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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Mattbr30, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Master of Arts

Hello Mattbr30, I noticed you were working on "Master of Arts" at WP:DPL at the same time I was, so I wanted to run a proposal by you. I don't know about your findings, but I'm seeing that the overwhelming number of links should point to Master of Arts (postgraduate). If that's truly the case, then

"Master of Arts" should become a redirect to "Master of Arts (postgraduate)"
"Master of Arts (postgraduate)" should have one line saying "see Master of Arts (disambiguation) for other uses"
"Master of Arts (disambiguation)" should have all of the text pasted from the presently-namee "Master of Arts"

Let me know what you think. - Draeco 18:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

From User talk:Draeco:

Hello Draeco, I'm not sure on the usual course of action in these cases as I am fairly new to all this! The majority of the links are for postgraduate, but I have come accross several for Oxbridge and Scotland. If the current disambiguation page were to be redirected, I think the header would need to be clearer on the postgrad page as people may assume a MA is a postgraduate degree and not update links, possibly with:

This article is about the postgraduate degree. For the undergraduate degree from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, see Master of Arts (Oxbridge), or from the ancient universities of Scotland and the University of Dundee, see Master of Arts (Scotland).

This does seem quite long, and I think for clarity it may be best leaving it as it is. Do other people have any thoughts? Mattbr30 19:30, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

What say let's go to WP:POLLS and get a few more opinions. - Draeco 19:36, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Poll begun and discussion moved to Talk:Master of Arts#Poll proposal. - Draeco 19:58, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Olympic-rings.png

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[edit] High School Musical 2

Hi. I see you reverted that page using popups, but you actually vandalized it. Also, that user did not vandalize the page. --GeorgeMoney ^T·C 23:56, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

My apologies, I shall be more careful in future. Thank you for reverting my change. mattbr³⁰ 00:03, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Hey. Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page. Regards. SteveO 12:59, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. They did it again and left you a mesage this time! mattbr³⁰ 16:05, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

It's ok. I've got a pretty good idea of who it is. Let's just say we had a little run-in a while back and he came off worst... ;-) Cheers again. SteveO 20:58, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Leprosy article vandalised

Hello Mattbr30,

I'm doing some reseach on Leprosy and noticed some vandalism at the beginning of the article on it in Wikipedia to which you contributed. I tried to see if I could fix it but didn't know how and wanted to let you know!

Thanks so much for contributing (all?) or part of the article,

Best Regards, Mike —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.248.39.51 (talk • contribs) 17:18, 24 May 2006 (UTC).

I was patroling for vandalism and just happed to pick it up first. I'm afraid that's all I have contributed to the article and I hope you found the information useful. Thanks for letting me know about more vandalism, it has been cleared up now. mattbr³⁰ 19:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of talk page

I actually saw the MfD, wanted to close it, didn't remember the right templates, closed the window and did something else, and then forgot about it. Sorry. Anyway, "orphaned talk page" is speedy deletion criterion WP:CSD#G8, so next time you come across a page like this, you can just tag it with {{db-talk}}. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 21:34, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Competitor country template

Hi Tom, thanks for your comment at regarding adding the country for a competitor. I have created a test version at User:Mattbr30/Sandbox if you would like to have a look, and let me know what you think. Thanks, mattbr³⁰ 20:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I'll admit that I'm very concerned with the coding here, as I'm a big advocate of WP:AUM. I mean, that's why we did the medal infobox like this in the first place, with the MedalTop and MedalBottom templates. You did a great job on the coding there, and I'm wondering if maybe there is a way to get the best of both worlds. My question is this:

Is there a way to create, say, an {{addNOC}} template, such that when you subst: it, then the resulting text is itself a template with parameters?

For example, say you have page Ronaldo. When we add your template to his existing infobox, we get

Olympic medal record
Competitor for Brazil
Men’s Football
Bronze	Atlanta 1996	Team Competition

{{MedalTop}}
{{MedalNOC   | BRA | 1996}}
{{MedalSport | Men’s [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Football]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1996 Summer Olympics|Atlanta 1996]]|Team Competition}}
{{MedalBottom}}

I'd like to instead code this

{{MedalTop}}
{{subst:addNOC| BRA | 1996}}
{{MedalSport  | Men’s [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Football]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1996 Summer Olympics|Atlanta 1996]]|Team Competition}}
{{MedalBottom}}

And then when it gets saved, the resulting code in the Ronaldo article shows like this:

{{MedalTop}}
{{MedalNOC   | Brazil | Flag of Brazil.svg}}
{{MedalSport | Men’s [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Football]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1996 Summer Olympics|Atlanta 1996]]|Team Competition}}
{{MedalBottom}}

This way, the meta-templates are only called for the first save, and from then on, it is a single-layer template. Because the only reason that you have coded it your way is just to automate things, so that while coding, we don't have to remember which flag was Brazil using back in 1996, etc. Does this make any sense to you? I'm not that great at explaining this sort of thing :o\ tiZom_(2¢) 20:54, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. I understand what you are saying and, with my template, I'm not sure if your suggestion is possible because substing pastes the whole template and not just the results. The only other option I can think of at the moment (unless the flags were not included, but I would prefer not to) would be to have a template for each country, but this would create a large number of templates to manage, which I would also prefer not to have. I will have a think about it further and see if I can come up with something else. Thanks, mattbr³⁰ 19:10, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] supercilliousness

I've added a citation. It's now fully wiki-fied. So stop being so self-righteous. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.61.65.214 (talk • contribs) 16.50, 28 June 2006 (UTC).

Apologies for reverting your edit, this was due to two further successive edits from your IP address being unhelpful contributions. I have extended your edit to make the link accessible in the article. mattbr³⁰ 17:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I must protest your removal of my additions to the andromeda episodes page. You see, not only is it infact truthful that Andromeda has 7 seasons (Do no beleive the lies and propaganda that say otherwise) but that Ryan is, infact gay. If you require proof I do have pictures, however they are of adult nature, so please only request them if you're 18+

[edit] Category:British MPs

You may be intersted in this: Uniltateral subdivision of British/United Kingdom/Scottish constituencies --BrownHairedGirl 09:25, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edgewood Country Club

Dear Mattbr30, I think you may have helped fix my citing of sources on another on of my articles and I was hoping you could do the same for Edgewood Country Club. Like the last time, I tried to keep track by numbering each. If you can help, that would be very cool. hanks Jeeps2009 23:28, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Jeeps2009, I have changed the style of references on the article as per your request, I hope that is how you wanted it! The method I used uses the ref tags, which is explained further at Wikipedia:Footnotes. I also made a couple of other changes while I was there (changing the tables and removing parent categories of categories already included), which you are quite welcome to change back or alter if you want. Hope that helps, mattbr³⁰ 11:56, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Why did you make List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame into two coloums? I don't see that there was any agreement on the talkpage of that article to do this, though it has been discussed a little. John Anderson 07:46, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi John, I made the change (which you are welcome to revert) to reduce the scrolling needed to reach letters further down the alphabet and to reduce the waste of space, unaware that there was a discussion about the format of the page. On that discussion (which I have now seen), I think that adding more information would be a good idea to make the list more encyclopaedic. mattbr³⁰ 12:10, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

OK, I'll revert it (like you said was OK on my talk page) when I start to implement the ideas of the discussion. What's your opinion on those ideas, BTW? John Anderson 09:31, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I think the list should be alphabetical with the category of star, year of award and the address. I'm not sure the nationality of the person is needed as this can be found from the main article. I don't think adding a show/hide bar is a good idea either. As a side note, I am working through the list to add the category to articles that don't have it already and checking the official website before I add it, but there are some names which are not on the official site but are on the list, such as Aaron Carter and Adam Sandler, is the website definative in these cases? mattbr³⁰ 15:17, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, I know I would rather trust the official website than the list here, unless I had acctually seen a certain star on the Walk of Fame myself (which I haven't, I've never been to California). John Anderson 09:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Medalbox

Is there a page somewherethat document this family of templates? Circeus 22:30, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I assume you mean the {{MedalTop}} family of templates, which are probably best described on Template talk:MedalTop, although some of it is a little outdated. mattbr³⁰ 09:21, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] just FYI, "gracefully" is correctly spelled with 2 "ells".

r b-j 21:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Christmas comes early for RegExTypoFix users

^{Yeah, all you "regular users" not signed up on the mailing list are getting coal. All 200,000 of you.}

35 lines added in all

Well it's 2 AM on West Coast USA. California, homies. We all surf (even the 8 billion illegal immigrants). Los Angeles is just like they show it in GTA: San Andreas (but with more hookers). Oh yeah, and we only have one season. We call it "perfect".

Anyway, it is RETF ~~Christmas~~ Secular Celebration Day, and I'm not failing to deliver. I'm saying good bye to converting that whole list over. It's full of misspellings that aren't misspellings and words that aren't ever misspelled. From now on this is my method for finding new words:

Spellcheck a random word from the existing list
Open any article where it corrects more than 1 word
Load it into Microsoft Word and spellcheck
See how many times it shows up in Wikipedia using AWB
If it shows up more than 6 times I'll put it into dictionary.com to make sure it's not a real word
Integrate all versions of a word into regular expressions using dictionary.com as a reference
<datagridFAR find="\b(E|e)nvrionmen(t|ts|tal|tally|talist|talists)\b" replacewith="$1nvironmen$2" />

You can do this too and get thanked in the section below! It really works well!

[edit] Shoutouts!

This is a new section dedicated to thanking people who found problems or suggested new word(s). PLEASE do this, even with one false positive. And please suggest new words, that's how it's going to expand.
Removed

"eminent" corrected to "imminent" Thanks to Guinnog for finding this.

"Calender" corrected to "calendar". calender is a word. Thanks to Alphachimp. Major props.

Added

"noteable" now corrects to "notable". Thanks to Mets, keep it up!

Fixed

"gracefuly" is the wrong spelling. it's "gracefully" - Thanks to r b-j, who reported this even though he doesn't use RETF!

[edit] Download

You can get the latest version, 0.1.01, here. --mboverload @

[edit] "But mboverload, you ALREADY sent the weekly newsletter"

Well this is important, so suck it up.

RegExTypoFix is now completely built into AutoWikiBrowser

Yes, that's right. My little project has now been integrated into Wikipedia's most famous utility. This expands my reach to around ~250 active users!

But mboverload, what does this mean? - It means that Wikipedia is going to suck less! Yay!
What do I do? - Download the latest version of AWB and go to More Options > Enable RegExTypoFix. Then go to then in the Start tab > Summary dropdown box select RegExTypoFix
What happened to including your name in it? How am I going to praise you with every edit? You mean "mboverload's RegExTypoFix"? Oh, just stick it in there, and complain on the AWB talkpage if you want my name in there standard =P.
How did this come about? Why wasn't I told? - Because it was secret. I have known about this for about a week I think. Putting my typofixing into AWB was suggested in the talk page, however people talking about including spellchecking in AWB has gone back awhile. Martin, the creator and only developer of AWB, informed me and I was absolutely flattered. I now have developer access to AWB so I can update AWB with the latest RETF without having to bother him.
What about updates and the newsletter?
- All updates are just going to be small files with the latest new words and fixes. When AWB updates just throw out the file until I release the next supplemental update.
- I will be releasing the full RegExTypoFix, however it's going to be in the format that AWB uses it and not in its settings xml format. It's way easier to read, though.
- You'll still be getting the newsletter, full of keen insights into the wiki hivemind and commentary on mind-body meta relationships.
mboverload, how long HAVE you worked on RETF anyway? I estimate 50 hours. Using my most accurate method of finding and verifying typos nets me 20 new lines an hour. This does NOT include the hours I've spent testing it.
Where can I find a list of typos to fix? User:Mboverload/RegExTypoFix/full
Whore-much? Silence you republican neo-con communist hippie! --mboverload @

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[edit] Michael D. Kaplan

I noticed that the Michael D. Kaplan information was removed from the Michael Kaplan article, and I was looking through the talk pages to find out why. Should a separate page be created for Michael D. because his names, "Michael D. Kaplan", is so similar to "Michael Kaplan" (the actor)? 192.147.57.6 16:51, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, information on different topics should be on different pages (see George Bush as an example). Before creating a page, you should consider if the subject is notable enough. Wikipedia:Notability (people) amd Wikipedia:Notability (music) has more information. Happy editing, mattbr³⁰ 18:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] August 6th, 2006 WP:RETF update

^{Note you are getting this because you are signed up on the RETF spamlist}
Hey guys. Before I do anything, I have to thank all these people who have helped me make RETF more bug-free via my challenge to them on the Language noticeboard. Some were redundant lines, and some were words that probably never appear in Wikipedia, but as I said, I don't want any false positives in RETF.

User:ColourBurst for finding 7 lines to fix
User:Road Wizard for finding another 13 lines to fix!
User:MeltBanana for finding 6 lines
User:Skittle for finding 3 lines
User:Nunh-huh for finding 1 line

THANKS GUYS! Now for the fixes and suggestions put on the RETF page:

'behaviour' is a legitimate UK English spelling --Guinnog
'councellor' to 'councillor' when 'counsellor' could be the intended word. --mattbr³⁰
"Costal" is a real word, meaning "related to the rib" —Mets501 (talk)
'judgemental' to 'judgmental'. According to my dictionary, both are equally acceptable. mattbr³⁰
'Adaptions' to 'Adaptations'. JoeSmack ^Talk
repond and variants -> respond --Guinnog

[edit] RETF development

I don't know what to say really. Something has come up and I might not be able to continue to update RETF after the next week or so.......I have put in countless sleepless nights of just me, my computer, and a case of Rockstar energy drink working on this. It has made me feel that I really am a devoted Wikipedian.

I have developed RegExTypoFix from a little hobby of mine into a full SourceForge project. I told a friend that I’ve worked 50 development hours in all. I have a really bad sense of time, but I’m sure it was more. I won’t lie, I am very proud of my work. Hopefully this will be used long after I leave.

To ensure that, I need a person/people to become admins on the RETF project. I don’t ask that you do anything but fix any errors that people report. There is a bit of a process to doing this, but I can teach you. Please send me a message on my talk page. Please my close friends only please, I hope you understand that I want to 100% trust this person. However, I might just hand it off to User:Bluemoose, as if he didn’t have enough on his plate =D.

[edit] Download + more

AWB now loads RETF everytime it loads, this box is no longer needed.

To keep an eye on RETF, you can use {{User:Mboverload/RegExTypoFix/updatebox}} and it will produce the box you see here =D. When AWB updates, I can turn it green on command =P

Extract Typos.xml from the zip file either using the zip extraction tool provided with XP or use 7zip.

Under the new system that Martin (User:Bluemoose) developed Typos.xml is separate from the settings file. This way it can be easily swapped out and doesn't interfere with your own personal find and replace settings. Put it in the AWB directory. It is loaded automatically when you start AWB.

In addition, each Typos.xml file comes coded with a version number. Perhaps in some future release AWB will be able to check to see if there's an update for you!

The latest version is not built into AWB, you will have to download it here Just updated a few minutes ago. --mboverload @ 01:54, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MedalCountry

Please see my comment at Template talk:MedalCountry. Thanks, Jao 10:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hungary 1956

Thanks for drawing my attention to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 article. The page I have started recently, Hungary 23 October 1956, I intend to develop on quite different lines, with more emphasis on facts instead of interpretation and analysis. You will see this more clearly as the page develops. 56osmunka 11:49, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

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