User talk:Mets501/Archive 13

Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line FAC

Hi Mets501, just thought I'd let you know that I've done some more work on the article in question if you want to check it and make some more comments. The annoying bit at the beginning is still not fixed, but I'll get onto it. I also wanted to thank you for giving helpful advice on the article that even if the FAC fails, will help me get it to FAC status eventually - I've been really discouraged and even disgusted by the actions of another editor on that FAC, but you have kept my faith in Wikipedia. Thanks. JROBBO 11:44, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

AfD closure corrections

I saw you corrected where I placed the templates, thank you. :) Other than that, I'd like to know if you think I did alright, those two are the first I've ever closed, if you have a moment. Thanks! Seraphimblade 11:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

MFD: Lamest Edit Wars

In case you didn't notice on its talk page, Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars ever was nominated for deletion four times prior to your nomination, and the consensus each time was to keep it. The page is a mild lesson on what sorts of things are not worth arguing about on Wikipedia -- and that is what makes the entries so funny. --Stratadrake 13:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Not so recent change

Image:Stop_hand.svg looks horrible, We (Read the discuss) request you put the previous back in. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Merranvo (talk • contribs) 06:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC).

Re: Deletion of the article on Manufacturing Engineering Centre

1. An article about a very well-known university research centre is 'blatant advertising' whilst an article about the fast food chain Mc Donald is not!
2. Wikipedia policy: anyone can remove an article as HE so wishes? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sweetpea2007 (talk • contribs)

BFA

Would you have a chance to read through the BJBot proposal? All discussion has stopped and it is just waiting on a member of the approval group. Thanks. BJ^Talk 17:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

STTWbot

I have tested the AWB bot and it works, thanks for the approval. STTW (talk) 20:22, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Rob110178bot Request

Thanks for your assistance in this matter. Sorry about the confusion.... Rob110178 22:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Bot Edit Rate

I have a quick question. I am using AWB and it is fully manual, however I seem to be coming close to the 3 edits/min threshold because I am finding numerous articles that require the same tag. (I stress fully manual, I open an article, tag as necessary, preview, than save it, however its going faster than planned) I have to stop to hit other stuff to prevent hitting the 3 edit/min limit. Can you give me some guidance/advice on this matter? Thanks! Rob110178 20:43, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the assistance with this! Rob110178 20:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

disscus

let's talk about that article huh. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hfjy (talk • contribs) 15:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC).

Metsbot subst-ing

I noticed that your bot does subst-ing work, so I do appreciate some assistance here. Basically I'm doing the housekeeping work of the Esperanza's MfD/DRV, in which I want to subst and then redirect some templates per the MessedRocker solution, but they are currently transcluded to too many pages for me to do by hand. I've added the request and to-do list here. Thanks in advance! :) - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 16:50, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Cool, that's fast! Thanks again! - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 17:07, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
  • I thought the transclusion was already complete, in which I redirected the templates too early...My apologies for the error! I think I'd best leave the redirecting to you. Sorry again! - Mailer Diablo 17:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, bottask?

I see you are running a bot, would metsbot be capable and willing of doing this for me?

• From a certain list of articles, change {{chemistry}} into {{chemicals}}, including an empty class and importance parameter
• 'Steal' the class from other tags and put it as a parameter in {{chemicals}}
• Warn me somewhere when there are different classes used in the templates

Thanks already! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 18:10, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I should already say .. the list is not really perfect .. almost, maybe. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 18:17, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Your user warning templates are out of date

Did you intend to replace your {{TestTemplates}} call with the new list from WP:UWT? It might be a good idea. I don't know that the old templates will continue to exist or not. Will (Talk - contribs) 22:09, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Polar coordinate system: "angle of elevation"

If you look at your version, and the one before you'll see the only actual change is switching from "with m the slope" to "where m is the slope". While it does improve the phrasing some, it does nothing in the way of actually clarifying it. Circeus 13:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I think it's clearer if you start by defining what φ, and then saying that it is called the angle of elevation on the line. Stating it the other way sounds like the reader is expected to know what "angle of elevation means", and then gives him a reminder just in case.

I get it better now (I first read through the article around 1am and my technical english did not immediately identify "slope" and "arctan" as what they are), but still think it could be cleared up.

And by the way, about the image under "Complex number," I meant for a graphic representation of that point in the Polar plane, not the cartesian one (Complex plane makes a good job of explaining that).Circeus 14:09, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I think what confuses me is the transition from the cartesian equation to the polar one. The Polar equation cannot be directly derived from the first, because the first contains no angular measure. Even though the angle is easily derived if you're the least mathematically inclined, the just then to the third equation is simply too abrupt, not to mention that the parentheses vanishes in that last equation, which makes it look like it's a different form.

Yes, I say "form". The first equation plots a point (x,y) via that equation. The second equation has the form of a function ($r(\theta )vsr(\cos \theta +i\sin \theta )$) whose conection to the first equation is not clear, and the third switch back from a function to an equation...

So, the connection between $z=x+iy$ and $z=r(\cos \theta +i\sin \theta )$ should be made clearer, and why $z=re^{i\theta }$ is not $z=r(e^{i\theta })$ should be clearer.

I hope that makes sense

. Circeus 15:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Ooooh. With the second clarified, it's definitively better. I added a note about the trigo values being derived from x and y, to make the link between the two first equations clearer. Circeus 16:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind the note. My last concern about these three equations is that I believe the mention that the rectangular-polar conversion is made using the formula given earlier comes too late to be clearly linked to the proper step. I added a mention of the conversion in the proper location. I'd be even tempted to go as far as putt in in the z = r\cos\theta+ri\sin\theta\ form too, but maybe that's too much.Circeus 16:28, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Me again! I was looking at the article and randomly musing/poking about and I realized:

• The article does not make mention of Bipolar coordinates systems
• The statement "Changing the parameter a [in the archimedean spiral equation] will turn the spiral" is misleading. It's not actually a rotation, it's an homothecy.
• Is there a (simple) way to rotate a Polar rose? (I wondered that since there is a way to "rotate" the spiral)

Circeus 22:22, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

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The record shows that a deletion was made by the user Mets501 [[1] The current Stub is not a copy of the deleted article and is in full compliance with Wikipedia guidelines yet it was deleted. The stub was replaced as is warranted and the preciptous action taken the first time then became the sole purpose for second deletion. This circular reasoning does not comply with Wikipedia policy.

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mac os x template

Someone came around the help desk, at Wikipedia:Help desk#Broken OS template in WikiProject for User Categorisation?, asking about this user template you deleted. Apparently the place it was advertized offers no user-subspace template replacement. Did you create one? Are we deleting userboxes again without moving them to userspace? Your help is appreciated, — coelacan talk — 07:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Do you know where the userspace box is? It's not advertized at Category:Wikipedians who use Mac OS X, where that user was looking. — coelacan talk — 21:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! — coelacan talk — 21:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

A suggestion: you might want to have your bot look for instances of templates being advertized, by "tl" or "nowiki", so they don't become hard for users to find in the future. — coelacan talk — 21:25, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm the person that came looking for help...but coelacan never came back :( Can you answer my question? I still can't use the template. I'm still confused how to use the code shown on that page, and I find no explanation or examples anywhere (I'm noticing Wikipedia is a little light on examples, I wish it had more, it's a lot more clear & concise than lots of help text). When I paste in, exactly, "Mets501" (without the quotes) it clearly isn't working right. Am I supposed to write something in place of "PAGENAME"? --Jason C.K. 19:49, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: ‘Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC)’ article

Hi Mets501,

I understand that the MEC article was considered "blatant advertising" because of certain phrases that I used to describe the Centre. However, my description of the MEC is entirely based on facts, as you will see below. The MEC is a non-profit organisation - a research centre of Cardiff University. Our mission is "to conduct world-class research and development in all major areas of advanced manufacturing technology and use the output to promote the introduction of knowledge based manufacturing to industry in Wales and in the rest of the United Kingdom." We are not a commercial organisation and therefore do not engage in "blatant advertising".

Here are my explanations for using the phrases that were found objectionable:

1."award-winning Centre":- the MEC received two major awards: "DTI University/Industry First Prize" and the "Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education" and the MEC is the only advanced manufacturing research centre in the UK to have earned both accolades.

2."The work of the 90 strong MEC has received the overwhelming endorsement of sponsors and supporters":- The MEC has 90 researchers and supporting staff and over 100 industrial partners who support research projects at the Centre. We are also endowed with two industry-sponsored laboratories- the Mitutoyo Metrology Centre and Siemens Automation and Drives Centre.

3."attracted hundreds of industrial partners" and "establishing lasting and fruitful partnerships with industry" - it is a fact that the MEC attracted hundreds of industrial partners. The MEC was awarded the DTI University/Industry First Prize by the Secretary of State for Trade & Industry in recognition of its success in building lasting and fruitful research partnerships with industry (which was what the Prize was for).

Could you reinstall the article?

Thank you.

Regards,

Paulette

Sweetpea2007 17:31, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Dune box - incorrect migration - FYI

The bot incorrectly replaced the Dune Fear box. It was replacing {{user Dune:Fear}} with User:Scepia/Dune:Fear (incorrect) instead of User:Scepia/Dune/Fear (correct). See recent history at User:Fang Aili/Userboxes and memeage for details. Cheers, Fang Aili ^talk 18:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and a while back it also replaced {{User its}} with User:Scepia/iTS, which are entirely different boxes. [3] --Fang Aili ^talk 18:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

The its/iTS bug has been fixed, but I don't have any idea what's causing the Dune:Fear problem. I checked the code, I don't see anything that could cause it. For now, I'll just let it replace {{user Dune:Fear}} with User:Scepia/Dune:Fear and then run my bot through all of them and change it to User:Scepia/Dune/Fear. —Mets501 (talk) 18:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good. --Fang Aili ^talk 18:50, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Review of Manufacturing Engineering Centre

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Manufacturing_Engineering_Centre. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Sweetpea2007 18:49, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

I noticed your bot migrated the userboxes that are on my page. Much thanks in this regard! .V. _[Talk|Email] 21:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Your Bot Did Good!

This fixed a Userbox problem I had before I had even noticed it had happened - I commend your preformance, young sir!--SteelersFan UK06 01:30, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

My Bot Request

Thanks for your opinion on my Bot Request. As you stated, you didn't think that it would be a good idea. Then possibly what about a AIV alert bot that can work with a user's monobook.js and popup a message alerting a administrator when they access any page on Wikipedia, that action is required for a new AIV candidate that has recently been posted on WP:AIV with the the message either the bot or user has left about them and links to the offender's userpage, contribs and also for admins the block or warn tools? If not, is there any other bots that are needed in the WP:AIV area? Please give me an opinion on that. Many thanks, --Extranet ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 03:31, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Is there any other bots that you think I could suggest? I am a very enthusiastic Wikipedian and would like to run a bot for the community. Also, I have decided to reply to requests on my talk page. You may want to watch my talk page until you think we have finished having our conversation. Thank you! --Extranet ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 03:58, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

T:MainPage

It was added by this user. ffm ^yes? 14:54, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

AWB & Admin

How do I turn on that feature for myself / my colleagues (admins @ nl:), or isn't that possible on nl: ? It would come in very handy... Does it involve the simple adding of a header ==Admins==, or in Dutch ==Moderators== to the checkpage there, or is a special setting of the AWB needed? Cheers, Niels|en talk-nl talk (faster response)| 16:10, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Tnx! Niels|en talk-nl talk (faster response)| 08:44, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

6 minutes

6 minutes to get a bot approval, that must be some kind of record. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 01:21, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

About AWBّّْ

Will AWB support right to left languages like Arabic or Persian? huji—TALK 18:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

It should, as far as I know. Try it out, and let me know :-) —Mets501 (talk) 19:28, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I checked it out. These wikis are not listed on the Language dropdown: fa, ar, he. I'm afraid no check pages are available on those wikis as well. I'm thinking of extending AWB's source code to be usable for Farsi wikipedia. I've downloaded the source code. Any recommendations? huji—TALK 07:30, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

He is listed, but the other two are not. If you cannot get the custom project working, then you could add fa and ar to Variables.cs in WikiFunctions (you'll have to add them to "public enum LangCodeEnum" and create a case for their namespaces below). —Mets501 (talk) 12:01, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

All right. There is one more thing I need to know. Do we need to have a checkpage on Fa wiki to make AWB work? huji—TALK 20:25, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Mets501. Thank you for your prompt approval of WP 1.0 bot. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:12, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Polar coordinate system FA

I must have been dozing off last week —I didn't notice until just now that polar coordinate system got its star. Congratulations! Let me know if I can help with any further editing. Regards, Newyorkbrad 20:12, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Bot requests

Sorry to ask you directly, but you seem to be the goto person on this and I didn't know where else to turn. What is the policy on resubmitting bot requests for approval? Should a new userid be created or is it ok to reuse one that was withdrawn? --Selket ^Talk 00:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem :-) If you want to request a new task for your bot, you can use the same bot account, just create a new request subpage. For example, if you want to request another task for your bot, you can call the subpage Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/SelketBot 2. —Mets501 (talk) 01:31, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Sweet! Thanks. --Selket ^Talk 01:35, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Nav

Thanks for moving the page; I was planning to do it once I thought it was accepted by the project. I'm writing to point out that when you move a page that uses Portal:Boxheader you have to fix the edit link, which has the location of the page hardcoded into the article source code. Otherwise the edit link points to the old location instead of the new one. CMummert · talk 02:50, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

I din't notice it before, but thanks for fixing my templates.Therequiembellishere 21:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Google search on AWB

Hi Mets!

The "google search" function on AWB doesn't appear to work anymore. I originally posted a message to WT:AWB earlier this week, but got no response, except from someone else saying the same thing. I'm not even sure you're the right man to ask, but it appears you were answering questions on the AWB talk page, so I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that you know something about the internal workings of the program. Is this something that is being worked on? Any ideas what happened? Google search on AWB was the best. I used it every week to find common typos and misspellings and fix them quickly and easily. Now the mispellings are building up, with no real way of fixing them... Any information you can provide is appreciated. Thanks, Firsfron of Ronchester 20:39, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Your post prompted me to create Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs, a new page just for reporting bugs to the AWB developers (including myself). If you can post the bug there, that would be great. Thanks so much! —Mets501 (talk) 22:30, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for creating the bug page, Mets. If there's anything you could do to fix the problem, I'd be forever in your debt. I don't know what happened. One day it worked; the next day, no results were found. The searches I do should normally find hundreds, and often up to a thousand, results. Finding no results, even for a seach on a word such as "the", indicates something isn't working. I've downloaded the latest version, but there's just something wonky going on. Thank you for your time. Firsfron of Ronchester 23:22, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

GFDL image tag migration?

According to this, there is a plan to migrate all instances of {{GFDL}} to {{GFDL-with-disclaimers}} at which point it would be replaced with a no disclaimer version. Is that still what is going to happen? I am asking because I was planning on adding another task onto VixDaemon to do just that. I hope you have a most wonderful day, and happy editing! Kyra_~(talk) 06:52, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Hrm... yes, that would seem to be an issue, however the text on both of the license templates is identical; To me at least, it indicates that there is no inherent difference between the two. I think I'll first ask Dragons flight if that was what he intended to happen, and after I get a reply (and if that is what he intended) I'll post a message to the proposals section of the Village Pump. At least I can't think of a better place to do so off the top of my head. Oh, and I did think what would happen if there was a move of the template... it wouldn't work. The {{GFDL}} template is (supposed to at least) become {{GFDL}}, so a move like that actually -would- change the license, so a source code change is needed. I'll admit it took me a few minutes to figure out what would happen, however. Anyway, I hope you have a most wonderful day, and happy editing. ^.^ Kyra_~(talk) 21:28, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

MetsBot edit to User:Robwingfield

All contributions are strongly appreciated and encouraged, but your recent edit to the userpage of another user may be considered vandalism. Specifically, your edit to User:Robwingfield is unwelcome as it not only migrated userboxes, but damaged other content on the page. Please use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do, particularly to userpages. Thank you. robwingfield ^«T•C» 10:27, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the bug in my bot's code. I've fixed it now. —METS501 (talk) 15:19, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem... just a friendly suggestion that you test in future...?  ;-) robwingfield ^«T•C» 17:55, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

"Technical restrictions" title fix on svwp

Hi! I have a question about the wonderful "technical restrictions" title fix hack. I have copied it to Swedish Wikipedia, and it works like a charm. One odd thing though: the title of the template sv:Mall:Liten begynnelsebokstav, our equivalent of {{lowercase}}, gets changed to "Template:liten begynnelsebokstav", instead of the Swedish namespace prefix "Mall:". Do you have any idea of how to fix this? /skagedal^... 12:42, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

The problem is the wgCanonicalNamespace javascript variable. It always has the default name of the namespace, instead of the translated version. For example, your "Mall" namespace has wgCanonicalNamespace == "Template". This won't be a problem on articles, but if you want to fix it, you can set up an if..then loop for each of the namespaces, or you can just leave it alone :-). You should also change document.title = realTitleText + " - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"; to document.title = realTitleText + " - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin";, too. —METS501 (talk) 15:34, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello again! I fixed this by getting the namespace from wgPageName instead of wgCanonicalNamespace, see here. Enwiki could also use this code, if you want it to work correctly in the "Wikipedia:" namespace... not very important I guess. :) /skagedal^... 18:55, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Bad Bots

Hi! I just wanted to warn you that MetsBot has been messing with pages. The bot most recently screwed up my user page by playing with my user boxes. The bot can be turned off, but, only by administrators or the person who created the bot. That is why I am turning to you. Please Help!--Sportman2 03:47, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I saw in the bot's contributions that he (or she ?) moved many templates to other templates. First off, why did they need to be moved? Second, did the moves work because when I tried the new templates I was told thy weren't existent. However, the old templates worked. Please Help!--Sportman2 04:06, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

But, the new user boxes do not work!!! But, the old ones work perfectly.--Sportman2 04:13, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Now they do. But, before they didn't.--Sportman2 04:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your help!--Sportman2 04:21, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Userboxes

Hello, MestBot. I want to warn you NOT to change anything with my userboxes because they are on MY userpage. If you wish to change something on my userpage, ask me first and I will change it, not you. Radical3 03:52, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Userboxes Redirecting

Wats up with changing the userboxes..Your bot has made them more ugly.We prefer to see the userboxes that we are using and not the ugly ones you left on our page which you need to redirect to get to the original like what you did to these templates

• {{User:supports the All Blacks}}
• {{User:Waikato Chiefs}}
• {{User:Auckland Blues}}
• {{User:Crusaders}}

Pliz revert it back.. I dont think there was any problems with those userboxes--Cometstyles 12:39, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I have seen that you have gotten rid of All Rugby Union Related userboxes and you didnt even explain why Wikipedia:Userboxes/Rugby Union. I need an Explanation as quick as possible regarding this highly vandalism type problem which you or your malfunctioning Bot has caused..Pliz Explain..--Cometstyles 13:05, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Spring Training

As a proven Mets fan, I'm sure you're looking forward to Opening Day after that disappointing loss to the Cardinal. If you read this then maybe you'd see that the 2007 season is now less then two months away. BuickCenturyDriver 13:13, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Box moves

Is the bot supposed to update pages transcluding the current templates? It seems to have done so for some, but not for others... --pgk 14:05, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Thats exactly the thing I was complaining about. The Bot might have a problem because right now Iam going around fixing templates for those users whom the the bot didnt update..Mets501 Pliz fix these problems ..thanx..--Cometstyles 14:11, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok thanks, you might like to consider sticking a large banner at the top of this talk page (when running) and on the bots page to explain the processing sequence a little, and that patience may be required, that may prevent the bot getting blocked and avoid some of the questions. We all know how critical these pretty little boxes are to the smooth functioning of wikipedia. --pgk 14:14, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

hmmm OK..ø~Cometstyles~ø^(talk)

UBX Box migrations

Thank you doing that on the userboxes that I had. Actually, thank your bot, but it is still the same. Chris 19:17, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 19:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

AWB

I noticed you are active in developing AWB so I figured I'd ask you. What would you think of adding the foot note corrections we discussed a week or so ago to the "apply general fixes" list of things to fix? I can do the c# coding, but I wanted someone else's opinion first. --Selket ^Talk 20:49, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I sent you an email, but in case I'm not on later, I posted the two changed files at User:Selket/Main.cs and User:Selket/Parsers.cs. -Selket ^Talk 23:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again for you help editing, testing, and checking in the AWB changes. When you get a chance could you take a look at WP:B/RFA? Tawker asked me to do a test run, which I did about a day and a half ago, but I haven't heard from him since. --Selket ^Talk 22:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

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can you please sew Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Arabic Wikipedia Menasim( discuss | ) 22:09, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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box migration

I've reverted your edit as the box you're trying to move to doesn't exist. A bit of warning would of been polite too... Lugnuts 19:05, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Ar WP

I provided the two things Menasim( discuss | ) 19:45, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Pywikipedia framework

A couple of quick questions about the pywikipedia framework which I just recently grabbed. I don't know how to actually code in python, but would Replace.py work as a standalone script? Main reason I am asking is because I am planning on submitting the next task for my bot using Pywikipedia instead of AWB to keep IE free for other uses, since I am quite certain that it will take at least ten days to finish at six edits per minute. Second, I don't see any edit rate variable/control specified in either login.py or replace.py, so even if I did get approved to use Python, I wouldn't know how to keep it in check.

And the last immediate question that comes to mind, is it possible to either test the script offline or use a separate account (or just use VixDaemon) to test within its own subpages for small scale testing? I can't find any policy that explicitly disallows it, but I'd like to make sure it is allowed before proceeding with that route, at least. I hope you have a most wonderful day, Mets. ^.^ Kyra_~(talk) 04:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks for the info, but I think I have figured it out for what I need it do do. I thought the script was broken once, but it turned out I didn't save the input file for one trial. It's the small things you overlook, apparently. I shall keep Cyde in mind if I do encounter any unforeseen difficulties with the scripts. Thanks again for the help! Kyra_~(talk) 06:12, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

MSN/Aim

Hi, Have you got MSN/AIM?

If so would you mind adding me?

<e-mail address snipped to prevent spamming>

or

ReedyRe3dyb0y

for aim

Reedy Boy 21:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

I have both, but use them so rarely that it's not worth it. If you need something urgent, just email me (Outlook will let me know I have a new message) and we can chat on IRC if we need quick communication. :-) —METS501 (talk) 22:01, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Which IRC do you hang out on? Are you there now? Reedy Boy 22:06, 16 February 2007 (UTC)