I think this could be easily managed using a switch parameter in the master template. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 16:55, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Yeah it would save a lot of edits every time the template needs to be revised at least... But it would require several thousand edits to fix of course.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:03, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Editing restrictions, "Rich Farmbrough is indefinitely prohibited from mass creating pages in any namespace, unless prior community approval for the specific mass creation task is documented." You have however created hundreds of categories in a short time, many of them of very limited or debatable use, e.g. dozens of categories for test templates like Category:Immediate children/Test-44 and Category:Immediate children/Test-16.
Much worse is your creation of all missing "Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of ..." categories. These are often years old, only contain one editor or IP address (who may have gone on to completely different people), and are based on sometimes flimsy or dubious evidence. You have e.g. created Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Ghirlandajo, based on a tag from 2007, and where the discussion at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Ghirlandajo concluded that there wasn't enough evidence at all to link the two. However, thanks to your creation now, five years after the fact, this has been "officialized" for no good reason at all. I'll start a discussion at AN again to see how to deal with this umpteenth violation of your editing restrictions, which were imposed to avoid these kind of problems... Fram ( talk) 07:24, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Discussion is at WP:AN#Mindless creation of "suspected sockpuppet" categories from years old, with resulting problems. Fram ( talk) 07:33, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Ultimate Comics Enemy, Ultimate Mystery, Ultimate Comics Doom - ComicVine.-- Shawnee Smith ( talk) 10:06, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to all of you for commenting on the NOINDEX RfC :). It's always great to be able to field questions like these to the community; it's genuinely the highlight of my work! The NOINDEX idea sprung from our New Page Triage discussion; we're developing a new patrolling interface for new articles, and we want your input like never before :). So if you haven't already seen it, please go there, take a look at the screenshots and mockups and ideas, and add any comments or suggestions you might have to the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 16:45, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rich,
Sorry to be a nuisance I know you are very busy. If you have time, would you kindly check the following articles (below) to see whether the tags placed on them are still justifiable and if so how to improve them. I have re-edited the articles per the objections raised but the editor who put the tags has not contributed to English Wikipedia as a signed-in editor (going by their contribution history) for over a month. I am very close to the article because I originally created them so another opinion would be immensely appreciated. Thank you.
Regards
Tamsier ( talk) 21:17, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your contribution to WP:BOTREQ! Chrisrus ( talk) 04:36, 28 March 2012 (UTC) |
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The Britball of persistence against all odds |
And some of them are very odd.
Rich
Farmbrough, 02:12, 31 March 2012 (UTC). 02:12, 31 March 2012 (UTC) |
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Edits by:
Last edit by
BAGGER was by Hellknowz at 11:16, 31 March 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by me at 21:39, 27 March 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by anyone was by
Kwamikagami at 04:09, 1 April 2012 (UTC).
Bottom edit was by
Kwamikagami at 04:09, 1 April 2012 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 04:20, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
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Last edit by
BAGGER was by Hellknowz at 11:16, 31 March 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by me at 21:39, 27 March 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by anyone was by
DePiep at 08:13, 1 April 2012 (UTC).
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DePiep at 08:13, 1 April 2012 (UTC).
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Last edit by
BAGGER was by Hellknowz at 11:16, 31 March 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by me at 21:39, 27 March 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by anyone was by
Kwamikagami at 23:45, 1 April 2012 (UTC).
Bottom edit was by
Kwamikagami at 23:45, 1 April 2012 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 00:48, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Still number 1, I see. And closing in on the 1,000,000 edit mark. The Transhumanist 05:25, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
The block may be a blessing in disguise.
This may give editors who have had a hard time keeping your attention the opportunity to converse with you on a more meaningful level (i.e., not rushed).
Why would we want to?
Because you are an expert on many aspects of Wikipedia.
This vacation gives you valuable time to share your expertise and experience with other Wikipedians.
Personally, I have many questions for you... – The Transhumanist 03:55, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
I just took a look at your user page, to see if it provides any info on the types of questions you would be able to answer, and I noticed you're from London. Half my family tree lives around there.
I haven't been to London since 1997. Almost got killed jaywalking 3 times, due to looking the wrong way before crossing. I guess it's not "jaywalking" over there, because it's legal — for you it's just crossing the street. I think it's cool that you have the right to cross the street. Here we are subject to getting ticketed by the police if we cross anywhere other than at an intersection.
By the way, that you drive on the other side of the street over there makes it easy to spot foreigners. I noticed many of them looking the wrong way.
I also learned that clotted cream tea is not tea with clotted cream in it. :) The Transhumanist 04:46, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
And how did you do it? The Transhumanist 05:38, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
I.e., what are they made of (what languages, programs, etc.)? The Transhumanist 05:01, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
(For example, see: Outline of Mozambique)
How? The Transhumanist 05:44, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Use the list maker to make a list of "Links on page (redlinks only)".
Save the list to a text file.
Replace the carriage returns in the text file with "|". Copy the content.
Create a normal rule that replaces \[\[(<paste the contents here>)\]\] with $1
Run it against the page in question.
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:13, 1 April 2012 (UTC).
...that opens a file, does something to it, and then saves it under a new filename?
I need to see how that is done. The Transhumanist 05:51, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
OPEN FILE, "<:utf-8" , "oldfile"; while (<FILE>){ $text .= $_} CLOSE FILE # do some stuff $text =~ s/e/z/; # replace e with z to even up letter usage across the universe a little OPEN FILE, ">:utf-8" , "newfile"; print FILE $text; CLOSE FILE
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:08, 1 April 2012 (UTC).
Excuse me, does anyone know how to download the image Ultimate Jessica Drew? It would be good on the second picture was visible on her face, in the plot of the Ultimate Spider-Man.-- Shawnee Smith ( talk) 12:12, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Rich
Farmbrough, 12:30, 2 April 2012 (UTC).
It took me over an hour to realize my script didn't work because a semicolon was missing from the end of a line. The Transhumanist 19:53, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
I opened a file, and tried to define a variable to be the contents of the filehandle, like this:
open(LIST, "list.txt") || die("can't open list.txt: $!");
$list = LIST; #pull LIST into a scalar variable (doesn't work)
print "$list" # to see if it worked, display contents of $list, which should be the file list.txt
But it just prints out the filehandle!
What am I doing wrong? The Transhumanist 19:53, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
It is not clear from what you've said how to use the record separators. What should the line look like? Like this...?
$list = $/<LIST>;$\ #pull LIST into a scalar variable using record separators (doesn't work)
I'm trying to be able to use the following line of code to search a file for a string. If it's in there, I want the program to run a subroutine. If it's not in there I want the program to run a different subroutine.
$list =~ m/stringcheckingfor/ #look for string in contents of list.txt
I'm kinda stuck. The Transhumanist 21:27, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
OK, the angle brackets work, but it only prints out one line from the file. If what you meant was to put record separators in the file, then how do you search files without preprocessing every single file with the insertion of record separators? What if I want to search a file that's not a list and still be able to use the file for something else?
The Transhumanist 22:22, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
while (<FILE>) {$text .= $_}
I found something called "local" that seems to do the trick:
local $/; # I don't know what this does, but it works.
open(LIST, "list.txt") || die("can't open list.txt: $!");
$list = <LIST>; #pull LIST into a scalar variable (doesn't work)
close(LIST);
print "$list" # to see if it worked, display contents of $list, which should be the file list.txt
Though I'm not exactly sure why this works. The Transhumanist 23:18, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
I have two lists. list1.txt and list2.txt.
local $/; # I don't know what local does
open(LIST1, 'list1.txt') || die("Can't read file 'list1.txt': [$!]\n");
open(LIST2, "list2.txt") || die("Can't read file 'list2.txt': [$!]\n");
$list2 = <LIST2>; #pull LIST2 into a scalar variable
while (<LIST1>){ # start while loop on the first list (angle brackets take next line of input)
# Search $list2 using the current line of input from LIST1 as the search string (I don't know how to do this yet without making the script fail to compile). I plan to write two subroutines, one for true and one for false.
}
close(LIST1);
close(LIST2);
I can't believe I'm still in the file IO. I haven't even gotten to the guts of the program yet. Frustrating!
The Transhumanist 00:28, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
ok, local is creating a scoped version of $/ that is undefined. I haven't tried this but I suppose it works, and rather nicely in a way, since if you were using this in a block the default value of $/ would come back when you leave the block.
Now the problem you have is that you will slurp file 2 the same way you slurped file 1. So you need something like
local $/; # I don't know what local does
open(LIST1, 'list1.txt') || die("Can't read file 'list1.txt': [$!]\n");
$list2 = <LIST2>; #pull LIST2 into a scalar variable
close(LIST2);# close LIST 2 as early as we can
$/="\n"; # revert
open(LIST2, "list2.txt") || die("Can't read file 'list2.txt': [$!]\n");
while (<LIST1>){ # start while loop on the first list (angle brackets take next line of input)
chomp; # Maybe?
if ($list2 =~ /$_/){
tru_sub();
}
else {
false_sub();
}
# Search $list2 using the current line of input from LIST1 as the search string (I don't know how to do this yet without making the script fail to compile). I plan to write two subroutines, one for true and one for false.
}
close(LIST1);
ATB.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:55, 3 April 2012 (UTC).
local $/; # I don't know what local does
open(LIST1, 'list1.txt') || die("Can't read file 'list1.txt': [$!]\n");
open(LIST2, "list2.txt") || die("Can't read file 'list2.txt': [$!]\n");
$list2 = <LIST2>; #pull LIST2 into a scalar variable
close(LIST2);# close LIST 2 as early as we can
$/="\n"; # revert
while (<LIST1>){ # start while loop on the first list (angle brackets take next line of input)
chomp; # Maybe? (seems to work OK)
if ($list2 =~ /$_/){
tru_sub();
}
else {
false_sub();
}
}
close(LIST1);
print "\n\n";
print "$list2"; # display contents of list2.txt (as a test)
sub tru_sub {
print "$_"; # display it on the screen so you can see that it is working
print "\n\n"
}
sub false_sub {
print "This subroutine doesn't do anything yet (other than print this message)\n";
}
The print functions show that the program actually works.
Now I have the places to put the guts. Thank you!
By the way, what is this part of the program called, an IO skeleton? The Transhumanist 06:01, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Is Wikipedia downloadable?
Do you have it installed on your computer? The Transhumanist 01:02, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
An editor has been trying to alter the founding year of Halo Burger which was founded in 1923. Period. Yes, the restaurant has changed over the years and was originally Kewpee, but Halo Burger considers its founding year to be 1923 as it says on its logo. Please monitor the Halo Burger article more closely. Thanks. Steelbeard1 ( talk) 14:20, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
I'd like to be able to provide (to the entire world) the ability to look at Wikipedia outlines in more than one way.
One thing I'd like the user to be able to do is, with the press of a button, make the annotations disappear (to view a bare uncluttered list). And with another press of the button, reappear.
You mentioned CSS as a possibility. Can that be made to hide/show all of the annotations on the page, and just the annotations, at the same time? The annotations appear at the end of each entry, after an en dash.
I think it would be nicer to have it as a feature of the MediaWiki software or even the browser, so that the (annotations off) mode applies to all outlines being viewed, until reactivated. That way the user wouldn't have to press the toggle for each page.
What are the software development options for creating a toggle, and what would they entail? The Transhumanist 11:27, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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I don't even know what one looks like. The Transhumanist 16:20, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
If, for example, you are simply stress testing, then it would only do 1. A daily reminder bot might only do 3. A capture bot might just read a page and save a copy locally.
But if you are talking a typical 1-2-3 bot that reads WP pages, thinks about them and writes back an edited version, you could do worse than use the MediaWiki::API module. In pseudo-perl it would look something like this.
use MediaWiki::API; # some initialisation and logging in code my $mw = MediaWiki::API->new(); $mw->{config}->{api_url} = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'; $mw->login( {lgname="Sock-puppet", lgpassword => "drosswap" } ) || die ..... # suppose we have a list of pages we made by some means... open LIST, "<:utf8","list.txt"; while(<LIST>){ $page=$_; my $ref= $mw->get_page ({title=>$page}); # reads the page and sets up the $ref structure my $timestamp = $ref->{timestamp}; # needed to avoid (reduce) edit conflicts $text = $ref->{'*'}; $text =~ s/e/q/gi; #replace e with q throughout $mw->edit({ action => 'edit', title => $page, basetimestamp => $timestamp, test => $text, summary => "Q is better than E!" }) } close LIST;
Can you recommend any good online Perl documentation that isn't perldoc? – The Transhumanist 16:38, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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This could be useful for developing a set of pages offline. Can this be done? How fast do you think it would run? The Transhumanist 01:54, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
In a perl script I'm writing, I have a While loop nested inside another While loop. What's the default variable for the current line in the nested loop? Is the default variable in the outer loop unaffected? The Transhumanist 01:33, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
while (<>) { my $title=$_; ....
This prevents "accidents" . Similarly it seem to be good practice to write
if (/([xyz])(abc)/){ my $letter=$1; print "Found letter - $letter!\n"; }
instead of the simpler
if (/([xyz])(abc)/){ print "Found letter - $1!\n"; }
so that if some other regex is used $letter will still have what we expect, while $1 can change in almost unexpected ways.
Rich
Farmbrough, 02:28, 6 April 2012 (UTC).
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Rich, per Headbomb's and Newyorkbrad's responses at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich Farmbrough/Workshop#All bots indefinitely blocked, I'd like to unblock Femto Bot; I agree that it performs useful tasks and shouldn't be blocked for the sake of being blocked. However, would it be possible to suspend its task 0 ("Creating needed monthly clean up categories") for the duration of the case? Per Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Femto Bot, it would appear that there are some technical problems with the task and I think it may fall within the scope of the concerns that instigated the case. If you would suspend that task, I'd be more comfortable with unblocking the bot and would do so first thing in the morning if possible. Cheers! — madman 03:27, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for following up with me on this; as you've noticed, I'm more or less on Wikibreak due to medical/personal issues but I still usually do a better job of keeping up with my watchlist. I hate to vacillate on this after you've shown good faith by suspending the potentially controversial task, but I think I'm going to have to modify User:Femto Bot's block to expire on 23:21, 30 April 2012 (when Elen's block would have expired) rather than unblock it immediately. Having consulted with the blocking administrator and having read up on the ArbCom discussion, I think the discussion's escalated much more than I thought it would. While I'd have no hesitation normally to make such a unilateral decision and stand my ground whatever controversy may ensue, at the moment I'm too fatigued to engage in any potentially fast-paced and heated discussion; I'm sure you can empathize. I do hope to initiate discussion of the blocking policy when I come back, specifically "since the edits of a bot are considered to be, by extension, the edits of the editor responsible for the bot..." I don't think this is correct in all cases, specifically in the case of automated tasks which can run without input from their operator. I think there's an implicit assumption of bad faith in preemptive prevention of a bot account being used to disrupt the encyclopedia/evade blocks. I'm interested in hearing your opinion on this. Cheers, — madman 18:30, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
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Quite a "village" eh.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:04, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Astronomy#Articles_for_Redirect, where your expertese is requested. Thanks again for your help with that project. Chrisrus ( talk) 12:18, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
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See Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_April_17#Wikipedians_who_like_X. -- Enric Naval ( talk) 08:47, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Relevant pages.
Note also that Signpost has twice (at least) reported on the case, and there is no effective right of reply due to the somewhat crazy "blocking" situation.
Rich
Farmbrough, 23:43, 17 April 2012 (UTC).
Just a friendly reminder that the evidence phase has closed. If you would like to add evidence please speak to a clerk or one of the drafting arbs. Thanks, -- Guerillero | My Talk 04:13, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Your attention is requested here Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich_Farmbrough/Workshop#Questions_to_the_parties Thank you. Mlpearc ( powwow) 05:45, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
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This diff] is being cited as an example of my evility....
Rich
Farmbrough, 15:32, 18 April 2012 (UTC).
Hi,
I've created {{ Update-small}} (the name {{ Update-inline}} being taken), which you might like to check over, please, and have your Bot recognise and date-stamp. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:24, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
{{
outofdate|section}}
instead. Regards,
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talk) 00:12, 25 April 2012 (UTC)Extended content
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You are using this template in the wrong namespace. Use this template on your talk page instead. Rich Farmbrough, 00:51, 25 April 2012 (UTC).
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I'm preparing to use AWB's external processing feature. I'm trying to write a script to read a text file, process it, and then save it. My sample text file is "test.txt" and contains "xxxxxx This is a test page. xxxxxx"
The problem is, my script erases the contents of the file! What I want this test script to do is a simple regex substitution.
open FILETEXT, ">test.txt" or die $!;
my $slurped = <FILETEXT>;
$slurped =~ s/This is a test page/This is a test page that passed its test/;
# print "$slurped";
print FILETEXT $slurped;
close (FILETEXT);
Instead of modified content, I find that the content has been completely erased. What is causing the problem? What will make this work right? The Transhumanist 10:40, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: I'm using strawberry perl, per your recommendation.
open FILETEXT, "test.txt";
my $slurped = <FILETEXT>;
$slurped =~ s/This is a test page/This is a test page that passed its test/;
print "$slurped";
close (FILETEXT);
open FILETEXT, ">test.txt";
print FILETEXT $slurped;
close (FILETEXT);
Thinking that I found a solution, I increased the file to 3 lines, to discover that this script only processes the first line of the file, and replaces the file with that one line.
How can I fix that? The Transhumanist 11:48, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
I expanded the opening to this:
local $/ = undef;
open FILETEXT, "test.txt";
binmode FILETEXT;
And it seems to work, but where did the new lines go?
I changed the regex string in the script and used AWB to pass a page to text.txt, and the substitution worked, but the diff in AWB revealed that the article was now one big block of run-together text.
How can I fix that?
I figured out how argument passing works a few days ago, so once I learn how to slurp without stripping the linefeeds, I'll be ready to write the real guts for my script! Eventually, I may be able to write the External processing section of the AWB manual. Though I plan to put in some miles on this feature first before I do so. The Transhumanist 13:11, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
{
local $/ = undef;
open FILETEXT, 'C:\AWB\test\test.txt';
$slurped = <FILETEXT>;
$slurped =~ s/This is a test page/This is a test page that passed its test/;
print $slurped;
close FILETEXT;
}
open ANSWER, ">:", 'C:\AWB\test\test.txt';
print ANSWER $slurped;
close ANSWER;
This works for me. Because you have redefined $/ you don't need to use binmode. Reading the file in binmode and writing it in text means that the line-feeds are being read in one way and written in another, I think.
Note that I put a block "{...}" around the reading section to keep undef $/ local, though this should not matter in this example. (The output record separator is $\.)
Note also I split the file name and the ">:" bit up - this is not required but is good practice, if you have variables in the file name, they are less dangerous if they can't be interpreted as a the file type thingy.
OK, I took out binmode, and it works even better! Thank you.
I don't know what an "output record separator" is. Why and how would one refer to $\. in a program?
Also, what is the colon after the greater than sign for?
By the way, I ran into a problem with block delimiters...
When I used a block, leaving the second filehandle sequence outside the block, AWB no longer showed a diff. It showed a messsage that no changes were made.
That is, this works fine:
{
local $/ = undef;
open FILETEXT, "test.txt";
# binmode FILETEXT;
my $slurped = <FILETEXT>;
#$slurped =~ s/This is a test page/This is a test page that passed its test/;
$slurped =~ s/the/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/; # test substitution so something shows up in AWB diffs
print "$slurped";
close (FILETEXT);
open ANSWER, ">test.txt";
print ANSWER $slurped;
close (ANSWER);
}
But this does not work:
{
local $/ = undef;
open FILETEXT, "test.txt";
# binmode FILETEXT;
my $slurped = <FILETEXT>;
#$slurped =~ s/This is a test page/This is a test page that passed its test/;
$slurped =~ s/the/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/; # test substitution so something shows up in AWB diffs
print "$slurped";
close (FILETEXT);
}
open ANSWER, ">test.txt";
print ANSWER $slurped;
close (ANSWER);
When using AWB with the above script, the contents of test.txt gets completely erased. So I used the dir command to see what happened, and the filename shows up, but with zero bytes. The Transhumanist 19:37, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
">:utf8"
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:19, 25 April 2012 (UTC).
If you set "$\" then it would be output after every "print" so for example:
{
local $\ = "\n";
print "to be or not to be";
print "that is the question";
}
is the same as
print "to be or not to be\n";
print "that is the question\n";
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:45, 25 April 2012 (UTC).
Re: Wikipedia:Scripts/Perl scripts/Pagestats. Thank you for putting in a CC licence. I must read up LWP, when I have some spare time. It is interesting to see the style in which other people write scripts. I have not tested it, but it looks like it will work to me. It looks like it will print to screen totals cumulating after it has read a page and finally prints the grand total. It reeds the whole page just to see one line high up on the stats web page. What have you used it for? Snowman ( talk) 12:11, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
I thought of your "things that stayed too long" section when I made this edit. Nearly two years ago, someone added a picture of Jordanian author Jamal Naji to the article and claimed that it was suspected terrorist Jamal Al-Gashey. When I came across the article, needless to say I was more than a bit surprised that a person who believes that Mossad is still trying to kill him would have such a clear picture freely available. Not that mistaken identity has ever hurt anyone, right? Canadian Paul 19:34, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
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It doesn't look like this is being used, so I am going to send it to TfD. If there is a use for it, then we can obviously keep it. thank you. 64.216.106.24 ( talk) 17:31, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
could you move this to your userspace? 64.216.106.24 ( talk) 17:57, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Approximately 3% of editors account for 85% of contributions to the project, according to the statistician, and participation among this group has declined "even more sharply" than the active registered userbase in toto.
Funny that.
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:22, 9 September 2011 (UTC).
User:Kotinski - for whom I have always had respect.
...find something more productive to do with my life than continually trying to present rational argument to people who aren't interested, in an environment where only the drama-mongers and edit-warriors are rewarded. ... I'm feeling a great sense of relief that I won't be spending tomorrow or the next day arguing with morons about trivia.
I know exactly what he means. The "real life" equivalent to how I feel, I suppose, would be an engineer who is working on various jobs and is constantly interrupted by a couple of guys with Home Depot tool-belts (and probably propeller caps) telling him the advantage of triangular slotted screws over hex drive, and occasionally emptying his boxes of screws in the gutter, replacing random screws with the preferred variety, and calling the police, saying "someone is vandalising safety structures with dodgy screws"... And the police believing them.
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:55, 26 March 2012 (UTC).
I have blocked you for a period of one month. Period is probably moot - the talk at AN is of opening a request for arbitration. If this happens, I expect you will be unblocked to participate.
The automated sockpuppet category creation is a truly monstrous failure of end-user (ie the community) testing. The community neither needs nor wants those categories - mostly if it needed them, it created them as it went along. You have succeeded in badging editors as socks/masters who were actually cleared, and you are connecting IPs with sockmasters, which is in breach of the privacy policy...not to mention that since the cases are older than Noah, the IPs are almost certainly being used by some poor innocent by now. -- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 23:34, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks, Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 00:01, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
... it's best to only edit manually, I've found. Strictly manually. When things settle down again, automation can be brought back in. Best of luck in the upcoming case. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 04:32, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Too bad about the block. If you're not careful, you might slip into 2nd place – Koavf only has a 100,000 edits to go to catch up! (Like I'm anyone to talk – I spend way too much time here.) — kwami ( talk) 02:45, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
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You expressed interest in starting a library of Perl scripts.
You also mentioned Perl's usefulness for scanning the WP data dump.
Do you have any scripts for that? Example code for this would be extremely useful. They would give the rest of us an idea of what's possible. The Transhumanist 11:41, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
(I couldn't find any documentation on this). The Transhumanist 11:47, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Program or script: perl
Arguments/Parameters: test.pl << test.txt >>test.txt
I/O file: test.txt
I'm impressed. You typically get just under 2,000 hits per month on your talk page. Last month it was almost 3,000. And this month so far there have been over 550 hits (in just 4 days).
You have an audience. You have readership!
You might consider that your page is a de facto (Wikipedia-related) blog page. Have you considered writing to your students here? Like posts on a blog. It's obvious that many people are interested in what you say and do. You have your very own venue. The Transhumanist 12:07, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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I've started Wikipedia:WikiProject Perl, to give you something to do after your block is lifted. :) By the way, I've started its talk page off with our Perl-related threads. Those might be useful or interesting to someone. The Transhumanist 23:46, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I figured it was only a matter time till they turned their attention to you. The community is losing contributors at the cyclic rate. It seems as though the drama llamas are starting at the top of the list of editors with the most contributions and working down. You, Me(Kumioko), I see drama on Magioladitis's page, etc. Its truly sad to see what the place has devolved into. 71.163.243.232 ( talk) 01:31, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Gandsnut ( talk) 20:17, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Good news! You now have access to 80 million articles in 6500 publications through HighBeam Research. Here's what you need to know:
Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 20:59, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
RF, I want to give you a big thanks for all the effort you with your bots put into Wikipedia and say your work is invaluable. As you may know I've got your talk page watched and post here occasionally - mainly to ask a question. When I've had reason to check your work (normally as someone moaning at your talk page or ANI), I've always found your work to be most beneficial for the encyclopedia. You make a huge lot of edits and because of that the most expediant method is sometimes to make mass changes then correct exceptions afterward that is the most effective use of time, a situation I shared in real life for many years as a db admin. Many on Wikipedia look for near perfection in bot edits and moan and groan whenever they see something that is a little off, without any idea of the bigger picture for data cleansing. I hope you are not put off by the drama of those who don't understand. Your work here is invaluable and a dropoff or an absence of your work would leave big holes in the cleanness and quality of Wikipedia. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 00:14, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Is it all worth it?
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:35, 18 April 2012 (UTC).
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@Greyhood; that cartoon is flippin' brilliant! Nicely done! I, too, laughed out loud! @Rich: Your optimism is seriously misplaced. Believing ArbCom will make a reasonable decision, not one motivated to obliterate the subject of the most heat, is a very Ponce de León-ian quest. There are windmills that need tilting at far more than a belief in ArbCom judicial purity. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:57, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
The blocking admin had said that she would block me for a day in the first instance. Instead she went for a month. I am now in a limbo where I should be unblocked and am unblocked but am "legally" blocked. If any admin would like to unblock me "legally" that would be very cool. Elen seems to think it's now down to Arbcom which is a serious misunderstanding.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:54, 20 April 2012 (UTC).
I removed my evidence, my suggested remedies and my analysis of your evidence, since it's just a cat fight gone horribly wrong and wasn't resolved properly. Best of luck. Whenaxis ( contribs) DR goes to Wikimania! 20:54, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Yikes Rich, I just wanted to say that I appreciate all the edits you've made to the encyclopedia as well (especially considering the very helpful work your bots have done.) I wasn't even aware of your newest ArbCom drama (and I'm not informed enough to comment on it), but I hope that you understand that there's no rivalry of any sort between you and me on my end. I have been overwhelmed by kind words and awards from across the globe, but I would hate for that to overshadow the good work that many, many Wikipedians have put into the project, yourself included. ( cf.) I hope that all of issues you have with other editors get resolved swiftly and justly so that we can all get on with the bigger goal of freely spreading the world's knowledge. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 23:09, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help with the asteroid redirection process! Chrisrus ( talk) 03:12, 24 April 2012 (UTC) |
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I've been slurping a file, like this:
open TEXTFILE, "text.txt";
$content = <TEXTFILE>; # slurp text.txt into variable
close(OUTLINE);
When I use regex to match or substitute in $content, the script simply does not recognize new line characters (\n) or the end of a line.
For example, this does not work:
$content =~ s/\n\n/\n/;
What it going on? The Transhumanist 02:10, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Found it:
$content =~ s/\n\n/\n/m;
Didn't know about that. Tricky. The Transhumanist 02:40, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
You may want to consider
$content =~ s/\n\n+/\n/mg;
this does 2,3,4, 5 etc. \n =in each subst, and the "g" means that it will do all the matches in the file, as a stand-alone s///.
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Hi Rich, I have contacted you recently by email about Wikimania 2012. It would be great if you could get in touch to discuss further - either talk page or email is fine. daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk Thank you!
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Can someone tell them that there's a dab problem with
Ellis Bent.
Rich
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"Aunt Jane!" said Tom, hurrying to keep up, "Do you think that one day I could be an Arb Clerk like you?"
"You can be whatever you want, Tom, even an Arb if you put your mind to it." she replied, striding down broad gleaming template namespace.
Tom liked his Aunt Jane, she was never flustered, or too tired to play a game of quick-diff with him, as his father was after a long day at MfD. And today she had taken him out for some new headers and footers. He watched the other editors move out of her path, touching their hats or avoiding her gaze, even the bots making minor edits to the illumination system seemed in awe of her. He was sure the mean boys who had kept reverting him on the school trip to the Commons, every time he tried to stop them making incivil remarks about Mona Mumpkin's bandwidth from the back 16 bits of the bus, would have quailed had they known she was his aunt.
"In here." she said as they came to a very expensive looking templating shop - gnomes were overpainting the signage but Ludwigs and Co was still visible under some blanked versions. While his aunt discussed the finer points of hair shaping with the proprietor, Tom took in the array of meta-templates, each with the distinctive Spork imprint, the shiny CC-by-Sa 17.2 mirrors and the custom python scripts apparently asleep on the floor of their cage.
Tom's mind wandered as the matching headers and footers were attached with a touch of CCS adhesive, adjusted, revised and tweaked until both his aunt and proprietor were satisfied, then, after polite farewells and sigging, back into the busy namespace one more.
"Aunt stop!" he said suddenly realising.
His aunt turned brought her face down to his level "What's the matter?"
"You didn't pay the man..."
She smiled, "Oh no dear, he does my jobs as a favour. You see a few years ago he was caught eating yogurt, and I was able to pull a few strings... avoided a lot of unpleasantness, probably a 1RR at least... for templater that would have been his livelihood."
"Yoghurt" Tom looked puzzled, then remembered his history lessons. ".. oh yogurt.." he said quietly, then quickly reverted himself before anyone else could watch.
"Anyway we are nearly there." Tom brightened, his aunt had taken him on a number of unusual outings recently, so it seemed there was another destination this morning, and while he was proud of his new gear, he was a more practical boy then fashion conscious. There had been the Harvard Hall where editors known as referrers were sitting trance-like, their neural nets linked by superconducting mono-filaments to the world library, abstracting and cross referencing for portals and projects. The trip to the wreck of the Esperanza had been the best, but he knew that the riskiest had been the back rooms of the sock-puppet centre, where in a large factory millions of socks were being attached to the heads of animated camels. He had been puzzled, but his aunt had refused to explain, telling him to think about it, and not to breathe a word to anyone.
The boy and his mentor crossed through a small, unlit, and rather insalubrious sub-namespace labelled Bjaodnally, and to his surprise came out right next to the Bot Museum. "Never go that way without me" she said "there are all sorts hanging around there, survivors form the old times, revert warriors, truthers even maybe sangeristas." The boy nodded, a delicious chill passing through him at the forbidden words, but nonetheless a little disappointed to be at the Bot Museum, which he had visited so many times before, often on a Saturday morning when his parents gave him a few electro-groats and hung a merge tag outside their user page.
They wandered down the vast echoing halls, past the hulking Cydebot and SmackBot - twin behemoths dwarfed in their turn by thousand armed Siebot, the steam powered Rambot - due to be powered up for a day at Easter, the sleek darting forms of HagermanBot and SineBot, the serried ranks of the py-bots facing the rows of slightly more customised awb-bots, like armies of pawns across a gigantic chess board. Skipping the policy room, where talking headsets would guide you through the dry and convoluted history of the documents framed around the walls (an urban legend said that every millionth visitor was taken over by the headset and changed into a bot) they arrived at the hands-on-section.
Here children of all ages, but mostly younger than Tom, operated simple revert bots, played some messy games, while in the sandbox two older boys with obvious competence problems were building a massive history tower. Tom admitted to himself that, deep down, this was his favourite room. Despite his age he liked playing with the toys and making them go further than they were designed to, getting them to interact with each other, the younger children's disruptive games simply adding to the challenge of controlling the devices without upsetting them, and at the end of the session, he liked to operate the sandbox cleaner to reset the unoccupied parts of the room to their initial state or "pre-set" as the controls described it.
Tom moved, almost automatically towards the stub builder, seeing some spare space where he could lay down a nice pattern, but his aunt took his hand and turned him to face a small triangular man in a curator's uniform. "This is my nephew, Tom. Tom this is.." she paused a heartbeat "...old Nab." The man's mouth twitched as she introduced him, as if a smiley had almost occurred.
"Very pleased to met you Tom, this way" - Old Nab opened a door marked Project staff only rollbacking the lock quicker than Tom could follow. Down a short, brightly lit corridor was a workshop, one wall was a large one-way watchlist where the children could be seen playing in the hands-on centre "just in case" as Old Nab later explained, the rest of the room, apart from the two doors, was crammed with junk, all sorts of glorious junk. Everything from almost complete robot carcases, to big tubs of mis-matched parentheses were scattered across the floor, over the workbenches, on shelves, and the ceiling was festooned with templates and meta-templates - not the burnished Spork imprinted tools of the high street, but hand made, custom templates, some possibly made for one job, then never used again, or not without further customization. Tom gaped, staring around, then his eyes fell on a regular expression lying, disassembled, on the bench next to him.
Before he could stop himself, he had re-arranged a couple of greedy wild-cards, and had just picked up a glowing delimiter, when Old Nab gently said "Here, I'll take that, my lad" relieving him of the object, which he now saw had intricate involuted methods running through it. "You're right Jane, he certainly does have an eye for these things. And I have been keeping an eye on him, here, from time to time" Old Nab glanced up at the watchlist, and Tom blushed at the thought of Nab applying intricate filters to his childish experiments and games. "I've put together the items you wanted." Half turning to Tom, "You're a lucky boy, to have an aunt like that."
Tom nodded "I know sir." he said, a little confused, watching, his hand still tingling from the delimiter, as Old Nab zipped, compressed and tar'ed a collection of components into a package small enough for Tom to carry.
"You know how to unpack, boy?" Nab said, and without waiting for an answer linked the package, with dual calling conventions for safety, to Tom's back. "Now I have to get on... the exit is over there. Nice to see you again Jane, Tom." Nab sigged and turned back to the workbench, muttering about vowel shifts and serial verbs, apparently oblivious to them as they sigged and left through the talk page.
Once again Jane set her rapid pace back towards the Project where Tom lived. Tom, carrying his load and hurrying to keep up, still managed enough breath to ask "Aunt? Um.. what is it?"
His aunt smiled enigmatically "You'll know once you unpack it - or if you don't then it's not for you."
And so half an hour later Tom found himself in his freshly archived home, carefully opening and unpacking the somewhat convoluted module the old man had created so effortlessly. As he extracted the components he added them to the growing collection, his mind putting together the puzzle "This links here - maybe if I glued that on there - oh I didn't see he'd added one, no two of those!" until finally all that was left was some stub code which he G6'd.
Tom looked at the tangled pile of metal, conduits and rulebases in the corner of his sub page. A bot of his very own. One day, one day soon, he and his bot would visit a real article.
Rich
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Target, at least 180 points.
Rich
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Kindly fix Pixie bot to NOT interfere with clearly marked tags saying that they're undergoing major edits, such as Brabourne Stadium which was tagged with the {{ Template:GOCEinuse}} template. I now need to unnecessarily merge my edits with that crappy bot's maintenance edits. Easwarno1 ( talk) 01:06, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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Wait, are you still blocked? I'll ask for the AFD to be put on hold if you are.
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Instead of adding this to hundreds of pages, wouldn't it have been a lot easier to add it to Template:Monthly clean-up category directly? Fram ( talk) 08:56, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
You should already be more than familiar with WP:BOTPOL, especially when there's an ongoing ARBCOM case about you and your bots. This is probably an accident, but in case you forgot, please read WP:BOTACC again and edit from your own account when making BRFAs, rather than from Femto Bot's account, as you did here. And also, while we're on the topic, please use the preview button / at least make sure the links you give work ( WP:Bot requests#faulty names correction in HPB 52, http://www.orchidspecies.com [which, BTW, is not a link to a previous discussion] in HPB 51). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:34, 1 May 2012 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:Femto Bot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 16:38, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm glad to see the shackles have been removed.
Given your years of faithful service to Wikipedia, I feel the decision to block for a whole month was excessive and made a bit hastily.
Your dedication to the project, indicated by your patience through all of this, I find inspiring.
Many under your circumstances would have simply quit. Thank you for not doing so.
I hope our arbitrators will allow you to continue applying your rare skill set to improving Wikipedia. The project will suffer otherwise.
Good luck. The Transhumanist 22:47, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Turns out Grutness left in 2011, and Fastily a few days back. Both cite persecution. Both were incredibly productive.
Rich
Farmbrough, 04:31, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)
ISBN format please. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 14:38, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Farmbrough, 15:21, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)| isbn = ISBN 1-68983-601-5 {{Please check ISBN|reason=Check digit (5) does not correspond to calculated figure.}}
. Previously I have deleted the template request after "confirming" the flagged number (no hyphens) with some source. Now I infer that the algorithm is more reliable than the source ... Today in this case I revised initial '1' to '0' per LCC; that catalog entry does not hyphenate this one (0689836015) so I retained your hyphenation. Do you hyphenate reliably and in a way editors might do manually? I have been using 1-3-5-1. --
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thank you. i will behave. :D - badmachine 03:49, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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You are changing "deos" to "does " instead of to "does", as far as I can see. Not really a major issue of course... Fram ( talk) 09:21, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
FYI, Missed an isbn. Thank you. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 22:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
ISBN hyphentation
Skips one ISBN
Fixed in build 644.
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:54, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)
Rich, I have repeatedly googled the Gozdak book and keep coming up with the ISBN 0738507972 Parameter error in {{ ISBN}}: checksum. This is the number that is in the article, and which pixiebot thinks is wrong. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 03:42, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Edits like
[105] (and the similar ones you have made today) are technically a violation of your editing restriction (they don't change anything in the output of the page, nor in how it works) and are very unlikely to ever make a difference (e.g. in this case only if the page
Ford Mustang would be moved would it possibly make any difference). If you take the trouble of explicitly changing this, wouldn't it be more useful to put the actual destination in, instead of a redirect like
here?
Fram (
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I notice you've put back the ISBN hyphens I've been leaving out, I didn't think it mattered but I'll start adding them now. Thanks, Keith-264 ( talk) 08:34, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Don't forget that if you create an article like this which needs a disambiguation, you need to provide an access route via a dab page entry or a hatnote. I've done the hatnote while stub-sorting, but please do it yourself another time! Thanks. Pam D 17:11, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Rich, please slow down. Going at it like John Henry taking on the steam shovel is resulting in you making errors at an even faster rate. All you are doing is nailing down your own coffin lid at this rate. For Pete's sake stop for a bit, and show that you understand the concerns that people are raising. If the task doesn't get done, it doesn't get done, but if you keep this up they are going to decide that you'll never abide by any editing restriction, and they'll just ban you. -- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 14:05, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
While " The Rise of Warnings to New Editors on English Wikipedia" caused consternation back in May 2011 - "40% of all initial edits to new user talk pages in our sample were negative templates" - but the previous research blog " How much do new editors actually improve Wikipedia?" showed that over 40% (42.6%) of first edits were either vandalism (about 25%) or unacceptably low quality. The level of warning therefore, seems pretty much on the nail. Why was this not picked up in the blog? I suspect it is because the "take out" from the previous research was
The key thing to note in comparing the two samples is that the percent of acceptable edits made by newbies did not dramatically decrease from 2004 to 2011.
This is a strange item to identify as key, since the changes are far more important than what remained the same. The percent of excellent edits fell roughly from 25% to 10%, while vandalism rose from a couple of percent to about a quarter of all new user edits.
Given this analysis, we need to look harder for the reasons for lower new editor retention, and certainly not assume that there is good evidence that templating is the cause, at least at present.
Rich
Farmbrough, 03:47, 22 April 2012 (UTC).
I would feel honored if you joined the Perl WikiProject. The Transhumanist 22:54, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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I feel that I should inform you that it looks like you will be facing a one year minimum ban, administrator rights revoked for a minimum of one year, and indefinitely restricted from using any automation tool including assistance scripts and bots.— cyberpower ChatOnline 20:25, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Looks like you're losing your adminstrator privileges and rights to automation so, enjoy them while you still got them. You are also 2 votes away from being banned for a minimum of one year. At this point I would get ready to expect the worst to come and already start doing necessary before leaving Wikipedia in my honest opinion.— cyberpower ChatOnline 19:47, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Help Rich! We have a consensus to rename WikiProject Thoroughbred racing to Wikipedia:WikiProject Horse racing. However, moving and renaming everything is getting complicated, especially the template that is on 1000s of articles. Froggerlaura did the basics and then I took a shot at some of the technical stuff, but may have screwed up everything, so could you be so kind as o help us all out and make everything that now is part of the TB racing into just "horse racing" instead? Help! (talk on project talk page) Montanabw (talk) 20:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Is every post you make partially automated? If so, how? Are you perhaps an artificially intelligent robot? ;)— cyberpower ChatOnline 23:04, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Could you look at template:Monthly clean up category as used inc categories like Category:Articles needing cleanup from February 2008, please? It is displaying oddly and seems to be adding a redlink category at the bottom. Is it just that an update hasn't taken affect yet due to a backed up queue? RJFJR ( talk) 12:38, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm having a reference format problem. See the discography. If I try to put the label as publisher it is invisible. If I include it in title, it ends up in quotes (see first two examples) Can you tell me what my error is and how to correct? Cheers, -- Beth Wellington ( talk) 04:35, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing!-- Beth Wellington ( talk) 23:18, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
BTW, see the following from my Talk page where you were referenced-- Beth Wellington ( talk) 23:34, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Checking for invalid ISBNs
The ISBN here has been marked for checking, with the reason that it was invalidly hyphenated. The problem is that not only does the ISBN match the one given on the first three pages I checked from a Google search, but while two of them don't hyphenate the ISBN, the third one is on the publisher's website and does - giving precisely the hyphenation that Helpful Pixie Bot is querying.
This may, of course, not be a bug. Even Springer is presumably capable of not only wrongly hyphenating their own ISBNs, but then including them in the URL for the page for the book concerned - and one can't criticise an editor who assumes that a publisher would know how to hyphenate their own ISBNs. But it might be worth double-checking this one. PWilkinson ( talk) 19:07, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Fixed A working nicely now, thanks for the notification.
Rich
Farmbrough, 19:45, 9 May 2012 (UTC).
Just a heads up: HPB has been blocked by Elen of the Roads ( Special:Log/Elen_of_the_Roads). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:21, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich! Thanks so much for participating in the Teahouse - it's always great when experienced editors come by and help out. I encourage you to consider being an "official" (for lack of a better word!) Teahouse host! If you'd like to learn more about that, and the basics about how the Teahouse is proceeding during this pilot period, then I encourage you to take a look at this page! It has tips and can inform interested participants seeking to help new (and experienced!) editors on how the Teahouse works differently than other help places on Wikipedia. Thanks Rich, and see you at the Teahouse :) Sarah ( talk) 14:59, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
At the moment ISBN fixes.
Howdy. I wasn't sure if this was the right place to put this, but your bot appears to be editing quite fast. For example, at the 0257 time, there were 33 edits. The number does appear to fluctuate a bit minute to minute, but 33 edits seems a bit much. The bot policy shows 1 edit every ten seconds for non-urgent tasks. If I'm missing something, I apologize.-- Rockfang ( talk) 03:07, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with one or some of your recent edits:
These redirects are incorrect (the part between the @signs is the problem, probably). Furthermore, a minor problem with as far as I have checked all the redirects you created is that the section element of it (the part after the "#") doesn't work, because the page doesn't have sections but is composed from transcluded subpages (which I tried to get rid off but which was rejected by you...). Fram ( talk) 13:17, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
By the way, any reason why you delete the other, informative categories from these redirects? Wouldn't it be more useful to let things like Category:Asteroids named for people, Category:Discoveries by Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Category:Discoveries by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Category:Astronomical objects discovered in 1988 (all from 48416 Carmelita) stand? It seems like useful information, even for a redirect. Fram ( talk) 13:52, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello. You have additional search suggestions at
User talk:Tedder's talk page.
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You were WP:INVOLVED as the proposer for the change, so you should not have taken administrative action. Please reverse yourself. Imzadi 1979 → 02:07, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. When HelpfulPixieBot is adding {{ Please check ISBN}} templates, I think the template needs to added outside the {{ Cite book}} template, to avoid corrupting the display of the ISBN, as occurred here (look at the second book listed in the References section). Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 02:20, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that you unreffed tagged my new translation. The ref, which I've inlined, states that the text is based on (taken from) the Brockhaus-Efron pd dictionary. On the ru.wiki page for Alexander Turgenev at the bottom the tag
"При написании этой статьи использовался материал из Энциклопедического словаря Брокгауза и Ефрона (1890—1907)"
indicates this. Do you know where I can find the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary tag or template for the bottom of the Alexander Turgenev page to indicate pd here in this translation? INeverCry 00:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
ISBNs (Build J9)
Adding {{ Please check ISBN}} inside a {{ cite book}} seems to break the latter – see refs 4 and 5 in the first of the example links. And there's a typo in the output, "deos" instead of "does". BTW, the ISBN the bot flagged is actually in the book. What should be done in such cases? -- ἀνυπόδητος ( talk) 06:54, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug closed since I am "automation banned".
Rich
Farmbrough, 15:25, 16 May 2012 (UTC).
Why on my watchlist are there green stars beside articles you have recently edited? No objections, I'm just curious. Smallchief ( talk) 21:07, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
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Rich, you mentioned a couple weeks ago that it might be possible to bot-tag a series of articles, yes? Say, for example, the swimming event pages for Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics (i.e. men's 50 free, women's 50 free, men's 100 free... women's 4x100 Medley Relay): all 32 event pages are missing the preliminary results for those that made it back for finals. Each page has a "Non-Qualifiers" section, that could/should have an expand list tag inserted (and maybe even a note about the finalist prelims times are missing?). Is that something a bot could do? -- Hooperswim ( talk) 02:52, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on Ernest Sutherland Bates requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.
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Hello,
I have a couple questions about Helpful Pixie Bot in regards to this edit. Why does it change "Image:..." to "File:..."? When it makes this change along side an ISBN change, why does it only mention the ISBN change in the edit summary? Bender2k14 ( talk) 12:57, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Here is an example from 19:48 UTC, after your last post [109]. If there are previous versions running (e.g. that edit is labeled KG), they ought to be stopped... — Carl ( CBM · talk) 19:52, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
The thing to do surely (in all of these cases) is to change policy by consensus, and link to that updated unambiguous policy in the bot edit summary. — Sladen ( talk) 07:43, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
For what it is worth, I would like to add my opinion. I eventually figured out on my own through examples that "File" and "Image" are exactly the same. I prefer "Image" when the file is an image because it makes the source more readable. I don't have a problem using "File" instead of "Image" if the that is either required or recommended by official policy. However, Carl and Sladen have made it clear that neither is the case. By the way, bots should only be making edits that are CLEARLY supported by the community (otherwise we have to have discussions like this!). I agree with Carl and Sladen that these edits need to be officially justified in the MOS simply because they APPEAR stylistic, even if one thinks and tries to argue that they are improvements since they replace "outdated crap". Rich and Kumioko, don't you think there will be less uses of "Image" if you say in the MOS that using "File" is better and why? Kumioko, since the "MOS is a guideline, not the ten commandments", what is stopping someone from making a bot that goes around changing uses of "File" to "Image"? The way I see it, many of your own arguments could be used to justify this. Rich and Kumioko, all Carl, Sladen, and myself are requesting is that the MOS be changed to say "File" is preferable to "Image", then we would agree with you. Is this not an acceptable compromise? Bender2k14 ( talk) 12:59, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible to link the date to a diff showing the edit that tagged an article. Something like This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: See talk page. Please help improve this article if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. ( 2007) As far as I can tell Helpful Pixie Bot ( talk · contribs) adds the dates to these tags, so I was hoping it could link to the diffs at the same time. There was a discussion started at the clean-up tag talk page about doing this for that tag, but it could possible be useful on all all the tags in Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup. As you run Pixiebot I was hoping you would have some ideas on how this could be implimented (it would be good if it could be added to old tags as well as new ones, but even just new tags would be a start) and steps needed to achieve it. AIRcorn (talk) 04:28, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi I was wondering if you could code something to copy the lists of municipalities and communes into the articles by Provinces of Morocco from Italian wikipedia like this. Basically its the same format, same source, but just copying the lists?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi I created this as I believed we needed a template like Bare URLs to encourage editors to add full citations not to just the websites. Can you improve this properly and sort out the documentation and take care of adding it to some articles where the refs need filling out like Alogia (band)? I'm thinking of organizing a bot to add this tag to all articles on wikipedia which needs refs filling out properly as in browsing it makes a big difference if sources are adequately filled out with details consistently.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:58, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Well??♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:42, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Please have a look at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility)#duc to Duke. There are about 230 page moves that have to be reversed. Is there a way to [semi]automate page moves? -- PBS ( talk:ye4s) 17:28, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
If I may; one question for you about the articles slated for redirection to List of minor planets:
Speaking totally theoretically now, let's take no action yet, would it be possible to somehow swipe the infoboxes from all those articles, and then somehow store the infoboxes into List of minor planets, and how difficult or complicated would that be?
I ask because have a hunch if we did that, it would help to overcome resistence to Helpful Pixie Bot 50.
So whaddaya think? Would it entail a long and tendious overhaul of the entire List of minor planetsto get it ready to accept the infobox information? Chrisrus ( talk) 04:06, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Yobot is blocked again. Check User_talk:Yobot#Blocked. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:01, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I hope you remember me... ;) Would you please take a look at the question I filed at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:As of and let me know whether there's anything preventing a merge of these two templates? Kind regards, Osiris ( talk) 12:22, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. I don't think that thread is likely to garner any other responses. Would you do the honours? I'm not sure whether you'd like to sort to both categories or just the one {{
when}}
generates.
Osiris (
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I just noticed that a user who complained about your bot has not bothered to notify you about it (see WP:BON). It seems that the ISBN fixing code may be editing at an excessively high rate, so could that perhaps be slowed down to once every 5-10 seconds? Thanks! Reaper Eternal ( talk) 01:56, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
Are you still willing to bot the language templates? I've removed the request for a ref section, which was the sticking point.
Hope things go well with ArbCom. — kwami ( talk) 02:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
It looks like Helpful Pixie Bot has not run Category:Pages with missing references list in quite a while. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 14:06, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
(ISBNs (Build KE))
Matthew Hopkins in popular cultureas well as Mathew Hopkins are two examples.
it queries the zero at the start if the isbn but [110] shows that it does start with a zero - 0 - Thanks Edmund Patrick – confer 16:04, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug number: 105 System: Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Checking for invalid ISBNs.
An example is the last edit in this bunch.
This is only a minor bug, but the bot destroyed the existing hyphernation in the ISBN. That is to say, it replaced "|isbn=978-0-670-02053" with "|isbn=978067002053". The problem with this particular ISBN (now fixed) was a missing check digit. The hyphenation information was therefore good, and it would have been better had the bot preserved it. I appreciate that another task of the bot is to add hyphenation so that, eventually, this loss will be corrected. This is why the bug is only a minor bug. HairyWombat 17:17, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
User:Rich Farmbrough/Talk Archive Mega 4/bug technical details
Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
You're placing a template to check the ISBN number ... inside a template which is not going to show the template at all. See the output. This is the third time this bot has done this... needs fixing. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:25, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
And another here ... Ealdgyth - Talk 18:06, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
Please check ISBN}}
is inside a {{
cite book}}
or outside. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 23:02, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
How does HelpfulPixieBot know how to parse ISBNs? -- Evertype· ✆ 19:52, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
As it stands I'm not sure how accurate corrections to ISBN-13 code formatting made using HelpfulPixieBot can be? Of the five elements, (Prefix, Registration Group, Registrant, Publication and Check Digit), only the first and last elements are of fixed length while the other three are variable. The Registration Group can be up to five digits. The Registrant element can be up to 7 digits and the Publication element up to 6 digits, both varying in direct relationship to the anticipated output of the publisher. Consequently for elements two to four, surely the Bot can only really be used to check that the upper limits for each of them and the sum total of the number of digits used for all of them aren't exceeded. I've seen examples of the Bot re-formatting ISBN-13 codes which were already 'legal' in terms of permissible element length, to produce a result other than that found in catalogs and printed on the publication itself. I'm not sure that's helpful. 85.210.176.104 ( talk) 16:44, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, re
this edit - there are two invalid ISBNs there, but only the first one was marked as invalid (
ISBN
0-86095-050-5 Parameter error in {{
ISBN}}: checksum should have been
ISBN
0-86093-050-5). The second one, ISBN 090288-12-9, was one digit short (it should have been
ISBN
0-90288-812-9) but Pixie didn't give it a {{
Please check ISBN|reason=Invalid length.}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 21:05, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug number: 108 System: templates Component: Wikipedia documentation Blocks: Blocked by:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Dated Expand section. (Build KF)
The bot changed "|3=date=May 2012" to "|3=date=May 2012|date=May 2012". i.e it added a date when there was already one present. There are three valid date formats in the Template:Expand section documentation. I suspect that the bot does not yet know about the second date format.
I wonder what the article would look like in a few year's time. (:-)> Peter Loader ( talk) 21:16, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Will Helpful Pixie Bot recognize and ignore ISBNs tagged with {{ Listed Invalid ISBN}}, as I have done at D.M. Ananda ( diff)? Regards -- ShelfSkewed Talk 14:18, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
You should know that I added a Table of Contents template to your Category:Commons category template with no category set. That way it'll make it easier for users to fix the commons tags. ---- DanTD ( talk) 00:52, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. When you have Helpful Pixie Bot make edits like this one please don't forget to have the bot add the phrase "and other fixes" to the edit summary. Cheers, Unforgettableid ( talk) 03:10, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Purely out of idle curiosity, how does the bot determine what order to deal with articles in? In my watchlist recently, it's done Appleby Frodingham Railway, Lad in the Lane, Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station and Malton railway station in that order. It doesn't seem to be alphabetical, or by category, so how are they picked? Or is it simply jumping to random article? Whatever it is, keep up the good work! An optimist on the run! 21:05, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
In this edit, your bot converted two ISBNs that were followed by years into invalid ISBNs. Could you fix the problem, and go back through your bot's edits to find and fix other places where it made the same mistake? -- Carnildo ( talk) 01:58, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I was wondering if it would be possible for Helpful Pixie Bot to indicate in the edit summary whether it found any problems when checking the ISBNs. At the moment, I need to visually inspect each change the bot makes to see if there was a bad ISBN that I could possibly fix. If the edit summary said something like "ISBN check-no problems found" when all it needed to do was reformatting, but something like "ISBN check-issues detected" when problems were found, then I could safely ignore all the "no problems found" edits and only examine the "issues detected" ones. Just an idea, anyway. Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 02:42, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
|reason=
might be absent from {{
Please check ISBN}}
, then detection of any error will cause an increase of 21 characters at the very least. Thus, I assume that where the increase is 20 or less, it's merely a reformatting. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 14:33, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Several articles use the 1995 Formula One season review video as a reference, specifying an ISBN of "5-017559-034955", which matches the information specified here. Helpful Pixie Bot identifies this number as an invalid ISBN, as it did here. If it's not an ISBN, do you happen to know what kind of number it is? Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 08:14, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
cite video}}
template supports the |id=
parameter, my suggestion is to use that instead, i.e. replace |isbn=5017559034955 {{
Please check ISBN|reason=13 digit ISBN should start with 978 or 979.}}
with |id=[[EAN-13]] 5 017559 034955
--
Redrose64 (
talk) 10:07, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug number: 111 System: Helpful Pixie Bot Component: perl source Blocks: Blocked by:
Resolution: {{#switch:fixed
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
ISBNs (Build KH)
When validating ISBNs, the bot changed {{Closed_stations_Northamptonshire}}
(with two underscores) into {{Closed_stations Northamptonshire}}
(with one underscore and one space). The bot should either have changed both into spaces, or left both alone. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 09:51, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug number: 112 System: Helpful Pixie Bot Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
Resolution: {{#switch:closed
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Adding a duplicate second 'please check this ISBN' notice immediately before an existing one, previously and only seven weeks ago added by HPB: [114]. JohnBlackburne words deeds 13:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I found an error in the article (see photo). Copernicus was not a German, he was from Poland. -- Top811 my talk —Preceding undated comment added 13:50, 12 May 2012 (UTC).
Bug number: 113 System: Helpful Pixie Bot Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
In the edit of British boys' magazines the ISBN number has been altered to extend the publisher/series part by one digit so that the book number is now -4 instead of -44. I have checked the actual printed book and it is definitely -44. In addition the second reference (The 30's Scrapbook) refers to it both by title & ISBN
DonJay ( talk) 15:03, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Here's the hyphenation table for the English area codes:
Area code |
Publisher range |
Digit 2nd hyphen comes after |
---|---|---|
0 | 00-19 | 3rd |
0 | 200-699 | 4th |
0 | 7000-8499 | 5th |
0 | 85000-89999 | 6th |
0 | 900000-949999 | 7th |
0 | 9500000-9999999 | 8th |
1 | 55000-86979 | 6th |
1 | 869800-998999 | 7th |
1 | 9990000-9999999 | 8th |
ISBN
0-9547954-4-X falls under the 9500000-9999999 range, and hence should be hyphenated as shown.
Rich
Farmbrough, 17:44, 12 May 2012 (UTC).
Bug number: 114 (Duplicates 103 System: templates Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
Resolution: {{#switch:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with a template:
{{
Please check ISBN}}
This HPB change introduced it: [115]; the change looks OK but it broke the rendering of Death#References, No. 6.
The 1-4495-9420-6 appears as [[Special:BookSources/1-4495-9420-6|1-4495-9420-6]], i.e. as if it's no longer interpreting it as a link. It was working fine in the version before HPB's change. I've tried purging the page to no effect.
JohnBlackburne words deeds 17:42, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Talk re our efforts over there. Maile66 ( talk) 15:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Thanks for asking about this. The proposal did not receive any comments. It is now archived here. I was a bit discouraged, so I haven't yet done anything to follow up on it. Should we try to take it to Bugzilla anyway or just let it drop? -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 16:58, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
This may have been mentioned already, but Fempto bot does not seem to be using a bot flag; all the other bots on my watchlist do, buut femptobot does not.-- Gilderien Chat| List of good deeds 21:02, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
You added the plot template to Bade Achhe Lagte Hain but Wikiproject Soap Opera says that the plot may be just 700-800 words and in the mentioned article it is so. So I think that the template is not needed. Please give a reason that why do you think that it is too long, as it is not so. When you are replying please leave me a Tb template. -- Jagadhatri( ২০১২) 08:18, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
The case against you is about to close, with you losing your sysop bit and being prevented from using automation. There's quite a bit of talk on the PD page along the lines of last chance, being on the edge of a cliff, etc.
There are people out there who will look for whatever means they can to find a way to nudge you off of that cliff. You can't give them even a millimeter of rope with which to hang you. I strongly, strongly urge you to shut down any and all bots you have, any sort of automation you have, any sort of edit assisting scripts RIGHT NOW, before the final decision is posted. Do everything (and I mean everything) manually, by hand. Delete any .js subpages you have in your userspace. Wipe it all out. If this means you go from a million edits a week to 1 edit a month, so be it. If you want to be part of this project for the foreseeable future, you have got to do this. Otherwise, you will be shoved off of that cliff.
Decisions in this community are hate based. If enough heat is generated, it doesn't matter one iota if the target of the heat has done absolutely nothing wrong. It doesn't matter if the target is perfectly, 10000000000% in line with policy, with prior consensus supporting them. Generate enough heat, and a target will go down. That is how 'justice' works around here. I'll give you a speculative example; people have been criticizing you for changing the capitalization of templates in use on an article. If, from this day forward, you do that again...even if you use one finger to hunt and peck around the keyboard to conduct every detail of the edit...you will be found at fault for doing it. It does not matter that plenty of people are doing exactly the same thing, without anyone saying peep. It does not matter that changing the case is right, or wrong, or indifferent. If you do it, you will be found at fault for it. People will demand you link them to the consensus that permits you to do this. People will insist you are using some undeclared tool to assist you in making the edit. People will insist you are doing it to bait the people watching your every twitch, and are thus being disruptive. Since you are the subject of the heat, it will be you who is found at fault.
You are going to have to change the entire nature and style of the editor you are on this project in order to remain here. It is a monumental, probably impossible task. I wish you the best of luck, and hope for the best. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 14:07, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
For what its worth I also think that you withdrawing from editing is exactly what the Arbcom wants. They couldn't get enough support to ban you from the pedia so the next best thing is to tell you that you can't edit. Kumioko ( talk) 11:21, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. :) You have a response at my talk page on Meta. Thanks! -- Maggie Dennis (WMF) ( talk) 14:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Good tigings to you from a believer in One Creator of the Heavens and the Earth!
i see that you have edited the page Ali_ibn_Abi_Talib on Wikipedia, i must say to you that in Islam it is not allowed to put nor draw nor see the picture of a man
i strongly encourage you o remove the picture from the page of Ali_ibn_Abi_Talib
if you have any queries or questions on that please e-mail me asap, my email is saken_k@hotmail.com
With warmest regards, Saken ibn Amankeldi
(Not including redirects). The Transhumanist 11:34, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Namespace | Count |
---|---|
Main | 9,375,576 |
Talk | 4,540,406 |
User | 1,457,343 |
User talk | 7,775,605 |
Wikipedia | 721,450 |
Wikipedia talk | 144,174 |
File | 810,359 |
File talk | 138,924 |
MediaWiki | 1,608 |
MediaWiki talk | 937 |
Template | 424,551 |
Template talk | 177,834 |
Help | 956 |
Help talk | 463 |
Category | 852,775 |
Category talk | 587,880 |
Portal | 109,930 |
Portal talk | 25,669 |
Book | 3,113 |
Book talk | 2,904 |
Total | 27,152,457 |
Basically a tad over 1/3 of Wikipedia is actual article pages, and more than half of those are redirects.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:35, 16 May 2012 (UTC).
Here is a graphical representation of the change of emphasis as the encyclopedia has grown. The namespaces are numbered from the bottom.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:12, 17 May 2012 (UTC).
The same general trends, user talk is the growth area, the big difference here is Wikipedia and Wikipedia talk - substantial, and the category and template namespaces become very small components.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:17, 17 May 2012 (UTC).
Hey Rich! Thanks for helping out at the Teahouse. Just an FYI, we created a lovely little talkback template that is Teahouse specific. You can find a link to it here. It's pretty valuable when letting folks know that you answered their question, since not everyone watches the Teahouse question page. Thanks again for all your contributions - Teahouse and beyond! Sarah ( talk) 19:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for helping me improve Generation time Trashbird1240 ( talk) 14:41, 10 May 2012 (UTC) |
If WP bans you its a case of them shooting themselves in the foot. I really mean that.
...William 20:00, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Do you have time to do some adjusting at User:AlexNewArtBot/WomensHistory? It's better, but still needs to be narrowed. And most of the articles this time don't seem to be about women. Maile66 ( talk) 23:11, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
An arbitration case regarding Rich Farmbrough has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above.
The following remedies have been enacted:
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Guerillero | My Talk 19:27, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Anyone who had made tens of thousands of edits is always going to have a few edits that someone, somewhere won't agree with or like, just as they will have also made a number of edits that someone else will really, really like. It is the balance that is important here, and it seems that a minority within the community seems to think that everything must be perfect and be in accordance with their own personal preferences.
Any edits that certain people don't like will always become a major focus during any sort of community discussion or ArbCom case simply because every editor has at some point attracted the attention of someone who doesn't like something they've done, and what better way to "get back at" someone then try to dig up any dirt they can find during such a discussion? This often results in collateral damage to other parts of the project however when such individuals take things even further.
My own message to the larger community is thus: Take what a highly vocal minority within our community has to say with a grain of salt, but do not ignore them entirely, otherwise they will grow even louder and their party will gain even more dissenters. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 05:09, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Clearly quite a number of people have absolutely no idea what it takes to make regular expressions and substitutions work. I give it two to three weeks tops before the backlog piles up and questions begin to arise as to "What happened to Helpful Pixie Bot and Femto Bot?" and "How do we now handle all the housekeeping work that these two bots previously took care of?"
I personally see this similarly to what would happen if we were to shut down ClueBot.
While there have been edits Rich has made that I've not agreed with, Rich appears to have always had Wikipedia's best interests in mind when he made changes, and I do not feel that this was considered at all during his ArbCom case. It would have been far far different if Rich had a history of attempting to cause problems, was a known troll, vandal, etc, but this is far from the case.
From my own point of view, it was clearly wrong of ArbCom to go full-out and heavy handed sanction a long term valued contributor who has been instrumental in standardizing and automating so many tedious and pain-in-the-ass tasks as Rich has. The very idea that Rich should be indefinitely banned from using any sort of automation is simply absurd. It could also be that ArbCom doesn't really know what all Rich has done for us here on the English Wikipedia since so much of his work has involved changes to things that work behind the scenes, yet have a very widely felt effect. For that fact, perhaps a large portion of the community doesn't know either.
The way I see it, Wikipedia is just about at a fork in the road. Many of the people with the technical know-how and knowledge of how and why things work the way they work have become disillusioned with the direction the English Wikipedia has been heading. Many of these individuals have left or slowed down in terms of their contributions, and/or have ended up sanctioned like Rich has. If things continue in this direction, the English Wikipedia is going to find itself without the technical backing that has allowed it to grow in the first place, and it's growth will stop and/or it will begin to regress (we are already beginning to see signs of both such scenarios).
From that point, if people don't decide to step up and work towards changing these trends, one or two things will ultimately happen. The first is that Wikipedia will begin to be seen as irrelevant in the eyes of the general public. The other is that those technical minded individuals who have felt alienated will organize, possibly leading to either a fracture within the community or even a new form of "Wikipedia" that will make the current "Wikipedia" entirely irrelevant and obsolete.
For those who don't think what has happened to Rich here can't happen to you or really has little long term impact on Wikipedia itself, think again. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 05:18, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
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You need this more than I do – Lionel ( talk) 05:37, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks for the comments. I checked and it is these ISBN numbers are in the publications.-- Despotović ( talk) 14:02, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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My B'day Cake |
Hi!! Today is my b'day and I though of sharing this sweet gift with you!! Arnesh( ২০১২) 16:09, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
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The We Couldn't-A-Done-It-Without-Ya Award |
Thanks for stepping up to the plate and helping get this off the ground. Good luck with that you have on your shoulders right now. Maile66 ( talk) 17:14, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
I'm glad you're still here It's a silly accident that you and I have been mentioned in the same breath a lot lately and the two of us have hardly interacted in the past, but once I found out about your ArbCom issues I started to pay attention. Everyone on the English-language Wikipedia has benefited from your work and although it might be prudent for you to have a break in your administrator and bot-running responsibilities, you have doubtlessly been a real asset to the project and I'm glad that the members of ArbCom did not see fit to block or ban you outright. This tacitly acknowledges that your years of service have made this a better encyclopedia and I think that's inarguable, irrespective of any further issues with your methods or style.
I look forward to the time when you've proven to all your accusers and interlocutors that you're a responsible user, having made irrefutably good edits for several months, then apply again at RfA, make new bot requests, and get back to doing what you've been doing but without any associated drama.
For what it's worth, I'd like to ask you to reconsider whether or not you want someone else to run or curate User:Helpful Pixie Bot and User:Femto Bot.
By the way, welcome to the club ( 2,308 edits ago.) — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 21:23, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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The Resilient Barnstar |
You are handling this situation very well. Don't let this get you down. — cyberpower ChatOnline 21:41, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
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The Arbfail Award | |
For being one of the most helpful (former) bot-ops, and then fucked by Arbcom, I award you the Arbfail award. |
Frood! Ohai What did I break now? 23:13, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
The Torch and pitchfork Award | |||
As someone who has also been pursued by the mob (in this case also sometimes referred to as "the Community" and/or "Arbcom") I present you with this time honored Torch and Pitchfork award.
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I also just wanted to say congrats on making the millionaires club. Only 2 editors in the history of Wikipedia have hit a million edits, you being the second. Kumioko ( talk) 01:28, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
I found out on reddit that you had your privileges taken. I wasn't aware of the situation. Anyway, you have my support, so if there is anything I can do to help you, let me know. Be well. Greg Bard ( talk) 02:08, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Category:Think Fast! Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 04:21, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Are you going to stay with us? Wether you have your tools and bots or not, you're still a valuable asset to this project. I hope you stay. MrLittleIrish (talk) 申 13:16, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, you were involved in this conversation a few months ago, so may be you want to take a look at the updates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#.27Jaguar.2FSandbox.2F3.27_edits Azylber ( talk) 15:38, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
For being only the second ever person to get to a million edits, especially under the circumstances. Gilderien Chat| List of good deeds 18:47, 17 May 2012 (UTC) |
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The Brilliantly Weathered Barnstar |
A real-world barnstar that has seen countless seasons, complete with barn, for a brilliant milestone and for braving the weather in style. – SJ + 06:06, 22 May 2012 (UTC) |
I see you've been given the rollbacker userright, but I would advise you not to use it (just asked at the AC talk page and apparently that counts as automation). On a more important note, hope the decision hasn't hit you too hard – btw, your self-control is amazing, if it were me I think I would have absolutely lost it at some of the arbs who clearly hadn't even bothered to read all the information. Best, Jenks24 ( talk) 22:23, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Rich — Dirk and the others are correct, your detractors are going to try to find absolutely anything they can to use against you. Having had that done to me while under a different sort of edit restriction (that the individuals involved attempted to game over and over again while trying desperately to have me banned), the best advice I can give you is to refocus the majority of your time on something else (even a different wiki-project) until you can get this mess resolved. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 07:35, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Please see here I think you mixed up two separate CfDs. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 01:00, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
I happened across this in the archives! — Sladen ( talk) 11:11, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Celan-up. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Celan-up redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Bulwersator ( talk) 18:28, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
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You were recently removed from the administrator class. I do not know enough about that situation to be able to comment on it, but I am familiar enough with your non-controversial work to be able to thank you for everything non-controversial you have done for the Wikipedia project.
I am sorry to have to qualify my thanks, but I simply do not understand enough to be able to say more. I appreciate what seems to be your stated intent to continue to support the Wikipedia project. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:52, 19 May 2012 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment#Request_to_amend_prior_case:_Rich_Farmbrough Nobody Ent 15:31, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
I have also made a request in the same thread - see Amendment 2. Ncmvocalist ( talk) 10:27, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
You recently unprotected the page User:Badmachine. That page now reads "FOREVER DEATH TO TH3J35T3R", a reference to The Jester, who, although unidentified, is a living person. The comment was added on 17 May. This is only the latest in a series of incidents relating to the user page - perhaps it is time to say enough? Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 18:34, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article
Toynbee tiles, please cite a
reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of
verifiability. See
Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the
welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.
SummerPhD (
talk) 23:19, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
Citation needed}}
to the uncited part of the sentence, not to remove the cite for the second part. And you can also use the template {{
Ze}}
if you wish, it will render gender according to the editor upon who's page it is used, or the user name given as an argument. So it refers to me as "ze" for instance, but Elen of the Roads as "she" and you as "ze". I have even set my gender preferences so that this works.
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:48, 22 May 2012 (UTC).Welcome to wikipedia??? One of the dumbest messages I've ever seen on wikipedia..♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:55, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Rich, can any of your former bot work be ported to the toolserver? Viriditas ( talk) 07:42, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
There are those of us (many) who would like to see you get your adminship and bot status back.
Once the concerns in the ArbCom case have been remedied by you, and you have reformed your ways (in the eyes of those critical of your previous approach) for a healthy period of time, restoration of your bot privileges should take place in due course.
My guess is that a year would be enough. I think you can and should go for it.
But how? I have some suggestions...
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Join who? The bot department for one. The AWB team for another. Participate in the discussions there.
Many areas concerning Wikipedia automation have been neglected...
You could help with programming bots. And making code examples available to help others learn how to program bots.
Wikipedia should have an army of expert AWB users, but as of yet, it does not. You could help build and lead a corps of AWB volunteers.
You could help build Wikipedia's script resources:
Many editors would like to make suggestions for MediaWiki features, but they do not understand Bugzilla. My guess is that most feature suggestions made at the Village Pump never find their way to Bugzilla, despite the referrals. How can you remedy these situations?
You are the expert on Wikipedia automation. Share your expertise. Help others get automated. And most importantly, help them avoid making the same mistakes you did.
If you can do this, productively in a cheerful and cordial manner, over the next year, I would be very surprised if ArbCom did not overcome its nervousness concerning you and welcome you back with open arms.
Wikipedia needs you. I look forward to seeing you rise to the occasion.
Good luck.
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 00:46, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Sorry about that mate "Rich Farmbrough is indefinitely prohibited from using any automation whatsoever on Wikipedia. For the purposes of this remedy, any edits that reasonably appear to be automated shall be assumed to be so. Rich Farmbrough's administrator status is revoked. At any time after the closing of this case, Rich Farmbrough may request that his administrator status be restored by filing a request for adminship." Just when you think the atmosphere is improving things happen all at once which makes you seriously question others users on here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:54, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I saw your request to let Femto Bot continue to archive your talk page. I know you'd rather run it yourself, but if you're willing to send me the code I'd be happy to drop that into my bot's task list. If you'd rather not, no worries, I understand, but the offer's there if you're interested. Cheers, 28bytes ( talk) 07:29, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Can you not use User:MiszaBot III to archive your talk page as many users do? JRSpriggs ( talk) 04:34, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
They are trying to delete Lake Washington (Melbourne) article. Can you help? Student7 ( talk) 12:58, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed your comments on Template talk:Unsigned and thought you might be able to help with this. Thanks. -- xensyria T 19:25, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
Using Perl, I've slurped an article.
I need to match the first sentence of the article, but intervening references with a period in them create an ambiguity so the script does not find the period at end of the sentence (it finds the period in the embedded reference instead).
So, I'd like to be able to save references off, and put them back again into the first sentence after I've extracted and processed it.
How can this be done?
This message is a copy. Please reply to the original at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#replacing references temporarily. Thank you. The Transhumanist 22:02, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: Rich, I'd like to shove all the references in the article off into an array or something, replace the references with XXXXX or some other code, and then after processing, substitute the codes with the original references. Those references not in or trailing the first sentence can just go bye-bye. The Transhumanist 22:05, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
P.P.S.: I've run into problems having regex strings inside array elements, as they don't seem to be interpreted literally in the regex. Unescaped special characters seem to be wreaking havoc. The Transhumanist 22:10, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
I have answered in general at VP(T). Since I know the background I can answer more specifically here.
/^(([^\.]|<ref[^>]*\/\s*>|<ref[^>]*[^<]*<\/\s*ref>|)*\.)/
will probably match what you want.
Rich
Farmbrough, 13:17, 26 May 2012 (UTC).
Hey, Rich, I haven't been following that Arbcom stuff closely (certainly not enough to express an opinion either way about its justness), but I've heard of it a few times. I just wanted to say thanks that, despite all the negativity and assorted crap you seem to be going through, you can still find the time to complete my answer at the Teahouse a bit. So, thanks! :) Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 21:10, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I don't think we've ever interacted, but I've seen you around for years. I've always found you to be thoughtful, considerate and helpful. My perception has always been that you've gone out of your way to help others. At least that's what I've seen. And your generous help is all over the template namespace, which I am very thankful for. I followed the ArbCom case and was disappointed with the result. I'm sure it's not fun, but you've hung in there and that's commendable. I just wanted to let you know that there are a lot of people that appreciate all you've done for the project. I personally want to thank you for all your template work, but even more for hanging in there and staying with the project. It's actually an inspiration to me. So thanks for everything. Best of luck to you. 64.40.54.186 ( talk) 09:11, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, just a small clarification: I'm no longer a clerk. I stepped down when I was appointed to the AUSC. Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 09:53, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
As I see you have a 'Things that stayed too long' section on your userpage: Evan Schwenger (and subsequently Mr. E) was a Captain Regent of San Marino (replacing Orbello di Vita Giannini) for a considerable amount of time due to this edit [120] from December 2010. The articles could do with a bit of work, but this is hilarious nonetheless. Royal Mate1 21:58, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
I've replied at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#replacing references temporarily. The Transhumanist 11:49, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Resolved by motion that:
FoF 8 (Unblocking of SmackBot) changed to:
Rich Farmbrough has on many occasions, after another administrator has placed a block on his bot account, used his administrative tools to unblock his own bot without first remedying the underlying issue to the blocking admin's satisfaction or otherwise achieving consensus for such unblock (see block logs of SmackBot, Helpful Pixie Bot).
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Lord Roem ( talk) 15:10, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
This is a courtesy notification that the request for amendment you are involved in or are a named party to has been declined.
For the Arbitration Committee
-- Lord Roem ( talk) 15:21, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Your recent edits to
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legal threats and
civility. Users who make such threats may be
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this edit in light of the previous counsel about
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Jclemens (
talk) 19:35, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
hello, i will look and see what i can do. would you mind linking me to them plz?
by the way, i didn't know you were interested in that wikiproject. i have serious concerns about the logo used in the furry wikiproject and portal, and have started a discussion here. i hope my asking you about this is not canvassing, but nobody else seems to give a shit about subtle advertising on wikipedia, or perhaps i posted my concerns in the wrong place, and i couldnt help but notice that you have 983,000+ edits, so you know the place better than i do. - badmachine 23:52, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
An arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ. Evidence that you wish the Arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence sub-page, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ/Evidence. Please add your evidence by June 12, 2012, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can contribute to the case workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Lord Roem ( talk) 01:33, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm bored. I shall have to go to sleep.
Rich
Farmbrough, 03:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC).
At Spiny turtle, you changed the correct bluelink Testudines to the incorrect redlink Testudinesa( [121]). And here ninteenth should be nineteenth. Please check your edits more carefully. Fram ( talk) 13:38, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
By the way, any reason that you changed all instances of 6th century, 5th century, 19th century, ... to sixth century, fifth century, nineteenth century, ...? According to WP:ORDINAL, both are acceptable, and the general rule on Wikipedia is that when two methods are acceptable, we shouldn't change articles from one system to the other without good reason. Of course, if there is such a reason in this case, no problem, but otherwise such edits can best be avoided. Fram ( talk) 14:23, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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help)Rich, I don't think we've ever crossed paths on Wikipedia before, but I have noticed a great many contributions of yours pop up on my watchlist in the past few hours. While I understand that you feel hurt and wronged by what has happened to you in the recent past, I am concerned that your present actions will not lead to the resolution you desire, but rather to further sanction and further hurt. Good luck and take care. N419 BH 03:48, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Emotion is not in the equation, I compute the logical outcome and it is always the same regardless.
I like bot armies :), I only have one, and his hamster doesn't count for anything really, not even a 1/2, and doesn't annoy but a few people. (I guess loading him into some kind of mechanism that uses him as a projectile would change that, bah!)
So are you interested in making the changeover to the replacement when it arrives ? It is important to try to collect everyone, just to stay in touch for that new bright morning which inevitably follows the night. A new site would be fresh air to suffocating lungs.
Hey, are any of your dead bots easy enough for a moron like me to operate in the meantime ? I can't imagine for a moment that operating a bot to improve wikipedia completely within guidelines and community expectations wouldn't shit the living daylights out of some of your critics, and I'm just the editor to do it too. I lost all heart to turn wikigreen, but making positive edits solely out of spite seems right up my alley right now. Penyulap ☏ 20:21, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Re: this But what happens when we get to a billion, Rich? Keep your chin up, mate. Be seeing you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 01:43, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
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- but even then I will not be a number.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:52, 30 May 2012 (UTC).
For anyone half-following this sorry tale, the current situation is:
So much for independent committee of trusted and wise users.
“ | I'm in the process of answering all my questions, and setting aside about an hour per day to do so. I submitted my candidature early in the election, so I am not attempting to answer them all at once; as a result, there may be a small delay. If you have posted a question, I will respond soon, and thank you for your patience. | ” |
This from the arb that said:
“ | For my own part, I cannot agree that it could reasonably take you a fortnight to respond to the past few days' edits to the proposed decision. Frankly, I am at something of a loss as to why you have been regularly participating at the proposed decision talk page, but only now have much more to say. Perhaps you might explain this to me. Perhaps my colleagues will look less dimly on your request, in which case we will be in touch. | ” |
This is a courtesy notification that two amendment requests filed by you have been declined.
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Lord Roem ( talk) 19:33, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey Rich,
I just wanted to let you know I have moved yours, as well as Isarra's in a moment or two, evidence submission to the workshop page. Given the lack of diff's or supplementary links to evidence, the workshop page is a more appropriate place for what you posted.
Many Thanks
Seddon
talk 22:16, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Commons I just spent several minutes doing this at Commons--it seems like something that would be perfect work for a bot. Are you interested in it? — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 06:06, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
This has been decided and is pretty clear...what you and I know as "Arbcom" is really the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee. Their dispute resolution jurisdiction is the English Wikipedia only. They have no jurisdiction in this area over any other wiki, hence their remedies apply to English Wikipedia only. However, they can and do take known behavior, positive or negative, on other wikis (and other sites for that matter) into account when making decisions. For Rich, this means that he is free to operate a bot on any wiki he desires (obviously excluding English Wikipedia) provided of course he complies with that wiki's local bot policy. If he performs this task well, it can be presented as evidence to Arbcom as to why an automation restriction is no longer necessary. N419 BH 17:47, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia! It's great that you're having a go at editing but we notice that you've made a few edits that have angered the crosspatches here at Wikipedia. As you've only been here eight years, perhaps if you'd like to try the Wikipedia paddling pool you can experiment all you want without actually making improvements. We feel this would be best for all concerned.
Congratulations on your million! I would give you a barn star if I knew what one was. In the meantime, please accept this satirical patronising message as a reward for your hard work :-) DavidFarmbrough ( talk) 08:36, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
After just renaming an user (I have requested for mine) will all my edit counts and contributions be moved in the new account? And, what will happen to my signature? After renaming I may be able to log in with my new username and old password..right?-- Jagadhatri( ২০১২) 14:09, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar | |
For helping out by adding turtle synonyms! Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 18:35, 31 May 2012 (UTC) |
I'd like to, I really would, but considering that some of my inclusions add like 1GB for every 1k of article space, are you like looking at this the right way? I have serious doubts if I'd be the right person to do anything but set off avalanches.
Mmmmm the snow-covered mountain of stupidity Penyulap ☏ 19:52, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi
I've arrived here via the 'talk' bit for 'Helpful Pixie Bot' on the '
Rowhedge' page. The reason I am here is its edit summary, i.e."ISBNs Build KC". I know what an 'ISBN' is, but what does 'KC' mean? The nearest I have come is "Knights Cross", but I don't think that is the answer. And what does 'Build' in this context mean? Do you know?
Thanks in advance.
RASAM ( talk) 21:30, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Rich, I'm wondering what happened in this edit and which tools, if any, you used to make that edit. Thanks. Courcelles 22:03, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
I suppose I'll have to wait for more information. This sucks big time.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:07, 1 June 2012 (UTC).
(Note I knew there were 5 possibilities, I forgot to write down mistake.)
Ah.. I can I think relax. He is not claiming that I have edited with AWB - well he is, becasue he assumes I am faking the user agent - but he has no evidence for that, since it is untrue. He is just claiming that I have used AWB to make lists and the like, which I would have thought is perfectly OK. I will have to wait for confirmation of this. Of course the edits he is claiming are "masked AWB" will turn up clean because they were made by browser, and therefore will show up with a normal URL, whereas an AWB edit would show up with an api URl.
The gotchas are if:
Also an edit which fixed a typo was referred to as "only changing white-space" when I asked for details it was "apart for the typo, only fixing white-space".
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:35, 1 June 2012 (UTC).
I've sent you an e-mail. AGK [•] 23:20, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Courtesy notification: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions#Motion to ban Rich Farmbrough. AGK [•] 23:51, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hm.. not sure how that saves any face.
Rich
Farmbrough, 23:59, 31 May 2012 (UTC).
Is a great song for funerals. Either that or
The Day Thou Gavest.
Stay Another Day might be more honest though.
Rich
Farmbrough, 23:27, 31 May 2012 (UTC).
Rich - still trying to create separate page for ODI and T20I cricket. Don't know how this is done but won't give up yet as important reference. Hambantota hosted first T20I today and Compton made another ton (and 1,000 runs a day too late). Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PatriciaSR ( talk • contribs) 20:08, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Category:Smile Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for possible 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. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 06:07, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Did you create List of Twenty20 International cricket grounds deliberately or was it a mistake, as there are no content other than a restate of the article title? -- KTC ( talk) 10:05, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Just a reminder that the monthly maintenance categories for uncategorized articles are titled in the format Category:Uncategorized from June 2012, not Category:Category needed from June 2012 — so if you want to get ahead of the bots by creating it before they do, you'd probably be better off creating the version that's actually going to have articles placed in it by the uncat template. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 16:38, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Do you have any thoughts or comments on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Birds#Semi-automated_tasks? Snowman ( talk) 18:55, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
It appears that I inadvertently made two spelling corrections using AWB. While the majority of the corrections identified with AWB were made using a standard browser, these two edits are, nonetheless, in breach of the Arbcom ruling, therefore it is inevitable that I shall be banned from the project.
I apologise to ArbCom for that, and more particularly to those who have supported me over the last two months, for blowing it through such a stupid error.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:43, 1 June 2012 (UTC).
Per the wording of the motion, it appears ArbCom may have been using checkuser to observe Rich's editing behaviors over "recent days", whereas the two edits they are concerned about apparently happened today. I believe one or more members of ArbCom has exceeded their remit in the use of the checkuser tool. I think it's time for the Audit Subcommittee to be contacted, specifically to ask when checkuser has been used in regards to Rich's account, and who performed the checkuser. Instructions are located at Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Audit_Subcommittee#Procedure. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 02:56, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
breadcrumbs are such an important ingredient in some recipes. Penyulap ☏ 03:41, 1 Jun 2012 (UTC)
Greetings Rich Farmbrough, I noticed your comment where you expressed a possible interest in improving Wikipedia coverage of articles related to record production. It would be great having your collaborative input on how best to achieve this goal. Review links associated with WP:RECP and P:RECP, and know that you are considerably welcome to help forge the path forward. My76Strat ( talk) 09:21, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. You have another e-mail. I understand you don't often use your Wikipedia mail account, which is why I'm leaving another courtesy note, but if you don't require one in future I will of course comply. AGK [•] 23:48, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you, Rich Farmbrough, for !voting at my successful RFA; I am humbled that you put your trust in me. I grant you this flower, which, if tended to properly, will grow to be the fruit of Wikipedia's labours, although I don't think it would make good vintage. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 11:33, 3 June 2012 (UTC) |
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I wanted to acknowledge the sacrifice made and the changes that so much editing brings to the way you think and dream. When I play the computer games too much, then it shades everything else I do, so after a million edits I can only imaging what differences there must be from people who do just a little bit of editing. I wonder if it is like Neo in the Matrix, where vision merges into code and everything normal dissappears, maybe it doesn't go that far, but I prefer to think it can, life is more interesting that way. Penyulap ☏12:01, 26 Jun 2024 (UTC)_ |
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:54, 2 June 2012 (UTC).
Hi Rich: I know AGK has been conversing with you via email. We're trying to fashion terms for something short of a long term site ban. While this is not (yet) a formal offer, we need to know if this type of thing would be acceptable to you, obviously, if not, then we're back where we started. This is the outline of what several members of the Committee were discussing:
If the Committee can come to a consensus to extend you this kind of offer in lieu of a full site ban, would you accept this? SirFozzie ( talk) 00:59, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
monobook.js
is
[129]. —
Sladen (
talk) 14:44, 4 June 2012 (UTC)Is this accurate? It was my understanding you were using AWB in read mode and pooched up 2x. Nobody Ent 23:45, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I occasionally edit at another wiki. It was set up by a person who was tired of all the BS here. They're running a relatively recent version of MediaWiki. I've tried to help them with some template stuff over the last year, but haven't been very sucessful. I was wondering if you might be willing to help over there. I know you've given a lot of your life to this project and might be loyal to it, so if the answer is "no", that's fine. I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask. Best regards. 64.40.57.10 ( talk) 01:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Template:Subatomic particle/link has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Kumioko (
talk) 14:48, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Template:Subatomic particle/symbol has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Kumioko (
talk) 14:54, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
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I can't thank you enough for all the turtle content and improvements you've been making the last few days. If I was adding the synonyms myself it would of taken me months. Exceptionally great work Richard! Thank you! Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 19:35, 1 June 2012 (UTC) |
Hi, I have put a section on Sun's page to explain how synonymies work a bit, please ask if you need more help. Cheers, Faendalimas talk 23:38, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich; please see Category talk:Articles with invalid ISBNs#Placement of this template? where I'm stuck for a reply to GoingBatty. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 15:34, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
I see you have been making additions to the nomenclature of turtles on Wikipedia. A number of your additions have included dashes between the binomina and the authorities. While this is acceptable (although Wikipedia style is for an en-dash, not an em-dash), the dashes carry meaning, and they should not be added or removed. (It's a zoological tradition to indicate that the author after the dash was the first to make that combination of an existing name, whereas without the dash, the author erected the name. Getting it wrong is therefore quite a serious error.) For example, at Mesoclemmys nasuta, which I have just cleaned up, nine of the names shouldn't have a dash, and weren't given one in the source you were using. Please be careful about this in future, and it would be very helpful if you could fix some of the articles affected; there are quite a lot, I fear. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 18:13, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am wondering about scanning parts of the Wiki (without doing any editing while scanning) to make some data files. I have been using a Perl script with AWB. Do you have any experience of scanning the Wiki using a internet module with Perl without AWB? Snowman ( talk)
fyi Nobody Ent 22:29, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Rich do you know a good link or could you show me how to use AWB to search for and correct occurrences of some defined parameter across a large group of articles? My76Strat ( talk) 06:38, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
will match upto the value where
<canonical name> := <first letter case insensitive><rest of name with space substitution>
so "Infobox cat tray" => 2[Ii]nfobox[ _]+cat[ _]+tray"
and the same applies to redirects.
This is not a perfect regex, matching only one level of sub-templates, but it will do for most things,and can be modified. It's also off the top of my head so may contain errors, but the principle is sound.
Rich
Farmbrough, 14:30, 9 June 2012 (UTC).
I would recommend if replacing <br> → <br /> that you only do so when you are making a more significant change. Although I agree we should do this (although I prefer it without the space of <br/> some other editors feel this change isn't worth doing alone because it will work either way. If your looking for parameter help could you give another example of what you are trying to do? Kumioko ( talk) 16:24, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
The space is good XHTML I think which is one of the things we try to be compliant with.
For the parameter replacement you can adopt something much simpler, but it risks false positives and even rare negatives
Suppose we want to change "surname = Smith" to "surname = Psmtith"
s/(\bsurname *= *)Smith *(\n|\|)/$1Psmith$2/
The false positives will mainly occur where there is another template with "surname" as parameter, or something like "previous surname = " and the negatives with stuff like
surname
= Smith
The benefit of AWB is that you can watch for this kind of stuff.
Rich
Farmbrough, 17:55, 9 June 2012 (UTC).
Δ This user has endured a wide breadth of the institutional ignorance that darkens this organization, yet loves it still. Δ |
I lament that you've earned this "Black barnstar of institutional shame" aside from seeing your strength of character, the only good thing about this award is that so very few are entitled to display it. Highlight the award as if to copy and the massage becomes clear. My76Strat ( talk) 16:53, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
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The Editor's Barnstar |
I had missed your warm hand over my contributions. Thanks. Mesfushor ( talk) 20:22, 9 June 2012 (UTC) |
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The Purple Barnstar | |
for equanimity under the harrassment now enforced by arbcom. i will now be moving more DNB content over in your name. Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 22:52, 9 June 2012 (UTC) |
The following was resolved by motion:
For the Arbitration Committee,
Lord Roem ( talk) 22:05, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Richard, As per the emails I have sent you, would you be able to contact me urgently re: your scholarship? I would be very keen to assist you so that you can attend, but if you don't reply by the end of today I am afraid we will have to let your scholarship go. You can also call me till 5pm today, the number should be included in my emails. Thanks. Daria Cybulska ( talk) 14:26, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
It does make it hard to read, it's not backwards, but it is so very strange for it to be out of place, like, even when the lyrics of one song are sung to the melody of another song it's more pleasing. But I expect that will pass in time. One moral, which is my favourite, would be that careless curiosity is destroying all the best ideas, because there is no top shelf to put things on. That's my favourite moral, and the bane of my existence.
My own moral is that maths is not all it's cracked up to be, because so many good things don't fit inside mathematics. What's needed is a place to put all those good things, and there are a LOT of good things, so the best place to put things is inside big fat heads, take mine for example, it's basically empty, and lots of real estate, of course we need extra big fat heads, because good things keep getting produced, you know, like stupid ideas, good ideas are endless. Right now, good things and people go to the same place. Penyulap ☏ 09:43, 12 Jun 2012 (UTC)
Can we talk about the astrobot situation? I don't know where to go from here. Chrisrus ( talk) 13:45, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Have you considered that your bots may have developed a superior form of artificial intelligence and caused your demise on purpose? It won't have been the first time. benzband ( talk) 12:50, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Do you have any suggestions for the treatment of what appear to be ad hoc ISBNs created by booksellers (Amazon, perhaps?) for publications issued without an ISBN, as in this case? These numbers are useful for users who wish to find the book, but should a bot (yours or someone else's--I know yours are blocked for the forseeable future) that vets for hyphenation rules ever run again, these purpose-made ISBNs will get re-tagged. Is the template {{ Listed Invalid ISBN}} appropriate for these cases, even though there is no problem with the math? Any other ideas? Thanks-- ShelfSkewed Talk 05:35, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mugginsx ( talk • contribs) 14:44 28 June 2012
Category:User htz, which you created, has been nominated for possible 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. Pichpich ( talk) 21:54, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
you get unblocked soon and do better edits — Preceding unsigned comment added by Windows.dll ( talk • contribs) 23:59, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
Would you be willing to tutor me in creating a bot to run this task? I've requested it several times, but I think you're the only one who'd ever be likely to take it on, so I'd probably better do it myself. I've never created a bot before, and my background is just basic generic programming.
— kwami ( talk) 20:42, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Re: IUCN. They have a search facility and I think the results are handed out by a php or something similar. It is not essential, but I think it would be handy to search the webstie with a script, but I have not been able to find a suitable expression for "get" in Perl LWP. The code in the redlist html indicates a "post" method is used. Otherwise, I can use urls directly to the species pages and the "get" works. Just for scanning purposes of the wiki mark-up code, I have just found out that "get" does not work with the url "http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=White-crowned_Parrot&action=edit", probably for similar reasons. Do you have any comments? Snowman ( talk) 15:27, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, thanks for helping at the Teahouse. One more thing you can do - because many of the vistors are new editors we try to put talkback notices on their talk pages when their question is answered (detailed here). I found a script that does this semi-automatically if you're interested. -- NeilN talk to me 23:52, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
{{
Teahouse talkback}}
some time ago.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC).I got to Washington by a number of forms of transport:
Despite realising the opportunity I restrained myself from travelling on the luggage carousel.
Rich
Farmbrough, 23:22, 9 July 2012 (UTC).
Template:Javascript in categories has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. —
This, that, and
the other (talk) 03:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
That's me ViswaPrabhaവിശ്വപ്രഭ talk 06:57, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Help me install AWB on my laptop, and then help me do some talk page template updates. I can show you what I do by hand, and you a can show me how to automate it. Perhaps I may want to put in requests instead of doing some complex things myself.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 11:30, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
Enjoy your stay It was a pleasure to meet my fellow millionaire—I hope you had an excellent stay and please let me know if you think we can collaborate in the future. Cheers. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 21:51, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rich, you have got a new message here. — T. 05:21, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
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Please accept this virtual cookie as a thank-you for the irl cookie you were kind enough to dig up for me when I mentioned my Wikimania lunch hadn't come with one. A truly gallant gesture! A fluffernutter is a sandwich! ( talk) 17:03, 16 July 2012 (UTC) |
It's Daniel Nasaw with the BBC - we met Thursday at Wikimania. Thanks for your time and your help - the piece should be up on the website tomorrow Sunday 15 July. Meanwhile, I'm hoping I might talk to you briefly on another Wiki related topic. I don't know where on the planet you'll be but if you're happy to talk early in the upcoming week, would you please give me a shout at daniel dot nasaw at bbc.co.uk and we can set something up? Thanks so much. Dnasaw ( talk) 15:54, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
It was great to meet you IRL this past week! And congrats on being featured in that BBC article - as I believe the youth are putting it these days, you're a rock star :) Accedie talk to me 23:42, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18833763
-- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:31, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey Rich - Just wanted to drop you a note to say it was a pleasure to meet you at Wikimania, and put a face to a name I've seen all over the project. Hope you are well and enjoyed yourself in D.C. --David Shankbone 05:28, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Template:Portal frameless has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (
talk) 11:37, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Note that I am travelling without a permanent Internet connexion until the beginning of August.
Rich
Farmbrough, 02:38, 23 July 2012 (UTC).
I have been doing some good things with the Ramadan article. At least, that is my opinion. There seems to be one editor who disagrees, see the talkpage. In any case, do you think I'll get to pick my virgins myself? Debresser ( talk) 00:48, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Accusing the Arbitration Committee of " illegal activities" in my book, is definitely not OK. Please explain why you posted that and why it is not an actionable violation of our conduct policies. NW ( Talk) 12:03, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
I would add a clarifying word or two, however the page is now protected. Once again discussion is being stifled. I note some absurd points on the talk page, doubtless there were also absurd points in the case, since I was prevented from commenting on it, I have not followed it in detail, nonetheless from what I have seen the standard of the case seems to be barely above the sophomoric, and it can be accounted no more than an accident if some of the proposed remedies appear to coincide with the decisions a more mature and deliberative body might have made.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:05, 23 July 2012 (UTC).
here it is. Sorry it is a not a felony it is a "Federal CRIMINAL statute" to possess a lobster. Clearly I do not spend enough time studying US Federal criminal statutes to remember clearly the difference. The video is very good for people who live in the USA it includes a lot of real expert advice, and from what I do understand about the USA it's a place where, like en wikipedia (which is based too much on that same culture), mistakes are permanent (deadly or indef). Innocent people are put to death in Texas, USA as explained here in the same way as people are indeffed here on wikipedia. Basically it's not relevant if the editor or the person is 'factually innocent' as was the case with my last block, the fact that I was innocent was considered irrelevant by the reviewing admin. Strange case in the video, it mentions a (mentally ill) man who was tricked into confessing to 'assist the police to catch the real killer', and he was convicted instantly by a jury and spent 20 years in prison until DNA evidence proved him innocent. The judge stated he would have indeff penaltied (executed) him if Michigan had the indeff penalty bit at that time. I'm not saying that I was blocked because I was acting strange, I'm saying innocence has nothing at all to do with some block reviews on wikipedia, and in the case of my last block appeal it is fundamentally and patently true that innocence as I was, that had nothing whatsoever to do with the (I have to stop myself here from calling him an idiot) the admin's decision. Anyhow, there is of course the lesson to come out of it all, or the victory, which is my talkpage is babysitting a prototype template which allows the community to both back up our admins, or point out to them the problem to them. At the moment it's rough, it needs the third section 'unclear' as well) Penyulap ☏ 16:03, 23 Jul 2012 (UTC)
I hope you culminate your travels safely and profit greatly for the endeavor. Assuming Godspeed, it would be great if when you are more available if you could directly assist a few tasks ongoing at WP:RECP. I know you have skills that would greatly enhance some immediate efforts. Sincerely 76Strat String da Broke da ( talk) 04:53, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Nu gaze is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AfD discussion title until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Callanecc ( talk • contribs) talkback (etc) template appreciated. 11:31, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Good news! Astrobotster User:Merovingian seems to have become active again recently. Please if you would watch User_talk:Merovingian#List_of_MInor_Planets and comment as you would. You seem to understand him better than I. Chrisrus ( talk) 16:09, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There's a merger proposal relating to an article or articles you've contributed to, relating to the Ramona Quimby books. You are invited to read about and discuss it here: Talk:Ramona (novel series)#Merger Proposal. Thank you. Tlqk56 ( talk) 00:06, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I've left a message here for your attention. It basically asks which bot should I approve for the new coordinates on Welsh language Wiki. Thanks. Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 06:35, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
You've been busy! Anything I can do to help? Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 05:50, 27 June 2012 (UTC) Whawww! You've done some great work on the Welsh Wikipedia: great coo-ordinates and geotagging stuff on Welsh Mountain Peaks - brilliant!
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For all the technical problems you solved on the Welsh Wikipedia - ARDDERCHOG! Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 18:16, 1 July 2012 (UTC) |
Hi Rich. Is it too much to ask whether you could help us a second time? I've uploaded / written around 2,000 articles - by hand! - based on Scottish peaks. Could we do the same with those, and get a map to show their location in Scotland? What you did on the Welsh one was fantastic, and it would greatly improve the Scottish articles, just as much. Diolch yn fawr! Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 11:58, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Rich Farmbrough! It was a pleasure meeting you at Wikimania 2012! Hope to see you again next year! |
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Yanno what? Forget it.
Rich
Farmbrough, 08:19, 12 September 2011 (UTC).
Please correct the typo "His coat of arm ".
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:51, 9 September 2011 (UTC).
Mind checking if this should be done? LikeLakers2 ( talk | Sign my guestbook!) 20:02, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Urged to formalise the project, I have just updated Wikipedia:Date formattings to incorporate what I do. I invite feedback and any amendments and changes to the project in the hope that we can expand the effort by recruiting some members. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 04:08, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
- It messed up the coding for the template at the bottom of the article, messed with, apparently, every line in the article. And when I tried to undo the damage it just redid it all again. And I'm not supposed to notice, or comment on that???? You delete any comments that point out the failings of this bot? I read a little about this bot, and even more at its apparent author's talk page, and this is not an unknown, or unidentified issue with this bot....SO WHY THE HECK IS IT ****STILL**** RUNNING?????? User:12.73.220.22 19:58, 18 September 2011
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{{
Ford V8 engines}}
and
{{
Ford_V8_engines}}
First off, the bot is blocked, and has been since September 23.
Second, I can just imagine the bot frolicing through a garden (the garden being Wikipedia's location), looking like SmackBot, and waving to a few users occasionally. Not kidding, I can. :D LikeLakers2 ( talk | Sign my guestbook!) 21:09, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I'd like to find out why your use of AWB removes the GOCE template (e.g. at the bottom of this edit)? Thanks. GFHandel ♬ 01:14, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Category:DBK Works albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 08:25, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Category:Page Music albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 00:23, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you were keeping a log of db errors - I just encountered one like your "new one" above. When you've encountered them, how long have they persisted? When logged in, I can't view User talk:Lexein - it times out after a minute and produces this message
The problem seems to have started after this last change to the talk page (as alerted by my talk page alert email). So I asked on IRC #wikipedia, and got the suggestion to try adding ?action=purge, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lexein?action=purge still produces the timeout and error when I'm logged in. Interestingly, when I 'm logged out, there's no problem. If you have any suggestions for who to contact, please either email me or respond here on your talk page, since I can't conveniently see my talk page at all. -- Lexein ( talk) 14:48, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
-- Redrose64 ( talk) 21:18, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Can you unprotect the Asdas page and move Asdas, Yemen?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:09, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Please solve this mystery if you can...
On September 23rd, traffic to Portal:James Bond doubled, and has stayed at the new level since then. I can't figure out what happened.
See http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Portal%3AJames_Bond
Traffic to Outline of James Bond stayed the same (though it was at the higher-level already), which leads me to suspect changes made somewhere in Wikipedia.
See http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Outline%20of%20James_Bond
I'd like to find out what happened, in case it reveals helpful link placement tips that can double the traffic to outlines too!
I look forward to your reply on my talk page. The Transhumanist 23:24, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rich Farmbrough. I created the {{ cat handler}} template. Today I noticed that a year ago you were involved in trying to deploy {{cat handler}} in the {{ lang}} template, but that it didn't work. After some testing and staring at all versions of the code I finally found the error: {{cat handler}} was not the problem, instead you guys placed the ending brackets in the wrong place. The discussion at {{lang}} has already been archived, but for future reference I left a message in the archive explaining what went wrong. See Template talk:Lang/Archive 2#Change categorization method.
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 17:27, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
I appreciate what the bot does, but I have two complaints:
Thanks for taking a look at this. EEng ( talk) 22:08, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
I moved the ungrammatically name Template:Over detailed, which you'd semiprotected, to the grammatical name Template:Overly detailed, which has no such protection. The redir Template:Over-detailed, which is also grammatically correct, works too. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 20:54, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
RF, I'm unsure if you check your e-mail regularly, so please be aware that I've sent our response to your message from last week. Sorry it took a little longer than our seven-day target to reply; I was meant to have sent it a few days ago, but was tardy. Regards, AGK [ • 19:30, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Category:JVC Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 21:09, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
...not to violate your editing restrictions (and AWB rules of use), with edits that don't change the rendered page like [1], [2], [3] (note that the change to Defaultsort doesn't do anything since defaultsort is case insensitive nowadays), [4], [5], [6], [7]. Fram ( talk) 13:18, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of Good Humor |
This is for creating the list of lists of lists. Brilliant work! :D Jon Harald Søby ( talk) 15:40, 5 August 2011 (UTC) |
Hi Rich, Isaac here how is the Project so far? I have talked with a few people in in WHO and I am awaiting their reply, Asaf from the foundation has also been here and is helping us out — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kipsizoo ( talk • contribs) 16:36, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Because of an editor raising some good questions on Template_talk:Cleanup-laundry#The_validity_of_this_template_is_disputed, I realised what always bother me in {{ Cleanup-laundry}}. 1. The vagueness of the term. 2. The parallel existence of {{ Cleanup-list}}. Could you clarify these two things for me? Or is a merge of "laundry" into "list" the best idea? Debresser ( talk) 23:12, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for that, I've sorted out Indonesian links. Now Scotland. Can you do the same thing with the maps in Category:Populated places in Inverness committee area and Category:Populated places in Sutherland? Once that's done I'll add the infoboxes to the remainder.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:22, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
What's the best place to suggest and get checked User:Lexein/Template:Expand-barerefs, as part of the Expand- family of templates? It appears to be desirable, based on discussion at WP:ANI#Koavf, specifically WP:ANI#Not_so_arbitrary_break. -- Lexein ( talk) 23:40, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
Cleanup-link rot}}
is the slightly inappropriately named template.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:47, 7 October 2011 (UTC).Hi Rich, SmackBot has been iconic and ecumenical, why change its name? Is there any chance he can go back to SmackBot? Thanks -- Camilo Sanchez ( talk) 01:14, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Clumsy lead.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:33, 10 September 2011 (UTC).
Tense problems.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:36, 10 September 2011 (UTC).
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Because helpful machines deserve love too!!! :D MusicLover650 ( talk) 22:49, 15 July 2011 (UTC) |
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Rich, with all your hard work I thought you may be in need of some refreshment ;-) Marek. 69 talk 10:29, 6 August 2011 (UTC) |
Hey - the Widener Law page has the "News Release" message at the top...I tried to format the page after the Temple Law and U. Penn Law pages. I think the content is neutral and comparable to information found on most college/university pages. Can I remove the "News Release" tag? (I know I physically can remove it, I just don't want to piss anybody off). If there is something you think should be changed/neutralized on the page, please let me know!
Thanks 98.235.125.61 ( talk) 01:22, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Rich! I really appreciate it! 98.235.125.61 ( talk) 21:45, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
I love that little statistic you provided. It's a fish. I need more.
500,000 per month, that's 6 million per year! My guess was 5.
'Give someone a fish and you feed him for a day; teach the person to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.' (See Distributism).
Please teach me how to fish. How did you generate that stat?
I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 17:28, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
LikeLakers2 ( talk | Sign my guestbook!) 21:07, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your comment on Talk:Kingsmill_massacre#Names_of_victims_2. I know you're busy but I'd be grateful if you could clarify it. My query is there after your post -- Flexdream ( talk) 11:33, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
"Bug bash sounds similar to eat one's own dog food" - this needs to go.
Rich
Farmbrough, 10:46, 13 September 2011 (UTC).
Don't cap Pinky.
Piezo not a proper noun.. sigh.
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:22, 13 September 2011 (UTC).
Database error From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia View logs for this page A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
(SQL query hidden)
from within function "Block::purgeExpired". Database returned error "1213: Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction (10.0.6.46)".
Hi there! I just came across Category:Film incomplete lists while looking for some tidying-up work. It looks as though you created the category; thus may I ask, how is this category different from Category:Incomplete film lists? I do see that there's a different list template used for each: {{ Expand list}} or {{ inc-film}} and maybe you can explain that to me as well. Before I start sorting, I want to be sure of what goes where. Thanks. Humbly, Pegship ( talk) 23:08, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Needs sorting out.
Hi Rich; please see comment in this !vote. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 15:53, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Link first occurrence of Basing House, not the second
In this edit your bot again added the {{ Use dmy dates}} template without any good reason. Actually, the writer of this book is American. As I have said before, the incidental usage of a dmy type date is not reason to add the template. Please stop your bot from adding this template automatically. And I am serious about this... Debresser ( talk) 12:50, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
[X] copied from User talk:Helpful Pixie Bot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 16:03, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
The talk page was set up as a redirect to my talk page. I am just too busy (and too annoyed at the situation) right now to make further comment.
Rich
Farmbrough, 15:57, 23 September 2011 (UTC).
May need moving, certainly needs massive cleaning up.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:21, 14 September 2011 (UTC).
Replace body with
Luigj Gurakuqi University Library ( Albanian: Biblioteka e Universitetit të Shkodrës “Luigj Gurakuqi”) is the library of the Luigj Gurakuqi University of Shkodra in Shkodër, Albania. It traces its history to the establishment of the Pedagogical Institute in 1957 with a stock of about 1000 books, mainly in Albanian. Today, this library has about 150,000 books.It includes a holding of thirty two rare volumes form the early part of the sixteenth century. The older stick is in the process of digitization to ensure longevity of the items, and improve advisability. The library runs exchanges with Albanian and foreign libraries.
"The warden expresses the disappointment of Hanna in her anger towards Michael for not communicating with Hanna in any way other than the audio tapes." We can do better than this.
Rich
Farmbrough, 10:51, 13 September 2011 (UTC).
Done
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:06, 9 October 2011 (UTC).
Spurious caps all over the place. And may be a good merge candidate.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:15, 14 September 2011 (UTC).
Keyboard shortcuts:
Synonyms :
http://www.hypexr.org/bash_tutorial.php#emacs
Done
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:12, 9 October 2011 (UTC).
Done
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:11, 9 October 2011 (UTC).
Needs refs and parentage.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:41, 10 September 2011 (UTC).
I just wanted to let you know that one of your bots was being mentioned again recently on the Bot requests page. Not sure if your still interested but thought I would let you know. -- Kumioko ( talk) 14:16, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
m. Alice Brwon, Bristol 1 s etc..
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1870-1880_supp.pdf p. 425 Done
Done
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:52, 9 October 2011 (UTC).
The article Keith Griffin (economist) has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{ prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. joe decker talk to me 22:19, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Repetition.
please change october 2010 to october 2011 in Eshan Sharma — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.94.237.181 ( talk) 11:15, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Eshan Sharma should be deleted from wikipedia. its of no use and have no references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raul341 ( talk • contribs) 13:16, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich! Noticed you removed the transclusion. Was there a problem with the transclusion? – Lionel ( talk) 21:26, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Could you please explain what is being done [ here]? -- Jyothis ( talk) 22:59, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Thought that might be the case and was thinking of prodding it myself but decided to wait for things to calm down with the SPA so as not lead to an even more confusing situation. Once things have calmed down I'll prod it myself - a quick google search doesn't seem to find any usable sources. Dpmuk ( talk) 13:18, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. You helped me a few months ago with fixing some reflinks and I'm contacting you to see if you can help me out again since you have automated powers. I've worked on a few articles over the past few months and the reflinks are getting out of control. I basically just need help from someone with automated privileges who can shorten the follow-up reflinks for me to make the articles easier to navigate for future editors. I know I should have used "short-hand" follow-up reflinks when I originally wrote the pages, but I'll admit I just got lazy and didn't bother to type up a second code for every reflink (some pages have 40+ reflinks and it was just easier to keep pasting the original) but now some of the pages are becoming a nightmare to navigate for anyone who needs to edit them in the future. Some of the pages I've written that need follow-up reflinks shortened are Jay North, Academy Juvenile Award, and GLAAD Media Award, to name a few (there may be more, but I just can't think of them right now). It's not an emergency situation, but I was wondering if you could go to those pages when you have a few spare minutes and shorten the follow-up reflinks to <ref name="Reflink"/>. Thanks --- Crakkerjakk ( talk) 16:09, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
May I request you to inform the community before doing such things? :) -- Jyothis ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:39, 13 October 2011 (UTC).
Hi Rich. You have a lot of categories here - User:Rich Farmbrough/BO - that need to be disabled. -- Brangifer ( talk) 02:45, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Redlinked template
... now what was this?
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:04, 13 October 2011 (UTC).
If you could review the hook from Template:Did you know nominations/John Clapp (baseball) that would be great. The article itself has already been reviewed, just not the alts. Best, Albacore ( talk) 15:06, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
In this edit I noticed that you are still adding date templates, manually. I understand you add the template not only to articles which because of their subject matter should use a certain date format (like dmy in articles about England and mdy in articles about America), but even when you notice a preference for a certain date format which might have grown randomly, in order to further uniformity. Is that correct? Do you think that is also part of the intention of the date format templates? Debresser ( talk) 09:29, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
In a recent discussion on this talk page, you agreed to set a waiting time for HPbot, but you didn't set this for IP edits for some unknown reason. This creates siutatuions like [11] where 7 times in 20 minutes you edit the same article while an IP is actively editing it, thereby possibly creating edit conflicts only because the bot won't wait for an hour or so before making its edit.
The same happened e.g. here with three bot edits in five minutes.
I also notice that the waiting period for non-IP edits only seems to be about 10 minutes, even though you said that you had increased it to 1 hour [12]. Any reason that you don't actually wait for 1 hour, and for IPs as well? Fram ( talk) 13:34, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
In this edit, you not only claim to date the "currentrelated" template, which doesn't take a date template; you also didn't date this template, but the "!" template included in it: that one as well doesn't take a date template, of course. Fram ( talk) 13:42, 17 October 2011 (UTC
Birth and graduation dates need sourcing.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:30, 10 September 2011 (UTC).
In this edit, you not only claim to date the "currentrelated" template, which doesn't take a date template; you also didn't date this template, but the "!" template included in it: that one as well doesn't take a date template, of course. Fram ( talk) 13:42, 17 October 2011 (UTC
Your recent changes to Template:Noc have left it nonfunctioning. Please see the Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Yours aye, Buaidh 16:43, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. Came across your article on the Hilux Surf and you seem to be knowledgeable in this area, not many are including myself. I have a 1989 4Runner and for all general purposes it appears the 4th generation Hilux is basically a 1st generation 4Runner. Now when it comes to finding parts and pieces, accessories, etc. for my 4Runner it is darn near impossible, discontinued or made of gold for the price of a part if found or sold. My question I pose is, do you know if the two are interchangeable/compatible? Would sure ease my search for my restore.
Thanks for any input, Jason Chpfreak ( talk) 15:27, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
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Please be more careful when using AWB. Your edit to William Gouw Ferguson [14] has been reverted for being clearly incorrect. This was a good edit but a wrong edit summary. Here you change the date for a tag for no good reason, and again use the wrong edit summary. Fram ( talk) 07:24, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
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While it is obvious that something needs to be done about the template transclusion problem, it may be best to address this in a structured manner instead of creating and using new things without much coordination or care. I have reverted a number of your edits with the cite quick templates, because while they solved some problems (partially or completely), they introduced new errors as well. Please start a discussion about this problem, so that a general fix for it can be found (e.g. by simplyfying the existing cite templates), instead of this well-meaning effort with rather poor results. So far, I undid your changes at Philippines, Alzheimer's disease and Bacterial phyla, I'll check the other ones using the cite quick templates as well. If you want to reuse (Pixie Build p616), make sure it contains less errors. Fram ( talk) 09:10, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
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I notice that you have not responded to the comments above, and yet this bot is continuing with its editing. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 11:56, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Please check whether you have the templates and category in this edit, which I found today. Debresser ( talk) 22:58, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
You dated Category:Wikipedia articles without plot summaries. How did you do that? And, most interesting, how did you add dates like May 2008, if the Template:No plot was created only 22 September 2011? Debresser ( talk) 01:16, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Please be careful not to make empty edits like this one and this one (the added empty line doesn't alter the appearance of the page). Please also don't replace <references /> with {{Footnotes}} [15], there is no need to make such a change, and considering that footnotes is in itself a template redirect makes it a rather baffling replacement. Fram ( talk) 07:32, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
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Your comment would be appreciated
here.
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Done
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I didn't reveal your email, but I do reserve the right to reply to emails on-wiki. I'm sorry if you feel my replying to your email on-wiki was unethical or if I have breached your trust. I see you have removed this comment and this is fine with me. I will think carefully before something similar again. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 11:14, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Dear Sir, Could you please let me know why the article jayen Varma was deleted by you. Based on its credible links could you please bring it back?. Thanks. ( Musicindia1 ( talk) 14:59, 17 October 2011 (UTC))
Hello Rich Farmbrough! Could you please take another look at Karol Szymanowski article? It seems to me that Template:Refimprove could be removed? What do you think? Thank you and best regards, Semimartingale ( talk) 13:57, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rich, I see you have been generating some new articles using DNB articles on Wikisource. Did you use a semi automated method to do this or did you do by hand? If you used a simi-automated method I am sure there are other editors who would be interested.
The problem is that the template you used when generating them was the incorrect one. That is you used {{ cite DNB}} when we have a dedicated one called {{ DNB}} which does several things including filling out some of the relevant fields and puts in an attribute string. We have similar templates for a number of project basically:
One of the things that {{ cite DNB}} and {{ DNB}} have is the standard "title=" and "url=", but they also include another parameter called "wstitle=" which takes the DNB article name and adds onto it the necessary extra path information and puts in a intra-wiki link rather than an external URL link.
Your solution to endnotes was certainly imaginative, but it is non standard. One of four things is usually done, Either they are added as a "quotation=" parameter (but that is depreciated), or they are tagged on the end of the line (after some suitable explanation such as you gave, or they are added as an indented bullet point list. Or the are just ignored.
Adding a general reference as an attribution will do, but usually one should add inline citations at the end of each paragraph. {{ DNB}} has ref=harv set so you can use {{ sfn}} or {{ harvnb}} to link the short citations to the DNB template.
If the process you are using is automated, then to make sure that the TOC goes at the top of the page it is a good idea to break the line after the first clause and start a section called "Biography" or "Life". You will need to add the subjects name to the broken sentence. See as an example: George Beattie (poet) to which I have made minimal changes to your layout, to demonstrate what I mean. Note also that one has to be careful about the nationality of the subject particularly if they were born before 1707 for English and Scottish subjects and 1801 for Irish subjects. Subject in both meanings of the word as they were not British before those dates.
There is a project talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography where if you used a semi-automated method there would be interest. Also it would be helpful if you know what pages you have created using extracts from DNB text if you could list them there so that willing editors can alter them to call the {{ DNB}} rather than {{ Cite DNB}}. The one I know about to date (supplied by another editor) are: George Beattie (poet), George Steward Beatson, John Bearblock, Richard Butcher (antiquary), John Dunstall, Gabriel Dugrès, William Augustus Barron, Dubthach Maccu Lugir of which I have altered two so far George Beattie (poet) and John Bearblock.
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Please try again... [16]. Fram ( talk) 08:03, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
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The article Bruce Kaphan has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article. The nominator also raised the following concern:
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In this edit, you changed [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] to [[Georgia (US state)|Georgia]], but the latter is a redirect to the former, and neither is visible to the reader anyway. In the same edit, you changed "Commented guitarist Billy Duffy: "We are very much looking forward to returning to our U.K. roots in many ways working with Cooking Vinyl."" to "Commented guitarist Billy Duffy: "We are very much looking forward to returning to our UK roots in many ways working with Cooking Vinyl."" even though the former is the correct quote [17]. We shouldn't go around changing quotes to match our MoS. You do the same here, changing "PwC's US arm "was the reviewer for the U.S. filings for Satyam."" to "PwC's US arm "was the reviewer for the US filings for Satyam."" In that same edit, you also replace the correct U.S. Steel with the redirect US Steel.
Oh, and if you change U.S. to US, make sure that the abbreviation didn't come at the end of a sentence: in that case, it should be "US." of course [18]. The same happens here.
In this edit, you change Dance Party USA to Dance Party US. Please, just don't. In that same edit, you also change two correct links to redirects.
Please be more careful with your changes of U.S. and USA to US, and check your contributions more carefully. All the above come from the 15 most recent such edits, so the rate of errors is quite high here. Fram ( talk) 07:52, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Again turned a bluelink into a redlink [20]... I have created the redirect for you, but please don't change links like that anymore. Fram ( talk) 13:19, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Rich. Might you have a look at this? User:204.144.15.20 keeps inserting a person "Christina Anastos" into "Notable people" in the Stoughton, Massachusetts article. I googled the person and not much came up. I reverted out the person but User:204.144.15.20 keeps re-inserting it. The IP address (204.144.15.20) is from Stonehill College where it would appear Christina Anastos is a student (see this link: http://www.stonehillskyhawks.com/news/2010-11/ADHR_Fall10 ) Nevertheless, the anonymous editor keeps adding " Christina Anastos - Javelin extraordinaire, competitive cyclist" to the article. Please advise and/or take action. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 17:57, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. I've mentioned an edit you made at Template talk:Physical oceanography#Colouring; down a bit in a subsection marked width. It concerns an edit you made to that template to support v·d·e links. You were reverted. It seems the 'e' link erodes ownership. One Ton Depot ( talk) 02:56, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
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{{
InterWiki}}
seems to be broken. It does not work in any of the articles where I have checked. For instance, the very top right corner of
Kabardian language.
—Stephen (
talk) 01:14, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
{{
ISO 639 name kbd}}
.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:18, 7 November 2011 (UTC).I'm not sure what you were thinking when you added that image to a protected policy page, but please consider self-reverting at this time. Feel free to use the talk page to propose adding the image. Viriditas ( talk) 22:42, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
You have created over 40 templates in a very short time, which seems to violate your editing restriction on "indefinitely prohibited from mass creating pages in any namespace, unless prior community approval for the specific mass creation task is documented". Can you please indicate where such "prior community approval" for these creations can be found? Can you also indicate where you have found the official ISO 639 code for Simple English ( Template:ISO 639 name simple), since that one doesn't even seem to exist... Fram ( talk) 10:32, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
{{
InterWiki}}
. Secondly the specification for mass creation is undefined, but suggestions have been made that it would need to exceed 50 pages to constitute such. Thirdly, if you read the documentation on the ISO 639 name family of templates you will see that they are designed to be permissive, this avoids creating special cases and killing the servers. Fourthly why are you still stalking my edits? I have repeatedly asked you not to interact with me, the least you could do is restrict your interactions to things that actually concern you rather than following me around.
Rich
Farmbrough, 19:49, 7 November 2011 (UTC).So instead of substantiating your allegations, you WP:REDACT your statement while repeating the accusation in the edit summary? How low can you go? Fram ( talk) 08:56, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
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Rich
Farmbrough, 00:40, 13 November 2011 (UTC).
Hi there Rich. Since Femto Bot ( talk · contribs) takes the task of creating cleanup categories, I was wondering if I could drop a request. It seems that there's no bot set up to create monthly categories for Category:User pages that include images for deletion, so they have to be created manually. Several non-existent categories are currently populated (like Category:User pages that include images for deletion as of September 2007, just one of many examples). Can Femto Bot possibly be set up to create populated non-existent categories? Regards. — ξ xplicit 23:13, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
[21] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.232.64.245 ( talk) 16:08, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rich,
I was going through the following article and noticed that it has many issues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variator_(variable_valve_timing)
I really want to help improve the article but I cannot figure out how I can do so. The talk page of the article is blank and hence there is no other place where I could leave a message for help. Through the history of the article I noticed that you had left a message on it's talk page. I would be grateful if you could help me figure out how I can improve this article.
Thank you. Regards, Gunit. Gunit31 ( talk) 15:45, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey, who are you? Ross G. McMiller ( talk) 12:47, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
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FYI, there is a vote taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc ( talk) 03:23, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
I just noticed that some of my dated categories are showing up. They didn't before. This is the example in question. The simple undated categories still do not show up at the page bottom, and the {{ use mdy dates}} seems to be functioning without displaying the red categories. Any idea what could have made this happen? Is there anything wrong? Cheers, -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 15:21, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. It's about the Prostitution in Hong Kong article. See ersatz-discussion at Talk:Prostitution in Hong Kong. Might you look into this matter and act or advise? I think the material on "compensated dating" as reported by CNN isn't off-topic and in a category of its own as a trend. User:108.67.153.215 keeps removing the material and also keeps blanking his talk page to get rid of vandalism warnings in 2010 by other editors. Also the anonymous editor wrote as his summary of reversion:
"Bad faith accusations"??? I have no idea what the editor is talking about. We had no dialogue ever before that reversion. Unless he's talking about a previous re-insertion of the material by another non-anon editor:
Thanks and bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 05:33, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rich. User:216.3.102.114 keeps blanking out a valid and sourced section of the Like Crazy article. How does one stop it? Might you have a look and take some steps? Best. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 21:49, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
I fixed the template redirect at Template:Wikisource1911Enc Citation to automatically use the #1 parameter as a wstitle parameter, which will avoid the need to replace the template with a redirect, at least in the majority of cases. This one edit to the template redirect is more efficient than editing every page that used the old template. I looked at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects and this redirect change does not seem to be part of stock AWB. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 03:32, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
How about promoting Wikipedia:NOTCENSORED and the Main Page or something like it to Guideline status? I'm not even sure how that's accomplished (by discussion I suppose, but if there's an RfC and it fails does that mean the page is marked with a big red "failed proposal" X? Anyway I suppose it would need to be essentially rewritten to serve as a guideline? Just a thought. Herostratus ( talk) 03:47, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks, Fram ( talk) 09:19, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
[22], [23], [24], [25], [26]... it doesn't look like this would ever stop. Fram ( talk) 15:29, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
In general, Femto Bot on that page only looks forward, not backwards, so the page shown by the bot is in some cases not actually the oldest backlog page. E.g. Category:Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction is according to the bot starting in September 2007, but in reality the oldest page is July 2007. Similarly, Category:Userspace drafts doesn't start in December 2007, but in August 2007. Fram ( talk) 15:32, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you removed the year from the reference I added to this page, what is your reasoning behind doing this? Kat ( talk) 23:35, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
I noticed this was added to your user page, was this edit legitimate? Just making sure :) C(u) w(t) C(c) 05:33, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I was wondering if you could work out the best way to automatically place all of the cleanup cats from a month into a common cat - ie create a Category:Clean up categories from June 2011 and make it contain each of the June 2011 cleanup cats, ie Category:Accuracy disputes from June 2011, Category:Articles lacking in-text citations from June 2011, Category:Article sections to be split from June 2011 etc, without having to manually edit thousands of cats. I asked at WP:VPR and the response I got was that {{ Monthly clean-up category}} would be the place to change. I've had a look, but it's beyond my template comprehension level without a heap of research! As the main author of that template, can you help? I don't want to replace or modify any of the existing cats, just have a single cat that will contain everything by date, not just the current situation where you can only roll them up by issue. Can you help? The-Pope ( talk) 14:19, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|Clean up categories from {{{month name|}}} {{{year|}}||[[Category:Clean up categories from {{{month name|}}} {{{year|}}}]]}}
{{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|Clean up categories from {{{month name|}}} {{{year|}} | [[Category:Clean up categories from {{{year|}}}]] | [[Category:Clean up categories from {{{month name|}}} {{{year|}}}]]}}
While the habit you have of taking the state out of the link for American places is debatable (no idea if there is actual guidance on it, seems to be a case of imposing your personal preference over other people's one), there is no reason at all to do this in the Persondata, like you did here. Pipng links in what is essentially (largely unused) metadata only makes the article larger for no actual use at all. Fram ( talk) 07:47, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
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Concur with block, as those edits are a clear violation of the restriction. This user is understandably upset now, and I suggest that rational discussion is unlikely at this time, and so perhaps we should clear off this talk page for the time being rather than poking the bear? Any genuine queries can be answered in the next few days. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 17:23, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Not in that list, but this one seems a rather obvious example. Fram ( talk) 16:58, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Note that apart from separating related comments into different sections, Rich Farmbrough also added the section header "stirring it up". As it gives the impression that this was my section header, I thought it best to add this comment to avoid any confusion for any third parties. Fram ( talk) 17:10, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
That first one didn't just do nothing though, it also replaced a correct template Persondata with an incorrect one. I am not referring to the replacement of uppercase parameters with lowercase ones, a topic which has been raised countless times with Rich and which got a clear consensus that the parameters should be uppercase; I'm referring to the replacement of "short description" with "ahort description", "date of death" with "date fo death", and "place of death" with "palce of death. Fram ( talk) 16:49, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
I went to thank those involved in the Arb request for their time, only to find that I am blocked by a party to the case. Two of the four who I could loosely call "anti" have commented there since I was blocked. They might consider stepping away from the dead horse.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:18, 14 November 2011 (UTC).
Hi Rich Farmborough. I've open an RFC at The death of Abu Bakr ibn Umar. An editor states that it is not a proper RFC. Would you kindly check for me all is well before I respond to one of the editors.
Thanks
Tamsier ( talk) 13:20, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Rich for clearifying the policy.
Tamsier ( talk) 03:02, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
The restriction has been listed on WP:Editing restrictions since January. If there was not consensus to enact it, you have had 11 months to demonstrate that and get it removed. You were blocked under the same restriction for a week in September, and that block was not lifted early (according to your block log). So the argument that you are not actually under an editing restriction is very hard to make. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 17:14, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
— cyberpower ( Talk to Me)( Contributions) 15:51, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
Can you sort out the broken refs in Political career of Silvio Berlusconi and Silvio Berlusconi?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:41, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
I have blocked you for two weeks for semi-automated violations of this editing restriction. – xeno talk 16:03, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Template: . *
Edits by:
Never edited by
BAG.
Last edit by me at 21:08, 17 November 2011 (UTC).
Last edit by anyone was by
Rich Farmbrough at 21:08, 17 November 2011 (UTC).
Bottom edit was by
Rich Farmbrough at 21:08, 17 November 2011 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 21:09, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich: I just stumbled on your user page and saw your comments about some of your bot army not yet having edited any pages; if you're looking for something to keep them (and you) occupied for a brief, fairly straight forward single pass task, I was actually going to make a request at bot requests, but just haven't yet. The details of what I'm looking for are in this talk page conversation and are marked with a yellow sidebar; if you'd care to take a look. If you're interested in training one of your minions for this task, please let me know if you have any questions or if any clarification is needed. If you're uninterested, for whatever reason, no problem; I can make a bot request at the appropriate message board, I just thought that, since I came across your page, maybe that was a sign that you were looking for a reasonable little automated task. And, of course, I trust your bots are very careful to test themselves before running roughshot through a field of 10,000+ articles. Thx — Who R you? Talk 05:11, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
{{
Infobox Ice Hockey Player}}
to {{
Infobox ice hockey player}}
except where the page is being edited for other reasons - all generic AWB edits will fix this on the fly.
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:14, 14 November 2011 (UTC).
Template:Disc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Bulwersator (
talk) 10:06, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Could you help out with a suggestion on Template_talk:TfD_end#Dates, please? Debresser ( talk) 16:32, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Did you get a consensus out of this? Srobak ( talk) 16:36, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
When you copy text directly from a public domain source, it isn't sufficient to add it as a source, you have to properly attribute the text as well to make clear that it is not only the source for the information, but also for the actual text. The text you took and slightly altered from the Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois in Adjutant general of Illinois is not correctly attributed. Please correct this. Fram ( talk) 10:30, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, re
this edit - the subst: failed, because it's being used inside <ref>...</ref>
tags. As a result,
refs 1,2,3 at the bottom of the article now contain the text {{subst:PAGENAME}}, which is not what was intended. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 16:25, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Snowman has indicated that you might be interested (Josè Luis Copete sent it on today). If this is true, send me a line to [redacted] and then delete the e-mail here. I will send. Steve Pryor ( talk) 17:32, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
You deleted NHFFL (New Hampshire Fantasy Football League) as a G4, recreation of content that was deleted per a deletion discussion. However, all previous deletions of that page and the similar NHFFL were after a speedy, never after a deletion discussion. I may of course have missed the deletion discussion anyway (providing a link to it in cases where it was under a different name helps), but otherwise, could you please refrain from using G4 in cases where only speedy deletion has been used before? Fram ( talk) 09:45, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on
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section F2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image page for a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.
[extra cruft expurgated]
Sfan00 IMG (
talk) 18:03, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
It looks like the "nbsp" before the time in your signature is stopping the auto timezone correction from adjusting the date, would you consider changing it ? Mt king (edits) 20:22, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Rcsprinter (gossip) 11:43, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
The Master of Mayhem ( talk, contribs, email) 15:13, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. When making changes such as this one, please take care not to change direct quotations, as they must remain as they are in the original sources. Thanks! Powers T 01:52, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
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Slowking4: †@1₭ 18:35, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Template: . *
Edits by:
Never edited by
BAG.
Last edit by me at 21:08, 17 November 2011 (UTC).
Last edit by anyone was by
Rcsprinter123 at 20:28, 18 November 2011 (UTC).
Bottom edit was by
Rcsprinter123 at 20:28, 18 November 2011 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 20:51, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Another template for your bot to date-stamp, please: {{ Bad documentation}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:42, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
This seems to be a matter of personal preference; it is my understanding that there is no consensus to change <references> to {{Reflist}} just for the sake of changing it. See Wikipedia:Citing sources#How to create the list of citations, which suggests either may be used and Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Archive 30#References template vs. reflist tag where the topic of changing from one to the other en masse was explored. Please remove this rule from your ruleset. – xeno talk 14:42, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
|2
, |3
, and other parameters.
Debresser (
talk) 15:31, 28 November 2011 (UTC){{
Reflist}}
. The font size issue while very important, for accessibility, and one I have brought up on numerous occasions, is the same with both methods, as the presentation is entirely in CSS. The discussion you refer to was started by one user who conflated (regularly) what is meant by footnote style (as in Harvard, APS, parenthetical etc.) with just about any feature of referencing one could imagine. The majority of the discussion is then about columns rather than templates vs mark-up. Guidelines quite rightly enjoin us to minimise mark-up in articles, and this is one small way of doing it. I'm sure you'll see that clarity of the edit page is a critical part of new editor retention.
Rich
Farmbrough, 15:25, 28 November 2011 (UTC).WP:CITEVAR covers both the appearance of references and the method used to format them within wikitext. But since the appearance does not change, it would be a violation of R.F.'s editing restriction to be changing <references/> to {{ reflist}}. Unilateral "deprecation" of existing syntax is one of the things that the editing restrictions are intended to avoid. In this case <references/> is not deprecated, it is perfectly acceptable syntax. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 16:01, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
So are we now quorate or do we wait for MSGJ?
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:25, 28 November 2011 (UTC).
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BAGGER was by Slakr at 22:09, 29 November 2011 (UTC).
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Slakr at 22:09, 29 November 2011 (UTC).
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Slakr at 22:09, 29 November 2011 (UTC).
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Rcsprinter123 at 17:16, 30 November 2011 (UTC).
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Rcsprinter123 at 17:16, 30 November 2011 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 17:32, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Template: . *
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Last edit by
BAGGER was by Slakr at 22:09, 29 November 2011 (UTC).
Last edit by me at 17:36, 30 November 2011 (UTC).
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Rich Farmbrough at 17:36, 30 November 2011 (UTC).
Bottom edit was by
Rich Farmbrough at 17:36, 30 November 2011 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 18:04, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
From this edit it follows that you didn't have Template:Refcleanup as a redirect of Template:Citation style. Debresser ( talk) 21:39, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Something to think about while you are blocked. Do you have any thoughts on using data in lists or websites to add details to bird pages with bots or semi-automatic tools. We have been discussing how to update many bird pages at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject_Birds#Repetitive_work. I hope to hear from you in about two weeks time. Snowman ( talk) 20:14, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello. When you moved Template:Infobox UK Legislation to Template:Infobox UK legislation, you did not move its talk page, Template talk:Infobox UK Legislation with it. I assume that this was a mistake. I am unable to fix it myself because the target page Template talk:Infobox UK legislation has a page history, and it does not appear to be possible to request the move of a talk page at Wikipedia:Requested Moves, unless I have misunderstood the instructions there. James500 ( talk) 22:08, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
In this edit [39] you changed "Infobox Military Unit" to "Infobox military unit". This is not listed at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects and is thus a violation of your editing restriction. Additional examples of this sort of violation are [40] [41]
In the same edit you changed "portal" to "Portal". AWB does not change the capitalization of first letters of templates, so this is also a violation of your editing restriction. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Additionally, in these edits you changed <references/> to {{ reflist}}. You just marked for archiving a discussion on your talk page admonishing you to avoid doing this. As it is not built into AWB and does not affect the rendered page, it is also a violation of your editing restriction. [42] [43] [44] [45]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:30, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
(/(References ?==\n)[\n\s]*(?:\{\{[Rr]eflist\}\}|<references\/>)/g, '$1{{reflist|colwidth=30em}}')
would make the change 'consequential' --
Ohconfucius
¡digame! 06:05, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
My biggest problem in all this is that if Rich's edits are so bad then why is it the same 4 or 5 editors crying wolf every time. I agree that some of the edits in the past were unnecessary and I also support the blocks due to the actualy errors that were introduced breaking certain articles. But when he bundles the inconsequential edits in with other more meaningful ones I don't think there is a problem. Even if there are 4 or 5 editors who are adminsn and self professed guardians of the Wiki that say other wise it doesn't make it against consensus. Additionally, by and large I think there is consensus for most of the changes with the exception of the same 4 or 5 editors. As for the UK to US spelling thats mixing apples and oranges into an already problematic discussion so lets try and stay on point. I also think arguments of edit volume are mostly kinda stupid BTW. Yes he did some edits that some thought to be pointless, so what, with the exception of the changes that actually broke the article the changes arguably made the article better, incrementally a little at a time. Just because one editor spends more time editing and less time discussing shouldn't be used as a blunt instrument in which to bludgeon them verbally! If he actually makles errors or does truly fruitless edits alone thats one thing but badgering him for this is nonsense and a waste of 99.99998% of the communities time. -- Kumioko ( talk) 14:38, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Xeno, the process of improving AWB is so bureaucratic and tedious. They still disconnect after some 15 seconds of idle time, even though that makes using it almost impossible, and many editors (!) have expressed their strongest feelings about it. Now, after that you can hardly expect anybody to take AWB as a standard. Debresser ( talk) 15:49, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Rich Farmbrough, and thanks for contributing to Wikipedia!
I wanted to let you know that some editors are discussing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Between Chaos and Creation (film) whether the article Between Chaos and Creation (film) should be in Wikipedia. I encourage you to comment there if you think the article should be kept in the encyclopedia.
The deletion discussion doesn't mean you did something wrong. In fact, other editors may have useful suggestions on how you can continue editing and improving Between Chaos and Creation (film), which I encourage you to do. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at the Help Desk.
Thanks again for your contributions! Gaijin42 ( talk) 16:13, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
See discussion at Template talk:IUCN and on WP bird talk page. These links have plagued the WP Birds project for a number of years. I guess that it would need scraping the website. Any thoughts. Snowman ( talk) 20:17, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Could you please elaborate on your answer in this RFC. It seems it is interpreted differently by me and User:Gerardw. Thanks. — Christoph Päper 08:19, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
I have reverted your changes to Template:Sockpuppet category, since it created errors on lots of Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets pages, i.e. every page with a user name longer than about 15 characters. E.g. Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of We had wheels on toast in the freezing rain started with Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of We had wheels omax index is 50 for str_sub=Suspected sock puppets of <span id="We had wheels omax index is 50 for str_sub" and so on, and was listed on Category:Pages with incorrect formatting templates use, which has at the time of writing still 580 pages, or more than one out of ten pages from the category. Fram ( talk) 15:42, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
We've got to find some way to resolve this. You're driving people mad, and they seem to be driving you mad. Can you stop doing some of the stuff that drives them mad, so you can carry on doing useful stuff? There was a lot of support for taking some sort of action to stop you making automated edits, and the final terms are actually milder than those supported by a lot of people.
Will you agree to the following
If you can't agree to these, then as the restrictions were as far as I can see legitimately imposed after proper and thorough discussions, then the consequences listed can legitimately be applied.-- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 23:02, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
{{
tocright}}
" and "We must keep confusing markup". Let me stress again it's pretty much the Fram and CBM show, here, with a little Xeno thrown in from time to time.{{
wfy}}
in the sure and certain knowledge that it would be replaced by something meaningful when it was dated. However the conclusion does not follow - for a whole bunch of reasons. Firstly we want to provide a simple interface to users, when we have some hundreds of clean-up templates and some thousands of redirects it is much easier to lean the smaller set than the larger. Moreover if we consistently use spaces in template names, and consistently use sentence case we really do lighten the cognitive load. Secondly not all redirects are benign, {{
Fact}}
was changed to {{
Citation needed}}
because the first was too bitey - it says, more or less, "Liar!", there were redirects to different templates that differed only by a space or a capital letter, there are redirects that are misleading. Because I approached this on a very gentle incremental approach, rather than making runs just to replace template redirects, this is something the community was (an is, despite a recent attempt to derail consensus) happy with. There is no problem with many hundreds of redirect replacements. There's a couple, mainly done by hand that have been picked on. This is where my patience runs thin, instead of coming and saying "Hey Infobox blah isn't on the AWB list, or better, adding it a
WP:POINT message is left on my talk page with very condescending instructions "not to do it again".{{
Infobox UK Legislation}}
to {{
Infobox UK legislation}}
would you go and look through a long list of allowed and almost identical infoboxes, then come back here and post that I was in violation of editing restrictions? It passes the quack test as pointy behaviour, and it's only because I cut them extra slack, being mathematicians and comics addicts, that I haven't classified it this way before.{{
cn}}
to {{
Citation needed}}
and changes a hyphen to an en-dash.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:06, 8 December 2011 (UTC).Contrary to what Rich Farmbrough states above, all I usually do is point out errors he makes, and do it here, not on noticeboards. In those cases where I was mistaken, I acknowledged this. I don't drag Rich Farmbrough to noticeboards for every edit I don't like, I don't post here every time he changes references/ to reflist, I don't post here even for every mistake he makes and I corrects. I only drag him to noticeboards when he makes a lot of errors and refuses to correct them or otherwise creates serious problems or seriously misuses tools. In nearly every case where I started a thread on a noticeboard, general (not unanimous) agreement was that there indeed was a problem with his edits, and some corrective action was taken. Only the ArbCom case, which I started in the hope of getting more eyes on this and putting this to rest, was rejected, but with a majority of arbitrators willing to take on the case (which doesn't mean that they saw a problem with Rich Farmbrough's edits of course). Apart from that, in most cases outside review of my actions resulted in agreement with me and disagreement with Rich. E.g. he recently complained about my deletions of some improbable redirects he made. To test this, I tagged three redirects he created for speedy deletion, and all three were deleted, by three different, uninvolved admins: Template:Jewish Encylopedia, Iran (Islamic Republic of ), and Bolivia (Plurinational State of ). Please also take a lok at other things I noted here, or things I reverted: I don't believe that is a case of me not getting things on a technical level, it's just Rich Farmbrough being careless (or stubborn or whatever other reason he has to continually create so many errors). Fram ( talk) 15:25, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Let me also state that I have not contacted anyone about this, either on or off-wiki. I don't email other users, I don't use IRC, all my wiki-related things are conducted on Wikipedia and free for everyone to check. Fram ( talk) 15:25, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Template:Singles category has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Bulwersator (
talk) 09:28, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Please don't protect templates before they are even in use anywhere, like you did with Template:Page name sub. Fram ( talk) 15:56, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Contrary to what Rich Farmbrough states above, all I usually do is point out errors he makes, and do it here, not on noticeboards. In those cases where I was mistaken, I acknowledged this. I don't drag Rich Farmbrough to noticeboards for every edit I don't like, I don't post here every time he changes references/ to reflist, I don't post here even for every mistake he makes and I corrects. I only drag him to noticeboards when he makes a lot of errors and refuses to correct them or otherwise creates serious problems or seriously misuses tools. In nearly every case where I started a thread on a noticeboard, general (not unanimous) agreement was that there indeed was a problem with his edits, and some corrective action was taken. Only the ArbCom case, which I started in the hope of getting more eyes on this and putting this to rest, was rejected, but with a majority of arbitrators willing to take on the case (which doesn't mean that they saw a problem with Rich Farmbrough's edits of course). Apart from that, in most cases outside review of my actions resulted in agreement with me and disagreement with Rich. E.g. he recently complained about my deletions of some improbable redirects he made. To test this, I tagged three redirects he created for speedy deletion, and all three were deleted, by three different, uninvolved admins: Template:Jewish Encylopedia, Iran (Islamic Republic of ), and Bolivia (Plurinational State of ). Please also take a lok at other things I noted here, or things I reverted: I don't believe that is a case of me not getting things on a technical level, it's just Rich Farmbrough being careless (or stubborn or whatever other reason he has to continually create so many errors). Fram ( talk) 15:25, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Let me also state that I have not contacted anyone about this, either on or off-wiki. I don't email other users, I don't use IRC, all my wiki-related things are conducted on Wikipedia and free for everyone to check. Fram ( talk) 15:25, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
I let that discussion at
WP:AN run itself into the ground, in the benighted hope that you would stop making the edits that are driving people mad. However, it appears that like everyone ele who runs bots (remember I'm on a committee with Xeno and Coren) you are an anal retentive with OCD on the autism spectrum. (remove dismal failure at humour. Just call me
Jeremy Clarkson ) Or at the very least, you can't figure why what you do is annoying people. So it falls to me,
Captain Swing the
Luddite to remind you that
regardless of the editing method (i.e. manual, semi-automatic, or automatic; from any account), Rich Farmbrough is indefinitely prohibited from making cosmetic changes to wikicode that have no effect on the rendered page (excepting those changes that are built-in to stock AWB or those that have demonstrable consensus or BAG approval). This includes but is not limited to: changing templates to template redirects, changing template redirects to templates (see here for AWB stock changes on this item, with the understanding that bypassing template redirects will only be done when there is a substantive edit being done), changing the spacing around headers and ordered lists (except to make an aberration consistent with the rest of the page), and changing the capitalization of templates. Furthermore, prior to orphaning/emptying and deleting categories or templates, the appropriate processes (WP:CFD/WP:TFD) should be engaged. Sanction imposed per this AN discussion, to be enforced by escalating blocks
Now you're an intelligent man, and it shouldn't come to this. So I want you to take all the code out of whatever instrument of the Devil it is that you use, that does things like this and changes <references/> to {{reflist}}, and switch cases the first letter of template names, and stuff like that. Because the next time that someone tells me that you have done it again, I will block you in the following sequence - 24hrs (in case you thought I wasn't serious), 1 week, 1 month, 1 year. And that would not be a good thing. Elen of the Roads ( talk) 21:32, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
{{
Tracklist}}
is a redirect to {{
Track listing}}
, "Track listing" is the preferred name for the section and the template follows suite. There is no benefit in having several versions of the template name in articles, those of us who speak languages other than Python prefer spaces between our words. Asking users (implicity) to remember that the section has one title and the template another is unnecessary cognitive load.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:34, 5 December 2011 (UTC).One more example. This edit [52] replaced the names of several templates and removed "example.jpg". But why was "example.jpg" there in the first place? The vandalism on the page - adding the name "Kailyn" - stands out both because it is in bold and because it is in a "see also" section but not linked. It's very odd to remove the image but not remove the rest of the vandalism. It is also not clear how the edit summary "copyedit" is applicable to that edit; cf. copyediting. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 14:22, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
He simply continues though, e.g. replacing here the deliberate and correct McCartney-Lennon with the reverse Lennon–McCartney. This one as well was not necessary at all. Fram ( talk) 15:25, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the same violations are still present after the warning above. [53] still replaces <references>; [54] replaces {{ tocright}}, which is not on the AWB list. Template:tocright is used on thousands of pages and is in no way deprecated by Template:TOC right.
There are also edits which remove the " Metadata: see Wikipedia:Persondata." comment from the "persondata" template [55]. AWB actually adds this comment by default, based on this diff from the AWB documentation [56], so in particular AWB does not remove this comment by default. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 15:47, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
{{
Persondata}}
comment, the information is visible on the template page, there's no need to direct editors off to Wikipedia space.On the Matter of John Shipp, I'm come to inform you that I will be leaving the article alone from here on out. Although I feel that the article is still questionable, consensus is clearly in your favor for the retention of the article. I tip my hat to you for the work and for being patient with even as I worked to get the article axed; most users are not that polite.
Sincerely,
TomStar81 ( Talk) 07:15, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich: Although I have edited on WP for years, I don't think I have run into quite the situation that now prevails in trying to add a section about Wikipedia administration to the article Wikipedia. I wonder if you can provide some perspective on the matter. Here is how I see things:
I've made a proposal for an addition to Wikipedia regarding its organization into four levels: the WikiMedia Foundation, WP:Bureaucrats, WP:Administrators, and WP:Arbitrators. Some details about their duties and the selection process by which they are appointed are added.
If the proposal is implemented upon the article page, it is immediately reverted with citation of WP:OR, WP:NPOV, which are completely inappropriate, without any attempt to show that the criteria have been violated. A more complicated objection is WP:Primary, although there is a caveat in this document that WP may be used as a source about itself.
No argument about the applicability of these criteria is engaged upon, and no attempt to analyze just what is objectionable about these facts is made. Does it help or hurt the article? Not a consideration.
So we have here a situation where a presentation of very simple facts cannot be made because there are perhaps four or five editors that will revert it on the basis of WP:OR, WP:NPOV, WP:Primary; applicable or not.
Am I correct in thinking that this is a perfect block to presenting this material? Can you conjecture as to the source of this opposition: what is so hard to swallow here? Brews ohare ( talk) 17:47, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
The proposed addition is here, in case you have forgotten about it. Brews ohare ( talk) 17:53, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
In a recent discussion on this talk page, you agreed to set a waiting time for HPbot, but you didn't set this for IP edits for some unknown reason. This creates siutatuions like [57] where 7 times in 20 minutes you edit the same article while an IP is actively editing it, thereby possibly creating edit conflicts only because the bot won't wait for an hour or so before making its edit.
The same happened e.g. here with three bot edits in five minutes.
I also notice that the waiting period for non-IP edits only seems to be about 10 minutes, even though you said that you had increased it to 1 hour [58]. Any reason that you don't actually wait for 1 hour, and for IPs as well? Fram ( talk) 13:34, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
I would also be interested in the answer to the questions above as it makes no sense to me. I see no compelling reason to unblock this bot considering all the factors (the number of errors it seems to make, and the lack of responsiveness from the operator, the number of complaints on this talk page, ...). Another bot performing the same task seems to receive no complaints and is doing the job perfectly well.
RE This isn't causing any complaints from the editors who are adding the tags, it was due precisely to complaints/feedback from the bot's "clients" that this delay is being demanded. Your dismissive response to User:EEng and failure to follow through showed how you respond to your "touchstone".
To summarise I propose leaving this bot blocked indefinitely as I foresee no end to the problems encountered so far. My patience is fairly well exhausted on this matter and other bots are doing the same work without any problems, so there is no loss to Wikipedia. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 13:02, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
If it means anything, I miss good old Smack bot; it was fast and reliable as a nuclear clock. At 22:48 I last laid down some tags @ Medal of Honor and as of 02:48 the "nicely behaved bot" has not placed dates. I also liked Smack bot because it fixed any irregularities in the article while it was in there. I used to ping Smack bot with the request template just to have it clean up articles. :) So this delay going on made go and look for what happened to your bot and I find this crap. I think they threw the baby out with the bathwater. Brad ( talk) 07:48, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
I created {{ Cat use dmy dates}} and {{ Cat use mdy dates}} and applied them to the most obvious categories having to do with ballet companies and dancers (which is all I really care about!)
They are crude copies of {{ Use dmy dates}} and {{ Use mdy dates}}, merely omitting the onlyarticles parameter.
I don't know whether there is an onlycategories parameter; but, if there were I would include it.
I just made the presence of the templates visible within the categories in which they are present: Articles in this category use dmy dates (and vice verse).
For the benefit of editors who do things the old-fashioned way, by hand.
This discussion began on my talk page, the Megan Fairchild section, which is now archived here.
Ohconfucius wrote that he uses a script to tag articles MDY or DMY and could use some help modifying it.
Rather than expect a script to search up and down the category tree for each article it seemed wiser to do so once and for all, tagging the categories by hand.
Ohconfucius' script needs to be modified to detect the presence of the Cat use dmy dates and Cat use mdy dates templates in any of the categories in which a given article directly resides.
NB There will be articles that lie in categories that are tagged both ways, Alexandra Ansanelli being a prime example; these ambiguous articles will need to be skipped by the script.
Ideally the script would put out a list of articles requiring human intevention — but this is far from an ideal world.
I would not be asking you, a veteran of the Date Wars, to re-enlist, but hope that this can be done discreetly and so avert future Date Wars.
You are absolutely right about how unimportant this, date format, is.
Indeed, I'd be happier if there were fewer scipts being run, ideally none, and people would do some real editing for a change! — Robert Greer ( talk) 21:21, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the advice! — Robert Greer ( talk) 01:30, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I have noticed your helpful edits on the Ariel A. Roth article, thanks.
I moved AfD to Afd. because "Articles for deletion" really should be "Afd". And because Cfd and Tfd are that way also. And I moved quite a few templates with the capital "D", together with their documentation pages. Just one page I couldn't move: Template:AfD in 3 steps. So I temporarily created Template:Afd in 3 steps with the lowercase "d", but now I need someone to delete it and do the move the way it should have been done. Could you please do that? Debresser ( talk) 06:04, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
And the same precisely for Template:AfD categories, Template:REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD, and Template:REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD/doc. Debresser ( talk) 06:26, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Please see the two sections I posted about this subject on Template_talk:Fix#Substitution_check and Template_talk:Fix#Method_of_substitution_check (one right after the other). I compare Ambox with Fix, asking a few questions and making a few suggestions. Debresser ( talk) 20:26, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I just wondered if the original creation of the article for the American TV series Kimchi Chronicles (which is fine as it is and I edited it recently as well) had a kind of flaw in its creation. It seems that the original article was created by an editor called "frappeinc" ( User:frappeinc) which happens to be the production company for the show and owned by Charles Pinsky in NYC: Frappé Inc.. That was the only contribution by that user. Was it a COI originally? Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 16:31, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich: You commented earlier upon this proposed addition to the page Wikipedia outlining the formal structure of WP. Since your comments, a number of further changes have been suggested and implemented. Could you take another look at this proposal and comment further? Thanks for your assistance. Brews ohare ( talk) 20:38, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hey, all! A quick update on how version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool is developing. I'm sending this to both newsletter recipients and regular participants, because I appreciate we've been a bit quiet :).
So, we're just wrapping up the first round of user contributions. A big thank you to everyone who has contributed ideas (a full list of which can be found at the top of the page); thanks almost entirely to contributions by editors, the tool looks totally different to how it did two months ago when we were starting out. Big ideas that have made it in include a comment voting system, courtesy of User:Bensin, an idea for a more available way of deploying the feedback box, suggested by User:Utar, and the eventual integration of both oversight and the existing spam filtering tools into the new version, courtesy of..well, everyone, really :).
For now, the devs are building the first prototypes, and all the features specifications have been finalised. That doesn't mean you can't help out, however; we'll have a big pile of shiny prototypes to play around with quite soon. If you're interested in testing those, we'll be unveiling it all at this week's office hours session, which will be held on Friday 2 December at 19:00 UTC. If you can't make it, just sign up here. After that, we have a glorious round of testing to undertake; we'll be finding out what form works the best, what wording works the best, and pretty much everything else under the sun. As part of that, we need editors - people who know just what to look for - to review some sample reader comments, and make calls on which ones are useful, which ones are spam, so on and so forth. If that's something you'd be interested in doing, drop an email to okeyes@wikimedia.org.
Thanks to everyone for their contributions so far. We're making good headway, and moving forward pretty quickly :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 16:41, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
There is a good question at Template_talk:Tfm#Notice_parameters. I couldn't really answer it. If the answer is that such a change could be made, go ahead. I'll update the documentation afterwards. Debresser ( talk) 15:52, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
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for equanimity under sustained criticism, that might be considered an attack. Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 21:35, 3 December 2011 (UTC) |
There is a good question at Template_talk:Tfm#Notice_parameters. I couldn't really answer it. If the answer is that such a change could be made, go ahead. I'll update the documentation afterwards. Debresser ( talk) 15:52, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
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for equanimity under sustained criticism, that might be considered an attack. Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 21:35, 3 December 2011 (UTC) |
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For the {{ Stable version}} template, a light-touch way to keep track of article stability and quality. Yaris678 ( talk) 16:19, 5 December 2011 (UTC) |
You may also be interested in Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Stable version and article milestones. Yaris678 ( talk) 16:19, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
We've got to find some way to resolve this. You're driving people mad, and they seem to be driving you mad. Can you stop doing some of the stuff that drives them mad, so you can carry on doing useful stuff? There was a lot of support for taking some sort of action to stop you making automated edits, and the final terms are actually milder than those supported by a lot of people.
Will you agree to the following
If you can't agree to these, then as the restrictions were as far as I can see legitimately imposed after proper and thorough discussions, then the consequences listed can legitimately be applied.-- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 23:02, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
{{
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" and "We must keep confusing markup". Let me stress again it's pretty much the Fram and CBM show, here, with a little Xeno thrown in from time to time.{{
wfy}}
in the sure and certain knowledge that it would be replaced by something meaningful when it was dated. However the conclusion does not follow - for a whole bunch of reasons. Firstly we want to provide a simple interface to users, when we have some hundreds of clean-up templates and some thousands of redirects it is much easier to lean the smaller set than the larger. Moreover if we consistently use spaces in template names, and consistently use sentence case we really do lighten the cognitive load. Secondly not all redirects are benign, {{
Fact}}
was changed to {{
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because the first was too bitey - it says, more or less, "Liar!", there were redirects to different templates that differed only by a space or a capital letter, there are redirects that are misleading. Because I approached this on a very gentle incremental approach, rather than making runs just to replace template redirects, this is something the community was (an is, despite a recent attempt to derail consensus) happy with. There is no problem with many hundreds of redirect replacements. There's a couple, mainly done by hand that have been picked on. This is where my patience runs thin, instead of coming and saying "Hey Infobox blah isn't on the AWB list, or better, adding it a
WP:POINT message is left on my talk page with very condescending instructions "not to do it again".{{
Infobox UK Legislation}}
to {{
Infobox UK legislation}}
would you go and look through a long list of allowed and almost identical infoboxes, then come back here and post that I was in violation of editing restrictions? It passes the quack test as pointy behaviour, and it's only because I cut them extra slack, being mathematicians and comics addicts, that I haven't classified it this way before.{{
cn}}
to {{
Citation needed}}
and changes a hyphen to an en-dash.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:06, 8 December 2011 (UTC).A description of WP organization is in this draft. Please look it over and make changes with accompanying discussion on its Talk page. Brews ohare ( talk) 17:36, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Now moved to this location. Brews ohare ( talk) 15:32, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
To those who have provided moral and intellectual support in these recent troubles, and especially the last days and weeks. It is, of course, irritating, annoying, frustrating and depressing when those who should know better nickel-and-dime over the most inane trivia that should have been sorted on day 2 of Wikipedia, but of course we have come to expect that after an eight year battle over the spelling of a dairy product. It is even more depressing to find that these folk have had some success in poisoning the well, as one ex-arb put it "anything repeated often enough becomes believed."
I never know quite why we loose users like some of the all-time greats we have lost this year. If they were blocked, was it justified, or was it "the cabal" or infighting? If they left have they thrown their toys out, or just been ground into submission, or is there indeed a difference? But I do, more and more, come to understand the sort of thing some of them have been on the receiving end of. Let me assure you, though, that I will not willingly join their number.
Despite the depressing nature of some recent events, and interactions, I am by nature an optimist. My optimism is buoyed whenever someone acts in a way that is for the betterment of the encyclopaedia, and especially when they can see the big picture. In particular coming out and speaking in support of what I am doing (albeit a minor part of what I am doing, but I believe important for a number of reasons, including, vitally, editor growth and retention) - in the face of some determined, some might say unswervable, opposition including some big "names" might not be considered fun. Nonetheless, they come, not just here, but on ANI and even at Arbcom, and for no more reason than to do what is right - many, indeed most, do not agree with me on everything, but they still take the time and effort to post their insights and support.
And for that I thank you.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:15, 9 December 2011 (UTC).
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Yep, not easy at all. Thanks for your efforts to improve WP. Even "inconsequential" changes have their place in one's scripts and editing repertoire – if nothing for more effective maintenance. I've been around long enough to see how through incremental change that WP becomes a better reader's (I didn't say "user") experience. Keep yer chin up! Ohconfucius ¡digame! 01:59, 9 December 2011 (UTC) |
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Hi, Rich! I was wondering if you have time/are willing to help with a simple, but voluminous task I'm facing. I am looking at replacing one parameter name of the {{ ru-census}} template with another in every article which transcludes this template. Is this something you can help with? I'll let you know the details of what needs to be changed if you can. Thanks!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); December 19, 2011; 16:12 (UTC)
What (free) text editor do you recommend for editing perl scripts? The Transhumanist 21:47, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Do you know of any (copyleft) text editors and/or word processors written in perl? I'd like to familiarize myself with how they work. The Transhumanist 21:49, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
These aren't Perl specific but try taking a look at notepad ++ here and Scintilla here. They may lead you to some helpful information. You can also check out Sourceforge fro some good stuff written in Perl. All three of these are Free open source software related. -- Kumioko ( talk) 00:07, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you for fixing the "Jaguar/Sandbox/3" problem. I'm afraid that I don't use Wikipedia anymore so I was not able to sort out the problem myself. Anyway, thanks! Jaguar ( talk) 17:10, 19 December 2011 (UTC) |
Just to let you know about this current discussion concerning a series of articles which you created. Exok ( talk) 22:31, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, there's currently an ongoing discussion about splitting the Stop Online Piracy Act page at Talk:Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#ONGOING_DISCUSSION_-_Splitting_the_Article. You've familiarized yourself with the entry before, and your insight and perspective on the matter would be appreciated. Hope to see you there, Sloggerbum ( talk) 23:44, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Help me to edit this article: Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian Qualifiers User:Banhtrung1 03:47, 11 December 2011 (UTC).
See also Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Golden_Glory_hijinks (in case you hadn't). Chzz ► 20:02, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
I wrote a short article about a Jewish youth organisation I am familiar with. Would you mind having a look at it, and perhaps make some changes or leave me a comment? Also, do you think it should perhaps be considered a stub? It is already in main article space at Ezra USA. Debresser ( talk) 17:11, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
You are now wheel warring on the fully protected page Template:Schooldis. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 14:33, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I've broke a drought of about a year to make a comment on the Stop Online Piracy Act. Could you have a look at Talk:Stop Online Piracy Act#Another article that misses crucial parts of the bill as I've a number of concerns that there are important sections of the proposed legislation that aren't addressed in the article.
I've no intention of making an account, and I don't wish to reveal who I am (no, I'm not banned) though it might be possible to work out who I am. But I'm bringing to your attention on the off chance that something can be done.
Thanks, anon - 114.76.227.0 ( talk) 00:06, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, I want to possibly add a watchlist patrol for WikiProject Nickelodeon, including the talk pages and Recent changes which I've created without a bot. Could someone add it? Thanks. JJ98 ( talk) 07:37, 18 December 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:Femto Bot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 07:40, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Wikiproject Cambridge is now part of Wikipedia:WikiProject East Anglia. Wilbysuffolk Talk to me 21:15, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Here's another bug I've found: [60]. The dates in Russian should not be converted to English even when they are actually just dates (a translation of the whole ref needs to be added, if only to maintain the style), but in this particular case these dates are in fact parts of the book title, so translating them mangles the ref completely. Cheers,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); December 20, 2011; 21:57 (UTC)
You are going to hate me, but can you also do a similar run for {{ ru-pop-ref}}, replacing the "2010Census" parameter with "2010Census_prelim"?— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); December 21, 2011; 18:04 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Duff (d.967). Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Jenks24 ( talk) 11:42, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I've restored this after you deleted it as I don't think it was anywhere near worthy of deletion under G11. I've removed some of the worst spammy stuff instead. Cheers SmartSE ( talk) 20:50, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Previously, you wrote:
I saw how to do #1 and #3 in your initial ("Stats") script. How do you do #2? The Transhumanist 22:01, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
(note both types of quotes work, they are subtlety different.)
But how do you put the data in a file ("print" just displays it on the screen, right?), and then how do you place it in a page on Wikipedia? The Transhumanist 03:21, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Nice. By the way, was that supposed to be "mypage.txt" (mypage dot txt)?
Thank you for the tip. I'm now reading the Input and Output chapter of the Llama book.
And I found
the documentation on get ()
(which you used in the initial script).
Okay, here's my next question...
Now that you have content in a file, how to you place that content on a Wikipedia page? The Transhumanist 23:53, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Duff (d.967). Since you had some involvement with the Duff (d.967) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Sandstein 17:41, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Greetings Rich. I noticed (as did others) that you were replacing {{ Portal box}} with {{ Portal}}. IMO all well and good however I have opened up a discussion on the Portal box talk page to solicate some opinions of eliminating portal box completely and just using Portal. Comments have already been made about also merging a couple of other Portal related templates and just using {{ Portal}} for those as well. So, in the mean time could you stop making the Portal box to Portal edits so that we can discuss the consolidation of these templates (then maybe we can do a bot request or something and just be done). This will eliminate the possibility of changing one and then end up changing it back again after the discussion is over. Thanks. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:49, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
There was a question on Template_talk:Merge#Avoid_blank_line_at_end about a template you made. I gave an answer, but you may have more to say. Debresser ( talk) 17:26, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Talk page followers might be interested in
Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser#RfC on Template redirects.
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:23, 1 December 2011 (UTC).
Hi, you've recently fixed some spelling in that article but the whole text is at times unreadable machine translation of its Italian version, it seems. :) What's the policy on that? WillNess ( talk) 11:16, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
I have posted on the talk page of Template:Stable_version and would like your input there. Great job, by the way, that's an excellent idea.
Falconus p t c 13:37, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Can you throw light on the point at Talk:Michael Tyson (antiquary), by any chance? PS you said Humph! re the recent Cambridge meetup. There was something screwy about the site notice, but not that I could see; so apologies if you were blind-sided. Charles Matthews ( talk) 12:24, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
You are using this template in the wrong namespace. Use this template on your talk page instead.
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You are using this template in the wrong namespace. Use this template on your talk page instead. Rich Farmbrough, 12:53, 28 December 2011 (UTC).
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Greetings Rich, I was just wondering how much longer we should wait before moving forward on this proposal. It seems the overwhelming majority Support this and even those that oppose seem to be doing it from a keeping the status quo standpoint. -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:05, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
WP:MOS#Block quotations explicitly gives <blockquote> as an example of how to format a block quote. There is no reason to replace this with {{ Block quote}}, as that template is only useful when the additional parameters are used. In particular this edit [61] is a violation of your editing restriction. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:42, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
With regards to this edit and its revert, please see Template talk:Wikisource1911Enc Citation#Redirect. -- PBS ( talk) 22:59, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Hey Rich Farmbrough/Talk Archive Mega 4; another Article Feedback Tool office hours session! This is going to be immediately after we start trialing the software publicly, so it's a pretty important one. If any of you want to attend, it will be held in #wikimedia-office on Friday 16th December at 19:00 UTC. As always, if you can't attend, drop me a line and I'm happy to link you to the logs when we're done. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 22:31, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia policy allows us to link to legal streamed copies of albums. It would be useful to draw up a guideline on how and when to link to such albums; however, there is concern that it may not be appropriate as the music would not be available in all parts of the world. Is the benefit of having access to the music for most users outweighed by the fact that some users will follow a link to find the music is not playable in their region? Your view would be helpful at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums. SilkTork ✔Tea time 02:33, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
I left you a belatedly reply at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Article message boxes#Classes - sorry, I didn't notice your question 'til now Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:26, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Saw you were in the talk about Portal box.. pls see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#December 22. Moxy ( talk) 04:48, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. An editor, User:Edenc1, removed the theatrical poster image for the 2011 film Footloose in the Kenny Wormald article. See:
Is this on the up and up? Happy New Year. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 19:24, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
That is, in its search replace commands, is there a way to specify the name of the current wikipedia page it is working on?
I'd like it to be able to insert that name, as the name and not as a sticky variable (I need the actual title of the page).
I'm guessing that regex can then be used to assign that name to a variable for modification.
The trouble I'm running into is that I often need to use the subject's name in replace strings, but the pages' names are "Outline of subject". This renders MediaWiki's variables useless. So if I can access the pagename within AWB, I think I can solve this problem using regex's variable manipulation.
Can AWB do this, and if so, how?
Also, if AWB can do this, where is the documentation on it? I'm sure there'd be other useful things in there.
I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 19:39, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: I'd like to do this all in one pass, if possible.
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You mentioned interest in starting a repository for perl scripts.
What should its structure be? That is, how should the perl scripts be presented? (Each on its own page, all on one page, or some other way?)
Here's a place to start: Wikipedia:Scripts/Perl scripts
This is something we can build as we go, while working on other perl-related projects, starting with the initial script you sent me. That script isn't proprietary, is it? (I figured I better ask before I deposit it).
Which reminds me, have you found the second script you were going to toss at me? The Transhumanist 00:41, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough, I've reverted your edits to this page. I don't think being "friendly" is necessary to users who attempt to create inappropriate pages. -- Bryce ( talk | contribs) 06:37, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Not sure who to ask, but I thought I'd try you since you seem knowledgeable about such things. Do you know what {{ ISO 639 name sux-Latn}} is, and why all the constellations transclude it? 28bytes ( talk) 20:22, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
{{
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Template:Awkward now also takes a date parameter. Debresser ( talk) 23:22, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
You were right to question this and I'll change the text.Lamas reduced the number of Morpho species without saying why.In fact synonymies (in any taxon) are seldom explained Funet being no exception.The problem is Le Moult and Real (with it's many faults) remains the standard work hence "many authorities". De Vries has faults too.Web names are variously derived and EOL and NHM opt out altogether (for many Valid name = Valid species so this term does not help in the least) I'll put something alng these lines on the articles talk page. Modified it can then replace the unrefed text.All the best and a Happy New Year Notafly ( talk) 09:29, 4 January 2012 (UTC) PS. What do the Japanese make of all this I wonder.
Template:First year of decade,
Template:First year of next decade and
Template:First year of previous decade has been nominated for deletion.
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Farmbrough, 17:20, 11 January 2012 (UTC).
Hi Rich,
I wanted to thank you for your reply at
Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Academic_Conferences, and to tell you have I've now extended the query to cover three specific conferences relating to a particular paragraph (I'm a little worried that it's an old enough thread that it won't get enough attention, hence my hawking for more opinion here... :)
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Hey Rich, could you doublecheck one of FemtoBot's edits here? It seems that the bot re-created an old cleanup category for September 2006 - but, near as I can tell, there are no articles to populate it. I can find no related changes that add (or remove) the category, so it's not like the category had an article earlier today. The kicker is that the bot termed the category as "Non-empty", which may point to the error. Not a huge deal, but thought you might want to look into it. Thanks! UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 14:02, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Please stop removing stub tags from short articles containing long lists (e.g. Kenneth Kent Mackenzie, Munidopsis, Draba, etc.) It is not helpful. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 07:48, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
You have made a recent edit to a page about me. I have tried a number of channels to try and remove factual inaccuracies about me on this page, all to no avail. How do I do it? Do you know? Can you help? Where can I be verified as myself??? They're not huge lies, it's just the boring kind of stuff I'm bored of answering whenever I'm interviewed... Cheers, Adrian Edmondson — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adrianedmondson ( talk • contribs) 00:17, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Template:NRIS dead link also takes a date parameter, and is quite full (with 800 articles), but there is no structure yet. Debresser ( talk) 01:19, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Another one is Template:Third-party-inline. Debresser ( talk) 01:39, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Why does this bot make edits to pages in userspace? I created an article "template" (containing the basic outline of an article without details) in my userspace to facilitate creation of articles with similar formats and it kept adding dates that I don't want in a blank template that I plan to use for future articles where the current date will not be applicable. I had to remove the {{ Userspace draft}} template from the page to get this bot to stop editing it. Why edit pages in userspace? The edits were invasive & unwanted and wouldn't stop until I removed that useful template from the article. DemonJuice ( talk) 21:29, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
{{
Userspace draft}}
template is for actual drafts, and is dated so that we can keep a record of how old they are. If you want to create articles directly by cutting and pasting this then you don't need the userspace draft at all. If you want to create userspace drafts then you can use includeonly tags, and create a new user draft page by entering (for example) {{subst:User:DemonJuice/sandbox/Portland Timbers season template}}.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:39, 19 January 2012 (UTC).{{
Workpage}}
or {{
User sandbox}}
. Or not use one at all, since you have "only" another 10 or so season pages to create.
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:00, 19 January 2012 (UTC).Since you have taken part on the discussion about the reversion of the common-sense move of Template:Mathdab to Template:Mathematics disambiguation, you may wish to comment on a new move proposal. Lmatt ( talk) 03:47, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Please review the documentation on {{ linear-gradient}} and note the different parameter format then that of {{ gradient}}. — Edokter ( talk) — 18:31, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Please refrain from removing content from my user page; instead, please leave me a note on my talk page so I could reduce the "massive cruft" if it really bothered you. Thanks -- Bryce ( talk | contribs) 03:01, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
There is a question at Template_talk:Monthly_clean-up_category/core#Edit_request, which I think you are most qualified to answer. Debresser ( talk)
I notice both you and RjwilmsiBot are adding persondata to plenty of articles. I have been trying to add short description parameters and have noticed that in the last two days both of you have added the template to the above article. I'm not sure what category is being used to pick this up (possibly the WP: Biography talk page template) but is there any chance of blacklisting this article, It's hard enouogh clearing a 600,000+ category without articles being wrongly included by automatic edits. Thanks. Waacstats ( talk) 16:36, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Your recent edits to Template:Cleanup broke something. Even the view of the template on its documentation page is now screwed up. I suggest you revert to 15:43, 27 December 2011 until you can figure out what went wrong. — Quicksilver T @ 17:34, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at WP:AN#Rich Farmbrough. Fram ( talk) 13:12, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on New Age Diamonds requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Drmies ( talk) 01:40, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
A revised version of WP:Formal organization is proposed for inclusion in the article Wikipedia and a RfC is posted. It is found here. Can you kindly take a look at this request for comment?
Thank you in advance. Brews ohare ( talk) 17:39, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Even with automated tools... that... is a large number. I have seen your work over a long time (far longer than Shajure has existed), and you do good stuff... and lots of it. I know you don't do it for a random thank-you... but thank you nevertheless. Shajure ( talk) 14:38, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you removed the date from {{ Bad documentation}}. It used to work when the template was still using Ambox. When it was changed to use Ombox, to avoid the template loop I asked you about above (nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more say no more), that functionality was lost. I added it back in the old-fashioned way, as you can see e.g. on Template:Infobox ukcave. Debresser ( talk) 02:30, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
See WT:WP DNB#Volume of the Month for a collaboration that I'm in the course of setting up. Everyone who signed up to the WikiProject for the Dictionary of National Biography is being notified, while there is still time to alter the way of working if need be. Charles Matthews ( talk) 12:27, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
You created a page at Template/DNB JMR. I moved it to Template:DNB JMR under the impression that it was your original intention? ... discospinster talk 03:04, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
A discussion regarding your edits can be found at WP:ANI#Rich Farmbrough violates editing restriction and creates errors. Fram ( talk) 13:39, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
I've recreated African revolution as a dab after a sort of inconclusive RFD verdict; however I've been a bit more concise than you suggested (I've just linked to events specifically referred to as revolutions, rather than uprisings, coups, etc) so you might want to take a look and flesh it out a bit. – hysteria18 ( talk) 18:22, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Check this
diff! |mob=
contained a mobile telephone number! --
Magioladitis (
talk) 22:26, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Could you handle restoring the history and talk page of {{
Rescue}} as was done with {{
Expand}}?
I asked Ironholds about it, but he is swamped with other community stuff right now and doesn't have time to work on it. --
Tothwolf (
talk) 03:50, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Done
Rich
Farmbrough, 10:56, 13 February 2012 (UTC).
Template: Denied.. *
Edits by:
Last edit by
BAGGER was by Madman at 21:09, 20 January 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by me at 21:44, 16 January 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by anyone was by
Madman at 21:09, 20 January 2012 (UTC).
Bottom edit was by
Slakr at 21:09, 20 January 2012 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 21:21, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rich. I noticed you recently ran the AWB on Blackford County, Indiana, making some minor cleanups. Bots are currently beyond my ability, but can be especially helpful fixing my en–dash problem. Could you please run the same AWB on the Blackford County Courthouse article? TwoScars ( talk) 21:41, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
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The Great Arkansas Barnstar | |
Thanks for your help editing Arkansas Confederate Unit Histories Aleutian06 ( talk) 16:35, 2 January 2012 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
Thanks for the help with the Tom et Lola article. :) Ganymede 901 ( talk) 22:04, 24 January 2012 (UTC) |
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WikiProject Japan Barnsensu Award | |
You've been doing all kinds of work recently to clean up the persondata and defaultsort on Japan-related articles (which is a very large, long, and thankless job...at least until I gave you this award). You also created the {{ Vertical text RTL}} and {{ RTL scroll}} templates, which will prove very useful, I believe. Your efforts to improve Japan-related content, even though mostly behind the scenes, is greatly appreciated. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 08:39, 29 January 2012 (UTC) |
Hi, a month ago, you created Category:Wikipedia articles with citations needing edition. It's currently empty and there is no indication what template fills it. Is the category actually used by some template or not? If it is, I think the category page should link to that template. If it's not used, I think it should be deleted. User<Svick>. Talk() ; 18:28, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Fix cleanup tag - typo in month Feruary => January. Feruary 2012 => January 2012 -- PBS ( talk) 22:44, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
I noted your delisting of the RfC/U after it was already relisted. I actually went to Tarc's userpage and asked him to explain himself.
He never did answer my question and basically told me to, uh, "sit down, put a cork in it".
Needless to say, I believe this is one of those occasions where my response was justified. CycloneGU ( talk) 00:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. Could you please assist me in reverting a template move done by an editor without first seeking community consensus? I've tried to revert the move, but somehow I must have done it wrong. Here is the template: Template:Infobox African Movie Academy Awards Thank you. Amsaim ( talk) 17:43, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Although I agree that TMZ.com is not largely to be considered a reliable source for controversial statements about the biographies of living persons, I must point out that, in cases such as that of Sam the koala), TMZ.com can be considered a reliable source for statements like "TMZ.com officially apologized for having made hurtful statements". DS ( talk) 13:12, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
In this edit your AWB again added a date template without any intrinsic cause. Please Stop That! Debresser ( talk) 15:43, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
I think this is a plae where we just have different opinions.
Rich
Farmbrough, 15:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC).
Okay, I've been studying Perl, and today I finally took a crack at the script you sent me:
use LWP::Simple;
$month = "09";
$year = "2011";
$lang="en";
while (<>){
s/ /_/g;
print "$_";
$page=get ("http://stats.grok.se/$lang/$year$month/$_" );
$page =~ /has been viewed (\d+) times in/;
$total+=$1;
print " $total\n ";
}
print "\nTotal: $total";
It's a command with the syntax perl script list
You use LWP
, because that's the module where "get ()
" is.
The "$
" lines set literal variables to the values provided.
while
is a looping command, and in this case works on the default variable $_
. The default here appears to be each successive entry in the list specified.
The angle brackets <>
turn the script into a command that is executable from the command prompt in the same way that a Unix command is.
In the loop, you substitute all spaces for underscores, to make the entries work in URLs.
Then you print the current entry to the screen, but print;
would have done the same thing.
You follow that with pulling in the output from toolserver. For example
http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Outline_of_geography. In the same operation, you assign the output to the variable $page
.
Then you employ the bind operator to specify a pattern (regular expression) match from toolserver's output (taking the match from the content of the $page
variable), for the purpose of using the automatic match variable $1
. The \d
matches digits and the +
means one or more of them in a row.
Then you assign the matched string to $total
using a cumulative numeric assignment operator. Because it's a numeric operator, Perl automatically strips out the non-numerical stuff from the string (well, not quite, the stuff on the left of the numbers is set to zero, while the stuff on the right is dropped).
Basically, you've scraped the monthly page views from toolserver's output.
Then you print that value to the screen and advance to a new line.
And the loop repeats on the next item in the list.
When the loop is done, you repeat the final total at the end.
I'm ready for my next one. Please send me another simple but useful Wikipedia-related script. The Transhumanist 01:48, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
P.S.: Thank you for the Strawberry recommendation. It works fine.
P.P.S.: is there a collection of perl scripts on Wikipedia somewhere?
Greetings-
My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a graduate student at the University of Oregon, currently collecting data for my dissertation on Wikipedia editors who create and use bots and assisted editing tools, as well as editors involved in the initial and/or ongoing creation of bot policies on Wikipedia. As a member of the bot community and bot operator, I would very much like to interview you for the project at a time and in a method that is most convenient for you (Gchat, another IM client, Skype, email, telephone, etc.). I am completely flexible and can work with your schedule. The interview will take approximately 30-45 minutes.
My dissertation project has been approved both by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Oregon, and by the Research Committee at the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information on the project on my meta page.
Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to hearing from you to set up a time to chat. Thank you very much.
Randall Livingstone, School of Journalism & Communication, University of Oregon
UOJComm ( talk) 04:10, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
As to the issues in a section above:
Hey guys; apologies for the belated nature of this notification; as you can probably imagine, the whole blackout thing kinda messed with our timetables :P. Just a quick reminder that we've got an office hours session tomorrow at 19:00 in #wikimedia-office, where we'll be discussing the results of the hand-coding and previewing some new changes. Hope to see you there :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 21:47, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello. This edit removed the names of templates {{ Fb rbr footer}} and {{ Fb rs footer}} from calls to those templates, leaving the article in a bit of a mess. On a lesser point, it also added a date parameter to those template calls. I thought this parameter was only used if no source (s=) parameter is present; am I mistaken? I've undone the edit. cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 09:02, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
PixieBot is flagging a dead link on Ted Nelson. The link isn't dead -- at least not when I've checked it. I reverted, and PixieBot reverted my change. MarkBernstein ( talk) 18:07, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
{{
Dead link}}
. The {{
Dead link}}
was added by an IP, see history. I reverted the IP.
Hi Rich, I was wondering whether you'd be interested in this? Kind Regards -- Marek. 69 talk 02:57, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Hey, you might want to figure out why Smackbot did this, as there is a big possibility that it has done other edits similar to this, messing up a lot of pages in the process. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 16:48, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Another notification, guys; Article Feedback Tool office hours on Friday at 19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office :). If you can't attend, drop me a note and I'll send you the logs when we're done. We're also thinking of moving it to thursday at a later time: say, 22:00 UTC. Speak up if that'd appeal more :) Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 16:16, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
A while back a placed a request on Template talk:Multiple issues that hasn't received any feedback. The request was that the linkrot issue of multiple issues be changed to resemble template:linkrot in including a link to the reftool. As someone who has worked on this complicated template could you comment on my request? RJFJR ( talk) 17:21, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich! Been a while since you setup WPConservatism with Femto--and it's working marvelously btw. WP:CHRISTIANITY has been without a RecentChanges update since SQLBot went inactive in 2008 Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Watchlist (OK to change the title). I forget whether Femto uses a template or a category. Anyway we don't have a cat for all articles (although easy enough to modify the template). The template is {{ WikiProject Christianity}}. If you could setup Femto for us that would be great!!! – Lionel ( talk) 11:03, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
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The Christianity Barnstar | |
Thank you for your recent work in helping the Christianity WikiProject keep track of its content. It is very much appreciated. John Carter ( talk) 20:08, 6 February 2012 (UTC) |
As was explained to you a number of times (e.g. in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive227#Rich Farmbrough violating editing restriction and the subsequent Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Archive 2#Cite DNB, your copies from DNB, assuming they are not copyright violations (see the end of the discussion you started at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers), need to be correctly attributed, i.e. indicating that the DNB is not only the source for the information, but the actual source for the text. This can easily be done by using the "vb" parameter with the Template:Cite DNB, or by changing to the DNB template, as shown here. Wikipedia:Plagiarism has more info on this. Please also take care with your links, which often go to the wrong article or a disambiguation page, and please remove the DNB drafts category once the articles are in the mainspace. Fram ( talk) 09:29, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Rich
Farmbrough, 14:14, 13 February 2012 (UTC).
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:06, 15 February 2012 (UTC).
Hi. You're receiving this message because you recently edited Park51. Ed Poor has proposing splitting that off part of that article to create Ground Zero controversy. We're discussing it on the talk page here and would appreciate your feedback. Raul654 ( talk) 23:47, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Can you stop utilizing automated tool to remove the source. You are adding a cn tag where it is not needed. Tbhotch. ™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 21:15, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
I thank you very much for your help indeed. I am still relatively quite new in all of this. 213.249.218.39 ( talk) 00:21, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Rich Farmbrough,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Young June Sah -- Yjune.sah ( talk) 03:46, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Dougweller ( talk) 17:39, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
— David Levy — David Levy 20:21, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Might you have a look at this and please advise? Watch and User_talk:The_Magnificent_Clean-keeper#Watch_article. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 16:18, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. User:206.180.101.2 continues to remove the same sourced information from the Foxconn article. Might you look into it? Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 17:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- - -
Hi Rich. Other anonymous users are doing it now, like
User:76.188.129.97. I don't know exactly can be done. Semi-Protect from anons? Dunno. --- (Bob)
Wikiklrsc (
talk) 01:33, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
How is it you are manipulating your timestamp? Does your signature end with <small>
and you sign with ~~~~</small>
?—
cyberpower (
Chat)(
WP Edits: 517,697,904) 18:28, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich--I left a response to your note on ANI, "Continued legal threats by blocked user". Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 04:05, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Commons+cat. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Commons+cat redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). MGA73 ( talk) 12:29, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
You are still creating crappy DNB articles by script, instead of manually. The problematic character of these creations has been discussed before, but for some reason you still use the same script to create these (but then again, even after you had been blocked for these, you wanted to create them by bot, so it seems obvious that you don't see any major flaws in this script...). The rules you use for adding bluelinks are pretty useless, e.g. Thomas Bedingfield (1593?-1661) links to sentences, the name of the subject, disambiguation pages (including "Thomas"), ... Note that your link in the Cite DNB template doesn't work (due to the "?"). Other articles lack all categories (also an old problem), copy the poor transcriptions from Wikisource without any improvements (e.g. Charles Beckingham "He died 19 February 1780-31"), and have poor layout (see e.g. Thomas Bedford (fl.1650), which obviously had not any human oversight after it was script-created, as evidenced by the first lines' italicization, and the link to Baxter Bedford, which in reality is about Baxter and Bedford, not one person or entity).
Another old problem is your creation of articles from the DNB, for which already an article existed. E.g. John Danckerts already existed as Johan Danckerts, and Henry Danckerts as Hendrick Danckerts. Fram ( talk) 13:27, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
This sort of message might actually keep me reading to the end. I don't know why you think rudeness is the way to approach other people - perhaps it works for you in you personal life, it doesn't work on Wikipedia.
Rich
Farmbrough, 13:46, 27 February 2012 (UTC).
The incomplete template (see discussion Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_January_22) will likely go away soon. Would it make since to run a bot on the articles it's tagged to and:
Is that practical? Who might have a bot that could handle that? Sparkie82 ( t• c) 20:36, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I want to add the Recent changes for Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state) to monitor all articles automatically updated by a bot. Thanks. JJ98 ( Talk / Contributions) 08:17, 14 February 2012 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:Femto Bot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 08:28, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Mistress Selina Kyle (
Α⇔Ω ¦
⇒✉) has given you
a cup of tea, for taking the time to weather a dispute. Thanks for staying
calm and civil! Tea promotes
WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day ever so slightly better.
Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a tea, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy!
Spread the lovely, warm, refreshing goodness of tea by adding {{ subst:wikitea2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
--
Mistress Selina Kyle (
Α⇔Ω ¦
⇒✉) 07:58, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough, thanks for helping out with the Gopal Krishan article. However, you will notice that the exact same two images were readded today by a new user whose only contributions are to "Gopal Krishan" and "Vichitra veena". This is quite obviously the same user you warned under a new account, no? Best wishes Hekerui ( talk) 18:53, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Rand, Paul. Since you had some involvement with the Rand, Paul redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). – hysteria18 ( talk) 17:34, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
You participated in the discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#WP:TFD deletions by admin User:Fastily, which occured following the closure of Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 24#Template:New York cities and mayors of 100.2C000 population. Be advised that I have opened Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 February 27#User:TonyTheTiger/New York cities and mayors of 100,000 population.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 05:32, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey guys! Another month, another newsletter.
First off - the first bits of AFT5 are now deployed. As of early last week, the various different designs are deployed on 0.1 percent of articles, for a certain "bucket" of randomly-assigned readers. With the data flooding in from these, we were able to generate a big pool of comments for editors to categorise as "useful" or "not useful". This information will be used to work out which form is the "best" form, producing the most useful feedback and the least junk. Hopefully we'll have the data for you by the end of the week; I can't thank the editors who volunteered to hand-code enough; we wouldn't be where we are now without you.
All this useful information means we can move on to finalising the tool, and so we're holding an extra-important office hours session on Friday, 6th January at 19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. If you can't make it, drop me a note and I'll be happy to provide logs so you can see what went on - if you can make it, but will turn up late, bear in mind that I'll be hanging around until 23:00 UTC to deal with latecomers :).
Things we'll be discussing include:
If you can't make it to the session, all this stuff will be displayed on the talkpage soon after, so no worries ;). Hope to see you all there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 04:50, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Even if you can manage to create decent articles from the DNB, we do not need "… (DNB00)" redirects. Please stop creating them. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 13:32, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough. As an experienced admin, I kindly ask you to check these edits of user MarshallBagramyan. ( [62], [63], [64]) That clearly seems like edit war to me. While the source insists that this incident has happened and was the main reason behind these clashes, MarshallBagramyan clearly wants to erase this fact. Could you please help me in this, as I am very reluctant to engage any edit war against him. Regards, -- Verman1 ( talk) 07:52, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Please see the updated Request for help section. Debresser ( talk) 17:29, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, -- Beth Wellington ( talk) 22:22, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Can you stop with the cosmetic changes please? I find it annoying to have worse-than-pointless edits like this one constantly coming up on my watchlist. Hesperian 03:14, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
... on Category_talk:User-created_public_domain_images#Keep_local_files. I noticed you made this edit. -- MGA73 ( talk) 11:03, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
PD-author}}
which is a bit of a problem one - 11,000 images, most of which, it appears, are either PD-ueser or PD-old (or PD-maybe).
Rich
Farmbrough, 19:09, 29 February 2012 (UTC).{{
PD-author}}
does not sort the images in dated categories so it is not a big problem at the moment. {{
PD-user}}
put the files in the same category as {{
PD-self}}
so to make it work as planned {{
PD-user}}
should also be fixed. But it looks complex. --
MGA73 (
talk) 20:23, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Can you please fix the syntax after this edit, thanks.
Removing the CSS float is what was needed. Changing <div>
to <br>
is incorrect (and unnecessary) because it breaks the HTML nesting rules for %block;
contexts. More importantly, your edit now leaves a dangling </div>
closing tag that just shouldn't be there. Also <br/>
is a bogosity anyway, as that's XHTML and if we're embedding anything in MediaWiki wikitext, it's a HTML parsing model, not an XHTML one.
Thanks Andy Dingley ( talk) 20:05, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
Clear right}}
. (But I believe we are supposed to be XHTML compliant.) I am not sure if the un-named parameter belongs there.
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:14, 1 March 2012 (UTC).Hi, please see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Cleanup category population. Can you explain there why you made [//en.wikipedia.org/?title=Template%3ATrivia& diff=469030301 this edit]? Thanks, Goodvac ( talk) 23:46, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
I have added enough to document his publishing activities. But note that the identification with the DNB author is tenuous: see s:Author_talk:Arthur Hall. Common name. Charles Matthews ( talk) 14:30, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rich,
I created the Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof article and added these images: [66] and [67]. They are showing up in the English article but when I tried to use them in the corresponding French article [68] they do not work, even though I've given permission (atleast I thought). Do you know how to solve this problem? Thanks. Tamsier ( talk) 16:30, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Tamsier ( talk) 04:02, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Dear Rich, regarding an article about Pumpable ice technology. In order to understand your remarks deeply, please, show 2-3 examples. When I prepared this draft, my main target was to support Wiki requirements including the writing content from a neutral point of view. Of course, I've not got the experience to work with Wiki articles. That is why, please, show 1,2,3 external links that are not appropriated up to your point of view or Wiki standards. Thanks Swallow2011 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:08, 3 March 2012 (UTC).
Hey
Helpful Pixie Box has gone on a tagging binge - Rayment build 626 or something like that (see http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=South_Down_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&curid=865888&diff=480337792&oldid=465261465). Could you explain what this is, please, because I have almost every United Kingdom parliamentary constituency on my watchlist so I currently have either a lot of work to do or a lot of stuff to ignore.
Thanks! doktorb words deeds 16:05, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
Better source}}
has been inserted into the main {{
Rayment}}
template (which can be over-ridden when the template is used for external links, for example, instead of as a citation). This means that all occurrences needed dating. Generally I can spot this sort of thing coming (with template tags) and start dating the templates in advance, sometimes years, so that it's not a big bang when it becomes official, this one, however took me by surprise.
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:11, 5 March 2012 (UTC).In your latest edits, you are carefully making some minimal change so as not to violate the letter of your editing restriction. You are at the same time making errors though, duplicating the "Use British English" template [69] [70] [71] [72] [73]... Furthermore, you have now made a few hundred edits (basically to replace a redirected template to the target of the redirect name, not really very useful) with the rather non-informational edit summary "General fixes using", which seems to be the result of some tampering with a tool like AWB. Please provide more informational and less incomplete edit summaries, and be more careful when adding templates. Fram ( talk) 10:12, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Rich, I'm back. Hope you're well. How does one remove the [1] before the first external link...Thanks! -- Beth Wellington ( talk) 00:54, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Template:Category TOC exists has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (
talk) 13:20, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Is {{ Ref web}} going anywhere? ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 17:15, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Terrible restore. You should know better. You do know better. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 01:53, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
...has often proven to be at least as or more reliable than the so-called "reliable" sources. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:38, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Might you have a look at this and advise or act on it accordingly? User_talk:J3Mrs#MediaCityUK. Thanks and bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 21:32, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Here's a new outline.
You could help us Perl newbies by adding anything you think would be helpful. The Transhumanist 19:21, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Luk talk 10:29, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
I just wanted to let you know that I tweaked the stable version template a little; I made it collapsible, and added a link to the template documentation.
Thanks, Falconus p t c 14:43, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I created that discussion today in TIL. Currently, it's 3 on the TIL page. Go tell everybody in the discussion you're the most BA MFer on Wikipedia :)
HELLO. I see you helped edit the article I wrote about Larry N. Jordan that is undergoing some tweaking. I am wondering if you could also help me create a footnote? Near the end of the article I have cited a story that ran on Mr. Jordan in two Texas newspapers but I did not know how to create a link to a footnote so I merely made the actual newspaper names a link to the story. If you could modify this I'd appreciate it very much. Thanks, Lisa Brown LisaBrown2012 ( talk) 21:34, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
HELLO AGAIN. I noticed in re-reading Larry N. Jordan's Wikipedia page that someone removed the reference to Billboard magazine. But this is a MAJOR citation that should be included, especially since it appeared in the magazine recently when they did an interview with Mr. Jordan and it helps justify his accomplishment in writing a major new book on this iconic star Jim Reeves:
There is also a quote from the article I'd like to include, as follows: According to Billboard:
"Though the author is a Reeves fan, he didn't put the singer on a pedestal... The book is a balanced account of Reeves' life and career, his marriage to Mary...and his penchant for the opposite sex that might not have meshed with his 'Gentleman Jim' persona. However, Jordan spends a lot of time discussing what made Reeves fans all over the world: the music."
I'm a newbie and I have got in over my head in trying to do a good deed by posting to Wikipedia on a guy I think has some impressive accomplishments and yet I still don't quite understand the technical aspects here. If you could help again I'd sure thank you! -- Lisa Brown LisaBrown2012 ( talk) 01:55, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, just a minor problem with BOT in this edit where the BOT dates an already dated {{ Rp}} template, as well as 2 undated ones. Keith D ( talk) 01:24, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Farmbrough, your bot Femto Bot ( talk · contribs) blanked {{ wikification progress}} with this edit. Was this a mistake? I'm notifying you just in case; for now i have restored the template as it is used by WP:WWF. Cheers, benzband ( talk) 16:06, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 February 21#Template:More plot is closed as keep. However, these issues are still discussed in Template talk:More plot. Please join in discussion for more consensus. -- George Ho ( talk) 01:48, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Please don't use the same incorrect edit summary over and over again. You made 48 edits with "Fix refs and/or minor fixes Depov a little", but apart from the first one none of them did "depov" anything. Fram ( talk) 10:10, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
When an AfD concludes as "merge", you shouldn't simply delete the page and move another page over it. Please restore the history of Statesman (276 deleted edits, stertching back to 2003) and respect the result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Statesman and the general deletion rules. This was clearly an incorrect "G6" deletion. Fram ( talk) 10:16, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Since you don't seem inclined to do this, I have asked another admin to restore this at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive233#Restoration of page history requested. Fram ( talk) 12:58, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Your code to change "Reference" to "References" should only work when it is the only word in the section header, not in cases like this and this. I corrected them both, no idea if there are any others where the same happened. Fram ( talk) 15:33, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Doesn't seem to be completely corrected, notice e.g. [76] and [77] (both corrected now). Fram ( talk) 08:03, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Helpful Pixie Bot broke a number of URLs on an article I watchlist in this edit. I reverted and have temporarily indefinitely blocked the bot. Feel free to unblock without asking me whenever you get that bug fixed. Best, NW ( Talk) 18:46, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Re this edit, the {{ Disambiguation}} template doesn't need dating, as far as I know. Cheers! -- JHunterJ ( talk) 14:53, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Dated template "disambiguation" - see [78]. Hipocrite ( talk) 18:39, 14 March 2012 (UTC) Edit - I see someone said this. Ignore. Hipocrite ( talk) 18:39, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
would like you to take a look at the discussion. We have posting of misinformation which is then used to support what seems to be an overriding BIAS against those who seek elected public office couched in "notability" terms Yaloe ( talk) 03:25, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
The sources for this page have been verified. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnlowenstein ( talk • contribs) 23:30, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Why is the Helpfull Pixie Bot having a problem with "isbn= 2-06-008-099-0". That is exactly the ISBN as stated on the book cover. Could it give trouble because this is a French' ISBN? Night of the Big Wind talk 18:02, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
I don't have a clue where to start.
I'd like the table to list subjects down the left, with columns for traffic on the right. One traffic column for the corresponding outline, category, and portal for comparison purposes.
And totals at the bottom of each column.
If you whip something up, I'm sure I could help refine it.
I look forward to any perl code you can throw at me. The Transhumanist 02:29, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: Happy New Year!
Stamford,Outline of Stamford, Category:Stamford, Wikipedia:WikiProject Stamford
print_headers...
while (<>){
chomp;
if (/^([^,]*),([^,]*),([^,]*),([^,]*)$/){ # Note: this could be also done with the split function, in a different way
$name=$1;
$outline=$2
$cat=$3;
$project=$4;
}
else{
print "$_ does not match pattern; skipping.\n";
}
$outline_count=count($outline);
$cat_count=count($outline);
$project_count=count($project);
print "\|$name\|\|$outline_count\|\|$cat_count\|\|$project_count\n\|-\n"; # make a line of the table....
# keep track of the totals....
$outline_total+=$outline_count;
...
}
print_footers....
sub count{
# in some circumstances there would be error checking code here - what if the page doesn't exist,or the server is down?
$url=shift;
get the page...
$count= find the number..
return $count
}
Hi Rich. Do you know what this is all about? He keeps putting invitations on my talk page and I keep deleting them, and he keeps putting them back. A bot? I never heard of this editor: User talk:Walter55024. Please have a look. The message he keeps leaving on my talk page is:
Thanks and Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 23:53, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Category:Copro Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 07:29, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
HPB is "Delink USA (overlinking) and replace with US (MoS)" (e.g. here). I couldn't find the approval for this task. Can you indicate where this was approved? Fram ( talk) 07:52, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
E.g. edits like this one are unnecessary and don't do any other approved tasks at the same time. Fram ( talk) 07:56, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
So I know you have everything up to 1999 up, are you gonna be able to do 1998? Arjoccolenty ( talk)
You have been asked by some people on this page to stop with changing the ISBNs (hyphenation) through Helpful Pixie Bot while discussion about it is ongoing. On the other hand, the task to do this has been approved, but that was some years ago.
Now I notice that Helpful Pixie Bot is not only adding and changing hyphenation (e.g. here), but is also removing hyphenation [81] [82] [83] [84]...). Perhaps it would be better if you stopped with this task until it has become more clear whether there still is consensus for this. The tagging of incorrect ISBNs [85] is separate from this and seems undoubtedly useful, so no problem there. Fram ( talk) 09:13, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, I dropped by your page the other day on a completly different matter. I noticed that you're a programmer. I assume you work with the wikidatabase. I'm looking for two things:
Maybe you can point me in the right direction if you can't help? Thanks very much. Argolin ( talk) 15:08, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
I was looking for a .csv or tab delimited dump of all items in Category:WikiProject Canadian music articles not recent changes: I've done most of them! In fact, I need the sandbox dump to be able to run live anytime I choose. I'm sure you know the "articles" in the cat name refers to all main namespace class articles. That's what I want all 9,076 of them as at 20 February 2012.
Please ignore the above request. I can get it myself with AWB! I'm already woking on a 600+ list of music group biographies without a year of establishment. I posted my question at the AWB help: it was answered pdq! I figured I have bothered you enough. You gave me that one final push to sign up for AWB (which I'm diggin'). Thanks again. Argolin ( talk) 10:57, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Awhile back you got either an AFD or PROD notification, and it was during one of the
template testing project's experiments. If you could go
here and leave us some feedback about what you think about the new versions of the templates we tested, that would be very useful. We're specifically looking for info about whether the messages were more effective at communicating how people should participate in deletion processes as the author of the article. (You can also email me at swallingwikimedia.org if you want.) Thanks!
Steven Walling (WMF) •
talk 00:28, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Foxconn is still dicey after semi-protection expired. User:76.188.129.97 got back in there. Best. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 00:43, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
The current build of the bot is placing templates on articles to say they have one source - obvious and no inline citations - obvious. It could be said that the bot goads people into action - but I jyst find it a bit depressing to think of those BLPs that we added a ref to, to now have these templates. IMO Victuallers ( talk) 12:01, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Sister project link. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Sister project link redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). MGA73 ( talk) 15:57, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for removing the an(s) this edit, but why add the date parameter to the templates? As it will just change every time the template is called, I had considered doing it but decided that it just meant more execution every time the template is called. Was it done to shut up some sort of error report?
If so it will not work too well because doesn't the date parameter includes a day? I think the code that would be needed should look like this. But of course the real way to fix it is to pass in a parameter to the {{ Rayment}} with the Magic variables subst so it is set once in the article eg: |editdate={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} which will set "editdate=March 2012" -- PBS ( talk) 08:38, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
Rayment|date=February 2012}}
. Helpful Pixie Bot will take care of this. I am not keen on having clean-up tags wrapped in other templates, but it is a fairly common requirement, and this is a simple template.
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:36, 1 March 2012 (UTC).Hello,
Your bot tagged an ariticle I was working on for various things. I have worked this past few days to correct those thing and was hoping you could check and see if I have cleared up any of the issues. If I have not, could you provide guidance on what my next steps should be? Thank you very much. Trieka Ayer ( talk) 13:14, 5 March 2012 (UTC) Link to page: Dropa stones Trieka Ayer ( talk) 13:16, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey Rich Farmbrough. Would you mind if I call you Rich? The Category:Bongo Beat Records albums you created has been flagged for speedy deletion. By chance, I was working on The Diodes. The article claims that the band was signed to Bongo Beat Records. I haven't done much work to prove this. However, for some reason Bongo Beat Records is familiar for which now I can't recall. They were a legit record label as evidenced by one naming form Bongo Beat acoustic series. I've done a cursory search on wiki for others to add to this empty category with no results. There are many, many deletionists out there! Argolin ( talk) 02:49, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks one for the inclusionists! Argolin ( talk) 06:31, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
isbn help please. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 01:58, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
OK, but Lttljvd is the original one I wanted to talk to but I thought that he had left so I sort of went crazy. I'm sorry. It won't happen again. Arjoccolenty ( talk) 13:27, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. I ask you to at least temporarily stop using HPB for ISBN hyphenation, as there is no consensus that it's needed. You may join discussion at Wikipedia talk:ISBN. -- Eleassar my talk 08:55, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Hiya. Helpful Pixie Bot may be a bit confused, and dropping the year from date params: ''|date=March 15, 2012}}'' to ''|date=March }}'' For example [86] Thanks ;) Eclipsed (talk) (COI Declaration) 23:03, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
We recently updated two template doc pages that were unclear as to syntax usage. If the date option is added to the usage docs, it may save bot resources. Template:Missing information non-contentious/doc and Template:Missing information/doc.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 19:47, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
The article Angela Wright has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
notice, but please explain why in your
edit summary or on
the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
will stop the
proposed deletion process, but other
deletion processes exist. In particular, the
speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and
articles for deletion allows discussion to reach
consensus for deletion.
Sleddog116 (
talk) 04:58, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about making the Multiple issues template the new cleanup template here. Since you have edited this template several times in the past I thought you might have some insight into this idea. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:33, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Template:Wiktionary pipe has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯ 05:18, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
In the annotation Perl script you wrote...
What does $page do?
I tried opening a file into $page, and it didn't work:
open $page, "Outline.txt" or die $!;
while ($page =~ /\n\*\s*\[\[([^\])]*\]\]\s*\*/s ){
$bulleted = $1;
$entry = get ($bulleted);
$entry =~ s/.*?'''.*?'''//;
$entry =~ s/([^\.]*.[^\.]*.).*/$1/;
$page =~ s/(\n\*\s*\[\[$bulleted\]\]\s*)\*/$1 $entry/;
}
I used the following script to test the behavior of $page
:
open $page, "Outline.txt" or die $!;
while ($page){
chomp;
print "$_\n"
}
It just produced blank space.
I tried the above script without the "open" line, providing "Outline.txt" as a command line argument, and it still didn't work.
I use regex all the time, but file handling in perl has me stumped.
The Transhumanist 01:25, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
open FILE, "Outline.txt" or die $!;
@array=<FILE>;
$page=join "\n", @array;
close FILE;
while (<FILE>) {$page.=$_}
Is it normal for beginner Perl students' heads to spin? (Mine is spinning). :)
You provided the following script fragment in a previous thread:
while ($page =~ /\n\*\s*\[\[([^\])]*\]\]\s*\*/s ){
$bulleted = $1;
$entry = get ($bulleted);
$entry =~ s/.*?'''.*?'''//;
$entry =~ s/([^\.]*.[^\.]*.).*/$1/;
$page =~ s/(\n\*\s*\[\[$bulleted\]\]\s*)\*/$1 $entry/;
}
There is definitely something missing, because the script does not work when run, even when I replace the guts with
while ($page){
chomp;
print "$_\n";
}
I don't understand "$page". It's not defined in the script, and I don't know how to define it from the examples you just provided.
It doesn't appear that this fragment can be dropped into the new script you provided above.
What is missing? The Transhumanist 03:34, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
use strict;
open FILE, "Outline.txt" or die $!;
while (<FILE>) {$page.=$_}
close FILE;
while ($page =~ /\n\*\s*\[\[([^\])]*\]\]\s*\*/s ){
$bulleted = $1;
$entry = get ($bulleted);
$entry =~ s/.*?'''.*?'''//;
$entry =~ s/([^\.]*.[^\.]*.).*/$1/;
$page =~ s/(\n\*\s*\[\[$bulleted\]\]\s*)\*/$1 $entry/;
}
# Now do something with the text we have created.
open FILE, "Annotated.txt" or die $!;
print FILE $page;
close FILE;
the text was loaded from a file. There would need to be a subroutine to get the Wikipage $bulleted.
Rich
Farmbrough, 03:34, 19 March 2012 (UTC).
I swapped out the guts to test the file handling portion...
open FILE, "Outline.txt" or die $!;
while (<FILE>) {$page.=$_}
close FILE;
while ($page){
chomp;
print "$_\n";
}
...and it didn't work.
What did I do wrong? The Transhumanist 03:54, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: is there supposed to be a "." after "$page"? -TT
open FILE, "Outline.txt" or die $!;
while (<FILE>) {$page.=$_}
close FILE;
print $page;
would be all that was needed.
Rich
Farmbrough, 04:04, 19 March 2012 (UTC).
Hello Rich. An anonymous editor from Antwerp, Belgium keeps putting in erroneous and un-cited information about the name of the brother of Gabi Ashkenazi. His brother's name, as per the citation given, is Avi not Natan who's a military leader. I'm on the verge of a 3RR. Help? The anonymous editor(s) are User:91.176.220.231 and User:91.176.56.106. Help? Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 00:41, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. User:84.198.183.148 is back changing it from Avi to Natan. Another Antwerp, Belgium IP and anonymous editor. Help? --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 04:34, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. This bot just added hyphens to some ISBNs in Smith Act trials of communist party leaders. I'm preparing the article for WP:FA, and uniformity in citations is critical. So I need to have them all with hyphens, or all without hyphens. My preference is without (which is the way the article was before). I tried to "undo" the change, but intervening changes made that impossible. NOTE: I'm not cranky, and I love bots & appreciate the work the bot-creators do; but in this case the article became, from a FA/MOS/uniformity viewpoint, worse. I'll go ahead an manually undo; but I thought I'd give you all a heads-up since other editors will probably object to these sorts of changes. -- Noleander ( talk) 19:59, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rich. User:84.198.183.148 is back changing it from Avi to Natan in the Gabi Ashkenazi article after my prior query to you. Another Antwerp, Belgium IP and anonymous editor. Help? --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 12:46, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. User:Areyoureadyeddy keeps insisting on putting the full name in the Nantucket Sleighride (album) for West/Palmer, inconsistent with the way the other songs' composers are listed. It's a revert back and forth issue too by now. Any thoughts? Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 22:42, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
For creating Helpful Pixie Bot. Wikipedia depends on bots, including Helpful Pixie Bot, to keep a presentable appearance. Good work! ChromaNebula (talk) 18:06, 16 March 2012 (UTC) |
Possible Merges, proposed by User :Rich Farmbrough Balypu ( talk) 14:25, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at User talk:Steven (WMF)'s talk page.
I noticed your comment on the Invasions of the Rio de la Plata. You might be amused to know that I have just found out that Pretensión is the Spanish word for "Claim" so the heading that became a debate about a Point of View, "British pretentions", was almost certainly a linguistic misunderstanding and intended to be "British Claims". I would have found this out earlier but Google Translate needs the acute accent above the ó. :-) PS: thank you for sorting out the "sockpuppet". 86.4.27.128 but now: Argcontrib ( talk) 12:40, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Template: . *
Edits by:
Never edited by
BAG.
Last edit by me at 01:34, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by anyone was by
CBM at 01:58, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
Bottom edit was by
CBM at 01:58, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 02:17, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, quick question about scroll_box. Currently when scroll_box starts it defaults to the top row of the target page. Is there a way to scroll to the bottom row as the default? I was going to use scroll_box for a talk page. And I want to go to the newer threads first. Those are on the bottom of the talkpage. Thanks! – Lionel ( talk) 12:14, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, here's a blast from the past: WP:Bad links and its subpages, some of which are long lists, seem to be obsolete. I came across them when checking "what links here" from what is now a disambiguation page. Can they be nominated for deletion at MfD? I thought I'd ask you first as you seem to have been an active user of these pages several years ago. – Fayenatic L (talk) 19:25, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
I know that you mentioned you added a different wording to {{ cleanup}} in the last deletion debate and it was was "sadly reverted". Could you tell me which one? Curb Chain ( talk) 06:29, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello--I should have thanked you a while ago for your response, but I've been mostly off Wikipedia. I'm still wondering about it, but I'll probably go with the GFDL and CC-BY-SA. (Mostly I was wondering if including the "BY" part would create too much of a practical barrier for others to import my material into Wikimedia project. I suppose as long as I'm the one it's coming from, if I don't object, it's not a big deal.) Anyway, thanks! (I may not see any response as I'm falling off Wikipedia again .. right .. about .. now CRETOG8( t/ c) 23:30, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. I am a little puzzled by Statesman. The outcome of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Statesman was merge to Politician. It appears to me, as an uninvolved observer, that you just deleted the article without merging anything. And, since it is now deleted, no one other than an administrator will be able to merge anything in the future. In addition to this, what do you suggest should be done about the 1000+ other articles that contain links to Statesman? -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 13:13, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich Its my first time on wikipedia, thanks for the editing on my page. Have you any more ideas/edits that would improve the page.
The name "Gaham" no "e" on the end is actually in the bible, "Gahame" may be a variant of this? could I edit in "Gaham" as a similar name? Also "Gahan" was a surname used by my "forefathers" so could I mention "Gahan" as a similar surname.
Hope you can help me further with this.
Regards
Robert Gahame — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert gahame ( talk • contribs) 13:43, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, could you please modify the bot to not change whitespace around section titles when correcting them, like here or here. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 10:46, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm having to undo these changes on all the pages on my Watch list. Many articles/subjects are so small that they only have one main Reference, and will likely never have more than that one. Please remove this function from the Pixiebot's changes. Thank you. Softlavender ( talk) 05:02, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, would you mind if I call you Rich (you didn't really answer last time). This is somewhat a bizarro thing. I've found {{DISPLAYTITLE:''iTunes Originals – Barenaked Ladies''}} does what it says. When I try to use that syntax for DE9: Transitions it's a no go. I'm trying to put a "|" into the title per the opening line of the article (and before my edits). Maybe I'm stretching the wiki naming rules? Argolin ( talk) 06:12, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
Wrong title}}
which some people use where a title can't be fixed.
Rich
Farmbrough, 09:30, 13 March 2012 (UTC).Subject - Pumpable ice technology.
Dear Rich Farmbrough. I am sorry for my questions. In the present of your time, please, support/give me your recommendations about the following:
1.Dated clean-up tags in. The first, thank you for your fast answer. 2nd, I am sure, the text can be improved. Unfortunately, my knowledge in Wiki, really, is negligible. that is why, sorry for my request, please, remove Dated clean-up tags. If you can too, please, suggest the attractive article (by structure and subject closed to PIT) for improving. Thank you for your cooperation.
2.The user 70.52.128.71, changed text. I know that his redaction is not right. I checked his activities and he only pushes advertising of one company (Sunwell) that is in contradiction with one of main principles of Wiki – neutral point of view. In addition, his changes do not introduce a real history. What can I do? Thank you in advance.
I wish you the efficient activities in Wiki. BR Swallow2011 ( talk). —Preceding undated comment added 18:32, 16 March 2012 (UTC).
This edit seems confusing. There already was a date value passed to the {{
Deletable image-caption}} template (via positional parameter 1=
). I tried uncommenting this item and the added named parameter date=
appears to be ignored in preference to the positional one anyway.
DMacks (
talk) 18:01, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Your Helpful Pixie Bot is changing {{Cite ...}} to {{Template:Cite ...}} in various articles. For example: [87].
Is this intentional? It seems very strange to me. I am not aware of any new Wikipedia rule that requires (or even permits) the inclusion of the actual word Template: to be included when invoking a template in an article.
If this actually is the policy, does it apply to all templates? There are thousands -- probably millions -- of articles that include {{Infobox ...}} templates. Should all of these say {{Template:Infobox ...}} instead?
If that is a new policy, then your bot is not being consistent. For example, in the edit I cited above, your bot did not replace {{By whom}} with {{Template:By whom}}. — Lawrence King ( talk) 18:51, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
I came here with another example [88]. There cannot be a good reason for this. Spinning Spark 20:16, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Rich. I noticed up in
#Please stop the Pixie bot from changing "Reference" to "References" that your bot often changes ==Reference==
--> ==References==
, ==External link==
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--> ==Sources==
, as that's one I come across every now and then and fix manually. You're always busy doing different things, so no rush, but I thought it might be something you're interested in. Cheers,
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It looks like they changed the output at http://stats.grok.se...
I tried running this script again (last time was in September), to get a new total for outline traffic, and it doesn't seem to work right. Just returns zeros now.
use LWP::Simple;
$month = "02";
$year = "2012";
$lang="en";
while (<>){
s/ /_/g;
print "$_";
$page=get ("http://stats.grok.se/$lang/$year$month/$_" );
$page =~ /has been viewed (\d+) times in/;
$total+=$1;
print " $total\n ";
}
print "\nTotal: $total";
On the command line I specified a file that is a list with bare unbracketed article names, one article name per line.
perl Pagestats Outlinelist.txt
Does the script work for you?
I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 00:53, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
I found the problem. Solved by removing " times in" from the script.
The new total is 586,206. The Transhumanist 01:33, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Otherplaces2. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Otherplaces2 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Magioladitis ( talk) 20:16, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Infobox CollegeFootballPlayer. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Infobox CollegeFootballPlayer redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Magioladitis ( talk) 20:56, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Adult bio. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Adult bio redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Magioladitis ( talk) 21:12, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Did a macro or something go awry tonight? — C.Fred ( talk) 01:30, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hello - I'm curious to know what this is about? Thanks. Socrates2008 ( Talk) 08:27, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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Please don't change SC to smallcaps SC is widely used on wikisource if you go around changing {{ SC}} to {{ smallcaps}} it will only be time before some muppet puts {{ SC}} up for deletion, this will make cut and pasts from wikisource more difficult and time consuming. -- PBS ( talk) 15:32, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Rich
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You know, a truly helpful pixie bot would bother to tag the 20 other pages that needed an expand list, and not just insert a date on expand list tags already placed. :) -- Hooperswim ( talk) 16:56, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
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I have a few Ambox and Fix related issues that I'd appreciate help with, if you have time, and if you have no reason to not want to interfere, of course.
Hey guys! A couple of highly important things to do over the next few weeks:
Regards, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 18:53, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
It appears that your bot is adding a citation needed tag at the end of every sentence that is not already specifically referenced. See [89] Is that your intent? Or is this a manual process with bot assistance?-- Hjal ( talk) 17:43, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
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Rich
Farmbrough, 17:45, 14 February 2012 (UTC).Hello Rich, I saw you added some tags that says the language of the article is like a magazine article. I changed it a bit and removed the tag. I hope it worked out. If you want, you can check and see and give an idea in tha talk page of the article or to me.rinduzahid( talk) 17:07, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Regarding your having removed the TMZ citation from the article, and replaced the statement that Michaele Salahi lacked an addition with the somewhat more euphemistic statement that she "did not meet the criteria", I took a closer look at the UPI source from which that latter, amended statement came from, and it also supports the statement that she lacked an addiction. It did indeed relate the statement from the network source that she did not meet the production's criteria, but only because it described what those criteria were beforehand:
The treatment program that 'Celebrity Rehab' documents is intended for individuals with serious substance abuse and addiction issues. Prior to the taping of the current season, producers were advised that Michaele Salahi met the criteria to be treated in this setting," VH1 said in a statement Tuesday. "However, professional assessments spanning from that time to the present, found that she did not meet such criteria.
Thus, there was no reason to remove that original point. Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 02:53, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
.. for the barnstar! I just wiki-gnome away, usually leaving the Dramahs to other folk, though seem to have got involved in a couple just lately. Pam D 17:54, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page. -- Timeshifter ( talk) 00:18, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your information regarding this new article I am creating. I presently have two books on the subject and more to come, but so far I have not made any connection with the two Merchant Adventurers that are in Wikipedia. I will have to continue to research to be certain but it clearly states that he started this particular Merchant Adventurers so I do not think they are connected. We will see and I study further. Anyway, thank you. Mugginsx ( talk) 17:01, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
The Helpful Pixie Bot is not so helpful at the moment. It is changing all heads "External link" to "External links", even when there is only ONE (1) external link. Stop this bot and let it check the number of external links first. I will revert the whole lot that showed up at my watchlist... Night of the Big Wind talk 11:26, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
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The next improvement I'd like to tackle is to provide some way to toggle an outline's annotations off/on (all at the same time) while viewing the outline in Wikipedia!!!
For example...
The user is browsing Wikipedia and has just arrived at an outline page. It's fully annotated, but he wants to look at the page uncluttered by the annotations.
How could we make it so that all he has to do is press a hot key to make (all of) the annotations disappear?
And then reappear by pressing a different hot key.
What are the possible approaches to implementing this?
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 23:54, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
BTW, I'm stuck on the thread preceding this one (extract/insert annotations). I posted a bunch of new questions up there for you (I mention them here just in case you missed them). The Transhumanist 23:14, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
At
Outward postcode list,
User:Helpful Pixie Bot recently
added a maintenance template date ("Dated {{
Afd-merge to}}. (Build J/)"). But the template was commented-out and so not part of the operative wikitext. While harmless in this case, you might want to consider whether editing <!-- -->
markup comments could produce unintended results elsewhere, in which case comments should probably be excluded from bot parsing. —
Richardguk (
talk) 07:54, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
You might find {{ Wraps infobox}} useful. It currently adds a category; we could make that switchable. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:06, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I see two significant problems with adding the hyphens to ISBNs at this time:
I think we should focus on solving these two problems before converting all ISBNs on the Wikipedia to the hyphenated forms. I made a couple of suggestions for how we might be able to solve these problems at Wikipedia talk:ISBN, but you did not respond to these ideas, so I wonder whether you believe they are of no importance. I had some discussion with User:Michael Bednarek about how we might try to implement a workaround, so that hyphens could be added without creating the above two drawbacks. We agreed that the best approach would be to get the Wikisoftware modified so that the hyphenated ISBN is formatted as nowrap text in the page source code, and the unhyphenated ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 are automatically added as hidden text, which then serve as targets of search engines. I saved our discussion here. If you have a moment, would you please take a look at it. With your expertise and help, maybe we could get these problems solved and then proceed with making the encyclopedia consistent with the original ISBN hyphenation standard (which, as I know you are aware, has not been generally adopted on the web). -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 19:26, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
I think it may be browser dependent. On the page Samson and Delilah (opera). I'm not seeing wrapping in Firefox, but I do see it in Safari. Here's the source code from Firefox:
Here it is from Safari:
It looks identical to me, but behaves differently in the two browsers. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 09:21, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive743#Bot continues task despite objections and without apparent consensus to support it. Fram ( talk) 09:53, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. A mostly helpful bot. In that talk,
User:Diannaa pointed out a helpful fix (and my reply)
Here the bot changed an invalid 11 digit ISBN to drop the dashes, leaving a still invalid ISBN. Diannaa found the right one: ISBN 86-84433-00-9 and noted that there are about 3000 instances of the wrong ones in various Balkan village articles. I suggested that the bot could be tweaked to know about this ISBN and actively fix them up. This could become a feature that could be re-used to fix other similarly widely propagated bad ISBNs. Alarbus ( talk) 02:47, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
It's obvious that few people see a problem with this, and most people find it a good thing, so I'll close the ANI discussion and let you continue with this. At least (trying to give a positive twist to an unnecessary ANI section) now you have a more recent discussion showing support for this task. Fram ( talk) 07:40, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello there,
How on earth to you find these things, like the correct formatting of isbn numbers (where hypens go)? What brings you to them? Do you have a special role in WP? Do you respond to some kind of alert system? What does pixiebot mean when your name is Rich? Please let me know--I'm fascinated! Thanks for taking the time,-- Classicfilmbuff ( talk) 21:45, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
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Most of this edit is fine, but the bot proceeded to "fix" something in an HTML comment. Just a heads up. - Denimadept ( talk) 04:04, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hello RF, in looking through some things for the current BRFA, I noticed that Pixie Bot appears to be conducting cosmetic changes alongside its approved tasks. While this is permitted under WP:COSMETICBOT, it is not under your editing restriction regarding such changes. BAG does not explicitly approve such actions, only the task for which the bot is specifically programmed. Some examples I noted include:
These edits, and others like them, of which there are many, violate your editing restrictions as they do not affect the appearance of the article. Would you mind taking Pixie Bot offline temporarily until it can be reconfigured to avoid such actions, or request that BAG specifically permit these changes to be executed? Thank you. Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 22:19, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
"I'm going to ignore most of what you said" that is the rude and uncivil part. I understand that you fell for CBM's games, and that you probably either don't want to admit it or don't believe it yourself, but telling it like it is is not uncivil. Blocking the bot while I was coding is uncivil. Making judgements on things you are not familiar with, without taking the time to understand them is uncivil. making threats is uncivil. But I let that stuff wash over me. Wehn you then turn around and call me uncivil, it's getting a little rich.
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Today, trying to execute a regular tool - Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2097152 bytes) in /home/tparis/public_html/pcount/counter.php on line 223 -- Gilderien Talk| Contribs 21:32, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
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See [98]. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 04:13, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Could you please tweak Helpful Pixie Bot so that the insertion of {{ Please check ISBN}} into citation templates does not cause them to break? See this diff and the result. Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 07:06, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Example:
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This edit by Helpful Pixie Bot added dashes to what looks like an isbn but is actually a file name. Can you prevent this occurrence? Chris857 ( talk) 14:17, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
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About this template. It currently categorizes the category into category:x-importance articles, into category:project articles by importance and into category:project articles by quality and importance
For example: see Category:B-Class Education in India articles of Top-importance
Ideally I do not see why it needs to be a subcategory of anything except Category:Education in India articles by quality and importance (x-articles by quality and importance), Category:B-Class Education in India articles(y-class x articles) and Category:Top-importance Education in India articles(z-importance x-articles). I see that the template is used at a lot of places, and hence I'm a little wary about editing it. Maybe you should check how the other projects categorise and fix it accordingly. Thanks and regards.-- Siddhartha Ghai ( talk) 00:56, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm leaving this message for known script authors, recent contributors to Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts, and those who've shown interest in user scripts.
This scripts listing page is in dire need of cleanup. To facilitate this, I've created a new draft listing at Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts cleanup. You're invited to list scripts you know to be currently working and relevant. Eventually this draft page can replace the current scripts listing.
If you'd like to comment or collaborate on this proposal, see the discussion I started here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject User scripts#Scripts listing cleanup project. Thanks! Equazcion (talk) 04:32, 25 Mar 2012 (UTC)
Let's say I have the wikicode file "Outline of Stamford" saved on my computer, and I want a program that goes through the outline, finds the first bulleted entry lacking an annotation, pulls the article from Wikipedia for the subject in the entry, extracts the first two sentences of the lead paragraph, then inserts those two sentences as the annotation for that entry, then repeats for the next missing entry, until the all the entries have annotations.
This would be very helpful, as it would save tons of manual cutting and pasting.
How would you go about doing that with perl?
The Transhumanist 22:05, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
while ($page =~ /\n\*\s*\[\[([^\])]*\]\]\s*\*/s ){
$bulleted = $1;
$entry = get ($bulleted);
$entry =~ s/.*?'''.*?'''//;
$entry =~ s/([^\.]*.[^\.]*.).*/$1/;
$page =~ s/(\n\*\s*\[\[$bulleted\]\]\s*)\*/$1 $entry/;
}
here the handwaving is in the assumption that the Wikipeida articles are well-formed, and not exceptional.
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:27, 4 January 2012 (UTC).
Entries in outlines look like this:
Concerning list entries, an annotation is a dashed comment.
The entries "Photography" and "Sculpture" above lack annotations. Would the program you wrote above home in on those and add an annotation for each? The Transhumanist 03:41, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
(I had to return the programming books to the library).
I don't know what to do to be able to use the while loop you provided above on an outline.
That is, how do you make it read the outline file into the $page variable?
Also, what did you mean by "handwaving"?
Once the annotations are inserted, how do I save the outline back to disk?
When this script becomes fully operational, I expect it will do more than 50% of the work on outlines. Because inserting annotations by hand is tedious as hell, and all of the outlines have entries that need annotations. We're talking tens of thousands of annotation insertions. I can't stress how helpful this tool will be.
How fast do you think it could insert 100 annotations? [
I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 23:49, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:39, 27 March 2012 (UTC).
Thank you very much by your unselfish cooperation in Article "Biodiversity of New Caledonia". Muchas gracias por tu colaboración desinteresada en el articulo "Biodiversidad de Nueva Caledonia". 85.251.99.49 ( talk) 23:10, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I see that your edit summary here states "tag retracted paper". May I ask what you mean by a "retracted paper"? I suspect that it is not the meaning used by the publishing houses. Axl ¤ [Talk] 23:25, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I just wanted to let you know that I went ahead and submitted a proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Proposal to improve Wikipedia's ISBN Magic. Thanks for all your help with this. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 19:27, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich! Thanks for all your help with the bot! I've been thinking more about all the expand language templates, and it might make sense to combine them all into one master template with an article parameter and a language parameter, rather than having ~100 separate templates that need to be individually maintained. Would you be able/willing (I'm confident you are able to do this!) to code a bot to convert {{Expand French|articletitle}} to {{Translate|French|article=articletitle}} for all articles currently tagged? (First I would need to get permission to repurpose {{ Translate}}, which is currently a redirect.) Hopefully, this would be a one-time task. I had always wanted to keep the template super simple for users, and now instead of having to specify the articletitle parameter (which they can now just ignore), they'd just have to specify the language parameter. Any thoughts about this? The only thing that is currently inconsistent in any significant way across the templates is the use of different topic categories for different languages, but I think this could be easily managed using a switch parameter in the master template. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 16:55, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Yeah it would save a lot of edits every time the template needs to be revised at least... But it would require several thousand edits to fix of course.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:03, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Editing restrictions, "Rich Farmbrough is indefinitely prohibited from mass creating pages in any namespace, unless prior community approval for the specific mass creation task is documented." You have however created hundreds of categories in a short time, many of them of very limited or debatable use, e.g. dozens of categories for test templates like Category:Immediate children/Test-44 and Category:Immediate children/Test-16.
Much worse is your creation of all missing "Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of ..." categories. These are often years old, only contain one editor or IP address (who may have gone on to completely different people), and are based on sometimes flimsy or dubious evidence. You have e.g. created Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Ghirlandajo, based on a tag from 2007, and where the discussion at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Ghirlandajo concluded that there wasn't enough evidence at all to link the two. However, thanks to your creation now, five years after the fact, this has been "officialized" for no good reason at all. I'll start a discussion at AN again to see how to deal with this umpteenth violation of your editing restrictions, which were imposed to avoid these kind of problems... Fram ( talk) 07:24, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Discussion is at WP:AN#Mindless creation of "suspected sockpuppet" categories from years old, with resulting problems. Fram ( talk) 07:33, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Ultimate Comics Enemy, Ultimate Mystery, Ultimate Comics Doom - ComicVine.-- Shawnee Smith ( talk) 10:06, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to all of you for commenting on the NOINDEX RfC :). It's always great to be able to field questions like these to the community; it's genuinely the highlight of my work! The NOINDEX idea sprung from our New Page Triage discussion; we're developing a new patrolling interface for new articles, and we want your input like never before :). So if you haven't already seen it, please go there, take a look at the screenshots and mockups and ideas, and add any comments or suggestions you might have to the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 16:45, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rich,
Sorry to be a nuisance I know you are very busy. If you have time, would you kindly check the following articles (below) to see whether the tags placed on them are still justifiable and if so how to improve them. I have re-edited the articles per the objections raised but the editor who put the tags has not contributed to English Wikipedia as a signed-in editor (going by their contribution history) for over a month. I am very close to the article because I originally created them so another opinion would be immensely appreciated. Thank you.
Regards
Tamsier ( talk) 21:17, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your contribution to WP:BOTREQ! Chrisrus ( talk) 04:36, 28 March 2012 (UTC) |
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The Britball of persistence against all odds |
And some of them are very odd.
Rich
Farmbrough, 02:12, 31 March 2012 (UTC). 02:12, 31 March 2012 (UTC) |
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Still number 1, I see. And closing in on the 1,000,000 edit mark. The Transhumanist 05:25, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
The block may be a blessing in disguise.
This may give editors who have had a hard time keeping your attention the opportunity to converse with you on a more meaningful level (i.e., not rushed).
Why would we want to?
Because you are an expert on many aspects of Wikipedia.
This vacation gives you valuable time to share your expertise and experience with other Wikipedians.
Personally, I have many questions for you... – The Transhumanist 03:55, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
I just took a look at your user page, to see if it provides any info on the types of questions you would be able to answer, and I noticed you're from London. Half my family tree lives around there.
I haven't been to London since 1997. Almost got killed jaywalking 3 times, due to looking the wrong way before crossing. I guess it's not "jaywalking" over there, because it's legal — for you it's just crossing the street. I think it's cool that you have the right to cross the street. Here we are subject to getting ticketed by the police if we cross anywhere other than at an intersection.
By the way, that you drive on the other side of the street over there makes it easy to spot foreigners. I noticed many of them looking the wrong way.
I also learned that clotted cream tea is not tea with clotted cream in it. :) The Transhumanist 04:46, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
And how did you do it? The Transhumanist 05:38, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
I.e., what are they made of (what languages, programs, etc.)? The Transhumanist 05:01, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
(For example, see: Outline of Mozambique)
How? The Transhumanist 05:44, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Use the list maker to make a list of "Links on page (redlinks only)".
Save the list to a text file.
Replace the carriage returns in the text file with "|". Copy the content.
Create a normal rule that replaces \[\[(<paste the contents here>)\]\] with $1
Run it against the page in question.
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:13, 1 April 2012 (UTC).
...that opens a file, does something to it, and then saves it under a new filename?
I need to see how that is done. The Transhumanist 05:51, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
OPEN FILE, "<:utf-8" , "oldfile"; while (<FILE>){ $text .= $_} CLOSE FILE # do some stuff $text =~ s/e/z/; # replace e with z to even up letter usage across the universe a little OPEN FILE, ">:utf-8" , "newfile"; print FILE $text; CLOSE FILE
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:08, 1 April 2012 (UTC).
Excuse me, does anyone know how to download the image Ultimate Jessica Drew? It would be good on the second picture was visible on her face, in the plot of the Ultimate Spider-Man.-- Shawnee Smith ( talk) 12:12, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Rich
Farmbrough, 12:30, 2 April 2012 (UTC).
It took me over an hour to realize my script didn't work because a semicolon was missing from the end of a line. The Transhumanist 19:53, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
I opened a file, and tried to define a variable to be the contents of the filehandle, like this:
open(LIST, "list.txt") || die("can't open list.txt: $!");
$list = LIST; #pull LIST into a scalar variable (doesn't work)
print "$list" # to see if it worked, display contents of $list, which should be the file list.txt
But it just prints out the filehandle!
What am I doing wrong? The Transhumanist 19:53, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
It is not clear from what you've said how to use the record separators. What should the line look like? Like this...?
$list = $/<LIST>;$\ #pull LIST into a scalar variable using record separators (doesn't work)
I'm trying to be able to use the following line of code to search a file for a string. If it's in there, I want the program to run a subroutine. If it's not in there I want the program to run a different subroutine.
$list =~ m/stringcheckingfor/ #look for string in contents of list.txt
I'm kinda stuck. The Transhumanist 21:27, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
OK, the angle brackets work, but it only prints out one line from the file. If what you meant was to put record separators in the file, then how do you search files without preprocessing every single file with the insertion of record separators? What if I want to search a file that's not a list and still be able to use the file for something else?
The Transhumanist 22:22, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
while (<FILE>) {$text .= $_}
I found something called "local" that seems to do the trick:
local $/; # I don't know what this does, but it works.
open(LIST, "list.txt") || die("can't open list.txt: $!");
$list = <LIST>; #pull LIST into a scalar variable (doesn't work)
close(LIST);
print "$list" # to see if it worked, display contents of $list, which should be the file list.txt
Though I'm not exactly sure why this works. The Transhumanist 23:18, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
I have two lists. list1.txt and list2.txt.
local $/; # I don't know what local does
open(LIST1, 'list1.txt') || die("Can't read file 'list1.txt': [$!]\n");
open(LIST2, "list2.txt") || die("Can't read file 'list2.txt': [$!]\n");
$list2 = <LIST2>; #pull LIST2 into a scalar variable
while (<LIST1>){ # start while loop on the first list (angle brackets take next line of input)
# Search $list2 using the current line of input from LIST1 as the search string (I don't know how to do this yet without making the script fail to compile). I plan to write two subroutines, one for true and one for false.
}
close(LIST1);
close(LIST2);
I can't believe I'm still in the file IO. I haven't even gotten to the guts of the program yet. Frustrating!
The Transhumanist 00:28, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
ok, local is creating a scoped version of $/ that is undefined. I haven't tried this but I suppose it works, and rather nicely in a way, since if you were using this in a block the default value of $/ would come back when you leave the block.
Now the problem you have is that you will slurp file 2 the same way you slurped file 1. So you need something like
local $/; # I don't know what local does
open(LIST1, 'list1.txt') || die("Can't read file 'list1.txt': [$!]\n");
$list2 = <LIST2>; #pull LIST2 into a scalar variable
close(LIST2);# close LIST 2 as early as we can
$/="\n"; # revert
open(LIST2, "list2.txt") || die("Can't read file 'list2.txt': [$!]\n");
while (<LIST1>){ # start while loop on the first list (angle brackets take next line of input)
chomp; # Maybe?
if ($list2 =~ /$_/){
tru_sub();
}
else {
false_sub();
}
# Search $list2 using the current line of input from LIST1 as the search string (I don't know how to do this yet without making the script fail to compile). I plan to write two subroutines, one for true and one for false.
}
close(LIST1);
ATB.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:55, 3 April 2012 (UTC).
local $/; # I don't know what local does
open(LIST1, 'list1.txt') || die("Can't read file 'list1.txt': [$!]\n");
open(LIST2, "list2.txt") || die("Can't read file 'list2.txt': [$!]\n");
$list2 = <LIST2>; #pull LIST2 into a scalar variable
close(LIST2);# close LIST 2 as early as we can
$/="\n"; # revert
while (<LIST1>){ # start while loop on the first list (angle brackets take next line of input)
chomp; # Maybe? (seems to work OK)
if ($list2 =~ /$_/){
tru_sub();
}
else {
false_sub();
}
}
close(LIST1);
print "\n\n";
print "$list2"; # display contents of list2.txt (as a test)
sub tru_sub {
print "$_"; # display it on the screen so you can see that it is working
print "\n\n"
}
sub false_sub {
print "This subroutine doesn't do anything yet (other than print this message)\n";
}
The print functions show that the program actually works.
Now I have the places to put the guts. Thank you!
By the way, what is this part of the program called, an IO skeleton? The Transhumanist 06:01, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Is Wikipedia downloadable?
Do you have it installed on your computer? The Transhumanist 01:02, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
An editor has been trying to alter the founding year of Halo Burger which was founded in 1923. Period. Yes, the restaurant has changed over the years and was originally Kewpee, but Halo Burger considers its founding year to be 1923 as it says on its logo. Please monitor the Halo Burger article more closely. Thanks. Steelbeard1 ( talk) 14:20, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
I'd like to be able to provide (to the entire world) the ability to look at Wikipedia outlines in more than one way.
One thing I'd like the user to be able to do is, with the press of a button, make the annotations disappear (to view a bare uncluttered list). And with another press of the button, reappear.
You mentioned CSS as a possibility. Can that be made to hide/show all of the annotations on the page, and just the annotations, at the same time? The annotations appear at the end of each entry, after an en dash.
I think it would be nicer to have it as a feature of the MediaWiki software or even the browser, so that the (annotations off) mode applies to all outlines being viewed, until reactivated. That way the user wouldn't have to press the toggle for each page.
What are the software development options for creating a toggle, and what would they entail? The Transhumanist 11:27, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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I don't even know what one looks like. The Transhumanist 16:20, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
If, for example, you are simply stress testing, then it would only do 1. A daily reminder bot might only do 3. A capture bot might just read a page and save a copy locally.
But if you are talking a typical 1-2-3 bot that reads WP pages, thinks about them and writes back an edited version, you could do worse than use the MediaWiki::API module. In pseudo-perl it would look something like this.
use MediaWiki::API; # some initialisation and logging in code my $mw = MediaWiki::API->new(); $mw->{config}->{api_url} = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'; $mw->login( {lgname="Sock-puppet", lgpassword => "drosswap" } ) || die ..... # suppose we have a list of pages we made by some means... open LIST, "<:utf8","list.txt"; while(<LIST>){ $page=$_; my $ref= $mw->get_page ({title=>$page}); # reads the page and sets up the $ref structure my $timestamp = $ref->{timestamp}; # needed to avoid (reduce) edit conflicts $text = $ref->{'*'}; $text =~ s/e/q/gi; #replace e with q throughout $mw->edit({ action => 'edit', title => $page, basetimestamp => $timestamp, test => $text, summary => "Q is better than E!" }) } close LIST;
Can you recommend any good online Perl documentation that isn't perldoc? – The Transhumanist 16:38, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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This could be useful for developing a set of pages offline. Can this be done? How fast do you think it would run? The Transhumanist 01:54, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
In a perl script I'm writing, I have a While loop nested inside another While loop. What's the default variable for the current line in the nested loop? Is the default variable in the outer loop unaffected? The Transhumanist 01:33, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
while (<>) { my $title=$_; ....
This prevents "accidents" . Similarly it seem to be good practice to write
if (/([xyz])(abc)/){ my $letter=$1; print "Found letter - $letter!\n"; }
instead of the simpler
if (/([xyz])(abc)/){ print "Found letter - $1!\n"; }
so that if some other regex is used $letter will still have what we expect, while $1 can change in almost unexpected ways.
Rich
Farmbrough, 02:28, 6 April 2012 (UTC).
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Rich, per Headbomb's and Newyorkbrad's responses at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich Farmbrough/Workshop#All bots indefinitely blocked, I'd like to unblock Femto Bot; I agree that it performs useful tasks and shouldn't be blocked for the sake of being blocked. However, would it be possible to suspend its task 0 ("Creating needed monthly clean up categories") for the duration of the case? Per Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Femto Bot, it would appear that there are some technical problems with the task and I think it may fall within the scope of the concerns that instigated the case. If you would suspend that task, I'd be more comfortable with unblocking the bot and would do so first thing in the morning if possible. Cheers! — madman 03:27, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for following up with me on this; as you've noticed, I'm more or less on Wikibreak due to medical/personal issues but I still usually do a better job of keeping up with my watchlist. I hate to vacillate on this after you've shown good faith by suspending the potentially controversial task, but I think I'm going to have to modify User:Femto Bot's block to expire on 23:21, 30 April 2012 (when Elen's block would have expired) rather than unblock it immediately. Having consulted with the blocking administrator and having read up on the ArbCom discussion, I think the discussion's escalated much more than I thought it would. While I'd have no hesitation normally to make such a unilateral decision and stand my ground whatever controversy may ensue, at the moment I'm too fatigued to engage in any potentially fast-paced and heated discussion; I'm sure you can empathize. I do hope to initiate discussion of the blocking policy when I come back, specifically "since the edits of a bot are considered to be, by extension, the edits of the editor responsible for the bot..." I don't think this is correct in all cases, specifically in the case of automated tasks which can run without input from their operator. I think there's an implicit assumption of bad faith in preemptive prevention of a bot account being used to disrupt the encyclopedia/evade blocks. I'm interested in hearing your opinion on this. Cheers, — madman 18:30, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
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Quite a "village" eh.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:04, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Astronomy#Articles_for_Redirect, where your expertese is requested. Thanks again for your help with that project. Chrisrus ( talk) 12:18, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
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Relevant pages.
Note also that Signpost has twice (at least) reported on the case, and there is no effective right of reply due to the somewhat crazy "blocking" situation.
Rich
Farmbrough, 23:43, 17 April 2012 (UTC).
Just a friendly reminder that the evidence phase has closed. If you would like to add evidence please speak to a clerk or one of the drafting arbs. Thanks, -- Guerillero | My Talk 04:13, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
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Rich
Farmbrough, 15:32, 18 April 2012 (UTC).
Hi,
I've created {{ Update-small}} (the name {{ Update-inline}} being taken), which you might like to check over, please, and have your Bot recognise and date-stamp. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:24, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
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I'm preparing to use AWB's external processing feature. I'm trying to write a script to read a text file, process it, and then save it. My sample text file is "test.txt" and contains "xxxxxx This is a test page. xxxxxx"
The problem is, my script erases the contents of the file! What I want this test script to do is a simple regex substitution.
open FILETEXT, ">test.txt" or die $!;
my $slurped = <FILETEXT>;
$slurped =~ s/This is a test page/This is a test page that passed its test/;
# print "$slurped";
print FILETEXT $slurped;
close (FILETEXT);
Instead of modified content, I find that the content has been completely erased. What is causing the problem? What will make this work right? The Transhumanist 10:40, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: I'm using strawberry perl, per your recommendation.
open FILETEXT, "test.txt";
my $slurped = <FILETEXT>;
$slurped =~ s/This is a test page/This is a test page that passed its test/;
print "$slurped";
close (FILETEXT);
open FILETEXT, ">test.txt";
print FILETEXT $slurped;
close (FILETEXT);
Thinking that I found a solution, I increased the file to 3 lines, to discover that this script only processes the first line of the file, and replaces the file with that one line.
How can I fix that? The Transhumanist 11:48, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
I expanded the opening to this:
local $/ = undef;
open FILETEXT, "test.txt";
binmode FILETEXT;
And it seems to work, but where did the new lines go?
I changed the regex string in the script and used AWB to pass a page to text.txt, and the substitution worked, but the diff in AWB revealed that the article was now one big block of run-together text.
How can I fix that?
I figured out how argument passing works a few days ago, so once I learn how to slurp without stripping the linefeeds, I'll be ready to write the real guts for my script! Eventually, I may be able to write the External processing section of the AWB manual. Though I plan to put in some miles on this feature first before I do so. The Transhumanist 13:11, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
{
local $/ = undef;
open FILETEXT, 'C:\AWB\test\test.txt';
$slurped = <FILETEXT>;
$slurped =~ s/This is a test page/This is a test page that passed its test/;
print $slurped;
close FILETEXT;
}
open ANSWER, ">:", 'C:\AWB\test\test.txt';
print ANSWER $slurped;
close ANSWER;
This works for me. Because you have redefined $/ you don't need to use binmode. Reading the file in binmode and writing it in text means that the line-feeds are being read in one way and written in another, I think.
Note that I put a block "{...}" around the reading section to keep undef $/ local, though this should not matter in this example. (The output record separator is $\.)
Note also I split the file name and the ">:" bit up - this is not required but is good practice, if you have variables in the file name, they are less dangerous if they can't be interpreted as a the file type thingy.
OK, I took out binmode, and it works even better! Thank you.
I don't know what an "output record separator" is. Why and how would one refer to $\. in a program?
Also, what is the colon after the greater than sign for?
By the way, I ran into a problem with block delimiters...
When I used a block, leaving the second filehandle sequence outside the block, AWB no longer showed a diff. It showed a messsage that no changes were made.
That is, this works fine:
{
local $/ = undef;
open FILETEXT, "test.txt";
# binmode FILETEXT;
my $slurped = <FILETEXT>;
#$slurped =~ s/This is a test page/This is a test page that passed its test/;
$slurped =~ s/the/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/; # test substitution so something shows up in AWB diffs
print "$slurped";
close (FILETEXT);
open ANSWER, ">test.txt";
print ANSWER $slurped;
close (ANSWER);
}
But this does not work:
{
local $/ = undef;
open FILETEXT, "test.txt";
# binmode FILETEXT;
my $slurped = <FILETEXT>;
#$slurped =~ s/This is a test page/This is a test page that passed its test/;
$slurped =~ s/the/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/; # test substitution so something shows up in AWB diffs
print "$slurped";
close (FILETEXT);
}
open ANSWER, ">test.txt";
print ANSWER $slurped;
close (ANSWER);
When using AWB with the above script, the contents of test.txt gets completely erased. So I used the dir command to see what happened, and the filename shows up, but with zero bytes. The Transhumanist 19:37, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
">:utf8"
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:19, 25 April 2012 (UTC).
If you set "$\" then it would be output after every "print" so for example:
{
local $\ = "\n";
print "to be or not to be";
print "that is the question";
}
is the same as
print "to be or not to be\n";
print "that is the question\n";
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:45, 25 April 2012 (UTC).
Re: Wikipedia:Scripts/Perl scripts/Pagestats. Thank you for putting in a CC licence. I must read up LWP, when I have some spare time. It is interesting to see the style in which other people write scripts. I have not tested it, but it looks like it will work to me. It looks like it will print to screen totals cumulating after it has read a page and finally prints the grand total. It reeds the whole page just to see one line high up on the stats web page. What have you used it for? Snowman ( talk) 12:11, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
I thought of your "things that stayed too long" section when I made this edit. Nearly two years ago, someone added a picture of Jordanian author Jamal Naji to the article and claimed that it was suspected terrorist Jamal Al-Gashey. When I came across the article, needless to say I was more than a bit surprised that a person who believes that Mossad is still trying to kill him would have such a clear picture freely available. Not that mistaken identity has ever hurt anyone, right? Canadian Paul 19:34, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
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It doesn't look like this is being used, so I am going to send it to TfD. If there is a use for it, then we can obviously keep it. thank you. 64.216.106.24 ( talk) 17:31, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
could you move this to your userspace? 64.216.106.24 ( talk) 17:57, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Approximately 3% of editors account for 85% of contributions to the project, according to the statistician, and participation among this group has declined "even more sharply" than the active registered userbase in toto.
Funny that.
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:22, 9 September 2011 (UTC).
User:Kotinski - for whom I have always had respect.
...find something more productive to do with my life than continually trying to present rational argument to people who aren't interested, in an environment where only the drama-mongers and edit-warriors are rewarded. ... I'm feeling a great sense of relief that I won't be spending tomorrow or the next day arguing with morons about trivia.
I know exactly what he means. The "real life" equivalent to how I feel, I suppose, would be an engineer who is working on various jobs and is constantly interrupted by a couple of guys with Home Depot tool-belts (and probably propeller caps) telling him the advantage of triangular slotted screws over hex drive, and occasionally emptying his boxes of screws in the gutter, replacing random screws with the preferred variety, and calling the police, saying "someone is vandalising safety structures with dodgy screws"... And the police believing them.
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:55, 26 March 2012 (UTC).
I have blocked you for a period of one month. Period is probably moot - the talk at AN is of opening a request for arbitration. If this happens, I expect you will be unblocked to participate.
The automated sockpuppet category creation is a truly monstrous failure of end-user (ie the community) testing. The community neither needs nor wants those categories - mostly if it needed them, it created them as it went along. You have succeeded in badging editors as socks/masters who were actually cleared, and you are connecting IPs with sockmasters, which is in breach of the privacy policy...not to mention that since the cases are older than Noah, the IPs are almost certainly being used by some poor innocent by now. -- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 23:34, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks, Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 00:01, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
... it's best to only edit manually, I've found. Strictly manually. When things settle down again, automation can be brought back in. Best of luck in the upcoming case. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 04:32, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Too bad about the block. If you're not careful, you might slip into 2nd place – Koavf only has a 100,000 edits to go to catch up! (Like I'm anyone to talk – I spend way too much time here.) — kwami ( talk) 02:45, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
An arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich Farmbrough. Evidence that you wish the Arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence sub-page, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich Farmbrough/Evidence. Please add your evidence by April 18, 2012, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can contribute to the case workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich Farmbrough/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Guerillero | My Talk 19:02, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
You expressed interest in starting a library of Perl scripts.
You also mentioned Perl's usefulness for scanning the WP data dump.
Do you have any scripts for that? Example code for this would be extremely useful. They would give the rest of us an idea of what's possible. The Transhumanist 11:41, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
(I couldn't find any documentation on this). The Transhumanist 11:47, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Program or script: perl
Arguments/Parameters: test.pl << test.txt >>test.txt
I/O file: test.txt
I'm impressed. You typically get just under 2,000 hits per month on your talk page. Last month it was almost 3,000. And this month so far there have been over 550 hits (in just 4 days).
You have an audience. You have readership!
You might consider that your page is a de facto (Wikipedia-related) blog page. Have you considered writing to your students here? Like posts on a blog. It's obvious that many people are interested in what you say and do. You have your very own venue. The Transhumanist 12:07, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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I've started Wikipedia:WikiProject Perl, to give you something to do after your block is lifted. :) By the way, I've started its talk page off with our Perl-related threads. Those might be useful or interesting to someone. The Transhumanist 23:46, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I figured it was only a matter time till they turned their attention to you. The community is losing contributors at the cyclic rate. It seems as though the drama llamas are starting at the top of the list of editors with the most contributions and working down. You, Me(Kumioko), I see drama on Magioladitis's page, etc. Its truly sad to see what the place has devolved into. 71.163.243.232 ( talk) 01:31, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
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Good news! You now have access to 80 million articles in 6500 publications through HighBeam Research. Here's what you need to know:
Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 20:59, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
RF, I want to give you a big thanks for all the effort you with your bots put into Wikipedia and say your work is invaluable. As you may know I've got your talk page watched and post here occasionally - mainly to ask a question. When I've had reason to check your work (normally as someone moaning at your talk page or ANI), I've always found your work to be most beneficial for the encyclopedia. You make a huge lot of edits and because of that the most expediant method is sometimes to make mass changes then correct exceptions afterward that is the most effective use of time, a situation I shared in real life for many years as a db admin. Many on Wikipedia look for near perfection in bot edits and moan and groan whenever they see something that is a little off, without any idea of the bigger picture for data cleansing. I hope you are not put off by the drama of those who don't understand. Your work here is invaluable and a dropoff or an absence of your work would leave big holes in the cleanness and quality of Wikipedia. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 00:14, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Is it all worth it?
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:35, 18 April 2012 (UTC).
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Richball, the greatest of wikiballs | Take this portrait as my little gift and my regards to you, Rich. You are my hero, and I take inspiration from you - seriously!
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@Greyhood; that cartoon is flippin' brilliant! Nicely done! I, too, laughed out loud! @Rich: Your optimism is seriously misplaced. Believing ArbCom will make a reasonable decision, not one motivated to obliterate the subject of the most heat, is a very Ponce de León-ian quest. There are windmills that need tilting at far more than a belief in ArbCom judicial purity. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:57, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
The blocking admin had said that she would block me for a day in the first instance. Instead she went for a month. I am now in a limbo where I should be unblocked and am unblocked but am "legally" blocked. If any admin would like to unblock me "legally" that would be very cool. Elen seems to think it's now down to Arbcom which is a serious misunderstanding.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:54, 20 April 2012 (UTC).
I removed my evidence, my suggested remedies and my analysis of your evidence, since it's just a cat fight gone horribly wrong and wasn't resolved properly. Best of luck. Whenaxis ( contribs) DR goes to Wikimania! 20:54, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Yikes Rich, I just wanted to say that I appreciate all the edits you've made to the encyclopedia as well (especially considering the very helpful work your bots have done.) I wasn't even aware of your newest ArbCom drama (and I'm not informed enough to comment on it), but I hope that you understand that there's no rivalry of any sort between you and me on my end. I have been overwhelmed by kind words and awards from across the globe, but I would hate for that to overshadow the good work that many, many Wikipedians have put into the project, yourself included. ( cf.) I hope that all of issues you have with other editors get resolved swiftly and justly so that we can all get on with the bigger goal of freely spreading the world's knowledge. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 23:09, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
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I've been slurping a file, like this:
open TEXTFILE, "text.txt";
$content = <TEXTFILE>; # slurp text.txt into variable
close(OUTLINE);
When I use regex to match or substitute in $content, the script simply does not recognize new line characters (\n) or the end of a line.
For example, this does not work:
$content =~ s/\n\n/\n/;
What it going on? The Transhumanist 02:10, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Found it:
$content =~ s/\n\n/\n/m;
Didn't know about that. Tricky. The Transhumanist 02:40, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
You may want to consider
$content =~ s/\n\n+/\n/mg;
this does 2,3,4, 5 etc. \n =in each subst, and the "g" means that it will do all the matches in the file, as a stand-alone s///.
Rich
Farmbrough, 19:26, 29 April 2012 (UTC).
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Hi Rich, I have contacted you recently by email about Wikimania 2012. It would be great if you could get in touch to discuss further - either talk page or email is fine. daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk Thank you!
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Can someone tell them that there's a dab problem with
Ellis Bent.
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:27, 2 April 2012 (UTC).
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"Aunt Jane!" said Tom, hurrying to keep up, "Do you think that one day I could be an Arb Clerk like you?"
"You can be whatever you want, Tom, even an Arb if you put your mind to it." she replied, striding down broad gleaming template namespace.
Tom liked his Aunt Jane, she was never flustered, or too tired to play a game of quick-diff with him, as his father was after a long day at MfD. And today she had taken him out for some new headers and footers. He watched the other editors move out of her path, touching their hats or avoiding her gaze, even the bots making minor edits to the illumination system seemed in awe of her. He was sure the mean boys who had kept reverting him on the school trip to the Commons, every time he tried to stop them making incivil remarks about Mona Mumpkin's bandwidth from the back 16 bits of the bus, would have quailed had they known she was his aunt.
"In here." she said as they came to a very expensive looking templating shop - gnomes were overpainting the signage but Ludwigs and Co was still visible under some blanked versions. While his aunt discussed the finer points of hair shaping with the proprietor, Tom took in the array of meta-templates, each with the distinctive Spork imprint, the shiny CC-by-Sa 17.2 mirrors and the custom python scripts apparently asleep on the floor of their cage.
Tom's mind wandered as the matching headers and footers were attached with a touch of CCS adhesive, adjusted, revised and tweaked until both his aunt and proprietor were satisfied, then, after polite farewells and sigging, back into the busy namespace one more.
"Aunt stop!" he said suddenly realising.
His aunt turned brought her face down to his level "What's the matter?"
"You didn't pay the man..."
She smiled, "Oh no dear, he does my jobs as a favour. You see a few years ago he was caught eating yogurt, and I was able to pull a few strings... avoided a lot of unpleasantness, probably a 1RR at least... for templater that would have been his livelihood."
"Yoghurt" Tom looked puzzled, then remembered his history lessons. ".. oh yogurt.." he said quietly, then quickly reverted himself before anyone else could watch.
"Anyway we are nearly there." Tom brightened, his aunt had taken him on a number of unusual outings recently, so it seemed there was another destination this morning, and while he was proud of his new gear, he was a more practical boy then fashion conscious. There had been the Harvard Hall where editors known as referrers were sitting trance-like, their neural nets linked by superconducting mono-filaments to the world library, abstracting and cross referencing for portals and projects. The trip to the wreck of the Esperanza had been the best, but he knew that the riskiest had been the back rooms of the sock-puppet centre, where in a large factory millions of socks were being attached to the heads of animated camels. He had been puzzled, but his aunt had refused to explain, telling him to think about it, and not to breathe a word to anyone.
The boy and his mentor crossed through a small, unlit, and rather insalubrious sub-namespace labelled Bjaodnally, and to his surprise came out right next to the Bot Museum. "Never go that way without me" she said "there are all sorts hanging around there, survivors form the old times, revert warriors, truthers even maybe sangeristas." The boy nodded, a delicious chill passing through him at the forbidden words, but nonetheless a little disappointed to be at the Bot Museum, which he had visited so many times before, often on a Saturday morning when his parents gave him a few electro-groats and hung a merge tag outside their user page.
They wandered down the vast echoing halls, past the hulking Cydebot and SmackBot - twin behemoths dwarfed in their turn by thousand armed Siebot, the steam powered Rambot - due to be powered up for a day at Easter, the sleek darting forms of HagermanBot and SineBot, the serried ranks of the py-bots facing the rows of slightly more customised awb-bots, like armies of pawns across a gigantic chess board. Skipping the policy room, where talking headsets would guide you through the dry and convoluted history of the documents framed around the walls (an urban legend said that every millionth visitor was taken over by the headset and changed into a bot) they arrived at the hands-on-section.
Here children of all ages, but mostly younger than Tom, operated simple revert bots, played some messy games, while in the sandbox two older boys with obvious competence problems were building a massive history tower. Tom admitted to himself that, deep down, this was his favourite room. Despite his age he liked playing with the toys and making them go further than they were designed to, getting them to interact with each other, the younger children's disruptive games simply adding to the challenge of controlling the devices without upsetting them, and at the end of the session, he liked to operate the sandbox cleaner to reset the unoccupied parts of the room to their initial state or "pre-set" as the controls described it.
Tom moved, almost automatically towards the stub builder, seeing some spare space where he could lay down a nice pattern, but his aunt took his hand and turned him to face a small triangular man in a curator's uniform. "This is my nephew, Tom. Tom this is.." she paused a heartbeat "...old Nab." The man's mouth twitched as she introduced him, as if a smiley had almost occurred.
"Very pleased to met you Tom, this way" - Old Nab opened a door marked Project staff only rollbacking the lock quicker than Tom could follow. Down a short, brightly lit corridor was a workshop, one wall was a large one-way watchlist where the children could be seen playing in the hands-on centre "just in case" as Old Nab later explained, the rest of the room, apart from the two doors, was crammed with junk, all sorts of glorious junk. Everything from almost complete robot carcases, to big tubs of mis-matched parentheses were scattered across the floor, over the workbenches, on shelves, and the ceiling was festooned with templates and meta-templates - not the burnished Spork imprinted tools of the high street, but hand made, custom templates, some possibly made for one job, then never used again, or not without further customization. Tom gaped, staring around, then his eyes fell on a regular expression lying, disassembled, on the bench next to him.
Before he could stop himself, he had re-arranged a couple of greedy wild-cards, and had just picked up a glowing delimiter, when Old Nab gently said "Here, I'll take that, my lad" relieving him of the object, which he now saw had intricate involuted methods running through it. "You're right Jane, he certainly does have an eye for these things. And I have been keeping an eye on him, here, from time to time" Old Nab glanced up at the watchlist, and Tom blushed at the thought of Nab applying intricate filters to his childish experiments and games. "I've put together the items you wanted." Half turning to Tom, "You're a lucky boy, to have an aunt like that."
Tom nodded "I know sir." he said, a little confused, watching, his hand still tingling from the delimiter, as Old Nab zipped, compressed and tar'ed a collection of components into a package small enough for Tom to carry.
"You know how to unpack, boy?" Nab said, and without waiting for an answer linked the package, with dual calling conventions for safety, to Tom's back. "Now I have to get on... the exit is over there. Nice to see you again Jane, Tom." Nab sigged and turned back to the workbench, muttering about vowel shifts and serial verbs, apparently oblivious to them as they sigged and left through the talk page.
Once again Jane set her rapid pace back towards the Project where Tom lived. Tom, carrying his load and hurrying to keep up, still managed enough breath to ask "Aunt? Um.. what is it?"
His aunt smiled enigmatically "You'll know once you unpack it - or if you don't then it's not for you."
And so half an hour later Tom found himself in his freshly archived home, carefully opening and unpacking the somewhat convoluted module the old man had created so effortlessly. As he extracted the components he added them to the growing collection, his mind putting together the puzzle "This links here - maybe if I glued that on there - oh I didn't see he'd added one, no two of those!" until finally all that was left was some stub code which he G6'd.
Tom looked at the tangled pile of metal, conduits and rulebases in the corner of his sub page. A bot of his very own. One day, one day soon, he and his bot would visit a real article.
Rich
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Target, at least 180 points.
Rich
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Kindly fix Pixie bot to NOT interfere with clearly marked tags saying that they're undergoing major edits, such as Brabourne Stadium which was tagged with the {{ Template:GOCEinuse}} template. I now need to unnecessarily merge my edits with that crappy bot's maintenance edits. Easwarno1 ( talk) 01:06, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Is this collegiate editing or someone being a
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Wait, are you still blocked? I'll ask for the AFD to be put on hold if you are.
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Instead of adding this to hundreds of pages, wouldn't it have been a lot easier to add it to Template:Monthly clean-up category directly? Fram ( talk) 08:56, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
You should already be more than familiar with WP:BOTPOL, especially when there's an ongoing ARBCOM case about you and your bots. This is probably an accident, but in case you forgot, please read WP:BOTACC again and edit from your own account when making BRFAs, rather than from Femto Bot's account, as you did here. And also, while we're on the topic, please use the preview button / at least make sure the links you give work ( WP:Bot requests#faulty names correction in HPB 52, http://www.orchidspecies.com [which, BTW, is not a link to a previous discussion] in HPB 51). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:34, 1 May 2012 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:Femto Bot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 16:38, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm glad to see the shackles have been removed.
Given your years of faithful service to Wikipedia, I feel the decision to block for a whole month was excessive and made a bit hastily.
Your dedication to the project, indicated by your patience through all of this, I find inspiring.
Many under your circumstances would have simply quit. Thank you for not doing so.
I hope our arbitrators will allow you to continue applying your rare skill set to improving Wikipedia. The project will suffer otherwise.
Good luck. The Transhumanist 22:47, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Turns out Grutness left in 2011, and Fastily a few days back. Both cite persecution. Both were incredibly productive.
Rich
Farmbrough, 04:31, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)
ISBN format please. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 14:38, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
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Rich
Farmbrough, 15:21, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)| isbn = ISBN 1-68983-601-5 {{Please check ISBN|reason=Check digit (5) does not correspond to calculated figure.}}
. Previously I have deleted the template request after "confirming" the flagged number (no hyphens) with some source. Now I infer that the algorithm is more reliable than the source ... Today in this case I revised initial '1' to '0' per LCC; that catalog entry does not hyphenate this one (0689836015) so I retained your hyphenation. Do you hyphenate reliably and in a way editors might do manually? I have been using 1-3-5-1. --
P64 (
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template to the article and the bot will come along in 18 minutes or so, and fix them up/check them.Hello Rich, the current ISBN run is only picking up the first ISBN of consecutive pairs [100] [101] [102] [103] [104]. Hope it helps, — Sladen ( talk) 19:31, 6 May 2012 (UTC) (BTW, the bot flag is not set too.)
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thank you. i will behave. :D - badmachine 03:49, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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You are changing "deos" to "does " instead of to "does", as far as I can see. Not really a major issue of course... Fram ( talk) 09:21, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
FYI, Missed an isbn. Thank you. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 22:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
ISBN hyphentation
Skips one ISBN
Fixed in build 644.
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:54, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)
Rich, I have repeatedly googled the Gozdak book and keep coming up with the ISBN 0738507972 Parameter error in {{ ISBN}}: checksum. This is the number that is in the article, and which pixiebot thinks is wrong. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 03:42, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Edits like
[105] (and the similar ones you have made today) are technically a violation of your editing restriction (they don't change anything in the output of the page, nor in how it works) and are very unlikely to ever make a difference (e.g. in this case only if the page
Ford Mustang would be moved would it possibly make any difference). If you take the trouble of explicitly changing this, wouldn't it be more useful to put the actual destination in, instead of a redirect like
here?
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I notice you've put back the ISBN hyphens I've been leaving out, I didn't think it mattered but I'll start adding them now. Thanks, Keith-264 ( talk) 08:34, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Don't forget that if you create an article like this which needs a disambiguation, you need to provide an access route via a dab page entry or a hatnote. I've done the hatnote while stub-sorting, but please do it yourself another time! Thanks. Pam D 17:11, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Rich, please slow down. Going at it like John Henry taking on the steam shovel is resulting in you making errors at an even faster rate. All you are doing is nailing down your own coffin lid at this rate. For Pete's sake stop for a bit, and show that you understand the concerns that people are raising. If the task doesn't get done, it doesn't get done, but if you keep this up they are going to decide that you'll never abide by any editing restriction, and they'll just ban you. -- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 14:05, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
While " The Rise of Warnings to New Editors on English Wikipedia" caused consternation back in May 2011 - "40% of all initial edits to new user talk pages in our sample were negative templates" - but the previous research blog " How much do new editors actually improve Wikipedia?" showed that over 40% (42.6%) of first edits were either vandalism (about 25%) or unacceptably low quality. The level of warning therefore, seems pretty much on the nail. Why was this not picked up in the blog? I suspect it is because the "take out" from the previous research was
The key thing to note in comparing the two samples is that the percent of acceptable edits made by newbies did not dramatically decrease from 2004 to 2011.
This is a strange item to identify as key, since the changes are far more important than what remained the same. The percent of excellent edits fell roughly from 25% to 10%, while vandalism rose from a couple of percent to about a quarter of all new user edits.
Given this analysis, we need to look harder for the reasons for lower new editor retention, and certainly not assume that there is good evidence that templating is the cause, at least at present.
Rich
Farmbrough, 03:47, 22 April 2012 (UTC).
I would feel honored if you joined the Perl WikiProject. The Transhumanist 22:54, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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I feel that I should inform you that it looks like you will be facing a one year minimum ban, administrator rights revoked for a minimum of one year, and indefinitely restricted from using any automation tool including assistance scripts and bots.— cyberpower ChatOnline 20:25, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Looks like you're losing your adminstrator privileges and rights to automation so, enjoy them while you still got them. You are also 2 votes away from being banned for a minimum of one year. At this point I would get ready to expect the worst to come and already start doing necessary before leaving Wikipedia in my honest opinion.— cyberpower ChatOnline 19:47, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Help Rich! We have a consensus to rename WikiProject Thoroughbred racing to Wikipedia:WikiProject Horse racing. However, moving and renaming everything is getting complicated, especially the template that is on 1000s of articles. Froggerlaura did the basics and then I took a shot at some of the technical stuff, but may have screwed up everything, so could you be so kind as o help us all out and make everything that now is part of the TB racing into just "horse racing" instead? Help! (talk on project talk page) Montanabw (talk) 20:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Is every post you make partially automated? If so, how? Are you perhaps an artificially intelligent robot? ;)— cyberpower ChatOnline 23:04, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Could you look at template:Monthly clean up category as used inc categories like Category:Articles needing cleanup from February 2008, please? It is displaying oddly and seems to be adding a redlink category at the bottom. Is it just that an update hasn't taken affect yet due to a backed up queue? RJFJR ( talk) 12:38, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm having a reference format problem. See the discography. If I try to put the label as publisher it is invisible. If I include it in title, it ends up in quotes (see first two examples) Can you tell me what my error is and how to correct? Cheers, -- Beth Wellington ( talk) 04:35, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing!-- Beth Wellington ( talk) 23:18, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
BTW, see the following from my Talk page where you were referenced-- Beth Wellington ( talk) 23:34, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Checking for invalid ISBNs
The ISBN here has been marked for checking, with the reason that it was invalidly hyphenated. The problem is that not only does the ISBN match the one given on the first three pages I checked from a Google search, but while two of them don't hyphenate the ISBN, the third one is on the publisher's website and does - giving precisely the hyphenation that Helpful Pixie Bot is querying.
This may, of course, not be a bug. Even Springer is presumably capable of not only wrongly hyphenating their own ISBNs, but then including them in the URL for the page for the book concerned - and one can't criticise an editor who assumes that a publisher would know how to hyphenate their own ISBNs. But it might be worth double-checking this one. PWilkinson ( talk) 19:07, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Fixed A working nicely now, thanks for the notification.
Rich
Farmbrough, 19:45, 9 May 2012 (UTC).
Just a heads up: HPB has been blocked by Elen of the Roads ( Special:Log/Elen_of_the_Roads). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:21, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich! Thanks so much for participating in the Teahouse - it's always great when experienced editors come by and help out. I encourage you to consider being an "official" (for lack of a better word!) Teahouse host! If you'd like to learn more about that, and the basics about how the Teahouse is proceeding during this pilot period, then I encourage you to take a look at this page! It has tips and can inform interested participants seeking to help new (and experienced!) editors on how the Teahouse works differently than other help places on Wikipedia. Thanks Rich, and see you at the Teahouse :) Sarah ( talk) 14:59, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
At the moment ISBN fixes.
Howdy. I wasn't sure if this was the right place to put this, but your bot appears to be editing quite fast. For example, at the 0257 time, there were 33 edits. The number does appear to fluctuate a bit minute to minute, but 33 edits seems a bit much. The bot policy shows 1 edit every ten seconds for non-urgent tasks. If I'm missing something, I apologize.-- Rockfang ( talk) 03:07, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with one or some of your recent edits:
These redirects are incorrect (the part between the @signs is the problem, probably). Furthermore, a minor problem with as far as I have checked all the redirects you created is that the section element of it (the part after the "#") doesn't work, because the page doesn't have sections but is composed from transcluded subpages (which I tried to get rid off but which was rejected by you...). Fram ( talk) 13:17, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
By the way, any reason why you delete the other, informative categories from these redirects? Wouldn't it be more useful to let things like Category:Asteroids named for people, Category:Discoveries by Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Category:Discoveries by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Category:Astronomical objects discovered in 1988 (all from 48416 Carmelita) stand? It seems like useful information, even for a redirect. Fram ( talk) 13:52, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello. You have additional search suggestions at
User talk:Tedder's talk page.
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You were WP:INVOLVED as the proposer for the change, so you should not have taken administrative action. Please reverse yourself. Imzadi 1979 → 02:07, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. When HelpfulPixieBot is adding {{ Please check ISBN}} templates, I think the template needs to added outside the {{ Cite book}} template, to avoid corrupting the display of the ISBN, as occurred here (look at the second book listed in the References section). Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 02:20, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that you unreffed tagged my new translation. The ref, which I've inlined, states that the text is based on (taken from) the Brockhaus-Efron pd dictionary. On the ru.wiki page for Alexander Turgenev at the bottom the tag
"При написании этой статьи использовался материал из Энциклопедического словаря Брокгауза и Ефрона (1890—1907)"
indicates this. Do you know where I can find the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary tag or template for the bottom of the Alexander Turgenev page to indicate pd here in this translation? INeverCry 00:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
ISBNs (Build J9)
Adding {{ Please check ISBN}} inside a {{ cite book}} seems to break the latter – see refs 4 and 5 in the first of the example links. And there's a typo in the output, "deos" instead of "does". BTW, the ISBN the bot flagged is actually in the book. What should be done in such cases? -- ἀνυπόδητος ( talk) 06:54, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug closed since I am "automation banned".
Rich
Farmbrough, 15:25, 16 May 2012 (UTC).
Why on my watchlist are there green stars beside articles you have recently edited? No objections, I'm just curious. Smallchief ( talk) 21:07, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
From WP:WATCHLIST
When viewing a page, click the star sign between the 'View history' tab and the search box at the very top of the page (for the default appearance: in some other versions, click on the "watch" or "unwatch" tab), to respectively add or remove the page from your watchlist
Rich, you mentioned a couple weeks ago that it might be possible to bot-tag a series of articles, yes? Say, for example, the swimming event pages for Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics (i.e. men's 50 free, women's 50 free, men's 100 free... women's 4x100 Medley Relay): all 32 event pages are missing the preliminary results for those that made it back for finals. Each page has a "Non-Qualifiers" section, that could/should have an expand list tag inserted (and maybe even a note about the finalist prelims times are missing?). Is that something a bot could do? -- Hooperswim ( talk) 02:52, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on Ernest Sutherland Bates requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.
If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Ryan Vesey Review me! 01:44, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I have a couple questions about Helpful Pixie Bot in regards to this edit. Why does it change "Image:..." to "File:..."? When it makes this change along side an ISBN change, why does it only mention the ISBN change in the edit summary? Bender2k14 ( talk) 12:57, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Here is an example from 19:48 UTC, after your last post [109]. If there are previous versions running (e.g. that edit is labeled KG), they ought to be stopped... — Carl ( CBM · talk) 19:52, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
The thing to do surely (in all of these cases) is to change policy by consensus, and link to that updated unambiguous policy in the bot edit summary. — Sladen ( talk) 07:43, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
For what it is worth, I would like to add my opinion. I eventually figured out on my own through examples that "File" and "Image" are exactly the same. I prefer "Image" when the file is an image because it makes the source more readable. I don't have a problem using "File" instead of "Image" if the that is either required or recommended by official policy. However, Carl and Sladen have made it clear that neither is the case. By the way, bots should only be making edits that are CLEARLY supported by the community (otherwise we have to have discussions like this!). I agree with Carl and Sladen that these edits need to be officially justified in the MOS simply because they APPEAR stylistic, even if one thinks and tries to argue that they are improvements since they replace "outdated crap". Rich and Kumioko, don't you think there will be less uses of "Image" if you say in the MOS that using "File" is better and why? Kumioko, since the "MOS is a guideline, not the ten commandments", what is stopping someone from making a bot that goes around changing uses of "File" to "Image"? The way I see it, many of your own arguments could be used to justify this. Rich and Kumioko, all Carl, Sladen, and myself are requesting is that the MOS be changed to say "File" is preferable to "Image", then we would agree with you. Is this not an acceptable compromise? Bender2k14 ( talk) 12:59, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible to link the date to a diff showing the edit that tagged an article. Something like This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: See talk page. Please help improve this article if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. ( 2007) As far as I can tell Helpful Pixie Bot ( talk · contribs) adds the dates to these tags, so I was hoping it could link to the diffs at the same time. There was a discussion started at the clean-up tag talk page about doing this for that tag, but it could possible be useful on all all the tags in Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup. As you run Pixiebot I was hoping you would have some ideas on how this could be implimented (it would be good if it could be added to old tags as well as new ones, but even just new tags would be a start) and steps needed to achieve it. AIRcorn (talk) 04:28, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi I was wondering if you could code something to copy the lists of municipalities and communes into the articles by Provinces of Morocco from Italian wikipedia like this. Basically its the same format, same source, but just copying the lists?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi I created this as I believed we needed a template like Bare URLs to encourage editors to add full citations not to just the websites. Can you improve this properly and sort out the documentation and take care of adding it to some articles where the refs need filling out like Alogia (band)? I'm thinking of organizing a bot to add this tag to all articles on wikipedia which needs refs filling out properly as in browsing it makes a big difference if sources are adequately filled out with details consistently.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:58, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Well??♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:42, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Please have a look at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility)#duc to Duke. There are about 230 page moves that have to be reversed. Is there a way to [semi]automate page moves? -- PBS ( talk:ye4s) 17:28, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
If I may; one question for you about the articles slated for redirection to List of minor planets:
Speaking totally theoretically now, let's take no action yet, would it be possible to somehow swipe the infoboxes from all those articles, and then somehow store the infoboxes into List of minor planets, and how difficult or complicated would that be?
I ask because have a hunch if we did that, it would help to overcome resistence to Helpful Pixie Bot 50.
So whaddaya think? Would it entail a long and tendious overhaul of the entire List of minor planetsto get it ready to accept the infobox information? Chrisrus ( talk) 04:06, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Yobot is blocked again. Check User_talk:Yobot#Blocked. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:01, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I hope you remember me... ;) Would you please take a look at the question I filed at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:As of and let me know whether there's anything preventing a merge of these two templates? Kind regards, Osiris ( talk) 12:22, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. I don't think that thread is likely to garner any other responses. Would you do the honours? I'm not sure whether you'd like to sort to both categories or just the one {{
when}}
generates.
Osiris (
talk) 06:48, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
I just noticed that a user who complained about your bot has not bothered to notify you about it (see WP:BON). It seems that the ISBN fixing code may be editing at an excessively high rate, so could that perhaps be slowed down to once every 5-10 seconds? Thanks! Reaper Eternal ( talk) 01:56, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
Are you still willing to bot the language templates? I've removed the request for a ref section, which was the sticking point.
Hope things go well with ArbCom. — kwami ( talk) 02:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
It looks like Helpful Pixie Bot has not run Category:Pages with missing references list in quite a while. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 14:06, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Template: A user has requested the attention of a member of the
Bot Approvals Group. Once assistance has been rendered, please deactivate this tag by replacing it with
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Edits by:
Last edit by
BAGGER was by Headbomb at 14:53, 28 March 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by me at 05:19, 2 May 2012 (UTC).
Last edit by anyone was by
Chrisrus at 14:53, 8 May 2012 (UTC).
Bottom edit was by
Chrisrus at 14:53, 8 May 2012 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 15:35, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
(ISBNs (Build KE))
Matthew Hopkins in popular cultureas well as Mathew Hopkins are two examples.
it queries the zero at the start if the isbn but [110] shows that it does start with a zero - 0 - Thanks Edmund Patrick – confer 16:04, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Checking for invalid ISBNs.
An example is the last edit in this bunch.
This is only a minor bug, but the bot destroyed the existing hyphernation in the ISBN. That is to say, it replaced "|isbn=978-0-670-02053" with "|isbn=978067002053". The problem with this particular ISBN (now fixed) was a missing check digit. The hyphenation information was therefore good, and it would have been better had the bot preserved it. I appreciate that another task of the bot is to add hyphenation so that, eventually, this loss will be corrected. This is why the bug is only a minor bug. HairyWombat 17:17, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
User:Rich Farmbrough/Talk Archive Mega 4/bug technical details
Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
You're placing a template to check the ISBN number ... inside a template which is not going to show the template at all. See the output. This is the third time this bot has done this... needs fixing. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:25, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
And another here ... Ealdgyth - Talk 18:06, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
Please check ISBN}}
is inside a {{
cite book}}
or outside. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 23:02, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
How does HelpfulPixieBot know how to parse ISBNs? -- Evertype· ✆ 19:52, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
As it stands I'm not sure how accurate corrections to ISBN-13 code formatting made using HelpfulPixieBot can be? Of the five elements, (Prefix, Registration Group, Registrant, Publication and Check Digit), only the first and last elements are of fixed length while the other three are variable. The Registration Group can be up to five digits. The Registrant element can be up to 7 digits and the Publication element up to 6 digits, both varying in direct relationship to the anticipated output of the publisher. Consequently for elements two to four, surely the Bot can only really be used to check that the upper limits for each of them and the sum total of the number of digits used for all of them aren't exceeded. I've seen examples of the Bot re-formatting ISBN-13 codes which were already 'legal' in terms of permissible element length, to produce a result other than that found in catalogs and printed on the publication itself. I'm not sure that's helpful. 85.210.176.104 ( talk) 16:44, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, re
this edit - there are two invalid ISBNs there, but only the first one was marked as invalid (
ISBN
0-86095-050-5 Parameter error in {{
ISBN}}: checksum should have been
ISBN
0-86093-050-5). The second one, ISBN 090288-12-9, was one digit short (it should have been
ISBN
0-90288-812-9) but Pixie didn't give it a {{
Please check ISBN|reason=Invalid length.}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 21:05, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Bug number: 108 System: templates Component: Wikipedia documentation Blocks: Blocked by:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Dated Expand section. (Build KF)
The bot changed "|3=date=May 2012" to "|3=date=May 2012|date=May 2012". i.e it added a date when there was already one present. There are three valid date formats in the Template:Expand section documentation. I suspect that the bot does not yet know about the second date format.
I wonder what the article would look like in a few year's time. (:-)> Peter Loader ( talk) 21:16, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Will Helpful Pixie Bot recognize and ignore ISBNs tagged with {{ Listed Invalid ISBN}}, as I have done at D.M. Ananda ( diff)? Regards -- ShelfSkewed Talk 14:18, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
You should know that I added a Table of Contents template to your Category:Commons category template with no category set. That way it'll make it easier for users to fix the commons tags. ---- DanTD ( talk) 00:52, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. When you have Helpful Pixie Bot make edits like this one please don't forget to have the bot add the phrase "and other fixes" to the edit summary. Cheers, Unforgettableid ( talk) 03:10, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Purely out of idle curiosity, how does the bot determine what order to deal with articles in? In my watchlist recently, it's done Appleby Frodingham Railway, Lad in the Lane, Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station and Malton railway station in that order. It doesn't seem to be alphabetical, or by category, so how are they picked? Or is it simply jumping to random article? Whatever it is, keep up the good work! An optimist on the run! 21:05, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
In this edit, your bot converted two ISBNs that were followed by years into invalid ISBNs. Could you fix the problem, and go back through your bot's edits to find and fix other places where it made the same mistake? -- Carnildo ( talk) 01:58, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I was wondering if it would be possible for Helpful Pixie Bot to indicate in the edit summary whether it found any problems when checking the ISBNs. At the moment, I need to visually inspect each change the bot makes to see if there was a bad ISBN that I could possibly fix. If the edit summary said something like "ISBN check-no problems found" when all it needed to do was reformatting, but something like "ISBN check-issues detected" when problems were found, then I could safely ignore all the "no problems found" edits and only examine the "issues detected" ones. Just an idea, anyway. Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 02:42, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
|reason=
might be absent from {{
Please check ISBN}}
, then detection of any error will cause an increase of 21 characters at the very least. Thus, I assume that where the increase is 20 or less, it's merely a reformatting. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 14:33, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Several articles use the 1995 Formula One season review video as a reference, specifying an ISBN of "5-017559-034955", which matches the information specified here. Helpful Pixie Bot identifies this number as an invalid ISBN, as it did here. If it's not an ISBN, do you happen to know what kind of number it is? Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 08:14, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
cite video}}
template supports the |id=
parameter, my suggestion is to use that instead, i.e. replace |isbn=5017559034955 {{
Please check ISBN|reason=13 digit ISBN should start with 978 or 979.}}
with |id=[[EAN-13]] 5 017559 034955
--
Redrose64 (
talk) 10:07, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
ISBNs (Build KH)
When validating ISBNs, the bot changed {{Closed_stations_Northamptonshire}}
(with two underscores) into {{Closed_stations Northamptonshire}}
(with one underscore and one space). The bot should either have changed both into spaces, or left both alone. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 09:51, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
Adding a duplicate second 'please check this ISBN' notice immediately before an existing one, previously and only seven weeks ago added by HPB: [114]. JohnBlackburne words deeds 13:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I found an error in the article (see photo). Copernicus was not a German, he was from Poland. -- Top811 my talk —Preceding undated comment added 13:50, 12 May 2012 (UTC).
Bug number: 113 System: Helpful Pixie Bot Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with Helpful Pixie Bot:
In the edit of British boys' magazines the ISBN number has been altered to extend the publisher/series part by one digit so that the book number is now -4 instead of -44. I have checked the actual printed book and it is definitely -44. In addition the second reference (The 30's Scrapbook) refers to it both by title & ISBN
DonJay ( talk) 15:03, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Here's the hyphenation table for the English area codes:
Area code |
Publisher range |
Digit 2nd hyphen comes after |
---|---|---|
0 | 00-19 | 3rd |
0 | 200-699 | 4th |
0 | 7000-8499 | 5th |
0 | 85000-89999 | 6th |
0 | 900000-949999 | 7th |
0 | 9500000-9999999 | 8th |
1 | 55000-86979 | 6th |
1 | 869800-998999 | 7th |
1 | 9990000-9999999 | 8th |
ISBN
0-9547954-4-X falls under the 9500000-9999999 range, and hence should be hyphenated as shown.
Rich
Farmbrough, 17:44, 12 May 2012 (UTC).
Bug number: 114 (Duplicates 103 System: templates Component: Blocks: Blocked by:
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Hi! I noticed an apparent bug with a template:
{{
Please check ISBN}}
This HPB change introduced it: [115]; the change looks OK but it broke the rendering of Death#References, No. 6.
The 1-4495-9420-6 appears as [[Special:BookSources/1-4495-9420-6|1-4495-9420-6]], i.e. as if it's no longer interpreting it as a link. It was working fine in the version before HPB's change. I've tried purging the page to no effect.
JohnBlackburne words deeds 17:42, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Talk re our efforts over there. Maile66 ( talk) 15:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Thanks for asking about this. The proposal did not receive any comments. It is now archived here. I was a bit discouraged, so I haven't yet done anything to follow up on it. Should we try to take it to Bugzilla anyway or just let it drop? -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 16:58, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
This may have been mentioned already, but Fempto bot does not seem to be using a bot flag; all the other bots on my watchlist do, buut femptobot does not.-- Gilderien Chat| List of good deeds 21:02, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
You added the plot template to Bade Achhe Lagte Hain but Wikiproject Soap Opera says that the plot may be just 700-800 words and in the mentioned article it is so. So I think that the template is not needed. Please give a reason that why do you think that it is too long, as it is not so. When you are replying please leave me a Tb template. -- Jagadhatri( ২০১২) 08:18, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
The case against you is about to close, with you losing your sysop bit and being prevented from using automation. There's quite a bit of talk on the PD page along the lines of last chance, being on the edge of a cliff, etc.
There are people out there who will look for whatever means they can to find a way to nudge you off of that cliff. You can't give them even a millimeter of rope with which to hang you. I strongly, strongly urge you to shut down any and all bots you have, any sort of automation you have, any sort of edit assisting scripts RIGHT NOW, before the final decision is posted. Do everything (and I mean everything) manually, by hand. Delete any .js subpages you have in your userspace. Wipe it all out. If this means you go from a million edits a week to 1 edit a month, so be it. If you want to be part of this project for the foreseeable future, you have got to do this. Otherwise, you will be shoved off of that cliff.
Decisions in this community are hate based. If enough heat is generated, it doesn't matter one iota if the target of the heat has done absolutely nothing wrong. It doesn't matter if the target is perfectly, 10000000000% in line with policy, with prior consensus supporting them. Generate enough heat, and a target will go down. That is how 'justice' works around here. I'll give you a speculative example; people have been criticizing you for changing the capitalization of templates in use on an article. If, from this day forward, you do that again...even if you use one finger to hunt and peck around the keyboard to conduct every detail of the edit...you will be found at fault for doing it. It does not matter that plenty of people are doing exactly the same thing, without anyone saying peep. It does not matter that changing the case is right, or wrong, or indifferent. If you do it, you will be found at fault for it. People will demand you link them to the consensus that permits you to do this. People will insist you are using some undeclared tool to assist you in making the edit. People will insist you are doing it to bait the people watching your every twitch, and are thus being disruptive. Since you are the subject of the heat, it will be you who is found at fault.
You are going to have to change the entire nature and style of the editor you are on this project in order to remain here. It is a monumental, probably impossible task. I wish you the best of luck, and hope for the best. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 14:07, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
For what its worth I also think that you withdrawing from editing is exactly what the Arbcom wants. They couldn't get enough support to ban you from the pedia so the next best thing is to tell you that you can't edit. Kumioko ( talk) 11:21, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. :) You have a response at my talk page on Meta. Thanks! -- Maggie Dennis (WMF) ( talk) 14:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Good tigings to you from a believer in One Creator of the Heavens and the Earth!
i see that you have edited the page Ali_ibn_Abi_Talib on Wikipedia, i must say to you that in Islam it is not allowed to put nor draw nor see the picture of a man
i strongly encourage you o remove the picture from the page of Ali_ibn_Abi_Talib
if you have any queries or questions on that please e-mail me asap, my email is saken_k@hotmail.com
With warmest regards, Saken ibn Amankeldi
(Not including redirects). The Transhumanist 11:34, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Namespace | Count |
---|---|
Main | 9,375,576 |
Talk | 4,540,406 |
User | 1,457,343 |
User talk | 7,775,605 |
Wikipedia | 721,450 |
Wikipedia talk | 144,174 |
File | 810,359 |
File talk | 138,924 |
MediaWiki | 1,608 |
MediaWiki talk | 937 |
Template | 424,551 |
Template talk | 177,834 |
Help | 956 |
Help talk | 463 |
Category | 852,775 |
Category talk | 587,880 |
Portal | 109,930 |
Portal talk | 25,669 |
Book | 3,113 |
Book talk | 2,904 |
Total | 27,152,457 |
Basically a tad over 1/3 of Wikipedia is actual article pages, and more than half of those are redirects.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:35, 16 May 2012 (UTC).
Here is a graphical representation of the change of emphasis as the encyclopedia has grown. The namespaces are numbered from the bottom.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:12, 17 May 2012 (UTC).
The same general trends, user talk is the growth area, the big difference here is Wikipedia and Wikipedia talk - substantial, and the category and template namespaces become very small components.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:17, 17 May 2012 (UTC).
Hey Rich! Thanks for helping out at the Teahouse. Just an FYI, we created a lovely little talkback template that is Teahouse specific. You can find a link to it here. It's pretty valuable when letting folks know that you answered their question, since not everyone watches the Teahouse question page. Thanks again for all your contributions - Teahouse and beyond! Sarah ( talk) 19:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for helping me improve Generation time Trashbird1240 ( talk) 14:41, 10 May 2012 (UTC) |
If WP bans you its a case of them shooting themselves in the foot. I really mean that.
...William 20:00, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Do you have time to do some adjusting at User:AlexNewArtBot/WomensHistory? It's better, but still needs to be narrowed. And most of the articles this time don't seem to be about women. Maile66 ( talk) 23:11, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
An arbitration case regarding Rich Farmbrough has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above.
The following remedies have been enacted:
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Guerillero | My Talk 19:27, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Anyone who had made tens of thousands of edits is always going to have a few edits that someone, somewhere won't agree with or like, just as they will have also made a number of edits that someone else will really, really like. It is the balance that is important here, and it seems that a minority within the community seems to think that everything must be perfect and be in accordance with their own personal preferences.
Any edits that certain people don't like will always become a major focus during any sort of community discussion or ArbCom case simply because every editor has at some point attracted the attention of someone who doesn't like something they've done, and what better way to "get back at" someone then try to dig up any dirt they can find during such a discussion? This often results in collateral damage to other parts of the project however when such individuals take things even further.
My own message to the larger community is thus: Take what a highly vocal minority within our community has to say with a grain of salt, but do not ignore them entirely, otherwise they will grow even louder and their party will gain even more dissenters. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 05:09, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Clearly quite a number of people have absolutely no idea what it takes to make regular expressions and substitutions work. I give it two to three weeks tops before the backlog piles up and questions begin to arise as to "What happened to Helpful Pixie Bot and Femto Bot?" and "How do we now handle all the housekeeping work that these two bots previously took care of?"
I personally see this similarly to what would happen if we were to shut down ClueBot.
While there have been edits Rich has made that I've not agreed with, Rich appears to have always had Wikipedia's best interests in mind when he made changes, and I do not feel that this was considered at all during his ArbCom case. It would have been far far different if Rich had a history of attempting to cause problems, was a known troll, vandal, etc, but this is far from the case.
From my own point of view, it was clearly wrong of ArbCom to go full-out and heavy handed sanction a long term valued contributor who has been instrumental in standardizing and automating so many tedious and pain-in-the-ass tasks as Rich has. The very idea that Rich should be indefinitely banned from using any sort of automation is simply absurd. It could also be that ArbCom doesn't really know what all Rich has done for us here on the English Wikipedia since so much of his work has involved changes to things that work behind the scenes, yet have a very widely felt effect. For that fact, perhaps a large portion of the community doesn't know either.
The way I see it, Wikipedia is just about at a fork in the road. Many of the people with the technical know-how and knowledge of how and why things work the way they work have become disillusioned with the direction the English Wikipedia has been heading. Many of these individuals have left or slowed down in terms of their contributions, and/or have ended up sanctioned like Rich has. If things continue in this direction, the English Wikipedia is going to find itself without the technical backing that has allowed it to grow in the first place, and it's growth will stop and/or it will begin to regress (we are already beginning to see signs of both such scenarios).
From that point, if people don't decide to step up and work towards changing these trends, one or two things will ultimately happen. The first is that Wikipedia will begin to be seen as irrelevant in the eyes of the general public. The other is that those technical minded individuals who have felt alienated will organize, possibly leading to either a fracture within the community or even a new form of "Wikipedia" that will make the current "Wikipedia" entirely irrelevant and obsolete.
For those who don't think what has happened to Rich here can't happen to you or really has little long term impact on Wikipedia itself, think again. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 05:18, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
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You need this more than I do – Lionel ( talk) 05:37, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks for the comments. I checked and it is these ISBN numbers are in the publications.-- Despotović ( talk) 14:02, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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My B'day Cake |
Hi!! Today is my b'day and I though of sharing this sweet gift with you!! Arnesh( ২০১২) 16:09, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
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The We Couldn't-A-Done-It-Without-Ya Award |
Thanks for stepping up to the plate and helping get this off the ground. Good luck with that you have on your shoulders right now. Maile66 ( talk) 17:14, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
I'm glad you're still here It's a silly accident that you and I have been mentioned in the same breath a lot lately and the two of us have hardly interacted in the past, but once I found out about your ArbCom issues I started to pay attention. Everyone on the English-language Wikipedia has benefited from your work and although it might be prudent for you to have a break in your administrator and bot-running responsibilities, you have doubtlessly been a real asset to the project and I'm glad that the members of ArbCom did not see fit to block or ban you outright. This tacitly acknowledges that your years of service have made this a better encyclopedia and I think that's inarguable, irrespective of any further issues with your methods or style.
I look forward to the time when you've proven to all your accusers and interlocutors that you're a responsible user, having made irrefutably good edits for several months, then apply again at RfA, make new bot requests, and get back to doing what you've been doing but without any associated drama.
For what it's worth, I'd like to ask you to reconsider whether or not you want someone else to run or curate User:Helpful Pixie Bot and User:Femto Bot.
By the way, welcome to the club ( 2,308 edits ago.) — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 21:23, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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The Resilient Barnstar |
You are handling this situation very well. Don't let this get you down. — cyberpower ChatOnline 21:41, 16 May 2012 (UTC) |
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The Arbfail Award | |
For being one of the most helpful (former) bot-ops, and then fucked by Arbcom, I award you the Arbfail award. |
Frood! Ohai What did I break now? 23:13, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
The Torch and pitchfork Award | |||
As someone who has also been pursued by the mob (in this case also sometimes referred to as "the Community" and/or "Arbcom") I present you with this time honored Torch and Pitchfork award.
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I also just wanted to say congrats on making the millionaires club. Only 2 editors in the history of Wikipedia have hit a million edits, you being the second. Kumioko ( talk) 01:28, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
I found out on reddit that you had your privileges taken. I wasn't aware of the situation. Anyway, you have my support, so if there is anything I can do to help you, let me know. Be well. Greg Bard ( talk) 02:08, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Category:Think Fast! Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 04:21, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Are you going to stay with us? Wether you have your tools and bots or not, you're still a valuable asset to this project. I hope you stay. MrLittleIrish (talk) 申 13:16, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, you were involved in this conversation a few months ago, so may be you want to take a look at the updates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#.27Jaguar.2FSandbox.2F3.27_edits Azylber ( talk) 15:38, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
For being only the second ever person to get to a million edits, especially under the circumstances. Gilderien Chat| List of good deeds 18:47, 17 May 2012 (UTC) |
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The Brilliantly Weathered Barnstar |
A real-world barnstar that has seen countless seasons, complete with barn, for a brilliant milestone and for braving the weather in style. – SJ + 06:06, 22 May 2012 (UTC) |
I see you've been given the rollbacker userright, but I would advise you not to use it (just asked at the AC talk page and apparently that counts as automation). On a more important note, hope the decision hasn't hit you too hard – btw, your self-control is amazing, if it were me I think I would have absolutely lost it at some of the arbs who clearly hadn't even bothered to read all the information. Best, Jenks24 ( talk) 22:23, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Rich — Dirk and the others are correct, your detractors are going to try to find absolutely anything they can to use against you. Having had that done to me while under a different sort of edit restriction (that the individuals involved attempted to game over and over again while trying desperately to have me banned), the best advice I can give you is to refocus the majority of your time on something else (even a different wiki-project) until you can get this mess resolved. -- Tothwolf ( talk) 07:35, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Please see here I think you mixed up two separate CfDs. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 01:00, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
I happened across this in the archives! — Sladen ( talk) 11:11, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Celan-up. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Celan-up redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Bulwersator ( talk) 18:28, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
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You were recently removed from the administrator class. I do not know enough about that situation to be able to comment on it, but I am familiar enough with your non-controversial work to be able to thank you for everything non-controversial you have done for the Wikipedia project.
I am sorry to have to qualify my thanks, but I simply do not understand enough to be able to say more. I appreciate what seems to be your stated intent to continue to support the Wikipedia project. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:52, 19 May 2012 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment#Request_to_amend_prior_case:_Rich_Farmbrough Nobody Ent 15:31, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
I have also made a request in the same thread - see Amendment 2. Ncmvocalist ( talk) 10:27, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
You recently unprotected the page User:Badmachine. That page now reads "FOREVER DEATH TO TH3J35T3R", a reference to The Jester, who, although unidentified, is a living person. The comment was added on 17 May. This is only the latest in a series of incidents relating to the user page - perhaps it is time to say enough? Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 18:34, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article
Toynbee tiles, please cite a
reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of
verifiability. See
Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the
welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.
SummerPhD (
talk) 23:19, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
Citation needed}}
to the uncited part of the sentence, not to remove the cite for the second part. And you can also use the template {{
Ze}}
if you wish, it will render gender according to the editor upon who's page it is used, or the user name given as an argument. So it refers to me as "ze" for instance, but Elen of the Roads as "she" and you as "ze". I have even set my gender preferences so that this works.
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:48, 22 May 2012 (UTC).Welcome to wikipedia??? One of the dumbest messages I've ever seen on wikipedia..♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:55, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Rich, can any of your former bot work be ported to the toolserver? Viriditas ( talk) 07:42, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
There are those of us (many) who would like to see you get your adminship and bot status back.
Once the concerns in the ArbCom case have been remedied by you, and you have reformed your ways (in the eyes of those critical of your previous approach) for a healthy period of time, restoration of your bot privileges should take place in due course.
My guess is that a year would be enough. I think you can and should go for it.
But how? I have some suggestions...
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Join who? The bot department for one. The AWB team for another. Participate in the discussions there.
Many areas concerning Wikipedia automation have been neglected...
You could help with programming bots. And making code examples available to help others learn how to program bots.
Wikipedia should have an army of expert AWB users, but as of yet, it does not. You could help build and lead a corps of AWB volunteers.
You could help build Wikipedia's script resources:
Many editors would like to make suggestions for MediaWiki features, but they do not understand Bugzilla. My guess is that most feature suggestions made at the Village Pump never find their way to Bugzilla, despite the referrals. How can you remedy these situations?
You are the expert on Wikipedia automation. Share your expertise. Help others get automated. And most importantly, help them avoid making the same mistakes you did.
If you can do this, productively in a cheerful and cordial manner, over the next year, I would be very surprised if ArbCom did not overcome its nervousness concerning you and welcome you back with open arms.
Wikipedia needs you. I look forward to seeing you rise to the occasion.
Good luck.
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 00:46, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Sorry about that mate "Rich Farmbrough is indefinitely prohibited from using any automation whatsoever on Wikipedia. For the purposes of this remedy, any edits that reasonably appear to be automated shall be assumed to be so. Rich Farmbrough's administrator status is revoked. At any time after the closing of this case, Rich Farmbrough may request that his administrator status be restored by filing a request for adminship." Just when you think the atmosphere is improving things happen all at once which makes you seriously question others users on here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:54, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I saw your request to let Femto Bot continue to archive your talk page. I know you'd rather run it yourself, but if you're willing to send me the code I'd be happy to drop that into my bot's task list. If you'd rather not, no worries, I understand, but the offer's there if you're interested. Cheers, 28bytes ( talk) 07:29, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Can you not use User:MiszaBot III to archive your talk page as many users do? JRSpriggs ( talk) 04:34, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
They are trying to delete Lake Washington (Melbourne) article. Can you help? Student7 ( talk) 12:58, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed your comments on Template talk:Unsigned and thought you might be able to help with this. Thanks. -- xensyria T 19:25, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
Using Perl, I've slurped an article.
I need to match the first sentence of the article, but intervening references with a period in them create an ambiguity so the script does not find the period at end of the sentence (it finds the period in the embedded reference instead).
So, I'd like to be able to save references off, and put them back again into the first sentence after I've extracted and processed it.
How can this be done?
This message is a copy. Please reply to the original at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#replacing references temporarily. Thank you. The Transhumanist 22:02, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: Rich, I'd like to shove all the references in the article off into an array or something, replace the references with XXXXX or some other code, and then after processing, substitute the codes with the original references. Those references not in or trailing the first sentence can just go bye-bye. The Transhumanist 22:05, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
P.P.S.: I've run into problems having regex strings inside array elements, as they don't seem to be interpreted literally in the regex. Unescaped special characters seem to be wreaking havoc. The Transhumanist 22:10, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
I have answered in general at VP(T). Since I know the background I can answer more specifically here.
/^(([^\.]|<ref[^>]*\/\s*>|<ref[^>]*[^<]*<\/\s*ref>|)*\.)/
will probably match what you want.
Rich
Farmbrough, 13:17, 26 May 2012 (UTC).
Hey, Rich, I haven't been following that Arbcom stuff closely (certainly not enough to express an opinion either way about its justness), but I've heard of it a few times. I just wanted to say thanks that, despite all the negativity and assorted crap you seem to be going through, you can still find the time to complete my answer at the Teahouse a bit. So, thanks! :) Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 21:10, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I don't think we've ever interacted, but I've seen you around for years. I've always found you to be thoughtful, considerate and helpful. My perception has always been that you've gone out of your way to help others. At least that's what I've seen. And your generous help is all over the template namespace, which I am very thankful for. I followed the ArbCom case and was disappointed with the result. I'm sure it's not fun, but you've hung in there and that's commendable. I just wanted to let you know that there are a lot of people that appreciate all you've done for the project. I personally want to thank you for all your template work, but even more for hanging in there and staying with the project. It's actually an inspiration to me. So thanks for everything. Best of luck to you. 64.40.54.186 ( talk) 09:11, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, just a small clarification: I'm no longer a clerk. I stepped down when I was appointed to the AUSC. Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 09:53, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
As I see you have a 'Things that stayed too long' section on your userpage: Evan Schwenger (and subsequently Mr. E) was a Captain Regent of San Marino (replacing Orbello di Vita Giannini) for a considerable amount of time due to this edit [120] from December 2010. The articles could do with a bit of work, but this is hilarious nonetheless. Royal Mate1 21:58, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
I've replied at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#replacing references temporarily. The Transhumanist 11:49, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Resolved by motion that:
FoF 8 (Unblocking of SmackBot) changed to:
Rich Farmbrough has on many occasions, after another administrator has placed a block on his bot account, used his administrative tools to unblock his own bot without first remedying the underlying issue to the blocking admin's satisfaction or otherwise achieving consensus for such unblock (see block logs of SmackBot, Helpful Pixie Bot).
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Lord Roem ( talk) 15:10, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
This is a courtesy notification that the request for amendment you are involved in or are a named party to has been declined.
For the Arbitration Committee
-- Lord Roem ( talk) 15:21, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Your recent edits to
WT:AC/N could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on
legal threats and
civility. Users who make such threats may be
blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for
dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by
reliable independent sources and focusing especially on
verifiable errors of fact. Thank you. Making
this edit in light of the previous counsel about
Wikipedia:NLT#Perceived legal threats is inappropriate. Please do not reintroduce terms that assert or imply legal wrongdoing unless you intend it as a legal threat.
Jclemens (
talk) 19:35, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
hello, i will look and see what i can do. would you mind linking me to them plz?
by the way, i didn't know you were interested in that wikiproject. i have serious concerns about the logo used in the furry wikiproject and portal, and have started a discussion here. i hope my asking you about this is not canvassing, but nobody else seems to give a shit about subtle advertising on wikipedia, or perhaps i posted my concerns in the wrong place, and i couldnt help but notice that you have 983,000+ edits, so you know the place better than i do. - badmachine 23:52, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
An arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ. Evidence that you wish the Arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence sub-page, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ/Evidence. Please add your evidence by June 12, 2012, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can contribute to the case workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fæ/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Lord Roem ( talk) 01:33, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm bored. I shall have to go to sleep.
Rich
Farmbrough, 03:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC).
At Spiny turtle, you changed the correct bluelink Testudines to the incorrect redlink Testudinesa( [121]). And here ninteenth should be nineteenth. Please check your edits more carefully. Fram ( talk) 13:38, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
By the way, any reason that you changed all instances of 6th century, 5th century, 19th century, ... to sixth century, fifth century, nineteenth century, ...? According to WP:ORDINAL, both are acceptable, and the general rule on Wikipedia is that when two methods are acceptable, we shouldn't change articles from one system to the other without good reason. Of course, if there is such a reason in this case, no problem, but otherwise such edits can best be avoided. Fram ( talk) 14:23, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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help)Rich, I don't think we've ever crossed paths on Wikipedia before, but I have noticed a great many contributions of yours pop up on my watchlist in the past few hours. While I understand that you feel hurt and wronged by what has happened to you in the recent past, I am concerned that your present actions will not lead to the resolution you desire, but rather to further sanction and further hurt. Good luck and take care. N419 BH 03:48, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Emotion is not in the equation, I compute the logical outcome and it is always the same regardless.
I like bot armies :), I only have one, and his hamster doesn't count for anything really, not even a 1/2, and doesn't annoy but a few people. (I guess loading him into some kind of mechanism that uses him as a projectile would change that, bah!)
So are you interested in making the changeover to the replacement when it arrives ? It is important to try to collect everyone, just to stay in touch for that new bright morning which inevitably follows the night. A new site would be fresh air to suffocating lungs.
Hey, are any of your dead bots easy enough for a moron like me to operate in the meantime ? I can't imagine for a moment that operating a bot to improve wikipedia completely within guidelines and community expectations wouldn't shit the living daylights out of some of your critics, and I'm just the editor to do it too. I lost all heart to turn wikigreen, but making positive edits solely out of spite seems right up my alley right now. Penyulap ☏ 20:21, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Re: this But what happens when we get to a billion, Rich? Keep your chin up, mate. Be seeing you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 01:43, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
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- but even then I will not be a number.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:52, 30 May 2012 (UTC).
For anyone half-following this sorry tale, the current situation is:
So much for independent committee of trusted and wise users.
“ | I'm in the process of answering all my questions, and setting aside about an hour per day to do so. I submitted my candidature early in the election, so I am not attempting to answer them all at once; as a result, there may be a small delay. If you have posted a question, I will respond soon, and thank you for your patience. | ” |
This from the arb that said:
“ | For my own part, I cannot agree that it could reasonably take you a fortnight to respond to the past few days' edits to the proposed decision. Frankly, I am at something of a loss as to why you have been regularly participating at the proposed decision talk page, but only now have much more to say. Perhaps you might explain this to me. Perhaps my colleagues will look less dimly on your request, in which case we will be in touch. | ” |
This is a courtesy notification that two amendment requests filed by you have been declined.
For the Arbitration Committee,
-- Lord Roem ( talk) 19:33, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey Rich,
I just wanted to let you know I have moved yours, as well as Isarra's in a moment or two, evidence submission to the workshop page. Given the lack of diff's or supplementary links to evidence, the workshop page is a more appropriate place for what you posted.
Many Thanks
Seddon
talk 22:16, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Commons I just spent several minutes doing this at Commons--it seems like something that would be perfect work for a bot. Are you interested in it? — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 06:06, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
This has been decided and is pretty clear...what you and I know as "Arbcom" is really the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee. Their dispute resolution jurisdiction is the English Wikipedia only. They have no jurisdiction in this area over any other wiki, hence their remedies apply to English Wikipedia only. However, they can and do take known behavior, positive or negative, on other wikis (and other sites for that matter) into account when making decisions. For Rich, this means that he is free to operate a bot on any wiki he desires (obviously excluding English Wikipedia) provided of course he complies with that wiki's local bot policy. If he performs this task well, it can be presented as evidence to Arbcom as to why an automation restriction is no longer necessary. N419 BH 17:47, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia! It's great that you're having a go at editing but we notice that you've made a few edits that have angered the crosspatches here at Wikipedia. As you've only been here eight years, perhaps if you'd like to try the Wikipedia paddling pool you can experiment all you want without actually making improvements. We feel this would be best for all concerned.
Congratulations on your million! I would give you a barn star if I knew what one was. In the meantime, please accept this satirical patronising message as a reward for your hard work :-) DavidFarmbrough ( talk) 08:36, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
After just renaming an user (I have requested for mine) will all my edit counts and contributions be moved in the new account? And, what will happen to my signature? After renaming I may be able to log in with my new username and old password..right?-- Jagadhatri( ২০১২) 14:09, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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For helping out by adding turtle synonyms! Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 18:35, 31 May 2012 (UTC) |
I'd like to, I really would, but considering that some of my inclusions add like 1GB for every 1k of article space, are you like looking at this the right way? I have serious doubts if I'd be the right person to do anything but set off avalanches.
Mmmmm the snow-covered mountain of stupidity Penyulap ☏ 19:52, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi
I've arrived here via the 'talk' bit for 'Helpful Pixie Bot' on the '
Rowhedge' page. The reason I am here is its edit summary, i.e."ISBNs Build KC". I know what an 'ISBN' is, but what does 'KC' mean? The nearest I have come is "Knights Cross", but I don't think that is the answer. And what does 'Build' in this context mean? Do you know?
Thanks in advance.
RASAM ( talk) 21:30, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Rich, I'm wondering what happened in this edit and which tools, if any, you used to make that edit. Thanks. Courcelles 22:03, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
I suppose I'll have to wait for more information. This sucks big time.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:07, 1 June 2012 (UTC).
(Note I knew there were 5 possibilities, I forgot to write down mistake.)
Ah.. I can I think relax. He is not claiming that I have edited with AWB - well he is, becasue he assumes I am faking the user agent - but he has no evidence for that, since it is untrue. He is just claiming that I have used AWB to make lists and the like, which I would have thought is perfectly OK. I will have to wait for confirmation of this. Of course the edits he is claiming are "masked AWB" will turn up clean because they were made by browser, and therefore will show up with a normal URL, whereas an AWB edit would show up with an api URl.
The gotchas are if:
Also an edit which fixed a typo was referred to as "only changing white-space" when I asked for details it was "apart for the typo, only fixing white-space".
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:35, 1 June 2012 (UTC).
I've sent you an e-mail. AGK [•] 23:20, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Courtesy notification: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions#Motion to ban Rich Farmbrough. AGK [•] 23:51, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hm.. not sure how that saves any face.
Rich
Farmbrough, 23:59, 31 May 2012 (UTC).
Is a great song for funerals. Either that or
The Day Thou Gavest.
Stay Another Day might be more honest though.
Rich
Farmbrough, 23:27, 31 May 2012 (UTC).
Rich - still trying to create separate page for ODI and T20I cricket. Don't know how this is done but won't give up yet as important reference. Hambantota hosted first T20I today and Compton made another ton (and 1,000 runs a day too late). Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PatriciaSR ( talk • contribs) 20:08, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Category:Smile Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for possible 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. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 06:07, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Did you create List of Twenty20 International cricket grounds deliberately or was it a mistake, as there are no content other than a restate of the article title? -- KTC ( talk) 10:05, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Just a reminder that the monthly maintenance categories for uncategorized articles are titled in the format Category:Uncategorized from June 2012, not Category:Category needed from June 2012 — so if you want to get ahead of the bots by creating it before they do, you'd probably be better off creating the version that's actually going to have articles placed in it by the uncat template. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 16:38, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Do you have any thoughts or comments on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Birds#Semi-automated_tasks? Snowman ( talk) 18:55, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
It appears that I inadvertently made two spelling corrections using AWB. While the majority of the corrections identified with AWB were made using a standard browser, these two edits are, nonetheless, in breach of the Arbcom ruling, therefore it is inevitable that I shall be banned from the project.
I apologise to ArbCom for that, and more particularly to those who have supported me over the last two months, for blowing it through such a stupid error.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:43, 1 June 2012 (UTC).
Per the wording of the motion, it appears ArbCom may have been using checkuser to observe Rich's editing behaviors over "recent days", whereas the two edits they are concerned about apparently happened today. I believe one or more members of ArbCom has exceeded their remit in the use of the checkuser tool. I think it's time for the Audit Subcommittee to be contacted, specifically to ask when checkuser has been used in regards to Rich's account, and who performed the checkuser. Instructions are located at Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Audit_Subcommittee#Procedure. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 02:56, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
breadcrumbs are such an important ingredient in some recipes. Penyulap ☏ 03:41, 1 Jun 2012 (UTC)
Greetings Rich Farmbrough, I noticed your comment where you expressed a possible interest in improving Wikipedia coverage of articles related to record production. It would be great having your collaborative input on how best to achieve this goal. Review links associated with WP:RECP and P:RECP, and know that you are considerably welcome to help forge the path forward. My76Strat ( talk) 09:21, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. You have another e-mail. I understand you don't often use your Wikipedia mail account, which is why I'm leaving another courtesy note, but if you don't require one in future I will of course comply. AGK [•] 23:48, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
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at my successful RFA |
Thank you, Rich Farmbrough, for !voting at my successful RFA; I am humbled that you put your trust in me. I grant you this flower, which, if tended to properly, will grow to be the fruit of Wikipedia's labours, although I don't think it would make good vintage. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 11:33, 3 June 2012 (UTC) |
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The tireless cybernetic contributor Barnstar | |
I wanted to acknowledge the sacrifice made and the changes that so much editing brings to the way you think and dream. When I play the computer games too much, then it shades everything else I do, so after a million edits I can only imaging what differences there must be from people who do just a little bit of editing. I wonder if it is like Neo in the Matrix, where vision merges into code and everything normal dissappears, maybe it doesn't go that far, but I prefer to think it can, life is more interesting that way. Penyulap ☏12:01, 26 Jun 2024 (UTC)_ |
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:54, 2 June 2012 (UTC).
Hi Rich: I know AGK has been conversing with you via email. We're trying to fashion terms for something short of a long term site ban. While this is not (yet) a formal offer, we need to know if this type of thing would be acceptable to you, obviously, if not, then we're back where we started. This is the outline of what several members of the Committee were discussing:
If the Committee can come to a consensus to extend you this kind of offer in lieu of a full site ban, would you accept this? SirFozzie ( talk) 00:59, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
monobook.js
is
[129]. —
Sladen (
talk) 14:44, 4 June 2012 (UTC)Is this accurate? It was my understanding you were using AWB in read mode and pooched up 2x. Nobody Ent 23:45, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I occasionally edit at another wiki. It was set up by a person who was tired of all the BS here. They're running a relatively recent version of MediaWiki. I've tried to help them with some template stuff over the last year, but haven't been very sucessful. I was wondering if you might be willing to help over there. I know you've given a lot of your life to this project and might be loyal to it, so if the answer is "no", that's fine. I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask. Best regards. 64.40.57.10 ( talk) 01:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Template:Subatomic particle/link has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Kumioko (
talk) 14:48, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Template:Subatomic particle/symbol has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
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I can't thank you enough for all the turtle content and improvements you've been making the last few days. If I was adding the synonyms myself it would of taken me months. Exceptionally great work Richard! Thank you! Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 19:35, 1 June 2012 (UTC) |
Hi, I have put a section on Sun's page to explain how synonymies work a bit, please ask if you need more help. Cheers, Faendalimas talk 23:38, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich; please see Category talk:Articles with invalid ISBNs#Placement of this template? where I'm stuck for a reply to GoingBatty. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 15:34, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
I see you have been making additions to the nomenclature of turtles on Wikipedia. A number of your additions have included dashes between the binomina and the authorities. While this is acceptable (although Wikipedia style is for an en-dash, not an em-dash), the dashes carry meaning, and they should not be added or removed. (It's a zoological tradition to indicate that the author after the dash was the first to make that combination of an existing name, whereas without the dash, the author erected the name. Getting it wrong is therefore quite a serious error.) For example, at Mesoclemmys nasuta, which I have just cleaned up, nine of the names shouldn't have a dash, and weren't given one in the source you were using. Please be careful about this in future, and it would be very helpful if you could fix some of the articles affected; there are quite a lot, I fear. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 18:13, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am wondering about scanning parts of the Wiki (without doing any editing while scanning) to make some data files. I have been using a Perl script with AWB. Do you have any experience of scanning the Wiki using a internet module with Perl without AWB? Snowman ( talk)
fyi Nobody Ent 22:29, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Rich do you know a good link or could you show me how to use AWB to search for and correct occurrences of some defined parameter across a large group of articles? My76Strat ( talk) 06:38, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
will match upto the value where
<canonical name> := <first letter case insensitive><rest of name with space substitution>
so "Infobox cat tray" => 2[Ii]nfobox[ _]+cat[ _]+tray"
and the same applies to redirects.
This is not a perfect regex, matching only one level of sub-templates, but it will do for most things,and can be modified. It's also off the top of my head so may contain errors, but the principle is sound.
Rich
Farmbrough, 14:30, 9 June 2012 (UTC).
I would recommend if replacing <br> → <br /> that you only do so when you are making a more significant change. Although I agree we should do this (although I prefer it without the space of <br/> some other editors feel this change isn't worth doing alone because it will work either way. If your looking for parameter help could you give another example of what you are trying to do? Kumioko ( talk) 16:24, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
The space is good XHTML I think which is one of the things we try to be compliant with.
For the parameter replacement you can adopt something much simpler, but it risks false positives and even rare negatives
Suppose we want to change "surname = Smith" to "surname = Psmtith"
s/(\bsurname *= *)Smith *(\n|\|)/$1Psmith$2/
The false positives will mainly occur where there is another template with "surname" as parameter, or something like "previous surname = " and the negatives with stuff like
surname
= Smith
The benefit of AWB is that you can watch for this kind of stuff.
Rich
Farmbrough, 17:55, 9 June 2012 (UTC).
Δ This user has endured a wide breadth of the institutional ignorance that darkens this organization, yet loves it still. Δ |
I lament that you've earned this "Black barnstar of institutional shame" aside from seeing your strength of character, the only good thing about this award is that so very few are entitled to display it. Highlight the award as if to copy and the massage becomes clear. My76Strat ( talk) 16:53, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
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I had missed your warm hand over my contributions. Thanks. Mesfushor ( talk) 20:22, 9 June 2012 (UTC) |
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for equanimity under the harrassment now enforced by arbcom. i will now be moving more DNB content over in your name. Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 22:52, 9 June 2012 (UTC) |
The following was resolved by motion:
For the Arbitration Committee,
Lord Roem ( talk) 22:05, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Richard, As per the emails I have sent you, would you be able to contact me urgently re: your scholarship? I would be very keen to assist you so that you can attend, but if you don't reply by the end of today I am afraid we will have to let your scholarship go. You can also call me till 5pm today, the number should be included in my emails. Thanks. Daria Cybulska ( talk) 14:26, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
It does make it hard to read, it's not backwards, but it is so very strange for it to be out of place, like, even when the lyrics of one song are sung to the melody of another song it's more pleasing. But I expect that will pass in time. One moral, which is my favourite, would be that careless curiosity is destroying all the best ideas, because there is no top shelf to put things on. That's my favourite moral, and the bane of my existence.
My own moral is that maths is not all it's cracked up to be, because so many good things don't fit inside mathematics. What's needed is a place to put all those good things, and there are a LOT of good things, so the best place to put things is inside big fat heads, take mine for example, it's basically empty, and lots of real estate, of course we need extra big fat heads, because good things keep getting produced, you know, like stupid ideas, good ideas are endless. Right now, good things and people go to the same place. Penyulap ☏ 09:43, 12 Jun 2012 (UTC)
Can we talk about the astrobot situation? I don't know where to go from here. Chrisrus ( talk) 13:45, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Have you considered that your bots may have developed a superior form of artificial intelligence and caused your demise on purpose? It won't have been the first time. benzband ( talk) 12:50, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Do you have any suggestions for the treatment of what appear to be ad hoc ISBNs created by booksellers (Amazon, perhaps?) for publications issued without an ISBN, as in this case? These numbers are useful for users who wish to find the book, but should a bot (yours or someone else's--I know yours are blocked for the forseeable future) that vets for hyphenation rules ever run again, these purpose-made ISBNs will get re-tagged. Is the template {{ Listed Invalid ISBN}} appropriate for these cases, even though there is no problem with the math? Any other ideas? Thanks-- ShelfSkewed Talk 05:35, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mugginsx ( talk • contribs) 14:44 28 June 2012
Category:User htz, which you created, has been nominated for possible 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. Pichpich ( talk) 21:54, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
you get unblocked soon and do better edits — Preceding unsigned comment added by Windows.dll ( talk • contribs) 23:59, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
Would you be willing to tutor me in creating a bot to run this task? I've requested it several times, but I think you're the only one who'd ever be likely to take it on, so I'd probably better do it myself. I've never created a bot before, and my background is just basic generic programming.
— kwami ( talk) 20:42, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Re: IUCN. They have a search facility and I think the results are handed out by a php or something similar. It is not essential, but I think it would be handy to search the webstie with a script, but I have not been able to find a suitable expression for "get" in Perl LWP. The code in the redlist html indicates a "post" method is used. Otherwise, I can use urls directly to the species pages and the "get" works. Just for scanning purposes of the wiki mark-up code, I have just found out that "get" does not work with the url "http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=White-crowned_Parrot&action=edit", probably for similar reasons. Do you have any comments? Snowman ( talk) 15:27, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, thanks for helping at the Teahouse. One more thing you can do - because many of the vistors are new editors we try to put talkback notices on their talk pages when their question is answered (detailed here). I found a script that does this semi-automatically if you're interested. -- NeilN talk to me 23:52, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
{{
Teahouse talkback}}
some time ago.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC).I got to Washington by a number of forms of transport:
Despite realising the opportunity I restrained myself from travelling on the luggage carousel.
Rich
Farmbrough, 23:22, 9 July 2012 (UTC).
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This, that, and
the other (talk) 03:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
That's me ViswaPrabhaവിശ്വപ്രഭ talk 06:57, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Help me install AWB on my laptop, and then help me do some talk page template updates. I can show you what I do by hand, and you a can show me how to automate it. Perhaps I may want to put in requests instead of doing some complex things myself.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 11:30, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
Enjoy your stay It was a pleasure to meet my fellow millionaire—I hope you had an excellent stay and please let me know if you think we can collaborate in the future. Cheers. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 21:51, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rich, you have got a new message here. — T. 05:21, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
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Please accept this virtual cookie as a thank-you for the irl cookie you were kind enough to dig up for me when I mentioned my Wikimania lunch hadn't come with one. A truly gallant gesture! A fluffernutter is a sandwich! ( talk) 17:03, 16 July 2012 (UTC) |
It's Daniel Nasaw with the BBC - we met Thursday at Wikimania. Thanks for your time and your help - the piece should be up on the website tomorrow Sunday 15 July. Meanwhile, I'm hoping I might talk to you briefly on another Wiki related topic. I don't know where on the planet you'll be but if you're happy to talk early in the upcoming week, would you please give me a shout at daniel dot nasaw at bbc.co.uk and we can set something up? Thanks so much. Dnasaw ( talk) 15:54, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
It was great to meet you IRL this past week! And congrats on being featured in that BBC article - as I believe the youth are putting it these days, you're a rock star :) Accedie talk to me 23:42, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18833763
-- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:31, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey Rich - Just wanted to drop you a note to say it was a pleasure to meet you at Wikimania, and put a face to a name I've seen all over the project. Hope you are well and enjoyed yourself in D.C. --David Shankbone 05:28, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
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Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (
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Note that I am travelling without a permanent Internet connexion until the beginning of August.
Rich
Farmbrough, 02:38, 23 July 2012 (UTC).
I have been doing some good things with the Ramadan article. At least, that is my opinion. There seems to be one editor who disagrees, see the talkpage. In any case, do you think I'll get to pick my virgins myself? Debresser ( talk) 00:48, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Accusing the Arbitration Committee of " illegal activities" in my book, is definitely not OK. Please explain why you posted that and why it is not an actionable violation of our conduct policies. NW ( Talk) 12:03, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
I would add a clarifying word or two, however the page is now protected. Once again discussion is being stifled. I note some absurd points on the talk page, doubtless there were also absurd points in the case, since I was prevented from commenting on it, I have not followed it in detail, nonetheless from what I have seen the standard of the case seems to be barely above the sophomoric, and it can be accounted no more than an accident if some of the proposed remedies appear to coincide with the decisions a more mature and deliberative body might have made.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:05, 23 July 2012 (UTC).
here it is. Sorry it is a not a felony it is a "Federal CRIMINAL statute" to possess a lobster. Clearly I do not spend enough time studying US Federal criminal statutes to remember clearly the difference. The video is very good for people who live in the USA it includes a lot of real expert advice, and from what I do understand about the USA it's a place where, like en wikipedia (which is based too much on that same culture), mistakes are permanent (deadly or indef). Innocent people are put to death in Texas, USA as explained here in the same way as people are indeffed here on wikipedia. Basically it's not relevant if the editor or the person is 'factually innocent' as was the case with my last block, the fact that I was innocent was considered irrelevant by the reviewing admin. Strange case in the video, it mentions a (mentally ill) man who was tricked into confessing to 'assist the police to catch the real killer', and he was convicted instantly by a jury and spent 20 years in prison until DNA evidence proved him innocent. The judge stated he would have indeff penaltied (executed) him if Michigan had the indeff penalty bit at that time. I'm not saying that I was blocked because I was acting strange, I'm saying innocence has nothing at all to do with some block reviews on wikipedia, and in the case of my last block appeal it is fundamentally and patently true that innocence as I was, that had nothing whatsoever to do with the (I have to stop myself here from calling him an idiot) the admin's decision. Anyhow, there is of course the lesson to come out of it all, or the victory, which is my talkpage is babysitting a prototype template which allows the community to both back up our admins, or point out to them the problem to them. At the moment it's rough, it needs the third section 'unclear' as well) Penyulap ☏ 16:03, 23 Jul 2012 (UTC)
I hope you culminate your travels safely and profit greatly for the endeavor. Assuming Godspeed, it would be great if when you are more available if you could directly assist a few tasks ongoing at WP:RECP. I know you have skills that would greatly enhance some immediate efforts. Sincerely 76Strat String da Broke da ( talk) 04:53, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Nu gaze is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AfD discussion title until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Good news! Astrobotster User:Merovingian seems to have become active again recently. Please if you would watch User_talk:Merovingian#List_of_MInor_Planets and comment as you would. You seem to understand him better than I. Chrisrus ( talk) 16:09, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There's a merger proposal relating to an article or articles you've contributed to, relating to the Ramona Quimby books. You are invited to read about and discuss it here: Talk:Ramona (novel series)#Merger Proposal. Thank you. Tlqk56 ( talk) 00:06, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I've left a message here for your attention. It basically asks which bot should I approve for the new coordinates on Welsh language Wiki. Thanks. Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 06:35, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
You've been busy! Anything I can do to help? Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 05:50, 27 June 2012 (UTC) Whawww! You've done some great work on the Welsh Wikipedia: great coo-ordinates and geotagging stuff on Welsh Mountain Peaks - brilliant!
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For all the technical problems you solved on the Welsh Wikipedia - ARDDERCHOG! Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 18:16, 1 July 2012 (UTC) |
Hi Rich. Is it too much to ask whether you could help us a second time? I've uploaded / written around 2,000 articles - by hand! - based on Scottish peaks. Could we do the same with those, and get a map to show their location in Scotland? What you did on the Welsh one was fantastic, and it would greatly improve the Scottish articles, just as much. Diolch yn fawr! Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 11:58, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
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