Hi, Rich. Do you think that you could please look into adding {{ More sources}}, {{ Moresources}}, {{ Sources}}, and {{ Refimprove}} to the templates that get date tags placed by SmackBot? -- After Midnight 0001 04:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
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There are quite a few articles directly in Category:Articles lacking reliable references. I think these are tagged with {{ sources}}, {{ refimprove}}, and {{ moresources}} and {{ more sources}}. Could you add these to SmackBot's list if they are not already there? There is a relevant TfD discussion here. CMummert � talk 13:48, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I think, that demanding references or sources in the articles about regional and international organizations with existing official web-sites, already mentioned in the "External links", is excessive. If any organization has its official reliable web-site, it seems to be enough in many cases. Example: Pacific Regional Environment Programme. Ans-mo 13:04, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that Smackbot changes External link to External links without regard to the number of links in the section. If there is only one link, I would prefer the singular to be used. Is there a reason why this is not the case? Catchpole 10:43, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Would you mind adding {{ trivia}} and {{ toomuchtrivia}} (which redirects to the former) to the list of maintenance tags that SmackBot dates? The template was modified recently and monthly categorisation is now possible. I initially brought up the request here, if you want to see more details. Cheers, Black Falcon ( Talk) 22:53, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that SmackBot apparently de-wikilinked the year 2003 in this edit. Unless I misunderstand this, it should not have done that. -- Boracay Bill 23:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
A "{{
prod}}" template has been added to the article
Joey (film), suggesting that it be deleted according to the
proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but yours may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "
What Wikipedia is not" and
Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}}
notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on
its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the
proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the
speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to
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A "{{
prod}}" template has been added to the article
Joey (film), suggesting that it be deleted according to the
proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but yours may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "
What Wikipedia is not" and
Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}}
notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on
its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the
proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the
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[1] [2] Since categories are shown below stubs I think it should keep them there in the markup. -- Jeandré, 2007-06-03 t11:50z
Stopping a malfunctioning bot is not vandalism. Your bot keeps tagging sections as trivia which aren't trivia sections at all. You didn't address that problem at all!! You should see to repairing your bot. -- Maxl 16:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't think SmackBot meant to make the following edits on Fourpeaked Volcano. It seems to have messed up then fixed itsef using AWB. Smackbot then proceeded to add date tags until now. The edits don't seem to mess anything up but they also don't seem necessary. P.Haney 21:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I'm not sure if you care about this or not ... but just to let you know some of the templates on User:Rich_Farmbrough/test are making it show up in the actual categories - for example User:DumbBot has a list of pages incorrectly listed as AFDs - and it's there. Again, you don't actually have to do anything - I just don't want the page to be deleted (since there are deletion nominations on it) and then you have to create it again - so if you still want it you might want to consider substing some of it to stay on the safe side.. daniel folsom 22:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
I see that you are fond of inserting "citation needed" tags to articles. The trouble is that, even when, having encountered such an insertion, one has an appropriate citation up one's sleeve it is exceedingly difficult to see how that citation can be supplied in a manner that would please Your Botship.
Wikipedia:Citation templates -- the article to which, in trying to add a citation, one is eventually lead -- is hardly the most well-meaning-technoramus-friendly article included in the Wikipedia... -- Picapica 13:45, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
This edit [3], with a similar one repeated a few days earlier, resulted in removal of an underscore from a URL, breaking the link. Might want to check up on the rules for that one... GDallimore ( Talk) 13:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
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Editor, I've noticed your contributions to the Providence, Rhode Island article. I've just nominated it for Featured Article status.-- Loodog 15:10, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, just letting you know that SmackBot is doing redundant edits when fixing substed 'fact' templates: it first turns the big substed mess into a proper {{fact}}, and then subsequently replaces that with {{fact|date=...}}; Here's an example: first edit, second edit. Should be an easy fix, but if it's not, nothing's broken anyway. -- intgr #%@! 15:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Is {{ who}} working right now? I think you might have stuck in at least one extra curly bracket. See? {{who|date=99/99/99}} -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 14:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 17:14, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't think it's benefical to substitute Unicode by the actual symbol as it brings no benefits to a reader, but may bring a little of confusion for a Wikipedia editor. If you are not using the latest system (such as Windows Vista, which supports Unicode 5.0) then {{Unicode|₴}} may look like {{Unicode|â¡}} due to missing fonts with the later being even more confusing than the former. ( Smackbot activity) -- Novelbank 18:50, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed your smackbot changed the tagging on article BOOKIT. I do not find the tagging being relevant for the article if you read it in context. Please have a look at it. -- Tradof 08:25, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
I went ahead and took a stab at writing an FAQ on how to generate the list at the top of Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by number of edits. Mind checking it? I've never generated the list, so I may have made a mistake or skipped a step. â Disavian ( talk/ contribs) 19:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
The file to use is the latest version of "stub-meta-history.xml.gz" at http://download.wikimedia.org/. This is 3.6 Gb + so will take some time to download. The simplest thing to do, if you have disk space, is to expand the file using winzip or similar (gzip for linux).
You will need a version of perl installed, if using windows Active PErl is quite good, or the mainstream perl from (I think) www.cpan.org.
Then put this code in a text file called em.. "wbe.pl"
while (<>){if (/<(username|ip)>(.*)<.(username|ip)>/){$hash{$2}++;}}
my @list = sort byedits keys our %hash;
foreach $item (@list) {print "# $item $hash{$item}\n";}
sub byedits {our %hash; $hash{$b} <=> $hash{$a};}
You should then be able to run >perl wbe.pl <stub-meta-history-expanded-filename-whatever-it-is> >> results.txt
This will produce a set of results with the biggest contribs at the top. Take the first however-many-you-want lines and paste them to a wiki page. Bots and admins will not be marked on this version. The version that does mark them (when flagged) is on my dead machine, but may be back "RSN". Rich Farmbrough, 08:50 12 June 2007 (GMT).
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Hi, I noticed the Smackbot is disrupting wikilinks. e.g. Antonov An-12B is being changed to Antonov An-12B where the 'B' is not part of the wikilink. See this. â AA ( talk ⢠contribs) â 16:20, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
SmackBot is making bad edits and removing the article stubs. I am reverting the article. Please leave it alone.
-- Akc9000 21:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
Regarding
this change by SmackBot, it removed underscores from the link to
(____surrounded):, where the underscores were actually intended to be there. Is there a way to avoid having SmackBot do that? (I don't know why the link was previously piped, perhaps that was an effort to avoid this problem. It obviously didn't work, but perhaps it should. Also, the bot might as well have unpiped the link, since it made both sides identical.) Thanks. --
PEJL
20:25, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Did my 'birth and death date template' request ever come to anything? Andy Mabbett 22:53, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Hope this edit is OK. It will aid accessibility. Andy Mabbett 22:53, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich, yes I know it should be Server appliance but I have no idea how to rename it so I built a redirect for it. There are already 11 articles in it. I have been fixing things. Any ideas? I see you are an admin can you rename it? It does not work for me.
-- Akc9000 07:15, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello Rich. Thanks so much for your help. I was wondering if you could look at this article server appliance and tell me if it is still classified as a stub? I just want to be sure before I move on, this is done properly. Thanks! Please leave response here, I am having issues with my talk page. It says edit conflict and I lose what others have said. -- Akc9000 01:32, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Rich. I looked at the def. and it said a sentence or two, so I was not sure. Best Regards, -- Akc9000 12:20, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Dear Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2007 June
Can you guide me in creating a bot. I need the steps and what to use and do. I have already looked at
how to create a bot and need guidence. How do you create one and what programs? Please respond on my talkpage. Thank You! --
Crunch13
PS: Respond on
my talk please --
Crunch13
PS (again): Respond if you can and even if you can't help
Just to let you know that most cleanup templates, like "unreferenced", "fact", "cleanup" etc., are best not "subst"ed. See WP:SUBST for more details. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 09:09 17 June 2007 (GMT).
I don't understand why the SmackBot made this edit to the Mii page. It mostly considered changing wikilinks in such a fasion that, for example "[[Eye|eyes]]" before the edit became "[[eye]]s" after the edit. Surely it is best to use the prior version, as it features the correct wikilink (although I noticed the "(Redirected from 'name X')" text doesn't appear under the page title anymore), and, perhaps, looks a little neater (with the whole word contained within the wikilink)? Either way, what is the reasoning behind these edits? -- Zooba 14:40, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. Appreciate the John Buscema copy edit, though I'm flummoxed as to how you did it when the article is protected. Just wondering, since the piece really does need the protection till a mediation happens. Thanks for any info! -- Tenebrae 10:51, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
You asked me about the subst thing in my merge template placed on the boar page. I tried following the instructions on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Mergeto but I guess I probably did it wrong. Lilac Soul 11:08, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Can you make the template have a date parameter on {{ Not verified}} and then have smackbot update it? I am using the {{ verify}} as used on Northwest Territories general election, 1987. Thanks :) P.S. I think Smackbot is pretty cool. Jeepday ( talk) 03:34, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Broke a link inside a citation template: [5] — Omegatron 06:48, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Left trailing spaces while unlinking year partial dates in DeVry University. Vagary 07:41, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
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You helped us at WP:CHICOTW create and improve List of Chicago Landmarks. This week we have nominated it at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Chicago Landmarks. Feel free to make comments about its candidacy or to come by and help respond to the comments of others. TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 00:29, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I'm from the Math Project. Right now I'm about to write a database for references to facilitate creating, maintaining and using them in WP articles. Right now the child is doing its very first steps, i.e. I'm still working on correct DB design etc. User:KSmrq urged me to contact you about this, so if you are interested, see my post here and also the follow-up discussion here.
Jakob.scholbach 02:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm having a spot of trouble with an poster calling him or herself Fountains of Bryn Mwr. I wonder if you could put your two cents in on this issue. The above mentioned poster has flagged the article for deletion on notability grounds. I pointed out that artists in the same movement with less "notability" have no flags like this. She also flagged the founder of the movment for lack of citations. She then put a flag in my own comment page warning me not to edit my own page! What?!?!? The tag includes an implication of vandalism on my part with a possible ban. I object very strongly to that and to her apparent arbirary self assignment of authority. Thank you. WJBean
Hi, Rich. Do you think that you could please look into adding {{ More sources}}, {{ Moresources}}, {{ Sources}}, and {{ Refimprove}} to the templates that get date tags placed by SmackBot? -- After Midnight 0001 04:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
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There are quite a few articles directly in Category:Articles lacking reliable references. I think these are tagged with {{ sources}}, {{ refimprove}}, and {{ moresources}} and {{ more sources}}. Could you add these to SmackBot's list if they are not already there? There is a relevant TfD discussion here. CMummert � talk 13:48, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I think, that demanding references or sources in the articles about regional and international organizations with existing official web-sites, already mentioned in the "External links", is excessive. If any organization has its official reliable web-site, it seems to be enough in many cases. Example: Pacific Regional Environment Programme. Ans-mo 13:04, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that Smackbot changes External link to External links without regard to the number of links in the section. If there is only one link, I would prefer the singular to be used. Is there a reason why this is not the case? Catchpole 10:43, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Would you mind adding {{ trivia}} and {{ toomuchtrivia}} (which redirects to the former) to the list of maintenance tags that SmackBot dates? The template was modified recently and monthly categorisation is now possible. I initially brought up the request here, if you want to see more details. Cheers, Black Falcon ( Talk) 22:53, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that SmackBot apparently de-wikilinked the year 2003 in this edit. Unless I misunderstand this, it should not have done that. -- Boracay Bill 23:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
A "{{
prod}}" template has been added to the article
Joey (film), suggesting that it be deleted according to the
proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but yours may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "
What Wikipedia is not" and
Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}}
notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on
its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the
proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the
speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to
Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached.
JHunterJ
23:19, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
A "{{
prod}}" template has been added to the article
Joey (film), suggesting that it be deleted according to the
proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but yours may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "
What Wikipedia is not" and
Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}}
notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on
its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the
proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the
speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to
Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached.
JHunterJ
23:19, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
[1] [2] Since categories are shown below stubs I think it should keep them there in the markup. -- Jeandré, 2007-06-03 t11:50z
Stopping a malfunctioning bot is not vandalism. Your bot keeps tagging sections as trivia which aren't trivia sections at all. You didn't address that problem at all!! You should see to repairing your bot. -- Maxl 16:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't think SmackBot meant to make the following edits on Fourpeaked Volcano. It seems to have messed up then fixed itsef using AWB. Smackbot then proceeded to add date tags until now. The edits don't seem to mess anything up but they also don't seem necessary. P.Haney 21:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I'm not sure if you care about this or not ... but just to let you know some of the templates on User:Rich_Farmbrough/test are making it show up in the actual categories - for example User:DumbBot has a list of pages incorrectly listed as AFDs - and it's there. Again, you don't actually have to do anything - I just don't want the page to be deleted (since there are deletion nominations on it) and then you have to create it again - so if you still want it you might want to consider substing some of it to stay on the safe side.. daniel folsom 22:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
I see that you are fond of inserting "citation needed" tags to articles. The trouble is that, even when, having encountered such an insertion, one has an appropriate citation up one's sleeve it is exceedingly difficult to see how that citation can be supplied in a manner that would please Your Botship.
Wikipedia:Citation templates -- the article to which, in trying to add a citation, one is eventually lead -- is hardly the most well-meaning-technoramus-friendly article included in the Wikipedia... -- Picapica 13:45, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
This edit [3], with a similar one repeated a few days earlier, resulted in removal of an underscore from a URL, breaking the link. Might want to check up on the rules for that one... GDallimore ( Talk) 13:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
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Editor, I've noticed your contributions to the Providence, Rhode Island article. I've just nominated it for Featured Article status.-- Loodog 15:10, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, just letting you know that SmackBot is doing redundant edits when fixing substed 'fact' templates: it first turns the big substed mess into a proper {{fact}}, and then subsequently replaces that with {{fact|date=...}}; Here's an example: first edit, second edit. Should be an easy fix, but if it's not, nothing's broken anyway. -- intgr #%@! 15:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Is {{ who}} working right now? I think you might have stuck in at least one extra curly bracket. See? {{who|date=99/99/99}} -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 14:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 17:14, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't think it's benefical to substitute Unicode by the actual symbol as it brings no benefits to a reader, but may bring a little of confusion for a Wikipedia editor. If you are not using the latest system (such as Windows Vista, which supports Unicode 5.0) then {{Unicode|₴}} may look like {{Unicode|â¡}} due to missing fonts with the later being even more confusing than the former. ( Smackbot activity) -- Novelbank 18:50, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed your smackbot changed the tagging on article BOOKIT. I do not find the tagging being relevant for the article if you read it in context. Please have a look at it. -- Tradof 08:25, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
I went ahead and took a stab at writing an FAQ on how to generate the list at the top of Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by number of edits. Mind checking it? I've never generated the list, so I may have made a mistake or skipped a step. â Disavian ( talk/ contribs) 19:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
The file to use is the latest version of "stub-meta-history.xml.gz" at http://download.wikimedia.org/. This is 3.6 Gb + so will take some time to download. The simplest thing to do, if you have disk space, is to expand the file using winzip or similar (gzip for linux).
You will need a version of perl installed, if using windows Active PErl is quite good, or the mainstream perl from (I think) www.cpan.org.
Then put this code in a text file called em.. "wbe.pl"
while (<>){if (/<(username|ip)>(.*)<.(username|ip)>/){$hash{$2}++;}}
my @list = sort byedits keys our %hash;
foreach $item (@list) {print "# $item $hash{$item}\n";}
sub byedits {our %hash; $hash{$b} <=> $hash{$a};}
You should then be able to run >perl wbe.pl <stub-meta-history-expanded-filename-whatever-it-is> >> results.txt
This will produce a set of results with the biggest contribs at the top. Take the first however-many-you-want lines and paste them to a wiki page. Bots and admins will not be marked on this version. The version that does mark them (when flagged) is on my dead machine, but may be back "RSN". Rich Farmbrough, 08:50 12 June 2007 (GMT).
Source of the the joint collection was provided in bold letters. and since this is itself a debut of reference work, no other reference at present is available except the link to the original article is provided.
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Hi, I noticed the Smackbot is disrupting wikilinks. e.g. Antonov An-12B is being changed to Antonov An-12B where the 'B' is not part of the wikilink. See this. â AA ( talk ⢠contribs) â 16:20, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
SmackBot is making bad edits and removing the article stubs. I am reverting the article. Please leave it alone.
-- Akc9000 21:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
Regarding
this change by SmackBot, it removed underscores from the link to
(____surrounded):, where the underscores were actually intended to be there. Is there a way to avoid having SmackBot do that? (I don't know why the link was previously piped, perhaps that was an effort to avoid this problem. It obviously didn't work, but perhaps it should. Also, the bot might as well have unpiped the link, since it made both sides identical.) Thanks. --
PEJL
20:25, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Did my 'birth and death date template' request ever come to anything? Andy Mabbett 22:53, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Hope this edit is OK. It will aid accessibility. Andy Mabbett 22:53, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich, yes I know it should be Server appliance but I have no idea how to rename it so I built a redirect for it. There are already 11 articles in it. I have been fixing things. Any ideas? I see you are an admin can you rename it? It does not work for me.
-- Akc9000 07:15, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello Rich. Thanks so much for your help. I was wondering if you could look at this article server appliance and tell me if it is still classified as a stub? I just want to be sure before I move on, this is done properly. Thanks! Please leave response here, I am having issues with my talk page. It says edit conflict and I lose what others have said. -- Akc9000 01:32, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Rich. I looked at the def. and it said a sentence or two, so I was not sure. Best Regards, -- Akc9000 12:20, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Dear Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2007 June
Can you guide me in creating a bot. I need the steps and what to use and do. I have already looked at
how to create a bot and need guidence. How do you create one and what programs? Please respond on my talkpage. Thank You! --
Crunch13
PS: Respond on
my talk please --
Crunch13
PS (again): Respond if you can and even if you can't help
Just to let you know that most cleanup templates, like "unreferenced", "fact", "cleanup" etc., are best not "subst"ed. See WP:SUBST for more details. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 09:09 17 June 2007 (GMT).
I don't understand why the SmackBot made this edit to the Mii page. It mostly considered changing wikilinks in such a fasion that, for example "[[Eye|eyes]]" before the edit became "[[eye]]s" after the edit. Surely it is best to use the prior version, as it features the correct wikilink (although I noticed the "(Redirected from 'name X')" text doesn't appear under the page title anymore), and, perhaps, looks a little neater (with the whole word contained within the wikilink)? Either way, what is the reasoning behind these edits? -- Zooba 14:40, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Rich. Appreciate the John Buscema copy edit, though I'm flummoxed as to how you did it when the article is protected. Just wondering, since the piece really does need the protection till a mediation happens. Thanks for any info! -- Tenebrae 10:51, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
You asked me about the subst thing in my merge template placed on the boar page. I tried following the instructions on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Mergeto but I guess I probably did it wrong. Lilac Soul 11:08, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Can you make the template have a date parameter on {{ Not verified}} and then have smackbot update it? I am using the {{ verify}} as used on Northwest Territories general election, 1987. Thanks :) P.S. I think Smackbot is pretty cool. Jeepday ( talk) 03:34, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Broke a link inside a citation template: [5] — Omegatron 06:48, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Left trailing spaces while unlinking year partial dates in DeVry University. Vagary 07:41, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
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You helped us at WP:CHICOTW create and improve List of Chicago Landmarks. This week we have nominated it at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Chicago Landmarks. Feel free to make comments about its candidacy or to come by and help respond to the comments of others. TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 00:29, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I'm from the Math Project. Right now I'm about to write a database for references to facilitate creating, maintaining and using them in WP articles. Right now the child is doing its very first steps, i.e. I'm still working on correct DB design etc. User:KSmrq urged me to contact you about this, so if you are interested, see my post here and also the follow-up discussion here.
Jakob.scholbach 02:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm having a spot of trouble with an poster calling him or herself Fountains of Bryn Mwr. I wonder if you could put your two cents in on this issue. The above mentioned poster has flagged the article for deletion on notability grounds. I pointed out that artists in the same movement with less "notability" have no flags like this. She also flagged the founder of the movment for lack of citations. She then put a flag in my own comment page warning me not to edit my own page! What?!?!? The tag includes an implication of vandalism on my part with a possible ban. I object very strongly to that and to her apparent arbirary self assignment of authority. Thank you. WJBean