User talk:Mairi/Archive3

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Dekoy on deletion review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Dekoy. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review. 69.61.253.106 07:04, 29 November 2006 (UTC) Request for deletion review of the Dekoy article

Flag of Cyprus

Why did you change the flag of Cyprus? The .gif flag is the real one. Can you please help me to make the gif as png or svg? Answer me please in my talk page please. User:KRBN

It is not the size but the shape of the map of cyprus. Compare those two flags and see the differences. User:KRBN (Answer in my page)

My RfA

I don't have a fancy layout like other new admins, but I just want to thank you for your support at my RfA. It passed 47/3/1, so I have officially been promoted. I hope I won't let you down. If I'm not doing something properly, please tell me. Aecis ^{Mr. Mojo risin'} 21:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Replied

I've replied to you on my talk page, feel free to remove this notice once you've seen it. --Qirex 03:17, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice re sort orders...

Thanks for the advice re how to sort the template to the head of the Cat., Mairi. To create {{tl:ia-lang-stub}} I'd simply copied one of the existing lang stubs, and wasn't really sure how the sorting would work. Thanks for amending the template, which I see has fixed the problem. Cheers, --cjllw | TALK 22:49, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

BiH-stub

Why is Mairibot replaceing BiH stub template? Where is the matter discussed? --Dijxtra 09:22, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

It's part of a general orphaning of stub redirects (without any intention to delete them). The idea was finally discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting#Orphaning stub redirects, but it's been mentioned in several discussions about stub redirects, including on talk pages of WP:SFD and WP:RFD (also User talk:Jamesday#Template redirects for some reasons why). --Mairi 22:57, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Are all of Wikipedia stub template redirects going to be wiped out or just some? If just some, than can you point me to RFD discussion for BiH-stub template? Problem is, we had difficulties deciding how to name that template, and we broke the stalemate by deciding to create both, BiH one being a redirect. Now you are messing with our hard earned compromise and I just want to make sure you have full support of community ;-) (I'm trying to say: nothing presonal) --Dijxtra 22:08, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh, none of them are going to be deleted. The plan is simply to orphan all the stub redirects (except those that could be a future split); the intent, among others, is to reduce server load (Jamesday gives a few other reasons in the above link). I'd forgotten about the difficulties with naming that template; what exactly were they? And are the problems such that orphaning it is likely a bad idea (keeping in mind that people are free to use it all they want)? --Mairi 03:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Python wikibot framework

If I might pick your brains for a moment, as I know you use this with MairiBot: is this able to do merger of templates, as well as direct replacement? Sam Korn raised a question about regarding to re-sorting stub categories by country (cricket bios, specifically). Alai 03:28, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

What exactly do you mean by merger of templates? Changing something from using, say, {{UK-bio-stub}} and {{cricketbio-stub}} to just using {{UK-cricketbio-stub}}? Mairi 03:32, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Precisely. Sounds easy, but my knowledge of Python is approximately 0%. (What I need is Haskellwikibotframework...) Alai 03:48, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

It's not easily doable with the standard pywikibot programs, but I don't think it'd be too hard for me to hack together something that could do it. It's something I've been meaning to do anyway. (Hehe, and I'd prefer a decent Perlwikibotframework...) Mairi 04:07, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Bot needed...

Hi Mairi - any chance of running Mairibot over all the Canada-stubs? Someone piped the category link, so every single stub in the category is listed under "C" for "Canada stubs". Thanks. Grutness...wha? 07:32, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Sure, I'll take care of it tonight. --Mairi 19:03, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Infobox Australia

Template:Infobox Australia has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.

Thanks

regarding my SFD nomination. I have been around for a while, but never put anything up for deletion of any kind. Thanks agian!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 05:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Respond on my page, I will respond back, if nessacary(don't think so) on your page.

Stub category template

Can Mairibot handle templates with parameters? There are several hundred stub categories that use {{Stub category}} which is a redirect to {{Stub Category}}. If Mairibot can handle it, it would be nice. Caerwine Caerwhine 01:27, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Yep, it's doable; I have Mairibot working on it now. Mairi 03:35, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Template Talk:WesternSahara-stub

Your opinion would be welcome at the ongoing straw poll. Thanks, --E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 12:12, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

where'd the survey go?

As I mentioned on the talk for transwoman (before this split off), This survey (Transgender Community Health Project, from San Francisco) might be worth mentioning, as it gives the percentages for sexual orientation of those surveyed. It'd generally be good to have specific references about the relative percentages of different orientations. --Mairi 02:06, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

   I clicked on the link and it didn't work right.

         P.S. I am a non-op transwoman who perfers women.

Using bots to ease extension of wikis

You have something that makes new versions of MediaWiki pages. I believe it could also make new pages. Sometimes there are pages which invite adding a link to a new page with related material. For example, a controversial position page might suggest to someone that they create a linked page to accept, record, and reveal votes for and against that position, possibly with reasoning to support the vote.

One advantage of using an automated method for such an extension is that the results could be assured to be syntactically or even semantically correct. Another is that the extension is easier for the reader to accomplish, especially if a selection of appropriate choices is offered. We know that people find it easier to select what they want than to generate it from whole cloth.

With an appropriate wiki infrastructure, and it don't take much to start with, we can grow a reliable partially automated open wiki. We can provide it with convenient growth paths. We can do that by offering selection from page alternatives. People can choose more easily than generate variations. Some variations can be automated to the extent that a form asks for choices for various the parameters for some given alteration pattern just selected.

Some very simple patterns replace a chunk of text with another. A more complex one might be a form to fill in to start defining a new project. Or one to create and fill in a discussion page or a survey (voting) page. Or operate one. The universal modification method is to activate links by clicking on them or zooming into them or some other selection method.

The existing method in MediaWiki is to use a web editor to modify the text of an existing page, and save it, possibly with a half line modification description, but I think there are many more structured sensible modifications that can be offered. Their inherent safety in adhering to appropriate guidelines can be tested and revealed. Adding a link or a question or a footnote should be very easy to do and to authenticate or vote for or select into a selector's stable set.

Readers can choose to (or not to) explore in some selected page set possibly provided by some standards organization or some neighborhood group or some company or pressure group. Some selectors might claim to be fairly representing multiple viewpoints, and some might not.

We can offer several selector chosen collections of interlinked pages. Other selectors can certify that particular pages are known to be syntactic Others can certify that certain pages have limited semantics in whatever language. Some structured organizations of data or programming statements could be extended in ways that are guaranteed to have chosen properties. Look how wide open that is.

We can allow a few ways to have stable page sets kept available via usage statistics or via convenient ways for users to vote (and unvote or negative vote) for a version of any page in the wiki. Then algorithms can be built to fit and adjust to any user's wishes and needs. Thus semi-custom pages can be delivered to any user.

And thus any reader has many approaches already at hand and can also create more. And any selector or editorial board can support their particular choices of page sets presented in linked form to any reader who chooses to wander about in that pre-constructed path set.

Is this making any sense? What questions come up for you, reading this?

Karpinski 17:07, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Lego Response

Yo Mairi. I checked all of my Lego and I could not find anything - the mainstay of my Lego is inherited, so that is the most ancient piece I have. If you need anything else just call on me. Thanks, Dfrg.msc ^{1 . 2 . 3} 08:18, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

deletion of the list of starwars vehicles

Why was the List of star wars vehicles deleted?

I deleted List of vehicles in Star Wars because it was a redirect to List of Star Wars vehicles, which was deleted based on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Star Wars vehicles (see there for the reasoning). Also, please sign your messages using ~~~~ after it. Mairi 03:34, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Oceania buildings and structures stubs, and "null edits"

Did you empty the above with (I'd assume bot-driven) null edits, or did it manage to empty itself? The wiki seems to be very erratic these days as to whether and when these changes get propagated. (Most of the categories I've "de-fed" in the B&S nom seem to have partially done so, but some not at all.) Alai 04:14, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

I did it with bot null edits, since it didn't seem to have emptied itsself. I thought it was supposed to propogate such changes automatically (via the job queue), but that evidently isn't happening... Mairi 04:59, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, "job queue" was the concept I was fumbling for (handy link). I think I recall hearing that the JQ was turned off on occasion due to performance issues. At any rate, if they stay "stuck" much longer, I'll take the same course of action. Alai 15:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. I was pretty sure sometime yesterday I saw the job queue on Special:Statistics at something other than 0, and it's now zero... I think I'll keep botting them (or atleast the small categories) until it looks like they're fixing themselves. Mairi 21:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

It's certainly non-zero now (>31,000), but I get the distinct impression these have slipped through the cracks. I'm putting all the rest into a slow-running script, so as to guarantee at least finite progress... (And maybe faster at low load times, if I can work out when those are supposed to be...) Alai 16:00, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Looks like the queue is being emptied OK again. It appears that null-editting the templates (only) will re-queue the articles, so the null-editting en masse's no longer necessary. Alai 22:05, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Bishop Walter Francis Sullivan

I noticed that you were in the editing history of Bishop Walter Francis Sullivan of Richmond, VA. How do you know of him??? / What is your connection to him???

I was just editing the categories based on information in the article; I don't actually know anything about him. Although it's possible I did hear of him, having been a Catholic in the DC area. Mairi 03:42, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

copyedit portal

Hi

I find it very disturbing and depressing that huge amounts of WP editing time are wasted on unnecessary and clearly amateur discussions of naming and spelling issues. Being a linguist, you of course realise that almost all discussions on language use by normal people make fools of almost all participants, and they waste a very large part of editing efforts on WP. I'm getting so fed up with this nonsense that i'd like to ask you what you think about the idea of setting up a copyedit portal or copyedit emergency squad to get some sanity and professionalism into this completely amateur aspect of WP. See Talk:Académie française and Talk:Genealogy#reverts_of_WP:OR.2C_private_.28conspiracy.29_theories.2C_and_other_nonsense for more details... --Espoo 09:07, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject LGBT studies

Hello! I noticed that your userpage mentions that you are interested in LGBT issues. Would you be interested in joining WikiProject LGBT studies? The WikiProject's been a bit inactive recently and some of us are trying to get it going again. We'd love to have you on board! Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 12:05, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Religion by continent

I've nominated two more. If you want to nominate the UM Bishops one, I'd support it, but as I said I figure he's an expert on them. By the way, since I notice you're an admin, could you take a look at my proposal and let me know if I've forgotten anything? -- ProveIt ^(talk) 03:00, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Spainish record stubs

Thanks for the speedy delete! Lugnuts 10:18, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Please help

Wonder if you would please help me defend the categories for U.M. Bishops under Category:United Methodist bishops by Episcopal Area, many of which have been nominated for deletion (especially those also under Category:United Methodist bishops by U.S. State? The parent category is not, but most of the subcats are nominated. I think you see the helpfulness/wisdom of providing these categories, or at least you seemed to indicate that to me previously. Thank you ever so much! Merry Christmas! Pastorwayne 12:19, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

• thanks! Pastorwayne 13:05, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Category:Episcopacy in Protestantism

Pastorwayne has recently created a category hierarchy under Category:Episcopacy in Protestantism. My dictionary says that "episcopacy" refers to the governing body of a church (i.e. the bishops). This would make Pastorwayne's categories redundant with the existing bishops categories (for example, Category:Episcopacy in Lutheranism is redundant with Category:Lutheran bishops). My first impulse was to nominate the category tree for deletion since they appear to be redundant, but then I thought to find out whether the term "episcopacy" encompasses more than just the bishops of a church. Could you provide me with additional information?

Additionally, note that I would have asked Pastorwayne these questions myself, but he appears to be much more willing to argue with hostility instead of to cooperate or to learn from other people. Since I would prefer to avoid a direct confrontation, I would rather talk to other people when I have religious questions regarding Wikipedia articles. If possible, could you please talk to Pastorwayne about getting along with other people in Wikipedia? Thank you, Dr. Submillimeter 19:42, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I assume he's creating them to parallel the long-existing Category:Episcopacy in Catholicism (which he didn't change, but created a Category:Episcopacy in Roman Catholicism), which has a bunch of general articles on types of bishops, dioceses and other sees, etc. I think the Bishops categories tend to be treated as only for biographical articles, so articles on dioceses and types of church governance would get put in the episcopacy categories. I don't know whether "episcopacy" is the best word for such a category, but I'm not aware of any other one.

I'll try talking to Pastorwayne about being more cooperative and less confrontational. Mairi 20:09, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer. I hope the categories do get used to discuss more than just the bishops. I will hold off on nominating them for deletion for now. Dr. Submillimeter 20:24, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Category:United Methodist bishops by U.S. State

Hi, I see that at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 December 12#Category:United_Methodist_bishops_by_U.S._State you recommended keeping the area categories, and deleting the state categories. I thought that it might be useful to point out that this would mean keeping 32 categories for 55 artcles, an average of less than 2 articles per category. --BrownHairedGirl ^{(talk) • (contribs)} 10:45, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if you keep live CFD discusions on your watchlist, so I hope you'll forgive me for drawing the attention of all participants in the CFD to some counting I did on how many bishop-by-area categories we would end up with if all the possible categories were fully populated. My estimate (see my comment marked "some counting" is between 100 and 200 categories for 569 bishops, which seems to me to be a navigation nightmare. --BrownHairedGirl ^{(talk) • (contribs)} 14:51, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing that up; I haven't been following the CFD discussions that closely. For one thing, a fair number of Methodist bishops serve in multiple posts over their career, so the categories have the potential of being larger than estimated. The other difference I see is that the United Methodist Church is a current denomination, so its categories can/will grow as time goes on. Also, people in it are more likely to get articles since they're currently alive and significant. So because of that, I don't find having small categories for UMC to be much of a problem as having small categories for the various other denominations.

While not affecting my opinion in this case, I'd also be curious whether users find navigating a bunch of smaller categories, or one large category, to be easier. Or, in this case, whether they're more likely to want to know about bishops who served in a given area (or the same rough geographical area over time, regardless of what denomination), vs having a set of all the bishops of one denomination, and looking them up in that. But I'd be suprised if anyone had any credible answer to those questions, so it doesn't affect much at present. Mairi 15:56, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I think we have a solution: Category:United Methodist bishops by Jurisdiction, which PW created a week ago, with a very useful explanation of how it works. This divides UM bishops into five groups, which seems to be a very useful level of sub-division: much better the than the hundreds of cats which would have eventually been created in Category:United Methodist bishops by Episcopal Area. --BrownHairedGirl ^{(talk) • (contribs)} 07:50, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like a good solution, except for the capitalization of 'jurisdiction'. Mairi 08:24, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Category:American United Brethren in Christ

Thanks for your comments. Yes, I wasn't sure how it should be. But I believe now that Category:American United Brethren in Christ is the better of the two, since the "Brethren" indicates people. I have been moving the ones from the other to this one. Hope this is satisfactory. Respond on my talk page, if you need to. Thanks! Pastorwayne 19:18, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

you go ahead and delete the "wrong" one -- I don't know how to do that! Thanks. Pastorwayne 20:39, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the tip! Pastorwayne 20:49, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Pastorwayne

I left a comment on User:Pastorwayne and his rapid category creation at WP:ANI. The comment asks for Pastorwayne to be regulated regarding category creation. Feel free to comment. Dr. Submillimeter 22:30, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

defaultsort

I see you added {{defaultsort:Long, Anton}} to Anton Long. Just letting you know that it didn't work. I've just run across that recent magic word addition myself, and apparently it needs to be {{DEFAULTSORT:Long, Anton}} to work. At least that seems to have fixed it. Gene Nygaard 23:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out and fixing it. I'd forgotten that magic words were case sensitive, and must not have previewed the page. Mairi 04:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Maybe it's best if you leave tools like that alone, if you don't know what you are doing. I just fixed the improper sort keys you added at Fernando Sáenz Lacalle and Raymond de Sauvetât. If you've done the same on any others, could you go back and fix them? Gene Nygaard 23:17, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Mairi!

Thanks for setting up the list of Melkite Greek Catholics ... much appreciated. GMPHARO 01:05, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Request for an opinion

Hi,

There's an AfD debate about deleting the List of bow tie wearers page. Back in February there was a debate about the similar Category for Famous bow tie wearers, and I see you were in favor of deleting that category (now gone) and replacing it with the list that's now in danger of being deleted (the majority is in favor of deletion, I'm fighting it). If you're still interested in the subject, please visit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of bow tie wearers and insert your two cents. If not interested, sorry to bother you. Noroton 03:33, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out that debate, I'll take a look at it. Mairi 04:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Jan Maurycy Paweł Cardinal Puzyna de Kosielsko

Hello Mairi, while editing other articles I came upon this one which has still a title in the lemma. I saw you in the history and thats why I'm asking you as an admin. It should be moved to 'Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko'. Thank you, Gerhard51 17:24, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Its the same with Zbigniew Cardinal Oleśnicki and Jerzy Cardinal Radziwiłł, thank you. Bit by bit I'll correct the links. Gerhard51 17:37, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

I moved Jan Maurycy Paweł Cardinal Puzyna de Kosielsko. Zbigniew Cardinal Oleśnicki and Jerzy Cardinal Radziwiłł have 'cardinal' in the title because Zbigniew Oleśnicki and Jerzy Radziwiłł are different articles (a disambiguation page and a bio on someone else), and X Cardinal Y is a prefered disambiguation convention according to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Western clergy)#Cardinals. Hope that helps. Mairi 22:05, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot :-), Gerhard51 13:36, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

from Learnportuguese

I am a native English speaker, too, but I'd love to learn Portuguese and Spanish. Just check out my user page and talk page. If you put a watch on my user page, it automatically watches my talk page. Have fun! :) learnportuguese 00:09, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

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Dionex Corporation Page

Hi Mairi, I would like to restore the Dionex Corporation page to the wikipedia site. Obviously I will update it to ensure that it meets wikipedia guidelines, but I would like to use the orginal page as a starting point. Can you let me know if and when it will be restored.

Thanks,

Fraser —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fsmcleod (talk • contribs) 14:39, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Bot activity

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