User talk:Rich Farmbrough
Islamic holy books article has so many sentenses which are not Quranic.when we talk about islam we must take Quran as reliable source and not the books or articles other than Qura. please compare bot articles and check which one is telling truth? the old one or new one with Quranic references.revert the article to know the truth as per quran.it is not NOR thanks--Farrukh38 (talk) 15:29, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
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The von bondies clean up
I fact checked all the places you listed and cleaned up the page.
can you please update the von bondies level/page. thanks suzie
- Needs archiving. Rich Farmbrough, 14:38 2 December 2008 (UTC).
Honda MT125R Page
LINK In question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_MT125
I'm getting notices about the page needing this, need that, needing internal links (has them), wanting grammar changes etc. Yet, with nothing specific all it doesn't help much and is a bit annoying. I'm new to wikipedia, but not technical writing (which the article is) so could you point me in the right direction to keep these thing from popping up?.
I appreciate the help.
Tom
USER Page Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tburklow
- Replied on user page I think .
- Needs archiving. Rich Farmbrough, 14:39 2 December 2008 (UTC).
from where did u got information about bulfati or burfat trible let me know
from where did u got information about bulfati or burfat trible let me know...i wat to know more abt it..my e-mail id is naveed_darkside@hotmail.com
- Hi, thanks for your message, Helpful Pixie Bot does not generally add these kind of tags, but merely dates those that are already there. If you believe the issues have subsequently been addressed, it is perfectly OK to remove them. Regards, ~~~
whats your reality name i need it for school!!!!
- I guess you have it now. Rich Farmbrough, 09:24 28 November 2008 (UTC).
"Cory Pesaturo", Updates
Hi SmactBot,
- I'm not sure who to talk to on this, but I saw earlier that an admin was thinking of deleting the "Cory Pesaturo" article because too many things didn't have references and I'm very happy that you and Phil Bridger have added some. I know Cory not on a personal level, but to a degree and these claims are all true, but it seems Wikipedia dosn't understand that MOST issues that are in question are Impossible to reference - Such as....
"....playing for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton at a total of 10 events"
- 4 of those were at the White House, so they could be found IF you want to search hard enough in the White House documents. about 4 of them were in the local newspapers as fundraising events, but about 3 or 4 of them were Completely private events, so how does wikipedia expect to find proof In writing of all 10?
He is known to many as "The Snowman" for his meteorological work
- Does Wikipedia really need to have a reference on what people call him? Seems rather odd, and all you have to do is e-mail different meteorologists he has delt with, but again it's not going to be In print. Unless an e-mail verifies.
"Youngest person ever to perform at a State Dinner at the White House"
- I know the White House Staff told him this when it occured, but I don't know who you would contact to verify it. He would know who to contact for verification though.
"Youngest accordionist ever to be the soloist with a symphony"
- Here Wikipedia should know that "Accordion History" is not been well documented at all, so this is a statistic that accordion players can talk about, but it's impossible to have this in writing. If you ask legends of the accordion world, they will tell you they don't know anyone who did this feat at an earlier age though.
"The only person to major/graduate as an accordionist at the New England Conservatory of Music"
- This would probably involved a call to one of his teachers at the Conservatory. I would think a call from a teacher would verify.
I'm not sure who the correct person is to talk with about making sure this article doesn't get deleted, but if you aren't the person, could you forward this message? His contact information is on his website and he's a Very nice person to talk with.
- Thank You SmactBot!
- Basically if we can't provide a verifiable reference, we don't include it. If we were writing a biography of Cory, we could use personal impressions, verbal conversations etc., but as an encylopedia we are only trying to distil the existing body of referenceable human knowledge. Rich Farmbrough, 14:51 2 December 2008 (UTC).
Dr Karl Shuker article
smackbot list
maybe put them all in a category by itself??
- Archive:Rich Farmbrough, 18:21 2 January 2009 (UTC).
what purpose
to input into my bot. thats why i want smackbot's article list. and if possible could you just give me a big category and include the category into the category pages.
heres a list of what i want you to do:
- get the pages into the category:uncategorised (possibly with a bot taask)
- put the category name on my talk page
- i will put it into the category:pages
- when my bot is approved, i will run a recurrent category scan to get all the pages
- everyones happy
- my bot does something wrong/malfunctions
- admin clicks emergency shutoff
- gets unblocked
- i temproarily stop the bot
- bot returns
- return to step 4
- Archive:Rich Farmbrough, 18:21 2 January 2009 (UTC).
Michael Hochberg
Hi smack bot, I'm curious what you think of my discussion on Michael Hochberg. I'm a first time wikipedia editor and I would appreciate your opinion on my thought process on this article.
- Archive:Rich Farmbrough, 18:21 2 January 2009 (UTC).
Re-re-request for help
You know more about bots and editing than anyone else I know, so I've got my fingers crossed that you can help me. If you don't have time, I completely understand. Perhaps you can at least point me in the right direction.
Can you use one of your bots, or create one, to pull a piece of data from one set of pages and place it on another set of pages?
What I've got are two items on a bunch of pages that need to be filled in.
One is
"Population: "
And the other is
"Size: "
These need to be filled in on the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list. The items to be filled in are in the "Geography of x" section (where "x" is the name of the respective country).
A few of them are already filled in. (I hope that doesn't present any problems).
The data is located in the infobox on the corresponding country articles.
Is this something you could do?
If so, it would sure save a lot of man hours. I don't currently have access to a machine upon which I could use macros or learn and apply Python, and I'd really like to avoid having to do these chores manually.
I requested bot approval at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Worldbot and was told that these tasks don't need bot approval - we can just go ahead and create and use bots on 'em.
The desired format for the data is presented at Topic outline of Algeria#Geography of Algeria, Topic outline of France#Geography of France and Topic outline of Germany#Geography of Germany.
I look forward to your reply.
The Transhumanist 23:38, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
- I have looked at this before, a few months back.
- Extracting the data is easy but inserting it into the articles is less so. I'll review again soon.
- Rich Farmbrough, 19:20 12 November 2008 (UTC). 19:20, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
- The population figures are done.
- I could sure use your help on the size figures. The size statistics are in the infobox of each country's main article (the "name" article on each country).
- The bot needs to grab the statistics from the country articles and then insert them into the corresponding topic outlines in a specific format. Here is an entry in the standard format we've been using. (See the wikicode):
- Can you do this?
- There are several other things that could probably be filled in by bot, which would save the project's volunteers a lot of time they could spend on tasks incapable of being done by bot.
- Form of government:
- Head of state: (title, incumbent)
- Head of government: (title, incumbent)
- Commander-in-chief: (title, incumbent)
- Currency of x: (where "x" is the name of the country)
- The "Form of government" can be found on the country's "Politics of" article, in the opening sentence of the lead paragraph. In some cases, it is in the "Government of" article.
- "Head of state" and "Head of government" can be found in List of current heads of state and government. See also List of heads of state by diplomatic precedence.
- "Commander-in-chief:" can usually be found in the "Military of" article for each country, though there is no standard format in which it is displayed (that I'm aware of).
- "Currency of x:" is displayed in List of circulating currencies.
- The hardest one above appears to be the Commander-in-chief. I may have to make a list of all the commander-in-chief articles, so that you can more easily extract the commander's title and the name of the incumbent.
- Please let me know when you can work on these. Your assistance would certainly speed this project to completion, and would make the pages more presentable for when they will be moved into article space.
- Sincerely,
SmackBot - Please use minor edit flag
That says it all. They are minor edits, albeit importtant collectively. But, individually, each edit by the bot is minor by definition. Thanks. Paul Beardsell (talk) 05:13, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
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SmackBot, DEFAULTSORT, comments
I have been attaching comments to DEFAULTSORTs for names containing diacriticals to let other editors know that I omitted the diacriticals from the DEFAULTSORT entry so it would sort properly. When SmackBot touches such an entry, it removes the comment from the DEFAULTSORT and puts several blank lines between them, making the comment pointless. Is there a way to get around this? Rklear (talk) 07:59, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Stub removed?
- Hi, thanks for your message, SmackBot makes a number of changes that are available to all WP:AWB bots - in general these provide a number of non-controversial minor improvements.
The issue you raise is related to these, and has been discussed in the past. The present arrangement is the result of consensus - this page is too long to be classified as a stub.
Rich Farmbrough, 00:03 6 January 2009 (UTC).
Smackbot removal of deliberate error
In this change Smackbot removed a deliberate error, which was illustrating an incorrect way of writing Celsius temperatures. --Gerry Ashton (talk) 17:59, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
smackbot changing math equations
Hi Rich, I noticed SmackBot changing an equation at capacitor. It noticed the braces in a LaTeX expression and mistook them for a template transclusion, and then replaced an underscore with a space to "fix" the "template name." Please exclude <math></math> tags. Potatoswatter (talk) 22:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Date in infobox templates
[relisted]
Hi,
Did you get anywhere with the conversion of release/ foundation/ start dates in infoboxes, to use {{Start date}} (see also my earlier note)? If you're not able to oblige, please let me know, so that I can reissue my bot request, Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 13:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
- You archived the above without reply. I understand you may be too busy/ not interested, but if so please let me know, so I can re-open the request on WP:BOTREQ. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:11, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Andy, the archiving is automatic. I have been busy clearing my late father's house which should be finished tomorrow, I will revisit this over the weekend or early next week. Rgds, Rich Farmbrough, 01:29 12 December 2008 (UTC).
- I'm sorry for your loss. It must be a difficult time for you, Thank you for you reply and forbearance with my impatience, Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 12:27, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
- Just a gentle nudge. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 00:15, 6 January 2009 (UTC)