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Contents 1 You helped choose this week's WP:AID winner 2 WP:RFBOT 3 Possible Userbox Solution 4 76 mm Gun 5 Family Guy 6 Beretta Cx4 Storm 7 Revised Family Guy Format 8 CbmBOT 9 Cleanup taskforce 10 League of Copyeditors 11 CbmBOT - question 12 Comma 13 Tenacious D

[edit] You helped choose this week's WP:AID winner

[edit] WP:RFBOT

Your bot has been approved for full operations at RFBOT. If you want to add features to your bot at a later time, please repost on RFBOT. Thanks, — xaosflux ^Talk 01:32, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible Userbox Solution

This is a form letter, please don't reply directly. Do, however, feel free to discuss this solution I've come up with.

I've made an unofficial place for all User Boxes (hopefully) safe from overzealous Admins. Feel free to add any you like, edit any there, or just list your already made userboxes there. Also feel free to edit the main page (the user page) in any way that you think might help. Please note, however, that this is a user page and not an official Wikipedia page, so almost any User Box will be tolerated as long as it's within reason. UserBox 03:08, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 76 mm Gun

Thank you for the table on 76 mm gun M1.Wikist 12:39, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Family Guy

I have been trying to discuss this with the anon but he keeps reinserting the same unsourced, misspelled, poorly written section. 3RR does not apply to the removal of vandalism and nonsense. L0b0t 16:59, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

There is no indication that the inclusion of the contested sections are vandalism, regardless of whether or not they qualify as per the guidelines you quote.

From WP:V:

Any edit lacking a source may be removed, but editors may object if you remove material without giving them a chance to provide references. If you want to request a source for an unsourced statement, consider moving it to the talk page. Alternatively, you may tag the sentence by adding the {{fact}} template, or tag the article by adding {{not verified}} or {{unsourced}}. You can also make unsourced sentences invisible in the article by adding <!-- before the section you want to hide and --> after it, until reliable sources have been provided. Leave a note on the talk page or edit summary explaining what you have done.

–Dvandersluis 17:07, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

No one ever claimed the section was vandalism, rather that the 3rr rule does not apply to nonsense or vandalism. WP:V states that unsourced claims may be removed by any editor. L0b0t 17:12, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

You are not reverting vandalism or nonsense though, you are reverting what you feel to be in violation of guidelines – I am not sure of the validity of your arguments, but that is beside the point. You are, however, taking one part of WP:V while ignoring others, namely, that other editors have as much right to maintain (by adding necessary sources) the disputed content as you have to delete it, and to have a discussion about the disputed content.

I have created discussion topics at Wikipedia talk:Verifiability#Verifiability of television episodes and Wikipedia talk:Centralized discussion/Television episodes#Cultural references sections in order to determine the correct response to WP:EPISODE and WP:V that you are citing. You may wish to take part in these discussions.

–Dvandersluis 17:40, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

"editors may object", but they must cite a reference before putting that info back in. Objecting just means "you'll probably piss them off", and in general we should avoid that. Objecting to removal doesn't mean you get to put it back in without a reference. -- Ned Scott 05:04, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Beretta Cx4 Storm

For the opposite problem, i.e., removal of cited history usage in accord with WP:V of a particular firearm, reverted by L0b0t, see Beretta Cx4 Storm. Yaf 05:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Revised Family Guy Format

we should probably stick to a standardized setup so we need to decide on a set order for plot, cultural references, and notes. Ive noticed you've been putting notes first recently, but it seems the majority of eps have cultural references listed first...so just looking for your input Grande13 16:41, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Yah, I just noticed that too. I had thought that generally notes was first, so I was changing the articles I update to fit that. If we want Cultural Refs first, that's fine by me. Just let me know. –Dvandersluis 16:43, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah lets just put Cultural references first, as that hopefully can save us some time down the line Grande13 16:53, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good. That's what I'll do from now on. Sorry for the confusion! –Dvandersluis 16:58, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CbmBOT

Hi

Is it possible to have CbmBOT automatically calculate the correct percentage on Category:Cleanup by month? Otherwise, it'd be best to remove the figure because 0.00% is simply incorrect and misleading. --Espoo 11:59, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

It was working earlier... I'll take a look at it. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! –Dvandersluis 13:53, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup taskforce

How are the articles on your desk going? Do you need any assistance? I'm looking for a person to look at the article on British hip hop if you are interested. RJFJR 22:26, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] League of Copyeditors

Dear Cleanup Taskforce member,

I noticed that you've listed yourself as a member who's interested in copy-editing. I'm a member of the League of Copyeditors, a project dedicated to managing the sizable backlog of articles needing a copy-edit. We're always looking for new members, and you'd make a great addition to the project! We've started a participation drive for the remainder of February. If you're interested, you can help clear the backlog by adopting the following goals each week:

• Select an article to copy-edit from the backlog. After your copy-edit, list the article in the ready for final proofread section.
• Select a different article to proofread from the ready for final proofread section.

Thanks, and happy editing! BuddingJournalist 07:41, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CbmBOT - question

I use part of your code from User:CbmBOT/Source_code (function wiki_write), and I can't find out why bot always mark new edit as minor (no matter how you set wpMinoredit variable in array). Do you know what could be wrong (hope I explain it well)? Tnx --Slodave 15:28, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I already find out, tnx anyway --Slodave 15:47, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

What solution did you find? I never noticed it before, but starting February 13th, all the edits by CbmBOT suddenly were being marked as minor. If you could let me know what you figured out, I'd appreciate it. –Dvandersluis 15:49, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I am not sure why it marks everything with minor, but I know the solution, just unset the wpMinoredit value from posted form data (like unset($form_data['wpMinoredit']);) and it works. --Slodave 16:51, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Yah, I actually just figured that out myself and updated my bot. Strange that it was never a problem before. Thanks! –Dvandersluis 16:52, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comma

Hey, I know this is a dumb thing to argue about, but why did you remove that comma in Day Break? That is a proper comma.. diff Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 19:50, 3 March 2007 (UTC) The reason I removed it is because "Los Angeles Detective" is an adjective, modifying "Brett Hopper". By way of example, if we were to use the adjective "red" to modify "apple", it would be "red apple", not "red, apple". The comma is only used to separate more than one adjective from each other, not an adjective from its noun. –Dvandersluis 22:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

The Los Angeles Detective part describes the Brett Hopper part.. The red and apple is not a correct analogy. An example of an analogy would be American Series, Quantum Leap... Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 23:45, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tenacious D

Thanks for the LoCE work dude. Is there anything you think I should do? Tenacious D Fans (talk) 20:17, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Right now I'm working away at the article, section by section. I won't have time to do the whole thing – at least, not now. If you want, feel free to pick up where I leave off (I'm almost done with the Beginnings section, and likely will move on to TV series (1997 – 2000)).

–Dvandersluis 20:20, 6 March 2007 (UTC)