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otheruses4 redriects to about. otheruses4 is clusmsy. do you have a bot to do this?174.3.123.220 (talk) 03:14, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I did not know that. Yeah, let me look into it. I may throw a few of those into AWB depending on how many there are and if the redirect works as well. If that's the case, perhaps updating the documentation to indicate this would be good. Shadowjams (talk) 03:16, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is a redirect. I suppose making the conversion makes sense, although there's not a compelling reason to do it en masse. At the least you really need to be putting an edit summary on these. I would suggest you solicit some feedback about mass conversion, or else make it part of a broader cleanup toolkit that you use. The easiest way to do that is with WP:AWB, but you'll need an account and a bit of a track record before you can use it on the live encyclopedia.

Strangely, it seems like your IP range has actually done most of these, as it's hard for me to find current articles to test my expression on. It's not especially complicated, but this regex works: \{\{otheruses4\|(.+?)\}\} replace: {{about|$1}}

Like I said, I don't think these edits are all that critical, but if they can be fixed while other things are being fixed then that works just fine. Shadowjams (talk) 08:41, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What is regex?174.3.123.220 (talk) 03:58, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Regular expressions Shadowjams (talk) 07:02, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Page patrol numbers

Where are you pulling down the page patrol numbers (or are you anymore)? X!'s edit counter used to have them, even after the opt-in, but over the last few days I've noticed they've disappeared. Wondered if you knew anymore about this. Shadowjams (talk) 22:58, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

it seems X!'s counter got hit by some controversy where a single user claimed that the month counters and additional statistics were a privacy infringement, and X! subsequently had to remove them until he added an opt-in system for displaying them. In my own opinion it is quite silly, as this is information that can be accessed, downloaded and data-mined by anyone. Since X!'s edit counter doesn't handle "Most edited pages" for editors having more then 45.000 edits, i switched to wikichecker, a quite usefull external site. Add your username, set it to "All" edits and wait a couple of min. It will result in quite an impressive analysis with a lot of other statistics. Other sections of the site such as the editwar section are quite worthwhile as well. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 23:14, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. I've used that one too, although I didn't know if they had patrol counts. I find the privacy complaint absurd as well, without going in depth on the privacy policy itself, it seems like a huge stretch to say that aggregating otherwise available data would somehow breach the privacy policy. In any case, thanks for the heads up. Good luck with the RfA too. I'm frankly stunned at some of the opposes. Shadowjams (talk) 23:19, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Muay Thai

My apologies. I was reverting some vandalism on the page and accidently reinstated it. If you look, that was clearly not my intention to say such ridiculous things on the Muay Thai page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiggalama (talk • contribs) 23:32, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, adding ".then u slap his face hard like a horse. and take his nuts off!!" doesn't sound like a slip of the keyboard, but I believe you. Just be careful in the future. Shadowjams (talk) 23:37, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That pleasant comment in Muay Thai was originally by 70.184.29.190 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), who has repeatedly vandalised a whole sequence of articles this week. Little of this had generated warnings at his talk page so I've just added an escalating sequence of warnings there, one per article (not per instance of vandalism). All the best. –Syncategoremata (talk) 04:43, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note about the warning to the Microsoft HealthVault vandal

It wasn't a test - it was an ad. Andewz111 (no 'r') (nudge me) 23:35, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I try to give people the benefit of the doubt on that sort of thing, but yeah, looks like you're right. Shadowjams (talk) 23:36, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The IP did it again. I've escalated the warnings. Shadowjams (talk) 23:42, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: Gary the gadget guy

Hello Shadowjams. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Gary the gadget guy, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: There is sufficient context to identify the subject of the article. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 23:03, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

CDNIS use of written English

Hi Shadowjams. Thanks for your note. The change from American/Canadian spelling of "Program" to British "Programme" is because the school is using the IB curriculum. IB spell programme this way so CDNIS has also made the transition to spell programme this way. This was the only reason for the update/change. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cdnis1 (talk • contribs) 03:22, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. I think that usage is proper and of course I didn't alter it. Just wanted to leave the note so you'd know the background. Thanks for explaining too. Shadowjams (talk) 05:53, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Farsi article

Yeah I got that too, on searching the title. But the text did not precisely match the title, so there was doubt, so not a speedy yet. I think we should just delete foreign language articles straight off, but someone thinks they could be moved to the other language wiki. I ahve never seen it happen, only get deleted. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese economy pre 1911

I'm going to remove the quotes to Financial Times and the Economist because they have no base for their facts and the information has no place in this article. It's no true statistical fact and the wiki needs to be credible.

The world bank writes:"For a large part of the last two millennia, China was the world's largest and most advanced economy. Then it missed the Industrial Revolution and stagnated. Only after opening to the outside world in 1979 was China's economic performance again impressive."

That's a different thing, for a large part of the last two millennia.

You had 2 warnings as an IP (if I remember right), then you registered and continued exactly the same edits. The message I left should be enough for you to know that you need to explain why you're removing content and changing articles. Shadowjams (talk) 08:49, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

But where should I leave the explanation for the change?

You could start with the article's talk page. If it's something wider then try WP:China for the China project. But to another point, is it that you have some philosophical objection to these statements, or that you think they're inaccurate, or something else? None of us have any idea because you haven't explained why, you've just done. That's not acceptable. You need to communicate, to explain. Shadowjams (talk) 09:16, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Worms 2: Armageddon

Why did you revert my revert? 86.151.35.46's edit was clearly unconstructive. --Vladimir (talk) 08:47, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh snap, I read the diff wrong. My bad. --Vladimir (talk) 08:51, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I didn't realize you were only reverting... although I don't at all agree that 86's edit's was unconstructive. In fact, the previous version seemed much better than what you put it back to. To wit: "our favourite.. ARMAGEDDON! Coming in is even better like emergency teleportor, poison strike and super bunker buster including a hand weapon with poison" replaced a properly capitalized and punctuated (and spelled) version of something quite similar in meaning. I took some time with this, both when I made it now an when I reviewed it, and I don't see how that version (the one you RVed to) is an improvement. Shadowjams (talk) 08:54, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Thank you for following up. That speaks highly to your integrity. If you need help, let me know. Shadowjams (talk) 08:54, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Awww! You're making me blush .. Philip Trueman (talk) 10:31, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a flattery whore. I'll probably blank your userpage when you're asleep. Shadowjams (talk) 10:32, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Meatwad

Really? Not relevant? Are you even a fan of the show? Who are you to make this arbitrary decision? Perhaps you should stick to subjects you are already familiar with like "Chinese economy" instead of trying to become some kind of Wikipedia Nazi and altering things you truthfully know absolutely nothing about? People like you are the reason most people think Wikipedia is a joke.