WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request editThis is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 22:40, 9 October 2006 (UTC) Enforce inclusion of categories editHi, I just read these comments. Since you started this request I was hoping you have some info on the status. Cheers, Garion96 (talk) 13:57, 18 October 2006 (UTC) Champagne wines edit Salutations BD2412!
{{deletedpage}} editDon't worry about it, you are allowed to forget things. ;-) (I just came back from a pretty long wikibreak, and forgot things myself). Good to see you, and since you are one of the useful editors (i.e. actually writes things, unlike myself), I was wondering if you could take a look at the pages Cryogenic processor and CryoTech. They currently (to me at least) read like advertisements for 300 Below, but appear to be salvageable. Everything in Cryogenic processor needs to be verified, and it is generally a mess, while CryoTech needs a NPOV check. These pages (and Cryocooler, which could use an expansion) could probably be cleaned up to respectable articles, but I am not very experienced in this, being more of an administrative person. I am sure that you could do a much better job then me alone, and if you have the time could you help me out with these? If you are busy however, just let me know, I can do it myself. Happy editing! Prodego talk 21:12, 10 December 2006 (UTC) Supreme Court of Georgia editAfter looking at the titles of the Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. State) and the Supreme Court of Georgia (Country) I think "Supreme Court of Georgia" should link to a disambiguation page. The Georgia Supreme Court is not the common name for the Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. State). The U.S. State of Georgia has double the population of the country of Georgia, and this is the English Wikipedia, making the Supreme Court of Georgia more commonly known for the court in the U.S. state of Georgia. I propose moving Supreme Court of Georgia to a disambiguation page with links directing people to either the Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. State) or the Supreme Court of Georgia (Country). Please let me kow what you think. KnightLago 14:12, 19 December 2006 (UTC) German (disambiguation) edit No use for this page - nothings links here, and no one would type this into the search box. Work on disambigs have removed need for this page. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting German (disambiguation), please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Please note, this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion, it did not nominate German (disambiguation) itself. Feel free to leave a message on the bot operator's talk page if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot. --Android Mouse Bot 2 20:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC) Hittite (disambiguation) editThe only purpose for this page is to avoid dabs in internal links. Since Wikiproject Disambiguation deals with this, this page no longer serves a purpose To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Hittite (disambiguation), please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Please note, this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion, it did not nominate Hittite (disambiguation) itself. Feel free to leave a message on the bot operator's talk page if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot. --Android Mouse Bot 2 06:15, 5 June 2007 (UTC) Veneziano editI think, if you read WP:D#Lists, that you will see that there is no need for such a disambig page. None of these (film, orchestra, plaster) is referred to as simply "Veneziano". "Veneziano" is not the natural article title for any of these, so there is no conflict over the article titles, so no need for a disambiguation page. It shoud be a redirect to Veneziano (surname). Happy editing! Chris the speller 02:29, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
Re:Wikipedia:Templates with redlinks editYes, I would like to reboot the above Project but I don't know how to because I am a Novice Editor. I am also a user at WikiChristian Wikia:Christianity and Greenlivingpedia an Australian enviromental wiki that only went public in October this year. I am from Adelaide, South Australia. Kathleen.wright5 08:09, 16 November 2007 (UTC) Re: Red links dump of 2006 jan 25-0 editI have finished sorting out the 2006 jan 25-0 red links dump including moving some to the 1-2 links section. Kathleen.wright5 04:40, 17 November 2007 (UTC) I have also finished sorting out the September 2005 dump as above. Kathleen.wright5 13:13, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
I hate to ask this editI would appreciate your input at WP:AN#Choosing to vanish, if you feel you have anything of worth to add. Thanks for your time, Hiding T 23:25, 10 December 2007 (UTC) DEFAULTSORT editHi, I see you have been doing good work adding the defaultsort magic word to lots of articles. However, please may I draw your attention to some issues regarding the indexing of peers? The peerage categories should be indexed by the title:
It's also important to note that different categories need to be indexed differently. e.g. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax had a notable career in the House of Commons before his ennoblement, and the categories relating to that period of his life should be indexed as Wood, E. F. L. (see this edit for an example) Hope this helps. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:20, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
New templates with redlinks dump editUser:RussBot/Templates with red links and its subpages have been updated from the 2008-01-03 database dump. --Russ (talk) 15:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Airline code templates editActually another user came up with the idea to use templates. The data is transcluded into two articles. One for the codes by first letter of the airline name and the other for a list of all codes. This was split up to reduce the load time for editing. Having the data in one article, as it was to start was very slow to edit and load. This was a solution to allow quicker editing and loading for most user who only want to look at the list by letter. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:17, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Templates with red links editThose pages are ready for your review. --Russ (talk) 18:50, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Category:Wikipedians who support Hezbollah editHi. I don't know if you're going to be interested in this but you voice an interest in the First Amendment on your user page so I thought maybe. I've discovered a debate about whether wikipedians should be able to voice their political support for Hezbollah (I happen to be taking a terrorism and civil liberties class right now). The category was deleted 5 times for different reasons, once because of Wikipedia:CSD#C3, once because there were no users of the user box, and three times because it was a recreation of delete material. There was a debate that took place here when a user started creating the userboxes on his own userpage and admininstrators started deleting them. It seems that the result of the debate was that it is impermissible to voice support for Hezbollah on one's user page, although the results of the discussion were generally vague and inconclusive. It seems that certain administrators repeatedly deleted these user boxes until the debate was ended inconclusively. A user box was even created protesting the deletions. I was thinking of recreating the page because I don't think it explicitly violates wikipedia policy and deleting it without comprehensive debate seems to be a real violation of ideals of free speech, but then I thought I'd better see if an outside wikipedia admin could clarify the crucial points. The following user boxes were proposed:
I'd like to appeal these decisions but I have no idea of how and I could use some help with that. At the very least, I feel the topic should have a more comprehensive debate, as I really think it's debatable whether these user boxes give widespread offense. Although Hezbollah (or a part of it) has been designated as a terrorist organization by six countries, there are many notable exceptions, and many countries openly support Hezbollah. In any respect, it's clearly debatable and the last debate was inconclusive. I'm just unsure about how to revive the debate. Thanks.--Cdogsimmons (talk) 17:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
TEP userbox editFYI, I've created a userbox Template:User Tau Epsilon Phi, which you may want to include on your userpage. AWB for Joker... edit
nevermind... I jsut re-read the edits, and you were doing just that. ThuranX (talk) 16:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC) "U.S. is an initialism, not an acronym" editTrue, but outside of the US, the authoritative consensus on the use of initials is to drop the punctuation - I picked up on this with a recent edit you made to 2006 in music where you changed US to U.S. The optional use of these variations seems to me to be supported by WP:MOS - Acronyms and abbreviations and MOS:ABBR. As an ongoing labour, it seems a gigantic task to Americanise edits made by non-US contributors... Alchemagenta (talk) 03:03, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Deleting a page with too much history editThis is what I get for watchlisting Taxman's talk page... heh. It is not currently possible to delete these pages, for performance reasons. (Modifying 5000 entries in both the revision table and the archive table = database lock.) It is closer to being a developer task than a bureaucrat task. Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 08:19, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Templates with red links editThe next dump doesn't seem to be coming as quickly as I thought it would, so I might take a pass at the old dump instead. I think I can sort pages according to the categories you requested; going back in the archives, I see you had earlier asked for a breakout of "elections", "MLB" and "TV" and "radio" templates; are those still needed? FYI, the approach I am taking is that if any of the terms you identified ("Indiana", "Road" or "Roads", etc.) appears in the template title as a whole word, regardless of capitalization, that template will get sorted into a subject-area subpage. --Russ (talk) 13:49, 2 May 2008 (UTC) New Project editMyself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active. If you consider yourself a very active Wikipedian who is willing to help newcomers, please either complete your information in the table or add your entry. If you do not want to be on the list, either remove your name or just disregard this message and your entry will be removed within 48 hours. The table can be found at User:Useight/Highly Active, as it has yet to have been moved into the Wikipedia namespace. Thank you for your help. Useight (talk) 17:13, 3 May 2008 (UTC) Wikiproject Prisons Proposal editI would like to propose a new wikiproject regarding prisons, but I need some guidance on how to do so. I've noticed that while law, law enforcement, and human rights all have portals, none of these specifically address the creation of articles for individual prisons. I consider this to be a very important topic (a society is judged on its prisons after all) and there are other wikiprojects aimed at similar social institutions (schools has its own portal although I'm not quite sure what the difference is between a portal and a wikiproject). I'm not quite sure where to begin. Do I have to propose this in a specific place or can I just start working on it? Your help would be appreciated.--Cdogsimmons (talk) 15:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Templates with red links/2007 editIs it okay for me to create a separate template with the December 2007 Templates with red links on it? -Basketball123456 (talk) 22:29, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Re: "Hidden template" help request on Wikiquote. editThe show / hide feature always relies on JavaScript. As I'm not (at all) capable of writing JavaScript, the best place to ask would be Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Requests. There are plenty of helpful people who watch that page and should be able to offer some assistance. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 06:07, 11 July 2008 (UTC) New templates with red links reports editNow available at the usual locations. However, after looking at the output, I think another sort step would be helpful, so I think I'll re-run it later today. --Russ (talk) 21:48, 22 July 2008 (UTC) Painter disambig editYou recently edited this page, removing a crucial qualification. If you can think of a way to shorten the distinction I was trying to make, then please do it. But it is necessary. Why? Because as you have left things, someone who paints murals would qualify as a "painter" under the second definition, just like a house painter. A disambiguation is inadequate if it doesn't clarify the distinction being made, and it's too bad if it takes more words than you'd like to see. If you don't restore that distinction, either in my original version or in a new version improved for brevity, than I will restore it myself. MdArtLover (talk) 14:43, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
1919 Bartlett's missing biographies editSince you began that page and have worked so long on it, I will leave you the honor of doing any final edits on that project page. Thanks for all your excellent work! Jokestress (talk) 23:21, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Meav photo editHey BD, regarding the Meav photo you uploaded, might it be a good idea to have the publicist submit one of these just so there's no question of legitimacy? Any reason to not move to Commons, for that matter? Thanks for doing the legwork in getting the photo in the first place. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 23:00, 12 December 2008 (UTC) Accidental edit on Template:Overlay/doc? editHi BD2412, I refer to this edit [1]. Thanks for fixing my speltypos by the way! My question relates to the change to line 42, now line 39, and the loss of the #38; from the page. This seemed like a strange thing to happen. The ampersand has to be encoded to get it to display as an ampersand. Otherwise it is parsed by the browser. Is there a bug in AWB? Cheers. Peet Ern (talk) 04:17, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Deanery merge editIt's fine to suggest merging two articles, as you've suggested at deanery and the dean article. However, if you want it to actually happen, you should give your reasons for the proposed merger on the talk page of at least one of the articles. Gentgeen (talk) 17:40, 20 December 2008 (UTC) Wikipedia:Most wanted articles editWould you be able to make a new run for Wikipedia:Most wanted articles? Cheers! bd2412 T 22:15, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
List of biologists editYesterday, 19 January 2009, you made an alteration to this list by adding Henry Potter (naturalist), a Norwegian naturalist. You were right doing so, because Henry Potter, as such, referred to a disambiguation page. But now Henry Potter (naturalist) has become a red link, drawing my attention. Checking it out, I couldn't find a reliable Google link, except copies of this list of biologists. Checking out the Norwegian wikipedia, they even hadn't an article on him. Their article Henry Potter was a namesake and a golfer, not a biologist. Therefore I'll remove this addition to this list. As it is non-verifiable, it may be a hoax and should not be included. I hope you'll agree. JoJan (talk) 15:29, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
White H(h)orse editHi, Wiki MOS and searching prefers article titles to only capitalize the first word, not all words, so can you kindly do what needs to be done to make White horse the disambiguation page and "White Horse" a redirect? Thanks. Montanabw(talk) 07:03, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
DKY problem editHi. I was trying to get a SCOTUS case onto the DKY column at Template_talk:Did_you_know#Articles_created.2Fexpanded_on_February_21 (it's Will v. Michigan Dept. of State Police) and I ran into some trouble finding a short enough hook while still adequately describing the case. Thought you might have some suggestions. Thanks.--Cdogsimmons (talk) 03:24, 3 March 2009 (UTC) Polbot was blocked editPolbot was blocked, pending further discussion. Perhaps you could comment at Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval#Block of Polbot? Thanks, – Quadell (talk) 14:02, 4 March 2009 (UTC) Question for you re: Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges editIs this considered a daughter project/sub-project of WikiProject Law, or is it a separate entity unto itself? I ask mainly because I want to create a category for this WikiProject, and I want to know how to categorize it. --Eastlaw talk ⁄ contribs 21:14, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
CongBio and CongLinks editI support your position on why these should be included in articles. I think those opposed to their inclusion are in the minority, and I think there's be ample opposition among WikiProject Congress editors to their mass removal. You always run into this when one project has evolved a set of acceptable standards and others take a hard-line view that guidelines aren't open to amendment or interpretation. I don't know if an exemption is the right route to follow, but it appears from the conversation at WP:EL that some users do agree that these links are appropriate to a certain degree. I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. If you take the argument to the extreme, that no links should be provided to content duplicated in the article, then any public domain source would not be linked, and you could run afoul of WP requirements for adequate citations. I watch many of the pages that use CongBio and CongLinks, and intend to revert attempts to delete them on a large scale without consensus, without edit warring or triggering WP:3R of course.DCmacnut<> 20:01, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Wikiproject Ford editI reposted the proposal of Wikiproject Ford HereFord 21:27, 6 March 2009 (UTC) "This user repairs links to disambiguation pages." editOh hey, I didn't know you did dab work too! That's my other main area of work on Wikipedia. I recently made a big batch of "Disambiguation may be needed" links at Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation. You'd certainly be welcome there. All the best, – Quadell (talk) 13:23, 7 March 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges/judgestats editOkay, I've imported the 4 judges whose last names start with Q. Does this look good? Is this all the info you think would be useful when generating lists? If you have no objections, I'll run it for all judges. All the best, – Quadell (talk) 17:35, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
External links editFYI, I've commented in the discussion. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 16:24, 9 March 2009 (UTC) Abuse filter idea editHi, Do you think it would be good to have a "white list" for the abuse filter these users would be exempt from it. To get onto the white list you would have to be a trusted user. This could include being a rollbacker, admin, having the AWB permission , having an account with over a 1000 edits or a very old account say older than 2005. --DFS454 (talk) 19:35, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
We're famous editHey, did you see? We're in The Signpost! – Quadell (talk) 20:34, 9 March 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges/judgestats editHey, I saw you disambiguated a judge's name there. I'm trying to keep everything in that list in a consistent, bot-readable format. Could you list any disambiguations at Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges/judgestats/problems, instead of changing the page directly? (The list there is of names that didn't have a judge-related category in the article.) That way I can make the changes consistently. All the best, – Quadell (talk) 01:58, 10 March 2009 (UTC) Featured list editFYI. – Quadell (talk) 14:09, 10 March 2009 (UTC) Templates with red links editThere's a new dump in progress. Do you want an update of the TwRL reports? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:12, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
As you wish. Unfortunately, I didn't think through the numbering scheme for subpages as well as I should have, so they aren't sorted optimally, but the sorting within the pages should be as desired. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:12, 19 March 2009 (UTC) wp:HSITES editWikipedia:WikiProject Historic Sites has opened up. I took the liberty of assuming your support for the wikiproject meant you wanted to join as a member, and I copied your signature to the Members list on the main page. Please visit and add to, or remove, your listing there. It would be great to hear about what you're interested in the Wikiproject becoming, in your member comment and/or at the Talk page, shortcut wt:HSITES. Thanks for your support! doncram (talk) 17:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC) zero sum dab silliness editHi, I noticed that you redirected Fixed sum game so that it points to a dab page, rather than to the page on the primary topic (which ought to be at zero sum, but is in fact at Zero-sum (game theory)). It really would be better (in fact, it seems what WP:PRIMARYTOPIC says ought to be done) to move the contents of Zero-sum (game theory) to zero sum and move the dab page currently at zero sum to Zero sum (disambiguation), since the meaning of the term "zero sum" derives from the game theory term. I'd just go and do it, but it requires admin action. Best regards, Pete.Hurd (talk) 21:06, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Help? editExcuse me, do you think you can use your administrative powers to merge Talk:Madara (disambiguation) to Talk:Madara? I am not able to move the page normally. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 17:58, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
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