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:Thanks for clearing that up. I Hadn't seen the posts above when I posted this as they were done in the 5 minute period I had the edit screen open. In any event, of course it was not correct at all that you were reported as a "possible vandalism only account", but note that because these redirects are not intuitive to outside people, it's likely you would have avoided the vandalism report as well as any speedy deletion tagging of the redirects (and possibly future attempts to delete them), if you created the redirects with an explanatory edit summary—possibly something not unlike "redirect from Japanese name for year". Cheers.--[[User:Fuhghettaboutit|Fuhghettaboutit]] ([[User talk:Fuhghettaboutit|talk]]) 12:42, 12 February 2009 (UTC) |
:Thanks for clearing that up. I Hadn't seen the posts above when I posted this as they were done in the 5 minute period I had the edit screen open. In any event, of course it was not correct at all that you were reported as a "possible vandalism only account", but note that because these redirects are not intuitive to outside people, it's likely you would have avoided the vandalism report as well as any speedy deletion tagging of the redirects (and possibly future attempts to delete them), if you created the redirects with an explanatory edit summary—possibly something not unlike "redirect from Japanese name for year". Cheers.--[[User:Fuhghettaboutit|Fuhghettaboutit]] ([[User talk:Fuhghettaboutit|talk]]) 12:42, 12 February 2009 (UTC) |
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::Yeah, apparently bulk redirect creation tweaks some people - I did the first half of these about a week ago, and got one tagged for speedy deletion back then, too. I probably should have used a better edit summary, but I was originally just trying to run through them manually as quickly as possible. Probably I need AWB or a bulk script if I'm going to do that again, so I can add a better edit summary without having to do it manually. On the other hand, I don't intend to do another bulk creation any time soon, so that can wait. As I said to Krazilec already, thanks for not taking a block-first approach to the AIV report - and thanks in general for monitoring AIV in the first place. <span style="white-space:nowrap">— [[User:Gavia immer|Gavia immer]] </span> 14:34, 12 February 2009 (UTC) |
::Yeah, apparently bulk redirect creation tweaks some people - I did the first half of these about a week ago, and got one tagged for speedy deletion back then, too. I probably should have used a better edit summary, but I was originally just trying to run through them manually as quickly as possible. Probably I need AWB or a bulk script if I'm going to do that again, so I can add a better edit summary without having to do it manually. On the other hand, I don't intend to do another bulk creation any time soon, so that can wait. As I said to Krazilec already, thanks for not taking a block-first approach to the AIV report - and thanks in general for monitoring AIV in the first place. <span style="white-space:nowrap">— [[User:Gavia immer|Gavia immer]] </span> 14:34, 12 February 2009 (UTC) |
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:::*Please excuse my hasty action. There were lots of nonsense pages being created yesterday, I was tired and failed to recognize an editor acting in good faith. Obviously, I should have shut down my computer and gone to bed. Sorry. [[User:Beeblebrox|Beeblebrox]] ([[User talk:Beeblebrox#top|talk]]) 19:29, 12 February 2009 (UTC) |
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Hi, unsure what you are trying to do with this redirect but it now redirects to itself. Keith D (talk) 23:07, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
- I fixed it. Thanks for catching my screwup. That's what happens when you press Control-V without looking, I guess. — Gavia immer 14:10, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
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I undid the redirect you put into User:Main page because when a page is redirected to the main page, it is difficult to access the redirect page. Second of all, it is not likely to be a useful redirect because it is only used about 8 times a month and it is a highly unlikely search term. -- IRP ☎ 16:15, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
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Silly me!
I just realized that what i reverted on the main talk page shouldn't have been! Nice catch on your part! I think I need to sleep now. Thanks for the save. PumeleonT 15:45, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
No problem from me - it happens. Rootology might not like your edit summary, though. In any case, it's better to have people watching the page rather than not. — Gavia immer 15:48, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
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For the catch here. I still can't figure out why it did that, as it doesn't appear in the code of the page. I corrected it and blanked that one so it will be deleted sooner rather than later. Maybe I'll ask someone on line to zap it. --KP Botany (talk) 07:04, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I try to catch those fairly quickly, because they can end up mangling the page markup almost invisibly. The wikilink syntax has to allow single ticks, but I wish it just wouldn't allow multiple single ticks in a row. On the other hand, because these are a pet peeve of mine, I usually notice them quickly enough. — Gavia immer 08:03, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
- That's useful new page patrolling then. Please feel free to stalk my contributions anytime. Still, if you manage to figure out how I did it. Oops, I know, quick editing, school 50 hours a week, family, work, .... --KP Botany (talk) 04:50, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Emphasis
I saw your stylistic improvements to On Basilisk Station. Thanks. Just for your interest I quote from the wp:Manual of Style: "Capitals are not used for emphasis at Wikipedia. Where wording cannot provide the emphasis, use italics". See you around. Debresser (talk) 12:40, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
That's exactly right - if you see similar examples of capitals being used simply for emphasis or decoration, you should feel free to change them immediately. Actually, it's best not to use italics in an image caption, either, but I was doing blanket formatting and didn't want to reword it. — Gavia immer 16:17, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Meiji redirects - thank you for the "heads up"
Hi Gavia, thank you for the notice/invitation. I have nothing concrete to add to the discussion that you mentioned on my talk page - I was basically filling holes and following up after the RfD close of Meiji 3. I defer to the will of those who know more about about this than I do, and hope that consensus is achieved quickly. B.Wind (talk) 01:45, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
- No problem. I wanted to give you an invite because you were doing the changes, but of course there's no obligation. The discussion seems to have support for redirecting to years instead of periods, but I suspect there's never going to be an unambiguous bright-line consensus for one over the other. Oh, well, it's not a problem unless it is one... — Gavia immer 03:45, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help with the speedy dletion of Melanie Pavlik
Thank you for helping out there. I was looking through WP:Speedy, but of course I always tend to look at the specific headings and tend to forget the general ones. So when I did not see anything that applied in the redirect section, I took it to RfD. In future cases, I will remember to look at the general section to see if any of them apply first. Thank you, Aspects (talk) 04:29, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
No problem. Attack redirects are always speediable (tag them as {{db-attack}}), but BLP-violating attacks like that - where the only content on Wikipedia is a redirect to some crappiness - are especially bad, because they poison web searches, too. You'll notice that administrator JClemens performed the actual deletion in record time; in general, that sort of thing can't happen too fast. — Gavia immer 04:37, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Redirects
Hello. When created redirects from Japanese to English names, could you tag them {{R from alternative language}} ? This might help avoid misunderstandings like this. Thanks, --Kralizec! (talk) 04:31, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Yes I can. Thank you for pointing that template out to me. I probably knew it existed, but I wasn't really thinking about its existence (so to speak). Meanwhile, you're right that it probably will prevent misunderstandings, which is of course why it exists. Of course, now I have to go back and tag the already-created ones. — Gavia immer 04:35, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- I got these ([1], [2], [3]) when I declined the speedy deletes. You might try WP:AWB to do them all quickly. --Kralizec! (talk) 04:36, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- Eep. Thanks for not assuming that my actions indicate "a vandalism-only account". — Gavia immer 04:41, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- Admins are selected for their good judgement, not for the speed with which they click the 'block' button. :-) In this case, 30 seconds of research made it pretty clear what you were doing. BTW, to avoid any more speedy deletion requests, I have started churning through them with AWB. --Kralizec! (talk) 04:50, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- That's the idea, at least. Good to see proof of it, though. — Gavia immer 04:50, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- Re: tagging them- I saw that, and thanks for doing it. I started in on it myself, but I'm mostly playing catch-up to you, it seems. — Gavia immer 04:56, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- Ok, my knowledge of Japanese is somewhat limited, but I just used AWB to cruise through the last couple of hundred of your edits that looked like they could be foreign language redirects. Of those, I found and fixed 150 redirects, eight were already done, and I declined one more speedy deletion request. Most of the ones I got were Taishō, Shōwa, Meiji, and Heisei. Please let me know if there is anything else I can help with. --Kralizec! (talk) 05:03, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- You did most of them, and you did way more than required; so thanks! I'll mop up the rest. I'm mostly finished creating these, by the way - I'll make sure to tag the remaining few new ones, but I'm debating whether it's better to get it all finished now or take a break and do them after the current mess cools down. Either way, I've had a fun and exciting evening :) — Gavia immer 05:11, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- Glad I could help! It has been a fun and exciting evening for me too ... especially since the weather has knocked my power out eight times in the past 20 minutes (but never long enough to exhaust my UPS ... yet). Good luck with the rest of your project, and feel free to let me know if there is anything else I can help you with. --Kralizec! (talk) 05:18, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- I feel your pain - my net connection was humming along well enough to create 2-3 redirects per minute manually (with results as observed ...), but as soon as I started getting talk page messages, the wiki decided to slow to a crawl. It's Murphy's law, I guess. I believe I've got it now, but thanks again. — Gavia immer 05:25, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- You did most of them, and you did way more than required; so thanks! I'll mop up the rest. I'm mostly finished creating these, by the way - I'll make sure to tag the remaining few new ones, but I'm debating whether it's better to get it all finished now or take a break and do them after the current mess cools down. Either way, I've had a fun and exciting evening :) — Gavia immer 05:11, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- Ok, my knowledge of Japanese is somewhat limited, but I just used AWB to cruise through the last couple of hundred of your edits that looked like they could be foreign language redirects. Of those, I found and fixed 150 redirects, eight were already done, and I declined one more speedy deletion request. Most of the ones I got were Taishō, Shōwa, Meiji, and Heisei. Please let me know if there is anything else I can help with. --Kralizec! (talk) 05:03, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Showa redirects
Hi Gavia immer. Can you please explain the utility and reason for your recent creation of all these "Showa #" redirects to years? They have me puzzled.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:38, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Please see above and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Japan#Japanese_era.2Fyear_redirects; in short, these are year names in the Japanese calendar. — Gavia immer 04:43, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for clearing that up. I Hadn't seen the posts above when I posted this as they were done in the 5 minute period I had the edit screen open. In any event, of course it was not correct at all that you were reported as a "possible vandalism only account", but note that because these redirects are not intuitive to outside people, it's likely you would have avoided the vandalism report as well as any speedy deletion tagging of the redirects (and possibly future attempts to delete them), if you created the redirects with an explanatory edit summary—possibly something not unlike "redirect from Japanese name for year". Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:42, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, apparently bulk redirect creation tweaks some people - I did the first half of these about a week ago, and got one tagged for speedy deletion back then, too. I probably should have used a better edit summary, but I was originally just trying to run through them manually as quickly as possible. Probably I need AWB or a bulk script if I'm going to do that again, so I can add a better edit summary without having to do it manually. On the other hand, I don't intend to do another bulk creation any time soon, so that can wait. As I said to Krazilec already, thanks for not taking a block-first approach to the AIV report - and thanks in general for monitoring AIV in the first place. — Gavia immer 14:34, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- Please excuse my hasty action. There were lots of nonsense pages being created yesterday, I was tired and failed to recognize an editor acting in good faith. Obviously, I should have shut down my computer and gone to bed. Sorry. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:29, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, apparently bulk redirect creation tweaks some people - I did the first half of these about a week ago, and got one tagged for speedy deletion back then, too. I probably should have used a better edit summary, but I was originally just trying to run through them manually as quickly as possible. Probably I need AWB or a bulk script if I'm going to do that again, so I can add a better edit summary without having to do it manually. On the other hand, I don't intend to do another bulk creation any time soon, so that can wait. As I said to Krazilec already, thanks for not taking a block-first approach to the AIV report - and thanks in general for monitoring AIV in the first place. — Gavia immer 14:34, 12 February 2009 (UTC)