User talk:Lightmouse
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[edit] Conversion accuracy
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[edit] sqkm -> km2
[1] Is there a reason for this change? It seems unnecessary, as {{Convert/sqkm}} redirects to {{Convert/km2}}. Gimmetrow 00:26, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
- Yes. It is part of rationalisation of the template. Feel free to discuss it at Template talk:Convert. Regards. Lightmouse (talk) 09:53, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Edit to Carol Holloway article
Hello. I put a stop notice on your bot after edit, which turned the date range of the actor's activity from 1914 - 1941 just to say 1941. This made one sentence read She appeared in 117 films between 1941. Thanks! Lugnuts (talk) 08:44, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
- That should not have happened. I will find out why it did that and fix it. Thank you very much. Lightmouse (talk) 09:28, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
I found the issue and fixed it. I proved it by rerunning it on the article. Thanks again. Lightmouse (talk) 09:51, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Speed
Can you please slow the bot down some? It's been repeatedly clogging up my watchlist every day this week, and considering that the edits it's performing are relatively minor, there's really no need for it to be going at such a great speed. Rebecca (talk) 12:40, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
- You are correct to say that they are minor and not urgent. So I will do as you ask and reduce the speed. Thanks for the feedback. Lightmouse (talk) 13:08, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Unlinking Friday
Hi, I appreciate the good work lightbot is doing on enhancing consistency. Unfortunately, though, in Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, it removed the link to Friday in this block of wikicode:
- . . . it it is bad luck to begin a voyage on a <!-- DO NOT UNLINK -->[[Friday]].<!-- PLEASE NOTE: this Friday is linked because the link explains the relevance of sailing on a Friday, with regard to superstition. In other words, this link adds specific contextual information to this sentence. PLEASE DON'T UNLINK IT without discussing on the talk page. JohanTheGhost, April 24 2006. -->
As you can see, I was trying to keep this link alive. I certainly don't want to stop lightbot's good work, but is there some way I can preserve this particular link? Cheers, — Johan the Ghost seance 15:12, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
- Yes there is. Leave it with me and I will respond on your talk page when I find out the details. Thanks for bringing it to me. Lightmouse (talk) 15:16, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for looking in to this. I take it that lightbot monitors Wikipedia:Date formattings/Whitelist XXX? BTW, not wishing to lay a bunch of work on you, but it might be interesting if I could say something like
- <!-- NOBOTFIX -->[[Friday]]
and have bots observe that this particular case doesn't want to be fixed. — Johan the Ghost seance 20:21, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
You will see at the link I gave you that I have requested just such a feature! We are of like minds. Lightmouse (talk) 22:20, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] cus and sqs
Here's what I think is the full list of the cus and sqs in the convert subspace (excluding those fo the form "encu*" which I think are all cubic feet).
I've picked through some of them and it seems that the only real trouble is cum and //sqkm (which you're on to) but this might need further investigation. JIMp talk·cont 03:37, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. I will look into them. I have the following points:
- Can you update the user guide.
- Some users have monobooks that add sqkm etc. Can you advise them of the change
- Will we add a new function so that the code determines the format. We have hard coded the choice for sqmi and sqkm but we could leave it up to the user. :Thus readers will see 'sq mi' because the code is sqmi not mi2. Readers will see 'km²' because the code is km2 not sqkm.
- Regards Lightmouse (talk) 04:56, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- The guide's updated ... unless something's slipped through.
- How do we find those with sqkm in their monobooks?
- Do you mean make it such that
ft3etc. gives "ft³" instead of the "cu ft" it now gives? Will we need that or will MOSNUM be revised to settle on one ... or the other?
also
- There may be some combos like
sqft sqmwhich need a look into. - I've sneakly gone and swapped all the
disp=slashthat I could find todisp=s. Could your bot go a root out any left over? And what are your thoughts on keeping bothdisp=/anddisp=s. It would make things easier if there were only one option. I'm talking several dozen redirects.
JIMp talk·cont 08:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Monobooks: To find sqkm in monobooks, just use Wikipedia's own advanced search function and search for sqkm.
sqft: I have not got all the answers but I would like it to be more wysiwyg. Yes, I am suggesting that ft3 code is reserved for "ft³" and sqkm code is reserved for "sq km". I am not suggesting that the code works - we could continue with the present practice and implement the ban on behalf of mosnum. It is just that I think it is better to match the input formats to the output format. Perhaps MJCDetroit would have an opinion.
combos: They will have to be sqft m2 if we follow the concept.
disp=/ would be more wysiwyg but we do not have to go mad if we don't want to
The bot can do all the things you are suggesting. I will have a go when I can. Lightmouse (talk) 17:44, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Lightbot doing it's own thing? (Dance Dance Revolution (video game))
What's the logic behind removing date links from some Vgrelease templates but not all? As well as simply removing code for the sake of removing code but making the page look messy in the process? I reverted the changes to this page for now. --AeronPrometheus (talk) 04:40, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- The guidance about date links at wp:mosnum says:
- Links to date elements that do not contain both a day number and a month are not required; for example, solitary months, solitary days of the week, solitary years, decades, centuries, and month and year combinations. Such links must not be used unless the reader needs to follow the link to understand the topic; see WP:CONTEXT.
- You say that the page looks messy without links. I think it looks better without them but aesthetics are a personal matter.
- If you think that page needs links, I do not mind you reverting it back to how you like it.
- Thanks for the comments. Regards Lightmouse (talk) 04:49, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
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- Just because something isn't required doesn't make it forbidden. And it wasn't just the dates, it took [[Japan|Japanese]] and turned it into [[Japan]]ese. I just don't think that linking half of a word looks very good. I would suggest another round of bug fixes maybe, just letting you know ^_^. --AeronPrometheus (talk) 04:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I will investigate that. Lightmouse (talk) 04:56, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- I'm not knocking your bot, I see now what you were trying to do. It just looks lopsided with only some dates linked but not all. And I've had people tell me that linking is better than not. I agree it's an aesthetic. But my view would be that very little of an infobox -needs- to be linked, but it's there cause it's a utility part of the page not necessarily the article itself. As for the Japanese link... I think that might be overkill. --AeronPrometheus (talk) 04:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
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- I'll support Lightmouse on this issue, because I too remove links from lone years per MOS, and pipe links in that fashion as well per WP:MOSLINK#Form. Personally, I think something like [[Japan]]ese looks better than [[Japan|Japanese]] because it takes up a bit less room and is visually clearer regarding what is linked (at least in my own mind). The MOS is there to provide uniform guidance regarding how to do things. No, it isn't against policy or anything to do things differently, but Wikipedia is at times severely lacking in uniformity, and the MOS attempts to guide us away from that. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 06:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
