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Unused templates list

Thank you very much for volunteering to create this list. It will help enormously in cleaning out the Template namespace. Can't wait to use it. Cheers. --MZMcBride 04:33, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Whoops! Thanks for the comment; I forgot to post it.

Here's the thing: I started it, then aborted it about halfway through. This is really the kind of report that needs to be generated by way of an SQL query; since embeddedin can't use a generator, my bot had to make a seperate embeddedin query for each template... and that's expensive. I shouldn't be making literally millions of API queries (even appropriately throttled... which makes it take hours).

So here's half the list, which should be plenty of material with which you can start, and once my account on the Toolserver is set up, I can get you a full list. — madman bum and angel 07:13, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Located: /1 /2 /3 /4 /5. I figured you could just delete them when you were done.

Buyer Beware: I'm sure you know this already but just like Special:Unusedtemplates, templates listed therein are not transcluded on any pages. However, they may be intended to be substituted and may be heavily used that way. Case in point: {{Cfd}}. Tread carefully.  ;) — madman bum and angel 07:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Good lord that's a lot of templates; I'm kind of in shock. Thank you very much for generating that report. I guess I have my work cut out for me now. : - ) Cheers. --MZMcBride 17:28, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

I appreciate the reverts on my talk page, and followed up via oversight. I removed your comments along with the troll's out of concern about feeding him beans; this isn't the first time this has happened. Acroterion _(talk) 16:54, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

WPBS

Will you be running the bot on the WPBS list again? It's getting kind of long, and the bot really helped! Thanks for that! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 18:22, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Sure. Running now. — madman bum and angel 23:10, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

And removed the articles it fixed from the cleanup list (of course, I could have just let you re-run your bot, but what fun would that be?) — madman bum and angel 07:14, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

I had to giggle watching your edit/reverts. I've been there so many times it hurts :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 13:38, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

MadmanBot error?

I have a feeling your bot may have made an error...

I've just done some checking and there are 4,428 articles that use some form of {{blp}} - either through one of the {{WPBiography}} clones or just with BLP itself - where the WPBS doesn't have the parameter "|blp=yes". Does your bot check for that? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 06:32, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

My bot adds |blp=yes if any project banner has the parameter living set to yes (not case-sensitive). — madman bum and angel 15:22, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Bleh. Sorry. A look at 10 of the "problems" shows a bunch of user-errors. Including one of mine! Your bot seems a lot better at the nesting thing - can you check for talk pages that already have the banner, have "living=yes", but *don't* have "blp=yes" -- and add that? Or I can keep kludging away at making my bot do it... -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 17:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I can add it to the existing task. — madman bum and angel 21:26, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

That's quite a lot of talk pages. Interesting. It must just be from those who add {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} but don't know of that particular intricacy, not anyone involved with the cleanup project or my bot. I'd be surprised if my bot has edited 2,000 articles on that task. — madman bum and angel 21:29, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

The 4,000+ figure is an overstatement. My regexp only counted them properly if the "blp=yes" was on the same line as the {{WikiProjectBannerShell. So it's probably only 2,000 (?rough guestimate).

And did you notice that WPBio changed their template so it doesn't show the BLP at all inside the nesting? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:01, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

How recent was that change? It's been that way as long as I can remember. — madman bum and angel 05:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Banners

Okey doke. Sorry about that. Guessing that they should just be under Category:WikiProject templates? --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 06:37, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, most of the pages you tagged were in the Template namespace, but are not in fact templates; they're support pages for various templates. If you could edit {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} to change it to Category:WikiProject templates, that'd be good though. Thanks!  :) — madman bum and angel 06:40, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Okey doke. Thanks. --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 06:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

David Vernon (professor)

Hi, I didn't actually create the David Vernon article. Rather, the creator over wrote the David Vernon disambiguation page with this article. So I reverted back to a disambig page and put the David Vernon (professor) article into a new article. On doing that I thought it read rather well for a article created by a newbie so I checked it and found a substantive part of it was a copyvio. Thus I then flagged it as a copyvio in the hope that an admin would drop by and have a look. I'm not certain it was a speedy delete. I explained this all on the article's talk page. Gillyweed 09:20, 16 August 2007 (UTC)