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Hello, I've been playing around with Template:Graphical timeline, trying to create a timline. I was wondering - is it possible to have a timeline that goes from the oldest timeperiod at the top to the most recent at the bottom? I've tried, and it seems to work except that the scale is missing. Is it possible? Thanks, -- Beloved Freak 21:24, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
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What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar | |
{{ cite doi}} (and {{ cite jstor}} etc.) are incredible and will make (are making?) a huge difference to wikipedia, encouraging citations, improving citation quality and accuracy, and saving everyone a lot of typing. Profound thanks for your work (and to any collaborators I may have missed)! (Now to go fix my old jstor cites…) —Nils von Barth ( nbarth) ( talk) 08:21, 3 March 2010 (UTC) |
Hi, I want to translate it to Hebrew for the He Wikipedia, it is possible? Israel Krul ( talk) 14:31, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
hi smith609, i'd love to know what you think about this idea. cheers Spencerk ( talk) 21:02, 25 March 2010 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Sorry for not calling you for so long. Until the start of Dec 2009 you were looking very busy with working and with WP on cites and other templates, so I didn't want to your load. Then I was ill, and am still not great. How do you like Canada now, and the ROM? What projects are you working now? -- Philcha ( talk) 12:41, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
The citation bot seems to be naively converting "cite web" to "Citation" without checking it is not a "vcite web". This has broken the citations on Major depressive disorder. See this edit. Please stop your bot until it is fixed. Colin° Colin 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Smith, I reverted you Here because it looks like all you did was remove signatures. Did I mess up?-- SKATER Speak. 18:01, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:SnowballGeography.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. FASTILY (TALK) 00:56, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello Martin: I created an article on Ernettia but perhaps this is an erroneous spelling of Ernietta. Even though I found references, perhaps those have errors, what is your opinion? Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 22:28, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to ask you for this:
Thanks. For every of these points there are reasons and I can try to elucidate them in the future. -- Snek01 ( talk) 22:59, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Good science and an instructive story! Thanks! -- Philcha ( talk) 23:24, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
I'm not seeing the citebot widget in the toolbox even tho I emptied my cache. What would it look like if it was there? Is it only present for certain pages? Joja lozzo 18:01, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
I figured out that I'm using the vector skin, not monobook skin. After adding the script to vector.js the widget is showing up but the font size is wrong. Any advice on fixing that? Joja lozzo 18:21, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Martin
I'm disappointed that you changed the refs - IMO there's a guideline that if there's an established ref / citation style it should be respected or discuss at the article's Talk. In this case the item that concerned me was the insertion of page numbers in to main text - IMO this is just another distraction for readers, and less useful than e.g. wikilinks. As a result I've have to spent about 2 hours finding and restoring. I admit I was slow on the ball - RL was pulling on me. -- Philcha ( talk) 07:45, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
In the background perhaps we're both looking for a solution to another issue. At present in Mollusca and others I've wanted to cite chapters and even sections of books, but without duplicated the book details (title, ISBN, publisher, e.g.) - and Visionholder showed me a way to split citations so that the book details appear only once and the cites for chapters, sections, etc. are a list underneather each book - it's easier to show than explain, see User:Philcha/Sandbox/Reference_methods/List-defined_references. It does not depend on List-defined references or template like harvnb or sfn - I'd really avoid sfn, despite some neat things, because I've already found one situation sfn can't handle. -- Philcha ( talk) 07:45, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Your bot changed a ref in Merge Sort. It turned what looks like an under-specified journal article into a news item. It's guessing, and it shouldn't do that. And to what end? Furthermore, do not change Citation to Cite. There are defaults in place, and you should not be dictating other people's style. I'm also trying to report a bug, and I'm being pointed down a lengthy process where I will not go. Glrx ( talk) 14:03, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Is there a reason why the citation bot is changing transclusions of {{ cite book}} to {{ citation}}? The template doesn't seem to me to be deprecated or anything. Jafeluv ( talk) 10:01, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
On Malay Archipelago did you mean ([edit=autoconfirmated] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite)))? Tbhotch Talk C. 17:21, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I just discovered that "Citation bot" added an ISBN number to a reference on a page I made,
Maritime Fur Trade. I hadn't heard of Citation bot before, but it led me to your talk page where I discovered {{Cite jstor}}
and {{Cite doi}}
. They look really useful for editors who would rather focus on content instead of citation details and syntax. I wondered if it would be possible to make a similar template for books available from Google Books. I frequently find information via Google Books and type up "cite book" references, with the url parameter pointing to the Google Books entry. After seeing the Cite jstor template, my first thought was wondering whether a similar thing would work for Google Books--a template where one would merely enter the Google Books id code and a bot would come along and create a full reference. So, I thought I'd just ask--is it possible?
Pfly (
talk)
08:44, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
|author-mask=
parameter is useful when the author should be obfuscated, as in bibliographies; it's useful to have their name in the citation for metadata purposes, even if this is not made visible to the reader. I already have some safeguards in place to catch flaws in the metadata (editors mistaken for authors etc); if uncaught problems arise then I can respond accordingly.
Martin (
Smith609 –
Talk)
17:36, 22 May 2010 (UTC)The bot is still destroying links to pages: diff. Can some admin please help stop it for a while until this is discussed and fixed? Shreevatsa ( talk) 17:51, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Another bug: diff. Google's 'id' parameters may contain hyphens, the bot broke the link and declared it a dead link. (BTW — scroll down to the references section — why does dead link appear inside brackets before the link? This is a bug in the citation template, presumably.) Shreevatsa ( talk) 18:18, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Now that Vetustovermis is considered a nectocarididid, should I redraw it as a swimmer?-- Mr Fink ( talk) 05:09, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, did you notice the bug I mentioned above where (as in this diff) the bot removes hyphens in parameters and then declares them dead links? Is this fixed?
Also, see the before/after links in this diff. The results are not identical; it appears that Google pays attention to the "vq" parameter as well. Could you add that to your list of parameters to be retained (I think vq > dq > q, meaning that when you have one you can drop the succeeding ones), or better yet, only remove tags with an identified function known to be useless? I know most articles probably haven't chosen their links very carefully, but still, that the bot should "first do no harm" seems like an important principle to me. Shreevatsa ( talk) 07:44, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Congratulations for your excellent work in the articles about the nudibranchs. As you have been working on Sacoglossa, I found a strange sentence (not written by you) that needs to be rephrased. I made a suggestion on Talk:Sacoglossa. If you're thinking along the same line as I do about the meaning of this sentence, you can change it in the article. Cheers. JoJan ( talk) 09:05, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
You are using a probably old or deprecated system of references, that has to be updated each time with a bot. It is very easy now to use the right method : just click on "Cite" on top of the page and then you'll see a dropdown menu with "Templates". Choose the correct one, and that's all. Cheers. JoJan ( talk) 15:45, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
I filed a bug report five days ago regarding this edit and it hasn't even been acknowledged. While I do not know how to search for similar edits, I'd assume the same damaging edit would of been done on any patent citation using the same format. The example I've given has since been corrected manually, but what of ones that were not? Juventas ( talk) 06:45, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello Martin! The Stenothecoida with its Stenothecoides and Cambridium and the Stenothecidae with its Stenotheca, Mellopegma, Eurkapegma, Anabarella and Watsonella, are absolutely different groups of the Cambrian organisms which are even not similar against each other. It is simply they have similar names. Stenothecoida (Stenothecoides) are middle Cambrian problematic bivalve organisms. Stenothecidae (Stenotheca, Watsonella, …) have, without doubts, univalved shell.
Parkhaev study (more 15 years!) the Cambrian gastropods SSF (it is his specialization) not on another's articles, pictures and photos, he study real specimens, his assumptions are based on factual material. And among modern specialists on Cambrian mollusks SSF is almost nobody considers it as Monoplacophorans.
Stenothecoides, Stenothecoida photos:
Stenotheca, Mellopegma, Anabarella and Watsonella, Stenothecidae photos
Be more attentive. :-) Aleksey ( Alnagov ( talk) 22:21, 9 June 2010 (UTC))
![]() | Martin is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia early in July. Martin ( Smith609 – Talk) 17:48, 16 June 2010 (UTC) |
IIRC you were at one time thinking of a thesis on Nectocaris. You might find Paleontology in the News, by a retired professor of paleo.
I also see you're still working on labour-saving citation techniques. I'd be grateful if you coud look at Wikipedia talk:Citation templates#Need to standardise citations -- Philcha ( talk) 12:47, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Why is the bot adding a template to {{ cite journal}} citations, authorsep, which is not documented in the cite journal documentation? Jc3s5h ( talk) 00:04, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
No problem, but I just had my Sandbox updated by the Citation bot. Do you really want to get into that? No reply needed, I can live with it either way, but I thought that you'd like to know. TomS TDotO ( talk) 18:11, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, one of the pages I watch had this edit by your bot. The url changes don't bother me much, but the final change from 'citation' to 'cite journal' and the addition of 'ref=harv' and the rest seems dubious. Does it seem valid to you? Also, I'm assuming that [Pu173] is meant to identify the editor using your bot. There doesn't seem to be a user by that name. Is there any way to validate the user before allowing them to run the bot? Thanks, Celestra ( talk) 19:40, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I have found edits from Citation bot 1 ([Pu174]Misc citation tidying), which literally makes nothing visible on the page. This is an
example. Here, the bot has simply eliminated a carriage return from a citation in the script of the page, but with no apparent influence on the page itself.
I think these edits could be avoided, because they clog the page history, with no utility to the page itself, not even cosmetic. And, cosmetic edits have to applied cautiously, according to
wikipedia bot policy. What do you think about that?--
GianniG46 (
talk)
13:38, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Martin. We got Kimberella to GA in 2008 so it's about time for an update. As far as I can see you've done a fine job on new/updated content - and you're an expert, while I'm just an enthusiatic amateur. But I think a serious copyedit is needed, to make the phrasing more suitable for the proverbial bright 14-old year and to removed duplication, of which there's a lot. Would you like me to start the copyedit? -- Philcha ( talk) 16:49, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Again I find cosmetic operations on the script of the page, with no effect on the page itself, as in this example. The bot has only modified 3 references, and in all cases has changed the expression "books.google.com/books?" to "books.google.com/?", with no effects, neither on the functionality nor on the visual appearance of the references on the page.
Anyway, the problem is not your bot, it is more general. At this point, most of the page histories I see contain more bot traffic than normal editing, and for me is difficult to discover who has written what. What can be done to overcome this? -- GianniG46 ( talk) 01:01, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Followed your instructions on how to add Citation bot to my toolbox. It created User:Maile66/modern.js Cleared my browser cache. That was yesterday. Even today after having shut down and booted back up, I don't see anything different on my toolbox. Is it necessary to create the .css page also? If so, what text do I enter before I Save the new .css page? I must be missing a step. Please advise. Maile66 ( talk) 19:43, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I used cite doi in Golden jackal#Evolution (it's reference 15). It's done just what was needed, but now the reference has an Edit link for editing the template generated. I've not seen this before. Should I leave it like this, or is there something more I should do? Thanks for a great tool. -- Stfg ( talk) 09:41, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
I LOVE your template:
It is 20 times easier to use then the complex timeline extension.
My problem is, I am trying to add your template to a wikia, and it will not work.
First I got two errors:
I started to use old version of the templates to see if that would work.
I deleted the: %; when the error continued to show up, I then deleted the entire line, with the abs template [2] (which I had created from an earlier version of template:abs).
The expression error then disappeared.
but this line:
continues to show up. I am not sure what I am supposed to delete. Any suggestions? It would be great if you could fix this, or tell me how to fix this.
Here is an example of the template not working on the wikia:
All the templates are the same name....some are earlier versions.
I was going to message Habbit too, but since you are the creator, you probably know better than anyone thanks in advance! 15:53, 26 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Burtthompson ( talk • contribs)
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What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar | |
This barnstar is awarded to Smith609 for his incredible horizontal graph templates. Wow! What a simple solution to a complex problem. Thank you! Burtthompson ( talk) 15:56, 26 July 2010 (UTC) |
Hi, Martin. In a 2008 edit, I think you cite "Sereno et al, 1998" on the weak correlation between stratigraphic age and cladistic rank. Do you have a more specific reference for this? I'm interested in the details: whether this means that stratigraphic correlation with age in years is poor, or that the age of a fossil is an unreliable clue as to the age at which speciation separated it's ancestor from it's nearest relative, because smaller fossils are easier to find, or etc. I found a Paul C Sereno online, who published three articles in 1998. I wasn't able to find the content online, however. If you have the exact citation, I could narrow my search and avoid looking up or paying for the wrong article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidrei ( talk • contribs) 16:46, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Are you using at least that version? After the bot was revised as so reported by Google, I found the bot still editing Google Books URLs to redirect URLs, and again I edited to the correct URLs. The problem and the fix are reported at [3] and r179 is described at [4], both as accessed today. But if r179 was already in use, then I'll just live with what's happening and maybe correct its trail in articles I watch. Thanks. Nick Levinson ( talk) 05:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
/books
a personal preference, or is there a more fundamental reason to retain it? I've done some testing and don't see any performance implications for the redirection.
Martin (
Smith609 –
Talk)
20:15, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
A fixed a few problems in your toolbox script. Hope you don't mind. Especially the encoding issue can be problematic. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 21:20, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Is it true that you have bitchin' template making skills? Abyssal ( talk) 02:59, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Sources_again. LeadSongDog come howl! 05:39, 14 August 2010 (UTC) (Using {{ Please see}})
Hello. Is it possible to stop the bot from editing WP:AWB/Sandbox? It recently edited the page. Bot edits to a sandbox can be disruptive. Thanks. McLerristarr / Mclay1 09:58, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
I haven't come across 'Citation bot 1' before so I have a couple of questions. I know they're fairly elementary but I'd like to understand a bit more about how it works.
Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 17:55, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Your reference tool disappeared from the left panel (I use old wiki markup). Could it be related to your latest corrections? Materialscientist ( talk) 23:53, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Why did you delete the subject section in the extinction event page? It appeared to fit nicely in the article.... Please reply in the discusion section of 'extinction event' page. Morbas ( talk) 04:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Period | Terminus Dates | Interval | 6th Interval |
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-58 Ma-ago | |||
Borgzoic | 57 Ma | (Projected | |
-1 Ma-ago | Devonian Pair) | ||
Paleogene-Neogene | 72 Ma | ||
71 MA-ago | |||
Cretaceous | 75 Ma | ||
146 Ma-ago | |||
Jurassic | 54 Ma | ||
200 Ma-ago | |||
Permian-Trassic | 86 Ma | ||
286 Ma-ago | |||
Carboniferous | 73 Ma | ||
359 Ma-ago | (417)Ma | ||
Devonian | 57 Ma | ||
416 Ma-ago | 417 Ma | ||
Ordovician-Silurian | 72 Ma | ||
488 Ma-ago | 417 Ma | ||
Cambrian | 75 Ma | ||
563 Ma-ago | 417 Ma | ||
Ediacaran/Varangian | 54 Ma | ||
617 Ma-ago | 417 Ma | ||
Cryognian/Varangian |
98.148.24.98 ( talk) 04:52, 14 September 2010 (UTC) Table always does it. All are ICS dates, save one...A deeper pattern exists that shows repetion in sets of three, each set in alternate offset by +/-7Ma. The rest of the article text is supported by the three references shown. I am surprised you did not notice the discussion section where this was presented for almost a month with little comments, except a reference request by a retiring contributor. No time line theory here... 98.148.24.98 ( talk) 04:52, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Please refer to this page Nevada Barr. I ran the citation bot from here Toolserver Yes, it inserted ISBN numbers on the Nevada Barr page. However, the numbers it inserted aren't even close to the ones on amazon.com, neither the 10-digit nor the 13-digit one. As an example, look at the 2010 novel Burn . The Amazon ISBN are 031261456X and 978-0312614560. Can you explain the discrepancy? Maile66 ( talk) 21:34, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Martin,
I have one small question which you may know the answer to. Often, after an article has been switched to the new automatic taxobox, it appears in Category:Taxoboxes with an invalid color, even though it doesn't belong there. For instance, Louisella was there this morning, even though the taxobox appeared correctly. In such cases, a null edit is all that's required to remove the category. I assume it's all to do with the mechanisms of template transclusion. Does it only happen if the automated taxonomy is updated after the article was edited? Is there any way of avoiding it? It's not a big problem at the moment, but if there's a simple (automatic) solution, that would be great. If the automatic taxoboxes ever get rolled out by bots, then this could become an issue, so it's probably worth considering it now. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 06:25, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Over the last 24 hours or so I've intermittently had this error running the citation bot: "Getting login details ... done. Connecting to MYSQL database ... !!! * Database server login failed. This is probably a temporary problem with the server and will hopefully be fixed soon. The server returned: "User 'verisimilus' has exceeded the 'max_user_connections' resource (current value: 15)" Error message generated by /res/mysql_connect.php". Rjwilmsi 12:33, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I tried to add the widget, but I see that the code is already in my User:Wtmitchell/vector.js. I've cleared my cache and reloaded pages, but I don't see a relevant link in the Toolbox section. Help appreciated.
Separately, I'd appreciate a glance at Talk:Gulf War#Reversion and Citation bot and corrections there if I got something wrong. Thanks. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Martin,
Your automatic taxoboxes seem no longer to be italicising the names of species, either in the header of the taxobox or (presumably as a consequence) in the article title. See, for instance, Amanita muscaria or Stauroteuthis syrtensis. Genera appear to be unaffected (cf. Stauroteuthis). -- Stemonitis ( talk) 16:16, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Is it possible to use the citation bot on Wikipedias in other languages? I am thinking of the portuguese one in particular. Thanks in advance, GoEThe ( talk) 11:39, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
i installed your bot but dont quite understand how to use it. Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election, 2010 has some bare refs that need to be filled, i entered at the bot page, but it says "no changes required and no edits made" Could you help me out in using it?
thanks. Lihaas ( talk) 07:12, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I added User:Smith609/toolbox.js to my vector.js page and it seems to have worked, except ... the font is about 2–3 times larger than normal. Can I adjust the font in any way? Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 16:36, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Opinion about original research pasted from Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard
Simple arithmetic and tabulation is not usually considered original research. Make sure that you are not slanting the data in any way to make a point. Expect that scientists will be pernickety about details and presentation. Itsmejudith ( talk) 22:14, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Morbas ( talk) 22:34, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Smith, are you home. I cannot find where the dispute is posted in Wiki. And, see my home page for the new extinction event section. I will post this in the section just to force the issue. I consider this a stalled process.... Morbas ( talk) 21:37, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
The data is 417M years. It is you that play "edit-wars" by the first deletion (without due respect) and not looking at the discussion...one posted almost 30 days in advance. I have provide discussion paragraghs that you have not bothered to engage in. I have posted the paragraph in the original research issue section, and one consesus supports having the chart in the section as well, and indicates a fair discussion. Since the issue has not been registered, then your comments for the 'dispute resolver' are what...intimidating tactics, ehh? Morbas ( talk) 23:24, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
{{ Nature}} was an unambiguous misrepresentation of policy. Sorry. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 00:39, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
So...explain the extra E to me....I'm not quite understanding yet. Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 05:35, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks; I am busy with the WP:TCG and a bit of homework today, but I'll be sure and try it out sometime in the next few days. Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 22:12, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm going to remove some of the automatic taxoboxes you added to algae articles. The underlying articles have some issues that need edited, but, in addition, you changed the wikipedia-used higher level taxonomy on the green algae, and, in the coralline red algae, you removed the subfamilies. Also, the taxonomies are said to come from algaebase, but don't agree with algaebase. I will fix them when I get some time. -- Kleopatra ( talk) 17:35, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
For algae articles, if you make more automatic taxoboxes, can you use the existing taxonomy for each taxon? For example, start at the division and get its taxonomy from the division page and move down, rather than using the taxonomy listed no the genus page.
In addition, you had a bot that created articles on algae that were deleted. Could you undelete some of those into my user space for me to edit and move into article space? I could make lists, and you could post all of the text from the bot into my user space, or into WikiProject Algae user space?
-- Kleopatra ( talk) 17:32, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
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The Template Barnstar | |
You ought to take a break and reward yourself to some ice cream or something-- you've done a marvelous job with the templating for the insanely complex {{ taxobox}} et cetera as we find glitches in the {{ automatic taxobox}} implementation of it. I've really enjoyed working with you on it so far. (Don't spend too long eating that ice cream, we'll need you again SOON! Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 06:50, 28 October 2010 (UTC) |
Template:Endref has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you.
Auntof6 (
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04:37, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
{{ resolved}}
Hello, I understand you are busy actually creating templates but if you find the time...
I made my first graphic timeline using your Template:Graphical timeline although my usage may not be exactly what it was built for. This timeline is intended for a high traffic, information dense article describing multiple overlapping events and I would appreciate any suggestions for improving it's accuracy, functionality and appearance.
For now it is in my sandbox at User:Veriss1/sandbox for comments but I plan to move it the actual article, 2010 Copiapó mining accident, tomorrow. I look forward to your comments. Cheers, Veriss ( talk) 07:49, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for taking the time to look at the chart to make sure it was satisfactory. Is there a way to suppress the negative signs on the vertical axis if I had the chart show the days from 00 to -90 (zero at the top)? I haven't thought that approach all the way through yet and it may be a bit tricky. My thinking is that may help the reader by making it in chronological order from the top down and would make it visually more compatible with the ToC it is displayed next to. Thanks again, Veriss ( talk) 20:24, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Additionally, another editor made critical comments about our use of the Template:Graphical timeline on the article's talk page concerning CSS rendering and accessibility complete with an overwhelming illustration of his own. Unhelpfully, he failed to offer suggestions. I don't have the technical expertise to evaluate his criticisms or determine alternative courses and I don't think the active co-editors for that article do either. Hopefully you can contribute some insight. Kind regards, Veriss ( talk) 00:46, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Martin! I just found this tool - it's great! However, I tried it on my own papers (e.g. "E - A Brainiac Theorem Prover"), and it seems to break if Google Scholar has a link to a PDF or PS file in the right half of the top line of the record. See below for what happens:
<ref name=Schulz2002>{{Citation | title = [PDF] from psu.edu | url = http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.149.6255 | year = 2002 | author = Schulz, S. | journal = AI Communications | pages = 111–126 | volume = 15 | issue = 2 | accessdate = 2010-11-04 }}</ref>
Bye, -- Stephan Schulz ( talk) 20:54, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Can you check out the Lithothallus article you created and verify its accuracy? The reference in the article is not about algae, and the genus is not listed anywhere on the web, or in my limited access to JSTOR, just in the en.wiki article. Maybe I'm missing something, or the spelling is wrong? Thanks. -- Kleopatra ( talk) 06:01, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at ErikHaugen's talk page. Message added
07:06, 5 November 2010 (UTC).
Martin, thank you for your work on these templates! ErikHaugen ( talk) 07:06, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Can you please tell me how to convert the bare urls on Alexander McQueen (brand) without having to through them one by one? Reqluce ( talk) 22:48, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
With this edit, it seems the section headings (eg. Species or Binomial name) have a white background again. thanks, ErikHaugen ( talk) 21:00, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Smith609...I am the grandson of Albie Bennett who was the last speaker of the Mbarbaram people. I would love to know where you got the information from? I have alot more information to contribute to this entry. Would love to get in contact with you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.158.31.18 ( talk) 11:11, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Recently (last few days) I've noticed that he citation bot fails to run against certain pages, examples are Ecology and Bird. The call appears to time out, though it works fine on the vast majority of pages. Any ideas? Thanks Rjwilmsi 19:18, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but unless I'm mistaken and I've been very unlucky with the DOIs I've been referencing, the cite doi template isn't working properly, because the citation bot is not managing to complete the citation. I've tried a range of journals, both old and recent and checking Special:Contributions/Citation_bot_2 it looks as if only cite pmids are being filled in. (Typical that these things happen when you go away for a few days!). Thanks in advance. SmartSE ( talk) 00:21, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
The automatic taxobox has crashed on a number of major articles. [5] I have started adding it back manually, and I posted at AN/I to ask for help. No matter where I post at automatic taxobox discussions it seems to be the wrong place, so maybe others who are doing these automatic taxoboxes are watching your talk page and will see this and figure out how to fix this quickly! -- Kleopatra ( talk) 08:02, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello Smith609,
I'm trying to get
User:Smith609/RefTool to work for me but no luck. I'm using Modern skin and have purged the cache. I see the Convert refs button but when I try to use it, I just get a blank page at the toolserver. What am I doing wrong? Cheers,
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► (
(⊕))
23:01, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Template:Range map has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you.
Mhiji (
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Please don't unnecessarily amend other people's talk page comments, as you did here. It means wading through trivial changes to see what the real change is (and I'm still at a loss to work out what your real change was in this case). Most (if not all) of your changes seem to be replacing "-" (hyphen) with "–" (en-dash) - note that since WP:HYPHEN and WP:DASH are part of WP:MOS, they apply to articles, not talk pages, for which WP:TPG is the general rule. Some of these hyphens were in signatures: WP:TPO permits certain talk page edits, including signature amendment "If a signature violates the guidelines for signatures, or is an attempt to fake a signature", which don't apply here. Thanks. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 11:13, 2 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Hi, could you have a look at Odontogriphus? I believe there is some issue with your change to the "automatic taxobox". If you look at the references, there are loads of errors, however this is being caused by another template exceeding some expansion limits. If you revert this back to taxobox, the error goes away. WP is very quirky with its limits, which can cause lots of troubles. I also posted a query at WP:VPT. 134.253.26.10 ( talk) 17:03, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, do you know what is the matter with Template:Taxonomy/Possible stem-group mollusca (currently displaying "Taxonomy not available for [[Template loop detected: Template:Don't edit this line]]; please create it (or edit manually)")? This might also be related to the problems with Odontogriphus, which I fixed by removing the automatic taxobox. Ucucha 18:17, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Any idea why we have so many taxonomy templates in Category:Template loop warnings? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 05:51, 9 December 2010 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
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This is frustrating to have to recheck when someone has already pointed out the problem. Please correct the problem articles in the category, such as Mammal. A high traffic article with a fixed taxobox to correct, once again, a template problem
Any time you change code in these automatic taxoboxes and someone points out a problem, please just look at the articles. -- Kleopatra ( talk) 18:08, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
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I posted a comment at WP:TFA and WP:FA about this problem. [13] -- Kleopatra ( talk) {{ resolved}}
This made no sense whatsoever. Renata ( talk) 01:58, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, Martin. I've just seen Octopus origins, which says Caron and you have found about 90 new specimens and these indicate that Nectocaris is near the base of the cephalopod family tree – and you're credited as the lead author in the article in Nature. Well done! -- Philcha ( talk) 10:50, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
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A report at Talk:Evolutionary history of life#Edits by 96.227.161.79 has raised an issue concerning how {{ ma}} appears in the printable version of an article. The problem is that an ugly link to toolserver.org appears after each of the many occurrences of ma. I thought it best to ask about this at WP:VPT#Ugly link in printable version which you might want to see. Thanks. Johnuniq ( talk) 03:18, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
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Is this OK? -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 16:19, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
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Howdy. I suspect this edit recent edit to Template:Taxobox/core isn't working as intended. Firstly Category:Taxoboxes with an invalid color is empty, despite the amusing parameter being passed from Buxus sempervirens for example. Secondly the missing page Template:Test_for_hashrgb(211,211,164) is being transcluded in nearly 120,000 articles – that is to say that after parsing, the Taxobox template results in the text {{Template:Test_for_hashrgb(211,211,164)}}. Definately a brace too many (or few) in there somewhere. Other colours show up also – see the table below.
+---------------+------------------------------------------+----------+ | trl_namespace | trl_title | count(*) | +---------------+------------------------------------------+----------+ | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(211,211,164) | 118929 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(144,238,144) | 41350 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(173,216,230) | 7414 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlightgrey | 857 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(173,238,63) | 471 | | 10 | Test_for_hashviolet | 425 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlightgreen | 369 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(211,211,211) | 333 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(238,130,238) | 274 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(240,230,140) | 215 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(243,224,224) | 163 | | 10 | Test_for_hashkhaki | 125 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(255,200,160) | 90 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(230,230,250) | 86 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlightblue | 79 | | 10 | Test_for_hashdarkgrey | 45 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(250,240,230) | 42 | | 10 | Test_for_hashgreenyellow | 19 | | 10 | Test_for_hashpink | 14 | | 10 | Test_for_hashgreen | 4 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlimegreen | 3 | | 10 | Test_for_hashtransparent | 3 | | 10 | Test_for_hashyellow | 3 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlightgray | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(224,_208,_176) | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashblue | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlite_red | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashbright_pink | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashorange | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashred | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlavender | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashwhite | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashBright_green | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashDarkgrey | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlightgreen_or_a_lime_yellow | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashTan | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashViolet | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashneon_purple | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashdarkgray | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashpale | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashscarlet | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashpangit_ka | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashviolet_(purple,blue) | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlight_gray | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlight_grey | 1 | +---------------+------------------------------------------+----------+
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The bot is transcluding, indirectly, User:Taxobot/children/template into article space. There should be no links from article space to user space. Should be an easy fix if you fix the parent template. Gigs ( talk) 20:46, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, I was interested in working on the article Antifeminism. However, it's been blocked from editing. The notice says that the block was supposed to expire on September 5, 2010. Do you know if it might be unblocked any time soon? Thanks. -- Aronoel ( talk) 19:09, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Please correct the current errors in the automatic taxobox. It is not ready to be rolled out. There are over 100 articles in the category of broken taxobox templates right now. There are major articles, such as Bird, a beautiful FA, that has a big red error message in its taxobox.
And don't get angry at me for pointing this out. I'm tired of seeing it, correcting the errors, and pointing them out. I can't correct these now because I don't have my equipment. -- Kleopatra ( talk) 05:37, 28 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. It's not really about you, but the taxoboxes. -- Kleopatra ( talk) 05:59, 28 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Dear Smith609, In April 2010 you were editing the article Sponge spicule, when a letter "S" appeared at the end of the section Sponge spicule#Interaction with light. I wondered if you had another sentence to add which was lost during editing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.28.201.43 ( talk) 16:57, 11 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Why is Taxobot duplicating authority information which is already present (e.g. [14])? This means that in many cases unlinked authorities are replacing linked ones in the taxobox - clearly not an improvement. mgiganteus1 ( talk) 05:31, 12 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
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This, that, and
the other (talk)
06:42, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
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Can you check the references for
Form classification? I think you may have meant the two Bengtson refs to be the same, but I'm not sure.
Peter coxhead (
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Done - thanks for the heads up.
Martin (
Smith609 –
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19:49, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
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I'm working on a series of articles about the Ediacarian fauna for the German Wikipedia. For some fossils it's really hard to find appropriate literature. I saw that you used McCalls publication "The Vendian (Ediacaran) in the geological record: Enigmas in geology's prelude to the Cambrian explosion" (Earth-Science Reviews 77: 1-229) as a reference. Do you still have access to this article? Best wishes -- Sven Jähnichen ( talk) 15:32, 7 February 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
The following is produced by {{period span|pragian}}:
410.8 million years ago to
407.6 million years ago (I see " 411.2 million years ago million years ago to 407 ± 2.8 million years ago"). The duplication of "million years ago" doesn't occur for other periods I've tried (even those that have alternatives in the code), nor if you use the alternative {{period span|praghian}} which produces different wrong output:
410.8 million years ago to
407.6 million years ago. I looked at the template code and tried moving a comment, in the vain hope that that might help. Over to you!
Peter coxhead (
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16:11, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Managed to fix both errors: "praghian" wasn't in {{Next period}}
; "pragian" wasn't in {{Period start error}}
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Peter coxhead (
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18:26, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
{{period span}}
isn't really strong enough; neither of the errors generated an error message (the bug with "Pragian" had been present in
Devonian for some time). Something for you to think about some time! The whole set of templates is very good though; I've only just realized how useful they are.
Peter coxhead (
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This is by someone we had some heated discussed with. Google also looks interesting. -- Philcha ( talk) 19:13, 21 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Seems Template:Long fossil range has problems and was not rendering right resulting in a mess on including pages. I've removed it pending repairs (or whatever) from:
Check it out and revert my changes when fixed. Vsmith ( talk) 02:40, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
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Is this page on your watchlist? I've never seen a response to any of the bugs I've posted there. Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 20:21, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, I reverted your recent update to that template because it seemed to be going to a whole different website than it was supposed to. I'm not sure how the cite patent template works, so if you could figure this out and re-update it when you have time, thank you! / ƒETCH COMMS / 21:54, 27 November 2010 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Thanks for all you've done for WP:TOL! Have a blessed and safe Christmas! Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 17:28, 24 December 2010 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
I see that you'll be off WP over Xmas. Have a good one! -- Philcha ( talk) 22:56, 24 December 2010 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
When the bot redirects a cite pmid subpage to the corresponding cite doi subpage, as in Template:Cite pmid/17964350, could the bot also ensure that the PMID is set in the target DOI subpage? In this example I added it myself. Thanks Rjwilmsi 18:06, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Smith609, noticed you're doing some updating of the auto taxobox parameters. You've also been removing the italic title code from many pages, is there a reason for this? By removing the code and the 'name' parameter it seems to be causing taxa names to be un-italicized in the article title completely. MMartyniuk ( talk) 00:06, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, I've removed a section titled "Physical geologic driver" as mostly WP:OR and the creator (user:Morbas) has objected. He has started an rfc on talk:Extinction event. I noted that you had discussed this back in Sep-Oct, but Morbas deleted part of that w/out archiving. So, would you care to take a look again and perchance help clarify the situation (it'll be a blast:). Vsmith ( talk) 15:23, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
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We've got an inconsistency in the formatting for the parameters..."display parent" and display children" have no underscore, yet all the other parameters for the taxobox have an underscore. I think it's probably best we keep the underscore so as not to confuse editors. Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 20:58, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
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Technical question: Can a space be included in the name of a parameter and still have the parameter work? I've never seen this done in any wiki-template before, and so question whether it is technically possible. There are some characters that I know are disallowed in parameter names, and I've always understood that spaces were among them. -- EncycloPetey ( talk) 23:00, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hello Smith609. I'm sure you have the answer to this: How do we add an image into an automatic taxobox? I'd like to add an image to the Sphenothallus article you started, but I'm perplexed by the template. Thanks! Mark Wilson44691 ( talk) 01:51, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
|image=filename.jpg
. The Sphenothallus one looks a bit menacing because its fossil range template is so busy; just add the parameter before (or after) the authority line and you'll do well. Thanks in advance for the illustration! Best,
Martin (
Smith609 –
Talk)
02:01, 3 January 2011 (UTC){{ resolved}}
I'm sure you saw it, but you are now approved. Thanks for the thoughtful response, and all the hard work. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:53, 3 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
In the Horneophyton article, you wrote "There was a thin central strand of vascular tissue, but this was not reinforced with spiral and reticulate thickenings" and "With vascular tissue but ...". On the other hand, based on Crane, Herendeen, & Friis (2004), I've written in the Polysporangiophyte article "[Horneophyton] did not have true vascular tissues". The difference may be based on different usages in the sources, but I wonder if we can agree on a consistent usage in paleobotanical articles? I'd like the articles leading off from Polysporangiophyte to have some consistency. "Vascular tissue" could be used only when there is clear evidence of xylem/tracheids (consistent with the Vascular tissue and Tracheid articles). On this basis, Horneophyton has "conducting tissue" but not vascular tissue; hence the placement in the cladogam in Crane et al. outside tracheophytes. What do you think? Peter coxhead ( talk) 20:57, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
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Does Taxobot follow the {{
bots|deny=all}}
options because if it did then
Template:Child taxa doc could be moved back to
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22:02, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi...Any idea why adding the following code to {{ Taxobox}}
{{#if:{{{divisio}}}|{{#if:{{{unranked_divisio}}}|[[Category:Articles employing both divisio and unranked_divisio]]}} }}
caused every single taxobox on Wikipedia to show up in Category:Articles employing both divisio and unranked_divisio? Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 21:25, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{divisio|}}}|{{#if:{{{unranked_divisio|}}}|[[Category:Articles employing both divisio and unranked_divisio]]}} }}
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Hi, don't forget the {{ deprecated taxon}} template should be subst'd, otherwise it doesn't work correctly. Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 22:41, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
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You can leave those ichnogenera stubs if you'd like or you can delete 'em. If you delete them, though, expect them to stay gone permanently. We've had ten years for someone to come through and make them but apparently I'm the only one willing to put the work in on this sort of thing. Copy-pasting that basic stub outline would have saved me a lot of time when I started building them up. Creating every article individually is a hugely tedious process, and if I had to go through that ordeal it just wouldn't be worth the bother. I would have loved to have developed them into full articles, but complications arose and I'm done fighting you guys about them. If you leave the articles on valid taxa intact I'll get around to sprucing them up in a couple weeks when I'm not still fuming about the swarms of people trying to delete them. If you're not willing to wait and would prefer to delete them immediately, that's fine, but I'm not gonna revive 'em. Then we can wait another ten years and see then if someone's cared enough to expand Wikipedia's trace fossil coverage. Abyssal ( talk) 02:28, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
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I love that endnote.js script of yours. Have you ever thought about making a Gadget proposal? -- bender235 ( talk) 10:55, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
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Please have a look at Template talk:Taxobox#proposal, as you're one of the people who it will affect the most. Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 22:36, 4 February 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Do you happen to remember where you got the dates from for the article Siegenian which you created? I'm assuming that it wasn't from the reference, which seems to be only to support "widely used". (Unfortunately this isn't a journal I can access electronically through my institution.) I'm trying to expand the coverage of early land plants, and all the Chinese sources use "Seigenian". The only other source I can find [15] gives rather different dates. Peter coxhead ( talk) 11:07, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hey, thanks! I'll extend my thanks to you as well for doing such a fine job with all this code! That sort of stuff will look great on your resumé!
I had really hoped to handle each taxobox individually and add things like authority, synonyms, and species, but right now getting them all cleaned up is the priority. And just thought I'd let you know-- the stegosaurian ichnotaxon you invented was rather close. I ended up finding the parent, and you weren't too far off.
Have a great day! Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 15:48, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
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With some trepidation (templates are a new-ish area for me), I've created the template {{ Period span1}} (not a very imaginative name), which produces simpler output than your {{ Period span}}, and may thus sometimes be more useful in articles where the details of the time span for a geological period are of less importance. If you have time, you might like to check that I've set up the documentation, etc. correctly. You may or may not wish to add this to the set of templates you list at {{ Period data}}. Thanks again for all the work you did creating the infrastructure for these templates. Peter coxhead ( talk) 11:26, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
{{
Period span/brief|Pliocene}}
, where the error margin is smaller than a decimal place.
Martin (
Smith609 –
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I didn't know that wasn't vandalism. Aallasdfa67usgd60 ( talk) 00:58, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
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Please respond over there.
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You might be to check this out. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:50, 16 February 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
There were some small errors/omissions in {{ Next period}}, which I 'corrected' using [17]. However, this source puts the Gelasian in the Pliocene, whereas Pleistocene and Pliocene put it in the Pleistocene. This leads to inconsistencies in the ordering I put in and the dates. I'm not a geologist – what is correct?? Peter coxhead ( talk) 18:17, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
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May I ask what this is/ what it's used for, why it is in category space as opposed to another namespace, and why it should be exempt from the WP:CSD#C1 speedy deletion criteria for empty categories? Thanks. VegaDark ( talk) 05:36, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
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Citation bot appears to be down? Is this expected? Thanks Rjwilmsi 13:10, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Smith609. I noticed an edit today by User:Citation bot 1 that didn't use an edit summary. I looked at the history and at least over the last 3500 edits, no summaries have been used with the bot edits. There seems to be a problem somewhere. Thanks for your attention. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 13:59, 15 March 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}} in r275. Martin ( Smith609 – Talk) 13:17, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Please could you cast your eye over Template talk:Taxobox#List sub-tempates. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 10:29, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
I was trying to remove two disambiguation links out of "Template:Plants graphical timeline". It was not so difficult to find the solutions for Wenlock and Pridoli, but correcting the template proofed a differend story. Summerized were all my attemps disasters, so at the end I did nothing (always stay on the safe side!). Could you, as builder of the template, be so kind to solve this issue? Night of the Big Wind talk 18:53, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
I just discovered two templates that you created— {{ Citation parameter legend}} and {{ AuthorMask doc}}. I recently created and have been implementing {{ Citation Style documentation}} which would replace those templates. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 22:30, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Martin ( Smith609 – Talk) 22:45, 21 January 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Regarding your several edits like this one, the conversion from one perfectly acceptable template to another cannot be described as an "upgrade". This is (in my opinion) deceitful propaganda designed to promote a system which has serious shortcomings. Please be more honest in your edit summaries and avoid suggesting that your automatic taxoboxes are somehow the successor to the normal taxobox. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 18:59, 11 February 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
First off, thank you very much for the creation of the {{ Cite doi}} and related templates! Given that I use the same refs between pages quite often, I find it very handy. However, I was wondering if it would be possible to create a new automated template to replace {{ IUCN}} and it's numerous relatives. I'm not sure how you could pull from the online IUCN Red List database, but having an auto-generated, centralized location for those citations would be nice for numerous species articles. I also asked the question about a "Cite isbn" template, but I'm not sure if you want to go there given the complexity. Anyway, I just figured I'd ask. – VisionHolder « talk » 07:34, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
See [20]. There are now two classes and several orders. The class Anthocerotopsida redirects to the division because the two groups are identical in composition with the exception of a single species of Leiosporoceros -- EncycloPetey ( talk) 03:46, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
It has come to my attention
this change where you added {{Taxobox/taxon}}
inside a hidden div with the note This template has to be "warmed up" before it can be used, for some reason. MediaWiki loads the templates the first time they are used, there's no need to "preload" them. What were you trying to achieve? What was the problem?
Platonides (
talk)
23:24, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
The templates I have been optimizing involve just a few subtemplates, and those took me months to streamline. I would expect the optimization of Template:Automatic_Taxobox to span over a full year. The following are some steps:
The optimization of an enormous, gargantuan set of templates should be feared as an immense, similarly huge, time-consuming effort. I am currently busy re-working the tiny templates, but I will try to offer some more specific suggestions in the coming months. - Wikid77 12:52, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
{{
Period end}} doesn't have a rounding parameter, unlike {{
Period start}}. It would be useful in cases where one wants to write something like "Late Silurian to Early Devonian (around {{mya|{{Period start|Late Silurian|-1}}| to {{mya|{{Period end|Early Devonian|-1}}}}}}
". It looks as simple as adding {{{2|5}}}
in the right place to the template, but I'll leave that to you...
Peter coxhead (
talk)
12:41, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Checking the data currently in {{ Period start}} against this, if the template is to match the dates here, rather than those currently in the GeoWhen database, the following changes to the offically named time spans would be needed (I've put both the start date and the error, although the latter is missing for most changes):
The Cambrian would need quite a bit of sorting, because there are more names as well as different dates. I guess the problem is that there may be other 'synonyms' in the template which start at the same date which might also need changing. If you would (a) like the changes made and (b) don't have time to do it yourself, please let me know and I'll have a go. Peter coxhead ( talk) 14:47, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
They all seem to say "This citation will be automatically completed in the next few minutes. blah blah blah" ErikHaugen ( talk | contribs) 05:05, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Martin, I just spotted this template after seeing it used in
SA-500D. I just wondered if you knew about
this app which completes google books references? I just wondered whether it would be possible to add a |page=
field to the template and then get a bot to feed in to the app and make a template? Thanks
SmartSE (
talk)
23:29, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Citation bot 2 edited Template:Cite doi/10.1038.2Fnature09201. It had been correct as:
But after the edit it became:
... which is emphatically wrong... Evercat ( talk) 12:21, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
I was going to ask for your assistance re user assistance bots. But having read your amazing advice about using an external editor to fix "unescaped entities", I think I may be able to help you. Please go to this page - it will present you with a typical citation bot edit shown as a diff, all ready for you to make further changes and then save the page. The page contains entities: García and variety—surface but they caused me absolutely no problems! I am very pleased with this technique. The only drawback is that if you try and save straight away, you will always get a "loss of session data" message - but another save will do the trick!
Test data derived from plasmonic metamaterials. If things look funny, revert my sb2 page to this state. This is the source code of my demo which is derived from coorphan.php ( source code - description).
— RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 16:25, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to follow up on your suggestion to add cite doi; I also replied briefly on the ProveIt talk page. This is filed as issue 105. Since you have some JavaScript background, you may be able to do the fix yourself than submit it on the issue page. I wrote instructions at NewCiteType.
Thanks. Superm401 - Talk 23:44, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
I just want to leave a note of thank you for your work with the automated taxoboxes. They have really helped make Wikipedia more streamlined and consistent! Petter Bøckman ( talk) 07:52, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Just to let you know that I added a retouched version of your fantastic Cooksonia pertoni image to Polysporangiophytes to illustrate the Evolution section. I didn't want the possible gametophyte – too POV in the context of the discussion – and I blurred the background a bit to try to make the plant stand out. When you have time you can produce similar nice pictures of other early land plants!! Peter coxhead ( talk) 12:14, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
I am sure that you are aware that there is no strong consensus yet to switch to your automated taxoboxes. In that context, I think it is wrong to manually change taxoboxes one at a time with the sole intention of changing articles from one taxobox system to another. Changes to articles should be substantive, and should not be made to prove a point. It is clear enough from a few test cases that the automated taxoboxes are theoretically capable of reproducing most of the features of the manual system (and adding some new features). There are, however, serious issues with their implementation, not least their bewildering complexity. Please stop adding automatic taxoboxes to articles beyond the agreed test areas; they are not welcome. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 06:51, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Martin-- I noticed the taxobox at Maikhanellidae was added before the taxonomy was completed, causing an error to display on the article (which I just now cleared with a null edit). I noticed in the edit summary it says the edit was assisted by a citation bot-- not sure if that has anything to do with it, but if it does, you might want to verify the bot didn't cause that. Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 21:06, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
I'd be grateful if you wouldn't automate the taxoboxes for early (Silurian/Devonian) plants yet. As per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Plants#Classifications_for_extant_versus_extinct_plants it's far from clear how to classify extinct plants. I'm currently working on articles in this area (a dozen or so to date), and will return to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Plants for some comments when I'm a bit clearer on the issues. Peter coxhead ( talk) 11:35, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hicklingia example Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Polysporangiophytes |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Lycophytes |
Plesion: | † Zosterophylls (?) |
Genus: | †
Hicklingia Kidston & Lang (1923)[1] |
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|display parents=
, in each individual taxobox. This controls how many "minor" ranks (e.g. clades) above the subject taxon are displayed. This approach goes some way to addressing the problem of accountability. If this doesn't suit, then there's a slightly more complicated solution that I can discuss; I won't go into it now as it might take a bit of explaining and isn't as elegant.
Martin (
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16:21, 25 February 2011 (UTC)Thanks for the clarification, which is useful. Returning to the main issue, the section I've just added to the article on the polysporangiophytes, Polysporangiophyte#Taxonomy, may explain why I wouldn't, for example, put Tarella in the formal rank Zosterophyllopsida, as you have, but would prefer to use informal "unranked-" categories. I incline to the view that, for the present at least, extinct and extant plants need different classifications. Peter coxhead ( talk) 21:08, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
|rank =
reads "clade" instead of "classis". Or would you prefer a listing as "Clade: Zosterophylls" under "Stem-group: Lycopopodiphyta"? However I do wonder whether this would be following convention, or whether it would be bordering on original research; I'm not sure how the literature currently refers to zosterophylls.
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13:20, 28 February 2011 (UTC)Just to add that I am now converting taxoboxes for early polysporangiophytes to the automatic version, having (I think!) mastered the art of creating 'parallel' taxonomic hierarchies. For these extinct plants, I'm using the taxonomies current among paleobotanists, which are, as noted previously, not consistent with those used by botanists working on extant groups only. Peter coxhead ( talk) 10:19, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Martin: I've now gone through all the articles I could find on early polysporangiophytes and converted the taxoboxes to automatic ones. I feel I (more-or-less!) understand them now. For your information, since you created articles in this area and also taxonomic hierarchies in the automatic taxobox system, the taxonomy I've used is at
User:Peter coxhead/Embryophyte_classification#Classification_for_early_polysporangiophytes.
One issue that I noticed, and which bothered me until I grasped the workaround, is that I have to save changes to a Template:Taxonomy page at least twice and sometimes three times before all the error messages go away and before the page displays as per the edit. Odd...
(On a personal note, as a former research supervisor, I'm not sure I should be encouraging a PhD student to spend as much time on Wikipedia as you do!!)
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This is for when you have some free time. There's no rush - enjoy your WikiBreak! — Mr. Stradivarius ( drop me a line) 08:21, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Forgive me for reporting this here, but I'm really not sure how to report it on Google. Citation bot made this edit. When I click on the DOI, I get the following error: "The DOI you requested -- maghis.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/doi/10.1093/maghis/12.4.34 -- cannot be found in the Handle System." I have no idea how this works, but I reverted the edit and figured I'd notify you about it.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 22:17, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
I do believe I've managed to crash Taxobot again...
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Hello. Two years ago, you wrote that "Current evidence completely discredits the concept of an expanding Earth;" Do you know some reliable source saying the same? Visite fortuitement prolongée ( talk) 21:09, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Martin. I'm afraid your replacing the previous taxobox at Phoronid with a new one doesn't work. The previous one was simple but worked. The current one:
Phoronids are tricky - as I said to Aleksey, "How can such a small phylum cause such confusion?" There are 10-12 species depending on who's counting, and possibly 25 types of distinct larvae, implying that there at least 13 adult species unaccounted for. I'd keep the taxobox for this phylum simple. -- Philcha ( talk) 12:48, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
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I'm writing a letter to the ADS team to see what's our querying limit. Could you check the details on your bot to see if I got them right? Any other feedback is welcome too. (Feel free to edit the page it you want.) Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 23:58, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
This bug is causing problems with {{ cite doi}}; see Template talk:Cite doi#Errors in auto-creation. It's not your bot's fault, but perhaps the bot can help find a workaround for it by applying edits like this one. Ucucha 22:56, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Martin, see my thread on WP:ANI and the citation bot's talk page. The new bibcode lookup is causing some quite serious problems and quite a lot of the bot's recent edits require reversion. The block request is no slight on you, I'm sure the bot will be back to its normal excellent service soon, I just want to prevent any more errors in the meantime. Thanks Rjwilmsi 12:12, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
I solved my previous problems, but now I have a new one. Template:Italic title does not appear to italicize the title for the article: Guillaume Tell (Grétry). Could the diacritic in the parenthetic expression be a problem? There aren't any similar examples of this problem that I have been able to find. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 04:18, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, As discussed here does your bot check for malware on the external sites? They say it does, but I am not sure. Anyway, just an idea and if you address it there it will be best. Thanks. History2007 ( talk) 14:37, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
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I'm using {{ Graphical timeline}} and have followed the instructions to increase the capacity.
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I've spoken to the guys who maintain the Astrophysics Data System, and they gave us the clearance to query their database as fast as we wanted. However, they would like us to give them the bots' signature so their severs can recognize them. I gave them mine for Bibcode Bot but it would be a good idea to get those of Citation bot and DOI bot as well. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:01, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
...shouldn't edit conflict, overwriting other changes :( Not sure what the best solution would be? Refused to edit automatically, probably. - Jarry1250 Weasel? Discuss. 08:31, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Smith609. Long ago, we worked on Cambrian substrate revolution - AFAIK you had the idea, I did some of the development, and I got a DYK for it. Looking again, I think it could easily be improved to a GA. Two questions:
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Hi, not sure if you're around at present, but if so, please see "Technical query" at Template_talk:Speciesbox#Use_with_hybrids. Peter coxhead ( talk) 20:00, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
The URL used to manually activate the bot no longer works, because the toolserver user account has expired. URL: http://toolserver.org/~verisimilus/Bot/DOI_bot/ -- Srleffler ( talk) 02:21, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, it seems citation expander won't work because your previous account expired. Anyway to solve this?-- Tærkast ( Discuss) 15:13, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, cant seem to find instruction anywhere to get your bot to expand an isbn. I've added the bot as a widget and it seems to set itself upon the article but no changes are made. Ive been editing Burkitt lymphoma, adding a ref to the immunohistochemistry section. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers. Matto paedia Say G'Day! 02:13, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Since you're the creator of {{ Cite pmc}}, I'm bringing this straight to you. I suspect it's a change at the bot level that's needed, but I assume you'll have a better idea than I will on that. :)
A few minutes ago, I tried the following: <ref>
. In the reference list, however, it showed up as a redirect:
PMC
3021856{{
Cite pmc|3021856}}
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Citation will be completed automatically in a few minutes.
Jump the queue or
expand by hand
Smith609/Archives/.
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Smith609, I'm just about to remove your transcluded Template:Citation parameter legend from the Template:Citation/doc page and will probably earn your cusses in the process. I'd like to explain why. It seems to me that half the benefit of having a common citation template is being lost in the attempt to maintain 4 different sets of documentation - the number of discrepancies and inaccuracies is horrendous. I've cleaned up some of the book section following the style of the periodical section but as long as there are 4 different explanations, errors will return. I've put a highly simplified version at the beginning for newcomers - but think it best to have a unified set of parameters, but mainly leaving the sets of examples alone. If there are mistakes I'm happy to try and correct them. Chris55 ( talk) 13:28, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
The timeline in Cenozoic is absurdly stretched out. I do not know how to correct this but I see that you commented on Template talk:Cenozoic graphical timeline, so maybe you do? Dudley Miles ( talk) 20:32, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I recently began using the {{ cite doi}} system and your bot. Much of this was at these two articles:
The usages were removed by dropping in {{ cite journal}} and having your bot re-flesh them, which lost a lot of detail, such as links. See:
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Hey there, Martin
Glad to see you again! I'm actually working on a couple projects. The one I'm stuck on could probably use your help-- it's the
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Could you send me a copy of the PDF about the Kimmeridge ammonite egg sac you used as a reference in Aulacostephanus. My email is saint_abyssal at yahoo. It would really help me alot! Thanks. Abyssal ( talk) 23:39, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
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When I try to use this Convert Refs button ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Smith609/reftool.js), the button sends me to a blank page:
The blank page is
http://toolserver.org/~verisimilus/Scholar/Refs.php
I just added this button, since the citation bot pages recommended it. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 17:16, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Greetings. I was wondering if you would be willing to unleash Citation bot against the articles in WikiProject United States? I think most of the articles are good to go but I would like for the bot to take care of any problems it can. I have asked some other bots to do runs through as well. Please let me know if you have any questions or need me to do anything. -- Kumioko ( talk)
Is there a way to look up who activated the bot for a specific edit? This concerns an ANI thread regarding Leandrod ( talk · contribs). N419 BH 05:44, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
What's the regex you use to clean those googlebooks url with Citation Bot? I'd like to implement it in User:CitationCleanerBot. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:49, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Actually I found your list (in DOItools.php, function google_book_expansion). I'll be able to implement this rather easily.
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BTW, "&ct=" is not safe to remove. Compare
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Perhaps you could offer a suggestion at Wikipedia_talk:Ambassadors#Student_activity_notifications where your name was brought up? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 18:49, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Per this, I blocked the bot for a while - apparently it's malfunctioning. Just thought I'd let you know. m.o.p 23:37, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Anwar al-Awlaki was edited by Citation_bot and in this change it inserted a bunch of |unused_data= parameters. What is this unused_data parameter for, and where is it documented? — Anomalocaris ( talk) 05:16, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
|accessdate=
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Hi, I used the citation bot on the Romanian language Wikipedia and an administrator told me to ask for approval, otherwise I will be blocked. I did it at ro:Wikipedia:Robot/Cereri de aprobare. Perhaps it is a better idea that you introduce yourself the bot on that wiki. I don't know much about bots and I think you can solve whatever problems may appear or update the bot in the future. Tgeorgescu ( talk) 17:48, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Smith609. I've worked for some time on User:Philcha/Essays/Advice for new Wikipedia editors. I'm to approach the subject from the viewpoint of a new editor possibly seeing WP for the first time - in other words I think it must be one easy step at a time, starting from the new editor's starting position. I take WP:V, WP:NPOV and WP:NOR seriously, but am trying to make the whole process easier for the new editor. So I: use an informal style; emphasise techniques and tools that help new editors' work to be productive and pleasant; give the basis of the main policies and how to get advice about them; but not overload new editors with loads of details on policies, etc. I hope the essay will be worth publishing in main space, and even get a link for from the main "Welcome". Could you please comment at User talk:Philcha/Essays/Advice for new Wikipedia editors. -- Philcha ( talk) 21:16, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey, this is sort of a random question. Do you have any recommendations for getting brachiopods identified? The interpretive canter I work for has a number of specimens labeled as "Three Forks Formation, Cardwell, Montana" that have very well preserved brachipods and occasional bivalves which I think would be useful to WP and good additions to the centers collections. Thanks for any advice. -- Kev min § 01:28, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Martin, You may remember I am active in WikiProject Gastropods. In that project we are using Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 as our standard taxonomy. The B&R taxonomy claims to cover fossil gastropods as well as extant ones, but I think most paleontologists are still using the taxons that are set out in the Treatise instead of those in the B&R paper. Do you have any suggestions for what might be the best way to handle these conflicting systems? For example, I see we currently have two articles, one on Pleurotomarioidea and one on Pleurotomariacea. It does not seem quite right for us to insist that B&R takes preference, but if not, then what? Thanks for any suggestions you might have, Invertzoo ( talk) 14:35, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
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I see you have been adding external links to the Virtual Museum of Canada to a number of Burgess Shale articles. Firstly, you should be aware that external links should be placed after References ( WP:GTL). Secondly, you appear to have created a number of short articles with no incoming links; I have tagged a few, but I am sure there are others. " Building the web" is one of Wikipedia's core principles, so please help by linking to these articles from related articles. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 07:01, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
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In this edit, with the explanation "trim", you changed {{{1}}} to {{1x|{{{1}}}}} in {{ Species list/core}}. I can't see that it makes any difference (I've tried a version in my user space). What am I missing? Just curious! Peter coxhead ( talk) 12:35, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
{Species list/core | [Note the space here] text}
, then using {1} will preserve the whitespace; using {1x|1={1} } will trim the whitespace.
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17:08, 15 December 2011 (UTC)Hello Smith609. I have been working with a copy of taxobot on basque wikipedia, but the results are not very good. Could it be possible to use it in the Basque Wikipedia without having to re-upload it to a server? - Theklan ( talk) 15:18, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
I have updated the dead links in the doc of this template. -- Cameta ( talk) 16:15, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Dear Martin,
At the time you kindly agreed to make Citation bot run at the Hebrew Wikipedia as well, if I see to it that it gets an approval. To be on the safe side, I took it to the local Village Pump. Everyone agreed and the discussion is now archived. To fill in a formal request for a bot flag I'd need to know the bot's username and the software it is using. Does it currently work anywhere else than the English Wikipedia? Thanks, ליאור • Lior ( talk) 08:47, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Palaeontology for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 19:50, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Martin, hope you're having a great year so far. I am going through and deleting erroneously created Child taxa templates...are the ones that have two slashes after "Child taxa" errors? I checked a few of them, and the ones I checked were all from July, so I'm inclined to think so. Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 20:56, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
could you fix the template loop in this one? thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 21:41, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, and thanks for the useful User:Smith609/toolbox.js. It seems to have a bug, in that the links it provides are currently of the form http://stats.grok.se/en/201212/ArticleName rather than (as would be correct for this month) http://stats.grok.se/en/201201/ArticleName. Is this fixable? Regards, Sandstein 18:54, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
My apologies for the non-personalized note; I've got several people to contact here. We're looking for administrators who would be willing to be interviewed by students as a part of Wikipedia's WP:United States Education Program. Dr. Jonathan Obar is teaching the course, and it's a study in how Wikipedia is governed and how administrators are selected. If you're not interested, you may either ignore this invitation or remove your name from the list of admins we've contacted. Thanks, Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 20:03, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
refsByName.js doesn't work on Chrome or Firefox. Do you know what it would take to update it to work with current browsers and the current MediaWiki version? — danhash ( talk) 21:24, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Smith609. The Citation Bot seems to have stopped working. When I attempt to use it, I get a message 403 - user account expired. If you could look into this, it would be great. Thanks. -- Dianna ( talk) 00:47, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Smith609. I've been asked to contact you on behalf of the Simple English Wikipedia to ask whether it would be possible to write up a version of Citation bot for our project. I noticed on toolserver that you'd written you accept such request, does that still stand? I realise you're probably busy with real life, and there's no reason for any hurry. I've watchlisted your talk page in anticipation of your response. Thank you, Osiris ( talk) 00:47, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Smith609, (your name was posted HERE by another admin).
My name is Jonathan Obar
user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 17:58, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Smith609, (your name was posted HERE by another admin).
My name is Jonathan Obar
user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 17:58, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
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Would it be possible to add a noedit option to the cite pmid template? Decstop ( talk) 22:35, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
We were trying to import your system of taxobox templates to Catalan Wikipedia, but as you can see, we have problems in the article ca:Traquimedusa. Can you see what is wrong? Thanks. 88.19.141.168 ( talk) 00:46, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Martin, if you're around, please see User_talk:Bob_the_Wikipedian#Introduction_to_the_automated_taxobox_system. Thanks. Peter coxhead ( talk) 13:40, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
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I am cleaning out citation templates. Looks like you have created a few that I don't see an immediate purpose for:
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The web address http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki is no longer.
New address is: https://wikidashboard.appspot.com/enwiki/wiki
Bgwhite ( talk) 22:41, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, Smith609. I believe you might be interested in this discussion: Talk:Motion capture#Merge from Optical motion tracking. Cheers, Waldir talk 13:04, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Apparently the citation bot is not operational, in either mode. Could you please check? I know some other wiki scripts were crippled by the recent update. Regards. Materialscientist ( talk) 04:05, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
The cenozoic graphical timeline has a serious problem. The messinian salinity crisis is not clickable. I think it has something to do with nudge-up=-1.
204.191.162.48 (
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Fixed.
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If you have time, please see User talk:Peter coxhead#The old taxobox template? where I was asked about porting the taxobox template to the Norwegian WP. You may be able to help better than I can. Peter coxhead ( talk) 20:40, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Check the edit history of Template:Cite pmc/1691546, continuously creating double redirect or simply breaking the redirect in the most recent case. 174.56.57.138 ( talk) 03:07, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, I was just wondering what I would need to do to unleash Citation bot on the articles within WikiProject United States. Is there a special way to do that? -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:17, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
What on earth is going on here? There are edits removing the whole content of pages and leaving nothing but fragments of code [22], giving the following edit summary: "Touching page to update categories. ** THIS EDIT SHOULD PROBABLY BE REVERTED ** as page content will only be changed if there was an edit conflict." This has happened on several pages which have all been turned into identical gobbledegook. Paul B ( talk) 16:25, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Smith609. We are working on the Joint attention article as part of the Wikipedia Canada Education Program. We are hoping that this Bot will be able to edit our citations for us. I have tried to start the Bot and I got the following results:
Activated by LianneAnna Expanding 'Joint attention'; will commit edits. Revision #418 [00:00:00] Processing page 'Joint attention' — edit—history
- switch to cite id format is supported. * Looking for bare references... * Tidying reference tags... - No duplicate references to combine. - No duplicate references to combine. ** No changes required. # # #
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I am not sure what these results mean and I cannot find any changes in our references. I am unfamiliar with Bots and I was hoping you would be able to advise me on how to correct any errors I made. LianneAnna ( talk) 05:14, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
<ref>Striano, T., & Stahl, D. (2005). Sensitivity to triadic attention in early infancy. Developmental Science, 8(4), 333-343.</ref><nowiki></code>
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::<code><nowiki><ref>{{citation |last1=Striano |first1=T. |last2=Stahl |first2=D. |year=2005 |title=Sensitivity to triadic attention in early infancy |journal=[[Developmental Science]] |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=333-343}}</ref>
<ref>{{citation |last1=Striano |first1=T. |last2=Stahl |first2=D. |year=2005 |title=Sensitivity to triadic attention in early infancy |journal=[[Developmental Science]] |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=333–343 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00421.x |pmid=15985067}}</ref>
So if I understand correctly, I need to go in and change the formatting of all of the references in the article and then run the Bot again? Is there any way to avoid doing this manually? LianneAnna ( talk) 14:00, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Thank you Jc3s5h for your suggestions. If you have additonal suggestions for out citations, please leave a comment on my talk page or the Joint attention article talk page. LianneAnna ( talk) 18:39, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your comment, if you wish to make any additional comments or give suggestions for out article please do so on the Joint attention talk page. LianneAnna ( talk) 20:20, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
I thought you might want to know about some upcoming MediaWiki & Wikimedia developers' events (such as the Berlin hackathon in June), where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, extending functionality with JavaScript, the future of ResourceLoader and Gadgets, the new Lua templating system, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing. Best wishes! Sumanah ( talk) 13:30, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to implement the citation bot in another wiki. I cannot figure that out from the info provided and I'm not sure what to do with the files gotten via SVN. Can anybody help? Cheers, -- Nhslzt ( talk) 09:19, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello, just letting you know that your Toolserver account has expired, so Citation bot isn't working. Graham 87 03:51, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, thanks for combining the duplicate references for Faisal bin Abdullah bin Mohammed. Egeymi ( talk) 20:56, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Seems to be down again. I assume this is nothing I can resurrect on my own when you have intermittent Internet access like this? Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 15:28, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
importScript('User:Smith609/taxonomy.js');
in your
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Hello Smith609. Hope not to break your wikibreak. I'm Theklan, from the basque Wikipedia. I have been messing around with the automatic taxobox in our wikipedia, taking the templates here and there and copying and localizing them. I've seen that the sister taxons and direct children are updated with a bot made by you. But I think this bot is working only in the en:wp... I think so, not really sure. Could it be possible to make something for the eu:wp? Thanks for all! - Theklan ( talk) 23:14, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Please do not use the isbn bot on United States presidential election, 1896 -- it is unnecessary with google books and is distracting to the readers who don't know what it means. It's hard to thin kof anyone who actually needs or uses the isbn when they have the google cite; the guides to history citations (like the [[Chicago Manual of Style) do NOT recommend it. Thanks Rjensen ( talk) 10:32, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
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I've reverted this massive damage done by the bot. What is going on? Pls respond on my talk page. PumpkinSky talk 11:39, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Geology for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 22:46, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, there is a bot request at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 47#Bot to convert bare URLs to valid refs that I was hoping you would take a look at, as it might have some overlap with functions your bot currently does. Thank you. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 04:59, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
We can't understand something with your toolserver account. Phanerozoic is not an era. Cenozoic is not an eon. -- *Adjkasi* ( talk) 14:05, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi - I don't know much about citation bot, but someone asked me to look into it.
All of those bot edits are marked as user activated but with no user name. Is it possible for you to look up who activated the bot? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 20:25, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
The image is of Mansar Lake, which falls in Jammu. The uploader unknowingly has named it after the name of Manasbal Lake which falls in Kashmir valley, hence has created a confusion. Someone has inserted it into the infobox of Manasbal Lake, which it is not, and this image of Mansar Lake was appeared on home page at (DYK|2008-10-11) indicating the depth of Manasbal Lake. It needs to be renamed and removed from Manasbal Lake. MehrajMir ' (Talk) 17:05, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
.....how can a single image be used under two different lakes... one has to go. In its description both locations are mentioned 1) Lake in Ganderbal district. 2) Lake near Jammu. No mountains near the back side of this image] of Manasbal Lake, where as here in Mansar Lake are. Mansar lake is shorter as compared to Manasbal lake. MehrajMir ' (Talk) 00:18, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
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The Ediacara biota consisted of enigmatic tubular and frond-shaped, mostly sessile organisms which lived during the Ediacaran Period (c. 635–542 Ma). Trace fossils of these organisms have been found worldwide, and represent the earliest known complex multicellular organisms. The Ediacara biota radiated in an event called the Avalon Explosion, 575 million years ago, after the Earth had thawed from the Cryogenian period's extensive glaciation, and largely disappeared contemporaneous with the rapid appearance of biodiversity known as the Cambrian explosion. Most currently existing body-plans of animals first appeared only in the fossil record of the Cambrian rather than the Ediacaran. For macroorganisms, the Cambrian biota completely replaced the organisms that populated the Ediacaran fossil record. ( more...)
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While I have no issue at all with the change of reference here, I am puzzled how the replacement is "more authoritative". You do know who Pat Gensel is, don't you? -- EncycloPetey ( talk) 21:02, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, do you think it is possible to use Citation expander on other Wikipedia? I think we are able to translate it, we are able to set different parametrs (maybe not, I dont know if citation templates and/or standards are same on English/Czech Wikipedia), but I am not sure how is it with the bot. I can not run a bot presonally nor customize it to the Czech conditions.-- Juandev ( talk) 20:37, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
See the new section? What do you mean?-- Juandev ( talk) 21:04, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Smith609. Per these efforts, would you please take a crack at replying to my request here. Thanks. -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 23:54, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
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Please note that even a stub should (a) be written in sentences, and (b) have references. You seem to be producing a set of substubs which fail on both these counts: please tell us your source and create a proper opening sentence. Thanks. Pam D 12:44, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
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Hey there! If you think back, you'll recall the automatic taxobox contained several hyperlinks to toolserv (some of these run bot tasks, I think). Would it be possible to modify the toolserv code to work for multiple subdomains and perhaps get bots launched on that wiki? simple:User:Osiris seems to be the man in charge there, and the community is so small that I'm sure bot approval is relatively quick and simple. Thanks! Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 05:32, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, just wanted to say thanks for combining my references for me. I did not know it was possible to do the a,b,c,d... thing within a single reference like that. Genius! :) Electprogeny ( talk) 05:32, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
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Since autumn 2007 you've been my guide, colleague, helper and friend - first in paleontology and then towards zoology. Philcha ( talk) 10:30, 7 July 2011 (UTC) |
"The Special Barnstar" is in lieu of 3-4 other Barnstars all of which I could have given you separately. By a convoluted route I'm now working on jumping spiders - it's a long story. -- Philcha ( talk) 10:30, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
. It's been fun - things would have been lonely without someone like-minded and enthusiastic to buoy me along!
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You appear to be writing a number of stubs that are not in full sentences, just phrases without sufficient context for a general reader to understand; it would take you less work to write a complete sentence while creating an article, than it would take another person to gather up all your sources and rewrite your articls as full sentences. As encyclopedia articles, they should certainly be written in full sentence, not phrases without context. See Quadratapora and other recent contributions. --( AfadsBad ( talk) 14:15, 9 September 2013 (UTC))
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I know I don't do it all of the time, but it helps with issues like this where you have a failed automatic taxobox. --( AfadsBad ( talk) 16:46, 9 September 2013 (UTC))
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Can you please correct the article title or source? This article, as written, has no data, the title does not match the single source, and please create a sentence in English, or delete the article. Thank you. --( AfadsBad ( talk) 06:39, 16 September 2013 (UTC)) {{ resolved}}
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This article is being copied by Wikipedia mirrors. Meanwhile, the article is useless. The spelling does not match the source. The content isn't even English-language prose. I see you are an administrator, and I suggest you just delete it yourself.
It would only take another 10 seconds to have used the correct spelling, if there is one, and to have written a grammatical sentence in English. You claim to be working towards a PhD on your user page; please use English language sentences and correct spelling, if there is one, to prevent the copying of material like this to other cites. Thank you. --( AfadsBad ( talk) 19:19, 28 September 2013 (UTC))
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I wanted to change the species template for Cotyledion to reflect that it's a stem-group Ectoproct, and not a stem-group Entoproct. However, the edits I have made either screw up the template, or don't show up. Could I get your help with this?-- Mr Fink ( talk) 19:10, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
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The Walt Disney Company recently bribed collaborated with the Danish government to purchase the rights to the nektaspid trilobite Buenaspis in order to change the genus name to Buenavistahomeentertainmentaspis.--
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{{ resolved}} Dear Smith609,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Young June Sah -- Yjune.sah ( talk) 20:42, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
I have submitted edit-requests to reduce the template nesting depth in Template:Taxobox/taxonomy and Template:Taxobox/taxonomy/3, to avoid the red message "Page exceeded the expansion depth" appearing at top during edit-preview of bio/species articles. See discussion:
The plan is to bypass sub "/1" ( Template:Taxobox/taxonomy/1) and sub "/2" ( Template:Taxobox/taxonomy/2), to lower the total expansion depth when running Template:Taxobox/taxonomy/3 to show the upper taxon rows. Join the discussion if you have time. - Wikid77 ( talk) 15:26, 1 September 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
DOI Bot seems to have stopped working since this morning. At the very least, the following link leads to timeout: http://toolserver.org/~verisimilus/Bot/DOI_bot/doibot.php?doi=10.1002%2Fana.410060309. kashmiri 15:46, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
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Please come over to Template talk:Automatic taxobox/Archive 8#Toolserver udate_child_list tool down. and let us know what's going on. Thanks. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 20:17, 6 October 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
See User_talk:Citation_bot#Stop_the_bot_from_reverting_good_edits. Urhixidur ( talk) 14:55, 18 October 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
I thought this redirection of one of your templates to its sandbox was odd, just wanted to see if you were aware and approved of it. We probably shouldn't be running live with sandbox templates over long periods of time, if at all. – Wbm1058 ( talk) 23:56, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
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Another editor has unilaterally deleted the entire content of an article which you created, with the comment, "lets see who squeals." I've restored it, but I figured you might want to know what's going on. NCdave ( talk) 14:37, 23 March 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Hi, you're listed as contact for this bot, which is currently blocked. This is causing a huge amount of extra work and I would greatly appreciate it if you could have a look at this (and hopefully fix the problem... :-) Thanks! -- Randykitty ( talk) 10:10, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hello,
I just randomly happened across {{ Don't edit this line plain link text}}, and it was confusing to say the least. If you could some day expand their documentation with a link to a page that explains them as a whole, I'm sure future editors would appreciate it.
Best wishes, — Hex (❝?!❞) 17:32, 17 November 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Hey Smith609; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 21:39, 13 March 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
I just redirect Opabinid because there is a page called Opabinia. User:98.177.220.111 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.177.220.111 ( talk) 16:00, 17 March 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
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Hello,
I just randomly happened across {{ Don't edit this line plain link text}}, and it was confusing to say the least. If you could some day expand their documentation with a link to a page that explains them as a whole, I'm sure future editors would appreciate it.
Best wishes, — Hex (❝?!❞) 17:32, 17 November 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Hey Smith609; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 21:39, 13 March 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
I just redirect Opabinid because there is a page called Opabinia. User:98.177.220.111 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.177.220.111 ( talk) 16:00, 17 March 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
are missing a description and/or other details on their image description pages. If possible, please add this information. This will help other editors make better use of the images, and they will be more informative to readers.
If the information is not provided, the images may eventually be proposed for deletion, a situation which is not desirable, and which can easily be avoided.
If you have any questions, please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Theo's Little Bot ( error?) 01:31, 14 April 2013 (UTC){{ resolved}}
[ [24]] - where is about acritarchs in Javaux, E.; Marshall, C.; Bekker, A. (2010). "Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits". Nature 463 (7283): 934–938 ? I agree that description of microfossils by Javaux et al. suggests of acritarch but it is only our interpretation. -- Piotr967 ( talk) 11:52, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
A bunch of the doi's that you added to Acutichiton had invisible characters in them. I fixed them. Not sure if they are from copying and pasting or what. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 15:20, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your bot's recent helpful edits to the new article I've created, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate. We'd love for you to join WP:WikiProject Freedom of speech if you're interested in the subject matter. :) Have a great day! — Cirt ( talk) 17:01, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm a relatively new editor, so I am still not entirely clear on how to use citationbot. Despite this, I am hoping you might be able to help me. I started a discussion over at WT:MED#MEDRS compliance and reference lists, because I think it would be helpful to have a view of which PMID'd references in a given list are not tagged with article types consistent with WP:MEDRS e.g. review, meta-analysis, practice guideline, et al. Is there some way citationbot could do this, or is there another bot or tool that could be easily modified to do the same? As per the discussion at WT:MED, this may be best as a user-side tool rather than a modification to existing templates.
Looking forward to hearing your perspectives and suggestions.
-- UseTheCommandLine ( talk) 18:39, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Smith609,
I thought you might like to know about this, as I was advised you created the bot, and it seems to be acting up. See [25]. NinaGreen ( talk) 02:40, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Smith609, you change the text of the Mureropodia image. Since English is not my mother tongue I don't know if its actually right. The image is a graphic design from a photograph, not a retouched picture of the fossil, but I don't know if I expressed it correctly before. Thanks for your work, -- PePeEfe ( talk) 08:13, 16 February 2014 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Thanks for tidying after the merge. Heds ( talk) 22:45, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. I see that you're the author of the JavaScript side of the Wikipedia:Citation expander gadget. It seems that this script is clashing with the scripts used for editing Lua modules, but I have no clue when it comes to JavaScript, so I'm not sure where exactly the error comes from. In any case, you should probably take a look at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_109#Lua_error_messages_not_displaying_on_.22preview_page_with_this_template.22, where we have been talking about it. Best regards — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 15:42, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
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palaeontology and evolution |
Thank you for sharing your studies of palaeontology and evolution, for example Ediacara biota, to (quoting you) "improve content and accessibility, and reliability", and thank you for promoting "useful tools", -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:32, 13 June 2012 (UTC) |
A year ago, you were the 152nd recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:48, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I've made the first step toward porting the doi bot or "citation bot" to Labs: https://github.com/wrought/citation-bot and http://tools.wmflabs.org/doi-bot/ but the repo available here: http://code.google.com/p/citation-bot/source/browse/ doesn't have the credential information and mysql database connection information, potentially among other components--is there another repo with templates for these? Or perhaps you can send me a flat file, either with data scrubbed, or I can scrub it. Also, if there is any other information or insight you can provide, that would be helpful, many thanks! -- Mattsenate ( talk) 12:44, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Sorry to ask you in your wikiholiday, but I'm running the incredibly useful Citation bot against Molecular diagnostics, and the bot has not ended in the last 30 minutes.
It's still on:
I pressed "show changes", which made no obvious difference: and the DOI citations have not changed either.
It looks like this issue has popped up in the past, but the only solution seems to be to ask you.
(Also: I had to install the JS widget to get the citations button on the edit page. I assume that's expected behaviour, but I'm mentioning it just in case it's not.)
Thanks, Ian McDonald ( talk) 14:34, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
Update: I've realised that I was failing to use the {{cite doi}} format correctly. Sorry. I've left this here in the hope that it's a useful bug report about the widget/Citations button hanging instead of failing gracefully. Thanks for writing it. It's brilliant. Ian McDonald ( talk) 20:37, 28 September 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Hi Martin, I'm puzzled. The bot's recent edit notes indicate it is still using versions 442 and 458. These are much older than the one on google code. Perhaps somewhere you might document the current deployed version? LeadSongDog come howl! 04:58, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
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Since you're the major contributor to this article, thought you might like to know about this.--v/r - T P 13:41, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
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{{ resolved}} Thanks for editing the box of Burlingia. Your way is both more condensed in the code and in the text. I do not understand automated boxes. Does the code you use also work in ordinary taxoboxes? In which case I'll start using them (assuming this is not contested). I also have a remark concerning the automated taxobox. It lacks the family-level ( Burlingiidae). Could you please include it. Thank you very much, - Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 17:48, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
I thought you might be interested in this proposal to add code to {{ cite doi}}, a template that you and CitationBot know well. You might be able to think of some unintended consequences of the proposed change. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 19:50, 28 November 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
{{ pmid}} redirects to {{ Cite pmid}}, which is not intuitive since there is also {{ PMID}}. Could you please change this redirect? -- bender235 ( talk) 16:15, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
[1]
These should be converted to proper, populated cite journal instances of the same form as other citations in those articles.
LeadSongDog
come howl!
16:37, 9 December 2013 (UTC){{ resolved}}
How's the Citation Bot rewrite coming along? Is there anything I can do to help? I'll be happy to do some debugging or testing. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 05:58, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
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While stub-sorting I found Orstenotubulus, stub-sorted it, did some general cleanup, and noticed that the two refs were identical. Found a format of ref I'd never seen before, {{ ref doi}}, looked into it, found that a bot was converting them to use <ref>{{cite doi|... }}</ref>, converted those two and combined them.
Then noticed that the bot owner's name was the same as the editor who'd created the article, yourself. So perhaps you'd just set it up as a test case to experiment with the bot? Sorry if I've spoiled your test case. Pam D 12:08, 5 February 2014 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
G'day, what happens if I remove {{visible anchor}} from within an article? I have created an article and would like to insert a wikilink to it in place of the visible anchor Template. Cheers YSSYguy ( talk) 01:39, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
{{ resolved}}
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
Can you please point to the bot approval request which covers User:Citation bot's creation of citation sub-templates (for example Template:Cite doi/10.5665.2Fsleep.1378)? I've read over the ones listed at User:Citation bot#Bot approval and only see requests to adjust formatting of citations, but not mass creation of templates. If you haven't requested such, please stop your bot immediately. -- Netoholic @ 07:42, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Discussion moved to Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#User:Citation bot - mass creation of sub-templates -- Netoholic @ 19:02, 11 June 2014 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Any chance you could address some of the outstanding citation bot bugs, at least by disabling the code snippets in question? Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:39, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Smith609! I've seing the system you use with citation bot, creating PMID and doi citations. I've made something similar (is to say, a bot that copies the citations into eu:wp) but it will be better to have the citation bot itself translated into basque, so I don't have to make use of replace.py every time I make the bot crawl the en:wp category. Would it be possible to translate it? - Theklan ( talk) 19:17, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for the guidance with CrossRef! Jackson Peebles ( talk) 01:59, 23 August 2013 (UTC) |
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Thanks for the guidance with CrossRef! Jackson Peebles ( talk) 01:59, 23 August 2013 (UTC) |
Hi, you uploaded a wonderfull photo that has now been renamed to [File:Olenoides serratus oblique with antennas.jpg]. This is the only known trilobite species with caudal cerci. There is a slight chance you may still have or would be in the position to make an image of the pygidial area of this specimen where these caudal cerci can be seen. It would really be helpful if you could upload such an image. Kind regards, - Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:52, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
We are currently engaging researchers to write on Wikipedia within our university, please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SLU. As for now, about 30-60 researchers are active to some degree and one of their main interest is to add relevant references to the articles. This is easy on enwp thanks to your great bot, but we would very much appreciate to also have it on svwp. We are especially interested in the templates where you can enter ISBN and PMID/DOI. I can do the translation of templates and parameters. Is there anything else that you need? A bot permission can be applied for at https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Robotans%C3%B6kan, but we can prepare the application for you if you wish. -- Olle Terenius (SLU) ( talk) 14:54, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Martin, I played a bit with MediaWiki:Gadget-citations.js and it seems to very useful gadget. I would like to copy it to hewiki and to improve it to work also in VisualEditor :) By viewing the code I saw it sends a post request to http://toolserver.org/~verisimilus/Bot/citation-bot/text.php with the editform, and I have some questions regarding it:
echo "$_REQUEST["callback"]({expandedText:" . expand_text(mb_convert_encoding($_REQUEST"text"], "UTF-8")), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'). "})"
Thanks, Eran ( talk) 18:28, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hear, hear! {{cite doi}} just saved a lot of my precious time while writing deep belief network! QVVERTYVS ( hm?) 14:46, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Howdy, thanks for your work on Citation Bot. I wanted to alert you to a bit of a mishap with today's featured article. Citation bot corrected the citations in this edit, but three of them it duplicated editor-first or editor1-first. I fixed them in three edits here, but thought I would let you know. Thanks again and have a happy holiday season! -- TeaDrinker ( talk) 02:18, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
You recently fixed two issues I reported about Citation bot. I just wanted to let you know I appreciate that. Debresser ( talk) 16:38, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
I wanted to tack on to this by thanking you for promptly responding to my bug report. Really appreciate it! If you need help testing the new version let me know. I am actually a Software QA Engineer by trade so I have some experience testing. :-) -- Zackmann08 ( talk) 22:07, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
palaeontology and evolution
Thank you for sharing your studies of
palaeontology and
evolution, for example
Ediacara biota, to (quoting you) "improve content and accessibility, and reliability", and thank you for promoting "useful tools", - you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
Two years ago, you were the 152nd recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:44, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
When I click on Edit history stats, or page watchers under the Statistics toolbox in the right margin, I get the following - 403: User account expired The page you requested is hosted by the Toolserver user wiki_researcher, whose account has expired. Toolserver user accounts are automatically expired if the user is inactive for over six months. To prevent stale pages remaining accessible, we automatically block requests to expired content. See: [26] ??? Atsme☯ Consult 01:53, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
The taxonomy section is messed up. There is a missing template somewhere. I'm not familiar with it to know what is missing. Could you take a look? Bgwhite ( talk) 18:44, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for initiating an article on the genus Valdiviathyris, which was at that moment considered monotypic. You did so using an automated taxobox, a template I haven't mastered. Recently an article has been published that describes Valdiviathyris bicornis Holmer, Popov & Bassett, 2013, from the Silurian of Gotland. I believe that best practice is that extant species have their own entry while fossil species are dealt with in the entry of the genus they belong to. My request to you is if you could create a Valdiviathyris quenstedti page that may consist only of the automated taxobox, and drop me a line, so I can add content. Thank you in advance, regards, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:18, 26 September 2014 (UTC).
I'm trying to improve my use of citations rather than letting other people come along later and expand them. I have the button, it loads the bot page and comes back to my edit, but doesn't expend bibcodes (cite journal|bibcode=...). I've tested on old versions that I know were successfully expanded, but nothing. I ran from the standalone doibot page and that worked (but committed edits even though I said not to and it said it wouldn't), so I'm lost as to what I'm doing wrong. Lithopsian ( talk) 14:12, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello! These drawings will soon be deleted since the author died only in 1945 and his works will be released to public domain on January, 1st. They may be automatically restored then. Mithril ( talk) 20:25, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Your toolbox.js has become so much a part of my Wiki life that I'd forgotten that it wasn't actually part of Wikimedia. <g> Since stats.grok.se has been down for a while now, perhaps the link in toolbox.js could be updated to use the new "official" stats tool? Cheers. Le Deluge ( talk) 19:35, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
"
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/#project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-30&pages=" +
- and whilst you're at it, the heading needs to be <h3>
rather than <h5>
. Looks like Wikidashboard has gone for good though.
Le Deluge (
talk)
19:55, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
When using the RevisionSlider and WikEdDiff together WikEdDiff will not function correctly when the RevisionSlider is used to load a new diff. This can be fixed by adding a simple hook listener to your copy.
During a deployment slot today the RevisionSlider extension will be turned on as a beta feature on all wikis.
For the first week the RevisionSlider will be deployed with a 'hack' that will mean WikEdDiff will continue to work, but on the 21st and 22nd of September this 'hack' will be removed.
You can find the relevant phabricator ticket here which contains the code that you will need to add to your copy of the script (in most cases). Please also use this ticket for further questions & discussion.
Addshore ( talk) 09:20, 13 September 2016 (UTC)Dear Smith609, I notice that you moved Camarotoechia Hall & Clarke, 1893 to Sinotectirostrum Sartenaer, 1961, based on Cherkesova (2007). However, I think you misinterpret the situation. Cherkesova reassigns two taxa, "radiata" and "omaliusi", that Nalivkin had placed in Camarotoechia, to Sinotectirostrum as a new combination for a species and a subspecies respectively. Neither of these taxa can be the type of Camarotoechia, which I presume is Atrypa congretata Conrad, 1841. This means Camarotoechia and Sinotectirostrum henceforth are recognised genera of their own. I'll leave this to you, regards, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 17:01, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
Could you upload the newest citation bot source from GitHub to the developement version for testing please
Do you have any opinion on Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Taxobot children. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 23:11, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
How much work would be involved in making a version of this template that produces horizontal, rather than vertical, timelines? Thanks, — swpb T 20:02, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, {{ taxon?}} doesn't work now (it hasn't since Wikid77 made changes to the system to allow hardcoding of ancestors to reduce expansion depth) – it causes an expansion depth error. So we currently use the 'standard' format with the ? in the link text. All uses of {{ taxon?}} in taxonomy templates have been removed.
At present, |same_as=
in a taxonomy template must be accompanied by |parent=
.
Peter coxhead (
talk)
12:50, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi, just thought I'd let you know that I'm working on what is by far the best solution to expansion depth limit problems, namely rewriting the parts of the code that traverse the taxonomic hierarchy in Lua. It avoids completely the need to have multiple templates with nesting (like the t^
family for example). You just write loops! The expansion depth drops dramatically, and hierarchies of 100+ levels should be no problem.
So far I've created Lua versions of the traversals needed to find the taxobox colour and to generate the table shown on the "Taxonomy/TAXON" pages. The final step is the traversal needed for the taxoboxes themselves, but it looks straightforward, although it's necessary to work slowly in view of the number of pages that would be affected by any error.
When converting traversals to Lua is finished, we should be able to restore the proper behaviour of |same_as=
and some of the other bits of the system that were disabled as part of fudges to reduce expansion depth, and we won't need hardcoded or /skip templates purely to reduce the number of levels.
Ultimately I think that most of the automated taxonomy system can be moved to Lua, leaving only the raw data stored in the taxonomy templates, since this format is much easier for most editors to set up and modify.
If you're interested, Module:Autotaxobox/sandbox will have the latest version. Peter coxhead ( talk) 10:25, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
|parent=
. See
WP:Automated taxobox system/notes for some notes for "old hands" on recent changes.
Peter coxhead (
talk)
10:35, 30 January 2017 (UTC)Please see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 December 17#T^ templates. Now that I have coded all the traversals of the taxonomic hierarchies encoded in taxobox templates in Lua at Module:Autotaxobox, these templates aren't used and I've nominated them for deletion. Peter coxhead ( talk) 14:30, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
How do you edit the information for the speciesboxes/automatic taxoboxes?-- Mr Fink ( talk) 23:48, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Template:Cite doi/subpage has been
nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Jo-Jo Eumerus (
talk,
contributions)
21:44, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hello Smith609/Archives,
I noticed you marked an article as a
stub using the {{
stub}}
template. Did you know that there are thousands of stub types that you can use to clarify what type of stub the article is? Properly categorizing stubs is important to the
Wikipedia community because it helps various
WikiProjects to identify articles that need expansion.
If you have questions about stub sorting, don't hesitate to ask! There is a wealth of stub information on the stub sorting WikiProject, and hundreds of stub sorters. Thanks! -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message ( talk to me) ( My edits) @ 06:56, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Since you were active the last few days, please see WP:VPT#Who here has wmflabs access. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 05:00, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, I pinged you about a month ago about that template. Are you still maintaining it, or should I go to WP:VPT and ask for help there? Thanks, SchreiberBike | ⌨ 02:46, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
The citation bot has been slow and hardly working for a few days. At least when doing a manual request.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 14:16, 12 December 2018 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Template:Latin row has been
nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Frietjes (
talk)
14:13, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi, there's a discussion about the field labelled "period" in this infobox as some editors are assuming that it means "period" in the strict sense and others that it just requires whatever the relevant chronstrat term is. This of course only changes the colour. A suggestion is that we change the name of the label to "interval" and add a comment in the documentation. Your thoughts (and help) would be appreciated. Mikenorton ( talk) 21:45, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi, can a Citation bot be launched in Serbian Wikipedia and other related projects in Serbian? If it can, what do you need to do to enable the bot? Best regards! Ранко Николић ( talk) 21:12, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I can help. In which file(s) are places translations? @ Ранко Николић: I saw now this. I will help. Zoranzoki21 ( talk) 00:29, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
As you know, I converted traversals of the taxonomy hierarchy encoded in taxonomy templates to Lua some time ago, to deal with expansion depth limits. At the time, I found converting just this part of the automated taxobox system a complex task, so I left many of the 'non-traversal' templates alone. I'm slowly converting those that are not also used by the manual taxobox system to Lua, so some templates are becoming unused.
{{ Taxonomy links/cell}}, which you created, has now been replaced by a Lua function in Module:Autotaxobox, so I've nominated it for deletion. Peter coxhead ( talk) 10:28, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
I made a mess of fixing Template:Taxonomy/Trochozoa, but it's correct now. Perhaps the entry in {{ Anglicise rank}} should put a space between the rank and the "?". The point I'd like to make is that the automated taxobox system is now much tighter as regards things like acceptable rank names; any ranks not in {{ Anglicise rank}} will flag an error. Peter coxhead ( talk) 15:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
Template:Taxonomy links has been
nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Gonnym (
talk)
13:22, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, on [28] you are listed as the maintainer of the wmflabs timescale tool. The tool hasn't worked for a while, and the template {{ Ma}} for example had to remove links to it because of that. Is there any chance to make it operable again? Or, if you are not involved anymore, do you know whom best to contact in this matter? Thanks, AxelBoldt ( talk) 13:16, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
I started a thread at the administrator's noticeboard to try to find a way forward with this, and would welcome your participation there. Uninvited Company 17:33, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
Can you increase the number of searches we are allowed. We run out now days. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 13:53, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I am facing problems with dty:Template:Speciesbox and dty:Template:Taxobox in dtywiki and have no knowledge of template editing. Can you help in fixing the Template:Speciesbox and Taxonomy related templates?-- Nirajan pant ( talk) 16:35, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.--—
xaosflux
Talk
18:51, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi Smith609. The Anti-Harassment team at Wikimedia Foundation has been asked to help out with the Citation bot by adding an authentication step before the bot can be triggered. Letting you know so that you are not caught by surprise when you see some commits by members of our team. Thank you! -- NKohli (WMF) ( talk) 04:58, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
Template:Annotated image/Arthropod cuticle has been
nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Gonnym (
talk)
17:02, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Template:Annotated image/Walcott view has been
nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Gonnym (
talk)
17:08, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
This account has made tens of thousands of edits by proxy using the Citation bot. It is still ongoing while I'm writing this. The account itself has made only 11 edits so far.
It is obvious that this 'Marianne Zimmerman' account is a bot, since it is working around the clock, 24/7. The account is not labeled as such, and has not been authorized by the Bot Approvals Group. In itself not a big deal, because the account has been making only positive edits and has not caused disruption. Still, it is technically violating policy, and I'm wondering why a bot would use another bot to make bot edits. That seems rather silly. I hope the author of the 'Marianne bot' can come forward so that we can work things out. Cheers, Manifestation ( talk) 12:04, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
Wikipedia citation bot rocks! Jimmy Olano ( talk) 22:22, 3 August 2019 (UTC) |
Hello, I need your help. On [29], I was told that configuration similar to wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Web/Lighttpd#FCGI_Flask_config may help increase the capacity of the tool. Based on the default configuration there and other tools like /data/project/glamtools/.lighttpd.conf, maybe you could try:
fastcgi.server += ( ".php" => (( "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi", "socket" => "/var/run/lighttpd/php.socket.citations", "max-procs" => 4, "bin-environment" => ( "PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN" => "3", "PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS" => "500" ), "bin-copy-environment" => ( "PATH", "SHELL", "USER" ), "broken-scriptfilename" => "enable", "allow-x-send-file" => "enable" )) )
I'm not sure what to do if translation-server is actually the bottleneck, though. Nemo 17:18, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
~/www/js/package.json
, where I see you currently have "start": "~/local/bin/node src/server.js",
. Maybe some
command line options can be passed here but it doesn't sound ideal.
Nemo
17:32, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
Smith609: @
Smith609:
Smith609 Please manually do the git update.
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge: .lighttpd.conf Please move or remove them before you merge. Aborting Updating a0ed19bb..072e52e9
I assume you just delete the file, then immediately do the git update. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 13:13, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
Could you please explain me why Citation bot is removing |format=
from URLs linking to PDF files?
SLBedit (
talk)
00:33, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is
AManWithNoPlan and Citation bot. .
HJ Mitchell |
Penny for your thoughts?
10:09, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
Category:Articles with inconsistent citation formats explains its purpose via {{Inconsistent_citations}}
which I include, in part, here:
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User:Citation bot helps editors to keep citations in a consistent format within a given article. If a mix of {{citation}} and {{cite xx}} templates are used, the bot will convert all citations to the dominant type (as they differ in details of punctuation). It will preserve the original formatting, in case it was intentional. However, in most cases, the editor did not realize that the added citation did not match the format in the article. Therefore, the bot adds a hidden comment and a category (via a template to avoid confusing
AWB) to any template that it changes. Human editors should check these comments and see whether the citations they are found in should genuinely have different punctuation to other citations on the page. They should then amend the |postscript= parameter accordingly, removing {{inconsistent citations}} .
|
” |
I had been cleaning up this maintenance category based on the explanation above.
{{Inconsistent_citations}}
applied by some editor to a CS1 in an article with only or predominantly CS1{{Inconsistent_citations}}
applied by some editor to a CS2 in an article with only or predominantly CS1, or another variation, bare ref, etc.{{Inconsistent_citations}}
applied by some editor to the article as a maintenance tag—¿philoserf? ( talk) 22:27, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Smith609 I have some massive edits that need to be done on the Macedonian Wikipedia, concerning now obsolete and redundant text in citations. Can this bot do this changes:
If this is possible it will be a huge help of not doing the changes by hand. Thank you Инокентиј ( talk) 19:10, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I just tagged you at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240124 but I see you haven't been active on Phabricator recently so I wanted to make sure you saw my ping :) Samwalton9 (WMF) ( talk) 08:55, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello, and greetings! As part of a Starter kit project for smaller wikis, there is a work-in-progress guide around Bots & Tools here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit/Bots_and_Tools. I'm reaching out with a few questions, as there is a mention of the Citation bot on this page in the list of useful bots section:
Additionally, if you have a suggestion for any other bots or tools currently on the list which should not be there and those that are not there and should be there, I would love to know about them—looking forward to your input! Srishti ( talk) 07:45, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hey there! I'm an admin at SqWiki and I mostly deal with technical help regarding citations. I stumbled upon your bot after it being added to Small Wikis starter kit. Can you help me by giving some information as to what the bot actually does so I decide if it would be beneficial to ask for incorporating it on SqWiki? Another question on the same subject asked with easier terms: How does this bot differs from IABot and how do they cooperate together? (If they do.) I'm assuming you are okay with expanding your bot's functionalities outside of EnWiki since it was in that list, no? :) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 15:24, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm
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Nematophyta, but you didn't provide a
reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to
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Hi there! I just wanted to let you know I will be prominently using your excellent reconstruction of Scathascolex in a video that is going to be out soon on my YouTube channel. I will of course give due credit as stipulated. Phrenotopian ( talk) 11:10, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hey Smith609, it looks like you've got some user scripts in use by others that have bare javascript global wg-style variables. These are
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Hi! Greetings from Uzbek Wikipedia! Could you adapt Citation bot to Uzbek Wikipedia? Iʼm ready to help you with translations! :)
Translations:
cite web
→ web manbasi
title
→ sarlavha
first
→ ism
last
→ familiya
date
→ sana
publisher
→ nashriyot
website
→ vebsayt
work
→ ish
year
→ yil
editor
→ muharrir
editor-link
→ muharrir-havola
month
→ oy
pages
→ sahifalar
language
→ til
access-date
, accessdate
→ kirish sanasi
archive-url
, archiveurl
→ arxiv-url
archive-date
, archivedate
→ arxiv-sana
location
→ joylashuv
quote
→ iqtibos
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Hello! I'm a crat from SqWiki. I read the instructions related to i18n in regard to Citation Bot and would like to have it operate on our wiki. Given my crat privileges we can easily deal with the privileges part and I can create a user page for the bot. But I was wondering what templates are you referring to when you mention A translation of each of the template names and parameters used. Is it CS1 templates? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 13:14, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm clearing out CAT:DUPARG, and noticed that User:Smith609/Citation/doc is in there, and a cleanup script tells me that the duplicate template field is "month" in cite book. Happy to fix this, but wasn't sure which are the correct fields: should it be month=origmonth, or month=month? Thanks, Storchy ( talk) 05:26, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, you're the listed operator for four bot accounts ( Citation bot 1 through 4) which don't appear to need the flag any longer given the work that the primary Citation bot does these days. Would you mind leaving a note at Wikipedia:BN#Inactive bots that you'd like them to have their flag removed? Izno ( talk) 08:59, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, I've been playing around with Template:Graphical timeline, trying to create a timline. I was wondering - is it possible to have a timeline that goes from the oldest timeperiod at the top to the most recent at the bottom? I've tried, and it seems to work except that the scale is missing. Is it possible? Thanks, -- Beloved Freak 21:24, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
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{{ cite doi}} (and {{ cite jstor}} etc.) are incredible and will make (are making?) a huge difference to wikipedia, encouraging citations, improving citation quality and accuracy, and saving everyone a lot of typing. Profound thanks for your work (and to any collaborators I may have missed)! (Now to go fix my old jstor cites…) —Nils von Barth ( nbarth) ( talk) 08:21, 3 March 2010 (UTC) |
Hi, I want to translate it to Hebrew for the He Wikipedia, it is possible? Israel Krul ( talk) 14:31, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
hi smith609, i'd love to know what you think about this idea. cheers Spencerk ( talk) 21:02, 25 March 2010 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Sorry for not calling you for so long. Until the start of Dec 2009 you were looking very busy with working and with WP on cites and other templates, so I didn't want to your load. Then I was ill, and am still not great. How do you like Canada now, and the ROM? What projects are you working now? -- Philcha ( talk) 12:41, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
The citation bot seems to be naively converting "cite web" to "Citation" without checking it is not a "vcite web". This has broken the citations on Major depressive disorder. See this edit. Please stop your bot until it is fixed. Colin° Colin 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Smith, I reverted you Here because it looks like all you did was remove signatures. Did I mess up?-- SKATER Speak. 18:01, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
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Hello Martin: I created an article on Ernettia but perhaps this is an erroneous spelling of Ernietta. Even though I found references, perhaps those have errors, what is your opinion? Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 22:28, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to ask you for this:
Thanks. For every of these points there are reasons and I can try to elucidate them in the future. -- Snek01 ( talk) 22:59, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Good science and an instructive story! Thanks! -- Philcha ( talk) 23:24, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
I'm not seeing the citebot widget in the toolbox even tho I emptied my cache. What would it look like if it was there? Is it only present for certain pages? Joja lozzo 18:01, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
I figured out that I'm using the vector skin, not monobook skin. After adding the script to vector.js the widget is showing up but the font size is wrong. Any advice on fixing that? Joja lozzo 18:21, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Martin
I'm disappointed that you changed the refs - IMO there's a guideline that if there's an established ref / citation style it should be respected or discuss at the article's Talk. In this case the item that concerned me was the insertion of page numbers in to main text - IMO this is just another distraction for readers, and less useful than e.g. wikilinks. As a result I've have to spent about 2 hours finding and restoring. I admit I was slow on the ball - RL was pulling on me. -- Philcha ( talk) 07:45, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
In the background perhaps we're both looking for a solution to another issue. At present in Mollusca and others I've wanted to cite chapters and even sections of books, but without duplicated the book details (title, ISBN, publisher, e.g.) - and Visionholder showed me a way to split citations so that the book details appear only once and the cites for chapters, sections, etc. are a list underneather each book - it's easier to show than explain, see User:Philcha/Sandbox/Reference_methods/List-defined_references. It does not depend on List-defined references or template like harvnb or sfn - I'd really avoid sfn, despite some neat things, because I've already found one situation sfn can't handle. -- Philcha ( talk) 07:45, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Your bot changed a ref in Merge Sort. It turned what looks like an under-specified journal article into a news item. It's guessing, and it shouldn't do that. And to what end? Furthermore, do not change Citation to Cite. There are defaults in place, and you should not be dictating other people's style. I'm also trying to report a bug, and I'm being pointed down a lengthy process where I will not go. Glrx ( talk) 14:03, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Is there a reason why the citation bot is changing transclusions of {{ cite book}} to {{ citation}}? The template doesn't seem to me to be deprecated or anything. Jafeluv ( talk) 10:01, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
On Malay Archipelago did you mean ([edit=autoconfirmated] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite)))? Tbhotch Talk C. 17:21, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I just discovered that "Citation bot" added an ISBN number to a reference on a page I made,
Maritime Fur Trade. I hadn't heard of Citation bot before, but it led me to your talk page where I discovered {{Cite jstor}}
and {{Cite doi}}
. They look really useful for editors who would rather focus on content instead of citation details and syntax. I wondered if it would be possible to make a similar template for books available from Google Books. I frequently find information via Google Books and type up "cite book" references, with the url parameter pointing to the Google Books entry. After seeing the Cite jstor template, my first thought was wondering whether a similar thing would work for Google Books--a template where one would merely enter the Google Books id code and a bot would come along and create a full reference. So, I thought I'd just ask--is it possible?
Pfly (
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08:44, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
|author-mask=
parameter is useful when the author should be obfuscated, as in bibliographies; it's useful to have their name in the citation for metadata purposes, even if this is not made visible to the reader. I already have some safeguards in place to catch flaws in the metadata (editors mistaken for authors etc); if uncaught problems arise then I can respond accordingly.
Martin (
Smith609 –
Talk)
17:36, 22 May 2010 (UTC)The bot is still destroying links to pages: diff. Can some admin please help stop it for a while until this is discussed and fixed? Shreevatsa ( talk) 17:51, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Another bug: diff. Google's 'id' parameters may contain hyphens, the bot broke the link and declared it a dead link. (BTW — scroll down to the references section — why does dead link appear inside brackets before the link? This is a bug in the citation template, presumably.) Shreevatsa ( talk) 18:18, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Now that Vetustovermis is considered a nectocarididid, should I redraw it as a swimmer?-- Mr Fink ( talk) 05:09, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, did you notice the bug I mentioned above where (as in this diff) the bot removes hyphens in parameters and then declares them dead links? Is this fixed?
Also, see the before/after links in this diff. The results are not identical; it appears that Google pays attention to the "vq" parameter as well. Could you add that to your list of parameters to be retained (I think vq > dq > q, meaning that when you have one you can drop the succeeding ones), or better yet, only remove tags with an identified function known to be useless? I know most articles probably haven't chosen their links very carefully, but still, that the bot should "first do no harm" seems like an important principle to me. Shreevatsa ( talk) 07:44, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Congratulations for your excellent work in the articles about the nudibranchs. As you have been working on Sacoglossa, I found a strange sentence (not written by you) that needs to be rephrased. I made a suggestion on Talk:Sacoglossa. If you're thinking along the same line as I do about the meaning of this sentence, you can change it in the article. Cheers. JoJan ( talk) 09:05, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
You are using a probably old or deprecated system of references, that has to be updated each time with a bot. It is very easy now to use the right method : just click on "Cite" on top of the page and then you'll see a dropdown menu with "Templates". Choose the correct one, and that's all. Cheers. JoJan ( talk) 15:45, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
I filed a bug report five days ago regarding this edit and it hasn't even been acknowledged. While I do not know how to search for similar edits, I'd assume the same damaging edit would of been done on any patent citation using the same format. The example I've given has since been corrected manually, but what of ones that were not? Juventas ( talk) 06:45, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello Martin! The Stenothecoida with its Stenothecoides and Cambridium and the Stenothecidae with its Stenotheca, Mellopegma, Eurkapegma, Anabarella and Watsonella, are absolutely different groups of the Cambrian organisms which are even not similar against each other. It is simply they have similar names. Stenothecoida (Stenothecoides) are middle Cambrian problematic bivalve organisms. Stenothecidae (Stenotheca, Watsonella, …) have, without doubts, univalved shell.
Parkhaev study (more 15 years!) the Cambrian gastropods SSF (it is his specialization) not on another's articles, pictures and photos, he study real specimens, his assumptions are based on factual material. And among modern specialists on Cambrian mollusks SSF is almost nobody considers it as Monoplacophorans.
Stenothecoides, Stenothecoida photos:
Stenotheca, Mellopegma, Anabarella and Watsonella, Stenothecidae photos
Be more attentive. :-) Aleksey ( Alnagov ( talk) 22:21, 9 June 2010 (UTC))
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IIRC you were at one time thinking of a thesis on Nectocaris. You might find Paleontology in the News, by a retired professor of paleo.
I also see you're still working on labour-saving citation techniques. I'd be grateful if you coud look at Wikipedia talk:Citation templates#Need to standardise citations -- Philcha ( talk) 12:47, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Why is the bot adding a template to {{ cite journal}} citations, authorsep, which is not documented in the cite journal documentation? Jc3s5h ( talk) 00:04, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
No problem, but I just had my Sandbox updated by the Citation bot. Do you really want to get into that? No reply needed, I can live with it either way, but I thought that you'd like to know. TomS TDotO ( talk) 18:11, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, one of the pages I watch had this edit by your bot. The url changes don't bother me much, but the final change from 'citation' to 'cite journal' and the addition of 'ref=harv' and the rest seems dubious. Does it seem valid to you? Also, I'm assuming that [Pu173] is meant to identify the editor using your bot. There doesn't seem to be a user by that name. Is there any way to validate the user before allowing them to run the bot? Thanks, Celestra ( talk) 19:40, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I have found edits from Citation bot 1 ([Pu174]Misc citation tidying), which literally makes nothing visible on the page. This is an
example. Here, the bot has simply eliminated a carriage return from a citation in the script of the page, but with no apparent influence on the page itself.
I think these edits could be avoided, because they clog the page history, with no utility to the page itself, not even cosmetic. And, cosmetic edits have to applied cautiously, according to
wikipedia bot policy. What do you think about that?--
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13:38, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Martin. We got Kimberella to GA in 2008 so it's about time for an update. As far as I can see you've done a fine job on new/updated content - and you're an expert, while I'm just an enthusiatic amateur. But I think a serious copyedit is needed, to make the phrasing more suitable for the proverbial bright 14-old year and to removed duplication, of which there's a lot. Would you like me to start the copyedit? -- Philcha ( talk) 16:49, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Again I find cosmetic operations on the script of the page, with no effect on the page itself, as in this example. The bot has only modified 3 references, and in all cases has changed the expression "books.google.com/books?" to "books.google.com/?", with no effects, neither on the functionality nor on the visual appearance of the references on the page.
Anyway, the problem is not your bot, it is more general. At this point, most of the page histories I see contain more bot traffic than normal editing, and for me is difficult to discover who has written what. What can be done to overcome this? -- GianniG46 ( talk) 01:01, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Followed your instructions on how to add Citation bot to my toolbox. It created User:Maile66/modern.js Cleared my browser cache. That was yesterday. Even today after having shut down and booted back up, I don't see anything different on my toolbox. Is it necessary to create the .css page also? If so, what text do I enter before I Save the new .css page? I must be missing a step. Please advise. Maile66 ( talk) 19:43, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I used cite doi in Golden jackal#Evolution (it's reference 15). It's done just what was needed, but now the reference has an Edit link for editing the template generated. I've not seen this before. Should I leave it like this, or is there something more I should do? Thanks for a great tool. -- Stfg ( talk) 09:41, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
I LOVE your template:
It is 20 times easier to use then the complex timeline extension.
My problem is, I am trying to add your template to a wikia, and it will not work.
First I got two errors:
I started to use old version of the templates to see if that would work.
I deleted the: %; when the error continued to show up, I then deleted the entire line, with the abs template [2] (which I had created from an earlier version of template:abs).
The expression error then disappeared.
but this line:
continues to show up. I am not sure what I am supposed to delete. Any suggestions? It would be great if you could fix this, or tell me how to fix this.
Here is an example of the template not working on the wikia:
All the templates are the same name....some are earlier versions.
I was going to message Habbit too, but since you are the creator, you probably know better than anyone thanks in advance! 15:53, 26 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Burtthompson ( talk • contribs)
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This barnstar is awarded to Smith609 for his incredible horizontal graph templates. Wow! What a simple solution to a complex problem. Thank you! Burtthompson ( talk) 15:56, 26 July 2010 (UTC) |
Hi, Martin. In a 2008 edit, I think you cite "Sereno et al, 1998" on the weak correlation between stratigraphic age and cladistic rank. Do you have a more specific reference for this? I'm interested in the details: whether this means that stratigraphic correlation with age in years is poor, or that the age of a fossil is an unreliable clue as to the age at which speciation separated it's ancestor from it's nearest relative, because smaller fossils are easier to find, or etc. I found a Paul C Sereno online, who published three articles in 1998. I wasn't able to find the content online, however. If you have the exact citation, I could narrow my search and avoid looking up or paying for the wrong article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidrei ( talk • contribs) 16:46, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Are you using at least that version? After the bot was revised as so reported by Google, I found the bot still editing Google Books URLs to redirect URLs, and again I edited to the correct URLs. The problem and the fix are reported at [3] and r179 is described at [4], both as accessed today. But if r179 was already in use, then I'll just live with what's happening and maybe correct its trail in articles I watch. Thanks. Nick Levinson ( talk) 05:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
/books
a personal preference, or is there a more fundamental reason to retain it? I've done some testing and don't see any performance implications for the redirection.
Martin (
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A fixed a few problems in your toolbox script. Hope you don't mind. Especially the encoding issue can be problematic. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 21:20, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Is it true that you have bitchin' template making skills? Abyssal ( talk) 02:59, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Sources_again. LeadSongDog come howl! 05:39, 14 August 2010 (UTC) (Using {{ Please see}})
Hello. Is it possible to stop the bot from editing WP:AWB/Sandbox? It recently edited the page. Bot edits to a sandbox can be disruptive. Thanks. McLerristarr / Mclay1 09:58, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
I haven't come across 'Citation bot 1' before so I have a couple of questions. I know they're fairly elementary but I'd like to understand a bit more about how it works.
Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 17:55, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Your reference tool disappeared from the left panel (I use old wiki markup). Could it be related to your latest corrections? Materialscientist ( talk) 23:53, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Why did you delete the subject section in the extinction event page? It appeared to fit nicely in the article.... Please reply in the discusion section of 'extinction event' page. Morbas ( talk) 04:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Period | Terminus Dates | Interval | 6th Interval |
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-58 Ma-ago | |||
Borgzoic | 57 Ma | (Projected | |
-1 Ma-ago | Devonian Pair) | ||
Paleogene-Neogene | 72 Ma | ||
71 MA-ago | |||
Cretaceous | 75 Ma | ||
146 Ma-ago | |||
Jurassic | 54 Ma | ||
200 Ma-ago | |||
Permian-Trassic | 86 Ma | ||
286 Ma-ago | |||
Carboniferous | 73 Ma | ||
359 Ma-ago | (417)Ma | ||
Devonian | 57 Ma | ||
416 Ma-ago | 417 Ma | ||
Ordovician-Silurian | 72 Ma | ||
488 Ma-ago | 417 Ma | ||
Cambrian | 75 Ma | ||
563 Ma-ago | 417 Ma | ||
Ediacaran/Varangian | 54 Ma | ||
617 Ma-ago | 417 Ma | ||
Cryognian/Varangian |
98.148.24.98 ( talk) 04:52, 14 September 2010 (UTC) Table always does it. All are ICS dates, save one...A deeper pattern exists that shows repetion in sets of three, each set in alternate offset by +/-7Ma. The rest of the article text is supported by the three references shown. I am surprised you did not notice the discussion section where this was presented for almost a month with little comments, except a reference request by a retiring contributor. No time line theory here... 98.148.24.98 ( talk) 04:52, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Please refer to this page Nevada Barr. I ran the citation bot from here Toolserver Yes, it inserted ISBN numbers on the Nevada Barr page. However, the numbers it inserted aren't even close to the ones on amazon.com, neither the 10-digit nor the 13-digit one. As an example, look at the 2010 novel Burn . The Amazon ISBN are 031261456X and 978-0312614560. Can you explain the discrepancy? Maile66 ( talk) 21:34, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Martin,
I have one small question which you may know the answer to. Often, after an article has been switched to the new automatic taxobox, it appears in Category:Taxoboxes with an invalid color, even though it doesn't belong there. For instance, Louisella was there this morning, even though the taxobox appeared correctly. In such cases, a null edit is all that's required to remove the category. I assume it's all to do with the mechanisms of template transclusion. Does it only happen if the automated taxonomy is updated after the article was edited? Is there any way of avoiding it? It's not a big problem at the moment, but if there's a simple (automatic) solution, that would be great. If the automatic taxoboxes ever get rolled out by bots, then this could become an issue, so it's probably worth considering it now. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 06:25, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Over the last 24 hours or so I've intermittently had this error running the citation bot: "Getting login details ... done. Connecting to MYSQL database ... !!! * Database server login failed. This is probably a temporary problem with the server and will hopefully be fixed soon. The server returned: "User 'verisimilus' has exceeded the 'max_user_connections' resource (current value: 15)" Error message generated by /res/mysql_connect.php". Rjwilmsi 12:33, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I tried to add the widget, but I see that the code is already in my User:Wtmitchell/vector.js. I've cleared my cache and reloaded pages, but I don't see a relevant link in the Toolbox section. Help appreciated.
Separately, I'd appreciate a glance at Talk:Gulf War#Reversion and Citation bot and corrections there if I got something wrong. Thanks. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Martin,
Your automatic taxoboxes seem no longer to be italicising the names of species, either in the header of the taxobox or (presumably as a consequence) in the article title. See, for instance, Amanita muscaria or Stauroteuthis syrtensis. Genera appear to be unaffected (cf. Stauroteuthis). -- Stemonitis ( talk) 16:16, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Is it possible to use the citation bot on Wikipedias in other languages? I am thinking of the portuguese one in particular. Thanks in advance, GoEThe ( talk) 11:39, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
i installed your bot but dont quite understand how to use it. Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election, 2010 has some bare refs that need to be filled, i entered at the bot page, but it says "no changes required and no edits made" Could you help me out in using it?
thanks. Lihaas ( talk) 07:12, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I added User:Smith609/toolbox.js to my vector.js page and it seems to have worked, except ... the font is about 2–3 times larger than normal. Can I adjust the font in any way? Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 16:36, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Opinion about original research pasted from Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard
Simple arithmetic and tabulation is not usually considered original research. Make sure that you are not slanting the data in any way to make a point. Expect that scientists will be pernickety about details and presentation. Itsmejudith ( talk) 22:14, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Morbas ( talk) 22:34, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Smith, are you home. I cannot find where the dispute is posted in Wiki. And, see my home page for the new extinction event section. I will post this in the section just to force the issue. I consider this a stalled process.... Morbas ( talk) 21:37, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
The data is 417M years. It is you that play "edit-wars" by the first deletion (without due respect) and not looking at the discussion...one posted almost 30 days in advance. I have provide discussion paragraghs that you have not bothered to engage in. I have posted the paragraph in the original research issue section, and one consesus supports having the chart in the section as well, and indicates a fair discussion. Since the issue has not been registered, then your comments for the 'dispute resolver' are what...intimidating tactics, ehh? Morbas ( talk) 23:24, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
{{ Nature}} was an unambiguous misrepresentation of policy. Sorry. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 00:39, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
So...explain the extra E to me....I'm not quite understanding yet. Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 05:35, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks; I am busy with the WP:TCG and a bit of homework today, but I'll be sure and try it out sometime in the next few days. Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 22:12, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm going to remove some of the automatic taxoboxes you added to algae articles. The underlying articles have some issues that need edited, but, in addition, you changed the wikipedia-used higher level taxonomy on the green algae, and, in the coralline red algae, you removed the subfamilies. Also, the taxonomies are said to come from algaebase, but don't agree with algaebase. I will fix them when I get some time. -- Kleopatra ( talk) 17:35, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
For algae articles, if you make more automatic taxoboxes, can you use the existing taxonomy for each taxon? For example, start at the division and get its taxonomy from the division page and move down, rather than using the taxonomy listed no the genus page.
In addition, you had a bot that created articles on algae that were deleted. Could you undelete some of those into my user space for me to edit and move into article space? I could make lists, and you could post all of the text from the bot into my user space, or into WikiProject Algae user space?
-- Kleopatra ( talk) 17:32, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
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You ought to take a break and reward yourself to some ice cream or something-- you've done a marvelous job with the templating for the insanely complex {{ taxobox}} et cetera as we find glitches in the {{ automatic taxobox}} implementation of it. I've really enjoyed working with you on it so far. (Don't spend too long eating that ice cream, we'll need you again SOON! Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 06:50, 28 October 2010 (UTC) |
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Hello, I understand you are busy actually creating templates but if you find the time...
I made my first graphic timeline using your Template:Graphical timeline although my usage may not be exactly what it was built for. This timeline is intended for a high traffic, information dense article describing multiple overlapping events and I would appreciate any suggestions for improving it's accuracy, functionality and appearance.
For now it is in my sandbox at User:Veriss1/sandbox for comments but I plan to move it the actual article, 2010 Copiapó mining accident, tomorrow. I look forward to your comments. Cheers, Veriss ( talk) 07:49, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for taking the time to look at the chart to make sure it was satisfactory. Is there a way to suppress the negative signs on the vertical axis if I had the chart show the days from 00 to -90 (zero at the top)? I haven't thought that approach all the way through yet and it may be a bit tricky. My thinking is that may help the reader by making it in chronological order from the top down and would make it visually more compatible with the ToC it is displayed next to. Thanks again, Veriss ( talk) 20:24, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Additionally, another editor made critical comments about our use of the Template:Graphical timeline on the article's talk page concerning CSS rendering and accessibility complete with an overwhelming illustration of his own. Unhelpfully, he failed to offer suggestions. I don't have the technical expertise to evaluate his criticisms or determine alternative courses and I don't think the active co-editors for that article do either. Hopefully you can contribute some insight. Kind regards, Veriss ( talk) 00:46, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Martin! I just found this tool - it's great! However, I tried it on my own papers (e.g. "E - A Brainiac Theorem Prover"), and it seems to break if Google Scholar has a link to a PDF or PS file in the right half of the top line of the record. See below for what happens:
<ref name=Schulz2002>{{Citation | title = [PDF] from psu.edu | url = http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.149.6255 | year = 2002 | author = Schulz, S. | journal = AI Communications | pages = 111–126 | volume = 15 | issue = 2 | accessdate = 2010-11-04 }}</ref>
Bye, -- Stephan Schulz ( talk) 20:54, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Can you check out the Lithothallus article you created and verify its accuracy? The reference in the article is not about algae, and the genus is not listed anywhere on the web, or in my limited access to JSTOR, just in the en.wiki article. Maybe I'm missing something, or the spelling is wrong? Thanks. -- Kleopatra ( talk) 06:01, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at ErikHaugen's talk page. Message added
07:06, 5 November 2010 (UTC).
Martin, thank you for your work on these templates! ErikHaugen ( talk) 07:06, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Can you please tell me how to convert the bare urls on Alexander McQueen (brand) without having to through them one by one? Reqluce ( talk) 22:48, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
With this edit, it seems the section headings (eg. Species or Binomial name) have a white background again. thanks, ErikHaugen ( talk) 21:00, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Smith609...I am the grandson of Albie Bennett who was the last speaker of the Mbarbaram people. I would love to know where you got the information from? I have alot more information to contribute to this entry. Would love to get in contact with you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.158.31.18 ( talk) 11:11, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Recently (last few days) I've noticed that he citation bot fails to run against certain pages, examples are Ecology and Bird. The call appears to time out, though it works fine on the vast majority of pages. Any ideas? Thanks Rjwilmsi 19:18, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but unless I'm mistaken and I've been very unlucky with the DOIs I've been referencing, the cite doi template isn't working properly, because the citation bot is not managing to complete the citation. I've tried a range of journals, both old and recent and checking Special:Contributions/Citation_bot_2 it looks as if only cite pmids are being filled in. (Typical that these things happen when you go away for a few days!). Thanks in advance. SmartSE ( talk) 00:21, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
The automatic taxobox has crashed on a number of major articles. [5] I have started adding it back manually, and I posted at AN/I to ask for help. No matter where I post at automatic taxobox discussions it seems to be the wrong place, so maybe others who are doing these automatic taxoboxes are watching your talk page and will see this and figure out how to fix this quickly! -- Kleopatra ( talk) 08:02, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello Smith609,
I'm trying to get
User:Smith609/RefTool to work for me but no luck. I'm using Modern skin and have purged the cache. I see the Convert refs button but when I try to use it, I just get a blank page at the toolserver. What am I doing wrong? Cheers,
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Please don't unnecessarily amend other people's talk page comments, as you did here. It means wading through trivial changes to see what the real change is (and I'm still at a loss to work out what your real change was in this case). Most (if not all) of your changes seem to be replacing "-" (hyphen) with "–" (en-dash) - note that since WP:HYPHEN and WP:DASH are part of WP:MOS, they apply to articles, not talk pages, for which WP:TPG is the general rule. Some of these hyphens were in signatures: WP:TPO permits certain talk page edits, including signature amendment "If a signature violates the guidelines for signatures, or is an attempt to fake a signature", which don't apply here. Thanks. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 11:13, 2 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Hi, could you have a look at Odontogriphus? I believe there is some issue with your change to the "automatic taxobox". If you look at the references, there are loads of errors, however this is being caused by another template exceeding some expansion limits. If you revert this back to taxobox, the error goes away. WP is very quirky with its limits, which can cause lots of troubles. I also posted a query at WP:VPT. 134.253.26.10 ( talk) 17:03, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, do you know what is the matter with Template:Taxonomy/Possible stem-group mollusca (currently displaying "Taxonomy not available for [[Template loop detected: Template:Don't edit this line]]; please create it (or edit manually)")? This might also be related to the problems with Odontogriphus, which I fixed by removing the automatic taxobox. Ucucha 18:17, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Any idea why we have so many taxonomy templates in Category:Template loop warnings? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 05:51, 9 December 2010 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
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This is frustrating to have to recheck when someone has already pointed out the problem. Please correct the problem articles in the category, such as Mammal. A high traffic article with a fixed taxobox to correct, once again, a template problem
Any time you change code in these automatic taxoboxes and someone points out a problem, please just look at the articles. -- Kleopatra ( talk) 18:08, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
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I posted a comment at WP:TFA and WP:FA about this problem. [13] -- Kleopatra ( talk) {{ resolved}}
This made no sense whatsoever. Renata ( talk) 01:58, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, Martin. I've just seen Octopus origins, which says Caron and you have found about 90 new specimens and these indicate that Nectocaris is near the base of the cephalopod family tree – and you're credited as the lead author in the article in Nature. Well done! -- Philcha ( talk) 10:50, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
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A report at Talk:Evolutionary history of life#Edits by 96.227.161.79 has raised an issue concerning how {{ ma}} appears in the printable version of an article. The problem is that an ugly link to toolserver.org appears after each of the many occurrences of ma. I thought it best to ask about this at WP:VPT#Ugly link in printable version which you might want to see. Thanks. Johnuniq ( talk) 03:18, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
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Is this OK? -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 16:19, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
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Howdy. I suspect this edit recent edit to Template:Taxobox/core isn't working as intended. Firstly Category:Taxoboxes with an invalid color is empty, despite the amusing parameter being passed from Buxus sempervirens for example. Secondly the missing page Template:Test_for_hashrgb(211,211,164) is being transcluded in nearly 120,000 articles – that is to say that after parsing, the Taxobox template results in the text {{Template:Test_for_hashrgb(211,211,164)}}. Definately a brace too many (or few) in there somewhere. Other colours show up also – see the table below.
+---------------+------------------------------------------+----------+ | trl_namespace | trl_title | count(*) | +---------------+------------------------------------------+----------+ | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(211,211,164) | 118929 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(144,238,144) | 41350 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(173,216,230) | 7414 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlightgrey | 857 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(173,238,63) | 471 | | 10 | Test_for_hashviolet | 425 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlightgreen | 369 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(211,211,211) | 333 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(238,130,238) | 274 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(240,230,140) | 215 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(243,224,224) | 163 | | 10 | Test_for_hashkhaki | 125 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(255,200,160) | 90 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(230,230,250) | 86 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlightblue | 79 | | 10 | Test_for_hashdarkgrey | 45 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(250,240,230) | 42 | | 10 | Test_for_hashgreenyellow | 19 | | 10 | Test_for_hashpink | 14 | | 10 | Test_for_hashgreen | 4 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlimegreen | 3 | | 10 | Test_for_hashtransparent | 3 | | 10 | Test_for_hashyellow | 3 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlightgray | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashrgb(224,_208,_176) | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashblue | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlite_red | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashbright_pink | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashorange | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashred | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlavender | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashwhite | 2 | | 10 | Test_for_hashBright_green | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashDarkgrey | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlightgreen_or_a_lime_yellow | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashTan | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashViolet | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashneon_purple | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashdarkgray | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashpale | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashscarlet | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashpangit_ka | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashviolet_(purple,blue) | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlight_gray | 1 | | 10 | Test_for_hashlight_grey | 1 | +---------------+------------------------------------------+----------+
– TB ( talk) 22:31, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
The bot is transcluding, indirectly, User:Taxobot/children/template into article space. There should be no links from article space to user space. Should be an easy fix if you fix the parent template. Gigs ( talk) 20:46, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, I was interested in working on the article Antifeminism. However, it's been blocked from editing. The notice says that the block was supposed to expire on September 5, 2010. Do you know if it might be unblocked any time soon? Thanks. -- Aronoel ( talk) 19:09, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Please correct the current errors in the automatic taxobox. It is not ready to be rolled out. There are over 100 articles in the category of broken taxobox templates right now. There are major articles, such as Bird, a beautiful FA, that has a big red error message in its taxobox.
And don't get angry at me for pointing this out. I'm tired of seeing it, correcting the errors, and pointing them out. I can't correct these now because I don't have my equipment. -- Kleopatra ( talk) 05:37, 28 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. It's not really about you, but the taxoboxes. -- Kleopatra ( talk) 05:59, 28 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Dear Smith609, In April 2010 you were editing the article Sponge spicule, when a letter "S" appeared at the end of the section Sponge spicule#Interaction with light. I wondered if you had another sentence to add which was lost during editing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.28.201.43 ( talk) 16:57, 11 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Why is Taxobot duplicating authority information which is already present (e.g. [14])? This means that in many cases unlinked authorities are replacing linked ones in the taxobox - clearly not an improvement. mgiganteus1 ( talk) 05:31, 12 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
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This, that, and
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Can you check the references for
Form classification? I think you may have meant the two Bengtson refs to be the same, but I'm not sure.
Peter coxhead (
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Done - thanks for the heads up.
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I'm working on a series of articles about the Ediacarian fauna for the German Wikipedia. For some fossils it's really hard to find appropriate literature. I saw that you used McCalls publication "The Vendian (Ediacaran) in the geological record: Enigmas in geology's prelude to the Cambrian explosion" (Earth-Science Reviews 77: 1-229) as a reference. Do you still have access to this article? Best wishes -- Sven Jähnichen ( talk) 15:32, 7 February 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
The following is produced by {{period span|pragian}}:
410.8 million years ago to
407.6 million years ago (I see " 411.2 million years ago million years ago to 407 ± 2.8 million years ago"). The duplication of "million years ago" doesn't occur for other periods I've tried (even those that have alternatives in the code), nor if you use the alternative {{period span|praghian}} which produces different wrong output:
410.8 million years ago to
407.6 million years ago. I looked at the template code and tried moving a comment, in the vain hope that that might help. Over to you!
Peter coxhead (
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16:11, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Managed to fix both errors: "praghian" wasn't in {{Next period}}
; "pragian" wasn't in {{Period start error}}
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Peter coxhead (
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18:26, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
{{period span}}
isn't really strong enough; neither of the errors generated an error message (the bug with "Pragian" had been present in
Devonian for some time). Something for you to think about some time! The whole set of templates is very good though; I've only just realized how useful they are.
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This is by someone we had some heated discussed with. Google also looks interesting. -- Philcha ( talk) 19:13, 21 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Seems Template:Long fossil range has problems and was not rendering right resulting in a mess on including pages. I've removed it pending repairs (or whatever) from:
Check it out and revert my changes when fixed. Vsmith ( talk) 02:40, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
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Is this page on your watchlist? I've never seen a response to any of the bugs I've posted there. Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 20:21, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, I reverted your recent update to that template because it seemed to be going to a whole different website than it was supposed to. I'm not sure how the cite patent template works, so if you could figure this out and re-update it when you have time, thank you! / ƒETCH COMMS / 21:54, 27 November 2010 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Thanks for all you've done for WP:TOL! Have a blessed and safe Christmas! Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 17:28, 24 December 2010 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
I see that you'll be off WP over Xmas. Have a good one! -- Philcha ( talk) 22:56, 24 December 2010 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
When the bot redirects a cite pmid subpage to the corresponding cite doi subpage, as in Template:Cite pmid/17964350, could the bot also ensure that the PMID is set in the target DOI subpage? In this example I added it myself. Thanks Rjwilmsi 18:06, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Smith609, noticed you're doing some updating of the auto taxobox parameters. You've also been removing the italic title code from many pages, is there a reason for this? By removing the code and the 'name' parameter it seems to be causing taxa names to be un-italicized in the article title completely. MMartyniuk ( talk) 00:06, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, I've removed a section titled "Physical geologic driver" as mostly WP:OR and the creator (user:Morbas) has objected. He has started an rfc on talk:Extinction event. I noted that you had discussed this back in Sep-Oct, but Morbas deleted part of that w/out archiving. So, would you care to take a look again and perchance help clarify the situation (it'll be a blast:). Vsmith ( talk) 15:23, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
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We've got an inconsistency in the formatting for the parameters..."display parent" and display children" have no underscore, yet all the other parameters for the taxobox have an underscore. I think it's probably best we keep the underscore so as not to confuse editors. Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 20:58, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
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Technical question: Can a space be included in the name of a parameter and still have the parameter work? I've never seen this done in any wiki-template before, and so question whether it is technically possible. There are some characters that I know are disallowed in parameter names, and I've always understood that spaces were among them. -- EncycloPetey ( talk) 23:00, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hello Smith609. I'm sure you have the answer to this: How do we add an image into an automatic taxobox? I'd like to add an image to the Sphenothallus article you started, but I'm perplexed by the template. Thanks! Mark Wilson44691 ( talk) 01:51, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
|image=filename.jpg
. The Sphenothallus one looks a bit menacing because its fossil range template is so busy; just add the parameter before (or after) the authority line and you'll do well. Thanks in advance for the illustration! Best,
Martin (
Smith609 –
Talk)
02:01, 3 January 2011 (UTC){{ resolved}}
I'm sure you saw it, but you are now approved. Thanks for the thoughtful response, and all the hard work. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:53, 3 January 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
In the Horneophyton article, you wrote "There was a thin central strand of vascular tissue, but this was not reinforced with spiral and reticulate thickenings" and "With vascular tissue but ...". On the other hand, based on Crane, Herendeen, & Friis (2004), I've written in the Polysporangiophyte article "[Horneophyton] did not have true vascular tissues". The difference may be based on different usages in the sources, but I wonder if we can agree on a consistent usage in paleobotanical articles? I'd like the articles leading off from Polysporangiophyte to have some consistency. "Vascular tissue" could be used only when there is clear evidence of xylem/tracheids (consistent with the Vascular tissue and Tracheid articles). On this basis, Horneophyton has "conducting tissue" but not vascular tissue; hence the placement in the cladogam in Crane et al. outside tracheophytes. What do you think? Peter coxhead ( talk) 20:57, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
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Does Taxobot follow the {{
bots|deny=all}}
options because if it did then
Template:Child taxa doc could be moved back to
Template:Child taxa/doc. --
WOSlinker (
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22:02, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi...Any idea why adding the following code to {{ Taxobox}}
{{#if:{{{divisio}}}|{{#if:{{{unranked_divisio}}}|[[Category:Articles employing both divisio and unranked_divisio]]}} }}
caused every single taxobox on Wikipedia to show up in Category:Articles employing both divisio and unranked_divisio? Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 21:25, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{divisio|}}}|{{#if:{{{unranked_divisio|}}}|[[Category:Articles employing both divisio and unranked_divisio]]}} }}
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Hi, don't forget the {{ deprecated taxon}} template should be subst'd, otherwise it doesn't work correctly. Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 22:41, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
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You can leave those ichnogenera stubs if you'd like or you can delete 'em. If you delete them, though, expect them to stay gone permanently. We've had ten years for someone to come through and make them but apparently I'm the only one willing to put the work in on this sort of thing. Copy-pasting that basic stub outline would have saved me a lot of time when I started building them up. Creating every article individually is a hugely tedious process, and if I had to go through that ordeal it just wouldn't be worth the bother. I would have loved to have developed them into full articles, but complications arose and I'm done fighting you guys about them. If you leave the articles on valid taxa intact I'll get around to sprucing them up in a couple weeks when I'm not still fuming about the swarms of people trying to delete them. If you're not willing to wait and would prefer to delete them immediately, that's fine, but I'm not gonna revive 'em. Then we can wait another ten years and see then if someone's cared enough to expand Wikipedia's trace fossil coverage. Abyssal ( talk) 02:28, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
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I love that endnote.js script of yours. Have you ever thought about making a Gadget proposal? -- bender235 ( talk) 10:55, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
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Please have a look at Template talk:Taxobox#proposal, as you're one of the people who it will affect the most. Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 22:36, 4 February 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Do you happen to remember where you got the dates from for the article Siegenian which you created? I'm assuming that it wasn't from the reference, which seems to be only to support "widely used". (Unfortunately this isn't a journal I can access electronically through my institution.) I'm trying to expand the coverage of early land plants, and all the Chinese sources use "Seigenian". The only other source I can find [15] gives rather different dates. Peter coxhead ( talk) 11:07, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hey, thanks! I'll extend my thanks to you as well for doing such a fine job with all this code! That sort of stuff will look great on your resumé!
I had really hoped to handle each taxobox individually and add things like authority, synonyms, and species, but right now getting them all cleaned up is the priority. And just thought I'd let you know-- the stegosaurian ichnotaxon you invented was rather close. I ended up finding the parent, and you weren't too far off.
Have a great day! Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 15:48, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
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With some trepidation (templates are a new-ish area for me), I've created the template {{ Period span1}} (not a very imaginative name), which produces simpler output than your {{ Period span}}, and may thus sometimes be more useful in articles where the details of the time span for a geological period are of less importance. If you have time, you might like to check that I've set up the documentation, etc. correctly. You may or may not wish to add this to the set of templates you list at {{ Period data}}. Thanks again for all the work you did creating the infrastructure for these templates. Peter coxhead ( talk) 11:26, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
{{
Period span/brief|Pliocene}}
, where the error margin is smaller than a decimal place.
Martin (
Smith609 –
Talk)
17:41, 9 February 2011 (UTC){{ resolved}}
I didn't know that wasn't vandalism. Aallasdfa67usgd60 ( talk) 00:58, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
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Please respond over there.
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You might be to check this out. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:50, 16 February 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
There were some small errors/omissions in {{ Next period}}, which I 'corrected' using [17]. However, this source puts the Gelasian in the Pliocene, whereas Pleistocene and Pliocene put it in the Pleistocene. This leads to inconsistencies in the ordering I put in and the dates. I'm not a geologist – what is correct?? Peter coxhead ( talk) 18:17, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
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May I ask what this is/ what it's used for, why it is in category space as opposed to another namespace, and why it should be exempt from the WP:CSD#C1 speedy deletion criteria for empty categories? Thanks. VegaDark ( talk) 05:36, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
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Citation bot appears to be down? Is this expected? Thanks Rjwilmsi 13:10, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Fixed & {{
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Hi Smith609. I noticed an edit today by User:Citation bot 1 that didn't use an edit summary. I looked at the history and at least over the last 3500 edits, no summaries have been used with the bot edits. There seems to be a problem somewhere. Thanks for your attention. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 13:59, 15 March 2011 (UTC) {{ resolved}} in r275. Martin ( Smith609 – Talk) 13:17, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Please could you cast your eye over Template talk:Taxobox#List sub-tempates. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 10:29, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
I was trying to remove two disambiguation links out of "Template:Plants graphical timeline". It was not so difficult to find the solutions for Wenlock and Pridoli, but correcting the template proofed a differend story. Summerized were all my attemps disasters, so at the end I did nothing (always stay on the safe side!). Could you, as builder of the template, be so kind to solve this issue? Night of the Big Wind talk 18:53, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
I just discovered two templates that you created— {{ Citation parameter legend}} and {{ AuthorMask doc}}. I recently created and have been implementing {{ Citation Style documentation}} which would replace those templates. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 22:30, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Martin ( Smith609 – Talk) 22:45, 21 January 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Regarding your several edits like this one, the conversion from one perfectly acceptable template to another cannot be described as an "upgrade". This is (in my opinion) deceitful propaganda designed to promote a system which has serious shortcomings. Please be more honest in your edit summaries and avoid suggesting that your automatic taxoboxes are somehow the successor to the normal taxobox. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 18:59, 11 February 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
First off, thank you very much for the creation of the {{ Cite doi}} and related templates! Given that I use the same refs between pages quite often, I find it very handy. However, I was wondering if it would be possible to create a new automated template to replace {{ IUCN}} and it's numerous relatives. I'm not sure how you could pull from the online IUCN Red List database, but having an auto-generated, centralized location for those citations would be nice for numerous species articles. I also asked the question about a "Cite isbn" template, but I'm not sure if you want to go there given the complexity. Anyway, I just figured I'd ask. – VisionHolder « talk » 07:34, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
See [20]. There are now two classes and several orders. The class Anthocerotopsida redirects to the division because the two groups are identical in composition with the exception of a single species of Leiosporoceros -- EncycloPetey ( talk) 03:46, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
It has come to my attention
this change where you added {{Taxobox/taxon}}
inside a hidden div with the note This template has to be "warmed up" before it can be used, for some reason. MediaWiki loads the templates the first time they are used, there's no need to "preload" them. What were you trying to achieve? What was the problem?
Platonides (
talk)
23:24, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
The templates I have been optimizing involve just a few subtemplates, and those took me months to streamline. I would expect the optimization of Template:Automatic_Taxobox to span over a full year. The following are some steps:
The optimization of an enormous, gargantuan set of templates should be feared as an immense, similarly huge, time-consuming effort. I am currently busy re-working the tiny templates, but I will try to offer some more specific suggestions in the coming months. - Wikid77 12:52, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
{{
Period end}} doesn't have a rounding parameter, unlike {{
Period start}}. It would be useful in cases where one wants to write something like "Late Silurian to Early Devonian (around {{mya|{{Period start|Late Silurian|-1}}| to {{mya|{{Period end|Early Devonian|-1}}}}}}
". It looks as simple as adding {{{2|5}}}
in the right place to the template, but I'll leave that to you...
Peter coxhead (
talk)
12:41, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Checking the data currently in {{ Period start}} against this, if the template is to match the dates here, rather than those currently in the GeoWhen database, the following changes to the offically named time spans would be needed (I've put both the start date and the error, although the latter is missing for most changes):
The Cambrian would need quite a bit of sorting, because there are more names as well as different dates. I guess the problem is that there may be other 'synonyms' in the template which start at the same date which might also need changing. If you would (a) like the changes made and (b) don't have time to do it yourself, please let me know and I'll have a go. Peter coxhead ( talk) 14:47, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
They all seem to say "This citation will be automatically completed in the next few minutes. blah blah blah" ErikHaugen ( talk | contribs) 05:05, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Martin, I just spotted this template after seeing it used in
SA-500D. I just wondered if you knew about
this app which completes google books references? I just wondered whether it would be possible to add a |page=
field to the template and then get a bot to feed in to the app and make a template? Thanks
SmartSE (
talk)
23:29, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Citation bot 2 edited Template:Cite doi/10.1038.2Fnature09201. It had been correct as:
But after the edit it became:
... which is emphatically wrong... Evercat ( talk) 12:21, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
I was going to ask for your assistance re user assistance bots. But having read your amazing advice about using an external editor to fix "unescaped entities", I think I may be able to help you. Please go to this page - it will present you with a typical citation bot edit shown as a diff, all ready for you to make further changes and then save the page. The page contains entities: García and variety—surface but they caused me absolutely no problems! I am very pleased with this technique. The only drawback is that if you try and save straight away, you will always get a "loss of session data" message - but another save will do the trick!
Test data derived from plasmonic metamaterials. If things look funny, revert my sb2 page to this state. This is the source code of my demo which is derived from coorphan.php ( source code - description).
— RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 16:25, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to follow up on your suggestion to add cite doi; I also replied briefly on the ProveIt talk page. This is filed as issue 105. Since you have some JavaScript background, you may be able to do the fix yourself than submit it on the issue page. I wrote instructions at NewCiteType.
Thanks. Superm401 - Talk 23:44, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
I just want to leave a note of thank you for your work with the automated taxoboxes. They have really helped make Wikipedia more streamlined and consistent! Petter Bøckman ( talk) 07:52, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Just to let you know that I added a retouched version of your fantastic Cooksonia pertoni image to Polysporangiophytes to illustrate the Evolution section. I didn't want the possible gametophyte – too POV in the context of the discussion – and I blurred the background a bit to try to make the plant stand out. When you have time you can produce similar nice pictures of other early land plants!! Peter coxhead ( talk) 12:14, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
I am sure that you are aware that there is no strong consensus yet to switch to your automated taxoboxes. In that context, I think it is wrong to manually change taxoboxes one at a time with the sole intention of changing articles from one taxobox system to another. Changes to articles should be substantive, and should not be made to prove a point. It is clear enough from a few test cases that the automated taxoboxes are theoretically capable of reproducing most of the features of the manual system (and adding some new features). There are, however, serious issues with their implementation, not least their bewildering complexity. Please stop adding automatic taxoboxes to articles beyond the agreed test areas; they are not welcome. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 06:51, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Martin-- I noticed the taxobox at Maikhanellidae was added before the taxonomy was completed, causing an error to display on the article (which I just now cleared with a null edit). I noticed in the edit summary it says the edit was assisted by a citation bot-- not sure if that has anything to do with it, but if it does, you might want to verify the bot didn't cause that. Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 21:06, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
I'd be grateful if you wouldn't automate the taxoboxes for early (Silurian/Devonian) plants yet. As per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Plants#Classifications_for_extant_versus_extinct_plants it's far from clear how to classify extinct plants. I'm currently working on articles in this area (a dozen or so to date), and will return to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Plants for some comments when I'm a bit clearer on the issues. Peter coxhead ( talk) 11:35, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hicklingia example Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Polysporangiophytes |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Lycophytes |
Plesion: | † Zosterophylls (?) |
Genus: | †
Hicklingia Kidston & Lang (1923)[1] |
Species | |
† H. edwardii Kidston & Lang (1923) |
|display parents=
, in each individual taxobox. This controls how many "minor" ranks (e.g. clades) above the subject taxon are displayed. This approach goes some way to addressing the problem of accountability. If this doesn't suit, then there's a slightly more complicated solution that I can discuss; I won't go into it now as it might take a bit of explaining and isn't as elegant.
Martin (
Smith609 –
Talk)
16:21, 25 February 2011 (UTC)Thanks for the clarification, which is useful. Returning to the main issue, the section I've just added to the article on the polysporangiophytes, Polysporangiophyte#Taxonomy, may explain why I wouldn't, for example, put Tarella in the formal rank Zosterophyllopsida, as you have, but would prefer to use informal "unranked-" categories. I incline to the view that, for the present at least, extinct and extant plants need different classifications. Peter coxhead ( talk) 21:08, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
|rank =
reads "clade" instead of "classis". Or would you prefer a listing as "Clade: Zosterophylls" under "Stem-group: Lycopopodiphyta"? However I do wonder whether this would be following convention, or whether it would be bordering on original research; I'm not sure how the literature currently refers to zosterophylls.
Martin (
Smith609 –
Talk)
13:20, 28 February 2011 (UTC)Just to add that I am now converting taxoboxes for early polysporangiophytes to the automatic version, having (I think!) mastered the art of creating 'parallel' taxonomic hierarchies. For these extinct plants, I'm using the taxonomies current among paleobotanists, which are, as noted previously, not consistent with those used by botanists working on extant groups only. Peter coxhead ( talk) 10:19, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Martin: I've now gone through all the articles I could find on early polysporangiophytes and converted the taxoboxes to automatic ones. I feel I (more-or-less!) understand them now. For your information, since you created articles in this area and also taxonomic hierarchies in the automatic taxobox system, the taxonomy I've used is at
User:Peter coxhead/Embryophyte_classification#Classification_for_early_polysporangiophytes.
One issue that I noticed, and which bothered me until I grasped the workaround, is that I have to save changes to a Template:Taxonomy page at least twice and sometimes three times before all the error messages go away and before the page displays as per the edit. Odd...
(On a personal note, as a former research supervisor, I'm not sure I should be encouraging a PhD student to spend as much time on Wikipedia as you do!!)
Peter coxhead (
talk)
16:35, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
This is for when you have some free time. There's no rush - enjoy your WikiBreak! — Mr. Stradivarius ( drop me a line) 08:21, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Forgive me for reporting this here, but I'm really not sure how to report it on Google. Citation bot made this edit. When I click on the DOI, I get the following error: "The DOI you requested -- maghis.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/doi/10.1093/maghis/12.4.34 -- cannot be found in the Handle System." I have no idea how this works, but I reverted the edit and figured I'd notify you about it.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 22:17, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
I do believe I've managed to crash Taxobot again...
You're welcome!
Bob the WikipediaN (
talk •
contribs)
01:59, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Bot_flag_request, please make sure all your active/approved bot accounts get flagged with a bot flag. The easiest way is probably by editing Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Approved and setting "needs flag" for the appropriate accounts. Thanks. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 08:55, 13 March 2011 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia%3ABots%2FRequests_for_approval%2FApproved&action=historysubmit&diff=418985275&oldid=418283818
Hey there Smith609, thank you for your contributions. I am a
bot, alerting you that
non-free files are
not allowed in user or talk space. I
removed some files I found on
User:Smith609/Cite/doc. In the future, please refrain from adding fair-use files to your
user-space drafts or your
talk page.
Thank you, -- DASHBot ( talk) 05:09, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello. Two years ago, you wrote that "Current evidence completely discredits the concept of an expanding Earth;" Do you know some reliable source saying the same? Visite fortuitement prolongée ( talk) 21:09, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Martin. I'm afraid your replacing the previous taxobox at Phoronid with a new one doesn't work. The previous one was simple but worked. The current one:
Phoronids are tricky - as I said to Aleksey, "How can such a small phylum cause such confusion?" There are 10-12 species depending on who's counting, and possibly 25 types of distinct larvae, implying that there at least 13 adult species unaccounted for. I'd keep the taxobox for this phylum simple. -- Philcha ( talk) 12:48, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Wikify.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. ww2censor ( talk) 17:52, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm writing a letter to the ADS team to see what's our querying limit. Could you check the details on your bot to see if I got them right? Any other feedback is welcome too. (Feel free to edit the page it you want.) Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 23:58, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
This bug is causing problems with {{ cite doi}}; see Template talk:Cite doi#Errors in auto-creation. It's not your bot's fault, but perhaps the bot can help find a workaround for it by applying edits like this one. Ucucha 22:56, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Martin, see my thread on WP:ANI and the citation bot's talk page. The new bibcode lookup is causing some quite serious problems and quite a lot of the bot's recent edits require reversion. The block request is no slight on you, I'm sure the bot will be back to its normal excellent service soon, I just want to prevent any more errors in the meantime. Thanks Rjwilmsi 12:12, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
I solved my previous problems, but now I have a new one. Template:Italic title does not appear to italicize the title for the article: Guillaume Tell (Grétry). Could the diacritic in the parenthetic expression be a problem? There aren't any similar examples of this problem that I have been able to find. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 04:18, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Template:Cite google book has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
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RL0919 (
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12:15, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, As discussed here does your bot check for malware on the external sites? They say it does, but I am not sure. Anyway, just an idea and if you address it there it will be best. Thanks. History2007 ( talk) 14:37, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
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This, that, and
the other (talk)
10:06, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
I'm using {{ Graphical timeline}} and have followed the instructions to increase the capacity.
-- Trevj ( talk) 11:14, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
I've spoken to the guys who maintain the Astrophysics Data System, and they gave us the clearance to query their database as fast as we wanted. However, they would like us to give them the bots' signature so their severs can recognize them. I gave them mine for Bibcode Bot but it would be a good idea to get those of Citation bot and DOI bot as well. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:01, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
...shouldn't edit conflict, overwriting other changes :( Not sure what the best solution would be? Refused to edit automatically, probably. - Jarry1250 Weasel? Discuss. 08:31, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Smith609. Long ago, we worked on Cambrian substrate revolution - AFAIK you had the idea, I did some of the development, and I got a DYK for it. Looking again, I think it could easily be improved to a GA. Two questions:
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Hi, not sure if you're around at present, but if so, please see "Technical query" at Template_talk:Speciesbox#Use_with_hybrids. Peter coxhead ( talk) 20:00, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
The URL used to manually activate the bot no longer works, because the toolserver user account has expired. URL: http://toolserver.org/~verisimilus/Bot/DOI_bot/ -- Srleffler ( talk) 02:21, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, it seems citation expander won't work because your previous account expired. Anyway to solve this?-- Tærkast ( Discuss) 15:13, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, cant seem to find instruction anywhere to get your bot to expand an isbn. I've added the bot as a widget and it seems to set itself upon the article but no changes are made. Ive been editing Burkitt lymphoma, adding a ref to the immunohistochemistry section. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers. Matto paedia Say G'Day! 02:13, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Since you're the creator of {{ Cite pmc}}, I'm bringing this straight to you. I suspect it's a change at the bot level that's needed, but I assume you'll have a better idea than I will on that. :)
A few minutes ago, I tried the following: <ref>
. In the reference list, however, it showed up as a redirect:
PMC
3021856{{
Cite pmc|3021856}}
</ref>
Citation will be completed automatically in a few minutes.
Jump the queue or
expand by hand
Smith609/Archives/.
–
RobinHood70
talk
22:26, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Smith609, I'm just about to remove your transcluded Template:Citation parameter legend from the Template:Citation/doc page and will probably earn your cusses in the process. I'd like to explain why. It seems to me that half the benefit of having a common citation template is being lost in the attempt to maintain 4 different sets of documentation - the number of discrepancies and inaccuracies is horrendous. I've cleaned up some of the book section following the style of the periodical section but as long as there are 4 different explanations, errors will return. I've put a highly simplified version at the beginning for newcomers - but think it best to have a unified set of parameters, but mainly leaving the sets of examples alone. If there are mistakes I'm happy to try and correct them. Chris55 ( talk) 13:28, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
The timeline in Cenozoic is absurdly stretched out. I do not know how to correct this but I see that you commented on Template talk:Cenozoic graphical timeline, so maybe you do? Dudley Miles ( talk) 20:32, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I recently began using the {{ cite doi}} system and your bot. Much of this was at these two articles:
The usages were removed by dropping in {{ cite journal}} and having your bot re-flesh them, which lost a lot of detail, such as links. See:
110.139.190.67 ( talk) 05:42, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
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The Template Barnstar | |
{{
cite pmid}} and it's related templates is possibly the best thing to happen to the universe since |
Hey there, Martin
Glad to see you again! I'm actually working on a couple projects. The one I'm stuck on could probably use your help-- it's the
User:Bob the Wikipedian/Birdbox. It's got a problem with frequent line breaks. If you can help sort it out, that'd be awesome; I've been stuck on that for a few months now and hadn't gotten around to asking anyone for help yet.
Bob the WikipediaN (
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contribs)
20:37, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
Measurements | |
Bare-fronted Hoodwink | |
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{{User:Bob the Wikipedian/Birdbox |pop1=Bare-fronted Hoodwink |data1={{User:Bob the Wikipedian/Birdbox/population|unit=in|length=5-10}} }}
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Could you send me a copy of the PDF about the Kimmeridge ammonite egg sac you used as a reference in Aulacostephanus. My email is saint_abyssal at yahoo. It would really help me alot! Thanks. Abyssal ( talk) 23:39, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
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When I try to use this Convert Refs button ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Smith609/reftool.js), the button sends me to a blank page:
The blank page is
http://toolserver.org/~verisimilus/Scholar/Refs.php
I just added this button, since the citation bot pages recommended it. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 17:16, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Greetings. I was wondering if you would be willing to unleash Citation bot against the articles in WikiProject United States? I think most of the articles are good to go but I would like for the bot to take care of any problems it can. I have asked some other bots to do runs through as well. Please let me know if you have any questions or need me to do anything. -- Kumioko ( talk)
Is there a way to look up who activated the bot for a specific edit? This concerns an ANI thread regarding Leandrod ( talk · contribs). N419 BH 05:44, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
What's the regex you use to clean those googlebooks url with Citation Bot? I'd like to implement it in User:CitationCleanerBot. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:49, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Actually I found your list (in DOItools.php, function google_book_expansion). I'll be able to implement this rather easily.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books}
17:30, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
BTW, "&ct=" is not safe to remove. Compare
with
Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:28, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps you could offer a suggestion at Wikipedia_talk:Ambassadors#Student_activity_notifications where your name was brought up? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 18:49, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Per this, I blocked the bot for a while - apparently it's malfunctioning. Just thought I'd let you know. m.o.p 23:37, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Anwar al-Awlaki was edited by Citation_bot and in this change it inserted a bunch of |unused_data= parameters. What is this unused_data parameter for, and where is it documented? — Anomalocaris ( talk) 05:16, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
|accessdate=
), or delete it.
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14:02, 1 October 2011 (UTC)- Damian Zaremba ( talk • contribs) 01:12, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I used the citation bot on the Romanian language Wikipedia and an administrator told me to ask for approval, otherwise I will be blocked. I did it at ro:Wikipedia:Robot/Cereri de aprobare. Perhaps it is a better idea that you introduce yourself the bot on that wiki. I don't know much about bots and I think you can solve whatever problems may appear or update the bot in the future. Tgeorgescu ( talk) 17:48, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Smith609. I've worked for some time on User:Philcha/Essays/Advice for new Wikipedia editors. I'm to approach the subject from the viewpoint of a new editor possibly seeing WP for the first time - in other words I think it must be one easy step at a time, starting from the new editor's starting position. I take WP:V, WP:NPOV and WP:NOR seriously, but am trying to make the whole process easier for the new editor. So I: use an informal style; emphasise techniques and tools that help new editors' work to be productive and pleasant; give the basis of the main policies and how to get advice about them; but not overload new editors with loads of details on policies, etc. I hope the essay will be worth publishing in main space, and even get a link for from the main "Welcome". Could you please comment at User talk:Philcha/Essays/Advice for new Wikipedia editors. -- Philcha ( talk) 21:16, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey, this is sort of a random question. Do you have any recommendations for getting brachiopods identified? The interpretive canter I work for has a number of specimens labeled as "Three Forks Formation, Cardwell, Montana" that have very well preserved brachipods and occasional bivalves which I think would be useful to WP and good additions to the centers collections. Thanks for any advice. -- Kev min § 01:28, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Martin, You may remember I am active in WikiProject Gastropods. In that project we are using Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 as our standard taxonomy. The B&R taxonomy claims to cover fossil gastropods as well as extant ones, but I think most paleontologists are still using the taxons that are set out in the Treatise instead of those in the B&R paper. Do you have any suggestions for what might be the best way to handle these conflicting systems? For example, I see we currently have two articles, one on Pleurotomarioidea and one on Pleurotomariacea. It does not seem quite right for us to insist that B&R takes preference, but if not, then what? Thanks for any suggestions you might have, Invertzoo ( talk) 14:35, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
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I see you have been adding external links to the Virtual Museum of Canada to a number of Burgess Shale articles. Firstly, you should be aware that external links should be placed after References ( WP:GTL). Secondly, you appear to have created a number of short articles with no incoming links; I have tagged a few, but I am sure there are others. " Building the web" is one of Wikipedia's core principles, so please help by linking to these articles from related articles. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 07:01, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
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In this edit, with the explanation "trim", you changed {{{1}}} to {{1x|{{{1}}}}} in {{ Species list/core}}. I can't see that it makes any difference (I've tried a version in my user space). What am I missing? Just curious! Peter coxhead ( talk) 12:35, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
{Species list/core | [Note the space here] text}
, then using {1} will preserve the whitespace; using {1x|1={1} } will trim the whitespace.
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17:08, 15 December 2011 (UTC)Hello Smith609. I have been working with a copy of taxobot on basque wikipedia, but the results are not very good. Could it be possible to use it in the Basque Wikipedia without having to re-upload it to a server? - Theklan ( talk) 15:18, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
I have updated the dead links in the doc of this template. -- Cameta ( talk) 16:15, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Dear Martin,
At the time you kindly agreed to make Citation bot run at the Hebrew Wikipedia as well, if I see to it that it gets an approval. To be on the safe side, I took it to the local Village Pump. Everyone agreed and the discussion is now archived. To fill in a formal request for a bot flag I'd need to know the bot's username and the software it is using. Does it currently work anywhere else than the English Wikipedia? Thanks, ליאור • Lior ( talk) 08:47, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Palaeontology for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 19:50, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Martin, hope you're having a great year so far. I am going through and deleting erroneously created Child taxa templates...are the ones that have two slashes after "Child taxa" errors? I checked a few of them, and the ones I checked were all from July, so I'm inclined to think so. Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 20:56, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
could you fix the template loop in this one? thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 21:41, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
UOJComm ( talk) 23:34, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, and thanks for the useful User:Smith609/toolbox.js. It seems to have a bug, in that the links it provides are currently of the form http://stats.grok.se/en/201212/ArticleName rather than (as would be correct for this month) http://stats.grok.se/en/201201/ArticleName. Is this fixable? Regards, Sandstein 18:54, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
My apologies for the non-personalized note; I've got several people to contact here. We're looking for administrators who would be willing to be interviewed by students as a part of Wikipedia's WP:United States Education Program. Dr. Jonathan Obar is teaching the course, and it's a study in how Wikipedia is governed and how administrators are selected. If you're not interested, you may either ignore this invitation or remove your name from the list of admins we've contacted. Thanks, Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 20:03, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
refsByName.js doesn't work on Chrome or Firefox. Do you know what it would take to update it to work with current browsers and the current MediaWiki version? — danhash ( talk) 21:24, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Smith609. The Citation Bot seems to have stopped working. When I attempt to use it, I get a message 403 - user account expired. If you could look into this, it would be great. Thanks. -- Dianna ( talk) 00:47, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Smith609. I've been asked to contact you on behalf of the Simple English Wikipedia to ask whether it would be possible to write up a version of Citation bot for our project. I noticed on toolserver that you'd written you accept such request, does that still stand? I realise you're probably busy with real life, and there's no reason for any hurry. I've watchlisted your talk page in anticipation of your response. Thank you, Osiris ( talk) 00:47, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Smith609, (your name was posted HERE by another admin).
My name is Jonathan Obar
user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 17:58, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Smith609, (your name was posted HERE by another admin).
My name is Jonathan Obar
user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 17:58, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for creating the new Hyolithellus article, and for improving Wikipedia's coverage of Biology-related topics. Northamerica1000 (talk) 12:18, 12 February 2012 (UTC) |
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Would it be possible to add a noedit option to the cite pmid template? Decstop ( talk) 22:35, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
We were trying to import your system of taxobox templates to Catalan Wikipedia, but as you can see, we have problems in the article ca:Traquimedusa. Can you see what is wrong? Thanks. 88.19.141.168 ( talk) 00:46, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Martin, if you're around, please see User_talk:Bob_the_Wikipedian#Introduction_to_the_automated_taxobox_system. Thanks. Peter coxhead ( talk) 13:40, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
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I am cleaning out citation templates. Looks like you have created a few that I don't see an immediate purpose for:
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The web address http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki is no longer.
New address is: https://wikidashboard.appspot.com/enwiki/wiki
Bgwhite ( talk) 22:41, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, Smith609. I believe you might be interested in this discussion: Talk:Motion capture#Merge from Optical motion tracking. Cheers, Waldir talk 13:04, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Apparently the citation bot is not operational, in either mode. Could you please check? I know some other wiki scripts were crippled by the recent update. Regards. Materialscientist ( talk) 04:05, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
The cenozoic graphical timeline has a serious problem. The messinian salinity crisis is not clickable. I think it has something to do with nudge-up=-1.
204.191.162.48 (
talk) 04:47, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Fixed.
Martin (
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20:33, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
If you have time, please see User talk:Peter coxhead#The old taxobox template? where I was asked about porting the taxobox template to the Norwegian WP. You may be able to help better than I can. Peter coxhead ( talk) 20:40, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Check the edit history of Template:Cite pmc/1691546, continuously creating double redirect or simply breaking the redirect in the most recent case. 174.56.57.138 ( talk) 03:07, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, I was just wondering what I would need to do to unleash Citation bot on the articles within WikiProject United States. Is there a special way to do that? -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:17, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
What on earth is going on here? There are edits removing the whole content of pages and leaving nothing but fragments of code [22], giving the following edit summary: "Touching page to update categories. ** THIS EDIT SHOULD PROBABLY BE REVERTED ** as page content will only be changed if there was an edit conflict." This has happened on several pages which have all been turned into identical gobbledegook. Paul B ( talk) 16:25, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Smith609. We are working on the Joint attention article as part of the Wikipedia Canada Education Program. We are hoping that this Bot will be able to edit our citations for us. I have tried to start the Bot and I got the following results:
Activated by LianneAnna Expanding 'Joint attention'; will commit edits. Revision #418 [00:00:00] Processing page 'Joint attention' — edit—history
- switch to cite id format is supported. * Looking for bare references... * Tidying reference tags... - No duplicate references to combine. - No duplicate references to combine. ** No changes required. # # #
End of output
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I am not sure what these results mean and I cannot find any changes in our references. I am unfamiliar with Bots and I was hoping you would be able to advise me on how to correct any errors I made. LianneAnna ( talk) 05:14, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
<ref>Striano, T., & Stahl, D. (2005). Sensitivity to triadic attention in early infancy. Developmental Science, 8(4), 333-343.</ref><nowiki></code>
:write
::<code><nowiki><ref>{{citation |last1=Striano |first1=T. |last2=Stahl |first2=D. |year=2005 |title=Sensitivity to triadic attention in early infancy |journal=[[Developmental Science]] |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=333-343}}</ref>
<ref>{{citation |last1=Striano |first1=T. |last2=Stahl |first2=D. |year=2005 |title=Sensitivity to triadic attention in early infancy |journal=[[Developmental Science]] |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=333–343 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00421.x |pmid=15985067}}</ref>
So if I understand correctly, I need to go in and change the formatting of all of the references in the article and then run the Bot again? Is there any way to avoid doing this manually? LianneAnna ( talk) 14:00, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Thank you Jc3s5h for your suggestions. If you have additonal suggestions for out citations, please leave a comment on my talk page or the Joint attention article talk page. LianneAnna ( talk) 18:39, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your comment, if you wish to make any additional comments or give suggestions for out article please do so on the Joint attention talk page. LianneAnna ( talk) 20:20, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
I thought you might want to know about some upcoming MediaWiki & Wikimedia developers' events (such as the Berlin hackathon in June), where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, extending functionality with JavaScript, the future of ResourceLoader and Gadgets, the new Lua templating system, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing. Best wishes! Sumanah ( talk) 13:30, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to implement the citation bot in another wiki. I cannot figure that out from the info provided and I'm not sure what to do with the files gotten via SVN. Can anybody help? Cheers, -- Nhslzt ( talk) 09:19, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello, just letting you know that your Toolserver account has expired, so Citation bot isn't working. Graham 87 03:51, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, thanks for combining the duplicate references for Faisal bin Abdullah bin Mohammed. Egeymi ( talk) 20:56, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Seems to be down again. I assume this is nothing I can resurrect on my own when you have intermittent Internet access like this? Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 15:28, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
importScript('User:Smith609/taxonomy.js');
in your
Special:Mypage/vector.css.
Martin (
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Talk)
01:32, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Smith609. Hope not to break your wikibreak. I'm Theklan, from the basque Wikipedia. I have been messing around with the automatic taxobox in our wikipedia, taking the templates here and there and copying and localizing them. I've seen that the sister taxons and direct children are updated with a bot made by you. But I think this bot is working only in the en:wp... I think so, not really sure. Could it be possible to make something for the eu:wp? Thanks for all! - Theklan ( talk) 23:14, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Please do not use the isbn bot on United States presidential election, 1896 -- it is unnecessary with google books and is distracting to the readers who don't know what it means. It's hard to thin kof anyone who actually needs or uses the isbn when they have the google cite; the guides to history citations (like the [[Chicago Manual of Style) do NOT recommend it. Thanks Rjensen ( talk) 10:32, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
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I've reverted this massive damage done by the bot. What is going on? Pls respond on my talk page. PumpkinSky talk 11:39, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Geology for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 22:46, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, there is a bot request at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 47#Bot to convert bare URLs to valid refs that I was hoping you would take a look at, as it might have some overlap with functions your bot currently does. Thank you. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 04:59, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
We can't understand something with your toolserver account. Phanerozoic is not an era. Cenozoic is not an eon. -- *Adjkasi* ( talk) 14:05, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
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If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
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Hi - I don't know much about citation bot, but someone asked me to look into it.
All of those bot edits are marked as user activated but with no user name. Is it possible for you to look up who activated the bot? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 20:25, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
The image is of Mansar Lake, which falls in Jammu. The uploader unknowingly has named it after the name of Manasbal Lake which falls in Kashmir valley, hence has created a confusion. Someone has inserted it into the infobox of Manasbal Lake, which it is not, and this image of Mansar Lake was appeared on home page at (DYK|2008-10-11) indicating the depth of Manasbal Lake. It needs to be renamed and removed from Manasbal Lake. MehrajMir ' (Talk) 17:05, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
.....how can a single image be used under two different lakes... one has to go. In its description both locations are mentioned 1) Lake in Ganderbal district. 2) Lake near Jammu. No mountains near the back side of this image] of Manasbal Lake, where as here in Mansar Lake are. Mansar lake is shorter as compared to Manasbal lake. MehrajMir ' (Talk) 00:18, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
This is a note to let the main editors of Ediacara biota know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on June 13, 2012. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 13, 2012. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 ( talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:
The Ediacara biota consisted of enigmatic tubular and frond-shaped, mostly sessile organisms which lived during the Ediacaran Period (c. 635–542 Ma). Trace fossils of these organisms have been found worldwide, and represent the earliest known complex multicellular organisms. The Ediacara biota radiated in an event called the Avalon Explosion, 575 million years ago, after the Earth had thawed from the Cryogenian period's extensive glaciation, and largely disappeared contemporaneous with the rapid appearance of biodiversity known as the Cambrian explosion. Most currently existing body-plans of animals first appeared only in the fossil record of the Cambrian rather than the Ediacaran. For macroorganisms, the Cambrian biota completely replaced the organisms that populated the Ediacaran fossil record. ( more...)
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While I have no issue at all with the change of reference here, I am puzzled how the replacement is "more authoritative". You do know who Pat Gensel is, don't you? -- EncycloPetey ( talk) 21:02, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, do you think it is possible to use Citation expander on other Wikipedia? I think we are able to translate it, we are able to set different parametrs (maybe not, I dont know if citation templates and/or standards are same on English/Czech Wikipedia), but I am not sure how is it with the bot. I can not run a bot presonally nor customize it to the Czech conditions.-- Juandev ( talk) 20:37, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
See the new section? What do you mean?-- Juandev ( talk) 21:04, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Smith609. Per these efforts, would you please take a crack at replying to my request here. Thanks. -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 23:54, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
Category:Citation templates using redundant parameters, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. -— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 18:37, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Please note that even a stub should (a) be written in sentences, and (b) have references. You seem to be producing a set of substubs which fail on both these counts: please tell us your source and create a proper opening sentence. Thanks. Pam D 12:44, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
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Hey there! If you think back, you'll recall the automatic taxobox contained several hyperlinks to toolserv (some of these run bot tasks, I think). Would it be possible to modify the toolserv code to work for multiple subdomains and perhaps get bots launched on that wiki? simple:User:Osiris seems to be the man in charge there, and the community is so small that I'm sure bot approval is relatively quick and simple. Thanks! Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 05:32, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, just wanted to say thanks for combining my references for me. I did not know it was possible to do the a,b,c,d... thing within a single reference like that. Genius! :) Electprogeny ( talk) 05:32, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
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Since autumn 2007 you've been my guide, colleague, helper and friend - first in paleontology and then towards zoology. Philcha ( talk) 10:30, 7 July 2011 (UTC) |
"The Special Barnstar" is in lieu of 3-4 other Barnstars all of which I could have given you separately. By a convoluted route I'm now working on jumping spiders - it's a long story. -- Philcha ( talk) 10:30, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
. It's been fun - things would have been lonely without someone like-minded and enthusiastic to buoy me along!
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You appear to be writing a number of stubs that are not in full sentences, just phrases without sufficient context for a general reader to understand; it would take you less work to write a complete sentence while creating an article, than it would take another person to gather up all your sources and rewrite your articls as full sentences. As encyclopedia articles, they should certainly be written in full sentence, not phrases without context. See Quadratapora and other recent contributions. --( AfadsBad ( talk) 14:15, 9 September 2013 (UTC))
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I know I don't do it all of the time, but it helps with issues like this where you have a failed automatic taxobox. --( AfadsBad ( talk) 16:46, 9 September 2013 (UTC))
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Can you please correct the article title or source? This article, as written, has no data, the title does not match the single source, and please create a sentence in English, or delete the article. Thank you. --( AfadsBad ( talk) 06:39, 16 September 2013 (UTC)) {{ resolved}}
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This article is being copied by Wikipedia mirrors. Meanwhile, the article is useless. The spelling does not match the source. The content isn't even English-language prose. I see you are an administrator, and I suggest you just delete it yourself.
It would only take another 10 seconds to have used the correct spelling, if there is one, and to have written a grammatical sentence in English. You claim to be working towards a PhD on your user page; please use English language sentences and correct spelling, if there is one, to prevent the copying of material like this to other cites. Thank you. --( AfadsBad ( talk) 19:19, 28 September 2013 (UTC))
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I wanted to change the species template for Cotyledion to reflect that it's a stem-group Ectoproct, and not a stem-group Entoproct. However, the edits I have made either screw up the template, or don't show up. Could I get your help with this?-- Mr Fink ( talk) 19:10, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
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The Walt Disney Company recently bribed collaborated with the Danish government to purchase the rights to the nektaspid trilobite Buenaspis in order to change the genus name to Buenavistahomeentertainmentaspis.--
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{{ resolved}} Dear Smith609,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
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If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
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Young June Sah -- Yjune.sah ( talk) 20:42, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
I have submitted edit-requests to reduce the template nesting depth in Template:Taxobox/taxonomy and Template:Taxobox/taxonomy/3, to avoid the red message "Page exceeded the expansion depth" appearing at top during edit-preview of bio/species articles. See discussion:
The plan is to bypass sub "/1" ( Template:Taxobox/taxonomy/1) and sub "/2" ( Template:Taxobox/taxonomy/2), to lower the total expansion depth when running Template:Taxobox/taxonomy/3 to show the upper taxon rows. Join the discussion if you have time. - Wikid77 ( talk) 15:26, 1 September 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
DOI Bot seems to have stopped working since this morning. At the very least, the following link leads to timeout: http://toolserver.org/~verisimilus/Bot/DOI_bot/doibot.php?doi=10.1002%2Fana.410060309. kashmiri 15:46, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
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Please come over to Template talk:Automatic taxobox/Archive 8#Toolserver udate_child_list tool down. and let us know what's going on. Thanks. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 20:17, 6 October 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
See User_talk:Citation_bot#Stop_the_bot_from_reverting_good_edits. Urhixidur ( talk) 14:55, 18 October 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
I thought this redirection of one of your templates to its sandbox was odd, just wanted to see if you were aware and approved of it. We probably shouldn't be running live with sandbox templates over long periods of time, if at all. – Wbm1058 ( talk) 23:56, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
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Another editor has unilaterally deleted the entire content of an article which you created, with the comment, "lets see who squeals." I've restored it, but I figured you might want to know what's going on. NCdave ( talk) 14:37, 23 March 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Hi, you're listed as contact for this bot, which is currently blocked. This is causing a huge amount of extra work and I would greatly appreciate it if you could have a look at this (and hopefully fix the problem... :-) Thanks! -- Randykitty ( talk) 10:10, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hello,
I just randomly happened across {{ Don't edit this line plain link text}}, and it was confusing to say the least. If you could some day expand their documentation with a link to a page that explains them as a whole, I'm sure future editors would appreciate it.
Best wishes, — Hex (❝?!❞) 17:32, 17 November 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Hey Smith609; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 21:39, 13 March 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
I just redirect Opabinid because there is a page called Opabinia. User:98.177.220.111 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.177.220.111 ( talk) 16:00, 17 March 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
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If you have any questions, please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Theo's Little Bot ( error?) 01:31, 14 April 2013 (UTC){{ resolved}}
Hello,
I just randomly happened across {{ Don't edit this line plain link text}}, and it was confusing to say the least. If you could some day expand their documentation with a link to a page that explains them as a whole, I'm sure future editors would appreciate it.
Best wishes, — Hex (❝?!❞) 17:32, 17 November 2012 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Hey Smith609; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 21:39, 13 March 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
I just redirect Opabinid because there is a page called Opabinia. User:98.177.220.111 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.177.220.111 ( talk) 16:00, 17 March 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
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If you have any questions, please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Theo's Little Bot ( error?) 01:31, 14 April 2013 (UTC){{ resolved}}
[ [24]] - where is about acritarchs in Javaux, E.; Marshall, C.; Bekker, A. (2010). "Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits". Nature 463 (7283): 934–938 ? I agree that description of microfossils by Javaux et al. suggests of acritarch but it is only our interpretation. -- Piotr967 ( talk) 11:52, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
A bunch of the doi's that you added to Acutichiton had invisible characters in them. I fixed them. Not sure if they are from copying and pasting or what. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 15:20, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your bot's recent helpful edits to the new article I've created, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate. We'd love for you to join WP:WikiProject Freedom of speech if you're interested in the subject matter. :) Have a great day! — Cirt ( talk) 17:01, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm a relatively new editor, so I am still not entirely clear on how to use citationbot. Despite this, I am hoping you might be able to help me. I started a discussion over at WT:MED#MEDRS compliance and reference lists, because I think it would be helpful to have a view of which PMID'd references in a given list are not tagged with article types consistent with WP:MEDRS e.g. review, meta-analysis, practice guideline, et al. Is there some way citationbot could do this, or is there another bot or tool that could be easily modified to do the same? As per the discussion at WT:MED, this may be best as a user-side tool rather than a modification to existing templates.
Looking forward to hearing your perspectives and suggestions.
-- UseTheCommandLine ( talk) 18:39, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Smith609,
I thought you might like to know about this, as I was advised you created the bot, and it seems to be acting up. See [25]. NinaGreen ( talk) 02:40, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Smith609, you change the text of the Mureropodia image. Since English is not my mother tongue I don't know if its actually right. The image is a graphic design from a photograph, not a retouched picture of the fossil, but I don't know if I expressed it correctly before. Thanks for your work, -- PePeEfe ( talk) 08:13, 16 February 2014 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Thanks for tidying after the merge. Heds ( talk) 22:45, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. I see that you're the author of the JavaScript side of the Wikipedia:Citation expander gadget. It seems that this script is clashing with the scripts used for editing Lua modules, but I have no clue when it comes to JavaScript, so I'm not sure where exactly the error comes from. In any case, you should probably take a look at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_109#Lua_error_messages_not_displaying_on_.22preview_page_with_this_template.22, where we have been talking about it. Best regards — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 15:42, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for sharing your studies of palaeontology and evolution, for example Ediacara biota, to (quoting you) "improve content and accessibility, and reliability", and thank you for promoting "useful tools", -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:32, 13 June 2012 (UTC) |
A year ago, you were the 152nd recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:48, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I've made the first step toward porting the doi bot or "citation bot" to Labs: https://github.com/wrought/citation-bot and http://tools.wmflabs.org/doi-bot/ but the repo available here: http://code.google.com/p/citation-bot/source/browse/ doesn't have the credential information and mysql database connection information, potentially among other components--is there another repo with templates for these? Or perhaps you can send me a flat file, either with data scrubbed, or I can scrub it. Also, if there is any other information or insight you can provide, that would be helpful, many thanks! -- Mattsenate ( talk) 12:44, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Sorry to ask you in your wikiholiday, but I'm running the incredibly useful Citation bot against Molecular diagnostics, and the bot has not ended in the last 30 minutes.
It's still on:
I pressed "show changes", which made no obvious difference: and the DOI citations have not changed either.
It looks like this issue has popped up in the past, but the only solution seems to be to ask you.
(Also: I had to install the JS widget to get the citations button on the edit page. I assume that's expected behaviour, but I'm mentioning it just in case it's not.)
Thanks, Ian McDonald ( talk) 14:34, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
Update: I've realised that I was failing to use the {{cite doi}} format correctly. Sorry. I've left this here in the hope that it's a useful bug report about the widget/Citations button hanging instead of failing gracefully. Thanks for writing it. It's brilliant. Ian McDonald ( talk) 20:37, 28 September 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Hi Martin, I'm puzzled. The bot's recent edit notes indicate it is still using versions 442 and 458. These are much older than the one on google code. Perhaps somewhere you might document the current deployed version? LeadSongDog come howl! 04:58, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
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Since you're the major contributor to this article, thought you might like to know about this.--v/r - T P 13:41, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
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{{ resolved}} Thanks for editing the box of Burlingia. Your way is both more condensed in the code and in the text. I do not understand automated boxes. Does the code you use also work in ordinary taxoboxes? In which case I'll start using them (assuming this is not contested). I also have a remark concerning the automated taxobox. It lacks the family-level ( Burlingiidae). Could you please include it. Thank you very much, - Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 17:48, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
I thought you might be interested in this proposal to add code to {{ cite doi}}, a template that you and CitationBot know well. You might be able to think of some unintended consequences of the proposed change. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 19:50, 28 November 2013 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
{{ pmid}} redirects to {{ Cite pmid}}, which is not intuitive since there is also {{ PMID}}. Could you please change this redirect? -- bender235 ( talk) 16:15, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
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These should be converted to proper, populated cite journal instances of the same form as other citations in those articles.
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How's the Citation Bot rewrite coming along? Is there anything I can do to help? I'll be happy to do some debugging or testing. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 05:58, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
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While stub-sorting I found Orstenotubulus, stub-sorted it, did some general cleanup, and noticed that the two refs were identical. Found a format of ref I'd never seen before, {{ ref doi}}, looked into it, found that a bot was converting them to use <ref>{{cite doi|... }}</ref>, converted those two and combined them.
Then noticed that the bot owner's name was the same as the editor who'd created the article, yourself. So perhaps you'd just set it up as a test case to experiment with the bot? Sorry if I've spoiled your test case. Pam D 12:08, 5 February 2014 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
G'day, what happens if I remove {{visible anchor}} from within an article? I have created an article and would like to insert a wikilink to it in place of the visible anchor Template. Cheers YSSYguy ( talk) 01:39, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
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There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
Can you please point to the bot approval request which covers User:Citation bot's creation of citation sub-templates (for example Template:Cite doi/10.5665.2Fsleep.1378)? I've read over the ones listed at User:Citation bot#Bot approval and only see requests to adjust formatting of citations, but not mass creation of templates. If you haven't requested such, please stop your bot immediately. -- Netoholic @ 07:42, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Discussion moved to Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#User:Citation bot - mass creation of sub-templates -- Netoholic @ 19:02, 11 June 2014 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
Any chance you could address some of the outstanding citation bot bugs, at least by disabling the code snippets in question? Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:39, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Smith609! I've seing the system you use with citation bot, creating PMID and doi citations. I've made something similar (is to say, a bot that copies the citations into eu:wp) but it will be better to have the citation bot itself translated into basque, so I don't have to make use of replace.py every time I make the bot crawl the en:wp category. Would it be possible to translate it? - Theklan ( talk) 19:17, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, you uploaded a wonderfull photo that has now been renamed to [File:Olenoides serratus oblique with antennas.jpg]. This is the only known trilobite species with caudal cerci. There is a slight chance you may still have or would be in the position to make an image of the pygidial area of this specimen where these caudal cerci can be seen. It would really be helpful if you could upload such an image. Kind regards, - Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:52, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
We are currently engaging researchers to write on Wikipedia within our university, please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SLU. As for now, about 30-60 researchers are active to some degree and one of their main interest is to add relevant references to the articles. This is easy on enwp thanks to your great bot, but we would very much appreciate to also have it on svwp. We are especially interested in the templates where you can enter ISBN and PMID/DOI. I can do the translation of templates and parameters. Is there anything else that you need? A bot permission can be applied for at https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Robotans%C3%B6kan, but we can prepare the application for you if you wish. -- Olle Terenius (SLU) ( talk) 14:54, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Martin, I played a bit with MediaWiki:Gadget-citations.js and it seems to very useful gadget. I would like to copy it to hewiki and to improve it to work also in VisualEditor :) By viewing the code I saw it sends a post request to http://toolserver.org/~verisimilus/Bot/citation-bot/text.php with the editform, and I have some questions regarding it:
echo "$_REQUEST["callback"]({expandedText:" . expand_text(mb_convert_encoding($_REQUEST"text"], "UTF-8")), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'). "})"
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Hear, hear! {{cite doi}} just saved a lot of my precious time while writing deep belief network! QVVERTYVS ( hm?) 14:46, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Howdy, thanks for your work on Citation Bot. I wanted to alert you to a bit of a mishap with today's featured article. Citation bot corrected the citations in this edit, but three of them it duplicated editor-first or editor1-first. I fixed them in three edits here, but thought I would let you know. Thanks again and have a happy holiday season! -- TeaDrinker ( talk) 02:18, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
You recently fixed two issues I reported about Citation bot. I just wanted to let you know I appreciate that. Debresser ( talk) 16:38, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
I wanted to tack on to this by thanking you for promptly responding to my bug report. Really appreciate it! If you need help testing the new version let me know. I am actually a Software QA Engineer by trade so I have some experience testing. :-) -- Zackmann08 ( talk) 22:07, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
palaeontology and evolution
Thank you for sharing your studies of
palaeontology and
evolution, for example
Ediacara biota, to (quoting you) "improve content and accessibility, and reliability", and thank you for promoting "useful tools", - you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
Two years ago, you were the 152nd recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:44, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
When I click on Edit history stats, or page watchers under the Statistics toolbox in the right margin, I get the following - 403: User account expired The page you requested is hosted by the Toolserver user wiki_researcher, whose account has expired. Toolserver user accounts are automatically expired if the user is inactive for over six months. To prevent stale pages remaining accessible, we automatically block requests to expired content. See: [26] ??? Atsme☯ Consult 01:53, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
The taxonomy section is messed up. There is a missing template somewhere. I'm not familiar with it to know what is missing. Could you take a look? Bgwhite ( talk) 18:44, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for initiating an article on the genus Valdiviathyris, which was at that moment considered monotypic. You did so using an automated taxobox, a template I haven't mastered. Recently an article has been published that describes Valdiviathyris bicornis Holmer, Popov & Bassett, 2013, from the Silurian of Gotland. I believe that best practice is that extant species have their own entry while fossil species are dealt with in the entry of the genus they belong to. My request to you is if you could create a Valdiviathyris quenstedti page that may consist only of the automated taxobox, and drop me a line, so I can add content. Thank you in advance, regards, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:18, 26 September 2014 (UTC).
I'm trying to improve my use of citations rather than letting other people come along later and expand them. I have the button, it loads the bot page and comes back to my edit, but doesn't expend bibcodes (cite journal|bibcode=...). I've tested on old versions that I know were successfully expanded, but nothing. I ran from the standalone doibot page and that worked (but committed edits even though I said not to and it said it wouldn't), so I'm lost as to what I'm doing wrong. Lithopsian ( talk) 14:12, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello! These drawings will soon be deleted since the author died only in 1945 and his works will be released to public domain on January, 1st. They may be automatically restored then. Mithril ( talk) 20:25, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Your toolbox.js has become so much a part of my Wiki life that I'd forgotten that it wasn't actually part of Wikimedia. <g> Since stats.grok.se has been down for a while now, perhaps the link in toolbox.js could be updated to use the new "official" stats tool? Cheers. Le Deluge ( talk) 19:35, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
"
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/#project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-30&pages=" +
- and whilst you're at it, the heading needs to be <h3>
rather than <h5>
. Looks like Wikidashboard has gone for good though.
Le Deluge (
talk)
19:55, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
When using the RevisionSlider and WikEdDiff together WikEdDiff will not function correctly when the RevisionSlider is used to load a new diff. This can be fixed by adding a simple hook listener to your copy.
During a deployment slot today the RevisionSlider extension will be turned on as a beta feature on all wikis.
For the first week the RevisionSlider will be deployed with a 'hack' that will mean WikEdDiff will continue to work, but on the 21st and 22nd of September this 'hack' will be removed.
You can find the relevant phabricator ticket here which contains the code that you will need to add to your copy of the script (in most cases). Please also use this ticket for further questions & discussion.
Addshore ( talk) 09:20, 13 September 2016 (UTC)Dear Smith609, I notice that you moved Camarotoechia Hall & Clarke, 1893 to Sinotectirostrum Sartenaer, 1961, based on Cherkesova (2007). However, I think you misinterpret the situation. Cherkesova reassigns two taxa, "radiata" and "omaliusi", that Nalivkin had placed in Camarotoechia, to Sinotectirostrum as a new combination for a species and a subspecies respectively. Neither of these taxa can be the type of Camarotoechia, which I presume is Atrypa congretata Conrad, 1841. This means Camarotoechia and Sinotectirostrum henceforth are recognised genera of their own. I'll leave this to you, regards, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 17:01, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
Could you upload the newest citation bot source from GitHub to the developement version for testing please
Do you have any opinion on Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Taxobot children. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 23:11, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
How much work would be involved in making a version of this template that produces horizontal, rather than vertical, timelines? Thanks, — swpb T 20:02, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, {{ taxon?}} doesn't work now (it hasn't since Wikid77 made changes to the system to allow hardcoding of ancestors to reduce expansion depth) – it causes an expansion depth error. So we currently use the 'standard' format with the ? in the link text. All uses of {{ taxon?}} in taxonomy templates have been removed.
At present, |same_as=
in a taxonomy template must be accompanied by |parent=
.
Peter coxhead (
talk)
12:50, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi, just thought I'd let you know that I'm working on what is by far the best solution to expansion depth limit problems, namely rewriting the parts of the code that traverse the taxonomic hierarchy in Lua. It avoids completely the need to have multiple templates with nesting (like the t^
family for example). You just write loops! The expansion depth drops dramatically, and hierarchies of 100+ levels should be no problem.
So far I've created Lua versions of the traversals needed to find the taxobox colour and to generate the table shown on the "Taxonomy/TAXON" pages. The final step is the traversal needed for the taxoboxes themselves, but it looks straightforward, although it's necessary to work slowly in view of the number of pages that would be affected by any error.
When converting traversals to Lua is finished, we should be able to restore the proper behaviour of |same_as=
and some of the other bits of the system that were disabled as part of fudges to reduce expansion depth, and we won't need hardcoded or /skip templates purely to reduce the number of levels.
Ultimately I think that most of the automated taxonomy system can be moved to Lua, leaving only the raw data stored in the taxonomy templates, since this format is much easier for most editors to set up and modify.
If you're interested, Module:Autotaxobox/sandbox will have the latest version. Peter coxhead ( talk) 10:25, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
|parent=
. See
WP:Automated taxobox system/notes for some notes for "old hands" on recent changes.
Peter coxhead (
talk)
10:35, 30 January 2017 (UTC)Please see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 December 17#T^ templates. Now that I have coded all the traversals of the taxonomic hierarchies encoded in taxobox templates in Lua at Module:Autotaxobox, these templates aren't used and I've nominated them for deletion. Peter coxhead ( talk) 14:30, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
How do you edit the information for the speciesboxes/automatic taxoboxes?-- Mr Fink ( talk) 23:48, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
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Hello Smith609/Archives,
I noticed you marked an article as a
stub using the {{
stub}}
template. Did you know that there are thousands of stub types that you can use to clarify what type of stub the article is? Properly categorizing stubs is important to the
Wikipedia community because it helps various
WikiProjects to identify articles that need expansion.
If you have questions about stub sorting, don't hesitate to ask! There is a wealth of stub information on the stub sorting WikiProject, and hundreds of stub sorters. Thanks! -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message ( talk to me) ( My edits) @ 06:56, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Since you were active the last few days, please see WP:VPT#Who here has wmflabs access. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 05:00, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, I pinged you about a month ago about that template. Are you still maintaining it, or should I go to WP:VPT and ask for help there? Thanks, SchreiberBike | ⌨ 02:46, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
The citation bot has been slow and hardly working for a few days. At least when doing a manual request.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 14:16, 12 December 2018 (UTC) {{ resolved}}
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14:13, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi, there's a discussion about the field labelled "period" in this infobox as some editors are assuming that it means "period" in the strict sense and others that it just requires whatever the relevant chronstrat term is. This of course only changes the colour. A suggestion is that we change the name of the label to "interval" and add a comment in the documentation. Your thoughts (and help) would be appreciated. Mikenorton ( talk) 21:45, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi, can a Citation bot be launched in Serbian Wikipedia and other related projects in Serbian? If it can, what do you need to do to enable the bot? Best regards! Ранко Николић ( talk) 21:12, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I can help. In which file(s) are places translations? @ Ранко Николић: I saw now this. I will help. Zoranzoki21 ( talk) 00:29, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
As you know, I converted traversals of the taxonomy hierarchy encoded in taxonomy templates to Lua some time ago, to deal with expansion depth limits. At the time, I found converting just this part of the automated taxobox system a complex task, so I left many of the 'non-traversal' templates alone. I'm slowly converting those that are not also used by the manual taxobox system to Lua, so some templates are becoming unused.
{{ Taxonomy links/cell}}, which you created, has now been replaced by a Lua function in Module:Autotaxobox, so I've nominated it for deletion. Peter coxhead ( talk) 10:28, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
I made a mess of fixing Template:Taxonomy/Trochozoa, but it's correct now. Perhaps the entry in {{ Anglicise rank}} should put a space between the rank and the "?". The point I'd like to make is that the automated taxobox system is now much tighter as regards things like acceptable rank names; any ranks not in {{ Anglicise rank}} will flag an error. Peter coxhead ( talk) 15:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
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Gonnym (
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13:22, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, on [28] you are listed as the maintainer of the wmflabs timescale tool. The tool hasn't worked for a while, and the template {{ Ma}} for example had to remove links to it because of that. Is there any chance to make it operable again? Or, if you are not involved anymore, do you know whom best to contact in this matter? Thanks, AxelBoldt ( talk) 13:16, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
I started a thread at the administrator's noticeboard to try to find a way forward with this, and would welcome your participation there. Uninvited Company 17:33, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
Can you increase the number of searches we are allowed. We run out now days. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 13:53, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I am facing problems with dty:Template:Speciesbox and dty:Template:Taxobox in dtywiki and have no knowledge of template editing. Can you help in fixing the Template:Speciesbox and Taxonomy related templates?-- Nirajan pant ( talk) 16:35, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Smith609. The Anti-Harassment team at Wikimedia Foundation has been asked to help out with the Citation bot by adding an authentication step before the bot can be triggered. Letting you know so that you are not caught by surprise when you see some commits by members of our team. Thank you! -- NKohli (WMF) ( talk) 04:58, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
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Gonnym (
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17:08, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
This account has made tens of thousands of edits by proxy using the Citation bot. It is still ongoing while I'm writing this. The account itself has made only 11 edits so far.
It is obvious that this 'Marianne Zimmerman' account is a bot, since it is working around the clock, 24/7. The account is not labeled as such, and has not been authorized by the Bot Approvals Group. In itself not a big deal, because the account has been making only positive edits and has not caused disruption. Still, it is technically violating policy, and I'm wondering why a bot would use another bot to make bot edits. That seems rather silly. I hope the author of the 'Marianne bot' can come forward so that we can work things out. Cheers, Manifestation ( talk) 12:04, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
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Wikipedia citation bot rocks! Jimmy Olano ( talk) 22:22, 3 August 2019 (UTC) |
Hello, I need your help. On [29], I was told that configuration similar to wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Web/Lighttpd#FCGI_Flask_config may help increase the capacity of the tool. Based on the default configuration there and other tools like /data/project/glamtools/.lighttpd.conf, maybe you could try:
fastcgi.server += ( ".php" => (( "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi", "socket" => "/var/run/lighttpd/php.socket.citations", "max-procs" => 4, "bin-environment" => ( "PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN" => "3", "PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS" => "500" ), "bin-copy-environment" => ( "PATH", "SHELL", "USER" ), "broken-scriptfilename" => "enable", "allow-x-send-file" => "enable" )) )
I'm not sure what to do if translation-server is actually the bottleneck, though. Nemo 17:18, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
~/www/js/package.json
, where I see you currently have "start": "~/local/bin/node src/server.js",
. Maybe some
command line options can be passed here but it doesn't sound ideal.
Nemo
17:32, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
Smith609: @
Smith609:
Smith609 Please manually do the git update.
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge: .lighttpd.conf Please move or remove them before you merge. Aborting Updating a0ed19bb..072e52e9
I assume you just delete the file, then immediately do the git update. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 13:13, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
Could you please explain me why Citation bot is removing |format=
from URLs linking to PDF files?
SLBedit (
talk)
00:33, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is
AManWithNoPlan and Citation bot. .
HJ Mitchell |
Penny for your thoughts?
10:09, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
Category:Articles with inconsistent citation formats explains its purpose via {{Inconsistent_citations}}
which I include, in part, here:
“ |
User:Citation bot helps editors to keep citations in a consistent format within a given article. If a mix of {{citation}} and {{cite xx}} templates are used, the bot will convert all citations to the dominant type (as they differ in details of punctuation). It will preserve the original formatting, in case it was intentional. However, in most cases, the editor did not realize that the added citation did not match the format in the article. Therefore, the bot adds a hidden comment and a category (via a template to avoid confusing
AWB) to any template that it changes. Human editors should check these comments and see whether the citations they are found in should genuinely have different punctuation to other citations on the page. They should then amend the |postscript= parameter accordingly, removing {{inconsistent citations}} .
|
” |
I had been cleaning up this maintenance category based on the explanation above.
{{Inconsistent_citations}}
applied by some editor to a CS1 in an article with only or predominantly CS1{{Inconsistent_citations}}
applied by some editor to a CS2 in an article with only or predominantly CS1, or another variation, bare ref, etc.{{Inconsistent_citations}}
applied by some editor to the article as a maintenance tag—¿philoserf? ( talk) 22:27, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Smith609 I have some massive edits that need to be done on the Macedonian Wikipedia, concerning now obsolete and redundant text in citations. Can this bot do this changes:
If this is possible it will be a huge help of not doing the changes by hand. Thank you Инокентиј ( talk) 19:10, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I just tagged you at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240124 but I see you haven't been active on Phabricator recently so I wanted to make sure you saw my ping :) Samwalton9 (WMF) ( talk) 08:55, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello, and greetings! As part of a Starter kit project for smaller wikis, there is a work-in-progress guide around Bots & Tools here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit/Bots_and_Tools. I'm reaching out with a few questions, as there is a mention of the Citation bot on this page in the list of useful bots section:
Additionally, if you have a suggestion for any other bots or tools currently on the list which should not be there and those that are not there and should be there, I would love to know about them—looking forward to your input! Srishti ( talk) 07:45, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
Your bot,
Citation bot, has been indefinitely
blocked by
RexxS due to the following reason:
Disruptive editing still removing links after request to stop.
They allege that the consensus at
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 167#Auto-linking titles in citations of works with free-to-read DOIs was ignored by the Citation bot maintainers. Just notifiying you. —
Mr. Guye (
talk) (
contribs)
22:07, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:12, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
... and eight -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:55, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
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16:21, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
Hey there! I'm an admin at SqWiki and I mostly deal with technical help regarding citations. I stumbled upon your bot after it being added to Small Wikis starter kit. Can you help me by giving some information as to what the bot actually does so I decide if it would be beneficial to ask for incorporating it on SqWiki? Another question on the same subject asked with easier terms: How does this bot differs from IABot and how do they cooperate together? (If they do.) I'm assuming you are okay with expanding your bot's functionalities outside of EnWiki since it was in that list, no? :) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 15:24, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
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Gonnym (
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08:39, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is
Citation bot again. Thank you.
Le
v!v
ich
16:38, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Firestar464. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article,
Nematophyta, but you didn't provide a
reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to
include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the
tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on
my talk page. Thank you.
Firestar464 (
talk)
11:01, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi there! I just wanted to let you know I will be prominently using your excellent reconstruction of Scathascolex in a video that is going to be out soon on my YouTube channel. I will of course give due credit as stipulated. Phrenotopian ( talk) 11:10, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for operating the citation bot. -Shift 674- 🌀 contribs 13:56, 5 January 2021 (UTC) |
Hey Smith609, it looks like you've got some user scripts in use by others that have bare javascript global wg-style variables. These are
phab:T72470 deprecated, and while I don't think there's a timeline for their removal, it's been that way for a while. It's usually a straightforward fix, all uses need to use mw.config.get
, such as converting wgTitle
to mw.config.get('wgTitle')
. There's some more info at
mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users)#Global wg variables. I can take care of cleaning them up for you if you like, or give you a full list if you want to handle it, just let me know! ~ Amory (
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c)
12:33, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
Notification for a request to adopt the translation-server on Toolforge per adoption procedure [31]. -- Green C 14:17, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:13, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hi! Greetings from Uzbek Wikipedia! Could you adapt Citation bot to Uzbek Wikipedia? Iʼm ready to help you with translations! :)
Translations:
cite web
→ web manbasi
title
→ sarlavha
first
→ ism
last
→ familiya
date
→ sana
publisher
→ nashriyot
website
→ vebsayt
work
→ ish
year
→ yil
editor
→ muharrir
editor-link
→ muharrir-havola
month
→ oy
pages
→ sahifalar
language
→ til
access-date
, accessdate
→ kirish sanasi
archive-url
, archiveurl
→ arxiv-url
archive-date
, archivedate
→ arxiv-sana
location
→ joylashuv
quote
→ iqtibos
Malikxan talk 11:50, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I'm a crat from SqWiki. I read the instructions related to i18n in regard to Citation Bot and would like to have it operate on our wiki. Given my crat privileges we can easily deal with the privileges part and I can create a user page for the bot. But I was wondering what templates are you referring to when you mention A translation of each of the template names and parameters used. Is it CS1 templates? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 13:14, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hello, Smith609,
Thank you for creating Communications Chemistry.
I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:
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Hello, I'm clearing out CAT:DUPARG, and noticed that User:Smith609/Citation/doc is in there, and a cleanup script tells me that the duplicate template field is "month" in cite book. Happy to fix this, but wasn't sure which are the correct fields: should it be month=origmonth, or month=month? Thanks, Storchy ( talk) 05:26, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
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This barnstar is for a BIG thanks again,... TIMELINE OF SALEM MASS |
HAVE A TREMENDOUS DAY
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The Bot Creator Barnstar | |
amazing work Citation_bot....Timeline of Salem, MA a big thanks |
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Hi, you're the listed operator for four bot accounts ( Citation bot 1 through 4) which don't appear to need the flag any longer given the work that the primary Citation bot does these days. Would you mind leaving a note at Wikipedia:BN#Inactive bots that you'd like them to have their flag removed? Izno ( talk) 08:59, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Protomelission is a very good page. Well done! BoyTheKingCanDance ( talk) 03:11, 14 March 2023 (UTC) |