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In your recent edit of the article, last para of the intro, you changed "comandos" to "commandos." That wasn't a misspelling, but the Spanish spelling. Page protection is not going to expire for a couple more days, so I can't change it back right now. -- Groggy Dice T | C 13:48, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
I compliment you on your efforts to eliminate URLS as inbedded references, but be aware that bare URLs are normally given a title for listing in the references section. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 16:27, 29 June 2008 (UTC).
Also, AWB seems to mess up external links inside references in a rather ugly way. -- Tgr ( talk) 17:46, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Allow me to make a request, should you get the bot up and running: have it add both page title and domain name to the references it generates. DumZiBoT only does page titles, which doesn't tell you nearly as much about the source as page + source would. Using {{ cite web}}'s formatting would probably be best (even if you don't use cite web itself):
-- Father Goose ( talk) 05:01, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
So you would convert
...to something like
...? Or, with the template,
...? Or I could get the title from the base url and use it, as
{{
cite web}}
: External link in |publisher=
(
help)...Of course, that would look silly with the longer titles, such as
{{
cite web}}
: External link in |publisher=
(
help)The previous certainly looks cleaner as
What do you think? – Quadell ( talk) ( random) 13:28, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Can you undelete the original version please? :) I'm pretty sure Commons will nuke it since it's pd-us but not in country of origin. - Nard 20:41, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help the other day. Im still having problems, with solving problems im running into. I understand the script now thanks to your help If you can't remember what i was trying to do, see Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Find_and_replace_feature
Ive discovered that there is a different type of rating system that is somtimes used.
instead of the (mark/10) its {{rating-10|mark/}}
so for example a rating of 2 is
{{rating-10|2\}}
I've managed to work out the regular expression for it and it works fine but we run into a problem. Heres the regular expression .*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\]\ {{rating-10|1\}}.*
and i repeat it for every single posible rating so for example 2/10 would be
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\]\ {{rating-10|2\}}.*
The problem is if there is another rating on the article that uses the '10|(mark)' format. and it then reacts to that line aswell as the line i want it to.
so say there is this line before i run the script. *[[All Music Guide]] {{rating-5|2}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gxkzikn6bb59 link] once i run it, it does this to it.
*[[All Music Guide]] {{rating-5|
So the script see's the |2 and because its in my regular expression it acts on the rest of the line. I just want it to ignore the line unless the text Mark Prindle is in it.
Do you understand what i mean??
If it's too much for you just let me know, but if you can help i'd really appreciate it. I think it must just be a character or 2 that i cant figure out. Thanks so much for your time
Cheers Printer222 ( talk) 11:40, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\] \(6/10\).*
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\] \(\d/10\).*
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\] \(\d+/10\).*
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\]\ \{\{rating-10\|\d+\}\}.*
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\]\ \{\{rating\|\d+\|10\}\}.*
Yes that all made sense, thanks. But as i was just running the bot manually to enusure that it would run smothly automaticly i've come accross yet another issue. I don't know why i took this task on. I didn't realise it was going to be this difficult and then when i discovered i had to use regular expressions i thought that i could get my head around it. I understand every thing your doing, but cant seem to solve my own problems.
You know how the script is .*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\]\, because i thought that Mark Prindle was always going to be like [[Mark Prindle]] but ive realised its not and there are some cases where its simply Mark Prindle. ive tried all sorts of things using the testing function but just cant figure it out. I have a felling that you completly take out the [] and place it within {} instead. and then have a \ between Mark and prindle. But im probably completly wrong So i thought that instead of wasting my time, trying to figure it out, i'd ask you since you seem to be an expert!
I've learnt a lesson. Never assume a bot task is simple, and then never take on a task that you *think* you should be able to figure out, especially if it includes regex (it reminds me of doing complicated maths problems, trying to figure out what to do next).
Thanks so much for your help. Printer222 ( talk) 14:15, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\]
.*\* *\[?\[?Mark Prindle\]?\]?
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Thank you so much for all of your help with these regular expressions. The bot has just finished its trial and i can't see how there is any way that any more issues can come up. If it wasn't for your expert knowledge i wouldnt have been able to do it. Thanks again, have a great day :). Printer222 ( talk) 16:50, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Just when i thought that i had every thing covered i discover somthing new.
I ran the bot and then realised there were a heap of articles which the review wasn't removed. And it's because the name mark prindle is in the middle of the line. I thought my code (its pretty much your code) would have covered it but now i realise it doesn't. Once again ive spent ages rearanging the code and adding new things based on my very limited knowledge, but i just cant get it. So once again i need to rely on you, the expert!
Ok. *[http://www.markprindle.com/jesuslia.htm#show Mark Prindle] {{rating-10|8}} the problem is that the words "Mark Prindle" are combined into the link and so it has no square brackets or anything and because of this the script can't tackle it.
Is it possible to fix it??
Im so sorry that i keep bugging you, ive really done nothing to write this bot and it's all your work. More issues keep poping up. Who would have thought that a task that seems so simple could have so many variable and problems. Once again im so sorry. Printer222 ( talk) 14:57, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
.*\[.*markprindle\.com.*\].*rating.*
Welcome back! And with a vengeance, I see. :-) Jayjg (talk) 02:44, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Dear Quadell, I am trying to contact you about the image you posted called Image:Lynching-of-lige-daniels.jpg. I am designing a book jacket and would like if possible to get a higher resolution scan. Are you able to help? Sorry – I'm not an experienced Wiki-person! NickEvans82 ( talk) 11:12, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Dear Quadell, many thanks for replying quickly and being so helpful. All the best, Nick 77.75.234.15 ( talk) 10:00, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I am asking a number of administrators at random to review Independent National Socialism which is sourced completely from a white nationalist webpage called Stormfront, which has anti-Semitic and other xenophobic material on it. A user is claiming that this website is acceptable for use. I believe that this source is not reliable and could be original research, but you you believe that this website can or should this source be relied upon for the article? Please post your determination on the talk page of Independent National Socialism. Thank you for reading this.-- R-41 ( talk) 02:25, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Can you undelete this and move it to the space of user User:UBX? There is no rule against multi-licensing your contributions (and once it is undeleted I intend to fix the wording to make this clearer). - Nard 02:43, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
I think that auto-formating preferences work without a year, as per this table: Wikipedia:MOSNUM#Date_autoformatting. The manual states that [d]ate elements that do not contain both a day number and a month should not generally be linked, but the section gives plenty of examples of days+months without years. Are you sure that days and months should not be wikilinked? Plasticup T/ C 13:20, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Your recent edit [2] implies that "byproduct" is a incorrect spelling. However, some dictionaries [3] [4] imply that "byproduct" is correctly spelled. Someone at Talk:By-product thought that "byproduct" was the preferred form. I hope this doesn't become a repeat of the "email vs. e-mail" controversy ( Talk:E-mail#E-mail_vs._email). -- 68.0.124.33 ( talk) 15:10, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the alert. Hope all okay now. Sardanaphalus ( talk) 14:21, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for that! It was fun reading it, and informative as well. Good point about collaboration as well. Carcharoth ( talk) 14:40, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Quadell! I saw the above request, particularly the feature about converting IMDb links to the imdb template. Would it be possible to also convert MySpace links to the {{ MySpace}} template? Kelly hi! 14:59, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. It seems that you deleted Image:CUC Regions Map.jpg from en.wiki in favour of the Commons copy without verifying that all the information had been correctly transfered. Could you please go through the the original info at Special:Undelete/Image:CUC Regions Map.jpg and transfer the missing info to the Commons image page. Unless the info is added the image will probably have to be deleted as missing essential source and/or author information. Thanks / Lokal _ Profil 00:56, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi Quadell! Thanks for the response. The four pages are: User:Gonzo fan2007/1, User:Gonzo fan2007/2, User:Gonzo fan2007/3, User:Gonzo fan2007/4. If you want to put the list at User:Gonzo fan2007/5 that would be great. If possible, it would be great to have a numbered list. Thanks a lot!!! « Gonzo fan2007 ( talk ? contribs) @ 19:58, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you so much for your work! « Gonzo fan2007 ( talk ? contribs) @ 22:22, 12 July 2008 (UTC) |
I have replied for your query. Thank you -- TinuCherian (Chat?) - 14:02, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I've not got access to the code at the second, but a little from memory:
Would it be easiest for me to e-mail you some source files so you can have a poke about? I'll try to extract the key answers too!
Best,
Martin ( Smith609 – Talk) 11:59, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
(10\.\d{4}(/|%2F)([^\s\"\?&>]|&l?g?t;|<[^\s\"\?&]*>)*)(?=[\s\"\?]|</); be aware that this will often pick up trailing tags (br, hr, td) and punctuation, which can be removed - the symbols
:;).',-#don't appear at the end of any DOIs I've come across. In some cases the first DOI that appears is not the DOI of an article, but the DOI of a linked reference - I've still not come up with a satisfactory way of discriminating between the two, although a few of my stabs have been quite reasonable.
I'm afraid I have no experience integrating perl with other languages. But then again, my code doesn't actually use the {{ cite web}} template, so it may be moot. If you would like, and if you give me details on what Polbot functionality is useful to you, I can separate out that code snip and comment it well enough to make it easy to translate into PHP. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 16:40, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Quadell - I was researching a copyright issue and ran across the following licenses which seem to duplicate each other: {{ PD-Pre1964}} and {{ PD-US-not renewed}}, and {{ PD-Pre1978}} and {{ PD-US-no notice}}. Is there any reason you can think of that the "Pre" templates shouldn't be redirected to the other ones? I wanted to check with someone before I just did it (plus at least one of them is protected and I can't redirect it anyway). Kelly hi! 13:43, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Hmm, I remember you once giving me a barnstar for a conscience attack. I do believe that I have neither watered it nor let it grow. Thanks for the reminder; I will have to do so in the future. The Evil Spartan ( talk) 23:35, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I wanted to add a portrait of William Molyneux to his article. An etching from the early nineteenth century is reproduced in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in a biographical survey published in 1965 by Theodore Hoppen. Here is the etching extracted from the pdf file for the page on jstor. Is it permissible to use this print on wikipedia? Thanks in advance. Cheers, Mathsci ( talk) 11:48, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
I would have thought it quite ridiculous, but a user has already agreed with the nominator to delete, so I thought perhaps I'd better alert you as someone who created, or significantly edited the article, about Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ahmed al-Nami. Sherurcij ( speaker for the dead) 17:28, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello, it looks as though you changed the URL of the image page for the sound file 0.999....ogg from Image: to Media:. Can I ask you to reverse this or tell me how to reverse it? The guidelines for such files say that they should be "given the Image: prefix... even if they are not images", and at the moment the page concerned seems to have a kind of half-existence. I discovered this when I was looking for a talk page for the file, which it doesn't seem to have.
Tommy Herbert ( talk) 20:08, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
I've nominated you for BAG membership. And, bjweeks has co-nominated you. Would you please take a moment to read over our nom, and, indicate your acceptance (or not), then one of us can transclude it (or not). SQL Query me! 07:42, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Conserning this sentences in WP:LOGO;
Has there been any consensus established with regards of using logos in user pages. For example, is it possible to use this logo [6] in my user page? Thanks in advance.-- Zentuk Bir Papyrus 12:42, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting the issues with Image:CUC Regions Map.jpg and sorry for the late reply =) / Lokal _ Profil 22:39, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Recently, your bot changed <references/> to {{ reflist}} here. I looked at your bot requests for the related task and saw:
- As the Template:reflist documentation says, there is no consensus to use it in place of <references/> in all occasions. See [7].
Was this a bug?-- Rockfang ( talk) 18:42, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations on your successful request for BAG membership -- Tinu Cherian - 03:16, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! Yes, I'm also wholtone on commons. I know, I couldn't find a satisfying (and free) neighborhood map either, so I spent the last few days working on one. I would be happy to make it the basis for other Cincinnati related maps! J.H ( talk) 05:28, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Your Polbot has been making a number of errors, namely, by turning all links into references, including ones in the bibliography sections of many articles which are not supposed to be references (for example, you have the name of a book followed by a link in brackets to the work on the Internet Archive, this is not supposed to be turned into a reference). I've reverted about 5 such edits. Please fix your bot or just disable it. Algabal ( talk) 11:28, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Quadell! Again thanks for the output from the bot. I thought of a couple of things:
I don't know how much of your time or of the server's power this entails, so forgive my ignorance if these requests are overboard. Again, I really appreciate this. Rgrds. -- Tombstone ( talk) 13:14, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestion; I posted a bot request here. — xDanielx T/ C\ R 03:38, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Your recent bot approvals
request has been approved. Please see the
request page for details.
~giggle~ –
Quadell (
talk)
22:40, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I just wanted to thank you for all your helpfulness with User:Danielfolsom2's bot approval. You were incredibly quick in all of your responses, and I really appreciate all the responses you gave. Thanks so much, -- daniel folsom 17:37, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Your bot seems to be making many errors, see [9] and [10]. I think you need to switch it off. Thanks. -- Klein zach 02:41, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
We are ready. -- Cat chi? 08:53, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Every day, I log on and have to make another round of corrections to your bot's errors (I've made nearly 15 so far). It has continually switched non-referential links into citations. I have politely asked you to fix it, but you have failed to do so.
I am going to lodge a formal complaint if this doesn't stop. Algabal ( talk) 09:40, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Surprise, you're on BOWN!
Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Polbot problems. Your check fine will arrive in 4-6 business days.
BJ
Talk
10:28, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
"I've translated all but 12 instances." Did you get those, too? I noticed the old template has no more article transclusions. -- Geniac ( talk) 12:30, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
According previous discussion in talkpage, my account is blocked by unapproved test work. Now I want to request these works.(included DR fix).-- Alex S. H. Lin 22:41, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello Quadell,
please send your real-name, your wikiname, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to
. We plan to create your account soon then. --
DaB.
02:20, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Notes to myself.
Polbot appears to be deciding when to place punctuation before references. E.g. [11] There is no general WP policy that says where punctuation should be; either approach can be chosen by (human) editors and this is dealt with at some length by the MOS. This appears to have caught out bot creators before; some versions of AWB did this for a while before they were fixed. Can you get polbot to auto revert? Thanks, Ephebi ( talk) 08:53, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Your recent edits to WP:BRFA seem a bit funny to me: if you're approving a bot for trial, shouldn't you actually move the request to the trial section rather than just removing it from the page entirely? And what's with this edit, which introduced an "open" request into the trial section? Or am I missing something about how that page is supposed to function? — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 09:42, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
George Bush is a terrible President —Preceding unsigned comment added by Glamorous1612 ( talk • contribs) 20:28, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Hiya! I was wondering if you'd be able to restore "Image:Athabaskan DDH 282.jpg". I would then apply any and all appropriate copyright and fair use tags for the image. RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 19:07, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you've reviewed Image:Hand of God goal.jpg previously, but I don't think one of the uses qualifies as fair use, and the rationale needs to be re-written for the other use to reflect the intent of fair use. I would appreciate it if you could weigh in at Wikipedia:Non-free content review#Image:Hand of God goal.jpg. -- Mosmof ( talk) 02:26, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Quadell. Polbot put {{ reflist}} in the wrong place in the article Janie Porter Barrett and broke a reference. The error isn't a big deal, but I thought I should let you know about it. All the best, Bláthnaid talk 19:11, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello. On the St Andrews University website this group photo [12] of an Edinburgh Mathematics Society Colloquium from 1930 is posted, together with a blow up of Levi-Civita here. The people who run this mathematical website from St Andrews have this copyright disclaimer. [13] Since their department took the picture, does that mean it can be used on WP? Would I have to get an email confirming this? Many thanks, Mathsci ( talk) 10:38, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, Quadell, in this last change of Polbot|Polbot about Aleksandr Lyapunov Russian sites (now) show some 'strange' chars. I've checked this for MS IE. I guess that internal links to 'pure' years are left out according to MOS:SYL or to so some similar (style) guide. Personally I prefer linking important years in biographical articles. Best regards. -- xJaM ( talk) 08:44, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, I hope you remember expressing serious concerns regarding category based WikiProject tagging by bots here. I made this FAQ list which tries to answer some of your concerns. Let me know if you have any questions . Thanks -- Tinu Cherian - 11:36, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Since you were such a principle author on the hijackers' articles, I thought you'd be interested to know that CSIS refers to two of the "identities" indeed being unknown - as the Canadian intelligence agency apparently believes that they were indeed using stolen passports, and the actual names (and thus stories) of those two hijackers prior to their entry into the United States under that name, are false. [14] Just struck me as interesting to see a security agency refer to that outright, not even entertaining the notion those were actually the identities of the hijackers. Sherurcij ( speaker for the dead) 21:35, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
I don't know what the problem is, but a comment (added by the bot?) seems to have broken the References in the Chick Webb article, as viewed in Firefox 3.0.1. Other bot changes seem to work OK. I deleted the comment, but could you look at it? Thanks. -- Margin1522 ( talk) 18:03, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
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In your recent edit of the article, last para of the intro, you changed "comandos" to "commandos." That wasn't a misspelling, but the Spanish spelling. Page protection is not going to expire for a couple more days, so I can't change it back right now. -- Groggy Dice T | C 13:48, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
I compliment you on your efforts to eliminate URLS as inbedded references, but be aware that bare URLs are normally given a title for listing in the references section. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 16:27, 29 June 2008 (UTC).
Also, AWB seems to mess up external links inside references in a rather ugly way. -- Tgr ( talk) 17:46, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Allow me to make a request, should you get the bot up and running: have it add both page title and domain name to the references it generates. DumZiBoT only does page titles, which doesn't tell you nearly as much about the source as page + source would. Using {{ cite web}}'s formatting would probably be best (even if you don't use cite web itself):
-- Father Goose ( talk) 05:01, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
So you would convert
...to something like
...? Or, with the template,
...? Or I could get the title from the base url and use it, as
{{
cite web}}
: External link in |publisher=
(
help)...Of course, that would look silly with the longer titles, such as
{{
cite web}}
: External link in |publisher=
(
help)The previous certainly looks cleaner as
What do you think? – Quadell ( talk) ( random) 13:28, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Can you undelete the original version please? :) I'm pretty sure Commons will nuke it since it's pd-us but not in country of origin. - Nard 20:41, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help the other day. Im still having problems, with solving problems im running into. I understand the script now thanks to your help If you can't remember what i was trying to do, see Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Find_and_replace_feature
Ive discovered that there is a different type of rating system that is somtimes used.
instead of the (mark/10) its {{rating-10|mark/}}
so for example a rating of 2 is
{{rating-10|2\}}
I've managed to work out the regular expression for it and it works fine but we run into a problem. Heres the regular expression .*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\]\ {{rating-10|1\}}.*
and i repeat it for every single posible rating so for example 2/10 would be
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\]\ {{rating-10|2\}}.*
The problem is if there is another rating on the article that uses the '10|(mark)' format. and it then reacts to that line aswell as the line i want it to.
so say there is this line before i run the script. *[[All Music Guide]] {{rating-5|2}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gxkzikn6bb59 link] once i run it, it does this to it.
*[[All Music Guide]] {{rating-5|
So the script see's the |2 and because its in my regular expression it acts on the rest of the line. I just want it to ignore the line unless the text Mark Prindle is in it.
Do you understand what i mean??
If it's too much for you just let me know, but if you can help i'd really appreciate it. I think it must just be a character or 2 that i cant figure out. Thanks so much for your time
Cheers Printer222 ( talk) 11:40, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\] \(6/10\).*
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\] \(\d/10\).*
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\] \(\d+/10\).*
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\]\ \{\{rating-10\|\d+\}\}.*
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\]\ \{\{rating\|\d+\|10\}\}.*
Yes that all made sense, thanks. But as i was just running the bot manually to enusure that it would run smothly automaticly i've come accross yet another issue. I don't know why i took this task on. I didn't realise it was going to be this difficult and then when i discovered i had to use regular expressions i thought that i could get my head around it. I understand every thing your doing, but cant seem to solve my own problems.
You know how the script is .*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\]\, because i thought that Mark Prindle was always going to be like [[Mark Prindle]] but ive realised its not and there are some cases where its simply Mark Prindle. ive tried all sorts of things using the testing function but just cant figure it out. I have a felling that you completly take out the [] and place it within {} instead. and then have a \ between Mark and prindle. But im probably completly wrong So i thought that instead of wasting my time, trying to figure it out, i'd ask you since you seem to be an expert!
I've learnt a lesson. Never assume a bot task is simple, and then never take on a task that you *think* you should be able to figure out, especially if it includes regex (it reminds me of doing complicated maths problems, trying to figure out what to do next).
Thanks so much for your help. Printer222 ( talk) 14:15, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
.*\* *\[\[Mark Prindle\]\]
.*\* *\[?\[?Mark Prindle\]?\]?
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Thank you so much for all of your help with these regular expressions. The bot has just finished its trial and i can't see how there is any way that any more issues can come up. If it wasn't for your expert knowledge i wouldnt have been able to do it. Thanks again, have a great day :). Printer222 ( talk) 16:50, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Just when i thought that i had every thing covered i discover somthing new.
I ran the bot and then realised there were a heap of articles which the review wasn't removed. And it's because the name mark prindle is in the middle of the line. I thought my code (its pretty much your code) would have covered it but now i realise it doesn't. Once again ive spent ages rearanging the code and adding new things based on my very limited knowledge, but i just cant get it. So once again i need to rely on you, the expert!
Ok. *[http://www.markprindle.com/jesuslia.htm#show Mark Prindle] {{rating-10|8}} the problem is that the words "Mark Prindle" are combined into the link and so it has no square brackets or anything and because of this the script can't tackle it.
Is it possible to fix it??
Im so sorry that i keep bugging you, ive really done nothing to write this bot and it's all your work. More issues keep poping up. Who would have thought that a task that seems so simple could have so many variable and problems. Once again im so sorry. Printer222 ( talk) 14:57, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
.*\[.*markprindle\.com.*\].*rating.*
Welcome back! And with a vengeance, I see. :-) Jayjg (talk) 02:44, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Dear Quadell, I am trying to contact you about the image you posted called Image:Lynching-of-lige-daniels.jpg. I am designing a book jacket and would like if possible to get a higher resolution scan. Are you able to help? Sorry – I'm not an experienced Wiki-person! NickEvans82 ( talk) 11:12, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Dear Quadell, many thanks for replying quickly and being so helpful. All the best, Nick 77.75.234.15 ( talk) 10:00, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I am asking a number of administrators at random to review Independent National Socialism which is sourced completely from a white nationalist webpage called Stormfront, which has anti-Semitic and other xenophobic material on it. A user is claiming that this website is acceptable for use. I believe that this source is not reliable and could be original research, but you you believe that this website can or should this source be relied upon for the article? Please post your determination on the talk page of Independent National Socialism. Thank you for reading this.-- R-41 ( talk) 02:25, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Can you undelete this and move it to the space of user User:UBX? There is no rule against multi-licensing your contributions (and once it is undeleted I intend to fix the wording to make this clearer). - Nard 02:43, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
I think that auto-formating preferences work without a year, as per this table: Wikipedia:MOSNUM#Date_autoformatting. The manual states that [d]ate elements that do not contain both a day number and a month should not generally be linked, but the section gives plenty of examples of days+months without years. Are you sure that days and months should not be wikilinked? Plasticup T/ C 13:20, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Your recent edit [2] implies that "byproduct" is a incorrect spelling. However, some dictionaries [3] [4] imply that "byproduct" is correctly spelled. Someone at Talk:By-product thought that "byproduct" was the preferred form. I hope this doesn't become a repeat of the "email vs. e-mail" controversy ( Talk:E-mail#E-mail_vs._email). -- 68.0.124.33 ( talk) 15:10, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the alert. Hope all okay now. Sardanaphalus ( talk) 14:21, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for that! It was fun reading it, and informative as well. Good point about collaboration as well. Carcharoth ( talk) 14:40, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Quadell! I saw the above request, particularly the feature about converting IMDb links to the imdb template. Would it be possible to also convert MySpace links to the {{ MySpace}} template? Kelly hi! 14:59, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. It seems that you deleted Image:CUC Regions Map.jpg from en.wiki in favour of the Commons copy without verifying that all the information had been correctly transfered. Could you please go through the the original info at Special:Undelete/Image:CUC Regions Map.jpg and transfer the missing info to the Commons image page. Unless the info is added the image will probably have to be deleted as missing essential source and/or author information. Thanks / Lokal _ Profil 00:56, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi Quadell! Thanks for the response. The four pages are: User:Gonzo fan2007/1, User:Gonzo fan2007/2, User:Gonzo fan2007/3, User:Gonzo fan2007/4. If you want to put the list at User:Gonzo fan2007/5 that would be great. If possible, it would be great to have a numbered list. Thanks a lot!!! « Gonzo fan2007 ( talk ? contribs) @ 19:58, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you so much for your work! « Gonzo fan2007 ( talk ? contribs) @ 22:22, 12 July 2008 (UTC) |
I have replied for your query. Thank you -- TinuCherian (Chat?) - 14:02, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I've not got access to the code at the second, but a little from memory:
Would it be easiest for me to e-mail you some source files so you can have a poke about? I'll try to extract the key answers too!
Best,
Martin ( Smith609 – Talk) 11:59, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
(10\.\d{4}(/|%2F)([^\s\"\?&>]|&l?g?t;|<[^\s\"\?&]*>)*)(?=[\s\"\?]|</); be aware that this will often pick up trailing tags (br, hr, td) and punctuation, which can be removed - the symbols
:;).',-#don't appear at the end of any DOIs I've come across. In some cases the first DOI that appears is not the DOI of an article, but the DOI of a linked reference - I've still not come up with a satisfactory way of discriminating between the two, although a few of my stabs have been quite reasonable.
I'm afraid I have no experience integrating perl with other languages. But then again, my code doesn't actually use the {{ cite web}} template, so it may be moot. If you would like, and if you give me details on what Polbot functionality is useful to you, I can separate out that code snip and comment it well enough to make it easy to translate into PHP. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 16:40, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Quadell - I was researching a copyright issue and ran across the following licenses which seem to duplicate each other: {{ PD-Pre1964}} and {{ PD-US-not renewed}}, and {{ PD-Pre1978}} and {{ PD-US-no notice}}. Is there any reason you can think of that the "Pre" templates shouldn't be redirected to the other ones? I wanted to check with someone before I just did it (plus at least one of them is protected and I can't redirect it anyway). Kelly hi! 13:43, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Hmm, I remember you once giving me a barnstar for a conscience attack. I do believe that I have neither watered it nor let it grow. Thanks for the reminder; I will have to do so in the future. The Evil Spartan ( talk) 23:35, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I wanted to add a portrait of William Molyneux to his article. An etching from the early nineteenth century is reproduced in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in a biographical survey published in 1965 by Theodore Hoppen. Here is the etching extracted from the pdf file for the page on jstor. Is it permissible to use this print on wikipedia? Thanks in advance. Cheers, Mathsci ( talk) 11:48, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
I would have thought it quite ridiculous, but a user has already agreed with the nominator to delete, so I thought perhaps I'd better alert you as someone who created, or significantly edited the article, about Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ahmed al-Nami. Sherurcij ( speaker for the dead) 17:28, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello, it looks as though you changed the URL of the image page for the sound file 0.999....ogg from Image: to Media:. Can I ask you to reverse this or tell me how to reverse it? The guidelines for such files say that they should be "given the Image: prefix... even if they are not images", and at the moment the page concerned seems to have a kind of half-existence. I discovered this when I was looking for a talk page for the file, which it doesn't seem to have.
Tommy Herbert ( talk) 20:08, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
I've nominated you for BAG membership. And, bjweeks has co-nominated you. Would you please take a moment to read over our nom, and, indicate your acceptance (or not), then one of us can transclude it (or not). SQL Query me! 07:42, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Conserning this sentences in WP:LOGO;
Has there been any consensus established with regards of using logos in user pages. For example, is it possible to use this logo [6] in my user page? Thanks in advance.-- Zentuk Bir Papyrus 12:42, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting the issues with Image:CUC Regions Map.jpg and sorry for the late reply =) / Lokal _ Profil 22:39, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Recently, your bot changed <references/> to {{ reflist}} here. I looked at your bot requests for the related task and saw:
- As the Template:reflist documentation says, there is no consensus to use it in place of <references/> in all occasions. See [7].
Was this a bug?-- Rockfang ( talk) 18:42, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations on your successful request for BAG membership -- Tinu Cherian - 03:16, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! Yes, I'm also wholtone on commons. I know, I couldn't find a satisfying (and free) neighborhood map either, so I spent the last few days working on one. I would be happy to make it the basis for other Cincinnati related maps! J.H ( talk) 05:28, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Your Polbot has been making a number of errors, namely, by turning all links into references, including ones in the bibliography sections of many articles which are not supposed to be references (for example, you have the name of a book followed by a link in brackets to the work on the Internet Archive, this is not supposed to be turned into a reference). I've reverted about 5 such edits. Please fix your bot or just disable it. Algabal ( talk) 11:28, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Quadell! Again thanks for the output from the bot. I thought of a couple of things:
I don't know how much of your time or of the server's power this entails, so forgive my ignorance if these requests are overboard. Again, I really appreciate this. Rgrds. -- Tombstone ( talk) 13:14, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestion; I posted a bot request here. — xDanielx T/ C\ R 03:38, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Your recent bot approvals
request has been approved. Please see the
request page for details.
~giggle~ –
Quadell (
talk)
22:40, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I just wanted to thank you for all your helpfulness with User:Danielfolsom2's bot approval. You were incredibly quick in all of your responses, and I really appreciate all the responses you gave. Thanks so much, -- daniel folsom 17:37, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Your bot seems to be making many errors, see [9] and [10]. I think you need to switch it off. Thanks. -- Klein zach 02:41, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
We are ready. -- Cat chi? 08:53, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Every day, I log on and have to make another round of corrections to your bot's errors (I've made nearly 15 so far). It has continually switched non-referential links into citations. I have politely asked you to fix it, but you have failed to do so.
I am going to lodge a formal complaint if this doesn't stop. Algabal ( talk) 09:40, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Surprise, you're on BOWN!
Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Polbot problems. Your check fine will arrive in 4-6 business days.
BJ
Talk
10:28, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
"I've translated all but 12 instances." Did you get those, too? I noticed the old template has no more article transclusions. -- Geniac ( talk) 12:30, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
According previous discussion in talkpage, my account is blocked by unapproved test work. Now I want to request these works.(included DR fix).-- Alex S. H. Lin 22:41, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello Quadell,
please send your real-name, your wikiname, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to
. We plan to create your account soon then. --
DaB.
02:20, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Notes to myself.
Polbot appears to be deciding when to place punctuation before references. E.g. [11] There is no general WP policy that says where punctuation should be; either approach can be chosen by (human) editors and this is dealt with at some length by the MOS. This appears to have caught out bot creators before; some versions of AWB did this for a while before they were fixed. Can you get polbot to auto revert? Thanks, Ephebi ( talk) 08:53, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Your recent edits to WP:BRFA seem a bit funny to me: if you're approving a bot for trial, shouldn't you actually move the request to the trial section rather than just removing it from the page entirely? And what's with this edit, which introduced an "open" request into the trial section? Or am I missing something about how that page is supposed to function? — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 09:42, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
George Bush is a terrible President —Preceding unsigned comment added by Glamorous1612 ( talk • contribs) 20:28, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Hiya! I was wondering if you'd be able to restore "Image:Athabaskan DDH 282.jpg". I would then apply any and all appropriate copyright and fair use tags for the image. RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 19:07, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you've reviewed Image:Hand of God goal.jpg previously, but I don't think one of the uses qualifies as fair use, and the rationale needs to be re-written for the other use to reflect the intent of fair use. I would appreciate it if you could weigh in at Wikipedia:Non-free content review#Image:Hand of God goal.jpg. -- Mosmof ( talk) 02:26, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Quadell. Polbot put {{ reflist}} in the wrong place in the article Janie Porter Barrett and broke a reference. The error isn't a big deal, but I thought I should let you know about it. All the best, Bláthnaid talk 19:11, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello. On the St Andrews University website this group photo [12] of an Edinburgh Mathematics Society Colloquium from 1930 is posted, together with a blow up of Levi-Civita here. The people who run this mathematical website from St Andrews have this copyright disclaimer. [13] Since their department took the picture, does that mean it can be used on WP? Would I have to get an email confirming this? Many thanks, Mathsci ( talk) 10:38, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, Quadell, in this last change of Polbot|Polbot about Aleksandr Lyapunov Russian sites (now) show some 'strange' chars. I've checked this for MS IE. I guess that internal links to 'pure' years are left out according to MOS:SYL or to so some similar (style) guide. Personally I prefer linking important years in biographical articles. Best regards. -- xJaM ( talk) 08:44, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, I hope you remember expressing serious concerns regarding category based WikiProject tagging by bots here. I made this FAQ list which tries to answer some of your concerns. Let me know if you have any questions . Thanks -- Tinu Cherian - 11:36, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Since you were such a principle author on the hijackers' articles, I thought you'd be interested to know that CSIS refers to two of the "identities" indeed being unknown - as the Canadian intelligence agency apparently believes that they were indeed using stolen passports, and the actual names (and thus stories) of those two hijackers prior to their entry into the United States under that name, are false. [14] Just struck me as interesting to see a security agency refer to that outright, not even entertaining the notion those were actually the identities of the hijackers. Sherurcij ( speaker for the dead) 21:35, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
I don't know what the problem is, but a comment (added by the bot?) seems to have broken the References in the Chick Webb article, as viewed in Firefox 3.0.1. Other bot changes seem to work OK. I deleted the comment, but could you look at it? Thanks. -- Margin1522 ( talk) 18:03, 26 August 2008 (UTC)