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Hello,
thanks for your corrections regard my links / information on the UK Version of Batman Returns. However: After your correction there was a mistake in the text (the first censored version is rated bbfc 15, then they released a second version which was less censored and rated bbfc 12 but still released as bbfc 15 due to the bonus material). I tried to correct that mistake. I just wanted to tell you, so that you would not think I would ignore your suggestions.
kind regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.185.45.233 ( talk) 02:33, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for making changes to the article! Very useful formatting fixes. Andrewman327 ( talk) 22:35, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Status | Resolved |
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Description | AWB doesn't always add {{ Persondata}} to biographical articles |
To duplicate: | Try Benjamin Kim |
Site URL: | en.wikipedia.org |
Operating system | Windows XP |
.NET FW Version | 2.0.50727.1873 |
AWB version | 5.2.0.1 SVN 7522 |
Workaround | Manually add |
Fixed in version |
diff. Page had incorrect value in |Background=
Hello GoingBatty, Thank for all your corrections in Women's Hockey pages. Pass a good week-end -- Geneviève ( talk) 14:37, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Status | Not a bug in AWB, has been referred |
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Description | AWB removes some, but not all, date ordinals GoingBatty ( talk) 21:35, 8 January 2011 (UTC) |
To duplicate: | Try Spalding Grammar School |
Site URL: | en.wikipedia.org |
Operating system | Windows XP |
.NET FW Version | 2.0.50727.1873 |
AWB version | 5.2.0.1 SVN 7522 |
Workaround | Manually remove |
Fixed in version |
Just want to let you know that you made a mistake in tagging Standardized testing and its effects as not containing any WP:inline citations.
The bits that say things like "(Kohn 1)" are WP:Parenthetical references, the second most popular form of inline citations on the English Wikipedia.
I've fixed it for you. As a general rule, I've found that whenever an article has a list of citations that spells out the URL inside angle brackets (like <http//:example.com>), then the editor is probably following the MLA citation style quite closely, and it's worth a close look for parenthetical citations. They are most subtle than ref tags. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 17:02, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello Going Batty. I notice you removing Wikify tags that still need work on layout. If you check, wikifying isn't just about wikilinks and fixing typos but also Layout and markup. Many articles that you remove the tags still need to be broken into sections. The AWB tool you use doesn't really give good assessment if an article is sufficiently wikified, it's your responsibility to check yourself each time AWB suggests an action on an article. It's up to you, but maybe you would like to go back through the articles you've wikified and see if they can use sections? Slightsmile ( talk) 04:53, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
I think that's good you going back to them like that. I've gone through a few so far and did some fixing where I could.
I'll continue going through them when I can. Slightsmile ( talk) 20:13, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Could you advise why you removed the wikify template from Joe Bauman? I tagged it recently as it needs headers and other formatting/layout fixes - none of those changes were made, but the tag was still removed. -- Jezebel'sPonyo bons mots 14:51, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Whatever you were trying to do in your edit to the article on William W. Wood inadvertently messed up the succession box. Please could you have a look at your edit, and try to figure out what you did wrong.
I have reverted the edit, as a messed up succession box is undesirable.
Just out of interest, what were you trying to achieve?-- Toddy1 ( talk) 21:03, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello! In FEBRUARY, in the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil will be aproved the *SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN BRAZIL* ( [1]), and the pages LGBT rights in Brazil and Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil need of you. Because will generate a heavy traffic on these pages, and we need you to help in the English spelling of these pages, you understand me? Please help me. Hentzer ( talk) 12:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
The Typo Team Medal | ||
For your work in fixing over half a thousand typos over the course of the last few days, I hereby award you this Typo Team Medal! Sophus Bie ( talk) 14:10, 26 January 2011 (UTC) |
Nice job, and welcome to the team! Sophus Bie ( talk) 14:10, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Better download this http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/AutoWikiBrowser5201_rev7571.zip More accurate wikifying as you requested and some more stuff amongst bugfix on Multiple issues. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 01:44, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the corrections in the article Kinna McInroe. Lucid1978 ( talk) 16:16, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
The creation of this article was a mistake on my part. I've asked Buckshot06 to delete the article. Cheers, W. B. Wilson ( talk) 16:16, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Yes folks, it's here again. Please look at this link [2] and leave your vote. I thank you.-- andreasegde ( talk) 08:07, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear GoingBatty,
Thanks for looking at Jimmy Earl. It is great to have typos magically corrected. However, it is a shame for anyone to spend their time on an article that is being restructured. I have been "going batty" trying to edit text while dodging clumsy inline references, and consequently, I have begun to put all the references in a block at the end. I hope you will have time to take another look when this process is complete.
I noticed that you unlinked the links to musicians in the discography that have links in the text. The intent here was to make it easy for a person browsing through the article to get some information quickly without wading through a lot of text. Nevertheless, I am aware of the convention to avoid multiple links, and am generally comfortable with what was done.
However, there is one exception. In the text, the link to it:Pino Daniele#Collaborazioni goes to his italian article, which gives a list of his collaborators; in the discography, the link Pino Daniele goes to his English article, which does not list collaborators, but which is more appropriate in an English article. Any comments?
Thanks again for your help. Deer*lake ( talk) 19:13, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Greetings! I've challenged my fellow disambiguators to help knock out more than a thousand disambig links a day for the month of February, and every bit helps. Please check out the list at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links and see if you can get in the game for this month. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:37, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Anthony Hall (Buckinghamshire) has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going to the article and clicking on the (Discuss) link at the top of the article, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Peacekeeper 1234 15:42, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
...mean that the batsman was not out at the end of the innings. It's a fairly standard notation but you're right, (on Wazir Ali), that it shouldn't be used without explanation. I'll amend that article and draw it to the attention of the cricket project. In Infoboxes it's fairly commonplace to use a * link. Johnlp ( talk) 23:51, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey Mate, thanks for the contrib tot he World Enviro day (Orphan, uncatagorised), but just give it me minute or two! I was writing the page as quick as I could! It's closer to finished now and will be done shortly (from my end anyhoo). Thanks for keeping us on our toes!
Peace
Although they are fine with me I noticed you were recently doing some edits that could be construed by some as being minor and in violation of the AWB rules of use. For example in this edit you only removed of and this edit where it appears you only removed some white space and casing. I also notice that your edit summeries are very vague and could lead some to complain about that as well. -- Kumioko ( talk) 14:50, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Going Batty; You may remember my article Jimmy Earl, which you cleaned up and improved. Now, I have written a new article User:Deer*lake/Severn Records, which I think is about ready to move into article space. I hope you will have time to look it over before this happens. I have not yet put it in any categories, but expect to do so when the article gets its final name. On a completely different subject, in the article Crownsville, Maryland, under Local Schools, there is one listed as "Derek's house of pain". This looks inappropriate to me, but I am not up for policing Wikipedia. You might take a look to see if anything should be done. Thanks for your past and future help. - - Deer*lake ( talk) 20:21, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for all the good work you've been doing on many of my recent documents. Your name seems to be on my log nearly every day. It's good to know that someone will take care of those stupid typos sooner or later. Thanks to people like you, Wikipedia's standards continue to improve. If you hadn't already been awarded the Typo Star, you would have received one from me. - Ipigott ( talk) 10:39, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
I believe this page may be fake, given the user's outright vandalism of the Peter Goldring page. Suggest deleting the page, seeing if the user challenges same and then calling him or her on it.
Dreadarthur ( talk) 05:12, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Better download this http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/AutoWikiBrowser5201_rev7660.zip Much faster and less buggy. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 01:32, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Dear Going Batty, I have written another article: User:Deer*lake/The Skunks (ska band). If you get a chance to take a look at, I would appreciate seeing your comments. One point about which I really need your input: I have included external links to Facebook pages. I know than people have to be signed on to Facebook, but think there is a large population that will have no problem accessing the information. Is there a Wiki rule against this? What do you think? I have included no categories, but will add them when the article goes public. Thanks in advance for your help Deer*lake ( talk) 21:23, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Good going on nixing that Typo rule. I hit a few of those the other day, and got around it by putting "Candian War" in the skip field, so I don't know how many there (I cleared the logs). I have added "Candian" to my own offline list of misspellings to check from time to time, with a note to be careful. Maybe we should have a list of tricky misspellings for AWB users who want to carefully try to fix them with Find & Replace. Happy editing! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris the speller ( talk • contribs) 20:02, April 2, 2011
Thank you for the fixes to the article. However Alpha Phi Omega in the Phillippines uses the Tagalog term for Hong Kong: Hongkong. See tl:Hongkong. While it may not be appropriate in English, the names themselves of the Alumni Associations are determined by Alpha Phi Omega of the Philippines National Office. I will change them back to Hongkong and put a note to this effect as a <!-- --> note. Naraht ( talk) 15:03, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
In a recent edit to the page Microsoft Expression Media, you changed one or more words from one international variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.
For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author used.
In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. Fleet Command ( talk) 08:15, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
I have reverted you a second time here. The National Register misspells the word as "Pavillion", therefore, it must be shown in the NRHP infobox and in
as it is spelled there, without correction. Thanks, . . Jim - Jameslwoodward ( talk to me • contribs) 15:02, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Greetings. I am using my 100,001st edit to congratulate you for being a wild man with AWB (that's meant in the best possible way). BTW, I was also in Order of the Arrow. If you would be so kind as to look over my subpage User:Chris the speller/SkipTrick and tell me what you think. The example shown is for fixing "infact", and its basic improvement could also be done using RegEx "negative lookbehind", but it illustrates the concept of temporary changes to false-positive matches. Since I did that, I created a set of 12 RegEx rules to handle "infront", and it cut through a list of 60 articles like a hot knife through butter. Do you think this technique is worth mentioning in the "Tips and tricks: section of the AWB home page? Chris the speller yack 16:57, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, my name is Sam. I am an undergraduate student at Syracuse University taking a class on Transnational Non-Government Organizations and US public policy. Our class is working with the Wikipedia Ambassador Program to help improve certain articles on Wikipedia that pertain to TNGOs and US public policy. I created a section in the Wildlife Conservation article that I see you are very active with. I know it is unsubstantial, however over the next few weeks I plan to add a significant amount of information that will benefit the community interested in wildlife conservation. I now ask for your help and cooperation with my project. Thank you for your time and consideration. Smfunk7 ( talk) 17:02, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Your recent edits regarding "cleanup"/"fixes" to Wikipedia:Albums articles involve wikilinking Billboard to Billboard (magazine). To let you know, the correct internal link for Billboard and some chart is Billboard charts, not the article on the magazine, Billboard (magazine). Dan56 ( talk) 03:59, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Sorry about "fixing" the spelling of biographee. At any rate, at least no one else is bound to make that same mistake now with "person". -- Baekken ( talk) 03:01, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Batty, just wanted to say that I've run into your name in the edit logs on dozens of different pages, and wanted to say thanks for being one helluvan awesome wikignome. Cheers, Sloggerbum ( talk) 01:57, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
I have written to you previously in relation to what courses of action are available with respect to a supposed contributor who vandalizes the page of a Member of Parliament ( Peter Goldring). He has now vandalized my own editor profile, which I choose to remain unparticularized. I still believe his only contribution to Wikipedia, on a certain Harold Graziano, will turn out to be bogus, with the third party references being similarly so found.
I believe this person should be banned from further Wikipedia contributions and don't know how to go about effecting this. I have no interest in continuing here if I constantly have to watch to see who is doing some slice and dice on my own profile.
Suggestions or action appreciatied. I am contacting you because you were the editor on this person's alleged Graziano profile.
Nobody should have to put up with small trash like this. Sorry to be so emotive.
Dreadarthur ( talk) 03:34, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Plus, if you go to Harold Graziano, you will see that there is another questionable editor, User:Dawnsimpson, whose only supposed contribution is Harold Graziano and whose presence conveniently prevents speedy deletion of the article, based on more than one alleged contributor. I suggest checking out this contributor, in addition to any relationship to Beeeflsgoood. It is garbage like this that drives people away from contributing to Wikipedia. This is supposed to be a serious attempt to collectively contribute to knowledge.
Dreadarthur ( talk) 03:43, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Many thanks for your calmer comments than my own.
Dreadarthur ( talk) 00:52, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, GoingBatty! Thanks for disambigging the artists I recently added to the train song list. I'm fairly meticulous about such things, but apparently was trying to do too much in too short a time. The path I'm on is to 1) assess the notability of entries, 2) consolidate the listings so that each song only appears one time, 3) add more artists per song and 4) provide citations for all listings. I realize that's ambitious, but I recently did this with the List of artists who have covered Bob Dylan songs, which is of similar length, had citations for a quarter or so of its entries and now is almost completely referenced. Nevertheless, as you noted, the list does need a lot of help. Do you have any specific suggestions regarding that? I'd appreciate any feedback you can give that would help in improving the article. I'll be watching for a reply. Thanks. Allreet ( talk) 15:16, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
You are listed as one of the editors of this page. I have a color map of the cave I made in the 1970s. Ken Thompson told me I was a hero in his house because his son had gotten very frustrated. If you want to see it let me know how to send a jpg. Nils-Peter Nelson 69.19.14.28 ( talk) 20:47, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you, for your helpful edit to the article I recently expanded, Skipping Towards Gomorrah. Much appreciated. ;) Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 05:54, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
You recently edited the subject page. Due to vandalism, you were seeing an obsolete page. Could you please check it again? Boringbob4wk ( talk) 09:52, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty, Still new to the Wikipedia community and how we act on here, but I'd just wanted to take some time out to say thank you for editing/cleaning up my article, its much appreciated, and if you took the time out to do that, i should take the time out to at least say thanks! Have an awesome day! -KiddRock123 — Preceding unsigned comment added by KiddRock123 ( talk • contribs) 04:52, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Much obliged. I am going for quantity over quality a bit at the moment and mistakes happen. Thanks again. Paul Bedson ❉ talk❉ 02:12, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Very much appreciated your contribution on IMARK article. In fact, I was wondering how to fix the reference duplication. Thanks a lot! Met — Preceding unsigned comment added by Metkorkmaz ( talk • contribs) 8:58, 7 June 2011
Thanks - my wireless mouse plays tricks on me sometimes! Deb ( talk) 06:52, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm glad atleast someone is noticing the template.
Anything related to Paul, John, George, Ringo, - together or solo-wise - should have the template. If you don't mind, could you add the template? I'm busying with the importance rating of 100+ pages. :P -- Yeepsi ( Talk to me!) 10:38, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Murder of Laci Peterson, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. pablo 13:57, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for repairing links to disambiguation page on the article I created. Jamesallen2 ( talk) 09:30, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Please see the discussion section of the 2011 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team page. Superman7515 ( talk) 19:28, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
It turns that the guy who introduced the redirect, introduced and wrong parameters. Check this fix. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:56, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
Can you please write me here which new parameter variations we need to add to AWB's code? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:10, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
|cleanup-link rot=
and |unreliable=
. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 23:27, 5 July 2011 (UTC)The Copyeditor's Barnstar | |
I have yet to encounter a WikiGnome of your magnitude anywhere else. Yegawds, man, do you sleep? Most humans enjoy such activities, but then there is no hard evidence you are in fact human, and not a Gnome in the flesh. Sloggerbum ( talk) 04:02, 9 July 2011 (UTC) |
Hello, GoingBatty, since you were an editor on the article that i created ( Terraforming of Europa (moon)), I'm responding to you why nobody has welcomed me to Wikipedia yet. If nobody does it within 2 hours, can you do it yourself? Thank you!-- SpaceChimp1992 ( talk) 17:23, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
SpaceChimp1992 has given you a
cookie! Cookies promote
WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. You can Spread the "WikiLove" by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.
To spread the goodness of cookies, you can add {{ subst:Cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{ subst:munch}}!
Enjoy! -- SpaceChimp1992 ( talk) 22:53, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello, you posted a disambiguation notice on this article and through Smackbot it is now asking for two disambiguations. Would you be so kind as to tell me what exactly it is you wish to see disambiguated and I will attempt to oblige you. Yrs truly, Eebahgum ( talk) 14:08, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Hey, GoingBatty, how's it going? I was just wondering if you can create a talk page for Terraforming of Europa (moon), since it's older than my most recent article, Mercury's magnetic field (which has a talk page), and yet it doesn't have a talk page. Thanks! -- SpaceChimp1992 ( talk) 21:11, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
Just a quick request: when you're adding categories to articles in the Category:Articles needing additional categories queue, please be aware that HotCat doesn't automatically remove the {{ catimprove}} tag — so as much as possible you should remove it manually when you add the categories, so that the page doesn't keep cluttering up the queue anyway. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 05:02, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the birth year category which I had missed in my previous edit. I will try to remember that missing year category for the future. -- Mirokado ( talk) 15:35, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I see that you are a contributor to The A-Team (comics). Your input is requested on its talk page in response to it having excessive copyrighted content on it, possibly in violation of WP:NFCC#3. Thank you. Phuzion ( talk) 19:27, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello, GoingBatty! Now it's REALLY been some time. The Personal Shield Pro antivirus is literally giving me a headache and is disrupting my software. Anyways, I know you think I've given up on expanding Saturn, but I haven't given up on my duties yet! I'm just checking for errors on my created articles. -- SpaceChimp1992 ( talk) 19:47, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have a release from a photographer to use an image for a wiki page, but I'm at a loss at what to do to prevent it from being taken down. I know how to upload it to wikki commons, but what is the process? Thank you in advance! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.79.104.1 ( talk) 23:10, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
In regards to this edit. Which bot is that? Debresser ( talk) 05:29, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
I thing bullseye lens and a fisheye lens are totally different things, unlike what you disambiguated here and here (well, probably more, but these are the ones on my watchlist). The purpose is very different and the structure has no similarity. You can see how a bullseye lens looks like here for example, that's the two bullseyes showing on the front. This is a fisheye lens. I will correct these two of course, but I'd appreciate it if you go back and see if there are more of them. -- Muhandes ( talk) 07:42, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
The link you changed on the above page to Avengers (comics) was incorrect, I have corrected it to The Avengers (TV series) as it should be. Damiantgordon ( talk) 11:20, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty. I fixed the infobox on the article Ali-Reza Pahlavi. Your fix a couple of days earlier wasn't quite right. Regards, Trijnstel ( talk) 22:02, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks What an odd and pointless vandalism... — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 01:11, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that you removed the Stub assessment for the David B. Mitchell (police chief) despite few changes to the article since its creation and original assessment in September, 2008. I respectfully disagree with your action, and have submitted a request at the WikiProject Biography Assessment page for the article to be re-assessed by a impartial third party. -- TommyBoy ( talk) 23:58, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
I admire your self-restraint. Ironically, the ingrate who you tried to help has "Assume good faith" at the top of his/her talk page. Happy editing! Chris the speller yack 03:35, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you had removed the WikiProjects Song category info from the "Ain't She Sweet" article and replaced it with WikiProjectsBeatles. Is there a particular reason it can't be in both? "Ain't She Sweet" has had a long history before the Beatles great recording and since, so it's not totally identified with them by any means. I'd like to add the WikiProjects Song info back to this and keep both.
Thanks. Contributingfactor ( talk) 12:40, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
|song=yes
parameter in {{
WikiProject The Beatles}}, it adds the page to
Category:WikiProject Songs articles. The text on
Talk:Ain't She Sweet states "This article is within the scope of
WikiProject Songs, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to songs on Wikipedia." The only reason I removed the {{
songs}} template is that it duplicated the functionality of the WikiProject Beatles template. Hope this is more clear. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk) 14:34, 24 September 2011 (UTC)There is a discussion here where we could use your input. Thanks. Curious Eric 23:39, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
I didn't want to take the "is is" discussion off track, but there are reasons to click "Skip" sometimes. I lost nearly a half hour yesterday when I carelessly tried to make a manual fix to an article before I noticed that it had over 40,000 words. AWB spun away for a long time (I think this is actually a bug), and I didn't want to rip AWB out forcibly, as I had a number of tweaks to my settings file that I didn't want to lose. I generally don't make manual changes if the article is more than about 3,000 words, or if the title is "List of ....", when AWB's word count is generally not reliable. I also sometimes don't make manual changes if a number of Find & Replace rule changes have been added to the edit summary and Typos makes an inappropriate action, since manual editing clears out the edit summary. I might unclick "Enable Regex TypoFix" and press the "Start" button again to perform just the F&R function; I might or might not follow up by manually editing the article. I'm sure that there are lots of good AWB users who have their own styles and their own sets of criteria for how much manual editing they do. Is your experience with manual changes to huge articles with AWB different? Chris the speller yack 17:23, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Just a heads up! Before performing manual edits on articles, please make sure each one is not a student article. As in the American Gas Association article, edits were made that usurped the relationship of the Ambassador program and the Political Participation course at Southern Connecticut State University. When the student is learning to identify and address various editing issues, it is important to allow them the time to work with the professor and the designed course. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Best regards, Cind. amuse (Cindy) 11:08, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar | |
You are a hard-working Wikipedian.-- 1966batfan ( talk) 03:19, 13 October 2011 (UTC) |
Hello! I'm not familiar with AWB, but if there is a way to avoid changing word contractions (like didn't → did not
) when they are used within quotes, references or templates, I think it would be best to use it. That way the integrity of the quote or original work cited is preserved. I partially reverted
this change. Keep up the good work! Cheers, —
CharlieEchoTango — 04:03, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. You asked for someone to look over your copy edit and, as the best editors, like Diannaa, the Utahraptor and Chaosdruid seem to be busy IRL, I've done what I can for you. First, what you did in the article was all good and you definitely improved it. There were a few points where you could have done more and, as these are rather common generally on WP, here's a list:
I've been through the article and made some improvements (hopefully). Here's the diff. Please do say if you want me to explain anything I did. Best regards, Simon. -- Stfg ( talk) 20:51, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
The Minor barnstar | |
Thank You for your Help! Chico 9 ( talk) 23:43, 16 October 2011 (UTC) |
Hi and Thank You for your help! I hope you enjoy the Barnstar. I have a question for you. When I am trying to edit and try to Wikify, my Wikify (Internal Link) will not work and I can not Wikify anymore? When you have the time please get back to me, maybe you have a answer. Thanks! Chico 9 ( talk) 23:53, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Again GoingBatty! I'll try that the next time I do some editing. I really appreciate your help! Chico 9 ( talk) 02:18, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty, Thanks again for your imput and help! I still need your assistance on the Clean-up of this article (bare URLs for citations and adding full citations) so that the article remains verifiable in the future. I am having trouble using the templates and the Reflinks tool to assist in formatting. I also have a question as to references that are on line? As you know these are only as good as somebody is paying their bills to keep them on line or the owner of the page decides to discard and the ramifications this action is either a dead link or no on- line reference. When You get a chance I would really appreciate your magic to remedy James Chico Hernandez page. Thanks again! Chico 9 ( talk) 09:43, 19 October 2011 (UTC) PS I feel that your technical know how is way beyond my range to fix the page and I would feel bad if I somehow ruin it.
Hi GoingBatty, I did the update brackets manually and Thanks again for all of your help! Please help when you can because I can surely use your help to complete the James Chico Hernandez page. I will examine {{ cite web}} and try to improve as well! Thanks!
Hello once again GoingBatty; I tried to remedy the issues on James Chico Hernandez article and as you can see I kind of messed it up. Sorry I still can use your help when you are not so busy. Thanks again for your help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chico 9 ( talk • contribs) 11:02, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. You may have seen that I responded to the various postings on the topic of the Martin Lewis article/disambiguation. You were apparently accused of being a sock puppet for me. I'm sorry that such a foolish thing was uttered. But after many years on Wikipedia I'm used to such nonsense.
I noticed that no sooner had I moved back the Martin Lewis article to the primary status that it has had for many years than the editor called Orat Perman moved it back. And then his very next edit was to remove references to Lewis being a Beatles scholar! I note that you're on the Beatles wiki project so you are probably aware of Lewis's status in that world. I see that Davidpatrick, who is another editor who works on the Martin Lewis article, ended up putting a load more references to attest to Lewis' status. A bit needless really! It's not as though Lewis' work in the Beatles world is a secret.
It got me to wondering why anyone would remove factual text about someone so well known. I decided to do a couple of minutes sleuthing about the editor. I discovered that just a few days ago he had removed the category "People Associated with the Beatles" which was clearly wrong to do. It was in fact you who reinstated that. If you go back and look over his wiki history you discover that he is a very sporadic editor but he has popped up every couple of years with fairly spurious challenges about Lewis. His first-ever edit in June 2007 was to challenge that Lewis was a Beatles scholar. After many years on Wikipedia one gets used to identifying patterns of behavior. There is a clear indication of an animus for whatever reason about Lewis from this editor.
The voluminous amounts of sources on Lewis's activities over nearly 40 years attest to a notability and prominence over the others of that name. Which is why it has been the primary article for so many years. The only other person of that name with any prominence is a financial journalist known in only one country (the UK) on the niche topic of personal finance. That is not remotely comparable to the prominence and notability of the other Lewis. If this hadn't been discussed on the COI noticeboard, I'd "Be Bold" and move it back to its long-prevailing status immediately as I think the merits of the matter are obvious as evidenced by the multiple sources. But I'll wait for a day or so and see what if anything more transpires. Thanks for your time!
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There is a discussion occuring here involving debate about whether or not the Beatles were "active" during 1994-1996. Your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc ( talk) 02:04, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Please don't modify URLS to remove the "www" when present - the two urls are distinct -please see Template_talk:URL#Exclusion_of_prefix_is_technically_and_in_some_cases_practically_wrong for more details. Imgaril ( talk) 07:10, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
|work=
parameter, but since I can't find that now, I'll stop removing the "www." until I can find it again.Hii,,,
Djatsvnit ( talk) has created article named Student Life in NIT Surat. which is nothing but copy- paste of the article Student Life in IIT Kharagpur. He just replaced the words IIT Kharagpur with "NIT Surat". Even the links provided in the article refer to Kharagpur sites. So please delete the Wiki page Student Life in NIT Surat.
Thank u for ur reply.
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Hi- When you added "cite news" to AWB, the page is now in Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded. Maybe you will have to place the code on a separate page? I don't know what to do to fix it. Thanks, -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 22:40, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you doing some changes to the rename template parameters page. I think it would be better and more efficient to add some of those typos and changes to the typos list rather than the parameter rename page. For example I think we should write some regex to lowercase the parameters rather than list them all out individually. What do you think. That itself would trim out about 50 from this list. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:00, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. These edits you made the other day:
broke the footnote links to the full references; this:
no longer links to:
I've fixed this by forcing the ref-name with {{ sfnRef}}:
The same thing happened on Tethys (moon):
I understand that using the day parameter is not ideal, but it's not appropriate to break things while removing it. You might find this script useful for alerting you to this sort of problem:
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly-1 ( talk) 23:06, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Please do not change British English (busses) for American English (buses). Both are correct.
DonJay ( talk) 03:59, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty!
This refers to our discussion on my Talk page last week.
I'm no longer convinced that it make sense to delete a category just because a sub-category is also listed in the article. Take, for example, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. If someone clicks on Category:Performers of Sufi music, that should pull up his name. The fact that a subcategory of this, Category:Pakistani qawwali singers, also appears in his article doesn't change that.
In my view, the usefulness of Category:Performers of Sufi music is diminished if the name of one of the most renowned Sufi singers doesn't appear in it.
Your thoughts, please?
Thanks!-- Sarabseth ( talk) 11:19, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Yes, sorry about that; not well-worded by me at all! I had already made that change before it occurred to me to discuss it here. I was trying to reach agreement on what the final resolution should be. Will go ahead and keep Category:Performers of Sufi music, and remove Category:Sufi music and Category:Qawwali. -- Sarabseth ( talk) 10:52, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
How the HELL did you not notice that Sodium linked to the metal, and not to say, oh, a band? Typical n00b mistake. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 04:46, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
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Does this source for Zac Moncrief support his residence in Montvale, New Jersey? Pascack Hills High School students also come from Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey? I haven't been able to find a source that supports either Montvale or Woodcliff Lake for Moncrief, but I'm not sure that this source settles it either way. Alansohn ( talk) 02:32, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, I hope you don't mind me asking but you seem to be good at Regex and I admit I am stuck on a couple problems and could use some help if you don't mind. My first is relatively easy I think. As an example I would like to take something that looks like:
}}}} and make it look like:
}}
}}
I can do most of this in regex but I can't figure out what qualifier to use to make a line break like that.
My second question is in eliminating duplicate parameters from a template. Using my bot I have been able to convert many of the US related projects that are supported by WPUS into the WPUS banner. One sideffect is that in some cases, for several different reasons, I have ended up with some banners having multiples of the same parameter like this for example: {{
WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|DC=Yes|DC-importance=|DC=Yes|DC-importance=}}
and I would like to eliminate the redundant parameter.
Would you know how to do that? The only way I can figure this out is requiring me to right a whole bunch of rules to filter them out and I was hoping there might be an easier way. It doesn't need to be perfect but any help would be greatly appreciated. --
Kumioko (
talk) 04:02, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
}}}}
with }}\n}}
\{\{WikiProject United States\|(\S+)(\|DC=\S*\|DC-importance\=\S*)\2\}\}
with {{WikiProject United States|$1$2}}
seems to work.I just wanted to say that the first worked like a champ. The second one works for the specific scenario I gave but unfortunately they don't all meet that which is my fault I didn't explain better. I am still workin on it but here is what I have come up with so far (sorry if its not the most efficient way, I'm still learning. :-)):
{{\s*WikiProject[ ]+United[ ]+States(.*?)\|[ ]*DC[ ]*=[ ]*Yes(.*?)\|[ ]*DC[ ]*=[ ]*Yes(.*?)}}
with {{WikiProject United States$1|DC=Yes$2$3}}
with RegexOptions.IgnoreCase.
Unfortunately the importance parameters are a much different story since the importances can assume multiple states (low, mid, high, top, blank, and some other crap like ?, ??, etc). Thats the part I'm still working on. I think I am going to build it in as part of the assessment section so that it will, at the same time, inherit some assessment if needed as well. Thanks again for the help. --
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Hello,
thanks for your corrections regard my links / information on the UK Version of Batman Returns. However: After your correction there was a mistake in the text (the first censored version is rated bbfc 15, then they released a second version which was less censored and rated bbfc 12 but still released as bbfc 15 due to the bonus material). I tried to correct that mistake. I just wanted to tell you, so that you would not think I would ignore your suggestions.
kind regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.185.45.233 ( talk) 02:33, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for making changes to the article! Very useful formatting fixes. Andrewman327 ( talk) 22:35, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Status | Resolved |
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Description | AWB doesn't always add {{ Persondata}} to biographical articles |
To duplicate: | Try Benjamin Kim |
Site URL: | en.wikipedia.org |
Operating system | Windows XP |
.NET FW Version | 2.0.50727.1873 |
AWB version | 5.2.0.1 SVN 7522 |
Workaround | Manually add |
Fixed in version |
diff. Page had incorrect value in |Background=
Hello GoingBatty, Thank for all your corrections in Women's Hockey pages. Pass a good week-end -- Geneviève ( talk) 14:37, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Status | Not a bug in AWB, has been referred |
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Description | AWB removes some, but not all, date ordinals GoingBatty ( talk) 21:35, 8 January 2011 (UTC) |
To duplicate: | Try Spalding Grammar School |
Site URL: | en.wikipedia.org |
Operating system | Windows XP |
.NET FW Version | 2.0.50727.1873 |
AWB version | 5.2.0.1 SVN 7522 |
Workaround | Manually remove |
Fixed in version |
Just want to let you know that you made a mistake in tagging Standardized testing and its effects as not containing any WP:inline citations.
The bits that say things like "(Kohn 1)" are WP:Parenthetical references, the second most popular form of inline citations on the English Wikipedia.
I've fixed it for you. As a general rule, I've found that whenever an article has a list of citations that spells out the URL inside angle brackets (like <http//:example.com>), then the editor is probably following the MLA citation style quite closely, and it's worth a close look for parenthetical citations. They are most subtle than ref tags. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 17:02, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello Going Batty. I notice you removing Wikify tags that still need work on layout. If you check, wikifying isn't just about wikilinks and fixing typos but also Layout and markup. Many articles that you remove the tags still need to be broken into sections. The AWB tool you use doesn't really give good assessment if an article is sufficiently wikified, it's your responsibility to check yourself each time AWB suggests an action on an article. It's up to you, but maybe you would like to go back through the articles you've wikified and see if they can use sections? Slightsmile ( talk) 04:53, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
I think that's good you going back to them like that. I've gone through a few so far and did some fixing where I could.
I'll continue going through them when I can. Slightsmile ( talk) 20:13, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Could you advise why you removed the wikify template from Joe Bauman? I tagged it recently as it needs headers and other formatting/layout fixes - none of those changes were made, but the tag was still removed. -- Jezebel'sPonyo bons mots 14:51, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Whatever you were trying to do in your edit to the article on William W. Wood inadvertently messed up the succession box. Please could you have a look at your edit, and try to figure out what you did wrong.
I have reverted the edit, as a messed up succession box is undesirable.
Just out of interest, what were you trying to achieve?-- Toddy1 ( talk) 21:03, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello! In FEBRUARY, in the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil will be aproved the *SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN BRAZIL* ( [1]), and the pages LGBT rights in Brazil and Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil need of you. Because will generate a heavy traffic on these pages, and we need you to help in the English spelling of these pages, you understand me? Please help me. Hentzer ( talk) 12:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
The Typo Team Medal | ||
For your work in fixing over half a thousand typos over the course of the last few days, I hereby award you this Typo Team Medal! Sophus Bie ( talk) 14:10, 26 January 2011 (UTC) |
Nice job, and welcome to the team! Sophus Bie ( talk) 14:10, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Better download this http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/AutoWikiBrowser5201_rev7571.zip More accurate wikifying as you requested and some more stuff amongst bugfix on Multiple issues. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 01:44, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the corrections in the article Kinna McInroe. Lucid1978 ( talk) 16:16, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
The creation of this article was a mistake on my part. I've asked Buckshot06 to delete the article. Cheers, W. B. Wilson ( talk) 16:16, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Yes folks, it's here again. Please look at this link [2] and leave your vote. I thank you.-- andreasegde ( talk) 08:07, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear GoingBatty,
Thanks for looking at Jimmy Earl. It is great to have typos magically corrected. However, it is a shame for anyone to spend their time on an article that is being restructured. I have been "going batty" trying to edit text while dodging clumsy inline references, and consequently, I have begun to put all the references in a block at the end. I hope you will have time to take another look when this process is complete.
I noticed that you unlinked the links to musicians in the discography that have links in the text. The intent here was to make it easy for a person browsing through the article to get some information quickly without wading through a lot of text. Nevertheless, I am aware of the convention to avoid multiple links, and am generally comfortable with what was done.
However, there is one exception. In the text, the link to it:Pino Daniele#Collaborazioni goes to his italian article, which gives a list of his collaborators; in the discography, the link Pino Daniele goes to his English article, which does not list collaborators, but which is more appropriate in an English article. Any comments?
Thanks again for your help. Deer*lake ( talk) 19:13, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Greetings! I've challenged my fellow disambiguators to help knock out more than a thousand disambig links a day for the month of February, and every bit helps. Please check out the list at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links and see if you can get in the game for this month. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:37, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Anthony Hall (Buckinghamshire) has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going to the article and clicking on the (Discuss) link at the top of the article, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Peacekeeper 1234 15:42, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
...mean that the batsman was not out at the end of the innings. It's a fairly standard notation but you're right, (on Wazir Ali), that it shouldn't be used without explanation. I'll amend that article and draw it to the attention of the cricket project. In Infoboxes it's fairly commonplace to use a * link. Johnlp ( talk) 23:51, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey Mate, thanks for the contrib tot he World Enviro day (Orphan, uncatagorised), but just give it me minute or two! I was writing the page as quick as I could! It's closer to finished now and will be done shortly (from my end anyhoo). Thanks for keeping us on our toes!
Peace
Although they are fine with me I noticed you were recently doing some edits that could be construed by some as being minor and in violation of the AWB rules of use. For example in this edit you only removed of and this edit where it appears you only removed some white space and casing. I also notice that your edit summeries are very vague and could lead some to complain about that as well. -- Kumioko ( talk) 14:50, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Going Batty; You may remember my article Jimmy Earl, which you cleaned up and improved. Now, I have written a new article User:Deer*lake/Severn Records, which I think is about ready to move into article space. I hope you will have time to look it over before this happens. I have not yet put it in any categories, but expect to do so when the article gets its final name. On a completely different subject, in the article Crownsville, Maryland, under Local Schools, there is one listed as "Derek's house of pain". This looks inappropriate to me, but I am not up for policing Wikipedia. You might take a look to see if anything should be done. Thanks for your past and future help. - - Deer*lake ( talk) 20:21, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for all the good work you've been doing on many of my recent documents. Your name seems to be on my log nearly every day. It's good to know that someone will take care of those stupid typos sooner or later. Thanks to people like you, Wikipedia's standards continue to improve. If you hadn't already been awarded the Typo Star, you would have received one from me. - Ipigott ( talk) 10:39, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
I believe this page may be fake, given the user's outright vandalism of the Peter Goldring page. Suggest deleting the page, seeing if the user challenges same and then calling him or her on it.
Dreadarthur ( talk) 05:12, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Better download this http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/AutoWikiBrowser5201_rev7660.zip Much faster and less buggy. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 01:32, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Dear Going Batty, I have written another article: User:Deer*lake/The Skunks (ska band). If you get a chance to take a look at, I would appreciate seeing your comments. One point about which I really need your input: I have included external links to Facebook pages. I know than people have to be signed on to Facebook, but think there is a large population that will have no problem accessing the information. Is there a Wiki rule against this? What do you think? I have included no categories, but will add them when the article goes public. Thanks in advance for your help Deer*lake ( talk) 21:23, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Good going on nixing that Typo rule. I hit a few of those the other day, and got around it by putting "Candian War" in the skip field, so I don't know how many there (I cleared the logs). I have added "Candian" to my own offline list of misspellings to check from time to time, with a note to be careful. Maybe we should have a list of tricky misspellings for AWB users who want to carefully try to fix them with Find & Replace. Happy editing! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris the speller ( talk • contribs) 20:02, April 2, 2011
Thank you for the fixes to the article. However Alpha Phi Omega in the Phillippines uses the Tagalog term for Hong Kong: Hongkong. See tl:Hongkong. While it may not be appropriate in English, the names themselves of the Alumni Associations are determined by Alpha Phi Omega of the Philippines National Office. I will change them back to Hongkong and put a note to this effect as a <!-- --> note. Naraht ( talk) 15:03, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
In a recent edit to the page Microsoft Expression Media, you changed one or more words from one international variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.
For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author used.
In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. Fleet Command ( talk) 08:15, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
I have reverted you a second time here. The National Register misspells the word as "Pavillion", therefore, it must be shown in the NRHP infobox and in
as it is spelled there, without correction. Thanks, . . Jim - Jameslwoodward ( talk to me • contribs) 15:02, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Greetings. I am using my 100,001st edit to congratulate you for being a wild man with AWB (that's meant in the best possible way). BTW, I was also in Order of the Arrow. If you would be so kind as to look over my subpage User:Chris the speller/SkipTrick and tell me what you think. The example shown is for fixing "infact", and its basic improvement could also be done using RegEx "negative lookbehind", but it illustrates the concept of temporary changes to false-positive matches. Since I did that, I created a set of 12 RegEx rules to handle "infront", and it cut through a list of 60 articles like a hot knife through butter. Do you think this technique is worth mentioning in the "Tips and tricks: section of the AWB home page? Chris the speller yack 16:57, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, my name is Sam. I am an undergraduate student at Syracuse University taking a class on Transnational Non-Government Organizations and US public policy. Our class is working with the Wikipedia Ambassador Program to help improve certain articles on Wikipedia that pertain to TNGOs and US public policy. I created a section in the Wildlife Conservation article that I see you are very active with. I know it is unsubstantial, however over the next few weeks I plan to add a significant amount of information that will benefit the community interested in wildlife conservation. I now ask for your help and cooperation with my project. Thank you for your time and consideration. Smfunk7 ( talk) 17:02, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Your recent edits regarding "cleanup"/"fixes" to Wikipedia:Albums articles involve wikilinking Billboard to Billboard (magazine). To let you know, the correct internal link for Billboard and some chart is Billboard charts, not the article on the magazine, Billboard (magazine). Dan56 ( talk) 03:59, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Sorry about "fixing" the spelling of biographee. At any rate, at least no one else is bound to make that same mistake now with "person". -- Baekken ( talk) 03:01, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Batty, just wanted to say that I've run into your name in the edit logs on dozens of different pages, and wanted to say thanks for being one helluvan awesome wikignome. Cheers, Sloggerbum ( talk) 01:57, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
I have written to you previously in relation to what courses of action are available with respect to a supposed contributor who vandalizes the page of a Member of Parliament ( Peter Goldring). He has now vandalized my own editor profile, which I choose to remain unparticularized. I still believe his only contribution to Wikipedia, on a certain Harold Graziano, will turn out to be bogus, with the third party references being similarly so found.
I believe this person should be banned from further Wikipedia contributions and don't know how to go about effecting this. I have no interest in continuing here if I constantly have to watch to see who is doing some slice and dice on my own profile.
Suggestions or action appreciatied. I am contacting you because you were the editor on this person's alleged Graziano profile.
Nobody should have to put up with small trash like this. Sorry to be so emotive.
Dreadarthur ( talk) 03:34, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Plus, if you go to Harold Graziano, you will see that there is another questionable editor, User:Dawnsimpson, whose only supposed contribution is Harold Graziano and whose presence conveniently prevents speedy deletion of the article, based on more than one alleged contributor. I suggest checking out this contributor, in addition to any relationship to Beeeflsgoood. It is garbage like this that drives people away from contributing to Wikipedia. This is supposed to be a serious attempt to collectively contribute to knowledge.
Dreadarthur ( talk) 03:43, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Many thanks for your calmer comments than my own.
Dreadarthur ( talk) 00:52, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, GoingBatty! Thanks for disambigging the artists I recently added to the train song list. I'm fairly meticulous about such things, but apparently was trying to do too much in too short a time. The path I'm on is to 1) assess the notability of entries, 2) consolidate the listings so that each song only appears one time, 3) add more artists per song and 4) provide citations for all listings. I realize that's ambitious, but I recently did this with the List of artists who have covered Bob Dylan songs, which is of similar length, had citations for a quarter or so of its entries and now is almost completely referenced. Nevertheless, as you noted, the list does need a lot of help. Do you have any specific suggestions regarding that? I'd appreciate any feedback you can give that would help in improving the article. I'll be watching for a reply. Thanks. Allreet ( talk) 15:16, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
You are listed as one of the editors of this page. I have a color map of the cave I made in the 1970s. Ken Thompson told me I was a hero in his house because his son had gotten very frustrated. If you want to see it let me know how to send a jpg. Nils-Peter Nelson 69.19.14.28 ( talk) 20:47, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you, for your helpful edit to the article I recently expanded, Skipping Towards Gomorrah. Much appreciated. ;) Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 05:54, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
You recently edited the subject page. Due to vandalism, you were seeing an obsolete page. Could you please check it again? Boringbob4wk ( talk) 09:52, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty, Still new to the Wikipedia community and how we act on here, but I'd just wanted to take some time out to say thank you for editing/cleaning up my article, its much appreciated, and if you took the time out to do that, i should take the time out to at least say thanks! Have an awesome day! -KiddRock123 — Preceding unsigned comment added by KiddRock123 ( talk • contribs) 04:52, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Much obliged. I am going for quantity over quality a bit at the moment and mistakes happen. Thanks again. Paul Bedson ❉ talk❉ 02:12, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Very much appreciated your contribution on IMARK article. In fact, I was wondering how to fix the reference duplication. Thanks a lot! Met — Preceding unsigned comment added by Metkorkmaz ( talk • contribs) 8:58, 7 June 2011
Thanks - my wireless mouse plays tricks on me sometimes! Deb ( talk) 06:52, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm glad atleast someone is noticing the template.
Anything related to Paul, John, George, Ringo, - together or solo-wise - should have the template. If you don't mind, could you add the template? I'm busying with the importance rating of 100+ pages. :P -- Yeepsi ( Talk to me!) 10:38, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Murder of Laci Peterson, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. pablo 13:57, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for repairing links to disambiguation page on the article I created. Jamesallen2 ( talk) 09:30, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Please see the discussion section of the 2011 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team page. Superman7515 ( talk) 19:28, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
It turns that the guy who introduced the redirect, introduced and wrong parameters. Check this fix. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:56, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
Can you please write me here which new parameter variations we need to add to AWB's code? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:10, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
|cleanup-link rot=
and |unreliable=
. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 23:27, 5 July 2011 (UTC)The Copyeditor's Barnstar | |
I have yet to encounter a WikiGnome of your magnitude anywhere else. Yegawds, man, do you sleep? Most humans enjoy such activities, but then there is no hard evidence you are in fact human, and not a Gnome in the flesh. Sloggerbum ( talk) 04:02, 9 July 2011 (UTC) |
Hello, GoingBatty, since you were an editor on the article that i created ( Terraforming of Europa (moon)), I'm responding to you why nobody has welcomed me to Wikipedia yet. If nobody does it within 2 hours, can you do it yourself? Thank you!-- SpaceChimp1992 ( talk) 17:23, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
SpaceChimp1992 has given you a
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Hello, you posted a disambiguation notice on this article and through Smackbot it is now asking for two disambiguations. Would you be so kind as to tell me what exactly it is you wish to see disambiguated and I will attempt to oblige you. Yrs truly, Eebahgum ( talk) 14:08, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Hey, GoingBatty, how's it going? I was just wondering if you can create a talk page for Terraforming of Europa (moon), since it's older than my most recent article, Mercury's magnetic field (which has a talk page), and yet it doesn't have a talk page. Thanks! -- SpaceChimp1992 ( talk) 21:11, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
Just a quick request: when you're adding categories to articles in the Category:Articles needing additional categories queue, please be aware that HotCat doesn't automatically remove the {{ catimprove}} tag — so as much as possible you should remove it manually when you add the categories, so that the page doesn't keep cluttering up the queue anyway. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 05:02, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the birth year category which I had missed in my previous edit. I will try to remember that missing year category for the future. -- Mirokado ( talk) 15:35, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I see that you are a contributor to The A-Team (comics). Your input is requested on its talk page in response to it having excessive copyrighted content on it, possibly in violation of WP:NFCC#3. Thank you. Phuzion ( talk) 19:27, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello, GoingBatty! Now it's REALLY been some time. The Personal Shield Pro antivirus is literally giving me a headache and is disrupting my software. Anyways, I know you think I've given up on expanding Saturn, but I haven't given up on my duties yet! I'm just checking for errors on my created articles. -- SpaceChimp1992 ( talk) 19:47, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have a release from a photographer to use an image for a wiki page, but I'm at a loss at what to do to prevent it from being taken down. I know how to upload it to wikki commons, but what is the process? Thank you in advance! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.79.104.1 ( talk) 23:10, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
In regards to this edit. Which bot is that? Debresser ( talk) 05:29, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
I thing bullseye lens and a fisheye lens are totally different things, unlike what you disambiguated here and here (well, probably more, but these are the ones on my watchlist). The purpose is very different and the structure has no similarity. You can see how a bullseye lens looks like here for example, that's the two bullseyes showing on the front. This is a fisheye lens. I will correct these two of course, but I'd appreciate it if you go back and see if there are more of them. -- Muhandes ( talk) 07:42, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
The link you changed on the above page to Avengers (comics) was incorrect, I have corrected it to The Avengers (TV series) as it should be. Damiantgordon ( talk) 11:20, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty. I fixed the infobox on the article Ali-Reza Pahlavi. Your fix a couple of days earlier wasn't quite right. Regards, Trijnstel ( talk) 22:02, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks What an odd and pointless vandalism... — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 01:11, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that you removed the Stub assessment for the David B. Mitchell (police chief) despite few changes to the article since its creation and original assessment in September, 2008. I respectfully disagree with your action, and have submitted a request at the WikiProject Biography Assessment page for the article to be re-assessed by a impartial third party. -- TommyBoy ( talk) 23:58, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
I admire your self-restraint. Ironically, the ingrate who you tried to help has "Assume good faith" at the top of his/her talk page. Happy editing! Chris the speller yack 03:35, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you had removed the WikiProjects Song category info from the "Ain't She Sweet" article and replaced it with WikiProjectsBeatles. Is there a particular reason it can't be in both? "Ain't She Sweet" has had a long history before the Beatles great recording and since, so it's not totally identified with them by any means. I'd like to add the WikiProjects Song info back to this and keep both.
Thanks. Contributingfactor ( talk) 12:40, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
|song=yes
parameter in {{
WikiProject The Beatles}}, it adds the page to
Category:WikiProject Songs articles. The text on
Talk:Ain't She Sweet states "This article is within the scope of
WikiProject Songs, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to songs on Wikipedia." The only reason I removed the {{
songs}} template is that it duplicated the functionality of the WikiProject Beatles template. Hope this is more clear. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk) 14:34, 24 September 2011 (UTC)There is a discussion here where we could use your input. Thanks. Curious Eric 23:39, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
I didn't want to take the "is is" discussion off track, but there are reasons to click "Skip" sometimes. I lost nearly a half hour yesterday when I carelessly tried to make a manual fix to an article before I noticed that it had over 40,000 words. AWB spun away for a long time (I think this is actually a bug), and I didn't want to rip AWB out forcibly, as I had a number of tweaks to my settings file that I didn't want to lose. I generally don't make manual changes if the article is more than about 3,000 words, or if the title is "List of ....", when AWB's word count is generally not reliable. I also sometimes don't make manual changes if a number of Find & Replace rule changes have been added to the edit summary and Typos makes an inappropriate action, since manual editing clears out the edit summary. I might unclick "Enable Regex TypoFix" and press the "Start" button again to perform just the F&R function; I might or might not follow up by manually editing the article. I'm sure that there are lots of good AWB users who have their own styles and their own sets of criteria for how much manual editing they do. Is your experience with manual changes to huge articles with AWB different? Chris the speller yack 17:23, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Just a heads up! Before performing manual edits on articles, please make sure each one is not a student article. As in the American Gas Association article, edits were made that usurped the relationship of the Ambassador program and the Political Participation course at Southern Connecticut State University. When the student is learning to identify and address various editing issues, it is important to allow them the time to work with the professor and the designed course. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Best regards, Cind. amuse (Cindy) 11:08, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar | |
You are a hard-working Wikipedian.-- 1966batfan ( talk) 03:19, 13 October 2011 (UTC) |
Hello! I'm not familiar with AWB, but if there is a way to avoid changing word contractions (like didn't → did not
) when they are used within quotes, references or templates, I think it would be best to use it. That way the integrity of the quote or original work cited is preserved. I partially reverted
this change. Keep up the good work! Cheers, —
CharlieEchoTango — 04:03, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. You asked for someone to look over your copy edit and, as the best editors, like Diannaa, the Utahraptor and Chaosdruid seem to be busy IRL, I've done what I can for you. First, what you did in the article was all good and you definitely improved it. There were a few points where you could have done more and, as these are rather common generally on WP, here's a list:
I've been through the article and made some improvements (hopefully). Here's the diff. Please do say if you want me to explain anything I did. Best regards, Simon. -- Stfg ( talk) 20:51, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
The Minor barnstar | |
Thank You for your Help! Chico 9 ( talk) 23:43, 16 October 2011 (UTC) |
Hi and Thank You for your help! I hope you enjoy the Barnstar. I have a question for you. When I am trying to edit and try to Wikify, my Wikify (Internal Link) will not work and I can not Wikify anymore? When you have the time please get back to me, maybe you have a answer. Thanks! Chico 9 ( talk) 23:53, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Again GoingBatty! I'll try that the next time I do some editing. I really appreciate your help! Chico 9 ( talk) 02:18, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty, Thanks again for your imput and help! I still need your assistance on the Clean-up of this article (bare URLs for citations and adding full citations) so that the article remains verifiable in the future. I am having trouble using the templates and the Reflinks tool to assist in formatting. I also have a question as to references that are on line? As you know these are only as good as somebody is paying their bills to keep them on line or the owner of the page decides to discard and the ramifications this action is either a dead link or no on- line reference. When You get a chance I would really appreciate your magic to remedy James Chico Hernandez page. Thanks again! Chico 9 ( talk) 09:43, 19 October 2011 (UTC) PS I feel that your technical know how is way beyond my range to fix the page and I would feel bad if I somehow ruin it.
Hi GoingBatty, I did the update brackets manually and Thanks again for all of your help! Please help when you can because I can surely use your help to complete the James Chico Hernandez page. I will examine {{ cite web}} and try to improve as well! Thanks!
Hello once again GoingBatty; I tried to remedy the issues on James Chico Hernandez article and as you can see I kind of messed it up. Sorry I still can use your help when you are not so busy. Thanks again for your help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chico 9 ( talk • contribs) 11:02, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. You may have seen that I responded to the various postings on the topic of the Martin Lewis article/disambiguation. You were apparently accused of being a sock puppet for me. I'm sorry that such a foolish thing was uttered. But after many years on Wikipedia I'm used to such nonsense.
I noticed that no sooner had I moved back the Martin Lewis article to the primary status that it has had for many years than the editor called Orat Perman moved it back. And then his very next edit was to remove references to Lewis being a Beatles scholar! I note that you're on the Beatles wiki project so you are probably aware of Lewis's status in that world. I see that Davidpatrick, who is another editor who works on the Martin Lewis article, ended up putting a load more references to attest to Lewis' status. A bit needless really! It's not as though Lewis' work in the Beatles world is a secret.
It got me to wondering why anyone would remove factual text about someone so well known. I decided to do a couple of minutes sleuthing about the editor. I discovered that just a few days ago he had removed the category "People Associated with the Beatles" which was clearly wrong to do. It was in fact you who reinstated that. If you go back and look over his wiki history you discover that he is a very sporadic editor but he has popped up every couple of years with fairly spurious challenges about Lewis. His first-ever edit in June 2007 was to challenge that Lewis was a Beatles scholar. After many years on Wikipedia one gets used to identifying patterns of behavior. There is a clear indication of an animus for whatever reason about Lewis from this editor.
The voluminous amounts of sources on Lewis's activities over nearly 40 years attest to a notability and prominence over the others of that name. Which is why it has been the primary article for so many years. The only other person of that name with any prominence is a financial journalist known in only one country (the UK) on the niche topic of personal finance. That is not remotely comparable to the prominence and notability of the other Lewis. If this hadn't been discussed on the COI noticeboard, I'd "Be Bold" and move it back to its long-prevailing status immediately as I think the merits of the matter are obvious as evidenced by the multiple sources. But I'll wait for a day or so and see what if anything more transpires. Thanks for your time!
23skidoo (
talk) 03:43, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion occuring here involving debate about whether or not the Beatles were "active" during 1994-1996. Your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc ( talk) 02:04, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Please don't modify URLS to remove the "www" when present - the two urls are distinct -please see Template_talk:URL#Exclusion_of_prefix_is_technically_and_in_some_cases_practically_wrong for more details. Imgaril ( talk) 07:10, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
|work=
parameter, but since I can't find that now, I'll stop removing the "www." until I can find it again.Hii,,,
Djatsvnit ( talk) has created article named Student Life in NIT Surat. which is nothing but copy- paste of the article Student Life in IIT Kharagpur. He just replaced the words IIT Kharagpur with "NIT Surat". Even the links provided in the article refer to Kharagpur sites. So please delete the Wiki page Student Life in NIT Surat.
Thank u for ur reply.
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Hi- When you added "cite news" to AWB, the page is now in Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded. Maybe you will have to place the code on a separate page? I don't know what to do to fix it. Thanks, -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 22:40, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you doing some changes to the rename template parameters page. I think it would be better and more efficient to add some of those typos and changes to the typos list rather than the parameter rename page. For example I think we should write some regex to lowercase the parameters rather than list them all out individually. What do you think. That itself would trim out about 50 from this list. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:00, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. These edits you made the other day:
broke the footnote links to the full references; this:
no longer links to:
I've fixed this by forcing the ref-name with {{ sfnRef}}:
The same thing happened on Tethys (moon):
I understand that using the day parameter is not ideal, but it's not appropriate to break things while removing it. You might find this script useful for alerting you to this sort of problem:
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly-1 ( talk) 23:06, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Please do not change British English (busses) for American English (buses). Both are correct.
DonJay ( talk) 03:59, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty!
This refers to our discussion on my Talk page last week.
I'm no longer convinced that it make sense to delete a category just because a sub-category is also listed in the article. Take, for example, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. If someone clicks on Category:Performers of Sufi music, that should pull up his name. The fact that a subcategory of this, Category:Pakistani qawwali singers, also appears in his article doesn't change that.
In my view, the usefulness of Category:Performers of Sufi music is diminished if the name of one of the most renowned Sufi singers doesn't appear in it.
Your thoughts, please?
Thanks!-- Sarabseth ( talk) 11:19, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Yes, sorry about that; not well-worded by me at all! I had already made that change before it occurred to me to discuss it here. I was trying to reach agreement on what the final resolution should be. Will go ahead and keep Category:Performers of Sufi music, and remove Category:Sufi music and Category:Qawwali. -- Sarabseth ( talk) 10:52, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
How the HELL did you not notice that Sodium linked to the metal, and not to say, oh, a band? Typical n00b mistake. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 04:46, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
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Does this source for Zac Moncrief support his residence in Montvale, New Jersey? Pascack Hills High School students also come from Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey? I haven't been able to find a source that supports either Montvale or Woodcliff Lake for Moncrief, but I'm not sure that this source settles it either way. Alansohn ( talk) 02:32, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, I hope you don't mind me asking but you seem to be good at Regex and I admit I am stuck on a couple problems and could use some help if you don't mind. My first is relatively easy I think. As an example I would like to take something that looks like:
}}}} and make it look like:
}}
}}
I can do most of this in regex but I can't figure out what qualifier to use to make a line break like that.
My second question is in eliminating duplicate parameters from a template. Using my bot I have been able to convert many of the US related projects that are supported by WPUS into the WPUS banner. One sideffect is that in some cases, for several different reasons, I have ended up with some banners having multiples of the same parameter like this for example: {{
WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|DC=Yes|DC-importance=|DC=Yes|DC-importance=}}
and I would like to eliminate the redundant parameter.
Would you know how to do that? The only way I can figure this out is requiring me to right a whole bunch of rules to filter them out and I was hoping there might be an easier way. It doesn't need to be perfect but any help would be greatly appreciated. --
Kumioko (
talk) 04:02, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
}}}}
with }}\n}}
\{\{WikiProject United States\|(\S+)(\|DC=\S*\|DC-importance\=\S*)\2\}\}
with {{WikiProject United States|$1$2}}
seems to work.I just wanted to say that the first worked like a champ. The second one works for the specific scenario I gave but unfortunately they don't all meet that which is my fault I didn't explain better. I am still workin on it but here is what I have come up with so far (sorry if its not the most efficient way, I'm still learning. :-)):
{{\s*WikiProject[ ]+United[ ]+States(.*?)\|[ ]*DC[ ]*=[ ]*Yes(.*?)\|[ ]*DC[ ]*=[ ]*Yes(.*?)}}
with {{WikiProject United States$1|DC=Yes$2$3}}
with RegexOptions.IgnoreCase.
Unfortunately the importance parameters are a much different story since the importances can assume multiple states (low, mid, high, top, blank, and some other crap like ?, ??, etc). Thats the part I'm still working on. I think I am going to build it in as part of the assessment section so that it will, at the same time, inherit some assessment if needed as well. Thanks again for the help. --
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