User talk:Σ/Archive/2012/February

Lowercase sigmabot deactivation

An IP toggled User:Lowercase sigmabot/Shutoff a few days ago. I couldn't find any explanation of why, so I toggled it back. Should that page be semi'd? DMacks (talk) 18:57, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your diligence. I've requested semiprotection at RPP (or you can protect it if you want). →Στc. 23:26, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 January newsletter

WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010. Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is Grapple X (submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at good article candidates. Second place is currently held by Ruby2010 (submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is Jivesh boodhun (submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!

The 64 highest scoring participants will advance to round 2 in a month's time. There, they will be split into eight random groups of eight. The score needed to reach the next round is not at all clear; last year, 8 points guaranteed a place. The year before, 20.

A few participants and their work warrant a mention for achieving "firsts" in this competition.

• 12george1 (submissions) was the first to score, with his good article review of Illinois v. McArthur.
• 12george1 (submissions) was also the first to score points for an article, thanks to his work on Hurricane Debby (1982)- now a good article. Tropical storms have featured heavily in the Cup, and good articles currently have a relatively fast turnaround time for reviews.
• Sp33dyphil (submissions) was the first to score points for a did you know, with Russian submarine K-114 Tula. Military history is another subject which has seen a lot of Cup activity.
• Sp33dyphil (submissions) is also the first person to successfully claim bonus points. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is now a good article, and was eligible for bonus points because the subject was covered on more than 20 other Wikipedias at the start of the competition. It is fantastic to see bonus points being claimed so early!
• Speciate (submissions) was the first to score points for an In the News entry, with Paedophryne amauensis. The lead image from the article was also used on the main page for a time, and it's certainly eye-catching!
• Jivesh boodhun (submissions) was the first to score points for a featured article, and is, at the moment, the only competitor to claim for one. The article, "Halo" (Beyoncé Knowles song), was also worth double points because of its wide coverage. While this is an article that Jivesh and others have worked on for some time, it is undeniable that he has put considerable work into it this year, pushing it over the edge.

We are yet to see any featured lists, featured topics or good topics, but this is unsurprising; firstly, the nomination processes with each of these can take some time, and, secondly, it can take a considerable amount of time to work content to this level. In a similar vein, we have seen only one featured article. The requirement that content must have been worked on this year to be eligible means that we did not expect to see these at the start of the competition. No points have been claimed for featured portals or pictures, but these are not content types which are often claimed; the former has never made a big impact on the WikiCup, while the latter has not done so since 2009's competition.

A quick rules clarification before the regular notices: If you are concerned that another user is claiming points inappropriately, please contact a judge to take a look at the article. Competitors policing one another can create a bad atmosphere, and may lead to inconsistencies and mistakes. Rest assured that we, the judges, are making an effort to check submissions, but it is possible that we will miss something. On a loosely related note: If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:23, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Coal balls

Σ - I see you've put coal balls back into the lead of Carboniferous after I had removed the link. I must confess that I hadn't come across coal balls before following your link and they turn out to be pretty intriguing things which deserve the quality article which you've constructed for them, and they very much ought to be linked in from the Carboniferous page but are they so important to the Carboniferous that they should be mentioned in the lead paragraph? I had been seeking in my earlier edit of the paragraph to establish a link between the name of this period/system and the presence of coal within it - but coal balls are, despite the name, not even made from coal. Would it not be better to link them under another section - perhaps '5 - Life' (and an improved section 4) which is where their real value seems to be? Mind you, the whole Carboniferous article is in need of smartening up and more structure introduced into that section as well as others. cheers Geopersona (talk) 06:35, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Good points. I've reverted myself. →Στc. 08:47, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

I've added it to the "Plants" section. I'll see if I can work on it later. →Στc. 08:52, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Resource request

Hi. Would you note at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request#Botanical Gazette whether you have accessed the file successfully, so that the section can be marked as resolved? Thanks, Goodvac (talk) 23:42, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Here's to coal, and you!

	The under-appreciated barnstar
	Some people, and some balls for that matter, get all kinds of credit. But it's the people, and balls, that go unnoticed that really make the world go round. Here's to those balls, and to you. Ocaasi t | c 01:43, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

sorry

I just wanted to create an arctile on a musician im really sorry — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thearticleupdater20 (talk • contribs) 09:44, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

User:lowercase sigmabot

Thanks for your invention! Drmies (talk) 17:38, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for thanking me for my invention. →Στc. 21:52, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

BOT problem

Hi, the BOT appears to be doubling up on protection templates. This edit added a template where there was already a {{pp-semi}} on the article, need to combine the instances of the protection templates rather than just adding another one. Keith D (talk) 20:04, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do. →Στc. 21:52, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

>>> regex = re.compile(r"(\{\{(m(ove)?protect(ed)?|pp-move-?[a-z]*|(s(emi)?protect(ed)?[0-9]?|pp-(protected|semi|vandalism|blp|template|sock|indef|protected|office|reset)-?[a-z]*)\|?)\|?[^}]*\}\}\n?)", re.I)
>>> regex.findall("Lorem ipsum and {{pp-semi|small=yes}} somewhere.")
[('{{pp-semi|small=yes}}', 'pp-semi|', '', '', 'pp-semi', '', '', 'semi')]

As can be seen from the above, the regex the bot uses works well. I would blame that particular edit on the close time difference between Tinton5's tag and the bot's tag, which was only 123 edits apart.

I hope this addresses your concerns. →Στc. 22:37, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for looking. Sorry cannot understand what the regex is doing. Keith D (talk) 22:55, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

I am currently attempting to make the regex more human-readable. Sorry for the confusion, →Στc. 22:56, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Manning Raper

I don't see why the article Manning Raper fall under CSD G10. It looks more to me like an A1. Please clarify for me.Themself (talk) 23:50, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

I shall. From WP:CSD#G10, These "attack pages" may include libel, legal threats, material intended purely to harass or intimidate a person or biographical material about a living person that is entirely negative in tone and unsourced. These pages should be speedily deleted when there is no neutral version in the page history to revert to. Both the page title and page content may be taken into account in assessing an attack. Articles about living people deleted under this criterion should not be restored or recreated by any editor until the biographical article standards are met. I doubt that anyone would want to be referred to as a "raper", and thus tagged it as G10. →Στc. 23:54, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

I was thinking that Raper was a last name.Themself (talk) 23:56, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

I was thinking that Raper was someone who committed rape. →Στc. 02:06, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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AfD and PROD

Hi Sigma. Awhile back you got either an AfD or PROD notification, and it was during one of the template testing project's experiments. If you could go here and leave us some feedback about what you think about the new versions of the templates we tested (there are links to the templates), that would be very useful. (You can also email me at swallingwikimedia.org if you want.) Thanks! Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 01:01, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Protected redirects

Sigma, there seems to be a problem with Lowercase Sigmabot. When a redirect page is semi-protected, the bot adds the protection template. This breaks the redirect. Could this be stopped? Calabe1992 03:57, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

This should not and does not break the redirect. →Στc. 06:29, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Ah, you're right. I should look deeper next time, sorry. Fixed. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 07:54, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012

Hi folks. The students are going to become active soon. We could use some input in these areas:

• Wikipedia talk:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012#Universal banner

(Input)

• Wikipedia:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012/Article management

(Your ticks)

• Wikipedia:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012/Article template

(Improvements)

Many thanks. (For those up to speed, pls consider this post just a CC) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:13, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Brookesia micra

The DYK project (nominate) 22:01, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

protection notice problem

{{Cite Appletons'}} was protected from vandalism by Bongwarrior. This bot came around later and tacked on a notice that introduced a linefeed and caused the template to malfunction. In bulleted lists it swallowed the bullet. I edited {{Cite Appletons'}} to remove the linefeed, but the bot should be fixed. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 14:31, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

yellow Dubmarine

I am trying to edit the page to allow it to conform to guidelines, why has it been tagged for deletion? can you help me edit it so it does not get deleted? please

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pchorney (talk • contribs) 21:04, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Who and or what determines what is notable? Yellow Dubmarine is a national touring act playing major music festivals and they are not considered notable? Where is the notable standard? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pchorney (talk • contribs) 21:15, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For doing a great job on articles that need to be speedily deleted. Hghyux (talk) 21:37, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Message

Hello. You have a new message at Wikipedia talk:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012#Topic list - duplicate checking's talk page. 13:49, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Question

Thank you for your help :)

I would like to ask, does any page already reviewed? or need a reviewer to confirm it? I've make articles: Sakib & Ayasrah

thanks in advance --Historyfeelings - talk 21:38, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

I've tagged Sakib for copyediting. →Στc. 09:10, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Adolf Carl Noé

The DYK project (nominate) 07:46, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	Well, brilliant, that's debatable, but Lowercase sigmabot has made my life a lot easier. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 19:25, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for thanking me again. →Στc. 02:25, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

GA log question

I didn't see STRAT-X in Wikipedia:Good articles/Log or in the list of History Good Articles. Does a bot add the article to those lists? Pine^talk 10:15, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

It appears that I forgot to add the article. Thank you for reminding me. →Στc. 00:50, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

McAdam High School

I stubified this. Bearian (talk) 01:52, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012/Article management

If you are going to add some ticks, now's the time, so the others will know what needs doing. Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:22, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

For the editor who has everything.

Don't roll it! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:30, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Salute

• And this other video he talk about Afro-Cuban jazz he let to know to everybody Mario Bauza created the Afro-Cuban jazz in 1943 and after that Gillespie adapted that music and 1947 with the Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo. I wait for your answer thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.98.137.49 (talk) 01:56, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Content on Wikipedia needs to be referenced. →Στc. 02:12, 29 February 2012 (UTC)