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Home Shopping Network Affiliates
Thanks for letting me know about the List of Home Shopping Network affiliates. Matter of fact, It didn't take long to create. All I did was Selected all of the Text Writing in Category:Home Shopping Network affiliates & Copied it and Pasted it into the new area. I hope you know where I'm getting at. And of course, Send me a message when you get this and let me know if there is anything else I need to do. Thanks - Markman1 Call me Mark... 19:12, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
Admin's barnstar.
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| A tear of pride rolls down my cheek when I see the people I nominated for adminship over half a decade ago keeping up the good work. Cheers! bd2412 T 21:28, 8 September 2013 (UTC) |
Has it really been that long? It seems like yesterday.... Thanks! --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:14, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Marc Y Chenevert
Hello I noticed that you had added a category to my article Marc Y. Chenevert. I have been targeted by another editor that first didnt like how the copyright on my photos of the article was verified. I addressed that and they have been corrected and then he added a do not move banner to them for a watermark. Once that was all corrected he has now moved on to my article and has decided that I have some connection with the subject and when I addressed that he then added a number or tags and decided that if there were no discussion on the subject that that he would nominate the article for deletion. I think this would be a terrible loss as the subject person is very notable. Would you mind to join in on this discussion and see what you think about the issues that he LGA has brought up? Thanks so much. Mmb777e (talk) 12:56, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
- The main problem I see with the article is that the only sources cited (except for a newspaper article describing one specific incident in his life) are Chenevert's own autobiography and his other published works. If he is, in fact, a "noted" aviation artist, then presumably someone other than himself has discussed his works in some published source. Adding citations to such sources should resolve most concerns over the issues raised by LGA. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:08, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
Are double redirects still being fixed by bots?
I've noticed that the redirect bots are working a lot more slowly than usual, if they are working at all. This could become extremely problematic in the event of page moves when disambiguation pages are created. --Jax 0677 (talk) 17:24, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
- It seems that Special:DoubleRedirects has not been updated since 10 September, and I don't have any idea why that is the case. However, bot operators can work around this if they know what they're doing. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:09, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
- Reply - Do you know why it has not been updated? --Jax 0677 (talk) 18:25, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
- No, as I said above, I don't have any idea. You might want to ask on WP:VPT. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:16, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
- Reply - Do you know why it has not been updated? --Jax 0677 (talk) 18:25, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Fixing double redirects with section targets
The bot normal does an excellent job (well done) but it's just corrupted a few dozen of my links that I needed to fix by hand. The bot wanted to change a double redirect to a single redirect. I agree with that but it also dropped off the sectional target (ie the bit after #), which I want to keep. Eg, in it changed
#redirect ]to#REDIRECT ]when it would have been much better to change it to#REDIRECT ]
I can fix the redirects this time but is there any chance of updating the bot to keep the sectional tags in the future? Thanks. Stepho talk 23:15, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
- I'll look into it. This is a standard Pywikibot framework script, so I'm not sure how flexible other users would be about changes. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:32, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
- Okay, thanks. It took me an hour to correct the links. Stepho talk 11:57, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
TWODABS report?
Hey bud, I need to get a grasp on just how big the WP:TWODABS issue really is. Can you whip up a report of all disambiguation pages that have only two links on the page? I realize we'll miss a lot of pages with non-matching links in see also sections, so the ideal would be to ignore those, but I'll try to avoid asking the impossible. Cheers! bd2412 T 23:51, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
- OK, it may take a few days for me to get to it. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:33, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
- No problem - this will be a slow matter to deal with all around. By the way, as long as I'm asking you to do this, could you also report the number of incoming links to each TWODABS page? Ignore this part if it complicates things too much. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:52, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
- You may not believe this, but User:RussBot/Two-link disambiguation pages/001 is the beginning of a list of over 43,000 pages. That is, out of 235,400 total disambiguation pages, almost 20% contain only two (or fewer) links. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:52, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
- Nope, I believe it. Thanks for the report! bd2412 T 16:35, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
- FYI, I re-ran the report. The pages with * after them only link to one article. If there are disambig pages with zero links to articles, I probably haven't caught them; that will require some changes to the database query. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 23:35, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
Renaming articles and redirects LOSE anchors
I'm glad this BOT can update double-redirect on renamed articles, but I WISH it would append the anchors (section headers) also. Currently it is removing the anchors which is A LOT of work to fix! Tom Ruen (talk) 18:34, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
- p.s. It seems to be correctly adding anchors now. Tom Ruen (talk) 05:30, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: Category:1203 in Europe
Hello R'n'B. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Category:1203 in Europe, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Category is not empty. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz /Stalk 02:05, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
Overlinking
Hi, than�ks for your work on WP. I noticed that you relinked "English". Perhaps you might consider avoiding the linking of that and other common-term items, per the guidelines, unless there's a particular reason for linking. Thanks. Tony (talk) 09:47, 8 October 2013 (UTC)