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You helped me figure out how to add citations

... to Neil Papiano. Someone has made it so I can't continue as I find more and has wiped out what you showed me and what citations I had added. They have also filled the entire article with "citations needed." What do I do now? User:3rdEast 8 December 2007

do you read Python?

You might be interested in a bot that runs (continously, background) on the en.wikt: see wikt:User:AutoFormat/code. If you do write some Python, there may be any number of snippets you would find useful. Cheers! Robert Ullmann 15:06, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 16:47 6 December 2007 (GMT).

SmackBot

In this edit , SmackBot changed some {{cn}} tags to {{fact}} tags. I intentionally used cn because I know the facts are correct but want to remember to add a reference; I don't like them changing to fact, which implies there is doubt about the claims. Adding the dates is a useful function, but I believe the tag used should not be changed. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:28, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

{{Cn}} is a redirect to {{Fact}}. SmackBot canonicalises redirects - it has to deal with several hundred template names plus (well actually muliiplied by) many different valid ways of writing the templates. While I agree that "Cn" is a tad more friendly than "Fact", I really need to go with the redirect target. Since the test displayed is "citation needed" we shouldn't perhaps worry too much about this, but you could request that the canonical template have one of the other names. Rich Farmbrough, 22:35 3 December 2007 (GMT).

Thanks for the explanation. I'll try to remember to date my templates. — Carl (CBM · talk) 19:39, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Strange edits by Smackbot

I just reverted a couple of edits by Smackbot, where it was messing up subtitles by replacing 'Operations==' with 'operations'. See diffs here and here. Could you please work out what the glitch is here, and try to fix it? Thanks in advance. Terraxos 20:35, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I too have just noticed this error in a bunch of US Navy ship articles such as . I've been trying to cleanup these articles myself, however it seems I might be doing so for a while. Would it be possible to get SmackBot to correct this problem? -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 21:50, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes of course. Rich Farmbrough, 22:29 3 December 2007 (GMT).

Now running. Rich Farmbrough, 09:42 4 December 2007 (GMT).

All done. Rich Farmbrough, 18:47 5 December 2007 (GMT).

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Psychos

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you people think u are getting to heaven by judging other people....our soldiers are fighting for our freedom and your right to wear and say your rediculous things...yet you picket @ their funerals....crazy people....cults aren't of God by the way....You nut cases..Judge not......I watched u guys last night and you all sound stupid.....Hey just because u know the bible doesn't mean u are going to heaven...Lucifer knows the bible front and back dumb asses...And Shirley I just thought u sounded so intelligent when u said "not a chance poopy pants" Man u people really need a freakin life...

SmackBot

• Is the use of <references /> now deprecated? I notice your Bot is changing <references /> to {{reflist}}. I thought that in stubs with just a few refs., <references /> was still OK. JGHowes - 18:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

No, I actually prefer <references />. The change is part of WP:AWB's general fixes, and for this reason I have turned off "general fixes" in my main "date maintenance tags" run. However, on balance, with the standard headers I decided that the type of article is more likely to benefit from the general fixes. I have also asked the AWB developers to remove this particular feature.

(Note the reason I prefer <references /> is purely the font size.) Rich Farmbrough, 18:46 5 December 2007 (GMT).

Hello

How do you link the date and year in your sig? —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  19:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I sign with ~~~ and embed the linked dates in my raw sig under preferences. Rich Farmbrough, 19:03 5 December 2007 (GMT).

OK, what does it look like though? (Sorry, despite being computer savvy on an average level, I am horrible with code.) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  19:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Thusly ''] ]'', {{subst:CURRENTTIME}} ] ] (GMT).

Sounds like it's worth a try… —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  19:12 5 December, 2007

Banco Intercontinental.

I was indiscrimately reverting his top edits due to him being a banned sock. Will 19:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Weird edits by smack bot (citation template)

Hey there, smack bot made some weird edits to Lyndon–Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence (see diff ), specifically it moved some citation template parameters out of the template and just placed them at the bottom of the page. RobHar (talk) 20:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Those links need ":" before "en", else they are interwiki. --Emijrp (talk) 21:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Correct. Or they don't need "en:" at all. So I have fixed them up. And am now looking at the other 408 cases, mostly commented out en: interwikis. Rich Farmbrough, 21:15 5 December 2007 (GMT).

Ah I see, I hadn't noticed those extra "en:"s. I looked into it and I think User:Jakob.scholbach has been adding these (possibly through some database he uses and some automated process, I'm not sure). I've informed him of this on his talk page. RobHar (talk) 23:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Merge templates

Thank you for the information. --Anthony5429 (talk) 20:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

You edit too much, here's a stamp for you

Here's a stamp from the Faroe Islands for you! Stamps from the Faroe Islands somehow promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving something friendly to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Make your own message to spread WikiLove to others! Happy editing! Vatomanocu (talk) 13:48, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

NCLEX family of articles

Hi Rich. Happy Holiday season ! Meanwhile I have been re-working a few articles on NCLEX as requested. I removed odd text by a contributor User talk:Maxbasco who had been warned about messing up the articles by someone else. The three articles in question which I had somewhat re-worked are NCLEX, NCLEX-RN, NCLEX-PN. If you could, please have a look. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 19:27, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

SmackBOT & Category:NPOV disputes

Category:NPOV disputes seems to be filling with undated articles tagged with Template:npov-section, Template:POV-check, Template:pov-title, and presumably some of the others (and their redirects) listed at the top of the category description page. Just curious if it would be possible for Smackbot to date these as well, to keep the NPOV queue moving. Thanks for your bot work, by the way; you're picking up some of the slack from my Pearle being down for a long time. 8) -- Beland (talk) 18:02, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, this is (as you probably know) easy in principle - added those three templates, will gather in the others as I go. Rich Farmbrough, 22:57 8 December 2007 (GMT).

I've added {{POV}} and it's fourteen redirects... should get 50% of the 6000 articles this time through. Rich Farmbrough, 23:31 8 December 2007 (GMT).

Can you help answer a reference desk question?

Can you help answer this reference desk question? You added the edit about Jian squares which I was wondering about. Graham87 13:11, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I need help putting pictures

hi, i know how to edit articles but not how to put pictures. whenever i put pics, it is deleted. For example, if i want to put this http://www.afrol.com/images/persons/som_Yusuf_Kibaki.jpg what should i do? Please tell me step by step instructions (for a person that has no clue)...the help sections on wiki, are not clear to me. when uploading, there are a lot questions and options to choose for copyright type etc..and i have no clue. thanks in advance —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.247.122.251 (talk) 17:39, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

The picture you mention above is presumably copyright by afrol News, so can't be included except in special cases. Pictures you take yourself can be released under GFDL. Rich Farmbrough, 17:46 9 December 2007 (GMT). 17:46, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

thanks for reply. what are those special cases?? please give me full details.....and also are you saying all pics in wiki are uploaded only by people who took the pictures only? like the picture inside Mwai Kibaki and Meles Zenawi don't seem that way - thanks

Both are US Federal Government pics. Rich Farmbrough, 17:59 9 December 2007 (GMT).

so, what were those special cases?? please give me a hand with this issue, with more detail. or if you can, help me put a couple of pictures inside one or two articles. thanks in advance —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.247.122.251 (talk) 18:13, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

• Pictures that have been released under a suitable license (ideally public domain or GFDL) including your own
• US federal Govt images, but not logos, coats of arms, badges etc. Also not all govt agencies pix.
• Pictures where copyright has expired or was never in force
• "Fair use" where the picture is used to illustrate an article on the subject. See WP:Fair use.

That's the simple version.... Rich Farmbrough, 18:21 9 December 2007 (GMT).

SmackBot

Hi Rich, I've blocked SmackBot as it's been replacing {{NPOV}} with {{POV-statement}} which are two completely different templates. Feel free to unblock when it's corrected. Ryan Postlethwaite 18:30, 9 December 2007 (UTC)