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Rich Farmbrough, 16:34 5 February 2008 (GMT).

Bot-tled fury

I originated the Franz Mercurius van Helmont page, but completely abandonned editing this beyond leaving the initial stub outline because of a radical dispute about the breach of Ignore All Rules by the Good Article team in respect of another article. They producing the hypocritical situation whereby an article which had been abandonned by the original editors (I wrote to them all) was adopted as a text in the 2007 Wikipedia for Schools, yet was dumped on as a Bad Text because it didn't meet the GA criteria for annotation. When I took it in hand attempting to annotate it as demanded, they congratulated whoever had started - me - and then insulted me when I checked I was up to scratch. In fact, as the primary sources are listed, and are simply chronicles, there's no need for annotation, the dates cited do that automatically. GA then compounded their offence by stating they didn't respect original sources, which is outright heresy to any historian. They have since withdrawn their Bad Article placard but still plaster the description page with their nonsense - my own protest has not been reacted to.

Similarly, your Bot appears to have picked on this article on NPOV grounds which it doesn't state - it's dated December and yours is the only December edit listed, so I presume it's you. Could you either substantiate why, preferably add the other viewpoint, or withdraw the appeal, please?

IMHO it's time the super-editors stopped plastering notices left, right and centre and actually addressed problems themselves, or started talking to those who had done recent edits. If you and your peers want to turn Wiki into a billbnoard, keep right on - some of the pages I've seen recently have more Project claims and complaints than real work. It's dead easy to start a Project and use that as a tool for self-aggrandisement, rather than actually commit yourself to doing some real work on it.

If you want to reply, please actually write to me - I'm jelmain at skynet . be

Well, the POV was easily removed. And the Bot just dates the tags doesn't add them. This was tagged on 17th of October, however the dated POV categories are fairly new... Rich Farmbrough, 12:11 2 February 2008 (GMT).

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Resolved

Rich Farmbrough, 18:27 9 March 2008 (GMT).

Magic Tape initial use

I am a Brazilian IP lawyer working on the Magic Tape trademark. I noticed that in the USPTO database, the first use in commerce in dated 30.08.1965, and not in 1961 as you state. See http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=gt3b7d.2.1

SmackBot

Rich, converting a list of properties of a software to prose is hard and does not make much sense IMHO, as a list is a lot easier to capture.

Hence I kindly ask you to exclude the Kolab article from being tagged by SmackBot.

Thanks, Cow0x1

Usual reply.. Rich Farmbrough, 18:27 9 March 2008 (GMT).

HEMU

Last editing on 8th March 2008, inwhich word Akbar has been removed and Humanyu has been added. This is a wrong entry. It should be reverted to Akbar, because Humanyun had died in January 1556 and Akbar was made the King at a ceremony at Kalanaur in Punjab.So when HEMU attacked and won Agra and Delhi in September-October 1556, he had a victory against Akbar's forces and not Humanyu's. Please revert this edition.

Sudhirkbhargava

Not SmackBot's edit, however the change you mention has been reverted. Rich Farmbrough, 18:32 9 March 2008 (GMT).

Bot question

Hiya, I've been thinking that I'd like to get the articles in Category:Accuracy disputes sorted by date, so that we could tell which articles have been tagged for a long time. Currently the bot seems to be adding dates to the tag properly, but we don't currently have a set of "dated" categories. Could you please advise on how we might be able to get this rearranged, so we could sort the category a bit? Thanks, Elonka 21:19, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks.  :) Now that I'm admin, one of the things I've been doing lately is trying to locate old disputes, and nudging the participants to either resolve the dispute or delete the disputed section. Having a "sorted by date" option will make it easier to find the old stuff.  :) --Elonka 21:37, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Great work! Fast turnaround too, thank you. I'll get to work on some of the older stuff. Think this would also be worth a mention at WP:AN? --Elonka 23:18, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Cleanup templates

Whoops, which article did I subst a template on? I'll go back and undo it... but the only article I see in my history for March 12th wasn't substed...? --bd_ (talk) 04:03, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Protection of Template:Content

I have turned off the cascading of the protection of {{Content}}, in accordance with the standard protection of templates. The template is still full-protected, but pages transcluded within it (such as its documentation page) are no longer covered by the protection. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:10, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, didn't mean to cascade it. Rich Farmbrough, 09:17 13 March 2008 (GMT).

re: Cleanup templates

Hi Rich, thanks for letting me know about the subst info. Could I have an example where I've incorrectly subst'd something recently, though? I'm just curious as to when/where I made that kind of mistake; I just don't recall subst'ing a cleanup-related template recently, since I've tried not to do that. Thanks for letting me know about that, anyway! :) --JamieS93 11:38, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Here, rgds, Rich Farmbrough, 11:42 13 March 2008 (GMT).

Ah, that's where I did it. Thanks for the reference link. --JamieS93 11:48, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Bot edits

Hello. Smackbot just did this - I reversed it because it obviously seemed a bit strange. Is there anything you need to look at? Best wishes, RobertG ♬ talk 18:16, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

SmackBot

Hello, I am AOEgeek!I am hosting a contest on my talk page to see if anyone can guess who I was before AOEgeek.Look at it![[1]]AOEgeek (talk) 09:01, 15 March 2008 (UTC)AOEgeek

Uh, yeah.I am.Lucky guess.And it's MKguy42192, for your information.AOEgeek (talk) 09:15, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Huh?

What are you saying?AOEgeek (talk) 09:10, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Bot bad edit

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotten.com&diff=197928727&oldid=197333825 --Xyzzyplugh (talk) 19:57, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Thnks. Fixed. Rich Farmbrough, 20:41 15 March 2008 (GMT).

Trouble with anonymous 71.111.138.30 on Homelessness in the United States article

Hi Rich. User Special:Contributions/71.111.138.30 has made some POV and unsupported assertions in at least the Homelessness in the United States. I had to revert back the changes again. Can we lock the article ? You might look into this contributor. Any suggestions ? Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 20:40, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Rich. It seems all spurious when I looked at all the anonymous contributor's contrubutions. But let's hope it's over. Im general if we have two rational parties, we can make sense of it. If not, if it's imbalanced, then there is trouble: like revert wars which I am not into. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 13:14, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

subst'ing templates

Hi, I actually didn't realize I was substituting those maintenance tags - must have done it right after I left a talk page message or something. Thanks for catching it though. I'll be more careful in the future. --Mosmof (talk) 00:17, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

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