User talk:Rich Farmbrough

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[edit] Tone

Smackbot seems to have placed an "inappropriate tone" label on this page which I think is not correct. I edited it out but it's still appearing there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_arms

No it didn't. Article fixed. Message left. Rich Farmbrough, 22:02 3 April 2008 (GMT).

[edit] Pandemic

Here's the the link for original article on where the rumor started that Pandemic is developing the Dark Knight game.

Rumor: Pandemic to Develop New Batman Game by Matt Casamassina May 17, 2007 http://ps3.ign.com/articles/789/789648p1.html

I'm just signed up for Wikipedia and wasn't exactly sure how the editing process worked. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AzBat360 (talk • contribs) 05:14, 4 April 2008

[edit] sources for Tenth Army page

I hope I am doing this correctly. I have no experience doing stuff with wikipedia.

Rich, I see that in 2005, you were one of the first people associated with the wikipedia entry on the Italian 10th army (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Tenth_Army). I am trying to find out what sources the article in question was drawn from.

thanks,

Tom (gionpeters@comcast.net)

Answered out of band. Rich Farmbrough, 12:28 8 June 2008 (GMT).

[edit] Cyrillic accented-i

pretty clever bot, fella, useful stuff!

however, please see this change here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_language&diff=216614260&oldid=216480357

Please ask your bot not to revert it to the way it was before (which is did several days ago) - as non-unicode-compatible computers can't read the symbol it substitutes.

Thanx, and keep up the good work! 62.176.111.68 (talk) 12:57, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your message, SmackBot makes a number of changes that are available to all WP:AWB bots - in general these provide a number of non-controversial minor improvements. The issue you raise is related to these, I have left, or will leave, a message about your concerns on the WP:AWB pages. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 13:09 3 June 2008 (GMT).
Thank you :-)62.176.111.68 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 13:13, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:HAU

Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at Wikipedia:Highly Active Users, SoxBot V, was blocked for its constant updating. With this bot out of operation, a patch is in the works. Until that patch is reviewed and accepted by the developers, some options have been presented to use as workarounds: 1) Qui monobook (not available in Internet Explorer); 2) User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate; 3) Manually updating User:StatusBot/Status/USERNAME; or 4) Not worry about it and wait for the patch to go through, which hopefully won't take long. If you have another method, you can use that, too. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Useight (talk) 22:25, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Invalid date

If you can, have a look at Drainage in New Orleans, it shouldn't be in the category, but I don't have time to figure out why it is. Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 10:23 4 June 2008 (GMT).

Hmm looks like cats aren't gettign updated properly either, but... Rich Farmbrough, 10:33 4 June 2008 (GMT).
That was a weird bug in {{unreferencedsection}} that caused it. I've fixed it now. Harryboyles 13:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Japanese alias & ARC

I have edited that Japanese alias article, split the 'how-to' stuff into a non-WP article, and put the Alien registration cardinfo into a separate WP article. I have applied for a peer review. If you would like to contribute to either article, please do so. If you need to discuss the article, pleased do it on the article discussion page, and not my talk page. Thanks.--Mak Allen (talk) 02:45, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Ongoing event

Template:Ongoing event has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Yellowdesk (talk) 03:20, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cats

Thank you for explaining! Now I will know should I ever be the one to create the montly category again. ♦Tangerines♦·Talk 13:38, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] strange edit

Hi, Rich. Strange edit by the bot [1]. Please check. Other edits appear to be good Alex Bakharev (talk) 11:55, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I was forced to revert to an old version of the software, which re-introduced this bug, but it should be fixed now. Rich Farmbrough, 18:08 6 June 2008 (GMT).

[edit] Smackbot error

In the article Yotare Minami-no-wari, Aza-take-no-gō, Ōaza-tobishima-shinden, Tobishima-mura, Ama-gun, Aichi-ken, Smackbot replaced {{Disputed_title}} with {{Disputed title$2 in a revision as of 22:41, 12 March 2008. Another user corrected that on 21:14, 23 May 2008, but Smackbot made the same edit again in a revision as of 11:17, 6 June 2008. I have corrected it and added a date tag, so this particular article shouldn't be affected again. -- Zyxw (talk) 15:51, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I was forced to revert to an old version of the software, which re-introduced this bug, but it should be fixed now. Rich Farmbrough, 18:08 6 June 2008 (GMT).

[edit] Changing City, State to City, State

In the vast majority of cases, such as in articles like this, only the city is relevant to the article. The state is included only in order to fully qualify the city name; the state is irrelevant to the context of the article and ought not be linked separately. So, changing City, State to City, State only complicates the markup in source and creates over-linking. —Centrx→talk • 21:16, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unhelpful smackbot edit

This edit doesn't seem helpful enough to warrant cluttering the article history with it. Is there some threshold below which smackbot realizes it could make an edit, but chooses not to do so? (sdsds - talk) 03:11, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Add split templates to your "Date the maintenance tags"

Can you add the four split templates ({{Split}} {{Split-apart}} {{Splitsection}} {{Splitsections}}) to the list of templates to which you add the date? -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 10:14, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] archival

I left a message here but it was archived before you replied to it. I just want to make sure you don't loose track of it (in case you were thinking of replying to it -- if not please let me know). The message is now located at User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2008May#Requrements for Friendly AI. Cheers, Waldir talk 13:32, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I tried to reword it a bit and add that to the article, feel free to fix any detail I might have got wrong. Cheers, Waldir talk 23:09, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tags on Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya

Hi ! On the above page Tag on neutrality and POV has been put again. Page has only well researched and verifiable information, with all the citations and references. Still, some editors raise issues and create controversies. The administrators or editors are doing nothing to preserve the quality of the page. An action from your side is anticipated. Please respond!

--Sudhirbhargava (talk) 11:01, 9 June 2008 (UTC) Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya

[edit] Category:All articles with unsourced statements

Do you have any idea what changed to make this jump from 40,000+ articles to 110,000+ articles? I can't figure out where they came from.--BirgitteSB 16:32, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

No it's nor obvious. I looked at a small sample, maybe examining a few more will show a new template has the cat? Rich Farmbrough, 20:10 9 June 2008 (GMT).
I looked through a bunch and only found {{fact}} and {{Citations missing}} which is what it always had been.--BirgitteSB 20:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Also related changes is usseless without a namespace filter. I went through about a thouseand text searching for "Template" but I guess going through more like that is probably the best bet.--BirgitteSB 20:25, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Nevermind I simply made mistake the last time I updated the list of totals. It wasn't 40,000 range anytime recently. Sorry.--BirgitteSB 21:39, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SmackBot

Hi, could you check SmackBot's behavior in connection with the template {{Tracklist}}? It appears to remove the extra line breaks between individual tracks (note that the diff could take a little to load), which are there to keep the overall template maintainable, much like those between groups in navboxes. – Cyrus XIII (talk) 20:39, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your message, SmackBot makes a number of changes that are available to all WP:AWB bots - in general these provide a number of non-controversial minor improvements. The issue you raise is related to these, I have left, or will leave, a message about your concerns on the WP:AWB pages. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 21:13 9 June 2008 (GMT).

[edit] Time in physics

[edit] SmackBot

I believe that Army1987's last change was for headers, so I am surprised that SmackBot followed with a clean up date. You might reply on the talk page for Time in physics if you wish. --Ancheta Wis (talk) 00:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Smackbot changing date in AFD templates?

It appears from this diff that the Smackbot is changing the date format on the AFD templates, now I've not noticed this before, and as the "wrong version" was generated by subst'ing the relevant template, I wasn't sure if this was in error, or if the syntax has changed recently and you're tidying up... -- Ratarsed (talk) 07:59, 10 June 2008 (UTC)