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Contents 1 Nardcore 2 Sicilian language 3 Great work 4 Thank you 5 WikiProject C++ 6 Anna Hazare 7 History in For Want of a Nail 8 Bot flag 9 Note 10 nice username! 11 Social aggression 12 TR-3B Stryker II Deletion 13 Torrent shocking 14 Compacting URLs 15 Cy Endfield 16 Fair use rationale on your image 17 Copyedit thanks 18 Alpha Phi Alpha 19 Tawkerbot2 20 Bot request 21 Re: U.K. -> UK 22 Floating point 23 Nice bot 24 Emergency! 25 Fair use debate regarding television screencaps 26 Bot usage 27 Barnstar 28 Request for bot task: lower case element names! 29 icodify 30 Deleting the Nitcentral article 31 "an" before a vowel or "h" 32 Acronym question 33 Template:WPBeatles changes

Nardcore

Please be sure of the correct spelling of bands you obviously know nothing about. I know you think you were correct in changing the band name Agression to Aggression, but it was spelled that way by founder, Mark Hickey on purpose because in his words, "that's punk". I'm not being harsh, or I hope I don't come off that way, but people keep changing it who know nothing about the Nardcore scene. I lived it. Maluka 14:56, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry this was in the wrong place

I'm not an avid Wikipedian and don't know all the rules. You replied on my talk page and I'm sorry if you thought I was out of line with the Agression thing. It's just that it's happened over and over. I'm going to remove your words from there and wait for Sonic Hog to make more silly comments and wag one too many finger at me. Maluka 07:58, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Sicilian language

Thank you for your minor edits in the above article (although in my view imbed is as equally acceptable as embed - but I've left it alone - to be honest, I didn't want to look for it!). ρ¡ρρµ δ→θ∑ - (waarom? jus'b'coz!) 02:51, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Great work

Hi, of late, you have been popping up regularly on my watchlist due to your numerous corrections on each of those articles - your edit summaries are exemplary and precise; Keep up the good work. --Gurubrahma 05:50, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Second that, and thank you for your tireless efforts to correct typos, bad grammar, and spelling errors. KillerChihuahua^?!? 00:38, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Awarded by ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ for your tireless work in correcting spelling, punctuation and the many malformed wikilinks we leave behind when we edit.

WikiProject C++

The WikiProject C++ aims to increase the quality of C++-related articles on Wikipedia, and has discovered that you have participated in the editing of them! So don't hesitate, join us! --Deryck C. 15:37, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Anna Hazare

Hi, you still have an In Use template on this article. Rgds, Rich Farmbrough 17:51 11 March 2006 (UTC).

Beg your pardon. Rich Farmbrough 18:02 11 March 2006 (UTC).

History in For Want of a Nail

My thanks for going over the article and correcting the spelling. Be aware, though, that the spellings "Guatamala" and "Chapultapec" are not errors, or at least not errors in the article. Those are the spellings found in For Want of a Nail; they presumably reflect standard orthography in the book's alternate world, and the article reflects this. Johnny Pez 21:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Bot flag

Hi there Cmdrjameson! I wanted to let you know that you need to apply for a bot flag to be running such frequent edits. Wikipedia:Bots is the place to check this out; for now you can put your name under 'bots running without a flag'. Until you get this flag, please keep your edits to no more than a few a minute. Check out the full bots page for more information, and any questions can be pointed at Wikipedia_talk:Bots. Thanks! JoeSmack ^Talk 02:00, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Note

Hello, I noticed you edited a Hip Hop related article. If you wish you can join the new Hip Hop Wikiproject. Thanks for your time. Tutmosis 22:51, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

nice username!

Haven't come across a Commander Jameson in a long time! Pleased to meet you. 80.7.192.18 15:08, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Social aggression

Thanks for your help about social aggression. Ttturbo 13:48, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

TR-3B Stryker II Deletion

Hi, the TR-3B Stryker II is on debate for deletion, well many of us are trying to keep it up, I was hoping you would add a keep to it since you helped it. Right now they are complaining that we are all new users trying to keep it up and it would be nice to have someone who has been around a little longer, make a keep post. Elgae Nacirema 07:42, 31 March 2006 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/TR-3B_Stryker

Torrent shocking

I came across this article, and became worried for my computer because it has been behaving funny. I tried to research the topic online, and became suspicious that the entire article is untrue. I have stated more in-depth justifications on the article's talk page. In the 6months since the article was started, you are the only other wikipedian to edit the article. Had you heard of this specific phenomenon before editing the article, or have any other reason to believe the contents of the article are legitimate?

Your contributions to the discussion would be appreciated. Please post a reply to my talk page as well. Shaggorama 18:10, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm certainly not doubting that some torrents are bundled with malware or used as a vector for infection. It's the particular type of malware identified by the article that I find suspect, and it sound like you agree. Thanks for the article, by the way. Shaggorama 16:52, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Compacting URLs

Many thanks for fixing the long URL on Junior Brown's Semi Crazy. If you would tell me how to do that myself (it seems like a simple trick but I can't figure it out!) I'll be that much more educated! Thanks! Justabaldguy 21:55, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Cy Endfield

Thank you for creating the automatic account which corrected an obvious typo which had somehow escaped my attention in the past! --Chips Critic 14:47, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale on your image

Hi, Someone recently has told me that the image seen here which you upload may be invalid to use because of lack of information on it's origin. So it can continue beieng used, could you please provide how you got it. Thanks. Tobyk777 23:52, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I have already put your comments in the fair use rationale for the image. I have put the pic to good use. The name article I put your pic in is: DNA Resequencer (Stargate). After it falied FAC, I made it a good article canidate. No one has approved it yet. However, I am stil trying to make it an FA. What do you think? Tobyk777 18:13, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Copyedit thanks

Thanks for the copyedit on Standard Widget Toolkit. GeorgeBills 06:04, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Alpha Phi Alpha

I'm interested in running your BOT, CmdrObot on the Alpha Phi Alpha article. Can any user execute a BOT, or must it be run by the creator? Also, if I can run the bot, do you know if there is a page in wikipedia with the instructions? thanks Ccson 03:16, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Tawkerbot2

It detected repetition in the page, the bot noticed that all of the additions were the same. Is it running with a bot flag, it shouldn't have checked a flagged bots edits... -- Tawker 20:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Bot request

It would be beneficial (imo) to have a bot to remove links to pages that redirect back to the current article (i.e. X shouldn't link to Y if Y is a redirect to X). I'm no programmer (otherwise I'd work on this myself!) but I'd have thought that it should be possible to do this by checking the what links here information and then unlinking anything that links to any redirect pages in the list. This might need to be a human-supervised bot (or AWB function?) as there may be occasions when the link is apropriate. It should only deal with the main namespace - links on talk could be useful and/or out of date relating to page moves/mergers. Possbily it would be of benefit in the Wikipedia: namespace if WP: shortcuts are explicitly ignored. Thryduulf 23:04, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Looking through the nefarious purposes of CmdrOBot this would seem a good fit, if it is possible and desirable. I posted the above to Wikipedia:Bot requests at the time of the timestamp above, but nobody has made any comments in reply, hence this message here. Thanks, Thryduulf 00:56, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the useage [[Alan Turing]] rather than '''Alan Turing''' in the article intro, I've always regarded this as bad as if the article is moved then the formatting is broken and a blue link is created - either back to the article via a redirect, to a different article or to a dab page. Whenever I've come accross these I change them - if there are as many as you say then a bot would certainly be very useful! I'll have a browse round the manual of style to see if I can find a relevant guideline.

As to the frequency of X linking to Y which redirects to X, I don't spot it hugely often but as I don't check every link in every article I read I would be amazed if it were not more common than I have found. As articles are moved, split and merged then I expect that more of these are unintentionally generated. My pure guess would be a couple of thousand instances wiki-wide, but I would be more suprised if this was an underestimation than if it were an overestimation.

I don't know how easy it is to program this, but I think the algorithm for identifying the links would be something like:

• load article
• check "what links here"
• generate a list of pages that are identified as "(redirect page)"
• search article for links to pages on the list
• remove any such links found.

I can see that in some places it will be apropriate to replace the link with bold text. I imagine that this decision will be very easy for a human but extremely difficult for a bot. If the bot isn't human monitored then perhaps it should bold it in the following circumstances

• It is in the first occurence of the link in the article AND
• It is in the first section of the article OR
• It is in the first three paragraphs of the article

Whether this is done or not, a message on the talk page asking for humans to check the bolding (or lack of) could be useful. Thryduulf 23:24, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to bug you, but are you working on this or should I ask someone else (or is it not possible?) Thryduulf 20:56, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: U.K. -> UK

Hi Dismas,

it's a good idea, and as you say, it'd be an easy case to add, but are you sure 'UK' is the preferred useage? IMHO 'UK' looks a lot better than 'U.K.', but I don't see any mention of it in the MoS.

Cheers, Cmdrjameson 22:27, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Arg, someone has changed the page. It was there the last time I looked at it. Although, the article for United Kingdom points out what I was referring to on the first line. Dismas|^(talk) 22:57, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info... And the change to your bot! Dismas|^(talk) 05:10, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Floating point

I'm not sure you realized that your rvv edit at floating point reverted a lot of edits, not all of which were vandalism (specifically, the last block of edits by User:Fresheneesz were not, though you may disagree with them). I suppose this was a simple mistake on your part, in which case it's not something to worry too much about it, but I'm just mentioning it in the hope that you'll be a bit more careful in the future. Best wishes, and keep up the good work, Jitse Niesen (talk) 02:59, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Nice bot

Hi, I like your Wikipedia bot. It can fix the capitalization and my spelling mistakes. Thanks for creating and running the bot.

Bye --Starionwolf 22:48, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Emergency!

I am suddenly experiencing anomalies related to that damn unicode thing in editing. Could your bot or other activities be responsible? If so, please turn that damned thing off immediately! I can't work right now! ---CH 01:11, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I am seeing unicode in the edit box, which is not compatible with my system and is preventing me from working at WP. Please fix this immediately. Have you changed something in the wikicode? (Are you a developer, or what?) ---CH 01:20, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Fair use debate regarding television screencaps

Currently, there is a debate on Talk:List of Lost episodes regarding whether or not use of a 1/30th stillframe visual excerpt next to a list of audiovisual works (such as List of Lost episodes or List of Stargate episodes) is in accordance with WP:Fair use, and has even resulted in the protection of the page.

If you have any opinions regarding fair use on the List of Lost episodes page, please feel free to express them as I believe these two pages are sister projects.

Cws125 05:40, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Bot usage

I'm also running OS X, and would like to operate a bot. But, I don't know how to write the code to do so. I was wondering if you would consider letting others use the code you've developed to run their own bots. --MZMcBride 18:55, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Barnstar of High Culture
		Awarded for your work in getting Red vs Blue up to featured article status.

Request for bot task: lower case element names!

In the mode of Vernor Vinge, it occurs to me that a robot or grad student or mentally "focused" slave of some kind could be made to do a repetitious task which I'd otherwise do myself, piecemeal. Hmmm. Or perhaps a sentient being could be requested to program such a thing, by appeal. Then proceed, whilst temporarily suppressing sentience and self-awareness, as a cost of processing power. Thanks....

Here's the request: chemical elements as written-out words, are NOT supposed to be capitalized. Only the symbols are capitalized. Thus, Es but einsteinium, Ga but gallium, U but uranium. This convention is widely violated, for some reason usually associated with rare or odd elements. Thus nobody writes Carbon or Iron, but you see Plutonium and Uranium all the time.

It occurs to me that this is a job for a bot. Task: Rid English Wiki (English because obviously nouns are capitalized in German and who knows what other languages) of all capitalized element names! Except, of course, those that begin sentences. This will require loading in the 100 odd names and checking the entire database for instances of chem element name capitalization, except those that begin sentences. Then doing a find and replace with the lower case name.

Can you do it? Will you do it? How do I interest you in doing it? These are a pet peeve of mine, but perhaps not of yours... Sbharris 01:17, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

A quick question: are you sure that the elements names based on proper nouns (eg Californium) are definitely supposed to be lowercased? It may well be correct, but it looks a little bit odd to me. Perhaps I just need to re-educate my oddness detector.

Cheers, Cmdrjameson 17:28, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Answer: Yes, it IS odd (one reason it needs doing). Even einsteinium is lowercase. But this follows the general convention of SI, which actually deliberately attempts to use lowercase units and other things derived from proper names, so as to SHOW that they are something other than the proper person or place name. Thus SI speaks of the watt and the joule. But the symbols remain uppercase, so it's joule but J.

Yes, Mercury the planet is an exception I missed. As a place it should be capitalized in English. As for Iron Age, I wouldn't capitalize the Iron unless you capitalize the Age part. Thus, Ice Age, but but not Ice age or even Stone age. The same goes for medals. If you write Gold Medal, it's okay to capitalize gold. But I would think not otherwise. Writing Gold medal looks very funny.

Thanks for your attention to this. It should be interesting to see how many you find. Steve 17:35, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sbharris"

icodify

Hi, some time back you wrote a python script to un-unicodify a "raw wikicode" file, to help me archive articles in a safe place. I do have python 2.3 or better, and your script executes, but I must not understand the syntax and I don't really know what "properly escaped" means. What I want is something which takes a file with lines like

The Lorentz group is a [[subgroup]] of the [[Poincaré group]]

and converts that

The Lorentz group is a {\em subgroup} of the {\em Poincar\'e group}

and so on. Can your script help me build such a thing? I.e. I can probably eventually get something which converts most wikicode to corresponding LaTeX, but I don't use Windows so could use some help with unicode to LaTeX conversion. TIA ---CH 03:11, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Deleting the Nitcentral article

Can you chime in with your vote? It's here.

"an" before a vowel or "h"

Hayford, thanks for your input on the dreaded indefinite article; it's nice to get a bit of feedback from someone (unlike me) who actually knows what they're talking about! :)

I have to say I was a little suspicious about the 'always use "an" with h' rule. What would the point be of having two separate versions of the indefinite article if they neither reflected pronunciation nor played a syntactic or grammatical role? I know English isn't the most sensible of languages, but it's not quite that silly!

I see from your user page that you're a science fiction author. Are any of your short works available online by any chance? I'm always on the look out for interesting new authors.

Cheers, Cmdrjameson 23:34, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Happy to help out. And I'm glad that I looked it up myself -- it's been a while since I've had it absolutely clear in my own mind. As I recall from my writing days, there *are* occasional words that seem to go both ways -- I think William Safire or someone has written learnedly about whatever words it is that frequently have an "an" before them, but almost equally frequently an "a". Can't remember what they are, however. As to my shorts, it's possible that some of them are available somewhere as downloadable content. I remember several years ago when Wildside was reprinting everything of mine that they fiddled around with some downloadable stuff, including some shorts. I know I get a little bit of ebooks royalties occasionally but I'm no longer sure about what's available. If you check me out at Amazon you might find something there -- I have my own listing of 18 books. They may have some sort of links.... Best, Hayford Peirce 00:07, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Acronym question

I noticed you have a bot fixing some acronyms (particularly changing U.K. to UK). Is the Wikistyle to present acronyms without periods? I have a couple of new articles on my watchlist that use acronyms quite extensively but I wanted to make sure we have the correct format. (One example is S.W.O.R.D. (The Saint). Thanks. 23skidoo 03:32, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi there. I'm afraid there's no hard and fast rules, but you might want to take a look at [Wikipedia:Naming conventions (acronyms)] and the [WP:MOS#Acronyms_and_abbreviations|Manual of Style]. The reason I'm doing the U.K.->UK conversion is because that's the accepted usage for that acronym. Cheers, Cmdrjameson 14:24, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't get the feeling it's a huge deal, but I wanted to be consistent if there was a rule. Personally I prefer the form without periods, at least on a computer screen. 23skidoo 18:35, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Template:WPBeatles changes

See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ACmdrObot&diff=72933796&oldid=72701572 ... please have your bot leave talk page templates belonging to wikiprojects alone if you could, they often have very gnarly formatting to make the complex nested code inside them readable by humans. htanks muchly!!!! ++Lar: t/c 00:54, 31 August 2006 (UTC)