User talk:Bluemoose/archive5

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I might reply here or on your page, I'm a bit crazy like that.

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Pathoschild's successful RfA

Thanks a lot for your support on my request for adminship; it passed with 23/0/0 (plus one duplicate support and an oppose from a vandal IP). I'll do my best to exceed everyone's expectations. ^^ // Pathoschild 19:51, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Template:Lifetime

We must stop butting heads like this, because your antlers really hurt. If you are intending to remove a template that is in use by the community, then you must refer it to Wikipedia:Templates for deletion first. Since you have not done that, I will continue adding this useful template where I find the need, i.e. all biographical articles. I invite you to take it further – i.e. to consult the community – rather than taking unilateral action as you are doing. This template has survived one vote for deletion, so it probably will again. User:Noisy | Talk 21:02, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Please read the Template talk:Lived page for the template Template:Lived first before taking your unilateral actions. I was mistaken, it seems, and it is that template that has survived a VFD (and reading the VFD discussion might be useful, as well), and there are clear reasons given for retaining this useful template in source as it may become useful for other functions in the fullness of time. Your argument for substing is flawed, otherwise you would be doing it for pretty well every other template in existence. Please think about the future, and the potential uses that such a template may be used for, rather than taking such a short-sighted view. User:Noisy | Talk 00:04, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry, your agressive and bad faith behaviour has really given me little reason to believe your protestations. You plainly can't even be bothered to try and see my side of the argument: you just trot out platitudes. User:Noisy | Talk 00:19, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

RfA

My adminship request was successful!
Thank you Thank you so much for your support of my RfA. The results of the request was 18/0/1. With the help of your support vote, I am now a bona-fide Wikipedia sysop/admin. I pledge to use my newfound powers for the good of Wikipedia and its editors. If you have anything to tell me, dont hesitate to "speak on it"!. --LBMixPro<Speak|on|it!>

Question about C#

I have a simple question regarding C#, which I hope you can answer. I'm currently playing around with C#, but I can't quite figure out how you can make changes in the editbox in Wikipedia or add text to any textbox on the internet for that matter. Thanks in advance. BTW, I love your AutoWiki tool. :) P.S. Just noticed I can't use your tool anymore. Could I "register" on your page to use it? Gflores ^Talk 08:25, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Akiva Eger

I happen to be a descendant of him and all family records state it is Eger. Simply doing a google search doesn't prove anything. Yellowmellow45 14:09, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Common belief also has it that in the middle ages, people thought the world was flat. Are you going for google over an actual relative of the man? It has to be factually correct. Yellowmellow45 14:20, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Thankyou very much!!!Yellowmellow45 14:29, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Unless Yellowmellow45 can prove this, I've moved the page back to the most common form until this has been cleared up. JH Sinason did a biography on him, but even online there is conflicting information as to what spelling he uses. JFW | T@lk 16:27, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Orioane's RfA

Hey Bluemoose/archive5! Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. To my amazement there were no negative or neutral votes and the result was (28/0/0). I am now an administrator so I'll try and do my best in this new position. I'll be happy to answer any comments or requests from you. Thanks one more time, Mihai -^talk 20:29, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

I was trying to revert vandalism, and something caused me to revert someone's reversion back to the vandalized page. I'm going to clear my cache, I'm not trying to be an ass. Andrew 22:52, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

It's all good, thanks for pointing it out or else it may have gone unnoticed :-P Andrew 22:54, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Alhutch's RfA

Dear Bluemoose,

I'm an administrator, and I've got you to thank for it! Thanks to your support, my RfA passed 25/0. Please don't hesitate to contact me if I can help you with anything. See you around the wiki, :-) Alhutch 06:08, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

SoLando's RFA

Hi Bluemoose, thank you for voting in support of my RFA; the result was (28-0-0 ). I hope that I am able to fulfil the expectations of an admin. If you see me mess up anywhere, have any concerns (be it for my musical taste or edits), please don't hesitate to tell me! Take care. SoLando (Talk) 10:43, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

AutoWikiBrowser

I would like to try your AutoWikiBrowser. Can you register me please? Bobblewik 18:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

It is amazing! I have been testing it by finding unnecessary links to Wednesday and delinking them. It took me a while to work out the interface. Here are some first comments:

• I don't quite know what 'Local txt file' means.
• I have no idea what the text area on the right does.
• I don't like exclamation marks on user interfaces, but it is your thing not mine.
• I wonder if the buttons might be better marked 'Cancel edit' instead of 'Ignore' and 'Save edit' instead of 'Save!'.

Brilliant thingie. What a guy you are. Thanks. Bobblewik 20:56, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Another thought. Perhaps it would be better to put the 'Make from' field below the page name. Now that I am getting used to it, I think that seems more natural because it matches how it works in Wikipedia itself.... you go to the page first and then get the list. Bobblewik 21:01, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

My recent rfa

Dear Bluemoose, I wanted to thank you for your support during my recent RfA. :)

--Syrthiss 22:20, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Missing science topics

Hi. I ran into the Wikipedia:Missing science topics project and looks cool. I have a question though. Do you happen to know why some articles have incomplete names, like Neumann Differential E....? If you happen to know, could you please explain at Wikipedia talk:Missing science topics. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:15, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Please register me

Hi,

This is Bobblewik. Can you register my bot user name: Bobblebot. That will let me keep my normal contributions list clear. Also, do I have to ask permission on the bot page each time I use the AutoWikiBrowser? Bobblebot 09:38, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I'd like to be registered

Hey there, your software seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. I've been editing articles based on Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context, but it's been a slow slog. Please register me so that I can try out the software. Thanks! --Cyde Weys _talk^contribs 11:02, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Registering

Could you register me for the AutoWikiBrowser? I'd like to give it a shot! Thanks in advance! --Falcorian 18:26, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks again! Off to give it a shot! --Falcorian 23:42, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

And I must say, nice work! Easy to use, and to think I used to try doing this by hand! I can, in a two seconds, do what it used to take me a minute to! Good show! --Falcorian 00:21, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

May I be registered for the AutoWikiBrowser? Looks like a nice alternative to the pywikipedia bot.--Commander Keane 11:56, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

More on missing science topics

Hi, sorry I didnt respond too quickly. the dots are a result of the fact that the source of the lists had the dots. Martin 22:17, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I would be really interested in knowing what your source is. Thanks! You can reply here, I will keep your talk page on my watchlist for a while. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 22:21, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

They are from; http://mathworld.wolfram.com/letters/ Martin 22:25, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 22:46, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Bluebot request

User:SusanLarson has been transcluding her sig from User:SusanLarson/sig. Bluebot should be instructed to subst those templates (I've already left a note on her user talk explaining that she shouldn't transclude her sig). —Simetrical (talk) 04:24, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Bluebot's template substitution

Hi. I'm just curious about this diff, where Bluebot recognizes a user signature but ignores the common {{test4}}. That seemed a bit odd to me. Does Bluebot perform one task at a time? // Pathoschild 15:04, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

only one at a time. Martin 15:09, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Could you register me (Matthewmayer)

I wonder if you could register me User:Matthewmayer to use your AutoWikiBrowser. I tend to do a lot of 'tedious' editing which would be speeded up greatly with the use of your program :) thanks Matthewmayer 18:57, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Ditto, but for User:SoM :) - SoM 21:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Register for AWB

Please register User:KramarDanIkabu, thanks much. KramarDanIkabu [[User talk:KramarDanIkabu|(speak)]] 23:20, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Please register User:Adrian Buehlmann. At the moment I'm doing conversions from calls of template:if to calls to template:qif (quite nasty, but I think I can see land now - I'm already on letter I of the what links here list :-). Although that must be done by hand, there are some steps that could greatly benefit from AWB (for example semi-automated touching to update the list of usages). Many thanks for providing such a nice tool! – Adrian | Talk 11:05, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for voting for me at my RFA, which closed with a 24/1/1 outcome. I will do my best in the position I now am in. Thanks again, and see you around Wikipedia!

--Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 01:35, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

MYYYYYY RFA

Thank you for your support. I'm now an administrator (final vote 64-2). — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 06:46, Dec. 17, 2005

My RfA

Thanks for voting on my RfA! The final result was (36/1/1), so I'm now an administrator! Shanel 07:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Reglist

Please add me to the Registerd list for AutoWikiBrowser. Thanks! --The Fox Man Of Fire 13:27, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Please add me to that list as well. Thanks a bunch. Whaa? 15:45, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, not experienced enough you two. Martin 19:59, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Please add me also. Thanks. —Guanaco 19:44, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Could you please add me too. Thanks. -Aabha (talk) 19:47, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Done you two. Martin 19:59, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Define "Experienced" if you please. The Fox Man Of Fire 20:08, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

500 plus edits. Martin 20:09, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I'll jump in on this bandwagon. Please add me. :) K1Bond007 05:53, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I realise this, I just thought I should formally seek to have my name added to the list. On a related note, I was playing around with it last night and I couldn't find a way to mark edits as minor. How would this be done or where is this located? Thanks. K1Bond007 00:00, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm in the process of downloading it right now to see if it's useful. Can you enable me for full functionality? (No, Tasha, that's not what I meant...)--SarekOfVulcan 02:03, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Would you also have me added? Thanks. - PS2pcGAMER 09:55, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Please could I register too? Thanks. --Whouk (talk) 10:54, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Bluebot request for template if

Hi Martin

I'm currently trying to convert all uses of template:if to template:qif. I found out that if I edit an article that uses template if, the list of used templates is mostly plain wrong. But it can be updated by doing a null edit (aka a touch). What links here fooled me because I thought it's sorted but it is not. So I have now learned the hard way that there are about 20'000 articles that say they use template if. I would say about 80..90 percent of them in fact do not use template if. So doing "what links here" on template if brings up a huge wrong list.

I have tried to touch all articles that say they link to template if by using your fine AutoWikiBrowser, but since I have no bot license the auto mode is disabled. That would take me days, I think this is nearly impossible to do.

Now getting to the point: may I ask you to do one of your wonderful bluebot runs that touches all articles that say they use template:if (touching the "What links here" list of template:if)?

I would expect a massive shrinking of the "what links here" list of template if to a manually treatable size from this.

That would be a tremendous help and would enable me to find the real remaining uses of template if that really use template if. I see a chance that we can consolidate if to qif.

The whole qif/if thing (and thus stuff like template:web reference or template:book reference is at the moment at stake, because we are accused by some Wikipedians for server strain at WP:AUM. But you probably know all that already.

However, thanks a lot and sorry for nagging you! – Adrian | Talk 20:11, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Many thanks for your reply on my talk. That's great! – Adrian | Talk 21:20, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi Martin. That bot run is no longer needed. They have done it the hard way. So I do not have to convert any longer. Thanks anyway! – Adrian | Talk 20:10, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

• Actually it is still needed, because it is necessary to find out whether there are still any templates/articles which have been broken by that edit and there are about 15,000 articles on Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:If. I'm slowly cycling through with AWB, cleaning up as I go, but it'll take ages that way… HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 10:38, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Put on TfD. Thanks to Martin for the bot work and to Phil for finishing what I had begun. – Adrian | Talk 09:50, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Movie infobox request...

Hey there Bluemoose. I posted this on the Bot Request page but had no bites. Could you look at it? The changes made would not affect the "look" of any movie pages, but would clean them up greatly:

Bot request for fixing movie infobox

Currently template:Infobox Film has parameters like this:

Infobox Film | name =

 | image = 
 | caption =
 | director = 
 | producer = 
 | writer = 
 | starring =
 | music =
 | cinematography =
 | editing =
 | distributor = 
 | release_date = 
 | runtime = 
 | language = 
 | budget = 
 | imdb_id = 

However, many old movie pages used differnet titles for the same thing. For example, some use "movie_language" instead of the (now) correct "language". Could someone write a bot to change the incorrect titled fields in all the movie pages to the correct titles for these fields. Here's a list of what we would need (and this would be for all pages that use the Infobox Film template only):

  * movie_language  should be changed to language
  * image caption  should be changed to caption
  * movie_name   should be changed to movie
  * original_score   should be changed to music
  * "awards" field and what ever follows "=" in the template should be removed, same for
  * "proceeded by" and "followed by" (these were in some old movie templates but are no longer used)

This bot was first mentioned by Bobet 17:22, 10 December 2005 (UTC). This would be very helpful, then we could finally get all the movie page templates to be the same. Steve-O 05:21, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi Martin. Thanks for your support on my recent RFA. The request was successful, with a final tally of 33/0/0. I'm delighted that you decided to support it and I hope that I can live up to your expectations. Leithp (talk) 09:56, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Unregister for AWB

May I ask you to remove me from the AWB list. I do not intend to use that any more. Sorry and thanks! – Adrian | Talk 23:09, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Register for AWB

Hi Martin, could you please register me on User:Bluemoose/AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage, that would really help me since I'm doing a lot of things like fixing date formatting. --Fritz S. (Talk) 11:43, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! --Fritz S. (Talk) 16:16, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, please register me. Kmorozov 12:06, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Me as well? I'm an admin, with a few more than 500 edits, and really want to check this out. Thanks! -Mysekurity^{(have you seen this?)} 03:30, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

AWB Register

Hi, could you please register me (User:Bk0) for AWB use? I'll be using it for stub re-categorization. --Bk0 (Talk) 23:11, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! --Bk0 (Talk) 01:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

And me, please! I'll use it mainly for SP&G and upholding the MoS. Do you have any plans to make a version in which you can set the wiki on which it will be used to something other than En Wikipedia? Joe D (t) 01:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Another one for the list please (User:PTSE). Looks like it could be a very useful tool. --PTSE 01:31, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Could you please register User:Sango123 as well? Thanks! Sango123 (talk) 02:23, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Your edit tool would be very useful to me (Jyril) because I've been doing lots of tedious edits.--Jyril 18:13, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Humanbot

Hello. You haven't replied for a while to my comment at User_talk:Bluemoose/AutoWikiBrowser#New_features.3F, and since you're generally very responsive to other stuff, I assume you missed it. So this is just a prod. r3m0t ^talk 20:11, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

AutoSubsting

Hi there! Could you please add Template:Col-break and all other five templates mentioned on that page to the list of autosubst'ing templates for your bot? They generate tables and are frequently used when it's absolutely not necessary. Radiant_>|< 13:53, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Dropped a note on Wikipedia:Subst. I'm not sure who made up that these templates are simpler than wikicode, but I strongly disagree. Radiant_>|< 15:03, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Just in case you didn't see...

It would actually be a good idea if Bluebot could do a touch-run on Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:if. Whilst a good many client articles and templates have been converted to use {{qif}} instead, there is a residue which must be fixed: I came across one just today. So long as there are about 15,000 articles all claiming to use {{if}}, it will prove very difficult to discern those which actually do not. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 18:01, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

I've fixed those templates you tagged on my talk page, and touched the clients of most: the Bool* ones have several thousand between them so that's not going to happen right now :-) I wonder if Bluebot simply goes ahead and performs a touch-run on {{if}} what the result will be … HTH HAND Phil | Talk 14:12, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

suggestions for AWB improvments

Currently, there seems to ba a limit of 5000 articles in the list when one uses the What links here feature... Could that be increased in a future version (or is there any way to work around it? I've been correcting some listings in the album infobox, and am done with the first 5000, but don't know how to get a list of the next batch into the program...)

Also, I think it would be a nice feature to save settings, so one wouldn't have to enter the search strings etc. manually each time one starts the program. --Fritz S. (Talk) 14:40, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

There seems to be a hard limit on what Wikipedia provides: if you try this then (assuming that Bluebot hasn't fixed them all ;-)) you will find that whereas you specified 10000, you only get 5000 at a time. So AWB will need some way of saying "done the first 5k, want the next lot", which involves a subtly different URL (like this). HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 17:17, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I solved that problem for getting all articles in a category, I have only just implemented it into "what links here", you'll see it in 0.99 Martin 17:19, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Register for AWB

Could you add Schuminweb to the AutoWiki Browser list? Thanks in advance. SchuminWeb (Talk) 21:09, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy Crimbo!

Have a Proper and Merry Crimbo. File:Pressie.gif, in fact here is a pressie from the Doctor to you. Ho. Ho. Ho! File:Unclecrimbo.gif Dr. McCrimbo 22:37, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Yet another registration

Ello, could you add me to the AWB list please? Thankyou. And merry christmas while im at it. -- jeffthejiff (talk) 23:53, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Me too! And merry christmas. - David Björklund (talk) 01:03, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Argh, sorry but i cant seem to download AWB at the moment. The server just times out. Has anyone else had problems? -- jeffthejiff (talk) 13:43, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, servers appear to be down, can't get my email either. (staff off for christmas I suppose!) Martin 19:04, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Profanity-named bands

While correcting links for Jagjaguwar, I discovered your remarks on a particular profanity and the bands that used the term as a name. There is at least one article about such a band.

Could you please provide clarification about the remarks you made? What I took away from your remarks is that such bands should be denied recognition by Wikipedia. Do you consider that analysis/assessment accurate?

Please understand that I do not have a dog in this fight. Rather, I would like to work towards technical accuracy. (Folajimi 12:42, 25 December 2005 (UTC))

It's not that I think the bands should not be recognised by Wikipedia, but that it is totally unnecessary and unencyclopedic to mention them in the Fuck article, imagine if this idea was applied to all articles, wikipedia would just be a massive list of references. Martin 19:02, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

How about having a reference about the band? For an example, see the top of the Landing page.

That is ok in my opinion, as it is a disambiguation. Martin 10:25, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Another AWB registration

Thanks... -- Jbamb 17:41, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Ditto here for User:Rune.welsh, please. Many thanks. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ | Esperanza 03:55, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

• Hey, I'd definitely like to try it out. Thank you! Kushboy 06:49, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

• Hey, just tried this out for the first time today (got a good couple hundred category renames done with it). Thanks for creating this tool. Jtkiefer^{T | C | @} ---- 08:56, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!! Martin 09:55, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

(Yet another) request for AWB

I would love to be able to use this software, any chance I (User:AntzUK) could be added to the list? Thanks very much, --AntzUK 13:45, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

AWB

Hi, Bluemoose! Can you please register me for the AWB? I have 1415 edits and counting, and I am eager to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia in new ways! Thanks. — MATHWIZ2020 ^{TALK | CONTRIBS} 16:06, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much! — MATHWIZ2020 ^{TALK | CONTRIBS} 16:27, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Request - please help with moving an image

Would you please move an image that I just uploaded. It is [[Image:BGenHardy_USMC.jpg]]. I would like to have it moved to [[Image:MajGenHardy_USMC.jpg]]. I mistakenly indicated that Hardy was a brigadier general (a mistake on a subtitle on his official biography). All other references indicate correctly that he was a Major General (MajGen) - which is evident from the 2 stars on his uniform in the image.

I did not see a "move" tab on the image. Is there a "proper" procedure for renaming images?

Thanks in advance. — ERcheck @ 19:44, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

• Many thanks. Expect to see a Hugh W. Hardy article soon. — ERcheck @ 20:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)