User talk:Rich Farmbrough

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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)

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

??? Rich Farmbrough, 19:48 12 January 2009 (UTC)

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:

1. get the pages into the category:uncategorised (possibly with a bot taask)
2. put the category name on my talk page
3. i will put it into the category:pages
4. when my bot is approved, i will run a recurrent category scan to get all the pages
5. everyones happy
6. my bot does something wrong/malfunctions
7. admin clicks emergency shutoff
8. gets unblocked
9. i temproarily stop the bot
10. bot returns
11. 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)

Changing redirect capitalization

Things like this make no sense. (1) REDIRECT is generally the preferred style (at least it's the default when you press the little button). (2) REDIRECT == Redirect, so you were essentially bypassing a redirect, but not really 'cause you had zero effect. (3) Colons are optional after "#REDIRECT"; in fact, some projects have quite a lot of redirects with colons after the "#REDIRECT" bit. It doesn't harm anything to keep it there.

I realize you made the edits like three months ago, just wanted to let you know. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:53, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

There are a number of cases where tools have broken because to the colon after the redirect. In particular AWB was tagging these redirects with orphan tags. Now, of course, I spoke to the AWB devs to have that fixed, but I also removed all the ":"s to prevent this from happening again with other tools. The case cahnge was just an irrelevant by-product. Rich Farmbrough, 09:08 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Ahh, thanks for the explanation. Fucking bots. :P --MZMcBride (talk) 01:07, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Rich sucks cock. a lot. He deletes things that Jesus posts. Because he is gay.

Headings in the country outlines

Someone has pointed out to me that you've been simplifying the headings in the country outlines by removing the country names from the headings.

The reason we have the country names in the headings and in the list entry items on almost every line is because the country outlines share identical formats. Without the country names prominently displayed, it is very easy to forget which page you are looking at, especially when comparing countries.

Please see the discussion thread on my talk page.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist    01:29, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Current consensus is to leave the country names in. Please change the headings back to the way they were (with country name) - my access is way too slow to be able to do this in a reasonable amount of time. The Transhumanist    21:50, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

SmackBot

Heenal Raichura Please check out the following citation for Unique Achievement Award and kindly have the tag removed.

http://srijanfoundation.org/2008/07/13/indian-heenal-raichura-is-uk%e2%80%99s-youngest-doc-at-22-years/#comment-350

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Templates

Thanks. I have a hard time figuring out when to use subst and not. AnyPerson (talk) 04:40, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

SmackBot

I've removed the op.cits .Can you remove the box? Thanks. Ewen B. Maclachlan

Thank you

You've saved a lot of time on the country outline project by inserting the area figures. I appreciate it. Thank you. The Transhumanist    22:07, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

There are still some 20 or so without the area, I will drop you a list at some point. Rich Farmbrough, 02:05 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Cool. Thank you. The Transhumanist    02:15, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Smackbot on smack?

I went looking for loc. cit. and op. cit. and ibid. in algorithm and didn't find any. So I reverted the banner. However, I do agree with the intent and will avoid such in the future. Bill Wvbailey (talk) 23:28, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Footnotes

WP:FOOTNOTES says, "Do not use ibid., op. cit. or similar abbreviations in footnotes." However Smackbot is tagging articles that used ibid. in Harvard references that are not footnotes, such as Brouwer-Hilbert controversy‎. While it is true that there is some risk of random cutting and pasting, I don't think the risk is so severe as to warrant tagging every article that includes the word ibid., but particularly, not the ones that don't use it in footnotes. — Carl (CBM · talk) 01:02, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your note, if I do this tagging exercise again I will look at restricting to fotnotes only. Rich Farmbrough, 01:52 19 January 2009 (UTC)

While "ibid" should generally be avoided for various reasons of convenience, the task of tagging articles using this construction seems to require supervision. I suggest that it be added to AWB, if possible. siℓℓy rabbit (talk) 01:47, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Good idea, there is feature request process on the [WP:AWB]] pages. Rich Farmbrough, 01:52 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply on my page. I think this would be a very natural task for AWB. And some of the pages the bot found do use ibid. too much – because they have too many inline citations in the first place. But others seemed to be really OK to me. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:01, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

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op. cit.

I noticed you plugged a few underscores into my refs.[1] Anything I need to do going forward? I'm kinda on bot tilt over Lightbot de-linking historical years (and WP:OWN on WP:MOSNUM), so you are catching a little "carry over" disappointment. Love your bot though! Most days.... I might be a lonely soul as far as using this style, so just let me know if we can split the difference somehow.... -- Kendrick7^talk 03:27, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

erroneous placement of ibid tag?

Hi Rich. Can you have a look at this diff - I can't see what the grounds are for placing the ibid tag in this article. The only thing I can see which might have misled it is the "cit" in "Tata gets $3 billion loan from Citi" in one of the refs. Cheers -- Timberframe (talk) 20:52, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

re User:70.88.103.253

This appears to be a false positive, the edit summaries are a bit off but both recent edits were removing vandalisms, not making them. I've already unblocked, and wanted to let you know what was up. --Golbez (talk) 21:11, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

date delinking

Hello Rich Farmbrough. I just wanted to make you aware (in case that you missed it) of the decision about dates noted here. Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Date_delinking/Proposed_decision#Temporary_injunction_against_automated_date_linking_or_delinking. Please don't take this the wrong way because I know that this is a contentious area on WikiP just at this moment. Also, I actually don't care about it one way or the other - I just hope that a decision gets made sometime soon. Bu I did want to let you know about this before someone who it does matter to notices the edits that you are making. Let me also offer my apologies if any of this causes offense. Cheers and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 22:01, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to interject, but this is mostly on Lightbot, not Smackbot, AFAIK. However, I'm really really glad something is finally being done here though! -- Kendrick7^talk 05:44, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

SmackBot

Dear SmackBot, I have revised the footnotes in the article on Bagha Jatin. You may remove the band now. Thanks for your interest.--BobClive (talk) 09:23, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Blue Valley Creamery Company

Smackbot inserted an ibid template in the Blue Valley Creamery Company article. The offending op. cit. was actually a reference in a reference, but I changed it with the change appearing in square brackets. I am not sure what to do about the ibid template. Should I remove it or will Smackbot automatically do so later? (By the way, I had the wrong URL to the reference and the ibid template helped me catch that. Bad cut & paste methods on my part.)--Rpclod (talk) 13:39, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

SmackBot

Dear Rich, You may remove the tag on the article on Bhavabhushan Mitra. Thanks.--BobClive (talk) 16:48, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

SmackBot

Hello, Rich! You may undo the tag on Taraknath Das. Thanks.--BobClive (talk) 17:00, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

SmackBot

Hello, Rich! You may remove the tag from Pingle. Thanks.--BobClive (talk) 17:09, 20 January 2009 (UTC)