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On the wikipedia sister site Wikiquote I was working on an article when I was autoblocked. They said that I had been sockpuppeting. I admit that I did in the past but I was innocent this time how can I tell them this if I am blocked from editing? TheyCallMeFirstKlass 16:56, 4 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deezy.D. (talk • contribs)
I know this isn't your business but perhaps you can help. I have posted a report about Fbot mis-tagging sound files as orphaned User talk:Fbot#Incorrect tagging of used sound files as orphaned.. I hope it is only sound files. Fastily just deleted as "rude" my previous report on his talk page (I was assertive, obviously I must have been over-assertive!) so a slightly independent eye would be useful. I see you have dealings in this general area. Fbot is so overwhelmongly active that I can't start to review what it actually does. Thincat (talk) 19:12, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Anomie, I'm asking you to comment on a draft proposal in my userspace, basically the same message I left Fred Gandt. Your input is welcomed, especially since I'm not exactly a MediaWiki expert. Thanks! Franamax (talk) 22:19, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
It is being suggested that what I think are variable pages should be deleted. Input from pro needed. fredgandt 22:57, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
For the record, the problem as it existed yesterday was that SoxBot and Yobot had actually commenced a full-fledged edit war; my original workaround had always been to use {{improve categories}} instead of {{uncategorized}} on articles that had hidden maintenance categories, so that SoxBot wouldn't detag them. But Yobot was starting to convert that tag to {{uncategorized}} on articles that had no real content categories, with the result that SoxBot then came along and detagged the articles — which then pushed them right back onto the uncategorized articles list again, with the inevitable consequence that if I had used the usual workaround again, I would simply have been setting off an endless tag-revise-detag loop.
I had actually asked X! to disable or reprogram SoxBot's detagging function on more than one prior occasion without response. I see that he did finally disable the function yesterday, as I requested, so thankfully I won't need to use the {{nobots}} tag again — but the reason I couldn't just wait is that I'd already been "just waiting" for months, and the prospect of a circular bot war required an immediate solution rather than waiting for more months. Bearcat (talk) 18:14, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Since you run a bot that closes FfD/PUFs when an admin deletes the page, would you consider running a bot that performs the same function at TfD? -FASTILY (TALK) 05:17, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Hiya. An idea to develop and install a system to have some well sourced data automatically updated by script is being discussed. The perspective of a bot builder would be greatly appreciated if you can spare the time. fredgandt 00:42, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
I award you this cookie for your correction of some fairly substantial errors in the changes i submitted for the Useronline template. Thanks :) CJ Drop me a line! • Contribs 19:13, 10 January 2012 (UTC) |
hi, anomie!i need to know how to join the bot approvals group. thanks, --ethen bowen 04:58, 29 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ethen12 (talk • contribs)
Hi
Your bot added a note about notability to Marina DeBris. After that, I added a bunch more independent references, and some references to where her artwork is displayed. Could you review and let me know what else I can do? Also, please note that DeBris is a non traditional artist, and so her work is displayed in non traditional settings, so I used non traditional citations. Thanks Socialresearch (talk) 23:12, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Please unprotect that. I'm not done developing it (for one thing, it needs a ns:0 test in it, just like {{xt}}, because its uses are far, far broader than it's incidental appearance in {{collapsetop}}, and people will be tempted to use it, like the xt template family in mainspace because of it's ease-of-[inappropriate] use). Just because it's used in some cases of the deployment of a widely used protected template doesn't automatically mean it needs full protection itself. Absent any cases of vandalism, it's best to leave obscure templates like this as-is. I at least need it unprotected for a little while so I can fix it. No criticism of you personally, but I really wish that admins would check with templates' principal authors to make sure they're done with them before protecting them. I realize that's not your fault, per se, it's just the paranoid micro-culture of WP:HRT. PS: Yes, I realize I can go make a case for an {{editprotected}} and wait all week for someone to respond to it and maybe decline because they don't understand the edit or don't like my sandboxing or whatever. It's a massive waste of my time. If you're only willing to unprot it for a little while, let me know, and we can schedule a time window in which I'll do the needed work. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒〈°⌊°〉 Contribs. 21:40, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{lang|}}}|lang="{{{lang}}}" xml:lang="{{{lang}}}"}}
I can file an editprotected about that if you're busy, though no one will fix it for half a week. :-/ — SMcCandlish Talk⇒〈°⌊°〉 Contribs. 23:23, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Anomie,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
I have started a discussion about making the Multiple issues template the new cleanup template here. Since you have edited this template several times in the past I thought you might have some insight into this idea. --Kumioko (talk) 20:50, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Excuse me, I figured that you'd be the person to talk to regarding name-usurpations because your bot actually helped me out with my current request. The original person I wanted to usurp, User:Konstantino, has been inactive since 2010, but User:Konstantinos has been inactive since I believe 2008. Perhaps it might be best if I ask the latter person to take their name? Kostantino888Z (talk) 02:57, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
Thanks for creating the "my sandbox" gadget! :) ♫GoP♫TCN 13:39, 15 February 2012 (UTC) |
Anomie, I thought you might want to know about some upcoming MediaWiki & Wikimedia developers' events (such as the Berlin hackathon in June), where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, extending functionality with JavaScript, the future of ResourceLoader and Gadgets, the new Lua templating system, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing. Best wishes! Sumanah (talk) 13:28, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Izno said you might have the bot needed to fulfill the requested task -- if you would be so kind as to take a look at the request thread... :) Salvidrim! 16:32, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello Anomie, I noticed that AnomieBOT closed 15 editor reviews on February 8. Many of which were still marked with an * in the title, indicating they hadn't received a review yet. I thought the bot only archived editor reviews that had received reviews. It appears the bot started archiving any requests older than 30 days and no comments for more than 7. There is a backlog at this process, so it is possible for a request to go 30 days without getting a review. Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 22:24, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, is there any chance of you adapting your file-REVDELing .js for log redaction? Thanks very much, It Is Me Here t / c 00:31, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ARevisionDelete&type=logging&target=Special%3ALog%2Fdelete&ids[40295520]=1&ids[40295505]=1&ids[40295500]=1
, where I've grouped some RevDel log entries together to make it easier to see the sort of thing I'm talking about), the new mass-RevDeling is recorded as only being applied to "All public logs" (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ARevisionDelete&type=logging&target=Special%3ALog%2Fdelete&ids[41136380]=1
), even though in that case both RevDels were to the same log (the user rename log). It Is Me Here t / c 01:47, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
<nowiki>
them). And if you paste them into a browser where you're not logged in, ReturnTo (as in, title=Special:UserLogin&action=submitlogin&type=login&returnto=
) does not work properly (you get an error message), meaning you have to be logged in first and then paste the URL. Something for Bugzilla, perhaps? It Is Me Here t / c 02:01, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
%5B
and %5D
instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ARevisionDelete&type=logging&target=Special%3ALog%2Fdelete&ids%5B41136380%5D=1.Hello Anomie. Please would you reconsider the change requested at Template talk:Copy edit#Compatibility tweak? Since the deletion proposal for {{Cleanup}}, we have noticed the beginning of a tendency for people to change that tag to {{copy edit}} in circumstances where copy editing is not what is required; in other words, GOCE is at risk of becoming a dumping ground. Copy editing is quite intensive, and we're pretty short of active copy editors as it is, so this is a trend we need not to facilitate. Thanks for considering it. --Stfg (talk) 19:29, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
...they appear to have stopped working. It was suggested in this thread that you might be able to assist. If you have the time, your help would be welcome.
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 02:17, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
yum Ashley young 1 (talk) 17:26, 22 February 2012 (UTC) |
Your Ajax Preview script is amazing. However, there are a few things that I wanted to change in order to polish it further. They are all merely aesthetic changes, but I think they improve upon the script. My version is here. Feel free to check out the changes with this diff, although it's probably easier to notice the changes by just running my version for a moment. A few things you won't notice are access key changes; I moved the "p" access key to the one for "Instant preview". I also changed the "Loading" text, so it's best you test this on a longer article so that it appears longer so you can see it. I also removed instant refs when previewing an entire article since the refs are already there. Feel free to do whatever you want with these changes, cheers. Gary King (talk · scripts) 03:14, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I saw you reverted my change. Why are the "fullurl" versions being preferred over actual links? Also, it's a bit odd that Special:Contribs/newbies works while &contribs=newbies doesn't, don't you think? Likewise &contribs=newbie works while Special:Contribs/newbie doesn't. Killiondude (talk) 06:56, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
...appears to be broken with the latest MediaWiki update. =/ - The Bushranger One ping only 00:39, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Quoted from User talk:Philip Baird Shearer: | ||
“ | When you create a new dated maintenance template or add maintenance dating to an existing template, as you did recently to {{Rayment}} and {{Rayment-hc}}, it would be very helpful if you would also add the template to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates so AnomieBOT knows what to do with all the articles suddenly dumped into the dated maintenance category. Otherwise, AnomieBOT ends up sending me an email with thousands of lines complaining that it can't find any template to date in each one of those articles and asking me to manually fix things.
Of course, don't do this if there is need for someone to go through and do something more intelligent than "add |
” |
Personally I would not have bothered to add a date parameter to the {{Rayment}} template. It was added by Rich Farmbrough -- presumably because something somewhere complains if {{Self-published inline}} {{Better source}} do not have dates. I am happy to add them to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates now that I know that the lack of them disturbs you. -- PBS (talk) 19:49, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Category:Documentation subpages without corresponding pages, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 01:51, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Anomie, would you be interested in coming to the Berlin Wikimedia hackathon, June 1-3 2012? I can offer some travel subsidy. Please reply on my talk page on mediawiki.org if you're interested, or email me at sumanahwikimedia.org. Thanks! Best, Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 01:48, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
24 Sept 2010. Please see if you can restore that while looking at the page history. I don't see an option to there. - jc37 19:34, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
...Since apparently the delay of User:Helpful Pixie Bot has again been decreased to 18 minutes, to sneak in before AnomieBOT can do anything. The only thing left for you is apparently to clean up after Helpful Pixie Bot makes a mistake.
If you two agree on this, then fine by me, otherwise perhaps you two can have a discussion about this and decide how to handle this, as it seems rather petty now. I personally prefer AnomieBOT, since it seems to make less mistakes (notice e.g. this one from an hour ago from Helpful Pixie Bot), and doesn't make (AFAICT) unapproved and unwanted replacements like changing "references/" to "reflist"like here. Fram (talk) 10:29, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Unfortunately, you took so much time to accept adminship, that it frustrates me now to realize that you've just spent six months handling admin duties. You are what I would call an automatic bureaucrat. Will (frustratingly) await the start of October this year to force you to stand for cratship. Wifione Message 06:17, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Anomie, I've just seen that you're around and I was wondering if I could ask you for help on some template syntax (seeing as you seem to know what you're doing). I've been trying some stuff all morning and I'm hopelessly confused. If you don't mind, I'll try formulating the question either here or on the template talk page, whichever you prefer. Jared Preston (talk) 11:26, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Have you seen Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#"My sandbox" link is broken, and the help link isn't helpful.? PrimeHunter (talk) 15:19, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi
I think you fixed the extraneous coding in the Lionel post here - Template talk:Page tabs#20 tabs.
I have proposed that it be extended to 12 tabs, rather than 20, but wondered if there would be a need for any other coding rather than just deleting the lines 13-20?
If you could advise I would be more than grateful :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 20:31, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm leaving this message for known script authors, recent contributors to Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts, and those who've shown interest in user scripts.
This scripts listing page is in dire need of cleanup. To facilitate this, I've created a new draft listing at Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts cleanup. You're invited to list scripts you know to be currently working and relevant. Eventually this draft page can replace the current scripts listing.
If you'd like to comment or collaborate on this proposal, see the discussion I started here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject User scripts#Scripts listing cleanup project. Thanks! Equazcion (talk) 04:46, 25 Mar 2012 (UTC)
Care to put the protection back? Less than a day from the expiration to another deletion....Naraht (talk) 16:49, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that you were the admin who closed the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 November 22#Template:Infobox ukcave. I finished rewriting {{Infobox cave}} with the needed parameters and migrated all the articles that transcluded {{Infobox ukcave}}. I don't think another discussion is needed to delete {{Infobox cave}}, but I'm not sure what to do. Could you take care of it? –droll [chat] 22:11, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Aha, gotcha. - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 18:52, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello Anomie/Archives. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click HERE to participate. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 02:00, 6 April 2012 (UTC) |
. Monocletophat123 (talk) 17:12, 7 April 2012 (UTC) |
When I origionaly wrote this artical it was complete and acurate. Unfortunatly many people editid it down and down and because of lack of citations. If you would alow our web site to be used for citations see www.u-boat.co.uk it would be easy to change the artical back to it's former glory. Sory if speling bad, I have learning dificultyUboater (talk) 08:50, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Golden Wiki Award | ||
For implementing great ideas. Bgwhite (talk) 05:13, 14 April 2012 (UTC) |
Hey there :). You're being contacted because you're an edit filter manager, At the moment, we're developing Version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool, which you may or may not have heard about. If you haven't; for the first time, this will involve a free-text box where readers can submit comments :). Obviously, there's going to be junk, and we want to minimise that junk. To do so, we're working the Abuse Filter into the tool.
For this to work, we need people to write and maintain filters. I'd be very grateful if you could take a look at the discussion here and the attached docs, and comment and contribute! Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 18:08, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Anomie. User:It Is Me Here recommended you to me, though I fear you may be overqualified. Because of this discussion I've begun thinking about how verse scansion on Wikipedia might be improved. One possibility is implementing the scansion within a template or markup. (This has to do with requiring monospace, but <tt></tt> seemingly not working properly with line-initial spaces, plus an aesthetic dislike by some for the gray-box formatting.) My sense is that the line-initial-space style (as I used in the discussion) may well be the easiest and best method, but I don't want to ignore other possibilities (and maybe there are others existing that I'm not aware of). If you care to, you can see a few formatting failures at User:Phil wink/sandbox3#Scansion line tests. Might you (or someone you know) be willing to discuss pros, cons, abilities, limitations of templates/markup with me in the future? This is certainly not in a "work order" phase yet... just spitballing. Thanks much. Phil wink (talk) 01:42, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
<pre>
with appropriate styles to override the normal grey box: <pre style="border:none;background-color:transparent">
× / × / × / × / × / When I | consid | er how | my light | is spent
<pre class="plain">
could be used. Anomie⚔ 02:16, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
× / × / × / × / × / When I | consid | er how | my light | is spent <ref> Milton: ''On His Blindness'' 1</ref>
× / × / × / × / × / When I | consid | er how | my light | is spent <ref> Milton: ''On His Blindness'' 1</ref>
× / × / × / × / × /
When I | consid | er how | my light | is spent [1]
white-space:pre
would be the style element needed to make multiple spaces show up, if they were output in the first place. The problem with <poem>
and most other tags is that HTML Tidy that is used to clean up the page output will collapse all whitespace to a single space (except in <pre>
tags), so the browser never sees it. Anomie⚔ 16:02, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm sorry to keep bugging you, but I seem to be at a dead end. I've posted notes on my proposed new markup at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Scansion markup, to no avail. I take it this is the wrong venue. Do you know where I should present this proposal? Thanks. Phil wink (talk) 02:44, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, please don't reinsert this link to Goa Inquisition. It belongs to a Hindu fundamentalist website. The article is purported to have been authored by historian Teotonio de Souza. However, the fellow has clarified on his blog that it's a hoax and he is not its author. Refer . Thanks. Joyson Prabhu Holla at me! 17:57, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for applying the change. Can you do me a favor at the template though? The intent was for the restrictions to appear after tourist routes, and I goofed on what number the label and data should be. Can you condense the numbering in there a little? Here's the code:
|label9= Existed: |data9= {{#if:{{{established|}}}{{{formed|}}}|{{{established|}}}{{{formed|}}} – {{#if:{{{decommissioned|}}}{{{deleted|}}}|{{{decommissioned|}}}{{{deleted|}}}|present}}|}} |label10= History: |data10= {{{history|}}} |label12 = Time period: |data12 = {{{time_period|}}} |label13= Cultural<br>significance: |data13= {{#if:{{{time_period|}}}|{{{significance|}}}|}} |label14= Related<br>routes: |data14 = {{#if:{{{time_period|}}}|{{{related|}}}|}} |label16= Tourist<br>routes: |data16= {{#if:{{{tourist|}}}|{{#ifeq:{{Infobox road/hide/tourist|{{{state|}}}{{{province|}}}|{{{country|}}}}}|no|{{{tourist|}}}|}}|}} |label17 = Restrictions: |data17 = {{{restrictions|}}} |label19 = Allocation: |data19 = {{#ifeq:{{{country|}}}|AUS|{{{allocation|}}}}}
And then drop out
|label8 = Restrictions: |data8 = {{{restrictions|}}}
Thanks! Imzadi 1979 → 05:25, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
I copied your code for these to give that pale blue shading. Great - much better than bold, green stars etc. Thanks. NtheP (talk) 13:23, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
span.updatedmarker {
display: none;
}
.mw-special-Watchlist #mw-watchlist-resetbutton {
display: inline;
}
.mw-special-Watchlist .mw-changeslist-line-watched .mw-title {
font-weight:normal;
}
.mw-special-Watchlist li.mw-changeslist-line-watched {
background-color: #eef;
}
.action-history #pagehistory li.selected {
/* Confusing otherwise */
background-color: transparent;
}
.action-history li.mw-history-line-updated,
.action-history #pagehistory li.selected.mw-history-line-updated {
background-color: #eef;
}
hello my friend. the code python of changing user is very cool. Can I request give me this python code? if you want plz email(assianss@gmail.com) me. i want translate this code and use in fawiki/Mahdi.hajiha (talk) 16:35, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
./bot.pl tasks
from the top source directory to start the bot. But running code you don't understand is often not a good idea. Anomie⚔ 20:07, 14 May 2012 (UTC)Hi Anomie, I'd appreciate you taking another look at Talk:Zeitgeist: The Movie#Zeitgeist: Final Edition if you have the time. Arthur seems to have completely misunderstood the guidelines, or is willfully misinterpreting them. To be perfectly honest I'm beginning to get annoyed with him and I'm on the verge of loosing my objectivity (behaviour not becoming of a good Wikipedian, I know *blushes*). And, of course, I may be wrong. Perish the thought! ;-) Kind regards, nagualdesign (talk) 07:55, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, it looks like (some of) your user script will become part of the MW software with version 1.20 wmf3, to be implemented in a week or so I think, so you may wish to take a look in case you need/want to do anything. It Is Me Here t / c 23:22, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Anomie! Could I have your opinion of the following ideas?
Best — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:46, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
{{cn}}
changes to {{cn|date=May 2012}}
, more will get confused when it changes to {{citation needed|date=May 2012}}
. And really, I just don't see the point of it. Also, I personally find WP:AWB/TR is often abused (templates are only supposed to be added after consensus, not on the whim of an editor) and I'd rather have no part of it, much less a part of bypassing all maintenance template redirects.I'm not sure if you read through them in their entirety, but the point of my comments at VPT were that there appears to be a problem, and the problem I sought to address was not the same one I've brought up before regarding developer behavior. The problem is evidenced in people's reactions and the reverts that must ensue afterwards. We won't change that by poking fun at their reactions nor by telling them they should be reacting differently (that hasn't worked yet, anyway), so it would make sense to say that something else needs to be done instead. I don't know if you program as a hobby or by profession, but if it's the latter, you could be used to the benefit of management telling people that software changes are beneficial and they're going to need to get used to them one way or the other. There is no such structure here. You're frustrated at a problem that will continue as long as our only solution is to lash out. Equazcion (talk) 18:04, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering if it would be a good idea to include past Prods and CSD along with past AfDs? Articles get Proded, deleted and return without any improvement being made. A few days ago, I speedied an article for copyright violations and it had been speedied twice before for copyright. There are the Template:Old prod and Template:Oldcsd templates. Bgwhite (talk) 07:47, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Question of an article being created that was previously deleted via a Prod surfaced on my talk page. I was just wonder what the status was and if thought of a way to make it doable? Bgwhite (talk) 23:38, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey Anomie. You mentioned at WT:RfA that it was possible to show a message on page creation. I'd be quite happy to rephrase the warning so that it was relevant to anyone starting an RfA, but I couldn't see a way to make the message relevant to editors who are just voting on the RfA. So... how on earth do you put up a notice on page creation? WormTT · (talk) 13:33, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I'm not sure this was what I wanted. For example, if you look at the infobox in the NHL 13 article (to the right), it says "The template (Video game ratings) is being considered for deletion." above the ratings. That's why <noinclude> should be wrapped around the TFD template. Thanks, HeyMid (contribs) 21:14, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the link to that. The search is pretty straightforward to use, but I could not see a parameter that would restrict the results to a WikiProject. I guess it just does content search. Or is there a way to say "wproj=physics" within a get command one sends to it? The selection of "importance=high" would have also been useful. Thanks. History2007 (talk) 06:54, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
I've replied at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#replacing references temporarily. The Transhumanist 11:48, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey. Anomiebot replaced my template with text when I did not want him/her (What gender is Anomiebot?) to edit my page. I have put up a notice asking that people don't edit my page. But I put it in english. Is there a template that I can put up on my page to ask robots as well to stay away? BTW thanks for being an admin.
Oh! I almost forgot to sign my post. Legolover26 (talk) 15:23, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Just in case it wasn't clear in the discussion, I just wanted to thank you for your patience and help explaining/clarifying things : ) - jc37 08:59, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Anomie. You've been kind enough to help another editor in my position, so I hope you won't mind my coming to you with a request. Over a week ago I posted at Template talk:NRISref about a grammatical error in the template's published text. Since I cannot edit the template, I was wondering if you might take a look at my note there when you have a moment. Thanks very much for any help. With regards, Tenebrae (talk) 00:06, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
All of a sudden the link-colors script seems not to be working. Did something change somewhere? - The Bushranger One ping only 02:59, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, FYI, your API:Search suggestion was very helpful and resulted in this report. I still can not get it to do exact searches, but that seems to be a feature of the engine. So I will have to figure something else out, but the API route made things much easier. Thanks. History2007 (talk) 08:11, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Still a problem, I've replied to your post in this section at WP:VPT#MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-anon. Dougweller (talk) 09:14, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
(Continuing the discussion from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Categories#Alternative proposal(s)) The first image I see at Category:Featured pictures is File:An F-A-18C Hornet launches from the flight deck of the conventionally powered aircraft carrier.jpg, an image which does not show that category. However, the image's filename is shown in that category as File:050817-N-3488C-028.jpg, which has plenty of incoming links. That REDIRECT doesn't show any categories, either. When I look at the code of that page, it shows a few bits and pieces, but no REDIRECT. What's also odd is the lack a message at the top of the page "Redirected from ...". Can you explain that and where the category comes from? (If it's too convoluted to explain in 2 sentences, just say so – I won't lose any sleep over this.) -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:53, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Anomie, your bot is asleep? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:27, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Anomie, would you mind terribly if I copied your link classifier script to my userspace and fiddled with it? I think it's adding things on the end of the title attributes of reflinks, which is messing up a script I just wrote a little bit. Thanks! Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 19:12, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
var m=a.href.match(/#.*/); if(m){ a.title=a.title.replace(/#.*/,'')+m[0].replace(/_/g,' ').replace(/\.([0-9A-F][0-9A-F])/gi, function(x,n){ return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(n,16)); }); }
if(m)
to if(m && !a.href.match("#cite_note"))
. If it was, well, I guess I'm SOL, but thanks anyway! Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 20:03, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I just updated {{summarize}} to support "|date=", I was wondering if your bot should add dates for it? 70.49.127.65 (talk) 21:58, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
I asked for some similar clarifications as well. - jc37 20:28, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Anomie. You helped me with directions on resolving a COI dispute for FindTheBest on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#FindTheBest.com
I wrote an article on FindTheBest following all of the NPOV and COI guidelines. You can find it on my user sandbox. I posted the article in the COI Notice Board but I'm not sure if I did it correctly. Could you please help me out? I would greatly appreciate any and all help. Cheers, Evan (talk) 23:03, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, can you direct AnomieBOT to KFC please? Thanks. Farrtj (talk) 09:20, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
The da Vinci Barnstar | ||
I'm awarding you this barnstar as a token of my appreciation for writing the complicated CSS code we needed to get the new {{article issues}} template launched, and for sticking around until it was finally deployed. The end result is fantastic! Thanks a million. :) -- WikHead (talk) 10:18, 2 July 2012 (UTC) |
Looks like AnomieBOT went thru tagging Thai people with the WikiProject Biography banner. Only problem is that they already had the banner. See Talk:Aditya Assarat, Talk:Christina Aguilar, Talk:Samuel Ajayi, Talk:Jean-Baptiste Akassou, .... I'm going thru and removing the second banner. Bgwhite (talk) 23:16, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Please can you add your self-subst magic to Template:Template for discussion. We have recently changed it so that it needs to be substituted, but twinkle is still transcluding it. This would be a temporary fix until twinkle is updated. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:02, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, i just saw this and you've made a really fine job.
A while ago i created {{wiki diff}}
in an attempt to have a template for mock diffs… but could only simulate very basic diffs… So i was wondering could you take a look? In case have any sudden brainwaves as to how it could be made usable.
And about the CSS classes you mention… would it be easy to create a mock diff template using them, and having an available CSS that users can import into their own .css page?… benzband (talk) 19:02, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I've made all the changes that I can to the unsigned templates: only the protected {{Undated}} could be slightly fixed before adding them all to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force (note that {{Unsigned-unk}} should probably be left transcluded until someone adds a full {{Unsigned}}). Thanks for following up on this. --xensyriaT 22:43, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
I've left a message on Template talk:Useronline, could you please help? Callanecc (talk • contribs) talkback (etc) template appreciated. 14:04, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
I give you this cookie for helping User:Callanecc and fixing my incorrect JavaScript. I copied it in from another location and after I had finished testing it I forgot to change it to work for all users. Thanks again! CJ Drop me a line! • Contribs 10:27, 8 July 2012 (UTC) |
The reason it's both is because of coord's in infoboxes where it can't be inlined. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 17:24, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
{{Derived geodata}} - I'm using this on article that appear to have a number of coordinates derived from WikiMapia/Google etc. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 10:23, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
|issue=
is a bit long: it should be the short bit of text you would include in {{multiple issues}}. Anomie⚔ 16:02, 12 July 2012 (UTC)template is too 'noisy'. Suggestions. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:12, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
{{coord review}}
as blank template for tracking stuff, it should probably follow {{coord missing}}
interms of categorisation Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:12, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Anomie, can you take a look at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 48#DRV bot? It should be a pretty simple task. T. Canens (talk) 06:28, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Not sure if this has anything to do with anything, but after the recent edits on MediaWiki:Common.css the nice functionality of bolding pages on my watch-list has disappeared. (I don't claim to have looked at all the recent changes, or to try and understand what is what there.) The button to clear the page is also not there anymore. This is only on the English Wikipedia, so I'm guessing someone (admin level) changed something somewhere! Thanks--Education does not equal common sense. 我不在乎 22:55, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
<strong>
on the page title (ironically, this was in part due to complaints by Equazcion, who is now complaining that things were changed to fix his original complaint). But this change meant all the style rules, both the ones they shoved into MediaWiki:Common.css and the ones people use in their user CSS, needed to be updated. Anomie⚔ 00:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)Dear Anomie,
Thank you for contributing a clean and easy-to-read ASCII chart Commons:File:ASCII Code Chart.svg currently used in the ASCII article.
I see that someone else made some small tweaks to that chart. I've already written on page User talk:AzaToth about one change I think should be reverted back to your version.
Hi Anomie, if you might be agreeable to stand for an RfB, it will be privilege to nominate you. Kind regards. Wifione Message 04:06, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, do you think you could repurpose MedCabBot to work with DRN? There are different parameters it'd need to function, but I can provide these if it's possible. Regards, Steven Zhang Get involved in DR! 02:36, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
I'm working on improving templates for the {{request edit}} queue to bring it up to the same level of quality and process as AfCs and request edits for edit-protected pages and found myself at your doorstep. I'm looking for a table like this or this, but for this category. User:The Earwig sent me your way. How hard is it to create a similar table for requested edits? We're still hammering out some other major template changes along these lines as well. User:King4057 (EthicalWiki) 05:12, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
AnomieBOT placed a buzzword box into a section of the article Streamworks International. I have since modified the section based on more sources found about the subject. Would you be so kind as to look at the section and give me feedback on whether the section has been improved? Thanks! Ryoga3099 (talk) 11:41, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Please see Commons:Village pump/Copyright#Can a faithful copy of a PD image be copyrighted?.
The SVG file might be copyrightable as computer software (so it shouldn't be retagged), but it isn't used in the rendered template. MediaWiki's PNG conversion is PD; it contains only a visual design that I created and released into the public domain, not the potentially copyrighted SVG code. Therefore, no attribution is required. —David Levy 02:33, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Especially when the solution is so somple: just go back to your original gif and make a new SVG that doesn't have licensing issues.
I might do it myself if no one beats me to it.
Would it be possible to add the following features to MediationBot?
{{Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Tasks/None}}
under the "Unassigned" header that is not commented-out.|status=mediator
.If you would prefer I move this request to the bot issues page, I would be happy to do so; I'm not sure where you prefer to receive queries about already-running bots. If these changes are possible, please add them to the bot's functionality. Thank you, AGK [•] 22:13, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, after holiday I am just catching up and spotted this edit by Yobot. You unblocked for a specific task that this edit is not in line with. It is also cosmetic in nature. Has there been any change to the status of Yobot or is this grounds for a re-block? Keith D (talk) 22:17, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, how can I solve the request of Refimprove for this voice?. The article has got already its own references and I need your help in order to undesrtand better what am I asked to do. Thanks in advance. Moustaky (talk) 19:30, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
The template {{failed verification}}
, which does produce the tag [not in citation given], is certainly easier to use than {{fix}}
, but "citation", in the singular, is inappropriate when there are more than one. Why do you object to my putting forth a little extra effort to produce an accurate message? Peter M. Brown (talk) 19:22, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
It should not be used directly on articles by itself. Anomie⚔ 23:19, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
{{failed verification}}
on one reference. I have now put it on the other. It looks pretty silly with both of them there. Of course, I won't leave things that way; in a month or less, I will either delete the badly sourced claim and its references or else alter the claim to agree with the sources. In the meantime, though, why can't I use {{fix}}
to flag the references as [not in citations given]? Why can't I, as a responsible editor, be the one to choose both the text and the category? Peter M. Brown (talk) 00:10, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
|cat=
where you should have used |cat-date=
, although you also created a tag with a rather unhelpful link and no useful tooltip, and you missed categorizing into Category:All articles with unsourced statements. To really do it right, you should have used something along the lines of {{fix|link=Wikipedia:Verifiability|text=not in citations given|title=The material in the vicinity of this tag failed verification of its source citations|date=August 2012|cat=[[Category:All articles with unsourced statements]]|cat-date=Category:Articles with unsourced statements}}
. All to change one word from singular to plural. And the consider what happens if you copy this into many articles, and then the community wants to change the link from Wikipedia:Verifiability to a page more specifically addressing the issues in the tag: for {{failed verification}}, just the one template needs editing, while for your custom tag someone has to go through and edit all those articles.{{failed verification plural}}
or make {{failed verification}}
recognize a "plural" parameter to change the one word? Anomie⚔ 01:03, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
|
, you'd need to use {{edit protected}} anyway since the template is fully-protected but the change would be to replace "citation
" with something like "{{#ifeq:{{yesno|{{{plural|no}}}}}|yes|citations|citation}}
". In this case, I'd suggest the latter route to avoid increasing the maintenance burden. Anomie⚔ 12:51, 20 August 2012 (UTC)re User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/DatedCategoryCreator.pm
The bot creates the monthly category, and adds the template {{Monthly clean up category}}
(e.g. ). As appeared from a VPT:#Templates_and_expansion_depth thread (you contributed to), this template can cause newPP to reach Highest expansion depth: 41/40, adding the page to Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded. This is an old template, but the newPP categorisation is recent (May 2012?), showing a backlog.
Nicely this specific template already has a shortcut to skip the depth (string manipulation of the earlier composed name: "1911 Britannica articles needing updates from August 2012"). From the documentation: #Limitations: add year, monthnr and month name as parameter. I did in the Category mentioned earlier , and the issue is solved. My request: can the bot in the future pages add these three parameters standard? (changing existing pages to be asked elsewhere - any suggestion?). -DePiep (talk) 06:53, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
The sarcastic tone of this was not necessary. Disgustingly dismissive edits such as that are why admins are held with such contempt. I don't care which "side" gets its "way" in this dispute, I was simply pointing out the issues with reverting to a year-old version. You clearly did not even have the courtesy to even read the request in its entirety. If you had, you would have restored the interwikis, which was entirely uncontroversial. —WFC— 17:02, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, re your protection of Template:Taxobox in October 2011 - the presence of an unbalanced <includeonly>
in the prot reason is causing non-display of the text "and cascading prevents editing the doc subpage. See talk." on User:AnomieBOT/PERTable; worse, it hides the whole of this row, although both of these do display when transcluded. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:55, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Yep. See here. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:42, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
. T. Canens (talk) 03:03, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, this is to let you know that your request at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist has now been processed and will soon be closed and archived. To find the request, search for your username at that page. Stifle (talk) 17:32, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
As the user who closed this BRFA, you may be interested in this thread. →Σσς. 22:53, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm just curious — since AnomieBot isn't an admin, how is it able to detect deleted edits for WP:USURP purposes? Nyttend (talk) 23:18, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your prototype at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#KISS_image_filter - much appreciated. However the risk is high that if you don't follow this up to develop it a little more and make it at least an optional gadget that the idea will run out of steam and get forgotten. If you can find the time for it, I'd be grateful. Thanks, Rd232 talk 12:18, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, noticed your Penguin Cabal page, nice work! Wondering if I could link some more images (Youngstown State and Pittsburgh Pens) to the article. Thanks for the consideration! Marketdiamond (talk) 22:04, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Talk:Elliott_Miles_McKinley regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Please review. Your bot says delete - which is correct - then someone put keep. See comments on article talk page. Thank you. Jrcrin001 (talk) 19:25, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your interest in the discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Proposal:_enable_HotCat_for_all_editors_by_default. Please note that I have now proposed 5 different, more nuanced versions of the original suggestion, to better gauge to what level (if any) we are willing to make Hot Cat more accessible. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 16:37, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, what you guys are doing here MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition breaks the Teahouse gadget. Is it possible to put it back? heather walls (talk) 02:25, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
I noticed where you tested an edit at the Teahouse. Recently I also performed a test. I don't know how involved you are with this initiative but I did want to ask someone why the question link does not allow for a preview. Would you know anything about this, by chance. Thank you for considering this and for your contributions to Wikipedia. 76Strat String da Broke da (talk) 02:34, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Considering there currently is no consensus as to where the thing should go, I really probably shouldn't have moved it just yet. But do you think it would be worth moving back below the buttons, at least for now (or more accurately, removing the stuff repositioning it)? Would need to make sure your fixes aren't lost, though, if folks decide they do want it directly under the editbox later. Although it probably should have been prepended to the editoptions instead of stuck before it, too, if Oliver's changes involve what I think they do... whoops again.
Also, would you know of any good ways to try to get more people involved in the disccusion in general? -— Isarra ༆ 18:10, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
$( '.editOptions' ).before( placeholder );
I did a deep revert and it hadn't occured to me that the technical features had changed in the meantime (which was dumb of me really) --BozMo talk 13:08, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for you advice about this, i see it only now. :) Bye, AndreaFox Knock here... 14:30, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Anomie I have closed the CfD 2012 September 25 discussion on monthly cleanup categories as "delete".
You mentioned that some related templates may now be un-needed, so I just thought I's suggest that you may want to nominate them at WP:TFD. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:34, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
When you unblocked Yobot in July, was it your intention to allow it solely to handle one task, or was it a general unblock? At the time, I thought you had worked out an agreement that it would just do that one task. In any case, it is running another "checkwiki" task, and making lots of cosmetic edits again. The edit summary for all of those refers to checkwiki error 38, which is about replacing the "i" html tag with apostrophes. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:06, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Apparently something is interfering with anomiebot's updating of the tables that go at the top of the editprotected and editsemiprotected categories since 10/2. Discussion from WP:VPT reproduced below. Any idea what the problem is?Sailsbystars (talk) 16:23, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Anyone know what's up at semi-protected edit requests or the edit requests categories? The template usages at the bottom of the page seem to be added correctly, but the boxes at the top that list the request along with reason for protection seem to have stopped updating around 2 October. This disconnect may be part of the reason why edit requests are taking longer than usual to process, which was the subject of an ANI. Sailsbystars (talk) 15:52, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
The rescue refs feature is nice. Can it be invoked at will on a page? Thanks. History2007 (talk) 12:40, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Yes, but as you are editing, it will help not to have to wait 2 hours for the fix. If the utility does not do it, then can do manually. Anyway, I will stop now, but you can suggest to WMF if you like. Thanks. History2007 (talk) 13:23, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Oh OK. I had a feeling there was another way to do those, but I forgot about those parameters. Thanks! --Jtalledo (talk) 19:21, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
I have restored image in article Operation Storm per your conclusion. All best. --WhiteWriterspeaks 11:08, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm afraid your closure of this FFD is mistaken, as it is based on a rather blatant misreading of the policy. You claim that "The reference to WP:NFC#UUI5 seems invalid: that seems to be talking about using an image from one war to illustrate the general concept of "war" on an article about another war." This is very definitely not what WP:NFC says. It says: "An image whose subject happens to be a war, to illustrate an article on the war"; obviously that means the article on the specific war in question. As such, the present case incontrovertibly does fall under UUI#5. What UUI#5 means, and has always meant, is that historic photographs can not freely be used to illustrate historic events merely because the event is interesting and important. As the corresponding entry in the positive list WP:NFCI#8 makes clear, there are essentially two types of cases where historic photographs of historic events can be used: either the image is "iconic", in which case it must be the object of reliably sourced commentary (which is not the case here), or it must fulfill NFCC#8 and NFCC#1 in some other way, in which case it must convey some identifiable piece of concrete, factual information that could not appropriately be covered in other ways. While NFCC#8 may be, as you say, "often subjective", it nevertheless is based on some rational criteria, and subjectiveness is not a matter of random "I like it" arbitrariness. In particular, NFCC demands that "replaceability with text" must be seriously considered, and that was the point at issue here. The challenge to the file, as made in the nomination, was that the content of the image could easily be covered by a textual description, and none of the keep !votes addressed this argument. Closing of NFCC-related FFDs is not a vote count, and administrators are not only entitled but obliged to uphold overriding project-wide Foundation policy in this matter, even against a local consensus. In these circumstances, keep votes that did not address the crucial policy issue had to be discarded. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:15, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
I guess it's not recognizing the September 28 one as closed? T. Canens (talk) 05:08, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Your bot added a "who says"-tag to the Allison R. Palmer article I created recently. The qualification "leading expert on the Cambrian period", that the tag applies to is actually verbatum from the German wiki article of which the English page is basically a translation. Although it is not a such in the cited websites, a would uphold the qualification is covered bij the assessment of Palmers achievements described on those websites. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Dwergenpaartje (talk) 11:12, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
|date=October 2012
to the tag that was already there. Anomie⚔ 15:18, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
hello. can bot(MahdiBot) run same code like unusedfile.py, checkimages.py, etc.? if can in BRFA rigor for Requests for approval? regards--:)
Mahdi talk 13:11, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
First I want to thank you for all of the wonderful things you do here. You are one of my wiki-role-models! I am having trouble setting up my committed identity. I have my hash created, (xAv8vARdtNwj4IKg2p4pBbcqyzxuAhsJxpek1OpDj6BCjieVwLFoJn3Y+QDgcM+He05rkHNC2dInnI7ClD5vkA==) and I think all I need to do is create the userbox like you have on your user page. The template instructions were confusing for me, and I am a little wary of simply cutting and pasting your userboxen, and replacing my hash with yours. Is it that simple? --Sue Rangell[citation needed] 20:37, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Here's a little tip Anomie:
You created your Wikipedia account on 18 June 2005. On your userpage, anywhere on your userbox, you might like to write the following source:
{{User Wikipedian For|year=2005|month=6|day=18}}
If you do that, this will appear on your userbox:
Cheers! :) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 05:22, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Dunno if you were notified (asked) about this. - jc37 06:15, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Anomie! I saw your comment on the talk page for RfA asking if anyone has conducted a study of the reasons for RfA opposes. The discussion seems to have moved on, but I thought I'd let you know that I'm conducting one - I'm working through all of the RfA discussions using a discourse analysis model to look at whether or not the expectations of candidates have changed, and to what extent they have varied over the years. I was a fair way along at one stage, but had to move my attention to another topic, so I'll get back to it over the semester break. Unfortunately, though, I don't have any useful data for you now, as I'm working through it chronologically, so I I'm still in 2009. - Bilby (talk) 15:01, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Your bot marked David Anthony as an article previously marked for deletion. It seems like the redirect that I created is totally unrelated to redirect I created. If there is more than one notable David Anthony then it should be turned into a disambig page? Reub2000 (talk) 04:58, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello, there is an IP who damages this article and adds wrong information into the article while there is an English valid source in technology subjects (Engadget) but the IP insistence on a foreign language source while we all know English Wikipedia prefers English and of course valid sources (like Engadget). Please make the article to a semi-protected page. sincerely --Faramarz♚♔♚ 10:27, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
First, it seems be only interact when a malformatted case request breaks MediationBot, so thank you for running the invaluable bot. You will have been operating MediationBot for two years this February, and we mediators are grateful for what you do. Second, I read about this in the Signpost. Congratulations! May you do much good in your new position! AGK [•] 20:08, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Anomie, any chance you could add icons for filemover and autopatrolled to your script? Also thanks for {{tps}}'ing on my talk page :) Legoktm (talk) 16:50, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your quick attention to my message at Template talk:Cite jstor. Apologies, I made a mistake and there was in fact no problem. Gareth Jones (talk) 20:43, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
The Admin's Barnstar | ||
For all your hard work and administration in the MediaWiki namespace. Cheers. --Hu12 (talk) 21:16, 18 November 2012 (UTC) |
Sorry if I broke something, though I can't find out what exactly I broke. — Edokter (talk) — 21:18, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
#pagehistory li.selected
in skins/common/shared.css is higher than on .action-history.histswitch-highlight li.selected.mw-history-line-updated
that you changed things to, so the color specified there overrode the intended highlight color from my script (although since you missed making the same change in the .action-history.histswitch-highlight #pagehistory li.selected
in the previous rule, it was actually that rule's color being used). Anomie⚔ 21:28, 26 November 2012 (UTC)Please kindly revisit your recent closure at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 November 14#Baseball team infoboxes You made a single closure, but there are several nominations, grouped under a subheading for convenience, but with individual debates. At least some of them seem to result in "merge". Individual consideration, and a separate closure, is needed, for each. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:04, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Anomie; thank you for mentioning T13700 during the Editrequest I put in for the Cn REDIRECT and the CN REDIRECT on this talk page. When admin Mr. Stradivarius made the edits, I noted that the Cn REDIRECT had been placed into the "Protected redirects" category, but the CN REDIRECT had been placed instead into the "Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates" category. Since I had not read where this undesirable result had been mentioned during the previous session with that bug, I went ahead and reopened it. This is just an FYI, and thank you again for letting me know about that bug! – Paine (Climax!) 02:23, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi!
We at India Noticeboard are discussing some sort of flagging arrangement for reviewed articles and some help from editors who have knowledge of bots would be useful. Please take a look at the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics#Large_amount_of_un-patrolled_bad_edits and guide us. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 19:19, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
I spent a bit of time attempting to keep the "secret motto" on Alpha Phi and talk:Alpha Phi. I was about to reply to [this edit] when it struck me that I was, essentially, alienating a group to keep a piece of information which seems only useful for antagonizing them (Neener-neener, I know your secret motto!) While I despise censorship, it seems that maintaining their "secret" motto is not really beneficial to Wikipedia. Any opinions? Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 07:27, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello! | |
Hello, Anomie
I do have to admit,you corrected one of my mistakes.Thanks:) NMoran0449 (talk) 02:09, 12 December 2012 (UTC) |
Have you thought about making that a web based on-demand tool similar to REFLINKS? Werieth (talk) 16:59, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi!
Do you deal with blacklisted and spam sites as well? I had one problem. If you remember, we met while i did some errors in removing references to a blacklisted site India-forum.com. The main reason for getting it blacklisted was that it was basically a chat forum of fans and hence far away from being reliable. Another problem was that it was a huge source of copy-paste artistry. Now, when i find some obvious copyvios, i can remove them from articles, but can not report it anywhere on talk pages or other forums. I am not even able to insert that link in edit summary. Do you know a way out of this? Is there some general norm or something of adding dot or dash or something to change the link but still communicate it? §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 11:23, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
<nowiki></nowiki>
tags. Anomie⚔ 19:49, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Regarding this, could you perhaps also comment on that topic at Template talk:Infobox settlement/Other templates up for TfD and/or at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 December 18#Template:Infobox County? Thanks. 05:30, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Anomie! Wishing you a very happy New Year :) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 09:41, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
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