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User talk:AlexNewArtBot

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 18:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

May be I am not able to understand your suggestions well.

I will be obliged if you help me put the matter in the page of Kriya Reiki as well as Vishitao Reiki in the way that is acceptable to the site.

Can you suggest more specifically what needs to be added and what needs to be changed?

Rekhaa Kale 17:26, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Alex. Many thanks for creating the bot. I proved to be extremely helpful. Cheers, --Kober^Talk 19:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 00:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I'm not sure if User:AlexNewArtBot/Sweden grabs the keyword "Swedish", but if it doesn't, could you add it? Great bot idea, great bot! Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 23:15, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• It should grab it. The very first rule 8 /\Wswed[ie]/ should grab all the words starting with Swede (e.g. Sweden) or Swedi (e.g. Swedish). It should give the rule 8 points, 16 if in the leading paragraph (slighty down from the default 10). I have decreased the weight of the rule as the name of a country is often used hardly relevant articles (sport team played there, a reference book published there, etc.) Alex Bakharev 00:06, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• • Wonderful. Is more weight given to categories, such as Category:Swedish Moderate Party politicians?Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 00:12, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yes, the second rule /\[\[Category\:[^\]]swed[ie]/ should give the whole 10 additional points to all Category:..Sweden and Category:..Swedish . With additional 8 for simple swed[ie] it should give total of 18 points (with th thethreshold of 14) Alex Bakharev 07:21, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I need to setup you to find and list the new pages related to Karnataka. I have put in the announcement tag in that page. Not sure what next? The initial set of Keywords include, Karnataka, Kannada, Kannadigas, Kannadiga, Kannadati, Category:Karnataka, Category:Kannada poets, Category:Kannada writers, Bengalooru, Bangalore, Mysuru, Mysore, Mangalore, Tumkur, Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum, Rajkumar, Sahitya, Saahitya, Vachana.

The new pages need to be listed here: Portal:Karnataka/New Pages.

Please let me know if you need further information on this request. Thank you! - KNM ^Talk 09:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• I have started a feed. It would be taken into efect tonight, then I will run the bot Alex Bakharev 02:26, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This bot can used another languages wikipedia? like zh wikipedia--Shizhao 15:57, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think the bot can be modified reasonably fast to handle other language wiki. I foresee a few problems, but they seems to be manageable:

• Decoding new article lists rely on a specific format of the list. Zh-wiki might have different format that would break the code
• Zh-wiki is obviously heavily unicoded. Currently, all the unicode symbols in the rules have to be entered using the numeric codes as \x{dddd}, it is a nuisance on en-wiki and unacceptable for the zh. I guess we need to code translation from something human readable into the valid Perl regularar expression. Maybe there is already a standard for such expressions?
• I do not see any value on the case-insensitive search in zh. AFAIK there is no capital letters in Chinese
• I am not sure what to use a word boundary in Chinese, \W is obviously wrong

And the worst of all

• I have no knowledge of Chinese

I think I would find a way to make the code freely available (but somehow not that easily accessible for the teenage vandals) and somebody will pickup after me Alex Bakharev 10:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Have you considered adding User:Lupin/badwordstoUser:AlexNewArtBot/Bad? Just a suggestion. Happy editing -- Chris 73 | Talk 09:43, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• It is an idea. Theoretically articles with the bad words should be caught by the RC-patrolers, who used Lupin tools. Still worth to try. Thanks Alex Bakharev 09:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You might also try and see if the ratio of content:external links is disproportionate; it will reveal articles that are nothing but linkspam creations. JoeSmack ^Talk 12:14, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Could you please make a bot for the Netherlands? Here is some tentative keywords. ij (i+j) and ij (single letter) are both included. Colchicum 20:58, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• The rules copied to User:AlexNewArtBot/NL

Colchicum 23:43, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• The rules are now in User:AlexNewArtBot/Finland Alex Bakharev 01:33, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• • I have added them to the User:AlexNewArtBot/Master. The results should appear with the new run Alex Bakharev 01:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Colchicum 04:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Done. Rules are in User:AlexNewArtBot/Albania

This bot is a great idea! It is also a pretty much canonical example of the application of a Naive Bayes classifier, so we should be able to use mathematical principles to automatically generate pattern lists for categories, based on sampling word lists from already-categorized articles. -- The Anome 13:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Agree. We could even imagine an evolutionary algorithm: Having a population of filters allow them to breed and mutate and on each stage have the fiitest survive. Just now it is outside my computer power at home and outside my resources on the wiki development. But in future ... Alex Bakharev 12:18, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pasted to User:AlexNewArtBot/Czech Alex Bakharev 12:28, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Colchicum 23:10, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Put to User:AlexNewArtBot/Hungary

Could You feed new articles related to literature, books, novels, authors etc. Thanks, feydey 13:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The google search actually has 840 results, NOT 1-10. Miaers 01:08, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Colchicum 15:51, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mved to User:AlexNewArtBot/Politics Alex Bakharev 16:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Alex. Your bot added unref/uncat tags to a redirect. That seems a bit odd. Can you have a look? Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:16, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Look at eg. [1] (I can't wikilink that, since the title gets translated to a real article title, Mallee Football League 2007 "B" Grade season). That's the second article your bot has created with nothing but a speedy deletion tag. The first one replaced a page that had just been deleted (Jeff Merchant), but I don't know what happened here. - Bobet 14:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks! I will fix it Alex Bakharev 20:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is still doing it. The bot has recreated a couple of deleted articles and placed speedy tags on them. IrishGuy ^talk 21:09, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...until the bot stops creating empty articles that it then requests deletion for [2] - CSD is already backlogged 90% of the time without robotic help!

Shout me when the problem is solved and I'll happily unblock (as can anyone else when the problem is solved, of course).

Thanks Alex, and sorry to come down heavy on your bot. RΞDVΞRS ✖ ЯΞVΞЯSΞ 21:11, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am working on the Wikification Project, and noticed that AlexNewArtBot is tagging articles with the cleanup tags at the bottom of the article. As per WP:TC, the tags normally are placed at the top of the article. Regards. -- Whpq 19:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• My intention was to decrease the affront to the authors if the bot is mistaken. But it is the second time somebody tells me to put notices to the front and nobody supported it the other way around. It seems that the consensus is with you. I would change the bot Alex Bakharev 01:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot tagged the List of people named Giselle with the {{unreferenced}} tag. The article is just a list of Wikipedia articles who share the same name, and doesn't make any other assertions. Do these types of articles need to be referenced? - Mtmelendez ^{(TALK|UB|HOME)} 12:25, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Theoretically each article include lists should be referenced. But I agree that the tag is excessive. Next time I would check the bot did not tag lists as unreferenced Alex Bakharev 13:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. - Mtmelendez ^{(TALK|UB|HOME)} 15:25, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have come across several article tagged by your bot recently, and while I applaud the tagging, I wonder if it would be possible to add dates to the tags, as Alaibot does. This would at least save SmackBot from coming along later and filling in the gaps. To clarify, instead of adding {{unreferenced}}, you should probably add {{unreferenced|date={{{CURRENTMONTH}}} {{{CURRENTYEAR}}}}}. --Stemonitis 17:02, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Done Alex Bakharev 09:33, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Excellent work. Thanks. --Stemonitis 09:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The automated addition of {{stub}} seems to be a bit problematic, it just means that someone else needs to go through again afterwards and correct every stub template that it adds. Any chance on improving or disabling this feature? --NigelJ ^talk 10:47, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Well, it is easy to disable. The problem is that it would not make the stubs disappear they would still be there and somebody would have not only tag them but also identify. What I would try to do today is to make that if a stub is identify as belonging to a project it would mark it as a project stub. E.g. if a stub is identified as belonging to the Australia project it would be marked as {{Australia-stub}} somebody would still have to move it to e.g. {{Australia-university-stub}} but at least half a work is done. Alex Bakharev 00:31, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you have marked three of my contributions as "unreferenced" when all three of the items make reference to a book. For what references are you looking? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dma124 (talk • contribs)

• Bot looks for any http or ISBN references, headers like References or Sources, <ref> etc. It does not look for the casual mentioning of a book in the middle of the text unless it is followed by isbn. I have put the references to the book and to the liner notes to the articles Alex Bakharev 05:49, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The bot creates cleanup messages for articles that get speedy deleted, eg Talk:Kenneth fitzsimons. Could the bot be smarter? Perhaps wait 2 weeks after article creation so the article gets speedy deleted and the bot doesn't create an unnecessary talk page.--Commander Keane 06:55, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Yes, I see the problem. Actually the article was tagged for deletion one hour after bot tagged it for clean up and put the notice on the talk page. Maybe I should not put the notice on the talk page? The clean up tags notices are pretty self-explanatory. Or put a message on the original author's talkpage? Alex Bakharev 09:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Yeah 2 weeks was silly on my part. The 3 articles I saw were tagged for speedy deletion within 48 hours (Chainz93, Matthew Gray, Kenneth fitzsimons). I think notifying the original author on their talk page could be really handy, especially if you mention that deletion is a possibility - that way someone doesn't have to notify them of the deletion if it occurs.--Commander Keane 02:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello AxelBot/AxelNewArtBot. I wrote the Catharose de Petri, Lectorium Rosicrucianum and Jan van Rijckenborgh articles. How can I clean them up? I can't find any evidence of what the Bot has found a problem with on any of them. I'm a bit worried about this Bot, to be honest. Don't like the idea that its roaming around the Wikipedia deleting articles.... Please adviseThePeg 22:19, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• In all three cases the bot indentified that the article needs categories by tagging them with {{catneeded}}. Since then you have added the categories and removed the tags. Thank you very much! It is how it suppose to work. The talk page notice was suppose to explain the situation if the bot was mistaken. Since yesterday I have disabled notices as they does not appear to be very helpful and create additional work if the article has to be deleted. Alex Bakharev 00:36, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Axel. ThePeg 09:54, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

there was an ((unreferenced)) tag on the article List of Deemed Universities. ummm... it's a list. and all articles which the page links to mention it... does this need further references? or should i revert? thanks, joseph 14:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See author's comment above. It's a conceptual bug. Revert (but only if all the list entries are blue-linked). --maf 17:48, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

okay... but just wanted to cross-check, anyway... thanks. joseph 23:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This bot insists in adding a film-stub tag to this article, even though the "film" mentioned in the article is not about movies. How to stop this behavior? --maf 17:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• I would stop the bot handling the stub tags. To many false edits Alex Bakharev 07:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The bot tagged Lists of nutrition topics as needing references. Do we really need to have a reference to prove that each food list is a nutritional topic list? Lists of mathematics topics doesn't have any references, and it is a featured list. The bot is cluttering up Wikipedia with useless tags. I work on a lot on lists, and it is getting to be a pain to clean up after this bot. Please remove lists from among the pages its works on. Thank you. The Transhumanist (AWB) 06:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Strictly speaking lists are articles and they should not use information from other wikipedia articles, thus lists should be referenced, especially if there are redlinks in the list. On the other hand, it is controversial and I would take it out today. I promise Alex Bakharev 07:04, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Tetracontakaihenagon, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. —David Eppstein 03:31, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you get this message can you possibly put the list on our project subpage as indicated and not on the main page where it adds clutter. Thanks. - Kleinzach 02:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Done. Bots results are just templates: you can insert them wherever you want Alex Bakharev 04:09, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to have had to block the bot, but it seems to be running the NP Patrol task, for which trials were specifically discontinued on the BRFA page, for the time being at least. I'm happy for the bot to be unblocked with your assurance that the bot won't be found editing without approval/trial status in future. Thanks, Martinp23 16:35, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How does one handle working in conjunction with this bot? Is it like this?

1. Bot continually updates subpage, adding new article to the top.
2. Users edit subpage and remove (strike through?) articles checked or fixed

-Ravedave 16:01, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Yes, You are absolutely right. Another, more labour-intensive way is to move the entries from bot's page to the main project board (if the board has one). Alex Bakharev 00:03, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Excellent, thank you. I have added that to the list of things to do for the MN project. On a side note would it be possible to have the bot use # rather than *? It would help with knowing how much work there is to do. -Ravedave 02:21, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This gallery has just had a banner put on it to say that it doesn't cite references.

It doesn't need to cite references. There is nothing in the gallery that is of a nature to be queried. It is merely a group of paintings with titles under them. It is an adjunct to an article which discusses the paintings and which cites its sources. Would you kindly remove the unnecessary clutter.

--Amandajm 10:08, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't bother. I've added the names of two books and deleted the tag.--Amandajm 10:32, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can you tell/show me how to put an entry I created Steelyard Blues into the category films please? I thought I had done this but it seems I got it wrong. Thanking you. SmokeyTheCat 15:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• User:Belovedfreak did it for us Alex Bakharev 02:01, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Most people working on the uncategorized backlog prefer the uncat tags to be placed at the bottom of the article. This has a number of advantages and that's also what all the other bots are doing so it would be nice if this bot can be tweaked to follow that pattern. Thanks, Pascal.Tesson 16:28, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Golden Unicorn, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Red Baron 17:14, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I want to use your bot to automatically update Wikipedia:Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/New articles, but I have to admit that I cannot make head nor tail of the instructions. I may try to do it anyway, but I just wondered if I could simply 'steal' the code of another similar WikiProject. Any suggestions for one that works well? Ta. --Mais oui! 09:08, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Done Alex Bakharev 01:30, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I blocked [3], I presume this bot after it was reported to WP:AIV. It appears you might not have logged in. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 17:03, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• It is weird. It appeares that the bot has lost the session data and edited as an IP. It is strange that the IP does not seem to be right. Must be some weird proxy settings Alex Bakharev 10:26, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any way to limit the list size? Max Naylor 10:07, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What is the purpose? Authors can just add it manually. - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 19:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Quite a number of articles are written by newbees, some by hoaxers, vandals and spammers. They need review by people who have a clue in the subject. Many articles written in the framework of one project (e.g. Project:Russia) might represent significant interest for the other projects. Usually, an ability to monitor and review articles related to a project (or portal) is an asset. All the bot does is producing and archiving some lists. You can transclude it somewhere or just ignore it if you wish Alex Bakharev 00:30, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, maybe a member of the project could find it and add it (or delete it). - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 11:00, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]