Hey Rich, I've tried to add sourcing on a topic " The Sorrows of Satan" which your smackbot said was missing attribution on a fact. That's an impressive bot by the way - how did you programme it to look for missing attributions?! I'm not sure I've added the footnote correctly. (It's not appeared at the bottom of the page of the article). If you could give me a tip on how to put it right, and if the attribution is acceptable to you, I'd be grateful. Coricus 04:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I turned the bot off for the moment, with a note. The issue of the fact tags and the category involving articles which contain one or more fact tags is currently under DRV at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_February_20. It appears there are broader implications involved, some of which I've brought up in the DRV, that will require participation by interested members of the larger community. Look's like it'll take another week to ten days to sort this through. That said, very nice work with the bot, in general. I've appreciated seeing it attend to "unreferenced" and cleanup templates and other such matters. ... Kenosis 17:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello, in this edit, User:Smackbot removed the wikilinks of the section headings as part of its other cleanup duties. I will add those back, as they are useful in that article, but just wanted to drop a note. Thx. — MrDolomite • Talk 17:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
To: Rich Farmbrough, Kenosis
From: Kevinkor2
Currently, Rich, your bot is expanding {{fact}}
by adding the current month, resulting in {{Fact|date=February 2007}}.
Kenosis, whenever you see this on the Truth, Pragmatism, and a few other articles, you revert it. As you noted at User talk:Rich Farmbrough#Automated fact-tag tagging, it would be useful to have fact dating/nondating under control of an article's editors.
I suggest we adopt one of three possible compromises:
{{fact}}
to {{fact|date=}} for facts where we do not know an accurate date.{{nobots}}
to the top of the article.{{fact}}
tag to give it the correct date.I recommmend the first alternative. -- Kevinkor2 17:43, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I notice you have edited many templates (states) and changed the capitalization in the category/subject heading, i.e., Largest Towns, you've changed to Largest towns. On what basis are you making these changes? Is there a Wiki guideline addressing this that you know of? If so please point me to it, and if not I would and do argue against you making these wholesale changes. As an example, the main category/subject header of many of these templates is: State of Someplace, and you leave state capitalized (which it should be), but then in the sub-categories where the important element, for instance, Town, is modified by a limiter, Largest, you de-emphasize the element being delineated by removing the capitalization of that important word. These are not sentences, and should not follow sentence capitalization rules. They are instead to be considered headers or even titles, and the rules for that typically allow, even instruct, that important words should be capitalized while unimportant articles and prepositions should not be, UNLESS those articles or prepositions appear at the start of the title/phrase, so State of Someplace, and Largest Towns, would both be correct, but State Of Someplace, and largest Towns, would not be correct. To repeat what I am objecting to in your edits of these templates, the word Largest is capitalized since it begins the phrase, but the word Towns should also remain capitalized as that word IS the name of the category and certainly the important word in the title/phrase. JackME 20:41, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
RE YOUR COMMENT ON MY TALK:All the tags where you've removed "February" as wrong were added in February. The one by "causal loop" where you've left the date of February was added on the 26th of January. Rgds, Rich Farmbrough, 00:15 24 February 2007 (GMT).
What's with this diff? It apparently caused the editor to mistakenly message me. -- Gwern (contribs) 08:25 24 February 2007 (GMT)
An editor is pulling a category from Health effects of September 11, 2001 attacks. He is doing this on a daily basis, so it doesn't break three revert rule. How do I get semi-protect status or mediation? Thanks. Dogru144 01:03, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I have added a "{{
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proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "
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For editwarring with your own bot on Vyacheslav Sychev (sorry but I had to delete the article). Gave me a good laugh. Too much of this? CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:54, 25 February 2007 (UTC) |
Why did you delete "Other Factors" ? futurebird 18:11, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Rich, how did you add the "date=February 2007" attribute to the requests for citation in the Demographic estimates of the German exodus from Eastern Europe ? I thought the article was protected from editing. -- Lysy talk 18:58, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. -- Rrburke( talk) 21:31, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the positive feedback - slowly working my way backwards through the alphabet to assess all those unrated biographies. Going to take me ages to get all the way back through X, however.
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Well, not really! I was inspired by your note
here, which I unfortunately read in diff, so missed 'Fact-now' until this moment. (and apparently got the wrong sense entirely as well, as what I THOUGHT I'd read you suggesting, isn't, quite as complicated as what you meant.) Sigh! Alas, I have since developed
Template:DATE(
talk
links
history), {after some initial testing in {{
X4}} and {{
X5}} about three hours ago) which has lot in common with
Template:Tlx(
talk
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history), but has one virtue... it's extensible to all the other administrative templates which like to see the stray 'date=' definition. Unlike fact now, DATE will yell (shout!) at the user for not substituting it.
See: date=May 2009 <BSEG>!
OTOH, it also works (finally), albeit, there may be a more elegant way than it's sub-template. {{
fact-now}}
seems like it might add problems if not substituted... there's a split in the what links here list, at the least. In any event, I bequeath to you {{
DATE}}
(and it's loyal sidekick
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talk
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history)) which can be used in merge and copyedit and all that stuff that uses the parameter 'date=', iirc.
I'm imagining the consternation that will occur in mainspace when that big text error message blasts off a preview screen where someone has forgot to substitute it... might want to take
Template:Error:not substituted(
talk
links
history), copy it to {{
error:not substituted2}}, and downsize that font selection. Best regards //
Fra
nkB
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{{
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... looks to me even if the subst's work, the code just adds an empty 'else' to the #if: block... so just exits having done nothing. Otoh, your logic was using the old if statements, and that's not something I've experience with. So be advised I also changed those to the new parserfunctions. The use of switch as it is employed seems a bit strange as well. And then there is the overall flow and braces nesting, which needs a bit more analysis coupled with understanding of what is happening when.
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, 19:19 27 February 2007 (GMT).
Smackbot removed html entity … (ellipses: "…") from Veganism. Not quite sure why, didn't see any mention of it on Smackbot's pages. Kellen T 12:49, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
I shut off Smack Bot and I figured I should tell you why. It tagged the articles Torrasque and Hunter Killer (StarCraft) as being unsourced. Technically, they were sourced. However, they have sources. They are only primary sources. Because you said on the bot userpage to shut it off if it looks like something may have gone wrong, I shut it off. Sorry if that was what it was supposed to do that. I just figured I'd do it just in case. Captain panda In vino veritas 13:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, your bot has been tagging {{fact}} with "date=February 2007" as early as this morning (March 2).. you may wish to update that, since February only has 28 days, and my belief is that it's got a bug. -- KirinX 15:17, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
In reference to the
William A. Spinks article (at least): you or one of your bots, with an edit summary that mentioned "Ced Date fragments" (a phase unfamiliar to me), de-wikilined a large number of dates, and then also make rather inexplicable location wikilink changes that introduced gross redundancies, e.g.
Los Angeles, California ⇒
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I don't understand. I thought header areas should be simple statements. The whole article was substantially unreferenced and brief - I expanded it and referenced it carefully but largely left the header section seemed legit (it been changed since then but I still see no particular problem) but smackbot tagged it as needing references. There doesn't seem to be an controversy in the header to me and references might be distracting and largely depend on the substance of the article anyway. Please explain. I'm also not sure if this should be here or at smackbot's talk page but since you are who would explain....-- Smkolins 23:00, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the clarification; I'll edit in line with that in future. (I don't like to turn "bots" off in my Watchlist because occasionally they do things that I need to tidy up.) -- Mel Etitis ( Talk) 17:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
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Definitely not notable. Links only to a single other article, another wrestler in the 'KWA', a "short lived wrestling promotion" - it is not notable. Not to mention the incorrect name/conflict with an existing article named David Robertson. Jammy Simpson | Talk | 11:32, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to work on items at Category:ISSN_needed.
Keesiewonder talk 13:31, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I see your bot at work daily fixing tags and such--good job! I was just wondering if it's OK that lately I've taken to not adding the date to tags, knowing that shortly your bot will come along and fix it. Does saving my energy as a wikiresource somehow get canceled out by wasting your bot's energy/server space/whatever? Keep up the good work. Katr67 17:26, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Smackbot recently edited Radiation hormesis and changed "fact" to "Fact." in all but one instance (where it added a date). Is it really necessary to change "fact" to "Fact?" would it have made an edit if this was the only change? Pdbailey 20:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I don't know how else to change the link to point to the correct discussion page - it's not in the standard autogenerated location. The Transhumanist (AWB) 16:21, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
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Sometimes the date parameter is added to merge tags without "date=" and SmackBot then adds the date parameter again to the merge tag but with "date=". This causes the Discuss link to redirect to the Month/Year page of the date, as here: [1] Can this be fixed? Squids' and' Chips 01:34, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Is there a reason why SmackBot changes {{fact|Date=March 2007}} to {{Fact|date=March 2007}}? [2] I keep an eye on some articles by watching my user contributions page, if they're not high-priority enough to be on my watchlist, and having SmackBot change such minor things as in-tag capitalization means that those articles are no longer listed as "top" on my user contributions. LastChanceToBe 21:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
I thought that you might be interested in a racially disturbing pattern of edits by an editor that has erased article sections pertaining to the common human heritage in Africa. User:Dbachmann is the editor in question. Please see his edits under African people. Dogru144 13:10, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Thank you for quickly getting back to me. The particular edits that disturbed me were the following:
However, Dbachmann removed the following without reinserting (elsewhere in the article) the comment of common human heritage from Africa. (This was the first of several edits on 9 March 2007 on African people.
The removed material follows immediately:
The term African people encompasses several kinds of people; it is most commonly used to describe people who can trace their ancestry to the indigenous inhabitants of the continent of Africa (in fact, scientific evidence points to the fact that all humans originated in Africa), but it is also sometimes used to describe all people who live in Africa, regardless of ancestry.
He gave the justification for this in the edit box, "BC history is anachronistic. Substantively, his removal of certain history represents a diminuition of certain groups at the expense of others. The region of Turkestan has a rich history prior to the 8th Century CE. This is amply documented in books, standard encyclopedia articles, and major museum artistic displays. The removed material follows:
Turkestan has a rich history, dating back to the second and third millenia BC. Many artifacts were produced in that period, and much trade was conducted. The region was a focal point for cultural diffusion, as the Silk Road traversed it.
The removed material immediately follows:
Successive external powers have held the region. Greeks, under Alexander the Great, held the area fom 327 BCE to 150 BC. </ref> Huns conquered the area after they conquered Kashgaria in the early 2nd century BCE. With the dissolution of the Huns' empire, Chinese rulers took over Eastern Turkestan. [1] [Arab]] forces captured it in the 8th Century. The Persian Samanid dynasty subsequently conquered it and the area experienced economic success. [2] Dogru144 13:41, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
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Thank you for copyeditng this article. Could you look over Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) - I am trying to improve this to GA and reviewer asked for a further copyedit with dates and such (I am not a native English speaker, and I primarily create content, not polish it). Thanks, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 21:35, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't quite agree with you and the "tag" about "notability" of the Jayne Ann Krentz article. I'm not the creator of that one. I just translated it into Spanish. Would you please read the discussion in that page in order to see if there was a mistake of the bot or anything?. Thank you.-- Joanenglish 02:15, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Than you for your messenge. I'm sorry I though it was you. I apologize.-- Joanenglish 15:19, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Is there one? Someone just uploaded an image of a magazine for which I have not been able to locate an ISSN ... you can see the bar code digits on the image ... ? ... Thanks for your help! -- Keesiewonder talk 12:13, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Question about someone's having sprinkled several articles, including Homelessness with external links to a specific orgranisation, intelligentgiving.com, and if it looks okay to you. See the user's ( User:Jtuulian) contributions Special:Contributions/Jtuulian and have a look. Something feels uneasy about it. But perhaps it's just me. I'd really like to ask for your thoughts on the matter. Thanks and Best Wishes. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 14:48, 12 March 2007 (UTC) ( talk)
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Hi Rich. Why did you delink the dates on Mpemba effect? Is there a wiki policy somewhere I should know about?
Best wishes, Robinh 14:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
Thanks for looking at my articles. The article for the Biomolecular Object Network DataBANK was an assignment for a university class; however, my partner accidentally started the article entitled DataBASE so we we're hoping that article could be deleted. The content of the 2 articles is the same, but the DataBASE article is incorrectly titled. The goal of the article was to provide an overview of a current bioinformatics resource.
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First, thanks for the copyedit of the Soviet invasion - the article is now a GA. Second, if in som espare time you could look over History of Poland (1945-1989) - some users commented that this FA (now on FARC) needs a copyedit - it would be much appreciated.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 18:03, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. I was not aware of that. Corvus cornix 18:21, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to gather a consensus on whether Orphan tags are necessary on wikipedia.
Please go to the page Template talk:Orphan and fill in you opinion under the heading Please give you opinion on the Orphan tag below area of the page. Thanks Dreamweaverjack 22:36, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Apparently there is a problem with SmackBot's "Date/fix maintenance tags" process, in which an undated {{ fact}} tag is replaced with a dated one. Based on an 8 February 2007 bot-edit done to Satellite of Love (MST3K) ( [4]), such a tag inside an HTML <ref> element does not get properly processed, leaving template parameters unsubstituted and the template usage itself mangled. (I've manually fixed the problem for that article.) I'm not sure how common this problem is, so I felt uncomfortable stopping the bot by leaving a note on its talk page. Please review this situation to see how it might be avoided. Thank you. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi... I anticipate you're going to leave me a well-deserved message telling me merge templates shouldn't be substed, so I'm here to save you the trouble. Mea culpa. Next time, forty lashes with a wet noodle. I'll look and see if I've made the same mistake elsewhere. Cheers. -- Rrburke( talk) 11:28, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Do you agree with and/or understand why the following are blacklisted?
"isbn-check\.com, books-by-isbn\.com, isbn-check\.de"
I had the first one on my user page, and received warning about it upon trying to save unrelated edits to my page. I used 'nowiki' ... for now.
Keesiewonder talk 02:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Here is the original complaint that User:81.211.181.164 sent to Naconkantari:
these 3 websites are present in many wikis, mainly in the 'Wikipedia:Book sources' special pages (just removed from it.wiki ). If you search a book, the websites are always redirecting to Amazon (pay-per-link system). The same system is adopted by isbndb.com (Amazon and others). Probably the special pages related to Special:Booksources are full of this kind of spam in every wiki. --81.211.181.164 00:05, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
the 3 websites on the topic title belong to the same author: he is making money with the "referral profiteering" system (when you get a book description then the links are pointing to amazon). Links are mainly in the "Wikipedia:Book sources" pages on several wikis, for example: en, fr, es, fi, it, de. It is allowed to make money in this way? --81.211.176.241 00:21, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Follow-up: There is now a removal request in place at [5] on the Talk page of the Spam Blacklist at meta.wikimedia.org, but it may be a hard sell. (The request has already been turned down once, though the first attempt may not have given enough reasons). Any ideas for what to do next would be welcome. EdJohnston 02:09, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello Rich. See [6] for this issue and on another matter see [7] for the scary possibility that links from WP articles to Amazon would be disallowed. EdJohnston 03:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
I operate a similar bot in HuWiki for timestamping maintenance tags. It currently has a lot of hardwired things and I'm in the process of generalizing it, so that its easier to support new templates and timestamp all tags by just one look at the page history.
Could you share the source for your bot? I believe it would help me a lot when working on my code.
Thanks, nyenyec ☎ 16:20, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
SmackBot seems to be removing wikilinks from subtitles. This may be mandated by
WP:MOS, although I do not know if this can be automated.
A more serious issue is, that the bot is also remowing images from subtitles. This led to awful results in
this edit, that still have not been corrected. In short, -
Germany - was replaced with - 22px Germany -. --
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P.S. Using the template {{
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I have a question. You made a small change (I think) to one of my user boxes, which didn't appear (at least to me) to do anything. In fact, and maybe it's because I havn't had coffee yet, I can't even detect what you changed, lol. If it's not too much trouble, could you teach me, in a sentence or two, what you did and why? Thanx Sue Rangell[ citation needed 18:20, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
This last is what I think you did with a userbox. Therefore the category that should have only applied to the userbox was applied to your page as well. You are not the only person to do this, by a long way! Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 12:40 20 March 2007 (GMT).
Inn the page 9.6_year_cycle_of_lynx_abundance you have posted that the references are inadequate. Please put your reasons on the talk page of that article. They look fine to me. Ray Tomes 05:25, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Citation is already given in article quoted at end of paragraph - see FWMD discussion for details - SmackBot is getting over-enthusiastic.
Hi Rich. Do you think the "Homeless Hero" YouTube reference in the Homelessness article is appropriate for WP ? Your thoughts appreciated. Best. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 00:49, 20 March 2007 (UTC) ( talk)
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Hi Rich/SmackBot,
thanks for your help on the Glen E. Friedman article. i have found the citations you requested but don't know how to properly format them. (sorry i'm a bit of a newbie) do you mind doing them for the article?
the first one requested was for the line:
"A consummate artist and political activist, he shuns intoxicants, and follows a strict vegan diet"
Can be seen in many places. The 1st two sources i have are:
Herbivore magazine, fall 2003 which is archived at http://www.southern.com/BURNINGFLAGS/press/herbivore.php
and also on
the PETA2 web pages in an interview http://www.peta2.com/outthere/o-glenfried.asp
the second one requested:
"His photos are said to reflect the spirit of progression and angst that defined an era" this came from SkateBoarder magazine, May 1997, PhotoEnergy by Michele Lockwood the original is archived at http://www.southern.net/BURNINGFLAGS/press/skateboarder.html
the third one requested :
"Friedman has helped define the moment and movements he was caught up in" this came from DAZED& CONFUSED magazine, issue#11 1995 p.46 and has been used many places since in other articles. The original is archived on http://www.southern.com/BURNINGFLAGS/press/dazed.html
the fourth one requested :
"His process was much more incendiary than it was documentary" this came from "HUH magazine, November 1994 and has been used many places since in other articles. The original is archived at http://www.southern.net/BURNINGFLAGS/press/huh.html
and further spots where i saw a citation was asked for:
on the time line:
1990 citation - this came from WARP magazine, Feb 1995, "Glen E. Friedman - Photos from the Edge" by Ian Christie The original is archived at: http://www.southern.com/BURNINGFLAGS/press/warp.html
1994 citation - this came from Glen E. Friedman bio on the burningflags.com webpages at
http://www.southern.net/BURNINGFLAGS/bio
1997 citation - this came from the main page of the burning flags.com website that is dedicated to the work and information on this artist. the URL for all the shows listed is at :
http://www.southern.com/BURNINGFLAGS/main.php
and on that page there are also URL's for each of the city shows mentioned individually.
on Published Quotes of Interest about Friedman:
Los Angeles Times - 21 November 2002
ART section
It's all about attitude, Rebels keep finding their way into Glen E. Friedman's viewfinder.
By Keith Hamm
Washington Post - 21 may 2000
Here and Now - Art
By Pete L. Zanko
THANK YOU again.
Hi Rich: I came across the Satan and Adam entry this afternoon and saw that you were the most recent contributor. I'm delighted to know somebody's taken the trouble to write us up, but it's definitely undersourced. I'm not a Wikipedia person and have no idea how to add sourcing, but I did manage, from memory and with the help of some googling, to find some basic sourcing material, which I'll paste below. I'm sure that some of it doesn't meet the reliability criterion. Maybe you could get back to me with some word of whether this stuff helps. Thanks. Adam Gussow (agussow@olemiss.edu) 216.119.179.229 22:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Satan and Adam – some sources I think I can point you towards
For general information on Satan and Adam, esp “Gussow left New York several times….”: My own book, Mister Satan’s Apprentice: A Blues Memoir (New York: Pantheon, 1998)
Entries in All Music Guide to the Blues (not sure of the editor; Rich Skelley’s quote is from this, I believe) and Big Book of Blues, ed. Bob Santelli.
Paul Winley and the Harlem Underground; “Get in My Arms Little Girl”; “Freedom For My People” from Rattle & Hum – can google this
Satan and Adam cover story in Living Blues: http://www.livingblues.com/product_information.php?product=96&productlink=yes&search=&page=2&title=Issue_129
“After a long silence…..Boca Ciega….”: http://indangerousrhythm.blogspot.com/2006/03/adam-gussow-mister-satans-apprentice.html
Some published information on Sterling Magee’s recent career and “Five Fingers Magee”: http://www.sptimes.com/2005/11/27/Neighborhoodtimes/Musician_rekindling_a.shtml
It seems like one of SmackBot's functions is to remove markup for links that refer to the current article. However, mediawiki seems to render the first occurrence of the subject text as bold whether it is marked up with triple quotes or double square braces. Some articles have utilised this mediawiki 'feature', and in those cases SmackBot seems to remove the link markup instead of replacing it with bold markup. For an example of this see Uranium Glass (01:24 20-Mar-2007) Mister Farkas 17:53, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello Rich. I noticed that SmackBot added date to a "Wikify" tag. But it also changed the punctation in the whole page. It doesn't seem to make sense. See the diff. Is it supposed to do this? Thanks in advance. -- Ysangkok 16:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
The bot cleaned-up a page "Eric's Extension" that I had added a mergeto boiler to. It added a date to the tag. What is weird is that the boiler wouldn't appear on the bot's cleaned-up page. I reedited the page, just by adding a space and return to top of the page before the boiler and now the boiler appears. No real changes were made. (This isn't a caching issue I checked that.) In the history though the bot-edited page shows the mergeto tag. I don't know what's going on here. You might want to manually check some of the bot-edited pages to see if the boilers aren't displaying after the bot cleans things up. Jason Quinn 22:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
On this edit - why did the bot move the location of the {{ ref}} tags in the table? Also it seems to be having trouble with comments. Gimmetrow 16:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey there.
You recently made the following statement at the Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw talk page reasoning why it has the Articles with unsourced statements tag:
Because of this statement
"The J-K Conspiracy is a movie produced by Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw, directed by Chainsaw, and released in 2005. It stars the entire show, plus a number of celebrities (such as Bob Costas, Doug Flutie, Don Rickles, and Laura Schlessinger) and several notable listeners (including Listener Lex, Commander Butch, and Quiet-Talking James)"
I am wondering which part must be sourced. On the iMDB, it lists everyone listed as actors in the movie. This way we can fix the problem and have the tag removed. -- Raderick 03:08, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I put a couple of hours in changing The Office (US TV series) to The Office (U.S. TV series) only be have it moved backed to its original title for what strikes me as a quite nonsensical policy of "US" being the abbreviation of choice in article titles. I've never waded into the arena of Wikipedia style policy before but, as silly as this may sound, this bugged me enough that I'd like to change it. I notced the discussion over at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (abbreviations) is dated from November so I was curious if there had been a change in policy or what the next step is.
Thanks for your help and time, Jarfingle 09:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I think SmackBot is editing while not logged in. Please see 172.146.36.39 ( talk · contribs). The IP has been blocked for 24 hours. J Milburn 18:30, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your cooperation regarding SmackBot. -- Ysangkok 11:10, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey Rich, I've tried to add sourcing on a topic " The Sorrows of Satan" which your smackbot said was missing attribution on a fact. That's an impressive bot by the way - how did you programme it to look for missing attributions?! I'm not sure I've added the footnote correctly. (It's not appeared at the bottom of the page of the article). If you could give me a tip on how to put it right, and if the attribution is acceptable to you, I'd be grateful. Coricus 04:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich. I turned the bot off for the moment, with a note. The issue of the fact tags and the category involving articles which contain one or more fact tags is currently under DRV at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_February_20. It appears there are broader implications involved, some of which I've brought up in the DRV, that will require participation by interested members of the larger community. Look's like it'll take another week to ten days to sort this through. That said, very nice work with the bot, in general. I've appreciated seeing it attend to "unreferenced" and cleanup templates and other such matters. ... Kenosis 17:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello, in this edit, User:Smackbot removed the wikilinks of the section headings as part of its other cleanup duties. I will add those back, as they are useful in that article, but just wanted to drop a note. Thx. — MrDolomite • Talk 17:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
To: Rich Farmbrough, Kenosis
From: Kevinkor2
Currently, Rich, your bot is expanding {{fact}}
by adding the current month, resulting in {{Fact|date=February 2007}}.
Kenosis, whenever you see this on the Truth, Pragmatism, and a few other articles, you revert it. As you noted at User talk:Rich Farmbrough#Automated fact-tag tagging, it would be useful to have fact dating/nondating under control of an article's editors.
I suggest we adopt one of three possible compromises:
{{fact}}
to {{fact|date=}} for facts where we do not know an accurate date.{{nobots}}
to the top of the article.{{fact}}
tag to give it the correct date.I recommmend the first alternative. -- Kevinkor2 17:43, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I notice you have edited many templates (states) and changed the capitalization in the category/subject heading, i.e., Largest Towns, you've changed to Largest towns. On what basis are you making these changes? Is there a Wiki guideline addressing this that you know of? If so please point me to it, and if not I would and do argue against you making these wholesale changes. As an example, the main category/subject header of many of these templates is: State of Someplace, and you leave state capitalized (which it should be), but then in the sub-categories where the important element, for instance, Town, is modified by a limiter, Largest, you de-emphasize the element being delineated by removing the capitalization of that important word. These are not sentences, and should not follow sentence capitalization rules. They are instead to be considered headers or even titles, and the rules for that typically allow, even instruct, that important words should be capitalized while unimportant articles and prepositions should not be, UNLESS those articles or prepositions appear at the start of the title/phrase, so State of Someplace, and Largest Towns, would both be correct, but State Of Someplace, and largest Towns, would not be correct. To repeat what I am objecting to in your edits of these templates, the word Largest is capitalized since it begins the phrase, but the word Towns should also remain capitalized as that word IS the name of the category and certainly the important word in the title/phrase. JackME 20:41, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
RE YOUR COMMENT ON MY TALK:All the tags where you've removed "February" as wrong were added in February. The one by "causal loop" where you've left the date of February was added on the 26th of January. Rgds, Rich Farmbrough, 00:15 24 February 2007 (GMT).
What's with this diff? It apparently caused the editor to mistakenly message me. -- Gwern (contribs) 08:25 24 February 2007 (GMT)
An editor is pulling a category from Health effects of September 11, 2001 attacks. He is doing this on a daily basis, so it doesn't break three revert rule. How do I get semi-protect status or mediation? Thanks. Dogru144 01:03, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I have added a "{{
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4AM Miracle, suggesting that it be deleted according to the
proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "
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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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For editwarring with your own bot on Vyacheslav Sychev (sorry but I had to delete the article). Gave me a good laugh. Too much of this? CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:54, 25 February 2007 (UTC) |
Why did you delete "Other Factors" ? futurebird 18:11, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Rich, how did you add the "date=February 2007" attribute to the requests for citation in the Demographic estimates of the German exodus from Eastern Europe ? I thought the article was protected from editing. -- Lysy talk 18:58, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. -- Rrburke( talk) 21:31, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the positive feedback - slowly working my way backwards through the alphabet to assess all those unrated biographies. Going to take me ages to get all the way back through X, however.
Smackbot fixed a minor error I left when I added a message to Wellesley College. Thanks for writing/running it! -- Scouttle 00:56, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
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Well, not really! I was inspired by your note
here, which I unfortunately read in diff, so missed 'Fact-now' until this moment. (and apparently got the wrong sense entirely as well, as what I THOUGHT I'd read you suggesting, isn't, quite as complicated as what you meant.) Sigh! Alas, I have since developed
Template:DATE(
talk
links
history), {after some initial testing in {{
X4}} and {{
X5}} about three hours ago) which has lot in common with
Template:Tlx(
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See: date=May 2009 <BSEG>!
OTOH, it also works (finally), albeit, there may be a more elegant way than it's sub-template. {{
fact-now}}
seems like it might add problems if not substituted... there's a split in the what links here list, at the least. In any event, I bequeath to you {{
DATE}}
(and it's loyal sidekick
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I'm imagining the consternation that will occur in mainspace when that big text error message blasts off a preview screen where someone has forgot to substitute it... might want to take
Template:Error:not substituted(
talk
links
history), copy it to {{
error:not substituted2}}, and downsize that font selection. Best regards //
Fra
nkB
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{{
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... looks to me even if the subst's work, the code just adds an empty 'else' to the #if: block... so just exits having done nothing. Otoh, your logic was using the old if statements, and that's not something I've experience with. So be advised I also changed those to the new parserfunctions. The use of switch as it is employed seems a bit strange as well. And then there is the overall flow and braces nesting, which needs a bit more analysis coupled with understanding of what is happening when.
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, 19:19 27 February 2007 (GMT).
Smackbot removed html entity … (ellipses: "…") from Veganism. Not quite sure why, didn't see any mention of it on Smackbot's pages. Kellen T 12:49, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
I shut off Smack Bot and I figured I should tell you why. It tagged the articles Torrasque and Hunter Killer (StarCraft) as being unsourced. Technically, they were sourced. However, they have sources. They are only primary sources. Because you said on the bot userpage to shut it off if it looks like something may have gone wrong, I shut it off. Sorry if that was what it was supposed to do that. I just figured I'd do it just in case. Captain panda In vino veritas 13:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, your bot has been tagging {{fact}} with "date=February 2007" as early as this morning (March 2).. you may wish to update that, since February only has 28 days, and my belief is that it's got a bug. -- KirinX 15:17, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
In reference to the
William A. Spinks article (at least): you or one of your bots, with an edit summary that mentioned "Ced Date fragments" (a phase unfamiliar to me), de-wikilined a large number of dates, and then also make rather inexplicable location wikilink changes that introduced gross redundancies, e.g.
Los Angeles, California ⇒
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I don't understand. I thought header areas should be simple statements. The whole article was substantially unreferenced and brief - I expanded it and referenced it carefully but largely left the header section seemed legit (it been changed since then but I still see no particular problem) but smackbot tagged it as needing references. There doesn't seem to be an controversy in the header to me and references might be distracting and largely depend on the substance of the article anyway. Please explain. I'm also not sure if this should be here or at smackbot's talk page but since you are who would explain....-- Smkolins 23:00, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the clarification; I'll edit in line with that in future. (I don't like to turn "bots" off in my Watchlist because occasionally they do things that I need to tidy up.) -- Mel Etitis ( Talk) 17:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. -- WikiInquirer 22:15, 3 March 2007 (UTC) talk to me
Definitely not notable. Links only to a single other article, another wrestler in the 'KWA', a "short lived wrestling promotion" - it is not notable. Not to mention the incorrect name/conflict with an existing article named David Robertson. Jammy Simpson | Talk | 11:32, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to work on items at Category:ISSN_needed.
Keesiewonder talk 13:31, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I see your bot at work daily fixing tags and such--good job! I was just wondering if it's OK that lately I've taken to not adding the date to tags, knowing that shortly your bot will come along and fix it. Does saving my energy as a wikiresource somehow get canceled out by wasting your bot's energy/server space/whatever? Keep up the good work. Katr67 17:26, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Smackbot recently edited Radiation hormesis and changed "fact" to "Fact." in all but one instance (where it added a date). Is it really necessary to change "fact" to "Fact?" would it have made an edit if this was the only change? Pdbailey 20:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I don't know how else to change the link to point to the correct discussion page - it's not in the standard autogenerated location. The Transhumanist (AWB) 16:21, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
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TonyTheTiger ( talk/ cont/ bio) 18:52, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Sometimes the date parameter is added to merge tags without "date=" and SmackBot then adds the date parameter again to the merge tag but with "date=". This causes the Discuss link to redirect to the Month/Year page of the date, as here: [1] Can this be fixed? Squids' and' Chips 01:34, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Is there a reason why SmackBot changes {{fact|Date=March 2007}} to {{Fact|date=March 2007}}? [2] I keep an eye on some articles by watching my user contributions page, if they're not high-priority enough to be on my watchlist, and having SmackBot change such minor things as in-tag capitalization means that those articles are no longer listed as "top" on my user contributions. LastChanceToBe 21:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
I thought that you might be interested in a racially disturbing pattern of edits by an editor that has erased article sections pertaining to the common human heritage in Africa. User:Dbachmann is the editor in question. Please see his edits under African people. Dogru144 13:10, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich, Thank you for quickly getting back to me. The particular edits that disturbed me were the following:
However, Dbachmann removed the following without reinserting (elsewhere in the article) the comment of common human heritage from Africa. (This was the first of several edits on 9 March 2007 on African people.
The removed material follows immediately:
The term African people encompasses several kinds of people; it is most commonly used to describe people who can trace their ancestry to the indigenous inhabitants of the continent of Africa (in fact, scientific evidence points to the fact that all humans originated in Africa), but it is also sometimes used to describe all people who live in Africa, regardless of ancestry.
He gave the justification for this in the edit box, "BC history is anachronistic. Substantively, his removal of certain history represents a diminuition of certain groups at the expense of others. The region of Turkestan has a rich history prior to the 8th Century CE. This is amply documented in books, standard encyclopedia articles, and major museum artistic displays. The removed material follows:
Turkestan has a rich history, dating back to the second and third millenia BC. Many artifacts were produced in that period, and much trade was conducted. The region was a focal point for cultural diffusion, as the Silk Road traversed it.
The removed material immediately follows:
Successive external powers have held the region. Greeks, under Alexander the Great, held the area fom 327 BCE to 150 BC. </ref> Huns conquered the area after they conquered Kashgaria in the early 2nd century BCE. With the dissolution of the Huns' empire, Chinese rulers took over Eastern Turkestan. [1] [Arab]] forces captured it in the 8th Century. The Persian Samanid dynasty subsequently conquered it and the area experienced economic success. [2] Dogru144 13:41, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
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Thank you for copyeditng this article. Could you look over Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) - I am trying to improve this to GA and reviewer asked for a further copyedit with dates and such (I am not a native English speaker, and I primarily create content, not polish it). Thanks, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 21:35, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't quite agree with you and the "tag" about "notability" of the Jayne Ann Krentz article. I'm not the creator of that one. I just translated it into Spanish. Would you please read the discussion in that page in order to see if there was a mistake of the bot or anything?. Thank you.-- Joanenglish 02:15, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Than you for your messenge. I'm sorry I though it was you. I apologize.-- Joanenglish 15:19, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Is there one? Someone just uploaded an image of a magazine for which I have not been able to locate an ISSN ... you can see the bar code digits on the image ... ? ... Thanks for your help! -- Keesiewonder talk 12:13, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Question about someone's having sprinkled several articles, including Homelessness with external links to a specific orgranisation, intelligentgiving.com, and if it looks okay to you. See the user's ( User:Jtuulian) contributions Special:Contributions/Jtuulian and have a look. Something feels uneasy about it. But perhaps it's just me. I'd really like to ask for your thoughts on the matter. Thanks and Best Wishes. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 14:48, 12 March 2007 (UTC) ( talk)
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TonyTheTiger ( talk/ cont/ bio) 00:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Why did you delink the dates on Mpemba effect? Is there a wiki policy somewhere I should know about?
Best wishes, Robinh 14:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
Thanks for looking at my articles. The article for the Biomolecular Object Network DataBANK was an assignment for a university class; however, my partner accidentally started the article entitled DataBASE so we we're hoping that article could be deleted. The content of the 2 articles is the same, but the DataBASE article is incorrectly titled. The goal of the article was to provide an overview of a current bioinformatics resource.
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First, thanks for the copyedit of the Soviet invasion - the article is now a GA. Second, if in som espare time you could look over History of Poland (1945-1989) - some users commented that this FA (now on FARC) needs a copyedit - it would be much appreciated.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 18:03, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. I was not aware of that. Corvus cornix 18:21, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to gather a consensus on whether Orphan tags are necessary on wikipedia.
Please go to the page Template talk:Orphan and fill in you opinion under the heading Please give you opinion on the Orphan tag below area of the page. Thanks Dreamweaverjack 22:36, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Apparently there is a problem with SmackBot's "Date/fix maintenance tags" process, in which an undated {{ fact}} tag is replaced with a dated one. Based on an 8 February 2007 bot-edit done to Satellite of Love (MST3K) ( [4]), such a tag inside an HTML <ref> element does not get properly processed, leaving template parameters unsubstituted and the template usage itself mangled. (I've manually fixed the problem for that article.) I'm not sure how common this problem is, so I felt uncomfortable stopping the bot by leaving a note on its talk page. Please review this situation to see how it might be avoided. Thank you. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi... I anticipate you're going to leave me a well-deserved message telling me merge templates shouldn't be substed, so I'm here to save you the trouble. Mea culpa. Next time, forty lashes with a wet noodle. I'll look and see if I've made the same mistake elsewhere. Cheers. -- Rrburke( talk) 11:28, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Do you agree with and/or understand why the following are blacklisted?
"isbn-check\.com, books-by-isbn\.com, isbn-check\.de"
I had the first one on my user page, and received warning about it upon trying to save unrelated edits to my page. I used 'nowiki' ... for now.
Keesiewonder talk 02:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Here is the original complaint that User:81.211.181.164 sent to Naconkantari:
these 3 websites are present in many wikis, mainly in the 'Wikipedia:Book sources' special pages (just removed from it.wiki ). If you search a book, the websites are always redirecting to Amazon (pay-per-link system). The same system is adopted by isbndb.com (Amazon and others). Probably the special pages related to Special:Booksources are full of this kind of spam in every wiki. --81.211.181.164 00:05, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
the 3 websites on the topic title belong to the same author: he is making money with the "referral profiteering" system (when you get a book description then the links are pointing to amazon). Links are mainly in the "Wikipedia:Book sources" pages on several wikis, for example: en, fr, es, fi, it, de. It is allowed to make money in this way? --81.211.176.241 00:21, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Follow-up: There is now a removal request in place at [5] on the Talk page of the Spam Blacklist at meta.wikimedia.org, but it may be a hard sell. (The request has already been turned down once, though the first attempt may not have given enough reasons). Any ideas for what to do next would be welcome. EdJohnston 02:09, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello Rich. See [6] for this issue and on another matter see [7] for the scary possibility that links from WP articles to Amazon would be disallowed. EdJohnston 03:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
I operate a similar bot in HuWiki for timestamping maintenance tags. It currently has a lot of hardwired things and I'm in the process of generalizing it, so that its easier to support new templates and timestamp all tags by just one look at the page history.
Could you share the source for your bot? I believe it would help me a lot when working on my code.
Thanks, nyenyec ☎ 16:20, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
SmackBot seems to be removing wikilinks from subtitles. This may be mandated by
WP:MOS, although I do not know if this can be automated.
A more serious issue is, that the bot is also remowing images from subtitles. This led to awful results in
this edit, that still have not been corrected. In short, -
Germany - was replaced with - 22px Germany -. --
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P.S. Using the template {{
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Petri Krohn
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I have a question. You made a small change (I think) to one of my user boxes, which didn't appear (at least to me) to do anything. In fact, and maybe it's because I havn't had coffee yet, I can't even detect what you changed, lol. If it's not too much trouble, could you teach me, in a sentence or two, what you did and why? Thanx Sue Rangell[ citation needed 18:20, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
This last is what I think you did with a userbox. Therefore the category that should have only applied to the userbox was applied to your page as well. You are not the only person to do this, by a long way! Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 12:40 20 March 2007 (GMT).
Inn the page 9.6_year_cycle_of_lynx_abundance you have posted that the references are inadequate. Please put your reasons on the talk page of that article. They look fine to me. Ray Tomes 05:25, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Citation is already given in article quoted at end of paragraph - see FWMD discussion for details - SmackBot is getting over-enthusiastic.
Hi Rich. Do you think the "Homeless Hero" YouTube reference in the Homelessness article is appropriate for WP ? Your thoughts appreciated. Best. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 00:49, 20 March 2007 (UTC) ( talk)
Don't see why this [8] article's bottom needed smacking.-- Shtove 19:18, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Rich/SmackBot,
thanks for your help on the Glen E. Friedman article. i have found the citations you requested but don't know how to properly format them. (sorry i'm a bit of a newbie) do you mind doing them for the article?
the first one requested was for the line:
"A consummate artist and political activist, he shuns intoxicants, and follows a strict vegan diet"
Can be seen in many places. The 1st two sources i have are:
Herbivore magazine, fall 2003 which is archived at http://www.southern.com/BURNINGFLAGS/press/herbivore.php
and also on
the PETA2 web pages in an interview http://www.peta2.com/outthere/o-glenfried.asp
the second one requested:
"His photos are said to reflect the spirit of progression and angst that defined an era" this came from SkateBoarder magazine, May 1997, PhotoEnergy by Michele Lockwood the original is archived at http://www.southern.net/BURNINGFLAGS/press/skateboarder.html
the third one requested :
"Friedman has helped define the moment and movements he was caught up in" this came from DAZED& CONFUSED magazine, issue#11 1995 p.46 and has been used many places since in other articles. The original is archived on http://www.southern.com/BURNINGFLAGS/press/dazed.html
the fourth one requested :
"His process was much more incendiary than it was documentary" this came from "HUH magazine, November 1994 and has been used many places since in other articles. The original is archived at http://www.southern.net/BURNINGFLAGS/press/huh.html
and further spots where i saw a citation was asked for:
on the time line:
1990 citation - this came from WARP magazine, Feb 1995, "Glen E. Friedman - Photos from the Edge" by Ian Christie The original is archived at: http://www.southern.com/BURNINGFLAGS/press/warp.html
1994 citation - this came from Glen E. Friedman bio on the burningflags.com webpages at
http://www.southern.net/BURNINGFLAGS/bio
1997 citation - this came from the main page of the burning flags.com website that is dedicated to the work and information on this artist. the URL for all the shows listed is at :
http://www.southern.com/BURNINGFLAGS/main.php
and on that page there are also URL's for each of the city shows mentioned individually.
on Published Quotes of Interest about Friedman:
Los Angeles Times - 21 November 2002
ART section
It's all about attitude, Rebels keep finding their way into Glen E. Friedman's viewfinder.
By Keith Hamm
Washington Post - 21 may 2000
Here and Now - Art
By Pete L. Zanko
THANK YOU again.
Hi Rich: I came across the Satan and Adam entry this afternoon and saw that you were the most recent contributor. I'm delighted to know somebody's taken the trouble to write us up, but it's definitely undersourced. I'm not a Wikipedia person and have no idea how to add sourcing, but I did manage, from memory and with the help of some googling, to find some basic sourcing material, which I'll paste below. I'm sure that some of it doesn't meet the reliability criterion. Maybe you could get back to me with some word of whether this stuff helps. Thanks. Adam Gussow (agussow@olemiss.edu) 216.119.179.229 22:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Satan and Adam – some sources I think I can point you towards
For general information on Satan and Adam, esp “Gussow left New York several times….”: My own book, Mister Satan’s Apprentice: A Blues Memoir (New York: Pantheon, 1998)
Entries in All Music Guide to the Blues (not sure of the editor; Rich Skelley’s quote is from this, I believe) and Big Book of Blues, ed. Bob Santelli.
Paul Winley and the Harlem Underground; “Get in My Arms Little Girl”; “Freedom For My People” from Rattle & Hum – can google this
Satan and Adam cover story in Living Blues: http://www.livingblues.com/product_information.php?product=96&productlink=yes&search=&page=2&title=Issue_129
“After a long silence…..Boca Ciega….”: http://indangerousrhythm.blogspot.com/2006/03/adam-gussow-mister-satans-apprentice.html
Some published information on Sterling Magee’s recent career and “Five Fingers Magee”: http://www.sptimes.com/2005/11/27/Neighborhoodtimes/Musician_rekindling_a.shtml
It seems like one of SmackBot's functions is to remove markup for links that refer to the current article. However, mediawiki seems to render the first occurrence of the subject text as bold whether it is marked up with triple quotes or double square braces. Some articles have utilised this mediawiki 'feature', and in those cases SmackBot seems to remove the link markup instead of replacing it with bold markup. For an example of this see Uranium Glass (01:24 20-Mar-2007) Mister Farkas 17:53, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello Rich. I noticed that SmackBot added date to a "Wikify" tag. But it also changed the punctation in the whole page. It doesn't seem to make sense. See the diff. Is it supposed to do this? Thanks in advance. -- Ysangkok 16:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
The bot cleaned-up a page "Eric's Extension" that I had added a mergeto boiler to. It added a date to the tag. What is weird is that the boiler wouldn't appear on the bot's cleaned-up page. I reedited the page, just by adding a space and return to top of the page before the boiler and now the boiler appears. No real changes were made. (This isn't a caching issue I checked that.) In the history though the bot-edited page shows the mergeto tag. I don't know what's going on here. You might want to manually check some of the bot-edited pages to see if the boilers aren't displaying after the bot cleans things up. Jason Quinn 22:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
On this edit - why did the bot move the location of the {{ ref}} tags in the table? Also it seems to be having trouble with comments. Gimmetrow 16:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey there.
You recently made the following statement at the Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw talk page reasoning why it has the Articles with unsourced statements tag:
Because of this statement
"The J-K Conspiracy is a movie produced by Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw, directed by Chainsaw, and released in 2005. It stars the entire show, plus a number of celebrities (such as Bob Costas, Doug Flutie, Don Rickles, and Laura Schlessinger) and several notable listeners (including Listener Lex, Commander Butch, and Quiet-Talking James)"
I am wondering which part must be sourced. On the iMDB, it lists everyone listed as actors in the movie. This way we can fix the problem and have the tag removed. -- Raderick 03:08, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I put a couple of hours in changing The Office (US TV series) to The Office (U.S. TV series) only be have it moved backed to its original title for what strikes me as a quite nonsensical policy of "US" being the abbreviation of choice in article titles. I've never waded into the arena of Wikipedia style policy before but, as silly as this may sound, this bugged me enough that I'd like to change it. I notced the discussion over at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (abbreviations) is dated from November so I was curious if there had been a change in policy or what the next step is.
Thanks for your help and time, Jarfingle 09:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I think SmackBot is editing while not logged in. Please see 172.146.36.39 ( talk · contribs). The IP has been blocked for 24 hours. J Milburn 18:30, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your cooperation regarding SmackBot. -- Ysangkok 11:10, 25 March 2007 (UTC)