Dr Greg

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Good luck and happy editing! alexandra (talk) 17:24, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

flag

You are flooding RC. Please slow down, or get a crat to give you the bot flag. Thanks, Griffinofwales (talk) 02:20, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Never mind. You stopped half an hour ago. But, next time, request the flag before you start. Griffinofwales (talk) 02:21, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry. This problem has never happened before. I'm new to Simple English Wikipedia but an experienced editor at English Wikipedia and nobody has complained about me editing too fast before! (Although I don't often do repeated rapid categorisation as I did yesterday.) It never occurred to me that it might be a problem. As a general rule, what is "too fast"? -- Dr Greg  talk  00:06, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Greg. Flooding RC at en is pretty difficult because there are so many editors making edits. Here, it's a lot easier since there are only around 100 edits a day at Simple. Regards, Javert (talk) 00:11, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

 (change conflict) If you are doing a boring task like cats and you know that there a lot of them, you should wait for a crat. Too fast = 5-7+ edits per minute. Since most of our vandalism fighting is done through watching RC, and not through huggle or some other program, edits can slip off the radar. Correction: 400+ edits a day. Thanks, Griffinofwales (talk) 00:12, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Obviously, or so I thought, my number was an estimate given to highlight the fact that, compared to en, there are very few edits here per day. Regards, Javert (talk) 01:00, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Motorways template

Thanks for this. Can you adjust the template so the normal state is closed rather than open? It's too visually dominating as it is at present. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:49, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

I'd prefer the default state to be "autocollapse", as that is usual for these types of templates. Therefore I haven't modified the template, but I've "manually" collapsed it in the very short articles M2 motorway, M3 motorway, M4 motorway, M40 motorway, A1 road (Great Britain) by replacing {{UK motorways}} with {{UK motorways|state=collapsed}}. I've left it uncollapsed in the longer articles. (By the way, not my template, someone else copied it from en:Template:UK motorways. I suspect many of those red links will never get created in Simple English, and so could be removed (or at least commented out) to make the template smaller.) -- Dr Greg  talk  11:24, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, that seems a sound approach. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:27, 16 June 2012 (UTC)