This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation, January 21, 2012.
You have nearly single-handedly eliminated the minor planet notability problem, which had stood for seven years before you decided to tackle it, because nobody wanted to do the massive amount of work required. If this doesn't deserve a barnstar, I'm not sure what does. StringTheory11 (t • c) 17:49, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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The 2016 Cure Award
In 2016 you were one of the top ~200 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.
Your diligent work in the area of redirect categorization and improvement is duly recognized and greatly appreciated. You are truly one of the unsung heroes of Wikipedia, and we hope you continue to enjoy your improvement of this awesome encyclopedia! On behalf of your fellow editors—and the millions of readers of our work—I sincerely thank you for your contributions that have improved the encyclopedia for everyone. Senator2029“Talk”08:33, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
In recognition of your recent contributions to the Life Sciences on en:Wikipedia, analyzing and helping to improve the quality of articles, based on scientific data. Your efforts demonstrate tremendous potential into enhancing the scientific accuracy of The Free Encyclopedia.
I am tremendously appreciative of your efforts, especially on the preliminary Taxonomic analysis.
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your constant positive demeanor. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)
I am always on the lookout for potential Editor of the Week candidates, for editors that fly under the radar, whose efforts are unknown except to a few. They don't make a splash, they don't emit a 'notice me' kind of behavior; they just quietly tackle the hard jobs. Tom.Reding is that kind of editor. A while back he "thanked me" via the Thanks Notification for awarding the Editor of the Week to a fellow editor. So, I looked into him and found an editor that does many important WP improving things. He is a working editor (535,847 live and undeleted edits) that fixes, populates, corrects, standardizes, cleans, parses, tries, peruses, adds, formats, listens, expands, updates, corrects, creates, assigns and (my favorite) "consistifies". A member of Wikiproject Astronomy and Wikiproject Tree of Life, he has recently been granted the page mover user right. He provides a human eye and understanding to "bot" problems that arise. In the area of redirect categorization he willingly puts his head together with other editors to work toward solution. A deserving recipient.
You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:
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The 2016 Cure Award
In 2016 you were one of the top ~200 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.
Congratulations on being the seventh editor on the English Wikipedia to do over a million non-bot edits! ϢereSpielChequers12:14, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
7&6=thirteen (☎) has given you a Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it.
To give a Dobos torte and spread the WikiLove, just place {{subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.
In 2018 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.
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The 2019 Cure Award
In 2019 you were one of the top ~300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a thematic organization whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.
It might be better to make this an AWB general fix, since every WikiProject Bio started off with a living= and listas= parameter. It's really not worth the time and effort to remove a million or so such params. All the best: RichFarmbrough22:05, 25 September 2024 (UTC).[reply]
They've largely already been moved, with what's left being mostly matching params in Bio & WPBS with mis/matching values, or on inappropriate pages like Category:13th-century religious leaders.
Hey there! I think you might want to consider applying for autopatrol, especially with the amount of pages you'll be creating using AWB. Having it would definitely reduce backlog. Thanks! Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 18:46, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Tom.Reding, since Danny's redirect autopatrol bot is down, I am going through your redirects and marking them as reviewed. As there are over 1,200 redirects, you will receive a lot of review notifications, so I just wanted to apologise in advance for the notification flood! – DreamRimmer (talk) 09:15, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Tom, you redirected to anchors in most/all of these. I checked a few and those anchors didn't exist. You'll have to either create them or remove the section from the redirect target. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:33, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Heya, I've seen you around minor planets articles (especially the creation of new minor planet list articles), and thought I'd give this a shot: I wondered if it would be possible to somehow autoedit the corrections into the articles that the minor planets are featured in. Because recently I've been adding new minor planet names into the list of named minor planets articles (from the website https://www.wgsbn-iau.org/), and the bulletins (from volume 4, #7 onwards from what I've seen) also contain "corrected discovery information", which is also corrected on the MPC and JPL websites (the most recent bulletin has thirteen pages worth of corrections!). So I was wondering if somehow auto doing it was possible or whether it would have to be done manually. Appreciate the work you've done btw! Procyon117 (talk) 02:14, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Procyon117: I mostly focus on updating the LoMPs & MoMPs since they are structured lists/data. Updating articles is a different story, since there is context to consider, freeform user input to work around, and irregularities from article to article. It's doable, but relatively slow & tedious, even with help. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)12:09, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah I thought something like that. I'll probably do it manually then, although it shouldn't be too bad anyway since it's only a relatively recent thing anyway. I don't mind doing tedious stuff anyway after all. Procyon117 (talk) 13:20, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Tom.Reding, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled user right to your account. This means that pages you create will automatically be marked as 'reviewed', and no longer appear in the new pages feed. Autopatrolled is assigned to prolific creators of articles, where those articles do not require further review, and may have been requested on your behalf by someone else. It doesn't affect how you edit; it is used only to manage the workload of new page patrollers.
Since the articles you create will no longer be systematically reviewed by other editors, it is important that you maintain the high standard you have achieved so far in all your future creations. Please also try to remember to add relevant WikiProject templates, stub tags, categories, and incoming links to them, if you aren't already in the habit; user scripts such as Rater and StubSorter can help with this. As you have already shown that you have a strong grasp of Wikipedia's core content policies, you might also consider volunteering to become a new page patroller yourself, helping to uphold the project's standards and encourage other good faith article writers.
I have seen that you are very active at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks. You seem to have a lot of experience with AWB related changes and fixing. I am interested in learning more and doing a lot of AWB work to help the wiki. Do you have any specific resource, apart from the user manual, to learn about using AWB to the fullest? Thanks for any help! Bunnypranav (talk) 10:46, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
To get the most out of AWB, I found that learning how to use custom modules, C# 4.0, and regular expressions were the most important things (fortunately, I had previous experience with C, C++, and grep). On-wiki resources like those are a good place to start, but I often find myself at dotnetperls or stackoverflow after googling to find specifics on how to manipulate dictionaries, lists, and other aspects of C#.
System.IO.File.ReadAllText() & Tools.WriteTextFileAbsolutePath() are quite useful for processing large amounts of data in C#.
Knowing what the final result should be is just as important as knowing how to do it, so I often refer to MOS:ORDER, WP:TALKORDER, and the documentation of whatever templates I'm working on/with, but that'll depend on the areas you choose to work on. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)12:32, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Restored all 104 (and made the conditions much more obvious in the /doc). ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 22:37, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
