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Thanks
I just wanted to thank you for cleaning up the Editions of the Talmud template, I couldn't figure out why articles in which the template was paced, showed up in the Jews and Judaism Template category. Magister Scienta (talk) 20:17, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Bot
Hello, i am following your successful work with the bot. Can you tell me how to edit with bot on python that page to change the editor seemed not a bot, same as you do in AzWiki? Vago (talk) 07:29, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not sure I follow you... Are you asking how to run a bot, without it seeming like bot? Avicennasis @ 09:42, 30 Sivan 5771 / 2 July 2011 (UTC)
WP:FILM June 2011 Newsletter
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Maintenance categories
Could I ask you to clarify how to actually get User:Avicennasis/catpage out of an otherwise empty maintenance category from a previous month (i.e. Category:Uncategorized stubs from June 2011) so that I can delete it? To be honest, I'm not entirely sure that the page is actually working quite the way you intended it to; as near as I can tell, it never rolled into the new July maintenance categories, or out of the June ones, when the month actually changed over — with the result that we now have some July maintenance cats that are empty, and some June ones that are stuck with your page as the only thing keeping them from being deletable as empty categories. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 07:06, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
- Ah! Forgot about that! A null edit should be all it needs - looks like all the June pages are gone, should all be July now. Avicennasis @ 08:30, 30 Sivan 5771 / 2 July 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. You're right, that did the trick. Bearcat (talk) 09:33, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
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Mentor?
Hi Avicennasis - I'm looking for a mentor and hoping you might have time for me. Looks like you have a lot on the go but any time would be appreciated! Japson88 (talk) 18:04, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
AvicBot on sv.wiki
Hi. I see that your bot has started it's work on sv.wiki. The bot sorts ro-links to early in the list here and here. Is the sorting order updated according too http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_sorting_order? -- Tegel (talk) 15:45, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
- It is... The coding seems correct - I've updated to the latest nightly, will try some testing to see if that corrected it. Avicennasis @ 16:11, 8 Tamuz 5771 / 10 July 2011 (UTC)
- That corrected it - see here I reverted the bot, updated the code, than re-ran that page, and it seems to put put (leave) ro in the proper place now. :-) Avicennasis @ 16:53, 8 Tamuz 5771 / 10 July 2011 (UTC)
- The bot has been granted the bot flag on sv.wiki. -- Tegel (talk) 01:04, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- That corrected it - see here I reverted the bot, updated the code, than re-ran that page, and it seems to put put (leave) ro in the proper place now. :-) Avicennasis @ 16:53, 8 Tamuz 5771 / 10 July 2011 (UTC)
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You may delete User:Avicennasis/catpage. It is not needed any more. Debresser (talk) 00:00, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
- I'll look over the "empty" cat page on August 1st or 2nd, and see if any empty current months are showing up. :-) If not, I'll delete it. Avicennasis @ 00:46, 24 Tamuz 5771 / 26 July 2011 (UTC)
- And? Just interesting whether I am right and all works fine. Debresser (talk) 09:04, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
- Looks like it's still needed - there are a few current month categories (like Category:Use Canadian English from August 2011) that are empty and still showing up in Category:Wikipedia monthly maintenance categories that are empty. Avicennasis @ 16:31, 1 Av 5771 / 1 August 2011 (UTC)
- But both Category:Use Canadian English from August 2011 and Category:Wikipedia monthly maintenance categories that are empty are empty... Debresser (talk) 19:38, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
- Category:Wikipedia monthly maintenance categories that are empty isn't empty any more. It now has some July categories. But no August categories. Which means things are working the way they are supposed to be, if you ask me. Another thing is that I noticed that July categories don't exhibit the speedy deletion notice the way June or older categories do. I'll ask Rich Farmbrough why that is. I'd like to ask you to keep things the way they are in the mean time. Debresser (talk) 11:02, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- I asked him here, but Wikimania is going ot keep him from answering for some time. Debresser (talk) 11:06, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- Category:Wikipedia monthly maintenance categories that are empty still had some current-month titles in it when I first checked. All the current-month categories (including empty ones) seem to have left it. The only thing I can think of is that the current month categories (like Category:Use Canadian English from August 2011) showed up in Category:Wikipedia monthly maintenance categories that are empty at first because they were created in July, and so weren't the current month at the time. A null edit seems to have fixed that, though. So, perhaps the catpage isn't needed, just a null edit run-through at the beginning of the month. I can handle that. :-) I'll leave the catpage as-is, in it's disabled state. Avicennasis @ 11:20, 2 Av 5771 / 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- Interesting. I mean the suspected reason the August categories showed up at first. I see two possible ways of fixing that, apart from a null-edit. 1. Time heals all wounds, and it is possible that they would have disappeared by themselves within a few hours or days. 2. Future categories could be excluded. Although that does not make sense, because it goes contrary to the whole idea of this category. Perhaps Rich will have some other idea, when he'll get around to looking at this. Debresser (talk) 11:30, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- Category:Wikipedia monthly maintenance categories that are empty still had some current-month titles in it when I first checked. All the current-month categories (including empty ones) seem to have left it. The only thing I can think of is that the current month categories (like Category:Use Canadian English from August 2011) showed up in Category:Wikipedia monthly maintenance categories that are empty at first because they were created in July, and so weren't the current month at the time. A null edit seems to have fixed that, though. So, perhaps the catpage isn't needed, just a null edit run-through at the beginning of the month. I can handle that. :-) I'll leave the catpage as-is, in it's disabled state. Avicennasis @ 11:20, 2 Av 5771 / 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- But both Category:Use Canadian English from August 2011 and Category:Wikipedia monthly maintenance categories that are empty are empty... Debresser (talk) 19:38, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
- Looks like it's still needed - there are a few current month categories (like Category:Use Canadian English from August 2011) that are empty and still showing up in Category:Wikipedia monthly maintenance categories that are empty. Avicennasis @ 16:31, 1 Av 5771 / 1 August 2011 (UTC)
- And? Just interesting whether I am right and all works fine. Debresser (talk) 09:04, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
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Bot flag
You need to get a global bot flag. I saw your edit on cr.wiki without a bot flag. Thanks you, Amqui (talk) 02:39, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
- AvicBot has a global bot flag. :-) Avicennasis @ 02:41, 28 Tamuz 5771 / 30 July 2011 (UTC)
- Ok this is fixed now, sorry. Amqui (talk) 03:22, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
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- Please do not leave warnings for users unless they have actually violated a policy. Avicennasis @ 17:12, 1 Av 5771 / 1 August 2011 (UTC)
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hello, excuse me I have a Question for you about making bot. I am user the ckb.wikipedia, I built a bot recently, but when login, messege "unicode test: triggers problem #3081100" is displayed. now I dont know where the isuue. I am grateful if you help.--Merkhas (talk) 13:56, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
- The bug seems to be with characters that have multiple accents. You can try following the link above to view some info on it, however I am not aware of a fix. Avicennasis @ 15:20, 5 Av 5771 / 5 August 2011 (UTC)
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for helping out with the thousand or so IPA notices. — kwami (talk) 17:51, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
- No prob. :-) I saw the request here, and tried some regex to see if I could get a bot to do it. I kept running into little errors, so I figured it'd be best to do it myself. Avicennasis @ 18:15, 7 Av 5771 / 7 August 2011 (UTC)
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For this. It is nice that you don't understand simple actions. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 02:47, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Thank you
For doing unproven.htm. Kittybrewster ☎ 17:03, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Passed away
I do dislike this euphemism for "died". Especially tragically or sadly passed away. Kittybrewster ☎ 22:12, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
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Hi: My name is Alberto, and see you are there see who revert and redirect my edits. Mow I am blocked and acused of vandalism, could you help me, thanks,bye.--Carozo 17:18, 11 August 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alberto Lopez Viñals (talk • contribs)
- Exuse me i like sing a gain bye.--Carozo (talk) 17:21, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
We All Hate Portland
That is a real song that the Vancouver Southsiders sing. I live in Vancouver, and I'm an active fan of the WC, I was on the tourbus to Portland, we sung "We All Hate Portland". We also sing it several times during home games. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.22.8.2 (talk) 08:23, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
- You didn't provide a reliable source for that statement. Even if you did, I see no reason to mention it in the article. Avicennasis @ 08:36, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
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Barney Glaser
Why do you keep purging my edit? These material I have added is completely based on public court records. It is neither libelous or an ad hominem attack. WHy do you insist on censoring it? Ricste (talk) 21:39, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps you are looking for another editor? I haven't reverted anything on the Barney Glaser article. Avicennasis @ 21:45, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
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Film Trailer becomes Trailer (promotion)? Incorrect identifier
The article now titled Trailer (promotion) is entirely about MOVIE trailers, their history, content and usage, not book trailers, game trailers, TV show or concert event promos. If there is any justification to change its name, wouldn't it be to redirect to Movie Trailer or Trailer (Movie), replacing "film" with "movie" since in today's movie industry some MOVIES are not completed on film stock? Let me know if you want me to move this question to the article's talk page. I just wanted to make sure you saw it. Thanks! WikiBob47 (talk) 15:35, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
List
By any chance, could you create a list of pages that need to be deleted instead of tagging them for deletion one by one? It makes life easier for us and hopefully for you. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:38, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing. :-) Gimme a few moments and I'll have it posted to a subpage. Avicennasis @ 01:39, 16 Av 5771 / 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- Alright, sounds good. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 01:40, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- List currently at User:Avicennasis/G5. I'm still reviewing some pages, so feel free to check back for updates later, if you want. :-) Avicennasis @ 01:53, 16 Av 5771 / 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- First batch gone. I'll check back later then. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 02:04, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- It's done now. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:10, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- First batch gone. I'll check back later then. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 02:04, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- List currently at User:Avicennasis/G5. I'm still reviewing some pages, so feel free to check back for updates later, if you want. :-) Avicennasis @ 01:53, 16 Av 5771 / 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- Alright, sounds good. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 01:40, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
declined deletion of Talk:Rangapur, India
Sorry for not explaining my declining your speedy-tag there. I added a note in the edit-history explaining it now. If there's a problem with a banned editor making a mess, probably need to undo/revert/reverse lots more than just deleting one talk-page redirect:( Maybe file at WP:ANI to get some admins' help? DMacks (talk) 01:51, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- No worries. My thoughts were to get the redirect pages deleted, then ask WP:Wikiproject India if the new titles were acceptable or not - if so, the talk pages can be deleted under G5 - if not, the talk pages need to be deleted so the content can be moved back. :-) I figured I'd just tag it since it'll need deleted either way. (section directly above is related, FYI.) Thanks for the heads-up! Avicennasis @ 01:56, 16 Av 5771 / 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Avic! /mediawiki/trunk/tools/viaf/ was posted some hours ago. I have been told in a short after midnight mail to load the script from /mediawiki/trunk/tools/viaf/viaf.user.js?view=co. I get an "jQuery" message. Are there some preconditions to load the script fom svn? Best regards ·לערי ריינהארט·T·m:Th·T·email me· 03:50, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
- Please load the script from this url http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/tools/viaf/viaf.user.js located at /svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/tools/. Thanks for all help! Regards ·לערי ריינהארט·T·m:Th·T·email me· 08:00, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Re: Mandippal Jandu
Hi fellow editor, I have noticed that this, article seems to be attacked in a similar way by persistent Vandals. I added protection to it, which you cited as inncorect. Please could you advise me as to the correct protection for the page? Thanks SH 11:34, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
- Sure. The template you added doesn't actually protect the page - it just tells people the page is protected, even though it's not. The correct way to get an article protected is to ask an admin at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection to protect it for you. Avicennasis @ 16:33, 19 Av 5771 / 16:33, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
- Whoops. You's think a veteran editor like me would know that. Doh!!SH 18:07, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
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Just to let you know I've changed the speedy deletion criteria for Totaphine from WP:G1 to WP:G3 because the nonsense criteria only covers things like repeating characters or a jumble of random words. If you can work out what is being said then it isn't nonsense. --Mrmatiko (talk) 08:50, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
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Category change
Hello, I don't understand why you reverted my correction to the category listing for Bernard Fernow. As Dean of the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell he had little to do with the later New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, predecessor to today's State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF). Could you explain the rationale for your change, please? I'm rather frustrated by this category change process, for which I can find no clear explanation or rationale, other than (incorrectly) lumping together things associated with the former New York State College of Forestry at Cornell with today's SUNY-ESF. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 13:06, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
- Category:New York State College of Forestry was moved to Category:State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. It looks like that happened because User:Good Olfactory had suggested the move at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy. If this was incorrect, you may want to ask them at their talk page. Avicennasis @ 22:06, 22 Av 5771 / 22:06, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
- Okay, thanks for the prompt response and redirect. I'll try contacting User:Good Olfactory. Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 00:35, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Slander and other misuse of Wikipedia
Dear sir, could you be so kind as to explain why you decided to allege that I use sockpuppets? It would appear that you have accused hundreds of people of this offensive and dishonest conduct, often accusing dozens of people within a single minute. It gives the impression of being the work of a 'bot' or some person recklessly copying names from some list without regard to the nature of the allegation being made when you create a page alleging that each of these people have been found to have been using sockpuppets or 'bot' like agents instead of taking the time to make reasoned edits.
As I say, I don't know how you have come to your decision that you needed to make all these pages including the one about me, but I would appreciate if people making such allegations would be kind enough to test their claims first; and would be kind enough as to let the accused persons know of the allegations against them. Thank you for any consideration of this issue.
P.S. Wikipedia use to be a nice idea but in 2004 I and another editor became targets of a tag-team wishing to promote their POV regarding people of Jewish and people of dark skinned heritage, Wikipedia is not a pleasant environment. More recently an editor intent on pushing his Jakarta POV has continued citing his interpretations as if they were fact while engaging in what appears to be personal attacks. Who created the page "Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Daeron" and who is protecting their POV about the New York Agreement? I still hope Wikipedia might happen one day get better.Daeron (talk) 20:50, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
- I just create the categories. You'd need to speak with the people who do the tagging of userpages directly. Avicennasis @ 22:00, 22 Av 5771 / 22:00, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
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RE: Possibly Referenced Articles
Hi, Avicennasis you left a note on the Unreferenced Articles project talk page back in February about your lists of possibly referenced articles. Could you update your lists again so I can add the articles to the mistagged cleanup page, thanks :) Mattg82 (talk) 02:06, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
- No prob. :-) I'll kick the scripts on and get some new content generated soon. Avicennasis @ 05:32, 23 Av 5771 / 05:32, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
- Took me a bit, but it's up. :-) There may be a few redlinks I haven't filtered out - unicode stuff the scripts couldn't handle - but you have around 26400+ articles to work with. Avicennasis @ 20:20, 30 Av 5771 / 20:20, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks :) Mattg82 (talk) 22:17, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Nowikify template
Thanks for your assistance on the template; however, the change breaks the parameters. There were two parameters for the template. The first parameter was unnamed and was used to include the articl it refers to. The second parameter was named "sig" and was used to include a signature in the template. Do you have any idea how this can be fixed? Ryan Vesey Review me! 19:54, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
- Whoops - I fixed the first parameter. How exactly did the sig parameter work? It's not in the documentation. Avicennasis @ 20:12, 23 Av 5771 / 20:12, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
- Oh, sorry. I had it set up so if you wrote |sig=~~~~ It would add your signature to the end of the template, write after "Appreciated!" Ryan Vesey Review me! 20:19, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
- Ok, got it.
Looks like it should work as expected now. Let me know if not. (Or if any other issues crop up.) Avicennasis @ 21:01, 23 Av 5771 / 21:01, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks a lot. Ryan Vesey Review me! 21:09, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
- Ok, got it.
- Oh, sorry. I had it set up so if you wrote |sig=~~~~ It would add your signature to the end of the template, write after "Appreciated!" Ryan Vesey Review me! 20:19, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Bot error
Error at [3], the article was in a category when the bot tagged it. Albacore (talk) 21:16, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads up! (Though this was really my fault from the way I set up the run list - AvicBot was an innocent bystander. ) Avicennasis @ 21:27, 23 Av 5771 / 21:27, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Possible bot error on zerknüllt
Hi, Avicennasis. Avicbot might have made an error: it added {{uncategorized}} to Zerknüllt in this edit even though the article already has {{Genetics-stub}}. The latter template invokes a category template. Or should an article with a "stub" category still get another category? —Ben Kovitz (talk) 10:47, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
- Stub templates don't count - an article should be in at least one "content" category - stub categories are moreso maintenance/tracking categories. So, it's a good edit. Avicennasis @ 10:59, 24 Av 5771 / 10:59, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the explanation. I'll put it in a content category. And thanks for running the bot! —Ben Kovitz (talk) 11:20, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Migration of "Film cover fur" template
Greetings, Avicennasis. I noticed that on some film related images, you have updated the fair use rationale template from {{Film cover fur}} to {{Non-free use rationale poster| Media=film}}, using your AvicAWB account. Here is one example. Actually, {{Film cover fur}} should be migrated to {{Non-free use rationale video cover}} instead. {{Film cover fur}} and {{Non-free use rationale video cover}} are for DVD and videotape covers, but {{Non-free use rationale poster| Media=film}} is for movie posters. The proof of this is that {{Film cover fur}} now redirects to {{Non-free use rationale video cover}}. Just click on this link to see for yourself: Template:Film cover fur. (If you reply here I will see what you say.) — Mudwater (Talk) 23:47, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
- Noted. I was going with the request on Wikipedia:AWB/TA#Rationale template migrations... for that migration - I will correct the mistaken edits. Thanks for the heads up. . Avicennasis @ 16:10, 25 Av 5771 / 16:10, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
- Very good, thank you. — Mudwater (Talk) 00:14, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Kurt Yaeger Edits
Hello, Why would you remove a picture and the bmx sponsors from Kurt Yaeger? I understand the outside links. No one has explained to me when its ok to use an outside link in the article. I read that it is ok if there is no wiki page to link to. Id appreciate any direction with this one. Thank you. --Lameattack (talk) 02:40, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
- As you can see from my edit, I didn't remove any pictures. I did, however, removed the sponsors list, as it seems more promotional and not encyclopedic. I wouldn't object if you re-added them in a paragraph, as opposed to a list. For example, "Kurt has had many sponsors for his shows, including company Foo, Bar, Baz and Qux." Take a look at Dave_Mirra#Sponsorship for some idea. As for the links - we should never have outside links in an article, really. Now, we can make a red-link for a company/film/whatever if it doesn't exists - example, Sedona's Rule. Outside links should only be in an "External links" - and we also shouldn't have tons of links, there, either. Avicennasis @ 15:37, 25 Av 5771 / 15:37, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the examples. I will continue to refine/work and include the edits you made. But I do want to clarify that in your edit you did delete a picture that was located right below the sponsor heading. That is what made me feel you did a half-hazard job and weren't paying attention. So I reverted back. --Lameattack (talk) 22:26, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Facepalm And so I did. Sorry - the picture is fine, feel free to include it. Avicennasis @ 22:45, 25 Av 5771 / 22:45, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the examples. I will continue to refine/work and include the edits you made. But I do want to clarify that in your edit you did delete a picture that was located right below the sponsor heading. That is what made me feel you did a half-hazard job and weren't paying attention. So I reverted back. --Lameattack (talk) 22:26, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Bot flag
User:AvicBot has received bot flag on ro.wp.- Andrei (talk) 09:00, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! Avicennasis @ 15:51, 25 Av 5771 / 15:51, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
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IP update
I am new to WP:Abuse response so I don't know much about this, but I noticed that you closed an abuse response investigation (especially this one). Is it possible to re-open this investigation? The IP 165.228.98.213 got out of a 2-year block, (which was expired back in March) was vandalising again and got a three-year block today. This is currently the IP's 11th block. Minima© (talk) 05:13, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
- No problem. I have re-opened the case and completed the Abuse report. The only thing left is to have a contactor reach out via email to the ISP's Abuse team. Avicennasis @ 06:02, 29 Av 5771 / 06:02, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
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I have observed some pretty remarkable contributions from this account. I am curious, why are you not an administrator. Pardon that you have struck me as the kind of editor who could be a good one, and that you seem qualified by a cursory review. I am working on an essay, and I believe you are of the adman class. I'd like to see you become an admin. This essay might explain, but you are exactly the kind of editor I had in mind. My76Strat (talk) 07:17, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for the kind words. My main reason for not running, I'll readily admit, is the RfA process. Frankly, I find it rather scary. I've seen some rather nasty comments over the years and some great editors torn apart on occasion at RfA, and I don't want to be in those shoes. I like to think I've done a lot of good work for Wikipedia. I'd hate to see someone dig up some errors I made forever ago and watch the oppose !votes pile on because of it. Perhaps, if some alternative to RfA was created, I'd try for it. Barring that, I'd need a lot of moral support to go through a regular RfA. Avicennasis @ 11:51, 29 Av 5771 / 11:51, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
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Template migrations...
Thanks for doing these , but I noted an error in my request :(
{{film poster fur}} should be being updated to {{Non-free use rationale poster}},
It seems when writing the request the word rationale got left out :( ,
Sorry.
Sfan00 IMG (talk) 08:59, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
- No worries. I'll re-do those, and finish out the task. Thanks for the notice, though. Avicennasis @ 21:26, 30 Av 5771 / 21:26, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Frenchman's Tower
Thanks for inserting the required colons in the categories.
I learned something from you. Wikfr (talk) 16:51, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
- I'm glad I could be of help. Avicennasis @ 21:26, 30 Av 5771 / 21:26, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Commons Category link to Lincoln, England
AvicBot apparently the CommonsCat link on Lincoln, England from {{Commons category|Lincoln}} to {{Commons category|Lancaster, Lancashire|Lincoln}}. Kindly ensure the bot does not make such erroneous changes.—GrahamSmith (talk) 01:48, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
- I subsequently undid the effect of revision 447231141 by AvicBot (talk) to Lincoln, England by changing the CommonsCat link to become
{{Commons category|Lincoln, England}}— Preceding unsigned comment added by GrahamSmith (talk • contribs) 01:59, 31 August 2011 (UTC)- AvicBot only repeats human errors here. :-) The old Commons:Category:Lincoln is a disambig category there - it's really not helpful at all. So it checked the interwikis, and it found this - someone had included the wrong Commons category at EuWp, and AvicBot duplicated it here, assuming it was correct. Avicennasis @ 02:01, 1 Elul 5771 / 02:01, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for investigating this, taking the appropriate action and for the explanation. It all makes sense now!—GrahamSmith (talk) 11:26, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
- AvicBot only repeats human errors here. :-) The old Commons:Category:Lincoln is a disambig category there - it's really not helpful at all. So it checked the interwikis, and it found this - someone had included the wrong Commons category at EuWp, and AvicBot duplicated it here, assuming it was correct. Avicennasis @ 02:01, 1 Elul 5771 / 02:01, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
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- Duly noted. I've adding some coding which I think should stop this from happening again. Thanks for the heads up. Avicennasis @ 03:38, 6 Elul 5771 / 03:38, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
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There is no references in List of benzo compounds
Hello, you have twice changed the template {{Refimprove}} → {{Unreferenced}}, because there is no references in the article! I have reverted both of your edits Christian75 08:00, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry about that! The use of a reference tag for a non-reference footnote seems to have AWB confused. I've added the nobots tag to the page to stop it from being processed. (Though if you disagree with said action, I won't mind at all if you revert it.) Again, sorry. Avicennasis @ 08:34, 7 Elul 5771 / 08:34, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
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AvicBot2
Your bot seems to be generating a large number of null edits that are getting blocked by the edit filter. What is the point of them? Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:32, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- I've now had to block it since it continues to make null edits, including an attempted edit on User:Jéské Couriano's userpage. Let me or another admin know when it is under control so I or another admin can unblock it. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:56, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- AvicBot 2 was null editing a few pages to force some updates (that purging wouldn't do and the job queue won't process.) I'm not sure why it's hitting the edit filter, since it's not actually changing anything. (Any ideas on that, as an edit filter manager?) I've stopped all AvicBot2 scripts for now. Avicennasis @ 20:05, 8 Elul 5771 / 20:05, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- I've unblocked the bot. (Sorry, didn't realize you would log in that soon after blocking. :P ) Why would it be editing Jéské's userpage, though? I'll email you with the filter details, since many of those filters are designed to catch prolific sockmasters and abusers. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:19, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Emailed you why your bot was triggering filters. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:22, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- It was editing userpages that have a protection tag, since a number of those belong in Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. And I got the email. I believe I can correct the filter tripping fairly easy. Avicennasis @ 20:43, 8 Elul 5771 / 20:43, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- It was editing userpages that have a protection tag, since a number of those belong in Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates.
- Emailed you why your bot was triggering filters. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:22, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- I've unblocked the bot. (Sorry, didn't realize you would log in that soon after blocking. :P ) Why would it be editing Jéské's userpage, though? I'll email you with the filter details, since many of those filters are designed to catch prolific sockmasters and abusers. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:19, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- AvicBot 2 was null editing a few pages to force some updates (that purging wouldn't do and the job queue won't process.) I'm not sure why it's hitting the edit filter, since it's not actually changing anything. (Any ideas on that, as an edit filter manager?) I've stopped all AvicBot2 scripts for now. Avicennasis @ 20:05, 8 Elul 5771 / 20:05, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
help! - Dahlia Lynley-Chivers submission
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Project tags / DisambigProject
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- I have a couple requests open right now. I'm just sprinkling them in a little by little, though. I think that's best for DisambigProject. Avicennasis @ 16:33, 10 Elul 5771 / 16:33, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
- That might be. Keep on sprinkling! Greetings --Teilzeittroll (talk) 16:55, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
orpan disambig page??
Hi,
you have added an orphan template to Agmon. Is not it strange? I thought the policy is to avoid links to disambig pages (they exist for the convenience of the user, not to have incoming links), so how can it be an orphan?
Thanks, Sasha (talk) 19:31, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
- I was checking for orphan links to non-disamb pages - and as you can see in my edit not 3 minutes later, I added the disambig tag (which should have been there before.) Avicennasis @ 19:34, 11 Elul 5771 / 19:34, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
- thank you very much!! Sasha (talk) 19:37, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
- Now I realise you erased it even before my note, sorry -- I did not look at the last revision. Sasha (talk) 19:45, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
- thank you very much!! Sasha (talk) 19:37, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
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Film posters
Any chance of updating some file description pages as follows :
- Search string: {{film poster fur
- Replace to : {{Non-free use rationale poster|Media=film
- File list : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Film_poster_fur&limit=5000
This could be done rapidly with AWB.
Thanks in advance.
Sfan00 IMG (talk) 14:26, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Done Avicennasis @ 13:41, 20 Elul 5771 / 13:41, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
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Album covers
In standardising rationale naming, there are some rationales that got renamed twice hence a request as follows:
- Search String {{Non-free use rationale album
- Replace to {{Non-free use rationale album cover
- In filelist : [4]
This can be done rapidly in AWB :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:26, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
Doing... - though you may want to submit an edit request to User:AWeenieMan/furme.js - It's the old FurMe that some editors still use - and it looks like it adds redirect tags, instead of the proper titles. Avicennasis @ 13:00, 22 Elul 5771 / 13:00, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
- Done Avicennasis @ 21:15, 23 Elul 5771 / 21:15, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for clearing up the poster backlog :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:20, 19 September 2011 (UTC) |
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In reference to this reply, you can actually purge the cache in different ways. First off, you can purge it, by adding ?action=purge to the end of a url, when it is in wiki/ARTICLE. If you are in a w/index.php?title=ARTICLE page, add &action=purge to the end. Another way you can do this is by going to edit. Then, without really having edited anything in the editbox, save the page. It won't show up as an edit in the history, but it will still clear the cache of that page. Just wanted to let you know. LikeLakers2 (talk | Sign my guestbook!) 19:41, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
- Dummy/null edits are different than purges. Avicennasis @ 19:56, 21 Elul 5771 / 19:56, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Heya, about that time display
שלום חברי,
How do you get your sig to display the Hebrew date like that? Also (unrelated to wiki), given the association on one of your userboxes, what is your opinion of "Anonymous" (I am pretty sure it's just a bunch of organised guys, with a leader, claiming to be Anon) vowing vengeance upon various New York-based institutions as they did today? Classic case of butthurt? Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 01:44, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
- Hey! For the Hebrew date, I use a time parser function of
{{#time: xjj xjF xjY}}which produces21 Cheshvan 5785.
- As for Anonymous - I actually hadn't heard of this "Day of Vengeance" thing until you mentioned it. My bet is that it is unrelated to the actual group, and is moreso an undertaking of script kiddies with (what they think are) beliefs that are shared with the group. Avicennasis @ 03:57, 24 Elul 5771 / 03:57, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
- Oh neat. I am afraid I know nothing of these functions nor could I hope to understand how Wikipedia knew to translate it to the Hebrew month name (albeit in Latin characters), but with your permission, I would like to use it in my signature.
- Oh yes, I highly doubt they have anything to do with Anon other than the name. I mean designated leaders, an actual altruistic goal, openly expressing strong negative emotion in response to retaliation, and to top of it off, freaking white knighting! No way this is the same Anon (though I only know of them from what I have read and would never claim to actually know what I'm talking about). The point about them being script kiddies is why they will fail of course at whatever they attempt as most of them are idealists driven by emotion, a false view of the purpose of what Anon is, and some idea of rebelling against authority who are probably installing programs to make their comps zombies for some of the more experienced members. It's people like this that killed ED (with articles like the Uwe Boll one) imo. At least that malware they installed should be a good reward for their efforts. /rant Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 24 Elul 5771 04:19, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
- Feel free to add it to your sig. And it returns the English name for the Hebrew month here on EnWp because the server language is set in English. If you try the same parser on HeWp, you'd get the proper "24 אלול 5771"string.
- Feel free to add it to your sig.
- What really gave this "Anon" thing away was when I read that they are are planning a "peacefully yet forcefully protest"... Heh. Not to mention the fact that a website was set up with a WHOIS guard. (really, easily traceable once a subpoena comes into play. I mean, come on!)
- Anyway. Let me know if know need help with this (or any other) parser function. They can be pretty neat (though a real pain to learn/use at times.) Avicennasis @ 04:53, 24 Elul 5771 / 04:53, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
- Anyway. Let me know if know need help with this (or any other) parser function.
- Thanks, I shall do so now (though it appears when I tested it before, I forgot to remove it, so I guess I do nothing :p) Ah, though I still don't get why it puts in Hebrew xD (must be the j's stand for Jewish [calender])
- Indeed, true Anon would mercilessly destroy their target (like that idiot who beat up his cat or the chick who broiled her cat). Oh lol, now the funniest part about that will be the stories that follow about the mass arrests and crying basement dwellers bawwwing (there won't be a wambulance big enough to contain them (yeah I know I'm rounding off a lot of tired old memes :p)). Largest number of morons v& at once ever I'll bet. I personally think that some brave Anon should hack their site and basically humiliate them (now that would be funny).
- Will do mate, thanks very much, and ya, if they can convert these odd codes into things like that, they must be something special (I further demonstrate my cluelessness on this matter). I now have to go deal with a seemingly irrate Russian Jew (or ignore him and do actual work which is also good :p) May you be inscribed and sealed in the Book of Life for a good year (though I realise that is next week; four day weekend \o/). Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 24 Elul 5771 05:25, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Malankara Metropolitans
User:Crusoe8181 has made a number of corrections that are ridiculus and so are unaceptable.
- Because you have also played a part in it, please see the letter below that I am sending to Crusoe8181:
Sorry to note your recent changes of titles of Malankara Metropolitans were done without any consultation or warning. You seem to assume that your corrections also fit into the category Wikipedia:Naming conventions (clergy) {Syriac bishops} and {Eastern Orthodox metropolitans, archbishops and bishops} Names of bishops given in these categaries are that of Roman Catholic Churches in Kerala, and not that of Malankara Metropolitans. It seems that you have not read the introductory part of naming conventions that tells you about ancient historical church clergy at the higher level. Also please remember that the title “Mar” must be used with their names and should not be left out.
These new titles given to our bishops are ridiculus and insulting. Hope you have not done this delibrately.Neduvelilmathew (talk) 08:16, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
- ...I have never edited that article? Avicennasis @ 10:06, 25 Elul 5771 / 10:06, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Stale Userspace drafts
Why did you create this category? Debresser (talk) 17:10, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
- For one, it'll help Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts. Secondly, it'll help to find old drafts that should be deleted per WP:STALEDRAFT, or other pages that might fail WP:NOT#WEBHOST. Avicennasis @ 17:15, 25 Elul 5771 / 17:15, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
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Theory TK of Visual Proportions
Avicennasis, I would like you to read the new version of The Theory TK of Visual Proportions. Thanks --EspaisNT (talk) 17:39, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Nomination of List of professional golfers who have hit an albatross for deletion
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Update on courses and ambassador needs
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