User talk:Stepshep/Archive 8

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Sure, if it's really making things confusing, I'll stop. (Though some of those titles really suffer from excess verbosity ... e.g. "Proposal: How to", "Bot which automatically", etc.). Cheers, cab (talk) 00:38, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DRAMA Report

You seem to do way more work on the discussion report than I do. And responsibility and I are like oil and water. What do you say we switch (so you're the main man, and I'm the backup)? — Jake Wartenberg 04:30, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That means its not done doesn't it? Umm, ya I guess that's okay. I've got school for tomorrow though, I'll let Ragesoss know. §hepTalk 04:37, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it's kinda done. It just needs 15 minutes of work, but I am way too tired. — Jake Wartenberg 04:40, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Awesome, I'll see what I can do. §hepTalk
The Special Barnstar
For letting me lure you in as the "backup" on the DRAMA report, and not minding when you ended up stuck with taking on most of the work. — Jake Wartenberg 04:56, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yay, the gay pride barnstar... Thanks, :D §hepTalk 05:00, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Er... You sure aren't one of these people. — Jake Wartenberg 05:10, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I can be. I didn't know "gay pride" wasn't correct. Oh well, it's out there now. §hepTalk 05:13, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is DRAMA ready, or are more sections still pending?--ragesoss (talk) 06:31, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've got 2 spots I want to get covered still. The non-contributor one needs finalizing and I want to add this. They're nothing life-ending though, so if it needs out they don't have to be covered. Sorry, §hepTalk 06:34, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. Just leave an indication that's it's ready in the summary of your last edit to it. Thanks! I know this feature is a lot of work.--ragesoss (talk) 06:39, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for fixing up the delivery message, which I think is good to go.--ragesoss (talk) 07:20, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I'm on the computer that won't let me use AWB right now. The other one is in the garage...it crashed for one reason or another. If X! can't get to it by this evening I should be able to get on a laptop that I can use AWB with by then. I'm off to sleep now, 2:23 here and I have to be up in 4 hours for 7 hours of some sort of prison where there's lots of pencils and paper. §hepTalk 07:25, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
X! is on it.--ragesoss (talk) 07:35, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great. Thanks, §hepTalk 07:38, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost — 2 March 2009

This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 9, which includes these articles:

Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 08:45, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cardiology task force

Cardiology task force

Cardiology task force is looking for editors to help build and maintain comprehensive, informative, balanced articles related to Cardiology on Wikipedia. Start by adding your name to the list of participants at Cardiology task force Participants. ECG Unit (Welcome!)

-- MifterBot I (Talk • Contribs • Owner) 21:13, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply] 

T.F.AlHammouri (talk) 12:25, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for uploading File:All London 2012 logos.svg. You've indicated that the image is being used under a claim of fair use, but you have not provided an adequate explanation for why it meets Wikipedia's requirements for such images. In particular, for each page the image is used on, the image must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Can you please check

  • That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's description page for each article the image is used in.
  • That every article it is used on is linked to from its description page.

This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. --FairuseBot (talk) 04:42, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Due to vandalism. §hepTalk 04:44, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pectus excavatum

GR1

Regardless of the state of the coords question, please don't remove the GR1 template: it's the reference for the area as well as for the coords. Nyttend (talk) 02:31, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Now how is anyone supposed to know that (well obviously someone does)? I figured the area had no references, as there were no ref tags after any of the statements. It's on all of them; I'll have to figure out why they're like that. If anything they should be after the area, to show that it encompasses the entire section. Right? Anyways, thanks for letting me know. I was wondering why you kept reverting me :S . §hepTalk 02:35, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Are you familiar with what the GR2 template does? It references the entirety of the basic Demographics section, but it's at the top. I agree that it would be better to place it at the bottom, or have an introductory note that everything is thereby referenced, but that's the way it is at present. These references were added several years ago, after all, so I don't find it that surprising that they're not up to current standards. Nyttend (talk) 02:40, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'll be sure to move the reference around when I update any more articles. And yes, I'm familiar with how the template works. §hepTalk 22:49, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Buddies

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (cough, cough) hi buddy i just thought i say hi buddy and ask you not to edit mypage cause ya know...its mypage AK? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.61.87.219 (talk) 22:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of sockpuppet notification templates is not allowed. Especially when it's been found via multiple checkusers that you are a sockpuppet. §hepTalk 22:52, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
im not a sockpuppet, im an ip slash mud-duckin professinal and i swar yur thang sayz offline soz make like ya status (off) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.61.87.219 (talk) 22:56, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yes you are. Should I call you Troop330, Dreadys15, Rubohcity, Methron, 33ohmygad or one of your other accounts. Please don't attack other users, please see WP:NPA. §hepTalk 22:59, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
please do not falsly notify people please. humans dont like being lied to, please read the golden rule --66.61.87.219 (talk) 23:03, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What an insightful DAB page. I'm sure that's not the link you meant to use? §hepTalk 23:04, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
what an incredible question to ask, son it was hitorical you should already know the Golden Rule--66.61.87.219 (talk) 23:09, 6 March 2009 (UTC)Sonnin[reply]

(←) Was that little chant in your ES because you can't edit the article? §hepTalk 23:14, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

no that my signature that i sometimes use, not much different from cant read?, cant write?, kent state! ya know boi-boi sonny son son?--66.61.87.219 (talk) 23:19, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Please use American English on my talk. §hepTalk 23:22, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This Week's DRAMA Report

OK, so here's the plan. To avoid a clusterfuck like last time, why don't I start on it tomorrow, and then you can join me in working on it Friday. That gives me a good amount of time to do work, but you time to recover in case I can't find the time (I should be able to). — Jake Wartenberg 16:50, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, that sounds fine. §hepTalk 21:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Issue/NextTemp

I'll try to take a look at it, although I stole the coding there from another similar template, so I'm not sure how much I'll be able to decipher. What template(s) are you using it on? Ral315 (talk) 00:52, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

replied there §hepTalk 22:10, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Buddy

I noticed. He already made an edit to the Kent article which was actually correct. I think he thinks I am obsessed with the Kent article like he is with the Akron article? Also, I noticed you had to revert some edits by User:StarkState. I had some communication with another editor who works at Kent State University Stark Campus who has made me aware of a concerted effort by certain administration at Kent State Stark to control that article as well as the article on Betsy Boze (some of the edits on both have allegedly been done by herself and she has contacted me by e-mail), so just be on the lookout for WP:COI and potential sockpuppets, including the following users: KentStark, Purocafe, CantonStark, StarkState, KentLester, TerriThomas, and DeltaLove as well as BVBoze which I know is Betsy Boze. I will be looking as well. The Kent State Stark article needs a ton of work, but like the Akron article, has certain "hindrances". Also, thanks for using the e-mail template at User talk:JspottsKSU‎. --JonRidinger (talk) 22:32, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No worries...it happens. You don't need to worry about the comment about Hiram College either. While I don't think it's that out of place, removing it makes sense to me, which is why I didn't put it back. --JonRidinger (talk) 22:40, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

sorry for unauthorized use

i should have read up on that, i honestly didnt know...--Threeblur0 (talk) 17:39, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'd take some time to read our policies if I were you. I have some links on my userpage that you might find helpful. §hepTalk 18:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ok thanks--Threeblur0 (talk) 18:08, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

well it helped a little out, i guess another thank you is inorder--Threeblur0 (talk) 21:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked. §hepTalk 00:29, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

KP Botany Wikiquette Alert

I have recently opened a wikiquette alert on KP Botany's comments in the recent addbot discussion. Any comments would be appreciated. —Nn123645 (talk) 07:12, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delivery and writing

Please, go ahead and deliver it. And no need to apologize... half a day is really no big deal, and the discussion report is a big job (and this is a wiki; you should never feel bad for not being able to doing something that you do voluntarily). I'm really pleased that we've been able to present the discussion report every week so far, so thanks for that.--ragesoss (talk) 21:00, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost — 9 March 2009

This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 10, which includes these articles:

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email..

I've sent you a few email messages (via wiki) in the last few days, I was wondering if you had gotten them? (No need to reply to the emails unless you want to, but I'd feel better knowing you'd read them). --Versageek 02:34, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Haven't gotten a thing and I usually get wiki-mail on a somewhat random basis. *Goes to check junk mail folder* Not there either. I'll send you a message when I have a chance tomorrow to see if it gets through to you. (I don't like the idea of posting my email here for all to see that much) §hepTalk 03:38, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Thanks for the welcome

Thanks for the welcome to Project Ohio, I am glad to come aboard. I had already been uploading photos and editing Ohio related articles, now I can do it as part of a coordinated effort.WackoJackO 07:07, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:ShepBot

On that page, "Posting to this page will stop the bot immediately" needs to be bolded. I cannot do the edit myself because I'll stop the bot. I would also recommend semi-protecting User talk:ShepBot so IP vandals cannot maliciously stop the bot. -- IRP ☎ 19:14, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I thought that was bolded before, maybe I missed it when I converted to {{mbox}}es? Either way it's there now, thanks for the pointer. On protecting, I'd like to keep it unprotected, sometimes I'll go around and subst: user welcome and warning template and had a pretty big problem over the summer with numerous IP talk pages (substed a parser). I guess I'd like to leave it open, even for the odd vandalism, when I ScrewUP™ they should be able to yell at me as well. That's one thing I like about the current setup I have, it's not constantly running like the ClueBots so the odd message or so doesn't cause any damage. I hope that sums up some sort of answer for you. Thanks, §hepTalk 19:25, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the useful information, that's good to know. -- IRP ☎ 19:31, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RfC Awards List

Thanks for fixing the template on WT:WEB. BTW, what was I doing wrong with the template? --Kraftlos (Talk | Contrib) 02:56, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You were supposed to replace [topic] with an actual topic. ie {{RFCpolicy}} instead of {{RFC [topic]}}. Glad I could help, §hepTalk 19:52, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Signpost

Sorry for stepping on your toes a bit with the discussion report. The delivery message is ready, if you're available. Cheers!--ragesoss (talk) 18:10, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Did I miss something? I've actually got to head out for some physical therapy, so I can't do the delivery right now (Sorry). §hepTalk 18:12, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Seems I did miss something! (AHA) I totally missed the page being moved and just kept right on a-typin', sorry about that. §hepTalk 18:19, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's actually good that didn't delivery it yet. Pretzels has updated the delivery design. Whenever you can get to the delivery, great.--ragesoss (talk) 19:29, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That's not too bad, my only thing I don't like is that "Full Edition" only links to the correct version for about a week, then it become incorrect and is no longer the "full edition" of that issue. I should be able to send-out with 30 min or so. §hepTalk 20:29, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Signpost — 16 March 2009

The Wikipedia Signpost  — 16 March 2009

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Chicago

Have you run Chicago lately?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 00:36, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nope. I've been having issues that is stopping me from being able to do my normal processing so I've been kind of putting it off (Antivirus detects problems with Foundation servers and tried to block AWB from opening every page, I only have one computer that can process all of those articles). What would normally take 15 minutes to setup would now take about an hour. I'll look at doing it tomorrow night, I should be able to set some side towards it then. §hepTalk 00:41, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Second opinion

Hey Step- When you get a chance, I would like you to check an article for me. I tagged it with notability concerns as it is a two-liner about the word Devilstrip, but wanted to see what some other editors think. I think you can guess who created it. Thanks --JonRidinger (talk) 20:07, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Piece of utter garbage! Neither of the refs are reliable sources (some crappy website and a blog). I would suggest a prod, but you-know-who would just remove it. So this will probably end up at AfD. A google search turned up 3 results, of which 2 were editorials and not RSes and the other was 2.95 to read. I wish they would have just left him blocked. Too much trouble. Especially with edits like [1]; I don't get it. They've been around with all of the accounts for over a year, I've provided every sock with WP:RS, it's like they never even read our policies. I would also note that 192.172.8.13 appears to be Threeblur0, we need to keep an eye on that IP if possible if it turns up in the future. §hepTalk 20:26, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
But that newly added ref to a wiki is much more reliable. 68.37.227.121 also appears to be Threeblur0. §hepTalk 20:40, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Notice how they're so much smarter than everyone about Akron-related things, and yet he can't spell simple words correctly? That sickens me. §hepTalk 21:28, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's very frustrating. As for the map thing, he did get help from Versageek (which is good), but even then, the map I was referring to was very unclear, plus it's not that good of an image anyway IMO. --JonRidinger (talk) 21:33, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like he's using MS Paint or some other elementary photo editing program, the jpg compression was downright awful, hard to understand and read. Even the new map has off colors for what Wikipedia normally uses and would benefit from originally being in PNG that way there's no loss when he comes in and edits it in paint or whatever they use. Though his random guessing of location is not encyclopedic and shouldn't be included anyways. I don't understand why the current maps don't work, he took 2 good ones and made one crap-job one. §hepTalk 21:38, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah I'm not sure what program he has used, but the end result is a poor-looking map that stands as a stark contrast to other maps on Wikipedia and the maps already present in the infobox. I'm not opposed to an additional map (provided the other two stay), but I prefer it to be as clear and free of clutter as possible. It's not like there aren't an abundance of free maps available on this site and the Commons that can easily be manipulated for Akron. --JonRidinger (talk) 21:52, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Good luck trying to control him. :( As always, drop by if you need any help. §hepTalk 01:22, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks...as long as he's within Wikipedia guidelines, I'm OK with whatever he does! --JonRidinger (talk) 01:39, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

invitation

You're invited to sign up as a founding member, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#WikiProject Historic Sites ! :) doncram (talk) 05:57, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! Something I can sink my teeth into. §hepTalk 19:58, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:WikiProject Historic Sites is opened up. I took the liberty of assuming your support for the wikiproject meant you wanted to join as a member, and I copied your signature to the Members list on the main page. Please visit and add to, or remove, your listing there. I might have indicated ur interest is in Ohio historical roadside markers, not sure if that is correct characterization. :). It would be great to hear about what you're interested in the Wikiproject becoming, in your member comment and/or at the Talk page, shortcut wt:HSITES. Thanks for your support! doncram (talk) 17:38, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Signpost deliveries and section headings

Hi there. Since Signpost deliveries to talkpages are being done by ShepBot these days, I assume this is where I should go to comment on them. (If I should go elsewhere, please let me know.) First, thanks for supervising the deliveries. Especially as Wikipedia grows, the news role played by Signpost is increasingly important, and I'd certainly never remember to read it if I didn't get the talk messages. • I noticed that the 16 March 2009 delivery used a custom section heading, and completely omitted the standard == Section == markup. The problem with that is that we loose the "[edit]" link. I used to delete the older format just by clicking that link, doing a select-all then delete, and then saving. Now I have to edit the whole page, and manually find and delete just the Signpost section. The fancy formatted banner is fine, but could you please also include the standard section for this purpose? • Thanks for listening. —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 20:01, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DragonHawk. The design was done by another user, I just substitute a template. I would suggest any complaints you have about the format go to WT:POST, as I have no control over that. I do understand your predicament and agree that a section edit link should be provided in all future deliveries. Thank you for contacting me; if you ever have any bot-related problems with ShepBot in the future please contact me. §hepTalk 19:43, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Appears to have been fixed by the designer. §hepTalk 20:14, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, okay. Well, fixed is fixed, so thanks!  :) —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 03:53, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User:Carlaude/Sandbox2#List_of_ruler_pages

Can you add these pages of lists of rulers to these catagoies? Please also include the "|μ" in the catagoies. --Carlaude (talk) 21:32, 8 March 2009 (UTC) Are you able to still do these-- like I added above?--Carlaude (talk) 19:37, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not exactly the simplest thing in the world. I promise I'm trying to figure out an efficient way to do this. The way it look now I'll pretty much be doing it by hand. I'm having some issues with my nuss bar and will be with various doctors over the weekend, I should be able to just go through and pop then in one evening. §hepTalk 21:46, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I can do them by hand if that is what it comes down to-- and find other bot tasks for you. What if you only did the ones with many pages going into the same Category? Would that be different? Would it be different if there was no "|μ"?
There are, for example, 100 pages needing to be in Category:1st-century rulers. --Carlaude (talk) 06:18, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'll be happy to do them by hand if it comes to that, don't worry. The number of pages doesn't matter that much. Neither does the mu. I'm using the same module I've used before, currently it tries to add the category smack dab in the middle of the page, earlier it was puting it in the very first line. It switches by itself, which makes me think that should be impossible (but it obviously isn't). I'll try to redo things tomorrow and see if that makes a difference, it hit 2:30 here and I should probably get a couple hours in. §hepTalk 06:25, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Images

I know you DI'd a few images in the past and reverted a few of their edits, so I was just giving you a heads up to User:Cromwellgap making edits like this. Not sure about it, but it seems a bit fishy. Q T C 05:00, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've sent Lewis Verduyn an email through his commercial website http://www.ecoraft.co.nz/ and am awaiting a reply. The results of that message should clear up some things. §hepTalk 05:02, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
He is who he says he is. I'm going to forward the email to OTRS. §hepTalk 07:21, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Mkay, thanks for the heads. Q T C 07:36, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Additional information needed on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Philo-Centinel

Hello. Thank you for filing Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Philo-Centinel. This is an automated notice to inform you that the case is currently missing a code letter, which indicates to checkusers why a check is valid. Please revisit the page and add this. Sincerely, SPCUClerkbot (talk) 18:48, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For future reference; I just created the page for an IP who will fill out the page themselves (see WT:SPI). §hepTalk 18:50, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia SignpostWikipedia Signpost: 23 March 2009

Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 04:38, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not faulty reference

Yes it was, facebook is not an WP:RS in any way whatsoever. It should never be used as a reference and very rarely even used as an external link. Especially when dealing with a BLP, we have to be even more careful about what we put up. Don't use Facebook as a reference, it goes against policy. §hepTalk 00:32, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Response. §hepTalk 01:12, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That Rome geocache pic

No, sorry, it wasn't obvious to me! I am maybe not up on the subtleties of this and I couldn't see where it violates the MoS - I'd be very grateful for a pointer. I'm not sure about "some chick" but what I did see is that the page otherwise has no humans on it, even though it is a description of a human activity ... it's as if it takes place without people. I quite liked the idea of "it's a thing people do and look here's someone doing it" - plus it was (perhaps) fun/interesting that she was in a recognizable place, maybe anchoring it in some way. Having said all that, it's not like I am about to lose sleep over it or whatever, so we can I am sure agree to differ. Cheers. DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 17:11, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Manual of Style (Images) is pretty straightforward on this issue. (Bullet 7) §hepTalk 17:34, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the reply. DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 17:48, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DustyBot on Commons

Sorry that you had to clean up the extra curly brackets. I just noticed the bug. Wronkiew (talk) 06:58, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Stupid bot" might have been a bit harsh... I'd rather snip 2 brackets than a lot of other things the bot could have done. Too bad it was a repetitive error (thought it might have been a one off), glad you could figure out the problem. It is a neat feature though, keeping things more hand-free if I understand it. §hepTalk 07:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Searching Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

I've changed the shortcuts H:TMM and WP:TMM to link to a more interior page, so your very useful search function (on the top-most page) isn't that visible any more. I think it would make sense to add it to the top of the {{Wikipedia-The Missing Manual - TOC}} template, if that is feasible; that would make the search function visible across all of the content pages. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 12:49, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That would be a good spot to add the search box, I'm just not sure of how the best way to approach it is... If it's within the box at the footer it makes the whole template larger than what seems needed; but placing it outside of the template is difficult because each page has objects in differing locations. I'll see if I can come up with something if someone else doesn't in the mean time. Thanks for letting me know, §hepTalk 19:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Sure. This is a work in progress, so whatever you do is likely to improve things, and at minimum to give us more information. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 16:38, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia SignpostWikipedia Signpost: 30 March 2009

Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 20:37, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Boze

Hi, I'm wondering if we can modify the first line of the Betsy Boze article. You seem to be the keeper of the page, so I thought I would ask your advice. Part of it is just a personal preference/ favor, part of it is factual versus media.

  • The personal preference question is if I can be described only as an "American academic" (see Gordon Gee of Ohio State, for example) versus an "American academic and former administrator."
  • The other part is that while the media portray my resignation as being about a parking sign, that really isn't the story, at all (which I would be happy to share with you face to face or over the phone, but doesn't belong here). Enough damage has been done by the media. Can that line be removed?

BVBoze (talk)BetsyBVBoze (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:06, 2 April 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Chicken taxobox

Hey I love the {{Infobox Chickenbreed}} you made, and have started adding it to articles. One thing though, it doesn't seem to display the image caption at all, don't want to loose this info. Can this be fixed, I will hold off adding the taxobox to article until I hear from you. Thanks for your hardwork, the taxobox rocks! Earthdirt (talk) 01:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like ti was the user interface template that was off it read imagecaption instead of the correct image_caption, the script works well. I have fixed it on the page and on my templates. A couple other suggestions that could make this template even more useful: Add a purpose slot for weather it is show, dual purpose, meat, or egg breed. Also add a section for "Hybrid" types, many of the really common chickens are unrecognized hybrids like the Black or Red Sex-Links, and Cornish-Rocks. Peace, Earthdirt (talk) 17:06, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia SignpostWikipedia Signpost: 6 April 2009

Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 19:47, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

 Military history reviewers' award 
By order of the coordinators, for your good work helping with the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Reviewers' award.  Roger Davies talk 14:10, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia SignpostWikipedia Signpost: 13 April 2009

Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 16:58, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The first Wikipedian meetup in Ohio


Thanks! --Rkitko (talk) 23:00, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AWB

I am posting here to let you know that I would like to tag the talk pages of articles of villages in Poland with Project Poland tags. The talk pages are empty. I notice that you run a bot so maybe you could help me or you could enable my AWB. What do you think of this tag.

WikiProject iconPoland NA‑class
WikiProject iconThis page is within the scope of WikiProject Poland, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Poland on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PolandWikipedia:WikiProject PolandTemplate:WikiProject PolandPoland
NAThis page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

OOODDD (talk) 06:03, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Shepbot's birthday

I saw from Category:Current Wikipedia birthdays that today is ShepBot's birthday... I usually leave a WikiBirthday message on people's talk pages, but in ShepBot's case I figured he probably wouldn't be able to enjoy the cake anyway. rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 11:45, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia SignpostWikipedia Signpost: 27 April 2009

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Newsletter Delivery Request.

Hello, I'm fairly new to wikipedia, and joined an almost dead wikiproject. There are a few editors who regularly contribute, but most just aren't there. I think a newsletter would be a great step to revive this project. I have left a request at User:X!'s talk page, but he has actively ignored the request. When I asked for help at editors assistance then sent me to you. I'm not reall familiar with how the bots work, but I can draw up a newsletter and have it ready to fo within the space of a day or so. Please message me and, if you want to deliver it, how the delivery proccess works. I'm hoping to have this be a bi-monthly newsletter. Thank you for your time. Drew Smith 23:19, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Portal:Ohio

I happened to see this, and something's gone terribly wrong, although I don't think I did it-the page is way too wide...can you help me find what happened??? SpencerT♦Nominate! 00:33, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, I found it-it was a small spacing issue on one of the sections. SpencerT♦Nominate! 00:39, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Chicago banner check

How about making a run through the WP:CHIBOTCATS to check for our project banners. It seems to have been a while.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:43, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I need your mentorship

Hi,

I need help from an experienced Wikipedian, and I saw your name over at WP:ADOPT.

I need your advice concerning WP:WPOOK, which I've been coordinating. The set of pages the project concerns is listed at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge#Projected outline, and has grown to about 500 articles in the encyclopedia.

The goals of the WikiProject are:

  1. Increase awareness of readers of the existence of the outlines on Wikipedia
  2. Complete the existing outlines
  3. Create an outline for every subject that is extensive enough to benefit from having an outline (core subjects and major or extensive fields). There are thousands of these.
  4. Recruit as many editors to work on these as possible (we need thousands of editors working on these)
  5. Surpass portals in number by the end of the summer, and leave them in the dust by the end of the year
  6. Get the major outline subject areas displayed on the Main Page (in place of or in addition to the portal links at the top of the page)
  7. Increase the OOK to higher quality than Britannica's Outline of Knowledge (published in its Propaedia volume).

I'm very interested in your comments on how to achieve these goals.

Also I'm interested in every possible way of reaching readers and editors of Wikipedia. How can I get the most eyes and typing fingers on Wikipedia's outlines? Contacting editors directly without a reason relevant to them is spam, which I'd like to avoid. There are 75,000 regular editors on Wikipedia, and I want to contact all of them. So how do I do it? Directly or indirectly, I don't care which, piecemeal or all-at-once, all methods are fine with me. But I've got to find ways. I need your help.

I would also like to know how to find or attract editors to create new outlines. And I need advice on finding editors to help write the new outline article mentioned above (it needs to be fleshed out, completely referenced, and brought to featured article status).

Please recommend anyone you know who might be interested in sinking their teeth into a project like this. Or ways to reach groups of editors. Or ways to reach all editors. I welcome any and all recommendations and advice you might have.

And any thoughts on attaining the WikiProject goals above.

I look forward to your reply on my talk page.

The Transhumanist 03:49, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Chicago tagging

I thought I saw your bot tag about 250 articles last week. However, I don't see them at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Chicago articles by quality log‎ and the number of articles only went up by 3. What happened?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 23:44, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WP:BARD

Hey Stepshep, could you have your bot add project tags for the Shakespeare project to all articles in the William Shakespeare category and subcats. A lot of them already have tags, we're just trying to pick up stragglers. If we could also get a list of all the articles in the project on our watchlist page that would also be great. Wrad (talk) 17:31, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy birthday!

Hey, Stepshep/Archive 8. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!-- I dream of horses (talk) 00:46, 26 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sock

If someone uses both a username and an anonymous name consistently, would that be considered sockpuppetry? Or is it only when a user has two accounts? My question is with Special:Contributions/Qwerty5225 and anonymous user Special:Contributions/24.29.224.228. They both make the same types of disruptive edits to the same pages and have similar edit summaries, so I'm almost certain they are one in the same. However, I'm not sure what this user is doing is actually wrong as much as it is annoying. Any help here would be appreciated! Thanks --JonRidinger (talk) 04:00, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Adoption

Hi Stepshep,

I see you're open for adopting a user, and wondered if you would consider adopting me for a little bit so that I can get up to speed on WP. Give me a shout, I usually at least check in once a day. Frmatt (talk) 02:26, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Can your bot do this task?

Hey, I was wondering if you're bot could do this task. I'm asking everyone in the Template substitution bots category, so if someone already accepted the task (besides me), just ignore this. Thanks. AHRtbA== Talk 13:49, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Change necessary to your monobook.css

In your monobook.css page, you need to add !important to the .localcomments line, as seen here; this ensures that your custom code will override any of the default settings made by the script. Cheers! Gary King (talk) 22:01, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Motto of the Day

Hi there, Stepshep! Thought you might be interested in Motto of the Day, a collaborative (and totally voluntary) effort by a group of Wikipedians to create original, inspirational mottos. Have a good motto idea? Share it here, comment on some of the mottos there or just pass this message onto your friends.

MOTD Needs Your Help!

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User talk:Stepshep/Archive 8/Carlaude

Ohio Senate Sockpuppets

Hello, Stepshep. You have new messages at Moonriddengirl's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Moonriddengirl (talk • contribs) 06:46, March 21, 2009

Talkback

Hello, Stepshep. You have new messages at Wikipedia:BOTR.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

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If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. FileBot (talk) 05:06, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks

Thank you for nominating the Culture of Akron, Ohio article for deletion. I had been meaning to do that myself, so thanks for beating me to it! --JonRidinger (talk) 17:00, 12 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]