User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2005 July

Ought to VfD but too lazy
Vaso Vukotic's Theory [Later deleted Articles for deletion/Vaso Vukotic's Theory RF 2014] — Rich Farmbrough 09:46, 8 July 2005‎ (UTC)

Talk:2005 London...
I'm done, but I'll be keeping an eye on it. -- M e r o v i n g i a n (t) (c) July 7, 2005 11:12 (UTC)
 * what's this with the 'gone in 60 seconds' note in the london bombings talk page? Adidas 00:54, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Revert your own edits...
You're the first strange person who'll write "revert my own edits" on the edit summary column XDDD. Deryck C. 12:19, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Aircraft specification survey
Since you are a contributor to aircraft articles, you may be interested in a survey currently underway to help develop a revised version of our standard specifications section. Bobblewik 19:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

VfD closure
Hi there. Per my comment in the VfD on the page you moved to, I'm wondering how you reached a "redirect" decision on Votes for deletion/1000000000000000000. I count 15d, 5r which is a consensus to delete (imo). Note that Jarlaxle Artemis has sort-of voted twice. -Splash 23:00, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Date wikification bot? No bot
Are you running a bot to wikify dates? If so, you should fix your code to avoid false positives like where you changed
 * on 5 September 665,000 Soviet prisoners were taken

to
 * on 5 September, 665,000 Soviet prisoners were taken

If you are running a bot, you need to follow the rules on Bots, you need to run your bot under a separate account from your ordinary account, and you should announce your bot at Wikipedia talk:Bots to give other editors a chance to comment. Gdr 2005-06-30 19:46:41 (UTC)


 * No I'm not running a bot. Rich Farmbrough 6 July 2005 09:03 (UTC)

I also came across two different articles, where you changed the date format inappropriately (Vladimír Špidla and Calculating_the_day_of_the_week). I would advise you to fix the wikify bot to precede such errors and confusion.
 * cathack 6 July 2005 08:09 (UTC)


 * No I'm not running a bot. See my user page. Thanks for fixing the articles, prticularly day of week one which was an egregious oversight on my part. Rich Farmbrough 09:03, 6 July 2005 (UTC)

Wikify Dates
Please see my user page. Rich Farmbrough 09:03, 6 July 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguation scripts
Hello Rich, I noticed you generate the disambiguation link list and wanted to see if you would like to offload this duty. I have recently written wpfsck in Perl. It currently processes three cleanup projects while only requiring one scan over the cur and links dumps. Adding this to the existing cleanup projects would be simple and I am further developing a framework to automatically update and publish cleanup projects. As such this would become just another task it performs, but it would free you from the obligation. Regardless I have also created a Perl module you may find useful. It uses a callback system to facilitate processing of the dump files; the subroutine invoked gets a hash that is nearly identical to a $sth->fetchrow_hashref (if you know what that means, if not, it is very simple) and an optional second subroutine can be specified. This subroutine receives an identically structured hash but there are a few restrictions: the article text is read only and it is not safe to use regular expressions. The tradeoff is that memory copy operations can be avoided for articles you are not interested in and a significant performance boost. I also wrote a report generator that takes a list of articles and produces nicely formated cleanup projects. See this as an example. If you would like to use this code you are more than welcome. Lastly (whew, this is long winded), I have recently created the WikiProject help desk; in short its geeks taking requests for one off jobs that computers can do or helping people who use tools that have broken and they themselves don't know how to fix it. Right now there is little demand but I suspect that will change when word gets out. Are you interested? Thanks for the ear, Triddle 07:12, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

African COTW
 You showed support for the African Collaboration of the Week. This week Dar es Salaam was chosen. Please help improve it to featured-article standard. Cast your vote to select next week's collaboration!

Unsigned User:Stan2525 20:58, 31 July 2005 (UTC)