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Hello Rjwilmsi,
Thanks for fixing the typo on my wiki drummer page! Since you are an editor, I'm trying to get in touch with you (on your usertalk page), to see if you know how to change the photo on my profile? I tried to contact Mel Etitis, but the e-mail he gave me no longer works. If you will do this for me, I'd be grateful. Please e-mail me at pgolddrums@aol.com , and I'll return your e-mail with the PIC I would like put up. Thanks, All the Best, Paul —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.244.42.91 (talk) 06:41, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello again, "HELP" It appeared that you fixed a typo. I know you didn't upload an image, But, I was wondering if you could change the existing image. Somehow the original image got removed. Can you help me with a new one, or at least put the old one back up? Thanks, Paul e-mail: pgolddrums@aol.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.244.42.90 (talk) 05:11, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at Wikipedia:Highly Active Users, SoxBot V, was blocked for its constant updating. With this bot out of operation, a patch is in the works. Until that patch is reviewed and accepted by the developers, some options have been presented to use as workarounds: 1) Qui monobook (not available in Internet Explorer); 2) User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate; 3) Manually updating User:StatusBot/Status/USERNAME; or 4) Not worry about it and wait for the patch to go through, which hopefully won't take long. If you have another method, you can use that, too. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Useight (talk) 22:25, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Hiya. Umm... you've been marking a lot of 19xx in baseball articles as uncategorised, even though they're categorised (I think the category is being inherited from a template or something...). I know Addshore has been having issues with these pages using his bot - perhaps you two can put your heads together and come up with a solution ? CultureDrone (talk) 20:31, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
You appear to be using AWB to change the spelling of "succeeded" (as in royal succession) to "succeded". This is an incorrect spelling. Just a friendly heads-up. Ford MF (talk) 22:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Scott Holden requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.
If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding ((hangon))
to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.
For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Padillah (talk) 15:37, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed that you have added language tags to a number of articles like Antoine Clot or some Angoulême comics festival articles. These tags do'nt seem to have any effect (page looks the same, no categories added) and make the page more cluttered when editing. I'm removing them from the^Angoulême pages but will leave the rest alone for now. Could you please explain what the benefit of these tags is? Fram (talk) 07:21, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Rjwilmsi (talk) 18:19, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your typo and spelling fixes on this article, it is a usually thankles task to perform, and I am deeply grateful for your effort. I made lots of those spelling errors as I'm dyslexic, so it's hard for me to notice mistakes. Philip.t.day (talk) 10:01, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
The user page for Rjwilmsi uses "I" to describe automated tasks undertaken by a machine; this is emphasized my by the concession that the scripts being run may erroneously change spelling of non-English words. It would be the same to say I for the acts performed by a trained animal in your possession- 'I caught the Frisbee in my mouth.', 'I peed on the fire hydrant', 'I bit the postman.' Or, in the case of an inanimate tool, for a sword smith to describe the manipulation of her blade by another, 'I pierced his lung, then took four of the fingers formerly on his left hand as he vainly attempted to stop the harbinger of death.' Of course, the tool maker might claim deeds perpetrated using her creation -'I killed all those children in Hiroshima'- depending on context to make clear that this is an assertion of responsibility by the bomb maker. (anyway, that's just my rationalization; it just sounds weird to me- like the inventor of an automated envelope making machine talking about possible complications with her machine, 'I may not cut the card-stock completely, so the roller may jam when I attempt to pull a double card before I lift the foot plate', etc)
Addendum: why are these edits not tagged as a bot?
Mavigogun (talk) 04:58, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Isn't this statement disingenuous? Your automation is typically making 4-5 actions per minute- are you suggesting that you could possibly have time to review each of those? Ahh.... me thinks you misinterpreted the above entry... I wasn't questioning your spelling choices, but the ego identification, expressed on YOUR user page, with the acts of the automation. Take care. Mavigogun (talk) 07:11, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Over the past week, I've noticed edits you've made replacing valid Canadian spellings on Canadian articles with (valid) American spellings instead. Per policy, valid spelling choices should not be changed if the article is primarily related to a location with a specific variant of English. The specific issue in my case is the change from targetting to targeting, and targetted to targeted. Per policy, and considering American and British English spelling differences#Doubled consonants, could you remove this "mis-spelling" from your script. Thank you. Mindmatrix 18:25, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering what spelling corrections and such that you made to this article? When I wrote it I was pretty sure that I had ran a spell check on it. I am just curious so that I can add whatever it was to my spell check to keep it from happening. Asatruar (talk) 17:32, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Nothing personal but you are the latest person who has used some automatic editing device to change the (British) spelling of "occuring" to (US) "occurring" on After Dark (TV series). As I understand it this goes against WP:ENGVAR, so do you happen to know how to stop this from happening again (i.e. some kind of invisible mark which tells the software, don't be too quick, this spelling is intended and may even be correct) AnOpenMedium (talk) 16:14, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I think it is a huge mistake to be tagging scientific names of plants and animals as Latin. Scientific names can have Latin, Greek or other roots, just like the names of people, places, etc. Will you be tagging all uses of the term Antonia Banderas as Spanish? In Australia there is a place called the Houtman Abrolhos; it was named by a Dutchman but the name makes use of a Dutch loan word of Portuguese origin. Will you tag all uses of Houtman Abrolhos as Portuguese? or Dutch? Where do you draw the line between a foreign word and an English loan word?
But I'm getting off topic. I'm here to say that the scientific names of plants should not be tagged as Latin language terms. Hesperian 07:37, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
A scientific name published by an English-speaking person in an English-language journal, derived from a Greek root, and used by all botanists irrespective of their native language and the language in which they are writing, qualifies as Latin how? Hesperian 11:46, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Rjwilmsi, there is plenty of extra information on this coming out at WT:PLANTS, along with clear consensus that tagging scientific names in this way is a very bad idea. Hesperian 03:04, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
reverted your change which damaged the reference, please be more careful. The date you changed to ISO format is part of the URL= in the cite template, not part of the cite template archivedate= field. – Zedla (talk) 22:19, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Please be more careful. Capitalizing as Ancient Greek is often pretentious unless the language is meant; and there the dialect (Attic Greek, Ionic Greek, κτλ) may be better. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 20:34, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know about a small mistake spotted in the article Extrasolar planet so that you may verify whether that perhaps occurred also elsewhere. Using AWB you changed "date=Apr 24, 2007 4:23pm ET" to "date=2007-04-24pm ET".[8] I've removed pm ET now. --Eleassar my talk 07:44, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi. This diff left two references broken, so I reverted the whole edit. Thought you'd want to know. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 22:11, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I saw your edits on the page Americans Against Hate (Stephen Marks). It seems that you have tagged the page as uncategorized, using AWB, but the page is categorized. I already removed the template. Just though you'd like to know about this, to avoid any further mistakes. Cheers, Victor Lopes (talk) 21:27, 26 June 2008 (UTC)