User talk:Topbanana

Requests for new reports

Report request - Possible thumbnail images

I have a request for a new report. (I have no reason to believe that you take requests, but what the heck, it's worth a try.)

Thumbnail images (scaled-down duplicates of existing images) can be speedily deleted. It'd be nice to have a list of "Possible thumbnails". I was thinking something like this:

For all images that match the regular expression "^(.*)[0-9]+pix(.*)$", see if there exist any similar images that match "^\1[0-9]+pix\2$". If there are, list them all together.
- So "Image:fluff-200pix.jpg" and "Image:fluff-9pix.jpg" would match.
Similar things could be done for images with "large" and "small" in the names.
- E.g. "^(.*)large(.*)$" matching "^\1small\2$" or even just "^\1\2$".

Does this make sense? – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 18:11, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Wikicite project page

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikicite To add a card catalog and citation features. Stirling Newberry 23:51, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I wanted to ask about the feasibility of doing a report that would find current "references" in wikipedia articles to make conversion to a wikicite database smoother, and a report that lists articles by number of citations and number of links to provide candidates for conversion. If you'd be willing to provide other help with the SQL that would be required for such a project it would be very much appreciated. Stirling Newberry 14:51, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

User:Topbanana/Reports/This article may contain a badly formed ISBN reference

Could you re-run User:Topbanana/Reports/This article may contain a badly formed ISBN reference? All the listed problems seem to have been dealt with, and it's been more than six months since it ran. Josh Parris ✉ 01:20, 24 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This report has been updated now - have at it! - TB 17:24, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)

Danke! Josh Parris ✉ 00:34, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, it's been another three months. Disc space, bandwidth and time permitting, could you please run it again, with the revised regex we discussed? We may have to mark the report with a request for false positives to be listed somewhere. Josh Parris # 00:21, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Red link recovery

Glad to see you're back. A suggestion; fixup projects have moved on, you know ;) Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation and one of their child pages, such as [1]. An edit link on your project lists, taking us into the article needing editing in edit mode (and maybe filling in the edit summary with proganda) would help us all. I've put you in the active wiki fixup list, as you'll have seen. --Tagishsimon (talk)

Red link recovery

Hi, I wrote a little script to help with Red link recovery, especially the punctuation ones. It can fix certain types of links, those that begin or end with single or double quotes, or end in a comma etc. It will show up on edit pages as a link (if it can fix something there) or a gray text (if it can't). Click on the link and it will fix what it can. To use, but the following line on your monobook.js subpage:

importScript('MediaWiki:LinkFixr.js');

After each use, I recommend looking at the diff to make sure it didn't break anything. Cheers, --Magnus Manske 19:06, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiMedal for Janitorial Service

The code for the "WikiMedal for Janitorial Service" is missing from the Other awards page and so it cannot be awarded. Could you put in the code please? --Simpsons fan 66 03:40, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No code, no template, just Image:WikiMedal for Janitorial Services.png. You're very welcome to create some more sophisticated wrapper if you think one is needed. - TB 08:59, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK. After a lot of experimentation I've figured out how to do it. Thanks for your help. Check out the new version! --Simpsons fan 66 05:04, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Interlanguage Links

Have you worked with de:Benutzer:Flacus/Wikipedia Interwiki-Link-Checker/en? I suspect the goals are pretty similar. --Open2universe 22:46, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please give the list of articles missing interlanguage links Wikipedia:WikiProject Interlanguage Links/reciprocal to the user named above, because with his tool you can let the users check it very quickly. This is the second request of it. So maybe nobody is home. If so someone else need to take your project to the next level. Carsrac (talk) 15:01, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Red link fix reverted

Hi. Since you're an admin and a participant of WP:RLR, I figured I'd ask you this question because you probably know the best thing to do. I'm a volunteer at that Wikiproject too and a few months ago, I fixed all the red links at this page. A few days later, an editor reverted the entire page stating that the links would eventually become a part of WP:FR. Fixing the red links was a bit tedious so, naturally, I'm a bit irritated that the page was reverted. In my opinion, the page would look better without the red links. Is it possible to keep the links (or names..whatever) unwikified until a particular name actually becomes an article? To me, that makes more sense than leaving an entire page full of annoying red links because they'll eventually become valid. Any thoughts or advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Pinkadelica (talk) 03:49, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the bigger picture, projects that are adding good new encyclopaedic content like WP:FR are probably of higher priority than folks like us fiddling about with red links. That said, if you feel that someone is being unfairly dismissive of your input then WP:Be bold and pitch your argument to them; no point writing here, I have no particular interest in or knowledge of the Arrondissement of Beauvais or that article's editors plans. - TB (talk) 20:46, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Redlink recovery - new list?

Hallo, I've just discovered Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Repeated letters and have spent some pleasantly satisfying time (procrastinating other tasks) sorting some of them out - it's like a ~~giant~~ infinite jigsaw puzzle! But there's a large number of cases where I click on the redlink, click on "What links here", and the project itself is the only one. Any chance of an updated list to work from? I see the last one was generated July 07 from a dump of May 07. PamD (talk) 11:03, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes - I will update the red link lists as son as possible. They do however take a few days for me to recreate and life is busy right now. Hang in there, I'll manage eventually ;) I love the infinite jigsaw simile by the way; I seem to recall a similar quote from a 19th century scientist, possibly Mr Dewey himself - alas, wikiquote doesn't have it. - TB (talk) 17:52, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hogenakkal drinking water project

Hogenakkal drinking water project keeps appearing very many times in Red Link Recovery: Capitalisation, linking to just about everything. However, when examining the actual article, I have found no trace of any of the links ever existing. Is this a bug in the list generation? JIP | Talk 11:58, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is a bug in the list generation. I've not tracked it down yet I;m araid, but will get there eventually ;) Red-links attributed to the Hogenakkal drinking water project are real - they're just not red links in that particular aticle. Checking 'what links here' from the red-links should show the corriect originating article. or, if this is too much work just delete 'em - goodness knows we've enough 'real' entries to be working on. - TB (talk) 12:01, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Loch Leven Castle

This article has been nominated and reviewed for good article status and needs some improvements, as discussed here. Since you authored this article, would you please help improve it? Cheers. Truthanado (talk) 14:38, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Question regarding File:Drum Castle.jpg

Hi there. The above is a picture uploaded by you, way back in 2004. I found another image of the same castle, on Wikimedia Commons, at commons:File:Drum Castle.jpg, that I was trying to link to in a Wikipedia article. However, due to the same file names, it's not working. It doesn't appear that there's a way to actually move either image, one needs to be re-uploaded under a different file name. Of course given that you're an admin, you may know of an easier way to do this. But if not, would you mind if I re-upload your image under a different name (Drum Castle 1.jpg or whatever, attributing it to you, still, of course) to clear the way for linking to the other file on Commons? (Feel free to reply here, I'll watchlist this page). Thanks, Raven1977^{Talk to me}_{My edits} 19:20, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy - sorry I deleted your first note about this - as you guessed, it was in the middle of a bunch of bot-warnings and accidentally got eaten alog with them. I've absolutely no personal attachment to the image in question - from memroy, it;s a holday snap I cleaned up, so do do with it as you will. I'm afraid I've no magic powers to fix the name clash you describe - re-uploading it under a new name and fixing articles that use it seems right. - TB (talk) 20:30, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I'll do the re-upload thing then. Thanks for the response. Raven1977^{Talk to me}_{My edits} 19:40, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have re-uploaded your image, it can be found at File:Drum Castle1.jpg now, and I have nominated the old one for deletion. I hope I did all that right. Thanks again for the permission to do this. Raven1977^{Talk to me}_{My edits} 19:56, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Most wanted

I have nominated Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Most wanted (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Many otters • One hammer • HELP)} 16:12, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Numeric

Hello. I sorted out the last few entries in WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Numeric. It has now has been marked as complete but I left one exception. Would you like to move the remaining entry to the exception list? You're more likely to get the syntax right than I am!

Thanks for all your good work. Certes (talk) 11:59, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Ta for your efforts also ;) - TB (talk) 09:06, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Teddy zane

Hey, is there a problem with that page because I tagged it earlier and the content disappeared and there was no history. OtisJimmyOne 17:19, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The page was being repeatedly deleted/recreated (as an advert) and so was protected for 15 mins to discourage the perpetrator. I guess you managed to land and edit during one of the delete/recreate cycles. Sorry 'bout that. The page is definitely empty (and tagless) now - TB (talk) 17:29, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just curious. Cheers, OtisJimmyOne 18:11, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cross-namespace link

Thanks for checking with me. I don't believe that readers of the article about Wikipedia need to be linked to my user page, as flattering as the idea may be. Yes, please go ahead and remove the link, which I was unaware of. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:24, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

not sure how I ended up in odd links

can you help me get me off this list (3 times with my new articles). thanks Earlypsychosis (talk) 02:27, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

maybe it was the under contruction tag, now removed? Earlypsychosis (talk) 02:30, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Almost certainly yes - the odd links report is generated from a slightly out of date version of the wikipedia database. Construction notices are normally filtered out, so goodness knows. A quick check here shows me that there are now no links to your userpage from the main namespace, so I've deleted your entries. - TB (talk) 08:46, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Toolserveraccount

Hello Topbanana,
please send your real-name, your wikiname, your Freenode-nick (if you have one), your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to . We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB. 16:05, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ray Austin (director)

I added the link when I found all the info on that page which was probably written by Austin himself. I only got to his page to add a Zorro link. I did have reservations about it. Can you explain why it was not relevant?REVUpminster (talk) 21:14, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

'scuse ther tardy reply, I didn't notice this message until I came to archive stuff on this page. Mr Austin is not famous for being a Wikipedia editor; indeed, the fact isn't even mentioned within his article. Therefore, there's no reason at all to link his Wikipedia user page. Perhaps Template:Autobiography is appropriate though. - TB (talk) 22:17, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I had forgotton all about it but at the time it did seem odd to me. All this information written on a userpage in the third person. Yet very little on the article page because he was prolific on television especially in what's regarded as cult television and as for the Baron de-vere Austin title, I don't know how genuine that is. One day I may look at the IMDB and extract something.REVUpminster (talk) 23:21, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Tracey

The article Tracey has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Not notable, pure hoax

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. ApprenticeFan ^{talk contribs} 21:02, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I, a WP:TPS, replied at User talk:ApprenticeFan. Plastikspork (talk) 22:34, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Now reverted back to a redirect, so all is well. Plastikspork (talk) 21:36, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good outcome, ta. - TB (talk) 21:41, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:File:Adriaen Brouwer - Peasants Browling over Cards.jpg

This file was moved to Commons from English Wikipedia, but some description information may have got lost in the process.

As you are noted as the original uploader, or in the history for the file, it would be appreciated if you could help in reconstructing this information.

Please also consider checking Commons for other media that you may have uploaded locally, but which was subsequently transferred.

Special:Log for uploads can help in this.

Thanks for you assistance and keep uploading 'free' media :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:29, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In particular, it would be appreciated if you could provide information on the gallery or archive from which this was obtained. It isn't so much proving it's status as proving it's not from a gallery that might get upset about it's release under a 'free' licence. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:33, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original upload was around 5 years ago. I couldn't begin to tell you where I acquired the image from - I was working in Academia at the time and suspect it was from a public domain archive of 14th-18th century art a colleague of mine maintained at the time, but it was quite some time ago. The only definitive record of its provenance would be in the file description page. If this has been lost, we've no way to show the image is free, best delete it. - TB (talk) 15:50, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Red Link Recovery: Repeated lLetters

Since it seems likely that you'd have an idea of what's up, your input into the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Red_Link_Recovery#Repeated_Letters_vs._Repeated_letters would be appreciated. —Paul A (talk) 08:10, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WPT:MoSDab

Reply at User talk:Jerzy#WPT:MoSDab.
--Jerzy•t 15:38, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Again.
--Jerzy•t 16:20, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
& 1 last time.
--Jerzy•t 07:40, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Topbanana. You have new messages at Ipatrol's talk page.
Message added 20:37, 20 November 2009 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Ipatrol (talk) 20:37, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate your feedback

Hi TB. Yes, you're right, I was confused and created a little mess. Thanks for your kind advice and for following this up. Johnkimparknew (talk) 03:57, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reversion of text

I was wondering if you had a reason for the reversion. I know that I am new to editing, and realise now that I should have noted the change as an opinion (after all the original reads better). Coralhue (talk) 04:41, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if I got the technicalities wrong. I'm sorry but I don't agree with your comments about irrreverent and conservative, which wis why I made the change. Have you read the book? Coralhue (talk) 13:19, 22 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coralhue (talk • contribs)

It was many years ago when I read it - I might be recalling the wrong book if my comments are way off. It's the one in which Merlin is a prisoner, accused of being a demon. He recounts various tales from his life, though which it is revealed that it's his captors that are evil ? - TB (talk) 15:31, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely wrong book. I have looked at you contributions and think that with the qualifications you profess, it might be better to do fewer, more considered edits.Coralhue (talk) 12:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coralhue (talk • contribs)

Happy to hold my hand up then and say I was wrong - I've reinstated the one-word change to the article (sans signature of course), and even remembered to include an edit summary this time ;) - TB (talk) 23:57, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you: I was becoming disillusioned with Wikipedia. I do not maintain that anti-Christian is necessarily the right word, but an convinced, that in the context of this novel (which hace happen to have re-read two days before I made the change) irreverant is the wrong word. I apolagise if my comments seemed aggressive, but I was upset ,because your comments seemed dismissive, as I am only a newcomer. --Coralhue (talk) 09:45, 26 November 2009 (UTC)