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Hi PleaseStand! Thanks for helping out at this project. Your contributions are much appreciated, and I hope you find Wikipedia a friendly and fun place to build a wonderful resource. I noticed your recent nomination of Michael Paxton to be deleted. It definitely looked much less notable at the time of nomination than when I closed the debate. You may like to review our various notability guidelines. Again, thanks for helping out here! If you have any questions whatsoever, feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Jujutacular T · C 02:41, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
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I have changed it to "fill in" to be obvious to all. It wasn't such an error - we Brits like to have different spellings, to confuse the Americans :-) Ronhjones (Talk) 23:55, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Can you have another look at Template talk:Did you know#Dresden Without Nazis? I've added some more sources to the article, including one that explicitly says that Dresden Without Nazis did coordinate the action against the Nazi demonstration. I also changed "organized" to "coordinated" in the hook, accordingly. Please let me know if that addresses your concerns with regard to the hook. Regards, Cs32en Talk to me 22:07, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
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For creating the subpage search. Many thanks. Sole Soul ( talk) 15:54, 26 February 2010 (UTC) |
Moved to User talk:Jumamuba#About your article Bd bacata. PleaseStand ( talk) 01:51, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
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{{helpme}} The user pages and some edit summaries of Psy3330 W10 ( talk · contribs) suggest that this is a shared account for some educational assignment. Per WP:NOSHARE, user accounts can only represent individuals and shared accounts should be blocked. How do I report such a user account to the administrators? PleaseStand (talk) 23:27, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
I've noticed that you are changing the bad grammar of "based around" to "based on". However, that is not the only possibility, "based around" could also be "built around" depending on the context of the sentence. See this for an example. -- JD554 ( talk) 10:57, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Mutt Lunker ( talk) 21:41, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi PleaseStand, I appreciate the help on NCAT Pavement Test Track, especially with copyvio problems. However, the editor is taking part in an educational assignment on which he will be graded, so please don't turn it into a DYK nomination until after, say, a day or two. Thanks, Dr Aaij ( talk) 03:58, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for all the assistance with my article. I appreciate it very much. Bradallenpowell ( talk) 04:23, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I am adding a section addressing the main criteria to the article's talk page. PleaseStand (talk) 02:37, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi PleaseStand, curious why you chose to argue Rowing at Penn failed the notability test. I understand and concur on the sources referenced and plan on adding them shortly. The article is by no means complete. The sport has been practiced and independently documented at the University for over 150 years, the team holds and has held numerous national records, produced dozens upon dozens of Olympians, and members of the team have had various parts of the Philadelphia named after them (because of their contributions to the sport). Since you were kind enough to propose the article for deletion without specifically explaining your 'fail' results (why the article fails notability), perhaps you would be kind enough to explain them specifically now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hpiranha ( talk • contribs) 12:58, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
~~
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21:08, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Commented there. Peter 10:50, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing my submission. :) I think I realise what's wrong - going by the pages sizes on the history page, it appears that it's only been 4x expanded, however I recall reading that, for DYK, you only count prose text - references, templates (the infobox), links/see also/lists etc. don't count. Just counting the prose, the article's been expanded over 5x, I believe. - The Bushranger ( talk) 22:42, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks for the coding. There is one more thing. I want the option to be able to browse the index alphabetically. Is there a way you can add this option like a "next article" and "previous article" option in the top bar which reads the index and moves on to the next article in the index like you would in a written encyclopedia? For example say I'm reading an article on Aa Ab Laut Chalen. I click the next article option and it moves onto Aa Dekhen Zara, the next in the index? The coding would need to read the index and be programmed to read what comes next and then load the page automatically I think.. If this is not possible can you provide me with the option to click "index" on the page I'm on and it locates it in the index and then I can browse forward or backwards alphabetically? Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:03, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
importScript("User:PleaseStand/wikiapi.js"); importScript("User:PleaseStand/prevnext.js");
(yes, use both). It's not perfect, but it works on Firefox. One of the Wikipedia forks uses the similar
mw:Extension:Back-and-Forth that runs on the server, not that I can think of any specific reason that "back-and-forth" links are useful.
PleaseStand
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23:16, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
![]() | On May 7, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Biosafety cabinet, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check ) and add it 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 08:01, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm experimenting with your new template and it's really awesome. Any recommendations regarding the following? I sign with three tildes, ~~~, based on the following code:
[[user:Agradman|Andrew Gradman]] / [[user talk:Agradman|talk]]. {{subst:freeze|{{SUBST:SUBJECTPAGENAME}}|<small>See {{SUBST:SUBJECTPAGENAME}} as of {{subst:CURRENTTIME}} {{SUBST:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{SUBST:CURRENTYEAR}} (UTC)</small>}}
yielding my new signature:
Andrew Gradman / talk. See User:PleaseStand as of 19:24 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi PleaseStand, I am working on a project called Mirrorpedia which will hopefully obviate the need for an offline copy of Wikipedia (unless you just happen to be unable to access the Internet at an acceptable speed where you are, or something like that.) But in any case, Mirrorpedia will keep all the Wikipedia content you could possibly want safe and sound, so that should you desire an offline backup, you can download it at your leisure. I wrote a script that hits the API for the content of all new revisions as they appear on the #en.wikipedia recent changes IRC channel. In this way, I can keep an up-to-date copy of every article, with its full history. http://tisanebot.com/logs/en.wikipedia/ has the log entries (I'm not gathering the raw revisions continuously at this time; I'm waiting till I implement the stuff mentioned in the next paragraph.
Of course, the raw data isn't very useful. It needs to be imported into a MediaWiki installation somehow. I figure there are a few possible routes. I could try to figure out a way to import it using one of the methods mentioned at mw:Manual:Importing XML dumps. Or maybe I can find a suitable mw:Manual:Database access wrapper function that will suit my purposes. I want to take advantage of as much abstraction as possible though, rather than reinventing the wheel. I'll be puzzling over this the next few days and trying different things, so if you have any ideas, please let me know. I am using User:ClueBot/Source to access the API, by the way. Thanks, Tisane ( talk) 09:05, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
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Hello, PleaseStand, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out
Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}}
on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! — Martin (
MSGJ ·
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07:36, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi PleaseStand! Thanks for helping out at this project. Your contributions are much appreciated, and I hope you find Wikipedia a friendly and fun place to build a wonderful resource. I noticed your recent nomination of Michael Paxton to be deleted. It definitely looked much less notable at the time of nomination than when I closed the debate. You may like to review our various notability guidelines. Again, thanks for helping out here! If you have any questions whatsoever, feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Jujutacular T · C 02:41, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
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Responded at Wikipedia:Non-free content review#Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:33, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
I have changed it to "fill in" to be obvious to all. It wasn't such an error - we Brits like to have different spellings, to confuse the Americans :-) Ronhjones (Talk) 23:55, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Can you have another look at Template talk:Did you know#Dresden Without Nazis? I've added some more sources to the article, including one that explicitly says that Dresden Without Nazis did coordinate the action against the Nazi demonstration. I also changed "organized" to "coordinated" in the hook, accordingly. Please let me know if that addresses your concerns with regard to the hook. Regards, Cs32en Talk to me 22:07, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
![]() |
The da Vinci Barnstar | |
For creating the subpage search. Many thanks. Sole Soul ( talk) 15:54, 26 February 2010 (UTC) |
Moved to User talk:Jumamuba#About your article Bd bacata. PleaseStand ( talk) 01:51, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 07:06, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:LOGO Atlassian.svg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
PLEASE NOTE:
{{bots|deny=DASHBot}}
to somewhere on your talk page.Thank you. DASHBot ( talk) 06:35, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
{{helpme}} The user pages and some edit summaries of Psy3330 W10 ( talk · contribs) suggest that this is a shared account for some educational assignment. Per WP:NOSHARE, user accounts can only represent individuals and shared accounts should be blocked. How do I report such a user account to the administrators? PleaseStand (talk) 23:27, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
I've noticed that you are changing the bad grammar of "based around" to "based on". However, that is not the only possibility, "based around" could also be "built around" depending on the context of the sentence. See this for an example. -- JD554 ( talk) 10:57, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Mutt Lunker ( talk) 21:41, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi PleaseStand, I appreciate the help on NCAT Pavement Test Track, especially with copyvio problems. However, the editor is taking part in an educational assignment on which he will be graded, so please don't turn it into a DYK nomination until after, say, a day or two. Thanks, Dr Aaij ( talk) 03:58, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for all the assistance with my article. I appreciate it very much. Bradallenpowell ( talk) 04:23, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I am adding a section addressing the main criteria to the article's talk page. PleaseStand (talk) 02:37, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi PleaseStand, curious why you chose to argue Rowing at Penn failed the notability test. I understand and concur on the sources referenced and plan on adding them shortly. The article is by no means complete. The sport has been practiced and independently documented at the University for over 150 years, the team holds and has held numerous national records, produced dozens upon dozens of Olympians, and members of the team have had various parts of the Philadelphia named after them (because of their contributions to the sport). Since you were kind enough to propose the article for deletion without specifically explaining your 'fail' results (why the article fails notability), perhaps you would be kind enough to explain them specifically now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hpiranha ( talk • contribs) 12:58, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
~~
) after your post. Thanks!
PleaseStand
(talk)
21:08, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Commented there. Peter 10:50, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing my submission. :) I think I realise what's wrong - going by the pages sizes on the history page, it appears that it's only been 4x expanded, however I recall reading that, for DYK, you only count prose text - references, templates (the infobox), links/see also/lists etc. don't count. Just counting the prose, the article's been expanded over 5x, I believe. - The Bushranger ( talk) 22:42, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks for the coding. There is one more thing. I want the option to be able to browse the index alphabetically. Is there a way you can add this option like a "next article" and "previous article" option in the top bar which reads the index and moves on to the next article in the index like you would in a written encyclopedia? For example say I'm reading an article on Aa Ab Laut Chalen. I click the next article option and it moves onto Aa Dekhen Zara, the next in the index? The coding would need to read the index and be programmed to read what comes next and then load the page automatically I think.. If this is not possible can you provide me with the option to click "index" on the page I'm on and it locates it in the index and then I can browse forward or backwards alphabetically? Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:03, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
importScript("User:PleaseStand/wikiapi.js"); importScript("User:PleaseStand/prevnext.js");
(yes, use both). It's not perfect, but it works on Firefox. One of the Wikipedia forks uses the similar
mw:Extension:Back-and-Forth that runs on the server, not that I can think of any specific reason that "back-and-forth" links are useful.
PleaseStand
(talk)
23:16, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
![]() | On May 7, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Biosafety cabinet, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check ) and add it 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. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 08:01, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm experimenting with your new template and it's really awesome. Any recommendations regarding the following? I sign with three tildes, ~~~, based on the following code:
[[user:Agradman|Andrew Gradman]] / [[user talk:Agradman|talk]]. {{subst:freeze|{{SUBST:SUBJECTPAGENAME}}|<small>See {{SUBST:SUBJECTPAGENAME}} as of {{subst:CURRENTTIME}} {{SUBST:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{SUBST:CURRENTYEAR}} (UTC)</small>}}
yielding my new signature:
Andrew Gradman / talk. See User:PleaseStand as of 19:24 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi PleaseStand, I am working on a project called Mirrorpedia which will hopefully obviate the need for an offline copy of Wikipedia (unless you just happen to be unable to access the Internet at an acceptable speed where you are, or something like that.) But in any case, Mirrorpedia will keep all the Wikipedia content you could possibly want safe and sound, so that should you desire an offline backup, you can download it at your leisure. I wrote a script that hits the API for the content of all new revisions as they appear on the #en.wikipedia recent changes IRC channel. In this way, I can keep an up-to-date copy of every article, with its full history. http://tisanebot.com/logs/en.wikipedia/ has the log entries (I'm not gathering the raw revisions continuously at this time; I'm waiting till I implement the stuff mentioned in the next paragraph.
Of course, the raw data isn't very useful. It needs to be imported into a MediaWiki installation somehow. I figure there are a few possible routes. I could try to figure out a way to import it using one of the methods mentioned at mw:Manual:Importing XML dumps. Or maybe I can find a suitable mw:Manual:Database access wrapper function that will suit my purposes. I want to take advantage of as much abstraction as possible though, rather than reinventing the wheel. I'll be puzzling over this the next few days and trying different things, so if you have any ideas, please let me know. I am using User:ClueBot/Source to access the API, by the way. Thanks, Tisane ( talk) 09:05, 14 May 2010 (UTC)