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Wubbot

Hi there, wubbot recently removed an active Afd from Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Ohio. I've readded it so no harm done; but thought this may a bug you didn't know about. Cheers, §hep • ¡Talk to me! 16:55, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, I'll look into it when I get chance. the wub "?!" 14:06, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

The debate is still open and it archived it again. Thanks for the bot though. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 22:45, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

It did it again.. Would you stop the bot until the issue is resolved? Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 19:24, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

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DELSORT/Anime and manga

Hello, wub! I've been working through the page history of Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Anime and manga, listing all the stuff on our project's deletion archive. As I've worked through the history, I noticed that there was a comment at the top of the deletion sorting page stating that it was supposed to be archived by the wubbot (a comment removed at some point for unknown reasons); however, I've not seen *any* revisions in the page history belonging to the bot. After a little prodding by another project member, I decided to come ask some stuff:

1. Why didn't the wubbot ever archive the animanga deletion sorting page,
2. Is it capable of going through the page's history and listing all the discussions that were missed,
3. Does it list template and category discussions,
4. Can it even handle our archive as it is presently formatted, or would it have to be redone, and
5. What would it take to get it archiving our page?

Thanks in advance for any help! —Dinoguy1000 17:47, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi! In order then:

1. The reason I stopped the bot archiving the Anime and manga page is that it had a manual archive already, long before any of the other pages. I didn't realise this at the time of writing the bot (in fact the archiving function was something of a last minute addition). When I discovered it, it was being well maintained by members of the project, so rather than disrupting things I just told the bot to skip it. I thought that I left a message to that effect somewhere, but can't remember where.
2. I guess it would be possible to do that using a bot/script, but not mine - it would be a very different problem and probably need a completely new script. If there aren't too many left it's probably easier to do by hand.
3. No. I'm afraid that's been on my to do list almost forever now, but probably depends on me rewriting the bot entirely. My programming skills are pretty poor, and I wrote the bot as I was just starting out in Python. This is the first actually "useful" tool I've written (in any programming language!), as opposed to things for my own amusement. Hence the code is a horrible mess. So I want to go over it some time, rewrite it to be cleaner, faster and toolserver-ready, and add some new features. However things always seem to get in the way, either real life or on-wiki distractions. I've finished uni for the year and am heading out to Zürich tomorrow for a couple of months. So I'll be distracted for a while settling in and everything, but am taking my Python manual and hope to take a crack at it in the next few weeks. There's been some recent discussion on changing TfDs and CfDs to transcludable subpages, so I may wait to see how that pans out.
4. The bot can't handle the current A&M archive. However one of the features for the new bot I'm planning is improved archive pages (sortable tables rule!), and if you decide you want to use them instead I should be able to write a script to convert your current archive.
5. At the moment it's pretty unlikely I can get it to archive in your page's format. Sorry!

Hope this answers your questions, and please do prod me if I don't seem to be making any progress - I just need a bit of reminding sometimes! the wub "?!" 23:36, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey wub, thanks for your reply! Let's see now...

1. That makes sense, though I didn't know it's been archived by hand for so long...
2. All right, I kind of figured your bot wouldn't be able to handle it... Although, I've still got quite a ways to go (by my count, out of over 1000 revisions, I've only worked through around 200, then stopped while I pondered over whether and how PRODs should be listed).
3. Fair enough... Using seperate subpages for TfDs and CfDs would make the archival easier for me, too.
4. Hardly a surprise (as I noted above), though sortable tables does sound interesting... I was actually thinking of something similar myself. Could you perhaps provide a sample that I could take back to the project and see what everyone there thinks?
5. Once again, no worries. =)

Heheh, it seems most of my replies aren't really anything substantial, sorry about that. Oh, and one last question, for curiosity's sake: what does the wubbot do with multiple nominations in the same AfD? Skip them, report them to you/the project, list only the main nominated article...? Thanks for your help! —Dinoguy1000 17:03, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

~poke~ Have you looked any at making a sortable table sample for this yet, wub? —Dinoguy1000 20:37, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorry. I've been messing around with some bot code, but writing the output thing kind of comes last. Don't worry, I'll let you know when I've got something. the wub "?!" 20:43, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and in answer to your other question which I missed, it only lists the main article for multiple nominations. That's something I might try and change though. the wub "?!" 20:44, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

No problem there, take your time... I'm still working through the backlog (typically, on any given session, I add about 6-10k text to the archive, and it's typically only a month's worth of nominations... @_@ ). As for multiple nomination listings, I'm glad I don't have to write the code to attempt to detect and list them correctly, since there is no standard format stuck to with it. =P —Dinoguy1000 21:32, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

~poke²~ Just making sure you hadn't forgotten, feel free to slap me if it was unnecessary and you feel like it! ^_^ —Dinoguy1000 21:40, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

wiki-meetup

Hey, I saw from past records that you attended london wiki-meetup no. 9; if you're interested in attending again we're planning meetup 12 at the moment. Ironholds 16:53, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Would love to, but I'm out of the country. Have fun! the wub "?!" 17:53, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Leslie Satcher

I agree with your suggestion regarding the CfD for Category:Songs written by Leslie Satcher. Based on my extensive knowledge of chart history, I know that Satcher has written more than a dozen hits, but none of them were really big chart hits (a #8, a #12, and a handful of mid-30s). "Troubadour" is probably the only one out of her catalog that would deserve a page (except maybe Martina McBride's "When God-Fearin' Women Get the Blues"). Some people may be very notable per WP:MUSIC outside of their writers' scope, but only have a very small number of songwriters' credits. For instance, Keith Stegall has produced almost everything with the name Alan Jackson on it, and he's charted a handful of singles of his own, but I only see a couple songs (neither of which were cut by Alan) that have Stegall as a co-writer. Therefore, there would be no need for a Keith Stegall category either, as it would have little to no potential for growth. Writers generally get less recognition than the artists who sing the songs, so I would think that a writer would have to have a more extensive catalog to deserve a category. (For instance, if "Chrome" and "I'm Tryin'" had their own pages, I probably wouldn't have listed Anthony Smith's category at CfD, as that would have put four songs in the category instead of just two.) Ten Pound Hammer Farfel and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells• Otter chirps)} 03:23, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Ok thanks. I understand that they may not have potential for growth, but similar songs by artist categories are kept, so there is a case that these should be treated similarly. I do agree that writers normally get less recognition than performers, and this may affect their notability. Anyway, feel free to comment further at the CfD. the wub "?!" 18:06, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

I did comment at the CfD, but nobody's touching it. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells• Otter chirps • HELP!)} 17:54, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm sick of this. This CfD has gone on way too long (but don't they all). Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells• Otter chirps • HELP!)} 19:19, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Rollback Feature

I'm interested in being granted access to this feature. In my post "wp talk:Requests for rollback" (which you replied to), I explain my reason for access to this feature. I have read the wp:rollback guidelines. I've been on vacation from WP, but I have returned. Plus, I've gone broadband! (About time, my BlackBerry was faster than my dial up!) Thanks for your time. Guy M (talk) 16:50, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. :) the wub "?!" 22:43, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

RfA Thanks

Thank you for participating in my RfA, wich was successful with 73 support, 6 oppose, and 5 neutral. I'll try to be as clear as I can in my communication and to clear some of the admin backlog on images. If there is anything I can help you with, don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page! Cheers, --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:47, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

RFA thank-you

Thank-you for your support of me at my recent RFA, which was successful. I have appreciated everyone's comments and encouragement there. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 03:43, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Neolithic Revolution

Hello,

You added a {{reqdiagram}} to this page. Would you mind writing a bit more about what kind of diagram you envisage? thanks --pfctdayelise (talk) 14:32, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh, that was back when I was bulk changing {{reqimage}} to more specific tags. I must have just picked the wrong one here to be honest, looking at the article I can't see much need for a diagram. Since there's plenty of images anyway I'll remove the tag, sorry for the confusion. the wub "?!" 19:55, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Environment

Do you have Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Environment on your bot list for closing completed afd discussions? -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 20:38, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh! This is why I shouldn't think "I'll do that later, it won't take long" and not write it down somewhere. I always forget! Fixed now. the wub "?!" 21:08, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Ta. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 22:55, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Deletion sorting/Australia/archive

Hi Wub! I am learning about the deletion process and I see you do a good job maintaining Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Australia/archive. Recently I contributed to the debate on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spouse of the Prime Minister of Australia. That debate has now concluded (the result was keep) but I notice you have not yet archived it. Am I missing something? Keep up all the good work! Dolphin51 (talk) 12:14, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi, see below. Another editor didn't realise and removed a few discussions without archiving. I re-added them, the bot should pick them up when I run it later tonight. the wub "?!" 12:54, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi again Wub! I checked my contribution list for deletion debates in which I have participated, and compared it with the list of archived Australia-related debates. The following closed debates appear to have failed to make the transition to the archived list.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kylie Minogue's leaked material
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Money & You
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Piwo Fellowship
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MD (company)
I hope this helps. Dolphin51 (talk) 12:11, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the heads up. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kylie Minogue's leaked material and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Money & You don't appear to have ever been listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Australia - that has to be done manually by editors, see the top of that page for guidance. Although I'm not sure how Money & You is related to Australia. As for the other two, they seem to have suffered the same fate as above and been removed by well-meaning editors without archiving. I've dropped a note about it, and fixed up a few others that got lost. the wub "?!" 20:42, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Wub. I was obviously in error in thinking the deletion debates about Kylie Minogue and Money & You came from the Australia-related debates. Dolphin51 (talk) 00:45, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Australia

Aaaah ! - I missed the bot starting archiving this page due to the bot flag. I'll leave the rude mechanical to the task from now on. As for the admin note, thank you. Now with all the extra buttons ( inc twinkle) I think I need a wider screen - Peripitus (Talk) 12:52, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks.

For the help with the Chaser/phone number thing. Duggy 1138 (talk) 13:38, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem, thanks for pointing it out. the wub "?!" 14:09, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

FYI, the person in question seems to be back with a sockpuppet Itsmagic (talk · contribs). Nobody of Consequence (talk) 22:00, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

OK, looks like it's been dealt with. the wub "?!" 10:53, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Toolserveraccount

Hello The wub,
please send your real-name, your wikiname, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to . We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB. 18:54, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
P.S: Sorry for delay. --DaB. (talk) 18:54, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

The wub, thank you for your contribution to the discussion at my recent RfA. If ever you have any concerns about my actions, adminly or otherwise, don't hesitate to let me know. Best wishes, Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 16:54, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

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CfD nomination of Category:Siblings of Presidents of the United States

I have nominated Category:Siblings of Presidents of the United States (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 21:10, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

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We've assessed most of the articles in the project on the Version 1.0 assessment scale (the table on the project page should take a few days to update) but we need to push to get the core articles in the project up to GA status. Thanks for all your help. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help the project along. Protonk (talk) 21:13, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

I can't promise to do much, but I'd like to help out occasionally. I don't have access to my collection of codexes and White Dwarfs at the moment, which is frustrating. But if there's any admin help needed (I'm thinking particularly of providing deleted content for rewrites and/or transwikis) I'll certainly be able to assist. And hopefully I'll get more involved with working on articles in the future. the wub "?!" 00:39, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Nominated deletion of Slashed

An article to which you have contributed, Slashed has been nominated for deletion. you may contribute to this discussion at its Article for deletion page and help improve the article per Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 19:12, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

O RLY? :-) the wub "?!" 19:20, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Har har. Of course you already knew. When I posted this notice on contributor's talk pages, I did not want you to feel slighted, as your investigations have been quite superior. My feeling now is that the AfD should at least push to merging with the Ash page since your work has shown the article meets minimum WP:GNG. It was only after wishing to ask the author questions when I realized that there had been no "courtesy notification" of the AfD. I think he'd be the one to best know if this project died. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 19:55, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Of course, thanks for notifying people. :-) the wub "?!" 20:04, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

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delsort.js

The tool should now be working correctly. Sorry for the delay. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 11:42, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much. the wub "?!" 09:58, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK 2.0 Voting is open :-)

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Requesting uninvolved opinion

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Hi you signed up as being interested in being a memeber of wikimedia UK 2.0. Just a reminder the that the vote for the inital board at m:Wikimedia UK v2.0/Vote ends next Saturday (September 25th).Geni 03:17, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Officio Assassinorum

Hi, could you retrieve Officio Assassinorum and userfy it for me? The 40k Wikia currently has a cut and paste copy which doesn't satisfy the GFDL. If you retrieve it, I can export it and get a full edit history saved on Wikia. Thanks! --Falcorian ^(talk) 22:12, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I put it at User:Falcorian/Officio Assassinorum. the wub "?!" 22:50, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I've properly transwiki'd it, and have listed it for Speedy here. --Falcorian ^(talk) 01:41, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Comics and animation

The bot doesn't seem to want to archive the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew J Lewis discussion from the page. I remember this happened before but can't remember what the fix is. Sorry. Hiding T 11:25, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

OK, that was weird. It looks like a special character had crept into the link somehow, which didn't show up in the edit window but did when I pasted it into Notepad++. Somehow Wikimedia dealt with it fine and still transcluded the right page. The bot was hitting the right page and realising the debate was closed (since that relies on the pywikipedia framework), but then the extra character meant it couldn't find the right line to remove it from the list. Very strange. Anyway I fixed it simply by removing the oddity. the wub "?!" 15:34, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Good catch, I don't think I would have tried copying the text to notepad. Thank you. Hiding T 08:48, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

vandalisdm

please block this ip address, it is shared and other people wont stop vadalizing, it is irritating to use this website and suddenly get a message about someone elses vandalism —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.223.152.200 (talk) 16:59, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

I see someone blocked it already for a month. If you want, you can create an account. It's quick, easy, and you don't need to give any personal information. Then you won't be bothered by messages aimed at other people any longer, and get some other benefits too. the wub "?!" 09:45, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and cheers and that

Thanks for your praise of my work on Emmeline Pankhurst. I checked out your blog and must give you thanks for the Phil Collins/Prodigy mashup. Glorious – although I feel a bit odd for liking a PC song, even if it is mashed with Liam and the crew. Your Strong Bad redux was also nice – one of these days I'll post the remix I did of the Geddup Noise. Meantime, maybe you're into Daft Punk? Cheers. Scartol • Tok 02:46, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I can't claim credit for Phil Collins vs The Prodigy though, just found it on a website which I can't remember now. Someday I'll get round to completing some of my half-finished mashups that are lying around. I enjoyed your Daft Punk remix, and really liked "I, Neo" - I'd forgotten how cool that end fight scene is, even if the rest of the movie was pretty disappointing. the wub "?!" 09:34, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

For your kind words about old Stiffy. Much appreciated. Stronach (talk) 07:19, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

"Archiving"?

In your bot's edit summary for this edit, it says that it was archiving closed debates. It wasn't; it was just deleting them. Did the archiving part of the operation go wrong, or does "archive" have some meaning that's new to me? -- Hoary (talk) 10:23, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I see you've been manually archiving that page using a different format. The bot only lists old debates in the archived, as on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Christianity/archive for example, rather than transcluding them. So I guess it got confused. Although I thought I had put a safeguard against this kind of thing in, but clearly it doesn't work too well! Sorry for not spotting this before, and I'll remove Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Photography from the bot's workload. the wub "?!" 09:18, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Hang on, don't rush off!

Perhaps part of the problem is that this "Deletion sorting" area started off as an enterprise of the (near dormant) "WP History of photography" but that it then became photography in general and thus untied from any project.

I think that the format now used for the photography deletion archive is helpful, but it's only helpful until the number of these old AfD increases a lot, or until there are contentious (verbose, interminable) AfDs, whereupon a series of archives would be necessary (yawn). By contrast, the format of Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Christianity/archive seems a lot better. And if that way the whole business is automatable, so much the better; because few people seem concerned about any archiving of photo-related AfDs, and when I'm away I'm not sure that anyone else will attend to this little chore.

If it would be easy for you to create an archive (but where?) that your bot can use, and then restart the automation, I'd be very grateful. Presumably archiving would work by chucking new information at the foot of the file, which could consist of anything, e.g. similar entries manually converted by me from the debates that are now transcluded but that no longer would be. -- Hoary (talk) 10:13, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

OK, I'll hopefully sort it later today. I'm a muppet, I spent ages thinking how to convert it to the standard format before I realised I can just put the transclusions back on the "current" page and let the bot do its thing! the wub "?!" 10:40, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Deletion archive numbers?

Hey wub, this is something that's been nagging at me for a long time now... what are the numbers in parenthesis in the deletion archive entries? Some sort of timestamp/editcount? —Dinoguy1000 16:53, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh, I hadn't realised I never explained that anywhere! It's the size of the discussion page in bytes. I thought it would be a nice thing to have to show up particularly contentious debates. It should be more useful once I get some sortable tables working. the wub "?!" 17:36, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

WMUK Signpost story

Thanks for the help. Somehow the template got lost when someone edited the newsroom page; I've added it to the bottom there. Ral315 (talk) 00:26, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Polling templates

Hi The wub. I saw your name at TfD polling templates. Here is some [1], [2], [3], and [4]. -- Suntag ☼ 03:54, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Wubbot, wherefore art thou?

Wubbot, wherefore art thou? Your friends at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Academics and educators miss you. Send a postcard if you like. Best wishes, Pete.Hurd (talk) 07:34, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

rollback request

Hi. Could you give me rollback? I like fighting vandals (I find it meditative). It would really increase my vandal fighting efficiency. Thanks --Bucephalus (talk) 22:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK v2.0

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Education

Hi, The wubbot has failed to remove University of Limerick Law Society for some months now. TerriersFan (talk) 16:50, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I fixed it, sorry for the delay. the wub "?!" 01:05, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting it. TerriersFan (talk) 01:13, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

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Hola

i am asome —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.37.200.182 (talk) 20:55, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Our apologies

Dear The wub, We are sincerely sorry for the recent vandalism to various wikipedia articles. I have a little, brother, age 11, that got onto our computer while we were away. He started to change wikipedia articles, and by the time we got home, we had several messages from you and other admins. Our family offers you the sincerest of apologies and we hope that the wikipedia community can forgive this accident.

-Krisguy343 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Krisguy343 (talk • contribs) 23:05, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

No worries, it's good of you to apologise. I hope you (and maybe even your brother) will start to enjoy making constructive contributions here. the wub "?!" 23:50, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Sandbox

Regarding this question, isn't that what the sandbox is for, more or less? --otherlleft^{No, really, other way . . .} 15:40, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes it's for testing with nonsense or whatever, but that's ALL he's doing (apart from some article vandalism a while back). the wub "?!" 15:44, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't have an issue with warnings about attacks in the sandbox, but if he restricts himself to nonsense edits there, does it really matter? I'd rather he work out his fun and then see if he can be refactored into a useful editor. I think much of his anger has to do with being targeted for sandbox edits due to recent quirks in Huggle, and asking him to refrain from doing what the sandbox is intended for seems a bit harsh.--otherlleft^{No, really, other way . . .} 15:55, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Sigh, I don't care, I've wasted enough time on him. He's deservedly blocked for 12 hours now, hopefully that will get his attention. the wub "?!" 15:57, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I can't say that he didn't deserve it.--otherlleft^{No, really, other way . . .} 16:09, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

User:Ahumbleriot

Someone that replaces "family" with "hooker" needs a sterner warning. He's obviously adding defamatory material. Xasodfuih (talk) 00:36, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Films featuring anthropomorphic characters

Category:Films featuring anthropomorphic characters, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold (talk) 12:54, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, have replied there. the wub "?!" 13:08, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the info -- there was no notation in the edit history. So is there any way to notify the original creator? Cgingold (talk) 13:57, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

About User:Liihbdbhdshdfshdshd

I think our new friend has set up this account purely for vandalism. He/she has had enough friendly warnings now. I see you're keeping an eye on it. I don't see diplomacy going any further. Do you know how to get someone blocked? Evlekis (talk) 11:11, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Yep, clearly here just for vandalism. I blocked him myself. the wub "?!" 11:15, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Fair shout to you. Thanks. Evlekis (talk) 11:17, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Warning

• You should really warn people to put down whatever they're drinking if you're going to say things like this; that's easily the funniest thing I've read this year! — Matt Crypto 20:20, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

An article you created maybe deleted soon: Tools which can help you

The article you created: Fahrenheit (Third Album) may be deleted from Wikipedia.

There is an ongoing debate about whether your article should be deleted here:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fahrenheit (Third Album).

The faster you respond, the better chance the article you created can be saved.

Finding sources which mention the topic of your article is the very best way to avoid an article being deleted {{Findsources3}}:

Find sources for Fahrenheit (Third Album): google news recent, google news old, google books, google scholar, NYT recent, NYT old, a9, msbooks, msacademic ...You can then cite these results in the Article for deletion discussion.

Also, there are several tools and helpful editors on Wikipedia who can help you:

1. List the page up for deletion on Article Rescue Squadron. You can get help listing your page on the Article Rescue Squadron talk page.
2. You can request a mentor to help explain all of the complex rules that editors use to get a page deleted: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User. But don't wait for a mentor to respond to you before responding on the article for deletion page.
3. When trying to delete a page, veteran editors love to use a lot of rule acronyms. Don't let these acronyms intimidate you.
   Here is a list acronyms you can use yourself: WP:Deletion debate acronyms which may support the page you created being kept.
4. You can vote to merge the article into a larger or better established article on the same topic.

If your page is deleted, you still have many options available. Good luck! travb (talk) 01:07, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Carbon Fibre/Carbon Fiber

What's the wiki regulation on British/US spelling differences, and why didn't you change it to 'fibre' if it pained you do much? It would be great if wiki created a feature that allowed articles to be written in either US or British English (or any English for that matter), and then automatically displayed the page in the spelling of the viewer's choice.Mr Pillows (talk) 00:33, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry I missed this before. Check out Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English for some more information. the wub "?!" 14:40, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Bugger

Hi. If you do decide to expand this article with material from An Encyclopedia of Swearing, please expand the matching entry in our sister project Wiktionary too, to keep them in sync. It will just take a minute: Wiktionary uses the same software as Wikipedia, and the format conventions are quite obvious. Any additional information on word origins, changes in meaning, examples of current usage, related terms etc. would help to improve Wiktionary. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 14:06, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Sure. the wub "?!" 14:41, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Header

I hope you don't mind (thought I notified you, but apparently not), I borrowed your header for my userpage. I did attribute you as the original creator in the edit summary, and at the bottom of my userpage. Any objections, just tell me and I'll remove it. Thanks, — neuro^(talk) 12:42, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

No problem, glad you like it. I actually borrowed the general concept from someone else and heavily modified it, but I'm ashamed to admit I can't remember who it was anymore! the wub "?!" 12:47, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

DELSORT bot request

I just noticed your bot already does work for WP:DELSORT; if you'd like to take over this bot request feel free to claim it. Anomie⚔ 12:38, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm a little busy at the moment, hence the delayed reply. It looks like you've started already, and my pywikipedia coding is a bit rusty, so it's probably best if you finish it off. Thanks for this, it should be useful. the wub "?!" 13:31, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 2

Provisionally scheduled for February 28. Comments welcome, & seeing you there even better! Dsp13 (talk) 18:21, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Great! the wub "?!" 13:37, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Spider-Man

Hello. :) Since you have been involved in editing the article Spider-Man, I wanted to let you know that we have nominated the article for "Good Article" status. You can view the review page, and if there is anything you can do to make the article better, please do so. :) There are a number of concerns to be addressed and some work to be done, so pitch in if you are able, make any suggestions that you think might be helpful, or at least just be there for moral support. :) BOZ (talk) 01:33, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Wubbot archiving...

I think there may be a problem with the Wubbot. The last edit at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Ice hockey by the Wubbot was Jan 25th, and there are now several articles that are ready for archiving, but none have been archived since that date. I was about to archive them myself, but figured I would shout out letting you know in case there was some sort of a problem. Thanks. -Pparazorback (talk) 04:51, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Same problem here. Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Wrestling hasn't been archived since January 23, despite several debates being ready for archiving. I hope there's not a problem with the bot. It's very useful for lazy people like me. :) ♥Nici♥Vampire♥Heart♥ 08:00, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

It's been two weeks since the wubbot has cleaned out Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Academics and educators, despite its activity on the other deletion sorting pages. Any chance of finding out why and getting back to this page? —David Eppstein (talk) 18:40, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about this. It's been crashing halfway through its run and apparently not informing me as it's meant to. I've hopefully sorted it for the short term, and have been working this weekend on rewriting the bot to make it more reliable. the wub "?!" 18:57, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

It has also left a lot of old stuff at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Schools. TerriersFan (talk) 05:16, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing this! Academics and educators has now been successfully archived. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:38, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Same with wrestling! Thanks for the help. :) ♥Nici♥Vampire♥Heart♥ 09:33, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks on behalf of WP:HOCKEY, archive successful. Pparazorback (talk) 07:25, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Deletion sorting script

Hey wub, I've recently been working on a general deletion sorting script based on Template:Deltab and implementing improvements and new features from other deletion sorting scripts, with the ultimate goal of getting it included as a component of Twinkle. The script itself (which still has a long way to go) is at User:Dinoguy1000/delsort.js, and discussion for it is at User talk:Ioeth#JS request. I figured you'd be interested in this, since you do lots of work at the opposite end of deletion sorting. =) 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 04:12, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I see you found User:Jayvdb/Deletion sorting tool, which I have to admit is my tool of choice. But the code for that is quite incomprehensible to me, yours is far more readable. the wub "?!" 09:25, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Yep, I tried to track down and examine as many delsort scripts as I could, to see what might be usable. For one, mine is (currently) far simpler than the deletion sorting tool (and I'm trying to keep it as simple as I can, so I can actually keep track of what's going on (I don't know much Javascript yet =P )), and my script's syntax is highlighted (I think all the user scripts at WP:SCRIPT would benefit from an update to use <source lang="javascript"/>, but since they all seem to be protected...). Regardless, though, I intend to borrow stuff from that script (cleaning and optimizing the code to the best of my ability, of course) as I continue to develop my own version. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 20:47, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Harold Alfred Whistler

Your almost instant deletion of the stub on Whistler deprived me of a chance to improve it into an article.

I say almost instant, because I was only offline about three hours, only to return and find that the stub disappeared before I could even put a {hangon} while I tried to work it up. By the time I read the warning notice, the stub was already gone. The notice was wasted effort and an empty courtesy.

I was under the impression that time should be allowed for improvement of an article slated for deletion. Certainly, Whistler qualifies as notable, as he was honored with military decorations. A quick Google search shows enough material to at least build a Start Class article. I can usually crank out a Start Class article in a couple of days--though I must admit, my present meat world commitments would slow me to maybe a week at present.

I have become the de facto mainspring of the World War I ace bio effort. I would have appreciated the chance to save the article through expansion. I believe I could have done it.

Georgejdorner (talk) 12:22, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry about that, I should have checked more carefully and if I'd seen your contribution history I might have held off and contacted you first. But the article contained no content for over two weeks and looked to have been abandoned. The speed with which I got to it was just chance, I happened to be working through Category:Candidates for speedy deletion at the time.

I'm definitely not making any judgement on whether he was notable enough for an article, and in fact suspect that he is. So thank you for your efforts on this. Nevertheless if you want to work on articles like this, it's probably best to either add a bare minimum of information at the start, or to work on it in a subpage of your userspace. Pages that don't contain any information are useless to readers, and I subscribe to the philosophy (although it's probably somewhat less important these days) that leaving articles as redlinks encourages creation by others (perhaps those with more time).

I have restored the article framework at User:Georgejdorner/Harold Alfred Whistler for you to edit when you have time. When it's ready you can simply move it back into the main article space. I look forward to seeing the results! the wub "?!" 13:02, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. Though the deleted stub was in what has become my bailiwick, I was not the one who began and abandoned it. But, as I stated, I would have tried to save it.

At any rate, stuff happens. This stuff is unhappening, with no hard feelings, and that's a good thing all around.

Georgejdorner (talk) 19:15, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Cambridge meetup

The second Cambridge meetup is confirmed for this Saturday, 3pm, at CB2 on Norfolk Street: Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 2. Hope to see you there. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:21, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

wiki

Hi,

I noticed you've deleted Chris Gartners Wikipedia page here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Gartner Is it possible to get a copy of this information?

70.48.15.123 (talk) 16:36, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

That was a copyright violation, you can find the original text at [5] under "About Chris Gartner". the wub "?!" 12:19, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Removed page

Hi. My page on Torben Fell was removed. Could you please email it to me at bertiebtlive.co.uk. Many thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.132.121.213 (talk) 16:50, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Sent. the wub "?!" 00:15, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

CloseCFD.js

Hey, I was wondering if you could make an adjustment to your CloseCFD.js script? Normally, it works fine, but if someone adds, for example, a level 3 header to break up the discussion, the script drops everything past the break. See this example. Is this something that can be fixed? --Kbdank71 15:30, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll look into it tonight when I have my Javascript manual to hand. I'm sure it won't be too hard. the wub "?!" 15:34, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks very much. --Kbdank71 16:03, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I should have looked here first, but after growling at Kbdank71 after the problem and finding out that it was the script, I thought that before saying "there's a bug" I'd see if I could pin down the problem. So I took a look at the script and have suggested a fix: see User talk:The wub/CloseCFD.js#Sub-sections_of_debates.

Hope this helps. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:01, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the help BHG, and sorry for not getting to it sooner. Even when I did it turned out to be trickier than I expected. Hopefully it's fixed now though, let me know if there's any more trouble. the wub "?!" 00:20, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you for the help. I'll let you know if I run into any problems. --Kbdank71 01:48, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Question: can you add a horizontal rule (----) at the end of the top close line? Right under the signature, like [6]. I think that would help to set apart the result from the discussion. What do you think? --Kbdank71 13:38, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Good idea! I just did it. Btw, it's nice to be around CFD again. I haven't been there in a while but I see the old crowd is still about. :) the wub "?!" 13:52, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks. Works great! And welcome back! --Kbdank71 17:14, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:National Hockey League players with retired numbers

Category:National Hockey League players with retired numbers, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold (talk) 20:55, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day, The wub, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

LittleMountain5 ^review! 19:47, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

My comments

My comments were in no way intended towards you. And my apologies if you ever thought they were. You are (as I hope you know) someone whose seemingly tireless (and often thankless) work I respect greatly.

You should have seen the DRV close I was referring to. Then perhaps you may understand my earlier thought more.

Anyway, I have a further opinion about much of what's been going on here, but feel somewhat hamstrung with the DRV being currently open. I'll drop you a note when this is all resolved.

(See Occuli's talk page for some other info about another aspect of this DRV...)

Anyway, sorry again.

I hope you're having a great day : ) - jc37 03:03, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikimania 2010 Oxford bid

Thank you for supporting the Oxford bid to hold Wikimania 2010! We're currently in the final stages of the bid process - the jury will be announcing their decision by the 16th April. We're currently putting together the local team for the bid (who will do what if the bid wins); if you're able to be on the local team, please put your name in the appropriate place on m:Wikimania 2010/Bids/Oxford/Team. We'd also welcome anything you can do to help refine the bid in these last few days. If you have any questions, please let me or User:Seddon know. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:53, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!

Category:Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! (which you did not create) has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.

I thought I would be remiss not to bring this to your attention! :) Cgingold (talk) 08:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

:-D the wub "?!" 11:25, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposed Cambridge3 meetup

I'm proposing a lunchtime micro-do, Tuesday 28 April. Any immediate thoughts to my talk page: I'll post a meetup page when we have some suggestions on venue. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:42, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello, The wub. You have new messages at TomCat4680's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Meetup confirmed

The third Cambridge meetup is confirmed for the Free Press pub, 12.30 pm on Tuesday 28 April. Charles Matthews (talk) 13:16, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

New image project

Hi. This little form letter is just a courtesy notice to let you know that a proposal to merge the projects Wikipedia:WikiProject Free images, Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use, Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration into the newly formed Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media has met with general support at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Files. Since you're on the rosters of membership in at least one of those projects, I thought you might be interested. Conversation about redirecting those projects is located here. Please participate in that discussion if you have any interest, and if you still have interest in achieving the goals of the original project, we'd love to have you join in. If you aren't interested in either the conversation or the project, please pardon the interruption. :) Thanks. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:35, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		The Defender of the Wiki may be awarded to those who have gone above and beyond to prevent Wikipedia from being used for fraudulent purposes. This barnstar is presented to The Wub, for his efforts in defending the defenseless. The true mark of great character is defending someone when there is no possible benefit to such actions. Your comments on the ANI today were brave and selfless. Thank you so much for being a part of wikipedia, you are truly an asset to this project. Ikip (talk) 15:59, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Article rescue squadron

You may be interested in the article rescue squadron, it gives editors the opportunity to help new editors, and make wikipedia a better source, all at the same time.

Hello, The wub. You have been invited to join the Article Rescue Squadron, a collaborative effort to rescue articles from deletion if they can be improved through regular editing. For more information, please visit the project page, where you can >> join << and help rescue articles tagged for deletion and rescue. Ikip (talk) 16:05, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Jim Brandstatter

On 28 April, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jim Brandstatter, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 18:46, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Article Rescue Squadron: Welcome

Glad you took up my invitation! Welcome!

Here to help articles tagged for rescue! Articles tagged for deletion and rescue Category Articles tagged for deletion and rescue not found Hi, The wub, welcome to the Article Rescue Squadron! We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying and rescuing articles that have been tagged for deletion. Every day hundreds of articles are deleted, many rightfully so. But many concern notable subjects and are poorly written, ergo fixable and should not be deleted. We try to help these articles quickly improve and address the concerns of why they are proposed for deletion. This covers a lot of ground and your help is appreciated! If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you. And once again - Welcome! Ikip (talk) 14:56, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

"Jerkin"

The article that was here before was perfectly fine. The new one dumbs it down and gives the most false information about the movement. And if deletion was because it was "not notable"... I can tell you that Jerkin is a dance movement just like krumping. And in about 2 weeks there will be a music video airing MTV/VH1/BET/etc about the movement, and there is also a film in progress about it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.90.191.141 (talk) 03:19, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

I look forward to it. Until then, or until some other mainstream media pays the slightest bit of attention to this, the article stays deleted. the wub "?!" 09:53, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Archiving for BLP AFDs

There's a backlog of closed discussions on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Living people. The wubbot hasn't edited the page in two days, it seems. لennavecia 23:13, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

It should work on the next run through, tomorrow morning. the wub "?!" 23:37, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Is it possible to have the bot do a run on the above page daily? The number of AFDs added and closed each day is quite high. At the moment, we're approaching 180 AFDs on the page, which is difficult for some systems to load. لennavecia 16:35, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Is something wrong with the bot or what? It's not archived this page in around a week. We almost up to 300 AFDs on the page, which comes close to locking browsers. لennavecia 04:17, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, there are plenty of things wrong with the bot:

1. It was never really designed to work on deletion sorting on this kind of scale
2. People keep changing back and forth what pages it's supposed to be archiving, throwing in redirects etc. despite the fact that such changes should first be discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Deletion sorting
3. Despite the existence of excellent scripts for deletion sorting, people still keep adding all sorts of malformed bits to the pages
4. The number of debates being added to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Living people is absurd. I'll start a discussion of this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Deletion sorting later on, but right now I have to rush off to work.
5. Shockingly, I have a real life and can't spend every day babysitting it.

For now I replaced the page with the CatScan link, which has the same (better?) results with far less overhead. the wub "?!" 07:45, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Aaaand - further discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Deletion sorting#Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Living people. the wub "?!" 13:40, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Strange hiccup in wubbot archiving

Wubbot seemed to have problems archiving one section from Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Disambiguations:

• This attempt removed one entry from the main
• along with adding two entries to the archive
• the one it couldn't delete deleted
• the duplicate efforts removed

Thought you might be able to debug, although if this is the only hiccup, it might be ignored. Cheers! -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:16, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

User:The wubbot/delsortlist

I've over time noticed some delsort pages that are not getting archived. here, here, here and here are a few examples. There are others. It looks like you use User:The wubbot/delsortlist as your source for what pages to archive. Is it OK for others to edit this page? If so, is there anything else that needs to be done to get the archiving rolling on missed discussion pages? If you would rather others not edit the source list, would it be OK to provide you with a list of those I find not being archived and just let you handle it? - TexasAndroid (talk) 17:57, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

I've updated it, the bot should start working on them soon. Sorry, it's something I kind've forgot to do for a while, and the changes to the other list got lost on my watchlist. the wub "?!" 12:03, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh look, someone straightaway went and redirected Arab. I don't know why I bother sometimes... the wub "?!" 07:32, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Even if one got redirected, the addition of the rest are greatly appreciated. So your "bothering" is a worthy effort, even if, for one part, it turned out to be unneeded. - TexasAndroid (talk) 13:32, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

It's been about a week since Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Academics_and_educators was archived. Is that related to this issue? Should I expect it to start up again soon or is more intervention needed? —David Eppstein (talk) 16:31, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Same for Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Wrestling, it hasn't been archived since June 21. ♥Nici♥Vampire♥Heart♥ 18:02, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Done now. Thanks! —David Eppstein (talk) 20:29, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Same here. Thanks so much! ♥Nici♥Vampire♥Heart♥ 08:50, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Cambridge meetup 4

Starting discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 4. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:24, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mahesh dilemma

This has been closed a few days back, but wubbot doesn't appear to know that, as he has been on both WP:DSI and Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Social science to archive old discussions, but hasn't got his nose around this. Can you take a look? Thx -SpacemanSpiff (talk) 16:12, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

The closer used an unusual template and forgot to subst it. I've fixed it, should get archived on the bot's next pass later this evening. the wub "?!" 17:14, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Ah, thx. I thought the Polltop template was a bit odd, but I figured it was another standard use one that I wasn't aware of. -SpacemanSpiff (talk) 17:19, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Sci Fi Channel original films

I have nominated Category:Sci Fi Channel original films (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Sci Fi Pictures original films (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 02:15, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nocturnal Breed

Hello wub, could you please close the above AfD, marking it "nominator withdrew the nomination"? The arguments brought forth, while they don't sway me very much (or "rock me like a hurricane," to stay genre-appropriate), make it seem clear that this article will be kept and there's no need taking up further space and time. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 21:28, 13 July 2009 (UTC)