User talk:Gaius Cornelius/Archive

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[edit] Primary candidates VFD

Many of the candidates for the June 14, 2005, congressional primary have been proposed for deletion. I am writing those who worked on those articles to request that they offer their votes against the proposal. The VFD's can be found starting at Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Log/2005_August_8#Peter_Fossett. It is my view that we ought to provide a complete record of the election and by deleting so called "minor" candidates we do a disservice to them and the historical record. Please vote against all these proposals.PedanticallySpeaking 14:54, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bayeux Tapestry

I was wondering if you've ever actually seen it? I was lucky enough to have seen it during a business trip to France 11 years ago. Our group was absolutely enthralled with the history and the drama portrayed in it. We called it a medieval version of "Star Wars"... although it's actually the other way around, isn't it? Wahkeenah 17:15, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

No I have not seen it - yet. It really is not all that far away. By-the-way, I live in Farnborough, Hampshire. I like your user page! Gaius Cornelius 18:49, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm in Minnesota, a long way from France and England. :( Our group liked the imagery of the Tapestry and referred to it from time to time during our project for illustrative purposes or kind of an "in-joke". One good image is labeled NVNTII WILLELMI (William's messengers) whose sole purpose seems to be to show men on galloping horses. That was a good symbol for anything to do with "delivering" a system upgrade. Then there was the famous panel showing Halley's comet, labeled ISTI MIRANT STELLA (They wonder at the star). As Windows 3.1 was fairly new at the time, we had an illustration of a group of trainees, titled ISTI MIRANT FENESTRAE III.I Pardon my fractured Latin. :) Wahkeenah 19:26, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fishing hook

>...in your contribution to fishing hook you made a red-link to Fishing spoons.

No, that was not me, it was by 150.140.166.111

> Are fishing spoons the same thing as a Spoon lure?.

Yes, I guess so. I changed the link.

MH 19:05, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Sorry if I made a mistake attributing the edit to you. Anyway, thanks for the fix.

[edit] Barnstar

I, Garion96 hereby award you this Minor Barnstar for all your brilliant minor edits!
I, Garion96 hereby award you this Minor Barnstar for all your brilliant minor edits!

Garion96 02:10, 14 October 2005 (UTC)


Thanks for the barnstar! Martin 19:26, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

It seems like we are giving each other barnstars. :) Thank you! Garion96 (talk) 23:34, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Regading "Delete Kochi image which already appears in two other articles both of which are linked to from here."

Why did you delete the image? For a good article a picture should be in the main article itself, People wont go to all links, most of the time, only if they see it visually they try to click the links,

Kjrajesh

The picture that you inserted in the fishing article is a very nice one, but the section on fishing net is quite short and there is only room for a couple of pictures. I don't know what the article looked like in your browser, but in mine a third picture was decidedly cluttered, making the article look ugly. The Chinese fishing nets are unusual; in the interests of balance a general article should emphasise the typical over the unusual. The two pictures that are there already may not be perfect, but the fishing methods illustrated are world-wide and ancient.

[edit] Happy Diwali

Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya ( Lead me from darkness to light.)Wish you Happy Diwali - P R A D E E P Somani (talk) Feel free to send me e-mail.
Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya ( Lead me from darkness to light.)
Wish you Happy Diwali
- P R A D E E P Somani (talk)
Feel free to send me e-mail.

[edit] Misspellings

Tnx for the tip, I had already read it (and used it) from your msg on the project talk page. Together with the google toolbar it really works great. About "Govener", couldn't that be fixed with a bot? The "is is" you have to do manually because it's either just a double word or a typo. But govener I would think is always a typo, so a bot perhaps would be great for that. Mind you, I don't know a lot about bots though. Either way, same to you, keep up the good work. Garion96 (talk) 17:54, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of music videos by year

In an effort to have this vote go as swimmingly as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of music videos by name, I'm pointing it out to all the people who voted on the previous one, as it's basically the same information, differently arranged. Had I known it existed at the time, I would have included it in the AfD. Too late now. Thanks. -R. fiend 01:53, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the barnstar

Having looked at your contributions I certainly think you deserve something yourself.

Award
Award
 I award this BarnTsar to Gaius Cornelius for his tireless work fixing spelling mistakes :-) the wub "?!" 19:15, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
LOL!

[edit] Al Leong

Thanks for the spelling correction. -- BBlackmoor (talk), 2005-12-1 T 05:22 Z

[edit] Thanks for noticing!

Thank you for giving me my first award. My goal has been to not screw anything up, so I stick to minor edits and such. So far I rank about a rung above vandals. I do appreciate the recognition of my (minor) efforts. Plus I am having fun! Schmiteye 19:25, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

You are welcome of course. Minor edits are a valuable contribution and there is always plenty to do - it is like painting the Forth Bridge!
Out here in the California the Golden Gate Bridge gets painted continuously.--Schmiteye 20:20, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You

Hey. I would just like to echo what Schmiteye said above. I concentrate mainly on minor things such as spelling, grammar, wikification and categorizing articles and I greatly appreciate the recognition. Thank You Forbsey 17:22, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Me, too. I'm just one of those annoying pedantic people who insist on tidying things up. It's nice to be appreciated.CarolGray 19:34, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling error

Thank you for pointing out the spelling error in Gheorghe Dinică - Shaddow i.o. Shadow. It is my mistake. But I don't understand why you just marked it with a comment? Why not correct it on the spot? AdamSmithee 21:24, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

AdamSmithee: Thanks for sorting that out. I fix a lot of spelling errors, but in my experience one has to be very careful with the titles of books, songs, etc. It sometimes turns out that an unusual spelling is intentional. When I cannot check myself, I just leave a comment in the hope that somebody more knowledgeable will pick it up. Gaius Cornelius 23:27, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Oh, I see now. It was just a bad translation from Romanian. Thank you again for pointing it out. AdamSmithee 07:13, 31 December 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Cantonment

Hi I have posted an answer for you here :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jalandhar Dhirad January 14, 2006 02:24 (UTC)


[edit] Upload/Download

Gaius - I found your page because you fixed a typo in an article I had also touched - thank you so much! But I have a question about the My pictures section of your page. You say that you have downloaded all of these pictures, but I think you mean that you have uploaded them? One generally downloads from a server to your own machine, but I think you mean that you have generously contributed these images to wikipedia by uploading them from your machine to the wikipedia server? Podkayne 14:54, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

You are quite right! I will fix that. Gaius Cornelius 16:22, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AWB

Hey, looks like you got the hang of using the program! nice one, just wondering, did you use the database scanning program I made as well to generate the list of articles containing " the the " ? Martin 17:09, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Martin, AWB works very well. I was using a google search for "the the" which seemed like a good place to start. How do I use the database scanning program? Gaius Cornelius 17:39, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
The database tool is here, hopefully it is self explanatory, else I am more than happy to use it for you and send you the results (also you have to download the 800mb database which you might not want to do if you have a cap on your interent bandwidth!). Martin 12:12, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Martin, 800Mb! Well, it is not out of the question... I got to here and then did not know what to do. Sorry to be so thick, can you please advise.
The one you want is called 20051213_pages_articles.xml.bz2 (always look for the newest one with "articles" in the title) you will need to unzip this file, I use winrar. Let me know how it goes. (btw I understand that a new dump file is due very shortly) Martin 20:38, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, good idea, I'll make it so it ignores articles with that template. Martin 22:56, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recommend

Gaius, I saw in Curses in Islam that you were using the AWB to correct the misspelling "recomend"...unfortunately you corrected it to "reccommend", which is also a misspelling. The correct spelling is "recommend", i.e. one C, two Ms. Babajobu 18:51, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Bit of mystery though as I have just checked the find and replace table that I was using - it is still in my PCs memory - and it looks correct. No excuse of course, I wasn't looking hard enough. I will check my related edits. Gaius Cornelius 19:18, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] a -> an

Are you sure about "an United States"? Guettarda 20:41, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

That would be a mistake - where did you see it? Gaius Cornelius 20:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Oops, sorry - I was looking at the diff, not the text, so I missed that it was piped (the edit actually changed "a American" to "an American", but the diff said "a [[United States|American..."). Sorry about that. Guettarda 21:12, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks...

For the amazing volume of work you have done ridding the 'pedia of a variety of common mistakes. Martin 23:44, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
For the amazing volume of work you have done ridding the 'pedia of a variety of common mistakes. Martin 23:44, 16 February 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Searching for Duplicate Words

I am curious to know how you hunt for duplicated words? I use WP:AWB myself which is highly effective. Gaius Cornelius 16:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

I do a Google search on the wikipedia site using the parameters
"the the" -talk: -user: -wiki/Wikipedia:
I copy the page to an OpenOffice file to do spell checking. I assume that an article containing duplicated words has not been carefully proofread and thus is a prime suspect for spelling errors. I have three separate files for US, UK and Canadian English open at the same time. Choosing the right flavour of English can sometimes be an awkward choice as many articles are a combination of US and UK English and have no obvious link to either country.
The whole process becomes quite mechanical and does not require me to do anything difficult like thinking. I am usually multitasking by listening to music or a movie at the same time. GreatWhiteNortherner 02:36, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
This all sounds rather antiquated. I have written various programs to automate this process. You are welcome to the programs, but you will need a Linux (or some flavor of Unix) machine to run them. Is it possible to get a recent copy of the all English language Wikipedia articles? The statistics pages says the total size is only a few gig. A few hours to download and and hour or so later I could produce a list of duplicate words (or spelling errors) by article, by most frequent duplicate (or spelling error). I have various grammar checkers, but they can sometimes generate a lot of false positives.
Derek farn 00:45, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

GreatWhiteNortherner and Derek farn: I use a combination of tools written by Bluemoose. Firstly, I use DataBase Search Tool to create a list of articles containing a particular string or regular expression and then I use AutoWikiBrowser to work through the article list and do the edits. Each edit must be verified by the user - false positives are a problem, but with experience it is possible to automatically skip a high proportion of them. Gaius Cornelius 17:04, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Bluemoose's tools look useful, but are Windows XP only (pity he did not write them in Java). I have downloaded a copy of the database dump and am running a duplicate check now (2.5 cpu hours and counting). Words such as that, had, to, and many are very popular duplicates. There are also many duplicate pairs (eg, this is this is a duplicate pair). I will post the top 15-10 most common duplicates when I know whtat they are. I appreciate that the changes have to be done manually, but I'm sure people would like to have some idea of what the common duplicates are. Derek farn 17:11, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

You can search for ALL duplicate words of one or more characters using the following regular expression:

" ([A-Za-z][A-Za-z]*) \1 "

Note that this will only find whole words. Also, this regex only finds words separated by single spaces. A more sophisticated regular expression would find words separated by non-spaces such as full stop characters, parenthsis etc.

You can avoid some common false positives by excluding matches to the following regular expression:

"( had had )|( ha ha )|( million million )|( her her )|( great great )|( that that )|( had had )|( ha ha )|( million million )|( her her )|( great great )|(C plus plus)|( log log )|( none none )|( wah wah )|( la la )"

I am still working through a list of duplicate words found in a database dump dating from December 2005. This generated a little under 10,000 hits! The number of false positives is quite high, partly because at the time I was not quite so good at eliminating them in the first instance (but AWB can automatically skip through these) and because other people have been eliminating them.

False positives are a problem and there is no substitute for the Mark I eyeball. It is for this reason that I am continuing to work through a list generated from an old version of the database: if I restarted with a fresh list from an up-to-date database, I would go through all the false positives again.

If anybody is interested in co-operating in the elimination of duplicate words, may I respectfully suggest that you allow me to continue with my search for words separated by spaces while others work on more sophisticated searches for words separated by one or more non-space characters. A simple example of this would be:

" ([A-Za-z][A-Za-z]*) \1\."

i.e. a duplicate word where the last word ends with a full stop.

A list of the most common duplicates would be very useful I am sure. The place to post your findings would be Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings under Repetitions.

Gaius Cornelius 17:39, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Done. See Lists_of_common_misspellings/Repetitions. List of duplicate pairs duplicate pairs to follow. Derek farn 02:08, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Guqin

You just removed one note of a 7-string tuning at guqin. There *should* be two Cs in this tuning. I guess watch that you don't remove things that are already correct, and don't let the "bot" run wild!  ;-O Badagnani 22:31, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

You are quite right of course, sorry about that and thanks for picking up on the error. WP:AWB is not a bot, I eyeball every change. In this case, the first edit was OK, but I missed the second edit that deleted a 'C'. Gaius Cornelius 22:37, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary

Hi. I've recently found a number of edit summaries on my watchlist starting with "AWB assisted ...".

Starting your edit summary with a link promoting some software makes it slower for me to scan my watchlist. It's also frustrating because I can't even run Windows software on my computer, so it feels a bit like you are spamming my watchlist (no offence intended). Would you mind setting your AWB software so that it doesn't add the promotional link to the edit summary, or at least so it puts it at the end, like "... using AWB"?

If you don't mind, would you also leave a note for the developers whether you agree with me or not, at talk:AutoWikiBrowser? Thanks, Michael Z. 2006-02-20 05:33 Z

AWB does not give the user any choice about the edit summary, it always starts with "AWB assisted" and there is nothing I personally can do about it. Sorry. Gaius Cornelius 19:41, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] mistake using AWB

In the article Feshbach resonance, you removed an a from the line "labeled by a2p0 with a a doubly occupied orbital and p a virtual orbital". a was a variable name should not have been removed. I've reverted the edit and changed all the variables in the article to math-mode so it shouldn't happen again on that article but I also thought it was worth mentioning it to you. Kymara 18:11, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Oops! Sorry about that and thanks for sorting it out. I really am very careful, but I slipped up that time. Gaius Cornelius 18:15, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia survey

Hi. I'm doing a survey of Wikipedia editors as part of a class research project. It's quick, anonymous, and the data will be made available to the Wikipedia community later this month. Would you like to take part? More info here. Thanks! Nonplus 00:41, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Periods

Is it correct for all captions to have a period at the end, as you put in R-Type? To me, it doesn't look quite right when the caption is just saying what something is, rather than explaining the picture. Spottedowl 17:24, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

The standard advice on captions is that they should, preferably, be complete sentences -- in which case they should get a full stop at the end. See Wikipedia:Captions#Complete_sentences. However, if a caption is not a proper sentence then perhaps it should not get a full stop and perhaps I have been over doing it. I will look into this further. Gaius Cornelius 22:49, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More typos per edit please

Please use AWB to fix more typos per edit. Everytime you change 1 character, the database saves the entire file again, resulting in a large waste of space for how little you're changing. Something like beginning to begining is understandable to me (although others don't agree), but certainly a to an is stretching just a bit; kinda like making dont to don't. JoeSmack Talk 17:58, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

I would say that while it is desirable that the database is used efficiently, that is not a good reason not to correct a mistake. I am a bit confused by the example that you give: how are your one-letter edits any diffent to mine? In any case, when using AWB, I generally have at least some of the general fixes turned on and I have a couple of additional fixes besides (although I sometimes turn these off just so that the changes that have been made are obvious to a reviewer using diff) consequently many of my a to an edits do indeed include other changes.
As it happens, I am just comming to the end of my cycle of such edits and CmdrObot has recently started finding similar faults that I have missed. If you still feel that this is an issue - I can see that it possibly might be - then it needs to be discussed more generally because there any many editors making similarly sized changes. Gaius Cornelius 21:32, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

My 2 cents: All typo & grammar corrections are good corrections. It is mistakenly thought that small edits are a serious burden for the servers. This is not the case. The database is not queried every time someone looks at any particular page. The pages are cached by the web servers and compression is used on the disk drives. Diff lookups do use a small amount of resources but even then there is caching involved as well as the fact that the number of active editors is extremely low compared to the number of people who view Wikipedia articles.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! (esperanza) 2006-05-05 16:06

[edit] Oddball Award

The Oddball Barnstar
For your fine contributions regarding fuddling cups, puzzle jugs and yetholm-type shields I present to you the Oddball Barnstar Award.Rosa 07:03, 8 April 2006 (UTC)


Thanks. I am almost lost for words. Fuddling cups and puzzle jugs are indeed rather oddball; they were popular in the past, but that was well before the internet and people had to make their own entertainment. Yetholm-type shields may be unusual, even to the point of being obscure, but the subject in entirely serious. Gaius Cornelius 21:56, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Common misspellings

Gaius Cornelius,

Thanks for letting me know; I didn't realize WP:LCM existed.

Also, I'm looking to see if there is any interest in a Classical Greece and Rome wikiproject. Let me know if you are interested.

Thanks, (^'-')^ Covington 16:23, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pillbox Pictures

If you view my website WW2 Coastal Defences Salthouse, Kelling & Weybourne North Norfolk Pictures are avaliable clicking thumbs will take you to higher deff pictures.

Have uploaded picture of the Norcon Pillbox to Wilkipedia.

Norcon Pillbox concrete pipe 6' x 4' with several cut loopholes roof made of timber corrugated iron and earth extra protection was provided by the use of sandbags. (photo March 2004).Location OS map grid TG 0931 4382 Kelling North Norfolk England.
Norcon Pillbox concrete pipe 6' x 4' with several cut loopholes roof made of timber corrugated iron and earth extra protection was provided by the use of sandbags. (photo March 2004).Location OS map grid TG 0931 4382 Kelling North Norfolk England.

[edit] Barnstar award

Thank you very much! Most of my work here is quite tedious and it's extremely encouraging to see that it is noticed.

Regards, —-- That Guy, From That Show! (esperanza) 2006-05-05 15:15

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject NBL

Hey Gaius Cornelius/Archive

I noticed that you have made several edits in basketball, and I would like you to join WikiProject NBL. Please drop a line on my talk page and put your name on the participants list if interested.

Cheers, Jasrocks 06:28, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: User_talk:Waggers#Please_AWB_with_more_care

Thanks for the warning and for correcting my mistake. I'll try to be more careful in future. Cheers, Waggers 08:25, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ghotki

I am updating information about the districts of Sindh province of Pakistan. Ghotki is a town in Ghotki District. The historical information that I deleted was cut and paste info probably from another website without reference or sources and was not wikified. I will first finish the updating of information for all districts and then may add historical accounts. I am sorry that I did not add description of my edits. I will be reverting your reversion. I am trying to update information on Districts of Pakistan page. Siddiqui 02:21, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for getting in touch. All that is required is a little explanation for such edits - otherwise they are indisinguishable from vandalism! Gaius Cornelius 09:28, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] question

yes hi u edited a peace on the pepsi play for a billion i think. I was wondering if u knew if pepsi was going to bring back the promotion or the gameshow thanks.

[edit] Pillbox at Gotham Nottinghamshire SK 523302

The Gotham Pillbox is interesting for two reasons this brick-shuttered type 22 pillbox on a hillside at Gotham has a claim to fame in that it possibly came under Luftwaffe attack and suffered damage that is visible today. It guarded a searchlight position and was apparently attacked by an aircraft trying to put out the light. Is there any other pillbox that shows damage by enemy attack? The evidence of gun and shell fire that can be seen on some defence structures has usually been done by our own forces in training or in the testing of new weapons. Also the damage exposed the roof reinforcing and shows part of an old iron bedstead as iron/steel was in sort supply they used whatever they could to reinforce the roof. (Palmiped 13:26, 29 May 2006 (UTC))

Thanks for your comments. That sounds like the pillbox I read about that had the bed parts used as re-inforcement. I don't suppose you have any pictures of it? There are just a handfull of pillboxes that actually came under fire - either from aircraft or MTBs off the coast. Gaius Cornelius 15:09, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Have found picture on web Gotham Pillbox but I live in next village so will take some pics when time allows. (Palmiped 16:38, 29 May 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Ruck Pillbox

Ruck Pillbox made from Stanton air raid shelter sections. Image can be found at Ruck Pillbox this is located at Stapleford Notts Location, possibly only known example were common in the north east but very unusual further south (Palmiped 21:56, 1 June 2006 (UTC))

Thanks, I will make a link to it. Gaius Cornelius 22:10, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for giving the location - does it still exist? Gaius Cornelius 22:32, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Not sure, picture was taken by Mike Osborne author of a couple of books on Defences & Pillboxes at a guess I`d say it was taken about 2000. Do you know if Ruck Pillbox is same as Ruck Machine gun post? (Palmiped 00:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC))

Hmmm... Good point, I just assumed that they are the same thing. I will check it out. Thanks. Gaius Cornelius 00:37, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
OK. this document (pdf) includes the words: "A ruck machine gun post or pillbox (Defence of Britain site 11; CBA_DOB-12323; 474850 103220) was located just to the north of this...". So, it seems likely that they are the same thing. Gaius Cornelius 00:48, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Palmiped: I have visited the location you identified and found the machine-gun post with little difficulty. I have some photos and will post them into the article soon. Please also see my comments in Talk:British anti-invasion preparations of World War II. Gaius Cornelius 01:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Your are on the ball, look forward to seeing the photos. Is this the correct location? [1]
and [2] (Palmiped 08:52, 9 June 2006 (UTC))
Yes, that is the right place. If you stand at the mouth of the foot-tunnel under the motorway, you will be facing south and the structure is in the corner of the field diagonally left. If you look on the Google aerial view, you can just make it out. Gaius Cornelius 09:06, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Stanton at War 1939-45 book: I use usedbooksearch search Stanton at War or Stanton Ironworks, have seen it on AbeBooks in the past but no one appears to have a copy at the moment, this book was given to employees. Palmiped 22:13, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Too bad I guess. Thanks for looking. Gaius Cornelius 22:59, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you | units

Thank you for converting sq km to km². I was doing the same myself along with a lot of other unit formatting (including 'sq m') using a tool in my monobook. If you want to use any of the code, feel free. bobblewik 21:52, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi and thanks. I am done with units for the time being. I hope my edits did not cause you any inconvenience. I see you even found a couple of edits to make in my latest article! Gaius Cornelius 23:17, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Your edits did not cause me inconvenience. Au contraire, I was delighted that you were saving me effort. The edit of your latest article was no coincidence. I was looking at your page and decided to read it. Then the fancy to run my tool on it took me.
My monobook tools are always available to me as extra tabs in edit mode. To get these tabs, copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to User:Gaius Cornelius/monobook.js. Then follow the instructions in your monobook to clear the cache (i.e. press Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox, or Ctrl-F5 in IE) before it will work. To make the tool work, simply click on the 'units' tab or the 'dates' tab in edit mode. The tool shows its proposals in the usual "Show changes" mode. You can then save, cancel or continue editing. Just letting you know, it is up to you.
Anyway, keep up the good work and thanks again for what you did. bobblewik 17:20, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need your support

Hey, You have been quite active in editing the Nagpur article. So, go to the discussion page and give your support for nominating Nagpur for the Indian collaboration for this week. --Wikindian 22:32, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

This is what you call "quite active"? I am sure you mean well, but I don't like spam being delived to my talk page. Gaius Cornelius 23:04, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peer reviews

Hey! Thanks for taking the time to comment on some of the military history peer reviews. A small request, if I may: if it's not too difficult, could you add a regular signature (i.e. ~~~~) at the end of your comments (in addition to putting them under your name as a section header, as you have been doing)? Otherwise, there's no timestamp on them, which makes it very difficult to figure out how long a review has been inactive when it's time to archive them. Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 18:00, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I will remember in future. Gaius Cornelius 18:02, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Roman Army Talk

Hi Gaius Cornelius, I saw your re-enactment contributions and wondred if you were on Roman Army Talk as well? We've been discussing Wikipedia entries there. Cheers Salvianus 10:04, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Salve! Yes, I am a very occasional contributor to RAT under the same user name. Is there a specific thread about Wikipedia? Gaius Cornelius 10:14, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
'Ave' I've just replied to your RAT post of Wed 24 Aug 2005! I think that's it. I don't have a lot of time for editing Wikipedia, but I'm hoping some of the keen Internet dwellers at RAT might do a bit more. I'm in Comitatus up north, Late Roman. Salvianus 10:32, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] typo

Hi, in this edit your replacement for believe was incorrect. It looks like you are using a mixture of you own regexes and the in built typo fixer, feel free to add any more typo fixing regexes to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos thanks Martin 22:49, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. Gaius Cornelius 00:20, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IPA2: an Article for Deletion

Hi, Gaius! I just logged in and noticed that my article is tagged as AfD. I read the comments and I think it is tagged for personal reasons of the AfD initiator. Would you pls leave your comment? As the author, I do not see myself the right person to give comments. I really appreciate your opinion, regardless of what you decide. Thanx! -DrMoslehi 00:53, 17 September 2006 (UTC+3:30)

I don't understand why you have contacted me about this. I have had no input to the article in question and it is a topic I know nothing about and consequently, I don't feel qualified to offer any opinion. I'd like to be able to help, but I really cannot see how I can. Gaius Cornelius 22:27, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Errors introduced by AWB edit

Hi. Just noticed your (AWB?) change to Sodor (fictional island). The substance 'china clay' is NOT capitalised (see Kaolinite). I've fixed this edit, but you might like to check any similar edits made by AWB. Regards -- EdJogg 14:15, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. My ignorance has been reduced. Gaius Cornelius 15:32, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adaption versus Adaptation

Hi, You recently made a change in the River Blackfish article changing the word adaption to adaptation. The Oxford English Dictionary lists both words as valid alternatives, thus I do not think it necessary to make this change. Perhaps AWB needs to be educated about alternate word forms.<grin> Nick Thorne 23:14, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Adaption may not be categorically wrong, but adaptation is the more usual. Adaption redirects to adaptation and the latter is generally the usage in Wikipedia titles such as Film adaptation. I could not find adaption in my Collins dictionary and puts me in mind of a confusion with adoption and adaptor. It may have gotten into the Oxford simply because, as sometimes happens, because a mistake becomes common currency - do you have an etymology for that spelling? Gaius Cornelius 06:57, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Franz Josef Kurmann / Pierre Graber

Just wondering what was changed in [3]. -- User:Docu

It was a fix of the &mdash; symbol, it does not work properly without the semicolon. Sometimes AWB gives a rather confusing indication of what the change was. Gaius Cornelius 22:36, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Balearic Slinger.jpg

Page doesn't say that you can use it only with attribution. Have you got his authorization? [4] Platonides 21:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I have authorisation. It goes like this: Graham, Thanks so much for your interest! I have no problem with the image use. Would you like for me to send you a higher res image? Thanks, Johnny. What page is it that you are refering to? Why did you change the tag? Gaius Cornelius 21:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] K&A canal

Ages ago yu added some content to the article on the Kennet and Avon Canal. I've done some work on this and the Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal and have put them both up for featured status see discussions at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal & Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Kennet and Avon Canal/archive1. I'd be grateful if you had anything you could add to either article or the discussions. — Rod talk 12:08, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dates

Do you really think that it is useful to link dates when they are just for when a reference was accessed? I won't fight over this, but I think it just clutters the references section with irrelevant links. - Jmabel | Talk 00:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reapplying Changes

Thanks for reapplying your cleanup changes; I had accidently reverted them when reverting other changes, and wasn't exactly sure how to put them back--before I had a chance to ask, you had already noticed and fixed it yourself. Thanks for your attention!

No problem. I am using some rather complex regexes to do things that are difficult to achieve by hand. Gaius Cornelius 21:52, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Balearic Slinger.jpg

Hi, we need a real license for Image:Balearic Slinger.jpg - fair use argument needs concrete reasons per WP:FUC. Stan 13:04, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to Ivy League

Please don't change "catholic" to "Catholic." It doesn't mean the same thing. In any case, the word was part of a direct quotation from a cited source, and so should never have been edited. -- Rbellin|Talk 15:54, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Oops. Sorry, I missread it. Gaius Cornelius 16:04, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AWB cleanups

Perhaps it is built into AWB, but if it is a search and replace, please replace the double hyphens, etc. with the Unicode characters, not the ugly HTML entites. —Centrx→talk • 18:56, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

As I recall from discussions regarding Unicoding characters, the consensus was to make the various types of dash an exception to the rule - i.e. do not replace them with Unicode characters. Is there a new consensus that I am not aware of? Gaius Cornelius 19:03, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

All the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) and Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dashes) has been that the HTML entities should not be used (That is, if it can be helped. If an editor uses them because they are easier to type in, that's fine, but search/replace with an automated tool is a different story). They are inelegant in the editing window and the average person has no idea what they are. The width of the Unicode dashes is ambiguous in certain browsers/fonts, but it is at least clear they are dashes and short and fit in. —Centrx→talk • 19:48, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

AWB cleanups seems to cause some little problem. There was a link in Battle of Wuhan named "Order of battle of Battle of Wuhan". You changed it to "Order of battle of Wuhan" with AWB, which is the incorrect article name. AQu01rius (User | Talk | Websites)  04:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing out my mistake and for fixing the article. I have been searching for duplicated words and phrases — they are very common — and failed to pickup on "of battle of battle" as a false positive. Gaius Cornelius 08:32, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Today's featured article

Just wanted to let you know a featured article you worked on, 0.999..., was featured today on the Main Page. Tobacman 00:26, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roman military - peer review

Hi, this article is currently pending peer review and I see that you have an interest in military history and have peer-reviewed articles before as well as (from your username) at least some interest in Ancient Rome - if you have time I would greatly appreciate any advice or comments you can give within the peer review structure for improving this article. Many Thanks - PocklingtonDan 16:30, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

I will take a look. Gaius Cornelius 22:00, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks (and hello to a fellow brit with Roman leanings) - I've also proposed some changes on the discussion page of "Roman military system" given that its contents are currently a misnomer and do not match the title. Could you comment/vote on whether you approve of the proposed action on the talk page please? Cheers - PocklingtonDan 13:23, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

You are welcome. I have been making some minor edits to Military of ancient Rome as I study it. I will also take a look at Roman military system. Gaius Cornelius 13:27, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I saw your various typo corrections, there is probably quite a bit of copyediting yet to do in such a young article, thanks for your efforts. Not to bombard you but could you look at my query of Military history of ancient Rome on its talk page too please? The article contents seem to have nothing to do with the title :-) - Cheers, PocklingtonDan 13:37, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

OK. Will do. Gaius Cornelius 13:40, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AWB Problem?

Beware there seem to be a problem with AWB: Take a look at your edit at State observer -- lucasbfr talk 19:22, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't understand. What do you think AWB did wrong? Gaius Cornelius 19:27, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AWB edits

Hi Gaius Cornelius. Please be aware of AWB's rules, which warn against making insignificant edits such as only adding/removing white space, moving a stub tag, reordering external links, etc. —Mets501 (talk) 20:50, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Glad to be here (from "was been" fixer)

Thanks for the welcome and for the suggestions, GC. I just thought I'd try to make very small changes; ergo, "was been." I'm quite confused about how most of this works, and this is the first message I'm sending anyone. If I'm doing it wrong, please let me know. Jdheyerman 20:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Jdheyerman: Hello again. Don't worry, you will soon become familiar with how it all works -- just look to what others do. Users vary in how to run a dialogue: some will post to each other's user pages, but most take the view that it is best to reply to a comment where it was posted -- as I am doing now. This is made more straightforward by using the watchlist facility to keep track of when pages are updated. I hope you enjoy your time at Wikipedia, I you have any questions I will be happy to try and help. Gaius Cornelius 19:11, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Great, I will try to remember to do that (reply to a comment where it was posted). Since you are so kind, another question: I put a watch on your page, but don't know what that does. Do I get some kind of notice when your page changes? Many thanks. Jdheyerman 17:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Jdheyerman: When you are signed in, you should see a "my watchlist" link at the top of the page. If you click on that you will be shown a list of all the articles that you have on your watchlist in order of most recent change. That is how most contributors keep aware of what is going on - when there is an update on an article or talk page that they are interested in. Your own user talk page is a special case, you should get an alert when that page is changed. Gaius Cornelius 18:13, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom

Hello.

Why did you and AWB remove the link that I put in to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 in the above article? OK, I should have de-linked the reference to the Act near the bottom of the page, but, since CPs are made possible by the Act, it seemed important to have a more visible link up at the top. Is it that links shouldn't be in headers? Or what? Best --GuillaumeTell 01:45, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

GuillaumeTell: it is an automatic AWB action rather than a conscious act on my part and that my AWB edit immediately followed your recent insertion of the link was just coincidence. Presumably this AWB rule is intending to enforce the WP:MOS diktat against links in headings (of which I have some dim recollection of reading). I am not sure exactly what rules AWB is following; it is possible that it only unlinks duplicate links that occur in headings. It does seem that this can be a little heavy handed in some cases such as this. Thank you for bringing this to my attention; I will investigate further. Gaius Cornelius 10:34, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello again and thanks for this. I checked the MOS (specifically WP:MOSHEAD#Linking) and you're certainly right about what it says. So, because the heading was delinked automatically, it's highly likely that it would happen again if I reinstate it. I've devised a satisfactory workround. One lives and learns. Well, I hope I do! --GuillaumeTell 11:05, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Working Man's Barnstar
I'd like to award this for the tireless efforts in correcting the mistakes and typos over the years, amazing work!

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the cleanup work. I accidentally didn't reference the items correctly as I should have. I shall correct future mistakes myself. Thanks again.

[edit] reference cleanup

I suppose changes like this are better than nothing, so I'm not complaining, but I don't know if you've looked into doing something like this, which seems to me to be what it takes to really make the citations useful. & I'm sure some would go even further. - Jmabel | Talk 02:59, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Jmabel: You have done a good job with the PLO article. I have not really aimed much higher that improving the appearance of articles that have a mixture of footnotes and inline URLs. Gaius Cornelius 07:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] error introduced in robert crowley (printer) entry

you changed "goddes" to "goddess" without heeding the context. This is a 16thC spelling for "god's" and moreover, it is the actual spelling in the actual title of the 16thC book being referred to. It has been corrected back to its original form. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.94.45.243 (talk) 18:23, 6 December 2006 (UTC).

Thankyou for drawing my attention to this and for fixing my mistake. Gaius Cornelius 10:18, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British invasion defences

Doh, sorry about that. Thanks for correcting it. RHB 17:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Long time no see

We nearly ran into each other on East Rochester. It's good to see you're still having fun. I recently turned over the odometer, 10,000 edits. Happy editing! Chris the speller 19:07, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi there! Yes I am still plugging away, kinda alternating between AWB edits sometimes with rather exotic regex searches and writing proper articles. How does one know how many edits one has made? Is there a counter somewhere? Gaius Cornelius 19:16, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Just fixing my old sig when I saw this question. Just in case you haven't found it yet, there is an edit counter here [5]. Garion96 (talk) 02:56, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
For the record, as of the November 5 database dump, you have recorded 45150 edits (44th-ranked user all-time, non-bot). See here. Not to be rude, but is there a reason you aren't an admin yet? If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 03:28, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Date formatting errors with AWB.

In this edit you changed spelling and date formatting with AWB. The spelling correction was correct and is much appreciated, but the date formatting change was not correct. The value passed to the accessdate param of Template:Cite_web shouldn't be wikilinked. I've fixed the problem, but I wanted you to know about this for the future. Thanks again for your contributions! --Craig Stuntz 14:59, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I have some fairly complex regex expressions for wikifying dates, these are designed to wikify dates UNLESS they apprear in a reference and certain other instances. Generally, this has worked well. I have not explicitly excluded wikification of dates inside citation templates because they should be in YYYY-MM-DD format and therefore simply not picked up by my AWB regex expressions. You have shown me that there are some exceptions so I'll be more careful and consider some more general solution. Thanks for bringing this to my attention Gaius Cornelius 15:15, 21 December 2006 (UTC).
this change and all the changes on Joseph Smith, Jr. and polygamy yesterday changed the accessdate incorrectly. As you mention above the dates should by wikilinked to ISO format YYYY-MM-DD format. Someone has put them in M_Name DD, YYYY but the fix is just not working. --Trödel 02:45, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Trödel: Thanks for point this out. In the cite web template, accessmonthday plus accessyear is an alternative to accessdate. I assumed that this was also the case for the cite news template - but it is not. Thanks again Gaius Cornelius 02:57, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Glad I could help --Trödel 07:18, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship

Well, I don't know, it really is up to you. You should maybe read the lead section of Wikipedia:Administrators and the "Powers" section to see if these additional powers would help you here on Wikipedia. Then again, I don't know if the added powers might have a negative impact on the amount of typos you fix per day.

The reason I asked you about adminship is because (typically) those with high edit counts are administrators — yet other users decline the idea, lest the community lose their contributions to Wikipedia on a daily basis (which may or may not be your case). Each user reads into adminship differently.

I may have answered your question, but perhaps I haven't. Please let me know if I can be of any help. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 23:27, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Date format

When you correct dates, could you make sure that you also wikify them? (That is: 27 June 1950.) Thanks. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Recently I have mostly been dealing with dates within citation templates. I am inclined not to wikify these as the effect tends to end up looking cluttered. I did wikify them at one points, but an editor complained and frankly, I think he was right. As for the wikification of other dates: I do do a lot of this, but I don't generally wikify the year. As I understand it, there is not currently consensus in favour of wikification of naked year numbers - personally I think it would be a good idea to wikify them if only on the grounds of esthetics. Compare:
The middle example just does not look right. However, as far as I know, there is no consensus. Gaius Cornelius 16:45, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Regarding your accessdate fixing, could you modify your script so that it respects the actual format? If an article is using the "month day" format, you should convert it respecting the format, not arbitrarily changing to "day month". Thanks. -- ReyBrujo 17:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
ReyBrujo: That is a bit of a complicating factor, but I am working on it. Gaius Cornelius 17:36, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, I noticed in articles like Ami Mizuno. The important thing is not changing it to another way, because the article may have its reasons (regional topic, consistence with other dates in the article, etc). -- ReyBrujo 17:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
ReyBrujo: Good point. It does complicate things because there are a number of following regexes that handle rare problems - these all now need to have two forms. Ah well... Gaius Cornelius

The only date format of the three that is in accordance with the Wikipedia MoS is the third. The first and the second approaches mean that readers' preferences are broken. There is no room for individual taste, or article-specific approaches.

I see them all as "1 May 2007"; other readers see them differently, but still consistently; by not linking all or part of the date, you break this.

You mentioned naked year numbers; the guideline is to wikify those only if the link is significant to the article; for the vast majority of dates, of course, that won't be the case. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

So, are years that are not "significant to the article" always to be left unwikified or should they be wikified in the particular case of appearing as part of day-month-year date as in [[1 January]] [[2007]]. I am a little confused. Gaius Cornelius 14:00, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I took it that by "naked year numbers" you meant just the year. The policy is that, when it's just a year, then it's like any other term: it should only be linked if there's some good reason to do so. When it's a full date (day, month, and year) then it should always be linked (as should day and month), in order for the Wikipedia preferences to work. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:25, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

OK. Thanks for clearing that up. That is what I will do from now on. Gaius Cornelius 14:38, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cat&curid=6678&diff=98275902&oldid=98274504

Please state what you are ding in the summary, not only a minor part of it. →AzaToth 22:42, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AWD edits to reference formatting

Please stop making these edits to the formatting of references. For one thing, such tiny edits are discouraged on account of server load, and for another, you must already be aware that we have a difference of opinion on this matter. It would be more prudent to discuss the matter before making sweeping changes in a field you know to be controversial. --Stemonitis 00:07, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I generally use AWB with many of the correction options turned on. Of course, it still turns out that sometimes only a small number of changes are made by AWB - but by then it has done a large fraction of the work it is ever going to do and choosing to ignore the update won't make much difference. Is there any real evidence that server load is a problem? Why must I be aware of a difference of opinion and why are you reverting changes that are entirely consistent with the MOS? Gaius Cornelius 00:26, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry; I was confusing you with someone else. I have discussed this topic before, and I thought it was with you, but that's obviously not the case, so please accept my apologies for that. If I hadn't thought I'd discussed this before, I probably wouldn't have said anything. I was just a bit annoyed at having my conscious choice of formatting undone, apparently merely to better conform to some general guideline.
There are differing styles for citing references, and there will probably never be a site-wide standard, given the different standards in use in different fields outside Wikipedia (scientists use a different methods from historians, and so on). WP:CN states "Follow the system used for an article's existing citations. Do not change formats without checking for objections on the talk page. If there is no agreement, prefer the style used by the first major contributor." WP:AWB contains a couple of sentences about server load and insignificant edits: "Avoid making insignificant minor edits such as only adding or removing some white space, moving a stub tag, converting some HTML to Unicode, removing underscores from links (unless they are bad links), or something equally trivial. This is because it wastes resources and clogs up watch lists." --Stemonitis 00:46, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I could not find the quote you give on WP:CN, but I have certainly read something similar elsewhere. However, this "Follow the system used for an article's existing citations" surely refers to fundemental changes such as Harvard or non-Harvard citations, not minor tidying up of wikipedia footnotes. As for the changes I have made, which presumably you find objectionable, moving a footnote to directly after the punctuation is what the MOS requires. See: WP:FOOT. Non-breaking spaces are not helpful except perhaps in tables (where I have left them alone). Non-breaking spaces before references are completely non-standard in wikipedia, based on the 30-Nov-06 database dump there are just over 100 such articles and 20 or so of those only used them in tables.
The significance of the comment on WP:AWB is that the changes it lists make no difference to the appearance of an article; there is no suggestion that an article should not be improved if it can be. When working with AWB, I generally have many of the standard routine fixes turned on, so that many articles will have several small fixes in one edit; inevitably this does not always happen. However, by the time AWB has done its work and I am manually checking its edits, it makes no sense to decline a perfectly good edit because AWB - and therefore the servers - has already done a substantial proportion of the necessary effort. Declining the update will both waste the work already completed and leave the article to be read by AWB at a later date by myself or another editor resulting in more server load, not less. Gaius Cornelius 01:31, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
"Requires" is too strong a word. WP:MOS, like all style manuals, is only a guideline and is not set in stone. Exceptions can and should be made. The spaces may be unusual, but having references before punctuation is much less so (even after many AWB sweeps by various people). I do accept your point about AWB and minor edits. The only solution I can see is always to study each article in greater depth (starting with the AWB suggestions), but few people have the time and the inclination to do that. I usually leave such things until I'm changing an article for some other reason anyway, but everyone's editing style is different. --Stemonitis 01:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
If you wish your articles to be an exception to the MOS then feel free to revert my edits. I think that, for the sake of the reader, consistency of style in Wikipedia articles is a worthwhile goal and I don't really understand why you want to be an exception on this minor point. I hope that you will accept that my edits were in good faith, consistent with the manual of style and, I might add, universally in agreement with the custom and practice seen in all the featured articles I can remember looking at. It is true that one sometimes sees references before punctuation, but in my experience this is most usually in articles where there is a mixture of "styles". Something that is very common, see here for example. Gaius Cornelius 12:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] English vs. english

Hi Gaius Cornelius! I see you were cleaning up lots of articles which had English in lowercase. Just wanted to bring to your attention the use of the word in pool and billiards related articles. In the pool and billiards world, english is not a proper noun, but a technical term referring to sidespin placed on a ball and should not be capitalized. To illustrate by analogy, "the French call french fries pomme frites." Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit 02:16, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for you message. My dictionary says that English is often not capitalised when used in the sense to which you refer. Have I inadvertantly made any such changes? Gaius Cornelius 08:57, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Just to one article on my watchlist. I used to do a lot of typo cleanup and these types of errors do ocassionally get made:-)--Fuhghettaboutit 15:15, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Ah yes. Thanks for pointing that out, for fixing it, and for being so understanding... Gaius Cornelius 15:17, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] cite web changes

Please don't change accessdate to accessmonthday as it breaks the date hyperlinking in the references. (I have reverted you on SimCity 4)-Localzuk(talk) 16:38, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

The reason for the change is that Template:Cite web is quite clear that accessdate should be used with a "YYYY-MM-DD" format and that accessmonthday and accessyear should be used otherwise. Gaius Cornelius 16:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Don't correct spelling/grammar in direct quotes

You have changed some archaic / non-standard spellings in direct quotes from sources on Fitz Hugh Ludlow using your automagic robot thingie. Please don't. Quotes from sources should typically appear on wikipedia as they appear in the source being quoted. -Moorlock 17:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Oops! Sorry, I do try to be careful. Gaius Cornelius 12:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Error in Vertex cover problem

Hi, i'm writing you because you are the last editor of Vertex cover problem. I think the included image of 3-SAT reduction is worng because the first clause contains only 2 literals (in 3-SAT every clause MUST ocontain exatly 3 literals). Please verify.

I was the last editor, but I was only fixing a minor typo. Sorry, but I don't even understand you question - you somebody with more expertise on this subject. Gaius Cornelius 12:01, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:The Real World: San Francisco

Hi. It seems we have a possible edit war on the The Real World: San Francisco article. If you could respond to the post I made on its talk page, it would be appreciated. Nightscream 05:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I have left my comments on the talk page. Gaius Cornelius 12:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposing to merge List of basic classics topics to Classics

Seeking concensus on proposed merger at Talk:Classics. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 02:12, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I will look into this. Gaius Cornelius 12:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AWB Bug: Find & Replace: Normal: saving state of tickboxes - Fixed

Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive#Find_.26_Replace:_Normal:_saving_state_of_tickboxes has been fixed in SVN Rev 606

Reedy Boy 13:49, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Gaius Cornelius 15:09, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:New Ways Of War2.JPG

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