User talk:SunCreator/Archive 1

Chess openings book
First off, I just wanted to say that you should sign your posts with ~ (4 tildes). when you type that in, the software will automatically turn it into a signature for you.

The link you provided really does show some of the problems with linking in the chess book. If you come up with a list of pages that need to be moved/renamed, or a list of pages that contain lists of links that need to be renamed, I can take care of it for you. I think you might be the only author on that book, so any changes that you want to make should be fine. Just let us know what we can do and we will help you out.

By the way, we are in the middle of writing a book about how to edit and all: Using Wikibooks Check out this book, see if it answers any of your questions, and let me know how we can improve it. I'll see you around. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 03:04, 15 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Testing adding a signature. Yea this works! E5ricky 12:45, 15 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm glad it works okay! I've become so accustomed to it that I've started trying to sign my emails the same way. Just goes to show that maybe i've been here for too long. Anyway, definitely let me know what help you need on that chess book. I have a bot that can fix a lot of problems quickly. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 13:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Just a bit concerned the way the URL has been created for the majority of chess theory pages are not really a useful way to do it. Written about it here. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:Opening_theory_in_chess#URL_Naming E5ricky 13:35, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Blanking pages
Blanking pages doesn't delete content, and is usually considered disruptive. If you want to have content deleted, please mark it with and an admin will come along and delete it. Please double-check any pages you have blanked in the past, and add a request for deletion or restore the content as appropriate. Thanks! – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 20:19, 20 October 2007 (UTC)


 * ah, okay. I couldn't find a delete option. I've created a few blank pages right at the beginning, before I realise that moving them was a better way. How can I find where they are? E5ricky 20:56, 20 October 2007 (UTC)


 * If you click my contributions at the top right corner of the page, you'll be taken to a list of all your edits (except on pages that were deleted; only admins can access those). – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 21:50, 20 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Am aware of my contributions however there is no search or anything to enable a way to find a blank page. Perhaps you have such tools as you seem to have created this talk info because of an empty page somewhere. Have edited and/or added perhaps many hundreds of pages in last few days would be impractical to revisit them all on the off chance one of them might still be blank. E5ricky 22:39, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Re:Bot
At the moment, my bot can make page edits, but it can't do fancy things like moving pages or renaming pages. Through brute force, I might be able to help with a few manual renames. What do you need done? I dont have a lot of time this week, but in two weeks I should have plenty of time to do work around here. I might even be able to expand my bot to do page moves and renames. Just let me know. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 01:18, 21 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply! Yea, some of your time would be great. I take it from your member name your a chess player?
 * It would be good to get this chess theory book in order so others felt comfortable to come and add to it.
 * At the moment it's quite a mess with no guidance, complex to edit and no main line theory positions to build upon. Once it got going I could really see this book taking off. Another question about the bot, could it change all pages of the chess book so that the title '=Theory Table=' was a subcategory '==Theory Table=='. It's minor things like this that could save manually editing every page and potentially many hours work. E5ricky 01:33, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't really know what WK's bot can do, but I can do page moves, and mass edits like your example above. As I've said elsewhere, I don't understand the naming convention for Chess, but if you lay it out for me, it can probably be done. If you want something done, you can leave a request on my talk page. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 16:07, 21 October 2007 (UTC)


 * My bot can make all sorts of page edits, such as pattern-matched edits as you are describing. I do play chess, but I didnt when I first associated with the "Whiteknight" screenname. Somebody once asked me if I was "whiteknight" because I was a member of the klan (I'm not). I can make all sorts of edits on all sorts of pages. Do you want me to go make all the "Theory Table" headings into sub-headings? If you want, I could make sure that all pages in the book have this heading (even those that don't have it already). The hardest part about using my bot is setting up a page list, and I'll start doing that now. Once I have the list, I can make edits to many pages very quickly. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 22:08, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Replied on your discussion page. Not sure really how best to communicate at the moment. E5ricky 22:31, 21 October 2007 (UTC)


 * This is as good a way as any to communicate, although you could start some kind of "planning" page if you wanted to, in order to centralize things. Most of the requests that you gave me are easy to automate. The task about adding a page heading to pages without one is going to be tricky, because i need to write up a script to identify the position name. Any such script is going to require a very standard formatting: that is, every page must be exactly the same or the bot will do something strange (or nothing at all). I'll start setting up some tests, and hopefully we can get these changes made soon. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 22:38, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Very few pages(only 4 that I've seen) don't start with a chess position in a set format. So doesn't matter if those don't have headings.
 * Planning page, okay - here is a good place. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:Opening_theory_in_chess/Organization
 * 22:49, 21 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Ran through the entire list. There are a few issues I want to look at later, but Don't have any time this week. Let me know what you need.

--Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 00:47, 22 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Moved to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:Opening_theory_in_chess/Organization E5ricky