User talk:ShakingSpirit/Archive/Archive-Feb2007

Rate Me
I know that this is a pain but please rate me and say what I need to work on etc. Also can you find some good groups for me to browse. Thanks for all your support! P.S. Take a look at my user page for information on what my interests are. It is similar to yours. I hope it is OK. Different color scheme though! ;) RED skunk  TALK 04:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

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Happy Edit Birthday!!!
Redskunk 21:39, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

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Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:47, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Done! ShakingSpirit talk  21:22, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Archives
Check your archives. You have some messages. I added February to your archive list. Redskunk 23:47, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, have done. ShakingSpirit talk  21:22, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Hey
I sure have been whacking a lot of vandals. I have 115 mainspace edits!!! RedSkunk 02:28, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Heh, congrats on hitting the big 100 ^_^ Still have a way to go to catch up with my 3300 though ^_- ShakingSpirit talk  21:22, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * How do you use your sig. Do you just copy paste it in or is there another way? RedSkunk 17:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Bot question
I've noticed you using a bot to fix double redirects. Is that its only ability? Does it only work on Wikipedia? I'm need of replacing a string text in Commons, which is too widely used for me to edit manually. It could be achieved but it's quite boring, so I'm wondering if your bot can do the trick, or if you know of any that may do it.

Also, I reckon they are run through Python/Perl. I've no way to run scripts in my office's computer, since I can't install any software here, so I'm kind of needing help in this department too.-- Saoshyant talk / contribs (please join WP:Portugal or WP:SPOKEN) 18:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure, replacing a string across the wiki wouldn't be too hard at all, I'd be happy to ^_^ What exactly do you need changing? ShakingSpirit talk  18:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Sup? You shouldn't use the tag.  It's invalid in XHTML.  Anyhow, thanks for accepting my request.  I need the bot to check this category and replace any  by  .  It's tedious work.


 * Thanks for your help!-- Saoshyant talk / contribs (please join WP:Portugal or WP:SPOKEN) 19:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * You're right, is not supported by the XHTML Strict doctype, but it is perfectly valid under Transitional/Frameset, and as Wikipedia uses Transitional, there's no problem ^_^
 * In any case, you just need all the photos re-categorized? No problem at all, will get ShakingBot right on it. ShakingSpirit talk  05:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * All done! ShakingSpirit talk  05:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, mate. P.S: regarding font, you have to note that if Wp is stuck in Transitional forever, it won't ever be able to move to XHTML2.-- Saoshyant  talk / contribs (please join WP:Portugal or WP:SPOKEN) 10:45, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

DarknessBot
thank you! And sorry I haven't been on in a while... -- ~ D-Lord ( Sign! ) (  T  C  E  ) 00:06, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * No worries, I haven't either ^_- ShakingSpirit talk  05:47, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Bot Request...
I've been doing some very tedious work replacing aero spec tags with aero specs tags. They are a redirect but in general it's not good to have tags redirect. Could you have ShakingBot do that? I just saw that there was a different request, so I thought I'd throw it out there. Now I have 250 mainspace edits! RedSkunk 16:46, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'm sure ShakingBot can help, what exactly is it that you need doing? ShakingSpirit talk  17:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Signature
How do you use your sig. Do you just copy paste it in or is there another way? RedSkunk 17:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It's just what I've entered into 'Signature' in Special:Preferences, nothing fancy ^_^ ShakingSpirit talk  17:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It doesn't seem to be working for me. It shows all of the markup too. And about the bot.  It's not good to have redirecting templates.  I'm doing work for WP:AIR.  the aero-spec template is the old template.  Now the template is aero-specs.  There is over 250 pages that are aero spec.  It would take a lot of time to do manually.  So could you make it look at all the pages in what links here for aero-spec and change the aero-spec in it to aero-specs? RedSkunk 19:15, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure, no problem, will get ShakingBot right on it. And about your sig, make sure you have "Raw signature" checked ^_^ ShakingSpirit talk  23:33, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Should I have Red as userpage and Skunk as talk, or have a separate talk link? RedSkunk 03:12, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * My new sig!!! &#91;&#91;User:Redskunk&#124;&lt;font color=red&gt;Red&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=black&gt;Skunk&lt;sup&gt;&#91;&#91;User talk:Redskunk&#124;&lt;font color="black"&gt;talk&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/font&gt;]]]] 02:20, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Your new sig is broken >_< ShakingSpirit talk  23:15, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

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An award for you, then:
I'm sorry, when I gave RedSkunk his, I did vaguely wonder if there was someone else I should be giving credit to as well... thank you for mentioning that, or I'm afraid I may have made the same mistake again. Hersfold (talk 13:01, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * No worries, many thanks for the barnstar! ^_^

The Barnstar
I am kindly refusing the barnstar to my user page. It was all of your work after all. I have a new user page in development though :) And i've changed the background color. I should've checked. I assumed falsely that you had gotten the award too.  I thought,  "Oh well, I didn't do it but it's OK On another more sinister note how did you find out???  Red  Skunk talk  00:52, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh and:


 * Yay, barnstarness! ^_^ I look forward to seeing your new user page once it's complete! Oh, and I 'found out' because I've got your talk page on my watchlist - just making sure you keep outta trouble ^_~ ShakingSpirit talk  04:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah it's still in the early stages. I copied yours for the time being.  I still don't have a great understanding of Wikicode so it's kinda tough.  It has a userbox column on the right, and is similar in content, but has different rendering, and different names for columns.  And I broke 250 edits!  Red  Skunk talk  04:12, 23 February 2007 (UTC) PS you might have to hide your barnstars at some point, for it's making your userpage long.
 * Yeah, I'm either going to have to hide the barnstars...or just add more userboxes! :D Congrats on breaking the 250 mark ^_^ ShakingSpirit <sup style="color:#000000;">talk  04:16, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll show you my userpage when I think it is in a decent state. Any general advice?  Red  Skunk <sup style="color:black;">talk  04:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep it simple, keep it useable, and plan plan plan! ^_^ ShakingSpirit <sup style="color:#000000;">talk  04:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Good advice! How do you put your comment on both your's and my user page.? Red  Skunk <sup style="color:black;">talk  04:23, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Manually copy and paste....but you're right, I should write a script to do it! ^_^ ShakingSpirit <sup style="color:#000000;">talk  04:25, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Check my userpage. Do you like the new background color?  Red  Skunk <sup style="color:black;">talk  04:27, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yup, it definatly jars less against the bright yellow than plain white ^_^ ShakingSpirit <sup style="color:#000000;">talk  04:30, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

what are you talking about? im really confused.

Article handling
Thanks for taking care of those 2 articles I tagged for deletion; I wasn't sure what to do since the speedy deletion cat is backlogged by a few days. I also tagged Mathematician triathlon if you want to take a look at that. Thanks. --BrokenSphere 04:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I find it's always a good idea to move non-notable pages to the creator's user space, as a lot of the articles have had a lot of effort put into them, and personally I think that an unfriendly speedy deletion notice followed by the removal of the page is kind of WP:BITE ^_^ Mathematician triathlon I don't think is speedy deletion material - it's not really that it doesn't "assert the importance or significance" of the band, but that they're just not notable at all. Personally I'd be more inclined to PROD or AFD it. ShakingSpirit <sup style="color:#000000;">talk  05:06, 23 February 2007 (UTC)