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First of all, I thought the second request made it pretty obvious that he wanted the rename to go ahead. Besides, the two requests requested the same name. If the user is unhappy, he can file a new request. Andre ( talk) 07:48, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes it was. That thread seemed to have drifted more into admin-candidates-should-be-routinely-RFCU'd-oh-but-that-violates- the-checkuser-policy rather than anything particularly to do with Archtransit, but more importantly, it had active discussion only a few hours old. Happy‑ melon 15:46, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Subj, instead of Common.css. — AlexSm 15:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Tim removed it when the new preprocessor went live because he had updated a lot of the code, but had avoided fixing the MediaWiki: namespace. A little over a week ago Tim put in rev:31044, which fixed much of the broken behavior found in the MediaWiki: namespace. There was a report on the technical village pump about a bad interaction between {{int:}}, {{ reflist}}, and the MediaWiki message. I spoke with Edokter (the admin who reverted me) and we both decided that the best solution was to fake Wikipedia:Article size and keep #expr: functional in the message. ... And then you reverted me. I'm not really sure why, but in doing so, you introduced a JavaScript dependency, which isn't usually the best thing when there's a perfectly viable PHP option. I'd strongly prefer to use #expr: instead of JavaScript. Thoughts? -- MZMcBride ( talk) 22:28, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
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Hi. I noticed you took part in the debate at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Hezbollah userbox and I was wondering if you might want to participate in a debate I have started at deletion review of this category and accompanying userboxes here.-- Cdogsimmons ( talk) 02:27, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Per your comment here, can you confirm whether an edit from WB is visible on GW at 21:49 on July 7, 2006, and whether it repeated WB's allegation about his identity? I've raised this a couple of times, but haven't received a clear answer. Thanks, Mackan79 ( talk) 04:23, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Random832: Can you tell me the status of getting the “{{delimitnum}}” parser function written? I am referring to what we discussed here on Talk:MOSNUM and to Bug 13025. Does the fact that it isn’t yet done signal the possibility that it might never be developed(?), or do these things sometimes just take a while? Greg L ( my talk) 06:59, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing that, and I was indeed unaware of it (although in retrospect it is very obvious). MiszaBot was all primed to archive Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/header when necessary, then! Happy‑ melon 20:24, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Did you intend User:Random832/common.js to be in Category:',end:' (a deleted category)? Just wondering... Regards, Bencherlite Talk 00:36, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Random832. I haven’t found the required template at Category:Date mathematics templates and believe it doesn’t exist. So I am wondering if you could help in getting one made. Note the last sentence in the last paragraph at Moon#Ocean_tides. It reads as follows:
“ | The effect on the Moon’s orbital radius is a small one, just 0.10 ppb/year, but results in a measurable 3.8 cm annual increase in the Earth-Moon distance. Cumulatively, this effect becomes ever more significant over time; since when astronauts first landed on the Moon approximately 55 years ago, it is now 1.5 meters farther away. | ” |
I coded this as follows:
The effect on the Moon’s orbital radius is a small one, just 0.10 [[Parts-per notation|ppb]]/year, but results in a measurable 3.8 cm annual increase in the Earth-Moon distance. Cumulatively, this effect becomes ever more significant over time; since when [[Apollo 11|astronauts first landed on the Moon]] approximately {{age|1969|1|19}}<!-- NOTE TO EDITORS: This date, which is 182 days before the landing, rounds the elapsed time to the nearest year. --> years ago, it is now 1.5 meters farther away.
Note how I can automate how many years it’s been since the moon landing, but not the distance the Moon has increased since the Moon landing; that value must periodically be tweaked. This isn’t the first time I’ve run across the need for a template to do this.
I propose a template called perhaps {{Days elapsed times factor}}. It would parse as follows:
{{ Days elapsed times factor | Year | Month | Day | Factor | Significant digits }}
Thus, entering the following: {{Days elapsed times factor|1969|7|20|0.000104|2}} meters
, which accumulates 0.038 meter per year (3.8 cm per year) by multiplying each day times 0.000104 meter per day, produces 1.5 meters. If today’s date was 9 January 1979, the exact same setup for this template would return the two-significant-digit value of 0.36 meter.
Note that I am proposing a day-based template and not a year-based one because Excel uses day-based math, which makes the calculation of the required factor drop-dead simple.
Can you direct this request to an interested party? Greg L ( my talk) 18:10, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
In Kilogram, I had considered a sentence regarding how much the IPK’s mass drifted relative to the average of the worldwide ensemble of prototypes. It’s been drifting at 25 µg per century and was last checked in 1989. I once considered a sentence discussing how much drift has likely occurred since that last periodic verification but it was such a fast rate of change, the value would have required revising too frequently.
Population change and mortality rates from diseases would be a logical use for a template such as this. One could write something along the lines of “Since blankety-blank date, #### people have been added to the population of the U.S." Death rates from AIDS can be expressed in like terms.
Tectonics is another natural one. The San Andreas moves 3.3 cm per year. If an author wanted to denote the amount of change in geologic terms: kilometers over epoch-size time periods, then such a template is of no value. But if an author wants to relate this in human terms, by stating how many centimeters the plate has moved since a recent date that young people can really relate to, that would be very interesting and would be exploiting the power of Wikipedia, computers, and templates to accomplish something that regular static books can’t effectively do. One could state for instance, the following: “This strain rate, which is about the speed at which a fingernail grows, may seem small. However, it quickly accumulates. Since the October 17, 1989
Loma Prieta earthquake, the Pacific plate has moved another 60 cm!” That’s an interesting way of writing about tectonic plate drift; since the day an earthquake occurred—an event many people can remember—the plates have moved relative to each other a distance equivalent from one’s nose to their wrist on their outstretched arm. But as you can see, this value changes one centimeter every 3.6 months so this is currently an impractical way to communicate the point without a template. It would be cool indeed to code this: …the Pacific plate has moved ''another {{Days elapsed times factor|1989|10|17|0.00904|2}} cm!''
These are just the examples that come off the top of my head at the moment. I’m sure its uses are endless. Too often, we Wikipedia editors simply copy the communication concepts we see in regular print. Once other editors see effective and interesting examples of how this template can be used, I’m sure they will find many others. The template will be useful for many rate-of-change phenomena that, at first blush, seem small but actually quickly accumulate into significant values over time periods that are within recent memory. Greg L ( my talk) 20:40, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
So as I understand it, we are now contemplating the following:
{{ Days elapsed times factor | Year | Month | Day | Factor | Decimal points }}
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For your countless templates, such as today’s {{days elapsed times factor}}, which you banged out right on the spot at the request of another editor after being convinced it would help. Templates—something that only specialsts can make but anyone can use—make Wikipedia a much better encyclopedia and make authoring much easier for editors. Your contributions here at Wikipedia serve as a paradigm of the collaborative authoring concept. Template authors are the unsung heros of Wikipedia. Thanks. 03:23, 4 March 2008 (UTC) |
Thanks for helping me with that thing on Talk:Term limits in the United States. And for that I sincerely thank you--with a cookie.
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If you make a mistake like creating Days elapsed times factor/doc in the wrong namespace, please clean up after yourself by tagging the article with {{ db-author}}. -- RHaworth ( Talk | contribs) 21:58, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Sorry about that... thanks for fixing it with the populated ones. I'll remember in the future. - J Greb ( talk) 22:51, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hi there. You seem to be an active developer of this extremely useful script, so I would welcome your perspective on the proposed rewrite of the CSD templates ( (discussion), with regards how best to integrate the CSD templates with the deletion script. I think this might be a good opportunity to rewrite the two systems in parallel, so they work effectively together rather than by an improvised fix at both ends. Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Happy‑ melon 12:40, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! -- SineBot ( talk) 19:46, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey -- feel free to refactor your comment in the general section I created if you like. I just didn't care to create my own section (plus I'm interested in seeing a dialogue). I considered removing the header on yours, but figured you could do it if you like. Regards, Mackan79 ( talk) 05:45, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure where development is on an update to the script, but I quickly added support for {{ db-person}} to the script. I was running into quite a few people using that tag. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 07:01, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Don't you think that is just a little bit WP:POINTy? I fully sympathize and agree with your exasperation over the continuing stupidity of redlinked user cats, but a big discussion on the village pump (or some type of centralized discussion) with a note at the UCFD talk page would have been a much better way to deal with it. I'm not going to be the first one to respond to the MFD nomination, but if a useful discussion begins there, I'll take part. It's more likely to result in a speedy close and a flailing with a large fish. Horologium (talk) 20:12, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
On your next update, any chance you can correct the code so that several categories (mentioned in deletion summaries) do not show up as on the page? I've manually removed a bunch here but there are a lot more. You are actually causing more categories to appear on this list as a result, ironically. Cheers. VegaDark ( talk) 21:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Random, can you clarify whether the 21:49 edit may have been the one to WB's talk page? SV lists that edit as here. That would resolve the 21:49 edit, if not the others. Thanks, Mackan79 ( talk) 22:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
This [1] was left behind on a username change request. Can you delete it? do I need a speedy deletion notice on it? Clicking on "user contributions" brings to the new user contributions (it shouldn't do that) -- Enric Naval ( talk) 12:28, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
I was under the distinct impression that they were, in fact, forbidden, just as we rapidly redact e-mail addresses from talk page posts and the like! -- Orange Mike | Talk 14:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I was lazy and used Twinkle to file the improper username notice at AIV, which does not have a check-box for 'email usernames'. I figured 'promotional' was close enough, and neglected to notice in the username policy that email usernames are a valid block. I see that now, and in the future will not mark email usernames as promotional (My rather flawed logic stated that an email username was advertising the user, which obviously is not true). Sorry about that. Fusion Mix 14:22, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing my /spn template! I can't believe I forgot... thankyou.
On another note, do you mind me copying your WP:UBX code with the scroll bar? Thanks. microchip08 (find my secret page!) 19:19, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
<div class="usermessage"><div class="plainlinks">'''Notwithstanding the above, you do not in fact have new messages. </div></div>
User was going around being disruptive in other edits, to be honest. I was checking his edits in Huggle, but I guess my connection was lagging so I wasn't able to check. Will ( talk) 21:10, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Sorry it took so long, but I responded to your query on my talk page. I'm leaving a note here just because it's been so long. Thanks and happy editing. - Taxman Talk 15:09, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
A good compromise. Sorry I didn't include it in the body, I figure it wasn't that necessary but it seems fine on including it, since it adds persepective. Although, I would suggest that the $5,000 be included in the first sentence, since Merkey is the source of the information, not the BBC. Merkey alleged that Wikipedia encyclopedia founder Jimmy Wales edited Merkey's entry in the English Wikipedia to cast Merkey in a more favorable light in return for a US$5,000 donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. How does that look? - Mtmelendez ( Talk) 17:27, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Why would you protect the sandbox? It's designed for people to play around in, see Wikipedia:About the Sandbox. Please unprotect it. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 03:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to make you aware that I made a post here on Talk:MOSNUM regarding the new {{delimitnum}} template. See you there. Greg L ( my talk) 22:13, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Has this stopped working or is it no longer in the sitewide js? John Reaves 21:53, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
On the BAG MfD, you said you thought BAG doesn't do well at evaluating bot tasks. Could you expand on that? Which bots are you thinking of? I'd like to get a sense of what the objections to BAG are (I'm not on it anyway). — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:53, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Greetings! I just wanted to let you know that your HBC AIV helperbot feature request, to support removing entries with the {{user-uaa}} template, was actually already done quite a while ago. I believe I implemented it when you asked about it on WT:UAA when you first attempted it (but after the attempt had already been aborted). I thought I had mentioned it there, but perhaps I hadn't. Anyway, that template should work just like the others - I just tested it on my sandbox page, and it looks good. — Krellis ( Talk) 14:11, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
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Appreciate the help with the request for deletion for my user talk page for the Bell 533 sandbox article. I will remember that technique for next time. -- Born2flie ( talk) 17:38, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
It looks like you edited the Monobook.css file at 10:03 UTC. Page titles now appear to be floating above the line break separator above the text "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". Looks like maybe the edit you made fixed one bug while messing with other text displayed by the CSS. Bumm13 ( talk) 18:46, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
In case you'd like to come defend yourself, you've been accused of personal attacks in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Daniel Brandt 5#Section break 2. Mr. Z-man 01:55, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Random832, I left a reply to your interesting comment in the thread about the issues with Pipep Bot at WP:AN]. - Neparis ( talk) 02:02, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
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I've started drafting a user conduct RfC here. There's a lot of evidence to sift through and present, so I think it will take awhile to get it put together. If you'd like to participate, please feel free to do so. Cla68 ( talk) 06:33, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Based on q quick glance at their contributions, I don't see any obvious reason to believe that User:Dmccreary is a sockpuppet of Jon Awbrey. It looks like Dmccreary made some minor edits to the Semiotic Triangle article which was later deleted as the original work was by an Awbrey sock. If you want to know more about the reasoning for the deletion I suggest you contact the admin who deleted it. Best, Gwernol 12:35, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Can you tell me why you moved the "Betacommand and SVGs" thread from WP:AN/I to WP:AN/B? Sure, the latter page is named after Betacommand, but I don't think it was the initial idea to move everything that has to do with him there for all eternity. After all, that subpage was created because issues surrounding Betacommand took up half of WP:AN/I at one point. That is not the case anymore, tho, and there is no danger of the "Betacommand and SVGs" thread becoming so big that it needs its own sub-page. The WP:AN/B page has, in my opinion, served its purpose, and there's no real need anymore to move threads there (unless they get way too big again). -- Conti| ✉ 16:10, 2 April 2008 (UTC)