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It seems like I missed the ANI report and I just learned about it as weekend is over for me. Same might be for others. Reopening the ANI report would be fine. Qualitist ( talk) 21:39, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
I tried to ask for reopening of the report but Fish and karate [1] rightfully archived new discussion but what was not mentioned there can be mentioned here.
This is really becoming tiresome because DbigXray always resorts to ABF or NPA in place of focusing on content. Since you had warned against such behavior after enough people had shared similar views I think the recent misconduct shouldnt be ignored. Qualitist ( talk) 12:27, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
how is life RA5 18:45, 3 December 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richie Somai ( talk • contribs)
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Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
YOU DELETED THIS YEAR'S ARBCOM CANDIDATES!!!! As punishment, I will now proceed to undelete your sandbox. No history cleanup for you! — k6ka 🍁 ( Talk · Contributions) 00:17, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 04:43, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
An arbitration case regarding Fred Bauder has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
For the Arbitration Committee, -- Cameron11598 (Talk) 08:12, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
In Special:Diff/872072320/872099047. Sam Sailor 08:40, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I just wanted to let you know that Cyberbot I has blanked WP:CHUS five times in the past two weeks (once on 28 November [9], twice on 1 December [10] [11] and twice today [12] [13]). Linguist111 my talk page 05:00, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
I've noticed that Cyberbot I keeps incorrectly calling me out on RFPP for not protecting the pages of request I've marked as 'done'. Some I understand (of course), such as requests with more than one article listed or that weren't formatted properly by the OP... but I don't think this is the case recently. It only seems to be doing it to me, but then again... I'm usually quite active there and I typically take care of the entire backlog. I just wanted to give you an FYI; it's making me scratch my head and I'm not sure what's going on... :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 21:32, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
I've disabled the task as it is just making useless edits every 5 minutes. Please look into it. – xeno talk 14:54, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
Hey Cyber. I know you're probably busy, but I wanted to just let you know that in light of five WP:CHUS blankings within a two week period and another totally random bot blanking just a few hours ago, I've disabled the bot's clerking task at WP:CHUS. Feel free to turn it back on at your discretion. — k6ka 🍁 ( Talk · Contributions) 03:23, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
For your service as a member of the Electoral Commission in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections. This year presented new challenges that past commissioners didn't have to face. Thanks for everything you did in your role. Mz7 ( talk) 07:28, 14 December 2018 (UTC) |
I find it user hostile to not accept talk page messages for discussions, and I won't be bothered to set up phabricator accounts. Instead I'm posting my comment here:
The bot says this: "As of February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot."
I would suggest this is amended to make it clear that the bot still keeps working - it just doesn't spam talk page messages about it anymore (a decision I am in favor of).
Please consider changing this message to something like:
As of February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. However, InternetArchiveBot still keeps working exactly as before, just not posting about it.
Please also consider the negative impact of shielding yourself from user messages by requiring external tools. I firmly believe that if you set up a bot, you should also be open to simple talk messages about that bot. Please do not post messages such as "don't leave messages on this talk page, they will likely not be read." CapnZapp ( talk) 09:59, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678, Regarding talk_page of Midgetgolf:
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Happy Christmas! | |
Hello Cyberpower678, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD| Talk 18:38, 18 December 2018 (UTC) |
204.62.118.243 ( talk) 16:52, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi - I've created
WP:RFUR as a shortcut to
User:Cyberbot I/Requests for unblock report. If possible, could you get Cyberbot I to include {{Shortcut|RFUR}}
at an appropriate point near the top of the report please? Thanks.
O Still Small
Voice of Clam (formerly Optimist on the run)
23:10, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Good day. I'd like to request that Cyberbot I amends the cleaning sandbox script for Meta not to include translate tags [14]. If possible, it should only leave {{Meta:Sandbox/Please do not edit this line}}. There's a thread at the Meta VP on how to better localise the Sanbox without having to create one sandbox page per language. Thank you :) — MarcoAurelio ( talk) 12:03, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi, this is just a friendly reminder that I made a response to your question back from August 2018 on the trial operation of InternetArchiveBot at Japanese Wikipedia. Thanks for your patience. If you still have questions, I'll try to be responsive (I mean, at the discussion page linked above, for the purpose of continuity). Whym ( talk) 08:37, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
See this revision, but it looks like it's marking the css pages as already protected? ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 14:01, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower, please see de:Wikipedia:Kurier#Government_Shutdown_–_wieso_betrifft_das_Wikipedia? InternetArchiveBot should indeed be paused on German Wikipedia in case of a governmental shutdown. I also informed Cirdan at deWP. Merry Christmas! -- Martina Nolte talk 06:32, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
Merry Yuletide to you! (And a happy new year!) . CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:47, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
Speaking of Xmas, CBP, your signature is missing a closing span. -- Izno ( talk) 05:30, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Please fix if you are free! Merry Christmas! Hhkohh ( talk) 14:05, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Got a bit confused here with Frano Kršinić (sculptor) - there is no such link in the article, it's possibly due to the way text outside wikilinks is parsed, or something of the sort.
I really like the tool, one could almost say it gives meaning to the books (at least to us editors)! GregorB ( talk) 01:49, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
Unfortunately, even after your block warning, this user is still gaming the system and bludgeoning his way through the pedia. I nominated a contentious article he created for deletion at AFD. Without even allowing any community input he speedily closed the AFD citing a vague and misleading edit summary. [15] I have looked at the policy on applicability of speedy keep and none of the 6 acceptable reasons for speedy keep closures apply to my AFD nomination. He is gaming and bludgeoning again. My firm gut tells me he won't ever reform and only a block can prevent his disruption. FreeKashmiri ( talk) 12:30, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi. There's something that i have always found irksome about the InternetArchiveBot: instead of keeping the deadlink and adding script saying that the deadlink was archived, with a new link, why not just replace the deadlink, with no extra script added? It seems redundant to keep the deadlink (what is the reader going to pick up from it that's not in the archived link?); and the addition of automated script sometimes messes up formats used, as not all references are formatted the same way. Please take this into consideration as a suggestion. Dahn ( talk) 07:07, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678,
I'm currently working on various WP:BACKLOG projects and Category:Articles with dead external links is an interesting one. I use IABot to analyze the page and rescue any dead links and as there are over 200,000 pages in the aforementioned category I was wondering if it's possible for you to run it on all the pages in the category en bloc?
Many thanks,
SITH (talk) 14:42, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Cyberpower678,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
DBig
Xrayᗙ
15:37, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{ subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
Hope the new year will bring more friendly debates and collaboration for us. Best wishes. Cheers
--
DBig
Xrayᗙ
15:37, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
See this change. Jalen D. Folf (talk) 02:33, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).
Just to let you know, Cyberbot II blanked St Michael's Church of England High School, Crosby here. I restored the page. — Bruce1ee talk 22:16, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello Cyberpower678. please look at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Marcus Qwertyus 2 and all after your signature in the oppose section. I added a closing tag which I thought would correct the flood of green text that follows but it did not fix the problem. I don't want to make more edits to the closed page so I ask that you have a look. Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 14:14, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi!
Can you please prevent Cyberbot I from overwriting {{
RfA tally}} while the task is disabled? Or, of course, fix fix & re-enable the task. :)
Amalthea
18:17, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
Cyberbot I has not updated admin stats for a few days. Thanks for your attention to this. — Maile ( talk) 23:41, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
Your bot hasn't updated this table for over 24 hours now. Could you fix this? Victor Schmidt ( talk) 18:06, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
Is it okay if I interview you about Internet Archive Bot in the next issue of TWW (Feb. 2019)? Thanks. -- Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 03:21, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
Greetings. From my following of WP:BADAFD, I've noticed that when there is a space between the "=" and the page name in the "page" field of the AfD template, that Cyberbot reports the template as being redlinked when this is not the case. Examples: this version of the AfD report reporting three pages, which were cleared after I edited out the space 1, 2, 3. I've seen it happen previously in cases where the AfD tag also didn't appear to be properly subst:'ed as seems to be the case with these three. It's pretty minor and debatable as to whether it's worthy of a great deal of attention, but here it is and feel free to do what you will with it. Thanks for your hard work. -- Finngall talk 20:07, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
Alternatively, I can protect the template page, or create an alternative page that I'll transclude in places? Amalthea 10:39, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, as Cyberbot currently does this, I am unsure how the following now-archived proposal can be implemented: Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_page_protection/Archive_9#Archiving_RfPP_requests
~ ToBeFree ( talk) 17:56, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Alternatively, I can protect the template page, or create an alternative page that I'll transclude in places? Amalthea 10:39, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey! I tried to talk to you earlier and I don't know if you ever responded or if the message got deleted but I was wondering about this edit you did on October 2nd, 2018 to the page undefined (Click here to see edit) or just go to the page Undefined and look into the edit history and look on October 2nd. For whatever reason you deleted the entire page and wrote "green" I don't want to assume this is griefing, maybe an accident? But I was just wondering if you recall this or had a reason to do this, thanks for reading. -- Bluecrab2 ( talk) 01:07, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey Cyberpower678, just wanted to give you a heads-up about this edit performed by Cyberbot I on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. In the edit, Cyberbot I made the claim that the protection level of Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Ruzwana Bashir has been changed and/or unprotected since I made my request a few hours ago for the page to be unprotected. Well, as of this moment, the last time the pages's protection level was changed was when the page was protected back in February 2006.
So yeah, I'm letting you know of this error since this false positive performed by Cyberbot I was so inaccurate that it may need resolution. Steel1943 ( talk) 05:44, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
Cyberbot decided that WP:Articles for deletion/John Dingfelder had not been transcluded to step 3. It was done on the dated I nominated the article [16]. The bot then relisted the AfD on Jan 15 [17]. Niteshift36 ( talk) 16:07, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
I am asking whether you would see your way to lifting my ban on editing schools articles. I believe the ban was imposed because, with insufficient knowledge of the Wiki rule, I applied the "3-edit rule" where an RfD was in process. I assure you that I've always tried to correspond to the rules as I come to know them, and that the blitz of new awareness of the rules, that came after 30 months of editing without any such knowledge, has made me more sophisticated in dealing with other editors. I have no interest in letting this happen again. Jzsj ( talk) 20:18, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I have a question about the InternetArchiveBot. When it changes something, it leaves a message on the talkpage. But why is there a link to the article in this message? I guess it is pretty obvious that when it is leaving a message on say the talkpage of Foobar it has edited the article Foobar, right? Muijz ( talk) 20:18, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
I have disabled the task as it's edit warring with itself and has made 300 edits to one page, and it's editing about every 5-10 minutes, if not 3x in that period. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 21:44, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Is this bot malfunctioning? -- Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 02:07, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey, while Cyberbot is down, I made a very quick, much less robust version of the RFU report (See: [19]). Please revert my change when Cyberbot's back - and if you wouldn't mind, please let me know so I can shut it down. SQL Query me! 01:48, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for leaving your edits on the page. Seems like you are pretty knowledge of this anime. I just wanted to ask you something. By any chance, Have the next episode been leaked to you?
Sincerely,
Masum Reza(
talk)
23:42, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, Cyberpower. I just blocked Cyberbot I indefinitely in Commons as malfunctioning bot. Please look at bot contributions in Commons and fix it. After that you can request unblock. Taivo ( talk) 11:55, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678, Reinischmax is recently active, but it looks like you are "approving" making changes to their own personal user scripts at their talk page - what's going on that they can't approve their own change? — xaosflux Talk 22:50, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678, Just wondering is "df=dmy-all" / "df=mdy-all" meant to do something ? (if not should it be removed from "
Fix dead links"?),
I only ask as for a good a year to 2 years now the
User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM_dates script has been adjusted to remove the "df=dmy-all/df=mdy-all"
[21]
[22],
I originally assumed it was old/deprecated coding and assumed consensus was made somewhere to remove them so thought nothing of it .... but having just used "Fix dead links" I've realised it's your script/tool that's been adding them,
Given that I use MOSNUM_dates every day by now I must've removed "df=" on well over 500-1000 articles (and that doesn't include everyone else who uses the script),
Many thanks, –
Davey2010
Talk
12:48, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
I am writing to let you know that the bot is down since 28th January: c:Special:Diff/336742974. I have checked stats for a few other admins – all contain the same message. -- jdx Re: 20:23, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).
Interface administrator changes
InternetArchiveBot on the 28th of November 2018 removed a dead link template from Auguste Comte without fixing the still dead link. I want assurance that this will not happen again. - 2601:443:37F:E430:5DCC:1A62:B4BC:5A10 ( talk) 07:08, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi C678, your bot seems to also be malfunctioning on meta and is now blocked. If you repair it and want it unblocked to validate just let me know or post at meta:RFH. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 16:24, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Is this bot malfunctioning? -- Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 02:07, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey, while Cyberbot is down, I made a very quick, much less robust version of the RFU report (See: [24]). Please revert my change when Cyberbot's back - and if you wouldn't mind, please let me know so I can shut it down. SQL Query me! 01:48, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
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Archive 55 | ← | Archive 59 | Archive 60 | Archive 61 | Archive 62 | Archive 63 | → | Archive 65 |
It seems like I missed the ANI report and I just learned about it as weekend is over for me. Same might be for others. Reopening the ANI report would be fine. Qualitist ( talk) 21:39, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
I tried to ask for reopening of the report but Fish and karate [1] rightfully archived new discussion but what was not mentioned there can be mentioned here.
This is really becoming tiresome because DbigXray always resorts to ABF or NPA in place of focusing on content. Since you had warned against such behavior after enough people had shared similar views I think the recent misconduct shouldnt be ignored. Qualitist ( talk) 12:27, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
how is life RA5 18:45, 3 December 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richie Somai ( talk • contribs)
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Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
YOU DELETED THIS YEAR'S ARBCOM CANDIDATES!!!! As punishment, I will now proceed to undelete your sandbox. No history cleanup for you! — k6ka 🍁 ( Talk · Contributions) 00:17, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 04:43, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
An arbitration case regarding Fred Bauder has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
For the Arbitration Committee, -- Cameron11598 (Talk) 08:12, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
In Special:Diff/872072320/872099047. Sam Sailor 08:40, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I just wanted to let you know that Cyberbot I has blanked WP:CHUS five times in the past two weeks (once on 28 November [9], twice on 1 December [10] [11] and twice today [12] [13]). Linguist111 my talk page 05:00, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
I've noticed that Cyberbot I keeps incorrectly calling me out on RFPP for not protecting the pages of request I've marked as 'done'. Some I understand (of course), such as requests with more than one article listed or that weren't formatted properly by the OP... but I don't think this is the case recently. It only seems to be doing it to me, but then again... I'm usually quite active there and I typically take care of the entire backlog. I just wanted to give you an FYI; it's making me scratch my head and I'm not sure what's going on... :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 21:32, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
I've disabled the task as it is just making useless edits every 5 minutes. Please look into it. – xeno talk 14:54, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
Hey Cyber. I know you're probably busy, but I wanted to just let you know that in light of five WP:CHUS blankings within a two week period and another totally random bot blanking just a few hours ago, I've disabled the bot's clerking task at WP:CHUS. Feel free to turn it back on at your discretion. — k6ka 🍁 ( Talk · Contributions) 03:23, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
For your service as a member of the Electoral Commission in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections. This year presented new challenges that past commissioners didn't have to face. Thanks for everything you did in your role. Mz7 ( talk) 07:28, 14 December 2018 (UTC) |
I find it user hostile to not accept talk page messages for discussions, and I won't be bothered to set up phabricator accounts. Instead I'm posting my comment here:
The bot says this: "As of February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot."
I would suggest this is amended to make it clear that the bot still keeps working - it just doesn't spam talk page messages about it anymore (a decision I am in favor of).
Please consider changing this message to something like:
As of February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. However, InternetArchiveBot still keeps working exactly as before, just not posting about it.
Please also consider the negative impact of shielding yourself from user messages by requiring external tools. I firmly believe that if you set up a bot, you should also be open to simple talk messages about that bot. Please do not post messages such as "don't leave messages on this talk page, they will likely not be read." CapnZapp ( talk) 09:59, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678, Regarding talk_page of Midgetgolf:
![]() |
Happy Christmas! | |
Hello Cyberpower678, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD| Talk 18:38, 18 December 2018 (UTC) |
204.62.118.243 ( talk) 16:52, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi - I've created
WP:RFUR as a shortcut to
User:Cyberbot I/Requests for unblock report. If possible, could you get Cyberbot I to include {{Shortcut|RFUR}}
at an appropriate point near the top of the report please? Thanks.
O Still Small
Voice of Clam (formerly Optimist on the run)
23:10, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Good day. I'd like to request that Cyberbot I amends the cleaning sandbox script for Meta not to include translate tags [14]. If possible, it should only leave {{Meta:Sandbox/Please do not edit this line}}. There's a thread at the Meta VP on how to better localise the Sanbox without having to create one sandbox page per language. Thank you :) — MarcoAurelio ( talk) 12:03, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi, this is just a friendly reminder that I made a response to your question back from August 2018 on the trial operation of InternetArchiveBot at Japanese Wikipedia. Thanks for your patience. If you still have questions, I'll try to be responsive (I mean, at the discussion page linked above, for the purpose of continuity). Whym ( talk) 08:37, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
See this revision, but it looks like it's marking the css pages as already protected? ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 14:01, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower, please see de:Wikipedia:Kurier#Government_Shutdown_–_wieso_betrifft_das_Wikipedia? InternetArchiveBot should indeed be paused on German Wikipedia in case of a governmental shutdown. I also informed Cirdan at deWP. Merry Christmas! -- Martina Nolte talk 06:32, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
Merry Yuletide to you! (And a happy new year!) . CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:47, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
Speaking of Xmas, CBP, your signature is missing a closing span. -- Izno ( talk) 05:30, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Please fix if you are free! Merry Christmas! Hhkohh ( talk) 14:05, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Got a bit confused here with Frano Kršinić (sculptor) - there is no such link in the article, it's possibly due to the way text outside wikilinks is parsed, or something of the sort.
I really like the tool, one could almost say it gives meaning to the books (at least to us editors)! GregorB ( talk) 01:49, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
Unfortunately, even after your block warning, this user is still gaming the system and bludgeoning his way through the pedia. I nominated a contentious article he created for deletion at AFD. Without even allowing any community input he speedily closed the AFD citing a vague and misleading edit summary. [15] I have looked at the policy on applicability of speedy keep and none of the 6 acceptable reasons for speedy keep closures apply to my AFD nomination. He is gaming and bludgeoning again. My firm gut tells me he won't ever reform and only a block can prevent his disruption. FreeKashmiri ( talk) 12:30, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi. There's something that i have always found irksome about the InternetArchiveBot: instead of keeping the deadlink and adding script saying that the deadlink was archived, with a new link, why not just replace the deadlink, with no extra script added? It seems redundant to keep the deadlink (what is the reader going to pick up from it that's not in the archived link?); and the addition of automated script sometimes messes up formats used, as not all references are formatted the same way. Please take this into consideration as a suggestion. Dahn ( talk) 07:07, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678,
I'm currently working on various WP:BACKLOG projects and Category:Articles with dead external links is an interesting one. I use IABot to analyze the page and rescue any dead links and as there are over 200,000 pages in the aforementioned category I was wondering if it's possible for you to run it on all the pages in the category en bloc?
Many thanks,
SITH (talk) 14:42, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Cyberpower678,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
DBig
Xrayᗙ
15:37, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{ subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
Hope the new year will bring more friendly debates and collaboration for us. Best wishes. Cheers
--
DBig
Xrayᗙ
15:37, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
See this change. Jalen D. Folf (talk) 02:33, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).
Just to let you know, Cyberbot II blanked St Michael's Church of England High School, Crosby here. I restored the page. — Bruce1ee talk 22:16, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello Cyberpower678. please look at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Marcus Qwertyus 2 and all after your signature in the oppose section. I added a closing tag which I thought would correct the flood of green text that follows but it did not fix the problem. I don't want to make more edits to the closed page so I ask that you have a look. Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 14:14, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi!
Can you please prevent Cyberbot I from overwriting {{
RfA tally}} while the task is disabled? Or, of course, fix fix & re-enable the task. :)
Amalthea
18:17, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
Cyberbot I has not updated admin stats for a few days. Thanks for your attention to this. — Maile ( talk) 23:41, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
Your bot hasn't updated this table for over 24 hours now. Could you fix this? Victor Schmidt ( talk) 18:06, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
Is it okay if I interview you about Internet Archive Bot in the next issue of TWW (Feb. 2019)? Thanks. -- Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 03:21, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
Greetings. From my following of WP:BADAFD, I've noticed that when there is a space between the "=" and the page name in the "page" field of the AfD template, that Cyberbot reports the template as being redlinked when this is not the case. Examples: this version of the AfD report reporting three pages, which were cleared after I edited out the space 1, 2, 3. I've seen it happen previously in cases where the AfD tag also didn't appear to be properly subst:'ed as seems to be the case with these three. It's pretty minor and debatable as to whether it's worthy of a great deal of attention, but here it is and feel free to do what you will with it. Thanks for your hard work. -- Finngall talk 20:07, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
Alternatively, I can protect the template page, or create an alternative page that I'll transclude in places? Amalthea 10:39, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, as Cyberbot currently does this, I am unsure how the following now-archived proposal can be implemented: Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_page_protection/Archive_9#Archiving_RfPP_requests
~ ToBeFree ( talk) 17:56, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Alternatively, I can protect the template page, or create an alternative page that I'll transclude in places? Amalthea 10:39, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey! I tried to talk to you earlier and I don't know if you ever responded or if the message got deleted but I was wondering about this edit you did on October 2nd, 2018 to the page undefined (Click here to see edit) or just go to the page Undefined and look into the edit history and look on October 2nd. For whatever reason you deleted the entire page and wrote "green" I don't want to assume this is griefing, maybe an accident? But I was just wondering if you recall this or had a reason to do this, thanks for reading. -- Bluecrab2 ( talk) 01:07, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey Cyberpower678, just wanted to give you a heads-up about this edit performed by Cyberbot I on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. In the edit, Cyberbot I made the claim that the protection level of Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Ruzwana Bashir has been changed and/or unprotected since I made my request a few hours ago for the page to be unprotected. Well, as of this moment, the last time the pages's protection level was changed was when the page was protected back in February 2006.
So yeah, I'm letting you know of this error since this false positive performed by Cyberbot I was so inaccurate that it may need resolution. Steel1943 ( talk) 05:44, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
Cyberbot decided that WP:Articles for deletion/John Dingfelder had not been transcluded to step 3. It was done on the dated I nominated the article [16]. The bot then relisted the AfD on Jan 15 [17]. Niteshift36 ( talk) 16:07, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
I am asking whether you would see your way to lifting my ban on editing schools articles. I believe the ban was imposed because, with insufficient knowledge of the Wiki rule, I applied the "3-edit rule" where an RfD was in process. I assure you that I've always tried to correspond to the rules as I come to know them, and that the blitz of new awareness of the rules, that came after 30 months of editing without any such knowledge, has made me more sophisticated in dealing with other editors. I have no interest in letting this happen again. Jzsj ( talk) 20:18, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I have a question about the InternetArchiveBot. When it changes something, it leaves a message on the talkpage. But why is there a link to the article in this message? I guess it is pretty obvious that when it is leaving a message on say the talkpage of Foobar it has edited the article Foobar, right? Muijz ( talk) 20:18, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
I have disabled the task as it's edit warring with itself and has made 300 edits to one page, and it's editing about every 5-10 minutes, if not 3x in that period. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 21:44, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Is this bot malfunctioning? -- Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 02:07, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey, while Cyberbot is down, I made a very quick, much less robust version of the RFU report (See: [19]). Please revert my change when Cyberbot's back - and if you wouldn't mind, please let me know so I can shut it down. SQL Query me! 01:48, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for leaving your edits on the page. Seems like you are pretty knowledge of this anime. I just wanted to ask you something. By any chance, Have the next episode been leaked to you?
Sincerely,
Masum Reza(
talk)
23:42, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, Cyberpower. I just blocked Cyberbot I indefinitely in Commons as malfunctioning bot. Please look at bot contributions in Commons and fix it. After that you can request unblock. Taivo ( talk) 11:55, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678, Reinischmax is recently active, but it looks like you are "approving" making changes to their own personal user scripts at their talk page - what's going on that they can't approve their own change? — xaosflux Talk 22:50, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678, Just wondering is "df=dmy-all" / "df=mdy-all" meant to do something ? (if not should it be removed from "
Fix dead links"?),
I only ask as for a good a year to 2 years now the
User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM_dates script has been adjusted to remove the "df=dmy-all/df=mdy-all"
[21]
[22],
I originally assumed it was old/deprecated coding and assumed consensus was made somewhere to remove them so thought nothing of it .... but having just used "Fix dead links" I've realised it's your script/tool that's been adding them,
Given that I use MOSNUM_dates every day by now I must've removed "df=" on well over 500-1000 articles (and that doesn't include everyone else who uses the script),
Many thanks, –
Davey2010
Talk
12:48, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
I am writing to let you know that the bot is down since 28th January: c:Special:Diff/336742974. I have checked stats for a few other admins – all contain the same message. -- jdx Re: 20:23, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).
Interface administrator changes
InternetArchiveBot on the 28th of November 2018 removed a dead link template from Auguste Comte without fixing the still dead link. I want assurance that this will not happen again. - 2601:443:37F:E430:5DCC:1A62:B4BC:5A10 ( talk) 07:08, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi C678, your bot seems to also be malfunctioning on meta and is now blocked. If you repair it and want it unblocked to validate just let me know or post at meta:RFH. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 16:24, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Is this bot malfunctioning? -- Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 02:07, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey, while Cyberbot is down, I made a very quick, much less robust version of the RFU report (See: [24]). Please revert my change when Cyberbot's back - and if you wouldn't mind, please let me know so I can shut it down. SQL Query me! 01:48, 24 January 2019 (UTC)