Hi. I appreciate the thought, but could you run Sandbot less often on the Tutorial sandboxes? They aren't edited as frequently as Wikipedia:Sandbox, and I think it's useful for newbies to see other people's experiments. It helps them see what works, and it also makes them more comfortable experimenting if there's already stuff there. I think cleaning once every week or two would be sufficient. Isomorphic 18:22, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the offer to assist with making a bot. As I said in my request, I want it to do three things. I realize, though, that I'll make it do one, run it and fix the articles that version can fix, then I'll reconfigure it to find each of the other two problems. And I may find more things for it, but once I have the basics of building and using a bot, I'll be able to adapt. - UtherSRG 19:55, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
As you cast a vote on the VfD for Internet terrorism I thought you should be alerted to a current RfC about the fate of the content taking place at Talk:Cyber-terrorism. -- Antaeus Feldspar 20:06, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
When you protected Safavids you mistyped the name of the protection template. You might like to fix that. -- John Fader 22:28, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Correct! -- Osmanoglou 22:34, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The arbcom is all admins, and can view the page already. And if they want it undeleted, they can pass a standing order. What you did was wholly unnecessary, and I ask you to please undo it. Snowspinner 15:01, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)
Just one more feature :-) Would it be possible that the bot could put in an edit coment which contains as many as possible of the VFD titles that have been added. Thus, for this edit the title would be VFD hourly update: Corby Ziesman / Nutrinopets. Obviously sometimes the list could be too long for the edit comment, but it will still be useful. You might then say VFD hourly update (many): Corby Ziesman / Nutrinopets / Blah /BlahBlah / (and others). I'd code it myself, but I'm a Python luddite :-) Mozzerati 21:53, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)
This is not pseudocode!
diff -u /tmp/b /tmp/a | perl -ne 'm:^\+\* \[\[[^/]*/([a-z0-9. ]{2,10}):i && print "$1 / ";' | head -c 40
I have tested it on two versions cut and paste from the edit window. If you want to do it all in perl then the Diff module should help I can try that later. The 40 is just a demonstration.. in real life you would append it all to a variable after the initial comment and then truncate that variable to the maximum comment length. Mozzerati 22:52, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)
I found this command to be more useful:
diff -u ~/tmp/diff-vfd.log ~/tmp/vfd.log | grep ^+ | grep '* \[\[' | perl -pi -e 's/\*.\[\[Wikipedia:Votes.for.deletion\// /g' | perl -pi -e 's/\]\]//g'
-- AllyUnion (talk) 10:33, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
nope. don't know of such an article. we dont seem to even have an article on Chinese dance (in general, there's lion dance...).
i responded on my talk page regarding the bot. -- Ji ang 13:12, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I looked at a sample of pages, and they all seemed to work pretty well. Good job. If I've missed any then someone'll notice it. Dunc| ☺ 09:26, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Why have you suggested merging the French article into our article when the French article consists of large blocks of text translated from ours to begin with? I am not sure I see any new or useful content. Rmhermen 13:31, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
The Linpedia.org project has yet to be indexed by Google, this is why a google search on Linpedia brought up India as a suggestion.-- Joel M. 21:34, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
Here's a meta-template for you to gripe about: Template:Message box. And oh, "If -all- that a template is used for is to "subst:", then I don't think the template should exist", then you should go ahead and list Template:vt, Template:vb, Template:vfd top, Template:vfd bottom, and Template:vfd for deletion. After all, all they are used for is the subst: message and by your logic, they should not exist. -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:14, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi there! I believe you're the one maintaining the VfD bot? I have a request for you... could you please add a line or two of code to the bot so that the link to {{Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Policy consensus}} is automatically added to the top of each new VfD page? (and maybe, removed from previous ones). I've been doing this manually, but the Policy Consensus is relevant to many VfD discussions. Thanks for your time! Radiant! 09:36, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
You appear to be a knowledgeable bot-person :-) Could you take a look at my semi-rant here and tell me whether the process I describe could easily be done by a bot? Thanx in advance. -- Phil | Talk 10:58, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
Hi. You closed this article's vfd as "delete" earlier today, but don't seem to have actually deleted it. (And, not that it's my business to second-guess you, but with nine deletes, four merges (including EggplantWizard's mislabelled delete), five keeps, a troll, and the nominator's ambiguous, I'd have thought a merge more appropriate.) — Korath ( Talk) 11:00, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to give you a friendly heads-up: there is a discussion starting about your Hollywood Walk of Fame Barnstar over at Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals. Some (including myself) feel that its purpose is too vaguely defined, and are considering broadening its scope: in a second proposal to create a series of "Category barnstars", we want to use it as our "Society" barnstar. If you have some time, we would love to hear your feelings about these ideas. Hope to see you there! – Clockwork Soul 18:39, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
What does Sandbot do if one of the pages it wants to clean has been moved? Does it follow the redirect and edit the new target page, or does it edit the redirect page itself, or does it give up and report an error? Wikipedia:Sandbox was moved to Creep (Radiohead) today, and I wondered what Sandbot would do I think that reporting an error would be best. — AlanBarrett 07:43, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
VFD Bot and Sandbot are now marked as bots on the English Wikipedia. If you ever need these flags removed, just ask at m:requests for permissions. Angela . 11:51, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
What are your intentions with regard to the relistings of Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Neo-catastrophism, Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Newly industrializing economy, and Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Il Tempo Gigante? Normally I'd think they'd just be handled as shorthand for closing as no consensus followed by an immediate re-vfd, but they're still on the February 18 page, so I'm confused. (I'm easily confused these days, alas.) — Korath ( Talk) 12:46, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
I'm puzzled as to why you would think the Star Trek article no longer qualifies as a featured article. Except for some trims here and there and some expansion to the "future of the franchise" section that was inevitable given the Enterprise situation, I haven't seen the article undergo any substantial changes since I began my involvement with Wikipedia last fall. What has happened to make you decide it no longer qualifies? If there's an issue involving content, format, etc. I think we (as in the regular editors of the article) should work to resolve these problems before going this route. I just went through a very unpleasant experience (which nearly soured me on Wikipedia altogether) with the fine-tooth-combing and rejection of James Bond as a feature article, so I know these things are hard as hell to get. If you'd rather not discuss in an open forum, feel free to use the "E-mail this user" feature and contact me directly that way. Cheers. 23skidoo 15:49, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi there! Several high schools have been listed on VfD with uncertain consensus. However, G/Rider has sent a list of these to a number of people, resulting in a large number of last-minute keep votes. (For example, see User_talk:SimonP. Is this a normal way of voting? Radiant! 23:08, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I appreciate the thought, but could you run Sandbot less often on the Tutorial sandboxes? They aren't edited as frequently as Wikipedia:Sandbox, and I think it's useful for newbies to see other people's experiments. It helps them see what works, and it also makes them more comfortable experimenting if there's already stuff there. I think cleaning once every week or two would be sufficient. Isomorphic 18:22, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the offer to assist with making a bot. As I said in my request, I want it to do three things. I realize, though, that I'll make it do one, run it and fix the articles that version can fix, then I'll reconfigure it to find each of the other two problems. And I may find more things for it, but once I have the basics of building and using a bot, I'll be able to adapt. - UtherSRG 19:55, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
As you cast a vote on the VfD for Internet terrorism I thought you should be alerted to a current RfC about the fate of the content taking place at Talk:Cyber-terrorism. -- Antaeus Feldspar 20:06, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
When you protected Safavids you mistyped the name of the protection template. You might like to fix that. -- John Fader 22:28, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Correct! -- Osmanoglou 22:34, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The arbcom is all admins, and can view the page already. And if they want it undeleted, they can pass a standing order. What you did was wholly unnecessary, and I ask you to please undo it. Snowspinner 15:01, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)
Just one more feature :-) Would it be possible that the bot could put in an edit coment which contains as many as possible of the VFD titles that have been added. Thus, for this edit the title would be VFD hourly update: Corby Ziesman / Nutrinopets. Obviously sometimes the list could be too long for the edit comment, but it will still be useful. You might then say VFD hourly update (many): Corby Ziesman / Nutrinopets / Blah /BlahBlah / (and others). I'd code it myself, but I'm a Python luddite :-) Mozzerati 21:53, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)
This is not pseudocode!
diff -u /tmp/b /tmp/a | perl -ne 'm:^\+\* \[\[[^/]*/([a-z0-9. ]{2,10}):i && print "$1 / ";' | head -c 40
I have tested it on two versions cut and paste from the edit window. If you want to do it all in perl then the Diff module should help I can try that later. The 40 is just a demonstration.. in real life you would append it all to a variable after the initial comment and then truncate that variable to the maximum comment length. Mozzerati 22:52, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)
I found this command to be more useful:
diff -u ~/tmp/diff-vfd.log ~/tmp/vfd.log | grep ^+ | grep '* \[\[' | perl -pi -e 's/\*.\[\[Wikipedia:Votes.for.deletion\// /g' | perl -pi -e 's/\]\]//g'
-- AllyUnion (talk) 10:33, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
nope. don't know of such an article. we dont seem to even have an article on Chinese dance (in general, there's lion dance...).
i responded on my talk page regarding the bot. -- Ji ang 13:12, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I looked at a sample of pages, and they all seemed to work pretty well. Good job. If I've missed any then someone'll notice it. Dunc| ☺ 09:26, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Why have you suggested merging the French article into our article when the French article consists of large blocks of text translated from ours to begin with? I am not sure I see any new or useful content. Rmhermen 13:31, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
The Linpedia.org project has yet to be indexed by Google, this is why a google search on Linpedia brought up India as a suggestion.-- Joel M. 21:34, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
Here's a meta-template for you to gripe about: Template:Message box. And oh, "If -all- that a template is used for is to "subst:", then I don't think the template should exist", then you should go ahead and list Template:vt, Template:vb, Template:vfd top, Template:vfd bottom, and Template:vfd for deletion. After all, all they are used for is the subst: message and by your logic, they should not exist. -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:14, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi there! I believe you're the one maintaining the VfD bot? I have a request for you... could you please add a line or two of code to the bot so that the link to {{Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Policy consensus}} is automatically added to the top of each new VfD page? (and maybe, removed from previous ones). I've been doing this manually, but the Policy Consensus is relevant to many VfD discussions. Thanks for your time! Radiant! 09:36, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
You appear to be a knowledgeable bot-person :-) Could you take a look at my semi-rant here and tell me whether the process I describe could easily be done by a bot? Thanx in advance. -- Phil | Talk 10:58, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
Hi. You closed this article's vfd as "delete" earlier today, but don't seem to have actually deleted it. (And, not that it's my business to second-guess you, but with nine deletes, four merges (including EggplantWizard's mislabelled delete), five keeps, a troll, and the nominator's ambiguous, I'd have thought a merge more appropriate.) — Korath ( Talk) 11:00, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to give you a friendly heads-up: there is a discussion starting about your Hollywood Walk of Fame Barnstar over at Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals. Some (including myself) feel that its purpose is too vaguely defined, and are considering broadening its scope: in a second proposal to create a series of "Category barnstars", we want to use it as our "Society" barnstar. If you have some time, we would love to hear your feelings about these ideas. Hope to see you there! – Clockwork Soul 18:39, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
What does Sandbot do if one of the pages it wants to clean has been moved? Does it follow the redirect and edit the new target page, or does it edit the redirect page itself, or does it give up and report an error? Wikipedia:Sandbox was moved to Creep (Radiohead) today, and I wondered what Sandbot would do I think that reporting an error would be best. — AlanBarrett 07:43, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
VFD Bot and Sandbot are now marked as bots on the English Wikipedia. If you ever need these flags removed, just ask at m:requests for permissions. Angela . 11:51, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
What are your intentions with regard to the relistings of Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Neo-catastrophism, Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Newly industrializing economy, and Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Il Tempo Gigante? Normally I'd think they'd just be handled as shorthand for closing as no consensus followed by an immediate re-vfd, but they're still on the February 18 page, so I'm confused. (I'm easily confused these days, alas.) — Korath ( Talk) 12:46, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
I'm puzzled as to why you would think the Star Trek article no longer qualifies as a featured article. Except for some trims here and there and some expansion to the "future of the franchise" section that was inevitable given the Enterprise situation, I haven't seen the article undergo any substantial changes since I began my involvement with Wikipedia last fall. What has happened to make you decide it no longer qualifies? If there's an issue involving content, format, etc. I think we (as in the regular editors of the article) should work to resolve these problems before going this route. I just went through a very unpleasant experience (which nearly soured me on Wikipedia altogether) with the fine-tooth-combing and rejection of James Bond as a feature article, so I know these things are hard as hell to get. If you'd rather not discuss in an open forum, feel free to use the "E-mail this user" feature and contact me directly that way. Cheers. 23skidoo 15:49, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi there! Several high schools have been listed on VfD with uncertain consensus. However, G/Rider has sent a list of these to a number of people, resulting in a large number of last-minute keep votes. (For example, see User_talk:SimonP. Is this a normal way of voting? Radiant! 23:08, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)