User talk:Rjwilmsi/Archives/2008/August

Queens of the Stone Age Taskforce

I'd like to invite you to join the newly-formed taskforce Queens of the Stone Age|Queens of the Stone Age. There's alot of Queens of the Stone Age-related articles on Wikipedia that could use a little attention, and I hope this taskforce can help organize an effort to improve them. So please, take a look and if you like what you see, help us get this taskforce off the ground and a few Queens of the Stone Age pages into the front ranks of Wikipedia articles. Thanks! --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 10:52, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Overlinking years

Once again I reverted the edit you made, [1], that overlinked years to American Idol. 2007 was already linked in the sentence so there was no need to link it a second time. In the table there is no reason to add a year behind the first date since both dates were back-to-back in the same year. Aspects (talk) 23:54, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

1. (2007) Per MOS:SYL the idea is to fully link a date where possible, not to just link the day and month. If you don't like this, unlink March 27 as an alternative.
2. (table) Per WP:DATE "If a date range is abbreviated, use the formats 5–7 January 1979 or September 21–29, 2002, with an unspaced en-dash. If the autoformatting function is used, the opening and closing dates of the range must be given in full and be separated by a spaced en dash." In this article the table uses wikilinked date ranges, so they need to be full dates per my edit.

I think my edit was correct. Thanks Rjwilmsi 10:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Date fix problem

Just a heads-up to a problem with a date you reformatted. The original version was complex, but correct. See first change: [2] I have fixed it. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 22:57, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for pointing out that error. There was a bug in my script, which I've now fixed. Rjwilmsi 23:26, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Also please watch when adding years into date ranges which cross a year boundary e.g. December into January - e.g. this edit created a bit of a time warp. Dl2000 (talk) 23:29, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

		The TomStar81 Spelling Award
		Be it known to all members of Wikipedia that Rjwilmsi/Archives/2008 has corrected my god-awful spelling on the page USS Wisconsin (BB-64), and in doing so has made an important and very significant contribution to the Wikipedia community, thereby earning this TomStar81 Spelling Award and my deepest thanks. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 19:41, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

word variations

Just wondering why you prefer [ [ engineer ]] ing instead of [ [ engineer|engineering ] ]. I can't see any benefit but I can see it becoming broken if wikipedia changes the way it renders in the future. E.g. it might introduce a space before "ing" or might highlight only the first half of the word and not the "ing" (note: it does work fine at this moment). Even if it doesn't get broken in the future, it doesn't seem worth the effort to change it. Stepho-wrs (talk) 04:52, 27 August 2008 (UTC) (open to change but don't like change for change's sake)

I assume you mean [[engineer|engineering]] to [[engineer]]ing. If yes, that's an AWB general fix to take advantage of that Wikimedia functionality (which I am sure is here to stay). If you don't like it, please post an AWB bug report. Thanks Rjwilmsi 06:45, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

WIKIPEDIA ELECTION

Go to User:ElectionDemocratic/Election08 and cast your vote! --ElectionDemocratic (talk) 14:55, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Date linking

Please do not use AWB to create date-links for every conceivable year or date in a reference as you did in this edit. The manual of style on datelinking explicitly says that we should avoid turning years into a link unless there is specific and intentional value to the link (for example, if the topic is so critical that it would be appropriate to add to a high-level timeline page). You can read more at WP:OVERLINK and some of the other MoS pages. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 13:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm not. I simply fully linked a part-linked date so that it complies to MOS:SYL. Alternatively, the whole date could be unlinked (then I wouldn't, and won't change it). Rjwilmsi 16:59, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

I agree with User:Rossami - now that, per MOS:SYL, the linking of dates purely for the purpose of autoformatting is depreciated, wouldn't it be better to change [[15 May]], 2009 to 15 May, 2009, rather than to [[15 May]], [[2009]]. Just my 2 cents. Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 04:23, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

I hadn't seen the change to WP:DATE made on the 24th. Why wasn't there a watchlist notice about such a wide-reaching change? I'll review my scripts.... Rjwilmsi 06:14, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Spelling in Santa Fe Institute

FYI, "Cristopher Moore" is the correct spelling of the proper name, per [3]. I've already fixed the article. Thanks! Jclemens (talk) 16:55, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thanks I've updated the typo list to allow 'Cristopher'. Thanks Rjwilmsi 00:55, 31 August 2008 (UTC)