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22:33, 25 August 2006
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[edit] Re:Battlestar GalacticA category talk

Hi 73 - you wrote: Hey. It looks like you deleted Category:Battlestar Galactica stubs yesterday, but left the talk page. Since the talk consists only of {{cleancat}}, I was wondering why you left it. Very simple really - stub cats rarely if ever have active talk pages, and I didn't notice that ths one had one. Since talk pages are deleted separately from the main pages, I, um... forgot :) It's gone now. Thanks! Grutness...wha? 06:05, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please look at the compromise

Hi! Please see my reasoning and act accordingly. FrankB 19:55, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi again! I put up some answers for you Cfd:ebooks. FrankB 06:21, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] morton plant hospital

Thanks for adding the category tag. Does adding tag automatically populate Category:Hospitals in Florida, or do you have to added the name to the category page? Thanks, User:Mikereichold | User_talk:Mikereichold 01:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

It automatically adds the page to Category:Hospitals in Florida. That's part of the magic of categories! It sometimes takes a few minutes to show up, but it's all automatic. SeventyThree(Talk) 01:20, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Super and thank you.User:Mikereichold | User_talk:Mikereichold 01:40, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] JGrespan

Just delete the thing then! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JesseH (talk • contribs) .

I'm not an admin, so I can't delete the image. SeventyThree(Talk) 20:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] speedy delete

I didn't think anyone would be interested in discussing them. Oh well, live and learn. I bet someone tells me I should have speedy deleted them though. I've put them up the usual way -- ProveIt (talk) 23:53, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

They probably will point that out, but if they've not been empty for more than 4 days then they're technically not speedyable. Although their deletion is a bit of a no-brainer. SeventyThree(Talk) 00:00, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't know how long they have been empty, although I suspect it's probably been long enough. Do you know a way to find out? -- ProveIt (talk) 01:04, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I've never found a way. Categories don't have a normal history of the contents, because they're generated automagicly. If you know the subject you can check the history of some pages which should have been entries. I don;t think there is a way, sorry. SeventyThree(Talk) 16:09, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Modifications to the Userbox Sample template

Thanks for your work on the userbox sample template. You did a great job with what really had me stumped. I think it's ready for prime time - I have posted {{Userbox Sample}} and {{Userbox Sample2}} based on this test template. BigDT 02:37, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Fenêtre Records albums

The one remaining article in this category (mentioned in this CfD) has been deleted. Please consider a delete vote for the now-empty category. Thanks! -Big Smooth 20:32, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for updating me - I've changed my vote. Can you remember the name of the article which used to populate the category? It'd be nice to know so I can check the deletion. Sometimes people remove category tags from articles or misunderstand the CfD process, so it's nice to be able to check. I should have made note earlier, really! Keep up the good work. SeventyThree(Talk) 00:39, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
As far as I know, the only article in there was The Skywriter. -Big Smooth 15:42, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
OK, thanks. SeventyThree(Talk) 04:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Dye_laser.JPG

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Liu_agen.JPG

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[edit] Bot help

I would like to write a bot that would search for my name (real and user name) being used in an article or talk page because I recently had an incident where a point of view was being discussed about a contribution I had made in regard to its premeditated deletion. Can you help? Thanks. ...IMHO (Talk) 19:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

There are several ways to do that, but I don't think you need a bot for it. If you want a list of pages you've edited, click "my contributions" at the top right of a page, or visit Special:Contributions/User:Pce3@ij.net - you can narrow down the namespace using the drop-down menu, if that helps. There are other ways as well - if you signed on the page, you could check "What links here" on your userpage (here) or talk page (here).
If you want to look for your real name, you could try Googling wikipedia (like this). You could also google your username, to catch places where it's used without being wikilinked. Bear in mind that google is a few days behind wikipedia, so if you're looking for something recent it may not find it. You could try the internal wikipedia search engine as well, but that's not always best (it's case-sensitive, among other things), and not always working.
Hope that helps - if not, give me another shout. SeventyThree(Talk) 23:30, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Yeah Google is great for finding older stuff. I was able in fact to find two images that needed to be deleated I probably could not have found as easily any other way. My main reason though for making the request was to be able to come up to speed a lot sooner than it would normally take me to figure out how to write a bot on my own. To be honest even though I am sure that I will eventually come up with a great bot application the truth is that I do not really have one now. Since so much of the things that I have wanted to do over the years since I started programming in the mid sixties that I will have to take my mind back to that point in time to see if there is anything I did not or could not accomplish back then but can accomplish now. If you prefer just to refer me to some directed reading than that would be great too. Thanks. ...IMHO (Talk) 00:58, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I'd love to help, but there's not much I can tell you on the bot front. The only wikipedia 'bot' I use is AWB, which is more of a software tool and involves no programming beyond regexps. I haven't written any code which interfaces with wikipedia myself, so I can't help there - probably best if you point yourself at Wikipedia:Bots for inspiration and more experienced users. That said, I know a little of many languages and I'm always willing to learn. If you think I can help despite my inexperience, I'm willing.
I hear that the pywiki framework is a good place to start, but it all depends on what languages you know and what you want to do. If you want some ideas, try Wikipedia:Bot requests or maybe browse Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approvals for applications which got accepted. SeventyThree(Talk) 01:20, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Okay after a few hours sleep its coming back to me now... one of the uses I have for a bot is to help me build a list of the relevant characteristics of a particular topic or object. The for instance might be the various parts of speech used to define or name or describe an ant. For instance fire would be one and carpenter would be another, etc. The bot would simply produce a location code or link as a reference and maybe even add the descriptor to a spreadsheet list such that I would end up having a pretty complete list over time of all the descriptors used to describe or name an ant. ...IMHO (Talk) 12:36, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
For that sort of thing (non-interactive analysis), the best thing to do is probably to get a database dump - here is a good place to start. You probably want the current version of all articles (about 1Gb compressed download). Using a dump will ease the load on the servers considerably, and you can do alsorts with it. Alternatively, I've seen a web interface for running an SQL query on the live database - but my link ([1]) doesn't seem to have it anymore. SeventyThree(Talk) 14:19, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Looks like the best plan in that case would be to download a list of articles and then do a special export download on each one followed by an offline analysis one at a time. I could easily write a program for my own system to do this in background mode. Do you know off hand where a table of contents or an index of each article is? Also do you know if there is a page or file that lists the articles which have changed during a specified period (the last day or hour) so the problem of keeping my analysis current will be under control? Found it! Thanks. ...IMHO (Talk) 19:40, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm guessing you found Special:Allpages and Special:Recentchanges then. You might be able to use Special:Recentchangeslinked/Whatever as well. SeventyThree(Talk) 23:36, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes. These should do fine. Together with special export I should be able to write something using the MS Webbrowser control and a simple loop to get both the article name and access the article data to find each keyword modifier and go on to the next. I should also be able to write something to do the same using the list of most recent files. Should be a really interesting project. Thanks. ...IMHO (Talk) 18:38, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Glad I could help. SeventyThree(Talk) 18:53, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Pce3: I apologize if I offended you with my comment on Talk:Sorting algorithm regarding Rapid sort. I was not attempting to initiate a conspiracy to delete your article, just to invite interested parties to participate in the deletion discussion, both supporters and opposers. I'm sorry that I didn't mention it to you, I really wasn't trying to hide it. To directly answer your question, if you wait long enough you can get a pretty complete picture by either searching the site with Google or downloading a database dump and doing a fulltext search on the articles. Deco 00:27, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Well actually my primary interest in a bot is basically to learn how to do one. The idea to scout for my name or user ID being used was something that just popped into my head I guess because I realised that I only spotted your discussion with Snow by accident. Its no big deal except that it just seems like your reaction to the Rapid sort article was to get rid of it in all possible haste as if it repesented some kind of threat (Please see: Systemic bias). So I guess I was just thinking that instead of constantly monitoring my contributions or watch list and again mainly to learn how to do a bot I'd ask SeventyThree for help. Its not a biggy. I'm sure that once you have a chance to look at the Check sort in particular that you will see why I have concerns about dropping my efforts in regard to eventual publication of the Rapid sort. The fact that it does have a precursor though which I use every day for the original purpose it was created should tell you something. So don't be too worried about the whole thing I'm just trying to do justice to the Rapid sort in terms of sticking up for my part and it's. ...IMHO (Talk) 00:58, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images license/source

Hello, you have several images marked for speedy deletion that do not have license and/or source. Please provide the sources and/or source information soon if you do not want them deleted.Thanks.--Dakota ~ 23:22, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Those would probably be the ones in my sandbox - part of a cleanup I was helping with, so I'm not surprised. I didn't initially upload any, although I reuploaded some to remove whitespace. Either way, I've blanked the page. I wouldn't want to stop any orfud deletions etc. SeventyThree(Talk) 18:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Thanks

Regarding the Image on 7th Edition, please feel free to delete it. A better image has replaced it on the article.

The Ronin 01:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, so I can't delete the image myself. I take it the better image is Image:Exp sym SeventhEdition C.gif? Depending, there are several ways to get rid of the image - but at this stage, it's probably easiest to just wait for the seven days to elapse. SeventyThree(Talk) 02:03, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Ok, thanks. Sorry if I've wasted any time. True, the aforementioned image is the better one.The Ronin 21:10, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Signiature

Yeah, list it for deletion... I was trying something, which didn't work, so my signiature was reverted back to what it is now :-) OwenS | T | C | 21:01, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Gone :) SeventyThree(Talk) 01:26, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Television series by company

They have been relisted...let's start anew, shall we?
—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 18:42, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Zat_logo_wiki.gif)

Oh, heavens to Mergatroid, I sure hope I'm doing this right. =)

SeventyThree, thanks much for your reply and advice. I'm-a gonna let the image go bye-bye for now until I get more content to properly showcase it, and re-up it then.

Here we go with that four tilde thing . . . it worked in the preview . . . hope I don't mess it up!

Hoo-cha! → Buddypedia 15:46, 31 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] wikEd

The wikEdlogo

Hi, I have seen that you are using the Cacycle editor extension. This program is no longer actively maintained in favor of its much more powerful successor wikEd.

wikEd has all the functionality of the old editor plus: • syntax highlighting • nifty image buttons • more fixing buttons • paste formatted text from Word or web pages • convert the formatted text into wikicode • adjust the font size • and much, much more.

Switching to wikEd is easy, check the detailed installation description on its project homepage. Often it is as simple as changing every occurrence of editor.js into wikEd.js on your User:YourUsername/monobook.js page.

Cacycle 21:57, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question re: An Góilín

It looks like you supplied the photo for the An Góilín article. If so, do you know in which club that picture was taken? It looks familar. Thanks. -- House of Scandal 17:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I just moved and resized the pictures. The uploader was User:El Gringo, so you might want to ask them. SeventyThree(Talk) 21:41, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
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