For operating BattyBot who put a bannershell template on [[Talk:Healthcare.gov]]. (I was unable to thank the bot through the new notification system) X[[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 17:14, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
For operating BattyBot who put a bannershell template on [[Talk:Healthcare.gov]]. (I was unable to thank the bot through the new notification system) X[[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 17:14, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
A big thanks for your work - some tiny help please...!!
'''''You are an excellent editor'''''
Please could you again check my fromatting on these 4 pages
Gibside
5th Earl Orkney
Baronets Conyers
Blakiston family
Cheers and thsnks so much again
Mike
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the rules work on my regular regex tester, the individual lines work as custom regexes, but the block didn't work when I run the script on this version of the Jackie Chan page so I put through the changes manually. The rest of the rules that come after these do work, as far as I am aware.
@Ohconfucius: - Instead of (?:www\.|), should you use (?:www\.) without the pipe? I'm supportive of removing references to Wikipedia articles (as long as you manually make sure there's a wikilink instead), but I don't know why you'd want to remove references to the social networks in articles such as MineCon. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:55, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I put (?:www\.|) in because sometimes the links are formed without the "www.", I inserted the pipe to catch those instances. You'd agree there's no point in having the brackets around (?:www\.) otherwise.
There's too much fancruft and linking to social media. I don't know whether it's prohibited, but I would like to see a blanket ban on linking to these. I have absolutely no problem when sources mention them, but Twitter and Facebook posts are infamously prone to being user-modified, making verification impossible unless an independent source has mentioned the feed in question. Anyway, I was hoping you could share any experience you had on writing scripts, and why the rules don't work in the script when they work independently. Cheers, -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa?02:05, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks anyway. Come to think of it, the problem could be caused by a bug somewhere else in the script. But now that it's so long, it becomes difficult to isolate than if it were a few lines. Strange thing is that the rules that don't work are in the earliest function. I may start breaking the script into smaller modules. -- Ohc ¡digame!¿que pasa?02:31, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, my addition to cover Image requested is not correct. It will move the template above WPBS. I commented out this piece of code until the problem is fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:16, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for disambiguating my kingpin link from King post. I have however removed your disambig tag from boom, since until someone writes the appropriate article, we can only link to the appropriate section of the disambig page, as I have done (since the disambig page gives a short but useful definition, I believe it is still worth a link, rather than leaving a redlink or nothing at all). Enginear (talk) 18:34, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@Enginear: - Thanks for updating the article and for leaving this feedback. As you've seen, there are tools that will report those links to Boom as needing to be fixed. See WP:INTDAB for more information. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 20:37, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hi
I have made a new article about the Enbom case one of Sweden most known spy trials and cases. If you find more info to add to the article for expansion please do as well as any spelling checks etc. Always appreciated.--BabbaQ (talk) 22:28, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
As you may know, VisualEditor ("Edit beta") is currently available on the English Wikipedia only for registered editors who choose to enable it. Since you have made 100 or more edits with VisualEditor this year, I want to make sure that you know that you can enable VisualEditor (if you haven't already done so) by going to your preferences and choosing the item, "MediaWiki:Visualeditor-preference-enable". This will give you the option of using VisualEditor on articles and userpages when you want to, and give you the opportunity to spot changes in the interface and suggest improvements. We value your feedback, whether positive or negative, about using VisualEditor, at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:27, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@Whatamidoing (WMF): - Thanks for the message, although I'm surprised that the WMF can't tell that I already have VE enabled. I see that using VE to italicize a wikilink still formats it as [[foobar|''foobar'']] instead of ''[[foobar]]''. I also see that one of the five bugs I reported have been fixed. I'll keep trying it now and again, and report if I find anything new. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:31, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@Whatamidoing (WMF): - Atleast you got to report a bug Batty. I got told my <nowiki /> bug report would never be fixed. I guess seeing GeorgeWashington ([[George Washington|George]]<nowiki/>Washington) and Chicago ([[Chicago|C]]<nowiki/>hicago) is just fine. I've got 1418 reasons why from October's dump that shows it is a problem with and I've been cleaning these messes the past few months. Bgwhite (talk) 06:17, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@Bgwhite: - To be fair, I think mine were lower priority than the <nowiki /> issue:
That's also part of the reason the WMF won't fix the nowiki problem. Because there are editors who are happy to fix it for them. As long as people are fixing the problems the WMF is creating, then there is no priority to fix it. If people stop fixing those nowiki's and just keep a running tally of the errors, they'll fix it when the problem gets bad enough. Sometimes the best way to fix a problem is to not fix it. 71.126.152.253 (talk) 15:49, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Batty,
One of the devs probably can tell who has VisualEditor enabled, but I can't, so I manually pulled out the names of people that I'd seen using VisualEditor recently and decided that would have to be good enough for this set of messages. About 140 people received the same message as you, so I figured that the number of false positives would be tolerable. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:07, 14 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Help needed
Hi. Your help is needed on the Noelia page. Right now the page is protected from editing and it has the incorrect birthdate. Could you help? Thank you. Lulusi9 (talk) 01:06, 14 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I have made a article on Mia Frye unfortunatly I do not understand french that well so I could not translate that much info from her French Wiki article but atleast a small stub has been made now. Take a look when you got time.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:15, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@BabbaQ: - Looks like Werldwayd did a lot of work, but I a made a few minor edits. You may want to rephrase the lead - there are three sentences in a row that start with "She also...". Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 01:58, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
If you find any material for expansion of Fäbodristning like 400ch more needed for DYK and then it will go directly to DYK as it forfills all the other requirements. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 11:35, 20 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Could you please check that the formatting is all OK with the page "Gibside"
cheers mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.2.36.6 (talk) 03:34, October 23, 2013 (UTC)
Done - In the future, please place new text on user talk pages under old text (or create a new section). Also, please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 13:33, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect HotCat. Since you had some involvement with the HotCat redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cathfolant (talk • contribs) 21:54, October 23, 2013 (UTC)
Hi again,
Thanks for your work. Could you please check the formatting of the references for the 'Lupton family' page
Cheers Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.2.36.6 (talk) 01:53, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Plesae fix up the disastrous contribution (just one line!) that I have done on the history section on the GLAMIS CASTLEpage.
You are very professional and thanks for all of yor help.
cheers
mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.10.139 (talk) 03:54, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Done - In the future, please place new text on user talk pages under old text (or create a new section). Also, please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 13:33, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
