User talk:Rich Farmbrough

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I am probably User:StatusBot/Status/Rich Farmbrough

de:Benutzer Diskussion:DaB./Archiv 2006

The Wishing Well

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Tone

Smackbot seems to have placed an "inappropriate tone" label on this page which I think is not correct. I edited it out but it's still appearing there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_arms

No it didn't. Article fixed. Message left. Rich Farmbrough, 22:02 3 April 2008 (GMT).

Pandemic

Here's the the link for original article on where the rumor started that Pandemic is developing the Dark Knight game.

Rumor: Pandemic to Develop New Batman Game by Matt Casamassina May 17, 2007 http://ps3.ign.com/articles/789/789648p1.html

I'm just signed up for Wikipedia and wasn't exactly sure how the editing process worked. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AzBat360 (talk • contribs) 05:14, 4 April 2008

sources for Tenth Army page

I hope I am doing this correctly. I have no experience doing stuff with wikipedia.

Rich, I see that in 2005, you were one of the first people associated with the wikipedia entry on the Italian 10th army (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Tenth_Army). I am trying to find out what sources the article in question was drawn from.

thanks,

Tom (gionpeters@comcast.net)


undated {{orphan}} backlog

Hi, It's not a lot yet, but there are 100+ articles in CAT:ORPHAN with undated orphan tags. As far as I know, SmackBot has always kept pretty current on that. Is the bot running behind?--Aervanath's signature is boring 09:42, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it did a big catchup. Rich Farmbrough, 21:18 31 May 2008 (GMT).
Sweet. I'd hate to go through and date all those myself. :) --Aervanath's signature is boring 09:37, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Minor SmackBot nit

Minor capitalization changes like this seem like they add unnecessary 'churn' to Recent changes etc.--maybe there's a way to make it less picky about whether the first letter of maintenance tags is capitalized or not? Other than that, you perform a great service with the bot. Shawisland (talk) 07:55, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm using an older version of the software, due to a machine failure. The {{internallinks}} should have been picked up. The most receent version should be recovered RSN, and this will happen a lot less. Rich Farmbrough, 10:54 1 June 2008 (GMT).

Notability of Once Nothing band

Right here. http://solidstaterecords.com/artist_bio.php?id=297 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sector311 (talk • contribs) 13:47, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Capital

If all that is "wrong" with a template entry is the first letter is in lower case (as here with unreferenced) please don't "fix" it. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 13:59, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See above, pretty much a rare event for various reasons. Rich Farmbrough, 08:45 3 June 2008 (GMT).

Cyrillic accented-i

pretty clever bot, fella, useful stuff!

however, please see this change here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_language&diff=216614260&oldid=216480357

Please ask your bot not to revert it to the way it was before (which is did several days ago) - as non-unicode-compatible computers can't read the symbol it substitutes.

Thanx, and keep up the good work! 62.176.111.68 (talk) 12:57, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for your message, SmackBot makes a number of changes that are available to all WP:AWB bots - in general these provide a number of non-controversial minor improvements. The issue you raise is related to these, I have left, or will leave, a message about your concerns on the WP:AWB pages. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 13:09 3 June 2008 (GMT).
Thank you :-)62.176.111.68 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 13:13, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:HAU

Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at Wikipedia:Highly Active Users, SoxBot V, was blocked for its constant updating. With this bot out of operation, a patch is in the works. Until that patch is reviewed and accepted by the developers, some options have been presented to use as workarounds: 1) Qui monobook (not available in Internet Explorer); 2) User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate; 3) Manually updating User:StatusBot/Status/USERNAME; or 4) Not worry about it and wait for the patch to go through, which hopefully won't take long. If you have another method, you can use that, too. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Useight (talk) 22:25, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Invalid date

If you can, have a look at Drainage in New Orleans, it shouldn't be in the category, but I don't have time to figure out why it is. Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 10:23 4 June 2008 (GMT).

Hmm looks like cats aren't gettign updated properly either, but... Rich Farmbrough, 10:33 4 June 2008 (GMT).
That was a weird bug in {{unreferencedsection}} that caused it. I've fixed it now. Harryboyles 13:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Japanese alias & ARC

I have edited that Japanese alias article, split the 'how-to' stuff into a non-WP article, and put the Alien registration cardinfo into a separate WP article. I have applied for a peer review. If you would like to contribute to either article, please do so. If you need to discuss the article, pleased do it on the article discussion page, and not my talk page. Thanks.--Mak Allen (talk) 02:45, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

TfD nomination of Template:Ongoing event

Template:Ongoing event has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Yellowdesk (talk) 03:20, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cats

Thank you for explaining! Now I will know should I ever be the one to create the montly category again. ♦Tangerines♦·Talk 13:38, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

strange edit

SmackBot

Hi, Rich. Strange edit by the bot [1]. Please check. Other edits appear to be good Alex Bakharev (talk) 11:55, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Smackbot error

In the article Yotare Minami-no-wari, Aza-take-no-gō, Ōaza-tobishima-shinden, Tobishima-mura, Ama-gun, Aichi-ken, Smackbot replaced {{Disputed_title}} with {{Disputed title$2 in a revision as of 22:41, 12 March 2008. Another user corrected that on 21:14, 23 May 2008, but Smackbot made the same edit again in a revision as of 11:17, 6 June 2008. I have corrected it and added a date tag, so this particular article shouldn't be affected again. -- Zyxw (talk) 15:51, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I was forced to revert to an old version of the software, which re-introduced this bug, but it should be fixed now. Rich Farmbrough, 18:08 6 June 2008 (GMT).

Changing City, State to City, State

In the vast majority of cases, such as in articles like this, only the city is relevant to the article. The state is included only in order to fully qualify the city name; the state is irrelevant to the context of the article and ought not be linked separately. So, changing City, State to City, State only complicates the markup in source and creates over-linking. —Centrx→talk • 21:16, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unhelpful smackbot edit

This edit doesn't seem helpful enough to warrant cluttering the article history with it. Is there some threshold below which smackbot realizes it could make an edit, but chooses not to do so? (sdsds - talk) 03:11, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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