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About recent changes article requests

There're still many blue links on the page. Please replace them with notable requested articles, such as science of science, ethnoscience, Ruth Glass, Samantha Kwan, Patrick Byrd, David Lusted, Gunner Dybwad, Lawrence Kutner (a child psychologist who also contributes to media psychology. Now refers to a character of House), Cheryl K. Olson, Eugene V. Beresin, Harris Peck, Laura Bender, Glenn Alan Gaesser, Manual of Harmonics, Dark Legend (a book written by Fredric Wertham about a young murderer, now redirects to Christine Feehan), Media Violence and Aggression: Science and Ideology, Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence, Simplify Your Life: 100 Ways To Slow Down And Enjoy The Things That Really Matter, Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten, CursorFX (more can be seen on WP:RA and WP:MEA).--RekishiEJ (talk) 15:30, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And Committee on Evaluation of Comic Books in Cincinnati and National Organization for Decent Literature, should be added to the template as they are important in American history of comic books. --RekishiEJ (talk) 10:19, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for adding two organisations which involved in American comic book controversy, but can you add the template to let it have at least 200 lines? Chinese Wikipedia's recent changes article requests template has 210 lines, and each of the lines has 10 requests (unlike English Wikipedia, where each of the lines has only 5-6 requests, sometimes only 2-3 requests). I understand that it is because Chinese language written in Chinese characters is usually seen shorter than English language written in Latin alphabets, however, since English Wikipedia already has 3,090,000 articles, Wikipedians often forget the fact that there are still so many notable topics which do not have corresponding independent articles here, we still need to let the template contain at least 2,000 articles.

The following are additional articles which I think must be included in the template:

Theoretical geography
Internet geography
Military journalism
Food scare
Mercurius Gallobelgicus
China News-Letter
American Weekly Mercury
Journal of Commerce
Paris Herald
Foundation for National Progress
Ethics Advice Line
Loyola University Chicago Center for Ethics and Social Justice
GIS Consortium
Open Geospatial Network
B. Dubuisson
Craig A. Anderson
Christopher J. Ferguson (a psychologist of Texas A&M International University who highly approves of the views of video games of the book Grand Theft Childhood. Now redirects to Christopher Ferguson, which is about a NASA astronaut)
Karim Sadjadpour
Eric Oliver (University of Chicago associate professor Eric Oliver who teaches political science, opposes using BMI to measure obestiy and questions weight's link to general health problems. Now the article refers to an English motorcycle racer)
Red links on the embedded list of the past presidents of American Psychological Association
Jeff Guinn
The Bonnie Parker Story
Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story
Bonnie and Clyde (album)
The Story of Bonnie and Clyde
The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde (song)
Internet Evolution

--RekishiEJ (talk) 08:26, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Plus Obesity in Germany (some Germany soldiers have obesity problem, which the federal government admitted), Censorship in Norway, Censorship in Austria, Censorship in Vietnam, Censorship in the Philippines, Censorship in Peru, Censorship in Mexico and Agriculture in Mexico. They're quite interesting.--RekishiEJ (talk) 04:54, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And all the missing articles in Template:Campaignbox Korean War and Template:Campaignbox Vietnam War, plus red links in other campaignboxes.--RekishiEJ (talk) 13:21, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Plus Posthistory, Baganda people, Sexual rights, Sexual movement, Universal Declaration of Sexual Rights, Ammunition Accountability Act, Media of Mexico and Google Japanese Input. They are all important to a certain extent. --RekishiEJ (talk) 03:18, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And Karen Sternheimer and Center for Media Literacy. Please check navigational templates, lists and disambiguation pages to find red links and add all of them to the recent changes article requests template.--RekishiEJ (talk) 19:00, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And Free Expression Policy Project, Arts Censorship Project, Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression, Urofsky v. Gilmore, Finley v. National Endowment for the Arts, It's Not The Media: The Truth About Pop Culture's Influence On Children, and Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture: Why Media Is Not the Answer. They are important because they are closely related to freedom of expression and media culture.--RekishiEJ (talk) 03:56, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also there are some blue links which are not redirects and the article are already complete (no need to be transwikied and not nominated for deletion). Please make time to replace them with red links on WP:RA, WP:MEA and Template:Peoples of Gaul.--RekishiEJ (talk) 06:00, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Plus Ernest Major, the founder of one of Shanghai's past newspapers - Shen Bao.--RekishiEJ (talk) 09:54, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues and Not in Front of the Children (book).--RekishiEJ (talk) 06:57, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Plus Alexander Militarev.--RekishiEJ (talk) 11:34, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Philander Roots, Francis Marion Roots, Lee Chadwick, and Japan Auto Federation are important as well, thus they all should be added to the template.--RekishiEJ (talk) 13:03, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are some duplicate red links in the template, such as posthistory and sexual rights. Please replace them with red links in subpages of WP:RA or WP:MEA.--RekishiEJ (talk) 09:19, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

May you re-add some requests I previously made to the template, such as posthistory, Ruth Glass, Karen Sternheimer, Center for Media Literacy, sexual rights, sexual movement? They had been once on the template, but later got removed by other administrator. Also you should collect red links on important articles, lists, disambiguation pages, navigational templates, Wikipedia:Requested articles, Wikipedia:Requested lists, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles, such as Puuppola, bilcross, Ben Atkinson, Cody Crocker, and Tommi Mäkinen Rally.--RekishiEJ (talk) 05:37, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Chancery Lane

On Tuesday your bot tagged some articles for the category "London articles missing geocoordinate data", but it missed Chancery Lane. Could this fact help you find more articles that need coordinates in London? Ps Thankyou for creating this bot. Grim²³ ★ 18:09, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Constituency coords

Hi, similar concerns have been named here in abundance, just one more thought: A coordinate for an area might make sense if that area has a clear "center", of administration, geographical, or otherwise. But for an entity like the Katima Mulilo Rural constituency, it is simply wrong to assume the town Katima Mulilo as its center. It does not house any polling station for this constituency, and it is not a part of it in any way, only the geometrical center, if you want.

Personally, I would prefer constituencies, and more generally, areas, to be excluded from the coords-missing template insertion. I have removed some of them, but this is possibly of no concern as the bot might pass by and put them in again. --Pgallert (talk) 09:41, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for editing in an old section - but I was just coming here to mention the same thing for Area code articles (e.g. this change). I don't think we want coord missing on Area codes since they have no central point. 7 06:51, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lawrence Kutner

I agree that a House character who dies doesn't have extreme notability, but why move the page to make way for disambiguation with a redlink? -mattbuck (Talk) 22:05, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm writing the other article now. -- The Anome (talk) 22:08, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Never opened stations cat

As you created this category, it would be useful to have your feedback on the question I've raised here re its name: Category talk:Never constructed railway stations in the United Kingdom. Lamberhurst (talk) 21:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Anti-idiotype vaccine

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Duplicate of the more detailed Anti-idiotypic. Let's delete this stub and move Anti-idiotypic here (this is the better name).

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Nigerian Law School

I noticed Anomebot tagged this article with {{coord missing|Nigeria}}. The school has four campuses in four different cities. Not sure what the right solution is? Aymatth2 (talk) 01:49, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To do

Nigerian Law School
War memorials
zoom: parameters
End-of-line for Category:Georgia articles missing geocoordinate data

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Georgia Dam Categories

Anomebot2's recent edit to add a missing coords tag to Georgia Dam Categories has been reverted. This article is about Georgia dams in general, not a specific dam, so lat/lon coords have no meaning here. Perhaps Anomebot2 could take a night class and be better educated to avoid these kinds of things in the future. Cheers. Truthanado (talk) 16:48, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Tagging in two passes

I've noticed that when The Anomebot2 tags articles with {{coord missing}} it does so in two passes, first at a coarse level (e.g. "United Kingdom"), then, many hours later, at a finer level (e.g. "Merseyside"). It's not all that important, but it means there are two edits instead of one in the edit history. Would it be technically feasible to do it in a single pass? If it's really too difficult, then don't worry. -- Dr Greg talk 20:54, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it could be done, but at the cost of modularity and simplicity. -- The Anome (talk) 02:08, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

HI, sorry for the delay I've been busy creating more sub stubs like this!! How iz "coordination" going? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 16:23, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Katharine Gates

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bot malfunction

What happened here? --Stepheng3 (talk) 20:49, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A bit of internal workings got exposed that shouldn't have, based on the category-tree based approach I was using at the time. The string "Palestine" leaked through in a couple of places as well, "Holy See" got reclassified as "region:IT" in one case, and FO got reclassified to DK in a few places. The category tree based approach was far less successful that I had hoped, so I'm now working on a global analysis based on GNS data that ought to fix these and other errors, and deal with most of the remaining cases. -- The Anome (talk) 21:01, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to hear you're on top of these things. Sounds like an interesting and worthy project. --Stepheng3 (talk) 03:35, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Was referred to you

Greetings, I'm a computer illiterate Wikipedian. Sounds like an oxymoron, but true. Aside from email and a quick crash course at a position in a local University (who could not believe it, --after hiring me, fortunately), the little I know I learned on Wikipedia with maybe 5 editors really answering my questions here. Because of this handicap, and another (ADD, I was hoping you might be willing to help me out. I uploaded a couple hundred photos to Wikimedia Commons for biography articles of musicians-- my area of interest-- and placed them (only after being spoon-fed instructions from User:Spinning Spark). Before registering here, I worked a bit under an IP address until sometime in 2007. I've tried to begin to add a list of the photos on my en.Wikipedia userpage, but it's incomplete. Sorry for my rambling here! |CAN you help me understand how to use Wikimedia Commons? I use the same username there. I just don't understand how to add categories, or anything there, aside from my uploads, which are all CC-BY-SA, but they all come from Flickr photographers, who I email to ensure they are the actual photographer, and ask them to change from copyright status to Creative Commons. What must I do to get (and use) an ORTIS account? I did ask twice before, and received them, but not knowing what to do with them, years ago, I'm wondering if it will prevent me from getting another that now, I might actually understand, and use. Many online accounts ask for your email, and I'm afraid mine is still the same and might interfere with a final attempt.--Leahtwosaints (talk) 04:39, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit "warring" on Invincible (Michael Jackson album)

This other person is clearly only making changes to wind people up. This information NEEDS to be in the article, so I will not desist. I have been very measured in my responses, only gradually getting more forceful once it became clear that the other person was headstrong and bloody minded. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.22.50 (talk) 15:10, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I've tried the article's talk page several times, to no avail. The other person just ignores it and reverts every day without reading. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.22.50 (talk) 15:14, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is not your text, which is quite reasonable, but the edit-warring. Neither of you is a "vandal" per se, but your edit-warring is disruptive. I've edited the article to a compromise version which combines each of your changes, but is neither of each of your preferred versions. If you don't like this, please discuss this with your fellow editor on the talk page. If, however, either of you want continue with this edit war instead of attempting to agree a compromise, you will likely find yourselves blocked by admins. -- The Anome (talk) 15:18, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I can't see any attempt to engage with the other editor on the talk page, only an attempt to get their edits removed, or to get them blocked from editing, which I can't see being warranted by the text of their edits alone. (Is "demise" such a bad word, given that "death" is one of its primary meanings?) Edit-warring, however, is blockable, but both of you are currently just as much in violation of WP:3RR as one another. -- The Anome (talk) 15:22, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I'm not going to gamed into endorsing your edit war. I've restored things to the WP:WRONG version, and will block both of you per WP:3RR. -- The Anome (talk) 15:27, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all your efforts on this. I think Invincible is in better shape now. However, please note that the other user involved is now going through my previous edits and simply reverting them. eg King of Pop (album) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.22.50 (talk) 22:52, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like they can quite easiy get around this by registering. eg, the user Mannisrai has blanked several pages, and replaced the lead text for Invincible with something even more ridiculous than before... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.18.159 (talk) 18:47, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Just to let you know that the other user has been making the same edits every day for almost a week, and also removing all reference to the allegations, and sticking the genre in at every opportunity. This time at least they are putting things on the discussion page, but still barely even reading any of the replies. Can we lock again? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.22.22 (talk) 21:41, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. It seems like since Invincible has been protected, this IP 169.139.19.114 has gone back to vandalising King of Pop (album) again. Today was about the 15th time they have corrupted the album chronology. It's a simple factual point, and they have been reverted and told each time, but still they persist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.22.22 (talk) 19:40, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! May 2010 be a good one for you and coordinates on wikipedia! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:27, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Java

Hmmm.... I have no idea where that came from. I use several anti-vandal tools on my wiki bar and there might be something wrong with them? I've never seen that before in my editing, but the diff is attributing it to me. I'm going to look into it.--Torchwood Who? (talk) 02:40, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The java seems to reference a user named Henrik, and I think he might be involved in the development on one of the mods I have on my dashboard. Maybe it was a test code that failed. I've asked him about it and placed a general question on the help desk. Thanks for letting me know this was happening. Very strange. I'm a long-time editor with a good history here and I'd hate for you to think I was doing something malicious.--Torchwood Who? (talk) 02:52, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've responded with some of my findings on your thread at the admin notice board.--Torchwood Who? (talk) 03:18, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Global analysis of region codes

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Village pump thread re coords

Just to let you know there's a thread WP:VPR#Copy coordinates with bot you might be interested in (if only to tell people what you've already done).--Kotniski (talk) 09:21, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Fred Mitchell (mathematics)

I had prodded that article already. If you agree please add a {{prod2}} to make the admin's job easier. (An admin is more likely to decline a prod unless endorsed, and we'd need another AfD.) Pcap ping 19:27, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Radicalization‎

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Article move: IPv6 Addresses to IPv6 address

Hello Anome, please reinstate the todo list that belongs to the talk page of IPv6 Address. This list has vanished since you renamed the page. By the way, do you intend to change all links to this page as well, or do you leave that to others? Maybe you could ask for renaming of the page on the talk page, stating the reason why you want to change the name, instead of changing it without prior notification. —— _D^an_d^orⁱ_D (talk) 12:13, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore, a wikilink IPv6 Address does not seem to work. Could you fix this as well, or undo the move? —— _D^an_d^orⁱ_D (talk) 12:20, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't think the change needed discussion because it was a simple case of applying the standard Wikipedia:article naming conventions: lowercase except where required grammatically, and singular rather than plural except where required by normal usage. I've fixed all of the above. -- The Anome (talk) 19:35, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Thanks for the quick response. I see the reason now; weird that nobody else has noticed this... What should we do with the resuling redirection pages? —— _D^an_d^orⁱ_D (talk) 22:11, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Coord missing runs

Are you still running your bot over categories to find candidates for {{coord missing}}? I've not seen much new stuff pop up in the UK coord missing categories recently. Let me know. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 11:14, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've replied on your talk page. -- The Anome (talk) 14:11, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It'll be fascinating to see how many we get. --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:43, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tnx

I exactly wanted to do that but I didnt know how, tnx :* — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pournick (talk • contribs)

old user subpage

Do you still need User:The Anome/Geocode experiment? If not, would you mind deleting it? --Stepheng3 (talk) 19:11, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done -- The Anome (talk) 21:10, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --Stepheng3 (talk) 00:57, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Your block to Poopsmithbob1

On a website called Homestar Runner, there is a character known as "Poopsmith". Given that, I don't blame you for blocking the username with the string "poop" in it, but I don't think it warrants a "Hard" block.

16:38, 29 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.26.18.188 (talk)

Personally I think the name would have been fine if the user was contributing constructively, but they weren't. I would've just used the VOA blocking template, to avoid conflating the real reason for the block. –xeno^talk 16:42, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To do

National Grid-only coord pages like this: Dùn Tealtaig -- The Anome (talk) 07:16, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Start deprecation/deletion process for the Category:Indian location articles needing coordinates category subtree. -- The Anome (talk) 15:19, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

invalid coord type codes

Anomebot2 has been adding "type:adm" to the coordinates of Icelandic counties, as in this edit. Could you please make the bot a bit smarter so that it won't copy garbage into enwiki? --Stepheng3 (talk) 05:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Assistance

Perhaps you could be of assistance again? CTJF83 chat 05:54, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done

Note to self: To do: re-delete User:Phrasia in about a week's time. -- The Anome (talk) 15:08, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:India articles missing geocoordinate data

Please consider creating subcategories of Category:India articles missing geocoordinate data for each of the States and territories of India. The category now includes about 13,258 articles. - Eastmain (talk • contribs) 08:23, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll give it a go. -- The Anome (talk) 15:08, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK. The untagged articles will be eventually be assigned using {{coord missing}} to the following ~~(currently empty)~~ categories:

which use the official names listed in that article, with the two exceptions of using "Delhi" instead of "National Capital Territory of Delhi", and "Punjab (India)" instead of just "Punjab", to avoid ambiguity.

For consistency with the rest of the {{coord missing}} template/bot ecosystem, the current categories within Category:Indian location articles needing coordinates, where used, will eventually have to be replaced by these. The links to the old categories seem to be generated deep inside some template: could you please fix it to generate links to the new categories, instead of to the old ones?

I'll need a few days to do the actual recategorization and to run the bot to insert the new tags. -- The Anome (talk) 15:23, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The bot run is now under way, with roughly 12,000 articles currently to be recoded. -- The Anome (talk) 15:20, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nigeria

Hi. I'm currently working through Nigeria and I've noticed most articles on places do not have coordinates. Perhaps you could get the bot to add them. Note that many of the LGAs have different names from the main towns but many don't and should be listed at the geonames database or whaetever you use. Um, looks as if you might be a while though judging by India... ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 00:34, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rieterpark. Expanded. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 14:52, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lorry hijacking

I didn't either until I saw that the only two links are to spam sites. 76.102.12.35 (talk) 09:11, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Spam site" in what sense? The site itself doesn't look spammy to me. Is it the target of lots of linkspam? -- The Anome (talk) 09:13, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In the sense that neither mentions lorry hijacking and both exist to sell their online courses. 76.102.12.35 (talk) 09:18, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you feel the links are inappropriate, remove the links, and replace them with {{fact}} tags. The article text itself is not promotional. -- The Anome (talk) 09:21, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SPI

Hi there The Anome. You recently filled out an SPI case here, but it appears you left out the codeletter. Could you fill that out before a clerk reviews the case? ceranthor 14:38, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

UK coord missing

As you possibly know, we've run out of UK {{coord missing}} fodder. I wondered if you fancied running your bot over Category:Roads in the United Kingdom and children. I'm happy to clean up afterwards by way or removing the template from inappropriate articles. If you have time, now would also be a good time to check through the coord missing fodder categories, above, and consider running your bot across these. I think it's fair to say we're feeling quite smug about finishing the UK :) - thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:31, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Are you happy that there is a consensus on the set of conventions for how to geocode these sorts of articles about linear features? If so, I'll be glad to do it. -- The Anome (talk) 15:38, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy that Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/Linear has been stable for a long time; and that the dim: parameter provides a means of showing the entire linear feature in a single map page. I coorded Category:Roads in the Isle of Man and Category:Roads in Northern Ireland a few days ago - seemed to work well. Such high profile roads as A1 road (Great Britain) has been coorded since November 09 with no objections raised. thanks. --Tagishsimon (talk) 15:45, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Then I'm happy to go ahead. I'll put it on my to-do queue. -- The Anome (talk) 15:46, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm much obliged. thanks. --Tagishsimon (talk) 15:53, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We EC'd on removing coord missing from one of the roads. If it helps you get on with something more high powered, I'm happy to clean up any mess. Quick service; thanks. --Tagishsimon (talk) 16:54, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To do

The "class-size paradox", as described in Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do: see http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200911/why-your-friends-have-more-friends-you-do -- the nearest thing I can see to an established name for this observation is "friendship paradox" -- The Anome (talk) 15:58, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Block of Likebox

I don't think that your block of Likebox was justified for the rationale you posted. I made a note on his talkpage to that effect. ScienceApologist (talk) 10:07, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your unblock--- I appreciate that you were able to change your mind, it's no small thing, and I will remember that in the future. However I would like to say a couple of things:

Before blocking, please take time to check the substance of the complaint--- in this case, you should check the sourcing on the article before blocking. Was it really inappropriate?
Please realise that your own block and unblock will appear on my block record, regardless of what you do in the future, so do not change the substance of your block from one thing to another without consideration, and when unblocking, make sure to state that previous charge of vandalism was completely unjustified.
It is not appropriate to lift a 3-month judgement for vandalism and replace it with a one day block for edit warring when nobody has presented any evidence for edit warring.
Not all users have selfless editors willing to stick up for them. Other users have been blocked in similarly unjustified way over misinterpreted comments, and this shows up on their block-log. So please do not use a user's block-log to bias your judgement.

I hope you take these points into consideration in the future.Likebox (talk) 13:59, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Final discussion for Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:

Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 03:30, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Google

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Yapacaní River

Coordinates are given but need formatting. Can you do this? I haven;t heard from you in six months.. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 17:56, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done I'm sorry I didn't get back to you earlier. Are there other articles like this you would like reformatted? If there are a few, I'll do them by hand. If there are many, I can look into converting them using my bot account. -- The Anome (talk) 22:32, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Mm there are a lot to transwiki, your bot doesn't read other wikis though I presume... Spainsih and German wiki have a fair few things. There seems to be a Bolivian German writing articles on German wiki! ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 22:49, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you blocked my other account

Is this account appropriate: User:Socket puppet? --Socket puppet (talk) 17:32, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's fine by me! -- 17:53, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Ok... Thank You! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Heemboiforeightforwhikkeydood (talk • contribs) 02:05, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cereblon

Thanks for creating the above article. I have nominated cereblon as a did you know candidate. Please feel free to modify the hook or expand the article further. Cheers. Boghog (talk) 22:22, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Cereblon

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DYK for Cereblon

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Recent changes

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Poke? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:12, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Spastic

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Ohel (grave)

Hi, you added a geodata note to this article, but in fact, the article is about the subject of graves, not one grave in particular. Yoninah (talk) 20:08, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for catching that. I've removed the tag. At the moment, this looks like a single special-case error; if you see any more similar edits, just tell me, and I'll investigate further and fix the algorithm accordingly. -- The Anome (talk) 20:22, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for your bot about coordinates. We are importing a lot of them from English Wikipedia to Spanish Wikipedia. Keep up the good work! emijrp (talk) 15:01, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:SSE 50 companies

Thanks!

I spotted my error in Template:SSE 50 companies, and went straight back to fox it, only to find an edit conflict cos you had beaten me to it. Very prompt work! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:28, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! -- The Anome (talk) 12:29, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for deletion nomination of Avisodomy

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Done

Mapit-AUS-suburbscale_old

Mapit-AUS-suburbscale_old TfD; FYI. Perhaps the conversion task is one for your Bot? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:13, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's all of them done -- there are some orphan "External links" headers left for other editors or bots to clean up later. Do you know what the difference was between that template and Template:Mapit-AUS-suburbscale? I can also have a go at fixing these if you wish. -- The Anome (talk) 22:19, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I did think of asking you to do the other template, too - but you should see recent discussion on its tal page, first. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 23:22, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done

The farside - advice please

Before The farside disappears completely, may I ask for your advice? When I found the article back in March it was awful, but I wasn't sure what to do about it. If it had been a new article, I would have left it for the experienced team of new page patrollers, but it was an edit of an old redirect. Tagging for deletion seemed wrong, since I didn't want the page deleted entirely; and an instant revert seemed too unfriendly. I chose to tag the article for notability, with more detail on the talk page. This hasn't turned out well, as User:CPeterC has wasted a month trying to improve a doomed article. What would you have done? John of Reading (talk) 06:12, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would have tagged it for deletion: the redirect could then be recreated after the article's deletion. In cases like this, this is unfortunately the only practical way to proceed. I don't think it's an excessive measure: if anything, it gives the article's original proponent a chance to improve the article's notability, and commenters on the AfD can sometimes help them out or give advice. -- The Anome (talk) 09:17, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you John of Reading (talk) 09:55, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dams in Iran

Hi. Can you use your bot to add coordinates or missing tags? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 09:34, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The missing tags should automatically be added shortly after the next enwiki dump. Unless there is a license-compatible source of coordinate data, I can't help with coordinates: I'll look at the GNS data to see if these are in there. -- The Anome (talk) 12:37, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See User:The Anome/NGA GNS coords for dams in Iran. Unfortunately, the database only had the transliterated native names, and there are a few duplicates with different coordinates, so I can't help with mapping these to Wikipedia articles. -- The Anome (talk) 12:50, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox settlement: coordinates display

You may be interested in: Infobox settlement#coordinates_display=. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 08:18, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of AES/EBU embedded timecode

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Articles for deletion nomination of Dippoldism

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Microformats

FYI: Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Microformats. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:53, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Leahill Turret Coordinates

Hi Anome. Your change to the coordinates of Leahill Turret caused me to have a closer look. You were right to highlight them, the originals were some way out (possibly in the bottom left hand of the 100m grid square). However, I will defend the level of precision, especially for an extant turret. One thing of great intrest to 'Wall Archaeologists' was the spacing of milecastles and turrets. If they weren't exacly 1/3 of a Roman mile apart (to the yard) then you can bet your bottom dollar there was a reason for it, and it's pontificating over those reasons that keep Archaeologists in business. In summary, I propose that the correct coordinates are inserted, but with the original level of precision. Notwithstanding the fact that I won't be back here until Wednesday . . . any thoughts or comments? - Sammy_r (talk) 10:46, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Station coords

You may wish to see this discussion about ~~abandoning~~ modifying the current approach of putting coords only in the top-right hand corner of articles, and putting them in both the infobox and top-right hand corner. Lamberhurst (talk) 09:44, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for deletion nomination of Electrical network frequency analysis

I have nominated Electrical network frequency analysis, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electrical network frequency analysis. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Springnuts (talk) 06:46, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Coord tag missing code for non-existent warships

Hi, I'm not sure about the value of The Anomebot2 adding coord missing tags to articles about ships which no longer exist as it's currently doing (for instance, HMS Racehorse (1806), USS Snook (SS-279) and USS Pillsbury (DD-227). As there's nothing to geolocate this doesn't seem to be particularly useful. Cheers, Nick-D (talk) 08:40, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

These should all be ships that have sunk, either as the result of a naval engagement or a disaster. The location would be the place where they sank. -- The Anome (talk) 08:42, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They may have sank there, but often the remains have been salvaged and there's nothing left. One big example would be the scuttling of the French Fleet at Toulon in 1942 of which everything was salvaged post-war. Not sure what benefit there is to geo-locating the ships involved when they're in a port that already has an article.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:54, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The coordinates are the coordinates of the event of their sinking. Compare, for example, the addition of coordinates for battles or disasters, where very often nothing remains at the site. -- The Anome (talk) 15:40, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

50 state .svg Location box errors

I just created some Articles, and found the problem. ONLY the center of the state in the GeoBox has the correct location. DOTs on the border appear in Neighboring states. See: Talk:Four Corners Monument, Talk:Flaming Gorge Dam, [{Talk:Dendora Valley]]. I first found this when doing Aravaipa Creek, Klondyke, Arizona on the Creek, was 45 away... I then tried Peaks, in neighboring mountains, ALSO 45 miles OFFSET, so I couldn't use the .svg map...had to use the PNG.

So ...if everybody is adding COORDINATES, to .svg maps with bad DOT's in 50 states, how do we fix this?...(there are now 3 state CATEGORIES with some example LOCALES, (see Talk:Four Corners Monument,) 1 for Colorado, 1 for New Mexico.. a 3rd category is for one town in Arkansas...(From thedesert)..Mmcannis (talk) 15:36, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppets of Jinxerz

The pages were already removed so I can't be sure but I noted Mestifymusic, Silentsong17, Radainipilif similar pattern. I'm not sure where this should be noted.--Muhandes (talk) 12:09, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Linking:

-- The Anome (talk) 12:23, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User:Mestifymusic is back at it: Eurolive B212XL. Sorry I'm bothering you with this, as you were the admin who handled it in the first place. Is there a more appropriate place to report this? --Muhandes (talk) 10:55, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Report the incident to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, which deals with both vandalism and spamming. They can take a look to try to find any other accounts the same user may have been using. I've now blocked User:Mestifymusic; I'll leave the others for now. -- The Anome (talk) 13:38, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I will in the future. Thanks, and sorry to have bothered you.--Muhandes (talk) 13:59, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've also filed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jinxerz to investigate if any wider sockpuppeting is occurring. -- The Anome (talk)

Battle of Sekigahara

How to deal with the coordinates of Battle of Sekigahara, where the battlefield had been a very large region, and actually not only one region but several places where they did fight? 87.162.114.182 (talk) 06:59, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If it's too diffuse an area to give a single location, unless you can provide inline coordinates for the individual battlefields (which would be awesome, if possible), it's probably better not to try to geocode it at all, and just remove the {{coord missing}} tag. -- The Anome (talk) 09:50, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Errors: geotagging Nijūmon

I regularly find and delete the Coordinates missing template in articles where it makes no sense, for example the article Nijūmon. Would it be possible to be avoid these errors? Frank (Urashima Tarō) (talk) 08:38, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I run a bot that tries to add the {{coord missing}} tag to articles that need coordinates, based on an analysis of a combination of the contents of the category tree graph, the article title, and the article content, using a variety of different algorithms and heuristics. Unfortunately, sometimes, it gets it wrong, and generates a false positive, and causes the tag to be added to articles that do not qualify for coordinates.

I'll take a look at what went wrong here, and see if I can add another heuristic to stop this class of error from happening again. -- The Anome (talk) 12:52, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I see what has happened: the article was in Category:Gates in Japan, and so the bot saw it as being an article about a gate. I've done two things: firstly, I've added a "*" sort-tag to that category link, thus tagging that particular article as being about gates in Japan, rather than about a specific gate in Japan, and I'll add a couple of lines of code to the bot to recognise the word "features" in categories, so it will pick up on the other tag Category:Japanese architectural features, and recognise that the article is about a type of feature, and not a specific instance of that feature. This should catch any similar architectural-feature articles in future. -- The Anome (talk) 13:02, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Having looked at several similar articles: they should have been caught by a check that looks for the word "type" in a page's categories, but this failed because they were in a category Category:Type of gate, rather than Category:Types of gates. I've now moved Category:Type of gate to Category:Types of gates, per naming conventions, and also updated the bot so that it checks for "type" as well as "types" in category names to try to detect articles about types of things. Combined with the previous changes, this should now catch all of this type of errors, both before and after the edits made to articles. -- The Anome (talk) 13:25, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. Frank (Urashima Tarō) (talk) 11:29, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Editing logged in as bot

By mistake, I logged in using my bot account, instead of my normal account, earlier today, and edited a number of articles: Currency sign, Rupee sign, Indian rupee sign, र, and Rupee. This was not intentional, and was the result of inattention when using autocomplete login on Firefox: I'll try to ensure it doesn't happen again. -- The Anome (talk) 12:56, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy deletion

Comments previously here have been deleted as a courtesy to the user. They remain in the page history. -- The Anome (talk) 10:23, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello From Ashish

I have created account with this user name. Can you please delete the page created by my previous account. I am not able to delete that page. Many Thanks.--Solanki Ashish (talk) 12:06, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Things got solved..Thanks Solanki Ashish (talk) 11:40, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Coords for ships

Hi. Your Anomebot is getting a bit carried away tagging ship articles. For instance, USS Archer-Fish (SS-311) and USS Richard S. Bull (DE-402) were built in Maine and Texas respectively, but they're now somewhere off California — to the extent that they're anywhere.
—WWoods (talk) 02:16, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see what's been happening: in the first case, it's used the "ships built in" category to refine the category from "United States" to "Maine" -- it shouldn't have either: instead, it should have "Pacific Ocean", for the place that it sank. I'll see if I can do a global fix for this whole category of error. I'll also go back and alter my main filter code to try to prevent "built in" tags from triggering geolocation. -- The Anome (talk) 08:42, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Character masks

Thaks for shifting the article, but could you please discuss on the talk page before removing content from my article, as I am still working on it? If you do not discuss, I will restore my article to what I intended. User:Jurriaan 21 July 2010 14:11 (UTC)

Category:State roads in Croatia

Hi. Can you find the coordinates for these, they are virtually all without coordinates or maps, one is left clueless as to where it is.. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:25, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bot adding coord missing templates to road articles

Roads don't exist at a point, they are linear. I keep removing these, and the bot comes around again and adds them. Please instruct it not to, thanks. Cheers - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 18:51, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/Linear. We manage fine with rivers: even a single representative point is better than no point at all. -- The Anome (talk) 18:55, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's misleading. I will be removing them from all Ontario road articles, and I am rolling back the other countries. Please take this to WP:HWY before continuing. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 18:56, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I have to disagree with you. As Voltaire said, Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien: although a single point is not adequate, it's much better than no point, and the presence of a single point should drive the addition of multiple points later on. See also Nirvana fallacy and Worse is better for similar points of view.

Can I ask what would satisfy you? Both endpoints? Or would you require a complete polyline? Or are you opposed to geocoding road articles at all? I'd be happy to try to accomodate you in getting these features properly coded. -- The Anome (talk) 18:59, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure we've had this discussion before. --Rs chen 7754 19:05, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've raised this at WP:HWY, as requested. I'd very much like to know what would satisfy you in terms of geographical coordinates, if anything. If not, I'd like to know why you regard geographical coordinates as unacceptable for roads. -- The Anome (talk) 19:10, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Highways, where I've made a variation on the arguments above. I really do believe we can achieve a reasonable compromise here. -- The Anome (talk) 19:21, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very much for coordinates, I'm just against the misrepresentation that comes with a point. If it was possible to put in a set of coordinates and have it spit out a line in google maps and put "link" at the top right of the article instead of the coords, I'd be all for it. I think that, inherently, the coordinate system can't work for something like roads (many important points) as it could for rails or rivers (Generally isolated from one another, so that a source/start and mouth/end coords would work, and only a select few important points). - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 19:29, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also very much in favour of that. Can we continue this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Highways, please, to see if we can reach a mutually acceptable solution? I have to go away now for about an hour, so I can't reply immediately, but I will respond there as soon as I am back. -- The Anome (talk) 19:31, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

From Ashish Solanki

I have posted in that user page cause that url is still valid and showing some error messages. I thought reader might distracted with that annoying message so i have posted some general information on that user page. I have posted that coz i was unable to delete that url completely. Is it possible for you to delete that page entirely with url too. I think the page with error message doesn't look good in wiki reading. Like you have deleted the page can it be removed from wiki completely or it will automatically be removed say after few days? And I don't know why George is posting on the discussion when the use account is being blocked. I am deleting that too from my end. Thanks. Solanki Ashish (talk) 04:29, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really know what you mean by "that url is still valid": the web page in question is actually served as a 404 error page which just tells you that the page does not exist as an article, that this is because it has been deleted, and why. Since it's a 404 error, it shouldn't be indexed by search engines, and, in general, no-one should ever see it unless they were to specifically look for it by following a link. Please don't create any more autobiographical or SEO-related material. You might want to read WP:ADVERT for advice on this. Regarding George Widget: it's clear that that account has some sort of relationship to you, at the very least in terms of very specific shared interests: please read WP:SOCK. -- The Anome (talk) 09:18, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion review for Gang Stalking

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Gang Stalking. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review.

Meonstoke

Hi. I have expanded the article on Meonstoke. However, as I am new to this game, I thought I’d contact people who have contributed to the article as it now stands before I change it. My proposed version is on my user talk page. If you are interested, I’d welcome any comment, changes, suggestions. Thanks Gramorak (talk) gramorak 11:47, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Justice Dept Info

The link as requested, see Appendix Table 3. Bureau of Justice Report Stalking Victimization in the United States Batvette (talk) 20:18, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! That's really useful! Just to put a copy of it as text here, it reads as follows:

   Appendix table 3. Number of stalking offenders
   perceived by victim
                                    Percent of victims
   ---------------------------------------------------- 
     Total                                      100%
   One                                         62.1
   Two                                         18.2
   Three or more                               13.1
   Number unknown                               6.5
     
     Number of victims                       3,398,630
   ---------------------------------------------------
   Note: Table excludes 0.7% of stalking victims due to
   missing data.

-- The Anome (talk) 10:10, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Grant bramlett

Hi. Just to let you know that the author has recreated the article Grant bramlett, just three minutes after you deleted it - I've re-tagged it. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:42, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Evolution myth

Hi, I notice that you deleted this as R3; what was the target, please? Bridgeplayer (talk) 20:12, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The target was Evolution. It has now been replaced by a better redirect to Objections to evolution. -- The Anome (talk) 08:26, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you; I agree with your assessment. Bridgeplayer (talk) 14:30, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Headcorn and Maidstone Junction Light Railway

Why the {{cleanup}} tag on a B-class article, which has been stable for a long period? Mjroots (talk) 06:56, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It only needs formatting cleanup to make the giant full-width line-map box at the top of the article conform to normal railway station article conventions. Apart from that, it's fine. -- The Anome (talk) 06:59, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've given the article a bit of a c/e anyway and removed the tag, working on RDT in one of my sandboxes atm. Mjroots (talk) 07:30, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Mjroots (talk) 07:42, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fantastic! Thank you -- that's one of the fastest {{cleanup}}s I've seen in some time. -- The Anome (talk) 08:12, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User: Fearth deletion protest

Hope I am doing this right. in the right place. i am protesting the deletion of my user page. it was not placed there as a secondary source, nor had i linked to to more than incidentally. it was a place i was developing my page and it was linked to only those who are going to be helping me achieve the lofty goals wiki has set forth for me to achieve -- that of getting proper notability.

can i develop my page privately elsewhere? i intended to meet all of wikis requirement, I do not intend to use this as a secondary main page to subvert you, but need a place to develop and would like on the off chance refer some to it to see what they might be involved in -- in this case a literary critic wanting to learn more about my book before offering me their notable comments. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fearth (talk • contribs)

I'm afraid it reads like a promotional article. User-space is not exempt from the rules on the presence of promotional material on Wikipedia, and are not the place for material that looks like articles: see WP:NOT and WP:USERPAGE. Nor is Wikipedia a free web hosting service: see WP:NOTHOSTING. -- The Anome (talk) 16:11, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Inworth, Essex

Thanks for adding coordinates for this article.Tolkny (talk) 14:50, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! -- The Anome (talk) 16:00, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Debatable Space

Erm, no, I was trying to fix the edit conflict. --jmenkus ^[T] 11:24, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, but I am going to need a few hours. --jmenkus ^[T] 11:34, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Devil can cite WP:NOT to his own purpose. But fine. Give it a while, no article has ever been complete from the start. --jmenkus ^[T] 11:37, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Coords for radio stations

The many radio stations awaiting coording trouble me. Does the coord represent their studios or their broadcast territory? If the former, would we not by much the same principle start coording all company articles, as each of these has a head office somewhere. Thoughts? --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:13, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Their broadcast territory. National stations should not have coordinates, but local stations should. For example, BBC Radio Bristol should have a coordinate, but BBC Radio 4 should not. For a representative point in their broadcast area, we can most commonly choose their transmitter (if a single transmitter) or their studio location (if a single studio, located within the broadcast area).

In the case of U.S. local radio stations, this is easy, because there's an FCC database of transmitter locations. For other countries, it will require manual work. -- The Anome (talk) 06:59, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:32, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Geo-coord required Bot category suggestions

I came across Category:Archaeological sites in France which has uncoorded articles. The category has children and parents, which also seem coordable, such as Category:Archaeological sites by country or Category:Megalithic monuments in Europe. Have fun. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:32, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Waterfalls of Scotland

Hi, could you copy the coordinates from Waterfalls of Scotland into the relative articles?Starzynka (talk) 11:07, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure.

Done, ~~with the exception of Eagle’s Fall, which has broken coords (odd number of digits in NGR). Could you possibly fix this one by adding the correct coordinates?~~ (Update: I've fixed Eagle’s Fall myself.)

Also, after a couple of spot-checks, it's clear that the coordinates given for Eas a' Chrannaig are nonsense (see http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=55.42851,-6.69792). (Update: I've fixed Eas a' Chrannaig myself.)

I wonder how many others are wrong? -- The Anome (talk) 08:02, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

red links

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After Jimbo Wales...

You're the oldest sysop/editor I've seen around :) Good to come across you. Sincere regards. Wifione _.......^{Leave a message} 17:56, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! -- The Anome (talk) 06:56, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

UK Priories

Many priory articles are missing their coords. Many of their coords, with links to the articles, are in List of articles found from Category:Lists of religious buildings and structures in the United Kingdom - e.g. List of monastic houses in Bristol. Is there some magic you could conjure up to fix this situation? thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:09, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'd be delighted to do so, and this should be pretty simple to do. I'll do it when I next have a spare moment to code something up. -- The Anome (talk) 07:10, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've now done a bunch of these, after first filtering out those where the name parameter in the coord template did not match the article title: see http://toolserver.org/~para/coordmissing/?date=2010-09-26&removed -- The Anome (talk) 06:41, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good work; thanks. --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:58, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. There are 64 articles where the name in the template does not match the name in the link. Could you please take a look at some of these, and let me know whether you think these would be accurate enough for use? See User:The Anome/monastic name mismatch list for the list. -- The Anome (talk) 08:35, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock

Just to let you know, I've temporarily unblocked User:DJgenocide in order to request a user-name change. — Tivedshambo (t/c) 12:09, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Urban fantasy

Regarding the "also known as urban magic" claim (and the link), can you please provide a reliable source which calls it that (like the ones in the young-adult fiction article)? I looked a bit, and didn't find one. -- James26 (talk) 18:10, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent change to this article title: Potentially all pairwise rankings of all possible alternatives

Thanks for your interest in this article, The Anome. I wanted to discuss with you the recent change you made to the title - specifically, removing the capitals and the explicit acronym, i.e. changing "Potentially All Pairwise RanKings of all possible Alternatives (PAPRIKA)" to "Potentially all pairwise rankings of all possible alternatives" (as now), and also the change to the first sentence of the article. The reason I wrote the title in the original (capitals) style is because this is the name of a particular method (it is a title). This is how the method is referred to in the literature (as in the references for the Wikipedia article). This style is also consistent with the style for other methods that also have longish names (i.e. that, on first reading, are not obviously titles) in the area of mult-criteria decision making - please see the list of such methods and note their style at multi-criteria decision making. It seems to me there are 3 possible titles for the article: (1) "Potentially all pairwise rankings of all possible alternatives" - as you have now, (2) "Potentially All Pairwise RanKings of all possible Alternatives (PAPRIKA)" - i.e. as I had originally, or (3) "Potentially All Pairwise Rankings of All Possible Alternatives" - i.e. simply a title. If you want to stick with option (1), then how about we compromise with this as the article's first sentence: "Potentially all pairwise rankings of all possible alternatives – also known by the partial acronym PAPRIKA (Potentially All Pairwise RanKings of all possible Alternatives) – is a method for multi-criteria decision making."? My goal here is to make sure that readers are not confused - i.e. that they understand that the name of the article refers to the name of a method (rather than being some vague sentence). What do you think? Best wishes, Paul Hansen (I declare my interest here, as I have elsewhere: I co-invented the method) Paulwizard (talk) 04:24, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I made the suggested (compromise) change. Paul Paulwizard (talk) 05:55, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Evil clown for deletion

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Please stop your bot from vandeling Changtang twice.

[2] ––(Yú Hǎi) 11:42, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that a bot automatically tagging an article with an invisible maintenance tag really counts as "vandalism", and since the second edit was a refinement of the first, this was really a single edit in two parts. Nevertheless, I respect your judgment that this area is not practically geocodable, and since the bot in any case keeps a record of articles that have been previously tagged, you will find that it should not revisit that article again. Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience. -- The Anome (talk) 08:47, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Some London cats needing coords

A couple of articles I've come across untagged :

Geo.F. Trumper - Category:Shops in London and Category:London building and structure stubs (??) - both potential biggies?
Canning Club - Category:London's gentlemen's clubs
Berry Brothers and Rudd - Category:Shops in London, Category:Buildings and structures in Westminster and possibly Category:Companies based in London ???

Some of these are perhaps so obvious that there must be a reason why they've not already been done, but shops and clubs look genuine misses. I don't know if Category:Buildings and structures in London by type and Category:Shops in England (beware Category:Oxfam deep in that cat) are of interest? You have no idea how indirectly the coord-tagging team are directing my life at the moment - I'm on a mission to take photos of all the central London articles without images, which relies on Z-man's tool to be fed with coords... Relying on Wiki coords on the ground also means I'm very aware of when they screw up - I've found a couple of examples of copy/pasting going wrong (sometimes spectacularly, like Highland villages ending up in London <g>), and been able to refine quite a few. All part of the process... Another interesting point was that Bing seems to be relying on Wiki coordinates for some searches, so searching for that Highland village takes you to a map of London - they really need to update their database. Keep up the good work. Le Deluge (talk) 10:27, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's a great project. It's great to hear about unusual and cool uses for geotagging. -- The Anome (talk) 22:24, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What is this?

(Adding geodata: {{coord|45.0833|N|29.5|E|source:kolossus-frwiki|display=title}}). This was the note left on the History page at Danube Delta. I looked at the page but could not find anything resembling this item. Can you tell me what it is? Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis (talk) 01:28, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's a {{coord}} template, which provides a geographic coordinate of the Delta. The template is found at the foot of the article, just above the category tags. You'll see it being added below Line 141 in this diff. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:38, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bot adding coordinate missing tags to people articles...

Just found it adding the coordinate missing tags to the following articles: Bishop of Hexham, Trumbert, and Tidfrith of Hexham. Not sure what led the bot to think they were locations, but probably needs looking into. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:20, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

These normally arise from categorisation issues. So, for instance, we find Bishop of Hexham in Category:Bishops of Hexham, which itself is found (oddly? remarkably? who knows?) categorised under Category:Churches in Northumberland. Any such misplacing of {{coord}} will, sooner or later, get sorted out by The Anome's minions, who pore through Category:Articles missing geocoordinate data by country and its many children. --Tagishsimon (talk) 15:23, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I don't play with categories much. I already removed them, and I'll try to sort the cats out now. Ealdgyth - Talk 15:29, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do remember that wikipedia categorisation is, deliberately, a Directed acyclic graph, per Wikipedia:Categorization. Which in common parlance means is isn;t a simple hierachy, but kind has loops and swirls ... good luck. I once started, in some corner of the category structure, but soon gave up. --Tagishsimon (talk) 15:33, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The category DAG is indeed a deep and gnarly structure, but this was a pure screwup on my part.

In adding the keyword "shops" to the list of keywords for man-made structures, I inadvertently added it to the wrong regexp, one that matched "shops" as a substring in category names instead of the word "shops", and generated false positives for "bishops" and anything else belonging to a category containing the string "shops". However, this only happened to articles about bishops that were categorized under a hierarchy of categories, all relating to buildings (and also, for the duration of this bug, bishops), that eventually led upwards to an "X by country" category about buildings or structures (but not bishops). I found and fixed this error shortly after making it, after seeing various bishops' articles being caught by the extra filter that checks for keywords marking biographical articles at edit time, and I thought I had found and fixed all the mistakes; clearly I missed a few. I'll go back and double-check for any remaining errors.

Update: I think you found all of them. Nearly all the other false positives had been filtered out by the biography keyword detector; I added a special rule for "bishops" just to add an extra layer of checking in case "shop" leaks through as a false positive on another occasion. -- The Anome (talk) 21:13, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]