User talk:Mr.Z-man

Popular pages

Oh, great one. Do you think that there would be any way to get an equivalent of Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals/Popular pages for some of the other projects? I'm thinking in particular here of the Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Religion projects. If there is, please let me know. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 13:21, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Added those 4, if you want any others, let me know and I'll add them for next month. Mr.Z-man 04:49, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

What a brilliant idea for prioritising. Would Wikipedia:WikiProject Cambodia/Popular pages also be possible? Mind you the top 100 articles would be plenty (we only have ~1200!). Cheers, Paxse (talk) 17:45, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Added Cambodia to the list, the results for May will be posted around the beginning of June. Mr.Z-man 21:45, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Strange thing is happening when script closing AFDs

I'll let the picture say it all...

--Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:45, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

It does that if for some reason it can't find the nomination date on the page. Is it just that AFD, or all of them? Mr.Z-man 06:30, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

It did it for all the ones I closed yesterday. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 12:55, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

 Works for me Mr.Z-man 15:40, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

I may have found the problem.

It stopped happening when I disabled the "patrollinks.js" script that I enabled in the 4th --Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:49, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Popular pages request

Can you request one for Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts? Thanks. Johnbod (talk) 16:58, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

And, possibly, one of all the portals, possibly for Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals? So far, I haven't seen a lot of portals which get a large number of hits, and it might be useful to find out which do, so that others might learn to copy them. John Carter (talk) 18:47, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

I can do the Visual arts project, but not the portals one. Right now the bot requires that the project use the standard WikiProject assessment category system. Mr.Z-man 03:02, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

OK, I can generate that myself, there aren't so many that it would be too hard. I'm going to assume, by the way, that it would probably be rather difficult to generate any sort of "combined" religion projects list. I am clearly hoping that it might be possible to generate such a list, given that many of the articles fall within the scope of several of the projects, whether they've all tagged the articles or not, and I think it would be useful to have some sort of list of the top articles so that even the projects which haven't tagged an article, but have relevant content in it, will know that and maybe choose to put a bit more attention to it. Like I said, though, I'm not really expecting that. John Carter (talk) 22:24, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

The current script isn't able to aggregate projects like that. However, I may be able to do it in the future. All the data for all projects is stored in the same database table, so getting the data for multiple projects together wouldn't be especially difficult. For example, the combined top 20 for April for the 4 religion projects tracked is:

+-------------------------+---------+
| title                   | hits    |
+-------------------------+---------+
| Easter                  | 1272206 |
| Good_Friday             |  750028 |
| Masturbation            |  735900 |
| Henry_VIII_of_England   |  707133 |
| Passover                |  652933 |
| Germany                 |  586783 |
| Michael_Jackson         |  575643 |
| Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. |  545494 |
| Mexico                  |  494725 |
| John_F._Kennedy         |  494581 |
| Jesus                   |  488242 |
| Israel                  |  478140 |
| France                  |  470338 |
| Italy                   |  464969 |
| Elizabeth_I_of_England  |  436677 |
| Netherlands             |  427588 |
| Seven_deadly_sins       |  394882 |
| Spain                   |  393884 |
| Bob_Dylan               |  364048 |
| Buddhism                |  347837 |
+-------------------------+---------+

-- Mr.Z-man 22:57, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Added Visual arts to the list, the results for May will be posted around the beginning of June. Mr.Z-man 21:46, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Great! Where do I pick it up? A category for these results might be a good idea. Johnbod (talk) 15:40, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Geotagged pages needing images tool

I'm currently working on a similar tool to yours. I want to extract the coordinate data out of each page. Any tips will be greatly appreciated.

Seo01 (talk) 13:24, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Right now I use about a dozen regexes to extract the info directly from the page text. I believe it has about a 95% success rate, but its slow. Some people get the data from the link to the geohack tool from the externallinks table; I'll probably switch to using that soon. Mr.Z-man 16:05, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! The external links table looks like what I'm after.

Seo01 (talk) 14:56, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback

Unfortunately, my RFA was closed today with a final tally of 75½/38/10. Though it didn't succeed, I wanted to thank you for your participation in it. I intend to review the support, oppose, and neutral !votes and see what I can do to address those concerns. Special thanks go to Schmidt, MICHAEL Q., TomStar81, and henrik for their co-nominations and support. — BQZip01 — talk 20:15, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Galactus Edit War Mediation

Hi. I'm trying to mediate an edit war over the Galactus article here. Can you chime in with your two cents? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 23:54, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Statement on dates

Greetings, fellow BAGger! FYI, an Arbcom decision will soon be made in which the BAG will likely be prominently mentioned. I've constructed a draft consensus statement at Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group/Draft consensus statement on date delinking to assist the ArbCom. If you could indicate whether or not you approve of the various statements there, it would be very helpful. All the best, – Quadell ^(talk) 12:46, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Rollbacker rights

Hi Mr. Z-man, It says that you are willing to consider granting rollbacker rights. Any chance of them, just because occasionally it would have been very useful? Thanks. dottydotdot (talk) 15:48, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

 Done Mr.Z-man 20:07, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. dottydotdot (talk) 20:19, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Simplify policy RfC

FYI, I am drafting an RfC at the above page. If you would like to add your own statement, or indicate your support for an existing statement, please feel free to do so now. I would also strongly recommend that we avoid replying to other statements, since we would be likely to repeat what was already said on the CSD talk page, and that we should try to keep the background/proposal/objections section as concise as possible; we should not begin to pack these sections, but we should leave that for our own statements. Once we have some more contributions here, I'll see about posting it to the relevant noticeboards. Thanks! --Ryan Delaney ^talk 21:06, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

WP:OP

Greetings, I'm just trying to get a current feel for who is still active in the project and if anybody would object to cleaning out inactive users of the verified user list. Thank you for your time. Q ^{T C} 03:47, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

add PopPages for WikiProject Oregon?

Can you add Popular Pages for Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon? Thanks, tedder (talk) 19:01, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

And, while you're at it, please add Wikipedia:WikiProject Hinduism, Wikipedia:WikiProject Thelema, Wikipedia:WikiProject intelligent design, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Scientology, who have indicated that they would like to have it. You have the profound thanks of any number of people for having made this possible, by the way. I hope you know that. John Carter (talk) 19:49, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Added Oregon, Hinduism, Thelema, ID and Scientology to the list, the results for May will be posted around the beginning of June. Mr.Z-man 21:46, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks in advance, Z-man. Can you make sure to post when the first resultsets are up? tedder (talk) 19:33, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Popular pages again

How do I go about setting up this for Wikipedia:WikiProject Mississippi? - ALLST✰R▼^echo _{wuz here @} 23:37, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

I have the same question for WP:LGBT. LadyofShalott 00:17, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

And I'm afraid that WP:OPERA is also jumping on the bandwagon. =) Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 09:01, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Tap tap. Is this thing on? :P - ALLST✰R▼^echo _{wuz here @} 09:16, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Added Mississippi, LGBT, and opera to the list, the results for May will be posted around the beginning of June. Mr.Z-man 21:45, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Excellent. Thanks Z! - ALLST✰R▼^echo _{wuz here @} 00:08, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, thanks, indeed! LadyofShalott 03:54, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Could you do the same for Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa, too? – Sadalmelik ☎ 06:21, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Libraries for scripts

Is there a way to import other scripts, without forcing the user to do it themselves? One way might be to have the page (say, User:M/faderesolved.js) contain both imports. Or perhaps some sort of onload for an object. But both of these seem a bit messy. Is there a better alternative around?   M  00:58, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

You should just be able to import the libraries in the main script. The importScript functionality has an object that tracks included scripts, so it won't load the same one more than once. Mr.Z-man 01:19, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Merge 3RR into Edit War?

Hi, you were previously involved in a discussion about merging 3RR into WP:EW; please comment at WT:3RR#Merge 3RR into Edit War?. cheers, Rd232 ^talk 13:18, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Sysadmins

You say the Sysadmins have global checkuser, but according to m:Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/sysadmin, I do not think that is the case. Am I reading it correctly? MBisanz ^talk 19:10, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Whoops, you're right, it was the staff group I was thinking of. Mr.Z-man 19:14, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Just making sure I'm not going crazy. MBisanz ^talk 19:26, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD.js

Hi there,

I use your close AFD script, and I must say that it is very useful! I was wondering if possible you could create similar scripts like this for WP:TFD, WP:CFD, WP:MFD, WP:FFD, WP:SFD and WP:RFD (where possible)?

The relevant closing instructions are at:

• WP:TFD - Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Administrator instructions
• WP:CFD - Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Administrator instructions
• WP:MFD - Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Administrator instructions
• WP:FFD - Wikipedia:Files for deletion/Administrator instructions
• WP:SFD - Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Administrator instructions
• WP:RFD - Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Administrator instructions

Thanks,

The Helpful One 09:02, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Not at the moment, mainly because I can't bring myself to do a significant JS project now. If someone else wants to do it, MFD shouldn't be too hard to make from the AFD code, as they both use subpages for the individual discussions. All the rest use 1 log pages per day with all the discussions as sections, so it would be harder for the script to figure out what to close and where to put the options box thing. Mr.Z-man 17:02, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Filter 83

Where did Special:AbuseFilter/83 go?--Otterathome (talk) 11:22, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

It was disabled by Prodego then later deleted. Mr.Z-man 15:47, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Is it because of the abuse about placing images which only admins can remove? On another note, can you change Special:AbuseFilter/103 to warn but allow the edit, as everything it has picked up is vandalism.--Otterathome (talk) 16:36, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

It was disabled because it hadn't gotten any hits; I've set 103 to warn. Mr.Z-man 16:54, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Do you think 103 could be set to disallow yet? There seems to be a growing trend of replacing pages with pages from the website. And as vandals from the site are familiar with the mediawiki interface, they just ignore the warnings.--Otterathome (talk) 20:54, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

nstab-mediawiki

I was thinking more "interface to the underlying software" than "interface to the user", but I see your point. While we're on the subject, I'm more concerned about nstab-main, where disambiguation pages, redirects, and the main page are all labeled "article". Would you be okay with making this label more inclusive? The word "content" is a better description, and it fits well with "discussion"—the tabs would read "content, discussion, edit this page". —Remember the dot ^(talk) 03:00, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

While bold updates to the more "obscure" nstabs is fine, I think changing nstab-main should be discussed. Mr.Z-man 03:56, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

I know. I wanted to know if you had an opinion on the change, since you've shown previous interest in the nstabs. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 04:02, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Personally, I don't see the point. Technically every page is "content" as its contained within the site. If you mean "encyclopedic content," then it still wouldn't apply to redirects and it wouldn't fit too well for disambiguation pages either. Mr.Z-man 16:58, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Come to think of it, the word "entry", as in "encyclopedia entry", wouldn't be bad either. What do you think? —Remember the dot ^(talk) 01:35, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

BLP bot

Would it be best, for the children in Africa using Netscape, to have no linking in section headers on BLP/N? لennavecia 19:20, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't know about the children in Africa, but it makes it easier for the bot if there are links in the headers. Mr.Z-man 19:27, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

(edit conflict) NFI. The sarcasm was intended to convey the point that there are some unknown (and likely dubious) reasons to not use links in headers. I know the Arbitration Committee recently banned them from statement headers. Surely there's a hot, brewing thread debating this important issue somewhere.... --MZMcBride (talk) 19:44, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

I lost interest after Mr.Z-man's post. That was exceptionally short-lived concern on my part. Sorry 'bout that. لennavecia 19:50, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

BLP to dead people?

Hi. Your bot made this edit in which added a BLPunsourced template to a deceased person. I've seen more of this around. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk)

The article is in Category:Living people. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:21, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh you are right. I was before the bot adds the BLPunsourced. I'm sorry. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:40, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Formal Mediation for Sports Logos

As a contributor to Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content/RFC_on_use_of_sports_team_logos, you have been included in a request for formal mediation regarding the subject at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Use of Sports Logos. With your input and agreement to work through mediation, it is hoped we can achieve a lasting solution. --Hammersoft (talk) 13:40, 1 June 2009 (UTC)