User talk:Maelgwn/Archive3

Gibbs
The Silent Partner links to Self-locking device, so why not the Gibbs, which generically also features there? Martinevans123 (talk) 02:06, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Does this look better? Maybe it belongs better in the section on belay devices? I think it belongs more in the article on belaying than in the one on ascenders.-- maelgwn - talk 06:52, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes. I think that looks better. Less is more in this case. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:50, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Cornwall stubs
Thanks for the good work with the bot! DuncanHill (talk) 12:29, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah I haven't done the job properly, hopefully I will figure it out in the next few days or someone else will come along and finish it. Anyway its a start. -- maelgwn - talk 12:33, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Well it's very much appreciated and very helpful. DuncanHill (talk) 12:36, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Deo Volente
Thanks. JGBÜ. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 16:43, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Huh wah? What did i do? -- maelgwn - talk 23:06, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Contemporary music group
Hi, would you kindly tell me why you're wasting so much bandwidth removing all the Contemporary music templates from articles they are quite appropriate to (without any explanation as to why you're doing this in your edit summaries)? Thanks and best regards, Badagnani (talk) 07:43, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I've blocked this bot until you can explain why it's removing templates from hundreds of articles. east. 718 at 08:04, December 26, 2007
 * It was requested at WP:BOTREQ please bring it up there. I've stopped the bot, if you could please unblock it also. -- maelgwn - talk 09:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll unblock. Secretlondon (talk) 09:05, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that, the bot showed up at WP:AIV (and reports on BOTREQ were conflicting). Me and a couple other admins rolled back the bot's edits, do you need them mass-reverted? east. 718 at 09:27, December 26, 2007
 * LOL vandalism!!Leave it as it is, if the guys at the wikiproject make up there mind I can change it again. And thankyou for the unblock, where ever you may have come from!-- maelgwn - talk 09:55, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Question about your entry on the Internet Infidels page
Hi Maelgwn. I notice you made an entry in 2004 on the Internet Infidels Wiki page, the second entry ever made to the site. Could you please review (or join in the) Internet Infidels discussion page. Note the section on the discussion page, "Source of the current claim that Secular Web is one of main web sites for skeptics on the internet." I would welcome your input on this. Thanks, Patrick Harrigan (talk) 07:51, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Image forcing
Hi - just a note re some of your edits in the past weeks - while I personally do often unforce images as well, as per WP:MOS, there are instances when I feel forcing images is acceptable for style reasons alone - this is mainly the case when an image is directly under an infobox, where the whole article looks much cleaner if the image is then forced to that width. A bit of an in-between-will-never-get-full-consensus-because-its-a-matter-of-taste kind of thing, but just wanted to let you know about that viewpoint. Cheers Ingolfson (talk) 19:30, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

AWNB updater
fix the apostrophe problem (on the deletion sorting page) for ye olde bot. 207.6.245.26 (talk) 04:41, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅-- maelgwn - talk 05:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Adelaide Wikimeetup 3
Hi Maelgwn - we're planning a third meetup in Adelaide sometime in the coming weeks, and would love to have you there. If you can, please help decide a location, a date and a time here. Thanks!

AWNB deletion debates page
Hi, your bot happens to transclude Australia-related MfDs as opposed to providing a link to them on Australian Wikipedians' notice board/AfD. Is this accidental, or is it meant to happen? ;) I think it is better if just a link is provided, as transcluding the whole MfD is probably not a good idea due to the size of the page it exists on. Cheers, Spebi 07:37, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * That was because it is not normally transcluded on the deletion sorting page. I can fix this when I get home tho. 64.251.68.98 (talk) 01:29, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

-- maelgwn - talk 05:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

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Hello, I noticed that Maelgwnbot subst: ed an tag. Are you sure this tag is supposed to be substituted? It is not in Category:User warning templates which would be a criteria for substitution. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 12:11, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * -- maelgwn - talk 05:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

BAG Changes
Hello. You may remember, some time ago, joining the BAG under the trial "open membership" system. Based on a lack of opposition to a reversion of this trial, I have now decided to be bold and perform it. The BAG has returned to a system under which users must go through a short period of discussion (like RfA, but less formal) before being added to the group by either a 'crat or an existing member. At the moment, I have said that discussions should last for 10 days and that community noticeboards should be spammed to encourage participation in each request - evidently this is to avoid the "cabal" impression.

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Adelaide Wikimeetup 3
Hi Maelgwn - after some planning we've decided to hold the third Adelaide Wikimeetup on Sunday, 17th February, 2008. The meeting will be held at Billy Baxter's in Rundle Mall at 11:30AM. Further details and directions are available on the meetup page. Please RSVP here by 20:00UTC on 15th February 2008 (that's 6AM Saturday for our time zone) so that we can inform the restaurant about numbers. Hope to see you there!

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On behalf of Riana ⁂, 11:27, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Page Move
G'day, just to let you know that I moved Charlie Perry → Charlie Perry (Australian rules footballer) for disambiguation purposes (I recently created Charlie Perry (English footballer)). Thought I'd let you know, in case you wanted to update your subpage article list. Cheers. --Jameboy (talk) 22:35, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Bot to rate WikiProject quality assessment
If your bot could do this I would really appreciate it - it would really help me with future work at Portal:Theatre. Cirt (talk) 10:47, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Archives and usertalk
Please exclude the Talk and User talk namespaces when doing disambig work,. -- Ned Scott 09:02, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

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Maelgwnbot and nested templates
Hello. A non-urgent minor flaw in Maelgwnbot's logic has become apparent. It's not vitally important, nor urgent, but perhaps the bot could check for matching 🇦🇩 pairs inside templates? Speaking as a former bot-owner, keep up the good work! Best wishes, RobertG &#9836; talk 15:32, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm interesting, thanks - have to look at my regex's (again :- -- maelgwn - talk 04:38, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

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semi-protect
This bot is removing semi-protect templates. I suggest it should be replacing these with updated equivalents for obvious reasons. Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon (talk) 02:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Um Im not sure what you mean, can you please provide an example? -- maelgwn - talk 15:06, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Popcorn, Outsourcing, Economy of the United States, VeggieTales...a few others that I attempted to semi-protect yesterday. Maybe I'm understanding the situation wrong.  Is there an updated template I should be using to semi-protect pages? Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon (talk) 15:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * To protect a page you need to be an administrator and the protection will show up in the Protection log. The template is just an indication of the protection to the user. -- maelgwn - talk 23:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Ah, thanks. That explains it.  So apparently "outdated" does not mean the template is an obsolete version, but that the request for the protection itself is expired.  Thanks. Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon (talk) 14:29, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

thank you for flag removal
Thanks mate for the bot assist--mrg3105 (comms) ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 08:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Template substitution
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Bot error
This edit by the bot was erroneous. There was a message on the page talking about a past proposed deletion, but the bot converted the references to prod to make it look like the user talk page itself was up for proposed deletion. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:20, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Um, the prod template was used incorrectly, there is not a lot I can do about that. -- maelgwn - talk 09:02, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for fulfilling a bot request working on cleaning up the publicity images with rationales. It made my job a little easier as it correctly categorized 1/4th of the images I will be going through manually. :-) Cheers, -- Guroadrunner (talk) 08:25, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Why the redirect changes?
I noticed amongst the various articles on my watchlist that you have tagged for WP:SHIPS (thanks!), that there were a few previously tagged articles where you changed the project banner template call from WPSHIPS to WikiProject Ships, but made no other changes. Unless the redirect at Template:WPSHIPS going away (I hope note), please avoid making unnecessary changes like this in the future. — Bellhalla (talk) 10:59, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Your monobook needs to be updated to avoid an error
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Assessing WP:SHIP articles
You've laid down hundreds of auto assessed tags on ship article talk pages which are actually redirect pages. Please cease assessing ship articles, we have a huge mess to clean up now. --Brad (talk) 14:31, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Gah, um ive requested CSD for some of them but a lot you have changed to class=NA... normally redirects aren't tagged? Either I will do nothing, or you can ask me to revert as much as i can. -- maelgwn - talk 00:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, I helped you a bit. I deleted all of the tags you added to USS LST-* redirects.  I didn't go any further than that because I was getting a little buggy-eyed and my fingers and mouse button was getting worn out. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 01:38, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * There is still a whole bunch there, that I will tag for deletion if that is wat Brad wants done? -- maelgwn - talk 02:23, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, please have them deleted. The ones I changed to |class=NA were also mistakes as we're having some confusion over at wp:ships on how to handle redirect pages. Thanks. --Brad (talk) 13:22, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I went through all of your sock's contributions and I think I deleted them all (I had missed a few the last time). If you could go over your sock's contributions again to make sure that I got them all, that would be great. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 17:03, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * All fixed (finally) - thanks Gogo ... -- maelgwn - talk 23:47, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:I need a parameter added to WPFood
Please see my comment on BOT requests page --  TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) - 09:07, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I saw your edits for WP:FOOD adding parameters, I have a suggestion, why dont you add them ("|parameter=yes") after "|class=|importance=" (if available) ... I guess that is the standard.... --  TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) - 11:32, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah good thought, will do. -- maelgwn - talk 11:36, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

I am done.. Tagged with WikiProject Food and drink to new 1951 articles of 2529 articles that were checked...You can take over now --  TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) - 11:50, 2 July 2008 (UTC)


 * When you have finished, could you please report the stats on the WP:F&D talk page?


 * thank you for your help, --Jeremy ( Blah blah... ) 16:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Joe's Diner
Are you intending to include fictional restaurants in your project? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 18:36, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Austen Lennon
If you are going to accuse me of proifteering at Wiki's expensive you need to have proof. I have placed a formal complaint against you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Austenlennon (talk • contribs) 18:34, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Mafeking Rover Park
What do you think about the recreation of this article? There is a lot of material, but no independent sources. Some sentences are direct copies of the web site for the park, but an attempt has been made to avoid that. It has no real incoming links. I welcome your views, but I guess you are still up in the snow. --Bduke (talk) 23:36, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * As you said there is no independent sources and a lot of the information there is not really necessary in an encyclopedic article. Convention says wikipedia doesn't have articles for campsites, so I think the redirect can be restored. -- maelgwn - talk 06:50, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Good move. I messed your reply above. Me adding the cat must have reminded you about it. I had forgotten. --Bduke (talk) 00:20, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Occasional template replacement
Bots/Status lists Maelgwnbot as doing "occasional template replacement". Does include deprecated infobox replacement? --Geniac (talk) 17:47, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Um most likely, what do you want done? -- maelgwn - talk 04:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * For each article that uses Template:Cheese, the infobox needs changed to Template:Infobox Cheese. The nine parameters in Template:Cheese correspond to nine of the sixteen fields in Template:Infobox Cheese; name, image, country, regiontown, source, pasteurised, texture, aging and certification. Regiontown is intentionally immediately deprecated. The other seven fields need added to each infobox in each article during conversion in the correct order, as seen at Template:Infobox Cheese/doc. --Geniac (talk) 19:38, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Forwarded to WP:BOTREQ for the moment, may be able to do it next week. -- maelgwn - talk 23:41, 31 July 2008 (UTC)