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The Helpful One ^(Review) 18:17, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Bourne Ultimatum

I left a message on the talk page about what I think the article needs to reach GA status. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 00:41, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Harry Potter peer review

I would love to peer review HP, but unfortunately I am leaving for India in a few days, so I wouldn't be able to get to it until October. If you can't find anyone to give it a thorough review, however, please let me know and I'll try to do something while I'm on vacation! Awadewit (talk) 14:38, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

I will take another look, but it will take me a few days Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:50, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

I had a go a few days ago at addressing the PR:

* Looking at WP:WEIGHT, it still seems to me that the first two paragraphs in the Books section go into much more detail (are given more weight) than the plot summaries of the remianing seven books. I also think each book should have a summary that is about the same length, but the current summaries vary considerably in length (one to three lines on my screen).

I've reworded the first two paragraphs to make them more general, and to focus on backstory. I've also rewritten the book subsections to be roughly the same length.

* The same section also suffers from overlinking (Voldemort is linked at least twice in three paragraphs) and has a direct quote (McGonagall on the Dursleys sp?) that needs a ref.

I've removed as many overlinks as I could find, and removed the quote.

* I still think refs that are just an ISBN are odd

I could redo these as cite:book.

* Is this about the books or is it about everything HP? I think your answer is everything, but then both the Achievements and Criticism, praise, and controversy sections focus almost exclusively on the books, and almost all of the material on the movies, games, etc. is at the end in an Other media section. What about the achievements and reception of these other media? * Also should there not be some mention of the overwhelming tidal wave of Harry Potter tie-in merchandise - lunch boxes and stuffed Hedwig the owls toys and who knows what else?

I've trimmed the Other Media section and renamed it "Adaptations" in line with LOTR. Serendi^podous 18:25, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

It's going to take a little more time. The refs don't actually cite the information on the page; the page lists the exact publication date, and the books, like all books, only give the year. We're going to need other sources. Serendi^podous 18:48, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

See: Wikipedia:Citation templates Also, the books don't give the right info; you'll need to cite the webpages you got the info from. Serendi^podous 19:00, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Never used it before. Might be interesting. :-) And no, I don't think the article is ready. New refs will have to be found to replace those taken away. Not book refs, but refs giving the exact dates of publication of each of the HP books. Try Bloomsbury.com or scholastic.com as your first ports of call. Plus, I'm currently stuck in an interminable FA that should have closed ages ago but is being kept alive by annoying citation issues. You can launch whenever, but I can't act as a conominator until this FA is finished. Serendi^podous 13:49, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

If you're really looking for something to do before going to FA, I can say (and maybe as a fan I'm biased) that the "Criticism" section seems overwhelmingly biased against HP. Perhaps some more positive reviews from notable contributors? Serendi^podous 14:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't say it's a deal-breaker, no. Serendi^podous 14:34, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Harry Potter

Ok so I made some rearrangements. I moved the 'Other media' to the top just under the info about the books and then changed some of the paragraphs. Just look through the history to see what I've done. Also, I added some bits about controversy between the books and films and added a few refs. All in all, I think we can now {{done}} that section on the peer review! :D —— RyanLupin • (talk) 23:49, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Your "formatting: nbsp-dash" edits

Hey there— I just noticed from your recent edits to Harry Potter that your automatic js to convert " —" (space m-dash) into " —" is occasionally placing multiple  es next to each other when the text contains a space between an already-existing   and an m-dash (that is,  , space, m-dash). You should probably fix this before you do any more of these types of edits, because they're resulting in sometimes up to three non-breaking spaces in a row. Mr. Absurd (talk) 20:12, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Whoops, I just realized this is not your script. I'll ask the script's writer to fix it. Meanwhile, just make sure you check your diffs before saving so you can avoid this again. (I've already fixed the HP article, but you may want to check if you've used this elsewhere). Mr. Absurd (talk) 20:15, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

No problem, it's easily done (and easily fixed... hoorah for find-and-replace!) Mr. Absurd (talk) 20:16, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Sure.

Don't have any other articles likely to be promoted in future at the moment. Serendi^podous 10:05, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Are you planning to nominate the article soon? Serendi^podous 09:32, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Hey helpfulone, I haven't talked to you forever. come visit my user page.

Coolgyingman (talk) 00:44, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Roland Fantom G reversion

I think in your revert of the roland fantom G article, you missed that my second edit was not the same as the first as I learned a rule of wikipedia that I did not know.

I think in the process a valid contribution was lost.... and now I'm afraid to make edits again because they may just be auto-reverted as vandalism. Editing wikipedia feels quite tedious as a result of all these false vandalism claims as well as apparently rampant auto-reversions I see on many articles for other contributors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roland_Fantom-G&diff=210348170&oldid=210343518

Thanks for looking into this...

72.14.224.1 (talk) 04:31, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

London peer review

Hello, I've left comments on Wikipedia:Peer review/London/archive5. Dabomb87 (talk) 17:55, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

What?!

All I get is a T-shirt?! That was hardly worth contributing thousands of hours for. :-) –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 17:18, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed with a count of (154/3/2). I appreciate the community's trust in me, and I will do my best to be sure it won't regret handing me the mop. I am honored by your trust and your support. Again, thank you. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 18:45, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

House WikiProject

Hello, I noticed that you appear to be interested in House. A House WikiProject has been started to better format the articles surrounding House. You are hereby invited to join. Thank you.

Cheers. --Music26/11 17:23, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi again, I noticed you signed the proposal, the WikiProject has been set up here. --Music26/11 12:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Harry Potter FAC

replied to you there. Giggy (talk) 14:07, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the nudge. As I say, unfortunately, I haven't the time for a full review, so you won't get either a "support" or "oppose" from me; my suggestions were just that, in order to help you along slightly. But I'm happy to look at the amendments you've made to the article, and will strike as required, in order that other reviewers don't think the issues are unresolved and base a borderline decision upon them. All the best, Steve ^{T • C} 16:29, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi and thanks

Hey :). Im back and my internet lets me do things! xD Thanks again for replying to that message for me! ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 16:10, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

I mean really thanks and my net should now be 100% fixed, just to let you know. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 17:18, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

RE: Umm your userpage?

Hey there, Well I don't lie, but yeah pretty much. We do pretty much the same stuff (almost) and I can't be bothered typing, so yeah. I'm renovating my page now anyway, so if you want me to take it down that's fine. - PoinDexta1 | Talk to Me | 22:24, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I will but, Wikipedia being covered by the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), I thought it would be okay. Oh well. PoinDexta1 | Talk to Me | 22:29, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

I was just kidding. I'll take most it off. No need to say sorry. =P - PoinDexta1 | Talk to Me | 22:33, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

=P -PoinDexta1 | Talk to Me | 22:37, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: ACC

The request was displayed to me as being still open. I of course would never open a closed request. I checked and saw the same Username taken and no log. These things combined made me think that it was taken already, so I put it down as taken. I must be having cookie or connection problems. I re-read the documentation after Ryan Lupin suspended me (this looks great on my record doesn't it), and I thought I was doing the right thing. I was confused by the apparently new tool where Account Creators can deal with similar usernames. I would appreciate some guidance. Thanks Olly¹⁵⁰ 21:33, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

I didn't read that anywhere in the documentation, so that's probably why I got confused. Olly¹⁵⁰ 22:00, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

HP Themes

Yhis issue was raised years ago, during the article's first failed GA nomination, and given that it was never addressed, I was quite surprised to see it get promoted. To be honest, it's also why I stopped editing the article, because I really had no interest in looking up scholarly articles on Harry Potter. The very idea made me feel somewhat queasy ("As can be seen when Harry eats the bogey-flavoured Every Flavour Bean, he is in fact making a tacit commentary on the state of consumption in human society. The bean is in fact eating him"), so I stepped away for a while and hoped for the best. If I really wanted to I probably could find the right resources, but I'm not sure it would be worth the time and effort it would take. Serendi^podous 19:42, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

for the barnstar - appreciate it!! :D And you're most welcome - it was a pleasure working with you. ;) Ncmvocalist (talk) 17:17, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Harry Potter themes

If the section of themes about HP is going to be expanded, I suggest to add links to Politics of Harry Potter and especially Religious debates over the Harry Potter series, which is FA. Lots of stuff can be "borrowed" from those topics. Love is also a recurring theme, but I noticed it is already explained. Congrats for your work, and greetings! --LøЯd ۞pεth 00:55, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I'm too busy these days to offer any help on articles. Good luck with it, though! Scartol • Tok 20:45, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Editor's Barnstar
		Sorry about chickening out of Harry Potter, but I'd just gone through a particularly draining failed FA myself, so I wasn't really in the mood to do the research. Still, give it a few days and I'll get behind you on a rewrite. Serendipodous 08:18, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey. I hope you're not pissed off at me. Serendi^podous 12:40, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Chilean presidential election, 2005–2006

Your bot has just "corrected" the Spanish word oficial to the English word official. [1] Please be more careful in the futute. Thanks. ☆ CieloEstrellado 05:25, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

State Route 74 (New York–Vermont)

Hi, over at this page you recently delinked a redlink Tawahus, New York. Actually that page is in the final stages of a featured article drive and the editors there had placed the redlink on purpose as a reminder to start an underlying article for it. Durova^Charge! 22:14, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I hereby award this Barnstar to Thehelpfulone for his consistent efforts to protect Wikipedia from vandalism, and specifically for going out of his way to revert vandalism done to my user page. Nutiketaiel (talk) 12:39, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much for helping to protect my user page from vandals while I was away; that Top Gun stuff was really getting annoying. I see from your contributions that fighting vandalism is a regular thing for you, so please consider this Barnstar a small token of appreciation from me for your efforts on my behalf, and for all your vandalism fighting. Vandal fighters don't get recognized nearly often enough, in my humble opinion. Nutiketaiel (talk) 12:39, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Re Harry Potter copyedit

Thanks for your request. I'm pretty full at the moment, and will be for some time, but if you aren't in any hurry and want to give me a nudge in a few month's time, I may be able to help out then. Sorry I can't be more specific :( You could always try some of editors on this list too. All the best, EyeSerene^talk 14:46, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Edits

Pardon my frankness, but who are you to tell me that I was adding inappropriate links and intentionally adding false information to certain articles? I made revisions to the pages for WVNZ, WTOX, and WREJ because I work there and wanted to update those stations' official websites and ownership status. Everything I changed was correct. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.152.48.21 (talk) 20:40, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Upcoming World Development contest

Penubag has been hard at work developing awards for this project. He has completed a very professional looking medal, and is almost done with a trophy that is truly awesome - both of these awards are visually stunning.

I and a few others have been working steadily on the country outlines that will be the focus of the contest - an outline for every country of the world! They're shaping up nicely. So far, 28 of them have been moved to article space - these aren't complete, but they are complete enough to be made available for readers to benefit from them. The rest of the set still includes temporary data that was generated by template (because it matched most but not all of the countries), and before those lists can be moved to article space, all the temporary data needs to be checked for accuracy, and if incorrect it needs to be replaced with correct information.

The effort on the lists has been on 3 fronts:

1. Working on the lists in article space to complete them so they will be good examples for editors working on the rest of the set (during the contest).
2. Adding or correcting other data (fixing redlinks, filling in blanks, etc.). The main type of work participants in the contest will be doing. The reason we're doing this is to get a feel for it, to develop the fastest methods for each type of task, etc.
3. Improving the overall design and implenting changes on all 247 pages, whether in article space or not.

There has been some opposition to us running the contest based on edit counts or iterations. The concern is that we should reward quality work and not quantity, for fear of crappy edits done quickly without thought just to earn an award. I pointed out that the collection of pages are drafts in the Wikipedia namespace (therefore posing no danger to article space) and that most of the work needs to be done with power tools like AWB and Linky (which are specifically designed for repetitive volumnous work), but the reply was that we shouldn't set the precedent of rewarding barnstars for numerically-based tasks, and implied the threat of continuously MfD'ing the contest if we attempted to do so (like they did with the Awards Center - I was very surprised and disappointed that participants didn't step up to defend it). So we need to be careful in determining what exactly the awards will represent, and how they will be awarded.

Since rewarding iterations (passes with AWB on all of the pages in the set) are out, we really don't need the globe-in-stand (award we were working on) anymore. Two awards should suffice.

Once we get started with the contest, I'd like to kick the whole thing off with a round of medals for those dedicated few who have worked hard on the project so far.

What do you think of all of this?

Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.

The Transhumanist    00:52, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

videopaltform - Need Your Help

Attention,

I was recently placed on the subject to speedy deletion list. I was under the impression that if an article was written by a 3rd party and was referenced then it could be placed on the page. Also, if it was written in a non-biased point of view and was more informitive then it could be placed. We had at least three articles written about us from reliable sources in the media, like MNSun, Columbus Daily, and Leesburg Today.

I have read posts about companies way more promotional that what was posted.

Your advice as too the next steps will be a helpful tool as to move forward. I have since deleted our page and will wait for your advice.

Thank you,

David —Preceding unsigned comment added by Videoplatform (talk • contribs) 15:23, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Country outlines AWB task: Fill in each country's economic rank (see below)

I really appreciate your offer to help. There's just no way I could do this project all by myself - it would take me years! It amazes me how helpful and cooperative Wikipedians are - that's one reason I love volunteering here. Thank you.

OK, let's get started...

For the AWB tasks on these pages, be sure to turn off all automatic fixes (wikification, etc.) There's some non-wikified stuff in these that we need to keep for now.

This task requires a bit of look-up and typing, but AWB is useful here as an auto-page-loader...

For the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list, please do the following:

To do this task, keep a window open with the following article in it: List of countries by GDP (nominal).

In another window, run AWB on the following list of pages: User:The Transhumanist/Country list

For each page, look up the country's economic rank in the 3rd column (CIA) at List of countries by GDP (nominal), and fill in the following entry on each page with it (which is located in the "Economy of" section of each page):

• Economic rank:

For example, this entry for Algeria looks like this:

• Economic rank: 50th (fiftieth)

All the rest need to be completed in the same way.

A trick you can use in AWB to let you spot and jump to the right location quickly on each page is search/replace "* Economic rank:" with "* Economic rank: ." (see the added period?) Before you save, type over the period with the rank data.

This should help speed things up. If you know any better methods, please let me know, as I'm always looking for the fastest ways to do things on Wikipedia.

Good luck, have fun, and if you have any further questions, please let me know.

By the way, I really love your name.

And remember, be sure to turn off all automatic fixes (wikification, etc.).

The Transhumanist    19:21, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

P.P.S.: The above task might be even faster using Linky (a Firefox add-on) instead. If you have Firefox and Linky, and want to try them out on this, let me know, and I'll be happy to explain how.

P.S.: When you are done with this assignment, there is a super easy follow-up task that I'll need you to do (a simple search/replace operation).

you've got a reply

on my talk page. The Transhumanist    20:13, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Linky list

I've made a linky list for you at User:Thehelpfulone/Country list.

Highlight a piece of it at a time (no more than 99 links), by holding down the left mouse button and dragging your mouse down the page. Then right-click to get the drop down menu. Linky will be on there (assuming you have it installed).

click on Linky, and "Open selected links in tabs".

When you are down with a tab, press Ctrl-W, and it will instantly be deleted, and the next tab will be displayed on your screen.

I created the linky list by copying the contents of User:The Transhumanist/Country list into Word, and then using search/replace. WikEd works better, but I don't have access to it on this machine (no Firefox).  :(

The Transhumanist    21:29, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

IRC, quick! I've got 30 seconds left!

I saw your "aaaaargh" just before my account time ran out.  :) The Transhumanist    18:01, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Follow-up task

This is an easy search/replace with AWB.

On all of the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list...

Replace:

Economic rank (by nominal GDP)

with:

Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007)

Have fun.

The Transhumanist    18:01, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Nicely done. The Transhumanist    22:46, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Next task!

I've refreshed User:Thehelpfulone/Country list with a new list to support your next task.

It's not a URL list because the "External links" section isn't the same number on each of the pages.

Anyhow, each link is to the correct section, though it won't open an edit window - you'll have to do that manually in each tab.

OK, so here's the task:

Most of the external link sections are empty, and need some links.

For each outline, copy the external links from the corresponding country article and paste them in after {{wikiatlas|country name}} (starting on the next line).

This will give us a base to start with which we can improve upon later.

Beware of subheadings in those sections. External links subheadings aren't supposed to show up in an article's TOC, and the heading codes need to be changed from this:

=== Example heading ===

To this:

; Example heading

Which looks like this:

Example heading

(The same thing applies to see also sections).

Good luck, and as always...

Have fun!

The Transhumanist    22:46, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

P.S.: most if not all of the the country outlines that are in article space already have this external links task done. You can look those over as examples. The Transhumanist    22:46, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I wasn't very clear...

With respect to External links sections, if you come across any that are done incorrectly (with subheadings), please fix them. So if such a section is in error, correct at its original location first and then copy/paste it to the corresponding outline. That way, it's correct in both places.  ;) The Transhumanist    00:09, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Missing links

• Macedonia -  Done - it had links but the section was formatted poorly and started with a bunch of white space. It's fixed now, and copied.
• Micronesia -  Done the article on the region doesn't have any external links, but the article on the country does! The formatting has been fixed, and the links copied to the outline.

For Nicaragua and Uruguay, we need to build an external links list for each of those. When done, we can copy it to the end of those articles too.

You pick one, I'll take the other. (Then it's off to Google to find the best links. Articles on various aspects of the country (culture of, geography of, polictics of, etc.) might already have some links, so those are worth checking out also. A couple of links on each major subtopic should do nicely.

Have fun.  ;)

The Transhumanist    20:49, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Uh, you didn't pick one! Eenie meenie miney moe - OK, I'll take Uruguay. You get Nicaragua.  :) The Transhumanist    22:18, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Ooh, I found this template, which utilizes the codes at ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 to refer to a webpage for a particular country on the CIA World Factbook site for creating external links on country pages, like this:

• "Uruguay". The World Factbook (2024 ed.). Central Intelligence Agency.

The Transhumanist    22:36, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

You've still got Nicaragua

I only added a couple links.  :) The Transhumanist    22:28, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Another easy search/replace

Here's another AWB search/replace task for you:

On all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list, please replace:

* Adjective

With:

* [[Template:Adjectivals and demonyms for countries and nations|Adjective]]

And as always...

Have fun!

The Transhumanist    23:23, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey!

When is the one and only helpful one going for RfA? Its about time my friend! I have been waiting for such a long time. What areas are you lacking? What is taking you so long? Dont you want to become one anymore? You do know there were only 7 admins promoted last month, the lowest for such a long time. If thats not a sign, i dont know what it. Thanks Monster Under Your Bed ^(talk) 08:30, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I personally think you would make a great admin and your username shows that your here to help instead of some people thinking admins are harsh bad people or what have you, it would be nice to change that opinion. As for me, you know how real life is, i recently took a months break and will take another short break soon and then i will archive my page. Its not that large really, i mean if you want large take a look at this person's talk page (357,575 bytes)!!! And he has no intention of archiving until he gets 10,000 sections. Well, there you go... Monster Under Your Bed ^(talk) 09:40, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Oops - follow-up task

We're not supposed to have cross-namespace links. My fault.

Please change:

* [[Template:Adjectivals and demonyms for countries and nations|Adjective]]

To:

* [[List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names#Countries and nations|Adjective]]

That's the relevant place where the template is displayed.

Sorry about the mix-up.

The Transhumanist    23:04, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Another fun one

In one window, have this open: List of national capitals

For each of the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list, replace the pipe in

• Capital of x: Capital of x

with the capital name. Note that this link appears twice in every outline!!! (Both need to be fixed).

For example:

* [[Capital]] of Brazil: [[Capital of Brazil|Capital of Brazil]]

should become:

* [[Capital]] of Brazil: [[Capital of Brazil|Brasília]]

We're doing it this way so that "Capital of x" remains the main link, cuz as a redirect, it will always lead to the correct page.

The Transhumanist    23:13, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

P.S.: In answer to your latest question... since you will be typing in the name of the country's capital on each page, Linky is better suited for this task. The Transhumanist    22:00, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

P.P.S.: I've updated User:Thehelpfulone/Country list for this task. Have fun. The Transhumanist    23:52, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

new comment

I've had a few messages relating to Cesc Fabregas - it's all news to me - i haven't altered anything on the page. You've got the wrong man! I agree, Cesc couldn't be classed as 'key' as he was only a bit part player.

Cheers

Sol —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.194.135.188 (talk) 13:29, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Find/replaces

Good point!

I'm sure there will be more.

We can let these accumulate for awhile, and then you can hit them all at once. I've created User:Thehelpfulone/Find-replace requests as a place to store them up.

By the way, do you know how to use regex? There will be some multi-line search strings and multi-line replace strings in upcoming tasks.

A new line is specified with "\n".

For more information, see WP:REGEX and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression.

The Transhumanist    21:32, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

I am sorry, but I do not generally do copyedits (I just don't have time for it - this is listed at the top of my talk page). The last section at WP:PRV lists people willing to do copyedits, so I would ask there. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 02:02, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I also must apologize for having no time to help out at the moment. Good luck with it, tho! Scartol • Tok 01:20, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Another country outline moved to article space!

Topic outline of Zimbabwe is now in article space. It still needs images and some bluelinking, and is undoubtedly missing some relevant links.

Please take a look at it. You will no doubt spot things you can easily fix that I overlooked.

The Transhumanist    19:50, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which recently passed with 126 in support, 22 in opposition and 6 neutral votes. Thanks for your support in my RFA!! And also thanks for all of your help in general you helpful person :) • If you want to reply to this message please use my talk page as watch listing about 150 pages is a bit messy • ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont 22:15, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Another country outline moved to article space!

Topic outline of Zimbabwe is now in article space. It still needs images and some bluelinking, and is undoubtedly missing some relevant links.

Please take a look at it. You will no doubt spot things you can easily fix that I overlooked.

The Transhumanist    19:48, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Your feedback is needed - what do you think of this...

What was your initial impression when you saw the above image?

Please look at it carefully. What is wrong with it?

In what other ways can it be improved?

I look forward to your reply (on my talk page, please).

The Transhumanist    00:22, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

P.S.: To anyone else who sees the above message, feel free to answer it too (on my talk page please). -TT

Please adopt me!!!

I am looking for an experienced admin to adopt me. I would like it if it was you! Coolgyingman (talk) 22:54, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Just a Question

Just another Qucick Question. Would i need to get an sysop to add me to the user:rightslog on the english wikipedia as an account creator. Or is that already being sorted out. Thanks --[ Elite Rhodes ] [Talk] 10:27, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes i realized what i did wrong before i accidently mentioned the password on the main chat emails I am currently Reading the Guidelines that you sent me and i will send yoú a message when i have read them. I will then leave it up to you if you unsuspend me or not. --[ Elite Rhodes ] [Talk] 13:35, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Ok i have now Read the guidelines and i'm sorry for Accidently Posting a password on the main update email

I totally leave it up to you and the other admins to decide if or if not i can use this tool again. Please Message me back with your Decision Soon Thanks --[ Elite Rhodes ] [Talk] 15:11, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Ok thanks very much i will try to follow the guidelines this time and make sure this doesn't happen again

Just another Quick Question When i click on the create account link there isn't a email password option available to make sure the user recieves an email. Can you help me !!!--[ Elite Rhodes ] [Talk] 20:08, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Want power?

See this: Wikipedia:Linky tutorial

The Transhumanist    01:54, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Im Having Problems Creating Accounts

Hello again

I have been trying Resently to create accounts that have come in by other users and i am now noticing that i won't allow me to create accounts because this IP address (Which is a College IP and has been Blocked because of vandalism). Just wondering if you know what i need to do in able for me to create accounts from this IP because i frequently use this IP to log In

Thanks --[ Elite Rhodes ] [Talk] 17:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Search/replaces

I've found a major problem on a set of mainstream geography articles, and have added it to your list...

So it's time to tackle User:Thehelpfulone/Find-replace requests.

Woohoo!

The Transhumanist    01:46, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

The Transhumanist lists: automatic find/replace

Please tell me how the automatic find/replace you have completed for Demographics of Tajikistan and Demographics of Uzbekistan can applied by me to other countries. I am not familiar with the technique you have used. Thank you. --Zlerman (talk) 01:18, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

See WP:AWB. It's an auto-pageloader and semi-automatic editor. The Transhumanist    18:25, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Please see the cleanup that was required in Demographics of Tajikistan and Demographics of Uzbekistan after the automatic find/replace. --Zlerman (talk) 04:15, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

THO, the demographics pages need another pass. Some of the headings had data on the same lines, rendering the wikiheading codes you inserted to display as ASCII text. You need to use regex in AWB to add a carriage return (in regex, /n = new line). Good luck. The Transhumanist    18:23, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, would that be on the Find/Replace Option or ticking "Regex"? The Helpful One ^Review 18:31, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't know. I've never used regex. When you figure it out, you can teach me!  :) The Transhumanist    18:34, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes: tick Regex. Then you type in regular expressions where you normally would type in find/replaces. See Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression and WP:REGEX. The Transhumanist    18:41, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

The <br> codes also still need to be replaced with carriage returns. See the instructions at User:The Transhumanist/List of country demographics pages. (I think you skipped the testing step).  :) The Transhumanist    18:52, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Nomination

- User:Stwalkerster is also adding a joint nomination. Meantime you might like to work on the questions. Don't forget to sign the acceptance, revert anyone who tries to support before it goes live, and ask if you want me to transclude it! Good luck. Pedro :  Chat  08:58, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

i can haz co-nom? User:Juliancolton/Faces –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 14:37, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I was going to co-nom too, but too many co-noms can be frowned upon, so I added my "beat the nom" support instead. Good luck THO!

Good luck, I left a msg for you on Pedro's talk page... but I also wanted to remind you to close your Editor Review. It is generally frowned upon to have an ER going while under RfA.---Balloonman ^PoppaBalloon 19:09, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

You, sir, are a fine editor who would do great with the tools. Don't want to celebrate too early or jinx it altogether (whoops!) but I see no reason why the community should not find a consensus to promote you. Best of luck! :D — neuro^(talk) 19:19, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! :D The Helpful One 19:20, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Why thank you... I appreciate the vote of confidence... oh wait, were you really commenting to Thehelpfulone?---Balloonman ^PoppaBalloon 19:38, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Lol! The Helpful One 19:39, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, you've been doing something (everything?) right.  :) I'm impressed with your RfA. The Transhumanist    20:51, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm wowed too! :) The Helpful One 20:53, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Demographics of Tuvalu

I notice that you have twice run a search and replace on Demographics of Tuvalu in an attempt to create subheadings, but the result is broken markup. I would have thought you would have noticed that the result was poor when you viewed the page after your edit. You do check your work, don't you? Please fix it. I also saw a similar problem with your edit at Niue, but on that article even if your edit had not been broken, it would have been undesirable to have so many subheadings in a country-level article.-gadfium 20:28, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Subheadings are fine, and they support redirects pointed at them. The Transhumanist    21:29, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Regex

Hmm, I don't think that AWB has been working properly, I think it worked for Demographics_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands but not as well for things like: Demographics_of_the_Isle_of_Man? Is that what you meant by regex? The Helpful One 20:37, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

"regex" is short for "regular expression". When you click the regex box, AWB interprets search/replaces as regular expressions (boolean logic formulas). I haven't started using them yet, as I didn't realize how powerful they are. I'll start just as soon as I get a new laptop. The Transhumanist    20:45, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Regex can do things that the basic search/replace feature can't, like search for blank lines, and add blank lines in. You can also search for multi-line entries, which is an extremely powerful ability.

Look at the <br> codes. Those need to be removed, but if you replace them with nothing, then the lines will run together. Therefore, they need to be replaced with new lines. That will create some double blank lines, so you'll have to make another pass to change the double blank lines with single blank lines - AWB does that automatically if you have its general fixes box checked.

I see more comments are coming in on the typos. What have I gotten you into (you must have missed my suggestion to test first before "running amok").  :)

Good luck!

• Demographics of the Northern Mariana Islands - removed the "br" codes.  Done
• Demographics of the Isle of Man - I don't know if AWB's regex feature supports wildcards - I can't make heads or tails of the instructions - but if it does, you can specify "===" followed by anything, followed by new line, and replace it with the same thing but with a new line (/n) after the ===. That's what you need regex for. Have fun!  :)

The Transhumanist    21:04, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

You've got company

Rjwilmsi has been working on the "Demographics of x" CIA stats too. He requested feedback, which I've provided at User talk:Rjwilmsi#Demographics feedback. I thought you might find it relevant. If you drop on by his talk page, be sure to say "hi".  :) The Transhumanist    21:52, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Demographics cleanup

I've cleaned up these using WP:LINKY and WP:WikEd:

1. Demographics of Albania – Republic of Albania
2. Demographics of Algeria – People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
3. Demographics of Angola – Republic of Angola
4. Demographics of Australia – Commonwealth of Australia
5. Demographics of Austria – Republic of Austria
6. Demographics of Argentina –
7. Demographics of Canada - Canada
8. Demographics of Ecuador – Republic of Ecuador
9. Demographics of Egypt – Arab Republic of Egypt -
10. Demographics of France – French Republic
11. Demographics of Germany – Federal Republic of Germany
12. Demographics of Iceland – Republic of Iceland
13. Demographics of India – Republic of India
14. Demographics of Indonesia – Republic of Indonesia
15. Demographics of Iran – Islamic Republic of Iran
16. Demographics of Iraq – Republic of Iraq
17. Demographics of the Republic of Ireland - Republic of Ireland
18. Demographics of the Isle of Man (British Crown dependency)
19. Demographics of Israel – State of Israel
20. Demographics of Italy – Italian Republic   
21. Demographics of Japan
22. Demographics of Macau – Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Area of special sovereignty)
23. Demographics of Mexico – United Mexican States
24. Demographics of Russia – Russian Federation -
25. Demographics of Taiwan –
26. Demographics of Thailand – Kingdom of Thailand
27. Demographics of the United Kingdom – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
28. Demographics of the United States – United States of America
29. Demographics of Zimbabwe – Republic of Zimbabwe

The Transhumanist    00:09, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

CIA World Factbook demographic statistics

I'm cleaning 'em up again, using this heading for the statistics section.

The Transhumanist    01:51, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Rjwilmsi

Rjwilmsi implied he knows AWB/regex very good. So feel free to bombard him with questions on how to set up regex search/replaces.  :) The Transhumanist    03:03, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

OK, I think I figured out how to approach this

I'm in the process of standardizing the headings, to the following heading:

CIA World Factbook demographic statistics

AWB can be configured to skip pages that don't have that, which should help keep the run focused.

Each data type has an identifier (surrounded by ''' usually), so by keying off of those specific terms, the formatting around those can be cleaned up pretty easily. Most of the data to be changed is in the same (incorrect) format. And most of the rest of it is in another (equally incorrect) format.

Also, pages in the correct format can be identified pretty easily and skipped by specifying strings that are found only in that format.

Does that make sense?

The Transhumanist    03:03, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

I've added the above heading to all the country demographics articles up through Demographics of Malawi, replacing whatever other weird heading was there (they varied a lot).

I also added lead sections where there were none using: {{subst:user:The Transhumanist/sandbox23|}}, placing the country's name after the pipe.

The Transhumanist    05:33, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

RFC nr 3 bates method article scientific research.

Sorry to bother you, but the quality of an article is under threat. If you have time can you take a look at RFC nr 3 in the talkpage of the bates method article. See : [[2]] . It is about mention objective results presented by ophthalmology about the Woods results. These results represent perfectly why the Batesmethod / NVI is controversial. It presents negative, positive and neutral results. The scientific reference which confirms the BM / NVI is controversial : [[3]]. These Woods results have been presented for a while but aren now removed !!! Please comment if you agree or do not agree by providing your arguments on which it is based. See also the listed arguments at this moment. Appreciate your objective comment. regards, Seeyou (talk) 11:25, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey

Saw Epbr123's oppose on your RfA about some questionable speedy tagging including this user. I think you did the right thing per this admins speedy deletion logs. Take a look when you become an admin. Cheers 211.30.109.24 (talk) 11:11, 23 November 2008 (UTC)