User talk:Σ/Archive/2012/January

Your bot & editing templates

When lowercase sigmabot is adding protection templates on template pages, could these be added at the bottom of the page rather than at the top as this sometimes causes spacing issues. Also, if the template already includes {{documentation}} then there's no need to add the protection template as the documentation template does it automatically. -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:26, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

The bot currently checks if a template contains {{doc before editing, and if it doesn't, adds the noincluded template at the top of the page without any new lines, as seen in this edit. Adding the template to the bottom of the page will be simple, but checking the page for the many redirects to {{documentation}} will be annoying. →Στc. 20:17, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

There's only one other to check for which is {{Template doc}} -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:52, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

If that's the only other one, it shouldn't be too hard. I'll see what I can do. →Στc. 21:17, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2012 WikiCup

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My watchlist is full of your edit wars with your bot

It's almost funny. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 00:11, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Hehe... :P I've updated the code, so it should be over by the next run. →Στc. 00:13, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Honey-Bump Bear

Hi Σ. Just to let you know, you tagged this as a hoax but it's not actually a hoax. See here and here for example. I didn't recreate the article because the notability looks dubious to me, but thought I would let you know. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 04:47, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

I will be more careful in the future. →Στc. 09:08, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Minimalist shoes page

Hey, I removed the CSD G11 tag you put on this page and replaced it with a PROD, as after reading through it, it turns out to not be about a company (though I'll admit I almost tagged it the same way at first). Just thought you might want to know. By the way, what's your userpage locked for, lots of vandalism?  dalahäst ^(talk) 01:10, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your care in new page patrolling. I'm sure you are very accurate with your CSD tags. Do note, however, that G11 is allowed for all types of promotion, in this case, promotion of a point of view. As such, I will restore the tag alongside your PROD.

Oh, and my userpage is locked because I asked an admin at WP:RPP for it. And yes, it received vandalism in the past. Thanks, →Στc. 01:26, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Σ. You have new messages at Dalahäst's talk page.
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 dalahäst ^(talk) 03:41, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Images by death of person in image

I thought I would let you know something I notice on one of the images you uploaded. (File:Marx and Engels.jpg). This is just a user giving some unsolicited advice, so please don't take offense. That isn't my intention.

I noticed the justification for your assumption that the image is in the Pubic domain is biased on them being "Long dead". It seems to me that you suggest is that these people far exceed that "Unknown" Author rule for pubic domain.

While you are correct, that this image is PD, the justification as acutely just barely true (by only 9 years). Per us copyright rules "Works of unknown authors or where the author's death date is unknown are copyrighted until the shorter of 95 years since the first publication or 120 years since their creation"- See 17 USC 302. Threfore the image has to be 120 years old. If this photo had been of only Engels, it would have actually been copyrighted, as he died in 1895, or less then 120 year ago. Marx saved this image as he died in 1883.

If you see commons:Template:PD-US-unpublished it better explains when you can assume that an image is PD based on the death of the subjects.--ARTEST4ECHO (^talk/_contribs) 19:47, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Images by death of person in image

I thought I would let you know something I notice on one of the images you uploaded. (File:Marx and Engels.jpg). This is just a user giving some unsolicited advice, so please don't take offense. That isn't my intention.

I noticed the justification for your assumption that the image is in the Pubic domain is biased on them being "Long dead". It seems to me that you suggest is that these people far exceed that "Unknown" Author rule for pubic domain.

While you are correct, that this image is PD, the justification as acutely just barely true (by only 9 years). Per us copyright rules "Works of unknown authors or where the author's death date is unknown are copyrighted until the shorter of 95 years since the first publication or 120 years since their creation"- See 17 USC 302. Threfore the image has to be 120 years old. If this photo had been of only Engels, it would have actually been copyrighted, as he died in 1895, or less then 120 year ago. Marx saved this image as he died in 1883.

If you see commons:Template:PD-US-unpublished it better explains when you can assume that an image is PD based on the death of the subjects.--ARTEST4ECHO (^talk/_contribs) 19:47, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

lowercase sigmabot

Can you review the edits made by your bot over the last couple of days at American Civil Liberties Union (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)? It seems to be periodically adding a blank line instead of a "protected" template. Thanks. Fat&Happy (talk) 00:34, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

The page had [move=autoconfirmed], and the template the bot adds will not add {{pp-move}} in those cases. The bot should skip pages that are [move=autoconfirmed] and are without other templates now. →Στc. 01:42, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Thx. Fat&Happy (talk) 02:12, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

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Holne Chase Primary School

G'day. When you decide to redirect a school article to its locality (which is fine, by the way), could you please make sure that you include some detail in the target article? Were someone to search for Holne Chase Primary School, being redirected to an article with no apparent connection to their search terms isn't... Great. :) Cheers.

I've done what I can at West Bletchley, but I have no knowledge of the area so I might be wrong. If you're more knowledgeable, could you please review and fix my work? ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 14:19, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

I don't think I could do any better than what you've done, and will remember this in the future.

This is completely unrelated, but could you please change the vertical bar in your signature to &124;? It can otherwise break templates. →Στc. 22:06, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Ah, yeah. Sure. Fixed. Cheers. :) ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 22:53, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

San Francisco meetup at WMF headquarters

Hi Σ,

I just wanted to give you a heads-up about the next wiki-meetup happening in SF. It'll be located at our very own Wikimedia Foundation offices, and we'd love it if some local editors who are new to the meetup scene came and got some free lunch with us :) Please sign up on the meetup page if you're interested in attending, and I hope to see you soon! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 00:51, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Michio Kaku

I have reverted your change. "Japanese American" is not a nationality. – ukexpat (talk) 14:46, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

John Jacobson

You're a ridiculously experienced editor. How could you tag the page John Jacobson under A7 in literally the same minute the user created it? Isn't it possible the author was going to add more material to the article (as, in fact, they did)? This seem very bitey to me. Qwyrxian (talk) 07:08, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Looking at Special:NewPages, one always finds many "XYZ is a supremely famous YouTuber" articles every day. Almost all of them are children creating autobiographies, and it eventually sinks into a patroller's skin to quickly A7 an article if the creator wants a person to be known for being a popular uploader of YouTube videos, rather than being on two television commercials and a talent show. I will remind myself to try breaking this habit, though. →Στc. 09:42, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Seconded. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 10:05, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Hmm... bin a bit quick on't trigger again have we? ;) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:37, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

DDR

Thanks for pointing that out. I would never have guessed that page is one of our most high traffic articles. Nevertheless, editing seems to be limited to a handful of edit warriors (in GF of course) ! Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:40, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Weird Woman warning

Hi I am a regular Wikpedia user. I'm afraid I don't understand your objection to the information I included on this page. Could you explain more fully? Thankyou — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.33.115.194 (talk) 23:53, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

I did not make any edit of any sort to the Weird Woman article. You must have mistaken me for The Mark of the Beast (talk · contribs). I will notify him of your query, if that helps. →Στc. 00:08, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Lowercase sigmabot adding pp-semi-indef without noinclude

[1] caused problems because it wasn't noincluded. See Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#User page incorectly categorised as semi-protected. [2] and [3] were similar. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:17, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

 Done →Στc. 00:08, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

ANI

Hi Σ. This is a courtesy notice that I mentioned you at ANI regarding an issue involving MarkAlexisGabriel. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 12:21, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Update: new user warning test results available

Hi WP:UWTEST member, we wanted to share a quick update on the status of the project. Here's the skinny:

1. We're happy to say we have a new round of testing results available! Since there are tests on several Wikipedias, we're collecting all results at the project page on Meta. We've also now got some help from Wikimedia Foundation data analyst Ryan Faulkner, and should have more test results in the coming weeks.
2. Last but not least, check out the four tests currently running at the documentation page.

Thanks for your interest, and don't hesitate to drop by the talk page if you have a suggestion or question. Maryana (WMF) (talk) 19:19, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Barnstar

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Thank you

Dear Σ

Thank you for helping me and sending a return reply.Ljqt (talk) 01:07, 23 January 2012 (UTC) (Ljqt (talk) 01:07, 23 January 2012 (UTC)). ljtamez@aol.com

A beer for you!

Hi ∑. I'm taking a break for a while. Dunno how long it will be. Keep the wheels turning, friend! Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:16, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

What interests me is why so many people on my watchlist have taken wikibreaks... Well, I hope I can see you next month. Have a good break. →Στc. 10:22, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Yup, and more! No prize for guessing why (No, it's not the SOPA stuff) ... but two days ago there was a huge drop in edits, and my 11,500 watchlist was as quite as a church on a Friday afternoon. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:45, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

What's the reason then? --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 11:25, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you for creating the Checklinks script -- there's no need to visit the tool's main page to run it anymore :) --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 07:48, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Hola

Peppermint. 67.42.95.47 (talk) 05:57, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Reverting banned users

Hello. Please don't blindly revert edits by banned users, unless you have a very, very good reason to do so. Edits like this one and this one are perfectly valid, and as such I have reverted your reversions. --Conti|✉ 22:24, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: David R. Maracle Discography

Hello Σ. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of David R. Maracle Discography, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Discographies are technically not musical recordings, making this not an A9. Thank you. Courcelles 04:32, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

It had been previously deleted twice as A9, with the same content, so I thought it could be deleted as A9 again. →Στc. 04:33, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

NNU Class Project - Winter 2012

Please consider adding your name at: Wikipedia:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012

Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:00, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	This whole game of beating MJ94 at NPP is getting old... MJ94 (talk) 05:49, 31 January 2012 (UTC)