User talk:BillFlis

Friends Hospital

Bill, from one Philadelphian to another, thanks for adding the Logo and other info! Jim62sch 14:12, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Clear Light

Thanks...When I was in my late teens I had gotten hooked on 60's music, stumbled accross that album at the music store near 2nd and Market (the one in the "basement" -- 2nd Street Music?), and fell in love with the album. Up 'til now, I thought I was the only person who liked it! Jim62sch 01:03, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Ashton-Woodenbridge and Pennypack

I see in the Ashton-Woodenbridge article you also included Pennypack in it as well. Personally i have always looked at them being separate areas, with a tributary, whose name escapes me, and Pennypack Park separating the two, though i'll admit their are similarities between the two communities. Either way that leaves a stray Pennypack link on both the template and on the Neighbourhoods list. I was considering removing it, but looking over my notes and such, i came across an area i neglected to mention, the Pennypack Village/Woods neighbourhood, just across Holme Ave from Ashton-Woodenbridge, was considering renaming the link to reflect the change, thoughts? --Boothy443 | trácht ar 07:15, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

To be hnoest i am suspect of using place names index for little more then a refrence for historical uses, as it does not or rarely say where those neighborhoods and most of the terms are no longer in use, was not aware of the planning department document, looks intresing, have seen similar with research at Penn, another source i have been useing is with the NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE, found it to be a good source. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 05:33, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Nuclear weapons design

Much of your edits were good, but I am putting the link back in to Shaped charges. That article is mostly about other types of shaped explosive devices (traditional shaped charges for armor penetration) but includes basics about wave shaping such as is used in nuclear weapons. We don't have a more specific article about nuclear weapon explosive assemblies (and aren't likely to get it), so that one should be linked. Georgewilliamherbert 23:36, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Vince Papale and the Philly articles

Thanks for touching up the Papale article. I had forgotten about that one. Also just wanted to say great work on updating all of the Philly info on the site. Keep it up.--Looper5920 11:46, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I know that sometimes you gotta take a strong stand against crappy articles

but try to find a describer than "worthless". something that conveys what is wrong with an article. thankz, CrackityKzz 18:43, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, by Crackity, you must be referring to the Philadelphia transplant article, of course. Worthless, as in "without merit," "having no value," "lacking any basis in reality." I am curious—what did you find useful about this article? How about "hoax" as a describer? I also had "recommended for deletion", which was a comment that other editors had left. I don't know how to change it now. Too late?--BillFlis 19:22, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey, waddya know! The very page I was portraying as "worthless" has recently been deleted (not by me).--BillFlis 13:57, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning!!

Hey, mbeychok, get with the program. You need to ask Noigel's permission before you change anything on one of his pages. How rude of you to intrude! Didn't you smell his marking of his territory? Take a ball of chalk, or complain to your storm and strife. Go, Noigel! Noigel for benevolent dictator of all Wikipedia! (Not just the itty-bitty parts of legionella, legionellosis, and The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.) All hail his private domain, his personal glory. And don't denigrate his personal pages, even if you don't know they're his, because it upsets him terribly. Fear his wrath!--BillFlis 03:32, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for warning me. Can you hear me shaking in my boots? - mbeychok 04:32, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

More about Noigel and his article Legionnaires' disease

The misspellings "Legionaires' disease", "Legionaire's disease", and "Legionnaire's disease" all redirect to the Legionellosis article, but here we have a separate article on "Legionnaires' disease" with the correct spelling. Is there a plan here?--BillFlis 11:53, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Bill, the plan is that Noigel got tired of being corrected and admonished for his editing the Legionella and Legionellosis, so he simply wrote another article based entirely on his website and named it Legionnaires' disease. Have you ever seen an article written as badly? No references, no internal Wiki links, no external links other than one... and very poor organization. It really should be deleted in its entirety. - mbeychok 15:32, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

The Philadelphia article

Hey. Your copy edit of the Climate section was really good, the type of thing I'm not eloquent enough to do. I'm sure you know, but the rest of the article could probably use it too, so if you have time... Let's go FA status! --Galaxiaad 03:00, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Wilt vs. Jordan, who had the higher scoring average?

the material in question is not biased.wilt and jordan now have the same scoring average because jordan decided to come out of retirment and play.the information is from the nba's own site!!!!!!!i think you would agree that the nba knows it's own players.the other information is from rob cherrys book larger then life you have to read it to confirm it but that is not my fault.at the end of wilt's page rob cherry's book is listed as reading now the book is "no good"the pov thing is a hindrince cause what you see as pov others don't.i like you are from philly and i know these stories to be true.as a matter of fact i went to frankford high where wilt's best friend vince miller coached and teached for 30 years.where the 30.06 and 30.1 came from i like to know?????the nba's own site list them as the same therefore i'll go with them.i think the jordan career avg 1st should be taken down until there is better verification from nba sources

think about it if the nba,the league itself recognizes it as 30.1 it's 30.1 it's their league.if the nba itself says wilt was it's most unstoppable force then he was.plus we all know we can't score 7/100ths of a point,the minimum is 1 point.i like to think of the heisenberg uncertainty priciple when it comes to this.it is impossible to tell you exactly where an electron is going around a atom(the nucleas of protons and neutrons)the numbers are so small that a approximation is given(quantum physics).i find this appropiate with wilt and jordan.you can not score 7/100ths of a point.they both should have a average of 30 points really.but the stories from robs book are true and should be included.

I am reminded of a line from a movie: "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect!"--BillFlis 01:10, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Grange Estate

Hi, I've seen you all over Philadelphia-related articles so I thought I'd give you a chance to take a stab at the above article. Not sure if it's something you care to improve, but, ah well. -Bri 03:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, at least I think we saved it from deletion. IMO, it's a worthy topic. Still looking for stuff on John Ross though. He deserves his own article, which would fairly ensure that Grange never gets deleted.--BillFlis 00:57, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Philly

Sorry about that Bill. I was on the new pages patrol, and noticed there was only team names in it. Do most cities have their own sports pages? --ParalysedBeaver 00:08, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Well sorry about that then. Continue to improve Phillys articles :P --ParalysedBeaver 00:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Nice job

Nice work on cleanup at Jacob Pavlovitch Adler. It's rare when someone make several changes to my prose and they are all improvements. I like it. - Jmabel | Talk 17:54, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed content from Kim Hill. Please be careful not to remove content from Wikipedia without a valid reason, which you should specify in the edit summary or on the article's talk page. Thank you. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 19:15, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

As I indicated in my Edit Summary, I was in the process of moving that material (which pertained to a different Kim Hill) to the article about her father, where it clearly belongs.--BillFlis 15:48, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Legionellosis/Legionella

In the Legionellosis article you recently inserted a note saying "This belongs in the legionella article, not here" This was in connection with a paragraph on "legionella-like amoebal pathogens" I don't disagree with your observation, but wonder why you did not simply move the text, or at least place the comment on the discussion page. Pzavon 16:58, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I left a comment there because that is what I thought was appropriate. I think you just left me a comment here because that is what you felt was appropriate. We're all volunteers here, aren't we? Are you saying I'm somehow obligated to do something?--BillFlis 00:50, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I am wondering why you put the comment in so well hidden a location, where article readers would not see it, only those who happened to check a specific change history. I suppose I am relatively new to Wikipedia, but I've seen similar constructive comments placed much more offten in the Talk page where they can be more easily seen and responded to. I did not simply make the change myself because I was pressed for time, having looked at it during a short break at work. Pzavon 03:13, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Typo RegEx

Oops! Sorry about the "nonsense/ical" typo. I must have made a few hundred changes to that long list (all today!), so it figures I had to make at least one typo myself (hit "/0" instead of shift-")". Concerning your very long "flouride"-correcting RegEx, you know, you can leave off the "\b" (which indicates the "b"oundary of a word) on the front and back and save a lot of bother. I'd be bold and put just "([Ff])lour(i[nd][ae]|esce)" --> "$1luor$2" (with no "\b" at either end) and see if anybody complains.--BillFlis 23:27, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your helpful comment. However, I was considering the rule Always consider the possibility of false positives - don't add if there is one and although matching any word that has ([Ff])lour(i[nd][ae]|esce) in the middle is attractively simple, I can't help suspecting that there could be false positives from doing that - people's names, place names, songs, pop groups, all kinds of fiction - there are a lot of strange words out there that a non-terminated regex might match. I think I'll stick with my horrendously long regex since it does keep a boundary on the possible matches. Thanks all the same. - Euchiasmus 20:13, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

More typo

Hi, a couple of problems have arisen form lines copied and adjusted, but the destination string being unchanged. In one case $2 no longer existed, and in another an new () had been introduced so that the $2 in the destination came from the middle of the word instead of the end (thus creating the new word "environmeno"!). Just thought I'd let you know. Regards, Rich Farmbrough 13:27 27 August 2006 (GMT).

I'm trying to be careful but that was a nasty one; I had ":?" instead of "?:", hard to pick up! Thanks for the alert.--BillFlis 13:33, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Removals from RETF list

Hey. Sorry I removed without asking; I just figured that it's better to err on the side of caution than keep words on the list that may trigger false positives. I'll wait for your response till I remove them again, and will move them to the talk page next time, but I still don't feel that removing things from the live list should require a discussion first and adding things (which can screw articles up) shouldn't. See what I'm saying? (BTW, greetings from Germantown! Heh.) --Galaxiaad 02:47, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh, in case it wasn't clear, the words I removed were suggested on User:Mboverload/RegExTypoFix#Misspellings to be removed/fixed. --Galaxiaad 02:49, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Blocking IPs

Hi, I read your comment on the user page for User:204.108.200.16 which prompted me to respond. I'd like to offer the following observations:

1. The IP has been blocked a number of times, as you can see here.
2. When you encounter a user or IP that is persistently vandalising and has had the requisite warnings as advocated in the guidelines then you can request a block at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.
3. It is a shared IP of the "Great Valley School District", therefore I would recommend that you either remove or modify the hostile tone of the comment. Perhaps you can take the "positive contributions are welcomed" stance so that first time users will not be discouraged.

LittleOldMe 10:49, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Hostile? I don't know where you got that out of what I wrote. I had only hoped to be amusing. I thought that what other people wrote was much more threatening. In fact, they DID block this user, whereas I only expressed my dismay at not being able to do so.--BillFlis 12:11, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Dashes

Please don't replace en-dashes in date ranges with hyphens. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dashes). Choess 15:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Frankford Yellow Jackets

Hi, Brian Harris here from the Historical Society of Frankford. I'm on Wikipedia as User:IanBlade. I would like to throw in a few edits on the Yellow Jackets entry but want to go through you first as it seems you started the entry. The history can be traced back to the 1899 Frankford Athletic Association and I would like to start entries on that. If there are an objections or if you wish to do it I can give you the information. Thanks

I noticed your comment about adding notable players to the Frankford Yellow Jackets article - you might enjoy reading about Hap Moran who, by the way, scored the first touchdown ever against the Philadelphia Eagles, October 15, 1933, on a pass from Harry Newman. Revmoran 20:04, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Spellcheck

Thanks for getting that spelling error fixed for me on the AWB spellchecker. Thanks a bunch.

Bearingbreaker92 03:29, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

W. S. Gilbert

Thanks for the copy edits: They look good. Adam Cuerden ^talk 19:57, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Typos

Thank you for generalizing my recent additions to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos. Since I am not a native speaker, I always miss some of the possible combinations. Tankred 17:27, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Scrapple article

Apple butter? I never thought of that. I usually eat it with ketchup, unless I made it as a side for pancakes or French Toast, then it gets maple syrup. Might just have to try apple butter next time.  ;) •Jim62sch• 21:51, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Why are you telling me? I've never put apple butter on scrapple--never even heard of the practice until I read the scrapple article here.--BillFlis 03:50, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Proove (Typos)

Thanks for generalizing my proove -> prove addition to the spelling list. You seem a lot more familiar with the inner workings so I'm hoping you can help. I've generated a list of about 50 pages from Google that have at least one of the errors into AWB. But when I run against the spelling list, it isn't finding/fixing the errors even though I can find the errors in the file. Is this something wrong with my AWB or with the list? Thanks in advance. ~ BigrTex 16:22, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Exterminating Boasts

Hi, I had a suggestion and also was wondering if you could help me. Suggestion: as you have done so many edits to remove 'Boasts' it might be helpful to add a reason why you are exterminating them. Maybe on your talk or user page? or even in the edit summary by linking to a manual of style. Question: can you tell me how you found the articles you edited and changed them? was it a standard google search and then edit as normal or did you have some tools to help you? Thanks Rimmeraj 03:12, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

In almost every case, the usage of "boasts" was incorrect: "The train station boasts a 14-car parking lot." Is the station really proud to possess such a parking lot? "The village boasts a pub with exotic dancers." (I'm paraphrasing, but I really found something like that for a place in Australia, I think it was.) The ones I didn't change were instances when human beings, rather than inanimate objects, were really boasting (in the sense of bragging). I found them by using the search function over there on the left: type in "boasts", click "Search", no need for Google.--BillFlis 12:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Rimmeraj 23:02, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Here, Have a Barnstar

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(I thought this barnstar was the most appropriate!! =)

Reedy Boy 22:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks and question

Thanks for your help on reverting the vandalism on the Grace Kelly page. Your editorial contributions are solid as well. I have thoughts on two of them. In the overview, I wrote "fairy tale" with quotes around it to reflect the public's name for her life and taking the quotes away makes it seem like the biographer is calling it a fairy tale life. Any way that you can think of to clarify that? More inconsequential, I don't believe a hyphen is needed there or for the "public relations" job title. I might be too particular with these, so disregard if you don't have the time! Thanks again for your help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ermorse (talk • contribs) 00:29, 16 May 2007 (UTC).

The article on scare quotes says "Scare quotes are generally avoided in serious, impartial writing, such as in encyclopedia articles." In "public-relations post", "post" is modified by the phrase "public relations", hence the hyphen.BillFlis 11:34, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Copy that on the scare quotes. It is not a direct quotation, but it is there to suggest what one might well have heard on the street during the 1950s. Does that make it an indirect quotation? I still think removing them detracts from the original meaning. So, do you have any further ideas? As for the hyphens, "public relations" is not a modifier, but rather part of the noun. The noun consists in three words (like "batting average statistics") and therefore shouldn't include a hyphen. Ermorse 00:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I would remove that whole sentence with "fairy tale". It's not what I'd call encyclopedic.BillFlis 13:31, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Right. And I think that becomes a debate that cannot be resolved in such a limited arena.Ermorse 13:35, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay Diderot, have at it. I don't have enough time to correct your errors. One final point: Grace was considered to be one of the most popular and beloved women of the 20th century; a good encyclopedia article should include that information somehow. The way you've got it now, the full story is not told. Ermorse 05:19, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Popular and beloved? Your opinion may be correct, but how are you going to turn that into a fact? A popular author sells a lot of books. A popular politician gets re-elected by landslides. Did a lot of people go to her movies? Did People take a poll? "Beloved" is much more difficult to establish, because you have to look into people's hearts. And I took your advice on removing that sentence and opened the debate on the Discussion page; did you miss that? Sorry.--BillFlis 11:25, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello, thanks, and a question

Hello, and thank you for helping with the article on Stanley Zietz. I hope others will help to improve the article on this genius who died too young, helped others, and was optimistic, strong and worth noting.

Question: why was my editing of Philadelphia (magazine) vandalism? I truly do not understand. I added only true statements and supplied references; indeed, I could provide more references. I read what vandalism is and what it is not, and what I added/changed clearly was among "what vandalism is not". I want to do no harm, but I believe in presenting the whole truth, not just partial truth, albeit controversial. Please advise; I want to know, so that I can supply information, the whole truth, yet not do anything wrong. What criteria of vandalism were involved? Please list them, and let us discuss this in a civil, friendly manner. Thank you again. Alfred Legrand 11:26, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Maybe "vandalism" was too harsh, but the parts of your edits that I undid sounded like a negative point of view: didn't win an award for so many years, another mag is more intellectual, it doesn't cover North Jersey. It certainly sounded like you had something against the magazine.--BillFlis 12:28, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Just a comment, Al: That's real important stuff you've been working on: Mansiere (as well as its putative misspelling Manssiere, did you invent that?), nudity (shocking! Not.) on Philadelphia's cover, that fine distinction between Muenster cheese vs. Sweet Muenster cheese. Plus the passive-aggressive post above. Please, do not bother me again. I promise to leave it to others deal with your crap.--BillFlis 01:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Franklin Mills

Hey --BillFlis thanks for the help with the Franklin Mills piece. ShoesssS ^Talk

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RIchard Peters

Hello. Thanks for re-looking at the Richard Peters entry. I'm puzzled by your editing of the reference I had added, though, to replace a period with a comma. Is there a "proper" format for Wikipedia references? I find all sorts of different formats in different entries. And, given that a period is used to separate the author from the title of the book, why wouldn't a period be used to separate all the items--that is, the title of the book from the publisher information? Looking forward to hearing back from you. Thanks -- Scott (Jericlifs)

I'm not going to argue with you about a period/comma. Change it back if you really like it that way.--BillFlis 14:06, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I didn't mean to argue; my note merely asked, generally, for information about the proper format for Wikipedia references (so I can add them accurately in the future) and, more particularly, why you prefered a comma to a period. At some point, it mattered enough to you to change it, so I figured you were following some standard that I didn't know about. It can stay as a period or commas as far as I'm concerned.

William Henry (delegate)

Thanks, again, for looking at these entries. A while back I had altered the title of the William Henry entry to something like "William Henry (1729-1786)," because "delegate" describes the activity about which we know least and in which he made, as far as we know, no real contribution. Another user changed it back and didn't explain why, so I just left it with the "delegate" designation. Do you think it would be a more useful or less misleading heading it if were "William Henry (1729-1786)" or, maybe better, "William Henry (gunsmith)"? -- Scott

Altho I have stooped to using them, I know that using dates to distinguish entries is deprecated, and I can see why: if there are a few entries and their only difference is the dates, a reader has to look closely to pick the one he's looking for; plus, when other editors want to link to the right entry, they have to get those hard-to-remember dates right. He has a bio at Congress, so his delegateship is not in doubt; I'd stick with what's there.--BillFlis 18:10, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

aritist typo

There's something not right about the regex. It's replacing Aritist by Artistitis. Colonies Chris 19:25, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I had two characters reversed. Fixed now.--BillFlis 19:33, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Image:Agnes Repplier.gif

You claim on this image to have an email granting use. Could you either copy the email to the talk page of the image, or forward it to Wikipedia using the "contact us" link, asking them to note the permission? As it is, we have no way to tell what permission was granted in the email. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, I did have an email, but that was over a year ago and it's long gone.--BillFlis 11:57, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For all your Philadelphia-related articles, here's a barnstar. --Sharkface217 04:21, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

You deserve this. --Sharkface217 04:21, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Typo regexes

I don't understand the point of two of your changes:

• Mountainous - it was designed to correct 'mountanious' and 'mountainious'. As far as I can see, your change expands it to cover 'mountaiious', which doesn't exist as a typo (neither do the other two any more, because I've fixed them all, but there were a couple of dozen)
• Tradition - it was designed to correct 'traditon', but your change has eliminated that in favour of 'traditoin', which doesn't exist as a typo (but 'traditon' does, even after I fixed all the existing ones last week). Colonies Chris 11:56, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I think the latter must have been a keyboard accident! It seems that I introduced a question mark into the description of another entry as well, certainly unintended. I agree that my intended change to "Mountainous" was not worthwhile, so I've reverted all my changes from that edit. Thanks for the heads-up.--BillFlis 12:17, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Re:Special Cases

Cheers for fixing it up

Im not Regex useless, but i aren't anywhere near as regex savvy as yourself, Rjwilmsi, and such. But i can do some stuff, my main objective was to cause AWB not to cause the exception.

Keep up the good work!--Reedy Boy 22:53, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I was only following someone else's example. Actually, it was me who temporarily messed it up, causing you all that bother. Sorry about that. It's too bad, the wikiarticles on regexes don't cover hardly anything a little bit advanced.--BillFlis 23:04, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Haha, fair enough. Its no biggy, i just followed the exceptions, and then when found the cause of one, fixed the rest. No harm done! Reedy Boy 14:49, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Your edits to remove the use of negative lookbehinds that Cacycle highlighted and I raised doesn't seem to have worked. For example, the -ish fix now 'corrects' "Masih", when it's supposed to specifically exclude that one. I looked into this myself and didn't find a way to keep the functionality of the lookbehinds. Any ideas? Thanks Rjwilmsi 18:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I think I've got a workaround for that one: I can't think of any words ending in -aish that I would want to fix, so I exclude "a" before the "sih" in the search. I suppose "_Aqueduct", "_Sense", "_Solely", "_Speech", and "_Arabic" will have to go.--BillFlis 19:18, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I've actually changed -sih to use [b-z] instead of [^a] as it picked up a "sih" with quotes in an article. Rjwilmsi 17:18, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

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Cliveden (mansion)

You're right. My mistake. --evrik ^(talk) 22:52, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Endings typos (how generic?)

Hi. Regarding your generic-izing of the ending typos I added, how generic do you think would be good? Following that logic, we could have something as generic as "\b([aeiou][bcdfgklmnprstvz]{3,}(ers?|ings?)\b" (I left a few silly consonants out on purpose). That would cover just about everything: hammmer, laddder, defoggger, callling, lubbber, etc., but I figured people would complain saying they were too generic. —Wknight94 (talk) 18:34, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Another AWB regex question

What was wrong with the acclaim regex change I made (which you "corrected" here). I bow to your regex superiority! —Wknight94 (talk) 19:34, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Woops. I had to correct myself from doing that somewhere else too... —Wknight94 (talk) 19:59, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

AWB regex for relevant

Thanks for correcting my attempt. Am I right that the change you made ("eliminate false positives") is necessary to stop it correcting the already correctly-spelt version? Or have I missed something else? I must admit that my regexes are rather rusty - I've just dug out my Owl book: 1999, wow! Smalljim 13:10, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

AWB regex for Cincinnati

I've reverted this edit, which for some reason was causing the spellchecker to crash (I believe a fault in the parsing). I don't know enough of the technical side to fix it, so reverting seemed to be the simplest solution. — iridescent 15:30, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Replacing – with -

I notice that you have been changing a lot of the –'s in articles to - and I was wondering if there was a reason why.--Kumioko (talk) 21:30, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I've been replacing the HTML entities with their UTF-8 equivalents.--BillFlis (talk) 21:32, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

RE: Edit of John Durang

In regards to what you left on my talk page:

Did you really edit this page just to put spaces after the leading asterisks? How pathetic! I mean, I started that article and now watch over it to see how it might be improved by other editors, so I felt I had to see why you added four whole bytes of "information" to it, and thus wasted ten seconds of my precious life, which I regret I will never get back.--BillFlis (talk) 02:16, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment. There was nothing wrong with my edit.

I take your comment as a personal attack on me. See Wikipedia:No personal attacks WP:PA, especially in your edit comment of “get a life”. I did nothing to you but yet you felt you had to attack me. I think you should read up on Wikipedia:Etiquette WP:EQ before sending messages in the future.

Thank you and have a Happy new Year. --Jeanenawhitney (talk) 13:46, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Heh-heh! I've left idiotic messages for bots before, but you're the first one that's ever replied! I have to say, your response is almost lifelike, I'm very impressed, please pass along my congrats on a job well done to whoever it is that programmed you. Thanks for the laugh! The umbrage and polite irony are precious.--BillFlis (talk) 19:16, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the heads up about the quote on the Philly Portal. Also thanks for helping with all the suggestions and copy editing. It has made maintaining the portal much easier. Medvedenko (talk) 17:00, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Philadelphia and other Pennsylvania lists of National Historic Landmarks

Hi Bill -- I went ahead and moved the list of Philadelphia NHLs to a separate article, so that edit history henceforth will remain associated with it. It would have to be split off from the Pennsylvania NHL list eventually.

Also, I went ahead and deleted all instances of suspect text in both of the articles. Per previous discussions, the passages cut and pasted from NHL webpages were probably not copyright violation, but give an impression if not fact of plagiarism. As you saw, it is too cumbersome to attempt to put them into proper quotes. They were generally too long and sometimes outdated, also. So, for the new year, i cleaned them away. Doing so fixed the page-width size issue immediately. Hopefully we can cooperate in writing new short descriptions going forward.

I realize that you and/or others had, over time, wikified links from within the suspect text, and that those links did add some value. I think it was unfortunate that you were adding value to those passages that would have to be deleted sometime, rather than working on new texts; this contributed to my sense of urgency that the passages be deleted sooner rather than later. I am now trying to salvage the value added by the wikilinks, by restoring the wikilinks alone. In the List of National Historic Landmarks in Philadelphia, I have completed that. In List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania, I have only done so through the first 20 items, will do the rest later. doncram (talk) 17:29, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Several of those descriptions had already been thoroughly edited by another editor. It's a shame you didn't pick up on that.--BillFlis (talk) 22:51, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

N. C. Wyeth House and Studio

Hi. I moved to a new article material that you had added to the N. C. Wyeth article. Could you please take a look at N. C. Wyeth House and Studio? I added other sources and some material. There is already more material than would be suitable for inclusion in the article about Wyeth himself, and it can be developed more based on the sources available. regards, doncram (talk) 18:09, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, well, the guy who wants to merge Stenton (mansion) into James Logan (statesman) will probably be paying that page a visit soon!--BillFlis (talk) 22:53, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

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NPS photos that are not in public domain

Hi BillFlis -- I notice you have done a lot of development of List of National Historic Landmarks in Philadelphia and on articles on individual NHLs that it covers. This is generally very great, and I admire you for doing the good work that you have done.

However, I notice that you have uploaded and used some photos from the NHL webpages which I believe are not public domain and which are not usable. A lesser point to make about those uploads is that it is better to give, in your description, a precise link to the URL of the website where you found it. I do make a point to do that for HABS photos that I upload from time to time. But for several low-resolution pictures, such as for the Becuna, I can see that it is from the corresponding NHL webpage.

You must not be aware of this, but just because a photo is on a Federal website, it does not necessarily mean the photo is usable. There was an extensive discussion on this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Archive 4#National Register photos and slides. One key source on this subject is the NPS policy statement, which is fairly clear that not all photos on NPS sites are available for public domain use.

So, I believe all of the following photos are technically in copyright violation and should be removed from commons.

1. Image:JohnColtraneHouse.png
2. Image:MtPleasantFairmountPk.jpg
3. Image:PhilaSchoolofDesign.jpg
4. Image:RaceStMeetinghouse.jpg (this one says NPS files but i don't assume that necessarily means it is NPS owned)
5. Image:USSBecuna.jpg

Some others of yours, such as

• Image:Cliveden-mansion.png
• Image:Stenton-mansion.png

may be HABS pictures but could use better attribution, such as specific link to the source, addition of the photographer name if available, and so on.

I see that for

• Image:St-James-the-Less-Church.png

there is an intended link to its HABS location but the link is invalid

One uploaded from HABS

• Image:HopeHoseCoNo6&FellowshipEngineCoNo29.jpg

is properly labelled in terms of the photographer, but does not provide URL link to the photo at HABS which would be better

Some others uploaded by you:

• Image:PennaAcademyofFineArts.png
• Image:Woodford-mansion.png
• Image:Wyck.png

are labelled as NHL and HABS, but not labelled as to photographer and without specific link to HABS.

Another uploaded by you,

• Image:JohnsonHouseGermantown.jpg

does have a specific link and I see at the source that the picture is labelled in such a way that I believe it is NPS owned and is usable.

I do see that your photo

• Image:WalnutStTheater.jpg

is HABS with full attribution of author and with link to its source location.

Please let me know right away if you have other information that I do not, or if you are okay with me proceeding to have the first 5 of those removed? Could you improve the attribution on the other 8? I would also appreciate if you could identify any other photos of the NHL webpage type, which I missed. Sincerely, doncram (talk) 03:51, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I think you should put a notice on the pages of the images you want to delete. Others might want to comment.--BillFlis (talk) 11:15, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Okay i will start the formal processes, in which others can comment, and I will try to provide appropriate notices. Please note I may use two types of tags. One tag indicates that the source of the image is not provided, and is grounds for deletion within about 5 days, from what I understand. (This tag is formatted like "Di-no source|date=21 February 2008".) I believe that you can deal with that by revising your description of the images, in particular by putting a link to the source URL. I am not exactly sure of the process but you may be entitled to remove the deletion tag if you have indicated the source, or maybe an administrator is supposed to do that. Then also and/or later I will be marking for probable copyright violation by tags like "pui|log=2008 February 21". doncram (talk) 23:57, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Notices for deletion on basis of no source indicated

It is not my goal to undo work that you have done, but I will proceed with the process. For one photo, Image:HopeHoseCoNo6&FellowshipEngineCoNo29.jpg , i edited the description to show the location. For the others which do not include source locations, I marked them for deletion in 5 or so days time if you do not identify the location URLs. These are:

1. Image:JohnColtraneHouse.png
2. Image:MtPleasantFairmountPk.jpg
3. Image:PhilaSchoolofDesign.jpg
4. Image:RaceStMeetinghouse.jpg (this one says NPS files but i don't assume that necessarily means it is NPS owned)
5. Image:USSBecuna.jpg
6. Image:Cliveden-mansion.png
7. Image:Stenton-mansion.png
8. Image:St-James-the-Less-Church.png (intended link to its HABS location is invalid)
9. Image:PennaAcademyofFineArts.png
10. Image:Woodford-mansion.png
11. Image:Wyck.png

I pasted you a notice for the first one, which shows up as a separate section below. Please consider yourself notified on all of the other ones above, too, I tagged them but did not separately paste additional notices below, as that would be even more excessive. doncram (talk) 00:25, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for adding a source URL link to some or all of the pics. doncram (talk) 05:55, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:WalnutStTheatrebyChasBurtonc1830.jpg

Image Copyright problem

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 15:30, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:JohnColtraneHouse.png

Image Copyright problem

Thanks for uploading Image:JohnColtraneHouse.png. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 23:57, 21 February 2008 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. doncram (talk) 23:57, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

In the future

Perhaps you might consider several things ... 1) uploading these right to the commons, 2) geotagging them 3) adding the HABS template which can be used to liunk right to the photo. Just a thought ...

-)

--evrik ^(talk) 19:16, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos

I have added 2 000+ typo fixing rules to the page:) So it is 4K total there. I checked - most of typos on my test pages are discovered by new rules - so it works. But there some false positives too. Hope they be gone in a few days:) TestPilot 06:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

inbetweeners, inbetweens, Imdadkhani

Could you please fix rule so it wont try to misspell thous words as imbetweeners, imbetweens, Indadkhani? I could not really understand that expression yet, but learning. Thank you. TestPilot 15:36, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Which rule are you talking about? AWB rules, I suppose. Is this some rule that you added, or a rule that was already there. I haven't added any rules myself for several weeks. I'm not sure why you are asking me about this. What are the correct spellings of the words you are talking about? Is "inbetweener" a real word? Or did you make it up? It's not in my dictionary here. If we are going to let people make up their own words, then why do we have AWB try to correct spellings?--BillFlis (talk) 00:38, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Umm. I do not make words. I just spellcheck real Wikipedia pages and see that "inbeetwins" come twice as en error (2k articles list), and AWB want to change it into imbetweens. And that, from the article point of view that was incorrect. I don't want AWB to fix that word. I do want AWB to skip it. And no, that is not in the new rules I added - it some rule from before triggering that "spellcheck". TestPilot 01:10, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure why you are asking me about this. Umm - ok nvm then. TestPilot 01:12, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Philadelphia

Thanks I fixed that in my filters and I will begin fxing those. Let me know if you notice anything else.--Kumioko (talk) 12:47, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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Mind taking a look at this page? --evrik ^(talk) 14:10, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks for the help! The page has been on my to do list for a while. I decided it was better to just throw something up than to wait until it was perfect! I'd like to find more history on its life as an airbase. Oh well, when I get some time! --evrik ^(talk) 14:42, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

On another topic ... supposedly, the John Coltrane Home has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. Could you help me with the appropriate box? --evrik ^(talk) 14:53, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Yay, a DYK.

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		Thanks for your help on Philadelphia Lazaretto --evrik (talk) 03:23, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Fix needed

Hello! after your edit at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos, I can't load typos to my AWB. Can you please look at it, or revert your edit and ask someone else to add it at the talk page. Thanks! --SMS ^Talk 17:03, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

– → –

Why are you switching from "& ndash; → – " when others are doing the exact opposite? Can you point me to the rule where the "-" is now replacing the old rule of "& ndash;" --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 20:26, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia is now UTF-8-compatible, so there's no need to continue to use HTML entities, we can use the actual UTF-8 character, which is much more readable, don't you think? At the bottom of the edit window, we now have those nice UTF-8 characters conveniently available, so why not use them?--BillFlis (talk) 13:48, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Excellent, it makes copy and pasting Wikipedia text much easier into other forums, I hate having to search and replace all the unicode tags that don't display properly or are difficult to edit. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 14:09, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Pascale Pellegrin

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Do you have some references for this article? I wouldn't mind if you removed the PROD if you could provide some good references for notability and whatnot. It might still be an AfD candidate at that point based on notability, but it'd have a better shot. Avruch ^T 18:09, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

She does seem rather a minor actor. There is not even a French-wiki article about her (the link goes nowhere), and the two movies she was in that have wikiarticles don't even mention her among the stars. Probably the most notable thing about her is her parents: father has a long filmography, mother was once romantically involved with Prince Rainier. Did you notify the Wikiproject Biography and Wikiproject France people of what you're thinking of doing? Both those groups seem to have adopted her article (see the Discussion).--BillFlis (talk) 19:02, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Planning for the 7th Wikipedia Meetup

The planning for the summer Philadelphia meetup has begun. We would appreciate your input.
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