User talk:Rjwilmsi/Archives/2008/August

Queens of the Stone Age Taskforce
I'd like to invite you to join the newly-formed taskforce Queens of the Stone Age|Queens of the Stone Age. There's alot of Queens of the Stone Age-related articles on Wikipedia that could use a little attention, and I hope this taskforce can help organize an effort to improve them. So please, take a look and if you like what you see, help us get this taskforce off the ground and a few Queens of the Stone Age pages into the front ranks of Wikipedia articles. Thanks! --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 10:52, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Overlinking years
Once again I reverted the edit you made,, that overlinked years to American Idol. 2007 was already linked in the sentence so there was no need to link it a second time. In the table there is no reason to add a year behind the first date since both dates were back-to-back in the same year. Aspects (talk) 23:54, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) (2007) Per MOS:SYL the idea is to fully link a date where possible, not to just link the day and month. If you don't like this, unlink March 27 as an alternative.
 * 2) (table) Per WP:DATE "If a date range is abbreviated, use the formats 5–7 January 1979 or September 21–29, 2002, with an unspaced en-dash. If the autoformatting function is used, the opening and closing dates of the range must be given in full and be separated by a spaced en dash." In this article the table uses wikilinked date ranges, so they need to be full dates per my edit.
 * I think my edit was correct. Thanks Rjwilmsi  10:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Date fix problem
Just a heads-up to a problem with a date you reformatted. The original version was complex, but correct. See first change:   I have fixed it. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 22:57, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks for pointing out that error. There was a bug in my script, which I've now fixed. Rjwilmsi  23:26, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Also please watch when adding years into date ranges which cross a year boundary e.g. December into January - e.g. this edit created a bit of a time warp. Dl2000 (talk) 23:29, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

word variations
Just wondering why you prefer [ [ engineer ]] ing instead of [ [ engineer|engineering ] ]. I can't see any benefit but I can see it becoming broken if wikipedia changes the way it renders in the future. E.g. it might introduce a space before "ing" or might highlight only the first half of the word and not the "ing" (note: it does work fine at this moment). Even if it doesn't get broken in the future, it doesn't seem worth the effort to change it. Stepho-wrs (talk) 04:52, 27 August 2008 (UTC) (open to change but don't like change for change's sake)
 * I assume you mean  engineering  to  engineering . If yes, that's an AWB general fix to take advantage of that Wikimedia functionality (which I am sure is here to stay). If you don't like it, please post an AWB bug report. Thanks Rjwilmsi  06:45, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

WIKIPEDIA ELECTION
Go to User:ElectionDemocratic/Election08 and cast your vote! --ElectionDemocratic (talk) 14:55, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Date linking
Please do not use AWB to create date-links for every conceivable year or date in a reference as you did in this edit. The manual of style on datelinking explicitly says that we should avoid turning years into a link unless there is specific and intentional value to the link (for example, if the topic is so critical that it would be appropriate to add to a high-level timeline page). You can read more at WP:OVERLINK and some of the other MoS pages. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 13:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not. I simply fully linked a part-linked date so that it complies to MOS:SYL. Alternatively, the whole date could be unlinked (then I wouldn't, and won't change it). Rjwilmsi  16:59, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree with User:Rossami - now that, per MOS:SYL, the linking of dates purely for the purpose of autoformatting is depreciated, wouldn't it be better to change  to , rather than to  .  Just my 2 cents. Regards&mdash; G716  &lt;T·C&gt; 04:23, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I hadn't seen the change to WP:DATE made on the 24th. Why wasn't there a watchlist notice about such a wide-reaching change? I'll review my scripts.... Rjwilmsi  06:14, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Spelling in Santa Fe Institute
FYI, "Cristopher Moore" is the correct spelling of the proper name, per. I've already fixed the article. Thanks! Jclemens (talk) 16:55, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks I've updated the typo list to allow 'Cristopher'. Thanks Rjwilmsi  00:55, 31 August 2008 (UTC)