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Thank you for cleaning up some of my edits. I have today been busy with "Angola" and "Ganguela" and would appreciate it if you had a critical look at those as well....if you feel like it, that is...Aflis (talk) 14:21, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm not sure what your bot is actually trying to do, but I hope it is not this. Your bot has broken many dozens of redirect pages which are now flooding onto the Short Pages reports. Please see if you can clean these up, as the redirects are being left worthless in the wake of your bot. - TexasAndroid (talk) 16:07, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
I have previously presumed that you check all the DOIs that you add to articles (for which many thanks). I just noticed that the DOI added to hypopituitarism points to a different article altogether. Ann Intern Med, for some unknown reason, does not seem to use DOI. Thought I'd let you know. Cheers. JFW | T@lk 20:10, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
On the off chance that you missed my response to your comments on the AWB page, I hope you won't mind me repeating them here:
I'm not following the lookaround link. Could you give a simple example? Let's say I want to return a hit for any string that contains a sequence other than (abc|def)? (For example, a language has an alphabet in which several letters only occur in certain digraphs, like English qu, Swahili ch, Japanese wa, or Mandarin ji ~ ju; I want to find any letters which do not occur in that alphabet, but also any q which is not in qu, and any c which is not in ch, any w which is not in wa, etc. It would be easiest if I could run a search for NOT(a|b|ch|d|ea|...|ji|ju|qu|wa).
As for duplicated letters, I'm looking for repetitions of any member of a set like [A-Za-z]. Do I need to list each 'x+' as a separate rule?
Thanks, — kwami (talk) 21:28, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
What's the status on this? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:29, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
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hello, I would like to know what is your contribution to the page George Macovescu? Thank you for your answer. Valentin Macovescu —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.109.87.251 (talk) 13:23, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi there! The bot did a good job on Feb. 5th at L.A. Reid but the work was in the middle of a long series of unsourced POV edits that had to be reverted, so the good stuff with the refs was lost. Rather than me trying to put it back in, could you send the bot back to the article? Thanks for your help, Jusdafax 21:57, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion starting up at Talk:Batavia (disambiguation), that may be of interest to you. The subject is technically a page move discussion, but the purpose of the discussion is to decide where Batavia should redirect. Until earlier today, Batavia redirected to History of Jakarta, but during this discussion, it is redirecting to Batavia (disambiguation). Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
Thanks for your help. HuskyHuskie (talk) 22:41, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
You are receiving this because you are one of the principal editors of one of the articles that is linked to Batavia (disambiguation). This notice is being posted to all of the top three editors of each of these articles (in terms of total edits), with the following exceptions:
This is an attempt to be a neutrally-phrased posting in keeping with the principles of WP:CANVASS. If you find anything in the wording or the manner posted to be a violation of that guideline, please notify me at my talk page.
I don't follow this edit. AIUI the ranges for 978-0- or 0- are 00-19; 200-699; 7000-8499; 85000-89999; 900000-949999; 9500000-9999999. That would make 978-0-7867- and 0-86012- correct. Regards, Mr Stephen (talk) 15:50, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Could you check out...
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These are database scans (January dump) for various URL that could be templated. Bare urls can be converted, as can the |url=
of ((citation))/((cite xxx)) converted to |id=
. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:01, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
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Although I personally agree with the changes you made have been making to the citations I noticed that several do not change the rendering of the page and I wanted to warn you that I just had my AWB access removed and the debate is ongoing at ANI for doing much more than that because the changes didn't change anything to the rendering of the page. I just wanted to let you know so that someone doesn't do the same to you. --Kumioko (talk) 17:30, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your great copy-editing, which corrected many long-standing deviations from WP:MOS. I really appreciate your help!
Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (Discussion) 14:11, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I undid this edit; I suspect the bot is technically right, as a subsequent edition, with back cover visible on Amazon, clearly shows an ISBN that agrees with the bot. However, the actual cited edition has "140". It seems clear this is a misprint but I'm reluctant to change it when the only ISBN on the book itself is as currently given. Has this situation ever come up before? Is there a precedent for how to deal with this? Mike Christie (talk – library) 01:31, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
I am at a loss why you would impose this citation template without discussing the imposition on the talk page (against mos), and then fail to include both the authors and the title of the citation. --Epipelagic (talk) 12:44, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
I have temporarily blocked this bot, as I believe there is insufficient community consensus for the mass conversions proposed. Here I refer not only to the mass conversions to ISBN-13's (which I personally favor), but also the hyphenation of the (already long) ISBN-13's, The block is therefore intended to limit damage, while clarity is sought on these issues. Thanks, Geometry guy 21:24, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Regarding the bot approval, I commend your comment that "On reflection I think some editors may object to ISBN-10 to ISBN-13 conversion", as it shows awareness of the community dimension in bot approvals. Nevertheless, the bot was approved with the "Function overview" unchanged ("Reformat 10 digit ISBNs, or 13 digit ISBNs without dashes to use the 13-digit dashed ISBN standard per WP:ISBN."). This is not the first time I have seen insular and poor decision-making at BAG. I hope you will be motivated to encourage better practice! Thanks, Geometry guy 22:04, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Music and the brain, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Morton Shumway—talk 21:36, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Please do not vandalize other articles, as you did to Richard Devon. Mallen22 (talk) 03:14, 28 February 2011 (UTC)