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RE: NIA

The header should read "Re;ANI", but I don't prefer to use "ANI", "Blocked", "Warning" etc in headers, those trigger alarm to other talk page stalkers.

Anyway, that sounds good. Swami Vivekananda once told— In a day when you don't come across any problems — you can be sure that you are travelling in the wrong path. (read more). I'll pray to mother Kali so that more and more people report against you at ANI. You are making us proud.

To_the_Fourth_of_July has been nominated and passed in DYK. I hope it is going to face trouble because of its length! I have been a bit busy with multiple DYK nominations, expansion. Foolishly I have started expansion work of 3 articles together. Don't know how I am going to manage! --Tito Dutta  (talkcontributionsemail)

I'm actually enjoying this go around with ANI/AfD/Craziness and I can't always say that. Probably because I am a hybercritic and a hypercritic. What's funny is I used to do 20-30 AfD's a month and I bet I've done ~5 this year. I've been taken to ANI twice this for AfDs. Joy.
You did a real good job on To the Fourth of July. That is the type of article I love because you learn something that you would never have dreamed about. How many DYK's are you upto? You might want to improve the article Insane asylum because that is where you are going to if you keep doing multiple DYKs at once. Bgwhite (talk) 05:21, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
I have created an anti-editcountitis slogan (humour, do not take seriously)— "Edit more and edit rubbish", that is a primary symptom of editcountitis For me, this slogan is true in 300 days a year. In remaining 64 days, it is not applicable, because in those days, I myself suffer from this disease .
So, number of DYKs don't matter, I have a handful of DYKs. In my opinion, my best DYK hook has been this one Did you know ... that in Greenland, 1 in every 5 people attempt to commit suicide? See at User:Titodutta/DYK#DYK_for_Suicide_in_Greenland --Tito Dutta  (talkcontributionsemail) 05:43, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

AWB permission

Can you give User:Bubaikumar AWB permission? He is doing excellent work! But, he needs to request others for clean-up: User_talk:Titodutta#Cleanup! Or does he himself need to apply? --Tito Dutta  (talkcontributionsemail) 11:04, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

He will need to request permission at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage. Then, I can approve him. Bgwhite (talk) 18:13, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Guess

Tito, I'm not from California, but good try. Only 49 states left to guess. Bgwhite (talk) 23:35, 29 May 2013 (UTC) — Though I have 49 states left to guess, my second guess is City: South Jordan, State: Utah. You might have some connection/interest in Idaho as well. --Tito Dutta  (talkcontributionsemail) 11:24, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

You are close. Right state, wrong city. Somebody has been looking at my GA/FA articles. Bgwhite (talk) 18:24, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Minor barnstar
Thanks for your many little edits here and there. Bearian (talk) 20:23, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Brackets

Yes, I know I make a lot of bracket errors. I've suggested that BracketBot's response time be extended to 15 mins, as the bot often posts before I get a chance to fix them. I've started doing a run through at the end of each year's list to catch missed wikilinks. Mjroots (talk) 18:19, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
You deserve a barnstar! Tito Dutta  (talkcontributionsemail) 01:08, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Fixing CHECKWIKI errors

Hi, Bgwhite. I would like to help you and Magio in fixing CHECKWIKI errors using AWB. (I have made thousands of CHECKWIKI fixes on arwiki and I will submit my BRfA for this task on enwiki shortly.) Could you tell me which errors still need to be fixed in June dumb, please? Thank you. --Meno25 (talk) 08:22, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Bgwhite crates the list every month. Then in the column "Last scan", June list indicates the list has been generated and 06/2013 that the list has been fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:33, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
Thank you, Magio. I don't have enough resources to download the huge enwiki database dumb file, so, I will depend on the list generated by Bgwhite. Bgwhite, I know that you are eager to fix all errors but could you, please, leave some unfixed for my bot trial? Thank you. --Meno25 (talk) 08:43, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
Don't look at me. If you look at the history logs, you will see Magio is going gangbusters. I can't see where he has slept for the past day. Bgwhite (talk) 17:56, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
Meno25 it would be great if you could help us with the bugs that need to be done manually too. Especially #10, #43, #47. It is also important to keep record of which pages are not fixed by AWB so that we can improve the logic. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:00, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
Mention Meno's name so he gets a notification. Meno Meno Meno.
Manually, the big ones are #10, #28, #43, #47, #80 and #86. For #80 and #86 you have to see what the bot didn't fix. You can check by loading this month's and last month's list into AWB's "List comparer". Any articles on both list will need to be done manually.
#26, #34, #38, #40, #58 also need to be done manually, but I usually handle those.
#6 and #17 are also done manually, usually after Magio runs the bot.
#32 is also done manually after the bot runs. As part of the Checkwiki program, a list is generated that shows where the error is located in the article. The majority of the time, AWB doesn't alert that there is an error. I use the list to find where the error is and then fix it. A list is also generated for #34 for the same reason.
We usually have a big section on a talk page where we communicate what is going on during the month's Checkwiki sweep. This month it is at: User talk:Magioladitis#June 2013 sum up. Bgwhite (talk) 17:56, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
If you write me the regex used by CHECKWIKI for #32 I may could update AWB's code to catch it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:29, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Stu Klitenic for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether if Stu Klitenic should be deleted or not. The conversation will be held at the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stu Klitenic until a consensus is held and everyone is welcome to join the conversation. However, do not remove the AfD message on the top of the page. Ashbeckjonathan 03:41, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

20:03, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

There's a question about your recent edit on that article's talk page, initiated by a conversation at WP:Teahouse/Questions. EBY (talk) 20:43, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Why did you revert all my changes?

There was another error I corrected, but you reverted it too. (The descriptions for Home and Feature requests say the same thing). The Transhumanist 22:22, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't see those. I've added back those changes. Bgwhite (talk) 22:44, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. No worries. The Transhumanist 22:56, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

"Documentation" page is a bit confusing

That page caught me off-guard.

I didn't realize the menu was the main content for the page. The actual main content of the page (its body) is about source code. It's a bit confusing to those not already familiar with the page.

The standard practice for navigation menus throughout Wikipedia community pages is to lead to sister pages. This is why I skipped right past the menu.

For examples of standard navigation menu scope (i.e., showing sister pages), see the menus at the top of:

Basically, each of the menus cited above tie the members of a set together. The title of each page in the set indicates what that page is about.

But the title of the AWB source code page does not indicate what the page is about.

Another aspect of navigation menus, is that the menu itself is presented at the top of each member of its set, to assist navigation between the members of the set.

Another problem with AWB's documentation, is that it is not all gathered into a single set. You have the "Documentation" set, and then you have the User manual that stands separately. Those should be consolidated into the same set, or even into the same manual using Wikipedia's Summary style.

Thank you for reverting me and pointing out the menu. Nice catch. I'll see if I can fix it to be more intuitive. Feel free to point out any glitches in my editing, and I'll be happy to revert/discuss in the spirit of finding a better solution. The Transhumanist 23:28, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Working on AWB menu structure

I've simplified the main menu, and pulled the menu off the documentation page and turned it into the Template:AWB help menu. That menu is now accessed via the User manual, and ties all the documentation pages (that were posted on the "Documentation" page) together.

I'm currently working on cleaning up the clutter at the top of the User manual page.

Feel free to jump in and help. The Transhumanist 00:35, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Navigation disentanglement/cleanup complete. There were three menus before, now there are two. I moved the links from Template:AWB mheader to Template:AWB help menu. People accustomed to clicking on "documentation" in main menu can still easily find it. Later, after they get used to its new location, it might be a good idea to rename it to "help". The Transhumanist 01:09, 14 June 2013 (UTC)


AWB documentation

Please don't re-arrange the pages. You just wiped out all of AWB's documentation pages. Bgwhite (talk) 20:36, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

I didn't wipe out anything, I changed the page title to reflect its contents.
The menu says that the page includes "Documentation of the various features of AWB".
But it doesn't. It gives instructions on how to download the AWB source code.
The documentation on the program and its features is included in the User Manual.
Fix the menu please. The Transhumanist 3:40 pm, Today (UTC−6)
The page does list about compiling the source code, but it also lists the various documentation pages available.
The very first thing is a bar saying Topics: Custom modules · Dated templates · Interwiki order · Mono & Wine · Plugins · Rename template parameters · Style.css · WikiFunctions.dll · User talk templates 21:48, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
On virtually every page on Wikipedia, the subject specified in the title is the subject covered in the body of the article. But on Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Documentation, that standard is not followed. The body of the article is about something totally different than the title of the article. It's confusing. The Transhumanist 10:40, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Concerning WP:BRD

As always, feel free to revert and/or revise my edits. How do you like the latest changes to the {{AWB}} template? The Transhumanist 19:59, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Really?

Just checking that you read the entire discussion - the history of the page(s) in question show that the Rabbit should not have a separate article - it belongs back in the original. I have no real horse in that race, but opening the Rabbit article for editing is a huge mistake ... especially based on the conversation you link to (✉→BWilkins←✎) 22:51, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

There was an edit conflict. Here is what I was going to write before you chimed in.
I just unprotected the page based upon:
  1. The merger proposal was initiated by a sockpuppet and was the only one involved in the discussion.
  2. Two editors want to restore the contents of the page, one editor would be fine with that resolution, and no editors were in disagreement.
  3. Bunny rabbits are cute :)
As Bwilkins was the admin who recently placed protection on the page and he is alot smarter than I am, I have no problem if he protects again. Bgwhite (talk) 22:56, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Ack! My apologies for the confusion. I emailed the wrong admin (Bgwhite), asking if he would mind responding, as we had been pinged him a couple of times without any reply.
I'll post a note in the talkpage discussion itself, on that topic. *Red-faced* –Quiddity (talk) 23:05, 15 June 2013 (UTC)