Rich Farmbrough

I'd like to come to some consensus about it, if we can: can we try to reach closure at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (abbreviations) ? Thanks! hike395

Hi,

I saw that you participated in the discussion of banning ISBN-check. I'd like to to make you attentive on a new tool: on the wikimedia-toolserver there is now IsbnCheckAndFormat. This tool checks ISBNs for correctness, formats ISBNs with dashes in the right positions and converts ISBNs from ISBN-10 to ISBN-13 and vice versa. The tool doesn't use partner-links, but can be configured to use any OPAC you like. Here are examples of usage:

• correct ISBN
• incorrect ISBN
• link for Booksources-page

I think it would be a good idea to add this tool to the Booksources page. If you have any questions, contact me at de:Benutzer_Diskussion:°/IsbnCheckAndFormat.

A "{{prod}}" template has been added to the article Joey (film), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but yours may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. JHunterJ 23:19, 2 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

[1] [2] Since categories are shown below stubs I think it should keep them there in the markup. -- Jeandré, 2007-06-03t11:50z

Hi, the reason for this is that stubs introduce categories of there own. Since these are meta categories (WP:selfrefs if you will) not content, it is good that those categories go at the end of the category list. Rich Farmbrough, 12:53 3 June 2007 (GMT).

Stopping a malfunctioning bot is not vandalism. Your bot keeps tagging sections as trivia which aren't trivia sections at all. You didn't address that problem at all!! You should see to repairing your bot. --Maxl 16:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Maxl - your concept of what constitutes a trivia section seems at odds with quite a few other wikipedia editors + bots. From what I can see, Smackbot is doing a fantastic job. Could you quite an example of where the bot is misbehaving? --Oscarthecat 16:41, 3 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for those few kind words. Of course SB doesn't have an opinion, it merely dates existing tags. However I am not completely at odds with Maxl on this, in that I prefer to call such sections "Miscellanea", although I wouldn't remove the tags. I also support incorporating the miscellaneous facts into the thrust of the article, where possible, if they are really "trivial", disposing of them, but if they are relevant and can't be made to flow, then they should be left as a bulleted list. Rich Farmbrough, 16:54 3 June 2007 (GMT).

I don't think SmackBot meant to make the following edits on Fourpeaked Volcano. It seems to have messed up then fixed itsef using AWB. Smackbot then proceeded to add date tags until now. The edits don't seem to mess anything up but they also don't seem necessary. P.Haney 21:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

No this is a foo-bar. As you say, no serious breakage, and I believe I've stopped it now. Thanks for letting me know. Rich Farmbrough, 15:54 4 June 2007 (GMT).

Hey, I'm not sure if you care about this or not ... but just to let you know some of the templates on User:Rich_Farmbrough/test are making it show up in the actual categories - for example User:DumbBot has a list of pages incorrectly listed as AFDs - and it's there. Again, you don't actually have to do anything - I just don't want the page to be deleted (since there are deletion nominations on it) and then you have to create it again - so if you still want it you might want to consider substing some of it to stay on the safe side..danielfolsom 22:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hi Daniel, Thanks for letting me know. Not a big deal if it does get deleted I guess... But "subst" would break the testing regime - still I think that work has been superseded by someone else. Rich Farmbrough, 14:12 4 June 2007 (GMT).

I see that you are fond of inserting "citation needed" tags to articles. The trouble is that, even when, having encountered such an insertion, one has an appropriate citation up one's sleeve it is exceedingly difficult to see how that citation can be supplied in a manner that would please Your Botship.

Wikipedia:Citation templates -- the article to which, in trying to add a citation, one is eventually lead -- is hardly the most well-meaning-technoramus-friendly article included in the Wikipedia... -- Picapica 13:45, 4 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

SB only dates the tags.... RF.

This edit[3], with a similar one repeated a few days earlier, resulted in removal of an underscore from a URL, breaking the link. Might want to check up on the rules for that one... GDallimore (Talk) 13:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, this is an AWB bug, I can see why it's happening, I wall pass to the developers. Rich Farmbrough, 14:10 4 June 2007 (GMT).

Cool, thanks! GDallimore (Talk) 17:35, 4 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Editor, I've noticed your contributions to the Providence, Rhode Island article. I've just nominated it for Featured Article status.--Loodog 15:10, 5 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

FA page is here. Any feedback and assistance you have to offer would be greatly appreciated.--Loodog 00:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hi, just letting you know that SmackBot is doing redundant edits when fixing substed 'fact' templates: it first turns the big substed mess into a proper {{fact}}, and then subsequently replaces that with {{fact|date=...}}; Here's an example: first edit, second edit. Should be an easy fix, but if it's not, nothing's broken anyway. -- intgr ^#%@! 15:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, the rules-base needs refactoring.... Rich Farmbrough, 16:02 5 June 2007 (GMT).

Is {{who}} working right now? I think you might have stuck in at least one extra curly bracket. See? {{who|date=99/99/99}} --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 14:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Fixed (and nowikied above). -- JHunterJ 14:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

thanks both. Rich Farmbrough, 16:15 6 June 2007 (GMT).

I don't think it's benefical to substitute Unicode by the actual symbol as it brings no benefits to a reader, but may bring a little of confusion for a Wikipedia editor. If you are not using the latest system (such as Windows Vista, which supports Unicode 5.0) then {{Unicode|&#x20B4}} may look like {{Unicode|□}} due to missing fonts with the later being even more confusing than the former. (Smackbot activity) --Novelbank 18:50, 6 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

I went ahead and took a stab at writing an FAQ on how to generate the list at the top of Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by number of edits. Mind checking it? I've never generated the list, so I may have made a mistake or skipped a step. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 19:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hi - that's not the method I use so I can't comment definatively, but it looks a bout right. Rich Farmbrough, 15:09 11 June 2007 (GMT).

I replied on my talk page. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 17:14, 9 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

I noticed your smackbot changed the tagging on article BOOKIT. I do not find the tagging being relevant for the article if you read it in context. Please have a look at it. --Tradof 08:25, 11 June 2007 (UTC)Reply