User talk:Legoktm/February 2013

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Hi Legoktm! Are you by any chance interested in running for adminship? I noticed you while patrolling CAT:CSD and from my quick look it seems you are more than ready. If you like I can do a more in-depth review of your contribs, and if everything looks good, I can nominate you. Let me know what you think. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 09:48, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Go for it Lego. You've got my support.—cyberpower ^Chat_{Limited Access} 14:06, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I had already talked to a few other editors about doing an RfA rather soon, I guess I'll go poke them again. Though if you do have some free time and are willing to take a look, I would appreciate it :)

And thanks Cyber :) Legoktm (talk) 18:56, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Just to let you know, the kerfluffle about username policy would lead to an "oppose" from me right now (✉→BWilkins←✎) 19:56, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Kerflufle about username policy? When?—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 22:21, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

See above. He answered a helpme totally wrong, got a new editor totally mixed up ... they ended up filing an RFC/N which meant a lot more work for others. Basics like the username policy are, like, basic. (✉→BWilkins←✎) 23:48, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Admins aren't expected to be perfect... I wonder how many admins are aware that email addresses are no longer permitted. --Rschen7754 00:14, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Just going to footnote that even though I've been an admin for over 7 years, I still have to glance over policies a lot of the time (especially considering that several came well after I passed RFA). What matters more is how an admin responds to a mistake, in my book. As long as they have proved themselves reasonably competent, we don't expect perfection; we expect admins to be teachable. --Rschen7754 08:08, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, admins who don't learn from their mistakes are what are bad. Everyone makes mistakes, basic, complex, large, small... it's a wiki. We fix them, we learn, we move on, and we do not bite people for honest mistakes when they are acting in good faith, even if they broke the entire site. It's only if they don't learn that it becomes an issue, which is why it's also good to see a potential candidate make mistakes ahead of time so we have some idea if that's going to happen when it can really matter. -— Isarra ༆ 08:45, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Hence the words "right now" at the end of my sentence. (✉→BWilkins←✎) 10:09, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

And yet the matter in question was already handled, and relatively well, I'd say. -— Isarra ༆ 18:07, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

@Bwilkins: I'm sorry a mistake like that would lead to an oppose from you. I wasn't aware that my mistake led to more work by others, if there's anyway I can reduce that please let me know. At least one positive thing came out of all of that, I spent a good amount of time reading and re-reading the username policy the other day, so I can safely say I won't make a mistake like that again :) Legoktm (talk) 07:54, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

• Hi! You've got mail. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 11:40, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

  Hello again. Did you have a think about what I said in that email? Let me know what conclusion you come to. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 08:30, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

  Sorry, I've been a bit busy IRL. Responded back. Legoktm (talk) 12:31, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

• Hegins, Pennsylvania

Hello, when you say not available to anyone else, does this mean, no one can view them? Sorry I'm still new at this, just making sure. Do I need another reference? Thanks for the input. βrỴḇṛỹ1999 (talk) 10:28, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Ok I figured it out, I believe you were meaning, that my reference just went to the home page, but then you had to search from there. I figured it out. βrỴḇṛỹ1999 (talk) 10:48, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Yup, thanks for fixing it :) Legoktm (talk) 12:32, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

What's Wikimedia I? A google search didn't turn up anything for me. Also the noticeboard is designed to support English Wikipedia requests for WMF attention/collaboration, not Wikimedia in whole. Biosthmors (talk) 05:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

• It's the Wikimedia mailing list, see this for more info. Legoktm (talk) 05:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
• If it's only for the english Wikipedia, would you propose also having one on every other language and project that the WMF community liaisons would need to follow as well? -— Isarra ༆ 07:17, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for clearing the nastiness from my Talk page. Enjoy this brownie as a token of my thanks. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:33, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Legoktm. I want to join the Bots project and you are a member of it. A simple reason can be found here. Would you please add me to the project? Thanks. --Makecat 06:01, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for that WMLabs Cluster tag at User:VoxelBot Legoktm... just being helpful as usual . Didn't even know it existed. Vacation9 02:34, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Ktr101 is now complete. Thank you for your assistance in the evaluation of this CCI.

--Wizardman 04:35, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

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Hi! I could use some help. I just got a message from someone who said I've been over-linking. Here's a page for reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Anglican_Girls%27_School What are the rules or guidelines for linking? I thought I should link people in case a page is made for them later on but I wasn't sure.

Thank you.

TheWisestOfFools (talk) 20:12, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

The guideline you're looking for is Wikipedia:Red link. In a nutshell, you are encouraged to make red links when you intend to write a new article on a notable subject, or when you feel a subject is notable enough that someone else will create the article. There are other important parts of that guideline that you may also want to read. Hope this helps. – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^{C L I M A X !} 01:08, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

I've taken your warnings off the author's page, and GB fan has restored the article. It's very unlikely that characters from Hollyoaks would sue us for libel. It wasn't very clear in the article that this was about a soap opera, however. I've prodded it as being unencyclopaedic (if it's a real plot line) or made up (if it hasn't appeared on screen). Peridon (talk) 13:42, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, i update my bot quickly --GdGourou - °o° - Talk to me 10:41, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Awesome thanks :) Legoktm (talk) 10:52, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

It seems that my bot has updated automatically and stopped working on interwikis here. Thanks for your notification. --Makecat 02:21, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Great! Legoktm (talk) 13:29, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Legoktm, I saw your note on the user talk pages for two or three bots, such as this. I don't think MastiBot (talk · contribs) is aware, because I just came across this edit. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:21, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

I notified User:Masti on their plwiki talk page (most were contacted on a different project, see this list). If the bot is actively causing problems, I would block it, but from a quick glance this doesn't seem to be the case. In the note I sent around, I said we would start blocking on Saturday (11 hours from now), however there is some relevant discussion on WP:BON about what interwiki tasks are still needed. Legoktm (talk) 13:29, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Future Perfect at Sunrise has threatened to block me if I edit a word he doesn't like. In other words, it's ok for some people to edit an article as many times as they want and threaten others who change it, but when I ask him not to threaten me, then I'M the one who threatens????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mitrakana (talk • contribs) 14:18, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

You created a category called Category:Stop harassing the site, effectively saying FPaS is harrassing you, when s/he isn't (WP:Harassment). They gave you a legitimate warning for edit warring. You should read WP:EW and use the talk page to discuss your changes before making them. Legoktm (talk) 14:20, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

On da house! ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:25, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Dear Lego. I noticed that you added a legobot to bots-nr1. Last time, on bots-3, there was an issue with your bot and my bots fighting for memory (well, your bot was eating it all :-/, which was the reason to move my bots to another instance ...), and I have also noticed some strange crashes on bots-nr1 lately, and I did not find a real cause.

Can you inform me of the next couple of times that your bot will run (mine run continuous) - I'd like to see where the issue is (whether it is my bots which are the problem, or whether .. we are incompatible on the same instance).

Hope to hear from you. Thanks! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:35, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Dirk, right now none of my bots are running on nr1 because of a weird issue with my python-virtualenv (I don't think they've run at all actually). The script that was an issue on bots-3 is staying on bots-3 since it hasn't brought down the instance again, nor do I have time to fix it. All the scripts that I copied over to nr1 are very simple, and should be less than 10 minutes of run time. I usually try and keep User:Legobot/cron up to date, so that should give you an idea when my scripts will run (after I fix the virtualenv issue). Legoktm (talk) 13:49, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

OK .. so it is something else (memory leak somewhere in my bots ..?). Thanks for the link to the cron, I'll see if I see a match there if and when it happens again. Cheers. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 06:19, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

I have been working on a new tool, wikidata/checker.py. It takes a "Q##" as input, and gives information whether it is ok to remove the langlinks. It can even detect if the local link is a redirect pointing to the wikidata one. An example is Q1, which states that Legobot will automatically process the page (this doesn't work yet). If you look at Q42, it says the page has been migrated to Wikidata. Q8454 has errors, and are highlighted in red.

Please treat it gently for now, it hasn't been optimized yet. It's quite possible it has bugs, if you do find any, please report them :) Thanks, Legoktm (talk) 15:28, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

You were trying to help me with the CSDHelper - mind coming back to my talk page and answering the Q there? Thanks much! KillerChihuahua 21:33, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi. I've been experimenting with Wikidata, adding various statements and correcting interwiki links were necessary. But I've come across an issue with the WP:EN article Enclave and exclave, which covers two linked concepts in one article. This makes it very hard to provide links for the Wikidata concepts of enclave and exclave, especially as Wikidata does not appear to let me set up interwiki links pointing at redirect pages. I've discused this further at Talk:Enclave and exclave#Reconsideration of merge of enclave and exclave, mostly from the perspective of whether we should demerge the article. As somebody who seems to be involved in the integration of Wikidata and WP:EN, you may like to comment there. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 16:39, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Sadly this is more common of a problem than it seems. If I have some extra time today (I doubt it :() I'll try and take a look. Legoktm (talk) 18:46, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

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For reverting the vandalism on my talk page. I appreciate it. :) Greengreengreenred 02:10, 28 February 2013 (UTC)