User talk:Rich Farmbrough
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As you have edited this template significantly, you may be interested in this TfD, one way or another. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 10:17, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
do you read Python?
You might be interested in a bot that runs (continously, background) on the en.wikt: see wikt:User:AutoFormat/code. If you do write some Python, there may be any number of snippets you would find useful. Cheers! Robert Ullmann 15:06, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 16:47 6 December 2007 (GMT).
SmackBot
In this edit [1], SmackBot changed some {{cn}} tags to {{fact}} tags. I intentionally used cn because I know the facts are correct but want to remember to add a reference; I don't like them changing to fact, which implies there is doubt about the claims. Adding the dates is a useful function, but I believe the tag used should not be changed. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:28, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
- {{Cn}} is a redirect to {{Fact}}. SmackBot canonicalises redirects - it has to deal with several hundred template names plus (well actually muliiplied by) many different valid ways of writing the templates. While I agree that "Cn" is a tad more friendly than "Fact", I really need to go with the redirect target. Since the test displayed is "citation needed" we shouldn't perhaps worry too much about this, but you could request that the canonical template have one of the other names. Rich Farmbrough, 22:35 3 December 2007 (GMT).
Strange edits by Smackbot
I just reverted a couple of edits by Smackbot, where it was messing up subtitles by replacing 'Operations==' with 'operations'. See diffs here and here. Could you please work out what the glitch is here, and try to fix it? Thanks in advance. Terraxos 20:35, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
- I too have just noticed this error in a bunch of US Navy ship articles such as [2]. I've been trying to cleanup these articles myself, however it seems I might be doing so for a while. Would it be possible to get SmackBot to correct this problem? -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 21:50, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Yes of course. Rich Farmbrough, 22:29 3 December 2007 (GMT).
- Now running. Rich Farmbrough, 09:42 4 December 2007 (GMT).
- All done. Rich Farmbrough, 18:47 5 December 2007 (GMT).
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- Is the use of <references /> now deprecated? I notice your Bot is changing <references /> to {{reflist}}. I thought that in stubs with just a few refs., <references /> was still OK. JGHowes talk - 18:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
- No, I actually prefer <references />. The change is part of WP:AWB's general fixes, and for this reason I have turned off "general fixes" in my main "date maintenance tags" run. However, on balance, with the standard headers I decided that the type of article is more likely to benefit from the general fixes. I have also asked the AWB developers to remove this particular feature.
(Note the reason I prefer <references /> is purely the font size.) Rich Farmbrough, 18:46 5 December 2007 (GMT).
Hello
How do you link the date and year in your sig? — $PЯINGεrαgђ 19:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
- I sign with ~~~ and embed the linked dates in my raw sig under preferences. Rich Farmbrough, 19:03 5 December 2007 (GMT).
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- OK, what does it look like though? (Sorry, despite being computer savvy on an average level, I am horrible with code.) — $PЯINGεrαgђ 19:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
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- Thusly ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]] [[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'', {{subst:CURRENTTIME}} [[{{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}}]] [[{{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}]] (GMT).
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- Sounds like it's worth a try… — $PЯINGεrαgђ 19:12 5 December 2007
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Banco Intercontinental.
I was indiscrimately reverting his top edits due to him being a banned sock. Will (talk) 19:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Weird edits by smack bot (citation template)
Hey there, smack bot made some weird edits to Lyndon–Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence (see diff [3]), specifically it moved some citation template parameters out of the template and just placed them at the bottom of the page. RobHar (talk) 20:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
- Those links need ":" before "en", else they are interwiki. --Emijrp (talk) 21:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
- Correct. Or they don't need "en:" at all. So I have fixed them up. And am now looking at the other 408 cases, mostly commented out en: interwikis. Rich Farmbrough, 21:15 5 December 2007 (GMT).
- Ah I see, I hadn't noticed those extra "en:"s. I looked into it and I think User:Jakob.scholbach has been adding these (possibly through some database he uses and some automated process, I'm not sure). I've informed him of this on his talk page. RobHar (talk) 23:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
- Correct. Or they don't need "en:" at all. So I have fixed them up. And am now looking at the other 408 cases, mostly commented out en: interwikis. Rich Farmbrough, 21:15 5 December 2007 (GMT).
Merge templates
Thank you for the information. --Anthony5429 (talk) 20:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC)