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Why on earth would you insert the quite unfunny 'Dam Pier' nonsense here? Will you now revert it after a year and a half, or shall I? Cheers Bjenks (talk) 09:11, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I noticed you've corrected Noumea to Nouméa in a few articles - thanks for that. However, it seems that AWB RETF doesn't work on links. Consequently, these articles still have a linked Noumea while all the unlinked references have been changed to Nouméa. Not a serious problem, but something to look out for. Colonies Chris (talk) 12:28, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey Rjwilmsi. Regarding you edit to Carom billiards, many people are not aware that the word English has a special meaning in billiards. It is a noun referring to sidespin, and when used in that context, it is not capitalized (just as the French in french fries is not normally capitalized by way of analogy). Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:46, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
One of your AWB edits swaps date=February 2008 with year=2008|Month=Februrary in citation templates, changing some one way, and some the other. I reverted that one, but please check your AWB parameters to see if there are other such changes. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 14:17, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you.(Planecrash111 (talk) 01:27, 8 September 2008 (UTC))
You messed up the grammar on the Jeff Gordon page. Don't get too serious about the warning.(Planecrash111 (talk) 01:27, 8 September 2008 (UTC))
Hi Rjwilmsi, you did this edit modifying fields in the ((cite journal)) template. I´m wondering if you are doing the right thing. I generally try to pull the latest version of the template from Wikipedia:Citation_templates and there the syntax clearly is "|date=". If I only know the year it is of course more logical to change "|date=" to "|year=" - but leaving the "|date=" field has advantages, as it would allow somebody else to enter the date in a later edit, if they know it. Basically, however, I consider this type of edit incompatible with the overall purpose of using templates, which precisely is to provide uniform templates across all articles, possibly enabling future semi-intelligent extraction of metadata or categories (for instance if you use the "|birth_date= 9999-99-99" field in a biography template, you can automatically generate the [[Category:9999 births]] to the article later, etc etc).
To make a long story short, I doubt that changing fully functional fields in a template to something that is not in the latest template version, is not right thing to do,, kind regards, Power.corrupts (talk) 09:25, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Can you please explain why you replaced the n-dash character (–) with &
ndash;
in this edit? Is this to avoid line-wrapping? If so, I think the n-dash character handles the line wrapping the same way &
ndash;
would. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 19:37, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
&
ndash;
as both have the same visible appearance. The edit I made was to delink the year part of a date range, which is in compliance to the Manual of Style. I will switch to the Unicode character if you think that's better. Rjwilmsi 19:46, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
&
ndash;
and &
mdash;
to – and —, respectively; or just ignore such pedantic edits to pedantic editors like me :D — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 20:45, 9 September 2008 (UTC)Thanks for fixing citation templates in Matrikas, would you please look at the article Vithoba and see if there are similar mistakes there ? Thanks.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 04:14, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm Yukari4288, the creator of BNI Batteries not Included pages. I'm not logged. I want to thank you for what you've done with the template. I found an error in Discography, one of the song's title was uncorrect, probably it's my fault. Thanks a lot!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.208.83.215 (talk) 07:00, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
For the clean-up on the West Ham United F.C. page - nice job. (Tonytunnycliffe (talk) 09:02, 12 September 2008 (UTC))
Good Afternoon (at least it is in Virginia USA, not sure where you are) I notice you do a lot of changes using AWB and I was wondering if you would be interested in sharing the code that you use so that I can use it in my edits also? I also do a lot of edits in AWB and I am always looking for more things that I can add to the list of things that I look for.--Kumioko (talk) 20:07, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Good evening from England. I am happy to share the code I use for AWB, but with a couple of caveats:
That said, I have exported the XML section of the AWB settings file that relates to general fixes. This is where I store all of my fixes relating to citation templates and various other fixes I am working on. It is a work in progress so may change over time, though it is designed to be 100% accurate. If you intend to use it you would probably be advised to check back for any changes I make, since I may discover problems and fix them. The ordering of the fixes is important, and certain fixes are disabled for good reasons. Having provided the necessary warnings, good luck; the link is User:Rjwilmsi/genfixes. Rjwilmsi 20:23, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Let's use User talk:Rjwilmsi/genfixes for further discussion of my genfixes. I've replied there. Rjwilmsi 08:04, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey Can you provide a settings file to help us?
I tend not to have FaR rules in my settings
Cheers
—Reedy 13:03, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello...thanks for the changes you made (removing the "of" in between the month and year) to the "History" section of the Stephens City page, but I had to revert them. That entire section is under an "OTRS" agreement from the Newtown History Center. We can add to it, just not take away (I don't understand it either). So, please don't think of this as vandalism or owning, I am just doing what the "OTRS" agreement tells me. Sorry. :S Take Care....NeutralHomer • Talk 09:01, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey, Seeing as we're on a new version, the new feature implementation has started again
Being a seemingly simple request, and you had provided a regex (thanks!), i thought i would try and implement it
However, the regex doesnt seem to work as it is..
Changing it for (\[\[[Cc][Aa][Tt][Ee][Gg][Oo][Rr][Yy] ?:)([^\]]+\]\])(.*?)\1\2
makes it work...
As does
(\n?\[\[[Cc][Aa][Tt][Ee][Gg][Oo][Rr][Yy] ?:)([^\]]+\]\])(.*?)\1\2
What can you suggest/reccommend?
Thanks!
—Reedy 15:53, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated an article to which you have contributed for deletion, because of its lack of citations. If this nomination is in error, then please post a message to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shira Levine; you may also wish to add a bibliography or footnotes to the Shira Levine article, as well. Thank you. Bwrs (talk) 04:16, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Oi, what do I need to do to utilize your genfixes? Tks Ling.Nut (talk—WP:3IAR) 08:51, 25 September 2008 (UTC)