User talk:Reams

...But only when Deso dies, right? User:Nebagram 30/7/7 9:05pm

Your message

You mentioned x, / and *. Fixing these automatically is a good idea. Don't forget changing - to − as well. It would also be nice to clean up the placement of spaces in the numbers solutions – a space either side of an operator and no space just inside a bracket seems to be the best scheme. And what should we do with nested brackets? (()) or [()]? Obviously we should avoid unnecessary brackets, except possibly where they would benefit people who don't understand operator precedence rules.

IMO we certainly should apply the same notation to conundrums as to other rounds – incorrect solutions lowercased and with the ☓. It puzzled me for a moment to find an eight-letter 'solution' with no notation to indicate that it was wrong. -- Smjg 16:43, 18 September 2007 (BST)

Talk page damage by Dumper

Your bot has been completely replacing the contents of talk pages with its own comments. I've fixed Talk:Episode 4358; I think we need to get working on finding and fixing the others. -- Smjg 13:23, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Graham Nash

Did I somehow break this page? Mglovesfun 22:42, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

List of Countdown champions

I didn't know that this page duplicated the Series page, if you'd like to delete it go ahead. Mglovesfun 14:20, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Before I continue

It would take me weeks to do all the duplicate contestant names, but I will do it if nobody does it before me. However thinking of articles such as John Davies, John Clarke and Clive Freedman, maybe they should keep the same name, and the disambiguation page should be John Clarke (disambiguation) as obviously all the searches looking for John Clarke are going to be the Series champion, not the one who won a couples of games in Series 49. Mglovesfun 16:22, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

For Clarke and Freedman I just added a second page because it was quicker to change the internal links that way (cf Special:Whatlinkshere/Clive Freedman), that would be a lot of links to change by hand. If you want to modify these things, you're of course free to, it was simply a matter of not changing 60 internal links. Mglovesfun 19:10, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

WTF?

What is this? Mglovesfun 00:09, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Ola Odutola

I'll get round to doing this one at some point, seen as there are only two games. My question is this, what are the odds that there really are two Ola Odutolas who've appeared on Countdown separately. I doubt it myself. Mglovesfun 01:18, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages

They're all done, the ones that need to be sorted for links are:

For Freedman, I named the page Clive Freedman (Series 6), noting that only one of his appearances was in Series 6, the rest in Series 7 or later. I'll leave you to make a decision on that one. I could change the links manually but if you can do it quickish, I'd prefer that. Mglovesfun 13:07, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Scratch that I think I've done them all now, apart from Ola Odutola and James Squires which we think are don't need to be changed anyway. But it's up to you. Mglovesfun 18:32, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Main Page

I was thinking you could put the main page in the Category:Countdown for neatness. Mglovesfun 17:52, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Richard Brittain

Are these edits genuine or not? Mglovesfun 21:57, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Guest photos

That's pretty darned good. Meanwhile, I'm afraid I've drawn a blank on William Davies - I can't find anybody of that name who seems a likely guest. Could this perhaps be a misspelling of the journalist William Davis? Jturner 23:18, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

On a similar theme, I've corrected the spelling of Liz Frazer to Liz Fraser. This means that Category:Episodes with Liz Frazer as a guest is now empty and can be deleted if you like. -Jturner 11:14, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Updates

The wiki's not been update for a while now, in terms of Dumper uploading individual games and players. Will you have any time over Easter to do it, I know you're quite busy. Mglovesfun 15:10, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Hmm as you're aware I don't really watch everyday so in that sense I'm not the best person to do it, but anyone can read a recap and I usually watch if I'm in, which is three days a week, so yes I think I'd like to, although you're probably going to need more than one volunteer. Mglovesfun 09:35, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Category:Episodes presented by Richard Whiteley

Not really important, I'm just wondering this category has shot up the leaderboard so quickly, any ideas? Mglovesfun 16:01, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Seed table

Thanks for centering it. The "center" control is much easier to use than a random number of spaces. :) Is there a way of hiding a line? It would be easier to leave the asterisked footnote in, but hidden, when it doesn't apply, rather than retype it on each occasion that it does? Drawoh 11:21, 31 March 2008 (BST)

Main page

It might be more appropriate to link to Series 58, rather than Series 57, from the main page. Drawoh 11:21, 31 March 2008 (BST)

Disambiguation questions

Does moving an existing page, eg "Richard Wilson" to "Richard Wilson (guest)" take all its links with it, or would links have to be individually searched for and adjusted? Does one have to have privileges to do a move? If no, how does one do it? If yes, can you arrange for three moves to cope with recent guests with duplicate names: "Richard Wilson" to "Richard Wilson (guest)" "Ian Scott" to "Ian Scott (Series 41)" "Barry Smith" to "Barry Smith (Series 35)" Drawoh 17:29, 31 March 2008 (BST)

Thanks for the response. These three shouldn't prove too difficult as there are unlikely to be too many references. Heaven forbid we get a contestant called Richard Whitely or Susie Dent. Regarding admin - I won't abuse it. Drawoh 20:02, 31 March 2008 (BST)

Rounds to check

Thanks for the info. I'd found the format, but not the value of the parameter. Obvious really once you'd told me. :) Drawoh 18:47, 12 April 2008 (BST)

Hols

Since I only work part-time :) I'm taking three trips to France before the end of next month, so won't be around 17-21 April, 29 April - 10 May and 24-27 May. Any bits of updates here that I usually do, and don't get done while I'm away, I'll pick up when I get back each time. Drawoh 19:43, 12 April 2008 (BST)

TTT clues

I take your point about these clues being the least interesting part of a recap, so I'll not mark any more if that's all that's missing. I'll simply add the clues if I've got access to them. Of those I marked yesterday, however, I've gone through about half so far, and each recap had a lot more things to correct. Drawoh 19:18, 13 April 2008 (BST)

I've now cleared every recap that I'd marked, and as a result the percentage meter is now showing a higher value than it was before I'd marked them - gradually approaching the magic 50% figure. Incidentally, every one of the recaps needed something other than trivial changes, even yours, amazingly; you had an error in the final numbers round. Your recap is also wrong at the forum, but now we're a forum rather than a group, you can correct it without anyone knowing. :) Drawoh 20:53, 14 April 2008 (BST)

News/FAs

I've done as you suggested and reversed the order of the news. As for FA's, I've recently added a photo to the Chris Wills page, as well as some info the Julian Fell and Chris Cummins pages. Mglovesfun 19:28, 14 April 2008 (BST)

Oh by the way I've found it. Mglovesfun 19:28, 14 April 2008 (BST)

Nine letter word

With your permission I'd like all the niner / nine letter word links to redirect towards letters game, as I don't really see any point in that article. In fact I'm going to do it now, and we can always change it back if you disagree. Mglovesfun 10:57, 18 April 2008 (BST)

Championship of Champions XI

All episodes have now been added and checked, my next project is to check the recaps from Series 50 although that's going to be a pretty huge project. Mglovesfun 12:44, 23 April 2008 (BST)

Oh and I promoted it to a FA now we have all the round details. Maybe the first of May would be a convient date to change the article on the Main Page, if so, what do you prefer? Mglovesfun 13:15, 23 April 2008 (BST)

Re: Next FA

Yep suits me I'll start writing the article this week. Mglovesfun 15:29, 23 April 2008 (BST)

Episode category keys

While looking at the Draws category earlier today, I noticed that a lot of the earlier episodes have category keys which are simply their 1, or 2, or 3-digit episode numbers, rather then being given leading zeros to pad them to four digits. This means that in the Category:Episodes with Gyles Brandreth as a guest, to take just one example of many, episode 151 is listed under heading 0, whereas episode 102 is listed under heading 1. Many other listings of episodes which includes ones prior to episode 1000 also have this anomaly. What is needed is for all episodes up to 999 to be checked and their category keys changed to four digits. This sounds a bit like a job for a programme. If that's not possible, I'm happy to trawl through the episodes, and change them as necessary, but don't want to waste my time if it's easy to produce such a programme to do it automatically. Drawoh 23:35, 25 April 2008 (BST)