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User:UBX/ISP Adelphia

Adelphia was absorbed by Time Warner and Comcast. I am 'formerly' an adelphia user, this morning I am no longer using Adelphia DNS servers, but Comcast ones. Perhaps you could change it to say "this users ISP was formerly known as Adelphia." I miss my old ISP/Cable operator, so If it could turn into a tribute, that'd be neat. --x1987x^(talk) 15:39, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

made the title clickable

usage of revert tool

hello there Mets501. I received your message, and as far as I know, I do not remember any Wikipedia rule that states that the revert tool may not be used to what a sysop would consider vandalism or edit-warring. Whether I revert it manually or by tool does not make much of a difference IMO. But if this seems to generate controversy, of which a sysop should abstain, I am willing to revert such edits manually in future, in order to avoid the impression I am abusing the tool. sincerely Gryffindor 20:18, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

AutoWikiBrowser

Hi, Thanks for approving me. Can I asked my questions about AWB if I had any problem with it.--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 02:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I downloaded it but when I click on the icon of AutoWikiBrowser encounter with The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). --Sa.vakilian(t-c) 02:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I downloaded it from another mirror but problem hasn't been solved.--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 02:44, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I answered this on your talk page. MaxSem 05:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I've asked you a question on the dev talk page of AWB. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 23:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 23:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Expand_all_for_category_trees

Is it me, or did you not add this before?

Or did it get removed?

Cheers

Reedy Boy 15:55, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Karate User Box

Hi Mets501. I wondered if you'd mind editing your Karate userbox to contain a picture of someone doing karate rather than taekwondo. All the best, Shinji nishizono 12:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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Ouch

MetsBot seems to have some trouble with < and >. Rendering them as (I guess?) Unicode or something (?) which, obviously, breaks them: Your bot's edit, Me fixing. Just thought I'd give you a heads up ;-) — Deon555^talk_desk^{sign here!} 23:27, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it's definitely a bug. I've blocked the bot; sorry. Please ensure that {{helpme}} is surrounded by an actual <nowiki></nowiki>, whose <> brackets are not converted into some ASCII(?) code. I'll unblock as soon as you let me know it's fixed. Thanks a lot. Xiner (talk, email) 23:45, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

AWB Problem?

Hello, I'd noticed you had used AWB to substitute the welcome template on User talk:82.163.138.202 - unfortunately, it looks like the program is a little messed up. Somehow it replaced the brackets < > in the nowiki codes around {{helpme}} and ~~~~ with HTML character codes, rendering the tags useless and thereby placing a giant helpme template in the middle of the welcome message. Have you noticed this elsewhere? It seems to be a rather serious problem with the program, so I thought I'd make you aware of it, since I'm not sure who else to report the problem to. Thanks. Hersfold ^(talk/work) 23:50, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Bot substituting welcome templates

When MetsBot substitutes a welcome template, e.g. [1], it also has been substituting the {{helpme}} which breaks up the welcome message and leaves a recurring message on the IRC channel. This could either be fixed by changing the template using some noinclude or HTML markup magic, or perhaps something with the bot. —Centrx→talk • 23:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Since it works fine if I do a normal substitution like {{subst:welcomespam}} it's probably best to have the bot do that rather than whatever direct substitution it is doing. —Centrx→talk • 00:00, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

From one NYC admin to another, no problem. =P (scurries back within my shell) Xiner (talk, email) 00:32, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

catagories

Hi Mets501, is this something that can be fixed now [2]? thank you. Icsunonove 19:01, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah, ok, that makes sense. thank you! Icsunonove 19:09, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

province page

Hi Mets501, one more thing. Could you please keep an eye on or look into what is going on with the Province of Trento move request initiated by Gryffindor? With the individuals who are supporting this move (minus Tridentinus), I smell tit-for-tat behavior (i.e., the ones who fought most against the Trentino-South Tyrol move). An admin blanking an ongoing discussion and then setting up a move request is very dubious in my eyes. Regards, Icsunonove 19:05, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, completely understood. Though it does add something to the process to have someone watch over things and keep people in check. Actually, do you have any recommendations on how we can get this whole thing arbitrated by a neutral party? I still believe everyone has to much bias and baggage at this point. Icsunonove 19:16, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I will do that. I think the only thing that makes sense for a long-term, and most of all correct, solution is to have truly neutral mediators. thanks. Icsunonove 19:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Betacommand

Hello,

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Leonhard Euler Assessment

Why did you revert my assessment of Leonhard Euler? I can see no significant contribution he has made to Lutheranism, so why Euler is certainly significant to mathematics, I fail to understand how he is of any specific significance to Lutheranism. An expliantion of your reasoning would be most appreciated. jackturner3 19:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

It's OK; these sorts of things do happen. I just through it was rather strange, that's all.jackturner3 19:34, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Way of substing changed?

Was the way AWB auto substs changed in the new version? Something isn't right as you can see on the bug reports page. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 23:57, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Esperanto - better than FA?

This edit made it through 9 months and an FA review before the ultimate fact-checking team noticed a subtle error: the Esperanto wikipedia translation team. It makes me smile. CMummert · talk 00:08, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

BRION

I missed your comment; BRION looks great. Thanks a lot; if you make any more updates, they should be done by 17:00 UTC on Monday. Thanks again. Ral315 » 20:37, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Metsbot

This is a bit odd; no double redirect was fixed, despite the edit summary — there's just an unnecessary change from lower to upper case. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 21:23, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

If you look at the diff more closely, you'll see that the previous revision had an asterisk at the end of the redirect name. A double redirect no less. --kingboyk 22:04, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah, yes — my sight's not what it was... --Mel Etitis (Talk) 22:10, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to hear that :( Anyway, I deleted the old redirect as it wasn't serving much use - it remained from a page move reversion you performed, I believe. Hope that helps. --kingboyk 22:18, 31 March 2007 (UTC) (sorry for butting in Mets, but the "unnecessary change" bit grabbed me as there's a request for case changing on AWB/Feature requests).

No problem, thanks for stepping in in my 4 hour absence :-) —METS501 (talk) 00:06, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit! (never stopped me enjoying it tho) --kingboyk 21:36, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Could your bot redirect links to Wikipedia:Persondata to the target page? Should be deleted as a cross namespace redir. Saves me 10 minutes. Cheers. --kingboyk 21:36, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Cheers man. --kingboyk 21:43, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Um

I think we should leave the Funny DYKs up until noon EST April 1.

Put up the serious stuff afterwards. DS 03:26, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

• None of them are false. They're all real articles. Plus, we did this last year. Leave them up until noon EST. DS 03:32, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Why is it so important that only new items go there? And are you also going to say that they must go in the order they are in the queue, so it would not even be possible to find humorous new items? —Centrx→talk • 03:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

What do you think about someone holding back articles and then posting them right before April 1, just to satisfy this unnecessary rule? —Centrx→talk • 03:43, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

You're right of course that DYK is usually reserved for new articles, but does it hurt to make an exception today (as long as all the information on the Main Page is true, of course)? None of our rules are set in stone, and suspending this one once a year doesn't seem harmful. Canderson7 ^(talk) 03:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Whatever. I give up. Just do whatever. —METS501 (talk) 03:58, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

A bit late now, but I've posted a note about this here. Hope that clarifies my position on this. FWIW, I initially expanded the Serge Voronoff article, considered submitting a DYK, saw the April Fools plans, and decided to wait a bit before doing another expansion (kind of llike the "holding back" that Centrx was talking about). In the end, I didn't get the time to do the later expansion, but luckily, someone else did a major expansion on the article a few days before April 1st. So Serge Voronoff didn't go through the normal DYK nomination process, but I wasn't amused to see someone (you) yanking those items off the main page without first reading around and finding out what was going on. Carcharoth 09:54, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Just a little request

I was wondering if you could transfer the content of "Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Special:Recentchanges" to my user subpage, under "User:AAA!/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Special:Recentchanges". I just want to preserve it for the BJAODN page. --AAA! ^(AAAA) 03:40, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Opening Day

After a month of Spring Training, it's finally going to happen tonight. That being said, I'm curious as to whether 501 in your name is random or not. BuickCenturyDriver (Honk, contribs, odometer) 04:11, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I'd suspect you used AOL, since attempting to create a name in use causes the software to add a random three digit number. That being said, would you block User:Mets502 if it was created? BuickCenturyDriver (Honk, contribs, odometer) 01:02, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Did you AGF and allow another account? BuickCenturyDriver (Honk, contribs, odometer) 01:18, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh well, I'm sure you're having a good time watching the game, they have a commanding lead. BuickCenturyDriver (Honk, contribs, odometer) 01:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Vandalbot

Done as requested. Still, let's have a bit of a laugh every so often, if it blows off a bit of steam and stays out of mainspace. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 07:12, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Mail

You've got mail. :) --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 16:10, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Edits to Logging

Moved to Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Dev#Logging_tab --kingboyk 20:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Mets Channel

I was hoping to see you guys lose tonight (go Yankees!!!), but I've heard you're winning. What channel is the game on tonight? I thought it's usually on 11 but America's Next Top Model is on 11. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TeckWiz (talk • contribs) 01:34, 2 April 2007 (UTC).

Please reply below ;) --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 01:34, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

It's on ESPN 2 (channel 29 for me) —METS501 (talk) 01:35, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

If the 5-1 score holds up, then we can say Mets501 could refer to it. BuickCenturyDriver (Honk, contribs, odometer) 02:23, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

lol —METS501 (talk) 02:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Blog added

Hi,

your blog should now show up in the aggregator. I notice that you're not providing a filtered feed; please make sure to post only Wikipedia-related materials to the blog (we're trying to keep the Planet very topic focused, since it will include lots of blogs). Thanks for joining; if you like userboxes, there's one at Template:User Planet. ;-) --Eloquence* 04:07, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Please look at this edit for me

...and confirm that it's correct.

• Add {{WPBiography}}
• Move {{talkheader}} to top
• Move {{skiptotoctalk}} to top
• Move {{DEFAULTSORT}} to top (it's a talk page, likely get archived/zapped at the bottom) and replace with the DEFAULTSORT keyword

The main thing I'm concerned about is that I have the DEFAULTSORT syntax correct. The talk page seems to be sorting under A in Category:WikiProject Afghanistan, not N. Obviously I don't want to release dodgy code in the plugin! :) --kingboyk 20:15, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

T-AA/ST

Hey Mets501, got a quick question. An admin went ahead and pushed forward that group change [3]. I checked out a few pages like Sanzeno and Sarnonico and noticed at the bottom it shows Trentino-South Tyrol in a couple places. I'm not sure how to get these fixed. Did we just accidentally leave these out of the request? thx! Icsunonove 21:11, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, the categories at the bottom of the page are stub categories, and can be nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. Would you like to file them? —METS501 (talk) 02:52, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't even notice the stub too! :-) I was looking at pages like Taio and Sarnonico that have that list at the bottom, where it says Trentino-South Tyrol · Comuni of the Province of Trento and then lists all the towns. I was even just trying to figure out how to fix that one. You see one here too Brenner, Italy. But with the Trentino-South Tyrol · Comuni of South Tyrol Icsunonove 08:24, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

About regex

I have responded on my talk page. If you have any other questions, please ask. Gracenotes^T § 14:12, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Indeed. The script that I had set up (you can see it in the revision of User:Gracenotes/monobook.js prior to the present one) had an autoconfirm prompt, and I thought of poor Betacommand when I coded it. My apologies with the regex, however... gah, how could I miss that. Gracenotes^T § 16:19, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Templates to subst:

I have a feeling that the templates to subst automatically doesn't include everything (I'm not talking about newly created templates). I know one that definitely not included is AFDWarningNew. There's others because otherwise my bot wouldn't skip any page because it only check what transcludes from the templates in CAT:UWT. (Respond below) --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 15:55, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I did the best I can trying to make the list. :-) I may have missed a few, (or rather, did missed a few), so anytime you encounter one that doesn't substitute, feel free to let me know and I'll add it. I just added AFDWarningNew to the next release. —METS501 (talk) 16:19, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Using arrow keys and CTRL+V, I just put curly brackets outside of every template in the category. Now I'm going to put the list on a subpage, run my bot on it, and then see which ones weren't substed using "find" Template: . --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 16:58, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Awesome. I think it's the redirects that are the real problem, though. —METS501 (talk) 17:00, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm....Does AWB not subst on subpages? --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 17:05, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't think it does. Just paste the list over your talk page, and press "reparse" in the context menu of the edit box. Don't press save, and you can see which weren't changed. —METS501 (talk) 17:26, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Duh duh duh duh:

Template:3rr4MrB
Template:3rrblock
Template:3rrMrB
Template:3RRSV
Template:Images on userboxes
Template:Notasocialnetwork
Template:RD removal
Template:Replaceable
Template:Subst
Template:Subst2
Template:Test3articlev
Template:Uw-block1
Template:Uw-block2
Template:Uw-block3
Template:Uw-coi
Template:Uw-copyright
Template:Uw-create1
Template:Uw-create2
Template:Uw-create3
Template:Uw-create4
Template:Uw-date
Template:Uw-editsummary
Template:Uw-lang
Template:Uw-tilde

After running a huge test and find, those need to be added to auto-subst. Thanks! --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 17:29, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Working on it now. I'm trying to fix {{subst}} too, which causes many problems due to the optional substitution methods where "subst" is used as a parameter. —METS501 (talk) 17:52, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

OK, everything's all fixed now. —METS501 (talk) 18:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

So all these templates will be auto-substed in the next release? And what did you mean by "reparse". I couldn't find what you were talk about. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 18:47, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Reparse (in the right-click, or context, menu of the edit box) will parse the page again (substituting templates, fixing headings, etc.). —METS501 (talk) 19:05, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

What edit box? The editing box that I'm typing this in right now? Still not getting it :) --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 19:12, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

No, the one in AWB. Where you can edit the text when your editing a page in AWB. —METS501 (talk) 19:15, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh. I see. I'll do that for now on. Thanks! --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 19:18, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

No, you're not getting it :-) I was just using that for testing; don't worry about pressing reparse just when using AWB regularly. Just forget it :-) —METS501 (talk) 19:22, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I think I am getting it. :) I pasted that list I had made. Right clicked, hit reparse, and the templates the weren't set to autosubst didn't have subst: or subst=subst: put in front or in back of them. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 19:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Please add Template:uw-ablock when you have time. Thanks! --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 21:07, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Removing categories from other categories programatically

Do you have the technology to clean up the mess described here? --kingboyk 22:47, 3 April 2007 (UTC) PS Please reply on this page not mine, I have your page watchlisted :)

I responded here. —METS501 (talk) 03:03, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

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The Mets

Looks like they didn't suffer a hangover. A win proved that their defence and pitching will prove their strength. BuickCenturyDriver (Honk, contribs, odometer) 07:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

And they're up 5-0 tonight. I am impressed with the pitching and it looks like the team will be very successful. BuickCenturydriver (Honk, contribs) 01:54, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Definitely. I'm looking forward to a great year! —METS501 (talk) 01:59, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Should we hold the next New York meet-up at Shea? Newyorkbrad 02:02, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Are you all from Queens? BuickCenturydriver (Honk, contribs) 02:04, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm in Manhattan. Newyorkbrad 02:06, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Queens for me. —METS501 (talk) 02:07, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Protect-text/es

What is the purpose of this page? This functionality is not enabled on the English Wikipedia. —Centrx→talk • 15:19, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Isn't it enabled? It works for me: set your language preferences in your settings to Spanish, and you'll see the message at MediaWiki:Protect-text/es when you go to protect a page. —METS501 (talk) 15:31, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay, but what's the point of it? Admins on the English Wikipedia all speak English. —Centrx→talk • 20:25, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Ledger lines

I, too, spell "ledger lines" with a D. However, "leger lines" is the standard British spelling. Please don't go around changing it. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National_varieties_of_English. —Wahoofive (talk) 17:36, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

AWB CheckPage Approval

diff Why was I not approved? Any suggestions for the future? —cmsJustin (talk|contribs) 19:20, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

At a guess, you havent got over 500 edits. Get some more edits under your belt, and then try again!! Reedy Boy 20:05, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I have over 500 edits. I think around 575 actually. —cmsJustin (talk|contribs) 20:56, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

You need to have over 500 mainspace edits. You have 337 as of now. —METS501 (talk) 20:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Ohhh Ok. Can you make an exception? I'm trying to automate a few tasks...If not then I'll be back in 163 edits! —cmsJustin (talk|contribs) 01:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! —cmsJustin (talk|contribs) 15:37, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Tagging Articles

I am asking you the following question because you mentioned here.

Hi, I was just wondering if you are still able and willing to tag articles? --Parker007 21:51, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm able, but not willing, to tag articles until there's consensus to do so. It doesn't seem like there is at this time. —METS501 (talk) 02:59, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

What about the wikiprojects that have consensus? The Chemicals Wikiproject has been waiting for a long time. They wanted to get many chemical stubs tagged, because there was a continous prodding of articles being done, which had to be undone by the wikiproject team members. The members tried asking Betacommand, but he did not reply, and his bot was doing other stuff like subs't templates etc. So I was wondering, are you willing to tag articles (that means you have to keep your computer on all night for the bot to do its work) if there is a consensus? I can provide you with a file in .xml format of AWB 3.1.3.2 (the new version doesn't save articles when we click save settings) (but this xml file is compatible with the newest version of AWB) which would contain settings and the list of articles to be tagged which skips the talk page if there is already a template by adding {{ in the skip option. Thus only articles that are not tagged will be tagged by the bot. --Parker007 20:02, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

And then there's my plugin which will use regular expressions to avoid double tagging (searching for the template under any name including redirects; recognising both correctly formatted and broken instances) :) --kingboyk 20:13, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Which does a very good job of tagging!! Kingboyk and myself both have bots ok to tag with AWB and his plugin. But if the project doesnt want it, theres no point. Reedy Boy 20:27, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Definitely. Also, such project tagging requests should really be made at Wikipedia:Bot requests. —METS501 (talk) 20:53, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

MetsBot

Jeremy...

You shouldnt really be using metsbot for typo fixing, i know it wont be automated, but it wont show up in recent changes either....

Im presuming accidental editing - forgot to log into this account? ;)

User:ST47/BAG - Some assitance needed

Reedy Boy 21:39, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

For fixing up where I seem to have stopped half way through a bot approval, leaving the archival and listing stages. Quite a bit on my mind at the moment :) Martinp23 21:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Rschen7754bot

I have already completed a trial, and this was clearly noted on the request page. Furthermore, I asked for two other tasks to be approved. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 21:56, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

This was in response to your archiving of my bot request today. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 22:02, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

The problem is, there is a huge backload of tasks at USRD that need to get approved that were waiting on that archived request. Such as the delivery of newsletters that are delivered tomorrow.

Quite frankly, the level of bureaucracy at BRFA is disturbing and frustrating, especially for a bot that has been approved by the old bot group and has a bot flag. It can be stated that it would be quicker for me to carry out the tasks manually than to wait for the current BRFA group to slowly agree with my requests. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 22:09, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Templates, etc.

Hey Mets501, thanks for the pointers on the Templates. I got most of them sorted out. One question I have: I'm trying to go through and update the T-AA/ST pages. I go to [4] to help me out. I can't figure out why it shows Ritten and Bolzano, when those pages have no more links to T-ST, but now point to the new T-AA/ST. o_O What is left? thanks Icsunonove 06:48, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

What links here

According to New features, What links here should be sortable by namespace. However, when I click on the link, I don't see the option. Am I missing something? - jc37 08:14, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I think you missed the first sentence of that article: Please keep in mind that features listed here may not be live on the English Wikipedia yet. In other words, they'll be enabled here in a few days. :-) —METS501 (talk) 16:26, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I did, my apologies. Thank you for clarifying. : ) - jc37 19:38, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: Unicode problems

Hi - I've put a fix in rev 950, which works well in my tests. Thanks, Martinp23 22:13, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Although the current (release/stable) version doesn't use the ExpandTemplate feature for user warnings automation, it still does (by default) for all substs, so the error could still be prevalent... What do you think? I have no idea how many/few people use the subst feature, but the fact that ExpandTemplate is the default option does concern me. Thanks, Martinp23 22:46, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Links in headings

Just a quick tip: If you put links in headings, like the one here, it can cause certain things to break. Best confine the links to the text. --KSmrq^T 06:27, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I heard that once, but I thought it was just an old problem. If it's still a problem, I'll make sure not to do it again :-) If it's really a problem, you may want to bring it up as many pages (such as 1920 in sports) use this extensively. —METS501 (talk) 06:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

(I prefer to keep the thread in one place.) So far as I know, some things still break, including things like browsers, which are beyond the control of Wikipedia. The admonition not to put links in headings can still be found here, and also in the main Manual of Style. I have only seen this recently in one mathematics article, E8, and I fixed it. --KSmrq^T 08:16, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

OK, no problem :-) —METS501 (talk) 15:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

AWB extension proposal

While MaxSem is inactive (I hope it's temporary), I want to know your opinion on my proposal. - VasilievVV 16:17, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure; it's sort of vague what you're saying. Why don't you mention it on the dev talk page, and see what others say there. —METS501 (talk) 16:23, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

If you mean you're a C# expert and you're gonna come tidy up our codebase in line with your proposal, well, that would be interesting. If your proposal means "wouldn't this be cool?" then "yes it would. Next!" :) --kingboyk 16:36, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

More Template Substitution

When you have time, can you add uw-ablock and uw-3rrblock to the templates to subst regex. Also, as I look at the current SVN, it seems uw-coi1 is in it, but not uw-coi. Can you add that also? Thanks! (and if you don't want to be bothered anymore, just tell me and I'll put the templates needed to be added on the bug page instead) --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 23:41, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Great! Also, if you can remember, for all discussions started by me on your user talk, please reply below my comments. All pages I edit are automatically added to my watchlist so I'll see it. Thanks! --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 00:23, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh yeah, I forgot again. Sorry :-) —METS501 (talk) 00:25, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Amazing!. Thanks!!! --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 02:13, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I'm not positive if it'll be semi- or fully protected; see here. —METS501 (talk) 02:15, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bot requests

Thanks for catching my mistake and reverting it. I meant only to delete one duplicate section and ended up doing... something else. Anyhow, my apologies. Madman bum and angel 18:31, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem :-) —METS501 (talk) 18:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually, my edit looks correct (diff). So, how did so many other sections get blanked? Madman bum and angel 18:34, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah, it was the one before... something REALLY weird happened. Thanks anyway. Madman bum and angel 18:36, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

E-mail

When you have time, you have an e-mail. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 01:44, 8 April 2007 (UTC)