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I am looking for a bot that can fix lots of links...Eagle scout rank (Boy Scouts of America) became Eagle Scout rank (Boy Scouts of America) which became Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America). As a consequence, dozens, if not hundreds of pages have links which could go to the final name but don't. Any help would be appreciated. If you check these, you can see how many: Special:Whatlinkshere/Eagle scout rank (Boy Scouts of America) and here: Special:Whatlinkshere/Eagle Scout rank (Boy Scouts of America), you'll see there are many left. The first one is a double redirect now and the second a single, but I see no reason to leave a link that merely redirects. Any help would be appreciated. These links should all preferably go directly to Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America). Rlevse 16:28, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Good reasoning, I hope that I can live up to it. :)
-- Natalya 04:31, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Shortly after you logged off, I found the problem. When deleting and restoring pages, protection information is lost. See bug 6202. Ral315 (talk) 02:41, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Rob, we need some informed opinion re the AOL issue on whether the Wiktionary solution is at all feasible on Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship. Thanks - Taxman Talk 16:50, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Have you guys ever thought about making smilies for talk pages? So like, if I made a :), then MediaWiki could automatically detect that and turn it into one of those little smiley pics? That would be cool. Oh by the way I installed the software on my server and it runs perfectly. You guys did a good job with it. WIKIPEEDIO 02:33, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for having edited one of your comments but bad jokes and other nonsense about Hitler and the Nazis should never ever be seen on wikipedia (non-negotiable). There are German wikipedians even on this wikipedia (such as this one) and they would almost inveriably be deeply insulted by such remarks. Myrtone@Robchurch.com.au:-(
If I were inclined to bet I'd say maybe it was the optional question about secret nazi space bases on some RfA or another (too lazy to dig up the ref) you made... but I think Myrtone has bigger issues to concern himself (like his obnoxious sig, or his "interesting" oppose reason on RfAs) than jawboning other editors about flippant comments. ++Lar: t/c 15:28, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi! Since you seams to have taken upon your self to look at the Bots/Requests_for_approvals backlog, can you have a look at my bot flag request, it have been very long time and no respons. When running monthly update runs I'm running it to fast for having no botflag. Stefan 02:41, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I saw that you mentioned something on the inputbox talk on meta quite a bit ago, and saw that you are a developer, so maybe you'd be able to answer the question I had there. Thanks! Chris M. 16:49, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the support, not too sure about the question, though. (At least it wasn't a difficult one) – Gurch 17:12, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Rob,
I recall you commented on this page on IRC a while back. Just thought you'd like to know I put it on MfD at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Tdxiang/Subject to Change. Cheers, Kimchi.sg 04:40, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Assuming no humourless bastard has deleted it before you get to see it, I thought you might be amused by this. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 11:32, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Dear Rob:
The above users are harrassing me constantly. They seem to be engaging in a vendetta against another Wikipedian and are editing or deleting all my edits for no valid reason. User:Ali-oops who appears to be a friend of User:Demiurge sent me a nasty message calling me "Robert". Even if I weren't a woman I would be offended at someone intentionally calling me by someone else's name.
User:Bobcheezy (Member's Advocate) refuses to do anything more than tell me I am right and they are wrong. Meanwhile I have to redo my edits. Is this fair??!!
Is their behavior permitted on Wikipedia? If it is I am not sure I wish to be part of Wikipedia.
Here are some of the edits they have deleted for no valid reason:
Irish neutrality Winston Churchill Simon Towneley Peregrine Worsthorne Piaras Beaslaí (re Douglas Hyde)
Marylou 14:21, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Please see the nasty message that User:Ali-oops left for me on my home page.
This is a copy of the message (professional, I thought) that I left him after he referred to me as "Robert":
Dear Sir:
My name is Marylou. If you ever address me as Robert again I will cite you for harrassment. Douglas Hyde was a Unionist -- check your history books. Just because he was an Irish language enthusiast does not change that and I will update his site to that effect if you have changed that important element.
Marylou 13:24, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Don't threaten me. And don't call me sir. Clear? Or do I have to cite you for harrassment? - Ali-oops✍ 13:37, 13 June 2006 (UTC) I even tried to compromise and have your edit to Piaras Béaslaí re-instated, but it's obviously not good enough for you. And you're starting a revert-war again. I think it's coming up time for WP:RCU - Ali-oops✍ 13:44, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Do I have to endure this from this pack?? Marylou 14:24, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
Please take another look at WP:VPT#Image won't display. I'm having another, similar problem, and purging doesn't seem to fix it. --Smack (talk) 20:15, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Robchurch. Did you get a chance to run that query on the toolserver for the list of all subpages on Wikipedia (all namespaces)? There's no rush... I'm just anxious :). ~MDD4696 21:43, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Rob. Brion has already been informed, but I thought I might ask you to look into it as well: Special:Renameuser has been inoperative since yesterday (14 June). We have tried at different hours to make sure it wasn't server load, but every time an error message is returned. We'd appreciate any help. Thanks, Redux 21:40, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Indeed, sorry, I forgot that this is a restricted tool. The interface is two windows, one for the old username and other for the new username. When we click on "Submit", the page should load a message confirming the change. Instead, it stalls for a while and then loads an error page, saying that the Wikimedia Servers are experiencing technical difficulties (except that everything else is fine) and the following error message:
Request: POST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Renameuser, from 0.0.0.0 via srv10.wikimedia.org (squid/2.5.STABLE13) to 10.0.5.3 (10.0.5.3)
Error: ERR_ZERO_SIZE_OBJECT, errno [No Error] at Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:54:46 GMT
I hope that's it. Redux 21:59, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Not necessarily because Agateller would do anything bad as an admin, but because adminship should be worked for. Because giving adminship to anyone who would help Wikipedia with the admin tools dilutes the meaning of being an Administrator. Because those who view their adminship as a token of great gratitude from the community would feel let down. Adminship is kind of like the Purple Heart - it only means so much because it's given to so few.
I'm not an admin, so I can't say how true the last one is. But I think the first two are behind many people's instinctive need to judge RfA's by a criteria, be it 1000+ edits, a Featured Article, or whatever. I also realize that this flies in the face of the common "Adminship is no big deal" truism. But I think that, right or not, this rationale deserves to be looked at. Λυδαcιτγ 00:51, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
I agree with you rob (and disagree with Audacity) but still worry about confering Admin status on people who have not demonstrated knowledge of Wikipedia process and policies. Unfortunately that generaly mean relying on edit counts because there is no way to test if a user has read and understood the policy/guideline pages. And, since there are lots of housekeeping tasks that you can do without an admins bucket, doing them before its given seems to me a good way of preparing for adminship. Not that I begrudge you your vote, editcountitis is evil and does unfairly limit the admin pool. Eluchil404 02:27, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I understand that you're working on WP:BPP. I'm periodically affected by my proxies (1, 2) getting blocked ([2][3]) - I hereby undertake to buy you a pint when BPP is implemented, and I can edit wikipedia when my proxies are soft-blocked. --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 19:59, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
You're wrong, you made some uncovered remarks and I tottaly disagree with you. --Brasoveanul
You're just being rude. --Brasoveanul
Thanks for the note. I didn't know that there were more people to the Special:Listusers/developer. But it was just a prod for the user who wished to have his old username back. But I'm perplexed why I would say that a developer and a system administrator would be the same person. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:58, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Is it posible to create script that will use the values for the parameters of OrganicBox_complete to insert them into a database? This database will allow a new type of search for organic compounds articles (or their "data_page"s - we could make searches based on say molecular weight value/range, occurence of a particular structural element in the formula, pharmacological properties, etc.) and can also have an educational purpose when used to create quizes with a different level of dificulty. Please post your replay on WikiProject_Chemicals. -- Boris 06:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Sorry about the breaking of the world. Wish me luck, I hope I don't get in trouble --Steve-o 12:47, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I find several of the comments on Wikipedia talk:Mediation Cabal to be extremely poorly worded; the attitude conveyed by them is appalling. For a mediator, and someone who wishes to be part of Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, this is totally unacceptable behaviour. You're patronising and insulting other users. Please stop, calm down - and apologise to anyone you have behaved offensively towards. Thank you. robchurch | talk 23:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
To address points one and three in a fell swoop; while I haven't been involved in mediation efforts for a considerable time, I don't think it's relevant at all. I don't need to be a mediator, cabalist, arbitrator or anything else in order to ask another user to calm down and tone down.
I observed, from reading the talk page, that you had made patronising comments to Nicholas Turnbull; your responses to several of your co-cabalists' points of view were less than desirable in nature - your argument is that they don't know anything about the issues involved. So explain it to them. Don't be downright rude about it; don't give them the cold shoulder - that's the wrong thing to do.
I must protest as to the terse and defensive nature of this response. You seem to have clammed up, which is not the desired effect. I observed something and fed back that observation, hoping it would be taken as constructive criticism. Please think again about how you're interacting with other users on Wikipedia, as it's sometimes borderline incivil and rude. robchurch | talk 03:10, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
No, I don't "see where [you're] coming from" with respect to any of it. Furthermore, this edit worries me - you just up and blanked my perfectly reasonable request for an apology.
Please don't do that in future, ever. Removing or messing about with other people's comments in discussions is plain wrong.
"I've just hit him much harder this time" - why? You have no right to be rude to any user of this web site, ever. I hope this is perfectly clear. There are plenty of wonderful project namespace pages dictating this, but let's try common sense first.
I'm still completely at a loss as to why your reactions are so defensive, and I'm starting to wonder how productive this discussion is. robchurch | talk 03:33, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
This discussion is becoming unproductive. I don't really have time to escalate it to dispute resolution, but if I have to, I will - and the code I'm writing will have to wait. robchurch | talk 14:44, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
hi there - why can't I get into IRc for #wikipedia and #wikipedia-en. Looks like I have been banned.Blnguyen | rant-line 01:07, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey Rob, I saw this mentioned in the latest Signpost. At the moment on Commons we're using a template thing we hacked up. How can we go about getting the mulitlingual options installed there? Should I open a bug request?
cheers, pfctdayelise (translate?) 04:53, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey Rob, I'm getting a completely different format. Do you know why? The Grasslands
I'm not quite sure what you're referring to. Could you have changed your skin? Does accessing //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Robchurch/June_2006&useskin=monobook "fix" the problem? I'm afraid the pasted page doesn't convey your meaning well either. robchurch | talk 08:37, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your support on my recent RfA, which I'm quite happy to announce has passed with a consensus of 67 supporting, 0 opposed and 0 neutral. I'm glad you took the time to consider my candidacy, and I'll be working hard to justify the vote of confidence you've placed in me. Let me know at my talk page if I can help you with any admin-related tasks (not that you would need help), or simply if you have any comments on my performance as an admin. Thanks! TheProject 23:16, 30 June 2006 (UTC)