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Page interfaces and signatures
The bouncy logo on this page in vector covers the main navigation links, something about how vector treats the page contents differently than monobook. Since most people here use vector, could you please fix that?
More of an issue, however, is your signature - it's too long. I was just going to bring this up on IRC, but it's harder to demonstrate there. WP:SIG states that the maximum length for a signature is 255 characters, the hard limit imposed by the mediawiki, but you go around this by using a template. Now using one isn't necessarily a bad thing, can make it a target for vandalism and the like, but so long as it follows the other guideline and you watch your posts it should be fine. The problem here is that it doesn't follow the other guidelines, considering the sheer length. I pasted the result of one of the shorter variants directly into the preferences box and this was the result:
Now arguably that's already pretty long, but since the entirety of what I tried to paste was this, I hope you can see the problem:
Please, do something to make it shorter, 255 characters or less. It's very long, and the WP page is right; editing around such things can be somewhat bothersome. — Isarra (talk) 22:21, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
- Signature fixed. I've taken off the Not Rcs link. :( Dunno what to do about the bouncy logo though. Maybe I could make it smaller? Rcsprinter (natter) 22:29, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks, mon. As for the logo, for it to work cross-skin probably the only thing you could do is make it fixed position like on your userpage - fixed positioning seems to ignore the relatively-positioned content container. Could also just optimise it for vector instead of monobook; it would go off the top of the page in monobook, but at least that way it should not cause problems for anyone using one of those two skins. Vector is a lot lower than monobook, and such. — Isarra (talk) 03:20, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
- Also, in your signature, what i the <font color... bit for? Nevermind that <font> is a deprecated tag, that bit appears to be overridden by the links anyway, so you should be able to optimise it a bit more pretty easily. — Isarra (talk) 03:24, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
- I like that signature. It is a nice, sharp grey. Natter... Nope, can't tell you are British. Wish you would learn proper English like us Americans :) I found a nice bug in person-o-matic. They are fixing it. They've also adding names from a file, so it is almost ready to use. Bgwhite (talk) 07:42, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
- Is it ready yet? Rcsprinter (shout) 20:36, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
- I've been holding off saying anything because all they need to do is compile the code. Grrrrr. Bugs are all fixed and just waiting. Bgwhite (talk) 18:58, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
- Is it ready yet? Rcsprinter (shout) 20:36, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
- I like that signature. It is a nice, sharp grey. Natter... Nope, can't tell you are British. Wish you would learn proper English like us Americans :) I found a nice bug in person-o-matic. They are fixing it. They've also adding names from a file, so it is almost ready to use. Bgwhite (talk) 07:42, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
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Please control your AWB settings
You recently introduced badminotn and inot to some pages. --Florentyna (talk) 17:37, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
- It is OK, I fixed them a while ago and am working OK now. For some reason it was doing the inside of words too. Rcsprinter (message) 17:44, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
- Let's hope the best, the last wrong edits were from 17:13 and 17:16 today, means some minutes ago. --Florentyna (talk) 17:56, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
persondata-o-matic
New version is not available at Wikipedia:Persondata-o-matic. Bgwhite (talk) 19:28, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
- New version is not available? Wtf? Go to this, I'll talk to you about it. Rcsprinter (lecture) 19:32, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, this is my 2nd brain fart in 5 minutes. It IS available. I better stop writing until I find where I put my brain. Bgwhite (talk) 19:35, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
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New guy question about one of your edits
Hi, I'm new to Wikipedia and wanted to understand your recent edit to "David Atkinson (baritone)" and the revisions in March 2012. Who added the "James Young" verbiage and did you revert it? I'm looking to edit this entry but want to understand the recent revision history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmqyoung (talk • contribs) 15:56, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, just learned about Jmqyoung (talk) 16:02, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- The person who added the gunk names was a under an IP address 80.2.143.149, and I reverted it as it was not constructive, probably untrue and in any case unsourced, using a tool called Huggle. Thank you for your interest, I hope you become a good editor here on Wikipedia. Rcsprinter (gossip) 17:32, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the update. I asked because David Atkinson is my uncle, and I just found this posted info on him and wanted to upload a picture of him (taken in 2001). It's also very coincidental because my name is also "James Young." Jmqyoung (talk) 19:17, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- No problem, it's what I do. Rcsprinter (Gimme a message) 20:35, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the update. I asked because David Atkinson is my uncle, and I just found this posted info on him and wanted to upload a picture of him (taken in 2001). It's also very coincidental because my name is also "James Young." Jmqyoung (talk) 19:17, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Adoption
Can you adopt me as a new user — Preceding unsigned comment added by World Flying (talk • contribs) 16:59, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
- Very sorry, but I'm a bit busy at the moment to take on another adoptee. Rcsprinter (shout) 11:32, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
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Bot running wild
Hi, your wild animal User:RscprinterBot is linking Lozenge to Bullet in foreign languages. Please restrain it. Thanks! :) USchick (talk) 18:19, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- Well, I seriously doubt that, but SprinterBot has been running so I'll assume you mean him. Sorry for any inconvenience caused, the problem is that interwiki.py goes through all the languages and gets the links from what links to other things, so lozenge probably translates to bullet in Wansfikian or something. But I will do what I can. Rcsprinter (orate) 19:13, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- The edit on March 13 is still there [1] will it mess things up to undo it? And how do we keep it from relinking again? Thanks. USchick (talk) 02:24, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- It won't mess anything up to undo it because the bot has finished its cycle of 'sweeping the wiki' for now. So it won't relink it. If you want to be sure for the next time you can put {{Nobots}} on the page. Rcsprinter (chat) 18:09, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- The edit on March 13 is still there [1] will it mess things up to undo it? And how do we keep it from relinking again? Thanks. USchick (talk) 02:24, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
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- Oh yeah. Oops. Rcsprinter (rap) 17:29, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
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| Special Thanks for helping me make me bold! And thanks for calling me as a Vandilism Fighter. Although I am not in real life, I am a strong opposer against Vandalism! Teahouse is best suited for people like you! Monareal (talk) 16:09, 29 March 2012 (UTC) |
- Aw, this is a nice surprise. Thank you very much.
Rcsprinter (state the obvious (or not)) 16:11, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
RFPP
Hey. Your archiving script seems to archive faster than mine, but I can't tell what the difference is. The change (if there is one) might actually be an improvement. Do you know if there is a difference? I am using the original User:Rami_R/rfppClerk.js. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 16:10, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- I have absolutley no idea whether there is a difference. As far as I know, it is the same code which I run hourly. I'm thinking of using it to run a bot with a crontab to make the process automated and remove us (like VolkovBot did before it quit mysteriously), but haven't got round to it yet. Rcsprinter (lecture) 16:14, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- A bot would appear more serious, but it would also put more traffic on my watchlist, and that of any other admin looking to see what the status is. I try not to run the script myself unless there are a lot of changes to the queue since the last time the script was run. EdJohnston (talk) 16:27, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- I'm very much a de-watchist. My advice is not to watch a page which is going to be edited frequently. Rcsprinter (message) 16:32, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- The point is to be notified *appropriately*. If I notice that there is a backlog, then I'm more likely to come and help with the queue. Also if I see that protection is being requested on an important page, I might take an interest. Somebody else was just scolded for a bot proposal that would have edited his own talk page once an *hour*. That seems like a waste of edits. EdJohnston (talk) 17:11, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- So....? Are you proposing the page stops being clerked? Rcsprinter (talk) 17:16, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- And, a bot editing would not trigger watchlists. Rcsprinter (chat) 17:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- I *want* to be notified if a backlog has developed since the last time I checked. Rami's clerking script puts this in the edit summary. (I would never bother looking at the page itself to look for a backlog notice, it would take too much time). If the edit summary was suppressed from my watchlist, I wouldn't get this helpful notice. EdJohnston (talk) 17:24, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- The point is to be notified *appropriately*. If I notice that there is a backlog, then I'm more likely to come and help with the queue. Also if I see that protection is being requested on an important page, I might take an interest. Somebody else was just scolded for a bot proposal that would have edited his own talk page once an *hour*. That seems like a waste of edits. EdJohnston (talk) 17:11, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- I'm very much a de-watchist. My advice is not to watch a page which is going to be edited frequently. Rcsprinter (message) 16:32, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- A bot would appear more serious, but it would also put more traffic on my watchlist, and that of any other admin looking to see what the status is. I try not to run the script myself unless there are a lot of changes to the queue since the last time the script was run. EdJohnston (talk) 16:27, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
So the solution is to stay as we are. Problem solved, end of subject. Rcsprinter (tell me stuff) 17:29, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! 
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Casliber (submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.
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RE: Speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Bmusician's computer
The page was intended to be an April Fool's joke. Of course after 1 April was over, it should have been closed, like how you closed all of the other joke nominations. Why did you request speedy deletion of mine and not others'? I feel sad. Bmusician 00:21, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
- Never mind, 1 April is over, please ignore this Bmusician 01:25, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Suggestion for USERNOCAT bot
Hi Rcsprinter! While reviewing BattyBot's edits to remove article categories from user pages, I noticed it's removing categories such as Category:WikiProject Songs members. Therefore, I changed my F&R rules to the following: \[\[Category:(.*?)\]\](?<!(Wikipedia|WikiProject).*) → [[:Category:$1]] Thought you might want to do the same. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 03:57, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
- Sure, that's fine. One thing I'm having trouble with is loading the whole of category:Living people into the make list thing, it only lets me have about 25000 articles, of which none are in userspace, so that's
. So I tried the approach of putting them in via a text file on my computer, but I'm struggling to do that because I can't find a way of getting a list of all pages in a category. So if you could help with that I'd be grateful. Thanks, Rcsprinter (whisper) 10:57, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
- After you login to AWB with your bot account, go to the Plugins menu and load the NoLimitsPlugin, and you'll notice some new entries in your Source list. Choose "Category (NL, Admin & Bot)" and then Living people. Good luck! — Preceding unsigned comment added by GoingBatty (talk • contribs) 01:19, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks, you're a lifesaver! Rcsprinter (speak) 10:28, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- After you login to AWB with your bot account, go to the Plugins menu and load the NoLimitsPlugin, and you'll notice some new entries in your Source list. Choose "Category (NL, Admin & Bot)" and then Living people. Good luck! — Preceding unsigned comment added by GoingBatty (talk • contribs) 01:19, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Also, I thought I could be more efficient and run through all the talk pages with {{user sandbox}} and {{userspace draft}}. However, based on feedback at User talk:BattyBot, I've also set up AWB so it skips user pages that contain <!-- [[Category:. GoingBatty (talk) 02:16, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
IRC
Whenever you come back on wp, Could you come back onto IRC as well. :) --Ceradon talkcontribs 17:38, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible to move my hook back from Prep 4 to Prep 2, so it will air during the day in the U.S. on April 5? I'll gladly promote another ready hook with pic to take its place in Prep 4. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:01, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, it was set to air on April 5 in the UK. Don't the time zones overlap? Feel free to move it around as you wish. Don't have time to do it myself now. Rcsprinter (orate) 20:33, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
GOCE March drive wrap-up
| Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive
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Re: Userpage
No connection to me. Just someone having fun at my expense :) --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 05:03, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
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May 14 will do nicely. The interview looks good too. Welcome aboard! -Mabeenot (talk) 04:07, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Preston Passion
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The Original Barnstar Well done, for such a good original idea! Martinevans123 (talk) 13:01, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
- What original idea was that? Creating an article about an event, I wonder...? Thanks for the star. Rcsprinter (tell me stuff) 19:33, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks
I would like to change the title of article "Prince Fahad bin Faisal Al Saud" to "Fahad bin Faisal" since there are discussions about not including the words such as "prince, etc." to the titles. And if you review other bio articles of Saudi people there is no such words in the titles. So, if you fix it, I appreciate it. Thanks again.Egeymi (talk) 17:38, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Done. Article has been AfDd though. Rcsprinter (tell me stuff) 19:33, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
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Re: Good humor
Thanks for the barnstar :) The sentence is a recent addition, as I recently was looking at my contribution history and realized that my peaks and troughs of activity were suspiciously anti-correlated with the amount of female action I was getting. I would be interested in an in-depth study on the topic, but I'm secretly hoping that my wiki activity drops sharply fairly soon :D -RunningOnBrains(talk) 03:50, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2012 April newsletter
Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's Grapple X (submissions) remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on The X-Files, but also Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's Casliber (submissions) was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's 
Muboshgu (submissions) coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.
65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter: File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both Matthewedwards (submissions) and 
Grandiose (submissions), the latter of whom has also gone on to score with File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round, 
Ealdgyth (submissions) earned triple points for her good articles on William the Conqueror and the Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on Western Jackdaw, now a good article, 
Dana Boomer (submissions) earned triple points for her work on lettuce and work by 
Stone (submissions) to ready antimony for good article status earned him triple points. Jarry1250 (submissions) managed to expand Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.
An article on the WikiCup in the Wikimedia Blog, "Improving Wikipedia with friendly competition", was posted at the end of April. This may be of interest to those who are signed up to this newsletter, as well as serving as another way to draw attention to our project. Also, we would again like to thank Jarry1250 (submissions) and Stone (submissions), for continued help behind the scenes. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:19, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
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Skype
Can you get on Skype, please? Adam mugliston Talk 20:49, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
- No. Wait until tomorrow. Rcsprinter (talk) 21:03, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Bots
Hi Rcsprinter123. I saw your comment at my BRFA and it reminded me of this unresolved discussion. Any update? 28bytes (talk) 21:23, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
- Well I can't really see what I can do to resolve the problem because I was just running it the way I always have. Rcsprinter (state the obvious (or not)) 13:34, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
- Are you planning to start it up again at some point? 28bytes (talk) 18:36, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
- I expect so; although I'd like to move operations onto the toolserver to save my poor little laptop overheating when I have it running. I already have a toolserver account, don't know if you could help me. That way it could run 24/7. Rcsprinter (message) 20:07, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
- I don't have a toolserver account; TParis has one and may be able to help. 28bytes (talk) 20:38, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
- OK then. Incidentally, how do you keep your bot running? Rcsprinter (tell me stuff) 20:46, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
- What do you mean? 28bytes (talk) 20:52, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
- OK then. Incidentally, how do you keep your bot running? Rcsprinter (tell me stuff) 20:46, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
- I don't have a toolserver account; TParis has one and may be able to help. 28bytes (talk) 20:38, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
- I expect so; although I'd like to move operations onto the toolserver to save my poor little laptop overheating when I have it running. I already have a toolserver account, don't know if you could help me. That way it could run 24/7.
- Are you planning to start it up again at some point? 28bytes (talk) 18:36, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Do you run it on the computer by itself instead of on toolserver, I meant, but it doesn't matter now. Rcsprinter (deliver) 10:31, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rcsprinter123,
You moved the John's Modern Cabins submission to mainspace, however, it wasn't yet ready to be moved to the mainspace as there were existing issues with referencing that needed to be resolved, whilst slapping a maintenance tag is all fine and dandy, that issue would still remain. I hope you understand. Regards, —James (Talk • Contribs) • 10:10pm • 12:10, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
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Results from comparing Rscprinterbot and 28bot
Hey, I just wanted to let you know that we've finished up the full results for the comparison of your bot and 28bot. To make a long story short: it looks like it's a really good idea to start using a notification to any test editors explaining why there were reverted and how to remedy the situation. For registered editors, anyway. If you want to discuss it more or get some help drafting the message, we'd be happy to. :) Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 19:11, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
- That's great, thanks. Rcsprinter (lecture) 19:38, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
AfC review
Why did you remove my review of an article at AfC in this edit? My review is the most recent and therefore the most relevant so it is baffling that you removed mine but left an older one in place. SpinningSpark 20:12, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
- It must have just got removed in the confusion. I was trying to clear the big masses of code and put the submission boxes right - removing one in the process, I see! No harm done. Rcsprinter (Gimme a message) 20:15, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
- No probs, thanks. SpinningSpark 20:28, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
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