User talk:LeadSongDog/Archives/2012/June

WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request
Hi! What exactly are you looking for? Please specify and reply to my talk page. I'll be glad to help you. Thank you, -- Doc Taxon (talk) 17:15, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. Okay, I already ordered this issue. Possibly I can copy it this week. -- Doc Taxon (talk) 17:47, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi! I already sent the wanted article to user:Apokryltaros (Mr. Fink). Should you need some stuff more, let me know by wikimail. Thanx, -- Doc Taxon (talk) 16:00, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Good on 'ya! Thank you.LeadSongDog come howl!  16:14, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Tilde
You forgot 5 tildes, which generates 18:57, 26 May 2012 (UTC) William M. Connolley (talk) 18:57, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, there's alway

This could be a new wikigame!
 * six (unsigned local time): ... 16:24, 1 June 2012 (UTC)~ or
 * seven (unsigned UTC datetime): 16:24, 1 June 2012 (UTC) or
 * eight (signed UTC datetime): 16:24, 1 June 2012 (UTC)LeadSongDog come howl!  or
 * nine (signed local time and day with repeated local time and day): 16:24, 1 June 2012 (UTC)LeadSongDog come howl!  16:24, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
-Scottywong | yak _ 23:28, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:08, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Verifiability RfC - final call for alterations
Hello again LeadSongDog. This is to let you know that I have made a final call for alterations to the verifiability RfC draft. Unless there is a very good reason for it not to, the RfC will be going live around 10.00 am (UTC) on Thursday June 28. Even if you would not like to see any further changes to the RfC draft, it would be a great help if you could check over the draft page and make sure everything is working properly. Thanks for your continued patience with this. — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 14:17, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Hanta
Can you explain this? Were you just testing to see if it would re-add the information on all of the language Wikipedias? I find it relatively disruptive. Ryan Vesey Review me!  14:45, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

mg:Hanta is not Hantavirus
Why did you add an interwiki link from a Malagasy musical group mg:Hanta to a deadly virus Hantavirus? Please don't add interlanguage links without attempting to verify that the articles are actually about the same thing. You might also notice that this particular interwiki link has been added and deleted many, many times. --Amble (talk) 14:48, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, I realized that he added en:Hanta to the page; however, en:Hanta isn't an appropriate interwiki link either. It is not the same article.  In any case, one of the other wikis might have en:Hanta mixed in there, which messed it up. Ryan Vesey  Review me!  14:50, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, you're right. And I guess the various bots translated that to Hantavirus to add the reciprocal links?  --Amble (talk) 15:27, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I restored Hanta to the dab page that it should have been all along, and I interlanguage linked mg:Hanta to that dab page. What about that is disruptive? It was intended to solve the problem of bots linking from mg:Hanta to Hantavirus, which is clearly incorrect.LeadSongDog come howl!  16:01, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that, it wasn't immediately evident what you had done because a bot had replaced all of the links anyways. Ryan Vesey Review me!  16:04, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Is it not the case that adding an interwiki link from mg:Hanta to the disambig page Hanta is what caused the bots to start re-adding the incorrect interwiki links from Hantavirus to mg:Hanta? If not, what did cause them to do that?  Also, adding the Malagasy musical group to the disambiguation page at Hanta in this way doesn't line up with WP:Disambiguation.  It also states that a specific article on one Wikipedia should not have this type of interlanguage link to a disambiguation page on another Wikipedia (Disambiguation).  --Amble (talk) 16:14, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm trying to determine what caused it, but both user:Ptbotgourou and user:RedBot inserted the erroneous links. Perhaps the absence of a correct mg:Hantavirus article? In any case, it's probably worth adding wp:bot exclusion to mg:Hanta. Meanwhile, please don't panic. Agreed the dab page isn't the right longterm fix, it's just a workaround to avoid a BLP problem of calling the musician a virus. LeadSongDog come howl!  16:23, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Who is panicking? I just disagree that this is the right fix at all, short-term or otherwise.  And it seems to have set off the bot-readdition of the incorrect wikilink.  --Amble (talk) 16:48, 28 June 2012 (UTC)


 * RedBot had done it because it started its pass before I managed to remove all the links from all the articles. So it saw it on the one article I hadn't got to yet and then added the reciprocal link. PTbotgourou I am not sure on, probably because it had already cached pages prior to them being removed and it still thought that hanta was a redirect. -DJSasso (talk) 18:49, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Let's keep the discussion in one place, Bot owners' noticeboard serves.LeadSongDog come howl!  18:57, 28 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I mean to say that the bots are a part of the problem, and we shouldn't have to put editors or disambig pages through any special contortions to get the bots to behave. It sounds like you agree with this.  Thanks for commenting on the bot owners' noticeboard; I appreciate having another point of view there.  --Amble (talk) 19:50, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Authority control integration
Thanks very much for your comments on the authority control proposal on the Village Pump. We've refined it and worked out some more details after the discussion, and there is now a community Request for Comment to approve it being implemented. Any comments gratefully received! Andrew Gray (talk) 10:04, 29 June 2012 (UTC)