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You said that a search turned up no reasonable results yet the first result when I searched was evident http://www.rugbywa.com.au/article/pindan-premier-grade-round-one-preview — Preceding unsigned comment added by PandaTelf (talk • contribs) 03:32, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Just a quick note for you about the categorization template on William Wallace Spence, which you changed from ((improve categories)) to ((uncategorized)) a couple of days ago: the problem is that there's a bot, User:Cyberbot I, that goes around removing ((uncategorized)) from pages that do have categories on them (since sometimes users forget to remove it in the process of fixing the problem), and it doesn't know how to detect the difference between a hidden maintenance category and a real content category. It just strips the template if it sees any categories at all, and that in turn bounces the page right back into the untagged queue again — so it just gets trapped in a recursive loop where I tag it, the bot untags it, I tag it again, the bot untags it again, lather rinse repeat forever and ever. So even though it is technically uncategorized rather than needing more categories, we do have to use "improve categories" instead of "uncategorized" if a page has hidden maintenance categories like Category:Year of birth missing on it. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 00:59, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for revetion of the page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Buican)
I saw that I have deleted more than half of the page :(( Regards. Mustafay007 (talk) 23:54, 12 April 2015 (UTC) |
Thanks for Wikipedia:Database reports/Invalid Navbar links. Could ((Election table)) be included in the report? It doesn't currently use Navbar but has its own code to make "e d" links. See [1] for an example with wrong links because it says "Kazakh presidential election, 2011" instead of "Kazakhstani presidential election, 2011". Would it have to use Navbar to be included without a lot of work? PrimeHunter (talk) 22:54, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi! Isn't it possible to get at least similar results in quarry:? I would like to run it for Latvian Wikipedia. I made some kind similar query, but it is wrong :) --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 18:43, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi, can you update the bot for the New and Edited Tennis Articles so that it no longer includes articles that are strictly in the category of table tennis? E.g. the BLP for Doo Hoi Kem should not appear in the list as she is a table tennis player and not a tennis player. However if a player is/was both a tennis and table tennis player, the most famous example being Fred Perry, than the article should of course appear in the list. Thanks in advance. Cheers, --Wolbo (talk) 19:54, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for fixing my mistake on Rick Hawn. I guess I was in hurry and wasn't paying close enough attention etc. SQGibbon (talk) 19:33, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
You left the summary "Record count: 43105", is this a record high or low, and to what does this number pertain? Thanks Banak (talk) 23:54, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Bamyers, I recently created a page for the late motoring journalist Frank Page. I notice that you correctly changed the letter 'P' in the title from lower to upper case. I had tried to do this, following the 'site instructions, but to no avail. I'd just like to ask you how to do this, in case I'm faced with the same problem in the future. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DenbySpinks (talk • contribs) 19:31, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
That's excellent, many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DenbySpinks (talk • contribs) 01:49, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
I've just seen User:AlexNewArtBot/WomenScientistsSearchResult and similar pages; which are very useful, thank you. I have some suggested tweaks to the output format, to make it even more useful. Please could you:
Please let me know if you need me to expand on any of the above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:41, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. That works for me (it's an extra click away, but worth it for the added utility). Please may I suggest:
target="_new"
from the links (users can always tell their browser "Open in new tab" if they wish to).https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewItem&site=enwiki&page=Jane+Doe&label=Jane+Doe
http://id.loc.gov/search/?q=Jane+Doe&q=cs%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fid.loc.gov%2Fauthorities%2Fnames
)http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANServlet?english=Y&find=Jane+Doe&role=&page=1&nation=
)http://www.imdb.com/find?ref_=nv_sr_fn&q=Jane+Doe&s=all
)https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=Jane+Doe&type=artist&method=indexed
)https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/PageTools.php?wiki=wikidata&page=Q42
)Cheers, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:04, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Thank you again. This is already proving to be really useful. First, a couple more requests:
|url=
or |website=
in an infobox, using ((Official)), or in Wikidata, please display a link to it.https://viaf.org/viaf/search?query=local.personalNames+all+%22Polly%20Roy%22&sortKeys=holdingscount&recordSchema=BriefVIAF
For use with Wikidata, instead of:
you'd use, say:
or:
and your abstract would be the Wikidata description (in English, or the browser's default language, perhaps).
A user script can then launch it from within Wikidata (or indeed, Wikipedia). I would also make a template for use in Wikidata non-item pages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:42, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/PageTools.php?wiki=wikidata&page=Q42
--Bamyers99 (talk) 20:46, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
Another bug; at [2] you've concatenated two web addresses. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:07, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Quick question--it says it runs once a week, but was wondering which day? Just wondering when to anticipate the first population of my cleanup listings for WP:ROMANCE. Thanks! plange (talk) 03:29, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi @Bamyers. I think you can imagine how frustrating the following has been for me. I am the Editor in Chief of Ring Magazine, the magazine in question in the category Ring Magazine Fighters of the Year. I keep changing our 2012 Fighter of the Year to the correct winner (Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico) and someone keeps changing it to to Nonito Donaire. Donaire won a fan poll; that's not our official Fighter of the Year. If you can help me change it to Marquez permanently, I would really appreciate it. - Michael Rosenthal, Editor in Chief of THE RING Magazine.
Hi! How can I add a new subject to this list? Mhhossein (talk) 13:29, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for catching my accidental deletion of the categories on Yarmouth Castle! Hchc2009 (talk) 19:15, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Why were my edits removed? The year of birth is wrong. In order to be qualified in any of those contests you have to be younger. Known facts. No one wants to see old ladies in the buff or in bikinis. Those sources give the fake age. Angel Is A Centerfold (talk) 23:57, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Okay so you want me to find birth records? That's the only way to prove it. Angel Is A Centerfold (talk) 00:10, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on InceptionBot, I've been looking at it to monitor new drafts that would be relevant to WikiProject Bangladesh. I've noticed, when using the new page search rule test, that I don't always see the doubling of points I expect for matches in the lede.
In RuleSetProcessor.php, method processRule() contains this call:
preg_match('/^.*?(?:(?:\\r?\\n){2}|\\n==)/us', $data, $ledeMatches)
The \\n==
appears to be looking for the start of the first section header after the lede, but I'm puzzled about the ?:(?:\\r?\\n){2}
. The effect appears to be that InceptionBot considers the lede complete as soon as it encounters a blank line. (Example test: rule page name Bangladesh, test page name Textile Engineering College, Chittagong.) This is a narrower definition of the lede than is usual on Wikipedia, where the lede may consist of several paragraphs separated by blank lines, or, for example, an infobox - blank line - paragraph of prose. Would you take a look at it and see if it's working the way you intended it?
Php is not my area of expertise, and my regular expressions are pretty rusty, so forgive me if I'm talking through my hat. I do have a software engineering background, though, so you don't have to explain in words of one syllable. Thanks, Worldbruce (talk) 01:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
You have the wrong information on the Joya's Fun School page. Joya's Fun School aired on Fridays on WPIX up until October 1, 1982. Then it moved to a Saturday morming timeslot on Saturday, Oct. 9 - Saturday, Nov. 27, 1982. You say it ended in 1980. It always aired on Fridays in the same timeslot as the Magic Garden up until Oct. 1, 1982.
You actually have alot of mistakes on the page. It was 100 percent accurate before. Joya's Fun School started airing on Fridays on April 7, 1972, not 1973 --Mst4581 (talk) 21:19, July 3, 2015 (UTC)
There are alot of mistakes on the Joya's Fun School page. It was correct before. I will send you the correct info. Mst4581 (talk) 21:36, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the catch, not sure how that happened but the edit window didn't load correctly first time, so I had to reload it. Will correct flags again now. Mjroots (talk) 18:04, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed some minor errors. I live here and know a lot. Can I toss u some info? Pzrschreck (talk) 04:25, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Just a minor annoyance: in the listing, "Articles with unsourced statements" appear in the "Neutrality" section, instead of the "References" section. GregorB (talk) 15:50, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
In the latest cleanup listing for WP Louisville, a lot of the "Resolved articles" haven't been touched in the previous week or longer, and still have the problems that were shown to be resolved. Would you please investigate what might be the matter there? Thanks. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 10:24, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
Can we please try having that bot run daily for a few weeks at least? EllenCT (talk) 23:09, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
I think it is a mistake that you reverted my recent edit to List of autobiographies.The edit I made is merging the two duplicate lists into one, thus cleaning up the entry. The information lost is the ordering by author surname and some entry links. It is not a test or vandalism, please undo your revert. Golopotw (talk) 05:42, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
I created the page User:AlexNewArtBot/Malta, but the bot is still not generating lists of new Malta-related articles. What else do I need to do please? Best regards, Xwejnusgozo (talk) 15:47, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
I would like to be informed in independent lists about new articles in the following categories and their subcategories: Category:Narrow gauge railways OR Category:Rail transport. I don't understand yet, how to set-up these searches. Could you help me, please? By the way: Are similar searches possible for Commons Category:Narrow gauge railways and Commons Category:Tübingen and subcategories? --NearEMPTiness (talk) 17:09, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Thank you very much. I am delighted about the results of the English Wiki searches. However, the Commons searches are currently still empty. I will check them soon again, and might need to broaden them. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 02:19, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi! Sorry about this. I meant to do this. Best of wishes.--Paracel63 (talk) 16:44, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi the current players of Afghan F.C., KPT F.C., PIA F.C. are violating FIFA code which means that they are not significant in professional football. Just like Qatar league there are some non-professional players. The players also failed WP:GNG. And i also understand i made a unprofessional mistake by accidentally removing the categories. Thank you for telling me! Hockeysoccertennis (talk)
During my weekly review of User:AlexNewArtBot/PolandSearchResult and I noticed that the bot will report drafts as they are created, but not as they are moved to mainspace. Could we have the bot report such moves too? (If you reply here, please ping me - thank you). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:52, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Excellent, that's what I was looking for! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:24, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Your bot appears to have created a copyright violation, which I have removed here. Please ping me when you reply. --JustBerry (talk) 02:01, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add another column to the "History" page? Right now, it lists "Cleanup articles" and "Cleanup issues", but it doesn't tell you how many articles were resolved each week. Sometimes, when you look at a cleanup listing for a Wikiproject, the number of articles in the backlog is increasing, but there's also a lot of activity cleaning up articles. Other times, the weekly listing shows very few articles resolved, so nobody actively focused on the backlog that week. Adding an "articles cleared" column would make it easier to identify the WikiProjects where nobody is currently focusing on cleanup. --Djembayz (talk) 15:45, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I'd be curious about the new-article patrol process as it pertains to search. This is because I do a lot of research about Search. I have to, to write so much of Help:Searching and now Help:Searching/Draft.
For example, if there is a bot search going on, I'd really like to know more about it please.
Stuff like that, I'd like a description about. You can just point me to other places if you don't have time.
I got here from an AlexNewArtBot subpage linking to here for Q&A. Thanks. — CpiralCpiral 04:31, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi, looking at the cleanup listing for the tennis Wikiproject ([3]) it is noticeable that some categories are named 'Articles...' while others are named 'Wikipedia articles...'. Is there any distinction between the two? If not, can the categories starting with 'Wikipedia articles...' be renamed to 'Articles...'? This would improve consistency and make the listing a little bit easier to scan and read.--Wolbo (talk) 17:58, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Thanks for running this bot. The featured articles clean up list stopped working between 21 and 29 July[4] and I had assumed that this had affected all listings and that the problem was on the toolserver. However, I see that the problem appears to be specific to the featured articles listing. Any idea what might be causing it or how it can be solved? Thanks. DrKay (talk) 10:14, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the edit, help me to add more and make the page to look like other players pages. Thanks!--Alexiulian25 (talk) 08:54, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, are you in charge of the bot now? Thanks! It seems like the rules used to suppress redirects. Do you know why it isn't? I created a gallizion redirs today and much to my chagrin they are now clogging up the new article list. Can we fix this or was it based on some consensus? Valfontis (talk) 18:58, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
I would like to understand why the edit to the Gender_changer entry has been dubbed non-constructive. Gender Changer refers to a computer part as well as a group that discussed the gendering of technology nomenclature. Could you possibly explain how the entry is problematic? (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:10, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Many thanks for repairing my unintended deletion of categories on Ingress (video game). Unfortunately, in moving the explanatory footnotes around and into their own h2 section, you disconnected them from their tags: efn A now leads to Note 1, and efn B to Note 2.
I hope you know how to fix this, because I don't. -- Thnidu (talk) 00:35, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
((Notelist-ua))
from its own section back into § References should work, but it does. --Thnidu (talk) 00:50, 7 November 2015 (UTC)Hi , I have created a category ([Category:Sindhi computer scientists]), how to include this category into {WP Pakistan} New Articles section...? Kindly include it if you can......Jogi 007 (talk) 12:36, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
There's a new cleanup category, Category:Pages with reference errors, might be included in the WikiProject cleanup listing... GregorB (talk) 15:39, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
For those wondering why automatically named references such as ((sfn)) are generating duplicate name errors on the Cleanup listings see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 141#Citation error. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:52, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Bamyers99. I would like to use the InceptionBot to get a list of new articles that could be within the scope of WikiProject Faroe Islands. I can't really understand how I could get the bot working (enable the bot to run under certain rules, generate list etc). Could you give me a hand? Hansi667 (Neighbor Of The Beast) a penny for your thoughts? 13:24, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks again for Wikipedia:Database reports/Invalid Navbar links. I came by [5]. Could templates using ((Football squad)) also be included in the report? There are around 1800. The only example I examined ((Madhya Pradesh Squad)) has invalid links. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:27, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Is it really a good idea to include the word "she" in User:AlexNewArtBot/WomensFootball? It's going to match every article which talks about a woman, or even anything else feminine for that matter. It matched my new article Codenames (board game) even though it has nothing to do with football. It's even matching articles about ships, which aren't even living creatures! JIP | Talk 11:03, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
On Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/New articles State O-Z all the articles are given a score, like 60 or 25 or something. I'm just curious as to what that means. Does a high score mean a better article or is it like golf where a lower score is better? Thanks. White Arabian mare (Neigh) 00:42, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Ok, thank you. I was pretty wrong; I thought maybe they were being scored on the style of writing (informal to encyclopedic), quality of references or something else. I hadn't known about this before. Thanks again. White Arabian mare (Neigh) 01:56, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, similar question for WP:Ships: what is the higher score that a ship article can achieve, and are there any scoring guidance that can be used to improve new ship articles? Thanks, DPdH (talk) 21:16, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
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For this query. Will help to add more statements and extend my contributions to Wikidata a lot. Most probably I would came up with such idea myself, but now I won't have to think a solution :) P.S. Merry Christmas! Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 09:56, 25 December 2015 (UTC) |
I appreciate it. One question: when I create a new article for, say, WikiProject Protected Areas, should I create a Talk page and add the project template to it myself? I'm new to Wikipedia and can't figure out if WikiProjects are controlled by gatekeepers or if I'm allowed to add articles to the Project by myself. Every-leaf-that-trembles (talk) 02:15, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my error. The deletion happened as I tried to correct the references section of Instrumentalism. Can you see why I don't get that section title at the end of the article?TBR-qed (talk) 22:56, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
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