“ | former Vice President Dick Cheney ... is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American. | ” |
— Edward Snowden on Dick Cheney, 17 June 2013. ( Link to Q&A) |
Does the ENGVAR script recognize the "Use X English" templates as implying {{ EngvarB}}? That is to say, if I'm adding {{ Use South African English}} to an article which already has EngvarB, should I remove the EngvarB or just let it stand? - htonl ( talk) 09:53, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
At Solidarity (South African trade union), you unlinked both "South Africa" and "trade union" in the lede. Why? -- Taejo| 대조 10:29, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Why are dates being changed in such edits as here? This does not seem to make much sense, is it what you really intended the script to do? Gaius Cornelius ( talk) 12:04, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for your maintenance work around the project. I encourage you to take the time to re-read our policy on BLP PRODs, as it seems you believed Dana Schechter was eligible, although the policy states rather clearly that it requires that the article contain no sources in any form, which isn't the case here. :) · Salvidrim!· ✉ 04:37, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
AWB converts template codes from the redirect to the target title automatically — you may need to file a bug request at WP:AWB if it's doing so incorrectly in this instance, but I did not manually apply the change and have no way of being able to tell within AWB if it's correct or incorrect. Bearcat ( talk) 06:22, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
When you got the time fix the refs on Pleasure (short film). Im no good at combining refs. Much appreciated.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 22:24, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ohconfucius. You reverted me with this edit. I added that content as a result of this request on the article's talk page by an IP. I will not revert you, but I would ask that you please comment in the talk page thread to say that you reverted it, and explain why. It's likely that the IP may not know how to check the edit history of the article and will wonder what happened to the content I added. Thanks! -- 76.189.109.155 ( talk) 07:54, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Perhaps you should take another look at that article to see whether your remarks in its renaming discussion are really correct. — BarrelProof ( talk) 09:45, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
I have restored some of the previous edits and left detailed edit summaries. In dealing with a case of this type, it's best to stick to the simplest statements, like a legal report, and not try to turn it into expressive literature. It means using more and simpler sentences.
For example the sentence "The assailants A and B were known to security" does tell us the names of the assailants, but it doesn't state who the assailants were. That information becomes adjunct to the lesser fact- that they were known to security.
The most important fact is- "The assailants were A and B". This must be the lead sentence in the section about their identities.
It is a matter of effective report writing as against journalism. You presume that your reader knows nothing, and you tell them the basics in simple sentences.
Amandajm ( talk) 06:59, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Amandajm ( talk) 13:48, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Concerning the Janet and John change, yes, it is simplistic language. However, it needs to be stated that the men charged at the police. It is one of the facts. I suggest that an "and" could be placed between the two events, rather than turning what should be a clear statement into a "when" clause describing the point in the action at which the police fired. If this was not a case of serious crime, it would not be so important to state the matters in such clear fashion. Regarding the shots, it is possible that all eight shots did not hit the men, so it ought not be implied that they did. (however, if they didn't they might have hit a bystander... let's not go there!) Amandajm ( talk) 13:56, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7Ng1cQvSuzs
Not sure if your scripts are protecting for {{ not a typo}} (and its possible redirect variants) yet... ? Dl2000 ( talk) 00:33, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
I have left a message on F's talk page concerning the re-insertion of this. More emphasis may need to be given to the fact that he was extracted from Kenya by British officials.
Is it you that is still fiddling with that pic? It looks bad and is unnecessary as it can be viewed at that scale on mobile phones. If it is not allowing a wide gap next to the quote, this is not important. If it is actually encroaching on the quote and blocking it out when you look at it, then it's a problem with your settings. There are there people who have moved it left. and enlarged it.
I have also messaged an editor about the reinsertion of Choudary's waffle. I am beginning to feel like a real bitch. Need coffee! Amandajm ( talk) 03:31, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
|upright|
size, could I suggest that we cropped the picture to head-and-shoulders only? --
Ohc
¡digame!¿que pasa?
03:38, 27 May 2013 (UTC)Hello, I have just recovered from minutes of laughing at you. Something called (Script-assisted style fixes per WP:TIES and date formats) just zipped through an article in which I have an interest and changed all the dates of The Times newspaper so they are now the opposite of as published! Why? Its seriously daft! Eddaido ( talk) 11:21, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
May 27, 2013
and another that reads 27 May 2013
, and that inconsistency is not what we want. And if you're really interested how we got there, please comb through the archives by searching for "dmy" or "mdy" at
WT:MOSNUM. It may sound funny to you, but I like to line up the ducks all in a row. And if you happen across funnier proclivities/preoccupations than mine here on WP, please be sure to share it with me ;-) Regards, --
Ohc
¡digame!¿que pasa?
08:20, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
At Talk:2013_Woolwich_attack#Applicability_of_Category:Military_history_of_London. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:18, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, could you please comment on this thread? Tony (talk) 15:24, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Recently noticed an edit some time back on a Birmingham, UK subject. Just wondering if that was a typo? Dl2000 ( talk) 02:43, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Is it possible to add to the script this correction: all replaced by 70 ºC? [I've inserted nowiki, but still can't see the plus en bee, es pee semicolon.]
Thx, Tony (talk) 12:28, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, DMacks has kindly pointed out a within-template issue of changing hyphen to dash. Could you please advise? And the temperature function seems to be working well—thanks! Tony (talk) 10:22, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. It looks like you have used AWB to replace Fußball-Bundesliga with Bundesliga like in this edit. I know you are not a big fan of the word "Fußball", but per WP:NOTBROKEN we shouldn't "fix" links to redirects that are not broken. When you fix other issues in the article, it wouldn't be a big problem to avoid these redirects, but when that is the only thing you do I'd call it trivial editing and is not what you should use AWB for.
You should also know that you have moved a lot of articles from Category:Fußball-Bundesliga players to the red-linked Category:Bundesliga players. The correct way of renaming a category is to list them for speedy renaming at WP:CFDS, and a bot will move the pages from the old category to the new category after 48 hours. Mentoz86 ( talk) 06:01, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Your script is still broken and/or you're not checking your edits - see this where you removed valid links to 2004 in Norwegian football et al. Giant Snowman 10:10, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Your script is now moving valid links from the prose, see this. Giant Snowman 10:02, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Do you wish for me to add you at the Armando Torres III DYK nomination for contributing to the article? ComputerJA ( talk) 15:06, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi- I've mentioned you in the thread above. Any thoughts you have would be welcome. J Milburn ( talk) 16:33, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
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Awarded for those excellent scripts. Industrious and great contributions! Keep them going! Fai zan 12:23, 15 June 2013 (UTC) |
Your recent editing history at Edward Snowden shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.
To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. VQuakr ( talk) 16:59, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
A report was filed at WP:ANEW against User:Fangorn-Y. I was mulling over the report because I was troubled by your conduct on the article as well as Fangorn-Y's. While I was ruminating, Fangorn-Y reverted yet again, so they are now blocked. What disturbed me the most about your behavior was the fact that you breached WP:3RR and immediately warned Fangorn-Y (in the same minute) for edit warring. It's true that you didn't revert after you yourself were warned, but you're an experienced user, and your warning to Fangorn-Y indicates that you knew what was going on. I'm not going to block you, but consider this a warning. If you edit Edward Snowden in any way that could be construed as a revert in the next five days, you risk being blocked.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 22:39, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
On 16 June 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 24th anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that approaching the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Chinese internet censors blocked the term " big yellow duck"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/24th anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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Hi. At this diff, User:Tony1 apparently employed your date fixing script. The first line of the article was already:
and the script inserted a new line above it:
which seems wrong. Shouldn't it just update the existing template call's date param (or do nothing – I don't really understand the date param in the context of this particular maintenance tag)? —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 09:05, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
|reason=
parameter to the template, but that met with some opposition, so I went with an HTML comment (which I think certainly should be ignored) instead, to which (IIRC) there was no objection. I've probably done it to less than 50 articles. —[
AlanM1(
talk)]—
05:38, 18 June 2013 (UTC)Hello Ohconfucius. How do you do? Actually I needed your aid in respect to the Pakistani English. Pakistani english is almost the same as the British English. So I want to get another option named: "Pakistani spelling". So that I get the {{'''Use Pakistani English'''|date=June 2013}} instead of {{'''Use British English'''|date=June 2013}}. So please help me, how is it possible? Can you make it for me? I tried it on my userspace but met a failure. I created a custom script here, but it did not work. Please help. Fai zan 11:03, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
{{
unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
. However, you should read the
guide to appealing blocks first.During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Bbb23 ( talk) 15:58, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Ohconfucius ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
As to the current activity that led to the block, let's look at this objectively: I made three edits related to my own concern, and that of another editor (see article tagging), that this article was already too Hong Kong-centric. one editor immediately happened to object to it. Whilst it is true that the undoing of my edit was potentially an inflammatory situation, I had no intention of reverting, and Bbb23 has no proof to the contrary. I AM FURIOUS at the twitchy "shoot first, ask questions later" response. I think I was blocked within seconds. However, by acting so fast, Bbb23 self-deprived any valid rationale; there was no WP:ROPE, and no smoking gun. I would contended that this is to punish me retrospectively for the previous episode when he couldn't exercise the trigger finger.
So in summation, this was a BAD BLOCK. Given the already heated atmosphere at Snowden, and the prejudice that now exists, it would certainly be imprudent of me to make any more content edits there for the next 7 days. Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 16:07, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Accept reason:
Yes, it doesn't look like blockable edit warring to me. Consecutive reverts count as one revert. Bishonen | talk 06:51, 17 June 2013 (UTC).
This admin looks like a gun-totin' wild-west cowboy. Is he calmly assessing the situation and providing social leadership? Or is he making it up as he goes. Must be a power surge. Tony (talk) 16:35, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Dear me, I go away for a few years and you two are still getting yourselves into trouble! ;-) Anyway, just thought I'd stop by in passing and send my regards - I hope you're both well.
Ryan PostlethwaiteSee
the mess I've created or
let's have banter
11:20, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
You cannot be serious!! I'm flummoxed that this and this count as reverts in your book... Other admins might be doing it, but it seems a ludicrously draconian way to exercise your admin powers. Yes, I read the policy, and what you did seems to be allowed according to the rather wide definition of what constitutes a "revert". It turns any removal of content from the field of ' battle' (used advisedly), however small, into a potentially blocking situation making it much more powerful that most people would believe. I know you were acting in good faith to cool things down, but I would sincerely advise you not to rely on "others do it" as a justification, as this is the sort of situation that reinforces the view that many admins are abusive. Just because you have a sledgehammer, doesn't mean you have to crack the proverbial nut with it.
— posted 01:59, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
-- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:07, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
While I'm agnostic on removing "Fußball-" from various article titles, why on Earth did you try to anglicize the names of the Regionalligas? Something like " Regionalliga North" [sic] is neither English as such, nor is it an established English-language reference to the league in question, making WP:USEENGLISH wholly inappropriate as a justification for that aspect of the page moves. Zeyes ( talk) 04:40, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Deadmaus#Requested_move_3_.28to_.22Joel_Zimmerman.22.29. Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 16:23, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
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Ohconfucius, I wanted to give you a heads-up about editing DYK hooks. As part of your modifications to the World of Tanks Xbox 360 Edition hook, you added a quote, "in mere days". This is a quote from the original source, but it did not appear in the article: hooks should not include anything in that is not in the article and sourced there. This is especially true of exact quotes. I have modified the article so the quote is now in it and sourced, so this is no longer an issue, but I thought you should be aware regarding any future hook edits: any changes need to be reflected in the article and sourced there to be eligible for inclusion in the hook. Thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:52, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello. Please see where I fixed it. Perhaps the script was confused by the date concerned being within a {{ nowrap}} template? cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 09:22, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
I am so.... so... so... excited! The script does a lot of the tedious fixes and does them all at once! Combined with the rest of the general fixes I can make a lot of really important and MOS compliant changes without making multiple passes or bogging myself down with one thing at a time mentality. I like it a lot. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 14:46, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks; I'll try and pick better cases from now on; or at least until Wikipedia gets a format style solidified. In an ideal world I'd like for an option on AWB that gives "Convert to American MDY" and "Convert to DMY" as an optional pop-up that parses the number of citations of each type. Its a complex problem of which I do not know how to implement; but this would be closer to an ideal. Even better would be a stored summary of the rational in the edit summary or appended to a change list if anyone questions the edit. I rolled back my own actions for those places because I didn't want to leave the issues floating about, but yes I'd greatly appreciate a MDY for American workspaces. If you make such a module I can run the MDY and DMY modules on two separate instances of AWB through a list and alternate with a skip/save system. I've done this before with assessments because the kingbot plugin didn't work. Anyways... I'll busy myself with the DBZ matter and add more of my research to my sandbox. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 19:39, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
It is also the only template which makes sense to do so; but I caught wind of some mass clean out of old POV tags that were never discussed by another AWB user... some from 2008-2009 when have remained on the page for so long. Tags are great for certain things and other times are a bit off putting. Wikipedia's maintenance requires that someone do the task, but doing so seems to upset the curators of their domains. We are here to build an encyclopedia and such janitorial tasks must be done alongside content ones. I'm not suggesting doing this for any other tag; but yes... my logic must be the same as yours. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 04:14, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
How is it coming along? I've been working hard at the backlog and so far so good; lots of changes to be made along the way. I've been going fairly slow and noticing a few issues with the script and the cases of "the (date)" when it is valid. Other than that.. not too many issues with it. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 01:00, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
If you build out the American variant of the script; do you think I should begin inserting templates for future use in other articles not tagged yet? I am still addressing the backlog; and working on the bracket issue in the process with general fixes... do you notice it or no? ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 04:20, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
Yes; to tag the articles prior to a run, by placing just the template and then after all the templates are added begin addressing the issue with the script. Something that would take a very long time, sadly. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 12:42, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Is there an easy way to rule out pages that have DMY or MDY tags for future runs?" Not quite sure what you mean. But there's a 'skip option' tab in AWB. Put in the regex \{\{use (dmy|mdy) dates
into the skip box, tick "regex", and it should skip or filter any articles that have content matching or not matching the
regular expression. If you want to target or exclude articles of any given month or year, like the ones you may have recently tagged, you only need to tweak the regex (e.g.\{\{use (dmy|mdy) dates\|date=June 2013\}\}
) --
Ohc
¡digame!¿que pasa?
01:36, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
1exec1 ( talk · contribs), who helped my rewrite my js script, has another approach: he analyses the incidence of dmy or mdy dates using the database scan, and then applies the dominant date format per WP:RETAIN. That process allows him to run theough hundreds of articles at a time with maximal efficiency without even needing to stop and ponder whether it follows WP:TIES.
My js script will usually expand month names, but only inside |date=
, |accessdate=
and |archivedate=
within references. It hasn't been done so far because of the risks of false positives and script bugs (and because I had forgotten about my AWB scripts until I offered them to you). I suppose can make it expand others too – certainly for 'full' dates. --
Ohc
¡digame!¿que pasa?
02:23, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Processing date tagging based on dominant format is definitely the most efficient. I don't know how it was done, and unfortunately 1exec1 is not that active any more. -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 02:39, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
regarding this, it is likely the insertion is related to your prepending the dmy/mdy templates. Go to the 'more' tab in AWB, and you can select the number of lines to insert after the template (make sure it's on "0"). -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 04:05, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
So I asked and figured out how to tag all the articles relatively easily with dmy or mdy and practiced on some of them. Ideally, every page should be tagged - even preemptively for the citation style, correct? I cannot leave this up to some bot or script; I'll have to do every one by hand and rationalize the decision where it is not immediately obvious. I've also done a few thousand more pages on the backlog and addressed a lot of issues, with only a few errors that I have to manually address every dozen or two pages. If I keep up this pace, the backlog will be addressed by the end of July and I can begin working on the major untagged elements. I just need to find what to do and how best to execute it with a guideline I can follow; I've been going by TIES and existing formats and defaulting to scope and region for DMY or MDY in my test run. I think I need a concrete form to go by though. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 20:13, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
|accessdate=
parameters. For example, check out the edit history for
Baby, You're a Rich Man and
TRS-80 to see Chris's edits using the AWB module and my edit immediately after using the script. Is this a bug or by design? Thanks!
|date=
and |accessdate=
could be different), semi-automated alignment could take place uniformly and without guessing or second-guessing. --
Ohc
¡digame!¿que pasa?
02:11, 29 June 2013 (UTC)And no, I have to be tight on the scope so the script will not expand abbreviated month names elsewhere. When I wrote an earlier version of my js script, I couldn't find a way of ensuring no false positives for things like works and titles. That problem still exists for me with AWB. I may be fine writing regexes, but my non-existence programming skills means I won't be able to make such improvements without assistance from a programmer. -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:56, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. There are, at present, no particular clear guidelines for religious material here, or, for that matter, guidelines for how to deal with ideas in general, particularly those ideas which might be accepted as true by individuals of a given religious, political, or scientific stance. There have been attempts in the past to draft such guidelines, but they have quickly been derailed. I am dropping this note on the talk pages of a number of editors who I believe have some interest in these topics, or have shown some ability and interest in helping to develop broad topic areas, such as yourself, and asking them to review the material at User:John Carter/Guidelines discussion and perhaps take part in an effort to decide what should be covered in such guidelines, should they be determined useful, and what phrasing should be used. I also raise a few questions about broader possible changes in some things here, which you might have some more clear interest in. I would be honored to have your input. John Carter ( talk) 19:37, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading the picture to english wiki, can you please also upload it to wiki commons?
BTW, those "contributors" of Chinese wiki they are always removing contents about tank man, the tank man vs rubber duck picture will become a powerful weapon by posting it in Chinese wiki, though I think they will undo my edit.
Anyway thank you for your contribution, have a nice day. 116.49.203.248 ( talk) 03:09, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
About this edit, do you know what the article title is? I may locate it on the SCMP website. WhisperToMe ( talk) 08:14, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
This edit escaped me. Now we have on the Main page a hook with a grammatical error, not naming the birthday child, saying "today", carefully avoided by the reviewer. I hope not for long, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:33, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ohconfucius! Saw the links to the AWB modules for date formatting - I'll have to try them out sometime. I noticed that there is some code in the modules that seems to duplicate AWB functionality. For example, your module changes {{ bda}} to {{ birth date and age}}, which is also part of Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects. While those changes are great to be used in non-AWB scripts, you may want to remove them from the AWB modules to get a little better performance. Keep up the good work! GoingBatty ( talk) 17:50, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
This is not a very serious issue and thus does not need reversion, but, can you add a rule that the newspaper's name is The Telegraph (Calcutta), here Calcutta is not location. -- Tito☸ Dutta 07:26, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
WP:IMOS and WP:IRE-IRL are being ignored by your bot creating inconsistancies. Please rectify. Murry1975 ( talk) 10:16, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Here is my code review.
{0,1}
is the same as ?
.[ ]
in your code. They can all be replaced with a simple space.[^\{\}]
(or simply [^{}]
which is the same) instead of [^\}]
. This avoids false positives with nested templates.[\S\s]*
should be [\S\s]*?
. Also you can remove the (?:)
from this rule.<ref>
. Your script does it. Should I too?/([\w;,.\])>] ) +([[\w(])/g
(I made it a little bit shorter). I should keep this in mind.[[wikt:]]
link?\dx\d
rule (without spaces) produces lots and lots of false positives./(\d) x (\d )/
rule above.\
. Here is a suggestion: /(\d)(?:\s| )?(?=\[\[Celsius\|[°º]C\]\])/gi
./(\{\{convert\s*\|)\s*0+(?=[1-9])/gi, '$1'
.-- TMg 21:31, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for you thorough evaluation. Comments or responses as below:
/
(slash symbol) created a code error for me. But I've now replaced it and I'll see how it goes.<references />
or {{
reflist}}
and replace with {{reflist|30em}}
<ref>
. I've found no disadvantages, and in fact it adheres the citation more closely to the phrase to which it relates (or to another citation).\dx\d
rule (without spaces) produces never-ending of false positives, particularly in sport (athletics) articles, and often disturbs links.Thanks again for your help and advice. -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:19, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
/
(slash symbol) created a code error for me." I can't think of a reason why this should happen. Spaces need to be escaped as \
when you use the /x
modifier. But this is not supported in JavaScript. OK, thanks
above. Noted-- TMg 12:00, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Thanks for your message on my talk page about your "Sources" script. I discover that I already have it in my vector.js page, but it doesn't work. Maybe this is because I am using Chrome browser. I switched from Firefox a while ago. Is there any chance your script will soon work in Chrome as well? Thanks -- Alarics ( talk) 12:29, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Made a new section for easy replying. A script to flip them all is indeed nice, but a bit too late for that page. Haha. At what point do you think the updating of the articles is appropriate to stop parsing them? Six months prior or just do them all to July 2013 so that all pages have a shot at the other fixes in the script? Estimated time to completion would be September/October; if I go all out on it without interruption... end of August at latest. Personally, I'd stop after all the May ones are done and begin tagging all articles with dmy/mdy tags while the ISO issue can be debated to death. What do you think is good? ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 04:31, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I just wondered if you could do what you did to this article on Seb Brown ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Seb_Brown&diff=next&oldid=562335258)
On this article for Barry Fuller ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Fuller)
As the user http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jodie25 has changed all the dates in the article to the incorrect format, seen here ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Barry_Fuller&diff=562411292&oldid=562410874)
If you have the time to do this, that would be great.
Many thanks. 92.40.254.19 ( talk) 17:59, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello. Was wondering why you/your script were adding a |df=
yes parameter to uses of the {{
death year and age}} template, given that AFAIK this template neither has nor needs a |df=
parameter? cheers,
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Hello, I have got your script partially working now, and it is a great boon. Thanks for all your work on it. But there is one thing it is doing wrong -- converting "London Evening Standard" to "Evening Standard (London)". In fact the former is now correct, the masthead having read "London Evening Standard" since the paper was relaunched in 2009. See its website and the WP article on it. Best, -- Alarics ( talk) 18:53, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
So maybe we should rename the WP article to London Evening Standard? Or would somebody get upset about that? -- Alarics ( talk) 04:03, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello again, When I click "Fix news sources" or "Rem publishers" in the toolbox at left, and nothing happens within a few seconds, does that mean that the article doesn't need any changes in those respects, or that the script isn't working in my browser, or that I need to wait longer before something happens? -- Alarics ( talk) 10:54, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Here are two that I have seen often enough:
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Hi, Ohconfucius. At this edit you removed some links in the Nigel Malim DYK hook and said "one was grossly misleading". I guess you had in mind "the French"? Of course, there were also the Free French, who until November 1942 were very few in numbers and impotent, while Vichy France was the government of France. So I really can't agree with "grossly misleading" for the period in question. I wouldn't wish to argue with the link " collaborationist French", but I wouldn't have said that myself, because the situation was incredibly complicated. I thought the other links in the hook I proposed were interesting and did no harm. Anyway, when you are making such changes to a hook, would you mind leaving the original one on the page and proposing an Alt? Regards, Moonraker ( talk) 10:18, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I had a few questions about this edit. I understand the idea of not linking to common terms and try not to do it myself but I'm not sure that [[Prime Minister of Bahrain|Prime Minister]] is that common a term. I noticed that you changed most or all occurrences of Al Jazeera English to Al Jazeera, mainly in references. Some were correctly changed but others were actually referenced to the Al Jazeera English website and Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera are two separate things. I was also curious why you would change direct links to redirects such as [[Shia Islam|Shia]] to [[Shia]] or [[Shotgun shell#Birdshot|birdshot]] to [[Birdshot]]. In most cases that's not a problem but you changed [[Torture during the Bahraini uprising (2011–present)|torture in government custody]] ( torture in government custody) to [[Torture during the Bahraini uprising (2011–)|torture in government custody]] ( torture in government custody) and {{ Bahraini uprising (2011–present)}} to {{ Bahraini uprising (2011–)}}. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather ( talk) 22:03, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
As I understand it, Al Jazeera English is a "station" and Al Jazeera is the umbrella news organisation. It may be arguable that AJ English is a more precise target, but using the generic 'Al Jazeera' as the publisher isn't incorrect. Quite clearly, it's not likely that we would cite Al Jazeera Arabic as a matter of course, so there is no ambiguity. When examining the links, you will find that they redirect back to www.aljazeera.com even though the cited ref might begin with english.aljazeera.com. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:33, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:2013 mass surveillance scandal#Expand title and scope in light of WaPo stories. I'm contacting you because of your substantial contributions to the articles related to Edward Snowden. Nstrauss ( talk) 20:57, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
When you got the time please check out the refs on Marie Lehmann, Jenny Strömstedt , Jasmine Kara, Anna Herdenstam, Amelia Adamo and Elisabet Höglund. Much appreciated. -- BabbaQ ( talk) 12:40, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Some user I've never encountered before undid my MOS edit so I am bringing it to DRN. The definition of "intrinsic" is "essential" in this case. I am tired of this issue. This issue should be easy to resolve and help in showing consensus. If it is just Deb and me, nothing will change. If Deb refuses DRN, what do I do? ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 16:07, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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I screwed this one up. [10] I didn't catch this sadly; I even looked at it and hit okay. Is there a way to prevent me from hitting on this ever again? ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 20:31, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Can you please explain this edit? There is nothing to retain, as a glance at the previous edit history would show. It is mindless cluttter. It is not helpful to building an encyclopedia. The article in question has no d's or m's to order carefullyl in one direction or the other. As far as I can see this is just a pissing contest to mark as many articles as possible, with no actual use. — David Eppstein ( talk) 15:46, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Please switch the date format on The Dresden Dolls back to mdy. Thank you. Alexius Horatius 19:08, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ohconfucius,
I'm rethinking about integrating your script in AFCH, so that an article gets automatically cleaned up by your script after declining or accepting any submission. Is it possible, that you transform your script a bit so that I can put any string in your function and get the transformed text back? AUTOED is handling that way, see Wikipedia:AutoEd/templates.js for instance what I do mean. I believe many cleanup functions are already integrated in the full autoed "library", but that won't hurt. mabdul 13:52, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
I've started a debate on a requested move from IHH to İHH, since I think diacritics should be used the article name for this Turkish NGO in line with Wikipedia rules. The previous debate resulted in a draw, some people argued that İHH's English website used the name without diacritics, but other articles like Agnieszka Radwańska use diacritics contrary to spellings in their websites. I see Ana Ivanović's name has been changed, but I don't agree with it. Anyways, you're free to comment on /info/en/?search=Talk:IHH_(Turkish_NGO)#Requested_move_3 Kavas ( talk) 18:36, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
“ | former Vice President Dick Cheney ... is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American. | ” |
— Edward Snowden on Dick Cheney, 17 June 2013. ( Link to Q&A) |
Does the ENGVAR script recognize the "Use X English" templates as implying {{ EngvarB}}? That is to say, if I'm adding {{ Use South African English}} to an article which already has EngvarB, should I remove the EngvarB or just let it stand? - htonl ( talk) 09:53, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
At Solidarity (South African trade union), you unlinked both "South Africa" and "trade union" in the lede. Why? -- Taejo| 대조 10:29, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Why are dates being changed in such edits as here? This does not seem to make much sense, is it what you really intended the script to do? Gaius Cornelius ( talk) 12:04, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for your maintenance work around the project. I encourage you to take the time to re-read our policy on BLP PRODs, as it seems you believed Dana Schechter was eligible, although the policy states rather clearly that it requires that the article contain no sources in any form, which isn't the case here. :) · Salvidrim!· ✉ 04:37, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
AWB converts template codes from the redirect to the target title automatically — you may need to file a bug request at WP:AWB if it's doing so incorrectly in this instance, but I did not manually apply the change and have no way of being able to tell within AWB if it's correct or incorrect. Bearcat ( talk) 06:22, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
When you got the time fix the refs on Pleasure (short film). Im no good at combining refs. Much appreciated.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 22:24, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ohconfucius. You reverted me with this edit. I added that content as a result of this request on the article's talk page by an IP. I will not revert you, but I would ask that you please comment in the talk page thread to say that you reverted it, and explain why. It's likely that the IP may not know how to check the edit history of the article and will wonder what happened to the content I added. Thanks! -- 76.189.109.155 ( talk) 07:54, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Perhaps you should take another look at that article to see whether your remarks in its renaming discussion are really correct. — BarrelProof ( talk) 09:45, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
I have restored some of the previous edits and left detailed edit summaries. In dealing with a case of this type, it's best to stick to the simplest statements, like a legal report, and not try to turn it into expressive literature. It means using more and simpler sentences.
For example the sentence "The assailants A and B were known to security" does tell us the names of the assailants, but it doesn't state who the assailants were. That information becomes adjunct to the lesser fact- that they were known to security.
The most important fact is- "The assailants were A and B". This must be the lead sentence in the section about their identities.
It is a matter of effective report writing as against journalism. You presume that your reader knows nothing, and you tell them the basics in simple sentences.
Amandajm ( talk) 06:59, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
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Concerning the Janet and John change, yes, it is simplistic language. However, it needs to be stated that the men charged at the police. It is one of the facts. I suggest that an "and" could be placed between the two events, rather than turning what should be a clear statement into a "when" clause describing the point in the action at which the police fired. If this was not a case of serious crime, it would not be so important to state the matters in such clear fashion. Regarding the shots, it is possible that all eight shots did not hit the men, so it ought not be implied that they did. (however, if they didn't they might have hit a bystander... let's not go there!) Amandajm ( talk) 13:56, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7Ng1cQvSuzs
Not sure if your scripts are protecting for {{ not a typo}} (and its possible redirect variants) yet... ? Dl2000 ( talk) 00:33, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
I have left a message on F's talk page concerning the re-insertion of this. More emphasis may need to be given to the fact that he was extracted from Kenya by British officials.
Is it you that is still fiddling with that pic? It looks bad and is unnecessary as it can be viewed at that scale on mobile phones. If it is not allowing a wide gap next to the quote, this is not important. If it is actually encroaching on the quote and blocking it out when you look at it, then it's a problem with your settings. There are there people who have moved it left. and enlarged it.
I have also messaged an editor about the reinsertion of Choudary's waffle. I am beginning to feel like a real bitch. Need coffee! Amandajm ( talk) 03:31, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
|upright|
size, could I suggest that we cropped the picture to head-and-shoulders only? --
Ohc
¡digame!¿que pasa?
03:38, 27 May 2013 (UTC)Hello, I have just recovered from minutes of laughing at you. Something called (Script-assisted style fixes per WP:TIES and date formats) just zipped through an article in which I have an interest and changed all the dates of The Times newspaper so they are now the opposite of as published! Why? Its seriously daft! Eddaido ( talk) 11:21, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
May 27, 2013
and another that reads 27 May 2013
, and that inconsistency is not what we want. And if you're really interested how we got there, please comb through the archives by searching for "dmy" or "mdy" at
WT:MOSNUM. It may sound funny to you, but I like to line up the ducks all in a row. And if you happen across funnier proclivities/preoccupations than mine here on WP, please be sure to share it with me ;-) Regards, --
Ohc
¡digame!¿que pasa?
08:20, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
At Talk:2013_Woolwich_attack#Applicability_of_Category:Military_history_of_London. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:18, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, could you please comment on this thread? Tony (talk) 15:24, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Recently noticed an edit some time back on a Birmingham, UK subject. Just wondering if that was a typo? Dl2000 ( talk) 02:43, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Is it possible to add to the script this correction: all replaced by 70 ºC? [I've inserted nowiki, but still can't see the plus en bee, es pee semicolon.]
Thx, Tony (talk) 12:28, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, DMacks has kindly pointed out a within-template issue of changing hyphen to dash. Could you please advise? And the temperature function seems to be working well—thanks! Tony (talk) 10:22, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. It looks like you have used AWB to replace Fußball-Bundesliga with Bundesliga like in this edit. I know you are not a big fan of the word "Fußball", but per WP:NOTBROKEN we shouldn't "fix" links to redirects that are not broken. When you fix other issues in the article, it wouldn't be a big problem to avoid these redirects, but when that is the only thing you do I'd call it trivial editing and is not what you should use AWB for.
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Your script is still broken and/or you're not checking your edits - see this where you removed valid links to 2004 in Norwegian football et al. Giant Snowman 10:10, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Your script is now moving valid links from the prose, see this. Giant Snowman 10:02, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Do you wish for me to add you at the Armando Torres III DYK nomination for contributing to the article? ComputerJA ( talk) 15:06, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi- I've mentioned you in the thread above. Any thoughts you have would be welcome. J Milburn ( talk) 16:33, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
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Awarded for those excellent scripts. Industrious and great contributions! Keep them going! Fai zan 12:23, 15 June 2013 (UTC) |
Your recent editing history at Edward Snowden shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.
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A report was filed at WP:ANEW against User:Fangorn-Y. I was mulling over the report because I was troubled by your conduct on the article as well as Fangorn-Y's. While I was ruminating, Fangorn-Y reverted yet again, so they are now blocked. What disturbed me the most about your behavior was the fact that you breached WP:3RR and immediately warned Fangorn-Y (in the same minute) for edit warring. It's true that you didn't revert after you yourself were warned, but you're an experienced user, and your warning to Fangorn-Y indicates that you knew what was going on. I'm not going to block you, but consider this a warning. If you edit Edward Snowden in any way that could be construed as a revert in the next five days, you risk being blocked.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 22:39, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
On 16 June 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 24th anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that approaching the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Chinese internet censors blocked the term " big yellow duck"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/24th anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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Hi. At this diff, User:Tony1 apparently employed your date fixing script. The first line of the article was already:
and the script inserted a new line above it:
which seems wrong. Shouldn't it just update the existing template call's date param (or do nothing – I don't really understand the date param in the context of this particular maintenance tag)? —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 09:05, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
|reason=
parameter to the template, but that met with some opposition, so I went with an HTML comment (which I think certainly should be ignored) instead, to which (IIRC) there was no objection. I've probably done it to less than 50 articles. —[
AlanM1(
talk)]—
05:38, 18 June 2013 (UTC)Hello Ohconfucius. How do you do? Actually I needed your aid in respect to the Pakistani English. Pakistani english is almost the same as the British English. So I want to get another option named: "Pakistani spelling". So that I get the {{'''Use Pakistani English'''|date=June 2013}} instead of {{'''Use British English'''|date=June 2013}}. So please help me, how is it possible? Can you make it for me? I tried it on my userspace but met a failure. I created a custom script here, but it did not work. Please help. Fai zan 11:03, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
{{
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. However, you should read the
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Ohconfucius ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
As to the current activity that led to the block, let's look at this objectively: I made three edits related to my own concern, and that of another editor (see article tagging), that this article was already too Hong Kong-centric. one editor immediately happened to object to it. Whilst it is true that the undoing of my edit was potentially an inflammatory situation, I had no intention of reverting, and Bbb23 has no proof to the contrary. I AM FURIOUS at the twitchy "shoot first, ask questions later" response. I think I was blocked within seconds. However, by acting so fast, Bbb23 self-deprived any valid rationale; there was no WP:ROPE, and no smoking gun. I would contended that this is to punish me retrospectively for the previous episode when he couldn't exercise the trigger finger.
So in summation, this was a BAD BLOCK. Given the already heated atmosphere at Snowden, and the prejudice that now exists, it would certainly be imprudent of me to make any more content edits there for the next 7 days. Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 16:07, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Accept reason:
Yes, it doesn't look like blockable edit warring to me. Consecutive reverts count as one revert. Bishonen | talk 06:51, 17 June 2013 (UTC).
This admin looks like a gun-totin' wild-west cowboy. Is he calmly assessing the situation and providing social leadership? Or is he making it up as he goes. Must be a power surge. Tony (talk) 16:35, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Dear me, I go away for a few years and you two are still getting yourselves into trouble! ;-) Anyway, just thought I'd stop by in passing and send my regards - I hope you're both well.
Ryan PostlethwaiteSee
the mess I've created or
let's have banter
11:20, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
You cannot be serious!! I'm flummoxed that this and this count as reverts in your book... Other admins might be doing it, but it seems a ludicrously draconian way to exercise your admin powers. Yes, I read the policy, and what you did seems to be allowed according to the rather wide definition of what constitutes a "revert". It turns any removal of content from the field of ' battle' (used advisedly), however small, into a potentially blocking situation making it much more powerful that most people would believe. I know you were acting in good faith to cool things down, but I would sincerely advise you not to rely on "others do it" as a justification, as this is the sort of situation that reinforces the view that many admins are abusive. Just because you have a sledgehammer, doesn't mean you have to crack the proverbial nut with it.
— posted 01:59, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
-- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:07, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
While I'm agnostic on removing "Fußball-" from various article titles, why on Earth did you try to anglicize the names of the Regionalligas? Something like " Regionalliga North" [sic] is neither English as such, nor is it an established English-language reference to the league in question, making WP:USEENGLISH wholly inappropriate as a justification for that aspect of the page moves. Zeyes ( talk) 04:40, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Deadmaus#Requested_move_3_.28to_.22Joel_Zimmerman.22.29. Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 16:23, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
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Ohconfucius, I wanted to give you a heads-up about editing DYK hooks. As part of your modifications to the World of Tanks Xbox 360 Edition hook, you added a quote, "in mere days". This is a quote from the original source, but it did not appear in the article: hooks should not include anything in that is not in the article and sourced there. This is especially true of exact quotes. I have modified the article so the quote is now in it and sourced, so this is no longer an issue, but I thought you should be aware regarding any future hook edits: any changes need to be reflected in the article and sourced there to be eligible for inclusion in the hook. Thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:52, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello. Please see where I fixed it. Perhaps the script was confused by the date concerned being within a {{ nowrap}} template? cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 09:22, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
I am so.... so... so... excited! The script does a lot of the tedious fixes and does them all at once! Combined with the rest of the general fixes I can make a lot of really important and MOS compliant changes without making multiple passes or bogging myself down with one thing at a time mentality. I like it a lot. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 14:46, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks; I'll try and pick better cases from now on; or at least until Wikipedia gets a format style solidified. In an ideal world I'd like for an option on AWB that gives "Convert to American MDY" and "Convert to DMY" as an optional pop-up that parses the number of citations of each type. Its a complex problem of which I do not know how to implement; but this would be closer to an ideal. Even better would be a stored summary of the rational in the edit summary or appended to a change list if anyone questions the edit. I rolled back my own actions for those places because I didn't want to leave the issues floating about, but yes I'd greatly appreciate a MDY for American workspaces. If you make such a module I can run the MDY and DMY modules on two separate instances of AWB through a list and alternate with a skip/save system. I've done this before with assessments because the kingbot plugin didn't work. Anyways... I'll busy myself with the DBZ matter and add more of my research to my sandbox. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 19:39, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
It is also the only template which makes sense to do so; but I caught wind of some mass clean out of old POV tags that were never discussed by another AWB user... some from 2008-2009 when have remained on the page for so long. Tags are great for certain things and other times are a bit off putting. Wikipedia's maintenance requires that someone do the task, but doing so seems to upset the curators of their domains. We are here to build an encyclopedia and such janitorial tasks must be done alongside content ones. I'm not suggesting doing this for any other tag; but yes... my logic must be the same as yours. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 04:14, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
How is it coming along? I've been working hard at the backlog and so far so good; lots of changes to be made along the way. I've been going fairly slow and noticing a few issues with the script and the cases of "the (date)" when it is valid. Other than that.. not too many issues with it. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 01:00, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
If you build out the American variant of the script; do you think I should begin inserting templates for future use in other articles not tagged yet? I am still addressing the backlog; and working on the bracket issue in the process with general fixes... do you notice it or no? ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 04:20, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
Yes; to tag the articles prior to a run, by placing just the template and then after all the templates are added begin addressing the issue with the script. Something that would take a very long time, sadly. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 12:42, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Is there an easy way to rule out pages that have DMY or MDY tags for future runs?" Not quite sure what you mean. But there's a 'skip option' tab in AWB. Put in the regex \{\{use (dmy|mdy) dates
into the skip box, tick "regex", and it should skip or filter any articles that have content matching or not matching the
regular expression. If you want to target or exclude articles of any given month or year, like the ones you may have recently tagged, you only need to tweak the regex (e.g.\{\{use (dmy|mdy) dates\|date=June 2013\}\}
) --
Ohc
¡digame!¿que pasa?
01:36, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
1exec1 ( talk · contribs), who helped my rewrite my js script, has another approach: he analyses the incidence of dmy or mdy dates using the database scan, and then applies the dominant date format per WP:RETAIN. That process allows him to run theough hundreds of articles at a time with maximal efficiency without even needing to stop and ponder whether it follows WP:TIES.
My js script will usually expand month names, but only inside |date=
, |accessdate=
and |archivedate=
within references. It hasn't been done so far because of the risks of false positives and script bugs (and because I had forgotten about my AWB scripts until I offered them to you). I suppose can make it expand others too – certainly for 'full' dates. --
Ohc
¡digame!¿que pasa?
02:23, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Processing date tagging based on dominant format is definitely the most efficient. I don't know how it was done, and unfortunately 1exec1 is not that active any more. -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 02:39, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
regarding this, it is likely the insertion is related to your prepending the dmy/mdy templates. Go to the 'more' tab in AWB, and you can select the number of lines to insert after the template (make sure it's on "0"). -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 04:05, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
So I asked and figured out how to tag all the articles relatively easily with dmy or mdy and practiced on some of them. Ideally, every page should be tagged - even preemptively for the citation style, correct? I cannot leave this up to some bot or script; I'll have to do every one by hand and rationalize the decision where it is not immediately obvious. I've also done a few thousand more pages on the backlog and addressed a lot of issues, with only a few errors that I have to manually address every dozen or two pages. If I keep up this pace, the backlog will be addressed by the end of July and I can begin working on the major untagged elements. I just need to find what to do and how best to execute it with a guideline I can follow; I've been going by TIES and existing formats and defaulting to scope and region for DMY or MDY in my test run. I think I need a concrete form to go by though. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 20:13, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
|accessdate=
parameters. For example, check out the edit history for
Baby, You're a Rich Man and
TRS-80 to see Chris's edits using the AWB module and my edit immediately after using the script. Is this a bug or by design? Thanks!
|date=
and |accessdate=
could be different), semi-automated alignment could take place uniformly and without guessing or second-guessing. --
Ohc
¡digame!¿que pasa?
02:11, 29 June 2013 (UTC)And no, I have to be tight on the scope so the script will not expand abbreviated month names elsewhere. When I wrote an earlier version of my js script, I couldn't find a way of ensuring no false positives for things like works and titles. That problem still exists for me with AWB. I may be fine writing regexes, but my non-existence programming skills means I won't be able to make such improvements without assistance from a programmer. -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:56, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. There are, at present, no particular clear guidelines for religious material here, or, for that matter, guidelines for how to deal with ideas in general, particularly those ideas which might be accepted as true by individuals of a given religious, political, or scientific stance. There have been attempts in the past to draft such guidelines, but they have quickly been derailed. I am dropping this note on the talk pages of a number of editors who I believe have some interest in these topics, or have shown some ability and interest in helping to develop broad topic areas, such as yourself, and asking them to review the material at User:John Carter/Guidelines discussion and perhaps take part in an effort to decide what should be covered in such guidelines, should they be determined useful, and what phrasing should be used. I also raise a few questions about broader possible changes in some things here, which you might have some more clear interest in. I would be honored to have your input. John Carter ( talk) 19:37, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading the picture to english wiki, can you please also upload it to wiki commons?
BTW, those "contributors" of Chinese wiki they are always removing contents about tank man, the tank man vs rubber duck picture will become a powerful weapon by posting it in Chinese wiki, though I think they will undo my edit.
Anyway thank you for your contribution, have a nice day. 116.49.203.248 ( talk) 03:09, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
About this edit, do you know what the article title is? I may locate it on the SCMP website. WhisperToMe ( talk) 08:14, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
This edit escaped me. Now we have on the Main page a hook with a grammatical error, not naming the birthday child, saying "today", carefully avoided by the reviewer. I hope not for long, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:33, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ohconfucius! Saw the links to the AWB modules for date formatting - I'll have to try them out sometime. I noticed that there is some code in the modules that seems to duplicate AWB functionality. For example, your module changes {{ bda}} to {{ birth date and age}}, which is also part of Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects. While those changes are great to be used in non-AWB scripts, you may want to remove them from the AWB modules to get a little better performance. Keep up the good work! GoingBatty ( talk) 17:50, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
This is not a very serious issue and thus does not need reversion, but, can you add a rule that the newspaper's name is The Telegraph (Calcutta), here Calcutta is not location. -- Tito☸ Dutta 07:26, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
WP:IMOS and WP:IRE-IRL are being ignored by your bot creating inconsistancies. Please rectify. Murry1975 ( talk) 10:16, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Here is my code review.
{0,1}
is the same as ?
.[ ]
in your code. They can all be replaced with a simple space.[^\{\}]
(or simply [^{}]
which is the same) instead of [^\}]
. This avoids false positives with nested templates.[\S\s]*
should be [\S\s]*?
. Also you can remove the (?:)
from this rule.<ref>
. Your script does it. Should I too?/([\w;,.\])>] ) +([[\w(])/g
(I made it a little bit shorter). I should keep this in mind.[[wikt:]]
link?\dx\d
rule (without spaces) produces lots and lots of false positives./(\d) x (\d )/
rule above.\
. Here is a suggestion: /(\d)(?:\s| )?(?=\[\[Celsius\|[°º]C\]\])/gi
./(\{\{convert\s*\|)\s*0+(?=[1-9])/gi, '$1'
.-- TMg 21:31, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for you thorough evaluation. Comments or responses as below:
/
(slash symbol) created a code error for me. But I've now replaced it and I'll see how it goes.<references />
or {{
reflist}}
and replace with {{reflist|30em}}
<ref>
. I've found no disadvantages, and in fact it adheres the citation more closely to the phrase to which it relates (or to another citation).\dx\d
rule (without spaces) produces never-ending of false positives, particularly in sport (athletics) articles, and often disturbs links.Thanks again for your help and advice. -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:19, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
/
(slash symbol) created a code error for me." I can't think of a reason why this should happen. Spaces need to be escaped as \
when you use the /x
modifier. But this is not supported in JavaScript. OK, thanks
above. Noted-- TMg 12:00, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Thanks for your message on my talk page about your "Sources" script. I discover that I already have it in my vector.js page, but it doesn't work. Maybe this is because I am using Chrome browser. I switched from Firefox a while ago. Is there any chance your script will soon work in Chrome as well? Thanks -- Alarics ( talk) 12:29, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Made a new section for easy replying. A script to flip them all is indeed nice, but a bit too late for that page. Haha. At what point do you think the updating of the articles is appropriate to stop parsing them? Six months prior or just do them all to July 2013 so that all pages have a shot at the other fixes in the script? Estimated time to completion would be September/October; if I go all out on it without interruption... end of August at latest. Personally, I'd stop after all the May ones are done and begin tagging all articles with dmy/mdy tags while the ISO issue can be debated to death. What do you think is good? ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 04:31, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I just wondered if you could do what you did to this article on Seb Brown ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Seb_Brown&diff=next&oldid=562335258)
On this article for Barry Fuller ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Fuller)
As the user http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jodie25 has changed all the dates in the article to the incorrect format, seen here ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Barry_Fuller&diff=562411292&oldid=562410874)
If you have the time to do this, that would be great.
Many thanks. 92.40.254.19 ( talk) 17:59, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello. Was wondering why you/your script were adding a |df=
yes parameter to uses of the {{
death year and age}} template, given that AFAIK this template neither has nor needs a |df=
parameter? cheers,
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talk)
08:32, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, I have got your script partially working now, and it is a great boon. Thanks for all your work on it. But there is one thing it is doing wrong -- converting "London Evening Standard" to "Evening Standard (London)". In fact the former is now correct, the masthead having read "London Evening Standard" since the paper was relaunched in 2009. See its website and the WP article on it. Best, -- Alarics ( talk) 18:53, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
So maybe we should rename the WP article to London Evening Standard? Or would somebody get upset about that? -- Alarics ( talk) 04:03, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello again, When I click "Fix news sources" or "Rem publishers" in the toolbox at left, and nothing happens within a few seconds, does that mean that the article doesn't need any changes in those respects, or that the script isn't working in my browser, or that I need to wait longer before something happens? -- Alarics ( talk) 10:54, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Here are two that I have seen often enough:
-- Alarics ( talk) 09:02, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, Ohconfucius. At this edit you removed some links in the Nigel Malim DYK hook and said "one was grossly misleading". I guess you had in mind "the French"? Of course, there were also the Free French, who until November 1942 were very few in numbers and impotent, while Vichy France was the government of France. So I really can't agree with "grossly misleading" for the period in question. I wouldn't wish to argue with the link " collaborationist French", but I wouldn't have said that myself, because the situation was incredibly complicated. I thought the other links in the hook I proposed were interesting and did no harm. Anyway, when you are making such changes to a hook, would you mind leaving the original one on the page and proposing an Alt? Regards, Moonraker ( talk) 10:18, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I had a few questions about this edit. I understand the idea of not linking to common terms and try not to do it myself but I'm not sure that [[Prime Minister of Bahrain|Prime Minister]] is that common a term. I noticed that you changed most or all occurrences of Al Jazeera English to Al Jazeera, mainly in references. Some were correctly changed but others were actually referenced to the Al Jazeera English website and Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera are two separate things. I was also curious why you would change direct links to redirects such as [[Shia Islam|Shia]] to [[Shia]] or [[Shotgun shell#Birdshot|birdshot]] to [[Birdshot]]. In most cases that's not a problem but you changed [[Torture during the Bahraini uprising (2011–present)|torture in government custody]] ( torture in government custody) to [[Torture during the Bahraini uprising (2011–)|torture in government custody]] ( torture in government custody) and {{ Bahraini uprising (2011–present)}} to {{ Bahraini uprising (2011–)}}. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather ( talk) 22:03, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
As I understand it, Al Jazeera English is a "station" and Al Jazeera is the umbrella news organisation. It may be arguable that AJ English is a more precise target, but using the generic 'Al Jazeera' as the publisher isn't incorrect. Quite clearly, it's not likely that we would cite Al Jazeera Arabic as a matter of course, so there is no ambiguity. When examining the links, you will find that they redirect back to www.aljazeera.com even though the cited ref might begin with english.aljazeera.com. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:33, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
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Some user I've never encountered before undid my MOS edit so I am bringing it to DRN. The definition of "intrinsic" is "essential" in this case. I am tired of this issue. This issue should be easy to resolve and help in showing consensus. If it is just Deb and me, nothing will change. If Deb refuses DRN, what do I do? ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 16:07, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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I screwed this one up. [10] I didn't catch this sadly; I even looked at it and hit okay. Is there a way to prevent me from hitting on this ever again? ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 20:31, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Can you please explain this edit? There is nothing to retain, as a glance at the previous edit history would show. It is mindless cluttter. It is not helpful to building an encyclopedia. The article in question has no d's or m's to order carefullyl in one direction or the other. As far as I can see this is just a pissing contest to mark as many articles as possible, with no actual use. — David Eppstein ( talk) 15:46, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Please switch the date format on The Dresden Dolls back to mdy. Thank you. Alexius Horatius 19:08, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ohconfucius,
I'm rethinking about integrating your script in AFCH, so that an article gets automatically cleaned up by your script after declining or accepting any submission. Is it possible, that you transform your script a bit so that I can put any string in your function and get the transformed text back? AUTOED is handling that way, see Wikipedia:AutoEd/templates.js for instance what I do mean. I believe many cleanup functions are already integrated in the full autoed "library", but that won't hurt. mabdul 13:52, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
I've started a debate on a requested move from IHH to İHH, since I think diacritics should be used the article name for this Turkish NGO in line with Wikipedia rules. The previous debate resulted in a draw, some people argued that İHH's English website used the name without diacritics, but other articles like Agnieszka Radwańska use diacritics contrary to spellings in their websites. I see Ana Ivanović's name has been changed, but I don't agree with it. Anyways, you're free to comment on /info/en/?search=Talk:IHH_(Turkish_NGO)#Requested_move_3 Kavas ( talk) 18:36, 14 July 2013 (UTC)