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Contents 1 Gibbs 2 Cornwall stubs 3 Deo Volente 4 Contemporary music group 5 Question about your entry on the Internet Infidels page 6 Image forcing 7 AWNB updater 8 Adelaide Wikimeetup 3 9 AWNB deletion debates page 10 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 11 WP:SUBST 12 BAG Changes 13 Adelaide Wikimeetup 3 14 Page Move 15 Bot to rate WikiProject quality assessment 16 Archives and usertalk 17 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 18 Wikimedia Australia incorporation meeting 19 Maelgwnbot and nested templates 20 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 21 semi-protect 22 thank you for flag removal 23 Template substitution

[edit] Gibbs

The Silent Partner links to Self-locking device, so why not the Gibbs, which generically also features there? Martinevans123 (talk) 02:06, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Does this look better? Maybe it belongs better in the section on belay devices? I think it belongs more in the article on belaying than in the one on ascenders.-- maelgwn - talk 06:52, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes. I think that looks better. Less is more in this case. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:50, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cornwall stubs

Thanks for the good work with the bot! DuncanHill (talk) 12:29, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I haven't done the job properly, hopefully I will figure it out in the next few days or someone else will come along and finish it. Anyway its a start. -- maelgwn - talk 12:33, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Well it's very much appreciated and very helpful. DuncanHill (talk) 12:36, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deo Volente

Thanks. JGBÜ. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 16:43, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Huh wah? What did i do? -- maelgwn - talk 23:06, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contemporary music group

Hi, would you kindly tell me why you're wasting so much bandwidth removing all the Contemporary music templates from articles they are quite appropriate to (without any explanation as to why you're doing this in your edit summaries)? Thanks and best regards, Badagnani (talk) 07:43, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

I've blocked this bot until you can explain why it's removing templates from hundreds of articles. east.718 at 08:04, December 26, 2007

It was requested at WP:BOTREQ please bring it up there. I've stopped the bot, if you could please unblock it also. -- maelgwn - talk 09:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

I'll unblock. Secretlondon (talk) 09:05, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that, the bot showed up at WP:AIV (and reports on BOTREQ were conflicting). Me and a couple other admins rolled back the bot's edits, do you need them mass-reverted? east.718 at 09:27, December 26, 2007

LOL vandalism!!Leave it as it is, if the guys at the wikiproject make up there mind I can change it again. And thankyou for the unblock, where ever you may have come from!-- maelgwn - talk 09:55, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question about your entry on the Internet Infidels page

Hi Maelgwn. I notice you made an entry in 2004 on the Internet Infidels Wiki page, the second entry ever made to the site. Could you please review (or join in the) Internet Infidels discussion page. Note the section on the discussion page, "Source of the current claim that Secular Web is one of main web sites for skeptics on the internet." I would welcome your input on this. Thanks, Patrick Harrigan (talk) 07:51, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image forcing

Hi - just a note re some of your edits in the past weeks - while I personally do often unforce images as well, as per WP:MOS, there are instances when I feel forcing images is acceptable for style reasons alone - this is mainly the case when an image is directly under an infobox, where the whole article looks much cleaner if the image is then forced to that width. A bit of an in-between-will-never-get-full-consensus-because-its-a-matter-of-taste kind of thing, but just wanted to let you know about that viewpoint. Cheers Ingolfson (talk) 19:30, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AWNB updater

fix the apostrophe problem (on the deletion sorting page) for ye olde bot. 207.6.245.26 (talk) 04:41, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Y Done-- maelgwn - talk 05:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adelaide Wikimeetup 3

Adelaide Meetup Next: TBA Last: 20 Apr 2008 This box: view • talk • edit

Hi Maelgwn - we're planning a third meetup in Adelaide sometime in the coming weeks, and would love to have you there. If you can, please help decide a location, a date and a time here. Thanks! ~ Riana ⁂ 12:13, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AWNB deletion debates page

Hi, your bot happens to transclude Australia-related MfDs as opposed to providing a link to them on Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/AfD. Is this accidental, or is it meant to happen? ;) I think it is better if just a link is provided, as transcluding the whole MfD is probably not a good idea due to the size of the page it exists on. Cheers, Spebi 07:37, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

That was because it is not normally transcluded on the deletion sorting page. I can fix this when I get home tho. 64.251.68.98 (talk) 01:29, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Fixed-- maelgwn - talk 05:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] WP:SUBST

Hello, I noticed that Maelgwnbot subst:ed an {{IPsockCheckuser}} tag. Are you sure this tag is supposed to be substituted? It is not in Category:User warning templates which would be a criteria for substitution. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 12:11, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Fixed -- maelgwn - talk 05:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] BAG Changes

Hello. You may remember, some time ago, joining the BAG under the trial "open membership" system. Based on a lack of opposition to a reversion of this trial, I have now decided to be bold and perform it. The BAG has returned to a system under which users must go through a short period of discussion (like RfA, but less formal) before being added to the group by either a 'crat or an existing member. At the moment, I have said that discussions should last for 10 days and that community noticeboards should be spammed to encourage participation in each request - evidently this is to avoid the "cabal" impression.

As you have already been a member for some time, you're likely to be an excellent candidate to apply to the group and I encourage you to do so. Alternatively, if you totally disagree with my changes and fail to see any merit in them at all, I'm hoping to take part in discussions on WT:BAG. Though I must ask now if I may - please don't revert me without a decent amount of discussion first. Thanks, and if you have any questions about what I've done, please leave me a message, send an email or chat on IRC. Martinp23 17:29, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adelaide Wikimeetup 3

Adelaide Meetup Next: TBA Last: 20 Apr 2008 This box: view • talk • edit

Hi Maelgwn - after some planning we've decided to hold the third Adelaide Wikimeetup on Sunday, 17th February, 2008. The meeting will be held at Billy Baxter's in Rundle Mall at 11:30AM. Further details and directions are available on the meetup page. Please RSVP here by 20:00UTC on 15th February 2008 (that's 6AM Saturday for our time zone) so that we can inform the restaurant about numbers. Hope to see you there!

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On behalf of Riana ⁂, 11:27, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Page Move

G'day, just to let you know that I moved Charlie Perry → Charlie Perry (Australian rules footballer) for disambiguation purposes (I recently created Charlie Perry (English footballer)). Thought I'd let you know, in case you wanted to update your subpage article list. Cheers. --Jameboy (talk) 22:35, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bot to rate WikiProject quality assessment

If your bot could do this I would really appreciate it - it would really help me with future work at Portal:Theatre. Cirt (talk) 10:47, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Archives and usertalk

Please exclude the Talk and User talk namespaces when doing disambig work, [1]. -- Ned Scott 09:02, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Wikimedia Australia incorporation meeting

Hi there Maelgwn! As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation has recently approved Wikimedia Australia as an official chapter. In order to acknowledge this, and to appoint an interim committee, approve our statement of purpose and our rules, and appoint a Public Officer, Wikimedia Australia will be having a meeting at Computerbank in Melbourne. For those of us who are located in other cities, we shall be holding conference calls to the main meeting. The meeting will be held at 2:30PM on Sunday, 20th April 2008, Adelaide time. In order for us to organise this meeting, we need your help! Please drop by at our meta subpage with suggestions as to venues, conference calling services, etc. It will be at 2:30 so we can meet up for lunch beforehand if anyone's open for that! Hoping to see you there! ~ Riana ⁂ 01:53, 20 March 2008 (UTC) You are receiving this message because you are an active Wikimedian in Adelaide and are on this list. If you think I've missed anyone out, please feel free to copy-paste this and send it to them too!

[edit] Maelgwnbot and nested templates

Hello. A non-urgent minor flaw in Maelgwnbot's logic has become apparent. It's not vitally important, nor urgent, but perhaps the bot could check for matching {{ and }} pairs inside templates? Speaking as a former bot-owner, keep up the good work! Best wishes, RobertG ♬ talk 15:32, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Hmm interesting, thanks - have to look at my regex's (again :-() -- maelgwn - talk 04:38, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] semi-protect

This bot is removing semi-protect templates. I suggest it should be replacing these with updated equivalents for obvious reasons. Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon (talk) 02:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Um Im not sure what you mean, can you please provide an example? -- maelgwn - talk 15:06, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Popcorn, Outsourcing, Economy of the United States, VeggieTales...a few others that I attempted to semi-protect yesterday. Maybe I'm understanding the situation wrong. Is there an updated template I should be using to semi-protect pages? Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon (talk) 15:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

To protect a page you need to be an administrator and the protection will show up in the Protection log. The template is just an indication of the protection to the user. -- maelgwn - talk 23:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thanks. That explains it. So apparently "outdated" does not mean the template is an obsolete version, but that the request for the protection itself is expired. Thanks. Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon (talk) 14:29, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] thank you for flag removal

Thanks mate for the bot assist--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 08:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template substitution

Mmm, I think there's a hiccup somewhere: your bot subst'ed {{checkuserblock}} on User talk:76.211.143.37, but the output is now broken. I guess the table formatting breaks the templates. Can you have a look? (Personally, I don't think it's such a good idea to subst the templates that are used in unblock requests, the user sees the current output that way, and it prevents messing up the outer templates ;)) -- lucasbfr ^talk 09:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)