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Fear of flying is not something that is unique or sanonomous with the United states or american people. my mother has a fear of flying and if you check my IP you'll be able to tell that i'm not american. the reason why i changed "businessperson" to "business person" also is because that is more widely excepted than "businessperson"(American version) and if let's say 14 countries choose "business person" over the american way, and the article is about a phobia that isn't unique to the US then maybe have the more widely excepted version. my nutralization is not on things like artists, more like things such as phobias, stars and planets, and alien life theories. You can say i'm nutralizing the articles, but you also can say that i'm fixing it so it is the more widely used version, even if it's not the American version. american people and things directly related to US and such i understand, but things like let's say Jupiter, or Crop Circles, or bees are not senonimus to the US, so as such, if the US term is not the widely used one then i'm going to find the more widely used one if i do not know it, and change it to the more widely used one. that's what my mission is, and i still haven't heard from Krisetn, Kirsty, or Jessica yet on this matter. Those three people may stop my mission, however, if you have advice on how i can go about it the right way, and maybe some articles to look at, then be my guest. i'm not going to totally change the style of english, i'm mearly going to change it to the more widely used version this way it's more likely that a wider variety of people will understand it, ok? happy hunger games, and may the odds be ever in your favor. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 03:57, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
this time on businessperson i only added another varient to it. ("Also business person, businessman...) so don't revert it. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 05:40, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. as a blind person i'm not too good at telling which case it is in, so thank you. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 07:15, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
Please do not use american versions of the word in Wikipedia as it is not an america only site. besides, my english teacher, who has been teaching sinse 1969 says that it isn't a compound word anyway, and she's right. i've only seen americans do that, simply for laziness's sake. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 22:30, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
How is it though that business person is turned into a compound word in US, but not in UK, Canada and other such places? i mean if i write "businessperson" at all and my english teacher says it, she docks major marks and tells me "There is no such thing as a businessperson, unless you are in the united states. only in the US is it exceptable to spell it like that, this is canada, so you must always spell it as "business person. ) note that she is the one who calls Americans lazy at english, not me. but I may agree with that to some point but saying you are lazy at english si not being uncivil, saying "Americans are so god damn shitty at english" is being uncivil, and is unacceptable. also let's not americanize wikipedia, i'm against that completely, as not everyone knows american english, so i think that we should try to nutralize wikipedia with some american english and some non-american english. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 01:18, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
note that i say that we should not americanize wikipedia because i feel that not everyone is going to either understand or care for american english. i do not mean that in an anti-american way. my friend is american, and he's awesome, and the US has many things i like and some very nice people. i just feel that we need to nutralize wikipedia, rather than americanize it. I am going to find some articles that seem too american and nutralize them, unless of corse Either of These people asks me not to. note that i chose two non-americans in order to prevent bias. again i mean nothing against US (USA is cool), i am just acting on my mission to nutralize wikipedia, ok? i've got some ideas but i'm currently trying to figure out how to tackle them. so do not take it the wrong way, i'm not going to d-americanize it, i'm mearly wishing to make articles use both american and british english, i don't care what the subject is about. and i've never heard of an aeroplane. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 01:18, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Also to prove i'm not anti american, i'll ad a Sertain someone who's the best to the list of the three people i look up to to convince me not to go about my mission of making wikipedia less american and more nutral than it currently is, so again, these are The Three chosen ones to stop me. thanks. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 01:40, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Wait, no, please don't tell me you are kristen schall, no, (cringes and cowers into chair) you aren't kristen schall, please tell me you are not kirsty hawkshaw either, nor jessie j. please? please! 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 03:46, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Good, i'd be freaked out if you were. lol (and i don't mean that in a bad way) 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 06:39, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty, hope you're well. I notice you removed the Nina Simone songs cat from "My Sweet Lord", so I thought I'd mention that she did indeed cover the song, along with Harrison's "Isn't It a Pity", on a 1972 album. Both are highly rated covers. Just so you know – because the other song article still carries the category. Cheers, JG66 ( talk) 16:19, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing my typo on List of New York City Ballet 2011 repertory! — Robert Greer ( talk) 00:40, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
I noticed that you did some editing on the page for Genesee_Scientific. In a lot of ways this page reads like a biased commercial for a small company that is one of many that sells supplies to the scientific community. I'm curious if this page should be deleted, or if other small biotech supply and manufacturing companies should have pages added. What is your opinion of this page and what criteria should be used to accept new company pages or delete old ones? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewPapp ( talk • contribs) 12:52, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
{{
notability|companies}}
and/or {{
advert}}
, and/or discuss the issues on
Talk:Genesee Scientific. Good luck!
GoingBatty (
talk) 14:02, 11 January 2013 (UTC)Hi, I've taken the liberty of reverting your "dead link" tag on the Banglapedia link on Banglapedia. This is because over the course of several months I've seen that site go up and down like a yo-yo, and I believe that the Asiatic Society has no plans to move it again or take it down. Perhaps it will be down for the weekend, but it is such a useful source of information for Bangladesh-related articles that I thought it best to leave the link there. Best wishes, Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 20:41, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Would it drive you batty if I were to restore the circumflex in the word rôle for the List of New York City Ballet 2011 repertory? The spelling with diacritic is standard in the ballet world (the dance world has other usages all its own; a choreographer makes a dance on a dancer.) — Robert Greer ( talk) 15:41, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
One quick question about your bot! When checking for wikilinks does it make sure the page linked to exists or does even a read link count as enough to remove the deadlinks tag? ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 13:47, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the UNDO of an Addbot edit! I had noticed the edit but for some reason I never got around to hitting the Undo button. ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 03:37, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
As one of the participants in the Bot Request about getting the Simple Wiki to the top of the Languages, you are invited to participate in the reopened discussion of the same. Your feedback will be appreciated.
Cheers, TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 16:00, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
I've never added anything to AWB's typo list, so I'd rather not add one just yet. Could you add[T|t]tamil[N|n]adu -> Tamil Nadu. Bgwhite ( talk) 17:26, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
Maybe you could go and update all multiple issues tags to use the new style? This would avoid a lot of confusion. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:47, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Do you have a bot that could either complete this task or help out with the task? I saw you did a similar thing a few sections up ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 19:19, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
couldn't agree more with your undo deleting film reference "Low Hanging Jungle Bunnies"; Where did that derogatory come from ? Out of left field, I think.
A talk question however. This pic sez Jennifer Oneill in Summer of '42. This pic is NOT a shot of her in / from that movie. Do you think that pic should be replaced with the pic of her from the wiki "summer of '42 page?" What sayeth you ? Just a thought, if accuracy is what is being sought here. Thanks... Taninao0126 ( talk) 14:42, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
P.S. I had forgotten to mention in my talk question above that the source of this pic and that this pic was from the Lady Ice movie (I knew that), but you caught it anyway. Great!!! Hey, you ARE good !! Thanks... Taninao0126 ( talk) 13:08, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
P.P.S. In the filmography credits, there is her 1991 movie Committed, but it is in red (is this bad, for "page does not exist" !!??) but there is a proper credit for it in the IMDB webpage at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094900/?ref_=fn_al_tt_6 Should this be fixed as well ?? Thanks.. Taninao0126 ( talk) 13:16, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for tidying up after me, 'Bats (not the first time, I'm sure). I think one can hear exactly what Ronnie meant - a superb solo almost wholly drowned out by the silly vaudeville vocal antics. And of course he and Humph were big pals, so he'd probably have heard the "Bad Penny" similarity straight away. Still, one of my all-time favourite Fab Four hits, of course. The strange thing about the video, for me, is how little we seem to see of George - could be counted on the fingers of one hand, I thought.. but in fact he appears at least 30 times. Cheers. Martinevans123 ( talk) 20:40, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
Greetings! I'm giving a prize of up to a hundred dollars to the winner of the February 2013 disambiguation contest, and lesser prizes to the rest of the top four. Of course, the conditions of the contest will make it quite a challenge to win the full amount, but I hope to stimulate competitiveness with a little extra incentive. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:59, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
Just curious, but why remove the category? I haven't reverted, since you did it and I figured you had a good reason. Thanks! Evanh2008 ( talk| contribs) 23:05, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
Regarding your question as an edit summary on The Joker (Heath Ledger), I would like to ask if you are talking of only the categories or the content too? If the former, I have no idea. If the latter, then I think it might be useful to import as much as is necessary. Cheers, TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 18:03, 2 February 2013 (UTC) (TB please!)
I don't see how this could apply. The rule before required a space (/s) between new and york parts before it would match. Perhaps I'm missing something? Regards, Sun Creator( talk) 02:25, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Please reply at Rjwilmsi's question at Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Skip_if_only_minor_replacement_made_ignores_advanced_F.26R_settings. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:49, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Here too! Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Does_not_remove_date_ordinals_from_infobox. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:54, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, GoingBatty. Thank you for taking care of fixing num_employees field at the companies' infoboxes. The bot is doing a good job and by my understanding there has been no problems with false changes. I would like to ask if it is also possible to do this change by bot. As the company infobox has been updated several times, at one moment these fields became obsolete. They are transcluded, of course, but the shorter form is preferred. This change is not substantial, it does not change anything in this how the page looks like, and if I understand correctly, it is not encouraged to use a bot for that kind of separate changes. However, as I have seen with some other changes maybe it could be done when the bot is performing also some other tasks at the page (e.g. this change changed also the template name spelling which is by my understanding is very similar change to this what I proposed)? The issue is that a lot of editors does not use a skeleton template from the template's documentations but rather copy-paste existing infoboxes from other articles, so these fields are reproducing themselves. What you think about this request? Thank you. Beagel ( talk) 14:44, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your help with this. It is very much appreciated. All the best. Figaro ( talk) 06:35, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
You made a comment at Category talk:Wikipedia backlog#Backlog by WikiProject? back in 2012. I thought you might find this proposal by Biosthmors interesting. Ryan Vesey 21:54, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Hey GoingBatty, just wanted to let you know that an article you created in result of a move, Pythian Baseball Club, is currently being discussed to move it back to where it was originally, Pythian Base Ball Club.
On a related note, I'm surprised that Template:RMNote doesn't exist; it could have made this notification a lot easier. I think I might try to fix that. Steel1943 ( talk) 04:52, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. Perfect way to hit the ball back into my court. References? I got references. I am so glad to avoid an edit war. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.156.92 ( talk) 23:48, February 25, 2013
Thanks GoingBatty for trimming the American University article. Inawe 07:01, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
I was having the hardest time finding the bottom, just was lazy. they should have software so that talk goes to bottom like a forum. Is really annoying to have to edit talk pages and edit the whole long page. TCO ( talk) 22:07, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Please explain this Why would you remove the publisher? If you care to respond, please notify me on my talk with {{ tb}}. Thanks. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 08:06, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
|publisher=
is "Not normally included for periodicals". Sorry for not explaining this in the edit summary.
GoingBatty (
talk) 16:29, 4 March 2013 (UTC)Thank you for discussing the bug in {{BLP sources}} so that it got fixed. — rybec 02:07, 6 March 2013 (UTC) |
I believe you would make an excellent administrator, and you would be able to achieve even more with a few extra tools. Have you considered this? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 11:57, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello, If you remember, I requested an edit to the part of the Optimus Prime page that states his main component transforms into an ion blaster, and i was asked to provide a reference from a place other than another Wiki. The following reference is from the websites " http://www2.unicron.com/1984-transformers/generation-1/autobot-leader/104-optimus-prime.html":
In robot mode, Optimus Prime actually splits into three components. THE OPTIMUS PRIME MODULE IS THE ROBOTIC SENTINENT BEING THAT IS THE STOREHOUSE OF HIS VAST KNOWLEDGE AND STRENGTH. He can lift 4,000,000 lbs. and blow from his fist exerts a force of 12,000 lbs. per square inch. He carries a laser rifle and can burn a hole in the nosecone of a Decepticon jet fighter at a distance of 30 miles, aided by his outstanding visual acuity. His Prime module also known as Roller, is a smart cart shaped device that he uses to unobtrusively slip behind enemy lines. He can maintain radio control over it at distances up to 1200 miles. Having Roller present somewhere is like being there himself. He can operate by remote control his Combat Deck module up to a distance of 1500 feet. The Auto Launcher mounted on the deck can use a variety of artillery and radiation beam weapons, including most of those used by his fellow Autobots. The launcher also includes a highly dexterous grapple arm which allows it to load itself and change its weaponry. The communications disk antenna mounted on the launcher provides a link between Optimus and all his fellow Autobots within a radius of 50 miles. It can be adapted to a satellite hook up that increases its effective range 10-fold.
This next one is from " http://www.transformerland.com/g1/optimusprime.html":
"OPTIMUS PRIME is the largest, strongest, and wisest of all Autobots. Feels his role is the protection of all life, including Earth-life. Fights unceasingly to defeat the Decepticons. Splits into three autonomous modules: 1) OPTIMUS PRIME... THE BRAIN CENTER KNOWN AS THE COMMANDER 2) Roller, the autobot scout car...a spy who operates up to 1200 miles away; and 3) Autobot Headquarters...the combat deck equipped with a versatile mechanic/artillery robot. Injury to one module is felt by the other two."
In both examples, Optimus' main component is recognized as the "commander","brain center", or "robotic sentinent", not an ion blaster as the Wiki currently suggests. However, as can be noticed in the top example, Optimus CARRIES an ion blaster (or laser rifle, as the example calls it). I hope these references prove helpful. Thank you, MaximusPrime2949 ( talk) 18:31, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
I saw your note on the Walter Raleigh's talk page regarding the edit request. I don't know if you looked into it further so here is what I found. I bumped into this info being added yesterday by IgorChe ( talk · contribs) to the Oscar Wilde article. Then when new editor Elvicendecun ( talk · contribs) started adding the same thing today. For a moment I thought a proper ref was being added but it turns out it wasn't. The list of honourees was certainly eclectic but not totally out of the realm of possibility. The street stuff was just plain weird and the fact that one of the streets was being given 4 or 5 different "recipients" names gave me pause. My time online is kind of choppy right now so I didn't have a chance to investigate further. If a source can be found to support the honour, of course, the items can be restored and added to WR's article. If this or another editor starts with the same thing tomorrow we might want to alert the biography (living and otherwise) project(s) to see if their editors can verify things one way or the other. Thanks for your time and cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 04:28, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
I obviously don't know how to write what is in my head. (See AWB bug on hidden cat). You have once again translated my pathetic writing. Are you available as a full-time translator? Are you also available to translate wife speak? Thanks again and thank you for next time (probably in the 10 minutes at my rate). Bgwhite ( talk) 05:39, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
You've just reported a couple of bugs about AWB and page previews. The other day I put in rev 8967. Is this a coincidence or am I missing something? Would you be able to retest with the current SVN? Thanks Rjwilmsi 11:26, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
Is there anyway to stop your bot editing my userspace? ★ ★ Retro Lord ★★ 11:08, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. I try to catch strays, but something's always going to slip through, no? -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 14:08, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Nogie Meggison is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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I noticed that you contributed to this article and I am notifying the author and all of the article's significant contributors (6). -
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talk 09:37, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, will downloading 'SVN snapshot' affect my AWB's saved settings? i.e. I have saved settings for 'Clean up', one for 'Disambiguation' etc.? Giant Snowman 16:52, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Hey GoingBatty; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 21:32, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
This one is the real trick. Billboard used to always show urls that were of the format <link to first link in browser session>#<link to where editor currently is sans site name], so the parser has to figure out that even though the link starts out talking about the Canadian Hot 100, it really meant the Japan Hot 100.
Whoever coded that generation of Billboard's site should be stood up against the wall and shot.— Kww( talk) 23:55, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, GoingBatty. When you took care of fixing num_employees field at the companies' infoboxes, it was decided to be one time action. Unfortunately it seems that Edson Rosa ( talk · contribs) is back editing as dynamic IP. He continues to use a full stop (.) to separate thousands [5], [6], so maybe we should keep this task running. There is not so much what could be done to avoid block evasion as the IP changes every time he starts editing.
I would also like to ask if there is any tool which helps to find duplicated url-s. It would be useful with articles having hundreds of references. Beagel ( talk) 06:42, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Dear Batty
I have gone through an article about a famous Pakistani Television anchor " Ali Nasir". It is reliable, however I find that you have reservations about his notability. He is fairly popular and a lot of people like his program. Internet penetration here is limited and thus finding internet references is difficult despite that there are enough citations and references. There is a lot of internet censorship and internet video access is difficult. He always speaks in favour of the people.
I guess you and others may review this article as references are reliable. The warning hurts the followers of Ali Nasir as the warning at the top takes credit away from him — Preceding unsigned comment added by Businessedit ( talk • contribs) 10:56, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi there,
I notice that you recently contributed to the TRS-80 article and wondered if you were interested in adding your opinion to the discussion on the proposed article split. If you have no strong opinion either way, or don't wish to contribute, please feel free to ignore this message. Thank you for your time. Ubcule ( talk) 16:08, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
I started fixing all pages with WPB and collapsed=yes which is redundant. ( Example). You may want to have a look too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:03, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Yep - it's next on my list of fixes. Should start getting to it tomorrow. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 04:29, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Would you be interested in reviewing my GAN for Song of Innocence? It's been sitting around for a month, and I'd like to nominate it for FA when it passes. If not, no need to reply back. Dan56 ( talk) 22:38, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
|publisher=
Allmusic.
Rovi Corporation
to |publisher=
Allmusic
. If you think the articles have a better chance of getting through GAN with
Rovi Corporation, please feel free to revert my bold edits.
GoingBatty (
talk) 01:04, 25 March 2013 (UTC)I dont buy into Tony's style of responding to the issue, It shouldnt be on Confuciouses talk page for a start - if there are already http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_Wikipedia_articles_written_in_Australian_English 17,000 + articles with the hidden category - I do not see why Confucious should suddenly add British English to confuse the issue. It is a protocol/ procedural issue nothing to do with Tony's interpretation - or a need for examples... I am taking this to the Australian noticeboard. sats 01:33, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Hahaha - I will need more than luck when it comes to this sort of thing. I have to get off in a moment (which means I will not be able to deal with some things till this evening) but have taken it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board - and BTW - your user name makes me smile - Battye Library is perhaps the major source of my further frustations in life and time consuming after wikipedia editing... sats 01:57, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty; I like your user name, BTW. :) I left Sluffs the standard level one template issued by Twinkle. I didn't want to create my own message because I didn't want him to accuse me of overstating the warning or doing something else inappropriate. I don't like to change people's comments on talk pages, so I didn't remove them. That also would fan the flames to an already unnecessarily volatile situation. But if you really want the comments removed, an admin probably would do it. BTW, I think you handled yourself with great restraint, for which I commend you. Best! Cresix ( talk) 01:40, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your helpful edits to the new article I'd created, Neville Page, much appreciated, — Cirt ( talk) 02:33, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, for AWB bug reports and feature requests I am asking for your help, whenever you are able to give it (please treat this as an open invite so include other willing editors if you're aware of them). I think AWB needs a team of knowledgeable users to support the improvement of AWB. You are one of the editors I see doing this currently, I am asking for more of your help. We are limited in development resource so I'm asking for more help in areas that non-developers can support. So
For bug reports:
For feature requests:
All of the above is up for improvement, we could discuss on Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Dev. Thanks Rjwilmsi 19:00, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
New user feedback on the WIKIpedia Nasza Klasa page Noworyta ( talk) 02:36, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Jason Quinn ( talk) 01:42, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for arranging the links! If I wanted to add new information to the page of Michael Jackson, I might ask you?Of course, in proper English. Forgive me for my English but I'm Italian :) -- LilaMJ ( talk) 22:21, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty, I have written on the page Talk:Michael Jackson but still no one answered me. You should change a lot of little things on the page of Michael Jackson. I'm sorry and thank you! -- LilaMJ ( talk) 20:22, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks!! :) -- LilaMJ ( talk) 23:27, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty,I write on your page because on the page Talk:Michael Jackson, no one answers. Scribd.com considered a reliable source: I used it on the page of Michael Jackson-wikipedia italian. On Scribd. com are inserted the most documents also of some significance. On page unonotizie.it speaking of tours donated to charity. And for $ 300 million, there is another source [1]. Thanks!! -- LilaMJ ( talk) 21:14, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Dont let them trick you into changing things - Its all a general hoax- Michael Jackson Faked His Death or Michael Joe and Michael Joseph are twins ....
......... Moxy ( talk) 06:55, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. Since 2 April, your bot User:BattyBot has done edits to talk-pages like this, where the only difference is that the bot adds {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}. I must admit, I don't like BannerShell's, but I am aware of that bots regularly add those shells to talk-pages when they fix something else on the page. In six of the eight edits your bot has done in the last three days (in my watchlist), the only difference is the addition of a BannerShell. I wonder if this really is necessary, or if this is what is called trivial editing? There are probably thousands of pages where there is no BannerShell, is your bot going to add one to every talk-page? Mentoz86 ( talk) 08:24, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty, plz help me in removing the tag {{Orphan|date=April 2013}} added by Yobot. I have shown links and references for the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningombam_Bupenda_Meitei . I also had a long discussion with Avoided long back and the article had no problem. Donizo ( talk) 21:06, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
You wrote on Yobot talk page ":Hi Donizo! I see you have already removed the orphan tag from Ningombam Bupenda Meitei. Wikipedia:Orphan#Criteria defines as orphaned article as one with no incoming links from other articles. The best way to solve this is by adding links from other articles to Ningombam Bupenda Meitei. For example, I added a link from List of alumni of St. Stephen's College, Delhi to Ningombam Bupenda Meitei. Happy editing! GoingBatty ( talk) 18:06, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Thank you ,Batty. But,it says as Ningombam Bupenda Meitei, Indian writer, essayist, and poet.[2][not in citation given] ,please check it again. Donizo ( talk) 10:53, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
On 12 April 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Neville Page, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that creature and concept designer Neville Page portrayed minor roles in soap operas, including General Hospital? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Neville Page. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Panyd The muffin is not subtle 00:03, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
I saw you add "Pages with citations using unsupported parameters" to your user page. I came across some good ones today... Gang Forward and Atlantic (horse). It is hard to tell if there are actual references among the sea of red. Bgwhite ( talk) 06:47, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
|curly=y
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GoingBatty (
talk) 22:11, 15 April 2013 (UTC)Thank you for your notification. And you are completely right: the output is written to en.wiki instead of bs.wiki. I was already wondering why I didn't get any output. Sorry for this! I hope the block can be undone. Thank again! Regards. -- Edinwiki ( talk) 02:17, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Do we have an estimate of how many pages still use the old style of Multiple Issues? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:11, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
|rewrite=
, with another 120+ articles updated.
GoingBatty (
talk) 00:45, 20 April 2013 (UTC)Hey GoingBatty :). Just a note that the Article Feedback Tool, Version 5 has now been re-enabled. Let us know on the talkpage if you spot any bugs. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 00:51, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
You did such a great job on the washpo problem, here's another one. Hope it's easy for you to just modify what you did earlier. Note the change in the votesmart param value. Anything with an alpha value no longer works, and there's no way to convert it. So again, it needs to be blanked. 184.78.81.245 ( talk) 17:55, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty. If you check this edit and this edit, you'll notice that your bot "crashed" the project tags by removing the "1=" part, which means that the project tags were no longer visible and the articles disappeared from their projects! I noticed these two because I follow WP:SWEDEN, and I've rolled backed these two edits. If you've done more of these, I'd recommend you to clean up the mess, and be a bit more careful about how you use bot edits in the future. Regards, Tomas e ( talk) 20:03, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
1=
it added it. The actual problem was that in both cases the {{
WikiProjectBannerShell}}
ended with|}}
}}
{{
WikiProjectBannerShell}}
for the future. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:17, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi there,
I wanted to draw your attention to a comment I posted at Template talk:Multiple issues#Bot to remove redundant "multiple issues" tags, as it concerns something that you worked on last year and thought you might have valuable input on it this time around. Thanks! — sroc ( talk) 07:53, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Btw, GoingBatty, I fixed a bug that caused multiple multiple issues tags on pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:19, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Going. I don't know if you know about (or have fixed)
this problem which broke the {{
advert}}
template. I think it was doing a 's/\|article//'
which should have been 's/\|article\|/\|/'
--
Redrose64 (
talk) 16:31, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
There are some who think the new red-error messages in the wp:CS1 Lua cites should remain, even though only 5% of "170,000" red-error pages have been fixed in the past 3 weeks. I would have thought the messages would be considered excessive (to be suppressed now), after the evidence has shown how the 9,100 active article editors cannot fix the red-error cite messages in less than a year. For the cite bots, any misspelled parameters not fixed by a cite-bot, have remained, with red-error messages showing the misspelled words, for 3 weeks now. There is an ongoing partial wp:VPP policy discussion, about the cite accessdate/url error messages:
You might want to join that discussion, or not, and this is just a reminder that the topics are being discussed in a wider forum. Feel free to comment, or delete this reminder if too busy. Just FYI. - Wikid77 ( talk) 22:38, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
This is a note to let the main editors of George Harrison know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on May 4, 2013. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 ( talk · contribs) or one of his delegates ( Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs), Gimmetoo ( talk · contribs), and Bencherlite ( talk · contribs)), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 4, 2013. If it needs tweaking, or if it needs rewording to match improvements to the article between now and its main page appearance, please edit it, following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. The blurb as it stands now is below:
George Harrison (1943–2001) was an English musician, singer, and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. By 1965 Harrison had begun to lead the other Beatles into folk rock through his interest in the Byrds and Bob Dylan, and towards Indian classical music through his use of the sitar on " Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". He developed an interest in the Hare Krishna movement and became an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, introducing them to the other Beatles and their Western audience. Following the band's break-up in 1970, Harrison released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer, and in 1988 co-founded the platinum-selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. A prolific recording artist, he was featured as a guest guitarist on tracks by Badfinger, Ronnie Wood and Billy Preston, and collaborated on songs and music with Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Tom Petty, among others. He also organized the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. Harrison was also a music and film producer, founding Dark Horse Records in 1974 and co-founding HandMade Films in 1978. ( Full article...)
UcuchaBot ( talk) 23:01, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Could you go thru your feature requests and see if any can be removed.... trying to clean the feature request page. Boy you do complain alot. :) Bgwhite ( talk) 04:24, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
I see that we're removing cite news in favour of cite web... surely these serve slightly different functions, and not all websites are news sites? -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 02:14, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your formatting help at Freedom for the Thought That We Hate, much appreciated, — Cirt ( talk) 04:23, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey =) Just in regards to my edit on the 111th Congress page (very long caption); yea, I realized and was worried about it - I decided to go with it since it seemed to fit in on the page alright + it's mostly a matter, I think, of the number of seat changes making it hard to convey that whilst 59:41 gives an accurate impression overall, the critical 60 seat threshold was temporarily obtained (see: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). I felt it was very important to make that clear? Sb101 ( talk) 03:47, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, with
this edit, BattyBot moved {{
WPTRAINS}}
down and in so doing excluded it from the {{
WikiProjectBannerShell}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 15:26, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
{{
WPTRAINS}}
to {{
WikiProject Trains}}
, so that AWB general fixes will include it inside {{
WikiProjectBannerShell}}
. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 22:36, 9 May 2013 (UTC)Hi.
Could you please give me an explanation of what were you trying to do in Windows 8 article? Removing |work=
and putting the work title in |publisher=
field? I don't know about you but I am certainly going dizzy looking at those edits.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk) 15:24, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
|work=
replaced its contents with |publisher=
? You say you were following
Help:Citation Style 1? Alright, that document gives this example:
|work=Amazon.com
and|publisher=Amazon
|newspaper=The New York Times
and|publisher=The New York Times Company
|work=Amazon.com
->|publisher=Amazon.com
note: websites are not italicised|publisher=Amazon
[unchanged] note: no such thing as Amazon (company is known as Amazon.com, Inc., and the script ignores it|newspaper=The New York Times
[unchanged]|publisher=The New York Times Company
[removed] note: publisher is removed as it is not required for periodicals
|work=
or |publisher=
field - i.e. should they be italicized or not. Although
Help:Citation Style 1#Work and publisher says to use |work=
for web sites, and
WP:ITALIC leads me to believe they should be italicized, the articles
ZDNet and
CNET do not italicizes the names, which is consistent with Ohconfucius' script. Where's the best place to have this discussion? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 03:14, 16 May 2013 (UTC)I urge you and
User:Ohconfucius to take this issue to {{
Cite web}} talk page or village pump. Since this is a genuine concern I would be glad to participate as well. The course of action that I think we need to follow is to have |work-n=
. Alternatively, we can propose "work" to be italicized in all citations, regardless of the nature of the work. (In both cases, it can be argued that it would be abused. The counterargument is: no more and no less than it is now being abused.)
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk) 06:50, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
|newspaper=The New York Times
is going to be unable to recover from link rot if we remove the publisher to make the References section more readable. Back to my edit to the Windows 8 article that you reverted, if one of the ZDNet or CNET references stopped working, how would |publisher=CBS Interactive
help you recover? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 22:54, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
|publisher=
and the |work=
. (In all three, link rot recovery is almost impossible if one piece is missing.) In addition, there are people in favor of consistency, who believe for consistency's sake, both |publisher=
and |work=
should be present at all the times. (@
Nikkimaria: I believe you had a similar opinion?)The linkrot problem you pointed out is that '[Microsoft] News Center', '[Symantec] Threat Response Center', '[Brigham Young University] technical library' are just too generic with the establishment name left off for anyone to identify the units concerned. However, the risk of not finding replacement links is overstated as it is still possible to remedy linkrot as the establishment name is relatively easy to find by following the url. -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 08:32, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
|work=
and its aliases like |newspaper=
. Second, you are assuming that links are always something like "somesite.com/work_name/subfolder/articlename". Wrong! Sometimes links are like "somesite.com/id=xxxxxx". Third, what do I care if you are going or not going to insert publisher into citations from periodicals! As long as your script does not move "News Center" to |publisher=
, I am fine. As for inserting or not inserting |publisher=CBS Interactive
from a citation with |work=CNET
, it is a matter of optional style and subject to
MOS:STABILITY. The rule is simple: Do not fix what is already correct. Last, remember that the subject of discussion here is "Edits in Windows 8". Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk) 10:39, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
|url=
|publisher=
, although it doesn't belong, in my opinion; I might consolidate these manually to |publisher=
Microsoft News Center
The da Vinci Barnstar | ||
To GoingBatty: in consideration of your fine efforts to improve WP from a technical standpoint; your general good humour and cooperativeness. and thanks also for your continued help with improving my scripts! Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 13:54, 19 May 2013 (UTC) |
Thanks Ohconfucius! I think the scripts are great, and make it much easier to make article references consistent within an article. Keep up the good work! GoingBatty ( talk) 02:05, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
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Dear GoingBatty,
It is about the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9za_Sz%C3%A1vai; I am wondering if the notoces on top coul be removed because that is all the information and links I could get of the person in English and also, his original Hungarian page is linked as reference.
Thank you!
Karoly Gersi — Preceding unsigned comment added by GKaroly ( talk • contribs) 05:06, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
For your mainspace article contribution at The actual link, if it is not your user talk page; type out the full link. Kind regards, and happy editing. VQuakr ( talk) 03:33, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
BattyBot is hitting an edit filter here, and seems to enjoy running directly into brick walls repeatedly. The bot should fail gracefully when this happens. -- Chris 08:41, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Check changelog. We may already doing it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:01, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks everyone! When I saw the talk page message, I tried a few more things, reported an AWB bug and a edit filter false positive. But by the time I came back here to report my progress, all of you had already replied. I tried the edit again, and it went through just fine. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 15:07, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
I've added reviewer and rollbacker to your acct after seeing your request. INeverCry 01:48, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Dear GoingBatty please protect J-20 page again. I just removed some troll materials. It seems that the same troll from Canada is vandalizing the page again.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.71.58.38 ( talk) 00:53, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for catching and fixing my typo in the Typos, old pal. How embarrassing. Chris the speller yack 03:36, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, regarding your comment here. (I am assuming you are using Windows 7) If when building AWB using SharpDevelop it gives you an error about Windows SDK, then you should download Win SDK from here. The installation wizard will give you options to download several components. It is enough to download the component about .NET framework. It is only 73 MB if I remember correctly. Don't forget to also download .NET framework 4.5 from here. Building AWB in SharpDevelop should now work fine. Enjoy. -- Meno25 ( talk) 12:44, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
This edit has removed a load of work and publisher parameters which shouldn't be removed. — AARON • TALK 23:34, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
|publisher=Prometheus Global Media
is not needed for |work=Billboard
. I suspect that
Ohconfucius is using a similar rationale for removing |publisher=Hearst Corporation
from |work=Digital Spy
.
GoingBatty (
talk) 00:05, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
|work=Billboard
with no publisher. Let's see if anyone adds a publisher.
GoingBatty (
talk) 01:10, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
I would obviously add it in. — AARON • TALK 13:11, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi GB, how goes it? Quick question: I've trawled back through the edit history for The Concert for Bangladesh and discovered you added a category citing Klaus Voormann as having created the album's artwork, or having had a hand in it – can I ask where you got this info? I've always understood this album's packaging to have been a Camouflage Partners creation, from start to finish, and I can't see an artwork credit for Klaus on the 2005 reissue. So I'm intrigued – on the other hand, I'll be happy to admit it if I'm wrong of course! Best, JG66 ( talk) 12:32, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello Going Batty!! I'M Mike Nelson from "Mike and the Paramounts" It is very nice to meet you even though it's the computer screen.Thank Yo for your E-Mail!! I don't understand yet how to set up a page. Here is some information so far:
MIKE and the Paramounts History. “TWIST & SHOUT” b/w “DOO-WHA-DIDDY” 45 RPM RECORD Recorded June 20th 1976 Groove Records
Mike Nelson (Born 1-8- 1960) is the Lead Singer of “Mike and the Paramounts” The POP group consisted of four young men. Lead Singer Mike Nelson ,16 years old, Scott Mesa, 17 years old, Jerome Mathers, 16 years old and Stephen Bettencourt, 17 years old. The group was hand chosen by the “Kings Entertainment” Co. via auditions Held in Hollywood.. Over 200 kids auditioned in May 1976 for the job. The four mentioned were chosen to become “ Mike and the Paramounts. Mike Nelson was chosen to be the lead singer because of his Power House vocals according to Producers. It was Americas 1976 Bicentennial Celebration. Mike and the Paramounts were selected to perform at Theme Parks in Anaheim, Los Angeles And through out California to help celebrate the event. On June 2Oth 1976 Mike and the Paramounts record the “Twist & Shout” song for The Groove record label. The 45 rpm single was a double “A” sided record. The flip Side also featured Mike Nelson’s lead vocals with Doo-Wha-Diddy. Another popular cover song. Both were A to B Recordings using no“Auto Tune” because it did not exist in 1976. Lead Singer Mike Nelson and the Paramounts nail the song in only three takes. The flip side of the record,”Doo-Wha-Diddy” also was recorded in only three takes on the same day. The record had only limited release in Anaheim and Southern Calif. “ Mike and the Paramounts” performed all around Southern California the summer of 1976. Screaming Fans loved the power of Mike Nelson’s voice and all of the energy of the Paramounts. Their costumes mostly consisted of bright orange leisure suits with yellow shirts and super wide collars. (Very 70”s) After the Summer of 1976 ended.” Mike and the Paramounts” were offered a real record contract to record an album and two more singles. However the boys all had to decline the offer because of their families and school commitments. Sadly what could have been a good career for the boys had to end because of this. The boys all split-up and went their separate ways. In 2012 Mike Nelson once again proved he still had the voice and put out an independent single of his own. “Jessie’s Girl” is the song and by Mike Nelson’s decision to stay loyal to the group, The record says it was performed by “Mike and the Paramounts”.Even though Mike Nelson sings all of the tracks.
Thank You for your Attention. Chechk out the records on U-Tube. Please E-Mail with more instructions. mschroeder36@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.169.211.4 ( talk) 05:52, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
I just reverted you change as that wiped out where to get the technical and source code information. It was labeled "Documentation" and was renamed to "Technical"
It has been my headache for the past few days. It started on my talk page and went downhill starting at User talk:The Transhumanist#AWB documentation. Looks like his M.O. is to go in and rearrange everything without asking any comments or questions. He means well. Joy.
I forgot to mention. You thanked me for my comment about the watchlist page. You may want to look at User:Bgwhite/vector.css. I remove alot of "unnecessary" wording from the edit window and else where. My User:Bgwhite/vector.js has one that removes the left sidebar. I sometimes need to blow up windows so I can read better. Having less "clutter" makes more room to see the page's content. Bgwhite ( talk) 06:12, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
"Now we turn on/off alerts to make searching for certain errors much faster and easier." -- Magioladitis
To turn on/off certain alerts, goto Options -> Preferences -> Alerts. Bgwhite ( talk) 21:53, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
for fixing the bracket prob in Joseph Mawle that I couldn't for the life of me see. Manytexts ( talk) 03:48, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the thanks, and thanks from me to you too. (I just don't know how to send or respond to that fancy notification thingy.) -- Lawfare ( talk) 17:49, 25 June 2013 (UTC) @ Lawfare: - I don't think Wikipedia:Notifications allow people to directly respond to a thanks message, so I'm happy you did it the old fashioned way :-) Happy editing! GoingBatty ( talk) 00:30, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, GoingBatty, you requested a copy-edit to the template above on the GOCE Request page. Since it's being considered for deletion, and GOCE isn't for templates, I've put the request on hold until we know the result of the deletion discussion. If this was a mistake please let us know and someone will remove the request. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 22:29, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Oh and you forgot to sign there btw. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 23:37, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
A nomination is taking place as to discuss whether Tom Crabtree (journalist) should be deleted or not. The discussion will be held at the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Crabtree (journalist). However, do not remove the AfD message. WisconsinBoyClevelandRocks228844 ( talk) 03:02, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
I saw your well done help and I can go to the step 9. But I've this error for the compile:
So the file is not .exe. Do you have an idea of what I should do? I've ever installed Windows SDK, and I've installed .NET 4.0 because the name of Windows SDK is: Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4.0.
If you've an idea to do that, it would be great.
Thanks by advance, Automatik ( talk) 01:41, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. "istadan" in persian alphabet "ایستادن". Diako1971 10:22, 30 June 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diako1971 ( talk • contribs)
autoFormatter. Magioladitis and TMg have been swapping Regexes between autoFormatter and AWB. There is even a Check Wikipedia page for it because I know you just love working on Check Wikipedia. Bgwhite ( talk) 22:10, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
Greetings. I wanted to let you know I removed a chunk of code from the WikiProjects cleanup subpage. I don't think anyone was using it and it needs to be rewriting using the much safer RemoveTemplateParameter function. In the spirit of that, I have started building it. You can see the start here: User:KumiokoCleanStart/WikiProjectParametersCleanup. I still have a very very long way to go. As with the WikiProject Banner cleanup I expect this will take me a couple months to complete a little at a time. I am going to start with some of the is missing parameters and then I will build the =no logic. Please feel free to pitch in or offer advice. The code is pretty basic, as you know I don't claim to be the best programmer but it seems to work pretty well so far. Kumioko ( talk) 20:15, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar | |
Thanks for catching and fixing so many of my mistakes, not just lately, but also over the years. Also, thanks for being one of the most positive and helpful Wikipedians I've ever encountered! Cheers! GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 01:50, 2 July 2013 (UTC) |
Thanks GabeMc! You're much better at improving the prose and finding the appropriate references. I'm happy that my minor tweaks here and there are helpful. Happy editing! GoingBatty ( talk) 22:25, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
JustBerry ( talk) 02:40, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
JustBerry ( talk) 11:59, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Please amend Your bot is making containers that exclude some banners. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 03:53, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
You are more than welcome to comment on Ground rules. HotHat ( talk) 07:31, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, you suggested that my bot could run against Category:Stubs and then skip pages that were in any of the categories that I had suggested. How would I go about doing this? I've looked at some of the AWB documentation and had a bit of a play but I can only get it to check for one category at a time, i.e. it will only work on pages from Category:Living People but not Category:Living People OR Category:Year of death missing OR etc... Is there a way to do this without using Regex as I don't know how to write Regex. Thanks. Jamesmcmahon0 ( talk) 11:55, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
(\[\[Category:Year of birth missing\]\]|\[\[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)\]\]|\[\[Category:Year of birth unknown\]\]|\[\[Category:Year of birth uncertain|\[\[Category:Year of death missing\]\]|\[\[Category:Year of death unknown\]\]|\[\[Category:Year of death uncertain\]\]|\[\[Category:Living people\]\]|\[\[Category:Possibly living people\]\])
\[\[Category:(Year of birth|Year of death|Living people|Possibly living people)
Thanks again for all your help at the Ringo FAC. I've never ran AWB before and I tend to not be so good at technical stuff computer wise. I'm on Windows 8 now, will it still work and is there an easier way to explain how it works, or is this too tough for a novice like me? GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 00:42, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Through this way, I inform there is a discussion about partially disambiguated titles, known as " PDABs". This subguide of WP:D was approved at VPP, in a discussion you participated. Note there was a discussion of PDAB at WT:D the last weeks (everything is explained in the RFC). You are welcome to give ideas about the future of this guideline at WT:D. Tbhotch. ™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 05:34, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
I've been moving Checkwiki from toolserver to WMB labs. Information is located here. Could you take a look and report and bugs you find. Any suggestions, ideas for new bug reports, current bug reports that should be removed or anything else you can think of are needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bgwhite ( talk • contribs) 02:18, July 27, 2013
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Bgwhite (
talk) 04:31, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
@ Magioladitis: 500 was hard set in the cgi program. It has no function of where it is located. When you click on "List for bots" the limit was 25, I've changed it to 500.
I've gone thru the cgi script and I think I've corrected everything. It's 3am, so my mind is probably playing tricks on me into thinking everything is working.
The issue raised about not all the errors showing up here has to be fixed in the main checkwiki program. I'll have it on my todo list for tomorrow's fun. Bgwhite ( talk) 08:56, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
Gold Star for the Day | ||
For strategically using wit and humor to make Wikipedia a better place, GoingBatty is ceremoniously awarded a Gold Star for the day. Thank you for your generous efforts helping Wikipedia. 64.40.54.39 ( talk) 04:08, 30 July 2013 (UTC) |
for this edit. I’m always doing that—but I promise I will try not to rely upon you picking up the error in future! Ian Spackman ( talk) 16:16, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi Batty,
Thank you for editing the Kellie Loder article. Because of your involvement with the article, I thought that you should be notified of the article's FAC. Any comments you would be willing to provide there would be greatly appreciated.
Neelix ( talk) 16:14, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
Recently you added Category:American novelists to the Wikipedia article Greg Kihn. The current consensus for the use of this category is at the top of the Category:American novelists article. I removed the category and added Category:20th-century American novelists after checking the publication date of the novels listed in the article (all 20-century dates). Neonorange ( talk) 21:44, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
Please consult either Christian1985, Bbb23 or Collect before you make ANY changes to the MailOnline page.
Thankyou.
81.178.161.191 (
talk) 14:41, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
The article B.C. Rich Mockingbird has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
notice, but please explain why in your
edit summary or on
the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
will stop the
proposed deletion process, but other
deletion processes exist. In particular, the
speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and
articles for deletion allows discussion to reach
consensus for deletion.
I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{
Talkback}} message on
my talk page. @ 07:52, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi, if you got the time to check out the refs for Leif "Loket" Olsson, as I am no good at combining refs. Much appreciated.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 14:53, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
On 2 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Leif "Loket" Olsson, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Swedish television host Leif "Loket" Olsson refereed the handball semifinal between Yugoslavia and Romania at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich, Germany? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Leif "Loket" Olsson. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 08:03, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
I noticed your bot visited the Brazilian Hip Hop Talk Page. I checked the history of the Brazilian Hip Hop article - you are not listed as an editor.
You have no interest in Brazilian Hip Hop. I put it to you that you are acting like a vigilante scoutmaster. I put it to you that you came to the Brazilian Hip Hop Talk Page because I left details on the murder of Steve Biko. I put it to you that your name GoingBatty was not a lighthearted self-deprecating joke at your expense (as you suggested in the last discussion we had when you were hassling me once again for no reason other then your own misguided belief that you even have that right) but a weapon of insult aimed to bring disrepute to the valid edits and opinions of other editors.
If you keep persisting in arriving at articles that I am writing when their edit history shows you have not shown any interest - I will assume that you doing so deliberately to disrupt my editing or too draw attention to your belief that I am batty or going batty.
Please explain why you have appeared at the Brazilian Hip Hop page under the guise of an automated bot? There are over three million articles. If you carry on appearing on a regular basis at articles I am writing and the edit history of the article and the talk page show no previous involvement from you then I will report you for deliberate activities directed against a user for no legitimate reason other than to impose your presence upon that user. Please direct your attention to one of the three million articles that I'm not involved in. Please stop scout mastering me - I'm not interested.
Sluffs ( talk) 23:46, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Well actually Ohconfucius, no one was asking you but maybe your ego needs something to do other than write good articles.
I would like to see the Bot removed from GoingBatty - I would also like to see him spend 6 to 8 weeks on one article from start to finish (as I do). I would like him to avoid articles I'm working on until I have finished them (I usually add a post-article synopsis to show I've finished and to highlight some of the issues I encountered). I would like GoingBatty to accept that scouting may be his life but due to the similarities between the Scouts and the Klan (both like to creep around the woods at night in uniform while lighting fires and tying knots) it hardly appeals to me and neither therefore does he appeal to me.
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Hi! Please pay more attention when doing mass edits, many of the links you added to Oracle Corporation should link to Oracle Database instead. PROTIP: There is no such thing as "Oracle Corporation version 9i" ;) -- intgr [talk] 08:14, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
This week I reverted your revision of our biography of Frederick Pohl, comprising nothing but about three-score conversions to dmy format, plus insertion of template {{ dmy}}. About two-score were Retrieved dates whose conversion was inappropriate per MOS:NUM (which you cited) section 4.
In the edit summary I requested that you limit the script-assisted changes to publication and vital dates. Other activity promptly buried my edit summary, and I have now raised the matter at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Script-assisted conversion of Retrieved YYYY-MM-DD.
-- P64 ( talk) 16:40, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
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The DYK project ( nominate) 16:03, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Can you please update this regex to correspond to current sate of {{ cite arXiv}}?
new Regex(@"\b(arxiv|asin|ASIN|author\d?|author\d?-?link\d?|bibcode|class|coauthors?|date|day|doi|DOI|doi brokendate|doi inactivedate|eprint|first\d?|format|given\d?|id|in|isbn|ISBN|issn|ISSN|jfm|JFM|jstor|JSTOR|language|last\d?|laydate|laysource|laysummary|lccn|LCCN|month|mr|MR|oclc|OCLC|ol|OL|osti|OSTI|pmc|PMC|pmid|PMID|postscript|publication-date|quote|ref|rfc|RFC|separator|seperator|ssrn|SSRN|surname\d?|title|version|year|zbl)\b", RegexOptions.Compiled);
I can support more citation types but I get the impression there are no differences in the parameters between citation types anymore. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:28, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Exactly because I noticed the special code I added alerts. rev 9483 -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:55, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Can you please start a page what will show clever ideas of how to skip specific type of pages in AWB? For instance I would like to have a page that people can see how to skip Disambiguation pages, pages with speedy delete templates, very short pages (less than 100 bytes for instance), etc. using current AWB settings. We get a lot of questions on this and it would be nice to have a page for that. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:50, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
One more thing is to take the module given at Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Title_case_for_citations and put it in an appropriate page, then mark the FR as "no". -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:13, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
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If you could take a look at my article for Hildegard Björck for grammar mistakes etc it would be appreciated. Thank you.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 10:14, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
Jarry's probably very busy, so would you be able to advise me how to adapt and integrate the code into my formatting script? -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 15:17, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
( Volkeey ( talk) 11:30, 23 September 2013 (UTC))
I received the following message from you:
Welcome, and thank you for contributing the page Ahmet Mazhar Bozdoğan to Wikipedia. While you have added the page to the English version of Wikipedia, the article is not in English. We invite you to translate it into English. It currently has been listed at Pages Needing Translation, but if it is not translated within two weeks, the article will be listed for deletion. Thank you. GoingBatty (talk) 15:01, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
It was just a mistake, sorry about that; I fixed as follows :
Page in Turkish : https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Mazhar_Bozdo%C4%9Fan Page in English : /info/en/?search=Ahmet_Mazhar_Bozdo%C4%9Fan#As_the_President_of_the_Turkish_Swimming_Federation
Please check.
Thanks..
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Gatoclass ( talk) 05:48, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty, Ultra Violet Light has given you a shining smiling star! You see, these things promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the Shining Smiling Star whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy! Ultra Violet Light 17:07, 26 September 2013 (UTC) |
Thanks for your recent edits on
Stereophonics :D
Ultra Violet Light 17:07, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, I've noticed BattyBot making a lot of edits to talk pages lately, in which it's collapsing WikiProject banners into {{ WikiProjectBannerShell}}. My concern is that the edit summaries for these edits state "Talk page general fixes & other cleanup using AWB (9486)" - this isn't a descriptive (or accurate) summary of the bot's actions on these pages, adding WPBS isn't a "general fix". You might want in the future to have it use a more descriptive edit summary for when it's performing this action. - The Bushranger One ping only 18:39, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty. FYI, BattyBot is incorrectly changing {{WPMotorhead}} to {{WikiProject Motorehad}}, as in this edit. Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 22:35, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Hey Batty, can you explain this edit? Nikkimaria ( talk) 23:11, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
for your help at Treasure Island#Film and TV. When I learned that the Soviets had made four movies of the story I became intrigued and when I noticed that one was in 1937, to me the height of Stalinist political correctness, when nothing could be done without a solid Marxist-Leninist foundation I became very interested in how they managed to do that so clicked on the link and . . . ………. And the rest is history. Thanks again for your role in making history. Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 17:10, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
I've undone this edit, as it was making the software crash (I assume because of the mismatched open and close brackets). I don't know enough about regexes to fix it with confidence, so have undone it altogether for the moment - occurrences of the wrestling team Fourtune should be rare enough that this won't cause any issues. Mogism ( talk) 20:42, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
Hallo. See this edit, Christian75 ( talk) 10:40, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
When you got time please take a look at my article on Carin Hjulström. Much appreciated! :)-- BabbaQ ( talk) 14:30, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
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I recently created a rule (within function Ohc_sources_prep
of my sources script) to remove references with twitter and facebook links as follows:
<ref[^\<>]*>[^\<>]*\|[ ]*url ?=https?:\/\/(?:\w{2}\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki|(?:www\.|)(?:facebook|myspace|twitter)\.com)\/[^<>]*<\/ref>
<ref>https?:\/\/(?:en\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki|(?:www\.|)(?:facebook|myspace|twitter)\.com)\/[^\s\]<]*<\/ref>
<ref>\[https?:\/\/(?:en\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki|(?:www\.|)(?:facebook|myspace|twitter)\.com)\/[^\s\]]*[ ]+[\w\d][^\]]*\]<\/ref>
\|[ ]*url[ ]*=[ ]*https?:\/\/(?:\w{2}\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki|(?:www\.|)(?:facebook|myspace|twitter)\.com)[^\s\|\{\}<]*(?=[ ]*[\|\}])
the rules work on my regular regex tester, the individual lines work as custom regexes, but the block didn't work when I run the script on this version of the Jackie Chan page so I put through the changes manually. The rest of the rules that come after these do work, as far as I am aware.
On the other hand, I put the rules into another function here, and I get the desired output for the Jackie Chan in my sandbox. Have you experienced this before? -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 05:50, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
(?:www\.|)
, should you use (?:www\.)
without the pipe? I'm supportive of removing references to Wikipedia articles (as long as you manually make sure there's a wikilink instead), but I don't know why you'd want to remove references to the social networks in articles such as
MineCon. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 01:55, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
(?:www\.|)
in because sometimes the links are formed without the "www.", I inserted the pipe to catch those instances. You'd agree there's no point in having the brackets around (?:www\.)
otherwise. There's too much fancruft and linking to social media. I don't know whether it's prohibited, but I would like to see a blanket ban on linking to these. I have absolutely no problem when sources mention them, but Twitter and Facebook posts are infamously prone to being user-modified, making verification impossible unless an independent source has mentioned the feed in question. Anyway, I was hoping you could share any experience you had on writing scripts, and why the rules don't work in the script when they work independently. Cheers, -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 02:05, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
(?:www\.|)
works the same as (?:www\.)?
I've never written a script, just played around with AWB's find and replace regexes or modifying other people's scripts. Maybe someone at
Wikipedia talk:User scripts could help?
GoingBatty (
talk) 02:27, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
...for this. I hate that we can't read that properly, and that this stupid red error message shows up. Drmies ( talk) 01:21, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Unfortunately, my addition to cover Image requested is not correct. It will move the template above WPBS. I commented out this piece of code until the problem is fixed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:16, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for disambiguating my kingpin link from King post. I have however removed your disambig tag from boom, since until someone writes the appropriate article, we can only link to the appropriate section of the disambig page, as I have done (since the disambig page gives a short but useful definition, I believe it is still worth a link, rather than leaving a redlink or nothing at all). Enginear ( talk) 18:34, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
I have made a new article about the Enbom case one of Sweden most known spy trials and cases. If you find more info to add to the article for expansion please do as well as any spelling checks etc. Always appreciated.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 22:28, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Your help is needed on the Noelia page. Right now the page is protected from editing and it has the incorrect birthdate. Could you help? Thank you. Lulusi9 ( talk) 01:06, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
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As you may know,
VisualEditor ("Edit beta") is currently available on the English Wikipedia only for registered editors who choose to enable it. Since you have made 100 or more edits with VisualEditor this year, I want to make sure that you know that you can enable VisualEditor (if you haven't already done so) by going to
your preferences and choosing the item, "
MediaWiki:Visualeditor-preference-enable
". This will give you the option of using VisualEditor on articles and userpages when you want to, and give you the opportunity to spot changes in the interface and suggest improvements. We value your feedback, whether positive or negative, about using VisualEditor, at
Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you,
Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk) 18:27, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
[[foobar|''foobar'']]
instead of ''[[foobar]]''
. I also see that one of the five bugs I reported have been fixed. I'll keep trying it now and again, and report if I find anything new. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 23:31, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
<nowiki />
bug report would never be fixed. I guess seeing
GeorgeWashington ([[George Washington|George]]<nowiki/>Washington) and
Chicago ([[Chicago|C]]<nowiki/>hicago) is just fine. I've got
1418 reasons why from October's dump that shows it is a problem with and I've been cleaning these messes the past few months.
Bgwhite (
talk) 06:17, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
<nowiki />
issue:
I have made a article on Mia Frye unfortunatly I do not understand french that well so I could not translate that much info from her French Wiki article but atleast a small stub has been made now. Take a look when you got time.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 20:15, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Some users have been working hard on Category:Pages with broken reference names.
In your edits on 2012–13 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season, you added new references reference AndreRoberson and reference SteveNashTrade but didn't define it. Can you take a look and work out what you were trying to do? Thanks -- Frze >talk 06:20, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
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The DYK project ( nominate) 08:03, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi There,
Could you please check that the formatting is all OK with the page "Gibside"
cheers mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.2.36.6 ( talk) 03:34, October 23, 2013
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect HotCat. Since you had some involvement with the HotCat redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cathfolant ( talk • contribs) 21:54, October 23, 2013 (UTC)
Hi again, Thanks for your work. Could you please check the formatting of the references for the 'Lupton family' page Cheers Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.2.36.6 ( talk) 01:53, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Plesae fix up the disastrous contribution (just one line!) that I have done on the history section on the GLAMIS CASTLEpage. You are very professional and thanks for all of yor help. cheers mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.10.139 ( talk) 03:54, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
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For operating BattyBot who put a bannershell template on Talk:Healthcare.gov. (I was unable to thank the bot through the new notification system) X Ottawahitech ( talk) 17:14, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
A big thanks for your work - some tiny help please...!! You are an excellent editor
Please could you again check my fromatting on these 4 pages Gibside 5th Earl Orkney Baronets Conyers Blakiston family
Cheers and thsnks so much again Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.10.139 ( talk) 11:47, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
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Dear Goingbatty One last reference check please for the Gibside page. Thanks so much Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.138.209 ( talk) 10:59, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks again so much "Batty"
2 page for you to check references 1) Lupton family 2) Conyers baronets Thanks again, mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.138.209 ( talk) 02:30, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
me again!! Please check that all is ok with 1) 5th earl of Orney page and 2) Sir Chrisitopher Bullock page
You are truly a marvel Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.138.209 ( talk) 02:36, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi there Batty! Thanks so much for your work. Great as always. BUT reference number 27, for Sir Christopher Bullock page should I think be at the end of the FAMILY section. I can't do the cahnge ! Could you please do it? Cheers and thanks Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.138.209 ( talk) 03:55, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Batty again, Could you please check a reference I did to the Pippa Middleton page (Not a good job by me I fear) and I hope that a fix up of Sir Christopher Bullock is OK too.
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Thank you so much for your time and effort in improving the Cindy Valentine article! 009o9 ( talk) 16:32, 11 November 2013 (UTC) |
Thank you for simplification GoingBatty :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redcpb ( talk • contribs) 20:59, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear GoingBatty, what is wrong with article now. Can you please help me fix it. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redcpb ( talk • contribs) 21:08, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Thank you Batty for adding the reference. I am new at this. Bless you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redcpb ( talk • contribs) 04:32, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear Batty I am a history teacher and I STILL cannot do this! please check references for
Gibside page and Family of Duchess of Cambridge page Thanks as always Mike Reed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.138.209 ( talk) 09:20, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
|last=
and |first=
parameters are for the author's name (a person, not an organization)|url=
parameter is for the web page address (e.g.
http://www.whatever.com)|title=
parameter is for the web page title|work=
parameter is for magazine or newspaper names, while the |publisher=
parameter is used for other sources (e.g. Durham County Council)|date=
or |year=
is for when the information was published|accessdate=
parameter is for when you read the information.Dear Batty another check please! Lupton family - reference Cheers and thanks Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.213.7.30 ( talk) 03:56, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
SORRY!!!! Mike again - I did try as you suggested to do it myself - but with a magazine it is hard! Please can you tidy up the references to the "Lupton family" page . The author of the Majesty magazine article was Coryne Hall. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.138.209 ( talk) 09:12, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
|last=
and |first=
parameters are only for humans (e.g. |last=Hall
|first=Coryne
), and |title=
is for the English title of the web page or newspaper article.
GoingBatty (
talk) 00:00, 16 November 2013 (UTC)Thank you for your keen eye and Wikipedia savvy. FYI, the title of my copy of WAR WITH THE WIND appears to be all upper case. Now, sorting by author’s name: how do you do it when names are not alphabetical – such as Mahan. And what is the best way to do it when adding citations to an article with few or no references?
Obviously, I’m very grateful for your first-rate efforts. But tell me, if you care to, how did Mahan ever get on your radar?
BTW, the article is listed on the Guild of Copy Editor’s request page for copyedit. My notion is to remove it - would you care to offer an opinion? Pendright ( talk) 19:54, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for your help at Fucking Machines, most appreciated, — Cirt ( talk) 10:07, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
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Gatoclass ( talk) 16:04, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Just curious, why exactly did you revert my edit to the DVD article (splitting "Atlanta, Georgia" into two separate links)? Bumm13 ( talk) 19:09, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
Hey, I don't find much Wikipedia amusement nowadays, but when I saw this history it made me smile, as my handle is based on Roy Batty. - Roy Boy 17:29, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
I fixed some of them manually. There are many that not qualify for fixing. Please fix any others on sight. At some point we can create an updated list. In any case I think the cases that need standardising are uncommon. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:04, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day ( see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:25, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
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On 26 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nour El-Refai, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Swedish comedian Nour El-Refai will host Melodifestivalen 2014? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nour El-Refai. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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Thanks for unbungling the mistakes I made, I couldn't find out how to get rid of the red warning. I would have preferred you to have left the notes section though but I'll put it back when I get round to the narrative. Thanks. Keith-264 ( talk) 15:00, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
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On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I thank you for your editorial contributions to Man of Steel (film), which recently was promoted to WP:GA.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 18:51, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Not sure what kind of help you need at B&O Railroad Museum. What hath God wrought? is the original American telegraph message, sent from Capitol Hill, DC to Baltimore. The Book of Numbers is likely the right place in the Bible. Samuel F.B. Morse should have some stuff on it as does Henry Leavitt Ellsworth. Any more specific questions I can probably find out, but it could take some time. Smallbones( smalltalk) 03:05, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi. You moved the article at Temples to Temples (band) to keep Temples re-directing to Temple. I therefore placed text on the top of the Temple article for the band Temples, otherwise it is hard to find the article on the band Temples = several editors have removed it. Please ensure this text in kept at the top of the article on Temple or make Temples a disambiguous page. There isn't any proper reason for Temples to re-direct to Temple, as any prior wiki-links to Temples should be corrected to go to the right article. Thanks.
92.8.23.188 ( talk) 00:09, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear Batty I know you thought I'd learnt my stuff - but can you assist one more time? Please!!! The "Conyers Baronets" page - a couple of references . THanks so much yet again Cheers M.E (Ted) Reed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.149.168.121 ( talk) 11:48, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear Batty
You will see I tried to enlist another helper - no good! - I do need you to do the latest reference for Conyers Baronets page please!!
Thanks again
Mike — Preceding
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GoingBatty ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
I'm logged in to my account on a Southwest Airlines flight on my Kindle Fire and getting an error stating " Editing from 184.169.0.0/16 has been blocked (disabled) by WilliamH for the following reason(s): Long term abuse: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Morning277". Since User:WilliamH has retired, can this please be revisited? I don't understand why registered users would be impacted by this block. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 14:43, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Accept reason:
I've seen this happening with AWB, but I just ran it on an article in my user space that I plan on moving shortly, and it just doesn't happen. Any idea why? And can you help me otherwise once you're unblocked...? Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 14:57, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
I have granted your account an exemption from IP blocking. This will allow you to edit through full blocks affecting your IP address when you are logged in.
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I hope this will enhance your editing, and allow you to edit successfully and without disruption. Meno25 ( talk) 18:03, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Why, why did you do this Meno25? I finally found a way to block that evil and dastardly Batty without bringing attention to myself. The reign of terror will now continue unabated. Oh Batty, I just took a hit of AWB and it was gooood. Nothing like some AWB coursing thru the veins and giving you that perfect high. I hope you survive without your crack AWB. Bgwhite ( talk) 21:55, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty, I was just wondering, what was the purpose of removing "http:" from a Youtube URL here? Thanks, Toccata quarta ( talk) 06:21, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty,
I had a student (TravellingKatie) update the CAVA page for a volcanology class I run, which you reverted (taking it back to a stub) and I wondered what your rationale was? I thought her edits improved the page but I'd be interested (in the spirit of inquiry only) as to why you felt they should be removed. I am leading someone else's class (he does this every year) so I am wondering what lessons I can feed back to him?
Thanks for any advice,
Matt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.222.114.247 ( talk) 15:10, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
On 5 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Stekenjokk, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Stekenjokk holds the Swedish record for wind speed, with 170 km/h (110 mph) recorded during Cyclone Hilde on 16 November 2013? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stekenjokk. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 08:03, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Could you take a look at Stekenjokk, Vildmarksvägen and Stora Blåsjön. Much appreciated!-- BabbaQ ( talk) 19:05, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
This edit made me think it's not a good idea to attempt citation fixes outside article space. Non-article pages are much more likely to contain experiments or intentional examples of what not to do. Jc3s5h ( talk) 02:28, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I am Extremely Sorry :( because while reverting some Intermediate Test edits by New users your versions were also Reverted. Please re use AWB. I hope you can understand why would i do like that. In Future i didn't do Such things.
Regards,
Raghusri ( talk) 12:06, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Regards,
Raghusri ( talk) 10:08, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
On 19 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Vildmarksvägen, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Hällingsåfallet, a waterfall along the Vildmarksvägen route (pictured), has been described as "Sweden's answer to Niagara Falls"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Vildmarksvägen. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Harrias talk 13:47, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
On 20 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Stora Blåsjön, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the town of Stora Blåsjön, Sweden, has a moose farm featuring a pair of moose named Hilda and Herbert? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stora Blåsjön. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Harrias talk 01:33, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Hey, sorry about the date format, i forgot to change it during the revert... My bad, i just reverted because he made an extra "line" after every group if you know what i mean? Kante4 ( talk) 16:47, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Per WP:NBSP, non-breaking spaces should be added if displacement would make elements awkward. For example, "December
20, 2013" would look awkward without use of a non-breaking space. The bot is removing these instances, and I do not think it should. Thanks, Erik ( talk | contribs) 14:09, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
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GoingBatty (
talk) 14:25, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
The edit changed the infobox from "thoroughbred racechorse" to "sport horse" which is incorrect, so I reverted. Tigerboy1966 17:11, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty. Do you know why BattyBot moved the geo-stub template to the bottom of the page in this edit? In the previous edit I had added a new navbox template to the article and decided it looked best if the geo-stub's screen message ("This ... location article is a stub") was above the coloured bar of the new template, rather than below (where in my view it looks odd, and sort of isolated between 2 screen-width bars). But BattyBot has reversed this. PaleCloudedWhite ( talk) 19:11, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
On 23 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Barna Hedenhös, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Bonnier Carlsen temporarily halted its re-release of one of the Barna Hedenhös Swedish children's books because the 1950 publication refers to Native Americans as "red skins"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Barna Hedenhös. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Gatoclass ( talk) 00:02, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
I'll need your settings to convert MI to move orphan tags. It won't be easy to move orphan tags when I have to deal with both stand-alone tags and MI parameters. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:07, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Will you give me some time to take a look at User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox4? If it is good then move it to Slow West please. -- Assassin! No, Captain Assassin! ( T - C - G ) 17:46, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Dear Batty Me again! Merry Christmas! Please can you check that I have "got it right" for-
1) Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale 2) Thomas Lyons-Bowes Lord Glamis (I had alot of trouble with this one - it is from a book)
Cheers and I thankyou in advance, as always. Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.173.171 ( talk) 08:18, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
|url=
parameter is for the web site address (i.e.
http://www...) and the |title=
is for the name of the book or web page.
GoingBatty (
talk) 18:09, 23 December 2013 (UTC)I wonder if month abbreviations are allowed (Apr, Mar, etc.). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:11, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
I still have 50,000 pages to check and I do this semi-manually as follows: Enabled only tagging, no genfixes, no unicode. Skip if no changes are made. In worst case scenario I add/remove underlinked which is also not bad.
If I knew for |few=
before we could add it to orphan tags with 1 or 2 incoming link and get an idea of exactly how many pages are linkless. but this wouls also require conversion inside Multiple issues. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 19:34, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
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Take a look at my new articles Cecilia Uddén and Emma Knyckare! Cheers.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 15:20, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
|language={{sv icon}}
, which incorrectly displays as (in (in Swedish))
. You can correct this to |language=Swedish
or simply |language=sv
, as I did in
this edit. I also fixed the italics/punctuation and removed a duplicate wikilink in
this edit.Sorry again Batty Thanks for your work BUT I have done a botched job on the ARNOLD LUPTON, SIR and COURTESY TITLES pages. Please help! Cheers and thanks so much as always. Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.173.171 ( talk) 04:45, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
|last=
/|first=
are only for human names, |title=
is the title of the web page/newspaper article/book (NOT the URL). I also suggest using dmy date format for articles about the UK.
GoingBatty (
talk) 05:11, 27 December 2013 (UTC)|quote=
parameter should be exactly what you see on the web page. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk) 05:24, 27 December 2013 (UTC)Hello. I will descride what I want to do.
The template is a simple one, has no parameters. Just show a message. I want just to try it, I will not apply to wikipedia categories. Xaris333 ( talk) 08:04, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi there Batty I have tried to do a "quote" with a ref. on the "Arnold Lupton" page. Could you please look at it? Also the page - "Phillip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden" - is it OK? thanks so much and I hope you had a Merry Christmas! Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.173.171 ( talk) 07:24, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
|title=
http://www.....
to |url=http://....
|work=Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain. Page 186, by Brock Millman
to |title=Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain
|page=186
|publisher=Frank cass Publisher, London 2000
to |publisher=Frank Cass Publishers
|location=London
|year=2000
|accessdate=Dcecember 28, 2012
to |accessdate=December 28, 2013
Thanks for flagging the fixes needed on the parsha portal pages. I'll get at it. -- Dauster ( talk) 23:00, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
When you say 'an IP', this must mean someone included her year of birth (and her year of birth only) without logging in. Consequently, there mustn't be any way of tracking down this user, who'd possibly know what actual date in 1974. Ofcdeadbeat ( talk) 01:14, 29 December 2013 (UTC)Ofcdeadbeat
It seems that BattyBot sometimes takes a break for a few hours, or sometimes longer. Is this by design? Is this something I should notify you about? I'm looking forward to it making a complete pass through the CS1 date category so that we can take a look at the remaining errors. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 06:16, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Do you know if there's any way to set AWB to use the old version of the typos list without the addition of the grammar checks, or to make the grammar checks optional? All of these "errors" ("with the exception of", "so as to", "as to whether", "many different") are grammatically correct in British English (and as I've mentioned on the talkpage, some of them have distinctly different meanings to the suggested corrections). Because most of the articles I work on are in BrEng, this has made the regex function in AWB effectively unusable - whereas before roughly 5-10% of the pages flagged by AWB as containing typos were false positives, I'd estimate that it's as high as 90% for me now. Mogism ( talk) 18:03, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty,
I very much appreciate your excellent work on the Camille and Kennerly Kitt page. The article's references section looks so much better now. Citing references is one of my biggest weaknesses because I try to do what is right but there are things I don't understand because when I use the automatic "Cite" option, the boxes that I fill in are not properly explained. For example, it doesn't say what the publisher means. Is there a wiki link you could give me please with detailed instructions for what each box means? Some are very obvious, of course, but as I said, the publisher is tricky to me, as well as when to cite web and when to cite a newspaper that is online (I can't even find that option). Once again, thank you so much, and have a very nice day. Dontreader ( talk) 21:12, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
GoingBatty— Thanks for adding categories to the article, Félix Martí-Ibáñez. Not being familiar with the guidelines for them nor all of the categories, I was reluctant to try more than a few. I do wonder, however, why you have changed some categories I had added and noted his affiliation only as Spanish for all significant categories for him. He emigrated to the U.S. at the age of thirty and became an American citizen. Although he is notable for Spanish culture, he is even more notable for American culture. His contributions to medical literature and history was international, being read by physicians, other professionals, and a world-wide audience among other groups. All of his books were published in English and through the publishing house he founded in Manhattan, where he lived until he died at the age of sixty. His command of English was remarkable. His most important writings were in English and authored after he had emigrated to his new county of citizenship. The vast majority of his professional work was in his adopted country and his clinical writings were in English. Can we reflect this by adding categories related to the thirty years of his professional work after changing citizenship? Or would it be better to revert to my categories regarding his professional work and merely create categories for his birth citizenship and location and also for his adopted citizenship and location? What are your thoughts on this? (Copied to my talk page and the article page also) _ _ _ _ 83d40m ( talk) 17:55, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Happy New Year to all my talk page stalkers! Thank you all for your assistance and collaboration, and I look forward to working with you next year! GoingBatty ( talk) 19:48, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
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Fear of flying is not something that is unique or sanonomous with the United states or american people. my mother has a fear of flying and if you check my IP you'll be able to tell that i'm not american. the reason why i changed "businessperson" to "business person" also is because that is more widely excepted than "businessperson"(American version) and if let's say 14 countries choose "business person" over the american way, and the article is about a phobia that isn't unique to the US then maybe have the more widely excepted version. my nutralization is not on things like artists, more like things such as phobias, stars and planets, and alien life theories. You can say i'm nutralizing the articles, but you also can say that i'm fixing it so it is the more widely used version, even if it's not the American version. american people and things directly related to US and such i understand, but things like let's say Jupiter, or Crop Circles, or bees are not senonimus to the US, so as such, if the US term is not the widely used one then i'm going to find the more widely used one if i do not know it, and change it to the more widely used one. that's what my mission is, and i still haven't heard from Krisetn, Kirsty, or Jessica yet on this matter. Those three people may stop my mission, however, if you have advice on how i can go about it the right way, and maybe some articles to look at, then be my guest. i'm not going to totally change the style of english, i'm mearly going to change it to the more widely used version this way it's more likely that a wider variety of people will understand it, ok? happy hunger games, and may the odds be ever in your favor. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 03:57, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
this time on businessperson i only added another varient to it. ("Also business person, businessman...) so don't revert it. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 05:40, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. as a blind person i'm not too good at telling which case it is in, so thank you. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 07:15, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
Please do not use american versions of the word in Wikipedia as it is not an america only site. besides, my english teacher, who has been teaching sinse 1969 says that it isn't a compound word anyway, and she's right. i've only seen americans do that, simply for laziness's sake. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 22:30, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
How is it though that business person is turned into a compound word in US, but not in UK, Canada and other such places? i mean if i write "businessperson" at all and my english teacher says it, she docks major marks and tells me "There is no such thing as a businessperson, unless you are in the united states. only in the US is it exceptable to spell it like that, this is canada, so you must always spell it as "business person. ) note that she is the one who calls Americans lazy at english, not me. but I may agree with that to some point but saying you are lazy at english si not being uncivil, saying "Americans are so god damn shitty at english" is being uncivil, and is unacceptable. also let's not americanize wikipedia, i'm against that completely, as not everyone knows american english, so i think that we should try to nutralize wikipedia with some american english and some non-american english. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 01:18, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
note that i say that we should not americanize wikipedia because i feel that not everyone is going to either understand or care for american english. i do not mean that in an anti-american way. my friend is american, and he's awesome, and the US has many things i like and some very nice people. i just feel that we need to nutralize wikipedia, rather than americanize it. I am going to find some articles that seem too american and nutralize them, unless of corse Either of These people asks me not to. note that i chose two non-americans in order to prevent bias. again i mean nothing against US (USA is cool), i am just acting on my mission to nutralize wikipedia, ok? i've got some ideas but i'm currently trying to figure out how to tackle them. so do not take it the wrong way, i'm not going to d-americanize it, i'm mearly wishing to make articles use both american and british english, i don't care what the subject is about. and i've never heard of an aeroplane. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 01:18, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Also to prove i'm not anti american, i'll ad a Sertain someone who's the best to the list of the three people i look up to to convince me not to go about my mission of making wikipedia less american and more nutral than it currently is, so again, these are The Three chosen ones to stop me. thanks. 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 01:40, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Wait, no, please don't tell me you are kristen schall, no, (cringes and cowers into chair) you aren't kristen schall, please tell me you are not kirsty hawkshaw either, nor jessie j. please? please! 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 03:46, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Good, i'd be freaked out if you were. lol (and i don't mean that in a bad way) 199.101.61.190 ( talk) 06:39, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty, hope you're well. I notice you removed the Nina Simone songs cat from "My Sweet Lord", so I thought I'd mention that she did indeed cover the song, along with Harrison's "Isn't It a Pity", on a 1972 album. Both are highly rated covers. Just so you know – because the other song article still carries the category. Cheers, JG66 ( talk) 16:19, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing my typo on List of New York City Ballet 2011 repertory! — Robert Greer ( talk) 00:40, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
I noticed that you did some editing on the page for Genesee_Scientific. In a lot of ways this page reads like a biased commercial for a small company that is one of many that sells supplies to the scientific community. I'm curious if this page should be deleted, or if other small biotech supply and manufacturing companies should have pages added. What is your opinion of this page and what criteria should be used to accept new company pages or delete old ones? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewPapp ( talk • contribs) 12:52, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
{{
notability|companies}}
and/or {{
advert}}
, and/or discuss the issues on
Talk:Genesee Scientific. Good luck!
GoingBatty (
talk) 14:02, 11 January 2013 (UTC)Hi, I've taken the liberty of reverting your "dead link" tag on the Banglapedia link on Banglapedia. This is because over the course of several months I've seen that site go up and down like a yo-yo, and I believe that the Asiatic Society has no plans to move it again or take it down. Perhaps it will be down for the weekend, but it is such a useful source of information for Bangladesh-related articles that I thought it best to leave the link there. Best wishes, Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 20:41, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Would it drive you batty if I were to restore the circumflex in the word rôle for the List of New York City Ballet 2011 repertory? The spelling with diacritic is standard in the ballet world (the dance world has other usages all its own; a choreographer makes a dance on a dancer.) — Robert Greer ( talk) 15:41, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
One quick question about your bot! When checking for wikilinks does it make sure the page linked to exists or does even a read link count as enough to remove the deadlinks tag? ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 13:47, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the UNDO of an Addbot edit! I had noticed the edit but for some reason I never got around to hitting the Undo button. ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 03:37, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
As one of the participants in the Bot Request about getting the Simple Wiki to the top of the Languages, you are invited to participate in the reopened discussion of the same. Your feedback will be appreciated.
Cheers, TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 16:00, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
I've never added anything to AWB's typo list, so I'd rather not add one just yet. Could you add[T|t]tamil[N|n]adu -> Tamil Nadu. Bgwhite ( talk) 17:26, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
Maybe you could go and update all multiple issues tags to use the new style? This would avoid a lot of confusion. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:47, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Do you have a bot that could either complete this task or help out with the task? I saw you did a similar thing a few sections up ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 19:19, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
couldn't agree more with your undo deleting film reference "Low Hanging Jungle Bunnies"; Where did that derogatory come from ? Out of left field, I think.
A talk question however. This pic sez Jennifer Oneill in Summer of '42. This pic is NOT a shot of her in / from that movie. Do you think that pic should be replaced with the pic of her from the wiki "summer of '42 page?" What sayeth you ? Just a thought, if accuracy is what is being sought here. Thanks... Taninao0126 ( talk) 14:42, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
P.S. I had forgotten to mention in my talk question above that the source of this pic and that this pic was from the Lady Ice movie (I knew that), but you caught it anyway. Great!!! Hey, you ARE good !! Thanks... Taninao0126 ( talk) 13:08, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
P.P.S. In the filmography credits, there is her 1991 movie Committed, but it is in red (is this bad, for "page does not exist" !!??) but there is a proper credit for it in the IMDB webpage at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094900/?ref_=fn_al_tt_6 Should this be fixed as well ?? Thanks.. Taninao0126 ( talk) 13:16, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for tidying up after me, 'Bats (not the first time, I'm sure). I think one can hear exactly what Ronnie meant - a superb solo almost wholly drowned out by the silly vaudeville vocal antics. And of course he and Humph were big pals, so he'd probably have heard the "Bad Penny" similarity straight away. Still, one of my all-time favourite Fab Four hits, of course. The strange thing about the video, for me, is how little we seem to see of George - could be counted on the fingers of one hand, I thought.. but in fact he appears at least 30 times. Cheers. Martinevans123 ( talk) 20:40, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
Greetings! I'm giving a prize of up to a hundred dollars to the winner of the February 2013 disambiguation contest, and lesser prizes to the rest of the top four. Of course, the conditions of the contest will make it quite a challenge to win the full amount, but I hope to stimulate competitiveness with a little extra incentive. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:59, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
Just curious, but why remove the category? I haven't reverted, since you did it and I figured you had a good reason. Thanks! Evanh2008 ( talk| contribs) 23:05, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
Regarding your question as an edit summary on The Joker (Heath Ledger), I would like to ask if you are talking of only the categories or the content too? If the former, I have no idea. If the latter, then I think it might be useful to import as much as is necessary. Cheers, TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 18:03, 2 February 2013 (UTC) (TB please!)
I don't see how this could apply. The rule before required a space (/s) between new and york parts before it would match. Perhaps I'm missing something? Regards, Sun Creator( talk) 02:25, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Please reply at Rjwilmsi's question at Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Skip_if_only_minor_replacement_made_ignores_advanced_F.26R_settings. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:49, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Here too! Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Does_not_remove_date_ordinals_from_infobox. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:54, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, GoingBatty. Thank you for taking care of fixing num_employees field at the companies' infoboxes. The bot is doing a good job and by my understanding there has been no problems with false changes. I would like to ask if it is also possible to do this change by bot. As the company infobox has been updated several times, at one moment these fields became obsolete. They are transcluded, of course, but the shorter form is preferred. This change is not substantial, it does not change anything in this how the page looks like, and if I understand correctly, it is not encouraged to use a bot for that kind of separate changes. However, as I have seen with some other changes maybe it could be done when the bot is performing also some other tasks at the page (e.g. this change changed also the template name spelling which is by my understanding is very similar change to this what I proposed)? The issue is that a lot of editors does not use a skeleton template from the template's documentations but rather copy-paste existing infoboxes from other articles, so these fields are reproducing themselves. What you think about this request? Thank you. Beagel ( talk) 14:44, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your help with this. It is very much appreciated. All the best. Figaro ( talk) 06:35, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
You made a comment at Category talk:Wikipedia backlog#Backlog by WikiProject? back in 2012. I thought you might find this proposal by Biosthmors interesting. Ryan Vesey 21:54, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Hey GoingBatty, just wanted to let you know that an article you created in result of a move, Pythian Baseball Club, is currently being discussed to move it back to where it was originally, Pythian Base Ball Club.
On a related note, I'm surprised that Template:RMNote doesn't exist; it could have made this notification a lot easier. I think I might try to fix that. Steel1943 ( talk) 04:52, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. Perfect way to hit the ball back into my court. References? I got references. I am so glad to avoid an edit war. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.156.92 ( talk) 23:48, February 25, 2013
Thanks GoingBatty for trimming the American University article. Inawe 07:01, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
I was having the hardest time finding the bottom, just was lazy. they should have software so that talk goes to bottom like a forum. Is really annoying to have to edit talk pages and edit the whole long page. TCO ( talk) 22:07, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Please explain this Why would you remove the publisher? If you care to respond, please notify me on my talk with {{ tb}}. Thanks. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 08:06, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
|publisher=
is "Not normally included for periodicals". Sorry for not explaining this in the edit summary.
GoingBatty (
talk) 16:29, 4 March 2013 (UTC)Thank you for discussing the bug in {{BLP sources}} so that it got fixed. — rybec 02:07, 6 March 2013 (UTC) |
I believe you would make an excellent administrator, and you would be able to achieve even more with a few extra tools. Have you considered this? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 11:57, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello, If you remember, I requested an edit to the part of the Optimus Prime page that states his main component transforms into an ion blaster, and i was asked to provide a reference from a place other than another Wiki. The following reference is from the websites " http://www2.unicron.com/1984-transformers/generation-1/autobot-leader/104-optimus-prime.html":
In robot mode, Optimus Prime actually splits into three components. THE OPTIMUS PRIME MODULE IS THE ROBOTIC SENTINENT BEING THAT IS THE STOREHOUSE OF HIS VAST KNOWLEDGE AND STRENGTH. He can lift 4,000,000 lbs. and blow from his fist exerts a force of 12,000 lbs. per square inch. He carries a laser rifle and can burn a hole in the nosecone of a Decepticon jet fighter at a distance of 30 miles, aided by his outstanding visual acuity. His Prime module also known as Roller, is a smart cart shaped device that he uses to unobtrusively slip behind enemy lines. He can maintain radio control over it at distances up to 1200 miles. Having Roller present somewhere is like being there himself. He can operate by remote control his Combat Deck module up to a distance of 1500 feet. The Auto Launcher mounted on the deck can use a variety of artillery and radiation beam weapons, including most of those used by his fellow Autobots. The launcher also includes a highly dexterous grapple arm which allows it to load itself and change its weaponry. The communications disk antenna mounted on the launcher provides a link between Optimus and all his fellow Autobots within a radius of 50 miles. It can be adapted to a satellite hook up that increases its effective range 10-fold.
This next one is from " http://www.transformerland.com/g1/optimusprime.html":
"OPTIMUS PRIME is the largest, strongest, and wisest of all Autobots. Feels his role is the protection of all life, including Earth-life. Fights unceasingly to defeat the Decepticons. Splits into three autonomous modules: 1) OPTIMUS PRIME... THE BRAIN CENTER KNOWN AS THE COMMANDER 2) Roller, the autobot scout car...a spy who operates up to 1200 miles away; and 3) Autobot Headquarters...the combat deck equipped with a versatile mechanic/artillery robot. Injury to one module is felt by the other two."
In both examples, Optimus' main component is recognized as the "commander","brain center", or "robotic sentinent", not an ion blaster as the Wiki currently suggests. However, as can be noticed in the top example, Optimus CARRIES an ion blaster (or laser rifle, as the example calls it). I hope these references prove helpful. Thank you, MaximusPrime2949 ( talk) 18:31, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
I saw your note on the Walter Raleigh's talk page regarding the edit request. I don't know if you looked into it further so here is what I found. I bumped into this info being added yesterday by IgorChe ( talk · contribs) to the Oscar Wilde article. Then when new editor Elvicendecun ( talk · contribs) started adding the same thing today. For a moment I thought a proper ref was being added but it turns out it wasn't. The list of honourees was certainly eclectic but not totally out of the realm of possibility. The street stuff was just plain weird and the fact that one of the streets was being given 4 or 5 different "recipients" names gave me pause. My time online is kind of choppy right now so I didn't have a chance to investigate further. If a source can be found to support the honour, of course, the items can be restored and added to WR's article. If this or another editor starts with the same thing tomorrow we might want to alert the biography (living and otherwise) project(s) to see if their editors can verify things one way or the other. Thanks for your time and cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 04:28, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
I obviously don't know how to write what is in my head. (See AWB bug on hidden cat). You have once again translated my pathetic writing. Are you available as a full-time translator? Are you also available to translate wife speak? Thanks again and thank you for next time (probably in the 10 minutes at my rate). Bgwhite ( talk) 05:39, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
You've just reported a couple of bugs about AWB and page previews. The other day I put in rev 8967. Is this a coincidence or am I missing something? Would you be able to retest with the current SVN? Thanks Rjwilmsi 11:26, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
Is there anyway to stop your bot editing my userspace? ★ ★ Retro Lord ★★ 11:08, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. I try to catch strays, but something's always going to slip through, no? -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 14:08, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Nogie Meggison is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nogie Meggison until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
I noticed that you contributed to this article and I am notifying the author and all of the article's significant contributors (6). -
ʈucoxn\
talk 09:37, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, will downloading 'SVN snapshot' affect my AWB's saved settings? i.e. I have saved settings for 'Clean up', one for 'Disambiguation' etc.? Giant Snowman 16:52, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Hey GoingBatty; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 21:32, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
This one is the real trick. Billboard used to always show urls that were of the format <link to first link in browser session>#<link to where editor currently is sans site name], so the parser has to figure out that even though the link starts out talking about the Canadian Hot 100, it really meant the Japan Hot 100.
Whoever coded that generation of Billboard's site should be stood up against the wall and shot.— Kww( talk) 23:55, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, GoingBatty. When you took care of fixing num_employees field at the companies' infoboxes, it was decided to be one time action. Unfortunately it seems that Edson Rosa ( talk · contribs) is back editing as dynamic IP. He continues to use a full stop (.) to separate thousands [5], [6], so maybe we should keep this task running. There is not so much what could be done to avoid block evasion as the IP changes every time he starts editing.
I would also like to ask if there is any tool which helps to find duplicated url-s. It would be useful with articles having hundreds of references. Beagel ( talk) 06:42, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Dear Batty
I have gone through an article about a famous Pakistani Television anchor " Ali Nasir". It is reliable, however I find that you have reservations about his notability. He is fairly popular and a lot of people like his program. Internet penetration here is limited and thus finding internet references is difficult despite that there are enough citations and references. There is a lot of internet censorship and internet video access is difficult. He always speaks in favour of the people.
I guess you and others may review this article as references are reliable. The warning hurts the followers of Ali Nasir as the warning at the top takes credit away from him — Preceding unsigned comment added by Businessedit ( talk • contribs) 10:56, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi there,
I notice that you recently contributed to the TRS-80 article and wondered if you were interested in adding your opinion to the discussion on the proposed article split. If you have no strong opinion either way, or don't wish to contribute, please feel free to ignore this message. Thank you for your time. Ubcule ( talk) 16:08, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
I started fixing all pages with WPB and collapsed=yes which is redundant. ( Example). You may want to have a look too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:03, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Yep - it's next on my list of fixes. Should start getting to it tomorrow. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 04:29, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Would you be interested in reviewing my GAN for Song of Innocence? It's been sitting around for a month, and I'd like to nominate it for FA when it passes. If not, no need to reply back. Dan56 ( talk) 22:38, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
|publisher=
Allmusic.
Rovi Corporation
to |publisher=
Allmusic
. If you think the articles have a better chance of getting through GAN with
Rovi Corporation, please feel free to revert my bold edits.
GoingBatty (
talk) 01:04, 25 March 2013 (UTC)I dont buy into Tony's style of responding to the issue, It shouldnt be on Confuciouses talk page for a start - if there are already http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_Wikipedia_articles_written_in_Australian_English 17,000 + articles with the hidden category - I do not see why Confucious should suddenly add British English to confuse the issue. It is a protocol/ procedural issue nothing to do with Tony's interpretation - or a need for examples... I am taking this to the Australian noticeboard. sats 01:33, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Hahaha - I will need more than luck when it comes to this sort of thing. I have to get off in a moment (which means I will not be able to deal with some things till this evening) but have taken it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board - and BTW - your user name makes me smile - Battye Library is perhaps the major source of my further frustations in life and time consuming after wikipedia editing... sats 01:57, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty; I like your user name, BTW. :) I left Sluffs the standard level one template issued by Twinkle. I didn't want to create my own message because I didn't want him to accuse me of overstating the warning or doing something else inappropriate. I don't like to change people's comments on talk pages, so I didn't remove them. That also would fan the flames to an already unnecessarily volatile situation. But if you really want the comments removed, an admin probably would do it. BTW, I think you handled yourself with great restraint, for which I commend you. Best! Cresix ( talk) 01:40, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your helpful edits to the new article I'd created, Neville Page, much appreciated, — Cirt ( talk) 02:33, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, for AWB bug reports and feature requests I am asking for your help, whenever you are able to give it (please treat this as an open invite so include other willing editors if you're aware of them). I think AWB needs a team of knowledgeable users to support the improvement of AWB. You are one of the editors I see doing this currently, I am asking for more of your help. We are limited in development resource so I'm asking for more help in areas that non-developers can support. So
For bug reports:
For feature requests:
All of the above is up for improvement, we could discuss on Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Dev. Thanks Rjwilmsi 19:00, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
New user feedback on the WIKIpedia Nasza Klasa page Noworyta ( talk) 02:36, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Jason Quinn ( talk) 01:42, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for arranging the links! If I wanted to add new information to the page of Michael Jackson, I might ask you?Of course, in proper English. Forgive me for my English but I'm Italian :) -- LilaMJ ( talk) 22:21, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty, I have written on the page Talk:Michael Jackson but still no one answered me. You should change a lot of little things on the page of Michael Jackson. I'm sorry and thank you! -- LilaMJ ( talk) 20:22, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks!! :) -- LilaMJ ( talk) 23:27, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty,I write on your page because on the page Talk:Michael Jackson, no one answers. Scribd.com considered a reliable source: I used it on the page of Michael Jackson-wikipedia italian. On Scribd. com are inserted the most documents also of some significance. On page unonotizie.it speaking of tours donated to charity. And for $ 300 million, there is another source [1]. Thanks!! -- LilaMJ ( talk) 21:14, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Dont let them trick you into changing things - Its all a general hoax- Michael Jackson Faked His Death or Michael Joe and Michael Joseph are twins ....
......... Moxy ( talk) 06:55, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. Since 2 April, your bot User:BattyBot has done edits to talk-pages like this, where the only difference is that the bot adds {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}. I must admit, I don't like BannerShell's, but I am aware of that bots regularly add those shells to talk-pages when they fix something else on the page. In six of the eight edits your bot has done in the last three days (in my watchlist), the only difference is the addition of a BannerShell. I wonder if this really is necessary, or if this is what is called trivial editing? There are probably thousands of pages where there is no BannerShell, is your bot going to add one to every talk-page? Mentoz86 ( talk) 08:24, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty, plz help me in removing the tag {{Orphan|date=April 2013}} added by Yobot. I have shown links and references for the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningombam_Bupenda_Meitei . I also had a long discussion with Avoided long back and the article had no problem. Donizo ( talk) 21:06, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
You wrote on Yobot talk page ":Hi Donizo! I see you have already removed the orphan tag from Ningombam Bupenda Meitei. Wikipedia:Orphan#Criteria defines as orphaned article as one with no incoming links from other articles. The best way to solve this is by adding links from other articles to Ningombam Bupenda Meitei. For example, I added a link from List of alumni of St. Stephen's College, Delhi to Ningombam Bupenda Meitei. Happy editing! GoingBatty ( talk) 18:06, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Thank you ,Batty. But,it says as Ningombam Bupenda Meitei, Indian writer, essayist, and poet.[2][not in citation given] ,please check it again. Donizo ( talk) 10:53, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
On 12 April 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Neville Page, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that creature and concept designer Neville Page portrayed minor roles in soap operas, including General Hospital? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Neville Page. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Panyd The muffin is not subtle 00:03, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
I saw you add "Pages with citations using unsupported parameters" to your user page. I came across some good ones today... Gang Forward and Atlantic (horse). It is hard to tell if there are actual references among the sea of red. Bgwhite ( talk) 06:47, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
|curly=y
).
GoingBatty (
talk) 22:11, 15 April 2013 (UTC)Thank you for your notification. And you are completely right: the output is written to en.wiki instead of bs.wiki. I was already wondering why I didn't get any output. Sorry for this! I hope the block can be undone. Thank again! Regards. -- Edinwiki ( talk) 02:17, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Do we have an estimate of how many pages still use the old style of Multiple Issues? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:11, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
|rewrite=
, with another 120+ articles updated.
GoingBatty (
talk) 00:45, 20 April 2013 (UTC)Hey GoingBatty :). Just a note that the Article Feedback Tool, Version 5 has now been re-enabled. Let us know on the talkpage if you spot any bugs. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 00:51, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
You did such a great job on the washpo problem, here's another one. Hope it's easy for you to just modify what you did earlier. Note the change in the votesmart param value. Anything with an alpha value no longer works, and there's no way to convert it. So again, it needs to be blanked. 184.78.81.245 ( talk) 17:55, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty. If you check this edit and this edit, you'll notice that your bot "crashed" the project tags by removing the "1=" part, which means that the project tags were no longer visible and the articles disappeared from their projects! I noticed these two because I follow WP:SWEDEN, and I've rolled backed these two edits. If you've done more of these, I'd recommend you to clean up the mess, and be a bit more careful about how you use bot edits in the future. Regards, Tomas e ( talk) 20:03, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
1=
it added it. The actual problem was that in both cases the {{
WikiProjectBannerShell}}
ended with|}}
}}
{{
WikiProjectBannerShell}}
for the future. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:17, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi there,
I wanted to draw your attention to a comment I posted at Template talk:Multiple issues#Bot to remove redundant "multiple issues" tags, as it concerns something that you worked on last year and thought you might have valuable input on it this time around. Thanks! — sroc ( talk) 07:53, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Btw, GoingBatty, I fixed a bug that caused multiple multiple issues tags on pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:19, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Going. I don't know if you know about (or have fixed)
this problem which broke the {{
advert}}
template. I think it was doing a 's/\|article//'
which should have been 's/\|article\|/\|/'
--
Redrose64 (
talk) 16:31, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
There are some who think the new red-error messages in the wp:CS1 Lua cites should remain, even though only 5% of "170,000" red-error pages have been fixed in the past 3 weeks. I would have thought the messages would be considered excessive (to be suppressed now), after the evidence has shown how the 9,100 active article editors cannot fix the red-error cite messages in less than a year. For the cite bots, any misspelled parameters not fixed by a cite-bot, have remained, with red-error messages showing the misspelled words, for 3 weeks now. There is an ongoing partial wp:VPP policy discussion, about the cite accessdate/url error messages:
You might want to join that discussion, or not, and this is just a reminder that the topics are being discussed in a wider forum. Feel free to comment, or delete this reminder if too busy. Just FYI. - Wikid77 ( talk) 22:38, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
This is a note to let the main editors of George Harrison know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on May 4, 2013. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 ( talk · contribs) or one of his delegates ( Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs), Gimmetoo ( talk · contribs), and Bencherlite ( talk · contribs)), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 4, 2013. If it needs tweaking, or if it needs rewording to match improvements to the article between now and its main page appearance, please edit it, following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. The blurb as it stands now is below:
George Harrison (1943–2001) was an English musician, singer, and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. By 1965 Harrison had begun to lead the other Beatles into folk rock through his interest in the Byrds and Bob Dylan, and towards Indian classical music through his use of the sitar on " Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". He developed an interest in the Hare Krishna movement and became an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, introducing them to the other Beatles and their Western audience. Following the band's break-up in 1970, Harrison released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer, and in 1988 co-founded the platinum-selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. A prolific recording artist, he was featured as a guest guitarist on tracks by Badfinger, Ronnie Wood and Billy Preston, and collaborated on songs and music with Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Tom Petty, among others. He also organized the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. Harrison was also a music and film producer, founding Dark Horse Records in 1974 and co-founding HandMade Films in 1978. ( Full article...)
UcuchaBot ( talk) 23:01, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Could you go thru your feature requests and see if any can be removed.... trying to clean the feature request page. Boy you do complain alot. :) Bgwhite ( talk) 04:24, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
I see that we're removing cite news in favour of cite web... surely these serve slightly different functions, and not all websites are news sites? -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 02:14, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your formatting help at Freedom for the Thought That We Hate, much appreciated, — Cirt ( talk) 04:23, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey =) Just in regards to my edit on the 111th Congress page (very long caption); yea, I realized and was worried about it - I decided to go with it since it seemed to fit in on the page alright + it's mostly a matter, I think, of the number of seat changes making it hard to convey that whilst 59:41 gives an accurate impression overall, the critical 60 seat threshold was temporarily obtained (see: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). I felt it was very important to make that clear? Sb101 ( talk) 03:47, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, with
this edit, BattyBot moved {{
WPTRAINS}}
down and in so doing excluded it from the {{
WikiProjectBannerShell}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 15:26, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
{{
WPTRAINS}}
to {{
WikiProject Trains}}
, so that AWB general fixes will include it inside {{
WikiProjectBannerShell}}
. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 22:36, 9 May 2013 (UTC)Hi.
Could you please give me an explanation of what were you trying to do in Windows 8 article? Removing |work=
and putting the work title in |publisher=
field? I don't know about you but I am certainly going dizzy looking at those edits.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk) 15:24, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
|work=
replaced its contents with |publisher=
? You say you were following
Help:Citation Style 1? Alright, that document gives this example:
|work=Amazon.com
and|publisher=Amazon
|newspaper=The New York Times
and|publisher=The New York Times Company
|work=Amazon.com
->|publisher=Amazon.com
note: websites are not italicised|publisher=Amazon
[unchanged] note: no such thing as Amazon (company is known as Amazon.com, Inc., and the script ignores it|newspaper=The New York Times
[unchanged]|publisher=The New York Times Company
[removed] note: publisher is removed as it is not required for periodicals
|work=
or |publisher=
field - i.e. should they be italicized or not. Although
Help:Citation Style 1#Work and publisher says to use |work=
for web sites, and
WP:ITALIC leads me to believe they should be italicized, the articles
ZDNet and
CNET do not italicizes the names, which is consistent with Ohconfucius' script. Where's the best place to have this discussion? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 03:14, 16 May 2013 (UTC)I urge you and
User:Ohconfucius to take this issue to {{
Cite web}} talk page or village pump. Since this is a genuine concern I would be glad to participate as well. The course of action that I think we need to follow is to have |work-n=
. Alternatively, we can propose "work" to be italicized in all citations, regardless of the nature of the work. (In both cases, it can be argued that it would be abused. The counterargument is: no more and no less than it is now being abused.)
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk) 06:50, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
|newspaper=The New York Times
is going to be unable to recover from link rot if we remove the publisher to make the References section more readable. Back to my edit to the Windows 8 article that you reverted, if one of the ZDNet or CNET references stopped working, how would |publisher=CBS Interactive
help you recover? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 22:54, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
|publisher=
and the |work=
. (In all three, link rot recovery is almost impossible if one piece is missing.) In addition, there are people in favor of consistency, who believe for consistency's sake, both |publisher=
and |work=
should be present at all the times. (@
Nikkimaria: I believe you had a similar opinion?)The linkrot problem you pointed out is that '[Microsoft] News Center', '[Symantec] Threat Response Center', '[Brigham Young University] technical library' are just too generic with the establishment name left off for anyone to identify the units concerned. However, the risk of not finding replacement links is overstated as it is still possible to remedy linkrot as the establishment name is relatively easy to find by following the url. -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 08:32, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
|work=
and its aliases like |newspaper=
. Second, you are assuming that links are always something like "somesite.com/work_name/subfolder/articlename". Wrong! Sometimes links are like "somesite.com/id=xxxxxx". Third, what do I care if you are going or not going to insert publisher into citations from periodicals! As long as your script does not move "News Center" to |publisher=
, I am fine. As for inserting or not inserting |publisher=CBS Interactive
from a citation with |work=CNET
, it is a matter of optional style and subject to
MOS:STABILITY. The rule is simple: Do not fix what is already correct. Last, remember that the subject of discussion here is "Edits in Windows 8". Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk) 10:39, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
|url=
|publisher=
, although it doesn't belong, in my opinion; I might consolidate these manually to |publisher=
Microsoft News Center
The da Vinci Barnstar | ||
To GoingBatty: in consideration of your fine efforts to improve WP from a technical standpoint; your general good humour and cooperativeness. and thanks also for your continued help with improving my scripts! Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 13:54, 19 May 2013 (UTC) |
Thanks Ohconfucius! I think the scripts are great, and make it much easier to make article references consistent within an article. Keep up the good work! GoingBatty ( talk) 02:05, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
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Dear GoingBatty,
It is about the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9za_Sz%C3%A1vai; I am wondering if the notoces on top coul be removed because that is all the information and links I could get of the person in English and also, his original Hungarian page is linked as reference.
Thank you!
Karoly Gersi — Preceding unsigned comment added by GKaroly ( talk • contribs) 05:06, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
For your mainspace article contribution at The actual link, if it is not your user talk page; type out the full link. Kind regards, and happy editing. VQuakr ( talk) 03:33, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
BattyBot is hitting an edit filter here, and seems to enjoy running directly into brick walls repeatedly. The bot should fail gracefully when this happens. -- Chris 08:41, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Check changelog. We may already doing it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:01, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks everyone! When I saw the talk page message, I tried a few more things, reported an AWB bug and a edit filter false positive. But by the time I came back here to report my progress, all of you had already replied. I tried the edit again, and it went through just fine. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 15:07, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
I've added reviewer and rollbacker to your acct after seeing your request. INeverCry 01:48, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Dear GoingBatty please protect J-20 page again. I just removed some troll materials. It seems that the same troll from Canada is vandalizing the page again.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.71.58.38 ( talk) 00:53, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for catching and fixing my typo in the Typos, old pal. How embarrassing. Chris the speller yack 03:36, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, regarding your comment here. (I am assuming you are using Windows 7) If when building AWB using SharpDevelop it gives you an error about Windows SDK, then you should download Win SDK from here. The installation wizard will give you options to download several components. It is enough to download the component about .NET framework. It is only 73 MB if I remember correctly. Don't forget to also download .NET framework 4.5 from here. Building AWB in SharpDevelop should now work fine. Enjoy. -- Meno25 ( talk) 12:44, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
This edit has removed a load of work and publisher parameters which shouldn't be removed. — AARON • TALK 23:34, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
|publisher=Prometheus Global Media
is not needed for |work=Billboard
. I suspect that
Ohconfucius is using a similar rationale for removing |publisher=Hearst Corporation
from |work=Digital Spy
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GoingBatty (
talk) 00:05, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
|work=Billboard
with no publisher. Let's see if anyone adds a publisher.
GoingBatty (
talk) 01:10, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
I would obviously add it in. — AARON • TALK 13:11, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi GB, how goes it? Quick question: I've trawled back through the edit history for The Concert for Bangladesh and discovered you added a category citing Klaus Voormann as having created the album's artwork, or having had a hand in it – can I ask where you got this info? I've always understood this album's packaging to have been a Camouflage Partners creation, from start to finish, and I can't see an artwork credit for Klaus on the 2005 reissue. So I'm intrigued – on the other hand, I'll be happy to admit it if I'm wrong of course! Best, JG66 ( talk) 12:32, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello Going Batty!! I'M Mike Nelson from "Mike and the Paramounts" It is very nice to meet you even though it's the computer screen.Thank Yo for your E-Mail!! I don't understand yet how to set up a page. Here is some information so far:
MIKE and the Paramounts History. “TWIST & SHOUT” b/w “DOO-WHA-DIDDY” 45 RPM RECORD Recorded June 20th 1976 Groove Records
Mike Nelson (Born 1-8- 1960) is the Lead Singer of “Mike and the Paramounts” The POP group consisted of four young men. Lead Singer Mike Nelson ,16 years old, Scott Mesa, 17 years old, Jerome Mathers, 16 years old and Stephen Bettencourt, 17 years old. The group was hand chosen by the “Kings Entertainment” Co. via auditions Held in Hollywood.. Over 200 kids auditioned in May 1976 for the job. The four mentioned were chosen to become “ Mike and the Paramounts. Mike Nelson was chosen to be the lead singer because of his Power House vocals according to Producers. It was Americas 1976 Bicentennial Celebration. Mike and the Paramounts were selected to perform at Theme Parks in Anaheim, Los Angeles And through out California to help celebrate the event. On June 2Oth 1976 Mike and the Paramounts record the “Twist & Shout” song for The Groove record label. The 45 rpm single was a double “A” sided record. The flip Side also featured Mike Nelson’s lead vocals with Doo-Wha-Diddy. Another popular cover song. Both were A to B Recordings using no“Auto Tune” because it did not exist in 1976. Lead Singer Mike Nelson and the Paramounts nail the song in only three takes. The flip side of the record,”Doo-Wha-Diddy” also was recorded in only three takes on the same day. The record had only limited release in Anaheim and Southern Calif. “ Mike and the Paramounts” performed all around Southern California the summer of 1976. Screaming Fans loved the power of Mike Nelson’s voice and all of the energy of the Paramounts. Their costumes mostly consisted of bright orange leisure suits with yellow shirts and super wide collars. (Very 70”s) After the Summer of 1976 ended.” Mike and the Paramounts” were offered a real record contract to record an album and two more singles. However the boys all had to decline the offer because of their families and school commitments. Sadly what could have been a good career for the boys had to end because of this. The boys all split-up and went their separate ways. In 2012 Mike Nelson once again proved he still had the voice and put out an independent single of his own. “Jessie’s Girl” is the song and by Mike Nelson’s decision to stay loyal to the group, The record says it was performed by “Mike and the Paramounts”.Even though Mike Nelson sings all of the tracks.
Thank You for your Attention. Chechk out the records on U-Tube. Please E-Mail with more instructions. mschroeder36@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.169.211.4 ( talk) 05:52, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
I just reverted you change as that wiped out where to get the technical and source code information. It was labeled "Documentation" and was renamed to "Technical"
It has been my headache for the past few days. It started on my talk page and went downhill starting at User talk:The Transhumanist#AWB documentation. Looks like his M.O. is to go in and rearrange everything without asking any comments or questions. He means well. Joy.
I forgot to mention. You thanked me for my comment about the watchlist page. You may want to look at User:Bgwhite/vector.css. I remove alot of "unnecessary" wording from the edit window and else where. My User:Bgwhite/vector.js has one that removes the left sidebar. I sometimes need to blow up windows so I can read better. Having less "clutter" makes more room to see the page's content. Bgwhite ( talk) 06:12, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
"Now we turn on/off alerts to make searching for certain errors much faster and easier." -- Magioladitis
To turn on/off certain alerts, goto Options -> Preferences -> Alerts. Bgwhite ( talk) 21:53, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
for fixing the bracket prob in Joseph Mawle that I couldn't for the life of me see. Manytexts ( talk) 03:48, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the thanks, and thanks from me to you too. (I just don't know how to send or respond to that fancy notification thingy.) -- Lawfare ( talk) 17:49, 25 June 2013 (UTC) @ Lawfare: - I don't think Wikipedia:Notifications allow people to directly respond to a thanks message, so I'm happy you did it the old fashioned way :-) Happy editing! GoingBatty ( talk) 00:30, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, GoingBatty, you requested a copy-edit to the template above on the GOCE Request page. Since it's being considered for deletion, and GOCE isn't for templates, I've put the request on hold until we know the result of the deletion discussion. If this was a mistake please let us know and someone will remove the request. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 22:29, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Oh and you forgot to sign there btw. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 23:37, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
A nomination is taking place as to discuss whether Tom Crabtree (journalist) should be deleted or not. The discussion will be held at the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Crabtree (journalist). However, do not remove the AfD message. WisconsinBoyClevelandRocks228844 ( talk) 03:02, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
I saw your well done help and I can go to the step 9. But I've this error for the compile:
So the file is not .exe. Do you have an idea of what I should do? I've ever installed Windows SDK, and I've installed .NET 4.0 because the name of Windows SDK is: Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4.0.
If you've an idea to do that, it would be great.
Thanks by advance, Automatik ( talk) 01:41, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. "istadan" in persian alphabet "ایستادن". Diako1971 10:22, 30 June 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diako1971 ( talk • contribs)
autoFormatter. Magioladitis and TMg have been swapping Regexes between autoFormatter and AWB. There is even a Check Wikipedia page for it because I know you just love working on Check Wikipedia. Bgwhite ( talk) 22:10, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
Greetings. I wanted to let you know I removed a chunk of code from the WikiProjects cleanup subpage. I don't think anyone was using it and it needs to be rewriting using the much safer RemoveTemplateParameter function. In the spirit of that, I have started building it. You can see the start here: User:KumiokoCleanStart/WikiProjectParametersCleanup. I still have a very very long way to go. As with the WikiProject Banner cleanup I expect this will take me a couple months to complete a little at a time. I am going to start with some of the is missing parameters and then I will build the =no logic. Please feel free to pitch in or offer advice. The code is pretty basic, as you know I don't claim to be the best programmer but it seems to work pretty well so far. Kumioko ( talk) 20:15, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for catching and fixing so many of my mistakes, not just lately, but also over the years. Also, thanks for being one of the most positive and helpful Wikipedians I've ever encountered! Cheers! GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 01:50, 2 July 2013 (UTC) |
Thanks GabeMc! You're much better at improving the prose and finding the appropriate references. I'm happy that my minor tweaks here and there are helpful. Happy editing! GoingBatty ( talk) 22:25, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
JustBerry ( talk) 02:40, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
JustBerry ( talk) 11:59, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Please amend Your bot is making containers that exclude some banners. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 03:53, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
You are more than welcome to comment on Ground rules. HotHat ( talk) 07:31, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, you suggested that my bot could run against Category:Stubs and then skip pages that were in any of the categories that I had suggested. How would I go about doing this? I've looked at some of the AWB documentation and had a bit of a play but I can only get it to check for one category at a time, i.e. it will only work on pages from Category:Living People but not Category:Living People OR Category:Year of death missing OR etc... Is there a way to do this without using Regex as I don't know how to write Regex. Thanks. Jamesmcmahon0 ( talk) 11:55, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
(\[\[Category:Year of birth missing\]\]|\[\[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)\]\]|\[\[Category:Year of birth unknown\]\]|\[\[Category:Year of birth uncertain|\[\[Category:Year of death missing\]\]|\[\[Category:Year of death unknown\]\]|\[\[Category:Year of death uncertain\]\]|\[\[Category:Living people\]\]|\[\[Category:Possibly living people\]\])
\[\[Category:(Year of birth|Year of death|Living people|Possibly living people)
Thanks again for all your help at the Ringo FAC. I've never ran AWB before and I tend to not be so good at technical stuff computer wise. I'm on Windows 8 now, will it still work and is there an easier way to explain how it works, or is this too tough for a novice like me? GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 00:42, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Through this way, I inform there is a discussion about partially disambiguated titles, known as " PDABs". This subguide of WP:D was approved at VPP, in a discussion you participated. Note there was a discussion of PDAB at WT:D the last weeks (everything is explained in the RFC). You are welcome to give ideas about the future of this guideline at WT:D. Tbhotch. ™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 05:34, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
I've been moving Checkwiki from toolserver to WMB labs. Information is located here. Could you take a look and report and bugs you find. Any suggestions, ideas for new bug reports, current bug reports that should be removed or anything else you can think of are needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bgwhite ( talk • contribs) 02:18, July 27, 2013
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Bgwhite (
talk) 04:31, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
@ Magioladitis: 500 was hard set in the cgi program. It has no function of where it is located. When you click on "List for bots" the limit was 25, I've changed it to 500.
I've gone thru the cgi script and I think I've corrected everything. It's 3am, so my mind is probably playing tricks on me into thinking everything is working.
The issue raised about not all the errors showing up here has to be fixed in the main checkwiki program. I'll have it on my todo list for tomorrow's fun. Bgwhite ( talk) 08:56, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
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For strategically using wit and humor to make Wikipedia a better place, GoingBatty is ceremoniously awarded a Gold Star for the day. Thank you for your generous efforts helping Wikipedia. 64.40.54.39 ( talk) 04:08, 30 July 2013 (UTC) |
for this edit. I’m always doing that—but I promise I will try not to rely upon you picking up the error in future! Ian Spackman ( talk) 16:16, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi Batty,
Thank you for editing the Kellie Loder article. Because of your involvement with the article, I thought that you should be notified of the article's FAC. Any comments you would be willing to provide there would be greatly appreciated.
Neelix ( talk) 16:14, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
Recently you added Category:American novelists to the Wikipedia article Greg Kihn. The current consensus for the use of this category is at the top of the Category:American novelists article. I removed the category and added Category:20th-century American novelists after checking the publication date of the novels listed in the article (all 20-century dates). Neonorange ( talk) 21:44, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
Please consult either Christian1985, Bbb23 or Collect before you make ANY changes to the MailOnline page.
Thankyou.
81.178.161.191 (
talk) 14:41, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
The article B.C. Rich Mockingbird has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
notice, but please explain why in your
edit summary or on
the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
will stop the
proposed deletion process, but other
deletion processes exist. In particular, the
speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and
articles for deletion allows discussion to reach
consensus for deletion.
I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{
Talkback}} message on
my talk page. @ 07:52, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi, if you got the time to check out the refs for Leif "Loket" Olsson, as I am no good at combining refs. Much appreciated.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 14:53, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
On 2 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Leif "Loket" Olsson, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Swedish television host Leif "Loket" Olsson refereed the handball semifinal between Yugoslavia and Romania at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich, Germany? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Leif "Loket" Olsson. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 08:03, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
I noticed your bot visited the Brazilian Hip Hop Talk Page. I checked the history of the Brazilian Hip Hop article - you are not listed as an editor.
You have no interest in Brazilian Hip Hop. I put it to you that you are acting like a vigilante scoutmaster. I put it to you that you came to the Brazilian Hip Hop Talk Page because I left details on the murder of Steve Biko. I put it to you that your name GoingBatty was not a lighthearted self-deprecating joke at your expense (as you suggested in the last discussion we had when you were hassling me once again for no reason other then your own misguided belief that you even have that right) but a weapon of insult aimed to bring disrepute to the valid edits and opinions of other editors.
If you keep persisting in arriving at articles that I am writing when their edit history shows you have not shown any interest - I will assume that you doing so deliberately to disrupt my editing or too draw attention to your belief that I am batty or going batty.
Please explain why you have appeared at the Brazilian Hip Hop page under the guise of an automated bot? There are over three million articles. If you carry on appearing on a regular basis at articles I am writing and the edit history of the article and the talk page show no previous involvement from you then I will report you for deliberate activities directed against a user for no legitimate reason other than to impose your presence upon that user. Please direct your attention to one of the three million articles that I'm not involved in. Please stop scout mastering me - I'm not interested.
Sluffs ( talk) 23:46, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Well actually Ohconfucius, no one was asking you but maybe your ego needs something to do other than write good articles.
I would like to see the Bot removed from GoingBatty - I would also like to see him spend 6 to 8 weeks on one article from start to finish (as I do). I would like him to avoid articles I'm working on until I have finished them (I usually add a post-article synopsis to show I've finished and to highlight some of the issues I encountered). I would like GoingBatty to accept that scouting may be his life but due to the similarities between the Scouts and the Klan (both like to creep around the woods at night in uniform while lighting fires and tying knots) it hardly appeals to me and neither therefore does he appeal to me.
Sluffs ( talk) 22:18, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Please pay more attention when doing mass edits, many of the links you added to Oracle Corporation should link to Oracle Database instead. PROTIP: There is no such thing as "Oracle Corporation version 9i" ;) -- intgr [talk] 08:14, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
This week I reverted your revision of our biography of Frederick Pohl, comprising nothing but about three-score conversions to dmy format, plus insertion of template {{ dmy}}. About two-score were Retrieved dates whose conversion was inappropriate per MOS:NUM (which you cited) section 4.
In the edit summary I requested that you limit the script-assisted changes to publication and vital dates. Other activity promptly buried my edit summary, and I have now raised the matter at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Script-assisted conversion of Retrieved YYYY-MM-DD.
-- P64 ( talk) 16:40, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
On 11 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Meral Tasbas, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Meral Tasbas (pictured) has participated in both the Swedish and the Turkish versions of the reality show The Bar? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Meral Tasbas. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 16:03, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Can you please update this regex to correspond to current sate of {{ cite arXiv}}?
new Regex(@"\b(arxiv|asin|ASIN|author\d?|author\d?-?link\d?|bibcode|class|coauthors?|date|day|doi|DOI|doi brokendate|doi inactivedate|eprint|first\d?|format|given\d?|id|in|isbn|ISBN|issn|ISSN|jfm|JFM|jstor|JSTOR|language|last\d?|laydate|laysource|laysummary|lccn|LCCN|month|mr|MR|oclc|OCLC|ol|OL|osti|OSTI|pmc|PMC|pmid|PMID|postscript|publication-date|quote|ref|rfc|RFC|separator|seperator|ssrn|SSRN|surname\d?|title|version|year|zbl)\b", RegexOptions.Compiled);
I can support more citation types but I get the impression there are no differences in the parameters between citation types anymore. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:28, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Exactly because I noticed the special code I added alerts. rev 9483 -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:55, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Can you please start a page what will show clever ideas of how to skip specific type of pages in AWB? For instance I would like to have a page that people can see how to skip Disambiguation pages, pages with speedy delete templates, very short pages (less than 100 bytes for instance), etc. using current AWB settings. We get a lot of questions on this and it would be nice to have a page for that. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:50, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
One more thing is to take the module given at Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Title_case_for_citations and put it in an appropriate page, then mark the FR as "no". -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:13, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
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If you could take a look at my article for Hildegard Björck for grammar mistakes etc it would be appreciated. Thank you.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 10:14, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
Jarry's probably very busy, so would you be able to advise me how to adapt and integrate the code into my formatting script? -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 15:17, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
( Volkeey ( talk) 11:30, 23 September 2013 (UTC))
I received the following message from you:
Welcome, and thank you for contributing the page Ahmet Mazhar Bozdoğan to Wikipedia. While you have added the page to the English version of Wikipedia, the article is not in English. We invite you to translate it into English. It currently has been listed at Pages Needing Translation, but if it is not translated within two weeks, the article will be listed for deletion. Thank you. GoingBatty (talk) 15:01, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
It was just a mistake, sorry about that; I fixed as follows :
Page in Turkish : https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Mazhar_Bozdo%C4%9Fan Page in English : /info/en/?search=Ahmet_Mazhar_Bozdo%C4%9Fan#As_the_President_of_the_Turkish_Swimming_Federation
Please check.
Thanks..
On 26 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kristian Gidlund, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Kristian Gidlund played drums in the rock band Sugarplum Fairy until his death in 2013? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kristian Gidlund. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Gatoclass ( talk) 05:48, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty, Ultra Violet Light has given you a shining smiling star! You see, these things promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the Shining Smiling Star whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy! Ultra Violet Light 17:07, 26 September 2013 (UTC) |
Thanks for your recent edits on
Stereophonics :D
Ultra Violet Light 17:07, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, I've noticed BattyBot making a lot of edits to talk pages lately, in which it's collapsing WikiProject banners into {{ WikiProjectBannerShell}}. My concern is that the edit summaries for these edits state "Talk page general fixes & other cleanup using AWB (9486)" - this isn't a descriptive (or accurate) summary of the bot's actions on these pages, adding WPBS isn't a "general fix". You might want in the future to have it use a more descriptive edit summary for when it's performing this action. - The Bushranger One ping only 18:39, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty. FYI, BattyBot is incorrectly changing {{WPMotorhead}} to {{WikiProject Motorehad}}, as in this edit. Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 22:35, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Hey Batty, can you explain this edit? Nikkimaria ( talk) 23:11, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
for your help at Treasure Island#Film and TV. When I learned that the Soviets had made four movies of the story I became intrigued and when I noticed that one was in 1937, to me the height of Stalinist political correctness, when nothing could be done without a solid Marxist-Leninist foundation I became very interested in how they managed to do that so clicked on the link and . . . ………. And the rest is history. Thanks again for your role in making history. Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 17:10, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
I've undone this edit, as it was making the software crash (I assume because of the mismatched open and close brackets). I don't know enough about regexes to fix it with confidence, so have undone it altogether for the moment - occurrences of the wrestling team Fourtune should be rare enough that this won't cause any issues. Mogism ( talk) 20:42, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
Hallo. See this edit, Christian75 ( talk) 10:40, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
When you got time please take a look at my article on Carin Hjulström. Much appreciated! :)-- BabbaQ ( talk) 14:30, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
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I recently created a rule (within function Ohc_sources_prep
of my sources script) to remove references with twitter and facebook links as follows:
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<ref>https?:\/\/(?:en\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki|(?:www\.|)(?:facebook|myspace|twitter)\.com)\/[^\s\]<]*<\/ref>
<ref>\[https?:\/\/(?:en\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki|(?:www\.|)(?:facebook|myspace|twitter)\.com)\/[^\s\]]*[ ]+[\w\d][^\]]*\]<\/ref>
\|[ ]*url[ ]*=[ ]*https?:\/\/(?:\w{2}\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki|(?:www\.|)(?:facebook|myspace|twitter)\.com)[^\s\|\{\}<]*(?=[ ]*[\|\}])
the rules work on my regular regex tester, the individual lines work as custom regexes, but the block didn't work when I run the script on this version of the Jackie Chan page so I put through the changes manually. The rest of the rules that come after these do work, as far as I am aware.
On the other hand, I put the rules into another function here, and I get the desired output for the Jackie Chan in my sandbox. Have you experienced this before? -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 05:50, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
(?:www\.|)
, should you use (?:www\.)
without the pipe? I'm supportive of removing references to Wikipedia articles (as long as you manually make sure there's a wikilink instead), but I don't know why you'd want to remove references to the social networks in articles such as
MineCon. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 01:55, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
(?:www\.|)
in because sometimes the links are formed without the "www.", I inserted the pipe to catch those instances. You'd agree there's no point in having the brackets around (?:www\.)
otherwise. There's too much fancruft and linking to social media. I don't know whether it's prohibited, but I would like to see a blanket ban on linking to these. I have absolutely no problem when sources mention them, but Twitter and Facebook posts are infamously prone to being user-modified, making verification impossible unless an independent source has mentioned the feed in question. Anyway, I was hoping you could share any experience you had on writing scripts, and why the rules don't work in the script when they work independently. Cheers, -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa? 02:05, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
(?:www\.|)
works the same as (?:www\.)?
I've never written a script, just played around with AWB's find and replace regexes or modifying other people's scripts. Maybe someone at
Wikipedia talk:User scripts could help?
GoingBatty (
talk) 02:27, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
...for this. I hate that we can't read that properly, and that this stupid red error message shows up. Drmies ( talk) 01:21, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Unfortunately, my addition to cover Image requested is not correct. It will move the template above WPBS. I commented out this piece of code until the problem is fixed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:16, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for disambiguating my kingpin link from King post. I have however removed your disambig tag from boom, since until someone writes the appropriate article, we can only link to the appropriate section of the disambig page, as I have done (since the disambig page gives a short but useful definition, I believe it is still worth a link, rather than leaving a redlink or nothing at all). Enginear ( talk) 18:34, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
I have made a new article about the Enbom case one of Sweden most known spy trials and cases. If you find more info to add to the article for expansion please do as well as any spelling checks etc. Always appreciated.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 22:28, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Your help is needed on the Noelia page. Right now the page is protected from editing and it has the incorrect birthdate. Could you help? Thank you. Lulusi9 ( talk) 01:06, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
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Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk) 18:27, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
[[foobar|''foobar'']]
instead of ''[[foobar]]''
. I also see that one of the five bugs I reported have been fixed. I'll keep trying it now and again, and report if I find anything new. Thanks!
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<nowiki />
bug report would never be fixed. I guess seeing
GeorgeWashington ([[George Washington|George]]<nowiki/>Washington) and
Chicago ([[Chicago|C]]<nowiki/>hicago) is just fine. I've got
1418 reasons why from October's dump that shows it is a problem with and I've been cleaning these messes the past few months.
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<nowiki />
issue:
I have made a article on Mia Frye unfortunatly I do not understand french that well so I could not translate that much info from her French Wiki article but atleast a small stub has been made now. Take a look when you got time.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 20:15, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hi There,
Could you please check that the formatting is all OK with the page "Gibside"
cheers mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.2.36.6 ( talk) 03:34, October 23, 2013
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Hi again, Thanks for your work. Could you please check the formatting of the references for the 'Lupton family' page Cheers Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.2.36.6 ( talk) 01:53, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Plesae fix up the disastrous contribution (just one line!) that I have done on the history section on the GLAMIS CASTLEpage. You are very professional and thanks for all of yor help. cheers mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.10.139 ( talk) 03:54, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
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A big thanks for your work - some tiny help please...!! You are an excellent editor
Please could you again check my fromatting on these 4 pages Gibside 5th Earl Orkney Baronets Conyers Blakiston family
Cheers and thsnks so much again Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.10.139 ( talk) 11:47, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
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Dear Goingbatty One last reference check please for the Gibside page. Thanks so much Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.138.209 ( talk) 10:59, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks again so much "Batty"
2 page for you to check references 1) Lupton family 2) Conyers baronets Thanks again, mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.138.209 ( talk) 02:30, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
me again!! Please check that all is ok with 1) 5th earl of Orney page and 2) Sir Chrisitopher Bullock page
You are truly a marvel Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.138.209 ( talk) 02:36, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi there Batty! Thanks so much for your work. Great as always. BUT reference number 27, for Sir Christopher Bullock page should I think be at the end of the FAMILY section. I can't do the cahnge ! Could you please do it? Cheers and thanks Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.138.209 ( talk) 03:55, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Batty again, Could you please check a reference I did to the Pippa Middleton page (Not a good job by me I fear) and I hope that a fix up of Sir Christopher Bullock is OK too.
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Thank you for simplification GoingBatty :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redcpb ( talk • contribs) 20:59, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear GoingBatty, what is wrong with article now. Can you please help me fix it. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redcpb ( talk • contribs) 21:08, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Thank you Batty for adding the reference. I am new at this. Bless you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redcpb ( talk • contribs) 04:32, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear Batty I am a history teacher and I STILL cannot do this! please check references for
Gibside page and Family of Duchess of Cambridge page Thanks as always Mike Reed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.138.209 ( talk) 09:20, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
|last=
and |first=
parameters are for the author's name (a person, not an organization)|url=
parameter is for the web page address (e.g.
http://www.whatever.com)|title=
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parameter is for magazine or newspaper names, while the |publisher=
parameter is used for other sources (e.g. Durham County Council)|date=
or |year=
is for when the information was published|accessdate=
parameter is for when you read the information.Dear Batty another check please! Lupton family - reference Cheers and thanks Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.213.7.30 ( talk) 03:56, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
SORRY!!!! Mike again - I did try as you suggested to do it myself - but with a magazine it is hard! Please can you tidy up the references to the "Lupton family" page . The author of the Majesty magazine article was Coryne Hall. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.138.209 ( talk) 09:12, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
|last=
and |first=
parameters are only for humans (e.g. |last=Hall
|first=Coryne
), and |title=
is for the English title of the web page or newspaper article.
GoingBatty (
talk) 00:00, 16 November 2013 (UTC)Thank you for your keen eye and Wikipedia savvy. FYI, the title of my copy of WAR WITH THE WIND appears to be all upper case. Now, sorting by author’s name: how do you do it when names are not alphabetical – such as Mahan. And what is the best way to do it when adding citations to an article with few or no references?
Obviously, I’m very grateful for your first-rate efforts. But tell me, if you care to, how did Mahan ever get on your radar?
BTW, the article is listed on the Guild of Copy Editor’s request page for copyedit. My notion is to remove it - would you care to offer an opinion? Pendright ( talk) 19:54, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
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Gatoclass ( talk) 16:04, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Just curious, why exactly did you revert my edit to the DVD article (splitting "Atlanta, Georgia" into two separate links)? Bumm13 ( talk) 19:09, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
Hey, I don't find much Wikipedia amusement nowadays, but when I saw this history it made me smile, as my handle is based on Roy Batty. - Roy Boy 17:29, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
I fixed some of them manually. There are many that not qualify for fixing. Please fix any others on sight. At some point we can create an updated list. In any case I think the cases that need standardising are uncommon. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:04, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day ( see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:25, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for unbungling the mistakes I made, I couldn't find out how to get rid of the red warning. I would have preferred you to have left the notes section though but I'll put it back when I get round to the narrative. Thanks. Keith-264 ( talk) 15:00, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
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Not sure what kind of help you need at B&O Railroad Museum. What hath God wrought? is the original American telegraph message, sent from Capitol Hill, DC to Baltimore. The Book of Numbers is likely the right place in the Bible. Samuel F.B. Morse should have some stuff on it as does Henry Leavitt Ellsworth. Any more specific questions I can probably find out, but it could take some time. Smallbones( smalltalk) 03:05, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi. You moved the article at Temples to Temples (band) to keep Temples re-directing to Temple. I therefore placed text on the top of the Temple article for the band Temples, otherwise it is hard to find the article on the band Temples = several editors have removed it. Please ensure this text in kept at the top of the article on Temple or make Temples a disambiguous page. There isn't any proper reason for Temples to re-direct to Temple, as any prior wiki-links to Temples should be corrected to go to the right article. Thanks.
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Dear Batty I know you thought I'd learnt my stuff - but can you assist one more time? Please!!! The "Conyers Baronets" page - a couple of references . THanks so much yet again Cheers M.E (Ted) Reed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.149.168.121 ( talk) 11:48, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear Batty
You will see I tried to enlist another helper - no good! - I do need you to do the latest reference for Conyers Baronets page please!!
Thanks again
Mike — Preceding
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I'm logged in to my account on a Southwest Airlines flight on my Kindle Fire and getting an error stating " Editing from 184.169.0.0/16 has been blocked (disabled) by WilliamH for the following reason(s): Long term abuse: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Morning277". Since User:WilliamH has retired, can this please be revisited? I don't understand why registered users would be impacted by this block. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 14:43, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Accept reason:
I've seen this happening with AWB, but I just ran it on an article in my user space that I plan on moving shortly, and it just doesn't happen. Any idea why? And can you help me otherwise once you're unblocked...? Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 14:57, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
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Why, why did you do this Meno25? I finally found a way to block that evil and dastardly Batty without bringing attention to myself. The reign of terror will now continue unabated. Oh Batty, I just took a hit of AWB and it was gooood. Nothing like some AWB coursing thru the veins and giving you that perfect high. I hope you survive without your crack AWB. Bgwhite ( talk) 21:55, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello GoingBatty, I was just wondering, what was the purpose of removing "http:" from a Youtube URL here? Thanks, Toccata quarta ( talk) 06:21, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty,
I had a student (TravellingKatie) update the CAVA page for a volcanology class I run, which you reverted (taking it back to a stub) and I wondered what your rationale was? I thought her edits improved the page but I'd be interested (in the spirit of inquiry only) as to why you felt they should be removed. I am leading someone else's class (he does this every year) so I am wondering what lessons I can feed back to him?
Thanks for any advice,
Matt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.222.114.247 ( talk) 15:10, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
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Could you take a look at Stekenjokk, Vildmarksvägen and Stora Blåsjön. Much appreciated!-- BabbaQ ( talk) 19:05, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
This edit made me think it's not a good idea to attempt citation fixes outside article space. Non-article pages are much more likely to contain experiments or intentional examples of what not to do. Jc3s5h ( talk) 02:28, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I am Extremely Sorry :( because while reverting some Intermediate Test edits by New users your versions were also Reverted. Please re use AWB. I hope you can understand why would i do like that. In Future i didn't do Such things.
Regards,
Raghusri ( talk) 12:06, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Regards,
Raghusri ( talk) 10:08, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
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Harrias talk 01:33, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Hey, sorry about the date format, i forgot to change it during the revert... My bad, i just reverted because he made an extra "line" after every group if you know what i mean? Kante4 ( talk) 16:47, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
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The edit changed the infobox from "thoroughbred racechorse" to "sport horse" which is incorrect, so I reverted. Tigerboy1966 17:11, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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On 23 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Barna Hedenhös, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Bonnier Carlsen temporarily halted its re-release of one of the Barna Hedenhös Swedish children's books because the 1950 publication refers to Native Americans as "red skins"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Barna Hedenhös. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Gatoclass ( talk) 00:02, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
I'll need your settings to convert MI to move orphan tags. It won't be easy to move orphan tags when I have to deal with both stand-alone tags and MI parameters. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:07, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Will you give me some time to take a look at User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox4? If it is good then move it to Slow West please. -- Assassin! No, Captain Assassin! ( T - C - G ) 17:46, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Dear Batty Me again! Merry Christmas! Please can you check that I have "got it right" for-
1) Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale 2) Thomas Lyons-Bowes Lord Glamis (I had alot of trouble with this one - it is from a book)
Cheers and I thankyou in advance, as always. Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.173.171 ( talk) 08:18, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
|url=
parameter is for the web site address (i.e.
http://www...) and the |title=
is for the name of the book or web page.
GoingBatty (
talk) 18:09, 23 December 2013 (UTC)I wonder if month abbreviations are allowed (Apr, Mar, etc.). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:11, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
I still have 50,000 pages to check and I do this semi-manually as follows: Enabled only tagging, no genfixes, no unicode. Skip if no changes are made. In worst case scenario I add/remove underlinked which is also not bad.
If I knew for |few=
before we could add it to orphan tags with 1 or 2 incoming link and get an idea of exactly how many pages are linkless. but this wouls also require conversion inside Multiple issues. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 19:34, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Assassin! No, Captain Assassin! (
T -
C -
G ) is wishing you a
Merry
Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes
WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a
Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!
Spread the Christmas cheer by adding {{ subst:Xmas3}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
-- Assassin! No, Captain Assassin! ( T - C - G ) 17:26, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Take a look at my new articles Cecilia Uddén and Emma Knyckare! Cheers.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 15:20, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
|language={{sv icon}}
, which incorrectly displays as (in (in Swedish))
. You can correct this to |language=Swedish
or simply |language=sv
, as I did in
this edit. I also fixed the italics/punctuation and removed a duplicate wikilink in
this edit.Sorry again Batty Thanks for your work BUT I have done a botched job on the ARNOLD LUPTON, SIR and COURTESY TITLES pages. Please help! Cheers and thanks so much as always. Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.173.171 ( talk) 04:45, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
|last=
/|first=
are only for human names, |title=
is the title of the web page/newspaper article/book (NOT the URL). I also suggest using dmy date format for articles about the UK.
GoingBatty (
talk) 05:11, 27 December 2013 (UTC)|quote=
parameter should be exactly what you see on the web page. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk) 05:24, 27 December 2013 (UTC)Hello. I will descride what I want to do.
The template is a simple one, has no parameters. Just show a message. I want just to try it, I will not apply to wikipedia categories. Xaris333 ( talk) 08:04, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi there Batty I have tried to do a "quote" with a ref. on the "Arnold Lupton" page. Could you please look at it? Also the page - "Phillip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden" - is it OK? thanks so much and I hope you had a Merry Christmas! Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.173.171 ( talk) 07:24, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
|title=
http://www.....
to |url=http://....
|work=Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain. Page 186, by Brock Millman
to |title=Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain
|page=186
|publisher=Frank cass Publisher, London 2000
to |publisher=Frank Cass Publishers
|location=London
|year=2000
|accessdate=Dcecember 28, 2012
to |accessdate=December 28, 2013
Thanks for flagging the fixes needed on the parsha portal pages. I'll get at it. -- Dauster ( talk) 23:00, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
When you say 'an IP', this must mean someone included her year of birth (and her year of birth only) without logging in. Consequently, there mustn't be any way of tracking down this user, who'd possibly know what actual date in 1974. Ofcdeadbeat ( talk) 01:14, 29 December 2013 (UTC)Ofcdeadbeat
It seems that BattyBot sometimes takes a break for a few hours, or sometimes longer. Is this by design? Is this something I should notify you about? I'm looking forward to it making a complete pass through the CS1 date category so that we can take a look at the remaining errors. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 06:16, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Do you know if there's any way to set AWB to use the old version of the typos list without the addition of the grammar checks, or to make the grammar checks optional? All of these "errors" ("with the exception of", "so as to", "as to whether", "many different") are grammatically correct in British English (and as I've mentioned on the talkpage, some of them have distinctly different meanings to the suggested corrections). Because most of the articles I work on are in BrEng, this has made the regex function in AWB effectively unusable - whereas before roughly 5-10% of the pages flagged by AWB as containing typos were false positives, I'd estimate that it's as high as 90% for me now. Mogism ( talk) 18:03, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi GoingBatty,
I very much appreciate your excellent work on the Camille and Kennerly Kitt page. The article's references section looks so much better now. Citing references is one of my biggest weaknesses because I try to do what is right but there are things I don't understand because when I use the automatic "Cite" option, the boxes that I fill in are not properly explained. For example, it doesn't say what the publisher means. Is there a wiki link you could give me please with detailed instructions for what each box means? Some are very obvious, of course, but as I said, the publisher is tricky to me, as well as when to cite web and when to cite a newspaper that is online (I can't even find that option). Once again, thank you so much, and have a very nice day. Dontreader ( talk) 21:12, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
GoingBatty— Thanks for adding categories to the article, Félix Martí-Ibáñez. Not being familiar with the guidelines for them nor all of the categories, I was reluctant to try more than a few. I do wonder, however, why you have changed some categories I had added and noted his affiliation only as Spanish for all significant categories for him. He emigrated to the U.S. at the age of thirty and became an American citizen. Although he is notable for Spanish culture, he is even more notable for American culture. His contributions to medical literature and history was international, being read by physicians, other professionals, and a world-wide audience among other groups. All of his books were published in English and through the publishing house he founded in Manhattan, where he lived until he died at the age of sixty. His command of English was remarkable. His most important writings were in English and authored after he had emigrated to his new county of citizenship. The vast majority of his professional work was in his adopted country and his clinical writings were in English. Can we reflect this by adding categories related to the thirty years of his professional work after changing citizenship? Or would it be better to revert to my categories regarding his professional work and merely create categories for his birth citizenship and location and also for his adopted citizenship and location? What are your thoughts on this? (Copied to my talk page and the article page also) _ _ _ _ 83d40m ( talk) 17:55, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Happy New Year to all my talk page stalkers! Thank you all for your assistance and collaboration, and I look forward to working with you next year! GoingBatty ( talk) 19:48, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
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