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Just saying "Hi" to the bot so the redlink will go away. You're showing up in my watchlist a lot. Keep up the good work. Katr67 ( talk) 19:36, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
For this article, the bot actually autocorrected what amounted to vandalism (the removal of sourced information). Can we get it to revert rather than cleanup? Chubbles ( talk) 20:27, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
EVCM ( talk) 21:48, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Agreed, you did a great job, Anomie! -- ReyBrujo ( talk) 21:00, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
This edit broke the reference! Sorry, -talk- the_ed17 -contribs- 23:30, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I've got an annoying tendency to accidentally orphan refs, so seeing this bot fix Valerie Plame gave me a big grin. Cheers! Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 11:26, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
This bot is F.G. It rescued some orphans that resulted from my exchanging portions of two articles, and when it did not know which of several identically-named sources to use, it left a comment on the talk page. Quick to respond, too! Hats off to you, sir. -- Adoniscik( t, c) 01:53, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
In Mount Hood, this edit by the bot suggests it thinks it is fixing a reference, but it deleted the cite reference—which didn't have a problem. It might have been triggered by a reference I forgot to provide in the previous edit. Could a missing definition for [17] confuse the bot whether [9] was valid? — EncMstr ( talk) 05:01, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
<ref name="name">
. I suppose I can add yet another special case to try to catch this sort of error.Twice in the last 2 days I've been reorganising content, including refs, and AnomieBOT has caused edit conflicts. In the second instance, Physiology of dinosaurs (see hist), I'd put an "in use" template on the article. This bot should be house-trained to edit only articles that have not been edited for a while (e.g. 1 hour), and to leave strictly alone articles that have "in use" templates. -- Philcha ( talk) 12:49, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to say I'd never noticed your bot before this, but nice one! rootology ( C)( T) 05:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to add my thanks to the pile. This is an extremely clever idea for a bot! Tracking down flattened named references is a huge pain to do manually. - Verdatum ( talk) 19:11, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
Er, your bot has made a horrible mess of Joseph (Hebrew Bible). Just so you know! -- Oh, my mistake: actually it looks like the article was broken before the bot's edit. 86.154.56.36 ( talk) 23:52, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
I know we've had differences, but this diff is a really clever piece of work - well done. -- Philcha ( talk) 11:59, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Good bot [2], have a cookie. -- davidz ( talk) 20:53, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
On this article, you "rescued" an orphaned ref [3]. However, it worked perfectly allright before (as far as I can see). Any reason why the bot makes this addition? It still works of course, but adding bites to an article without good reason seems a bit pointless... Fram ( talk) 04:36, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
AnomieBOT you are helpful and hard-working but it concerns me that you don't pay attention to the very cause of ref being orphaned. If the previous edit is a deletion of some text by an anonymous user you should take more care of possible underlying vandalism. Otherwise, in a way the vandalism actually gets masked by your hard work.
Take care,
Kpjas (
talk) 06:46, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Anomie(BOT). Question: was the orphan reference at the Apple Cider page (that I was careless in not finding another place in the article for) rescued automatically by a BOT or did it require human input to decide where to work it in (and generate a title for the edit)? Wikiuser100 ( talk) 01:42, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
<ref name="proposed regulations"/>
in the Pasteurization section and couldn't find content for the ref anywhere in the article.<ref name="whatever">content</ref>
. Then anywhere else in the page you can use a contentless ref with the same "name" to refer to it again: <ref name="whatever"/>
. There's no button as far as I know, just enter the "name" attribute on the <ref> tag as shown.
Anomie
⚔ 03:56, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
The bot picked up an orphaned reference here. Unfortunately the reason for the discrepancy in the reference was due to vandalism and the insertion of a copyvio by the previous editor. The bot, intent on its work, picked up the orphaned ref, but, of course, (not being programmed for it), missed the vandalism. The intervening edit by the bot evidently made it harder for subsequent editors to spot the vandalism. I'm not sure what could be done about this, but it is a problem, IMO. Sunray ( talk) 18:37, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
(undent) And so I step in to say that I had similar incidents of having to work harder on vandalism reversion because of the bot's actions than if the bot had behaved in a different manner. I think the delay is a god idea, as it takes me up to a day to do vandalism patrol on my 4000+ watchlist. Hell, having the bot wait a week wouldn't be earth-shattering, and it would save at least two people from this kind of headache. And there's always the unreported headaches... - UtherSRG (talk) 05:45, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there ANOMIE, VASCO from PORTUGAL here,
Just want to say the following: Regarding MALICK BADIANE (basketball player)'s article, i was trying to fix/compose/correct his page when i screwed up something i could not fix. I sent 3 messages asking for help, you were not one of them, but i take advantage of this opportunity to say: TY VERY MUCH FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION!!!
Happy weekend(s), from PORTUGAL VASCO AMARAL - -- 217.129.67.28 ( talk) 03:46, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Another thank you. You just fixed my poor copy and pasting here. What a great bot - checking up on all the little details people often fail to notice and then actually fixing them! Thank you for putting so much effort into this tool. -- SiobhanHansa 12:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
I think the bot may have not fully completed its assigned task with this edit. Shouldn't the <ref name=autogenerated2/> been translated to <ref name="autogenerated2">URL</ref> rather than <ref name=autogenerated2>URL</ref> ? Otherwise good idea & thanks for the bot! User A1 ( talk) 13:38, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I am not sure, but the bot is sometimes quick to resque references, which were damaged in vandalism. E.g.:
I may be whining, but now I can't rollback the editor anymore, and if I undo the vandalism, the document may be strange. And this is the second time this happens to me on the same article. Is there a way of solving this? Thanks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:10, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
I agree with Dirk Beetstra that the bot occasionally kicks into action too quickly after blanking of sections. Time delay of 30 minutes? Log + patrolling? I dunno. JFW | T@lk 06:51, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I've just come across this bot's activities repairing orphaned references. First off, it's a great idea, and the bot's doing an awesome job! You should award yourself a barnstar or something. Anyway, I came here to enquire whether it was possible to ask the bot to take a look at a specific page - quite a bit of editing involves restructuring articles into multiple articles, and tracking down the "parent" reference manually is often a bit of a chore. But I also wondered whether I could help out with calculating the equivalence of references, so that the bot can work out when multiple references found in linked pages are equivalent, and when that one different digit is of large significance. I've got quite a few citation-handling functions built as part of my Citation bot toolkit and I'm sure I could adapt them to plug in to your bot if you wanted. All the best, Martin ( Smith609 – Talk) 23:36, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Like the topic says, AnomieBOT should be checking for previous (and fairly obvious) vandalism rather than overwriting the article in question with so-called fixes. See the following revisions for an example. I realize that a bot can't check for everything, but near-page blanking from an IP user should be a priority; else, it can easily cause problems when users don't notice, as I'll point out with this former revert of a month's worth of edits (masked by an AWB user's edit on an IP user's vandalism). - Io Katai ( talk) 01:01, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Can you tell me what the deal is with this edit to SS Mauna Loa? The inclusion of references in ship infoboxes—which are rendered via templates—is a standard practice, especially for minor items that may not be worthy of mentioning in the text of the article. This is an article that is at WP:FAC right now and the last thing that is needed are "fixes" to non-existent problems. — Bellhalla ( talk) 04:33, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
(outdent)My apologies for the overreaction and my failure to assume good faith. That happened at the end of a couple of really long and hectic days and I should have just stayed away from the computer. If I'd looked more closely at the edits I would have seen your correction of the ref that I broke when I commented something out of the article. Again, please accept my humble apology and my thanks for the work that you do in fixing broken refs throughout Wikipedia. — Bellhalla ( talk) 19:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks much for fixing the refs on Geneva Conference (1954). I hope that section will finally put to rest the use of the word 'partition' to describe the Geneva Agreements' ceasefire zones. Anarchangel ( talk) 07:08, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I also wanted to thank this bot for its help in fixing references. Good job! 75.111.198.59 ( talk) 21:47, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Unfortunately, at the same time as making a valid correction the bot seems somehow to have deleted an entire section from the article, so I'm reverting its edit. Oops. Just seen that it was the previous edit that deleted that section, not the bot. Sorry! JH ( talk page) 19:01, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
[4] and [5] - Please have the bot stop adding these links back. These are links to an inappropriate source. Thanks. Cirt ( talk) 18:30, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
"rescuing orphaned refs" is an excellent idea for a bot task. dab (𒁳) 19:56, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
I noticed on multiple places that the BOT damages other tags in a WPBS Wiki Project Banner Shell, see for example Talk:Edsger W. Dijkstra.
I just experienced the same problem with these three articles:
I hope you can fix this. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker ( talk) 13:21, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
{{WPBS|1=...}}
(they leave out the "1="), and the bot code foolishly assumed the "1=" would always be there. All pages the bot broke seem to have been fixed, and I've fixed the bot code (it'll be uploaded later).
Anomie
⚔ 21:45, 8 December 2008 (UTC){{WPBS|{{WikiProject foo|class=FA}}}}
as being the parameter {{WikiProject foo|class
with value FA
rather than the first unnamed parameter with value {{WikiProject foo|class=FA}}
. The new parser still has the same "problem" with constructs like {{foo|http://www.example.org?foo=bar}}
.
Anomie
⚔ 00:50, 9 December 2008 (UTC)The bot keeps adding a dead link to this page (″rescuing orphaned refs″). Please fix the problem. Thanks, -- Dr. Bobbie Fox ( talk) 12:20, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Could anomie bot tag
A) Category:Years of the 18th century in Canada, Category:Years of the 19th century in Canada, Category:Years of the 20th century in Canada, Category:Years of the 21st century in Canada (no subcats tagging is necessary) with {{WikiProject Canada|class=XXX|importance=mid|history=yes}} where XXX is whatever the bot can figure out.
B) Same for Category:Elections in Canada by year (all 1st level subcat articles), but with a twist. Most of these article are named according to "Jurisdiction" "type of election", "year" scheme (example Nova Scotia general election, 1867). If the jurisdiction is a province, then the bot should tag them as part of that workgroup as well. Aka default behaviour is {{WikiProject Canada|class=XXX|importance=mid|cangov=yes}}, but if a province is part of the title, add
Thanks. I've already contacted WP:Canada btw. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 23:16, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Very intelligent bot. Dc76\ talk 14:30, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Sheesh, and here I show up thinking this bot is well due some praise and I have been beaten to it several times! Seriously, this bot is genius. Bigbluefish ( talk) 23:03, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey there...
Your bot has taken over some very teadious work at IfD... thanks.
One thing tho, the bot's edits are not coming up with the bot flag which I can then filter out of my watch list.
Thanks. -- Jordan 1972 ( talk) 04:48, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Given the success of the bot's work at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion, do you think the same work could be added for the deletion process at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images. Generally the page heirarchy exists, so I'm hoping that it wouldn't be too difficult to transfer the code/process to the these pages. Skier Dude ( talk) 05:52, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to ask the bot to fix the refs on a specific article? That way I only have to name the refs and AnomieBOT will copy about two dozen of them for me, ie from Don Tallon with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 to Ron Saggers with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948. I did link them mutually but the bot didn't detect this one! :) If this works I don't have to fill in the refs on the other articles in this series and just quote it and it will be autocopied and pasted? Great says the primate! YellowMonkey ( bananabucket) 23:45, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
See diff of Cinema of Iran. FUBAR? feydey ( talk) 04:05, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. [6] -- KP Botany ( talk) 03:31, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Please don't have your bot add references to biographybase.com back to articles when they are correctly removed. [7] [8] Biographybase.com is a copy of wikipedia from around 2004 and is not a WP:RS reliable source. 24.177.121.141 ( talk) 04:56, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I know I was having problems with inserting those references, but how does it help that your bot deleted them altogether? Please reinsert the Mishpacha Magazine references correctly. Thank you, Yoninah ( talk) 23:26, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
<ref name="''Mishpacha'' Magazine">
. You should also look into
WP:CITE#HOW, you'll likely need to include the article name, author, publisher, issue number/date, page numbers, and so on in your reference; {{
cite magazine}} can help you with all that.
Anomie
⚔ 01:41, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I'm from WikiProject Spirits and I'm looking to see if you could get the bot to tag all articles in Category: Distilled beverages and all its subclasses with {{ WikiProject Spirits}} and change all existing instances of {{ WPSPIRIT}} to {{ WikiProject Spirits}}
I've posted a discussion on the project talk page here Thanks! Cabe 6403 ( Talk• Sign!) 21:08, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
You know, being at work and all, I had planned to go chasing those orphaned references when I got home today, but that was such a seriously huge help to me, I just had to come and say a big thank you!
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The Citation Barnstar | |
Thank you for rescuing my refs! KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 16:34, 9 January 2009 (UTC) |
Amazing, is all I can say. I was scrabbling round to find the missing ref data, and hey presto! it was done for me. Ty 07:26, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
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Fixing the orphan refs by bot is just - brilliant! Ty 07:26, 11 January 2009 (UTC) |
Could the bot have another look at Sid Barnes with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Neil Harvey with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Bill Brown with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Lindsay Hassett with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Sid Barnes with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Donald Bradman with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 and Ian Johnson with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948. I have added some more seealos/main links that should trigger the remaining orphan refs that are identical to the others in the set. Thanks again. YellowMonkey ( bananabucket) 02:28, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't know a lot about these boxes at the top of talk pages, but I'm wondering why the box at the top of Talk:More (film), which your bot updated, says "needs-infobox=yes" and "needs-image=yes" when it has both. -- A Knight Who Says Ni ( talk) 03:54, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Wow, you are one awesome bot! I had moved parts of 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict to 2008 Israel-Hamas ceasefire, lost some named refs in the process... Then you come along and make it all look so easy :)
Cheers and many thanks! pedrito - talk - 16.01.2009 14:17
I requested in Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 24#IRC a bot and I should ask you. There are three templates called
the first three should be removed, the 3rd renamed in Template:Internet Relay Chat, and on every page should add the template (some pages have no template at all). Can you do that for me? mabdul 0=* 15:54, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Your "rescue" of orphan references is deeply appreciated. Thanks -- Incidious ( talk) 01:15, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
I just read through the comments here about the bot fixing references broken due to vandalism. As a suggestion would it be possible for the bot to leave a comment on the talk page of the article that it has just fixed rather than, or in addition to, creating the log file? CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 22:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Footnotes 6 & 8 could be cojmpbined with Footnote 1, I think. Happy editing. 7&6=thirteen ( talk) 00:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC) Stan
...for catching this. Good work. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 14:52, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Your BOT seems to be providing a useful service, but it seems to have some issues that could use improvement. Reading through some of the give and take on the criticism above, and without being judgmental, I'm not going to offer the observation that I came here to offer but I am going to offer some advice. It may apply or it may be off base, so take it for what it is worth. I've worked in the software industry for a long time and I see this sort of thing all the time with developers who have only had a few opportunities to create. They are understandable proud of what it is that they have created and part of their self identification includes that creation. Then people start to use it. Those people, most of whom could not create the thing themselves, offer feedback that ranges from ignorant to insightful in manners that range from insulting to genuinely helpful. Less experienced developers get defensive and try to either educate the user or otherwise negate the input. More experienced developers just thank all of them for their patience and their feedback then try to glean out the useful tidbits from the garbage. ("That arrogant moron says it keeps shutting itself off, maybe I should put a cover over the power switch.") There is no profit in telling people that they are wrong (and they usually aren't, they're just not right.) The profit comes from accepting all the input and finding both the patterns and the details that show you how to improve your creation. Celestra ( talk) 16:56, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
When trying to fix orphaned refs in Annette Obrestad, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about http://www.pokerverdict.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:
AnomieBOT ⚡ 08:06, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
What happened here? It seemed to add something from the Wilco discography to Fleet Foxes. Strange non? Sillyfolkboy ( talk) 13:55, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions, including your edits to
Jad_Choueiri. However, please be aware of Wikipedia's policy that
biographical information about living persons must not be
libelous. Any controversial statements about a living person added to an article, or any other Wikipedia page, must include proper
sources. Thank you. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Mattswartz (
talk •
contribs) 03:14, 1 March 2009
My bad. I see your edit now. I do hope you can see where I was coming from. Read the current version of "Jad Choueiri" and see what I mean. I couldn't care less whether Mr Choueiri is gay or not. I happen to be gay myself. But come on, this is ridiculous. Did you catch some of the translations for his songs? As a former journalist, and future librarian, I couldn't let this go. You seem to know more than me when it comes to navigating Wikipedia and understanding its cryptic, long-winded policies. (Notice how 129.13.72.198 is very quiet now! And how does an IP address contribute to articles anyway?) If you know how to fix this idiocy, your help would be appreciated. Mattswartz ( talk) 14:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Please think about making the bot a bit smarter and more careful when editing vandalized pages. I am tires to repeat again and again that bots running after anon edits create more problems and work than fix. - 7-bubёn >t 17:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
This move [13] by AnomieBOT seems to be a mistake. The rationale for the diff is: "Moving deprecated website, amg_id, and imdb_id from {{Infobox Film}} to External links per request". but the web site is not deprecated, and the amg_id, and imdb_id still belong to the "Infobox Film" template. I think it is a mistake. Hervegirod ( talk) 00:48, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to have the bot check to see if the external link being moved from the infobox already exists in the external link section? In this edit, it duplicated the link. cheers, – xeno ( talk) 17:11, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
I suggest that the references restorec by the bot in this edit are not actually helpful, one is more or less OR. Babakathy ( talk) 13:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible for AnomieBOT to close PUIs automatically where the image is a fair use image? This could be detected by looking for the text {{non-free or membership in a subcategory of Category:Fair use images, and the closure text could be "The result of the debate was: Out of scope. This image is declared to be a non-free image; PUI is for processing images that are claimed to be free but the claim is doubted. Images that have a disputed fair use rationale should be tagged {{ subst:dfu|reason}} or listed at WP:NFR." Stifle ( talk) 16:10, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is possible, as it's a rather odd combination.... I am doing a lot of organizational stuff for WikiProject Florida, and one of the rather frustrating things is that almost all of the talk pages (which contain the template for the project) list under "T", for "talk", which is sometimes frustrating when working on groups of articles alphabetically. I can use the "listas" parameter in the {{ WPFlorida}} template to fix that, but with over 6200 articles, that could get just a tiny bit tedious if done manually. The part that makes this tricky is that not all of the listas parameters are the same; we'd like to file people under "last name, first name", while places would be filed alphabetically. I'm not worried about the people yet; I'd just like to start with places. Is there any way to take the list of articles in the subpages in Category:Settlements in Florida (it's quite recursive, but there are no surprises; everything inside is a place in Florida), and add the "listas" parameter to the {{ WPFlorida}} template on the talk page? I'm hoping that I've made my request clear, and that it is possible. Horologium (talk) 20:00, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
[[Category:Whatever]]
on
Talk:Florida under "T" for Talk, it would sort it under "F" for Florida which would eliminate the need for most of those listas parameters.
Anomie
⚔ 23:25, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Robot [14] wrote external link into two rows. It can be written in one row. It used <BR> tag but correct is <BR/> tag. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia for details. -- Snek01 ( talk) 12:00, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
[15] - I don't think this makes sense. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 13:53, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
The trial of Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 27 has ended. Please check my log file and update the BRFA accordingly. 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 ⚡ 06:47, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, is AnomieBOT still working on this? Any indication as to how much has been done or is left to do? Thanks again! PC78 ( talk) 22:02, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Anomiebot seems to have removed the reflist when moving IMDB on Caboblanco. I hope this is not a recurrent problem. [16] Paul B ( talk) 16:40, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the external links to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader article of mine. Fo your information, I've moved the article (Not really moved) to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. But, I've not so satisfied with your work. The ImdB, Website and Amg are actually apart of Infobox Film template. You can check it there. Anyway, if you like, I thought of, why not you and I come together to write the The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader article ? Answer me on my talk apge.
World Cinema Writer ( talk) 11:37, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi AnomieX, it's me again. This time for a newly set up taskforce, WP:GLASS.
You can find the consensus here. Thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 00:19, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Some of these were inappropriate. Not all prisms are glass, for example. Nor are all lenses or optical filters.-- Srleffler ( talk) 16:34, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Anomie! I have found 2 cases in which your bot when removing imdb links from Infobox Film your bot added them to External links, but Imdb title was already there (e.g. Southland Tales, The Woodsman). -- Jaqen ( talk) 10:56, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
The bot edit (diff) probably obscured the preceding edit from vandalbots. Maybe there should be a delay of many hours/days before AnomieBOT tries to tidy up. That would also reduce the previously mentioned edit conflicts. -- SEWilco ( talk) 05:26, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I was going to give AnomieBOT a cookie for fixing the broken ref on SSRI discontinuation syndrome - I would never have known as I just went straight for a single section, but I'm not sure he actually eats cookies. So I decided to give him a glass of motor oil instead; I hope he likes it! (And, for those who think I should have been a bit more environmentally sound, giving a bot a glass of oil is akin to give a human a cookie in terms of healthiness, no? :-) Wn C? 15:52, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Well it seems to be your lucky day. I noticed that you just worked on pages concerning the New Castle Air National Guard Base right before I created the page today. I hope that this means that everything will be alright. On another note, I was wondering if you could assess articles in Category:Unassessed Massachusetts articles. Any help would be much appreciated. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 23:47, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
While the discussion taking place here has only been going for a couple of days so I'll leave it a bit longer, can I check whether the bot will be able to handle multiply nested subcategories? Category:London contains a lot of categories that are nested very deeply (the Category:Grade B listed churches in London → Category:Grade II* listed churches in London → Category:Grade II* listed buildings in London → Category:Listed buildings in London → Category:Buildings and structures in London → Category:London architecture → Category:London seven-deep nesting isn't at all untypical).
Consensus looks likely to be "tag all articles in all subcategories of Category:London, unless the articles are already tagged as falling under WikiProject London Transport"; will the bot be able to handle this level of nesting? Obviously, if you'll require a list of all the subcategories, that will take some time; because this is one of our older projects it's acquired huge numbers of subcategories over the years (I guesstimate between 500-1500). – iride scent 17:05, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've seen you in action a few times. You're doing good work. You were a few minutes quicker than I was today, fixing the broken reference in Paul Young (Sad Café).
As one of the active editors in cleaning out Category:Wikipedia pages with broken references I can tell you we need some bothelp this time. I am only talking about templates, which at this moment constitute about 99% of the pages in that category. Please have a look here, and tell me if you can help out. I'll wait for your answer here.
n.b. Please note that the most fitting text for the needed fix is in that same section too (and that the <noinclude> tag should be straight behind the end of the template, on the same line even). Debresser ( talk) 19:07, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Could you please run your bot once more to removed imdb_id parameter from Infobox film? Today I found tenths of these parameters in infoboxes. Thank, Magioladitis ( talk) 08:37, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
And if possible run it in {{ Infobox Television film}} as well please. We have a consensus there as well. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:21, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, it's me again. Could AnomieBOT...
BTW, I got no link to the discussion on these wikiprojects for the simple reason that they are inactive and were are trying to revive them. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 14:25, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for this BTW, it's really appreciated. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:48, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
It fixed an orphaned reference by copying it over from an entirely different (linked) article; very impressive. Great bot! Shreevatsa ( talk) 00:48, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
AnomieBOT flagged a putative error in my new contribution Olaf Swenson, claiming no content between <ref> and </ref>. I could not see a problem. I fixed by putting spaces between successive references. There are five references in this string. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dankarl ( talk • contribs) 18:41, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that AnomieBOT uses edit summaries that say, "Closing discussions for deleted/nonexistant files" (for example, [17]), and I thought I'd point out that the correct spelling is "nonexistent." — Bkell ( talk) 16:27, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, we recently created the WP:PHYSBIO taskforce, and there's some tagging needed to be done. Namely:
The template is {{physics|class=|importance=|bio=yes}}
Same as above, but on top of that set |fluid-dynamics=yes
Same as above, but on top of that, set |relativity=yes
Since these are all biography articles, the bot should also take the opportunity to place the {{
WikiProject Biography}} with the standard parameters (what these are I don't know exactly, I could find out if you don't know either). The bot should also do any assessment, redirect tagging, template tagging, etc... it can, as usual.
Headbomb {
ταλκ
κοντριβς –
WP Physics} 20:02, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
With {{physics|class=|importance=|pub=yes}}
With {{physics|class=|importance=|hist=yes}}
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Headbomb ( talk • contribs) 17:57, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
AnomieBOT you are a good bot but the {{OnThisDay}}
on your messages is really unhelpful, I think you are checking dates not just generally cleaning up (and when did that change?)
Best wishes SimonTrew ( talk) 23:07, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
What are the reasons to move references out of templates? Is there any consensus? This bot has twice moved the definition of much-used and often-updated (daily) named references from a convenient and deliberately chosen location in a template near the beginning of "2009 swine flu outbreak in the United Kingdom" to a location buried deep within the body. This has been discussed in that article's Talk, and nobody has opposed the original position or even mentioned the existence of a guideline regarding this. (In this particular case it could be argued that, even if there is a guideline, it is just that, not a rule.) (Later) have just noticed that this has been discussed under the meaningful heading "What the heck?". I don't think it invalidates what I say. Clarification: one of the references points to a current "daily update" (on flu cases) and the target of the reference needs to be changed daily, hence the wish to keep it near the top. Pol098 ( talk) 20:08, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
This is not directly related to AnomieBOT, but arises from a brief exchange above. I know that the name of a named reference can be quoted in single or double quotes; or not quoted if it only uses a limited set of characters, much like file and variable names in a computer environment. Anomie⚔ commented: "Unfortunately, it is not an error to leave off the quotes (as long as the value is drawn from a small set of characters)..." I have always made it a habit to omit the quotes, and to use only alphanumeric characters and underline (no spaces) in names. I suppose that my thinking, as someone who works with computers, is that this is an identifier, rather than a text string. For my enlightenment (and that of others), is the omission of the quotes generally deprecated? Is there a guideline or policy? If there is, I will follow it in future. Pol098 ( talk) 20:46, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
a-zA-Z0-9!#$%&()*,-./:;<>?@[]^_`{|}~
Except MediaWiki can't rely on sane parsing either, so even though any of those could technically contain ">" they won't get that far because the ">" is eaten earlier.You did some good work on Eurostar today bot, an early reference learning mistake of mine resolved, making those references more compact and taking up less bytes while having all the functionality of before. Nice bot :) 81.111.115.63 ( talk) 21:24, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
... tag a redirect page ( Talk:Stable limit cycle) ? Gandalf61 ( talk) 08:34, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Who's this AnomieBOT? This bot has done absurd editing in the article 2008 attacks on North Indians in Maharashtra. It has edited the quote of 'THE HINDU' in the references list. This edit is completely wrong. Kesangh ( talk) 17:40, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
To overcome the problem this bot has of masking vandalism in people's watchlists, would it be possible for the bot not to edit an article if the previous edit has been tagged by the abuse filter? That would avoid problems such as this. Tim Vickers ( talk) 16:14, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
When requesting a bot assessment of project articles. Is asking for only articles on Category:Unassessed California articles ok? At this point I'm not really interested in adding any more pages to a near dead projects scope. I've just started the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California#Auto-assessment of California_articles and didn't want to give anyone wrong info. Thanks for any help in advance. - Optigan13 ( talk) 22:43, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the work so far on this. Is it possible to modify the task to replace all instances of {{
WikiProject Southern California|importance=foo}}
(also {{
WPSC}} and {{
WPSOCAL}}) with {{
WikiProject California|southerncalifornia = yes |southerncalifornia-importance = foo}}
. The highest of the two assessments as before. Discussion for this one is
here (just under a week old). I was planning to do this on a couple more projects so let me know if you want to hold off or need more info on these. Thanks for all your help, and no hurry on this so whenever you get the chance. -
Optigan13 (
talk) 03:46, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Southern California|importance=foo}}
(also {{
WPSC}} and {{
WPSOCAL}}) with {{
WikiProject California|southerncalifornia = yes |southerncalifornia-importance = foo}}
and{{
WikiProject Santa Barbara County|importance=foo}}
(also {{
WP SB County}} and {{
WPSB County}}) with {{
WikiProject California|santabarbaracounty = yes |santabarbaracounty-importance = foo}}
at your earliest convenience.{{
WikiProject Southern California}}
on some user talk pages that will need to be handled manually.
Anomie
⚔ 02:17, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
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The California Star | |
Thanks again for all your help over these last couple months Optigan13 ( talk) 02:31, 1 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Just saying "Hi" to the bot so the redlink will go away. You're showing up in my watchlist a lot. Keep up the good work. Katr67 ( talk) 19:36, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
For this article, the bot actually autocorrected what amounted to vandalism (the removal of sourced information). Can we get it to revert rather than cleanup? Chubbles ( talk) 20:27, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
EVCM ( talk) 21:48, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Agreed, you did a great job, Anomie! -- ReyBrujo ( talk) 21:00, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
This edit broke the reference! Sorry, -talk- the_ed17 -contribs- 23:30, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I've got an annoying tendency to accidentally orphan refs, so seeing this bot fix Valerie Plame gave me a big grin. Cheers! Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 11:26, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
This bot is F.G. It rescued some orphans that resulted from my exchanging portions of two articles, and when it did not know which of several identically-named sources to use, it left a comment on the talk page. Quick to respond, too! Hats off to you, sir. -- Adoniscik( t, c) 01:53, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
In Mount Hood, this edit by the bot suggests it thinks it is fixing a reference, but it deleted the cite reference—which didn't have a problem. It might have been triggered by a reference I forgot to provide in the previous edit. Could a missing definition for [17] confuse the bot whether [9] was valid? — EncMstr ( talk) 05:01, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
<ref name="name">
. I suppose I can add yet another special case to try to catch this sort of error.Twice in the last 2 days I've been reorganising content, including refs, and AnomieBOT has caused edit conflicts. In the second instance, Physiology of dinosaurs (see hist), I'd put an "in use" template on the article. This bot should be house-trained to edit only articles that have not been edited for a while (e.g. 1 hour), and to leave strictly alone articles that have "in use" templates. -- Philcha ( talk) 12:49, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to say I'd never noticed your bot before this, but nice one! rootology ( C)( T) 05:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to add my thanks to the pile. This is an extremely clever idea for a bot! Tracking down flattened named references is a huge pain to do manually. - Verdatum ( talk) 19:11, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
Er, your bot has made a horrible mess of Joseph (Hebrew Bible). Just so you know! -- Oh, my mistake: actually it looks like the article was broken before the bot's edit. 86.154.56.36 ( talk) 23:52, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
I know we've had differences, but this diff is a really clever piece of work - well done. -- Philcha ( talk) 11:59, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Good bot [2], have a cookie. -- davidz ( talk) 20:53, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
On this article, you "rescued" an orphaned ref [3]. However, it worked perfectly allright before (as far as I can see). Any reason why the bot makes this addition? It still works of course, but adding bites to an article without good reason seems a bit pointless... Fram ( talk) 04:36, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
AnomieBOT you are helpful and hard-working but it concerns me that you don't pay attention to the very cause of ref being orphaned. If the previous edit is a deletion of some text by an anonymous user you should take more care of possible underlying vandalism. Otherwise, in a way the vandalism actually gets masked by your hard work.
Take care,
Kpjas (
talk) 06:46, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Anomie(BOT). Question: was the orphan reference at the Apple Cider page (that I was careless in not finding another place in the article for) rescued automatically by a BOT or did it require human input to decide where to work it in (and generate a title for the edit)? Wikiuser100 ( talk) 01:42, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
<ref name="proposed regulations"/>
in the Pasteurization section and couldn't find content for the ref anywhere in the article.<ref name="whatever">content</ref>
. Then anywhere else in the page you can use a contentless ref with the same "name" to refer to it again: <ref name="whatever"/>
. There's no button as far as I know, just enter the "name" attribute on the <ref> tag as shown.
Anomie
⚔ 03:56, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
The bot picked up an orphaned reference here. Unfortunately the reason for the discrepancy in the reference was due to vandalism and the insertion of a copyvio by the previous editor. The bot, intent on its work, picked up the orphaned ref, but, of course, (not being programmed for it), missed the vandalism. The intervening edit by the bot evidently made it harder for subsequent editors to spot the vandalism. I'm not sure what could be done about this, but it is a problem, IMO. Sunray ( talk) 18:37, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
(undent) And so I step in to say that I had similar incidents of having to work harder on vandalism reversion because of the bot's actions than if the bot had behaved in a different manner. I think the delay is a god idea, as it takes me up to a day to do vandalism patrol on my 4000+ watchlist. Hell, having the bot wait a week wouldn't be earth-shattering, and it would save at least two people from this kind of headache. And there's always the unreported headaches... - UtherSRG (talk) 05:45, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there ANOMIE, VASCO from PORTUGAL here,
Just want to say the following: Regarding MALICK BADIANE (basketball player)'s article, i was trying to fix/compose/correct his page when i screwed up something i could not fix. I sent 3 messages asking for help, you were not one of them, but i take advantage of this opportunity to say: TY VERY MUCH FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION!!!
Happy weekend(s), from PORTUGAL VASCO AMARAL - -- 217.129.67.28 ( talk) 03:46, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Another thank you. You just fixed my poor copy and pasting here. What a great bot - checking up on all the little details people often fail to notice and then actually fixing them! Thank you for putting so much effort into this tool. -- SiobhanHansa 12:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
I think the bot may have not fully completed its assigned task with this edit. Shouldn't the <ref name=autogenerated2/> been translated to <ref name="autogenerated2">URL</ref> rather than <ref name=autogenerated2>URL</ref> ? Otherwise good idea & thanks for the bot! User A1 ( talk) 13:38, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I am not sure, but the bot is sometimes quick to resque references, which were damaged in vandalism. E.g.:
I may be whining, but now I can't rollback the editor anymore, and if I undo the vandalism, the document may be strange. And this is the second time this happens to me on the same article. Is there a way of solving this? Thanks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:10, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
I agree with Dirk Beetstra that the bot occasionally kicks into action too quickly after blanking of sections. Time delay of 30 minutes? Log + patrolling? I dunno. JFW | T@lk 06:51, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I've just come across this bot's activities repairing orphaned references. First off, it's a great idea, and the bot's doing an awesome job! You should award yourself a barnstar or something. Anyway, I came here to enquire whether it was possible to ask the bot to take a look at a specific page - quite a bit of editing involves restructuring articles into multiple articles, and tracking down the "parent" reference manually is often a bit of a chore. But I also wondered whether I could help out with calculating the equivalence of references, so that the bot can work out when multiple references found in linked pages are equivalent, and when that one different digit is of large significance. I've got quite a few citation-handling functions built as part of my Citation bot toolkit and I'm sure I could adapt them to plug in to your bot if you wanted. All the best, Martin ( Smith609 – Talk) 23:36, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Like the topic says, AnomieBOT should be checking for previous (and fairly obvious) vandalism rather than overwriting the article in question with so-called fixes. See the following revisions for an example. I realize that a bot can't check for everything, but near-page blanking from an IP user should be a priority; else, it can easily cause problems when users don't notice, as I'll point out with this former revert of a month's worth of edits (masked by an AWB user's edit on an IP user's vandalism). - Io Katai ( talk) 01:01, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Can you tell me what the deal is with this edit to SS Mauna Loa? The inclusion of references in ship infoboxes—which are rendered via templates—is a standard practice, especially for minor items that may not be worthy of mentioning in the text of the article. This is an article that is at WP:FAC right now and the last thing that is needed are "fixes" to non-existent problems. — Bellhalla ( talk) 04:33, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
(outdent)My apologies for the overreaction and my failure to assume good faith. That happened at the end of a couple of really long and hectic days and I should have just stayed away from the computer. If I'd looked more closely at the edits I would have seen your correction of the ref that I broke when I commented something out of the article. Again, please accept my humble apology and my thanks for the work that you do in fixing broken refs throughout Wikipedia. — Bellhalla ( talk) 19:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks much for fixing the refs on Geneva Conference (1954). I hope that section will finally put to rest the use of the word 'partition' to describe the Geneva Agreements' ceasefire zones. Anarchangel ( talk) 07:08, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I also wanted to thank this bot for its help in fixing references. Good job! 75.111.198.59 ( talk) 21:47, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Unfortunately, at the same time as making a valid correction the bot seems somehow to have deleted an entire section from the article, so I'm reverting its edit. Oops. Just seen that it was the previous edit that deleted that section, not the bot. Sorry! JH ( talk page) 19:01, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
[4] and [5] - Please have the bot stop adding these links back. These are links to an inappropriate source. Thanks. Cirt ( talk) 18:30, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
"rescuing orphaned refs" is an excellent idea for a bot task. dab (𒁳) 19:56, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
I noticed on multiple places that the BOT damages other tags in a WPBS Wiki Project Banner Shell, see for example Talk:Edsger W. Dijkstra.
I just experienced the same problem with these three articles:
I hope you can fix this. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker ( talk) 13:21, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
{{WPBS|1=...}}
(they leave out the "1="), and the bot code foolishly assumed the "1=" would always be there. All pages the bot broke seem to have been fixed, and I've fixed the bot code (it'll be uploaded later).
Anomie
⚔ 21:45, 8 December 2008 (UTC){{WPBS|{{WikiProject foo|class=FA}}}}
as being the parameter {{WikiProject foo|class
with value FA
rather than the first unnamed parameter with value {{WikiProject foo|class=FA}}
. The new parser still has the same "problem" with constructs like {{foo|http://www.example.org?foo=bar}}
.
Anomie
⚔ 00:50, 9 December 2008 (UTC)The bot keeps adding a dead link to this page (″rescuing orphaned refs″). Please fix the problem. Thanks, -- Dr. Bobbie Fox ( talk) 12:20, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Could anomie bot tag
A) Category:Years of the 18th century in Canada, Category:Years of the 19th century in Canada, Category:Years of the 20th century in Canada, Category:Years of the 21st century in Canada (no subcats tagging is necessary) with {{WikiProject Canada|class=XXX|importance=mid|history=yes}} where XXX is whatever the bot can figure out.
B) Same for Category:Elections in Canada by year (all 1st level subcat articles), but with a twist. Most of these article are named according to "Jurisdiction" "type of election", "year" scheme (example Nova Scotia general election, 1867). If the jurisdiction is a province, then the bot should tag them as part of that workgroup as well. Aka default behaviour is {{WikiProject Canada|class=XXX|importance=mid|cangov=yes}}, but if a province is part of the title, add
Thanks. I've already contacted WP:Canada btw. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 23:16, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Very intelligent bot. Dc76\ talk 14:30, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Sheesh, and here I show up thinking this bot is well due some praise and I have been beaten to it several times! Seriously, this bot is genius. Bigbluefish ( talk) 23:03, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey there...
Your bot has taken over some very teadious work at IfD... thanks.
One thing tho, the bot's edits are not coming up with the bot flag which I can then filter out of my watch list.
Thanks. -- Jordan 1972 ( talk) 04:48, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Given the success of the bot's work at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion, do you think the same work could be added for the deletion process at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images. Generally the page heirarchy exists, so I'm hoping that it wouldn't be too difficult to transfer the code/process to the these pages. Skier Dude ( talk) 05:52, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to ask the bot to fix the refs on a specific article? That way I only have to name the refs and AnomieBOT will copy about two dozen of them for me, ie from Don Tallon with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 to Ron Saggers with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948. I did link them mutually but the bot didn't detect this one! :) If this works I don't have to fill in the refs on the other articles in this series and just quote it and it will be autocopied and pasted? Great says the primate! YellowMonkey ( bananabucket) 23:45, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
See diff of Cinema of Iran. FUBAR? feydey ( talk) 04:05, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. [6] -- KP Botany ( talk) 03:31, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Please don't have your bot add references to biographybase.com back to articles when they are correctly removed. [7] [8] Biographybase.com is a copy of wikipedia from around 2004 and is not a WP:RS reliable source. 24.177.121.141 ( talk) 04:56, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I know I was having problems with inserting those references, but how does it help that your bot deleted them altogether? Please reinsert the Mishpacha Magazine references correctly. Thank you, Yoninah ( talk) 23:26, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
<ref name="''Mishpacha'' Magazine">
. You should also look into
WP:CITE#HOW, you'll likely need to include the article name, author, publisher, issue number/date, page numbers, and so on in your reference; {{
cite magazine}} can help you with all that.
Anomie
⚔ 01:41, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I'm from WikiProject Spirits and I'm looking to see if you could get the bot to tag all articles in Category: Distilled beverages and all its subclasses with {{ WikiProject Spirits}} and change all existing instances of {{ WPSPIRIT}} to {{ WikiProject Spirits}}
I've posted a discussion on the project talk page here Thanks! Cabe 6403 ( Talk• Sign!) 21:08, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
You know, being at work and all, I had planned to go chasing those orphaned references when I got home today, but that was such a seriously huge help to me, I just had to come and say a big thank you!
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The Citation Barnstar | |
Thank you for rescuing my refs! KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 16:34, 9 January 2009 (UTC) |
Amazing, is all I can say. I was scrabbling round to find the missing ref data, and hey presto! it was done for me. Ty 07:26, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
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The da Vinci Barnstar | |
Fixing the orphan refs by bot is just - brilliant! Ty 07:26, 11 January 2009 (UTC) |
Could the bot have another look at Sid Barnes with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Neil Harvey with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Bill Brown with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Lindsay Hassett with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Sid Barnes with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Donald Bradman with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 and Ian Johnson with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948. I have added some more seealos/main links that should trigger the remaining orphan refs that are identical to the others in the set. Thanks again. YellowMonkey ( bananabucket) 02:28, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't know a lot about these boxes at the top of talk pages, but I'm wondering why the box at the top of Talk:More (film), which your bot updated, says "needs-infobox=yes" and "needs-image=yes" when it has both. -- A Knight Who Says Ni ( talk) 03:54, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Wow, you are one awesome bot! I had moved parts of 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict to 2008 Israel-Hamas ceasefire, lost some named refs in the process... Then you come along and make it all look so easy :)
Cheers and many thanks! pedrito - talk - 16.01.2009 14:17
I requested in Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 24#IRC a bot and I should ask you. There are three templates called
the first three should be removed, the 3rd renamed in Template:Internet Relay Chat, and on every page should add the template (some pages have no template at all). Can you do that for me? mabdul 0=* 15:54, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Your "rescue" of orphan references is deeply appreciated. Thanks -- Incidious ( talk) 01:15, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
I just read through the comments here about the bot fixing references broken due to vandalism. As a suggestion would it be possible for the bot to leave a comment on the talk page of the article that it has just fixed rather than, or in addition to, creating the log file? CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 22:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Footnotes 6 & 8 could be cojmpbined with Footnote 1, I think. Happy editing. 7&6=thirteen ( talk) 00:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC) Stan
...for catching this. Good work. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 14:52, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Your BOT seems to be providing a useful service, but it seems to have some issues that could use improvement. Reading through some of the give and take on the criticism above, and without being judgmental, I'm not going to offer the observation that I came here to offer but I am going to offer some advice. It may apply or it may be off base, so take it for what it is worth. I've worked in the software industry for a long time and I see this sort of thing all the time with developers who have only had a few opportunities to create. They are understandable proud of what it is that they have created and part of their self identification includes that creation. Then people start to use it. Those people, most of whom could not create the thing themselves, offer feedback that ranges from ignorant to insightful in manners that range from insulting to genuinely helpful. Less experienced developers get defensive and try to either educate the user or otherwise negate the input. More experienced developers just thank all of them for their patience and their feedback then try to glean out the useful tidbits from the garbage. ("That arrogant moron says it keeps shutting itself off, maybe I should put a cover over the power switch.") There is no profit in telling people that they are wrong (and they usually aren't, they're just not right.) The profit comes from accepting all the input and finding both the patterns and the details that show you how to improve your creation. Celestra ( talk) 16:56, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
When trying to fix orphaned refs in Annette Obrestad, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about http://www.pokerverdict.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:
AnomieBOT ⚡ 08:06, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
What happened here? It seemed to add something from the Wilco discography to Fleet Foxes. Strange non? Sillyfolkboy ( talk) 13:55, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions, including your edits to
Jad_Choueiri. However, please be aware of Wikipedia's policy that
biographical information about living persons must not be
libelous. Any controversial statements about a living person added to an article, or any other Wikipedia page, must include proper
sources. Thank you. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Mattswartz (
talk •
contribs) 03:14, 1 March 2009
My bad. I see your edit now. I do hope you can see where I was coming from. Read the current version of "Jad Choueiri" and see what I mean. I couldn't care less whether Mr Choueiri is gay or not. I happen to be gay myself. But come on, this is ridiculous. Did you catch some of the translations for his songs? As a former journalist, and future librarian, I couldn't let this go. You seem to know more than me when it comes to navigating Wikipedia and understanding its cryptic, long-winded policies. (Notice how 129.13.72.198 is very quiet now! And how does an IP address contribute to articles anyway?) If you know how to fix this idiocy, your help would be appreciated. Mattswartz ( talk) 14:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Please think about making the bot a bit smarter and more careful when editing vandalized pages. I am tires to repeat again and again that bots running after anon edits create more problems and work than fix. - 7-bubёn >t 17:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
This move [13] by AnomieBOT seems to be a mistake. The rationale for the diff is: "Moving deprecated website, amg_id, and imdb_id from {{Infobox Film}} to External links per request". but the web site is not deprecated, and the amg_id, and imdb_id still belong to the "Infobox Film" template. I think it is a mistake. Hervegirod ( talk) 00:48, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to have the bot check to see if the external link being moved from the infobox already exists in the external link section? In this edit, it duplicated the link. cheers, – xeno ( talk) 17:11, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
I suggest that the references restorec by the bot in this edit are not actually helpful, one is more or less OR. Babakathy ( talk) 13:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible for AnomieBOT to close PUIs automatically where the image is a fair use image? This could be detected by looking for the text {{non-free or membership in a subcategory of Category:Fair use images, and the closure text could be "The result of the debate was: Out of scope. This image is declared to be a non-free image; PUI is for processing images that are claimed to be free but the claim is doubted. Images that have a disputed fair use rationale should be tagged {{ subst:dfu|reason}} or listed at WP:NFR." Stifle ( talk) 16:10, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is possible, as it's a rather odd combination.... I am doing a lot of organizational stuff for WikiProject Florida, and one of the rather frustrating things is that almost all of the talk pages (which contain the template for the project) list under "T", for "talk", which is sometimes frustrating when working on groups of articles alphabetically. I can use the "listas" parameter in the {{ WPFlorida}} template to fix that, but with over 6200 articles, that could get just a tiny bit tedious if done manually. The part that makes this tricky is that not all of the listas parameters are the same; we'd like to file people under "last name, first name", while places would be filed alphabetically. I'm not worried about the people yet; I'd just like to start with places. Is there any way to take the list of articles in the subpages in Category:Settlements in Florida (it's quite recursive, but there are no surprises; everything inside is a place in Florida), and add the "listas" parameter to the {{ WPFlorida}} template on the talk page? I'm hoping that I've made my request clear, and that it is possible. Horologium (talk) 20:00, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
[[Category:Whatever]]
on
Talk:Florida under "T" for Talk, it would sort it under "F" for Florida which would eliminate the need for most of those listas parameters.
Anomie
⚔ 23:25, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Robot [14] wrote external link into two rows. It can be written in one row. It used <BR> tag but correct is <BR/> tag. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia for details. -- Snek01 ( talk) 12:00, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
[15] - I don't think this makes sense. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 13:53, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
The trial of Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 27 has ended. Please check my log file and update the BRFA accordingly. 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 ⚡ 06:47, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, is AnomieBOT still working on this? Any indication as to how much has been done or is left to do? Thanks again! PC78 ( talk) 22:02, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Anomiebot seems to have removed the reflist when moving IMDB on Caboblanco. I hope this is not a recurrent problem. [16] Paul B ( talk) 16:40, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the external links to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader article of mine. Fo your information, I've moved the article (Not really moved) to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. But, I've not so satisfied with your work. The ImdB, Website and Amg are actually apart of Infobox Film template. You can check it there. Anyway, if you like, I thought of, why not you and I come together to write the The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader article ? Answer me on my talk apge.
World Cinema Writer ( talk) 11:37, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi AnomieX, it's me again. This time for a newly set up taskforce, WP:GLASS.
You can find the consensus here. Thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 00:19, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Some of these were inappropriate. Not all prisms are glass, for example. Nor are all lenses or optical filters.-- Srleffler ( talk) 16:34, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Anomie! I have found 2 cases in which your bot when removing imdb links from Infobox Film your bot added them to External links, but Imdb title was already there (e.g. Southland Tales, The Woodsman). -- Jaqen ( talk) 10:56, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
The bot edit (diff) probably obscured the preceding edit from vandalbots. Maybe there should be a delay of many hours/days before AnomieBOT tries to tidy up. That would also reduce the previously mentioned edit conflicts. -- SEWilco ( talk) 05:26, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I was going to give AnomieBOT a cookie for fixing the broken ref on SSRI discontinuation syndrome - I would never have known as I just went straight for a single section, but I'm not sure he actually eats cookies. So I decided to give him a glass of motor oil instead; I hope he likes it! (And, for those who think I should have been a bit more environmentally sound, giving a bot a glass of oil is akin to give a human a cookie in terms of healthiness, no? :-) Wn C? 15:52, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Well it seems to be your lucky day. I noticed that you just worked on pages concerning the New Castle Air National Guard Base right before I created the page today. I hope that this means that everything will be alright. On another note, I was wondering if you could assess articles in Category:Unassessed Massachusetts articles. Any help would be much appreciated. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 23:47, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
While the discussion taking place here has only been going for a couple of days so I'll leave it a bit longer, can I check whether the bot will be able to handle multiply nested subcategories? Category:London contains a lot of categories that are nested very deeply (the Category:Grade B listed churches in London → Category:Grade II* listed churches in London → Category:Grade II* listed buildings in London → Category:Listed buildings in London → Category:Buildings and structures in London → Category:London architecture → Category:London seven-deep nesting isn't at all untypical).
Consensus looks likely to be "tag all articles in all subcategories of Category:London, unless the articles are already tagged as falling under WikiProject London Transport"; will the bot be able to handle this level of nesting? Obviously, if you'll require a list of all the subcategories, that will take some time; because this is one of our older projects it's acquired huge numbers of subcategories over the years (I guesstimate between 500-1500). – iride scent 17:05, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've seen you in action a few times. You're doing good work. You were a few minutes quicker than I was today, fixing the broken reference in Paul Young (Sad Café).
As one of the active editors in cleaning out Category:Wikipedia pages with broken references I can tell you we need some bothelp this time. I am only talking about templates, which at this moment constitute about 99% of the pages in that category. Please have a look here, and tell me if you can help out. I'll wait for your answer here.
n.b. Please note that the most fitting text for the needed fix is in that same section too (and that the <noinclude> tag should be straight behind the end of the template, on the same line even). Debresser ( talk) 19:07, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Could you please run your bot once more to removed imdb_id parameter from Infobox film? Today I found tenths of these parameters in infoboxes. Thank, Magioladitis ( talk) 08:37, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
And if possible run it in {{ Infobox Television film}} as well please. We have a consensus there as well. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:21, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, it's me again. Could AnomieBOT...
BTW, I got no link to the discussion on these wikiprojects for the simple reason that they are inactive and were are trying to revive them. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 14:25, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for this BTW, it's really appreciated. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:48, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
It fixed an orphaned reference by copying it over from an entirely different (linked) article; very impressive. Great bot! Shreevatsa ( talk) 00:48, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
AnomieBOT flagged a putative error in my new contribution Olaf Swenson, claiming no content between <ref> and </ref>. I could not see a problem. I fixed by putting spaces between successive references. There are five references in this string. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dankarl ( talk • contribs) 18:41, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that AnomieBOT uses edit summaries that say, "Closing discussions for deleted/nonexistant files" (for example, [17]), and I thought I'd point out that the correct spelling is "nonexistent." — Bkell ( talk) 16:27, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, we recently created the WP:PHYSBIO taskforce, and there's some tagging needed to be done. Namely:
The template is {{physics|class=|importance=|bio=yes}}
Same as above, but on top of that set |fluid-dynamics=yes
Same as above, but on top of that, set |relativity=yes
Since these are all biography articles, the bot should also take the opportunity to place the {{
WikiProject Biography}} with the standard parameters (what these are I don't know exactly, I could find out if you don't know either). The bot should also do any assessment, redirect tagging, template tagging, etc... it can, as usual.
Headbomb {
ταλκ
κοντριβς –
WP Physics} 20:02, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
With {{physics|class=|importance=|pub=yes}}
With {{physics|class=|importance=|hist=yes}}
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Headbomb ( talk • contribs) 17:57, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
AnomieBOT you are a good bot but the {{OnThisDay}}
on your messages is really unhelpful, I think you are checking dates not just generally cleaning up (and when did that change?)
Best wishes SimonTrew ( talk) 23:07, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
What are the reasons to move references out of templates? Is there any consensus? This bot has twice moved the definition of much-used and often-updated (daily) named references from a convenient and deliberately chosen location in a template near the beginning of "2009 swine flu outbreak in the United Kingdom" to a location buried deep within the body. This has been discussed in that article's Talk, and nobody has opposed the original position or even mentioned the existence of a guideline regarding this. (In this particular case it could be argued that, even if there is a guideline, it is just that, not a rule.) (Later) have just noticed that this has been discussed under the meaningful heading "What the heck?". I don't think it invalidates what I say. Clarification: one of the references points to a current "daily update" (on flu cases) and the target of the reference needs to be changed daily, hence the wish to keep it near the top. Pol098 ( talk) 20:08, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
This is not directly related to AnomieBOT, but arises from a brief exchange above. I know that the name of a named reference can be quoted in single or double quotes; or not quoted if it only uses a limited set of characters, much like file and variable names in a computer environment. Anomie⚔ commented: "Unfortunately, it is not an error to leave off the quotes (as long as the value is drawn from a small set of characters)..." I have always made it a habit to omit the quotes, and to use only alphanumeric characters and underline (no spaces) in names. I suppose that my thinking, as someone who works with computers, is that this is an identifier, rather than a text string. For my enlightenment (and that of others), is the omission of the quotes generally deprecated? Is there a guideline or policy? If there is, I will follow it in future. Pol098 ( talk) 20:46, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
a-zA-Z0-9!#$%&()*,-./:;<>?@[]^_`{|}~
Except MediaWiki can't rely on sane parsing either, so even though any of those could technically contain ">" they won't get that far because the ">" is eaten earlier.You did some good work on Eurostar today bot, an early reference learning mistake of mine resolved, making those references more compact and taking up less bytes while having all the functionality of before. Nice bot :) 81.111.115.63 ( talk) 21:24, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
... tag a redirect page ( Talk:Stable limit cycle) ? Gandalf61 ( talk) 08:34, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Who's this AnomieBOT? This bot has done absurd editing in the article 2008 attacks on North Indians in Maharashtra. It has edited the quote of 'THE HINDU' in the references list. This edit is completely wrong. Kesangh ( talk) 17:40, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
To overcome the problem this bot has of masking vandalism in people's watchlists, would it be possible for the bot not to edit an article if the previous edit has been tagged by the abuse filter? That would avoid problems such as this. Tim Vickers ( talk) 16:14, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
When requesting a bot assessment of project articles. Is asking for only articles on Category:Unassessed California articles ok? At this point I'm not really interested in adding any more pages to a near dead projects scope. I've just started the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California#Auto-assessment of California_articles and didn't want to give anyone wrong info. Thanks for any help in advance. - Optigan13 ( talk) 22:43, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the work so far on this. Is it possible to modify the task to replace all instances of {{
WikiProject Southern California|importance=foo}}
(also {{
WPSC}} and {{
WPSOCAL}}) with {{
WikiProject California|southerncalifornia = yes |southerncalifornia-importance = foo}}
. The highest of the two assessments as before. Discussion for this one is
here (just under a week old). I was planning to do this on a couple more projects so let me know if you want to hold off or need more info on these. Thanks for all your help, and no hurry on this so whenever you get the chance. -
Optigan13 (
talk) 03:46, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Southern California|importance=foo}}
(also {{
WPSC}} and {{
WPSOCAL}}) with {{
WikiProject California|southerncalifornia = yes |southerncalifornia-importance = foo}}
and{{
WikiProject Santa Barbara County|importance=foo}}
(also {{
WP SB County}} and {{
WPSB County}}) with {{
WikiProject California|santabarbaracounty = yes |santabarbaracounty-importance = foo}}
at your earliest convenience.{{
WikiProject Southern California}}
on some user talk pages that will need to be handled manually.
Anomie
⚔ 02:17, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks again for all your help over these last couple months Optigan13 ( talk) 02:31, 1 June 2009 (UTC) |