User talk:Hmains

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June 29

Human trafficking

Maintenance note

I maintain this page by deleting items after a week or two or more. Hmains (talk) 16:09, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Monobook

You may wish to make use of a 'Dates' tab in edit mode that will help with unlinking unnecessary date links. Simply copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to your own monobook. 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. It also provides a 'Units' tab. If you know what you are doing, you can copy and modify the subfiles as you wish. I just thought you might be interested. Regards. bobblewik 20:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

The reason it fails is because you refer to User:Hmains/monobook.js/dates.js and User:Hmains/monobook.js/unitformatter.js and these articles do not exist. You have two options:

• Option 1. As described in the first 4 sentences above, make your monobook identical to mine. Then it will use the existing articles User:Bobblewik/monobook.js/dates.js and User:Bobblewik/monobook.js/unitformatter.js.
• Option 2. As described in the last 2 sentences, create your own subfiles User:Hmains/monobook.js/dates.js and User:Hmains/monobook.js/unitformatter.js by copying the details from User:Bobblewik/monobook.js/dates.js and User:Bobblewik/monobook.js/unitformatter.js.

Try again. I am happy to walk you through the process. So feel free to ask me again. bobblewik 12:03, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

hold for cat discussion until find example

There are some categories that are used only for categories, and never for articles. Some of these categories have been made into 'hidden' categories, and yet they are never in fact 'hidden' since the hidden feature only applies to articles and not categories. So the hidden category always displays on the category screen as 'hidden'--which is obviously a contradiction. I suggest, that category categories not be classified as hidden. When I have tried to remove the hidden classification in such cases, someone always just adds it back in. Without something said in this categorization guideline I have nothing much justify my removal.

etc

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Categories

for list filter:

January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December|Year|MCD|MCC|List of state leaders in

info

Wikipedia:Categorization Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes Template:Americans WP:BLPCAT WP:LISTPEOPLE

• 12 to 12 handled by find/replace table; not by module

• public

public public

• for latest AWB version, see: http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/

• YearInIrelandNav Year in India Year in Australia

to fix

to avoid disambiguation pages use: |{{.*dis}}

etc. Plantations plantation

plantation house

Plantation complexes in the Southern United States

planter

sort

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Autofill

• to auto fill edit summary: "I haven't found a way to get autocomplete in IE at https with the current setup on Wikipedia's side. If http is acceptable to you then you can disable "Always use a secure connection when logged in" at Special:Preferences, log out, close IE, start IE again and log in at http://en.wikipedia.org. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:50, 31 August 2013 (UTC)"

it may also be necessary to force the WP address to be http: instead of https:

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Reviewer Right Granted

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

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Autopatroller

Hi Hmains, just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled right to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature should have little to no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! — ξ^xplicit 21:36, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

etc all included

talk) talk talk

• work to do: populate Category:Unincorporated communities in the United States by county

all included manmade: remove the colon below

• Allincluded

all included natural: remove the colon below

• Allincluded

Linking Dates (centuries, decades, years, months, days, etc)

Delink dates per WP:DATELINK, WP:YEARLINK and MOS:UNLINKYEARS

As always, the content of the linked-to article must provide substantive content to the linked-from article. The MOS decided most dates do not do this. Hmains (talk) 03:36, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

what links here

• filter by name: (used where?)

calendar|day|week|month|year|decade|century|millennium|Showa|Shōwa|Meiji|Taisho|Taishō| in |Other events|(number)|(disambiguation)|Aught-|SO 8601|Timeline|acronyms|initialisms

• skip: used in bot

{{Decadebox|{{Year dab|{{Year nav|{{Month header}}|{{Day}}|Category:Days of the year|{{Portal:Current events/Events by month}}|{{Portal:Current events/Month Inclusion|{{Months in the|Eastern Orthodox liturgical days|#REDIRECT|{{disambig}}|{{disambiguation}}|to disambiguation page|{{events by month links}}|month category|Month of the|The following events occurred in|{{Millenniumbox|{{Centurybox|This page indexes the individual|February 30|January 0|Calendars|title=September 11 attacks|numberdis|{{00sbox|{{.*dis}}-|{{GOCEinuse}}|{{In use}}|{{Under construction}}

• filter: to skip article names with these words

s in |9 in |8 in |7 in |6 in |5 in |4 in |3 in |2 in |1 in |0 in |in Wales|calendar|day|week|month|year|decade|century|millennium|Showa|Shōwa|Meiji|Taisho|Taishō|Other events|(number)|(disambiguation)|Aught-|SO 8601|Timeline|acronyms|initialisms|September 11 attacks|Fons memorabilium universi|List of millennia

Web page has expired

I follow the directions in the message shown on the screen.

"Click on the Refresh button on the toolbar to reload the page. After refreshing, you might need to navigate to the specific webpage again, or re-enter information."

On my computer I have to remember that "refresh" looks like a circle with an arrow at the top, and it's the fourth of five icons to the right of the URL. I don't even know what the others are. Then a box pops up and I have to click on "retry".— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:04, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Adminship

Since you are very active in the project, would you like to be an administrator? Do you need tools to move/delete pages for example? Are you active in WP space, involved in xFDs or something similar? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:03, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

I'll second Magioladitis here. I think you'd do fantastic as an administrator. The choice is entirely yours, but just know that should you ever submit an RfA, you'll have my support. Kurtis (talk) 03:53, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks to you both, but I think I would lose interest in WP doing admin things. Hmains (talk) 03:56, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Understandable. Do whatever you feel comfortable doing, it's not my place to pressure you.

But in the off chance that you ever change your mind, know that I would feel confident in entrusting you with the tools. =) Kurtis (talk) 04:05, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Delinking

• The delinking of dates was exhaustively discussed by WP prior to the current wording of WP:DATELINK and WP:YEARLINK and MOS:UNLINKDATES being agreed upon. Days, months, years, decades, centuries, etc were all included in the long discussion.

WikiProject Cleanup

Hello, Hmains. You are invited to join WikiProject Cleanup, a WikiProject and resource for Wikipedia cleanup listings, information and discussion. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 14:11, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

problem

Whatever it is, this problem has not been fixed and there seems to be no activity by the people responsible for this mess to fix it. Hmains (talk) 02:13, 19 September 2013 (UTC) Hmains

I'm sorry that you're still having this frustrating problem. BJorsch named above the three different places where this problem may be caused: 1.your own computer, 2.the WMF's servers, or 3.a server in between you and the WMF's servers.

Each user is necessarily responsible for cacheing problems that appear in his own browser. Please follow all the steps at WP:BYPASS and let us know if that (hopefully!) solves the problem for you. If the problem is the WMF's caches, then it will likely be fixed relatively soon. If the problem is at a third-party server in between you and the WMF (e.g., on your corporate or university network or your local ISP), then I'm afraid that there is often nothing that either you or we are able to do about it except wait for the third-party server to update its cache. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:53

AWB: mass category creation

Can AWB create mass categories? E.g. i need to create categories from ”Football clubs established in 1900” to ”Football clubs established in 2020”. Each category must have 2 categories- parents, one stable ”Football clubs establishements by year” and second incrementable ”Establishements in {{year}}", where {{year}} has value from 1900 to 2020, for each new category incrementation +1. Its possible to do that with AWB? XXN (talk) 19:50, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

@XXN:, yes, check out CSV Loader. You will need to file a BRFA and get approval before you start creating the categories. — Ganeshk (talk) 22:42, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, but i dont understand how to use your plugin)) I know about bot policy, i will work on ro.wiki, i have already submitted an request for approval. XXN (talk) 23:35, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Please follow the steps in this walk through. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions or run into any issues. — Ganeshk (talk) 14:17, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Category

Hi there. Would you have a moment to look at the discussion on User talk:Thewildone85s talk page? I have no beef with this editor's addition of Category:Unincorporated communities in New Jersey. In fact, when you are searching for a place within a state, and you don't know the county, this is the easiest way to find it. It's the "master list". I support this editor's addition, but I know you are more familiar with the use of this category. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 03:30, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

• I am not sure what is question. Is something being disputed here? Hmains (talk) 03:39, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Yes. Thewildone85 has added the parent category "Unincorporated communities in New Jersey" to many New Jersey articles; another editor claims they are "unneeded and inappropriate" and plans to delete them. I think adding both the parent and child is a good edit. The parent serves as a "master list". Magnolia677 (talk) 03:55, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

• • This is the same thing I tried to do but the other editor is the self-created 'owner' of New Jersey articles and categories and will not allow anything to happen to them that he disagrees with. He will fight any and all other editors with all the power that he has and do it continually with threats and ill will until he gets his way. Hmains (talk) 04:01, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

That's one of the reasons I asked you to comment. I'm up to my ears here with this editor, so don't want to get in deeper. I actually support the addition of this category though. When I made hundreds of edits to Mississippi articles last year, it was a huge help having each town listed in the parent category. It really is the only way to have a complete list. Otherwise, you need to search through each county. I know this is your area of expertise, so any help would be appreciated. Magnolia677 (talk) 04:20, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

I think the only way to get change is to get admins involved but from what I see they don't want to be involved either as dealing with this editor would take all their time. Hmains (talk) 04:32, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Sadly, it looks that way. Anyway, nice chatting and thanks for your many great edits. Magnolia677 (talk) 04:45, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

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5 Million: We celebrate your contribution

	We couldn't have done it without you
	Well, maybe. Eventually. But the encyclopedia would not be as good. Celebrate 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:41, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

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To You and Yours!

FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:50, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings!

Hello Hmains: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:09, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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A beer for you!

Hmains Wishing you a joyous Christmas and a prosperous new year! BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 14:13, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

2016

	Happy New Year 2016!
	Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unneccessary blisters.    – Cullen328 Let's discuss it 05:53, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Categories

I notice that you've been placing articles on NRHP sites in categories like "NRHP in $COUNTY, $STATE". In at least a couple of cases on my watchlist—Meades Ranch Triangulation Station and Davis Memorial—you didn't remove the parent category, "NRHP in Kansas". I've taken care of that for those two articles, but you might want to check your recent edits and make sure you haven't missed any others. — Ammodramus (talk) 18:58, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

• HRHP has two different category structures at the state level. One by county (which I adding where they are missing) and one by type of historic place: houses, buildings, etc. I do not remove HRHP articles at the state level unless they are already in such a type category. You may want add missing 'type' categories, but not just remove the articles. Keeping them at the state level is an ongoing reminder that the 'type' categorization is missing. Hmains (talk) 19:06, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

AWB error?

I've never used AWB, so I don't know how much of an actual problem this is; if you just made a typo, no problem.

Look at this edit, in which you made some link changes, from [[plantation]]-style" complexes to [[plantations in the American South|plantation]]-style" |[[Plantation complexes in the Southeastern United States|complexes]] Note the pipe character after -style". Is this a problem that needs fixing, or is it merely a negligible typo, as it would be if you'd made it when editing manually? Nyttend (talk) 12:52, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks for the note. I use AWB in a rather simple way. In AWB, I create a list of strings: from-string to-string so that any time the 'from-string' is found, it gets changed to the 'to string'. Because of the infinite variation in how the articles are written, I then may have to add more from/to pairs to clean up the results to help the semi-automated results and reduce the manual corrections/fixes I have to make. In all cases, the results are then presented to me to read, which I can save as-is or perform further, manual, edits before saving or just cancelling the edit completely. AWB results do not distinguish what the table changed versus what I changed manually. And of course, as with any human effort, human errors can be introduced at any point. I see that this ended up somehow with an extra/out-of-place pipe character as you saw. I see you correctly removed it. Do you have other questions about the links I used? Any other questions about AWB? I will try to explain as best I can based on what I am doing. AWB itself seems to be rather error free. Hmains (talk) 03:00, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks for the details. I have no questions nor comments about that edit, aside from the pipe character. I've never used AWB and really don't know how to make it run, so I figured I'd best just report it in case the report could help. I know it's semi-automated, so I had imagined that it was basically an automated thing that required you to press "OK" or "not-OK" before it saved each edit; I didn't realise that you would be able to do anything else without making a manual edit. Nyttend (talk) 04:34, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

List of school shootings in the United States

I noticed you insist on reverting my edits, which I am sure you can imagine took a great deal of time. I understand your concerns, but surely you don't have to undo all the effort? Surely you could point out your concerns, and allow me the opportunity to make any corrections, rather than determining your decision on small details that you dislike, while ignoring the overall contribution? I feel it necessary to ask for the opinions of other admin on this issue, as your treatment has undermined the confidence of someone wishing to contribute in good faith. 82.30.110.20 (talk) 20:35, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

April 2016

Your recent editing history at List of school shootings in the United States shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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Tan Sri Syed Sheh Al-Haj bin Syed Hassan Barakbah listed at Redirects for discussion

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