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See the TFD. — This, that, and the other (talk) 03:30, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have noted your comments and I hope I have addressed the. I'm new to Wiki and tried to follow what Colas Rail and Colas Group have done, so any suggestions greatly received. Thanks Colasuk ( talk) 19:16, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Category:JMY Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 18:57, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
I have just realized that you have made a comment on both the Miniature Lop and Mini Lop topics which you have suggested a merge of the two articles. However, before you carry out any further modifications, please take some time to visit the British Rabbit Council website as well as The National Miniature Lop Rabbit Club Website.
Because, Miniature Lop (Max 1.6 kg in weight) is a recognized and very popular breed in the UK and it is a totally different breed from the US mini lop (Max 3kg in weight). Unfortunately we have our own rabbit breed registration organisation in the UK, which is independent from the American Rabbit Breeders Association in the US, and even more unfortunately there is only one English version of Wikipedia. If you do a search on Google UK, you will realize how many people are confused between a US mini lop and a UK miniature lop( or mini lop, as that is what we called them in the UK). Therefore it is extremely important, for both topics(Mini lop and Miniature Lop) to be co-exist on Wikipedia. MiniatureLop ( talk) 04:15, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, William Duesbury (1725) , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Alanl ( talk) 04:05, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Please notice that I have added some new categories to Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month. I found them because they used {{ Parent monthly clean up category}}, while not being in that list. There are now 112 of them. If there are any more, or you will add any more in the future, please let me know, or add them yourself. Debresser ( talk) 17:20, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
{{
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Farmbrough, 10:53, 26 July 2011 (UTC).Please see this edit [1]. Apparently, when trying to add a "date" parameter to the {{ Weather box}}, the bot just does a superficial parse for the nearest closing braces, without taking into account embedded templates. I'm afraid you'll need to do a proper parse including hierarchically embedded opening and closing braces. Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:10, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Shadez. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Shadez redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Colourlines ( talk) 02:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
I saw this edit. Is that detection and the related category now added somewhere else, or is it gone? Debresser ( talk) 05:06, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
The bot has incorrectly dated (an already dated) infobox here.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); September 7, 2011; 13:27 (UTC)
A discussion about your edits can be found at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Rich Farmbrough violating editing restriction. Fram ( talk) 09:40, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You have tagged Hollandia Produce, for being written like an advertisement, and also for lack of notability. I disagree -- the language, content, tone, etc. seems to me to be utterly neutral and factual. As to notability, the company is a California business, organic produce, an important player in the small city of Carpinteria, where it is located. The products are hydroponically grown. The article refs include several articles in the New York Times along with other mentions. Please revisit. Leoniana ( talk) 20:27, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
Looks perfectly visible to me.
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Farmbrough, 09:22, 6 September 2011 (UTC). |
See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Dalina66/Why should we buy a membership in some games You know what? Instead of saying "bitey much," how about in this circumstance you say something like. "Hey, you know what? Usually when there is a new user we cut them some slack in their non-project pages to encourage them to stick around and become a beneficial contributor. No need to delete just yet." or some such? Accusing me of "biting" is insulting, when I'm only spending my free time trying to help the project. You are soooo worried about "biting the newcomers" that your thoughtless comments makes me want to quit, and I have a hell of a lot more article contributions than the guy who wrote a non-sensical essay about why we shouldn't sign-up up for on-line game services. Practice what you preach. Quinn ░ RAIN 01:56, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Can you do me a favour and delete all pages I created ending with (Fluss) in brackets. Obviously keep the pages they were moved do but delete the Fluss pages which are now redirects as implausible redirects. OK?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:17, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Kindly tell your bot not to do an edit such as this one. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 21:51, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
I've left a comment at WT:WP DNB#Bot_building about the new Magnus Manske tool in the area (Magnus put it together in a couple of hours after the meetup). I've never been exactly sure about the merits of importing text from Wikisource other than in an article: but I think the merits would be improved by a number of possible "added value" steps. One of those would be to take into account the output of this tool, and only import articles for the project to work on which come up as "none found" with that matching tool. I.e. remove or sort according to what the tool finds, which can be (a) no match, (b) very plausible match, (c) inconclusive run with numerous candidates none of which is a great fit, (d) > 50 hits. There is actually a good argument for first doing that sorting into four. The case (d) is one either for human intervention, or for another layer of matching attempt. Case (b) is the sort of stuff I'm going by hand, and invites work expanding stubs and adding the ext lk back. So anyway case (a) is the most fruitful at this point for an import.
And what else? Imported text should be topped-and-tailed in some way to make it more useful (will need a lead section, should finish with reference using {{ cite DNB}} and attribution using {{ DNB}}, both filled in with wstitle=[name as on WS, no suffix]). There is actually a lot of scope for stripping out parts of the article too: certainly the [references at end in small] sections, and with more intelligence much of the inline refs between parentheses. NB the use of small caps within parentheses for author names, which should be a clue.
Charles Matthews ( talk) 13:18, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi. What's the chances of you being able to use your tools to help with dabbing for Burmese settlements. Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Burma (Myanmar)/Township templates and User:Dr. Blofeld/Burma#Repeated places names...♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:57, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
What I'll do first is draw up all of the templates. Once that is done Abok should be linked inside two different township templates when currently it is just Abok and so. Most of them do not even have dab pages...Once I've drawn up the templates hopefully you will be able to read the what links here and run something... example:Ahlaw. Perhaps you have something which will be able to read the ... Township links and generate dab pages like Ahlaw with Ahlaw Paungbyin and Ahlaw, Tamu linked. Bets thought to wait until I've created all the templates so the links can easily be accessed in the what links here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:09, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
What I envisage is a script which reads .... Township , e.g Ahlaw being linked in the template named Tamu Township and extracts the name and dabs them e.g as Ahlaw, Tamu. It would need to generate pages and also correct the existing links in the templates. Might need BAG approval. I've also proposed it to Plastikspork. Perhaps you could contact him and decide the best way to do it. Meanwhile I'll continue making the templates after I've stubbed some of the few missing township articles for Bago region..♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:30, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on User:Rich Farmbrough/blog, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. LikeLakers2 ( talk | Sign my guestbook!) 23:43, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I see that you imported hundreds of English language templates into sw-wikipedia. I am sure that you did this with a good intention! Did you discuss this with any of the admins (not that I am aware of). What is your idea in flooding the Swahili wikipedia with material in a foreign language? Kindly comment! sw:user:kipala — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.98.113.164 ( talk) 11:34, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
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I brought this up at wp:ani but it's not that relevant. (Fine details of sort are important, but not my main point, I think we can live with any alphabetical ordering - especially when cat contents tend to group similar items anyway..). The issue is that your bot (and others?) appears to be acting only on recent or new pages (based on experience). It would be reassuring to know that this bot or another bot is applying the changes systematically starting at Aardvark and working up to Xylophone.. Does the bot do that ?, and if not can there be one please (I think I explained why at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Minor_technical_question). Just mark this section "done" if the issue is definitely already addressed, and a solution exists and has been implemented. Thanks. Sf5xeplus ( talk) 16:21, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
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Back in July you were a model of efficiency using AWB to strip out {{ Italic title}}. Just curious - not to seem demanding, I hope - would your technical abilities and/or old-school industry be sufficient to the job of restoring those templates where removed, in the wake of this discussion? Wareh ( talk) 01:59, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, did you correct those Burmese infobox errors afterwards? Can you move all of the Gare de... in Category:Railway stations in France categories to ...... railway station. There is consensus to do so at WP:Trains. They should be in english.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:34, 6 October 2010 (UTC) E.g Gare de Colmar should be Colmar railway station.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:35, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
OK Gare de, Gare du and Gare d' I take it are fine to move, how about:
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Rich
Farmbrough, 13:08, 6 October 2010 (UTC). Mmm I'd go with:
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Rich
Farmbrough, 17:57, 6 October 2010 (UTC).
Will try to get back to this today or tomorrow.
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:52, 8 October 2010 (UTC). MoreAnyway far be it for me to stand in the way of progress - if the station name is simply "gare de xxx" then I don't object to "xxx station" etc. I'm not sure about the ones with "maritime" in. However you did get the capitalisation wrong, its railway station (lower case) eg King's Cross station. (ok so some USA stations use Railroad Station with caps, but that's for another day). Sf5xeplus ( talk) 18:51, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
There seemed to be no objection to moving the pages to lower casing e.g Rouen railway station. These really should be moved as Gare means nothing to most non French speakers. I personally prefer the Railway Station capitalised but consensus at WP:Trains seems to be lower casing. "railway" station is necessary as "station could refer to bus station, tram/cable car station or even a scientific research station.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:41, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
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It occurs to me that any redirect that is categorised ( Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects) excluding those which only have categories which are subcats of Category:Wikipedia redirects should always be printworthy redirects ( Template:R printworthy).. Any chance of a bot for that?? Sf5xeplus ( talk) 14:05, 9 October 2010 (UTC):
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Sorry if this is not the place to leave this, but this is mostly a feature request I think. In this diff, it would be nice if SmackBot would notice that there are duplicate tags and remove the duplicated tags. Would this be easy to implement? Devourer09 ( t· c) 16:25, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
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I would love to see the BLP risk list turned into an ongoing bot. We could manage it as an ongoing queue by having the bot keep all the previous hits with context in a local file or DB on the backend. For example:
After this hit, "riskbot" would keep this in a local file or db, and then would filter it out of subsequent runs, context included. That way if the affair gets added back in with slightly different context, we'd get another warning. It would take all the "new hits" and append them on the bottom of the running queue page. As people check the hits, they'd remove them from the page. It's O(n^2) on the number of hits, but scrubbing one set of lines with another is pretty inexpensive, since it's just simple equality. Let me know what you think. Gigs ( talk) 01:13, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
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This is just a personal opinion, mind you. Like I said, I am, rather slowly, assembling bibliographies of the various geographical areas of the earth. As they would deal with things like the local flora, fauna, people, culture, and the like, they could also serve as the basis for things like, for instance, Bibliography of South American military history, which would be a selection of books about the military history of that area drawn from the bibliographies of the main states/regions themselves.
That will not however include such things as the sciences, or philosophy, or the major religions, and certainly not off-world topics like astronomy. They would probably need to be created entirely separately.
My own basic choice would be to maybe have others create bibliographies for the sciences, business, and other topics that don't have clear geographic ties.
I would think the items to be included would best include separate books/works on the topic that have been reviewed by academic journals and other reputable specialist magazines, and/or included in books or articles of bibliography of that topic.
There are obviously questions regarding how long to make these bibliographies, and that's a separate matter entirely. The bibliography of physics, like the bibliography of Christianity, would be potentially endless. For such broad topics, maybe the best way to proceed would be to look at the various extant reference works, like encyclopedias, that deal with the topics, and to start include only those works which are included in the bibliographies of the articles in those encyclopedias. That would be a start, anyway. John Carter ( talk) 17:15, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hey Rich, If you have the time, would you mind doing another search of the dump, as you did at User:Rich Farmbrough/temp14? I've run through that last list. (20 articles which I can't do on my own are all that's left.) A couple things different this time: no article exclusions (I will simply have AWB ignore anything within templates, unless you can pre-parse those at your end), plus a couple extra characters we missed last time. (If you can search for pure diacritics, that would be even better; otherwise I've noticed some more common combos, such as β̞ i̯ u̯ e̯ o̯, plus another character, ‹ˁ› that is commonly mistaken for IPA ‹ˤ›.) Thanks, — kwami ( talk) 07:13, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
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I note that you've tried to slim down the above page a bit. I took the matter of size to WikiProject Ireland but they didn't seem particularly interested! As you have been around Wikipedia a fair bit (apparently you've got a few thousands edits under your belt), I wondered if you had any ideas on how to make the article accessible to Joe Bloggs. Would splitting it up into List of townlands of County Cork, A–E etc. be acceptable? What's the point in having a page which 80% of readers won't be able to access? Thanks. — Half Price 20:42, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Being f Fixed. BTW, hundreds of users have used the wrong infobox on UK school pages (maybe other countries too, I haven't looked yet). Do you know of a quick fix that retains the data? I can't use AWB on my computers. Cheers. --
Kudpung (
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Why are you removing noinclude tags: [7]? These year pages are transcluded in higher level articles, and your removal royal screws up the entire chain. 68.35.24.151 ( talk) 22:25, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I was wondering if you could run something which adds a pushpin map to every infobox by state. I did start doing it manually previously and removed the census maps but I got sidetracked because of objections to the removal of the census maps. However if you were to keep the census maps and to add the pushpin maps this should be fine. Minot, North Dakota for instance. The majority of the articles have the shoddy census maps in them which mostly leaves you really having to look hard where the place actually is in the state. let alone America. Eventually the pin maps will have the US state inserts so you can see where in America it is. Of course I've proposed we have the option like on French wikipedia for clickable maps but nothing is happening there.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:09, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Any thoughts?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:29, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
You might not have noticed, but I've vandalised User:Rich_Farmbrough/temp19/redir with loads of ticks and crosses.
I hope what I'm doing is OK, and I'm pretty sure it is, mostly - so I'm boldly ploughing through them. If it is all wrong though, please let me know. Cheers, Chzz ► 00:25, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
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Bottom edit was by
Rich Farmbrough at 19:09, 3 March 2011 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 13:55, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Can you please perform the following tasks with SmackBot (and ask for a BRFA if not already covered by your tasks)? Since the tasks were already approved for Yobot it should be no problem. Thanks! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:50, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hiya, I seem to call one you had some criteria for identifing 'harmful articles', can you point in in the direct of that. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 13:19, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Some time ago you bulk-reverted Mhiji's removal of text after redirects (edits such as this one), the majority of those removals appear to have been correct. While the text after the redirect doesn't automatically do any harm, there are many cases in which it is not wanted. (Copyright violations, nonsensical text, straight copy-pastes from the target article, and so forth). Just to let you know I have already re-reverted some of these and will likely do more. Thanks Gurch ( talk) 21:28, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Any chance Helpful Pixie Bot could be modified to avoid editing anything with an {{ inuse}} or a {{ GOCEinuse}} tag, please? (Please ignore this if it does it in a way that cannot cause edit conflicts. I'm not sure of the technicalities about that). -- Stfg ( talk) 20:12, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
I have standardized (or should I say standardised here?) the documentation of the seven "Use English language" templates and the corresponding category pages. See e.g. Template:Use American English and Category:Use American English. I have added the four that were missing to Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month. Even though two of them are empty so far this month, it is still better to have them, than to not have them. Debresser ( talk) 13:29, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Btw, why is it that a category like {{ Use American English}} has a backlog notice? It has only two subcategories, each with only one article. I noticed that Template:Backlog subcategories is automatically a part of Template:Parent monthly clean up category, without any mechanism to deactivate it if the number of categories is lower than a certain threshold. Do you think that is correct? And if not, what can be done about it?
In addition, and with an eye on the future again, "Use" categories like these "Use English language" templates, and the "Use date format" templates, are first candidates for using {{ Monthly maintenance category}} instead of {{ Monthly clean-up category}}, since they are not about "clean-up", and I think that one of the differences between them should be that a backlog notice is not appropriate in them. Debresser ( talk) 14:22, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Just move Template:Parent monthly maintainance category to Template:Parent monthly maintenance category. And shouldn't the clean-up parameter be added to Template:Monthly clean-up category/outer core also to make it work? Debresser ( talk) 11:16, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
I notice that the {{ Wikipedia category}} does not seem to line up nicely with the other centre boxes as it once did. Any ideas? Rich Farmbrough, 11:23, 26 July 2011 (UTC).copied from my talkpage
On
User:Debresser/Sandbox I copied some code, then changed it a little. When I press the link indicated by {{fullurl:User:Debresser/Sandbox|action=edit§ion=new}}
, I can make a new section. So far so good.
When I write something in that section (like "bla2") I can save it. When I write only a section header, but no text, the page doesn't save. Why is that?
Please feel free to use my page for testing. Debresser ( talk) 14:55, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
A while back, you said I should tell you if I ever noticed SmackBot failing to unsubstitute a template. It looks like this is such a case. Unlike the other times I've seen SmackBot fail, I don't see anything obviously wrong with the begin/end tags this time. I've done it by hand for now. – RobinHood70 talk 22:31, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
(Note: Page in question deleted 00:17, 15 August 2011)
R.
F. 2015-10-21Z20:12
Please see User_talk:Avicennasis#User:Avicennasis.2Fcatpage, where I ask the question why empty maintenance categories from June auto-nominate for speedy, but July categories don't. It seems they have to be 2 months old to self-nominate, and I wonder why that is. Not technically but ideologically, I mean. Why not nominate July categories as well? Debresser ( talk) 11:05, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
DYKS.
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:42, 2 August 2011 (UTC).
I noticed Category:Wikipedians having been offered adoption using Template:Adopt offer is being dated. I had to do quite some maintenance there. Interestingly, Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user using Template:Adoptme is not dated, even though it is a lot bigger, and dating it to create a backlog idea seems logical. I'll take care of that in the evening. Debresser ( talk) 13:25, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
Dated adopt me}}
is the answer to your query.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:16, 1 September 2011 (UTC).Hi Rich, I've added relevant citations/references for this article and removed the Unreferenced Template/maintenence Tag placed in 2007. Could you please have a look and see if it is okay? Thanks! Audit Guy ( talk) 04:03, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Just a word to say, that Paldopaldino interfered and wrote today, that he created this article and introduced the images, proving instantly that it was not an autobiography I was working on in order to add final touches. Greetings, Kalaharih-- Kalaharih ( talk) 22:53, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I noticed that you added few lines about an Arab bath discovered between the remains of the Greek-Sicilian city of Kamarina. Just wondered if you knew the location of this archaeological site? Is it really inside the area of Kamarina because from the photo it looks in a different location. Thanks.-- Sal73x ( talk) 20:58, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Sorry about the bold letters in the paragraph below. I am just trying to achieve clarity (of communication).
Hi. One of the articles I work on got tagged with this template. I don't agree with the rationale so I am removing it. However, that is not why I am writing on your talk page. I am wondering if you know how the statement "use Db-spam to mark for speedy deletion. (August 2011)" got added to this template. This statement seems out of place if this is to be used in the article main space. It's like an invitation to go ahead and request speedy deletion for whatever article this is placed on. If it is an established article that kind of statement makes no sense. If its a new article then the request for speedy deletion would be more appropriate than placing the Template:Advert on the new article. So anyway I look at it this statement seems to be out of place. So, I think the statement should be removed. I will watch your talk page for a reply. ---- Steve Quinn ( talk) 19:06, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
The bot marked the lead of Soldiers Chapel as too long. I am surprised because - as a rather short article - it didn't have a lead, no heading until references. I created one now. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:24, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
Out of interest, what was this about? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 07:42, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
I have created {{ Cleanup-lang}}, for articles with non-English text, which should use {{ Lang}} but do not yet do so. I'm not sure whether you need to manually add it to the list of templates your Helpful Pixie Bot dates. Suggestions for improvements would be welcome. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:56, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I was wondering about your last edit at Talk:Keith Raniere. Chrisrus ( talk) 02:45, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
Merge}}
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- because the template should ideally be used on the article page, and in any event with a parameter for the merge partner - {{
Merge|NXIVM}}
in this example. Once the merge discussion is completed and the article merged if appropriate the template should then be removed from the page - while the discussion on the talk page remains. SO I changed the
use to mention. Note also that if you know which way the merge should be done {{
Merge to}}
and {{
Merge from}}
are available.
Rich
Farmbrough, 15:07, 29 August 2011 (UTC).Hi. As I get annoyed by no longer seeing a Top behind items on 'My contributions', only to see that a bot ran along, I have the habit of dating 'citation needed' tags when I introduce these. Unfortunately, because I do not chase unsourced material all the time, I tend to make the mistake of passing the argument unnamed, which is common for simple templates that know only a single argument - but in this case, also 'reason' is a valid argument.
If I happen to be the only one, you might disregard this message. Else, it would be interesting if the bot would recognize a date (full or only month and year) as entire content of an unnamed argument, and then convert that argument by putting "date=" in front of the (by the bot properly formatted) date. Now, the bot modifies {{Cn|August 2011}} into {{Cn|August 2011|date=August 2011}}, which may make other editors wonder what the intention of the two arguments might be. Fortunately, because a such template simply disregards unnamed of faultily named arguments, the readers do not see anything unusual.
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SomeHuman 2011-08-29 04:53-05:00 (UTC)
I don't understand what you did here with this edit, but it appears to make subst'ing the template rather pointless as it produces results like this or like this. older ≠ wiser 02:15, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
I want to edit all the archive of 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification and 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification to this format:
2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Second Round#Group 2
Please help me to that.
Thanks! Banhtrung1 ( talk) 13:45, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Replace_superscripted_text_with_normal_text. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:21, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
I am leaving this message to stop the bot from editing because the owner was blocked for a week. Since it is a bot operators responsibility to fix any problems created by a bot he would not be able to do that in a blocked state. -- Kumioko ( talk) 15:28, 9 September 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:Femto Bot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 15:31, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Can someone revert the autoblock since it's screwing with my talk page archiving, and bot stuff. Thanks.
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:55, 9 September 2011 (UTC).
The sentence opposite Thomas Fairfax, isn't. "Even though" should probably be "despite".
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:16, 9 September 2011 (UTC).
"However, it was proved " => "However, it proved " — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rich Farmbrough ( talk • contribs)
Please see this edit to Template:Update after. Debresser ( talk) 19:00, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Per the discussion at WP:AN, and in particular your response where you gave no indication of the required prior approval or noted that you were under restriction or that your edits were in keeping with same, I have enacted the above sanction. LessHeard vanU ( talk) 13:05, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Am I the only one going WTF here? Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:45, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
(In response to [12]) In the last week, you've used a script to create 92 biography articles requiring cleanup ("DNB00") and AWB (seemingly inappropriately modified to auto-save) to create over 200 redirects of dubious necessity [13]. These are clear violations of your editing restrictions. You are also violating your other editing restriction as we speak from Helpful Pixie Bot ( talk · contribs). – xeno talk 14:13, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough/Archive ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Decline reason:
It is clear from the discussion at AN that these edits are a violation of your restriction. Furthermore, the evidence that Xeno provides below is unambiguously a violation. This request is declined pending consensus at AN. The Wordsmith Talk to me 01:10, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
What about [14] ? – xeno talk 21:36, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough/Archive ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Reason, previous decline is on two grounds, the first is clearly wrong, the second is responding to a "fishing expedition" by Xeno.
Rich
Farmbrough, 9:23 pm, Today (UTC−4).
Decline reason:
You will have to address the concerns expressed about your editing if you are to be unblocked early (And, I expect, if you are to avoid further blocks). — Coren (talk) 02:53, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Rich, it's pretty clear that "No one was disrupted by [...]" is incorrect given that it led to an AN/I thread and the decision to block you. After a bit of investigation, the root issue is that people have repeatedly expressed concerns about your creation of large number of low quality articles and restricted you from doing so anymore. That you disagree with this (that the number is large, or that the articles are of low quality) is clear; but your disagreement does not free you from the restriction.
You have exactly two options: stop doing what the community objects to, or convince it that the restriction is unnecessary or inapplicable. You can't just ignore it when it suits you. — Coren (talk) 16:14, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
{{
Unblock|Per unblocking policy, this block is in not necessary to prevent damage or disruption. The premise that mass article creation (batches of over 50 articles created in rapid succession) was taking place, has been shown to be false (See table below). There is no suggestion that the article creation was disruptive, or that any damage or disruption has occurred or is expected to occur.
Rich
Farmbrough, 03:32, 10 September 2011 (UTC).
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7 Sept | 16:00 | 1 | 0 |
7 Sept | 00:00 | 2 | 1 |
6 Sept | 23:00 | 2 | 1 |
6 Sept | 22:00 | 5 | 1 |
6 Sept | 22:00 | 6 | 1 |
6 Sept | 20:00 | 0 | 1 |
6 Sept | 14:00 | 1 | 0 |
6 Sept | 13:00 | 1 | 0 |
6 Sept | 12:00 | 1 | 1 |
6 Sept | 10:00 | 2 | 0 |
5 Sept | 23:00 | 2 | 0 |
5 Sept | 16:00 | 2 | 0 |
5 Sept | 15:00 | 1 | 6 |
5 Sept | 15:00 | 1 | 6 |
5 Sept | 05:00 | 0 | 3 |
5 Sept | 04:00 | 0 | 11 |
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3 Sept | 23:00 | 0 | 3 |
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That's still ignoring all the redirects you created in one go, which is not xeno saying "Aha! but what about these edits.... And what aboout.. ", because he already pointed it out when you were first blocked, only you decided to remove that from your talk page for whatever reason. - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 05:56, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Rich, it you want to blank-archive items other than the block that fine.
Resetting or removing a declined unblock request is not.
- J Greb ( talk) 03:30, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 486 (number) (disambiguation). Since you had some involvement with the 486 (number) (disambiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). D O N D E groovily Talk to me 21:41, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Xeno, the coding error in the Navbox is exactly what the bot run was fixing.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:28, 9 September 2011 (UTC).
Helpful Pixie Bot added a {{ Use dmy dates}} template in this edit to Forbidden relationships in Judaism. Why would he do that? Debresser ( talk) 00:28, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Falafel [ [16]] has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the good article reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Veritycheck ( talk) 01:34, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
I can answer some of these questions for you. In the edit you said the article was not referenced. This isn't really true, because it links to a variety of other wikipedia pages about winged unicorns, which have their own references. You might look at this as somewhat of a disambiguation page (disambigs don't need references) which discusses them. The articles themselves have the references. The only reason I could think to include a reference specifically about winged unicorns is if there were original content here not on the articles it directs to.
As far as a citation being needed for the alternate names, 'horned pegasus' makes sense because the earliest known winged unicorn (WW2 air division) was a pegasus with a horn added to it. As far as the 'alicorn' bit, that seems to be a misunderstanding in the MLP communities, right now it's even used on the MLP characters article, a problem I am trying to have corrected. The portmanteaus have shown up on other articles I have found discussing the creatures. That editors are using the term seems reason enough to disambiguate it here. Bonechamber ( talk) 07:27, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, based on your recent participation in the article, I'd like to invite you to: Talk:Mukkulathor#Suggest_major_reorganisation_of_the_article. Thanks for your input! MatthewVanitas ( talk) 13:46, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Just curious - why change, for example, 16th century to sixteenth century? And if you are going to do it, why just in one section (Food and drink)? Hohenloh + 12:06, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I see that you have recently copied a lot of templates from the english wikipedia to the hindi wikipedia(semi-automatically, I'm guessing). Would you please tell why you have done the same? I have no problems with copying templates from en to hi, but I dont understand why such a huge influx of templates is being made right now, that too without any translation.-- Siddhartha Ghai ( talk) 16:40, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tiffany Page is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tiffany Page until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. LongLiveMusic ( talk) 15:44, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
While you are aware of the general thread, I don't know whether you followed it after your block. There is at the moment a proposal to ban you from Wikipedia for 1 year. You are unable to directly participate in it for the moment of course, but any comments you would like to make about it can be copied to it (by me or if you prefer by another editor). The section is at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Ban Proposal. Fram ( talk) 13:12, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
I disagree with the way you and Boleyn have been creating the DNB articles of late but a ban is ridiculous. Rich has never had anything other than good intentions. I'm not happy with DNB articles being created either with cleanup tags slopped on them and I feel it should be done quickly manually. But Rich most certainly didn't deserve a ban proposal or even a block for what he did.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:07, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
It messed up the coding for the template at the bottom of the article, messed with, apparently, every line in the article. And when I tried to undo the damage it just redid it all again. And I'm not supposed to notice, or comment on that???? You delete any comments that point out the failings of this bot? I read a little about this bot, and even more at its apparent author's talk page, and this is not an unknown, or unidentified issue with this bot....SO WHY THE HECK IS IT ****STILL**** RUNNING?????? User:12.73.220.22 19:58, 18 September 2011
There is an open WP:SPI case looking at sockpuppet editing primarily on the Johann Hari/ Talk page. As you edited the Johann Hari/Talk page between 2004 and 2011, your input is welcomed. Yonmei ( talk) 22:30, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Did you notice that there are 61 undated pages in Category:Userspace drafts. Btw, see User_talk:Avicennasis#Stale_Userspace_drafts? Debresser ( talk) 17:11, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Regretfully, I am leaving this message and stopping the bot because the owner/operator was blocked for a week. Although I have concerns about the validity of the block I don't think a bot should be running if the sole operator is blocked. Bot operators are required to monitor and repair any problems that bot creates and a blocked editor cannot do that. -- Kumioko ( talk) 15:10, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Why should I have my day wasted, my planned evening out ruined, my work (both on wiki and off) thrown into disarray, and my sleep disturbed, because someone stalks my edits?
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:17, 9 September 2011 (UTC).
If anyone is curious, I noticed the creations because of Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 September 3#Dictionary of National Biography contributor templates, where I went looking at what articles now used them (for months they were totally unused, just like thousands of other templates Rich Farmbrough made in the past). In this way, I couldn't help but notice the new articles, and their problems. If I had really been stalking his edits, I would have noticed the mass creation of redirects, with ones like Whatsisname) where his script again screwed up (the trailing bracket? Straight from the redirect target, where it is an alternative name, "Nodessertro (Whatsisname)"). It's just a typical example of the problems with the script creations which lead to the editing restriction (that time around, it were completely incorrect category names). Fram ( talk) 18:40, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Fixed
Should be a redirect.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:38, 11 September 2011 (UTC).
I often see superscripts that looks like these:
It would be great if you could enhance your bot to move superscripted text to better locations:
Mfwitten ( talk) 19:37, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Rich, On the talk page for the proposed terms of use, you mention a takedown that is unchallengeable. While it's possible, I think it's more likely that it's a symptom of our bad communication about it or something (for which I would take responsibility). I don't think we have any that are unchallengeable right now. So, I want to write to ask if there's something I can clarify, or whether I'm missing something on my list? Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 01:14, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
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See the TFD. — This, that, and the other (talk) 03:30, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have noted your comments and I hope I have addressed the. I'm new to Wiki and tried to follow what Colas Rail and Colas Group have done, so any suggestions greatly received. Thanks Colasuk ( talk) 19:16, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Category:JMY Records albums, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 18:57, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
I have just realized that you have made a comment on both the Miniature Lop and Mini Lop topics which you have suggested a merge of the two articles. However, before you carry out any further modifications, please take some time to visit the British Rabbit Council website as well as The National Miniature Lop Rabbit Club Website.
Because, Miniature Lop (Max 1.6 kg in weight) is a recognized and very popular breed in the UK and it is a totally different breed from the US mini lop (Max 3kg in weight). Unfortunately we have our own rabbit breed registration organisation in the UK, which is independent from the American Rabbit Breeders Association in the US, and even more unfortunately there is only one English version of Wikipedia. If you do a search on Google UK, you will realize how many people are confused between a US mini lop and a UK miniature lop( or mini lop, as that is what we called them in the UK). Therefore it is extremely important, for both topics(Mini lop and Miniature Lop) to be co-exist on Wikipedia. MiniatureLop ( talk) 04:15, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, William Duesbury (1725) , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Alanl ( talk) 04:05, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Please notice that I have added some new categories to Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month. I found them because they used {{ Parent monthly clean up category}}, while not being in that list. There are now 112 of them. If there are any more, or you will add any more in the future, please let me know, or add them yourself. Debresser ( talk) 17:20, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
{{
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Rich
Farmbrough, 10:53, 26 July 2011 (UTC).Please see this edit [1]. Apparently, when trying to add a "date" parameter to the {{ Weather box}}, the bot just does a superficial parse for the nearest closing braces, without taking into account embedded templates. I'm afraid you'll need to do a proper parse including hierarchically embedded opening and closing braces. Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:10, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Shadez. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Shadez redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Colourlines ( talk) 02:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
I saw this edit. Is that detection and the related category now added somewhere else, or is it gone? Debresser ( talk) 05:06, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
The bot has incorrectly dated (an already dated) infobox here.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); September 7, 2011; 13:27 (UTC)
A discussion about your edits can be found at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Rich Farmbrough violating editing restriction. Fram ( talk) 09:40, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You have tagged Hollandia Produce, for being written like an advertisement, and also for lack of notability. I disagree -- the language, content, tone, etc. seems to me to be utterly neutral and factual. As to notability, the company is a California business, organic produce, an important player in the small city of Carpinteria, where it is located. The products are hydroponically grown. The article refs include several articles in the New York Times along with other mentions. Please revisit. Leoniana ( talk) 20:27, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
Looks perfectly visible to me.
Rich
Farmbrough, 09:22, 6 September 2011 (UTC). |
See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Dalina66/Why should we buy a membership in some games You know what? Instead of saying "bitey much," how about in this circumstance you say something like. "Hey, you know what? Usually when there is a new user we cut them some slack in their non-project pages to encourage them to stick around and become a beneficial contributor. No need to delete just yet." or some such? Accusing me of "biting" is insulting, when I'm only spending my free time trying to help the project. You are soooo worried about "biting the newcomers" that your thoughtless comments makes me want to quit, and I have a hell of a lot more article contributions than the guy who wrote a non-sensical essay about why we shouldn't sign-up up for on-line game services. Practice what you preach. Quinn ░ RAIN 01:56, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Can you do me a favour and delete all pages I created ending with (Fluss) in brackets. Obviously keep the pages they were moved do but delete the Fluss pages which are now redirects as implausible redirects. OK?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:17, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Kindly tell your bot not to do an edit such as this one. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 21:51, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
I've left a comment at WT:WP DNB#Bot_building about the new Magnus Manske tool in the area (Magnus put it together in a couple of hours after the meetup). I've never been exactly sure about the merits of importing text from Wikisource other than in an article: but I think the merits would be improved by a number of possible "added value" steps. One of those would be to take into account the output of this tool, and only import articles for the project to work on which come up as "none found" with that matching tool. I.e. remove or sort according to what the tool finds, which can be (a) no match, (b) very plausible match, (c) inconclusive run with numerous candidates none of which is a great fit, (d) > 50 hits. There is actually a good argument for first doing that sorting into four. The case (d) is one either for human intervention, or for another layer of matching attempt. Case (b) is the sort of stuff I'm going by hand, and invites work expanding stubs and adding the ext lk back. So anyway case (a) is the most fruitful at this point for an import.
And what else? Imported text should be topped-and-tailed in some way to make it more useful (will need a lead section, should finish with reference using {{ cite DNB}} and attribution using {{ DNB}}, both filled in with wstitle=[name as on WS, no suffix]). There is actually a lot of scope for stripping out parts of the article too: certainly the [references at end in small] sections, and with more intelligence much of the inline refs between parentheses. NB the use of small caps within parentheses for author names, which should be a clue.
Charles Matthews ( talk) 13:18, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi. What's the chances of you being able to use your tools to help with dabbing for Burmese settlements. Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Burma (Myanmar)/Township templates and User:Dr. Blofeld/Burma#Repeated places names...♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:57, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
What I'll do first is draw up all of the templates. Once that is done Abok should be linked inside two different township templates when currently it is just Abok and so. Most of them do not even have dab pages...Once I've drawn up the templates hopefully you will be able to read the what links here and run something... example:Ahlaw. Perhaps you have something which will be able to read the ... Township links and generate dab pages like Ahlaw with Ahlaw Paungbyin and Ahlaw, Tamu linked. Bets thought to wait until I've created all the templates so the links can easily be accessed in the what links here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:09, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
What I envisage is a script which reads .... Township , e.g Ahlaw being linked in the template named Tamu Township and extracts the name and dabs them e.g as Ahlaw, Tamu. It would need to generate pages and also correct the existing links in the templates. Might need BAG approval. I've also proposed it to Plastikspork. Perhaps you could contact him and decide the best way to do it. Meanwhile I'll continue making the templates after I've stubbed some of the few missing township articles for Bago region..♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:30, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. LikeLakers2 ( talk | Sign my guestbook!) 23:43, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I see that you imported hundreds of English language templates into sw-wikipedia. I am sure that you did this with a good intention! Did you discuss this with any of the admins (not that I am aware of). What is your idea in flooding the Swahili wikipedia with material in a foreign language? Kindly comment! sw:user:kipala — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.98.113.164 ( talk) 11:34, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
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I brought this up at wp:ani but it's not that relevant. (Fine details of sort are important, but not my main point, I think we can live with any alphabetical ordering - especially when cat contents tend to group similar items anyway..). The issue is that your bot (and others?) appears to be acting only on recent or new pages (based on experience). It would be reassuring to know that this bot or another bot is applying the changes systematically starting at Aardvark and working up to Xylophone.. Does the bot do that ?, and if not can there be one please (I think I explained why at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Minor_technical_question). Just mark this section "done" if the issue is definitely already addressed, and a solution exists and has been implemented. Thanks. Sf5xeplus ( talk) 16:21, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
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Back in July you were a model of efficiency using AWB to strip out {{ Italic title}}. Just curious - not to seem demanding, I hope - would your technical abilities and/or old-school industry be sufficient to the job of restoring those templates where removed, in the wake of this discussion? Wareh ( talk) 01:59, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, did you correct those Burmese infobox errors afterwards? Can you move all of the Gare de... in Category:Railway stations in France categories to ...... railway station. There is consensus to do so at WP:Trains. They should be in english.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:34, 6 October 2010 (UTC) E.g Gare de Colmar should be Colmar railway station.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:35, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
OK Gare de, Gare du and Gare d' I take it are fine to move, how about:
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Rich
Farmbrough, 13:08, 6 October 2010 (UTC). Mmm I'd go with:
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Rich
Farmbrough, 17:57, 6 October 2010 (UTC).
Will try to get back to this today or tomorrow.
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:52, 8 October 2010 (UTC). MoreAnyway far be it for me to stand in the way of progress - if the station name is simply "gare de xxx" then I don't object to "xxx station" etc. I'm not sure about the ones with "maritime" in. However you did get the capitalisation wrong, its railway station (lower case) eg King's Cross station. (ok so some USA stations use Railroad Station with caps, but that's for another day). Sf5xeplus ( talk) 18:51, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
There seemed to be no objection to moving the pages to lower casing e.g Rouen railway station. These really should be moved as Gare means nothing to most non French speakers. I personally prefer the Railway Station capitalised but consensus at WP:Trains seems to be lower casing. "railway" station is necessary as "station could refer to bus station, tram/cable car station or even a scientific research station.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:41, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
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It occurs to me that any redirect that is categorised ( Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects) excluding those which only have categories which are subcats of Category:Wikipedia redirects should always be printworthy redirects ( Template:R printworthy).. Any chance of a bot for that?? Sf5xeplus ( talk) 14:05, 9 October 2010 (UTC):
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Sorry if this is not the place to leave this, but this is mostly a feature request I think. In this diff, it would be nice if SmackBot would notice that there are duplicate tags and remove the duplicated tags. Would this be easy to implement? Devourer09 ( t· c) 16:25, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
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I would love to see the BLP risk list turned into an ongoing bot. We could manage it as an ongoing queue by having the bot keep all the previous hits with context in a local file or DB on the backend. For example:
After this hit, "riskbot" would keep this in a local file or db, and then would filter it out of subsequent runs, context included. That way if the affair gets added back in with slightly different context, we'd get another warning. It would take all the "new hits" and append them on the bottom of the running queue page. As people check the hits, they'd remove them from the page. It's O(n^2) on the number of hits, but scrubbing one set of lines with another is pretty inexpensive, since it's just simple equality. Let me know what you think. Gigs ( talk) 01:13, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
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This is just a personal opinion, mind you. Like I said, I am, rather slowly, assembling bibliographies of the various geographical areas of the earth. As they would deal with things like the local flora, fauna, people, culture, and the like, they could also serve as the basis for things like, for instance, Bibliography of South American military history, which would be a selection of books about the military history of that area drawn from the bibliographies of the main states/regions themselves.
That will not however include such things as the sciences, or philosophy, or the major religions, and certainly not off-world topics like astronomy. They would probably need to be created entirely separately.
My own basic choice would be to maybe have others create bibliographies for the sciences, business, and other topics that don't have clear geographic ties.
I would think the items to be included would best include separate books/works on the topic that have been reviewed by academic journals and other reputable specialist magazines, and/or included in books or articles of bibliography of that topic.
There are obviously questions regarding how long to make these bibliographies, and that's a separate matter entirely. The bibliography of physics, like the bibliography of Christianity, would be potentially endless. For such broad topics, maybe the best way to proceed would be to look at the various extant reference works, like encyclopedias, that deal with the topics, and to start include only those works which are included in the bibliographies of the articles in those encyclopedias. That would be a start, anyway. John Carter ( talk) 17:15, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hey Rich, If you have the time, would you mind doing another search of the dump, as you did at User:Rich Farmbrough/temp14? I've run through that last list. (20 articles which I can't do on my own are all that's left.) A couple things different this time: no article exclusions (I will simply have AWB ignore anything within templates, unless you can pre-parse those at your end), plus a couple extra characters we missed last time. (If you can search for pure diacritics, that would be even better; otherwise I've noticed some more common combos, such as β̞ i̯ u̯ e̯ o̯, plus another character, ‹ˁ› that is commonly mistaken for IPA ‹ˤ›.) Thanks, — kwami ( talk) 07:13, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
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I note that you've tried to slim down the above page a bit. I took the matter of size to WikiProject Ireland but they didn't seem particularly interested! As you have been around Wikipedia a fair bit (apparently you've got a few thousands edits under your belt), I wondered if you had any ideas on how to make the article accessible to Joe Bloggs. Would splitting it up into List of townlands of County Cork, A–E etc. be acceptable? What's the point in having a page which 80% of readers won't be able to access? Thanks. — Half Price 20:42, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Being f Fixed. BTW, hundreds of users have used the wrong infobox on UK school pages (maybe other countries too, I haven't looked yet). Do you know of a quick fix that retains the data? I can't use AWB on my computers. Cheers. --
Kudpung (
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Why are you removing noinclude tags: [7]? These year pages are transcluded in higher level articles, and your removal royal screws up the entire chain. 68.35.24.151 ( talk) 22:25, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I was wondering if you could run something which adds a pushpin map to every infobox by state. I did start doing it manually previously and removed the census maps but I got sidetracked because of objections to the removal of the census maps. However if you were to keep the census maps and to add the pushpin maps this should be fine. Minot, North Dakota for instance. The majority of the articles have the shoddy census maps in them which mostly leaves you really having to look hard where the place actually is in the state. let alone America. Eventually the pin maps will have the US state inserts so you can see where in America it is. Of course I've proposed we have the option like on French wikipedia for clickable maps but nothing is happening there.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:09, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Any thoughts?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:29, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
You might not have noticed, but I've vandalised User:Rich_Farmbrough/temp19/redir with loads of ticks and crosses.
I hope what I'm doing is OK, and I'm pretty sure it is, mostly - so I'm boldly ploughing through them. If it is all wrong though, please let me know. Cheers, Chzz ► 00:25, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
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Bottom edit was by
Rich Farmbrough at 19:09, 3 March 2011 (UTC).
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 13:55, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Can you please perform the following tasks with SmackBot (and ask for a BRFA if not already covered by your tasks)? Since the tasks were already approved for Yobot it should be no problem. Thanks! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:50, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hiya, I seem to call one you had some criteria for identifing 'harmful articles', can you point in in the direct of that. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 13:19, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Some time ago you bulk-reverted Mhiji's removal of text after redirects (edits such as this one), the majority of those removals appear to have been correct. While the text after the redirect doesn't automatically do any harm, there are many cases in which it is not wanted. (Copyright violations, nonsensical text, straight copy-pastes from the target article, and so forth). Just to let you know I have already re-reverted some of these and will likely do more. Thanks Gurch ( talk) 21:28, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Any chance Helpful Pixie Bot could be modified to avoid editing anything with an {{ inuse}} or a {{ GOCEinuse}} tag, please? (Please ignore this if it does it in a way that cannot cause edit conflicts. I'm not sure of the technicalities about that). -- Stfg ( talk) 20:12, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
I have standardized (or should I say standardised here?) the documentation of the seven "Use English language" templates and the corresponding category pages. See e.g. Template:Use American English and Category:Use American English. I have added the four that were missing to Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month. Even though two of them are empty so far this month, it is still better to have them, than to not have them. Debresser ( talk) 13:29, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Btw, why is it that a category like {{ Use American English}} has a backlog notice? It has only two subcategories, each with only one article. I noticed that Template:Backlog subcategories is automatically a part of Template:Parent monthly clean up category, without any mechanism to deactivate it if the number of categories is lower than a certain threshold. Do you think that is correct? And if not, what can be done about it?
In addition, and with an eye on the future again, "Use" categories like these "Use English language" templates, and the "Use date format" templates, are first candidates for using {{ Monthly maintenance category}} instead of {{ Monthly clean-up category}}, since they are not about "clean-up", and I think that one of the differences between them should be that a backlog notice is not appropriate in them. Debresser ( talk) 14:22, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Just move Template:Parent monthly maintainance category to Template:Parent monthly maintenance category. And shouldn't the clean-up parameter be added to Template:Monthly clean-up category/outer core also to make it work? Debresser ( talk) 11:16, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
I notice that the {{ Wikipedia category}} does not seem to line up nicely with the other centre boxes as it once did. Any ideas? Rich Farmbrough, 11:23, 26 July 2011 (UTC).copied from my talkpage
On
User:Debresser/Sandbox I copied some code, then changed it a little. When I press the link indicated by {{fullurl:User:Debresser/Sandbox|action=edit§ion=new}}
, I can make a new section. So far so good.
When I write something in that section (like "bla2") I can save it. When I write only a section header, but no text, the page doesn't save. Why is that?
Please feel free to use my page for testing. Debresser ( talk) 14:55, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
A while back, you said I should tell you if I ever noticed SmackBot failing to unsubstitute a template. It looks like this is such a case. Unlike the other times I've seen SmackBot fail, I don't see anything obviously wrong with the begin/end tags this time. I've done it by hand for now. – RobinHood70 talk 22:31, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
(Note: Page in question deleted 00:17, 15 August 2011)
R.
F. 2015-10-21Z20:12
Please see User_talk:Avicennasis#User:Avicennasis.2Fcatpage, where I ask the question why empty maintenance categories from June auto-nominate for speedy, but July categories don't. It seems they have to be 2 months old to self-nominate, and I wonder why that is. Not technically but ideologically, I mean. Why not nominate July categories as well? Debresser ( talk) 11:05, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
DYKS.
Rich
Farmbrough, 11:42, 2 August 2011 (UTC).
I noticed Category:Wikipedians having been offered adoption using Template:Adopt offer is being dated. I had to do quite some maintenance there. Interestingly, Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user using Template:Adoptme is not dated, even though it is a lot bigger, and dating it to create a backlog idea seems logical. I'll take care of that in the evening. Debresser ( talk) 13:25, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
Dated adopt me}}
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Rich
Farmbrough, 00:16, 1 September 2011 (UTC).Hi Rich, I've added relevant citations/references for this article and removed the Unreferenced Template/maintenence Tag placed in 2007. Could you please have a look and see if it is okay? Thanks! Audit Guy ( talk) 04:03, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Just a word to say, that Paldopaldino interfered and wrote today, that he created this article and introduced the images, proving instantly that it was not an autobiography I was working on in order to add final touches. Greetings, Kalaharih-- Kalaharih ( talk) 22:53, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I noticed that you added few lines about an Arab bath discovered between the remains of the Greek-Sicilian city of Kamarina. Just wondered if you knew the location of this archaeological site? Is it really inside the area of Kamarina because from the photo it looks in a different location. Thanks.-- Sal73x ( talk) 20:58, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Sorry about the bold letters in the paragraph below. I am just trying to achieve clarity (of communication).
Hi. One of the articles I work on got tagged with this template. I don't agree with the rationale so I am removing it. However, that is not why I am writing on your talk page. I am wondering if you know how the statement "use Db-spam to mark for speedy deletion. (August 2011)" got added to this template. This statement seems out of place if this is to be used in the article main space. It's like an invitation to go ahead and request speedy deletion for whatever article this is placed on. If it is an established article that kind of statement makes no sense. If its a new article then the request for speedy deletion would be more appropriate than placing the Template:Advert on the new article. So anyway I look at it this statement seems to be out of place. So, I think the statement should be removed. I will watch your talk page for a reply. ---- Steve Quinn ( talk) 19:06, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
The bot marked the lead of Soldiers Chapel as too long. I am surprised because - as a rather short article - it didn't have a lead, no heading until references. I created one now. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:24, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
Out of interest, what was this about? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 07:42, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
I have created {{ Cleanup-lang}}, for articles with non-English text, which should use {{ Lang}} but do not yet do so. I'm not sure whether you need to manually add it to the list of templates your Helpful Pixie Bot dates. Suggestions for improvements would be welcome. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:56, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I was wondering about your last edit at Talk:Keith Raniere. Chrisrus ( talk) 02:45, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
Merge}}
with {{
Tl|Merge}}
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Farmbrough, 15:07, 29 August 2011 (UTC).Hi. As I get annoyed by no longer seeing a Top behind items on 'My contributions', only to see that a bot ran along, I have the habit of dating 'citation needed' tags when I introduce these. Unfortunately, because I do not chase unsourced material all the time, I tend to make the mistake of passing the argument unnamed, which is common for simple templates that know only a single argument - but in this case, also 'reason' is a valid argument.
If I happen to be the only one, you might disregard this message. Else, it would be interesting if the bot would recognize a date (full or only month and year) as entire content of an unnamed argument, and then convert that argument by putting "date=" in front of the (by the bot properly formatted) date. Now, the bot modifies {{Cn|August 2011}} into {{Cn|August 2011|date=August 2011}}, which may make other editors wonder what the intention of the two arguments might be. Fortunately, because a such template simply disregards unnamed of faultily named arguments, the readers do not see anything unusual.
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I don't understand what you did here with this edit, but it appears to make subst'ing the template rather pointless as it produces results like this or like this. older ≠ wiser 02:15, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
I want to edit all the archive of 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification and 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification to this format:
2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Second Round#Group 2
Please help me to that.
Thanks! Banhtrung1 ( talk) 13:45, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Replace_superscripted_text_with_normal_text. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:21, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
I am leaving this message to stop the bot from editing because the owner was blocked for a week. Since it is a bot operators responsibility to fix any problems created by a bot he would not be able to do that in a blocked state. -- Kumioko ( talk) 15:28, 9 September 2011 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:Femto Bot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 15:31, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Can someone revert the autoblock since it's screwing with my talk page archiving, and bot stuff. Thanks.
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:55, 9 September 2011 (UTC).
The sentence opposite Thomas Fairfax, isn't. "Even though" should probably be "despite".
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:16, 9 September 2011 (UTC).
"However, it was proved " => "However, it proved " — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rich Farmbrough ( talk • contribs)
Please see this edit to Template:Update after. Debresser ( talk) 19:00, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Per the discussion at WP:AN, and in particular your response where you gave no indication of the required prior approval or noted that you were under restriction or that your edits were in keeping with same, I have enacted the above sanction. LessHeard vanU ( talk) 13:05, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Am I the only one going WTF here? Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:45, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
(In response to [12]) In the last week, you've used a script to create 92 biography articles requiring cleanup ("DNB00") and AWB (seemingly inappropriately modified to auto-save) to create over 200 redirects of dubious necessity [13]. These are clear violations of your editing restrictions. You are also violating your other editing restriction as we speak from Helpful Pixie Bot ( talk · contribs). – xeno talk 14:13, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough/Archive ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Decline reason:
It is clear from the discussion at AN that these edits are a violation of your restriction. Furthermore, the evidence that Xeno provides below is unambiguously a violation. This request is declined pending consensus at AN. The Wordsmith Talk to me 01:10, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
What about [14] ? – xeno talk 21:36, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough/Archive ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Reason, previous decline is on two grounds, the first is clearly wrong, the second is responding to a "fishing expedition" by Xeno.
Rich
Farmbrough, 9:23 pm, Today (UTC−4).
Decline reason:
You will have to address the concerns expressed about your editing if you are to be unblocked early (And, I expect, if you are to avoid further blocks). — Coren (talk) 02:53, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Rich, it's pretty clear that "No one was disrupted by [...]" is incorrect given that it led to an AN/I thread and the decision to block you. After a bit of investigation, the root issue is that people have repeatedly expressed concerns about your creation of large number of low quality articles and restricted you from doing so anymore. That you disagree with this (that the number is large, or that the articles are of low quality) is clear; but your disagreement does not free you from the restriction.
You have exactly two options: stop doing what the community objects to, or convince it that the restriction is unnecessary or inapplicable. You can't just ignore it when it suits you. — Coren (talk) 16:14, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
{{
Unblock|Per unblocking policy, this block is in not necessary to prevent damage or disruption. The premise that mass article creation (batches of over 50 articles created in rapid succession) was taking place, has been shown to be false (See table below). There is no suggestion that the article creation was disruptive, or that any damage or disruption has occurred or is expected to occur.
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Farmbrough, 03:32, 10 September 2011 (UTC).
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6 Sept | 14:00 | 1 | 0 |
6 Sept | 13:00 | 1 | 0 |
6 Sept | 12:00 | 1 | 1 |
6 Sept | 10:00 | 2 | 0 |
5 Sept | 23:00 | 2 | 0 |
5 Sept | 16:00 | 2 | 0 |
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That's still ignoring all the redirects you created in one go, which is not xeno saying "Aha! but what about these edits.... And what aboout.. ", because he already pointed it out when you were first blocked, only you decided to remove that from your talk page for whatever reason. - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 05:56, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Rich, it you want to blank-archive items other than the block that fine.
Resetting or removing a declined unblock request is not.
- J Greb ( talk) 03:30, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 486 (number) (disambiguation). Since you had some involvement with the 486 (number) (disambiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). D O N D E groovily Talk to me 21:41, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Xeno, the coding error in the Navbox is exactly what the bot run was fixing.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:28, 9 September 2011 (UTC).
Helpful Pixie Bot added a {{ Use dmy dates}} template in this edit to Forbidden relationships in Judaism. Why would he do that? Debresser ( talk) 00:28, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Falafel [ [16]] has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the good article reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Veritycheck ( talk) 01:34, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
I can answer some of these questions for you. In the edit you said the article was not referenced. This isn't really true, because it links to a variety of other wikipedia pages about winged unicorns, which have their own references. You might look at this as somewhat of a disambiguation page (disambigs don't need references) which discusses them. The articles themselves have the references. The only reason I could think to include a reference specifically about winged unicorns is if there were original content here not on the articles it directs to.
As far as a citation being needed for the alternate names, 'horned pegasus' makes sense because the earliest known winged unicorn (WW2 air division) was a pegasus with a horn added to it. As far as the 'alicorn' bit, that seems to be a misunderstanding in the MLP communities, right now it's even used on the MLP characters article, a problem I am trying to have corrected. The portmanteaus have shown up on other articles I have found discussing the creatures. That editors are using the term seems reason enough to disambiguate it here. Bonechamber ( talk) 07:27, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, based on your recent participation in the article, I'd like to invite you to: Talk:Mukkulathor#Suggest_major_reorganisation_of_the_article. Thanks for your input! MatthewVanitas ( talk) 13:46, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Just curious - why change, for example, 16th century to sixteenth century? And if you are going to do it, why just in one section (Food and drink)? Hohenloh + 12:06, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I see that you have recently copied a lot of templates from the english wikipedia to the hindi wikipedia(semi-automatically, I'm guessing). Would you please tell why you have done the same? I have no problems with copying templates from en to hi, but I dont understand why such a huge influx of templates is being made right now, that too without any translation.-- Siddhartha Ghai ( talk) 16:40, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tiffany Page is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tiffany Page until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. LongLiveMusic ( talk) 15:44, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
While you are aware of the general thread, I don't know whether you followed it after your block. There is at the moment a proposal to ban you from Wikipedia for 1 year. You are unable to directly participate in it for the moment of course, but any comments you would like to make about it can be copied to it (by me or if you prefer by another editor). The section is at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Ban Proposal. Fram ( talk) 13:12, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
I disagree with the way you and Boleyn have been creating the DNB articles of late but a ban is ridiculous. Rich has never had anything other than good intentions. I'm not happy with DNB articles being created either with cleanup tags slopped on them and I feel it should be done quickly manually. But Rich most certainly didn't deserve a ban proposal or even a block for what he did.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:07, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
It messed up the coding for the template at the bottom of the article, messed with, apparently, every line in the article. And when I tried to undo the damage it just redid it all again. And I'm not supposed to notice, or comment on that???? You delete any comments that point out the failings of this bot? I read a little about this bot, and even more at its apparent author's talk page, and this is not an unknown, or unidentified issue with this bot....SO WHY THE HECK IS IT ****STILL**** RUNNING?????? User:12.73.220.22 19:58, 18 September 2011
There is an open WP:SPI case looking at sockpuppet editing primarily on the Johann Hari/ Talk page. As you edited the Johann Hari/Talk page between 2004 and 2011, your input is welcomed. Yonmei ( talk) 22:30, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Did you notice that there are 61 undated pages in Category:Userspace drafts. Btw, see User_talk:Avicennasis#Stale_Userspace_drafts? Debresser ( talk) 17:11, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Regretfully, I am leaving this message and stopping the bot because the owner/operator was blocked for a week. Although I have concerns about the validity of the block I don't think a bot should be running if the sole operator is blocked. Bot operators are required to monitor and repair any problems that bot creates and a blocked editor cannot do that. -- Kumioko ( talk) 15:10, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Why should I have my day wasted, my planned evening out ruined, my work (both on wiki and off) thrown into disarray, and my sleep disturbed, because someone stalks my edits?
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:17, 9 September 2011 (UTC).
If anyone is curious, I noticed the creations because of Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 September 3#Dictionary of National Biography contributor templates, where I went looking at what articles now used them (for months they were totally unused, just like thousands of other templates Rich Farmbrough made in the past). In this way, I couldn't help but notice the new articles, and their problems. If I had really been stalking his edits, I would have noticed the mass creation of redirects, with ones like Whatsisname) where his script again screwed up (the trailing bracket? Straight from the redirect target, where it is an alternative name, "Nodessertro (Whatsisname)"). It's just a typical example of the problems with the script creations which lead to the editing restriction (that time around, it were completely incorrect category names). Fram ( talk) 18:40, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Fixed
Should be a redirect.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:38, 11 September 2011 (UTC).
I often see superscripts that looks like these:
It would be great if you could enhance your bot to move superscripted text to better locations:
Mfwitten ( talk) 19:37, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Rich, On the talk page for the proposed terms of use, you mention a takedown that is unchallengeable. While it's possible, I think it's more likely that it's a symptom of our bad communication about it or something (for which I would take responsibility). I don't think we have any that are unchallengeable right now. So, I want to write to ask if there's something I can clarify, or whether I'm missing something on my list? Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 01:14, 11 September 2011 (UTC)