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Template_talk:U.S._Roads_WikiProject#Renaming_to_WikiProject_U.S._Roads. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:38, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Smackbot made weird edit to Chelsea Dagger claiming it was a religous text. -- Horkana ( talk) 18:07, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi!
I've just spotted that Femto Bot has created 52 monthly cleanup categories for December 2010, and they're filling up CAT:CSD cos they're empty (and should be for a month) - is this intentional, or a bug?
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The bot is adding "place of death" and "place of birth" parameters to Persondata when "PLACE OF DEATH" and "PLACE OF BIRTH" are already given, resulting in unnecessary duplication. [1] [2] DrKiernan ( talk) 08:33, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Eusebius (Bruno) of Angers. Since you had some involvement with the Eusebius (Bruno) of Angers redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Bridgeplayer ( talk) 17:11, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Please see this edit. __ meco ( talk) 07:31, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
As an editor involved in prior discussions over AWB, templates and first letter casing please consider commenting on this discussion thread. Thanks Rjwilmsi 20:15, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
This sort of Smackbot adding a DEFAULTSORT with the page's exact title isn't even cosmetic: it seems entirely redundant. In any case, I don't think it should be happening (if there's a demonstrated consensus for it, please point me to it). Rd232 talk 09:25, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Whether's its useless is a matter of judgement. The issue is whether applying DEFAULTSORT in such cases automatically has consensus. Unless such consensus exists, it should cease. You're under edit restrictions requiring you not to make merely cosmetic changes (changes which have no effect on the rendered page) unless the changes have demonstrable consensus. DEFAULTSORT changes of any sort breach this restriction (unless they have demonstrable consensus). Where DEFAULTSORT leads to the article being sorted in categories under a different (better) letter heading, that consensus clearly exists from longstanding practice; by the time you get to the second and third word of a title, the sorting effects are comparatively trivial, and I'm not convinced there is a consensus for them. Maybe there is, but this is exactly the sort of thing you should be able to point somewhere and say "it's supported by this", or else stop and ask somewhere appropriate to confirm support. So please stop Smackbot making such DEFAULTSORT edits, unless or until you can show consensus for them. Rd232 talk 10:58, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing this edit to my attention, I have corrected the broken template which caused it.
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Template:In Spanish has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you.
I'm letting you know because you recently moved the template. Auntof6 ( talk) 05:01, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi - your work de-linking date fragments is generally much needed. Just thought I'd draw your attention to the May 1968 in France article to which May 1968 redirects - some of these links may need disambiguation rather than removal. Warofdreams talk 04:05, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Rich, edits like
this by Smackbot are in breach of your edit restriction. Perhaps this wasn't clear, so let me make it clear: cosmetic changes that don't have demonstrated consensus are not acceptable even if combined with non-cosmetic changes. Thanks.
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Nice edit: "born May 2007" ... [3]. Cheers. -- Edcolins ( talk) 21:13, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
I am currently trying to determine a way to find all the articles related to United States topics without any banners. Are you aware of anyway to do that? -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:23, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
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You might have left me a note about your change a few weeks ago to allow all-uppercase or all-lowercase parameter names for {{ persondata}}. Rjwilmsi 16:34, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
in this edit to Ian Muir. cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 15:25, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
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Re my earlier message at
User talk:Rich Farmbrough#SmackBot added Place of birth line to Persondata when the line was already present and correct. This is clearly not a one-off, see
Willem Dafoe,
Billy Ray Cyrus, etc. Probably duplicating the line does no harm, but probably I should have stopped it when I first noticed the problem before there were so many to be undone. Sorry if I've done the wrong thing.
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<boilerplate>I have reviewed a sample of changes in the
good faith to confirm that (hopefuly) that SmackBot is operating reliably; this is for the overall good of Wikipedia and without malice.</boilerplate>. SmackBot appears to need some love when it comes to renaming of capitalised templates (eg. it's doing {{
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[6] I have no wish to maintain a discourse on the value or intent of the edits, but would just like to know that it has been fixed. The second edit (now that I look at it), also links to
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{{
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Smackbot updated Leap second losing the date in the UpdateAfter template ( diff). This means that the "dated flag" is showing for future events. Since this may lose information in a lot of articles I have stopped SmackBot. -- Q Chris ( talk) 14:29, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
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I don't know if it's easy but I would like to have an idea of how many articles that transclude {{
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Check Template_talk:Infobox_officeholder#honorific-prefix. Is it possible that you make a database scan for me? Thanks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:00, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
On the entry for Gurnee Mills, the bot tried to add a date for a dl template, but ended up with more templates instead of the actual month and year. "{{Dead link|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}" I manually updated it. Andyross ( talk) 23:02, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Uh, well it was something I asked for, and given the MW bug is good, but right now it would mean SB making zero edits instead of a very few.
Rich
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When you're not too busy dealing with that time sump ANI, there are a bunch of articles in
this category and through (for example, all the subjects on
List of colonial governors of Massachusetts), many of which are in mdy or a mixture of dmy/mdy dates, which could do with being aligned to dmy dates per
WP:TIES. You can probably tag them all {{
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Ohconfucius
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Doubt I am allowed to put invisible tags on pages.
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It appears that there are some 6,000 articles which are linked month-year (ie [[September 2008]]). Could you in some way integrate unlinking these into your AWB schedule? I can only manage 50 a day, at which rate it will take me over 3 months. Gracias amigo. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:19, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Hullo Mr. Farmbrough. I've started these. I was wondering if you could use AWB to edit III to XVI. Basically I need you to change the word "Governo" in each article to Government of and the word "Composizione del governo" to Composition of the government and also to remove the word "Dal" from appearing in each article. This would make it a lot easier. Perhaps you could also work out what the months are in english or check on Italian wikipedia to code something to do those too. E.g change "luglio" to July, "febbraio" to February, "marzo" to "March", "maggio" to "May" etc. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:40, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Yes or no?♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:50, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Excellent, thanks for that. Two things though "&endash;" is showing. Can you ensure it only shows the - not the coding? And it seems the custom for the govenrments is e.g Leone II Cabinet. Can you use AWB to change the links e.g from Government of Gasperi V to De Gasperi V Cabinet (his surname is De Gasperi not Gasperi) and Government of Rumor IV to Rumor IV Cabinet etc? User:Acterion is sorting out the page titles of the article he transferring from it wiki last night to ...Cabinet.. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:00, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
You're like Will Farell in Austin Powers 2.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:30, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
A while back you kindly did a search for me on section titles and redirect names containing the word "abuse". Please can you do exactly the same but with "workplace" this time.-- Penbat ( talk) 14:08, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
FYI - As someone who has worked on the page, it might interest you know that Archimedes, Inc. has been nominated for deletion. At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Archimedes,_Inc. Danieldis47 ( talk) 20:56, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Any chance SmackBot can replace uses of {{ imdb}} with {{ IMDb name}}? This only needs to be done in passing rather than en masse, but it's not ideal for an ambiguous template redirect to have so many transclusions. PC78 ( talk) 16:19, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Incidentally mixed case trademarks are deprecated at MOSCAPS.
Rich
Farmbrough,
18:30, 25 October 2010 (UTC).
This one is similar, but for the references section. It was already present in the article, but SmackBot saved the edit anyway (and did not fix the problem) [7]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:21, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
This is a cumulative diff of several consecutive smackbot edits [8]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:25, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Can I urge editors to take things both less and more seriously.
Rich
Farmbrough,
20:36, 26 October 2010 (UTC).
Please do not pipe/convert Wikilinks such as " Boston, Massachusetts" to " Boston, Massachusetts". The latter is twice as long in the source to the editor, and more ambiguous to the reader ( WP:EGG, WP:ASTONISH). Other editors have previously notified you of this behaviour. Please alter your scripts to do the opposite, where possible. — Sladen ( talk) 10:06, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Please stop de-canonicalising links where there is matching link and article text. These edits reduce the usefulness of the encyclopedia. — Sladen ( talk) 14:38, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
You're still doing this, please get a clear, documented, consensus, or stop and work on edits that are uncontroversial. — Sladen ( talk) 06:52, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for updating the persondata here; a quick note however that per WP:Persondata the birth and death dates should be in the format DD Month YYYY format or the Month DD, YYYY (with the month spelled out completely). Thank you, -- Jezebel'sPonyo bons mots 15:34, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Rich, it seems you are (automatically?) creating redirects (see WP:AN). It was noticed that some of these redirects contain a useless final punctuation (e.g. Geometric mean,). Is there a mistake in the script? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 10:19, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Hi Rich. Just letting you know that the thread at AN is apparently still vaguely active, as Fram has just brought up your recent redirect creations there. What method are you using to create these redirects? It seems that your using the bolded text in the lede of the article to decided what redirects to create. This suggests to me that you're using semi-automated or automated methods. If you're using semi-automated (or automated), why is this not clear in your edit summary? If you're using semi-automated, then why are you making mistakes like the ones mentioned at AN? They aren't particularly difficult to spot. - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 10:21, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Another duplicate - already at Gustave Niebaum. Made into redirect and added the ANB as "Further reading". PamD ( talk) 22:20, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
I was looking at pre-empting these, by creating redirects, unfortunately not all biogs have the middle name or initial in an obvious place.
Rich
Farmbrough,
03:45, 31 October 2010 (UTC).
I think what you are doing in adding these articles is very helpful, but I wonder if you intend to leave them as is, or to add more information. For example, I think the highest priorities would be to indicate why what they did was important enough to get them into the ANB in the first place, which is not always obvious. You're really in the best position to do this right at thetime you are making the article with the ANB entry in front of you--to do it later is considerably harder. And, if possible, it is very good to also have a freely-accessible reference. and google books makes it fairly easy. I think if you did these two things it would slow you down to maybe half speed, but it would make your work many times as useful. DGG ( talk ) 22:28, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
If you have a moment, would you mind taking a look at this comment and telling me if you think it is appropriate? Thank you. --- RepublicanJacobite The'FortyFive' 03:27, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Do you have approval for creating redirects from Lastname, Firstname to Firstname Lastname. I don't consider it harmful, but I thought you were under community sanctions. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 05:49, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Might be a one-ff but stopping since I wasn't sure. Bot replaced refimprive tage with one based on religion. Probably an easy fix but figured it was better to give you the heads up over having it throw the religion based template up on multiple unrelated articles. [9] Nice work besides the hiccup. Cptnono ( talk) 07:55, 31 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 07:56, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
– xeno talk 15:18, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:BOTPOL#Mass article creation and seek BRFA for any subsequent mass creation tasks; I think redirects are probably included in the spirit of this rule. – xeno talk 17:03, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
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This is in breach of the editing restriction. It does reflect a spelling correction renaming of the template, but nonetheless, it's exactly the sort of thing you're supposed not to do. Particularly as there are other issues arising at the moment, I must ask you to cease that specific change unless you can show consensus for it. Rd232 talk 11:11, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Thx for the quick revert. (I was still figuring out what to do when I saw it was gone. ;p) I can only say, if I'm going to be a sockpuppet, that's the guy I'd want to be puppeting (?) for. ;D TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura 07:35, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
As you are probably aware, I regularly spotcheck your contributions, and am glad to say that I haven't found real problems anymore (i.e. things that you should have checked and catched yourself instead of others). A few small remarks and questions: is there a reason that you remove the comment from the Persondata template, like here? And I think there is a small error in your script, where you first use the defaultsort for the persondata template, and then correct the defaultsort, instead of the other way around, e.g. here. Similarly, here you correct the defaultsort but not the same entry in the persondata. Perhaps you can reverse the order of checking these? Fram ( talk) 21:50, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
This isn't a strong area for me, it's not clear to me why 2004 Governor General's Awards for example is sorting under "G". I poked around the templates it's transcluding, but I didn't see a defaultsort keyword in them. Gigs ( talk) 14:44, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
[[Category:Governor General's Awards]] [[Category:2004 in Canada|Governor General's Awards]] [[Category:2004 literary awards|Governor General's Awards]]
Content categories should always be explicit, and almost always are.
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Thank you for creating the list of duplicate words at User:Rich_Farmbrough/temp113. Now (deep breath), how much extra effort would it be to create a list of the 16219 articles that contain "the the"? This is one of my pet projects; I've found and fixed several thousand "the the" errors using AWB Google search and regexps, but the AWB Google search is frustrating to work with. A full list would keep me quiet for a while! -- John of Reading ( talk) 05:25, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Can you close VernoWhitney's RfA? Thanks! (looking for an admin to close; few online) Perseus! Talk to me 13:37, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
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Dear administrator Nagarjuna Akkineni - article semi protection requested. Unexplained dubious and disruptive edits BY -180.106.5.60 & 117.82.98.99 & Rajeshbieee - sock puppetry Administrator semi protection requested for this article immediately - USE TALK PAGE
( Roughstrikes ( talk) 14:48, 13 November 2010 (UTC)).
sure, will give explanation The user 180.106.5.60, 117.82.98.99 have used senseless edits and peacock terms like extraordinary, Most popular and extremly talented, to spoil the integrity and quality of article and are used excessively to defame and mask some of the facts in the article. some edits are also being done in removing the reflist Tag in the references section.
I request a strong scrutiny and surveillance on this article on the use of Unexplained edits by any IP ADDRESS AND USE OF PEACOCK TERMS. IN THE NEXT DUBIOUS EDIT USING PEACOCK TERMS OR DISRUPTING REFERENCE TAGS, PLEASE UNDO THE EDIT AND SEMI PROTECT THE ARTICLE. I am not interested in things like Height of the person. What I look for is a semi protection of this article. And peacock term which try to mislead real facts of the article.( Roughstrikes ( talk) 15:11, 13 November 2010 (UTC)).
further,
Is there any chance to add the first image in the below link, as a profile picture in the article.
how to make the first image of the actor in the link licenced??? to add this in wiki???
is it possible for u to add it??? - the first image of the actor in the below link
http://www.shortfun.com/akkineni-nagarjuna-5263
( Roughstrikes ( talk) 16:44, 13 November 2010 (UTC)).
sure will post image request,
but could this image be added???
http://www.extramirchi.com/events/filmfare-awards-south-exclusive-photo-gallery/attachment/56th-filmfare-south-awards-8/ or http://www.extramirchi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/56th-Filmfare-south-Awards-8.jpg
the above pic is not a copy right i guess, as it was freely uploaded by the originator
excluding person in white dress - who is KJ yesudas
( Roughstrikes ( talk) 17:00, 13 November 2010 (UTC)).
Please be more careful when applying corrections, particularly in abbreviated journal names (which are highly variable). In this edit you created an error. I have fixed it for you. -- Scray ( talk) 05:23, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
i forget now who the reflink bot is, but can you request it for this page.( Lihaas ( talk) 00:25, 15 November 2010 (UTC)).
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ah. wasnt sure it was your bot. but i just nominated this for itn and there are bare refs. thanks in advance.( Lihaas ( talk) 00:35, 15 November 2010 (UTC)).
messed up "Update after" in Leap second again so that it displayed "invalid expression" in the article diff. -- Q Chris ( talk) 10:32, 15 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 10:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Template:Disputed chem does not have a parameter for the date. Hence, there is no use of such edits. -- Leyo 12:48, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Blimey, that was quick! thanks! best wishes DBaK ( talk) 16:22, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Eliminating such edits would save time of the editors who monitor recent changes and their watchlists. May I ask you to do so? Materialscientist ( talk) 11:45, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, Just a suggestion that this could be done using the -adj switch in the Convert template. Cavrdg ( talk) 07:08, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
49.30-mile (79.34-km)
{{convert|49.30|mi|km|adj=on}}
In thr last couple of days you seem to have resumed using your main account for automated editing. Please stop, get approval for this process and use a separate account for this. Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 17:15, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, the only obstacle stopping this current GA candidate from GA i think is the references. But isn't there a bot which can fill out the references with cite web |url|title=|publisher=|accessdate=? If so can you arrange it to sort out the references?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:47, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Can you reply? I could have sworn there was a reference bot.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:45, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey, very good work, how did you generate that list?-- Jimbo Wales ( talk) 14:39, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
There were two articles entitled "The White Company". I was attempting to change the title to the first " The White Company" to " The White Company, The Novel - and the second article with same name to: " The White Company (The Medieval Mercenaries). I failed and my attempts to correct failed. Can you please correct. All criticism accepted - am deeply sorrow - will not attempt again until I am fully versed in how to do it, etc., etc., etc. Thanks. Mugginsx ( talk) 20:40, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that smackbot is replacing _ characters in C typenames like size_t. It most recently did this in offsetof and I see that you fixed one of the changes. I wonder if a rule to exclude titles that match /.*_t$/ would be sufficient to avoid these pages. -- Autopilot ( talk) 12:57, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
I have to admit I personally dont care where it goes but since it really doesnt affect the article and is usually not even displayed I admit there is a lot of logic ot your idea of putting at the end. Its really not a part of the article anyway other than to gather basic data about the articles for different reasons. What is the Person authority, Im not familiar with that one. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:02, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
— Spike Toronto 20:07, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
Your subpage User:Rich Farmbrough/temp17 has a bunch of categories on it, or more accurately it is in a bunch of categories. I noticed because I was looking at the category for articles tagged for {{prose}} and it was in the oldest month. Did you want to change that to [[:category:... with the colon first so it is a link to the category or is it serving some purpose that didn't occur to me yet? RJFJR ( talk) 18:43, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Rich, I happened upon you via the Wikiproject Biography. After looking at the edit history and Talk page on the Jacqueline Hernández article, it became clear to me that this article could use some help. While I do not know the subject of this article personally, I happened to meet her very briefly in part of my work within her industry. While on the subject of WP, she mentioned that the existing version of the Wikipedia article about her was created by a family member of hers who - as you can see - was entirely unaware of the policies and guidelines here on Wikipedia.
In the interest of bringing this article up to Wikipedia's own WP:BLP standards, I've drafted a proposed revision which currently lives in my userspace here: User:Jeff_Bedford/Proposed_draft_of_Jacqueline_Hernandez_article
The main revisions I've made in this draft include:
Normally I'd implement these proposed changes myself; however I thought it would be helpful to get a second set of eyes prior to doing so. If you have a moment, might you be able to take a peek and advise on whether my draft is a step in the right direction? Cheers, Jeff Bedford ( talk) 22:02, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Why, when I planned ot get up at 5 this morning am I still on-wiki at 4:32?
Rich
Farmbrough,
04:32, 17 November 2010 (UTC).
Per your restrictions, would you please remove the capitalisation of {{ death date}} from your AWB rules. See an example here, and in future please take more care when using AWB to spot these yourself. I've tried running the normal AWB, and it doesn't appear to change the template when testing at Anne Brontë. Cheers, - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 10:56, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
Update after uses numeric dates, see [10] for your bot's errors. 134.253.26.6 ( talk) 16:38, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
He Rich, did I see correctly Smackbot making a null-edit here? No harm done, just harder for others to spot the changes made just before it... L.tak ( talk) 16:51, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I sincerely apologise that this dispute on a user's financial COI has spilled on to your talk page. It shouldn't have escalated the way it did, but the issue has been resolved. This is my first time encountering a paid editor, and I apologise for any incovenience that the dispute may have caused.-- res Laozi speak 05:50, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
For making edits like this and this and this. You need to sort this out: it is a violation of your editing restrictions and cannot be that hard to make the bot respect them. Rd232 talk 16:57, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Please fix. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 17:34, 15 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 17:48, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Please do not use AWB on radio station articles. In categories they are listed alphabetically by call name, and the user who created them decided to sort them using all upper case letters. AWB "fixes" this by changing the letters following the first to lower case, but this causes a sorting error in the categories, which are case sensitive. Thanks, 117Avenue ( talk) 18:46, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, Rich! Category:Statements with common sense issues was correctly speedy deleted as C1, but Femto Bot recreated it. Could you reinstruct Femto Bot, and then redelete the category, please? -- Bsherr ( talk) 19:45, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
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On 7 November 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Janet Bragg, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that aviator Janet Bragg was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial Pilot Licence? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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The journal no longer makes those claims.
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Hey! Hi there! [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 21:46, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Test Sb message cleaning.
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Revise user page.
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As far as I can tell these edits [12] [13] [14] are a violation of your editing restriction. The thousands of other edits today with the same summary don't look particularly different. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:26, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Looking at more edits, I noticed [15], which replaced "God is is" with "God it is". That was a manually reviewed edit. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 02:38, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
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some users have complained about smackbot captilising tags unecessary, you might want to check up the robot-- Lerdthenerd ( talk) 16:49, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Here are three more edits, since my first post today, which are actually SmackBot edits run under your main account [16] [17] [18]. It is clear from your edit history that you are actually performing the SmackBot task to date the "criticism section" template, but running it from your main account instead of the approved bot account. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 02:46, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
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Let's go back to basics here:
It's about time you figured this out, given your experience. My patience in terms of you not respecting your edit restrictions is starting to run a bit low. I've given you plenty of leeway to fix the issues, and it's about time you sorted things out so that you don't repeatedly breach them. Sort it out, or I'm going to seriously think about blocking you for violating the restrictions, something I had not seriously thought I'd have to contemplate. Rd232 talk 08:57, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
As a reminder, the edit restriction excludes "changes that are built-in to stock AWB". I've just tried to replicate your edit [20] using AWB, and was unable to. Now I'm not too hot on AWB, so if I've missed something please do explain, but it looks to me like this edit is only possible by programming AWB's find-and-replace function with the desired change. This clearly does not qualify as a change "built-in", any more than MediaWiki is "built-in" to PHP. Please clarify how you made the edit. Rd232 talk 14:12, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
{{
Citation needed|date=July2010}}
fails, whereas {{
Citation needed|date=July 2010}}
is epic.
Rich
Farmbrough,
22:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC).
Rd232 14:12. (first post in this sub-thread): "Please clarify how you made the edit."
Rd232, 22:38. "You haven't actually replied to the issue of why you made that edit." -- so no how, why (is your reply to Rd232?). -
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In view of the minor nature of the block evasion mentioned above [22] (one laconic comment to a Wikipedia Signpost talk page), I'm not going to extend the block. Instead, I will take it into account if another block is necessary for not complying with the edit restrictions, so that it will be 72 hours instead of 48. Rd232 talk 14:12, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Can you please apply special scrutiny when delinking "March NNN", as you did here. Most instances of "March NNN" are likely to be racing car designations, not date fragments. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 21:56, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Note this and march 1968 on dating page...
Rich
Farmbrough,
19:30, 14 November 2010 (UTC).
...for a very welcome invitation. Do let me know how I can contribute, or...prevent de-tributing. -- Bsherr ( talk) 18:39, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
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...you have a wikiproject for bacon?
Isn't that a bit...obsessive? Half Shadow 18:56, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
So after the discussion above you not only don't bother to reply, but continue to use AWB on your main account, and to do unvarnished template redirect replacements using AWB, which is an edit you know full well is in violation of your edit restrictions, and an edit which you should be manually reviewing. [23] Sorry, but enough is enough. If I have to block you for you to get the message that these edit restrictions are more than mere blather, so be it. At least it'll give you time to sort out your Smackbot and AWB programming so that the restrictions are respected. Rd232 talk 20:30, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Are you evading your block or is someone trying to give that impression? [25] Fram ( talk) 10:14, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Rich, have you modified your AWB settings to prevent changes which only change casing, only change white space, (I believe this is as simply as checking two check boxes on the form - if those don't work, as I've said before I'm happy to lend any coding assistance that I can, or you could ask the AWB developers) or only change a template to a redirect? (in the case of template redirects, except those which are built into AWB and other substantive changes are being made at the same time). This is intended as a direct question, and I would appreciate a direct response. </ec> So why were you signed out at the time? That doesn't seem like "automatic" behaviour to me. Thanks, - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 11:29, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
18-Nov-2010: Well, I am getting hints, from everyone, about the bad news with the limited parser functions, but "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" or "parser-ade" (parser-aid). Due to concerns about moving templates to other wikis, we need to assume the worst-case, where many people will have dinky, limited versions of MediaWiki. We can quickly write work-around templates, because we finally know the performance limits, of how the 40-nest restriction is fatal (rather than some murky "Don't worry about performance"). The use of too many nested if-elses will cause a template to die, some day soon, when combined with other complex templates. For example, the current {{ Str_len}} template (which counts length by checking 100s, 10s and ones) is using enough if-elses to devour 9-nest levels of the 40-nest limit. I am creating a {{ Strlen_small}}, by using older, simpler algorithms, which will only use 3-nest levels (rather than 9). I created one of the character templates to handle all the accented characters in foreign languages. Then, we can consider which infoboxes (and such) need to use optimized utility templates to avoid the 40-nest limit. Also, by listing template variations (under each "See also"), then casual users will be alerted that they might need to use a streamlined, more efficient version of a utility template. Meanwhile, if people keep discussing the primitive limits of MediaWiki, then eventually, the concerns might reach a "critical mass" where better parser-function sets become standard. I suspect that some people wanted to show each string-function "what-links-here" as proof that "80,000 articles" will use such functions if available. So, progress can be made, on many different fronts, to provide interim solutions, while also educating people about better parser-function sets in the next releases. The important strategy is to have multiple paths of success, like usernames on different wikis, so that progress can be made in a wide range of areas, when thwarted along some paths. I can take each better template to become a similar one on German Wikipedia, as a Vorlage:Strlen_klein, so that other-language Wikipedias can propagate those templates based on their knowledge of German WP. There are many different avenues to make improvements with these issues. - Wikid77 ( talk) 04:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, i just noticed you editted loads of bacon related articles today, which was amusing, are you trying to tell us something or are you just erm hungry XD! any ways happy editting-- Lerdthenerd ( talk) 09:46, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Please revert your last edit to {{ Geographic location}}. The addition of {{PAGENAME}} causes the geobox to be preceded with the pagename, which is totally pointless (in most cases it's the same as the centre label anyway) and disruptive to formatting. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 00:08, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
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OK, let's try and wrap up some recommendations:
On a related issue, it's not clear to me how redirects get into the AWB list. There is an unsatisfactory discussion here. Anyone? PS It would be good to see Smackbot up and running again, if you can sort out the coding to ensure it behaves in a manner consistent with the editing restriction. Rd232 talk 18:41, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Additional: if you have any issues when you start editing with AWB or programming Smackbot, then ask me or the community. Describe what you want to do, or do a single edit for demonstration purposes, and ask. Don't go off doing thousands of edits, mixing in ones which are near the border of the editing restrictions. Rd232 talk 22:46, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm starting to have issues with your attitude. You haven't engaged with this issue anything like as much as you could have done, and your last couple of remarks quite unhelpful - combined with a bit of needless block evasion. My response to your entirely inappropriate remark to Fram almost involved a wet fish; and since she's been involved with this issue for some time, a dismissive "stalker" is unhelpful. Nor was I defending her. Please, take a step back and consider that we all have the same objective, which is getting you back to making lots of improvements to Wikipedia - minus edits that don't have consensus, per your edit restrictions and AWB rules. Rd232 talk 00:22, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough. You worked on Jeff Ragsdale's page at one time. Ragsdale is currently being harassed by IP number 71.190.77.101. This person, whom we have identified through correct legal means, is a fellow actor and he started his attack on Ragsdale by submitting a fake resume regarding Ragsdale on craigslist. Then said person started a commentary regarding Jeff Ragsdale's Wikipedia "notability". This whole issue has now snowballed into a "notability" issue on Wikipedia because of IP number 71.190.77.101's false claims regarding Ragsdale. My question to you is can you leave a message on Theda's page about your sentiments regarding Ragsdale's notability? Theda has since reinserted the notability tag on Ragsdale's Wikipedia page. Ragsdale is clearly a notable person. One would just have to look at the rich sources, and all of his television and film credits, as well as his international activism. Or could you possibly point me in other directions? Richard Peterson 11-20-10 —Preceding unsigned comment added by RichardPeterson44 ( talk • contribs) 03:12, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Any reason why you have yet again restarted your faulty script to create redirects from the capitalized words on articles that don't match the article title? You have for the third time created the redirect Lucius Caelius to Lactantius. You also created the redirect from Designations to Star designation, which is only one of the many possible targets (I changed it to a redirect to Designation instead). The fact that this kind of redirect creation is problematic has been shown to you before, so I wonder why you started it again. And wheren't you just blocked for making this kind of edits? It's not as if it is a one-off error, there is also this one... Fram ( talk) 19:25, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
What is the intention of edits like this one? It does nothing to affect the article's position in the category listing for either of the categories it is in. Gurch ( talk) 13:44, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
would be
Considering that most people defaultsorts have a "," after the first word (Locke, John), they sort different from every non-person "Locke" article anyway, so the argument that uppercase defaultsorts are needed because biographies have them is not very convincing. Fram ( talk) 15:24, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
This edit from today [26] is a violation of your editing restriction.
Also, you appear to be inappropriately running SmackBot's "add references section" job on AWB under your main account. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 18:29, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
This edit [27] is also quite odd. You added a reflist tag, but there are no footnotes. Your edit summary claimed to be moving a portal tag, but you didn't. If you're manually checking these, make sure the edit summary matches the actual edit. Otherwise, it has the appearance that you didn't actually check the edit at all. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 18:41, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
I've unblocked SmackBot, presuming that you now understand what needs to be done to respect the edit restrictions. Please edit with appropriate caution in terms of testing and reviewing etc. Rd232 talk 00:48, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
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I don't think your addition of a Bacon Portal tag on this page is correct. The first line of the Bacon Portal reads Bacon is a cured meat prepared from a pig and, obviously, Turkey Bacon doesn't meet that criteria. It's also an inferior product to 'real' bacon and I think the addition of your Portal imbues it with undeserved kudos Obscurasky ( talk) 18:55, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Len Garrison achievements are recognised as he was made one of the 100 Great Black Britons Igbo ( talk) 21:12, 19 November 2010 (UTC)Lagosman
Can you please use capital letters when adding persondata? I know it doesn't make any difference but it's better to have everything in the same style. I suggest you use the built-in AWB feature instead of using a modified one. Thanks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 02:12, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
I have twice reverted a faulty edit of yours to this article. Please can you check your code and, if en edit is reverted, do not make the same edit again? Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 13:16, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Two updates they might be interesting for you:
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rev 7419-- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:00, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I don't think this edit was useful - the whole article content had previously been removed and replaced by the {{ copyviocore}} template which says, amongst other things, "Do not edit this page until an administrator or an OTRS agent has resolved this issue.". As it was, the page turned up in the Category:Stubs for stub-sorting, though I had to look at a past version of the page to sort it... and then realised how daft it all was and reverted your changes instead! So whether by hand or by bot, perhaps you could avoid adding tags to articles in this state? Thanks. PamD ( talk) 21:12, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
...of edits like this? Ladyof Shalott 01:17, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Do you know the full name of this Portuguese football player? Many sources affirm Mário Rodrigues João, while other ones state only Mário João. If you know something more, plese, write me here. -- VAN ZANT ( talk) 10:24, 23 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 11:01, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
I think the name says it all, but what does Translate Bot do? And the article list? Perseus, Son of Zeus 18:19, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Error introduced at this edit. - Station1 ( talk) 05:44, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
When you are cleaning up the Smackbot errors of inserting Currentmonth into articles, perhaps it is easier if you at the same time also clean up the CurrentDay that Smackbot inserted in the same edits at the same position? [28], [29], ... Fram ( talk) 22:05, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 November 27; your Category:Main page is up for merging. Nyttend ( talk) 18:19, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot recently made a load of fixes to the article
Borders of the oceans - diff here
[30]. Whilst most things it did were valid, one change introduced an error - the third change shown in the diff.
The article contains some quotes with explanatory text given in square brackets. One of these square bracketed sections contains a wikilink at the end. Therefore in the code it ends with three ]'s. SmackBot removed one of these brackets, presumably because three brackets usually indicate an error. (Interestingly, other three-bracket groups in the article weren't amended by SmackBot.)
Is this something that can be amended in the Bot's code, or do you think that it will be such a rare occurrence that it's not worth fixing? Cheers,
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Would you put WP:MED on the list for the recent changes page? Thanks, WhatamIdoing ( talk) 23:47, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
FYI, I've added SmackBot and Yobot's current edit war at Human hair growth to WP:LAME#Bot vs bot. —Angr ( talk) 14:24, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Apart from the outright errors, noted a number of times before, and now again shown with the Centerville/Centreville redirect which I speedy deleted as a R2 implausibe redirect, you also create a fair number of redirects which should be disambiguations instead. looking only at the last ten Township redirects you created, Woodward to Swatara, four of them should not have been a redirect but instead a disambiguation: Woodbury Township, Windham Township, Wilmington Township and Todd Township. Fram ( talk) 11:12, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
These need to be promoted to DAB pages, then Fram. I was aware that some of them probably would, a redirect is still better than no page at all. ( I often think of a redirect as equivalent to a DAB page with one entry./) Perhaps you would like to look at doing that? If you follow my talk page as closely as you seem you will know it is something on my mind.
Rich
Farmbrough,
14:01, 24 November 2010 (UTC).
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Since it was questioned by Kumioko, and Rich ignored the issue, see Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Mass_article_creation. There is no specific exception for redirects, but (Kumioko) it applies to articles not talk pages so your task sounds exempt. Rich: I presume "RS" is directed at me (Rd232). First, creation of redirects which may plausibly involve a need for disambiguation should involve checking for that, and anyone creating such redirects on a substantial scale without checking would be asked to do that whether they submitted the edit using AWB or a carrier pigeon. Please stop taking the attitude that whatever you're doing is unimprovable and that any resulting problems should be cleaned up by people who find them. You're experienced enough to know better, and I find it increasingly bizarre that you find making minor course corrections such trouble. Rd232 talk 21:38, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
Just FYI. Smackbot clean wiped the United States diplomatic cables leak article. - Amog | Talk • contribs 19:56, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
{{ Converted}} was broken after your edit. Can you please fix it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:41, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I had a look at Francis Wingfield for DYK, and it seems to be coming up quite short of the required 1500 chars, especially since 2/3 of the article is a block quote. -- Worm 11:08, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
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Template_talk:U.S._Roads_WikiProject#Renaming_to_WikiProject_U.S._Roads. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:38, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Smackbot made weird edit to Chelsea Dagger claiming it was a religous text. -- Horkana ( talk) 18:07, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi!
I've just spotted that Femto Bot has created 52 monthly cleanup categories for December 2010, and they're filling up CAT:CSD cos they're empty (and should be for a month) - is this intentional, or a bug?
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The bot is adding "place of death" and "place of birth" parameters to Persondata when "PLACE OF DEATH" and "PLACE OF BIRTH" are already given, resulting in unnecessary duplication. [1] [2] DrKiernan ( talk) 08:33, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Eusebius (Bruno) of Angers. Since you had some involvement with the Eusebius (Bruno) of Angers redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Bridgeplayer ( talk) 17:11, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Please see this edit. __ meco ( talk) 07:31, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
As an editor involved in prior discussions over AWB, templates and first letter casing please consider commenting on this discussion thread. Thanks Rjwilmsi 20:15, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
This sort of Smackbot adding a DEFAULTSORT with the page's exact title isn't even cosmetic: it seems entirely redundant. In any case, I don't think it should be happening (if there's a demonstrated consensus for it, please point me to it). Rd232 talk 09:25, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Whether's its useless is a matter of judgement. The issue is whether applying DEFAULTSORT in such cases automatically has consensus. Unless such consensus exists, it should cease. You're under edit restrictions requiring you not to make merely cosmetic changes (changes which have no effect on the rendered page) unless the changes have demonstrable consensus. DEFAULTSORT changes of any sort breach this restriction (unless they have demonstrable consensus). Where DEFAULTSORT leads to the article being sorted in categories under a different (better) letter heading, that consensus clearly exists from longstanding practice; by the time you get to the second and third word of a title, the sorting effects are comparatively trivial, and I'm not convinced there is a consensus for them. Maybe there is, but this is exactly the sort of thing you should be able to point somewhere and say "it's supported by this", or else stop and ask somewhere appropriate to confirm support. So please stop Smackbot making such DEFAULTSORT edits, unless or until you can show consensus for them. Rd232 talk 10:58, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing this edit to my attention, I have corrected the broken template which caused it.
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I'm letting you know because you recently moved the template. Auntof6 ( talk) 05:01, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi - your work de-linking date fragments is generally much needed. Just thought I'd draw your attention to the May 1968 in France article to which May 1968 redirects - some of these links may need disambiguation rather than removal. Warofdreams talk 04:05, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Rich, edits like
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Nice edit: "born May 2007" ... [3]. Cheers. -- Edcolins ( talk) 21:13, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
I am currently trying to determine a way to find all the articles related to United States topics without any banners. Are you aware of anyway to do that? -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:23, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
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You might have left me a note about your change a few weeks ago to allow all-uppercase or all-lowercase parameter names for {{ persondata}}. Rjwilmsi 16:34, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
in this edit to Ian Muir. cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 15:25, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
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<boilerplate>I have reviewed a sample of changes in the
good faith to confirm that (hopefuly) that SmackBot is operating reliably; this is for the overall good of Wikipedia and without malice.</boilerplate>. SmackBot appears to need some love when it comes to renaming of capitalised templates (eg. it's doing {{
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{{
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Smackbot updated Leap second losing the date in the UpdateAfter template ( diff). This means that the "dated flag" is showing for future events. Since this may lose information in a lot of articles I have stopped SmackBot. -- Q Chris ( talk) 14:29, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
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Check Template_talk:Infobox_officeholder#honorific-prefix. Is it possible that you make a database scan for me? Thanks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:00, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
On the entry for Gurnee Mills, the bot tried to add a date for a dl template, but ended up with more templates instead of the actual month and year. "{{Dead link|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}" I manually updated it. Andyross ( talk) 23:02, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Uh, well it was something I asked for, and given the MW bug is good, but right now it would mean SB making zero edits instead of a very few.
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When you're not too busy dealing with that time sump ANI, there are a bunch of articles in
this category and through (for example, all the subjects on
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WP:TIES. You can probably tag them all {{
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Ohconfucius
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Doubt I am allowed to put invisible tags on pages.
Rich
Farmbrough,
17:28, 26 October 2010 (UTC).
It appears that there are some 6,000 articles which are linked month-year (ie [[September 2008]]). Could you in some way integrate unlinking these into your AWB schedule? I can only manage 50 a day, at which rate it will take me over 3 months. Gracias amigo. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:19, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Hullo Mr. Farmbrough. I've started these. I was wondering if you could use AWB to edit III to XVI. Basically I need you to change the word "Governo" in each article to Government of and the word "Composizione del governo" to Composition of the government and also to remove the word "Dal" from appearing in each article. This would make it a lot easier. Perhaps you could also work out what the months are in english or check on Italian wikipedia to code something to do those too. E.g change "luglio" to July, "febbraio" to February, "marzo" to "March", "maggio" to "May" etc. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:40, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Yes or no?♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:50, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Excellent, thanks for that. Two things though "&endash;" is showing. Can you ensure it only shows the - not the coding? And it seems the custom for the govenrments is e.g Leone II Cabinet. Can you use AWB to change the links e.g from Government of Gasperi V to De Gasperi V Cabinet (his surname is De Gasperi not Gasperi) and Government of Rumor IV to Rumor IV Cabinet etc? User:Acterion is sorting out the page titles of the article he transferring from it wiki last night to ...Cabinet.. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:00, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
You're like Will Farell in Austin Powers 2.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:30, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
A while back you kindly did a search for me on section titles and redirect names containing the word "abuse". Please can you do exactly the same but with "workplace" this time.-- Penbat ( talk) 14:08, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
FYI - As someone who has worked on the page, it might interest you know that Archimedes, Inc. has been nominated for deletion. At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Archimedes,_Inc. Danieldis47 ( talk) 20:56, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Any chance SmackBot can replace uses of {{ imdb}} with {{ IMDb name}}? This only needs to be done in passing rather than en masse, but it's not ideal for an ambiguous template redirect to have so many transclusions. PC78 ( talk) 16:19, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Incidentally mixed case trademarks are deprecated at MOSCAPS.
Rich
Farmbrough,
18:30, 25 October 2010 (UTC).
This one is similar, but for the references section. It was already present in the article, but SmackBot saved the edit anyway (and did not fix the problem) [7]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:21, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
This is a cumulative diff of several consecutive smackbot edits [8]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:25, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Can I urge editors to take things both less and more seriously.
Rich
Farmbrough,
20:36, 26 October 2010 (UTC).
Please do not pipe/convert Wikilinks such as " Boston, Massachusetts" to " Boston, Massachusetts". The latter is twice as long in the source to the editor, and more ambiguous to the reader ( WP:EGG, WP:ASTONISH). Other editors have previously notified you of this behaviour. Please alter your scripts to do the opposite, where possible. — Sladen ( talk) 10:06, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Please stop de-canonicalising links where there is matching link and article text. These edits reduce the usefulness of the encyclopedia. — Sladen ( talk) 14:38, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
You're still doing this, please get a clear, documented, consensus, or stop and work on edits that are uncontroversial. — Sladen ( talk) 06:52, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for updating the persondata here; a quick note however that per WP:Persondata the birth and death dates should be in the format DD Month YYYY format or the Month DD, YYYY (with the month spelled out completely). Thank you, -- Jezebel'sPonyo bons mots 15:34, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Rich, it seems you are (automatically?) creating redirects (see WP:AN). It was noticed that some of these redirects contain a useless final punctuation (e.g. Geometric mean,). Is there a mistake in the script? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 10:19, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Hi Rich. Just letting you know that the thread at AN is apparently still vaguely active, as Fram has just brought up your recent redirect creations there. What method are you using to create these redirects? It seems that your using the bolded text in the lede of the article to decided what redirects to create. This suggests to me that you're using semi-automated or automated methods. If you're using semi-automated (or automated), why is this not clear in your edit summary? If you're using semi-automated, then why are you making mistakes like the ones mentioned at AN? They aren't particularly difficult to spot. - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 10:21, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Another duplicate - already at Gustave Niebaum. Made into redirect and added the ANB as "Further reading". PamD ( talk) 22:20, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
I was looking at pre-empting these, by creating redirects, unfortunately not all biogs have the middle name or initial in an obvious place.
Rich
Farmbrough,
03:45, 31 October 2010 (UTC).
I think what you are doing in adding these articles is very helpful, but I wonder if you intend to leave them as is, or to add more information. For example, I think the highest priorities would be to indicate why what they did was important enough to get them into the ANB in the first place, which is not always obvious. You're really in the best position to do this right at thetime you are making the article with the ANB entry in front of you--to do it later is considerably harder. And, if possible, it is very good to also have a freely-accessible reference. and google books makes it fairly easy. I think if you did these two things it would slow you down to maybe half speed, but it would make your work many times as useful. DGG ( talk ) 22:28, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
If you have a moment, would you mind taking a look at this comment and telling me if you think it is appropriate? Thank you. --- RepublicanJacobite The'FortyFive' 03:27, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Do you have approval for creating redirects from Lastname, Firstname to Firstname Lastname. I don't consider it harmful, but I thought you were under community sanctions. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 05:49, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Might be a one-ff but stopping since I wasn't sure. Bot replaced refimprive tage with one based on religion. Probably an easy fix but figured it was better to give you the heads up over having it throw the religion based template up on multiple unrelated articles. [9] Nice work besides the hiccup. Cptnono ( talk) 07:55, 31 October 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 07:56, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
– xeno talk 15:18, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:BOTPOL#Mass article creation and seek BRFA for any subsequent mass creation tasks; I think redirects are probably included in the spirit of this rule. – xeno talk 17:03, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
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This is in breach of the editing restriction. It does reflect a spelling correction renaming of the template, but nonetheless, it's exactly the sort of thing you're supposed not to do. Particularly as there are other issues arising at the moment, I must ask you to cease that specific change unless you can show consensus for it. Rd232 talk 11:11, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Thx for the quick revert. (I was still figuring out what to do when I saw it was gone. ;p) I can only say, if I'm going to be a sockpuppet, that's the guy I'd want to be puppeting (?) for. ;D TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura 07:35, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
As you are probably aware, I regularly spotcheck your contributions, and am glad to say that I haven't found real problems anymore (i.e. things that you should have checked and catched yourself instead of others). A few small remarks and questions: is there a reason that you remove the comment from the Persondata template, like here? And I think there is a small error in your script, where you first use the defaultsort for the persondata template, and then correct the defaultsort, instead of the other way around, e.g. here. Similarly, here you correct the defaultsort but not the same entry in the persondata. Perhaps you can reverse the order of checking these? Fram ( talk) 21:50, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
This isn't a strong area for me, it's not clear to me why 2004 Governor General's Awards for example is sorting under "G". I poked around the templates it's transcluding, but I didn't see a defaultsort keyword in them. Gigs ( talk) 14:44, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
[[Category:Governor General's Awards]] [[Category:2004 in Canada|Governor General's Awards]] [[Category:2004 literary awards|Governor General's Awards]]
Content categories should always be explicit, and almost always are.
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Thank you for creating the list of duplicate words at User:Rich_Farmbrough/temp113. Now (deep breath), how much extra effort would it be to create a list of the 16219 articles that contain "the the"? This is one of my pet projects; I've found and fixed several thousand "the the" errors using AWB Google search and regexps, but the AWB Google search is frustrating to work with. A full list would keep me quiet for a while! -- John of Reading ( talk) 05:25, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Can you close VernoWhitney's RfA? Thanks! (looking for an admin to close; few online) Perseus! Talk to me 13:37, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
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Dear administrator Nagarjuna Akkineni - article semi protection requested. Unexplained dubious and disruptive edits BY -180.106.5.60 & 117.82.98.99 & Rajeshbieee - sock puppetry Administrator semi protection requested for this article immediately - USE TALK PAGE
( Roughstrikes ( talk) 14:48, 13 November 2010 (UTC)).
sure, will give explanation The user 180.106.5.60, 117.82.98.99 have used senseless edits and peacock terms like extraordinary, Most popular and extremly talented, to spoil the integrity and quality of article and are used excessively to defame and mask some of the facts in the article. some edits are also being done in removing the reflist Tag in the references section.
I request a strong scrutiny and surveillance on this article on the use of Unexplained edits by any IP ADDRESS AND USE OF PEACOCK TERMS. IN THE NEXT DUBIOUS EDIT USING PEACOCK TERMS OR DISRUPTING REFERENCE TAGS, PLEASE UNDO THE EDIT AND SEMI PROTECT THE ARTICLE. I am not interested in things like Height of the person. What I look for is a semi protection of this article. And peacock term which try to mislead real facts of the article.( Roughstrikes ( talk) 15:11, 13 November 2010 (UTC)).
further,
Is there any chance to add the first image in the below link, as a profile picture in the article.
how to make the first image of the actor in the link licenced??? to add this in wiki???
is it possible for u to add it??? - the first image of the actor in the below link
http://www.shortfun.com/akkineni-nagarjuna-5263
( Roughstrikes ( talk) 16:44, 13 November 2010 (UTC)).
sure will post image request,
but could this image be added???
http://www.extramirchi.com/events/filmfare-awards-south-exclusive-photo-gallery/attachment/56th-filmfare-south-awards-8/ or http://www.extramirchi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/56th-Filmfare-south-Awards-8.jpg
the above pic is not a copy right i guess, as it was freely uploaded by the originator
excluding person in white dress - who is KJ yesudas
( Roughstrikes ( talk) 17:00, 13 November 2010 (UTC)).
Please be more careful when applying corrections, particularly in abbreviated journal names (which are highly variable). In this edit you created an error. I have fixed it for you. -- Scray ( talk) 05:23, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
i forget now who the reflink bot is, but can you request it for this page.( Lihaas ( talk) 00:25, 15 November 2010 (UTC)).
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ah. wasnt sure it was your bot. but i just nominated this for itn and there are bare refs. thanks in advance.( Lihaas ( talk) 00:35, 15 November 2010 (UTC)).
messed up "Update after" in Leap second again so that it displayed "invalid expression" in the article diff. -- Q Chris ( talk) 10:32, 15 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 10:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Template:Disputed chem does not have a parameter for the date. Hence, there is no use of such edits. -- Leyo 12:48, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Blimey, that was quick! thanks! best wishes DBaK ( talk) 16:22, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Eliminating such edits would save time of the editors who monitor recent changes and their watchlists. May I ask you to do so? Materialscientist ( talk) 11:45, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, Just a suggestion that this could be done using the -adj switch in the Convert template. Cavrdg ( talk) 07:08, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
49.30-mile (79.34-km)
{{convert|49.30|mi|km|adj=on}}
In thr last couple of days you seem to have resumed using your main account for automated editing. Please stop, get approval for this process and use a separate account for this. Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 17:15, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, the only obstacle stopping this current GA candidate from GA i think is the references. But isn't there a bot which can fill out the references with cite web |url|title=|publisher=|accessdate=? If so can you arrange it to sort out the references?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:47, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Can you reply? I could have sworn there was a reference bot.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:45, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey, very good work, how did you generate that list?-- Jimbo Wales ( talk) 14:39, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
There were two articles entitled "The White Company". I was attempting to change the title to the first " The White Company" to " The White Company, The Novel - and the second article with same name to: " The White Company (The Medieval Mercenaries). I failed and my attempts to correct failed. Can you please correct. All criticism accepted - am deeply sorrow - will not attempt again until I am fully versed in how to do it, etc., etc., etc. Thanks. Mugginsx ( talk) 20:40, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that smackbot is replacing _ characters in C typenames like size_t. It most recently did this in offsetof and I see that you fixed one of the changes. I wonder if a rule to exclude titles that match /.*_t$/ would be sufficient to avoid these pages. -- Autopilot ( talk) 12:57, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
I have to admit I personally dont care where it goes but since it really doesnt affect the article and is usually not even displayed I admit there is a lot of logic ot your idea of putting at the end. Its really not a part of the article anyway other than to gather basic data about the articles for different reasons. What is the Person authority, Im not familiar with that one. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:02, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
— Spike Toronto 20:07, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
Your subpage User:Rich Farmbrough/temp17 has a bunch of categories on it, or more accurately it is in a bunch of categories. I noticed because I was looking at the category for articles tagged for {{prose}} and it was in the oldest month. Did you want to change that to [[:category:... with the colon first so it is a link to the category or is it serving some purpose that didn't occur to me yet? RJFJR ( talk) 18:43, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Rich, I happened upon you via the Wikiproject Biography. After looking at the edit history and Talk page on the Jacqueline Hernández article, it became clear to me that this article could use some help. While I do not know the subject of this article personally, I happened to meet her very briefly in part of my work within her industry. While on the subject of WP, she mentioned that the existing version of the Wikipedia article about her was created by a family member of hers who - as you can see - was entirely unaware of the policies and guidelines here on Wikipedia.
In the interest of bringing this article up to Wikipedia's own WP:BLP standards, I've drafted a proposed revision which currently lives in my userspace here: User:Jeff_Bedford/Proposed_draft_of_Jacqueline_Hernandez_article
The main revisions I've made in this draft include:
Normally I'd implement these proposed changes myself; however I thought it would be helpful to get a second set of eyes prior to doing so. If you have a moment, might you be able to take a peek and advise on whether my draft is a step in the right direction? Cheers, Jeff Bedford ( talk) 22:02, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Why, when I planned ot get up at 5 this morning am I still on-wiki at 4:32?
Rich
Farmbrough,
04:32, 17 November 2010 (UTC).
Per your restrictions, would you please remove the capitalisation of {{ death date}} from your AWB rules. See an example here, and in future please take more care when using AWB to spot these yourself. I've tried running the normal AWB, and it doesn't appear to change the template when testing at Anne Brontë. Cheers, - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 10:56, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
Update after uses numeric dates, see [10] for your bot's errors. 134.253.26.6 ( talk) 16:38, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
He Rich, did I see correctly Smackbot making a null-edit here? No harm done, just harder for others to spot the changes made just before it... L.tak ( talk) 16:51, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I sincerely apologise that this dispute on a user's financial COI has spilled on to your talk page. It shouldn't have escalated the way it did, but the issue has been resolved. This is my first time encountering a paid editor, and I apologise for any incovenience that the dispute may have caused.-- res Laozi speak 05:50, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
For making edits like this and this and this. You need to sort this out: it is a violation of your editing restrictions and cannot be that hard to make the bot respect them. Rd232 talk 16:57, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Please fix. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 17:34, 15 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 17:48, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Please do not use AWB on radio station articles. In categories they are listed alphabetically by call name, and the user who created them decided to sort them using all upper case letters. AWB "fixes" this by changing the letters following the first to lower case, but this causes a sorting error in the categories, which are case sensitive. Thanks, 117Avenue ( talk) 18:46, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, Rich! Category:Statements with common sense issues was correctly speedy deleted as C1, but Femto Bot recreated it. Could you reinstruct Femto Bot, and then redelete the category, please? -- Bsherr ( talk) 19:45, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
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On 7 November 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Janet Bragg, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that aviator Janet Bragg was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial Pilot Licence? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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The journal no longer makes those claims.
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Hey! Hi there! [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 21:46, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Test Sb message cleaning.
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Revise user page.
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As far as I can tell these edits [12] [13] [14] are a violation of your editing restriction. The thousands of other edits today with the same summary don't look particularly different. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:26, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Looking at more edits, I noticed [15], which replaced "God is is" with "God it is". That was a manually reviewed edit. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 02:38, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
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some users have complained about smackbot captilising tags unecessary, you might want to check up the robot-- Lerdthenerd ( talk) 16:49, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Here are three more edits, since my first post today, which are actually SmackBot edits run under your main account [16] [17] [18]. It is clear from your edit history that you are actually performing the SmackBot task to date the "criticism section" template, but running it from your main account instead of the approved bot account. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 02:46, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
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Let's go back to basics here:
It's about time you figured this out, given your experience. My patience in terms of you not respecting your edit restrictions is starting to run a bit low. I've given you plenty of leeway to fix the issues, and it's about time you sorted things out so that you don't repeatedly breach them. Sort it out, or I'm going to seriously think about blocking you for violating the restrictions, something I had not seriously thought I'd have to contemplate. Rd232 talk 08:57, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
As a reminder, the edit restriction excludes "changes that are built-in to stock AWB". I've just tried to replicate your edit [20] using AWB, and was unable to. Now I'm not too hot on AWB, so if I've missed something please do explain, but it looks to me like this edit is only possible by programming AWB's find-and-replace function with the desired change. This clearly does not qualify as a change "built-in", any more than MediaWiki is "built-in" to PHP. Please clarify how you made the edit. Rd232 talk 14:12, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
{{
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fails, whereas {{
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is epic.
Rich
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22:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC).
Rd232 14:12. (first post in this sub-thread): "Please clarify how you made the edit."
Rd232, 22:38. "You haven't actually replied to the issue of why you made that edit." -- so no how, why (is your reply to Rd232?). -
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In view of the minor nature of the block evasion mentioned above [22] (one laconic comment to a Wikipedia Signpost talk page), I'm not going to extend the block. Instead, I will take it into account if another block is necessary for not complying with the edit restrictions, so that it will be 72 hours instead of 48. Rd232 talk 14:12, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich. Can you please apply special scrutiny when delinking "March NNN", as you did here. Most instances of "March NNN" are likely to be racing car designations, not date fragments. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 21:56, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Note this and march 1968 on dating page...
Rich
Farmbrough,
19:30, 14 November 2010 (UTC).
...for a very welcome invitation. Do let me know how I can contribute, or...prevent de-tributing. -- Bsherr ( talk) 18:39, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
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...you have a wikiproject for bacon?
Isn't that a bit...obsessive? Half Shadow 18:56, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
So after the discussion above you not only don't bother to reply, but continue to use AWB on your main account, and to do unvarnished template redirect replacements using AWB, which is an edit you know full well is in violation of your edit restrictions, and an edit which you should be manually reviewing. [23] Sorry, but enough is enough. If I have to block you for you to get the message that these edit restrictions are more than mere blather, so be it. At least it'll give you time to sort out your Smackbot and AWB programming so that the restrictions are respected. Rd232 talk 20:30, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Are you evading your block or is someone trying to give that impression? [25] Fram ( talk) 10:14, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Rich, have you modified your AWB settings to prevent changes which only change casing, only change white space, (I believe this is as simply as checking two check boxes on the form - if those don't work, as I've said before I'm happy to lend any coding assistance that I can, or you could ask the AWB developers) or only change a template to a redirect? (in the case of template redirects, except those which are built into AWB and other substantive changes are being made at the same time). This is intended as a direct question, and I would appreciate a direct response. </ec> So why were you signed out at the time? That doesn't seem like "automatic" behaviour to me. Thanks, - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 11:29, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
18-Nov-2010: Well, I am getting hints, from everyone, about the bad news with the limited parser functions, but "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" or "parser-ade" (parser-aid). Due to concerns about moving templates to other wikis, we need to assume the worst-case, where many people will have dinky, limited versions of MediaWiki. We can quickly write work-around templates, because we finally know the performance limits, of how the 40-nest restriction is fatal (rather than some murky "Don't worry about performance"). The use of too many nested if-elses will cause a template to die, some day soon, when combined with other complex templates. For example, the current {{ Str_len}} template (which counts length by checking 100s, 10s and ones) is using enough if-elses to devour 9-nest levels of the 40-nest limit. I am creating a {{ Strlen_small}}, by using older, simpler algorithms, which will only use 3-nest levels (rather than 9). I created one of the character templates to handle all the accented characters in foreign languages. Then, we can consider which infoboxes (and such) need to use optimized utility templates to avoid the 40-nest limit. Also, by listing template variations (under each "See also"), then casual users will be alerted that they might need to use a streamlined, more efficient version of a utility template. Meanwhile, if people keep discussing the primitive limits of MediaWiki, then eventually, the concerns might reach a "critical mass" where better parser-function sets become standard. I suspect that some people wanted to show each string-function "what-links-here" as proof that "80,000 articles" will use such functions if available. So, progress can be made, on many different fronts, to provide interim solutions, while also educating people about better parser-function sets in the next releases. The important strategy is to have multiple paths of success, like usernames on different wikis, so that progress can be made in a wide range of areas, when thwarted along some paths. I can take each better template to become a similar one on German Wikipedia, as a Vorlage:Strlen_klein, so that other-language Wikipedias can propagate those templates based on their knowledge of German WP. There are many different avenues to make improvements with these issues. - Wikid77 ( talk) 04:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, i just noticed you editted loads of bacon related articles today, which was amusing, are you trying to tell us something or are you just erm hungry XD! any ways happy editting-- Lerdthenerd ( talk) 09:46, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Please revert your last edit to {{ Geographic location}}. The addition of {{PAGENAME}} causes the geobox to be preceded with the pagename, which is totally pointless (in most cases it's the same as the centre label anyway) and disruptive to formatting. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 00:08, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
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OK, let's try and wrap up some recommendations:
On a related issue, it's not clear to me how redirects get into the AWB list. There is an unsatisfactory discussion here. Anyone? PS It would be good to see Smackbot up and running again, if you can sort out the coding to ensure it behaves in a manner consistent with the editing restriction. Rd232 talk 18:41, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Additional: if you have any issues when you start editing with AWB or programming Smackbot, then ask me or the community. Describe what you want to do, or do a single edit for demonstration purposes, and ask. Don't go off doing thousands of edits, mixing in ones which are near the border of the editing restrictions. Rd232 talk 22:46, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm starting to have issues with your attitude. You haven't engaged with this issue anything like as much as you could have done, and your last couple of remarks quite unhelpful - combined with a bit of needless block evasion. My response to your entirely inappropriate remark to Fram almost involved a wet fish; and since she's been involved with this issue for some time, a dismissive "stalker" is unhelpful. Nor was I defending her. Please, take a step back and consider that we all have the same objective, which is getting you back to making lots of improvements to Wikipedia - minus edits that don't have consensus, per your edit restrictions and AWB rules. Rd232 talk 00:22, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich Farmbrough. You worked on Jeff Ragsdale's page at one time. Ragsdale is currently being harassed by IP number 71.190.77.101. This person, whom we have identified through correct legal means, is a fellow actor and he started his attack on Ragsdale by submitting a fake resume regarding Ragsdale on craigslist. Then said person started a commentary regarding Jeff Ragsdale's Wikipedia "notability". This whole issue has now snowballed into a "notability" issue on Wikipedia because of IP number 71.190.77.101's false claims regarding Ragsdale. My question to you is can you leave a message on Theda's page about your sentiments regarding Ragsdale's notability? Theda has since reinserted the notability tag on Ragsdale's Wikipedia page. Ragsdale is clearly a notable person. One would just have to look at the rich sources, and all of his television and film credits, as well as his international activism. Or could you possibly point me in other directions? Richard Peterson 11-20-10 —Preceding unsigned comment added by RichardPeterson44 ( talk • contribs) 03:12, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Any reason why you have yet again restarted your faulty script to create redirects from the capitalized words on articles that don't match the article title? You have for the third time created the redirect Lucius Caelius to Lactantius. You also created the redirect from Designations to Star designation, which is only one of the many possible targets (I changed it to a redirect to Designation instead). The fact that this kind of redirect creation is problematic has been shown to you before, so I wonder why you started it again. And wheren't you just blocked for making this kind of edits? It's not as if it is a one-off error, there is also this one... Fram ( talk) 19:25, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
What is the intention of edits like this one? It does nothing to affect the article's position in the category listing for either of the categories it is in. Gurch ( talk) 13:44, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
would be
Considering that most people defaultsorts have a "," after the first word (Locke, John), they sort different from every non-person "Locke" article anyway, so the argument that uppercase defaultsorts are needed because biographies have them is not very convincing. Fram ( talk) 15:24, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
This edit from today [26] is a violation of your editing restriction.
Also, you appear to be inappropriately running SmackBot's "add references section" job on AWB under your main account. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 18:29, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
This edit [27] is also quite odd. You added a reflist tag, but there are no footnotes. Your edit summary claimed to be moving a portal tag, but you didn't. If you're manually checking these, make sure the edit summary matches the actual edit. Otherwise, it has the appearance that you didn't actually check the edit at all. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 18:41, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
I've unblocked SmackBot, presuming that you now understand what needs to be done to respect the edit restrictions. Please edit with appropriate caution in terms of testing and reviewing etc. Rd232 talk 00:48, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
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I don't think your addition of a Bacon Portal tag on this page is correct. The first line of the Bacon Portal reads Bacon is a cured meat prepared from a pig and, obviously, Turkey Bacon doesn't meet that criteria. It's also an inferior product to 'real' bacon and I think the addition of your Portal imbues it with undeserved kudos Obscurasky ( talk) 18:55, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Len Garrison achievements are recognised as he was made one of the 100 Great Black Britons Igbo ( talk) 21:12, 19 November 2010 (UTC)Lagosman
Can you please use capital letters when adding persondata? I know it doesn't make any difference but it's better to have everything in the same style. I suggest you use the built-in AWB feature instead of using a modified one. Thanks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 02:12, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
I have twice reverted a faulty edit of yours to this article. Please can you check your code and, if en edit is reverted, do not make the same edit again? Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 13:16, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Two updates they might be interesting for you:
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rev 7419-- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:00, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I don't think this edit was useful - the whole article content had previously been removed and replaced by the {{ copyviocore}} template which says, amongst other things, "Do not edit this page until an administrator or an OTRS agent has resolved this issue.". As it was, the page turned up in the Category:Stubs for stub-sorting, though I had to look at a past version of the page to sort it... and then realised how daft it all was and reverted your changes instead! So whether by hand or by bot, perhaps you could avoid adding tags to articles in this state? Thanks. PamD ( talk) 21:12, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
...of edits like this? Ladyof Shalott 01:17, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Do you know the full name of this Portuguese football player? Many sources affirm Mário Rodrigues João, while other ones state only Mário João. If you know something more, plese, write me here. -- VAN ZANT ( talk) 10:24, 23 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 11:01, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
I think the name says it all, but what does Translate Bot do? And the article list? Perseus, Son of Zeus 18:19, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Error introduced at this edit. - Station1 ( talk) 05:44, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
When you are cleaning up the Smackbot errors of inserting Currentmonth into articles, perhaps it is easier if you at the same time also clean up the CurrentDay that Smackbot inserted in the same edits at the same position? [28], [29], ... Fram ( talk) 22:05, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 November 27; your Category:Main page is up for merging. Nyttend ( talk) 18:19, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot recently made a load of fixes to the article
Borders of the oceans - diff here
[30]. Whilst most things it did were valid, one change introduced an error - the third change shown in the diff.
The article contains some quotes with explanatory text given in square brackets. One of these square bracketed sections contains a wikilink at the end. Therefore in the code it ends with three ]'s. SmackBot removed one of these brackets, presumably because three brackets usually indicate an error. (Interestingly, other three-bracket groups in the article weren't amended by SmackBot.)
Is this something that can be amended in the Bot's code, or do you think that it will be such a rare occurrence that it's not worth fixing? Cheers,
Bazonka (
talk)
20:31, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Would you put WP:MED on the list for the recent changes page? Thanks, WhatamIdoing ( talk) 23:47, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
FYI, I've added SmackBot and Yobot's current edit war at Human hair growth to WP:LAME#Bot vs bot. —Angr ( talk) 14:24, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Apart from the outright errors, noted a number of times before, and now again shown with the Centerville/Centreville redirect which I speedy deleted as a R2 implausibe redirect, you also create a fair number of redirects which should be disambiguations instead. looking only at the last ten Township redirects you created, Woodward to Swatara, four of them should not have been a redirect but instead a disambiguation: Woodbury Township, Windham Township, Wilmington Township and Todd Township. Fram ( talk) 11:12, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
These need to be promoted to DAB pages, then Fram. I was aware that some of them probably would, a redirect is still better than no page at all. ( I often think of a redirect as equivalent to a DAB page with one entry./) Perhaps you would like to look at doing that? If you follow my talk page as closely as you seem you will know it is something on my mind.
Rich
Farmbrough,
14:01, 24 November 2010 (UTC).
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Since it was questioned by Kumioko, and Rich ignored the issue, see Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Mass_article_creation. There is no specific exception for redirects, but (Kumioko) it applies to articles not talk pages so your task sounds exempt. Rich: I presume "RS" is directed at me (Rd232). First, creation of redirects which may plausibly involve a need for disambiguation should involve checking for that, and anyone creating such redirects on a substantial scale without checking would be asked to do that whether they submitted the edit using AWB or a carrier pigeon. Please stop taking the attitude that whatever you're doing is unimprovable and that any resulting problems should be cleaned up by people who find them. You're experienced enough to know better, and I find it increasingly bizarre that you find making minor course corrections such trouble. Rd232 talk 21:38, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
Just FYI. Smackbot clean wiped the United States diplomatic cables leak article. - Amog | Talk • contribs 19:56, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
{{ Converted}} was broken after your edit. Can you please fix it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:41, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I had a look at Francis Wingfield for DYK, and it seems to be coming up quite short of the required 1500 chars, especially since 2/3 of the article is a block quote. -- Worm 11:08, 26 November 2010 (UTC)