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[edit] WPBiography project tagging (copied from here)

I came across STTWBot while {{WPBiography}} project tagging articles listed at DYK. Is it possible to modify STTWBot to assist me in tagging biography article talk pages with {{WPBiography}}? Thanks. -- Jreferee 16:02, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

My bot currently has approval for tagging WikiProject France and WikiProject Germany only. Any change has to be approved at Wikipedia:Bot requests first. So when if you can wait then I could request for an approval and help you out, should take perhaps a week or so. STTW (talk) 16:52, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
In my WPBiography tagging, I review the article for living, groups, etc, and then paste and then edit the following text according to my review of the article:{{WPBiography |living = yes no |class = |needs-infobox = yes |activepol = yes |a&e-work-group = yes |politician-work-group = yes |military-work-group = yes |sports-work-group = yes |s&a-work-group = yes |musician-work-group = yes |listas = |needs-photo = yes }} This string of text contains the most used WPBiography text and is useful for most articles. This may help you in configuring the bot. It would be nice to work with you on modifying the bot so I can get an idea of how bots are put together. -- Jreferee 17:03, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request made re WikiProject Spain

I've made the request for the bot described by you for WikiProject Spain. Just curious - how does the bot work? How can a bot know what's a Spain-related article or not? Plus, what happens next? How do we know if its approved? Full of curiosity -> EspanaViva 22:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your bot

Could you reprogramme your Wikiproject:France bot so it doesn't automatically add its project template to the top of the talk page above all other project templates? It's annoying for those of us in other projects who have created or worked hard on articles without any input from Project:France members to see those pages suddenly claimed for your project. By all means add your template if it's relevant, but put it after the existing project templates on the talk page please. Thanks. --Folantin 09:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into it. I have no problem with the Project France template appearing on any article relating to France, it's just the order of the templates that's a problem. Cheers. --Folantin 11:54, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging of Talk:Swiss French

Hi, your bot tagged Talk:Swiss French as being within the scope of Wikiprojet France; of course, no one will mind if the participants come and improve the page, but I thought you may want to doublecheck if this page should really be tagged as such. Swiss French refer to the particularities of the French language as it is spoken in Switzerland; there is a clear connection with French, the language, but not so clear with France itself. Cheers, Schutz 12:16, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging of Canadian articles

Hello. Your bot has been tagging articles related to Canada (mostly to Quebec) with the Wikiproject France tag. It is no more appropriate tagging these articles with the WF tag than it would be to tag United States with Wikiproject Britain. Could you please reverse the excessive and unnecessary tagging. Thanks. Skeezix1000 13:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject France tags

I have undone a number of the WikiProject France tabs added to talk pages by STTWbot (talk). They seem to have been added indiscriminantly to pages that have nothing to do with France: for example, Canadian, Belgian, Swiss, Moroccan newspapers, pages on Canadian literature, Canadian schools, as well as pages dealing with the French language, but outside France. I have corrected over 50 pages already. Can you do something with your bot to correct this error? Thanks. — Grstain | Talk 14:24, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

In reply to your message on my talk page:
"Thanks for informing me, I will have a look again at the categories being tagged and revert the wrong ones. You need not revert the edits, just let me know the category and I will remove the wrong tag. Sorry for that! STTW (talk) 18:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)"
please note that it seems that you were tagging pages with such categories as French language, French-language literature, French-language newspapers, French language schools and French-English translators, all categories which may or may not be connected with France. Thanks. — Grstain | Talk 12:47, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I've removed the tag from L’amour de loin for example - in spite of the title, this is a work by a Finnish composer. Could you please fix the problems with the bot before you let it proceed any further. It isn't very discriminating and it still isn't respecting the order of templates already on the talk pages. Thanks. --Folantin 14:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Just a note to say that I've removed the Wikiproject France tag which was (at the time, correctly!) added by the above Bot to the Talk page for I Lombardi alla prima crociata. I've hived off the detail about the considerably revised French version of the opera to Jérusalem, a stub that I've just created, and I've inserted the tag on the Talk page of the latter. --GuillaumeTell 17:14, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Please do not tag Air France-KLM. This is an international holding company that doesn't even have 50% French ownership. The bot has been tagging lots of pages of this nature, such as CFM International. Please stop. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 22:53, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi. In response to what feels like "inaccurate project france tagging" onto French-Belgian Project Comics articles, we did revert the first round of STTWbot actions (exclusively Belgian-related articles, shallow French connections) leaving be where there was a case for Project France interest, but now the bot has gone back and re-covered all its incorrect tracks. Any chance it can rectify this by itself, as it is boring and time-consuming to fix.. :( —MURGH disc. 05:52, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for informing, I will remove the wrongly tagged articles after manually going through the category. STTW (talk) 07:12, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your message

I regret I can't decipher your message: "There are many pages where this redirect was introduced by you today, could you also revert them." Revert what? If you are referring to the note about a redirect page left by User:Mikkalai on my Talk Page, I responded in full at the page he requested. If you or he disagree with me, by all means, please do a Wikipedia:Requests for comment.

P.S. – you should note User:Mikkalai warns not to leave messages on his Talk Page. However, his insulting a Wikipedia contributor is not only a violation of the Wikipedia:No personal attacks policy, but making unfounded assumptions as part of that attack is the conduct of an imbecile. --- Handicapper 16:28, 3 February 2007 (UTC) (MBA, CFA)

[edit] WikiProject France template - "importance"

STTW - is the "importance" section of the WikiProject France template working?-- NYArtsnWords 16:39, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

The template is working, I corrected the error on Paris. Most probably that is why you contacted me. STTW (talk) 17:37, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
No, actually is was in relation to the History of France page, among others... I set the importance there to "top", but it remains categorized as "importance unassessed". Unlike other templates, I have yet to see any of the WikiProject France templates indicate "importance", only "quality". --NYArtsnWords 23:52, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Interested in WP:F

My interest is prehistory until the end of the monarchy, then just New France. I am also interested in French culture, editing along those lines. Les Invisibles 02:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your article request at Portal:Germany/Things you can do

Could you add an explanation what the article should be about at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Article requests? Thank you, Kusma (討論) 18:18, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yoko Tsuno

Hi SlaveToTheWage! STTWbot tagged some Yoko Tsuno related articles with Wikiproject France template, but Roger Leloup, the author, is belgian. Are you sure it is apropriated? Frédérick Lacasse 01:34, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

No worries, I removed all the tags (for Yoko Tsuno albums I mean)Frédérick Lacasse 22:19, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Hey, thank you for welcoming me to Wikipedia! I have read a lot about what I'm supposed to do but I'm sure there's a lot more I should know (like how to sign). Question: some pages don't have any footnotes at all. That seems strange to me. Aren't articles supposed to have lots of independent references? Thanks again. Frankskey 21:08, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Stride logo.jpg)

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[edit] FAC

I noticed that you are a member of Biography wikiproject. Just in case you have time and interest in the topic (cinema):

I would like to have your comments on my work for further improvement. Any suggestion will be very much appreciated. Thanks. Sangak 18:18, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I also wrote a section on the presence of Iranians in French New Wave. Might be of interest to you. (?) cheers. Sangak 18:18, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 27 February 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Yomanganitalk 22:16, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your bot and WP:Portugal

Hi there,

I've noticed that your bot helps out with WikiProjects France and Germany. Is it possible that it would also help WP:Portugal? Would you set it to do it, then? I believe it would be really helpful.--Saoshyant talk / contribs (please join WP:Portugal or WP:SPOKEN) 16:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm pretty much the guy leading the project, so if that counts for anything just tell me what I need to do to help you get the approval. I'm not an admin, though, which isn't surprising since no one ever thought I was worth even a barnstar.--Saoshyant talk / contribs (please join WP:Portugal or WP:SPOKEN) 16:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Germany tagging

Thank you for your work with the stub categories! If you have good suggestions how we can organize the rest of the tagging work, I'd love to hear them (as I don't trust the category system, I'm tagging in a semi-automated way with my AWB account Kusma using AWB when I get around to it, but don't think we should tag several subcategories deep - this has resulted in lots of annyoances and trouble with other project tags). Are there any stub categories left or have you done all of them? Kusma (討論) 16:58, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm trying to do the tagging slowly and partly by hand, as that means I manage to get an "importance" parameter in when I have heard of the article's subject every now and then. Perhaps we should generate a category list and then have people tackle some parts of it? If you can create a category list, we could work from that. Probably the best place to discuss is the project's talk page, though :-) Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 17:26, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Historical Eastern Germany

Perhaps you'd be interested in this:Talk:Historical_Eastern_Germany#Requested_move. -- Hrödberäht (gespräch) 05:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Adrianna Lamalle

It was an honest mistake I made when rating the article for the Biography Wikiproject. I've now re-inserting the France tag to the page, and please accept my humble apologies. LuciferMorgan 21:21, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images and infoboxes

Hi! I'm slightly confused about what I've done wrong with wiki markup for one or the other of those. I added the city infobox to Kutná Hora yesterday, but the picture that was supposed to be at the start of the "Architecture" section, on the left, won't show until the very bottom of the infobox. I'm too impatient to wait for someone to come along and notice/fix it, so... Why's it doing that? I didn't notice any issues or special markup on other city pages that I checked when I tried to fix the problem, any idea what's wrong? Thanks, -Bbik 04:41, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 7 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ladurée, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--ALoan (Talk) 15:11, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnabé Brisson on DYK for 8 March 2007

Updated DYK query Did you know? was updated. On 8 March 2007, a fact from the article Barnabé Brisson, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thank you for the nomination! — ERcheck (talk) 05:20, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] France Inter

See Wikipedia:Template substitution. The radio stations project template is a textbook example of the kind of template that should be substituted rather than called. Bearcat 17:22, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Both of those took place long before Wikipedia began to encourage substitution for templates. The way it was explained to me, server load can become an issue if templates are always called rather than substituted. Also, I don't particularly see what kind of expansion is likely on the radio station template. Bearcat 22:46, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] STTWbot

Hi Mets501! There seems to be some mistake perhaps from my side) as I wanted to request a 2nd task for my already existing bot, STTWbot and not a new bot (STTWbot 2). Which is shown in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Bots_in_a_trial_period. Could you please correct it? STTW (talk) 18:01, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

No, that was my fault :-) I've fixed it. —METS501 (talk) 18:08, 11 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Talk:House of Bourbon

You may be interested in the discussion.

--Malaiya 02:52, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query Did you know? was updated. On 12 March 2007, a fact from the article Gavroche, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--ALoan (Talk) 14:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Géraud Réveilhac

Hello,

I saw you red the uppon article, I would like to thank you for correcting the text, my english is sometimes a bit hesitant. Kind regards. SalomonCeb 19:15, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi again,
I put in the article all the informations I found concerning General Réveilhac. If you found some infromation in french, could you please give me the links or references and I'll translate it for you. Kind regards. SalomonCeb 21:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your message, I answered to Rigadoon on his talk page: User talk:Rigadoun#Géraud Réveilhac. SalomonCeb 20:52, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query Did you know? was updated. On 17 March 2007, a fact from the article Géraud Réveilhac , which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 06:29, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NEMA connector

You changed [[USA]] to [[United States|USA]]. Note that you don't really need to do that; see Wikipedia:Redirect#Don't fix links to redirects that aren't broken, where it says:

In particular, there should never be a need to replace [[redirect]] with [[target|redirect]]. That is, there should be no need to replace a redirect with a piped link to the target if the description is exactly the same as the redirect title.
Some editors have the mistaken impression that fixing redirected links improves the capacity of the Wikipedia servers. Because editing a page uses much more resources than following a redirect, the opposite is true. It is inadvisable to worry about performance anyway.

Personally, I'd think that if following redirects was expensive, the MediaWiki developers would optimize it so that it wasn't expensive any more. I don't think there's any real reason why it needs to be expensive.

Jordan Brown 06:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. STTW (talk) 07:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Henri Le Secq

Updated DYK query On 27 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Henri Le Secq, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 19:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume II, Issue 2 - March 2007

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