There is a vote taking place in which we could use your input. — GabeMc ( talk) 00:48, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
It appears as if the script you use for the semi-automatic category replacement in album articles has an error (or the log file it is based on is not correct), since many of the more recent ones didn't do what they were supposed to do, according to the edit summary: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. Fram ( talk) 14:06, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
See Mysterious glitch (cont.). 75.47.154.175 ( talk) 19:23, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Please, read this discussion! -- Treisijs ( talk) 13:03, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, looks like there's a minor error with SmackBot doing a replacement on the {{tone}} tag. I noticed that in an article it replaced "tone" with ":Inappropriate tone"... the extra colon at the front broke the syntax ( diff). I removed the colon at everything's fine now. -- Drm310 ( talk) 14:56, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
There are 5895 templates in Category:ISO 3166 code from name templates, 4060 in Category:ISO 3166 name from code templates, 245 in Category:ISO 3166 name from code country templates, and 1868 in Category:ISO 3166 code from name country templates, or in total some 12,000 templates you created over 6 months ago. At first glance, none of these is used anywhere. Can you indicate whether and where these are used (and if so, which categories of these are and which aren't), or if they aren't used, why they shouldn't be deleted (per WP:TFD, "Reasons to delete a template 3. The template is not used, either directly or by template substitution (the latter cannot be concluded from the absence of backlinks), and has no likelihood of being used") Fram ( talk) 12:50, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated the lot at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 January 27. Fram ( talk) 15:19, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Last month, the stubs guideline was edited so that it now recommends adding only one line, not two, before stub tags. I recall that, at one time, SmackBot performed these types of edits as part of gen-fixes; I am not sure if that is still the case but, in case it is, I wanted to let you know of the change. Best, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:53, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
- Wikipedia_talk:Stub/Archive_7#.22But_before_the_inter-Wiki_links.22 The proposal for the text in the project page
- Wikipedia_talk:Stub/Archive_8#Spacing Extensive discussion which also came up with CSS as the solution.
- Rich Farmbrough, 09:11, 2 September 2009 (UTC).
This page shows that 2 blank lines are needed to have the desired spaceing. One and zero are the same as we said in the referenced discussion (referenced in the change to the docs).
Rich
Farmbrough,
22:01, 4 February 2011 (UTC).
I have reopened the discussion here. Debresser ( talk) 09:59, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
SmackBot broke a Commons template, causing the Commons link to disappear, and creating a DEFAULTSORT conflict. This also happened a few days ago; if it helps, I could try to pore through my contributions to find where I fixed it. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 18:52, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
If you correct an error you made [6], please make sure that your correction (or your earlier edit) are actually relevant. Adding an "uncategorized" tag to a good article with 20 categories is not really appropriate.
And you didn't correct this instance of unsubstituted dates...
Hi Rich... just came across this in the list of wanted categories... should you perhaps think about uncoupling the cat from these tests, or are you still working on them? Grutness... wha? 14:09, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi with regards, to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Rasner how can I help, can you please clarify, how, or where this needs to be "cleanup" I would appreciate your thoughts, many thanks Theillusioner ( talk) 04:35, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Many thanks for the reply; only your name is sited in the watch list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SmackBot
Anyhow, I will take your suggestions under consideration, thank you, I do feel it’s much better that editors take time explain where we go wrong, not just delete our work… “of acorns grow”
But pray tell, who keeps putting this "close connection with its subject" and closing off the article. Initially, thought I had written this in an "neutral point of view" I even corrected some errors here too;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_401#Credits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Streets#Cast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Visitation_%28film%29#Cast
If I may be candid, rather than just close off an article without any detailed explanation, or solution, I do think it would be more productive to open the talk page then we can discuss amicably, and I can help to comply and make the article a more notable piece…thank you
FYI I have never met or spoken to the subject
Theillusioner ( talk) 10:21, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Rich! Are you taking any requests for bot maintenance runs at the moment? I have a relatively small batch of replacements that needs to be made. Please let me know either way. Thanks!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); March 24, 2011; 16:20 (UTC)
Better download this http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/AutoWikiBrowser5201_rev7660.zip Optimised loading, much faster and less buggy. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:25, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich: How can I best pursue a request to have the Barn Church page renamed? Please see my comments on that article's Talk page. Thanks Headhitter ( talk) 21:22, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
How do I delete my Daniel Sargent article? I don't want to be considered a vandal, but I'm the one who made the article in the first place. I'm going to move his research from published works to the globalization article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Indevar ( talk • contribs) 15:23, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
I may have missed something, but at first sight you violated AWB rules of use and your editing restriction when you made 300plus edits removing a ":" after "redirect", even though this doesn't change the way these redirects work or look at all (e.g. [7] [8]). Any reason for this? Fram ( talk) 07:46, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
ThisparticularobsoletesyntacisnotedforcausingproblemsforthatreasonIhaveapprovaltoremovethecolon.Ontheotherhandthefewwherethespacewasinsertedseemedworthwhilesavingasspacesareimortanttoreadabilityalthoughperhapsyoudontagree.
Rich
Farmbrough,
11:36, 11 April 2011 (UTC).
Hey, just a quick question. Is repeatedly accusing another editor of article ownership considered a personal attack? I am curious. --- RepublicanJacobite The'FortyFive' 20:52, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Why does this bot keep recreating Category:Articles with trivia sections from October 2007-- Jac16888 Talk 00:00, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
NL-Aid has published a list of evidence against the organisation. Less proof has been submitted for UFO's around the world. I would take it very serious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joop Versteggen ( talk • contribs) 18:44, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
I can't figure out why, but your recent change to the template is causing {[[:Category:|Category:]]} to be added to image description pages. Could you take a look at it and see what's wrong? Reach Out to the Truth 16:36, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Does NASA have images without border boundaries? Answer here. -- Supreme Deliciousness ( talk) 22:33, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Rich, what was the point of
this edit? Your edit summary "make categories explicit" doesn't make sense. A DEFAULTSORT has been added, true; but the rest has little to do with categorisation - some whitespace has been condensed, a {{
end box}}
was changed to {{
s-end}}
, and {{
stationyears}}
was moved. Regarding this last, it was doing no harm where it was - all it does is categorise the article, so I believe that it's best placed with the categories. All in all, I think your edit fails
WP:AWB#Rules of use item 4, unless there's something subtle which I've missed. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
22:00, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Have added references from reliable 3rd party sources as Section 5.1. You may decide to remove tag. Classicalmusictherapy ( talk) 00:22, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
hi, you are requested to visit the article entitled, Kapil Muni Tiwary and see the references provided there. I am sure some of the tags attached to the article are not necessary now. Thank you for your guidance. Suggestions for improvement are always welcome. --arunbandana 06:04, 13 March 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arunbandana ( talk • contribs) 05:49, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Here. NW ( Talk) 02:33, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
[17] [18] [19] [20] [21]. Fram ( talk) 13:41, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Your bot slapped a "notability" notice on the Arimaa page. I'm sure just a couple of minutes perusing the links at the bottom of the page and a Google search will convince you of Arimaa's "notability." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa
Hello, please take a look at this page: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brânză topită. Burghiu ( talk) 13:44, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect What is american. Since you had some involvement with the What is american redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Kumioko ( talk) 15:16, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey, just to let you know I'm being bold and redirecting Category:Pages using magic words with template syntax to Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word. You created both, but the latter was created earlier and has an easier to understand title. If you disagree, feel free to revert and drop a note on my talk page :) Sorry to bug you! — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass ( talk • contribs) 20:11, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
[22] I could understand a human wanting a citation template after that sentence, but why would a bot want a citation there? It isn't replacing any previous template. Did it just drop a citation template randomly into an article? Art LaPella ( talk) 20:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Booth Hi Rich, just been helping with correcting Archbishop Booth's page (& note you were helpfully suggesting where further refs required. My big problem now is how to get his coat of arms uploaded - I am finding this to be very difficult and can only presume it's to do with licensing. Once we are acquainted (ie upon you're reply) and can detail why this is a non-issue. Await yrs Richard —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.82.155.28 ( talk) 03:17, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
I hadn't noticed until now, but when smackbot was unlinking years at the very end of 2009 (aha - I was away on holiday!) it unlinked 210 deliberate year links on the page range 1800 in New Zealand through to 2011 in New Zealand, so
which really kind of defeats the point! Could you please arrange for the bot to fix these? (some have been fixed manually already) dramatic ( talk) 06:50, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Check out this SmackBot diff; lots of table lines marked as changes that aren't really changes. Is this a line-ending thing? 87.82.201.203 ( talk) 11:25, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
SmackBot broke the math markup in transmission line with this edit which removed the trailing spaces from inside the math tags. I am guessing that the line was not recognised as being LaTeX because the tags were not on the same line. SpinningSpark 17:19, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Kindly clarify what clarification you would like to have on someone`s Date of birth, place of birth, Parents, etc. after & when they were quoted from a published reference source?-- Kumaripriya ( talk) 15:50, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your message, SmackBot does not generally add tags, but merely dates those that are already there. Regards,
Rich
Farmbrough,
20:48, 23 April 2011 (UTC).
Hey RF, Just leaving a note here reminding you to take a look at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 40. Thanks! -- Tim 1357 talk 05:04, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
About a year ago you ran a program that was making changes like this to ship articles that need a "by year" category. I can no longer find the threads where this was discussed but I believe that you ran this using another editor's script. If it's possible for you to dig up that script again I would be grateful if you could run it again. Brad ( talk) 21:11, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
By year categories should be added when infobox ship career has:
Any other heading is too arbitrary to count on. The idea behind 'ship by year' was to identify what year the ship was built. Class articles are another challenge as classes of ships sometimes span a decade in which they're built. If a class of ships were built during the 1970s then 1970s ships would suffice. But some classes spanned decades and |Built range= is not always filled in for Infobox ship class overview. Any ideas on how ship class articles could be done? Brad ( talk) 04:01, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. SmackBot has not touched Category talk:Pages with missing references list/fix log in over a month. Should it still be fixing pages with a missing references list? Thanks! — Jeff G. ツ 03:23, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Editor Marcus has again requested a move at Talk:Criticisms of socialism#Requested move 2, despite the failure of the 10 December 2010 to 21 January 2011 attempted move. I am notifying you as you were a commenter in the original discussion. -- Bejnar ( talk) 04:01, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm sure you will have a better idea of what you meant to do here than I do. As I'm sure you already know, redirecting the category will have no effect if the category is being populated by a template. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 10:42, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
In [23] this edit, SmackBot inserted a "who" tag. I don't think bots should insert such tags from context automatically. Did you insert it manually (which I think you should better not do with a botaccount for the obvious risk of confusion) or did the bot insert it by some rule? In this case I think enough cites for the "Many" are given after the next sentence, so I would personally just remove the tag... -- Windharp ( talk) 16:09, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
There are supposed to be four articles in {{ Copyedit_progress}} classified as "undated". However, upon clicking on the category, there are no articles. Any idea what could be causing the problem? -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:25, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to help a friend fixing her David L Boushey article, I usually work with webpages, but this is very different that using Dreamweaver to make a webpage (thing that I know how to do, that is why she ask me for help), So, I noticed that you and others "administrators" left some notes on top of the pages, I fixed already some of them, I think so, can you check that and be a little more specific in what part we still need to fix issues, thank you very much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.54.84 ( talk) 03:15, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, could you please bring back this template? I am working on some Konkani language articles. I hope to use it there in the case of external links.
Joyson Noel Holla at me! 14:15, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
You don't do may AWB edits anymore, but some of them still have problems with Persondata, like here adding date of birth twice, with different values and capitalization: here you did the same for date of birth and date of death, but this one you corrected afterwards (but with a non-consensus change of uppercase to lowercase); here you changed the capitalization of one template and placed it out of order. Oh, and [24] is the kind of edit you (or anyone else for that matter) aren't supposed to make with AWB or other tools. It's not a lot that goes wrong, but with the limited number of AWB edits you make, it's still a significant percentage that has the same old problems. Fram ( talk) 07:19, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
message me the code for me please — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nightnurse denise ( talk • contribs) 20:46, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
I'm not too sure of the weasel word reference to the above article. Aboriginal , Aboriginal Australians and Indigenous Australians are all pretty much the same. The reason I linked Aboriginal back to Indigenous Australians is that this article includes all Australians considered as Indigenous (not just mainland). If an article existed for the specific peoples of the area I would have linked back to that (but there wasn't one). Could you please clarify as to why these are considered as weasel words? Or if you think linking back to Indigenous Australian is more appropriate then why not make the change? Hughesdarren ( talk) 08:49, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
The article Frederick Scott has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
notice, but please explain why in your
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the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
will stop the
proposed deletion process, but other
deletion processes exist. The
speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and
articles for deletion allows discussion to reach
consensus for deletion.
Beeblebrox (
talk)
06:34, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Please don't replace an incorrect category with a correct one, if that correct one is already in the article. Removing the incorrect one is sufficient in that case. You duplicated a category on the 10th [26], and added it a third time on the 11th [27]. I have removed two of the three cases. Fram ( talk) 12:08, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
...for your contribution to the article New Guinea Singing Dog. Chrisrus ( talk) 02:56, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
What is wrong with the list of faculty members of the faculty and why is that dubious?
Take care, Borchica ( talk) 21:41, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I really appreciate the feedback you left me on my page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii%27s_Opportunity_Probation_with_Enforcement_%28HOPE%29. I'm new to writing Wikipedia pages and can use all the help I can get! I've made some updates to the page. If you have time would you mind looking at them and making additional suggestions if needed?
Thank you, Maria (mcod8582) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcod8582 ( talk • contribs) 00:56, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Location Format, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Location Format and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Location Format during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Klein zach 02:41, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Unsubstituted dates [28], and adding the same parameter twice, with different capitalization and different value, in Persondata [29]. Both have happened a lot before this, but it doesn't seem to be solved. Fram ( talk) 06:48, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Your edit raises a couple/few questions. First, the commentator is the footnoted writer. "A commentator from the Financial Times ..."? "Jamil Anderlini of the Financial Times ..."? Any preference? I thought the comments, not the commentator, were the interesting part; given he's basically substantive, but to me at least otherwise unknown. I'd stick with my original.
Second, what's "Build p609," if I may ask, in your explanatory notes to the edit? I've found hints re "609" in a templates' search but nothing that seemed fruitful.
Thanks. Swliv ( talk) 17:57, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, changes have since been made to the following article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmithStreetSolutions to amend its 'orphaned' status. Also, reference links have been added to ascertain notability. Would it be possible to have these tags removed? Please let me know any other ways we can improve the article. Thanks 116.228.36.134 ( talk) 03:58, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi
I've just put in a couple of new categories for the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Welfare
I just want to check that I'm getting this right. There was an uncategorized link there but a couple of categories had already been added. I've added a couple more categories that seemed logical. I then deleted the uncategorized link, should I have done this? I'm only asking because the link was left in before when the first categories were added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kotch5 ( talk • contribs) 12:24, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I just noticed you did this this. Can you fix em or move the templates so the edits don't produce red links? I've redirected templates so they are no longer red.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:07, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
It is rare I see a greater good argument on ANI. Thanks for brightening my day! PS. You may want to copy your bolded oppose to the beginning of your post, it is easy to miss. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:08, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:WPDinotopia. Since you had some involvement with the Template:WPDinotopia redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Kumioko ( talk) 23:52, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich I've been working on improving the Wikipedia entry on Nicole Krauss - providing links and references and deleting at least one peacock statement. Is it OK for untagging now please? Thanks Headhitter ( talk) 19:23, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice - I've now untagged it Headhitter ( talk) 16:12, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
I've also been working on the Gwyneth Herbert article and have sourced and added references for all the biographical material. Could this be untagged now too please? Thanks. Headhitter ( talk) 21:18, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
I now see that another user has already untagged it. Headhitter ( talk) 16:13, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
There is a vote taking place in which we could use your input. — GabeMc ( talk) 00:48, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
It appears as if the script you use for the semi-automatic category replacement in album articles has an error (or the log file it is based on is not correct), since many of the more recent ones didn't do what they were supposed to do, according to the edit summary: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. Fram ( talk) 14:06, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
See Mysterious glitch (cont.). 75.47.154.175 ( talk) 19:23, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Please, read this discussion! -- Treisijs ( talk) 13:03, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, looks like there's a minor error with SmackBot doing a replacement on the {{tone}} tag. I noticed that in an article it replaced "tone" with ":Inappropriate tone"... the extra colon at the front broke the syntax ( diff). I removed the colon at everything's fine now. -- Drm310 ( talk) 14:56, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
There are 5895 templates in Category:ISO 3166 code from name templates, 4060 in Category:ISO 3166 name from code templates, 245 in Category:ISO 3166 name from code country templates, and 1868 in Category:ISO 3166 code from name country templates, or in total some 12,000 templates you created over 6 months ago. At first glance, none of these is used anywhere. Can you indicate whether and where these are used (and if so, which categories of these are and which aren't), or if they aren't used, why they shouldn't be deleted (per WP:TFD, "Reasons to delete a template 3. The template is not used, either directly or by template substitution (the latter cannot be concluded from the absence of backlinks), and has no likelihood of being used") Fram ( talk) 12:50, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated the lot at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 January 27. Fram ( talk) 15:19, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Last month, the stubs guideline was edited so that it now recommends adding only one line, not two, before stub tags. I recall that, at one time, SmackBot performed these types of edits as part of gen-fixes; I am not sure if that is still the case but, in case it is, I wanted to let you know of the change. Best, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:53, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
- Wikipedia_talk:Stub/Archive_7#.22But_before_the_inter-Wiki_links.22 The proposal for the text in the project page
- Wikipedia_talk:Stub/Archive_8#Spacing Extensive discussion which also came up with CSS as the solution.
- Rich Farmbrough, 09:11, 2 September 2009 (UTC).
This page shows that 2 blank lines are needed to have the desired spaceing. One and zero are the same as we said in the referenced discussion (referenced in the change to the docs).
Rich
Farmbrough,
22:01, 4 February 2011 (UTC).
I have reopened the discussion here. Debresser ( talk) 09:59, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
SmackBot broke a Commons template, causing the Commons link to disappear, and creating a DEFAULTSORT conflict. This also happened a few days ago; if it helps, I could try to pore through my contributions to find where I fixed it. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 18:52, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
If you correct an error you made [6], please make sure that your correction (or your earlier edit) are actually relevant. Adding an "uncategorized" tag to a good article with 20 categories is not really appropriate.
And you didn't correct this instance of unsubstituted dates...
Hi Rich... just came across this in the list of wanted categories... should you perhaps think about uncoupling the cat from these tests, or are you still working on them? Grutness... wha? 14:09, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi with regards, to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Rasner how can I help, can you please clarify, how, or where this needs to be "cleanup" I would appreciate your thoughts, many thanks Theillusioner ( talk) 04:35, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Many thanks for the reply; only your name is sited in the watch list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SmackBot
Anyhow, I will take your suggestions under consideration, thank you, I do feel it’s much better that editors take time explain where we go wrong, not just delete our work… “of acorns grow”
But pray tell, who keeps putting this "close connection with its subject" and closing off the article. Initially, thought I had written this in an "neutral point of view" I even corrected some errors here too;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_401#Credits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Streets#Cast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Visitation_%28film%29#Cast
If I may be candid, rather than just close off an article without any detailed explanation, or solution, I do think it would be more productive to open the talk page then we can discuss amicably, and I can help to comply and make the article a more notable piece…thank you
FYI I have never met or spoken to the subject
Theillusioner ( talk) 10:21, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Rich! Are you taking any requests for bot maintenance runs at the moment? I have a relatively small batch of replacements that needs to be made. Please let me know either way. Thanks!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); March 24, 2011; 16:20 (UTC)
Better download this http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/AutoWikiBrowser5201_rev7660.zip Optimised loading, much faster and less buggy. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:25, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich: How can I best pursue a request to have the Barn Church page renamed? Please see my comments on that article's Talk page. Thanks Headhitter ( talk) 21:22, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
How do I delete my Daniel Sargent article? I don't want to be considered a vandal, but I'm the one who made the article in the first place. I'm going to move his research from published works to the globalization article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Indevar ( talk • contribs) 15:23, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
I may have missed something, but at first sight you violated AWB rules of use and your editing restriction when you made 300plus edits removing a ":" after "redirect", even though this doesn't change the way these redirects work or look at all (e.g. [7] [8]). Any reason for this? Fram ( talk) 07:46, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
ThisparticularobsoletesyntacisnotedforcausingproblemsforthatreasonIhaveapprovaltoremovethecolon.Ontheotherhandthefewwherethespacewasinsertedseemedworthwhilesavingasspacesareimortanttoreadabilityalthoughperhapsyoudontagree.
Rich
Farmbrough,
11:36, 11 April 2011 (UTC).
Hey, just a quick question. Is repeatedly accusing another editor of article ownership considered a personal attack? I am curious. --- RepublicanJacobite The'FortyFive' 20:52, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Why does this bot keep recreating Category:Articles with trivia sections from October 2007-- Jac16888 Talk 00:00, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
NL-Aid has published a list of evidence against the organisation. Less proof has been submitted for UFO's around the world. I would take it very serious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joop Versteggen ( talk • contribs) 18:44, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
I can't figure out why, but your recent change to the template is causing {[[:Category:|Category:]]} to be added to image description pages. Could you take a look at it and see what's wrong? Reach Out to the Truth 16:36, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Does NASA have images without border boundaries? Answer here. -- Supreme Deliciousness ( talk) 22:33, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Rich, what was the point of
this edit? Your edit summary "make categories explicit" doesn't make sense. A DEFAULTSORT has been added, true; but the rest has little to do with categorisation - some whitespace has been condensed, a {{
end box}}
was changed to {{
s-end}}
, and {{
stationyears}}
was moved. Regarding this last, it was doing no harm where it was - all it does is categorise the article, so I believe that it's best placed with the categories. All in all, I think your edit fails
WP:AWB#Rules of use item 4, unless there's something subtle which I've missed. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
22:00, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Have added references from reliable 3rd party sources as Section 5.1. You may decide to remove tag. Classicalmusictherapy ( talk) 00:22, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
hi, you are requested to visit the article entitled, Kapil Muni Tiwary and see the references provided there. I am sure some of the tags attached to the article are not necessary now. Thank you for your guidance. Suggestions for improvement are always welcome. --arunbandana 06:04, 13 March 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arunbandana ( talk • contribs) 05:49, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Here. NW ( Talk) 02:33, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
[17] [18] [19] [20] [21]. Fram ( talk) 13:41, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Your bot slapped a "notability" notice on the Arimaa page. I'm sure just a couple of minutes perusing the links at the bottom of the page and a Google search will convince you of Arimaa's "notability." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa
Hello, please take a look at this page: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brânză topită. Burghiu ( talk) 13:44, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect What is american. Since you had some involvement with the What is american redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Kumioko ( talk) 15:16, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey, just to let you know I'm being bold and redirecting Category:Pages using magic words with template syntax to Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word. You created both, but the latter was created earlier and has an easier to understand title. If you disagree, feel free to revert and drop a note on my talk page :) Sorry to bug you! — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass ( talk • contribs) 20:11, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
[22] I could understand a human wanting a citation template after that sentence, but why would a bot want a citation there? It isn't replacing any previous template. Did it just drop a citation template randomly into an article? Art LaPella ( talk) 20:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Booth Hi Rich, just been helping with correcting Archbishop Booth's page (& note you were helpfully suggesting where further refs required. My big problem now is how to get his coat of arms uploaded - I am finding this to be very difficult and can only presume it's to do with licensing. Once we are acquainted (ie upon you're reply) and can detail why this is a non-issue. Await yrs Richard —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.82.155.28 ( talk) 03:17, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
I hadn't noticed until now, but when smackbot was unlinking years at the very end of 2009 (aha - I was away on holiday!) it unlinked 210 deliberate year links on the page range 1800 in New Zealand through to 2011 in New Zealand, so
which really kind of defeats the point! Could you please arrange for the bot to fix these? (some have been fixed manually already) dramatic ( talk) 06:50, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Check out this SmackBot diff; lots of table lines marked as changes that aren't really changes. Is this a line-ending thing? 87.82.201.203 ( talk) 11:25, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
SmackBot broke the math markup in transmission line with this edit which removed the trailing spaces from inside the math tags. I am guessing that the line was not recognised as being LaTeX because the tags were not on the same line. SpinningSpark 17:19, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Kindly clarify what clarification you would like to have on someone`s Date of birth, place of birth, Parents, etc. after & when they were quoted from a published reference source?-- Kumaripriya ( talk) 15:50, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your message, SmackBot does not generally add tags, but merely dates those that are already there. Regards,
Rich
Farmbrough,
20:48, 23 April 2011 (UTC).
Hey RF, Just leaving a note here reminding you to take a look at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 40. Thanks! -- Tim 1357 talk 05:04, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
About a year ago you ran a program that was making changes like this to ship articles that need a "by year" category. I can no longer find the threads where this was discussed but I believe that you ran this using another editor's script. If it's possible for you to dig up that script again I would be grateful if you could run it again. Brad ( talk) 21:11, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
By year categories should be added when infobox ship career has:
Any other heading is too arbitrary to count on. The idea behind 'ship by year' was to identify what year the ship was built. Class articles are another challenge as classes of ships sometimes span a decade in which they're built. If a class of ships were built during the 1970s then 1970s ships would suffice. But some classes spanned decades and |Built range= is not always filled in for Infobox ship class overview. Any ideas on how ship class articles could be done? Brad ( talk) 04:01, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. SmackBot has not touched Category talk:Pages with missing references list/fix log in over a month. Should it still be fixing pages with a missing references list? Thanks! — Jeff G. ツ 03:23, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Editor Marcus has again requested a move at Talk:Criticisms of socialism#Requested move 2, despite the failure of the 10 December 2010 to 21 January 2011 attempted move. I am notifying you as you were a commenter in the original discussion. -- Bejnar ( talk) 04:01, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm sure you will have a better idea of what you meant to do here than I do. As I'm sure you already know, redirecting the category will have no effect if the category is being populated by a template. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 10:42, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
In [23] this edit, SmackBot inserted a "who" tag. I don't think bots should insert such tags from context automatically. Did you insert it manually (which I think you should better not do with a botaccount for the obvious risk of confusion) or did the bot insert it by some rule? In this case I think enough cites for the "Many" are given after the next sentence, so I would personally just remove the tag... -- Windharp ( talk) 16:09, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
There are supposed to be four articles in {{ Copyedit_progress}} classified as "undated". However, upon clicking on the category, there are no articles. Any idea what could be causing the problem? -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:25, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to help a friend fixing her David L Boushey article, I usually work with webpages, but this is very different that using Dreamweaver to make a webpage (thing that I know how to do, that is why she ask me for help), So, I noticed that you and others "administrators" left some notes on top of the pages, I fixed already some of them, I think so, can you check that and be a little more specific in what part we still need to fix issues, thank you very much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.54.84 ( talk) 03:15, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, could you please bring back this template? I am working on some Konkani language articles. I hope to use it there in the case of external links.
Joyson Noel Holla at me! 14:15, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
You don't do may AWB edits anymore, but some of them still have problems with Persondata, like here adding date of birth twice, with different values and capitalization: here you did the same for date of birth and date of death, but this one you corrected afterwards (but with a non-consensus change of uppercase to lowercase); here you changed the capitalization of one template and placed it out of order. Oh, and [24] is the kind of edit you (or anyone else for that matter) aren't supposed to make with AWB or other tools. It's not a lot that goes wrong, but with the limited number of AWB edits you make, it's still a significant percentage that has the same old problems. Fram ( talk) 07:19, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
message me the code for me please — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nightnurse denise ( talk • contribs) 20:46, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
I'm not too sure of the weasel word reference to the above article. Aboriginal , Aboriginal Australians and Indigenous Australians are all pretty much the same. The reason I linked Aboriginal back to Indigenous Australians is that this article includes all Australians considered as Indigenous (not just mainland). If an article existed for the specific peoples of the area I would have linked back to that (but there wasn't one). Could you please clarify as to why these are considered as weasel words? Or if you think linking back to Indigenous Australian is more appropriate then why not make the change? Hughesdarren ( talk) 08:49, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
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Please don't replace an incorrect category with a correct one, if that correct one is already in the article. Removing the incorrect one is sufficient in that case. You duplicated a category on the 10th [26], and added it a third time on the 11th [27]. I have removed two of the three cases. Fram ( talk) 12:08, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
...for your contribution to the article New Guinea Singing Dog. Chrisrus ( talk) 02:56, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
What is wrong with the list of faculty members of the faculty and why is that dubious?
Take care, Borchica ( talk) 21:41, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
I really appreciate the feedback you left me on my page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii%27s_Opportunity_Probation_with_Enforcement_%28HOPE%29. I'm new to writing Wikipedia pages and can use all the help I can get! I've made some updates to the page. If you have time would you mind looking at them and making additional suggestions if needed?
Thank you, Maria (mcod8582) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcod8582 ( talk • contribs) 00:56, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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Unsubstituted dates [28], and adding the same parameter twice, with different capitalization and different value, in Persondata [29]. Both have happened a lot before this, but it doesn't seem to be solved. Fram ( talk) 06:48, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Your edit raises a couple/few questions. First, the commentator is the footnoted writer. "A commentator from the Financial Times ..."? "Jamil Anderlini of the Financial Times ..."? Any preference? I thought the comments, not the commentator, were the interesting part; given he's basically substantive, but to me at least otherwise unknown. I'd stick with my original.
Second, what's "Build p609," if I may ask, in your explanatory notes to the edit? I've found hints re "609" in a templates' search but nothing that seemed fruitful.
Thanks. Swliv ( talk) 17:57, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, changes have since been made to the following article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmithStreetSolutions to amend its 'orphaned' status. Also, reference links have been added to ascertain notability. Would it be possible to have these tags removed? Please let me know any other ways we can improve the article. Thanks 116.228.36.134 ( talk) 03:58, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi
I've just put in a couple of new categories for the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Welfare
I just want to check that I'm getting this right. There was an uncategorized link there but a couple of categories had already been added. I've added a couple more categories that seemed logical. I then deleted the uncategorized link, should I have done this? I'm only asking because the link was left in before when the first categories were added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kotch5 ( talk • contribs) 12:24, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I just noticed you did this this. Can you fix em or move the templates so the edits don't produce red links? I've redirected templates so they are no longer red.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:07, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
It is rare I see a greater good argument on ANI. Thanks for brightening my day! PS. You may want to copy your bolded oppose to the beginning of your post, it is easy to miss. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:08, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:WPDinotopia. Since you had some involvement with the Template:WPDinotopia redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Kumioko ( talk) 23:52, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich I've been working on improving the Wikipedia entry on Nicole Krauss - providing links and references and deleting at least one peacock statement. Is it OK for untagging now please? Thanks Headhitter ( talk) 19:23, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice - I've now untagged it Headhitter ( talk) 16:12, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
I've also been working on the Gwyneth Herbert article and have sourced and added references for all the biographical material. Could this be untagged now too please? Thanks. Headhitter ( talk) 21:18, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
I now see that another user has already untagged it. Headhitter ( talk) 16:13, 30 April 2011 (UTC)