User talk:Alanbly/Archives/2008/February

Re: Wave field synthesis
Hi,

This is where I've contacted one of the contributors, since he didn't seem to be too familiar with Wikipedia and I couldn't figure out who he was from a cursory glance. Please assume good faith. WP:AGF --Kjoonlee 23:38, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

LOHS Assessment.
Thank'ee much for assessing Lake Orion High School for me. Could you point out the areas in question so I can fix them?  Two One Six Five Five  τʃ 16:25, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

User:BoxCrawler
The bot isn't malfunctioning it just doesn't account for random extra spaces, All such errors will be fixed next run. Thanks for letting me know! Adam McCormick (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 23:08, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * In the mean time it is very likely causing people extra work, it is a problem. It should have been tested against these sort of spaces. Snowman (talk) 23:12, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Snowman, The bot has been run over ten times and you're the first one to ever complain. It's already been stopped. There's blame to go around here but that's not the point. It's a minor problem and I am working to fix the issue and build-in a fix right now. Adam McCormick (talk) 23:41, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The bot was clearly causing problems, and I reported it (call that complaining if you want to). No one seemed to notice the message I left on the bot talk page. I do not know why others have not reported problems, but I guess that is probably due to expediency. I guess that you can fix and test it, but I am glad that it has been stopped until it is fit for purpose. Snowman (talk) 00:08, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I have linked this discussion from the incidents page. Snowman (talk) 00:23, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It just would have been nice to know that you reported it, or where you reported it. BoxCrawler runs for several days at a time and i can't be watching it every second. I'm sorry if the changes you noticed offended you, but of over 1100 edits today the two pages you list are the only disputed changes. Adam McCormick (talk) 00:54, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Its functioning was reported to Administrators' noticeboard on 11 February 2008, and the discussion is now archived at Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive367. Snowman (talk) 11:09, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Does a bot really need to make a bunch of edits just removing blank lines on talk pages? Gimmetrow 07:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Your bot isn't causing any harm that I can see, but it's making unnecessary changes and increasing the workload for those of us who monitor articles for vandalism, bad edits, etc. For examples, see Talk:Magnet school, Talk:Bard High School Early College, Talk:Stuyvesant High School, Talk:Brooklyn Technical High School, and Talk:Bronx High School of Science. In fact, of the 7 hits on my watchlist today, Talk:Preuss School had any effect, and that was just to bypass a redirect. RossPatterson (talk) 00:14, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

User:BoxCrawler - Blocked
Hi,

Please see Bot_owners%27_noticeboard

It shouldnt be making edits that insignificant

—  Reedy  Boy  18:01, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for telling me, and I'll be happy to help correct the issue. Adam McCormick (talk) 01:05, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Added wp:schools boxes and ratings
Hi. I discovered this tag a couple of days ago and have been sweeping through pasting them into school articles (mostly highschool) articles I find that don't have them.

I'm a fan of "production line" editing, so in general I've been sticking a generic template in every page that claims the article is a Stub and has no other fields filled in. Clearly Stub is incorrect in some cases, though not nearly as many as it should be.

I'm not bothered much by this erroneous categorization at the moment, especially since many existing boxes are mis-tagged. I plan on taking a pass at some point to go through most all of the boxes and attempt to give them a more proper rating. Hopefully by the time I get around to that I'll find some semi-automated way to track the boxes and related articles down! Loren.wilton (talk) 05:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Should I avoid even the Stub rating and leave it blank completely? Making a choice of Stub or Start seems pretty straight-forward, yet I see this missing on dozens of articles. I'm more than happy with leaving any higher rating to someone else. Loren.wilton (talk) 05:44, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the extra work of chasing through 300 stub entries and fixing the ones to Start correctly. I've added a few more entries as I find them, but I'm now using a completely blank template. Loren.wilton (talk) 20:14, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

What kind of pages to tag with WPSchools?
 * Just school pages?
 * Pages with lists of schools?
 * Pages about school districts?
 * Pages with lists of school districts?

Thanks! Loren.wilton (talk) 06:21, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Mansfield Middle School
I think that being one of the Top 50 Middle Schools in the USA is notable. Shapiros10 (talk) 00:59, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Replied on user's talk page Adam McCormick (talk) 01:13, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Unblocked
I've unblocked your bot since you say the issues have been addressed. No one brought anything up at BAG, and in fact you've basically been ignored, so I'm assuming everything is a-okay. :) -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 05:47, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

BTW, Python on Mac OSX? I couldn't get that to work. I ended up writing a whole new set of code to function through API. Was it difficult to do? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 05:47, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks - I think I'll stick with my PHP bot :) -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 02:28, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Bot Edits
Hi, Not as bad this time - - Its added the needs-infobox parameter to yes, but its strangely onto one line

- Just putting it onto a single line is a bit insignificant

Cheers

—  Reedy  Boy  21:46, 24 February 2008 (UTC)