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mbar -> Mbar

Hi. Can you stop making that conversion using AWB? Mbar and mbar are different units. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 01:25, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Same thing for hPa -> HPa. hPa (lowercase h) is the correct form for hectopascals. Also, please don't delink dates indiscriminately; by removing duplicate links to years, you break fully-linked dates, which are required for date preferences to work. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 01:29, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Mbar is due to a technical restriction that prohibits articles from having a lowercase letter as their first letter. I'm more concerned about AWB replacing mbar -> MBar in prose, which is indeed incorrect. Again, please stop making that edit. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 01:35, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

• Also, your script is introducing an additional asterisk to the first entry in the external links section. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 01:37, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
• Sorry if I came off as harsh, but I really wanted you to stop the script as it is malfunctioning, and creating a lot of extra work. You had already done about a hundred edits, and I have to review them one at a time to fix or revert any errors introduced by the script. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 01:42, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
  • YOU dont have to do all the work, The attitude of many "wikipedians" That They Have To Do All The Work is so overplayed! I'll gladly fix inconsistant scripts to the best of my ability (barring issues within the Program AWB itself) and I'll revert my own edits, if necessary, thak you for the heads up, I'll consider retirement another day but for tonight I'm Done. Slysplace | ^talk 02:51, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Mbar and mbar are not the same thing. Mbar is one billion mbar, see SI units. - ∅ (∅), 02:05, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Nowhere did I ever say they were the same thing, Titoxd pointed out the naming convention causing the redirects within the article, and you took my reply out of context of the discussion with obviously no real knowledge of the issues. Same goes for HPa > hPa. The issue has been discussed, resolved, reverted and corrected. Thanks for your interest in a discussion you obviously thought needed your 2 cents, even if neither penny conveys the same spirit of your User Page. Slysplace | ^talk 22:20, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

not much point in this

Im not trying to pick an argument or anything its just I dont see any point in this edit, whether or not it was done with AWB. [1]. I'm not gonna revert it because there is no point cause the revert wouldnt make a difference either. The point i want to make is that there are so many other better things that need doing on wiki and that i think your talents would be much better spent doing them and not on pointless stuff like this. AWB is a useful tool just not like this. Seddon69 (talk) 01:02, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

CC to My Talk Page for Consistency

True the edit summary's look rediculous, and 1 out of every 20 of my AWB edits are nothing more than a space added before / after == on section headings. But why I'm using AWB on the Hurricane articles is to do the following:

• Fix numerous spelling and formating errors
• Update the refrences template
• Replace USD With USD - > Eliminate redirect
• Replace mbar With mbar - > Eliminate double redirect
• Replace hPa With hPa - > Eliminate double redirect
  • Repair multiple variants of the above to units of measure causing redirects or misdirects
• Replace Yucatan with Yucatán - > Eliminate Redirects

The addition of spaces within the section headings is meerly a work around for a bug within AWB Currently, and oddly about the only thing showing up in the edit summary.

So you see there is much of a point for it and AWB is the usefull tool I choose to use as it's making multiple usefull edits. Only issue remaining is the stupid summary :( Slysplace | ^talk 01:19, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

as an after thought, and just to show you that you need to change the settings with the AWB. In the MOS, headers are shown not to have the space (Wikipedia:Guide_to_writing_better_articles#Headings) and also in AWB rules of use look at rule four:

• Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits

its just a pain and if you annoy too many peeps with it you can end up with it being disabled for ya. Anyway have a nice day :) Seddon69 (talk) 01:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Not sure these statements even need reply Slysplace | ^talk 01:21, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually A quick look at The Manual of Style says that the spaces are optionalSlysplace | ^talk 01:23, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

I realise that there is alot of gain with using AWB and i dont question that most of the edits are useful, but it certainly does add up when there are a 1000 articles on WPTC let alone the rest of wikipedia. Im just saying that if you can, check an article to see whether it does contain those words/phrases. If it doesn't then there is no need to save the page and it saves alot of hassle for explanatory enough.Seddon69 (talk)

also i stand corrected :) Seddon69 (talk) 01:30, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Tropical cyclone project

Welcome to the project! I am just wondering why you always change ==References== Referances ==. Anyway, feel free to contribute any way you can to the project. Juliancolton (talk) 13:28, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

See the above discussion... Might answer that question Slysplace | ^talk 16:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Vincenzo Ciaglia

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