User talk:Topbanana

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[edit] Requests for new reports

[edit] More simple writing errors

I think the double words test was a success, so I thought of another simple writing mistake test. Unmatched "-s. There will undoubtedly be many articles where an odd number of " is quite purposeful (example: mathematics), so I'm not sure how useful it will be...I suppose the matching can be done on the paragraph level. David Remahl 20:35, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Broken Wikiquote links

Wikiquote was left with a number of broken links to Wikipedia when the format for interwiki links changed. Links of the form [[en: need to be found and replaced. Could you generate a report listing these? I know the database is much smaller than WIkipedia and I think you have worked with it before? Rmhermen 23:13, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Non-standard station articles

I would like a list of articles containing station in their title but not railway. I am working through UK railway stations - A through - Z converting, for example, Uckfield (unlinked) into [[Uckfield railway station|Uckfield]] . I would like to be able to catch any articles with titles in a slightly different format, eg. Lime Street Station. -- RHaworth 13:40, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)

[edit] Requested reports for cleanup help

Greetings, Topbanana. I've been doing miscellaneous cleanup work on high-value, low-traffic articles about historic but non-controversial figures. (These articles are prone to have blatant errors uncorrected for long periods of time.) There are two problems that I find are very common, and I thought that a report might be useful to help find them.

Often the year of birth will not match the category for birth year, or the year of death will not match the category for death year. This is often because a vandal will alter the birth year, but it sometimes occurs when someone fixes an error in one place but not in other. Could a report be created to list these? I suppose it would look for a "[[xxxx]]" after a "(" but before a "-" or "–" in the first sentence, that doesn't match a "[[Category:yyyy births]]" somewhere else in the article. And something similar for death years.
Often an alias for a person's name will not be a redirect to that article. For instance, the article might start "'''John Doe''' ([[1920]] - [[1999]]), also known as '''John Doh''',. . .", but John Doh might be a red link (or might point to an wholly unrelated article). In other cases, the article may be John Doe, but the article may start "'''John Douglas Doe'''. . .", and the full name may not be a redirect to the article. A report would be helpful in finding these. I suppose it would look for "'''" marks around a phrase that is not the article name and either doesn't have an associated article, or has an article that doesn't link to the page in question.

Are these feasible? Thanks in advance. – Quadell ^(talk) 13:50, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Report request - Possible thumbnail images

I have a request for a new report. (I have no reason to believe that you take requests, but what the heck, it's worth a try.)

Thumbnail images (scaled-down duplicates of existing images) can be speedily deleted. It'd be nice to have a list of "Possible thumbnails". I was thinking something like this:

For all images that match the regular expression "^(.*)[0-9]+pix(.*)$", see if there exist any similar images that match "^\1[0-9]+pix\2$". If there are, list them all together.
- So "Image:fluff-200pix.jpg" and "Image:fluff-9pix.jpg" would match.
Similar things could be done for images with "large" and "small" in the names.
- E.g. "^(.*)large(.*)$" matching "^\1small\2$" or even just "^\1\2$".

Does this make sense? – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 18:11, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikicite project page

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikicite To add a card catalog and citation features. Stirling Newberry 23:51, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I wanted to ask about the feasibility of doing a report that would find current "references" in wikipedia articles to make conversion to a wikicite database smoother, and a report that lists articles by number of citations and number of links to provide candidates for conversion. If you'd be willing to provide other help with the SQL that would be required for such a project it would be very much appreciated. Stirling Newberry 14:51, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Report request - no or few interwiki links

Hi TB! Thanks for all the nice work... I wanted to ask if you could redo the reports User:Topbanana/Reports/This_is_a_popular_page_with_few_interwiki_links and User:Topbanana/Reports/This is a popular page with no interwiki links, since they are form last June and very many of the interwiki links have been made in the meantime... So wading through them and find the neglected articles is not too efficient... Thanks -- Marcika 20:21, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I will do as soon as possible but have been trouble finding enough space to work with several wikipedia databases at once recently. - TB 22:56, 2005 Feb 13 (UTC)

[edit] User:Topbanana/Reports/This article may contain a badly formed ISBN reference

Could you re-run User:Topbanana/Reports/This article may contain a badly formed ISBN reference? All the listed problems seem to have been dealt with, and it's been more than six months since it ran. Josh Parris ✉ 01:20, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

This report has been updated now - have at it! - TB 17:24, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)

Danke! Josh Parris ✉ 00:34, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, it's been another three months. Disc space, bandwidth and time permitting, could you please run it again, with the revised regex we discussed? We may have to mark the report with a request for false positives to be listed somewhere. Josh Parris # 00:21, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Red link recovery

Glad to see you're back. A suggestion; fixup projects have moved on, you know ;) Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation and one of their child pages, such as [1]. An edit link on your project lists, taking us into the article needing editing in edit mode (and maybe filling in the edit summary with proganda) would help us all. I've put you in the active wiki fixup list, as you'll have seen. --Tagishsimon (talk)

[edit] Red Link Reovery Brackets...

You might want to check that the following got fixed

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AWikiProject_Red_Link_Recovery%2FUnlikely%2Fbrackets&diff=71372592&oldid=70851890

Other than that no problems I think ShakespeareFan00 18:51, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marilyn Bergman

Hi. You created the Marilyn Bergman article. Someone's questioned the maiden name you gave for her - do you have a source we could use for that? --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 19:03, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

No idea sorry, it was over 2 years ago when I researched the article. Be bold and delete the dubious maiden name; it doesn't add much to the article or its encylopaediaworthiness. - TB 20:10, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MYSQL and red links

Hi,

I read your article about crushing red links etc. and am willing to try.. but when I went to MYSQL's website, the product certainly didn't look free (or the free version is buried beneath an array of other junk). Would you please:

Send me a link to the free version?
Uhhh.. help me.. if I need help with your script etc.? I may not need any help. I was a programmer, ages ago.

Cheers,

--Ling.Nut 02:46, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

The MySQL download page can be found here. - TB 17:38, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Tks.--Ling.Nut 19:58, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What now?

So has the Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery project come to an end? What comes next? WVhybrid 23:59, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I normally reincarnate the project every 6-10 months or so and generate new lists. If in the meantime you've any ideas you want to see included in the project, please do go for it! - TB 20:31, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Dermatitis.jpg

Hello,

this image you uploaded is tagged GFDL: is it selfmade? Then you should update the template, or alternatively provide a source.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 15:17, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.jpg

Hello,

Could you have a look on this image and on the talk page ? We would like to know the source of this image to be sure it is Public Domain. Thanks, Korrigan 22:08, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Bread clip.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Bread clip.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the file also doesn't have a copyright tag, then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 05:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 05:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

(I found this message on my talk page, since I'd uploaded an enhanced version over your original; I'm passing this on to you. If, as it looks to me, you took the image yourself, {{PD-self}} would be the appropriate tag.) —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 19:34, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Ps. If the image has been deleted by the time you read this, let me know and I can undelete it for you. Of course, it'd be even better if you could obtain a higher-quality image to replace this with. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 19:45, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pushing the "Lord's Prayer" as a language example tekst

Hello Topbanana, In the Dutch Wiki I am having a really heavy fight on the removal of the "Lord's Prayer" as a language example. A couple of religious persons are not interested in motivation or real arguments (they don't have any). So a Moderator blocks me every time for something which is not in essence anti-Religious. I exchanged the prayer for the first 3 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In older fights I quoted a professor of history regarding a saint, also on the English Wiki I've added another view, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Saint_Boniface. I would like to learn your opinion on the use of "Lord's Prayer" as a "neutral" language example tekst. Cheers Bornestera 21:37, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Most red links update?

Would it be possible for the Most red links page to be regenerated, please? I know many of the Registered Historic Places have been fixed, one way or the other. Lots have gone down, or away; others have probably increased. It would be muchly appreciated. I'd give it a go, but I don't have the requisite expertise for that kind of technical jiggery-pokery. Thanks. --Ebyabe 20:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

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