User talk:Rich Farmbrough

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Need to report bullying on Brett Favre page

Hi Rich Farmbrough, a user Lakers89 added some material to the Brett Favre page, correct stats and he added citations and administrator Jaranda and Isotope23 keep reverting his additions and are calling him a sockpuppet, whatever the reason that info belongs there, it's correct and I was hoping you could come in and let Lakers89 additions stand, since your the best administrator on wikipedia, they are bullying by refusing to let the material be added, even though it's correct and there are added cits, they keep removing them, this is not right, wikipedia is not supposed to bully because someone wants things there way, admin Jaranda is a 18 year old from Miami and he refuses to let cited material be added, please look into this and let Lakers89 edits stand, just check the Brett Favre Page history, it tells the story, I can't edit there because Jaranda has semi protected the page, but please step in and fix this, it's turned into a reverting or editing war and for no reason, Lakers89 info is correct and cited and they should be added without this bullying by users Jaranda, PSUMark2006, AdamWeeden, Aviper2k7, King Bee, Isotope23 and MrDarcy who keep reverting his good correct info, these users have ganned up and refused to let this material be added, all others users editing and visiting the Brett Favre Page have no problems, please take the time if you could and step in and correct this situation, Thanks

Toolserveraccount

Hello Rich Farmbrough,
please send your real-name, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to . We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB.

Help please with formatting problems in Health effects arising from September 11, 2001 attacks article

Hi. I have suddenly encountered formatting problems. Please see bottom of the page of Health effects arising from the September 11, 2001 attacks re material and cluttered visible references. Thank you. Dogru144 00:30, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

PS the problem specifically appears after the references in a section entitled, "Various volunteers."

I spent quite a while tryign to fix this on my own. Thanks. Dogru144 00:33, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Just a "ref /" instead of "/ref" tag. Rich Farmbrough, 10:48 5 February 2007 (GMT).

Thank you very much for the tip. Dogru144 23:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Why delete this external link?

Hi,

I was just wondering why you removed an external link from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost ? The link in question was/is http://home.pacbell.net/dbk4297/readyboost_vista_memory.html . This a valid information page about using Vistas new ReadyBoost system. The information is correct, and seems to include much more info that any other page listed here or online by searching with Google. There are no spam links on the page, or badware either. I admit the page is not yet listed in the search sites as it just went live today.

So I was just wondering why you removed it.

Thanks in advance, Darrell —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.199.116.5 (talk) 00:34, 5 February 2007 (UTC).

I didn't remove it. Rich Farmbrough, 10:22 5 February 2007 (GMT).

Thanks!

Hi, and thanks for your speedy attention to the "Sohmer & Co." article. Glad the clean-up tag was removed, and that the article is generally acceptable. I'll do the metric conversions as soon as time permits. (Your minor revisions have been noted as a "lesson"...i.e. "DON'T CAPITALIZE UNNECESSARILY IN SECTIONS".) Thanks for teaching so tactfully!!! Prof.rick 03:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Django Reinhardt Unsourced References?

Let me get this straight, You probably wouldn't take the time to look up the references yourself,therfore you want people to tell you that the sources ARE IN THE TALK PAGE!!!! I have not added many of these, —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Robbyfoxxxx (talk • contribs) 15:25, 5 February 2007 (UTC).

No, I just dated the tag, I didn't add it. Refs should be in the article thou, not the talk page. Rich Farmbrough, 15:28 5 February 2007 (GMT).

Template facte

Hey Rick, there is a discussion over at {{fact}} about adding dates to this tag and making it go into categories by date. Only problem is that we have no idea how to add this into the code. I was just wondering if you would be willing/able to fix the template and maybe sending good ol' Smackbot on a date adding rampage. If Smackbot it too busy, let me know if you have any other ideas. I could create an account and request bot approval and go through the whole ordeal I just figured it would be easier for you since Smackbot does similar work already. Thanks! ~ Joe Jklin (T C) 16:31, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Category:All articles with unsourced statements

Do you know why Category:All articles with unsourced statements didn't seem to exist until a MascotGuy sockpuppet created it? I was hesitant to delete it, but I assumed it was uncreated for a reason that I just wasn't aware of. —tregoweth (talk) 18:13, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, the template that puts things in to it {{fact}} was only just updated. I guess Hearts saw the red category and created it as a redirect which was a reasonable guess. Rich Farmbrough, 18:15 5 February 2007 (GMT).

CHICOTW GAonhold (SmackBot)

TonyTheTiger 23:19, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can

	Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Chicago Collaboration of the Week
Sears is the current Chicago COTW In the past you have edited Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. It was the CHICOTW in the recent past. It has been placed on Good article on hold status thanks in part to your efforts. See its GA review and help us raise it towards the good article and eventually featured article classification level. The article was given good article on hold status on February 2, 2007. It will be reevaluated in between 2 and 7 days from this date. Recall that during its tenure as CHICOTW we achieved the following Improvement. See our CHICOTW Improvement History.
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Smackbot (yours?) changing tag citation needed to fact

... in the process of adding a date. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amazing_Stories&curid=255474&diff=106015772&oldid=99791258). The date may or may not be useful (in fact, adding it to tags that have been there for months or years may be a bit confusing), but I'd like to vote against changing the tag type. I have found that using 'fact' can be more combative, as editors feel that the factual accuracy is being challenged. I have had fewer disagreements when adding 'citation needed' or its variants. This also makes sense because it matches the displayed text; it helps the novice editor understand the effect and meaning of the tag. Notinasnaid 13:47, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

There is a discussion about the appropriate name (and content) here. If the general feeling is to go with citation needed/cite needed/cite-needed/citeneeded/cn then I am happy to change. Rich Farmbrough, 18:05 6 February 2007 (GMT).

SmackBot and the fact tag

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		For running this useful bot, and making my watchlist light up with many articles that have newly-dated fact tags, I award you this Barnstar (which is the first I've given, if that matters). Thanks for your contributions! JPG-GR 15:44, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Wheellock links removed...?

Smackbot has taken it into its head today to remove two links in the Wheellock article: I can't think why - the links seem useful and valid to me. Any reason you can see? Thanks
Nick Michael 16:31, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks for the editing of Wheellock. It looks much better!
Nick Michael 07:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Smackbot removing stub tag

Hi Rich. I noticed smackbot on the Barelwi page took off the stub citations. It still has a long way to go in the article. Does it use a character count argument to determine if something is a stub? I wanted to check in with you regarding this.ZaydHammoudeh 19:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Yep, it is a WP:AWB feature. I think that article has moved beyond stub status, you could put an {{expand}} or {{expand section}} tempalte in as you think necessary. Rich Farmbrough, 23:06 7 February 2007 (GMT).

Broken links on User:SmackBot page

Hi, Rich. There's no need to write back. I just want to let you know that a number of the links on the User:SmackBot page were broken because of archiving activity. (I've noticed this on other pages, and even reported it to Werdnabot, which breaks a lot of links, but I haven't heard back from Werdna.) Anyway, I searched the archives and patched them all up for you, except for a "task approval VI" link, for which I could not locate the desired target.

I did notice one odd thing. The patched links work right. But "navpops" malfunctions when I hover over any of them, probably because the links are nested two deep (nnn/xxx/yyy). I guess I'll go report that to the navpops guy.

Thanks for all your hard work! ;^> DavidCBryant 20:49, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing those links. They have moved more than once! Rich Farmbrough, 10:07 8 February 2007 (GMT).

Proposing to merge List of basic classics topics to Classics

Seeking concensus on proposed merger at Talk:Classics. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 00:11, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

deceptive phrase

I commented on a phrase you used in a recent edit -- which I think obfuscates the simple truth.

Cheers! -- Geo Swan 18:37, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Richard Farmbrough

Please explain why you have deleted biographical data from the article on Tom Marshall Bible teacher.　Ｕｓｅｍｙ他ｌｋぱげ。 Philip　Ｍａｒｓｈａｌｌ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Philip.marshall (talk • contribs) 09:05, 9 February 2007 (UTC).

I see you've been around for a while now. Please get into the habit of signing your messages on talk pages with ~~~~. Also it would have helped me if you'd left a link to Tom Marshall (Bible teacher), or even better the diff, like this. You will see clicking on the diff, that I have not removed the text, it was rather User:Slf67 who explained that it was persuant to WP:BLP. Nonetheless I have added the information back as reasonably sourced and non-controversial. Rich Farmbrough, 09:57 9 February 2007 (GMT).

P.S. Please start new threads at the end of others' talk pages not the top. Rich Farmbrough, 10:31 9 February 2007 (GMT).

Smackbot and linked section titles

I noticed in this edit that Smackbot took out all the links in the titles for the sections. While links in section titles are to be avoided, there are exceptions and this is one of them. Is there any determination that Smackbot makes in doing this or does it do this to all sections with links? I'd say the latter would be very inappropriate. Ƶ§œš¹ _{[aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]} 13:49, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

One of the often overlooked problems with links in headers is that those with preferences set to edit on clicking a header, are unable to use the links. Rich Farmbrough, 17:05 9 February 2007 (GMT).

Bots

I was wondering about these bots and how they are created. Can any registered user create one? Longbranch 21:25, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

In principle. See WP:BOTS for the restrictions. Why would you want to run one? Rich Farmbrough, 21:51 9 February 2007 (GMT).

Smackbot

Hey, your bot Smackbot is misspelling template as tmeplate in the comment section when it makes edits. Here's an example on List of YWAM bases: 17:46, December 26, 2006 SmackBot (Talk | contribs) m (replace deprecated tmeplate using AWB). Though you might want to fix that. --Davidkazuhiro 22:09, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks David, that was fixed I believe. Rich Farmbrough, 22:22 9 February 2007 (GMT).