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Thanks
Thanks for that! Yet more evidence I need to work more in the file namespace ;) Pol430 talk to me 20:19, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey, no prob, Bob!  Rcsprinter  (state)  20:20, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Correcting category keys
Thanks for doing this. I use AWB myself but I couldn't devise any automated way to add the DEFAULTSORT and change the category keys to match the year of each article. How did you manage to set this up within AWB? Colonies Chris (talk) 10:10, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * A find & replace to add the sort key, the it uses the title of the page to add the year in. A bit of custom coding.  Rcsprinter  (speak)  15:25, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

WTF?
What is this? I'm sure you read the FAQ before making such changes? Or even better, I'm sure you asked me before doing so? ( talk→  BWilkins   ←track ) 20:02, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh right. My tool just does it off recent edits, apologies.  Rcsprinter  (talk)  20:04, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

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Mind Checking Out One of My AFCs Again?
Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/John_J._Maalouf Ehaddad1 (talk) 05:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Well done, you definitely have the knack for writing articles! I gave it a quick copyedit then approved it.  Rcsprinter  (state)  11:36, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

You've got mail!
Hope you are enjoying vacation :)  Sarah (talk) 00:52, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Ha! It rained so much I just came home early. Typical.  Rcsprinter  (talkin' to me?)  19:07, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!

 * Thanks Sarah! All I need now is a Teahouse T-shirt! The Teahouse is the best thing that's happened around here in a while and I am proud to be part of it, and so should you! Plus, re the Signpost, I saw you made a request on WT:POST about the pilot phase being over, I added it to the wikiproject desk requests section. Hopefully  it will be featured today.  Rcsprinter   (gas)  15:25, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

SP
Sorry, I didn't know about the name issue. We don't like to put our planned specials on-wiki/public, similar to a regular news organization, but I'd be happy to email you our schedule for the next couple weeks. It happens that the RfA special was actually going to be this coming week (which I had forgotten! :/), so if you'd be interested in collaborating on the report, I'm game. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 01:00, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure, I think you already have my email address from a previous conversation. As a Signpost semi-regular, can you tell me any time something special is coming up? Thanks,  Rcsprinter  (gas)  15:25, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

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Tech report / BRfA coverage
Hey Rc. Thanks for writing up BRfA coverage these last few weeks; I used to do it regularly so I know there's effort required. Just to copy you a message Graham87 left on my talk page: Hi Jarry, just for future reference, per my recent edit to your latest Signpost tech report ... when you're nesting a bulleted list (like you did in the list of BRFA's), astericks should be used rather than colons for screen readers. Graham 87 06:17, 13 June 2012 (UTC) I guess you're the intended recipient of that last bit. Regards, - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 09:46, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure, I must have got mixed up somewhere and started putting colons in.  Rcsprinter  (warn)  16:26, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Your handy help :)
Hi Rcsprinter! It's that time of the month again - the new Tea Leaf is ready to go out to the masses. I'd love your help as always doing so. Please double check that I closed the small font? I always think I do and then I fail ;) You can find the new issue here. Thank you good sir :) Sarah (talk) 16:08, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅. I got the impression the Teahouse is being handed over to the community to run now, and that there were administration tasks being transferred to volunteers. I'd like to volunteer to do any; if you can point me in the right direction I'd be thankful.  Rcsprinter  (talk)  15:18, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi! Thanks so much, as always. While the pilot period has wrapped up, the Teahouse will soon enter phase two, which will require a healthy amount of collaboration between the Teahouse WMF folks and the community. I think you'll find a lot of cool things to get involved in once we start sending out the details based on feedback from the report. On that note, the things we still need major help with is inviting newbies to visit the space and being friendly (say "hi" etc!) and awesome (as you always are) at the Q&A forum. We surely can use more newbies coming by, so any new ways to engage that would be great, too. We will surely let you know as the next phase begins what we need! Sarah (talk) 22:05, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Your Opinion on a Couple of Articles
Hey there Rcsprinter. Thanks again for your help with my AFC. It was recently flagged as an advert. It doesn't seem like the user took much time in reading it over before tagging it, nonetheless, I would appreciate any changes you could make to the articles or advice you might have in bringing the articles up to speed, if that is indeed what they need. Once again, many thanks for your help! Article 1: John J. Maalouf Article 2: Maalouf Ashford & Talbot Ehaddad1 (talk) 18:12, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry but I'm not very good at changing articles so that they look less like something (e.g. an advert). I'd ask a specialist or maybe just try and tone it down yourself.  Rcsprinter  (state the obvious (or not))  15:32, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Understandable, where might I find a specialist?Ehaddad1 (talk) 16:02, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks, tweissberg! It was nothing. A word of advice: link to your userpage or talkpage in your signature please, you can change it at Special:Preferences. This way, people can just click on your name instead of having to type it into the search bar. Thanks again!  Rcsprinter  (constabulary)  20:45, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

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You have been trouted for: no reason at all...i just couldn't resist pushing the trout button =P Have a nice day!  J e n o  v a  20 19:29, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Baseball Watcher
I already nominated BW, if s/he's not ready we can withdraw it. –BuickCenturyDriver 01:21, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * You're supposed to wait for their consent, really. Why haven't you transcluded it to WP:RFA?  Rcsprinter  (talk)  14:57, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * It shouldn't be transcluded by the nominator, it should be transcluded by the nominee once they have consented and are ready. Ryan Vesey Review me!  15:02, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Ricky Salmon


A tag has been placed on Ricky Salmon, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate,. Under the specified criteria, where an article has substantially identical content to that of an article deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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 * I'm the one who put a CSD tag. For the record, I did notice the lack of reliable sources in the current article and the article deleted last time for lack of sources.  Just before I pressed 'save page' after deleting most of the references, I took a look at the talk page and noticed it had been deleted before.  Please don't assume one doesn't look at the article and past AfD.  I'm not an admin, so I do ask other admins to take a look at the old, deleted article if I'm unsure.  I've also had a couple of CSD denied due to the denying admin looking at the deleted article.  FYI... I look at all new articles that have been tagged by a bot as a BLP, so I'm not looking at any particular editor's articles. Bgwhite (talk) 17:34, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Page userfied to User:Rcsprinter123/Ricky Salmon. JohnCD (talk) 19:03, 25 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Hey Rcsprinter. I was looking over this and I decided to drop a few thoughts your way. I know it can be difficult when an article you spent that much time and effort over is so quickly deleted, but I am slightly concerned about how you handled it. Just thought I'd give you some tips for the future. Firstly, as with everything on Wikipedia, your first port of call should be the direct person to person approach. Discuss the matter with the admin who deleted the article - admins should always be willing to discuss their actions. Mistakes are made (not that I'm saying this deletion was a mistake) give people a chance to see it as a mistake and fix things themselves. Next, there's deletion review, where you can get more eyes on a deletion, to review the decision. I generally see WP:REFUND as a venue to request userfication or undeletion of PRODs. Also, I thought you might want to think a bit about how you phrased this note. There were accusations of bad faith in there and a number of statements with little or nothing to back them up. I would have probably mentioned the fact that only 3 people commented on the original AfD and so on. Perhaps if you'd phrased it in a way that wasn't quite so "on the offense", and spoken to the deleting admin first... you'd have had a different outcome... Worm TT(talk ) 08:59, 26 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Different BBC presenter (not radio) achieves notability today, perhaps for the wrong reasons... Dan Penteado --Demiurge1000 (talk) 11:06, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

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A bug in a tool somewhere?
Hi! I've just stumbled on this edit you made in April. Were you using a script or tool of some sort? If so, it might be worth raising it as a bug. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:06, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
 * It looks like it was with Dab solver. Sometimes these things just bork, I don't think it's worth reporting a bug.  Rcsprinter  (deliver)  15:09, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Level one user warnings
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A barnstar for you!

 * That's nice, I didn't expect this. Have a nice day yourself.  Rcsprinter  (articulate)  18:20, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for approval/Legobot 12
Thanks! Multitasking at Wikimania is hard. &mdash; madman 17:40, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Signpost DYK
What happened to this article? I never saw it in signpost. Pumpkin Sky  talk  13:18, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * It's the second in my series, the first of which comes out on the last week of July and this one the first week of August. I would have done it sooner but the Signpost want to concentrate on WikiMania this month.  Rcsprinter  (warn)  @ 17:25, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Pls let me know when it's about to actually happen. Laura and Crisco would probably like to know too. Pumpkin Sky  talk  17:32, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, I removed it from the Newsroom because you never replied to the feedback given by Jan, which agree with and somewhat covered in my earlier emails to you. Please review his thought here and let me know what you are planning. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:01, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Bots/Requests for approval/Svenbot 4
Please try to avoid making comments such as this in BRFA discussions that may confuse bot operators' impressions of who may approve their task or dictate their trial parameters. Thanks, &mdash; madman 19:21, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Right.  Rcsprinter  (constabulary)  @ 19:38, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

user page
Hey there. Could we work on my user page anytime soon?"Selene Scott (talk) 02:17, 19 July 2012 (UTC)"
 * Of course, let's start right away. What sort of general design would you like?  Rcsprinter  (rap)  @ 15:16, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Signpost redesign applied to the Main Page
Your new design for the Signpost is excellent. I've shamelessly ripped it off to create a very quick rough of what the Main Page might look like with a similar style: see User:The Anome/Main Page experiment. (Unfortunately, I've messed up the HTML sufficiently to break the alignment between columns, so you'll have to vary the width of the page until "Today's featured article" and "In the news" line up properly.)

Would you be interested in collaborating to make a proper redesign for the Main Page, based on your design for the Signpost? -- The Anome (talk) 14:04, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * My goodness that experiment is an improvement in my book! <span style='text-shadow:0 -1px #DDD,1px 0 #DDD,0 1px #DDD,-1px 0 #DDD;'><font color='#000'>Worm TT(<font color='#060'>talk ) 14:05, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Speaking as a random passerby...
 * I think that looks quite good. Is it possible to use a more sober font in the "Welcome to Wikipedia" heading, perhaps with slightly more seriffiness? Also, the existing font seems to render a bit oddly for me in Chrome (but it's OK in IE8), leaving little fragments above some wikilinked letters which look almost like diacritics.
 * Without the colours of the existing mainpage, it looks a little... oldfashioned.
 * However, people tend to get quite attached to their UI, so be prepared for negative reactions...!
 * Have fun; bobrayner (talk) 14:36, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, yes! I never expected anything like this. Is this an official project? <font color="#151B8D"> Rcsprinter  (state the obvious (or not))  @ 15:00, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * So, there's been some discussion on the main page about including a link to our good articles in some way. See Talk:Main Page.  Could you consider including that in your redesign? Ryan Vesey  Review me!  18:16, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

I think that the "experiment" version looks good. (a sort of "wikipedia unplugged" or at least a newsprint looking version). but I also like the current version with the coloured backgrounds. It's a shame that there isn't a better way for people to select their preference for main page version they prefer (giving the best of all worlds). I seem to recall some discussion on this in the past, so I wouldn't be surprised if there is now.

Besides that, if this turns into a full blown "redesign the main page", I've long felt that the main page should not include our so called "featured content". It gives the false impression that Wikipedia is "done" (a mostly completed project). I think the main page should have some random page, with a note that Wikipedia is a work in progress, and please join in and help. - jc37 18:32, 24 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I think the idea is to just perform a relatively superficial design refresh at this point. I believe that attempting to changing the (semantic) content of the main page itself is too great a battle to fight at the moment: any attempt to roll this into a graphic redesign will kill both ideas stone dead. I believe small incremental changes are the only way forward at the moment. However, if you want to propose a truly radical alternative, I suggest you make a mock-up and propose that to the community: there's nothing to stop you doing it, and you might as well be WP:BOLD. -- The Anome (talk) 00:02, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't greatly disagree.
 * And earlier today, I did start this thread.
 * As for starting another community-wide discussion, I've got several "in the fire" atm. See [] for one situation. WT:RfA and elsewhere for another. (My contributions history is fairly straight-forward atm.)
 * These things are wearying. And though I don't mind being the single voice (at least at first), I sometimes wonder if maybe the fact that I don't participate in off-wiki coordination/communication/etc., auto-fails any proposal/rfc/etc. that I start.
 * I guess I'm just a bit weary. - jc37 00:42, 25 July 2012 (UTC)