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I think you missed something on Loch Leven (highlands): "There are seven small near the western end." Seven small what's? Rmhermen 16:09, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)
- Ah, islands. Good catch, ta. TB 16:36, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
(Discussion of the Glen Albyn article with Eoghan moved to Talk:Glen Albyn)
The 216.239.89.* vandal (Frederick Lowy) has also targeted Concordia University, perhaps you could consider adding that page to your watchlist? (Not to mention Paul Newman and Holocaust, but I think lots of people already watch those pages). P.T. Aufrette 18:13, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
- Sure thing. TB 23:12, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
TB, thanks for your kind comments. Adam 07:47, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi, you marked Christina Ferrare as being a candidate for speedy deletion, which I'm not convinced it is. What grounds were you trying to delete it on? I think you should go through VfD if you want it deleted on account of the person not being famous enough, or cleanup if it just needs more work. Angela. 00:32, May 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Eeep - I meant {{msg:stub}}, not {{msg:delete}}. Good catch, well spotted. - TB 05:48, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia database inconsistencies
It isn't something I can fix but I asked Tim Starling about it and he suggested that, as the IDs are consecutive, it may have been caused by a race condition; just someone hitting the move button four times in a row. I don't know if it will be fixed though. Angela. 15:49, May 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Okay, ta. The duplicate IDs can be seen here - is there any way this cn be fixed, perhaps by deleting and recreating the articles or similar? - TB 21:12, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
List of Gulag camps
Item 446: (1) Actually, it is mostly Polish, autamotacally conveted from a Polish offical document. I started "decyphering" it, but unfortunately got distracted fo a long time. Yes; item 446 is two items (messed in the original as well). Mikkalai
Image:Image: reports
Hello! Your reports are very valuable, good job! I have a small request: could you run a search for all articles including images with a double Image:. This worked with the old parser, but no longer works in 1.3. Thanks ✏ Sverdrup 11:18, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- See User:Topbanana/Reports/This page contains an odd-looking image link. This is a very quick report, simply checking form "Image:Image:" anywhere in an articles text. If this is a common mistake I'll work up something cleverer that shows *links* starting with the offending string. - TB 23:29, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)
- Excellent quick work! I will work my way through the list. ✏ Sverdrup 11:02, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Your reports are great. Have you thought about advertising them some more, such as on the scripting requests page, and possibly moving them into the Wikipedia namespace? Angela. 01:48, May 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Yes, thank you for the reports. On the report page you have this: "Stubs with greatest number of incoming links (See also: Wikipedia:Most_wanted_stubs)". Most wanted stubs was comletely exhausted, and there was no sign of an update, so I copied the first 100 items on your list to it. It's not the exact letter of the page, but it follows the idea.
- If you'd like to restock most wanted stubs (and you appear to have the capability to do so) I'm currently offering a reward. Even if not, I'll be busy for a long while with the great reports you have up now. --Ben Brockert 02:45, May 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks all for your kind comments - I do intend to advertise these reports, but have a number of problems to fix yet - for example links containing HTML character codes. They'll be done in a week or two, at which point I intend to write up instructions on how to recreate them and move the the wikipedia namespace. In the meantime you're very welcome indeed to make use of the lists and/or copy them on an ad-hoc basis to the editable wikipedia pages. - TB 05:48, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
Double words
It would be interesting with a report for pages with repeated words, for example "a test of the the report". It is a fairly common mistake. Perhaps it should initially be limited to common prepositions and other short english words (e.g. "of", "the", "at", "with", "on"). - David Remahl 13:35, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Sure thing, an easy one to do. There a list showing just repeated the's, of's and and's (eek, there's another one!) at User:Topbanana/Reports/This_article_contains_a_repeated_word. Other than picked three rnadom articles to check they do contain the problem being searched for, I've not tested the accuracy or usefulness of the list, so all feedback welcome. - TB 08:50, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)
- Works fine! I've looked at 38 so far. 32 of them were actual faults, five were false alarms (mostly due to The The) and one has apparently been corrected since the database dump. Seems like a nice addition to the report suite! I'll work through some more soon (I think I'll write a python script for the purpose of working through them efficiently :-)). David Remahl 10:08, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Excellent news, thanks. If there are other repeated words you'd like listed, add sections to the report and I'll fill them in when I get a chance. - TB 10:15, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)
Link to back-redirect
Some pages may have wikilinks (for example under See also), that #'redirect back.
Example: Page1 links to Page2, Page2 contains #'REDIRECT Page1.
An adjacency matrix where only REDIRECTs are counted as incoming edges and all links as outgoing, doing M^2, and then finding all non-0's along the diagonal seems like an efficient way to solve it...
David Remahl 22:13, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- A nice idea. However, with over 175000 redirect pages in the en database alone, that's a 175000^2 bit = 3.5GB adjacency matrix - my humble little database server just couldn't cope with that, sorry. I've run a more conventional database query looking for 2-loops and 3-loops and found none so far. A check for 4-loops will run overnight. - TB 22:58, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)
- Oh, are there _that_ many redirects! I await the results. The reason I thought about it, was that I saw someone fixing a problem like it earlier today. At least that should appear in your search (since the database is old). I don't remember the exact one. David Remahl
- Ah I see what you mean now - I had been looking for closed loops of redirects. Over 2000 instances found, listed at User:Topbanana/Reports/This article links to a redirect back to itself. Enjoy - TB 02:17, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)
Mis-spelled Links
Happy to help! Like I said on the Village Pump, I actually find it quite a relaxing way to do something useful without stretching the brain too much. Look at the article, look at the suggested link, hit up Google or the IMDB or the All Music Guide or whatever for verification if it's not obviously right or wrong—then move on to the next one.. :-) —Stormie 00:09, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)
TB, these lists are great. Mis-spelled links is a nice training-wheels task for me. :) Boojum 14:30, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
List of female boxers Hi, Top Banana! How are you? I found your name rather interesting, as a matter of a fact, it reminded me of a Puerto Rican music group, Top Banana, which scored a HUGE English hit on Puerto Rico's radio in 1989: Soooociety!! Killed by who?, aha, aha aha!..LOL great song.
Anyways, thank you for reading the List of female boxers I originated. I always feel honored when people read the articles I originate.
I saw you listed it on your User:Topbanana/Reports/This page contains a link that might be misspelled page. I think that is ok, but the problem is, the Bridget Riley written about here is, actually, a painter, not the Bridgett Riley who gained certain fame as a boxer in the middle 1990s (I think the boxer's nickname was The Pink Assasin, by the way, just a little extra info) :)
But thanks for your good willed effort to try to correct tat and I hope we can talk again some time soon. God bless you!
Sincerely yours, Antonio More Nicotine, please! Martin
- Howdy, Antonio. The list your article appears on is automatically generated by a system that picks out articles with names very like those that are the targets of links to missing articles. Here, there's no article for Bridgett Riley so it's suggesting (wrongly as you point out) Bridget Riley. I've scored out the entry for this in my list for now, although the real way to fix this is to provide an article (even a stub will do) for Bridgett Riley. You do seem to be out resident expert on the subject - can you oblige ? - TB 10:02, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)
User:Topbanana/Reports/This page contains a link that might be mis-punctuated
Would you have any objection to User:Topbanana/Reports/This page contains a link that might be mis-punctuated being sliced into several pages. I've had a couple of SQL timeouts waiting for it to save ... possibly connected to the 313k length. I'm thinking a-e, g-k, whatever. Happy to do the slicing &c if you wish. See also an alert on capitalisation on that page - not sure the convention gives good enough advice before we hare off & try to sort the errors. --Tagishsimon
- Excellent job splitting that up - I was having problems editing it myself earlier but didn't get a chance to split it. As ever, these reports are meant to be kicked about a bit to get the bugs shaken out of them, you're very welcome indeed to edit/criticise/chortle as is appropriate ;) - TB 09:10, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)
Hats off to you
Add me to the list of those singing the praises of your lists. The dead-end list has been an excellent help in pruning/improving wikipedia ... a great way to use a free half-hour when the brain cells aren't up to creating an original article! DavidWBrooks 15:04, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Disambig pages
Please see User talk:Topbanana/Reports/Nothing links to this disambiguation page. Lupo (at a public terminal and thus not logged in), UTC 07:15, June 16, 2004
Probable punctuation problem
Hey there, TB. Just stumbled upon your user page and noticed a punctuation error in the word "area's" -- that apostrophe should be nixed since its possessive form makes no sense in the context of the sentence. (Alas, my inner stickler is shining through...) --Diberri | Talk 14:50, Jul 6, 2004 (UTC)
: Fixed ta. My speeling never was up to much ;) - TB 15:01, Jul 6, 2004 (UTC)
Puny little castles
I like the locator maps you drew for Scottish castles. Maps like that really help the reader! Thanks! --Menchi 23:17, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Aozora Bunko - corrupted link
Howdy. I've been doing some automated checking of links and found what looks to be some corrupted text in a link on Aozora_Bunko:_S. I noticed that you're a regular editor of the page and wondered if you would be able to fix it? Search that page for the first instance of "Shimizurinzou" to see the problem. Any help you can offer will be much appreciated. - TB 13:54, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Sorry for late reply. Those are corrupted because the page is automatically generated by the data I had. I will fix them. Actually I am rather regretful that I have created that page. I did because I could but those pages look quite out of place. Anyway, I appreciate you spoted broken text. -- Taku 09:12, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)
Sysop
Congratulations! Consensus being reached on RfA, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | Talk 19:14, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Congratulations, you've earned it!
Great that you're finally an admin! Your reports are an extremely useful resource. I forgot to vote on RFA, but naturally it wasn't needed. Have a nice day — David Remahl 19:25, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Print head Thank you for the followup. I have to admit my mind was elsewhere -- phrasing a careful reply to a new user. I didn't even think of looking for a good redirect. Thanks. Oh, and thank you for making your reports available (they are a great help). And since I'm already typing... congratulations on becoming an admin. I honestly thought you were, already. :-) SWAdair | Talk 08:59, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
re: VfD
Good afternoon. I just put MOST Bridge back on the VfD discussion page. The consensus is clearly keep but the discussion should be allowed to run it's course so that it can be archived in accordance with the deletion process. I know it seems silly to do this when the 5 days will expire in just a few hours but a couple of us have been trying to improve the archiving process for these old discussions.
I do notice that you said right on the page that you'd "unlink the page from VfD in 24 hours if nobody objects." My fault for not noticing that and commenting earlier. Thanks for your patience. Rossami 18:46, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Battleships
Sorry for not getting back to you for a number of days. I've been in France and out of internet contact.
As for the articles, I created a number of sub-stubs around that time, and whilst I have fleshed some out, far from all of them have had that treatment. I am intending to eventually get round to it, but I wasn't sure when. Since you've highlighted the issue, I'll see what I can do about at least producing a filled in table and a little bit of history for the ships over the next few days. David Newton 20:55, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Quotes in titles
Yes, I deliberately made redirects that included quotes. --Merovingian✍Talk 19:40, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)
/Reports/Nothing links to this article
Up to a point, Lord Copper. UK railway stations - W, by way of example, is listed on the nothing links page, but many pages link to it by virtue of the {{UKrailwaystations}} doodab. Umm. For what it's worth. Excellent reports, btw. Much fun for times when brain is in idle. --Tagishsimon
- Ta for the feedback. The report only takes links from the main en namespace into considers at the moment. I'll look at fixing this in the next generation (or perhaps the one after that). - TB 07:23, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)
User:Topbanana/Reports/Suggestions for new interwiki links I was working through that list of missing en-de interwiki links, but now you replace that list with en-fr missing links instead. As I have already covered quite a bit of the A-C letters - will there be an update of the german-english list? I think it might make sense to keep separate lists for de and fr, as adding those links is best done by someone who speaks the two languages involved, there were some non-trivial cases. andy 12:04, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Hi Andy, glad to see people making ue of these pages. As you might have noticed, the number of 'bad' entries on the list you were working from was significant - more than 20% - mostly due to poor handling of decorated letters. I'm currently re-vamping the method used to generate the list to improve this, as well as breaking the big down into a number of more specific sub-lists (See the bottom-most entries on User:Topbanana/Reports for some details). Hopefully this should only take a week or so, at which point some equivalent of the en->de list will exist again. IN the meantime if interwikification is your pleasure, why not fix the the 'BC' years? I've linked 100 BC and a few of the years surroung it to 8 new languages - the same needs done to most 'year' pages.
Nothing links to this disambiguation page
TB: Please see my note on User:Topbanana/Reports/Nothing links to this disambiguation page
Thanks!
Kevyn 04:52, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I do apologise, I wasn't aware that anyone was still using this report. I'm without access to a text editor for a day or two, you're very welcome to revert my change, or I'll do it myself ASAP. - TB 20:47, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
Interwiki reports
They should be very useful - great work! Now, what I'd really like to go with it is a list of pages on non-English Wikipedias without interwiki links. :> Warofdreams 19:13, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I'm only working from the en namespace for now, but should be able to convert my scripts to work on others quite easily. Give me another week or two to tidy up my scripts and move all the reports in my user pages to the wikipedia namespace and I'll see what can be done. I suspect at the very least it should be easy to pick out non-reciprocal interwiki links and quickly double out overall interwiki connectedness. - TB 21:33, 2004 Jun 1 (UTC)
- Sorry if you didn't want that edited - I'll leave well alone if you want to revert it. It's a useful table, although some indication of what titles the articles in other languages which link to those in English (i.e. the yellow ones) have would be useful - I'm not sure how this could be implemented easily, though. The "interwiki is suggested" page looks good - how did you generate it? Warofdreams 18:45, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hi TB, these are really useful reports. Is there any chance of an extended version of User:Topbanana/Reports/This_is_one_of_the_most_linked_to_articles? It could be extremely useful (for instance) for checking whether smaller Wikipedias have the articles on the most popular topics. Thanks, Warofdreams 19:45, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
- I've extended the list to include the top 300 items for now. I'll have a look at listing popular articles that do not contain interwiki links for you in he next week or two. Poke me if I forget please. - TB 20:30, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
New report request
Topbanana, I love the reports you've put together! I have a request. Could you list all articles that contain "ISBN:"? It's a common mistake when listing an ISBN to say "ISBN: 0-000000-0" instead of "ISBN 0-000000-0", and there's no way to search for this currently. Thanks, – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 19:32, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Easily done. See User:Topbanana/Reports/This article may contain a badly formed ISBN reference. - TB 10:00, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)
University of Pune
I please you to revert your change on University of Pune page. 196.1.114.14 belong to the university of Pune (find the address of www.unipune.ernet.in). This website doesn't contain copiright data.
- Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I marked your article as a copyright violation as the web site it is copied from (http://www.unipune.ernet.in/indexout.php) states "Copyright © 2000-2004, University of Pune, all rights reserved". All text included in wikipedia must be released under the GDFL license. If you are the copyright holder and want to release the text, please state this on Talk:University of Pune. Many thanks. - TB 09:49, Aug 5, 2004 (UTC)
ICA Maxi
Howdy. I've been going through the 'redirects to nowhere' list. You changed ICA Maxi into a redirect to the non-existant ICA (supermarket)) on the 17th July. I wanted to check if you have plans to create the target article, please. - TB 20:01, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing that out! I totally forgot about it. The page has now been created. David Remahl 21:56, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Edit attribution Hi Topbanana. Your edits as 139.133.7.38 have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 01:27, 2004 Sep 5 (UTC)
Chuvashs
Hi Topbanana!
A Chuvash is a Turkic nation, not person who live in Chuvashia.
--Untifler 14:49, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for the clarification, Untifler. I've modified your correction to the page a little bit to make it a bit easier to read. I'd appreciate your checking that what's there now is accurate. - TB 08:27, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography of Poland
- I started Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography of Poland some time ago to settle the naming conventions for Polish Voivodships, powiats/counties and gmina/communes, as well as to create a set of infoboxes for use on these pages. I thought you might be interested. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 12:51, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
- Howdy. My only edit on the listed article was a minor edit fixing a malformed link. Kindly update your algorithm for selecting possible interested parties from edit history. Ta kindly. - TB 13:01, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)