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Fear of flying is not something that is unique or sanonomous with the United states or american people. my mother has a fear of flying and if you check my IP you'll be able to tell that i'm not american. the reason why i changed "businessperson" to "business person" also is because that is more widely excepted than "businessperson"(American version) and if let's say 14 countries choose "business person" over the american way, and the article is about a phobia that isn't unique to the US then maybe have the more widely excepted version. my nutralization is not on things like artists, more like things such as phobias, stars and planets, and alien life theories. You can say i'm nutralizing the articles, but you also can say that i'm fixing it so it is the more widely used version, even if it's not the American version. american people and things directly related to US and such i understand, but things like let's say Jupiter, or Crop Circles, or bees are not senonimus to the US, so as such, if the US term is not the widely used one then i'm going to find the more widely used one if i do not know it, and change it to the more widely used one. that's what my mission is, and i still haven't heard from Krisetn, Kirsty, or Jessica yet on this matter. Those three people may stop my mission, however, if you have advice on how i can go about it the right way, and maybe some articles to look at, then be my guest. i'm not going to totally change the style of english, i'm mearly going to change it to the more widely used version this way it's more likely that a wider variety of people will understand it, ok? happy hunger games, and may the odds be ever in your favor. 199.101.61.190 (talk) 03:57, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

You make a good point about the Fear of flying article. Instead of making the change for a third time, I suggest you discuss it at Talk:Fear of flying per Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 17:31, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

this time on businessperson i only added another varient to it. ("Also business person, businessman...) so don't revert it. 199.101.61.190 (talk) 05:40, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

I agree with your change to the Businessperson article. I did, however, change your addition from Business person to business person. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 17:35, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. as a blind person i'm not too good at telling which case it is in, so thank you. 199.101.61.190 (talk) 07:15, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Please do not use american versions of the word in Wikipedia as it is not an america only site. besides, my english teacher, who has been teaching sinse 1969 says that it isn't a compound word anyway, and she's right. i've only seen americans do that, simply for laziness's sake. 199.101.61.190 (talk) 22:30, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Please note that the Wikipedia article is titled "Businessperson", and the Wikitionary article is businessperson. A quick Google search for "businessperson" as one word returns results in The American Heritage Dictionary [1], Dictionary.com [2], the Merriam-Webster Dictionary [3], and reliable sources such as Fortune/CNN [4]. While "businessperson" is correct in American English, it may not be used in other varieties of English.

Wikipedia's

Manual of style advises "An article should not be edited or renamed simply to switch from one valid use of English to another." The Fear of flying

article appears to me to be written in American English - note the lead emphasizes "airplane" over "aeroplane".

It's fine to have discussions and even disagreements about articles, but please remember to be

civil, even in your edit summaries. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 00:44, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

How is it though that business person is turned into a compound word in US, but not in UK, Canada and other such places? i mean if i write "businessperson" at all and my english teacher says it, she docks major marks and tells me "There is no such thing as a businessperson, unless you are in the united states. only in the US is it exceptable to spell it like that, this is canada, so you must always spell it as "business person. ) note that she is the one who calls Americans lazy at english, not me. but I may agree with that to some point but saying you are lazy at english si not being uncivil, saying "Americans are so god damn shitty at english" is being uncivil, and is unacceptable. also let's not americanize wikipedia, i'm against that completely, as not everyone knows american english, so i think that we should try to nutralize wikipedia with some american english and some non-american english. 199.101.61.190 (talk) 01:18, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

no hate

note that i say that we should not americanize wikipedia because i feel that not everyone is going to either understand or care for american english. i do not mean that in an anti-american way. my friend is american, and he's awesome, and the US has many things i like and some very nice people. i just feel that we need to nutralize wikipedia, rather than americanize it. I am going to find some articles that seem too american and nutralize them, unless of corse Either of These people asks me not to. note that i chose two non-americans in order to prevent bias. again i mean nothing against US (USA is cool), i am just acting on my mission to nutralize wikipedia, ok? i've got some ideas but i'm currently trying to figure out how to tackle them. so do not take it the wrong way, i'm not going to d-americanize it, i'm mearly wishing to make articles use both american and british english, i don't care what the subject is about. and i've never heard of an aeroplane. 199.101.61.190 (talk) 01:18, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Also to prove i'm not anti american, i'll ad a Sertain someone who's the best to the list of the three people i look up to to convince me not to go about my mission of making wikipedia less american and more nutral than it currently is, so again, these are The Three chosen ones to stop me. thanks.199.101.61.190 (talk) 01:40, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

If an English teacher in the US had a student who used "business person", the teacher may also dock major marks and encourage the American student to use American English. What may be correct in one country is not in another. Calling Americans "lazy" is not civil, even if you're just repeating what your English teacher told you. The English Wikipedia prefers no major national variety of the language over any other. Please don't waste your valuable time changing articles from one variety of English to another - there are so many other ways you could provide meaningful contributions to Wikipedia. I've added a reminder to your talk page. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:57, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Wait, no, please don't tell me you are kristen schall, no, (cringes and cowers into chair) you aren't kristen schall, please tell me you are not kirsty hawkshaw either, nor jessie j. please? please! 199.101.61.190 (talk) 03:46, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

No, I'm not any of those people. GoingBatty (talk) 17:36, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Good, i'd be freaked out if you were. lol (and i don't mean that in a bad way) 199.101.61.190 (talk) 06:39, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi GoingBatty, hope you're well. I notice you removed the Nina Simone songs cat from "My Sweet Lord", so I thought I'd mention that she did indeed cover the song, along with Harrison's "Isn't It a Pity", on a 1972 album. Both are highly rated covers. Just so you know – because the other song article still carries the category. Cheers, JG66 (talk) 16:19, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi JG66! As a result of

Wikipedia:BOTREQ#WikiProject tagging request: WP:JAZZ, Talk:My Sweet Lord was tagged with {{WikiProject Jazz}} in this edit. Since this article is on my watchlist, I reverted the talk page change and then removed Category:Nina Simone songs from the article. Although the same change happened on Talk:Isn't It a Pity

, that's not on my watchlist, so I didn't notice the WikiProject tagging.

I'm not disputing that Nina Simone covered "My Sweet Lord". However, the text on My Sweet Lord#Cover versions didn't state that her version was more highly rated than others.

What's the relevant guideline for categorizing songs based on who covers them? I agree with Category:George Harrison songs and Category:Billy Preston songs since they released a version as a single. In addition to Category:Nina Simone songs, we could also add Category:Johnny Mathis songs, Category:Boy George songs, Category:Megadeth songs, Category:Elton John songs, and dozens more. Where's the appropriate place to draw the line? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:12, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Oh boy, I thought it was just a nice, simple situation! I see your point, GB, now that you mention those other artists' songs categories. I suppose all those cats should be in the article, to be honest. Put it this way, if I was working on Boy George, Johnny Mathis etc wikipedia pages, I'd notice the omission on the artist's songs page and be looking to complete the list. (That's the case with George Harrison, I think, where one can see Bye Bye, Love, True Love, If Not for You, Got My Mind Set and the other rare covers he recorded.) Elton, Sting and others only performed the song live so those (unreleased) versions don't warrant Category:... songs treatment, of course. Nina's MSL and Pity are notable covers, for sure. (I'd hope the Emergency Ward! article might make that clear; you're right that there's no comment reflecting this in the MSL article, although I made a point of naming Nina early in the lead-in's brief list of artists who have covered the song. Much more about Nina's reading of Pity in that article, because Allmusic had plenty to say about it, and George comments on the Simone version in his autobiography.) So my thinking would be that if an artist made an officially released recording of a song, it should be linked to their Category:... songs page if they have one. That would make for one heck of a cat-heavy article for the likes of Something, Yesterday, etc, but I'd imagine that only artists of some standing have a songs cat page. I don't know, this issue is obviously far more wide-ranging than I'd thought(!). Personally, my focus is on the artist: a songs cat page should be as complete as possible, so I'd assume that a contributor who's looking to improve a particular artist's wiki pages and give a thorough picture of their work (be it Mathis, Andy Williams, Julio Inglesias, Nina Simone, Richie Havens or any other artist of considerable notability), I'd assume that they would add the category to the relevant song pages. Cheers, JG66 (talk) 04:02, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

You know much more about Simone's cover, so if you want to revert my category removal, I won't argue with you. However, the next step after adding of all these categories is then people adding the article to Wikiproject Jazz, Wikiproject Heavy Metal, Wikiproject Country Music, Wikiproject 80s music, etc. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:10, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

That's right – the repercussions! It seems to me the Nina Simone cover should be acknowledged; I'm not that knowledgeable about her music, but I've heard enough to know she did quite a few covers and they're always, well, brilliant (eg "Here Comes the Sun"). Let's just say that as a huge George Harrison fan, I'd be delighted to work on a page that carries a Category:Nina Simone songs – less so Category:Megadeth songs, you know? ... Cheers, GoingBatty. JG66 (talk) 14:17, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Aha! I believe that

WP:SONGCOVER is what I was looking for. It appears that there are many cover versions listed in the article that are not notable and should be removed. As of now, the article doesn't indicate to me that Simone's version meets these notability requirements. However, if her cover is notable, then Wikipedia:WikiProject Songs#Categories indicates that the article should be included in Category:Nina Simone songs. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 17:51, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing my typo on List of New York City Ballet 2011 repertory! — Robert Greer (talk) 00:40, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

My pleasure! I've just made a few more minor changes to the article. GoingBatty (talk) 00:51, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I noticed that you did some editing on the page for Genesee_Scientific. In a lot of ways this page reads like a biased commercial for a small company that is one of many that sells supplies to the scientific community. I'm curious if this page should be deleted, or if other small biotech supply and manufacturing companies should have pages added. What is your opinion of this page and what criteria should be used to accept new company pages or delete old ones? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewPapp (talk • contribs) 12:52, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Andrew! I reviewed my edits to this article, and it seems that at the time I was simply cleaning up some categories on many articles. The guideline you're looking for is Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). You may wish to tag the article with {{notability|companies}} and/or {{advert}}, and/or discuss the issues on Talk:Genesee Scientific. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 14:02, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I've taken the liberty of reverting your "dead link" tag on the Banglapedia link on Banglapedia. This is because over the course of several months I've seen that site go up and down like a yo-yo, and I believe that the Asiatic Society has no plans to move it again or take it down. Perhaps it will be down for the weekend, but it is such a useful source of information for Bangladesh-related articles that I thought it best to leave the link there. Best wishes, Sminthopsis84 (talk) 20:41, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

That's good news, Sminthopsis84! I marked it as a dead link after reading the first post at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 51#Archiveurl additions needed. Glad it's back up now. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:46, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Good news indeed. A move from a previous site also happened, and it would be great to have more editor power working on fixing the many links that don't work for that reason. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 19:38, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Would it drive you batty if I were to restore the circumflex in the word rôle for the List of New York City Ballet 2011 repertory‎? The spelling with diacritic is standard in the ballet world (the dance world has other usages all its own; a choreographer makes a dance on a dancer.) — Robert Greer (talk) 15:41, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Go right ahead - I trust you know more about ballet terminology than I do. Sorry for the problem. GoingBatty (talk) 15:42, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for being so accomodating! — Robert Greer (talk) 01:41, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

I reverted the edit myself, which I should have done when you first contacted me. GoingBatty (talk) 02:12, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you again, your gentlemanly behavior is a great rarity on Wikipedia! — Robert Greer (talk) 02:46, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

One quick question about your bot! When checking for wikilinks does it make sure the page linked to exists or does even a read link count as enough to remove the deadlinks tag? ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 13:47, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

My bot uses

AWB's general fixes, which states "Appends {{Dead end}} if article has no wikilinks. Removes the tag otherwise." I always assumed that redlinks would not count towards removing the dead end tag, but I've never tested that. If you have an example article, I'd be happy to test it. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:05, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Could I make you an example article? :) ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 14:58, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I made my own example instead! I tried processing

bug report for the AWB developers. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:55, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Looks like your bot also removed the {{

Adrenergic group C1 in this edit, even though it doesn't have any bluelinks in the article body. GoingBatty (talk) 00:58, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the UNDO of an Addbot edit! I had noticed the edit but for some reason I never got around to hitting the Undo button. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 03:37, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome - I did it just to confirm that the latest AWB SVN snapshot doesn't make the same mistake before responding to your bug report. I was curious as to which of your bot jobs you were running when that bad edit happened. GoingBatty (talk) 03:40, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

It was task 3 (one of the early ones) I believe which is just general maintenance tagging using AWB, Do you know if the Wikify has been phased out in the latest snapshot? ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 03:43, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes it is - see Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_21#Removing_Dead_End_and_Wikify_templates_is_incorrect. GoingBatty (talk) 03:51, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello,

As one of the participants in the Bot Request about getting the Simple Wiki to the top of the Languages, you are invited to participate in the reopened discussion of the same. Your feedback will be appreciated.

Cheers,

Thanks for letting me know. I made the same AWB comment on the Village pump that I made on the Bot Request page. GoingBatty (talk) 00:48, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

I've never added anything to AWB's typo list, so I'd rather not add one just yet. Could you add[T|t]tamil[N|n]adu -> Tamil Nadu. Bgwhite (talk) 17:26, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Bgwhite! There's already a rule for "Tamil Nadu" at

Wikipedia:AWB/T#New additions. Did you really want a rule that looks for Ttamilnadu (with two "t"s)? Are there pages where it's not fixing a misspelling? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:32, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Then it is not working. See

2010 Santosh Trophy and 2011 Asian Sports Karate Games. Bgwhite (talk) 02:40, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:AWB/T#Usage

says: "AWB purposely avoids fixing typos in certain areas of the wiki-text. Typo fixing is prevented within: image names, templates names and parameters, wikilink targets, quotations, and any text that follows a colon or asterisk. If a typo rule matches a wikilink target, this rule will be ignored on the whole page." Therefore:

• In your sandbox, it's not working because of your wikilink. Remove the wikilink and you'll see the rule works just fine. Same issue with 2011 Asian Sports Karate Games.
• In 48th National Film Awards, the issue is that the sentence containing "Tamilnadu" is italicized. Remove the italics marks and the rule works just fine.
• In
  2010 Santosh Trophy
  , "Tamilnadu" is within a template parameter.
• The rule works in Pillayarvilai, Ukkadam, and Koduvayur.

Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 06:04, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

I just added {{

TamilNadu. Eventually, these will appear on Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked misspellings and we'll get them all cleaned up. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 06:11, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Ah, I see. I didn't read "...this rule will be ignored on the whole page". Another thing learned about Wikipedia. Only 1,403,405 things left. I typed up some regex rules for the editor and he should be good to go to fix them. Thank you. Bgwhite (talk) 06:29, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Maybe you could go and update all multiple issues tags to use the new style? This would avoid a lot of confusion. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:47, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Magioladitis! I keep an eye on Category:Pages using multiple issues with incorrect parameters and fix those. However, I can imagine that making updates to 55,000 articles that have no impact on how the page would be displayed might get some people upset. What confusion would be avoided by changing the format? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:14, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

I expect problems with people using older versions of AWB in fact. I also don't know if mixed style affects rendering time. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:14, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Then maybe the solution should be to release a new version of AWB, which will also stop people from adding {{wikify}} to articles. You may be right about rendering time, but I don't recall a conversation about that at Template talk:Multiple issues when the format was changed.

The best way to fix the MI issue is for editors to fix the problems in the articles, and then remove the maintenance templates altogether. How about we look for articles with multiple issues without a talk page, and add the proper WikiProject templates to get the articles more visibility from people with the expertise and passion to fix them? 14:03, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

I've been thinking about this some more. Doesn't AWB 5.4.0.0 convert MI from the new format back to the old format?

I'm also looking at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/History. Should the 5.x.x.x row include that one of the changes is support for the new {{multiple issues}} format? Also, should the release date for the 5.x.x.x row be changed from 2012 to 2013? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:47, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Do you have a bot that could either complete this task or help out with the task? I saw you did a similar thing a few sections up ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 19:19, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Looks like someone else beat me to it. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 22:16, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

couldn't agree more with your undo deleting film reference "Low Hanging Jungle Bunnies"; Where did that derogatory come from ? Out of left field, I think.

A talk question however. This pic sez Jennifer Oneill in Summer of '42. This pic is NOT a shot of her in / from that movie. Do you think that pic should be replaced with the pic of her from the wiki "summer of '42 page?" What sayeth you ? Just a thought, if accuracy is what is being sought here. Thanks... Taninao0126 (talk) 14:42, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't understand why people find it amusing to vandalize Wikipedia, but I reverted it.

I fixed the caption for the picture on Jennifer O'Neill article to reflect it's from Lady Ice in 1973. (Click on the picture to go to File:Jennifer O'Neill 1973.JPG, then click on the ebay link, and scroll down to see a picture of the back of the photo.) I think it's a much better picture of her face than the movie poster on the Summer of '42 article. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:55, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

P.S. I had forgotten to mention in my talk question above that the source of this pic and that this pic was from the Lady Ice movie (I knew that), but you caught it anyway. Great!!! Hey, you ARE good !! Thanks... Taninao0126 (talk) 13:08, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

P.P.S. In the filmography credits, there is her 1991 movie Committed, but it is in red (is this bad, for "page does not exist" !!??) but there is a proper credit for it in the IMDB webpage at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094900/?ref_=fn_al_tt_6 Should this be fixed as well ?? Thanks.. Taninao0126 (talk) 13:16, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

You're correct - the link to Committed is a redlink because Wikipedia doesn't have an article for the 1991 film. Wikipedia:Red link states: "It is useful in editing article text to create a red link to indicate that a page will be created soon or that an article should be created for the topic because the subject is notable and verifiable" and "Articles should not have red links to topics that are unlikely ever to have an article." Wikipedia:Notability (films) has lots of information about determining whether or not a film is notable, and states: "Examples of coverage insufficient to fully establish notability include...listings in comprehensive film guides such as...the Internet Movie Database."

I'm not familiar with the film, so I don't know if it's notable or not. User:Steel1943 added the red link in this edit, so you might want to ask that user on his/her talk page, or raise the question on Talk:Jennifer O'Neill. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:50, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Hey GoingBatty, I stumbled upon this conversation by complete coincidence when I was checking to see if my red link to the nonexistent article Committed (1991 film) was a valid redlink (basically, a redlink that is in more than one article and could/should be created.) Long story short, I saw that it was in at least three articles, and about four months ago, already answered Taninao0126's question here. Steel1943 (talk) 01:01, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Steel1943! I'm not familiar Committed - is it more notable than the other films in O'Neill's filmography that don't have Wikipedia articles? GoingBatty (talk) 01:06, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

edit war on the Jennifer O'Neill article. Steel1943 (talk) 01:15, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

I see that you fixed the date of the film, which is good, and that you were encouraging Taninao0126 against adding an external link to the body of the article, which is also good. However, after reading the talk page section a few times, I still don't understand why you added a red link to just that one film. It makes that film stand out more than all the others. Sorry if I'm being dense. GoingBatty (talk) 01:23, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

The reason I made it a red link was due to a couple of reasons:

1. There is already at least one film in Wikipedia with a full article with the name Committed (
   disambiguation
   page.
2. There are other notable people who were cast in Committed (1991 film), including Ron Palillo, most notable for being on the 1970's TV series Welcome Back, Kotter.

I felt that these two reasons provided the

notability to warrant the existence of the red link. Steel1943 (talk) 01:38, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

I agree with your concern in reason #1, but you could accomplish the same goal with a comment in the code that's not visible to the reader. Reason #2 looks good to me. Hope Taninao0126 will agree. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:41, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for tidying up after me, 'Bats (not the first time, I'm sure). I think one can hear exactly what Ronnie meant - a superb solo almost wholly drowned out by the silly vaudeville vocal antics. And of course he and Humph were big pals, so he'd probably have heard the "Bad Penny" similarity straight away. Still, one of my all-time favourite Fab Four hits, of course. The strange thing about the video, for me, is how little we seem to see of George - could be counted on the fingers of one hand, I thought.. but in fact he appears at least 30 times. Cheers. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:40, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

You made some good improvements to the "Lady Madonna" article. Hope someone can provide the reference for McCartney's decision to remix the song. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 20:50, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

p.s. yes, if Scott did indeed say "behind other instruments", then my change there will need to be reverted. The "imitation brass vocals" could be mentioned separately, but RS for that is needed too. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:57, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Greetings! I'm giving a prize of up to a hundred dollars to the winner of the February 2013 disambiguation contest, and lesser prizes to the rest of the top four. Of course, the conditions of the contest will make it quite a challenge to win the full amount, but I hope to stimulate competitiveness with a little extra incentive. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:59, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I've posted a reply on the talk page. GoingBatty (talk) 03:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Best of luck! bd2412 T 04:27, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Just curious, but why remove the category? I haven't reverted, since you did it and I figured you had a good reason. Thanks! Evanh2008 ^{(talk|contribs)} 23:05, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

I thought that

WP:SUBCAT. Please let me know if this set of categories is an exception to the general guideline. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:10, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Sounds good! I don't object, but some of the more genre-crazy might! Thanks for the clarification. Cheers! Evanh2008 ^{(talk|contribs)} 23:13, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

If they object, it'll be my own fault for doing so without a detailed edit summary. If it happens, I'll practice

WP:BRD and take it to the talk page. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:28, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

I was only referring to whether additional categories should be added. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:07, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

In that case, I have no idea. You know categories better than me. I think you might be best to judge that. Cheers,

talk) 18:12, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

I don't see how this could apply. The rule before required a space (/s) between new and york parts before it would match. Perhaps I'm missing something? Regards, Sun Creator^(talk) 02:25, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

• Per Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression, \s* means 0 or more spaces. GoingBatty (talk) 02:30, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
  • Ah yes. Good point. Regards, Sun Creator^(talk) 02:55, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Please reply at Rjwilmsi's question at

 Done. GoingBatty (talk) 13:30, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Here too!

 Done. GoingBatty (talk) 23:12, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi, GoingBatty. Thank you for taking care of fixing num_employees field at the companies' infoboxes. The bot is doing a good job and by my understanding there has been no problems with false changes. I would like to ask if it is also possible to do this change by bot. As the company infobox has been updated several times, at one moment these fields became obsolete. They are transcluded, of course, but the shorter form is preferred. This change is not substantial, it does not change anything in this how the page looks like, and if I understand correctly, it is not encouraged to use a bot for that kind of separate changes. However, as I have seen with some other changes maybe it could be done when the bot is performing also some other tasks at the page (e.g. this change changed also the template name spelling which is by my understanding is very similar change to this what I proposed)? The issue is that a lot of editors does not use a skeleton template from the template's documentations but rather copy-paste existing infoboxes from other articles, so these fields are reproducing themselves. What you think about this request? Thank you. Beagel (talk) 14:44, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Beagel! You're right - since changing these parameters doesn't change how the page is displayed, it would not be a good bot task. However, I did add these to the Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Rename template parameters page, so people making other changes would also automatically be prompted to change the parameters too. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 17:58, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

The bad news is that this won't take effect immediately due to a bug in AWB. The good news is that the bug was fixed today, so people will be able to start making these changes once the new version of AWB is released. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:11, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. This seems to be a good solution. Beagel (talk) 05:30, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your help with this. It is very much appreciated. All the best. Figaro (talk) 06:35, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

My pleasure! GoingBatty (talk) 11:49, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

You made a comment at

Thanks for thinking of me, Ryan! I posted a comment on both pages about User:Svick/WikiProject cleanup listing. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:00, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

That is super awesome, I'm glad I thought of you! This might render the WikiProject proposal moot, I'll leave a note at meta:Grants:IEG/Backlog pages for all WikiProjects. Do you know what this uses? I had mentioned the possibility of using CATSCAN. In any case, the Svick thing is the best thing since sliced bread! When was this created, do WikiProjects no about it? This is so awesome. Ryan Vesey 03:09, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Sorry I don't know the details about how Svick gets the info from the toolserver, but I'm sure Svick could provide it. I requested the Beatles project to be added, and then posted to both Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles and Talk:The Beatles, but haven't received any support. I hope you have better luck! GoingBatty (talk) 03:20, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Hey GoingBatty, just wanted to let you know that an article you created in result of a move,

On a related note, I'm surprised that

By the way, the discussion is here. Steel1943 (talk) 05:52, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up - I've replied there. GoingBatty (talk) 15:07, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. Perfect way to hit the ball back into my court. References? I got references. I am so glad to avoid an edit war. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.156.92 (talk) 23:48, February 25, 2013

You're welcome - hope that my efforts will get other people involved to properly update this article. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 13:54, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

P.S. When you post on a user talk page or an article talk page, please sign your posts with ~~~~ to automatically add your signature & time. Thanks!

Thanks GoingBatty for trimming the American University article.

My pleasure! GoingBatty (talk) 17:11, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

I was having the hardest time finding the bottom, just was lazy. they should have software so that talk goes to bottom like a forum. Is really annoying to have to edit talk pages and edit the whole long page.TCO (talk) 22:07, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

My pleasure! Having a subsection header does make it inconvenient to figure out where to post. Hope this whole issue gets resolved soon! GoingBatty (talk) 22:10, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Please explain this Why would you remove the publisher? If you care to respond, please notify me on my talk with {{

Template:Cite web#publisher states |publisher= is "Not normally included for periodicals". Sorry for not explaining this in the edit summary. GoingBatty (talk) 16:29, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for discussing the bug in {{BLP sources}} so that it got fixed. —rybec 02:07, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

My pleasure - always glad to have consistency with these templates! GoingBatty (talk) 02:10, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

I believe you would make an excellent

Hi Martin! Thank you so much for thinking of me. I've read over some of the admin information, and want to take some time to think about this. Was there any admin area in particular you were thinking about? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:25, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

At least the {{

editprotected}} (technical stuff) area. ;-) mabdul 09:02, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

I've taken a look at Wikipedia:Edit requests#Responding to requests and started responding to some of the semi-protected requests. GoingBatty (talk) 15:42, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello, If you remember, I requested an edit to the part of the Optimus Prime page that states his main component transforms into an ion blaster, and i was asked to provide a reference from a place other than another Wiki. The following reference is from the websites "http://www2.unicron.com/1984-transformers/generation-1/autobot-leader/104-optimus-prime.html":

In robot mode, Optimus Prime actually splits into three components. THE OPTIMUS PRIME MODULE IS THE ROBOTIC SENTINENT BEING THAT IS THE STOREHOUSE OF HIS VAST KNOWLEDGE AND STRENGTH. He can lift 4,000,000 lbs. and blow from his fist exerts a force of 12,000 lbs. per square inch. He carries a laser rifle and can burn a hole in the nosecone of a Decepticon jet fighter at a distance of 30 miles, aided by his outstanding visual acuity. His Prime module also known as Roller, is a smart cart shaped device that he uses to unobtrusively slip behind enemy lines. He can maintain radio control over it at distances up to 1200 miles. Having Roller present somewhere is like being there himself. He can operate by remote control his Combat Deck module up to a distance of 1500 feet. The Auto Launcher mounted on the deck can use a variety of artillery and radiation beam weapons, including most of those used by his fellow Autobots. The launcher also includes a highly dexterous grapple arm which allows it to load itself and change its weaponry. The communications disk antenna mounted on the launcher provides a link between Optimus and all his fellow Autobots within a radius of 50 miles. It can be adapted to a satellite hook up that increases its effective range 10-fold.

This next one is from "http://www.transformerland.com/g1/optimusprime.html":

"OPTIMUS PRIME is the largest, strongest, and wisest of all Autobots. Feels his role is the protection of all life, including Earth-life. Fights unceasingly to defeat the Decepticons. Splits into three autonomous modules: 1) OPTIMUS PRIME... THE BRAIN CENTER KNOWN AS THE COMMANDER 2) Roller, the autobot scout car...a spy who operates up to 1200 miles away; and 3) Autobot Headquarters...the combat deck equipped with a versatile mechanic/artillery robot. Injury to one module is felt by the other two."

In both examples, Optimus' main component is recognized as the "commander","brain center", or "robotic sentinent", not an ion blaster as the Wiki currently suggests. However, as can be noticed in the top example, Optimus CARRIES an ion blaster (or laser rifle, as the example calls it). I hope these references prove helpful. Thank you, MaximusPrime2949 (talk) 18:31, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the info (next time please continue the conversation on the article's talk page). I've made the edit you requested. GoingBatty (talk) 02:31, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

I saw your note on the Walter Raleigh's talk page regarding the edit request. I don't know if you looked into it further so here is what I found. I bumped into this info being added yesterday by IgorChe (talk · contribs) to the Oscar Wilde article. Then when new editor Elvicendecun (talk · contribs) started adding the same thing today. For a moment I thought a proper ref was being added but it turns out it wasn't. The list of honourees was certainly eclectic but not totally out of the realm of possibility. The street stuff was just plain weird and the fact that one of the streets was being given 4 or 5 different "recipients" names gave me pause. My time online is kind of choppy right now so I didn't have a chance to investigate further. If a source can be found to support the honour, of course, the items can be restored and added to WR's article. If this or another editor starts with the same thing tomorrow we might want to alert the biography (living and otherwise) project(s) to see if their editors can verify things one way or the other. Thanks for your time and cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 04:28, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

BTW considering your username and the Batman userbox you sport did you, like me, find it nice that the guy in the UK who escorted the criminal suspect to gaol was wearing the Adam West version of the costume? :-) MarnetteD | Talk 04:28, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

My guess is that the cover of the prospectus is just a pretty design, and they didn't really rename the actual streets. Hopefully the requester can come back with a reliable source for the other request. (I looked quickly on the University of Oxford website and didn't see one.)

I'm not familiar with the Batman incident you mentioned, but would love it if you have a link (or video) to share. The Adam West costume and Batmobile will always be my favorites! GoingBatty (talk) 02:20, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

User:Redrose64 has done some research into the situation and left his thoughts here User talk:MarnetteD#Fiona Bruce etc if you are interested. Here is one link with a pretty good vid that I found BBC I think the story has moved on since this video and you might find better pics out there - I found another one at the examiner.com but that is blocked as spam here at WikiP so I couldn't leave it for you. There is a US cable station showing the Adam West episodes at this time. Though it is not always shown in these repeats I always enjoy the two parter where the Green Hornet and Kato appear in Gotham and Col. Gumm (the delightful Roger C. Carmel gets their alter egos mixed up. Thanks for your reply and cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 03:54, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the link about the roads - glad Redrose confirmed what I speculated. The Batman video is great! I got to meet this Batman last year and was blown away. (No, that's not me in the picture). Thanks so much! GoingBatty (talk) 04:10, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Hooray for the meeting. One of my favorites is meetin Pat Troughton at the 20th anniversary Dr Who convention in Chicago in 1983. Naturally I will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of that along with the 50th anniversary of the show this year. Many thanks for the link and cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 04:26, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Er. I don't think I've met anybody DW-connected since Spencer Chapman in about 1972-74 (his son sat next to me in school). Most recent celeb I met is Anne Diamond, 2 March 2013 - she opened the annual exhibition of a model railway club that I belong to. Anyway, the Huffington Post has also covered Batman. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:53, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the Huff Post UK article, Redrose! I did a double take at the caption of "Batman" standing next to "Robin" that says "Batman loves a fag and the football after work" - I didn't notice until later.  :-) GoingBatty (talk) 20:17, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

I obviously don't know how to write what is in my head. (See AWB bug on hidden cat). You have once again translated my pathetic writing. Are you available as a full-time translator? Are you also available to translate wife speak? Thanks again and thank you for next time (probably in the 10 minutes at my rate). Bgwhite (talk) 05:39, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

If I could translate wife speak, I'd be selling my secrets on late night infomercials from my yacht.  :-) GoingBatty (talk) 12:37, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

You've just reported a couple of bugs about AWB and page previews. The other day I put in rev 8967. Is this a coincidence or am I missing something? Would you be able to retest with the current SVN? Thanks Rjwilmsi 11:26, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

It's not a coincidence at all. I saw Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 21#AWB preview no longer shows red links in red, and thought this fix was just the redlinks issue. If this also fixes all the issues I reported yesterday, then I'm very excited, and apologize for the unnecessary bug reports. I'll be happy to test these when the next SVN version is released. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 12:48, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Is there anyway to stop your bot editing my userspace? ★★RetroLord★★ 11:08, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Retrolord! I'm presuming you're referring to edits such as this one, where my bot commented out the content categories. The best way to stop my bot from editing your userspace is to ensure that the pages in your userspace do not contain any content categories. Per

comment them out. Restore the categories when you move the draft back into article space." Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 12:10, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I try to catch strays, but something's always going to slip through, no? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:08, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Wish AWB would show the category in the preview, so you could see if it exists or not. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:53, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Nogie Meggison‎‎ is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nogie Meggison‎‎ until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
I noticed that you contributed to this article and I am notifying the author and all of the article's significant contributors (6). - ʈucoxn\^talk 09:37, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Tucoxn! It's very kind of you to let me know. However, I wouldn't consider my edit particularly significant. I made a fix to the categorization after receiving your message, but have no objection with this article going through the AfD process. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 12:04, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. When posting the AfD, I notified the article's author and all six of its contributors (not including the bot)... not many notifications. I wouldn't want to be accused of canvassing. - ʈucoxn\^talk 14:10, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi there, will downloading 'SVN snapshot' affect my AWB's saved settings? i.e. I have saved settings for 'Clean up', one for 'Disambiguation' etc.? GiantSnowman 16:52, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

No - the SVN snaphot doesn't overwrite your saved settings. GoingBatty (talk) 17:15, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Perfect, will download now then! GiantSnowman 19:40, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Hey GoingBatty; I'm dropping you this note because you've used

Thanks for letting me know! GoingBatty (talk) 02:08, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

This one is the real trick. Billboard used to always show urls that were of the format <link to first link in browser session>#<link to where editor currently is sans site name], so the parser has to figure out that even though the link starts out talking about the Canadian Hot 100, it really meant the Japan Hot 100.

Whoever coded that generation of Billboard's site should be stood up against the wall and shot.—Kww(talk) 23:55, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Ugh! That's nasty - glad Billboard is fixing it, and that you're working to prepare WP for fix change and any future changes. GoingBatty (talk) 02:09, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi, GoingBatty. When you took care of fixing num_employees field at the companies' infoboxes, it was decided to be one time action. Unfortunately it seems that Edson Rosa (talk · contribs) is back editing as dynamic IP. He continues to use a full stop (.) to separate thousands [5], [6], so maybe we should keep this task running. There is not so much what could be done to avoid block evasion as the IP changes every time he starts editing.

I would also like to ask if there is any tool which helps to find duplicated url-s. It would be useful with articles having hundreds of references. Beagel (talk) 06:42, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Beagel! I could run the bot task to change the full stop to a comma again, but can't do it automatically until a fix is published for AWB. While AWB will combine duplicated URLs, I'm not aware of a tool that can provide a list of articles with duplicated URLs. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:35, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

 Done for all articles in Category:Companies of Brazil and its subcategories - there were only 5 to be changed. GoingBatty (talk) 01:08, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much. You are very helpful. I have a feeling that maybe I should get over of my hesitance toward technological progress and request for AWB registration. Beagel (talk) 15:05, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Dear Batty

I have gone through an article about a famous Pakistani Television anchor "Ali Nasir". It is reliable, however I find that you have reservations about his notability. He is fairly popular and a lot of people like his program. Internet penetration here is limited and thus finding internet references is difficult despite that there are enough citations and references. There is a lot of internet censorship and internet video access is difficult. He always speaks in favour of the people.

I guess you and others may review this article as references are reliable. The warning hurts the followers of Ali Nasir as the warning at the top takes credit away from him — Preceding unsigned comment added by Businessedit (talk • contribs) 10:56, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Businessedit! The {{notability}} and {{BLP sources}} tags were added by User:Au writer in this edit from October. After that, my bot modified the {{notability}} tag so that it points to the notability guideline for biographies. Modifying the tag does not mean I shared the reservations about his notability - I only want to make sure people are shown the proper guideline so they can improve the article and then remove the tags. Since the tags were added, eight more references were added to the article. When you believe the article has enough information to meet the notability guideline and is has sufficient references, you may remove the {{notability}} and {{BLP sources}} tags.

However, it's very concerning that it appears someone copied the text from http://investorguide360.com/investor-guide-pakistan/ and pasted it into Wikipedia, which may be a copyright violation. Therefore, I have added {{copypaste}} to the article. I suggest that you reword the entire article so that the Wikipedia article is not deleted for copyright infringement.

In addition to making minor formatting changes, I also added tags to request a date and reference for the Consumer Choice Award.

Good luck, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 15:52, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi there,

I notice that you recently contributed to the TRS-80 article and wondered if you were interested in adding your opinion to the discussion on the proposed article split. If you have no strong opinion either way, or don't wish to contribute, please feel free to ignore this message. Thank you for your time. Ubcule (talk) 16:08, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

My contribution a year ago was minor typo fixing. However, I have fond memories of the sounds my TRS-80 Model III & 4's disk drive made when it booted up, and the way the daisy wheel printer shook the table (and the whole house)! I've made some fixes to the reference format, and commented on the talk page. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 20:47, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

I never liked the name. "Tandy Radio Shack based upon the Z80 microprocessor", yes, I understood that as a fairly sensible name for the first model - but why stick with it for new models, especially when other CPUs were used? Hobbyist magazines of the early 1980s often had articles for software (to key in yourself, no free CD-ROMs in those days) and ideas for hardware modifications or add-ons. A month or two later, there'd be a reader's letter, either "There's a bug in the program that you printed - I keyed it into my TRS-80 and it didn't work" or "I bought the electronic components that you listed, then opened up my TRS-80 and it's nothing like the diagrams that you printed so I don't know where to fit them". One chap I knew bought a TRS-80 Pocket Computer hoping it would run "all the TRS-80 software". Some hope. That clone of a Sharp PC-1211 had its own problems.

10 DIM A(10)

20 FOR I = 1 TO 10 STEP 1

30 LET A(I) = 1

40 NEXT I

50 PRINT A(10)

60 END

Now, which of the class can tell me how many times the loop will execute? (a) 1 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 11 (e) infinity. You may use a TRS-80 Pocket Computer to check your answer. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:41, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

I learned BASIC by typing in games and programs from magazines - can't imagine doing that now. Normally I would have guessed (c), but based on your comments I'm guessing that's not the right answer. GoingBatty (talk) 21:45, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

It should be (c), but on that silly little machine, variable names were a single letter; and although these could be dimensioned for use as a one-dimensional array, the array elements mapped to the variables with later letters. So, A(1) was actually A; A(2) was actually B, and so on up to A(26) being Z. Therefore, since A(9) was also I, the counter I got reset to 1 on the ninth pass through the loop [LET A(9) = 1], so it never hit 10, and the answer is (e) infinity. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:10, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Wow! Did tech support kindly suggest that you just change I to X in your program?  :-) GoingBatty (talk) 23:22, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

I started fixing all pages with WPB and collapsed=yes which is redundant. (Example). You may want to have a look too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:03, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Yep - it's next on my list of fixes. Should start getting to it tomorrow. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:29, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Would you be interested in reviewing my GAN for

Sorry Dan56, evaluating prose is not my area of expertise. However, I'll run your articles through a few tools to see if I can fix any mistakes to make your GAN process go more smoothly. Looks like there's a big backlog of articles to be reviewed at

WP:GANR. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 22:57, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

You may want to make sure that you have a consistent citation style on each article. GoingBatty (talk) 23:40, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

I noticed that you removed publishers from the citation templates, citing the guideline that says not to include them for periodicals. But aren't periodicals like newspaper and magazines, i.e. print?

talk) 00:50, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, but I also don't think it's necessary to include

Allmusic. GoingBatty (talk) 00:59, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

I only place "Allmusic" in the publisher field, so it isn't italicize, as it would be if placed in the "work" field.

talk) 01:01, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, so I changed |publisher=

Rovi Corporation, please feel free to revert my bold edits. GoingBatty (talk) 01:04, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

sheesh

I dont buy into Tony's style of responding to the issue, It shouldnt be on Confuciouses talk page for a start - if there are already http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_Wikipedia_articles_written_in_Australian_English 17,000 + articles with the hidden category - I do not see why Confucious should suddenly add British English to confuse the issue. It is a protocol/ procedural issue nothing to do with Tony's interpretation - or a need for examples... I am taking this to the Australian noticeboard.

sats 01:33, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Glad it's just a disagreement on what hidden template to add to the article, and not something that impacts the readers. As you continue pursuing this issue, you may want to suggest that someone rewrites the documentation which appears at Template:Use Australian English so it's in English instead of Latin, which is at User:Ohconfucius/USE disclaimer. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 01:45, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Hahaha - I will need more than luck when it comes to this sort of thing. I have to get off in a moment (which means I will not be able to deal with some things till this evening) but have taken it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board - and BTW - your user name makes me smile -

sats 01:57, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Glad I could provide an accidental smile for you. See you at the notice board. GoingBatty (talk) 02:15, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

RE Comment about user warning

Hi GoingBatty; I like your user name, BTW. :) I left Sluffs the standard level one template issued by Twinkle. I didn't want to create my own message because I didn't want him to accuse me of overstating the warning or doing something else inappropriate. I don't like to change people's comments on talk pages, so I didn't remove them. That also would fan the flames to an already unnecessarily volatile situation. But if you really want the comments removed, an admin probably would do it. BTW, I think you handled yourself with great restraint, for which I commend you. Best! Cresix (talk) 01:40, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Cresix. Thanks for the explanation (and compliment). I'm not a Twinkle user, but I did a bit of research and took a stroll over to

WP:UTM, and didn't realize how many different templates there are for user messages! {{uw-harass1}} and {{uw-agf1}} look like reasonable choices as well. Thanks again, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:34, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Just noticed this, and decided to post a link to

WP:DTA. It's just an essay, but I stand by it.—Kww(talk) 02:39, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for sharing that Kww - I hadn't seen that before, but can respect that opinion. GoingBatty (talk) 02:43, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks much

Thank you for your helpful edits to the new article I'd created, Neville Page, much appreciated, — Cirt (talk) 02:33, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

My pleasure - I've made some more changes. GoingBatty (talk) 03:33, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Personally I'm of the opinion that the more information and more fields populated in citations, the better, but oh well. — Cirt (talk) 04:17, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi Cirt - You did a great job on this article! My goal was to remove redundant information per Template:Cite web#publisher, such as stating that The Morning Call is published by The Morning Call, Inc. Just because there are a lot of fields in the template doesn't mean they all have to be used. Having said that, if you think I went too far and removed an important piece of information, please feel free to revert part of my edits. Thanks, and keep up the good work! GoingBatty (talk) 12:28, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

No worries, no big deal really, just personal preference I guess. Thanks again, — Cirt (talk) 13:45, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

AWB help on feature requests & bug reports

Hi, for AWB bug reports and feature requests I am asking for your help, whenever you are able to give it (please treat this as an open invite so include other willing editors if you're aware of them). I think AWB needs a team of knowledgeable users to support the improvement of AWB. You are one of the editors I see doing this currently, I am asking for more of your help. We are limited in development resource so I'm asking for more help in areas that non-developers can support. So

For bug reports:

• where the status is need information, we need to chase up the editor/s involved to get the required details.
• where the bug is an exception, we need to know if/how it can be reproduced.
• duplicate reports could be cleared

For feature requests:

• where the status is need information, we need to chase up the editor/s involved to get the required details.
• generally we need to make sure the feature request is clear, there is a link to the MOS/policy page/template documentation wherever needed, there is consensus for it.
• if the feature request lacks consensus/is against policy we should archive it and notify the editor.
• we should ideally prioritize feature requests. We could add a new parameter to the feature request template for this. I would like to see requests as high/medium/low based on criteria such as value added by feature/time saved for user/number of pages or templates affected. This will help to focus development effort and clear down unreasonable feature requests.

All of the above is up for improvement, we could discuss on Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Dev. Thanks Rjwilmsi 19:00, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

I'll be happy to help - I'll reply on the Dev page. GoingBatty (talk) 00:48, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

I was wondering whether I can download and use snapshot now. Auto-update forced me to use AWB 5.5. Unfortunately, it's majorly inconvenient now that the edit window feature (Click in diff box to focus edit box) doesn't work. -- Ohconfucius ^{ping / poke} 06:55, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Long answer is here.

Short answer is: Download Microsoft.mshtml.dll from here and install in your AWB directory. Bgwhite (talk) 07:33, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

• Works now, thanks. -- Ohconfucius ^{ping / poke} 11:58, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Feedback

New user feedback on the WIKIpedia Nasza Klasa pageNoworyta (talk) 02:36, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi Noworyta! I took a quick look at

Nasza-klasa.pl and removed a duplicate infobox. I won't be on wiki for a few days, but I'll look at it again soon. GoingBatty (talk) 16:51, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, GoingBatty. You have new messages at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Inline Templates.
Message added 01:42, 5 April 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Jason Quinn (talk) 01:42, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Michael jackson dead link

Hi, thanks for arranging the links! If I wanted to add new information to the page of Michael Jackson, I might ask you?Of course, in proper English. Forgive me for my English but I'm Italian :) --LilaMJ (talk) 22:21, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Ciao LilaMJ! Your English is much better than my Italian! Instead of contacting me directly, I suggest you post your suggestions on Talk:Michael Jackson, so multiple people will be able to help you. Grazie! GoingBatty (talk) 22:29, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi GoingBatty, I have written on the page Talk:Michael Jackson but still no one answered me. You should change a lot of little things on the page of Michael Jackson. I'm sorry and thank you! --LilaMJ (talk) 20:22, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi LilaMJ - I responded at Talk:Michael Jackson#1991–93: Dangerous, Heal the World Foundation, and Super Bowl XXVII. GoingBatty (talk) 00:47, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!! :) --LilaMJ (talk) 23:27, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi GoingBatty,I write on your page because on the page Talk:Michael Jackson, no one answers. Scribd.com considered a reliable source: I used it on the page of Michael Jackson-wikipedia italian. On Scribd. com are inserted the most documents also of some significance. On page unonotizie.it speaking of tours donated to charity. And for $ 300 million, there is another source^[1]. Thanks!! --LilaMJ (talk) 21:14, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Conspiracies

Dont let them trick you into changing things - Its all a general hoax- Michael Jackson Faked His Death or Michael Joe and Michael Joseph are twins ....

• The reference in the article

File:Michael Jackson death certificate.jpg

• Joseph is also used on his LAST WILL

Last Will and Testament

• His fortune was all under the title Estate of Michael Joseph Jackson

Estate of Michael Joseph Jackson aka Michael Jackson

• Books he has written and published like Moomwalk use Joseph

Michael Jackson (13 October 2009). Moonwalk. Random House Digital, Inc. pp. 6–.

ISBN 978-0-307-71698-9

. Retrieved 11 November 2011.

• In interviews with him over the years "Ebony" has used "Joseph"

Johnson Publishing Company (December 2007). Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company. p. 94.

ISSN 0012-9011

.

Johnson Publishing Company (May 1984). Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company. p. 163.

ISSN 0012-9011

.

• Looks like he wrote "Joseph" himself on his kids Birth certificates

MJ jr and Paris birth certificates

• His children also have this middle name -

Mary K. Pratt (1 January 2010). Michael Jackson: King of Pop. ABDO. p. 100.

ISBN 978-1-60453-788-8

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.........Moxy (talk) 06:55, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the info - I'll respond at Talk:Michael Jackson. GoingBatty (talk) 00:33, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

BattyBot and BannerShells

Hi there. Since 2 April, your bot

talk) 08:24, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mentoz86! The

WikiProjectBannerShell}} template when 2+ WikiProject templates are present. AWB only adds WikiProjectBannerShell when three or more or present. So my bot has been skipping 80-90% of talk pages since they already have WikiProjectBannerShell or have less than 3 WikiProject templates. I'll be off-wiki for a few days, so I've turned the bot off for now and I'll see what discussion occurs while I'm gone. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 17:16, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Seeing no objections, I plan to turn the bot back on. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 00:20, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Need help

Hi GoingBatty, plz help me in removing the tag {{Orphan|date=April 2013}} added by Yobot. I have shown links and references for the article.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningombam_Bupenda_Meitei . I also had a long discussion with Avoided long back and the article had no problem. Donizo (talk) 21:06, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

You wrote on Yobot talk page ":Hi Donizo! I see you have already removed the orphan tag from Ningombam Bupenda Meitei. Wikipedia:Orphan#Criteria defines as orphaned article as one with no incoming links from other articles. The best way to solve this is by adding links from other articles to Ningombam Bupenda Meitei. For example, I added a link from List of alumni of St. Stephen's College, Delhi to Ningombam Bupenda Meitei. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 18:06, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

My edit to List of alumni of St. Stephen's College, Delhi was reverted because I didn't provide a reference. Therefore I have requested a reference on the Ningombam Bupenda Meitei article. Once you have it, feel free to add it to both pages. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 04:20, 25 March 2013 (UTC) " Donizo (talk) 21:08, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

I copied the reference from the Ningombam Bupenda Meitei article and added it to List of alumni of St. Stephen's College, Delhi in this edit. Therefore the Ningombam Bupenda Meitei article is no longer an orphan. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 03:37, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you ,Batty. But,it says as Ningombam Bupenda Meitei, Indian writer, essayist, and poet.[2][not in citation given] ,please check it again.Donizo (talk) 10:53, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Neville Page

DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 00:03, 12 April 2013 (UTC)