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== Unwelcome == | ||
| Since apparently the community accepts talk page bans, the following <i>people</i> are unwelcome to post here in any manner. | |||
| Engaging conversation you guys had about notability for inclusion on wikipedia. Here is an example of print media with exclusive coverage of Pablo Bertorello: <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 06:50, 12 March 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> | |||
| * Kww, Malleus, John, Nuclear, Merridew | |||
| This ban includes any other accounts they may hold. | |||
| : I'll probably take this up a level at some point for review. ] 04:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| If any of these people have something to say to me, their reprseentative must contact me first through "email this user" and obtain my authorisation. | |||
| == I love you gimmebot== | |||
| Their represeentative may not post here on their behalf either. | |||
| Thanks for everything, love Andre ] (]) 07:47, 29 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ] 12:00, 15 October 2014 (UTC) | |||
| == Aircraft templates == | |||
| Hi Gimmetrow - well, I guess "no news is good news". A few weeks down the track, we're well into the reorganisation of many articles, and have embarked on a massive templating campaign (a few hundred this month) to replace the functionality of the old "sequence" parameter of ''aircontent'' with navboxes. I'm not aware of any problems that we've encountered in the wake of the bot's work; any complications have been the consequence of editors who made idiosyncratic changes to the layout of the articles in the first place, a factor I guess I'd underestimated. Likewise, I'm not aware of any bot-work that WP:AIR is in need of just at the moment, but now that you're acquainted with our article structure and project scope and scale, you know who we'll be approaching first next time! :) --] (]) 09:34, 2 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Thanks for the heads-up! :) --] (]) 19:52, 2 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Padding around table== | |||
| Gimme, are you able to fix so that the padding around the table is larger, so the text doesn't run so close to the table? (Glad the Aviation project has come around, thanks for digging in to that Child development article, I'm not going there any more, give up.) ] (]) 00:51, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Tried something with border-spacing. 01:32, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Cool; I'll stop until you give me the green light. ] (]) 01:51, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :: Think that's it. Check link in obituary though. 01:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::How did you do that (is that thing for sale:-) ? ] (]) 01:59, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::: It's another set of tools. Which reminds me, would you prefer to see dates in wikitext as <nowiki>], ] or as ] ]</nowiki>? The comma shows up on the page regardless. 02:04, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::::Yes, I only learned that recently, and have tried to remember to leave off the commas, since we don't need them. But I'm not consistent about dates (don't tell Tony :-) ] (]) 02:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::::: OK. So what would you offer for these tools? It will probably take ] than chocolate. ] 02:24, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::::::: Well, they haven't yet designed the do-it-all, know-it-all barnstar, and I'm morally opposed to Starbucks so I won't give you Latte, but I could give you your choice from my ] Better yet, I could offer a moratorium on asking you dumb questions for, say, two weeks? ] (]) 02:49, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::::::: I've heard there are other vendors that serve coffee. 21:38, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ], ], in grateful appreciation for ... well ... everything. ] (]) 23:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC) ]] | |||
| ::::::::: Woe is me! I ], but Wiki refuses to cough up a representation of the exclusively ] only ] I drink in the USA. I won't insult you by offering my ] (sometimes I must venture out of my ]) and I can't offer a trip to the ] just now, but this has all reminded me of my favorte ''Pasticceria San Marco''; would you accept a nice ] ? ] (]) 23:32, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::::::: Coffee gelato works; it's as if you're repeating a conversation with Lacatosias where I mentioned gelato and San Marco. This little tool is part of a set of gizmos in ]. No warranty implied. 23:41, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::::::::: Will I break anything? Lacatosias as in Francesco of the infamous ] FAC? Is he still about? ] (]) 23:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::::::: Just check what they do before saving. Some add date links, some reformat, some remove date links. They're separate because they don't all do things entirely right. You'll have to "Empty Params" a few times to get 'em all. Don't know about Francesco now. ] 00:05, 4 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Signpost== | |||
| Give me a cot! There's a red link on an FFA at ]. It uses a template I wasn't familiar with, and it's looking for the erotic depictions FAR at archive1, but that didn't get archived? ] (]) 20:04, 3 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Thanks...== | |||
| For clarifying :). ] ] 10:35, 4 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == BAG trials == | |||
| You are not authorized to approve trials for bots. Thank you. <font color="blue">'' ''']'''<sub>(]<nowiki>|</nowiki>])</sub> ''</font> 23:17, 4 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == GimmeBot == | |||
| I noticed that GimmeBot was promoting articles to FA status, but Raul hadn't promoted them. Is this supposed to be happening? --] (]) 01:02, 5 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Yes, this should be correct. Sandy promoted them, right? ] 01:04, 5 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::Yes. Kakofonous, please see ]. ] (]) 01:04, 5 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::Thanks, just a bit of confusion. --] (]) 01:12, 5 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Thanks== | |||
| Thanks a lot. I looked all over for and tried a bunch of strings for the action2result field for Portal:Minnesota with no luck. "Not reviewed" does the trick. Added at ] -] (]) 03:26, 6 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Karimchik== | |||
| I see you've reverted a few edits by this user. They're making quite radical unsourced changes and removing lots of content. I've asked them about it on their talk page. Do you have any idea if what they're doing is correct? I have no experience in the music articles they've edited. ] ] 16:08, 8 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : I don't know where to look up peak ranking on certain national charts, so I'm not sure about maybe 90% of their changes. However, the other 10% are clearly incorrect, so unless this editor provides sources, I wouldn't give the other edits any benefit of doubt. ] 20:04, 8 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::I was unsure and I noticed that other editors had also reverted some edits, so I reverted all of the changes and noted in the edit summary to contact me if I was wrong. Thanks for the reply. ] ] 20:24, 8 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == SmackBot == | |||
| Is a bot account, nearly all edits are made using AWB. There was an AWB bug which did funny things to the text "802.11g" or something similar, probably now fixed,I will check later. ''] ]'', 18:35 ] ] (GMT). | |||
| :Yes seems OK now. ''] ]'', 15:15 ] ] (GMT). | |||
| == ] == | |||
| Hi Gimmetrow, I saw you helping with the RCC article and I wanted to thank you.] (]) 04:02, 10 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :You seem to be a knowledgeable person with punctuation issues and I was wondering if you could continue to stick around and help me with Sandy's comments. I am not sure what she is talking about with the ellipses and spaces that need fixing. Thanks. ] (]) 06:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :: I'll do what I can. 06:43, 11 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Infobox help== | |||
| Hey, Gimmetrow, worried about your absence tonight, I hope all is well. If you have a chance, can you glance down through all the different infoboxes in ]? They all have faulty ]es, using emdashes where they should use endashes. I tried ... no idea how to fix those infoboxes. Are you able to help? Best, ] (]) 04:17, 12 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : I think that I fixed most of them... ] (]) 04:54, 12 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::Thanks, Bluap, much better, except those should be spaced endashes rather than unspaced (see ]). When it's only a year, they are unspaced (1999–2000), but when the elements around the space have spaces themselves, then it's spaced (July 1999 – May 2000). ] (]) 14:17, 12 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::: I thought they looked odd. Fixed now? ] (]) 14:27, 12 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::: Beautiful; thank you so much, Bluap. ] (]) 14:37, 12 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Small option == | |||
| Gimme, can you get a small option on {{t1|FOR-CHICOTW}} ? Thanks in advance, ] (]) 17:44, 12 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Thanks, Gimmetrow; it's been making me crazy. ] (]) 15:08, 13 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==<nowiki>Talk:MOSNUM: {{delimitnum}} template</nowiki>== | |||
| I just wanted to make you aware that I made a post ] regarding the new ] template. See you there. ] (''])'' 22:14, 14 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == March 17 Dispatch== | |||
| For your review, ]. ] (]) 03:47, 15 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==FLRCs== | |||
| I'm ready to close some FLRCs, is your bot ready to go? I added the closure boxes myself because I think in this case closing comments are needed. Also, ] is in both the FL and FFL categories (it was delisted, then later relisted), I think it has something to do with the article history template, so could you fix that? -- ]<sup>]</sup> 20:23, 15 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : That's how FA tracks delisted and repromoted articles. The FFA category shows up, but not the FFA banner. I'd really rather not redesign that again ;) The close boxes are important flags for the bot, so we'll have to work out something there. With removed FLs, it moves the old successful FLC and changes project assessments (FL to list). ] 20:53, 15 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :: I didn't realize that was intentional, in that case it's fine. As for the close boxes, if they are important for the bot, then in the future I'll just add a comment at the end. As well, did you have any trouble with the bot distinguishing between which one was kept and which one was delisted? -- ]<sup>]</sup> 21:07, 15 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::: I don't know. Did it get it right? ] 21:12, 15 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::::Yeah, it did. -- ]<sup>]</sup> 21:43, 15 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == RCC v. CC == | |||
| ... I still wonder if that question needs wider community scrutiny. ] (]) 07:36, 16 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==]== | |||
| An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located ]. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, ]. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, ]. | |||
| On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ] (]) 15:40, 16 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Thank-you== | |||
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| |style="text-align:center;"|Hi Gimmetrow! Thank-you for your ] (91/1/1). | |||
| :I take all the comments to heart and hope I can fulfil the role of being | |||
| :an admin to the high standard that the community deserves. | |||
| :] ] 17:27, 16 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
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| {{clear}} | |||
| == Chevetogne Abbey & the Russian Catholic Church == | |||
| Help. An idiot keeps removing ] from the list of communities of the ]. See those two pages as well as ] and my talk page. I'm at wits' end almost. ] (]) 17:43, 16 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Thank you for the vote of confidence and help! ] (]) 05:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Cheventogne== | |||
| I edited Cheventogne. There is no name to the Abbey, so I deleted it. And I am not the idiot Inferno is the idiot that he couldnt find it out himself. <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 00:34, 17 March 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> | |||
| == Capping comments at FAC== | |||
| Gimme, can you help me with this? It came up before, and now it's appeared again on the RCC FAC. For some reason, when editors whose sigs contain a "|" bar cap their comments, the "|" bombs out the cap. See Something about the bar bombs out the cap code, and their commentary gets swallowed after the first cap. ] (]) 01:13, 17 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : I assume you mean {{tl|hide}}? It's a template with a bunch of parameters, and parameters in templates are separated by "|". I can think of one way to fix it, but it would probably have side effects. Using a start and end template would be safer. See the code , for instance. ] 01:29, 17 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Is there anything you don't know? <small> Rhetorical. </small> Thanks ! ] (]) 01:30, 17 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Well, I'm not really sure about this one. A "|" within double ought to be treated as a pipe and not a parameter separator. Did the problem only occur when a "|" was outside a link? ] 01:35, 17 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Not sure, I only know that the solution was to remove the bar from the sig ... which is what Ealdgyth did, no more problems. Look at the samples in my link to the issue at ]. For my purposes, it's solved: I asked Ealdgyth and Awadewit to remove the bars from their sigs. ] (]) 01:42, 17 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Also, you can see the issue now on the RCC FAC in the Awadewit cap ... where part of the comments are swallowed. She's reviewing now, but once she finished, I'll go in and remove the bars from her old sigs. ] (]) 01:46, 17 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :: Yes, it appears to be the "|" as a regular separator, not a piped link. 02:04, 17 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Yep ... I get it now :-) ] (]) 02:18, 17 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == RCC == | |||
| Thanks for your words of encouragement. I have a nice FA reviewer who is giving me specific items to address that seem to be making the page much better. Well see if everyone likes it when Im done. ] (]) 01:20, 17 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == RFA thanks == | |||
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| |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | ''' Thanks for the support''' | |||
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| |style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | {{{text|Thanks for your support on ], which passed 92/2/2. I'll learn the ways of the mop, and be sure to live up to the expectations of the community. Heh, you don't want me to be the origin of tempests? Surely someone needs to write about those tempests/storms :) ♬♩ ] (<small>]</small>) 04:39, 18 March 2008 (UTC) }}} | |||
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| == How's your week? == | |||
| Gimme, I guess everyone at ] is busy during Holy Week (or just ignoring me :-) because I've still ]. If no one else steps up to the plate in a day or two, would you be available to help me write up a dispatch on GimmeBot/articlehistory? While we're at it, do you remember where the first discussion occurred, about talk page clutter, that generated the idea for articlehistory and when you started it? ] (]) 19:02, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Raul and Dr pda started it. I would guess it started on Raul's talk page. 21:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :: I was thinking, though, that it came out of a FAC discussion; do you remember when? ] (]) 21:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::: ]. ] and ] seem relevant. 21:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::: oh, my, my memory is troubling :-) I seem to remember now that it started on my talk page, and was copied from there. I'll catch up on it in a bit; thanks so much Gimme, that will get me started ... I hope someone else will do the Dispatch this week, but it's looking like Karanacs and I have to carry everything. No one else has stepped up yet. ] (]) 21:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::::: Yep, found it at ]. So, Dr pda did the first mockup of the ah template? And when did you become the keeper? Because at some point, it was you and me converting all the articles. And then at what point did you do GimmeBot? ] (]) 21:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::::: ]. Raul made a mockup but thought pda's was better. 21:59, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::::::: What a long ways we've come; remember all those steps, all that work. OK, did GimmeBot start running simultaneously to the ah launch, or was that much after the fact? Were we doing the facfailed/promotes on ah manually for a while? ] (]) 22:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Answered my question; GimmeBot was running by Feb 2007, when we were doing all the conversions. (Galileo Galilei talk page just before GimmeBot, and before banners.) ] (]) 22:13, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :And, banners in place by March, so that brackets the time frame for me. What process (closings) is GimmeBot covering now? I know it's doing featured articles, good articles, and featured lists. Anything else? ] (]) 22:45, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :: Featured portals, but not yet featured portal reviews. And it only updates the WP:GA page and counts, typically after a FA promotion. 22:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::: But I see you botifying lots of GAs; do you just run through the page every now and then, or what trigger you to botify them? ] (]) 22:53, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::: Just slowly converting GA to AH. 23:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::::: ah, I see. ] (]) 23:15, 18 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Just started, nowhere yet, but can you plan to look at it by Sunday night, Monday? ] ] (]) 19:05, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Ugh. How can I add a sample template there without having it add the page to FA and FFA? Do I need to link to a sample instead? ] (]) 20:07, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::Just a reminder that this gets submitted tomorrow (Monday) night. Kirill fixed the Banners section, and his edit shows how muddled my content is. ] (]) 18:15, 23 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| OK, I think it's close enough for you to work on now; my writing stinks. ] (]) 22:08, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Did the bot stall at ]? ] (]) 19:41, 19 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Spam link. ] 21:40, 19 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Question == | |||
| What is a "tidy"? Is it a kind of an automated program? ] • <sup>'']''</sup> 14:03, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : It means a quick cleanup. ] 14:07, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::And how is it made? I just saw your edits on Zinta's article, and I wonder, the revisions change page does not show any changes except for removal of the image request, yet it seems as if further changes were made, because of the long list of highlighted paragraphs. Is it automated? ] • <sup>'']''</sup> 14:14, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::: Partly. A script removes spaces at the end of paragraphs. 14:25, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::::Oh, thank you and sorry for bothering you. Regards, ] • <sup>'']''</sup> 14:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Re: Portal promotions == | |||
| Yeah, I've been promoting for quite a while now and understand that a bot works there, but it's hardly ever working. Is it supposed to add the stars after the discussion's been closed? ]] 16:37, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Yes. 16:39, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::What's the timeframe we're looking at? ]] 16:49, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::: Something less than a day, typically 1-4 hours. I usually run the FA promotions shortly after 0:00 GMT. ] 16:52, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::: Right-o. I was just a little unclear over that particular area, but glad to understand now. Thank you. ]] 16:56, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==A thank-you note== | |||
| My dear Mr Gimmetrow, (''What'' an unusual name. Are you, by any chance, foreign?) I am shamefully tardy in thanking you for the delightful addition you recently gifted me, in relation to my efforts on ]. It was most kind of you. Did you like the article? Personally, I care not a whit for the mouldering old pile of stones - take a ] to 'em, I say, and plant the area up for pheasant shoots, much more useful - but young Horace was asked to create an article on Misplaced Pages for a school project and as the poor child is terminally hopeless, his dearest great-aunt was compelled to step in to help. He is sulking and hasn't spoken to me since, because I forgot to sign it in his name rather than my own. Too bad for the child, I say. Maybe he is now regretting misplacing my Maltesers.... | |||
| ] (]) 18:55, 20 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Your Good == | |||
| I didnt intend to vandalise the First Lady of California's page. It was just a test to see how quick it would be reverted back. Im writing an article on tackling vandalism on wuikipedia for a website so this was just a test of response time! <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 16:10, 21 March 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> | |||
| :: OK. ] 04:34, 22 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == FA tools == | |||
| Just a note; the anchor breaks in cases such as ]. ''']''' <sup>(])</sup> 18:49, 21 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :: OK. Now which magic word works for parentheses... ] 04:34, 22 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==]== | |||
| Gimmetrow, remember Similar issue at UCR, see and Can you help? ] (]) 21:51, 21 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :It may be resolved, see Since I'm being attacked at ANI again, I'm in no frame of mind to be solving this stuff. ] (]) 23:02, 21 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == ] == | |||
| Hey Gimmetrow,<br>Would you mind taking a look at the ] article and fixing the ref tags? The numbers aren't matching up right.<br>Thx, ] (]) 22:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Thx again ] (]) 16:22, 22 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Thanks... == | |||
| Thanks for catching the missing formatting - I appreciate it. Cheers. --''']'''''<small><sup>]</sup><sub>]</sub></small>'' 06:32, 22 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Refs== | |||
| No idea what this is about, have you seen ] (]) 15:43, 22 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==AfD nomination of Linda Bollea== | |||
| ]An editor has nominated ], an article on which you have worked or that you created, for ]. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "]"). | |||
| Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at {{#if:Linda Bollea | ] | ] }} and please be sure to ] with four tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>). | |||
| You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the ] template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you.<!-- Template:AFDNote --> ] (]) 23:59, 22 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == DYK for Attributed arms == | |||
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| |On ], ], ''']''' was updated with {{#if:|facts|a fact}} from the article{{#if:|s|}} ''''']'''''{{#if:|{{#if:|, |, and}} ''''']''''' | |||
| }}{{#if:|{{#if:|, |, and}} ''''']''''' | |||
| }}{{#if:|, and ''''']'''''}}, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the ]. | |||
| |} <!-- ], ] --> Excellent! ]] 08:51, 23 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == ]== | |||
| Can you solve the white space in the banners? (ew, a DYK, cool !!) ] (]) 17:22, 24 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Gimme, can you please add a small option to {{t1|MuMaMa}}? I guess I should learn how to do this stuff; not sure I'm able, though. ] (]) 20:56, 24 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Attributed arms== | |||
| I actually made the "Satan_traditional_arms.svg" image completely independently (mainly because I came across a suitable vectorized frog depiction recently), and it was an agreeable coincidence that when I finished uploading that image to Commons, I came over to Misplaced Pages and saw the Attributed arms article on the Misplaced Pages front page...<br> | |||
| I had been vaguely thinking for a while of starting a stub on attributed arms, but never got around to it. ] (]) 23:36, 24 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==]== | |||
| Thanks for your note. Sure, I'm willing to help out, although current off-wiki obligations will limit my involvement for the GA push. | |||
| The article isn't yet ready for GA nomination. There are uncited statements like ''Many commentators argue that....'' which either need proper references or need to be removed. There's also some copy editing work to be done. | |||
| I'll try to look at the article over the next week and will post comments to the article's talk page. Please let me know how you want to proceed. Cheers, ] (]) 03:32, 26 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Clutter, drama and duplication of effort== | |||
| After stable banner templates for more than a year, ] put the banners template up for deletion right after the Signpost Dispatch was published. AGF but ... I'm fond of collaborative editors, and this editor didn't even try to discuss the matter beforehand with Kirill and Raul or on the template talk pages, to determine if all goals could be accomplished without drama. I've just noticed that his talk page says, "I am developing a script to replace {{tl|GA}}, {{tl|oldpeerreview}} and ] with {{tl|ArticleHistory}}", raising my concern that this isn't an editor who is comfortable working collaboratively with others, since that is what GimmeBot does. I thought you should be aware in case you want to work collaboratively with him. I remain unimpressed by the recent changes at peer review, which have not resulted in more or better peer reviews, as far as I can tell, so I remain concerned about processes and pages becoming cluttered. I'm also worried that if he develops that script as described, it will generate extra work (if he leaves steps out of articlehistory, like AfDs and other, it's harder to go back and correct the AH after the fact, no?) ] (]) 17:10, 27 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Well, I don't expect AH or G-bot to be permanent fixtures. They will be replaced eventually by some better system, which might be another tab (after "article" and "discussion") for ratings and project banners, perhaps edited only by accounts with bot flags. Seems a bit unnecessary to recreate the wheel, but that's his choice. Doesn't matter to me. ] 17:26, 27 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::It's going to matter to me if he doesn't work collaboratively and ends up creating a script that leaves out events, so that someone else has to then repair AH. ] (]) 17:27, 27 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::I guess this is as good a place as any to deal with these particular issues. Firstly, I don't read the Signpost - I had no idea that that article was coming. This is something I've been meaning to do for a month or more, and just happened to get around to at a horribly inconvenient time. If I'd realised that this was such a high-profile time for banner shells, I'd have waited another month. So sorry for that. I'm also sorry you feel that the Peer review reorganisation has not been effective in increasing participation there, but there is little I, or MelonBot, or anyone else, can do to fix apathy. Yes it was a lot of activity, and perhaps it has not been ''very'' effective, but the process is (in my opinion) substantially improved by the standardisation (and, ironically, decreased level of "clutter"). Fundamentally, it is easier now for the lay-editor to get a peer review than it was before, which is the most important thing as far as I'm concerned. Vis the ArticleHistory thing, that comment has been there for months, and so has the code - I'll send it to you if you want - because I have many other things to do, and ArticleHistory is a ''pig'' to get right, as you both well know from the excellent, and largely thankless, work you do maintaining it. If nothing else, I am a perfectionist - I am unfortunately also rather clumsy - but I rarely settle for a less-than-optimal solution, and if I break something, I ''will'' ensure that it is fixed. It's fair to say that I am not much of a collaborative editor - I generally work alone, and interact with other editors mainly when I have something I need, or something I want to give. But it takes all types, I guess, to make an army, or a Wiki; and I like to think that, while my edit history is as littered with mistakes as anyone else's, I've fixed just about everything I've broken, and built a few more things besides. <font color="forestgreen">]</font>‑<font color="darkorange">]</font> 23:25, 27 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::: Well, thank you for the apology, Melon; prose isn't easy for me, writing that Dispatch was a bear, I didn't want to do it and had to pick it up because no one else would do this week, and having it invalidated right off the press wasn't fun and didn't feel nice. I do believe Kirill could have solved the entire thing without a TfD (and probably still will), so I hope you'll make more use of talk pages before XfD in the future. On peer review, I'm concerned that you all increased the overhead and lowered the time at peer review; but, that's on the pr talk page. I said long ago that two weeks isn't enough. On articlehistory, I'm concerned that you coordinate any new work with Gimmetrow, so we not have another surprise like this week. ] (]) 23:39, 27 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Help ... grrrr == | |||
| Cluelessness alert, pls see the edit history at ]. No idea, but frustrating. ] (]) 18:51, 28 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Is there still a problem? WP:FAS seems ok. 19:37, 28 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ] is ok because I reverted all of the recent changes at FA number; I don't know what they want to do or how to do it right. ] (]) 20:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Yes, and I changed the template again. Is there still a problem? 20:02, 28 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ] looks fine now, but were you able to restore anything else that I reverted, since I couldn't decipher what was causing the problem? ] (]) 20:04, 28 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : I don't know what it looked like broken, but I'm assuming it had something to do with the line spacing in the template. 20:07, 28 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Yes, when it was broken it was coming out ... | |||
| like this ... | |||
| (what happens when you leave a space before typing). ] (]) 20:36, 28 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Something went weird I think I fixed it, not sure? ] (]) 14:45, 30 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Gimmetrow, there's an error in one of the banners at ], causing a weird space in the banner template. Can you help? Best, ] (]) 21:02, 31 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Oh, I'll just try and myself next time :-) Right. Thanks !! ] (]) 21:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Hello== | |||
| Hello, why are all the ] images deleted?? Because i checked the copyright and a copy of the image from another source and i have found nothing except for the copyrighted flickr image which is posted on flickr, whcih was deleted yesterday immediately with no proof that it is a copyright violation so i am wuite suprised because no petition was made or a page for the amount of votes i am new at wikipedia but from what i have read that is not suitable. The images that were in the english page were all copyrighted and the deleter found no proof of his or hers claim. Thank you for your time. Good luck. (]) 10:00, 29 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Commons does not allow uploading of copyrighted images under fair use claims. All images on commons should be licensed public domain or creative commons (with or without attribution, with or without share-alike). Flickr images licensed as "all rights reserved" are not compatible with commons, and will be deleted from there. In this case, most of the Song images were uploaded by one user who took a flickr image licensed "all rights reserved", re-uploaded it at flickr as "CC-BY", and then uploaded it at commons referring to the false flickr licensing. That's fairly serious abuse. The same commons user had also marked an image "flickr-reviewed" using someone else's signature. An admin at commons reviewed the situation, and apparently found those abuses enough to make the other uploads suspect. ] 23:34, 30 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Paleolithic diet== | |||
| Thanks a lot for fixing my "primitive" cut-past move. Cheers! --] (]) 23:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == MoS == | |||
| Hello! I'm told that at some point you developed an "MoS Lite" of some kind. Do you still have a copy? I wonder if you might be interested in collaborating on such a thing. See ] also. --] ] 03:57, 3 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : See ], which tries to cover the main points of each MOS page with some details and still remain short enough to read. 04:08, 3 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == I gave up == | |||
| I couldn't make my monobook work around that error; I cleaned out everything and restarted, as I was trying to promote/archive since I'm going to be out all evening. Do you know how to put all the pieces back in my monobook in the correct order to get around that error? The peer review script wasn't working anyway, but I need those Drpda tools back, and I never did add your multi-tool. techno-dummie. ] (]) 18:38, 4 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :I'm off for the evening, but so far it seems OK. Thanks, Gimme, you're a gem. I already promoted/archived, since I'm going out. ] (]) 20:33, 4 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Signpost Tutorials == | |||
| I noticed you have writen a summarized version of the MoS. Would you be able to adapt this into a few articles for the signpost tutorial series? ] (]) 20:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Signpost tutorial series? You mean the featured content dispatches? I think many other editors are in a better position to know and explain the MoS than I am. Sorry, Placebo, at least for now. ] 01:49, 5 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == resolution of technical glitch == | |||
| Thank you thank you! Where would we be without you? ] ] 01:56, 5 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :I'd be at the beach, not on Wiki, without Gimme. ] (]) 01:56, 5 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Thank you == | |||
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| |- | |||
| |style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | ], again and as always, thank you for all you do for so many others to resolve bot, programming, script, template and all manner of technical glitches. I know where I'd be without you on Wiki: at the beach. All the best, ] (]) 03:00, 5 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| |} | |||
| ==Infobox dash== | |||
| Gimmetrow, ] has a faulty emdash somewhere that is affecting ]; I tried but can't find it. At ], it's resulting in "ISO 639-3: nci – Classical Nahuatl For modern varieties, see List of Nahuan languages. " That emdash should be an endash. ] (]) 16:41, 6 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Did get it? <font color="forestgreen">]</font>‑<font color="darkorange">]</font> 17:16, 6 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::Done, beautiful, thank you, Melon!! ] (]) 17:18, 6 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Sussex & Kent Template == | |||
| Thanks for the offer. The template was originally copied from ] to ]. I was assuming that something had been corrupted during the conversion, but I just discovered the bug exists on the original Kent template too. | |||
| If you look at the template on ] you will see the edit link is displayed incorrectly. | |||
| <b><nowiki>The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (Bank/Comments|action=edit}} edit · refresh)</nowiki></b> | |||
| This happens only when the article name has a space. I have given up for the moment, over to you. Thanks ] (]) 20:45, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Excellent work thank you. Sorry about that curve ball of giving you a Kent example ] (]) 21:14, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :: You're welcome. 21:28, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == ] == | |||
| Is there a reason why you keep removing the image placeholder? -<b>]</b> <small>(] • ])</small> 10:18, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Yes. A placeholder is unnecessary; we don't need a placeholder to hold the place. An image can be added to any article. The placeholder wording seems to encourage as much copyright violation as it does uploading free images. One could equally ask why you keep adding it? ] 19:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::The placeholder has a purpose. You click it and it takes you to an ] page, and then at the bottom of that page it lists all the pages with that image on it, and hence all the pages with no images that need them. When you click it, it takes you to a page which states, "If you hold the copyright to an image (e.g. you photographed or drew it yourself) and would like Misplaced Pages to be able to use it" as the introduction, which seems pretty clear to me. If you think the wording on the actual IMAGE is deceptive or otherwise unclear, then replace the "replace this image female.svg" image, but I don't see a need to remove it from the article. There wouldn't be one if it wasn't intended to be used. -<b>]</b> <small>(] • ])</small> 21:24, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::: (ec on my own talk page?) I don't see any need to have it. Since you have done nothing with the article except add this image, what do you care? ] 21:31, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::::Huh? The beginning of that sentence starts with "ec on my talk page." which doesn't make sense... -<b>]</b> <small>(] • ])</small> 21:35, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Those things are ''truly'' obnoxious. And ... they remind me of another good reason to never add infoboxes, because a bot seems to be adding them to bio infoboxes. ] (]) 21:27, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==]== | |||
| Is there a reason why you changed her filmography table which I worked on to appear more beneficial to readers? You appear to be abusing your editing power by constantly changing things that are only to your liking. ] (]) 17:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Yes, I changed the table because it was not in accord with the guidelines at ], specifically removing the blue header. As far as I know I did not modify the rest of your changes to the table. ] 19:58, 9 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Tired== | |||
| I can't do this alone. ] (]) 05:58, 10 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Thanks, Gimmetrow; that sort of thing wears me down, and I appreciate that you're always there to help. Best, ] (]) 07:47, 10 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Rongorongo == | |||
| Hi, | |||
| You say that the FAN was closed ]. However, there was ongoing discussion (I'd just met the objection of one critic, and was halfway through meeting the second), and no closure in the discussion itself, so I restored it. Or do I need to reopen it? ] (]) 09:42, 10 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == MuMaMa template == | |||
| Many thanks for fixing the MuMaMa template! Template syntax really does my tiny little mind in. I've been playing around a little more, and am now fairly happy with what appears at ]. I'm wondering if there's a way to include more than one msg field? Though that's probably too fancy altogether. Many thanks again. --] (]|]) 11:04, 10 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == rollback == | |||
| Hi Gimmetrow, thanks for giving me rollback privledges, I was afraid I might reach the 3 revert rule and get blocked just for eliminating vandalism! ] (]) 02:21, 13 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Hey! == | |||
| Just wanted to let you know that ST47 has ]! :) Let me know if you need anything. ]] 05:24, 13 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Thanks== | |||
| Thank you very much for the wonderful way you have done the editing to the article - Mar Thoma Church - on April 12, 2008. Because I was and still not familiar with the system, I made mistakes in the links to headers, for inbox to display. You also corrected some silly mistakes that I made.] (]) 22:47, 12 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : You're welcome. 01:27, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Stub of the day? == | |||
| Please see ] | |||
| Thanks - ] (]) 00:04, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Last version . 01:27, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Bot closure of FAC == | |||
| On what authority has Gimmebot closed the FAC for ] (, )? The article was still under review, and being updated to comments. Surely it should be a human editor who decides this? — ]<sub> (]/])</sub> 06:51, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :See ]; I closed the FAC. ] (]) 15:41, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::My mistake - I misread the times. I've passed the query on to SandyGeorgia. — ]<sub> (]/])</sub> 17:10, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ==Obama== | |||
| Just to make sure you're tuned in: ]. ] (]) 00:51, 15 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :] had a GA ah error, I have an app't today and don't have time to fix it, has an old AFD. Also, Stifle has added Obama to ah, I reverted. ] (]) 16:29, 16 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Renaming updates == | |||
| Hi - A while ago you added the by-year lists of featured article nominations (e.g. ]) to Gimmebot's list of places to look when FAs get renamed. I've noticed Gimmebot handles FL renaming as well. Can you add the by-year lists of FL nominations (e.g. ] to Gimmebot's tasklist? These have been fairly recently created and are generally maintained by ], which even handles renames (it notices if the nominated list isn't in FL or FFL and, if not, checks if the list is a redirect and then replaces the link with where the redirect points). I'm not sure, but my guess is that Gimmebot's procedure for doing this is a little more straightforward. Thanks. -- ] <small>(])</small> 01:01, 17 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : No, it's the same algorithm. Should work for FL now. 03:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == GA in AH == | |||
| Makes me crazy; several errors a day still. Since you said you've now converted them all, does that mean you'll be regularly patrolling them now? Because since you're caught up, when I find errors, rather than building the ah, I just revert the error and leave the GA template on the page, assuming you'll get to it with the bot. Is that a good plan? ] (]) 22:07, 17 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Gee, I check the category and its always empty ;) Sure, I'll deal with the GA templates. I can also handle adding maindate based on the TFA blurbs. ] 22:15, 17 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::You bet it's always empty; I check it constantly :-) I'll let it fill up for you sometime. Should I tell Elcobbola to stop adding maindate? ] (]) 22:48, 17 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::: Up to Elc. Just saying I can do it now after writing the code to verify the maindates out there. Was pleasantly surprised there were fewer problems than I expected. Fixed a couple issues where the TFA article pointed to what's now a disambig page. Haven't done the check the other way yet, but that's very low priority. Did you know there was one day without a TFA? ] 22:54, 17 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::: What happened that day ... the previous day continued? ] (]) 23:39, 17 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::::: ]. Might be a dispatch blurb there. 23:41, 17 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::::: Interesting! Elcobbola is aware (replaced by a machine :-) and I asked him to run backup while you're testing. Best, ] (]) 23:57, 17 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| * ] (]) 04:44, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Eek, thanks; woke up to a lovely sea of red from Raul's talk page on my watchlist. Does that mean no one can post to my talk page, or only IPs? ] (]) 13:18, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :It means that only admins can move your page, editing is open to everyone Sandy. ] (]) 15:11, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :: Thanks, Woody (wouldn't want to get moved to a penis, or worse, article !) ] (]) 15:28, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Here's a new twist (never seen that before): ] (]) 21:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Apparently {{tlf|fac}} was subst'ed. People may expect the PR system to carry over to FAC. Hope the move-protection wasn't too surprising. I see you've move-archived your talk page once, but that was in 2006. ] 21:16, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :: I did ? (beats me). I usually cut and paste. Thanks ! ] (]) 21:26, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| By the way, there is a confusing batch of suggestions on Raul's talk page, saying he should juggle the mainpage articles, so as you're testing your new gadget, you may have to watch for a change to something already scheduled. ] (]) 21:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Raul juggled the dates, but I think (?) he forgot to (?) move protect today's, ] ? (I don't know what I'm talking about, but there's something they usually do that's not there.) ] (]) 00:18, 20 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Commas in dates with autoformatting == | |||
| Sure, let's fix it. That table has been confusing a lot of editors ever since it was inserted, I think it was around September 2007. While all the examples are true, it may be better not to list every possible format that can be typed and how the autoformatting renders them. Sort of like adding "There has never been a report of them sleeping in trees" to the Rhinoceros article; true, no doubt, but not a helpful addition. I feel it is not the duty of the style guide to cover every feature of the autoformatting within MediaWiki. It should be enough to explain how it renders the date formats that are approved by the MOS. Well, that's what I think, but let's hear what you think we should aim for. I will watch your talk page for a few days, so you may respond here or at my talk page. ] (]) 04:43, 18 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :I see you've just added to WT:MOSDATE, so I'll follow up there. ] (]) 04:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == The shortcut box == | |||
| Hi Gimmetrow. | |||
| I was the one that created ]. Thanks for that you have configured your bot "GimmeBot" to work through CAT:SHORTFIX. I took a look at some of the edits the bot did and it does exactly what it should. It even handled the tricky cases right and fixed inputs to other templates that in turn calls {{tlf|shortcut}}. You sure must have spent a lot of time configuring that! | |||
| Should I report to you when I have updated the other shortcut templates in the same way? I am planning to do the same changes to {{tl|shortcut-l}}, and {{tl|policy shortcut}}. | |||
| --] (]) 03:16, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Return of sysop user-right == | |||
| : Oh it's not catching everything. I was just hoping to clear out some of the easy cases. ] 03:19, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Hi Gimmetrow. Welcome back. I have returned your sysop user-right, and I do hope to see you around a bit more. As always, there's lots to do! As I mentioned at BN, if you could use the ] for the birthdate references, I am sure that will help people in the future. ]<sup>TT</sup>(]) 13:11, 25 January 2023 (UTC) | |||
| :: There's something with shortcuts. ] (]) 19:38, 20 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Meg Foster date == | |||
| Gimme, can you relate that to UTC for me? What is the last time to promote, UTC? Can I do the 24th 00.10, for example, or do I need to do 23? What time 23rd? I hope it will be a fun break! ] (]) 01:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Gimmetrow, I'll run some through tonight, and then I'll have another look in the morning before you're off ... will you be able to ping me when you're back? I hope whatever has you occupied goes well. All the best, ] (]) 22:59, 23 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| Sure. I know Google Books (and more generally Google) gives different results for different users, but if you insert the string ''"Meg Foster" "May 14, 1948"'' on Google Books you should be able to locate it. Obviously if you want to remove the date of birth or want to mention only the year of birth on the basis of privacy concerns you are free to do it, but the reference is certainly correct. ] 08:35, 27 January 2023 (UTC) | |||
| Just got through my morning list; do I still have time to run through FAC? Could take me 45 mins to hour and a half. ] (]) 16:11, 24 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Done; see you :-) ] (]) 16:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| == Welcome back == | |||
| What happened ???? ] (]) 21:34, 26 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : On for a bit, why? 21:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :: Had me worried, because I haven't caught up on FAC, was enjoying a break myself, and didn't plan to close anyway. Carry on :-))) ] (]) 21:38, 26 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| I noticed in the administrator's newsletter that you are again an administrator, and I wanted to thank you for resuming your service, and to welcome you back. ] (]) 01:51, 2 February 2023 (UTC) | |||
| == Question on closure of Featured List candidacy== | |||
| : I swear, I'm talking to walls in here. ] (]) 00:52, 7 February 2023 (UTC) | |||
| Please see ]. This list was nominated on 17 Mar 2008. There was an active discussion during March and into April, with many changes/improvements made to the article. I made a comment on 12 April. GimmeBot closed the discussion on 15 April, and did not promote the list. Can you please indicate what criteria were used to determine closure and result of closure. Thanks. (I've been on a WikiBreak and am just now reviewing a number of items.) — ] (]) 22:27, 20 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :: What do you mean? Are you asking me into the latest CCI thing? ] 06:04, 7 February 2023 (UTC) | |||
| : ] closed it by adding the transclusion to the failed log. You'll have to ask Scorpion. The bot just does the paperwork. ] 22:49, 20 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :::No :) I was just frustrated that no one does what you did, and few seem to be paying attention. I type 'til I'm blue in the fingers ! ] (]) 10:48, 7 February 2023 (UTC) | |||
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| Also, are you planning to work further on ]? I was going to remove it today but noticed you in the history. ] (]) 11:53, 27 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :Gimmetrow, I feel so bad that I nominated this without realizing that you were involved and without consulting you on timing. I picked it simply because it was one of the oldest. Is there anything I can do to help? ] (]) 21:06, 27 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| :: I'm doing some stuff, but it will take a while. Does it more need a peppering of refs or a stirring of prose? ] 02:20, 29 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::: I haven't looked recently, but if you plan to work on it, just leave a note on the FAR so Marskell will know not to close it, and let me know how I can help. ] (]) 02:21, 29 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| ::::Seconding that, ]'s FAR just closed and I need a new project. I'll see if I can dig up some general references tonight or tomorrow, and we can use those for inlines. ] <sup> ] </sup>~<small> ] </small> 20:42, 30 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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| I just noticed that GimmeBot is now automatically updating article history from the GA template. Many many thanks for doing that. Would it be possible to do the same with GAR? I've produced a template called {{tl|Old GAR}} which provides the basic GAR information, just as GA does. Hopefully, then article history errors will be a thing of the past. | |||
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| As I said, I'm completely burnt out on fighting image battles. The band photographs were the hardest to obtain (phone calls, etc.), and if what I have isn't good enough, then they'll probably just have to be deleted. The band is reconstituting after the death of its keyboardist, and they're very busy, so it's not easy to get in touch with them. Thanks again for the help on the V'town photos. ] ]] 18:42, 28 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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| ==Juice Plus== | |||
| Gimmetrow, it seems clear from the lastest discussion thread, and numerous others in the past that Rhode Island Red clearly has a POV in regard to the article. He has done literally hundreds of edits and only sidetracked and did edits on other subjects and topics when the heat was on for his 'review', despite being told to take a break, stop edit warring, etc. he is back and in complete and total control of this article. His words are almost verbatim a satirical site, www.JuicePlusResearch.blogspot.com that he tried to have cited as a source for evidence against Juice Plus. I am concerned over very real situation of the nuetrality of Wiki being comphremised. Articles are not to bias one way or another, there is as much research "pro" juice plus as there is negative but Red won't let any of that in the article NONE of it, he says it wasn't controlled, wasn't blind, etc....Can anything be done to monitor this article and make it a less biased and one-person's point of view article? | |||
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| : I'll see what can be done. ] 02:20, 29 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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| Thanks for your help . Is there a place for me to request such purges/Can I run the bot myself to do the purge? Thanks. ] (]) 02:01, 29 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : Ask at ]. Categories will update eventually on their own, though. ] 02:20, 29 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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| Aren't you botifying all the passes now, so you'll have to add icons as well? And remove if you do GARs? ] (]) 04:34, 29 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
| : I don't see anything in the discussion there about any bot stuff. ] 04:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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This ban includes any other accounts they may hold. If any of these people have something to say to me, their reprseentative must contact me first through "email this user" and obtain my authorisation. Their represeentative may not post here on their behalf either. Gimmetrow 12:00, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Return of sysop user-right
Hi Gimmetrow. Welcome back. I have returned your sysop user-right, and I do hope to see you around a bit more. As always, there's lots to do! As I mentioned at BN, if you could use the Template:Cite web for the birthdate references, I am sure that will help people in the future. Worm(talk) 13:11, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
Meg Foster date
Sure. I know Google Books (and more generally Google) gives different results for different users, but if you insert the string "Meg Foster" "May 14, 1948" on Google Books you should be able to locate it. Obviously if you want to remove the date of birth or want to mention only the year of birth on the basis of privacy concerns you are free to do it, but the reference is certainly correct. Cavarrone 08:35, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
Welcome back
I noticed in the administrator's newsletter that you are again an administrator, and I wanted to thank you for resuming your service, and to welcome you back. Cullen328 (talk) 01:51, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
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- No :) I was just frustrated that no one does what you did, and few seem to be paying attention. I type 'til I'm blue in the fingers ! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 10:48, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
- What do you mean? Are you asking me into the latest CCI thing? Gimmetrow 06:04, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
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