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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).
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Hello, Firefly,
It looks like your bot is no longer posting CSD G13 5 month notices since last night. It stopped right after posting 101 notifications to BD2412's user talk page so I just want to make sure that the bot hasn't been shut down because of this flood of notices. I'm sure getting that many notices is annoying but FireflyBot's work is essential for new editors who might have forgotten about drafts they have started. Can you look into this? Thank you! Liz Read! Talk! 00:29, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
Hi @ Firefly, (full disclosure, I also asked this on ToBeFree's talk page, but am messaging you also incase they're unavailable) I was wondering if it was appropriate for ZaniGiovanni to be commenting and adding diffs about other parties (I thought the evidence phase closed on 21 February?) in the talk page of Armenia-Azerbaijan 3/Proposed decision considering that the note at the top of the page clearly states "all editors must create a section for their statement and comment only in their own section." Thank you, – Olympian loquere 01:58, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
Your very helpful Linter count page keeps returning "connection timed out" today. Notifying you in case you weren't aware and was something you were able to address. Zinnober9 ( talk) 18:36, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
Can you please restart the tool for german wikipedia As of 2023-02-25 07:15:21 it is frozen since yesterday, it seems like it only works for english pages without simple and all other languages. -- Lómelinde ( talk) 05:33, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
Have you seen my request? The tool still does not work since 25th of february. -- Lómelinde ( talk) 06:12, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I mentioned but forgot to ping you at User_talk:Liz#Expiring_drafts. Is there a reason the bot doesn't do five-month reminders when a draft is again up for deletion? For me it's a non issue - I'm an admin and looking at sources, there's still not enough so no point in restoring-but wondered if others run into this. Thanks either way! Star Mississippi 23:36, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Firefly,
I saw that you did a revision deletion on User talk:97.89.25.236 but you didn't remove any content you found objectionable. So, while no one can look at that edit, all of the content that was added to the talk page still remains. I'm not sure of the extent of the content you found inappropriate but you might remove or redact that content and then do a revision deletion of any intermediate edits. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 23:22, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
Hey. Reaching out to you as you're the editor who made the block indefinite after the first TBAN violation. Could you look at removing the talk page access of Paddykumar ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) please? Twice today he has linked to tweets that violate his TBAN ( [1], [2]) and in his first message he engaged in a mild personal attack and grave dancing about another recently TBANed editor. Sideswipe9th ( talk) 18:10, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
Hi, with reg to Module_talk:Political_party#Hex_values, I do not plan to make mass subs or any sub to be specific because some people are unhappy and the sub is against the pref of original entry, if that's how they wanted it to be. Can you please shorten/revoke the block as I would like to fix 2 pages in the namespace which breaks a link and another an active request. Thanks REEDriler ( talk) 14:08, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
Another guy, with no interest in this module whatsoever, breaking linksand
I would rather enjoy fixing your mistake myselfreally aren't necessary. firefly ( t · c ) 13:15, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
In wikipedia's warn policy, it states, that before a user can motion a new warning to a user (lets call them JohnDoe2), that the recipient (JohnDoe2) of the previous one must have had the appropriate time to view it and react to the warning.
I'd like to know if the user had resumed vandalizing, but hadn't reacted to the warning, could it be appropriate to warn them again?
If there is no common or explanatory answer, than I can refer to a member of the Arbitration Committee instead.
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Hi, RE the Royan journals SPI you closed just now (thanks!), I noticed in the Royan Institute history another account, Royaninternationaldept, which must be from the same farm. They've only made one edit, and that was last year, so it's probably dead, but the username is so obvious that you might as well block that, too, right? (I didn't want to add it to the SPI now that it's closed.) Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing ( talk) 12:57, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Can you undo this page move by Jagged 85's sock? Thanks Srijanx22 ( talk) 07:20, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Firefly,
Going through recent CSD G13s, I noticed that none of the editors had 5 month notices posted to the draft creators' talk pages. When I checked FireflyBot's contributions, it looked like they stopped posting 5 month notices almost a month ago! Could you get it started again? I'm surprised that no one noticed that it stopped working on April 2nd. Please help! Thank you! Liz Read! Talk! 02:50, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
There seems to be something new, can you please add this lintercathegory to the tool? I have no clue what I should do to fix these errors jet. Lómelinde ( talk) 08:47, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
it has stopped working yesterday. Maybe the last softwareupdate or serverproblem. Please take a look. Lómelinde ( talk) 10:55, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
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Just wondering how similar the current page is to the one you deleted? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 23:44, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
At an SPI, this editor was blocked as a sockpuppet of Davomme. They state that they share a network with Davomme, but are different individuals. GereonGG has agreed to completely avoid any overlap whatsoever with Davomme's editing, so would you have any objection to an unblock with that condition? Seraphimblade Talk to me 16:28, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
Anuj Choudhary Ror and Rudradaman127 (talk) are making similar disruptive edits on Aror, are probably the same. Nirmohiji ( talk) 06:20, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi Firefly, can you lease take a look at this request? Thanks. – Ammarpad ( talk) 09:21, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
Although I know you were acting in good faith, I have reverted edits you made to Violence Against Women Act, Domestic Abuse Restraining Order, and Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban. All three edits involved removing an image that you have, separately, opened a discussion at File:Temporary_Order_of_Protection.jpg regarding its removal. Although I may disagree with your reasons for wanting to delete the file, I am willing to work with the deletion process and, if the outcome of that process favors your position and not mine, cooperate with the decision that is made. In kind, however, I respectfully ask that you not jump the gun and delete this content from the associated Wikipedia pages until the discussion you started is allowed to run its course--and in that we will both need to be patient and wait out the process, which will take a week or more. Per COM:CSD we should not attempting the speedy deletion of this file, as it survived a prior deletion attempt, but if the regular deletion process does lead to it being deleted I will be cooperative with that. Again, in kind, I ask you to refrain from jumping the gun on this. Dash77 ( talk) 03:44, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello, sorry for bothering you, but I saw your cleanup and figured I'd ask:
Could you also hide the edit summary of the ones they did as an IP about a day ago? It was
<this IP> in some of the same pages. –
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09:13, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Interface administrator changes
I'm noting that the Firefly Bot marks edits like this one as minor. That seems vastly inappropriate, as it is adding a new notice to a page. It does not meet the word nor spirit of WP:MINOR. The "minor" option is there to tell people that you really needn't look at this, and what would be the point of putting a notice on a talk page if not to have people look at it? As such, I recommend altering the bot so that it doesn't mark such edits in such ways. -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 22:11, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
Hey, Firefly,
I hope you are having a good summer. I'm running into more and more drafts where the article creator didn't receive a notice from Firefly Bot. I see that Firefly Bot is very active so that's not the problem. So, here's an example for you, Draft:Botswana Beast, no notice to the article creator. But I noticed that this article was moved from main space to Draft space.
Are these circumstances, a draft not created in Draft space, where Firefly Bot would skip giving a notice? I'll bring up other examples now that I'm noticing them more often and maybe I'll learn more about the parameters you've set up for the bot. I'd feel less worried about skipping notices but other admins who delete CSD G13s don't post deletion notices on the talk page of the draft creator when drafts are deleted so frequently Firefly Bot's notice is the only one the editor ever receives. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 04:50, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to
note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.
Hi there! I'm requesting an admin to change the content model of Wikipedia:Contents/gallery/styles.css to "Sanitized CSS" so I can style Wikipedia:Contents/gallery with mobile responsiveness. Please remove the {{ Admin help}} section before conversion. Thanks a lot! — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 20:45, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Firefly. I'm interested in a long ongoing discussion at WT:BAN, about the plusses and minuses of blanking and tagging someone's user page when they are indeffed and/or banned. I noticed yesterday that you indeffed CranberryMuffin as a sock, but you didn't put any template on the user page. I'd be interested in your thoughts about why you didn't template. I assure you that I'm not questioning or finding fault with anything, and there's no right or wrong answer. I'm just collecting various opinions on the subject. Thanks! -- Tryptofish ( talk) 15:17, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Can you please protect the titles Abhilash Pillai (film writer), Abhilash Pillai (writer) and Abhilash Pillai (screenwriter) atleast to extended confirmed. The socks of Mark Jhonny are continuously trying to create this. I had previously requested two times for salting the titles. But nobody took it seriously then. 202.164.137.22 ( talk) 12:31, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I understand that you're probably quite busy and this probably slipped through. But would you perhaps still have time for the task requested at /Archive 7#Extension of FireflyBot notification to also post to draft talk pages, or should I try asking another bot operator to take it up? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 15:44, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
This sock is back with a new account, recreated Makoons Play School. It was at AfD when I saw it so recommended for speedy. Wondering if you could add the user to the list of the SPI and possibly even protect the page title from recreation. CNMall41 ( talk) 20:41, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
Your CCI list here has two CCIs listed that should be removed: /Sandbox, and /118 Alex. /Sandbox was deleted in February and wasn't a real CCI, and /118 Alex was closed in July. – dudhhr talk contribssheher 18:45, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Bothering you about https://fireflytools.toolforge.org/linter/commonswiki and similar. The tables are stuck at 15 September and are not updating. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:33, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).
Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.
At Special:LintErrors/missing-end-tag-in-heading, there is a list of Linter errors that should be listed on the table at https://fireflytools.toolforge.org/linter/enwiki. For some reason, the list is not linked from Special:LintErrors, but these are errors that need to be fixed. If it is possible to add this column to the table, that would be great. I checked this page's archives and do not see that I have already requested it; if so, my apologies, my memory is not great. See T341369 for some details. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 01:40, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello Firefly:
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The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.
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Well, it was pretty quick after you blocked Freescott, but Bear of the Bay is another sock of this guy. oknazevad ( talk) 21:45, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).
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ArbCom candidate’s barnstar |
Best of luck in your run for the arbitration committee. Thanks for volunteering! - 🔥 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 20:38, 12 November 2023 (UTC) |
FWIW: You might consider upping the protection on Talk:Oliver Emanuel to extended confirmed. A recent "participant" ( Hercules 765) is just of one of a few socks related to this article that have used their sandbox to game the auto-confirm system (see also Lumpy custard453). Or, I suppose you could leave it as is, and smoke out whatever cache of pre-confirmed socks they may have built up. signed, Willondon ( talk) 22:29, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
Re: Improvements to the workflow tools used by the Committee - I understand these are cumbersome and can lead to increased administrative burden
— this has gotten bad enough I talked about it at length at WCNA this year! See slide 13 here:
File:WCNA 2023 - L235 - Reflections on Eight Years at ArbCom.pdf. Best,
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Hello, Firefly,
I hope you are well. I thought I'd start a new discussion so this didn't get lost in the old discussion above. We just had a report issued, here, of a G13 soon report for next week that has a higher than average number of expiring drafts. The G13 reports typically list between 150-200 drafts/day and this one has over 300 drafts. When I looked into it, many of these drafts seem to be articles by Lugnuts where it was decided at the Village Pump to move them from main space to Draft space. But when I looked at Lugnuts' User talk page, there wasn't a single Firefly Bot notice despite there being about hundred expiring drafts they created.
Of course, it doesn't matter as the editor is currently blocked from using the platform but it raises the question: Does Firefly Bot skip drafts that weren't created in Draft or User space but moved to Draft space later through draftification? It might explain a few examples where it skips notification if it did. Thanks for any insight you can provide. Liz Read! Talk! 20:17, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
{{bots|deny=all|optout=all}}
at the top, which prevents bots from editing it. :)
firefly (
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21:00, 16 November 2023 (UTC)Hey, Firefly,
I noticed the draft creator didn't get a notification regarding Draft:Garbage feeding. Any idea why? I couldn't find any standard explanation like the draft had been deleted before and recreated. Just checking. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 04:12, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
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For adding to an edit filter per my (and Illusion Flames'!) suggestion. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 04:03, 22 November 2023 (UTC) |
Thank you! I was getting banhammer elbow! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:36, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello. I thought I let you know that Firefly Tools hasn't updated the CCI stats since September. I was wondering if this could get updated, or if something is preventing an update. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 23:48, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for standing to become arbitrator! My story today is Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his, - the composer, born OTD 110 years ago, didn't want it shorter (but the publisher), - more here. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:52, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for a reply to my cand question. I may discuss it after tomorrow's concert when we will sing the Mozart and listen to Pärt's urgent call for peace played by the strings, - I'm not in the mood before ;) - I mentioned Pärt for a reason, could have been Beethoven as well, in other words: I believe it's time for a fresh look, as we were told 10 years ago. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:35, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
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We have a website named pixmap, and i trying to create a wiki page for it, some enemies trying to delete our page, please help us, i see you reverted it. Bayardaaa ( talk) 19:33, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Renaming proposed: since the CIMMS has been absorbed into the new "Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations" on October 1, 2021, shouldn't the article name be changed accordingly? Please give your advice at discussion. Pierre cb ( talk) 15:41, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
Hello Firefly: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 02:45, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
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I think that your bot has stopped updating the DRN case status template as of 0600 GMT, 18 December. That is the date of the latest update to the table. There are two new cases, one of which should have a status of New, and one of which I closed because the filer didn't list the other editors. The bot is running, because it is identifying five-month-old drafts and notifying their creators, so either it has stopped that task, or there is something in DRN that makes it sick. If the problem is in the content of the noticeboard, it would have to do with the La Salida case that was filed at 2048 GMT, 18 December, which was the first update that wasn't reported by the bot. Robert McClenon ( talk) 23:08, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️
Hi Firefly! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. Looking forward more good discussions on Discord in the coming year! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!Cheers,{{u| Sdkb}} talk 06:36, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
If you have time, the Linter tables like this one need link updates after some MediaWiki code changes. The links that are supposed to go to specific namespaces have changed. For example, /info/en/?search=Special:LintErrors/bogus-image-options?namespace=0 used to point to bogus image options in article space. That link is now /info/en/?search=Special:LintErrors/bogus-image-options?wpNamespaceRestrictions=0&titlecategorysearch=&exactmatch=1&tag=all&template=all and every other link in the table needs similar adjustment.
Also, the Linter error group Special:LintErrors/missing-end-tag-in-heading is missing from the Linter table entirely. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 21:07, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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Today's story is about Maria Callas, on her centenary. - Aaron Copland died OTD, and Jerome Kohl (mentioned in November) said something wise on Copland's talk, - yes, regarding a soft(er) stance towards infoboxes. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:40, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Did you check out the history of the infobox of Callas? Compare Jessye Norman, Kathleen Ferrier and Jenny Lind. Did you check out the history of Copland? Compare Max Reger, Max Beckschäfer, Colin Mawby (from today's story), and Benjamin Britten (who died OTD). What's the difference? If what you see changes your answer to my question, feel free to change, and ping me. I would like to see a way to avoid in the future hundreds of editors commenting on Mozart RfCs, just to kind of restore the infobox he had in 2006. Happy new era ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:20, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I managed to get the pics to snow (on 28 Nov), and heard a lovely concert, after listening to a miracle of meditative dreaming on 6 December (or just click on music). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:58, 8 December 2023 (UTC)n
... and today, to Paris (29 Nov) with a visit to the Palais Garnier, - to match the story of Medea Amiranashvili, - don't miss listening to her expressive voice. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:56, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
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Same location pictured as 2019. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:53, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:16, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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Today a friend's birthday, with related music and new vacation pics -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:24, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Hello, Firefly,
You posted a note on this User page claiming this is your alternative account but you didn't register it. So, it is showing up as a nonexistent user and typically we deleted those pages. Could you create an account with this username or at least put a redirect on it? Otherwise it is open to deletion, CSD U2. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 04:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
This is a reminder that Missing end tag in heading would be helpful on the Linter/firefly table. It was recently added to Special:LintErrors in the "low priority" section. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 02:42, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
Coincident with a checkuser block, you reverted a COI question at Nihonjoe's talk page. Would you consider reinstating it? Nihonjoe had responded to the same user's previous inquiry along the same lines. Yngvadottir ( talk) 00:03, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi Firefly,
Thanks for letting me know about the autopatrolled user right. I’ll try to live up to it!
T. E. Meeks ( talk) 13:19, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
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I looked and looked and couldn't figure this out. A few weeks ago you checkuserblocked Mother of Jabbas with the rationale "BKH / AttackTheMoonNow." What does BKH stand for? City of Silver 18:35, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
I thought I'd check on the bot and it stopped posting CSD G13 5 month notices on March 8th. Can you get it up and going again? Many thanks! It is providing a valuable service to content creators. Liz Read! Talk! 06:43, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron ( talk • she/her), via:
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The bot has stopped updating the case status. It is notifying editors of expiring drafts, but that is a different task. Does the code need to be stopped and restarted?
Thank you. Robert McClenon ( talk) 05:05, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).
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Template:DRN case status, section links are encoded with spaces instead of underscores, which are sometimes automatically corrected to %20
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Permalink of a revision which produced a broken link to the section "
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Hello, Firefly,
It looks like your bot is no longer posting CSD G13 5 month notices since last night. It stopped right after posting 101 notifications to BD2412's user talk page so I just want to make sure that the bot hasn't been shut down because of this flood of notices. I'm sure getting that many notices is annoying but FireflyBot's work is essential for new editors who might have forgotten about drafts they have started. Can you look into this? Thank you! Liz Read! Talk! 00:29, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
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Hi @ Firefly, (full disclosure, I also asked this on ToBeFree's talk page, but am messaging you also incase they're unavailable) I was wondering if it was appropriate for ZaniGiovanni to be commenting and adding diffs about other parties (I thought the evidence phase closed on 21 February?) in the talk page of Armenia-Azerbaijan 3/Proposed decision considering that the note at the top of the page clearly states "all editors must create a section for their statement and comment only in their own section." Thank you, – Olympian loquere 01:58, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
Your very helpful Linter count page keeps returning "connection timed out" today. Notifying you in case you weren't aware and was something you were able to address. Zinnober9 ( talk) 18:36, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
Can you please restart the tool for german wikipedia As of 2023-02-25 07:15:21 it is frozen since yesterday, it seems like it only works for english pages without simple and all other languages. -- Lómelinde ( talk) 05:33, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
Have you seen my request? The tool still does not work since 25th of february. -- Lómelinde ( talk) 06:12, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I mentioned but forgot to ping you at User_talk:Liz#Expiring_drafts. Is there a reason the bot doesn't do five-month reminders when a draft is again up for deletion? For me it's a non issue - I'm an admin and looking at sources, there's still not enough so no point in restoring-but wondered if others run into this. Thanks either way! Star Mississippi 23:36, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Firefly,
I saw that you did a revision deletion on User talk:97.89.25.236 but you didn't remove any content you found objectionable. So, while no one can look at that edit, all of the content that was added to the talk page still remains. I'm not sure of the extent of the content you found inappropriate but you might remove or redact that content and then do a revision deletion of any intermediate edits. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 23:22, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
Hey. Reaching out to you as you're the editor who made the block indefinite after the first TBAN violation. Could you look at removing the talk page access of Paddykumar ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) please? Twice today he has linked to tweets that violate his TBAN ( [1], [2]) and in his first message he engaged in a mild personal attack and grave dancing about another recently TBANed editor. Sideswipe9th ( talk) 18:10, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, with reg to Module_talk:Political_party#Hex_values, I do not plan to make mass subs or any sub to be specific because some people are unhappy and the sub is against the pref of original entry, if that's how they wanted it to be. Can you please shorten/revoke the block as I would like to fix 2 pages in the namespace which breaks a link and another an active request. Thanks REEDriler ( talk) 14:08, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
Another guy, with no interest in this module whatsoever, breaking linksand
I would rather enjoy fixing your mistake myselfreally aren't necessary. firefly ( t · c ) 13:15, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
In wikipedia's warn policy, it states, that before a user can motion a new warning to a user (lets call them JohnDoe2), that the recipient (JohnDoe2) of the previous one must have had the appropriate time to view it and react to the warning.
I'd like to know if the user had resumed vandalizing, but hadn't reacted to the warning, could it be appropriate to warn them again?
If there is no common or explanatory answer, than I can refer to a member of the Arbitration Committee instead.
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Hi, RE the Royan journals SPI you closed just now (thanks!), I noticed in the Royan Institute history another account, Royaninternationaldept, which must be from the same farm. They've only made one edit, and that was last year, so it's probably dead, but the username is so obvious that you might as well block that, too, right? (I didn't want to add it to the SPI now that it's closed.) Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing ( talk) 12:57, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Can you undo this page move by Jagged 85's sock? Thanks Srijanx22 ( talk) 07:20, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Firefly,
Going through recent CSD G13s, I noticed that none of the editors had 5 month notices posted to the draft creators' talk pages. When I checked FireflyBot's contributions, it looked like they stopped posting 5 month notices almost a month ago! Could you get it started again? I'm surprised that no one noticed that it stopped working on April 2nd. Please help! Thank you! Liz Read! Talk! 02:50, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
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There seems to be something new, can you please add this lintercathegory to the tool? I have no clue what I should do to fix these errors jet. Lómelinde ( talk) 08:47, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
it has stopped working yesterday. Maybe the last softwareupdate or serverproblem. Please take a look. Lómelinde ( talk) 10:55, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
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Just wondering how similar the current page is to the one you deleted? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 23:44, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
At an SPI, this editor was blocked as a sockpuppet of Davomme. They state that they share a network with Davomme, but are different individuals. GereonGG has agreed to completely avoid any overlap whatsoever with Davomme's editing, so would you have any objection to an unblock with that condition? Seraphimblade Talk to me 16:28, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
Anuj Choudhary Ror and Rudradaman127 (talk) are making similar disruptive edits on Aror, are probably the same. Nirmohiji ( talk) 06:20, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi Firefly, can you lease take a look at this request? Thanks. – Ammarpad ( talk) 09:21, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
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Although I know you were acting in good faith, I have reverted edits you made to Violence Against Women Act, Domestic Abuse Restraining Order, and Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban. All three edits involved removing an image that you have, separately, opened a discussion at File:Temporary_Order_of_Protection.jpg regarding its removal. Although I may disagree with your reasons for wanting to delete the file, I am willing to work with the deletion process and, if the outcome of that process favors your position and not mine, cooperate with the decision that is made. In kind, however, I respectfully ask that you not jump the gun and delete this content from the associated Wikipedia pages until the discussion you started is allowed to run its course--and in that we will both need to be patient and wait out the process, which will take a week or more. Per COM:CSD we should not attempting the speedy deletion of this file, as it survived a prior deletion attempt, but if the regular deletion process does lead to it being deleted I will be cooperative with that. Again, in kind, I ask you to refrain from jumping the gun on this. Dash77 ( talk) 03:44, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello, sorry for bothering you, but I saw your cleanup and figured I'd ask:
Could you also hide the edit summary of the ones they did as an IP about a day ago? It was
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I'm noting that the Firefly Bot marks edits like this one as minor. That seems vastly inappropriate, as it is adding a new notice to a page. It does not meet the word nor spirit of WP:MINOR. The "minor" option is there to tell people that you really needn't look at this, and what would be the point of putting a notice on a talk page if not to have people look at it? As such, I recommend altering the bot so that it doesn't mark such edits in such ways. -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 22:11, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
Hey, Firefly,
I hope you are having a good summer. I'm running into more and more drafts where the article creator didn't receive a notice from Firefly Bot. I see that Firefly Bot is very active so that's not the problem. So, here's an example for you, Draft:Botswana Beast, no notice to the article creator. But I noticed that this article was moved from main space to Draft space.
Are these circumstances, a draft not created in Draft space, where Firefly Bot would skip giving a notice? I'll bring up other examples now that I'm noticing them more often and maybe I'll learn more about the parameters you've set up for the bot. I'd feel less worried about skipping notices but other admins who delete CSD G13s don't post deletion notices on the talk page of the draft creator when drafts are deleted so frequently Firefly Bot's notice is the only one the editor ever receives. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 04:50, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hi there! I'm requesting an admin to change the content model of Wikipedia:Contents/gallery/styles.css to "Sanitized CSS" so I can style Wikipedia:Contents/gallery with mobile responsiveness. Please remove the {{ Admin help}} section before conversion. Thanks a lot! — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 20:45, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Firefly. I'm interested in a long ongoing discussion at WT:BAN, about the plusses and minuses of blanking and tagging someone's user page when they are indeffed and/or banned. I noticed yesterday that you indeffed CranberryMuffin as a sock, but you didn't put any template on the user page. I'd be interested in your thoughts about why you didn't template. I assure you that I'm not questioning or finding fault with anything, and there's no right or wrong answer. I'm just collecting various opinions on the subject. Thanks! -- Tryptofish ( talk) 15:17, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Can you please protect the titles Abhilash Pillai (film writer), Abhilash Pillai (writer) and Abhilash Pillai (screenwriter) atleast to extended confirmed. The socks of Mark Jhonny are continuously trying to create this. I had previously requested two times for salting the titles. But nobody took it seriously then. 202.164.137.22 ( talk) 12:31, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I understand that you're probably quite busy and this probably slipped through. But would you perhaps still have time for the task requested at /Archive 7#Extension of FireflyBot notification to also post to draft talk pages, or should I try asking another bot operator to take it up? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 15:44, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
This sock is back with a new account, recreated Makoons Play School. It was at AfD when I saw it so recommended for speedy. Wondering if you could add the user to the list of the SPI and possibly even protect the page title from recreation. CNMall41 ( talk) 20:41, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
Your CCI list here has two CCIs listed that should be removed: /Sandbox, and /118 Alex. /Sandbox was deleted in February and wasn't a real CCI, and /118 Alex was closed in July. – dudhhr talk contribssheher 18:45, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Bothering you about https://fireflytools.toolforge.org/linter/commonswiki and similar. The tables are stuck at 15 September and are not updating. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:33, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
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Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.
At Special:LintErrors/missing-end-tag-in-heading, there is a list of Linter errors that should be listed on the table at https://fireflytools.toolforge.org/linter/enwiki. For some reason, the list is not linked from Special:LintErrors, but these are errors that need to be fixed. If it is possible to add this column to the table, that would be great. I checked this page's archives and do not see that I have already requested it; if so, my apologies, my memory is not great. See T341369 for some details. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 01:40, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
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Well, it was pretty quick after you blocked Freescott, but Bear of the Bay is another sock of this guy. oknazevad ( talk) 21:45, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
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Best of luck in your run for the arbitration committee. Thanks for volunteering! - 🔥 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 20:38, 12 November 2023 (UTC) |
FWIW: You might consider upping the protection on Talk:Oliver Emanuel to extended confirmed. A recent "participant" ( Hercules 765) is just of one of a few socks related to this article that have used their sandbox to game the auto-confirm system (see also Lumpy custard453). Or, I suppose you could leave it as is, and smoke out whatever cache of pre-confirmed socks they may have built up. signed, Willondon ( talk) 22:29, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
Re: Improvements to the workflow tools used by the Committee - I understand these are cumbersome and can lead to increased administrative burden
— this has gotten bad enough I talked about it at length at WCNA this year! See slide 13 here:
File:WCNA 2023 - L235 - Reflections on Eight Years at ArbCom.pdf. Best,
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Hello, Firefly,
I hope you are well. I thought I'd start a new discussion so this didn't get lost in the old discussion above. We just had a report issued, here, of a G13 soon report for next week that has a higher than average number of expiring drafts. The G13 reports typically list between 150-200 drafts/day and this one has over 300 drafts. When I looked into it, many of these drafts seem to be articles by Lugnuts where it was decided at the Village Pump to move them from main space to Draft space. But when I looked at Lugnuts' User talk page, there wasn't a single Firefly Bot notice despite there being about hundred expiring drafts they created.
Of course, it doesn't matter as the editor is currently blocked from using the platform but it raises the question: Does Firefly Bot skip drafts that weren't created in Draft or User space but moved to Draft space later through draftification? It might explain a few examples where it skips notification if it did. Thanks for any insight you can provide. Liz Read! Talk! 20:17, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
{{bots|deny=all|optout=all}}
at the top, which prevents bots from editing it. :)
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21:00, 16 November 2023 (UTC)Hey, Firefly,
I noticed the draft creator didn't get a notification regarding Draft:Garbage feeding. Any idea why? I couldn't find any standard explanation like the draft had been deleted before and recreated. Just checking. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 04:12, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you! I was getting banhammer elbow! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:36, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello. I thought I let you know that Firefly Tools hasn't updated the CCI stats since September. I was wondering if this could get updated, or if something is preventing an update. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 23:48, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for standing to become arbitrator! My story today is Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his, - the composer, born OTD 110 years ago, didn't want it shorter (but the publisher), - more here. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:52, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for a reply to my cand question. I may discuss it after tomorrow's concert when we will sing the Mozart and listen to Pärt's urgent call for peace played by the strings, - I'm not in the mood before ;) - I mentioned Pärt for a reason, could have been Beethoven as well, in other words: I believe it's time for a fresh look, as we were told 10 years ago. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:35, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
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We have a website named pixmap, and i trying to create a wiki page for it, some enemies trying to delete our page, please help us, i see you reverted it. Bayardaaa ( talk) 19:33, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Renaming proposed: since the CIMMS has been absorbed into the new "Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations" on October 1, 2021, shouldn't the article name be changed accordingly? Please give your advice at discussion. Pierre cb ( talk) 15:41, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Firefly: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 02:45, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
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I think that your bot has stopped updating the DRN case status template as of 0600 GMT, 18 December. That is the date of the latest update to the table. There are two new cases, one of which should have a status of New, and one of which I closed because the filer didn't list the other editors. The bot is running, because it is identifying five-month-old drafts and notifying their creators, so either it has stopped that task, or there is something in DRN that makes it sick. If the problem is in the content of the noticeboard, it would have to do with the La Salida case that was filed at 2048 GMT, 18 December, which was the first update that wasn't reported by the bot. Robert McClenon ( talk) 23:08, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Firefly! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. Looking forward more good discussions on Discord in the coming year! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!Cheers,{{u| Sdkb}} talk 06:36, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
If you have time, the Linter tables like this one need link updates after some MediaWiki code changes. The links that are supposed to go to specific namespaces have changed. For example, /info/en/?search=Special:LintErrors/bogus-image-options?namespace=0 used to point to bogus image options in article space. That link is now /info/en/?search=Special:LintErrors/bogus-image-options?wpNamespaceRestrictions=0&titlecategorysearch=&exactmatch=1&tag=all&template=all and every other link in the table needs similar adjustment.
Also, the Linter error group Special:LintErrors/missing-end-tag-in-heading is missing from the Linter table entirely. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 21:07, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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Today's story is about Maria Callas, on her centenary. - Aaron Copland died OTD, and Jerome Kohl (mentioned in November) said something wise on Copland's talk, - yes, regarding a soft(er) stance towards infoboxes. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:40, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Did you check out the history of the infobox of Callas? Compare Jessye Norman, Kathleen Ferrier and Jenny Lind. Did you check out the history of Copland? Compare Max Reger, Max Beckschäfer, Colin Mawby (from today's story), and Benjamin Britten (who died OTD). What's the difference? If what you see changes your answer to my question, feel free to change, and ping me. I would like to see a way to avoid in the future hundreds of editors commenting on Mozart RfCs, just to kind of restore the infobox he had in 2006. Happy new era ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:20, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I managed to get the pics to snow (on 28 Nov), and heard a lovely concert, after listening to a miracle of meditative dreaming on 6 December (or just click on music). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:58, 8 December 2023 (UTC)n
... and today, to Paris (29 Nov) with a visit to the Palais Garnier, - to match the story of Medea Amiranashvili, - don't miss listening to her expressive voice. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:56, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
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Same location pictured as 2019. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:53, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:16, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, Firefly,
You posted a note on this User page claiming this is your alternative account but you didn't register it. So, it is showing up as a nonexistent user and typically we deleted those pages. Could you create an account with this username or at least put a redirect on it? Otherwise it is open to deletion, CSD U2. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 04:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
This is a reminder that Missing end tag in heading would be helpful on the Linter/firefly table. It was recently added to Special:LintErrors in the "low priority" section. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 02:42, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
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Coincident with a checkuser block, you reverted a COI question at Nihonjoe's talk page. Would you consider reinstating it? Nihonjoe had responded to the same user's previous inquiry along the same lines. Yngvadottir ( talk) 00:03, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi Firefly,
Thanks for letting me know about the autopatrolled user right. I’ll try to live up to it!
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I looked and looked and couldn't figure this out. A few weeks ago you checkuserblocked Mother of Jabbas with the rationale "BKH / AttackTheMoonNow." What does BKH stand for? City of Silver 18:35, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
I thought I'd check on the bot and it stopped posting CSD G13 5 month notices on March 8th. Can you get it up and going again? Many thanks! It is providing a valuable service to content creators. Liz Read! Talk! 06:43, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron ( talk • she/her), via:
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The bot has stopped updating the case status. It is notifying editors of expiring drafts, but that is a different task. Does the code need to be stopped and restarted?
Thank you. Robert McClenon ( talk) 05:05, 24 March 2024 (UTC)