Wikipedia talk:Bureaucrats' noticeboard/RfA Report
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[edit] What do S, O, and N mean?
Support? Object? No Opinion? It would be nice if things like this were explained to make Wikipedia more inclusive. And I am by no means a noob. Superbfc 03:47, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
- Support, Oppose and Neutral, respectively. Pretty obvious if you follow the links, imho. Errabee 04:08, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
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- "Pretty obvious" is really only a matter of opinion. I happen to be good at spotting what acronyms and abbreviations mean as it goes with the territory of where I work, but it's incredibly frustrating. How hard would it be to add one row to the bottom of the table explaining the meaning? Wikipedia is supposed to be a global project and not supposed to be run for the sake of admins/beaurocrats, so why not? Superbfc 11:02, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Well, this page is primarily meant to be of help for bureaucrats, who need to monitor RfA's. If others (like me) would like to use it to monitor that as well, they're welcome, but they are not the targeted editors. Furthermore, this page is copied to other pages and adding a line like that would possibly destroy the lay-out of those pages, so it's more complicated than just adapting this page. Errabee 12:39, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Parsing issue (BUG?)
For some reason not immediately apparent to me, the bot is not picking up Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kafziel 2 in the summary. —Doug Bell talk•contrib 21:20, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- Nevermind. I see that StuffOfInterest snuck the fix in while I was investigating it, so I was looking at an already fixed page. Sneaky, sneaky. :-) —Doug Bell talk•contrib 21:25, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Oppose
Is there a reason that it's not showing any oppose votes, if there is only a single oppose vote?
(See Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Jc37 - 2 and Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/GRBerry to see what I mean.) - jc37 13:03, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
- I note that the one opposer in mine didn't use the word "oppose" or any of the natural variants on that. The bot prepared discussion summaries are usually based on keyword analysis. That isn't an issue for Jc37's page. GRBerry 02:59, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
- The bot doesn't actually analyze the content of the votes at all (it only looks at the "#"s), so I'm guessing it's a parsing bug. I'll take a look when I come back from my wikibreak; sorry for the inconvenience. If you see anything else, please report it here. Thanks, Tangotango 20:16, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
