User talk:ShakingSpirit/Archive/Archive-Feb2007

Rate Me

I know that this is a pain but please rate me and say what I need to work on etc. Also can you find some good groups for me to browse. Thanks for all your support! P.S. Take a look at my user page for information on what my interests are. It is similar to yours. I hope it is OK. Different color scheme though! ;)RED skunk ^TALK 04:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

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Happy Edit Birthday!!!

Award

Wiki birthday to you! Wiki birthday, dear ShakingSpirit! Wiki birthday to you!

Congratulations on your first Wikibirthday at Wikipedia (February 11, 2007.). On behalf of the community, we'd like to thank you for your countless edits in the past year! Keep it coming!.

This Wiki Birthday Balloon was awarded to you by: Redskunk

Redskunk 21:39, 11 February 2007 (UTC) [reply]

This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 19:47, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done! ShakingSpirit ^talk 21:22, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Hey

I sure have been whacking a lot of vandals. I have 115 mainspace edits!!! RedSkunk 02:28, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, congrats on hitting the big 100 ^_^ Still have a way to go to catch up with my 3300 though ^_- ShakingSpirit ^talk 21:22, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How do you use your sig. Do you just copy paste it in or is there another way? RedSkunk 17:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot question

I've noticed you using a bot to fix double redirects. Is that its only ability? Does it only work on Wikipedia? I'm need of replacing a string text in Commons, which is too widely used for me to edit manually. It could be achieved but it's quite boring, so I'm wondering if your bot can do the trick, or if you know of any that may do it.

Also, I reckon they are run through Python/Perl. I've no way to run scripts in my office's computer, since I can't install any software here, so I'm kind of needing help in this department too.--Saoshyant ^{talk / contribs} (please join WP:Portugal or WP:SPOKEN) 18:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, replacing a string across the wiki wouldn't be too hard at all, I'd be happy to ^_^ What exactly do you need changing? ShakingSpirit ^talk 18:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sup? You shouldn't use the tag. It's invalid in XHTML. Anyhow, thanks for accepting my request. I need the bot to check this category and replace any [[Category:Images by Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves]] by [[Category:Photographs by Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves]]. It's tedious work.

Thanks for your help!--Saoshyant ^{talk / contribs} (please join WP:Portugal or WP:SPOKEN) 19:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, is not supported by the XHTML Strict doctype, but it is perfectly valid under Transitional/Frameset, and as Wikipedia uses Transitional, there's no problem ^_^

In any case, you just need all the photos re-categorized? No problem at all, will get ShakingBot right on it. ShakingSpirit ^talk 05:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All done! ShakingSpirit ^talk 05:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, mate. P.S: regarding font, you have to note that if Wp is stuck in Transitional forever, it won't ever be able to move to XHTML2.--Saoshyant ^{talk / contribs} (please join WP:Portugal or WP:SPOKEN) 10:45, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DarknessBot

thank you! And sorry I haven't been on in a while... -- ~D-Lord (Sign!) (T C E) 00:06, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, I haven't either ^_- ShakingSpirit ^talk 05:47, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Request...

I've been doing some very tedious work replacing aero spec tags with aero specs tags. They are a redirect but in general it's not good to have tags redirect. Could you have ShakingBot do that? I just saw that there was a different request, so I thought I'd throw it out there. Now I have 250 mainspace edits! RedSkunk 16:46, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I'm sure ShakingBot can help, what exactly is it that you need doing? ShakingSpirit ^talk 17:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Signature

How do you use your sig. Do you just copy paste it in or is there another way? RedSkunk 17:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's just what I've entered into 'Signature' in Special:Preferences, nothing fancy ^_^ ShakingSpirit ^talk 17:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't seem to be working for me. It shows all of the markup too. And about the bot. It's not good to have redirecting templates. I'm doing work for WP:AIR. the aero-spec template is the old template. Now the template is aero-specs. There is over 250 pages that are aero spec. It would take a lot of time to do manually. So could you make it look at all the pages in what links here for aero-spec and change the aero-spec in it to aero-specs? RedSkunk 19:15, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, no problem, will get ShakingBot right on it. And about your sig, make sure you have "Raw signature" checked ^_^ ShakingSpirit ^talk 23:33, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should I have Red as userpage and Skunk as talk, or have a separate ^talk link? RedSkunk 03:12, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My new sig!!! [[User:Redskunk|RedSkunk[[User talk:Redskunk|talk]]]] 02:20, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your new sig is broken >_< ShakingSpirit ^talk 23:15, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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An award for you, then:

		The Excellent User Page Award
		For creating a functional, aesthetically pleasing, and easy-to-use user page design, and graciously raising the point when others were awarded for use of his design, I hereby present ShakingSpirit the Excellent User Page Award, with apologies for not recognizing his talents sooner. Hersfold ^(talk/work)

I'm sorry, when I gave RedSkunk his, I did vaguely wonder if there was someone else I should be giving credit to as well... thank you for mentioning that, or I'm afraid I may have made the same mistake again. Hersfold ^(talk|work) 13:01, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, many thanks for the barnstar! ^_^

The Barnstar

I am kindly refusing the barnstar to my user page. It was all of your work after all. I have a new user page in development though :) And i've changed the background color. I should've checked. I assumed falsely that you had gotten the award too. I thought, "Oh well, I didn't do it but it's OK On another more sinister note how did you find out??? Red Skunk ^talk 00:52, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh and:

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thanks for helping me so much. You have taught me a lot of what I know Red Skunk ^talk 01:23, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yay, barnstarness! ^_^ I look forward to seeing your new user page once it's complete! Oh, and I 'found out' because I've got your talk page on my watchlist - just making sure you keep outta trouble ^_~ ShakingSpirit ^talk 04:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah it's still in the early stages. I copied yours for the time being. I still don't have a great understanding of Wikicode so it's kinda tough. It has a userbox column on the right, and is similar in content, but has different rendering, and different names for columns. And I broke 250 edits! Red Skunk ^talk 04:12, 23 February 2007 (UTC) PS you might have to hide your barnstars at some point, for it's making your userpage long.[reply]

Yeah, I'm either going to have to hide the barnstars...or just add more userboxes! :D Congrats on breaking the 250 mark ^_^ ShakingSpirit ^talk 04:16, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll show you my userpage when I think it is in a decent state. Any general advice? Red Skunk ^talk 04:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep it simple, keep it useable, and plan plan plan! ^_^ ShakingSpirit ^talk 04:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good advice! How do you put your comment on both your's and my user page.? Red Skunk ^talk 04:23, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Manually copy and paste....but you're right, I should write a script to do it! ^_^ ShakingSpirit ^talk 04:25, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Check my userpage. Do you like the new background color? Red Skunk ^talk 04:27, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, it definatly jars less against the bright yellow than plain white ^_^ ShakingSpirit ^talk 04:30, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

what are you talking about? im really confused.

Article handling

Thanks for taking care of those 2 articles I tagged for deletion; I wasn't sure what to do since the speedy deletion cat is backlogged by a few days. I also tagged Mathematician triathlon if you want to take a look at that. Thanks. --BrokenSphere 04:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I find it's always a good idea to move non-notable pages to the creator's user space, as a lot of the articles have had a lot of effort put into them, and personally I think that an unfriendly speedy deletion notice followed by the removal of the page is kind of WP:BITE ^_^ Mathematician triathlon I don't think is speedy deletion material - it's not really that it doesn't "assert the importance or significance" of the band, but that they're just not notable at all. Personally I'd be more inclined to PROD or AFD it. ShakingSpirit ^talk 05:06, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]