User talk:GoingBatty/Archive6

Many thanks for your help.

- Thank you Sir! I'll try to do it. Leništudent 16:51, 3 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leništudent (talk • contribs)

Oobi at Work

I've been asking a few people, but would you be the first to respond? Thanks!

Here it goes: On the Oobi at Work article, someone redirected it to its production company, but I don't know if that was the best choice. Do you think that the separate page should have been kept or is the current state better? Thanks a lot, an experienced Wikipedian's opinion means a lot! Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer (talk) 00:58, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

@Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer: I can't be the first to respond, as Redrose64 has already responded. I don't understand why it was redirected, so I'll second Red's suggestion to contact the person who did the redirection directly. Unfortunately, there's no separate notability guide for television series. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 01:05, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Oh, sorry for the confusion - I meant respond as in give me a definite answer (which is better), so I guess Squiddaddy's going to be the first to respond...even though he isn't an admin or anything. Maybe, in the future, a notability guide could be created so that others could benefit from it. Thanks for responding, though! Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer (talk) 01:10, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again, but I am somewhat new here and went out on a limb with the page. I decided to make the page separate again because it qualifies as notable according to the standard page notability criteria, but I don't know whether or not Wikia is a reliable source to list as a reference. The material on the Wikia site matches alternative sources but is the only site dedicated to the series itself. After seeing some Wikia pages, it seems like it could be wrong to call it a trusted source. If you have any opinions, please share! Thanks so much! Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer (talk) 01:22, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikia is an open wiki, and so is unacceptable for references. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:19, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll remove the reference right now. Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer (talk) 14:25, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

@Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer: I'm wondering if a television series can be considered notable when the television channel doesn't even have an article. GoingBatty (talk) 14:45, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Hmm...it was mainly distributed through the Florida Film Festival, but if the DCPS channel isn't notable enough, I could remove it from the Oobi at a Work page. Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer (talk) 14:47, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

It has an IMDb page, which might clear some things up. Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer (talk) 14:56, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

@Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer: You might want to see Wikipedia:Citing IMDb. GoingBatty (talk) 14:59, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Well, the Citing IMDb page proves that it's appropriate to use for the page since I am only citing the non-user-contributed sections. Also, it appears that IMDb does a lot of research to allow for a work to be included on their site, so they must have found it notable without any reference of DCPS. Sorry about the link, I am editing on mobile! Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer (talk) 15:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

@Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer: Of course, IMDb and Wikipedia have different standards for notability. GoingBatty (talk) 15:45, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Well, either way, "OAW" seems to meet the standards of both (although IMDb's submission system seems pretty tough, since they won't allow "Didi and B," a Nickelodeon show, just because it hasn't been released in America). However, the DCPS station might not qualify for Wikipedia's. Do you have an opinion on this? I don't think it's necessary to include it on the Oobi at Work article. Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer (talk) 16:38, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

@Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer: My suggestion is to go ahead and include it if you have a source. GoingBatty (talk) 18:21, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

- Actually, I need help on this decision: would the IMDb rating for Oobi at Work qualify for "Reception" or should I look for a singular critic review? Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer (talk) 16:43, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

@Julian & Juan - From Julian Spencer: I would have suggested Metacrtitic, so they don't have it listed. Therefore, my suggestion is to IMDb until you can find better reviews. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 18:21, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Norm Phelps

Thank you for some of your recent edit to the Norm Phelps article, upon which I had worked assiduously less than a day ago.

You list three (3) university alma maters for the recently deceased Norman Phelps (whom I knew),

• University of Maryland, College Park
• University of Pennsylvania
• Columbia University

but I know only of his one (1) alma mater:

• University of Maryland, College Park

Could you please document the other two (2) CLAIMS that he attended those other two universities:

• University of Pennsylvania
• Columbia University

They do NOT appear on the Norm Phelps LinkedIn page, nor in any online interview, nor in his own self-published online minibio. MaynardClark (talk) 04:15, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

@MaynardClark: Penn and Columbia are listed in the article's infobox. Feel free to update the infobox and categories as appropriate. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:17, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

@MaynardClark: It appears you added Penn and Columbia in the article's infobox in this edit. GoingBatty (talk) 04:22, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

@MaynardClark: Thanks for fixing the article. After making more fixes to the article, I also added links from several other articles to Norm Phelps, in the hopes that others will come to help improve the article. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 05:39, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello! I have noticed that you reviewed the article mentioned previously on your talk page by two users, Oobi at Work, as Class-Redirect. It was once made a redirect by accident, it seems, but now that it is not a redirect, could you please re-assess the article? I have seen the television show myself and the page seems to be accurate and meet Wikipedia's article quality standards. Derbundeskanzler (talk) 01:13, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

@Derbundeskanzler:  Done using the instructions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Assessment. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:52, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Attitude

Yeah, you're right. You didn't mess up the page. Dizzy 010 messed it up. You still don't have to be a prick about it with your pretentious quotation marks. BlaccCrab (talk) 09:49, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

@BlaccCrab: I apologize for my edit summary. While I wanted to express why I was undoing your reversion, I could have found a better way to explain myself. While I appreciate your feedback, it was not necessary to resort to name calling. Good luck with the article! GoingBatty (talk) 23:05, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Best of luck to you with the new year man BlaccCrab (talk) 06:53, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

MI

There are a few (< 120) old style Multiple issues that need to be checked manually. Main problems could be:

• The deleted Template:BLP IMDB-only refimprove
• The reason parameter of cleanup that there is a chance that the bot did not move it to the cleanup template and still appears as a parameter of MI. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:53, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Bot action revealed many duplicates templates. I also discovered a bot error. In very few cases it moved a section template to the top. Please fix any of these on sight. I started checking too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:58, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

I found solutions for almost everything. 7 pages left. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:34, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: I've cleaned up all the articles in Category:Pages using multiple issues with incorrect parameters. GoingBatty (talk) 18:53, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. The 7 mainpage pages are in Category:Pages with multiple issues using deprecated parameters if you want to take a look. What are we going to do with non-mainspace pages? -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:58, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: Think I got all the mainspace pages. Need to think more about the non-mainspace pages. For some we could subst the template (e.g. user talk pages), and others we could leave them as is so they reflect how they will look in mainspace (e.g. user sandbox pages, draft pages). Maybe others at the template talk page would have some suggestions. GoingBatty (talk) 19:50, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: After fixing a few more pages, I propose the following for the non-mainspace pages:

•  Done Remove from: Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Sandbox
• TfD: Template:List of albums containing a hidden track Header
• Subst: All pages in Talk, Template talk, User talk, Wikipedia (these are static and should never change)
• No actions: All pages in Draft, Template, User, Wikipedia talk (these are sandboxes that the owner should change)

What do you think? GoingBatty (talk) 03:53, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

I agree. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:41, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Batty

Thanks Batty, really appreciate your help, i will definitely try to update the page as is advised now, hope you will have the occasion tho have a look at it sometimes. Joan Bozoky — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joan Bozoky (talk • contribs) 09:18, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

@Joan Bozoky: I've made some changes to Chris Vinante. Good luck with the article! GoingBatty (talk) 01:54, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

orphan pages

Hi User:GoingBatty, I see that your BattyBot has removed orphan tags I added to a couple of articles referring to academic journals. I was looking at these and could not find any links to them (manually). Could I have missed them? Is there a reliable way of checking it manually? Ankababel (talk) 11:53, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Ankababel: you don't give examples, so I'm guessing that you mean edits like this. If you go to that article, you'll see that in the left-hand margin, under "tools", there is "What links here". Click that, you get a list of incoming links. At the top are some options; in the "Namespace" menu, select "(Article)" and click Go. If I do that, I see this list - count them up, don't count the ones that say "(redirect page)" - but do count the links that go through a redirect, such as the one from Animal welfare. I count thirteen: it's not an orphan by these criteria. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:51, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you User:Redrose64, that is most helpful. It was fortunate. then, that the tag was removed by a bot because it was unjustified. Presumably there is anyway a period of grace allowed for new pages, which must always be orphans upon creation. Is there any rule about that? Ankababel (talk) 21:18, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

@Ankababel: Not all pages are orphans upon creation - I just created Market Drayton railway station, and it had 40 inward links even before I created it. What I do is to look for a redlink with possibilities (see WP:REDDEAL, first bullet), one that I can write an article about from the sources that I have, click it and get started. The particular redlink that I clicked was one that I had myself added to another page in the belief that the article already existed, then found that it didn't but had plenty of other pages linking to it. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:42, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

@Ankababel: Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol#Special:NewPagesFeed suggests "A good rule of thumb is to wait about 15 minutes after the last edit before tagging the article". Please note that BattyBot has tasks dedicated to removing or updating tags, but does not have adding tags as a primary task. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 22:01, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Babar Javed

You created User:Saqib mosin/sandbox by copy&paste. It would probably have been better to create it with a move. But if you used copy&paste you did need to notify Saqib otherwise he might never notice that it was there. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 17:07, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

@RHaworth: I notified Saqib at User_talk:Yobot#Need Healp.21.21. I thought it was more appropriate to copy & paste than it was to move the entire article and remove the redirect. If you would like to handle this differently, please feel free to work directly with Saqib and ping me. Thanks for the advice! GoingBatty (talk) 20:54, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

@RHaworth: In User:Saqib mosin/sandbox, I don't understand why you deleted the headers instead of changing them to Title case. GoingBatty (talk) 21:07, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

If you can offer me a "one click" way of converting shouting, I might use it in future. But people who shout on Wikipedia fully deserve to have it deleted. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 00:35, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

RHaworth Most people don't see this as shouting. All caps of a few words is emphasis, not shouting. All caps for section headers in outlines or powerpoints is not shouting. I convert ~5 articles a day that have all cap section headers. Over 1/2 are usually Indian articles due to cultural differences. Articles are retrieved via CheckWiki and it only checks headlines of 10 letters or more. Bgwhite (talk) 01:02, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

RHaworth I've been using convertcase.net for copy/paste, and Case Change is a good Firefox add-on. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:42, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

WP:RFBA

BattyBot task#37 has been approved, thank you for your patience! — xaosflux ^Talk 02:40, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Please note the delay request following the first run. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:44, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Noted - thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:46, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

you won a kitty

Bettifm (talk) 01:01, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Meow - thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:32, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Carolina Neurath

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:21, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Karolina Olsson

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:45, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Testing my sense of "humour"

Hi, there. Thanks for taking the trouble to make an edit at Ayers Rock. Unfortunately, you made a beginners mistake, despite the fact that you are obviously one of the most experienced editors in English Wikipedia. In a section which I recently created to improve the article, you changed "humourous" to "humorous". At the top of the article, there is a template instructing editors to use Australian English, which was put there by another editor. Another factor that you were not aware of, is that it is extremely rare for me to edit a spelling mistake into an article. The preferred Australian spelling is "humourous", and I have changed it back (but that is the only element of your edit that I have changed). Thankyou for your time. CaesarsPalaceDude (talk) 07:19, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@CaesarsPalaceDude: Thanks for letting me know about my mistake (although I would not classify not knowing the differences between American/British English and Australian English as a beginner's mistake). I have started a conversation at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos#Humourous to see if the AWB typo rules should be changed. your input there would be appreciated. I have made a few more improvements to the article - mostly adding italics for publications. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 13:51, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@GoingBatty: My post, above, sounds very serious, but my sense of "humour" is just below the surface. I think I was exaggerating with the "beginners mistake" comment. Australians tend to use "humour", similar to "colour", so the adjectives become "humourous", and "colourful". "Humourous" is an accepted spelling at The Free Dictionary, but I'm sure you have checked that already. I have made an effort to correct the "italics for publications", so thanks for picking up the rest. CaesarsPalaceDude (talk) 18:55, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@CaesarsPalaceDude: I've found that it can be hard for me to gauge humour on Wikipedia talk pages, so I appreciate your clarification. I like to be funny (or at least I think I'm being funny), but it doesn't always come across properly in the written word. I had not checked The Free Dictionary, but after seeing this entry for "humourous", I will boldly remove the typo rule from WP:AWB/T. Thanks again! GoingBatty (talk) 19:10, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@GoingBatty: I see that you are a "can do" kind of guy. See, I'm learning American, too! CaesarsPalaceDude (talk) 19:34, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@CaesarsPalaceDude: Sadly, the only Australian English I've learned has been from Crocodile Dundee, Men at Work, and Steve Irwin.  :-) GoingBatty (talk) 19:42, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Citation

Hello Going Batty, We corresponded a while ago about the Sunbeam Rapier page and I was wondering if you could help with a small citation problem? I have just added an image to the Foden (lorries) page and amended the wording slightly. My source for the information is the annotation at the Science Museum (London) appertaining to the vehicle which is on display there. I cannot see a "template" which could be adapted so have just added the source in "prose" as it were, but am not convinced it's OK. I did try a footnote (using a symbol) but wasn't happy with that either. Any thoughts? Thanks for any assistance. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 21:53, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@Eagleash: According to WP:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT, I think your reference is fine, as anyone else should be able to go to the museum and verify the quote. You might want to add the date you saw the display, as museums tend to change their displays. User:Trappist the monk: do you have any suggestions? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:05, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I have added the date as you suggest. I am fairly sure this vehicle has been on display since the 1960's at least but true, could be taken out at any moment. (Also fixed a similar typo in my caption to the one you fixed in someone else's photo; :P.) Thanks. Regards. Eagleash (talk) 22:18, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

TOTD

I'm in the process of updating the WP:TOTD department's tip collection, as some of the tips have gone obsolete. So I'm looking for useful techniques and tools, that is, tips, to replace them with.

Any leads on the latest and greatest wiki-related programs, extensions, plug-ins, scripts, commands, or methods, would be most appreciated.

So far, I've added the following new tips:

• Wikipedia industrial-powered search
• How to make redirects turn green so you can see them

If you spot any errors in them, please let me know. The Transhumanist 08:11, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Tools swap

@The Transhumanist: In addition to the tools on my user page, you may want to see those I have listed on User:GoingBatty/vector.js, which are listed on the left hand toolbar when editing an article. Enjoy! GoingBatty (talk) 12:43, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

I'll definitely take a look. Thanks.

I noticed in your vector.js that you don't have Watchlist Sorter installed. This awesome script makes the watchlist useable. You'll wonder how you could stand even looking at the watchlist before this.

While I use the watchlist (and thus Watchlist Sorter) daily, there's a Firefox add-on I use almost continuously when reading and working on pages in Wikipedia. It's called Linky. It's weak where AWB is strong, but is strong where AWB is weak: visually inspecting or reading many pages, and supporting manual edits to them. Linky and WikEd make a powerful combination. Linky is especially useful when used on lists of sectional links you create in a sandbox.

Another tool I swear by is green redirects (see my vector.css). It makes it so you can tell redirects and regular links apart.

If you need a WP search engine that can handle results in the thousands and that presents them on a single scrollable list, check out the Database Scanner in AWB.

Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups is also indispensable to me, as it allows you to see into linked pages by hovering the mouse cursor over the link. And it's recursive in that you can do the same thing in the box that pops up, and in the box that pops up inside that box, and so on.

A powerful trick to speed up use of WP:AWB is to have it running in 2 windows at the same time. Make the same list of pages in them, delete the 2nd half of the list in the 1st window, and delete the 1st half of the list in the 2nd window, so each is working on half of the list. Then switch back and forth between the two windows as you use both instances of AWB to edit the pages on the lists. Once you get fast, you can use this technique with 3 windows instead of 2.

I hope you find these tools and tricks as useful as I have. The Transhumanist 13:58, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: Thanks - that will keep me busy for a while! I recently installed a Firefox add-on called Case Changer, which makes it easy to change from ALL UPPERCASE to Title Case or Sentence case. I have wanted to use AWB's database scanner, but had trouble downloading the database dump. I frequently have two AWB windows open - one where I'm using pre-parse mode on a long list of articles while I'm doing another task in the other window. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:07, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

I find that the easiest way to download

Wikipedia's data dump is as a torrent, using μTorrent. That way, if your connection drops, utorrent picks up again where it left off. The Transhumanist 14:30, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Scott Miller edits, etc.

Thanks very much for your attention to Scott Miller (pop musician), my favorite songwriter. I would love to get that article noticed, and ultimately to bring it to GA status, along with the related articles on Game Theory (band) and their albums. If you're inclined to tell me where you think the Miller article needs improvement in order to get to GA, I really would appreciate the advice. I've been an editor for 11⁄2 years, and feel good about the quality of my contributions, but still haven't produced any FAs, GAs, DYKs, whatever. I'm really not sure why, but I begin to suspect that it doesn't just happen on its own. Do I need to self-nominate for those things, or should I instead be trying to make friendly connections with more experienced editors (as I'm attempting right now)?

Also, thanks for the discussion of tools in the section above; I've raided your vector.js and vector.css, and stocked up on useful scripts! Lwarrenwiki (talk) 15:57, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

@Lwarrenwiki: I've never taken an article through the GA process either, but you should find everything you need at Wikipedia:Good article criteria. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 02:11, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Batty what your name so i can earn you a beer Bettifm (talk) 04:06, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

@Bettifm: Batty is just fine, and a beer would be great right now - thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:12, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Invitation

	You've been invited to be part of WikiProject Ignosticism
	Hello. Your contributions to Wikipedia have been analyzed carefully and you're among the few chosen to have a first access to a new project. I hope you can contribute to it by expanding the main page and later start editing the articles in its scope. Make sure to check out the Talk page for more information! Cheers 'RoyalMate1 00:59, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Reference Errors on 4 February

Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that an edit performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. It is as follows:

• On the Timeline of events related to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant page, your edit caused a redundant parameter error (help). (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot (talk) 00:28, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Fixed - thanks ReferenceBot! GoingBatty (talk) 01:09, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Susan Feeney

Hello there, I created the article for "Susan Feeney" and you tagged it with "orphan." I looked up the guidelines on de-orphaning, and I think I've done everything it says to successfully de-orphan, but it is still tagged orphan. Can you teach me how to de-orphan? What do I have to correctly do to de-orphan the page? I'd really appreciate your help! Thank you! Pubmediagroupie (talk) 15:55, 5 February 2015 (UTC)pubmediagroupie

(talk page stalker) @Pubmediagroupie: Please see the left-hand margin in the article, where you will find a link named "What links here"; and see WP:ORPHAN, which is concerned with a lack of inward links. Contrast this with WP:DEADEND which is concerned with a lack of outward links. It's still an orphan, as it has only one inward link from mainspace. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:11, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

@Pubmediagroupie: Sorry to contradict Redrose64, but since an orphan is defined as "an article with no links from other pages in the main article namespace" and Susan Feeney has one inward link from mainspace, it is no longer an orphan, so you many remove the {{orphan}} template. However, please feel free to add more inward links from other appropriate articles. (Maybe List of Syracuse University people#Notable alumni?) Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:55, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

About your (non)participation in the January 2012 SOPA vote

Hi, GoingBatty. I am Piotr Konieczny (User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian (53rd!), and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 23:03, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Responded at meta survey. GoingBatty (talk) 04:02, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Grep

nicolo's grep bit it along with toolserver

I've replaced the link on your user page with it's successor. The Transhumanist 07:00, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: Thanks! I haven't used it in a long time, but now that you've reminded me about it, I'm sure I'll put it to good use. GoingBatty (talk) 12:41, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: The Grep tool you suggested is giving a "No webservice" error. Any idea on the status of this tool? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 17:01, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Keegan (WMF): It must have something to do with the Labs restart. Could you restart the webservice, Keegan? Thanks. Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 00:33, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately, User:Jarry1250 doesn't log on very often these days. Since the end of September, he's been logging in less than once a month. His last log-in was December 7, 2014. Looks like your best bet is to use the database scanner in AWB. (That's what I've been using. It supports regex). The Transhumanist 06:29, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: Thanks for your encouragement and guidance regarding database dumps. I've successfully downloaded one and am having lots of fun with it. GoingBatty (talk) 01:30, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Batty, latest dump came out 15 minutes ago. It never ends..... Magioladitis is also a good resource when it comes to the database scanner in AWB. Bgwhite (talk) 02:19, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: Thanks for the info. I don't see it listed on meta yet. What's the best place to find out when a new dump is available? GoingBatty (talk) 02:25, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

It probably doesn't show up on meta until the entire dump is finished... ~15 days. This is what happens on WMFLabs. To get checkwiki running, I have to manually download files. The main directory for enwiki is https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/. The main page that shows all the dumps is https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html Bgwhite (talk) 02:30, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

In my opinion, AWB should be able to use the live database replica on Labs instead of requiring the editors to download the entire dumps themselves (which is impossible for users with a bad connection, e.g. me), similar to BLAST which allows users to do queries on the live gene database. There's Quarry which has a pretty good queuing system, so maybe we can integrate AWB into it? Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 01:27, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Not feasible. If I remember right, one has to be running from a WMFlabs machine and have a WMFlabs account to run a query. Depending on the query, it could take a loooong time, especially if searching for something inside articles. If you need to scan for something, Batty or I can run it. I have to download the dump every month for Checkwiki, so I always have the latest. Bgwhite (talk) 08:40, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

This wiki-kitten is here to thank you for taking part in my survey!

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Hulsebos-Hesselman axial oil engines

I have a teaching book for the trade school of engine mechanics, written in Dutch; first edition 1942 by Langenhuysen and Swaak, 4th edition 1951, published by Uitgeverij v/h A. Kemperman in Haarlem. In it is a chapter of the Jaffa HH axial engine with description, pictures and drawings. As far as I could find out, there is no conflict with copyright if the scanned pages are shown in this article. As I am not wanting to edit in Wikipedia, I am inviting you or anyone interested to add these scans. If you want to do so, contact me on zerealbigboss@yahoo.com, so I can send you the 4 scans. Ed. 163.47.220.127 (talk) 21:51, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

European copyright law and Hulsebos-Hesselman axial oil engines are not my areas of expertise. I suggest you post at Talk:Hulsebos-Hesselman axial oil engines to see if anyone there would agree that these pages would be a valuable addition to the article, and if they would be willing to upload them. Uploading them to Wikimedia Commons might be valuable, so they could be used in multiple Wikipedias (such as the Dutch Wikipedia). Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 02:45, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Please update the Andrew Wakefield wiki paragraph 1 to include new statements, links and research as provided in pdf

File:Follow up autism research on possible vaccine relationship to autism.pdf

Andrew Wakefield es fantastico!

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sojmed (talk • contribs) 15:19, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

@Sojmed: If you don't feel comfortable updating the Andrew Wakefield article yourself, please post to Talk:Andrew Wakefield with the specific wording you would like added to the article, and provide these references. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:27, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

WP:BAG

GoingBatty,

Have you considered applying to be part of the Bot Approvals Group? As an experienced operator I think you would make a good candidate, and we are usually in need of active contributors to avoid backlogs. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:45, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Thank you for thinking of me. I spent some time rereading the Bot Policy and related pages as well as the current BRFAs. My apprehension is twofold: I don't know Python & Perl, and most of the current requests are for areas where I'm not familiar with the policies and procedures. I will commit to keeping a closer eye on new BRFAs and making comments where appropriate - maybe this is something I could get comfortable with over time. Thanks again! GoingBatty (talk) 20:25, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Contributing to other requests is a great start - don't worry about being weak on some of the coding aspects; overwhelming the work involves ensuring that there is a need, policy support, and community support for tasks, then reviewing trials to ensure the tasks are working correctly. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:55, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Sportsplayers

BattyBot is going around changing {{Notability}} to "Notability|Sports" on a number of sportsplayer pages (example). Shouldn't they be tagged as "Notability|Biography", though? – Muboshgu (talk) 18:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

@Muboshgu: By changing the {{Notability}} tag to "Notability|Sports", the tag on the sportsplayer pages now says "The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for sports and athletics", with a link to Wikipedia:Notability (sports). The first sentence of that page states: "This guideline is used to help evaluate whether or not a sports person or sports league/organization (amateur or professional) is likely to meet the general notability guideline, and thus merit an article in Wikipedia." (emphasis added by me). The page then provides detailed guidelines for sportspeople by sport. (For example, Wikipedia:Notability (sports)#Baseball should be helpful in making the decision for Nik Turley.) Therefore, I believe these edits are correct. Having said that, if the Notability template has another valid parameter (e.g. Biography, Organization), BattyBot doesn't change it. The logic BattyBot uses is documented at User:BattyBot/Notability. Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 19:17, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Understood. In the instance of Turley though, I know it doesn't meet NSPORTS, but portend that it does meet GNG, which is the reason for my query. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:24, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

@Muboshgu: It appears to me that Wikipedia:Notability (sports)#Baseball provides information about just such a situation. When I requested approval for this bot task, I stated that these edits "will hopefully encourage editors to cleanup the articles, and eventually remove the maintenance template altogether." Since you portend that the article already meets GNG, would the best course of action for you to be bold and remove the {{Notability}} tag with a detailed edit summary explaining your reasoning? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 19:37, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps it would. Thanks for the reasoning and bot work. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:39, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

You won a Kitty

Bettifm (talk) 02:26, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

@Bettifm: Thank you very much! Just curious what I'm doing to make you happy, so I can keep doing it! GoingBatty (talk) 03:33, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

AfD for Jennifer Nadel

Hi - I noticed this article had been nominated for deletion and you had contributed a lot of work cleaning it up, so thought you might like to express an opinion one way or another on its notability. --Cedders^tk 13:02, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

@Cedders: Added comment there - good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 00:42, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Possible date fix for BattyBot task 25

It seems like we should have caught this one before, but it looks like BattyBot's task 25 hasn't yet figured out how to fix |date=2012-09-16, updated 2012-09-17, as in Gangnam Style in popular culture. I would drop the first date and the word "updated". – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:32, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Jonesey95 I see this as a CS1 date error and then always wonder what the best route would be... leave alone or just use the updated date. Thank you for pointing this out, now I know for sure. Bgwhite (talk) 09:21, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95 and Bgwhite:  Done, but only when the first seven digits of the dates are the same. If the dates are far apart, you might want to put the first date in |origyear= (which, despite its name, can take a full date and explanatory text). GoingBatty (talk) 01:04, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Tax Statements

Greetings GB. I've left a note about the problems with the Tax Statements article on the talk page. I intend to fix it in a few days anyway. I don't normally use this template -have I missed some details out?
Regards JRPG (talk) 21:45, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

@JRPG: When using the {{Multiple issues}} tag on an article, you need to specify the issues. I've readded the tag based on the issues you specified on the talk page. Good luck with the article! GoingBatty (talk) 02:42, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the worked example, duly copied to my sandbox! Regards JRPG (talk) 21:43, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Måns

Please take a look at the article about Måns Zelmerlöw. I have done several edits to improve the article ahead of his likely Melodifestivalen winning next weekend. Any further improvements are appreciated. Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 17:27, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ: I'll look at it tonight after Werldwayd has completed their edits so we don't have a conflict. GoingBatty (talk) 17:56, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ:  Done - happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:00, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Reverted bot as...

I jus reverted this change by BattyBot as it made no visible changes except inside a nowiki section which it should have left alone. I would have thought it would skip nowiki sections automatically, or AWB would, as although it can't break anything doing such changes it can't fix anything either, and really can't know what is correct to do without reviewing the rest of the edit and understanding the intent of it.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 19:23, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

@JohnBlackburne: Thanks for the heads up. I've updated the skip condition so that it will ignore pages without {{WikiProjectBanners. I've also checked each of BattyBot's edits in the Template talk space and reverted a few more that edited within <nowiki> tags.

@Magioladitis: Any assistance you could provide in updating your WikiProjects module from changing data within <nowiki> tags would be appreciated. GoingBatty (talk) 19:42, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

I am not sure of how to avoid this. I usually just do everything in non Talk: space manually. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:45, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

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121 Systems

Hello GoingBatty ,

Thank you so much for your contribution on my wikipedia page( 121 Systems ) .I deeply appreciate it .

Regards, Ronaldlobo (talk) 15:45, 12 March 2015 (UTC)Ronald Lobo Ronaldlobo (talk) 15:45, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

@Ronaldlobo: You're welcome, but please read Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. As the Business Development Manager at 121 Systems, it's not appropriate for you to be create or edit the article for 121 Systems. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:19, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

TAFI request

I have requested at WP:BOTREQ about a bot that fills out the {{Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Accomplishments/row}} once the oldid and newid stuff is added in. Please help consider this, because do you consider bot requests and work at TAFI? Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 03:11, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

@Qwertyxp2000: Sorry, I don't know how to make a bot to do this. I hope someone else will respond to your request. GoingBatty (talk) 14:32, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Okay, but who else in TAFI knows how to operate bots. But is my idea a good idea? What do you do at WP:BOTREQ? Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 19:42, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

@Qwertyxp2000: Comparing the people users who registered at Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Members with those to identified themselves in Category:Wikipedia bot owners, the only active user is User:Technical 13. If such a bot existed, it appears it would make a big update now and then make one edit a week - not sure the effort to code such a bot is less than making the updates manually. What I do at WP:BOTREQ is look for requests that I can accept and/or ask people to provide clarifications for their requests. You may want to post a link from Wikipedia talk:Today's articles for improvement to your bot request to try to find more interested . Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 19:59, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

• I was pinged, so I feel somewhat obligated to respond. I had thought that Theopolisme had a bot that took care of the TAFI stuff? Has anyone tried emailing him for this? — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 01:35, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

@Technical 13: Doesn't look that way, so I pinged Theopolisme from the Bot request. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:24, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

• Doesn't it fall under one of these tasks?
  • Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 7 --> Add {{TAFI}} and {{Former TAFI}} to articles for Today's articles for improvement
  • Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 10 --> Manages the Today's articles for improvement nominations page and holding area
  • Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 14 --> Automatically selects and then manages Today's articles for improvement from the project's holding area
  • Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 17 --> A variety of TAFI-related tasks, including WikiProject notification

— {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 23:04, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

@Technical 13: Sorry - when I wrote "Doesn't look that way", I was responding to your question "Has anyone tried emailing him for this?". GoingBatty (talk) 23:08, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

@Technical 13: I don't see {{Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Accomplishments/row}} listed in any of those RFBAs. GoingBatty (talk) 23:10, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Not it's not any of these tasks. I suggested Theo's Little Bot to add all other information in WP:TAFIACCOMP once the oldids and newids are done, to fill out the {{Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Accomplishments/row}}. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qwertyxp2000 (talk • contribs) 22:39, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Reference Errors on 14 March

Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that an edit performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. It is as follows:

• On the Suicide Squad page, your edit caused an unsupported parameter error (help). (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot (talk) 00:25, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Fixed - thanks ReferenceBot! GoingBatty (talk) 00:28, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Format

I noticed that the reason that the parameter has not been removed for that long is that in many cases it shold be replaced by |genre= instead of being removed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:56, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: When you say "the parameter has not been removed for that long", do you mean editors are reverting Yobot's removal of the |format= field, or do you mean something else? BattyBot is now just removing blank parameters. GoingBatty (talk) 14:15, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

I mean in the Infobox television and why the tracking category had so many pages for so long. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:18, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: Ah, you're referring to the length of time between the deprecation of the parameter and when our bots removed them. My guess would be that many editors didn't follow the change to the template, and didn't notice that the |format= was no longer being displayed, and didn't notice the hidden category. Although deprecating the parameter may be invisible to editors, the edits to remove the parameter from each article will show up on some people's watchlists, and they can move the value to the |genre= parameter where appropriate. GoingBatty (talk) 14:38, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Strange edit by BattyBOT

Hi, spotted this edit that was made to remove part of reference author field. I would have thought that all of the field should be removed not just the word posted. Keith D (talk) 21:37, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

@Keith D: As I stated in the RBFA, "I won't remove dates, since sometimes the |date= parameter is empty, and I don't want to accidentally remove a valuable (albeit misplaced) piece of information." Note that when the citation template was added via Reflinks, the date field was blank. GoingBatty (talk) 21:45, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

@Keith D: Glad you manually cleaned up the reference. I've updated some more. There should be a consistent date format too - what format would you recommend for this article? GoingBatty (talk) 21:58, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for explanation, may be we need to track these for manual clean-up somehow. The article uses all valid date formats so I would probably go for the day first format as that tends to have a more global usage than the US month first format. Keith D (talk) 22:05, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

@Keith D:  Done GoingBatty (talk) 22:09, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

@Keith D: I have tried reaching out to Dispenser over the years to request changes to Reflinks so these errors don't get introduced in the first place, but have received little response. I've just made another post - hopefully I'll be more successful this time. GoingBatty (talk) 22:22, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

author= Posted By $date

It appears that ~50% of the "Posted"/"Posted By" removals are followed by a date. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] It might make sense to use the presence of the "Posted…" to perform splitting to |date=;|author=. There are of course variations in the date order; but they seem to split BST vs. EDT as a pattern match. Hope it helps, —Sladen (talk) 23:08, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

@Sladen: Splitting the bad |author= value into |date= and |author= would be extremely tricky, especially if there's already a |date= field. Even manually, it appears you made some mistakes in this edit and this edit. I would prefer to work with Dispenser to see if we can use the presence of "Posted…" to prevent the bad data from going in to |author= in the first place. Your support at User talk:Dispenser#Reflinks errors would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:50, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

GoingBatty; my apologies that my explanation above wasn't up to scratch—my intention was to highlight that the former presence of the "Posted" strings (could potentially) have made an excellent easy selector for generating candidate lists of articles for manual fixing. Yes, I'd be very glad to help raise for the voice for fixing the likely original root-cause. —Sladen (talk) 00:47, 16 March 2015 (UTC) PS. for the two edits, could you help me spot where precisely the two breakages so that I can fix them—I've failed to spot them so far!

@Sladen: Sorry I misunderstood. If I have to run the task again for "Posted", I can post a list of the articles beforehand. I can also change the bot's edit summary to state that further manual efforts may be needed. I also should have said that I fixed the edits here and here. GoingBatty (talk) 00:52, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Willy Wiedmann

Hello, Thank you so much for your advice on Willy Wiedmann article. I have added two more sources for the section "life". What would I need to do in order for meet the criteria that the sources will be accepted as reliable? I have read the Wikipedia help pages and think they now do meet the criteria. Thanks a lot and have a great day --Dilamm (talk) 10:53, 7 April 2015 (UTC)DiLamm

@Dilamm: Responded at Talk:Willy Wiedmann. GoingBatty (talk) 13:37, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Regex

Okay, I checked out Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular_expression. Just checking that I understand this, if you don't mind. \n|\s*(url|title|last|first|date|website|publisher|access-?date)\s*= is what you gave me. In English, it searches for any newline (\n) followed by zero or more spaces (\s*) followed by url, title, last, first, date, website, publisher, access-date, or accessdate followed by zero or more spaces (\s*) and then an equal sign. Is that right?

The -? in access-?date means "zero or one dashes", correct?

Thank you again! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 03:25, 7 April 2015 (UTC) Follow up: Tested on my sandbox and for some reason the "last" isn't working right. Used \n\|\s*(url|title|last|first|date|website|publisher|access-?date)\s*=. This (link) was the result. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 04:04, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

@EvergreenFir: You're right that the -? in access-?date means "zero or one dashes". I tried changing \n\|\s*(url|title|last|first|date|website|publisher|access-?date)\s*= to | $1 = on User:EvergreenFir/sandbox6 and it worked well. GoingBatty (talk) 13:18, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Okay. I'll keep playing around with it! Thank you again! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 20:03, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

This is driving me a bit nuts. Same issue. Expanded regex (which is on the sandbox page), but still same issue. Any ideas? EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 20:47, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

@EvergreenFir: I don't see what the problem is. Maybe one of my talk page stalkers can find it. GoingBatty (talk) 22:44, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your help! In addition to that issue, I now need to get it to only do citation templates (and not infoboxes). EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 00:29, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

@EvergreenFir: Try {{(\s*[Cc]it(?:e|ation))([^}]+)\n\|\s*(url|title|last|first|date|website|publisher|access-?date)\s*= to $1$2| $3 = - but you might need to make this an advanced rule repeated several times. GoingBatty (talk) 01:07, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Okay thank you! I'll have to look into the advanced thing. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 01:22, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Side note, it's something with the "title" part, not the "last" part. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 01:28, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Try simplifying the expression to narrow down the cause of the problem. Remove all of the parameters in the regex except "title", for example, and see what happens. Experiment with different combinations of parameters. Does it always happen to "title"? Does it always happen to the parameter that precedes "last"? Does it always happen to the second listed parameter?

I don't see any obvious answer just by looking at the code. You might also try reordering the parameters on your sandbox page, or retyping the entire title line from scratch, in case there are any hidden characters that are messing with the search (I copied the text into a text editor and didn't see anything unusual, but there might be something there). – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:37, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. I separated out the title from the rest and it still does it. Occasionally happens with other ones too. And sometimes it does work... sigh. I'm gonna look into the "advanced options" since it keeps doing stuff in the infoboxes too. Honestly I can live with it for now, but it would be nice to get it fixed. I wonder if there's some conflict with other settings. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 02:18, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you both for your help! I'm happy to report that I have success with the advanced options! Working great! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 04:09, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Regex question again

Hi GoingBatty! Curious if you know of any pre-existing regex code to delink commonly delink-ed things per WP:OVERLINK (e.g., delinking United States or other common words like health). I'm making my own, but I've seen others using AWB delinking things so I thought I'd ask. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 01:48, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

• Try User:Ohconfucius/script/Common Terms. You are free to use it or copy and adapt it to your own liking. Regards, -- Ohc ^¡digame! 06:34, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

@Ohconfucius: Thank you! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 16:47, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

BattyBot task 25 bug - "access-?date"

Something not quite right happened here, and possibly on other articles in the same pass by the bot. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:01, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Crud - thanks for the heads up. (I'm the one that needs to apologize, not you.). GoingBatty (talk) 15:06, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, the bug resulted in only two errors. Fortunately, the errors appeared in the unsupported parameter category, which is pretty much empty. I clicked undo on both edits. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:09, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Fixed the bot code with this edit and then fixed the article with this edit. I'll go through the category again and fix the other article too. Thanks again! GoingBatty (talk) 00:09, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Requesting update for AvantCredit article

GoingBatty: Requesting update for AvantCredit article. Avant recently changed its name and migrated its site from avantcredit.com to Avant.com Avant has more than 600 employees Avant has more than $1 Billion in funding On the subject of growth, Avant acquired of the Company Ready For Zero and has served more than 175,000 customers in 46 US states and the UK Avant was #6 on Forbes America's Most Promising Companies list this year Rrdsouza (talk) 16:15, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

References

@Rrdsouza:  Done. GoingBatty (talk) 01:15, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Be cool do not consider good article for speedy deletion (bad). stay cool. Fr: Quarter33 (talk) 07:45, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

@Quarter33: Not sure how the current Hidden Treasures of Swat article is different from the other two that were deleted, but as long as it's staying, I've made some improvements to the article. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 04:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For your service in editing catogories for a Draft article - Fern G.Z. Carr Bomb319 (talk) 21:29, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

@Bomb319: Thanks! I've spent some time reformatting the references for you too. Good luck with the draft! GoingBatty (talk) 01:16, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

BattyBot task 21 - Question

Greetings, For the last couple weeks, I'm doing assessment on Category:Unknown-importance Catholicism articles.

On the article Talk pages that have importance= without a value, I have to input Low over 90 percent of the time.

For example, before {{WikiProject Catholicism|class=stub|importance=}}.

And after - {{WikiProject Catholicism|class=stub|importance=Low}}.

Wondering if BattyBot can be updated to input the Low value? IMO it would help reduce the backlog of over 5,000 articles.

Note: I've been updating existing articles on Wikipedia for about a year now, and this is my first question ever about any BOT, so I'm hoping that I explained above question clearly enough. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 00:17, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda: I don't know how the bot would be able to tell when "Low" was NOT the right value to use. While there are several Autoassessment bots that can populate |class=, I'm not sure if there are any that can reliable populate |importance=. You might want to post a request at Wikipedia:Bot requests. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 01:20, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda: I did a similar task for WikiProject Kayaking in that project 99.9% of people are rated as {{{importance|mid}}}. Therefore any page that was in Category:Unknown-importance Kayaking articles and also in either Category:Kayakers, Category:Canoeists or both was safe for a Bot to tag. If you could come up with similar sets of categories for WikiProject Catholicism where (ignoring wrongly categorised articles) all of the contained articles should have the same importance it would then be very suitable for a bot task. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 08:26, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

After thinking about this, the importance= (left blank) should NOT be defaulted to a value of Low. While doing article assessments, I have noticed at least one-third or more, the Class does not match the article's quality. So the Importance parameter being left blank is a good way to find these mis-matched quality articles. Thanks for your inputs. Cheers! JoeHebda (talk) 13:06, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Persondata RfC

Hi, You participated in the previous Persondata RfC. I just wanted to notify you that a new RfC regarding the methodical removal of Persondata is taking place at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Thanks, —Msmarmalade (talk) 07:53, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

i' serving you a Cheeseburger Kahungunu (talk) 10:27, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Error report?

Where would I report errors in tools (specifically https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/)? VP doesn't seem to be the right place. Please ping in reply EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 04:02, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

@EvergreenFir: I suggest you report errors in tools to the tool owner. For example, to report errors in Earwig's Copyvio Detector, I suggest you post to User talk:The Earwig. You might also want to ask The Earwig to make that more clear within the tool. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 09:42, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 17:49, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Persondata transfer to Wikidata profile

GB, are you checking to make sure that all accurate input data in the persondata templates has been transferred to the article's Wikidata profile before you remove the persondata template? Any bot can remove the template, but it takes a smart editor like GoingBatty to perform the human function of making sure all good persondata gets migrated to Wikidata . . . . Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:04, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: In the edits I've made today to remove Persondata, the template had no populated parameters or only contained the |NAME= field, so I don't think checking Wikidata was necessary in those instances. I'm wondering how many other articles can have Persondata safely deleted because the Persondata values exist in other places in the article (e.g. only have birth/death years which are in categories, only have data that exactly matches infobox data). GoingBatty (talk) 01:14, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

GB, I've just manually transferred the persondata from 190 bios to Wikidata in the last 36 hours, all articles where I was primarily responsible for inputting the persondata. As a result, I have a high degree of confidence in the accuracy, and by comparing the existing Wikidata and existing persondata, I've gained some idea of what has and has not been transferred to Wikidata by bot since November of 2014. If the persondata "brief descriptions" have been changed/updated since 2014, they probably have not been transferred. Of particular concern, the name variants included under persondata "alternative names" have apparently not been transferred to Wikidata at all. The places of birth and death seem to be very hit and miss; it may be that the the Wikidata bot has imported some from the article infobox, but not from persondata -- I don't have enough information to judge. What is clear is that a lot of good and accurate information has been left behind in many persondata templates. Of course, some subject areas have better persondata because editors within the particular WikiProjects took it more seriously than others. Use your best judgment -- I would hate to think we are discarding valuable work by our fellow editors over the past five or six years. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:23, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: I'm not deleting any Persondata templates that have |ALTERNATIVE NAMES= or |SHORT DESCRIPTION= parameter populated. However, I wonder if there are a large number of Persondata templates where the |SHORT DESCRIPTION= is duplicated in a category. (e.g. |SHORT DESCRIPTION=Italian painter and Category:Italian painters). If we can get programatically get rid of some, it might help us narrow down the list of those that require manual review. GoingBatty (talk) 01:28, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

I'm sure some short descriptions do duplicate English Wikipedia categories, but Wikidata has its own system of sorting that cuts across all language-specific Wikipedias. If it looks like a nice concise short description (or two), consider transferring it to Wikidata manually. Wikidata is not that hard once you start using it; you can access it through the "tools" menu on the far left of Wikipedia article pages -- there is a link for "Wikidata item" that takes you directly to the article's Wikidata profile. Once in Wikidata you may skip from profile to profile by using the search dialog box in the upper right. Ping me if you have any questions. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:34, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

P.S. Here's a link to my Wikidata contributions from the last 24 hours so you can see what I've been doing: [9]. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:36, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: Hmmm, Is "United States Army" an occupation? Looking at Walter Mayberry#World War II, it seems to my inexperienced eye that "United States Marine Corps" would be his employer, and "fighter pilot" would be his occupation. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:55, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Nice work. I just managed to confuse Tiger Mayberry with Fergie Ferguson. I may have done enough Wikidata for today. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:59, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: I see Phil Rizzuto uses "military branch(P241)" for United States Navy. Maybe that property would be better for Walter Mayberry too? GoingBatty (talk) 03:33, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Probably so. Better to use the specific fields for what they're designed. I'm still learning the various field options that are available in Wikidata. I think I've got the basics, but I'm still learning something new every day. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:38, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 6 June

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question

Hi. Can you explain why you're removing persondata here and here? APK whisper in my ear 22:04, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@AgnosticPreachersKid: Template:Persondata has been deprecated. In those two articles, the values in Persondata are also in the infoboxes. Thanks for asking! GoingBatty (talk) 22:15, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Yes, but in neither case have the places of birth and death been transferred to Wikidata. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 22:20, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: Anyone can transfer the places of birth and death whenever they want - they're still visible in the infobox and the text of each article. GoingBatty (talk) 22:24, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately, GB, I don't expect that to happen anytime soon when the object becomes simply to delete persondata. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 22:27, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: Sorry, even after asking multiple times, I still don't understand the difference between transferring Persondata to Wikidata and transferring infobox parameters or categories or prose to Wikidata. I'll take a break for now. GoingBatty (talk) 22:35, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Because contrary to what several editors stated in the RfC, no bots are transferring category or new infobox data to Wikidata. If we don't do it now, before deleting the persondata, it's effectively lost as metadata. No one is ever going to search the vast majority of article edit histories for the deleted persondata, either, except in a relatively small handful of cases where the article may be of particular interest to them. It's gone. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 22:42, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: Aha! Which bots are currently transferring Persondata to Wikidata? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:44, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

None, sir. None at all. Most of the remaining data, to the extent it is accurate and has value, will have to be transferred manually. That's the core of the problem. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 22:58, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: So populating Wikidata using Wikipedia will now have to be done manually - got it. When doing this manual process, I am confident that editors can use information that is not in Persondata, like you did with Walter Mayberry. GoingBatty (talk) 23:08, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Most of which will never happen. I only noticed the persondata removal from the Walter Mayberry article as I have it watch-listed, because I have a personal interest in Florida Gators athletes. When you remove the persondata -- which includes untransferred places of birth and death -- from articles about 19th Century American architects, the likelihood of anyone adding that data to Wikidata anytime soon is slim and none. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:18, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: Are you saying it's more likely that people will manually copy the information from Persondata than they would from other places in the article? If so, could you please help me understand what led you to that opinion? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:25, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

What he's saying is that now's a good opportunity to do it. Since we're going into all the trouble to remove persondata, we might as well copy any reliable data over to Wikidata at the same time - hit two birds with one stone kinda thing? Alakzi (talk) 00:31, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

@Alakzi: None of my edits make it any harder to copy data over to Wikidata. (And if we're talking about "reliable data", then you'd also be confirming the date has a reliable source, but that's a tangent.) There are people who are ready to delete all of Persondata now, even if it has some information that is not elsewhere in the Wikipedia article. I'm just trying to figure out how to do it more systematically, which hopefully will buy some time for those passionate about copying data to Wikidata. It may not appear that way, but I think we're on the same side here. GoingBatty (talk) 00:39, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Well, I do believe that there's a false equivalence between persondata and Wikidata; the infobox is a much better transfer point, for one. I don't mind if the migration is deferred, but Dirtlawyer1 appears to be concerned that the data won't ever be transferred, if not now. Alakzi (talk) 00:55, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

i have never edited a wiki page, but got a message from you...

I am not sure if this is a big deal, but I got the message pasted below. I have never edited a wiki page. I don't believe I have any sort of user account, and no-one here (in my family) goes in for that sort of thing. I just asked, so anyway, there it is, big mystery...

your message to me: Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Sting (musician), did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. GoingBatty (talk) 14:43, 1 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.150.115.128 (talk)

Replied at User talk:202.150.115.128. GoingBatty (talk) 00:46, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 13 June

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Nomination of Carpenters Arms and List of pubs named Carpenter Arms in the United Kingdom for deletion

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Per Holknekt

Please take a look at the article Per Holknekt that I recently created. I am planning to nominate it for DYK in the next few days so any help or improvements are welcomed. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 19:32, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ: I will be happy to help. Please let me know when you're done so we don't run into any more edit conflicts. GoingBatty (talk) 19:40, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ: Looks like someone's done most of the copyediting now. I made some updates to the references. You may want to add a |date= value for each reference, and more |language=Swedish values. Could you please check reference #4? I don't think it links to the right article. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:33, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Sprinkles

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ForaDeJogo

I have found probably an old domain of the website, linking to the Portuguese version: http://www.foradejogo.dreamhosters.com/player.php?player=198004270001&language=1. Changing it to foradejogo.net and "language=2" makes it work. See Anderson Cléber Beraldo. SLBedit (talk) 03:35, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

@SLBedit:  Done fixing that article plus two others with similar URLs. Also found some links to footballzz.com. GoingBatty (talk) 05:53, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

@SLBedit: Fixed all the footballzz.com links. Now working on http://foradejogo.net. GoingBatty (talk) 13:24, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

request for a page

hi man,

can I request your help, in opening a new page?

82.166.24.146 (talk) 11:49, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi! Before you start creating a new article, I suggest you read Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Presuming you don't have a conflict of interest, then I suggest you follow the Wikipedia:Articles for creation process. Once you've created a draft, I would be happy to help you edit it. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 14:51, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

thanks for quick response! How can I contact you? Email or Skype would be great!

82.166.24.146 (talk) 15:29, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

You can contact me here on my talk page. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:35, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

actually I do have a conflict of interest. I added a request to the articles for creation page, how can I push it? ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.166.24.146 (talk) 07:32, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

I suggest you provide more independent reliable sources that show SelfAdvertiser meets Wikipedia's notability requirements for companies. Most of the URLs you provided were either not independent (e.g. your company's web sites and social media pages) and/or don't seem to mention SelfAdvertiser at all (e.g. CrunchBase, Adswiki.net, Bloggersideas, Ifwebstudio, and the iBario article). Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 16:26, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi man, thanks for the tip! actually Revenue Hits is the company that built self-advertiser and Ibario is our sister company. the sources I added maybe don't mention the name self-advertiser but buying traffic from Revenue hits happens from Self-advertiser website. I saw you edited Ibario page and that is why I contacted you. we are willing to do great efforts to make this page, or at least a page for RevenueHits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.166.24.146 (talk) 07:46, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Per Holknekt

Materialscientist (talk) 01:10, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Hiyo

I hate to feel that I'm asking for too much, while giving so little (though I am). However, could you please give your undivided attention to the article, The Style Council. All the best, for being the best Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 18:29, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 03:16, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

A lot more than a little help with the article Rochdale would sure be appreciated partner. Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 18:11, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5: I made a few minor edits for you. If you have specific things that you would like improved, you may want to post your list on Talk:Rochdale A.F.C. so editors with knowledge in football can assist. Good luck, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 19:08, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Well, a lot more than a little help with the article Stockport County would sure be appreciated partner. Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 13:34, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! You might want to update Talk:Stockport County F.C./to do if you think there are still specific things you want improved, and take the article to Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors if you feel it needs a copyedit. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 00:02, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

I'm not too good at setting no objectives for other editors in the hood. However, your edits to the last two articles I requested you to edit, where just mighty fine partner. Stay Up & Stay Cool Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 11:28, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Ariana Grande

Sorry, I had to revert a whole lot of bad edits on this article, and your edits got tangled up in the bad version. Feel free to replace your edits, which looked like good ones to me. Sorry about that. All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:40, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

@Ssilvers: Thanks for letting me know. I'll wait until the Ariana Grande article has stabilized before starting again. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:46, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Links to dab pages on List of Greek words with English derivatives

This page has {{bots|deny=DPL bot}} at the top to signal that links to DAB pages are OK. Consider for example the word "box", which is derived from Greek πύξις. The names of both the plants named 'box' and the container named 'box' come from that same word. It would be silly to have the entry for πύξις read: box, box. --Macrakis (talk) 01:54, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

@Macrakis: Although all I did in this edit was change "greek" to "Greek", I should have manually changed the automatic edit summary before saving. Thanks for dropping me a note, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 01:59, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation! Though the edit summary didn't line up with your changes, I was thinking you were about to start "fixing" the dab links. --Macrakis (talk) 02:01, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Article

Please take a look at the article Jenny Skavlan that I have created. I plan a DYK nom for it. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 22:31, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 01:38, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Catalan verbs

What the heck? I know you weren't trying to make me look bad, but I think you managed. If I can't understand what italics have to do with unwanted AWB changes, then the guys who were beating us up on WP:VPT probably won't understand it, either. Can you explain on Village Pump? Chris the speller ^yack 03:08, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

No one was "beating" you, or anyone else, up at WP:VPT. I think you've simply misread/misinterpreted something. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 03:16, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

@Chris the speller: Sorry about that - I was trying to give you props at WP:VPT! I was surprised that WP:AWB/T didn't mention that typo fixing is protected within italics, so I updated the documentation. I also added a clarifying post at WP:VPT. If you would like me to do more, please let me know. GoingBatty (talk) 03:26, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

No, you've done great, as always. Thanks! Chris the speller ^yack 03:36, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

@Chris the speller: I removed some of the {{lang}} templates you added because they weren't needed to prevent incorrect spelling fixes after other changes I made to the article. However, reading Template:Lang#Rationale makes me wonder if all the Catalan text should use {{lang}} for other reasons. GoingBatty (talk) 04:32, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

I have no objection to using {{lang}} all through the article, but it would be a considerable task, even if some special code was used. How much would it confuse editors who came along later? Chris the speller ^yack 04:51, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

A pie for you!

GoingBatty you deserve a pie Whakaoriori (talk) 08:32, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

@Whakaoriori: Thanks! It sure looks good! GoingBatty (talk) 18:09, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Redirects

I propose that your bot also remove {{This is a redirect}} from redirect pages when it has no parameters and replace it with the redirect template formed by its parameter when it has only a single parameter, similar to {{Multiple issues}}. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 21:30, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

@GeoffreyT2000: It seems that when {{This is a redirect}} is used with no parameters, the template will add the redirect to Category:Miscellaneous redirects, which the documentation indicates has some value. Therefore, it seems it would be better for a bot to add the template with no parameters to uncategorized redirects. However, your suggestion to remove the template when it only has a single parameter seems interesting. Do you want to start discussing this on Template talk:This is a redirect to see what consensus is? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:05, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

citation style

OK. PraeceptorIP (talk) 02:45, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

type=Ph.D. seems to be repeated in Harp Twins ref

Hi GoingBatty,

Thanks for fixing and expanding references in the Harp Twins article. I think you repeated type=Ph.D. in this ref a moment ago [10]. I don't know the correct order for that parameter, or whatever its called. No ref section error was caused, but anyway, could you please remove the extra one? I would do it myself, but as I said, I don't know which one should stay, and I don't want to cause a technical error (I assume it has a number somewhere) even if it doesn't show up as such in the ref section. Many thanks in advance! Dontreader (talk) 19:13, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

@Dontreader: Oops - thanks for catching that! I've fixed my error. The nice thing about citation templates is that the order of parameters doesn't matter. However, using the same parameter twice does put the article into the hidden maintenance Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. Thanks again, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 19:17, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks GoingBatty! For some reason I was convinced that the order of the parameters did matter in citation templates, so thanks for telling me. Oh, and I did decide long ago to use the publisher field whenever the source should not be in italics. Otherwise I use "work" or a correct alias. It does look better like that. However, when I find an article that has been using the work field consistently, I just do what previous editors have been doing. Hopefully some day it will be a crystal clear matter to all Wikipedians. Thanks again! Dontreader (talk) 19:28, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

@Dontreader: WP:ITALICS, Template:Cite web and Help:Citation Style 1#Work and publisher are good resources for guidelines around italicization. However, there isn't always agreement on how to stylize some online sources. Therefore, I think your practice to follow the consistent standard other editors have been doing in an article is a good one. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 20:34, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks GoingBatty! I added the third link to my user page links (I already have the others there). I was reading the information, and now I'm the one who is going batty! LOL I've been copying your style whenever I can, as I said (heck, I even copied part of your user page because it's too cool!), but hopefully you'll be around if I run into confusing situations. Many thanks! Dontreader (talk) 21:05, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 26 July

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 Fixed - thanks ReferenceBot! GoingBatty (talk) 00:39, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	I gotta give it to ya your contributions to Wikipedia are sure special and I'm damn sure that I'm grateful for them too! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 11:32, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Joe - that means a lot! GoingBatty (talk) 16:10, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	I was wondering how I could tidy up Adelaide Manning so it could go to DYK. Now I see that it has magically got better. Thank you. You should see that your are credited on the DYK when I've written the nom Victuallers (talk) 16:57, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

A question, please...

Hi again, GoingBatty,

First of all, I hope my ping worked on my talk page (thanks again for your help!). Anyway, not long ago I created an article about a singer. It doesn't seem nearly as solid as the article I created previously about a band made up of four redheads, and some people have annoyed me, saying that it doesn't look ready, etc. I tell them, go ahead and nominate it for deletion (accompanied by death threats and "I know where you live" LOL Just kidding), and they have always decided against nominating it despite their complaints. By the way, it was created and edited once before by newbies, and speedy deleted.

I have prepared very good arguments to defend the improved article in case it goes through the AfD process (I expect a weak keep consensus, at least). However, here's my question for you, if you don't mind: according to WP:MUSICBIO, one criterion that is sufficient for notability is the following:

12. Has been a featured subject of a substantial broadcast segment across a national radio or TV network.

Well, it so happens to be that Ivana was featured on Channel 98, a nationwide Israeli TV channel, in 2011; it was a show dedicated entirely to her as a tribute. I contacted the producer of the show, and he gave me the link to the entire show on his official YouTube channel (there's no copyright violation). Both in Hebrew and in English it says at the beginning that the show is a tribute to this 19-year-old Dutch singer (19 back then). Here's the link. After around the first minute, she appears as a contortionist (not kidding) and then several of her videos are featured. Then it ends. So would you agree that criterion 12 is met, or not? Because that would kill the discussion. Many thanks in advance for your generous help! Dontreader (talk) 03:17, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

@Dontreader: This isn't my area of expertise. Although you mentioned the Gouden Kabouter Awards, Channel 98, London Gala Concert, BEAT100, Plan 9, and ArtistSignal, it appears that none of these have articles on the English Wikipedia. One interpretation could be that they don't have articles because they are not notable, and therefore their programs and awards are not notable, and therefore van der Veen doesn't meet the notability criteria. Another interpretation could be that they don't have articles simply because no one took the time to write them, even though they would each meet the appropriate notability requirement. The more independent reliable sources you can find on this singer, the more likely the article will be kept. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 00:27, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

First of all, I'm sorry for taking so long to reply. Thanks so much, GoingBatty, for analyzing that article and for your excellent insights. I must confess I created Ivana's article because I like her a lot, but I never thought there was much to work with. I struggled to find some of the sources that you see. I don't think anything better can be found. My main approach for a hypothetical AfD is to make it virtually impossible to prove that there isn't "significant coverage" in reliable sources (per WP:GNG) if criterion #12 in WP:MUSICBIO fails.

The Gouden Kabouter Awards will probably never merit an article in any language but my point was that she performed at the Paradiso venue, which is a big deal and does have an article not only in Dutch but also in English (and other languages). Same with the London Gala Concert: it will never have an article on Wikipedia, but I think it's notable that she was invited to perform in London (plus The Rock Tower - where she performed - might be worthy of an article). I'm not worried about Channel 98 not having an article in the English Wikipedia. It's a nationwide Israeli TV channel. As I said, I'm hoping that the tribute show dedicated to her on that channel will kill any AfD discussion.

GoingBatty, here's why I think it's virtually impossible to reach an "insufficient coverage/notability" consensus in an AfD discussion: apart from the Israeli TV show (supposing it vanishes), there's a reference in the article that has several YouTube videos that feature Ivana on the radio (she is discussed and her songs are played) in various countries. Although mostly what is said about her is material taken from her official website, there is more. Significant audio coverage is also "significant coverage". You add up all of those features, and I don't see how the article can be deleted. Do you? A similar YouTube clip that is not on that page but is also on one of Ivana's official YouTube channels is yet another lengthy tribute on Gold FM radio from Brussels, because she won the annual "Miss Photogenic" musician award (the show is entirely about her, playing several of her songs and talking about her in between songs). Nothing intellectually deep, but it's still coverage. Plus there's a written interview as a reference. And WP:N also states that "Determining notability does not necessarily depend on things such as fame, importance, or popularity—although those may enhance the acceptability of a subject that meets the guidelines explained below." So if you add the fact that she has over 5 million YouTube views, and that she won ArtistSignal (which requires popularity), I just think there's too much there to claim she's not notable. I know 5 million YouTube views is a lot because I uploaded a video in which I pretend to be a Russian communist alcoholic Harp Twins fan, and I was sure it would go viral, but I was wrong :) Many thanks again, and I'm glad you and BattyBot are back! Dontreader (talk) 04:42, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi

A project for you perhaps. Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement.--BabbaQ (talk) 21:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ: Yes, that would be a good project. I used to look at these when the notices were posted on another user's talk page, but haven't seen them lately. I'm watching the page now so I can keep up with them. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:31, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Some bubble tea for you!

You're my best friend. Whakaoriori (talk) 10:48, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

@Whakaoriori: Thanks for the tea! Please remind me what I did to make you so happy so I can do it again! GoingBatty (talk) 16:38, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

You will --Whakaoriori (talk) 03:18, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Removing p from ref pages parameter

Hi, in this edit the BOT removed the p. from |pages= thus leaving the reference with a meaningless figure. The p. is deliberate to show that this is a page number. Suggest that we need to change the templates to output the p. before removing it generally, only removing in cases where the p. is automatically generated by the template. Also, as an aside, it is a single page quoted so it is in the incorrect parameter it should be in |page=. Keith D (talk) 17:32, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

@Keith D: I asked that question in Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 8#Question about CS1 maint: Extra text, and was told "the 'p.' and 'pp.' prefixes duplicate the colon". The output of {{citation}} is the same whether we use |page= or |pages=: when |work= (or an alias) is populated, the 'p.' or 'pp.' does not show. GoingBatty (talk) 18:14, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I have made a comment on that page. Still think that we should not remove the forced p. or pp. that editors have put in to get round this situation. Keith D (talk) 18:55, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Keith D Instead of {{citation}}, one can use {{cite news}} to show the page number. I made the change. Bgwhite (talk) 00:14, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

@Keith D: I'll have the bot make a first pass to only get rid of the extra "edition" text while your comment is being discussed. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 00:43, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

You might consider removing extra "p." values from {{cite book}}, where it is unambiguously rendered incorrectly, as in File:F. A. Davis.jpg, even while discussion about {{cite journal}} continues. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:44, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Good idea - thanks for the suggestion! GoingBatty (talk) 16:41, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

• Another edit that may need tweaking of BOT. Here the page p. was removed but should have been overridden by the |nopp= parameter, but it appears that this is now ignored when |nopp=1. Suggest that BOT removed the |nopp= when removing the p. from |page= or pp. from |pages= or if |nopp=y then do not remove the p. or pp. Keith D (talk) 13:08, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

@Keith D: Thanks for the report. I've posted at User talk:BattyBot so the bot will stop until we resolve this issue.

@Trappist the monk: While Keith's two proposals are reasonable, another approach would be to exclude citations containing |nopp=y from Category:CS1 maint: Extra text. What do you think? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:56, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

already does:

{{cite book |title=Title |nopp=y |page=pp. 5}} (also |nopp=yes and |nopp=true)

Title. pp. 5. {{cite book}}: |page= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |nopp= ignored (|no-pp= suggested) (help)

{{cite book |title=Title |nopp=n |page=pp. 5}}

Title. p. pp. 5. {{cite book}}: |page= has extra text (help); Invalid |nopp=n (help); Unknown parameter |nopp= ignored (|no-pp= suggested) (help)

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:06, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

@Trappist the monk: Good that the template works that way now. The article was in the maintenance category last night when I created the list and started the bot job. Could this exclusion be something new for the template, and the change just hasn't made it through the job queue yet? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:11, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Herbert Akroyd Stuart? |nopp=1 ≠ |nopp=y. The code has not changed since the 2015-07-25 update.

{{cite book |title=Title |nopp=1 |page=pp. 5}}

Title. p. pp. 5. {{cite book}}: |page= has extra text (help); Invalid |nopp=1 (help); Unknown parameter |nopp= ignored (|no-pp= suggested) (help)

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:17, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

If |nopp=1 is an invalid value, we should put citations with such values in the invalid parameter value category so that they can be cleaned up. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

@Trappist the monk: Thanks for the information.

@Jonesey95: Agree with your proposal. Note that the {{cite book}} instructions say to use "y" in some places and "yes" in others, but don't mention "true" or "1".

@Keith D: Since |nopp=1 is not a valid value, I can do a database dump search for citations containing this error and fix them manually before turning on the bot. Thanks everyone for all your help! GoingBatty (talk) 15:27, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, the |nopp=1 was introduced to get round an earlier change in the old {{cite book}} template this was superseded by |nopp=y so can be got rid of or converted whichever is easier. Probably not many of them left. Keith D (talk) 16:20, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

@Keith D:  Done - There were only a few articles with |nopp=1. I did not change any where the |nopp= value was some other number. GoingBatty (talk) 23:49, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

You rock!

Thanks for sending me the info, and for making the edits. I had no idea about refs vs external links (now thanks to you I know the difference), and that i didnt need a signature unless its me talking. Thanks for setting up my talk page!Mylifeishard (talk) 05:21, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

@Mylifeishard: My pleasure. I have no stake in whether the information you added to Mike Honda stays or goes, but as long as it's there, it should be formatted correctly. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 05:24, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

@GoingBatty:You are exactly rightMylifeishard (talk) 05:26, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Links to Wikisource

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T108518

confusion

There was a standard link to a Wikisource article

• [[s:Declaration at the Congress of Vienna|deceleration outlawing Napoleon]] deceleration outlawing Napoleon

this was changed by this edit (17 April 2015) to

• [//en.wikisource.org/wik0i/Declaration at the Congress of Vienna declaration outlawing Napoleon] declaration outlawing Napoleon

The bot changed this to:

• [//en.wikisource.org/wik0i/Declaration at the Congress of Vienna declaration outlawing Napoleon] at the Congress of Vienna declaration outlawing Napoleon

I have now reverted the line to its original format:

• [[s:Declaration at the Congress of Vienna|deceleration outlawing Napoleon]] deceleration outlawing Napoleon

How did your algorithm make this mistake? [and] how is it that it gave such a misleading edit history message:

• "‎Prelude: fixed citation template(s) to remove page from Category:CS1 maint: Extra text & general fixes using AWB (11334))

as this edit does not seem to have fixed anything that ought to show up in that category? -- PBS (talk) 12:17, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

@PBS: Thanks for reporting this problematic edit. There are three issues afoot here:

1. While the intent of Category:CS1 maint: Extra text is to mark pages that contain citation parameters such as |edition=2nd ed will be rendered as (2nd ed ed.), it is also mistakenly marking pages that contain valid parameters ending in "ed" such as |edition=illustrated, which is why Waterloo Campaign, 8–15 June is in this category. This is a bug that has been fixed in the sandbox, per this conversation.
2. The goal of my bot is to fix citations on pages in Category:CS1 maint: Extra text. If it can fix a citation, it should also perform some general fixes. If it cannot fix a citation, it should skip the page. By having the fixes in a custom module, AWB won't skip the page if the only work do be done is unicodification. Therefore, I have changed the bot to use Find & Replace rules instead, so AWB will skip the page if there are no replacements.
3. As you demonstrated above, AWB should not perform unicodification on protocol-relative links. Therefore, so I submitted an AWB bug report for that issue - see the Phabricator link above.

Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 13:57, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

And thank you. -- PBS (talk) 06:51, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

@PBS: And thank @Rjwilmsi: who has already fixed the code. I've downloaded a new version of AWB so this will not happen again. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:10, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

:)

Please forgive.

Oh, sorry. It is just some stupid inside jokes... :) Hafspajen (talk) 17:27, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

@Hafspajen and Bgwhite: Sorry for overreacting. GoingBatty (talk) 17:29, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

We are crazy, I guess :) Hafspajen (talk) 17:32, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

You didn't overreact. It means you were looking out for me and I have no problems with that. I do have problems with Hafs. It is evil. I see it has started to vandalize your page with images. Sigh. It just can't help itself. Bgwhite (talk) 17:45, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Ha! Hafspajen (talk) 17:49, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Adding { {WikiProject Disambiguation} } to existing talk pages for all disambiguation pages

Hi. Writing to you regarding BattyBot task 34, which I see last tagged 915 pages February 23–24. Also pinging Magioladitis, whose Yobot tagged over 4 thousand pages on September 16, 2014. Regarding BattyBot 34 testing, I am specifically interested in why you skipped talk pages that are redirect pages. Redrose64 is correct about this frequently occurring scenario. I see that Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation § Templates still says {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} - Project banner for talk pages with discussion. Please do not use to create talk pages that have no discussion. So there are three options for these pages:

1. tag with {{WikiProject Disambiguation}}, on the basis that you are not creating the page, although it may not have any past discussions nor any history other than as a redirect
2. blank the page
3. delete the page

The one thing we should not be doing is keeping a redirect to a content page on the talk page of a dab. I'm somewhat ambivalent about which option is preferable, and I've read some of the past discussions to see that there's been some disagreement on this issue.

The reason I'm here is that I ran into a note on the Category:Possible cut-and-paste moves page: See also User:Mikaey/Broken talk pages which lists talk pages which redirect elsewhere but have a non-redirecting subject page. This list was created on 15 August 2009‎ by a one-time manual run of AarghBot (based on 20090810 database dump). Six years passed, with nobody tending to this, until me. A surprisingly large percentage of these items had not been fixed, until I did it. Most, but not all items I've fixed by option #1 above. So far, nobody has yelled at me for violations to the spirit of WP:WPDAB. Obviously, I'd like to automate, or semi-automate:

1. re-generation of Mikaey's list
2. fixing the items on that list

I'm wondering if AWB can do this. What Magioladitis considers trivial (ArticleText = @"{{WikiProject Disambiguation}}" + "\r\n" + ArticleText; in the custom module and set "skip it contains..." {{WikiProject Disambiguation}}) is something that really stretches past what I know how to easily do with AWB. I do know that AWB can't follow talk page redirects to accomplish this task, and there's an option to turn that default off. – Wbm1058 (talk) 19:19, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Jenny Skavlan

Materialscientist (talk) 11:57, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

jpt

don'n talk :P — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.126.0.35 (talk) 09:11, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Thea Austin

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 06:03, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Adelaide Manning

Gatoclass (talk) 16:34, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 23 August

Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that some edits performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. They are as follows:

• On the Carmine Appice page, your edit caused a redundant parameter error (help). (Fix | Ask for help)
• On the The Scotch of St. James page, your edit caused a redundant parameter error (help). (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check these pages and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot (talk) 00:17, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

 Fixed - these references already had duplicate |author= parameters before my edits. GoingBatty (talk) 00:53, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Take a look

..at the article about Ester Claesson. Thank you.--BabbaQ (talk) 17:52, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ:  Done You might want to add a |work= or |publisher= parameter for each reference. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 01:45, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, GoingBatty. You have new messages at WP:BOTREQ.
Message added 22:14, 26 August 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

—^cyberpower_Chat:Online 22:14, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Replied there - thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:12, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Jean Lambert-wild (en) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Jean Lambert-wild (en). Since you had some involvement with the Jean Lambert-wild (en) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. —Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 06:44, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Godsy Saw this on my watchlist. You should have slapped a speedy delete per WP:R3. Actually, Batty should have to begin with. I've deleted the redirect. You can close the discussion as "an admin deleted per R3". Bgwhite (talk) 07:13, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: I was just about to leave a message on your talk page; I was under the impression WP:R3 didn't apply to redirects resulting from a page move, or I'd have simply tagged it for speedy deletion as opposed to taking it to RfD. Can I tag redirects of this nature with the R3 speedy deletion tag when I come across them or after I move a page to a more appropriate title?—Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 07:20, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Godsy Sigh, when I was doing the same RfDs, I was told just to delete per R3. I still see them deleted this way. The docs do indeed say to put them up for RfD rather than a speedy. Learned something new today. Bgwhite (talk) 07:36, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

@Godsy and Bgwhite: I didn't want to have the redirect deleted right away so the creator would be able to find the article. Now I see that the old deleted page retains a link to the new page, so I'll nominate it myself next time. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:03, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Another date error for BattyBot task 25

I recently found and fixed a CS1 date parameter that looked something like 1991. I think that it had been in the article for a while, so I thought I would bring it to your attention. We're not supposed to have linked dates, so it looks like a simple pattern would catch and fix this type of error. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:46, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Thanks for the suggestion. Would you happen to remember the article this was in? I'd like to see the parameter in context, so I can build the appropriate pattern. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:02, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

No, but let me look... here it is. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:05, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Great - thanks! I've added a new rule and will see how many it picks up. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:18, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: This new rule fixed 29 articles using the July database dump. I'll run the bot over the entire category, and hopefully it will fix a few more. Thanks again! GoingBatty (talk) 23:58, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

I did a search in Article space for incategory:"CS1 errors: dates" insource:/date\s*=\s*\[\[/, which found 97 hits in article space. Some of them have patterns that look fixable; as usual, most of them are just bizarre and will require human intervention. |date=Ferris State University??? Sigh. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:23, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: - Thanks! I'll clean up all the ones where the date field should be work/publisher, and then see if there's anything left that warrants a new pattern. GoingBatty (talk) 16:54, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Also, incategory:"CS1 errors: dates" insource:/date\s*=\s*[CEGHIKLPQRTUVXYZ]/ gives 945 results and incategory:"CS1 errors: dates" insource:/date\s*=\s*[abdefghijklmopqrstuvwxyz]/ gives 701 results. GoingBatty (talk) 04:57, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Oh, the carnage. There's a whole lot of strangeness in there, but I'm seeing a few patterns. Here's a list of ones that might be fixable by the bot task. Most of them appeared in |date=, but some were in |access-date= or |publication-date=. In many cases, if you search for and remove the leading text (e.g. "Information generated on" or "Last Modified" or "posted on") and the date is still not fixed, there is an existing pattern in the task's code that can clean up the citation on a second pass. The parameter values listed below are the complete value copied and pasted from an actual citation unless otherwise noted. My notes are in parentheses.

1. date=Cecember 20, 2011  Fixed
2. date=Epub ahead of print  Fixed
3. date=fev 2007  Fixed
4. date=Ictober 16, 2013  Fixed
5. date=in press  Fixed
6. date=Information generated on 25 August 2011
7. date=Last Modified - July 22, 1997
8. date=last reviewed 11 December 2012 (there are a lot of these in medical articles)
9. date=Last Revised: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 10:52:56 EST
10. date=Last revision 2008
11. date=Last updated in March 2010
12. date=Last Updated: (Nothing follows; there are a surprising number of these, probably generated by some WP tool or bot)
13. date=Last Updated: 1:13am BST 04/09/2006
14. date=may-june 2004  Fixed
15. date=may–jun 2012  Fixed
16. date=online 24 March 2006
17. date=posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008
18. date=Print edition : February 7, 2014
19. date=Published 9:48 am EDT, June 2, 2015 (I found at least three identical to this one)
20. date=Published online before print 16 February 2010
21. date=Reissued June 29, 2007
22. date=released 08-25-1986
23. date=Review Date: 11/17/2012. (might take 2+ passes of the bot, but fixable)
24. date=Reviewed 17 November 2010
25. date=summer/fall 1994  Fixed
26. date=Thu, 2005-03-31
27. date=Thursday, 1 June 2006, 23:42 GMT 00:42 UK (three or four of these with different dates but the same format)
28. date=Unk  Added
29. date=Unk. date  Added
30. date=Unknown  Added
31. date=Unknown year  Added
32. date=Uploaded 2010-02-04
33. date=Uploaded March 16, 2008
34. date=Various (multiples of this one found)
35. date=written in February 1838
36. date=Year 2014  Fixed

Happy hunting! – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:09, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Jonesey95 I had a good laugh with your edit summary. Thank you. Bgwhite (talk) 06:33, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Sometimes you just have to shake your head at the creativity/carelessness/drug-induced-madness of WP editors.... – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:49, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Some fixed manually - see above. More work to do. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 17:06, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Fixed more manually and added four to the script. GoingBatty (talk)

Top Ten Bears

Is it possible to suggest an edit for a protected page? Apparently author Neil Gaiman was recently eaten by a bear. Or possibly multiple bears. The truth will SHOCK you. Yarnspinner11 (talk) 05:27, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

I suggest you post on the article's talk page (e.g. Talk:Neil Gaiman) with reliable sources, and add {{edit semi-protected}} to draw the attention of editors who don't normally watch the talk page. GoingBatty (talk) 09:38, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Eurythmy

Hello GoingBatty, I stumbled on this article, somehow or other. There's something odd happened just below the hatnote and I can't immediately see what the problem is. Thought it might be something you could fix instantaneously!! Thanks. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 17:08, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

@Eagleash:  Fixed - looks like there was a bit of vandalism on {{Anthroposophy}}. I reverted the vandalism and now all the articles that include the template (such as Eurythmy) should look better. Thanks for pointing this out! GoingBatty (talk) 18:45, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks... I'll remember to look at the template if I come across anything similar in the future. Eagleash (talk) 19:14, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

BattyBot 25 needed at Superhabitable Exoplanet

This article translated from Spanish could use a little help from BattyBot's task 25. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:26, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95:  Fixed Superhabitable planet. GoingBatty (talk) 23:36, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Perfect. You're the best. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:08, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Take a look

.. at Lo Kauppi, Micael Bindefeld, Anna Bråkenhielm and Saga Becker.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:40, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ:  Done! You may want to add a |trans_title= parameter for each of the references. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 00:29, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Could you please take a look at the article on Christopher Wilder. Any help is appreciated as always :).--BabbaQ (talk) 23:32, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 13:32, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! If you find time for it please take a look at Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. No hurry though...--BabbaQ (talk) 17:06, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 17:21, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Redirects with a "Stub" template

-- Magioladitis (talk) 15:54, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Please review these two pages

Sabaa Tahir and An Ember in the Ashes.

And also track those pages patrolled by Hermera34. He/She didn't find much Notability problem about an article with one line with no source Luther Burbank High School (Texas). So, I nominated it for deletion. But he finds my sourced articles as not meeting notability guidelines. --Action Hero 17:51, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

I checked his edit count. With 206 edits in 7 months he has become a new page patroller. --Action Hero 18:08, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

See WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES. High schools that actually exist are usually deemed notable enough to have articles. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:55, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: The link that you gave was an essay (This essay is not a Wikipedia policy or guideline) which can't override over WP:CRYSTAL; anyway my main concern is not about that school but Hermer's tagging of new articles which looks very biased.Action Hero 00:47, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure why you are posting here instead of at Hermera34's talk page. My understanding is that it is bad form to talk about someone without notifying them that you are doing so.

I also don't know what WP:CRYSTAL has to do with a high school that has existed for more than fifty years, according to sources. I assume that I am misunderstanding your comment above.

As you can see, I removed the tags from An Ember in the Ashes. You did a good job providing sources in that article. The article for the author is more on the border for me, since most of the sources are about the book, not about the author, so I left it as is. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:22, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

@Action Hero: I've made some improvements to the two articles you mentioned, including expanding the {{notability}} tags. (I also asked Hermera34 to do that in the future.) I can see how An Ember in the Ashes meets the notability criteria at Wikipedia:Notability (books) based on the sources you kindly provided, but I'm struggling to see how the information at Sabaa Tahir meets the notability criteria at Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Creative professionals. Thanks, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:07, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you I do try to base my comments on notability based upon the appropriate wiki standards. And, if I have made an error, I appreciate the input. Hermera34 (talk) 11:38, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

BattyBot 47

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T112378

You wrote "I'm open to someone else proposing other unobjectionable increase to the scope for this request". It might be worth having the bot add, in place of {{Persondata}}, an {{Authority control}} template; this won't display unless there are values in Wikidata, in which case it will display those values; if the values are added to Wikidata later, then it will activate at that time. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:06, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: I'm not very familiar with {{Authority control}}, so I just spent a few minutes reading the template documentation and Wikipedia:Authority control and Help:Authority control. Is there consensus to add this to every biography page, or is there other criteria? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 00:21, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Yes there is consensus to use {{Authority control}}; look at how many transclusions it already has - over 464,600. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:20, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: I was asking the question because there are over a million biography articles, but less than half of them have {{Authority control}}. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 12:46, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Hence the need to add it to more. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:18, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: I've added an AWB feature request to add {{Authority control}} for biography articles. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:40, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Ester Claesson

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:51, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Thanks for improving the Democracy Now! article! Edcolins (talk) 19:23, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

@Edcolins: Yum - thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 20:01, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Batman & American Football

I am a bit confused (confuciused) by this edit. On an unrelated note, have you seen these history pages? 1 & 2. Do you know a good solution to stop all those people who believe that their local team is the best? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 06:38, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

@The Quixotic Potato: I'm also confused by the edit to the Batman userbox, so I have reverted it and am now watching that page. I had not seen the Runningback pages - you might want to post a request at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 13:42, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, I have posted a request Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Two_redirects:_Runningback_U_.26_Running_Back_U. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 20:21, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

BattyBot: Persondata, Phase I

GB, looks like you received final approval. Please let me know when the bot runs its full cycle on the first phase. I am very curious to see how many effectively empty templates it removes. It appears that there are a substantial number that were added by AWB users, but with nothing more than some version of the article title entered into the name= parameter. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:21, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Dirtlawyer1 I don't think there will be alot, relatively speaking. Waacstats kept adding info to the "Short Description" parameter. It's essentially all they did. There was a tracking category for this and they kept the article count close to zero. Unfortunately, when the Persondata RFC passed, they stopped editing. May 12 was their last edit.

AWB had an update on July 14 that removed adding persondata, though some people are probably still using the older version. I still see people manually adding Persondata when they create an article.

Contrary to the impression some folks may have from comments made at the Village Pump discussion, the results of the May 2015 RfC that resulted in the deprecation of Persondata have not been widely publicized. In fact, the only general notices of which I am aware where those that I personally posted at WP:VP, WP:AN, WP:BLP, WP:BIO and several of the major sports WikiProjects talk pages in which I participate. Those generated some discussion among a couple dozen editors, but that's not exactly widespread notice. What is needed is bot-delivered notice to all active editors on their user talk pages, as well as all bio-related guidelines and WikiProject talk pages. I'm done suggesting it: would you like to help me do that? The notice should include a simple statement of the May 2015 deprecation and instructions for manual transfer of Persondata information to Wikidata.

Your guy Waacstats sounds like someone whose help I should be soliciting for the manual transfer project. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:38, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

It's tiresome finding you in yet another forum, again insinuating - without any evidence - that I'm lying. The deprecation of Persondata was widely publicised. I know, because I did a lot of that, and saw more. For example: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2015-06-03#Discussion report. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:11, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Change... It's always going to be hard to do.

Both of you are right. Andy has it right in that it was extremely well publicized (relatively speaking). Major MOS changes are rarely discussed by more than 10-15 editors. Dirtlawyer is right in that not everybody knows. This problem has been ongoing since atleast I started. Even if everbody knows, you will still have people adding persondata out of old habits and newbies add it because they see it in current articles. Case in point, the change to MOS requirement WP:THUMBSIZE. Did you know about it? Do you still use px? Five people decided. Bgwhite (talk) 23:00, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

I do regret that you find discussion of observed facts tiresome, Andy. As for the various misrepresentations made during the underlying Wikidata discussion, the May 2015 RfC, and the pending Village Pump discussion, others in possession of the same observed facts might reasonably assume that someone is not being entirely truthful. However, having observed your discussion behavior over several years, Andy, I do not believe you are lying, but it is your recognized and well-known discussion style (a) to overstate your case to the exclusion of all reasonable alternatives, (b) to attribute bad faith and various forms of misconduct to those who oppose your various proposals, positions and opinions, (c) to discount the motives, knowledge and understanding of editors on the other side of discussions, and (d) to doggedly -- some might even say obsessively -- pursue your own preferred outcomes to the exclusion of otherwise reasonable outcomes and compromises. Everyone may need an occasional reminder from time to time about WP:BATTLEGROUND when the going gets heated; a select few may need to be gently reminded that Wikipedia is not jihad. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:54, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1 and Pigsonthewing: If you would like to engage me in conversation about improving Wikipedia (or even Wikidata), I'm happy to have those conversations here when appropriate. However, let's please remember to remain civil to each other, and step away from the keyboard when you feel your blood pressure starting to rise. If you're looking for an argument, I can recommend a professional. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 00:32, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

"engage me in conversation about improving Wikipedia". Indeed. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:24, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

As I've said elsewhere already, I'm happy for - and indeed, encourage - everyone to read the RfC discussion, and the discussion on Wikidata to which it links, and to see the facts for themselves. That's my evidence; you have none. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:33, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

BG, what is required for something nearly universal as Persondata is nearly universal notice, i.e., the user talk pages of all active editors. It's time. Especially if we want Wikipedia editors to buy into Wikidata. The notice in The Signpost was -- as that medium's attempts at "journalism" often are -- confusing and contradictory. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:54, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: Since you're the most passionate Wikidata editor I know, would you like to draft the "statement of the May 2015 deprecation and instructions for manual transfer of Persondata information to Wikidata"? Maybe a new page in your userspace? I'd be happy to try it out and offer suggestions. I agree with Bgwhite that some people might view an automated notice to all Wikipedia users as spam, but there have to be some places where your guidance would be well received. How about starting a conversation at Wikipedia talk:Wikidata first to determine where would be the best place to post the instructions? And then figuring out what the message should be to drive people to those instructions, and who the right audience should be? GoingBatty (talk) 00:51, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I knew that was coming. Looks like a just volunteered to draft that. It would be nice to know that it would actually be used, rather than dismissed as "unworkable," but you pay your dime and you take your chances as we say in the South. As for notice, it needs to be widespread to be effective. You and BGWhite are the clever bot-men; could you cull a list of Wikipedia editors who have edited some number of persondata templates in the past 15 months? Or create a list of everyone who regularly edits biographical articles? Obviously, notice to someone who does not edit bios is a waste of electrons. . . . I'm happy to solicit opinions at WT:Wikidata, but I'm sure it would be more productive to present draft instructions for review. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:24, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: I'm surprised you're not listed at Wikipedia:Wikidata/Wikidatans. Would it also make sense to solicit assistance on userpages at Wikidata? GoingBatty (talk) 02:06, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: Maybe also checking with Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography to see what they think about posting a message on the talk pages of Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Members? GoingBatty (talk) 02:12, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Good ideas, GB. A lot more warm bodies at WP:Bio than the Wikidatans, though. FYI, 8500+ of my 9300 Wikidata edits were made in the last 100 days. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that I've learned all of the basics by doing. That list looks its mostly Wikidata admins and other members of officialdom. I'm just a freelance Wikidata worker bee. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:07, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

The piece in the Signpost did an excellent job of informing, and reminding, people of the consensus in the RfC, and highlighting attempts to wikilawyer around it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:33, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Batty, I looked at all the approved tasks for BattyBot. Wow, its an impressive list. I knew you were busy, but not that busy. Bgwhite (talk) 21:28, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: Are you running a bot? If so, I may have a project for you. (Hint: see above discussion about notice.) Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:38, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

A bot message on a talk page is only going to get people upset. Would a better and easier route be adding a notice at the top of the watchlist page? Bgwhite (talk) 23:00, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: How do we go about getting a message posted on the top of the watchlist page? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:07, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: See Wikipedia:Watchlist notices. GoingBatty (talk) 03:17, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

GB, I appreciate the obvious thought you have given to the proposal you posted in the Village Pump discussion: [11]. It's late here (2:30 a.m., EDT), but it looks like it has merit. Let me look at it with fresh eyes in the morning (6+ hours from now), and I'll give you my frank reaction then. Again, my first goal is to preserve and transfer alternate name information from Persondata to Wikidata. Secondarily, I'd like to transfer other valid information (short descriptions, DOB, POB, DOD, POD) that has not already made the leap. I'd also like to share some anecdotal information from a batch of about 20 Canadian Olympic athlete articles for which I manually transferred Persondata last night (short version: I think there are pockets of articles where virtually none of the existing Persondata was ever transferred by bot action. How widespread those pockets may be, I have no way to estimate.) Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 06:43, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

GB, are you available later today to discuss your Persondata removal/culling proposal, as you outlined at Village Pump? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:19, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: Yes - when and where? GoingBatty (talk) 13:44, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

GB, do you use email for Wikipedia? If so, please ping me through the "Email this user" link under the "Tools" sidebar menu on my user page. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:52, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi

Oh, I have been off Wikipedia for over a day. Plenty of things to do in IRL, but now I am back! I have responded to your questions at my talk page.--BabbaQ (talk) 18:37, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Lo Kauppi

Gatoclass (talk) 01:37, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Some potatoes for you!

Thanks for your help with the degree-stuff! BTW the Runningback U redirects will be deleted soon. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 22:17, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

@The Quixotic Potato: My pleasure - glad we were able to work together to make the article better. GoingBatty (talk) 23:03, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

TAFI

If you want to you can please review my noms at TAFI. I need some more input. Thanks. Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Nominations.--BabbaQ (talk) 16:03, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Q...

WP:RFA... Yes/no? (I wanted to email you this instead, but you don't have email active...) Steel1943 (talk)

@Steel1943: Thank you for the kind thoughts. I just reviewed the list of admin tools, and none of them jump out at me as additional mops that I need in my bucket. If I may ask, what administrative work do you think would be the best way for me to contribute? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:39, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Simply, I consider you a trusted "technical" editor. You run a bot that produces very few errors, and you make edits I have seen to code that could equate to trust in editing cascade-protected pages and pages in the "MediaWiki:" namespace. And, there's actually a rather good "skill" you have that makes for a good administrator that doesn't require the toolset, but is very positive for administrators to have ... cordial inquiry and discussion. Your ability to ask neutral questions during discussions proves that you have a knack for handling disagreements and finding an agreement or consensus; the ability to do this, in my mind, validates trusting you with the "delete" button. Steel1943 (talk) 19:02, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

@Steel1943: Thanks - you just made my day! GoingBatty (talk) 20:26, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Gladly! So... given this any thought? Steel1943 (talk) 18:08, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

@Steel1943: I wonder what my other talk page stalkers think (some of whom are administrators). GoingBatty (talk) 18:59, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I think you have the temperament for it, but the RfA pages that I have seen end up talking about all sorts of policies and activities like dispute resolution. If you want to take on that sort of activity, I suspect that you would do fine at it, but you have to ask yourself if that is what you want to do. I don't know if Admins are required to participate in those activities; if you do not, you would have to make it clear what Admin responsibilities you would be willing to take on and how your Admin rights would benefit en.WP. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:42, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

First off, you would make a great admin. An admin is not required to participate in any admin activities. For my sanity, I don't go onto WP:AN, WP:ANI or any other drama board unless necessary. I see around 5 redirects to draft/user space a day, so deleting them without a speedy is helpful. I also see some vandalism, so directly protecting pages or blocking vandalism-only accounts is also helpful. Other than that, I really don't use the admin bit, but it does come in handy. The main drawback is you come under more scrutiny. At the moment, the RfA is particular "nasty" over content creation. A gnome like you or me is going to get some opposes. Bgwhite (talk) 07:54, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

• Given this any more thought? My belief that you would make a good admin still exists, and with the work I have seen you do whenever I run across your edits, I have no doubts in my opinion of this. :) Steel1943 (talk) 23:59, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Some questions

I don't know what to do with these questions so I thought I just drop 'em here, maybe you know what to do.

1. Suresh_Prasad_Sarbadhikari#Career_Highlights says: "whose body had been poisoned by the tiger's nails". The nails of felines aren't poisonous, right? Maybe they mean that the wounds became infected or even necrotic?
2. Khojali_Osman: "in which he appeared perfectly sane, whilst he had also carried the traits of not a mad man, but of a reasonably sane extremist." Is it even possible to be a "sane extremist"?
3. Australian_Army_Intelligence_Corps: "The corps currently consists of 169 officers and 232 other ranks". Seems unlikely. Do they mean 232 people with other ranks?
4. Claudio Camaso: "He committed suicide after accidentally killing a man.". I am unable to read Italian. According to IMDb (which is not a reliable source) he stabbed that dude during what is described as a quarrel or brawl and evaded the police for the next ten days. To me, "accidentally killing a man" sounds like a traffic accident, stabbing someone during a brawl isn't an accident, even if the intention wasn't to kill him.
5. What to do with messages like this one?
6. is suicide by shoot the same thing as suicide with a gun? According to Google Translating the ru wiki article says: "December 12, 1938 EI Goryachev died, but there is a version of suicide[2] because of fear of reprisals. [3][4]"

• Something weird happened to the cite web templates in Vicki_Hendricks#Reviews.

The Quixotic Potato (talk) 15:19, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

@The Quixotic Potato: I numbered your questions to make it easier to answer.

1. Your guess may be right, but the source doesn't make this clear. I suggest you post on Talk:Suresh Prasad Sarbadhikari and ask for assistance. If that's not successful, you may want to add {{clarify}} after that statement.
2. I would guess that insanity and extremism are different, but it would really help to have a source for this. Again, posting on the article talk page should be your first step.
3. You're probably right, but the article uses the same wording as the source. I changed the article to have that statement in quotes. Maybe you could find a more recent source, or ask on the talk page for assistance.
4. I can't read Italian either. Again, asking for clarification on the talk page is my suggestion.
5. Messages like that belong on the talk page, so people can discuss it and decide how to change the article. I reverted the edit.
6. Probably, but we should write what the sources say. Again, I suggest you try the talk page.

Good luck, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 23:17, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

@The Quixotic Potato: Not sure what you thought was "weird" about the cite web templates. Maybe the fact that they weren't showing up in the References section because the <ref>...</ref> tags were missing. I did some cleanup, but more is needed. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:37, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Well, all extremists are insane (by definition), but not all insane people are extremists. Thanks for fixing the Vicki Hendricks article. I've added the rest of em to my todo list. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 01:22, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

@The Quixotic Potato: Not sure that the definition of extremists mentions insanity, but I'd rather not have one meet me in a bar.  :-) Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 00:16, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Can you name an example of an extremist who is sane (according to you)? There are plenty of sane people who have radical ideas, but I don't know anyone who is an extremist and sane. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 01:41, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

@The Quixotic Potato: My previous comment was meant as a joke. For Wikipedia articles, it doesn't matter whether we think a person is/was an extremist or insane - it only matters what the reliable sources say. GoingBatty (talk) 12:57, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

dead urls

If you don't mind my asking, how should one handle a cite linking to a url that is now dead? Deleting it seems a bit harsh in case the source has just moved. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 16:56, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) See if you can find an archived version of the URL at http://archive.org. If you find one, copy the whole URL from archive.org into |archive-url= and put the archiving date into |archive-date=. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:01, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

@Steelpillow: I've done just that in this edit to Boeing 787 Dreamliner. When a company reorganizes their web site, sometimes you can find the article at a different URL, which I did in these edits to the same article. GoingBatty (talk) 17:21, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

@Steelpillow: I've fixed 25 dead links in Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Hopefully one of my talk page stalkers can make suggestions for the other two. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 18:20, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 20:52, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

BattyBot removing brackets

BattyBot has been removing ]] at the end of images. It only removes the brackets if the end of the caption is a wikilink, thus four ] in a row. Examples are [12] and [13]. I have been fixing them when I find them. I have reverted ~8 edits of BattyBot so you can see some other articles. It has been going on for atleast two days. Bgwhite (talk) 20:45, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Need to be <= AWB rev 11671 or >= AWB rev 11679 due to multiple revisions to deal with image/bracket/hiding changes. Rjwilmsi 21:16, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: Thank you for reverting the bad edits. When I noticed the problem I stopped BattyBot and opened T114075. I did not run the bot unsupervised until the Rjwilmsi fixed the bug and I downloaded SVN 11679. Looking at BattyBot's contributions, all the edits were done with SVN 11673 on Sep 29. I'll check all the articles where BattyBot made the last edit on that page. GoingBatty (talk) 22:32, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

No need to check. Any problem articles should appear in CheckWiki and will be fixed. Bgwhite (talk) 22:46, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

A similar issue has been reported in T114345 and fixed in rev 11698. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:04, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: Thanks for letting me know - I've just installed SVN 11699. GoingBatty (talk) 22:32, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

You "shouldn't" run into this issue. I scanned any articles for this problem and Magioladitis has fixed them. Bgwhite (talk) 22:46, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis and Rjwilmsi: Still having troubles with brackets and images. See Binary data. I'm running 11694, so I don't know if the newer version fixes the problem. Bgwhite (talk) 00:46, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis, Rjwilmsi, and Bgwhite: I'm getting the same problem with 11699. No more bot edits tonight.  :-( GoingBatty (talk) 01:05, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

On Binary data it was an IP edit breaking a wikilink beforehand so unrelated to recent image issues. Rjwilmsi 08:55, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Can BattyBot task 25 fix airdate= ?

I found a straightforward date error in |airdate=, in Financial astrology. I checked the task 25 source code, and it looks like BattyBot is not yet looking for |airdate= or |air-date=. If you could add that parameter, that would be great.

It looks like |laydate= and |lay-date= are also subject to date validation (do a Find for laydate at Module:Citation/CS1), although I can't recall finding a date error in one of those parameters. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:36, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: I had a few rules for airdate and laydate in User:BattyBot/CS1 errors-dates, and have added some more. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:43, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Excellent. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:01, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Anna Bråkenhielm

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 06:11, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

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@Bharatiya29: No objection from me. I probably created it so that the user could work on it and reword it in their own words, but it looks like that didn't happen. GoingBatty (talk) 12:55, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

More help

Could you please me with the article Niall Hone. Thanks! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 13:11, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 15:07, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi, maybe a little help with the article Philipp Tschauner. It seems to be poorly translated from German. Thanks! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 12:56, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! Unfortunately there are several dead links in the references. Your help to find archives and/or new references would be appreciated. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 21:25, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

If you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Imre Szabics? Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 20:20, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! In the Stuttgart section, you may want to explain what "a.o." means. I suggest you do some copyediting on the last two sentences of the Managing career section - are these quotes? Also, you may want to use the |language= and |trans-title= parameters in the last two references. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 20:41, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Well, I'd like you check the lead again (to see if it makes any sense!). Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 21:11, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! Removed "for" (since you didn't list who he played for) and removed a duplicate wikilink. GoingBatty (talk) 21:16, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

If you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the articles Every Sperm Is Sacred and Galaxy Song? Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 16:56, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done - good songs! GoingBatty (talk) 23:39, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Me again! (sigh), if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the articles Mark Mothersbaugh and Devo. Thanks! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 10:00, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 04:25, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

I've ran out of conversation openers, so could you please help me with the article Josh Mancell, thanks. Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 14:34, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5: I've been pretty consistent with my opening response -  Done - so don't worry about mixing things up. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 16:56, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

I asked you to help with this article (Josh Mancell), because I was talking to him not long ago and he seems like a real nice dude, he even said he'll post out his autograph out to me at the end of this week too! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 10:04, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

If you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Mim Grey. Thanks! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 12:40, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! Is Grey really a singer-songwriter (closely associated with the folk-acoustic tradition) or a singer and songwriter? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 13:50, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

I'd go with singer-songwriter :). Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 13:54, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article John Perry. And remember that I always highly appreciate your edits :) Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 11:41, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! Please note my request for a reference. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 21:18, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Andy Pratt. Blessings always :) Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 12:45, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 14:20, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Me again, again, again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Mike Kellie. I trust you'll drum up something good :) Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 09:33, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Me again, again, again, again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Alan Mair. Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 14:46, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done both! GoingBatty (talk) 03:23, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Me again, again, again, again, again, if you've got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Rikk Agnew. Once again thanking you in advance Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 10:52, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 00:54, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, if you've still got any spare time, could you please help me with the article Henry Small. Can I thank you enough? Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 10:34, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 02:14, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, again, again, if you've got any spare time left at all, could you please help me with the article Ruby Turner. As always I'ma most a grateful Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 11:58, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, again, again, again, again, if you've got any spare time left at all, could you please help me with the article Dan Woodgate. Is this annoying yet? Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 14:30, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done both - keep 'em coming! GoingBatty (talk) 15:22, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, again, again, again, again, again, again, if you've still got any spare time left at all, could you please help me with the article Chas Smash. Still annoying? Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 16:01, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Me again, again, again, again, again, again. again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, please help with the article Jayne County. It's all I can ask.... Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 14:56, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done both! GoingBatty (talk) 15:43, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Please help me!!!! with the articles Peter Perrett and The Only Ones; you shall be knighted! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 15:25, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done these two, and I threw in Template:The Only Ones at no extra cost. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 01:57, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Please help me!!!! with the articles Casey Royer and D.I.; sadly, it turns out that I can't knight you. Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 19:44, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done both, even though I was really hoping to be Sir Batty :-) GoingBatty (talk) 23:37, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Ello a ickle elp wit da art-e-culs Marilyn Martin and This Is Serious, wood be mucha appreciated. Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 13:03, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5: Yes, but I'll wait until you're done so we don't have edit conflicts. GoingBatty (talk) 14:03, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done both! GoingBatty (talk) 18:28, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

I'm a guy who needs help with the article Guy Pratt. Many thanks as usual Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 09:41, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 00:56, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Help with Pina Kollars, please Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 12:57, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 12:30, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5: The "Music career" section says Quick Look was her first album, but the "Discography" section has However, ...Plain released before that. Could you please clear up this apparent contradiction? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 12:33, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

S'more help, but with Steve Nieve. Many thanks Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 13:00, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5: I'm happy to help, but to avoid edit conflicts, please don't request my help while you're actively working on the article. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 13:12, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

My work is done, for now, you may commence!!! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 13:39, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done - thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:54, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

An ickel elp vit Suggs und Madness vlease. Vanking you Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 15:20, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done both - Madness had a lot of dead links to fix. GoingBatty (talk) 15:02, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Please help me with the article, Brigitte Zarie. Thank you Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 07:04, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! Could you please start a new section for future requests, so this one will eventually archive? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:33, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Creating pages with AWB

Hi GoingBatty, thanks for creating talk pages for some of the articles I created such as this this and this. I started off doing it manually but that was too combusome. I would be happy to learn from you the AWB filter that gave you that result. Thanks again.—M@sssly^✉ 17:06, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

@Masssly: On the "More" tab, I clicked Enabled and Prepend and entered {{WikiProject Ghana|class=stub}} with "Sort meta data after" checked. On the "Skip" tab, at the bottom I chose "Don't care" so it would add the template whether the talk page exists or not. GoingBatty (talk) 17:11, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

@Masssly: Also, please do not add WikiProject categories or stub categories to an article, as you did in this edit. WikiProject categories will appear on talk pages when you use the proper WikiProject template. Stub categories will appear on an article when you use the appropriate stub category. GoingBatty (talk) 17:14, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Great, I understand how to work that filter now. And thanks for the hint on the templates too.—M@sssly^✉ 17:31, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Kindly clarify this last aspect: how to make a list of talk-pages to append some text such as {{WikiProject Ghana|class=stub}}. Eg. In AWB to make such a list I do Source:Category (recursive) and enter Category:Ghana and click on Make list. It produces a list of main-space articles among others and appends the text {{WikiProject Ghana|class=stub}} in those articles instead of their talk pages.—M@sssly^✉ 18:10, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

@Masssly: I made my list based on those articles that incorrectly had Category:WikiProject Ghana articles on the article. You might want to take your list of articles, go to the top AWB menu and choose List > Convert to talk pages. Many of these talk pages will already have the WikiProject template. Also note that some of those articles won't be stubs. You may want to limit |class=stub to those in a subcategory of Category:Ghana stubs. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 18:20, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Saga Becker

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 18:25, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 3 October

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Editor of the Week

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I nominate User GoingBatty for his 1/4 million edits and another 3/4 million edits through BattyBot, which uses Auto Wiki Browser to make automated edits. GoingBatty uses an impressive number of tools to fix WP articles: AWB, HotCat, WPCleaner and many others. He is one of the chief architects of the "Typo rules" that AWB uses. This results in additional hundreds of thousands of corrections being made by other users of AWB. He has qualified for the Disambiguator Hall of Fame multiple times. Editors who have problems or questions with AWB or its various Typo rules often have them resolved by GoingBatty before other editors can respond. He is often the calm voice of reason when a discussion starts to heat up. Few editors have his combination of kind, helpful attitude and incomparable technical skills. This nomination was supported and seconded by User: Go Phightins!, and User:Jim Carter.

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being a calming voice of reason and his work at improving the encyclopedia are phenomenal

Notable work(s)

A 1/4 million edits and another 3/4 million edits through BattyBot. Fixes WP articles with AWB, HotCat, WPCleaner and many others. One of the chief architects of the "Typo rules" that AWB uses. Disambiguator Hall of Fame member, Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles member, Wikipedia:Typo Team member and Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting member.

Nomination page

Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk 14:36, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

@Buster7: Thanks to you, Chris the speller, Go Phightins!, and Jim Carter! Thanks also to the maintainers of those tools (especially Magioladitis, Rjwilmsi and Ohconfucius who kindly put up with my constant bug reports and feature requests) and to my talk page stalkers who kindly keep me busy with lots to do. GoingBatty (talk) 23:59, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

• I support the nomination. Batty's indefatigable efforts and his eternal vigilance are a real credit to him. His bug reports not only indicate his high sense of responsibility, they help WP a great deal by improving the tools used by many others. -- Ohc ^¡digame! 06:59, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

COI ≠ Conflict of interest

I noticed BattyBot subtituted from {{Conflict of interest}} to {{COI}} with this edit to conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia. Sadly these templates are not connected. I suspected this might be the result of a change made to general fixes (by an editor unaware of the problem), but I cannot see it in the list. Can you advise? Thanks. -- Andrewaskew (talk) 05:22, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

@Andrewaskew: When {{Conflict of interest}} was created in 2009, it was a redirect to {{COI}}. On September 15, 2015, the template was changed to be a navbox.

The AWB general fixes page points to the template redirects page, which is where it was defined (since 2011) to change {{Conflict of interest}} to {{COI}}. BattyBot made the edit in question on September 19, and Avicennasis kindly made this edit on September 29 to fix the template redirects page. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 17:19, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Good to know. Thanks again. -- Andrewaskew (talk) 22:13, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Question about battybot actions on my sandbox

On my sandbox, changes were made to links on a group discussion about our collaborative edit of the article "Offender Profiling." I cannot understand what the changes are, why they were made, or why a sandbox would need them. Can you please help me, as a new editor, understand? Thank you. User: paul.Mott Paul.mott (talk) 11:42, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

@Paul.mott: In this edit to User:Paul.mott/sandbox, BattyBot made a change with an edit summary of "changed article categories to category links per WP:USERNOCAT". WP:USERNOCAT is a shortcut to Wikipedia:Categorization#Categorizing user pages, which states "User pages are not articles, and thus do not belong in content categories such as Living people or Biologists." Since your sandbox page was appearing in Category:Offender profiling and four other categories, the bot changed it from [[Category:Offender profiling]] to [[:Category:Offender profiling]], which removes your sandbox page from the category and instead creates a link to the category. Hope this helps, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:17, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

It does. Thank you. Paul 173.209.211.238 (talk) 12:26, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi

I am not sure, but I can not imagine that the article on Eileen Ford is actually a B-class article. Please take a look. Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:14, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ: I'm not an expert at rating articles. Looking at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment/B-Class criteria, I wonder if the six {{citation needed}} tags mean that the article fails the first criteria. You might want to post to Talk:Eileen Ford. GoingBatty (talk) 17:07, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

need guidance

Respected Mr. GoingBatty,

Would like to share with you that I'm very new to wikipedia community. When you reviewd my article Devsena Mishra on 3rd August 2015 I felt good and encouraged but yesterday after two months of your approval, user Missvain nominated it for deletion. https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AGoingBatty&action=unwatch Need your guidance...

Best Regards, vishalgauravjh1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vishalgauravjh1 (talk • contribs) 17:36, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

References

@Vishalgauravjh1: Please note that I did not give "approval" of the Devsena Mishra article. My edit was simply to update some of the categories. In this article's entry on the Articles for deletion page, Missvain wrote "Does not appear to pass notability guidelines for biographical subjects", which refers to Wikipedia:Notability (people). I suggest you read Wikipedia:Notability (people), continue to make improvements to the article, and respond to Missvain at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Devsena Mishra. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 12:38, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Respected Mr. GoingBatty,

Your profile is inspirational, I'm feeling happy and inspired.

Best Regards, vishalgauravjh1Vishalgauravjh1 (talk) 12:44, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

November 2015

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 Fixed - thanks BracketBot! GoingBatty (talk) 20:34, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Skip if...

Please check AWB's latest revision. This is what we needed for skip conditions. It needs some testing though. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:42, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: So far so good - thanks for making this change! GoingBatty (talk) 01:00, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Respected Mr. GoingBatty, I lost my article Devsena Mishra, but I would like to thank you for your support. Best Regards, Vishalgauravjh1 (talk) 16:05, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

@Vishalgauravjh1: Thank you! Although the article was deleted, the agreement at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Devsena_Mishra was that the editors were willing to copy it to your user sandbox where you could continue working on it. You can post at User talk:Spartaz#Devsena Mishra if you are interested in this. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:02, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

AWB help please or advice

GoingBatty, I see you active with AWB a lot, and with your bot, so I thought you might be able to help me with this:

Wikipedia_talk:User_scripts#Give_out_Deletion_to_Quality_Awards_and_log_at_Hall_of_Fame

Any ideas or input or help or advice ?

Thank you,

— Cirt (talk) 02:46, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

@Cirt: Sorry - that's way above my AWB skills. Most of my tasks are find & replace within the same article, not lookup a value from one place and paste it somewhere else. GoingBatty (talk) 03:23, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Okay thanks, no worries. Any ideas to point me in the right direction? Anyone else you could recommend? — Cirt (talk) 03:26, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

@Cirt: Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)? GoingBatty (talk) 03:33, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Already been there, at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Give_out_Deletion_to_Quality_Awards_and_log_at_Hall_of_Fame. Zero response. Any other ideas? — Cirt (talk) 03:35, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

@Cirt: Sorry - looks like you posted at all the right places. Maybe one of my talk page stalkers will have a suggestion for you. GoingBatty (talk) 02:35, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Allegra Versace

If you want to, you can take a look at the article about Allegra Versace. That article is this weeks TAFI.--BabbaQ (talk) 22:13, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 02:32, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

After your and other users edits a Fansite template was added toe Allegras article. I do not see any fansite material. But the issue has been raised at the articles talk page. So if you want to, take a look.--BabbaQ (talk) 12:07, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ: Looks like the editor who added the template read the talk page and removed it. GoingBatty (talk) 02:40, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Guns 'n Beatles

I'd like to thank you for doing the work on my request. As you might have seen, I'm limited by a white-list and my English is quite allright, but most definitely not good enough to start writing into existing articles. (Corekt my if i'M ronk...) No really, If you notice some mistakes, don't hesitate to correct me. Fact is, I like the work you did and I'm happy with the results. With kind regards, Oxygene7-13 (talk) 11:20, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

@Oxygene7-13: My pleasure. I didn't write anything for this edit - I just copied from two Wikipedia articles to another. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 03:30, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

TAFI

If you want to, take a look at the article about Marie Serneholt which is this weeks TAFI article. Regards.--BabbaQ (talk) 19:42, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 03:20, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Question

Hi, could you explain why you and others use AWB to move references around kind this?[14] The references used are always ordered in a specific way to support the material used, so I'm at a loss why they are being moved like this in many articles. Viriditas (talk) 02:08, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

@Viriditas: Part of AWB's general fixes includes code to reorder references to put them in numerical order. I have reverted my edit, and made the small change to add the missing quotation marks (which was the purpose behind my edit). How is a reader supposed to know why the references are ordered in a specific way? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:20, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

To answer your question: in the articles I write, and in the articles many others write, the order of references follows the order of content, often segmented by grammar or phrasing. What purpose does ordering the refs numerically serve? Just curious. Viriditas (talk) 02:37, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

@Viriditas: I suggest you ask at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes#ReorderReferences, as I do not know why that function was added to AWB. As a reader of the Lise (Renoir) article, I don't how should I interpret the significance of the reference ordering "Renoir's initials 'AR' are marked on the trunk of the tree in the shade behind her.^[4][1]" and "There was no major opposition to Lise at the Salon.^[13][5]" If you like, you could add a hidden comment between consecutive reference to keep AWB from reordering them, which you could also use to explain to editors why you put the references in a certain order. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:53, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

@Viriditas: However, I can see why the references are ordered ^[8][1] in Note 3: The note mentions Cooper and then Distel, so the first reference is for Cooper, while the second is for Distel. GoingBatty (talk) 02:57, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

New section with more help

Please help me with the article David Gilmour, thanks! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 10:28, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Could you please help me with the articles Sam Brown and Pauline Murray. Cheers! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 12:09, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done all three! GoingBatty (talk) 02:27, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

And could you please help me with the articles Tony Hadley, Gary Kemp, and Spandau Ballet. Thank you for everything Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 20:31, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Could you please help me with the articles Glenn Gregory and Heaven 17. Cheers my dears Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 19:31, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done all five! GoingBatty (talk) 01:53, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Please help with the articles Mike Barson, Lee Thompson, Mark Bedford, and Chris Foreman. Have fun! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 14:12, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 03:17, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Could you please help me with the article Colin Blunstone? Thanking you Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 14:59, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Date formats for BattyBot task 25

I came across this date format that BattyBot's task 25 might be able to fix:

• |publication-date = 2014년 3월 5주차 in 4Minute World. As far as I can tell, that's year, month, and day in Korean.

I also came across this one, which BattyBot should have fixed but apparently did not:

• | publication-date = 07 April 2015 in 4Minute discography

And a couple more:

• |date=1 December 2010 (updated 6 December 2010) in 905th Air Refueling Squadron
• |accessdate=(search) 18 February 2014 in 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron and in many similar articles.

Thanks! – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:16, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95:  Added rules to fix each of these - see this edit. Thanks for the suggestions! GoingBatty (talk) 15:29, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Here's another one. Vietnamese, I think:

| accessdate = 11 tháng 10 năm 2014 in Vic Cathedral.

Google translate says that it's October 11, 2014. You can see usage examples here. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:42, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

@Jonesey95:  Done - that fixed six articles. GoingBatty (talk) 23:40, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Magioladitis

I notice that you are keeping well away from this editor's talk page. But do you think you could add anything to the discussion or give Magioladitis any advice that he might listen to? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:10, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

@MSGJ:  Done GoingBatty (talk) 02:39, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Converting double-hyphen to emdash

As an IP editor correctly noted here, a double-hyphen has a technical meaning in programming languages apart from the linguistic punctuation usage. Does BattyBot have any exclusion heuristics, such as content within a <code> and/or indented (<pre>) markup? DMacks (talk) 06:51, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

@DMacks: The replacement of the double hyphen is part of AWB's general fixes. I tested to confirm that AWB will ignore the text if it is within <code>...</code> or <pre>...</pre> tags. GoingBatty (talk) 00:17, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Script needs update?

[15]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:41, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis:  Added to User:Magioladitis/WikiProjects and my bot. Thanks for the heads up! GoingBatty (talk) 00:26, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Regex

Hi, I remember you helped me one time to write a regex. Now I have another question. I have about 350 links to change:

broken link	fixed link
http://www.popkiller.pl/2010-08-18,krzysztof_knt_kozak_wywiad	http://www.popkiller.pl/2010-08-18,krzysztof-knt-kozak-wywiad
http://www.popkiller.pl/2010-06-15,red_za_duzo_znawcow_za_malo_wiedzy_wywiad	http://www.popkiller.pl/2010-06-15,red-za-duzo-znawcow-za-malo-wiedzy-wywiad
...	...

For the great help you gave me. --The Polish (talk) 11:17, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Can you help me to write this regex? I was thinking about something like this: find http:\/\/www\.popkiller\.pl\/(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}),(\w+(-|\s|}|]|\|))+ replace http://www.popkiller.pl/$1,$2. But i think the replace is wrong. Thank you in advance. --The Polish (talk) 22:38, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

@The Polish: You could try find (http:\/\/www\.popkiller\.pl\/\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2},[a-z|-]+)_ replace $1- and run it 10 times. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 00:33, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

It works. Thanks. --The Polish (talk) 11:17, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Slavs are not proto-Indo Aryan, and they certainly do not speak the same language. They are nomadic, and of their own.

Dear GoingBatty,

1) The argument that Slavs were proto-Aryans is a nonsensical and highly dangerous/inflammatory statement as it opens up a whole slew of eugenics or genetic-superiority implications-- all early main Aryan cultures (Indic, Iranic, Germanic) continue to survive and Slavs have no place in this regard whatsoever,

2) The identity of Slavs are tied to their language, and it is the only thing they have: a highly irregular and unnecessarily complicated language that was furthered as it's own lineage,

The references for my changes are the status quo, and you provide a very opinionated and biased view of slavs. My changes corrected for the existing bias, and provided objectivity.

Few of many references provided below. Please do not mistake my edit as anything other than corrections based on fact and anthropological evidence. Please revert my changes as soon as possible.

Du Feu, V.. (1994). [Review of The Origins of the Slavs: A Linguist's View]. The Slavonic and East European Review, 72(1), 157–159. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4211448

Fisher, R. L.. (1977). IE *po- in Slavic and Iranian. Zeitschrift Für Vergleichende Sprachforschung, 91(2), 219–230. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40848525

Dvornik, F.. (1960). [Review of The Origins of Russia]. The American Historical Review, 65(2), 347–349. http://doi.org/10.2307/1842882

EDIT:

I'm adding references about how the Aryan identity was abused for political gains in the 19th century, since a similar issue is occurring above:

Leopold, J.. (1974). British Applications of the Aryan Theory of Race to India, 1850-1870. The English Historical Review, 89(352), 578–603. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/567427

Cannon, G.. (1998). [Review of Aryans and British India]. Anthropological Linguistics, 40(2), 348–351. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/30028638

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.189.127.76 (talk) 07:59, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi! When you post to someone's user talk page, please mention the Wikipedia article page you're referring to and why you're contacting that user. Looking at your contributions, it appears you are concerned about the Slavs article. I have never edited this article, and this is not my area of expertise. Per Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle, it looks like you boldly made some changes and someone else reverted those changes. The next step is to discuss it on the article talk page: Talk:Slavs. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 13:12, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Citation Barnstar
	Thank you for your tireless work in improving cites and references! - Cwobeel (talk) 04:31, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi

Take a look at the articles about Hilda Nilsson and Lena Larsson that I have created. If you find time for it. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 15:29, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 15:56, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

BattyBot

BattyBot made this change which resulted in category links being added after userboxes. Ultimately, I think the categories should be removed from this userbox (and I am going to pursue making this change) but I wanted you to be aware of how this change is affecting users. _{(please ping me if you reply)} Etamni | ✉ | ✓  16:02, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

@Etamni: Thanks for making me aware of this issue. I'll have to think about how to prevent this in the future. In these edit, I readded Category:Userbox user templates and added Category:Wikipedia:Autism (which seems to be better than Category:Autism), and put them within <noinclude>...</noinclude> so they won't impact user pages. Feel free to remove one or both of these categories if they don't apply. Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 16:21, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

References problem

Can you please take a look at the two pages in Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/061 dump? -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:44, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: I'm not an expert with how to use quotes with {{sfn}}, so I posted at Talk:Chicken Kiev#Request help fixing red errors for referencing and Talk:John Lennon#Request help fixing red errors for referencing. GoingBatty (talk) 01:31, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Maybe Redrose64 could help with this? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:37, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

This is probably Template talk:Sfn#Interaction with new cite error detection and that archived VPT thread. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

BattyBot fixing pages

Hi, in this edit, BattyBot altered |pages=page 20 to |pages=20, but as there's only one, surely it should have become |page=20? --Redrose64 (talk) 08:22, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Thanks for the suggestion. I'll update the bot's find/replace rules before running it again so that future edits will change |pages=page 20 to |page=20. However, I won't go back through the bot's previous edits to change |pages=20 to |page=20 since that wouldn't change the way the citation is displayed to the reader. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:25, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

@Redrose64:  Done! For an example, please see this edit. Thanks again! GoingBatty (talk) 20:39, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Great, now for the opposite - see this edit where |page=pp51–53 |page=pp88–90 |page=pp90–92 |page=pp86–88 became |page=51–53 |page=88–90 |page=90–92 |page=86–88 but should really have become |pages=51–53 |pages=88–90 |pages=90–92 |pages=86–88. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:22, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Help

Could you please help me with the articles Rod Argent and The Zombies. Thank you. Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 16:16, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 23:49, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Help would be greatly appreciated (as always) with the articles Richard James Burgess and Landscape. Thank you Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 15:23, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 04:06, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for everything and please help me with the article Chris White (musician). Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 14:23, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 00:45, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Henzel

Could you please take a look at the article about Dominik Henzel that I created a few weeks back. It is up for AfD but the main reason for deletion seems to be article quality. So if there is any improvements that you can see that could be made, please do. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 23:48, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

@BabbaQ:  Done! In addition to adding more references to establish notability, could you please check reference #3? It seems to link to an article about Daredevil. Also, could you please add a |trans_title= parameter for each reference? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:03, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

I have added two new sources. Oh, and thanks for the suggestions as always. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 01:06, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

wpbs

Can you please resume the WPBS addition this time starting from Jazz-project template? Or more generally, start from redirects with size ~1000 tranclusions. My updated list is located here. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:55, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: Yes, I can work on this some more. Will you be sending any of the unused redirect templates to RfD? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:27, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

@GoingBatty: we have to be selective on that. I do not think it will be consensus for all of them. I try to figure out a way to group the ones that that be really be deleted or re-purposed. For example I think {{Composers}} should replace {{Composers by nationality}} instead of being a redirect of a wikiproject. -- 16:32, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis:  Doing... GoingBatty (talk) 02:19, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis:  Done - updated over 10,000 talk pages. GoingBatty (talk) 11:43, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	For your teamwork actions. Working with you is always a pleasure and make Wikipedia editing more pleasant for me. Magioladitis (talk) 12:08, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK

Do you think I should go and fix AWB to match the new guidelines or wait a few days? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:51, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: There doesn't seem to be any objections to the change to WP:TPL, but I'm in no rush to do any more talk page fixes. FYI - I posted at User talk:Shubinator#Talk page layout to ensure the DYKUpdateBot operator knew about the conversation, but I'm not sure how to respond to Shubinator's comments. GoingBatty (talk) 17:44, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

rev 11757 updated AWB's code to match consensus. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:04, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: - Installed - thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:04, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

I wonder whether we should ask to run AWB bots in talk pages to correct placement of DYK. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:06, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: Yes, I think it would be appropriate to ask at Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Putting old DYK notices at the top of the talk page. If there's consensus at that discussion, you could reference it in your BRFA. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:18, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

File:Xmas Ornament.jpg

To You and Yours!

FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:33, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

BattyBot and WikiProject templates

Hi, I just noticed this edit where the bot added the {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} template and updated {{WP Television}} to {{WikiProject Television}}, but it missed out the {{WP Fictional characters}} template, and wondered if maybe there's a list of WikiProjects that needs updating or something else you might need to do so this doesn't get missed out in the future. AnemoneProjectors 15:37, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

@AnemoneProjectors: Thanks for the heads up! I just added the redirect to User:Magioladitis/WikiProjects. I will add it to my bot and then rerun it. I'll also manually review each page that contains {{WP Fictional characters}} to clean up after my bot, similar to your edit. Thanks again! GoingBatty (talk) 15:47, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

There's a similar question on WT:DYK#Putting old DYK notices at the top of the talk page, regarding edits such as here, which place the DYK above the (new! highly welcome!) banner-shell instead below where the DYK bot put it, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:53, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Yes, I spent a few minutes crafting a response, and Magioladitis beat me to it. If there is consensus to change WP:TPL, I will not run the bot task again until AWB has been changed. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:03, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, no rush;) - just that we DYK people hear too often that we think DYK comes first, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:21, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

@AnemoneProjectors: I have completed the manual review, and added {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} to a few more pages. Thanks again! GoingBatty (talk) 19:23, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I think that this edit, which moved {{WPWA}} and so excluded it from the shelled banners, is related. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:45, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Also this edit and {{WPJW}}. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:57, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Thanks for the heads up! I've added them both to User:Magioladitis/WikiProjects and my bot. I'm running my bot over {{WPWA}} and {{WPJW}}, and then will fix any that my bot excluded from the WPBS. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:02, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

@Redrose64:  Done! Thanks again! GoingBatty (talk) 23:52, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Lena Larsson

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Wishing you all the best . . .

Merry Christmas, GB, and may your holidays be merry and bright . . . . Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 16:14, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: Thanks - same to you! GoingBatty (talk) 17:15, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

thank you!

I recently saw that you fixed/changed some of the things I made. So thank you for that! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ae9000ae (talk • contribs) 23:14, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

@Ae9000ae: You're welcome - good luck with the article! GoingBatty (talk) 23:20, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Just one question, does the article look like a advertisement? (Im asking because i feel it sort of sounds like one) Ae9000ae (talk) 23:26, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

@Ae9000ae: I don't think that there is any language in the Dragon Coins article that makes it looks like an advertisement. GoingBatty (talk) 02:58, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Christmas Wishes

Christmas wishes Always :) (talk) 15:35, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Error

careful, infoboxes are not citation templates :) Frietjes (talk) 13:22, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

@Frietjes: Thanks for the heads up and for fixing my mistake. Hope you enjoy the holidays! GoingBatty (talk) 15:59, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Nice Catch Mfalc1 (talk) 15:58, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

@Mfalc1: Thank you! I'm presuming you are referring to this edit to the P.A.W.N. article. Good luck with the article - let me know if it survives AfD and I'll give it a more thorough review. GoingBatty (talk) 16:20, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

does the dragon coins page need to be a draft?

The page was moved to a draft which I think is not right and shouldn't be a draft. Could you help? Ae9000ae (talk) 10:36, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

@Ae9000ae: I'm surprised that someone moved it to draftspace without contacting you. However, it's better than having the article deleted. Please review Wikipedia's notability requirements and add more references from independent sources. You might want to ask for assistance at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 16:29, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

I am also surprise it's not on my talk, I thought it was a troll/joke by a admin at first because they never contacted me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ae9000ae (talk • contribs) 19:38, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

	Happy Holidays!
	Hi, GoingBatty! Have a happy and safe season, and a blessed new year! Holiday cheers, --Discographer (talk) 00:55, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Photograph (Ed Sheeran song) has been blanked

??? Xx236 (talk) 06:25, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

@Xx236: Don't know how I did that, but I fixed the problem. Thanks for letting me know! GoingBatty (talk) 07:12, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

BattyBot 49 code

Could I see the module code for this one? Interested on how you change parameters in an infobox. Bgwhite (talk) 00:01, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: First draft posted at User:BattyBot/Date fixes for you. GoingBatty (talk) 04:53, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Egads, how you created that, I'll never know. Just a "tad" complex. I wanted to see how you changed a parameter in certain infoboxes. Typing new names for deprecated parameters is getting old. FYI... following infoboxes have date parameters similar to Infobox football biography.

{{Infobox Rugby Union biography}} and {{Infobox rugby union biography}} have |clubupdate= and |repupdate=

{{Infobox rugby league biography}} has |updated=.

{{Infobox rugby biography}} has |rl_clubupdate= and 7 more "update" parameters.

Bgwhite (talk) 05:40, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: Thanks for the suggestions - I've updated User:BattyBot/Date fixes to include these templates. Happy New Year! GoingBatty (talk) 13:04, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Help

Could you please help me with the articles Gerald Casale and Bob Casale. Thank you Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 13:12, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done - Happy New Year! GoingBatty (talk) 14:34, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you and here's my final page for requested help this year Alfie Agnew. Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 14:24, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

@Joe Vitale 5:  Done! Since you have "professor" listed in the infobox, you might want to add information about that in the article. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 14:53, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Hilda Nilsson

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 31 December 2015 (UTC)