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I saw you speedy deleted this one in February 2008. I just recreated it - probably much the same. Check "What links here", for example [[Peter Odili]], scroll to the navbox "Governors of Rivers State" at the foot of the page, and you will see the usage. Also see [[Wikipedia:A navbox on every page]]. The value of a list like this is to encourage users to browse articles on related subjects. [[User:Aymatth2|Aymatth2]] ([[User talk:Aymatth2|talk]]) 21:05, 1 December 2009 (UTC) |
I saw you speedy deleted this one in February 2008. I just recreated it - probably much the same. Check "What links here", for example [[Peter Odili]], scroll to the navbox "Governors of Rivers State" at the foot of the page, and you will see the usage. Also see [[Wikipedia:A navbox on every page]]. The value of a list like this is to encourage users to browse articles on related subjects. [[User:Aymatth2|Aymatth2]] ([[User talk:Aymatth2|talk]]) 21:05, 1 December 2009 (UTC) |
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Better let it play out entirelyI think it is best that Wikipedia:ANI#Ottava_Rima_.22community.22_sanction is played out entirely instead of archiving prematurely yet again - something this topic seems to suffer from. This entire discussion is the result of a 6 hour open Community Sanction thread which was closed where a mere 5 votes were cast (Frankly i assume most contributers involved weren't even online). Eventually this lead to Jehochman issuing a community sanction, which was opposed at several other pages including the community sanction page, a few talk pages and now ANI. This entire thing now has 5 archived threads, all of which archival's seemed to spark new threads instead of returning peace. I would therefor suggest that we let this one burn out or fade away so that this situation is finally done with. If not we will likely only see more threads created or at least some non vented negative comments on random talk pages which could possibly spark the entire thing all over again. At least everything is discussed in one place for now. Excirial (Contact me,Contribs) 19:37, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Just for the recordI think it was you that was talking about people whom Ottava Rima has bullied into silence. I didn't want to post this to ANI (the dramafest that it is), but I wanted to let you know that I can be counted amongst those editors he's bullied into silence. I didn't dare support the community ban, as I knew that it would just foster angry reprisals from him, but I just wanted you to know that your assertion about his bullying is not for nothing. UA 00:03, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
BotStick with it on the bot. I realize it must be frustrating to spend a lot of time on the bot, then have to come back later, but I think the bot is a useful and desired utility and the wikipedia could be better for the time you spend on the bot getting new articles appropriately tagged so that, hope, someone brings them up to standards. --69.225.3.198 (talk) 09:28, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
ANIWhen you are right, you are right. Here is the promised . Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 13:43, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi there Excirial. I want to inform you that you were unwittingly part of an experiment of newbie treatment in which I participated under a different name. The purpose of WP:NEWT is to determine how experienced users would be treated if they were new users and created sub-standard but viable articles. The alternative account was LestWeBeScattered; you can find a description of my experience at WP:NEWT#Articles by Olaf Davis in case you are interested. Also, I want to apologise for having deceived you and used your time in this way, diverting it from real work on the encyclopedia. If I can offer my time and services for anything you need in return, feel free to ask at any time. Cheers, Olaf Davis (talk) 22:16, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
AFD of Mac TonniesPlease take away your note on Mac ttonnies wikipage::Kesaloma (talk) 15:41, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Idea for Stubs on Wikipedia from Public Domain Books Hosted on Google BooksExcirial, I wanted to get your opinion on an idea I had for creating new Wikipedia article stubs based on Public Domain Books hosted by Google Books. I got the idea when reading the Wikipedia Article on Wikipedia's Growth, link included here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Modelling_Wikipedia's_growth At one point in the article it mentioned that an article stub was created for every town in the United States by Rambot in October of 2002. Here is the quote from the article. "The sudden jump in article count in October 2002 is due to roughly 30,000 stub articles on U.S. towns and cities generated from a database being added by an auto-posting robot, Rambot, during an eight-day period. Although initially controversial as to whether these were "real" encyclopedia articles or merely "stubs", most of the Rambot articles have since been substantially expanded." That got me thinking that other large data sets of notable and important books might also be worth automatically creating stubs for which can then later be expanded upon. With this information still fresh in my mind I was checking up on the progress of Google Books and noted that they are now hosting more than 1,000,000 public domain books as part of their Google Books project. I think it would be an incredibly valuable resource to have a bot like Rambot which created the town stubs for the 30,000 cites of the United States to create 1,000,000 stubs for the public domain books hosted on Google Books. This is a resource of already vetted and notable material, hopefully in a standard format at Google of author, title, publication date, publishing group, summary of the book and more. Let me know what you think of the idea and if it has been tried before. I hope to hear from you soon. Sincerely, OrangeCorner OrangeCorner (talk) 11:23, 28 November 2009 (UTC) MelodycatcherExcirial, Why is the Melodycatcher article deleted again without any effort to comment on my changes or on what was needed. Why did I get no reaction on any question? What was different in this deleted article from the accepted article on the comparable system Musipedia ? Jvos (talk) 08:39, 1 December 2009 (UTC) I saw you speedy deleted this one in February 2008. I just recreated it - probably much the same. Check "What links here", for example Peter Odili, scroll to the navbox "Governors of Rivers State" at the foot of the page, and you will see the usage. Also see Wikipedia:A navbox on every page. The value of a list like this is to encourage users to browse articles on related subjects. Aymatth2 (talk) 21:05, 1 December 2009 (UTC) |