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Tagging

I noticed your bot has tagging issues if the tag you are adding is already present? If that's right I could proabaly help you fix any issues. Depending on the code you use there could be multiple solutions. I'd be happy to help in any way possible. Let me know here, I'm watching your page. Cheers, §hep • ¡Talk to me! 00:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, indeed. My bot uses AWB. Right now, it's at the tagging stage for Afghanistan. The default tag I'm adding is {{WikiProject Afghanistan|class=stub|importance=}} however some have already been assessed for importance. I have a skip if {{WikiProject Afghanistan|class=stub|importance=}} is on the page, I need one if it has importance rated. My bot uses AWB. If you could help me with this I'd appreciate it a lot. Many thanks, Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 00:46, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm confused. I'm getting that's you're auto-stubbing Afghan articles? Are you using the KingK plugin or your own module? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 00:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Nope, I'm just tagging the talk pages of articles with Wikiproject banners. I'm not using any plugin, I'm just doing "Prepend to page", and adding the Wikiproject banner. Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 00:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Oookay; I see what you're doin'. For just adding the template the KingK Plugin is really useful; have you looked into that? If you don't like the plugin you could just set it to skip if it contains {{WikiProject Afghanistan|. That would skip if it has the banner period even if it has class and importance rated. Is that what you're looking for? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 00:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, some pages have {{WikiProject Afghanistan|class=stub}} as well, some have just {{WikiProject Afghanistan}} on them. The bot needs to be able to change those templates to the full {{WikiProject Afghanistan|class=stub|importance=}} while ignoring pages that already have the full template, eg {{WikiProject Afghanistan|class=stub|importance=low}} on it. Any ideas? Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 00:59, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Making an xml file for you. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 01:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Wonderful, thanks a lot :) Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 01:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Can you email me an address I can send the XML to? PS I have to go in about 5 minutes; but might be back later. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 01:13, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

You have email. Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 01:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I sent you one but didn't test it enough and it has some flaws. I'm working them out right now. I have some arrangements tomorrow and won't have internet til 1ish EST. Everything should be in order by then. Sorry for the delay! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 02:58, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, thats OK. Thanks again :) Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 03:02, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

If you're on...could you stop by #wikipedia-en-friends on IRC. It's empty right now. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 17:40, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Sorry, I just awoke, and I went into the IRC channel, and there was no-one there :( Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 20:10, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I had to run to the mall. Ping me when you're active. Did you get the new XML as well? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 21:35, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I;m not sure what you want me to do, but anything you can do towards mass tagging new articles would be a great help and save us a lot of time and effort. (in the same way a bot creating new articles would). As the bot beginning its run is currnetly on hold anything you can do would be warmly appreciated . Thanks ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 21:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, I'll contact BAG, I've had a bit of an issue as some tags were added to articles already, such as here. It would ease my task if you could not add the tags to the talk pages yourself, would make it much more simple. However, one question. Are all the ones you assessed for importance, are they at a "Low" importance level? If so, I may be able to do this a fair bit easier, as I was having trouble with skipping talk pages that you have tagged. And I'm happy to tag the talk pages, as well. Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 22:03, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Done. All pages in Category:Afghanistan geography stubs have been tagged. I can do it easily for all other pages that are created. :) Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 23:42, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Good job mate! There is a bit of talk going on at the village pump currently so there hasent been progress past the 100 articles made for Afghanistan. I am sure that BIO or Fritz or anyone else associated with the project will deffinetely get in contact with you when we need help in adding wikiproject tags on the talk page. Keep up the great work! Calaka (talk) 01:50, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem, let me know when and if the next task is needed. Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 02:34, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Well if we were free to continue with the bot we'd work at each country at a time. But.... I've tried to tag some of the african countries myself but there ar emany not tagged. Burkina Faso currently has some untagged for the first region of Category:Cities, towns and villages in Burkina Faso. Other than this I know a huge number of Brazilian, COlombian, and Argentine articles on municipalities need tagging. The best thing to do would be if the bot ran thrugh Category:Cities by country and ensured that every article is tagged. I think Somalia needs doing too, remember with africa seom are only tagged as e.g Template:Africa Project|class=stub. Whatever we need is to ensure they are all tagged for the sub projects too e.g Template:WikiProject Africa|Somalia=yes|class=stub|importance=|Somalia-importance= etc. Perhaps the bot can read wther pages are tagged. I mean some articles have comments in the talk pages but no assessment banners. Other than this I;d recommmend speaking to User:John Carter who does a lot of work primarily with tagging ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 14:16, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, are all the articles to be rated as stub class? If so, it makes my task a lot easier :). Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 14:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Also, if they have all an importance of low, then I could kill two birds with one stone, and assess them as low importance, as well. Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 14:21, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

For Africa I think yes, evne the more developed articles for some places in Somalia etc are becaus ethey are so poor a quality and don't evne qualify for a starter article. Most articles are stub class or low importance. If we find larger towns hav been tagged as unimportant later this can be addressed most smaller places are on the lower end of the scale so that should make it easier. Other than this the bot could scan "new pages by Blofeld of SPECTRE" and tag an articles created without tagging perhaos. South Africa and Egypt though obciously have more developed articles than most African places although still far too many stubs, I'll have a look around later and let you know if there are any specific areas. There were many existing afghan settlmeent articles which weren't tagged I know that for sure ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 14:25, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


Ah no it would have to be {{AfricaProject|Burkina Faso=yes|class=stub|importance=low|Burkina Faso-importance=low}} and the same for the rest of the African countries ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 15:03, 3 June 2008 (UTC).

UserCompare

You mentioned the UserCompare tool when responding to a sock report. Where would I find that tool? Thanks. Doczilla [[User talk:Doczilla|STOMP!]] 08:07, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

It's a restricted tool that you need permission from Betacommand to use. Best to leave him a message and ask. Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 09:52, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

It took me a while to get round to doing this

The da Vinci Barnstar
Thanks again for your extraordinarily useful help with WikiProject Neurology by using your bot! Thanks! Regards, CycloneNimrod talk?contribs? 11:18, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, thank you very much :) Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 11:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

What do you think?

I wanted your opinion on this. Thanks. --RyRy5 (talk) 03:03, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Not that you asked for my opinion, but I think it's a little long (took about 15 seconds for about half of the top section of icons to load on my browser)... but I can see it being pretty useful for the ones who can actually load it in a decent amount of time. Calvin 1998 (t-c) 03:21, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

I already answered him on IRC. I think you really should unwatch my page Calvin ;-) Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 03:23, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Y Done Calvin 1998 (t-c) 03:34, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Hehe. :) Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 03:36, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Adoption

Hey, just thought I would let you know that I updated the permissions lesson to include the userright "accountcreator", the lesson can be found here. I am hoping to make some large changes to the program and some of the lessons here soon. Cheers, Tiptoety talk 16:17, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Concern

Hello Steve. My concern is that there are people listed in the mediation page Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-04-20 Prem Rawat that simply are not engaging in discussions in the proposals pages, choosing instead to engage in long, and protracted discussions about the subject of the article and against the policy of WP:NOT#FORUM in the article's talk page. I do not know why these named parties are not willing to engage in proposal discussions, and cannot be forced to do so as that is voluntary. But if they do not participate, their names should be removed from the mediation page. Please advise. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 17:11, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Done. Commented on talk page and added soft redirects to alternate talk page.

Also note that there is no notice of the MedCab case in the header of Talk:Prem Rawat. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 17:17, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU

Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at Wikipedia:Highly Active Users, SoxBot V, was blocked for its constant updating. With this bot out of operation, a patch is in the works. Until that patch is reviewed and accepted by the developers, some options have been presented to use as workarounds: 1) Qui monobook (not available in Internet Explorer); 2) User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate; 3) Manually updating User:StatusBot/Status/USERNAME; or 4) Not worry about it and wait for the patch to go through, which hopefully won't take long. If you have another method, you can use that, too. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Useight (talk) 22:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Bob Zick

Hi, Steve. I just wanted to notify you that I created the above article.--RyRy5 (talk) 04:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I know, more baseball. I'm looking for a good topic at WP:REQUESTS and other Wikiprojects. I just decided to create another article about my best interests again. I'm trying my best to spread my contributions to various places.--RyRy5 (talk) 05:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Yes! Good spot, thanks. --Dweller (talk) 10:48, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Heh, it's no problem :D Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 10:49, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

French communes

PLease could you tag all in Category:Communes of Nord with {{WikiProject French communes|class=stub|importance=}}. Thanks I have a feeling a number of the otherd departments haven't been tagged either ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 15:46, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Done Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 18:19, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Minor CTU agents in 24

Hi Steve, a sortable list makes more sense to me, so I reverted your undo. TunaSushi (talk) 18:55, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

  • That possibly could be the case, but as it's a large change, and I'm not so sure if the manual of style allows that sort of thing in an article (just a sortable table), I've asked for wider input from the project. Also note that the sortable table breaks the links to the page, as you can't add an anchor to a table. Let's see what the project thinks. If they feel it should stay as a table, then it should stay. Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 21:26, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
    • I'll look into the redirect links when I get out of work. That should be an easy (maybe) fix. TunaSushi (talk) 22:51, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

A review

Hello, Steve. Since your my adopter, I thought you should see this. Thanks, RyRy5 (talk) 22:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I have to agree with Useight's comment. Taking a second look at the thread says that they will have to look at it carefully. --RyRy5 (talk) 07:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

  • Well it's up to you, but just be aware that they will look at it with great scrutiny, like Useight said, as you've had trouble with DYK before. Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 07:25, 5 June 2008 (UTC)