User talk:Topbanana

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Howdy. Much of the feedback I receive concern the set of reports I generate regularly Wikipedia:Offline reports and those I'm still perfecting User:Topbanana/Reports. I'd be much obliged if those leaving comments could try and drop them in the appropriate 'section' below. If you're unsure please feel free just to stick it at the bottom of this page and I'll tidy it up myself when I respond. Ta muchly. - TB 15:21, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Requests for new reports 1.1 More simple writing errors 1.2 Broken Wikiquote links 1.3 Non-standard station articles 1.4 Requested reports for cleanup help 2 All other comments 3 Report request - Possible thumbnail images 4 Wikicite project page 5 Report request - no or few interwiki links 6 User:Topbanana/Reports/This article may contain a badly formed ISBN reference 7 Red link recovery 8 Red Link Reovery Brackets... 9 What now? 10 Most red links update? 11 Problem with non-English characters 12 Richard L. Walker 13 Red link recovery 14 WikiMedal for Janitorial Service 15 Initialisation section of Red Link Recovery 16 WikiProject Interlanguage Links 17 WP Zimbabwe 18 Continuation of RedLink Capitalisation project 19 Red link fix reverted 20 1 E-7 m² 21 Redlink recovery - new list? 22 Unspecified source for Image:Ballindalloch_Castle.jpg 23 Unspecified source for Image:Balvenie_Castle.jpg

[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.

1. 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.
2. 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)

[edit] All other comments

[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] 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] 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)

I'd also welcome a rerun of this report. I have been looking for a way to run a report myself on List of Royal Navy ship names to determine progress on turning red into blue links. Is there a way without having a database dump? Welsh 07:14, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid life (outside of wikipedia) is busy right now, but I do intend to re-run the red-link recovery reports when time permits. - TB 22:56, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for starting this up again. I enjoyed working on this project when I joined Wikipedia last fall, and I'm enjoying working on it again now. ~ BigrTex 23:40, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the various reports you have generated, including the specific User:Welsh/HMS Links I requested. Now I can see the size of the report, next time (if there is) it would be good just to have the redlinks starting "HMS", not blue links as well. Meanwhile, I've started fixing some of the errors the new reports have thrown up. Welsh 23:25, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with non-English characters

First of all, glad to see the Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery back in action. But I was noticing that there are many articles listed which are red links themselves (and show no sign of having been deleted). Seems that non-English characters are not being printed (and therefore linked) properly. For example in section 1090 - 1099 on Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Repeated letters/3 there is a line for the article Otto_I,_Duke_of_Brunswick-Lüneburg which should read Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. The article does exist. I'm not sure what the deeper issue is that is causing this, but I see that this is happening on all the lists: Punctuation, Capitalisation, and Repeated letters.--Fisherjs 10:47, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Howdy -always nice to hear from a red-link participant. You're quite right, some of the more exotic characters are mangled in the reports. Long story short, it's due to differences in the database software run by wikimedia and myself and can't be helped. Short story long, handling of character sets and in particular character collation has changed radically between versions 4.1 and 5.1 of MySQL - in theory it *should* work but I can't for the life of me figure out how. Any experts in MySQL please announce yourselves, that I might pick your brains! In the meantime, I've made an executive decision to ignore the problem and hope it goes away by itself .. less then 2 in 100 suggestions contain diacritical characters, and many of those appear just fine. For now I'd delete or ignore the faulty list entries. - TB 11:47, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

OK. But maybe you'd like to post something at the WP:VP? Just a suggestion. --Fisherjs 12:12, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

This doesn't solve the MySQL problem, but I think the problem is converting unicode to UTF-8 latin-1. I found this site where if you enter the UTF-8 code (e.g. é) it will return the unicode character (in this case é) so one can at least know what it is supposed to be. --Open2universe 14:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah, forgot about this thread here. I've found a solution - albeit not a great one; I've moved my mysql server from a windows box to a linux one. All problems with utf characters went away - as can be seen here. - TB 13:49, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Richard L. Walker

I remember that article, it probably was on of the first articles I deleted. If it isn't a clear copyvio it is an extreme case of plagiarism. Some sentences you can still see are clearly lifted from the source. Plus there was another source on the web, I googled it a lot then because I wanted to be sure and found another article from which the contents were lifted. Unfortunately I can't find it anymore. It should be deleted again as a copyvio. Garion96 (talk) 21:05, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Red link recovery

Hi, I wrote a little script to help with Red link recovery, especially the punctuation ones. It can fix certain types of links, those that begin or end with single or double quotes, or end in a comma etc. It will show up on edit pages as a link (if it can fix something there) or a gray text (if it can't). Click on the link and it will fix what it can. To use, but the following line on your monobook.js subpage:

importScript('MediaWiki:LinkFixr.js');

After each use, I recommend looking at the diff to make sure it didn't break anything. Cheers, --Magnus Manske 19:06, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiMedal for Janitorial Service

The code for the "WikiMedal for Janitorial Service" is missing from the Other awards page and so it cannot be awarded. Could you put in the code please? --Simpsons fan 66 03:40, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Not code, no template, just Image:WikiMedal for Janitorial Services.png. You're very welcome to create some more sophisticated wrapper if you think one is needed. - TB 08:59, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

OK. After a lot of experimentation I've figured out how to do it. Thanks for your help. Check out the new version! --Simpsons fan 66 05:04, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Initialisation section of Red Link Recovery

I finished going over the remaining links in this section (Wikipedia:WikiProject_Red_Link_Recovery/Initialisation). Apologies about the edit conflict earlier today. Cheers, Lisatwo 23:16, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Interlanguage Links

Have you worked with de:Benutzer:Flacus/Wikipedia Interwiki-Link-Checker/en? I suspect the goals are pretty similar. --Open2universe 22:46, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Please give the list of articles missing interlanguage links Wikipedia:WikiProject Interlanguage Links/reciprocal to the user named above, because with his tool you can let the users check it very quickly. This is the second request of it. So maybe nobody is home. If so someone else need to take your project to the next level. Carsrac (talk) 15:01, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP Zimbabwe

You have been invited to join the WikiProject Zimbabwe, a collaborative effort focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of Zimbabwe. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the member list. Thanks for reading!

Part 18:13, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Continuation of RedLink Capitalisation project

Hi, I noticed you helped set up the original Red Link Recovery projects, including Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Capitalisation.

It looks like the list is going to be completed really soon, which is great.

I wanted to ask: Do you know if it is possible to do another database dump list to continue the project from a more recent dump (we are working from redlinks found in May). Something like Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Capitalisation II ?

Please let me know,

Guroadrunner 09:56, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

CC: Magioladitis at this message

We can just recreate the list when we finish with the current dump. -- Magioladitis 13:51, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Topbanana. We are almost done with the list. Can you please regenerate a new one after we are finished? We want more! -- Magioladitis 18:52, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I normally regenerate the whole project once every 6-9 months. We'll be due a new list some time in the new year, if time permits I'll see about updating some of the longer lists in the interim. Effort to regenerate each report is ~20 hours, so it all depends on my free time being, well free ;) - TB 22:33, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Red link fix reverted

Hi. Since you're an admin and a participant of WP:RLR, I figured I'd ask you this question because you probably know the best thing to do. I'm a volunteer at that Wikiproject too and a few months ago, I fixed all the red links at this page. A few days later, an editor reverted the entire page stating that the links would eventually become a part of WP:FR. Fixing the red links was a bit tedious so, naturally, I'm a bit irritated that the page was reverted. In my opinion, the page would look better without the red links. Is it possible to keep the links (or names..whatever) unwikified until a particular name actually becomes an article? To me, that makes more sense than leaving an entire page full of annoying red links because they'll eventually become valid. Any thoughts or advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Pinkadelica (talk) 03:49, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Looking at the bigger picture, projects that are adding good new encyclopaedic content like WP:FR are probably of higher priority than folks like us fiddling about with red links. That said, if you feel that someone is being unfairly dismissive of your input then WP:Be bold and pitch your argument to them; no point writing here, I have no particular interest in or knowledge of the Arrondissement of Beauvais or that article's editors plans. - TB (talk) 20:46, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1 E-7 m²

Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article 1 E-7 m², suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 18:59, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Redlink recovery - new list?

Hallo, I've just discovered Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Repeated letters and have spent some pleasantly satisfying time (procrastinating other tasks) sorting some of them out - it's like a giant infinite jigsaw puzzle! But there's a large number of cases where I click on the redlink, click on "What links here", and the project itself is the only one. Any chance of an updated list to work from? I see the last one was generated July 07 from a dump of May 07. PamD (talk) 11:03, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes - I will update the red link lists as son as possible. They do however take a few days for me to recreate and life is busy right now. Hang in there, I'll manage eventually ;) I love the infinite jigsaw simile by the way; I seem to recall a similar quote from a 19th century scientist, possibly Mr Dewey himself - alas, wikiquote doesn't have it. - TB (talk) 17:52, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Ballindalloch_Castle.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Ballindalloch_Castle.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. 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 {{non-free fair use in|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 17:28, 31 March 2008 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Kelly ^hi! 17:28, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Balvenie_Castle.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Balvenie_Castle.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. 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 {{non-free fair use in|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 17:34, 31 March 2008 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Kelly ^hi! 17:34, 31 March 2008 (UTC)