I've tagged my main page... it's lost temporarily though because of various reasons. Should be back soon. - Ta bu shi da yu 10:28, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi,
I don't mind making available my contributions to others. However,I have to read all the fine print carefully and then decide what category to put them under. Right now I don't have the time. Will do it shortly. KRS 15:38, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I'm jsut confused by the whole thing. Since few of my contributions are really mine -- some have been changed in ways I thoroughly disagree with, others, like WaltPohl's changes to Feudalism, are great. Anyway, I thought the whole wiki thing was that nothing belongs to any of us. That being the case, isn't this all academic and up to Jimbo? JHK
I had no idea I was in the top 2000. I still don't think I am. Regardless... Can you explain to me what exactly is the incompatibility between GFDL and CC-BY-SA?
The idea of having to multi-license works foretells a nightmare of having to release everything we do with a veritable cluttered patchwork of licenses.
Besides, if GFDL and CC-BY-SA are incompatible, isn't there then a conflict between using two licenses? Does it truly imply the freedom of both, or does it imply the restrictions of both?
Furthermore... Why would it not be enough for me to singly license everything with CC-BY or CC-BY-SA? Lastly, would it be possible simply to draw up a new license that was compatible with both, and just use that?
Thanks, Keith D. Tyler [flame] 18:12, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC) (reposted)
I'm not in favor of using Rambot to recruit people to your campaign for relicensing, and I encourage you to slow down a little bit here. You're making people confused and nervous, I'm afraid, even though this isn't your intention at all of course.
One of the things that you wrote somewhere was something about getting "90%" agreement. This would not be enough. Only unanimous agreement makes a license change possible. This is why I think it is pointless and silly to try to relicense all of wikipedia, especially since a reform of the GNU FDL is coming soon in the next version.
I do not oppose, however, the attempt to find a way to get your Rambot articles into wikitravel. This is a particular unique case, and it seems that the effort is sensible and worthwhile. But this is not, in my opinion, the best way to move forward with all of wikipedia. -- Jimbo Wales 20:17, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Ram Man: This is Michael Reiter. I would like to know to take advantage of what you are proposing. Write me back and tell me what you want me to do. J. Michael Reiter.
I'd like to voice opposition to multi-licensing. If cc-sa and gfdl are really that similar in spirit, I'd rather wait for gfdl 2.0 to resolve the differences. Multi-licensing is a big headache in the free software world; we don't need a similar headache here.
I also have nothing against attribution in general, but I really enjoy the egoless, collaborative nature of wikipedia editing and in fact I usually don't bother to log in when I edit. So I wouldn't like it if wikipedia incorporated any type of formal attribution requirement. People should follow traditional academic standards for citing significant pieces of work outside wikipedia, but wikipedia itself should be considered the work of a large, amorphous, collaborative group, like the Beatles songs credited to Lennon/McCartney (per their agreement) no matter which of Lennon or McCartney actually wrote the song. The genealogy of any particular article can of course mostly be traced through its editing history. That can leave it unremarked when someone (as is permissible) cuts and pastes pieces of text from one wikipedia article to another, but I don't think that causes any confusion in practice.
Phr 09:08, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)Phr
I tend to agree with your argument, but I don't have any high hopes that GFDL 2.0 will resolve all the problems. There is an argument that Wikipedia is a single collaborative work, but the fact that it is explicitly placed under the GFDL might negate that. Thus we already have a formal attribution requirement, as the GFDL has a formal attribution requirement. I suppose one can hope that GFDL 2.0 will allow one to simply print out a URL where the GFDL and the list of all the authors can be found, but I don't have any high hopes for this. It would be a very significant change to the GFDL, especially if you consider the fact that Wikipedia is not the only GFDLed work. anthony 警告 12:41, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Oops, I just realized this was Ram-Man's talk page. Sorry about that Ram-Man :). anthony 警告 12:42, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
There is a question that is bothering me: as very few of us edit under our real names (and I, for one, do not want to disclose mine), how can anyone know who is licensing what? Filiocht 09:17, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)
Salve, Ram-Man!
I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful
RFA candidacy. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted in the debate. Ave!
PedanticallySpeaking 17:45, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)
Salve, Ram-Man!
When I was thanking the voters on my RFA election, I found someone discussing census data and looked at the site they mentioned. To my surprise, I found that there was indeed data on
Ohio's townships; I had presumed there was not, which is why Rambot had not added the demographic information. I've created articles on the townships of
Warren County, Ohio#Townships and the only population information in them is what was in the
Ohio Secretary of State's roster, namely the 2000 and 1990 populations.
While I realize it would not be as easy as the municipality and CDP articles because of the repetition of names--there are dozens of
Washington Townships--and the long names we've been using on these articles (e.g.
Union Township, Warren County, Ohio), but is it possible for Rambot to take the Census datasets and add the data to the township articles? Ave!
PedanticallySpeaking 18:45, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)
No problem, I've put the dual license in my user page. I'm all for making my work more useful, but still free. -- AstroNomer 00:25, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)
I finally am responding to your comment on my user page. I did agree to multilicense under the CC license with the suggested template. Thanks for telling me! I really like that license better anyway! Good luck with it!-- naryathegreat 03:52, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)
I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0 and 2.0 | ||
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under Wikipedia's copyright terms and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 and version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides. |
--[[User:Plato| Comrade Nick @)---^--]] 02:22, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I agree to multi-license some of my contributions as follows: If an article is edited by User:Rambot, all my subsequent contributions to that article are licensed under the same terms as the contribution to that article by User:Rambot.
I'm sure all edits that fall under the above category are/will be too minor to be copyrightable anyway, so I'm not spamming my user page with licensing info. -- Paddu 06:47, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hello RM, I've changed position slightly. It boils down to this: all edits by me that I've marked 'minor' (regardless of subject) I've released into the PD; all other ('major', or, rather, non-minor) edits by me remain GFDL. See my user page. Good luck, Cwoyte 13:48, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
I'm pleased, Ram-Man, that you took the initiative on licensing. It's a long-overdue task, and one which I think will benefit Wikipedia in the long haul. I do not object to the message appearing on my user page; I treat it as akin to a newsletter a condo resident might receive - while unsolicited, of potential interest and certainly not spam. One reason I find the process of value is that I spent considerable time weighing the license options available to me, and have been using cc-by-sa with all my images for some time now. It satisfies me the most in assuring that my work meets Wikipedia's licensing requirements while still offering me some protection as the creator of the work. Denni ☯ 21:25, 2004 Dec 18 (UTC)
As is now mentioned on my user page, all my textual contributions are in the public domain. My images and other things will probably also be in the public domain. I'll try to explicitly give the licensing status of each of these non-textual things when I upload them. — Bkell 23:49, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
For the record, I would prefer that my contributions remain under the GFDL license alone, such as they are. That's the license that was in effect when I made the edits, as the text at the bottom of every edit page makes very clear. I don't see any compelling reason to change that. When I write for wikipedia, I do it because I want to contribute specifically to wikipedia, and don't see any special reason to want to broaden that more than the GFDL already allows. (shrug) Wesley 03:47, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I am am glad that you appear to be trying to multilicense Wikipedia as I feel that the GFDL, although good, has many flaws and limitations (discussed at GFDL) including that it is not compatible with CC.
Instead of getting everyone to agree to duel release their stuff, you should drive to have Wikipedia offically start releasing new content under a multilicense. This way we will have a limited set of people to try and convince to multilicense their stuff instead of a growing one. -- ShaunMacPherson 08:44, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for your efforts for increasing coverage of multiple-licencing. I accept multiple licencing my edits and added the necessary templates to my user page. -- Pouya 12:16, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi Ram-man. I know you have received similar objections already, but as people who don't respond are being counted as tacitly agreeing with your approach I thought I'd better drop a note. Here are my reactions to your recent post on my talk page:
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HappyDog 16:34, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I do not fully understand what you mean if I would be willing to multi-license all of my contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. What is multi licensing? As of now, I concentrate in Chinese Wikipedia where I am an administrator with much work to do. I have not logged in to English Wikipedia for very long time, so I have not replied until now. Jusjih 10:27, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Greeetings. I noticed that your bot is replacing literal ISO-8859-1, non-ASCII characters like "°" and "²" with the corresponding entity references. Since the English Wikipedia does specify ISO-8859-1, and not the ASCII subset, maybe your bot can just use the literal values in these cases. Any thoughts? Fleminra 04:53, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I work on parenting a lot of orphan categories, and the creative common license subcategory is an orphan...I'm not sure where to parent it...but it will continue to show on scans of orphans til it does. Could you parent it as appropriate? Thanks Sortior 17:38, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)
I agree to multi-license with CC-by-SA.
Mindspillage 22:36, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I think you could insert the redirects like USLAX. This is general use for abbreviations in Wikipedia. If one day more of the links have to be disambiguatet we can talk again about doing it like UN/LOCODE:USLAX.
Maybe you start with US Locodes, and than go on with english speaking countries because the name in UN/LOCODE-database for those should be more or less equal to the names used in Wikipedia.
Is it faster (less molesting for wikidatabase) to simultaenously edit the corresponding citypages and add the UN/LOCODE there, or can this be done in different process? We have to think about where and how to put the LOCODE, and whether to insert shortcut hint. Some people may find the shortcut hint ugly. Should we just try it for some places? Would be a way to find out what others think. Tobias Conradi 00:04, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Again, the license problem. what's the difference between the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Dual License and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Dual License? sorry i am too impatient to read all the English stuff... =.= -- Yacht (talk) 06:38, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)
... in case you want to use it for the county articles. -- hike395 15:52, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Should this page still be listed on RFC? Maurreen 06:45, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
WHY did you do this page on St. Vincent, Minnesota? Are you from the area? I grew up in the town and don't recognize you. It's such a small village in the middle of nowhere that I was flabbergasted to see someone had written it already....!! This link is about me and where I come from, St. Vincent...one of these days I mean to expand upon it. I also have written a bit about my life there in a blog.
In response to your comment on my user talk page (hiya!) - All the images I upload to Wikipedia are licensed under these terms: {{NoncommercialProvided}} the photographer (Brian Kendig) is credited. I'm not a lawyer and I don't have a very good grasp of legalese, but I think this protects my interests (retaining credit for the images, and allowing them to be used anywhere but not allowing other people to profit from my work). After reading your explanation of multi-licensing, specifically the issues where people could re-license a work more restrictively and profit from it, I think that the terms I chose are still most appealing to me. If you disagree, if you feel that multi-licensing would be better than the solution I chose, please let me know? - Brian Kendig 21:26, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Ram-Man, I notice that I failed to respond to your question on mulit-licensing. I will refrain at this time, at least until I can look into it more closely. Thanks. - Rlvaughn 03:32, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I was going to do this a while ago but wanted to read more on the liscenses and then forgot. I've liscensed all my contributions under GFDL and any version of the CC-by-sa liscence. It's amazing how unnecessarily restrictive the GFDL is! Keep up the good work. Telso 08:24, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I am doing some statistical analysis on the growth of Wikipedia and I wanted to adjust for the auto generated articles. Do you have data on what months what number of articles were created? Were all 37,000 created in Oct, 2002, or were some in other months? Is 37,000 the right number also? Because they were made as a mix from your account and the rambot account, I thought it best to ask you. Thanks - Taxman 20:20, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)
Salve, Ram-Man!
Sorry I haven't replied sooner--we're still digging out from a foot of snow here in
Warren County, Ohio and I've not been to the library in a week.
The data I'm talking about with our townships is on the Census site
here. The townships don't come up if you type something like "Salem Township Ohio", but they do have a series of menus at the above address. Is it possible for your bot to harvest data in the form at that address? Ave!
PedanticallySpeaking 17:42, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)
rofl, its a dictatorship! Lirath Q. Pynnor
Rambot is going through added map references to city articles, but it is not checking to see whether or not checking for singular/pluralness of the header title (External link[s]) and it's adding a header incorrectly if the header is singular. See Garland, Texas history for what I mean. RADICALBENDER ★ 22:55, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)
A naming conflict has arisen between a Florida CDP and a city that incorporated in 2003 with the same name. It's Miami Gardens, Florida. They're both in separate counties, and the CDP was recently annexed. I moved the CDP to Miami Gardens (Broward), Florida to try to disambiguate it from the City of Miami Gardens, so that problably means that rambot will need to associate the CDP data with the Broward page so that it doesn't update the wrong one. Thanks...
Also, what usually gets done with CDP articles after they get annexed into an incorporated area? -- Monstrocity 00:12, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)
Well, if you haven't noticed -- i haven't made any serious attempt to edit anything in about a year. And of yesterday, I have my own wiki now -- so I'm sure I won't return to the wikipedia. Lirath Q. Pynnor
Why does rambot move interlanguage links from the bottom of the article to before the external links section? [1] According to Wikipedia:Interlanguage links, interlanguage links should placed "at the bottom of the page, after external links, see also's, and categories". Merry Christmas, Gehirn 02:19, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Ram-Man. Chinasaur has made new, updated templates for the maps, including links to Tiger census maps (for surrounding areas) and current weather satellite images. I must say, it is quite neat. You can check it out the new templates at Template talk:Geolinks-US-streetscale.
One sad thing to note is that Template:Mapit-US-cityscale is broken: Maveric149, Chinasaur, nor I can edit it --- it always returns a wikipedia error. Sadly, that template does not conform to the rest of the Mapit templates. You may wish to convert cities over to the Geolinks templates for that reason (unless you have some special powers to fix the database?).
Thanks for all of the Ram-Bot work: I really appreciate it. -- hike395 08:06, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi, there is a question about some articles that may have been done very early on and have some naming irregularities. See Talk:Attica (village), New York for my take on what is going on. Thanks. older≠ wiser 18:29, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
Another question about New York places: any idea what happened to the census data for Geneseo (village), New York? It currently duplicates the data for Geneseo (town), New York. older≠ wiser 18:58, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
how long might it take to insert redirects for US data? I mean, when can I look for missing entries? Is there any order in the way you insert redirects?
Coordinats, FIPS: Can you create merged FIPS / UN/LOCODE csv-file including both coordinates. are there conflicts? maybe we can help UN/LOCODE to get more coordinates.
I already asked Evan from wikitravel what he thinks about adding the codes on wikitravel as well. Would be great, maybe we can have much shorter links there, like wikitravel.org/USLAX
regards -- Tobias Conradi 07:27, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Evan likes the idea and suggested to set up namespace Locode: for it. But currently I worry about http://www.unece.org/etrades/uncopyright.htm and wrote them an email. If it turns out bad, I will maybe go to create public domain geocodes. Tobias Conradi 08:31, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Ram-Man, thanks for the articles on different cities. I think the content is great for Wikipedia. I look up information on different cities regularly and this information has been helpful. I wanted to share with you a site that I found that has more information. http://www.city-data.com . Perhaps the rambot could be configured to include external links to each of the City-Data pages. Sorry to request work from you, it is far beyond my capacity. I do appreciate your work to communicate more about the the places we live in. PoolGuy 06:05, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Ram-man,
Go ahead and use your Rambot to dual-license my dot-maps using {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}. I've done dot-maps for Washington, Nevada, Delaware, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Northern California. Thanks! Bumm13 10:23, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I did a little demo in Charleston, West Virginia, using the new coor template for geographical coordinates from Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. The point of the exercise is that the coordinate pair becomes a link to a special page that offers many different map resources. I guess it would be a potential job for Rambot. -- Egil 18:30, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hi - Do you have any idea where the values in the US state articles for width, length, and mean elevation came from (originally). There's a suggestion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_U.S._states to include both metric and English measurements (since the states are in the US, at least some folks are objecting to metric-only). Both are included for Kansas and Missouri, and I'm willing to change the infobox template (and the articles) to explicitly include both. I've looked a bit, but can't seem to find USGS sources for width, length, and mean elevation. Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 01:00, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
I don't know how it happened, but somehow McLeod County, Minnesota's text has been replaced w/ the text of Mahnomen County, Minnesota, apparently from the time of the article's creation. McLeod County is indicated correctly in the map, but the text is completely wrong. The text for the Mahnomen Co. article appears to have been tampered w/ as well, at least from my cursory examination, basically doubling its population. Might wanna add these 2 articles to your 2do list. Tomer TALK 06:12, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
Hi there! Regarding this CSD proposal (3-C) some people expressed the concern that a policy page should not refer to a guideline page like that, which is a good point. As an alternative, you offered the idea of making a separate policy page for it (which I take to mean moving the page away from the WikiProject, and labeling it policy). Would you consider it an applicable alternative if the WP:MUSIC criteria were simply copy/pasted into the CSD page? Yours, R adiant _>|< 11:05, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
I was interested in obtaining the rambot code, but I see you're not giving it away. My interested actually related to uploading of GEDCOM files into the wikitree. It would be tedious to maintain and load family trees which you already have electronically by hand, so a bot seemed like a cool idea. Maybe you can help the wikitree project with such an upload program. I'm afraid I'm not a good enough programmer. Thanks. (I go under the handle Superdooperhero)
Ram-Man would you be interested in helping me add Towns for Italy that don't exist? What format would you need from me? Gioto 02:13, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Back in December last year, you posted a request about multi-licensing my contributions. (I've been away from the pedia for a long time.) I have now very belatedly done so. Bth 20:54, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
Can you please fix (or get someone to fix) Template:DualLicenseWithCC-SA? The image there, Image:Somerights.png now is a bright red request to use Image:CC SomeRightsReseved.png, although perhaps they meant 90px instead. The template is protected, though, and I cannot edit it.
Thanks. Jdavidb 17:58, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Thank you! Jdavidb 18:30, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
hi Ram-Man, I found your image and could you please upload it into the commons, so any language wiki is able to use it? in the german wiki, there is a writing contest and somebody is writing on de:Chili con Carne and I think your image would enrich this article :D. so would you please upload it? greets, -- Andreas -horn- Hornig 12:13, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
Is licensed under a license that we don't permit. Any change you can change it to GFDL or something? The Uninvited Co., Inc. 20:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
The rambot article Perth, North Dakota needed to be moved, and a disambig page, put in its place. There's now one old rambot article (under a new name), one disambig page (old name), and one new non-rambot article. I'm wandering if something like this will cause a problem for rambot in the future. I wasn't even aware of rambot until recently (I just thought it was somebody's user name, and they had a rather robotic writing style). Now that I'm aware of it, I thought there could be problems with a case like this. -- Rob 09:51, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello Ram-Man. Have a Merry Christmas and a happy 2006!- JustPhil 01:08, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
After a year, I have agreed to multi-license all my contributions. Thanks! - Dr Haggis - Talk 17:57, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Picture of Ram-Man 300.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. |
dbenbenn | talk 18:50, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Like to add articles on Pearlfishes, but before I do, would you be able to add the last 2 Genera into the 3 groupings, only 5 out of the 7 have been placed. Thanks. GrahamBould 17:39, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I'm doing a survey of Wikipedia editors as part of a class research project. It's quick, anonymous, and the data will be made available to the Wikipedia community later this month. Would you like to take part? More info here. Thanks! Nonplus 00:10, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
I am conducting a survey on Wikipedia and would like to invite you to participate in the study. I've posted a message on wikien-l, but here is the link again in case you are not subscribed to that list-serv. Thanks a lot for your time! -- Mermes 01:18, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello, there. I'm going around to all the listed participants of the Clans of Scotland WikiProject, asking for a short update on whate they're up to as far as the project goes. I want to see if this project is still viable, and I'm wondering if anyone else is still actively participating. Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clans of Scotland#Status.3F. Canaen 19:15, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Was this picture from the main Susquehanna State Park, near Rock Run, on the Harford County, Maryland side, looking ENE toward Roberts Island? If so, I think this shows some of the bridge pier ruins of the 1818-1857 Port Deposit Bridge. Since that article is on my todo list, I'm curious. -- J Clear 02:41, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
While digging for info on the house, I came across this info... "Exelon acquired the island in the 1920's as part of then-Philadelphia Electric Company's Conowingo Project, a project to construct the Conowingo Dam and Hydroelectric Generating Station. Since then, the island has been an attractive stop for boaters and historians due to its connection to Captain John Smith."
Thanks to you guys I know have the name of the bridge and the years. Perhaps I'll find more on the house now. From what I can tell, it was a two story brick house. Small, had a basement and even smaller root cellar. Possibly beam construction. I saw some 6x6 or 8x8 beams on the island that may have been house or bridge.
I also found this about the island... "Among the ongoing studies of northeastern Maryland's soapstone industry is a closer examination of the distribution of the decorated soapstone vessels. These vessels derive from three non-quarry sites (Conowingo, Octoraro Complex, and Wilbur Iley Site #1) which are clustered in a strategic location on the Susquehanna River just 10 to 15 km up from the river's mouth at Chesapeake Bay (Figure 3). The lower Susquehanna River would have been the easiest corridor for the movement of aboriginal people and goods between eastern Pennsylvania and the lands neighbouring Chesapeake Bay: namely, a waterway for canoes. In this sense, the lower Susquehanna served as a funnel for Indian communication and travel.
Given the lower Susquehanna's use as a corridor, the banks and larger islands of this river may have functioned as meeting places for a number of cultural groups. The more level shorelines also might have contained market-like occupations where there was considerable exchange of goods and ideas. This notion may explain why sites such as Conowingo apparently witnessed the mass production of artefacts like bannerstones (see Stearns 1943). Future analysis and interpretation will consider, inter alia, whether soapstone vessels were decorated to attract intercultural consumers and how the lower Susquehanna may have served as an aboriginal "gateway" (see Burghardt 1971; Hirth 1978)."
Hope this helps, Bob Rogers
Can you please give more descriptive filenames to the pictures. "Image:Nikon Coolpix 8700 LCD swivel 2496px.jpg" isnt exactly descriptive. -- Cat out 19:41, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm from Mendham, NJ dude. Sort of embarassing, to see that ur own town had an article written by someone outside it....
As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country)#Requested_Move_-_July_2006. Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. -- Vengeful Cynic 03:50, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Your bot tagged Ardmore, Pennsylvania as in Deleware County, Pennsylvania. It is in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Superm401 | Talk July 3, 2005 01:44 (UTC)
You voted or commented on Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-B or Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-A or both. I have proposed a revised version, at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-C. This version is intended to address objections made by many of those oppsoed to 3-A or 3-B. The revised propsal refers explicitly and directly to the criteria at WP:MUSIC. If you have not already done so, please examine the revised proposal and vote on it also. Thank you. DES 6 July 2005 05:47 (UTC)
Hey, I haven't been active for a while. Any progress on the translation project? Ausir 8 July 2005 15:59 (UTC)
I agree to license my contributions to US state, county, and city articles according to (CC-by-sa).
Cheers,
Acegikmo1 21:35, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
I don't understand. User:Patricknoddy 7:25 (EDT) September 10, 2005
Hi Ram-Man - nice start on Red Mulberry, unfortunately, the pics are White Mulberry (a widely naturalised invasive species throughout the eastern US); Red Mulberry leaves are not smooth and glossy like this, and are more heart-shaped at the base - MPF 12:36, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
user:rambot writes: "As of the 2000 census", but I think it is much better if he use "As of the 2000 census", because so we see better the source and other statistical and methodical information (i.e. not 2000, but 1 April 2000). -- Cate 11:44, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I have finally got around to looking at your dual licensing suggestion and added {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Tri-2.5}} {{WikimediaTextLicensing}} to my user page. I must confess that I would have done it sooner except that the whole issue is like tax law to me—it is important and needs to be understood but is nevertheless very boring to read about. Jll 22:51, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
The Frederick County, Maryland and related city articles have Point of Rocks, Maryland listed as Point-of-Rocks, Maryland in the county reference box. Point of Rocks, Maryland is correct based on the county website, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Kmusser 16:24, 8 August 2005 (EST)
There is a discussion going on on Wikipedia talk:2004 Encyclopedia topics about how many of the still missing articles are of non-US cities. It was observed that the census data for many of these countries is(or may be) available. As you are the known master of census importing, your opinion of this was requested. Please join the discussion. Thanks! JesseW 10:02, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
We have already generated articles on Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian towns at Polish Wikipedia. By the way, could you please e-mail me rambot's database files? We could then generate the American towns at pl: ourselves. Ausir 00:35, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
We have created Botopedia, an international project for generating such articles and sharing data. Why don't you join? :) Ausir 11:05, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Three_year_old_error_in_bot-generated_article is about a Rambot article. ( SEWilco 19:17, 8 September 2005 (UTC))
Hi there. I was wondering whether you'd given any thought to switching the Rambot city articles into the past tense. To me it grates somewhat to read, "As of the census of 2000... there are" rather than were. I realise Rambot probably has a lot of pending tasks and this is hardly high-priority. OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 15:06, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Ram-man. I'm trying to create an infobox for demographics. Your bot's gathered a nice collection of data, and I'm trying to format them into an infobox in conjunction with Wikipedia:WikiProject_Massachusetts. Can you give me (as a relative newbie) some pointers?
I have been adding information to numerous pages regarding federal and state representation for municipalities in New Jersey. You'll often hear people say that you should contact your legislators about an issue, but often, people have no idea who their representatives are.
I have already compiled a spreadsheet that contains data on the New Jersey legislative and congressional districts ofr each of New Jersey's 566 municipalities, plus a full list of the representatives in each of the congressional districts and the 40 State Senate / Assembly districts. What I'd like to do is to create a bot that would create something that looks like the following entry for my hometown Teaneck, New Jersey and updates each entry automatically:
Teaneck, along with the southern portion of Bergen County, is part of New Jersey's 9th Congressional District, represented by Steve Rothman ( D, Fair Lawn). New Jersey is represented in the Senate by Jon Corzine ( D, Hoboken) and Frank Lautenberg ( D, Cliffside Park).
Teaneck is part of the 37th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature. District 37 is represented in the State Senate by Byron Baer ( D) and in the Assembly by Gordon M. Johnson ( D, Englewood) and Loretta Weinberg ( D, Teaneck).
So, would it be possible for you to generate all the articles as text files (identical as wiki articles), zip them up and e-mail to me like the Italians did? :) Ausir 06:51, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
Greetings, Ram-Man! Please accept this message as an invitation to categorize your user page in the category Category:Wikipedians in Pennsylvania and removing your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Pennsylvania page. This page will be removed when all users have been removed. Even if you do not wish to be placed in a category, could you take a moment to remove your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Pennsylvania page? Thanks!
For more information, please see Wikipedia:User categorisation and Category:Wikipedians by location. -- CComMack, fellow Pennsylvanian, on behalf of the User Categorization Wikiproject
I left a question about this article on its talk page. paul klenk talk 00:26, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi i have noticed that you have edited several articles on subjects related to the Philadelphia area. Several other users and myself have got together to creak a project to help improve, expand, and create articles concerning the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley region. While our project is still new, we are inviting people to join us to help it get started off on the right foot. You can find the project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia, feel free to add your name and drop off an suggestions that you might have. If you have any questions, drop me a line anytime. Thanks. -- Boothy443 | trácht ar 04:26, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
G'day, it seems most of your bot articles do not have the identifier 'USA' in the title, top line, or for that matter anywhere in the first section of the article. Yet wiki guidelines specify this as a point. Would not that be a preferred option, seeing that wikipedia is of places other than USA as well? Just asking vcxlor 22:10, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Any opinion on changing the appearance of geographic reference links? Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities#GR links ( SEWilco 07:16, 6 November 2005 (UTC))
Template:Cc-by-sa-any has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Cc-by-sa-any. Thank you. Since you created that template, I figured you might have an opinion. -- Wcquidditch | Talk 18:23, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Template:Book reference 2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Book reference 2. Thank you. Phil | Talk 15:01, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Sorry for harrasing you again, but could you perhaps generate all (or some) of the rambot articles as txt files and send them to me? We could generate Polish translations easily from those. Ausir 01:30, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Ram-Man
I've been adding to the Largo, Florida page and I'm concerned with all the external links I've added. Is it possible to have too many? I also wonder if the timeline should have a page of his own. Could you take a loo at it?
Thanks,
Mikereichold 01:58, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I am interested in creating pages for ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, the means the United States Census Bureau uses to correspond as closely as possible (where possible) to United States Postal Service ZIP Codes. I know that I can extract the data from the Census Bureau web site, but is there any template or guide as to how to use that infromation to create pages? I'm more than willing to do the work, I am just looking to be pointed in the right direction. Alansohn 15:31, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi -- I just came across this: White_Oak,_Texas and was puzzled by this line in "Geography": "The total area is 0.55% water." I can't seem to make head nor tail of it. Can you help, please? Puffball 20:47, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
A prominent newspaper editor who worked for papers like the New York Daily Mirror named Philip A. Payne lived in West New York, according to an article in the Jan. 29, 2006 Union City Reporter (which I assume was also printed in the Hudson Reporter's other area papers.) There is no article on him as of now, and I have other article I wish to work on, so as a suggestion, if anyone wants to make a one on him, and you want the article as reference, you can see it in full at: http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/9012/philippaynearticle7hw.jpg. You can also begin a section on Noteworthy Residents for that city's page (as I did for Union City), and place him in there. I'm sending this message to all the Wikipedians that I saw on the History page for the West New York article, so you don't have to respond to me about this. Nightscream 00:13, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, Ram-Man. I am trying to massage some census data (ooh, baby) so that we can import it via robot into the Esperanto wikipedia. A resource page at the gazeteer has a database of cities & towns with a county FIPS number. And there's a separate database with counties having a county FIPS number, but the two numbers do not seem to match up. I was hoping for the classic one-to-many relationship (one county has many cities/towns), but I can't see any relationship between the tables there.
I know you have done quite a bit of importing into the English Wikipedia. May I please ask what your source was for the county-city relationship? Thanks for any help. -- Yekrats 20:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Is this town really not in the US Census data; or was there just a hickup in rambot working when it came to this one. I'm asking because a rather bad stub exists for an alternative spelling of the town, Olivesburgh, Ohio, which I came across and was quite surprised to find there was no real article on the correct spelling. I'm sure it's a real place, as google has the standard geographic references to it. Thoughts? JesseW, the juggling janitor 05:53, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Most of the county articles created by Rambot include the line "Census-recognised communities" instead of "Census-recognized communities" (which is the typical U.S. spelling). As the articles should all be in American English... could you add this to the bot's long, long, long to-do list, please? I'm taking care of the Washington counties, but I think the rest may be a bit too much. Thanks... Matt Yeager ♫ ( Talk?) 03:25, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
I was looking for, but not finding, template text that shows how Rambot formats city/town/village/etc. articles. In the spirit of the Wiki, since these are to be regenerated with new census data, it seems like there should be a place where anyone can edit how these generated articles should look.
Here are some suggested changes to the current generated articles:
— Doug Bell talk• contrib 21:04, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
I was noting the lack of articles on the communities of eastern St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, such as Reggio, Delacroix, Hopedale, Shell Beach, and Yscloskey. ("Alluvial City" is listed on some maps, which I think is either an alternative name for Yscloskey or for the general Hopedale/Shell Beach/Yscloskey area.) A number of those places had populations of at least a few hundreds pre-Katrina. I was wondering if this was some Rambot glitch, or if the census lumps them with somewhere else? (If the later, my best guess would be Poydras, Louisiana, as 3,800 seems plausible to me for the area, but as I say, that's just a guess). Do you have any info? Thanks, -- Infrogmation 18:59, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ram-Man! I'm not sure how hard this is to do, but can your bot be programmed to change all New York towns that are hamlets from, hamlet (place) to Administrative divisions of New York#Hamlet
How about adding the 2004 U.S. Census Bureau Estimates only the gross population, not all of the other estimated data.
So take the line that says this:
As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is NUMBER.
Append something like this as the next sentence:
The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that as of 2004 the population is of the city is NUMBER."
I guess this rule should probably be generalized to include all places (city, county, parish, etc.).
Data is [here| http://www.census.gov/popest/datasets.html] (somewhere).
Ram-Man, thank you for your consideration. — MicahDCochran 21:22, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
You may want to read/comment here. I brought your name up (in a positive light) as the creator of many of the U.S. city pages.— MJCdetroit 01:39, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Some time ago, you created the article Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, which someone else has since moved to Mountaintop, Pennsylvania. I think that "Mountain Top" is the correct spelling, although the local newspaper http://www.mteagle.com/index.shtml uses the spelling Mountaintop. I live in Toronto and am not familiar with Pennsylvania geography, so I'm reluctant to move the article back to Mountain Top, Pennsylvania. If the evidence convinces you that the correct spelling is "Mountain Top", could you move the article? You would first have to delete or move to a temp file the current redirect at Mountain Top, Pennsylvania. TruthbringerToronto ( Talk | contribs) 03:58, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Does it matter to the bot (that is, does it affect how well it works)? Does it matter to you -- that is, do you care, personally? Should there be a Wikipedia style rule or recommendation to keep them in a certain spot in each article that rambot creates? I ask all this because I've been moving these sections lower down on the page in the articles for several towns and cities in Fairfield County, Connecticut (see Darien, Connecticut for example). But now I'm being told that it's "Wikipedia style" to keep them up top. There's no such official style that I can find, and if there is going to be a universal "style" or even tradition, it seems to me that those sections should appear low in the article because other, less dry and more interesting sections are better left up top. If you agree with that, or even if you don't care, that helps my position. If you disagree, well, I'd still like to know. So ... whaddaya think? And thanks for creating rambot. Noroton 01:42, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
This image has been nominated on commons for Commons:Quality Images If know of any other images that meet the guidelines please nominate them at Commons:Quality images candidates ... Gnangarra 12:30, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
A bot is currently needed to create articles on US Towns and counties on foreign language wikis. Much of North America is absent from these wikis. Policy has already been adopted in order to counter eurocentric and francocentric editing. ADM
Hey there, I noticed you made the pages for pretty much all the municipalities in Erie County, New York. Just wanted to let you know I created locator maps for the municipalities and a template for Erie County places. Oz Lawyer 18:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if the {{ GR}} link for the county seat on most US County pages is working properly. I thought that it used to link to a reference on county seats, but now it links to a Bulgarian reference (or at least the 6th ref is now this - which is not very helpful). If I do not hear from you in a few days I will post this question on Wikiproject US Counties. Thanks, Ruhrfisch 16:03, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
As you wrote [2], you blocked some IP. I must say, It wasn't mine, because I have bot simnce july, and this IP was bot-active in juny too. JAn Dudík 12:24, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if my question was clear enough. I was asking about whether you agree with promotion decisions made by existing bureaucrats, and what differences of emphasis you would have if you disagreed. I feel taht you have answered indirectly by showing your interest lies in other areas. Stephen B Streater 18:19, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
There was a misunderstanding of question #1. I thought this was in addition to the tasks I stated above. I clarified a bit and hope you reconsider. Morphh 20:33, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
I made an article for Chiques Creek (the USGS approved name since 2002) and then found your Chickie's Creek article. I copied the bridge info to Chiques Creek, made your Chickie's Creek and its redirect both redirects to Chiques Creek, and put a note in the Chiques Creek talk page about your article and the bridge source. I was bold and did not do a merge (do not know how to merge). I hope this is OK. I also nominated Chiques Creek at Did you know? and noted your article there too. Ruhrfisch 16:04, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
I didn't see any explanation of the result of your RfB but I read that you had withdrawn. This surprised me, because your answers persuaded me to move my !vote from neutral to support, and I think you had swayed a lot of others as well. At close, you were at 84% support (excluding neutrals) which I believe should certainly have been a consensus to give you the 'crat flag. What happened? Newyorkbrad 16:09, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, Ram-Man. You are absolutely right. You did not withdraw, since your RfB actually ran to conclusion. It was my mistake. Here's what happened: I had been reviewing the Bot election (where you are a candidate), and, as you know, the deadline there is September 9. Then, when I came around to check on RfA, I saw that your RfB had been closed. When opening it, don't ask me why since I don't know it myself, but I misread the deadline header in ISO format reading "09-07", which, of course, reads "September 7" (and it is linked to the date). But somehow my brain processed "September 9", crossing the wires from the date of the bot election and the number "9" in your deadline. That got me thinking that your RfB had closed 48 hours shy of this alleged deadline I had in mind. I started looking for a post from you withdrawing, but I couldn't find any. Then I saw
this edit summary, plus the fact that VoA had changed the header nearly an hour before I came around without being reverted, and all of this indicated to me, at the time, that you had withdrawn.
Because of this misread, I closed and archived your RfB without assessing the result. I have now, of course, gone back to your RfB and analyzed it. Unfortunately, I did not see a support consensus that would be sufficient to promote to Bureaucratship. I discounted one vote in the "oppose" column, and gave less weight to another opposer who has been registered for less than a month but has a history of valid contributions during this period of time, but the consensus was still around 87%. The standards for promotion to Bureaucratship are a little different from those for Adminship. Generally, a support consensus of at least 90% is required, plus a guideline that needs to be taken into account, especially in close calls: the "no substantial opposition" guideline -- you mentioned Essjay's promotion: his final consensus was actually at 89.97%, although there was substantial opposition, which made it a judgement call that did stir some polemic. But with a final consensus in the vicinities of 87%, we cannot promote to Bureaucratship. But as NoSeptember said in my talk page, if you address the concerns raised by the opposition, a future RfB can indeed be successful.
Unfortunately, I cannot alter the edit summaries where I wrote that you had withdrawn, but I will issue a public statement at WT:RfA rectifying this situation. Please accept my apologies for this misunderstanding on my part. Cheers,
Redux
17:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Welcome to the Bot Approval Group. Its gonna be nice having some help in there! If you like userpage meta icons, feel free to copy or use mine User:Xaosflux/BAG. See ya around! — xaosflux Talk 01:57, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
On this request, it looks like you have approved it for trials, but the discussion also has the close out tags on it, we dont usuually use those until the trials are over as well. — xaosflux Talk 18:15, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
hay VoiceofAll sugested once we aprove a bot let it stay on the page a little before wwe archive Betacommand ( talk • contribs • Bot) 02:07, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
I've tagged my main page... it's lost temporarily though because of various reasons. Should be back soon. - Ta bu shi da yu 10:28, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi,
I don't mind making available my contributions to others. However,I have to read all the fine print carefully and then decide what category to put them under. Right now I don't have the time. Will do it shortly. KRS 15:38, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I'm jsut confused by the whole thing. Since few of my contributions are really mine -- some have been changed in ways I thoroughly disagree with, others, like WaltPohl's changes to Feudalism, are great. Anyway, I thought the whole wiki thing was that nothing belongs to any of us. That being the case, isn't this all academic and up to Jimbo? JHK
I had no idea I was in the top 2000. I still don't think I am. Regardless... Can you explain to me what exactly is the incompatibility between GFDL and CC-BY-SA?
The idea of having to multi-license works foretells a nightmare of having to release everything we do with a veritable cluttered patchwork of licenses.
Besides, if GFDL and CC-BY-SA are incompatible, isn't there then a conflict between using two licenses? Does it truly imply the freedom of both, or does it imply the restrictions of both?
Furthermore... Why would it not be enough for me to singly license everything with CC-BY or CC-BY-SA? Lastly, would it be possible simply to draw up a new license that was compatible with both, and just use that?
Thanks, Keith D. Tyler [flame] 18:12, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC) (reposted)
I'm not in favor of using Rambot to recruit people to your campaign for relicensing, and I encourage you to slow down a little bit here. You're making people confused and nervous, I'm afraid, even though this isn't your intention at all of course.
One of the things that you wrote somewhere was something about getting "90%" agreement. This would not be enough. Only unanimous agreement makes a license change possible. This is why I think it is pointless and silly to try to relicense all of wikipedia, especially since a reform of the GNU FDL is coming soon in the next version.
I do not oppose, however, the attempt to find a way to get your Rambot articles into wikitravel. This is a particular unique case, and it seems that the effort is sensible and worthwhile. But this is not, in my opinion, the best way to move forward with all of wikipedia. -- Jimbo Wales 20:17, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Ram Man: This is Michael Reiter. I would like to know to take advantage of what you are proposing. Write me back and tell me what you want me to do. J. Michael Reiter.
I'd like to voice opposition to multi-licensing. If cc-sa and gfdl are really that similar in spirit, I'd rather wait for gfdl 2.0 to resolve the differences. Multi-licensing is a big headache in the free software world; we don't need a similar headache here.
I also have nothing against attribution in general, but I really enjoy the egoless, collaborative nature of wikipedia editing and in fact I usually don't bother to log in when I edit. So I wouldn't like it if wikipedia incorporated any type of formal attribution requirement. People should follow traditional academic standards for citing significant pieces of work outside wikipedia, but wikipedia itself should be considered the work of a large, amorphous, collaborative group, like the Beatles songs credited to Lennon/McCartney (per their agreement) no matter which of Lennon or McCartney actually wrote the song. The genealogy of any particular article can of course mostly be traced through its editing history. That can leave it unremarked when someone (as is permissible) cuts and pastes pieces of text from one wikipedia article to another, but I don't think that causes any confusion in practice.
Phr 09:08, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)Phr
I tend to agree with your argument, but I don't have any high hopes that GFDL 2.0 will resolve all the problems. There is an argument that Wikipedia is a single collaborative work, but the fact that it is explicitly placed under the GFDL might negate that. Thus we already have a formal attribution requirement, as the GFDL has a formal attribution requirement. I suppose one can hope that GFDL 2.0 will allow one to simply print out a URL where the GFDL and the list of all the authors can be found, but I don't have any high hopes for this. It would be a very significant change to the GFDL, especially if you consider the fact that Wikipedia is not the only GFDLed work. anthony 警告 12:41, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Oops, I just realized this was Ram-Man's talk page. Sorry about that Ram-Man :). anthony 警告 12:42, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
There is a question that is bothering me: as very few of us edit under our real names (and I, for one, do not want to disclose mine), how can anyone know who is licensing what? Filiocht 09:17, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)
Salve, Ram-Man!
I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful
RFA candidacy. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted in the debate. Ave!
PedanticallySpeaking 17:45, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)
Salve, Ram-Man!
When I was thanking the voters on my RFA election, I found someone discussing census data and looked at the site they mentioned. To my surprise, I found that there was indeed data on
Ohio's townships; I had presumed there was not, which is why Rambot had not added the demographic information. I've created articles on the townships of
Warren County, Ohio#Townships and the only population information in them is what was in the
Ohio Secretary of State's roster, namely the 2000 and 1990 populations.
While I realize it would not be as easy as the municipality and CDP articles because of the repetition of names--there are dozens of
Washington Townships--and the long names we've been using on these articles (e.g.
Union Township, Warren County, Ohio), but is it possible for Rambot to take the Census datasets and add the data to the township articles? Ave!
PedanticallySpeaking 18:45, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)
No problem, I've put the dual license in my user page. I'm all for making my work more useful, but still free. -- AstroNomer 00:25, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)
I finally am responding to your comment on my user page. I did agree to multilicense under the CC license with the suggested template. Thanks for telling me! I really like that license better anyway! Good luck with it!-- naryathegreat 03:52, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)
I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0 and 2.0 | ||
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under Wikipedia's copyright terms and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 and version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides. |
--[[User:Plato| Comrade Nick @)---^--]] 02:22, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I agree to multi-license some of my contributions as follows: If an article is edited by User:Rambot, all my subsequent contributions to that article are licensed under the same terms as the contribution to that article by User:Rambot.
I'm sure all edits that fall under the above category are/will be too minor to be copyrightable anyway, so I'm not spamming my user page with licensing info. -- Paddu 06:47, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hello RM, I've changed position slightly. It boils down to this: all edits by me that I've marked 'minor' (regardless of subject) I've released into the PD; all other ('major', or, rather, non-minor) edits by me remain GFDL. See my user page. Good luck, Cwoyte 13:48, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
I'm pleased, Ram-Man, that you took the initiative on licensing. It's a long-overdue task, and one which I think will benefit Wikipedia in the long haul. I do not object to the message appearing on my user page; I treat it as akin to a newsletter a condo resident might receive - while unsolicited, of potential interest and certainly not spam. One reason I find the process of value is that I spent considerable time weighing the license options available to me, and have been using cc-by-sa with all my images for some time now. It satisfies me the most in assuring that my work meets Wikipedia's licensing requirements while still offering me some protection as the creator of the work. Denni ☯ 21:25, 2004 Dec 18 (UTC)
As is now mentioned on my user page, all my textual contributions are in the public domain. My images and other things will probably also be in the public domain. I'll try to explicitly give the licensing status of each of these non-textual things when I upload them. — Bkell 23:49, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
For the record, I would prefer that my contributions remain under the GFDL license alone, such as they are. That's the license that was in effect when I made the edits, as the text at the bottom of every edit page makes very clear. I don't see any compelling reason to change that. When I write for wikipedia, I do it because I want to contribute specifically to wikipedia, and don't see any special reason to want to broaden that more than the GFDL already allows. (shrug) Wesley 03:47, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I am am glad that you appear to be trying to multilicense Wikipedia as I feel that the GFDL, although good, has many flaws and limitations (discussed at GFDL) including that it is not compatible with CC.
Instead of getting everyone to agree to duel release their stuff, you should drive to have Wikipedia offically start releasing new content under a multilicense. This way we will have a limited set of people to try and convince to multilicense their stuff instead of a growing one. -- ShaunMacPherson 08:44, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for your efforts for increasing coverage of multiple-licencing. I accept multiple licencing my edits and added the necessary templates to my user page. -- Pouya 12:16, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi Ram-man. I know you have received similar objections already, but as people who don't respond are being counted as tacitly agreeing with your approach I thought I'd better drop a note. Here are my reactions to your recent post on my talk page:
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HappyDog 16:34, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I do not fully understand what you mean if I would be willing to multi-license all of my contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. What is multi licensing? As of now, I concentrate in Chinese Wikipedia where I am an administrator with much work to do. I have not logged in to English Wikipedia for very long time, so I have not replied until now. Jusjih 10:27, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Greeetings. I noticed that your bot is replacing literal ISO-8859-1, non-ASCII characters like "°" and "²" with the corresponding entity references. Since the English Wikipedia does specify ISO-8859-1, and not the ASCII subset, maybe your bot can just use the literal values in these cases. Any thoughts? Fleminra 04:53, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I work on parenting a lot of orphan categories, and the creative common license subcategory is an orphan...I'm not sure where to parent it...but it will continue to show on scans of orphans til it does. Could you parent it as appropriate? Thanks Sortior 17:38, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)
I agree to multi-license with CC-by-SA.
Mindspillage 22:36, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I think you could insert the redirects like USLAX. This is general use for abbreviations in Wikipedia. If one day more of the links have to be disambiguatet we can talk again about doing it like UN/LOCODE:USLAX.
Maybe you start with US Locodes, and than go on with english speaking countries because the name in UN/LOCODE-database for those should be more or less equal to the names used in Wikipedia.
Is it faster (less molesting for wikidatabase) to simultaenously edit the corresponding citypages and add the UN/LOCODE there, or can this be done in different process? We have to think about where and how to put the LOCODE, and whether to insert shortcut hint. Some people may find the shortcut hint ugly. Should we just try it for some places? Would be a way to find out what others think. Tobias Conradi 00:04, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Again, the license problem. what's the difference between the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Dual License and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Dual License? sorry i am too impatient to read all the English stuff... =.= -- Yacht (talk) 06:38, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)
... in case you want to use it for the county articles. -- hike395 15:52, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Should this page still be listed on RFC? Maurreen 06:45, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
WHY did you do this page on St. Vincent, Minnesota? Are you from the area? I grew up in the town and don't recognize you. It's such a small village in the middle of nowhere that I was flabbergasted to see someone had written it already....!! This link is about me and where I come from, St. Vincent...one of these days I mean to expand upon it. I also have written a bit about my life there in a blog.
In response to your comment on my user talk page (hiya!) - All the images I upload to Wikipedia are licensed under these terms: {{NoncommercialProvided}} the photographer (Brian Kendig) is credited. I'm not a lawyer and I don't have a very good grasp of legalese, but I think this protects my interests (retaining credit for the images, and allowing them to be used anywhere but not allowing other people to profit from my work). After reading your explanation of multi-licensing, specifically the issues where people could re-license a work more restrictively and profit from it, I think that the terms I chose are still most appealing to me. If you disagree, if you feel that multi-licensing would be better than the solution I chose, please let me know? - Brian Kendig 21:26, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Ram-Man, I notice that I failed to respond to your question on mulit-licensing. I will refrain at this time, at least until I can look into it more closely. Thanks. - Rlvaughn 03:32, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I was going to do this a while ago but wanted to read more on the liscenses and then forgot. I've liscensed all my contributions under GFDL and any version of the CC-by-sa liscence. It's amazing how unnecessarily restrictive the GFDL is! Keep up the good work. Telso 08:24, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I am doing some statistical analysis on the growth of Wikipedia and I wanted to adjust for the auto generated articles. Do you have data on what months what number of articles were created? Were all 37,000 created in Oct, 2002, or were some in other months? Is 37,000 the right number also? Because they were made as a mix from your account and the rambot account, I thought it best to ask you. Thanks - Taxman 20:20, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)
Salve, Ram-Man!
Sorry I haven't replied sooner--we're still digging out from a foot of snow here in
Warren County, Ohio and I've not been to the library in a week.
The data I'm talking about with our townships is on the Census site
here. The townships don't come up if you type something like "Salem Township Ohio", but they do have a series of menus at the above address. Is it possible for your bot to harvest data in the form at that address? Ave!
PedanticallySpeaking 17:42, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)
rofl, its a dictatorship! Lirath Q. Pynnor
Rambot is going through added map references to city articles, but it is not checking to see whether or not checking for singular/pluralness of the header title (External link[s]) and it's adding a header incorrectly if the header is singular. See Garland, Texas history for what I mean. RADICALBENDER ★ 22:55, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)
A naming conflict has arisen between a Florida CDP and a city that incorporated in 2003 with the same name. It's Miami Gardens, Florida. They're both in separate counties, and the CDP was recently annexed. I moved the CDP to Miami Gardens (Broward), Florida to try to disambiguate it from the City of Miami Gardens, so that problably means that rambot will need to associate the CDP data with the Broward page so that it doesn't update the wrong one. Thanks...
Also, what usually gets done with CDP articles after they get annexed into an incorporated area? -- Monstrocity 00:12, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)
Well, if you haven't noticed -- i haven't made any serious attempt to edit anything in about a year. And of yesterday, I have my own wiki now -- so I'm sure I won't return to the wikipedia. Lirath Q. Pynnor
Why does rambot move interlanguage links from the bottom of the article to before the external links section? [1] According to Wikipedia:Interlanguage links, interlanguage links should placed "at the bottom of the page, after external links, see also's, and categories". Merry Christmas, Gehirn 02:19, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Ram-Man. Chinasaur has made new, updated templates for the maps, including links to Tiger census maps (for surrounding areas) and current weather satellite images. I must say, it is quite neat. You can check it out the new templates at Template talk:Geolinks-US-streetscale.
One sad thing to note is that Template:Mapit-US-cityscale is broken: Maveric149, Chinasaur, nor I can edit it --- it always returns a wikipedia error. Sadly, that template does not conform to the rest of the Mapit templates. You may wish to convert cities over to the Geolinks templates for that reason (unless you have some special powers to fix the database?).
Thanks for all of the Ram-Bot work: I really appreciate it. -- hike395 08:06, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi, there is a question about some articles that may have been done very early on and have some naming irregularities. See Talk:Attica (village), New York for my take on what is going on. Thanks. older≠ wiser 18:29, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
Another question about New York places: any idea what happened to the census data for Geneseo (village), New York? It currently duplicates the data for Geneseo (town), New York. older≠ wiser 18:58, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
how long might it take to insert redirects for US data? I mean, when can I look for missing entries? Is there any order in the way you insert redirects?
Coordinats, FIPS: Can you create merged FIPS / UN/LOCODE csv-file including both coordinates. are there conflicts? maybe we can help UN/LOCODE to get more coordinates.
I already asked Evan from wikitravel what he thinks about adding the codes on wikitravel as well. Would be great, maybe we can have much shorter links there, like wikitravel.org/USLAX
regards -- Tobias Conradi 07:27, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Evan likes the idea and suggested to set up namespace Locode: for it. But currently I worry about http://www.unece.org/etrades/uncopyright.htm and wrote them an email. If it turns out bad, I will maybe go to create public domain geocodes. Tobias Conradi 08:31, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Ram-Man, thanks for the articles on different cities. I think the content is great for Wikipedia. I look up information on different cities regularly and this information has been helpful. I wanted to share with you a site that I found that has more information. http://www.city-data.com . Perhaps the rambot could be configured to include external links to each of the City-Data pages. Sorry to request work from you, it is far beyond my capacity. I do appreciate your work to communicate more about the the places we live in. PoolGuy 06:05, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Ram-man,
Go ahead and use your Rambot to dual-license my dot-maps using {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}. I've done dot-maps for Washington, Nevada, Delaware, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Northern California. Thanks! Bumm13 10:23, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I did a little demo in Charleston, West Virginia, using the new coor template for geographical coordinates from Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. The point of the exercise is that the coordinate pair becomes a link to a special page that offers many different map resources. I guess it would be a potential job for Rambot. -- Egil 18:30, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hi - Do you have any idea where the values in the US state articles for width, length, and mean elevation came from (originally). There's a suggestion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_U.S._states to include both metric and English measurements (since the states are in the US, at least some folks are objecting to metric-only). Both are included for Kansas and Missouri, and I'm willing to change the infobox template (and the articles) to explicitly include both. I've looked a bit, but can't seem to find USGS sources for width, length, and mean elevation. Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 01:00, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
I don't know how it happened, but somehow McLeod County, Minnesota's text has been replaced w/ the text of Mahnomen County, Minnesota, apparently from the time of the article's creation. McLeod County is indicated correctly in the map, but the text is completely wrong. The text for the Mahnomen Co. article appears to have been tampered w/ as well, at least from my cursory examination, basically doubling its population. Might wanna add these 2 articles to your 2do list. Tomer TALK 06:12, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
Hi there! Regarding this CSD proposal (3-C) some people expressed the concern that a policy page should not refer to a guideline page like that, which is a good point. As an alternative, you offered the idea of making a separate policy page for it (which I take to mean moving the page away from the WikiProject, and labeling it policy). Would you consider it an applicable alternative if the WP:MUSIC criteria were simply copy/pasted into the CSD page? Yours, R adiant _>|< 11:05, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
I was interested in obtaining the rambot code, but I see you're not giving it away. My interested actually related to uploading of GEDCOM files into the wikitree. It would be tedious to maintain and load family trees which you already have electronically by hand, so a bot seemed like a cool idea. Maybe you can help the wikitree project with such an upload program. I'm afraid I'm not a good enough programmer. Thanks. (I go under the handle Superdooperhero)
Ram-Man would you be interested in helping me add Towns for Italy that don't exist? What format would you need from me? Gioto 02:13, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Back in December last year, you posted a request about multi-licensing my contributions. (I've been away from the pedia for a long time.) I have now very belatedly done so. Bth 20:54, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
Can you please fix (or get someone to fix) Template:DualLicenseWithCC-SA? The image there, Image:Somerights.png now is a bright red request to use Image:CC SomeRightsReseved.png, although perhaps they meant 90px instead. The template is protected, though, and I cannot edit it.
Thanks. Jdavidb 17:58, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Thank you! Jdavidb 18:30, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
hi Ram-Man, I found your image and could you please upload it into the commons, so any language wiki is able to use it? in the german wiki, there is a writing contest and somebody is writing on de:Chili con Carne and I think your image would enrich this article :D. so would you please upload it? greets, -- Andreas -horn- Hornig 12:13, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
Is licensed under a license that we don't permit. Any change you can change it to GFDL or something? The Uninvited Co., Inc. 20:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
The rambot article Perth, North Dakota needed to be moved, and a disambig page, put in its place. There's now one old rambot article (under a new name), one disambig page (old name), and one new non-rambot article. I'm wandering if something like this will cause a problem for rambot in the future. I wasn't even aware of rambot until recently (I just thought it was somebody's user name, and they had a rather robotic writing style). Now that I'm aware of it, I thought there could be problems with a case like this. -- Rob 09:51, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello Ram-Man. Have a Merry Christmas and a happy 2006!- JustPhil 01:08, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
After a year, I have agreed to multi-license all my contributions. Thanks! - Dr Haggis - Talk 17:57, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Picture of Ram-Man 300.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. |
dbenbenn | talk 18:50, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Like to add articles on Pearlfishes, but before I do, would you be able to add the last 2 Genera into the 3 groupings, only 5 out of the 7 have been placed. Thanks. GrahamBould 17:39, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I'm doing a survey of Wikipedia editors as part of a class research project. It's quick, anonymous, and the data will be made available to the Wikipedia community later this month. Would you like to take part? More info here. Thanks! Nonplus 00:10, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
I am conducting a survey on Wikipedia and would like to invite you to participate in the study. I've posted a message on wikien-l, but here is the link again in case you are not subscribed to that list-serv. Thanks a lot for your time! -- Mermes 01:18, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello, there. I'm going around to all the listed participants of the Clans of Scotland WikiProject, asking for a short update on whate they're up to as far as the project goes. I want to see if this project is still viable, and I'm wondering if anyone else is still actively participating. Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clans of Scotland#Status.3F. Canaen 19:15, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Was this picture from the main Susquehanna State Park, near Rock Run, on the Harford County, Maryland side, looking ENE toward Roberts Island? If so, I think this shows some of the bridge pier ruins of the 1818-1857 Port Deposit Bridge. Since that article is on my todo list, I'm curious. -- J Clear 02:41, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
While digging for info on the house, I came across this info... "Exelon acquired the island in the 1920's as part of then-Philadelphia Electric Company's Conowingo Project, a project to construct the Conowingo Dam and Hydroelectric Generating Station. Since then, the island has been an attractive stop for boaters and historians due to its connection to Captain John Smith."
Thanks to you guys I know have the name of the bridge and the years. Perhaps I'll find more on the house now. From what I can tell, it was a two story brick house. Small, had a basement and even smaller root cellar. Possibly beam construction. I saw some 6x6 or 8x8 beams on the island that may have been house or bridge.
I also found this about the island... "Among the ongoing studies of northeastern Maryland's soapstone industry is a closer examination of the distribution of the decorated soapstone vessels. These vessels derive from three non-quarry sites (Conowingo, Octoraro Complex, and Wilbur Iley Site #1) which are clustered in a strategic location on the Susquehanna River just 10 to 15 km up from the river's mouth at Chesapeake Bay (Figure 3). The lower Susquehanna River would have been the easiest corridor for the movement of aboriginal people and goods between eastern Pennsylvania and the lands neighbouring Chesapeake Bay: namely, a waterway for canoes. In this sense, the lower Susquehanna served as a funnel for Indian communication and travel.
Given the lower Susquehanna's use as a corridor, the banks and larger islands of this river may have functioned as meeting places for a number of cultural groups. The more level shorelines also might have contained market-like occupations where there was considerable exchange of goods and ideas. This notion may explain why sites such as Conowingo apparently witnessed the mass production of artefacts like bannerstones (see Stearns 1943). Future analysis and interpretation will consider, inter alia, whether soapstone vessels were decorated to attract intercultural consumers and how the lower Susquehanna may have served as an aboriginal "gateway" (see Burghardt 1971; Hirth 1978)."
Hope this helps, Bob Rogers
Can you please give more descriptive filenames to the pictures. "Image:Nikon Coolpix 8700 LCD swivel 2496px.jpg" isnt exactly descriptive. -- Cat out 19:41, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm from Mendham, NJ dude. Sort of embarassing, to see that ur own town had an article written by someone outside it....
As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country)#Requested_Move_-_July_2006. Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. -- Vengeful Cynic 03:50, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Your bot tagged Ardmore, Pennsylvania as in Deleware County, Pennsylvania. It is in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Superm401 | Talk July 3, 2005 01:44 (UTC)
You voted or commented on Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-B or Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-A or both. I have proposed a revised version, at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-C. This version is intended to address objections made by many of those oppsoed to 3-A or 3-B. The revised propsal refers explicitly and directly to the criteria at WP:MUSIC. If you have not already done so, please examine the revised proposal and vote on it also. Thank you. DES 6 July 2005 05:47 (UTC)
Hey, I haven't been active for a while. Any progress on the translation project? Ausir 8 July 2005 15:59 (UTC)
I agree to license my contributions to US state, county, and city articles according to (CC-by-sa).
Cheers,
Acegikmo1 21:35, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
I don't understand. User:Patricknoddy 7:25 (EDT) September 10, 2005
Hi Ram-Man - nice start on Red Mulberry, unfortunately, the pics are White Mulberry (a widely naturalised invasive species throughout the eastern US); Red Mulberry leaves are not smooth and glossy like this, and are more heart-shaped at the base - MPF 12:36, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
user:rambot writes: "As of the 2000 census", but I think it is much better if he use "As of the 2000 census", because so we see better the source and other statistical and methodical information (i.e. not 2000, but 1 April 2000). -- Cate 11:44, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I have finally got around to looking at your dual licensing suggestion and added {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Tri-2.5}} {{WikimediaTextLicensing}} to my user page. I must confess that I would have done it sooner except that the whole issue is like tax law to me—it is important and needs to be understood but is nevertheless very boring to read about. Jll 22:51, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
The Frederick County, Maryland and related city articles have Point of Rocks, Maryland listed as Point-of-Rocks, Maryland in the county reference box. Point of Rocks, Maryland is correct based on the county website, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Kmusser 16:24, 8 August 2005 (EST)
There is a discussion going on on Wikipedia talk:2004 Encyclopedia topics about how many of the still missing articles are of non-US cities. It was observed that the census data for many of these countries is(or may be) available. As you are the known master of census importing, your opinion of this was requested. Please join the discussion. Thanks! JesseW 10:02, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
We have already generated articles on Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian towns at Polish Wikipedia. By the way, could you please e-mail me rambot's database files? We could then generate the American towns at pl: ourselves. Ausir 00:35, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
We have created Botopedia, an international project for generating such articles and sharing data. Why don't you join? :) Ausir 11:05, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Three_year_old_error_in_bot-generated_article is about a Rambot article. ( SEWilco 19:17, 8 September 2005 (UTC))
Hi there. I was wondering whether you'd given any thought to switching the Rambot city articles into the past tense. To me it grates somewhat to read, "As of the census of 2000... there are" rather than were. I realise Rambot probably has a lot of pending tasks and this is hardly high-priority. OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 15:06, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Ram-man. I'm trying to create an infobox for demographics. Your bot's gathered a nice collection of data, and I'm trying to format them into an infobox in conjunction with Wikipedia:WikiProject_Massachusetts. Can you give me (as a relative newbie) some pointers?
I have been adding information to numerous pages regarding federal and state representation for municipalities in New Jersey. You'll often hear people say that you should contact your legislators about an issue, but often, people have no idea who their representatives are.
I have already compiled a spreadsheet that contains data on the New Jersey legislative and congressional districts ofr each of New Jersey's 566 municipalities, plus a full list of the representatives in each of the congressional districts and the 40 State Senate / Assembly districts. What I'd like to do is to create a bot that would create something that looks like the following entry for my hometown Teaneck, New Jersey and updates each entry automatically:
Teaneck, along with the southern portion of Bergen County, is part of New Jersey's 9th Congressional District, represented by Steve Rothman ( D, Fair Lawn). New Jersey is represented in the Senate by Jon Corzine ( D, Hoboken) and Frank Lautenberg ( D, Cliffside Park).
Teaneck is part of the 37th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature. District 37 is represented in the State Senate by Byron Baer ( D) and in the Assembly by Gordon M. Johnson ( D, Englewood) and Loretta Weinberg ( D, Teaneck).
So, would it be possible for you to generate all the articles as text files (identical as wiki articles), zip them up and e-mail to me like the Italians did? :) Ausir 06:51, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
Greetings, Ram-Man! Please accept this message as an invitation to categorize your user page in the category Category:Wikipedians in Pennsylvania and removing your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Pennsylvania page. This page will be removed when all users have been removed. Even if you do not wish to be placed in a category, could you take a moment to remove your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Pennsylvania page? Thanks!
For more information, please see Wikipedia:User categorisation and Category:Wikipedians by location. -- CComMack, fellow Pennsylvanian, on behalf of the User Categorization Wikiproject
I left a question about this article on its talk page. paul klenk talk 00:26, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi i have noticed that you have edited several articles on subjects related to the Philadelphia area. Several other users and myself have got together to creak a project to help improve, expand, and create articles concerning the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley region. While our project is still new, we are inviting people to join us to help it get started off on the right foot. You can find the project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia, feel free to add your name and drop off an suggestions that you might have. If you have any questions, drop me a line anytime. Thanks. -- Boothy443 | trácht ar 04:26, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
G'day, it seems most of your bot articles do not have the identifier 'USA' in the title, top line, or for that matter anywhere in the first section of the article. Yet wiki guidelines specify this as a point. Would not that be a preferred option, seeing that wikipedia is of places other than USA as well? Just asking vcxlor 22:10, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Any opinion on changing the appearance of geographic reference links? Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities#GR links ( SEWilco 07:16, 6 November 2005 (UTC))
Template:Cc-by-sa-any has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Cc-by-sa-any. Thank you. Since you created that template, I figured you might have an opinion. -- Wcquidditch | Talk 18:23, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Template:Book reference 2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Book reference 2. Thank you. Phil | Talk 15:01, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Sorry for harrasing you again, but could you perhaps generate all (or some) of the rambot articles as txt files and send them to me? We could generate Polish translations easily from those. Ausir 01:30, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Ram-Man
I've been adding to the Largo, Florida page and I'm concerned with all the external links I've added. Is it possible to have too many? I also wonder if the timeline should have a page of his own. Could you take a loo at it?
Thanks,
Mikereichold 01:58, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I am interested in creating pages for ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, the means the United States Census Bureau uses to correspond as closely as possible (where possible) to United States Postal Service ZIP Codes. I know that I can extract the data from the Census Bureau web site, but is there any template or guide as to how to use that infromation to create pages? I'm more than willing to do the work, I am just looking to be pointed in the right direction. Alansohn 15:31, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi -- I just came across this: White_Oak,_Texas and was puzzled by this line in "Geography": "The total area is 0.55% water." I can't seem to make head nor tail of it. Can you help, please? Puffball 20:47, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
A prominent newspaper editor who worked for papers like the New York Daily Mirror named Philip A. Payne lived in West New York, according to an article in the Jan. 29, 2006 Union City Reporter (which I assume was also printed in the Hudson Reporter's other area papers.) There is no article on him as of now, and I have other article I wish to work on, so as a suggestion, if anyone wants to make a one on him, and you want the article as reference, you can see it in full at: http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/9012/philippaynearticle7hw.jpg. You can also begin a section on Noteworthy Residents for that city's page (as I did for Union City), and place him in there. I'm sending this message to all the Wikipedians that I saw on the History page for the West New York article, so you don't have to respond to me about this. Nightscream 00:13, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, Ram-Man. I am trying to massage some census data (ooh, baby) so that we can import it via robot into the Esperanto wikipedia. A resource page at the gazeteer has a database of cities & towns with a county FIPS number. And there's a separate database with counties having a county FIPS number, but the two numbers do not seem to match up. I was hoping for the classic one-to-many relationship (one county has many cities/towns), but I can't see any relationship between the tables there.
I know you have done quite a bit of importing into the English Wikipedia. May I please ask what your source was for the county-city relationship? Thanks for any help. -- Yekrats 20:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Is this town really not in the US Census data; or was there just a hickup in rambot working when it came to this one. I'm asking because a rather bad stub exists for an alternative spelling of the town, Olivesburgh, Ohio, which I came across and was quite surprised to find there was no real article on the correct spelling. I'm sure it's a real place, as google has the standard geographic references to it. Thoughts? JesseW, the juggling janitor 05:53, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Most of the county articles created by Rambot include the line "Census-recognised communities" instead of "Census-recognized communities" (which is the typical U.S. spelling). As the articles should all be in American English... could you add this to the bot's long, long, long to-do list, please? I'm taking care of the Washington counties, but I think the rest may be a bit too much. Thanks... Matt Yeager ♫ ( Talk?) 03:25, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
I was looking for, but not finding, template text that shows how Rambot formats city/town/village/etc. articles. In the spirit of the Wiki, since these are to be regenerated with new census data, it seems like there should be a place where anyone can edit how these generated articles should look.
Here are some suggested changes to the current generated articles:
— Doug Bell talk• contrib 21:04, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
I was noting the lack of articles on the communities of eastern St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, such as Reggio, Delacroix, Hopedale, Shell Beach, and Yscloskey. ("Alluvial City" is listed on some maps, which I think is either an alternative name for Yscloskey or for the general Hopedale/Shell Beach/Yscloskey area.) A number of those places had populations of at least a few hundreds pre-Katrina. I was wondering if this was some Rambot glitch, or if the census lumps them with somewhere else? (If the later, my best guess would be Poydras, Louisiana, as 3,800 seems plausible to me for the area, but as I say, that's just a guess). Do you have any info? Thanks, -- Infrogmation 18:59, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ram-Man! I'm not sure how hard this is to do, but can your bot be programmed to change all New York towns that are hamlets from, hamlet (place) to Administrative divisions of New York#Hamlet
How about adding the 2004 U.S. Census Bureau Estimates only the gross population, not all of the other estimated data.
So take the line that says this:
As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is NUMBER.
Append something like this as the next sentence:
The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that as of 2004 the population is of the city is NUMBER."
I guess this rule should probably be generalized to include all places (city, county, parish, etc.).
Data is [here| http://www.census.gov/popest/datasets.html] (somewhere).
Ram-Man, thank you for your consideration. — MicahDCochran 21:22, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
You may want to read/comment here. I brought your name up (in a positive light) as the creator of many of the U.S. city pages.— MJCdetroit 01:39, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Some time ago, you created the article Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, which someone else has since moved to Mountaintop, Pennsylvania. I think that "Mountain Top" is the correct spelling, although the local newspaper http://www.mteagle.com/index.shtml uses the spelling Mountaintop. I live in Toronto and am not familiar with Pennsylvania geography, so I'm reluctant to move the article back to Mountain Top, Pennsylvania. If the evidence convinces you that the correct spelling is "Mountain Top", could you move the article? You would first have to delete or move to a temp file the current redirect at Mountain Top, Pennsylvania. TruthbringerToronto ( Talk | contribs) 03:58, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Does it matter to the bot (that is, does it affect how well it works)? Does it matter to you -- that is, do you care, personally? Should there be a Wikipedia style rule or recommendation to keep them in a certain spot in each article that rambot creates? I ask all this because I've been moving these sections lower down on the page in the articles for several towns and cities in Fairfield County, Connecticut (see Darien, Connecticut for example). But now I'm being told that it's "Wikipedia style" to keep them up top. There's no such official style that I can find, and if there is going to be a universal "style" or even tradition, it seems to me that those sections should appear low in the article because other, less dry and more interesting sections are better left up top. If you agree with that, or even if you don't care, that helps my position. If you disagree, well, I'd still like to know. So ... whaddaya think? And thanks for creating rambot. Noroton 01:42, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
This image has been nominated on commons for Commons:Quality Images If know of any other images that meet the guidelines please nominate them at Commons:Quality images candidates ... Gnangarra 12:30, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
A bot is currently needed to create articles on US Towns and counties on foreign language wikis. Much of North America is absent from these wikis. Policy has already been adopted in order to counter eurocentric and francocentric editing. ADM
Hey there, I noticed you made the pages for pretty much all the municipalities in Erie County, New York. Just wanted to let you know I created locator maps for the municipalities and a template for Erie County places. Oz Lawyer 18:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if the {{ GR}} link for the county seat on most US County pages is working properly. I thought that it used to link to a reference on county seats, but now it links to a Bulgarian reference (or at least the 6th ref is now this - which is not very helpful). If I do not hear from you in a few days I will post this question on Wikiproject US Counties. Thanks, Ruhrfisch 16:03, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
As you wrote [2], you blocked some IP. I must say, It wasn't mine, because I have bot simnce july, and this IP was bot-active in juny too. JAn Dudík 12:24, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if my question was clear enough. I was asking about whether you agree with promotion decisions made by existing bureaucrats, and what differences of emphasis you would have if you disagreed. I feel taht you have answered indirectly by showing your interest lies in other areas. Stephen B Streater 18:19, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
There was a misunderstanding of question #1. I thought this was in addition to the tasks I stated above. I clarified a bit and hope you reconsider. Morphh 20:33, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
I made an article for Chiques Creek (the USGS approved name since 2002) and then found your Chickie's Creek article. I copied the bridge info to Chiques Creek, made your Chickie's Creek and its redirect both redirects to Chiques Creek, and put a note in the Chiques Creek talk page about your article and the bridge source. I was bold and did not do a merge (do not know how to merge). I hope this is OK. I also nominated Chiques Creek at Did you know? and noted your article there too. Ruhrfisch 16:04, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
I didn't see any explanation of the result of your RfB but I read that you had withdrawn. This surprised me, because your answers persuaded me to move my !vote from neutral to support, and I think you had swayed a lot of others as well. At close, you were at 84% support (excluding neutrals) which I believe should certainly have been a consensus to give you the 'crat flag. What happened? Newyorkbrad 16:09, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, Ram-Man. You are absolutely right. You did not withdraw, since your RfB actually ran to conclusion. It was my mistake. Here's what happened: I had been reviewing the Bot election (where you are a candidate), and, as you know, the deadline there is September 9. Then, when I came around to check on RfA, I saw that your RfB had been closed. When opening it, don't ask me why since I don't know it myself, but I misread the deadline header in ISO format reading "09-07", which, of course, reads "September 7" (and it is linked to the date). But somehow my brain processed "September 9", crossing the wires from the date of the bot election and the number "9" in your deadline. That got me thinking that your RfB had closed 48 hours shy of this alleged deadline I had in mind. I started looking for a post from you withdrawing, but I couldn't find any. Then I saw
this edit summary, plus the fact that VoA had changed the header nearly an hour before I came around without being reverted, and all of this indicated to me, at the time, that you had withdrawn.
Because of this misread, I closed and archived your RfB without assessing the result. I have now, of course, gone back to your RfB and analyzed it. Unfortunately, I did not see a support consensus that would be sufficient to promote to Bureaucratship. I discounted one vote in the "oppose" column, and gave less weight to another opposer who has been registered for less than a month but has a history of valid contributions during this period of time, but the consensus was still around 87%. The standards for promotion to Bureaucratship are a little different from those for Adminship. Generally, a support consensus of at least 90% is required, plus a guideline that needs to be taken into account, especially in close calls: the "no substantial opposition" guideline -- you mentioned Essjay's promotion: his final consensus was actually at 89.97%, although there was substantial opposition, which made it a judgement call that did stir some polemic. But with a final consensus in the vicinities of 87%, we cannot promote to Bureaucratship. But as NoSeptember said in my talk page, if you address the concerns raised by the opposition, a future RfB can indeed be successful.
Unfortunately, I cannot alter the edit summaries where I wrote that you had withdrawn, but I will issue a public statement at WT:RfA rectifying this situation. Please accept my apologies for this misunderstanding on my part. Cheers,
Redux
17:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Welcome to the Bot Approval Group. Its gonna be nice having some help in there! If you like userpage meta icons, feel free to copy or use mine User:Xaosflux/BAG. See ya around! — xaosflux Talk 01:57, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
On this request, it looks like you have approved it for trials, but the discussion also has the close out tags on it, we dont usuually use those until the trials are over as well. — xaosflux Talk 18:15, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
hay VoiceofAll sugested once we aprove a bot let it stay on the page a little before wwe archive Betacommand ( talk • contribs • Bot) 02:07, 11 September 2006 (UTC)