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1. /Archive 1: 6 November 2006 – 23 February 2007 (link)
2. /Archive 2: 23 February 2007 – 13 April 2007 (link)
3. /Archive 3: 13 April 2007 – 20 August 2007 (link)
4. /Archive 4: 26 August 2007 – 9 November 2007 (link)
5. /Archive 5: 9 November 2007 – 18 January 2008 (link)
6. /Archive 6: 18 January 2008 – 12 June 2008 (link)
7. /Archive 7: 14 June 2008 – 15 February 2009 (link)

David Linden page

Hi. I started the entry on David Linden that you flagged, and it has since been edited by me and by at least one other person. I was wondering whether some of your concerns had been addressed. If Linden passes notability now (or if he might), could you tell me how to fix the problem of his last name beginning with a lower-case letter? I haven't figured that issue out. Scooge (talk) 23:40, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I fixed the title. See Help:Moving a page for information on how to change the title of a page. While I'm here, I'll fix up the formatting a bit as well. As for the article issues, some of them have been addressed, so I'll modify the notice accordingly. By the way, don't forget to post to my user talk page instead of my user page when you want to contact me. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 00:03, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Oops; sorry! I used to be a smart person before I started trying to work on the Wikipedia! ;) Scooge (talk) 02:17, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

And I'd guess you still are. ;) Wikipedia doesn't have the most newcomer-friendly interface, unfortunately. Also, on the scale of mistakes, posting a question to the wrong page is pretty minor when you compare it to the poor folks over at the village stocks. Hint: Don't delete the main page, crashing the servers is a bad thing, Jimbo Wales should not be blocked, and the correct title for the administrators' noticeboard is not "Wikipedia:BWAHAHAHAH". On the subject of the David Linden article again, I got rather absorbed in editing and ended up making a lot of changes, including deleting a whole section. From the perspective of someone who knows more about Linden than I do, were there any problems with the changes I made? Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 03:28, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't think so, except maybe the references to Joy McCann's blog, Little Miss Attila--though blog quotes are probably dicey in the first place. The one thing that's tricky about Linden is that because of The Accidental Mind I'm not sure he should be judged strictly as an academic, since as a "popularizer of neuroscience" he might also be sort of a pop-culture figure as well. Not sure.

I'll try not to block Jimmy Wales!  ;) Scooge (talk) 04:05, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

I didn't add any references, just formatted the external links that were already there into references with link titles. I agree that blog references are often problematic, thus why I left a {{refimprove}} tag on there. I think he would still be considered primarily an academic, though I'm not entirely sure either. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 04:19, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Pyro--I tried to upload a picture to the David Linden page, I don't think I did it right, because it didn't appear. It's a picture I took myself, and I'm perfectly willing to "donate" it to Wikipedia. But I'm not sure I came up with the right way to express it. Also, I think I need to downsize the thing and then re-upload it.

Any help or advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Or perhaps there's another editor who can help me with both the technical and the legal issues surrounding the uploading of images? Somewhere in the "quality standards" material I read that Pictures Are a Good Thing, but I have no idea how to get them to work. All best, Scooge (talk) 05:50, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

You successfully uploaded the picture to Wikipedia, and it is located at Image:Linden2007.JPG. To put it in the David Linden page, you will need to place [[Image:Linden2007.JPG]] where you want it to appear in the article. See Help:Images and other uploaded files for the technical documentation on how to use images.

However, before including the image in any article, you first need to fix the copyright issues with the image. All images on Wikipedia must be public domain, licensed under a free license, or used under the guidelines for non-free content as fair use. The license tag on the image states that it is licensed under the CC-BY-SA 3.0, an acceptable free license. However, the summary you provided states: "Taken by Joy McCann; loaned to Wikipedia for its exclusive use; copyright still held by Joy McCann, 2007." This seems to imply that the image is being provided for use by Wikipedia only, contrary to Wikipedia:Image use policy, which states:

“ Licenses which restrict the use of the media to non-profit or educational purposes only (i.e. noncommercial use only), or are given permission to only appear on Wikipedia, are not free enough for Wikipedia's usages or goals and will be deleted. ” — Wikipedia:Image use policy#Free licenses

The reason for this is that images on Wikipedia are meant to be reused widely, and images licensed for Wikipedia use only limit that. What you need to do is one of the following:

1. Remove the note under the "Summary" heading stating that copyright is still held, and note in your summary that you do, in fact, release it under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license as the Licensing section states. The image may then be used without restriction on Wikipedia.
2. Change the template used under the "Licensing" section to note that it is not under a free license and that it is being used only under fair use. In that case, you must write a fair use rationale explaining why it meets the criteria for non-free content. You will then be able to use the image only on articles specified in the rationale; likely, this will limit its use to the David Linden article only.
3. If you do not intend to do either of the above, the image cannot be used on Wikipedia. In this case, please place {{db-author}} at the top of the image page and an administrator will delete the image from Wikipedia.

Since Wikipedia is a free content project, the first option—releasing the image under a free license—is generally preferred. The second option of creating a fair use rationale for the image is difficult; fair use images must have no free equivalent that is available or could be created. Since you were able to take this picture yourself, a free version could almost certainly be created.

If you have any further questions, I suggest asking at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, a page set up to answer questions about image use. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 17:13, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! {{talkback|Scooge}} Scooge (talk) 03:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Oops; I messed up again; see my page for my response. Scooge (talk) 03:36, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Glad I was able to make things clearer. By the way, the {{talkback}} template gave an error because you need to input your username as the first parameter. Its documentation explains how to use it in more detail. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 16:54, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

ok

Just wanted to tell you that i completely agree with your stance on the article Search engine optimization. Many of the references for that article are forum posts and blog posts, which are not reliable at all. LightSpeed (talk) 21:07, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm considering putting the article up for review, if only to bring more attention to those issues. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 21:54, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

RfA Review

Hello Pyrospirit. I've noticed that you have a completed set of responses to the RfA Review question phase at User:Pyrospirit/RfA review , but they don't seem to be included on the list of responses here. If you've completed your responses, please can you head to Wikipedia:RfA Review/Question/Responses and add a link to them at the bottom of the list so that they get included in the research. We have a closing date of midnight UTC on 1st July, so please add your link before this date. Once again, thank you for taking the time to participate in the Question Phase of RfA Review.Gazimoff ^Write_Read 15:47, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Whoops, forgot to answer those. I'll make sure to get them in before the closing date. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 16:28, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Assessments of examples for the 1.0 scale

Hi Pyrospirit, thanks a lot for the assessment script, and also for your contribution to the rollout of C-Class. I would like several people to check over a random set of articles from the Start to B range, and rank them, in order to generate a carefully assessed set of examples. It's done by a set of pairwise comparisons on an Excel file with a macro (which I'd email to you), and it should take less than an hour. If you're able to do this, please can you let me know? (You can just reply here, I'll check back.) Thanks! Walkerma (talk) 04:09, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I could do that. Could you give some more specifics about what you want us to do? Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 04:15, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

The macro steps you through all of the possible article pairs, and you judge which of the two is better (in assessment terms). Then at the end, it will generate a ranking for all the articles based on how you judged them. The macro was written by User:Holon as part of his professional work. Can I send it to you by email? Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 04:49, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Go right ahead, my email is enabled. This sounds like it would be a useful tool for WikiProjects. Could it be placed on Wikipedia at some point so that WikiProjects can use it for general assessment purposes? Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 17:16, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

OK, great! I'll send it to you. I hope (end expect) that in time it could be made openly available for the world, but at present it's not, until papers/grants are completed I expect. Walkerma (talk) 16:56, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

When You Come Back

Could you maybe help out on these page with displaying references in is own section; tidy it up a bit Kelvin Martinez (talk) 21:44, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Honorific titles in popular music

I did a little code formatting and cleaned up some references. It seems that its references are already displayed in a separate section, so I'm not sure what you want me to do. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 23:54, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Template messages in my userspace

Hi, I found you via the userbox you have regarding template creation, I was wondering if you could help me regarding some template messages I have created in my userspace

• {{User:BigHairRef/GAPass}}
• {{User:BigHairRef/GAOnHold}}
• {{User:BigHairRef/GAFail}}
• {{User:BigHairRef/GA2O}}

Do you know if there's any way to make the reference to leave a message on "my" talk page (which is directly linked to my own) refer to the talk page of whichever user adds the template message to a talk page instead of the standard non-wikilinked leave a message?

If you can help I'd be most grateful. Thanks. BigHairRef | Talk 02:44, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't believe that it's technically possible to do this under the current software. What you can do instead is add a template parameter where you can enter your own username manually each time; it's not ideal, but if there's an easier way, I don't know it. To demonstrate what I'm talking about, I've done this at User:BigHairRef/GAFail. Go ahead and revert it if you don't want to use this method. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 22:42, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for trying anyway, it was just on the offchance I ever got asked about the template message but it's unlikely. I knew I could add in the optional bit for the talk page but mt knowledge for templates only just about reaches as far as basic substitution, I thought I'd get an expert in on it :D. Thanks again. BigHairRef | Talk 08:06, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Sig Help?

Can you help with my signature.. I have my own template (Template:Royalmate1/Signature) but all I get is this:

01:02, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

When I sign... Is this the right code to upload it from the template, or is it something completely different? Help as soon as you can :) Royalmate1

Using a template for your signature can place a heavy load on the servers under some circumstances, so I believe MediaWiki automatically prevents you from using templates in your signature. Just paste the contents of Template:Royalmate1/Signature into the signature box in Special:Preferences, then stop using the template. I don't think there's any way to get around this restriction, and I doubt the developers will remove it. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 02:01, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

I deleted the template and pasted it on the preferences but it still says the same thing...

Royalmate1 —Preceding undated comment was added at 21:46, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

That's odd. Did you try bypassing your browser cache? If that doesn't change anything and it's still not working, I'm not sure why it would appear like that. In that case, I recommend asking at the technical village pump. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 15:57, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

HELP

I have spent the last several days adding images to the page International decoration . The idea was to add some 40 further images to what was already there for free information for all to see now I note that it has all bee destroyed, basically vandalised by EHDI5YS. I have tried to find out about the culpret only to find that such a person does not exist (has a red link)

Is it worth it to re do this work or should one just cut and run hoping that it wont happen again? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mike subritzky (talk • contribs) 14:02, 28 August 2008

First, nothing has been destroyed. The MediaWiki software keeps a permanent record of every revision made to every page, so it takes only a few seconds to restore any past version. See Help:Page history for more information.

Second, the person who made the changes, User:EHDI5YS, does exist. His userpage is a red link because he does not have a userpage, but the account still exists. You can look at a list of all edits by this user at Special:Contributions/EHDI5YS.

Third, EHDI5YS did not "vandalize" your work. He explained why he removed some of your changes at Talk:International decoration. His reasoning is that the list should only include those recognized by and awarded to members of the United States military. This is not a matter of vandalism, but a simple matter of disagreement over the scope of the article which should be resolved by discussion on the article's talk page. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 15:24, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

Hi there,

I am not using it as content dispute tool, i have seen other people use it to use undo edits that wrong so i started to do the same, am i am right in saying this is not meant to be done? just undoing say 9 edits when 7 are are vandalism is very hard and time consuming.--Andrewcrawford (talk) 09:04, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Apologizes i misread what you had wrote, how do you install the java script then?

Thank you for telling me how to do it, i apologize for misunderstand vandalism. I have one last request can you look into the user on the list of galactik football epiosde who i reverted edits for as i gave them a message on there talk page but they never replied in stead they blanked there page and ignored it--Andrewcrawford (talk) 19:42, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi i have just used the rollback on the page list of galactik football episode but i like to check and make sure i have done it it right ie i have done it for clear vandalism and i am not sure that what was done by the ip user would be vandalism as i am still a bit unclear but the ip user did make the page form 20 odd kb down to nearly nothing over two moves, if this is what is meant by vandlism or adding very bad remarks to a page then i now understand wikipedia vandalism. thank andrew :)--Andrewcrawford (talk) 19:02, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Arena Petrol

Hi, I've seen your name at WP:ASSIST and would like to ask you for assistance/informal mediation regarding Arena Petrol. Someone called User:XJamRastafire has been insisting on changing the article to the contrary of what WP:MOS says, namely linking years to lists of trivia for no good reason and adding a flag for just purely decorative reasons. AFAIK, this should be avoided per WP:CONTEXT and WP:ICON. I know this should be a minor issue, but it has unfortunately become a big one since the conflict started and I'd rather discuss than edit war. Thanks for any help. --Eleassar ^{my talk} 08:53, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for the slow response on this. Looking at the article history and the relevant style guidelines, it seems correct not to include flag icons and date links at those places in the article. It doesn't look like anything more needs to be done at this point, as the matter seems to have been worked out on the talk page already. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 22:24, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

D&D articles for Wikipedia 0.7

Hi there!  :)

As someone who's worked on D&D and/or RPG articles before, I'm inviting you to participate in our goal to both improve articles that have been selected to be placed in the next Wikipedia DVD release, as well as nominate more to be selected for this project. Please see the WikiProject D&D talk page for more details. :) BOZ (talk) 22:12, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

hi

hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.169.123.73 (talk) 18:36, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 20:45, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Link display discussion

Would you be able to have a look at this post? I mentioned your gadget there, and I was wondering how hard it is to detect disambiguation pages? Carcharoth (talk) 00:38, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I'll take a look. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 20:39, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Scriptpackage

Hey, i m using your script package but i am having problem in tagging articles and welcoming users. Could you please help in this regard that how can i do corect it. I am using Firefox, this problem is persisting from last 2 days, before that it was working correctly but now its not working, i don't know why!!! --BurhanAhmed (talk • contribs) 13:13, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

I haven't been maintaining that script package for a while, and looking back at it, it contains some scripts that I no longer use myself. I suggest installing Friendly as a gadget. See if that fixes the problem, since Friendly is the script that provides the interface for tagging articles and welcoming users. Don't forget to remove it from your monobook.js when you turn on the gadget version.

I also recommend that you uninstall Outriggr's metadata script (User:Outriggr/metadata.js), which is no longer maintained. You can replace it with the metadata gadget at MediaWiki:Gadget-metadata.js, a heavily modified version of the script that I maintain. It has a number of improvements over the original, such as detecting more types of assessments, better compatibility with other scripts, and giving information on things such as featured or good article nominations and peer reviews. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 00:44, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Talkback!

{{tb|AzaToth|Voice of All's history script}} Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 17:50, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Image copyright problem with Image:TikiTag Reader and Tags.jpg

{{Talkback|Christopher Kraus}}

TikiTag; Needs sources

Hi, I noticed the needs sources tag was re added to the page. There are a couple major sources at the bottom, but I agree that it could use about 3 or so more, so I left the 'needs more sources' tag. An exhaustive list of news sources is available at http://www.tikitag.com/press-clippings --Christopher Kraus (talk) 21:57, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

That link could be useful for some things; however, they are only going to link to favorable reviews, so relying on that too much could introduce bias into the article. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 18:26, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Usenet

re the 1981 usenet map at Usenet. How about FURing it? Seems like a good candidate for it.

Whatever the decision, we certainly ought to keep a link to it in the references. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:19, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Sure, makes sense. Maybe we could take a screenshot and use that under fair use or something. (I don't think fair use would apply if it's in text form, since that's only for snippets of copyrighted work.) Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 18:24, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Your Beautiful Metadata Template

Hey, I use your metadata template on the English Wikipedia already. It's not available in any other project, and I was hoping that you could give me some advice on translating it into French. If you're not familiar with their grading system, it is as follows:

• Featured article (FA) → Article de qualité (AdQ)
• A-class (A) → Avancement A (A)
• Good article (GA) → Bon article (BA)
• B-class (B) → Avancement B (B)
• Start-class (Start) → Bon début (BD)
• Stub-class (Stub) → Ébauche

Thanks, obentomusubi 21:00, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't think it would be too hard to translate the script to French. To get it functioning, I would just need to modify the regular expressions for the French grading system and templates. I don't speak French, so someone else would have to translate the content that's displayed to users.

Also, could you link to the French equivalent of the {{ArticleHistory}}, {{FAC}}, {{GA nominee}}, and {{FLC}} templates? The metadata script uses these to find information on the article's current and past FA, FL, and GA status, nominations, and history, so it'd help to know these. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 22:05, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Okay, after I did some digging, here's what I found. The French Wikipedia has none of these template equivalents except for {{FAC}}, which is {{Article potentiellement de qualité}}. obentomusubi 22:42, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

I do know, though, that GA nominations (AdQ) are combined with FA nominations (BA). Thus, in the subpage, someone can say that they want to improve it for FA or GA. It's just clunked into one big thing. So I guess you could say the template for GA is also at "Article potentiellement de qualité". obentomusubi 22:51, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for leaving so many messages, but, also, the "class" parameter is translated as "avancement". obentomusubi 22:56, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Here's a barnstar for putting up with my incessant messages and for your hard work. I'll place a copy on your userpage, too. obentomusubi 23:05, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

For your savoir-faire in scripting ...
I hereby award you the Coded Award. Thanks for your great work on the metadata template which allows users to see the class of an article without having to access the main page. Your coding savvy is greatly appreciated! Sincerely, obentomusubi 23:00, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar! I'm glad you like the script.

If there's no template equivalent for {{ArticleHistory}} at the French Wikipedia, some parts of the script won't work there. I looked at some featured/good articles at fr:, and it looks like the templates for current featured/good article nominees are on the article page rather than the talk page. (I used fr:Philippe Bozon and fr:Ouragan Noel to examine how the templates are used.) It appears that fr:Modèle:Article potentiellement bon and fr:Modèle:Article potentiellement de qualité are used like {{GAN}} and {{FAC}}, respectively, except that they are placed on the article page. Since that information is already available from the article page without the script (unless I'm mistaken about the use of those templates), I'll remove the functionality designed to detect those.

I agree. I think that would be best. obentomusubi 21:16, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

A few more questions about assessment:

• What is the equivalent of peer review, if any?
• Are list, current, and future used as assessments like they are here?
• Are there are any talk page templates equivalent to {{FAR}}, {{FLRC}}, and {{GAR}} for quality reviews?
• Are there talk page templates to keep track of former AdQ's or BA's, such as {{FormerFA2}}, {{FFL}}, and {{DGA}}?
• Is there any status for lists equivalent to featured lists?

Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 16:55, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Responses:

• As far as I can see, it is Comité de lecture.
• I don't believe so, no.
• No, I don't think those templates exist on the French Wikipedia.
• I don't think those exist either. I'm sorry, I honestly think the English Wikipedia is way more advanced in that sense.
• No, I don't even think lists are counted on the assessment scale there.

Again, I apologize. I actually speak English as a first language, but I want to get involved with the French Wikipedia and learn a little bit. Hope to hear from you soon. obentomusubi 21:09, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Alright, thanks for answering all those questions. No need to apologize; a simpler assessment system actually made things quite a bit easier for me.

I have the French version of the script at User:Pyrospirit/metadata-fr.js and User:Pyrospirit/metadata-fr.css. Some of the translations I was able to figure out from context, but some is still untranslated. The things that still need translating are all in the function that starts with MetadataScript.prototype.talkAssess, on the lines that start with slogan =. All of the links should be translated already (hopefully correctly). Other than that, it should be ready for use at the French Wikipedia. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 22:36, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'll try it out right now! obentomusubi 22:39, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey, it works with one exception. On the French Wikipedia, they automatically set it to hide on all pages, so when I re-showed it in my CSS, it shows up on the Main Page, which I don't like too much. Is there a way I can get it to show on all pages except for the main page (called "Accueil")? Thanks! obentomusubi 23:21, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

I also noticed that the new pages that have no rating don't show any text except for "Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre." I programmed it to say "Un article à évaluer de Wikipedia, l'encyclopédie libre." If you have any idea why it's doing that, feel free to respond any time. obentomusubi 23:27, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

It shouldn't load on the main page; I'm not sure what's going on there. I added a line that should fix that. I also figured out why it was displaying the wrong text and fixed that, along with another bug. You shouldn't have to mess with the CSS yourself, since the script will do that automatically now. There's a new version of the script at User:Pyrospirit/metadata-fr.js that has these fixes along with your translations.

Also, I recommend that you create a separate page for it at the French Wikipedia aside from your monobook.js page. That will allow other people to use the script more easily by importing it, and it will keep your monobook.js page less cluttered. It'd probably be a good idea to do the same for the stylesheet.

Let me know if something doesn't work as expected, and I'll try to fix it. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 02:16, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Renaming CSS classes

Since you're the only one I know who actually uses the CSS classes assess-FA, assess-Category, etc, that I added to the {{FA-Class}}, {{Category-Class}}, etc, templates, you deserve a personal notification :D. As suggested at WP:VPT#Renaming CSS classes, I want to change the classnames to be entirely lowercase, that is assess-fa, assess-category, etc. I'm having a second shot at implementing the backgrounds entirely using CSS, and having them in lowercase will make it much easier to follow on from that to do things like make one unified {{class}} template that can be case-insensitive without doing any filtering on the class input to work out which case it should be in. Your script doesn't AFAIK use the classes I'm actually talking about, but you might want to rename your parallel assess-FA-text, assess-Category-text classes to match. Apologies if this causes unwanted work for you, and many thanks for maintaining such an awesome script! Happy‑melon 16:39, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

PS: I'll watch here for a while.... Happy‑melon 16:40, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Sure, I'll switch the script to use lowercase class names. Go ahead and make the change to the templates whenever you want; it'll only take me a few minutes to update the script. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 20:35, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Boldfaced title in the lead

Re [1], please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting)#Boldface. Generic, descriptive article titles do not have to be repeated verbatim in the lede, and are not boldfaced if they do. 78.34.143.199 (talk) 10:04, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

My mistake, I didn't realize that was the case. Thanks for informing me of this; I'll remove the boldface from the article's lede. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 15:48, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Liberty High

The new, unsourced additions to Liberty Senior High School are getting out of control. Most of the claims made on the page have no source whatsoever, and the ones that do are improperly cited. I noticed that you have edited it before and would like to know what to do. Rather than revert, I have attempted to contact the anonymous user and discuss it on the talk page. Please help out if you can. Thanks. --DerRichter (talk) 07:58, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I'll try cleaning up the article. Some of the unsourced claims in the article aren't encyclopedic in nature or tone anyway, so those can just be removed. Unsourced claims that are removed can always be added back into the article when a source is found, anyway. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 19:21, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I have tried to clean it up as well, but I think the page is worth watching because the IP address has no qualms about reverting others' edits. Thanks. --DerRichter (talk) 19:45, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I've added it to my watchlist. I'll work on it more later if I have time. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 21:16, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Problems with the assessment script

Hi,

The assessment script appears to have some interactin issues with [[WP:TW}}.

I have it turned on as a gadget, and have noticed that when doing NP patrol, the csd and xfd tabs from TW are missing. Turning off the assesment script allows TW to work normally.

The problem occurs only on articles that have no corresponding talk page (which is most new pages), and it is throwing the following error; assess.pageLink is undefined line 272 Mayalld (talk) 22:52, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Same happening for me. I designed the assessment script to avoid script incompatibilities, so more likely it's just an error in the assessment script breaking everything below it. I'll work on fixing it, but it might take me some time—I just switched operating systems and have yet to transfer all of my files, including the script's source code. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 03:15, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Just a small bug in the code. Fixed, and requesting an update to the gadget. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 03:50, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

That was quick! I notice that somebody backed out the change to the gadgets version in the interim. Mayalld (talk) 07:19, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, which actually caused a bit of a mess, since that change was partly to fix Internet Explorer compatibility. The new version that fixes both bugs should be updated to the gadget soon. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 19:18, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Need help, someone vandalise my user/sandbox page

Hi there. I ask some help to you because someone vadalise-deleted my user/sandbox page User:Drokstef/Sandbox under some strange motives and i don't have any idea how could someone do something like that, i mean delete a article on my page, an article which i've worked a lot of it and it has all the notable reasons to stay up. I don't know what can i do, but i ask you to help me to recover my page and my article which i consider very reliable. Thanks a lot. Drokstef (talk) 00:22, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

You contacted the admin who deleted the page shortly after posting here, and he seems to have adequately explained the situation on his talk page. I don't see what you want me to do. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 14:34, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

• The page has now been undeleted for a short time, the user has been notified that it will be nuked again in one month; the content in question has been deleted and endorsed, the user requesting help is the lead singer of the band which is the subject of the article, and has no other contributions other than promoting the band. WP:NOTMYSPACE. Guy (Help!) 21:17, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

  Yeah, that's what I gathered from what I read of the discussion. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 23:48, 15 February 2009 (UTC)