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I think all of this will need to go as a copyvio. I read the earlier online edition of the Chicago Tribune obit- this is the obit at present-and it looks to be a copy/paste of that earlier obit. We hope ( talk) 13:28, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, I am new to Wikipedia and basically trying to figure things out by trial and error. I ahve 2 questions about archiving stuff.
1. Situation: I am trying to set up my Talk Page so that it archives (using Lowercase sigmabot III) stuff once a monthly and designates these archive pages as "name of month/YYYY" (e.g., Dec. 2013). Moreover, I would like the archive pages to be accessible as follows: "user:marchjuly/talk_archives/yyyy/nameofmonth"
Question: Have I set it up correctly?
2. Situation: When I first set up my archives, I basically just copied and pasted something from somebody else's page and changed the info accordingly. An archive was in fact created, but it only contained two items since it was set up by the other user to archive stuff every 10 days. Here's that page: /info/en/?search=User_talk:Marchjuly/Archive_2.
Questions: Will my new archive setup overwrite this page when a new archive is created, or is it pretty much there forever? Is there some way to remove this archive page, if it is the same information is contained in another archive page?
Thank you in advance Marchjuly ( talk) 01:13, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
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", definitely make it fail (tested late yesterday). You appear to have gotten that text from something I wrote on the
Help:Archiving a talk page. Sorry about that. That page has been changed and a bug reported. I also changed where your archives will be placed. They will now go to pages named: User talk:Marchjuly/Archives/YYYY/Month as that is where all the templates (e.g. the {{
archives by months}} template in your your archive box) expect them to be. If the archives are somewhere else you will find using the standard templates more cumbersome. Some will not function properly at all. The archive bot you are using, lowercase sigmabot III, is, I believe, next scheduled to run in about 11 hours from now. We should know then if everything is working.
Makyen (
talk) 13:05, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
[I got tired of typing so many ":". Actually, I was going back and forth about either using an {{ outdent}} or seeing how far we would go .]
The bot did run today, but —as I should have checked earlier— you don't have any threads that are old enough to archive, yet. Your archiving is currently set at 30 days.
As you have looked at the edit history, I am not going to reiterate what I did given that I described it there. Most of the edits are self explanatory/cleanup. The explicit TOC is because I have seen pages where random people have put content in the headers. That, and the comment about "everything below this line", are to, hopefully, encourage new editors coming to your page to put things in the correct spot. If you don't want the white space between the talk header and the TOC & archive bot, we can reduce it.
User:Σ, the developer of lowercase sigmabot III (lcSB3, or lcΣB3), has stated that he has fixed the issue of comments not working in the MiszaBot config template. So that should not be an issue anymore. Makyen ( talk) 09:33, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
|algo=old(30d)
which tells lcΣB3 how many days to leave a thread on the page from the last time it was signed; and B)|bot=Lowercase sigmabot III
|age=30
<!-- Here tells the archive box how many days to display as the time to archiving. -->|minthreadsleft=2
with some number of threads you always want to have on your talk page. That will leave the last X threads on the page if there happens to be a long time with no activity (e.g. you go on vacation). I know you asked for suggestions, but I am not going to actually provide a specific suggestion for this one. You can, of course, try different numbers and see what you like. Certainly nothing wrong with doing that, or changing it multiple times.
Makyen (
talk) 00:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)Actually that's exactly the the kind of suggestion I was looking for. It's not a lot of fun when somebody does everything for you; It's so much more fun when they give you ideas that you and play around with yourself. Gonna try that "mini thread" stuff out later and see what happens. Thanks again -- Marchjuly ( talk) 02:12, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
{{
outdent|::::}}
which would have put the upper mark directly under the preceding indent. You can see
Template:Outdent/testcases for examples.
Makyen (
talk) 08:06, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
OK. Have I used "outdent" correctly this time? Also, I have changed "algo=old(30d)" and "|age=30" to "algo=old(1d)" and "|age=1" respectively so that my page is archived daily. Have I done this correctly? I also added "|minithreadsleft=3" but not sure if I put it in the right spot. Finally, I noticed that when you move the cursor over "Archive Index" it looks like "Archive Index(space)(space(space). Is there any way to fix the underlining so that it looks like Archive Index
|minthreadsleft=3
as a separate line instead of on the same line as |algo=old(1d)
. This is only to match the fact that all the other parameters are each on a separate line by themselves. This is to make it more readable. Usually, parameters will be either all on one line with the template, or all on separate lines. It is not common to mix the two styles. Mixing such is usually done only to highlight specific parameters, or when formatting an entire parameter. You will use this when you add 2014 to your list of archives (
example).{{
archives by months|2013}}
as the last line in the list. [Watch out for the closing }}
. You will need that after that line.] The line I am suggesting you move is an unnamed parameter which is used to define what you want in your archive box. When you add 2014 to your archive box it will be as part of this parameter on an additional line (see an example of what that will look like
here).title=Archive index
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Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Mancow Muller may have broken the syntax by modifying 2 "{}"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.
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To answer your question what the reviewing means is that another editor has reviewed your contribution it is called the Recent Changes Patrol, see WP:RCP. To add that heart that you get from signing that persons guestbook, all you do is add {{ User:Arknascar44/Love Cabal}} to the top of your talk/user page. Please don't hesitate to ask me if you have any further questions. As I will be more than happy to help you learn more about editing Wikipedia. :) Clarkcj12 ( talk) 14:46, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
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Alternatively, leave me a message at my
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Talk to me) 17:55, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
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I've left a reply on my talk. If you're watching it already and don't need notes here then please let me know! Thanks! – Connormah ( talk) 05:31, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
I think all of this will need to go as a copyvio. I read the earlier online edition of the Chicago Tribune obit- this is the obit at present-and it looks to be a copy/paste of that earlier obit. We hope ( talk) 13:28, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
The information in newspapers, books, and on many websites is under copyright. When you use something like this as a source, you rewrite the material so it's not exactly what the copyrighted source shows--sort of like telling a story in your own words and not someone else's. :) It's OK to use quotes from a source as long as you attribute them to where you got them--a newspaper story, magazine article, book, etc. You can mention his stepson's name if you use this obit from San Francisco Gate as a source. You could also work it in to the "survived by" paragraph that she was his second wife. HTH, We hope ( talk) 22:02, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
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I've, temporarily at least, removed your recent addition to the Mancow Muller article. Somethng of that nature really needs some sort of reliable reference under Wikipedia:Verifiability guidelines and general WP:BLP proceedures. Provided you can add a reliable independent source (i.e. a news article would do nicely) please feel free to add the information back in. Otherwise please don't, lest it be reverted again. Much thanks! Sector001 ( talk) 05:37, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks, BracketBot ( talk) 06:58, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the info :-) Cls14 ( talk) 22:58, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, I am new to Wikipedia and basically trying to figure things out by trial and error. I ahve 2 questions about archiving stuff.
1. Situation: I am trying to set up my Talk Page so that it archives (using Lowercase sigmabot III) stuff once a monthly and designates these archive pages as "name of month/YYYY" (e.g., Dec. 2013). Moreover, I would like the archive pages to be accessible as follows: "user:marchjuly/talk_archives/yyyy/nameofmonth"
Question: Have I set it up correctly?
2. Situation: When I first set up my archives, I basically just copied and pasted something from somebody else's page and changed the info accordingly. An archive was in fact created, but it only contained two items since it was set up by the other user to archive stuff every 10 days. Here's that page: /info/en/?search=User_talk:Marchjuly/Archive_2.
Questions: Will my new archive setup overwrite this page when a new archive is created, or is it pretty much there forever? Is there some way to remove this archive page, if it is the same information is contained in another archive page?
Thank you in advance Marchjuly ( talk) 01:13, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
<!-- -->
", definitely make it fail (tested late yesterday). You appear to have gotten that text from something I wrote on the
Help:Archiving a talk page. Sorry about that. That page has been changed and a bug reported. I also changed where your archives will be placed. They will now go to pages named: User talk:Marchjuly/Archives/YYYY/Month as that is where all the templates (e.g. the {{
archives by months}} template in your your archive box) expect them to be. If the archives are somewhere else you will find using the standard templates more cumbersome. Some will not function properly at all. The archive bot you are using, lowercase sigmabot III, is, I believe, next scheduled to run in about 11 hours from now. We should know then if everything is working.
Makyen (
talk) 13:05, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
[I got tired of typing so many ":". Actually, I was going back and forth about either using an {{ outdent}} or seeing how far we would go .]
The bot did run today, but —as I should have checked earlier— you don't have any threads that are old enough to archive, yet. Your archiving is currently set at 30 days.
As you have looked at the edit history, I am not going to reiterate what I did given that I described it there. Most of the edits are self explanatory/cleanup. The explicit TOC is because I have seen pages where random people have put content in the headers. That, and the comment about "everything below this line", are to, hopefully, encourage new editors coming to your page to put things in the correct spot. If you don't want the white space between the talk header and the TOC & archive bot, we can reduce it.
User:Σ, the developer of lowercase sigmabot III (lcSB3, or lcΣB3), has stated that he has fixed the issue of comments not working in the MiszaBot config template. So that should not be an issue anymore. Makyen ( talk) 09:33, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
|algo=old(30d)
which tells lcΣB3 how many days to leave a thread on the page from the last time it was signed; and B)|bot=Lowercase sigmabot III
|age=30
<!-- Here tells the archive box how many days to display as the time to archiving. -->|minthreadsleft=2
with some number of threads you always want to have on your talk page. That will leave the last X threads on the page if there happens to be a long time with no activity (e.g. you go on vacation). I know you asked for suggestions, but I am not going to actually provide a specific suggestion for this one. You can, of course, try different numbers and see what you like. Certainly nothing wrong with doing that, or changing it multiple times.
Makyen (
talk) 00:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)Actually that's exactly the the kind of suggestion I was looking for. It's not a lot of fun when somebody does everything for you; It's so much more fun when they give you ideas that you and play around with yourself. Gonna try that "mini thread" stuff out later and see what happens. Thanks again -- Marchjuly ( talk) 02:12, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
{{
outdent|::::}}
which would have put the upper mark directly under the preceding indent. You can see
Template:Outdent/testcases for examples.
Makyen (
talk) 08:06, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
OK. Have I used "outdent" correctly this time? Also, I have changed "algo=old(30d)" and "|age=30" to "algo=old(1d)" and "|age=1" respectively so that my page is archived daily. Have I done this correctly? I also added "|minithreadsleft=3" but not sure if I put it in the right spot. Finally, I noticed that when you move the cursor over "Archive Index" it looks like "Archive Index(space)(space(space). Is there any way to fix the underlining so that it looks like Archive Index
|minthreadsleft=3
as a separate line instead of on the same line as |algo=old(1d)
. This is only to match the fact that all the other parameters are each on a separate line by themselves. This is to make it more readable. Usually, parameters will be either all on one line with the template, or all on separate lines. It is not common to mix the two styles. Mixing such is usually done only to highlight specific parameters, or when formatting an entire parameter. You will use this when you add 2014 to your list of archives (
example).{{
archives by months|2013}}
as the last line in the list. [Watch out for the closing }}
. You will need that after that line.] The line I am suggesting you move is an unnamed parameter which is used to define what you want in your archive box. When you add 2014 to your archive box it will be as part of this parameter on an additional line (see an example of what that will look like
here).title=Archive index