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Question about userboxes

I would like to user your boxes, but when I copy and paste the codes, they dont work. How do I use your boxes?

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Request for MetsBot

Hi Mets501, I just posted the following at the request for bots work but it just occurred to me that MetsBot is probably the most natural choice to do this work. It would again be a tremendous time saver if you can add that functionality to MetsBot. Thanks, Pascal.Tesson (talk) 14:27, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a sizable backlog at Category:Images on Wikimedia Commons. For those unfamiliar with the category: these are images that exist on Commons under a different name and that should be deleted once the occurrences of the Wikipedia image have been replaced by the Commons image. Naturally, this is a pain in the neck to do manually, especially since some of these images have a dozen occurrences. I suppose a simple tweak of Twinkle could automate the process, so could a bot. There's a similar category Category:Images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons for images that exist on Commons under the same name so a bot could easily go through images in Category:Images on Wikimedia Commons and

verify that the corresponding Commons image is a bit-for-bit copy of the Wikipedia image (MetsBot already does this)
if the images are indeed identical, replace occurrences on en.wiki by the Commons image
move the image to Category:Images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons

This is probably a cinch to program but it would be a big big timesaver. Pascal.Tesson (talk) 14:27, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:PentagonGroundZeroCafe.jpg

Image:PentagonGroundZeroCafe.jpg is flagged with {{ncd}} and can be deleted. The version in commons is at the original size, whilst the version on en:wikipedia was reduced in size (by me) when first uploaded. Please delete at your earliest convenience. Astronaut (talk) 22:07, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MetsBot bug

Something odd about MetsBot tags - see Image:ComeAndGetIt136421766.jpg and Image:JammerDreads.jpg. Kelly ^hi! 21:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:IMG_0391.JPG

Hi,

Could you explain this to me please? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IMG_0391.JPG

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Bot question

Can you get Metsbot to start running daily? I am going to start a new task for flagging images already on commons. β^_command 23:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template problem

Since I don't know how often you actually sign in as User:UBX, I figured I'd link you to a question I had over there. Thanks in advance for the help. --Areldyb^(talk) 01:33, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Image:PentagonGroundZeroCafe.jpg (again)

For the second time your bot has flagged this image with "may not pass the requirements for deletion". Another user uploaded a larger version of the same image to commons and has changed the article to you the commons version; so please be assured that this image does meet the requirements for deletion and can therefore be deleted. Astronaut (talk) 22:37, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Possibility of deletion of image

Hi Mets501,

My image that I took and uploaded,

has been tagged that it may not pass the criteria for deletion.

I am not sure why it was identified as a proposal for the deletion in the first place, as I took the image myself, and uploaded it.

However, it may be that the auto - bot linked my Wiki username, 'Tinminer' with the image itself which is a photograph of a statue of a tinminer!

I am not a tinminer myself, nor am I the person who built or created the statue. My only interest is local history, of which tin mining is the most important element - hence why I chose the username!

If I need to do any other adjustments to avoid possible deletion, please enlighten me! The image is important, as it forms part of the article about the town Redruth.

Thanks for your time.

Tinminer (talk) 16:02, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tinminer. You have nothing to worry about with your image; it's part of a process to move images to Wikimedia Commons. In fact, you won't even notice any change. See User:MetsBot/Commons tagging for more information. —METS501 (talk) 18:53, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thanks for that Mets501! Tinminer (talk) 14:04, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request for MetsBot's assistance in maintaining 12 of the maintenance categories

As the creator of Category:Year of birth missing (living people) (as well as Category:Place of birth missing (living people)), I was particularly gratified last November 6, upon realizing that MetsBot was extremely speedily performing the task that I had laboriously tried to carry out from May to October—replacing thousands of Category:Year of birth missing with Category:Year of birth missing (living people). I regret not sending a note of appreciation at the time and hope that this message can serve as a belated surrogate. A year ago, May 1 2007, on the day of the category's creation, I wrote in its newly-opened discussion page that its parent Category:Year of birth missing (created less than two years previously, on June 21 2005) had grown to contain 18,207 names, rendering it unmanageable. Previous suggestions to subdivide it by gender, nationality or profession could not reach consensus, thus leaving "(living people)" as what seemed to be the last, best alternative. My feeble attempts to manually populate the category, following its creation, managed a daily average of fifteen to twenty-five entries (by contrast, MetsBot completed sixteen entries in one second!). Even so, it took MetsBot from November 6 to November 9 (with "rest breaks") to complete the task, along with adding DEFAULTSORT where needed and attending to Category:Possibly living people.

The creation of the two categories was, in a number of aspects, an outgrowth of CfDs in which I had participated. Some editors continued to complain that although the 15 maintenance categories fulfilled the useful (and, arguably, necessary) function of denoting the absence of years, dates and places of birth and death, they were creating visual clutter among the "standard" or "real" categories at the bottom of biographical articles. As a result, in April 2007, two CfDs dealing with a number of the maintenance categories, arrived at a consensus. Twelve of the categories (all ten dates and places, which were considered to contain needed, but non-essential, or "defining" data, plus "Year of birth/death unknown", which pointed out the lack of unobtainable, lost to history, facts) were to be repurposed to the discussion pages, where a small group of specialized editors, with a penchant for research, could continue to complete the missing information. Only the three categories indicating absence of years of birth and/or death which were theoretically capable of being researched (Category:Year of birth missing, Category:Year of birth missing (living people) and Category:Year of death missing) were noted as "defining", thus entitling those "Year categories" to remain on article pages. The wholesale transfer of the ten "Date/Place categories" (the two "Year unknown" categories were overlooked) was assigned to the no-longer functioning COBot on June 13 2007 (example: COBot's final transferred entry on June 13, Talk:Zoran Vraneš, can be seen in that talk page's revision history). To keep all of the categories together, the agreed-upon place for the newly-transferred categories was to be directly below the Wikitags/templated categories and, if already-present, DEFAULTSORT (seen as a more-precise sorting feature than "listas="). In the event a recent or newly-created biographical article does not yet have a discussion page, MetsBot may/would create it and place the transferred category or categories at the top of the page. Tens of thousands of these non-templated maintenance categories have already been placed on discussion pages (and continue to be placed manually) but, unfortunately, a number of well-meaning, persistent editors continue to add them to article pages. Hopefully, if/when schedule permits, the twelve categories listed below could be swept by MetsBot from article pages to talk pages and periodically (weekly?, monthly?, quarterly?) maintained to take account of newly (incorrectly) placed categories.

Category:Date of birth missing--------------------------------------Category:Place of birth missing
Category:Date of birth missing (living people)------------------Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:Date of birth unknown-------------------------------------Category:Place of birth unknown
Category:Date of death missing------------------------------------Category:Place of death missing
Category:Date of death unknown-----------------------------------Category:Place of death unknown
Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:Year of death unknown

Taking into account the newly-appended (February 26 2008) innovation of hidden categories, some additional observations could be made. If the maintenance categories were capable of being hidden in 2006–07, the complaints about "clutter" would likely not have occurred (personally, I prefer to see all categories, setting my Preferences to "Show hidden categories"). I feel, however, that the "Hidden categories" feature does not render this transfer exercise moot. Unlike the nearly 1200 entries in Category:Hidden categories, virtually all of which are templated (and extremely specialized— Category:Start-Class Early Modern warfare articles) the fifteen maintenance categories are not templated and (I know I'm writing to an expert) mutually exclusive (I think) at a ratio of 4:1 (there is a sixteenth rarely used "outsider" maintenance Category:Year of birth uncertain, meant for individuals whose age is given in a newspaper/magazine story, but not the year of birth, thus leaving the uncertainty of one of two possible years), that is, at most, only 4 out of the 16 maintenance categories can ever be applicable to any single individual. In many cases, of course, none, or only one, of these sixteen categories is needed in a biographical entry. Thus, I would argue, due to the exceptional nature of these maintenance categories, they should not be hidden, but left on the article and talk/discussion pages for all to see and consider (this will likely turn out to be a minority view). Sorry about the excessive length of this note and, again, thank you for all your efforts on Wikipedia (Wiki-efforts).—Roman Spinner (talk) 17:05, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Garbled MetsBot messages

Still seeing occasional problems - see Image:The London Eye at dusk.jpg for an example. This seems to happen when the image at Commons is not exactly the same as the Wikipedia image - for example, I uploaded the Commons version of this image directly from the Flickr source instead of trans-wiki-ing from the en Wikipedia. Image:JammerDreads.jpg was another previous example of this. Kelly ^hi! 16:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out why that randomly happens. It seems relatively rare (i.e. not a reason to stop the bot runs) but it would still be great to figure it out... —METS501 (talk) 16:00, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Yeah, I love the bot, just wanted to give you the opportunity to make it even more perfect. :) FYI, I dropped a message at Magnus' talk page at Commons about some licenses not transferring correctly with CommonsHelper...the ones I have seen so far are {{self2}} (a redirect to {{self}} at both places, but still screwed up somehow), {{Attribution}}, where the details are being dropped, and {{GFDL-self}} and {{GFDL-self-with-disclaimers}} (and possibly other GFDL-with-disclaimer variations). I'm sure you've probably seen these issues since MetsBot seems awesome at picking up license differences. I'm not sure how closely Magnus watches his talk page but I'm concerned about license details being garbled or lost until this if fixed. - Kelly ^hi! 16:47, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MetsBot can parse {{self}}, so for now, it's not really a problem (i.e. MetsBot will pick up licensing disparities even with the {{self}} template. Thanks for helping me improve the bot though :-) —METS501 (talk) 01:48, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Metsbot and moves to Commons

Hi Mets. Metsbot told me that the images Image:Froeya-370 59037a.jpg and Image:Olav-Tryggvason-370 58332a.jpg that I have copied to Commons "may not meet the requirements for deletion". What's wrong, and how can I fix the problem with the images? Manxruler (talk) 18:04, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The main thing is to make sure that the attribution and license details between here and Commons match. Drop me a note on my talk page if you need help with this. Kelly ^hi! 18:07, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I too cannot seem to appease the bot: how can I specify the source so that it's at last happy? I read not too worry, but would like to learn how to avoid this seeming source of delay if only possible in the future, and I already did what the bot asked for, but the bot is unrelenting: Image:CountriesRecognizingKosovo.png --Mareklug ^talk 23:59, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've got this problem, too. The bot is tagging Image:Lewis&ClarkBridge.jpg as "may not meet requirements" because "This image does not exist on Commons or has an empty description page". Problem is that's simply not correct - the image does exist on Commons and does have proper content on its description page. I removed the bot's tag once, but it was simply replaced. Ipoellet (talk) 02:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MetsBot NASA images

Hi, i was wondering if you can help MetsBot understand the following

MetsBot was unable to determine if this image has compatable license information on Commons.

The license(s) here: {{PD-NASA}}

The license(s) on Commons: {{PD-USGov-NASA}}

This occurs quite often, and it's less than useful :D --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:01, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. The info is actually maintained on this page: User:MetsBot/Matching_licenses, which any admin can edit. I can't unprotect it because I can't risk any sort of sabotage or wrong information. —METS501 (talk) 01:49, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Incompatible licenses

Doing some work on license templates and found that there is a difference in the terms of {{PD-old}} between here and Commons. On en Wikipedia, the terms of the license mean {{PD-old-100}}, while on Commons {{PD-old}} means {{PD-old-70}}. It really should be standardized somehow. Also, I just read the entry immediately above - can you have MetsBot consider {{PD-user}} to be equivalent to {{PD-user-en}}? Kelly ^hi! 02:59, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Second one done, no problem. And as far as I see the first one, considering that the license here is more restrictive, it's not really a problem. But I agree that it would be great to have it standardized. —METS501 (talk) 16:36, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A few questions about MetsBot

Apologies if you have answered these questions before elsewhere, but I have a couple of queries regarding MetsBot. Why is Image:Aughton.jpg categorized under Category:Metsbot disputed images when it has been passed by the bot? Also, why was that image passed when Image:Topiary Rufford Hall.JPG was not? Thanks in advance! Small-town hero (talk) 01:20, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As far as the categories, that was an error in the template (fixing diff). As far as that error in passing the image, the bot is set up so that if it's even the slightest bit confused, it puts up the message :-). In this case, it was the {{Self}} vs {{self}} capitalization difference that got it confused. It's fixed for the future though. —METS501 (talk) 01:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

~~Thanks for the help! If you don't mind, I am now also wondering about the following images:~~

Image:Parbold Bottle.jpg

Image:Tesco shelter.jpg

Image:Tesco.jpg

~~In the case of the latter two, would it be ok for me to manually replace the license on Commons as suggested by the message? Small-town hero (talk) 02:28, 10 May 2008 (UTC)~~[reply]

Scratch that, hopefully I've resolved the issues with these (and a few other) images - I'll see what happens next time the bot runs. I did find a few more capitalization differences that were confusing the bot:

{{cc-by-3.0}} on Wikipedia, {{Cc-by-3.0}} on Commons
{{cc-by-2.5}} on Wikipedia, {{Cc-by-3.0}} on Commons

Small-town hero (talk) 13:08, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All fixed :-) MetsBot now recognizes that the licenses are the same even if the first letter is a different capitalization. —METS501 (talk) 16:53, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A few more for you (sorry!) I'm guessing that the first two have something to do with the {{geograph}} template, but I don't have a clue about the other two.

Cheers! Small-town hero (talk) 21:37, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Image:Stuffed-Pelicans-Srebarna.jpg

Hello, several days ago I tagged this image for deletion due to duplication with an image from Commons, where I am a sysop. In the meanwhile I discovered the original, uploaded firstly in Bulgarian Wikipedia. I discovered a little bit of licensing mess throughout the history of the image - author Mincov once released under GFDL, then under CC-BY-2.5. TodorBozhinov who uploaded the image here, needs no attribution himself, because he hasn't produced a derivative work. Anyway, I tried to carefully describe the case commons:Image:Stuffed-Pelicans-Srebarna.jpg and now you can delete the local image without problems. Cheers, →Spiritia 07:34, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Question(s)

Just downloaded everything necessary for awb. But I don't see where to start the program. (No desktop icon,start menu has nothing) Does it start automatically? I would hate to download something and found I couldn't use it a second time.It's currently on because I activated its exe file right from where I extracted it to.Help!I am approved.Xp54321 (talk) 22:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You did it right the first time; all you need to do is double-click on the exe file. Try creating a new folder in C:\Program Files\ called AWB or something else and put the exe file and the other files in that folder in that new folder and run it from there. —METS501 (talk) 02:20, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MetsBot false negatives

Not sure if any programming can fix this, but I've noticed that one type of MetsBot false negative is for Flickr images in which the Commons version was uploaded directly from the Flickr source instead of being trans-wiki'd from en Wikipedia. In those cases credit to the en Wikipedia uploader should not be necessary. An example would be Image:Sloan 2007 left.jpg...I've been flagging those types of images with {{db}} because the issue can't really be "fixed" for MetsBot. Hopefully the folks working CSD won't get too annoyed with me, but Category:Metsbot disputed images is getting bigger and bigger (up to 1300 images now) - nobody seems to be working them. Kelly ^hi! 00:35, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, I've also seen a similar issue with PD images uploaded from PD sources (like the U.S. government or PD Library of Congress repositories). For PD licenses (except maybe for {{PD-self}}) it really shouldn't be necessary for the Commons page to attribute the en Wikipedia uploader so long as the original source is provided. But IANAL and all that. I'm not sure if MetsBot can be trained to recognize this. Kelly ^hi! 01:20, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kelly. Thanks for helping out with the backlog! Basically, here's what I think I can do as far as changes. For Flickr GFDL/cc images, there's really nothing I can do; there's no way for MetsBot to verify that the uploader made no edits to the image before uploading it and that it wasn't the edited version that was uploaded (unattributed) to Commons. As far as for PD images from any source, I'm going to remove the uploader credit checking. After all, PD means just that: anyone can use the image for whatever purpose, no attribution is legally required. Thanks for the suggestions! —METS501 (talk) 02:26, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds great, thanks! And thanks for an amazingly useful bot! ~~Oh, I just thought of this in regards to Flickr images - if the image is a bit-for-bit identical copy on Commons you should know that the image has not been modified. Just a thought.~~ Never mind. This wouldn't work when the image was transwiki'd from en Wikipedia as opposed to being uploaded to Commons directly from Flickr. Guess we're stuck with manual noms in those cases. Kelly ^hi! 02:34, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Clitheroe park enterance.JPG

Hi, I've got a number of images like this where MetsBot isn't picking up the {{self}} template on Commons. Could you take a look please? Thanks in advance! Small-town hero (talk) 06:42, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Bruce Rusty Lang March 1970.jpg

Your bot has identified this image for deletion. It contains the only available image of the 6th Special Forces Group insignia worn on a uniform. How do we correct this? Dr. B. R. Lang (talk) 21:48, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The deletion of the image is a technical detail only. The image is actually a commons file image and that copy of the image will not be delete, nor will any usage of the image. The only thing that is being deleted is the duplicate copy found in Wikipedia. I hope that this reply will relieve your fears. Any page that currently uses this image will continue to use it after it is deleted from here. Dbiel ^(Talk) 00:33, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Tahoma high school 1926.jpg

I do not understand why Image:Tahoma high school 1926.jpg should be marked for retention in Wikipedia. It is an exact copy of the Commons file image. There is no reason for a separte Wikipedia copy. Dbiel ^(Talk) 00:27, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, after do some more research, I see why the bot changed the tag. It is beginning to look like this may be a copyright violation image with an invalid free use license over in Commons Dbiel ^(Talk) 01:12, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS tickets

Mets, does MetsBot check for the transfer of OTRS tickets to Commons? A problem results when OTRS templates other than {{PermissionOTRS}} (the Commons template) are used here at Wikipedia. Examples include {{ConfirmationOTRS}} and {{ConfirmationImageOTRS}}. It appears the tickets are simply lost in the transfer. I tried standardizing the OTRS templates but the OTRS volunteers were unhappy about that, so I'm not sure how to go forward with that. But hopefully MetsBot can at least flag when the info is being dropped. Kelly ^hi! 16:50, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, MetsBot now treats them like other license templates; they must match. That should work, right? —METS501 (talk) 20:48, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

License compatibility

Mets, could you make the Commons license {{PD-1923}} compatible with en Wikipedia license {{PD-US}} so far as MetsBot is concerned? Image:N041915.jpg was the false negative that brought this to my attention. Kelly ^hi! 21:39, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, {{self2}} here should be made compatible with {{self}} on Commons - false negative was Image:AogaeView.jpg. Kelly ^hi! 04:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done and

Done :-) —METS501 (talk) 20:48, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:BurjDubaiHeight.png

The bot says: "MetsBot was unable to determine if this image has compatable license information on Commons.

The license(s) here: {{GFDL}} {{cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0}} {{Self}}

The license(s) on Commons: {{GFDL}} {{cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0}} "

Surely these are the same compatible licenses. I am using {{self}} as a container for multiple licenses. The image can be safely deleted. Astronaut (talk) 08:49, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've manually tagged the image for deletion using the {{db}} template - false negatives happen once in a while. You can do this yourself if this happens again in the future, or manually list the image for deletion at WP:IFD. Cheers - Kelly ^hi! 13:20, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's shouldn't have happened. All fixed now. —METS501 (talk) 20:49, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Small_bunyapine.jpg

Resolved
– Licensing conflict fixed. Kelly ^hi! 13:13, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead and delete Image:Small_bunyapine.jpg - your robot is having kittens trying to do it. It's my photo and the same file exists on commons. Please, feel free to manually delete it. Peter1968 (talk) 05:01, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It was a bug, and it's now fixed. —METS501 (talk) 20:50, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My CSD# I8 images

I recently had at least four images tagged for deletion because there are duplicates of them on the commons.

Since I looked in the history of the images, couldn't find who tagged them for speedy deletion, and got no answer from the administrators, I'd like to know if by chance you were the user who tagged these for deletion. I'm not complaining about them being tagged this way, in fact my only complaint is that the commons version isn't replacing the older duplicates soon enough. ----DanTD (talk) 12:41, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The images hadn't actually been tagged for deletion - I've tagged them now. I think maybe you were referring to the orange-bordered information box that starts with "This file is an exact duplicate of another file from the Wikimedia Commons" - that's actually not a deletion tag but a system advisory that a duplicate file exists. In the future just add {{subst:ncd}} to the pages of images that are Commons duplicates. Kelly ^hi! 13:16, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's the one. Now I'm going to turn that question over to you. Did you tag those images this way? Furthermore, why can't I find it in the history of the images? ----DanTD (talk) 14:53, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a template that users put on the page - it's something that's displayed automatically by the Mediawiki interface, like the file history or file links section. Kelly ^hi! 14:58, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

e-mail

I sent to you an e-mail Azmi1995 00:45, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Compatible licenses

Hi, Mets - please make en license {{GFDL-self-no-disclaimers}} compatible with commons license {{GFDL-user-en-no-disclaimers}} - Image:Schrodingercat EA2007.jpg was the false negative. Thanks! Kelly ^hi! 13:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

bot false negative: Image:Asphalt_base.jpg

Hi there. What went wrong here? Quoting 2 templates:

This picture/multimedia file is now available on Wikimedia Commons as Image:Asphalt base.jpg.

Images that have been tagged with this template may be deleted immediately after satisfying these conditions (CSD I8).

MetsBot has reviewed this image and it may not pass the requirements for deletion. (what does this mean?)

MetsBot was unable to determine if this image has compatable license information on Commons.

The license(s) here: {{GFDL-self-en}}

The license(s) on Commons: {{GFDL-user-w}}

Feel free to remove this template to have MetsBot recheck this image. Last checked at 21:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Best, --Mareklug ^talk 23:53, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed for the future; thanks. —METS501 (talk) 02:42, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Rottingdean wkp.jpg

{{NoRightsReserved}} redirects to {{PD-release}} here on Wikipedia, and is deprecated on Commons (though oddly, {{Norightsreserved}} - without the capitalization - redirects to {{Copyrighted free use}} on Commons). I switched the Commons license (as recommended) to {{PD-user-w}}, thought MetsBot doesn't recognize this as the same thing. Any way around this problem? Small-town hero (talk) 00:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, fixed for the future. MetsBot now recognizes them as "Compatible". Thanks —METS501 (talk) 02:44, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox Artist

Per Template_talk:Infobox_Artist#Famous_works, the parameter "Famous works" has been changed to "Works". This means the existing template on article pages, e.g. Vincent van Gogh needs to be updated, so the template, which at the moment says "famous works",[1] reads just "works". I wonder if your bot would be able to do this, or else if you could recommend one that could. Thanks. Ty 05:17, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey...check out Wikipedia:Bot requests; there'll definitely be a friendly bot op ready to help you there. —METS501 (talk) 17:34, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. Ty. Ty 23:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. I've just read your note at User:UBX and I understand that you're only hosting userboxes and may or may not be a creator of them. But I'm not sure who else to ask about this, so I hope you can either help me or point me in the right direction.

I'm using {{User:UBX/WV-Northern}} on my user page, but I can't get it into the correct horizontal alignment. It sits several pixels above the other boxes and throws everything off. I feel sure that it's an issue with the template code but I don't know nearly enough about that stuff to know how to fix it, and since your account is the only link (so to speak) that I have to the creator, you're it.

I appreciate anything you can do or tell me to help me out. I have a feeling this isn't really your problem, and I thank you for any time that you give toward rectifying it. -- edi (talk) 23:15, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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MetsBot and more than double redirects

Hi, I'm wondering does MetsBot work on 'more-than-double redirects' (ie triple, quadruple redirects)? It would be great to have that function. In any case, we're looking for something that cleans up redirects on Wikiversity - would the bot script need to be modified for use there, and if so, would it be possible for you to do so? You're more likely to reach me on my WV talk page, but I do also check WP. Thanks! Cormaggio ^{is learning} 10:00, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Possible MetsBot bug

Just a heads-up - Image:Chateauneuf vineyard & castle.jpg has been tagged as a Commons dupe since 22 May, but for some reason MetsBot hasn't checked it. Not a big deal but wanted to let you know. Kelly ^hi! 19:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)‎[reply]

Yeah, MetsBot has an issue with images with the "&" in their title. I've been trying to fix it, but with no luck. —METS501 (talk) 22:00, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Brooklands

{{NowCommonsBot|1=*This image does not exist on Commons or has an empty description page. Feel free to remove this template to have MetsBot recheck this image. Last checked at 04:11, 6 June 2008 (UTC)}} ...has been put on all my images on Brooklands. Its wrong!

DineshAdv (talk) 16:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC) Altough I have realised that I just copied {{NowCommons|month=June|day=6|year=2008|1=Image:imagenameoncommons.jpg|2=no}} onto the page, when I should have changed Image:imagenameoncommons.jpg to its name on commons. I'm sorry. DineshAdv (talk) 18:24, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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an edit by your bot

Your bot made edits here and here. FYI, csd I8 does not require an image to be in a category or article on Commons.--Rockfang (talk) 02:55, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Source code, plz?

Can I see your bot's source code? I want to build a clone of it. G2.0 USA contributions 16:07, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, I just had a major hard drive crash, and I'm afraid the bot is gone with it :-(. I'm attempting data recovery now, and I'll get back to you with more information soon. —METS501 (talk) 03:11, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Thanks. ;) --G2.0 USA ^{contributions} 14:46, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Telescopes

Hi Mets,

In relation to an edit/clean up you made last August 25th 2007 re: 'The Telescope' - British electronica/shoegazing band. I might be wrong but your finished edit appears to show 'Joanna Doran' as a past member, with 'Bridget Hayden' as a current member. As a fan, I wasn't aware this had happened - however, since they aren't exactly the most covered band in the media, it wouldn't surprise me. Could you tell me how you came across this information? If it wasn't you, if you get the chance could you investigate?

Thanks in advance,

Theblako (talk) 17:19, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. It actually wasn't me (or my bot) that added that information; it was actually added before my bot (although my bot did fix up the table a bit). Sorry I can't help you more. —METS501 (talk) 03:11, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Image:Ampersandcurve.png

Hi. From the code that you used to generate the above image I get the impression that it was first generated as a svg. Would it be possible to upload a version in svg format as well? Thanks Lokal _Profil 16:33, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

bot hack?

This is about an image that has a PD license here but commons has a license that is more specific for images from this one collection. Image:Matricariachamomilla.jpg. The bot didn't delete it because the licenses were different {{PD-old}} vs {{PD-Nordens Flora}}. I am just here to let you know that I am attempting my first hack of your bot. I put the matching template on this image page; my assumption is that the bot doesn't check for valid license templates, just for occurance of the string PD and everything after matching.

You can reply here on how to make the bot work without changing the template at the commons or perhaps you can watch the bot with me to see if my hack works or not :) -- carol (talk) 21:00, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, my bot is a bit too smart for your hack :-). It actually does check if the license exists, so it wouldn't even be recognized as a license here. I just went ahead and deleted the image, though, since it meets all of the requirements anyway. —METS501 (talk) 03:26, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aw, it saw me before I got here I guess :)

It was fun to think about though. Thanks for running that thing, btw. As a human uploader from the 'pedia to the commons, it is nice to see the job completed. -- carol (talk) 04:43, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

LIRR images on the commons

Regarding your tag for some of the LIRR station images I wanted to have transferred to the commons, actually there are duplicates;

Sea Cliff (LIRR station)
- Image:Sea Cliff LIRR Station-2.jpg

Northport (LIRR station)

Just thought you'd like to recheck. ----DanTD (talk) 21:45, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The problem was the .jpg and .JPG file extensions - these are case sensitive, which is why the bot couldn't find the duplicates on Commons. I've fixed the links in the {{Nowcommons}} template on each image, so they should be ok next time the bot checks them. Small-town hero (talk) 22:58, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I suspected as much. I'd like to be able to convert those myself. ----DanTD (talk) 23:50, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Compatible license

Hi Mets! Could you make {{NoRightsReserved}} compatible with the Commons PD licenses? I got a false negative when the local license was {{NoRightsReserved}} and the Commons license was {{PD-author}}. Kelly ^hi! 15:54, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, done. —METS501 (talk) 16:13, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Improper NowCommonsBot tagging?

Your bot marked Image:Yarlang tsango river tibet.jpg for deletion as being correctly moved to Commons, but it doesn't seem to have met the critera: the copy on Commons has a slightly different name, and the article using the image hadn't been updated. --Carnildo (talk) 22:03, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Unlimited Register Machine

This article and its talk page were deleted with very short notice. A quick summary, the Gilbert & Sullivan (early 1900s musical comedy) people thought that the mathematical presentation of the functions was a copyright violation.

Do you have superpowers which can restore that article and its talk page? The next logical step with the article was to figure out if the LaTeX \neq was broken in my ability or at wikimedia....

Thanks -- carol (talk) 20:27, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It smells like Git (software) in some of the histories of the articles here, probably a great thing for software versioning and even for a group of people who are writing a text together; I am not convinced that it is a good thing for a wiki in which everyone can edit. -- carol (talk) 02:50, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:PD is deprecated both here and on Commons. Commons:Template:PD lists a number of valid alternatives, including Commons:Template:PD-Art, which is used for this particular image. Small-town hero (talk) 18:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Bot request

Mets, would you mind having a quick look and offer thoughts at this bot request? MetsBot does a great job of processing images already tagged as Commons duplicates; what would it take for a bot to actually tag the images as duplicates so MetsBot could process them? Kelly ^hi! 16:34, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Compatible licenses

Mets, can you make {{ConfirmationImageOTRS}} here compatible with {{PermissionOTRS}} at Commons? Kelly ^hi! 23:13, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

42nd MP Brigade image

That image is properly documented as a public domain image as a product of the US government. Why is it being considered for deletion? Niteshift36 (talk) 00:30, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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To MetsBot

Hi, I transferred Image:Connecticut House of Representatives.jpg and Image:Connecticut Senate.jpg to Commons. Your Bot now gives the message "...may not pass the requirements for deletion..." because of the PD-user-License I put in over there. But I had no other choice than doing this because the No-Rights-Reserved template looks like that. When I'm told to use another license I do that. So perhaps you should modify your bot under these circumstances. Regards, --Scooter ^{(this one)} 20:46, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the problem seems to be solved as the pictures are deleted here, but I really had thought you'd answer me... --Scooter ^{(this one)} 10:50, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS

{{NowCommonsBot|1=*MetsBot was unable to determine if this image has compatable '''license''' information on Commons. [[:Category:Metsbot disputed images with license problems]]<ul><li>The license(s) here: {{[[Template:ConfirmationImageOTRS|ConfirmationImageOTRS]]}} {{[[Template:Cc-by-sa-2.5|Cc-by-sa-2.5]]}} <li>The license(s) on Commons: {{[[commons:Template:PermissionOTRS|PermissionOTRS]]}} {{[[commons:Template:Cc-by-sa-2.5|Cc-by-sa-2.5]]}} </ul> Feel free to remove this template to have MetsBot recheck this image. Last checked at 21:57, 9 July 2008 (UTC)}} Could you make it treat {{ConfirmationImageOTRS}} the same as {{PermissionOTRS}}? Cheers. Ian¹³ /t 09:33, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MetsBot not looking at source for upload

As far as i can tell {{NowCommons}} is the only way, to signal that an illustration exists as a an exact duplicate on Commons. Therefore it is the logical choice for me, when i found that file PH_Kamp.jpg on Commons is the exact same as Image:Poul.henning.kamp.jpg here. But this file was transferred from Billede:Poul.henning.kamp.jpg on DaWiki, where it was released under a different license, which has been retained on Commons. I would like a way to tell that to your bot, so it won't rereview Image:Poul.henning.kamp.jpg here. --DaWiki2Commons (talk) 09:53, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MetBot is annoying

Hello,

your bot claims that Image:3-2-7-top.png would not be ready for speedy deletion. This is nonsense. Is there any way to stop your bot to put such stupid tags on image pages?

Thanks, --Sven (talk) 21:14, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

typo

I don't know if anyone's mentioned this before or not, but there's a very small spelling error in the template the bot leaves on various image pages (like this one, for example):

MetsBot was unable to determine if this image has compatable license information on Commons.

Compatable should be compatible. Sorry to be a pest! Esrever ^(klaT) 16:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, don't be sorry, that was my fault :-) All fixed now. —METS501 (talk) 01:34, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Compatable :) licenses

Mets, I move some images with the {{PD-USGov-Military}} tag - when possible, I make the Commons license more specific, i.e. with {{PD-USGov-Military-Army}}, {{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}}, {{PD-USGov-Military-Air Force}}, or {{PD-USGov-Military-Marines}}. Could MetsBot treat those as compatible? Thanks! Kelly ^hi! 01:54, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, no prob :-) —METS501 (talk) 02:33, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image deletion notices

Your bot is saying things are ready to be deleted (like here) when the name on commons is actually different to that on Wikipedia, and not all the articles have the new location. As a result, the redlinks are being automatically removed from articles, and the image lost. Maybe the bot could check (or say in the green-box to check the 'what links here')? Cheers, Ian¹³ /t 12:35, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming images & File extensions

Would it be possible to change the name of an image? I don't see a move tag on a single image, and if I were able to change the names it could speed up the process of having some of them transferred to the commons. For those I don't feel like sending to the commons, they wolud just be improved in other ways. ----DanTD (talk) 22:14, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Metsbot spelling error

Hi, I just noticed that a metsbot tag had the phrase "MetsBot was unable to determine if this image has compatable license information on Commons." It should be spelled "Compatible". Cheers, no need to reply. --Storkk (talk) 21:36, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page moved to Commons?

Dear Mets,

your talk page is showing up in Category:All images on Wikimedia Commons, can't seem to fix the problem myself, could you have a try?

thx, --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 18:55, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hope it's okay, I did some <nowiki> to clear that up. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 07:14, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Western gull chick.jpg - the bot is saying credit is not given when it is

It says Sabine's Sunbird isn't being credited when he clearly is - this is what the CommonsHelper always adds. Any idea why it's doing this? Richard001 (talk) 05:55, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, could you please fix the bot's logic so that the JewishEncyclopedia license tag on Commons is seen as a subset of (i.e. compatible with) {{PD-US}}. (See Image:Amun5.jpg, for example). Thanks, Storkk (talk) 09:11, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, {{GFDL-user}} is compatible with {{GFDL}}. :) --Storkk (talk) 09:15, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{East German Post}} is essentially {{PD-GDR stamps}} . Would you like me to continue telling you about compatibilities as i run across them, or is this essentially useless information? Cheers, Storkk (talk) 11:32, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Hamid mir.JPG)

Thanks for uploading Image:Hamid mir.JPG. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 05:04, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Polar coordinates, Centrifugal and Coriolis terms

"Brews ohare" introduced this paragraph. It is similar to my "Mechanics" of "20:32, 23 July 2008" that I removed "20:46, 27 July 2008" as I agree with "Mets501" that this does not fit here. The interpretation of these terms as "virtual forces" should be by setting up the physical "equation of motion" in a rotating 3-dimensional coordinate system. And if these physical concepts should be discussed here at all it would be more important to point out that $r^{2}{\dot {\theta }}$ is the angular momentum (per unit mass)and that the time derivative of the angular momentum is the torque.

Stamcose (talk) 19:49, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weird metsbot error

I haven't noticed this before. I don't see any obvious problem with the Commons image. Ideas? Angus McLellan (Talk) 14:09, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Metsbot needs to provide more informative messages.

I've just seen a message "Image:Vertebrate n octopus eyes.png meets the criteria for deletion" - and similar messages for about 6 other images I've uploaded in the last moth. I turns out that the reason is transfer to Commons. I suggest that Metsbot needs to provide more informative messages. -- Philcha (talk) 21:34, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's why there's a link next to each edit that provides all the information you could need. —METS501 (talk) 01:22, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Democratic_presidential_primary_results.png

The bot left the following message on Image:Democratic_presidential_primary_results.png. MetsBot was unable to determine if this image has compatible license information on Commons.

The license(s) here: {{GDFL}}

The license(s) on Commons: {{GFDL}}

No idea why its the exact same license on both. Phatom87 ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:21, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My Family Feud userbox

I was wondering, I recently created a new userbox at {{User:Andros 1337/Family Feud}}. However, apparently, it has gone unnoticed. I even created a category at Category:Wikipedians who like Family Feud. I also added it to User:UBX/Userboxes/Media, but still, I am the only user who has it on his/her userpage. Is there anything that I did wrong here? Hopefully you can find a solution to get make it more visible to other users. I understand that the current popularity of Family Feud is not as great as Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy!, however, there is no way that I am the only Family Feud fan on Wikipedia. ANDROS¹³³⁷ 18:21, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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MetsBot is messed up...

It's marking images as having no problems when the image is still in use. I've blocked it indef until that's fixed... Maxim (☎) 15:12, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey...can you show me an example so I can figure out exactly what's wrong? Thanks. —METS501 (talk) 00:54, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I created a run page for metsbot. look here for a suggestion on what to do with it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ipatrol (talk • contribs) 21:21, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed your link!

I fixed the "watch this page" link near the top of the page so it actually works.--Ipatrol (talk) 21:33, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Volume 4, Issue 42	8 November 2008	About the Signpost

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Fundraiser opens: Over $500,000 raised in first week	ArbCom elections: Nominations open
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Lawsuit briefly shuts down Wikipedia.de	GFDL 1.3 released, will allow Wikimedia migration to Creative Commons license
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Metsbot heads-up

I dunno if this has come to your attention but I am sure that this result was not the intent of the bot. Could you pl. fix it? TIA. --Gurubrahma (talk) 10:56, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That was 1.5 years ago. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 10:59, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Mets501, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

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Volume 4, Issue 45	24 November 2008	About the Signpost

From the editor: 200th issue
ArbCom elections: Candidate profiles	News and notes: Fundraiser, milestones
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Volume 4, Issue 46	1 December 2008	About the Signpost

ArbCom elections: Elections open	Wikipedia in the news
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From the editor: Getting back on track
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Editing statistics show decline in participation	Wikipedia drug coverage compared to Medscape, found wanting
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Hello!

I was just looking at your awesome pages and was wondering if you know Jeremy Stein Cushman personally. I am just curious and mean no offense. I also like physics, and I hear Jeremy does too.140.247.23.217 (talk) 14:05, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Volume 5, Issue 4	24 January 2009	About the Signpost

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Free Library of Philadelphia Talk Page

Why did you delete the Free Library of Philadelphia Talk Page?

Dthomsen8 (talk) 13:43, 26 January 2009 (UTC)dthomsen8[reply]

I didn't. —METS501 (talk) 00:38, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Help with coding

Hi Mets501. As I recall, you are an expert at HTML coding and wikimarkup. You did my user page, for which I am very grateful. I would like to make a subpage and I need to know how to make a listing of LEAD sections from various articles. Please use this page to show me how: User:Fyslee/Leads. -- Fyslee (talk) 18:04, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Volume 5, Issue 5	31 January 2009	About the Signpost

Large portion of articles are orphans	News and notes: Ogg support, Wikipedia Loves Art, Jimbo honored
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RE:Bot usage training?

Hi,

Previously, I've been turned down for approval of bot usage for valid reasons. Since you have commented on this page, would it be possible if you could train me on how to use a bot for the betterment of Wikipedia articles? Wiki Raja (talk) 01:27, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost, February 8, 2009

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Wikipedia Signpost — February 16, 2009

Volume 5, Issue 7

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File:Screenshot.PNG listed for deletion

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Wikipedia Signpost — February 23, 2009

This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 8, which includes these articles:

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An automated article monitoring system for WikiProjects
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AfD nomination of Garrison Courtney

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Since one of the external links goes to a reasonable third party source are you sure about this deletion?Geni 01:46, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost — 2 March 2009

This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 9, which includes these articles:

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News and notes: Stewards, Wikimania bids, and more
Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia's role in journalism, Smarter Wikipedia, Skittles
Dispatches: WikiProject Ships Featured topic and Good topics
Wikiproject report: WikiProject Norse History and Culture
Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Wikipedia Signpost — 9 March 2009

This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 10, which includes these articles:

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Wikiproject report: WikiProject Christianity
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Features and admins: Approved this week
Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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My watchlist

A tag has been placed on My watchlist, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to a user page from the main/article space.

If you can fix the redirect to point to a regular Wikipedia article rather than a user page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you are fixing the redirect. If you think the redirect should be retained as is for some reason, you can request that administrators wait a while before deleting it. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your reasoning on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -- IRP ☎ 00:17, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bio for my current work

Good day Mets501,

I have a collegue here (William R. Patterson) that you have done so editing for. I would like to create a bio of my work for dotNet Framework Solutons.

Can you assist me with this request?

Regards,

Tony D. Abel

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