User talk:Mausy5043/Archives/2007/September

Flange

I have no particular interest as to whether user User:Mcgeeflange's addition to the flange page is there or not, but if you think it was a good-faith addition and you want to invoke policy/guideline to delete it, I think it would be courteous to actually direct someone to the actual policy/guideline (browsing through policy/guidelines didn't suggest any reason for your reversion to me, unless it was that 'wikipedia is not a dictionary'). :-) --AGoon 02:31, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

That edit comment was added by the script. I wasn't very pleased with it either. The addition of User:Mcgeeflange was inappropriate to the article. It is, BTW, already mentioned on the disambiguation page. Mausy5043 07:09, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Tables

Looking at your edit history, I don't see anywhere it being agreed to use those instructions you are putting on Virtual Console pages. Can you point out where it was agreed? The issue I have is the way to list dates ("2007-12-31" for general 2007 dates when 2007 is easier and faster to use and show). TJ Spyke 08:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I see you reverting a lot of edits that do not cite sources. It must be frustrating to do this several times a day. The problem is that people may not be aware of the "rules" that apply. As they are not clearly announced anywhere. So, I thought I include a short list of rules as a comment in the article. I figured that the sorting by date could best be done as described in my comment. However, I agree there is room for improvement as per your suggestion. Maybe the Wii games talk page has an even better way to do this. What do you think. I'm open for suggestions. ʍαμ$ʏ5043 08:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

AFD

Your voice is needed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of diss songs (2nd nomination). TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 00:30, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Your AWB edits

Please avoid making insignificant edits using AWB as you have been doing (four examples: [1] [2] [3] [4] – there are many more I could have shown you). By asking for approval to use AWB, you agree to abide by the rules stated at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage#Guide which states 'Avoid making insignificant minor edits', and your use of the tool has broken this. Further use in this way may result in you registration being revoked. Edits such as these do not improve the pages in a beneficial way (such as a spelling fix would) and use up capacity and sever space. You are also not making the edits as minor! Please ask if you have any questions. Thanks, mattbr 18:54, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

My apologies. I was so caught up and enthousiastic about the ease with which pages could be cleaned, that I completely forgot about that part of the rules. Sorry, won't happen again as of now. ʍαμ$ʏ5043 18:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it does make editing much easier! You might want to have a look at using it to do tasks such as fixing links to disambiguation pages (see Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links and the AWB user manual for the disambiguation feature) which will do the changes you have been making as well as helping people navigate around the encyclopedia. Happy editing, mattbr 19:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Your merger proposal

Dear Mausy5043, you have proposed the Ejector venturi article to be merged into the Venturi scrubber article. I have responded to your proposal so please check the talk page and let me know your idea. Regards. The Vindictive 19:31, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm pondering an answer. ʍαμ$ʏ5043 16:22, 14 April 2007 (UTC) The answer is there ʍαμ$ʏ5043 16:44, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Typo redirect Premuim finance

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Please stop removing blank lines

Hello, I do actual editing of Joseph Haydn's ethnicity and it is useful to me to have the increased legibility that results from placing blank lines after section headings. So please stop removing them. Sincerely, Opus33 18:31, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry that I have edited your article. The reason for the edit is that your article has a link to the Migration disambiguation page. Links to disambiguation pages are generally not helpful to the reader, as he will be forced to discover by himself to which subject is being referred. I want to ask you to repair this link in one of the following ways:

1. Remove the link
2. Link to the appropriate article (also consider wikt:migration).

On the subject of my removing whitespace. I have to agree that introducing extra blanks lines may be beneficial for you while editing the article. However, my edits are guided by common practice (no empty line after a section heading) and my personal conviction that articles should be kept small to reduce database size and bandwidth. One way of doing this is to work on the article offline or on your userpage and then when you're ready move the page into the main article space after removing white space that is needed to keep the article legible to you.

Again, please accept my apologies. But, also, please repair the disambiguous link, as that was the original reason for my visit to your page. ʍαμ$ʏ5043 09:06, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your courteous reply. I've fixed that link.

I'd like to suggest that you might actually be better off not deleting the blank lines. First of all, as far as I know there is no WP policy that mandates it. And in practical terms, it wreaks havoc with the "compare" screen that users will be looking at to see what your change was (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Haydn%27s_ethnicity&diff=157427151&oldid=156970347). Thus, it's very hard for editors to find and assess the substantive change you made. Sincerely, Opus33 20:27, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Point taken. Thanks. ʍαμ$ʏ5043 05:24, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: Database Scanner shows progress

Hi, I like confusing people ;)

On a more serious note, its feasible, but its finding a way of tracking how far you are through the file. If we can easily (and in a short time span) get a number of articles from the xml dump, and then we can keep track of where we are, we could have it do a percentage complete fairly easily.

Of course, nothing is impossible, its just working around the problem

To be honest, i dont actually know how the db scanner works. I havent looked at it in detail, other than fixing things, improving things, not overhauling it...

If there is/was an easy way to get a number of articles, that would make life easier.. Just we have the default issue of integers only going up to ~32000

Im sure it will get done

Reedy Boy 20:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

long integers go slightly further and I've been known to use a double instead of an integer just to be able to count further ;-) I don't know if it is possible to know the number of bytes read from the file or if you have a filepointer or something that can be related to the filesize? Just my 2 cents. ʍαμ$ʏ5043 07:06, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, i know theres the other number types - But in theory, we've got to account for at least 2 million (well, 5+ for future proofing?). I know you can unsign it. There must be something like a file pointer, or some way to do it fairly easily. Its something that is definately a good idea to put in. There'll be a way to do it. Codes C#, and the source is freely avaliable. Feel free to have a crack if you wish ;) Reedy Boy 11:09, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

The Sun

No problem. Glad I could help :-) DWaterson 07:54, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Whitespace

What do you think of Bugzilla:11498? — Omegatron 02:56, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I have no account on Wikimedia (so can't leave feedback there), but I support the feature request. ʍαμ$ʏ5043 12:31, 29 September 2007 (UTC)