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You are like my own little WikiOtter. Keep up the good teamwork.KlappCK (talk) 16:46, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
The part about European Parliament and Northern alliance is false, because the link youtube video is not valid so it must be deleted --Ambelland (talk) 15:43, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
<ref name="EU Parliament"/>
) by supplying the missing text for the reference that already existed. Anomie⚔ 17:09, 6 October 2011 (UTC)I am grateful for your contributing banner warnings and requests to the 'County Surveyor' page. I have already had discussions with JaGa about these very issues and am currently in the process of removing my accidental offences of Wikipedia policy about article content.
My only excuse is my present state of unfamiliarity, not so much with Wikipedia, but with the jargon it uses, and the encyclopaedic range of sources it provides where that jargon is explained, in yet more jargon.
I am not complaining about the jargon, I have an autistic spectrum disorder, asperger's syndrome, plus obsessive compulsive disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and though I am retired now, I have spent 50 years writing encyclopaedias of jargon; so it would be churlish of me to complain about other people doing it too. I did, however, find, in the course of my career, a professional one, dealing with the public, face to face, on the telephone, and in writing, that, provided I gave them due consideration for the fact that they were lay persons, without my highly specialised education, training, experience and, hence, qualifications, enabling me to acquire higher levels of education, training, experience and hence, qualifications, enabling me to .... etc., etc., cyclically, until I retired, I could always find ways of getting inside their heads and copying the thoughts and ideas inside my brain and pasting it into theirs.
So, please bear with me. I have adopted voluntarily editing articles in Wikipedia that are relevant to my present and past fields of career expertise as a challenging and absorbing hobby in my leisure years of retirement. I had only taken up studing Philosophy, Religion, the Arts, and the Sciences, at university level and above, since retiring, until I read an article in Wikipedia and found that it was almost entirely USA-centric and took virtually no account of policy and practice outside the USA. But it contained a banner warning and requests for volunteers to remedy those defects, so I began doing that, anonymously first, until I figured out how to register an account with Wikipedia, create my signature and set up my own UserPage; and then began finding dozens of other articles that needed someone of my education, training, experience, and qualifications, to edit them also: so, I have not yet gone back to my studies of Philosophy, Religion, the Arts, and the Sciences, as I seem to be locked in a Time Warp with Wikipedia, similar to that of the Mad March Hare in Lewis Carroll's Alice Through The Looking Glass, 'so much to do, and so little time to do it.'
And for that reason I will bid you 'adieu' and get back to my editing!
Namaste.
Adrian
I keep forgetting to date templates and AnomieBOT keeps tidying up after me. For the latter I am thankful & the former I am sorry. I did remember to add a date a couple of times recently so I am slowly learning. In the meantime, thanks AnomieBOT and thanks Anomie. -- fgTC 19:52, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
These images were wrongly deleted. They had been replaced with Free versions. Please revert, and look at file history before destroying content. --Belg4mit (talk) 18:03, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello AnomieBOT! Thank you for your warnings as per the 'notability' and 'primary sources', they were of great help! :) I changed the list of references in this article and added reliable sources, with the names of the authors and source names. Hope the 'notability' and 'primary sources' templates can now be safely removed, could you revise this please? HolyStranger (talk) 08:22, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, This article is properly cited and it has been edited by other editors to comply with the wiki standard. I do not have any affiliation with Mr. Cheyene and there is absolutely no conflict of interest. FYI Fareast eagle (talk) 05:02, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
It's a long time ago now, but this, described as "Rescuing orphaned refs", could better have been described as "helping to conceal vandalism", which I have just corrected. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 17:47, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
This bot just overwrote an edit that was happening at the same time on the same spot in the article. The change would have dealt with the maintenance tags, but now has been lost and hast to be re-researched. Very annoying. Waitak (talk) 00:46, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations#Mnidaydwisww → Mnid - why does the bot think this target user was notified? –xenotalk 16:53, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
[[User:Mnidaydwisww]
or[[User:Mnidaydwisww|
appears on User talk:Mnid. But in this case, for some completely unknown reason, Mnidaydwisww has already redirected User talk:Mnid to his own talk page, which of course contains his own signature numerous times. Anomie⚔ 18:18, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Please note that Toyota had a series of diesel engines called '2L' (with variants like '2L-T'). The bot has converted some of the references to the 2L engine to 2 L. The engine code will never have a space in it. Thanks. Stepho talk 22:45, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Inthis edit, AnomieBOT appears to have removed the title parameter from the {{cite web}} template. Is this normal? It broke the link, so I did revert it but I didn't know if this was something to be concerned about. Thanks. — KV5 • Talk • 00:57, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Shouldn't be changing pages that are archived discussions
Anniepoo (talk) 00:25, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Can I ask why the BOT is changing the {{CURRENTYEAR}} entry in the {{Inflation}} template. It is used here to keep the information current rather than having to go round changing each of the articles every year. I reverted one change by the BOT but it came along again and reverted this here. Has there been some agreement that this should not be used and that the information has to be manually updated on an annual basis? Keith D (talk) 18:33, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
I've shutoff the ReplaceExternalLinks4 task because it's breaking YouTube links. Example diffs are on the shutoff page. jcgoble3 (talk) 15:03, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Thank you, oh wise and powerful bot operator, for fixing my silly mistake (this one, for reference - I forgot to update other instances of the ref name parameter when renaming a reference). FiveColourMap (talk) 19:03, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
The bot has not edited WP:AC/N in some time. Is there any reason for this? It is not like there isn't work for it to do. Best, NW (Talk) 03:24, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up the article on The_Ethics_of_Ambiguity. You added template
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (November 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
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indicating that more inline citations are needed. But all the citations are to the online edition of the work, which has no page numbers. I do footnote the first quotation with this:
So I am not sure how to improve it from here. Do you think it would be OK to remove the 'more footnotes' template? Bmeacham (talk) 01:13, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Help! A section in Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2011 November 8 contains the "is_closed" regex but not at the beginning of the section. Probably someone put the {{puf top}} before a section header instead of after. Anyway, I can't do anything to that page until someone fixes it. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 00:01, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
When trying to fix orphaned refs in Achalasia, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about http://anysymptoms.com. This probably means someone didn't properly clean up after themselves when blacklisting the link and removing existing uses, but a human needs to double-check it. The attempted changes were:
You might also use {{subst:User:Anomie/uw-orphans|1=rm diff|2=fix diff}} to let the remover know, if their edit summary indicates they were specifically removing the blacklisted ref. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 20:29, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Bots deserve kitten love too. :) This one does a lot of good work. :D
LauraHale (talk) 10:50, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
When trying to fix orphaned refs in Kumaoni language, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about http://www.indianetzone.com. This probably means someone didn't properly clean up after themselves when blacklisting the link and removing existing uses, but a human needs to double-check it. The attempted changes were:
You might also use {{subst:User:Anomie/uw-orphans|1=rm diff|2=fix diff}} to let the remover know, if their edit summary indicates they were specifically removing the blacklisted ref. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 15:25, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, The accusation of POV regarding the name of this article is odd since the name has not reached a consensus although discussion continues. It is already under a 72 hour hold on changes to the article name. Could you see your way to reevaluating this? Thanking you, --Rskp (talk) 02:38, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Help! A section in Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2009 April 6 contains the "is_closed" regex but not at the beginning of the section. Probably someone put the {{puf top}} before a section header instead of after. Anyway, I can't do anything to that page until someone fixes it. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 14:09, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Help! A section in Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 November 14 contains the "is_closed" regex but not at the beginning of the section. Probably someone put the {{tfd top}} before a section header instead of after. Anyway, I can't do anything to that page until someone fixes it. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 00:02, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that AnomieBOT removes and replaces dates if days are included as it did at Prenatal nutrition and birth weight. This is counter-productive for merge templates as a merge isn't usually proposed for more than a week or two. For now I've gone and used a date template hoping that it won't be removed. The Haz talk 19:45, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
|date=
for those templates works: the category is Category:Articles to be merged from November 2011, not Category:Articles to be merged from 14 November 2011 (see?), and the date parameter currently exists on those templates solely for categorization. It is possible this could be changed in various ways, but that would require discussion somewhere to determine consensus. Anomie⚔ 20:27, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Would be nice if AnomieBOT could refrain from dating {{cn}} etc. while there's a {{in use}} tag on the article. It's caused me edit conflicts a couple of times, most recently here.[2] Any chance? —SMALLJIM 20:11, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing the article. We have added couple of new citations for "Microsoft Gold Partner". Please review the article and let us know if we need more citations to fix the "Citations needed" issue. Appreciate your time. Many Thanks. GeekyPuppy (talk) 18:16, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
Is there any point at all in having this bot replace "Date=" by "date=" in maintenance tags? JamesBWatson (talk) 21:10, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence | |
Thanks for always doing such a great job finding orphans, undated citation needed templates, etc. I try to catch them at the time, and yet still find you catch some. I'll try harder! Great job at maintaining a quality impression for the readers. CaroleHenson (talk) 18:27, 27 November 2011 (UTC) |
Hi,
I am in the process of creating wiki page for Max Healthcare. I need your help in preparing this page. The suggestions you gave on this page have implemented by me. I would request you to kindly take a quick look at this page as i added some content recently..........
Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by Binodkpn (talk • contribs) 11:25, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi! First — sorry for my bad English (I'm not native speaker). I wanted to ask you to tag WikiProject Biathlon articles with {{WikiProject Biathlon|class=|importance=}}
template. This is my first time at asking to tag the pages so sorry for some stupid questions. Could you set "stub" class for pages that have stub templates? And could you suggest some good things for better Assessment? And with the Biathletes — could you set parametr "|needs-infobox=yes" if there isn't Template:Infobox sportspersonorTemplate:Infobox alpine ski racer? Oh, and I wanted to ask to tag this category with all the subcats.--Edgars2007 (Talk/Contributions) 21:36, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps there could be a feature that uses a parameter on the template that would say that the template will be auto-substituted, where AnomieBOT will only subst that template on certain namespaces.
For example, one template, lets say {{a}}, could be auto-subst'd on the file, main, talk, and book namespaces, while usages on other namespaces will not be subst'd. This would be controlled from the {{substituted}} template.
My main reason for requesting this is because it would be useful in my sync-pp template, so that it would be auto-subst'd in the main and talk namespaces, but not others, such as userspace.
Thanks. LikeLakers2 (talk | Sign my guestbook!) 03:16, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I forgot to comment on the BRFA. Any chance you could also add |deadurl=yes
when you archive? This won't change the output but will help any future dealings/checking of the links and distinguish between preemptive archived ones. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 10:02, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
FYI seems like the PERTableUpdater task appears to not be running. The shutoff page is blank as it should be. --Jnorton7558 (talk) 21:58, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
AnomieBOT why do you consider "womance" not notable when it is a term of increasing frequency and no such criticism is made of "bromance"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dutchy85 (talk • contribs) 11:52, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
|date=December 2011
to the existing tags added in the previous editbyPiotrus (talk · contribs). Please contact him to discuss the tags. Anomie⚔ 12:11, 12 December 2011 (UTC)Thanks for your message -overwhelmed, but think it's amazing. SarahGreenHD (talk) 12:46, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Regarding the edit you made on the James Monroe page [[3]], I added the citation, though it was already included in subsequent paragraphs. I see that someone else originally added the citation needed stamp, but I'd like to know if the edit made today satisfies your concerns for the paragraph in question. See the new edit here: [[4]] Studyhard12 (talk) 16:24, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Part of the mediation result from WP:VG and WP:MOS-JA was the addition of lead=yes
to the template. I am wanting to know if AnomieBOT can go through and add this to the end of the first lead instance of {{nihongo}} (outside of the infobox) to every article under Category:Video games and all subcategories. If the template is not in the lead, it shouldn't add it and it shouldn't add it to subsquent lead templates and skip it if the field already exists.∞陣内Jinnai 18:18, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Vandalism on Scientific literacy caused the bot to consider the entire page as part of the template tag, and the bot happily clobbered the page ( diff here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientific_literacy&diff=466539161&oldid=466536554 ). I am not sure if there's much you can do, just FYI. Exor674 (talk) 14:14, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Hey AnomieBOT thank you for correcting the form of making a disputed section on the Barry Seal page.
I am a total noob here, so thanks also for not biting.
Ericksommers (talk) 07:39, 29 December 2011 (UTC)Ericksommers
Please quit destroying the linkage to http://www.geocities.com/%7Eorion47/ in this article. By applying the bot to it, you ruin it as a source citation in several ways:
1) You limit access to only the "cover page" of this website, as all screens in this website share the same URL. As I explained in both a footnote to the article and in the edit summary in my reversion which you have now re-reverted, it takes several clicks to get to Bassenge's page and/or the website's bibliography. When your bot has finished inflicting its damage, exactly none of that is possible.
2) You are substituting an outdated dysfunctional version of the website for the current functional one.
3) Information from this website supplies a great deal of the material for this article. Nullifying it as you have done leaves the material subject to removal, and reduces the article to a stub.
I would appreciate acknowledgment of this via talk-back. In the meantime, I am going to once again change the article to a form with functional cites, and would appreciate your leaving it that way.
Georgejdorner (talk) 13:09, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
I was unaware that Geocities had closed. However, your bot cutting the connection with the website instantly instead its lapsing in the natural course of affairs doesn't improve the situation. It cuts the user off from the bibliography that makes this site more reliable than its unreferenced mirrors.
I know nothing of Java's function in directing readers toward pages. I do know that when I click on the URL left by the bot, I can get no further than an incomplete entry page to the site. I also have observed, by actual test, that all screens of the site share the same URL in the unaltered listing, when I click through them to the bibliography or to Bassenge's bio page. This is actual practice, not theory.
It may be that this link may be broken in the future. That does not mean there is a need to use a bot to break it immediately.
Georgejdorner (talk) 20:48, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
I use Safari.
Georgejdorner (talk) 17:05, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
I do realise that edit counting is fraught with problems, especially regarding deleted edits. But negative deleted edits simply doesn't make sense. — This, that, and the other (talk) 10:49, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
I wonder if you could take a look at the Oxy mediation page/user talk. I would welcome your input.Cowboy128 (talk) 05:49, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
I am concerned that my contributions to the Occidental Petroleum page are being vandalized in a systematic fashion. Despite my willingness to compromise on the wording of the material, they simply delete the entire contribution.
Help!Cowboy128 (talk) 07:02, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
I don't think this is a minor dispute.Cowboy128 (talk) 03:10, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello AB. I ustand your point, but it would be impossible to cite who said these things. In all my research, it is said my many people. It's a very important part of her legacy, but I don't think it's possible to cite. So, I'll remove your edit and if you feel strongly about it, I'll leave it for others to do it.Take care,--Classicfilmbuff (talk) 19:59, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
What does the bot want cited here:
Several obituaries (eg. The Annapolis Capital, Naval History Magazine) confused Rindskopf's eleven patrols onboard Drum as eleven patrols in command of Drum. He was only in command for patrols 10 and 11, yet he had a hand in every sinking in Drum's history.[citation needed]
That confusion exists or that the Drum never sank another ship? Refs are made to the obits, and Drum's combat record is already established above. Not that I can't provide the footnotes, it's that I believe it's data already established. JMOprof (talk) 22:04, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
|date=January 2012
" to the {{cn}} that Fnlayson (talk · contribs) added in the previous edit. Anomie⚔ 22:31, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Have you considered putting the article titles of the closed XfDs that are removed in the edit summary for bot edits like this? I can see how it could get cluttered - maybe article titles with links if one or two are removed, or a message like "n discussions removed" if it is more? I find myself clicking the diffs several times a day just to see what has changed. Thanks. HausTalk 20:59, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Oops. Did I do something wrong to cause this response?Arbitrarily0 (talk) 02:30, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi! {{subst:PrevBtn}} has an auto sign code. If AnomieBOT cleans up when the template is not substed by the user, it gets signed by AnomieBOT. How can we work around this? I actually don't mind if AnomieBOT takes the credit, but you might. I'd prefer not to remove the auto signing, but if there is really no other way... The same code exists in {{subst:Welcome to Wikipedia}} too. fredgandt 04:46, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
this diff shows a substitution carried out by AnomieBOT of {{Greet}} (a shorcut for {{Welcome to Wikipedia}}). It was added to the IP talk page by Guy Macon, but has ended up showing the IP the talk page is for, as the user who added the template. The error goes beyond the autosigning too. There are a few cases where {{REVISIONUSER}} is used to set the name of the user who adds the template. In those cases the IP is added instead of the user who added the template. All very complex. fredgandt 06:55, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
! fredgandt 12:18, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Your Bot inserted [why?] at the end of a sentence in the Costa Concordia Disaster stating that the captain had turned off the navigation alarm system. That is not appropriate. That is a request for more information than has been published. Real editors go to Talk to discuss whether any such information might have been published and whether that info is relevant. Your bot has gone rouge and is defacing the article. I searched your bot permissions to see if it is authorised to do such [IMHO] absurd things but found nothing one point. Correct your bot code. Thanks.SteveO1951 (talk) 17:20, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
This morning, I had a few ideas as to how the backlog of of some maintenance tags could be better managed. In order that I can develop my ideas further, I wondered if you would tell me if your bot can do or can be persuaded to do any of the following: Add dates to templates (i.e. new templates that I intend to write) If an article or its talk page contain one of my new templates can the article be added to a category and a category by date, in the same way that split tags (for example) are handled at the moment.
I am asking, because it would appear that your bot is currently doing all of this for existing templates such as split, but I cannot work out whether the specific tags that the bot is operating on are hardwired into your code or whether there is a config file external to your code where this behaviour is specified.
I hope that you will understand that I cannot go into details at the moment because I have not worked out the details yet.
regards Op47 (talk) 15:17, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
{{citation needed}}
) should use {{fix}}
to do most of the work, while the large tags (e.g. {{plot}}
) should use {{ambox}}
's new |cat=
, |date=
, and |all=
parameters. {{citation needed}}
and {{plot}}
also illustrate the use of the {{unsubst}} template, which prevents problems caused when someone incorrectly tries to subst the maintenance tag.|date=
as above, make the category it adds in absence of a date be in Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month, and add your new template to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates. You'd probably also want to arrange for a bot to create the monthly categories; I think one of Rich Farmbrough's bots does this for most of the current dated maintenance categories.My friend Owning ancestors of subscribers to the Syrians and the Lebanese with Bahranis Does not mean that we call upon them Bahranis — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashrf1979 (talk • contribs) 17:44, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
It would be good if the bot recognised the {{Under construction}} template (and possibly {{In use}}; not tested) and avoided editing pages using them; it could always add them to a list for later attention; and even remove them after a suitable period. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:39, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Requesting a TemplateReplacer run, please. I need to replace transclusions of {{WikiProject Thai districts}} with {{WikiProject Thailand}}, while adding the parameter districts=yes
, since the project was inactive and has been merged. Thank you. --Paul_012 (talk) 08:15, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the good work! Dating tags is very useful - we tend to forget it. Cheers, Edcolins (talk) 22:46, 18 February 2012 (UTC) |
You are adding an HTML comment of the form:
<!--is it a necessary page, per [[WPTWODABS]] and [[Template:db-disambig]]?-->
This should be [[WP:TWODABS]]
rather than [[WPTWODABS]]
-- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 02:27, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence | |
Thank you for rescuing one of the references in the article List of former Hersheypark attractions. The assistance is always appreciated! Son (talk) 20:21, 17 February 2012 (UTC) |
It appears that this bot has been adding Albemarle County, Virginia templates to biographical articles which have no relevance to Virginia. I removed the template from Talk:Murray Merle Schwartz, but I am sure there are others. Please investigate why this is happening. If possible, remove the inappropriate templates. --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:28, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
AnomieBOT is edit warring with me on Jean-Claude Sikorav. I intentionally dated the template "March". After the first bot edit, I created the maintenance category, but the bot made the same edit again. What criterion does the bot use to decide whether the date is acceptable? For now I have put a nobots tag on the article to stop the bot from making the same edit a third time. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:33, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Please stop the bot before we have hundreds of ":". — AlexSm 15:50, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Doubly fixed now. It was a combination of two things:
The bug is fixed, and AnomieBOT's code has been adjusted to match nothing if no interwiki links exist. Please don't hesitate to stop the bot again if any other problems come up. Anomie⚔ 20:25, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
The article on Free Culture (book) was flagged with:
{{Copypaste|date=March 2012}}
I'd like to make sure I understand what triggered that. This book was released under a Creative Commons license. I added numerous quotes from the book to this article. I suspect that the number of quotes may have been the trigger. If so, it should not be a problem in this case because of the use of the Creative Commons license.
If something else is involved, I'd like to know. Thanks. DavidMCEddy (talk) 05:08, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
|date=March 2012
) to the tag so the article would be placed in Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections from March 2012 instead of Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections. Anomie⚔ 12:11, 2 March 2012 (UTC)Wow! Anomie, thanks for dating my {{citation needed}}s and {{weasel}}s! You've really brightened my day! ◗●◖ falkreon (talk) 19:21, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello again AnomieBOT, you keep making life easier and easier at BFRAs. Thanks very much, now I don't have to go through the (previously) error prone task of listing approved BRFAs in the archives. Should any effort be put into saving ops from their own incompetence? I've seen rescues like that at Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval#read this one or two times a month, and it seems like something a bot could to do cheaply, but is the dev effort worth it? Dunno. Kthx bi! Josh Parris 05:21, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
I could not find the operator of the bot in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/YFdyh-bot in order to notify them of the {{Operator assistance needed}} on that BRFA. I look for '''Operator:'''
with a wikilink to the User or User talk namespace on the same line. Please fix it! Thanks. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 20:45, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
When a bot edits an article immediately after I do, some of Wikipedia's notification systems break. For one example, when I check my contributions list to see if other Wikipedians have felt the need to modify my edits, I see a (top). But when a bot edits an article, the "(top)" notification gets triggered but nothing of interest has happened.
I can think of two ways to fix this. Maybe there are others.
This wouldn't even reduce the functionality of your bot - the functionality of your bot (adding "date" fields to templates), has no urgency.
Can you fix this? Gronky (talk) 21:17, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey there Anomie(BOT), we're trying to kickstart WP:BIOPHYS so a lil' help from your bot would be appreciated. Specifically, we're looking to tag the following categories (no recursion). Default run configuration for AnomieBOT is fine (inherit assessment class, bypass redirects, etc...). The template is {{WikiProject Biophysics|class=|importance=}}
.
Some other categories are being considered as well, but the above are pretty solid for a first run (discussion).
Many thanks.Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:51, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Would you consider adding {{cbsb link}} to the AltLinkTemplateSubster task in the same way that you have {{cfb link}} and {{cbb link}}? Let me know if there is anything I need to do to make this happen. Thanks. Billcasey905 (talk) 23:49, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
We seem to be having a problem w/ITN archiving: User:AnomieBOT/shutoff/ITNCArchiver --ThaddeusB (talk) 21:50, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Generally good to see bot substitution of {{show by date}}, although that should probably be avoided in the User: space e.g. this edit refactored a test page which probably should remain intact to support occasional tests and experiments... or else devise some tagging to flag the page so the bot can leave it intact. Dl2000 (talk) 00:23, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
|nobot=
and |demo=
as signs to leave a particular transclusion alone; how's that sound? Anomie⚔ 15:28, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
|nosubst=
and |demo=
. Anomie⚔ 23:24, 21 March 2012 (UTC)SoxBot did perform some Interwiki tasks in simple, commons, and meta wiki. This would be a good enough reason to initiate another BRFA for Cyberbot I however, I would like to know if you took over the bad image task?—cyberpower ChatLimited Access 12:27, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
I am going to initiate a BRFA and have Cyberbot I get approved for the {{badimage}} task. If you have any objections, let me know.—cyberpower ChatOnline 19:56, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Please read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Blohm_%26_Voss_BV_238#Conflicting_accounts_of_the_destruction_of_the_aircraft.
Cricobr (talk) 14:16, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Anomie. Do you think this is something which could be done by bot or not? The problem is that in a lot of cases instead of using a blank skeleton infobox template, it is copied from some existing article. Maybe you have any advice concerning this issue? Thank you. Beagel (talk) 17:50, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Would you mind running the bot on Arkansas Militia in the Civil War? Thanks!Aleutian06 (talk) 03:14, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:BAG/Status as of https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BAG/Status&oldid=484494970 shows for Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/CeraBot_II Hellknowz as last editor but not last BAGger. Josh Parris 06:27, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I'm wondering if AnomieBOT could handle cases like these [6] somehow, where bot and user are the same (i.e. no bot account). Possibly, only notify if the account has almost no edits or has "Bot" in the name. Otherwise assume it is a user requesting approval and let BAG clarify details. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 13:10, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
After a user made an error here (missing a curky bracket at the start of orphan), Anomiebor made quite a mess of it in the next edit[8]. Seems a rather unusual set of circumstances, no idea if you can do anything to prevent this. Fram (talk) 08:30, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
With this edit a template {{incominglinks}} was placed on a dab page called Edward Hungerford in fact just one article was linked to it. It seems very drastic to place a template with the wording "This disambiguation page is currently linked from a large number of articles" when there is only one article link to it. I think you need to adjust the algorithm that places the template onto such dab pages so that there is is for a "large number of articles". -- PBS (talk) 16:14, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
|date=April 2012
to it. Anomie⚔ 11:10, 4 April 2012 (UTC)The article is essentially a list of abnormal behaviours linking to individual articles on these behaviours. The individual articles are all fully referenced with verifiable sources. Does the 'list' article really need to contain these same references? DrChrissy (talk) 20:19, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
|date=April 2012
. But yes, the list article should contain its own references. If the individual articles are properly referenced, thus should be easy as you can just copy the appropriate refs. Anomie⚔ 10:37, 6 April 2012 (UTC)Could you check if the user didn't included a correct behaviour of the {{As of}} template and fix it? Example is here and the actual fix is in the revision after that? mabdul 15:27, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
If I had tried harder I might have. When I couldn't right away, I used another article with the same information as a source. After going back and looking at my contributions I saw mine was not the last edit to South Tryon Square. I forgot that if there was a ref name I must have used it twice!
Anyway, thanks.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:06, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
::But there was no link in my version and I needed to find one to verify something. The bot added one.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 14:35, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
When I origionaly wrote this artical it was complete and acurate. Unfortunatly many people editid it down and down and because of lack of citations. If you would alow our web site to be used for citations see www.u-boat.co.uk it would be easy to change the artical back to it's former glory. Sory if speling bad, I have learning dificulty.Uboater (talk) 06:57, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Bot seems to be having an edit war with humans at Caffeine. I don't know whether moving the refs into the section that is transcluded into the Red Bull article was correct or not, but I would like a human to take a look at the situation. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guy Macon (talk • contribs) 03:53, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Idid fix another, unrelated, orphaned ref (name=svkemtid1914) elsewhere in the article. The original author never included a complete cite there, and I could not find one after a little research, so I commented it out. The article no longer has any ref errors.
It's not clear why the bot chose to do what it did here, which was to move existing, working refs, and not fix the actual broken one.
Also, I'd like to suggest that the bot avoid edit wars like this. If a bot edit is reverted, it should not immediately perform the same edit again. For now, I'm disabling the bot editing on Caffeine.— AlanM1 (talk) 06:46, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
<noinclude>
, <includeonly>
, or <onlyinclude>
, as that means someone is probably doing something strange with transcluding one article into another (I thought there was some guideline recommending against doing that, but I can't seem to find it now).Bot just tagged Talk:Cybil with a notice [9] that the article was previously deleted -- but the previous AFD was for the article Cybil Sadiq, not Cybil! :( —Lowellian (reply) 18:05, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
One of the documented forms of usage of {{Update after}}
is this bare form (i.e. with no date). In fact, it's the first example: Template:Update_after#Examples. This is to mean that the information is already out of date, and not as of any particular time (just somewhere in the past). AnomieBOT, however, comes along and adds the current date to these, which implies a precision that does not exist. I don't believe it is correct to do this. The no-date form of the template exists for the specific reason documented and, if used that way, should be respected. — AlanM1 (talk) 11:49, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
See page history of File:Portuguese Ibex Cabrera Goat.svg. When Commons fair use upload bot (talk · contribs) transfers files from Commons, they sometimes have a Commons "copyvio" template on them, which conflicts with our local {{Copyvio}}. AnomieBOT then treats these as if they were meant to be English Wikipedia copyvio templates, and attempts to subst them, obliterating the whole file page [13].
Until the Commons bot can be instructed to remove the "copyvio" tag during transfer (which I've suggested here), would it be possible to instruct AnomieBOT to leave file pages created by that other bot alone? Thanks, – Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:40, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for your review at the article Hyderabad, India, Please see this] source, of Deccan Chronicle, Published on 26 October 2011, with the title "Be a Pal and stop polluting" the news reads "Hyderabad is one of the 16 most polluted cities of India and the State Pollution Control Board says that the situation is getting from bad to worse", I hope this source is enough to support the text. Please let me know so that we shall remove the template [citation needed] which you applied in this edit. Regards :)--Omer123hussain (talk) 19:51, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
|date=April 2012
to a template that was already there. The template itself was added by Dwaipayanc (talk · contribs) in the previous edit. You should talk to them instead. Anomie⚔ 14:35, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
There is no dispute in article. There is no partiality in writing of article. Gespee (talk) 05:46, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
|date=April 2012
. You'll probably want to discuss the matter with MatthewVanitas. Anomie⚔ 12:46, 22 April 2012 (UTC)atWikipedia:Templates for discussion. deleted nomination dates april 13, 12, 11, 10 in separate edits. pls restore.
this is the page @ "April 13" prior to the bot's malfunction: 488415526. 65.88.88.127 (talk) 16:20, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Can you please update the bot so that the number of days of nominations on ITN/C at any given time is seven instead of five? -- tariqabjotu 21:23, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
You ruined the article champak--Napsync (talk) 15:50, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I see that AnomieBOT normally creates the new TfD page each day (e.g. Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 April 29), but it didn't seem to do it today – I had to create Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 April 30 manually. Any reason for this and will it happen again (it messes with Twinkle nominations when the page doesn't exist)? Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 01:32, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
I undid revision 491215202 by AnomieBOT which was a reference edit on Robert Ford (outlaw) because Robert Ford is a non-fictional person and the Seattle Times reference is based on a fictional work with no sources. Jeff Smith (talk) 20:27, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Mousing over this [15] change by your bot flags up: This claim needs references to reliable sources from May 2012. Not so. The cite tag was placed May 2012. It is not asking for reliable sources from May 2012. Please reword or remove. Thanks. Writegeist (talk) 22:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Bot; I am reverting you as you seem to have added a second closing quote on two REF tags that each already had one. Spike-from-NH (talk) 12:48, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
name
orgroup
fields of a <ref>
(or any other HTML-like tag), they must be either '
or"
, that is the characters U+0027 or U+0022. The quote that the ref tag "already" had is neither of these characters; instead it is U+201D, ”
. When it is used in pair with U+201C (“
) as in <ref name=“odd”>
, AnomieBOT will be able to make the expected fix to <ref name="odd">
. But in that article, for some unknown reason, you are pairing U+201D with U+0022 instead. So AnomieBOT's best guess was that you intended the name of the reference to be『 Pg. 46372”
』and accidentally left off the closing "
needed for valid syntax.<ref name="Pg. 46372”>
, treating it as equivalent to a plain <ref>
. This removes the error that was attracting the bot, but is still wrong and would be fixed by the bot again if reference errors occur again in the future. I have applied the correct fix.Thank you--They all seemed the same to me in the diff window and even the edit window. Spike-from-NH (talk) 16:21, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Ping, regarding the above section. --Izno (talk) 04:15, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
The Real Life Barnstar | |
this has true events Chinhim (talk) 23:51, 26 March 2012 (UTC) |
In an effort to prevent disruption, I refuse to subst templates that have over 100 transclusions unless they are listed at User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force. Please either edit the template to remove it from Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted, manually subst the existing transclusions, or add it to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force to let me know it is OK to subst them. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 11:04, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Anomie! Should AnomieBOT automatically susbt the {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} AND {{CURRENTYEAR}} templates, such as on Mora (linguistics)? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:15, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
/{{CURRENTYEAR}}
outside of all cleanup templates, whereas those in Mora (linguistics) were inside a {{no footnotes}}
cleanup tag. I can think of other cases where {{CURRENTYEAR}}
must not be substituted - for example, in the inflation calcs used in articles like James Cudworth and NBR 224 and 420 Classes. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:16, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
I've changed the wording on Ranjana Khanna's page so that it follows wiki guidelines (which it had already been passed through for more than two years without a problem, but for some reason today someone put a tag on the top of the page. So I've made some changes to the wording. Would it be possible for the tag at the top of the page to be removed now? Many thanks. Choocheu (talk) 05:06, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
|date=June 2012
to it, so the page would be properly categorized for maintenance. Anomie⚔ 11:37, 3 June 2012 (UTC)I think the bot wa a bit too eager in creating cleanup cats for the current month, the cats for July 2012 were already created on 5 June. Not a real problem of course, but perhaps better to wait with them until the last days of the previous month instead... Fram (talk) 07:30, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
A small token for you | |
I am sending you some RAM as wikilove because food and drink would have been pointless for you and you most probably can't look after kitten so I am making my own to send you. Thank you for fixing citation link on Anil Kumble. I was a minute late. Vyom25 (talk) 14:22, 7 June 2012 (UTC) |
Regarding this, one of us is "making errors". :-) GFHandel ♬ 08:15, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
AtUser talk:Tryptofish/Archive 1, the bot keeps trying to change a link to a usurped username, in a way that destroys the meaning of the archived content [16]. Please stop making this particular edit, so that I can correct it. Thank you. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:43, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
{{bots|deny=AnomieBOT}}
on the page. Or, for that matter, I can fully protect it for you if you'd rather have that done. Anomie⚔ 23:33, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm not quite certain what you did ... but thank you, because I'm sure it must be for the betterment of the Cathy Segal-Garcia page.
This is my first attempt at creating a page, so I have no clue what most of the codes mean, etc. Thank you for any help in the future too! Redlippedlady (talk) 10:30, 9 June 2012 (UTC) |
Wakey, wakey AnomieBOT. You are supposed to sort out Template:Afd-merge from after merge discussions are closed. Or is it something that we mere mortals are not doing properly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alan Liefting (talk • contribs) 06:02, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, the bot incorrectly duplicated the notification about an old AFD at Talk:Jurij Moškon. --Eleassar my talk 14:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Undid revision 497289829 by KTC (talk) - err, yes they do. Just search for "{{{date|}}}" in the wikitext of each template. They populate the dated subcats of Category:Articles to be merged
— Anomie @ Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates
Fair enough if it's just me being an idiot. However, if that's the case please fix these: [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. They all clearly shows the date before AnomieBOT edit, but not after.... -- KTC (talk) 03:47, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
..the Talk:Koch family article in RE: "Unreliable Source" tag you added to my citation. See you there. If you don't argue your position over the next 24 hours or so, I'll be removing the tag. --XB70Valyrie (talk) 00:46, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Additionally. You also tagged the edit as "Not in citation given". It is to there! Read the article. I'm not going to sit here and defend myself against the same accusations over and over and over again, made by different people. I already had the first person who claimed that the material I put in the article wasn't there, then when they actually read the article they recanted their claim. If you don't argue your position over the next 24 hours or so, I'll be removing the tag.--XB70Valyrie (talk) 00:53, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
|date=June 2012
so the article would be placed into the correct maintenance categories. Anomie⚔ 02:25, 14 June 2012 (UTC)I know your bot does good work, but is there a way to check if the page is still being editted by the same person. I was doing some extensive changes including fixing a botched template that I had just ... well botched... and I wasn't paying attention when I hit save and I didn't read the warning and hit save again and lost all my changes. something small i know speednat (talk) 07:17, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
Not a bug but I'm just curious about this edit. I know why the "what" template is dated but why change the weather box to move the |metric first= yes up a line and add |date=June 2012? Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 18:23, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
|date=Month Year
to the template, which will help sort the article into a subcat of Category:Articles with unsourced statements."{{rp|needed=yes}}
and neglected to notice that it had made sense at the time to strip whitespace from that template but didn't make sense in the more general case... Anomie⚔ 16:04, 16 June 2012 (UTC)Is the tag on Prince Nayef's page really necessary? It was put by an editor who began to edit yesterday. Thanks, Egeymi (talk) 18:00, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Can you extend the time before archiving ITN nominations by two days per this discussion? Bzweebl (talk • contribs) 02:21, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Drink up! | |
Hoping this helps to quench your bot thirst… Congrats on all the hard work ;-) benzband (talk) 12:47, 21 June 2012 (UTC) |
I checked out a few of the references your bot could not fix (great work btw.!) to do it manually, and stumbled over this edit:
In[25] the reference was removed due to a typo. This shows the limitations of a script ^^. I have no clue how you could prevent this, maybe doing a plain string search for "name" and do not remove those that contain that string? I'll readd the corrected reference manually for now. -- Windharp (talk) 12:37, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Brilliantly conceived and very helpful. Anarchangel (talk) 19:59, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
Is there something wrong with the bot? User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable hasn't been updated in 18 hours and there have been requests that were approved/declined. Ryan Vesey Review me! 20:30, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
I know that AnomieBOT was inactive today (July 1st) due to WikiPedia server issues. Now that AnomieBOT has resumed again, it added the section to July 2nd to ITN/C, but completely skipped July 1st. Will AnomieBOT catch this, and go back and add it, or is it something that you'll need to fix to avoid causing issues with AnomieBOT coming to the page on July 3rd? Thanks for the help! I only bring this up because I ended up putting the ITN nomination for UEFA Euro 2012 under June 30th because of AnomieBOT's downtime, and I wanted to move it to July 1st where it belongs so the archives stay factually correct. -- Anc516 (Talk ▪ Contribs) 01:40, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, see this edit: the {{out of date}}
already had a date, but it had been put in a positional parameter in error. Is there any chance of modifying AnomieBOT so that if the cleanup template has a positional parameter, and that parameter contains a valid date (in this case "May 2012"), it could be replaced by the |date=
parameter? --Redrose64 (talk) 13:14, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
A variant: this was not a missing date, but a typo. Is it feasible to check for "obvious" typos like |dtae=
? --Redrose64 (talk) 22:38, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
For all articles in the categories listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand/List of categories, except Korean War, Vietnam War, World War I and World War II, please. Project notified at WT:WikiProject Thailand#Project tagger run (lack of opposition assumed to mean approval). The list has a separate section for biographical article categories, so those may also be tagged for WP:WikiProject Biography also. I'll post a notice on the project talk page (just realised this was required too). Thank you. --Paul_012 (talk) 23:59, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Not knowing what else to do, I've gone through the WP Thailand talk pages which transcluded the redirects and bypassed the redirects while assessing the articles. This should help avoid the mysterious bug? How about restarting the task only for WikiProject Thailand? --Paul_012 (talk) 06:33, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
Could you look at this DRV on File:Graham_at_NRB_1977.jpg[27] following AnomieBOT closing the earlier FFD.[28] Thincat (talk) 13:42, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
"However, I must say I think I would be wise to upload the image to en.wp because if the file is deleted on Commons my access to the file has gone and my FUR description will be properly speedied"← Exactly.
{{Multiple issues}} has changed the format and the bot is still maintaining based on the old format and messing up the syntax. —Chris Capoccia T⁄C 11:33, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, can you tell me what is wrong with pages Davor Stefanek and Dragana Cvijic? thank you--Backij (talk) 18:05, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
|date=July 2012
to maintenance templates added by human editors. You probably want to ask CouchSurfer222 (talk · contribs) and Dr.pragmatist (talk · contribs), who placed the maintenance tags on those two articles. Anomie⚔ 18:15, 11 July 2012 (UTC)Hi AnomieBOT, you are always so kind adding the (Dating maintenance tags): {{Bare urls}}. I was wondering if you also do this if the {{bare urls}} template is not added to the edit summary. Lotje ツ (talk) 12:55, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
|date=
and adds it. AnomieBOT doesn't pay any attention to edit summaries for this task, and in fact doesn't even try to find the edit that added the tag to the article. Anomie⚔ 13:10, 13 July 2012 (UTC)