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Video Game Project bot

New section, the other one got archived - Just a note, Giggabot listed User:JohnnyMrNinja/vgproj in the summary of the most recent edits, and I think you meant User:JohnnyMrNinja/vgproj1. I don't know if it makes much of a difference, but I thought you might want to know. JohnnyMrNinja 20:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Note to self; be more careful. (Aww, our massive thread got archived :-(!!) —Giggy 06:00, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

If you haven't already seen it, there was a bot-tagging fiasco Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval#TinucherianBot, User talk:Tinucherian#WP:Food and Drink Tagging, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Food and drink#Poorly thought out tagging. My favorite article that got tagged for WP:FOOD was, I think, Guinea pig, but there are sooo many. JohnnyMrNinja 13:45, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

I like to think I'm much more careful. ;-) (And yeah I saw it.) —Giggy 13:48, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Could the bot possibly be altered to not add the template to redirects, or to take it off redirects it comes across? JohnnyMrNinja 06:37, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Good point. Trying to think how I could do this with AWB. Not particulary sure if we're still going by the same lists. I think I'm gonna just go by the categories (User:JohnnyMrNinja/vgcats) next time I run (probs tomorrow). —Giggy 07:03, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

{{WP MMOG}} and {{WP MMO‎}} have been added to the redirect list. Also, does the bot check for more than one instance of the template on a page (perhaps the normal template and one from a redirected WP banner)? If not, that might be a useful thing to add. Sorry to keep piling it on :) JohnnyMrNinja 05:45, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

These are all of their pages User:JohnnyMrNinja/mmo. I'm getting better at making those. JohnnyMrNinja 05:57, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Cool, I'll add those templates to the checklist. user:Kingbotk/P, which I use, automatically checks for double uses, I believe. How are you (quickly) making these lists? —Giggy 06:18, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

What links here [1], showing only transclusions. Copy-and-paste into Star Office, find & replace "Talk:" with "[[", replace " (transclusion) (links)" with "]]". Not all that high-tech, but it works. JohnnyMrNinja 06:25, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Damn, good stuff. —Giggy 06:26, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Also, if anyone is ever interested, you can see "What links here" up to 500, but if you change the text in browser bar, you can bring it up to 5000. Then you can click "Next 5000". It made those previous lists much easier. JohnnyMrNinja 06:30, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Um... I didn't realize that the bot was going through all the subcategories as well. That's probably not a good idea, as Category:Lists of Star Wars characters, and Category:Lists of James Bond characters. As we have now gotten to template to properly sort Categories out automatically, I can generate a list of every single cat and sub-cat, and you can tag that list. Ideally, if the bot could go through all of the subcats of Category:Video games and Category:WikiProject Video games, and just tag the Categories themselves, I could then go through Category:Category-Class video game articles and un-tag the undesirable categories. I could then generate a list from that. Is that doable? Sorry that this keeps getting more complicated. JohnnyMrNinja 03:28, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Bloc Party

Firstly, thanks for your great copyediting here ;) But my question is: what do we do with the 404s? Their website was taken down the other day - presumably for a revamp - and most of the sources are now broken. Thoughts? weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 16:24, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Actually, they put the site back up, so it was just a case of relinking. Sorry to bother you. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 06:36, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

No worries. Generally I give it about a week and if it doesn't come back up, try http://web.archive.org —Giggy 06:18, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

July 2008 Newsletter

The July 2008 GAN Newsletter is ready for consumption. Enjoy! If you could use your little bot tool thing to send this to all of the participants, that would be excellent! Thanks! Dr. Cash (talk) 03:30, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Yep, I'll get right to it. —Giggy 06:18, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

FAC template

I finally found it! I couldn't figure out what stalled GimmeBot, and why the FAC category still included Talk:Tea & Sympathy. When you original added the fac template to the page, you did this, instead of adding {{fac}}, so it fooled the bot. How did you do that? Now I've removed it, and the articlehistory seems fine. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:21, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

The {{fac}} template was substituted, but should not have. Ruslik (talk) 19:03, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, why on earth did I substitute? Sorry about that. —Giggy 06:18, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU, Status, and you!

As you may know, the StatusBot responsible for maintaining the status of the Highly Active Users was taken offline. We now have a replacement in the Qui status system. This semi-automatic system will allow you to easily update your status page found at Special:Mypage/Status which the HAU page code is now designed to read from. If you are already using Qui (or a compatible system) - great! - no action is needed (other than remembering to update your status as necessary). If not, consider installing Qui. You can also manually update this status by changing the page text to online, offline, or busy. While it is not mandatory, the nature of HAU is that people are often seeking a quick answer from someone who is online and keeping our statuses up-to-date will assist with this. Note if you were previously using your /Status page as something other than a one-word status indicator, your HAU entry may have been set to "status=n" to correct display issues. Please clear this parameter if you change things to be "HAU compatible". Further questions can be raised at WT:HAU. This message was delivered by xenobot 23:12, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Winter In America assessment

Do you mind assessing this article? I just created it.

---Dan56 8:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

The traditional rfa thank you message

		Thank you for the support!
		Giggy, it is my honor to report that thanks in part to your support my third request for adminship passed (80/18/2). I appreciate the trust you and the WP community have in me, and I will endeovour to put my newly acquired mop and bucket to work for the community as a whole. Yours sincerly and respectfuly, TomStar81 (Talk) 02:49, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Great to see! Good luck —Giggy 06:18, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (July 2008)

• Newsletter delivered by xenobot 03:28, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
  • I'm being replaced ;-) —Giggy 06:18, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
    • lulz^. i replied (abruptly ;>) to your query at my talk. –xenocidic (talk) 12:28, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

UAA question...

Do you mind if I ask why you don't think the username User:Cheesefartlol is not offensive or disruptive? - Adolphus79 (talk) 10:37, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Noo... if you're reporting, you need to explain how it violates policy. "Clear violation of username policy" doesn't do that, since I find nothing offensive in the words "cheese", "fart", or "lol". —Giggy 10:41, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

I personally don't either, but I thought it might offend some... eh... if you don't think it's offensive, no worries... - Adolphus79 (talk) 10:43, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Sound file

Hey, would you mind uploading a song file to Wikipedia like you did with "Under the Bridge"? I know I could just download Audacity but I have no clue how to use it. I'll email it to you. Thanks, man. NSR77 ^T_C 22:00, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

It's "Disintegration" by The Cure for the album Disintegration. Everytime I try to use Audacity the sound files are static. Is that because it's an MP4? NSR77 ^T_C 15:57, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Probably; I only use MP3 so I wouldn't know. I'll get yours uploaded asap. —Giggy 03:37, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

My RFA criteria

Hello again. You stated here that you wanted to see changes I made to my admin criteria. Over a two week period, I thought carefully about what, exactly, I look for in an RFA candidate and then over another couple of weeks retooled my criteria page to become a better indication of that. I may make another couple of slight changes later on, but it's pretty much how I want it. You'll find that it still has some numbers sprinkled here and there, but since I'm left-brained, I had to leave some of them. Useight (talk) 16:50, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Heh. I don't think I have a brain on either side. ;-) Anyway it looks good. —Giggy 03:37, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: AtyndallBot

Just letting you know that the trail has concluded on AtyndallBot and your opinion in approving or rejecting the bot would be appreciated.  Atyndall93 | talk  03:39, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

I've pinged some other BAG folks to look at it since I trialled it. —Giggy 03:40, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Poison GA

I managed to address the bits you brought up, and nail them all. Btw, I never thanked you for the copyedit and subsequent FA support for Alleyway, so many thanks Giggy.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 06:30, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

No worries :-) —Giggy 06:31, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

9.0: Live GA review

Took care of most issues, commented on others. Thanks! Blackngold29 07:22, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Aimee Teegarden

Don't revert my edits on Aimee's page for the simple fact I know Aimee in real life since I am in Demolay don't delete what you think is not true.-- Zolo6 Talk