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Hi. Is this request good to go? Let me know if there are any problems. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 17:41, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
At the Film Project three new task forces have been created. Please could a bot tag the {{ WikiProject Film}} banner of articles in the following categories with the appropriate tags:
|Mexican-task-force=yes
(or "Mexican=yes")|Documentary-film-task-force=yes
(or "Documentary=yes")|Silent-film-task-force=yes
(or "Silent=yes")If an article currently doesn't have a talkpage or a film project tag on an existing talkpage, to add that too. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 13:53, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Note to myself: I started creating User:Yobot/Film. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:03, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts Something is wrong. I think not all sub-cats of Category:Documentary films are films. 44,000 items! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:11, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts subcats of silent films gives 19,000 pages. Subcats of Mexican have a "normal" amount of pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:32, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts these are the stats:
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:35, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts I can proceed if you think this is OK. I checked the category tree of these last 4 categories and seems fine. Meanwhile, I am doing some normalisation to help my tagging code. Things are complicated with all these variants of banners and parameters. I can write a better code later tonight. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:53, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
I finished the normalisation part. I'll now check which banners already have the wanted parameters and this will reduce the lists more. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:01, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Note to myself: Exclude biographies from tagging. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:34, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
@ Lugnuts and Shawn in Montreal: do you want to discuss so I get specific instructions of what to do? Right now I am adding parameters to only existing templates. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:27, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts I finished the Mexican ones by adding the parameter only the existing templates. 550 pages affected. I ll continue tomorrow. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:27, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts I finished the Silent ones by adding the parameter only the existing templates. Approx. 7,000 affected. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:01, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts I started the first part of the Documentary ones. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:53, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts Task finished for all pages that already had WikiProject Film on them. Tell me if there is something else I have to do i.e. add banners to pages that do not have it (but I would need specifics of which pages to exclude). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:33, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Shawn in Montreal Category:Documentary films by genre it's not clear. It even contains user pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:59, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Shawn in Montreal still too risky. I still haven't found where the user space articles come from. And there are more issues to solve. I can move slowly forward but it's a bit time consuming to be honest. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:23, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Shawn in Montreal The problem was with Mockumentaries since it contains Category:The Office (U.S. TV series) which contains Category:The Office task force articles which most probably it should not. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:52, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Shawn in Montreal, Lugnuts the last category is Category:Documentary films by topic. There is something wrong there too. Somehow is leads me to Category:Prisoner of war camps in the United States, Category:Military personnel killed in the Falklands War and Category:Operatives of the Dirty War. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:21, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
There are 40 subcategories of Category:Documentary films by topic.
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:40, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Should Category:Rock video albums be subcategory of Category:Documentary films about the arts?
Shawn in Montreal, Lugnuts Category:United States submarine stubs is in the category tree of Category:Documentary films about death. -- 13:00, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Shawn in Montreal, Lugnuts I did my part. I will do some tagging but I would like you to check the category tree in the 2 problematic categories. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:13, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
I do not know why the bot did not revisit this page (and I guess much more). At some point I excluded many pages that were related to broken category tree. I am trying my best here but I certainly need help. I do not want to end up tagging thousands of unrelated pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:36, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis! Would it be possible for you to please tweak Yobot's skip criteria so that it doesn't make edits when it's only doing template redirects, like this edit and this edit? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 21:30, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts merry Christmas to you too! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:44, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
To you and yours
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 16:24, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Is it necessary to add defaultsort into railway station articles? [1] Thanks OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 08:15, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
As you may have seen, I'm working my way through the cities and municipalities, changing statements where possible to use wikidata. It is not the easiest job, because wikidata seems to have been designed without any external reference, i.e. what the customer wants rather than what the provider feels like giving. In particular, it is very unsuited to places rather than people. There is no notion as far as I can see of any dimension, not area, no length / elevation etc.
So a lot of items have to be got in with a wangle. This is particularly so when wishing, as I do, to introduce a general case rather than a specific, while at the same time endeavouring to have the output look more or less like it was before. So for example motto is usually presented as italics, even though the infobox itself doesn't do it. But infobox does present something if there is anything given, so a value such as {{#if:{{#property:P1451}}|''{{#property:P1451}}''}}
with no actual instantiation of motto-text will produce a line something like Motto: '
Similarly, if {{ URL}} is invoked without a parameter, it will give some kind of error case.
There are other problems associated with items which can take multiple values, for instance inception – there are many cases where a city / municipality has more than one. It may have a founding year some centuries ago, and an establishment (or incorporation) date later. Wikidata is not able to supply the values separately, but returns a csv list, where I replace each comma with <br />
(and hope they tie up with the title values alongside, which are not held in wikidata!).
There are many other items I would like to see brought into wikidata, for instance i "income classification" which is part of the legal definition of the city / municipality; ii PSGC (Philippines Standard Geographical Code), which is also part of the location official details. Et cetera.
Believe me, everything I am including is there for a reason, not for fun.
Unbuttered parsnip ( talk) mytime= Thu 18:26, wikitime= 10:26, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
User:Unbuttered Parsnip I do not recall consensus to add wikidata items like this in English Wikipedia to be honest. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:06, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
@ Bgwhite, GoingBatty, and Frietjes: for advice on this. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:56, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
{{zwj}}<span style="padding-left:2px; padding-right:2px;">:</span>{{zwj}}
, per this
, I think this is overkill. "IDD:area code" is certainly is not the longest label. Odds of this being split (reason for {{
zwj}}) are extremely low. I don't see a reason to make this so complicated.User:Unbuttered Parsnip I guess we should wait so that templates automatically obtain data from Wikidata and not force items into them. An example is {{ Official website}}. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:03, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
I ve linked the article three times, /info/en/?search=Special:WhatLinksHere/Matthias_Laurenz_Gr%C3%A4ff so I think it isnt an orphan anymore. Can I clean the following link? {{Orphan|date=December 2014}} Kind regards -- Artium72 ( talk) 12:45, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Merry Christmas, Magio! Wishing you the best in your life. -- Meno25 ( talk) 06:54, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
Okay, here's another little problem: I was surprised to see "Pimpernel" Smith tagged as a documentary article. It's a propaganda film, but it's fiction, rather than a doc film. I know from the National Film Board of Canada's work that most Canadian WWII propaganda films would qualify as documentary films, but that may vary from country to country? I think it's best just to remove the tags manually where they don't apply.... Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 17:41, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Bot finished tagging. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:08, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
It seems that text search is back in AWB 5.5.6.0. Thank you and your colleagues for latest update. Merry Christmas and happy New year.-- Ma▀▄ Ga 13:35, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
On this page and some others, I had to remove the changes that were made by a banned user ( Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Beh-nam/Archive 94.210.203.230). You can do your AWB fixes again if you want to. Oh and Happy New Year! Bladesmulti ( talk) 22:56, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
hi your yobot fixed a silly mistake i made tks:)
Coolabahapple (
talk)
05:41, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
I just wanted to take a minute and say thanks for the help on those edits and for the hard work on the improvements to AWB. Its good to know that some folks are still working to improve the project. I also wanted to let you know that I just loaded the new optional update. I'm not sure if its an issue with Wikia today, but since I did the update it trips the timer every few edits. It could just be something with Wikia, but I wanted to let you know anyway just in case. Special K.:-) 108.28.162.100 ( talk) 01:09, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis and a Happy New Year to you. I noticed Yobot tagged Nigel Cayzer for lack of links to other articles. I've improved the situation with four more (Eton College, Muscat Securities Market, Oman, GCC) to take the total to six. Is that enough to remove that tag? Many thanks. HOgilvy ( talk) 11:30, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
There is a large number of race articles that WP:WikiProject Motorcycling would like moved to WP Motorcycle racing. I know that WP Motorcycle racing has to be notified first. I read the bot rules and it looks like I have to list categories individually, is this correct? I.e. I can't just ask for "Category:Speedway by year" -> WikiProject motorcycle racing? — Brianhe ( talk) 20:46, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
<categorytree>...</categorytree>
like this:<categorytree>Speedway by year</categorytree> <categorytree>Speedway riders</categorytree> :::Hope this helps! GoingBatty ( talk) 02:24, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
User:Yobot was deleting invisible characters on Longest word in English, except thoos characters were useful, as they allowed the long words to wrap anywhere, no matter the screen size. Without them the text was stretching out of the screen -- KnightMiner ( t| c) 17:49, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Yobot took a poodle for a living person, I'm not sure why. Yngvadottir ( talk) 18:38, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Dear Yobot,
Thanks for the help, I really find difficult all these links and refers also because, English is not my Mother language. Is Now the page "Chris Vinante" alright to be published? Joan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joan Bozoky ( talk • contribs) 22:24, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Why did you put back two dead red links, the words were still there but I was told that a red link meant there was no article written yet? It shouldn't be linked if nothing exists? Haiku Tea ( talk) 20:27, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
thanks i saw it was someone else. Redlinks can be good as marker for a new article but I think these were many years old, i will be more careful. Thanks again Haiku Tea ( talk) 02:16, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your WP:CHECKWIKI error note and underlinked tag you added to this hollowed out article. I created the articles Alberta Environment on 19 June 2014 and Alberta Energy Regulator on 24 June 2014. By October 2014 the article Alberta Environment had 29 edits, 14,119 bytes, about eight articles linked to it, many wikilinks, about six sections and more subsections, an info box and over a dozen solid references with inline editing and inline citations. On 19 October 2014, a new user Alberta Brian ( talk) cut and deleted the entire contents of the Alberta Environment article and pasted it into a "new" article he created entitled Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. He did this to reflect the 2012 merger of Alberta Environmentand Energy Resources Conservation Board ERCB) into the new Environment and Sustainable Resource Development department. Little was added to the article when it was renamed. By creating a new article instead of renaming the original article, the history of 29 edit summaries of the original article was deleted and the original article was reduced to one sentence and as you noted, it is now underlinked. I am sure there is some kind of protocol when government departments undergo mergers and name changes whereby the original article is renamed and there is an automatic redirect for those who search for Alberta Environment (443 people since the change) as opposed to 177 visits to the Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development article)? I propose the deleted content be restored to the Alberta Environment article and the name be changed to Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development to reflect the merger with redirects from the original name Alberta Environment to this newly named article. Then the "new" October 2014 article Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, can be deleted. Any changes made since October can be added to the renamed article. Alberta Environment has been cited many times as the development of the oil sands became highlighted in the news internationally. This article should not be gutted. Oceanflynn ( talk) 17:26, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Magioladitis, can you weigh in on this: User talk:WikiOriginal-9#TfD: screwed-up merge of Template:Infobox Arena Football player, etc? I am not looking to reverse the TfD, etc.; at this point, that's water under the bridge. I am looking for the quickest, non-bureaucratic way to correct the presently misleading redirect of Template:Arena Football player to Template:Infobox gridiron football person. Please reply on WikiOriginal-9's talk page. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 23:26, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
please,help me in This page Hafshejan ,User Sahehco make Sabotage in this page.I am Iranian and I cant write English very well.Thanks alot. I want to add more subject in this page,and they are from persian wikipedia,help me. هفشجانی ( talk) 06:05, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
I saw your AWB edit on the Moon article [2] in which you merely removed a space after a period (nothing visibly changed) and I was about to report you for using AWB for insignificant edits, because as far as I know it is against a rule or something. It turns out you're an administrator :)
I've just started using AWB. I'm still learning how to use it, but it seems really useful, indeed. Cheers Tetra quark ( don't be shy) 02:56, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Tetra quark this kind of kind is better not to be done but I arrived to Moon due to this weird c:// in its source code. then I wanted to exclude the page from my to-do list. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:04, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Regarding this Yobot edit, with edit summary " WP:CHECKWIKI error fixes using AWB (10479)"
Thanks, Wbm1058 ( talk) 18:10, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Wbm1058 hi. "10479" refers to AWB's code revision used. It helps me and other to check whether a reported bug has already been fixed or not. I'll check the slow edit war reported and I'll, hopefully, come back with some answers. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:02, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
The bot(Yobot) and I are having a disagreement
Yobot and I are going back and forth on an article of history that I am editing with all the estd facts along with giving appropriate references. Let me explain -- there are two kind of "Rohilla" community ironically of same name, one belongs to "Hindu" religion and other to Muslim. Yobot is mixing the facts related to latter into former.
In January 1774, Hastings ordered a brigade of the Company army, under the command of Colonel Alexander Champion (d.1793) to proceed towards Oudh. Joined by forces from Oudh on 17 April, the brigade invaded the Rohilla territory. The combined force defeated the Rohillas on 23 April at Miran Katra. The death of Hafez Ruhmet, Rohilla leader, proved the war turning point. Later in July 1774, the British and the Vizir of Oudh marched to Fyzoolla Khan. For a jagir of Rs.75,000, the English bought out the segment of Rohilkhand he possessed. A treaty of 7 October brought the hostilities to a closing. The above is already there in Muslim Rohilla on Rohilla and on Third Battle of Panipat.
The above should not come in Hindu "Rohilla" community. The Muslim "Rohilla" are very famous in Indian history due to having a battle in history with British but the other is more significant Hindu community in India. It obviously creates chaos among others. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Friend.hey (
talk •
contribs)
13:02, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Friend.hey it's not the bot that changes the page's content. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:11, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
I see Yobot changing the names of commons categories to the page name, - I think that is not informative. Any reader knows the page name, - it would be more interesting to know that the commons cat is different. I have been advised against easter egg links. Clicking on Inkpot Madonna, finding Tintenfassmadonna seems like one. (I changed that one.) Forgive me if that is a perennial question. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:12, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Gerda Arendt here's your guy. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:18, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, with
this edit, Yobot bypassed a redirect {{
rail end}}
→ {{
s-end}}
which was OK I suppose since other changes were made, but it proceeded to add a {{
reflist}}
above that {{
s-end}}
, which sqeezed the refs inside the succession box. Also, regarding
this edit, after ignoring the page for a little over two weeks, Yobot has returned to previous behaviour. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
13:57, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
I'll also check the other bug. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:16, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
rev 10774 for the first bug by Rjwilmsi. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:43, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
I think we need
User:Frietjes help to create |rail=
(or something) inside {{
update}} which will populate the said category. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
00:36, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
It appears another mentally deranged individual has decided to indulge in self-harm. I dream of horses is this unstable individual. As past attempts to recruit unsavory personnel into our Arkham Asylum have failed, maybe a new approach is needed. Therefore, condolences in joining our house of horrors. I'm also writing here in case I dream of horses didn't want others to find out about their problem from their talk page.
Magioladitis and I really love anybody to join us. There are some Checkwiki errors that are faster to be run as a bot. There are other errors that have to be done manually. Some errors, Magioladitis usually "lets" me do and visa versa. Are there any errors you would like to do? Are there any questions? Any help we can give? Bgwhite ( talk) 07:18, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I need your help on the below page and page like these List_of_educational_institutes_in_Rohtak.
In this page somebody has provided his contact number and is trying to get financial benefit, he has also projected his local coaching institute as some recognized colleges as some in the list.
If its part of vandalism then how should I report it on the name of authority so that you user does not revert it back. Should I send it to some admin? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Friend.hey ( talk • contribs) 07:45, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
-- Friend.hey ( talk) 07:58, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Friend.hey I reverted these edits but remember that you can edit the pages too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:07, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
—Thats Okk, but what if the user again reverts back its bad comments. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Friend.hey (
talk •
contribs)
08:12, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis. I was looking at the manual for AWB and was trying to figure something out, perhaps you may be able to help me. I would like to be able to add a template to pages, and include a parameter of the template that uses the title of the page. I see how to add the template, and how to find/replace text. But I don't see how to include the title as a parameter for each page on the list. Is this something that can be done? thanks, B E C K Y S A Y L E S 12:57, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
{{subst:PAGENAME}}
as the parameter value. See
Help:Magic words#Variables and
Wikipedia:Substitution for more information. Good luck!
GoingBatty (
talk)
18:59, 18 January 2015 (UTC)Yeah i noticed, and i stopped it since two weeks i Think. But i noticed that the FA/FL templates for portales and lists are still not added by bots? So i added them manually. Is it correct or they are added as well?-- باسم ( talk) 11:40, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis – I saw Yobot had been by the Dany Bahar article and flagged it for no internal links. I've now resolved this. Thanks. HOgilvy ( talk) 11:06, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
In Special:Diff/641129045/prev, you added a weirdly mangled duplicate of a paragraph with a strange {{ context}} tag in the middle of it. Any idea what happened there? Anomie ⚔ 00:32, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
You appear to be violating the Rules of Use for AWB (rule 4) with your series of edits that change template "official" to "official website". Please stop this series of edits. Tewapack ( talk) 23:56, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
It's a preparation for a bot moving data to wikidata and simplifying templates in English wikipedia. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:38, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Magio!
re diff, 2 questions:
thanks! -- Jeremyb ( talk) 15:16, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
P.S. how are the hot dogs over there? how many can you eat at once?? -- Jeremyb ( talk) 15:16, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Jeremyb nice hearing from you! Yes, it was supposed to be "cleanup". I thought it was "cleanup" and it was some font problem that I could not see the first letter of my edit summary. I fixed this at some point. I was supposed to clean only pages in user space. This page was converted back to old syntax after I have cleaned it from all articles. I quick check says that this was my sole mistake in this series of edits. Thanks for the heads up! After cleaning some thousands of pages I guess 1 mistake is expected. :)
The hot dog contest was awesome. I never figured out how the do it that fast. What happened to our hero? It seems he switched to tacos. Haha. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:29, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Magioladitis!
I wanted to pop in and mention that AWB apparently isn't functioning on wikia urls that don't have ".wikia.com" in them - I've been attempting to work with wowwiki and receive the "ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors" error.
I'm using the custom field for the url, and even tried using wikia's alternate url for the site (wow.wikia.com); quite expectantly the latter didn't work, but tried anyway. I'm using the latest version of the program as well.
Just wanted to let you know! Thanks ;) 24.113.108.143 ( talk) 16:56, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello Magioladitis, I don't understand why you think my page is an orphan. It has links to all sorts of wikipages, and reference links to other websites. Please let me know what you believe I need to add. Thanks PINKESTGIRLOHYEAH Pinkestgirlohyeah ( talk) 20:56, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
This has reference to this change made by yobot. Please also refer to Talk:Principle_of_legality#concept_of_.22_Legality_.22_needs_a_separate_article_.3F_or_move_back_to_Legality this and User_talk:Lowellian#request_to_move_the_article_heading_Principle_of_legality_to_former_name_Legality. To best of my openion article name Principle of legality needs to be redirected to heading Legality and not viceversa Principle of legality comes under broader concept of Legality. At the same time as far as legal terminology is concerned term Principle of legality is bit different than normally expected usual meaning by lay reader so Principle of legality needs to be under separate section heading and not as part of the main lead. Yobot has deleted section heading and merged it top lead where as to my openion either Principle of legality should go under a separate section heading or we have a separate article for legality to give better justice to both the subjects.
Thanks and Regards Mahitgar ( talk) 10:14, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, you fully protected this article indefinitely because of sock puppetry. I believe we've caught and blocked all the puppets, so I think we can remove the protection. Another option is to change it to semi for a limited period of time, which would catch any newly created accounts.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:12, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Please can you block me for the next 2 hours while I take a WikiBreak, as I dont think ill be able to without it Zafiraman Lets talk about it 22:43, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
I see you've inserted a line break between the "Other Media" and "Television" subheading on the Dresden Files article, which I reverted partly out of personal taste and partly to try out the features of the Twinkle editor; it seems however that a number of editors like to insert line breaks about as much as I like to remove them. It's, of course, a trivial edit, compared to other ones, but is there a reason for two subheadings to be separated by a line break? Thanks! MinorStoop ( talk) 18:29, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi. diff. {{ multiple issues}} originally had 3 issues, but editors removed 2 of 3 and didn't convert it back to a simple one-issue template. Will be nice to get that old-style syntax removed eventually though. Wbm1058 ( talk) 00:08, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
When I see my users contribution page>article created ,there is written that I created an article by name Hindustani People on 26 December 2014 and u deleted it on 30December 2014.
I am amused I never made any page withe the above mentioned name. Why is it in my user page?
Ejaz92 ( talk) 06:51, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
in the case that there is an ASIN but no ISBN, could you add that instead? for example, here? Frietjes ( talk) 16:18, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis! I would be very happy if you could help me with project tagging for a task force; I've added a request at WP:BOTREQ. jonkerz ♠ talk 16:05, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I am Piotr Konieczny ( User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian (11th most active), and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 19:23, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Done! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:55, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
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23:07, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Adding named refs is as your bot did [4] was inappropriate. Please refrain from doing so without prio discussion and consensus. Thanks, Paul August ☎ 14:34, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
please track this person too, looks like he is a sock puppet /info/en/?search=User:46.244.140.191
46.244.140.191 and 46.244.132.37
here is moroe information sir,
I notice he had use many of the wrong information.
p.s. i found only you as the admin in the momment who is quite active in the aviation protol, please help me and suggest me too,
Thanks ;)
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Dear sir. We are trying to update page of Kumarpal Desai, most information from - http://kumarpaldesai.com/bio-data.html Somehow, all the updated information is deleted. Please do needful. Let us know if anything is required from our side.
Thank you. Gujarat Vishwakosh Trust, Ahmedabad (India). www.vishwakosh.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by GujaratVishwakosh ( talk • contribs) 16:01, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
So hopefully I did this right. I have a question and if you could either answer it or direct me where I could get an answer it'd be appreciated :) We had a school project where had to revise an article and we did the wolfgang amadeus phoeonix article and i notice yobot went on there and I'm wondering how the bots select articles? Is a random thing or what? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MoralDebauchery ( talk • contribs) 00:16, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the changes to parkrun wikipedia page which make date sorting work correctly without the leading zero.
I use dates with leading zeros eg 08 May 2011 because that is the format given in Help:Sorting shows us that this is the way to do it.
Are you able to edit the Help:Sorting pages too? Or who do we need to notify? I ask because if the Help:Sorting page is not fixed, then leading zeros will continue to be added by many mode authors.
Thanks Roger — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.98.118 ( talk) 12:53, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Roger adds... Thanks — Preceding
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See you there... -- Paddy ( talk) 18:07, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
When {{bio}} is on a talk page with no listas, the module/AWB will not add a listas parameter. It adds a listas under every other conceivable way the bio banner is spelled. I'm not sure if it is doing this 100% of the time as I'm not paying attention when it works. Bgwhite ( talk) 21:01, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
I’m not sure if it’s better to leave this message here or in Yobot’s user talk, but I see that leaving a message for the bot temporarily stops it from running, so I guess I’ll leave it here.
In February Yobot visited the William Beebe article, and cleaned up the references by combining duplicate refs, where the article cited the same page of the same book more than once. [5] During the time since then I’ve added a lot of content to this article, and it now has around three times as many references as it did in February, but since Yobot hasn’t edited it again only the first third of its references have the duplicate references combined. Is there a way for you to get Yobot to revisit this article, and perform the same cleanup for the rest of its refs?
Thanks in advance. -- Captain Occam ( talk) 18:00, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
I've got one other question about the references in this article, for either Magioladitis or Bgwhite. At some point I'll want to turn the references in it into links, so that clicking the link will take you to whatever book is being cited in the article's bibliography. I know how to do this manually, but it would probably take over six hours to manually convert every reference in an article that has over 250 references. Do either of you know whether there's a bot that can handle this task also?
If there isn't, I might make a request here for someone to create a bot that can can do this, but first I should make sure there isn't an existing bot I'm not aware of that can do it. -- Captain Occam ( talk) 00:45, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Dear Magioladitis:
I sent the message below to you on May 17th, and I've been checking to see if you have answered. It is now in the archived section of your talk page. I don't know if that means that you will no longer be answering queries in that section, so I thought I better ask again. Thank you, Dale Corey I contacted you last week to inquire about whether or not I could add a link to another person's article without their permission, in order to de-orphan my article. After receiving your response that I would, I went into an article on Frances Hesselbein. The subject of my article, Howard M. Guttman, contributed a chapter to a book edited by Frances. I listed Howard and all the others authors who contributed chapters, some of whom are very well known in the field of management development. First, I tried to highlight Howard's name and create a link to his page. I got a message saying that the page doesn't exist. I then highlighted the names of several other notable authors, including Jim Champy ( James A. Champy), Noel Tichy, and Dave Ulrich. In each case, I was told that the wiki page did not exist, although I had just visited it and copied the URL.
Am I doing something wrong? Can you please help me? Thank you very much, Dale Corey 69.19.14.31 (talk) 15:15, 17 May 2011 (UTC) Dalecorey ( talk) 13:10, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Another Wikipedia editor, SPhilbrick, was kind enough to add the links for me and explain how to do it. Thank you again, Dale 66.82.9.54 ( talk) 15:25, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I notice that you have removed my additions to Template:Infobox GAA player and I'm curious as to why. I've been trying to merge Template:Infobox GAA dualplayer with Template:Infobox GAA player for the last week or so and had got to the point where the merge was almost complete. My plan was as follows:
I was at part 4 of the process and notice the changes were reverted on 31 May. Possibly you were unaware of the merge effort (After all, I hadn't tagged the pages as being suggested for merging). Alternatively, you may have found pages that were adversely affected by the changes made, or have an objection to the templates being merged. If there are pages adveresely affected, it would be good to know which ones and why, and if there's an objection to merging, then it would be good to discuss it. I would appreciate your comments at Template talk:Infobox GAA player#Merging Template:Infobox GAA dualplayer and Template:Infobox GAA player. Thanks. Teester ( talk) 12:28, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
I know that you have been working a lot with Infoboxes so I wanted to throw you a notice about some edits I am going to start soon. I have identified about 5000 articles within WikiProject United States that do not have infoboxes so over the next month or 2 I am going to devote some time (and hopefully others will help as well) to adding Infoboxes to these articles. I am going to use the core Infobox person but will follow up with military person and or officeholder as embedded modules as appropriate.
Because I will be doing this with an AWB custom module and refining it along the way along with manual checking and because this will cross thread multiple WikiProjects I will be doing them in groups (I will start with military personnel because MILHIST is a large very active project that will cover a lot of them) and notifying them as I go. I am not going to paste every field of the Infobox, just the core ten or so like name birth date, death date, etc. and some may be blank on the first pass.
I have also been working on some code to remove some of the unneeded, deprecated or seldom used fields (if blank) and I will gladly release the code once I get it a little more flushed out. Because this is quite complicated and will involve another long module like the WikiProject cleanup I do not anticipate it being 100% error free so I want to make sure its as fool proof as possible before I start handing it out.
If you have any suggestions or comments please let me know. -- Kumioko ( talk) 18:45, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
![]() | An editor who believes something is wrong with this page won't make any effort to fix it, but they've done some drive-by tagging. Please allow this tag to languish indefinitely at the top of the page. |
Thank you for the barnstar. It felt like I accomplished something when names A thru F were cleared out. It is going much slower now. I've been doing H by hand because of the massive Arabic, Chinese, Icelandic and old Japanese names. One of these days Mandarax and I will be finished, plus whoever else is helping out. Bgwhite ( talk) 23:56, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your contribution in improving the page Cláudio César Dias Baptista. 187.13.71.100 ( talk) 12:33, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I think you should know your recent change to the infobox {{ Infobox MLB player}} results in the "Died" parameter always showing up, even for living people. Obviously, that shouldn't be the case. Thought you should know so you can fix it or revert. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 ( talk • contributions) 16:16, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I noticed this edit by Yobot. As Template:Single_Infobox did not exist (I've since created it as a redirect) this broke the infobox, which resulted in the deletion of an image and an audio file (since they appeared to be unused as a consequence of the breakage). As you are an admin, perhaps you could undelete these files, as well as those deleted as a consequence of similar Yobot edits on Shut Up (Kelly Osbourne song), Showgirl (song) and How Could I Be Wrong (and perhaps other articles). -- Zundark ( talk) 16:03, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Eh... You seem to have left an edit warring warning on my talk page re: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a page I haven't edited since april, what gives? Dbpjmuf ( talk) 19:45, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Dear Magioladitis, good day. I saw some deletions you've done in En Wiki's pages. Deletionism is not a good policy. There are informations which should be repeated in more than one page; if that is repetition of text, that is also a great help, avoiding time consuming and fatigue to the reader and avoiding also massive processing in En Wiki's server. Regards. 187.13.30.222 ( talk) 09:59, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
( YahooBot ( talk) 13:17, 9 June 2011 (UTC))
Hello dear Magioladitis (Yobot),
please review Multi-touch. It's looking like user:Alexanderaelberts trys to promote links of his own websides (SEO). I am new on Wiki and don't know how I can deleted this changes from user:Alexanderaelberts.
Sincerely, ( YahooBot ( talk) 13:17, 9 June 2011 (UTC))
FYI, see here. Frietjes ( talk) 23:46, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Since Yobot 15 is a similar type of task, I figured you might know the answer to this: is there a bot currently running on WP that unsubstitutes templates in Category:Pages with incorrectly substituted templates? Given that the page has only ever had a few entries on it most of the times I've checked, I'm inclined to think that there is...or that there are a lot of users monitoring the page like I am. On the other hand, I've unsubstituted substitutions that were nearly 24 hours old, which would tend to argue the reverse unless it's an infrequently-run bot. – RobinHood70 talk 01:21, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, this is a really old edit, but just a note that Yobot changed "4th of July" to "4 July", thinking it was an "ordinary" date. I've changed the article to a piped link to Independence Day (United States), hopefully that will be enough to stop this or other bots from changing it back again? Forgive me if this has already been addressed. Cheers, Valfontis ( talk) 23:20, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
Please check your edits - you had him dying in the year 200 ! I have corrected the date. RGCorris ( talk) 20:10, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Yobot added a second period after a quote that had a period inside the quotation marks: here. Thought I'd better report as a glitch. Yngvadottir ( talk) 15:54, 14 June 2011 (UTC)Re
Would you run Yobot on this article, Arkansas Territorial Militia. Thanks! Aleutian06 ( talk) 20:47, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
CentralAbe ( talk) 03:44, 17 June 2011 (UTC)Central Abe on June 16th, 2011 New Wikipedia.Added following references below to the Robina Suwol page. { http://www.cityofcalabasas.com/environmental/carl-gibbs.html) http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Mothers,_teachers_concerned_about_leukemia_deaths_at_California_elementary_school { http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/12/18658541.php] http://apps.cdpr.ca.gov/schoolipm/school_ipm_law/ab_405.pdf http://www.firstamendmentcoalition.org/2009/10/first-amendment-coalition-names-free-speech-award-winners-and-one-loser/
thanks for the advice wasn't aware that was the case. Dan arndt ( talk) 08:36, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Is it just the lack of an infobox on this stub that triggered the wikify tag? Cloveapple ( talk) 01:47, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
What does ++ mean? Dismas| (talk) 10:53, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Magioladitis, I've noticed recent your edits on Template:Infobox college coach, and wanted to ask you about the feasibility of doing some automated edits to some more fields in the template. I'd like to edit a few of the field names to remove some of the ambiguity in them, e.g.:
Is this something we could do with Yobot? Thanks for you help. Jweiss11 ( talk) 17:13, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I posted a message about this on the template's talk page five days ago, and haven't had any objections. This list for fields to be renamed has grown though:
Can we run with these? Thanks. Jweiss11 ( talk) 19:36, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
I changed the parameters in the template. There are 5,000 pages and I don't want to rerun on that list. I could have fixed the spacing too but now I think it's too late. Some people wait for edits like that to block Yobot and create some drama. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:07, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
You added one { too many here (Born). -- bender235 ( talk) 13:37, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
I updated the WikiProject code again. I added another couple projects that I ran across. I added all the projects I had previously commented out because I was finding several were getting added. I also resorted the projects to be in alpphabetical order. -- Kumioko ( talk) 18:51, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Bgwhite, in the future, feel free to update my code exactly as Kumioko does. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:24, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Dear Yobot operator. If you really think that this was an important enough change to make an edit, then I recommend you use a capital next time: names of Wikipedia pages are spelled with a capital. That is: {{ Disambiguation}}. Debresser ( talk) 16:50, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Could use your help at Template talk:Multiple issues#Edit request to fix problems. Thanks much! -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 19:55, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
primary sources, cleanup-laundry, over detailed, cleanup-spam, cleanup-reorganize, POV-check, criticism section, very long, example farm, cleanup-rewrite, cite check, quote farm, news release, unreliable sources
-- Funandtrvl ( talk) 00:06, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello Magioladitis, I'm TonyO13. I'm just here to let you know that I've re-created Template:Pittsburgh Steelers seasons. The reason being that currently every NFL, AFL, and Super Bowl Championship team (minus the NFL and AFL championship teams of 1966-1969, as the Super Bowl championship trumped each league's individual championship as the "ultimate prize") has the following template sequence: (team's amount of seasons, the championship team's roster, and the team's general history template. I did it because I wanted there to be uniformity for each championship winning team. I understand that redundancy was the reason this template was deleted the first time so I will now delete the seasons tab from the general Pittsburgh Steelers template. I hope you don't mind. Thanks. TonyO13 ( talk) 07:28, 7 July 2011 (UTC) TonyO13
Would you mind having a look at Paddy Kennedy (Sligo Gaelic footballer) and {{ Infobox GAA player}} for some reason there is a - in front of his position and I can't work out where it's coming from Gnevin ( talk) 13:07, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm fairly new at this. I saw that there was no article. on Cheney Mason (the lawyer working the infamous Casey Anthony case), so I went ahead and started one. However, like with the Jose Baez article, I am concerned the Cheney Mason may be subject to vandalism in light of the immediate aftermath of the acquittal. Can you protect that page to a certain extent like the Jose Baez article? (I don't know how to do it.) Just a concern of mine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diligent007 ( talk • contribs) 17:35, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Is it worth updating birth/death params in {{ Infobox animal}}? -- WOSlinker ( talk) 13:20, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Yobot made
this edit to the {{
Infobox scientist}} in the article
Michael Gerzon. It deleted the blank parameter |box_width=
. Good edit; the blank parameter should not have been left lying around. However, the Edit summary left by the robot was "Updated infobox (BRFA 15) per
Template talk:Infobox person/birth death params using AWB (7782)". This Edit summary is both cryptic and misleading. What is "BRFA 15"? I cannot find a mention of this anywhere; this is cryptic. Also, the discussion the link refers to makes no mention of a |box_width=
parameter or, indeed, anything to do with widths; this is misleading. Please improve the Edit summaries Yobot deposits. Thank you. (If you wish to respond, please do so here.)
HairyWombat
03:49, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
OK, so why not make "BRFA 15" a link to User:Yobot#Approved_tasks? The link to " Template talk:Infobox person/birth death params" is more problematic. What is required is a link to a concensus about these tasks. You seem to be suggesting that there hasn't even been a discussion (other than of birth/death parameters). I must suggest that you initiate such a discussion somewhere. I stress that I don't have a problem with the edits the bot is performing; there just seems to be a lack of openness. HairyWombat 13:29, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Also, the parameter |box_width=
is still in both the doc page and source code of {{
Infobox scientist}}. |bodystyle=
width, which it uses, is also in the doc page of the meta-template {{
Infobox}}. You say that box_width is not supported, but that does not seem to be the case. As long as it remains in doc pages then people will continue to use it, and your efforts to get rid of it will fail.
HairyWombat
14:58, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
The alternative is to seek help. Reading Template talk:Infobox person/birth death params, there seems to be a group of people interested in this. Why not make your to-do list, but then push that out so that others can take up some of the burden? OK, I am done now. Bye. HairyWombat 21:38, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello Magioladitis, the article Heinrich Rau is still under construction. Very very slowly, because in general, I have no time. Concerning the top picture: I find the current picture may be sufficient only in a adequate size. There are no really good picture for a top picture at Commons. Existing pictures, which would be convenient for the top, like this one are not available there. But other pictures from Deutsche Fotothek are already uploaded. Do you know, whether it's possible to upload this picture too? Kind regards Henrig ( talk) 21:31, 11 July 2011 (UTC) P.S.: I see, it's no direct link. You can find the pictures there by searching with Heinrich Rau. Henrig ( talk) 21:41, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Pretty sure these defaultsorts aren't required anymore. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 13:18, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
It keeps stuff simple to date MI too, and it is harmless. It's been happening since the template was created, it's annoying, but understandable, that AWB removes that date.
Rich
Farmbrough,
10:38, 13 July 2011 (UTC).
Now that you've finished off Infobox person, I've added tracking to Infobox writer. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 15:15, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
All the lived parameters used by Infobox military person have been split into birth_date and death_date. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 17:56, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
Would it be possible for you to discuss the changes you make, rather than just re-reverting after your changes have been reverted. Merging the birth place and birth date fields makes the template look very awkward because there is not much space between the rows so it looks too squashed. Personally I also think having separate rows and titles for Birth place and Birth date is more straightforward than simply "Born". Was there any meta discussion about this, or is it just one of the Wikipedia things where one or two people have an idea and then impose it across the board in the interests of "standardisation"? Number 5 7 11:16, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Consensus? Is there consensus for this? Last I saw, it was a leave-it-be thing. I'm happy to remove the placeholders, though and would prefer that it was policy. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 21:40, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
I'm currently working through the band articles, removing the Born and Died params. Your bot could easily do the blank ones. After that there's quite a lot left in the other category which need more work. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 20:34, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
|Born=
is being replaced by |birth_date=
and |birth_place=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
22:25, 18 July 2011 (UTC)Please explain I'm not trying to be a jerk, but what is the value of
removing empty, but inevitable fields in person infoboxes (e.g. death
)? This just creates slightly more work later, right? —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯
00:19, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
I wonder if you might take a look at the infobox mess on this page. Thank you. Betty Noire ( talk) 12:37, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Your bot has a defect in it. It recently edited Howling Bells for the purpose of updating the infobox, but it also made additional edits throughout the article, which has now wrecked half of the references. It de-italicized the work parameter in all {{Cite web}} citations, consequently italicizing all work. Mattchewbaca ( meow) 20:57, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
|work=
must be italsied. Its documentation reads "Do not italicize; the software will do so automatically.". --
Magioladitis (
talk)
22:50, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello. Thanks for adding the signatures to the infoboxes but it seems like the one for the military person is too big and you can't change the size. See Charles Burnett Wilson. -- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 14:33, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
According to User:WildBot#FAQ, the tags are supposed to be removed by Yobot. However, since WildBot is no longer running and there continue to be many tags left, I am assuming that Yobot is not doing this task anymore. Why? — Train2104 ( talk • contribs • count) 21:39, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis, I'm a fairly new contributor to Wikipedia, and I'm trying to understand how it works. For instance, bots. I've seen bots do what I thought were pretty radical, questionable changes. I was afraid of those bots.
Yobot doesn't seem like that. It seems to make sensible, non bullying changes. However, or maybe because of that, I'm writing you. I hope you don't mind helping a beginner with some questions.
I edited a page, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside. Now it's been edited by Yobot.
My first observation is, some of the edits look identical to the original text. I did notice that some caps were changed to lowercase, but sometimes, such as line 22, I don't see any difference. What is the difference? My other question is, why did the bot change Dirty Radio to "Dirty Radio?" It is the name of an album, not an individual song, so it should be italicized, or underlined, shouldn't it? Is there a manual of style for Wikipedia? If so, where is it?
Thanks, Jean ±±±± — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeaniac ( talk • contribs) 05:58, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Yes, thank you! Now I'm going to try to sign this with 4 tildes. Not sure why I can't get that to work. Jeaniac ( talk) 00:05, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Yobot labelled Pentagalloyl glucose as a stub, though it has {{ Biochemistry disambiguation}}. Perhaps that's a dab template Yobot doesn't know about? PamD ( talk) 22:45, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis, I'm sorry for only noticing now that you prefer not to receive Talkback messages. In case you now assume I'll send them anyway and so aren't checking my talk page, I'll tell you here that I've responded. Also, in the future, I won't message you here regarding replies on my talk page. You can check it as you like. Armadillopteryx talk 01:40, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
I can't see a reason for this bot edit, particularly as this is an article that I just created recently and the infobox is taken directly from the current version on the template page. When I find an image to use here, the 'landscape' parameter is likely to be used, so removing it doesn't really help. -- Michig ( talk) 06:31, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
|landscape=yes
. The trackingcategory has only those that have a parameter other than "yes" i.e. the have no effect to the rendering of the page. Consider this cleaning more as "removing unused parameters". Now on landscape: No other infoboxes use it because image_size can be adjusted to cover it. Anyway, let's see how many infoboxes actually use it with parameter "yes" and we could initiate a discussion in infobox's talk page. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
07:43, 26 July 2011 (UTC)I undid your edit here. These lists of redirects on template documentation are very important to assist bot owners in programming their bots with all the necessary variations of a template. Debresser ( talk) 13:32, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Could you help him with this? I think I'd have no problem with it, but you are the expert. Debresser ( talk) 14:25, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I have found a screenshot from the 1921 movie Dracula's Death, and I was hoping to upload it. It is the only known surviving screenshot of the film, so I thought it would be appropriate to add it with a caption saying "This is the only known surviving screenshot from this now-lost film", or something like that. I know how to do that, but I just wanted to make sure that this screenshot from a 91 year-old film is OK to upload, because the people who would in any way, shape or form own a copyright to the film are probably subject to the "life of the author +70 years" thing. I know I've gone a bit TL;DR here but I just don't want this historically signifigant image to be one of the many, many, many, many images to be deleted from wikimedia on a daily basis due to copyright issues. So, with the information provided, should I upload it? - Another n00b ( talk) 14:38, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
I see you pushed through a change in this template to do away with the "Image:" bit. Thank you for that! I'd been half-tempted more than once to attempt that myself - just didn't know how to get all those template changes made to the articles...
In fact looking at what the Adult Biography template says now and comparing that to the generic Infobox person, there's only a couple of fields difference between them:
Hmm... given that list, maybe we should just ditch the Adult Biography template and move everything to the standard Person one? I wanna bounce that idea off you before bringing it to the larger WP:P* group (such as it is these days....) Tabercil ( talk) 01:10, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
|gender=
is a good start. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
07:12, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
I see you are going through wrapping medal tables with Infobox sportsperson. This just seems to me like unnecessary server load for no great benefit, but assuming there is consensus somewhere for this to be done, bear in mind a couple of points:
1. While doing this, you should also add show-medals=yes to the infobox. Otherwise you are effectively locking in "yes" as the default for this parameter (suppose consensus changes that medal tables should not be shown by default, then we will end up infoboxes showing nothing at all except the date of birth, or whatever else you may choose to add). On principle, technical reasons should never block consensus.
2. Be careful of cases such as Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker. He certailnly deserves an infobox, but it's definitely not going to be sportsperson, despite his winning an Olympic silver medal.
-- NSH001 ( talk) 14:53, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
Please see: Template talk:Multiple issues#Edit request 01 August 2011. There are 6 parameters there that could be moved into the depr. paras section. I'll keep a lookout for the articles that drop into the maint. cat. I know you're at wikimania, I'll be patient! -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 01:58, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to make sure you knew that both "blp" and "living" can be used in the parameter (see this edit). ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 05:37, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Please disregard the previous message - I had tricked myself with WikiBlame into thinking that Yobot had added vandalism to an article when it was actually an IP [6]. causa sui ( talk) 19:39, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello!
First of all I would like to say a big thanks for tidying the infobox – it looks much prettier than before :) However, as a checked out some bios, if there is no data given for the national years parameter, then the national team and matches/goals did not appear. I do not know whether it is my mistake (browser, etc.) or something is wrong with the template? Could you please check it? Thank you!
And regarding this issue, since you look experienced in this area, could you offer something how to fix the int. app./goals to be aligned to the right side of the infobox? Because as of now it follows closely the national team with only a small separation and I think it looks a bit ugly and a bit messy.
A third thing is that I just plan to cover the running season of some clubs and would like to ask if it would be possible to add an optional "current season" parameter to the handball club infobox? I really don't want to steal you valuable time as you definitely have a lot to do, but it would be very much appreciated. (Or a redirect to someone who is home in the topic.)
Thank you, Thehoboclown ( talk) 12:29, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Me and my brother Sibirian Artjom (named after Sydor's father Artjom) we are the youngest of the four Great grand anserters of Sydor Kovpak. We need help and or life is in danger. My father has made for us a social program this program is of social effort and is the fight to rescue Missing children in the Ukraine in or name! For this we survived assassinations and now we are in a situation that needs attention of all who are involved in Sydor’s vision and heroics acts for the Russian and Ukrainian people. I ask can you get in contact with us to listen to or story. Or email is 1400heroes@gmail.com and Verrazzo@hotmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.61.202.149 ( talk) 15:25, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
This edit by Yobot broke an image, by joining the filename to a misplaced caption. (It may be difficult for the bot to edit correctly in such a situation, but it should at least be able to detect the presence of the extra text and not edit when it finds any (and maybe flag the page for human attention).) -- Zundark ( talk) 12:58, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Task 15
On several articles, I accidently placed the name of the physical location of the book (like university or library) in the location parameter on the template:cite book, the location parameter was actually for the city of publication or printing, as I later found out.
I have been manually fixing my mistake by deleting the name of the university/library from the location parameter, and placing in the city in which the book was made, however, this is going to be tedious, I request you modify Yobot to fix this error, just program him to remove anything containing the words "university", or "library", from the location parameter, since the location parameter should only contain the name of a city. DÜNGÁNÈ ( talk) 01:31, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Magioladitis. Were the changes you made to the infobox part of an effort to standardise sportsperson infoboxes? I've seen yours and WOSlinker's infobox subpages and was wondering if there was a more centralised discussion. The missing fields you mentioned to WOSlinker can be easily readded (minus the old <br>-delimited lists, which I'll be glad to update), but I wanted to know first if there were any more parameters that were set to be standardised. Cheers. – Liveste ( talk • edits) 12:16, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
For those articles in Category:Articles using Infobox musical artist with deprecated parameters, just wondering if some of the Born & Died params could be automatically replaced with birth_date & death_date where the start of the params value was { and the end of the value was } which would mean that the params value was probably just a birth or death date using {{ birth date}} or {{ death date and age}}. I had a look at the code in User:Yobot/Rugby and think that something similar to what is below might work. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 17:50, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
private static readonly Regex Templ = Tools.NestedTemplateRegex(new List<string>("Infobox musical artist".Split(',')));
public string ProcessArticle(string ArticleText, string ArticleTitle, int wikiNamespace, out string Summary, out bool Skip)
{
Skip = false;
Summary = "";
foreach(Match m in Templ.Matches(ArticleText))
{
string TemplCall = m.Value, newValue = m.Value;
string Born = Tools.GetTemplateParameterValue(TemplCall, "Born");
string Died = Tools.GetTemplateParameterValue(TemplCall, "Died");
if (Born.Substring(0,1)=="{" && Born.Substring(Born.Length - 1)=="}")
{
newValue = Tools.RenameTemplateParameter(newValue, "Born", "birth_date");
}
if (Died.Substring(0,1)=="{" && Died.Substring(Died.Length - 1)=="}")
{
newValue = Tools.RenameTemplateParameter(newValue, "Died", "death_date");
}
ArticleText = ArticleText.Replace(m.Value, newValue);
}
return ArticleText;
}
It's buggy :( Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#ArgumentOutOfRangeException_in_CustomModule.ProcessArticle. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:30, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
private static readonly Regex Templ = Tools.NestedTemplateRegex(new List<string>("Infobox musical artist".Split(',')));
public string ProcessArticle(string ArticleText, string ArticleTitle, int wikiNamespace, out string Summary, out bool Skip)
{
Skip = false;
Summary = "";
foreach(Match m in Templ.Matches(ArticleText))
{
string TemplCall = m.Value, newValue = m.Value;
string Born = Tools.GetTemplateParameterValue(TemplCall, "Born");
string Died = Tools.GetTemplateParameterValue(TemplCall, "Died");
if (Born.Length>0) {
if (Born.Substring(0,1)=="{" && Born.Substring(Born.Length - 1)=="}")
{
newValue = Tools.RenameTemplateParameter(newValue, "Born", "birth_date");
}
}
if (Died.Length>0) {
if (Died.Substring(0,1)=="{" && Died.Substring(Died.Length - 1)=="}")
{
newValue = Tools.RenameTemplateParameter(newValue, "Died", "death_date");
}
}
ArticleText = ArticleText.Replace(m.Value, newValue);
}
return ArticleText;
}
Done Finished this one. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
09:52, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey dude! When you get back shot an introductory mail with the devs to see how we can kickstart the project :) See ya ! Ppapadeas 23:01, 17 August 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ppapadeas ( talk • contribs)
Could you please take a look at Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#General notice to bot owners about edit summaries and see if the suggestions might apply to your bot? Feel free to add your own suggestions and comments there too. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:15, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
If you would run Ybot on the following article, 12th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, I would be ever so grateful! When you have time, running it all the List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units would be outstanding! Thanks Aleutian06 ( talk) 19:01, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Would you please run Ybot on the 12th Arkansas Infantry Regiment. Running Ybot on the rest of the Arkansas Confederate Units as you have time would be a great help also! Thanks. Aleutian06 ( talk) 19:03, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
hi,
sorry for the random post to your talk page, but i'm not sure where else to go:
it seems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_%28producer%29 wrongly says "From 1978-79 he was also the bassist for the Mod revival band The Lambrettas."
the Lambrettas' Mark Ellis seems to be a different guy as Flood, as per:
http://punkmodpop.free.fr/lambrettasview.htm
hope you can sort this out, thanks for your help
cheers,
http://www.discogs.com/user/8m2stereo
178.202.142.44 ( talk) 14:40, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
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The WikiChevrons | |
For outstand work and dedication in the copy editing and general imrovement of articles related to the Arkansas National Guard! Aleutian06 ( talk) 22:42, 24 August 2011 (UTC) |
I know you're busy, when you have time, please see: Template talk:Multiple issues#No footnotes for an update which removes the "grammer" parameter, which redirects to "copy edit" now, and adds the "no footnotes" parameter, plus other corrections to missing categories, wording, etc. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 18:25, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Magio, are there any potential false positives you are aware of that I ought to avoid when normalising superscripts? -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 06:14, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Magioladitis, it looks as if Yobot is in some edits making insignificant, inconsequential changes only for the moment, e.g. [7] [8] [9] [10]... It doesn't seem to introdcue any errors, so this is not urgent, but it shouldn't be making edits that have no actual improvements (category works just as well as Category). Fram ( talk) 14:01, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
This seems to be another dab template Yobot doesn't know about - see this edit where Yobot has expanded the template name from {{ MolFormDisambig}} but then inappropriately added {{ stub}} and {{ orphan}}. Pam D 23:09, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Broken men is a one line stub with 4 notes and 4 references. The stub reads
Your bot, Yobot, made the following edit:
Why did your bot place a three line (minimum, or 11 line maximum) box on the top of the page one line long? How did it come to the conclusion that there was anything wrong with the page and has it been doing similar things to other stubs? -- PBS ( talk) 12:28, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
I just looked at your talk. You need to warn people to have some eye bleach handy... I didn't know your photo would be there :) I wanted to say thank you for all your work on AWB. I have really enjoyed being a gnome using AWB. Thank you. Bgwhite ( talk) 03:27, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis! Just noticed that you'll be taking a long wikibreak. Hope you'll enjoy it, and look forward to your return! GoingBatty ( talk) 03:26, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Template talk:Multiple issues#Remove "Citations Missing" parameter.
Funandtrvl (
talk)
15:43, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks to you for your bot code and helping me get the bot running, Category:Biography articles without listas parameter is now cleaned out. It most definitely couldn't have been done without you. Bgwhite ( talk) 18:19, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
I agree but take not that most of the job was done semi-automatically and not by a bot. There was a user's who clicked the Save button. Of course, now it's time to find mistakes and fix them. I am sure there are plenty. BgWhite did a wonderful job. I ask everyone to report mistakes in AWB's logic in order to improve it and reduce the number of pages that need human intervention. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:36, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi
I was wondering if you can direct me to someone or somewhere I can get help on creating a template for use on GOCE requests, similar to the current GA review template? It needs to do several jobs and I need to talk to someone about whether or not it is feasible and how to go about it.
Thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 21:04, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
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Can you do me a favour and remove the skin_color field from the Template:Infobox adult biography? I did some cross-checking and this field is not present on the Infobox Model, so I think it's just a distraction in the larger picture. Tabercil ( talk) 02:35, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, there is an ongoing disussion regarding some infobox changes occurring about standardizing infobox's for federated states. I know that you are busy but if you have a chance I would like to hear what you think. -- Kumioko ( talk) 21:04, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
This means my page and my talk page should look nice. :) Any suggestions? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:50, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, I know your busy but I wanted to let you know that I was reading the documentation for the Kingbotk plugin and it seems a bit out of date. It doesn't look like it has been updated since 2008 and I know you did a lot of improvements. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:36, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Would you run Ybot against List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units when you have time. Thanks! Aleutian06 ( talk) 20:14, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
I'll probably have a big Yobot run in the next days to reduce backlogs. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:27, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Your bot has an error, in
this edit; taking the honorific suffix "JP" as the surname in both DEFAULTSORT and PERSONDATA. You could avoid this, at least in some cases, by checking against the infobox's |honorific_suffix=
.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
16:37, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for running Yobot, it's great. Re this edit, I think the second amendment is understandable, but I reckon you could introduce a bit of code that would make it decide to keep either the comma or fullstop. At least it'd be right 50% of the time, but ,. is always going to be wrong! Also, what's the bot doing with Arsenal in that diff? (Just curious on that!) -- Dweller ( talk) 22:02, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
everything the bot did in this edit was unhelpful. There is only one external link, and there will likely never be a second one. Don't know what triggered the {{ wikify}}---if it is the number of wikilinks it should possibly be put in relation to the length of the article. Cheers, Pgallert ( talk) 11:25, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
I think that yobot malfunctioned with this edit [13]. It added a recently-removed top level (wikify) tag back on. This is just FYI, not an issue with me. North8000 ( talk) 23:34, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, User:Yobot edited Sporting Clube de Portugal#Presidents, changing "(2011–)" to "(born 2011)" in the list of presidents. The issue is that the ranges in that section are the ones during which these people held the office (and this one is the current president). As I am not sure if "(2011–)" is against any style rule, and as you say the bot may redo the edit if it's reverted, I'm leaving the page as is. Should I revert (after something has been flagged in the bot?) or change it to something else instead (perhaps "(since 2011)"?)? Nuno J. Silva ( talk) 11:35, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you were going through and clearing out some of the features and bugs. I went through a week or so ago and made a listing here of some that I thought might have been done, were denied or I thought were OBE if it helps any. -- Kumioko ( talk) 21:41, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Ok I found a couple things. First when it hits some articles it generates an error stating the below. All articles that I got this one on do have comments but I'm not sure thats whats causing it:
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Description |
System.InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute. at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowInvalidOperationException(ExceptionResource resource) at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.Enumerator.MoveNext() at WikiFunctions.Logging.TraceManager.ProcessingArticle(String fullArticleTitle, Int32 ns) at AutoWikiBrowser.Logging.MyTrace.ProcessingArticle(String fullArticleTitle, Int32 ns) at AutoWikiBrowser.Plugins.Kingbotk.PluginManager.ProcessArticle(IAutoWikiBrowser sender, IProcessArticleEventArgs eventargs) at WikiFunctions.Article.SendPageToPlugin(IAWBPlugin plugin, IAutoWikiBrowser sender) at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.ProcessPage(Article theArticle, Boolean mainProcess)
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To duplicate: | [encountered while processing page [14]] | ||||||||||||
Site URL: | http://en.wikipedia.org | ||||||||||||
Operating system | Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 | ||||||||||||
.NET FW Version | 2.0.50727.3625 | ||||||||||||
AWB version | AutoWikiBrowser (5.3.1.1), WikiFunctions (5.3.1.1), revision 7893 (2011-12-24 19:04:59) | ||||||||||||
Workaround | |||||||||||||
Fixed in version |
The second is that when I use the plugin with my module enabled it crashes AWB about 4 out of 5 times. I think there is something with the plugin that doesn't like having modules enabled at the same time. --
Kumioko (
talk)
17:39, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
A couple more things I just found.
Heres another error that I get quite a lot when I use the plugin but I don't know exactly why:
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Description |
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at AutoWikiBrowser.Plugins.Kingbotk.ManualAssessments.Assessments.StateClass.IsNextPage(String title) at AutoWikiBrowser.Plugins.Kingbotk.ManualAssessments.Assessments.Reset() at AutoWikiBrowser.Plugins.Kingbotk.PluginManager.StopButtonClickEventHandler(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
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To duplicate: | Unknown | ||||||||||||
Site URL: | http://en.wikipedia.org | ||||||||||||
Operating system | Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 | ||||||||||||
.NET FW Version | 2.0.50727.3625 | ||||||||||||
AWB version | AutoWikiBrowser (5.3.1.1), WikiFunctions (5.3.1.1), revision 7893 (2011-12-24 19:04:59) | ||||||||||||
Workaround | |||||||||||||
Fixed in version |
Please let me know if you want me to move these over to the AWB page. --
Kumioko (
talk)
17:45, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick reply. Did you have some Custom Module activated? We have to be dure these bugs are originvting from the plugin and not from the custom module. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Yobot recently edited The Chronicon of Ademar of Chabannes, during which it changed the existing {{ improve categories}} tag to {{ uncategorized}}.
Normally, this would be perfectly fine, because technically the article was uncategorized rather than just being insufficiently categorized — however, there's another bot, User:SoxBot, which regularly goes around removing {{ uncategorized}} from articles that have categories on them, and the problem is that the other bot doesn't know how to distinguish hidden maintenance categories from real content categories — if it sees any category at all, it removes the tag even if it belongs there. While I've asked Soxbot's maintainer to remove that task from Soxbot's programming more than once, the problem is still recurring — so the workaround, to date, has been to use the {{ improve categories}} tag on such articles, even though the "uncategorized" tag is technically more correct, so that Soxbot wouldn't detag them prematurely.
Long story short, because the article has a hidden maintenance category on it, I used the "improve" tag to keep Soxbot away — but Yobot switched it to "uncat", with the result that Soxbot then came along and detagged the article, putting it right back on the uncategorized articles list again (which is exactly what I was trying to avoid by using "improve" instead of "uncat" in the first place.)
Accordingly, I was wondering if you could temporarily disable Yobot's ability to swap the "uncat" and "cat improve" tags, at least until Soxbot is reprogrammed to either learn how to distinguish between real categories and hidden ones or to not detag uncategorized articles at all. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 19:18, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Can you explain me please why Yobot tagged here the page with ibid? I don't see one of the variants and the refs are all ok... Regards, mabdul 01:07, 9 January 2012 (UTC) PS:I already removed the tag since I hope to clean up some of them.
Recently a new "This article is an orphan" banner has been added to the Pragmatic works wiki page. To resolve the issue, a couple of new relevant external links has been added each pointing to the sections within the page. Please review and reconsider casting your vote for the page being an orphan. Would appreciate if you could guide how to fix the problem and get the banner removed. Appreciate your time. Thanks. GeekyPuppy ( talk) 16:08, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
your edit broke the image caption here. I wouldn't have noticed, but this was one of the main points presented here. Note that even it had worked, a 'ol' is an ordered list, and should be replaced by '#' markup, while a 'ul' is an unordered list and should be replaced by '*'. Neither will work here, since wiki-markup doesn't work in image captions per the bug pointed out by Edokter. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 22:39, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I notice that Yobot removes spaces before the closing </ref> tag, e.g. here. Does this come from WP:CHECKWIKI or from WP:GENFIXES? IMHO it's unnecessary and a nuisance as it clutters up the edit history, making it harder to review changes. I'd like to find out where I could challenge this.
At least it does not remove whitespace adjacent to pipes within citations, like some bots do. Please don't change that! – Fayenatic (talk) 17:37, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm trying to update WP:NAMESORT... Adding refs why something is done, set down language specific formats... Things I've learned along the way. The draft is at User:Bgwhite/Sandbox.
I've been doing Icelandic sorts as they are spelled as originally instructed by JimCubb. However, it looks like you were involved in a discussion about changing this ( Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Iceland#Sort_keys_for_Icelandic_names). The discussion came after my initial discussion with JimCubb. Unfortunately, JimCubb appears to be gone. So, what I currently have in my Sandbox is wrong and should be changed??? Bgwhite ( talk) 18:56, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
20:43, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the general fixes made by Yobot using AWB (7922). Thought you might be interested in one instance when grouping citations - "Vol pp 426" was generated when it should have been something like "FallsVol2pp426–8".
This is not a criticism, I just wanted to mention a possible glitch in AWB (7922). In all other cases of grouped citations, I hasten to add, there was no other problems with AWB (7922). Thanks for your work, much appreciated.-- Rskp ( talk) 06:39, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
(Partly copied from User talk:Yobot) I saw that your bot changed the {{ commonscat}} to {{ commons category}} and IMHO entirely unneccessary but simply increase the history of minor bot edit. To my knowledge there's no policy or guideline discourage the use of template shortcut (or any redirect link), point me one if I was wrong. -- Sameboat - 同舟 ( talk) 02:38, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Have you seen [15]? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 23:01, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi there :-), I use AWB on a global scale with both my bot and my personal account - would it be okay to keep myself on the global list? I noticed your comment about it being only for devs but it would be extremely useful for updating small wikis etc. . (I've asked GW to re-add me for the time being, feel free to remove me) -- Addi hockey 10 e-mail 20:02, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
I found the reason, the kingbotk plugin delete and new load solved it --> Typ932 T· C 22:06, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Re, [16], not sure what you meant to accomplish but it broke the hatnote. Cheers, Dave ( talk) 01:14, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Please make sure that the bot does not change again the "-->
" format solution. It is the only one which some ingenous users have come up with to make sure that the left indentation of the Greek fire paragraph is accurate. Thanks Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 10:34, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Now fixed. I wasn't paying attention. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:34, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
See here, there should be a pipe between the number and the units. Frietjes ( talk) 22:40, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello.
You have recommended me to use the rev 7941 of AWB. However neither http://sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/files/ nor http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ currently has this version. Where can I get it? Teyandee ( talk) 06:21, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi. What's the source for the month and day of birth you added to the Frank Cho article? Nightscream ( talk) 22:40, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about making the Multiple issues template the new cleanup template here. Since you have edited this template several times in the past I thought you might have some insight into this idea. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:33, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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hi! Poetrypromoter7 ( talk) 00:31, 10 February 2012 (UTC) |
Hello. I noticed your thread here while looking for a bot to convert {{ Infobox NFL retired}} to {{ Infobox NFL player}} (renamed from Infobox NFLactive). I can surely help you with the changes that need to be made to the NFL retired infoboxes to successfully convert them to NFL player fields. The notice at Template:Infobox NFL retired is correct, but there are a few more changes that need to be made.
|heightft
, |heightin
, and |weight
parameters should be included after the deathdate/place parameters.|college
, any draft parameters, and the debut/final year/team parameters.|AFLdraft
parameter (year, round, pick) should be replaced with |afldraft
(year, round, pick).|highlights=
should go under |teams=
and |pastteams=
|stat1label=
) should have the numbers after the words. For example, |statlabel1=
.If you are still willing to work on this and need more information, please let me know. Thanks, Eagles 24/7 (C) 00:45, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
|height=
that it will be for both inches and feet instead of 2 parameters. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
18:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
|highlights=
, which should go under |teams=
and |pastteams=
. How would the height parameter work?
Eagles
24/7
(C)
20:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
|birth_date=
and put the place of birth in |birth_place=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
23:05, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
|death_date=
parameter and how to separate both.
Eagles
24/7
(C)
23:33, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
|birth_date=
and |death_date=
fixes, I just now need to figure out how to make it so AWB realizes which parameter is which for the additions of |birth_place=
and |death_place=
. I saw Yobot fixed some stat parameters in {{
Infobox NFL player}}. Was that all of them?
Eagles
24/7
(C)
20:49, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
|birth_place=
.|birth_date=
, |birth_place=
, |death_date=
, or |death_place=
are not in the infobox, it adds it automatically? I noticed Yobot once went around and added parameters in this manner.
Eagles
24/7
(C)
22:34, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the work on the Military info boxes. The problem is that the military person template does not have a "Image_size" thing in it and when you remove the "File" from the template, some of the images turn out way too big in the infobox. I'm going to see if can fix the situation later today. Tony the Marine ( talk) 20:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Not bad for a wiki break... ;-) -- Xtv - ( my talk) - ( que dius que què?) 17:16, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I see that you had contributed to Dan Leno in the past. He was a well-known British musical comedy and music hall star around the 1890s. His article has recently been expanded and is headed for FA consideration. If you have time, please be so kind as to take a look at the article and comment at this Peer Review. Thanks for any assistance! -- Ssilvers ( talk) 00:06, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis! I'm very pleased to see that the bug regarding merging templates into multiple issues was resolved. Just wondering why you removed the bug in this edit instead of archiving it? Also curious if the fix I mocked up was of any use. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 04:04, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Magioladitis, Yobot is making unnecessary edits to headline spacing within articles that are otherwise consistently spaced throughout (e.g. [17], [18], [19]). This does not appear to be a bot error, but an intentionally programmed parameter, as it seems to focus on the space following the "External links" section header. As I am sure you aware, consistently spaced headers are permitted by MOS, and the re-spacing of existing, consistently spaced articles is frowned on. In multiple examples from the past 24 hours, the re-spacing of a single header within an otherwise consistently spaced article was the only change made by the bot. I would be grateful if you would examine the bot's programming for this issue. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:24, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
I've been threatened to be taken to ANI because of the speed of my edits. User_talk:Bgwhite#Remove_WP_Sports_with_AWB Here is the discussion. I do 2-4 edits a minute on this problem.
Are my edits ok or should I be stopping these edits? Bgwhite ( talk) 20:41, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Meow!
BoobyGold the 2 (
talk)
00:53, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks!!!
I noticed today that the image in the infobox on Stefan Fatsis was appearing rotated on its side. After a bit of trial and error I noticed that the infobox template had no "image_size" param set; once I added an image_size param (of 200px, the supposed "default" value per the template's documentation) the image was rotated correctly. I noticed that a couple of weeks ago you made a change to this template that seems to have eliminated the "default" value.
The change I would suggest (and would make were this template not protected) would be to change line 7 of the template code from:
| image = {{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image}}}|{{px|{{{image_size|{{{imagesize|}}}}}}|frameless}}|alt={{{alt|}}}]]}}
to:
| image = {{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image}}}|{{px|{{{image_size}}}|{{{imagesize}}}|200}}|alt={{{alt|}}}]]}}
This change should allow an editor to set either "image_size" or "imagesize" in the template and if neither is included will set the default width to 200px. Thanks! — DeeJayK ( talk) 21:04, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Yobot added all of the |birth_place=
parameters at the very bottom of the infoboxes, which is not good. The code I had set up for AWB moved that parameter right under |birth_date=
.
Eagles
24/7
(C)
19:52, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could convert the SVN snapshot page to a Wikipedia page. That way people (i.e. me) can bookmark it and we would know when a new version was ready. I've been getting a new version when you told Kumioko about it, but I don't think that will be happening again. Bgwhite ( talk) 23:55, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
Keep it up! Those anonymous vandals are really annoying, good to see someone taking care of it. Math321 ( talk) 21:06, 22 February 2012 (UTC) |
Great! Thanks! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:10, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
this one is a fork of template:infobox religious biography, so better to just delete it. Frietjes ( talk) 23:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
I was thinking of doing something... Adding WP Biography, adding work-group, adding WP Football (and more), etc. Behold, Yobot 9 appears to do the same thing. Can I steal the code? Any problems you ran into? What is the best way to run? Plus dozens of other questions I haven't thought of yet. Bgwhite ( talk) 00:25, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
This edit didn't exactly produce delightful results, and I figured it was worth bringing to your attention. Uncommon situation perhaps, but it is the second one of this type that I've encountered over the past couple of weeks. -- WikHead ( talk) 03:42, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
could you orphan this one? I would but I can't see the contents since you already deleted it. Frietjes ( talk) 22:10, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
careful, section headers should be preceded by a newline. Frietjes ( talk) 17:08, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi. Is this request good to go? Let me know if there are any problems. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 17:41, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
At the Film Project three new task forces have been created. Please could a bot tag the {{ WikiProject Film}} banner of articles in the following categories with the appropriate tags:
|Mexican-task-force=yes
(or "Mexican=yes")|Documentary-film-task-force=yes
(or "Documentary=yes")|Silent-film-task-force=yes
(or "Silent=yes")If an article currently doesn't have a talkpage or a film project tag on an existing talkpage, to add that too. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 13:53, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Note to myself: I started creating User:Yobot/Film. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:03, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts Something is wrong. I think not all sub-cats of Category:Documentary films are films. 44,000 items! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:11, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts subcats of silent films gives 19,000 pages. Subcats of Mexican have a "normal" amount of pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:32, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts these are the stats:
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:35, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts I can proceed if you think this is OK. I checked the category tree of these last 4 categories and seems fine. Meanwhile, I am doing some normalisation to help my tagging code. Things are complicated with all these variants of banners and parameters. I can write a better code later tonight. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:53, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
I finished the normalisation part. I'll now check which banners already have the wanted parameters and this will reduce the lists more. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:01, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Note to myself: Exclude biographies from tagging. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:34, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
@ Lugnuts and Shawn in Montreal: do you want to discuss so I get specific instructions of what to do? Right now I am adding parameters to only existing templates. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:27, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts I finished the Mexican ones by adding the parameter only the existing templates. 550 pages affected. I ll continue tomorrow. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:27, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts I finished the Silent ones by adding the parameter only the existing templates. Approx. 7,000 affected. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:01, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts I started the first part of the Documentary ones. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:53, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts Task finished for all pages that already had WikiProject Film on them. Tell me if there is something else I have to do i.e. add banners to pages that do not have it (but I would need specifics of which pages to exclude). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:33, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Shawn in Montreal Category:Documentary films by genre it's not clear. It even contains user pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:59, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Shawn in Montreal still too risky. I still haven't found where the user space articles come from. And there are more issues to solve. I can move slowly forward but it's a bit time consuming to be honest. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:23, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Shawn in Montreal The problem was with Mockumentaries since it contains Category:The Office (U.S. TV series) which contains Category:The Office task force articles which most probably it should not. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:52, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Shawn in Montreal, Lugnuts the last category is Category:Documentary films by topic. There is something wrong there too. Somehow is leads me to Category:Prisoner of war camps in the United States, Category:Military personnel killed in the Falklands War and Category:Operatives of the Dirty War. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:21, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
There are 40 subcategories of Category:Documentary films by topic.
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:40, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Should Category:Rock video albums be subcategory of Category:Documentary films about the arts?
Shawn in Montreal, Lugnuts Category:United States submarine stubs is in the category tree of Category:Documentary films about death. -- 13:00, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Shawn in Montreal, Lugnuts I did my part. I will do some tagging but I would like you to check the category tree in the 2 problematic categories. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:13, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
I do not know why the bot did not revisit this page (and I guess much more). At some point I excluded many pages that were related to broken category tree. I am trying my best here but I certainly need help. I do not want to end up tagging thousands of unrelated pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:36, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis! Would it be possible for you to please tweak Yobot's skip criteria so that it doesn't make edits when it's only doing template redirects, like this edit and this edit? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 21:30, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Lugnuts merry Christmas to you too! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:44, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
To you and yours
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 16:24, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Is it necessary to add defaultsort into railway station articles? [1] Thanks OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 08:15, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
As you may have seen, I'm working my way through the cities and municipalities, changing statements where possible to use wikidata. It is not the easiest job, because wikidata seems to have been designed without any external reference, i.e. what the customer wants rather than what the provider feels like giving. In particular, it is very unsuited to places rather than people. There is no notion as far as I can see of any dimension, not area, no length / elevation etc.
So a lot of items have to be got in with a wangle. This is particularly so when wishing, as I do, to introduce a general case rather than a specific, while at the same time endeavouring to have the output look more or less like it was before. So for example motto is usually presented as italics, even though the infobox itself doesn't do it. But infobox does present something if there is anything given, so a value such as {{#if:{{#property:P1451}}|''{{#property:P1451}}''}}
with no actual instantiation of motto-text will produce a line something like Motto: '
Similarly, if {{ URL}} is invoked without a parameter, it will give some kind of error case.
There are other problems associated with items which can take multiple values, for instance inception – there are many cases where a city / municipality has more than one. It may have a founding year some centuries ago, and an establishment (or incorporation) date later. Wikidata is not able to supply the values separately, but returns a csv list, where I replace each comma with <br />
(and hope they tie up with the title values alongside, which are not held in wikidata!).
There are many other items I would like to see brought into wikidata, for instance i "income classification" which is part of the legal definition of the city / municipality; ii PSGC (Philippines Standard Geographical Code), which is also part of the location official details. Et cetera.
Believe me, everything I am including is there for a reason, not for fun.
Unbuttered parsnip ( talk) mytime= Thu 18:26, wikitime= 10:26, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
User:Unbuttered Parsnip I do not recall consensus to add wikidata items like this in English Wikipedia to be honest. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:06, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
@ Bgwhite, GoingBatty, and Frietjes: for advice on this. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:56, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
{{zwj}}<span style="padding-left:2px; padding-right:2px;">:</span>{{zwj}}
, per this
, I think this is overkill. "IDD:area code" is certainly is not the longest label. Odds of this being split (reason for {{
zwj}}) are extremely low. I don't see a reason to make this so complicated.User:Unbuttered Parsnip I guess we should wait so that templates automatically obtain data from Wikidata and not force items into them. An example is {{ Official website}}. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:03, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
I ve linked the article three times, /info/en/?search=Special:WhatLinksHere/Matthias_Laurenz_Gr%C3%A4ff so I think it isnt an orphan anymore. Can I clean the following link? {{Orphan|date=December 2014}} Kind regards -- Artium72 ( talk) 12:45, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Merry Christmas, Magio! Wishing you the best in your life. -- Meno25 ( talk) 06:54, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
Okay, here's another little problem: I was surprised to see "Pimpernel" Smith tagged as a documentary article. It's a propaganda film, but it's fiction, rather than a doc film. I know from the National Film Board of Canada's work that most Canadian WWII propaganda films would qualify as documentary films, but that may vary from country to country? I think it's best just to remove the tags manually where they don't apply.... Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 17:41, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Bot finished tagging. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:08, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
It seems that text search is back in AWB 5.5.6.0. Thank you and your colleagues for latest update. Merry Christmas and happy New year.-- Ma▀▄ Ga 13:35, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
On this page and some others, I had to remove the changes that were made by a banned user ( Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Beh-nam/Archive 94.210.203.230). You can do your AWB fixes again if you want to. Oh and Happy New Year! Bladesmulti ( talk) 22:56, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
hi your yobot fixed a silly mistake i made tks:)
Coolabahapple (
talk)
05:41, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
I just wanted to take a minute and say thanks for the help on those edits and for the hard work on the improvements to AWB. Its good to know that some folks are still working to improve the project. I also wanted to let you know that I just loaded the new optional update. I'm not sure if its an issue with Wikia today, but since I did the update it trips the timer every few edits. It could just be something with Wikia, but I wanted to let you know anyway just in case. Special K.:-) 108.28.162.100 ( talk) 01:09, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis and a Happy New Year to you. I noticed Yobot tagged Nigel Cayzer for lack of links to other articles. I've improved the situation with four more (Eton College, Muscat Securities Market, Oman, GCC) to take the total to six. Is that enough to remove that tag? Many thanks. HOgilvy ( talk) 11:30, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
There is a large number of race articles that WP:WikiProject Motorcycling would like moved to WP Motorcycle racing. I know that WP Motorcycle racing has to be notified first. I read the bot rules and it looks like I have to list categories individually, is this correct? I.e. I can't just ask for "Category:Speedway by year" -> WikiProject motorcycle racing? — Brianhe ( talk) 20:46, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
<categorytree>...</categorytree>
like this:<categorytree>Speedway by year</categorytree> <categorytree>Speedway riders</categorytree> :::Hope this helps! GoingBatty ( talk) 02:24, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
User:Yobot was deleting invisible characters on Longest word in English, except thoos characters were useful, as they allowed the long words to wrap anywhere, no matter the screen size. Without them the text was stretching out of the screen -- KnightMiner ( t| c) 17:49, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Yobot took a poodle for a living person, I'm not sure why. Yngvadottir ( talk) 18:38, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Dear Yobot,
Thanks for the help, I really find difficult all these links and refers also because, English is not my Mother language. Is Now the page "Chris Vinante" alright to be published? Joan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joan Bozoky ( talk • contribs) 22:24, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Why did you put back two dead red links, the words were still there but I was told that a red link meant there was no article written yet? It shouldn't be linked if nothing exists? Haiku Tea ( talk) 20:27, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
thanks i saw it was someone else. Redlinks can be good as marker for a new article but I think these were many years old, i will be more careful. Thanks again Haiku Tea ( talk) 02:16, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your WP:CHECKWIKI error note and underlinked tag you added to this hollowed out article. I created the articles Alberta Environment on 19 June 2014 and Alberta Energy Regulator on 24 June 2014. By October 2014 the article Alberta Environment had 29 edits, 14,119 bytes, about eight articles linked to it, many wikilinks, about six sections and more subsections, an info box and over a dozen solid references with inline editing and inline citations. On 19 October 2014, a new user Alberta Brian ( talk) cut and deleted the entire contents of the Alberta Environment article and pasted it into a "new" article he created entitled Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. He did this to reflect the 2012 merger of Alberta Environmentand Energy Resources Conservation Board ERCB) into the new Environment and Sustainable Resource Development department. Little was added to the article when it was renamed. By creating a new article instead of renaming the original article, the history of 29 edit summaries of the original article was deleted and the original article was reduced to one sentence and as you noted, it is now underlinked. I am sure there is some kind of protocol when government departments undergo mergers and name changes whereby the original article is renamed and there is an automatic redirect for those who search for Alberta Environment (443 people since the change) as opposed to 177 visits to the Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development article)? I propose the deleted content be restored to the Alberta Environment article and the name be changed to Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development to reflect the merger with redirects from the original name Alberta Environment to this newly named article. Then the "new" October 2014 article Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, can be deleted. Any changes made since October can be added to the renamed article. Alberta Environment has been cited many times as the development of the oil sands became highlighted in the news internationally. This article should not be gutted. Oceanflynn ( talk) 17:26, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Magioladitis, can you weigh in on this: User talk:WikiOriginal-9#TfD: screwed-up merge of Template:Infobox Arena Football player, etc? I am not looking to reverse the TfD, etc.; at this point, that's water under the bridge. I am looking for the quickest, non-bureaucratic way to correct the presently misleading redirect of Template:Arena Football player to Template:Infobox gridiron football person. Please reply on WikiOriginal-9's talk page. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 23:26, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
please,help me in This page Hafshejan ,User Sahehco make Sabotage in this page.I am Iranian and I cant write English very well.Thanks alot. I want to add more subject in this page,and they are from persian wikipedia,help me. هفشجانی ( talk) 06:05, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
I saw your AWB edit on the Moon article [2] in which you merely removed a space after a period (nothing visibly changed) and I was about to report you for using AWB for insignificant edits, because as far as I know it is against a rule or something. It turns out you're an administrator :)
I've just started using AWB. I'm still learning how to use it, but it seems really useful, indeed. Cheers Tetra quark ( don't be shy) 02:56, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Tetra quark this kind of kind is better not to be done but I arrived to Moon due to this weird c:// in its source code. then I wanted to exclude the page from my to-do list. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:04, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Regarding this Yobot edit, with edit summary " WP:CHECKWIKI error fixes using AWB (10479)"
Thanks, Wbm1058 ( talk) 18:10, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Wbm1058 hi. "10479" refers to AWB's code revision used. It helps me and other to check whether a reported bug has already been fixed or not. I'll check the slow edit war reported and I'll, hopefully, come back with some answers. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:02, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
The bot(Yobot) and I are having a disagreement
Yobot and I are going back and forth on an article of history that I am editing with all the estd facts along with giving appropriate references. Let me explain -- there are two kind of "Rohilla" community ironically of same name, one belongs to "Hindu" religion and other to Muslim. Yobot is mixing the facts related to latter into former.
In January 1774, Hastings ordered a brigade of the Company army, under the command of Colonel Alexander Champion (d.1793) to proceed towards Oudh. Joined by forces from Oudh on 17 April, the brigade invaded the Rohilla territory. The combined force defeated the Rohillas on 23 April at Miran Katra. The death of Hafez Ruhmet, Rohilla leader, proved the war turning point. Later in July 1774, the British and the Vizir of Oudh marched to Fyzoolla Khan. For a jagir of Rs.75,000, the English bought out the segment of Rohilkhand he possessed. A treaty of 7 October brought the hostilities to a closing. The above is already there in Muslim Rohilla on Rohilla and on Third Battle of Panipat.
The above should not come in Hindu "Rohilla" community. The Muslim "Rohilla" are very famous in Indian history due to having a battle in history with British but the other is more significant Hindu community in India. It obviously creates chaos among others. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Friend.hey (
talk •
contribs)
13:02, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Friend.hey it's not the bot that changes the page's content. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:11, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
I see Yobot changing the names of commons categories to the page name, - I think that is not informative. Any reader knows the page name, - it would be more interesting to know that the commons cat is different. I have been advised against easter egg links. Clicking on Inkpot Madonna, finding Tintenfassmadonna seems like one. (I changed that one.) Forgive me if that is a perennial question. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:12, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Gerda Arendt here's your guy. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:18, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, with
this edit, Yobot bypassed a redirect {{
rail end}}
→ {{
s-end}}
which was OK I suppose since other changes were made, but it proceeded to add a {{
reflist}}
above that {{
s-end}}
, which sqeezed the refs inside the succession box. Also, regarding
this edit, after ignoring the page for a little over two weeks, Yobot has returned to previous behaviour. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
13:57, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
I'll also check the other bug. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:16, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
rev 10774 for the first bug by Rjwilmsi. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:43, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
I think we need
User:Frietjes help to create |rail=
(or something) inside {{
update}} which will populate the said category. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
00:36, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
It appears another mentally deranged individual has decided to indulge in self-harm. I dream of horses is this unstable individual. As past attempts to recruit unsavory personnel into our Arkham Asylum have failed, maybe a new approach is needed. Therefore, condolences in joining our house of horrors. I'm also writing here in case I dream of horses didn't want others to find out about their problem from their talk page.
Magioladitis and I really love anybody to join us. There are some Checkwiki errors that are faster to be run as a bot. There are other errors that have to be done manually. Some errors, Magioladitis usually "lets" me do and visa versa. Are there any errors you would like to do? Are there any questions? Any help we can give? Bgwhite ( talk) 07:18, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I need your help on the below page and page like these List_of_educational_institutes_in_Rohtak.
In this page somebody has provided his contact number and is trying to get financial benefit, he has also projected his local coaching institute as some recognized colleges as some in the list.
If its part of vandalism then how should I report it on the name of authority so that you user does not revert it back. Should I send it to some admin? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Friend.hey ( talk • contribs) 07:45, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
-- Friend.hey ( talk) 07:58, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Friend.hey I reverted these edits but remember that you can edit the pages too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:07, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
—Thats Okk, but what if the user again reverts back its bad comments. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Friend.hey (
talk •
contribs)
08:12, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis. I was looking at the manual for AWB and was trying to figure something out, perhaps you may be able to help me. I would like to be able to add a template to pages, and include a parameter of the template that uses the title of the page. I see how to add the template, and how to find/replace text. But I don't see how to include the title as a parameter for each page on the list. Is this something that can be done? thanks, B E C K Y S A Y L E S 12:57, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
{{subst:PAGENAME}}
as the parameter value. See
Help:Magic words#Variables and
Wikipedia:Substitution for more information. Good luck!
GoingBatty (
talk)
18:59, 18 January 2015 (UTC)Yeah i noticed, and i stopped it since two weeks i Think. But i noticed that the FA/FL templates for portales and lists are still not added by bots? So i added them manually. Is it correct or they are added as well?-- باسم ( talk) 11:40, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis – I saw Yobot had been by the Dany Bahar article and flagged it for no internal links. I've now resolved this. Thanks. HOgilvy ( talk) 11:06, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
In Special:Diff/641129045/prev, you added a weirdly mangled duplicate of a paragraph with a strange {{ context}} tag in the middle of it. Any idea what happened there? Anomie ⚔ 00:32, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
You appear to be violating the Rules of Use for AWB (rule 4) with your series of edits that change template "official" to "official website". Please stop this series of edits. Tewapack ( talk) 23:56, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
It's a preparation for a bot moving data to wikidata and simplifying templates in English wikipedia. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:38, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Magio!
re diff, 2 questions:
thanks! -- Jeremyb ( talk) 15:16, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
P.S. how are the hot dogs over there? how many can you eat at once?? -- Jeremyb ( talk) 15:16, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Jeremyb nice hearing from you! Yes, it was supposed to be "cleanup". I thought it was "cleanup" and it was some font problem that I could not see the first letter of my edit summary. I fixed this at some point. I was supposed to clean only pages in user space. This page was converted back to old syntax after I have cleaned it from all articles. I quick check says that this was my sole mistake in this series of edits. Thanks for the heads up! After cleaning some thousands of pages I guess 1 mistake is expected. :)
The hot dog contest was awesome. I never figured out how the do it that fast. What happened to our hero? It seems he switched to tacos. Haha. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:29, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Magioladitis!
I wanted to pop in and mention that AWB apparently isn't functioning on wikia urls that don't have ".wikia.com" in them - I've been attempting to work with wowwiki and receive the "ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors" error.
I'm using the custom field for the url, and even tried using wikia's alternate url for the site (wow.wikia.com); quite expectantly the latter didn't work, but tried anyway. I'm using the latest version of the program as well.
Just wanted to let you know! Thanks ;) 24.113.108.143 ( talk) 16:56, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello Magioladitis, I don't understand why you think my page is an orphan. It has links to all sorts of wikipages, and reference links to other websites. Please let me know what you believe I need to add. Thanks PINKESTGIRLOHYEAH Pinkestgirlohyeah ( talk) 20:56, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
This has reference to this change made by yobot. Please also refer to Talk:Principle_of_legality#concept_of_.22_Legality_.22_needs_a_separate_article_.3F_or_move_back_to_Legality this and User_talk:Lowellian#request_to_move_the_article_heading_Principle_of_legality_to_former_name_Legality. To best of my openion article name Principle of legality needs to be redirected to heading Legality and not viceversa Principle of legality comes under broader concept of Legality. At the same time as far as legal terminology is concerned term Principle of legality is bit different than normally expected usual meaning by lay reader so Principle of legality needs to be under separate section heading and not as part of the main lead. Yobot has deleted section heading and merged it top lead where as to my openion either Principle of legality should go under a separate section heading or we have a separate article for legality to give better justice to both the subjects.
Thanks and Regards Mahitgar ( talk) 10:14, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, you fully protected this article indefinitely because of sock puppetry. I believe we've caught and blocked all the puppets, so I think we can remove the protection. Another option is to change it to semi for a limited period of time, which would catch any newly created accounts.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:12, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Please can you block me for the next 2 hours while I take a WikiBreak, as I dont think ill be able to without it Zafiraman Lets talk about it 22:43, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
I see you've inserted a line break between the "Other Media" and "Television" subheading on the Dresden Files article, which I reverted partly out of personal taste and partly to try out the features of the Twinkle editor; it seems however that a number of editors like to insert line breaks about as much as I like to remove them. It's, of course, a trivial edit, compared to other ones, but is there a reason for two subheadings to be separated by a line break? Thanks! MinorStoop ( talk) 18:29, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi. diff. {{ multiple issues}} originally had 3 issues, but editors removed 2 of 3 and didn't convert it back to a simple one-issue template. Will be nice to get that old-style syntax removed eventually though. Wbm1058 ( talk) 00:08, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
When I see my users contribution page>article created ,there is written that I created an article by name Hindustani People on 26 December 2014 and u deleted it on 30December 2014.
I am amused I never made any page withe the above mentioned name. Why is it in my user page?
Ejaz92 ( talk) 06:51, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
in the case that there is an ASIN but no ISBN, could you add that instead? for example, here? Frietjes ( talk) 16:18, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis! I would be very happy if you could help me with project tagging for a task force; I've added a request at WP:BOTREQ. jonkerz ♠ talk 16:05, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I am Piotr Konieczny ( User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian (11th most active), and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 19:23, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Done! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:55, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Dear Magioladitis,
HAPPY NEW YEAR Hoping 2015 will be a great year for you! Thank you for your contributions!
From a fellow editor,
--
FWiW Bzuk (
talk)
This message promotes WikiLove. Originally created by Nahnah4 (see "invisible note").
This wiki-kitten is here to thank you for taking part in my survey :)
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus|
reply here
23:07, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Adding named refs is as your bot did [4] was inappropriate. Please refrain from doing so without prio discussion and consensus. Thanks, Paul August ☎ 14:34, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
please track this person too, looks like he is a sock puppet /info/en/?search=User:46.244.140.191
46.244.140.191 and 46.244.132.37
here is moroe information sir,
I notice he had use many of the wrong information.
p.s. i found only you as the admin in the momment who is quite active in the aviation protol, please help me and suggest me too,
Thanks ;)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Do do doggy ( talk • contribs) 01:27, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
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Dear sir. We are trying to update page of Kumarpal Desai, most information from - http://kumarpaldesai.com/bio-data.html Somehow, all the updated information is deleted. Please do needful. Let us know if anything is required from our side.
Thank you. Gujarat Vishwakosh Trust, Ahmedabad (India). www.vishwakosh.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by GujaratVishwakosh ( talk • contribs) 16:01, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
So hopefully I did this right. I have a question and if you could either answer it or direct me where I could get an answer it'd be appreciated :) We had a school project where had to revise an article and we did the wolfgang amadeus phoeonix article and i notice yobot went on there and I'm wondering how the bots select articles? Is a random thing or what? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MoralDebauchery ( talk • contribs) 00:16, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the changes to parkrun wikipedia page which make date sorting work correctly without the leading zero.
I use dates with leading zeros eg 08 May 2011 because that is the format given in Help:Sorting shows us that this is the way to do it.
Are you able to edit the Help:Sorting pages too? Or who do we need to notify? I ask because if the Help:Sorting page is not fixed, then leading zeros will continue to be added by many mode authors.
Thanks Roger — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.98.118 ( talk) 12:53, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Roger adds... Thanks — Preceding
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See you there... -- Paddy ( talk) 18:07, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
When {{bio}} is on a talk page with no listas, the module/AWB will not add a listas parameter. It adds a listas under every other conceivable way the bio banner is spelled. I'm not sure if it is doing this 100% of the time as I'm not paying attention when it works. Bgwhite ( talk) 21:01, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
I’m not sure if it’s better to leave this message here or in Yobot’s user talk, but I see that leaving a message for the bot temporarily stops it from running, so I guess I’ll leave it here.
In February Yobot visited the William Beebe article, and cleaned up the references by combining duplicate refs, where the article cited the same page of the same book more than once. [5] During the time since then I’ve added a lot of content to this article, and it now has around three times as many references as it did in February, but since Yobot hasn’t edited it again only the first third of its references have the duplicate references combined. Is there a way for you to get Yobot to revisit this article, and perform the same cleanup for the rest of its refs?
Thanks in advance. -- Captain Occam ( talk) 18:00, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
I've got one other question about the references in this article, for either Magioladitis or Bgwhite. At some point I'll want to turn the references in it into links, so that clicking the link will take you to whatever book is being cited in the article's bibliography. I know how to do this manually, but it would probably take over six hours to manually convert every reference in an article that has over 250 references. Do either of you know whether there's a bot that can handle this task also?
If there isn't, I might make a request here for someone to create a bot that can can do this, but first I should make sure there isn't an existing bot I'm not aware of that can do it. -- Captain Occam ( talk) 00:45, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Dear Magioladitis:
I sent the message below to you on May 17th, and I've been checking to see if you have answered. It is now in the archived section of your talk page. I don't know if that means that you will no longer be answering queries in that section, so I thought I better ask again. Thank you, Dale Corey I contacted you last week to inquire about whether or not I could add a link to another person's article without their permission, in order to de-orphan my article. After receiving your response that I would, I went into an article on Frances Hesselbein. The subject of my article, Howard M. Guttman, contributed a chapter to a book edited by Frances. I listed Howard and all the others authors who contributed chapters, some of whom are very well known in the field of management development. First, I tried to highlight Howard's name and create a link to his page. I got a message saying that the page doesn't exist. I then highlighted the names of several other notable authors, including Jim Champy ( James A. Champy), Noel Tichy, and Dave Ulrich. In each case, I was told that the wiki page did not exist, although I had just visited it and copied the URL.
Am I doing something wrong? Can you please help me? Thank you very much, Dale Corey 69.19.14.31 (talk) 15:15, 17 May 2011 (UTC) Dalecorey ( talk) 13:10, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Another Wikipedia editor, SPhilbrick, was kind enough to add the links for me and explain how to do it. Thank you again, Dale 66.82.9.54 ( talk) 15:25, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I notice that you have removed my additions to Template:Infobox GAA player and I'm curious as to why. I've been trying to merge Template:Infobox GAA dualplayer with Template:Infobox GAA player for the last week or so and had got to the point where the merge was almost complete. My plan was as follows:
I was at part 4 of the process and notice the changes were reverted on 31 May. Possibly you were unaware of the merge effort (After all, I hadn't tagged the pages as being suggested for merging). Alternatively, you may have found pages that were adversely affected by the changes made, or have an objection to the templates being merged. If there are pages adveresely affected, it would be good to know which ones and why, and if there's an objection to merging, then it would be good to discuss it. I would appreciate your comments at Template talk:Infobox GAA player#Merging Template:Infobox GAA dualplayer and Template:Infobox GAA player. Thanks. Teester ( talk) 12:28, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
I know that you have been working a lot with Infoboxes so I wanted to throw you a notice about some edits I am going to start soon. I have identified about 5000 articles within WikiProject United States that do not have infoboxes so over the next month or 2 I am going to devote some time (and hopefully others will help as well) to adding Infoboxes to these articles. I am going to use the core Infobox person but will follow up with military person and or officeholder as embedded modules as appropriate.
Because I will be doing this with an AWB custom module and refining it along the way along with manual checking and because this will cross thread multiple WikiProjects I will be doing them in groups (I will start with military personnel because MILHIST is a large very active project that will cover a lot of them) and notifying them as I go. I am not going to paste every field of the Infobox, just the core ten or so like name birth date, death date, etc. and some may be blank on the first pass.
I have also been working on some code to remove some of the unneeded, deprecated or seldom used fields (if blank) and I will gladly release the code once I get it a little more flushed out. Because this is quite complicated and will involve another long module like the WikiProject cleanup I do not anticipate it being 100% error free so I want to make sure its as fool proof as possible before I start handing it out.
If you have any suggestions or comments please let me know. -- Kumioko ( talk) 18:45, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you for the barnstar. It felt like I accomplished something when names A thru F were cleared out. It is going much slower now. I've been doing H by hand because of the massive Arabic, Chinese, Icelandic and old Japanese names. One of these days Mandarax and I will be finished, plus whoever else is helping out. Bgwhite ( talk) 23:56, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your contribution in improving the page Cláudio César Dias Baptista. 187.13.71.100 ( talk) 12:33, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I think you should know your recent change to the infobox {{ Infobox MLB player}} results in the "Died" parameter always showing up, even for living people. Obviously, that shouldn't be the case. Thought you should know so you can fix it or revert. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 ( talk • contributions) 16:16, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I noticed this edit by Yobot. As Template:Single_Infobox did not exist (I've since created it as a redirect) this broke the infobox, which resulted in the deletion of an image and an audio file (since they appeared to be unused as a consequence of the breakage). As you are an admin, perhaps you could undelete these files, as well as those deleted as a consequence of similar Yobot edits on Shut Up (Kelly Osbourne song), Showgirl (song) and How Could I Be Wrong (and perhaps other articles). -- Zundark ( talk) 16:03, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Eh... You seem to have left an edit warring warning on my talk page re: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a page I haven't edited since april, what gives? Dbpjmuf ( talk) 19:45, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Dear Magioladitis, good day. I saw some deletions you've done in En Wiki's pages. Deletionism is not a good policy. There are informations which should be repeated in more than one page; if that is repetition of text, that is also a great help, avoiding time consuming and fatigue to the reader and avoiding also massive processing in En Wiki's server. Regards. 187.13.30.222 ( talk) 09:59, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
( YahooBot ( talk) 13:17, 9 June 2011 (UTC))
Hello dear Magioladitis (Yobot),
please review Multi-touch. It's looking like user:Alexanderaelberts trys to promote links of his own websides (SEO). I am new on Wiki and don't know how I can deleted this changes from user:Alexanderaelberts.
Sincerely, ( YahooBot ( talk) 13:17, 9 June 2011 (UTC))
FYI, see here. Frietjes ( talk) 23:46, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Since Yobot 15 is a similar type of task, I figured you might know the answer to this: is there a bot currently running on WP that unsubstitutes templates in Category:Pages with incorrectly substituted templates? Given that the page has only ever had a few entries on it most of the times I've checked, I'm inclined to think that there is...or that there are a lot of users monitoring the page like I am. On the other hand, I've unsubstituted substitutions that were nearly 24 hours old, which would tend to argue the reverse unless it's an infrequently-run bot. – RobinHood70 talk 01:21, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, this is a really old edit, but just a note that Yobot changed "4th of July" to "4 July", thinking it was an "ordinary" date. I've changed the article to a piped link to Independence Day (United States), hopefully that will be enough to stop this or other bots from changing it back again? Forgive me if this has already been addressed. Cheers, Valfontis ( talk) 23:20, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
Please check your edits - you had him dying in the year 200 ! I have corrected the date. RGCorris ( talk) 20:10, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Yobot added a second period after a quote that had a period inside the quotation marks: here. Thought I'd better report as a glitch. Yngvadottir ( talk) 15:54, 14 June 2011 (UTC)Re
Would you run Yobot on this article, Arkansas Territorial Militia. Thanks! Aleutian06 ( talk) 20:47, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
CentralAbe ( talk) 03:44, 17 June 2011 (UTC)Central Abe on June 16th, 2011 New Wikipedia.Added following references below to the Robina Suwol page. { http://www.cityofcalabasas.com/environmental/carl-gibbs.html) http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Mothers,_teachers_concerned_about_leukemia_deaths_at_California_elementary_school { http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/12/18658541.php] http://apps.cdpr.ca.gov/schoolipm/school_ipm_law/ab_405.pdf http://www.firstamendmentcoalition.org/2009/10/first-amendment-coalition-names-free-speech-award-winners-and-one-loser/
thanks for the advice wasn't aware that was the case. Dan arndt ( talk) 08:36, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Is it just the lack of an infobox on this stub that triggered the wikify tag? Cloveapple ( talk) 01:47, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
What does ++ mean? Dismas| (talk) 10:53, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Magioladitis, I've noticed recent your edits on Template:Infobox college coach, and wanted to ask you about the feasibility of doing some automated edits to some more fields in the template. I'd like to edit a few of the field names to remove some of the ambiguity in them, e.g.:
Is this something we could do with Yobot? Thanks for you help. Jweiss11 ( talk) 17:13, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I posted a message about this on the template's talk page five days ago, and haven't had any objections. This list for fields to be renamed has grown though:
Can we run with these? Thanks. Jweiss11 ( talk) 19:36, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
I changed the parameters in the template. There are 5,000 pages and I don't want to rerun on that list. I could have fixed the spacing too but now I think it's too late. Some people wait for edits like that to block Yobot and create some drama. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:07, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
You added one { too many here (Born). -- bender235 ( talk) 13:37, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
I updated the WikiProject code again. I added another couple projects that I ran across. I added all the projects I had previously commented out because I was finding several were getting added. I also resorted the projects to be in alpphabetical order. -- Kumioko ( talk) 18:51, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Bgwhite, in the future, feel free to update my code exactly as Kumioko does. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:24, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Dear Yobot operator. If you really think that this was an important enough change to make an edit, then I recommend you use a capital next time: names of Wikipedia pages are spelled with a capital. That is: {{ Disambiguation}}. Debresser ( talk) 16:50, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Could use your help at Template talk:Multiple issues#Edit request to fix problems. Thanks much! -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 19:55, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
primary sources, cleanup-laundry, over detailed, cleanup-spam, cleanup-reorganize, POV-check, criticism section, very long, example farm, cleanup-rewrite, cite check, quote farm, news release, unreliable sources
-- Funandtrvl ( talk) 00:06, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello Magioladitis, I'm TonyO13. I'm just here to let you know that I've re-created Template:Pittsburgh Steelers seasons. The reason being that currently every NFL, AFL, and Super Bowl Championship team (minus the NFL and AFL championship teams of 1966-1969, as the Super Bowl championship trumped each league's individual championship as the "ultimate prize") has the following template sequence: (team's amount of seasons, the championship team's roster, and the team's general history template. I did it because I wanted there to be uniformity for each championship winning team. I understand that redundancy was the reason this template was deleted the first time so I will now delete the seasons tab from the general Pittsburgh Steelers template. I hope you don't mind. Thanks. TonyO13 ( talk) 07:28, 7 July 2011 (UTC) TonyO13
Would you mind having a look at Paddy Kennedy (Sligo Gaelic footballer) and {{ Infobox GAA player}} for some reason there is a - in front of his position and I can't work out where it's coming from Gnevin ( talk) 13:07, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm fairly new at this. I saw that there was no article. on Cheney Mason (the lawyer working the infamous Casey Anthony case), so I went ahead and started one. However, like with the Jose Baez article, I am concerned the Cheney Mason may be subject to vandalism in light of the immediate aftermath of the acquittal. Can you protect that page to a certain extent like the Jose Baez article? (I don't know how to do it.) Just a concern of mine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diligent007 ( talk • contribs) 17:35, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Is it worth updating birth/death params in {{ Infobox animal}}? -- WOSlinker ( talk) 13:20, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Yobot made
this edit to the {{
Infobox scientist}} in the article
Michael Gerzon. It deleted the blank parameter |box_width=
. Good edit; the blank parameter should not have been left lying around. However, the Edit summary left by the robot was "Updated infobox (BRFA 15) per
Template talk:Infobox person/birth death params using AWB (7782)". This Edit summary is both cryptic and misleading. What is "BRFA 15"? I cannot find a mention of this anywhere; this is cryptic. Also, the discussion the link refers to makes no mention of a |box_width=
parameter or, indeed, anything to do with widths; this is misleading. Please improve the Edit summaries Yobot deposits. Thank you. (If you wish to respond, please do so here.)
HairyWombat
03:49, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
OK, so why not make "BRFA 15" a link to User:Yobot#Approved_tasks? The link to " Template talk:Infobox person/birth death params" is more problematic. What is required is a link to a concensus about these tasks. You seem to be suggesting that there hasn't even been a discussion (other than of birth/death parameters). I must suggest that you initiate such a discussion somewhere. I stress that I don't have a problem with the edits the bot is performing; there just seems to be a lack of openness. HairyWombat 13:29, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Also, the parameter |box_width=
is still in both the doc page and source code of {{
Infobox scientist}}. |bodystyle=
width, which it uses, is also in the doc page of the meta-template {{
Infobox}}. You say that box_width is not supported, but that does not seem to be the case. As long as it remains in doc pages then people will continue to use it, and your efforts to get rid of it will fail.
HairyWombat
14:58, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
The alternative is to seek help. Reading Template talk:Infobox person/birth death params, there seems to be a group of people interested in this. Why not make your to-do list, but then push that out so that others can take up some of the burden? OK, I am done now. Bye. HairyWombat 21:38, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello Magioladitis, the article Heinrich Rau is still under construction. Very very slowly, because in general, I have no time. Concerning the top picture: I find the current picture may be sufficient only in a adequate size. There are no really good picture for a top picture at Commons. Existing pictures, which would be convenient for the top, like this one are not available there. But other pictures from Deutsche Fotothek are already uploaded. Do you know, whether it's possible to upload this picture too? Kind regards Henrig ( talk) 21:31, 11 July 2011 (UTC) P.S.: I see, it's no direct link. You can find the pictures there by searching with Heinrich Rau. Henrig ( talk) 21:41, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Pretty sure these defaultsorts aren't required anymore. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 13:18, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
It keeps stuff simple to date MI too, and it is harmless. It's been happening since the template was created, it's annoying, but understandable, that AWB removes that date.
Rich
Farmbrough,
10:38, 13 July 2011 (UTC).
Now that you've finished off Infobox person, I've added tracking to Infobox writer. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 15:15, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
All the lived parameters used by Infobox military person have been split into birth_date and death_date. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 17:56, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
Would it be possible for you to discuss the changes you make, rather than just re-reverting after your changes have been reverted. Merging the birth place and birth date fields makes the template look very awkward because there is not much space between the rows so it looks too squashed. Personally I also think having separate rows and titles for Birth place and Birth date is more straightforward than simply "Born". Was there any meta discussion about this, or is it just one of the Wikipedia things where one or two people have an idea and then impose it across the board in the interests of "standardisation"? Number 5 7 11:16, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Consensus? Is there consensus for this? Last I saw, it was a leave-it-be thing. I'm happy to remove the placeholders, though and would prefer that it was policy. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 21:40, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
I'm currently working through the band articles, removing the Born and Died params. Your bot could easily do the blank ones. After that there's quite a lot left in the other category which need more work. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 20:34, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
|Born=
is being replaced by |birth_date=
and |birth_place=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
22:25, 18 July 2011 (UTC)Please explain I'm not trying to be a jerk, but what is the value of
removing empty, but inevitable fields in person infoboxes (e.g. death
)? This just creates slightly more work later, right? —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯
00:19, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
I wonder if you might take a look at the infobox mess on this page. Thank you. Betty Noire ( talk) 12:37, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Your bot has a defect in it. It recently edited Howling Bells for the purpose of updating the infobox, but it also made additional edits throughout the article, which has now wrecked half of the references. It de-italicized the work parameter in all {{Cite web}} citations, consequently italicizing all work. Mattchewbaca ( meow) 20:57, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
|work=
must be italsied. Its documentation reads "Do not italicize; the software will do so automatically.". --
Magioladitis (
talk)
22:50, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello. Thanks for adding the signatures to the infoboxes but it seems like the one for the military person is too big and you can't change the size. See Charles Burnett Wilson. -- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 14:33, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
According to User:WildBot#FAQ, the tags are supposed to be removed by Yobot. However, since WildBot is no longer running and there continue to be many tags left, I am assuming that Yobot is not doing this task anymore. Why? — Train2104 ( talk • contribs • count) 21:39, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis, I'm a fairly new contributor to Wikipedia, and I'm trying to understand how it works. For instance, bots. I've seen bots do what I thought were pretty radical, questionable changes. I was afraid of those bots.
Yobot doesn't seem like that. It seems to make sensible, non bullying changes. However, or maybe because of that, I'm writing you. I hope you don't mind helping a beginner with some questions.
I edited a page, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside. Now it's been edited by Yobot.
My first observation is, some of the edits look identical to the original text. I did notice that some caps were changed to lowercase, but sometimes, such as line 22, I don't see any difference. What is the difference? My other question is, why did the bot change Dirty Radio to "Dirty Radio?" It is the name of an album, not an individual song, so it should be italicized, or underlined, shouldn't it? Is there a manual of style for Wikipedia? If so, where is it?
Thanks, Jean ±±±± — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeaniac ( talk • contribs) 05:58, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Yes, thank you! Now I'm going to try to sign this with 4 tildes. Not sure why I can't get that to work. Jeaniac ( talk) 00:05, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Yobot labelled Pentagalloyl glucose as a stub, though it has {{ Biochemistry disambiguation}}. Perhaps that's a dab template Yobot doesn't know about? PamD ( talk) 22:45, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis, I'm sorry for only noticing now that you prefer not to receive Talkback messages. In case you now assume I'll send them anyway and so aren't checking my talk page, I'll tell you here that I've responded. Also, in the future, I won't message you here regarding replies on my talk page. You can check it as you like. Armadillopteryx talk 01:40, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
I can't see a reason for this bot edit, particularly as this is an article that I just created recently and the infobox is taken directly from the current version on the template page. When I find an image to use here, the 'landscape' parameter is likely to be used, so removing it doesn't really help. -- Michig ( talk) 06:31, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
|landscape=yes
. The trackingcategory has only those that have a parameter other than "yes" i.e. the have no effect to the rendering of the page. Consider this cleaning more as "removing unused parameters". Now on landscape: No other infoboxes use it because image_size can be adjusted to cover it. Anyway, let's see how many infoboxes actually use it with parameter "yes" and we could initiate a discussion in infobox's talk page. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
07:43, 26 July 2011 (UTC)I undid your edit here. These lists of redirects on template documentation are very important to assist bot owners in programming their bots with all the necessary variations of a template. Debresser ( talk) 13:32, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Could you help him with this? I think I'd have no problem with it, but you are the expert. Debresser ( talk) 14:25, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I have found a screenshot from the 1921 movie Dracula's Death, and I was hoping to upload it. It is the only known surviving screenshot of the film, so I thought it would be appropriate to add it with a caption saying "This is the only known surviving screenshot from this now-lost film", or something like that. I know how to do that, but I just wanted to make sure that this screenshot from a 91 year-old film is OK to upload, because the people who would in any way, shape or form own a copyright to the film are probably subject to the "life of the author +70 years" thing. I know I've gone a bit TL;DR here but I just don't want this historically signifigant image to be one of the many, many, many, many images to be deleted from wikimedia on a daily basis due to copyright issues. So, with the information provided, should I upload it? - Another n00b ( talk) 14:38, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
I see you pushed through a change in this template to do away with the "Image:" bit. Thank you for that! I'd been half-tempted more than once to attempt that myself - just didn't know how to get all those template changes made to the articles...
In fact looking at what the Adult Biography template says now and comparing that to the generic Infobox person, there's only a couple of fields difference between them:
Hmm... given that list, maybe we should just ditch the Adult Biography template and move everything to the standard Person one? I wanna bounce that idea off you before bringing it to the larger WP:P* group (such as it is these days....) Tabercil ( talk) 01:10, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
|gender=
is a good start. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
07:12, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
I see you are going through wrapping medal tables with Infobox sportsperson. This just seems to me like unnecessary server load for no great benefit, but assuming there is consensus somewhere for this to be done, bear in mind a couple of points:
1. While doing this, you should also add show-medals=yes to the infobox. Otherwise you are effectively locking in "yes" as the default for this parameter (suppose consensus changes that medal tables should not be shown by default, then we will end up infoboxes showing nothing at all except the date of birth, or whatever else you may choose to add). On principle, technical reasons should never block consensus.
2. Be careful of cases such as Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker. He certailnly deserves an infobox, but it's definitely not going to be sportsperson, despite his winning an Olympic silver medal.
-- NSH001 ( talk) 14:53, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
Please see: Template talk:Multiple issues#Edit request 01 August 2011. There are 6 parameters there that could be moved into the depr. paras section. I'll keep a lookout for the articles that drop into the maint. cat. I know you're at wikimania, I'll be patient! -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 01:58, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to make sure you knew that both "blp" and "living" can be used in the parameter (see this edit). ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 05:37, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Please disregard the previous message - I had tricked myself with WikiBlame into thinking that Yobot had added vandalism to an article when it was actually an IP [6]. causa sui ( talk) 19:39, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello!
First of all I would like to say a big thanks for tidying the infobox – it looks much prettier than before :) However, as a checked out some bios, if there is no data given for the national years parameter, then the national team and matches/goals did not appear. I do not know whether it is my mistake (browser, etc.) or something is wrong with the template? Could you please check it? Thank you!
And regarding this issue, since you look experienced in this area, could you offer something how to fix the int. app./goals to be aligned to the right side of the infobox? Because as of now it follows closely the national team with only a small separation and I think it looks a bit ugly and a bit messy.
A third thing is that I just plan to cover the running season of some clubs and would like to ask if it would be possible to add an optional "current season" parameter to the handball club infobox? I really don't want to steal you valuable time as you definitely have a lot to do, but it would be very much appreciated. (Or a redirect to someone who is home in the topic.)
Thank you, Thehoboclown ( talk) 12:29, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Me and my brother Sibirian Artjom (named after Sydor's father Artjom) we are the youngest of the four Great grand anserters of Sydor Kovpak. We need help and or life is in danger. My father has made for us a social program this program is of social effort and is the fight to rescue Missing children in the Ukraine in or name! For this we survived assassinations and now we are in a situation that needs attention of all who are involved in Sydor’s vision and heroics acts for the Russian and Ukrainian people. I ask can you get in contact with us to listen to or story. Or email is 1400heroes@gmail.com and Verrazzo@hotmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.61.202.149 ( talk) 15:25, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
This edit by Yobot broke an image, by joining the filename to a misplaced caption. (It may be difficult for the bot to edit correctly in such a situation, but it should at least be able to detect the presence of the extra text and not edit when it finds any (and maybe flag the page for human attention).) -- Zundark ( talk) 12:58, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Task 15
On several articles, I accidently placed the name of the physical location of the book (like university or library) in the location parameter on the template:cite book, the location parameter was actually for the city of publication or printing, as I later found out.
I have been manually fixing my mistake by deleting the name of the university/library from the location parameter, and placing in the city in which the book was made, however, this is going to be tedious, I request you modify Yobot to fix this error, just program him to remove anything containing the words "university", or "library", from the location parameter, since the location parameter should only contain the name of a city. DÜNGÁNÈ ( talk) 01:31, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Magioladitis. Were the changes you made to the infobox part of an effort to standardise sportsperson infoboxes? I've seen yours and WOSlinker's infobox subpages and was wondering if there was a more centralised discussion. The missing fields you mentioned to WOSlinker can be easily readded (minus the old <br>-delimited lists, which I'll be glad to update), but I wanted to know first if there were any more parameters that were set to be standardised. Cheers. – Liveste ( talk • edits) 12:16, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
For those articles in Category:Articles using Infobox musical artist with deprecated parameters, just wondering if some of the Born & Died params could be automatically replaced with birth_date & death_date where the start of the params value was { and the end of the value was } which would mean that the params value was probably just a birth or death date using {{ birth date}} or {{ death date and age}}. I had a look at the code in User:Yobot/Rugby and think that something similar to what is below might work. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 17:50, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
private static readonly Regex Templ = Tools.NestedTemplateRegex(new List<string>("Infobox musical artist".Split(',')));
public string ProcessArticle(string ArticleText, string ArticleTitle, int wikiNamespace, out string Summary, out bool Skip)
{
Skip = false;
Summary = "";
foreach(Match m in Templ.Matches(ArticleText))
{
string TemplCall = m.Value, newValue = m.Value;
string Born = Tools.GetTemplateParameterValue(TemplCall, "Born");
string Died = Tools.GetTemplateParameterValue(TemplCall, "Died");
if (Born.Substring(0,1)=="{" && Born.Substring(Born.Length - 1)=="}")
{
newValue = Tools.RenameTemplateParameter(newValue, "Born", "birth_date");
}
if (Died.Substring(0,1)=="{" && Died.Substring(Died.Length - 1)=="}")
{
newValue = Tools.RenameTemplateParameter(newValue, "Died", "death_date");
}
ArticleText = ArticleText.Replace(m.Value, newValue);
}
return ArticleText;
}
It's buggy :( Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#ArgumentOutOfRangeException_in_CustomModule.ProcessArticle. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:30, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
private static readonly Regex Templ = Tools.NestedTemplateRegex(new List<string>("Infobox musical artist".Split(',')));
public string ProcessArticle(string ArticleText, string ArticleTitle, int wikiNamespace, out string Summary, out bool Skip)
{
Skip = false;
Summary = "";
foreach(Match m in Templ.Matches(ArticleText))
{
string TemplCall = m.Value, newValue = m.Value;
string Born = Tools.GetTemplateParameterValue(TemplCall, "Born");
string Died = Tools.GetTemplateParameterValue(TemplCall, "Died");
if (Born.Length>0) {
if (Born.Substring(0,1)=="{" && Born.Substring(Born.Length - 1)=="}")
{
newValue = Tools.RenameTemplateParameter(newValue, "Born", "birth_date");
}
}
if (Died.Length>0) {
if (Died.Substring(0,1)=="{" && Died.Substring(Died.Length - 1)=="}")
{
newValue = Tools.RenameTemplateParameter(newValue, "Died", "death_date");
}
}
ArticleText = ArticleText.Replace(m.Value, newValue);
}
return ArticleText;
}
Done Finished this one. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
09:52, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey dude! When you get back shot an introductory mail with the devs to see how we can kickstart the project :) See ya ! Ppapadeas 23:01, 17 August 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ppapadeas ( talk • contribs)
Could you please take a look at Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#General notice to bot owners about edit summaries and see if the suggestions might apply to your bot? Feel free to add your own suggestions and comments there too. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:15, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
If you would run Ybot on the following article, 12th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, I would be ever so grateful! When you have time, running it all the List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units would be outstanding! Thanks Aleutian06 ( talk) 19:01, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Would you please run Ybot on the 12th Arkansas Infantry Regiment. Running Ybot on the rest of the Arkansas Confederate Units as you have time would be a great help also! Thanks. Aleutian06 ( talk) 19:03, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
hi,
sorry for the random post to your talk page, but i'm not sure where else to go:
it seems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_%28producer%29 wrongly says "From 1978-79 he was also the bassist for the Mod revival band The Lambrettas."
the Lambrettas' Mark Ellis seems to be a different guy as Flood, as per:
http://punkmodpop.free.fr/lambrettasview.htm
hope you can sort this out, thanks for your help
cheers,
http://www.discogs.com/user/8m2stereo
178.202.142.44 ( talk) 14:40, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
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The WikiChevrons | |
For outstand work and dedication in the copy editing and general imrovement of articles related to the Arkansas National Guard! Aleutian06 ( talk) 22:42, 24 August 2011 (UTC) |
I know you're busy, when you have time, please see: Template talk:Multiple issues#No footnotes for an update which removes the "grammer" parameter, which redirects to "copy edit" now, and adds the "no footnotes" parameter, plus other corrections to missing categories, wording, etc. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 18:25, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Magio, are there any potential false positives you are aware of that I ought to avoid when normalising superscripts? -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 06:14, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Magioladitis, it looks as if Yobot is in some edits making insignificant, inconsequential changes only for the moment, e.g. [7] [8] [9] [10]... It doesn't seem to introdcue any errors, so this is not urgent, but it shouldn't be making edits that have no actual improvements (category works just as well as Category). Fram ( talk) 14:01, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
This seems to be another dab template Yobot doesn't know about - see this edit where Yobot has expanded the template name from {{ MolFormDisambig}} but then inappropriately added {{ stub}} and {{ orphan}}. Pam D 23:09, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Broken men is a one line stub with 4 notes and 4 references. The stub reads
Your bot, Yobot, made the following edit:
Why did your bot place a three line (minimum, or 11 line maximum) box on the top of the page one line long? How did it come to the conclusion that there was anything wrong with the page and has it been doing similar things to other stubs? -- PBS ( talk) 12:28, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
I just looked at your talk. You need to warn people to have some eye bleach handy... I didn't know your photo would be there :) I wanted to say thank you for all your work on AWB. I have really enjoyed being a gnome using AWB. Thank you. Bgwhite ( talk) 03:27, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis! Just noticed that you'll be taking a long wikibreak. Hope you'll enjoy it, and look forward to your return! GoingBatty ( talk) 03:26, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Template talk:Multiple issues#Remove "Citations Missing" parameter.
Funandtrvl (
talk)
15:43, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks to you for your bot code and helping me get the bot running, Category:Biography articles without listas parameter is now cleaned out. It most definitely couldn't have been done without you. Bgwhite ( talk) 18:19, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
I agree but take not that most of the job was done semi-automatically and not by a bot. There was a user's who clicked the Save button. Of course, now it's time to find mistakes and fix them. I am sure there are plenty. BgWhite did a wonderful job. I ask everyone to report mistakes in AWB's logic in order to improve it and reduce the number of pages that need human intervention. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:36, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi
I was wondering if you can direct me to someone or somewhere I can get help on creating a template for use on GOCE requests, similar to the current GA review template? It needs to do several jobs and I need to talk to someone about whether or not it is feasible and how to go about it.
Thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 21:04, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
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Can you do me a favour and remove the skin_color field from the Template:Infobox adult biography? I did some cross-checking and this field is not present on the Infobox Model, so I think it's just a distraction in the larger picture. Tabercil ( talk) 02:35, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, there is an ongoing disussion regarding some infobox changes occurring about standardizing infobox's for federated states. I know that you are busy but if you have a chance I would like to hear what you think. -- Kumioko ( talk) 21:04, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
This means my page and my talk page should look nice. :) Any suggestions? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:50, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, I know your busy but I wanted to let you know that I was reading the documentation for the Kingbotk plugin and it seems a bit out of date. It doesn't look like it has been updated since 2008 and I know you did a lot of improvements. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:36, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Would you run Ybot against List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units when you have time. Thanks! Aleutian06 ( talk) 20:14, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
I'll probably have a big Yobot run in the next days to reduce backlogs. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:27, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Your bot has an error, in
this edit; taking the honorific suffix "JP" as the surname in both DEFAULTSORT and PERSONDATA. You could avoid this, at least in some cases, by checking against the infobox's |honorific_suffix=
.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
16:37, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for running Yobot, it's great. Re this edit, I think the second amendment is understandable, but I reckon you could introduce a bit of code that would make it decide to keep either the comma or fullstop. At least it'd be right 50% of the time, but ,. is always going to be wrong! Also, what's the bot doing with Arsenal in that diff? (Just curious on that!) -- Dweller ( talk) 22:02, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
everything the bot did in this edit was unhelpful. There is only one external link, and there will likely never be a second one. Don't know what triggered the {{ wikify}}---if it is the number of wikilinks it should possibly be put in relation to the length of the article. Cheers, Pgallert ( talk) 11:25, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
I think that yobot malfunctioned with this edit [13]. It added a recently-removed top level (wikify) tag back on. This is just FYI, not an issue with me. North8000 ( talk) 23:34, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, User:Yobot edited Sporting Clube de Portugal#Presidents, changing "(2011–)" to "(born 2011)" in the list of presidents. The issue is that the ranges in that section are the ones during which these people held the office (and this one is the current president). As I am not sure if "(2011–)" is against any style rule, and as you say the bot may redo the edit if it's reverted, I'm leaving the page as is. Should I revert (after something has been flagged in the bot?) or change it to something else instead (perhaps "(since 2011)"?)? Nuno J. Silva ( talk) 11:35, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you were going through and clearing out some of the features and bugs. I went through a week or so ago and made a listing here of some that I thought might have been done, were denied or I thought were OBE if it helps any. -- Kumioko ( talk) 21:41, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Ok I found a couple things. First when it hits some articles it generates an error stating the below. All articles that I got this one on do have comments but I'm not sure thats whats causing it:
Status |
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Description |
System.InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute. at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowInvalidOperationException(ExceptionResource resource) at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.Enumerator.MoveNext() at WikiFunctions.Logging.TraceManager.ProcessingArticle(String fullArticleTitle, Int32 ns) at AutoWikiBrowser.Logging.MyTrace.ProcessingArticle(String fullArticleTitle, Int32 ns) at AutoWikiBrowser.Plugins.Kingbotk.PluginManager.ProcessArticle(IAutoWikiBrowser sender, IProcessArticleEventArgs eventargs) at WikiFunctions.Article.SendPageToPlugin(IAWBPlugin plugin, IAutoWikiBrowser sender) at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.ProcessPage(Article theArticle, Boolean mainProcess)
| ||||||||||||
To duplicate: | [encountered while processing page [14]] | ||||||||||||
Site URL: | http://en.wikipedia.org | ||||||||||||
Operating system | Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 | ||||||||||||
.NET FW Version | 2.0.50727.3625 | ||||||||||||
AWB version | AutoWikiBrowser (5.3.1.1), WikiFunctions (5.3.1.1), revision 7893 (2011-12-24 19:04:59) | ||||||||||||
Workaround | |||||||||||||
Fixed in version |
The second is that when I use the plugin with my module enabled it crashes AWB about 4 out of 5 times. I think there is something with the plugin that doesn't like having modules enabled at the same time. --
Kumioko (
talk)
17:39, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
A couple more things I just found.
Heres another error that I get quite a lot when I use the plugin but I don't know exactly why:
Status |
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Description |
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at AutoWikiBrowser.Plugins.Kingbotk.ManualAssessments.Assessments.StateClass.IsNextPage(String title) at AutoWikiBrowser.Plugins.Kingbotk.ManualAssessments.Assessments.Reset() at AutoWikiBrowser.Plugins.Kingbotk.PluginManager.StopButtonClickEventHandler(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
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To duplicate: | Unknown | ||||||||||||
Site URL: | http://en.wikipedia.org | ||||||||||||
Operating system | Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 | ||||||||||||
.NET FW Version | 2.0.50727.3625 | ||||||||||||
AWB version | AutoWikiBrowser (5.3.1.1), WikiFunctions (5.3.1.1), revision 7893 (2011-12-24 19:04:59) | ||||||||||||
Workaround | |||||||||||||
Fixed in version |
Please let me know if you want me to move these over to the AWB page. --
Kumioko (
talk)
17:45, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick reply. Did you have some Custom Module activated? We have to be dure these bugs are originvting from the plugin and not from the custom module. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Yobot recently edited The Chronicon of Ademar of Chabannes, during which it changed the existing {{ improve categories}} tag to {{ uncategorized}}.
Normally, this would be perfectly fine, because technically the article was uncategorized rather than just being insufficiently categorized — however, there's another bot, User:SoxBot, which regularly goes around removing {{ uncategorized}} from articles that have categories on them, and the problem is that the other bot doesn't know how to distinguish hidden maintenance categories from real content categories — if it sees any category at all, it removes the tag even if it belongs there. While I've asked Soxbot's maintainer to remove that task from Soxbot's programming more than once, the problem is still recurring — so the workaround, to date, has been to use the {{ improve categories}} tag on such articles, even though the "uncategorized" tag is technically more correct, so that Soxbot wouldn't detag them prematurely.
Long story short, because the article has a hidden maintenance category on it, I used the "improve" tag to keep Soxbot away — but Yobot switched it to "uncat", with the result that Soxbot then came along and detagged the article, putting it right back on the uncategorized articles list again (which is exactly what I was trying to avoid by using "improve" instead of "uncat" in the first place.)
Accordingly, I was wondering if you could temporarily disable Yobot's ability to swap the "uncat" and "cat improve" tags, at least until Soxbot is reprogrammed to either learn how to distinguish between real categories and hidden ones or to not detag uncategorized articles at all. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 19:18, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Can you explain me please why Yobot tagged here the page with ibid? I don't see one of the variants and the refs are all ok... Regards, mabdul 01:07, 9 January 2012 (UTC) PS:I already removed the tag since I hope to clean up some of them.
Recently a new "This article is an orphan" banner has been added to the Pragmatic works wiki page. To resolve the issue, a couple of new relevant external links has been added each pointing to the sections within the page. Please review and reconsider casting your vote for the page being an orphan. Would appreciate if you could guide how to fix the problem and get the banner removed. Appreciate your time. Thanks. GeekyPuppy ( talk) 16:08, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
your edit broke the image caption here. I wouldn't have noticed, but this was one of the main points presented here. Note that even it had worked, a 'ol' is an ordered list, and should be replaced by '#' markup, while a 'ul' is an unordered list and should be replaced by '*'. Neither will work here, since wiki-markup doesn't work in image captions per the bug pointed out by Edokter. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 22:39, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I notice that Yobot removes spaces before the closing </ref> tag, e.g. here. Does this come from WP:CHECKWIKI or from WP:GENFIXES? IMHO it's unnecessary and a nuisance as it clutters up the edit history, making it harder to review changes. I'd like to find out where I could challenge this.
At least it does not remove whitespace adjacent to pipes within citations, like some bots do. Please don't change that! – Fayenatic (talk) 17:37, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm trying to update WP:NAMESORT... Adding refs why something is done, set down language specific formats... Things I've learned along the way. The draft is at User:Bgwhite/Sandbox.
I've been doing Icelandic sorts as they are spelled as originally instructed by JimCubb. However, it looks like you were involved in a discussion about changing this ( Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Iceland#Sort_keys_for_Icelandic_names). The discussion came after my initial discussion with JimCubb. Unfortunately, JimCubb appears to be gone. So, what I currently have in my Sandbox is wrong and should be changed??? Bgwhite ( talk) 18:56, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
20:43, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the general fixes made by Yobot using AWB (7922). Thought you might be interested in one instance when grouping citations - "Vol pp 426" was generated when it should have been something like "FallsVol2pp426–8".
This is not a criticism, I just wanted to mention a possible glitch in AWB (7922). In all other cases of grouped citations, I hasten to add, there was no other problems with AWB (7922). Thanks for your work, much appreciated.-- Rskp ( talk) 06:39, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
(Partly copied from User talk:Yobot) I saw that your bot changed the {{ commonscat}} to {{ commons category}} and IMHO entirely unneccessary but simply increase the history of minor bot edit. To my knowledge there's no policy or guideline discourage the use of template shortcut (or any redirect link), point me one if I was wrong. -- Sameboat - 同舟 ( talk) 02:38, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Have you seen [15]? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 23:01, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi there :-), I use AWB on a global scale with both my bot and my personal account - would it be okay to keep myself on the global list? I noticed your comment about it being only for devs but it would be extremely useful for updating small wikis etc. . (I've asked GW to re-add me for the time being, feel free to remove me) -- Addi hockey 10 e-mail 20:02, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
I found the reason, the kingbotk plugin delete and new load solved it --> Typ932 T· C 22:06, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Re, [16], not sure what you meant to accomplish but it broke the hatnote. Cheers, Dave ( talk) 01:14, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Please make sure that the bot does not change again the "-->
" format solution. It is the only one which some ingenous users have come up with to make sure that the left indentation of the Greek fire paragraph is accurate. Thanks Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 10:34, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Now fixed. I wasn't paying attention. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:34, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
See here, there should be a pipe between the number and the units. Frietjes ( talk) 22:40, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello.
You have recommended me to use the rev 7941 of AWB. However neither http://sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/files/ nor http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ currently has this version. Where can I get it? Teyandee ( talk) 06:21, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi. What's the source for the month and day of birth you added to the Frank Cho article? Nightscream ( talk) 22:40, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about making the Multiple issues template the new cleanup template here. Since you have edited this template several times in the past I thought you might have some insight into this idea. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:33, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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hi! Poetrypromoter7 ( talk) 00:31, 10 February 2012 (UTC) |
Hello. I noticed your thread here while looking for a bot to convert {{ Infobox NFL retired}} to {{ Infobox NFL player}} (renamed from Infobox NFLactive). I can surely help you with the changes that need to be made to the NFL retired infoboxes to successfully convert them to NFL player fields. The notice at Template:Infobox NFL retired is correct, but there are a few more changes that need to be made.
|heightft
, |heightin
, and |weight
parameters should be included after the deathdate/place parameters.|college
, any draft parameters, and the debut/final year/team parameters.|AFLdraft
parameter (year, round, pick) should be replaced with |afldraft
(year, round, pick).|highlights=
should go under |teams=
and |pastteams=
|stat1label=
) should have the numbers after the words. For example, |statlabel1=
.If you are still willing to work on this and need more information, please let me know. Thanks, Eagles 24/7 (C) 00:45, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
|height=
that it will be for both inches and feet instead of 2 parameters. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
18:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
|highlights=
, which should go under |teams=
and |pastteams=
. How would the height parameter work?
Eagles
24/7
(C)
20:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
|birth_date=
and put the place of birth in |birth_place=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
23:05, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
|death_date=
parameter and how to separate both.
Eagles
24/7
(C)
23:33, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
|birth_date=
and |death_date=
fixes, I just now need to figure out how to make it so AWB realizes which parameter is which for the additions of |birth_place=
and |death_place=
. I saw Yobot fixed some stat parameters in {{
Infobox NFL player}}. Was that all of them?
Eagles
24/7
(C)
20:49, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
|birth_place=
.|birth_date=
, |birth_place=
, |death_date=
, or |death_place=
are not in the infobox, it adds it automatically? I noticed Yobot once went around and added parameters in this manner.
Eagles
24/7
(C)
22:34, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the work on the Military info boxes. The problem is that the military person template does not have a "Image_size" thing in it and when you remove the "File" from the template, some of the images turn out way too big in the infobox. I'm going to see if can fix the situation later today. Tony the Marine ( talk) 20:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Not bad for a wiki break... ;-) -- Xtv - ( my talk) - ( que dius que què?) 17:16, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I see that you had contributed to Dan Leno in the past. He was a well-known British musical comedy and music hall star around the 1890s. His article has recently been expanded and is headed for FA consideration. If you have time, please be so kind as to take a look at the article and comment at this Peer Review. Thanks for any assistance! -- Ssilvers ( talk) 00:06, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis! I'm very pleased to see that the bug regarding merging templates into multiple issues was resolved. Just wondering why you removed the bug in this edit instead of archiving it? Also curious if the fix I mocked up was of any use. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 04:04, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Magioladitis, Yobot is making unnecessary edits to headline spacing within articles that are otherwise consistently spaced throughout (e.g. [17], [18], [19]). This does not appear to be a bot error, but an intentionally programmed parameter, as it seems to focus on the space following the "External links" section header. As I am sure you aware, consistently spaced headers are permitted by MOS, and the re-spacing of existing, consistently spaced articles is frowned on. In multiple examples from the past 24 hours, the re-spacing of a single header within an otherwise consistently spaced article was the only change made by the bot. I would be grateful if you would examine the bot's programming for this issue. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:24, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
I've been threatened to be taken to ANI because of the speed of my edits. User_talk:Bgwhite#Remove_WP_Sports_with_AWB Here is the discussion. I do 2-4 edits a minute on this problem.
Are my edits ok or should I be stopping these edits? Bgwhite ( talk) 20:41, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Meow!
BoobyGold the 2 (
talk)
00:53, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks!!!
I noticed today that the image in the infobox on Stefan Fatsis was appearing rotated on its side. After a bit of trial and error I noticed that the infobox template had no "image_size" param set; once I added an image_size param (of 200px, the supposed "default" value per the template's documentation) the image was rotated correctly. I noticed that a couple of weeks ago you made a change to this template that seems to have eliminated the "default" value.
The change I would suggest (and would make were this template not protected) would be to change line 7 of the template code from:
| image = {{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image}}}|{{px|{{{image_size|{{{imagesize|}}}}}}|frameless}}|alt={{{alt|}}}]]}}
to:
| image = {{#if:{{{image|}}}|[[File:{{{image}}}|{{px|{{{image_size}}}|{{{imagesize}}}|200}}|alt={{{alt|}}}]]}}
This change should allow an editor to set either "image_size" or "imagesize" in the template and if neither is included will set the default width to 200px. Thanks! — DeeJayK ( talk) 21:04, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Yobot added all of the |birth_place=
parameters at the very bottom of the infoboxes, which is not good. The code I had set up for AWB moved that parameter right under |birth_date=
.
Eagles
24/7
(C)
19:52, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could convert the SVN snapshot page to a Wikipedia page. That way people (i.e. me) can bookmark it and we would know when a new version was ready. I've been getting a new version when you told Kumioko about it, but I don't think that will be happening again. Bgwhite ( talk) 23:55, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
Keep it up! Those anonymous vandals are really annoying, good to see someone taking care of it. Math321 ( talk) 21:06, 22 February 2012 (UTC) |
Great! Thanks! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:10, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
this one is a fork of template:infobox religious biography, so better to just delete it. Frietjes ( talk) 23:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
I was thinking of doing something... Adding WP Biography, adding work-group, adding WP Football (and more), etc. Behold, Yobot 9 appears to do the same thing. Can I steal the code? Any problems you ran into? What is the best way to run? Plus dozens of other questions I haven't thought of yet. Bgwhite ( talk) 00:25, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
This edit didn't exactly produce delightful results, and I figured it was worth bringing to your attention. Uncommon situation perhaps, but it is the second one of this type that I've encountered over the past couple of weeks. -- WikHead ( talk) 03:42, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
could you orphan this one? I would but I can't see the contents since you already deleted it. Frietjes ( talk) 22:10, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
careful, section headers should be preceded by a newline. Frietjes ( talk) 17:08, 26 February 2012 (UTC)