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Welcome back![edit]
| So stoked to see your name pop up on my watchlist this morning. I missed ya! Hope all your travelling and time away was fun. Now that you're back, are we gonna conquer Feb 09 for good or what? :D ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:26, 9 November 2018 (UTC) |
- Hey Premeditated Chaos, thanks for the tea, it's good to be back! As for that orphan list, I'll let Joe sum up my thoughts. Best, StraussInTheHouse (talk) 11:52, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- Oh Premeditated Chaos, can you add me to the AutoWikiBrowser checklist please, it's very useful for generating orphan analytic lists beyond the functionality of PetScan? StraussInTheHouse (talk) 12:07, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Done, try not to wreck the joint with it :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 12:14, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- Psst, you PROD'd Ingelore Ebberfeld last year (I have it watchlisted because I've seen it in my own queries and meant to AfD it but never got around to it). ♠PMC♠ (talk) 13:20, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- Ta, I'll send it over to AfD. StraussInTheHouse (talk) 13:22, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- Psst, you PROD'd Ingelore Ebberfeld last year (I have it watchlisted because I've seen it in my own queries and meant to AfD it but never got around to it). ♠PMC♠ (talk) 13:20, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- Oh Premeditated Chaos, can you add me to the AutoWikiBrowser checklist please, it's very useful for generating orphan analytic lists beyond the functionality of PetScan? StraussInTheHouse (talk) 12:07, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Franklin Chang Diaz[edit]
I merely fixed the Cantonese romanization if his name, which was wrong. The pronunciation can be approximately to chuerng fook lum in this and with canonical romanization Jyutping should be zoeng1 fuk1 lam4 and Yale romanization would be jeung1 fuk1 lam4. Alternatively just remove the Cantonese altogether. Either way "Foo ling" is some fake cantonese pronunciation that is no way close to the actual pronunciation.
Grizzzzz (talk) 06:34, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- At any rate you can check each of these pages to see that it is indeed the correct romanizations https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/張 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%A6%8F https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97 Grizzzzz (talk) 06:57, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Grizzzzz, my apologies, I was using an anti-vandalism tool called Huggle and I must have pressed the wrong key. Please feel free to remove the message left on your talk page, I'll mark the edit as good next time I'm in Huggle. Many thanks, StraussInTheHouse (talk) 11:52, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Automated update[edit]
It appears you may be doing some form of automated update of unreferenced tags to refimmprove tags. I have some concerns that the result may have some issues. You have a decision not to update the date which may or may not be appropriate. while the results are probably in general more positive there are some instances where the result refimprove tag seems dubious or have produced a syntax error such as Craigleith, Edinburgh and Cockburn Harbour. Thankyou.Djm-leighpark (talk) 01:48, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Djm-leighpark, I am very sorry, I have identified the issue which caused this. I didn't tick RegEx which meant that "ref" was taken to include "reflist" (the script I was using assumes that reflist connotes no sources because you can have an empty reflist. This means that some articles will have been incorrectly tagged and I will re-review all of the edits to check for errors although I think Boleyn got most of them. I did stop editing as soon as I got your message in line with the advice for AWB users and I will endeavour to make sure the right boxes are ticked next time! With regards to the date, I assumed it would be better to spread them out according to when their sourcing issues started as opposed to making an abnormal increase in one month category. Many thanks, SITH (talk) 13:49, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for stopping, I only noticed as you processed Monasteraden which is on my watchlist .... I'd had a scan of a few of the updates and felt one had introduced an error and I was a little unsure about a few others ... Sometimes because of something unusual or incorrect in terms of the article. In general the updates were typically an improvement but on occasions a little minimal. Having looked over a couple of things since my main concern area was where there were citations/references but not inline Template:More footnotes would perhaps have been better. I also noticed Employee monitoring software (which may have other issues) where the tagging might have been a bit harsh if done automatically rather than with a (semi?) manual check. Another example of an issue is Cabra de Mora ... this may be a case where the unreferenced tag was wrong but the refimprove is possibly worse but it may be harder to get the reasoning why it was tagged. Overall the automation is improving X%, perhaps being equally wrong on Y% and perhaps making Z% worse. I'm fairly sure Y is less than 20 and Z is less than 5. If you are automating these you might need to use smaller batch sizes and perhaps getting a second pair of eyes to review. One of the purposes of the dates is to see when the edits were may and to identify the version of the article in the history. So if that date is wrong I will be looking at the wrong placed in the history to see the state of the article when the tag was placed/updated. But you might want to seek other opinions on that.Djm-leighpark (talk) 16:17, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
References[edit]
Hi, thanks for working on article tagging. I've changed some of the ones you recently changed from 'unreferenced' to 'refimprove' because they do not have any references at all. SOme of these have 'external links' or 'suggestions for further reading' but no clear sources and no references.
I've been coming across these on Wikipedia:Mistagged unreferenced articles cleanup, I don't know if you're working through the same list? If so, please delete them when you have checked them, otherwise no one knows they've been checked and another editor has to go through it all again. Thanks, Boleyn (talk) 11:34, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Boleyn, firstly, thank you for reverting the changes which were incorrectly made (see the above section for the technical explanation). I was unaware of that page, I'll take a look. I'm working through orphans and I noticed AWB detects when tags need updating from unreferenced to refimprove and that some articles which are tagged as having no references whatsoever had references. As I said in the above section, I'll look through the edits but from a cursory scan it appears you have rectified most of the errors. Many thanks, SITH (talk) 13:49, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Edit: I might submit a bot I've been working on to do this without having to go through the intermediary of AWB. SITH (talk) 13:50, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, StraussInTheHouse. Boleyn (talk) 19:55, 18 November 2018 (UTC)