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Taking a look at the revision history for Template:X7, around October 24th or so, the two bots in question ( Hazard-Bot and Cyberbot I) are repeatedly interleaving their edits, clearing it to a state that each things is clean, except for a 1 space difference. This is definitely a small footprint, but perhaps it would be best to make it consistent to reduce the (very small) overhead of automated edits on the WP servers?
I'd completely understand if no justifiable action is taken...... but just an FYI. Cheers, — Andy W. ( talk · contrib) 20:48, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Hey—thanks for your work on User:Cyberbot I/Current AfDs. Many of the listings stick around for several days after their closure, which makes the tool substantially less helpful. Is there a reason why the regular update doesn't flush the closed AfDs? czar 01:10, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
Please stop having Cyberbot remove {{ dead link}} templates just because there's 'something' at the URL. In many cases, it's simply a notice that the originally intended page is not available (yes, even the archive, and thus, the link remains dead). Examples include this edit, and this one. — ADavidB 05:30, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
Dear cyberpower678, I removed the deletion tag after realizing that the user who had nominated the deletion was a blocked user. Moreover, I improved the references by including a link to the journal on the Web of Science. The journal does exist and is indexed in TR`s Web of Science. Thank you! Meisam tab ( talk) 13:43, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello C. I am wondering if this new(ish) bot edit really needs to be checked by a human editor? As far as I can tell it is a formatting change which is different from the bots other task of trying to update a dead link. That one does need to be checked to make sure the new link goes to the info to support the refs use in the article. I ask because this is adding 40+ pages to the Category:Articles with unchecked bot-modified external links a day. I am whittling away at the articles in that cat and this is slowing any progress :-) If it would be too much of a hassle to have these done in a form where they don't need to be checked then no worries - I thought I would ask on the off chance. Cheers. MarnetteD| Talk 15:46, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Hey Mr. Power! I'm sorry to bug you again, but Cyberbot I has not updated any of the individual adminstats on Wikidata for over three weeks now. ( Link to my template history) I was wondering if you could give it a poke to start it up again? Many thanks in advance! Jared Preston ( talk) 13:35, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Why did Cyberbot II remove the {{ Wayback}} template and replace it with a direct URL to Archive.org here? – nyuszika7h ( talk) 17:54, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Both can be seen on this page: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Notice the red "Missing or empty |title=" messages. These appear after archive.org links are processed by Cyberbot II. Additionally, link #9 (which is not showing such an error message now because I altered it) was originally (meant to be) a direct link to a particular old version of a page at archive.org (to show its state at that time), and Cyberbot II changed it to a(n inappropriate) "deadurl" citation template. I'm not sure why Cyberbot II is doing anything to already-existing links to archive.org, actually. Archelon ( talk) 04:30, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Hey,
I just noticed that the signature for
User:Cyberbot II opens sup
and span
tags within the wikilinks but doesn't close them. While this isn't a problem per se (as Mediawiki closes them in the HTML output), it means the syntax highlighting doesn't know to stop highlighting in pink. Would you mind setting the signature to close the sup
and span
tags, to fix the syntax highlighting, please?
Thanks! — OwenBlacker ( Talk) 18:52, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Greetings Cyberpower678. I appreciate the work that's done by the 'cyberpower II' bot, but I'm finding it difficult to confirm the edits. If possible, 'Talk Page' notifications might be provided in a way similar to this example:
Checking the work could be much easier if something like this were provided. -- Curley Wolf ( talk) 15:18, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Cyberbot I doesn't seem to do book reports properly when article titles include semicolons, such as
Steins;Gate –
see this edit for an example. Is this a problem with Cyberbot's code, or just a matter of incorrect formatting (similarly to how italic titles need to be written like [[this|''this'']]
in Wikipedia books)?--
IDV
talk
15:51, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
I don't know if this is worth coding around, but this Cyberbot edit added a book with an = in the title, and the resulting template did not work right. I fixed it like this, which seemed to work. Cyberbot might consider something similar, maybe even doing so for all books. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 18:55, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
I'm getting "502 Bad Gateway" reports. Can you fix 'em up? Softlavender ( talk) 10:25, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
You may remember my recent report of Cyberbot's adding dead archive links, archived here. You suggested that the dead archive link should be removed, prior to adding a 'dead link' template. I expressed my strong expectation that Cyberbot would simply add a dead archive link back. My expectation was (unfortunately) correct. After I followed your suggestion here, Cyberbot added the exact same info back today. I had noted the problem on this article's talk page (and have again) with the "failed" parameter to the sourcecheck template, but Cyberbot apparently doesn't consult that info. In the prior discussion of this issue, it was mentioned that a WaybackMedic bot would help resolve this issue. Until this other bot is operational, can something be done to stop Cyberbot's (re-)addition of dead archive links? — ADavidB 02:46, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
{{
cbignore}}
. That tells the bit to leave it alone.—
cyberpower
Chat:Limited Access
02:53, 28 April 2016 (UTC)So, when evaluating dead links, you post on the article talk page with the heading "External links modified" - but, there are many pages where the bot has made multiple visits (like here where I added numbers to the headings), which causes bugs when hitting the edit section buttons. Could the bot be upgraded to say External links modified date instead? Thanks, Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 03:20, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Hey - have some questions about Peachy if you're online. I'm on IRC.--v/r - T P 01:17, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
You already know Cyberbot II's been hitting the spam blacklist on this page every hour, on the hour, for almost a week, right? — Cryptic 10:11, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
Question about {{
adminstats}}
: Can it be modified to give statistics for former admins?
Toddst1 (
talk)
23:28, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
What happened here? Fyddlestix ( talk) 16:35, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
What happens when the archived PDF link we are given will not load? e.g. /info/en/?search=Talk:South_Gare_Lighthouse Stuffed Cat ( talk) 21:29, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
failed
. The bot will tell you that in newly-posted messages but that talk page message was posted before it was updated to have that option. I fixed it for you.
nyuszika7h (
talk)
17:44, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Cyberbot II: Great idea. [Probably] great work. Exception: "Rescuing 1 sources", it instead deleted "them" (it), and left only the {deadlink} tag. Also, it doubled the {Authority control} tag. Those actions look neurotic to me. Don't make us call Dave. - A876 ( talk) 19:59, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
See
[2]. Just need to change the {{yo|username}}
to be {{yo|1=username}}
since some users have an equals sign in their username. Hope you are well, my friend! —
MusikAnimal
talk
04:15, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Greetings. As you were the last contrib to edit this page I'm addressing you. Little was known about Hans Poulsen until a few weeks ago - some even assumed he was dead. Someone I know personally discovered that Hans had a major stroke about 20 years ago and has been in an old people's home in Melbourne ever since - but for Hans' sake this detail is not to be published!! My friend Anita recently interviewed Hans for her Channel 31 program Wrokdown and made a video to go with his beautiful song "Hold You in my Heart". Anita holds the copyright to Wrokdown. You can email me at epacrisimpressa@gmail.com for further details. I hope you will be able to update Hans' wiki page with some of these details. Please respect Hans' right to privacy about his current living circumstances. I just want people to know that Hans is not dead and that he wrote another extraordinary song. Sincerely, Melba1 ( talk) 12:22, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
You can just ignore this message if you like. Melba1 ( talk) 13:21, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Cyberpower. I've noticed you run a bot that repairs dead links and have a favor to ask you. At WP:TFLS, there is a nominations for List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong. There are dead links that I noted at TFLS, encouraging the nominator to run the link-checker tool. However, they live in China and the link-checker is apparently being blocked, making it very difficult for them to do any repair work. If you do a bot run in the future, would you please consider sweeping that article to repair any dead links that the bot can find archived versions of? Thanks for any help you can provide. Giants2008 ( Talk) 23:13, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678. I'm just going to refer you to Talk:How to Rock and How to Rock – basically Cyberbot II has now three times tried to replace a 'dead link' ref with a 'null' Internet Archive link, despite the fact that I've now twice tagged the change as 'Failed'. Hoping you can figure out what's going on here... Thanks. -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 01:57, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
Cyberpower678 – is there a way to get Cyberbot II to ignore a specific {{ dead link}} tag on a reference? Failing that, is there a way to get Cyberbot II to ignore an entire article? TIA! -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 19:15, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
See Rockwell_B-1_Lancer. I believe archive.is is a valid link (not your responsibility, I understand). BUT: the documentation given by the bot either points to a wrong match or is confusing: it is not clear why barchive.is matches archive.is -- Vigilius ( talk) 20:04, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Is it just me, or is the bot adding dead links fixes slower than before?. BabbaQ ( talk) 17:52, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
Wonderful. There is just something amazing about seeing a bot politely talk and provide instructions in a talk page. It made my day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikifyLife ( talk • contribs) 09:56, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower! The InternetArchiveBot is doing an important job, I like it! I saw it work on an article, and I have two questions about it:
Cheers, Amalthea 09:41, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
I found two more specific mailing lists that might interest you:
I hope those will be more directly relevant to your interests. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:49, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Please don't editwar with me, let's talk (on that talkpage, not here). The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 22:37, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is
We need an adult. Thank you. v/r -
T
P
05:30, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
The bot has destroyed the formatting at wp:Requests for page protection. Please stop it running. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 13:12, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
It also said my request for my page protection was in an incorrect format I Know that's **** wrong. DatNuttyWikipedian ( talk) 02:31, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your rescue work on Robert Treuhaft. Much appreciated.-- Akhooha ( talk) 20:56, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Can you please prevent Cyberbot II from making changes such as this, removing archive links from WebCite? I often use WebCite, and this bot is removing them in favor of web.archive links. I've just been reverting this bot on every page I've watchlisted and it edits lol. Dan56 ( talk) 07:40, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
Can you please refrain your bot from doing edits like these? They
The archive date + original url are useful for things that change with time, for papers published in journals it just adds unnecessary clutter to already cluttered reflists. Thanks. Ihaveacatonmydesk ( talk) 10:50, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
archive-url
, not url
. If you want to change how the template outputs those values, you should discuss it at
Help talk:Citation Style 1. Using more descriptive edit summaries might be a good idea though.
Kaldari (
talk)
23:31, 27 May 2016 (UTC)Regarding this "rescue" on Madden Dam page, the archiveurl generates a 404. Since this is a very low priority item, I'm satisfied to leave things in their current broken state, but I wanted to check with you on whether there's a better action available. Unless/until I hear from you, I won't alter the checked/not checked status at Talk:Madden Dam#External links modified. --jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 20:49, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I see from your bot page, you can help rescue deadlinks. At the Film Project, two important resources for film articles, NY Times and Silent Era are no more. Is your bot able to help with this? There are tons of pages now with deadlinks from both of these sites. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 19:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Your bot keeps not only adding redundant archive info, but ignoring that the redundant link it's attempting to add, for whatever technical reason, results in an infinite redirect loop (See diff and diff). I know your bot is automated and obviously doesn't read hidden messages, but if this particular edit could be overridden it would be ideal since it's obviously behaving contrary to what would be expected. DK qwerty 14:36, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
{{
cbignore}}
. That will fix your problem. See template documentation for usage.—
cyberpower
Chat:Online
14:59, 29 May 2016 (UTC)What is the justification for this edit? -- bender235 ( talk) 21:18, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
I've been trying to change the frequency section of the Wikipedia article on mass shootings. Right now the article says that the United States has 33 percent of all mass shootings in the world which has been debunked constantly.
There's a few more things I found on mass shootings that I think might be worth looking at. The first two are articles regarding the frequency of mass shootings in the United States compared to it's population size along with mass shootings from other countries. The United States is one of the most densely populated countries on earth with a population of 320 million people which is the main factor that influences all these mass shootings. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/22/barack-obama/barack-obama-correct-mass-killings-dont-happen-oth/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/12/03/obamas-inconsistent-claim-on-the-frequency-of-mass-shootings-in-the-u-s-compared-to-other-countries/
Compared with India which has a population of 1.2 billion I believe that India has more mass shootings because of it's population size, but since India's homicide rate is only 3.5 where the United States is 4.5.
The Crime Prevention Center is where I discovered the US State Department report on mass killings around the world. I understand that Wikipedia isn't supposed to accept sources that side with either side of the debate, but much of the statistics could be used to create a list on the frequency of attacks. Sadly I don't know how to make a group on Wikipedia. http://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/comparing-death-rates-from-mass-public-shootings-in-the-us-and-europe/ While the State Department's report only focus's on terrorism, it proves that the United States doesn't have more mass shootings than any other country. Part of the problem is that in many countries mass shootings tend to go unnoticed due to ineffective law enforcement lack of a definition on a mass shooting. As a result I would recommend either removing the CNN report source that states the United States has the most mass shootings or show that most countries themselves don't even report mass shootings.
Aside from that I also found some articles from politifact on Mass Shooting Tracker that you might be interested in reading. http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2015/nov/01/david-cicilline/david-cicilline-mixes-shooting-data-call-stronger-/ http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/oct/08/debbie-wasserman-schultz/how-many-americans-have-been-killed-mass-shootings/
Also take a look here http://www.npr.org/2015/12/05/458492474/how-many-mass-shootings-this-year-theres-no-consensus
Keep in mind, that as far as referencing Shooting Tracker on the Wikipedia page, i'm perfectly fine with that so long as we include the criticism that it's received. As of now the Wikipedia article on Mass Shootings does include the criticisms towards Shooting Tracker. I just want to keep it that way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graylandertagger ( talk • contribs) 22:42, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
Sorry about that. It's just that since you edited the "Gun Violence in the United States" article I figured you'd be interested in helping out. I'll ask someone else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graylandertagger ( talk • contribs) 23:13, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Thanks for renaming me my last username. but i lost my rights and all history of edits. Is that possible to move my last history to this account? Qian.Nivan ( talk) 23:00, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
Why did Cyberbot II put transclusions of Template:Blacklisted-links on Portal:Current events/January 2003, Portal:Current events/September 2003, Portal:Current events/February 2004, Portal:Current events/May 2004, Portal:Current events/June 2004, Portal:Current events/2006 January 25, Portal:Current events/2006 March 8, and Portal:Current events/2013 May 2? Probably these can be fixed by Waldir, as previously done on 9 pages linked in revision 652783762. There is now an RfC on whether to remove archive.is from the spam blacklist. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 04:36, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you reassigned me to another section. Figured I should just mention I've already gone through the one you claimed. :) /17:23, 31 May 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johan (WMF) ( talk • contribs)
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Taking a look at the revision history for Template:X7, around October 24th or so, the two bots in question ( Hazard-Bot and Cyberbot I) are repeatedly interleaving their edits, clearing it to a state that each things is clean, except for a 1 space difference. This is definitely a small footprint, but perhaps it would be best to make it consistent to reduce the (very small) overhead of automated edits on the WP servers?
I'd completely understand if no justifiable action is taken...... but just an FYI. Cheers, — Andy W. ( talk · contrib) 20:48, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Hey—thanks for your work on User:Cyberbot I/Current AfDs. Many of the listings stick around for several days after their closure, which makes the tool substantially less helpful. Is there a reason why the regular update doesn't flush the closed AfDs? czar 01:10, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
Please stop having Cyberbot remove {{ dead link}} templates just because there's 'something' at the URL. In many cases, it's simply a notice that the originally intended page is not available (yes, even the archive, and thus, the link remains dead). Examples include this edit, and this one. — ADavidB 05:30, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
Dear cyberpower678, I removed the deletion tag after realizing that the user who had nominated the deletion was a blocked user. Moreover, I improved the references by including a link to the journal on the Web of Science. The journal does exist and is indexed in TR`s Web of Science. Thank you! Meisam tab ( talk) 13:43, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello C. I am wondering if this new(ish) bot edit really needs to be checked by a human editor? As far as I can tell it is a formatting change which is different from the bots other task of trying to update a dead link. That one does need to be checked to make sure the new link goes to the info to support the refs use in the article. I ask because this is adding 40+ pages to the Category:Articles with unchecked bot-modified external links a day. I am whittling away at the articles in that cat and this is slowing any progress :-) If it would be too much of a hassle to have these done in a form where they don't need to be checked then no worries - I thought I would ask on the off chance. Cheers. MarnetteD| Talk 15:46, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Hey Mr. Power! I'm sorry to bug you again, but Cyberbot I has not updated any of the individual adminstats on Wikidata for over three weeks now. ( Link to my template history) I was wondering if you could give it a poke to start it up again? Many thanks in advance! Jared Preston ( talk) 13:35, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Why did Cyberbot II remove the {{ Wayback}} template and replace it with a direct URL to Archive.org here? – nyuszika7h ( talk) 17:54, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Both can be seen on this page: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Notice the red "Missing or empty |title=" messages. These appear after archive.org links are processed by Cyberbot II. Additionally, link #9 (which is not showing such an error message now because I altered it) was originally (meant to be) a direct link to a particular old version of a page at archive.org (to show its state at that time), and Cyberbot II changed it to a(n inappropriate) "deadurl" citation template. I'm not sure why Cyberbot II is doing anything to already-existing links to archive.org, actually. Archelon ( talk) 04:30, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Hey,
I just noticed that the signature for
User:Cyberbot II opens sup
and span
tags within the wikilinks but doesn't close them. While this isn't a problem per se (as Mediawiki closes them in the HTML output), it means the syntax highlighting doesn't know to stop highlighting in pink. Would you mind setting the signature to close the sup
and span
tags, to fix the syntax highlighting, please?
Thanks! — OwenBlacker ( Talk) 18:52, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Greetings Cyberpower678. I appreciate the work that's done by the 'cyberpower II' bot, but I'm finding it difficult to confirm the edits. If possible, 'Talk Page' notifications might be provided in a way similar to this example:
Checking the work could be much easier if something like this were provided. -- Curley Wolf ( talk) 15:18, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Cyberbot I doesn't seem to do book reports properly when article titles include semicolons, such as
Steins;Gate –
see this edit for an example. Is this a problem with Cyberbot's code, or just a matter of incorrect formatting (similarly to how italic titles need to be written like [[this|''this'']]
in Wikipedia books)?--
IDV
talk
15:51, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
I don't know if this is worth coding around, but this Cyberbot edit added a book with an = in the title, and the resulting template did not work right. I fixed it like this, which seemed to work. Cyberbot might consider something similar, maybe even doing so for all books. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 18:55, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
I'm getting "502 Bad Gateway" reports. Can you fix 'em up? Softlavender ( talk) 10:25, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
You may remember my recent report of Cyberbot's adding dead archive links, archived here. You suggested that the dead archive link should be removed, prior to adding a 'dead link' template. I expressed my strong expectation that Cyberbot would simply add a dead archive link back. My expectation was (unfortunately) correct. After I followed your suggestion here, Cyberbot added the exact same info back today. I had noted the problem on this article's talk page (and have again) with the "failed" parameter to the sourcecheck template, but Cyberbot apparently doesn't consult that info. In the prior discussion of this issue, it was mentioned that a WaybackMedic bot would help resolve this issue. Until this other bot is operational, can something be done to stop Cyberbot's (re-)addition of dead archive links? — ADavidB 02:46, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
{{
cbignore}}
. That tells the bit to leave it alone.—
cyberpower
Chat:Limited Access
02:53, 28 April 2016 (UTC)So, when evaluating dead links, you post on the article talk page with the heading "External links modified" - but, there are many pages where the bot has made multiple visits (like here where I added numbers to the headings), which causes bugs when hitting the edit section buttons. Could the bot be upgraded to say External links modified date instead? Thanks, Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 03:20, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Hey - have some questions about Peachy if you're online. I'm on IRC.--v/r - T P 01:17, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
You already know Cyberbot II's been hitting the spam blacklist on this page every hour, on the hour, for almost a week, right? — Cryptic 10:11, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
Question about {{
adminstats}}
: Can it be modified to give statistics for former admins?
Toddst1 (
talk)
23:28, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
What happened here? Fyddlestix ( talk) 16:35, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
What happens when the archived PDF link we are given will not load? e.g. /info/en/?search=Talk:South_Gare_Lighthouse Stuffed Cat ( talk) 21:29, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
failed
. The bot will tell you that in newly-posted messages but that talk page message was posted before it was updated to have that option. I fixed it for you.
nyuszika7h (
talk)
17:44, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Cyberbot II: Great idea. [Probably] great work. Exception: "Rescuing 1 sources", it instead deleted "them" (it), and left only the {deadlink} tag. Also, it doubled the {Authority control} tag. Those actions look neurotic to me. Don't make us call Dave. - A876 ( talk) 19:59, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
See
[2]. Just need to change the {{yo|username}}
to be {{yo|1=username}}
since some users have an equals sign in their username. Hope you are well, my friend! —
MusikAnimal
talk
04:15, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Greetings. As you were the last contrib to edit this page I'm addressing you. Little was known about Hans Poulsen until a few weeks ago - some even assumed he was dead. Someone I know personally discovered that Hans had a major stroke about 20 years ago and has been in an old people's home in Melbourne ever since - but for Hans' sake this detail is not to be published!! My friend Anita recently interviewed Hans for her Channel 31 program Wrokdown and made a video to go with his beautiful song "Hold You in my Heart". Anita holds the copyright to Wrokdown. You can email me at epacrisimpressa@gmail.com for further details. I hope you will be able to update Hans' wiki page with some of these details. Please respect Hans' right to privacy about his current living circumstances. I just want people to know that Hans is not dead and that he wrote another extraordinary song. Sincerely, Melba1 ( talk) 12:22, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
You can just ignore this message if you like. Melba1 ( talk) 13:21, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Cyberpower. I've noticed you run a bot that repairs dead links and have a favor to ask you. At WP:TFLS, there is a nominations for List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong. There are dead links that I noted at TFLS, encouraging the nominator to run the link-checker tool. However, they live in China and the link-checker is apparently being blocked, making it very difficult for them to do any repair work. If you do a bot run in the future, would you please consider sweeping that article to repair any dead links that the bot can find archived versions of? Thanks for any help you can provide. Giants2008 ( Talk) 23:13, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678. I'm just going to refer you to Talk:How to Rock and How to Rock – basically Cyberbot II has now three times tried to replace a 'dead link' ref with a 'null' Internet Archive link, despite the fact that I've now twice tagged the change as 'Failed'. Hoping you can figure out what's going on here... Thanks. -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 01:57, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
Cyberpower678 – is there a way to get Cyberbot II to ignore a specific {{ dead link}} tag on a reference? Failing that, is there a way to get Cyberbot II to ignore an entire article? TIA! -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 19:15, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
See Rockwell_B-1_Lancer. I believe archive.is is a valid link (not your responsibility, I understand). BUT: the documentation given by the bot either points to a wrong match or is confusing: it is not clear why barchive.is matches archive.is -- Vigilius ( talk) 20:04, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Is it just me, or is the bot adding dead links fixes slower than before?. BabbaQ ( talk) 17:52, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
Wonderful. There is just something amazing about seeing a bot politely talk and provide instructions in a talk page. It made my day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikifyLife ( talk • contribs) 09:56, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower! The InternetArchiveBot is doing an important job, I like it! I saw it work on an article, and I have two questions about it:
Cheers, Amalthea 09:41, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
I found two more specific mailing lists that might interest you:
I hope those will be more directly relevant to your interests. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:49, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Please don't editwar with me, let's talk (on that talkpage, not here). The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 22:37, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is
We need an adult. Thank you. v/r -
T
P
05:30, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
The bot has destroyed the formatting at wp:Requests for page protection. Please stop it running. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 13:12, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
It also said my request for my page protection was in an incorrect format I Know that's **** wrong. DatNuttyWikipedian ( talk) 02:31, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your rescue work on Robert Treuhaft. Much appreciated.-- Akhooha ( talk) 20:56, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Can you please prevent Cyberbot II from making changes such as this, removing archive links from WebCite? I often use WebCite, and this bot is removing them in favor of web.archive links. I've just been reverting this bot on every page I've watchlisted and it edits lol. Dan56 ( talk) 07:40, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
Can you please refrain your bot from doing edits like these? They
The archive date + original url are useful for things that change with time, for papers published in journals it just adds unnecessary clutter to already cluttered reflists. Thanks. Ihaveacatonmydesk ( talk) 10:50, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
archive-url
, not url
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23:31, 27 May 2016 (UTC)Regarding this "rescue" on Madden Dam page, the archiveurl generates a 404. Since this is a very low priority item, I'm satisfied to leave things in their current broken state, but I wanted to check with you on whether there's a better action available. Unless/until I hear from you, I won't alter the checked/not checked status at Talk:Madden Dam#External links modified. --jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 20:49, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I see from your bot page, you can help rescue deadlinks. At the Film Project, two important resources for film articles, NY Times and Silent Era are no more. Is your bot able to help with this? There are tons of pages now with deadlinks from both of these sites. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 19:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Your bot keeps not only adding redundant archive info, but ignoring that the redundant link it's attempting to add, for whatever technical reason, results in an infinite redirect loop (See diff and diff). I know your bot is automated and obviously doesn't read hidden messages, but if this particular edit could be overridden it would be ideal since it's obviously behaving contrary to what would be expected. DK qwerty 14:36, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
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14:59, 29 May 2016 (UTC)What is the justification for this edit? -- bender235 ( talk) 21:18, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
I've been trying to change the frequency section of the Wikipedia article on mass shootings. Right now the article says that the United States has 33 percent of all mass shootings in the world which has been debunked constantly.
There's a few more things I found on mass shootings that I think might be worth looking at. The first two are articles regarding the frequency of mass shootings in the United States compared to it's population size along with mass shootings from other countries. The United States is one of the most densely populated countries on earth with a population of 320 million people which is the main factor that influences all these mass shootings. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/22/barack-obama/barack-obama-correct-mass-killings-dont-happen-oth/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/12/03/obamas-inconsistent-claim-on-the-frequency-of-mass-shootings-in-the-u-s-compared-to-other-countries/
Compared with India which has a population of 1.2 billion I believe that India has more mass shootings because of it's population size, but since India's homicide rate is only 3.5 where the United States is 4.5.
The Crime Prevention Center is where I discovered the US State Department report on mass killings around the world. I understand that Wikipedia isn't supposed to accept sources that side with either side of the debate, but much of the statistics could be used to create a list on the frequency of attacks. Sadly I don't know how to make a group on Wikipedia. http://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/comparing-death-rates-from-mass-public-shootings-in-the-us-and-europe/ While the State Department's report only focus's on terrorism, it proves that the United States doesn't have more mass shootings than any other country. Part of the problem is that in many countries mass shootings tend to go unnoticed due to ineffective law enforcement lack of a definition on a mass shooting. As a result I would recommend either removing the CNN report source that states the United States has the most mass shootings or show that most countries themselves don't even report mass shootings.
Aside from that I also found some articles from politifact on Mass Shooting Tracker that you might be interested in reading. http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2015/nov/01/david-cicilline/david-cicilline-mixes-shooting-data-call-stronger-/ http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/oct/08/debbie-wasserman-schultz/how-many-americans-have-been-killed-mass-shootings/
Also take a look here http://www.npr.org/2015/12/05/458492474/how-many-mass-shootings-this-year-theres-no-consensus
Keep in mind, that as far as referencing Shooting Tracker on the Wikipedia page, i'm perfectly fine with that so long as we include the criticism that it's received. As of now the Wikipedia article on Mass Shootings does include the criticisms towards Shooting Tracker. I just want to keep it that way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graylandertagger ( talk • contribs) 22:42, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
Sorry about that. It's just that since you edited the "Gun Violence in the United States" article I figured you'd be interested in helping out. I'll ask someone else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graylandertagger ( talk • contribs) 23:13, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Thanks for renaming me my last username. but i lost my rights and all history of edits. Is that possible to move my last history to this account? Qian.Nivan ( talk) 23:00, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
Why did Cyberbot II put transclusions of Template:Blacklisted-links on Portal:Current events/January 2003, Portal:Current events/September 2003, Portal:Current events/February 2004, Portal:Current events/May 2004, Portal:Current events/June 2004, Portal:Current events/2006 January 25, Portal:Current events/2006 March 8, and Portal:Current events/2013 May 2? Probably these can be fixed by Waldir, as previously done on 9 pages linked in revision 652783762. There is now an RfC on whether to remove archive.is from the spam blacklist. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 04:36, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you reassigned me to another section. Figured I should just mention I've already gone through the one you claimed. :) /17:23, 31 May 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johan (WMF) ( talk • contribs)