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Hi GoingBatty, we thank you very much for your suggestions and improvements to Anboto Group. We have added links to this page from related articles. Thank you, we hope is now ok. Fresnocom ( talk) 15:34, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
i want off this list of crap and false lies most everything i read here is false i refuse to add anymore so delete my account now so in return fuck you and have a nice day. keith woosley god of thunder
You may want to contribute to a discussion on this article's talk page - your views, either way, would be appreciated.-- Patthedog ( talk) 09:52, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
First afternoon did 10% of the dump, for 10,000 matches, 2nd afternoon upto 50%, another 15000 matches. I'd guess upto or around 50k articles in total... Reedy ( talk) 22:12, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
You may want to check on any scripts you use as it accidently removed the title from a reference of Dragon Warrior rather than adding the missing equals sign.∞ 陣 内 Jinnai 20:26, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks again for generating the wonderful lists for the Museums Wikiproject. I have a question that I'm not sure if you'd know the answer to, but I wanted to try in case you did. Is there an easy way to tag the museums with the project? I know there are oodles of scripts like Twinkle, but I don't really know scripts. Just trying to work out if there's something easier than bugging a bot that I could do while clicking through to the article to see if it fits. Thanks! StarM 16:49, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
why is this bot removing the "orphan" maintenance tag ( template:orphan; or, in this case, the variation included in the template:multiple issues) from an article with only three articles linking to it. do i not understand the spirit of "orphan"?
example: store-within-a-store – edits [1] and [2] regards.-- 96.232.126.111 ( talk) 06:36, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi....I am new... Could you explain your edits just before mine on the actress Jennifer O'Neill article. What is the AWB ? and what does it do? I am just trying to learn. And do I look for your response on your usertalk page, or on mine, or in my email? Sorry to be so stupid. Thanks. Taninao0126 ( talk) 14:44, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
|title=
parameter. This enabled the text Surviving Myself to be visible for Reference 1 at the bottom of the article.|year=
instead of |date=
when a month & day are not specifiedGreat !! Thanks for the info / explanation. I wish everyone was as helpful as you. Some folks don't even bother to answer at all. This place is just filled with all these abbreviations for stuff I have absolutely no idea of what it is or means. As to this article, I am completing my research and hope to have all the "citations needed" missing pieces available very soon, maybe I can send them to you. When I fill them in, who reviews it and takes off the "citations need" flagging headnote at the beginning of the article?
Thanks again. Taninao0126 ( talk) 18:22, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, BattyBot changed {{
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this edit, perhaps because there was a Ref or References tag present, but these were actually just footnotes to a track listing, not citations. I suggest that BattyBot should not make this change where the Ref or References tag includes a group=
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It also removed blank lines between tracks. These are not essential but are helpful when editing, which is probably why they are included both in the documentation of Template:Track listing and in the various presets which are listed at the foot of that page. Again, it would be appreciated if you could stop BattyBot removing blank lines within {{ track listing}}. – Fayenatic (talk) 18:31, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
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As a "newbie" I have learned rather quickly (and which I really should not have expected any differently) that this place is really just a microcosm of life and people in general. Some people are just very, very nice helpful and great folks. There are others who are total jerks and arrogant assholes I waste my time with like arguing with a table. The trick is to discern the difference and not be like the latter. Taninao0126 ( talk) 13:30, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Nice....Thank you !! Sincerely :) Taninao0126 ( talk) 19:50, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
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BattyBot is removing template:Dead end tags where they clearly should be, such as Pasig river rehabilitation (one link) or Shift-share analysis (no links). The template says "This article needs more links to other articles to help integrate it into the encyclopedia." It's basically a more specific version of template:Wikify... Why is it untagging them indiscriminately? Skullers ( talk) 00:41, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
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Re: Actress Jennifer O'Neill article I finally got the citations done, very specific, verifiable, and correct. Do I do this right? Please advise, or correct what needs to be.....THANKS !!! Taninao0126 ( talk) 19:55, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi....me again...a question re: the actress Jennifer O'Neill article. When you did a citation check, it resulted in two cites becoming "unreliable". Could you tell me how this happened ? Because now, another user has retagged the article as having "Multiple issues" I suspect because of the unreliable citation issue, which tag I removed when I cleaned up the cites, at least I thought so.... Help !!!!! thanks.... Taninao0126 Taninao0126 ( talk) 15:38, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
FYI: Hi...me again, just so you know the revert and "multiple issues tag" was done by a wikiuser names MikeWazowski, so I sent him this:
Re: your revert re-tagging of Jennifer O'Neill article page Question: I have tried to improve this article; can you please tell me what can be done with it to address your objections to its current version ? thank you. Taninao0126 Taninao0126 (talk) 15:29, 7 February 2012 (UTC) I guess you can just go to the article and see, but, in advance, any help sincerely appreciated..... thanks... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taninao0126 ( talk • contribs)
Hi....just went to the wiki Summer of '42 and saw it had some inaccuracies which I cleaned up and no one had done so previously...I think I am getting the hang of this. Saw it is a "first class" article, and I think I have made it more so....... Taninao0126 ( talk) 15:29, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Batty,
The article is about a pejorative term, "Dal Khor," but this term is not mentioned in the references cited. In other words, they are not references, at least not for this article. I don't know why they were put there, and I'm not editing the article. Pseudofusulina ( talk) 02:13, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
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Re: The Jennifer O'Neill article, I need some help....please, no pun on your name, but I really am JUST GOING BATTY. There is another user MikeWaznowski who keeps undoing my edits, and maintenance tagging the article for three reasons (as you can see). I have tried to communicate with him, and attempted to SPECIFICALLY address the issues he raised, alas, with no consensus. He does NOT tell me how to change it / what he finds objectionable and I keep going around in circles. I have even asked him to make those changes HIMSELF. But he has threatened to edit block me, and tag me for conflict of interest .... Huh????
I have requested editor assistance because I want to get a third party involved, since ABSOLUTELY NOTHING I do seems to satisfy him; it seems to be getting personal with him now...., and I do not know why. I sincerely think that ANYTHING I DO to cure his "defects, issues" will never, ever satisfy him. You know, it is very easy to delete, destroy, be negative, and I think people do that just because they can. It takes more time and effort to be positively constructive AS YOU HAVE MOST GENEROUSLY BEEN !! (THANKS !!!!!!)
I can see from his own talk page @ MikeWiznowski that other users have had questions of him from his edits / reverts of various articles, and in a number of cases, he just ignores them, does not answer and is of no help at all.
See: Jennifer O'Neill article talkpage: Taninao0126 and talkpage: MikeWaznowski
My question to you?: Can YOU please ask him what needs to be done so that tags can come off, and we all can move on and just leave it the way it is ? Please ?? And then get back to me to please tell me what to do. As you can see, other editors have not had any issues AT ALL with my edits. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer. Taninao0126 ( talk) 18:45, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
I have reverted several of your bot edits in the category Martial Arts by breaking out the notability tag so that Catscan can find the articles with notability issues. In the case of the Jon Bluming article, you have now manually reverted my reverts with the comment "Catscan can find Category:All articles with topics of unclear notability whether {{notability}} is in Multiple issues or not". [3]
When I run Catscan on the category martial arts searching for notability tags [4], it finds 80 articles, not including Jon Bluming.
When I run Catscan on the category martial arts intersecting with category All_articles_with_topics_of_unclear_notability [5], it finds the same 80 articles.
When I look directly in category:All_articles_with_topics_of_unclear_notability [6] or [7], I do not find the Jon Bluming article (even thought the multiple issues box has a notability tag). [8]
Could you tell me what I am misunderstanding here? Thanks! jmcw ( talk) 11:25, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
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Hi GoingBatty. Just noticed your bot made this diff under task 4, but maybe the code could be improved, because although the article uses <ref> tags, these are just notes, which do not reference any of the asserted information. Thank you. - Cloudz 679 05:44, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
I know you're a UDel football fan, so I was wondering if you'd have interest in creating any or all the 1946, 1963, 1971, 1972, 1979, and 2003 season articles? As you can see on {{ Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football navbox}}, those are the most prominently displayed seasons since they were all national championship years. If you do have interest in making some of these, be sure to include Category:College football national champions on each of the articles. Thoughts? Jrcla2 ( talk) 15:02, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
I hope this handles all latest Multiplue Issues tags. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:03, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I saw that you have been making some "rational" changes to the article on Thomas Hodges. I am a gallerist with a gallery that represents Hodges in Taiwan. I was asked to add links to the Hodges article to enable the "orphaned" tag to be removed, which I note you did (thank you). Since doing this, the article has come under attack from an editor name "Hoary", who seems to have a bias against the article. I am not competent to edit this article to the degree that is now required, whilst at the same time having to counter Mr. Hoary's reciprocation. Would you be willing to edit this article in full or can you tell me how I can source an experienced Wikipedia editor to do this? Thank you in anticipation Expoarts ( talk) 06:30, 18 February 2012 (UTC).
In this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Thomas_Hodges_(artist)&diff=475683440&oldid=475680891, categories such as "British Artist" and "British Photographers" were removed, yet Hodges seems to fit both of these categories. Is it not permisible to list the additional categories, despite them being relevant? Also, the short description says "Photographer of Nudes", which not really inaccurate Expoarts ( talk) 05:54, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Hoary made this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Thomas_Hodges_(artist)&diff=475688211&oldid=475687953, stating "being profiled in a blog is no big deal; for a start, cutting unsourced claims of this)". However, neither Art2Bank or Nonenga Art Magazine are blogs, they are established and globally recognised art related websites. Should these references have been deleted? Expoarts ( talk) 06:03, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
In this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Thomas_Hodges_(artist)&diff=475732435&oldid=475732193, it is stated "deleting mention of one website for which the "source" pointed to other people's porn/erotic photos but not Hodges')", but Hodges' work is featured in this website (I just browsed the website and saw it). However, the site is in flash and you can't link directly to the page where the work is shown, as it is constantly changing, as this site is updated. Should the link be reinstated, or must the page point directly to Hodges? Expoarts ( talk) 06:10, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
In the article, citations are requested for the section relating to inspirations. On Hodges' own website he quotes on his biography page his inspirations. However, I understand that it is not allowed to reference the artist's own website (ref Hoary: "No, no, you can't source claims for the man's achievements to his own website or blog. Independent sourcing, please."). However, as it is only Hodges himself who can state who and what inspires him, how can a citation other than that from the artist himself be used? Am I correct to assume that it needs to be the artist's statement via an independent source? Expoarts ( talk) 06:26, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Hoary made this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Thomas_Hodges_(artist)&diff=475691356&oldid=475689005, stating "(Removing commentary that was merely from an unsigned piece in a commercial website. Judge for yourself: http://www.lovechess.nl/artoflove/archives/photography_nude/). However, "Art of Love" is widely recognised review site of artists working in the erotic-nude genre, and carry an archive featuring some very prominent artists (follow the home link at the foot of the referenced page and then to archives). Why therefore is this reference not relevant and the subject of deletion? Expoarts ( talk) 06:26, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
The reference to GQ magazine points to (2) which relates to the IPA, this is the better reference: http://www.gq-magazin.de/unterhaltung/girls-gallery/thomas-hodges7, which I found via Google. Would you make the change? The Playboy reference, also points to (2), but that publication is in physical print, so no online reference is available. The reference previously pointed to a scanned copy of Playboy magazine, via Hodges' blog, but that was deleted. Expoarts ( talk) 06:35, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
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I noticed that BattyBot removed the "Wikify" tag from Ruth Gledhill. Is it possible to configure the bot not to remove wikify tags? As I said in this discussion, I think that this tag is far too subtle to be removed automatically. I rarely allow AWB to add or remove the tag, and that's when I have the article in front of me. In this case, the tag is explained in the edit summary of the edit which added the tag, and the problem has not been addressed. -- John of Reading ( talk) 09:17, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
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There is a discussion taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc ( talk) 03:57, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
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I have a question. Why did you "disambiguate" There and Back as an instrumental CD on the Rock Instrumental page. As far I know, Wired, Blow By Blow and There and Back are the only completely instrumental releases by Jeff Beck, but you removed There And Back. Have you ever listened to it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Areyoureadyeddy ( talk • contribs) 04:47, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Actually, it was gone and I had to put it back in. I did this before I asked you the question. Areyoureadyeddy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Areyoureadyeddy ( talk • contribs) 18:36, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi...just a brief question re: Jennifer O'neill article. Do the wiki maintenance tags have the negative effect of tagging the article for deletion or negative in some respect ?
I noticed that now when "Jennifer O'Neill" is typed in to a Google search query, this wiki article was almost always there second or third at least behind her official webpage. Now, it does not come up AT ALL. Is there something you can tell that someone has done to cause this change in its page rankings?
And if so, how can its high page rankings be restored ? This may be too technical and beyond me, but I have to ask. thank you. Taninao0126 ( talk) 20:38, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm puzzled that Cale discography has been tagged as an orphan. It's just a discography, a list of records, but those records are full of wiki-links where appropriate. I'm unsure how this discography can be rendered less "orphaned". I felt like removing the tag but thought I should check with you. Best wishes Mick gold ( talk) 19:02, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Can you please give some recommendations on possible references for the Rodney Barnes page you edited?
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Missanthropic08 ( talk • contribs) 18:31, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty. I was looking through some recent BRFAs and saw that your bot had one approved to "change {{ Unreferenced}} to {{ BLP sources}}</nowiki> if article is in Category:Living people". My understanding is that if a BLP article is unreferenced it should use {{ BLP unsourced}}, which specifies that there are no sources in the article, not {{ BLP sources}}, which specifies that it needs additional references (implying there is already at least one reference). So, am I way off base here, or do your bot and BRFA need to be changed to using {{ BLP unsourced}}? Jenks24 ( talk) 11:59, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for editing
List of professional cyclists who died during a race. I wanted to mention that one of the fixes that AWB did was actually incorrect. The title of
this column is "1950's Biographies - Dave Bedwell" not "1950s Biographies - Dave Bedwell". Wanted to let you know that I've reverted your change of this reference's title back to it actual name.
The List is in the middle of a major restructuring into Tables so some mistakes have slipped by - your AWB caught Dusseldorf/Düsseldorf and Triathalon/Triathlon. In looking over your AWB changes I figured out that I had to clean up an extra 'ref name'. Please continue to take an interest in this List...I am considering possibly putting it up for Featured List status and need all the help I can get!
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I noticed that you removed a category from my user page. What categories should I put on there? Are there lists (or categories) or them for me to look at? Thank you for helping my user page. Allen ( talk) 01:12, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
I've reverted this edit by User:BattyBot. The bot didn't take account of the section=y parameter when changing unreferenced to refimprove. Not sure why it also removed the wikify one. -- M4gnum0n ( talk) 10:19, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello, could you to work on this article, please? Biodiversity of New Caledonia. It is a very important archaic species group in Paleobotany and evolution. 85.251.99.49 ( talk) 08:17, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
I put these maintenance templates, in Biodiversity of New Caledonia because I writen many of this article from french language, but I am not native english, I know that I have mistakes in english, so I was looking for a person cleaning my bad english. You can delete the maintenance templates, if you like. Curritocurrito ( talk) 17:22, 26 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", parte de la información la traduje del francés y algo estaba en portugues e italiano, pero mi inglés es bastante malo y además no encontraba todos los nombres científicos latinos en inglés. Curritocurrito ( talk) 17:26, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
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I noticed you edited my grandfather's page. I am curious about our interest in him and why you decided to make a modification.
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Sorry, but. I noted your edit on few articles on which I made major contribution... then I went to your talk page and saw an IP adress giving awards. I got the same award too... what's it about? -- Wusten fuchs 22:04, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
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Just an FYI as you were asking about this before; there is now a new set of articles in the TypoScan database.
Reedy ( talk) 22:10, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Twice now BattyBot has changed categories to links at User:AussieLegend/Newcastle International Sports Centre with the edit summary "changed article categories to links per WP:USERNOCAT using AWB". WP:USERNOCAT does not say to change cats to links at all. It says "If you copy an article from mainspace to userspace and it already contains categories, remove them or comment them out". Since the cats at User:AussieLegend/Newcastle International Sports Centre are commented out per WP:USERNOCAT BattyBot shouldn't be making the changes. It really needs to check for comment tags around cats. -- AussieLegend ( talk) 06:31, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
For fixing Sex Pistols i just thought i'd show some recon :-) benzband ( talk) 19:49, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
First, I apologize for my initial edit on User talk:BattyBot rather than here. I didn't notice the notice at the top of that page (I would recommend an editnotice). Feel free to move this to unite it with the previous discussion.
Thanks for adding <pre>. I tried other methods, and for me it's by far the best method of disabling categories. (If I understand how the bot finds pages to edit, it should only go to pages containing inappropriate active article categories, which my userspace pages never do.)
As for intentionally redlinked categories, I have seen various ones around, but I don't know how prevalent the practice is, and I think there's no need for the bot to make a special effort to deal with them. Users can always slap on an appropriate {{ bots}} to prevent future changes. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 09:52, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi.... I recently discovered that "Soul DNA" was written by another Jennifer O'Neill with the same name ( was researching it to try to possibly buy it) anyway I discovered it was some psychic with the same name, so deleted it from her list of books AND I EXPLAINED THE REVISION, DELETION, but someone undid it and put it back anyway even after I explained it.... and then you CORRECTLY reverted that person's put back (you and I were both right ... but you were better perhaps in including an amazon reference, maybe i shud have) I wonder why people keep doing stuff like that .... it seems that they do changes just for the sake of doing changes .... kind of frustrating ...sometimes it is better to just leave well enough alone .... IMHO Taninao0126 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.195.79.101 ( talk) 14:11, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
There is a straw poll taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc ( talk) 00:22, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
There is a Straw Poll taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc ( talk) 00:49, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there, I got your message on my talk page and wanted to let you know you were not part of my study. Also, thanks for bringing to my attention the Signpost article. There are some small inaccuracies in how it characterizes my study, but it is nice that the topic is getting more attention. Regards, Mike Restivo ( talk) 13:43, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Thankyou for all your help in fixing up the English-language singers category. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 03:50, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Curious about the adding of this to
Category:Articles containing Croatian language text . Why is it there,and what does it do? All the best,
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Farmbrough,
19:20, 11 May 2012 (UTC).
{{
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template to only categorise articles. I'm out for the day, though. If I'm still an admin tomorrow, I'll try to find time to look at it.
Rich
Farmbrough,
11:30, 15 May 2012 (UTC).Why should the optional parameters of the cite news template be removed, like you did to In Utero (album)? Dan56 ( talk) 04:52, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi... I have a question. In re: the Jennifer O'Neill article (again), in her filmography the entry for 1977 and the movie Sette note in nero , do you think it should read: Sette note in nero (original title) The Psychic. That way the title in English is apparent. And by the way, there is a wiki link to the sette note in nero. And if you think it would be appropriate, how do you do the editing of the boxes and lines ??? got no idea...
Also there is a misclassification I caught. In her filmography for the year 1997 there are
3 movies, the first is The Corporate Ladder . You can double check this as shown below, but the Internet Movie Data Base, Imdb, shows this was a TV movie (cable television movie),
not a threatrical release; so really, it should go down into the next section for "Television" along with all the other TV movies and should read:
1997 The Corporate Ladder Irene Grace Playboy TV-Movie .
And by the way Playboy TV is also listed in wiki, but again I have no idea how you link it and edit the lines and boxes. Please advise how to, or maybe you can do, etc. thanks....
See Imdb at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115946/plotsummary Taninao0126 ( talk) 20:14, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, how are you? I have edited in Ocotea I saw that you like biodiversity articles. Can you help me to edit again Ocotea? Palecloudedwhite wipe out the article over and over again. In any case I thank you it very much. Curritocurrito ( talk) 11:13, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello again! This is kinda fun; every time I refresh my watchlist, I see you've gone further back in time through my contributions, adding various fixes. It's like being shown the evidence of where I've been and what I've got up to, haha! Thanks (seriously)! PaleCloudedWhite ( talk) 22:42, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, How are you? I need your help. I ask you if you could enlarge Dipterocarpaceae making better known this group of trees in Wikipedia, adding links to "Dipterocarpaceae" and information about "Dipterocarpaceae" existence on topics as trees articles in tropical articles or botanical or biodiversity articles. Do you know people that could be interested about Dipterocarpaceae article? They are welcome too. Thank you very much. Curritocurrito ( talk) 11:38, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Notice to Gimmetoo & GoingBatty: I just noticed the two of you have made conflicting edits on this article and I thought I'd flag it to your respective attentions before there's an edit war. The date formats in the references in the article was changed by GoingBatty to use long date format (e.g., "November 5, 2011") and Gimmetoo reverted it back to strict numeric ("2011-11-05"). I suggest the two of you hash out which way you want the dates to look outside of the article. Tabercil ( talk) 14:44, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Rick Denzien. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Rick Denzien redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Hasteur ( talk) 20:10, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for restoring the heading on my post. I put a cat in the heading and it seems that the wiki didn't like that much. I e/c'd with you on the fix but mine didn't link to the category so I let yours go and I appreciate the help. - UnbelievableError ( talk) 03:06, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I thank you your help in tropical flora. I hope your help again in the future. Best regards Curritocurrito ( talk) 09:30, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
There were NOT ever truely democratic elections in Liberia before 1997. First, for most of the country's history, there was only one party and one contestant in elections. Other times, the country was under military rule and the "elections" were shams where the ruling general was the only contestant.
Mr. George Andrews, though under direct threat from the president (documented in a local paper) did not buckle and kept the election free and fair. That was the first time that happened in Liberia. I think your edit was in error.
George — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.139.22.34 ( talk) 16:26, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Too large to paste to a single wiki page, so I've uploaded it here as a 7-zip file, should be simple for you to take from there. en-wiki mainspace only. Unzipped it's a 2 MB tab-separated text file that you can open as a spreadsheet. Format is articletitle, badparam, badparamvalue, goodparam, goodparamvalue, template name. License is CC-BY-SA 3.0 as per Wikipedia. My bot task should already have corrected the obvious stuff, any more (manual) cleanup you're willing to do would be great. Thanks Rjwilmsi 18:24, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
As you have been involved in the discussion about the new version of this template, I wonder if you would mind commenting there about whether you are happy for the current configuration to be deployed. This is so that it doesn't appear to be just me acting unilaterally and that we have a consensus for these changes. Thanks! — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:33, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Hey, just wanted to say a big thanks for the help on the Boston page...lots of good stuff you did there. On a totally unrelated note, I noticed your Scouting boxes. Our family was BIG in the Scouting world as well. Dad was a life long member/trainer/adult leader, my bro was an Eagle, OA etc. :) Anyway, back on point, thanks again for the Boston help. Whitelitr ( talk) 04:04, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Regarding you post on the
WP:RFCBOARD: I would like to suggest how to improve on the current architecture of wikipedia.
Unfortunatly(fortunatly) all articles on wikipedia are in one bag.
But this makes it very difficult to distinguish fiction from fact ... especially about films,cartoons, tv series, etc.
I propose to add the Category "fiction", so that it will be visible in the adress bar.
Example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek
-should be-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fiction/Star_Trek
You may want to consider posting your idea on the Village Pump. Coastside ( talk) 10:06, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, I've been working on the multiple issues that have been pointed out on this page, I've cleaned the HISTORY tab a bit and tried to change the tone to a more neutral one and removing speculative comments. I've checked my external links and all are good, and I've gone through the citations and all refer back to reliable and verifiable sources. if you can think of anything else I can do to help this article, please let me know. Thanks. User:Dksdad1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dksdad1 ( talk • contribs) 13:40, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
im sorry to be a bother but many users editing the album Three cheers for sweet revenge and the black parade are claiming that we can no longer cite allmusic for genres, since allmusic puts their genre list under styles. these users keep changing those albums to pop rock because the only genre allmusic lists for rock albums is just that.
I take issue with this because every other album on wikipedia uses allmusics styles as citations for genres and it makes no sense for them to say we cannot know, especially since claiming those two albums are pop/rock would mean they would have to change every other rock album to that since allmusic says that about every rock album.
If you could please explain to these users about how wikipedia cites allmusic i would be extremely grateful. if you could direct this message to a user who knows this subject better please do so because it is wrong of them to put such strictures on allmusic citations when such strictures have never existed before.
if you could please assist me Thank you very much — Preceding unsigned comment added by Musicstuff0324 ( talk • contribs) 18:48, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
my problem is that i have tried to talking to them, but they refuse to listen. Allmusic does list the genres im using but they refuse to use it because it refers to them as styles instead of genre. Their being extremely specific, just because it says styles means i can't use it even though every other wikipedia page allows that very thing. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Musicstuff0324 (
talk •
contribs)
21:37, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Also i was wondering if you could try sorting this out. Your very respected and wikipedia and you understand the ins and outs of wiki rules than me or the editors on those pages. If you could read through those pages and see which side is right it would be extremely helpful. You understand how citations are supposed to work you can see whos right, and stop all of this if you see that their not understanding how to read allmusic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Musicstuff0324 ( talk • contribs) 21:47, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
I wanted to inform you just that there is also the possibility that ref names can inclode the |group=
e.g. <ref group=foo>. I'm having the same problem with our
WP:AFC helper script which checks now (after tomorrow) <ref> tags without ending </ref> tags and <ref> foo <ref>. Regards,
mabdul
23:17, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
var testcomment = /\<\s*ref\s*(name\s*=\s*.*|group\s*=\s*.*)*\s*\>.*(\<\s*[^\/]ref\s*\>)*/mgi;
By the way, I believe that this regex should catch all valid variants in the ref tags. I still have to check taht on my sandboxes. Regards, mabdul 23:25, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
/<\s*ref\s*(name\s*=\s*.*|group\s*=\s*.*)*\s*>.*(<\s*[^/]ref\s*>)*/mgi;
var rerefdouble = /\<\s*ref\s*(name\s*=|group\s*=)*\s*[^\/]*\>?(\<\s*[^\/]*\s*ref\s*(name\s*=|group\s*=)*)/ig;
and additional I'm counting the closing and the opening ref tags and giving out an error:
var rerefbegin = /\<\s*ref\s*(name\s*=|group\s*=)*\s*[^\/]*>/ig; var rerefend = /\<\/\s*ref\s*\>/ig;
No this is not about dirt boxes for pets, it is about
Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_48#Remove_categories_and_interwiki_links_from_User_sandboxes.
I am going batty get rid of categories in sandboxes. Can you give BattyBot a kick up the arse. Ta. --
Alan Liefting (
talk -
contribs)
23:25, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
I have protected the article N. R. Narayana Murthy again, and I am attempting to mediate a resolution on the talk page of the article. Since you have been involved in editing this article, I ask you to join the discussion so that a consensus can form. I'm sending this notice to all recent editors. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 23:55, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you kindly for all your cooperative efforts, testing, and extended discussion that recently helped get the new {{ article issues}} template launched. The end result is a great template that I'm sure we will both put to a lot of good use. Should there ever be something I can assist you with in the future, please don't be shy to give me a shout. Thanks again! :) -- WikHead ( talk) 10:59, 2 July 2012 (UTC) |
We need your help to come to a consensus on Talk:List_of_The_Young_and_the_Restless_characters_(2010s) for Ricky Williams. Arjoccolenty ( talk) 22:38, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Please don't make changes such as www.depeche.fr to depeche.fr as web addresses - though often a redirect exists the two are different web addresses and can refer to different works.
eg see Template_talk:URL#Exclusion_of_prefix_is_technically_and_in_some_cases_practically_wrong, also cf http://www.jonathanmeades.com/ and http://jonathanmeades.com/ Oranjblud ( talk) 11:43, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
|work=
parameter is not appropriate at all, but that's a different issue.Err, would you explain this edit? Did you actually read the template {{ ibid}}? The template doesn't contain op. cit. since over a year, moreover although (in my eyes) it shouldn't be used, it isn't forbidden! (in contrast to ibid.) Regards, mabdul 12:28, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for all your editing help at Paul McCartney, punctuation is proving a sticking point with some at the current FAC, so your help in that regard is greatly appreciated. ~ GabeMc (talk) 23:56, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, BattyBot has marked Trimdon Grange as requiring additional citation. Whilst it is a stub, that which is there seems to be sufficiently cited. The biggest single section is on the pit disaster, and most of that is drawn from the coroner's report. I've slightly clarified the citations, perhaps you would consider lifting the {{Refimprove}} tag? Regards, Martin of Sheffield ( talk) 09:42, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
There is currently a Straw poll taking place here. Your input would be appreciated. ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 22:42, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks GoingBatty! You assisted in various ways on the Paul McCartney FAC. Thank you! Without your help McCartney would not be a FA today! ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 21:45, 9 July 2012 (UTC) |
You were definitely the driving force behind this FA! You did an amazing job of improving the article and incorporating many other peoples' (sometime contradicting) suggestions into the article. Congratulations! GoingBatty ( talk) 22:54, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Trijnstel talk 12:43, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
This didn't work. I've undone the edit. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 02:01, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing,
P.S.N.A.College of Engineering and Technology , has been proposed for a
merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going
here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.
KenBailey (
talk)
09:23, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Old pal, the AWB typo rule "Titled" needs to be reined in, I think. Dictionary.cambridge.org (British English) has a definition for "entitled":
And oxforddictionaries.com has a similar definition. Chris the speller yack 04:05, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Do you want to make your user page look professional? I can help you with that and make it look like this here. Tonymax469 ( talk) 04:15, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
It appears that BattyBot tasks 4 and 10 are changing templates from has-none to has-some versions, even when the template appears somewhere other than the top of the article or the references section, or has been given a parameter referring to something other than the article. See, for example,
[9],
[10],
[11]. A related example is
[12]: I think the problem there is that {{
No footnotes}} may have said "article or section" by default before and was inserted without a parameter originally, and nobody got around to changing it. Perhaps BattyBot should change things it finds in sections without parameters to {{
No footnotes|section}}
instead. Also, {{
unreferenced}} in a section can be changed to {{
unrefsect}} instead. (I can see why {{
nofootnotes}} with no parameter in the References section would make sense to change though.) If this detection is a bug in AWB that can't be worked around, then maybe there is a way to stop doing 4 and 10 until AWB is fixed? I didn't put this on
User talk:BattyBot because I didn't want to necessarily halt the bot unless there's no other way. --
Closeapple (
talk)
17:04, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
{{
No footnotes|section}}
and {{
Unreferenced}} to {{
Unreferenced section}} when immediately following a section header.BattyBot changed template at Elmer Wexler from no citations to more citations.
I had added some references recently, and I removed the template today but undid my edit when I noticed it had recently been changed.
Do you think it still needs more inline citations? It's a very stubby article (which I didn't write), and it has a bunch of references now.
I couldn't find any guidelines for this, though I'm sure they're there somewhere.
Lyn50 ( talk) 00:45, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I would like to know which features to WPCleaner you think should be done by AutoWikiBrowser. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 03:42, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Comments welcome on Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos#Working/upper/middle/lower-class. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 13:18, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Would you object to undoing this? "First and only" and "only" are definitely not synonyms - at his death Claude Choules was the only surviving WW1 veteran, but certainly wasn't the first WW1 veteran; likewise, to say Parachute Reconnaissance Company 17 was "the only Swiss parachute company" completely loses the nuances of "first and only parachute company" as it then has to be explained separately that it had no predecessors. Please, undo this; if the MOS says otherwise, then it's the MOS at fault, not Wikipedia's articles. Mogism ( talk) 18:13, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
There is clearly no match on the Brit disambiguation page, so I just removed it. Why can't people just check their damn links?! Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 16:31, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
76Strat String da Broke da ( talk) 03:49, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
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76Strat String da Broke da ( talk) 07:25, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Template:Refimprove/doc#Differences_from_.7B.7BUnreferenced.7D.7D_and_.7B.7BCitation_needed.7D.7D. Now we can add in AWB the feature to change the date stamp after changing the tag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:05, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
New snapshot is up. It fixes some of the auto-tagger problems and most of the bugs you reported. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:50, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey GoingBatty! I had a quick question about AWB and was wondering if you had time to stop by #autowikibrowser on freenode? No one else seems to be around. Thanks! MJ94 ( talk) 00:04, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for coming on IRC and helping me tonight. Have a kitten.
MJ94 (
talk)
04:16, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
At random hit upon a March then the very next one was May. Thanks for your idea. :) Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 02:09, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, with
this edit (which was admittedly over a week ago), BattyBot inserted an unwanted colon, changing {{FULLPAGENAME}}
into {{FULLPAGENAME:}}
and breaking the {{
Commons category}}
in the process. Don't know if you've fixed the bot code or not, nor if there were other instances; but I though that you should be aware. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
19:36, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
New snapshot is up. older version was too slow while dealing with Images. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:53, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
BattyBot seems to have encountered a large number of Task 9 false positives on April 2, 2012. It erroneously identified numerous userbox and user categories as article categories and converted the categories to links. See [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]. I have fixed these six instances, but there appear to be more: [19] [20] [21] [22].
If the bot code has been corrected, could you have BattyBot re-do its April 2 run and revert itself where it made a mistake? Thanks, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 18:38, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty. I remember you taking part in a recent Harrison discussion, so If you felt like adding to one I've started, regarding changes to the All Things Must Pass album article, it would be much appreciated. Cheers, JG66 ( talk) 11:26, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey there Batty.
A noob question. After adding the references to a page[ [23]], will BattyBot be returning to take its unreferenced tag off? Thanks.-- Misha Atreides ( talk) 15:32, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
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Could you tell me how to create my page with a step by step direction? Kelenna ( talk) 23:11, 22 August 2012 (UTC) |
Hi, I don't have a problem with you making sure AWB uses {{ multiple issues}} correctly, we all want it to be accurate. However, I'm pretty sick of the amount of changes I've had to make to support this one template. So, I plan to change the logic to use the new-style template per your feature request, and remove the old-style logic. Your most recent bug reports prove to me that the old-style template was too complicated to have in 'general' fixes. What I want to achieve is a simple implementation that has standard ignore comments logic and needs to know about a list of maintenance templates, section templates/section parameters, a threshold for insertion of multiple issues and hopefully nothing else. I don't want to keep/develop logic that template x is added/handled differently, or template y cannot be added because of parameter z, or template a and b are the same though names are different etc. So, I'd like you to help me with this by agreeing the logic up front (if the new-style multiple issues continues to need per-template exceptions I would drop any use of multiple issues in AWB, the exceptions are too much of a drain on my time), and you creating the entries in template redirects as needed. I will post on the feature request shortly. Thanks Rjwilmsi 12:10, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, quite some time ago, you made a request on fr:Discussion utilisateur:NicoV/Wikipedia Cleaner. I've finally made some modifications for this. IS it ok ? I think it requires some testing, I only tested it with 1269. -- NicoV ( talk) 11:16, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
{{disambiguation needed}}
, could it add {{disambiguation needed|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}
instead?dab_ask_help_templates_after
for every template that you can use in WPCleaner after a disambiguation link to request for help, and dab_help_asked_templates_after
for every template that can be used to request for help (to detect them). I've made a
basic configuration for enwiki, but you should probably add a few templates. --
NicoV (
talk)
22:12, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
CouldNotLoadArgumentException[ Could not load file/URL specified: C:\Users\xxxxxxxx\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\4\6e71ba04-2c493d1b] at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
-- Cheers, Riley Huntley talk No talkback needed; I'll temporarily watch here. 04:54, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I don't think it is still a orphan page because I link it to Eugenio Corecco article and viceversa. It's actually the best I can do. Thanks for suggesting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fracati2 ( talk • contribs) 13:27, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
What would you think about a log bug action on AWB? That way you could press a button, and it would log the bug and provide the page where the bug appeared. On that note, AWB tried to bold the first example of the title of Buddhism and Christianity even though it appeared after a section heading in the article. Ryan Vesey 22:52, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, I added a few more typo fixes for US location names and I was wondering if you might double check my work. I checked and they work as far as I can tell but you have a lot more experience. Also, I think Mississippi could be improved but I could quite get it to work looking for Singular s's, singluar p's and ians at the end. I could get a couple at a time but not all. Thanks. Kumioko ( talk) 09:33, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty, I noticed that you seem involved with improving this script. Look here, you'll see that the script messed up a couple bundled cites. Hope all is well with you, cheers! ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 22:28, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Why is the article "Xtreme Ice Skating" being ripped of the category "ice skating"? It's an ice-skating sport... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dan Perceval ( talk • contribs) 02:27, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
You need to updated a bit the {{ primary sources}} documentation to say that in case of living people the other template should be used. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:05, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
|BLP=yes
parameter. Doesn't seem that there's a difference in what's displayed to the reader anyway. As long as AWB isn't changing {{tl|Primary sources|BLP=yes}} to {{tl|BLP primary sources}} (or worse, changing it to {{tl|BLP primary sources|BLP=yes}}), I'm not sure it matters. Thoughts?
GoingBatty (
talk)
00:12, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
i noticed you edited a Mixed Martial Arts page in August, but you haven't listed yourself as a Participant on the Wikiproject for Mixed Martial Arts pages. I've decided to try to drum up interest to get more people involved!
Kevlar ( talk) 00:48, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
I dunno how you managed to spot this, but I'm thankfully you did. Regards, Sun Creator( talk) 00:34, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Would you like to comment at my FAC page? I've been advised before that soliciting comments speeds things up a bit with the backlogged nominations there, and I see that you are a pretty prolific, efficient editor. Dan56 ( talk) 15:22, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Would you be interested in testing WPCleaner for fixing spelling and typography on enwiki ? Or know someone else that could be interested ? It's based on regular expressions defined for AWB in Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos. I'm currently testing it on frwiki and it seems to be almost working.
If you're interested, you just need to create User:GoingBatty/WikiCleanerConfiguration with the following :
# Configuration for error 501: Spelling and typography
error_501_prio_enwiki=0 END
error_501_head_enwiki=Spelling and typography END
error_501_bot_enwiki=true END
# This parameter is used to configure WPCleaner for fixing spelling and typography.
general_suggestions_typo =
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos END
When you find problems, just tell me in fr:Discussion_Wikipédia:WPCleaner#Suggestions_d.27orthographe_d.27AWB by filling at least the first column with the page title, and the second column with the regexp rule giving trouble. And you can add some explanations in the 3rd column.
Thanks -- NicoV ( talk) 19:00, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
(?= )
at the end that is misinterpreted. Is it necessary ? Can it be replaced by \b
(word boundary) ? I need to analyse the problem.
(?= )
part is to have a trailing space character to find a termination point as \b won't meet an end quote in "each others'" Regards,
Sun Creator(
talk)
01:20, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
\s
to end the rule?
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:29, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
\s
seems better to me, but I didn't write the rule. \s
can be a space, a tab or other white space characters such as line-break. Regards,
Sun Creator(
talk)
01:51, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
general_suggestions
instead of general_suggestions_typo
. An example page on frwiki :
fr:Wikipédia:Liste de fautes d'orthographe courantes.
I added a discussion about WPCleaner and spelling in
Wikipedia talk:WPCleaner so that more people can join in the tests if they are interested. --
NicoV (
talk)
11:23, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent semi-automated help with the Folding@home article. I notice that you added {{ Use mdy dates}} to it, and I'm a bit confused as to what that means. Is everything fine and that template is just for bots, or do you want me to convert all the dates to a particular format? The entire article is consistent, but if it's necessary for me to change them all to a better format, please explain and provide me with several examples to conform to and I'll see what I can do. Thanks. • Jesse V. (talk) 03:25, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty; this message is to inform you that there is currently a public poll to determine whether to capitalize the definite article ("the") when mentioning the band "THE BEATLES" mid-sentence. As you've previously participated either here, here, or here, your input would be appreciated. Thank you for your time. Jburlinson ( talk) 20:56, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for helping me in cleaning up the article on Aspiration Management
Cheers Ken Georgie Mathew ( talk) 11:04, 19 September 2012 (UTC) |
Hello!
I'd like to make constructive changes to the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts page. I'm new to Wikipedia and could use your feedback on what I wrote. Also if you wouldn't mind posting my edits it if you think their acceptable, I would be truly grateful. I've saved my edits in my sandbox, which you can access here User:KristenMK/sandbox.
The section that I've proposed changes to currently includes information without sources, so I have written changes that remove insignificant information and added new information with citations.
Thank you so much for your time and assistance!
Sincerely, Kristen -- KristenMK ( talk) 01:22, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Batty. Have to say - love the DAB needed tag, but is there anyway to do the edits with a better edit summary? It seems like most of your edits do this, so not sure if there was something with this particular series or? Just thought it might be worth raising for a future run? StarM 00:33, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks on all counts! StarM 17:16, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, Batty, about this, but I gotta call 'em as I see 'em. Cheers! Chris the speller yack 19:08, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
I marked the various MI bug reports as fixed but I would like your confirmation that everything works fine. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:45, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Two questions about SVN 8436:
Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 03:28, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Recently I made some changes to the "Walk Forward" page. I am new to the Wikipedia, but on this particular page, I would delete almost everything below the first 2 paragraphs. It is a talkative, manual style text. On the other hand, I would probably add the picture from Bob Pardo's book (page 252), and maybe add some views on problems of methodology. I was afraid to make huge deletions and therefore writing... Seaman4516 ( talk) 17:01, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
In this edit, BattyBot screwed up the {{ multiple issues}} template, probably by incorrectly assuming that since at least one new-style parameter was present that the unnamed parameter 1 would be the last parameter when it inserted the {{ refimprove}} and {{ orphan}} templates. Anomie ⚔ 13:34, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
I understand that this is more of an AWB issue, but are you able to modify a custom module so that BattyBot either stops adding {{ Wikify}} or uses {{ underlinked}} in cases like this edit? Ryan Vesey 18:49, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Would you mind briefly commenting at Wikipedia talk:Article wizard#Content categories for user pages, please? Thanks. -- Trevj ( talk) 11:04, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I have completely refactored WPCleaner in version 1.19 for the spell-checking feature. It now works suggestion by suggestion, instead of going through the article trying each suggestion. Many changes are induced by this :
With this modifications, on a very big article in frwiki that was taking 800 seconds to analyze on my laptop, it now takes only 7 seconds.
I have tested 1.19 only on frwiki, seems ok, but it probably needs some testing on enwiki.
-- NicoV ( talk) 07:12, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
On my tests on frwiki, I only encountered that kind of analyze times with some rules that were not very efficient, but after fixing the rules analyze took a reasonable time (for example, on fr:Liste de résolutions du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies, analyze took about 800 seconds before, 20 seconds after fixing the rules, and then 7 seconds with the code changes in 1.19). When analyzing The Beatles, WPCleaner issues warnings for a few rules on the Java console, which account for most of the time spent analyzing :
So, more than 15mn due to the last 5 five rules. Can you try fixing them? I know for example that (?<!...)
at the beginning of a rule is highly inefficient, because the lookbehind is then tested at every position in the text. It's a lot faster if you move this part after to really speed up the analysis, even if you have to write a bigger rule (cf. my changes on frwiki:
1 and
2). With efficient rules, 1.19 should be faster, but it can be slower if too many inefficient rules exist. --
NicoV (
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05:17, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
To display the Java console is dependent on the Operating System you're running. A few examples: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/javaconsole.xml for Windows, http://www.ehow.com/how_7255734_enable-java-console-mac.html for Mac. Good to see that updating the last five rules gave a huge performance boost. I will check this evening, but most of the remaining time is probably spent on the first rule (A to An). The problem with the non working is probably similar to the one you reported with "so called", I need to find some time to understand what's going on. -- NicoV ( talk) 14:12, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Category:Images of The Beatles, 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☯ 09:18, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey mate, as suggested, I have set up the List of cover versions of The Beatles songs as a sortable list. I've also added a lead and the "lists" template (which I just created) to the top. -- rm 'w a vu 01:56, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
MG Services has been nomiated for deletion. If you would like to comment on the discussion, it is located at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MG Services ColtsScore ( talk) 18:32, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, two problems with
this edit: first, {{
notability|music}}
was already present; second, {{
multiple issues}}
doesn't respect more than one positional parameter. --
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Good day, sir,
I have just embarked on the long-overdue rewrite of the sources script in
my test space. I am also attempting to lay down my thoughts as to how it should work at
User:Ohconfucius/script/Sources#General_principles. FYI, the working test module is named function Ohc_sourcename
. Note that this is very much work in progress, and that the module will supplant some of the regex currently residing in function Ohc_news_sources()
. Your thoughts and advice, particularly as to the organisation/flow of the various tasks, would be much appreciated.
Regards, -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 09:55, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Oh, and is there a way to consolidate the code, as the first two blocks merely perform different transformations on the same strings? -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 15:36, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, you're now quite welcome to test out the
new sources script. The basic structure is now in place. The old script is still there, but the new code (which incorporates some of the old cleanup code) is called by a sidebar button 'New source module'. So far, it acts only on those sources located inside citation templates (I haven't been able to design a module that converts other sources inside citations). Remember that its building blocks set out to firstly retrain the links to a traditional name per WP. Secondly, it would italicise or otherwise the source by switching "|work=
" or "|publisher=
". It does not yet cater for piped links. I've just been running it when I specific article I think it could work on, but I usually still need to supplement it with the old script for now. There isn't anything yet to test it against, as I haven't yet devised a test page, so it could be helpful if maybe you could set one up. Alternatively, you might know of some suitable 'live' pages you could copy over to a test-bed for that purpose. Cheers, --
Ohconfucius
ping / poke
10:17, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
New source module
), which includes functions #4 and #5, works more or less as intended on the test page. Could you please let me know what you see and what each of the buttons do? Thanks, --
Ohconfucius
ping / poke
13:14, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) Timestamp: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:09:57 UTC Message: Expected identifier, string or number Line: 333 Char: 2 Code: 0 URI: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Ohconfucius/test/Sources_subscript1.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) Timestamp: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:51:28 UTC Message: Expected identifier, string or number Line: 316 Char: 2 Code: 0 URI: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Ohconfucius/script/EngvarB.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
Thanks. My friend who helped me with the dates script suggested that it was likely to be a bug in IE8. A repeat of this problem with an established script probably strengthens that as a possibility. -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 02:19, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Could you possibly ditch your IE for a few days? I could really use your help now to 'beta test'. I've written up the documentation and built up most of the script functionality. The various in-built libraries/vocabularies could still be extended, to minimise the disruption to linking and optimise the precision in dab. -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 14:04, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
What happened in this edit? Anomie ⚔ 10:42, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
{{Notability|Music|date=October 2012}}=October 2012}}
and fixed them. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
16:49, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
{{Notability|Music|date=October 2012}}=
and fix them. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
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23:59, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
User:Vaughanster/Libertad Green — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.40.131.236 ( talk) 16:20, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ Unfortunately, this version has a bug for non enwiki projects which was fixed in 8508. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:10, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
8564 is up. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:01, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi...Please set right the errors in your article Zion school, india.Thanks.
Readers are hereby enlightened that ZION MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL situated in KODAIKANAL is a completely different institution, which is in no way connected to the zion school in Chennai. ZION at KODAIKANAL is an immaculate institution with impeccable standards . It was started in the year 1983 and is guided by a sagacious pioneer in the field of holistic education - Dr. Kurian Abraham.Dr.Kurian Abraham , a doyen of education , is the Founder Correspondent of ZION MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, KODAIKANAL. A well known philanthropist, Dr. KURIAN ABRAHAM has made laudable contibutions to the society at large and maintains very high standards in all aspects , with regard to the school . Readers discretion is solicited in selecting the right school for their wards. For further details on ZION MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, KODAIKANAL guided by DR. KURIAN ABRAHAM please go to www.zionmhss.org or zionschoolkodaikanal @ facebook. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjchristinaprince ( talk • contribs) 05:29, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, is this by design that the hidden category was excluded? (See diff). mabdul 08:16, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
GoingBatty, thanks very much for your recent helpful edits to the new article I've created on the novel, Donkey Punch (novel), much appreciated, — Cirt ( talk) 15:46, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Incorrect_edit_summary_when_adding_.22underlinked.22. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:20, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, GoingBatty, hope you're well. I notice you've contributed quite a bit to the Traveling Wilburys band article over the last year. I've started a discussion on the talk page about which order the band members should be listed in – I'm sure it's an issue that has been raised in the past, but I'd welcome your input if you have time. Many thanks, JG66 ( talk) 11:41, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Finally! Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Wikify_.28again.29. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:58, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
I figured if anyone would know this its probably you; how many articles are there in toto in the Beatles project? Thanks and cheers! GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 01:42, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, would you be able to help with Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Tags_above_infobox, seems like we need to get AWB's list of maintenance templates completed. Thanks Rjwilmsi 08:29, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Battybot is adding both of the templates when only 1 is needed. Cheers Del♉sion23 (talk) 14:23, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the catch on Wikify. My apologies. I'm using the latest production version of AWB but I'll get rid of it right now and download the newest trial version so it stops suggesting a deprecated tag. Andrew ( talk) 02:41, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm pretty new so this might not be relevant. Whilst finding things to do I came across the wikify tag and then later the underlinked and dead end tags. Would it be possible for your bot to check through the wikify backlog and reclassify a lot of them as underlinked or dead ends where appropriate? Jamesmcmahon0 ( talk) 11:34, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
It states in Category:American films that it is supposed to include all such films, even if they are in subcategories. Clarityfiend ( talk) 02:56, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hello. I reverted your edit to this article because you deleted a source without a proper explanation. If the link is bad, please mark it with "dead link", but not without first checking to see if the link has changed. Thanks. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 22:47, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, GoingBatty. I saw that it had been deprecated and the prompt to use more specific templates, but going through the aternatives, I could not see one that was specific to lack/ absence of notability. Thanks for helping and have a grear 2013 too. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 08:50, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your message, GoingBatty. I added the Wikify template despite deprecation as there are multiple issues and I did not think 5 templates were appropriate. But seeing as you insisted, I have done that. As you can see, Activity centre is very organised now with maintenance boxes now taking up more screen space than the content. But every issue the templates mention is present, so I guess it's better that way. JamesA >talk 13:57, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty, I've noticed on your edits AWB, you removed italics from Allmusic under work, but from my understanding, Allmusic is an online source and should not be italicized. This is what I've been told though. Erick ( talk) 21:59, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
|work=
parameter. To get around this and still have the reference displayed properly, I'm now changing |work=''[[Allmusic]]''
to |publisher=Allmusic
and removing |publisher=Rovi Corporation
. If you have any examples of edits I did that were incorrect, please let me know and I'll be happy to fix them. Thanks!
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talk)
00:53, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing the category links in the article in my sandbox! ZAWikiGrrl ( talk) 02:31, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi GoingBatty, we thank you very much for your suggestions and improvements to Anboto Group. We have added links to this page from related articles. Thank you, we hope is now ok. Fresnocom ( talk) 15:34, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
i want off this list of crap and false lies most everything i read here is false i refuse to add anymore so delete my account now so in return fuck you and have a nice day. keith woosley god of thunder
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First afternoon did 10% of the dump, for 10,000 matches, 2nd afternoon upto 50%, another 15000 matches. I'd guess upto or around 50k articles in total... Reedy ( talk) 22:12, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
You may want to check on any scripts you use as it accidently removed the title from a reference of Dragon Warrior rather than adding the missing equals sign.∞ 陣 内 Jinnai 20:26, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks again for generating the wonderful lists for the Museums Wikiproject. I have a question that I'm not sure if you'd know the answer to, but I wanted to try in case you did. Is there an easy way to tag the museums with the project? I know there are oodles of scripts like Twinkle, but I don't really know scripts. Just trying to work out if there's something easier than bugging a bot that I could do while clicking through to the article to see if it fits. Thanks! StarM 16:49, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
why is this bot removing the "orphan" maintenance tag ( template:orphan; or, in this case, the variation included in the template:multiple issues) from an article with only three articles linking to it. do i not understand the spirit of "orphan"?
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Hi....I am new... Could you explain your edits just before mine on the actress Jennifer O'Neill article. What is the AWB ? and what does it do? I am just trying to learn. And do I look for your response on your usertalk page, or on mine, or in my email? Sorry to be so stupid. Thanks. Taninao0126 ( talk) 14:44, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
|title=
parameter. This enabled the text Surviving Myself to be visible for Reference 1 at the bottom of the article.|year=
instead of |date=
when a month & day are not specifiedGreat !! Thanks for the info / explanation. I wish everyone was as helpful as you. Some folks don't even bother to answer at all. This place is just filled with all these abbreviations for stuff I have absolutely no idea of what it is or means. As to this article, I am completing my research and hope to have all the "citations needed" missing pieces available very soon, maybe I can send them to you. When I fill them in, who reviews it and takes off the "citations need" flagging headnote at the beginning of the article?
Thanks again. Taninao0126 ( talk) 18:22, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, BattyBot changed {{
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Nice....Thank you !! Sincerely :) Taninao0126 ( talk) 19:50, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
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Re: Actress Jennifer O'Neill article I finally got the citations done, very specific, verifiable, and correct. Do I do this right? Please advise, or correct what needs to be.....THANKS !!! Taninao0126 ( talk) 19:55, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi....me again...a question re: the actress Jennifer O'Neill article. When you did a citation check, it resulted in two cites becoming "unreliable". Could you tell me how this happened ? Because now, another user has retagged the article as having "Multiple issues" I suspect because of the unreliable citation issue, which tag I removed when I cleaned up the cites, at least I thought so.... Help !!!!! thanks.... Taninao0126 Taninao0126 ( talk) 15:38, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
FYI: Hi...me again, just so you know the revert and "multiple issues tag" was done by a wikiuser names MikeWazowski, so I sent him this:
Re: your revert re-tagging of Jennifer O'Neill article page Question: I have tried to improve this article; can you please tell me what can be done with it to address your objections to its current version ? thank you. Taninao0126 Taninao0126 (talk) 15:29, 7 February 2012 (UTC) I guess you can just go to the article and see, but, in advance, any help sincerely appreciated..... thanks... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taninao0126 ( talk • contribs)
Hi....just went to the wiki Summer of '42 and saw it had some inaccuracies which I cleaned up and no one had done so previously...I think I am getting the hang of this. Saw it is a "first class" article, and I think I have made it more so....... Taninao0126 ( talk) 15:29, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Batty,
The article is about a pejorative term, "Dal Khor," but this term is not mentioned in the references cited. In other words, they are not references, at least not for this article. I don't know why they were put there, and I'm not editing the article. Pseudofusulina ( talk) 02:13, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
irrelevant citation}}
to each reference, and changed {{
unreferenced}}
to {{
unreliable sources}}
, so the next bot doesn't make the same edit. Thanks!
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Re: The Jennifer O'Neill article, I need some help....please, no pun on your name, but I really am JUST GOING BATTY. There is another user MikeWaznowski who keeps undoing my edits, and maintenance tagging the article for three reasons (as you can see). I have tried to communicate with him, and attempted to SPECIFICALLY address the issues he raised, alas, with no consensus. He does NOT tell me how to change it / what he finds objectionable and I keep going around in circles. I have even asked him to make those changes HIMSELF. But he has threatened to edit block me, and tag me for conflict of interest .... Huh????
I have requested editor assistance because I want to get a third party involved, since ABSOLUTELY NOTHING I do seems to satisfy him; it seems to be getting personal with him now...., and I do not know why. I sincerely think that ANYTHING I DO to cure his "defects, issues" will never, ever satisfy him. You know, it is very easy to delete, destroy, be negative, and I think people do that just because they can. It takes more time and effort to be positively constructive AS YOU HAVE MOST GENEROUSLY BEEN !! (THANKS !!!!!!)
I can see from his own talk page @ MikeWiznowski that other users have had questions of him from his edits / reverts of various articles, and in a number of cases, he just ignores them, does not answer and is of no help at all.
See: Jennifer O'Neill article talkpage: Taninao0126 and talkpage: MikeWaznowski
My question to you?: Can YOU please ask him what needs to be done so that tags can come off, and we all can move on and just leave it the way it is ? Please ?? And then get back to me to please tell me what to do. As you can see, other editors have not had any issues AT ALL with my edits. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer. Taninao0126 ( talk) 18:45, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
I have reverted several of your bot edits in the category Martial Arts by breaking out the notability tag so that Catscan can find the articles with notability issues. In the case of the Jon Bluming article, you have now manually reverted my reverts with the comment "Catscan can find Category:All articles with topics of unclear notability whether {{notability}} is in Multiple issues or not". [3]
When I run Catscan on the category martial arts searching for notability tags [4], it finds 80 articles, not including Jon Bluming.
When I run Catscan on the category martial arts intersecting with category All_articles_with_topics_of_unclear_notability [5], it finds the same 80 articles.
When I look directly in category:All_articles_with_topics_of_unclear_notability [6] or [7], I do not find the Jon Bluming article (even thought the multiple issues box has a notability tag). [8]
Could you tell me what I am misunderstanding here? Thanks! jmcw ( talk) 11:25, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
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template. Sorry for presuming that the Multiple issues template was set up correctly without confirming it.
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11:43, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty. Just noticed your bot made this diff under task 4, but maybe the code could be improved, because although the article uses <ref> tags, these are just notes, which do not reference any of the asserted information. Thank you. - Cloudz 679 05:44, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
I know you're a UDel football fan, so I was wondering if you'd have interest in creating any or all the 1946, 1963, 1971, 1972, 1979, and 2003 season articles? As you can see on {{ Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football navbox}}, those are the most prominently displayed seasons since they were all national championship years. If you do have interest in making some of these, be sure to include Category:College football national champions on each of the articles. Thoughts? Jrcla2 ( talk) 15:02, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
I hope this handles all latest Multiplue Issues tags. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:03, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I saw that you have been making some "rational" changes to the article on Thomas Hodges. I am a gallerist with a gallery that represents Hodges in Taiwan. I was asked to add links to the Hodges article to enable the "orphaned" tag to be removed, which I note you did (thank you). Since doing this, the article has come under attack from an editor name "Hoary", who seems to have a bias against the article. I am not competent to edit this article to the degree that is now required, whilst at the same time having to counter Mr. Hoary's reciprocation. Would you be willing to edit this article in full or can you tell me how I can source an experienced Wikipedia editor to do this? Thank you in anticipation Expoarts ( talk) 06:30, 18 February 2012 (UTC).
In this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Thomas_Hodges_(artist)&diff=475683440&oldid=475680891, categories such as "British Artist" and "British Photographers" were removed, yet Hodges seems to fit both of these categories. Is it not permisible to list the additional categories, despite them being relevant? Also, the short description says "Photographer of Nudes", which not really inaccurate Expoarts ( talk) 05:54, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Hoary made this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Thomas_Hodges_(artist)&diff=475688211&oldid=475687953, stating "being profiled in a blog is no big deal; for a start, cutting unsourced claims of this)". However, neither Art2Bank or Nonenga Art Magazine are blogs, they are established and globally recognised art related websites. Should these references have been deleted? Expoarts ( talk) 06:03, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
In this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Thomas_Hodges_(artist)&diff=475732435&oldid=475732193, it is stated "deleting mention of one website for which the "source" pointed to other people's porn/erotic photos but not Hodges')", but Hodges' work is featured in this website (I just browsed the website and saw it). However, the site is in flash and you can't link directly to the page where the work is shown, as it is constantly changing, as this site is updated. Should the link be reinstated, or must the page point directly to Hodges? Expoarts ( talk) 06:10, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
In the article, citations are requested for the section relating to inspirations. On Hodges' own website he quotes on his biography page his inspirations. However, I understand that it is not allowed to reference the artist's own website (ref Hoary: "No, no, you can't source claims for the man's achievements to his own website or blog. Independent sourcing, please."). However, as it is only Hodges himself who can state who and what inspires him, how can a citation other than that from the artist himself be used? Am I correct to assume that it needs to be the artist's statement via an independent source? Expoarts ( talk) 06:26, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Hoary made this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Thomas_Hodges_(artist)&diff=475691356&oldid=475689005, stating "(Removing commentary that was merely from an unsigned piece in a commercial website. Judge for yourself: http://www.lovechess.nl/artoflove/archives/photography_nude/). However, "Art of Love" is widely recognised review site of artists working in the erotic-nude genre, and carry an archive featuring some very prominent artists (follow the home link at the foot of the referenced page and then to archives). Why therefore is this reference not relevant and the subject of deletion? Expoarts ( talk) 06:26, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
The reference to GQ magazine points to (2) which relates to the IPA, this is the better reference: http://www.gq-magazin.de/unterhaltung/girls-gallery/thomas-hodges7, which I found via Google. Would you make the change? The Playboy reference, also points to (2), but that publication is in physical print, so no online reference is available. The reference previously pointed to a scanned copy of Playboy magazine, via Hodges' blog, but that was deleted. Expoarts ( talk) 06:35, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
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I noticed that BattyBot removed the "Wikify" tag from Ruth Gledhill. Is it possible to configure the bot not to remove wikify tags? As I said in this discussion, I think that this tag is far too subtle to be removed automatically. I rarely allow AWB to add or remove the tag, and that's when I have the article in front of me. In this case, the tag is explained in the edit summary of the edit which added the tag, and the problem has not been addressed. -- John of Reading ( talk) 09:17, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
orphan}}
, {{
deadend}}
, and {{
wikify}}
. In this specific case, I think that the edit which added the tag was incorrect - the edit summary indicates that {{
citation style}}
would have been more appropriate. I've updated the references, which I hope addresses this article's issue. If it still needs to be wikified, I hope an editor will use the |reason=
parameter when adding {{
wikify}}
. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
14:59, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
There is a discussion taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc ( talk) 03:57, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
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There are alot ways and phrases for a living person, such as ill people, people with health reasons, or people with jobs, any th-ought?-- GoShow ( ...............) 22:29, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
I have a question. Why did you "disambiguate" There and Back as an instrumental CD on the Rock Instrumental page. As far I know, Wired, Blow By Blow and There and Back are the only completely instrumental releases by Jeff Beck, but you removed There And Back. Have you ever listened to it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Areyoureadyeddy ( talk • contribs) 04:47, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Actually, it was gone and I had to put it back in. I did this before I asked you the question. Areyoureadyeddy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Areyoureadyeddy ( talk • contribs) 18:36, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi...just a brief question re: Jennifer O'neill article. Do the wiki maintenance tags have the negative effect of tagging the article for deletion or negative in some respect ?
I noticed that now when "Jennifer O'Neill" is typed in to a Google search query, this wiki article was almost always there second or third at least behind her official webpage. Now, it does not come up AT ALL. Is there something you can tell that someone has done to cause this change in its page rankings?
And if so, how can its high page rankings be restored ? This may be too technical and beyond me, but I have to ask. thank you. Taninao0126 ( talk) 20:38, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm puzzled that Cale discography has been tagged as an orphan. It's just a discography, a list of records, but those records are full of wiki-links where appropriate. I'm unsure how this discography can be rendered less "orphaned". I felt like removing the tag but thought I should check with you. Best wishes Mick gold ( talk) 19:02, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Can you please give some recommendations on possible references for the Rodney Barnes page you edited?
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Missanthropic08 ( talk • contribs) 18:31, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty. I was looking through some recent BRFAs and saw that your bot had one approved to "change {{ Unreferenced}} to {{ BLP sources}}</nowiki> if article is in Category:Living people". My understanding is that if a BLP article is unreferenced it should use {{ BLP unsourced}}, which specifies that there are no sources in the article, not {{ BLP sources}}, which specifies that it needs additional references (implying there is already at least one reference). So, am I way off base here, or do your bot and BRFA need to be changed to using {{ BLP unsourced}}? Jenks24 ( talk) 11:59, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for editing
List of professional cyclists who died during a race. I wanted to mention that one of the fixes that AWB did was actually incorrect. The title of
this column is "1950's Biographies - Dave Bedwell" not "1950s Biographies - Dave Bedwell". Wanted to let you know that I've reverted your change of this reference's title back to it actual name.
The List is in the middle of a major restructuring into Tables so some mistakes have slipped by - your AWB caught Dusseldorf/Düsseldorf and Triathalon/Triathlon. In looking over your AWB changes I figured out that I had to clean up an extra 'ref name'. Please continue to take an interest in this List...I am considering possibly putting it up for Featured List status and need all the help I can get!
Cheers,
Shearonink (
talk)
03:07, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that you removed a category from my user page. What categories should I put on there? Are there lists (or categories) or them for me to look at? Thank you for helping my user page. Allen ( talk) 01:12, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
I've reverted this edit by User:BattyBot. The bot didn't take account of the section=y parameter when changing unreferenced to refimprove. Not sure why it also removed the wikify one. -- M4gnum0n ( talk) 10:19, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello, could you to work on this article, please? Biodiversity of New Caledonia. It is a very important archaic species group in Paleobotany and evolution. 85.251.99.49 ( talk) 08:17, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
I put these maintenance templates, in Biodiversity of New Caledonia because I writen many of this article from french language, but I am not native english, I know that I have mistakes in english, so I was looking for a person cleaning my bad english. You can delete the maintenance templates, if you like. Curritocurrito ( talk) 17:22, 26 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", parte de la información la traduje del francés y algo estaba en portugues e italiano, pero mi inglés es bastante malo y además no encontraba todos los nombres científicos latinos en inglés. Curritocurrito ( talk) 17:26, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your recent contributions! 66.87.0.179 ( talk) 20:22, 30 March 2012 (UTC) |
I noticed you edited my grandfather's page. I am curious about our interest in him and why you decided to make a modification.
-Mike Ms33 ( talk) 18:51, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, but. I noted your edit on few articles on which I made major contribution... then I went to your talk page and saw an IP adress giving awards. I got the same award too... what's it about? -- Wusten fuchs 22:04, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Rcsprinter (Gimme a message) 10:58, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Just an FYI as you were asking about this before; there is now a new set of articles in the TypoScan database.
Reedy ( talk) 22:10, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Twice now BattyBot has changed categories to links at User:AussieLegend/Newcastle International Sports Centre with the edit summary "changed article categories to links per WP:USERNOCAT using AWB". WP:USERNOCAT does not say to change cats to links at all. It says "If you copy an article from mainspace to userspace and it already contains categories, remove them or comment them out". Since the cats at User:AussieLegend/Newcastle International Sports Centre are commented out per WP:USERNOCAT BattyBot shouldn't be making the changes. It really needs to check for comment tags around cats. -- AussieLegend ( talk) 06:31, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
For fixing Sex Pistols i just thought i'd show some recon :-) benzband ( talk) 19:49, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
First, I apologize for my initial edit on User talk:BattyBot rather than here. I didn't notice the notice at the top of that page (I would recommend an editnotice). Feel free to move this to unite it with the previous discussion.
Thanks for adding <pre>. I tried other methods, and for me it's by far the best method of disabling categories. (If I understand how the bot finds pages to edit, it should only go to pages containing inappropriate active article categories, which my userspace pages never do.)
As for intentionally redlinked categories, I have seen various ones around, but I don't know how prevalent the practice is, and I think there's no need for the bot to make a special effort to deal with them. Users can always slap on an appropriate {{ bots}} to prevent future changes. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 09:52, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi.... I recently discovered that "Soul DNA" was written by another Jennifer O'Neill with the same name ( was researching it to try to possibly buy it) anyway I discovered it was some psychic with the same name, so deleted it from her list of books AND I EXPLAINED THE REVISION, DELETION, but someone undid it and put it back anyway even after I explained it.... and then you CORRECTLY reverted that person's put back (you and I were both right ... but you were better perhaps in including an amazon reference, maybe i shud have) I wonder why people keep doing stuff like that .... it seems that they do changes just for the sake of doing changes .... kind of frustrating ...sometimes it is better to just leave well enough alone .... IMHO Taninao0126 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.195.79.101 ( talk) 14:11, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
There is a straw poll taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc ( talk) 00:22, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
There is a Straw Poll taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc ( talk) 00:49, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there, I got your message on my talk page and wanted to let you know you were not part of my study. Also, thanks for bringing to my attention the Signpost article. There are some small inaccuracies in how it characterizes my study, but it is nice that the topic is getting more attention. Regards, Mike Restivo ( talk) 13:43, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Thankyou for all your help in fixing up the English-language singers category. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 03:50, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Curious about the adding of this to
Category:Articles containing Croatian language text . Why is it there,and what does it do? All the best,
Rich
Farmbrough,
19:20, 11 May 2012 (UTC).
{{
Lang}}
template to only categorise articles. I'm out for the day, though. If I'm still an admin tomorrow, I'll try to find time to look at it.
Rich
Farmbrough,
11:30, 15 May 2012 (UTC).Why should the optional parameters of the cite news template be removed, like you did to In Utero (album)? Dan56 ( talk) 04:52, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi... I have a question. In re: the Jennifer O'Neill article (again), in her filmography the entry for 1977 and the movie Sette note in nero , do you think it should read: Sette note in nero (original title) The Psychic. That way the title in English is apparent. And by the way, there is a wiki link to the sette note in nero. And if you think it would be appropriate, how do you do the editing of the boxes and lines ??? got no idea...
Also there is a misclassification I caught. In her filmography for the year 1997 there are
3 movies, the first is The Corporate Ladder . You can double check this as shown below, but the Internet Movie Data Base, Imdb, shows this was a TV movie (cable television movie),
not a threatrical release; so really, it should go down into the next section for "Television" along with all the other TV movies and should read:
1997 The Corporate Ladder Irene Grace Playboy TV-Movie .
And by the way Playboy TV is also listed in wiki, but again I have no idea how you link it and edit the lines and boxes. Please advise how to, or maybe you can do, etc. thanks....
See Imdb at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115946/plotsummary Taninao0126 ( talk) 20:14, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, how are you? I have edited in Ocotea I saw that you like biodiversity articles. Can you help me to edit again Ocotea? Palecloudedwhite wipe out the article over and over again. In any case I thank you it very much. Curritocurrito ( talk) 11:13, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello again! This is kinda fun; every time I refresh my watchlist, I see you've gone further back in time through my contributions, adding various fixes. It's like being shown the evidence of where I've been and what I've got up to, haha! Thanks (seriously)! PaleCloudedWhite ( talk) 22:42, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, How are you? I need your help. I ask you if you could enlarge Dipterocarpaceae making better known this group of trees in Wikipedia, adding links to "Dipterocarpaceae" and information about "Dipterocarpaceae" existence on topics as trees articles in tropical articles or botanical or biodiversity articles. Do you know people that could be interested about Dipterocarpaceae article? They are welcome too. Thank you very much. Curritocurrito ( talk) 11:38, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Notice to Gimmetoo & GoingBatty: I just noticed the two of you have made conflicting edits on this article and I thought I'd flag it to your respective attentions before there's an edit war. The date formats in the references in the article was changed by GoingBatty to use long date format (e.g., "November 5, 2011") and Gimmetoo reverted it back to strict numeric ("2011-11-05"). I suggest the two of you hash out which way you want the dates to look outside of the article. Tabercil ( talk) 14:44, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Rick Denzien. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Rick Denzien redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Hasteur ( talk) 20:10, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for restoring the heading on my post. I put a cat in the heading and it seems that the wiki didn't like that much. I e/c'd with you on the fix but mine didn't link to the category so I let yours go and I appreciate the help. - UnbelievableError ( talk) 03:06, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I thank you your help in tropical flora. I hope your help again in the future. Best regards Curritocurrito ( talk) 09:30, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
There were NOT ever truely democratic elections in Liberia before 1997. First, for most of the country's history, there was only one party and one contestant in elections. Other times, the country was under military rule and the "elections" were shams where the ruling general was the only contestant.
Mr. George Andrews, though under direct threat from the president (documented in a local paper) did not buckle and kept the election free and fair. That was the first time that happened in Liberia. I think your edit was in error.
George — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.139.22.34 ( talk) 16:26, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Too large to paste to a single wiki page, so I've uploaded it here as a 7-zip file, should be simple for you to take from there. en-wiki mainspace only. Unzipped it's a 2 MB tab-separated text file that you can open as a spreadsheet. Format is articletitle, badparam, badparamvalue, goodparam, goodparamvalue, template name. License is CC-BY-SA 3.0 as per Wikipedia. My bot task should already have corrected the obvious stuff, any more (manual) cleanup you're willing to do would be great. Thanks Rjwilmsi 18:24, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
As you have been involved in the discussion about the new version of this template, I wonder if you would mind commenting there about whether you are happy for the current configuration to be deployed. This is so that it doesn't appear to be just me acting unilaterally and that we have a consensus for these changes. Thanks! — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:33, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Hey, just wanted to say a big thanks for the help on the Boston page...lots of good stuff you did there. On a totally unrelated note, I noticed your Scouting boxes. Our family was BIG in the Scouting world as well. Dad was a life long member/trainer/adult leader, my bro was an Eagle, OA etc. :) Anyway, back on point, thanks again for the Boston help. Whitelitr ( talk) 04:04, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Regarding you post on the
WP:RFCBOARD: I would like to suggest how to improve on the current architecture of wikipedia.
Unfortunatly(fortunatly) all articles on wikipedia are in one bag.
But this makes it very difficult to distinguish fiction from fact ... especially about films,cartoons, tv series, etc.
I propose to add the Category "fiction", so that it will be visible in the adress bar.
Example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek
-should be-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fiction/Star_Trek
You may want to consider posting your idea on the Village Pump. Coastside ( talk) 10:06, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, I've been working on the multiple issues that have been pointed out on this page, I've cleaned the HISTORY tab a bit and tried to change the tone to a more neutral one and removing speculative comments. I've checked my external links and all are good, and I've gone through the citations and all refer back to reliable and verifiable sources. if you can think of anything else I can do to help this article, please let me know. Thanks. User:Dksdad1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dksdad1 ( talk • contribs) 13:40, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
im sorry to be a bother but many users editing the album Three cheers for sweet revenge and the black parade are claiming that we can no longer cite allmusic for genres, since allmusic puts their genre list under styles. these users keep changing those albums to pop rock because the only genre allmusic lists for rock albums is just that.
I take issue with this because every other album on wikipedia uses allmusics styles as citations for genres and it makes no sense for them to say we cannot know, especially since claiming those two albums are pop/rock would mean they would have to change every other rock album to that since allmusic says that about every rock album.
If you could please explain to these users about how wikipedia cites allmusic i would be extremely grateful. if you could direct this message to a user who knows this subject better please do so because it is wrong of them to put such strictures on allmusic citations when such strictures have never existed before.
if you could please assist me Thank you very much — Preceding unsigned comment added by Musicstuff0324 ( talk • contribs) 18:48, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
my problem is that i have tried to talking to them, but they refuse to listen. Allmusic does list the genres im using but they refuse to use it because it refers to them as styles instead of genre. Their being extremely specific, just because it says styles means i can't use it even though every other wikipedia page allows that very thing. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Musicstuff0324 (
talk •
contribs)
21:37, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Also i was wondering if you could try sorting this out. Your very respected and wikipedia and you understand the ins and outs of wiki rules than me or the editors on those pages. If you could read through those pages and see which side is right it would be extremely helpful. You understand how citations are supposed to work you can see whos right, and stop all of this if you see that their not understanding how to read allmusic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Musicstuff0324 ( talk • contribs) 21:47, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
I wanted to inform you just that there is also the possibility that ref names can inclode the |group=
e.g. <ref group=foo>. I'm having the same problem with our
WP:AFC helper script which checks now (after tomorrow) <ref> tags without ending </ref> tags and <ref> foo <ref>. Regards,
mabdul
23:17, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
var testcomment = /\<\s*ref\s*(name\s*=\s*.*|group\s*=\s*.*)*\s*\>.*(\<\s*[^\/]ref\s*\>)*/mgi;
By the way, I believe that this regex should catch all valid variants in the ref tags. I still have to check taht on my sandboxes. Regards, mabdul 23:25, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
/<\s*ref\s*(name\s*=\s*.*|group\s*=\s*.*)*\s*>.*(<\s*[^/]ref\s*>)*/mgi;
var rerefdouble = /\<\s*ref\s*(name\s*=|group\s*=)*\s*[^\/]*\>?(\<\s*[^\/]*\s*ref\s*(name\s*=|group\s*=)*)/ig;
and additional I'm counting the closing and the opening ref tags and giving out an error:
var rerefbegin = /\<\s*ref\s*(name\s*=|group\s*=)*\s*[^\/]*>/ig; var rerefend = /\<\/\s*ref\s*\>/ig;
No this is not about dirt boxes for pets, it is about
Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_48#Remove_categories_and_interwiki_links_from_User_sandboxes.
I am going batty get rid of categories in sandboxes. Can you give BattyBot a kick up the arse. Ta. --
Alan Liefting (
talk -
contribs)
23:25, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
I have protected the article N. R. Narayana Murthy again, and I am attempting to mediate a resolution on the talk page of the article. Since you have been involved in editing this article, I ask you to join the discussion so that a consensus can form. I'm sending this notice to all recent editors. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 23:55, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you kindly for all your cooperative efforts, testing, and extended discussion that recently helped get the new {{ article issues}} template launched. The end result is a great template that I'm sure we will both put to a lot of good use. Should there ever be something I can assist you with in the future, please don't be shy to give me a shout. Thanks again! :) -- WikHead ( talk) 10:59, 2 July 2012 (UTC) |
We need your help to come to a consensus on Talk:List_of_The_Young_and_the_Restless_characters_(2010s) for Ricky Williams. Arjoccolenty ( talk) 22:38, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Please don't make changes such as www.depeche.fr to depeche.fr as web addresses - though often a redirect exists the two are different web addresses and can refer to different works.
eg see Template_talk:URL#Exclusion_of_prefix_is_technically_and_in_some_cases_practically_wrong, also cf http://www.jonathanmeades.com/ and http://jonathanmeades.com/ Oranjblud ( talk) 11:43, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
|work=
parameter is not appropriate at all, but that's a different issue.Err, would you explain this edit? Did you actually read the template {{ ibid}}? The template doesn't contain op. cit. since over a year, moreover although (in my eyes) it shouldn't be used, it isn't forbidden! (in contrast to ibid.) Regards, mabdul 12:28, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for all your editing help at Paul McCartney, punctuation is proving a sticking point with some at the current FAC, so your help in that regard is greatly appreciated. ~ GabeMc (talk) 23:56, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, BattyBot has marked Trimdon Grange as requiring additional citation. Whilst it is a stub, that which is there seems to be sufficiently cited. The biggest single section is on the pit disaster, and most of that is drawn from the coroner's report. I've slightly clarified the citations, perhaps you would consider lifting the {{Refimprove}} tag? Regards, Martin of Sheffield ( talk) 09:42, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
There is currently a Straw poll taking place here. Your input would be appreciated. ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 22:42, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks GoingBatty! You assisted in various ways on the Paul McCartney FAC. Thank you! Without your help McCartney would not be a FA today! ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 21:45, 9 July 2012 (UTC) |
You were definitely the driving force behind this FA! You did an amazing job of improving the article and incorporating many other peoples' (sometime contradicting) suggestions into the article. Congratulations! GoingBatty ( talk) 22:54, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Trijnstel talk 12:43, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
This didn't work. I've undone the edit. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 02:01, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing,
P.S.N.A.College of Engineering and Technology , has been proposed for a
merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going
here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.
KenBailey (
talk)
09:23, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Old pal, the AWB typo rule "Titled" needs to be reined in, I think. Dictionary.cambridge.org (British English) has a definition for "entitled":
And oxforddictionaries.com has a similar definition. Chris the speller yack 04:05, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Do you want to make your user page look professional? I can help you with that and make it look like this here. Tonymax469 ( talk) 04:15, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
It appears that BattyBot tasks 4 and 10 are changing templates from has-none to has-some versions, even when the template appears somewhere other than the top of the article or the references section, or has been given a parameter referring to something other than the article. See, for example,
[9],
[10],
[11]. A related example is
[12]: I think the problem there is that {{
No footnotes}} may have said "article or section" by default before and was inserted without a parameter originally, and nobody got around to changing it. Perhaps BattyBot should change things it finds in sections without parameters to {{
No footnotes|section}}
instead. Also, {{
unreferenced}} in a section can be changed to {{
unrefsect}} instead. (I can see why {{
nofootnotes}} with no parameter in the References section would make sense to change though.) If this detection is a bug in AWB that can't be worked around, then maybe there is a way to stop doing 4 and 10 until AWB is fixed? I didn't put this on
User talk:BattyBot because I didn't want to necessarily halt the bot unless there's no other way. --
Closeapple (
talk)
17:04, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
{{
No footnotes|section}}
and {{
Unreferenced}} to {{
Unreferenced section}} when immediately following a section header.BattyBot changed template at Elmer Wexler from no citations to more citations.
I had added some references recently, and I removed the template today but undid my edit when I noticed it had recently been changed.
Do you think it still needs more inline citations? It's a very stubby article (which I didn't write), and it has a bunch of references now.
I couldn't find any guidelines for this, though I'm sure they're there somewhere.
Lyn50 ( talk) 00:45, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I would like to know which features to WPCleaner you think should be done by AutoWikiBrowser. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 03:42, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Comments welcome on Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos#Working/upper/middle/lower-class. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 13:18, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Would you object to undoing this? "First and only" and "only" are definitely not synonyms - at his death Claude Choules was the only surviving WW1 veteran, but certainly wasn't the first WW1 veteran; likewise, to say Parachute Reconnaissance Company 17 was "the only Swiss parachute company" completely loses the nuances of "first and only parachute company" as it then has to be explained separately that it had no predecessors. Please, undo this; if the MOS says otherwise, then it's the MOS at fault, not Wikipedia's articles. Mogism ( talk) 18:13, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
There is clearly no match on the Brit disambiguation page, so I just removed it. Why can't people just check their damn links?! Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 16:31, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
76Strat String da Broke da ( talk) 03:49, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
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76Strat String da Broke da ( talk) 07:25, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Template:Refimprove/doc#Differences_from_.7B.7BUnreferenced.7D.7D_and_.7B.7BCitation_needed.7D.7D. Now we can add in AWB the feature to change the date stamp after changing the tag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:05, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
New snapshot is up. It fixes some of the auto-tagger problems and most of the bugs you reported. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:50, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey GoingBatty! I had a quick question about AWB and was wondering if you had time to stop by #autowikibrowser on freenode? No one else seems to be around. Thanks! MJ94 ( talk) 00:04, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for coming on IRC and helping me tonight. Have a kitten.
MJ94 (
talk)
04:16, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
At random hit upon a March then the very next one was May. Thanks for your idea. :) Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 02:09, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, with
this edit (which was admittedly over a week ago), BattyBot inserted an unwanted colon, changing {{FULLPAGENAME}}
into {{FULLPAGENAME:}}
and breaking the {{
Commons category}}
in the process. Don't know if you've fixed the bot code or not, nor if there were other instances; but I though that you should be aware. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
19:36, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
New snapshot is up. older version was too slow while dealing with Images. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:53, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
BattyBot seems to have encountered a large number of Task 9 false positives on April 2, 2012. It erroneously identified numerous userbox and user categories as article categories and converted the categories to links. See [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]. I have fixed these six instances, but there appear to be more: [19] [20] [21] [22].
If the bot code has been corrected, could you have BattyBot re-do its April 2 run and revert itself where it made a mistake? Thanks, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 18:38, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty. I remember you taking part in a recent Harrison discussion, so If you felt like adding to one I've started, regarding changes to the All Things Must Pass album article, it would be much appreciated. Cheers, JG66 ( talk) 11:26, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey there Batty.
A noob question. After adding the references to a page[ [23]], will BattyBot be returning to take its unreferenced tag off? Thanks.-- Misha Atreides ( talk) 15:32, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
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Could you tell me how to create my page with a step by step direction? Kelenna ( talk) 23:11, 22 August 2012 (UTC) |
Hi, I don't have a problem with you making sure AWB uses {{ multiple issues}} correctly, we all want it to be accurate. However, I'm pretty sick of the amount of changes I've had to make to support this one template. So, I plan to change the logic to use the new-style template per your feature request, and remove the old-style logic. Your most recent bug reports prove to me that the old-style template was too complicated to have in 'general' fixes. What I want to achieve is a simple implementation that has standard ignore comments logic and needs to know about a list of maintenance templates, section templates/section parameters, a threshold for insertion of multiple issues and hopefully nothing else. I don't want to keep/develop logic that template x is added/handled differently, or template y cannot be added because of parameter z, or template a and b are the same though names are different etc. So, I'd like you to help me with this by agreeing the logic up front (if the new-style multiple issues continues to need per-template exceptions I would drop any use of multiple issues in AWB, the exceptions are too much of a drain on my time), and you creating the entries in template redirects as needed. I will post on the feature request shortly. Thanks Rjwilmsi 12:10, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, quite some time ago, you made a request on fr:Discussion utilisateur:NicoV/Wikipedia Cleaner. I've finally made some modifications for this. IS it ok ? I think it requires some testing, I only tested it with 1269. -- NicoV ( talk) 11:16, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
{{disambiguation needed}}
, could it add {{disambiguation needed|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}
instead?dab_ask_help_templates_after
for every template that you can use in WPCleaner after a disambiguation link to request for help, and dab_help_asked_templates_after
for every template that can be used to request for help (to detect them). I've made a
basic configuration for enwiki, but you should probably add a few templates. --
NicoV (
talk)
22:12, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
CouldNotLoadArgumentException[ Could not load file/URL specified: C:\Users\xxxxxxxx\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\4\6e71ba04-2c493d1b] at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
-- Cheers, Riley Huntley talk No talkback needed; I'll temporarily watch here. 04:54, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I don't think it is still a orphan page because I link it to Eugenio Corecco article and viceversa. It's actually the best I can do. Thanks for suggesting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fracati2 ( talk • contribs) 13:27, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
What would you think about a log bug action on AWB? That way you could press a button, and it would log the bug and provide the page where the bug appeared. On that note, AWB tried to bold the first example of the title of Buddhism and Christianity even though it appeared after a section heading in the article. Ryan Vesey 22:52, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, I added a few more typo fixes for US location names and I was wondering if you might double check my work. I checked and they work as far as I can tell but you have a lot more experience. Also, I think Mississippi could be improved but I could quite get it to work looking for Singular s's, singluar p's and ians at the end. I could get a couple at a time but not all. Thanks. Kumioko ( talk) 09:33, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty, I noticed that you seem involved with improving this script. Look here, you'll see that the script messed up a couple bundled cites. Hope all is well with you, cheers! ~ GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 22:28, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Why is the article "Xtreme Ice Skating" being ripped of the category "ice skating"? It's an ice-skating sport... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dan Perceval ( talk • contribs) 02:27, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
You need to updated a bit the {{ primary sources}} documentation to say that in case of living people the other template should be used. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:05, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
|BLP=yes
parameter. Doesn't seem that there's a difference in what's displayed to the reader anyway. As long as AWB isn't changing {{tl|Primary sources|BLP=yes}} to {{tl|BLP primary sources}} (or worse, changing it to {{tl|BLP primary sources|BLP=yes}}), I'm not sure it matters. Thoughts?
GoingBatty (
talk)
00:12, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
i noticed you edited a Mixed Martial Arts page in August, but you haven't listed yourself as a Participant on the Wikiproject for Mixed Martial Arts pages. I've decided to try to drum up interest to get more people involved!
Kevlar ( talk) 00:48, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
I dunno how you managed to spot this, but I'm thankfully you did. Regards, Sun Creator( talk) 00:34, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Would you like to comment at my FAC page? I've been advised before that soliciting comments speeds things up a bit with the backlogged nominations there, and I see that you are a pretty prolific, efficient editor. Dan56 ( talk) 15:22, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Would you be interested in testing WPCleaner for fixing spelling and typography on enwiki ? Or know someone else that could be interested ? It's based on regular expressions defined for AWB in Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos. I'm currently testing it on frwiki and it seems to be almost working.
If you're interested, you just need to create User:GoingBatty/WikiCleanerConfiguration with the following :
# Configuration for error 501: Spelling and typography
error_501_prio_enwiki=0 END
error_501_head_enwiki=Spelling and typography END
error_501_bot_enwiki=true END
# This parameter is used to configure WPCleaner for fixing spelling and typography.
general_suggestions_typo =
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos END
When you find problems, just tell me in fr:Discussion_Wikipédia:WPCleaner#Suggestions_d.27orthographe_d.27AWB by filling at least the first column with the page title, and the second column with the regexp rule giving trouble. And you can add some explanations in the 3rd column.
Thanks -- NicoV ( talk) 19:00, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
(?= )
at the end that is misinterpreted. Is it necessary ? Can it be replaced by \b
(word boundary) ? I need to analyse the problem.
(?= )
part is to have a trailing space character to find a termination point as \b won't meet an end quote in "each others'" Regards,
Sun Creator(
talk)
01:20, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
\s
to end the rule?
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:29, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
\s
seems better to me, but I didn't write the rule. \s
can be a space, a tab or other white space characters such as line-break. Regards,
Sun Creator(
talk)
01:51, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
general_suggestions
instead of general_suggestions_typo
. An example page on frwiki :
fr:Wikipédia:Liste de fautes d'orthographe courantes.
I added a discussion about WPCleaner and spelling in
Wikipedia talk:WPCleaner so that more people can join in the tests if they are interested. --
NicoV (
talk)
11:23, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent semi-automated help with the Folding@home article. I notice that you added {{ Use mdy dates}} to it, and I'm a bit confused as to what that means. Is everything fine and that template is just for bots, or do you want me to convert all the dates to a particular format? The entire article is consistent, but if it's necessary for me to change them all to a better format, please explain and provide me with several examples to conform to and I'll see what I can do. Thanks. • Jesse V. (talk) 03:25, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty; this message is to inform you that there is currently a public poll to determine whether to capitalize the definite article ("the") when mentioning the band "THE BEATLES" mid-sentence. As you've previously participated either here, here, or here, your input would be appreciated. Thank you for your time. Jburlinson ( talk) 20:56, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar |
Thank you for helping me in cleaning up the article on Aspiration Management
Cheers Ken Georgie Mathew ( talk) 11:04, 19 September 2012 (UTC) |
Hello!
I'd like to make constructive changes to the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts page. I'm new to Wikipedia and could use your feedback on what I wrote. Also if you wouldn't mind posting my edits it if you think their acceptable, I would be truly grateful. I've saved my edits in my sandbox, which you can access here User:KristenMK/sandbox.
The section that I've proposed changes to currently includes information without sources, so I have written changes that remove insignificant information and added new information with citations.
Thank you so much for your time and assistance!
Sincerely, Kristen -- KristenMK ( talk) 01:22, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Batty. Have to say - love the DAB needed tag, but is there anyway to do the edits with a better edit summary? It seems like most of your edits do this, so not sure if there was something with this particular series or? Just thought it might be worth raising for a future run? StarM 00:33, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks on all counts! StarM 17:16, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, Batty, about this, but I gotta call 'em as I see 'em. Cheers! Chris the speller yack 19:08, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
I marked the various MI bug reports as fixed but I would like your confirmation that everything works fine. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:45, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Two questions about SVN 8436:
Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 03:28, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Recently I made some changes to the "Walk Forward" page. I am new to the Wikipedia, but on this particular page, I would delete almost everything below the first 2 paragraphs. It is a talkative, manual style text. On the other hand, I would probably add the picture from Bob Pardo's book (page 252), and maybe add some views on problems of methodology. I was afraid to make huge deletions and therefore writing... Seaman4516 ( talk) 17:01, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
In this edit, BattyBot screwed up the {{ multiple issues}} template, probably by incorrectly assuming that since at least one new-style parameter was present that the unnamed parameter 1 would be the last parameter when it inserted the {{ refimprove}} and {{ orphan}} templates. Anomie ⚔ 13:34, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
I understand that this is more of an AWB issue, but are you able to modify a custom module so that BattyBot either stops adding {{ Wikify}} or uses {{ underlinked}} in cases like this edit? Ryan Vesey 18:49, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Would you mind briefly commenting at Wikipedia talk:Article wizard#Content categories for user pages, please? Thanks. -- Trevj ( talk) 11:04, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I have completely refactored WPCleaner in version 1.19 for the spell-checking feature. It now works suggestion by suggestion, instead of going through the article trying each suggestion. Many changes are induced by this :
With this modifications, on a very big article in frwiki that was taking 800 seconds to analyze on my laptop, it now takes only 7 seconds.
I have tested 1.19 only on frwiki, seems ok, but it probably needs some testing on enwiki.
-- NicoV ( talk) 07:12, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
On my tests on frwiki, I only encountered that kind of analyze times with some rules that were not very efficient, but after fixing the rules analyze took a reasonable time (for example, on fr:Liste de résolutions du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies, analyze took about 800 seconds before, 20 seconds after fixing the rules, and then 7 seconds with the code changes in 1.19). When analyzing The Beatles, WPCleaner issues warnings for a few rules on the Java console, which account for most of the time spent analyzing :
So, more than 15mn due to the last 5 five rules. Can you try fixing them? I know for example that (?<!...)
at the beginning of a rule is highly inefficient, because the lookbehind is then tested at every position in the text. It's a lot faster if you move this part after to really speed up the analysis, even if you have to write a bigger rule (cf. my changes on frwiki:
1 and
2). With efficient rules, 1.19 should be faster, but it can be slower if too many inefficient rules exist. --
NicoV (
talk)
05:17, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
To display the Java console is dependent on the Operating System you're running. A few examples: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/javaconsole.xml for Windows, http://www.ehow.com/how_7255734_enable-java-console-mac.html for Mac. Good to see that updating the last five rules gave a huge performance boost. I will check this evening, but most of the remaining time is probably spent on the first rule (A to An). The problem with the non working is probably similar to the one you reported with "so called", I need to find some time to understand what's going on. -- NicoV ( talk) 14:12, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Category:Images of The Beatles, 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☯ 09:18, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey mate, as suggested, I have set up the List of cover versions of The Beatles songs as a sortable list. I've also added a lead and the "lists" template (which I just created) to the top. -- rm 'w a vu 01:56, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
MG Services has been nomiated for deletion. If you would like to comment on the discussion, it is located at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MG Services ColtsScore ( talk) 18:32, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, two problems with
this edit: first, {{
notability|music}}
was already present; second, {{
multiple issues}}
doesn't respect more than one positional parameter. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
09:50, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Good day, sir,
I have just embarked on the long-overdue rewrite of the sources script in
my test space. I am also attempting to lay down my thoughts as to how it should work at
User:Ohconfucius/script/Sources#General_principles. FYI, the working test module is named function Ohc_sourcename
. Note that this is very much work in progress, and that the module will supplant some of the regex currently residing in function Ohc_news_sources()
. Your thoughts and advice, particularly as to the organisation/flow of the various tasks, would be much appreciated.
Regards, -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 09:55, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Oh, and is there a way to consolidate the code, as the first two blocks merely perform different transformations on the same strings? -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 15:36, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, you're now quite welcome to test out the
new sources script. The basic structure is now in place. The old script is still there, but the new code (which incorporates some of the old cleanup code) is called by a sidebar button 'New source module'. So far, it acts only on those sources located inside citation templates (I haven't been able to design a module that converts other sources inside citations). Remember that its building blocks set out to firstly retrain the links to a traditional name per WP. Secondly, it would italicise or otherwise the source by switching "|work=
" or "|publisher=
". It does not yet cater for piped links. I've just been running it when I specific article I think it could work on, but I usually still need to supplement it with the old script for now. There isn't anything yet to test it against, as I haven't yet devised a test page, so it could be helpful if maybe you could set one up. Alternatively, you might know of some suitable 'live' pages you could copy over to a test-bed for that purpose. Cheers, --
Ohconfucius
ping / poke
10:17, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
New source module
), which includes functions #4 and #5, works more or less as intended on the test page. Could you please let me know what you see and what each of the buttons do? Thanks, --
Ohconfucius
ping / poke
13:14, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) Timestamp: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:09:57 UTC Message: Expected identifier, string or number Line: 333 Char: 2 Code: 0 URI: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Ohconfucius/test/Sources_subscript1.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) Timestamp: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:51:28 UTC Message: Expected identifier, string or number Line: 316 Char: 2 Code: 0 URI: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Ohconfucius/script/EngvarB.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
Thanks. My friend who helped me with the dates script suggested that it was likely to be a bug in IE8. A repeat of this problem with an established script probably strengthens that as a possibility. -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 02:19, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Could you possibly ditch your IE for a few days? I could really use your help now to 'beta test'. I've written up the documentation and built up most of the script functionality. The various in-built libraries/vocabularies could still be extended, to minimise the disruption to linking and optimise the precision in dab. -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 14:04, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
What happened in this edit? Anomie ⚔ 10:42, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
{{Notability|Music|date=October 2012}}=October 2012}}
and fixed them. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
16:49, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
{{Notability|Music|date=October 2012}}=
and fix them. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
23:59, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
User:Vaughanster/Libertad Green — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.40.131.236 ( talk) 16:20, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ Unfortunately, this version has a bug for non enwiki projects which was fixed in 8508. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:10, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
8564 is up. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:01, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi...Please set right the errors in your article Zion school, india.Thanks.
Readers are hereby enlightened that ZION MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL situated in KODAIKANAL is a completely different institution, which is in no way connected to the zion school in Chennai. ZION at KODAIKANAL is an immaculate institution with impeccable standards . It was started in the year 1983 and is guided by a sagacious pioneer in the field of holistic education - Dr. Kurian Abraham.Dr.Kurian Abraham , a doyen of education , is the Founder Correspondent of ZION MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, KODAIKANAL. A well known philanthropist, Dr. KURIAN ABRAHAM has made laudable contibutions to the society at large and maintains very high standards in all aspects , with regard to the school . Readers discretion is solicited in selecting the right school for their wards. For further details on ZION MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, KODAIKANAL guided by DR. KURIAN ABRAHAM please go to www.zionmhss.org or zionschoolkodaikanal @ facebook. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjchristinaprince ( talk • contribs) 05:29, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, is this by design that the hidden category was excluded? (See diff). mabdul 08:16, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
GoingBatty, thanks very much for your recent helpful edits to the new article I've created on the novel, Donkey Punch (novel), much appreciated, — Cirt ( talk) 15:46, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Incorrect_edit_summary_when_adding_.22underlinked.22. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:20, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, GoingBatty, hope you're well. I notice you've contributed quite a bit to the Traveling Wilburys band article over the last year. I've started a discussion on the talk page about which order the band members should be listed in – I'm sure it's an issue that has been raised in the past, but I'd welcome your input if you have time. Many thanks, JG66 ( talk) 11:41, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Finally! Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Wikify_.28again.29. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:58, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
I figured if anyone would know this its probably you; how many articles are there in toto in the Beatles project? Thanks and cheers! GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 01:42, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, would you be able to help with Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Tags_above_infobox, seems like we need to get AWB's list of maintenance templates completed. Thanks Rjwilmsi 08:29, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Battybot is adding both of the templates when only 1 is needed. Cheers Del♉sion23 (talk) 14:23, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the catch on Wikify. My apologies. I'm using the latest production version of AWB but I'll get rid of it right now and download the newest trial version so it stops suggesting a deprecated tag. Andrew ( talk) 02:41, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm pretty new so this might not be relevant. Whilst finding things to do I came across the wikify tag and then later the underlinked and dead end tags. Would it be possible for your bot to check through the wikify backlog and reclassify a lot of them as underlinked or dead ends where appropriate? Jamesmcmahon0 ( talk) 11:34, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
It states in Category:American films that it is supposed to include all such films, even if they are in subcategories. Clarityfiend ( talk) 02:56, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
To you and yours, Have a Merry ______ (fill in the blank) and Happy New Year! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 03:58, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
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The Seasonal Barnstar | |
In recognition of your dedicated typo fixing and your work at WP:AWB/T throughout the year, I award you this Seasonal Barnstar. -- John of Reading ( talk) 18:05, 22 December 2012 (UTC) |
Hello. I reverted your edit to this article because you deleted a source without a proper explanation. If the link is bad, please mark it with "dead link", but not without first checking to see if the link has changed. Thanks. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 22:47, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, GoingBatty. I saw that it had been deprecated and the prompt to use more specific templates, but going through the aternatives, I could not see one that was specific to lack/ absence of notability. Thanks for helping and have a grear 2013 too. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 08:50, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your message, GoingBatty. I added the Wikify template despite deprecation as there are multiple issues and I did not think 5 templates were appropriate. But seeing as you insisted, I have done that. As you can see, Activity centre is very organised now with maintenance boxes now taking up more screen space than the content. But every issue the templates mention is present, so I guess it's better that way. JamesA >talk 13:57, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty, I've noticed on your edits AWB, you removed italics from Allmusic under work, but from my understanding, Allmusic is an online source and should not be italicized. This is what I've been told though. Erick ( talk) 21:59, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
|work=
parameter. To get around this and still have the reference displayed properly, I'm now changing |work=''[[Allmusic]]''
to |publisher=Allmusic
and removing |publisher=Rovi Corporation
. If you have any examples of edits I did that were incorrect, please let me know and I'll be happy to fix them. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
00:53, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing the category links in the article in my sandbox! ZAWikiGrrl ( talk) 02:31, 4 January 2013 (UTC)