User talk:Pb30/2007

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Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Pb30! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Prodego ^talk 16:21, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Attack pages?

I don't know what exactly as those so-called "attack pages." I don't think I'm making them. What I was doing was giving a small segment it's own article. Some other users like the small segments in articles that they decided to create one for those. -Giraffeboy-

Templates

I would appreciate it, if you have any further comments on my actions, that you address me personally before posting a template on my talk page. I find your template particularly spiteful in light of the recent updating of the templates page, which you will notice I would not have seen before posting my last warning. Please be a little more tolerant and tactful in future. Thanks. Whiskey in the Jar 22:15, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I was posting while inebriated and may have overreacted. Thanks for the heads up, it is appreciated, I'm just used to seeing templates on the pages of vandals, guess I took it badly! Thanks anyhow, sorry for being a little sharp, and happy editing! Whiskey in the Jar 05:15, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

trivia

where are these "trivia" points supposed to be integrated into the article?...they aren't in summary of the episode or deleted scenes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocky87 (talk • contribs) i intended to write this comment on the "diwali (the office episode)" page. sorry

IRC cloak request

I am pb30 on freenode and I would like the cloak wikipeida/pb30. Thanks. ---- pb30<c.t> 20:47, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Signature

Please do not transclude pages in your signature. Either substitute the template when saving or place the contents of the template into the "signature" box in your preferences. From the signature policy:

Transclusions of templates and parser functions in signatures (like those which appear as {{User:Name/sig}}, for example) are forbidden, because the developers have determined them to be an unnecessary drain on the servers. Transcluded signatures require extra processing--whenever you change your signature source, all talk pages you have posted on must be re-cached. Signature templates are also vandalism targets, and will be forever, even if the user leaves the project. Simple text signatures, which are stored along with the page content, use no more resources than the comments themselves and avoid these problems.

—METS501 (talk) 04:17, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about not using preview

It's just as I was editing this page I kept getting conflicts by the time I was done, and I was afraid I would lose all my edits (due to an FF crash, which happens to me because of Yahoo! Mail). Is there any way to save your edits temporarily and then post them at once? (There's the FF "Save Text Area" extension, but it's difficult to use and it's also vulnerable to a system crash.) I'll also put in edit summaries as well, but right after the original main post, I was mostly inserting and editing citations. Thanks though - and I hope that all my references on the Colbert page help to stem the vandalism - no one seems to have gotten the joke that he played on them (almost everything was already in Wikipedia). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tkandell (talk • contribs) 04:43, May 26, 2007

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Hi

Hey thanks for the tip - still getting the hang of it :) --Jenkinsp 17:06, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

DANFS / WP:SHIPS

Thanks for cleaning up the DANFS category. It sure made my watch list interesting....

Any chance of going back through the same list and adding {{WikiProject Ships}} to all those talk pages? Or at least the articles that start with "USS" as I see you hit some navy bios too. Articles starting with HMS and SS are likely candidates for the same project banner. If filtering on just USS, you might want to eliminate articles that contain NCC or NX, which would indicate a Star Trek reference. If so, the full string {{WikiProject Ships |class= |importance= |nested= }} would make it easiest for future editors. Perhaps a safer way to add them is to drill down through the ship categories. I think you could start at Category:Ships.

Thanks, --J Clear 00:29, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. Should be interesting to see how many articles fall under WP:SHIPS. I suspect tagging USS and HMS will account for a large percentage. I was looking at Category:Ships, and there's some obvious items not to tag right at the top (e.g. Category:WikiProject Shipwrecks participants), so I hope you don't have too much trouble setting up the filter. If any of the other sub categories seems to have too many false positives, leave a note at WP:SHIPS about which and we'll do it manually. I look forward to my watch list being blitzed again. ;-) --J Clear 16:29, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm not certain how you set up your bot, so this may be hit or miss. I'd start with Category:Ships and drill down it's sub-categories (don't know if that's an automatic option), except the one noted above. I wouldn't be surprised if that expands to a couple thousand articles, the USN and RN have had a lot of ships. I'm assuming the bot is smart enough not to re-add the template if it's already there, or we're in trouble to begin with as 1500 are tagged already and ships fall into multiple categories. Other possible searches were mentioned above. Without knowing much about programming wikibots, I'm not sure I can advise you futher. I'm going to be away for a few days, please use Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships for further questions on what a "Ships" article is. Also I'm not expecting a perfect job (too many exceptions), just trying to get the bulk of the obvious ones tagged. --J Clear 18:11, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Let's move further discussion to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships#Bot to add WikiProject Ships banner, thanks. --J Clear 19:29, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

How's this going? I saw a small flurry in my watch list, then it went quiet. If there's any problem the project can help with, drop us a note at the above link. --J Clear 18:31, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

PbBot

Two of my watch pages have been edited by PbBot human branding and Edmund the Martyr. It seems to me that the notice about the article conatining text from Encyclopedia Britannica should appear at the head of the article not head of the talk page for the article. This may not be the norm (my excuse is I am new here) but surely people may miss the talk page once they have found the information they are after. Thanks Edmund Patrick 10:59, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

PbBOT and 1911

thanks for the prompt reply, my confusion was compounded by the template 1911 and template 1911 talk pages which say Please do not remove the This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) template from the article page. This is what had happened. Still learning thanks for the patience.Edmund Patrick 18:03, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Erik Frasca Page

The page on Erik Frasca should not be deleted because it shows the importance of my life and since their is so much knowledgeable information in it, it can help people understand about me and what I have accomplished as a person and as a man.

as this doesn't make much sense, I went right ahead and deleted it just now. DGG 04:00, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

th edit i made was true— Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.144.101.239 (talk • contribs) 02:13, June 11, 2007 (UTC)

Paul Harris (basketball)

There is a user that keeps vandalizing Paul Harris (basketball). I have reverted it twice (it has been vandalized four times overall) and he keeps coming up with different usernames to edit. He keeps adding the phrase "has a very good friend in harlem new york Daniel Javier a guard at Thurgood Marshall Academy has sing a letter of intent to play at Army next year." Please help. Thanks. Chengwes 23:14, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Although I bet you that this kid is going to sign on using a different IP address or username, and add the same sentence back in. Chengwes 23:21, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank You

		The Original Barnstar
		Thanks for your help! I look forward to working with you in the future. Chengwes 23:05, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFBOT

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MILHIST

Can you tag all of the WPSHIPS articles with "USS" in the title that you are currently tagging with {{WPMILHIST|US-task-force= yes|maritime-task-force=yes}} as well? --Dual Freq 01:27, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Ship Stub Problems

Because ships stubs are pretty mismatched, the PbBot is adding the WikiShip template to some boat pages. Minnesota1 00:20, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, an example of the bot working properly is USS Canopus (AS-9), but it also marks the Farr 40 as a ship, because someone else mis-categorized it. Minnesota1 01:54, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Award

After a hard day working on ships, a tired bot like PBbot needs a refreshing glass of motor oil as a pick-me-up. This is for him/her/it. Enjoy, and thanks for all you do! -- Quadell

delsort.js

delsort.js has been modified so that the main /Compact loader is attached to the "delsort" link that also shows the menu. i.e., to bring it up, hover over 'delsort' (any shortcuts will be displayed) but instead click on 'delsort'.

I tried to address the problem you raised of /Compact not showing columns on Safari; did that work for you? See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting#Compact_delsort_page.

Also, I have added configuration items so that it can be configured to not watch the Afd. See User:Jayvdb/Deletion sorting tool#Configuration for details. John Vandenberg 23:11, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

I've made a change that may help. If not, I will add a menu item for /Compact, like it was previously. Can we continue this discussion on User_talk:Jayvdb/Deletion sorting tool ... John Vandenberg 00:20, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Navsource reorganized

One of WP:SHIPS more frequent external linked site reorganized their directory structure recently. I was wondering if the PbBot could go through the ships articles (at least those beginning with "USS " or "USNS "), and create a list of those with the old URL format. Here and here are two examples of the change. Unfortunately I can't confirm that all of them just need the two digits replicated in another level. However if PbBot could create the list of those articles lacking the new directory level in the URL, we could start to manually research the changes in a coordinated manner.

It seems like since no edits are being made that a fully automatic bot could be used. Does PbBot have any less social friends, or is there a better way than a bot to compile this list? Of course I wouldn't complain at all if PbBot et. al. figured out how to query navsource for the new link and installed it in the articles, but that might be above and beyond the call. --J Clear 02:10, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I've been away for a bit, and will be away at least another week. Could you post the results over on WP:SHIPS? Thanks. --J Clear 11:05, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Percivall Pott

Hi there: Could you please check the spelling of Percivall Pott on your entry. I think it might be Percival. I am not an expert, however, so didn't go in and tinker with it. Your thoughts, attention would be apprciated. Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.36.190.184 (talk • contribs) 17:26, July 27, 2007

Nope, not really.

Thanks for the message, but it wasn't me: Perhaps it's a little fruitless to leave messages for IP addresses? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.29.22.52 (talk) 22:33, August 23, 2007 (UTC)

WP:SHIPS tagging

Would you be available sometime in the next few weeks to do another round of WikiProject tagging for WP:SHIPS, as you did previously in June? We've discovered hundreds of untagged articles that should be easily identifiable (for an idea of scope, the entirety of Category:Destroyers of the United States Navy and its subcategories were untagged - upwards of 500 articles). We are working to clear our unassessed backlog first, and once that's done, I'd like to do another pass of tagging for the project. We have done considerable work on our categorization since June, and I have recently developed criteria for a new ship-related article feed that also might help with a tagging project. Please let me know if you would be available, or if I should look for another bot. Thanks much! Maralia 19:12, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Deletion sorting for Politics and Politicians

I have taken some actions related to the deletion sorting of Politics and Politicians that related directly to an action of yours in June 2007. I've related what I did and why at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Deletion sorting (this diff). Regards --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Redirect of Brian scavo

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Leiki removal

Hi Pb30!

You deleted the page on Leiki. The reason the page was made that two articles on Wikipedia mentioned the company.

Is it possible to find the deleted page source somewhere?

If you think Leiki is not notable enough, I wonder why similar cases such as JumpTap are allowed.

Kind regards,

Petrus Pennanen —Preceding unsigned comment added by Petruspennanen (talk • contribs) 14:18, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

AWB

Oops, I'll try to slow it down a bit. I do have a bot, JJBot, which is currently not active at the moment. By the time I reopen my case for another task and get a reply, I'll probably have finished the task at hand.   jj137 ♠ Talk 02:20, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

The 3rd page archive needs to go in the TALK space, and is mainspaced by error. However, if I"m not mistaken, the 1st and 2nd archives are fine. Correct? SBHarris 04:54, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Have followed all your fixes. Hope that does it, and thanks. SBHarris 05:27, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Please see response on my communication page

An error may have been observed.Electrical Appliances & Supplies Are Your Friends (talk) 19:20, 23 December 2007 (UTC)