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Please note: to avoid duplication, I'll reply to queries about DOI bot on this page.

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Graphical timeline

Hello Smith609, may be you remember me. In December 2007 I had ask you to use your script on the de:WP. The script worked very well until recently a guy on the de:WP moved the parts of the script to the standard Vorlage:Grafische Zeitleiste/... (template:Grafische Zeitleiste/...) Now it does display anymore the time scale on the left margin. Several templates e.g. or are mutilated and partly useless. I asked the guy who moved the parts of the script to fix this mistake it, but he must confess he couldn´t find what´s wrong it. Do you have any ideas, why the time scale isn´t displayed anymore. May be you know what´s wrong. Here the link to the Category . It would be nice if you could help us. Otherwise I have to revert all actions of this guy. Best wishes. -- Engeser (talk) 09:09, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

"cite isbn"?

In response to a query at Misplaced Pages Talk:Citing sources#Reference Space, do you know of a DOI bot-like bot that handles ISBNs, to provide similar aid in citing books? Along the same lines, a {{cite isbn}} could be a very useful counterpart to {{cite doi}}. (Apologies if it seems like I'm volunteering you, but I don't have the expertise to work on such a project, and I imagine you might be able to provide some suggestions.) ASHill (talk | contribs) 16:47, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

You can try {{cite book}}. "isbn" is a parameter which can be set. Have you tried

Or my Universal reference formatter now does the same job. The "Cite DOI" template has been discontinued (a drain on resources, apparently), and while an ISBN version would probably be even more useful still (given that the same book is probably cited a lot more often!) I suspect the same argument will be raised.

However I think that's the answer to a different question to the one you asked. It would be pretty simple to make the DOI bot work for ISBNs too - feel free to add a proposal on my behalf at the WP:BRFA ( I don't have the energy for bureaucracy at the moment, but would be happy to do the coding.)

I do first need to spend a little time at Template:citation, however, to ensure that it uses the same parameters and formatting as Cite Journal and Cite Book. Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 19:04, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Microbial mat - timeline

I've added a timeline to Microbial mat in preparation for a section about the role(s) of microbial mats in evolution. The trouble is that I can't get the note to use the full available width of the box - and I need that, otherwise notes overlap badly around the start of the Cambrian. Can you help? -- Philcha (talk) 21:55, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

To get the colours right. Besides being revolting, the standard ones are a terrible background for text. -- Philcha (talk) 18:40, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Go ahead, but I think you'd save yourself a lot of work in the long run if you documented the template properly. -- Philcha (talk) 18:52, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Is there a "min-width" for images? -- Philcha (talk) 09:05, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

DYK - Microbial mat

Microbial mat just got into DYK - you're a bad influence, I never used to be such a publicity-seeker! Philcha (talk) 16:45, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Getting DOIs from html code, and getting citation details from DOIs

Greetings. I left you message at User talk:Smith609/Cite#Bot collaboration about a bot that I run, asking for advice or source code. Since then I've been researching what CrossRef offers, and I've read Misplaced Pages:Bots/Requests for approval/DOI bot and Misplaced Pages:Bots/Requests for approval/DOI bot 2 with great interest. I think I can narrow down my request to these questions:

1. Given a link to a journal article or abstract, such as this or this, what regular expressions do use to find the DOI on the page?
2. Given a DOI, how can one use Crossref to determine authors, title, publication, etc.?

Thanks again, – Quadell 23:36, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Kimberella

No offence meant, but I've undone your last change to Kimberella. The GA reviewer requested, nay demanded, an explanation of protostome & deuterostome. I spent 2 hours searching and most explanations are uninformative - probably scared of being proved wrong if they said anything informative, as the subject is a can of worms (boom! boom!). Eventually I found Arendt et al, and let him have it. If you want a bit of fun, see the last few paras at Talk:Kimberella/GA1. PS the reviewer is a actually a very nice, helpful guy, but I don't think he's familiar with the minefield that is Precambrian palaeo.

PS What could a microbial mat have done to achieve infamy? My mind is boggling. -- Philcha (talk) 13:20, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

But I like your latest addition. you obviously know these sources better than I do. I just noticed that it was up for GA and thought the biggest missing pieces ought to be added asap. -- Philcha (talk) 18:56, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Kimberella timeline

The version at User:Philcha/Sandbox#Time_line_for_Kimberella now behaves nicely when I CTRL+ in K-meleon. Many thanks! I'll ask the GA reviewer to check it out too.

I'm not sure what your edit comment "long lines don't wrap" meant. Can you explain, please? -- Philcha (talk) 23:12, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

I had to add some BR tags to the legend entries, as the lines made the div fatter instead of wrapping to a new line. I guess I could get around it by making the enclosing div's width default to a certain number of em rather than px. Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 23:16, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Re. Reference Converter

I'm sorry the problem, and thank you for alerting me. Much appreciated, and happy editing, Leonard 15:08, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

CSR template mark 2

There's a new version at User:Philcha/Sandbox#CSR_mark_2, including undermat miners. What do you think? -- Philcha (talk) 12:09, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

CrossRef terms of use?

I just opened an account with them. The say "CrossRef provides an OpenURL interface for its key query services and this service is available at no charge for non-batch, non-commercial queries." Does this bot qualify as non-batch? VasileGaburici (talk) 13:52, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes - I'm pretty sure I checked everything out at the time, and queries are run at a rate comfortably lower than their limit. Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 15:31, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Microbial mat in fair shape

I've used all the sources I've found, and think Microbial mat now looks like a usable article. Would you like to give it a look over? -- Philcha (talk) 15:30, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou!

Hi! This is Dale (User: Dale S. Satre). Thankyou for your comment on My article "The 'Big Five.'" It was grately appreciated. However, since I am new, can you direct me on asking for opinions?--Dr. Dale S. Satre (talk) 18:01, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Small shelly fauna - timeline

Hi, you've already noticed that I've started on Small shelly fauna. The timeline's a pig, because there's so much happening 530-520 MYA. Any ideas on how to improve it? In particular is there any way to make Template:Timeline skip the least relevant part of the Ediacaran, 620-690 MYA? -- Philcha (talk) 19:28, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I opted for the earlier of your options as the representation of the episodes mentioned was more consistent. Is there any way to reduce the dead space on the right without afftecting the rest of the layout? -- Philcha (talk) 20:29, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

  :-)  :-)  :-)  -- Philcha (talk) 21:18, 18 July 2008 (UTC)