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Hello. Since you are working on accessibility, could you take a look a this proposal? I see you also have Xenobot, so maybe you could help me. Thanks. Dodoïste ( talk) 18:43, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
<img alt="Stub icon" src="http://
... ), so it is working fine and it meets the W3C's requirements. I saw
bugzilla:19906 yesterday and voted for it. I also send an e-mail to the french accessibility expert working on the french Wiki, the one who introduced me to accessibility and usability, to ask him his opinion about this bug. I hope he will respond soon, but he doesn't always answer since he's busy enough already. Let's hope we'll be lucky. :-)
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Hi Xeno, just thought I'd float an idea by you. Might it be possible to add an extra parameter to those templates you are converting? Something along the lines of name=<name of template>. For example on Template:USAF-bio-stub you would have the additional parameter name=Template:USAF-bio-stub. This would allow the navbar functionality I suggested at Template talk:Asbox and might well have other uses in the future. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 16:25, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
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7082 not yet using asbox. – xeno talk 00:33, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
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Resolved – Mark 8/8/9 as the day I learned about one of my bots' seven deadly sins:
greed. –
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20:41, 8 August 2009 (UTC)I'm not sure what's wrong, but your bot is making some type of error. All of the X-OR-geo-stub templates ( like this one) were 'standardized' and don't work anymore. For example, see this page (or any Oregon stub page) at the bottom. Thanks, Little Mountain 5 15:52, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
← So it turns out my bot was being greedy. Fixed [2]. Thanks for the indirect regex lesson =) – xeno talk 20:41, 8 August 2009 (UTC) Stub templates should never do any non-stub categorisation - for this will be lost when the stub-template is removed from the article. Rich Farmbrough, 21:33, 6 August 2009 (UTC).
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Resolved – User reported error:
[3] matched criteria (?s)\{\{asbox.*\<noinclude\>.* = .*\}\} found 1 page (
fixed) of last 6221 edits prior to
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00:41, 9 August 2009 (UTC)Don't know if it has just happened with {{ US-keyboardist-stub}} or if it has haapened elsewhere but your bot appears to have broken this template. I have reverted it, may be you could look to see what the problem was. Waacstats ( talk) 22:30, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
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Broken markup in an edit by Xenobot as {{ NewZealand-school-stub}}. I've reverted the edit rather than try to work out the proper syntax.- gadfium 06:14, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
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See this by Xenobot. It appears to have corrupted the stub template. -- œ ™ 21:46, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
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I had to undo this edit because it made the image on {{ US-stub}} blow up to full size. Does the template your bot is applying have image size control? -- Eastlaw talk ⁄ contribs 05:27, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
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Why do you keep removing the description? - "This article is a stub relating to law in Scotland." Surely that is far better than merely "This article is a stub." -- Mais oui! ( talk) 10:43, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
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Has Xenobot finished on the Stubs or are you just talking a well deserved break? There's still quite a few out there. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 06:19, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
"alt=stub icon"
to "link="
one day. Conclusion: we should stick to the standard and "brief" alt text, as recommended in
Wikipedia:ALT#When to specify, third paragraph. Cheers.
Dodoïste (
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The Web Accessibility laurel | ||
For you amazing work on the stub template. You have improved the Web accessibility of over a million Web pages, a professional would have never dreamt of having such a huge impact. ;-) Thanks for your kindness and your help! Dodoïste ( talk) 00:02, 25 August 2009 (UTC) |
How do I raise a question mark where I see something which has not been verified or referred ? I have seen question mark in some articles. Shirishag75 ( talk) 18:17, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
I had tried it several times and stil kept getting the 25K. Been meaning to ask but I have had some internet issues and haven't had the chance to ask. Thanks for the info. Given the amount of effort for the workaround I still think that a more dynamically generated list builder would be better. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:53, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
I saw an AN where you collapsed a discussion and closed it after someone asked if a lawyer involved in the National Portrait Gallery/Wikipedia dispute should be unblocked.
In the few months that I've edited a lot, I've learnt that there are some Wikipedia customs that are known by the old timers but are not written down.
It seems that you are suggesting that nobody can ask for someone's unblock. Yet people ask for someone's block on ANI all the time. This doesn't seem like Wikipedia is very fair. The fair policy would be that requesting someone else's unblock is permitted. As a result, don't you think it's the fair and open thing to do to remove the AN collapsable box for that discussion.
Just a disclaimer, I am more interested in the process that the actual National Portrait Gallery issue. I hadn't heard that there was a problem until very recently.
If there are any hidden places with Wikipedia customs, let me know. If there's anything about collapsible boxes or prohibition to asking for someone's block to be reviewed, let me know. I have heard of the NLT policy which is why I am not asking for unblock of that lawyer. User F203 ( talk) 20:39, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
OK: the three things I've been doing with it most of late have been the creation of Brazilian river articles (I've had no complaint whatsoever about those); the creation of talkpages; and small cleanup tasks related to batch-created articles (i.e., misidentifying the location of a Brazilian state in a series of articles created off a template). Do you think those are safe? Based on my past experience with them, I can't see that they wouldn't be. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 19:26, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Is there an easy way (a utility bot or something) to know the name or IP of the person who left the last comment at Talk:Rorschach_test/images/2009-06_Arguments_Con#.231_-_It_may_harm_a_psychologist.27s_ability_to_protect_the_welfare_of_his.2Fher_patient.I'm curious. Danglingdiagnosis ( talk) 16:42, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Why should RTV be a reason for deletion? — Mythdon ( talk • contribs) 18:05, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to be communication with you via edit summaries while reverting. I have opened a more appropriate form of discussion in this thread. I really don't think there is a demonstrated consensus on the guideline talk page to warrant making this mandatory, much less block over. Chillum 02:46, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Basing policy or even guidelines off the communities reaction to a single person or event is not advisable. I think we can just see what the talk page has to say and I will abide by that even if I disagree. I don't think it is hand-wringing, I would just like to see consensus for the guideline change to be observed, not interpolated from a user's RFC. I also hold a contrary point of view on this matter. There is no hurry, unless somebodies linkless signature is creating a particularly significant amount of disruption right now. If you are right about consensus then that will become clear soon and I will accept that. Chillum 02:57, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
I did not revert you based on what you think(I am sure your reasons are sound and not due to boredom ;>), I based it on what I think and what the talk page of the guideline seems to reflect. I am not about to go on reverting, 2 reverts is my limit. There is a discussion ongoing and I hope that will clear all of this up. Chillum 03:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
I has been part of a guideline for some time now, but guidelines do not mandate, they guide. Chillum 03:06, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, Is there a way to bookmark articles within the Wikipedia universe. For sometime now I've been using the watch article as bookmarks but came to know its not an efficient tool. Do know about deli.cious as well as other bookmarking tools as well as the in-built Firefox and other browsers bookmarking service.
For wikipedia though,I do feel it would be nice if such a service is there as there are lot of articles which are interesting and want to see where they are heading. Do you know of any such service? Even if there is a discussion of such a service you know, please lemme know. Shirishag75 ( talk) 06:19, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Continuing on from the archived conversation, "I got five pages of shades of green to choose from from List of colors. Will those work?" -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 14:42, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
← No wonder I couldn't find your signature subpage whilst stalking your contributions! I totally disregarded the monobook.js edits because I didn't know it would be possible that way. Clever indeed! I think ParserFunctions could do it with an ifeq, exrp, and time function. – xeno talk 22:40, 4 August 2009 (UTC) (Your use my of preferred indention method while here is also noted and sincerely appreciated ;>)
Hi Xeno: Might you have time to deliver the WikiProject Birds newsletter this month? It's the same setup as last time (June). Newsletter at Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Outreach/Newsletter, link at Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Outreach/Newsletter link. Participants at Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds#Active, with delivery options at Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Outreach#Delivery options. Folks should get the link unless they specify otherwise. Please let me know if there's anything else you need — or if you won't be able to do it this week. Thanks! MeegsC | Talk 21:52, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Just to be sure, posting this file for deletion here through WP:Possibly unfree files is the right procedure, right? I've notified the uploader, but I don't see him opposing deletion because he removed my notice afterwards. I would have just put it up for speedy deletion using {{ db-unfree}} since it isn't being used, but the image may actually be self-made (photoshopped or something) and therefore it technically wouldn't be unfree. In short, I'm concerned the image won't be deleted because of a technicality and then it'll just be floating around here, unused, until the end of time (it's a loose end, and I'm OCD about loose ends). Can you verify that what I'm doing will get the image katputzed? -- Commdor {Talk} 04:11, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
For your tireless service as an ArchiveBot HelpDesk on my talk page. And so that you know that Mr-I-am-busy notices and greatly appreciates your efforts. ;) Cheers! Миша 13 15:48, 7 August 2009 (UTC) |
Wow. Just... wow. I didn't have high hopes that I'd come along and achieve world peace, but Talk:Rorschach test went all pear shaped again pretty damn quickly, didn't it? A faint glimmer of peace for what, about 1/2 an hour? I was all set to defend the idea a little more, clarify a little, ask a question or two, try to save some portion of it. Indeed I had it all previewed and everything, but I went to hit "save" and... I just couldn't. I'm not disappointed because the idea didn't work - I kind of expected that - but the sheer immediate hatred and anger on both sides continues to surprise me. I'm pretty sure AGF on that page is dead. Not just dead, it's been shot, hung, chopped in little bits, and buried deep in a mineshaft. In Antarctica. By suggesting a compromise, I actually seem to have dialed things up a notch. I just.... I just don't understand why adults act like that. And I don't understand what the few calm, rational editors that are there hope to achieve.
I admire your tenacity, but I'm curious (not a rhetorical question, an honest one) why do you stick around there and try to mediate when it becomes clearer by the second that 2/3 of the regulars have no desire to solve a problem, they just want to get their way? Are you just trying to keep it from completely blowing up, or do you have hopes of eventually brokering something? I'd be tempted to just let it turn into a steel cage death match, in the hopes it attracted even more BATTLEGROUNDers, occupied their time, and kept them away from the other articles.
Anyway, although it is an honest question, don't answer if you don't feel like it. There's probably a special level of Hell reserved for people who try to demoralize peacemakers, and I probably just bought myself a reservation there. I just saw the talk page contributions of the last couple of hours, and decided it might be best to unwatch the page, and was curious why you haven't done the same thing by now. I tip my hat to your Quixotic task; I'm off to go find a different, easier, slightly more mundane windmill to tilt. Perhaps I'll go try to single-handedly solve all the Eastern European article problems; I suspect the editors there are slightly less locked-in to their own world view. </whine> Good luck, and sorry. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 01:45, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
It's not a POV fork. It's a sub-article. We probably have tens or hundreds of thousands of them here. As described by a couple of people above, we could fill it with real, useful, sourced, quality information; more than would fit or belong in this article. It would have the side effect of allowing some knowledgeable people to improve this article too. Win-win. It won't shunt the images off to a subpage with no mention of them in the article, there will be a section, with a {{ main}} template, and a paragraph summarizing it. It is better for readers who want to know about it, not worse.
Can I ask someone to take a few minutes to explain without using any WP:ALLCAPSSHORTCUTSTOPOLICIESORESSAYS, why this is a bad idea? How it makes anything worse than the quagmire we have now?
Is it possible that if you weren't arguing with people you no longer trust, you'd think it was a better idea?
Real consensus (the real-world definition linked, not the slightly off-kilter way "consensus" is developed on Wikipedia most of the time) involves actual compromise, and good-faith conceding of points that you don't quite agree with but that you can live with, because it bothers the other person significantly, and they're more likely to concede a point that matters to you. If this particular idea doesn't fly, it won't bother me much (It was Faustian's idea, not mine! :) It's on his head!) But ultimately, long-lasting consensus is reached through compromise more than through obstinancy. People have spent months and months not budging from their position and talking past each other; Dear God in Heaven, look at the talk page archives and think about what that quantity of chatter, mostly sequential monologues rather than discussion, represents. I'll tell you what it represents to me: A Waste.
The Sisyphean Barnstar | ||
For trying, day after day after day, against all odds, to bring some level of rationality, honor and humor to Talk:Rorschach test, I (by the power invested in me by the State of Incredulity), hereby award Xeno this Sisyphean Barnstar. Keep it up, you're gaining bucketloads of good karma. If I had any skill in graphics, this would be a picture of a guy trying to roll a barnstar up a hill. But I don't, so it's just a comandeered Barnstar of Diligence. Kind of the same thing. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 02:04, 7 August 2009 (UTC) |
I prefer waiting for 1 or 2 weeks before lifting semi-protection. Ruslik_ Zero 08:35, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Rorschach test images. SlimVirgin talk| contribs 16:26, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Please respond to this post on the CfD talk page. At present Cydebot is not processing requests that contain special characters. The questions for you are does your bot do this? Is it still running for CfD? Can you deal with the small backlog of these requests? Vegaswikian ( talk) 20:32, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
In the interest of impartiality I simply was messaging all the regular editors who've edited on the article over the last 100 edits. No worries! -- Banjeboi 22:13, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno - stubs types that have had their names changed from names that fit in with normal stub naming (e.g., Diving-bio-stub) are usually kept but with a note on the template explaining what should be used instead. Not sure who started the practice but it does make some sense, since it means that an editor doesn't need to go hunting for the list if they get a redlink. The same this is done with a handful of othr deprecated stub types like {{ China-geo-stub}} and {{ Football-stub}}. Grutness... wha? 00:19, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
On the subject of these deprecated templates, BTW, I had to undo a change made by Xenobot to {{ China-geo-stub}} - it needs more than the standard asbox conversion - see [9]. Any ideas how to get asbox to handle that? Grutness... wha? 01:42, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Add {{ CentralAm-geo-stub}} to that list. Grutness... wha? 22:48, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
User Ratel is trying to archive an active discussion in Aktion T4. This User Ratel is clearly involved in the discussion.
comment made by 190.25.101.144 ( talk) 05:36, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
so it's hidden just cos you think it doesn't pertain? This is plainly out of order since I in good faith think it pertains, as I've indicated. Rather, if you think it doesn't pertain, you should simply amend the discussion to provide your take and let readers decide. ↜Just M E here , now 15:28, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Yeah I think that's fair. I'm in the east end; I'm nowhere near downtown. Typically the person is located near downtown though. Gary King ( talk) 17:24, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
This is hopefully the final time I'll resurrect this. I've recreated my sandbox to have all of the potential colours shown. I've given up any hope of trying to decide. Can you narrow down the list for me, getting rid of colours that don't show up all that greatly on your screen/don't look green? -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 10:52, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
← The only thing I can see is "Sign my name exactly as shown" (but I'm pretty sure that was once something about raw signatures. Can't find any other likley thing in my preferences. Should I tick this? -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 10:18, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
← There's no deadline, but then there's that annoying thing called life... and lack of teh intarwebs. -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 16:07, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
would it have really harmed the project for more editors to see the template and comment on it. i deleted once and you twice. if many editors agree, you should have awaited another's showing up. (sheesh -- we NON- edit warriors lose when only we're the only ones who decline to edit war.... where's a police officer when ya need one!!!) ;^) ↜Just M E here , now 18:26, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
why are you deleting talk page comments? now nobody will know why it was protected without looking through the history. and i wont know why smashville reverted my edits.-- Cddoughty ( talk) 20:16, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
I really feel a little sad about it I wish I could wish him well. I will send you a private message on this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dela Rabadilla ( talk • contribs) 01:55, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
I would like your opinion on the legal discussion at User_talk:Jmh649/Suppression_of_content#Legal. The initial comment on the main page was clearly perceived as a legal threat by the talk page's owner, and as I say in my last two comments, I don't really see how saying "but, oh, it's know actually me who's bringing you to court" diminishes any chilling effects that the policy talks about. I'd prefer some input from you rather than bringing it straight to ANI. -- LjL ( talk) 14:20, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
FWIW, I didn't read (or intend myself) any intent of legal threat. I think the point of the discussion was to point out what the editors involved thought was a realistic possibility, that someone else who perceived WP as having caused harm might well sue on grounds other than copyvio. Mirafra ( talk) 18:09, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I wondered if I could request your help. There is a sockpuppet accusation going on on my page and wondered if you could check it out and provide a neutral party opinion. Thanks. -- Scythre Talk Contribs 21:50, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I've talked to several administrators about Literaturegeek's continued uncivil behaviour after arbitration. [12] Nja247 suggested your name. I can document it all if you are willing to intervene. I don't need action taken for past transgressions, but I do want this behaviour to stop at some point. That can be done through a warning, sanction, or some sort of process that gets her moving in the right direction. It really doesn't matter how it is done, as long as it stops. I am willing to wait for progress, but I want an administrator to commit to a plan of action. Either that or point me in the right direction so that this problem can be resolved. She doesn't want to take part in any process with me and she doesn't believe she is personalizing the talk pages. [13] That's all well and good, but no one should have to put up with abuse indefinitely.-- scuro ( talk) 03:48, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey Xeno, got a slight problem at the admin board Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Request for review of admin's actions? the person who is making the complaint was n;ocked 2xs for violating 3rr is complaining about it and attacking everyone who disagrees which so far has been everyone. It is becoming disruptive and riduculous am I out of line requesting a short term block to stop the attacks and disruptions? Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 15:44, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. I believe that this image meets CSD-G10 since the picture is about a very recent, non-notable band, and the article that the file has placed to does not anymore exists (apparently it has been deleted about 2 hours before you declined the CSD). Thanks and happy editing! E Wing ( talk) 17:00, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
An entirely random question. On April 1st, all the media tends to have a prank article. Does Wikipedia do the same? -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 15:31, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Just a little note to thank you for your participation and mediation of the Rorschach test dispute. It can't be easy to mediate a discussion which has taken place for the best part of three years, but I feel with this latest RfC we are making significant steps forward to ending this dispute once and for all. If you need any help on articles elsewhere in the encyclopaedia, feel free to ask :) Regards, --— Cyclonenim | Chat 17:54, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your help earlier undoing the move of " Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey". While I have your attention...
I came across a redirect page that I think should be deleted, " EGSTHEMAMM". It redirects to "Everybody's Got ..." but it seems highly implausible that someone would enter that particular set of uppercase characters hoping to find the song article, and so it's a good candidate for a speedy delete. If it requires an AfD instead, I don't now how to do that for a redirect page. (You can't add the AfD template the page without breaking the redirect.) What is a logical next step? — John Cardinal ( talk) 18:13, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I was in a pattern and was used to it. That I think is even more embarassing than my RFA related stuff. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 22:21, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello Xeno, the editors of WP:SHIPS have a matter in which you are peripherally involved, through adopting a new editor, if you remember Tim1357 ( talk · contribs) at User_talk:Tim1357/adoption. Please see this: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ships#U-boat_infoboxes. - MBK 004 23:27, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
hello , i don't know where this question should go so i am asking you directly on your page
at 18:14 on 14 August 2009 (UTC) you have approved User:Tango22 for using AWB , i don't get why you did as i don't see any edits for the user. greeting -- Hybirdd ( talk) 14:30, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
I have, for most of them...not the orchids, I have to confess, but everything else. As to bot approval, I'm not even sure if I'm going to continue with AWBing in these numbers, anyhow; to be perfectly honest I'm running out of lists of redlinks that can be comfortably filled like that. (Biographies and structures I much prefer to stub by hand...organisms I find can be done more quickly.) -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 13:40, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
[20]. I think I'd made this mistake quite a few times. It looks fine in Preview! But, of course, it eats the entire remainder of the page. The current RfAr/Abd-William M. Connolley had the entire bottom half in collapse for several days, possibly because of this. I'd call it a bug, but ... whatever it is, it had its mandibles firmly attached to my backside. Thanks for promptly fixing it. -- Abd ( talk) 13:45, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
This edit added all the Tolkien stubs to Category:Danish building and structure stubs. Please be careful when editing templates like this: this can have unintended side-effects; such as, in this case, making my bot tag articles on Middle Earth as {{ coord missing}}. Could you please go back and check any similar edits you might have made recently? -- The Anome ( talk) 14:49, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Have you lost interest in this? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 16:41, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Do you think this user is connected with 4chan or a similar anon group? I don't know why he is suggesting to unprotect these articles. Momo san Gespräch 17:42, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
I think it's time I bring him up at ANI and let other users chime in on this. Momo san Gespräch 18:58, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know (again). I wans't referring to you as a "belligerent soul" by the way, I mean the editors who seem to relish scolding others and try to portray people who are trying to expand the site as a vandal rather than assuming good faith. Guten nacht! Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:05, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Working my socks off!!!. I really don't know what the problem is. I've hardly abandoned these stubs and am filling them out. They should be thanking me! Yes you are right, I think people should cut the drama and just get on with the job. Some people especially need a good kick up the backside. I don't think Hulcha is one of them, but she certainly has major issues.... There is a set amount of work to do, in my view the sooner this work is done the better. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:34, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
There always ways to work together and reach a reasonable solution. Leaving wikipedia because somebody started some referenced stubs is not normal. The reason, because she finds it harder to navigate and feels too stressed by a template. P.S. I would much rather write full articles than "Formulaic stub creation" . Unfortunately as there are few bot editors willing to do some constructive to stop humans creating sub stubs much needed articles have to be started much less efficiently... If bots could provide a decent start then I could purely concentrate on fleshing them out.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:22, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm going to split that template into manageable districts. It is too huge. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:36, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your note. I have answered all here: User_talk:Huldra#The_blue_soup, Huldra ( talk) 22:22, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
I removed the transclusions from several CSD stub templates after your comment and restored the CSD tags. Thanks! SchmuckyTheCat ( talk)
...so Gatesgate can be unprotected! :^) Or, if we're supposed to wait, rather, until EST rolls around, cuja edit the booking photo's caption to read "Cambridge police booking photo of Gates taken after his arrest on July 16. 2009. Charges were dropped five days later," per talkpage consensus? ↜Just M E here , now 00:40, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, your edit summaries and the post on the talk page seem to indicate that you believe the page should redirect to Paint It, Black. However, you've left it with a speedy delete tag? -- JD554 ( talk) 17:54, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I've got no idea what the hell just happened. I was flicking through the page on Ultimate Force and I opened one of the actors' pages (Jamie Traven) in a new tab. The next thing I know, the tab has vanished before it's loaded and Wikipedia wants to download something to the library computer? This happened three times before I decided it was suspicious enough to report. Interestingly, nothing happens now and the page loads fine. The history shows no edits in the last twenty days and so I'm completely baffled. Have you got any explanation for this at all? -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 15:04, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
... that the image deletion was accidental, and well done for sorting it out with MBisanz. ;) JN 466 21:07, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey, just noticed that Template:GameFAQs and Template:StrategyWiki were put up for TFD. It seems the TFD tags weren't noincluded so it was calling the tag in all transclusions. I fixed this on the latter template but not the former, which is indef-locked. Requesting admin intervention... BlazerKnight ( talk) 10:10, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
The article Bulbophyllum abbreviatum has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bulbophyllum abbreviatum.-- Gavin Collins ( talk| contribs) 11:52, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm pretty certain you two were familiar with each other (at the very least, he was a good editor), so I thought I should point out that Commdor's left the Wiki. I've put up a little memorial on his talk page. :P -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 14:37, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Regarding Talk:Minimed Paradigm. I realize in reading the related postings [24] that i have not been very clear with you regarding my request. My request is to have the entire page deleted, including all history, regardless of what User:Sme3 thinks. But i do thank you for your good-faith inital action. Henry Delforn ( talk) 23:48, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
File:MirMine3.JPG is on the Main Page now as part of DYK. However, the picture is from Google Maps and has a Google watermark. Could you look at the discussion at Wikipedia:ERRORS#Errors in Did you know? and take any action necessary? Shubinator ( talk) 00:34, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
How do u set status changer manually? I tried everything but they didn't work. I want it to be set to 'online' always. What do I need to put on my userpage & talk page? please help, I'm new here. Thanks. -peace HipHopSavior ( talk) 08:26, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
I've heard that, but I've never figured out how when MediaWiki:Robots.txt doesn't list userspace. Do you know where the code is that determines this? (Watching) - Dank ( push to talk) 17:54, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello Xeno. How are you ? You have done a tremendously good job with the stub template, well done. You have already improved the accessibility of hundreds of thousand web pages (and most likely over a million). You're nearly done with those, cheer up!
As I told you earlier, I would like to improve the usability and accessibility of the Navbox template.
I did usability testing on the Navbox, and made a complete review. I thought you might be interested to help me improve the Navbox. The thing is, I am no Javascript expert, so I'm unable to improve the Navbox's JS. Could you let me know what you think? Could you redirect me to users who might be interested, and skilled with Javascript as well? I found Category:User js-4 and Category:User js-5, but I don't know anyone of them (I'm mostly working on the french WP).
Perhaps you have heard about WAI-ARIA?
The Navbox is something that the Wikipedia Usability Initiative is unlikely to improve, because it is a content produced by the users only. I do believe they don't want to get involved with those things. So we need to handle that by ourselves. :-) Cheers. (^_^) Dodoïste ( talk) 11:52, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
importScript('User:TheDJ/Navboxtest.js')
in your
monobook script, will show a simple "inverse" of the two elements. Making this change would be trivial. Like I said, moving it to the right of the header will be more problematic due to the alignment issues, but is also possible. —
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Fixed — The shortness of "B" caused the script to match it to Badleydrawnjeff's RfA, which was the first listed RfA that started with a "B"; but I took advantage of the HTML of the page source, and voilà. — Animum ( talk) 00:44, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Nice work with the stub templates. Are you sure this edit didn't affect any existing uses? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 20:25, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
You might want to run a check for more cases like this. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 12:33, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
As an uninvolved admin, would you mind closing this MfD? I think it was malformed, so it's not showing up as over seven days old (started on the 17th). Thanks! Vicenarian ( Said · Done) 15:45, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! Vicenarian ( Said · Done) 15:58, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Well, IMO all discussions should be archived (all the other RFPERMs are archived, I kinda presumed AWB was as well). I was planning to archive to Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Archive. I'm currently programming a semi-automated tool to help with the archiving (which is why it's taking so long). So it won't be difficult. It also shouldn't take up too much space, because it will just be a line of text for each requests, but with a link to an old revision of the page with that request (just before it was archived). Hopefully it'll be okay if I go ahead and start archiving AWB requests along with the other's. Also, thanks for pointing out the typo :D. - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 21:52, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to inform you there actually is an inline Template:Where very similar to what the IP editor used on Rorschach test... and I think they were partly right, too (though no, I'm not going to insert inlines like that myself). The issue is that most of the sources cited (at least the ones I added) often don't even think of specifying which country their data refer to. I have a feeling that, when they don't, one may almost safely assume they mean the US... but my feeling aren't a source.
Aside from this, I also have to say that I am a bit astonished (I don't merely pretend to be when talking to psychologists on the talk page) at the differences between our article and the ones on the Italian or French Wikipedias, which give entirely different prominance to the Exner system, for example. The psychologists may well keep saying Exner is the only valid and widely used system, but that's hardly what transpires from non-English Wikipedias (maybe their articles are even worse than ours is, though! and ours is apparently quite bad).
So maybe a "no worldwide view" template isn't unwarranted.
-- LjL ( talk) 23:15, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed that every time I come here, someone is complaining about something or other happening on that page and I finally decided to check it out. *blinks wildly* It's the inkblot test??? People are getting this worked up over inkblots? I figured it had something to do with atomic weapons tests or something. -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 09:58, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
taken a quick look at the above category, will try to get round to sorting some later (probalby weekend). It looks like those under E are not stub templates most appear to be tests, may be worth someone with experiance of templates outside of stub templates looking at thes (though I think tey probably want the articles written and then these templates deleted) Waacstats ( talk) 15:32, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
re: your post to Jimbo's page here. I had noticed that too - it stayed open almost a whole whopping 8 hours. Clearly the entire community had plenty of time to voice their opinions, and it is quite obvious that .... ya da, ya da. </sarcasm>. By the way, while the page itself isn't mentioned, there is a case currently being done at arbcom on this user now as well. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Noloop/Evidence. The best part of it is, it seems he is the aggrieved party here! Odd how that works, I guess you can tell someone: "fuck off troll" (after telling someone else: "go fuck yourself"), and you're the injured party. (note: those are his direct quotes, not mine). It's not just the picture, but the attitude he addresses other users with. Honestly Xeno, I doubt that much will come of it - it appears that some people feel that since he's such a good content contributor, that he can talk to people any way he pleases, and it just gets brushed aside as acceptable. Personally, .... well, never-mind. What's the use? Sorry for ranting on your shoulder - but I do feel a bit better now .. lol. Cheers buddy. — Ched : ? 15:29, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
If you'll note the talk page of Bsbfan, you'll see a slew of warnings of speedy deletions for a lot of content having to do with his non-notable ban that has earned 1300 rupees to date (about US$26). The band is completely non-notable, and the media upload related to the band has no purpose here, and never would. I fail to see any point in keeping it around. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:58, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you were pretty good with wikitech and such from your comments on BigTimePeace's page, could you tell me what I did wrong with this bot? It should have archived several old discussions by now. Soxwon ( talk) 07:56, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
I thought you did that deliberately, and I was halfway to the block button when I looked at the history, and saw that you caught the mistake.*laughs* :) SirFozzie ( talk) 21:52, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Regarding ASE, actually he's got a fairly long history of that behavior. I just never complained before. Don't know what the best solution to the problem is, but you should be aware. If you're seriously considering reopening the discussion on that basis I'd like a chance to provide evidence, although on balance it might be easier on everyone to let things simmer down. Ping me in six weeks and if the problem hasn't resumed I promise I'll initiate the thread to remove that clause. Fair enough? Durova 306 23:38, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you both very much. If a neutral party could earn ASE's trust that would really be the best solution. The thing that has made this situation so difficult to resolve appears to be a banned user called Pwok, who--although I can't prove it--seems to be the individual who runs the fake site that pretends to be Matt's personal site and runs the anti-Matt forum. It wouldn't be surprising if the telephone and email harassment and impersonation come from Pwok.
When things begin to settle down someone has stirred the pot by trolling the editors who have been in conflict with Matt: last year when Benjiboi and Eleemosynary were topic banned from the Matt Sanchez biography an AOL IP posted insults to both of their user talk pages in a style that resembled Matt's worst moments. Eleemosynary imploded and earned an indefinite block shortly afterward. They probably both believed it was Matt trolling in violation of what was then his siteban, and that I was covering for him. Actually Matt knew nothing about the topic bans until I contacted him to ask about those AOL IP edits (I was on the verge of resigning as his mentor). He was able to link me to a video of an interview he had given for French television on the day when the trolling occurred. Matt had never demonstrated enough technical skill to fake an AOL IP from overseas.
The bottom line here is that I believe there's someone so dedicated to prolonging this dispute that he'll troll both sides and doesn't care if his supporters get sitebanned for believing him. Others believe that some or all of the impersonation really is Matt speaking, that the harassment consists of faked claims, and that either Matt has duped me or I'm abetting his deceit for selfish reasons. Durova 306 16:37, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
We are running a little thin at MfD. We could use some participation if you have some time, I know you've done MfD work in the past. Gigs ( talk) 00:43, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. I was in the midst of deleting one revision. But the site took so long to respond, I lost interest in waiting. — EncMstr ( talk) 21:07, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno - best thing would probably be to make something like Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Complete template list and add it to Category:WikiProject Stub sorting, then announce it on the talk pages of WP:WSS, WP:WSS/D, and maybe WP:WSS/TD, WP:WSS/ST and WP:SFD. Cheers, Grutness... wha? 23:01, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
'unfuck it'? best term ever. regards. Law type! snype? 12:19, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for using the hat template. I was thinking that Resolved was supposed to be the cue to make everyone stop talking, but it looks like I should have used hat instead. @ harej 20:16, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Noted, I will ask before i make any more larg scale article creations. And, in response to my articles being innapropriately refrenced: I am in the process of fixing that. Thanks Tim1357 ( talk) 14:50, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey xeno, just out of curiosity why did you add American-task-force to the film Hard Boiled? Nothing in the article really relates it to an American production or American funding or American filming locations. What up? Andrzejbanas ( talk) 18:20, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
I note this has a note which should probably go in the "note" field. There may be more, but IIRC it was "youth novels" that required that field in the first place, so may be just the novels project. Rich Farmbrough, 21:43, 31 August 2009 (UTC).
Hey Xeno, are you aware that some of the templates that were converted to asbox did not have their categories correctly converted? For instance like this: [32] and [33]. Borgarde ( talk) 10:58, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Since according to one of your userboxen you like the game, I thought I'd direct you to here in the vague hope you might have seen a source before. -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 10:58, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
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Hello. Since you are working on accessibility, could you take a look a this proposal? I see you also have Xenobot, so maybe you could help me. Thanks. Dodoïste ( talk) 18:43, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
<img alt="Stub icon" src="http://
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bugzilla:19906 yesterday and voted for it. I also send an e-mail to the french accessibility expert working on the french Wiki, the one who introduced me to accessibility and usability, to ask him his opinion about this bug. I hope he will respond soon, but he doesn't always answer since he's busy enough already. Let's hope we'll be lucky. :-)
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Hi Xeno, just thought I'd float an idea by you. Might it be possible to add an extra parameter to those templates you are converting? Something along the lines of name=<name of template>. For example on Template:USAF-bio-stub you would have the additional parameter name=Template:USAF-bio-stub. This would allow the navbar functionality I suggested at Template talk:Asbox and might well have other uses in the future. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 16:25, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
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Resolved – Mark 8/8/9 as the day I learned about one of my bots' seven deadly sins:
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← So it turns out my bot was being greedy. Fixed [2]. Thanks for the indirect regex lesson =) – xeno talk 20:41, 8 August 2009 (UTC) Stub templates should never do any non-stub categorisation - for this will be lost when the stub-template is removed from the article. Rich Farmbrough, 21:33, 6 August 2009 (UTC).
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00:41, 9 August 2009 (UTC)Don't know if it has just happened with {{ US-keyboardist-stub}} or if it has haapened elsewhere but your bot appears to have broken this template. I have reverted it, may be you could look to see what the problem was. Waacstats ( talk) 22:30, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
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Broken markup in an edit by Xenobot as {{ NewZealand-school-stub}}. I've reverted the edit rather than try to work out the proper syntax.- gadfium 06:14, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
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I had to undo this edit because it made the image on {{ US-stub}} blow up to full size. Does the template your bot is applying have image size control? -- Eastlaw talk ⁄ contribs 05:27, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
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Why do you keep removing the description? - "This article is a stub relating to law in Scotland." Surely that is far better than merely "This article is a stub." -- Mais oui! ( talk) 10:43, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
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Has Xenobot finished on the Stubs or are you just talking a well deserved break? There's still quite a few out there. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 06:19, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
"alt=stub icon"
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For you amazing work on the stub template. You have improved the Web accessibility of over a million Web pages, a professional would have never dreamt of having such a huge impact. ;-) Thanks for your kindness and your help! Dodoïste ( talk) 00:02, 25 August 2009 (UTC) |
How do I raise a question mark where I see something which has not been verified or referred ? I have seen question mark in some articles. Shirishag75 ( talk) 18:17, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
I had tried it several times and stil kept getting the 25K. Been meaning to ask but I have had some internet issues and haven't had the chance to ask. Thanks for the info. Given the amount of effort for the workaround I still think that a more dynamically generated list builder would be better. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:53, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
I saw an AN where you collapsed a discussion and closed it after someone asked if a lawyer involved in the National Portrait Gallery/Wikipedia dispute should be unblocked.
In the few months that I've edited a lot, I've learnt that there are some Wikipedia customs that are known by the old timers but are not written down.
It seems that you are suggesting that nobody can ask for someone's unblock. Yet people ask for someone's block on ANI all the time. This doesn't seem like Wikipedia is very fair. The fair policy would be that requesting someone else's unblock is permitted. As a result, don't you think it's the fair and open thing to do to remove the AN collapsable box for that discussion.
Just a disclaimer, I am more interested in the process that the actual National Portrait Gallery issue. I hadn't heard that there was a problem until very recently.
If there are any hidden places with Wikipedia customs, let me know. If there's anything about collapsible boxes or prohibition to asking for someone's block to be reviewed, let me know. I have heard of the NLT policy which is why I am not asking for unblock of that lawyer. User F203 ( talk) 20:39, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
OK: the three things I've been doing with it most of late have been the creation of Brazilian river articles (I've had no complaint whatsoever about those); the creation of talkpages; and small cleanup tasks related to batch-created articles (i.e., misidentifying the location of a Brazilian state in a series of articles created off a template). Do you think those are safe? Based on my past experience with them, I can't see that they wouldn't be. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 19:26, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Is there an easy way (a utility bot or something) to know the name or IP of the person who left the last comment at Talk:Rorschach_test/images/2009-06_Arguments_Con#.231_-_It_may_harm_a_psychologist.27s_ability_to_protect_the_welfare_of_his.2Fher_patient.I'm curious. Danglingdiagnosis ( talk) 16:42, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Why should RTV be a reason for deletion? — Mythdon ( talk • contribs) 18:05, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to be communication with you via edit summaries while reverting. I have opened a more appropriate form of discussion in this thread. I really don't think there is a demonstrated consensus on the guideline talk page to warrant making this mandatory, much less block over. Chillum 02:46, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Basing policy or even guidelines off the communities reaction to a single person or event is not advisable. I think we can just see what the talk page has to say and I will abide by that even if I disagree. I don't think it is hand-wringing, I would just like to see consensus for the guideline change to be observed, not interpolated from a user's RFC. I also hold a contrary point of view on this matter. There is no hurry, unless somebodies linkless signature is creating a particularly significant amount of disruption right now. If you are right about consensus then that will become clear soon and I will accept that. Chillum 02:57, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
I did not revert you based on what you think(I am sure your reasons are sound and not due to boredom ;>), I based it on what I think and what the talk page of the guideline seems to reflect. I am not about to go on reverting, 2 reverts is my limit. There is a discussion ongoing and I hope that will clear all of this up. Chillum 03:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
I has been part of a guideline for some time now, but guidelines do not mandate, they guide. Chillum 03:06, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, Is there a way to bookmark articles within the Wikipedia universe. For sometime now I've been using the watch article as bookmarks but came to know its not an efficient tool. Do know about deli.cious as well as other bookmarking tools as well as the in-built Firefox and other browsers bookmarking service.
For wikipedia though,I do feel it would be nice if such a service is there as there are lot of articles which are interesting and want to see where they are heading. Do you know of any such service? Even if there is a discussion of such a service you know, please lemme know. Shirishag75 ( talk) 06:19, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Continuing on from the archived conversation, "I got five pages of shades of green to choose from from List of colors. Will those work?" -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 14:42, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
← No wonder I couldn't find your signature subpage whilst stalking your contributions! I totally disregarded the monobook.js edits because I didn't know it would be possible that way. Clever indeed! I think ParserFunctions could do it with an ifeq, exrp, and time function. – xeno talk 22:40, 4 August 2009 (UTC) (Your use my of preferred indention method while here is also noted and sincerely appreciated ;>)
Hi Xeno: Might you have time to deliver the WikiProject Birds newsletter this month? It's the same setup as last time (June). Newsletter at Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Outreach/Newsletter, link at Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Outreach/Newsletter link. Participants at Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds#Active, with delivery options at Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Outreach#Delivery options. Folks should get the link unless they specify otherwise. Please let me know if there's anything else you need — or if you won't be able to do it this week. Thanks! MeegsC | Talk 21:52, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Just to be sure, posting this file for deletion here through WP:Possibly unfree files is the right procedure, right? I've notified the uploader, but I don't see him opposing deletion because he removed my notice afterwards. I would have just put it up for speedy deletion using {{ db-unfree}} since it isn't being used, but the image may actually be self-made (photoshopped or something) and therefore it technically wouldn't be unfree. In short, I'm concerned the image won't be deleted because of a technicality and then it'll just be floating around here, unused, until the end of time (it's a loose end, and I'm OCD about loose ends). Can you verify that what I'm doing will get the image katputzed? -- Commdor {Talk} 04:11, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
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For your tireless service as an ArchiveBot HelpDesk on my talk page. And so that you know that Mr-I-am-busy notices and greatly appreciates your efforts. ;) Cheers! Миша 13 15:48, 7 August 2009 (UTC) |
Wow. Just... wow. I didn't have high hopes that I'd come along and achieve world peace, but Talk:Rorschach test went all pear shaped again pretty damn quickly, didn't it? A faint glimmer of peace for what, about 1/2 an hour? I was all set to defend the idea a little more, clarify a little, ask a question or two, try to save some portion of it. Indeed I had it all previewed and everything, but I went to hit "save" and... I just couldn't. I'm not disappointed because the idea didn't work - I kind of expected that - but the sheer immediate hatred and anger on both sides continues to surprise me. I'm pretty sure AGF on that page is dead. Not just dead, it's been shot, hung, chopped in little bits, and buried deep in a mineshaft. In Antarctica. By suggesting a compromise, I actually seem to have dialed things up a notch. I just.... I just don't understand why adults act like that. And I don't understand what the few calm, rational editors that are there hope to achieve.
I admire your tenacity, but I'm curious (not a rhetorical question, an honest one) why do you stick around there and try to mediate when it becomes clearer by the second that 2/3 of the regulars have no desire to solve a problem, they just want to get their way? Are you just trying to keep it from completely blowing up, or do you have hopes of eventually brokering something? I'd be tempted to just let it turn into a steel cage death match, in the hopes it attracted even more BATTLEGROUNDers, occupied their time, and kept them away from the other articles.
Anyway, although it is an honest question, don't answer if you don't feel like it. There's probably a special level of Hell reserved for people who try to demoralize peacemakers, and I probably just bought myself a reservation there. I just saw the talk page contributions of the last couple of hours, and decided it might be best to unwatch the page, and was curious why you haven't done the same thing by now. I tip my hat to your Quixotic task; I'm off to go find a different, easier, slightly more mundane windmill to tilt. Perhaps I'll go try to single-handedly solve all the Eastern European article problems; I suspect the editors there are slightly less locked-in to their own world view. </whine> Good luck, and sorry. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 01:45, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
It's not a POV fork. It's a sub-article. We probably have tens or hundreds of thousands of them here. As described by a couple of people above, we could fill it with real, useful, sourced, quality information; more than would fit or belong in this article. It would have the side effect of allowing some knowledgeable people to improve this article too. Win-win. It won't shunt the images off to a subpage with no mention of them in the article, there will be a section, with a {{ main}} template, and a paragraph summarizing it. It is better for readers who want to know about it, not worse.
Can I ask someone to take a few minutes to explain without using any WP:ALLCAPSSHORTCUTSTOPOLICIESORESSAYS, why this is a bad idea? How it makes anything worse than the quagmire we have now?
Is it possible that if you weren't arguing with people you no longer trust, you'd think it was a better idea?
Real consensus (the real-world definition linked, not the slightly off-kilter way "consensus" is developed on Wikipedia most of the time) involves actual compromise, and good-faith conceding of points that you don't quite agree with but that you can live with, because it bothers the other person significantly, and they're more likely to concede a point that matters to you. If this particular idea doesn't fly, it won't bother me much (It was Faustian's idea, not mine! :) It's on his head!) But ultimately, long-lasting consensus is reached through compromise more than through obstinancy. People have spent months and months not budging from their position and talking past each other; Dear God in Heaven, look at the talk page archives and think about what that quantity of chatter, mostly sequential monologues rather than discussion, represents. I'll tell you what it represents to me: A Waste.
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For trying, day after day after day, against all odds, to bring some level of rationality, honor and humor to Talk:Rorschach test, I (by the power invested in me by the State of Incredulity), hereby award Xeno this Sisyphean Barnstar. Keep it up, you're gaining bucketloads of good karma. If I had any skill in graphics, this would be a picture of a guy trying to roll a barnstar up a hill. But I don't, so it's just a comandeered Barnstar of Diligence. Kind of the same thing. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 02:04, 7 August 2009 (UTC) |
I prefer waiting for 1 or 2 weeks before lifting semi-protection. Ruslik_ Zero 08:35, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Rorschach test images. SlimVirgin talk| contribs 16:26, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Please respond to this post on the CfD talk page. At present Cydebot is not processing requests that contain special characters. The questions for you are does your bot do this? Is it still running for CfD? Can you deal with the small backlog of these requests? Vegaswikian ( talk) 20:32, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
In the interest of impartiality I simply was messaging all the regular editors who've edited on the article over the last 100 edits. No worries! -- Banjeboi 22:13, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno - stubs types that have had their names changed from names that fit in with normal stub naming (e.g., Diving-bio-stub) are usually kept but with a note on the template explaining what should be used instead. Not sure who started the practice but it does make some sense, since it means that an editor doesn't need to go hunting for the list if they get a redlink. The same this is done with a handful of othr deprecated stub types like {{ China-geo-stub}} and {{ Football-stub}}. Grutness... wha? 00:19, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
On the subject of these deprecated templates, BTW, I had to undo a change made by Xenobot to {{ China-geo-stub}} - it needs more than the standard asbox conversion - see [9]. Any ideas how to get asbox to handle that? Grutness... wha? 01:42, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Add {{ CentralAm-geo-stub}} to that list. Grutness... wha? 22:48, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
User Ratel is trying to archive an active discussion in Aktion T4. This User Ratel is clearly involved in the discussion.
comment made by 190.25.101.144 ( talk) 05:36, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
so it's hidden just cos you think it doesn't pertain? This is plainly out of order since I in good faith think it pertains, as I've indicated. Rather, if you think it doesn't pertain, you should simply amend the discussion to provide your take and let readers decide. ↜Just M E here , now 15:28, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Yeah I think that's fair. I'm in the east end; I'm nowhere near downtown. Typically the person is located near downtown though. Gary King ( talk) 17:24, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
This is hopefully the final time I'll resurrect this. I've recreated my sandbox to have all of the potential colours shown. I've given up any hope of trying to decide. Can you narrow down the list for me, getting rid of colours that don't show up all that greatly on your screen/don't look green? -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 10:52, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
← The only thing I can see is "Sign my name exactly as shown" (but I'm pretty sure that was once something about raw signatures. Can't find any other likley thing in my preferences. Should I tick this? -- Thejadefalcon ( talk) 10:18, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
← There's no deadline, but then there's that annoying thing called life... and lack of teh intarwebs. -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 16:07, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
would it have really harmed the project for more editors to see the template and comment on it. i deleted once and you twice. if many editors agree, you should have awaited another's showing up. (sheesh -- we NON- edit warriors lose when only we're the only ones who decline to edit war.... where's a police officer when ya need one!!!) ;^) ↜Just M E here , now 18:26, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
why are you deleting talk page comments? now nobody will know why it was protected without looking through the history. and i wont know why smashville reverted my edits.-- Cddoughty ( talk) 20:16, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
I really feel a little sad about it I wish I could wish him well. I will send you a private message on this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dela Rabadilla ( talk • contribs) 01:55, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
I would like your opinion on the legal discussion at User_talk:Jmh649/Suppression_of_content#Legal. The initial comment on the main page was clearly perceived as a legal threat by the talk page's owner, and as I say in my last two comments, I don't really see how saying "but, oh, it's know actually me who's bringing you to court" diminishes any chilling effects that the policy talks about. I'd prefer some input from you rather than bringing it straight to ANI. -- LjL ( talk) 14:20, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
FWIW, I didn't read (or intend myself) any intent of legal threat. I think the point of the discussion was to point out what the editors involved thought was a realistic possibility, that someone else who perceived WP as having caused harm might well sue on grounds other than copyvio. Mirafra ( talk) 18:09, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I wondered if I could request your help. There is a sockpuppet accusation going on on my page and wondered if you could check it out and provide a neutral party opinion. Thanks. -- Scythre Talk Contribs 21:50, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I've talked to several administrators about Literaturegeek's continued uncivil behaviour after arbitration. [12] Nja247 suggested your name. I can document it all if you are willing to intervene. I don't need action taken for past transgressions, but I do want this behaviour to stop at some point. That can be done through a warning, sanction, or some sort of process that gets her moving in the right direction. It really doesn't matter how it is done, as long as it stops. I am willing to wait for progress, but I want an administrator to commit to a plan of action. Either that or point me in the right direction so that this problem can be resolved. She doesn't want to take part in any process with me and she doesn't believe she is personalizing the talk pages. [13] That's all well and good, but no one should have to put up with abuse indefinitely.-- scuro ( talk) 03:48, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey Xeno, got a slight problem at the admin board Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Request for review of admin's actions? the person who is making the complaint was n;ocked 2xs for violating 3rr is complaining about it and attacking everyone who disagrees which so far has been everyone. It is becoming disruptive and riduculous am I out of line requesting a short term block to stop the attacks and disruptions? Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 15:44, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. I believe that this image meets CSD-G10 since the picture is about a very recent, non-notable band, and the article that the file has placed to does not anymore exists (apparently it has been deleted about 2 hours before you declined the CSD). Thanks and happy editing! E Wing ( talk) 17:00, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
An entirely random question. On April 1st, all the media tends to have a prank article. Does Wikipedia do the same? -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 15:31, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Just a little note to thank you for your participation and mediation of the Rorschach test dispute. It can't be easy to mediate a discussion which has taken place for the best part of three years, but I feel with this latest RfC we are making significant steps forward to ending this dispute once and for all. If you need any help on articles elsewhere in the encyclopaedia, feel free to ask :) Regards, --— Cyclonenim | Chat 17:54, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your help earlier undoing the move of " Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey". While I have your attention...
I came across a redirect page that I think should be deleted, " EGSTHEMAMM". It redirects to "Everybody's Got ..." but it seems highly implausible that someone would enter that particular set of uppercase characters hoping to find the song article, and so it's a good candidate for a speedy delete. If it requires an AfD instead, I don't now how to do that for a redirect page. (You can't add the AfD template the page without breaking the redirect.) What is a logical next step? — John Cardinal ( talk) 18:13, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I was in a pattern and was used to it. That I think is even more embarassing than my RFA related stuff. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 22:21, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello Xeno, the editors of WP:SHIPS have a matter in which you are peripherally involved, through adopting a new editor, if you remember Tim1357 ( talk · contribs) at User_talk:Tim1357/adoption. Please see this: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ships#U-boat_infoboxes. - MBK 004 23:27, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
hello , i don't know where this question should go so i am asking you directly on your page
at 18:14 on 14 August 2009 (UTC) you have approved User:Tango22 for using AWB , i don't get why you did as i don't see any edits for the user. greeting -- Hybirdd ( talk) 14:30, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
I have, for most of them...not the orchids, I have to confess, but everything else. As to bot approval, I'm not even sure if I'm going to continue with AWBing in these numbers, anyhow; to be perfectly honest I'm running out of lists of redlinks that can be comfortably filled like that. (Biographies and structures I much prefer to stub by hand...organisms I find can be done more quickly.) -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 13:40, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
[20]. I think I'd made this mistake quite a few times. It looks fine in Preview! But, of course, it eats the entire remainder of the page. The current RfAr/Abd-William M. Connolley had the entire bottom half in collapse for several days, possibly because of this. I'd call it a bug, but ... whatever it is, it had its mandibles firmly attached to my backside. Thanks for promptly fixing it. -- Abd ( talk) 13:45, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
This edit added all the Tolkien stubs to Category:Danish building and structure stubs. Please be careful when editing templates like this: this can have unintended side-effects; such as, in this case, making my bot tag articles on Middle Earth as {{ coord missing}}. Could you please go back and check any similar edits you might have made recently? -- The Anome ( talk) 14:49, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Have you lost interest in this? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 16:41, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Do you think this user is connected with 4chan or a similar anon group? I don't know why he is suggesting to unprotect these articles. Momo san Gespräch 17:42, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
I think it's time I bring him up at ANI and let other users chime in on this. Momo san Gespräch 18:58, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know (again). I wans't referring to you as a "belligerent soul" by the way, I mean the editors who seem to relish scolding others and try to portray people who are trying to expand the site as a vandal rather than assuming good faith. Guten nacht! Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:05, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Working my socks off!!!. I really don't know what the problem is. I've hardly abandoned these stubs and am filling them out. They should be thanking me! Yes you are right, I think people should cut the drama and just get on with the job. Some people especially need a good kick up the backside. I don't think Hulcha is one of them, but she certainly has major issues.... There is a set amount of work to do, in my view the sooner this work is done the better. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:34, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
There always ways to work together and reach a reasonable solution. Leaving wikipedia because somebody started some referenced stubs is not normal. The reason, because she finds it harder to navigate and feels too stressed by a template. P.S. I would much rather write full articles than "Formulaic stub creation" . Unfortunately as there are few bot editors willing to do some constructive to stop humans creating sub stubs much needed articles have to be started much less efficiently... If bots could provide a decent start then I could purely concentrate on fleshing them out.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:22, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm going to split that template into manageable districts. It is too huge. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:36, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your note. I have answered all here: User_talk:Huldra#The_blue_soup, Huldra ( talk) 22:22, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
I removed the transclusions from several CSD stub templates after your comment and restored the CSD tags. Thanks! SchmuckyTheCat ( talk)
...so Gatesgate can be unprotected! :^) Or, if we're supposed to wait, rather, until EST rolls around, cuja edit the booking photo's caption to read "Cambridge police booking photo of Gates taken after his arrest on July 16. 2009. Charges were dropped five days later," per talkpage consensus? ↜Just M E here , now 00:40, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno, your edit summaries and the post on the talk page seem to indicate that you believe the page should redirect to Paint It, Black. However, you've left it with a speedy delete tag? -- JD554 ( talk) 17:54, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I've got no idea what the hell just happened. I was flicking through the page on Ultimate Force and I opened one of the actors' pages (Jamie Traven) in a new tab. The next thing I know, the tab has vanished before it's loaded and Wikipedia wants to download something to the library computer? This happened three times before I decided it was suspicious enough to report. Interestingly, nothing happens now and the page loads fine. The history shows no edits in the last twenty days and so I'm completely baffled. Have you got any explanation for this at all? -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 15:04, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
... that the image deletion was accidental, and well done for sorting it out with MBisanz. ;) JN 466 21:07, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey, just noticed that Template:GameFAQs and Template:StrategyWiki were put up for TFD. It seems the TFD tags weren't noincluded so it was calling the tag in all transclusions. I fixed this on the latter template but not the former, which is indef-locked. Requesting admin intervention... BlazerKnight ( talk) 10:10, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
The article Bulbophyllum abbreviatum has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bulbophyllum abbreviatum.-- Gavin Collins ( talk| contribs) 11:52, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm pretty certain you two were familiar with each other (at the very least, he was a good editor), so I thought I should point out that Commdor's left the Wiki. I've put up a little memorial on his talk page. :P -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 14:37, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Regarding Talk:Minimed Paradigm. I realize in reading the related postings [24] that i have not been very clear with you regarding my request. My request is to have the entire page deleted, including all history, regardless of what User:Sme3 thinks. But i do thank you for your good-faith inital action. Henry Delforn ( talk) 23:48, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
File:MirMine3.JPG is on the Main Page now as part of DYK. However, the picture is from Google Maps and has a Google watermark. Could you look at the discussion at Wikipedia:ERRORS#Errors in Did you know? and take any action necessary? Shubinator ( talk) 00:34, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
How do u set status changer manually? I tried everything but they didn't work. I want it to be set to 'online' always. What do I need to put on my userpage & talk page? please help, I'm new here. Thanks. -peace HipHopSavior ( talk) 08:26, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
I've heard that, but I've never figured out how when MediaWiki:Robots.txt doesn't list userspace. Do you know where the code is that determines this? (Watching) - Dank ( push to talk) 17:54, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello Xeno. How are you ? You have done a tremendously good job with the stub template, well done. You have already improved the accessibility of hundreds of thousand web pages (and most likely over a million). You're nearly done with those, cheer up!
As I told you earlier, I would like to improve the usability and accessibility of the Navbox template.
I did usability testing on the Navbox, and made a complete review. I thought you might be interested to help me improve the Navbox. The thing is, I am no Javascript expert, so I'm unable to improve the Navbox's JS. Could you let me know what you think? Could you redirect me to users who might be interested, and skilled with Javascript as well? I found Category:User js-4 and Category:User js-5, but I don't know anyone of them (I'm mostly working on the french WP).
Perhaps you have heard about WAI-ARIA?
The Navbox is something that the Wikipedia Usability Initiative is unlikely to improve, because it is a content produced by the users only. I do believe they don't want to get involved with those things. So we need to handle that by ourselves. :-) Cheers. (^_^) Dodoïste ( talk) 11:52, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
importScript('User:TheDJ/Navboxtest.js')
in your
monobook script, will show a simple "inverse" of the two elements. Making this change would be trivial. Like I said, moving it to the right of the header will be more problematic due to the alignment issues, but is also possible. —
TheDJ (
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contribs)
00:30, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Fixed — The shortness of "B" caused the script to match it to Badleydrawnjeff's RfA, which was the first listed RfA that started with a "B"; but I took advantage of the HTML of the page source, and voilà. — Animum ( talk) 00:44, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Nice work with the stub templates. Are you sure this edit didn't affect any existing uses? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 20:25, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
You might want to run a check for more cases like this. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 12:33, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
As an uninvolved admin, would you mind closing this MfD? I think it was malformed, so it's not showing up as over seven days old (started on the 17th). Thanks! Vicenarian ( Said · Done) 15:45, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! Vicenarian ( Said · Done) 15:58, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Well, IMO all discussions should be archived (all the other RFPERMs are archived, I kinda presumed AWB was as well). I was planning to archive to Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Archive. I'm currently programming a semi-automated tool to help with the archiving (which is why it's taking so long). So it won't be difficult. It also shouldn't take up too much space, because it will just be a line of text for each requests, but with a link to an old revision of the page with that request (just before it was archived). Hopefully it'll be okay if I go ahead and start archiving AWB requests along with the other's. Also, thanks for pointing out the typo :D. - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 21:52, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to inform you there actually is an inline Template:Where very similar to what the IP editor used on Rorschach test... and I think they were partly right, too (though no, I'm not going to insert inlines like that myself). The issue is that most of the sources cited (at least the ones I added) often don't even think of specifying which country their data refer to. I have a feeling that, when they don't, one may almost safely assume they mean the US... but my feeling aren't a source.
Aside from this, I also have to say that I am a bit astonished (I don't merely pretend to be when talking to psychologists on the talk page) at the differences between our article and the ones on the Italian or French Wikipedias, which give entirely different prominance to the Exner system, for example. The psychologists may well keep saying Exner is the only valid and widely used system, but that's hardly what transpires from non-English Wikipedias (maybe their articles are even worse than ours is, though! and ours is apparently quite bad).
So maybe a "no worldwide view" template isn't unwarranted.
-- LjL ( talk) 23:15, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed that every time I come here, someone is complaining about something or other happening on that page and I finally decided to check it out. *blinks wildly* It's the inkblot test??? People are getting this worked up over inkblots? I figured it had something to do with atomic weapons tests or something. -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 09:58, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
taken a quick look at the above category, will try to get round to sorting some later (probalby weekend). It looks like those under E are not stub templates most appear to be tests, may be worth someone with experiance of templates outside of stub templates looking at thes (though I think tey probably want the articles written and then these templates deleted) Waacstats ( talk) 15:32, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
re: your post to Jimbo's page here. I had noticed that too - it stayed open almost a whole whopping 8 hours. Clearly the entire community had plenty of time to voice their opinions, and it is quite obvious that .... ya da, ya da. </sarcasm>. By the way, while the page itself isn't mentioned, there is a case currently being done at arbcom on this user now as well. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Noloop/Evidence. The best part of it is, it seems he is the aggrieved party here! Odd how that works, I guess you can tell someone: "fuck off troll" (after telling someone else: "go fuck yourself"), and you're the injured party. (note: those are his direct quotes, not mine). It's not just the picture, but the attitude he addresses other users with. Honestly Xeno, I doubt that much will come of it - it appears that some people feel that since he's such a good content contributor, that he can talk to people any way he pleases, and it just gets brushed aside as acceptable. Personally, .... well, never-mind. What's the use? Sorry for ranting on your shoulder - but I do feel a bit better now .. lol. Cheers buddy. — Ched : ? 15:29, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
If you'll note the talk page of Bsbfan, you'll see a slew of warnings of speedy deletions for a lot of content having to do with his non-notable ban that has earned 1300 rupees to date (about US$26). The band is completely non-notable, and the media upload related to the band has no purpose here, and never would. I fail to see any point in keeping it around. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:58, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you were pretty good with wikitech and such from your comments on BigTimePeace's page, could you tell me what I did wrong with this bot? It should have archived several old discussions by now. Soxwon ( talk) 07:56, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
I thought you did that deliberately, and I was halfway to the block button when I looked at the history, and saw that you caught the mistake.*laughs* :) SirFozzie ( talk) 21:52, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Regarding ASE, actually he's got a fairly long history of that behavior. I just never complained before. Don't know what the best solution to the problem is, but you should be aware. If you're seriously considering reopening the discussion on that basis I'd like a chance to provide evidence, although on balance it might be easier on everyone to let things simmer down. Ping me in six weeks and if the problem hasn't resumed I promise I'll initiate the thread to remove that clause. Fair enough? Durova 306 23:38, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you both very much. If a neutral party could earn ASE's trust that would really be the best solution. The thing that has made this situation so difficult to resolve appears to be a banned user called Pwok, who--although I can't prove it--seems to be the individual who runs the fake site that pretends to be Matt's personal site and runs the anti-Matt forum. It wouldn't be surprising if the telephone and email harassment and impersonation come from Pwok.
When things begin to settle down someone has stirred the pot by trolling the editors who have been in conflict with Matt: last year when Benjiboi and Eleemosynary were topic banned from the Matt Sanchez biography an AOL IP posted insults to both of their user talk pages in a style that resembled Matt's worst moments. Eleemosynary imploded and earned an indefinite block shortly afterward. They probably both believed it was Matt trolling in violation of what was then his siteban, and that I was covering for him. Actually Matt knew nothing about the topic bans until I contacted him to ask about those AOL IP edits (I was on the verge of resigning as his mentor). He was able to link me to a video of an interview he had given for French television on the day when the trolling occurred. Matt had never demonstrated enough technical skill to fake an AOL IP from overseas.
The bottom line here is that I believe there's someone so dedicated to prolonging this dispute that he'll troll both sides and doesn't care if his supporters get sitebanned for believing him. Others believe that some or all of the impersonation really is Matt speaking, that the harassment consists of faked claims, and that either Matt has duped me or I'm abetting his deceit for selfish reasons. Durova 306 16:37, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
We are running a little thin at MfD. We could use some participation if you have some time, I know you've done MfD work in the past. Gigs ( talk) 00:43, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. I was in the midst of deleting one revision. But the site took so long to respond, I lost interest in waiting. — EncMstr ( talk) 21:07, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Xeno - best thing would probably be to make something like Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Complete template list and add it to Category:WikiProject Stub sorting, then announce it on the talk pages of WP:WSS, WP:WSS/D, and maybe WP:WSS/TD, WP:WSS/ST and WP:SFD. Cheers, Grutness... wha? 23:01, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
'unfuck it'? best term ever. regards. Law type! snype? 12:19, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for using the hat template. I was thinking that Resolved was supposed to be the cue to make everyone stop talking, but it looks like I should have used hat instead. @ harej 20:16, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Noted, I will ask before i make any more larg scale article creations. And, in response to my articles being innapropriately refrenced: I am in the process of fixing that. Thanks Tim1357 ( talk) 14:50, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey xeno, just out of curiosity why did you add American-task-force to the film Hard Boiled? Nothing in the article really relates it to an American production or American funding or American filming locations. What up? Andrzejbanas ( talk) 18:20, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
I note this has a note which should probably go in the "note" field. There may be more, but IIRC it was "youth novels" that required that field in the first place, so may be just the novels project. Rich Farmbrough, 21:43, 31 August 2009 (UTC).
Hey Xeno, are you aware that some of the templates that were converted to asbox did not have their categories correctly converted? For instance like this: [32] and [33]. Borgarde ( talk) 10:58, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Since according to one of your userboxen you like the game, I thought I'd direct you to here in the vague hope you might have seen a source before. -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 10:58, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
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