User talk:Rjwilmsi/Archives/2014/August

Good work
I keep seeing your work on my watchlist, and I always appreciate how helpful it is. Thanks! --Tryptofish (talk) 21:33, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Bankassurer


The article Bankassurer has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * WP:NOTDICT. Unreferenced. Orphaned.

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Request for comment
As someone who has edited the article Asian American this year, I am seeking your input on a proposed change to remove a reference to epicanthic eyefolds. This topic has prompted discussion in 2009, 2010 and most recently in 2013.

There's a fine line between being WP:BOLD and subverting WP:CONSENSUS. Given the history of this topic, I'm hoping that a robust discussion, for the record, would improve the article whether this reference stays or goes. Ishu (talk) 13:52, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Reference Errors on 9 August
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DOI issues
Hi Rjwilmsi, Thank you for all the fixes you've been running on blank doi entries. It's a real step toward seeing assertions in article text be more practically verifiable.

You may be aware that user:Citation bot's operator has been largely absentee for a while now. Over the past weeks, that bot has been generating hundreds of defective instances of new cite doi subpages where the subpage is populated only with the doi, but no other data. I'm wondering if you'd be willing to tackle cleanup on these. There are effectively two options. The first is to correctly populate the subpages. The second (potentially controversial) option is to replace instances in articles of cite doi with instances of cite journal etc. For various reasons I believe the latter is the correct answer, but either would be an improvement over what is going on right now. There is discussion on user talk:Citation bot. LeadSongDog come howl!  16:15, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Here's a link to a list of unfilled cite doi templates. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:58, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, I should be able to do something about this. Likely will have to wait until this weekend though. Rjwilmsi  09:52, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Excellent work! Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:31, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

AWB
Can AWB fill these automatically (i.e. replace Citation bot)? JMP EAX (talk) 08:03, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

The Citation bot bug was apparently fixed yesterday, but I'd still like to know, in case something happens to it again. JMP EAX (talk) 08:11, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Bot error
Birmingham Group (artists) is. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:05, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Andy Mabbett we need to add a category in that page that will show that the page is about multiple persons. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:09, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 21:53, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:35, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Done. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:35, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Re Esselen people
Thanks for the comment, I may have been around a long time but there are things I still don't know. like the undo button. I have undone a couple of bot edits that I have possibly edited before, relating to an artist group, a number of Baron so and so articles relating to the actual title rather than an individual and an article relating to a government position rather than an individual person. I will try to remember to undo rather than just edit in the future but it may take the article appearing in the category a second time for me to notice. Waacstats (talk) 12:27, 27 August 2014 (UTC) PS any chance you can give me a heads up when you are going to running the bot adding persondata templates (just a note to say you will be running it a couple of days this week or something) as a) a reminder to let you know if anything needs fixing and b) t let me know to expect a load of fresh articles. Waacstats (talk) 12:41, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, I've a run of about 6500 articles to update, will be doing that over the next few days. After that likely won't run again for a couple of months. Rjwilmsi  15:38, 27 August 2014 (UTC)