User talk:Jogers/AWB

I will reply here to any comments or suggestions. Jogers (talk) 15:38, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

"<nowiki></nowiki>"

[copied from User talk:Jogers]

Just Curious if in this edit you added the extra line or if AWB added the extra line because they have 2 sequential AWB edits so it seems strange AWB would find more white space to fix a second time around. also is there a reason the page has "<nowiki></nowiki>" (try to say that 6 times fast). I was wondering why you are removing it. Because often Templates are copied from page to page. (such as the Alternative disambiguation link multiples rapidly. Could the nowiki thing be so that when the template is copied and somebody wants to add a review it doesn't try to do something else or is this hear for no reason)--E-Bod 22:52, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I added the extra line manually. I find the page easier to edit if there is a line between the infobox and the rest of the article. It doesn't change the way it is rendered. The <nowiki></nowiki> stuff used to be mandatory in order to display the reviews section correctly so it appeared in the guidelines about the album infobox use. Now, it's no longer necessary. Moreover, the reviews section is now optional and removing the <nowiki></nowiki> prevents it from showing up in case there are no reviews listed. Jogers (talk) 09:15, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Miscellaneous

• #15 - #18, there may be some formats that don't pipe, i.e. CD, LP etc. MightyMoose22 ^{>Abort, Retry, Fail?_} 23:18, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Good point. Thanks. Jogers (talk) 23:43, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Thoughts

• Let's see...
  • So we're not eliminating Rate Your Music links entirely, yet?
  • To italicize titles, you could always search for things like " [[NME]] " or " [[NME|New Music Entertainment]] " (surrounded by spaces).
  • I guess we haven't gotten anywhere with the question of stars yet...
  • Keep an eye out for "[[Album (music)|Album]]" links; might as well update these.

–Unint 02:50, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• The Rate Your Music links should already be eliminated. I used this setting before I started to remove them. I think I've figured out how to remove any remaining with regular expression.
• Brilliant idea! Thanks a lot :-)
• I'm not going to touch the stars. It's too controversial.
• I wasn't sure whether to change [[Album (music)|Album]] to [[Album]] or not because of this. Perhaps it would be OK as a supplementary change, though?

Thank you for the feedback. Jogers (talk) 09:26, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

mm:ss

I guess there aren't many of these around that need fixing, but if you want I can send you the regex code I used for that. --Fritz S. (Talk) 15:57, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Please go ahead. There are few of these left from the converted infoboxes and I happen to fix them by hand from time to time. Jogers (talk) 16:52, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Okay, here it is. Find:

\ ((\[\[(M|m)inutes?\|(mins?|m)\]\])|(\[\[((M|m)inutes?|mins?|m)\]\])|(((M|m)inutes?|mins?|m)))\,?\ ([0-9]{2}|\?\??)\ ?(\[\[(S|s)econds?\|(secs?|s)\]\]|\[\[((S|s)econds?|secs?|s)\]\]|((S|s)econds?|secs?|s))

Replace with:

:$11

--Fritz S. (Talk) 12:11, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Jogers (talk) 13:36, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Personnel → Credits

Since the Project guideline was recently changed and many articles still use the old Personnel heading instead of the new Credits, I think it would be helpful to add that, too. --Fritz S. (Talk) 12:13, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I added this. Jogers (talk) 13:37, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Download settings

I just had another idea: Could you maybe upload your settings somewhere... The longer the page gets the harder it will be to copy it all to AWB. --Fritz S. (Talk) 16:23, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Here they are: settings.xml. There are some more regexes there because I'm experimenting with new features. Jogers (talk) 16:51, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. --Fritz S. (Talk) 19:48, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Personnel / Credits

[copied from User talk:Jogers]

Is there any particular reason why the perfectly adequate term "Personnel" has been replaced with the overly general "Credits" on so many album pages? It seems totally pointless and in no way an improvement. Bretonbanquet 19:59, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

I was changing "Personnel" to "Credits" because I was asked to do so here. It seems that it became a standard at WikiProject Albums after rather brief discussion some time ago. To be honest, I'm indifferent to the matter bacause I'm not a native English speaker and I don't really know which term is better. I didn't mean to do anything controversial with AWB so I'm stopping to make this change for now. Please consider discussing this at WikiProject Albums because if the term "Personnel" is somehow more adequate it should be restored to the guideline. Regards, Jogers (talk) 20:24, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

OK Thanks for your reply. My opinions aren't going to be of interest to anyone else, I suspect, but I'll try. Thanks again. Bretonbanquet 21:10, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Template move

I suppose you'll be wanting to add redirect evasion to the list, now. –Unint 22:34, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Good idea, thanks. Jogers (talk) 11:30, 7 July 2006 (UTC)