User talk:H/FU in userspace

To Do list

• Create a check to see if the image is in Category:Fair use images used with permission, such as Image:Bobdobbs.jpg, they are not in violation and can be shown on userpages. Done! ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 01:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
• Create a routine that re-checks the list to see if the problem has been solved, and removes them as needed. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 01:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
• Place an html tag by each username containing the image name as an anchor for a javascript program to place buttons. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 16:40, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion

How about an instruction telling users who are dealing with this to strikethrough items they have done? x42bn6 Talk 16:50, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, be bold! ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 17:14, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

{{Money}}

It looks like images tagged with {{Money}} have been included in this list. This template appears to be used for many images of currency that are in the public domain. TacoDeposit 16:57, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

That is a problem. I will add a note to the page saying that some templates may mark an image as fair use when it is not, and also add the {{Money}} template to the categories to pass over. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 17:14, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I will sort out Category:Currency copyright tags on the next run. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 19:31, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

User talk template

A template for leaving messages on user talk pages: Template:FUUser.

Looks like this (and don't forget to subst: it!):

Fair use image in userspace

A fair use image on your user page, user talk page, or elsewhere in your userspace whatever.jpg, has been removed in order to comply with copyright law. Fair use images can only be used in articles and nowhere else on Wikipedia.
Please do not replace it, and thank you for your cooperation.
For further information, see the User page guidelines.

--A Train^talk 17:22, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Redo

I am re-scanning with filters to remove the currency tags some of them are public domain. This re-scan will also clear any that have been fixed already. Please let me know if you find any other image categories that are not entirely fair use. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 20:31, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

That brought it down to a mere 2599 images. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 21:01, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

A slight problem...

... As everything is listed by image, some user pages may have more than one FU image on it. If an admin clears out all FU images on a page, but only removes the image they cleared from the list as they were going through, then there is the potential for redundancy (admins - or any bold user, actually - running into user pages with no issues). Might I suggest, if possible, this list being sorted alphabetically by user page with any fair use images on them? --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 22:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

This is possible, but it will take a lot more RAM, and a redesign of the whole script. I may write a second script to sort this page, not sure what I am going to do yet. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 23:01, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

New links

I have added edit links to the names, I am importing them now. This will take you to the user page in edit mode. It will also pass the image name in the parameter 'FUimage', Wikipedia will ignore this parameter, but you can use javascript to detect and recover it.

I have written some javascript for my own use that uses this, it does the following:

• It removes the fair use image in question if it can find it
• It fills in the edit summary
• It hits the "Show changes" button
• It focuses on to the save button so you only have to hit enter
• It scrolls to the top of the screen so you can look at the diff

Warning

I only started programming javascript today, and I don't really know what I am doing. If you use this script please take the following precautions:

1. Look at the image page first to be sure it is only fair use and really should not be on the user page. If it is in a category that allows it in the user space then mention that category here and I will filter it out.
2. Always read the diff before saving, the edit made it yours.
3. Be prepared for bugs
4. Be careful of the enter key, it will trigger the save button

To install the script just add "importScript('User:HighInBC/FU remove.js');" to you monobook.js file and refresh your cache. The edit buttons on the page should trigger it. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 23:27, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

By the way, if you start at the beginning you will find only entries that don't work in my script as I am starting at the top and going down, and skipping the one's that do not work. Try a nice spot in the middle. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 23:43, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, it is really buggy, probably best you don't use it, or if you know how to fix it hehe. Anyway the data is passed to the edit page if you want to make a script that works. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 23:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Maybe you could request someone program a bot. I would imagine, looking at the capabilities of existing bots on Wikipedia, that it would be a relatively simple program to execute. Bear in mind that I couldn't program a VCR if any still existed, so I may be off on the simplicity of the task. Any way you cut it, though, a long term bot would be the best option as it would take us puny humans a rather long time to blast through these, and a constantly running bot can scan for and remove new instances of FU in user space. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 00:23, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

That is the next step. I am working on clearing out the false positives before I ask about automatic running. You are right that this is an easy bot, the problem is I just learned(muddled through) js today. I will probably do a bot coding request, good idea. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 00:30, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Firefox textarea is truncating text

Ugh, I can't edit the huge textareas because Firefox is truncating the text. I couldn't find a bug on Mozilla Bugzilla. Any ideas? --Iamunknown 05:07, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

2 ideas, first idea is only edit on section at a time, second idea is that I will convert the "edit page" link into a template to reduce space. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 14:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I am switching to a template system, that should make the page much smaller. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 18:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Hopefully that will help. I have been editing one section at a time and, even then, the textarea gets truncated. It's pretty ridiculous. I'll do some more image runs later tonight. --Iamunknown 19:35, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I see you are using the new method in section 'A'; thank you much. I hope to help later. --Iamunknown 20:00, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I will do the rest later today, don't worry too much about removing the ones you fix. They will be removed when I do the next scan, which I am currently doing each morning. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 20:58, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I am breaking it down to sub pages as it seems you can only have so many thousand template tranclusions on a page. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 23:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Broken down into sub pages, hope that helps. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 01:47, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

It does, thanks a bunch. :-) --Iamunknown 01:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Next step, index by user instead of by image. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 01:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Can anyone explain this

Everything was working fine till I got near the F's, then the templates stopped transcluding. Looking at the source I cannot see a fault where it stops working.

Is there a maximum number of templates allowed per page??? ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 23:47, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

There is, I have split it into sub pages. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 01:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Remember, folks, that the templates stop transcluding at a certain point. That's why we converted to sub pages. --Iamunknown 02:56, 16 April 2007 (UTC)