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The API has been down at least 6 hours. I checked the bot edits and notice a fair number are being left with archivedate's of 1970 which I assume are links not in the DB and something happening due to the API being unavailable. If that is wrong sorry please start again. Some examples: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] -- Green C 03:56, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello. Sorting by column does not work in AdminStats. Can you fix this? Some discussions https://github.com/x-tools/xtools/pull/102 , https://github.com/tbertels/xtools/pull/1 . --— Green Zero обг 21:36, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
In this edit, InternetArchiveBot (IAB) added a link to a page from Gmane that was cached by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (WM) in December 2016. That caching was performed by WM after Gmane lost much of its content, which happened around August 2016. As such, the WM-archived page shows "NOT FOUND" in place of the "From", "Subject", "Newsgroups", "Date" and content fields. This makes it effectively useless as a reference.
This is a tricky issue to resolve, but one approach might be to have IAB only link to WM-hosted archives of Gmane pages if one or both of the following two conditions are met:
Thanks for reading this, and thanks for creating/maintaining IAB! zazpot ( talk) 14:00, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678. Thank you for your very detailed close of the contentious RfC Talk:Michael Greger#Request for comments on SBM source! I hope that you continue closing discussions at WP:ANRFC if you have the time and inclination. WP:ANRFC needs closers who are willing to write meticulous closes of RfCs that are very difficult to close. Thank you again! Cunard ( talk) 05:56, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
The front end on X tools' appears to go to the wrong place. If I browse to http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/ and type in my username, I get redirected to http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Ritchie333&project=en.wikipedia.org which is blank. There's another link, http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/index.php?name=Ritchie333&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia which does work. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:44, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Cyberbot appears to be inserting text intended for the edit summary into section headers when placing warnings on non-IP user talk pages ( example). -- Paul_012 ( talk) 20:47, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
As a heads up, for some reason Cyberbot cleared the entire page of the RfX Report about 3 hours ago. Also, congratulations on the successful RfA! Inks.LWC ( talk) 23:56, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
See
this cite. Caused by a {{dead link}}
embedded inside a cite template. I can't recall if this is a known and/or fixed problem. I'll need to add this to WM to correct, and go back and discover the old ones. --
Green
C
19:06, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
I went to IABOT Management Interface, entered my e-mail, and created an account. Then I was on the Report a bug page. At this point I was faced with more gobbledygook regarding Phabricator and false positives and it is more than I can bear for the problem I am trying to report, so I am reporting it here. Please see my comments at
Talk:Chico Unified School District#External links modified. Reiterated here, you should not supply archive URLs for templates {{
URL}}
and {{
Official website}}
and when the text explaining an external link indicates it's something along the lines of a current official page. You should supply archive URLs only for fact references. One principle that might be right most of the time is, don't find archive URLs outside of <ref>s. Please reply here and ping me.—
Anomalocaris (
talk)
08:19, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
Keeps removing parts of the discussion on the talk for /info/en/?search=User_talk:DASL51984 without any sort of consultation or explanation. As far as I can gather they're not an admin or anything official, just some user. - 124.188.232.125 ( talk) 01:37, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
I heavily supported your recent RfA but in closing this ANI that hadn't even run for 24 hours to take in the times zones of some of us, is IMO an abuse of your admin privilege. I won't wheel war with you, but I will ask you to unclose it. I have plenty to say on the matter which may sway the consensus. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 02:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
Hasn't been active since midnight, server time: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection&action=history Samsara ( talk) 07:24, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
The Boyle's law article history shows an interesting revision by the bot. It adds the padlock and then removes it 15 minutes later. The page is still protected so it seems like the bot is malfunctioning. The task has been switched off so you can take a look at it. -- Majora ( talk) 19:38, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
First task for Cyberbot III? 103.6.159.72 ( talk) 12:24, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering if you could please help with the dead links on List of WWE United States Champions article. There are quite a few dead links that need archived versions, and I would appreciate it if you could help out with a bot. Thanks. GaryColemanFan ( talk) 16:15, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I was just wondering how you made those energy and stress meters on your user page. If you could please tell me how to make those, that would be great! Thanks! — Editor 357 ( Talk • Contributions) 01:29, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
{{
Wstress3d}}
and {{
Energy meter}}
will get you what you need.—
CYBERPOWER (
Chat)
15:34, 22 January 2017 (UTC)Respected Sir, I saw on Wikipedia Murudeshwara page that you had earlier participated in a discussion about my hometown Murdeshwar. I request you to revisit the page and provide your expert comments about my new posting on the talk page of Murdeshwar. I am new to Wikipedia and do not know how to contact members for getting help. It is my earnest request to all experienced members of Wikipedia to help me in getting back the correct spelling of my home town. In my humble opinion, a mistake made by the first author should not be allowed to carry forward. Please take some time out of your busy schedule and help us.
/info/en/?search=Talk:Murudeshwara — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.218.204.92 ( talk) 23:22, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
Cyberbot I ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) doesn't seem to be clerking WP:CHUS anymore, could you investigate this? Thanks, — k6ka 🍁 ( Talk · Contributions) 16:16, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
The box on my userpage hasn't updated in the last few days. Can you fix it? Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:56, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi I would like to ask for protecting one website on wiki. It is now being vandaled so many times for political reasons. It is the biography page of Andrej Danko , slovak politician here on wiki. Some trolls are posting there some not truthful info and then some of the newspaper post it on facebook(they are writing there that he can not speak slovak - his mother tongue and such things). It is used as a political tool. You can see it on the pages history. I suggest to return the page to the state of 4 th Januray 20.58 which is I think neutral and the lock it for some time. I cannot look at it how wikipedia is being misused. All the best! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marekt023 ( talk • contribs) 16:18, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678 and congratulations on your recent successful request for adminship. I'm a little concerned that you seem to be simply dismissing this BLP concern that was posted to your talk page (presumably directed to you because your bot works on the request for page protection pages). Could you please take a look into this issue a bit further? The good faith user provided a page name ( Andrej Danko), new users might not know how to use wikilinks. Thanks! – xeno talk 16:57, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Um I was wondering if you could help me make a bot that will automatically change inappropriate edits (swearing, inappropriate links, etcétera) but didn't change edits except for listed reasons below a certain point on a page. Please 🤔🤔🤔 Me.Spoofie ( talk) 20:18, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, a message on this page states "This table is out of date. Contact User talk:Cyberpower678.". Just Chilling ( talk) 00:44, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Given that there's been enough time for discussion now (and none arising), would you be so kind as to add the new RfPP codes coll, co, edre and er as valid responses for the bot? Many thanks, Samsara ( talk) 22:23, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower, I've just discovered your amazing link-resurrecting bot, and can see that you've got it running on Swedish Wikipedia as well. Awesome! What would it take for us to get it running on Danish Wikipedia as well? We sure could use an archiving bot to combat rampant link rot, the sooner the better! Regards -- Metalindustrien ( talk) 21:19, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I just made a proposal on nowiki to configure InternetArchiveBot there. While researching the status on the bot on svwiki I came across the discussion about proactive archiving on the bottom of this thread, where you write that "I have inquired regarding running their bot (Wayback Machine's) on the Swedish Wikipedia. I'm still waiting to hear back." Did they ever get back to you, and do you know if any other wikipedia than the English is archived proactively at the moment? – Danmichaelo ( talk) 18:34, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
InternetArchiveBot is inappropriately modifying article's links to flash-based websites, and redirecting them to decade-old precedent pages at web.archive.org. e.g. Qiu Xiaolong
Hello
Sorry if this isn't the correct way to contact you. I see you have tried to sort out the dispute on the Market Drayton page. Can I ask that you look at restoring it to a version that has by enlarge been active for over 10 years I refer to the musicians article in particular that has been removed in the last week. While I accept that the people listed have not received world wide acclaim they are important to the local and wider local history of the town. The reason for removal has been given as it is promotional yet this cannot be the case as at least 3 of the artists mentioned have not been active for over 20 years some 35 or more and have nothing to promote. I am a casual editor and would only edit articles I have knowledge of. As someone who is clearly an expert and respected editor I would value your input. On my part should you decide not to restore the article while I would be frustrated/disappointed I will not make further edits on that page. Thanks for your help Kev inr ( talk) 14:33, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.
13:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your bot message. I have gone through to hopefully correct the formatting of my request to (temporary) semi-protect the page article for "Johnson Amendment".
LaEremita (
talk)
01:06, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
The bot archived more fulfilled and declined requests. However, it also removed most of past requests. What can be done about it? -- George Ho ( talk) 19:57, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Hallo, I've just noticed the Cyberbot message at User_talk:Michael_Glenwood#Issuing_level_1_warning_about_removing_AfD_template_from_articles_before_the_discussion_is_complete._.28Peachy_2.0_.28alpha_8.29.29.
Could I suggest that the section heading doesn't need to have a link to Peachy. Even as an experienced editor, I saw that heading, thought "What on earth...?", clicked on the link and was not enlightened. The editor who has removed an AfD template (whether a newbie or a vandal) doesn't need to know what software was used to create the warning, and it's just confusing. If you need to include it in the message, then please bury it near the end of the text, with some wording like "Cyberbot was using the (Peachy 2.0 (alpha 8)) software", perhaps in small font. Thanks. Pam D 09:12, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
I think you were involved with these pages. They have just been replaced with some German thing which seems to have less useful info. Is this permanent? Thank you. Sammy D III ( talk) 17:16, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Some of the GA stuff nominated in the book went to Unassessed without being properly checked. All of them should be classified as GA and the overall book as well, instead of Start class. Since this is nominated for Good topic and therefore everything must be GA. I addressed something that might be related to the bot giving the article the wrong classification. Despite this I would like some feedback. MarioSoulTruthFan ( talk) 12:55, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Cyberbot I is making twice-daily edits to sandboxes like Template:X1, which get saved even when there is no difference, example. Is it possible to check whether there will be a change before saving the edit? - Evad37 [ talk 00:42, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
While attempting to remove a protection tag from Women Seeking Women, Cyberbot blanked the entire page. Please investigate. — Train2104 ( talk • contribs) 16:25, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi there. Cyberbot I oftentimes mentions pending requests when auto-clerking WP:RFPP, like with this edit. Could you maybe add some kind of explanation mechanism so one can figure out which requests the bot deems "pending"? In the example I mentioned for instance, all requests were already responded to, so I can't figure out why it didn't archive them. Regards So Why 11:59, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
Taking a look at Book talk:Canada, it seems the book reports aren't reporting issues with articles anymore. What gives? Economic history of Canada has several maintenance templates, and none are picked up by the bot. This seems to have happen for all books in March 2016 or so [7]. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:13, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Your bot mistakenly gave me a warning: /info/en/?search=User_talk:SpikeballUnion#Issuing_level_1_warning_about_removing_AfD_template_from_articles_before_the_discussion_is_complete._.28Peachy_2.0_.28alpha_8.29.29 about the removal of a deletion notice regarding the following concluded discussion: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Dicko_Fils. SpikeballUnion ( talk) 00:34, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
If a user's talk page is not the right place to make a request of that user, what is the right place? World's Lamest Critic ( talk) 04:40, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Your recent protection of OSN has been mentioned in a a warning I left here to User:Lifesdear. I conclude that you considered the editor's changes at OSN to be disruptive, and I agree. For a brief moment I considered adding 30-500 to the other article also, but this guy is too far out on the limb already. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 04:02, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Sometime in January 2017, the "Revision History Statistics" page had changed from "Article Info" to "Wikihistory". The original Article Info page is more concise than the new version. Here is an example using Pokémon Theme: Old Version; New Version. Yoshiman6464 ♫🥚 03:43, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
I restored this template since it still has about 25 transclusions. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:57, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
It didn't have those before (other than a few sandboxes). Looks like some editors are adding a red link deleted template. When does it end? -- Green C 22:39, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
{{
webarchive}}
without a transclusion? ie. so it wouldn't be possible to use {{wayback}}
as a redirect of {{webarchive}}
, but it would be possible to do a {{tld|wayback}} and have it do or say something about the move to {{webarchive}}
? Otherwise if someone has never heard of {{webarchive}}
and tries to use {{wayback}}
(or sees an old {{tld|wayback}} on a talk page) they won't know what happened. (also ping
Plastikspork). --
Green
C
18:35, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Please see this edit where Cyberbot added an AfD tag to a user page because a malformed AfD had been created by a long-term abuser. Could you please look into making sure the addition of missing AfD tags is restricted to articles? BethNaught ( talk) 08:26, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 40 | ← | Archive 42 | Archive 43 | Archive 44 | Archive 45 | Archive 46 | → | Archive 50 |
The API has been down at least 6 hours. I checked the bot edits and notice a fair number are being left with archivedate's of 1970 which I assume are links not in the DB and something happening due to the API being unavailable. If that is wrong sorry please start again. Some examples: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] -- Green C 03:56, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello. Sorting by column does not work in AdminStats. Can you fix this? Some discussions https://github.com/x-tools/xtools/pull/102 , https://github.com/tbertels/xtools/pull/1 . --— Green Zero обг 21:36, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
In this edit, InternetArchiveBot (IAB) added a link to a page from Gmane that was cached by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (WM) in December 2016. That caching was performed by WM after Gmane lost much of its content, which happened around August 2016. As such, the WM-archived page shows "NOT FOUND" in place of the "From", "Subject", "Newsgroups", "Date" and content fields. This makes it effectively useless as a reference.
This is a tricky issue to resolve, but one approach might be to have IAB only link to WM-hosted archives of Gmane pages if one or both of the following two conditions are met:
Thanks for reading this, and thanks for creating/maintaining IAB! zazpot ( talk) 14:00, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678. Thank you for your very detailed close of the contentious RfC Talk:Michael Greger#Request for comments on SBM source! I hope that you continue closing discussions at WP:ANRFC if you have the time and inclination. WP:ANRFC needs closers who are willing to write meticulous closes of RfCs that are very difficult to close. Thank you again! Cunard ( talk) 05:56, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
The front end on X tools' appears to go to the wrong place. If I browse to http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/ and type in my username, I get redirected to http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Ritchie333&project=en.wikipedia.org which is blank. There's another link, http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/index.php?name=Ritchie333&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia which does work. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:44, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Cyberbot appears to be inserting text intended for the edit summary into section headers when placing warnings on non-IP user talk pages ( example). -- Paul_012 ( talk) 20:47, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
As a heads up, for some reason Cyberbot cleared the entire page of the RfX Report about 3 hours ago. Also, congratulations on the successful RfA! Inks.LWC ( talk) 23:56, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
See
this cite. Caused by a {{dead link}}
embedded inside a cite template. I can't recall if this is a known and/or fixed problem. I'll need to add this to WM to correct, and go back and discover the old ones. --
Green
C
19:06, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
I went to IABOT Management Interface, entered my e-mail, and created an account. Then I was on the Report a bug page. At this point I was faced with more gobbledygook regarding Phabricator and false positives and it is more than I can bear for the problem I am trying to report, so I am reporting it here. Please see my comments at
Talk:Chico Unified School District#External links modified. Reiterated here, you should not supply archive URLs for templates {{
URL}}
and {{
Official website}}
and when the text explaining an external link indicates it's something along the lines of a current official page. You should supply archive URLs only for fact references. One principle that might be right most of the time is, don't find archive URLs outside of <ref>s. Please reply here and ping me.—
Anomalocaris (
talk)
08:19, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
Keeps removing parts of the discussion on the talk for /info/en/?search=User_talk:DASL51984 without any sort of consultation or explanation. As far as I can gather they're not an admin or anything official, just some user. - 124.188.232.125 ( talk) 01:37, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
I heavily supported your recent RfA but in closing this ANI that hadn't even run for 24 hours to take in the times zones of some of us, is IMO an abuse of your admin privilege. I won't wheel war with you, but I will ask you to unclose it. I have plenty to say on the matter which may sway the consensus. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 02:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
Hasn't been active since midnight, server time: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection&action=history Samsara ( talk) 07:24, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
The Boyle's law article history shows an interesting revision by the bot. It adds the padlock and then removes it 15 minutes later. The page is still protected so it seems like the bot is malfunctioning. The task has been switched off so you can take a look at it. -- Majora ( talk) 19:38, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
First task for Cyberbot III? 103.6.159.72 ( talk) 12:24, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering if you could please help with the dead links on List of WWE United States Champions article. There are quite a few dead links that need archived versions, and I would appreciate it if you could help out with a bot. Thanks. GaryColemanFan ( talk) 16:15, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I was just wondering how you made those energy and stress meters on your user page. If you could please tell me how to make those, that would be great! Thanks! — Editor 357 ( Talk • Contributions) 01:29, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
{{
Wstress3d}}
and {{
Energy meter}}
will get you what you need.—
CYBERPOWER (
Chat)
15:34, 22 January 2017 (UTC)Respected Sir, I saw on Wikipedia Murudeshwara page that you had earlier participated in a discussion about my hometown Murdeshwar. I request you to revisit the page and provide your expert comments about my new posting on the talk page of Murdeshwar. I am new to Wikipedia and do not know how to contact members for getting help. It is my earnest request to all experienced members of Wikipedia to help me in getting back the correct spelling of my home town. In my humble opinion, a mistake made by the first author should not be allowed to carry forward. Please take some time out of your busy schedule and help us.
/info/en/?search=Talk:Murudeshwara — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.218.204.92 ( talk) 23:22, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
Cyberbot I ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) doesn't seem to be clerking WP:CHUS anymore, could you investigate this? Thanks, — k6ka 🍁 ( Talk · Contributions) 16:16, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
The box on my userpage hasn't updated in the last few days. Can you fix it? Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:56, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi I would like to ask for protecting one website on wiki. It is now being vandaled so many times for political reasons. It is the biography page of Andrej Danko , slovak politician here on wiki. Some trolls are posting there some not truthful info and then some of the newspaper post it on facebook(they are writing there that he can not speak slovak - his mother tongue and such things). It is used as a political tool. You can see it on the pages history. I suggest to return the page to the state of 4 th Januray 20.58 which is I think neutral and the lock it for some time. I cannot look at it how wikipedia is being misused. All the best! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marekt023 ( talk • contribs) 16:18, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678 and congratulations on your recent successful request for adminship. I'm a little concerned that you seem to be simply dismissing this BLP concern that was posted to your talk page (presumably directed to you because your bot works on the request for page protection pages). Could you please take a look into this issue a bit further? The good faith user provided a page name ( Andrej Danko), new users might not know how to use wikilinks. Thanks! – xeno talk 16:57, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Um I was wondering if you could help me make a bot that will automatically change inappropriate edits (swearing, inappropriate links, etcétera) but didn't change edits except for listed reasons below a certain point on a page. Please 🤔🤔🤔 Me.Spoofie ( talk) 20:18, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, a message on this page states "This table is out of date. Contact User talk:Cyberpower678.". Just Chilling ( talk) 00:44, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Given that there's been enough time for discussion now (and none arising), would you be so kind as to add the new RfPP codes coll, co, edre and er as valid responses for the bot? Many thanks, Samsara ( talk) 22:23, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower, I've just discovered your amazing link-resurrecting bot, and can see that you've got it running on Swedish Wikipedia as well. Awesome! What would it take for us to get it running on Danish Wikipedia as well? We sure could use an archiving bot to combat rampant link rot, the sooner the better! Regards -- Metalindustrien ( talk) 21:19, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I just made a proposal on nowiki to configure InternetArchiveBot there. While researching the status on the bot on svwiki I came across the discussion about proactive archiving on the bottom of this thread, where you write that "I have inquired regarding running their bot (Wayback Machine's) on the Swedish Wikipedia. I'm still waiting to hear back." Did they ever get back to you, and do you know if any other wikipedia than the English is archived proactively at the moment? – Danmichaelo ( talk) 18:34, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
InternetArchiveBot is inappropriately modifying article's links to flash-based websites, and redirecting them to decade-old precedent pages at web.archive.org. e.g. Qiu Xiaolong
Hello
Sorry if this isn't the correct way to contact you. I see you have tried to sort out the dispute on the Market Drayton page. Can I ask that you look at restoring it to a version that has by enlarge been active for over 10 years I refer to the musicians article in particular that has been removed in the last week. While I accept that the people listed have not received world wide acclaim they are important to the local and wider local history of the town. The reason for removal has been given as it is promotional yet this cannot be the case as at least 3 of the artists mentioned have not been active for over 20 years some 35 or more and have nothing to promote. I am a casual editor and would only edit articles I have knowledge of. As someone who is clearly an expert and respected editor I would value your input. On my part should you decide not to restore the article while I would be frustrated/disappointed I will not make further edits on that page. Thanks for your help Kev inr ( talk) 14:33, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.
13:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your bot message. I have gone through to hopefully correct the formatting of my request to (temporary) semi-protect the page article for "Johnson Amendment".
LaEremita (
talk)
01:06, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
The bot archived more fulfilled and declined requests. However, it also removed most of past requests. What can be done about it? -- George Ho ( talk) 19:57, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Hallo, I've just noticed the Cyberbot message at User_talk:Michael_Glenwood#Issuing_level_1_warning_about_removing_AfD_template_from_articles_before_the_discussion_is_complete._.28Peachy_2.0_.28alpha_8.29.29.
Could I suggest that the section heading doesn't need to have a link to Peachy. Even as an experienced editor, I saw that heading, thought "What on earth...?", clicked on the link and was not enlightened. The editor who has removed an AfD template (whether a newbie or a vandal) doesn't need to know what software was used to create the warning, and it's just confusing. If you need to include it in the message, then please bury it near the end of the text, with some wording like "Cyberbot was using the (Peachy 2.0 (alpha 8)) software", perhaps in small font. Thanks. Pam D 09:12, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
I think you were involved with these pages. They have just been replaced with some German thing which seems to have less useful info. Is this permanent? Thank you. Sammy D III ( talk) 17:16, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Some of the GA stuff nominated in the book went to Unassessed without being properly checked. All of them should be classified as GA and the overall book as well, instead of Start class. Since this is nominated for Good topic and therefore everything must be GA. I addressed something that might be related to the bot giving the article the wrong classification. Despite this I would like some feedback. MarioSoulTruthFan ( talk) 12:55, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Cyberbot I is making twice-daily edits to sandboxes like Template:X1, which get saved even when there is no difference, example. Is it possible to check whether there will be a change before saving the edit? - Evad37 [ talk 00:42, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
While attempting to remove a protection tag from Women Seeking Women, Cyberbot blanked the entire page. Please investigate. — Train2104 ( talk • contribs) 16:25, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi there. Cyberbot I oftentimes mentions pending requests when auto-clerking WP:RFPP, like with this edit. Could you maybe add some kind of explanation mechanism so one can figure out which requests the bot deems "pending"? In the example I mentioned for instance, all requests were already responded to, so I can't figure out why it didn't archive them. Regards So Why 11:59, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
Taking a look at Book talk:Canada, it seems the book reports aren't reporting issues with articles anymore. What gives? Economic history of Canada has several maintenance templates, and none are picked up by the bot. This seems to have happen for all books in March 2016 or so [7]. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:13, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Your bot mistakenly gave me a warning: /info/en/?search=User_talk:SpikeballUnion#Issuing_level_1_warning_about_removing_AfD_template_from_articles_before_the_discussion_is_complete._.28Peachy_2.0_.28alpha_8.29.29 about the removal of a deletion notice regarding the following concluded discussion: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Dicko_Fils. SpikeballUnion ( talk) 00:34, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
If a user's talk page is not the right place to make a request of that user, what is the right place? World's Lamest Critic ( talk) 04:40, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Your recent protection of OSN has been mentioned in a a warning I left here to User:Lifesdear. I conclude that you considered the editor's changes at OSN to be disruptive, and I agree. For a brief moment I considered adding 30-500 to the other article also, but this guy is too far out on the limb already. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 04:02, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Sometime in January 2017, the "Revision History Statistics" page had changed from "Article Info" to "Wikihistory". The original Article Info page is more concise than the new version. Here is an example using Pokémon Theme: Old Version; New Version. Yoshiman6464 ♫🥚 03:43, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
I restored this template since it still has about 25 transclusions. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:57, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
It didn't have those before (other than a few sandboxes). Looks like some editors are adding a red link deleted template. When does it end? -- Green C 22:39, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
{{
webarchive}}
without a transclusion? ie. so it wouldn't be possible to use {{wayback}}
as a redirect of {{webarchive}}
, but it would be possible to do a {{tld|wayback}} and have it do or say something about the move to {{webarchive}}
? Otherwise if someone has never heard of {{webarchive}}
and tries to use {{wayback}}
(or sees an old {{tld|wayback}} on a talk page) they won't know what happened. (also ping
Plastikspork). --
Green
C
18:35, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Please see this edit where Cyberbot added an AfD tag to a user page because a malformed AfD had been created by a long-term abuser. Could you please look into making sure the addition of missing AfD tags is restricted to articles? BethNaught ( talk) 08:26, 15 February 2017 (UTC)