User talk:Alanbly/Archives/2007/October

Help need from Boxcrawler
I wonder if you could get your wonderful bot to do another run through the school articles. I've come across quite a few which unnecessarily have the infobox needed parameter. I suspect there's been a lot of work on infoboxes recently and people haven't known how to update the template. Many thanks. Dahliarose 23:32, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem, running soon Adam McCormick 03:12, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks Adam. I can see from my watch page that it's already working hard in the background. Dahliarose 19:47, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * One quick question for you. Is there a special code that can be inserted on a school page or talk page to stop the BoxCrawler from going over that page again? There are a few generic pages (eg, primary school, secondary school, etc) which don't need infoboxes but are part of the school's project. Can they be coded so that the bot doesn't request an infobox? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dahliarose (talk • contribs) 11:29, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, and it's listed at User:BoxCrawler. Please note that it should only be used for pages which do not need an infobox, or use a non-standard infobox, not those that have subst'd their infoboxes. Adam McCormick 19:34, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks Adam. I should have looked on the bot page first. I've now updated all the articles I know about. I presume I'm correct in thinking that the code goes on the main article page (which is where an infobox would be) rather than on the talk page. See High school as an example. Dahliarose 19:53, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Golden Ratio
Sorry for the satire. The people who watch that page have been having their own little "greek fest" and have consistently removed any input that gave credit to other cultures who might have used the ratio in architecture before the Greeks. I thought some harmless nose tweaking was in order. I wrote it so that no poor highschool kid could be confused and put it in his homework.

I find that being a contributor to Wikipedia can be quite frustrating. You can do good research, and help bring an article in balance, only to have someone with an agenda (on either side of a topic) either remove your work, or insert adverbs, negation, or other modifiers.

Seems like that the zealots care more about being here than the thoughtful in some cases.

I've done edits in business, technology, mathematics, defense, and history. Pretty much the same - only the zealots cause varies.

Anyway, sorry for the satire - after a large number of these things, I needed to blow of some steam.


 * Commented on user's talk page. Adam McCormick 19:40, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

BoxCrawler - Scope
What I had in mind is for your bot to crawl through the various schools cats, checking the talk pages for the presence of the WPSchools template and, where it is missing, adding it to the top of the page. Can this be done, please? TerriersFan 20:37, 3 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Easily, the only debate right now is what this would do to Category:Schools. I'm happy to do it but I've asked for a little guidance on how to procede from the schools WikiProject. I'm worried that just setting BoxCrawler loose may be inelegant. Adam McCormick 20:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Comment
You may wish to look at my comment on the schools assessment page. What i will be doing is posting my assessments to my sandbox and at the end of the session i will post them to the assessments page. Purely to save time. This will create a delay of about 2 hours between assessing and posting, which i dont think will effect anything major. A RfC is quite our of line IMO. Twenty Years 08:30, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Your comment specifically says that you were only going to post assessments above Start or mid, the process specifically says that you should post all assessments. It's as simple as that. Adam McCormick 19:20, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Comments Please
Could you please have look at this when you get a chance. Cheers. Twenty Years 08:59, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your assessment of Aquinas College, Perth. Much appreciated, cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Twenty Years (talk • contribs) 01:41, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Schools/Assessment
Hey. I'm sorry. I didn't know there was a protocol. I am the assessment team for WP:PW (WikiProject Professional wrestling/Assessment), so I guess I'm use to just doing it all by myself. Anyway, I don't have a problem listing summaries for articles that I rate above a start, because I rarely do that unless an article is sited thoroughly and completely. I have to ask though...is it really necessary to write a summary for an article that is only a couple of sentences and clearly a stub? That would really slow me down, and it doesn't seem all that efficient. Nikki311 16:39, 26 September 2007 (UTC)