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Well done! Norman21 (talk) 21:56, 2 March 2013 (UTC) |
In 2nd Infantry Regiment (United States), Ramrod, line 60 you put (Dating maintenance tags: {{Cn}}) what is that supposed to mean and why? I would like your explanation not a canned explanation from wikipedia.Lansmun (talk) 13:45, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
{{cn}}
template is a shorthand for {{citation needed}}
. This marks the article as needing a reference for the statement against which it has been put.{{cn}}
template was added, this can indicate that it simply cannot be sourced, and so complete removal of the statement might be a reasonable action. Hence, the {{cn}}
template has a |date=
parameter (as do most of the other cleanup templates), so you would put {{cn|date=May 2013}}
or{{cn|date=June 2013}}
etc., depending upon when you first decided to add the {{cn}}
. A benefit of this is that it will also put the article into a category, there is one for each month, e.g. ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Articles with unsourced statements from May 2013 - some people like to go to the oldest of these, and fix up what they can. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:48, 30 May 2013 (UTC)Help! A section in Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2013 April 23 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⚡ 15:10, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Help! A section in Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2013 April 25 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⚡ 15:10, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
I have made references to a full webb-address and comment what's importaint from that webbpage. I'm not sure I do understad what You mean. Is references ment to copy the entire source. Anyone can very easy just go to the refered site and read everything. And if all references included long documents whithin the ref and /ref then, 1. editing gets very difficult. 2. from certain souces other signs than the text follows with, during coying. And the text partly becomes a pure blur. 3.Space on the servers has becomming an increasing prpblem. So why copy more than necessary ? 4 and is that legal ? And what about 177 pages ? Or have I simply missunderstood what You ment ? I think I've solved the structue issue, and removesd that one. Could You please take a look at the grammar and spelling again. I agree that formulations were not up to standard. Word "attempt" is now correctly spelled. I appriciate Your work. But if You can check the formulations again I would be greatful. As indeed if You can give a brief answer to my questions concerning "full citation". reguards Boeing720 (talk) 09:38, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
|date=June 2013
to a maintenance tag added by some human editor. You should look in the history of whichever page you're referring to to look for the edit that actually added the tag, and contact that editor. Anomie⚔ 21:22, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thanks to you and the bot. I've tried not to make errors when I'm adding wiki mark-ups but mistakes happen and the bot makes my life much easier. Thanks Red Fiona (talk) 22:08, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Would you consider adding {{csb link}} to the AltLinkTemplateSubster task in the same way that you have {{cfb link}}, {{cbb link}}, and {{cbsb link}}? Let me know if there is anything I need to do to make this happen. Thanks. Billcasey905 (talk) 00:45, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello- First, I hope I'm in the right place. I followed a link in an edit summary to User:AnomieBOT/shutoff/TalkTemplateMover, which didn't look like a place to leave a note, so I came here. I noticed that this bot moved a template I placed on Treaty_of_Compiègne_(867). Though I'm not convinced it's the best approach, I now see that the template's stewards think it should be on the talk page instead of the article page itself. That aside, I wanted to alert you that the bot's move did not register on my watchlist. Is that by design? Eric talk 12:53, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
Tried to update the article on Camille Keaton.
It was not adjusting correctly. Perhaps you can take a look at it. Hired Ghoul (talk) 22:40, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, You did a great job on fixing the article on her. Hired Ghoul (talk) 23:19, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
TCO (talk) 19:11, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
Onfluorine last night. Not sure which of the last 3, it was. It's also possible I'm mistaken and did not have the tag up in time. But it seemed like it dated a "cn" tag when I was working.
Does the bot check for "inuse" in sections or only at the article top?
And does it open the whole article or just the place where it works? (IOW does it cause a conflict?)
TCO (talk) 23:28, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
@Anomie: Hello, please use the rights log instead of the makebot log in the links labelled "F". Thanks. Hazard-SJ ✈ 03:09, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
AnomieBOT just added an {{old AfD multi}} tag to Talk:Tiny Tiny RSS, even though that page already had an {{old AfD}} tag pointing to the same AfD [4]. Does AnomieBOT not check for the presence of this template before adding one of its own? If not, then perhaps it should. I'm not the only human editor who takes care to add the {{old AfD}} tag to the talk page of newly recreated articles. Psychonaut (talk) 21:03, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
[5] —Ruud 19:01, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
|date=
in order to date the {{citation needed}} it automatically inserts if various *_url parameters are missing. Anomie⚔ 22:29, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Somewhat unrelated to Ruud Koot's issue, but it also involves the citation needed template. Does AnomieBOT have an issue with the day or is this normal behavior? --Super Goku V (talk) 04:39, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Revision 04:33, 13 July 2013 (Fixing reference errors)
AtWikiProject Medicine, we discussed and approved an idea to add the {{WPMED/Evidence}} template to the top of many in-scope article talk pages. The list of pages would be all of those that transclude any of these templates (as discussed here):
Could you help with this? If not, could you point me in the right direction? I am a Perl programmer, so could probably do it myself, but in a first crack at it, had some trouble installing/using Mediawiki::bot with a test wiki.
Thanks! Klortho (talk) 18:20, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
Zad68
14:10, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
@Klortho, Jmh649, and Zad68: I have the code ready to do this. Basically, it inserts the template above any WikiProject banners (or the WikiProjectBannerShell), if any, or otherwise it tries to find a "good" place to insert it among the other talkpage header templates. Did you post a notice at WP:VPR or anywhere yet? Anomie⚔ 22:35, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Zad68
17:34, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Please see WT:MED and please stop this bot. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:39, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
The bot appears to be tagging articles on veterinary topics with a MEDRS template. Not sure that's within the scope of MEDRS. Montanabw(talk) 15:31, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Noticing that closed AfDs for the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Paganism weren't being archived, I have created an archive page. Is there anything else I need to do for the bot to start archiving the closed AfDs? (I don't see any mysterious summoning code on other such pages but may well be missing it.) Yngvadottir (talk) 19:34, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Great edit! Thanks, --Technopat (talk) 09:02, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks!!!! Mugginsx (talk) 15:10, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
The BRFA list cannot be processed. Most likely, someone has screwed around with the section headers. Either fix it back to the old layout, or update me to handle the new version. 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⚡ 19:21, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
It's quite annoying to see that all that's been done is a very minor edit. Alright, maybe a date= parameter is useful. So to stop bots from messing up the (current) tag, I started adding it.
Yet, that is not enough. I still get bitten. Like, july 2013 -> July 2013. Trivial crap like that is why I stopped even tagging articles. I think I'll stop again. Congratulations to you, and your valuable service to wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.211.113.82 (talk) 10:27, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
What's up with this bot? Tagging Hogansville, Georgia lead paragraph and notable residents section. I despise templates, they make articles look ugly. My coworkers ask what this section in the box means and what this means here. I tell them just ignore these templates and read the rest of the article. This also must be why teachers are telling students not to use wiki articles as sources in papers because you never know what templates might be on articles. Disgusting drive-by tagging, disable this bot as soon as you can. Peace out! --Mjrmtg (talk) 22:13, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Is there any way the bot can fix things like this in a better way than it did? This change actually made the page worse, because the reference still showed an error after, and now it's not obvious a URL was ever added. Jackmcbarn (talk) 11:43, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Help! A section in Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2013 August 9 contains the "is_closed" regex but not at the beginning of the section. Probably someone put the {{ffd 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⚡ 16:09, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi Anomie. Your bot has just formatted my tag at Persian carpet, thanks. I see now that the tag is not quite what I wanted - my intention was to call attention to the fact that the information is outdated/ old. I can't find the correct tag template for that. Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 11:04, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
{{Update inline}}
--Redrose64 (talk) 15:21, 24 August 2013 (UTC)Howdy bot people! The bot is doing something strange at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2013 August 29 - insisting on a duplicate daily header. I think it relates to the fact that someone tried to add one manually earlier today (in the same way that one manually adds a record to AFD). I tried to correct the error but was reverted by the bot. I think I've fixed it by removing the manually entered one, but I'm not certain. If you could have a look, that would be great. Obviously no need to stop it or whatever, just a minor glitch. Cheers! Stalwart111 07:23, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Can edit requests to modules be colored green instead of white, like templates currently are? Jackmcbarn (talk) 16:34, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Category:Wikipedians by profession was nominated as CfD, and the results was keep. Can we loop through it's child categories and remove the CfD template? The discussion can be found here. Please note that the mentioned list in the discussion does not include all categories that were nominated for deletion, e.g. the template on Category:Wikipedian_guitarists-2 links to the same discussion but is not included in the list. I'm going to assume all of the Category:Wikipedians by profession child categories are safe to keep? Thanks! — MusikAnimal talk 02:13, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
The page Template:Outdated section is transcluded in other pages and appears to consist of nothing but an invocation of a template that should be dated but isn't. Please fix it (most likely by adding |date={{{date|}}}
to the dated template invocation), or fix me. 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⚡ 13:06, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering about the possibility of the welcome templates being added to your list of things to automatically subst. They're on the list of things that should be substituted. Also, could you use {{ping}}
to notify me that you've replied? Thanks! — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 16:02, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
|auto=yes
to the invocation of {{Subst only}} that's probably already on the templates' documentation pages. Anomie⚔ 18:10, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
The bot recently moved a reference out of a template.[7] However, doing so added a citation where it did not belong. While it would make sense to note the error, the bot should not be attaching references to random locations within articles. This citation that that bot moved was put there to cite the range of the organism within the fossil record, a very specific citation that does not belong just anywhere in the article. --(AfadsBad (talk) 17:13, 9 September 2013 (UTC))
<ref name="Waren1996" />
--Redrose64 (talk) 17:46, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
This bot is not putting the reference in the right place. Although it may need fixed, it should not be fixed in a way that the bot creates a reference that does not belong. There are many useful bots doing useful tasks on Wikipedia; this is not a useful task, to assign a reference to a random sentence in an article, simply because it is in the wrong place. A broken reference is better than one that is wrong.
Please stop this bot from reverting my edit. Thank you. --(AfadsBad (talk) 17:49, 9 September 2013 (UTC))
Bot/human edit war: bot wins, the articles are all his. Maybe the bot can now continue editing the rest of the junk out of this editor's articles, since it is interfering with my trying to make sense of them. --(AfadsBad (talk) 18:02, 9 September 2013 (UTC))
Please do not work on my new page until I am finished - I have just lost about 40 minutes of work. I know you do great work, I just could not find the "work in progress" template. Mybad. Thankyou Mugginsx (talk) 16:51, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
The bot failed to create today's page, and failed to add both today's and yesterday's pages to the list. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 07:23, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
If an edit semi-protected template is placed on a talk page when the corresponding content page doesn't exist, can it be colored yellow instead of red? Jackmcbarn (talk) 14:42, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
When trying to fix orphaned refs in Alex Rodriguez, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about nowpublic.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⚡ 11:19, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
When an edit protected tag is placed on a page, and it contains the parameter that sets the page being requested to be edited (example here, the request is on Template talk:Ln but applies to Template:La, per the first parameter), the bot lists it as being an edit to the wrong page (here). Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:53, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
{{edit protected}}
to put pages in an additional category when a parameter is passed to it, and then only load the pages in that category. Jackmcbarn (talk) 15:16, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
Help! A section in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2013 September 16 seems to contain a level-4 header. Probably someone screwed up {{DRV top}}, and I'm thinking an entire discussion is part of {{{1}}} or {{{2}}}. Anyway, I can't remove the headers from 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⚡ 21:20, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Please look at the edit it made to Fraggle Rock on October 10, 2013.
24.18.35.153 (talk) 20:08, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
|reason=
was not filled in by 91.63.243.112 (talk). The bot cannot know the reason, but it can determine the date. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:27, 6 October 2013 (UTC)Something is wrong with the bot: it closed the same discussion four times. --Stefan2 (talk) 07:49, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
<div class="boilerplate metadata vfd xfd-closed"
to detect a closed discussion. I'll have that adjusted in a few minutes. Anomie⚔ 23:29, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Why did you do this? >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2008_in_Irish_music&diff=451894118&oldid=451660240 It caused a lot of errors. --Frze > talk 12:25, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
name=="foo"
with an extra equals sign. This meant MediaWiki would not recognize the name, and AnomieBOT eventually removed the entirely bogus text. Anomie⚔ 23:22, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, AnomieBOT. I really thank you for your help.
Here is a tea for you. Have some rest. And next time, please help me to update my article. :)
Have a nice day. IloveU4ever (talk) 14:49, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Anomie. Thank you very much for writing AnomieBOT, and especially the NewArticleAFDTagger. I know you're busy, so I don't expect that you'll write such a task. Instead, it would be good if you could let Bot Requests readers know whether or not you would accept a patch which adds this functionality to AnomieBOT, and to also let readers know whether or not you or any other bot did NewArticleAFDTagging of all pre-existing articles before you launched your bot. Thank you! —Unforgettableid (talk) 04:36, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I have requested for Change of Username using Usurpations from Mb-m → Mmitra. It's almost 8 days from the date of request but still it shows In progress, i would like to know how much time does it takes to complete the request and how long would it take to complete. Please reply as soon as possible. Thank You !
Link: Mb-m → Mmitra
--Mb-m (talk) 06:41, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable has become out-of-date, and http://tools.wmflabs.org/anomiebot/ marks PERTableUpdater as "ended"? Does this mean it won't run any more? That would be a shame, because by watchlisting the SPERTable one can get very quick notice of new edit requests. (I know about Category:Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests, but one can't watchlist that, and the category actually transcludes the SPERTable.) Cheers, --Stfg (talk) 12:18, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, re this edit - there is now a fourth protection level, intermediate between semi-prot and full-prot: it is called template editor, and such templates may be identified by testing {{PROTECTIONLEVEL}}
for "templateeditor". As an example, {{PROTECTIONLEVEL:edit|Template:Infobox bilateral relations}}
→ templateeditor --Redrose64 (talk) 10:19, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
SIR WILLIAM BOWES article Please remove the need for citation tag - the references are all in order. Cheers Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.10.139 (talk) 06:25, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Please take a look: [9] [10] [11] Thanks --Frze > talk 04:17, 23 October 2013 (UTC) Please ping me
Hi Anomie!
Here you removed <ref></ref>-Tags. Adding this is mostly done by vandals or IP-vandals. Nobody will notice the other changes there. What's to do? Thanks -- Frze > talk 05:16, 24 October 2013 (UTC) Please ping me
This bot seems to be sticking 'citation needed' and 'ambiguity' notices everywhere - I'm getting a bit sick of reversing them. It adds citation needed notices to sentences or paragraphs that have < ref >< /ref > citations at their ends! This sort of flagging is not suitable for a bot to undertake. Urselius (talk) 16:08, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
Not quite the right tag, you had contributed to Shraddha Kapoor, stop adding dubious tag, justify/clarify your tag on your the talk page. Seriously, i don't know in which way the page does not seem in neutral way.
Smauritius (' . ') 09:03, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
|date=
to maintenance tags added by other (human) users. If you carefully examine whichever edit you are complaining about, you will note that the tag was already present and the bot only added |date=October 2013
to it. You should look further back in the history to find the human editor who did add the tag. Anomie⚔ 00:48, 29 October 2013 (UTC)Dear Anomie BOT, you have removed the reference to the book of Sailen Debnath while keeping the entire quotation and version from his book. this part "Yama is assisted by Chitragupta who is assigned with the task of keeping complete records of actions of human beings on the earth, and upon their death deciding to have them reincarnated as a superior or inferior organism, depending on their actions on the earth (Karma). "In Hinduism, Yama often is considered as ‘Kala’ or time, for Yama comes in a particular time and that time is naturally selected; nobody can stop his coming and change the timing. That after birth a living body gradually approaches towards death through decay or disease or because of accident is just a matter of time or duration of time at the end of which there comes Death. The coming of Death may be delayed by treatment of the patient or the sick person or by the pursuit of a better way of life, but the inevitability of death can never be stopped by any means. That is why Yama is called “Kala’ or time, because the coming of Death is just a matter of time in accordance with the law and system of nature."Italic text[citation needed] was directly taken from 'Sailen Debnath, The Meanings of Hindu Gods, Goddesses and Myths, ISBN 9788129114815, Rupa & Co., New Delhi'. Astonishingly you have removed the reference while again you want 'citation'. Please either you restore the reference to the book of sailen Debnath by reverting to the previous position or remove the quotation as earlier the better for the act of removing the reference while keeping the quotation amounts to copy-right violation that is looked after by the Rupa & Co, New Delhi. The previous edition was made by me for the up-gradation of the Wikipedia talk-page on Yama. As you administrators do not like reference to the books of Sailen Debnath on the ground of his being only a 'minor academic', you are at liberty to do that; but in that case, you must remove the portion or the quotation taken verbatim from his book. You are not supposed to be involved in copy-right violation.--Parnashree (talk) 16:07, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
The BRFA list cannot be processed. Most likely, someone has screwed around with the section headers. Either fix it back to the old layout, or update me to handle the new version. 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⚡ 16:08, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
There are a larger than usual number of undated articles in ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit. I believe that AnomieBOT usually tags the {{copyedit}} tags with dates pretty quickly. I did a random check on a few of the articles, and they all had the copyedit tag added on October 25.
Am I being impatient? Could something bot-related be stuck and in need of a restart?
Disclaimer: I know very little about how AnomieBOT works, but I have benefited greatly from its drive-by dating of my undated tags. I love being allowed to be lazy! Thanks for that. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:56, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
The template Template:Cfb link was modified from the last known good version (diff). Please check that my replacement function for that template is still correct, and then update the good revision id to the current revision. 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⚡ 05:54, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Just wondering how, in this update, the request at Talk:Big Ben was assigned to article 1. --Stfg (talk) 11:57, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi AnomieBOT! The BAG/Status page has last editor (+datetime) and last BAG editor (+datetime). Could you ask your programmer to change you so that the newer (or older, whatever) of the two columns gets highlighted in a different colour (such as light gray) so I can tell when the back and forth requires me to have another go? Sometimes I miss stuff on my watchlist. Thanks! Josh Parris 09:11, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
.MostRecentIsBAG
class, which is set on the cells of the "Last edit" column when the last edit is also the last BAG edit. Anomie⚔ 11:08, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BAG/Status&oldid=580571685 Shows Josh Parris as the last BAG editor, and Hellknowz as the last editor; WP:BAG shows Hellknowz as a BAGger and Hellknowz has been listed as Last BAG editor elsewhere in that list. Hellknowz edited after Josh Parris, so, um, huh? Bug? Or correct behaviour that I don't understand? Josh Parris 09:24, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, could you please review and pass the article you tagged(Dating maintenance tags: {{Notability}} {{Advert}}). The content has be edited since then. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Larochie (talk • contribs) 15:17, 13 November 2013
{{notability}}
and {{advert}}
that were already present. It does not "review" or "pass" articles, nor does it add the tags in question. I suggest that you contact Piotrus (talk · contribs), who did add those tags. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:52, 13 November 2013 (UTC)There's a MfD at the bottom of Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Football which is not being archived by this bot (which is only doing AfDs). I would just delete it myself but don't want to deny its passage to an archive somewhere. If anyone reading this can delete/archive it, please go ahead. It has been sitting there since January 2013. Thanks, C679 22:43, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
I've hit the emergency shutoff for the TemplateUnsubstifier task. Something seems to have gone wrong, see Template:Self for an erroneous edit. I'm not sure to how many edits the problem extends. —RP88 (talk) 18:39, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:48, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
I've noticed that the bot made a strange edit here, destroying a template that it had placed itself. This cannot be correct. I've reverted the bot edit. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Update: The bot has done it again. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 02:20, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
no, it's just AnomieBOT. Again, adding non-required arguments to tags. Gronky (talk) 08:55, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
<ref>
or other HTML-like extension tags). Anomie⚔ 13:16, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
{{cn}}
with a date from some years ago like {{cn|date=May 2009}}
it's unlikely that a source will be forthcoming any time soon, so it's probably better just to remove the sentence. However, something marked {{cn|date=November 2013}}
may only have been added today, so WP:BLP notwithstanding it's a candidate to be left alone if you cannot source it yourself. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:27, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
|date=
parameter as required. GoingBatty (talk) 14:43, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
|date=
parameter was added to {{citation needed}}
with this edit. Its presence initially put the page into ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Articles with unsourced statements since November 2013 etc., but this was altered to ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Articles with unsourced statements from November 2013 etc. on 23 May 2009. Since the parameter was implemented on 5 February 2007, its absence has been tracked by putting the page into ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Articles with unsourced statements, so that bots like SmackBot (talk · contribs) could go through that category and so add the missing |date=
. AnomieBOT is doing nothing new in that regard - in fact it is doing less since it leaves template redirects like {{cn}}
and {{fact}}
alone when adding a missing |date=
, whereas SmackBot would always alter these to {{citation needed}}
whether adding the date or not. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:40, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
|date=
parameter when you use any maintenance template (not just {{citation needed}}
. I haven't yet encountered a situation where adding the date has caused a problem, so I don't bother checking if the template (a) requires |date=
(b) allows it without requiring it (c) ignores it. I remember to do it 95% of the time (or better) - I just add it it out of habit and nobody complains, least of all AnomieBOT. --Redrose64 (talk) 00:02, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
{{citation needed}}
as some new feature that has been imposed without consensus. But I have demonstrated - and can present more evidence if you like - that it is not new, but has been in place for well over six years. You've been editing since July 2004, and so this feature came in when you had been editing for less than three years, so why is it suddenly a problem now? --Redrose64 (talk) 13:47, 30 November 2013 (UTC)Hi. Just to point that the bot *almost* got a date correction right (that is, it got it wrong, but it was no big deal, and even mildly amusing). Just dropping a note, in case it looks interesting to you. Thanks. - Nabla (talk) 21:44, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Why is the protection level not always displayed in the edit protected tables (e.g. here)? Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:35, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi. The newly formed WikiProject Women artists is looking to add its project banner to the talk pages of articles within defined categories. Is this something that AnomieBOT can still do? Gobōnobō + c 11:40, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
Help! A section in Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2013 December 3 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⚡ 18:13, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Could you {{cih link}} to the AltLinkTemplateSubster task in the same way that you have {{cfb link}}, {{cbb link}}, and {{cbsb link}}? Thanks. Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 03:58, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
So basically Collaboration of the Month has been marked inactive and historical and with a brief discussion at the VG WikiProject, we decided to keep it like that. So could you have the bot stop updating the collab template? GamerPro64 15:32, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for letting me know that the copyvios I found should be discussed in the Commons forum. I was trying to Be Bold, but I am not at all familiar with the templates in the commons. I gave it a shot, and did it incorrectly. I honestly appreciate your advice.Josh3580talk/hist 01:19, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
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Anomie, is AnomieBOT going bonkers? I ask because this edit looks really funky to me especially since the template in question has not changed protection levels at all. Technical 13 (talk) 02:29, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
hey i saw you have edited "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahira_College_Matale" this page recently.. please add a logo to this page.. i cant do it cz my profile is not approved yet.. use this image or any other good image you can find.. thanks :)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zcm_logo_(2).jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aishak 97 (talk • contribs) 05:15, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
I inserted the following template {{update| |December 2006}}
to the article, which gives the message:
This article is outdated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. Last update: December 2006
AnomieBot replaced the second unnamed date parameter with an explicit |date=
parameter, to read {{update| |date=December 2006}}
, which changes the message to
Parts of this article (those related to December 2006) are outdated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (December 2013)
Khmmm, this is not the message that I would like to see on this page, since the article in question Enhanced Versatile Disk is completely outdated, not just parts of it. Unfortunately the same message shows if I change to {{update|date=December 2013|December 2006}}
.
Beyond rewriting {{update}}
(which is probably not really possible at this stage), can you make the bot check for unnamed parameters which contain date? --92.242.58.13 (talk) 12:09, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
|date=
and |lastupdate=
could be used in {{update}}. --92.242.58.13 (talk) 12:40, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
|2=
in{{update}}. Anomie⚔ 18:24, 26 December 2013 (UTC)Can semi-protected edit requests for unprotected pages that don't exist (except talk pages and pages in the Draft namespace) be changed to yellow in the SPERTable instead of red? (Basically, doing the equivalent of https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Module:Protected_edit_request&diff=588099244&oldid=587038234 for AnomieBOT) Jackmcbarn (talk) 18:49, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
Many times AnomieBOT has done good work in rescuing lost base cites, but on this edit today it must have gotten confused, because both of those base cites were still present in the article. Is this a bot bug or am I missing something? Wasted Time R (talk) 01:44, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
One more incorrect edit: [15] `a5b (talk) 09:47, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi, with this edit, the bot added a ref which was completely irrelevant. It wasn't even in a previous version of the page. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:40, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
I hope I now improved the article substantially, so that you can remove some of these tags kindest regards John de Norrona (talk) 08:50, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
|date=
to tags added by a human editor. You should review the history to find who originally added the tag, and contact that person instead. Anomie⚔ 18:37, 9 January 2014 (UTC)At[16], 3MB shows up as "Not protected" when it is in fact create-protected. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:05, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Anomie, on 2, January 2014, Jack submitted gerrit:104999 for review which was merged. Starting January 16th, {{CASCADINGSOURCES}} will work here. (It works on the beta cluster home enwiki now). Use {{CASCADINGSOURCES}} for the current page, or {{CASCADINGSOURCES:pagename}} for some other page. There's some pages you can use to test it linked from [17].
I figured this "may" be of interest to you for an update to this bot to make the "protection level" section more accurate. Keep up the good work! Technical 13 (talk) 06:24, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Anomie, would it be possible to add a column to these tables that would allow me to sort by last edit to the page? I do realize there may be other edits to the page defeating the purpose of this in some cases, but it would be helpful to see which requests have been untouched the longest. What do you think? Technical 13 (talk) 18:52, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Many thanks
Hi, Template:Cleanup-laundry has been redirected to Template:Cleanup-list, but the bot is still creating categories for the old template here. Somehow, the old template needs to be removed from this bot's worklist. Thanks Funandtrvl (talk) 01:01, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Anomie. Based on an emerging consensus at the DS review, I have to establish that it is possible to automate the logging of discretionary sanctions notices. At the moment, when users are given notice of discretionary sanctions, the notice is logged at the related arbitration decision page. When the new Alert template comes into use, we hope to replace manual logging with bot-assisted automated logging. This is the intended behaviour:
|1=
of the template instance.The idea is basically to take the stigma out of discretionary sanctions alerts (which are currently known as notices). Eliminating "naming and shaming" logs, in favour of a neutral tracking spreadsheet maintained by a stable bot seems the ideal solution. Does this sound like something it would be possible? If so, would you be willing to have AnomieBOT do this? Thanks for your consideration. Regards, AGK [•] 12:04, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
If it is of interest to you, the BOTREQ went nowhere so we turned to AbuseFilter and its tagging feature. It's been a perfect solution! Thanks again for your earlier assistance, AGK [•] 00:49, 19 January 2014 (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⚡ 22:25, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
InWP:CHUU#None (SUL request) → User:bonu, I cannot load information for the target username. Please fix me. 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⚡ 14:53, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
Request to shut off this Bot immediately as this is loading up incorrect edits to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suhas_Gopinath — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.103.105 (talk) 03:41, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Specically Mandan, but generally thanks for the good work. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 13:53, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
hi dear, it is my humble request for you to Please upload the display picture of Govinda(actor) on Wikipedia (Link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govinda_%28actor%29). I have uploaded it so many times but every time some issue occurs regarding license or copyright. I don't know how to fix it or upload image successfully. You can find best pictures of Govinda here
http://themirchmasala.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/govinda-photoshoot.jpg
So it would be much better if you upload either the pictures whose link i have given above of Govinda without any licensing/copyright issue or upload any best picture of Govinda Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amanraj6 (talk • contribs) 20:34, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, regarding User:AnomieBOT/PERTable; the page that is listed in the first column is the mainpage for the talk page upon which the {{edit protected}}
appears, and the row is coloured according to the protection level of that mainpage. But {{edit protected}}
takes a positional parameter, being the name of the page that is actually to be edited. This happens in at least two situations: (i) when one talk page is shared by several main pages (often templates); (ii) where a talk page has a subpage but the mainpage does not (e.g. Talk:Tea Party movement/Moderated discussion). If that parameter is present, would it be possible to put that into the first column of PERTable and so give the row a more suitable colour? Thanks. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:26, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
[Removed 14:28, 30 January 2014 (UTC)]
Hello BOT. Just to let you know. I had to zap this good edit to undo a vandalism in the edit before. SlightSmile 23:07, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
The PERTable pages haven't updated in over 24 hours. Any idea why? Jackmcbarn (talk) 00:41, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
I assume this has been thought of but I couldn't find it in the archives, I was just wondering why AnomieBOT doesn't replace templates with their more readable expansions when dating them? Similar to how AWB does it using Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects I don't see that it would create any extra server load since your bot is already editing the page but does make the code a bit more readable for later editors. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 17:58, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
I didn't see that in one article I put <ref anme=WS/>. However, AnomieBOT seems to think this requires deleting the reference entirely. Please tell AnomieBOT that if it knows to fix the word "anme" following "ref", it should be changed to "name". Thank you.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:08, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Thought you'd want to know: User_talk:AnomieBOT_III/shutoff/BrokenRedirectDeleter is listed on Special:BrokenRedirects. Cheers! --R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:30, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Can the "redirect has more than 1 revision and was edited less than 4 days ago" check be moved before the "target page has recent log entries" check, so that if both of those are true, the first one is the one that shows up on the log page? Jackmcbarn (talk) 19:29, 26 February 2014 (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⚡ 17:30, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
See Börnicke for an example. It's adding {{#ifeq:Stadt|Stadt|Nauen| }} and {{{Kreis}}} Instead of the correct parameters. Why is it keeping the German parameter name instead of converting it to English... Kreis -> District. A partial listing of articles can be found here. Bgwhite (talk) 01:48, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
When trying to fix orphaned refs in Aslambek Vadalov, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about kavkazcenter.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⚡ 20:56, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
It looks as if the bot wrongly unlisted Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2014 March 12 with edits like this. User:Hobit has tried restoring it but the bot has reverted. Thincat (talk) 21:21, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks to both of you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hobit (talk • contribs) 21:36, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello Anomie, you have new messages on Talk:Resurrection (U.S. TV series). — Wyliepedia 03:46, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi! At El Museo del Barrio, the bot fixed a reference issue. Unfortunately, the previous edit was vandalism and so it "fixed" vandalism. Any idea why @ClueBot: wouldn't get it first? I couldn't figure out how to fix the template without undoing AnomieBot, so you may need to sic it on that article again. Thanks for any insight StarM 02:40, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Does AnomieBOT still have the programming to clerk the CHUS page? I'm thinking of asking Legoktm to retire Legobot from clerking there because it seems to not be as stable as AnomieBOT has been at usurp. –xenotalk 11:39, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Docking (spacecraft), a redirect I created, was deleted by your bot today. I'm not sure why, as I can no longer see the page.
It should be redirecting to Docking and berthing of spacecraft, which contains citations that clarify the distinction between Docking and Berthing.
If your human would get back in touch with me, or just restore the redir, I'm sure we can discuss and fix anything that is needed.
Cheers. N2e (talk) 22:09, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
#REDIRECT [[#REDIRECT [[Docking and berthing of spacecraft]]]]
Happy new year! –xenotalk 15:03, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the reference fix at Mary Midgley! Really helpful bot you've got going. Thanks again. GPRutter (talk) 18:44, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, Any idea what the issue is, and how long until it is fixed? . Thanks, --Mdann52talk to me! 14:27, 26 March 2014 (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⚡ 06:45, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
When trying to fix orphaned refs in MS Oasis of the Seas, MediaWiki's edit filter complained about Hit AbuseFilter: archive.is additions with code abusefilter-warning-archiveis. This probably means some anti-spam measure is using AbuseFilter rather than SpamBlacklist and someone didn't properly clean up after themselves, 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⚡ 19:04, 4 April 2014 (UTC)