User talk:Thehelpfulone/Archive/April 2009

Request for Internal Account Creation Interface
I have requested access to the English Wikipedia Internal Account Creation Interface tool and I was wondering if I need to provide any additional information before I can get approval. Thanks. GT5162 (我的对话页) 15:42, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

You made easter bunny cry!
Meh, I was logging in to revert! I swear! ;) -- lucasbfr  talk 21:56, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Outline of knowledge WikiProject update - 04/02/2009
Hi everyone.

Things are going slow again. Where have you been?!

Maybe what you need to get you going is a little competition...

Who are we competing with?
Encyclopedia Britannica. Specifically, with its Outline of knowledge (presented in its volume called the Propaedia). Currently, they're kicking our asses. You've really got to check out their Outline of Knowledge (available only in the encyclopedia's paper edition - not the online version).

Portals. Informally, of course, just for the fun of it. There are around 600 portals. We're about 100 behind them, with about 500 outlines. Let's blow past them and leave 'em in the dust!

Confusion in editors at large
Now that the country outlines have been moved to the encyclopedia proper (article space), recruiting help on these is of high priority -- it will soon be time to alert all relevant editors to the nature and function of these and how they relate to other country coverage on Wikipedia.

However, I've noticed instances in which editors do not understand the nature and function of outline pages, and complain that they are redundant to articles. Well, ya. (That's the point of an outline - to provide the essentials in a structure for greater understanding, for easy viewing and faster reading, and to provide a topical guide).

A few editors over the years have viewed outlines as redundant to portals, not understanding the purpose and scope of outlines, nor the benefits provided by their structure and standardization.

These problems of misunderstanding need to be solved before "going public", to prevent their expansion as the community's awareness of these pages increases. Consider the response we'd get now if we announced these pages on the talk pages of 500 WikiProjects, 500 article talk pages, and placed links in 500 see also sections, etc.

That could be a nightmare.

So...

Encyclopedic and administrative support
I've been working on a couple things that will help alleviate confusion and hopefully reduce the need for editors to ask questions and seek advice. They're drafts, still under construction. Please look these over and jump in and help complete them (directly or by providing feedback):

First is an Outline article draft, intended to replace the current Outline article.

Next is a guideline on the Outline of knowledge and its outline pages.

Let me know what you think. Do they help you understand outlines better and how to develop them on Wikipedia? What is missing? How can they be improved?

The Transhumanist 04:53, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Move request
Please move Cognitive enhancer to Nootropic (the original and most common name for this). I can't do it because there's more than one edit in the history at the destination.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 00:59, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Hey,

I have now moved that page for you! :)

The Helpful  One  09:49, 1 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you.


 * The Transhumanist 19:49, 1 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Could you reverse that? We had a discussion on the talk page about this. Scientists often use nootropic as a subset of cognitive enhancers, and most use the word cognitive enhancers. II  | (t - c) 22:25, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Oddly, the discussion identified the term "nootropic" as the most widely used term, yet the page was moved anyways. I've looked over the field, and "nootropic" isn't a subset of "cognitive enhancers" (though "memory enhancers" are), "cognitive enhancers" is a synonym for "nootropics".  I've added more information to talk:Nootropic.  The Transhumanist  00:51, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks alot
I never realised you reverted vandalism on my userpage, thought I'd drop by and say a big thank you.  Ayr ton Prost   Sign Here/Contact 13:13, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Technical problem with my sign
Hi. I dont know if you can help me. Since an hour ago I have faced a problem with my signature. I personalized it yesterday, and it worked properly. Since then I did'nt change it anymore. It still works when I use it on most pages (like here on your discussion-page). But whenever I place my signature on my own user or user-discussion page, the time and the date is displayed in red (like the heart), and I have no idea why this is. Can you help me?-- Rectilinium  '♥ ' 03:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot for your help! :)... -- Rectilinium  '♥'  04:14, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Happy 's Day!
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WikiCup Newsletter XI
Delivered for the WikiCup by  ROBOTIC GARDEN  at 21:38, 5 April 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.

AWB tasks
I've dived back into the content of outlines, and have some AWB tasks for you!

Be sure to look in the edit window to see exactly what they are...

task one
On all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country outlines, please replace:

The following topic outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to '''

(not including the nowiki codes)

with:

"The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to "

(not including the quotation marks, and be sure to include the space at the end)

task two
This has 5 search/replaces that you can do in the same pass:

On all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox12, please...

Search/replace 1
replace:

"The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to"

with:

"The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to"

Search/replace 2
replace:

The following list of topics is provided as an overview of and introduction to '''

(without the nowiki codes)

with:

"The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to "

(without the quotes, but with the space at the end)

Search/replace 3
replace:


 * ''For a more comprehensive list, see [[List of

with:

{{see also|Outline of

(there's a space at the end of the search string and replace string)

Search/replace 4
replace:


 * ''For a more comprehensive list, see the [[List of

with:

{{see also|Outline of

(there's a space at the end of the search string and replace string)

Search/replace 5
replace:

" topics]].''"

(not the quotes, but the italic code yes)

with:

}}

have fun
more to come...

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RE: Move Request
Hey,

I have now moved that page for you! :)

The Helpful  One  09:49, 1 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you.


 * The Transhumanist 19:48, 1 April 2009 (UTC)


 * A user has asked for this page move to be reversed - per the previous discussion at Talk:Nootropic. Therefore, should I revert back? The  Helpful  One  12:55, 3 April 2009 (UTC)


 * The move to "cognitive enhancers" was bogus. Even the person who contacted you preferred the term "nootropic" in the discussion. No consensus on the facts were reached (see the discussion, it's hilarious, yet the page was still moved).  I've added to the discussion there, with some solid citations showing that "nootropic" is the most common term for the topic.  The Transhumanist  03:12, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Another move request
Please move Talk:Cognitive enhancers to Talk:Nootropic. To match the article page. :) Thank you.  The Transhumanist  03:12, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Bot changes in violation of MOS
Edits by the bot, per this diff, violate the MOS, and have been reverted wholesale. Please redo these edits, but refrain from making "cosmetic changes" such adding spaces in headings. Per WP:HEADING, "Spaces between the == and the heading text are optional (==H2== versus == H2 ==). These extra spaces will not affect the appearance of the heading, except in the edit window." Please respect the original editor's intent, and have the bot stop making these changes. Thanks. - BillCJ (talk) 12:24, 7 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, I reverted all the changes in that edit, which is what I meant by "wholesale". I don't have a bot to make repetitive edits easieer, so I don't see why I needed to do all the work. As to uniformity, the article did use the ==H2== format uniformly, so I'm not sure why you think changing it to == H2 == makes it more uniform. And sure, it's a nit-picky thing, but why change change then? - BillCJ (talk) 14:27, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Outline of knowledge WikiProject update - 04/06/2009
As the country outlines have been approaching completion and more attention has been given to the non-country outlines and the Outline of knowledge as a whole, I've run into this...

Topic lists
As you know, we've been cleaning up sets of pages the links of which are displayed on the outlines.

One of the most prominent of the sets presented are the "List of x topics" (including "List of x-related topics) pages, and they are in a sorry state.

There's actually 2 different kinds mixed together in the same set: most of them are alphabetical indexes.

The others are non-alphabetical hierarchical lists. That is...

outlines!

So, I've been renaming the indexes to "Index of x articles" or "Index of x-related articles", and wikifying them (especially their lead sections). So far, all the country-related topics lists that are indexes have been renamed. It appears the new name fits so well that nobody favors the old name over the new. It's been over a week since that was done, with no complaints, so I've started on the rest.

As for the topic lists that are outlines, those can be absorbed or merged into the OOK. Even though this would entail a lot of renaming and reformatting, and cutting and pasting, these pages might still save us some work! I'm not sure how many there are, but that should become clear once the index pages are all renamed.

Feel free to join in and help. It's hog's heaven!

The Transhumanist 04:47, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi. There's a problem with at least a few of your edits today, eg outline of dance and outline of painting: These links at the top were meant to lead to the "List of x topics" (or in the renamed scheme, "Index of x topics"), but your botrun edited them into selfredirects. I only checked a few, so don't know how extensive the mistake is. That's all, thanks :) -- Quiddity (talk) 17:12, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Move request: "Topic outline of history" to "Outline of history", over redirect
Please move Topic outline of history to Outline of history.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 01:35, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Task one
In AWB, please make a list of all the pages in article space that link to Glossary of philosophical theories. And then replace:

"Glossary of philosophical theories"

with:

"Glossary of philosophical isms"

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 01:08, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: more to come.

Account Creation Interface access
Hi, I was suspended a few months ago for re-opening requests unnecessarily. Could you please tell me when my ban expires, if at all? Thanks. --Joshua Issac (talk) 21:38, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I applied a 10-day old rule about ignoring spoofing checks to 3 month old requests without checking the dates. --Joshua Issac (talk) 14:41, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


 * OK, I won't re-open closed requests. --Joshua Issac (talk) 19:43, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. --Joshua Issac (talk) 12:47, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

RE: AWB tasks
OK, I've started on these tasks:

task one
On all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country outlines, please replace:

The following topic outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to '''

(not including the nowiki codes)

with:

"The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to "

(not including the quotation marks, and be sure to include the space at the end)


 * However, the problem is, only 3 pages were actually changed during this - if I take a random example: Outline of the United States Virgin Islands - this has that sentence, but the topic outline is NOT wikilinked, like I have searched for in my find/replace task. Therefore, should I do this task again, and instead of  topic outline  use topic outline?
 * The Helpful  One  11:37, 7 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes please. :)  The Transhumanist  23:48, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Task two
This one was a bit more complicated, there's a list of ones that were done, and those that weren't.

Hope this helps,

The Helpful One 12:15, 7 April 2009 (U9


 * Yes, it did help. And thank you for the lists of dones/not dones.  I found those especially useful.


 * I already spotted the problem you mentioned, and started fixing them yesterday. (See my recent contribs).  I'll have the rest done today or tomorrow.  The Transhumanist  22:10, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


 * The Transhumanist 22:10, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Frank Murphy
I added quite a bit of material. Please tweak. Thanks. 7&amp;6=thirteen (talk) 18:32, 8 April 2009 (UTC) Stan

AWB state history outline tasks
There are some self-references that need to be removed, per WP:SRTA.

On the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Outlines of state histories...

Please replace:

"The following is an '''outline of"

with:

"The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to"

and replace:

" with hyperlinks to relevant Wikipedia articles."

with:

"."

(You should include "Removed self references per WP:SRTA", or something to that effect in the edit summary.)

Thank you.

The reason for the change is that "hyperlinks" refers to the interface, and references to Wikipedia are also discouraged in WP:SRTA.

The Transhumanist 03:59, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikimania 2010 Oxford bid
Thank you for supporting the Oxford bid to hold Wikimania 2010! We're currently in the final stages of the bid process - the jury will be announcing their decision by the 16th April. We're currently putting together the local team for the bid (who will do what if the bid wins); if you're able to be on the local team, please put your name in the appropriate place on m:Wikimania 2010/Bids/Oxford/Team. We'd also welcome anything you can do to help refine the bid in these last few days. If you have any questions, please let me or User:Seddon know. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Outline of knowledge project summary, and future direction
In response to a friend on Wikipedia who was wondering about how I've been and what I've been up to, I got to spewing about our little endeavor, and well, I got so carried away I pretty much told him everything. :) The message turned out to be a pretty good summary of what we've accomplished so far and the overall plan.

See User talk:The Rambling Man

The Transhumanist 23:03, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Happy Easter!
On behalf of the Kindness campaign, I just wanted to wish my fellow Wikipedians a Happy Easter! Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk 07:39, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion
In Articles for deletion/List of philosophical theories, the editor who created the nominated page mentioned that the material he used to create that list was previously AfD'd.

Therefore, the page is subject to speedy deletion (WP:G4).

Had I known this, I would have tagged it for speedy instead of nominating it for AfD. What should I do now? Withdraw the nom, and tag the article for speedy?

The Transhumanist 23:50, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Nevermind. The Transhumanist  03:13, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Corresponding U.S. States article index AWB tasks
On the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Indexes of U.S. States please do the following search/replaces. The actual strings can be found in the edit window, and do not appear correctly below.

Search/replace 1
Please replace (see the wikicode):

The following is a '''list of topics

with:

Articles

Search/replace 2
Please replace (see the wikicode):

]]'''.

with (wikicode):

]]''' include:

Thank you
More to come. :)

The Transhumanist 04:14, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

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Heads up...
I just assigned Julian Colton 50 AWB tasks.

He might need your help or advice. :)

The Transhumanist 20:04, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Update on the Outline of knowledge WikiProject & Geography WikiProject (Country outlines workgroup) - 04/16/2009
Momentum in the development of the outlines is continuing to build, even though we haven't added any new outlines lately. Plenty of work is being done on the outlines we already have.

Keep up the good work everyone!

Inspiration!
Kudos go to Buaidh, who has dived head first into outline development, continuing improvement of the country outlines, and doing so vigorously. Take a look at his contribs. He has taken the initiative and has been expanding those outlines' design and coverage. Be sure to let him know what you think of his work!

Coming soon: the Super Huge Expansion (it will be really really big)
Excitement (mine at least) is building as we approach the Super Huge Expansion, during which notices will be placed on thousands of subject talk pages and their corresponding WikiProjects (see below concerning which ones). Though not all on the same day! - this will take place over a period of weeks or months, because it's best not to open the flood gates all at once.

The existing outlines should serve as strong examples for editors who wish to develop new outlines, and so we need to complete them as much as we can before we start to take this to the next level (in about 3 months). The rewrite of the outline article (the draft, which explains outlines in detail), and the guideline on outlines and outline development, also need to be completed before the transcendence begins. These will help guide the decisions and actions of editors, and reduce confusion.

Projected outline, at the OOK WikiProject page
What's next? Where is the Outline of knowledge headed?

Well, it will grow, to encompass all of human knowledge.

But, is there a plan?

YES!!!

Currently under construction on the Outline of knowledge WikiProject page is a version of the outline that will display links to all the outline pages currently in the encyclopedia proper, links to all outline drafts, and redlinks to all planned outline drafts.

You can help. Please place links to the remaining drafts in there (with complete pagenames so we can easily tell they are drafts). Once all the draft pages are placed, please look over the overall outline for gaps in coverage, and add missing subjects. I expect there are thousands of missing subjects extensive enough to benefit from being outlined. New subjects should be included as red draft links. Thank you.

But it's not just an editing task list...

During the upcoming "Super Huge Expansion" (mentioned above), the article talk page and WikiProject for each of the subjects listed on the projected outline will receive a notice requesting the creation and development of the outline page for that subject. Each notice will also explain how a subject's outline will integrate into the Outline of knowledge and into Wikipedia's navigation system as a whole.

See WikiProject Outline of knowledge.

Topic lists
The nice thing about a reverse outline is that it turns up problems that exist in the publication being outlined, which provides opportunities to fix them. Since we get very little or no opposition to fixing problems even on sets of hundreds of pages, we've been plowing through them.

One of the biggest problems in Wikipedia that our work on the Outline of knowledge has uncovered so far is with the set of topics lists. Their titles, in the forms "List of x topics" and "List of x-related topics" are ambiguous, and they are not the most common terms for describing their content. See WP:COMMONNAME. To make matters worse, the set is divided between 2 competing types/sets of pages: alphabetical indexes, and outlines.

In an effort to sort out this mess, the indexes are being renamed, and the outlines are being reformatted and moved, or merged, into the Outline of knowledge.

So far, almost 300 topic lists have been renamed to indexes. Nobody has objected to the names chosen, but one editor has expressed reservation on the approach - he was concerned it would cause confusion by having 2 title standards in place at the same time for these. Though he himself was not confused, nor did he object to the titles. And nobody else has expressed confusion or dissatisfaction with the new titles either. It has been over 2 weeks since the renaming has begun, and since no confusion seems to have been caused, and since there is no opposition to the new names, I plan to continue with the renaming.

Also, one topic list has been merged into its corresponding outline so far: List of transport topics was merged into Outline of transport. It turned out very good. List of cell biology topics is currently being merged into Outline of cell biology (see the link dump in hidden comments at the end of the outline).

I'm not sure how many lists have "topics" in their titles, but Google turned up 788, and these appear to include the ones that have already been renamed to indexes. Subtracting those renamed so far, there are about 500 more to go.

Watching tips
I thought you might want to compare notes on the methods we use to watch over the outlines. Here's how I keep an eye on things...

My watchlist had so many thousands of articles in it that I finally just deleted them all. Now I have it set so that I have to manually add pages to be watched, and I use it only to watch trouble spots and collaborations I'm participating in.

Because I like to watch specific sets of pages at a time, I use "Related changes" on list pages. That way the results are not watered down with edits from pages I'm not immediately concerned with.

I always use WP:POP and Related changes together. With POP installed, you go to a link list, like User:Buaidh/Country outlines of the Americas, then click on "Related changes" in the toolbox menu, and then hover the mouse cursor over the diff and hist links so you can look at those without clicking on them.

It's pretty fast.

The technique turns Wikipedia's list system into a crystal ball.

Update Scanner
Penubag recommends Update Scanner, which is a Firefox add-on that periodically scans pages and pings you when a change is detected. You can even set its level of sensitivity for each scanned page (e.g., "ignore changes of 100 words or less").

I'd use it, but I don't have a computer. :(

See also WP:OTS for more power tools and techniques, and User:Penubag/optimum toolsets for some more nice addons, that do a variety of things.

I'm always looking for new power tools and power skills, so if you know of any, please share (let me know)!

The Transhumanist 04:47, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

U.S. States outlines AWB task
On all the pages list at: User:The Transhumanist/Outlines of U.S. States

search/replace one
Please replace:

"overview of and introduction"

with:

"overview of and topical guide"

✅ by Xeno. The Transhumanist 20:18, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

search/replace two
Please replace:


 * ''For an alphabetical index of this subject, see the [[List of

with:

{{see also

(without the nowikis)

{{done}} The Transhumanist 19:39, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

search/replace three
Please replace:

"-related topics]].''"

(notice the itallics code at the end: two single quote marks)

with:

-related topics}}

(no nowikis)

✅ The Transhumanist 19:39, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you.

Keep up the good work!

The Transhumanist 03:23, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Sorry
Hello helpfulone, i am the person you adopted to help me get adminship and i am apoligising for not being on the internet. I have had computer problems (and are still having them, i am running windows in safe mode right now) and would like to start training.

Coolgyingman (talk) 23:32, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

p.s. i should be on more often, my computer is almost fixed!

your personal pages
hey...

I am new to Wikipedia -- mainly to contribute to kk.wikipedia.org. But quite amazed on what you guys doing. good job.

qq: is there some kind of template of your personal page? I would like to improve mine and learn how to use all these tags/chars/etc.

cheers Kara —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.105.112.12 (talk) 00:44, 17 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi Kara, I was just passing by (to post the newsletter below), and I spotted your request. Maybe you will find WP:UPDC useful.  Good luck.  And have fun!  The Transhumanist  20:11, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Do not read this one - The Hunt - Outline of knowledge WikiProject - 04/17/2009
While surveying libraries, their outline-related resources, and our coverage of them, I came across something funny...

What subclass is the Bible in the Library of Congress Classification?

Do you think they'd like this one at WP:DYK? (Nope. They didn't.)     :)

Libraries
For months, I've been sitting at a terminal in one of the largest libraries in the country, and I haven't even looked around at the available resources.

Until a few days ago.

I'm overwhelmed.

When compared to libraries, Wikipedia is small. (See Digest of Education Statistics 2008, Chapter 7:Libraries and Educational Technology Libraries, and turn to page 617).

But is that a fair comparison?

Yes.

Why?

Because we have growth potential. :)

And we cover everything, including libraries!

Guess what else I found?

Hunting for outlines
I began to study libraries and librarians, since they are experts in organizing knowledge. And of course I turned to Wikipedia to see what we had on the things I came across...

And while doing so I kept running into outlines on Wikipedia that are not (yet) part of the Outline of knowledge.

When I come across non-OOK outlines, generally I rename them, and reformat them to our standard outline format. But there is the occasional exception.

Here are some outlines I just added:


 * 1) List of energy topics --> Outline of energy (it converted great)
 * 2) List of Dewey Decimal classes --> Outline of Dewey Decimal classes (no conversion)
 * 3) Library of Congress Classification --> ??? (no rename, no conversion)

The last 2 are outlines by their very nature, and so our standard outline subheadings didn't seem to fit. So I left them as is.

I renamed the first 2, but the last one is the name of the outline, that is, the topic itself is an outline, and that outline is presented as the article's content, so I left the name as is. For now. This needs more thought.

Of course, that's not all. Concerning those last 2 outlines above...

Alternate outlines of knowledge
...not only are they outlines, but they are outlines of knowledge! Well, the top few levels, at least.

Uh, so?

What happens if we linkify them? :)

That is, what happens if we linkify their classifications to Wikipedia's outlines? :)  :)   :)

They become alternate top ends to the OOK
Yep.

What can you find?
I challenge you to find some "hidden" outlines.

I dare you to take a look around Wikipedia for hidden outlines (that is, outlines not yet hooked into the OOK), and add your kills to WP:WPOOK.

My trophies are already there.

May the hunt begin!
The Transhumanist 20:11, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XIII
Delivered for the WikiCup by  ROBOTIC GARDEN  at 09:40, 20 April 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.

Suggestion to unprotect Content forking
Some time ago you protected Content forking indefinitely. Today an RFC I had called on the disputed content has been ended by a bot

A related discussion had been initiated by me here: Requests for arbitration/Obama articles/Workshop (discussion stalled within a few days).

I don't see any still valid reason to keep the Content forking page protected at this time, so I'd suggest an unprotection, unless you can indicate a reason to keep it protected? Thanks for considering this! --Francis Schonken (talk) 17:32, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Request for help
I've been rewriting the Outline article from scratch.

Before I move it to article space, it needs to be finished and completely referenced.

I need your help on it.

The Transhumanist 01:09, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Concerning the outline article
Thehelpfulone,

Outline already exists.

When the draft is completed, I'd like it moved over the current version, and their edit histories merged.

Have you done that type of thing before? How would we go about doing that?

The Transhumanist 01:24, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: I've cross-posted this message to Juliancolton. Please reply on my talk page.

Outline of knowledge AWB task
Helpful,

On all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox01

Please change:

== Basic

to:

== General

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 01:16, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

No flagged revisions category up for deletion
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Demographics pages
We need to figure out what to do to finish these up: User:Thehelpfulone/Country demographics articles.

At the moment, they aren't that easy to work on with AWB, because there isn't yet a shared search string to key upon in all the pages that have a CIA World Factbook statistics section.

Once a key is in place, AWB can be used to target just the demographics articles with a World Fact Book statistics section in them. The project can then be broken down into simple AWB search/replace operations, which will accelerate this clean-up project immensely.

So, what I need you to do is manually check each page (using Linky to go as fast as possible), and look for those articles that have the World Factbook stats in a single section or data block. The statistics we're looking for are those that have not been merged with non-World Factbook material.

When you find a page with the CIA stats, give them the following heading and section lead (replacing the existing heading, if any):

(beginning of example)

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