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Transclusion problem

Hi Rich, would you know where a vandal could have gotten in the templates such that it links back to his user page? These links shouldn't be and it would be good to remove them per DENY. I can't find the link. It pertains to this thread and there is this archived SPI case. He has been using open proxies and likes to taunt. Any help you can offer would be appreciated. Cheers,
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 17:50, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

There are currently no transclusions - lots of links but they seem to be legitimate, as far as I have looked. Rich Farmbrough, 00:33, 2 August 2012 (UTC).

Check again. Something really weird happening imo. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 01:08, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Here is the evidence for the first assertion. Is there an example of a linked to page that seems odd you could provide? Rich Farmbrough, 01:14, 2 August 2012 (UTC).

Looks like it's fixed now. Yesterday a huge number or articles and Wikipedia core pages linked to that user page. No longer, maybe I missed some initial vandalism and when I looked at the pages that link here some sort of propagation was going on? Either way it's now okay. So no problem. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 01:23, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

OK cool. Rich Farmbrough, 01:25, 2 August 2012 (UTC).

Linking pages

Apart from pages in his sockpuppet categories I see the following linked to. Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Earth Exploding Live User talk:115.118.195.23 User talk:171.98.154.2 User talk:95.143.115.77 User talk:Casliber User:Hopiakuta/ You do keep accusing me of malware User:Kathryn NicDhàna/Admin Toolbox User:Moste Helpful Assistante User:Pigman/Admin toolbox Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive235 Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive762 Wikipedia:Help desk Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Earth Exploding Live Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Earth Exploding Live/Archive (I would turn these into links buut that would require automation.) Rich Farmbrough, 01:24, 2 August 2012 (UTC).

Not sure if it was intended, but I found the above extremely funny. :) Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 01:32, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Riicchhhhh

...you should add yourself to the host page damnit! WP:Teahouse/Hosts :) You know you want tooooooooooo ;-) SarahStierch (talk) 22:52, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Done. Rich Farmbrough, 01:45, 2 August 2012 (UTC).

Did YOU know

I liked the quote of the day, and it's nearly the same thing as a Sam Cooke song, "A Change Is Gonna Come"-- the second stanza is "It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die 'Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky It's been a long, a long time coming, but I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will". It is truly a great song covered by a lot of the early sixties soul singers and many others since then, and worth hearing and seeing the track here: [1] (Copied from MetroLyrics.com) --Leahtwosaints (talk) 10:13, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. There was another song from that era - "Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die." Rich Farmbrough, 02:21, 2 August 2012 (UTC).

Talk:Institute of Mathematics and its Applications#Merging in The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

You may be interested in Talk:Institute of Mathematics and its Applications#Merging in The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, which relates to merging a stub you started a while ago. Yaris678 (talk) 14:18, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks, commented there. Rich Farmbrough, 16:01, 2 August 2012 (UTC).

Re: Arybhata Pi

Hello,
You have one new message here: User_talk:Titodutta#Aryabhata.27s_Calculation_of_Pi --Tito Dutta ✉ 19:58, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Y Answered on user's talk page. Rich Farmbrough, 21:04, 2 August 2012 (UTC).

Regex

Is it okay to ask you about Regex? I'm trying to learn and read about it but some things I've tried don't work as intended so I'm a little stuck. It's okay if your not interested I can't try the help desk. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 01:36, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Go ahead. Rich Farmbrough, 01:39, 2 August 2012 (UTC).

Starting with the AWB typo rule of <Typo word="Manufacture" find="\b([Mm])an(?:[ai]fac?|[au]fa)[ct]ur(e[ds]?|ers?|ing)\b" replace="$1anufactur$2" />

The above rule works but I encountered some spelling "manuafracture" and "Manuafacture" that this rule is doesn't detect. So I tried extending the comparison by adding "|[ua]fa" thus ending up with \b([Mm])an(?:[ai]fac?|[ua]fa|[au]fa)[ct]ur(e[ds]?|ers?|ing)\b" but this didn't work.

Now I figure the problem is that it's only comparing to one character 'u', so how to I extend the rule to match the two letter 'ua'? Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 01:48, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

To allow for two crudely

\b([Mm])an(?:[ai]fac?|[ua][ua]fa|[au]fa)[ct]ur(e[ds]?|ers?|ing)\b"

One or two you can use

\b([Mm])an(?:[ai]fac?|[ua]{1,2}fa|[au]fa)[ct]ur(e[ds]?|ers?|ing)\b"

But this replicates the next [au]fa

\b([Mm])an(?:[ai]fac?|[au]{1,2}fa)[ct]ur(e[ds]?|ers?|ing)\b"

We can include missing vowel "Manfacture"

\b([Mm])an(?:[ai]fac?|[au]{0,2}fa)[ct]ur(e[ds]?|ers?|ing)\b"

And multiples giving a simpler (looking) rule

\b([Mm])an(?:[ai]fac?|[au]*fa)[ct]ur(e[ds]?|ers?|ing)\b"

Note though that we are still not matching everything we probably want because of the [ct].

\b([Mm])an(?:[ai]|[au]*)fa[ct]{1,3}ur(e[ds]?|ers?|ing)\b"

This fixes that problem. But the (?:[ai]|[au]*) is notw a little redundant

\b([Mm])an(?:[ai]|[au]*)fa[ct]{1,3}ur(e[ds]?|ers?|ing)\b"

This deals with that problem without, probably matching stuff we don't want.

\b([Mm])an[aiu]*fa[ct]{1,3}ur(e[ds]?|ers?|ing)\b"

Rich Farmbrough, 02:06, 2 August 2012 (UTC).

None of those work on Manuafracture. Maybe it's the regex tester in AWB? Anyway, have to sleep. Will check through this another time. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 02:16, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

\b([Mm])an[aiu]*fr?a[ct]{1,3}ur(e[ds]?|ers?|ing)\b" Rich Farmbrough, 02:28, 2 August 2012 (UTC).

• The early rules above say [ai] but it should say [aiu], then they work on the start 'manauf'.
• I can NOT use the * as AWB/T says "Don't use the quantifiers * and + with anything but a single character. Avoid them entirely, if possible, as they put extra strain on CPU and are apt to do other than what you expect."
• I'm not sure what the {1,3} (1-of-3) applies to. Does that mean 1-of-3 of the 'fact' or just the 'ct'? I'm confused by that at the moment.
• Here is my first revised version \b([Mm])an(?:[aiu]{0,2}fr?ac?|[ua]fa|[au]fa)[ct]ur(e[ds]?|ers?|ing)\b
• Next I'm going to add (Re) at the beginning and check (in a dictionary) for different possible endings. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 13:11, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

• Added the start (Re) and (Un) and ending able/ability, plus "man'o'facture" is covered.
• \b(M|m|[Rr]em|[Uu]nm)[au]n(?:[aiou]{0,2}fr?ac?|[ua]fa|[au]fa)[ct]ur(e[ds]?|ers?|ing|e?able|e?ability)\b Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 14:47, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

• OK that's cool.
• {x,y} matches x, x+1 ... y-1, y occurrences.
• [au] and [ua] are the same, they both match a or u.
• The instructions about not using * and + are sage, but not wholly valid. Certainly the CPU comment depends very much on the actual regex. Consider for example vowel matching "[aeiou]+" vs "[aeiou]{1,2}". (Maybe [eaiou]+ for speed...) This will generally be matching a one vowel string, and sometimes 2 - there will be almost no 3 vowel matches. Let us suppose that 25% of characters are vowels and that we have a uniform random distribution of letters.

No vowels	%	Operations method 1 [aeiou]+	Operations method 2 [aeiou]{1,2}	Expected cost of using method 2
0	75	match (1)	check count (1) match (1)	.75 * 1
1	17.25	match (2)	check count (2) match (2)	.1725 * 2
2	4.57	match (3)	check count (3) match (3)	.0457 * 3
3	1.26	match (4)	check count (3) match (3)	.0126 * 0.5
4	0.32	match (5)	check count (3) match (3)	- .0032 *2

As you can see not until we get to four vowels in a row does the {1,2} method become cheaper than + — and that is at the expense of missing 6.25 % of the items we want to match.

• I would replace (M|m|[Rr]em|[Uu]nm) with ((?:[Uu]n|[Rr]e|)[Mm]) - this is - to me at least - clearer in function. It does of course match UnM and leave it mis-capitaliɀed
• [ct]ur only matches "cur" or "tur" - it is relying on the "c?" of "fr?ac?" to match "factur".

All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 16:33, 2 August 2012 (UTC).

Thanks! I don't understand the CPU maths and at this point it is of little use on rocking the previous consensus. It's really cool what you've done with the rule. It's given me a lot more understanding and ability when using regex. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 23:23, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

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Ibid

In this edit you use name = {{{name|Ibid}}}. Why not use simply name = Ibid, as I have seen it done in (so far) all other maintenance templates? Debresser (talk) 00:18, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

It allows wrapper templates to pass their names, using the same paradigm. Rich Farmbrough, 01:29, 5 August 2012 (UTC).

Antonio Diego Voci

Hello, I'd just like to thank you for the improvements you're in the process of making to the Antonio Diego Voci page, they are very helpful. Is there any way I can be of assistance to you? Ahjkl67435 (talk) 16:11, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

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Template:Football box header

Hi Rich. Is Template:Football box header, which you created in September last year, still required? It's not transcluded anywhere and it's only referenced as a "See also" from the docpage for Template:Football box. If it's no longer required, I'll propose it for deletion (or you can, if you prefer). Thanks. DH85868993 (talk) 08:03, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

I've nominated the template for deletion. You are welcome to participate in the deletion discussion. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 12:06, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Templates and sockpuppets and categories and if tests and OH GOD THE HORROR

Hi Rich, I ended up staring at Template:Sockpuppet category for a while (for something minor and already fixed), and I think I spied an error in the template. Check out this diff in Template:Sockpuppet category/sandbox please and let me know if you agree. From what I can tell, namespace errors are being silently unreported because the if tests are not closing properly. The closing brace in that diff change should fix it but I'm not confident enough to just slap on a {{protected edit}} request and call it a day. BigNate37_(T) 19:49, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

You were right about the error. I changed the sandbox and made a testcase. I think that is better, I used classic code indentation, so it need a little testing, but looks OK. Rich Farmbrough, 23:03, 9 August 2012 (UTC).

Nearly forgot- re: session musicians

Hey. when I want to add a more subcategory rather than just session musicians to American session musicians there's normally no problem. But I tried to do so for those from New Zealand, and I think I screwed it up. And-- today, I find that there are some Czech session players which could use a similar category.. but, you see my dilemma? I mean, first I screw up the New Zealand one- check and see! I wanted to add Bruce Lynch and Neil Finn to the NZ session players at the least. I'd appreciate your help. :) --Leahtwosaints (talk) 10:38, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Should all be good now. Let me know if there are problems. Rich Farmbrough, 02:42, 2 August 2012 (UTC).

Many thanks, as usual! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 01:30, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Wiki-work

Cheers Rich, I think you should have an email, let me know if this is not the case. Tommy Pinball (talk) 20:34, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Skip if contains .{2000}

Greetings Rich, I just wanted to clarify something. The Skip if contains .{2000} statement you made. Is that greater than 2000 or less than? Also, does that include things like infoboxes and categories? I assume it does but not sure. Kumioko (talk) 16:15, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

It would match 2000 or more characters. I would assume a hard and fast rule would not be needed, but you could craft a regex to do a reasonable job of excluding infoboxes and categories, with a little work. Rich Farmbrough, 16:55, 11 August 2012 (UTC).

Thanks, is there a way to say something like 0 to 500? Its fine if it includes categories and templates that small, it'll still be a stub. Kumioko (talk) 17:33, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes, .{0,500} Rich Farmbrough, 17:45, 11 August 2012 (UTC).

Awesome thanks I'll give that a go. Kumioko (talk) 19:34, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

I don't think I am doing it right. When I put in .{0,1000} under doesn't contain (assuming that anything with more would still have that many) with the regex box checked, it still doesn't catch some that I know are less than 1000 characters. Is there something else that I am missing? Kumioko (talk) 20:49, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

So they are being skipped, what is the reason in the skip field in the log? Rich Farmbrough, 00:50, 12 August 2012 (UTC).

As much as I have used AWB I didn't even know there was a skip log. Kumioko (talk) 01:00, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

On the right hand side next to the edit summaries is a "Logs" tab, click on Logs and at the bottom is a scroll list of article you've skipped for the session with a skip reason column. Regards, Sun Creator^(talk) 01:05, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Well what do ya know there it is..lol. Learn something new everyday. Kumioko (talk) 01:13, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

The message on the log says "Page does not contain .{2000}". Kumioko (talk) 02:41, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

But the skip is supposed to be set to .{0,1000} .... Rich Farmbrough, 03:01, 12 August 2012 (UTC).

Makes sure the Regex is ticked in the skip tab. Regards, Sun Creator^(talk) 03:05, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

I've tried it a few different ways. Contains/Not contains, with and without regex, .{2000}, .{0,2000} and various other combinations. I just can't seem to get it to work right. Kumioko (talk) 03:07, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

OK I'll try to test tomorrow. Rich Farmbrough, 03:46, 12 August 2012 (UTC).

Problem with ".{0,1000}" is that it matches everything as every article has at least 0 characters. What I got to work was Skip - If contains .{1000,} this will skip if there is more then 1000 characters in the none excluded part of an article. If instead you want smaller articles skipped just put and tick it in the not contains option instead. Regards, Sun Creator^(talk) 12:17, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes indeed. That's where we started I think and we got lost on the highways and byways of the regex. Rich Farmbrough, 19:52, 12 August 2012 (UTC).

Thanks guys its working now. I restarted my computer and then reopened AWB and it started working. Something must have been locked up somewhere. Kumioko (talk) 23:20, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello Mr. Farmbrough,

Thank you for your time and expertise in clean-up execution on Antonio Diego Voci. We have addressed, with your assistance both issues of capital letter inconsistency as well as toning down of bolding. Plus we restored the two 1957 paintings that inadvertently disappeared upon your edit. By the way, “clientage” is a legitimate word, “a body of clients; clientele; customers, but we like your word “patrons”. And in “USA” we write “color” without the “u”; and “traveling” without the extra “l”. Also we had not realized Wikipedia used the European system for dates, the day first then the month, which we actually prefer.

Are you British? Even though the USA is no longer a colony, we celebrated the Queen’s birthday right along with you folks on Facebook and Twitter. And watched the Olympics every day. London is probably now suffering aftershock.Ahjkl67435 (talk) 17:58, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

You are welcome. The regional spelling does not greatly matter either way - I would not object if you change it. I used the date system associated with Europe, since Voci is associated primarily with Europe - Wikipedia uses both systems, but consistently within articles, and subject to geographic usage. It is best to avoid obscure words, all else being equal, so that the articles can be read by the widest possible audience. I think the article is interesting, and, although I can see parts might be objected to by some editors, useful.

Indeed I am British, although I was in the US for the opening ceremonies... Rich Farmbrough, 18:48, 13 August 2012 (UTC).

Respond

Hello, Rich Farmbrough. Please, listen to me. I need you help. Please, help me. I am at the very end of good faith, so please, please, read this and this, following your logical conclusion. Help me to understand am i wrong, or something else is wrong here. Dont ignore me, i saw that you are very neutral and quite familial with wiki rules. --WhiteWriter^speaks 20:01, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

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Burton's Biscuit Company - changes

Hi Rich, I noticed you have been changing some text on the Burton's article. When amendment you made that is incorrect is Cadbury brands licensed by Cadbury UK. This should really state Kraft Foods as the official owner of the brand. Please can you undo. Thanks Mrs biskit (talk) 15:14, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

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Upgrading status of The Little Sister

Hi Rich. I noticed you changed The Little Sister from Stub to Start. I'm a new editor so still not familiar with the review process. I've made a lot of changes to The Little Sister over the last month and I put it in the queue for a formal re-assessment on the Project Novels/Assessment page. When I checked that page it seems to me that the assessment hasn't been completed yet (there is still one page ahead of Little Sister and its not struck through yet). I'm assuming you just noticed the amazingly awesome work I've done ;) and made the change in status? I wanted to check because the text (I assume from a template) that says the page has no references is still there and it clearly does have references now. Can/should I just remove that and if so can you give me a hint how? Or should I just wait for the assessment and let them remove the bit about no references? thanks! Mdebellis (talk) 20:30, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes, while some of the projects have formal assessment systems, I felt sure that promotion to at least "Start" was warranted, after seeing your comments at Teahouse. Yes you can/should remove the unreferenced tag, except that I have done that. In general these tags should be removed when they have served their purpose, but naturally people are a little reticent to do so. Rich Farmbrough, 21:55, 22 August 2012 (UTC).

Great. Thanks! Mdebellis (talk) 22:03, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

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{{WikiProject OWS}}

You recently moved this template to {{WikiProject Occupy Wall Street}}. While that did make it clearer what it was about, I've reverted it back to the current title, as the name of the WikiProject actually is WikiProject OWS (WP:WikiProject Occupy Wall Street is a redlink). I'm inclined to think that WikiProject should probably be renamed, but as long as it's under that title, the accompanying template should be too. Robofish (talk) 16:13, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

An invitation for you!

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Feedback requested at the Village Pump

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 06:29, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Trucks Act and coal scrip

Many thanks for the comment on the coal scrip article. I agree, 100%, yes, the truck acts were an outcome. My only contention, as one who has been through the usage of scrip first hand, is to define it and then, yes, by all means, show the social issues associated wih its use. I wanted to present a pro and con synopsis and will of course keep this as neutral as possible.Coal town guy (talk) 14:27, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

save police time, shoot yourself

I certainly didn't mean for it to sound like that. I think if he had responded at ANI with an "oh, I did not kno that, i will not do it again" it would have died down. It's the "I'm doing nothing wrong" response, followed by the "they're all out to get me" defense that doesn't help. I only followed up on the hand in the tools thing because he doesn't use them a right lot, and he's actually said somewhere before this that he's not finding adminning fun. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 14:58, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

• This heading is rather shocking! --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 03:22, 31 August 2012 (UTC)