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I have noticed that you seem to be wise in the ways of regex and I could use some help. I have been trying to convert some of my simpler AWB find and replaces with regex and have had some success but I have hit a snag in one area and that is in looking for = X where X is unknown. For example: I know that if I am looking for something like this:
|peer-review = No (or no, n, N, or missing) |
and I want to eliminate it as a clutter field (since its equal to no or missing per the WPMILHIST banner instructions they are uneeded and shouldnt be present if not used) I can use logic similar to the below replacing the No with N or allowing for missing.
Find \|[ ]*peer-review[ ]*=[ ]*No[ ]* \|
What I am having trouble with is if I am looking for things other than No, N or missing. For example I have found some that have noo, some that have comments (copy pasted explaining what should go there, jsut rubbish data, etc. My question in this is there regex code that I can apply that would look for any character so instead of putting No I could put regex code and do it a little more efficiently. I would still be monitoring this closely because I wouldnt want to accidentally delete yes's or y's but it would make my codeing a little simpler and would catch more problems. The onen I mentioned above is just an example I have several dozen find and replaces that that fall under this category of change. Thanks in advance for the help. -- Kumioko ( talk) 14:07, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Find \|[ ]*peer-review[ ]*=[ ]*(.*?)[ ]* \|
-- Kumioko ( talk) 14:15, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
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I will implement this but first I want to see the documentation page for the template to explicitly state that it should be placed in the see also section of the article. Rjwilmsi 11:20, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
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I have been trying to figure out how to do something in regex and can't quite figure it out so I hope I can bug you again. Some improvements were recently made to the findagrave template so that it displays more like a citation and I would like to take something that looks like this
{{findagrave|1234}} Retrieved on yyyy-mm-dd
and make it look like this
{{Find a Grave|1234|accessdate=yyyy-mm-dd}}
Is there any way I can do this or is this type of change using regex? Thanks again.-- Kumioko ( talk) 18:32, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Maybe something like...
Find: \{\{findagrave\|(.*?)\}\}[ ]*Retrieved on ([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}) Replace: {{Find a Grave|$1|accessdate=$2-$3-$4}}
Not sure though. Make sure to test it. – xeno talk 18:39, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
\{\{findagrave\|(.*?)\}\}[ ]*Retrieved on ([0-9]{4})-(0[1-9]|1[012])-(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])
to make sure it only finds valid dates (don't know what context this is in, and if some of the dates could be wrong, but could be useful). -
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Hi. Your AWB edit here didn't come out the way I think you intended. The blockquote did something with the cite tag. I put an ugly band-aid on it, but maybe there's a better way to fix it. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 17:20, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
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Hello again, I think I am starting to pick this regex stuff up. But Im kinda slow so please bare with me. I am trying to come up with some regex that will find something like this:
== Notes == {{Reflist}} == See also == {{Portal box|Biography|United States Navy}} *[[List of Medal of Honor recipients]]
and move the see also section above the notes section. The problem is I am trying to account for pipes in the reflist such as reflist|2. I am also trying to account for multiple portals in the Portal box template with potentially multiple links below that. Most of the time there would be another section (==) below the see also section so I want to capture any links that might appear between the see also section and the == in the next secton. Here is the find code I have so far:
\==[ ]*Notes[ ]*== \{\{Reflist(\||\})[ ]* \[ ]* \==[ ]*See also[ ]*== \{\{Portal box[ ]*(\||\})[ ]* \*[\[(.*?)\]\][ ]* \(.*?)\=\=
and here is the replace code:
== See also == {{Portal box$2 *[[$3 $4 == Notes == {{Reflist$1
I think my problem might be in the replace portion but I can't quite figure it out. Thanks in advance for the help. -- Kumioko ( talk)
Find: == ([ ]*)Notes[ ]*==(.*?)==[ ]*See also[ ]*==(.*?) == Replace: == $1See also$1==$3==$1See also$1==$2 ==
Thanks, and good work on the spanam list. I'll start including the new parameters to the hallofvalor and findagrave templates. — jwillbur 21:18, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
I have moved Kumioko/Medal of Honor recipients with DAB names to User:Kumioko/Medal of Honor recipients with DAB names. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 17:03, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi
The only reason I mentioned cites was because he has written his own script that I wanted to try out
The problem I was having with regex was trying to make AWB do find and replace on a set format
For example find [[1971]] and replace with 1971 - as I don't know anything about it at all any help that teaches me is going to make me know more than I know already lol
Chaosdruid ( talk) 19:55, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
I recognize that you're trying to change "Medal of Honor Recipient" to "Medal of Honor recipient" in prose, and that's obviously correct, but at Daniel Lakin, the following reference/citation isn't prose and should remain formatted as the capitalized former.
"Medal of Honor Recipients: Civil War (A–L)". Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., USA: United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
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Hey, just in case you missed it, there is an oppurtunity to get a free dinner this Tuesday August 11 and a chance to meet and hang out talk about Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy and WP:GLAM/SI. Sorry that this is so late in the game, I was hoping the e-mail would be a better form of contact for active members (if you want to get on the e-mail list send me an User e-mail ). Hope that you can attend, User:Sadads ( talk)12:10, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Wanted to let you know, your AWB isn't fixing Notes section headings properly. It seems to be changing level 3 headings into level 2-1/2 headings (i.e. ===Notes=== into ==Notes===), rather than level 3 headings into level 2 headings. For example. Have seen this one other time, and corrected it. Nonetheless, letting you know as it seems to be a recurring problem. Cheers. Akerans ( talk) 15:15, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for the message. I began doing some Wikipedia editing recently and did only some small corrections until I came across the list, which was obviously unfinished. I had most of the necessary reference books and now have the Eicher book as well. I had two purposes: fill in the missing items and write a little more detailed introduction with general information on the Civil War generals not necessarily just on the war or just on generals. One thing led to another in the drafting: explaining one related point in order to be sure the next one was clear. I knew the introduction had become too long but since no one seemed to be watching, I thought I could complete the list without going back and revising the introduction. I think the current revision of the introduction is reasonably good and not yet too long again. I do not intend to change it much for clarity.
Another mistake in terms of making the article too long was that I began adding to the notes. I thought it would be nice to have some key information for each general along with the names. That was going to take too many kilobytes. I think some still need notes. I did not delete any notes that anyone else had added although some of them really could be deleted if one were trying to avoid unnecessary notes. I think the necessary notes would be info on appointments that were cancelled or unconfirmed. Maybe after that comments on killed in action. Certainly if someone had a big accomplishment, like General in Chief or President of the U.S., that might be mentioned, even though it is most likely to be known.
I do not think the brevet Union generals should be added if they were not also full rank generals. There are too many of them and they were no more than colonels. Most did not even exercise temporary general level command. I have now explained the question about who is to be counted in the reduced introduction - which is actually more pertinent to the list than some of the material I took out. I may put up a list of brevet Union generals.
Other than tweaking a few words in the introduction, more clearly identifying the rank of brevet generals, putting notes in about cancelled or declined appointments and perhaps putting in citations for a few more statements or note references, I think it will be as finished as it needs to be - or can be in view of length restrictions - and I will leave it alone. I would not object to splitting the Union and Confederate lists, especially if that would allow more info in notes. I would still think the brevet generals, and militia generals that were not brought into the Union and Confederate armies, should not be on the main lists of generals but on a separate list.
Thanks again. Let me know if you have any further thoughts on this. Donner60 ( talk) 19:47, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Congratulations on finishing them. Now you're going to do all 1,090 remaining Civil War recipients, right? ( only partially kidding... :) ) — jwillbur
That's one hell of an awesome job! But one question: Category:Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients lists 294 articles, but there are 295 individual Marine recipients. Who hasn't been categorized? bahamut0013 words deeds 18:22, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
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The title should probably go back to U.S. Army General or Officer in the disambiguation. Usually, except in rare cases where there are more than one of the same kind of disambiguation (like if there was two James Parker Army Generals), then you would change the dab to something more specific. For people, the dab is usually their occupation for their notability, and James Parker wouldn't conflict with another James Parker article. Having Medal of Honor as the disambiguation just puts a different meaning than what you intend. The disambiguation in its current state, makes it sound like James Parker is a kind of Medal of Honor, not a Medal of Honor recipient (which is why it should probably go back to a U.S. Army officer or General). — Moe ε 16:36, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
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1. Do you have access to the New York Times? The obituary should prove helpful: [ obit] -- It's 2693 words. I can send you the text if necessary.
2. Note 17 at the moment reads: "Mastriano, Douglas, Colonel, U.S. Army Brave Hearts under Red Skies." Mastriano didn't author that book, though he may have been a contributor. He's also one of the disputing parties so it might be better to cite someone else's account for the fairly routine info this citation is attached to. Also no page number.
3. Here's an odd source for the statement that "a higher power watched over me and told me what to do": quoted We can probably do better. It appears to be from York's diary entry for October 8, 1918
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Thanks for all your fixes on the various articles I've contributed to. Sometimes I'm a bit absent-minded about putting things in the proper order. So your attention to detail is much appreciated. MarmadukePercy ( talk) 01:06, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
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You have recently cleaned up some articles that I have edited and expanded (among all the other things you do!). I appreciate that because I am still not very familiar with some of the fine points of layout and formatting. I think the original article rather than my additions may have contained some of the non-conforming material (such as infoboxes), but between my lack of familiarity and my concentration on making a few substantive changes and additions, I likely still would not have noticed the format and layout differences in order to correct them - and I may have put up some of the non-standard layouts or formats in these articles as well. I have yet to write an entire article on a new subject.
You may have noted that the list of civil war generals has been split into an introductory article, Union general list and Confederate general list by IcarusPhoenix. I intend to edit the article mostly to make it conform to the new setup. I have been working mainly on the notes for the list of Confederate generals. IP added a new section of might have beens to the Confederate general list that I am not sure is really appropriate. He continues to press for inclusion, and continues to include, at least some of the Union brevet generals on the Union general list. He has not made much progress yet on conforming this to his plan for the information and layout as shown in the "A" section but this isn't a small task. I am working on a separate list of brevet generals which I hope will be good enough to persuade him and all concerned to remove the brevets from the main list. I do not want to put it up until I have it well completed but it is long enough to be taking some time and I do not want to try to convince anyone that these officers should not be included without an alternate list for them. I think the brevets should be separate both because the main group of them were not "real" generals and because the list is rather long as it is, especially with the photos and the table formatting. I do not quarrel with articles on these officers and a list of them. They are notable and many had meritorious achievements. They are appropriately included in Wikipedia. But again, the vast majority of brevet generals never achieved general officer grade during the ACW either in the Regular Army or U.S. Volunteers.
I also have been working on some article revisions at the same time so I have been delaying completion of the generals' lists. I did not want to make the split myself since I was concerned I might do it wrong so I did not work on the lists during the interim but found other articles to edit. I have been working on Camp Douglas (Chicago) which I rewrote, partially revised, and still need to revise further - and then to decide whether it will need to be cut back because it is now rather long. As I see it, the only subarticle that could be split out concerns the Camp Douglas conspiracy and an article on that subject would be somewhat longer with the reduction in the main article being small. The article as it stands is rather long, but the timeline approach that I have taken to it seems to require some length. This has taken longer than I wanted it to but I suppose a decent long article is as worthwhile as a few short ones if the topic is detailed and will support it. Sorry to go on at length to you about these articles but I know Civil War history is one of your areas of interest and I appreciate your edits and cleanups to these articles. Donner60 ( talk) 22:30, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Not that it is of tremendous importance, and I don't really care which way it is suppose to read, but you seem to be making alot of corrections away from what WP:GRAVE suggests. Is this just a personal preference? Or should the template suggestion be changes? Neonblak talk - 16:34, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Cut it out. These edits are wasteful, disrupt watchlists, and are contrary to WP:AWB#Rules of use. If they continue, your access to AWB may be revoked. – xeno talk 18:25, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
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If you read a little farther down that link you gave me it states "Redirects for templates can cause confusion and make updating template calls more complicated. For example, if calls to T1 are to be changed to some new template TN1, articles must be searched for {{ T1}} and a separate search must be made for each of its aliases (including T2 in this example).". -- Kumioko ( talk) 23:41, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for that review. I'm just trying to move things forward and get a read on what we need to improve. -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE GOOD WORKS 17:06, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
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Stalk 22:36, 14 October 2010 (UTC)In the course of some housekeeping edits that you made to this article earlier today, the columnar ref format got broken. I couldn't work out why, so I had to revert your edits and then reinstate them, which I have done. This cured the format problem, whatever it was. Brianboulton ( talk) 20:30, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
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Check my answer, please. At least you have to get to some kind of agreement with Rjw or someone else. Adding a comment and removing it in the very next edit like it happened here makes no real sense. I really think that the comment must stay. For the whitespace inside inside persondata I don't have a strong opinion but still some kind of arrangement must be done. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:53, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
You can do this more easily by adding an entry to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects. Rjwilmsi 09:15, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Kumioko,
I'm concerned about your understanding of consensus. Perhaps this will help:
The dozen or so people currently discussing this question at the Village Pump should not impose "our" current consensus on thousands of other editors. When (if) we agree to remove these links, we need to do it in a way that allows other editors to join the discussion and contribute to forming and re-forming consensus. This means moving slowly, not with an impatient, all-or-nothing extremism. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 23:43, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
The date unlinking consensus (although I think it mistaken) does not apply to timeline articles, such as 18th century. I reverted your edit, rather than just finding the individual changes that were inappropriate. My apologies for that, but more changes needed to be reverted than kept. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 01:34, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
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How do you justify keeping a section that violates Wikipedia policy? Hollyharwood ( talk) 09:12, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your edit to Claudette Colbert. Please do be careful to preview your changes. Several typos in the headings were created during your AWB sweep. Also, 'Notes', Bibliography' and 'References' are not inter-changeable headings. I have noticed in other articles that you have also changed these headings. Often there is a specific 'notes' section holding appended prose. 'Bibliography' can have various meanings, depending on how the article is structured. It is a tricky area, worth treating carefully. Go gently. Best wishes Span ( talk) 03:59, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Kumioko, I saw some of your recent edits where you replaced <br> tags with <br/>. Is there a reason that having the slash is beneficial? Thanks. Jweiss11 ( talk) 07:39, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Sorry to bug you about this but needed clarification on where the persondata should be placed within the article. The guidelines say "at the end of the blp" but it seems that RJWilmsibot is placing it before the categories. I had a quick look through some pages but couldnt see any real guidelines as to where in the page it should be placed. Is the bot correct and if so can I assume that is the standard to follow ?? Chaosdruid ( talk) 00:30, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
As an editor involved in prior discussions over AWB, templates and first letter casing please consider commenting on this discussion thread. Thanks Rjwilmsi 20:13, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
(Apologies for the late reply, I've been away.)
Mmm. Zero transclusions is simple enough; Wikipedia:Database_reports/Unused_templates lists the first 800, and I can pull a full list if you want and/or filter it. Fewer than X transclusions seems nearly impossible (or at the very least, I haven't thought of a good way of doing it yet. Regards, - Jarry1250 Who? Discuss. 18:07, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Imzadi 1979 → 18:17, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
I know we currently place the persondata before defaultsort, but the logical place for this and "person authority" are right at the end. The structure would then be;
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:57, 3 November 2010 (UTC).
{{
Authority control}} is another Germanic import, which links to a serial number (or numbers) that bibliographic databases maintain to distinguish between people of the same name (or people with many names).
Rich
Farmbrough, 19:07, 3 November 2010 (UTC).
Well it's hard to say, even the Persondata has failed to produce significant sound reasoning for its inclusion. Most of the examples I have seen referenced are either bugged, 404, not using persondata, or of limited use. So the value of adding more "cruft" is debateable.
Rich
Farmbrough, 19:12, 3 November 2010 (UTC).
We have passed de: in the number of transclusions. That would seem to be enough to be useful!
Rich
Farmbrough, 19:26, 3 November 2010 (UTC).
Tell me about it! Wiki means quick, I thought.
Rich
Farmbrough, 19:36, 3 November 2010 (UTC).
Hi. I noticed that on at least two ship talk pages ( Talk:SS Fredericksburg (1958) and Talk:SS Booker T. Washington) you removed {{ WikiProject Maritime Trades}}. Was this a mistake? Could you explain the rationale to me? Thanks. Haus Talk 19:18, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
I have been researching Kathlyn Williams for 2 1/2 years, and I have copies of her college programs from 1899 to 1901, and I even court documents from New York City when she sued her first husband. All the dates in the article and personal data are correct, and I have her parent's marriage certificate too. I have her wedding license from Ancestry.com, and copies of all of those newspaper articles from her early life in Butte, Montana. There are newspaper articles that I have from her college days from 1899 to 1901. She was born in 1879 which can be found on the 1880 Census.
The article needs to be fixed, but the research and all of my references from the past two years are correct. I am also writing a biography on her too. Stutzey ( talk) 02:09, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
You posted that everything needs to be cleaned up in the article. You said the dates need to be fixed. I posted that I have been researching Williams for over 2 1/2 years, and my research is fine since I have actual documents. I have been doing genealogy for over 25 years. The format needs to be fixed, and the article needs to be adjusted in a few categories. I could use some help there if anyone would help. Stutzey ( talk) 13:42, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Given your interest in wp:NRHP and in MOH winners, you seem to be the person to ask about Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, who won the MOH in 1899 for an action in 1864. The delay intrigues me - but I'm not even sure what question to ask. I'm also interested in how the GLAMS/SI is going - I might be interested in attending something related in the future, but really only to apply lessons learned to Philadelphia. Any help appreciated. Smallbones ( talk) 02:49, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
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What do you mean by "The references needs some pruning"?
"Too many references, I would try and keep it under 100 if possible" This seems absurd, the Obama article has 300.
Thanks for the read through and suggested improvements, would you mind if I cross them off here when I finish them?-- Iankap99 ( talk) 21:31, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
You missed this last time around. Thanks.
Hello, Kumioko -- I just finished the Hartford City Courthouse Square Historic District article, and about to start on an article about the Blackford County Courthouse. Any suggestions to improve my recent articles would be appreciated. I would rather not continue making the same mistakes over and over. TwoScars ( talk) 03:14, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
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Redirects are...redirects; they technically don't even exist except as shortcuts to other pages. Half Shadow 04:24, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Im not sure why I would need to ask you other than asking for a bot to be run but for what its worth I had no plan to start mass tagging any redirects for a while. There are too many real articles yet that need to be tagged and that is more important. There are a couple reasons I think its useful to tag them though.
Please let me know if you have any more concerns. -- Kumioko ( talk) 02:30, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
Concerning this edit of yours I would like to remind you that WPBIO goes on the top if it contains a blp tag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 02:13, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
|living=
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Some more advice:
[4] priority without work-group is useless. Moreover |priority=
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Hi, there are a few cases (like this where you put WPJapan mucking up the WPJournals tag. I guess this was some kind of automated edit that went wrong. I also have to say that I hardly see the relevance of those articles for the USA project, but as I don't work with that project, that's not really anything of my business. Anyway, I only found 2 botched up WPJournals tags up till now, so it's not a big problem, but thought it would be good to bring this to your attention to avoid it in the future (and I didn't have time to check your contribution history, so there may be others that I did not see). -- Crusio ( talk) 18:25, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
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I see (
example) that your edits sometimes change <br>
to <br/>
. I think that is not helpful because what we edit is wikitext, not html. As an example, this line ends with <br>
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Viewing the html source for this page confirms that MediaWiki (as configured for en.wikipedia) has changed my <br>
to the valid html <br />
(with a space before the slash). In fact, your <br/>
wikitext is also changed (a space is inserted).
This is all trivial, but the reason I suggest not doing these edits is that people notice them and think that it must be the "right" procedure, and they then start inserting slashes themselves. The result is just unnecessary complication of wikitext. Johnuniq ( talk) 00:59, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
While WP:WPUS does indeed state that any article related to the United States is considered to be within the project's direct scope, I am really not sure that means all the articles whose talk pages you've recently been tagging with the project banner really need it ... I mean, there are fifty state-level projects (and some with their own regional subprojects, yet) for a good reason. Daniel Case ( talk) 02:41, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
Some of you edits, such as this one have actually broken the project template instead of updating it. In the project banner philately is capitalised. Thanks. ww2censor ( talk) 16:28, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hi- just to let you know I've removed the semi-active tag from WP Illinois, because I've been tagging articles religiously, at least for the past 2 years, along with other project members. The WP Chicago project gets more action (and attention), but WP Illinois is for the rest of the state, which may be less active than Chicago, but it's the umbrella for everything related to Chicago and Illinois, together. I don't think the tag should be on there, because it's very discouraging to members, like myself, who work behind the scenes everyday on the IL articles. I hope you understand! -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 06:37, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
[5], [6] unnecessary empty lines added.
\{\{WP[ ]*(MILHIST|Biography)(.*?)class[ ]*=(stub|start|C|B|GA|A|FA|List)(.*?)\}\}
{{WP$1$2class=$3|$4}} {{WikiProject United States |class=$3 |importance=low }}-- Kumioko ( talk) 00:07, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
[7] blp not converted to WPBiography.
Tell me more precisely what is the problem with the plugin, please. To load a plugin use: Generic template and add {{WikiProject United States}} in the appropriate field. Remember to get redirects.
Tomorrow, we are releasing a new snapshot. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:29, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
\{\{[ ]*(CMedWikiProject|WP Medicine|WPEMS|WPMED|WPMEDICINE|WPMedicine|WikiProject Emergency medical services|WikiProject Medicine CoopBanner|Wikiproject Medicine|Wikiproject Medicines)
{{WikiProject Medicine
and the logic in your file used:
{{\s*(WikiProject[ _]+Medicine|CMedWikiProject|WikiProject[ _]+Medicine[ _]+CoopBanner|WPMEDICINE|WPEMS|WikiProject[ _]+Emergency[ _]+medical[ _]+services|WP[ _]+Medicine|Wikiproject[ _]+Medicines|Wikiproject[ _]+Medicine|WPMedicine|WPMED) *([\|}\n])
{{WikiProject Medicine$2
The question I have in all that is how does [ ]* differ from [ _], what does the \s* do and what does the *([\|}\n]) at the end do? thanks-- Kumioko ( talk) 00:07, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Updated version at User:Rich Farmbrough/temp17.
Rich
Farmbrough, 03:08, 15 November 2010 (UTC).
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http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:42, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
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Thank you for the tweaks to Sherril Huff, which I helped to rescue recently as part of my 'Article Rescue Squadron' / Wikiproject Biography work. I have learnt a few things from the changes you made - but it has taken me over 2 years to get past 10,000 edits so have to admit being very impressed by anyone who can do that in one month! Thruxton ( talk) 19:22, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Please avoid making AWB edits like this one. They go against the AWB rules of Use point 4, being a purely cosmetic change. Looking at your most recent edits, it looks like they are all like this, so I would urge you to stop this AWB run. Fram ( talk) 16:35, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
E.g. your latest edit changes the position of the BLPunsourced tag (while I prefer top position, there is no agreement about this), and changes it incorrectly to BLPsources [8]. Fram ( talk) 16:39, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Just a comment: {{Reflist}} neither <ref> ensure us that the article is sourced. That's why we need editor review. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:23, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kumioko, with regards to this edit, I'm not really seeing how Andrew Browne Cunningham, a British WWII admiral is part of the US wikiproject? Were you using a category as your basis? Woody ( talk) 22:37, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
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I reverted the United States Portal of low importance from the discussion of Albert Kotin article to the previous edit by Salmon1. The reasons for the action:
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Hi Kumioko I reverted back your addition of US Portal at Albert Kotin's discussion page. I realized that what you are doing is constructive. I regret my opposition to it. Very best, ( Salmon1 ( talk) 02:41, 25 November 2010 (UTC))
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Hi Kumioko! I added Netherlands Portals to Nanno de Groot. He was an American citizen but in World WarII he served as liaison officer to the US Army and US Navy in charge of running troop ships between the west coast and the western Pacific, chartered by the United States. Please check the biography if you think it is incorret then please delete the portal. Thank you. Best regards, ( Salmon1 ( talk) 00:57, 29 November 2010 (UTC))
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Maybe you want to comment in Template_talk:WikiProject_Biography#Needs-persondata. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:40, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
I know that may seem like a personal question but.... I know this girl and her parents just got divorced. Is their anything I should not say infront of her. Their divorce was really nasty they had like a whole custody battle and crap. Now she seems all sad and depressed. She doesn't laugh at jokes she doesn't hang out with friends she just stays inside. Is their something I can do? Like spend more time with her? Or take her to the movies or something like that? CJISBEAST ( talk) 20:50, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
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Doesn't exist any more. -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 05:15, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
After reviewing your contributions I see what I did. I updated my regex code for that and added all redirects pertaining to that template as shown below:
{{\s*(WikiProject[ _]+Food[ _]+and[ _]+drink|Beverage|F&D|Food|Food[ _]+and[ _]+drink|WP[ _]+Food|WP[ _]+Ice[ _]+Cream|WPCUISINE|WikiProject[ _]+FOOD|WikiProject[ _]+Food|WikiProject[ _]+Food[ _]+and[ _]+Drink|WikiProject[ _]+Ice[ _]+Cream|WikiProject[ _]+Mixed[ _]+Drinks|WikiProject[ _]+Soft[ _]+drinks|Wikiproject[ _]+Food[ _]+and[ _]+Drink|Wikiproject[ _]+Food[ _]+and[ _]+drink|Wpf|Wpfood) *([\|}\n])
WikiProject Food and drink$2
I also noticed 2 redirects to sandboxes for templates that have been subsumed by this one and submitted them for deletion. Please let me know if you find anything else. -- Kumioko ( talk) 05:34, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
If it's a doc page for a deleted template, just use {{ db-subpage}} to have it speedy deleted. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 06:12, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Kumioko, I see you have an interest in the Medal of Honor listing article. Heads-up. I've just tagged it for editorializing in that the article goes beyond giving a straight-forward listing or a listing with simple historical context descriptions for the wars. Instead, and in particular in the Korean War section, we see POV edits. Please see my comments in Talk:List of Medal of Honor recipients. Thanks. -- S. Rich ( talk) 07:53, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kumioko: Just wondering why you added Cape May County, New Jersey to the Cities WikiProject, since it clearly isn't a city. Seems like they probably have enough to do dealing with the things that are in their remit! :) Any chance I can get you to reconsider? Perhaps Cape May City should be added there instead? MeegsC | Talk 04:25, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you could try to mark edits where you make minor changes to templates as "minor" so that I can filter them out when looking at my watchlist. Looking today I see a bunch of messy edits like that, which makes it hard to use. Thanks! john k ( talk) 16:27, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
I updated the code for Template:WPUSA, some of the parameters were deprecated. Also, the nested stuff was incorrect, if you have the TFs as a hook, you need to use: 'Template:WPBannerMeta/hooks/tfnested' to get the nested stuff to display correctly. The nested parameter that was in there only works for the first five TFs, only if they're not in a hook. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 18:26, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
I'll say it again since you apparently didn't hear last time. If it's the doc page for a template that's been deleted, {{ db-subpage}} is your friend. PLEASE use speedies instead of MFDs for these. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 04:41, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
I'll post this here to explain a little differently. There are a few reasons CRWP is getting its own banner back.
All of this work won't work if the Canada banner is still attempting to track CRWP assessments. One reason is that the Canada banner is going to be using the wrong categories. (They renamed them all when they force-merged CRWP's banner.) The second is that if they switched the national banner back to the old category names, you could get one banner placing a CRWP article in B-Class nationally and the other placing it in C-Class globally, nationally and provincially. That would screw up the statistics. By your own comments though, you support what we're doing, but you said that the parameter should stay in the national banner. That can't be for the reasons I've outlined. Imzadi 1979 → 07:01, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for locating all of those orphaned template documentation pages. I deleted all of the ones that you tagged and closed the MfDs you opened except for a few of them that are in use by other templates:
Template:Infobox Romanian Parliament/doc really belonged to Template:Infobox Romanian legislature, so I moved it to the correct name. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 08:16, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Don't take it personally (and the other), but do something that actually fixes articles... this crap is crap. Still put it to TFD, no doubt, they're still mistaking their deletions as useful... see my user talk for a small amount of tools I'd still like having... Sheesh! Better yet, convert the depreciated template to auto the new fangled one, then your redirect will follow along. If you need an argument to pass for the Utopian dream template the Dick's are using now, then link directly to it instead of the depreciated name. Either way, keep the tool names. SOMEONE may recall them, or try them as a likely name some dark tired lonely hurried night falling off a chair... some old fart like me. // Fra nkB 14:06, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
is AWESOME and was a pleasure to read!! :) Missvain ( talk) 02:42, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
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Template:WikiProject U.S. state capitols has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Kumioko ( talk) 04:42, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
FYI, I just procedural-closed two TFD nominations that you did on Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 December 5 because no content ever existed on those titles. I presume you didn't mean to do that... SchuminWeb ( Talk) 09:23, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
It looks very bad when your AWB run:
I reverted your addition of a WP:WPUS tag to Talk:Capitol Loop because you had previously stated that USRD project articles would not be targeted for your tagging efforts, and you're clearly only tagging Featured Articles from your recent contributions. Please stop this and consider how it appears. Imzadi 1979 → 22:31, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Just to give you a side-effect over-tagging can cause. [13] is the last 200 changes to articles tagged for USRD. That works off either the banner template or a main category. If you flood WPUS with all of the state-, local- or topic-level projects, that tool will be useless to the project. Too many articles means too much to track and things will fall through the cracks. That tool works great for USRD to help remove vandalism from articles. Imzadi 1979 → 04:17, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
From WP:AWB: "Don't do anything controversial with it. " As this is obviously controversial, please stop adding WP:WPUS banners to USRD articles with AWB without further discussion in the appropriate venue. -- Rs chen 7754 04:30, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Just saying... Imzadi 1979 → 07:19, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, in my comment at Talk:African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)#Proposed_move I've informally suggested Civil Rights Movement (United States, 1955–1968) (etc.) as an alternative. What do you think of that? (replying there, if you choose to reply, would be preferable to me - thanks). -- Born2cycle ( talk) 18:01, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. cities, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. cities and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. cities during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Kumioko ( talk) 03:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
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Did you mean to leave the WikiProject DC template on the page in this edit? If you are combining the assessment templates, I would think you would only need one. Sadads ( talk) 03:58, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Since noone else has edited Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/CCI since October, it would be appreciated if you could move your comment to WT:CCI where there's a current conversation going and more likely others will be able to read and respond to it. VernoWhitney ( talk) 16:20, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
You were right that were was a bug. We fixed it. Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_18#Wrong_placement_of_WPBS. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 02:20, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Minor edits such as [14] that just replace redirects and change whitespace are disallowed by the AWB rules. You need to make sure that AWB edits are only saved if there is a substantive change to the page. (I realize that the DC project isn't a redirect at the moment, but it would be much easier to edit the DC banner to simply call the US banner with appropriate parameters, rather than editing thousands of pages to do the replacement.)
Also, in this edit [15], one of the replacements of "Image:" was not in an image tag, it was in a section header. Those probably shouldn't be changed. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 18:07, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
@Carl:I think there is a misunderstanding on the first edit. One part of the edit isn't just bypassing redirect but merging a WikiProject to another.
@Kumioko: I agree with Carl on the second part. Better avoid replacing Image: with File: in talkpages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:37, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. I am working on improving the article for William F. Dean and have basically everything I need, but I've had a very difficult time finding all of his awards and decorations. I noticed on a previous revision you noted a number of other medals he was awarded that I can't confirm. Do you have any info that could help me out? Thanks. — Ed! (talk) 03:27, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
SchuminWeb ( Talk) 21:02, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I'm not sure what you intend to do at the top of this talk page, but it is messing up the code. Can you discuss your proposal on the talk page first so we can help you? Thanks! All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 01:12, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
OK, looks good. All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 02:00, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Please stop DC-tagging WMATA stations for the time being. I tagged all of the Maryland stations for Maryland last night, replacing the earlier DC tagging, and then today, your tagging work came through and re-added the DC tag alongside the Maryland tag. So if you would please hold off on this for now, while we have a discussion at WPDC's talk page that I know you're aware of (since you participated in it), I would appreciate it. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 03:25, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Okay, when you added the Superfunds, it was missing the "|" after the word Superfunds, see: [16]. It should have been {{{Superfunds|}}}. But you fixed it when you added the alt parameter later on, so it's fine now! -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 05:51, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
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So by your own admittance then it does no harm to the article or talk page if, in the course of other more significant edits I cleanup the section headers as well. Also bear in mind I have done this about 100, 000 (literally, not figuratively) times or so already and this is the first time that I can remember anyone ever mentioning this. Also, you have to read all the instructions not just pick out the things you want to make your point. For example, per the instructions:
With that said I appreciate you taking the time to comment about what you believe to be an issue, however, since it wasn't in error, did exactly what I wanted it to do when I wanted to do it (meaning it wasn't done alone but with another major edit) and it has never come up in my 6 years and 174, 000+ edits I am going to continue making this particular edut. I don't mean for this to sound bad but no matter how I write it the tone seems the same, but its not meant to be. If I stopped making an edit every time 1 editor had issue with 1 type of edit I wouldn't be able to do much. I suggest if you feel this is occassion warrants attention leave an incidient report at ANI and we can spend the next few days to weeks discussing it. If you find any other changes that cause you concern or you feel are in error please let me know and I would be happy to discuss. There have been occassions were I did a bad edit or made a bad assumption/interpretion of the rules and was wrong. Cheers and happy editing. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:09, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Please vandalise and lawsuit Wikipeida i will give you sweets — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glassange ( talk • contribs) 12:52, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
[17] - adding {{ WikiProject United States}} to an article doesn't seem to fit under Cleanup talk page templates, formatting template/section order &general fixes using AWB (7474). -- Admrboltz ( talk) 00:27, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
[18] What happened here? Gigs ( talk) 02:27, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Kumioko. I noticed you recently put a notice at File talk:Knot-graphic-stub.jpg saying that the associated image, an icon representing a knot (seen at the right), is within the scope of WikiProject United States. I am curious what it is about this image that makes it of interest to those WikiProject members. It is an unused image that has nothing to do with the United States in particular, except for the fact that it originally came from a Web page hosted on a United States Navy server. Are you implying that any content on Wikipedia that originally came from a United States federal government source should be within the purview of WikiProject United States? That seems a bit excessive to me. — Bkell ( talk) 05:21, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
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If this goes ahead, are you any good with the meta template that creates the banner, so that we can create an Eastern Washington task force? Then either I can have you, or go over to bot requests to have current pages tagged w/ WP EW moved to the Washington project tag w/ the taskforce identified. -- Admrboltz ( talk) 01:06, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
Your recent notification messages were not neutral. Please keep in mind WP:CANVASS and WP:FORUMSHOP when making WikiProject notifications. Personally I don't see why these are needed since the discussion has attracted a fair amount of participation (even if it may not be going your way). Them From Space 17:55, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I understand what you mean. I would like to point out that it should start with the WikiProject sections, whatever the subject is to make the banner invalid when shortened to "WP subject here". Yes, some do become invalid once shortened to "WP subject here". That way, the "users" who are trying to make it appear to be "WikiProject subject here" much easier job. It should not just be individuals being warned, it should be a "global" Wikipedia change to all WikiProject banners. No offence is intended, only giving a valid reason why WikiProject can be shortened to "WP" and really it has nothing to do with me. It's the "WP subjects here" and Wikipedia itself, otherwise why can they be shortened? Feedback and a change in policy would be appreciated. I do understand what you mean, honestly. Adamdaley ( talk) 20:15, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Before things get started over again like before. I have noticed the little errors I made, basically I chose the wrong word for the image/file or picture for the infobox. I will try my best to remember this error I have made and try and keep it from happening. Adamdaley ( talk) 02:37, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
I've added an "ifeq" parser function to make the US portal change to the DC one. In the top five TFs, one has to use an ifeq argument. It looks like in the TF hooks, that the function is already there. So if there are more portal variations for the 1st five TFs, the ifeq will have to be changed. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 23:09, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I wonder if u are able and willing and interested to develop/run the bot needed for NRIS reference replacements, as discussed at wt:NRHP#Please change the standard citation to omit the link? Not sure of how the process should work, because i understand any bot request has to be approved. So I'll open a discussion section at wp:botrequest, could you comment there? Thanks already for your helpful participation in the discussion. -- Doncram ( talk) 16:29, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Please could you point me to the consensus in Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard that you cite, showing that this shouldn't be used? Thanks. Lugnuts ( talk) 10:28, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
-- Kumioko ( talk) 20:26, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Just a FYI, the parameter answers, such as yes/Yes, need to be in lower, not upper case, as in "DC=yes". Otherwise, the portal change is not going to work. I don't know the parser functions well enough to allow for an upper case "Yes". The default case for parameter answers is usually lower case. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 23:55, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
I saw you work alot with medal of honor articles and I wanted to ask. If you think that Theodore Roosevelt article is close to GA? Spongie555 ( talk) 07:00, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
FYI-I've revised the name for the LOC mainpage to be just .../LOC, so that the subpages will show a link to both the USA and LOC project mainpages. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 18:10, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
-- Perseus ( t • c) 20:31, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Well, for one, we should probably alphabetize the member list before it is too large to do so :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 21:01, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
This seems like an inordinately large 'project'. Aren't we biting off more than we can chew? It would seem that the many sub-projects would be covering MOST of the subject. I keep reading the project page, yet i can't seem to find it's goal or parameters, am i missing the point of the project? EraserGirl ( talk) 22:37, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the invite, but my plate is full. BTW, I would not use WP:Biography as an example of a good project. IMO, it suffers from being overly large and seems to be unable to do anything much besides tag articles with its tag. I suggest that you focus your activities very narrowly and don't go putting a project tag on hundreds of thousands of articles that the project will not maintain. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 03:50, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
In this case I disagree with tha narrower scope. We haev 200+ projects with narrower scopes already and most are inactive or ineffective. Below are some of the my goals there are quite a few actually,
And many more.
To go back to your comment about the scope though. I don't really have a problem with having a large scope and the knowledge we can't address every single issue. But if the articles are tagged with WPUS and grouped sufficiently by Topic (ie DC, US counties, Colorado, etc) and we have a large pool of active users with different interests and areas of expertise (we have about 100 in 2 days out of the 2600+ I invited to participate) there is a good chance that someone in the group will notice it and take action.
I admit that we are still working out the details of the project but now that the recruitment effort is over my next project is to do two things:
Of course this is just an example and we could do it on a number of other things but the point as I see it is that if we establish a collaboration for a period of time (I was thinking a month because I think a week is too short) we can then do improvements to various areas needing attention. And again that collaboration should be broad enough to draw people from various areas of interest rather than just focus on biographies or one narrow topic which will only draws a specific group.
Additionally, I have been signing up various bots (and have a bot request (the first of several planned) of my own currently pending) to address a multitude of items that can bot bot taskable to free us up as much as possible to concentrate our efforts on things that can't be done by bot such as expanding articles, organizeing the drives, etc. -- Kumioko ( talk) 21:41, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
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If there's a US-related article with high traffic stats, with daily readership of 1000+ readers or more, but the article is in poor shape, let me know. I believe a general priority here at WP is doing stuff that gets read.-- Tomwsulcer ( talk) 12:27, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Glad to be part of the team! I'll be sure to shoot you a message if I have any questions or concerns. Thanks for the warm welcome. - Sharkface T/ C 22:05, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
How can I be of assistance in helping on Wikipedia in it's quest for research in some of the articles posted on Wikipedia. Qui Tam Relator ( talk) 23:22, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Me too. Thank you for thinking about me and keeping me informed. :) Wallie ( talk) 00:09, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
I appreciate the invite to WP USA, but right now I really don't have the time to commit to another Wikiproject. Thank you for inviting me, and when I have more time I will reconsider the offer. — Voltin ( T| C) 00:44, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, I've joined :) -- Shruti14 talk • sign 07:50, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE 12:45, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, I'm on board. Cjmclark 15:00, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Actually, neither of the portals I work with are featured ( P:USMC & P:BB). I might take a look later this week and see if there is anything I can do, but I'm not sure I can really adopt another portal for long term. bahamut0013 words deeds 12:40, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. I am in. Snake bgd 01:04, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
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Just a quick question: Would you be fine if I'd remove the findagrave.com link from featured and good articles for now? As far as I can tell, you're mostly worried about losing possible sourcing information, which is very unlikely to happen in featured and good articles. -- Conti| ✉ 17:32, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi- it's not the category that's causing the problem, this is the problematic revision: [19]. I've seen this happen before, but I haven't figured it out either, yet! -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 20:02, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
With the first of what I hope will be monthly newsletters I again want to welcome you to the project and hope that as we all work together through the year we can expand the project, create missing articles and generally improve the pedia thought mutual cooperation and support. Now that we have a project and a solid pool of willing members I wanted to strike while the iron is hot and solicite help in doing a few things that I believe is a good next step in solidifiing the project. I have outlined a few suggestions where you can help with on the projects talk page. This includes but is not limited too updating Portal:United States, assessing the remaining US related articles that haven't been assessed, eliminating the Unrefernced BLP's and others. If you have other suggestions or are interested in doing other things feel free. I just wanted to offer a few suggestions were additional help is needed. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, comments or suggestions or you can always post something on the projects talk page. -- Kumioko ( talk) 02:32, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
I fail to see how the Unitron article is closely enough related to the scope of WikiProject United States that it should be included in that project. If articles this loosely associated to "the United States" fall under the scope of that project, the shear number of articles that would then qualify similarly would seem to undermine the whole project. Jason Quinn ( talk) 22:20, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
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Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.
The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:02, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi there, so it would seem. However, if a better place for the picture can be found, it can be renominated. -- KFP ( contact | edits) 21:40, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
FYI, you added an extra equals in the novel template in this edit, Sadads ( talk) 02:39, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, I did not want to disturb Moonriddengirls talkpage with this, but the following comment from you really stung me:
Thats what I thought. And I am confident that, as in the past, they were not "reviewed" and and simply deleted. Its a shame really. I guess if knowone else cares I shouldn't either. Its not like anyone actually reads these articles anyway! --Kumioko (talk) 21:29, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
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I'm experimenting with the idea of adding a task force for Archives of American Art articles, and adding the task force to {{ Template:SI-related}}. Adding a task force seems like a good way to get articles categorized specifically for Archives of American Art and allow us to generate a summary table like [22].
I'm not the best at working with template markup, but have something at {{ Template:SI-related2}}. It's not showing the quality rating for the task force, and not sure the best way to organize the parameters. If you are good with templates and want to look at this and improve it, that would be awesome. Cheers. -- Aude ( talk) 03:27, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
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Kumioko, thank you very much for taking the time to review this article. It is very appreciated! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:14, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
(Hey Kumioko, just an FYI) Thanks for your interest in helping bring DC public art to Wikipedia! We have updated our Task Force page for DC, so please take a look and get started. We look forward to seeing your contributions and please let me know if I can help you with anything. Missvain ( talk) 14:04, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
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I will stop posting additional RFC notices on WikiProject talk pages if you withdraw your ANI. Racepacket ( talk) 17:40, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Kumioko,
Thanks for your work on the U.S. portal! I keep seeing updates to the project page, but haven't read much. My takeaway is you're moving on, at least for now. I'm doing a little more editing on the contents portal pages and might have some time for the U.S. portal here and there. Anything in particular you would want me to work on? Regards, RichardF ( talk) 22:13, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Are you aware it is against Wikipedia policy to remove a speedy deletion tag from a category that you yourself created, as you did here? Please instead place the hold on template along with reasons of why you think the speedy deletion criteria doesn't apply if you don't wish for the category to be deleted. I will be reverting your change because you have not provided a reason for why the C1 criteria doesn't apply. Thanks, 69.59.200.77 ( talk) 00:32, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the warning about state infoboxes. I fixed the ones I inserted, and found that Maine is where I started, so I fixed that, too. The results looked so good, I got carried away. I do wonder what "| has-goals =" and "| assessment =" mean, as I have not found them in use. I am also puzzled that Maine does not seem to be a project with a category for assessment tables. Maybe the tools people will tell me. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 02:28, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
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Request reason:
You bet I want to appeal it. Absolutely. It was not a personal attack or harraassment. After the display that Racepacket put on the last three months anyone could reasonable question if he is appropriate as a mentor. Repeated violation of Wikipedia policies including Forum Shopping, votestacking and campaigning, repeated trolling on the Talk page of Wikiproject United States, unrelenting hostility towards myself the project and other users. Misrepresenting and misquoting statements and facts when contacting other users. repeated Assumutions of Bad Faith. Shall I go on. The fact that I left a message suggesting that the users activity be reviewed is not harassment. I do not feel that they are fit to perform the function of a mentor to new users. Period. Also to be quite honest I find your actions objectionable. First you innapropriately revert comments I made to some talk pages in response to some bad advertising on the part of Racepacket, then you block me because I suggested that the mentoring group review whether racepacket shoudl be a mentor? Were else shoudl I take a question like that? If I or any editor feel that an editor is not fit to be a mentor then we should say something without beign worried about being blocked. THIS IS RIDICULOUS. Kumioko (talk) 03:36, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
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Recommend a deep breath and perhaps unplugging the computer for a bit. Sarek is a calm admin, which is why I was surprised earlier. I understand your overarching point (concentrating activity in a US wikiproj is a good thing) and I believe I feel your pain ("How dare you try to improve the wiki by concentrating effort efficiently?!?"). But you really do keep putting the lollypop squarely on the metatarsals. Deep breath, short pause, and I think things will get better. Best. Haus Talk 04:59, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello there Kumioko - although we disagree with Find a Graves uses here on Wiki - I find myself trying to defend there article from being defaced with mention of its (what i call spam) links here on Wiki. They also seem to want to mention its reliability in the article to... So would like your input at Talk:Find a Grave#Copyright? and Talk:Find a Grave#Finding sources. Moxy ( talk) 21:23, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
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Two questions: 1) Why didn't you observe WP:BRD? You were bold, I reverted, you should have discussed. Instead you reverted. Now I'm discussing this, but in the future, it's not polite un-revert other's changes to your bold edits. 2) Why are you singling out two highways of the entire network as "nationally important"? Honestly, the whole network is, which is why I tagged Talk:Interstate Highway System and Talk:United States Numbered Highways for WPUS, as they are both national networks of highways. I'm considering Talk:National Highway System (United States) for additional tagging. It seems to me that you picked two Interstates, one for each coast, without any consideration for their actual importance vis-à-vis other components of the system. The NHS, by definition from the FHWA, is: "important to the nation's economy, defense, and mobility". That's my opinion on what should be tagged, not individual components, which will reopen the contentious discussions you participated in at WT:USRD. Imzadi 1979 → 06:12, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
A point of clarification. What have I done that is a personal attack? Where have I made any threats? How do I own any articles at issue? Am I the only one that has disagreed with your tagging of two (2!) articles? I'm attempting to compromise here. The previous status quo, to which you agreed, was "no tagging of USRD articles by WPUS". Now you (as in you personally) tag three articles, seemingly at random. (You have a rationale, but it wasn't explained anywhere until questioned here so others were left with their initial impressions based on a lack of communication about that rationale.) You were reverted. Instead of discussing it at an appropriate forum, you reinstated your opinion, against the tenets of WP:BRD. I had to start the discussion, and you've been reverted by a third editor. In the course of that discussion, you're now making bad-faith accusations towards me without explanation.
I suggest that others might view another reversion by yourself on this issue as edit-warring. I would view it as a bad faith attempt to own the issue while it's being discussed. That is not an attack nor a threat, that is only a personally held opinion being being honestly offered in the spirit of open communication that such action should not be done until this discussion is resolved. I will also offer that there is currently no consensus to reinstate the tags, and until such time as there is, they should remain off the articles in question.
Now, I'm tired of this. You know the opinions of the interested editors. I do not choose to speak for all of them, as I am only one voice that keeps trying to discuss the situation with you. The others will discuss and offer their opinions on a different talk page if asked, but previous discussions have been clear: USRD is considered a part of WPUS, and its articles will be tagged for the United States in the WP1.0 release, so the additional, redundant banner tags are not necessary. Your actions have been controversial. I mean that in the sense that there is controversy and disagreement over them. Please reconsider your position. My opinion remains the same: there are many, many highways that are "nationally important". Most of them are gathered together into one system: The National Highway System which includes all of the Interstates, many US Highways, many State Highways and even some County Roads that may or may not ever get articles. Rather than sorting through every article under USRD to determine which roads are or aren't listed on the NHS, especially when not all of the articles have NHS status added and some link the the NHS article in a statement they aren't listed on the NHS, and then trying to determine which roads have enough NHS-listed length to be considered "important", I'm suggesting that WPUS tag the system articles and US 66. The systems are what is nationally important, as the whole system in its totality is what drives the importance, not one component. Apparently, I'm not the only one that agrees with this philosophy because a third editor has reverted your edits.
Now, as for the importance being limited to coast routes, I dispute that as well. Why? Well, I don't think that most of the commercial traffic is running up and down the coasts. It's probably running inland to take goods to and from the ports. Our industrial centers are not right on the coasts. Our population isn't concentrated solely along the coasts. Coastal traffic isn't limited to I-5 or I-95; there's US 101 and US 1 and many other roads along the coasts. Imzadi 1979 → 21:49, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
First it is absolutely ridiculous that you would make such a monumental issue out of tagging 3 articles. It is absolutely disappointing. It really is. I tagged 3 articles, not 30 or 300 and in my edit summery even stated that I was doing so with the understanding that the tagging of the should be understood. It doesn't surprise me at all that they were reverted since it is common knowledge to many editors not part of US roads that the US roads project displays ownership over the articles in their scope beyond what is seen as appropriate. When you repeatedly take comments I have made out of context and continually accuse me of inapropriate activity (over 3 articles no less) that is a personal attack. You were careful in your first response not to make any direct threats true but reading the last 2 sentences sure sounds like an indirect threat and certainly gives the keep it up and see what happens inferrance. Knowone is trying to take over US roads or trying to knock you out of the project but you are required to allow others to edit the US roads articles without threats of reversion, blocking or anything else. You nor the project own them. I shouldn't feel like I have to repeat that but I do.
I don't see how anyone could see my reversion of bad faith reversion on the part of you and your projects ownership issues of the articles in your scope to be bad faith edits. There is consensus and the new mission statement has been adopted. Of those that voiced their opinions it was roughly 7 to 1. Now if you want to go and submit a suggestion that in order for a project to change their scope that all the other projects have to agree then go for it but personally I think this would be pointless, a waste of time and amount to requirements creep.
I also tire of this constant petty bickering over what amounts to symantics. ANY PROJECT CAN TAG ARTICLES IN THEIR SCOPE. I have abided by the accord that we wouldn't tag US roads articles but having 10 in common isn't a problem. It is not up to YOU to decide what we or I will tag.
AS for US roads being part if WikiProject United States...it is not...nor should it be. They are separate independant projects with different scopes and although they may from time to time overlap in certain areas Missions and areas of Focus as well.
As for the the Coastal comment. Over 75% of the US population lives within 300 miles of a coastline, the majority of goods and services going from the coastline to inland is by train and although Heavy trucks carry a large chuck they are not the dominant share. Aside from this if you want me to start a discussion on the WPUS talk page of which US roads articles we should tag due to being in the national scope and want to have a good debate then ok but my guess is the general consensus is going to be that its more than the 10 we currently have (not counting this in DC). -- Kumioko ( talk) 23:50, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
I just don't have the energy or time to enter the discussion on what should be in the United States project, or not. Too complex. Too much for me to consider.
Arthur Ross (philanthropist) is the kind of article that I think should not be tagged with the United States project template. I did nothing with the talk page. I cite it as an example for you to comment on, and perhaps use as an example in the discussion. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:07, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Yep, I'm working on it right now. FYI-I changed the /Sandbox to lower case /sandbox, so that it links from the main template pg (at the bottom). -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 17:22, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Your edits here are mangled. You have modified another user's comments, and failed to correctly place the WikiProject Abortion project template. I am going to revert your changes, but feel free to try again once the bug is fixed. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 08:37, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
A proposal to add topical links to all of the contents pages has been made. As part of that proposal, the navigation bar at the top of these contents pages would look like this.
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Hi, while there is no specific order for placing project tags, it is preferable to keep WP Biography at the top when the subject is a living person. When you added a WPUS tag here, you placed it above the WPBio banner, and moved the BLP notice to a position below the top. Makes AWB edits more difficult, but that notice really is important to keep as the first thing someone sees on the talk page. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 22:09, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
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I've noticed that you've added the WikiProject United States tag to a number of photographs of Mexican churches and such, for example File talk:Oquitoa.jpg and File talk:Oposura.jpg. I've taken it off the ones I've noticed. No biggie, but potentially confusing. Best, Pete Tillman ( talk) 22:17, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to tell you that I mentioned you, agreeing with you that the use of RegexTypoFix to "fix" contractions should be questioned. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 23:03, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Came across something that may be of interest to you. See here..what seems to be happening is this editor is delinking The word USA and others words for ALL the USA templates. Not sure if this is normal...pls take a look tell me what you think. Moxy ( talk) 17:16, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Many people underestimate or even forget about the bit in the instructions: If the circumstances change since your original posting then please update your alert. But it's there for a reason; although it may take a minute to leave the update, it can save a lot of minutes in the future if unfortunately (for one reason or another) people have to go through it again, and that's why your edit is appreciated. Cheers, Ncmvocalist ( talk) 01:52, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Kumioko. I posted on your talk page back in November about an issue with your updating of article talk pages inadvertently removing template brackets, and you asked me to let you know if I noted any others. It appears to have occured again with this edit. - Dewelar ( talk) 04:53, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
I was making a disambiguation list for James McLeod to serve as the place to point a redirect for James C. McLeod, a South Carolina politician of the 1940s and came across the unrelated entry in your Sandbox6 for James McLeod, a Civil War MoH winner. However, while he is in the MoH list on Wikipedia, he isn't in your articles to create list despite the fact he has no article. Just wanted to let you know in case either he's been added as hoax, or more likely because you didn't include him in your articles to create list because the article James McLeod had been a redirect for James Macleod. Carolina wren ( talk) 03:53, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
I hope you are still minding the Alvin C. York page. You've been a critical voice in the past. Bmclaughlin9 ( talk) 19:23, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Now that the two week trial period is completed, please respond to the proposal, Adding topical links to contents pages navigational headers and footers, as you see fit. Regards, RichardF ( talk) 14:03, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Please rememeber that edits like [23] that only bypass redirects and change white space are forbidden by the AWB rules. You need to skip these edits when you review them in AWB. Persistent violation of AWB rules will lead to your AWB access being removed. If you are doing things that you know are potentially controversial, like "cleaning up" talk page templates, you need to ensure that you do it by the book. — Carl ( CBM · talk)
To be concrete: if you make any additional trivial talk page edits of the sort you have made today, I will remove your AWB access temporarily. [28] [29]. The AWB rules do not permit making trivial changes like these. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 20:00, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Can you please both calm down? I want to write my point of view but I ma busy in real life at the moment. I'll try to do it within the next hour. Meanwhile, both calm down. You are great editors and great contributors. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:25, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Here's my opinion. I am somewhere in the middle. Trivial edits should be avoided while using AWB. We downed trivial edits to those which don't change the rendering. Carl has right on this. It's also right that most of the things done right now can be done while doing other stuff. More Slowly but still. There is something interesting though in Kumioko's edits. Mass removal of empty parameters helps rendering time. Templates are rendered much faster. I am trying to find someone to perform a database scan to get an idea if the work it has to be done. If the edits are few, I guess Kumioko doesn't need a bot approval. Otherwise, we 'll have to think of a solution. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:32, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Following the discussion above, I find this edit of yours really interesting. Who merged blpo in WPBS? AWB, KingbtoK or you? I like it but it has to be improved to remove {{ Blpo}} and {{ BLP others}} too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:57, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Please see [30]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 20:39, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I just finished updating the lists of FA-Class biographies of American for the U.S. portal. One thing I noticed as I was doing this was that lots of these bios weren't tagged as part of the U.S. project. I also compared the bio specialty and U.S. projects to see where they overlapped. Here are the links.
I don't know if this is intentional or not, but I thought you might find these lists interesting. Regards, RichardF ( talk) 21:47, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Appreciated.-- Tomwsulcer ( talk) 23:26, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
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What Carl says is that some edits should not be done solely but in addition with other edits. My reverting this edits you are just disturbing watchlists for one more time. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:26, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I dug around in the, rather lengthy, AN/I thread. I have to confess that I am generally in agreement a lot of that are trivial edits of minor consequence (whether they or done or note makes little difference). The point of rules are generally to show the spirit and intent behind them; AWB's mention of trivial edit is generally accepted to mean anything of little consequence to the page (I think Carl is being too specific with page rendering). I realise this is vague, but you know we try to have vague rules which are applied with a liberal helping of common sense :) The incidents r.e. Rich Farmbrough generally set a precedent for what is a trivial edit BTW.
Bypassing redirects, for example, might be of some use. But if it all that is being done to a page it is definitely trivial. Clogging up watchlists is a massive pain, I watch thousands of articles, many within the same Wikiproject, and have woken up some mornings to see my watchlist full of hundreds of lines of "updated Wikiproject banner", or something similar.
I think the simple rule of thumb is that stuff like you are doing needs to be done on a smaller scale, with explicit consensus to go through and apply the change. Or where the change is a true "fix" - i.e. solving a problem.
BTW, reverting all those changes is the exact reasons rule #4 exists :) don't worry about it. It is done. I recommend trying your hand at something else for a while. I have found in the past that the best way to stay "fresh" on WP is to dabble at all sorts of different things. I can recommend WikiProject Wikify as a decent bunch who are ALWAYS looking for help (plus you have a few days left on their current drive to maybe earn a barnstar or two :D) -- Errant ( chat!) 17:58, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey Kumioko. I haven't got the energy to read the whole ANI thread, but suffice to say that your article-space contributions have been impressive, as far as I can see, so why not just ditch AWB and get back to regular editing? I admit to having a bit of a fad with AWB several years ago, but it just became a "press okay" exercise and was ultimately unfilfilling. Get back to developing good articles, featured lists, etc. Ignore the tidying up, leave that to someone else, and use your skills to build, not repair the Wikipedia. Just saying. Wouldn't want to see you go. The Rambling Man ( talk) 19:32, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Per your request, I've removed all your user rights. If you change your mind before it's too late, feel free to let me know if you want any of them back; policy says that any rights that you resign voluntarily can be restored at your request. Nyttend ( talk) 20:32, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I think this is the perfect task for you. We need to replace {{ WikiProject Space}}. Check instructions. Can you please help? I'll restore your awb rights if you are interested in this task. :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:11, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
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I looked at WP:ANI today and sad to see the thread about AWB. I tend to stay away from there, but see a need for sensible + content people to pay some more attention, try to change the balance some back towards emphasis on content rather than policy. You have put in an incredible amount of time on Wikipedia. I need to do more of my part to pay attention to ANI, to speedy deletions and AFDs and participate in these discussions, but can't do it alone either. It's daunting but hope the balance and culture here shifts a bit more away from focus on policies. We do need your help, if/when you feel like coming back. Cheers. -- Aude ( talk) 18:36, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
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Here's your current service award. If you're really leaving, I guess it's not much use to you now. You might try to flash it to get a free Grand Slam Breakfast at Denny's. You never know.
I don't know anything about you, but I saw your note on Jimbo's talk page. It's not a good thing when a veteran editor feels ill-used like this, and I'm sorry that that happened to you. I wish I could do something, and I hope you change your mind. If not, best wishes, and thank you very much for your many contributions. Herostratus ( talk) 21:06, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
I know not why you are leaving, but I am sorry to see you go. On pretty much a daily basis, I have noted your edits on articles in which we participated. I do not recall ever finding a flaw in your work. Your departure means I have one fewer good influence.
I wish you happiness and success in your future.
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We really need the work you have been doing on Civil War Medal of Honor recipients. I hope you come back to continue that work someday. Randy Fletcher ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:21, 11 March 2011 (UTC).
Hey, how necessary is adding the WP USA box to pages? I mainly edit pages in the state of Georgia. I was wondering if the tag needed to be stuck on every single page that is dealing with any part of America? I know it sounds like a stupid question but better ask it now before I go edit a few hundred pages in the future. Anyway, thanks! Tamer_of_Hope talk 02:53, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Would you help weigh in on the deletion article for Lance Kennedy? Seems to meet notability requirements. Theseus1776 ( talk) 18:21, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kumioko. I've been working on this idea, which I'll begin floating within NARA, for a monthly NARA-related article collaboration. The idea is to pick an article where a National Archives subject matter expert could provide an informed article review and suggest sources, while the Wikipedia community improves it over the course of the month (the current articles listed there are just examples). You can take a look at it at Wikipedia:GLAM/National Archives and Records Administration/COTM. If we were going to do this, I think I'd need a lot of help at the beginning—maybe direct WikiProject US assistance—to make sure we get enough Wikipedians involved to make it worth the staff's time. I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how to make this successful. Thanks! Dominic· t 19:20, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Either provide some diffs to demonstrate my alleged connection with Fram, and his connection with WP:USRD, or retract your accusations immediately. This is entirely unsubstantiated, and beyond the pale. But my block was my block, and mine alone, and I alone should bear any consequences for it if it was improper. Not WP:USRD. You can do what you want to me, try and get me desysopped, or whatever, but leave USRD out of this. -- Rs chen 7754 08:04, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
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You said that you set your watchlist to auto-refresh. How do you do this? Sadads ( talk) 16:47, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
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FYI, This medal of honor page isn't in to good of shape, citation and other development - wise. Sadads ( talk) 17:59, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Please check out the conversation at Wikipedia talk:GLAM/SI#First workshop session, thanks Sadads ( talk) 22:28, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
You broke this: article — Rlevse • Talk • 01:12, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
I have noticed that you seem to be wise in the ways of regex and I could use some help. I have been trying to convert some of my simpler AWB find and replaces with regex and have had some success but I have hit a snag in one area and that is in looking for = X where X is unknown. For example: I know that if I am looking for something like this:
|peer-review = No (or no, n, N, or missing) |
and I want to eliminate it as a clutter field (since its equal to no or missing per the WPMILHIST banner instructions they are uneeded and shouldnt be present if not used) I can use logic similar to the below replacing the No with N or allowing for missing.
Find \|[ ]*peer-review[ ]*=[ ]*No[ ]* \|
What I am having trouble with is if I am looking for things other than No, N or missing. For example I have found some that have noo, some that have comments (copy pasted explaining what should go there, jsut rubbish data, etc. My question in this is there regex code that I can apply that would look for any character so instead of putting No I could put regex code and do it a little more efficiently. I would still be monitoring this closely because I wouldnt want to accidentally delete yes's or y's but it would make my codeing a little simpler and would catch more problems. The onen I mentioned above is just an example I have several dozen find and replaces that that fall under this category of change. Thanks in advance for the help. -- Kumioko ( talk) 14:07, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Find \|[ ]*peer-review[ ]*=[ ]*(.*?)[ ]* \|
-- Kumioko ( talk) 14:15, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Reminder: Not all talk pages need a talk header. For example: [1]. This talk page has only banners and was never vandalized. Thus, no talk header is really needed. Check instructions in {{ talk header}}. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:50, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
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I will implement this but first I want to see the documentation page for the template to explicitly state that it should be placed in the see also section of the article. Rjwilmsi 11:20, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Could I get your e-mail address, there is a lady at the Archives of American Art that is interested in meeting some of us for lunch or something. I am going to send an e-mail out to the group of people who I have alot of information on. It will probably be in august. Sadads ( talk) 19:14, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey, the final date and time for the first Workshop has been set. If you want to sign up for the team check out Wikipedia:GLAM/SI, Sadads ( talk) 19:37, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
I have been trying to figure out how to do something in regex and can't quite figure it out so I hope I can bug you again. Some improvements were recently made to the findagrave template so that it displays more like a citation and I would like to take something that looks like this
{{findagrave|1234}} Retrieved on yyyy-mm-dd
and make it look like this
{{Find a Grave|1234|accessdate=yyyy-mm-dd}}
Is there any way I can do this or is this type of change using regex? Thanks again.-- Kumioko ( talk) 18:32, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Maybe something like...
Find: \{\{findagrave\|(.*?)\}\}[ ]*Retrieved on ([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}) Replace: {{Find a Grave|$1|accessdate=$2-$3-$4}}
Not sure though. Make sure to test it. – xeno talk 18:39, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
\{\{findagrave\|(.*?)\}\}[ ]*Retrieved on ([0-9]{4})-(0[1-9]|1[012])-(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])
to make sure it only finds valid dates (don't know what context this is in, and if some of the dates could be wrong, but could be useful). -
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Hi. Your AWB edit here didn't come out the way I think you intended. The blockquote did something with the cite tag. I put an ugly band-aid on it, but maybe there's a better way to fix it. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 17:20, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
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Hello again, I think I am starting to pick this regex stuff up. But Im kinda slow so please bare with me. I am trying to come up with some regex that will find something like this:
== Notes == {{Reflist}} == See also == {{Portal box|Biography|United States Navy}} *[[List of Medal of Honor recipients]]
and move the see also section above the notes section. The problem is I am trying to account for pipes in the reflist such as reflist|2. I am also trying to account for multiple portals in the Portal box template with potentially multiple links below that. Most of the time there would be another section (==) below the see also section so I want to capture any links that might appear between the see also section and the == in the next secton. Here is the find code I have so far:
\==[ ]*Notes[ ]*== \{\{Reflist(\||\})[ ]* \[ ]* \==[ ]*See also[ ]*== \{\{Portal box[ ]*(\||\})[ ]* \*[\[(.*?)\]\][ ]* \(.*?)\=\=
and here is the replace code:
== See also == {{Portal box$2 *[[$3 $4 == Notes == {{Reflist$1
I think my problem might be in the replace portion but I can't quite figure it out. Thanks in advance for the help. -- Kumioko ( talk)
Find: == ([ ]*)Notes[ ]*==(.*?)==[ ]*See also[ ]*==(.*?) == Replace: == $1See also$1==$3==$1See also$1==$2 ==
Thanks, and good work on the spanam list. I'll start including the new parameters to the hallofvalor and findagrave templates. — jwillbur 21:18, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
I have moved Kumioko/Medal of Honor recipients with DAB names to User:Kumioko/Medal of Honor recipients with DAB names. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 17:03, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi
The only reason I mentioned cites was because he has written his own script that I wanted to try out
The problem I was having with regex was trying to make AWB do find and replace on a set format
For example find [[1971]] and replace with 1971 - as I don't know anything about it at all any help that teaches me is going to make me know more than I know already lol
Chaosdruid ( talk) 19:55, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
I recognize that you're trying to change "Medal of Honor Recipient" to "Medal of Honor recipient" in prose, and that's obviously correct, but at Daniel Lakin, the following reference/citation isn't prose and should remain formatted as the capitalized former.
"Medal of Honor Recipients: Civil War (A–L)". Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., USA: United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
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Hello. Wanted to let you know, your AWB isn't fixing Notes section headings properly. It seems to be changing level 3 headings into level 2-1/2 headings (i.e. ===Notes=== into ==Notes===), rather than level 3 headings into level 2 headings. For example. Have seen this one other time, and corrected it. Nonetheless, letting you know as it seems to be a recurring problem. Cheers. Akerans ( talk) 15:15, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for the message. I began doing some Wikipedia editing recently and did only some small corrections until I came across the list, which was obviously unfinished. I had most of the necessary reference books and now have the Eicher book as well. I had two purposes: fill in the missing items and write a little more detailed introduction with general information on the Civil War generals not necessarily just on the war or just on generals. One thing led to another in the drafting: explaining one related point in order to be sure the next one was clear. I knew the introduction had become too long but since no one seemed to be watching, I thought I could complete the list without going back and revising the introduction. I think the current revision of the introduction is reasonably good and not yet too long again. I do not intend to change it much for clarity.
Another mistake in terms of making the article too long was that I began adding to the notes. I thought it would be nice to have some key information for each general along with the names. That was going to take too many kilobytes. I think some still need notes. I did not delete any notes that anyone else had added although some of them really could be deleted if one were trying to avoid unnecessary notes. I think the necessary notes would be info on appointments that were cancelled or unconfirmed. Maybe after that comments on killed in action. Certainly if someone had a big accomplishment, like General in Chief or President of the U.S., that might be mentioned, even though it is most likely to be known.
I do not think the brevet Union generals should be added if they were not also full rank generals. There are too many of them and they were no more than colonels. Most did not even exercise temporary general level command. I have now explained the question about who is to be counted in the reduced introduction - which is actually more pertinent to the list than some of the material I took out. I may put up a list of brevet Union generals.
Other than tweaking a few words in the introduction, more clearly identifying the rank of brevet generals, putting notes in about cancelled or declined appointments and perhaps putting in citations for a few more statements or note references, I think it will be as finished as it needs to be - or can be in view of length restrictions - and I will leave it alone. I would not object to splitting the Union and Confederate lists, especially if that would allow more info in notes. I would still think the brevet generals, and militia generals that were not brought into the Union and Confederate armies, should not be on the main lists of generals but on a separate list.
Thanks again. Let me know if you have any further thoughts on this. Donner60 ( talk) 19:47, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Congratulations on finishing them. Now you're going to do all 1,090 remaining Civil War recipients, right? ( only partially kidding... :) ) — jwillbur
That's one hell of an awesome job! But one question: Category:Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients lists 294 articles, but there are 295 individual Marine recipients. Who hasn't been categorized? bahamut0013 words deeds 18:22, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
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The title should probably go back to U.S. Army General or Officer in the disambiguation. Usually, except in rare cases where there are more than one of the same kind of disambiguation (like if there was two James Parker Army Generals), then you would change the dab to something more specific. For people, the dab is usually their occupation for their notability, and James Parker wouldn't conflict with another James Parker article. Having Medal of Honor as the disambiguation just puts a different meaning than what you intend. The disambiguation in its current state, makes it sound like James Parker is a kind of Medal of Honor, not a Medal of Honor recipient (which is why it should probably go back to a U.S. Army officer or General). — Moe ε 16:36, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
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You have recently cleaned up some articles that I have edited and expanded (among all the other things you do!). I appreciate that because I am still not very familiar with some of the fine points of layout and formatting. I think the original article rather than my additions may have contained some of the non-conforming material (such as infoboxes), but between my lack of familiarity and my concentration on making a few substantive changes and additions, I likely still would not have noticed the format and layout differences in order to correct them - and I may have put up some of the non-standard layouts or formats in these articles as well. I have yet to write an entire article on a new subject.
You may have noted that the list of civil war generals has been split into an introductory article, Union general list and Confederate general list by IcarusPhoenix. I intend to edit the article mostly to make it conform to the new setup. I have been working mainly on the notes for the list of Confederate generals. IP added a new section of might have beens to the Confederate general list that I am not sure is really appropriate. He continues to press for inclusion, and continues to include, at least some of the Union brevet generals on the Union general list. He has not made much progress yet on conforming this to his plan for the information and layout as shown in the "A" section but this isn't a small task. I am working on a separate list of brevet generals which I hope will be good enough to persuade him and all concerned to remove the brevets from the main list. I do not want to put it up until I have it well completed but it is long enough to be taking some time and I do not want to try to convince anyone that these officers should not be included without an alternate list for them. I think the brevets should be separate both because the main group of them were not "real" generals and because the list is rather long as it is, especially with the photos and the table formatting. I do not quarrel with articles on these officers and a list of them. They are notable and many had meritorious achievements. They are appropriately included in Wikipedia. But again, the vast majority of brevet generals never achieved general officer grade during the ACW either in the Regular Army or U.S. Volunteers.
I also have been working on some article revisions at the same time so I have been delaying completion of the generals' lists. I did not want to make the split myself since I was concerned I might do it wrong so I did not work on the lists during the interim but found other articles to edit. I have been working on Camp Douglas (Chicago) which I rewrote, partially revised, and still need to revise further - and then to decide whether it will need to be cut back because it is now rather long. As I see it, the only subarticle that could be split out concerns the Camp Douglas conspiracy and an article on that subject would be somewhat longer with the reduction in the main article being small. The article as it stands is rather long, but the timeline approach that I have taken to it seems to require some length. This has taken longer than I wanted it to but I suppose a decent long article is as worthwhile as a few short ones if the topic is detailed and will support it. Sorry to go on at length to you about these articles but I know Civil War history is one of your areas of interest and I appreciate your edits and cleanups to these articles. Donner60 ( talk) 22:30, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Not that it is of tremendous importance, and I don't really care which way it is suppose to read, but you seem to be making alot of corrections away from what WP:GRAVE suggests. Is this just a personal preference? Or should the template suggestion be changes? Neonblak talk - 16:34, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Cut it out. These edits are wasteful, disrupt watchlists, and are contrary to WP:AWB#Rules of use. If they continue, your access to AWB may be revoked. – xeno talk 18:25, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
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If you read a little farther down that link you gave me it states "Redirects for templates can cause confusion and make updating template calls more complicated. For example, if calls to T1 are to be changed to some new template TN1, articles must be searched for {{ T1}} and a separate search must be made for each of its aliases (including T2 in this example).". -- Kumioko ( talk) 23:41, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for that review. I'm just trying to move things forward and get a read on what we need to improve. -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE GOOD WORKS 17:06, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
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Check my answer, please. At least you have to get to some kind of agreement with Rjw or someone else. Adding a comment and removing it in the very next edit like it happened here makes no real sense. I really think that the comment must stay. For the whitespace inside inside persondata I don't have a strong opinion but still some kind of arrangement must be done. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:53, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
You can do this more easily by adding an entry to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects. Rjwilmsi 09:15, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
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The dozen or so people currently discussing this question at the Village Pump should not impose "our" current consensus on thousands of other editors. When (if) we agree to remove these links, we need to do it in a way that allows other editors to join the discussion and contribute to forming and re-forming consensus. This means moving slowly, not with an impatient, all-or-nothing extremism. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 23:43, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
The date unlinking consensus (although I think it mistaken) does not apply to timeline articles, such as 18th century. I reverted your edit, rather than just finding the individual changes that were inappropriate. My apologies for that, but more changes needed to be reverted than kept. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 01:34, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
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How do you justify keeping a section that violates Wikipedia policy? Hollyharwood ( talk) 09:12, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your edit to Claudette Colbert. Please do be careful to preview your changes. Several typos in the headings were created during your AWB sweep. Also, 'Notes', Bibliography' and 'References' are not inter-changeable headings. I have noticed in other articles that you have also changed these headings. Often there is a specific 'notes' section holding appended prose. 'Bibliography' can have various meanings, depending on how the article is structured. It is a tricky area, worth treating carefully. Go gently. Best wishes Span ( talk) 03:59, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Sorry to bug you about this but needed clarification on where the persondata should be placed within the article. The guidelines say "at the end of the blp" but it seems that RJWilmsibot is placing it before the categories. I had a quick look through some pages but couldnt see any real guidelines as to where in the page it should be placed. Is the bot correct and if so can I assume that is the standard to follow ?? Chaosdruid ( talk) 00:30, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
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(Apologies for the late reply, I've been away.)
Mmm. Zero transclusions is simple enough; Wikipedia:Database_reports/Unused_templates lists the first 800, and I can pull a full list if you want and/or filter it. Fewer than X transclusions seems nearly impossible (or at the very least, I haven't thought of a good way of doing it yet. Regards, - Jarry1250 Who? Discuss. 18:07, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Imzadi 1979 → 18:17, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
I know we currently place the persondata before defaultsort, but the logical place for this and "person authority" are right at the end. The structure would then be;
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Farmbrough, 18:57, 3 November 2010 (UTC).
{{
Authority control}} is another Germanic import, which links to a serial number (or numbers) that bibliographic databases maintain to distinguish between people of the same name (or people with many names).
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Farmbrough, 19:07, 3 November 2010 (UTC).
Well it's hard to say, even the Persondata has failed to produce significant sound reasoning for its inclusion. Most of the examples I have seen referenced are either bugged, 404, not using persondata, or of limited use. So the value of adding more "cruft" is debateable.
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Farmbrough, 19:12, 3 November 2010 (UTC).
We have passed de: in the number of transclusions. That would seem to be enough to be useful!
Rich
Farmbrough, 19:26, 3 November 2010 (UTC).
Tell me about it! Wiki means quick, I thought.
Rich
Farmbrough, 19:36, 3 November 2010 (UTC).
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I have been researching Kathlyn Williams for 2 1/2 years, and I have copies of her college programs from 1899 to 1901, and I even court documents from New York City when she sued her first husband. All the dates in the article and personal data are correct, and I have her parent's marriage certificate too. I have her wedding license from Ancestry.com, and copies of all of those newspaper articles from her early life in Butte, Montana. There are newspaper articles that I have from her college days from 1899 to 1901. She was born in 1879 which can be found on the 1880 Census.
The article needs to be fixed, but the research and all of my references from the past two years are correct. I am also writing a biography on her too. Stutzey ( talk) 02:09, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
You posted that everything needs to be cleaned up in the article. You said the dates need to be fixed. I posted that I have been researching Williams for over 2 1/2 years, and my research is fine since I have actual documents. I have been doing genealogy for over 25 years. The format needs to be fixed, and the article needs to be adjusted in a few categories. I could use some help there if anyone would help. Stutzey ( talk) 13:42, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Given your interest in wp:NRHP and in MOH winners, you seem to be the person to ask about Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, who won the MOH in 1899 for an action in 1864. The delay intrigues me - but I'm not even sure what question to ask. I'm also interested in how the GLAMS/SI is going - I might be interested in attending something related in the future, but really only to apply lessons learned to Philadelphia. Any help appreciated. Smallbones ( talk) 02:49, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
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What do you mean by "The references needs some pruning"?
"Too many references, I would try and keep it under 100 if possible" This seems absurd, the Obama article has 300.
Thanks for the read through and suggested improvements, would you mind if I cross them off here when I finish them?-- Iankap99 ( talk) 21:31, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
You missed this last time around. Thanks.
Hello, Kumioko -- I just finished the Hartford City Courthouse Square Historic District article, and about to start on an article about the Blackford County Courthouse. Any suggestions to improve my recent articles would be appreciated. I would rather not continue making the same mistakes over and over. TwoScars ( talk) 03:14, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
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Redirects are...redirects; they technically don't even exist except as shortcuts to other pages. Half Shadow 04:24, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Im not sure why I would need to ask you other than asking for a bot to be run but for what its worth I had no plan to start mass tagging any redirects for a while. There are too many real articles yet that need to be tagged and that is more important. There are a couple reasons I think its useful to tag them though.
Please let me know if you have any more concerns. -- Kumioko ( talk) 02:30, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
Concerning this edit of yours I would like to remind you that WPBIO goes on the top if it contains a blp tag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 02:13, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
|living=
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Some more advice:
[4] priority without work-group is useless. Moreover |priority=
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And to you as well, Marine! Semper Fidelis. bahamut0013 words deeds 15:53, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, there are a few cases (like this where you put WPJapan mucking up the WPJournals tag. I guess this was some kind of automated edit that went wrong. I also have to say that I hardly see the relevance of those articles for the USA project, but as I don't work with that project, that's not really anything of my business. Anyway, I only found 2 botched up WPJournals tags up till now, so it's not a big problem, but thought it would be good to bring this to your attention to avoid it in the future (and I didn't have time to check your contribution history, so there may be others that I did not see). -- Crusio ( talk) 18:25, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Please install rev 7351 or newer: http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:27, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
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I see (
example) that your edits sometimes change <br>
to <br/>
. I think that is not helpful because what we edit is wikitext, not html. As an example, this line ends with <br>
:
Viewing the html source for this page confirms that MediaWiki (as configured for en.wikipedia) has changed my <br>
to the valid html <br />
(with a space before the slash). In fact, your <br/>
wikitext is also changed (a space is inserted).
This is all trivial, but the reason I suggest not doing these edits is that people notice them and think that it must be the "right" procedure, and they then start inserting slashes themselves. The result is just unnecessary complication of wikitext. Johnuniq ( talk) 00:59, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
While WP:WPUS does indeed state that any article related to the United States is considered to be within the project's direct scope, I am really not sure that means all the articles whose talk pages you've recently been tagging with the project banner really need it ... I mean, there are fifty state-level projects (and some with their own regional subprojects, yet) for a good reason. Daniel Case ( talk) 02:41, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
Some of you edits, such as this one have actually broken the project template instead of updating it. In the project banner philately is capitalised. Thanks. ww2censor ( talk) 16:28, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I've deleted this page twice now because there's no article at Jon Stafford. If you have some kind of list you're using to add templates to talk pages with AWB maybe you should take this one off the list for now. Anemone Projectors 02:47, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi- just to let you know I've removed the semi-active tag from WP Illinois, because I've been tagging articles religiously, at least for the past 2 years, along with other project members. The WP Chicago project gets more action (and attention), but WP Illinois is for the rest of the state, which may be less active than Chicago, but it's the umbrella for everything related to Chicago and Illinois, together. I don't think the tag should be on there, because it's very discouraging to members, like myself, who work behind the scenes everyday on the IL articles. I hope you understand! -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 06:37, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
[5], [6] unnecessary empty lines added.
\{\{WP[ ]*(MILHIST|Biography)(.*?)class[ ]*=(stub|start|C|B|GA|A|FA|List)(.*?)\}\}
{{WP$1$2class=$3|$4}} {{WikiProject United States |class=$3 |importance=low }}-- Kumioko ( talk) 00:07, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
[7] blp not converted to WPBiography.
Tell me more precisely what is the problem with the plugin, please. To load a plugin use: Generic template and add {{WikiProject United States}} in the appropriate field. Remember to get redirects.
Tomorrow, we are releasing a new snapshot. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:29, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
\{\{[ ]*(CMedWikiProject|WP Medicine|WPEMS|WPMED|WPMEDICINE|WPMedicine|WikiProject Emergency medical services|WikiProject Medicine CoopBanner|Wikiproject Medicine|Wikiproject Medicines)
{{WikiProject Medicine
and the logic in your file used:
{{\s*(WikiProject[ _]+Medicine|CMedWikiProject|WikiProject[ _]+Medicine[ _]+CoopBanner|WPMEDICINE|WPEMS|WikiProject[ _]+Emergency[ _]+medical[ _]+services|WP[ _]+Medicine|Wikiproject[ _]+Medicines|Wikiproject[ _]+Medicine|WPMedicine|WPMED) *([\|}\n])
{{WikiProject Medicine$2
The question I have in all that is how does [ ]* differ from [ _], what does the \s* do and what does the *([\|}\n]) at the end do? thanks-- Kumioko ( talk) 00:07, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Updated version at User:Rich Farmbrough/temp17.
Rich
Farmbrough, 03:08, 15 November 2010 (UTC).
I would like to remove User:Kumioko/Talkpage from Category:WikiProject banners with formatting errors but I don't want to mess up your code. Could you help? Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 16:42, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:42, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
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Thank you for the tweaks to Sherril Huff, which I helped to rescue recently as part of my 'Article Rescue Squadron' / Wikiproject Biography work. I have learnt a few things from the changes you made - but it has taken me over 2 years to get past 10,000 edits so have to admit being very impressed by anyone who can do that in one month! Thruxton ( talk) 19:22, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Please avoid making AWB edits like this one. They go against the AWB rules of Use point 4, being a purely cosmetic change. Looking at your most recent edits, it looks like they are all like this, so I would urge you to stop this AWB run. Fram ( talk) 16:35, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
E.g. your latest edit changes the position of the BLPunsourced tag (while I prefer top position, there is no agreement about this), and changes it incorrectly to BLPsources [8]. Fram ( talk) 16:39, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Just a comment: {{Reflist}} neither <ref> ensure us that the article is sourced. That's why we need editor review. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:23, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kumioko, with regards to this edit, I'm not really seeing how Andrew Browne Cunningham, a British WWII admiral is part of the US wikiproject? Were you using a category as your basis? Woody ( talk) 22:37, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
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I reverted the United States Portal of low importance from the discussion of Albert Kotin article to the previous edit by Salmon1. The reasons for the action:
If "This page has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale then why to add it? Best, ( Salmon1 ( talk) 00:28, 22 November 2010 (UTC))
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Hi Kumioko I reverted back your addition of US Portal at Albert Kotin's discussion page. I realized that what you are doing is constructive. I regret my opposition to it. Very best, ( Salmon1 ( talk) 02:41, 25 November 2010 (UTC))
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Both these 2 templates are only used on 1 or 2 pages and I think we can redesign them to meet the needs of both, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Both these 2 templates are only used on 1 or 2 pages and I think we can redesign them to meet the needs of both and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Both these 2 templates are only used on 1 or 2 pages and I think we can redesign them to meet the needs of both during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Kumioko ( talk) 17:51, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kumioko! I added Netherlands Portals to Nanno de Groot. He was an American citizen but in World WarII he served as liaison officer to the US Army and US Navy in charge of running troop ships between the west coast and the western Pacific, chartered by the United States. Please check the biography if you think it is incorret then please delete the portal. Thank you. Best regards, ( Salmon1 ( talk) 00:57, 29 November 2010 (UTC))
Hi there, I was just wondering how you got all three (rollback, Autopatrolled and Reviewer Rights) insignias in the top of your page. I tried to do place all 3 of them in mine but only two show up. Thanks El Johnson ( talk) 17:33, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
In Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Kumioko/militarybiographyheader you wrote "Wish I could just delete my own userspace subpages myself!". There is, however, a speedy deletion template - {{ db-userreq}} - that you can use to tag your own user subpages for deletion without bureaucracy.
Furthermore, CSD G8 states that subpages of deleted pages such as the ones you're nominating can also be deleted without bureaucracy. The appropriate template to use is {{ db-subpage}}.
(I also took the liberty of removing the silly MFD notices that were a result of your deletion nominations.) MER-C 07:17, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Why did you create the page above? If you are nominating it for deletion, it should be at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 10:22, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
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Maybe you want to comment in Template_talk:WikiProject_Biography#Needs-persondata. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:40, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
I know that may seem like a personal question but.... I know this girl and her parents just got divorced. Is their anything I should not say infront of her. Their divorce was really nasty they had like a whole custody battle and crap. Now she seems all sad and depressed. She doesn't laugh at jokes she doesn't hang out with friends she just stays inside. Is their something I can do? Like spend more time with her? Or take her to the movies or something like that? CJISBEAST ( talk) 20:50, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
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Doesn't exist any more. -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 05:15, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
After reviewing your contributions I see what I did. I updated my regex code for that and added all redirects pertaining to that template as shown below:
{{\s*(WikiProject[ _]+Food[ _]+and[ _]+drink|Beverage|F&D|Food|Food[ _]+and[ _]+drink|WP[ _]+Food|WP[ _]+Ice[ _]+Cream|WPCUISINE|WikiProject[ _]+FOOD|WikiProject[ _]+Food|WikiProject[ _]+Food[ _]+and[ _]+Drink|WikiProject[ _]+Ice[ _]+Cream|WikiProject[ _]+Mixed[ _]+Drinks|WikiProject[ _]+Soft[ _]+drinks|Wikiproject[ _]+Food[ _]+and[ _]+Drink|Wikiproject[ _]+Food[ _]+and[ _]+drink|Wpf|Wpfood) *([\|}\n])
WikiProject Food and drink$2
I also noticed 2 redirects to sandboxes for templates that have been subsumed by this one and submitted them for deletion. Please let me know if you find anything else. -- Kumioko ( talk) 05:34, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
If it's a doc page for a deleted template, just use {{ db-subpage}} to have it speedy deleted. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 06:12, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Kumioko, I see you have an interest in the Medal of Honor listing article. Heads-up. I've just tagged it for editorializing in that the article goes beyond giving a straight-forward listing or a listing with simple historical context descriptions for the wars. Instead, and in particular in the Korean War section, we see POV edits. Please see my comments in Talk:List of Medal of Honor recipients. Thanks. -- S. Rich ( talk) 07:53, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kumioko: Just wondering why you added Cape May County, New Jersey to the Cities WikiProject, since it clearly isn't a city. Seems like they probably have enough to do dealing with the things that are in their remit! :) Any chance I can get you to reconsider? Perhaps Cape May City should be added there instead? MeegsC | Talk 04:25, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you could try to mark edits where you make minor changes to templates as "minor" so that I can filter them out when looking at my watchlist. Looking today I see a bunch of messy edits like that, which makes it hard to use. Thanks! john k ( talk) 16:27, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
I updated the code for Template:WPUSA, some of the parameters were deprecated. Also, the nested stuff was incorrect, if you have the TFs as a hook, you need to use: 'Template:WPBannerMeta/hooks/tfnested' to get the nested stuff to display correctly. The nested parameter that was in there only works for the first five TFs, only if they're not in a hook. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 18:26, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
I'll say it again since you apparently didn't hear last time. If it's the doc page for a template that's been deleted, {{ db-subpage}} is your friend. PLEASE use speedies instead of MFDs for these. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 04:41, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
I'll post this here to explain a little differently. There are a few reasons CRWP is getting its own banner back.
All of this work won't work if the Canada banner is still attempting to track CRWP assessments. One reason is that the Canada banner is going to be using the wrong categories. (They renamed them all when they force-merged CRWP's banner.) The second is that if they switched the national banner back to the old category names, you could get one banner placing a CRWP article in B-Class nationally and the other placing it in C-Class globally, nationally and provincially. That would screw up the statistics. By your own comments though, you support what we're doing, but you said that the parameter should stay in the national banner. That can't be for the reasons I've outlined. Imzadi 1979 → 07:01, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for locating all of those orphaned template documentation pages. I deleted all of the ones that you tagged and closed the MfDs you opened except for a few of them that are in use by other templates:
Template:Infobox Romanian Parliament/doc really belonged to Template:Infobox Romanian legislature, so I moved it to the correct name. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 08:16, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Don't take it personally (and the other), but do something that actually fixes articles... this crap is crap. Still put it to TFD, no doubt, they're still mistaking their deletions as useful... see my user talk for a small amount of tools I'd still like having... Sheesh! Better yet, convert the depreciated template to auto the new fangled one, then your redirect will follow along. If you need an argument to pass for the Utopian dream template the Dick's are using now, then link directly to it instead of the depreciated name. Either way, keep the tool names. SOMEONE may recall them, or try them as a likely name some dark tired lonely hurried night falling off a chair... some old fart like me. // Fra nkB 14:06, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
is AWESOME and was a pleasure to read!! :) Missvain ( talk) 02:42, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
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Template:WikiProject U.S. state capitols has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Kumioko ( talk) 04:42, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
FYI, I just procedural-closed two TFD nominations that you did on Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 December 5 because no content ever existed on those titles. I presume you didn't mean to do that... SchuminWeb ( Talk) 09:23, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
It looks very bad when your AWB run:
I reverted your addition of a WP:WPUS tag to Talk:Capitol Loop because you had previously stated that USRD project articles would not be targeted for your tagging efforts, and you're clearly only tagging Featured Articles from your recent contributions. Please stop this and consider how it appears. Imzadi 1979 → 22:31, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Just to give you a side-effect over-tagging can cause. [13] is the last 200 changes to articles tagged for USRD. That works off either the banner template or a main category. If you flood WPUS with all of the state-, local- or topic-level projects, that tool will be useless to the project. Too many articles means too much to track and things will fall through the cracks. That tool works great for USRD to help remove vandalism from articles. Imzadi 1979 → 04:17, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
From WP:AWB: "Don't do anything controversial with it. " As this is obviously controversial, please stop adding WP:WPUS banners to USRD articles with AWB without further discussion in the appropriate venue. -- Rs chen 7754 04:30, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Just saying... Imzadi 1979 → 07:19, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, in my comment at Talk:African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)#Proposed_move I've informally suggested Civil Rights Movement (United States, 1955–1968) (etc.) as an alternative. What do you think of that? (replying there, if you choose to reply, would be preferable to me - thanks). -- Born2cycle ( talk) 18:01, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. cities, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. cities and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. cities during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Kumioko ( talk) 03:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
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Did you mean to leave the WikiProject DC template on the page in this edit? If you are combining the assessment templates, I would think you would only need one. Sadads ( talk) 03:58, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Since noone else has edited Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/CCI since October, it would be appreciated if you could move your comment to WT:CCI where there's a current conversation going and more likely others will be able to read and respond to it. VernoWhitney ( talk) 16:20, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
You were right that were was a bug. We fixed it. Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_18#Wrong_placement_of_WPBS. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 02:20, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Minor edits such as [14] that just replace redirects and change whitespace are disallowed by the AWB rules. You need to make sure that AWB edits are only saved if there is a substantive change to the page. (I realize that the DC project isn't a redirect at the moment, but it would be much easier to edit the DC banner to simply call the US banner with appropriate parameters, rather than editing thousands of pages to do the replacement.)
Also, in this edit [15], one of the replacements of "Image:" was not in an image tag, it was in a section header. Those probably shouldn't be changed. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 18:07, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
@Carl:I think there is a misunderstanding on the first edit. One part of the edit isn't just bypassing redirect but merging a WikiProject to another.
@Kumioko: I agree with Carl on the second part. Better avoid replacing Image: with File: in talkpages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:37, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. I am working on improving the article for William F. Dean and have basically everything I need, but I've had a very difficult time finding all of his awards and decorations. I noticed on a previous revision you noted a number of other medals he was awarded that I can't confirm. Do you have any info that could help me out? Thanks. — Ed! (talk) 03:27, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. I'm not sure what you intend to do at the top of this talk page, but it is messing up the code. Can you discuss your proposal on the talk page first so we can help you? Thanks! All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 01:12, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
OK, looks good. All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 02:00, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Please stop DC-tagging WMATA stations for the time being. I tagged all of the Maryland stations for Maryland last night, replacing the earlier DC tagging, and then today, your tagging work came through and re-added the DC tag alongside the Maryland tag. So if you would please hold off on this for now, while we have a discussion at WPDC's talk page that I know you're aware of (since you participated in it), I would appreciate it. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 03:25, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Okay, when you added the Superfunds, it was missing the "|" after the word Superfunds, see: [16]. It should have been {{{Superfunds|}}}. But you fixed it when you added the alt parameter later on, so it's fine now! -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 05:51, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
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So by your own admittance then it does no harm to the article or talk page if, in the course of other more significant edits I cleanup the section headers as well. Also bear in mind I have done this about 100, 000 (literally, not figuratively) times or so already and this is the first time that I can remember anyone ever mentioning this. Also, you have to read all the instructions not just pick out the things you want to make your point. For example, per the instructions:
With that said I appreciate you taking the time to comment about what you believe to be an issue, however, since it wasn't in error, did exactly what I wanted it to do when I wanted to do it (meaning it wasn't done alone but with another major edit) and it has never come up in my 6 years and 174, 000+ edits I am going to continue making this particular edut. I don't mean for this to sound bad but no matter how I write it the tone seems the same, but its not meant to be. If I stopped making an edit every time 1 editor had issue with 1 type of edit I wouldn't be able to do much. I suggest if you feel this is occassion warrants attention leave an incidient report at ANI and we can spend the next few days to weeks discussing it. If you find any other changes that cause you concern or you feel are in error please let me know and I would be happy to discuss. There have been occassions were I did a bad edit or made a bad assumption/interpretion of the rules and was wrong. Cheers and happy editing. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:09, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Please vandalise and lawsuit Wikipeida i will give you sweets — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glassange ( talk • contribs) 12:52, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
[17] - adding {{ WikiProject United States}} to an article doesn't seem to fit under Cleanup talk page templates, formatting template/section order &general fixes using AWB (7474). -- Admrboltz ( talk) 00:27, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
[18] What happened here? Gigs ( talk) 02:27, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Kumioko. I noticed you recently put a notice at File talk:Knot-graphic-stub.jpg saying that the associated image, an icon representing a knot (seen at the right), is within the scope of WikiProject United States. I am curious what it is about this image that makes it of interest to those WikiProject members. It is an unused image that has nothing to do with the United States in particular, except for the fact that it originally came from a Web page hosted on a United States Navy server. Are you implying that any content on Wikipedia that originally came from a United States federal government source should be within the purview of WikiProject United States? That seems a bit excessive to me. — Bkell ( talk) 05:21, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
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If this goes ahead, are you any good with the meta template that creates the banner, so that we can create an Eastern Washington task force? Then either I can have you, or go over to bot requests to have current pages tagged w/ WP EW moved to the Washington project tag w/ the taskforce identified. -- Admrboltz ( talk) 01:06, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
Your recent notification messages were not neutral. Please keep in mind WP:CANVASS and WP:FORUMSHOP when making WikiProject notifications. Personally I don't see why these are needed since the discussion has attracted a fair amount of participation (even if it may not be going your way). Them From Space 17:55, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I understand what you mean. I would like to point out that it should start with the WikiProject sections, whatever the subject is to make the banner invalid when shortened to "WP subject here". Yes, some do become invalid once shortened to "WP subject here". That way, the "users" who are trying to make it appear to be "WikiProject subject here" much easier job. It should not just be individuals being warned, it should be a "global" Wikipedia change to all WikiProject banners. No offence is intended, only giving a valid reason why WikiProject can be shortened to "WP" and really it has nothing to do with me. It's the "WP subjects here" and Wikipedia itself, otherwise why can they be shortened? Feedback and a change in policy would be appreciated. I do understand what you mean, honestly. Adamdaley ( talk) 20:15, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Before things get started over again like before. I have noticed the little errors I made, basically I chose the wrong word for the image/file or picture for the infobox. I will try my best to remember this error I have made and try and keep it from happening. Adamdaley ( talk) 02:37, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
I've added an "ifeq" parser function to make the US portal change to the DC one. In the top five TFs, one has to use an ifeq argument. It looks like in the TF hooks, that the function is already there. So if there are more portal variations for the 1st five TFs, the ifeq will have to be changed. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 23:09, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I wonder if u are able and willing and interested to develop/run the bot needed for NRIS reference replacements, as discussed at wt:NRHP#Please change the standard citation to omit the link? Not sure of how the process should work, because i understand any bot request has to be approved. So I'll open a discussion section at wp:botrequest, could you comment there? Thanks already for your helpful participation in the discussion. -- Doncram ( talk) 16:29, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Please could you point me to the consensus in Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard that you cite, showing that this shouldn't be used? Thanks. Lugnuts ( talk) 10:28, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
-- Kumioko ( talk) 20:26, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Just a FYI, the parameter answers, such as yes/Yes, need to be in lower, not upper case, as in "DC=yes". Otherwise, the portal change is not going to work. I don't know the parser functions well enough to allow for an upper case "Yes". The default case for parameter answers is usually lower case. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 23:55, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
I saw you work alot with medal of honor articles and I wanted to ask. If you think that Theodore Roosevelt article is close to GA? Spongie555 ( talk) 07:00, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
FYI-I've revised the name for the LOC mainpage to be just .../LOC, so that the subpages will show a link to both the USA and LOC project mainpages. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 18:10, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
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Well, for one, we should probably alphabetize the member list before it is too large to do so :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 21:01, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
This seems like an inordinately large 'project'. Aren't we biting off more than we can chew? It would seem that the many sub-projects would be covering MOST of the subject. I keep reading the project page, yet i can't seem to find it's goal or parameters, am i missing the point of the project? EraserGirl ( talk) 22:37, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the invite, but my plate is full. BTW, I would not use WP:Biography as an example of a good project. IMO, it suffers from being overly large and seems to be unable to do anything much besides tag articles with its tag. I suggest that you focus your activities very narrowly and don't go putting a project tag on hundreds of thousands of articles that the project will not maintain. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 03:50, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
In this case I disagree with tha narrower scope. We haev 200+ projects with narrower scopes already and most are inactive or ineffective. Below are some of the my goals there are quite a few actually,
And many more.
To go back to your comment about the scope though. I don't really have a problem with having a large scope and the knowledge we can't address every single issue. But if the articles are tagged with WPUS and grouped sufficiently by Topic (ie DC, US counties, Colorado, etc) and we have a large pool of active users with different interests and areas of expertise (we have about 100 in 2 days out of the 2600+ I invited to participate) there is a good chance that someone in the group will notice it and take action.
I admit that we are still working out the details of the project but now that the recruitment effort is over my next project is to do two things:
Of course this is just an example and we could do it on a number of other things but the point as I see it is that if we establish a collaboration for a period of time (I was thinking a month because I think a week is too short) we can then do improvements to various areas needing attention. And again that collaboration should be broad enough to draw people from various areas of interest rather than just focus on biographies or one narrow topic which will only draws a specific group.
Additionally, I have been signing up various bots (and have a bot request (the first of several planned) of my own currently pending) to address a multitude of items that can bot bot taskable to free us up as much as possible to concentrate our efforts on things that can't be done by bot such as expanding articles, organizeing the drives, etc. -- Kumioko ( talk) 21:41, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
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If there's a US-related article with high traffic stats, with daily readership of 1000+ readers or more, but the article is in poor shape, let me know. I believe a general priority here at WP is doing stuff that gets read.-- Tomwsulcer ( talk) 12:27, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Glad to be part of the team! I'll be sure to shoot you a message if I have any questions or concerns. Thanks for the warm welcome. - Sharkface T/ C 22:05, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
How can I be of assistance in helping on Wikipedia in it's quest for research in some of the articles posted on Wikipedia. Qui Tam Relator ( talk) 23:22, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Me too. Thank you for thinking about me and keeping me informed. :) Wallie ( talk) 00:09, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
I appreciate the invite to WP USA, but right now I really don't have the time to commit to another Wikiproject. Thank you for inviting me, and when I have more time I will reconsider the offer. — Voltin ( T| C) 00:44, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, I've joined :) -- Shruti14 talk • sign 07:50, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE 12:45, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, I'm on board. Cjmclark 15:00, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Actually, neither of the portals I work with are featured ( P:USMC & P:BB). I might take a look later this week and see if there is anything I can do, but I'm not sure I can really adopt another portal for long term. bahamut0013 words deeds 12:40, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. I am in. Snake bgd 01:04, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
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Just a quick question: Would you be fine if I'd remove the findagrave.com link from featured and good articles for now? As far as I can tell, you're mostly worried about losing possible sourcing information, which is very unlikely to happen in featured and good articles. -- Conti| ✉ 17:32, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi- it's not the category that's causing the problem, this is the problematic revision: [19]. I've seen this happen before, but I haven't figured it out either, yet! -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 20:02, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
With the first of what I hope will be monthly newsletters I again want to welcome you to the project and hope that as we all work together through the year we can expand the project, create missing articles and generally improve the pedia thought mutual cooperation and support. Now that we have a project and a solid pool of willing members I wanted to strike while the iron is hot and solicite help in doing a few things that I believe is a good next step in solidifiing the project. I have outlined a few suggestions where you can help with on the projects talk page. This includes but is not limited too updating Portal:United States, assessing the remaining US related articles that haven't been assessed, eliminating the Unrefernced BLP's and others. If you have other suggestions or are interested in doing other things feel free. I just wanted to offer a few suggestions were additional help is needed. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, comments or suggestions or you can always post something on the projects talk page. -- Kumioko ( talk) 02:32, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
I fail to see how the Unitron article is closely enough related to the scope of WikiProject United States that it should be included in that project. If articles this loosely associated to "the United States" fall under the scope of that project, the shear number of articles that would then qualify similarly would seem to undermine the whole project. Jason Quinn ( talk) 22:20, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Just in case you weren't watching. Makeemlighter ( talk) 20:55, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Hey
Bzuk (
contribs) has bought you a whisky! Sharing a whisky is a great way to bond with other editors after a day of hard work. Spread the
WikiLove by buying someone else a whisky, whether it be someone with whom you have collaborated or had disagreements. Enjoy!
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.
The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:02, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi there, so it would seem. However, if a better place for the picture can be found, it can be renominated. -- KFP ( contact | edits) 21:40, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
FYI, you added an extra equals in the novel template in this edit, Sadads ( talk) 02:39, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for deciding to update the portal. Here're some items that you should work on:
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Hi, I did not want to disturb Moonriddengirls talkpage with this, but the following comment from you really stung me:
Thats what I thought. And I am confident that, as in the past, they were not "reviewed" and and simply deleted. Its a shame really. I guess if knowone else cares I shouldn't either. Its not like anyone actually reads these articles anyway! --Kumioko (talk) 21:29, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
All articles in a CCI are manually reviewed for copyright problems. Presumptive deletion is only used in cases where there is strong evidence of copying, but no source can be located. Deletion of an article for copyright problems is a last resort measure and not done unless absolutely necessary. Your accusation that articles were deleted without review is baseless as well as offensive to all editors who contribute to the thankless job of copyright cleanup. Yoenit ( talk) 22:19, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
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So great to meet you too! Lots of Wikipedia goodness to be had. Please send me a link to the topics identified by the American Art Museum so I can take a gander :) Also, you make such a great handle model: File:WikiXDC_Cupcakes_A.jpg OMNOMNOMNONOMNOM Missvain ( talk) 21:54, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
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I'm experimenting with the idea of adding a task force for Archives of American Art articles, and adding the task force to {{ Template:SI-related}}. Adding a task force seems like a good way to get articles categorized specifically for Archives of American Art and allow us to generate a summary table like [22].
I'm not the best at working with template markup, but have something at {{ Template:SI-related2}}. It's not showing the quality rating for the task force, and not sure the best way to organize the parameters. If you are good with templates and want to look at this and improve it, that would be awesome. Cheers. -- Aude ( talk) 03:27, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Generic edit summaries]]. meco ( talk) 00:31, 25 January 2011 (UTC) (Using {{ Please see}}) __ meco ( talk) 00:31, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Kumioko, thank you very much for taking the time to review this article. It is very appreciated! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:14, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
(Hey Kumioko, just an FYI) Thanks for your interest in helping bring DC public art to Wikipedia! We have updated our Task Force page for DC, so please take a look and get started. We look forward to seeing your contributions and please let me know if I can help you with anything. Missvain ( talk) 14:04, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 19:17, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
I will stop posting additional RFC notices on WikiProject talk pages if you withdraw your ANI. Racepacket ( talk) 17:40, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Personal User Award: the Oak Leaf and Acorn Hex Sign | ||
The stylized leaves of the white oak in their fall colors on this Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign are a symbol of strength; acorns denote youth and great prospects. This award is given as a courtesy for edits that strengthen and reinvigorate a Wikipage, even if they may not qualify for a particular Barnstar. While I may not have agreed with some of your AWB habits, or tagging WP:USRD articles under the US banner, I do know that all you were trying to do was help out the project. You are right, most state projects suck, and a lot of projects are inactive, but there are ones, such as USRD who are highly active that just seemed a bit... put off by your aggressiveness. Wikipedia needs users like you still, and I hope you do not leave for good. Thank you. Admrboltz ( talk) 20:36, 26 January 2011 (UTC) |
You would like to withdraw it? That can certainly be done. - Jarry1250 Who? Discuss. 20:51, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kumioko,
Thanks for your work on the U.S. portal! I keep seeing updates to the project page, but haven't read much. My takeaway is you're moving on, at least for now. I'm doing a little more editing on the contents portal pages and might have some time for the U.S. portal here and there. Anything in particular you would want me to work on? Regards, RichardF ( talk) 22:13, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Are you aware it is against Wikipedia policy to remove a speedy deletion tag from a category that you yourself created, as you did here? Please instead place the hold on template along with reasons of why you think the speedy deletion criteria doesn't apply if you don't wish for the category to be deleted. I will be reverting your change because you have not provided a reason for why the C1 criteria doesn't apply. Thanks, 69.59.200.77 ( talk) 00:32, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the warning about state infoboxes. I fixed the ones I inserted, and found that Maine is where I started, so I fixed that, too. The results looked so good, I got carried away. I do wonder what "| has-goals =" and "| assessment =" mean, as I have not found them in use. I am also puzzled that Maine does not seem to be a project with a category for assessment tables. Maybe the tools people will tell me. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 02:28, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
{{
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guide to appealing blocks first.
SarekOfVulcan (
talk) 03:29, 27 January 2011 (UTC)KumiokoCleanStart ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
You bet I want to appeal it. Absolutely. It was not a personal attack or harraassment. After the display that Racepacket put on the last three months anyone could reasonable question if he is appropriate as a mentor. Repeated violation of Wikipedia policies including Forum Shopping, votestacking and campaigning, repeated trolling on the Talk page of Wikiproject United States, unrelenting hostility towards myself the project and other users. Misrepresenting and misquoting statements and facts when contacting other users. repeated Assumutions of Bad Faith. Shall I go on. The fact that I left a message suggesting that the users activity be reviewed is not harassment. I do not feel that they are fit to perform the function of a mentor to new users. Period. Also to be quite honest I find your actions objectionable. First you innapropriately revert comments I made to some talk pages in response to some bad advertising on the part of Racepacket, then you block me because I suggested that the mentoring group review whether racepacket shoudl be a mentor? Were else shoudl I take a question like that? If I or any editor feel that an editor is not fit to be a mentor then we should say something without beign worried about being blocked. THIS IS RIDICULOUS. Kumioko (talk) 03:36, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Accept reason:
Recommend a deep breath and perhaps unplugging the computer for a bit. Sarek is a calm admin, which is why I was surprised earlier. I understand your overarching point (concentrating activity in a US wikiproj is a good thing) and I believe I feel your pain ("How dare you try to improve the wiki by concentrating effort efficiently?!?"). But you really do keep putting the lollypop squarely on the metatarsals. Deep breath, short pause, and I think things will get better. Best. Haus Talk 04:59, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello there Kumioko - although we disagree with Find a Graves uses here on Wiki - I find myself trying to defend there article from being defaced with mention of its (what i call spam) links here on Wiki. They also seem to want to mention its reliability in the article to... So would like your input at Talk:Find a Grave#Copyright? and Talk:Find a Grave#Finding sources. Moxy ( talk) 21:23, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
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Two questions: 1) Why didn't you observe WP:BRD? You were bold, I reverted, you should have discussed. Instead you reverted. Now I'm discussing this, but in the future, it's not polite un-revert other's changes to your bold edits. 2) Why are you singling out two highways of the entire network as "nationally important"? Honestly, the whole network is, which is why I tagged Talk:Interstate Highway System and Talk:United States Numbered Highways for WPUS, as they are both national networks of highways. I'm considering Talk:National Highway System (United States) for additional tagging. It seems to me that you picked two Interstates, one for each coast, without any consideration for their actual importance vis-à-vis other components of the system. The NHS, by definition from the FHWA, is: "important to the nation's economy, defense, and mobility". That's my opinion on what should be tagged, not individual components, which will reopen the contentious discussions you participated in at WT:USRD. Imzadi 1979 → 06:12, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
A point of clarification. What have I done that is a personal attack? Where have I made any threats? How do I own any articles at issue? Am I the only one that has disagreed with your tagging of two (2!) articles? I'm attempting to compromise here. The previous status quo, to which you agreed, was "no tagging of USRD articles by WPUS". Now you (as in you personally) tag three articles, seemingly at random. (You have a rationale, but it wasn't explained anywhere until questioned here so others were left with their initial impressions based on a lack of communication about that rationale.) You were reverted. Instead of discussing it at an appropriate forum, you reinstated your opinion, against the tenets of WP:BRD. I had to start the discussion, and you've been reverted by a third editor. In the course of that discussion, you're now making bad-faith accusations towards me without explanation.
I suggest that others might view another reversion by yourself on this issue as edit-warring. I would view it as a bad faith attempt to own the issue while it's being discussed. That is not an attack nor a threat, that is only a personally held opinion being being honestly offered in the spirit of open communication that such action should not be done until this discussion is resolved. I will also offer that there is currently no consensus to reinstate the tags, and until such time as there is, they should remain off the articles in question.
Now, I'm tired of this. You know the opinions of the interested editors. I do not choose to speak for all of them, as I am only one voice that keeps trying to discuss the situation with you. The others will discuss and offer their opinions on a different talk page if asked, but previous discussions have been clear: USRD is considered a part of WPUS, and its articles will be tagged for the United States in the WP1.0 release, so the additional, redundant banner tags are not necessary. Your actions have been controversial. I mean that in the sense that there is controversy and disagreement over them. Please reconsider your position. My opinion remains the same: there are many, many highways that are "nationally important". Most of them are gathered together into one system: The National Highway System which includes all of the Interstates, many US Highways, many State Highways and even some County Roads that may or may not ever get articles. Rather than sorting through every article under USRD to determine which roads are or aren't listed on the NHS, especially when not all of the articles have NHS status added and some link the the NHS article in a statement they aren't listed on the NHS, and then trying to determine which roads have enough NHS-listed length to be considered "important", I'm suggesting that WPUS tag the system articles and US 66. The systems are what is nationally important, as the whole system in its totality is what drives the importance, not one component. Apparently, I'm not the only one that agrees with this philosophy because a third editor has reverted your edits.
Now, as for the importance being limited to coast routes, I dispute that as well. Why? Well, I don't think that most of the commercial traffic is running up and down the coasts. It's probably running inland to take goods to and from the ports. Our industrial centers are not right on the coasts. Our population isn't concentrated solely along the coasts. Coastal traffic isn't limited to I-5 or I-95; there's US 101 and US 1 and many other roads along the coasts. Imzadi 1979 → 21:49, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
First it is absolutely ridiculous that you would make such a monumental issue out of tagging 3 articles. It is absolutely disappointing. It really is. I tagged 3 articles, not 30 or 300 and in my edit summery even stated that I was doing so with the understanding that the tagging of the should be understood. It doesn't surprise me at all that they were reverted since it is common knowledge to many editors not part of US roads that the US roads project displays ownership over the articles in their scope beyond what is seen as appropriate. When you repeatedly take comments I have made out of context and continually accuse me of inapropriate activity (over 3 articles no less) that is a personal attack. You were careful in your first response not to make any direct threats true but reading the last 2 sentences sure sounds like an indirect threat and certainly gives the keep it up and see what happens inferrance. Knowone is trying to take over US roads or trying to knock you out of the project but you are required to allow others to edit the US roads articles without threats of reversion, blocking or anything else. You nor the project own them. I shouldn't feel like I have to repeat that but I do.
I don't see how anyone could see my reversion of bad faith reversion on the part of you and your projects ownership issues of the articles in your scope to be bad faith edits. There is consensus and the new mission statement has been adopted. Of those that voiced their opinions it was roughly 7 to 1. Now if you want to go and submit a suggestion that in order for a project to change their scope that all the other projects have to agree then go for it but personally I think this would be pointless, a waste of time and amount to requirements creep.
I also tire of this constant petty bickering over what amounts to symantics. ANY PROJECT CAN TAG ARTICLES IN THEIR SCOPE. I have abided by the accord that we wouldn't tag US roads articles but having 10 in common isn't a problem. It is not up to YOU to decide what we or I will tag.
AS for US roads being part if WikiProject United States...it is not...nor should it be. They are separate independant projects with different scopes and although they may from time to time overlap in certain areas Missions and areas of Focus as well.
As for the the Coastal comment. Over 75% of the US population lives within 300 miles of a coastline, the majority of goods and services going from the coastline to inland is by train and although Heavy trucks carry a large chuck they are not the dominant share. Aside from this if you want me to start a discussion on the WPUS talk page of which US roads articles we should tag due to being in the national scope and want to have a good debate then ok but my guess is the general consensus is going to be that its more than the 10 we currently have (not counting this in DC). -- Kumioko ( talk) 23:50, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
I just don't have the energy or time to enter the discussion on what should be in the United States project, or not. Too complex. Too much for me to consider.
Arthur Ross (philanthropist) is the kind of article that I think should not be tagged with the United States project template. I did nothing with the talk page. I cite it as an example for you to comment on, and perhaps use as an example in the discussion. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:07, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Yep, I'm working on it right now. FYI-I changed the /Sandbox to lower case /sandbox, so that it links from the main template pg (at the bottom). -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 17:22, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Your edits here are mangled. You have modified another user's comments, and failed to correctly place the WikiProject Abortion project template. I am going to revert your changes, but feel free to try again once the bug is fixed. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 08:37, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hello, KumiokoCleanStart. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
Hi, while there is no specific order for placing project tags, it is preferable to keep WP Biography at the top when the subject is a living person. When you added a WPUS tag here, you placed it above the WPBio banner, and moved the BLP notice to a position below the top. Makes AWB edits more difficult, but that notice really is important to keep as the first thing someone sees on the talk page. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 22:09, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for the heads up. I'm meeting with some WMATA board members tonight and will ask about it. Racepacket ( talk) 21:28, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
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Happy February to you, and I hope that your experience with WikiProject United States has been a good one since joining and that since the project relaunch in October 2010 you have helped it to grow and thrive. This is the first of what will hopefully be a monthly newsletter about articles and events relating to United States topics. Although this newsletter was built and is primarily maintained by WikiProject United States, many of the items that will be profiled here pertain not only to this project but to some or all of the 200+ WikiProjects relating to United States topics. This will include information about new changes to Wiki policy, features and events; featured content for the month such as Portal:United States, the US Wikipedians Noticeboard, the US Wikipedians collaboration of the Month and other topics. For this reason I encourage anyone interested in United States topics to sign up to receive it and participate in its developement regardless of your affiliation to WikiProject United States.
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With a redesigned project, mission and scope; tools to help manage the project and the content it supports; a strong group of active editors covering a wide array of US topics whats next? To create a way for those users to Collaborate and work together to improve content and to have a place to make that work visible to others. With that in mind several editors worked to redesign and relaunch three tools: Portal:United States, the US Wikipedians Noticeboard and the US Wikipedians collaboration of the Month. I recommend adding all three to your watchlist. Along with this new monthly newsletter these three tools will allow editors to work together, to stay informed about changes and information relating to US topics and to present articles and content to our readers.
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There are several active discussions occurring on the project's talk page that will have a long term effect on the project and will in some form affect its members. If you haven't done so already, I would like to encourage you to add your voice to the discussions.
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We are looking for additional help in several areas including tasks relating to the project such as:
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-- Kumioko ( talk) 20:24, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
I've noticed that you've added the WikiProject United States tag to a number of photographs of Mexican churches and such, for example File talk:Oquitoa.jpg and File talk:Oposura.jpg. I've taken it off the ones I've noticed. No biggie, but potentially confusing. Best, Pete Tillman ( talk) 22:17, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to tell you that I mentioned you, agreeing with you that the use of RegexTypoFix to "fix" contractions should be questioned. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 23:03, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Came across something that may be of interest to you. See here..what seems to be happening is this editor is delinking The word USA and others words for ALL the USA templates. Not sure if this is normal...pls take a look tell me what you think. Moxy ( talk) 17:16, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Many people underestimate or even forget about the bit in the instructions: If the circumstances change since your original posting then please update your alert. But it's there for a reason; although it may take a minute to leave the update, it can save a lot of minutes in the future if unfortunately (for one reason or another) people have to go through it again, and that's why your edit is appreciated. Cheers, Ncmvocalist ( talk) 01:52, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Kumioko. I posted on your talk page back in November about an issue with your updating of article talk pages inadvertently removing template brackets, and you asked me to let you know if I noted any others. It appears to have occured again with this edit. - Dewelar ( talk) 04:53, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
I was making a disambiguation list for James McLeod to serve as the place to point a redirect for James C. McLeod, a South Carolina politician of the 1940s and came across the unrelated entry in your Sandbox6 for James McLeod, a Civil War MoH winner. However, while he is in the MoH list on Wikipedia, he isn't in your articles to create list despite the fact he has no article. Just wanted to let you know in case either he's been added as hoax, or more likely because you didn't include him in your articles to create list because the article James McLeod had been a redirect for James Macleod. Carolina wren ( talk) 03:53, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
I hope you are still minding the Alvin C. York page. You've been a critical voice in the past. Bmclaughlin9 ( talk) 19:23, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Now that the two week trial period is completed, please respond to the proposal, Adding topical links to contents pages navigational headers and footers, as you see fit. Regards, RichardF ( talk) 14:03, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Please rememeber that edits like [23] that only bypass redirects and change white space are forbidden by the AWB rules. You need to skip these edits when you review them in AWB. Persistent violation of AWB rules will lead to your AWB access being removed. If you are doing things that you know are potentially controversial, like "cleaning up" talk page templates, you need to ensure that you do it by the book. — Carl ( CBM · talk)
To be concrete: if you make any additional trivial talk page edits of the sort you have made today, I will remove your AWB access temporarily. [28] [29]. The AWB rules do not permit making trivial changes like these. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 20:00, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Can you please both calm down? I want to write my point of view but I ma busy in real life at the moment. I'll try to do it within the next hour. Meanwhile, both calm down. You are great editors and great contributors. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:25, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Here's my opinion. I am somewhere in the middle. Trivial edits should be avoided while using AWB. We downed trivial edits to those which don't change the rendering. Carl has right on this. It's also right that most of the things done right now can be done while doing other stuff. More Slowly but still. There is something interesting though in Kumioko's edits. Mass removal of empty parameters helps rendering time. Templates are rendered much faster. I am trying to find someone to perform a database scan to get an idea if the work it has to be done. If the edits are few, I guess Kumioko doesn't need a bot approval. Otherwise, we 'll have to think of a solution. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:32, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Following the discussion above, I find this edit of yours really interesting. Who merged blpo in WPBS? AWB, KingbtoK or you? I like it but it has to be improved to remove {{ Blpo}} and {{ BLP others}} too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:57, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Please see [30]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 20:39, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I just finished updating the lists of FA-Class biographies of American for the U.S. portal. One thing I noticed as I was doing this was that lots of these bios weren't tagged as part of the U.S. project. I also compared the bio specialty and U.S. projects to see where they overlapped. Here are the links.
I don't know if this is intentional or not, but I thought you might find these lists interesting. Regards, RichardF ( talk) 21:47, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
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What Carl says is that some edits should not be done solely but in addition with other edits. My reverting this edits you are just disturbing watchlists for one more time. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:26, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I dug around in the, rather lengthy, AN/I thread. I have to confess that I am generally in agreement a lot of that are trivial edits of minor consequence (whether they or done or note makes little difference). The point of rules are generally to show the spirit and intent behind them; AWB's mention of trivial edit is generally accepted to mean anything of little consequence to the page (I think Carl is being too specific with page rendering). I realise this is vague, but you know we try to have vague rules which are applied with a liberal helping of common sense :) The incidents r.e. Rich Farmbrough generally set a precedent for what is a trivial edit BTW.
Bypassing redirects, for example, might be of some use. But if it all that is being done to a page it is definitely trivial. Clogging up watchlists is a massive pain, I watch thousands of articles, many within the same Wikiproject, and have woken up some mornings to see my watchlist full of hundreds of lines of "updated Wikiproject banner", or something similar.
I think the simple rule of thumb is that stuff like you are doing needs to be done on a smaller scale, with explicit consensus to go through and apply the change. Or where the change is a true "fix" - i.e. solving a problem.
BTW, reverting all those changes is the exact reasons rule #4 exists :) don't worry about it. It is done. I recommend trying your hand at something else for a while. I have found in the past that the best way to stay "fresh" on WP is to dabble at all sorts of different things. I can recommend WikiProject Wikify as a decent bunch who are ALWAYS looking for help (plus you have a few days left on their current drive to maybe earn a barnstar or two :D) -- Errant ( chat!) 17:58, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey Kumioko. I haven't got the energy to read the whole ANI thread, but suffice to say that your article-space contributions have been impressive, as far as I can see, so why not just ditch AWB and get back to regular editing? I admit to having a bit of a fad with AWB several years ago, but it just became a "press okay" exercise and was ultimately unfilfilling. Get back to developing good articles, featured lists, etc. Ignore the tidying up, leave that to someone else, and use your skills to build, not repair the Wikipedia. Just saying. Wouldn't want to see you go. The Rambling Man ( talk) 19:32, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Per your request, I've removed all your user rights. If you change your mind before it's too late, feel free to let me know if you want any of them back; policy says that any rights that you resign voluntarily can be restored at your request. Nyttend ( talk) 20:32, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I think this is the perfect task for you. We need to replace {{ WikiProject Space}}. Check instructions. Can you please help? I'll restore your awb rights if you are interested in this task. :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:11, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
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I looked at WP:ANI today and sad to see the thread about AWB. I tend to stay away from there, but see a need for sensible + content people to pay some more attention, try to change the balance some back towards emphasis on content rather than policy. You have put in an incredible amount of time on Wikipedia. I need to do more of my part to pay attention to ANI, to speedy deletions and AFDs and participate in these discussions, but can't do it alone either. It's daunting but hope the balance and culture here shifts a bit more away from focus on policies. We do need your help, if/when you feel like coming back. Cheers. -- Aude ( talk) 18:36, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
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Here's your current service award. If you're really leaving, I guess it's not much use to you now. You might try to flash it to get a free Grand Slam Breakfast at Denny's. You never know.
I don't know anything about you, but I saw your note on Jimbo's talk page. It's not a good thing when a veteran editor feels ill-used like this, and I'm sorry that that happened to you. I wish I could do something, and I hope you change your mind. If not, best wishes, and thank you very much for your many contributions. Herostratus ( talk) 21:06, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
I know not why you are leaving, but I am sorry to see you go. On pretty much a daily basis, I have noted your edits on articles in which we participated. I do not recall ever finding a flaw in your work. Your departure means I have one fewer good influence.
I wish you happiness and success in your future.
Georgejdorner ( talk) 00:39, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
We really need the work you have been doing on Civil War Medal of Honor recipients. I hope you come back to continue that work someday. Randy Fletcher ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:21, 11 March 2011 (UTC).
Hey, how necessary is adding the WP USA box to pages? I mainly edit pages in the state of Georgia. I was wondering if the tag needed to be stuck on every single page that is dealing with any part of America? I know it sounds like a stupid question but better ask it now before I go edit a few hundred pages in the future. Anyway, thanks! Tamer_of_Hope talk 02:53, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Would you help weigh in on the deletion article for Lance Kennedy? Seems to meet notability requirements. Theseus1776 ( talk) 18:21, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Kumioko. I've been working on this idea, which I'll begin floating within NARA, for a monthly NARA-related article collaboration. The idea is to pick an article where a National Archives subject matter expert could provide an informed article review and suggest sources, while the Wikipedia community improves it over the course of the month (the current articles listed there are just examples). You can take a look at it at Wikipedia:GLAM/National Archives and Records Administration/COTM. If we were going to do this, I think I'd need a lot of help at the beginning—maybe direct WikiProject US assistance—to make sure we get enough Wikipedians involved to make it worth the staff's time. I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how to make this successful. Thanks! Dominic· t 19:20, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Either provide some diffs to demonstrate my alleged connection with Fram, and his connection with WP:USRD, or retract your accusations immediately. This is entirely unsubstantiated, and beyond the pale. But my block was my block, and mine alone, and I alone should bear any consequences for it if it was improper. Not WP:USRD. You can do what you want to me, try and get me desysopped, or whatever, but leave USRD out of this. -- Rs chen 7754 08:04, 7 November 2012 (UTC)