User talk:The Anome/archive 15

NCI dictionary
all wikipedia pages that are NCI dictionary stubs have a wrong URL problem. many links to their NCI definition are bloke. include extra alpha in the URL. correct URL should be: http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary?CdrID=44873 see example here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIEP_flap Sakaton (talk) 16:20, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Please restore block
Hi, you removed the autoblock on User:Wikipedisveryveryracistt. However, that is a sockpuppet of User:Chanakyathegreat, and further socks are popping up. Please restore the autoblock and account creation block, as I cannot do so due to wheel-warring issues. Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:50, 21 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Ah. Taking a look at this diff, I see what you mean. Restoring autoblock now. -- The Anome (talk) 17:29, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Coord missing and the new linear feature KML thing
I don't suppose you fancy repurposing your coord missing bot to create kml missing and a folder structure a la Category:Articles missing geocoordinate data by country? Presumably we can distinguish categories with linear features & areas from those best handled by point coordinates - albeit at some effort. --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:51, 22 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I'd be delighted to, but first I'd like to be absolutely sure that the roads/highways/railways communities won't blow a gasket if I do. I know you've been working on this with these various other communities -- can you please run this proposal by them, and let me know if there are any serious objections to it? If not, I can start work on it right away: the code to detect roads etc. has been there for ages, I just need to enable it. -- The Anome (talk) 00:05, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Syrianview (talk) 23:29, 10 August 2012 (UTC) Al-Akhbariya is Syria news channel, you can delete it.


 * Thanks. I've set the thing in motion. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:24, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks! For your interest, I just did a very rapid and approximate bot-based count of road articles, and I found roughly 25k of them, with a long-tailed distribution of road articles, per country, as follows... -- The Anome (talk) 01:03, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

16154 United States 1915 United Kingdom 1067 Canada 577 India 572 Japan 569 Australia 489 Ireland 406 Malaysia 308 France 285 Germany 253 Brazil 215 Croatia 211 South Africa 149 Sweden 148 Italy 128 Iran 124 Russia 121 Spain 117 New Zealand 114 Singapore 106 Greece 96 Israel 77 Poland 68 Netherlands 64 Norway 63 Taiwan 59 Philippines 58 Pakistan 58 Argentina 53 South Korea 52 Thailand 50 Turkey 48 China 47 Switzerland 39 Sri Lanka 38 Romania 37 Austria 35 Ukraine 33 Hungary 31 Belgium 27 Czech Republic 26 Uruguay 26 Nigeria 26 Indonesia 25 Finland 25 Bulgaria 23 Lebanon 22 Burma 21 Slovakia 20 United Arab Emirates 20 Lithuania 20 Iraq 18 Albania 17 Serbia 16 Morocco 16 Kenya 16 Cambodia 15 Vietnam 14 Luxembourg 13 Portugal 13 Iceland 13 Ghana 12 Namibia 12 Mexico 12 Denmark 12 Afghanistan 11 Egypt 10 Trinidad and Tobago 10 Paraguay 10 Latvia 10 Chile 9 Slovenia 8 Saudi Arabia 8 Nepal 8 Belarus 7 Uganda 7 Libya 7 Colombia 7 Benin 6 Zimbabwe 6 Zambia 6 Syria 6 Gabon 6 Bangladesh 5 Djibouti 5 Belize 4 Tunisia 4 Peru 4 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3 Montenegro 3 Laos 3 Georgia (country) 3 Estonia 2 Uzbekistan 2 Niger 2 Jamaica 2 Ecuador 2 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2 Cuba 2 Botswana 2 Bolivia 1 Turkmenistan 1 Tanzania 1 Panama 1 Moldova 1 Lesotho 1 Kazakhstan 1 Guinea 1 Barbados 1 Armenia 1 Algeria

And, oddly enough, those 16,000+ US articles are probably going to be among the fastest to get coded, because the USGS has high-quality geographic data for highways, which should lend itself to bot-driven automatic generation of the relevant KML pages. -- The Anome (talk) 01:15, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Ooh, that'd be a thing to behold. Do you have a clue if the US Highways people know this? I could invite them over for a chat if you feel that way inclined. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:17, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't know if they do, but get a load of this: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/nhpn/ -- The Anome (talk) 01:20, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I've asked Ffloydian over to discuss. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:24, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Great. The data is alas in shapefile format, but I'm sure something can be done about that. -- The Anome (talk) 01:30, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Update: yep. The GDAL/OGR module for Python should do the trick. -- The Anome (talk) 01:40, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think anyone from WP:USRD will mind if a bot does all the work. :) –Fredddie™ 02:33, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll look into it, I think it would be really cool to do this, if it's possible. -- The Anome (talk) 03:39, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. My only concern is that at WP:VPT we're trying to get this moved to the File: namespace and/or to Commons... so if this happens we may have to move all the files. --Rschen7754 08:31, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not too worried about that. The KML-generation code will be the same in any case. I've now managed to pick apart the shapefile using python-gdal, and have access to all the points in the data set, and their accompanying metadata. There are a lot of points... -- The Anome (talk) 01:52, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

On the off chance that KML generation by bot does come to pass for the US, you might be interested to know that U.S. Roads WikiProject has a  parameter that gets set to "no" if an article has a KML file. (We don't just remove the parameter, because like "needs-map", if it's not present, it flags the article for a manual check.) So if the bot is going to generate and upload these files (which would be A Good Thing) it would help if the bot also updated the banner template. Canada Roads WikiProject works the same way for Canadian articles if you were to expand north of the border.  Imzadi 1979  →   06:52, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Collision avoidance (networking)


The article Collision avoidance (networking) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * '''Hi!

Okay! Its good. The initiative was very impressive. But please, can we gather all these stuffs on a single page? And that is CSMA. Making all these subsets of that broader topic will truly make readers enjoy all the knowledge they wish to acquire, just on a single with relatively no clicks.

Thank you!'''

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Nkansahrexford (talk) 23:35, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

BOTREQ regarding over-precise coordinates
See WP:BOTREQ#Ridiculously over-exact coordinates detector. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 01:01, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Weird bible verse
Thanks - it looks like an anti-Semitic troll now. Secretlondon (talk) 23:25, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Yep. And I inadvertently pasted the whole verse in question into my edit comment without quotes around it, when I meant to quote only part of it. I've redacted it now, just in case anyone might think I had gone mad. -- The Anome (talk) 23:33, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Adding geodata
The Anomebot2 is adding geodata to a good many radio station articles, but is adding them to the title, not the infobox. The MOS is to have them in the infobox and not in the title. Could you, when the bot finishes this run, have it go back through and move them from the title to the infobox in the "coordinates" field? -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 03:14, 9 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Sure. They way the bot's code is currently written, it's easier for me to first use the existing bot code to add it to the title, then go back and re-edit the pages with a second pass to put it in the infobox: this makes the rather complex code more maintainable. I'll add it to my list of tasks, and get round to it in the next week or so. I'll need to write and debug the necessary code, so it won't be immediate, but I'll do it after this current next few days' set of bot activity is finished. In the longer run, it might be possible to add the capability for selectively adding coordinates directly into infoboxes to the main bot. -- The Anome (talk) 08:41, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Okie Dokie, no worries on the time, whenever you get around to it. :) Thanks!  Have a Good Day... Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 09:46, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think the MoS says that. If anything, the coordinates should be in both locations. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:04, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * MOS:COORDS gives a "quick how-to", which does include the "title" part of the code, but in the more explanatory version of the "how-to" (which you can find here), you will find that there really isn't a wrong way to put in coords. You will see from WTAM, KOMO (AM) and KAUJ, that the perfered MOS for WP:WPRS is to have them in the infobox. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 00:01, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Project guidelines are not part of the MoS; and in any case WP:WPRS says nothing on this matter. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:16, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, you missed the whole part about Template:Coord. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 23:28, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I did not miss it; I ignore it as irrelevant. It's also not part of the MoS, and does not support your false assertion that "The MOS is to have them in the infobox and not in the title". Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:54, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * You ignored it as irrelevant? It's linked on the MOS:COORDS template!  Are you even a member of WP:WPRS or WP:TVS?  Have you edited a radio or television station page?  If not, then take your "I didn't read it cause I think I am right" attitude and go bother someone else.  If you do actually read MOS:COORDS, then get back to me.  Otherwise, I don't have the time or the patience to deal with people who think they know everything, but don't bother to read anything. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 08:15, 11 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Just to clarify my comments above, when I've finished geocoding all the radio station articles I can (and I've only got about 1000 to go) I'm planning to move the coordinates into the infoboxes with the "display=inline,title" option set, which I hope should make everyone happy. -- The Anome (talk) 10:57, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Cults, Fife
You have added the co-ordinates for Cults, Aberdeen, not Cults, Fife!

(Ajsinclair (talk) 12:00, 9 March 2012 (UTC))


 * Thanks for catching that: errors like this are rare, but occasionally one or two slip through the filtering. I've reverted the bot's edit, and added at coord missing tag. -- The Anome (talk) 13:46, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Burh
Hi, I just thought I'd let you know I've reverted an edit by this bot to the article "Burh", which is (I suppose) about a type of settlement, rather than a single settlement: the bot had added. Cheers. Nortonius (talk) 15:16, 9 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, and I'm going to have to investigate that one and possibly do a bit of debugging: I can't see how, given its current content and categories, the bot decided to mark it for geocoding. -- The Anome (talk) 15:21, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

FYI, block of User:Hooray4peepee modified
While I completely agree that this username violates our policy, their actual edits seem to have been made in good faith, no vandalism or anything like that. Normally username-only hardblocks are reserved for only the most offensive usernames, not silly school kid stuff like this one, I have therefore taken the liberty of softening the block to allow them to create a new account with a non-infringing username. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:10, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

1877 U.S. Patent Office fire
The coordinates are noted on the talk page, but this infobox does not seem to support use of coordinates. Maybe they belong somewhere else? 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 22:31, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

The Anomebot 2 and HMS Black Prince (1904)
Your bot keeps adding to HMS Black Prince (1904), the remains of which are somewhere under the North Sea - presumably because it was a Duke of Edinburch class armoured cruiser. You may want to fix this.Nigel Ish (talk) 19:21, 28 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for catching this. Yes, this is very stupid bot behavior; it appears to be an unintended side-effect of two recent changes to the code. I've made a manual edit to stop it from happening to this particular article again, and also added a line of code to prevent the string "Duke_of_Edinburgh" from being inerpreted as a place by the bot. -- The Anome (talk) 23:36, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

SLR
Hi Anome, I added the archive bot to Steve's page to archive all threads but one, so the memorials will be left in place. I was thinking it was best to let the bot archive bit by bit -- I suppose because I felt uneasy archiving the other threads myself. SlimVirgin (talk) 17:53, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

GNIS data Removed??
Hello- I am adding a number of unincorporated communities to Wikipedia now and I have nioted that the GNID data that is referenced, has been removed. Along with the refernce section, see DugOut Wv etc etc, WHY is this happening??Coal town guy (talk) 18:32, 5 April 2012 (UTC)


 * My apologies, I spotted an error on my part, thanks againCoal town guy (talk) 19:14, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Serbia, Bosnia
Hi, can you run your bot through this countries again? I'm manually adding interwikis (here) and coordinates (on sr.wiki) in articles on towns, lakes, mountains, neighborhoods. Is this helpful for your task? Btw, you bot made errors in few articles, e.g. -- Bojan   Talk   22:38, 5 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, yes, that's going to be really useful. I'll take a look at your edits soon. I'll also cross-check my bot's coordinates against srwiki's, for cross-validation. -- The Anome (talk) 12:36, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi, can you repeat this task? -- Bojan   Talk  16:00, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Why?
You recently deleted a thank-you notice from my talk page - and a dozen other users' talk pages. I was wondering why? Thanks. --MelanieN (talk) 14:22, 12 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents.Syrthiss (talk) 14:50, 12 April 2012 (UTC)


 * OIC! So it was random spamming. Thanks for restoring it; I'll probably just delete it again. Maybe I'll leave it up for a day or two for historic purposes. --MelanieN (talk) 18:03, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

FYI it looks like they are at it again, this time using the ISP 66.87.2.10. I never did see what was the outcome of the ANI discussion, but whatever was done about that batch of attaboy spam should probably be done with this batch too. --MelanieN (talk) 14:42, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Abuse Filter on the Article Feedback Tool
Hey there :). You're being contacted because you're an edit filter manager, At the moment, we're developing Version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool, which you may or may not have heard about. If you haven't; for the first time, this will involve a free-text box where readers can submit comments :). Obviously, there's going to be junk, and we want to minimise that junk. To do so, we're working the Abuse Filter into the tool.

For this to work, we need people to write and maintain filters. I'd be very grateful if you could take a look at the discussion here and the attached docs, and comment and contribute! Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 18:33, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Splitting articles about the sex industry in Africa
I have proposed a debate about splitting articles into solo articles I would appreciate your opinions whether its pro solo articles or anti solo articles. As you are the originator of Prostitution in Africa the debate is taking place at Talk:Prostitution in AfricaDwanyewest (talk) 00:10, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Deanery of Lafford
You recently added  to this page. I am not sure which co-ordinates in particular you'd like to see added to the irregularly-shaped Deanery of Lafford, which covers some 200 square miles of Lincolnshire and would be grateful for your assistance.—GrahamSmith (talk) 09:46, 4 May 2012 (UTC)


 * All that is needed for this sort of roughly-defined area is a representative point. I'd suggest any of the following: the rough location of Sleaford which is the largest populated area within it, or its administrative office if within its area, or the rough centre of the cluster of churches and schools shown on the map in the first linked reference. -- The Anome (talk) 14:22, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * [[Image:WikiThanks.png|43px|left|WikiThanks]] Thank you for your help, which is much appreciated. I have added the co-ordinates for the village where the current Rural Dean of Lafford lives (Ruskington) to the article.—GrahamSmith (talk) 09:17, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! Thanks for your edits. -- The Anome (talk) 10:16, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Combining Anomebot edits
Hi, Anomebot tagged this page in two stages: India then Tamil Nadu. Could these easily be combined? – Fayenatic L ondon (talk) 14:56, 4 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, they could, but it's easier and cleaner to keep this as two separate loosely-coupled bot processes, to reduce the complexity of the bot software (the internal logic of the two phases is quite different, and both have lengthy sets of heuristics inside) and make the sequence of edit decisions more visible. -- The Anome (talk) 15:13, 4 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Fair enough, thanks. – Fayenatic L ondon (talk) 16:40, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Troll alert
Check this out. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 01:13, 10 May 2012 (UTC).


 * Thanks. I've blocked the account as a transparently obvious block-evading sockpuppet of Trollface262. -- The Anome (talk) 23:58, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

AnomeBot's Forts of India Visit
Hi, when will AnomeBot visit India and Forts in India and where does it look for the GeoData to be placed in the article? Is it sufficient to put it them in a military inforbox? Also, is there a schedule for AnomeBot's itinerary or priorities? Anmolsharma.141 (talk) 14:47, 16 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. Yes, if you put the coordinates anywhere in the article, I can clean them up. If you use the "display=title,inline" attribute in the coord tag, it will put the tag both in the infobox, and at the head of the article. I had a quick look at the list of forts, and could unfortunately only find coordinates for a couple of them which did not already have coordinates. If you have a list of coordinates anywhere, I'd be happy to add those coordinates to the articles automatically.


 * Regarding the itenerary: I do an extensive set of bot runs about once a month, based on running a number of different pattern-matching and data-reconciliation algorithms on the content of that month's Wikipedia dump. Other activities are done in a completely ad hoc manner. If you have any machine-readable public domain lists of coordinates or maps in a parseable machine-readable format, I'd be happy to do a special-purpose bot run to add these locations to articles. -- The Anome (talk) 14:25, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

New stubs
User:Jaguar has created a load of stubs, about places, which lack either coordinates or Coord missing. Can your bot attend to them, please? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:13, 17 May 2012 (UTC)


 * The bot should find them and sort them all out in next month's run. Unfortunately, it looks like most of them describe subdistricts in China that I don't have any data for from other sources, so I think its help is likely to be restricted to adding coord missing tags. -- The Anome (talk) 14:17, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Index of fashion articles for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Index of fashion articles is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Index of fashion articles until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 19:14, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

arxiv
This is wrong This is right I fixed your edits. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 02:26, 2 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you! I'll try to use the correct syntax in future. -- The Anome (talk) 13:46, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Notice
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Melanie and Martina Grant. Thank you. Michaelzeng7 (talk) 23:15, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Angela Cassidy
I believe this was the earlier title of the page. So many pagemoves have happened since January by User:Zzspeed I lost count. He has moved at least one other page. this implies the earlier title. I do not see the missing page moves, maybe they were deleted from history. There are about 500 edits by this user on the other page as well. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 00:05, 12 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I've fixed it now. -- The Anome (talk) 00:32, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Alexia (acquired dyslexia)
Hi the whole purpse behind the propsoed changes to to have Alexia (acquired dyslexia) as the name of the category and the main article. Alexia (condition) is an inappropriate name for both, as alexia is not a condition but a symptom of multiple conditions such as stroke or dementia dolfrog (talk) 13:16, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * The problem is that you are making these moves without first getting consensus from other editors, and it's currently creating confusion, instead of clarity. Before you do anything else, you need to get community consensus for a new article title. Could you please take this up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine, which is the right forum for this discussion? -- The Anome (talk) 13:20, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * done as you suggested. The real problem is that dyslexia per se is not a condition as it is about having problems wit ha man made communication system the visual notation of speech, and there are possible multiple underlying cognitive causes of the dyslexic symptom for both the acquired for of dyslexia (alexia) and developmental dyslexia which has a genetic origin. And the classify either type of dyslexia as a condition is wrong. If you have the tiome you could have a look at some of the related research paper collections listed on my user page. dolfrog (talk) 13:49, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that: I've replied to you at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine, where people specializing in the field can take a look at this. I look forward to getting this resolved! Good luck! -- The Anome (talk) 13:55, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Although I personally do not like it, the best option is as you have suggested "Acquired Dyslexia" which can then be followed by an also known as list in the article lead, and may be a dysambinguatyion page for the other names used. Thanks for your help dolfrog (talk) 14:15, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. -- The Anome (talk) 16:51, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi again, I have added to the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine my version of summary of the discussion. Not too sure how to proceed from here. I have also noticed just now that the discussion regarding the category name has been closed "Keep" which does not seem to reflect the discussion. dolfrog (talk) 19:56, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

I have followed your suggestions, but the resulting support you suggest would result has not happened, I feel like I have wasted my time, and that there is a lack of understanding of my disability, and how it affects my ability to contribute Wikipedia. I will just have to make do improving the citation resources and hoping some co-operative editors may improve the respective articles content to reflect the best available research. Such is the frustration of living with a communication disability dolfrog (talk) 13:02, 25 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry to hear that. Editing Wikipedia is a community process, and not every reasonable suggestion manages to achieve consensus. Many other editors with similarly reasonable suggestions have also found that their suggestions have not achieved the community support they wanted, so please don't take this as some sort of failure on your part. Your work is valuable, and appreciated, and I hope you will not be unduly discouraged, and persevere with your efforts. -- The Anome (talk) 16:22, 25 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Well from my perspective, I won the discussion with all the supporting research, and the result so far from description would appear to be poor losers taking advantage of my communication disability and not doing the right thing according to the result of the discussion. Unfortunately I have had to get used to living with disability discrimination. It seems a pity that disability discrimination seems to exist at Wikipedia as well dolfrog (talk) 12:24, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Your tweak of the Gompetz model with the exponential term
I just checked your tweak of the Gompetz model with the exponential term. I think this is really good. With one extra parameter the recent deviation is compensated really well. The result is a more or less liniar growth of about 20.000 articles a month. We see liniar growth in the German wikipedia for a much longer time (since 2006 or so), so it might be possible to describe the German wikipedia with this model. Could you fit the German and maybe some other wikipedias as well? HenkvD (talk) 12:36, 17 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I've now fitted the German Wikipedia data, as follows:


 * Dewiki_article_count_modified_Gompertz_model_fit_2012-06-17.png


 * The fit looks almost too good to be true, making me suspect overfitting, but the month-on-month growth chart is quite persuasive that there's some kind of real phenomenon being modelled here.


 * The best-fit parameters were abcd = [302502.92035309185, -27.042085933491009, -0.62561165308080535, 0.12528065331081334] -- The Anome (talk) 19:07, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Multiprotocol Label Switching


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 * See reply on User talk:BigDwiki. -- The Anome (talk) 13:16, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

"The Young and the Restless" issues again?
. Hmm... --Shirt58 (talk) 14:57, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

thanks
Thanks for your help with the Starhub issue. Secretlondon (talk) 19:33, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

House of City
Thanks for that. I'll be interested to see if he replies! The mayoral non-candidate was a Mark Cidade - presumably MarX/xidad is the same person. All very weird. But part of the rich variety of Wikilife. Pam D  22:45, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

In response to your question on 1 July 2012 as to why I would go to such lengths to create a fake Wikipedia article: it was during a bout of bipolar mania. "An attempt at creating a micronation" would be the closest reason that I had at the time, although it was an attempt at creating a dynasty. MarXidad (talk) 03:29, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Template:Recent changes article requests
I've found more than 50 blue links via Template:Recent changes article requests/full, but I hesitated to change them since it would leave the number to 480-ish. Probably you could add the number back to 550 somehow. You just need to undo my last edit on Template:Recent changes article requests/list. Bennylin (talk) 15:36, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

thanks
I occasionally review the wp:growth page to see how close things are developing to the Gompertz model, always thought the use of Gompertz was a bit of a breakthrough and like how predictive it is. Predictable that wp would grow in the same way as a population in a confined space? Gompertz_function Unlike confined population space, no. of notable subjects not confined? hence the exponential deviation from the standard gompertz function? I've always assumed that in a few years time, when growth really levels off, there'll be an hysterical media reaction that wikipedia is dying but someone will be able to say no we predicted this several years ago, there's only so many capital cities in the world etc.

one thing i would caution is that this break since mid-2011 may be just a long blip: File:EnwikipediagrowthGom.PNG. we're going to get July data soon. Tom B (talk) 16:07, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Your bot's edit to Lichtjesroute
I'm not quite sure what it means. There aren't any coordinates for this because it is a route or trail, it's not in one specific place but all over the city of Eindhoven. So it has the same coordinates as the city? CodeCat (talk) 17:18, 4 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for spotting that. I've backed off the bot's edit. -- The Anome (talk) 17:20, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Coordinates question Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center
Hi! Saw the bot's edit here & while not incorrect, it's not an easy solve as this hospital has two different campuses. If you/the bot have come across this situation before, how did you solve? Two sets of coordinates? Thanks for any tips


 * I'd put two different coordinates in, one for each campus, using the "display=inline" attribute in the coord tag to force the coordinates to be displayed inline, rather than at the top of the article. WP:COORD has more information on how to use this. -- The Anome (talk) 09:39, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll look into that. If too complicated for my understanding, I'll leave it for one of the coord-experts StarM</b> 00:35, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks like someone got it over the weekend. THanks for the bot tag so people who are skilled in it could fix it <b style="font-family:Verdana; color:#6633FF;">StarM</b> 23:32, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

No coordinates but map link
Beginning to look into un-substitute the Geolinks. The above Toolserver query finds pages with links to mapping services without a coord template. This is ~6,000 pages. Hope this is helpful. — Dispenser 03:44, 7 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Cool! I'd be happy to go through these and generate the appropriate coord tags. I've made a start on this based on the most recent dumps. So far, I've been able to geocode just over 300 articles using this, by taking only the easiest examples from these pages. I'll see what I can get with a more careful analysis later. -- The Anome (talk) 10:07, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Unverified coords - what does enwiki mean, exactly?
Hi, what was your source for, and ? Does "enwiki" mean English Wikipedia? If so, please see WP:CIRCULAR. -- Red rose64 (talk) 22:39, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The source for both of those coordinates was the OSGB36 National Grid Reference on the same page, converted to lat/long by a script. The referencing to "enwiki" was an indication that the original data for the coordinates was taken from text already on that page. You might want to change the source information to "source:enwiki-OSGB36" to clarify this. -- The Anome (talk) 23:56, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The thing is, the bot has assumed those grid refs to be exact - they are not. In Taw Valley Halt railway station, the is directly followed by a HTML comment "if setting coordinates, please don't base them on the gridref in the infobox because that is estimated". At Oldham Mumps (LNWR) railway station, the grid ref  is to four figure accuracy - one kilometre - yet the bot has converted it using an accuracy of five places of decimals - 1.1 metres, almost 1000 times as "accurate", yet it still managed to hit completely the wrong spot. 53.53261°N, -2.10708°W is something like 900 metres too far south, and between 250 and 750 metres too far west. -- Red rose64 (talk) 00:20, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

98.240.72.57
Hi, TA. You may recall this situation from not long ago. It looks as though the editor has no intention of cleaning up his or her behaviour; see here and here. So far I don't see anything beyond that, but the block's only just expired. Might be worth keeping an eye on, please and thanks. —<span style="font:bold 11px Arial;display:inline;border:#151B8D 1px solid;background-color:#FFFF00;padding:0 4px 0 4px;">Scheinwerfermann T&middot;C 03:02, 9 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I've extended the block period accordingly. Please let me know if you get any more trouble. -- The Anome (talk) 11:16, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You must be a mindreader. I wrote a request and you already did it before I got the chance to press Save page. Thanks, Arcandam (talk) 11:19, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks much! —<span style="font:bold 11px Arial;display:inline;border:#151B8D 1px solid;background-color:#FFFF00;padding:0 4px 0 4px;">Scheinwerfermann T&middot;C 21:43, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Zoo coordinates
I'm glad that someone wants to add geodata to zoo articles. however, I've now seen 3 additions by AnomieBot and although all point to the correct town, they do not point to the zoo. I can't remember the first, but I fixed it. The second was Baku Zoo, which I have correct coordinates for and will fix shortly. The third is ZOO Stropkov, and I have not yet found the correct coordinates for it. I think it would be better to have no coordinates and mark the article as such rather than having inaccurate coordinates. The Baku zoo and Zoo Stropkov coordinates point to what is obviously a housing development, not the zoo. Don Lammers (talk) 01:55, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Turkey
Heh will be needing the coordinates!!♦ Dr. Blofeld  17:09, 13 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I'd be happy to oblige. Let me know when you are ready. -- The Anome (talk) 17:14, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Now I've discovered a source with data on whole provinces it makes the job much easier to generate them efficiently with population data, so they are at least some initial use. I think people need to look beyond the "web page" so to speak and envisage that these are real world communities and wikipedia would be better off trying to provide information about them than ignoring them. So I think I'll resume with the stubbing, providing the Turkish editor can find me the population pages for each province!♦ Dr. Blofeld  17:33, 13 July 2012 (UTC)


 * That's great. Can you point me to an example stub article? -- The Anome (talk) 18:42, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Can you speak to this editor. He keeps tagging village stubs with deletions and has started a post at deletion review.. Stub, like Ovacık, Kemer. I only began adding population data on the last provinc but they all needs coordinates.♦ Dr. Blofeld  19:38, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Looking at that article, I think the standard GNS-based geocoding mechanism should handle it just fine when the next monthly enwiki dump run is processed, in about two weeks' time. Let me know if there are any problems when that happens, and I'll look into it. -- The Anome (talk) 23:43, 13 July 2012 (UTC)


 * The deletion review was sadly about me. Also, mine and Blofeld's stubs were never deleted. I've made about 50 which all need coordinates. ⇒ T A  P  19:43, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Incidents of zombie-like behavior in 2012
Did you remove your AfD because it had already been through AfD? I am trying to figure what would be a good next step to try to get the article either deleted or converted to something that is actually encyclopedic. If you can help figure out how to proceed, that would be helpful. -- The Red Pen of Doom  22:50, 19 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, exactly that: the article's an absurd WP:COATRACK at the moment, so I started the process of nominating it for AfD, saw that it had been nominated, then kept, quite recently: there's no point in trying again immediately, I suggest you wait a month or so. It could just possibly be kept if renamed as something more sane in terms of being a press reporting fad: it was certainly a press phenomenon, but any suggestion of any connection to "real" zombies is clearly absurd. -- The Anome (talk) 22:54, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I have been looking for more sources that discuss the media sensationalism, but have not had much luck at the media taking a real strong look at themselves. -- The Red Pen of Doom  22:58, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

The Anomebot2 malfunction
The bot has been adding "empty" coordinates (i.e., 0°0' N, 0°0′ E) to some university articles—as here and here—giving the source as ptwiki, although as near as I can tell the corresponding articles in the Portuguese Wikipedia lack any geocoding whatsoever. You may want to look into this odd behavior. (Also, the bot has been adding "type:Edu" parameters to coordinates taken from the French Wikipedia, as here, with the capped "Edu" causing them to be listed on this coordinate-check page as having an "invalid type".) Deor (talk) 15:23, 20 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I've found and fixed all the instances of these I can find. The geocoding was done from a dump from last month, so the coordinates may have once been in the article, then removed. I've also fixed the template fr:Modèle:Infobox Université which was generating the spurious "type:Edu" parameters on frwiki, so that should have fixed the problem at source. Most of the bot's sub-tools filter out "zero-zero" coordinates, so I'll go back and take a look at how these came to be transwiki'd. -- The Anome (talk) 17:02, 20 July 2012 (UTC)


 * OK, that's the "zero-zero" filter fixed to catch this case. -- The Anome (talk) 17:18, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the work. One other thing I've noticed with the bot's pickups from fr.wikipedia: It has in some cases (as ) been adding a "scale:" parameter without providing a value for the scale. Deor (talk) 18:57, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll search them out and fix them. Update: I see you have fixed all of them but one: I've now fixed that one, too. -- The Anome (talk) 13:18, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Incidents of zombie-like behavior in 2012
An article that you have been involved in editing, Incidents of zombie-like behavior in 2012, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 17:13, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Gibraltar coordinates
Please can you add Category:Gibraltar articles missing geocoordinate data to your bot's activities? There's a project, Gibraltarpedia, creating articles, so it's going to get busy! Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:47, 29 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Category:Gibraltar articles missing geocoordinate data now exists, so should work as intended. I'll update my various tools to deal with this. -- The Anome (talk) 23:11, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Update: I've also gone through the relevant categories by hand, and have hand-tagged all the pages I can find that haven't yet been coded. -- The Anome (talk) 23:11, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks Victuallers (talk) 07:36, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's great Thank you. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:41, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Please stop flagging PS Stadt Zürich and PS Stadt Rapperswil as missing coordinates
Hi.

The Anomebot2 is persisting in flagging the articles PS Stadt Zürich and PS Stadt Rapperswil as having missing co-ordinates. Operational ships are moving objects, and do not have fixed coordinates of the sort that can sensibly be represented using the WP coord template.

Looking at the history:


 * The Anomebot2 marked PS Stadt Zürich as missing coordinates on 5th July 2011
 * I reverted this on the 18th August 2011
 * The Anomebot2 again marked PS Stadt Zürich as missing coordinates on 3rd May 2012


 * The Anomebot2 marked PS Stadt Rapperswil as missing coordinates on 4th July 2011
 * Roland zh reverted this on the same day
 * The Anomebot2 again marked PS Stadt Rapperswil as missing coordinates on 3rd May 2012

This has been complicated because Roland zh has subsequently moved the articles, and they are now called Stadt Zürich (1909) and Stadt Rapperswil (1914) respectively. However these moves were both subsequent to 3rd May 2012, so cannot account for The Anomebot2's second run at these articles.

I don't know what measure the bot takes to prevent repetative addition and reversion of this template, but it didn't work in this case. I'm just about to re-remove the template; is there something I can add to the article to tell The Anomebot2 that this is not a 'geocoordinatable' article?. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 13:24, 4 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Wow. I can see how it might have happened twice, if the article was re-named (the bot keeps its records of which articles it has already tagged by article name, not by ID), but repeat taggings like that really should not be happening. I'll investigate.


 * OK, I see what's happening. The re-taggings are due to two things happening at once in the same article: firstly, the articles are marked as Category:Visitor attractions in Zurich, and the bot is seeing them as geolocatable for that reason, and secondly, they've been renamed multiple times.


 * Here are the entries from bot's logfile records, where you can see the different article titles each time:


 * MISSING:Paddle_steamer_Stadt_Rapperswil 2011-07-04@17:46:55
 * MISSING:PS_Stadt_Rapperswil 2012-05-03@16:22:19
 * MISSING:Stadt_Rapperswil_(1914) 2012-08-04@09:00:08


 * reading Paddle_steamer_Stadt_Rapperswil... writing... written
 * reading PS_Stadt_Rapperswil... writing... written
 * reading Stadt_Rapperswil_(1914)... Stadt_Rapperswil_(1914) already contains


 * MISSING:Paddle_steamer_Stadt_Zürich 2011-07-05@00:54:02
 * MISSING:PS_Stadt_Zürich 2012-05-03@16:18:45
 * MISSING:Stadt_Zürich_(1909) 2012-08-04@08:39:47


 * reading Paddle_steamer_Stadt_Zürich... writing... written
 * reading PS_Stadt_Zürich... writing... written
 * reading Stadt_Zürich_(1909)... Stadt_Zürich_(1909) already contains


 * As a result, the bot sees articles with all six of those titles as no longer needing to be marked with coord missing.


 * You shouldn't need to do anything more to stop them from being tagged again, unless they get renamed again, but given the current codebase, another renaming is likely to get them re-tagged yet again, which is sub-optimal. I'll see if I can put together a heuristic that might stop this... -- The Anome (talk) 20:44, 4 August 2012 (UTC)


 * OK, I'm working on a category-based heuristic to detect articles which are about ships AND which have neither been sunk, nor scrapped, nor involved in a marine incident, battle, etc. and avoid tagging these as coord missing. This should stop similar errors from happening again.-- The Anome (talk) 21:13, 4 August 2012 (UTC)


 * No, that won't work: there isn't sufficient information in the categories. I'll have to try something keyword-based that inspects article text. -- The Anome (talk) 21:22, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jennifer Bricker


The article Jennifer Bricker has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Notability is not inherited. While I find this young lady's story to be inspiring, I am unable to find anything to suggest that she has notability not connected to her older sister.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Trusilver 07:37, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Jennifer Bricker for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jennifer Bricker is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Jennifer Bricker until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Trusilver 07:30, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

0.99
Thanks. I was careless. I should have remembered that the intro is a summary of the article and does not always require refs. Staszek Lem (talk) 16:12, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Twitter Joke Trial
Reverting good-faith edits without even the slightest explanation is extremely rude. What was your objection? – Smyth\<sup style="color:gray;">talk 11:46, 9 August 2012 (UTC)


 * You're right. I should have justified my edit with a comment. Here's my rationale: the words "approved judgment" are specific and meaningful. The adjective wasn't redundant, and didn't need trimming; the other part of your edit cut a quoted sentence in half, again unnecessarily. The text was perfectly fine as was. -- The Anome (talk) 12:11, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

"Approved judgement" seemed redundant, as if there could be any other kind, but if it's a technical term then fair enough. However, the reason for removing the phrase "we cannot usefully take this aspect of the appeal further" was that it clearly referred only to the brief discussion of the mens rea at the end of the judgement. It makes no sense to quote it when that context is not apparent. – Smyth\<sup style="color:gray;">talk 14:36, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Please respond. – Smyth\<sup style="color:gray;">talk 10:38, 15 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply. I don't really have a strong opinion either way; your version isn't bad, I just thought the previous version was better, for the reasons I gave. I should have given the reason in an edit summary, instead of just clicking "revert", though -- for which, please accept my apologies. -- The Anome (talk) 11:37, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

No problem, but you still haven't responded to my point about the second half of the sentence. I think if you examine the context you'll see that quoting it makes no sense whatsoever. – Smyth\<sup style="color:gray;">talk 09:13, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

This
Doesn't the new move system suck? Ryan Vesey 18:48, 10 August 2012 (UTC)


 * It really, really does. This is the first cross-namespace move I've done it some time, so I've not noticed it before. When was it released? Where do I lobby to get it rolled back? -- The Anome (talk) 18:49, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't know, it was like it when I got back. I use a script to fix it, but I can't seem to make the script work.  Let me ping the creator. Ryan Vesey 18:51, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I totally understand the purpose, and it might be easier for new editors. It's hard to tell.  In any case, perhaps a gadget can be created to turn it off WP:VPT? Ryan Vesey 18:52, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll fix it right now. -- Kangaroo  powah  19:47, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Kangaroo  powah  19:49, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh and it's not the prettiest thing, but if either of you are css buffs and want to pretty up the ui with curves or whatever, feel free to code up a GUI and I'll put it in the script. ;) -- Kangaroo  powah  19:51, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm clearly missing something. Is it meant to change what occurs when you click the move button?  Or does it not work with vector skin?  I still can't find it. Ryan Vesey 19:54, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It works in Vector for sure- I just used it. Fully clear your cache and then look under the portlet that shows extra options (view source and move) and there will be an ajax move link. Then click on the link and a dialog will appear. Then when you've filled out the options, click the -- move -- link and your page will be moved. - Kangaroo  powah  19:59, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Can you check User:Ryan Vesey/common.js and make sure I added it correctly? Ryan Vesey 20:01, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

(Reset indent) Ah, that's the problem:  should be   The s in script is capitalized. -- Kangaroo  powah  20:05, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you kindly. Ryan Vesey 20:06, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Will it move associated talk pages? And is it possible to create a move without leaving a redirect link?  It's a great tool, thanks! Ryan Vesey 20:07, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It does move talk pages and moves subpages as well. In the future, I'm planning on adding more customization options- approximately the next week or so and the ability to undo a move (also the next week or so). The options will let you choose whether to leave a redirect, move associated subpages and the ability to choose whether to move associated talks (Right now all three are default). Glad you like it though, and spread the word ;). -- Kangaroo  powah  20:24, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Word spread . Ryan Vesey 20:28, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Lol thanks :) -- Kangaroo  powah  20:37, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Murder of Tia Sharp Redirect
Hi, You deleted the redirect of Murder of Tia Sharp stating nobody has been charged. Today 12/08/2012 a suspect has been charged. Should the redirect be restored? Thanks --JetBlast (talk) 15:16, 12 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't think so. These matters are something for the courts to decide, and there is a presumption of innocence until a court decides otherwise. At the moment, the article is still under AfD, so it should remain at its existing title. Once the AfD is expired, if (as looks, sadly, very likely) the body has been identified as being hers, the right thing to do would be to change the title to "Death of Tia Sharp", and leave it there until the legal process has worked its way to its conclusion. -- The Anome (talk) 11:49, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Question about why coordinates parameter should be in an infobox
FYI: Template talk:Infobox company. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:55, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Subterranean London
Care to copy it over to the London Wiki ? Jackiespeel (talk) 17:13, 14 August 2012 (UTC)


 * No, thanks, but I'd be perfectly happy if you want to do it yourself, if license considerations permit. -- The Anome (talk) 11:42, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Question about geotagging error
Please see here, where The Anomebot2 re-added incorrect coordinates after an article rename. (Those are the coordinates of a different district of the same name, in Nonthaburi.) Why was the bot still confusing the places, even with the more specific title? And what does GNS-enwiki in the source field mean? --115.67.34.66 (talk) 08:53, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

ANI discussion
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

see page move war -- The Red Pen of Doom  21:22, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Baddies?
Are we the baddies? It's the skulls on our hats isn't it? — Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:09, 26 August 2012 (UTC)


 * That's why I only use nice symbols, like stars, and stripes. -- The Anome (talk) 12:18, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:25, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * One of my favorites is "Peep Show - Jeremy and Mark take revenge" ...but it also helps to know the context of that show. Not sure if I could think of one of theirs that is funnier.

MoonLichen
Hello there, and thanks for dealing with the situation with MoonLichen. It's a shame that they didn't explain the reason for creating the hoax article, but maybe the block will have put things into perspective. Anyway, about the page move from User talk:MoonLichen/MoonLichen to User talk:MoonLichen - I agree with you in theory, but in practice a (normal) merge would be a much better way of dealing with this. There were a number of edits to the talk page after the cut and paste move to the subpage, so this falls under WP:PV, and we can't do a history merge without creating quite a big mess. At the moment there are a few early talk page revisions which have been deleted, which is obviously not ideal, so I think the best way to fix this would be to reverse the page move, then restore the deleted revisions at User talk:MoonLichen, and finally to merge the content over from the subpage again. Would that be ok with you? I can do the work if you want - just let me know. Best — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 00:42, 27 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, that would be fine with me, and I'd be grateful if you would do the honors. I should have done it myself at the time, but I was somewhat preoccupied with tracking down what they had been up to. -- The Anome (talk) 00:45, 27 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Ok, it's all done. Not the easiest of page histories to understand, to be sure, but hey, we do what we can. :) — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 01:17, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Thumbs up
I was just about to create articles on the All Pakistan Ulema Council and the Pakistan Interfaith League until I saw that you already started them. Just a thank you. Great work,  Mar4d  ( talk ) 10:35, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Ear hair
Are you planning on starting it? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 09:27, 31 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Done. Thanks! -- The Anome (talk) 09:37, 31 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Good stuff. That's about the least likely subject I could think of. :) Now, I'm trying to think if all the hair article topics have been covered. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:56, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

The National Socialists are back
User:78.3.46.88, on the 1 September article here, the Timeline of World War II (1939) article here , Mile Budak (again) here and Switzerland article here. Peacemaker67 (talk) 05:12, 1 September 2012 (UTC)


 * That particular incident seems to have been contained for now: please continue to let me know if you see any more outbreaks. -- The Anome (talk) 12:52, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yup. Here they are again. User:89.172.123.251 They must have something special for Budak... Peacemaker67 (talk) 12:03, 2 September 2012 (UTC)


 * They're editing from AS5391 (Croatian Telecom), same as before, but under another prefix. (See http://bgp.he.net/AS5391#_prefixes for a list of all prefixes originated from that AS.) I've imposed a soft-block on that /16 for a short while. That should hold them back a bit... If this goes on for much longer, even after the clear hints we've sent them that edits such as the above are not acceptable, I think it may be time to construct some edit filter rules. -- The Anome (talk) 12:20, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
 * And again. on Mile Budak again... Peacemaker67 (talk) 10:58, 3 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. This was from yet another Croatian Telecom prefix: I've temporarily softblocked that, too. Keep letting me know when you catch them: the fuller the profile we have of their edits, the better. -- The Anome (talk) 11:31, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Question about "Check User"/sock puppetry on the Stalking "talk" page
The Anome, As a new editor in the summer of 2011, I unknowingly violated Wikipedia’s rules by posting a comment* for another "editor" (PeaceFrog71) who was having difficulty posting due to a lack of experience and time constraints, he said. He contacted me to voice his support and told me of his problems posting comments. (He was attempting to post a positive comment to the FOIA files which I was hoping to retain on Wikimedia Commons. As such, I was, admittedly, eager for the support.)  Had I known the rules, I would never have logged in as another user. Neither was it my intention to stack votes, as someone suggested, nor is there any merit to the allegation of a “good hand/bad hand” account. Hanlon’s Razor comes to mind. As it’s said, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." I was certainly guilty of stupidity, but there was no intention “to deceive” on my part -- there was no intention on my part to engage in sock puppetry. “Sock puppet” wasn’t even a part of my vocabulary at that point in time. Someone looking at the IP addresses would assume, of course, that it was sock puppetry, because that’s how it appeared. Technically, it was. (*In general, commenters were posting the same comments to all three FOIA files last summer (2011). My recollection is that I posted the same comment to all three FOIA docs for PeaceFrog71.)

Another SPI/Check User would show that there has been no “sock puppetry” since that one incident -- PeaceFrog71 and I are different users who simply monitor the same page. There may have been a rare occasion when I posted with my IP, but only when I’ve forgotten to “log in.” The edit warring is an embarrassment – it’s something that I don’t condone and I certainly wouldn't engage in it. As I understand it, the English Wikipedia is the only one that doesn’t allow an individual to request an SPI on her or his own account. If I could, it would be shown that PeaceFrog71 and I are different users. Thank you for your time and interest -- thanks for asking the question and giving me a change to try to explain what transpired. I apologize for the lengthy delay in responding. Elizabeth Blandra (talk) 22:54, 1 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. I'm not sure where to recommend that you take this: I'll try to think about what the right venue for your comment might be. -- The Anome (talk) 17:43, 3 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, The Anome. I think that "what's done is done", unfortunately, but I appreciate your response. Elizabeth Blandra (talk) 18:10, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Your Note Put on My Talk Page
The only thing I did was discuss the article on the Talk Page. I don't have any desire to edit this article, unless I see a grammatical error or the like. I think I am familiar with guidelines. (EnochBethany (talk) 00:13, 3 September 2012 (UTC))

Whiting Brothers
Your bot flagged Whiting Brothers as needing co-ordinates. I doubt that attempting to assign this page to a geographical co-ordinate pair is useful as this is not a single location but a group of over a hundred filling stations which are long dead (most were sold in the mid-1980's, with some on bypassed sections of the former U.S. Route 66 simply abandoned). There is no comprehensive list of these from which to generate a list of co-ordinates (scattered across the US southwest from CA to TX) and inserting a partial list with a majority of the individual locations missing likely would not improve to the article in any constructive manner. 66.102.83.61 (talk) 17:38, 3 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. It looks like the usual heuristics failed to catch this one: I'll see if I can add a rule to catch similar articles. -- The Anome (talk) 17:40, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

The Olive Branch: A Dispute Resolution Newsletter (Issue #1)
Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page. In this issue: Read the entire first edition of The Olive Branch -->
 * Background: A brief overview of the DR ecosystem.
 * Research: The most recent DR data
 * Survey results: Highlights from Steven Zhang's April 2012 survey
 * Activity analysis: Where DR happened, broken down by the top DR forums
 * DR Noticeboard comparison: How the newest DR forum has progressed between May and August
 * Discussion update: Checking up on the Wikiquette Assistance close debate
 * Proposal: It's time to close the Geopolitical, ethnic, and religious conflicts noticeboard. Agree or disagree?

--The Olive Branch 19:33, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Moon
Sorry, I should have brought this up on your talk way earlier but I really don't think your cropped image does the article justice - the original image that you cropped it is way too low of resolution IMO to do such a thing - I cannot distinguish his face in the cropped image. I'd understand if this is all we had in the first place, but at least there aren't any glaring quality issues with the portrait of him and his wife. If you are, however to find a better resolution version (atleast <1000px in some dimension) of that image and upload over the other one, I'd have no problem, but for the time being I really don't think that your cropped image is a good idea because of the quality issues with it. If you would like more input, do start a discussion on the article's talk page or whatever, but this is just my 2 cents. Thanks, – Connormah (talk) 02:38, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for fixing my oversight with that bipolar stigma ref/s. I'll bear that in mind next time. Cheers, —MistyMorn (talk) 14:20, 7 September 2012 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. Thanks for your good work on improving the article. -- The Anome (talk) 14:32, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

IP-hopping vandalism of articles related to Nazi Germany
You blocked this at, now back:. Dougweller (talk) 15:00, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Hey...
Hey there - I just wanted to say I saw Talk:Bipolar_disorder and I think that if more wikipedians handled removal of content like that, wikipedia would be a much nicer place. Thank you. Fayedizard (talk) 18:47, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Manner of death vs cause
This may help you understand why your addition of "suicide" as cause of Tony Scott's death is incorrect. InedibleHulk (talk) 03:31, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Need help
Hi. I wish to standardize articles on sh.wiki, but many don't have coordinates. Can You run your bot occasionally there (we prefere decimal format rather then DMS)? --<font style="background: black" face="Courier" color="white"> Bojan  <font style="background: white" face="Courier" color="black"> Talk  04:25, 18 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I can, but I would first need community approval on the sh: wiki, and for my bot User:The Anomebot2 to be granted a "bot flag" by the bureaucrats there. Unfortunately, I don't speak the language, so I can't get this approval by myself, but if you can get me the appropriate permissions, I'd be happy to do a complete inter-language run copying coordinates to sh.wiki from the other wikis with well-established geocoding communities. -- The Anome (talk) 09:14, 18 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. You will get bot flag as soon as you sign in/register there. --<font style="background: black" face="Courier" color="white"> Bojan  <font style="background: white" face="Courier" color="black"> Talk  12:25, 18 September 2012 (UTC)


 * See sh:User:The Anome. I'll need the bot flag for sh:User:The Anomebot2, of course, not the parent account. -- The Anome (talk) 12:50, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Your bot still has not account there. If you need something, don't hesitate to ask me. P.S. I corrected links, sh.wiki is not using Cyrillic script at the moment.--<font style="background: black" face="Courier" color="white"> Bojan  <font style="background: white" face="Courier" color="black"> Talk  14:05, 18 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, I've now had a try at creating an account there using this bot account. Please let me know if it has worked. -- The Anomebot2 (talk) 20:39, 18 September 2012 (UTC) (p.p The Anome)


 * Anomebot2 now has bot flag --<font style="background: black" face="Courier" color="white"> Bojan  <font style="background: white" face="Courier" color="black"> Talk   11:44, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Filter 489
FYI - seems to be producing a lot of FPs. This one was reported at the FP page but there seem to be quite a few others disallowed that shouldn't be. Black Kite (talk) 18:10, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Ten Year Society
Dear Anome,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more. I'm currently inviting people whose names that I recognize from around the project, please feel free to invite anyone else you like.

Best regards, -- Hex [t/c] 11:25, 27 September 2012 (UTC).

Nomination of Sean Smith (diplomat) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Sean Smith (diplomat) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Glen Doherty until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. -- Necrothesp (talk) 20:04, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

In-image Advertising update
Hi, could you please revisit In-image advertising? I recently cited a TechCrunch post suggesting GumGum, not Image Space Media created the first in-image ads in early 2008. Unfortunately, Inimagead continues to revert, but is unresponsive to requests User_talk:Inimagead to debate on the talk page. Thanks, (Tonywinders (talk) 16:16, 2 October 2012 (UTC))

DYK for Suliman al-Reshoudi
Yngvadottir (talk) 00:03, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Museum of New Art
Hi! Open to suggestions on the bot's edit here. Should it list the geodata for all 7 locations? Let me know your thoughts? I'm watching here - and thanks. <b style="font-family:Verdana; color:#6633FF;">StarM</b> 04:13, 3 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for spotting this. Alas, the bot isn't very smart, and it tagged this because it saw it as a museum, ignoring its transient and movable nature. I'll remove the tag from the article. Yes, coordinates for all the venues would be fine, but please only do it if you really want to do it: movable/diffuse things generally don't require coordinates. -- The Anome (talk) 08:26, 3 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the clarification. I think I'll wait for someone else to dig the addresses up & then I'll add geodata if they don't. I created the article because the red link was bugging me (was cited as an example of a popup museum) but I don't have a ton of interest in expanding it right now as I have other priorities. Should we (Museum WikiProject) consider a category that doesn't confuse the bots for things like this, steve.museum, Museum for African Art, etc. that don't have a fixed physical location? Open to it, not sure what it would be though. If you think it's worth considering I'll raise on the project's talk. Thanks! <b style="font-family:Verdana; color:#6633FF;">StarM</b> 00:00, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

User:IP 12.153.112.21
You blocked this username some days ago because it confusingly resembles an IP address. Since then, there have been a couple of extended discussions related to it; you may want to look at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:IP 12.153.112.21 and/or the "Can an IP User talk page be used to store a "userfy" version of an article under AfD?" section of WP:AN. Nyttend (talk) 17:02, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Consulate General of Serbia in Vukovar
Please see Talk:Consulate General of Serbia in Vukovar. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 08:09, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Violations of Wikipedia Policies
The Anome, I've been sitting on this for some time now, trying to decide how best to handle a couple of comments that were posted by another editor to the section "References to FOIA material" on the Stalking talk page. Not only are the comments in violation of Wikipedia's policies, IMO, they are defamatory/libelous. What are my options for dealing with this problem? Any assistance that you might offer would be appreciated. (I deleted two problematic comments from my own talk page. This same editor also posted a similar comment to another person's talk page.) It is not my intention to try to drag you into this ridiculous dispute, but some direction would be appreciated. Thanks. Elizabeth Blandra (talk) 14:44, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Bad bot edits
Your bot removed Coord missing in error,, on articles which have coordinates, but which are not the coordinates for the articles' subjects. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:20, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

UAA blacklist issue
Hello The Anome :)

So it turns out, that DQB can not support IPv6 checking at this time, as ":" is used as a delimiter in the entries. I know, that's a little stupid, which is why i'm going to bring the code into 'the shop' this weekend and try and fix it. I honestly can't tell how long the bot has been trying to run on that issue, but now that it's caught on it, I have removed it and am getting it back up and running. I will also try and build in a error notification system for if the code is broken. So if you could please make sure there is only 1 ":" per line for now when you add new code, that would be awesome. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  23:55, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Federal Standard 1037C terms/coding terms
Is this meant to be in the Wikipedia namespace or should it be an article? Ryan Vesey 18:41, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

More random coords
Hello Anome. Could you explain this edit. It seems to be a somewhat random coordinate. Where is it from, why is it being added? —Sladen (talk) 11:24, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. Thanks for spotting and correcting this. The coordinates were taken from the Japanese-language article ja:軌間 by a script which tries to harvest appropriate coordinates from articles in other languages. Unfortunately, it's completely spurious in this context: the script, and the bot that makes the edits, have a large number of heuristics, both positive and negative, to try to stop this sort of thing from happening, but this one slipped through. I'll take a look at the articles in more detail, and see if I can code a heuristic to stop false positives similar to this one from happening again. -- The Anome (talk) 12:07, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * On inspection: the article Track gauge was already marked as being in the category Category:Track gauge, with an empty category sort-tag. The bot should have taken this as a hint that the article was about a concept, rather than a thing, and thus not geocodeable:, but the heuristic didn't work in this case. I'll review the code to find out what went wrong. -- The Anome (talk) 12:45, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I couldn't see, at a glance, any coord in the JP article. I may have missed it. --Tagishsimon (talk) 15:15, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * There is one, but it uses a Japanese version of the coord tag: search for "51.8" in the article source, and you'll see it. -- The Anome (talk) 15:33, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Manuric IP editor(s)
You have been so kind as to assist me in the past, hence this request. If you will take a look at this, you will see there are two IP editors (who, judging by their overall contrib histories and the syntax of their edit comments, may well be only one) pushing a problematic version of the article. "Neither" of them will engage on the talk page, where I have laid out and documented the problems with "their" preferred edits—"they" just reflexively revert, revert, revert. What's to be done, if anything? Thanks and regards, —<span style="font:bold 11px Arial;display:inline;border:#151B8D 1px solid;background-color:#FFFF00;padding:0 4px 0 4px;">Scheinwerfermann T&middot;C 02:44, 25 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. I've warned both of those IPs on their talk pages. If they, in whatever guise, continue to edit war without engaging on the talk page, please let me know, and further action can be taken. -- The Anome (talk) 00:52, 26 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks kindly! —<span style="font:bold 11px Arial;display:inline;border:#151B8D 1px solid;background-color:#FFFF00;padding:0 4px 0 4px;">Scheinwerfermann T&middot;C 02:25, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Jimmy Savile
My apologies - when I added my text about Gary Glitter I'd failed to notice your earlier edit on the same subject. But, isn't this best dealt with in the section on police investigations? If you disagree, by all means revert my edit and restore your own - perhaps we should then discuss it on the talk page. Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:46, 28 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I've merged our two sets of edits into the new subsection under police investigations. If recent press speculation is to be believed, this may well be only the first of a series of arrests. -- The Anome (talk) 11:54, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:56, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

"Nanny dog" deletion
Re The Anome deleted page Nanny dog (no evidence save blog entries for this; the only WP:RS I can find cites a now-deleted blog as its only source), I can't see how this could possibly be a valid deletion. Ten seconds on Google News shows that "nanny dog" is a synonym for "pit bull" in reasonably common use in the mainstream press, either 'used straight' by pitbull supporters or in "refuting the nanny dog myth" pieces by their detractors; it's certainly not "only used in a now-deleted blog", and given its widespread use I'd consider it a valid search term and this a valid redirect.

Would you consider reversing this deletion and (if you still feel it should be deleted) sending it to RFD, as this seems anything but clear-cut? (If not, I'll take it to DRV, but a straightforward RFD seems less messy.) Mogism (talk) 17:19, 28 October 2012 (UTC)


 * The other alternative is to start an article on the topic of "Nanny dogs." This will preempt the redirect, as there is literature that deals with the phrase. It would also deal with the undisputed fact that Nana of Peter Pan (a Landseer Newfoundland and later portrayed as a St. Bernard) was the first time that the phrase ever appeared. I really would not want the article to revisit the Pit bull article's territory. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 17:57, 28 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Nana is certainly not "the first time the phrase ever appeared" - where have you got that from? Here's an example of the phrase in use (in the correct context) decades before Peter Pan was published, which took all of 30 seconds to find. (If you don't like that - it could be argued that it's a mistranscribing of "mammy" - here's an indisputable one which also predates Peter Pan.) It should probably point to the Staffie, which is a more common use of the term than the pitbull, but if "incomplete" is a reason not just for deletion but unilateral out-of-process speedy deletion, 95% of Wikipedia would have to go. Mogism (talk) 18:24, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You make a good and interesting point. But even if true, it proves that the phrase "Nanny dog" should be its own article, and not a redirect to Pit bull. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>)
 * This isn't the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable; it should be a dab page listing the various uses of the terms, including (without emphasising) the pitbull. Mogism (talk) 18:43, 28 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, a disambiguation page might be a good way to resolve this. I hope we can all agree that the term "nanny dog" is most certainly not synonymous with "pit bull", and that the redirect was inappropriate. -- The Anome (talk) 18:55, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

KVaxevanis: Police HQ
You linked to Athens police headquarters, not an existing article, in Kostas Vaxevanis. Searching Wiki for the phrase, I came up with "Hellenic Police Headquarters in Athens" here. Do you think maybe, or do you know, if that's the HQ we're looking for by any chance? If we're going to encourage establishment of a new article, it'd be good to get the proper name up front. You may have noted the HQ phrase you've linked to was in a quote; I don't know any more about it. Maybe I'll dig in deeper but in the meantime I thought I'd register these thoughts. If you can confirm it's the HPH, I'd change the link as follows: Athens police headquarters. That way the new article, if it is done, would be in the HPH name. An idea. Cheers. Swliv (talk) 22:41, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The red-link and then "Athens" were removed in the course of other editing by other editors. It's just 'police headquarters' now. 01:20 I was in on other stuff and replaced the "Athens" -- it was the only place the city was mentioned in the article. Swliv (talk) 01:38, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Biweekly
On another front, same article, you said '"biweekly" ... suggests twice a week'. I think this numeral-prefix table makes it clear: "semi-" = twice a week (or whatever); "bi-" = "every two". "Biannual" v. "semi-annual" is the way I remember it, in my head. Cheers. Swliv (talk) 18:01, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

The AnomeBot2
I woke up this morning to find 47 new pages in Category:Coord template needing repair. I haven't checked them all, but I suspect most of them were recently edited by the bot. I'd like it if you would add some very basic sanity checks to the bot, so that it doesn't copy coordinates that are obviously invalid&mdash;specifically ones where the number of minutes or seconds is greater than or equal to 60. How feasible would this be? If you're interested, there are many other sanity checks I could recommend. —Stepheng3 (talk) 17:14, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * It looks to me as though many of the coordinates the bot is importing from the Arabic Wikipedia are bad (even when they don't produce an out-of-range error like the ones mentioned by Stepheng3 above). I'd have the bot cease getting coordinates from there. No coordinates at all are better than incorrect ones. Deor (talk) 08:47, 2 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for spotting this. I've now backed out all the remaining changes made recently using data from the Arabic-language Wikipedia. I'll also take a look at improving the data checking elsewhere in the pipeline. -- The Anome (talk) 11:12, 2 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your attention to this matter. I'm sure the Arabic-language Wikipedia has many valid coordinates that other wikis need, so better data checking will be a better solution in the long run. —Stepheng3 (talk) 20:51, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

The templating system
On the same subject, I found this bot has put some geotag missing template into City of South Brisbane. However, that's not really a very helpful contribution in that it says something is wrong without providing any advice on how to fix it. I know perfectly well what the coordinates are for the place but I don't know how to put them into Wikipedia. If the template could include that advice, I think it would be much more useful. At a time when everyone is discussing editor retention, it is important to ensure that we do not criticise other editors unless we are prepared to also provide advice and instruction. Kerry (talk) 02:41, 3 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi! It's not a criticism, it's more of a marker for other editors to help improve the article further. If you're willing to help add coordinates, that would be very welcome: in practice, you just replace the coord missing tag with a coord tag, generally one with "display=title" in it, so that the coordinates appear at the top of the article, if the coordinates are representative of the subject of the article itself. If you take a look at Template:coord, there is indeed some help there. There's also a guide to adding coordinates at WP:COORD -- I hope this helps! -- The Anome (talk) 02:43, 3 November 2012 (UTC)


 * This is the sort of information that should have been included in this first place because how else are people supposed to know this? It's almost impossible to get/find help on most aspects of wikipedia when you find something you don't understand. Kerry (talk) 03:04, 3 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Please accept my apologies: I agree, there are a lot of things with steep learning curves here, and we definitely could be more helpful. You might be interested in the talk page at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. where there is a whole community of people focused on geocoding, including trying to make the geocoding experience easier for beginners. There's also a welcoming community at the Teahouse: see WP:TEAHOUSE. -- The Anome (talk) 03:08, 3 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Can you please look at what I did on City of South Brisbane and tell me why it does not work. It looks identical to at Template:coord except for the coordinates themselves of course but it does not work (which is pretty much what happens every time I think to use or edit a template). Kerry (talk) 03:14, 3 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. Sorry about the delay in getting back. Your template looked liked this: -- the error was the "display" parameter:  would have been correct. (Note that display=title works wherever the coord tag is in the article: in this case, the convention is to put it near the bottom, where the bot puts coord missing tags.) However, one of the great things about Wikipedia is that there are lots of silent helpers around: while I was away, User:Deor had found and fixed it already: see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=City_of_South_Brisbane&diff=521180028&oldid=521151246 Thanks again for helping: please don't worry about making mistakes, almost everyone here has learned how to use the more complex editing tools at least partly through a process of trial and error. -- The Anome (talk) 11:43, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Why isn't the title substituted with the page title? Isn't it a parameter of the template? What model of parametisation is in use here? Call by value? Call by referrnce? Is title some kind of reserved word that is automatically bound to the page title without being manually substituted? I am not worried about making mistakes, but I do not think that "sit back and wait for the cavalry" is what I want to do; I think I am fully capable of doing it myself if the documentation was 1) more available 2) more explanatory. I am tired of trial and error. I would really like to understand how templates are parameterised and instantiated. Kerry (talk) 12:40, 3 November 2012 (UTC)


 * There's a good introductory guide to this at Help:Template. It's generally call by value, using a mixture of positional parameters and named parameters. The region:, type: etc. parameters are not actually template parameters: they're a historical metadata convention, originally created to pass new parameters to the WP:GEOHACK system without changing existing syntax, that has stuck ever since. Confusing, I know.


 * Simple templates are really easy, but the template system, originally introduced as a way of simplifying page layout, has over the last decade been twisted to extreme lengths to act as a programming language and metadata store, and the coord system is a prime example of this. This has been combined with the use of the category system (see, for example Category:Articles missing geocoordinate data by country, the maintenance of which is one of the principal purposes of the coord missing template), and an ecosystem of wikibots and external tools to create an improvised system for a lot of Wikipedia's metadata and workflow management. All of this just grew organically through the semi-coordinated activity of volunteers, kludging the tools available at the time together to make them do things they were never originally intended to do.


 * It's complex and arcane, as is the ad-hoc syntax, but it works. Sometimes there are several ways of doing the same thing: for example infoboxes can be used to specify coordinates, instead of using bare coord tags, but to add confusion, there are at least two ways of doing this. All of this is open and visible in the wiki, and documentation for most of this already exists, albeit in a highly fragmented way, as you can see if you access the template pages themselves. There is lots of (machine-aided) effort to try to clean up and refactor all of this mess, but it's in constant flux, as we are attempting to manage all of this change without creating extra confusion, even as Wikipedia is being constantly edited and new templates created in a mostly-uncoordinated way. So I hope you can see why we often just point users to examples, and rely on their copying examples to make things work.


 * However, as a community we fully understand that none of this is optimal, either for users or technologically, and as a result more powerful techniques to manage editing, templating and metadata -- the new WYSIWYG visual editor, embedded Lua for advanced templating, and Wikidata for global semantic data management using a formal RDF-based metadata model -- are already in active development and beta testing, and will become widely available over the next year. Similarly, Mediawiki's wikitext notation is in the process of being cleaned up and converted from a defined-by-implementation notation to a formal language with well-defined syntax and semantics, through the new parser/renderer project. There's also active work on integration with OpenStreetMap, with its superior geodata model. But there's so much content using the existing system -- roughly a million geographic coordinates alone, for example -- and so many users familiar with its conventions that we cannot make a "big bang" change. In order to ensure all that value in both data and user knowledge will not be lost, we will of necessity have to manage the cutover in stages, with full backwards compatibility and without data loss, by introducing changes incrementally and parallel running both systems for some considerable time, until the old ways of doing things can first be deprecated, then elmininated from articles by being converted (mostly automatically by bot edits) to use the new mechanisms, and then -- perhaps two years from now -- finally dismantled once they are no longer used. At which point, I hope, we should have a much simpler and more maintainable system, with a much better and more extensible architecture.


 * I'm really glad you're interested in the details of all this: we would welcome more help in our ongoing efforts to tidy and overhaul all of these mechanisms to use modern best practices. I can tell you a lot more about this, and introduce you to the process, if you're interested: there's quite a bit of documentation on this online, and all of this is being performed in the open. -- The Anome (talk) 14:04, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Coordinates unneeded/inapplicable template?
I'm seeking to solve a minor problem with missing coordinates. In culling the missing lists, I've come across articles with the coord missing template which really don't need coordinates. Articles such as vast regions (Salt Belt) or concepts. Well, I've removed the template, but I suspect bot will come by again and retag the articles. How about giving us a "coordinates not needed" or "coordinates inapplicable" template? We already have "Template:Coord unknown", but that applies to geographic locations. I'm more concerned about the non-geographic location type articles that get tagged. Whatathink?--S. Rich (talk) 04:31, 7 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. Thanks for removing those templates. I've tried to make the bot as accurate as possible, but automated processes will always have some small fraction of false positives which need fixing by hand. The good news is that the problem you envisage shouldnm't arise in practice: to avoid the bot fighting human editors who fix these sorts of errors, I've coded the bot to remember which articles it's edited do far, so that it can avoid performing the same action (tagging for coordinates, or inserting coordinates) twice. (There is one scenario in which this can happen, which is in the event of article renames, since the log is kept by article name, not by article ID, but in practice this is very rare.)


 * Also, for concepts, there is a permanent fix that will hold off the bot while also adding useful semantic information: if an article has an empty sort-tag on a category, it is treated as if it was describing a concept. For example, if there was an article called Tallest mountains in the United States, that belonged to, it would be tagged in its article text with (note the space after the vertical bar -- that's the category sort-tag) to denote that it was about mountains in the U.S. in general, not about a particular mountain. The bit will recognise this, and hold off from editing. (There's one exception to this: categories with exactly the same name as the article are ignored for this process. Fortunately, in practice, there is always another category for which empty-tagging is appropriate in this case. -- The Anome (talk) 11:10, 7 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks so very much. And congrats on reaching 10 years, two days of editing Wikipedia!--S. Rich (talk) 14:14, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Another question
Here's an inquiry for your expertise: The page Talk:Bonneville Expedition (1857) shows up on the coordinates missing category page [Category:United_States_articles_missing_geocoordinate_data]. But the article already has a {coord missing|Arizona} template. Seems the WikiProject box has parameters for coordinates missing, and so Bonneville is listed twice. Once as an article and once as a talk page. I've noticed the same thing with other talk pages -- usually on Texas articles. Is this a problem with categorization, missing coordinate categorization, bot listing, or just the way it is? Thanks.--S. Rich (talk) 06:23, 8 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Ah. That's interesting. The coord missing template is designed to go on the article page itself, not the talk page. It looks like someone else has started to use the category from the talk page. Thanks for spotting that: I'll have to see how common that usage is, and see if I can get them to use the standard system instead. -- The Anome (talk) 14:54, 8 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Perhaps this is an issue for the WikiProject Council. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council. E.g., they might propound guidance that says "Don't put these templates on the talk page Project banners." As this is a technical issue, I would not know how to frame the policy or question. Can you do this? --S. Rich (talk) 17:11, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Additional info regarding a rangeblock
I'm working on an unblock request from the Imperial College London at UTRS. I will be advising them to either create an account off campus to edit or to request an account at ACC; I'm wondering however if you meant to block the IPv6 range indefinitely? Is there additional information I should have in handling this unblock? --<b style="color:Navy;">Jezebel's</b> Ponyo <sup style="color:Navy;">bons mots 20:59, 8 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. See this diff, in the section near the bottom headed "IPv6 schoolblock question", for the history on this. I've got no problem unblocking this, and will do so now, but if the sockpuppeting from that address range starts up again, we will either need to block it again in order to stop it, or to work with Imperial College to stop the absusive behavior at their end. -- The Anome (talk) 22:08, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I have no issues with the block remaining if its effective, I was just surprised to see no time limit set. I've accidentally picked the wrong duration in the block drop-down myself before and was curious as to whether that was the case here. I agree that if there the disruption starts up the range will need to be blocked again. Perhaps Dougweller should be given a heads-up regarding the unblock so that he can be on the lookout for socking? --<b style="color:Navy;">Jezebel's</b> Ponyo <sup style="color:Navy;">bons mots 22:21, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I am ok with this if we can stop the abuse that has driven some editors into retirement or semi-retirement. It would be lovely to see this guy dealt with in person, not just blocked. Dougweller (talk) 14:32, 9 November 2012 (UTC)


 * If you get even a sniff of this activity returning, let me and/or other admins know, and the whole netblock can be re-blocked immediately. Since it's not currently possible to do anything finer-grained than blocking the entire college's IPv6 connection, at that point I believe we should then consider getting Imperial's net-abuse team involved, if necessary via the WMF to give it more weight: Imperial's Interet connection is via JANET, and JANET have a more than adeqate AUP (see https://community.ja.net/library/acceptable-use-policy -- in particular the sections "Unacceptable Use" and "Access to Other Networks via JANET") and Imperial has a competent IT team who will be able to make sure it's enforced. -- The Anome (talk) 18:30, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Note to self: to do
Stop "containing links needing disambiguation" categories in articles fooling the bot into thinking they are disambiguation pages. -- The Anome (talk) 23:08, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

About Cyril Smith and the "Rochdale Alternative Press"
Hi, The Anome. I've done due diligence, then  un-redlinked "Rochdale Alternative Press". In my opinion, it is "an article that will likely never be created". Your thoughts about this? --Shirt58 (talk) 10:30, 14 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, I think you're right: I can't find any third party sources about this either, so removing the redlink is fine. -- The Anome (talk) 11:37, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
 * FYI, Radical Print Shops <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 00:36, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Wrong place for Karen Village -
Seems like "Karen" is not so rare name throughout Asia and the village described in the article is most certainly not somewhere on the Andaman Island ;g) But perhaps there is another village with a very similar name in that place? Richiez (talk) 11:32, 19 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. It looks like the heuristics used by the bot to select candidates for matching (to a first approximation: only one Wikipedia article, and only one GNS database entry, with the same stemmed-and-deaccented name, country and geographical feature type) -- got a false positive in this case. Accordingly, I've removed the coordinates completely. -- The Anome (talk) 14:19, 19 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I have now added what I believe to be correct coordinates for the article, based on its internal description. -- The Anome (talk) 15:36, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Claimed password details
You realize there were several of those edits? Lady of  Shalott  00:30, 21 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes. I think I've got all of them now, at least of those made by that particular user. -- The Anome (talk) 00:35, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikivoyage coordinates
Regarding inline coordinates on Wikivoyage, you might want to note: ; and. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:46, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Bot on Wikivoyage
Just a heads up regarding your bot flag request on Wikivoyage. I'm ready to flag it as a bot, but I don't think you've actually registered the account yet ("There is no user by the name..."). Leave me a message when you're ready, and I'll flip the switch. --Peter Talk 00:03, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Schwimmtor
Just had to remove the geocoordinates from our article Schwimmtor. The general consensus from the article and elsewhere is that this construction was in Vienna, but the geocord entry gave coordinates that were in Budapest, and even gave a Hungary region code.

Looking to see how this error occurred, I can see the whole entry was added by The Anomebot2 at 17:05 on 8 July 2012. I don't know what base data this robot uses in adding geocoord entries, but it clearly got it wildly wrong in this case, and this perhaps needs investigating to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Not exactly sure (yet) of the real coordinates of the Schwimmtor. I will, of course, replace the entry when and if I am. chris_j_wood (talk) 18:11, 2 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Now added correct coordinates -- chris_j_wood (talk) 18:38, 2 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi -- thanks for spotting this, and adding the correct coordinates.


 * The bot uses a wide range of sources of data for its coordinates, most notably the U.S. NGA's public domain GNS and GNIS databases of named foreign and U.S. locations, and other language editions of Wikipedia. These are then cleaned using a large number of heuristics to try to weed out poor-quality or misfiled coordinates. Unfortunately, in spite of my best endeavours, the automated nature of the bot's activities. and the presence of a small but significant number of errors in the source data, means that a small fraction of the bot's edits (of the order of 0.1%) will inevitably contain incorrect coordinates which will be removed or corrected by editors. Given this, to prevent deleted bad coordinates being re-added by the bot, once it has added coordinates to an article, it won't repeat the action. Nor will it add coordinates to any article that already has them.


 * Where there are errors, I try to investigate where they came from, and, if possible, track down and try to apply a generic fix for the kind of error that created them. In this case, the coordinates were tagged as coming the German-language Wikipedia article on the same subject (see the diff for its edit, where the coordinates are tagged with "source:dewiki".) I'll try to track down where there coordinates came from: the source tag is clearly wrong in this case: probably the result of a typo on my part in running the preparation scripts. -- The Anome (talk) 18:53, 2 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the explanation. I did notice that source:dewiki tag, but I couldn't see any sign of the WP:DE article ever having had coordinates.-- chris_j_wood (talk) 11:09, 3 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I also did a google search for 'Schwimmtor Budapest' in case there were actually two Schwimmtors. I got an impressive number of hits, but when I dug deeper they all seemed to relate to the Vienna one. Even a very professional looking guide to Budapest that recommended the Schwimmtor as a must see attraction, but clearly referring to the one in Vienna and even linking our article. Amazing how quickly a bit of inadvertent misinformation on Wikipedia can get amplified by screen scrapers, and I wonder how many tourists have been left scratching their heads. :-) -- chris_j_wood (talk) 11:15, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Make it a redirect please?
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response is not an implausible redirect, as it is now an article (in the lower case). Can you make it a redirect again? Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) 18:25, 2 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Given that the new article seems to pass WP:N, I've now unprotected Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, so you can do so yourself. -- The Anome (talk) 19:00, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Your adoring public
Blocked. Lady of  Shalott  15:47, 8 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. -- The Anome (talk) 15:51, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

BOTREQ: Duplicate coordinates issue
You may be interested in Bot requests/Archive 51. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:41, 8 December 2012 (UTC)


 * This seems relatively easy to do: I'll add it to my queue of things to do. Getting things right with parsing nested (and possibly also occasionally malformed) templates is probably the most complex part of this. --- The Anome (talk) 21:54, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages
Hello, The Anome. When you moved Good Design Awards to a new title and then changed the old title into a disambiguation page, you may have overlooked WP:FIXDABLINKS, which says:
 * A code of honor for creating disambiguation pages is to fix all resulting mis-directed links.
 * Before moving an article to a qualified name (in order to create a disambiguation page at the base name, to move an existing disambiguation page to that name, or to redirect that name to a disambiguation page), click on What links here to find all of the incoming links. Repair all of those incoming links to use the new article name.

It would be a great help if you would check the other Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Good Design Awards" and fix them to take readers to the correct article. Thanks. R'n'B (call me Russ) 22:44, 8 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Russ. Here's why I haven't cleaned this up yet. The vast majority of the links shown by "what links here" are currently bogus links, left over from their former inclusion in Template:Design, which I have fixed. I'm waiting for the job queue process to ripple this change through, removing them from the links table and leaving only the pages in which the article is actually linked, before I go in and clean up. The alternative would be to grind through 50 or so (it was more, earlier) pages manually looking for links, with most of them being bogus, for the sake of doing the clean-up a few hours earlier than might happen otherwise. -- The Anome (talk) 23:39, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, I wasn't aware of the template change. And the job queue currently is fubar.  Unfortunately, it's hard to tell when the false positives may disappear.  Thanks for the reply.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 02:15, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for fixing the closure of the ANI discussion, I completely forgot about the fact that I'd need to put something at the bottom. Thanks for catching that. Go  Phightins  !  04:17, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

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Turkey, again
Over 5000 needing coordinates now. Can you run the bot for the villages at least?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld  20:49, 20 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. A lot of these are quite new, so the bot won't have picked them up yet, and it will simply pick them up next time. However, there's a lot of name reuse between places, and that's a much bigger problem; in there cases the bot's main database matcher code will refuse to geocode a place because there are several entries, in both Wikipedia and the GNS database of places with the same basename in the same country (for example, there are nine distinct places all named "Akpınar") and, not knowing any other geography, it doesn't have sufficient data to tell which is which.


 * The latter problem is notrivial; it's a lot like the problem we had with places in Poland, which has so much name reuse that it eventually needed some quite complex software to be written to resolve the multiply-used placenames to geographic database entries, by using the Wikipedia category structure and the voivodeship/powiat/gmina administrative region hierarchy to disambiguate places.


 * Simple though it sounds in concept, it took a lot of implementation, testing, and debugging effort before it worked sufficiently reliably to be able to assign coordinates to places without significant numbers of errors: and even then, becuase or remaining imprecision, wiggly-shaped area boundaries, and internal errors in the data, some places could not be assigned due to the margins of error being too small to differentiate between similarly named places very close together within the country.


 * I suspect some similar solution will be needed for these places in Turkey. Still, 5000 (and growing) articles is a big win, and may well be worth the effort of implementing and debugging a solution for this. -- The Anome (talk) 01:17, 21 December 2012 (UTC)


 * An illustration: Wikipedia has nine different populated places called "Akpınar". The GNS database has 120 entries for populated places called "Akpınar", in 60 different geographic regions. Given this alone, it looks unlikely there's insufficient information to tell which corresponds to which. -- The Anome (talk) 01:45, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

For those ultra problematic names might be best to draw up a manual list afterwards to tackle.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld  21:31, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Please contact me
Hi there - I am the Director, Community Advocacy for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that supports Wikipedia. It's very important that I talk to you - would you please email me at philippe@undefinedwikimedia.org at your earliest opportunity? Again, it's very important and urgent that I speak with you. Thank you. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 06:41, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Please don't bite the newbies.
Recently a user made a useful, goodfaith, edit to an article. Here - they changed 'ciil' to 'civil'. You chose to "welcome" them to the project with a ridiculous template about their username. Please, point out the specific part of username policy that they are violating? Why do you feel it's acceptable to use spurious bits of obscure policy to attack good faith editors? User "IHateTheDuck" has made no more edits to WP, and may well never edit again. You could be the cause of that editor never returning. --31.127.3.97 (talk) 17:08, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: WP:VP. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 07:06, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
I wrote a short thank you note to you. Lova Falk  talk  19:57, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

RFBA -- community discussion requested
I disagree with this bot going forward without a community discussion. Please start one in an appropriate venue and place notices about the bot's task for interested editors to that discussion. Thanks. --150.135.114.58 (talk) 18:42, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Hot Doc ISSN
You asked for that number in the WikiProject Greece, i don't know if you still need it, i happen to own a HotDoc issue and here it is its ISSN: 2241-2433 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sperxios (talk • contribs) 18:48, 13 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you! -- The Anome (talk) 20:06, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Saying Thanks to The Anome
I'd like to say thanks to you. Thanks you so much for your editing some articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chaungoothar (talk • contribs) 15:17, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Are vehicles to be geotagged now
Hi, I fail to see why is necessary, unless the trams have a satnav system giving a data feed which we are reading. -- Red rose64 (talk) 17:06, 25 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks -- it was a false positive, I'm currently running the bot on a short run with rather looser filters than normal to catch up on edge cases, and keeping an eye on the edits to spot errors: I should have seen this one and rolled it back. Done now. -- The Anome (talk) 17:11, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Unnatural act


The article Unnatural act has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * The article seems biased since there are may other usages of the term unnatural act. The article has been around for years and nobody has improved it sofar. <font color="grey" face="Tahoma">Pass a Method <font color="grey" face="papyrus">talk  22:48, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

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Nomination of Unnatural act for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Unnatural act is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Unnatural act & until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Illia Connell (talk) 23:12, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

BAGBot: Your bot request The Anomebot2 3
Someone has marked Bots/Requests for approval/The Anomebot2 3 as needing your input. Please visit that page to reply to the requests. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 14:24, 4 February 2013 (UTC) <small style="color:gray">To opt out of these notifications, place  anywhere on this page.

Harrow and Uxbridge Railway
Hi, re your move of to Harrow and Uxbridge Railway Company - we normally omit the word "Company" from the titles of articles about railway companies, see. -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:20, 10 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads-up. I will move the article back. -- The Anome (talk) 16:21, 10 February 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- The Anome (talk) 16:56, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * -- Red rose64 (talk) 17:35, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

A400 road (Great Britain)
Hi The Anome, just going through the unassessed articles on WikiProject UK roads and have hit upon this one. It's a nice write-up but I'm a bit concerned about the comment on the talk page that the article is built upon map reading and local knowledge, this seems (to my humble eye at least) to give the impression of original research. Obviously unref stuff on a road article is easy to verify these days thanks to Google Streetview, but imho it would be good for the article's credibility if you could find some ref material to attach to the article. I suggest the map which you presumably have in your possession could count as a book reference if inline-cited as appropriate? The article's good enough at least for C-class, but in an unref state it would have to be stub-class. I'll leave assessing this one till I hear back on your thoughts. Cheers, Baldy Bill  ( sharpen the razor &#124; see my reflection ) 23:37, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Old Anomiebot2 error
Just wanted to let you know about this edit, which I've just reverted; apparently the bot thought it was a specific county, not the concept of counties. I suppose it's perhaps too old and too trivial to worry about; if so, accept my apology. Nyttend (talk) 13:43, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * And likewise this, since it's about insects in a specific region. Do you want me to continue reporting these, or are they old enough that I need not bother?  Nyttend (talk) 22:55, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * No, please carry on: I'm always looking for patterns in errors, and when I see anything that I could have prevented using a relatively robust heuristic, I'll add it to the code. -- The Anome (talk) 00:05, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Did you make the page about Nutshell?

 * I think I created it as a disambig page, after moving Nutshell (song) to its current title. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nutshell&oldid=167671154 -- The Anome (talk) 21:42, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

DQB UAA
The requested updates have been done and pushed live to the server. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  11:46, 5 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you! I've now started to add this to some of the most common cases that need it. -- The Anome (talk) 16:52, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Sockmaster
G'day The Anome, the account (User:Hyper obese guy) you blocked yesterday is back as (User:Ftawww) per Sockpuppet investigations/Hyper obese guy. Regards, Peacemaker67 (send... over) 03:38, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Edits to STalking page
Hello, I was just reading about the gang stalking edits to the stalking page. While it is a big leap to understand your own page tends to give the evidence (please read the statistics of people reporting stalking by multiple victims including family and friends of stalker) that some of the things reported are possible. How to make HERF weaponry is clearly defined on YouTube, even videos proving that HERF weaponry works. However if you truly doubt the existence of HERF weaponry, please fell free to look up the ADS or Active Denial System used by our military, it is the prime example of HERF weaponry being used by our country. For me, I had no idea that this even existed until my landlady decided she wanted me to move out of my home due to my low rent bracket and fixed rent. Show a little more of an open mindedness because the truth is, how would you feel if I told you your very real experiences were a lie used to gain attention? Sincerely and with respect 68.70.225.35 (talk) 14:42, 19 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi. Thanks for your comments, and please accept my sympathies for your situation. How Wikipedia can best deal with the conflicts between different people's views of the world is a perennial problem, and members of the Wikipedia contributor community have worked together over time to evolve policies that attempt to address it as best we can. For your particular issue, you might want to take a look at the page Verifiability, not truth, which summarizes Wikipedia's stance on how it deals with the issue of conflicting accounts of the world. -- The Anome (talk) 12:32, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

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WP Geographical Coordinates in the Signpost
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Geographical Coordinates for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. –Mabeenot (talk) 02:06, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Unblock of Stinky1244
Hi Anome. Just a note to let you know that I've unblocked this user to allow a change of username. I can't see that you'd have any problem with that, but if you do, please let me know. Cheers, Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  07:56, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Puppets
Could User:Poopybobfart and User:Honkadoodoo be puppets of User:123abcwiki? I would try to right now, but my computer is being difficult right now, I can barely put a space in between words. —<font style="color:red;background:black;">SP E SH <font style="color:white;background:black;">531 <font style="color:silver;background:black;">Other 22:17, 29 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I suspect so. I'm on it. -- The Anome (talk) 22:18, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I believe I also found User:Vizio123wiki—<font style="color:red;background:black;">SP E SH <font style="color:white;background:black;">531 <font style="color:silver;background:black;">Other 22:27, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * You cannot forget User:Bonker123-<font style="color:red;background:black;">SP E SH <font style="color:white;background:black;">531 <font style="color:silver;background:black;">Other 22:38, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Gang Stalking
Please see a content dispute regarding Stalking here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Stalking.2C_Talk:Stalking — Preceding unsigned comment added by Damonthesis (talk • contribs) 17:04, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Could you please comment on Talk:Thought_identification
I'm beside myself trying to update information that I believe to be very relevent. It looks to me like several users who "hang out" at "ANI:Fringe" are working together to remove well sourced, valid, on topic material which shows the state of military research into thought identification. Outside comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Damonthesis (talk) 19:39, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Please block Special:Contributions/Zistebá
Please block Special:Contributions/Zistebá with expiry time of indefinite, because the user may contribute changing musical genres. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.171.179.55 (talk) 15:39, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

bot error
TheAnomebot2 tried adding a coord missing template to Presbytery of Newton. This is an organization's regional governing body, not a location. I know these mistakes are often made with bot-edits, but it seems to be happening more often recently.--ColonelHenry (talk) 16:35, 4 May 2013 (UTC)


 * The bot also identified Eliel Saarinen's Tribune Tower design as needing a coord mising template, but there is no location associated. Binksternet (talk) 13:59, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
 * And doubtless many others - I came here because of Saflieni phase, which is an archeological era in Malta, so not easy to pin on a map. Anyway, it's easy enough to remove the "coords missing" tag when it's been placed in error. But what will stop the bot then tagging the article again? Does it know where it has been? If so, that's good. If not, I suggest that some sort of "coords: no" maintenance tag might be useful. Could that be done? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:12, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Blocking usernames with no edits
You know we don't normally do that unless they are extremely offensive right? With no edits there is no way to actually know that someone who puts "official" in their username is actually intending to spam anything, and what is the point of blocking accounts with no edits anyway? There are probably five to ten such cases every day where an account with a name that is probably a violation is reported but they never make a single edit. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:06, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Human vaginal size article
Hello, The Anome. You might be interested in commenting on the following matter since it concerns an article you created: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine. Flyer22 (talk) 20:53, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Visual editor testing
Hi! It seems rather pointless to test the visual editor on en.wp since our version is outdated; they are running the current version over at mediawiki.org. If you like, you can play around here: mw:VisualEditor:TestAxelBoldt. Reporting bugs at VisualEditor/Feedback seems to work. Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 19:54, 14 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi: thanks for letting me know -- this is news to me, too. The developers definitely need to be able to communicate more effectively with their alpha testers. I've been using this tool here under the mistaken impression I might be helping: it's a pity I've been wasting my time doing so. It seems completely pointless, from the viewpoint of both testers and developers, to ask people to alpha-test an obsolete version, finding bugs that are already fixed: and the feedback form that was ignored added fiurther pointlessness to the task. I'll give the up-to-date version a go, and see if I can actually help things along. -- The Anome (talk) 22:37, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Post-block clean-up query
Hi mate, you blocked this user for an obvious username violation. I non-admin closed this AfD which was obviously pointy. Do you want to have a look at the brand new user who showed up to that AfD soon after or would you like me to open a formal SPI? Stalwart 111  14:21, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Donuts!
Congratulations on your long career here on Wikipedia. I noticed you've been here almost since the beginning. I'm glad to find editors like you still here after a decade. Have some donuts on me. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 19:15, 26 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the donuts, Chris! Best wishes, -- The Anome (talk) 20:27, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Block
I noticed you blocked the user, this might be worth revdel, leaving it here for you to decide. Cheers. Begoon &thinsp; talk 09:23, 4 June 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- The Anome (talk) 20:27, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Request
Hello! Can you please full protect Ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș? Rob.HUN continues edit warring and refuses to answer my message on the talk page. The article was semi-protected after several IPs of him were blocked, but he re-apperead with an autoconfirmed account (see SPI here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Rob.HUN). Thanks in advance Raysdiet (talk) 10:13, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Edit summary required
I'm sure you remember reverting and hiding three edits to the article Defense Distributed on May 11, 2013. From the logs, it appears that you included an edit summary when you deleted those revisions but User:Fred Bauder subsequently deleted the summary.

Not providing an edit summary goes against the guidelines of WP:CRD, correct? I started a discussion about this on May 12 and User:Fred Bauder replied to it on May 29. However, I think he misunderstood my concern. He posted links that discuss the current status of the blueprints even though I know where to find them and have no interest in downloading them.

So what is your opinion of this? Do you think we can get your original edit summary back... or substitute it with an edit summary that still explains the reason for the deletion but in a way that other admins don't find objectionable? Connor Behan (talk) 19:53, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Reporting this, not as an incident but just a matter of general interest for admins :). Connor Behan (talk)

Red Link to Algorithmic Delay in Opus (audio format)
Hi The Anome. I just undid a revision of yours in Opus (audio format) where you linked to Algorithmic Delay - a page which does not yet exist. I'm not sure it would be notable enough to exist on its own (it's similar to latency but is only a component of total latency and it's defined later in the paragraph). Let me know if you feel an in-Wiki link is desirable, and we could probably paste my definition and reference from that paragraph into a section within Audio_latency to point out the subtle difference. Dynamicimanyd (talk) 09:08, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Block request of User:Daredevil7
Please block User:Daredevil7 with an expiry set of indefinite, because the user may vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.171.177.205 (talk) 07:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Block of Dreckbolle
You have username-blocked this editor, who is appealing his block. Although I do not argue as to the appropriateness of the block, I do not understand why the name is not acceptable. Could you please enlighten me?--<b style="color:red;">Anthony Bradbury</b><sup style="color:black;">"talk" 16:06, 30 June 2013 (UTC)


 * My German is not very good, so please check this with a native German speaker, but I believe, if I recall correctly, that it's idomatic German for [approximately] "dirt/filth/muck/rubbish onion/bulb/ball/hole", with "dirthole" being one possible interpretation. -- The Anome (talk) 17:09, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Your old user talk page
Hello, I've just gained access to a May 2003 database dump and the ability to import from it to this Wikipedia; I've been using it to restore edits to all sorts of weird and wonderful pages. You deleted your user talk page in June 2003; would you mind if I used the May 2003 database dump to restore several of the missing edits to the location of your old talk page history, User talk:The Anome/archive 8? I could then connect this history with the wayward old edits at Talk:The Anome. I will change usernames where necessary, and I can even re-attribute edits made by your IP addresses to your username if you like. See also this similar conversation. If I don't hear anything from you within the next 24 hours (and you've made intervening edits), I will take it as consent to proceed. Graham 87 12:51, 1 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi. Yes, I have no problem with that. Please don't re-attribute the IP edits, though, for the time being, without checking with me further. -- The Anome (talk) 21:29, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, all done. Graham 87 09:23, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Why is this removed?
Hi I saw you make changes to July 2013 Egyptian protests. Can you tell me why some information keeps getting removed (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=July_2013_Egyptian_protests&diff=562719639&oldid=562719456). This happened before too (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=July_2013_Egyptian_protests&diff=prev&oldid=562702876) and (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=July_2013_Egyptian_protests&diff=prev&oldid=562668808). I asked here too (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:July_2013_Egyptian_protests&diff=562717178&oldid=562693587) but no one said anything so far. Thanks a lot!99.232.63.252 (talk) 18:01, 3 July 2013 (UTC)


 * It's because lots of different people edit Wikipedia, all with different opinions and agendas. The usual procedure here is to add a comment to the talk page stating that you're going to do so, and then put it back. If it's taken out again, without any further discussion in the talk page, you might want to take a look at the WP:3RR policy. -- The Anome (talk) 18:05, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

So I already add a comment to the talk page. He didn't respond. Can you please give your comment in my support over there. I think I am adding important information and it is completely true. It is in many newspapers. I just left a comment on his talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:5.151.109.10) too.99.232.63.252 (talk) 18:20, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Egypt coup
Im off to sleep now, its 2am. But we need some more sources and stuff to the coup section. I hope you like that differentiation as the event is now more important.

I also added a comment to the see also in the talk page. Another analyst on Al Jazeera made the parallel as well.

Anyways, keep up the good work. Ill see where we are tomorrow and help out.(Lihaas (talk) 20:33, 3 July 2013 (UTC)).

Merge discussion for Timeline of Sun Myung Moon
An article that you have been involved in editing, Timeline of Sun Myung Moon, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Steve Dufour (talk) 16:00, 5 July 2013 (UTC) Steve Dufour (talk) 16:00, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Fuck-buddy


A tag has been placed on Fuck-buddy, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which articles can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
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 * It consists of a dictionary definition or other article that has been transwikied to another project and the author information recorded. (See section A5 of the criteria for speedy deletion.)

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Anomebot2
Anomebot2 added a note to place geodata for Iowa on this page. The stub contains Indiana as the location. Bot-issue? Rwos (talk) 06:29, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * No, the page has, therefore, as far as the bot is concerned, it's in Iowa. -- Red rose64 (talk) 06:37, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry - just noticed the same. Category appears mistaken. Rwos (talk) 07:00, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Welcome centers in the US
Hey. I was wondering if you could help align the columns in the chart at the above page and generally make this chart better in any possible way. I have been having trouble figuring out what's wrong with the chart, which I spent about 8 months working on. You seem to have an impressive record here on Wikipedia. :) Thank you in advance for your help! Jay (talk) 12:49, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

You blocked my username recently due to it being unacceptable. I was unaware of username requirements so did that little change your username thing which was posted to my talk and it was accepted by Anthony Bradbury. However, I am now unsure as to what I have to do; there are no real instructions given.

Could you assist in instructing me on what I am to do now?Wittydickhead (talk) 20:00, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adameda Murray: The Biggest WomanTo Ever Walk The North Country
Just a note that you didn't sign your closing of the above AfD discussion. You may want to do so to prevent another editor from having to add in an unsigned template! Cheers, Northamerica1000(talk) 11:54, 29 July 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅ Thanks. -- The Anome (talk) 12:05, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Yup. Thanks! Northamerica1000(talk) 12:53, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Block evasion
Thank you for blocking User:Moneymakingblog. Unfortunately, the editor is now engaging in block evasion, as User:Amzozoka. Is there some place other than WP:SPI where blatant WP:DUCKs can be reported and promptly blocked? Thanks, Toccata quarta (talk) 13:56, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Portapottydirect
Sorry, we got thoroughly confused here - my fault, I made completely the wrong block (over-sensitive touchpad), you made the right one, I unblocked to correct my wrong one, undoing your correct one... I think it's straight now! JohnCD (talk) 18:58, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Servent


The article Servent has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * This neologism has not caught on beyond Gnutella documentation, and while that documentation may meet the standards of WP:RS, the article topic is ultimately non-notable jargon. Fails WP:NOTNEO and WP:NOTDICT.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Lesser Cartographies (talk) 04:56, 9 August 2013 (UTC)