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Maintenance note

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

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)[reply]

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:
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)[reply]

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.

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

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to fix

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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! — ξxplicit 21:36, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]


etc all included

talk) talk talk

all included manmade: remove the colon below

all included natural: remove the colon below

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)[reply]

what links here

filter by name:

  • 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:

  • {{Decadebox|{{Year dab|{{Year nav|{{Month header}}|{{Day}}|Category:Days of the year|{{Portal:Current events/Events by month}}|{{Months in the|Eastern Orthodox liturgical days|#REDIRECT|disambig|{{events by month links}}|month category|Months of the|The following events occurred in

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]
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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

@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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]


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)[reply]

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

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Indiana historic districts

Stop the category changing. You were already shown that this was not a good idea, but you've gone ahead and created a whole new system without consensus. You're also making obvious errors such as putting Central Court Historic District into a nonexistent category and forcing others to fix your mistake. An immediate block will be requested if you continue. Nyttend (talk) 04:36, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Bot or AWB help, please?

Hmains,

I've noticed how helpful your bot can be, and I saw that Hmainsbot1 (talk · contribs) is both a bot and fusion of AWB.

Any chance you could help me out with this:

Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Give_out_Deletion_to_Quality_Awards ?

Thank you for your time,

— Cirt (talk) 06:41, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Not much I can say. The logic is implemented through careful and tested entries in the AWB 'find and replace' table--the plan for which were approved by the bot admins. The bot is driven by bot language code to use the AWB; bot language is something I don't understand, so it was written mostly by others. What I do is to manually use AWB against a source to create a list of articles to work on; then I start the AWB as a bot, using my bot userid, and let it automatically process the articles in the list. Hmains (talk) 18:10, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ubl?

Hi Hmains, I have a question. I see you and many other bot users changing "ubl" to "unbulleted list". I am not really opposed to this, it just seems like wasted effort. Was there a decision on this somewhere? Thanks,  Mr.choppers | ✎  05:39, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Not something I am targeting, but AWB is doing this as part of its general fixes. AWB general fixes are based on the MOS, but to find where in the MOS one needs to contact the AWB administrator. Hmains (talk) 05:45, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Circa

Why are you doing this and not using the {{circa}} template? --Redrose64 (talk) 23:57, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nocat

I do not object to your efforts to recategorize NRHP historic districts. (I also don't endorse it, but leave that aside.) But, in future, before you add |nocat= to {{Infobox NRHP}} could you please do a check to make sure that the parameter isn't already present. I've had to clean up multiple redundant instances of the parameter. Thanks. — Ipoellet (talk) 01:44, 21 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

More nocat

This edit has changed a valid nrhp type into an invalid one, your script needs to accept nhldcp. I'll fix this one. Generic1139 (talk) 21:57, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reference errors on 23 November

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Using rollback on your edits

Sorry for using rollback on your edits a few times lately; in case you didn't already notice, these were misclicks, and I've reverted myself immediately upon making them. Nyttend (talk) 14:20, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reference errors on 25 November

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Categories

Please reverse your changes to the category structure that you've done to apparently every stream in Pennsylvania. For one thing, almost all bodies of water are streams at this point. It makes no sense to split the categories. For another, they are not rivers, they are streams. Even the GNIS itself says so, so all of these categories are misnamed. --Jakob (talk) aka Jakec 13:12, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • All the articles were, and continue to be in, the {{:Category:Rivers of Pennsylvania]]. My extension of this pattern to counties changes nothing. Your proposal has not been agreed to anywhere by anyone. There was a recent discussion about changing all rivers/streams categories to 'rivers and streams' but I don't know if that went anywhere. Hmains (talk) 07:05, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • I did not make any proposal. I made a new categorization scheme two years ago. Unlike you, I did it manually, over the course of months. That gave plenty of time for anyone to object. No one did. On the other hand, you are not allowed to make controversial edits with AWB. These edits are controversial, as someone has raised objections about them. Please reverse your changes, or I will go to ANI and request that your privileges be removed. --Jakob (talk) aka Jakec 12:48, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Of course it would solve this problem. It would not solve Jakec's personal problem who thinks his objection after the fact makes a 'controversy'; it does not. An objection by an editor at any time does not make a 'controversy'. Nor does it stop his reverts of my work while this is in discussion. So his participation here is faithless. Hmains (talk) 02:39, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Season's Greetings

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To You and Yours!

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

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)[reply]

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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)[reply]

Cantal is a department ruled by a prefect and with a prefecture or capital , its number is 15.

Hi ! Could you help me translate this , please ?

Thanks. Lookinland (talk) 14:39, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Placing categories in WDL category

Hi, you placed Category:Hindu Kush‎ and Category:Paraná River‎ (and hence all the articles in those categories) into Category:World Digital Library related. Can you explain the reason for that categorization? DexDor (talk) 06:11, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016

Happy New Year 2016!
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Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unneccessary blisters.
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Reverting

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Hi. Not sure how to propose this but there are duplicate articles

I found that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_River had no geohack. Then I discovered why. The article was separated from the disambig page but one already existed that duplicates some if not all of the material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_River_Lake Dfoofnik (talk) 17:21, 4 January 2016 (UTC) The material added about the lake should go to the lake page, at least.[reply]

update if you want, @ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idaho_House

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idaho_House 503jew (talk) 10:23, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Deep Throat

Category:Deep Throat, which you created, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 02:24, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"refine category structure"

I note that you have removed categories related to NRHP sites in Alaska with the explanation that you were refining the structure. Could you please explain how removing what appear to be valid, undulpicated cats accomplishes this? Beeblebrox (talk) 03:04, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Of course. These categories are properly placed in the redirect to this article: Tangle Lakes Archeological District Hmains (talk) 03:05, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. I guess that makes sense. Thanks for the reply. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:11, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Completely False Article Frederick Achom

Hello,

I would like to draw your attention to this wikipedia article Frederick Achom, at first look it looks like a good article, but it hides most of the real information. If you see article's history you will see that it has been under several editing wars. Almost all claims made in the article are supported in the article are made using own links or PR releases. Also the links which seem genuine like London's 1000 most influential people 2010: Night OwlsLondon's 1000 most influential people 2011: Night Owls have many things wrong in them- they claim to be 1000 but not more than 6 are present; they have no author. They are off the website but somehow have crept into the website. There are many such cases in this wiki article.

Frederick Achom is using his wiki article to show potential investors how great he is by supplying all false information and duping them of money. He has been previously convicted and jailed which was earlier in the article but now has somehow disappeared. [2] [3]

[4] [5]

I hope you will understand the gravity of the situation and help in rectifying by either getting the page deleted or corrected.

Thank You. NihartouJason (talk) 04:28, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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