User talk:Malafaya

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Whosyourjudas (talk) 00:08, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Your transaltion question: you can write it however you want. If you would like to translate en->??, be our guest - the english WP is the biggest, and in many areas the best-written and most expansive. When going ??->en, it's up to you whether to translate or right from scratch - the other WPs don't alwayts have the same breadth of info as en:. But in any case you can write from scratch, write with help from another wiki, or translate from another wiki. Good luck. Cheers, Whosyourjudas (talk) 21:26, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Vasco da Gama

An article that you've edited before (Vasco da Gama) is nominated for Article Improvement Drive. If you want go there and vote. Thanks. Gameiro 02:56, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bot

Thanks for the reminder. MalafayaBot is now marked as a bot on ka. Angela . 16:59, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Portal de Portugal

Já abriu o Portal de Portugal na Wikipedia! Junta-te a nós para trabalharmos em prol de artigos, listas e imagens relacionadas com Portugal. No portal, encontrarás um artigo geral, um artigo biográfico, um artigo geográfico e uma imagem todas as semanas em destaque. Para além disso estão apresentadas também secções de Notícias, Curiosidades, Listas, Citações, Opentasks, informação sobre artigos recentes, etc. Futuramente teremos um WikiProject para geografia de Portugal (de modo a estandardizar todos os artigos relativos às localidades e divisões administrativas portuguesas), história de Portugal, biografias, e possivelmente desporto. Também temos em vista a criação de uma Colaboração Semanal para artigos sobre Portugal. Por isto, e tudo mais, pedimos-te que venhas ajudar-nos. Estamos também à procura de colaboradores, por isso, se estiveres interessado, é só pedires que já estás no grupo de manutenção do portal. Saudações! Gameiro 20:05, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

your bot

No the flag has not been forgotten but it takes a b'crat to set the flag and im not one see [1] for my requst to a b'crat for the flag it should be done within the next few days. Have with your bot and if you need anything let me know Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 14:05, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I need to know what your bot does--•S e an•gorter• 07:18, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for telling me, Malafaya! •S e an•gorter•^(Talk) 08:41, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

bot

FYI, not sure if you can fix the robot since there was no redirect, but see this edit for a removal that was supposed to be a move: [2]. // Laughing Man 20:10, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

bot removing legit interwiki cats

Please see this diff for when the bot remove a legit interwiki link. Thanks! ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 04:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Places in Ohio

It's impressive how many places in Ohio have Volapuk articles. Thanks for running the bot! Nyttend 14:13, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MalafayaBot

Hi Your bot recently edited Matthew Bellamy to add the line "he likes cheese". Is this a mistake? Tomayres 19:42, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Upon reviewing this it seems that your bot simply moved the line from the top of the article to the bottom. The line was added by another user. Sorry for that confusion.
Tomayres 19:46, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

May I ask for some manual checks in what the robot is doing? Here it linked a German submarine engineer (Bauer is a very, very common German surname) with a German Volapükst. Since the artificial language was created after Bauer the Engineer died the interwiki is clearly invalid.

An aside note: the vast majority of Volapük Wikipedia are very poor robot generated stubs and IMHO should never be inter-linked automatically (there is/was a long discussion on Meta on what to do, with many suggesting just to delete the whole vo: Wikipedia). Pavel Vozenilek (talk) 02:28, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's some old edit... I checked and the reason for the link addition is related to this article's version. The Pywikipedia interwiki bot adds interwikis based on new ones found on linked articles. I will remove these ones for now. As for not linking Volapük Wikipedia, it requires some real "official" decision about it as most bot operators do not maintain the Pywikipedia code and thus cannot act directly on how the bot behaves. It should be decided globally. Cheers, Malafaya (talk) 10:11, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Yes, a global decision for those automatically generated Wikies is really needed. Pavel Vozenilek (talk) 19:41, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that bot generated articles are bad. It just depends on the overall quality of the articles. A bad stub is always a bad stub whether human- or bot-created. For example, if you consider the "old" Lombard Wikipedia ("old" as in before 2 days ago), that was really nothing (broken templates, English text). As for Volapük, I actually consider the bot-generated articles (at least, the majority, and the most recent ones) of good quality. Malafaya (talk) 12:26, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Brian Reynold Bishop

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Brian Reynold Bishop, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you agree with the deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add {{db-author}} to the top of Brian Reynold Bishop. Oo7565 (talk) 18:24, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Erroneous bot edits

Hello, your bot recently added a bunch of interwiki links to the article Casa Grande, Arizona. The links all went to articles simply titled "Casa Grande" on different language wikis. None of them are about Casa Grande, AZ. Oddly, yours is the second bot to do this. I'm not sure what logic caused the bot to make this connection (did it follow a redirect?) but you might wish to check on it. Thanks --Laser brain (talk) 20:25, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the notice. Most likely, some linked article in another wiki is wrongly pointing to that article. I'll check it out and correct whatever needs correction. Malafaya (talk) 22:29, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. This was a messy one. All the wikis that had the wrong link were linking to that article. I had to correct them all manually (around 10). Thanks agains, Malafaya (talk) 22:46, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh no! Well, thanks for your hard work and dedication to the project. --Laser brain (talk) 02:56, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Malafaya! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 710 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Brian Reynold Bishop - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 06:39, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(Not that I expect the bot to read my reply here :) ) Although I created the article, the current unreferenced sentences were not written by me, so I'm not to be blamed :P. Malafaya (talk) 15:33, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ventusa@ka.wikipedia

Please appoint this user to be a new bureaucrat per ka:ვიკიპედია:ბიუროკრატები/არჩევნები/Ventusa.--Jusjih (talk) 03:19, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, it seems I was late. Malafaya (talk) 15:23, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unclear

Hello Mr. Malafaya, the question you asked is little bit unclear, are you asking the meaning of पश्चिम किनारा? plz clear it. - Nirmal Dulal (talk) 01:04, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't understand

I didn't understand this-- Bhawani (talk) 00:59, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It is West Beach may be in Australia-Bhawani (talk) 01:22, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Meaning of पश्चिम किनारा

The पश्चिम किनारा's meaning is The west bank, "the place, which is located at west bank of Jordan river, near Gajapati District", I'm sure it isn't the name Of any country.thanks.. - Nirmal Dulal (talk) 01:36, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

Obrigado! Allmhurach (talk) 17:36, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mòran. Malafaya (talk) 18:36, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata is here; please disable any interwiki bots on the English Wikipedia

Hi!

Wikidata has been deployed to the English Wikipedia. Going forward, Wikidata will manage interwiki links. Further information: m:Wikidata/Deployment Questions and <https://blog.wikimedia.de/?p=13892>.

Important note: Bots that continue to add, remove, or update interwiki links on the English Wikipedia may be blocked from editing after Saturday, February 16, 2013.

If you are running pywikipedia's interwiki.py, please update to pyrev:11073 which will automatically prevent your bot from updating links on this wiki.

If you have any questions, please ask at the bot owners' noticeboard. Thank you for your past work maintaining interwiki links. It has been very appreciated and we're looking forward to an even brighter future with Wikidata. Legoktm (talk) 09:54, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the notice. I updated to pyrev:11073. Regards, Malafaya (talk) 10:37, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Months in gd:wict

Hi André. I saw you added an article on gd:wict for prilul, but I had not yet added a template for the vo:months yet. I've added it now, if you would like to check it and add some more articles. Kibi78704 (talk) 05:18, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Palotchka

Hello. You wrote me a long time. Then I did not understand you. Use upper and lowercase letters is meaningless because Wikipedia small to be seen. See both displays the same Ӏ ӏ. --Дагиров Умар (talk) 10:07, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you have not heard me say. -- Дагиров Умар (talk) 10:08, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This problem fonts. -- Дагиров Умар (talk) 10:10, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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