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- Thank you Sir! I'll try to do it. Leništudent 16:51, 3 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leništudent ( talk • contribs)
I've been asking a few people, but would you be the first to respond? Thanks!
Here it goes: On the Oobi at Work article, someone redirected it to its production company, but I don't know if that was the best choice. Do you think that the separate page should have been kept or is the current state better? Thanks a lot, an experienced Wikipedian's opinion means a lot! Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer ( talk) 00:58, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
- Actually, I need help on this decision: would the IMDb rating for Oobi at Work qualify for "Reception" or should I look for a singular critic review? Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer ( talk) 16:43, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for some of your recent edit to the Norm Phelps article, upon which I had worked assiduously less than a day ago.
You list three (3) university alma maters for the recently deceased Norman Phelps (whom I knew),
but I know only of his one (1) alma mater:
Could you please document the other two (2) CLAIMS that he attended those other two universities:
They do NOT appear on the Norm Phelps LinkedIn page, nor in any online interview, nor in his own self-published online minibio. MaynardClark ( talk) 04:15, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I have noticed that you reviewed the article mentioned previously on your talk page by two users, Oobi at Work, as Class-Redirect. It was once made a redirect by accident, it seems, but now that it is not a redirect, could you please re-assess the article? I have seen the television show myself and the page seems to be accurate and meet Wikipedia's article quality standards. Derbundeskanzler ( talk) 01:13, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Yeah, you're right. You didn't mess up the page. Dizzy 010 messed it up. You still don't have to be a prick about it with your pretentious quotation marks. BlaccCrab ( talk) 09:49, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Best of luck to you with the new year man BlaccCrab ( talk) 06:53, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
There are a few (< 120) old style Multiple issues that need to be checked manually. Main problems could be:
Bot action revealed many duplicates templates. I also discovered a bot error. In very few cases it moved a section template to the top. Please fix any of these on sight. I started checking too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:58, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
I found solutions for almost everything. 7 pages left. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:34, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
I agree. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:41, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Batty, really appreciate your help, i will definitely try to update the page as is advised now, hope you will have the occasion tho have a look at it sometimes. Joan Bozoky — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joan Bozoky ( talk • contribs) 09:18, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi User:GoingBatty, I see that your BattyBot has removed orphan tags I added to a couple of articles referring to academic journals. I was looking at these and could not find any links to them (manually). Could I have missed them? Is there a reliable way of checking it manually? Ankababel ( talk) 11:53, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
You created User:Saqib mosin/sandbox by copy&paste. It would probably have been better to create it with a move. But if you used copy&paste you did need to notify Saqib otherwise he might never notice that it was there. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 17:07, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
BattyBot task#37 has been approved, thank you for your patience! — xaosflux Talk 02:40, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
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Bettifm (
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01:01, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
On 19 January 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carolina Neurath, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Swedish journalist Carolina Neurath ventured into acting when she starred as Princess Arianna Ad'lah in the film Star Wars: Threads of Destiny in 2014? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carolina Neurath. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Crisco 1492 ( talk) 04:21, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
On 22 January 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Karolina Olsson, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Swedish woman Karolina Olsson purportedly stayed in a constant state of sleep for 32 years? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Karolina Olsson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:45, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, there. Thanks for taking the trouble to make an edit at Ayers Rock. Unfortunately, you made a beginners mistake, despite the fact that you are obviously one of the most experienced editors in English Wikipedia. In a section which I recently created to improve the article, you changed "humourous" to "humorous". At the top of the article, there is a template instructing editors to use Australian English, which was put there by another editor. Another factor that you were not aware of, is that it is extremely rare for me to edit a spelling mistake into an article. The preferred Australian spelling is "humourous", and I have changed it back (but that is the only element of your edit that I have changed). Thankyou for your time. CaesarsPalaceDude ( talk) 07:19, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello Going Batty, We corresponded a while ago about the Sunbeam Rapier page and I was wondering if you could help with a small citation problem? I have just added an image to the Foden (lorries) page and amended the wording slightly. My source for the information is the annotation at the Science Museum (London) appertaining to the vehicle which is on display there. I cannot see a "template" which could be adapted so have just added the source in "prose" as it were, but am not convinced it's OK. I did try a footnote (using a symbol) but wasn't happy with that either. Any thoughts? Thanks for any assistance. Regards, Eagleash ( talk) 21:53, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm in the process of updating the WP:TOTD department's tip collection, as some of the tips have gone obsolete. So I'm looking for useful techniques and tools, that is, tips, to replace them with.
Any leads on the latest and greatest wiki-related programs, extensions, plug-ins, scripts, commands, or methods, would be most appreciated.
So far, I've added the following new tips:
If you spot any errors in them, please let me know. The Transhumanist 08:11, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your attention to Scott Miller (pop musician), my favorite songwriter. I would love to get that article noticed, and ultimately to bring it to GA status, along with the related articles on Game Theory (band) and their albums. If you're inclined to tell me where you think the Miller article needs improvement in order to get to GA, I really would appreciate the advice. I've been an editor for 11⁄2 years, and feel good about the quality of my contributions, but still haven't produced any FAs, GAs, DYKs, whatever. I'm really not sure why, but I begin to suspect that it doesn't just happen on its own. Do I need to self-nominate for those things, or should I instead be trying to make friendly connections with more experienced editors (as I'm attempting right now)?
Also, thanks for the discussion of tools in the section above; I've raided your vector.js and vector.css, and stocked up on useful scripts! Lwarrenwiki ( talk) 15:57, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hello there, I created the article for "Susan Feeney" and you tagged it with "orphan." I looked up the guidelines on de-orphaning, and I think I've done everything it says to successfully de-orphan, but it is still tagged orphan. Can you teach me how to de-orphan? What do I have to correctly do to de-orphan the page? I'd really appreciate your help! Thank you! Pubmediagroupie ( talk) 15:55, 5 February 2015 (UTC)pubmediagroupie
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nicolo's grep bit it along with toolserver
I've replaced the link on your user page with it's successor. The Transhumanist 07:00, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
In my opinion, AWB should be able to use the live database replica on Labs instead of requiring the editors to download the entire dumps themselves (which is impossible for users with a bad connection, e.g. me), similar to BLAST which allows users to do queries on the live gene database. There's Quarry which has a pretty good queuing system, so maybe we can integrate AWB into it? Zhaofeng Li [ talk... contribs... 01:27, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
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I have a teaching book for the trade school of engine mechanics, written in Dutch; first edition 1942 by Langenhuysen and Swaak, 4th edition 1951, published by Uitgeverij v/h A. Kemperman in Haarlem. In it is a chapter of the Jaffa HH axial engine with description, pictures and drawings. As far as I could find out, there is no conflict with copyright if the scanned pages are shown in this article. As I am not wanting to edit in Wikipedia, I am inviting you or anyone interested to add these scans. If you want to do so, contact me on zerealbigboss@yahoo.com, so I can send you the 4 scans. Ed. 163.47.220.127 ( talk) 21:51, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sojmed ( talk • contribs) 15:19, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
GoingBatty,
Have you considered applying to be part of the Bot Approvals Group? As an experienced operator I think you would make a good candidate, and we are usually in need of active contributors to avoid backlogs. — xaosflux Talk 19:45, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
BattyBot is going around changing {{ Notability}} to "Notability|Sports" on a number of sportsplayer pages ( example). Shouldn't they be tagged as "Notability|Biography", though? – Muboshgu ( talk) 18:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
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Bettifm (
talk)
02:26, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi - I noticed this article had been nominated for deletion and you had contributed a lot of work cleaning it up, so thought you might like to express an opinion one way or another on its notability. -- Cedders tk 13:02, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
It seems like we should have caught this one before, but it looks like BattyBot's task 25 hasn't yet figured out how to fix |date=2012-09-16, updated 2012-09-17
, as in
Gangnam Style in popular culture. I would drop the first date and the word "updated". –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
05:32, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
|origyear=
(which, despite its name, can take a full date and explanatory text).
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:04, 26 February 2015 (UTC)Greetings GB. I've left a note about the problems with the
Tax Statements article on the talk page. I intend to fix it in a few days anyway. I don't normally use this template -have I missed some details out?
Regards
JRPG (
talk)
21:45, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Please take a look at the article about Måns Zelmerlöw. I have done several edits to improve the article ahead of his likely Melodifestivalen winning next weekend. Any further improvements are appreciated. Cheers.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 17:27, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
I jus reverted this change by BattyBot as it made no visible changes except inside a nowiki section which it should have left alone. I would have thought it would skip nowiki sections automatically, or AWB would, as although it can't break anything doing such changes it can't fix anything either, and really can't know what is correct to do without reviewing the rest of the edit and understanding the intent of it.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 19:23, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
<nowiki>
tags.<nowiki>
tags would be appreciated.
GoingBatty (
talk)
19:42, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hello GoingBatty ,
Thank you so much for your contribution on my wikipedia page( 121 Systems ) .I deeply appreciate it .
Regards, Ronaldlobo ( talk) 15:45, 12 March 2015 (UTC)Ronald Lobo Ronaldlobo ( talk) 15:45, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
I have requested at WP:BOTREQ about a bot that fills out the {{ Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Accomplishments/row}} once the oldid and newid stuff is added in. Please help consider this, because do you consider bot requests and work at TAFI? Qwertyxp2000 ( talk) 03:11, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
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23:04, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
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I noticed that the reason that the parameter has not been removed for that long is that in many cases it shold be replaced by |genre=
instead of being removed. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
08:56, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
|format=
field, or do you mean something else? BattyBot is now just removing blank parameters.
GoingBatty (
talk)
14:15, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
|format=
was no longer being displayed, and didn't notice the hidden category. Although deprecating the parameter may be invisible to editors, the edits to remove the parameter from each article will show up on some people's watchlists, and they can move the value to the |genre=
parameter where appropriate.
GoingBatty (
talk)
14:38, 15 March 2015 (UTC)Hi, spotted this edit that was made to remove part of reference author field. I would have thought that all of the field should be removed not just the word posted. Keith D ( talk) 21:37, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
|date=
parameter is empty, and I don't want to accidentally remove a valuable (albeit misplaced) piece of information." Note that when
the citation template was added via Reflinks, the date field was blank.
GoingBatty (
talk)
21:45, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
It appears that ~50% of the "Posted"/"Posted By" removals are followed by a date.
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8] It might make sense to use the presence of the "Posted…" to perform splitting to |date=
;|author=
. There are of course variations in the date order; but they seem to split BST vs. EDT as a pattern match. Hope it helps, —
Sladen (
talk)
23:08, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
|author=
value into |date=
and |author=
would be extremely tricky, especially if there's already a |date=
field. Even manually, it appears you made some mistakes in
this edit and
this edit. I would prefer to work with Dispenser to see if we can use the presence of "Posted…" to prevent the bad data from going in to |author=
in the first place. Your support at
User talk:Dispenser#Reflinks errors would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
23:50, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Thank you so much for your advice on Willy Wiedmann article. I have added two more sources for the section "life". What would I need to do in order for meet the criteria that the sources will be accepted as reliable? I have read the Wikipedia help pages and think they now do meet the criteria. Thanks a lot and have a great day -- Dilamm ( talk) 10:53, 7 April 2015 (UTC)DiLamm
Okay, I checked out
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular_expression. Just checking that I understand this, if you don't mind.
\n|\s*(url|title|last|first|date|website|publisher|access-?date)\s*=
is what you gave me.
In English, it searches for any newline (\n) followed by zero or more spaces (\s*) followed by url, title, last, first, date, website, publisher, access-date, or accessdate followed by zero or more spaces (\s*) and then an equal sign. Is that right?
The -?
in access-?date
means "zero or one dashes", correct?
Thank you again!
EvergreenFir
(talk) Please {{
re}} 03:25, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Follow up: Tested on my sandbox and for some reason the "last" isn't working right. Used \n\|\s*(url|title|last|first|date|website|publisher|access-?date)\s*=
.
This (link) was the result.
EvergreenFir
(talk) Please {{
re}}
04:04, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
-?in
access-?datemeans "zero or one dashes". I tried changing
\n\|\s*(url|title|last|first|date|website|publisher|access-?date)\s*=
to | $1 =
on
User:EvergreenFir/sandbox6 and it worked well.
GoingBatty (
talk)
13:18, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
{{(\s*[Cc]it(?:e|ation))([^}]+)\n\|\s*(url|title|last|first|date|website|publisher|access-?date)\s*=
to $1$2| $3 =
- but you might need to make this an advanced rule repeated several times.
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:07, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Thank you both for your help! I'm happy to report that I have success with the advanced options! Working great! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{ re}} 04:09, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty! Curious if you know of any pre-existing regex code to delink commonly delink-ed things per WP:OVERLINK (e.g., delinking United States or other common words like health). I'm making my own, but I've seen others using AWB delinking things so I thought I'd ask. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{ re}} 01:48, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Something not quite right happened here, and possibly on other articles in the same pass by the bot. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 00:01, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
GoingBatty: Requesting update for AvantCredit article. [1] Avant recently changed its name and migrated its site from avantcredit.com to Avant.com [2] Avant has more than 600 employees [3] Avant has more than $1 Billion in funding [4] On the subject of growth, Avant acquired of the Company Ready For Zero and has served more than 175,000 customers in 46 US states and the UK [5] Avant was #6 on Forbes America's Most Promising Companies list this year [6] Rrdsouza ( talk) 16:15, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
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Be cool do not consider good article for speedy deletion (bad). stay cool. Fr: Quarter33 ( talk) 07:45, 18 April 2015 (UTC) |
The Barnstar of Diligence | |
For your service in editing catogories for a Draft article - Fern G.Z. Carr Bomb319 ( talk) 21:29, 29 April 2015 (UTC) |
Greetings, For the last couple weeks, I'm doing assessment on Category:Unknown-importance Catholicism articles.
On the article Talk pages that have importance= without a value, I have to input Low over 90 percent of the time.
For example, before {{WikiProject Catholicism|class=stub|importance=}}.
And after - {{WikiProject Catholicism|class=stub|importance=Low}}.
Wondering if BattyBot can be updated to input the Low value? IMO it would help reduce the backlog of over 5,000 articles.
Note: I've been updating existing articles on Wikipedia for about a year now, and this is my first question ever about any BOT, so I'm hoping that I explained above question clearly enough. Regards, JoeHebda ( talk) 00:17, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
|class=
, I'm not sure if there are any that can reliable populate |importance=
. You might want to post a request at
Wikipedia:Bot requests. Good luck!
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:20, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
{{{importance|mid}}}
. Therefore any page that was in
Category:Unknown-importance Kayaking articles and also in either
Category:Kayakers,
Category:Canoeists or both was safe for a Bot to tag. If you could come up with similar sets of categories for
WikiProject Catholicism where (ignoring wrongly categorised articles) all of the contained articles should have the same importance it would then be very suitable for a bot task.
Jamesmcmahon0 (
talk)
08:26, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi, You participated in the previous Persondata RfC. I just wanted to notify you that a new RfC regarding the methodical removal of Persondata is taking place at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Thanks, — Msmarmalade ( talk) 07:53, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
i' serving you a Cheeseburger Kahungunu ( talk) 10:27, 8 May 2015 (UTC) |
Where would I report errors in tools (specifically https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/)? VP doesn't seem to be the right place. Please ping in reply EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{ re}} 04:02, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
GB, are you checking to make sure that all accurate input data in the persondata templates has been transferred to the article's Wikidata profile before you remove the persondata template? Any bot can remove the template, but it takes a smart editor like GoingBatty to perform the human function of making sure all good persondata gets migrated to Wikidata . . . . Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 01:04, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
|NAME=
field, so I don't think checking Wikidata was necessary in those instances. I'm wondering how many other articles can have Persondata safely deleted because the Persondata values exist in other places in the article (e.g. only have birth/death years which are in categories, only have data that exactly matches infobox data).
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:14, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
|ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
or |SHORT DESCRIPTION=
parameter populated. However, I wonder if there are a large number of Persondata templates where the |SHORT DESCRIPTION=
is duplicated in a category. (e.g. |SHORT DESCRIPTION=Italian painter
and
Category:Italian painters). If we can get programatically get rid of some, it might help us narrow down the list of those that require manual review.
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:28, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hi. Can you explain why you're removing persondata here and here? APK whisper in my ear 22:04, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
I am not sure if this is a big deal, but I got the message pasted below. I have never edited a wiki page. I don't believe I have any sort of user account, and no-one here (in my family) goes in for that sort of thing. I just asked, so anyway, there it is, big mystery...
your message to me: Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Sting (musician), did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. GoingBatty (talk) 14:43, 1 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.150.115.128 ( talk)
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Please take a look at the article Per Holknekt that I recently created. I am planning to nominate it for DYK in the next few days so any help or improvements are welcomed. Thanks.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 19:32, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
|date=
value for each reference, and more |language=Swedish
values. Could you please check reference #4? I don't think it links to the right article. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
14:33, 21 June 2015 (UTC)An article that you have been involved in editing, Sprinkles , has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Objectivesea ( talk) 23:42, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
I have found probably an old domain of the website, linking to the Portuguese version: http://www.foradejogo.dreamhosters.com/player.php?player=198004270001&language=1. Changing it to foradejogo.net and "language=2" makes it work. See Anderson Cléber Beraldo. SLBedit ( talk) 03:35, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
hi man,
can I request your help, in opening a new page?
82.166.24.146 ( talk) 11:49, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
thanks for quick response! How can I contact you? Email or Skype would be great!
82.166.24.146 ( talk) 15:29, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
actually I do have a conflict of interest. I added a request to the articles for creation page, how can I push it? ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.166.24.146 ( talk) 07:32, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi man, thanks for the tip! actually Revenue Hits is the company that built self-advertiser and Ibario is our sister company. the sources I added maybe don't mention the name self-advertiser but buying traffic from Revenue hits happens from Self-advertiser website. I saw you edited Ibario page and that is why I contacted you. we are willing to do great efforts to make this page, or at least a page for RevenueHits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.166.24.146 ( talk) 07:46, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
On 3 July 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Per Holknekt, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Swedish fashion designer Per Holknekt (pictured) placed second in the first Swedish Big Brother season before starting the clothing company Odd Molly? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Per Holknekt. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 01:10, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
I hate to feel that I'm asking for too much, while giving so little (though I am). However, could you please give your undivided attention to the article, The Style Council. All the best, for being the best Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 18:29, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
A lot more than a little help with the article Rochdale would sure be appreciated partner. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 18:11, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Well, a lot more than a little help with the article Stockport County would sure be appreciated partner. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 13:34, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
I'm not too good at setting no objectives for other editors in the hood. However, your edits to the last two articles I requested you to edit, where just mighty fine partner. Stay Up & Stay Cool Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 11:28, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, I had to revert a whole lot of bad edits on this article, and your edits got tangled up in the bad version. Feel free to replace your edits, which looked like good ones to me. Sorry about that. All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 22:40, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
This page has {{bots|deny=DPL bot}} at the top to signal that links to DAB pages are OK. Consider for example the word "box", which is derived from Greek πύξις. The names of both the plants named ' box' and the container named ' box' come from that same word. It would be silly to have the entry for πύξις read: box, box. -- Macrakis ( talk) 01:54, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Please take a look at the article Jenny Skavlan that I have created. I plan a DYK nom for it. Thanks.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 22:31, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
What the heck? I know you weren't trying to make me look bad, but I think you managed. If I can't understand what italics have to do with unwanted AWB changes, then the guys who were beating us up on WP:VPT probably won't understand it, either. Can you explain on Village Pump? Chris the speller yack 03:08, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
GoingBatty you deserve a pie Whakaoriori ( talk) 08:32, 16 July 2015 (UTC) |
I propose that your bot also remove {{This is a redirect}} from redirect pages when it has no parameters and replace it with the redirect template formed by its parameter when it has only a single parameter, similar to {{Multiple issues}}. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 21:30, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
OK. PraeceptorIP ( talk) 02:45, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty,
Thanks for fixing and expanding references in the Harp Twins article. I think you repeated type=Ph.D. in this ref a moment ago [10]. I don't know the correct order for that parameter, or whatever its called. No ref section error was caused, but anyway, could you please remove the extra one? I would do it myself, but as I said, I don't know which one should stay, and I don't want to cause a technical error (I assume it has a number somewhere) even if it doesn't show up as such in the ref section. Many thanks in advance! Dontreader ( talk) 19:13, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar | |
I gotta give it to ya your contributions to Wikipedia are sure special and I'm damn sure that I'm grateful for them too! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 11:32, 27 July 2015 (UTC) |
The Copyeditor's Barnstar | |
I was wondering how I could tidy up Adelaide Manning so it could go to DYK. Now I see that it has magically got better. Thank you. You should see that your are credited on the DYK when I've written the nom Victuallers ( talk) 16:57, 27 July 2015 (UTC) |
Hi again, GoingBatty,
First of all, I hope my ping worked on my talk page (thanks again for your help!). Anyway, not long ago I created an article about a singer. It doesn't seem nearly as solid as the article I created previously about a band made up of four redheads, and some people have annoyed me, saying that it doesn't look ready, etc. I tell them, go ahead and nominate it for deletion (accompanied by death threats and "I know where you live" LOL Just kidding), and they have always decided against nominating it despite their complaints. By the way, it was created and edited once before by newbies, and speedy deleted.
I have prepared very good arguments to defend the improved article in case it goes through the AfD process (I expect a weak keep consensus, at least). However, here's my question for you, if you don't mind: according to WP:MUSICBIO, one criterion that is sufficient for notability is the following:
12. Has been a featured subject of a substantial broadcast segment across a national radio or TV network.
Well, it so happens to be that Ivana was featured on Channel 98, a nationwide Israeli TV channel, in 2011; it was a show dedicated entirely to her as a tribute. I contacted the producer of the show, and he gave me the link to the entire show on his official YouTube channel (there's no copyright violation). Both in Hebrew and in English it says at the beginning that the show is a tribute to this 19-year-old Dutch singer (19 back then). Here's the link. After around the first minute, she appears as a contortionist (not kidding) and then several of her videos are featured. Then it ends. So would you agree that criterion 12 is met, or not? Because that would kill the discussion. Many thanks in advance for your generous help! Dontreader ( talk) 03:17, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
A project for you perhaps. Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 21:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
You're my best friend. Whakaoriori ( talk) 10:48, 5 August 2015 (UTC) |
You will -- Whakaoriori ( talk) 03:18, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, in
this edit the BOT removed the p. from |pages=
thus leaving the reference with a meaningless figure. The p. is deliberate to show that this is a page number. Suggest that we need to change the templates to output the p. before removing it generally, only removing in cases where the p. is automatically generated by the template. Also, as an aside, it is a single page quoted so it is in the incorrect parameter it should be in |page=
.
Keith D (
talk)
17:32, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
|page=
or |pages=
: when |work=
(or an alias) is populated, the 'p.' or 'pp.' does not show.
GoingBatty (
talk)
18:14, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
{{
citation}}
, one can use {{
cite news}}
to show the page number. I made the change.
Bgwhite (
talk)
00:14, 5 August 2015 (UTC)You might consider removing extra "p." values from {{ cite book}}, where it is unambiguously rendered incorrectly, as in File:F. A. Davis.jpg, even while discussion about {{ cite journal}} continues. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:44, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
|nopp=
parameter, but it appears that this is now ignored when |nopp=1
. Suggest that BOT removed the |nopp=
when removing the p. from |page=
or pp. from |pages=
or if |nopp=y
then do not remove the p. or pp.
Keith D (
talk)
13:08, 7 August 2015 (UTC)|nopp=y
from
Category:CS1 maint: Extra text. What do you think? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
14:56, 7 August 2015 (UTC){{cite book |title=Title |nopp=y |page=pp. 5}}
(also |nopp=yes
and |nopp=true
)
{{cite book |title=Title |nopp=n |page=pp. 5}}
|nopp=1
≠ |nopp=y
. The code has not changed since the 2015-07-25 update.
|nopp=1
is an invalid value, we should put citations with such values in the invalid parameter value category so that they can be cleaned up. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
15:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
|nopp=1
is not a valid value, I can do a database dump search for citations containing this error and fix them manually before turning on the bot. Thanks everyone for all your help!
GoingBatty (
talk)
15:27, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
|nopp=1
was introduced to get round an earlier change in the old {{
cite book}} template this was superseded by |nopp=y
so can be got rid of or converted whichever is easier. Probably not many of them left.
Keith D (
talk)
16:20, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
|nopp=1
. I did not change any where the |nopp=
value was some other number.
GoingBatty (
talk)
23:49, 7 August 2015 (UTC)Thanks for sending me the info, and for making the edits. I had no idea about refs vs external links (now thanks to you I know the difference), and that i didnt need a signature unless its me talking. Thanks for setting up my talk page! Mylifeishard ( talk) 05:21, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
confusion
There was a standard link to a Wikisource article
[[s:Declaration at the Congress of Vienna|deceleration outlawing Napoleon]]
deceleration outlawing Napoleonthis was changed by this edit (17 April 2015) to
[//en.wikisource.org/wik0i/Declaration at the Congress of Vienna declaration outlawing Napoleon]
declaration outlawing NapoleonThe bot changed this to:
[//en.wikisource.org/wik0i/Declaration at the Congress of Vienna declaration outlawing Napoleon]
at the Congress of Vienna declaration outlawing NapoleonI have now reverted the line to its original format:
[[s:Declaration at the Congress of Vienna|deceleration outlawing Napoleon]]
deceleration outlawing NapoleonHow did your algorithm make this mistake? [and] how is it that it gave such a misleading edit history message:
as this edit does not seem to have fixed anything that ought to show up in that category? -- PBS ( talk) 12:17, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
|edition=2nd ed
will be rendered as (2nd ed ed.), it is also mistakenly marking pages that contain valid parameters ending in "ed" such as |edition=illustrated
, which is why
Waterloo Campaign, 8–15 June is in this category. This is a bug that has been fixed in the sandbox, per
this conversation.Oh, sorry. It is just some stupid inside jokes... :) Hafspajen ( talk) 17:27, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Writing to you regarding
BattyBot
task 34, which I see last
tagged 915 pages February 23–24. Also pinging
Magioladitis, whose
Yobot
tagged over 4 thousand pages on September 16, 2014. Regarding
BattyBot 34 testing, I am specifically interested in why you skipped talk pages that are redirect pages.
Redrose64 is correct about this frequently occurring scenario. I see that
Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation § Templates still says {{
WikiProject Disambiguation}} - Project banner for talk pages with discussion. Please do not use to create talk pages that have no discussion.
So there are three options for these pages:
The one thing we should not be doing is keeping a redirect to a content page on the talk page of a dab. I'm somewhat ambivalent about which option is preferable, and I've read some of the past discussions to see that there's been some disagreement on this issue.
The reason I'm here is that I ran into a note on the
Category:Possible cut-and-paste moves page: See also
User:Mikaey/Broken talk pages which lists talk pages which redirect elsewhere but have a non-redirecting subject page.
This list was created on 15 August 2009 by a one-time manual run of
AarghBot (based on 20090810 database dump). Six years passed, with nobody tending to this,
until me. A surprisingly large percentage of these items had not been fixed, until I did it. Most, but not all items I've fixed by option #1 above. So far, nobody has yelled at me for violations to the spirit of
WP:WPDAB. Obviously, I'd like to automate, or semi-automate:
I'm wondering if AWB can do this. What Magioladitis considers trivial (ArticleText = @"{{WikiProject Disambiguation}}" + "\r\n" + ArticleText; in the custom module and set "skip it contains..." {{WikiProject Disambiguation}}) is something that really stretches past what I know how to easily do with AWB. I do know that AWB can't follow talk page redirects to accomplish this task, and there's an option to turn that default off. – Wbm1058 ( talk) 19:19, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
On 14 August 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jenny Skavlan, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that actress Jenny Skavlan was married in 2014 in a dress she designed and made herself? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jenny Skavlan. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 11:57, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
don'n talk :P — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.126.0.35 ( talk) 09:11, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
On 18 August 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Thea Austin, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that five songs sung by Thea Austin charted in the Top 40 of singles charts around the world? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Thea Austin. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Chris Woodrich ( talk) 06:03, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
On 21 August 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Adelaide Manning, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Adelaide Manning helped Florence Nightingale to fund Cornelia Sorabji when she arrived from India in 1889 to obtain a degree? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Adelaide Manning. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Gatoclass ( talk) 16:34, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that some edits performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. They are as follows:
Please check these pages and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot ( talk) 00:17, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
|author=
parameters before my edits.
GoingBatty (
talk)
00:53, 24 August 2015 (UTC)..at the article about Ester Claesson. Thank you.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 17:52, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
|work=
or |publisher=
parameter for each reference. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:45, 26 August 2015 (UTC)— cyberpower Chat:Online 22:14, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Jean Lambert-wild (en). Since you had some involvement with the Jean Lambert-wild (en) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. — Godsy( TALK CONT) 06:44, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
I recently found and fixed a CS1 date parameter that looked something like 1991. I think that it had been in the article for a while, so I thought I would bring it to your attention. We're not supposed to have linked dates, so it looks like a simple pattern would catch and fix this type of error. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 22:46, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
incategory:"CS1 errors: dates" insource:/date\s*=\s*\[\[/
, which found 97 hits in article space. Some of them have patterns that look fixable; as usual, most of them are just bizarre and will require human intervention. |date=
Ferris State University
??? Sigh. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
03:23, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
incategory:"CS1 errors: dates" insource:/date\s*=\s*[CEGHIKLPQRTUVXYZ]/
gives 945 results and incategory:"CS1 errors: dates" insource:/date\s*=\s*[abdefghijklmopqrstuvwxyz]/
gives 701 results.
GoingBatty (
talk)
04:57, 25 August 2015 (UTC)Oh, the carnage. There's a whole lot of strangeness in there, but I'm seeing a few patterns. Here's a list of ones that might be fixable by the bot task. Most of them appeared in |date=
, but some were in |access-date=
or |publication-date=
. In many cases, if you search for and remove the leading text (e.g. "Information generated on" or "Last Modified" or "posted on") and the date is still not fixed, there is an existing pattern in the task's code that can clean up the citation on a second pass. The parameter values listed below are the complete value copied and pasted from an actual citation unless otherwise noted. My notes are in parentheses.
Happy hunting! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 06:09, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible to suggest an edit for a protected page? Apparently author Neil Gaiman was recently eaten by a bear. Or possibly multiple bears. The truth will SHOCK you. Yarnspinner11 ( talk) 05:27, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty, I stumbled on this article, somehow or other. There's something odd happened just below the hatnote and I can't immediately see what the problem is. Thought it might be something you could fix instantaneously!! Thanks. Regards, Eagleash ( talk) 17:08, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks... I'll remember to look at the template if I come across anything similar in the future. Eagleash ( talk) 19:14, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
This article translated from Spanish could use a little help from BattyBot's task 25. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:26, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
.. at Lo Kauppi, Micael Bindefeld, Anna Bråkenhielm and Saga Becker.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 23:40, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
|trans_title=
parameter for each of the references. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk)
00:29, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:54, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
Sabaa Tahir and An Ember in the Ashes.
And also track those pages patrolled by Hermera34. He/She didn't find much Notability problem about an article with one line with no source Luther Burbank High School (Texas). So, I nominated it for deletion. But he finds my sourced articles as not meeting notability guidelines. -- Action Hero 17:51, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
You wrote "I'm open to someone else proposing other unobjectionable increase to the scope for this request"
. It might be worth having the bot add, in place of {{
Persondata}}, an {{
Authority control}} template; this won't display unless there are values in Wikidata, in which case it will display those values; if the values are added to Wikidata later, then it will activate at that time.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
22:06, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
On 14 September 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ester Claesson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ester Claesson is considered Sweden's first female landscape architect? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ester Claesson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 14:51, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for improving the Democracy Now! article! Edcolins ( talk) 19:23, 14 September 2015 (UTC) |
I am a bit confused (confuciused) by this edit. On an unrelated note, have you seen these history pages? 1 & 2. Do you know a good solution to stop all those people who believe that their local team is the best? The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 06:38, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
GB, looks like you received final approval. Please let me know when the bot runs its full cycle on the first phase. I am very curious to see how many effectively empty templates it removes. It appears that there are a substantial number that were added by AWB users, but with nothing more than some version of the article title entered into the name= parameter. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 19:21, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Oh, I have been off Wikipedia for over a day. Plenty of things to do in IRL, but now I am back! I have responded to your questions at my talk page.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 18:37, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
On 17 September 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lo Kauppi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that actress Lo Kauppi was a singer and guitar player in the feminist punk band Vagina Grande? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lo Kauppi. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Gatoclass ( talk) 01:37, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with the degree-stuff! BTW the Runningback U redirects will be deleted soon. The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 22:17, 18 September 2015 (UTC) |
If you want to you can please review my noms at TAFI. I need some more input. Thanks. Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Nominations.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 16:03, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
WP:RFA... Yes/no? (I wanted to email you this instead, but you don't have email active...) Steel1943 ( talk)
I don't know what to do with these questions so I thought I just drop 'em here, maybe you know what to do.
The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 15:19, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
<ref>...</ref>
tags were missing. I did some cleanup, but more is needed. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
23:37, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
If you don't mind my asking, how should one handle a cite linking to a url that is now dead? Deleting it seems a bit harsh in case the source has just moved. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 16:56, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
|archive-url=
and put the archiving date into |archive-date=
. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
17:01, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
BattyBot has been removing ]]
at the end of images. It only removes the brackets if the end of the caption is a wikilink, thus four in a row. Examples are
[12] and
[13]. I have been fixing them when I find them. I have reverted ~8 edits of BattyBot so you can see some other articles. It has been going on for atleast two days.
Bgwhite (
talk)
20:45, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
A similar issue has been reported in T114345 and fixed in rev 11698. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:04, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
@
Magioladitis and
Rjwilmsi: Still having troubles with brackets and images. See
Binary data. I'm running 11694, so I don't know if the newer version fixes the problem.
Bgwhite (
talk)
00:46, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
I found a straightforward date error in |airdate=
, in
Financial astrology. I checked the task 25 source code, and it looks like BattyBot is not yet looking for |airdate=
or |air-date=
. If you could add that parameter, that would be great.
It looks like |laydate=
and |lay-date=
are also subject to date validation (do a Find for laydate at
Module:Citation/CS1), although I can't recall finding a date error in one of those parameters. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
13:36, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
On 3 October 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anna Bråkenhielm, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the reality entertainment concept Expedition Robinson (also known as Survivor) was bought by CEO Anna Bråkenhielm and aired on Swedish television in 1997? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anna Bråkenhielm. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Chris Woodrich ( talk) 06:11, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Bharatiya29 ( talk) 09:29, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
Could you please me with the article Niall Hone. Thanks! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 13:11, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, maybe a little help with the article Philipp Tschauner. It seems to be poorly translated from German. Thanks! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 12:56, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
If you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Imre Szabics? Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 20:20, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
|language=
and |trans-title=
parameters in the last two references. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk)
20:41, 25 July 2015 (UTC)Well, I'd like you check the lead again (to see if it makes any sense!). Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 21:11, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
If you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the articles Every Sperm Is Sacred and Galaxy Song? Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 16:56, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
Me again! (sigh), if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the articles Mark Mothersbaugh and Devo. Thanks! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 10:00, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
I've ran out of conversation openers, so could you please help me with the article Josh Mancell, thanks. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:34, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
I asked you to help with this article (Josh Mancell), because I was talking to him not long ago and he seems like a real nice dude, he even said he'll post out his autograph out to me at the end of this week too! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 10:04, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
If you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Mim Grey. Thanks! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 12:40, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
I'd go with singer-songwriter :). Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 13:54, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article John Perry. And remember that I always highly appreciate your edits :) Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 11:41, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Andy Pratt. Blessings always :) Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 12:45, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Mike Kellie. I trust you'll drum up something good :) Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 09:33, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Alan Mair. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:46, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Rikk Agnew. Once again thanking you in advance Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 10:52, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, if you've still got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Henry Small. Can I thank you enough? Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 10:34, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, again, again, if you've got any spare time left at all, could you please help me with the article Ruby Turner. As always I'ma most a grateful Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 11:58, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, again, again, again, again, if you've got any spare time left at all, could you please help me with the article Dan Woodgate. Is this annoying yet? Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:30, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, again, again, again, again, again, again, if you've still got any spare time left at all, could you please help me with the article Chas Smash. Still annoying? Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 16:01, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, please help with the article Jayne County. It's all I can ask.... Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:56, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Please help me!!!! with the articles Peter Perrett and The Only Ones; you shall be knighted! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 15:25, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Please help me!!!! with the articles Casey Royer and D.I.; sadly, it turns out that I can't knight you. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 19:44, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Ello a ickle elp wit da art-e-culs Marilyn Martin and This Is Serious, wood be mucha appreciated. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 13:03, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
I'm a guy who needs help with the article Guy Pratt. Many thanks as usual Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 09:41, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Help with Pina Kollars, please Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 12:57, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
S'more help, but with Steve Nieve. Many thanks Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 13:00, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
An ickel elp vit Suggs und Madness vlease. Vanking you Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 15:20, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Please help me with the article, Brigitte Zarie. Thank you Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 07:04, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty, thanks for creating talk pages for some of the articles I created such as this this and this. I started off doing it manually but that was too combusome. I would be happy to learn from you the AWB filter that gave you that result. Thanks again. —M@sssly ✉ 17:06, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Ghana|class=stub}}
with "Sort meta data after" checked. On the "Skip" tab, at the bottom I chose "Don't care" so it would add the template whether the talk page exists or not.
GoingBatty (
talk)
17:11, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Ghana|class=stub}}
. Eg. In AWB to make such a list I do Source:Category (recursive) and enter Category:Ghana and click on Make list. It produces a list of main-space articles among others and appends the text {{WikiProject Ghana|class=stub}}
in those articles instead of their talk pages.
—M@sssly
✉
18:10, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
|class=stub
to those in a subcategory of
Category:Ghana stubs. Good luck!
GoingBatty (
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A 1/4 million edits and another 3/4 million edits through BattyBot. Fixes WP articles with AWB, HotCat, WPCleaner and many others. One of the chief architects of the "Typo rules" that AWB uses. Disambiguator Hall of Fame member, Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles member, Wikipedia:Typo Team member and Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting member. |
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Buster Seven
Talk
14:36, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
I noticed BattyBot subtituted from {{ Conflict of interest}} to {{ COI}} with this edit to conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia. Sadly these templates are not connected. I suspected this might be the result of a change made to general fixes (by an editor unaware of the problem), but I cannot see it in the list. Can you advise? Thanks. -- Andrewaskew ( talk) 05:22, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
On my sandbox, changes were made to links on a group discussion about our collaborative edit of the article "Offender Profiling." I cannot understand what the changes are, why they were made, or why a sandbox would need them. Can you please help me, as a new editor, understand? Thank you. User: paul.Mott Paul.mott ( talk) 11:42, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
[[Category:Offender profiling]]
to [[:Category:Offender profiling]]
, which removes your sandbox page from the category and instead creates a link to the category. Hope this helps, and happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk)
02:17, 22 October 2015 (UTC)It does. Thank you. Paul 173.209.211.238 ( talk) 12:26, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
I am not sure, but I can not imagine that the article on Eileen Ford is actually a B-class article. Please take a look. Cheers.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 15:14, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
Respected Mr. GoingBatty,
Would like to share with you that I'm very new to wikipedia community. When you reviewd my article Devsena Mishra [1] on 3rd August 2015 I felt good and encouraged but yesterday after two months of your approval, user Missvain nominated it for deletion. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk%3AGoingBatty&action=unwatch Need your guidance...
Best Regards, vishalgauravjh1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vishalgauravjh1 ( talk • contribs) 17:36, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
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Respected Mr. GoingBatty,
Your profile is inspirational, I'm feeling happy and inspired.
Best Regards, vishalgauravjh1 Vishalgauravjh1 ( talk) 12:44, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
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Please check AWB's latest revision. This is what we needed for skip conditions. It needs some testing though. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:42, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
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Respected Mr. GoingBatty, I lost my article Devsena Mishra, but I would like to thank you for your support. Best Regards, Vishalgauravjh1 ( talk) 16:05, 5 November 2015 (UTC) |
GoingBatty, I see you active with AWB a lot, and with your bot, so I thought you might be able to help me with this:
Wikipedia_talk:User_scripts#Give_out_Deletion_to_Quality_Awards_and_log_at_Hall_of_Fame
Any ideas or input or help or advice ?
Thank you,
— Cirt ( talk) 02:46, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
If you want to, you can take a look at the article about Allegra Versace. That article is this weeks TAFI.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 22:13, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
I'd like to thank you for doing the work on my request. As you might have seen, I'm limited by a white-list and my English is quite allright, but most definitely not good enough to start writing into existing articles. (Corekt my if i'M ronk...) No really, If you notice some mistakes, don't hesitate to correct me. Fact is, I like the work you did and I'm happy with the results. With kind regards, Oxygene7-13 ( talk) 11:20, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
If you want to, take a look at the article about Marie Serneholt which is this weeks TAFI article. Regards.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 19:42, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, could you explain why you and others use AWB to move references around kind this? [14] The references used are always ordered in a specific way to support the material used, so I'm at a loss why they are being moved like this in many articles. Viriditas ( talk) 02:08, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Please help me with the article David Gilmour, thanks! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 10:28, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Could you please help me with the articles Sam Brown and Pauline Murray. Cheers! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 12:09, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
And could you please help me with the articles Tony Hadley, Gary Kemp, and Spandau Ballet. Thank you for everything Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 20:31, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Could you please help me with the articles Glenn Gregory and Heaven 17. Cheers my dears Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 19:31, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Please help with the articles Mike Barson, Lee Thompson, Mark Bedford, and Chris Foreman. Have fun! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:12, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Could you please help me with the article Colin Blunstone? Thanking you Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:59, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
I came across this date format that BattyBot's task 25 might be able to fix:
|publication-date = 2014년 3월 5주차
in
4Minute World. As far as I can tell, that's year, month, and day in Korean.I also came across this one, which BattyBot should have fixed but apparently did not:
| publication-date = 07 April 2015
in
4Minute discographyAnd a couple more:
|date=1 December 2010 (updated 6 December 2010)
in
905th Air Refueling Squadron|accessdate=(search) 18 February 2014
in
908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron and in many similar articles.Thanks! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 06:16, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
| accessdate = 11 tháng 10 năm 2014
in
Vic Cathedral.I notice that you are keeping well away from this editor's talk page. But do you think you could add anything to the discussion or give Magioladitis any advice that he might listen to? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 17:10, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
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14:16, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
As an IP editor correctly noted here, a double-hyphen has a technical meaning in programming languages apart from the linguistic punctuation usage. Does BattyBot have any exclusion heuristics, such as content within a <code> and/or indented (<pre>) markup? DMacks ( talk) 06:51, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
<code>...</code>
or <pre>...</pre>
tags.
GoingBatty (
talk)
00:17, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[15]. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:41, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I remember you helped me one time to write a regex. Now I have another question. I have about 350 links to change:
Can you help me to write this regex? I was thinking about something like this: find http:\/\/www\.popkiller\.pl\/(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}),(\w+(-|\s|}|]|\|))+
replace http://www.popkiller.pl/$1,$2
. But i think the replace is wrong. Thank you in advance. --
The Polish (
talk)
22:38, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
(http:\/\/www\.popkiller\.pl\/\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2},[a-z|-]+)_
replace $1-
and run it 10 times. Good luck!
GoingBatty (
talk)
00:33, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear GoingBatty,
1) The argument that Slavs were proto-Aryans is a nonsensical and highly dangerous/inflammatory statement as it opens up a whole slew of eugenics or genetic-superiority implications-- all early main Aryan cultures (Indic, Iranic, Germanic) continue to survive and Slavs have no place in this regard whatsoever,
2) The identity of Slavs are tied to their language, and it is the only thing they have: a highly irregular and unnecessarily complicated language that was furthered as it's own lineage,
The references for my changes are the status quo, and you provide a very opinionated and biased view of slavs. My changes corrected for the existing bias, and provided objectivity.
Few of many references provided below. Please do not mistake my edit as anything other than corrections based on fact and anthropological evidence. Please revert my changes as soon as possible.
Du Feu, V.. (1994). [Review of The Origins of the Slavs: A Linguist's View]. The Slavonic and East European Review, 72(1), 157–159. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4211448
Fisher, R. L.. (1977). IE *po- in Slavic and Iranian. Zeitschrift Für Vergleichende Sprachforschung, 91(2), 219–230. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40848525
Dvornik, F.. (1960). [Review of The Origins of Russia]. The American Historical Review, 65(2), 347–349. http://doi.org/10.2307/1842882
EDIT:
I'm adding references about how the Aryan identity was abused for political gains in the 19th century, since a similar issue is occurring above:
Leopold, J.. (1974). British Applications of the Aryan Theory of Race to India, 1850-1870. The English Historical Review, 89(352), 578–603. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/567427
Cannon, G.. (1998). [Review of Aryans and British India]. Anthropological Linguistics, 40(2), 348–351. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/30028638
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.189.127.76 ( talk) 07:59, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for your tireless work in improving cites and references! - Cwobeel (talk) 04:31, 6 December 2015 (UTC) |
Take a look at the articles about Hilda Nilsson and Lena Larsson that I have created. If you find time for it. Regards,-- BabbaQ ( talk) 15:29, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
BattyBot made this change which resulted in category links being added after userboxes. Ultimately, I think the categories should be removed from this userbox (and I am going to pursue making this change) but I wanted you to be aware of how this change is affecting users. (please ping me if you reply) Etamni | ✉ | ✓ 16:02, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
<noinclude>...</noinclude>
so they won't impact user pages. Feel free to remove one or both of these categories if they don't apply. Hope this helps!
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16:21, 9 December 2015 (UTC)Can you please take a look at the two pages in Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/061 dump? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:44, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, in
this edit, BattyBot altered |pages=page 20
to |pages=20
, but as there's only one, surely it should have become |page=20
? --
Redrose64 (
talk)
08:22, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
|pages=page 20
to |page=20
. However, I won't go back through the bot's previous edits to change |pages=20
to |page=20
since that wouldn't change the way the citation is displayed to the reader. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
16:25, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
|page=pp51–53
|page=pp88–90
|page=pp90–92
|page=pp86–88
became |page=51–53
|page=88–90
|page=90–92
|page=86–88
but should really have become |pages=51–53
|pages=88–90
|pages=90–92
|pages=86–88
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:22, 12 December 2015 (UTC)Could you please help me with the articles Rod Argent and The Zombies. Thank you. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 16:16, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Help would be greatly appreciated (as always) with the articles Richard James Burgess and Landscape. Thank you Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 15:23, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for everything and please help me with the article Chris White (musician). Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:23, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Could you please take a look at the article about Dominik Henzel that I created a few weeks back. It is up for AfD but the main reason for deletion seems to be article quality. So if there is any improvements that you can see that could be made, please do. Regards,-- BabbaQ ( talk) 23:48, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
|trans_title=
parameter for each reference? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:03, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
Can you please resume the WPBS addition this time starting from Jazz-project template? Or more generally, start from redirects with size ~1000 tranclusions. My updated list is located here. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:55, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar | |
For your teamwork actions. Working with you is always a pleasure and make Wikipedia editing more pleasant for me. Magioladitis ( talk) 12:08, 15 December 2015 (UTC) |
Do you think I should go and fix AWB to match the new guidelines or wait a few days? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:51, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
rev 11757 updated AWB's code to match consensus. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:04, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
I wonder whether we should ask to run AWB bots in talk pages to correct placement of DYK. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:06, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
To You and Yours!
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 18:33, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I just noticed this edit where the bot added the {{ WikiProjectBannerShell}} template and updated {{ WP Television}} to {{ WikiProject Television}}, but it missed out the {{ WP Fictional characters}} template, and wondered if maybe there's a list of WikiProjects that needs updating or something else you might need to do so this doesn't get missed out in the future. Anemone Projectors 15:37, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
{{
WPWA}}
and so excluded it from the shelled banners, is related. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:45, 20 December 2015 (UTC){{
WPJW}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:57, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
{{
WPWA}}
and {{
WPJW}}
, and then will fix any that my bot excluded from the WPBS. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
23:02, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
On 22 December 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lena Larsson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that interior designer Lena Larsson became known as a pioneer for the unconventional, family-friendly environments she created? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lena Larsson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 12:02, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Merry Christmas, GB, and may your holidays be merry and bright . . . . Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 16:14, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
I recently saw that you fixed/changed some of the things I made. So thank you for that! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ae9000ae ( talk • contribs) 23:14, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Christmas wishes Always :) ( talk) 15:35, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
careful, infoboxes are not citation templates :) Frietjes ( talk) 13:22, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar | |
Nice Catch Mfalc1 ( talk) 15:58, 24 December 2015 (UTC) |
The page was moved to a draft which I think is not right and shouldn't be a draft. Could you help? Ae9000ae ( talk) 10:36, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
Happy Holidays! | |
Hi, GoingBatty! Have a happy and safe season, and a blessed new year! Holiday cheers, -- Discographer ( talk) 00:55, 25 December 2015 (UTC) |
??? Xx236 ( talk) 06:25, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Could I see the module code for this one? Interested on how you change parameters in an infobox. Bgwhite ( talk) 00:01, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
|clubupdate=
and |repupdate=
|updated=
.|rl_clubupdate=
and 7 more "update" parameters.Could you please help me with the articles Gerald Casale and Bob Casale. Thank you Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 13:12, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Thank you and here's my final page for requested help this year Alfie Agnew. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:24, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
On 31 December 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hilda Nilsson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that serial killer Hilda Nilsson committed suicide by hanging the same day the courts commuted her death sentence to life imprisonment? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hilda Nilsson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
- Thank you Sir! I'll try to do it. Leništudent 16:51, 3 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leništudent ( talk • contribs)
I've been asking a few people, but would you be the first to respond? Thanks!
Here it goes: On the Oobi at Work article, someone redirected it to its production company, but I don't know if that was the best choice. Do you think that the separate page should have been kept or is the current state better? Thanks a lot, an experienced Wikipedian's opinion means a lot! Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer ( talk) 00:58, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
- Actually, I need help on this decision: would the IMDb rating for Oobi at Work qualify for "Reception" or should I look for a singular critic review? Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer ( talk) 16:43, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for some of your recent edit to the Norm Phelps article, upon which I had worked assiduously less than a day ago.
You list three (3) university alma maters for the recently deceased Norman Phelps (whom I knew),
but I know only of his one (1) alma mater:
Could you please document the other two (2) CLAIMS that he attended those other two universities:
They do NOT appear on the Norm Phelps LinkedIn page, nor in any online interview, nor in his own self-published online minibio. MaynardClark ( talk) 04:15, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I have noticed that you reviewed the article mentioned previously on your talk page by two users, Oobi at Work, as Class-Redirect. It was once made a redirect by accident, it seems, but now that it is not a redirect, could you please re-assess the article? I have seen the television show myself and the page seems to be accurate and meet Wikipedia's article quality standards. Derbundeskanzler ( talk) 01:13, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Yeah, you're right. You didn't mess up the page. Dizzy 010 messed it up. You still don't have to be a prick about it with your pretentious quotation marks. BlaccCrab ( talk) 09:49, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Best of luck to you with the new year man BlaccCrab ( talk) 06:53, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
There are a few (< 120) old style Multiple issues that need to be checked manually. Main problems could be:
Bot action revealed many duplicates templates. I also discovered a bot error. In very few cases it moved a section template to the top. Please fix any of these on sight. I started checking too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:58, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
I found solutions for almost everything. 7 pages left. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:34, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
I agree. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:41, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Batty, really appreciate your help, i will definitely try to update the page as is advised now, hope you will have the occasion tho have a look at it sometimes. Joan Bozoky — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joan Bozoky ( talk • contribs) 09:18, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi User:GoingBatty, I see that your BattyBot has removed orphan tags I added to a couple of articles referring to academic journals. I was looking at these and could not find any links to them (manually). Could I have missed them? Is there a reliable way of checking it manually? Ankababel ( talk) 11:53, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
You created User:Saqib mosin/sandbox by copy&paste. It would probably have been better to create it with a move. But if you used copy&paste you did need to notify Saqib otherwise he might never notice that it was there. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 17:07, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
BattyBot task#37 has been approved, thank you for your patience! — xaosflux Talk 02:40, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
you won a kitty
Bettifm (
talk)
01:01, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
On 19 January 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carolina Neurath, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Swedish journalist Carolina Neurath ventured into acting when she starred as Princess Arianna Ad'lah in the film Star Wars: Threads of Destiny in 2014? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carolina Neurath. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Crisco 1492 ( talk) 04:21, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
On 22 January 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Karolina Olsson, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Swedish woman Karolina Olsson purportedly stayed in a constant state of sleep for 32 years? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Karolina Olsson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:45, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, there. Thanks for taking the trouble to make an edit at Ayers Rock. Unfortunately, you made a beginners mistake, despite the fact that you are obviously one of the most experienced editors in English Wikipedia. In a section which I recently created to improve the article, you changed "humourous" to "humorous". At the top of the article, there is a template instructing editors to use Australian English, which was put there by another editor. Another factor that you were not aware of, is that it is extremely rare for me to edit a spelling mistake into an article. The preferred Australian spelling is "humourous", and I have changed it back (but that is the only element of your edit that I have changed). Thankyou for your time. CaesarsPalaceDude ( talk) 07:19, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello Going Batty, We corresponded a while ago about the Sunbeam Rapier page and I was wondering if you could help with a small citation problem? I have just added an image to the Foden (lorries) page and amended the wording slightly. My source for the information is the annotation at the Science Museum (London) appertaining to the vehicle which is on display there. I cannot see a "template" which could be adapted so have just added the source in "prose" as it were, but am not convinced it's OK. I did try a footnote (using a symbol) but wasn't happy with that either. Any thoughts? Thanks for any assistance. Regards, Eagleash ( talk) 21:53, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm in the process of updating the WP:TOTD department's tip collection, as some of the tips have gone obsolete. So I'm looking for useful techniques and tools, that is, tips, to replace them with.
Any leads on the latest and greatest wiki-related programs, extensions, plug-ins, scripts, commands, or methods, would be most appreciated.
So far, I've added the following new tips:
If you spot any errors in them, please let me know. The Transhumanist 08:11, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your attention to Scott Miller (pop musician), my favorite songwriter. I would love to get that article noticed, and ultimately to bring it to GA status, along with the related articles on Game Theory (band) and their albums. If you're inclined to tell me where you think the Miller article needs improvement in order to get to GA, I really would appreciate the advice. I've been an editor for 11⁄2 years, and feel good about the quality of my contributions, but still haven't produced any FAs, GAs, DYKs, whatever. I'm really not sure why, but I begin to suspect that it doesn't just happen on its own. Do I need to self-nominate for those things, or should I instead be trying to make friendly connections with more experienced editors (as I'm attempting right now)?
Also, thanks for the discussion of tools in the section above; I've raided your vector.js and vector.css, and stocked up on useful scripts! Lwarrenwiki ( talk) 15:57, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hello there, I created the article for "Susan Feeney" and you tagged it with "orphan." I looked up the guidelines on de-orphaning, and I think I've done everything it says to successfully de-orphan, but it is still tagged orphan. Can you teach me how to de-orphan? What do I have to correctly do to de-orphan the page? I'd really appreciate your help! Thank you! Pubmediagroupie ( talk) 15:55, 5 February 2015 (UTC)pubmediagroupie
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nicolo's grep bit it along with toolserver
I've replaced the link on your user page with it's successor. The Transhumanist 07:00, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
In my opinion, AWB should be able to use the live database replica on Labs instead of requiring the editors to download the entire dumps themselves (which is impossible for users with a bad connection, e.g. me), similar to BLAST which allows users to do queries on the live gene database. There's Quarry which has a pretty good queuing system, so maybe we can integrate AWB into it? Zhaofeng Li [ talk... contribs... 01:27, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
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I have a teaching book for the trade school of engine mechanics, written in Dutch; first edition 1942 by Langenhuysen and Swaak, 4th edition 1951, published by Uitgeverij v/h A. Kemperman in Haarlem. In it is a chapter of the Jaffa HH axial engine with description, pictures and drawings. As far as I could find out, there is no conflict with copyright if the scanned pages are shown in this article. As I am not wanting to edit in Wikipedia, I am inviting you or anyone interested to add these scans. If you want to do so, contact me on zerealbigboss@yahoo.com, so I can send you the 4 scans. Ed. 163.47.220.127 ( talk) 21:51, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sojmed ( talk • contribs) 15:19, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
GoingBatty,
Have you considered applying to be part of the Bot Approvals Group? As an experienced operator I think you would make a good candidate, and we are usually in need of active contributors to avoid backlogs. — xaosflux Talk 19:45, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
BattyBot is going around changing {{ Notability}} to "Notability|Sports" on a number of sportsplayer pages ( example). Shouldn't they be tagged as "Notability|Biography", though? – Muboshgu ( talk) 18:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
You won a Kitty
Bettifm (
talk)
02:26, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi - I noticed this article had been nominated for deletion and you had contributed a lot of work cleaning it up, so thought you might like to express an opinion one way or another on its notability. -- Cedders tk 13:02, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
It seems like we should have caught this one before, but it looks like BattyBot's task 25 hasn't yet figured out how to fix |date=2012-09-16, updated 2012-09-17
, as in
Gangnam Style in popular culture. I would drop the first date and the word "updated". –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
05:32, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
|origyear=
(which, despite its name, can take a full date and explanatory text).
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:04, 26 February 2015 (UTC)Greetings GB. I've left a note about the problems with the
Tax Statements article on the talk page. I intend to fix it in a few days anyway. I don't normally use this template -have I missed some details out?
Regards
JRPG (
talk)
21:45, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Please take a look at the article about Måns Zelmerlöw. I have done several edits to improve the article ahead of his likely Melodifestivalen winning next weekend. Any further improvements are appreciated. Cheers.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 17:27, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
I jus reverted this change by BattyBot as it made no visible changes except inside a nowiki section which it should have left alone. I would have thought it would skip nowiki sections automatically, or AWB would, as although it can't break anything doing such changes it can't fix anything either, and really can't know what is correct to do without reviewing the rest of the edit and understanding the intent of it.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 19:23, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
<nowiki>
tags.<nowiki>
tags would be appreciated.
GoingBatty (
talk)
19:42, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hello GoingBatty ,
Thank you so much for your contribution on my wikipedia page( 121 Systems ) .I deeply appreciate it .
Regards, Ronaldlobo ( talk) 15:45, 12 March 2015 (UTC)Ronald Lobo Ronaldlobo ( talk) 15:45, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
I have requested at WP:BOTREQ about a bot that fills out the {{ Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Accomplishments/row}} once the oldid and newid stuff is added in. Please help consider this, because do you consider bot requests and work at TAFI? Qwertyxp2000 ( talk) 03:11, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
{{U|
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23:04, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
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I noticed that the reason that the parameter has not been removed for that long is that in many cases it shold be replaced by |genre=
instead of being removed. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
08:56, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
|format=
field, or do you mean something else? BattyBot is now just removing blank parameters.
GoingBatty (
talk)
14:15, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
|format=
was no longer being displayed, and didn't notice the hidden category. Although deprecating the parameter may be invisible to editors, the edits to remove the parameter from each article will show up on some people's watchlists, and they can move the value to the |genre=
parameter where appropriate.
GoingBatty (
talk)
14:38, 15 March 2015 (UTC)Hi, spotted this edit that was made to remove part of reference author field. I would have thought that all of the field should be removed not just the word posted. Keith D ( talk) 21:37, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
|date=
parameter is empty, and I don't want to accidentally remove a valuable (albeit misplaced) piece of information." Note that when
the citation template was added via Reflinks, the date field was blank.
GoingBatty (
talk)
21:45, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
It appears that ~50% of the "Posted"/"Posted By" removals are followed by a date.
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8] It might make sense to use the presence of the "Posted…" to perform splitting to |date=
;|author=
. There are of course variations in the date order; but they seem to split BST vs. EDT as a pattern match. Hope it helps, —
Sladen (
talk)
23:08, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
|author=
value into |date=
and |author=
would be extremely tricky, especially if there's already a |date=
field. Even manually, it appears you made some mistakes in
this edit and
this edit. I would prefer to work with Dispenser to see if we can use the presence of "Posted…" to prevent the bad data from going in to |author=
in the first place. Your support at
User talk:Dispenser#Reflinks errors would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
23:50, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Thank you so much for your advice on Willy Wiedmann article. I have added two more sources for the section "life". What would I need to do in order for meet the criteria that the sources will be accepted as reliable? I have read the Wikipedia help pages and think they now do meet the criteria. Thanks a lot and have a great day -- Dilamm ( talk) 10:53, 7 April 2015 (UTC)DiLamm
Okay, I checked out
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular_expression. Just checking that I understand this, if you don't mind.
\n|\s*(url|title|last|first|date|website|publisher|access-?date)\s*=
is what you gave me.
In English, it searches for any newline (\n) followed by zero or more spaces (\s*) followed by url, title, last, first, date, website, publisher, access-date, or accessdate followed by zero or more spaces (\s*) and then an equal sign. Is that right?
The -?
in access-?date
means "zero or one dashes", correct?
Thank you again!
EvergreenFir
(talk) Please {{
re}} 03:25, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Follow up: Tested on my sandbox and for some reason the "last" isn't working right. Used \n\|\s*(url|title|last|first|date|website|publisher|access-?date)\s*=
.
This (link) was the result.
EvergreenFir
(talk) Please {{
re}}
04:04, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
-?in
access-?datemeans "zero or one dashes". I tried changing
\n\|\s*(url|title|last|first|date|website|publisher|access-?date)\s*=
to | $1 =
on
User:EvergreenFir/sandbox6 and it worked well.
GoingBatty (
talk)
13:18, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
{{(\s*[Cc]it(?:e|ation))([^}]+)\n\|\s*(url|title|last|first|date|website|publisher|access-?date)\s*=
to $1$2| $3 =
- but you might need to make this an advanced rule repeated several times.
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:07, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Thank you both for your help! I'm happy to report that I have success with the advanced options! Working great! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{ re}} 04:09, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty! Curious if you know of any pre-existing regex code to delink commonly delink-ed things per WP:OVERLINK (e.g., delinking United States or other common words like health). I'm making my own, but I've seen others using AWB delinking things so I thought I'd ask. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{ re}} 01:48, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Something not quite right happened here, and possibly on other articles in the same pass by the bot. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 00:01, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
GoingBatty: Requesting update for AvantCredit article. [1] Avant recently changed its name and migrated its site from avantcredit.com to Avant.com [2] Avant has more than 600 employees [3] Avant has more than $1 Billion in funding [4] On the subject of growth, Avant acquired of the Company Ready For Zero and has served more than 175,000 customers in 46 US states and the UK [5] Avant was #6 on Forbes America's Most Promising Companies list this year [6] Rrdsouza ( talk) 16:15, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
References
Be cool do not consider good article for speedy deletion (bad). stay cool. Fr: Quarter33 ( talk) 07:45, 18 April 2015 (UTC) |
The Barnstar of Diligence | |
For your service in editing catogories for a Draft article - Fern G.Z. Carr Bomb319 ( talk) 21:29, 29 April 2015 (UTC) |
Greetings, For the last couple weeks, I'm doing assessment on Category:Unknown-importance Catholicism articles.
On the article Talk pages that have importance= without a value, I have to input Low over 90 percent of the time.
For example, before {{WikiProject Catholicism|class=stub|importance=}}.
And after - {{WikiProject Catholicism|class=stub|importance=Low}}.
Wondering if BattyBot can be updated to input the Low value? IMO it would help reduce the backlog of over 5,000 articles.
Note: I've been updating existing articles on Wikipedia for about a year now, and this is my first question ever about any BOT, so I'm hoping that I explained above question clearly enough. Regards, JoeHebda ( talk) 00:17, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
|class=
, I'm not sure if there are any that can reliable populate |importance=
. You might want to post a request at
Wikipedia:Bot requests. Good luck!
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:20, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
{{{importance|mid}}}
. Therefore any page that was in
Category:Unknown-importance Kayaking articles and also in either
Category:Kayakers,
Category:Canoeists or both was safe for a Bot to tag. If you could come up with similar sets of categories for
WikiProject Catholicism where (ignoring wrongly categorised articles) all of the contained articles should have the same importance it would then be very suitable for a bot task.
Jamesmcmahon0 (
talk)
08:26, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi, You participated in the previous Persondata RfC. I just wanted to notify you that a new RfC regarding the methodical removal of Persondata is taking place at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Thanks, — Msmarmalade ( talk) 07:53, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
i' serving you a Cheeseburger Kahungunu ( talk) 10:27, 8 May 2015 (UTC) |
Where would I report errors in tools (specifically https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/)? VP doesn't seem to be the right place. Please ping in reply EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{ re}} 04:02, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
GB, are you checking to make sure that all accurate input data in the persondata templates has been transferred to the article's Wikidata profile before you remove the persondata template? Any bot can remove the template, but it takes a smart editor like GoingBatty to perform the human function of making sure all good persondata gets migrated to Wikidata . . . . Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 01:04, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
|NAME=
field, so I don't think checking Wikidata was necessary in those instances. I'm wondering how many other articles can have Persondata safely deleted because the Persondata values exist in other places in the article (e.g. only have birth/death years which are in categories, only have data that exactly matches infobox data).
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:14, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
|ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
or |SHORT DESCRIPTION=
parameter populated. However, I wonder if there are a large number of Persondata templates where the |SHORT DESCRIPTION=
is duplicated in a category. (e.g. |SHORT DESCRIPTION=Italian painter
and
Category:Italian painters). If we can get programatically get rid of some, it might help us narrow down the list of those that require manual review.
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:28, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hi. Can you explain why you're removing persondata here and here? APK whisper in my ear 22:04, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
I am not sure if this is a big deal, but I got the message pasted below. I have never edited a wiki page. I don't believe I have any sort of user account, and no-one here (in my family) goes in for that sort of thing. I just asked, so anyway, there it is, big mystery...
your message to me: Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Sting (musician), did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. GoingBatty (talk) 14:43, 1 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.150.115.128 ( talk)
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Please take a look at the article Per Holknekt that I recently created. I am planning to nominate it for DYK in the next few days so any help or improvements are welcomed. Thanks.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 19:32, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
|date=
value for each reference, and more |language=Swedish
values. Could you please check reference #4? I don't think it links to the right article. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
14:33, 21 June 2015 (UTC)An article that you have been involved in editing, Sprinkles , has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Objectivesea ( talk) 23:42, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
I have found probably an old domain of the website, linking to the Portuguese version: http://www.foradejogo.dreamhosters.com/player.php?player=198004270001&language=1. Changing it to foradejogo.net and "language=2" makes it work. See Anderson Cléber Beraldo. SLBedit ( talk) 03:35, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
hi man,
can I request your help, in opening a new page?
82.166.24.146 ( talk) 11:49, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
thanks for quick response! How can I contact you? Email or Skype would be great!
82.166.24.146 ( talk) 15:29, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
actually I do have a conflict of interest. I added a request to the articles for creation page, how can I push it? ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.166.24.146 ( talk) 07:32, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi man, thanks for the tip! actually Revenue Hits is the company that built self-advertiser and Ibario is our sister company. the sources I added maybe don't mention the name self-advertiser but buying traffic from Revenue hits happens from Self-advertiser website. I saw you edited Ibario page and that is why I contacted you. we are willing to do great efforts to make this page, or at least a page for RevenueHits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.166.24.146 ( talk) 07:46, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
On 3 July 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Per Holknekt, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Swedish fashion designer Per Holknekt (pictured) placed second in the first Swedish Big Brother season before starting the clothing company Odd Molly? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Per Holknekt. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 01:10, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
I hate to feel that I'm asking for too much, while giving so little (though I am). However, could you please give your undivided attention to the article, The Style Council. All the best, for being the best Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 18:29, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
A lot more than a little help with the article Rochdale would sure be appreciated partner. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 18:11, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Well, a lot more than a little help with the article Stockport County would sure be appreciated partner. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 13:34, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
I'm not too good at setting no objectives for other editors in the hood. However, your edits to the last two articles I requested you to edit, where just mighty fine partner. Stay Up & Stay Cool Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 11:28, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, I had to revert a whole lot of bad edits on this article, and your edits got tangled up in the bad version. Feel free to replace your edits, which looked like good ones to me. Sorry about that. All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 22:40, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
This page has {{bots|deny=DPL bot}} at the top to signal that links to DAB pages are OK. Consider for example the word "box", which is derived from Greek πύξις. The names of both the plants named ' box' and the container named ' box' come from that same word. It would be silly to have the entry for πύξις read: box, box. -- Macrakis ( talk) 01:54, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Please take a look at the article Jenny Skavlan that I have created. I plan a DYK nom for it. Thanks.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 22:31, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
What the heck? I know you weren't trying to make me look bad, but I think you managed. If I can't understand what italics have to do with unwanted AWB changes, then the guys who were beating us up on WP:VPT probably won't understand it, either. Can you explain on Village Pump? Chris the speller yack 03:08, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
GoingBatty you deserve a pie Whakaoriori ( talk) 08:32, 16 July 2015 (UTC) |
I propose that your bot also remove {{This is a redirect}} from redirect pages when it has no parameters and replace it with the redirect template formed by its parameter when it has only a single parameter, similar to {{Multiple issues}}. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 21:30, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
OK. PraeceptorIP ( talk) 02:45, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty,
Thanks for fixing and expanding references in the Harp Twins article. I think you repeated type=Ph.D. in this ref a moment ago [10]. I don't know the correct order for that parameter, or whatever its called. No ref section error was caused, but anyway, could you please remove the extra one? I would do it myself, but as I said, I don't know which one should stay, and I don't want to cause a technical error (I assume it has a number somewhere) even if it doesn't show up as such in the ref section. Many thanks in advance! Dontreader ( talk) 19:13, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar | |
I gotta give it to ya your contributions to Wikipedia are sure special and I'm damn sure that I'm grateful for them too! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 11:32, 27 July 2015 (UTC) |
The Copyeditor's Barnstar | |
I was wondering how I could tidy up Adelaide Manning so it could go to DYK. Now I see that it has magically got better. Thank you. You should see that your are credited on the DYK when I've written the nom Victuallers ( talk) 16:57, 27 July 2015 (UTC) |
Hi again, GoingBatty,
First of all, I hope my ping worked on my talk page (thanks again for your help!). Anyway, not long ago I created an article about a singer. It doesn't seem nearly as solid as the article I created previously about a band made up of four redheads, and some people have annoyed me, saying that it doesn't look ready, etc. I tell them, go ahead and nominate it for deletion (accompanied by death threats and "I know where you live" LOL Just kidding), and they have always decided against nominating it despite their complaints. By the way, it was created and edited once before by newbies, and speedy deleted.
I have prepared very good arguments to defend the improved article in case it goes through the AfD process (I expect a weak keep consensus, at least). However, here's my question for you, if you don't mind: according to WP:MUSICBIO, one criterion that is sufficient for notability is the following:
12. Has been a featured subject of a substantial broadcast segment across a national radio or TV network.
Well, it so happens to be that Ivana was featured on Channel 98, a nationwide Israeli TV channel, in 2011; it was a show dedicated entirely to her as a tribute. I contacted the producer of the show, and he gave me the link to the entire show on his official YouTube channel (there's no copyright violation). Both in Hebrew and in English it says at the beginning that the show is a tribute to this 19-year-old Dutch singer (19 back then). Here's the link. After around the first minute, she appears as a contortionist (not kidding) and then several of her videos are featured. Then it ends. So would you agree that criterion 12 is met, or not? Because that would kill the discussion. Many thanks in advance for your generous help! Dontreader ( talk) 03:17, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
A project for you perhaps. Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 21:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
You're my best friend. Whakaoriori ( talk) 10:48, 5 August 2015 (UTC) |
You will -- Whakaoriori ( talk) 03:18, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, in
this edit the BOT removed the p. from |pages=
thus leaving the reference with a meaningless figure. The p. is deliberate to show that this is a page number. Suggest that we need to change the templates to output the p. before removing it generally, only removing in cases where the p. is automatically generated by the template. Also, as an aside, it is a single page quoted so it is in the incorrect parameter it should be in |page=
.
Keith D (
talk)
17:32, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
|page=
or |pages=
: when |work=
(or an alias) is populated, the 'p.' or 'pp.' does not show.
GoingBatty (
talk)
18:14, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
{{
citation}}
, one can use {{
cite news}}
to show the page number. I made the change.
Bgwhite (
talk)
00:14, 5 August 2015 (UTC)You might consider removing extra "p." values from {{ cite book}}, where it is unambiguously rendered incorrectly, as in File:F. A. Davis.jpg, even while discussion about {{ cite journal}} continues. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:44, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
|nopp=
parameter, but it appears that this is now ignored when |nopp=1
. Suggest that BOT removed the |nopp=
when removing the p. from |page=
or pp. from |pages=
or if |nopp=y
then do not remove the p. or pp.
Keith D (
talk)
13:08, 7 August 2015 (UTC)|nopp=y
from
Category:CS1 maint: Extra text. What do you think? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
14:56, 7 August 2015 (UTC){{cite book |title=Title |nopp=y |page=pp. 5}}
(also |nopp=yes
and |nopp=true
)
{{cite book |title=Title |nopp=n |page=pp. 5}}
|nopp=1
≠ |nopp=y
. The code has not changed since the 2015-07-25 update.
|nopp=1
is an invalid value, we should put citations with such values in the invalid parameter value category so that they can be cleaned up. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
15:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
|nopp=1
is not a valid value, I can do a database dump search for citations containing this error and fix them manually before turning on the bot. Thanks everyone for all your help!
GoingBatty (
talk)
15:27, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
|nopp=1
was introduced to get round an earlier change in the old {{
cite book}} template this was superseded by |nopp=y
so can be got rid of or converted whichever is easier. Probably not many of them left.
Keith D (
talk)
16:20, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
|nopp=1
. I did not change any where the |nopp=
value was some other number.
GoingBatty (
talk)
23:49, 7 August 2015 (UTC)Thanks for sending me the info, and for making the edits. I had no idea about refs vs external links (now thanks to you I know the difference), and that i didnt need a signature unless its me talking. Thanks for setting up my talk page! Mylifeishard ( talk) 05:21, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
confusion
There was a standard link to a Wikisource article
[[s:Declaration at the Congress of Vienna|deceleration outlawing Napoleon]]
deceleration outlawing Napoleonthis was changed by this edit (17 April 2015) to
[//en.wikisource.org/wik0i/Declaration at the Congress of Vienna declaration outlawing Napoleon]
declaration outlawing NapoleonThe bot changed this to:
[//en.wikisource.org/wik0i/Declaration at the Congress of Vienna declaration outlawing Napoleon]
at the Congress of Vienna declaration outlawing NapoleonI have now reverted the line to its original format:
[[s:Declaration at the Congress of Vienna|deceleration outlawing Napoleon]]
deceleration outlawing NapoleonHow did your algorithm make this mistake? [and] how is it that it gave such a misleading edit history message:
as this edit does not seem to have fixed anything that ought to show up in that category? -- PBS ( talk) 12:17, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
|edition=2nd ed
will be rendered as (2nd ed ed.), it is also mistakenly marking pages that contain valid parameters ending in "ed" such as |edition=illustrated
, which is why
Waterloo Campaign, 8–15 June is in this category. This is a bug that has been fixed in the sandbox, per
this conversation.Oh, sorry. It is just some stupid inside jokes... :) Hafspajen ( talk) 17:27, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Writing to you regarding
BattyBot
task 34, which I see last
tagged 915 pages February 23–24. Also pinging
Magioladitis, whose
Yobot
tagged over 4 thousand pages on September 16, 2014. Regarding
BattyBot 34 testing, I am specifically interested in why you skipped talk pages that are redirect pages.
Redrose64 is correct about this frequently occurring scenario. I see that
Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation § Templates still says {{
WikiProject Disambiguation}} - Project banner for talk pages with discussion. Please do not use to create talk pages that have no discussion.
So there are three options for these pages:
The one thing we should not be doing is keeping a redirect to a content page on the talk page of a dab. I'm somewhat ambivalent about which option is preferable, and I've read some of the past discussions to see that there's been some disagreement on this issue.
The reason I'm here is that I ran into a note on the
Category:Possible cut-and-paste moves page: See also
User:Mikaey/Broken talk pages which lists talk pages which redirect elsewhere but have a non-redirecting subject page.
This list was created on 15 August 2009 by a one-time manual run of
AarghBot (based on 20090810 database dump). Six years passed, with nobody tending to this,
until me. A surprisingly large percentage of these items had not been fixed, until I did it. Most, but not all items I've fixed by option #1 above. So far, nobody has yelled at me for violations to the spirit of
WP:WPDAB. Obviously, I'd like to automate, or semi-automate:
I'm wondering if AWB can do this. What Magioladitis considers trivial (ArticleText = @"{{WikiProject Disambiguation}}" + "\r\n" + ArticleText; in the custom module and set "skip it contains..." {{WikiProject Disambiguation}}) is something that really stretches past what I know how to easily do with AWB. I do know that AWB can't follow talk page redirects to accomplish this task, and there's an option to turn that default off. – Wbm1058 ( talk) 19:19, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
On 14 August 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jenny Skavlan, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that actress Jenny Skavlan was married in 2014 in a dress she designed and made herself? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jenny Skavlan. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 11:57, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
don'n talk :P — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.126.0.35 ( talk) 09:11, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
On 18 August 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Thea Austin, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that five songs sung by Thea Austin charted in the Top 40 of singles charts around the world? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Thea Austin. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Chris Woodrich ( talk) 06:03, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
On 21 August 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Adelaide Manning, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Adelaide Manning helped Florence Nightingale to fund Cornelia Sorabji when she arrived from India in 1889 to obtain a degree? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Adelaide Manning. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Gatoclass ( talk) 16:34, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that some edits performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. They are as follows:
Please check these pages and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot ( talk) 00:17, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
|author=
parameters before my edits.
GoingBatty (
talk)
00:53, 24 August 2015 (UTC)..at the article about Ester Claesson. Thank you.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 17:52, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
|work=
or |publisher=
parameter for each reference. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:45, 26 August 2015 (UTC)— cyberpower Chat:Online 22:14, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Jean Lambert-wild (en). Since you had some involvement with the Jean Lambert-wild (en) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. — Godsy( TALK CONT) 06:44, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
I recently found and fixed a CS1 date parameter that looked something like 1991. I think that it had been in the article for a while, so I thought I would bring it to your attention. We're not supposed to have linked dates, so it looks like a simple pattern would catch and fix this type of error. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 22:46, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
incategory:"CS1 errors: dates" insource:/date\s*=\s*\[\[/
, which found 97 hits in article space. Some of them have patterns that look fixable; as usual, most of them are just bizarre and will require human intervention. |date=
Ferris State University
??? Sigh. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
03:23, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
incategory:"CS1 errors: dates" insource:/date\s*=\s*[CEGHIKLPQRTUVXYZ]/
gives 945 results and incategory:"CS1 errors: dates" insource:/date\s*=\s*[abdefghijklmopqrstuvwxyz]/
gives 701 results.
GoingBatty (
talk)
04:57, 25 August 2015 (UTC)Oh, the carnage. There's a whole lot of strangeness in there, but I'm seeing a few patterns. Here's a list of ones that might be fixable by the bot task. Most of them appeared in |date=
, but some were in |access-date=
or |publication-date=
. In many cases, if you search for and remove the leading text (e.g. "Information generated on" or "Last Modified" or "posted on") and the date is still not fixed, there is an existing pattern in the task's code that can clean up the citation on a second pass. The parameter values listed below are the complete value copied and pasted from an actual citation unless otherwise noted. My notes are in parentheses.
Happy hunting! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 06:09, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible to suggest an edit for a protected page? Apparently author Neil Gaiman was recently eaten by a bear. Or possibly multiple bears. The truth will SHOCK you. Yarnspinner11 ( talk) 05:27, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty, I stumbled on this article, somehow or other. There's something odd happened just below the hatnote and I can't immediately see what the problem is. Thought it might be something you could fix instantaneously!! Thanks. Regards, Eagleash ( talk) 17:08, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks... I'll remember to look at the template if I come across anything similar in the future. Eagleash ( talk) 19:14, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
This article translated from Spanish could use a little help from BattyBot's task 25. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:26, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
.. at Lo Kauppi, Micael Bindefeld, Anna Bråkenhielm and Saga Becker.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 23:40, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
|trans_title=
parameter for each of the references. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk)
00:29, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:54, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
Sabaa Tahir and An Ember in the Ashes.
And also track those pages patrolled by Hermera34. He/She didn't find much Notability problem about an article with one line with no source Luther Burbank High School (Texas). So, I nominated it for deletion. But he finds my sourced articles as not meeting notability guidelines. -- Action Hero 17:51, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
You wrote "I'm open to someone else proposing other unobjectionable increase to the scope for this request"
. It might be worth having the bot add, in place of {{
Persondata}}, an {{
Authority control}} template; this won't display unless there are values in Wikidata, in which case it will display those values; if the values are added to Wikidata later, then it will activate at that time.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
22:06, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
On 14 September 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ester Claesson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ester Claesson is considered Sweden's first female landscape architect? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ester Claesson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 14:51, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for improving the Democracy Now! article! Edcolins ( talk) 19:23, 14 September 2015 (UTC) |
I am a bit confused (confuciused) by this edit. On an unrelated note, have you seen these history pages? 1 & 2. Do you know a good solution to stop all those people who believe that their local team is the best? The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 06:38, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
GB, looks like you received final approval. Please let me know when the bot runs its full cycle on the first phase. I am very curious to see how many effectively empty templates it removes. It appears that there are a substantial number that were added by AWB users, but with nothing more than some version of the article title entered into the name= parameter. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 19:21, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Oh, I have been off Wikipedia for over a day. Plenty of things to do in IRL, but now I am back! I have responded to your questions at my talk page.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 18:37, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
On 17 September 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lo Kauppi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that actress Lo Kauppi was a singer and guitar player in the feminist punk band Vagina Grande? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lo Kauppi. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Gatoclass ( talk) 01:37, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with the degree-stuff! BTW the Runningback U redirects will be deleted soon. The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 22:17, 18 September 2015 (UTC) |
If you want to you can please review my noms at TAFI. I need some more input. Thanks. Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Nominations.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 16:03, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
WP:RFA... Yes/no? (I wanted to email you this instead, but you don't have email active...) Steel1943 ( talk)
I don't know what to do with these questions so I thought I just drop 'em here, maybe you know what to do.
The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 15:19, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
<ref>...</ref>
tags were missing. I did some cleanup, but more is needed. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
23:37, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
If you don't mind my asking, how should one handle a cite linking to a url that is now dead? Deleting it seems a bit harsh in case the source has just moved. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 16:56, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
|archive-url=
and put the archiving date into |archive-date=
. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
17:01, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
BattyBot has been removing ]]
at the end of images. It only removes the brackets if the end of the caption is a wikilink, thus four in a row. Examples are
[12] and
[13]. I have been fixing them when I find them. I have reverted ~8 edits of BattyBot so you can see some other articles. It has been going on for atleast two days.
Bgwhite (
talk)
20:45, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
A similar issue has been reported in T114345 and fixed in rev 11698. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:04, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
@
Magioladitis and
Rjwilmsi: Still having troubles with brackets and images. See
Binary data. I'm running 11694, so I don't know if the newer version fixes the problem.
Bgwhite (
talk)
00:46, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
I found a straightforward date error in |airdate=
, in
Financial astrology. I checked the task 25 source code, and it looks like BattyBot is not yet looking for |airdate=
or |air-date=
. If you could add that parameter, that would be great.
It looks like |laydate=
and |lay-date=
are also subject to date validation (do a Find for laydate at
Module:Citation/CS1), although I can't recall finding a date error in one of those parameters. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
13:36, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
On 3 October 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anna Bråkenhielm, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the reality entertainment concept Expedition Robinson (also known as Survivor) was bought by CEO Anna Bråkenhielm and aired on Swedish television in 1997? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anna Bråkenhielm. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Chris Woodrich ( talk) 06:11, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
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Could you please me with the article Niall Hone. Thanks! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 13:11, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, maybe a little help with the article Philipp Tschauner. It seems to be poorly translated from German. Thanks! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 12:56, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
If you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Imre Szabics? Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 20:20, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
|language=
and |trans-title=
parameters in the last two references. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk)
20:41, 25 July 2015 (UTC)Well, I'd like you check the lead again (to see if it makes any sense!). Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 21:11, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
If you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the articles Every Sperm Is Sacred and Galaxy Song? Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 16:56, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
Me again! (sigh), if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the articles Mark Mothersbaugh and Devo. Thanks! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 10:00, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
I've ran out of conversation openers, so could you please help me with the article Josh Mancell, thanks. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:34, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
I asked you to help with this article (Josh Mancell), because I was talking to him not long ago and he seems like a real nice dude, he even said he'll post out his autograph out to me at the end of this week too! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 10:04, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
If you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Mim Grey. Thanks! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 12:40, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
I'd go with singer-songwriter :). Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 13:54, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article John Perry. And remember that I always highly appreciate your edits :) Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 11:41, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Andy Pratt. Blessings always :) Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 12:45, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Mike Kellie. I trust you'll drum up something good :) Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 09:33, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Alan Mair. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:46, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Rikk Agnew. Once again thanking you in advance Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 10:52, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, if you've still got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Henry Small. Can I thank you enough? Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 10:34, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, again, again, if you've got any spare time left at all, could you please help me with the article Ruby Turner. As always I'ma most a grateful Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 11:58, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, again, again, again, again, if you've got any spare time left at all, could you please help me with the article Dan Woodgate. Is this annoying yet? Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:30, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, again, again, again, again, again, again, if you've still got any spare time left at all, could you please help me with the article Chas Smash. Still annoying? Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 16:01, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, please help with the article Jayne County. It's all I can ask.... Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:56, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Please help me!!!! with the articles Peter Perrett and The Only Ones; you shall be knighted! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 15:25, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Please help me!!!! with the articles Casey Royer and D.I.; sadly, it turns out that I can't knight you. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 19:44, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Ello a ickle elp wit da art-e-culs Marilyn Martin and This Is Serious, wood be mucha appreciated. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 13:03, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
I'm a guy who needs help with the article Guy Pratt. Many thanks as usual Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 09:41, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Help with Pina Kollars, please Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 12:57, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
S'more help, but with Steve Nieve. Many thanks Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 13:00, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
An ickel elp vit Suggs und Madness vlease. Vanking you Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 15:20, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Please help me with the article, Brigitte Zarie. Thank you Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 07:04, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty, thanks for creating talk pages for some of the articles I created such as this this and this. I started off doing it manually but that was too combusome. I would be happy to learn from you the AWB filter that gave you that result. Thanks again. —M@sssly ✉ 17:06, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Ghana|class=stub}}
with "Sort meta data after" checked. On the "Skip" tab, at the bottom I chose "Don't care" so it would add the template whether the talk page exists or not.
GoingBatty (
talk)
17:11, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Ghana|class=stub}}
. Eg. In AWB to make such a list I do Source:Category (recursive) and enter Category:Ghana and click on Make list. It produces a list of main-space articles among others and appends the text {{WikiProject Ghana|class=stub}}
in those articles instead of their talk pages.
—M@sssly
✉
18:10, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
|class=stub
to those in a subcategory of
Category:Ghana stubs. Good luck!
GoingBatty (
talk)
18:20, 3 October 2015 (UTC)On 3 October 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Saga Becker, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Saga Becker in 2015 became the first transsexual actress both to be nominated and win a Guldbaggen Award? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Saga Becker. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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Editor User:Chris the speller submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
I nominate User GoingBatty for his 1/4 million edits and another 3/4 million edits through BattyBot, which uses Auto Wiki Browser to make automated edits. GoingBatty uses an impressive number of tools to fix WP articles: AWB, HotCat, WPCleaner and many others. He is one of the chief architects of the "Typo rules" that AWB uses. This results in additional hundreds of thousands of corrections being made by other users of AWB. He has qualified for the Disambiguator Hall of Fame multiple times. Editors who have problems or questions with AWB or its various Typo rules often have them resolved by GoingBatty before other editors can respond. He is often the calm voice of reason when a discussion starts to heat up. Few editors have his combination of kind, helpful attitude and incomparable technical skills. This nomination was supported and seconded by User: Go Phightins!, and User:Jim Carter.
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GoingBatty |
Alpha Phi Omega |
Editor of the Week for the week beginning October 11, 2015 |
Recognized for |
being a calming voice of reason and his work at improving the encyclopedia are phenomenal |
Notable work(s) |
A 1/4 million edits and another 3/4 million edits through BattyBot. Fixes WP articles with AWB, HotCat, WPCleaner and many others. One of the chief architects of the "Typo rules" that AWB uses. Disambiguator Hall of Fame member, Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles member, Wikipedia:Typo Team member and Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting member. |
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Thanks again for your efforts!
Buster Seven
Talk
14:36, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
I noticed BattyBot subtituted from {{ Conflict of interest}} to {{ COI}} with this edit to conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia. Sadly these templates are not connected. I suspected this might be the result of a change made to general fixes (by an editor unaware of the problem), but I cannot see it in the list. Can you advise? Thanks. -- Andrewaskew ( talk) 05:22, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
On my sandbox, changes were made to links on a group discussion about our collaborative edit of the article "Offender Profiling." I cannot understand what the changes are, why they were made, or why a sandbox would need them. Can you please help me, as a new editor, understand? Thank you. User: paul.Mott Paul.mott ( talk) 11:42, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
[[Category:Offender profiling]]
to [[:Category:Offender profiling]]
, which removes your sandbox page from the category and instead creates a link to the category. Hope this helps, and happy editing!
GoingBatty (
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02:17, 22 October 2015 (UTC)It does. Thank you. Paul 173.209.211.238 ( talk) 12:26, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
I am not sure, but I can not imagine that the article on Eileen Ford is actually a B-class article. Please take a look. Cheers.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 15:14, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
Respected Mr. GoingBatty,
Would like to share with you that I'm very new to wikipedia community. When you reviewd my article Devsena Mishra [1] on 3rd August 2015 I felt good and encouraged but yesterday after two months of your approval, user Missvain nominated it for deletion. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk%3AGoingBatty&action=unwatch Need your guidance...
Best Regards, vishalgauravjh1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vishalgauravjh1 ( talk • contribs) 17:36, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
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Respected Mr. GoingBatty,
Your profile is inspirational, I'm feeling happy and inspired.
Best Regards, vishalgauravjh1 Vishalgauravjh1 ( talk) 12:44, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
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Please check AWB's latest revision. This is what we needed for skip conditions. It needs some testing though. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:42, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
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Respected Mr. GoingBatty, I lost my article Devsena Mishra, but I would like to thank you for your support. Best Regards, Vishalgauravjh1 ( talk) 16:05, 5 November 2015 (UTC) |
GoingBatty, I see you active with AWB a lot, and with your bot, so I thought you might be able to help me with this:
Wikipedia_talk:User_scripts#Give_out_Deletion_to_Quality_Awards_and_log_at_Hall_of_Fame
Any ideas or input or help or advice ?
Thank you,
— Cirt ( talk) 02:46, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
If you want to, you can take a look at the article about Allegra Versace. That article is this weeks TAFI.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 22:13, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
I'd like to thank you for doing the work on my request. As you might have seen, I'm limited by a white-list and my English is quite allright, but most definitely not good enough to start writing into existing articles. (Corekt my if i'M ronk...) No really, If you notice some mistakes, don't hesitate to correct me. Fact is, I like the work you did and I'm happy with the results. With kind regards, Oxygene7-13 ( talk) 11:20, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
If you want to, take a look at the article about Marie Serneholt which is this weeks TAFI article. Regards.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 19:42, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, could you explain why you and others use AWB to move references around kind this? [14] The references used are always ordered in a specific way to support the material used, so I'm at a loss why they are being moved like this in many articles. Viriditas ( talk) 02:08, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Please help me with the article David Gilmour, thanks! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 10:28, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Could you please help me with the articles Sam Brown and Pauline Murray. Cheers! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 12:09, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
And could you please help me with the articles Tony Hadley, Gary Kemp, and Spandau Ballet. Thank you for everything Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 20:31, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Could you please help me with the articles Glenn Gregory and Heaven 17. Cheers my dears Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 19:31, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Please help with the articles Mike Barson, Lee Thompson, Mark Bedford, and Chris Foreman. Have fun! Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:12, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Could you please help me with the article Colin Blunstone? Thanking you Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:59, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
I came across this date format that BattyBot's task 25 might be able to fix:
|publication-date = 2014년 3월 5주차
in
4Minute World. As far as I can tell, that's year, month, and day in Korean.I also came across this one, which BattyBot should have fixed but apparently did not:
| publication-date = 07 April 2015
in
4Minute discographyAnd a couple more:
|date=1 December 2010 (updated 6 December 2010)
in
905th Air Refueling Squadron|accessdate=(search) 18 February 2014
in
908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron and in many similar articles.Thanks! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 06:16, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
| accessdate = 11 tháng 10 năm 2014
in
Vic Cathedral.I notice that you are keeping well away from this editor's talk page. But do you think you could add anything to the discussion or give Magioladitis any advice that he might listen to? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 17:10, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
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14:16, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
As an IP editor correctly noted here, a double-hyphen has a technical meaning in programming languages apart from the linguistic punctuation usage. Does BattyBot have any exclusion heuristics, such as content within a <code> and/or indented (<pre>) markup? DMacks ( talk) 06:51, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
<code>...</code>
or <pre>...</pre>
tags.
GoingBatty (
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00:17, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[15]. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:41, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I remember you helped me one time to write a regex. Now I have another question. I have about 350 links to change:
Can you help me to write this regex? I was thinking about something like this: find http:\/\/www\.popkiller\.pl\/(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}),(\w+(-|\s|}|]|\|))+
replace http://www.popkiller.pl/$1,$2
. But i think the replace is wrong. Thank you in advance. --
The Polish (
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22:38, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
(http:\/\/www\.popkiller\.pl\/\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2},[a-z|-]+)_
replace $1-
and run it 10 times. Good luck!
GoingBatty (
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00:33, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear GoingBatty,
1) The argument that Slavs were proto-Aryans is a nonsensical and highly dangerous/inflammatory statement as it opens up a whole slew of eugenics or genetic-superiority implications-- all early main Aryan cultures (Indic, Iranic, Germanic) continue to survive and Slavs have no place in this regard whatsoever,
2) The identity of Slavs are tied to their language, and it is the only thing they have: a highly irregular and unnecessarily complicated language that was furthered as it's own lineage,
The references for my changes are the status quo, and you provide a very opinionated and biased view of slavs. My changes corrected for the existing bias, and provided objectivity.
Few of many references provided below. Please do not mistake my edit as anything other than corrections based on fact and anthropological evidence. Please revert my changes as soon as possible.
Du Feu, V.. (1994). [Review of The Origins of the Slavs: A Linguist's View]. The Slavonic and East European Review, 72(1), 157–159. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4211448
Fisher, R. L.. (1977). IE *po- in Slavic and Iranian. Zeitschrift Für Vergleichende Sprachforschung, 91(2), 219–230. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40848525
Dvornik, F.. (1960). [Review of The Origins of Russia]. The American Historical Review, 65(2), 347–349. http://doi.org/10.2307/1842882
EDIT:
I'm adding references about how the Aryan identity was abused for political gains in the 19th century, since a similar issue is occurring above:
Leopold, J.. (1974). British Applications of the Aryan Theory of Race to India, 1850-1870. The English Historical Review, 89(352), 578–603. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/567427
Cannon, G.. (1998). [Review of Aryans and British India]. Anthropological Linguistics, 40(2), 348–351. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/30028638
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.189.127.76 ( talk) 07:59, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for your tireless work in improving cites and references! - Cwobeel (talk) 04:31, 6 December 2015 (UTC) |
Take a look at the articles about Hilda Nilsson and Lena Larsson that I have created. If you find time for it. Regards,-- BabbaQ ( talk) 15:29, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
BattyBot made this change which resulted in category links being added after userboxes. Ultimately, I think the categories should be removed from this userbox (and I am going to pursue making this change) but I wanted you to be aware of how this change is affecting users. (please ping me if you reply) Etamni | ✉ | ✓ 16:02, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
<noinclude>...</noinclude>
so they won't impact user pages. Feel free to remove one or both of these categories if they don't apply. Hope this helps!
GoingBatty (
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16:21, 9 December 2015 (UTC)Can you please take a look at the two pages in Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/061 dump? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:44, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, in
this edit, BattyBot altered |pages=page 20
to |pages=20
, but as there's only one, surely it should have become |page=20
? --
Redrose64 (
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08:22, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
|pages=page 20
to |page=20
. However, I won't go back through the bot's previous edits to change |pages=20
to |page=20
since that wouldn't change the way the citation is displayed to the reader. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
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16:25, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
|page=pp51–53
|page=pp88–90
|page=pp90–92
|page=pp86–88
became |page=51–53
|page=88–90
|page=90–92
|page=86–88
but should really have become |pages=51–53
|pages=88–90
|pages=90–92
|pages=86–88
. --
Redrose64 (
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10:22, 12 December 2015 (UTC)Could you please help me with the articles Rod Argent and The Zombies. Thank you. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 16:16, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Help would be greatly appreciated (as always) with the articles Richard James Burgess and Landscape. Thank you Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 15:23, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for everything and please help me with the article Chris White (musician). Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:23, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Could you please take a look at the article about Dominik Henzel that I created a few weeks back. It is up for AfD but the main reason for deletion seems to be article quality. So if there is any improvements that you can see that could be made, please do. Regards,-- BabbaQ ( talk) 23:48, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
|trans_title=
parameter for each reference? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
01:03, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
Can you please resume the WPBS addition this time starting from Jazz-project template? Or more generally, start from redirects with size ~1000 tranclusions. My updated list is located here. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:55, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar | |
For your teamwork actions. Working with you is always a pleasure and make Wikipedia editing more pleasant for me. Magioladitis ( talk) 12:08, 15 December 2015 (UTC) |
Do you think I should go and fix AWB to match the new guidelines or wait a few days? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:51, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
rev 11757 updated AWB's code to match consensus. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:04, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
I wonder whether we should ask to run AWB bots in talk pages to correct placement of DYK. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:06, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
To You and Yours!
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 18:33, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I just noticed this edit where the bot added the {{ WikiProjectBannerShell}} template and updated {{ WP Television}} to {{ WikiProject Television}}, but it missed out the {{ WP Fictional characters}} template, and wondered if maybe there's a list of WikiProjects that needs updating or something else you might need to do so this doesn't get missed out in the future. Anemone Projectors 15:37, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
{{
WPWA}}
and so excluded it from the shelled banners, is related. --
Redrose64 (
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21:45, 20 December 2015 (UTC){{
WPJW}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:57, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
{{
WPWA}}
and {{
WPJW}}
, and then will fix any that my bot excluded from the WPBS. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
23:02, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
On 22 December 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lena Larsson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that interior designer Lena Larsson became known as a pioneer for the unconventional, family-friendly environments she created? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lena Larsson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 12:02, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Merry Christmas, GB, and may your holidays be merry and bright . . . . Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 16:14, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
I recently saw that you fixed/changed some of the things I made. So thank you for that! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ae9000ae ( talk • contribs) 23:14, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Christmas wishes Always :) ( talk) 15:35, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
careful, infoboxes are not citation templates :) Frietjes ( talk) 13:22, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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Nice Catch Mfalc1 ( talk) 15:58, 24 December 2015 (UTC) |
The page was moved to a draft which I think is not right and shouldn't be a draft. Could you help? Ae9000ae ( talk) 10:36, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
Happy Holidays! | |
Hi, GoingBatty! Have a happy and safe season, and a blessed new year! Holiday cheers, -- Discographer ( talk) 00:55, 25 December 2015 (UTC) |
??? Xx236 ( talk) 06:25, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Could I see the module code for this one? Interested on how you change parameters in an infobox. Bgwhite ( talk) 00:01, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
|clubupdate=
and |repupdate=
|updated=
.|rl_clubupdate=
and 7 more "update" parameters.Could you please help me with the articles Gerald Casale and Bob Casale. Thank you Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 13:12, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Thank you and here's my final page for requested help this year Alfie Agnew. Joe Vitale 5 ( talk) 14:24, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
On 31 December 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hilda Nilsson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that serial killer Hilda Nilsson committed suicide by hanging the same day the courts commuted her death sentence to life imprisonment? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hilda Nilsson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |