User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2007 December

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Congrats

Hey, nice work for holding the record for most edits. More than 100, 000?! Wikitank (talk) 05:31, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Thaks Wikitank. Rich Farmbrough, 10:26 23 November 2007 (GMT).

Have you really nothing better to do? The H-Man2 (talk) 19:41, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Um... the retort is obvious... Rich Farmbrough, 23:33 25 November 2007 (GMT).

Cleanup Templates

I wasn't aware that I had subst'd any cleanup templates. While patrolling Newpages, I have a file I use to cut and paste common templates and usually just paste them exactly so. ((unreferenced}}, {{fact}}, {{cleanup}}, etc. I may, on on occasion add a date to the template. I can't recall any case where I've done {{subst:unreferenced}} or other such substitution. If I did, it was entirely unintentional. Can you give me an example? Thanks ++Arx Fortis (talk) 15:23, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

SmackBot and {{Fact}} dating

I was wondering whether SmackBot corrects common mistakes in the date parameter for {{Fact}} and other templates, such as using Nov 2007 rather than November 2007. A look down the list at Special:Wantedcategories suggests that this would be a simple addition for the bot if it doesn't do it already. Harryboyles 22:59, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

It does fix some of these errors, however it's not run against non-existent categories... Rich Farmbrough, 09:50 24 November 2007 (GMT).

It falls under the same heading, so I'm going to put it here. Is there a way to stop Smackbot from tagging articles using {{inuse}}? My edits were not personally affected, but a page on my watchlist was. It's just a thought. Andrew⁶⁴⁷ 12:40, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback! Andrew⁶⁴⁷ 12:52, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

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Reference(s)

Why does SmackBot change "Reference" to "References" even if there is only one reference in the section? Is this intended behavior? Michael Slone (talk) 19:22, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Query

Hey Rich. What was it on the Chris Hawkins article promotional photograph query I left here for you which didn't seem to deserve a reply ? Thanks. -- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 00:11, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Rich, very much. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 15:32, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

RE: Cleanup templates

Just to let you know that most cleanup templates, like "unreferenced", "fact", "cleanup", "expand" etc., are best not "subst"ed , (e.g.Psychopathics from Outer Space 3). See WP:SUBST for more details. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 09:42 25 November 2007 (GMT).

Thanks for the heads up! I'm not that involved in mainspace editing; I just revert vandals. I should probably read up on the policies and guidelines soon. Thanks again, Master of Puppets ^{Care to share?} 05:24, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

On User talk:76.111.250.140

He's deleting his warnings. Again. E Wing (talk) 00:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

The Artical of Reindeer Bill you edited...

Hi. Where did you get the information that Reindeer bill killed KC Morgan? I am very curious because KC Morgan was in my family many many years ago and his murder was never solved. Please please please contact me back at candibear955@tmail.com. This is very important so please get back to me asap!

Thank You!!

Erin— Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.3.43.187 (talk • contribs)

The edits [1] and [2] were not due to SmackBot, but to anonymous editors. The edits have been reverted (not by me), since they were almost certainly baseless vandalism. Michael Slone (talk) 06:01, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Tony Chappel

The above is the correct spelling. Sorry I got a bit confused about the correct spelling, but all the information in it is correct I can assure you. I used it as a bit of a tester really so I can get more familiar with wikipedia in general, and i'm going to start writing more useful articles. Samasnookerfan 12:59, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Template:CompactTOC8

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Strange edits by Smackbot

I just reverted a couple of edits by Smackbot, where it was messing up subtitles by replacing 'Operations==' with 'operations'. See diffs here and here. Could you please work out what the glitch is here, and try to fix it? Thanks in advance. Terraxos 20:35, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I too have just noticed this error in a bunch of US Navy ship articles such as [3]. I've been trying to cleanup these articles myself, however it seems I might be doing so for a while. Would it be possible to get SmackBot to correct this problem? -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 21:50, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes of course. Rich Farmbrough, 22:29 3 December 2007 (GMT).

Now running. Rich Farmbrough, 09:42 4 December 2007 (GMT).

All done. Rich Farmbrough, 18:47 5 December 2007 (GMT).

SmackBot

• Is the use of <references /> now deprecated? I notice your Bot is changing <references /> to {{reflist}}. I thought that in stubs with just a few refs., <references /> was still OK. JGHowes ^talk - 18:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

No, I actually prefer <references />. The change is part of WP:AWB's general fixes, and for this reason I have turned off "general fixes" in my main "date maintenance tags" run. However, on balance, with the standard headers I decided that the type of article is more likely to benefit from the general fixes. I have also asked the AWB developers to remove this particular feature.

(Note the reason I prefer <references /> is purely the font size.) Rich Farmbrough, 18:46 5 December 2007 (GMT).

Hello

How do you link the date and year in your sig? —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  19:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I sign with ~~~ and embed the linked dates in my raw sig under preferences. Rich Farmbrough, 19:03 5 December 2007 (GMT).

OK, what does it look like though? (Sorry, despite being computer savvy on an average level, I am horrible with code.) —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  19:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Thusly ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]] [[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'', {{subst:CURRENTTIME}} [[{{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}}]] [[{{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}]] (GMT).

Sounds like it's worth a try… —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  19:12 5 December, 2007

Banco Intercontinental.

I was indiscrimately reverting his top edits due to him being a banned sock. Will ^(talk) 19:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Weird edits by smack bot (citation template)

Hey there, smack bot made some weird edits to Lyndon–Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence (see diff [4]), specifically it moved some citation template parameters out of the template and just placed them at the bottom of the page. RobHar (talk) 20:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Those links need ":" before "en", else they are interwiki. --Emijrp (talk) 21:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Correct. Or they don't need "en:" at all. So I have fixed them up. And am now looking at the other 408 cases, mostly commented out en: interwikis. Rich Farmbrough, 21:15 5 December 2007 (GMT).

Ah I see, I hadn't noticed those extra "en:"s. I looked into it and I think User:Jakob.scholbach has been adding these (possibly through some database he uses and some automated process, I'm not sure). I've informed him of this on his talk page. RobHar (talk) 23:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Merge templates

Thank you for the information. --Anthony5429 (talk) 20:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

do you read Python?

You might be interested in a bot that runs (continously, background) on the en.wikt: see wikt:User:AutoFormat/code. If you do write some Python, there may be any number of snippets you would find useful. Cheers! Robert Ullmann 15:06, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 16:47 6 December 2007 (GMT).

You edit too much, here's a stamp for you

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SmackBot

In this edit [5], SmackBot changed some {{cn}} tags to {{fact}} tags. I intentionally used cn because I know the facts are correct but want to remember to add a reference; I don't like them changing to fact, which implies there is doubt about the claims. Adding the dates is a useful function, but I believe the tag used should not be changed. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:28, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

{{Cn}} is a redirect to {{Fact}}. SmackBot canonicalises redirects - it has to deal with several hundred template names plus (well actually muliiplied by) many different valid ways of writing the templates. While I agree that "Cn" is a tad more friendly than "Fact", I really need to go with the redirect target. Since the test displayed is "citation needed" we shouldn't perhaps worry too much about this, but you could request that the canonical template have one of the other names. Rich Farmbrough, 22:35 3 December 2007 (GMT).

Thanks for the explanation. I'll try to remember to date my templates. — Carl (CBM · talk) 19:39, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

NCLEX family of articles

Hi Rich. Happy Holiday season ! Meanwhile I have been re-working a few articles on NCLEX as requested. I removed odd text by a contributor User talk:Maxbasco who had been warned about messing up the articles by someone else. The three articles in question which I had somewhat re-worked are NCLEX, NCLEX-RN, NCLEX-PN. If you could, please have a look. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 19:27, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

SmackBOT & Category:NPOV disputes

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Category:NPOV disputes seems to be filling with undated articles tagged with Template:npov-section, Template:POV-check, Template:pov-title, and presumably some of the others (and their redirects) listed at the top of the category description page. Just curious if it would be possible for Smackbot to date these as well, to keep the NPOV queue moving. Thanks for your bot work, by the way; you're picking up some of the slack from my Pearle being down for a long time. 8) -- Beland (talk) 18:02, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, this is (as you probably know) easy in principle - added those three templates, will gather in the others as I go. Rich Farmbrough, 22:57 8 December 2007 (GMT).

I've added {{POV}} and it's fourteen redirects... should get 50% of the 6000 articles this time through. Rich Farmbrough, 23:31 8 December 2007 (GMT).

Can you help answer a reference desk question?

Can you help answer this reference desk question? You added the edit about Jian squares which I was wondering about. Graham87 13:11, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I need help putting pictures

hi, i know how to edit articles but not how to put pictures. whenever i put pics, it is deleted. For example, if i want to put this http://www.afrol.com/images/persons/som_Yusuf_Kibaki.jpg what should i do? Please tell me step by step instructions (for a person that has no clue)...the help sections on wiki, are not clear to me. when uploading, there are a lot questions and options to choose for copyright type etc..and i have no clue. thanks in advance —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.247.122.251 (talk) 17:39, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

The picture you mention above is presumably copyright by afrol News, so can't be included except in special cases. Pictures you take yourself can be released under GFDL. Rich Farmbrough, 17:46 9 December 2007 (GMT). 17:46, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

thanks for reply. what are those special cases?? please give me full details.....and also are you saying all pics in wiki are uploaded only by people who took the pictures only? like the picture inside Mwai Kibaki and Meles Zenawi don't seem that way - thanks

Both are US Federal Government pics. Rich Farmbrough, 17:59 9 December 2007 (GMT).

so, what were those special cases?? please give me a hand with this issue, with more detail. or if you can, help me put a couple of pictures inside one or two articles. thanks in advance —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.247.122.251 (talk) 18:13, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

• Pictures that have been released under a suitable license (ideally public domain or GFDL) including your own
• US federal Govt images, but not logos, coats of arms, badges etc. Also not all govt agencies pix.
• Pictures where copyright has expired or was never in force
• "Fair use" where the picture is used to illustrate an article on the subject. See WP:Fair use.

That's the simple version.... Rich Farmbrough, 18:21 9 December 2007 (GMT).

i have a bunch of pictures from online. how do i know they are GFDL and how do you know a copyright for a pic has expired or never existed?? also check these examples, http://hagerfikerradio.com/images/melesg82007.jpg and http://www.tigrai.org/News/pic2007/melesclintoninit.jpg thanks a lot! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.247.122.251 (talk) 20:12, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

The front page of one site says "© Copyright 2000-2007 TIGRAINET. All rights reserved. " The other has an email address admin@hagerfikerradio.com which you could contact to find out the status. But one of the front page pitures says (file Feb 2003 AFP)" so that is definitely copyright. In fact all modern pictures will be copyright, they just may be released under certain circumstances. Rich Farmbrough, 22:14 9 December 2007 (GMT).

SmackBot

Resolved

Hi Rich, I've blocked SmackBot as it's been replacing {{NPOV}} with {{POV-statement}} which are two completely different templates. Feel free to unblock when it's corrected. Ryan Postlethwaite 18:30, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

You helped me figure out how to add citations

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... to Neil Papiano. Someone has made it so I can't continue as I find more and has wiped out what you showed me and what citations I had added. They have also filled the entire article with "citations needed." What do I do now? User:3rdEast 8 December 2007

Thank you, Rick. I appreciate it! User:3rdEast 11 December 2007 —Preceding comment was added at 22:15, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Papiano

My concern with the Papiano is not that 3rd East is an inexperienced editor. Rather, my concerns are multiple, including (i) the article reads like an advertisement for a practicing lawyer in LA, (ii) while his LA zoo donation and such may be verifiable, the claims about "representative clients," playing football for Stanford, foregoing a judgeship, gaining "favorable" outcomes for clients are not verifiable, and are written in a truly promotional way. In my opinion, the article should at least be pared back to that which is truly neutral and verifiable. Cbl62 (talk) 21:08, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree. However much of it is verifiable, we should only remove such as raises eyebrows or obvious puff. For example having a major company as a client can IMHO sit there with a "cite needed" for donkeys years, given the supported clients, but Reagan should be cited. Notice, by the way that he played football at Stanford, not necessarily for Stanford. This could be removed as trivia... Rich Farmbrough, 21:47 9 December 2007 (GMT).

I spent a fair amount of time cleaning up the article, adding considerable text with cites regarding his cases of note. I think it passes muster now.Cbl62 (talk) 00:55, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

references/ v. reflist - again

Er, didn't you agree to stop the bot converting <references/> to {{Reflist}} on account of the reduced font size (chief amongst several arguments)?

It's still doing it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bennerley_Viaduct&curid=7549486&diff=176797206&oldid=175996055

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SmackBot request

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Would it be possible to add Category:Dead-end pages to the categories SmackBot adds date tags to? The Dead End Pages project would be grateful. Thanks!--Fabrictramp (talk) 23:21, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Just to be clear, the date should be added to the {{deadend}} tag, which places stuff in Category:Dead-end pages. Obviously, time for my nap!--Fabrictramp (talk) 23:26, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Sure.Rich Farmbrough, 01:01 11 December 2007 (GMT).

Thanks much!--Fabrictramp (talk) 01:15, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

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Edits on Wikipedia

Gosh you have a lot of edits on Wikipedia. Pretty cool. Smackbot's okay too. Seeya. 203.220.12.110 (talk) 12:07, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes it's true.  :-) Rich Farmbrough, 12:51 12 December 2007 (GMT).

AfD nomination of McDonald's restaurants

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No content in Category:Uncategorized stubs from November 2007

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Restored page mistake

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It seems that you restored the page: Category:Articles with trivia sections from April 2007. This seems to be a mistake because the page contains no articles, with the exception of one article that was placed there by mistake in the first place. I have corrected the mistake and returned the article to Category:Articles with trivia sections from August 2007. If you could re-delete the page, that would be helpful. Thanks. Johnred32 (talk) 21:02, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Breaking a few templates

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SmackBot is breaking templates on a few articles, see Craig Montoya and Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. -- Michael Devore (talk) 08:07, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, actually the template itself was already broken (by me). Fixed. Rich Farmbrough, 22:56 13 December 2007 (GMT).

Good work on the one, but I afraid it's half-fixed. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is definitely unhappy about something SmackBot did in its last edit. -- Michael Devore (talk) 23:56, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Same problem, different template... Fixed, and checking the others... Thanks for letting me know. Rich Farmbrough, 00:03 14 December 2007 (GMT).

Conformism meets gimmickry

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SmackBot...

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...apparently deleted a stub template here while editing the page. I have restored the template since it's been assessed as a stub in the related Wikiprojects. Have a nice day, Rosenknospe (talk) 15:39, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

I rather susupect the rating is derived from the stub template. Rich Farmbrough, 18:13 15 December 2007 (GMT).

Cleanup templates

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Just to let you know that most cleanup templates, like "{{Unreferenced}}", "{{Fact}}" and , "{{Merge}}" etc., are best not "subst"ed . See WP:SUBST for more details. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 23:31 15 December 2007 (GMT).

Er...which page are you referring to? Pandacomics (talk) 07:00, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Foreign Exchange Dealers Coalition (FXDC). rgds, Rich Farmbrough, 12:16 16 December 2007 (GMT).

Citation needed

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I'm curious as to why your bot did the following change: [6] It doesn't affect how the article looks. --Rockfang (talk) 10:36, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

The date moves the article from the category:Articles with unsourced statements to category:Articles with unsourced statements since December 2007. The change in template name is canonicalization. Rich Farmbrough, 22:39 17 December 2007 (GMT).

Quick Smackbot query

I've noticed that Smackbot corrects headings when they're not in a standard form, which is useful. However, one thing that puzzles me is why it changes Reference to References and External Link to External Links when there is only one reference or external link. Wouldn't leaving the heading in the singular in those cases be more correct? Andrew nixon (talk) 16:08, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Psychos

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SmackBot

you people think u are getting to heaven by judging other people....our soldiers are fighting for our freedom and your right to wear and say your rediculous things...yet you picket @ their funerals....crazy people....cults aren't of God by the way....You nut cases..Judge not......I watched u guys last night and you all sound stupid.....Hey just because u know the bible doesn't mean u are going to heaven...Lucifer knows the bible front and back dumb asses...And Shirley I just thought u sounded so intelligent when u said "not a chance poopy pants" Man u people really need a freakin life...

WT.... Rich Farmbrough, 16:58 18 December 2007 (GMT).

What the heck is this!

What to my wondering eyes should appear,

not Santa and eight tiny reindeers,

but an Assiti Shards page, in a new and weird space,

suitable to be another multi-universe kind of place!

(Pardun the forced non-rhymes, but the plagerized first couplet sounds quite nice! <g>)

Anyheck, what the who!!!! (Google found that) Note the originator in history! // FrankB 01:52, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

This was some sort of test... That's all I can say. Rich Farmbrough, 16:58 18 December 2007 (GMT).

SmackBot

hi what is the target for rcom till march ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.201.17.181 (talk) 07:06, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

??Rich Farmbrough, 16:57 18 December 2007 (GMT).

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a citation needed was changed to a fact

I am writing a page about a plant that I may or may not have seen before in the language of a science that I have admired but don't know that much about so, I have been very careful to cite all of my words on this page. So, Smackbot found a {{citation needed}} that I left because I totally invented the words that were there.

I did not click on the stop part of this talk page because I am uncertain if the bot did the right thing or not. What do you think and more importantly, what is the right thing in a situation like this? -- carol 21:10, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Blue's Clues

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Rich,

SmackBot added a citation needed tag to the Blue's Clues article. Now, either it was done in error, or I made the citation incorrectly. Here's the paragraph in question:

Reception and influence

Blue's Clues premiered on September 8, 1996. It was a "smash hit," largely in due to the intensive and extensive research its producers employed. Within eighteen months of its premiere, 100% of preschoolers' parents knew about the show, an awareness comprable to "top-tier" shows like the 30-year old Sesame Street. It became the highest-rated show for preschoolers on commercial television; by 2002; 13.7 million viewed tuned in each week. In 2000, the show had generated over $1 billion in licensing products. It has received numerous awards for excellence in children's programming, educational software, and licensing, and has received nine Emmy nominations. More than ten million Blue's Clues books were in print by 2001, and over three million copies of six CD-ROM titles based on the show have sold since 1998.

Notice that there's a citation at the end of the paragraph, done in that way because the information was taken from both sources. Is there a better way to do it? Thanks for your help, and happy holidays. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 21:15, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your message, SmackBot does not generally add tags, but merely dates those that are already there. However in this case it is clear the extraordinary assertion that "100% of preschoolers' parents knew about the show" is what needs citation, and I would suggest a direct quote, since it is patently hyperbole. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 22:54 17 December 2007 (GMT).

I agree, so I went and made the change. I appreciate your input in the editing of this article; it used to be quite horrible, actually, and I believe it is much, much improved now. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 18:24, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: the block quote from Gladwell you brought up on my talk page: I wanted to blame the anonymous editor that's been vandalizing the article lately, but I discovered that it was my typing error. Good thing I haven't returned Gladwell's book to the library yet! At any rate, I went and corrected it. Thanks for catching it. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 17:35, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Fact templates

Got it. Thanks. --Mongol (talk) 16:59, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

SmackBot is great

Thank you, SmackBot, for enforcing the Manual of Style on the Archive Utility page. I somehow missed that little thing that needed fixing until SmackBot saw and fixed it. Wrldwzrd89^talk 13:55, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Lindane Advertisement

SamckBot seems to have put an "advertisement" warning on the Lindane article. Why? Rick lightburn (talk) 16:57, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I put the {{ad}} tag on there, and then SmackBot came along and just modified the tag by changing it to {{Advert|date=December 2007}} to make it easier for future editors to see when the article was tagged. Yilloslime (t) 17:47, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

reversion of SmackBot edits

I reverted this edit and this edit of SmackBot. In each case the bot changed "Reference" to "References" in a section with exactly one reference. Michael Slone (talk) 21:06, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Also reference my comment on the Smackbot talk apge noting a similar issue with singular external link sections being renamed to a plural header. - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 20:39, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, this is deliberate per the external links guidelines. Thanks for letting me know. Rich Farmbrough, 22:46 21 December 2007 (GMT).

Thank You

Your advice on a technical matter today was helpful. Thanks for cleaning up after me. I'll make other mistakes now. But not that one at least. I appreciate it. David in DC (talk) 15:36, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

SmackBot

Hi, I don't understand why when I looked up my contributions and watchlist, there was a SmackBot listed under "Garfagnana". Can you explain? I read the SmackBot page and still don't get it. Kit1066 (talk) 17:15, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you put a tag on there - {{advert}}. SB dates these tags to help administer the clean-up. Incidentally you also signed it - we don't sign on articles (with a very few exceptions - perhaps the copyvio template), only on talk pages. Rich Farmbrough, 17:34 21 December 2007 (GMT).

SmackBot and references

Could smackbot maybe not change references to reflist?[7] Gimmetrow 16:45, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Comment According to WP:FN if a list is 9 or less, it should be using "references/". 10 or more items should use "reflist". Is the bot following this guideline? --Rockfang (talk) 13:15, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I just checked, according to that example it isn't. --Rockfang (talk) 13:17, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't expect bots to go counting references, I would just like this to be left alone. Gimmetrow 01:52, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

It shouldn't be doing that anymore. I don't like reflist myself.... Rich Farmbrough, 01:55 22 December 2007 (GMT).

OK! So, why was SmackBot doing the change? Gimmetrow 01:58, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Part of AWB's usually excellent "general fixes". Has been remvoed in the latest builds, but not in the release version. Rich Farmbrough, 02:02 22 December 2007 (GMT).

Cleanup templates

Just to let you know that most cleanup templates, like "{{Unreferenced}}", "{{Fact}}" and , "{{Expand}}" etc., are best not "subst"ed . See WP:SUBST for more details. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 01:37 22 December 2007 (GMT).

Thanks -- again, unfortunately. I'll get it one day. --Rrburke^(talk) 02:49, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I meant to use Subst:Fact-now. Oops. 24.107.90.118 (talk) 19:26, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Incorrect replacements made by SmackBot

SmackBot changed page Tai Xuan Jing from [8] to [9] replacing amongst others &#x1d300; by hexadecimal

ED 8C 80

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These are not the same unicode symbols (cf. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D300.pdf).

Please, undo all changes.

--Xypron (talk) 13:52, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Done. Rich Farmbrough, 17:41 25 December 2007 (GMT).

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