User talk:SatyrTN/Archive 5

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Re: WPBannerShell and WPFilm

Do you mean outside the main shell itself? That's not possible, given how the templates are rendered; it would require the template to insert itself into two places at once.

Or do you mean outside the collapsed one-line banner (but still inside the main shell)? That would be doable, although frankly I don't really see the point, given how large the box is. Kirill Lokshin 11:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that works. I'm not qute sure what the point of having it in a separate box is, though; those instructions are implicitly related to WP:FILMS, so I would have assumed that they would be better placed directly in the films banner. (See, for example, the MILHIST tag on Talk:AGM-114 Hellfire.)

As for wanting to have it full-size by default: as soon as projects start claiming exemptions from how the template functions—for huge blocks of not-very-important instructions, no less—the whole thing becomes pointless; every project will start clamoring to have parts of its tags fully visible, and we'll simply be back to the old full-tag system anyways. (And the result will likely be having {{WikiProjectBanners}} shoved down everyone's throats, or something even worse.) Kirill Lokshin 06:01, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Newsletter

Should we add Andrew Van de Kamp as a LGBT FA? It is a gay (or bi) fict character... What do you think? Raystorm 11:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I've looked at the newsletter as it stands now, and nothing in particular occurs to me that needs adding. :) -Aleta 02:59, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Edit dispute

Would you please weigh in with your opinion at Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story? Thanks for your opinion either way. -- Ssilvers 18:32, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject newsletter

SatyrBot 05:20, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

This is very late but you deserved some recognition.

		The Basque Barnstar of National Merit
		I, Joebengo, award you this barnstar for your help in adding the Basque WikiProject template to hundreds of Basque article talk pages with your Bot. Thank You! --Joebengo 02:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Man - thanks :) And that's a cute star! Will look good with my collection :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 04:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Your bot

Hey SatyrTN, just letting you know that your bot has been leaving inactivity messages on Ambi's old talk page [1]. In May last year she renamed her account to User:Rebecca. Cheers, Sarah 06:42, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks - I'll check on that. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 14:11, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:AN

FYI: discussion on Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#LocateMe_bot. Tyrenius 00:57, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you.

Thanks for your message. Please drop me an e-mail, if you like. Andy Mabbett 07:23, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:LGBT to do list

It does not do it for stubs with the WikiProject LGBT banner, does it? Leo Bersani had those two things for a while and wasn't on the list, hence my assumption.Zigzig20s 21:33, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

It should. If the article talk has the LGBTProject banner and the article has a cleanup tag, it should show up on the full list. Bersani doesn't have any cleanup tags on it, so he doesn't show up on the "Needing xxxx" lists. Stubs aren't automatically put in any of the cleanup sections, no. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 22:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Why did u remove Leo Bersani, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty and The Swimming Pool Library from the to-do list? They need to be expanded! Zigzig20s 15:18, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I would need to add this {{Expand}} then, is that correct? I wasn't familiar with this tag...For me a stub tag would seem to hold the same meaning...Zigzig20s 15:51, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

That's correct. Since there are so many stubs, and since they're easily found in their own category, I didn't include them in the bot's run. The bot lists the articles that editors have expressed a particular interest in by putting on a tag. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 15:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Don't you think that tag makes a page look ugly though? Not to be an annoying aesthete, but...Zigzig20s 16:08, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

If it's a stub, it's already ugly in one sense :) Seriously, though, I'm not all that fond of the cleanup tags, but they do serve a purpose and there sure are a plethora of them! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 16:11, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Council

Yeah, they're active. They're here: WP:COUNCIL. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 15:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

SatyrBot and LocateMe

Thanks for your message. I have not manually moved any of the LocateMe tags that SatyrBot applied (although others may have), figuring that it's a good task for a bot. Obviously I can't speak for anyone except myself, but I think that moving the tags from articles to talk pages would be well received. Best, --MCB 18:27, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Coordinates

How exactly do you workout the coordinates to a location and the apply them to Wikipedia? Simply south 15:43, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I have no idea. Check out WP:GEO or Andy Mabbett. My bot was only involved in adding the banner for the project. Sorry I can't be more help :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 16:16, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Thats OK. Thanks Simply south 17:11, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

I am just stopping by to let you know that I have a RfA and it would be great if you could put in your two cents about me.--Joebengo 02:37, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Removal of link

I added a link to the Portsmouth NH page and you removed it. How come?

Before adding the link, I posted a comment, "Proposed Link," at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Portsmouth%2C_New_Hampshire in mid-February. I left it there for well over a month without a reply, then went ahead and added the link. You removed it the next day.

The link, to PortsmouthNH.com, is highly relevant to the topic and provides lots of free information. The commericial-free purity of Wikipedia page does not seem to extend to the newspaper websites, which have much more advertising and in some cases less information. How is "old media" superior to "new media"? Zpinhead 15:53, 8 April 2007 (UTC).

Hi. Any response? I'm new at this and have tried to follow the guidelines by proposing a link. Maybe you could enlighten me as to the issue here. Zpinhead 17:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

SatyrBot and articles about London

SatyrBot recently placed maintenance notices asking for precise geographical coordinates on a large number of articles about London places, such as individual buildings (e.g. Electric Ballroom, Dorchester Hotel), city squares (e.g. Soho Square), parks (e.g. Dulwich Park), and other articles. Consequently, a discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London#Locate me tag where a couple of us think that these tags are overkill. At the very least, precise geographical coordinates are of little importance in most of these articles. For example, all that really needs to be said about Electric Ballroom is that it is located at 184 Camden High Street in Camden, London. Latitude and longitude would be overkill.

At the very least, could you at least comment at the discussion at WikiProject London? Also, could you consider at least stopping your bot from tagging more London-related articles until some consensus is reached at WikiProject London on these tags?

Thank you, Dr. Submillimeter 14:38, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

The examples that were cited in one of your links showed that the geographical coordinate information can be very useful. Still, the maintenance tags appear too prominently in the articles. The prominence of the warnings suggests problems that are as significant as original research, neutrality dispute, or unreferenced warnings. Maybe you or someone else could get your bot to place the notices on talk pages or someplace less prominent on the article pages? Dr. Submillimeter 16:28, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

To tell you the truth, I'm over the whole project and don't want anything more to do with it. :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 20:53, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

SatyrTN's feelings not withstanding, coordinates enable premises - such as hotels - to be found on on-line maps, or using GPS devices , and including them in articles will soon also present a Geo microformat and add them to the Google Earth Wikipedia layer. See WP:GEO. Andy Mabbett 20:58, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: Film banner tweak

That looks much nicer than the current version, and I think the project is likely to agree to having it done that way too. The only suggestion I have is shrinking the header font down a bit so that it doesn't look quite so huge in comparison to everything else. Kirill Lokshin 02:04, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Meh. I think you're just presenting it wrong; the choice isn't between what you're proposing and the old version, it's between what you're proposing and having everything shoved into {{WikiProjectBanners}}. ;-)

As for the BLP template: yes, that's a good way of implementing it. The main drawback is that it forces what's essetially the content of a project template into the shell itself; you'll need to add parameters if other policy warnings get added later on. But that's not a very major concern, I think. Kirill Lokshin 00:45, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

SatyrBot and LocateMe...

Hi - can you point me to the bot approval for this task? Thanks, Mart inp23 22:39, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Left response for this comment and WP:EA comment above on User talk:Martinp23. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 22:45, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

OK - but please ensure that you get bot approval for any task that you plan to run - it helps to prevent issues like what has happened with LocateMe :). Thanks, Mart inp23 22:46, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I definitely will. I'm pretty sure the LocateMe fiasco wouldn't have been averted by going through the bot process - that was caused by my own naivité - but I will be going through it before the WP:EA project, if it goes forward. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 22:48, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks :) Mart inp23 23:14, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

LGBT Noticeboard

Gay Cable Network? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 00:43, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

It was mentioned on Gay USA, and I was like, there was a gay cable network in the 1980s? That seems notable, if true. -- Beland 00:47, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Gotcha! Thanks :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 00:50, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Moving banner

I can't see any problem with removing the banners from the articles, as you are just undoing (and correcting) an action. There doesn't seem any objection to putting the banners on talk pages. An edit summary to explain what's going on would be helpful. I'm not a bot expert by any means, but it seems OK to me. Tyrenius 02:41, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Page format and references

I've started a draft of a new format for the list at User:Chidom/Sandbox4; please feel free to add sources as you get the chance. I've tried to combine the format you're fond of with one that doesn't entail so much vertical navigation; I do think it helps visually separate the names from the references and cross-references. The formatting had to change a bit to accommodate the new table layout, so if you wind up deleting anyone for lack of output, just copy and paste it from somewhere else. Where the comment code goes in relation to the table code goes gets a bit tricky. All in all, the formatting is going to be a challenge to a lot of folks, but I'm not really worried about that right now. If need be, it's fairly easy to revert this to the present format. I'll keep plugging away at fleshing out the rest of the names (I'm up to "L") and then jump in on the sourcing as well. (The sourcing is up to date through "G", help is needed starting with "H" onward.

A big help would be to update the draft with additions to the current version of the page; it's up to date prior to the addition of the Fantechi listing, which I've also asked questions about on the user's talk page. Thanks for the assistance.—Chidom ^talk 03:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the heads up about WP:LGBT. I'll do what I can!—Kbolino 08:35, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Template problem with Talk:Lord Voldemort?

Noticed you put up a new wikiproject banner template for Voldemort. There might be an issue somewhere-the first entry, which I presume should say the Harry Potter wikiproject, is instead headed as "WikiProject LGBT studies ". Didn't seem like that was directly referenced in the Talk page code, so I thought I'd throw you a line; you may want to look into this. -- GJD 15:57, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. We're all in this together, after all! -- GJD 16:35, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Banners

Thanks for your explanation. For the moment the one thing that itches most is the prospect of an additional cleanup. I don't want to go too far, just one example: someone has recently broken up Category:Canadian films to genre crossings without knowing that we use each county-film category as an index and we link to it as such from many navigations and lists. Finally after arguments have quited down, I am going through all these films again and adding the missing cat. It's all in flux, and soon all this is about to change even more radically, as new category-intersecting software is being developed which will need all inclusive primary categories. At some point I want to develop my favorite Jacques Tati films as a wikignome-break. I will be glad to cooperate along with you until the banner issue is properly discussed and settled. If you know I am missing any important discussion about it, please keep me posted as I usually am too busy to keep checking. Cheers! Hoverfish Talk 17:05, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProjectBannerShell

Haha, think thee I shall reveal mine secrets?! My ways are strange and mysterious. Know thou the concept of "thinking outside the box"? Well, if this be the box:

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Then I be somewhere around the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, doncha know. ;)

Actually, you were working on WP:NRHP related articles, and I pretty much watch them all. Then you started hitting the David DeCoteau stubs I created (some of the first ones I ever did, in fact). So I got curious on what you were doing, found your list, and voila. Which, I believe, is French for "Lookie here, y'all!" Oh, and I also added a bit more code to the WikiProject France template, 'cause the rating wasn't showing when nested. And now it is.

I know, I know, I'm so brilliant, talented and handsome, why aren't I rich? And modest, did I mention modest? My middle name is HUMILITY. All in big bold caps, of course, so everyone may know the massive extent of my humility. Though my middle name's more like OCD, you see. Tee hee. Hee hee. :)

Off to the next kooky project, I suppose. Delighted to help, and most happy to help further if needed. And if I can fit it into my busy schedule, eh? Maybe something for the LGBT project, which I'm more of a casual member. Who knows? But don't call me "queer". Weird, yes. As a friend of mine once told me, "You'd be weird even if you were straight." Which I take as a very high compliment. Enough rambling. Later! --Ebyabe 22:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations!

...on your third userpage vandalism. <smirk> -FisherQueen (Talk) 01:12, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

ROTFL! And out of the blue! I wasn't even online and haven't been ~~trolling for vandals~~ on NPP for over a week. This seems like the best kind of user-page vandalism to me - anonymous, unexplained, and unimaginative! :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Portsmouth link

Hi there -- I checked the Talk:Portsmouth, New Hampshire page as you requested. I had to give it some thought, but my opinion is that you were right to remove the link. --Ken Gallager 12:45, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks mucho! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 13:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Ken, Thanks for your considered response, both here and on my talk page. While I see your point about link farms, PortsmouthNH.com is not a link farm -- not in the sense of a site having nothing but links, nor in the Wikipedia definition as a group of web pages that all hyperlink to every other page in the group. PortsmouthNH.com has useful information for people interested in this region. I looked through the 14 guidelines under "Links normally to be avoided" and none seemed to apply. Zpinhead 19:33, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Zpinhead - it's not that the site is a linkfarm, it's that Wikipedia is not a link farm. Links added to articles should a) be about the subject of the article directly, and b) no be overly commercial in nature. While the site may have helpful information, there's a lot of ads on there. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 19:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok, but I have to say it irks me that one of the links on the Portsmouth page is to the Portsmouth Herald, which even has its own promotional page and external link at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portsmouth_Herald. www.seacoastonline.com --- now there's a web site with a lot of ads. Zpinhead 17:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeh, seacoastonline.com does have a lot of ads. The difference is that the link on the Herald page is its "official" site. Same as the link to the "official" site on Abercrombie & Fitch or The Boston Globe. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 17:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't want to beat this to death, but then it's ok for me to create a PortsmouthNH.com page? Then I'm an internal link?? Zpinhead 20:31, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

If PortsmouthNH.com is notable and you can find attributable sources to it, then yes :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 20:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Islands in Squam Lake

I have a GIS layer of water bodies from GRANIT, the statewide geographic database. I have to confess that listing which island is the largest may constitute original research, since the acreages are buried in the database and I had to dig them up. You'll notice I changed the largest island to High Haith? I hadn't put that island in before, because the GRANIT data showed it as a peninsula with a very narrow neck. So it's actually an island? Cheers... --Ken Gallager 15:13, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

To do list.

Would you mind updating it? I just overhauled the requested article section. Also, does the AfD section get all our usual entries? I never really noticed it before, it would make our efforts to keep up to date a lot easier. :) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 16:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

The Articles possibly up for deletion looks for the {{afd}} tag on the pages and reports them there. It needs someone to verify them before they get placed on the DelSort page. I've just run the bot so the short and long lists should be updated in a few minutes. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 20:52, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 20:56, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

How did it not catch List of gay villages ? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 21:52, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm.... List class.... Didn't think of that... </me scurries over to smack bot around until it works right...> -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:13, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

</me comes back from getting smacked around by bot> No idea. It checked the article - you can see it under the "needing verification" section. Don't know why it didn't notice the deletion tag. I'll have to look in to it some more later. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:25, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Lol, ok. Btw, I'm going through our stubs and upgrading them where necessary. We should make this like, an ongoing program or something. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 01:28, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Ouch. Yes, I guess so. Maybe with a "permanent" assessment team? To volunteer to go through the list once a month? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:32, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Let's try to persuade them to do the fun stuff first, eh? You know, before we ask the excrutiatingly boring of them. :) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 01:35, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Excruciatingly boring? You mean like this? =D -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:37, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Template:WPSchools

Ok, so this is not a criticism, but what did the change you made to this template do exactly? Adam McCormick 02:45, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

No, no problem at all. I'm just one of the only people who edits the template and thought I'd ask. I have noticed that problem and I'm glad you fixed it. On behalf of the Wikipedia:Wikiproject Schools/Assessment Team, Thank you! Adam McCormick 03:02, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Settlements established

Greetings and thanks for the question. I have tried to set out what I am doing on Category talk:Settlements by year of establishment. Can I ask that you leave any comments or further questions about the matter at that location? Thanks. Greenshed 19:33, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Nesting Banners

Hi, SatyrTN. I'd like you to not indiscriminately nest banners; not all projects support the parameter, and it defeats the purpose of the template to apply it to banners that don't comply. In particular, WPBIO is horrendous in there, and should be treated carefully. Also, if you come across a template that doesn't comply, don't just leave it there, go fix it! If it's protected, leave an editprotected request to fix it. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 04:34, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

In the meantime, try using my {{BannerShell}} template, especially on WPBIO and WPTEXAS. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 04:35, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

I have been :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 04:48, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

WPBIO hasn't been updated yet. Give me the working code, and it will be updated :) --kingboyk 00:32, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:WPBIO

There's a message for you at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography#Banner_Shell_Redux. I couldn't get the code to work, and would appreciate a ready-to-paste-in version based on our current template (there were a few changes since you did the mockup). I hope you can help asap and then we can get this show on the road! --kingboyk 00:31, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Still doesn't work I'm afraid. --kingboyk 13:04, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I'll add your support to the secret tally

... the one that really counts. =P Thank you. Now let me know when you need my tools... — coel acan — 15:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

<insert obvious comment about tools> ROTFL!!! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 15:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I wanted to hand that one to you on a platter. — coel acan — 15:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Nesting films

The problem is not big but it takes some time to find out what is going on and in the beginning I got confused. When I first hit a Shelled page, I see: an outer box with a "hide" and inner boxes with each a "show". If I want to see them all with one click, I can't. I either have to press twice on the "hide" of the outer box (first click hides everything, second click makes them all display fully open), or to click on each "show" of each inner box. My suggestion is that the outer box has two buttons: "show all" and "hide", the first of which causes all inner boxes to expand. Another option is to have only a "show" (instead of the hide), which after being clicked turns to "hide", as usual. If I'm still not clear, feel free to ask. I'm on firefox, by the way, in case it reacts differently than IE in "collapsible" attributes. Hoverfish Talk 15:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Gold star lesbian

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Gold star lesbian, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 03:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I have no idea why you wanna delete it. You did not provide any details in the talk page either. I deleted the tag, please re-tag it if you are willing to explain details of your opposition in its talk page. Towsonu2003 20:16, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I provided details in the tag itself: [2]. What's there isn't an article, it's a definition with one questionable source. A quick search of Google shows only (user-submitted) "urban dictionary"-type sites, several blogs, and suchlike - nothing that would satisfy WP:RS. In short, it's a neologism, and wikipedia tends to stay away from those. Since you've removed the tag, I don't think I can prod it again - I may put it up for AfD, unless you can show some reason it's notable? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 20:22, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

You did not provide any details, you just wrote 'neologism'. That's not called detail... Anyway, I think the term is notable in that it shows how the lesbian community re-interprets "virginity"... Thru this term, virginity becomes a heterosexual-only concept of 'no sex with men'. A brand new look into a very old dogma... The fact that I do not have the expertise to expand the entry seems irrelevant to me... Towsonu2003 20:38, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't seem irrelevant to me, and neither does adding useless stuff to Wikipedia. I have now tagged it for speedy deletion, and if an admin does not agree, it will go to articles for deletion. In a nutshell: there is just not enough info for this to become a free-standing article. It would frankly astonish me if more than one other sentence was ever added to this. Jeffpw 21:30, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Opposition

I didn't expect that we'd have any opposition, but User:Quadzilla99 seems to take offense at our templating. In particular, he reverted the addition of the nesting code from Talk:Michael Jordan, Template:NBA Project, and Template:HaloWikiProjectCollab. See also: User talk:Disavian#Talk:Michael Jordan. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 00:26, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Village Pump

Sure thing I just did, see here. Quadzilla99 00:32, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

No problemo. Quadzilla99 00:34, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

MJ:Talk: Okay since you guys insist on inserting it (even though none of you have ever worked on the page—I'm the main contributor) I'm not going to fight it. I think it's wrong though. Quadzilla99 00:37, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay I reverted it. I think consensus is going your way regarding these templates we'll see. Quadzilla99 00:41, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:EA

Can you quickly run SatyrBot to chnage all WP:EA links to Wikipedia:Esperanza? Ed seems determined that it mustn't redirect to Wikipedia:Editor assistance until that's done. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 14:13, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

ALL links? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 14:15, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

All links. Unless that a policy against that, in which please let me know so I can smack Ed round the face with it. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 14:16, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Hmm.....

Main: 0
Talk: 2598
User: 665
User talk: 32299
Wikipedia: 10041
Wikipedia talk: 917
Image: 77
Image talk: 325
MediaWiki: 0
MediaWiki talk: 71
Template: 2
Template talk: 226
Help: 0
Help talk: 14
Category: 2
Category talk: 68
Portal: 2
Portal talk: 35

That's a total of 47,342 links. None are in the main article space, so that's good. But I'm hesitant to run through that many links without some serious community support for the action. Where's the discussion taking place? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 15:15, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok. There is discussion here, I have just added to it. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 15:57, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

And (furthermore), the bot can't do the task as it has no approval from WP:BAG for it. Mart inp23 22:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, my post has been up for a week now and no-one has responded to it - do you want to apply to BAG anyway? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 19:59, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Errors with your AWB

Did you have any examples. I have tried to remove inappropriate or repetative banners. (Films when the article is not about a film, WPBooks when it book is a novel [which is repetative]) Otherwise is Try to leave other banners alone. The WPBooks one has often been added automatically with little of no consideration of whether it is the "most" appropriate banner. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 07:35, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Just pointing out that when doing assessments the operator can change the text in the edit box; so the edits you saw there were Kevin's and not my tools :) --kingboyk 14:02, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

template and Satyrbot questions

I am working with the Musical Instruments WikiProject, and would like to make the main project template follow the multiple template format. (I hope you understand where I am trying to get to and what I'm trying to do....) Ummmm.... how do I do update the project template to be compliant?

Secondly, for your bot, I am in the process of digging through all the articles in Category:Musical instrument stubs and tagging them with AWB, thinking that there must surely be an easier way. Then I stumbled upon your bot. A-ha! Could you have your bot tag all the articles in the cat (that don't already have the {{WPMusInst}} tag) with a {WPMusInst |quality=stub |importance=} tag?

You would make my day (OK - morning at least) if you could provide any assistance in these matters. Thanks! - NDCompuGeek 08:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, here's part or your morning, then :) I just updated the template to be "nesting" compliant, so that one's done.

SatrBot can help - no problem. Is it just that cat, or are there any others to run? And to you just want the template added, or do you want the "class=stub" parameter with it? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 13:15, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

May I recommend that they use class=Stub rather than quality=? Also, if autostubbing only do it on stub cats and preferably add {{stubclass}} too. Better still, if the template supports class= and auto=yes, use my plugin. It has all the regexes and logic ready to go. --kingboyk 13:31, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

←←(unindent) Thanks for the help with the template. I was wrong - you did make the entire day!! :-))~ I'm still learning how to program templates, and even though Kirill is helping me (and allowing me to, um, borrow the layout of a few templates), the idiosyncrasies are a little tough coming.... (and I thought learning PL/1 was difficult!)

As for the Category:Musical instrument stubs, all the articles are already stub tagged (by the Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting people), so it's just a matter of getting them in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Instruments categories. Should be easy - for someone who knows what they're doing (that's you!).

We decided to go with a "non-standard" nomenclature to better define what the grading scheme is all about. To us, "class=" is able to be used for both quality and importance (and is for the templates), but separating them out to "quality=" and "importance=" emphasizes what is being graded. At least that was our reasoning.... Then again, if it is going to cause troubles, we can always pop it back to standard. Conversely, causing ripples isn't always a bad thing....

As for the "auto=" tab, I'm thinking that could be added with a minimum of muss and fuss. To use the Kingboyk tool, does the quality tab have to be "class="? If not, could the addition of the {WPMusInst} template be added with the SatyrTN bot, without any long-term issues leaving the quality assertion as "quality="? Man, I'm just full of questions!

Thanks for your help so far; I'm sure with all of you WP legends helping, the MusInst project can't help but be great! - NDCompuGeek 20:09, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I honestly know nothing about Kingboyk's AWB plugin - but I bet he'll comment here in a bit :) To your other questions... Yes, SatyrBot can run through Category:Musical instrument stubs and mark them (if they don't already have it) with {{WPMusInst |quality=Stub |importance= }}. And if you want me to, I can add the "|auto=yes" to that - that's up to you. Let me know if you want me to go ahead with that. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 20:15, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

←I appreciate the offer, but I want to "up the ante": how about you teach me what to do to get the WPMusInst template "auto-compliant"? I'm always a sucker for knowledge (probably goes with the 39-yr-old-still-in-school thing....)! - NDCompuGeek 22:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I can't really teach in this medium... But I can show you: [3]. That diff should show you what I've done - if you have any questions about it, please feel free to ask and I'll answer as best I can! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:19, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject Japan

Please post to Template talk:WikiProject Japan a description of how to use the "nested" feature you just added to {{WikiProject Japan}} so people will know how to use it. Thanks! ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 00:38, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I've added that documentation. Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:18, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! (^_^) ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 01:41, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

FYI

I've taken the draft offline and am working on it with a text editor. I'll restore it when it's done and then it can be posted to article space. Thanks for your help.—Chidom ^talk 05:14, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Don't understand why you reverted

Here you reverted my edit in which I correctly changed the Violence against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered link to the actual title of the article, Violence against nonheterosexuals. You also added a "see also" link to 10 Seconds 'Till Sunrise, and article which doesn't even exist. Were these mistakes, or are there reasons for doing these that I'm unaware of? Thanks, 86.152.203.212 08:08, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Engorged Ticks

you have a dirty mind! It never occurred to me what that summary would look like on my Contrib sheet. ROFL. Mind you, as a dog owner, I have an interest in engorged ticks so similar edit summaries may appear from time to time. Feel free to imagine whatever you like! Oh by the way, I don't know how to upload photos properly. if you want to uplaod that guys very good photo of ticks to the tick article, I'd be in your debt. it's an excellent comparison photoLiPollis 00:24, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

The only photo I think appropriate for the article is the first one showing both the engorged female and the male so that people can see the size difference. If you find a way to include the photo of the engorged tick still feeding on the dog's skin, that would be VERY useful to the article. I worry about there being too many photos but those two pictures really do add layers of understanding to the article. it's one thing to talk about an engorged tick, it's another to really see it, right? Sorry to make you look at such things, but your help is greatly appreciated. I'm part of Project Dog and such photos really help dog owner looking to wikipedia for a visual reference. Most dog owners seeing an engorged female tick on their dog for the first time assume it's a tumor, a wart or some other type thing. In titling the photos, you can just say " Two Dog Ticks: an Engorged female and a male." For the pic of the tick on the dog you can say, "An Engorged fmeale Dog Tick still attached to her host." The Photohragpher gave me permission on my talk page to upload the photoes and use them. If you need to list his name it's: Borislav Dopudja . Thanks again!LiPollis 04:58, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

It looks great! :) ( Image:Ticks 1.jpg and Image:Ticks 5.jpg ) --Borislav Dopudja 16:17, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

User pages

Please ensure that you leave messages on TALK pages and not USER pages as you did with User:86.152.203.212 Thanks and keep up the good work! --Samtheboy ^(t/c) 14:02, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Doh! Thanks :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 14:03, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Perversion reversion redux

Thanks for alerting me to that nasty entry. Call to task an anonymous, unregistered editor for using a town site to smear (bestiality!) some enemy, and what does he do? Prove his case? Nope, he makes another anonymous smear against you. Sometimes I wish I had a Milgram experiment button on my keyboard. Zzzzap! --Hugh Manatee 14:43, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Banners and scopes

I'm going to try to bring some stuff related to our previous discussions to a broader crowd, and it would be great if you could give your input as well. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject reform#The scope. -- Ned Scott 00:31, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

LGBT footer

Hi, Template:LGBT needs to be updated so it no longer includes a link to Choice and sexual orientation as that article was deleted at AfD. I'm not entirely sure I can do it without messing up some of its esoteric features :-). Do you mind sorting it? WjBscribe 05:14, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Also I seem to remember there was a discussion that resulted in the decision that intersexuality was outside the scope of LGBT issues. Could you take the link to it out as well? WjBscribe 05:16, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Done both - no prob :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 05:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. WjBscribe 05:57, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

edit summary

"that spate of small was against mos fag"

What in the world did that edit summary on the Neil Patrick Harris article mean? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 04:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

It meant that small is not used for histories.100110100 18:31, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

hey satyr

I want to whack one of your recent templates. Please read my comments and give feedback at WT:LGBT#A concern. — coel acan — 06:42, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeh - I've been reading along. Makes no difference to me - but thanks for bringing it to my attention!! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 14:56, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay! I'm going to skip TFD then. Let's hope nobody yells at me too loudly. — coel acan — 06:09, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Guardian

The guardian in itself is a fine source (their profiles are great for our lists), but their columns are noit, I would think, because they're commentary, so I don;t think they'e allowed for facts. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 14:00, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

...I am so sorry for my appalling English. Anyway, can you deploy your bot to quickly run through User:Messedrocker/Unreferenced BLPs (just the completely unreferenced ones) and pull out any of ours? It might be helpful if we could cross-reference them with our LGBT lists - I suspect we could give quite a few sources just by ading the ones already found. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 19:00, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

LOL :)

I can, but can it wait until Wednesday? RL is intervening over the next couple days for me. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 22:59, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

The WikiProject Biography Newsletter: Issue II - April 2007

The April 2007 issue of the WikiProject Biography newsletter has been published.You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. BetacommandBot 20:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Deputies

I was thinking you could run too... ;-D Raystorm 18:23, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree, you definitely should :-). WjBscribe 23:04, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

So, you gonna? Cos we need Coordinators... Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 16:34, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeh - I signed up :) I'm in total chaos in RL, so may not be quick about responding, voting, participating, etc for the next week or two. But my feathered cap is now in the ring :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 17:01, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Lesbian films

hi, It seems that there is not such a thing as a separated list of movies with lesbian related storyline, but some movies are included in the LGBT films list, making it difficult to look for these movies. I think that it would be helpful whether to indicate in the LGBT list which subgenre the movie belongs to ( gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) or keep them in the LGBT list but also create a separate page containgin only lesbian movies and reference this page from the LGBT list. What do you think? thank you

boomboomeve (talk · contribs)

Hi, BoomBoomEve! First, I'm glad you're interested in editing and even creating new articles! I thing the idea of a List of lesbian-themed films sounds great!

But before you do any article creating or editing, would you please read WP:HELP? There are some basics you should take in before you get started. For instance, sign your posts with ~~~~ - it's easy and it adds the date/time to the post. Also, new posts should go at the bottom of the page.

Just simple little things that don't seem like they matter, but they do. Read WP:HELP, then feel free to get started on the list! And feel free to ask any questions - I'll be glad to help! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 16:08, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Question regarding an infobox

Hi SatyrTN,

There is a debate that involves infobox design and standardization to replace manually constructed infoboxs. You may have missed this post from 52 pickup at WikiProject Infobox but it bears repeating and as a member of the project, your input would be appreciated.

Instead of repeating all the points, I'll just direct you to the discussion here. In the interests of consistency, and taking on a few new ideas for infobox design, I would like as many people as possible to get involved.—MJCdetroit 00:58, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

hi satyr

i don't think miss understood is notable enough for a wiki article. i asked for someone to show me otherwise but so far no one has. it looks like one editor took a couple of pictures of her and may be friends with her so he is big on the article, not really an unbiased source.

do you know anything about miss understood? it looks like she's a new york party planner, but is she notable otherwise?

71.112.6.35 06:24, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I've added some more refs to the article, one from the New York Times. That and her appearance in four films seems notable enough to me. Thoughts? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 07:01, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

i'll check your refs. the previous ref in the times was inconsequential, i've been mentioned in my city's newspaper in more detail. the thing people forget about the times is that is a single city's newspaper and mentiones things that aren't interesting outside of ny. miss understood was in "to wong foo", but not as a significant character. the other films aren't significant (you can't even get them on netflix) -- http://www.red-lipstick.com/moviestills.html 71.112.6.35 07:23, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I disagree about Wigstock - that one's an extremely important drag movie, IMO. I haven't heard of "faking it" or "red lipstick", so I won't comment. I'll see what other refs there might be out there. Doing a lap dance for George Stephanopolous is notable in my opinion. Or is that dreams? :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 13:36, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

hey satyr, giving george stephenopolous a lap dance isn't really reason enough for inclusion, dya think? i haven't seen wigstock but it isn't widely known, and i wouldnt be surprised if understood has a minor role. i asked editors for some info about her and they couldn't drum up anything notable.71.112.6.35 04:37, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Rebecca Cummings stub

This is asking that you reconsider the stub-class rating and WikiProject LGBT studies stub-class rating assigned to Rebecca Cummings by SatyrBot.

I am the main author of the Rebecca Cummings article. When I first started the article it was rated as a stub. With the help of others including two administrator, Alkivar and Joe_Beaudoin_Jr., the article was improved and the stub rating was removed 14:11, 22 May 2006. The article is very useful to any reader. It meets MoS standards. It also contains clear, relevant and complete information about Rebecca Cummings and has continued to be improved since the stub was removed.

From the LGBT studies WikiProject point of view what can be done to improve the article beyond the stub-class rating? Please respond on Talk:Rebecca_Cummings.

Thanks in advance! --HeartThrobs 21:23, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

LGBT rights in New Hampshire

Just went Sapere aude (have courage). Okay, some might say a little nuts...hehehe. Created the article LGBT rights in New Hampshire. Hoping folks will jump on it and help fix it up. I have limited knowledge of the laws, and limited knowledge of how to figure it out, but thought you might want to know nonetheless as this is an intersection of your interests (as well as mine). This article should supplant any articles created regarding SSM, CUs, etc. in NH as I tried to describe to others here. Thanks. ZueJay (talk) 03:50, 27 April 2007 (UTC)