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The bot I use is MiszaBot, syntax is pretty easy. This page should have everything you need to get it set up, otherwise just give me a bell. I don't know if it runs on any other Wikis. — neuro(talk) 11:01, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for not replying to your message about the editnotice – I'm afraid I completely missed it! I see Nuclear has replied and you have the notice up and running. :) Nice work. Apologies again. PeterSymonds (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
No worries. I just figured you were a busy guy, and that you were taking your time to answer the other part of my question:
“ | Stay in MA article Since you're an admin and also experienced on Commons would you mind taking a look at the comments I left on Talk:Stay in MA, User talk:Yifanz, and File:Stayinma.jpg (which is actually commons:File:Stayinma.jpg). First, just some general feedback about how I handled that would be appreciated (may well have invested more time than it was worth in writing all that, but I always like to try to ease newbies into this whole Wikipedia thing as easily as possible if they appear to be acting in good faith). Secondly, it seems like there must be a faster/easier way to flag images hosted on commons and then notify the user on the local project. It took me a lot of searching to find the corresponding templates to use on the different projects to do something that should have been pretty simple. If the templates even had the same name, that would help a lot. Did I just take the long way around the problem? Or is it something that needs some discussion started (or perhaps some bold action) to simplify the process? Thanks! (P.S. please leave me a ((Talkback)) or something after you reply.) —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 16:25, 2 May 2009 (UTC) |
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It's my fault, really. I should have started that as an entirely new section instead of lumping it with an unrelated comment. I'd still appreciate a response. I'm disappointed that the user hasn't replied. Looks like it may have been a "dump and run" rather than a serious effort (if slightly misguided attempt) at writing something about which the person was familiar. —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 12:19, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Done - See below for examples of the output. See ((fdw-iw)) (aliased as ((fdw-commons))) for the actual template. I decided to make it a bit more flexible by making it project-neutral. It defaults to Commons (for what should be obvious reasons), but all the Commons-specific stuff can be overridden to make it work with any project or language site. It may not be totally obvious how to use it, but there are so many possible variations on different projects, it's the best I could come up with. The most likely problem is if people leave out colons, slashes, etc. Without going overboard with parser functions, there's not much I can do. And since the image is not local, I can't even check to see if the image exists to trigger an error message. Oh well. It's still more helpful than what we had before. And it's pretty darn simple if you're just linking to a Commons image. What do you think? Is there anywhere else it should be promoted (like on Commons)? —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 16:10, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
An image or media file you uploaded to Wikimedia Commons or altered there, Image_or_Media_Name.jpg, has been listed at Commons Deletion requests. Please see the discussion to understand why this is (you may have to search for the title of the file to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 16:24, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
An image or media file you uploaded to Wikimedia Commons or altered there, Image_or_Media_Name.jpg, has been listed at Commons Deletion requests. Please see the discussion to understand why this is (you may have to search for the title of the file to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. There are copyright concerns. —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 16:24, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
An image or media file you uploaded to Wikipédia en français or altered there, Image_or_Media_Name.jpg, has been listed at Wikipédia Images à supprimer.
You can read and participate in the deletion discussion if you are interested or do not wish the file to be deleted. You may have to search for the title of the file to find its entry. Thank you. NW557Bot (talk) 09:57, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello Willscrlt/Archives,
I would like to point out that God doesn't exist. Religion is a dangerous delusion, responsible for fueling conflicts that have killed many millions of people. So, help to make the world a peaceful place by converting yourself and your friends to atheism. Count Iblis (talk) 17:37, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Likewise, I appreciate the work you do on the project. Yes, I know you were feeling rushed, otherwise you would've found a post on your talk page like that in my edit summary. ;) In those circumstances you've noted, I would've switched my note at ANI to "take more care to comply with the rules". I'm not sure if that's any less offensive though. I'm open if you have a better suggestion in conveying a message to that effect - please let me know if you do. :) Cheers and enjoy your day, Ncmvocalist (talk) 18:47, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Well thank you young man! (Where were you when I needed you? (rhetorical);-) When I've absorbed the significance of your advice, I will no doubt return and grovel at your feet with gratitude. Many thanks! Pdfpdf (talk) 13:32, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
(Oh, by-the-way: I hate M$.)
And thanks for your advice on tables.
Regarding this edit, I don't think it quite did what you wanted. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 14:17, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi! Looks like a very special kind of userbox you're making. I'm probably not the ultimate Wikipedia jazz guru (those people can most likely be found in the revision history of Jazz and related articles), but here's what I think: if you want a list in a chronological order you'd probably need something like Dixieland, swing jazz, big band, bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, free jazz, jazz fusion (or maybe jazz-rock and jazz-funk), smooth jazz. Of course, depending on who you ask, not everyone considers all of those "jazz" :-) By the way, there's a good listing of the different styles in Template:Jazzbox (although it's in alphabetical order). You might want to add bossa nova (which isn't strictly jazz) and ragtime (which predates jazz), if they're not included under some other category in your listing. I kind of disagree you grouping the blues under "R&B" (since the blues is a much older musical form than what is nowadays called R&B), but I admit that these things can get pretty hard to categorize. I hope this helps! Jafeluv (talk) 19:20, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
The user recreated it. It was deleted at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=CBPA/ Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 07:40, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I imagine they could muck around like that if they wanted to. :) Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 07:46, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
I have responded to you on Everyking's RfA. Ottava Rima (talk) 14:44, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Intentional links to base-name dabs are handled with redirects through things like Luna (disambiguation). See WP:INTDABLINK. Cheers! -- JHunterJ (talk) 18:14, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
He answered the questions. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:44, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you did indeed realise your mistake after reverting my revert on Postal Code, however your macro/bot still pasted a message on my talk page accusing me of vandalism. I appreciate the mistake, but wouldn't mind the issue being cleared up on my talk page quickly. Thanks. Taelus (talk) 12:43, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
My RFA passed today at 75/2/1 so I wanted to thank you for your participation in it. Special thanks go to GlassCobra and FlyingToaster for their nomination and support. Cheers! --Rosiestep (talk) 02:55, 12 May 2009 (UTC) |
I just found this and thought I would point out that the info about downloading the highest resolution image is confusing. As far as I have seen on Geograph (so by all means correct me if I'm wrong), unlike on say Flickr, there is never any higher resolution image available over and above the displayed image on the photo page, their 'download' link is rather redundant, you get the same size image just by right click saving the displayed image. This rather small size appears to be a Geograph wide limit - the only advice I ever received was to possibly contact the uploader for a higher res image. MickMacNee (talk) 17:51, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Unfortunately, my RFA was closed today with a final tally of 75½/38/10. Though it didn't succeed, I wanted to thank you for your participation in it. I intend to review the support, oppose, and neutral !votes and see what I can do to address those concerns. Special thanks go to Schmidt, MICHAEL Q., TomStar81, and henrik for their co-nominations and support. — BQZip01 — talk 20:15, 15 May 2009 (UTC) |
Hi,
I saw your name over at WP:ADOPT.
I need the advice of an experienced Wikipedian.
I'm currently coordinating development of Wikipedia's Outline of knowledge, which has grown to around 500 pages, and I am having trouble recruiting editors to help build and improve it. I need some mentorship here.
I also need advice on the guidelines I've been writing for the Outline of Knowledge at User:The Transhumanist/Outline of knowledge. Is it good enough? Did I miss anything important?
My latest effort to recruit help on the outlines is a proposal for a contest between all of the country WikiProjects on Wikipedia (about 200 of them). Each country has an outline devoted to it, and so I figured these fall within the scope of the corresponding WikiProjects. This will be a very big event, and I'm not sure I'm going about it in the best way.
So you see, I've taken on a lot, and I need as much advice as I can get.
I look forward to your reply on my talk page.
The Transhumanist 19:55, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I've seen your name on the project template and I permis myself to ask you help: I've just created a new portal Portal:Lyon and I would like to create the templates for the subways, trams, bus. They already exist on the french wikipedia of Lyon metro for example. would you accept to help me ? Thank you Lulu97417 (talk) 16:36, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey Will, could you add category suppression capabilities to the stub templates for food and drink? they are here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/stub templates.
--Jeremy (blah blah) 19:21, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
nocat=true
instead of categories=no
(it's more logical to set a value to true to enable a feature [category suppression] than to false). I am still trying to work out some sticky issues with the logic in the meta template, and then I am going to have to figure out the proper way to request the template be updated by an admin. I suppose I will also have to develop some consensus from others who rely upon that template to get it approved. Once that's done, I will go back through all the stubs and change them to support the nocat=true
suppression method. I hope that doesn't mess you and your work up in the meantime. I took a short break on the whole thing after getting frustrated with the logic issue and the protected template issue. Do you have experience getting changes made (especially large-scale changes) to protected templates? Thanks! —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 05:27, 24 May 2009 (UTC)|category=anything
, which barely features. Dismissing it as "not recommended" is a blocker to any desired guideline status.((editprotected))
tag on the talk page of the main template asking an admin to copy over your changes from the sandbox to the main template once you're happy everything works ok.|category=anything
? Did you mean |categories=no
which is quite common? I've mostly seen |category=anything
used to add categories to things, not used in suppression. The funny thing is that I "invented" |categories=no
and am now the one wanting to switch the the other version because it is more logical. It's probably too late to eliminate either method at this point, but it sure would be nice to have just one as a standard. It sure would make it a lot easier to implement category suppression in meta templates that way! That's what actually got me looking back at my original documentation page (which only discussed |categories=no
) written nearly 3 years ago. Templates have changed a lot in that time. Oh well. Thanks for the input! —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 14:43, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
|category=
, although I guess the specific =anything is not so widespread. As you note, |category=[[Category:Foo]]
is commonly used to replace the default categories with specific ones; |category=<!--NOTHING-->
of course adds nothing, thereby suppressing categories altogether. ((WPBannerMeta))
, and its 1200 descendents, all use specifically |category=anything-other-than-¬
to suppress categories; there the parameter does not act as a replacement but purely as a suppressant. Happy‑melon 15:10, 25 May 2009 (UTC)You can help if you want. Bernstein2291 (talk) 03:26, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in my "RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (Ceoil, Noroton and Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record. ~~~~~ |
Thanks for adding all those Hot air ballooning userboxes to Wikipedia:Userboxes/Aviation! - Ahunt (talk) 12:30, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Dravecky (talk) 02:21, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, on the german wikipedia we do not have special user categories, like your categorie de:Kategorie:Benutzer:Willscrlt. So could you please remove the categories from your user sides. Thank yuo in advance. --Obkt (talk) 07:26, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
The template is up for deletion on stubs for deletion. Please feel free to comment here. --Jeremy (blah blah) 04:23, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Willscrlt, and thanks for trying to help sort out the potential mess around these stub types.
First things first - yes, the bartending template was deleted, back in October 2007. It was re-created three days ago, which is why it turned up at SFD.
With reference to your comments, you have the situation with stubs and stub-class assessments pretty much right, but not totally. As I understood it, the stub identifier in an article is added to articles that meet certain requirements of length (primarily) and to a lesser extent, apparent degree of completeness of the article. The second only really applies if there is just so little to be said about a topic that an article is unlikely to ever be more than a stub, yet somehow manages to be notable and verifiable (and such are rare). Thus, length is the most common criteria. Article assessment is more subjective (though there are guidelines, and WikiProjects seem to have more latitude in developing those than they do in stub sorting guidelines). This isn't strictly true - in fact i have a fairly widely-referred to essay which explains why length isn't in itself the best arbitrator of stubbiness (see User:Grutness/Croughton-London rule of stubs). However, some of whst you say is pretty much on the money. WikiProject Stub sorting's members can't be expected to know everything about every stub they encounter, so there is a level of arbitrariness about what is regarded as a stub and what isn't. Individual WikiProjects, of course, have a more precise knowledge of their specific area of interest, and as such usually have a more refined idea of how to assess particular articles relating to it. As such, something marked as a stub by srtub sorters may not be regarded as a stub by a specific project, and vice versa. Sadly, when assessment templates were brought in, the term "Stub-Class" was used for the lowest quality assessment, causing endless confusion among WikiProjects as to why both Assessment as Stub-Class and sorting as a stub are both used, and whether they are the same. Basically, stub templates are a rough guide across the entirety of Wikipedia, for the aid of all editors. Stub-Class assessment is specifically for use by one WikiProject for its editors.
Since stub templates are all used by stub sorters in roughly the same way, we don't have /doc files for them. WP:STUB explains their use and is already linked in the text of the template, so a /doc file is unnecessary. If any specific documentation is needed, such as specific usage of a template or a WikiProject link, then this is usually placed in whatever category is linked to by the template.
I note, looking through the archives, a couple of the discussions you refer to. According to this, ((Mixed-drinks-stub)) was proposed and created, and this, ((cocktail-stub)) was converted into a redirect to it. However, this says it was kept and cleaned up. Hence the confusion (and yes, I was involved in at least one of the discussions). There's no sign that bartending-stub was ever discussed at WP:WSS.
I can understand the reasoning why bartending-stub would be useful, but I still wonder whether a specific banner assessment template for your WikiProject would be more useful, for the reasons I expressed at SFD. It wouold be far more versatile, as it could mark all your project's articles, not just stubs - and it wwould enable you to use specific criteria for deciding when an article was no longer Stub-Class (which seems to be the reasoning behind the /doc file on the stub template).
As to Nopetro, I also get the feeling that English is not Nopetro's first language, but I'd also say from conversation with him that he understands the language fairly well. He seems willing to help with any re-sorting of articles which may be needed if water-stub is changed or deleted, which I'm grateful for.
The main problem with the template he made is that it's so vaguely defined that it wouldn't be of much use to editors looking for articles - it contains things relating to water, sure, but that covers a lot of different fields, most of which already have specific stub types, and it's unlikely that any one editor would be looking for such diverse stubs as Adam T. Bower Memorial Dam, Steamboats of the Cowlitz River, Technical management, National Cargo Bureau, and Inert gas generator. It wouldn't have been so bad if the previous stub templates (for the accepted categories) had been left on these articles, but they've been removed - so Weweantic River is no longer marked as a Massachusetts geography stub, for instance, even though it's far more likely to be looked for by ediotors working on Massachusetts geography articles than on ones looking for articles on water.
Anyway, sorry this is such a long rambling reply, but hopefully it helps explain a few things. I'll propose cocktail-stub be turned into a redirect at WP:SFD - hopefully that will at least solve one problem. Grutness...wha? 08:59, 30 May 2009 (UTC)