User talk:Colonies Chris/Archive/2010/Nov

Links

I notice you have removed links to World War II from the article on Jacques Ibert. Is the current policy not to link references to the World Wars? (Jolly good thing in my view, but one wants to get these things right). Tim riley (talk) 18:40, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Excellent! More power to your elbow! Tim riley (talk) 20:31, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Rename

Please rename article Battle of Quang Tri (1968) to Battle of Quảng Trị (1968), just like Quảng Trị Province, First Battle of Quảng Trị. 76.91.236.128 (talk) 03:30, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

The question of whether or not to use Vietnamese diacritics is controversial. Personally I agree with your proposal, but it would probably meet with opposition. If you want to propose the renaming on the article's talk page, I'd be happy to support it in any ensuing discussion. Colonies Chris (talk) 13:26, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Mass changes to stub templates

Was this discussed anywhere? –xeno^talk 23:48, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

I proposed the changes at Wikipedia talk:Stub several days ago, and there were no objections. Colonies Chris (talk) 23:51, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer. –xeno^talk 00:24, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

I guess it's a little late to say so now, but a task on this scale would probably have benefited from going through WP:BRFA. The job queue is now at over 1mln. –xeno^talk 15:46, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

I'm not running a bot. Colonies Chris (talk) 15:48, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:BOTPOL#Assisted editing guidelines (In general, processes that are operated at higher speeds, with a high volume of edits, or are more automated, may be more likely to be treated as bots for these purposes.) Like I said, it's a little late now, and no one has objected, so... How many more are in the worklist? –xeno^talk 15:52, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Potentially thousands, but the scale is limited by my tolerance for this largely repetitive work - unfortunately not quite repetitive enough to allow a bot to do it. Colonies Chris (talk) 15:57, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

k. I have a lot of these templates on my watchlist from the convert to asbox, which is why I ask =] Cheers, –xeno^talk 15:59, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Be careful when using AWB

I missed this edit amongst some others [1]. Please be careful when using AWB. Incorrectly correcting spelling in references can lead to improper attribution. You'll see in the reference you corrected it even contains [sic]. In fact there seem to be almost no useful or logical changes that you made there. You inexplicably unlinked Canada, Japan and United States, while leaving South Korea linked in the roster. As well you removed the only other link to Japan in the entire article. The only thing you did was to link something to a non-redirect but we actually have a policy of not doing that unless its a disambiguation issue.--Crossmr (talk) 08:18, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Further to the above:

• the {{persondata}} meta-template is for biographical articles, not categories which happen to contain biographies;
• the {{popstub}} template is supposed to be near the top of stub category pages (preferably just after the {{WPSS-cat}}), not after the categories;
• similarly, {{verylargestub}} is supposed to go near the top, not after the categories.

These are examples: there were several similar instances when using AWB on stub-cat pages. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:58, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

The changes you describe are made as part of AWB general fixes, rather than anything I actively did myself. I'll raise it on the AWB pages as a bug. Colonies Chris (talk) 22:37, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1981–1990)

I wonder why you changed 3 links to the book War and Peace to point to an opera instead? (The "book" column, and the fact that they were all by Tolstoy, were clues to them not being Prokofiev's W&P!). Have reverted the changes. PamD (talk) 11:32, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Pakistani Army template

Hi Chris, you unwikilinked Pakistani Army in its military stub template. If the link is there, a person can refer to it. How does it help to do so? AshLin (talk) 16:34, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. It solved a problem of mine. The stub, as per present usage picks up articles of all three services while there is no one such article for the Pak armed forces which the stub link could target. AshLin (talk) 17:00, 13 November 2010 (UTC)