![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 35 | Archive 36 | Archive 37 | Archive 38 | Archive 39 | Archive 40 | → | Archive 45 |
Hello, Primefac,
I'm not sure what to do about this page. The subject (who is not this author) has made several attempts to write an autobiography of himself in Draft space so far-fetched that the draft page is semi-protected from creation. And apparently, he is getting some friends to help him. His own efforts had little bio information but this page does. However the photos are unrelated to him, despite the captions, so I'm not sure how accurate any of the information is and whether it needs to be oversighted. I frequently see you handing instances of young editors so I thought I'd ask for your advice. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 03:07, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, January 2022 | ||
---|---|---|
![]()
BRFA activity by month Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever. Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020. Overall January 2020 Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.
February 2020 ![]()
March 2020
April 2020 ![]()
May 2020 ![]()
June 2020 ![]()
Conclusion
These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out! Signing off... jp× g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) |
Hi, I was wondering what this MetaWiki is all about. I was reading about stewards, but I was redirected to MetaWiki. I have seen users say that they are an administrator at MetaWiki. So, what on Earth is this place? Itcouldbepossible Talk 13:39, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
oversight
will be renamed suppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for
technical reasons. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections.I contest the deletion of List of Heartbreak High episodes, I would like specific examples of "unambiguous copyright infringement" because I definitely wrote the descriptions in my own words as much as I could. even if in instances when they are too similar, they should have been removed with a warning so I could rework them, not the ENTIRE page deleted. I worked really hard on this page, please reinstate the page with the specific examples removed so I can address and rewrite them. Pinchofhope ( talk) 21:57, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi, Prime, my mental health is now ok and now I can work on AfC and NPR projects efficiently. TheBirdsShedTears ( talk) 04:01, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
Is it possible to have a link in the infobox to the said games for template:infobox country at games? For ex. having the 2022 Winter Olympics linked? Sportsfan 1234 ( talk) 00:53, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Here's an odd one. PrimeBOT removed {{ Victoria Azarenka start boxes}} from that person's article, but I do not see a TFD that is linked from that page, or any evidence that it was marked with a TFD template. I am not an admin, so maybe there is something I cannot see. I have restored it for now, but if this was an error, is it possible that other templates were removed in this manner? No rest for the diligent bot operator.... – Jonesey95 ( talk) 06:30, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Re this edit, first, thank you, and second, if you ever come across a page that is so broken by Linter errors that you can't or don't want to fix it, drop me a line. I enjoy puzzling them out. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 18:40, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi. I got the code ported from java to C# (well my friend did the porting), but there are still a few dents. I think there is only one issue with the code now. It is very stupid/embarrassing though. May I email you the source code? —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 21:03, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I recently noticed some of PrimeBOT's recent edits, for example
this. It appears that it added the words "Party" or "Party (US)" to the party cells, but I'm afraid it missed quite a few. Those of the format {{Party cell|Lorem ipsum||top/bottom}}
& {{Party cell|Lorem ipsum|right/left}}
aren't updated as they should've been, and thus don't give the intended output. See for example the cell areas beside William R. King's name in
United States congressional delegations from Alabama § United States Senate, where {{Party cell|Jacksonian||top}}
isn't updated to {{Party cell|Jacksonian Party||top}}
. This issue appears in other congressional delegation articles too, and probably across other articles also. I hope you can fix it. Thanks! ---
CX Zoom(he/him) (
let's talk|
contribs)
16:23, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi, please update my new username on the AWB tool approved users check page because I can't login or use the tool. I renamed my username from M-Mustapha to Em-mustapha. Thanks User:Em-mustapha talk 00:05, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
I searched extensively and found no mention of talk:Manchester High School (Virginia) anywhere. 27.33.119.160 ( talk) 15:45, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi. I hope you're doing well. I noticed some of your edits such as this one: < https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:2620:101:F000:700:0:2570:E7FD:6FBE&diff=1071295873&oldid=1071281703>. I'm not really sure what you're talking about, we delete user talk pages all the time. Based on a quick look, in 2022 so far, we've deleted 1,589 user talk pages. If you exclude subpages, we've deleted 589 user talk pages. Some examples are User_talk:Ferdymotow or User talk:PiratesAreReal or User talk:2.197.244.24. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 02:33, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello, as per AE report for the whole Balkan area and per decisions of multiple admins on March 20th 2021 [ [1]] per indefinite ban of 2 editors, it was also decided that a strict rules are going to be applied against any editors who are misusing rules of Wikipedia. This editor [ [2]] has been indefinitely banned 2 times already for using multiple accounts see here, please [ [3]], [ [4]], also they were indef blocked as discovered to be Joycewood [ [5]] this 2 are is still blocked, also the block log of both MF/Crovata is pretty huge MF being blocked 7 times [ [6]] for edit warring, 3RR rule violation and personal attacks, the same thing as Crovata who has been blocked 9 times (?) [ [7]] and what is interesting Crovata was already under 1RR rule which they could not follow. What I do not understand how is this editor even allowed to edit anymore on Wikipedia, and yet they reappeared again few days ago doing the same thing (personal attacks, pinging other editors[ [8]]per WP:TAGTEAM disruptive editing as you can see only on Serb related pages - i.e this one [ [9]] where linguist Czerwinski deals with linguistic consistency and inconsistency of Dubrovnik area [ [10]] and he definitely does not make conclusions provided by editor, it is way complicated then that (abstract is in english, last page). I am pretty sure that this last edit was against me on TP [ [11]] which was not a first time [ [12]] even though I did not remove the text but only over excessive quote that can be traced as illegal copy edit [ [13]], on this page [ [14]] I posted reliable sources of international scholars but the editor decided on talk page to tag team again the editors with whom they cooperated in the past [ [15]], one of them already indefinitely blocked [ [16]], the other one defended them on Sock investigation [ [17]] and today another editor with whom they hope they are going to go on their side [ [18]] another example of WP:TAGTEAM it is obvious that the behaviour of the editor has not changed, exampling the same behaviour of insults, cherrypicking of sources, tag teaming etc. Therefore I ask that this editor should be indefinitely block again, for the 3rd time. Thank you. Theonewithreason ( talk) 12:16, 13.February 2022 (UTC)
this editor should be indefinetly block againbut you've linked to a half-dozen editors. Primefac ( talk) 16:11, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
![]() |
The Citation Barnstar |
Thank you for your help at Bix Biederbecke 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 17:50, 13 February 2022 (UTC) |
Is there a reason why you moved Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Koppie foam grasshopper nymph (2) to Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Koppie foam grasshopper nymph? They were two separate nominations, with more than two years between them. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 20:29, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi @ Primefac:, Can I use two Wifi networks for editing Wikipedia? Vary from place to place. Fade258 ( talk) 16:01, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, PrimeBOT's user page currently lists the UTM parameters task as "stalled". Is it still active? I'm planning to run a version of Theo's code, but wanted to ask you in case your task is still running. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 05:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi Primefac. You undid my edition in Shipping company to decline G6. I guess I edited the page wrongly. What I am trying to do is ask for deletion of that page in order to move Shipping line there. It's more adecuate as it is the main article of Category:Shipping companies. Can you help me ?. Thanks.-- Banderas ( talk) 08:35, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
It seems like people with prior connections to Wikipedia tend to get preferential treatment. I think his page should be detailed with the current information we have access to. It’s Wikipedia, but the admins and moderators biases are becoming obvious and almost embarrassing for a “community” oriented website. You should think about why your protecting some individuals while also disparaging others. 2603:3015:E1A:600:2177:97E2:559:9D ( talk) 17:48, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
This is just out of curiosity. While editing some pages, I came across the user User:Walrus_Ji. The user is blocked but there is no thread about it anywhere. The block log states just blocked without any link. Is there any link? Why was the user blocked? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akshaypatill ( talk • contribs) 18:51, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Dear administrator, thank you for the quick review of my unblocking request. Was my request accepted or do I have to create a new unblocking appeal? Thank you for your answer and precious support. Fairy Bliss ( talk) 15:08, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi I want to edit on Wikipedia from my account when I'm connected to VPN so I read all the policies and found that I need to contact a checkuser. ... २ तकरपेप्सी talk 22:15, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi! I see that you've removed almost all of the content at American College of Surgeons and revdelled the history of the last 10 years. I can see that different parts of the text have been contributed at different times by several different editors. Was really all of it copyright violations? I had a look at the article in a Wikipedia mirror and I tried googling a few different sentences from it, but the only results I got was other Wikipedia mirrors. What am I missing here? Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 00:18, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
PrimeBOT posted a Wiki Education Foundation Notice several months after the coursework (by the way, no coursework edits were ever made by the assigned editor but anyway...). Anyway, could you tell me why PrimeBOT placed this notice on Talk:Aunt Jemima so long after the fact? Just wondering... Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 01:19, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
Please check my talk page an IP continously disturbing me trying to act oversmart. Mainly wants me to get blocked from editing and has something with Ayan (an actor whose draft I'm creating) ... २ तकरपेप्सी talk 21:25, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
Are you up for this one? See Wikipedia:Bot requests#Case cleanup task for nearly 17000 tennis articles and the associated BRFA at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DoggoBot 5. ProcrastinatingReader says he's too busy to take it on. Dicklyon ( talk) 23:46, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
![]() |
The Admin's Barnstar |
You have helped me several times with your user rights. Thank you. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 23:31, 20 February 2022 (UTC) |
Hi @ Primefac:, Can you tell me from which IP address that I created my username (Fade258)? Fade258 ( talk) 13:00, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
![]() | IPBE in a nutshell: Editors in good standing whose editing is disrupted by unrelated blocks or firewalls may request IP address block exemption, which allows editing on an otherwise-blocked IP address. The right is given to trusted users and may be removed if concerns arise or when it is no longer needed. To request an IP address block exemption, use the
Unblock Ticket Request System. If you will be editing using an anonymous proxy, including a VPN service, send your request to checkuser-en-wp![]() |
Hi I have two favours to ask for:
Hey, why did you remove the sclass- templates from the holding cell? Gonnym ( talk) 15:15, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
Along the lines of Trappist and Gonnym, which reading TTP and my comments was to replace x- templates with the normal one and delete these redirects as they were always meant to be temporarily. This wasn't a normal "merge and redirect" result. Gonnym ( talk) 09:13, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
Also, coming right out and stating "this shouldn't have been removed because they're supposed to be orphaned" is a lot less likely to annoy me than playing coy... but that was exactly was I wrote here, which you removed with the comment
-2. Seeing as how you saw my comment and removed it anyways, I came to ask why. Gonnym ( talk) 09:41, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I saw the changes made to the SAG award templates and saw you did some merging with the edit reason "TfD", but didn't link a TfD and I can't see one at the talk page - do you know where it is, I would just like to see the reasons for one of the changes (very bizarrely removing actors' names - it is an award given by actors to actors, they're pretty important). Kingsif ( talk) 09:07, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
I occasionally find irregular WikiEd assignment templates that are not converted, on a page where Primebot has been by to convert other templates. Recent example: at Talk:Interpersonal communication, where I added an {{ unsig}} template to a stray template (it's also above the ToC). Would it be useful to add a flag of some sort to it, either just a ping to Primebot, if that's enough, or a flag of some sort to "come look at this one and convert it" (perhaps something like, {{ping|Primebot<!--user=Foo&ts=TIME-->}}). I don't want to belabor your Talk page with this each time it comes up. Or is it just not worth bothering with? Mathglot ( talk) 19:48, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
![]() |
The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar |
For all the work you do behind the scenes making the English language Wikipedia a decent place for the ordinary hobbyist editor FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 18:02, 25 February 2022 (UTC) |
FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 18:02, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi. Can you look at the history of this page? The copyright vio detector has detected a lot of similar results as well. Thank you. -- Victor Trevor ( talk) 19:42, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
The show is canceled. I changed the description from 'Live from Here is', to was. You changed it back. How come? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cuchulain9 ( talk • contribs) 04:12, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
Disregard my prior. I see that seems to be a convention, so ok. Cuchulain9 ( talk) 04:14, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
The table is a "Comparison of hiding tools" as self described, therefore all hiding tools shouuld be on it. Plus, the initial list is also a non-OS thing. Naleksuh ( talk) 21:45, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
The draft was a word-for-word copy of an essay by the submitter; we talked about it some more on my talk page. When I tried to decline it again with that link in the URL field it didn't show it on the decline template for some reason, so I've left it as a comment. I probably just didn't look carefully to confirm the decline went through correctly the first time. Rusalkii ( talk) 21:59, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
You had missed out Index of Singapore-related articles when doing mass rollback on the pages. I have removed it as part of my weekly update, but am not sure if you had missed out on other pages. Cheers! – robertsky ( talk) 23:52, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi, could you also delete the edit summary of this bot edit? Thanks, Nehme 1499 07:41, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
* Pppery * it has begun... 01:30, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
|
![]()
|
Hey Primefac, an editor has been vandalizing Template:Stephanie Mills and Stephanie Mills discography. Apparently this editor has multiple accounts, three of which can be traced to the previous links. They are User:KixsNas, User:Naas08, and User:Vicspixydust, all being the same, i.e. WP:SOCK. Can you do something about this editor, so I can restore Template:Stephanie Mills to where it should be, which I temporarily moved to Template:Discographer? Thanks. Best, -- Discographer ( talk) 21:48, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I bungled a bit when submitting a draft from the sandbox. At Draft:Rin Nakai, revisions before the 15:05, 4 March 2022 edit contain sensitive information from old sandbox edits and I wish these to be removed as soon as possible. That is, Draft:Rin Nakai, edits from 15:04, 4 March 2022 to 16:02, 6 December 2020. -- TrickShotFinn ( talk) 06:35, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Please restore all the COVID medical chart information you deleted to my sandbox. Trackinfo ( talk) 01:44, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Hey, it has been over a year now since my topic ban, where can I appeal? You can reply here. -- Supreme Deliciousness ( talk) 20:49, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Sir, what do you mean by Legitimate edits? Bharatiya Sanatani ( talk) 00:40, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
I’m referring to your ECP removal. It seemed pretty obvious what he was doing. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 21:19, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Hey Primefac! I want you to have a look at a user's contributions who mostly updates episode numbers on different Indian television soap operas. The person is now disruptively making edits for the episodes which have not been aired on television yet. Just on the basis of OTT platforms where episode(s) premiere before being broadcasted on TV and that to for premium subscribers, the editor is making the particular edits and recently, the user made edits for before the respective date/future event. ManaliJain ( talk) 10:19, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
Please see my decline of this where I have tried to add the offending url to the decline template. I must be being a bit thick, because I can't see how to follow your instructions FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 08:56, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
|details=
or |details2=
(in this case the latter). Thanks.
Primefac (
talk)
08:58, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello. So I read WP:REFB and practiced a bit of it on my sandbox and for the most part, I think I'm doing ok. And as for forcing high quality files, that's taken care of. So maybe you can contact an admin to unblock me. I'd really appreciate it. ChallengeCick ( talk) 08:16, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
What surprises me is that, except for you, and you started it, I can't really see anyone picked it up and ran with it except me. I suppose cv and revdel is an awkward area, and scares folk off, but I also see almost NO cv declines with deletion of the ordure and a cv-revdel request in the normal scheme of things. And I never knew cv-cleaned was a parameter. Nor, I think, do the revdel folks FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 14:53, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
If you recall the list of stuff I posted on Slywriter's talk age, I have encapsulated it into User:Timtrent/cv in case it is of future use. Please feel free to edit anything in it that you disagree with or would like to improve and make whatever use you wish of it.
I have set it up to work for the time after the script is repaired. FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 15:45, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit, your bot removed {{ Chris Evert start boxes}} among others from Chris Evert with the edit summary "Task 24: template removal following a TFD". Problem is, that template hadn't been listed for deletion, and wasn't in the "to orphan" list that your bot was working from at the time. The then-to-delete-but-since-restored {{ Chris Evert}} was, however, which leads me to think that this was a regex problem where your removal script searches for something like \{\{Chris Evert.*\}\}, and can therefore accidentally remove templates that start with the name of a template to be deleted. Letcord ( talk) 18:11, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I'm assuming the redacted template was because of doxing concerns... if my edit is inappropriate, please remove... Catfish Jim and the soapdish 17:10, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
I am puzzled why you declined to move this article back to its status quo following a controversial move. Please can you move things back to the point where we can initiate a sensible article move discussion? 10mmsocket ( talk) 10:51, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
Please look at /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/IconEditorMaster where I am seeing a very odd pattern of editing, enough to say SPI, but not enough to know which master to suggest FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 21:35, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, I hope you are having a good day. Just thought we would let you know BareRefBot is ready for another trial. There is no rush; Wikipedia is a volunteer effort. Whenever you are ready, its there. I also placed the BAG assistance needed template so someone else could potentially look at it as well. Rlink2 ( talk) 00:13, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
You should revoke access to their talk page as well. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:41, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
Reverted part of your change here. I assumed that part was unintentional. If not let me know. Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 19:44, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
![]() |
Thanks for adding the AWB for me. I appreciate it. ♥ Th78blue ( talk)♥ 20:18, 22 March 2022 (UTC) |
Why did you delete Chris (Christopher G.) Hollins? That was purely revenge and is entirely unprofessional. ChristaJwl ( talk) 23:54, 22 March 2022 (UTC)ChristaJwl
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
ChristaJwl (
talk)
00:07, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I do not see an issue with the question you have deleted, can you please clarify what is wrong with said question so I do not make the same mistake in the future? (I have autism, some "Obvious" things arent quite obvious to me) PerryPerryD Talk To Me 14:39, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, i saw you made this edit (long time ago), and i would like to know if you can make of use a bot to change all the different version of indoor hard court to be just like the one you made there, which is still the actual better one by far. I think there are more than a thousand links interested, going back in time to past atp, wta, itf tournaments' pages. -- 82.49.125.173 ( talk) 17:40, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
![]() |
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
Thank you for your help. I was perplexed. And having that formatting error on the wiki schools' projects was like having someone key the paint on your new Cadillac. And seeing what you fixed makes my participation a Duh or D'oh! moment. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 19:54, 23 March 2022 (UTC) |
The reasons why he gave him fast deleted to the Karen Rojo article are not justified, is not an attack and is strongly based on evidence (she is an international fugitive, and she was condemned by Chilean justice fraud to the treasury), and there are Copyright no violation. Please undone the deletion. Fitmoos ( talk) 17:06, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
I was looking at this page, which I previously commented on using AFCH and was intending to review, and it seems you did something to the history. I don't really understand the state of the page or your edit comment, so in case something went wrong, could you have a look at it and maybe add an explainer?
Thanks! — Charles Stewart (talk) 16:16, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 35 | Archive 36 | Archive 37 | Archive 38 | Archive 39 | Archive 40 | → | Archive 45 |
Hello, Primefac,
I'm not sure what to do about this page. The subject (who is not this author) has made several attempts to write an autobiography of himself in Draft space so far-fetched that the draft page is semi-protected from creation. And apparently, he is getting some friends to help him. His own efforts had little bio information but this page does. However the photos are unrelated to him, despite the captions, so I'm not sure how accurate any of the information is and whether it needs to be oversighted. I frequently see you handing instances of young editors so I thought I'd ask for your advice. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 03:07, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, January 2022 | ||
---|---|---|
![]()
BRFA activity by month Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever. Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020. Overall January 2020 Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.
February 2020 ![]()
March 2020
April 2020 ![]()
May 2020 ![]()
June 2020 ![]()
Conclusion
These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out! Signing off... jp× g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) |
Hi, I was wondering what this MetaWiki is all about. I was reading about stewards, but I was redirected to MetaWiki. I have seen users say that they are an administrator at MetaWiki. So, what on Earth is this place? Itcouldbepossible Talk 13:39, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
oversight
will be renamed suppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for
technical reasons. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections.I contest the deletion of List of Heartbreak High episodes, I would like specific examples of "unambiguous copyright infringement" because I definitely wrote the descriptions in my own words as much as I could. even if in instances when they are too similar, they should have been removed with a warning so I could rework them, not the ENTIRE page deleted. I worked really hard on this page, please reinstate the page with the specific examples removed so I can address and rewrite them. Pinchofhope ( talk) 21:57, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi, Prime, my mental health is now ok and now I can work on AfC and NPR projects efficiently. TheBirdsShedTears ( talk) 04:01, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
Is it possible to have a link in the infobox to the said games for template:infobox country at games? For ex. having the 2022 Winter Olympics linked? Sportsfan 1234 ( talk) 00:53, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Here's an odd one. PrimeBOT removed {{ Victoria Azarenka start boxes}} from that person's article, but I do not see a TFD that is linked from that page, or any evidence that it was marked with a TFD template. I am not an admin, so maybe there is something I cannot see. I have restored it for now, but if this was an error, is it possible that other templates were removed in this manner? No rest for the diligent bot operator.... – Jonesey95 ( talk) 06:30, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Re this edit, first, thank you, and second, if you ever come across a page that is so broken by Linter errors that you can't or don't want to fix it, drop me a line. I enjoy puzzling them out. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 18:40, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi. I got the code ported from java to C# (well my friend did the porting), but there are still a few dents. I think there is only one issue with the code now. It is very stupid/embarrassing though. May I email you the source code? —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 21:03, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I recently noticed some of PrimeBOT's recent edits, for example
this. It appears that it added the words "Party" or "Party (US)" to the party cells, but I'm afraid it missed quite a few. Those of the format {{Party cell|Lorem ipsum||top/bottom}}
& {{Party cell|Lorem ipsum|right/left}}
aren't updated as they should've been, and thus don't give the intended output. See for example the cell areas beside William R. King's name in
United States congressional delegations from Alabama § United States Senate, where {{Party cell|Jacksonian||top}}
isn't updated to {{Party cell|Jacksonian Party||top}}
. This issue appears in other congressional delegation articles too, and probably across other articles also. I hope you can fix it. Thanks! ---
CX Zoom(he/him) (
let's talk|
contribs)
16:23, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi, please update my new username on the AWB tool approved users check page because I can't login or use the tool. I renamed my username from M-Mustapha to Em-mustapha. Thanks User:Em-mustapha talk 00:05, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
I searched extensively and found no mention of talk:Manchester High School (Virginia) anywhere. 27.33.119.160 ( talk) 15:45, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi. I hope you're doing well. I noticed some of your edits such as this one: < https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:2620:101:F000:700:0:2570:E7FD:6FBE&diff=1071295873&oldid=1071281703>. I'm not really sure what you're talking about, we delete user talk pages all the time. Based on a quick look, in 2022 so far, we've deleted 1,589 user talk pages. If you exclude subpages, we've deleted 589 user talk pages. Some examples are User_talk:Ferdymotow or User talk:PiratesAreReal or User talk:2.197.244.24. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 02:33, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello, as per AE report for the whole Balkan area and per decisions of multiple admins on March 20th 2021 [ [1]] per indefinite ban of 2 editors, it was also decided that a strict rules are going to be applied against any editors who are misusing rules of Wikipedia. This editor [ [2]] has been indefinitely banned 2 times already for using multiple accounts see here, please [ [3]], [ [4]], also they were indef blocked as discovered to be Joycewood [ [5]] this 2 are is still blocked, also the block log of both MF/Crovata is pretty huge MF being blocked 7 times [ [6]] for edit warring, 3RR rule violation and personal attacks, the same thing as Crovata who has been blocked 9 times (?) [ [7]] and what is interesting Crovata was already under 1RR rule which they could not follow. What I do not understand how is this editor even allowed to edit anymore on Wikipedia, and yet they reappeared again few days ago doing the same thing (personal attacks, pinging other editors[ [8]]per WP:TAGTEAM disruptive editing as you can see only on Serb related pages - i.e this one [ [9]] where linguist Czerwinski deals with linguistic consistency and inconsistency of Dubrovnik area [ [10]] and he definitely does not make conclusions provided by editor, it is way complicated then that (abstract is in english, last page). I am pretty sure that this last edit was against me on TP [ [11]] which was not a first time [ [12]] even though I did not remove the text but only over excessive quote that can be traced as illegal copy edit [ [13]], on this page [ [14]] I posted reliable sources of international scholars but the editor decided on talk page to tag team again the editors with whom they cooperated in the past [ [15]], one of them already indefinitely blocked [ [16]], the other one defended them on Sock investigation [ [17]] and today another editor with whom they hope they are going to go on their side [ [18]] another example of WP:TAGTEAM it is obvious that the behaviour of the editor has not changed, exampling the same behaviour of insults, cherrypicking of sources, tag teaming etc. Therefore I ask that this editor should be indefinitely block again, for the 3rd time. Thank you. Theonewithreason ( talk) 12:16, 13.February 2022 (UTC)
this editor should be indefinetly block againbut you've linked to a half-dozen editors. Primefac ( talk) 16:11, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
![]() |
The Citation Barnstar |
Thank you for your help at Bix Biederbecke 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 17:50, 13 February 2022 (UTC) |
Is there a reason why you moved Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Koppie foam grasshopper nymph (2) to Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Koppie foam grasshopper nymph? They were two separate nominations, with more than two years between them. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 20:29, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi @ Primefac:, Can I use two Wifi networks for editing Wikipedia? Vary from place to place. Fade258 ( talk) 16:01, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, PrimeBOT's user page currently lists the UTM parameters task as "stalled". Is it still active? I'm planning to run a version of Theo's code, but wanted to ask you in case your task is still running. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 05:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi Primefac. You undid my edition in Shipping company to decline G6. I guess I edited the page wrongly. What I am trying to do is ask for deletion of that page in order to move Shipping line there. It's more adecuate as it is the main article of Category:Shipping companies. Can you help me ?. Thanks.-- Banderas ( talk) 08:35, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
It seems like people with prior connections to Wikipedia tend to get preferential treatment. I think his page should be detailed with the current information we have access to. It’s Wikipedia, but the admins and moderators biases are becoming obvious and almost embarrassing for a “community” oriented website. You should think about why your protecting some individuals while also disparaging others. 2603:3015:E1A:600:2177:97E2:559:9D ( talk) 17:48, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
This is just out of curiosity. While editing some pages, I came across the user User:Walrus_Ji. The user is blocked but there is no thread about it anywhere. The block log states just blocked without any link. Is there any link? Why was the user blocked? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akshaypatill ( talk • contribs) 18:51, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Dear administrator, thank you for the quick review of my unblocking request. Was my request accepted or do I have to create a new unblocking appeal? Thank you for your answer and precious support. Fairy Bliss ( talk) 15:08, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi I want to edit on Wikipedia from my account when I'm connected to VPN so I read all the policies and found that I need to contact a checkuser. ... २ तकरपेप्सी talk 22:15, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi! I see that you've removed almost all of the content at American College of Surgeons and revdelled the history of the last 10 years. I can see that different parts of the text have been contributed at different times by several different editors. Was really all of it copyright violations? I had a look at the article in a Wikipedia mirror and I tried googling a few different sentences from it, but the only results I got was other Wikipedia mirrors. What am I missing here? Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 00:18, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
PrimeBOT posted a Wiki Education Foundation Notice several months after the coursework (by the way, no coursework edits were ever made by the assigned editor but anyway...). Anyway, could you tell me why PrimeBOT placed this notice on Talk:Aunt Jemima so long after the fact? Just wondering... Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 01:19, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
Please check my talk page an IP continously disturbing me trying to act oversmart. Mainly wants me to get blocked from editing and has something with Ayan (an actor whose draft I'm creating) ... २ तकरपेप्सी talk 21:25, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
Are you up for this one? See Wikipedia:Bot requests#Case cleanup task for nearly 17000 tennis articles and the associated BRFA at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DoggoBot 5. ProcrastinatingReader says he's too busy to take it on. Dicklyon ( talk) 23:46, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
![]() |
The Admin's Barnstar |
You have helped me several times with your user rights. Thank you. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 23:31, 20 February 2022 (UTC) |
Hi @ Primefac:, Can you tell me from which IP address that I created my username (Fade258)? Fade258 ( talk) 13:00, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
![]() | IPBE in a nutshell: Editors in good standing whose editing is disrupted by unrelated blocks or firewalls may request IP address block exemption, which allows editing on an otherwise-blocked IP address. The right is given to trusted users and may be removed if concerns arise or when it is no longer needed. To request an IP address block exemption, use the
Unblock Ticket Request System. If you will be editing using an anonymous proxy, including a VPN service, send your request to checkuser-en-wp![]() |
Hi I have two favours to ask for:
Hey, why did you remove the sclass- templates from the holding cell? Gonnym ( talk) 15:15, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
Along the lines of Trappist and Gonnym, which reading TTP and my comments was to replace x- templates with the normal one and delete these redirects as they were always meant to be temporarily. This wasn't a normal "merge and redirect" result. Gonnym ( talk) 09:13, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
Also, coming right out and stating "this shouldn't have been removed because they're supposed to be orphaned" is a lot less likely to annoy me than playing coy... but that was exactly was I wrote here, which you removed with the comment
-2. Seeing as how you saw my comment and removed it anyways, I came to ask why. Gonnym ( talk) 09:41, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I saw the changes made to the SAG award templates and saw you did some merging with the edit reason "TfD", but didn't link a TfD and I can't see one at the talk page - do you know where it is, I would just like to see the reasons for one of the changes (very bizarrely removing actors' names - it is an award given by actors to actors, they're pretty important). Kingsif ( talk) 09:07, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
I occasionally find irregular WikiEd assignment templates that are not converted, on a page where Primebot has been by to convert other templates. Recent example: at Talk:Interpersonal communication, where I added an {{ unsig}} template to a stray template (it's also above the ToC). Would it be useful to add a flag of some sort to it, either just a ping to Primebot, if that's enough, or a flag of some sort to "come look at this one and convert it" (perhaps something like, {{ping|Primebot<!--user=Foo&ts=TIME-->}}). I don't want to belabor your Talk page with this each time it comes up. Or is it just not worth bothering with? Mathglot ( talk) 19:48, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
![]() |
The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar |
For all the work you do behind the scenes making the English language Wikipedia a decent place for the ordinary hobbyist editor FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 18:02, 25 February 2022 (UTC) |
FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 18:02, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi. Can you look at the history of this page? The copyright vio detector has detected a lot of similar results as well. Thank you. -- Victor Trevor ( talk) 19:42, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
The show is canceled. I changed the description from 'Live from Here is', to was. You changed it back. How come? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cuchulain9 ( talk • contribs) 04:12, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
Disregard my prior. I see that seems to be a convention, so ok. Cuchulain9 ( talk) 04:14, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
The table is a "Comparison of hiding tools" as self described, therefore all hiding tools shouuld be on it. Plus, the initial list is also a non-OS thing. Naleksuh ( talk) 21:45, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
The draft was a word-for-word copy of an essay by the submitter; we talked about it some more on my talk page. When I tried to decline it again with that link in the URL field it didn't show it on the decline template for some reason, so I've left it as a comment. I probably just didn't look carefully to confirm the decline went through correctly the first time. Rusalkii ( talk) 21:59, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
You had missed out Index of Singapore-related articles when doing mass rollback on the pages. I have removed it as part of my weekly update, but am not sure if you had missed out on other pages. Cheers! – robertsky ( talk) 23:52, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi, could you also delete the edit summary of this bot edit? Thanks, Nehme 1499 07:41, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
* Pppery * it has begun... 01:30, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
|
![]()
|
Hey Primefac, an editor has been vandalizing Template:Stephanie Mills and Stephanie Mills discography. Apparently this editor has multiple accounts, three of which can be traced to the previous links. They are User:KixsNas, User:Naas08, and User:Vicspixydust, all being the same, i.e. WP:SOCK. Can you do something about this editor, so I can restore Template:Stephanie Mills to where it should be, which I temporarily moved to Template:Discographer? Thanks. Best, -- Discographer ( talk) 21:48, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I bungled a bit when submitting a draft from the sandbox. At Draft:Rin Nakai, revisions before the 15:05, 4 March 2022 edit contain sensitive information from old sandbox edits and I wish these to be removed as soon as possible. That is, Draft:Rin Nakai, edits from 15:04, 4 March 2022 to 16:02, 6 December 2020. -- TrickShotFinn ( talk) 06:35, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Please restore all the COVID medical chart information you deleted to my sandbox. Trackinfo ( talk) 01:44, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Hey, it has been over a year now since my topic ban, where can I appeal? You can reply here. -- Supreme Deliciousness ( talk) 20:49, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Sir, what do you mean by Legitimate edits? Bharatiya Sanatani ( talk) 00:40, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
I’m referring to your ECP removal. It seemed pretty obvious what he was doing. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 21:19, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Hey Primefac! I want you to have a look at a user's contributions who mostly updates episode numbers on different Indian television soap operas. The person is now disruptively making edits for the episodes which have not been aired on television yet. Just on the basis of OTT platforms where episode(s) premiere before being broadcasted on TV and that to for premium subscribers, the editor is making the particular edits and recently, the user made edits for before the respective date/future event. ManaliJain ( talk) 10:19, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
Please see my decline of this where I have tried to add the offending url to the decline template. I must be being a bit thick, because I can't see how to follow your instructions FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 08:56, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
|details=
or |details2=
(in this case the latter). Thanks.
Primefac (
talk)
08:58, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello. So I read WP:REFB and practiced a bit of it on my sandbox and for the most part, I think I'm doing ok. And as for forcing high quality files, that's taken care of. So maybe you can contact an admin to unblock me. I'd really appreciate it. ChallengeCick ( talk) 08:16, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
What surprises me is that, except for you, and you started it, I can't really see anyone picked it up and ran with it except me. I suppose cv and revdel is an awkward area, and scares folk off, but I also see almost NO cv declines with deletion of the ordure and a cv-revdel request in the normal scheme of things. And I never knew cv-cleaned was a parameter. Nor, I think, do the revdel folks FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 14:53, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
If you recall the list of stuff I posted on Slywriter's talk age, I have encapsulated it into User:Timtrent/cv in case it is of future use. Please feel free to edit anything in it that you disagree with or would like to improve and make whatever use you wish of it.
I have set it up to work for the time after the script is repaired. FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 15:45, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit, your bot removed {{ Chris Evert start boxes}} among others from Chris Evert with the edit summary "Task 24: template removal following a TFD". Problem is, that template hadn't been listed for deletion, and wasn't in the "to orphan" list that your bot was working from at the time. The then-to-delete-but-since-restored {{ Chris Evert}} was, however, which leads me to think that this was a regex problem where your removal script searches for something like \{\{Chris Evert.*\}\}, and can therefore accidentally remove templates that start with the name of a template to be deleted. Letcord ( talk) 18:11, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I'm assuming the redacted template was because of doxing concerns... if my edit is inappropriate, please remove... Catfish Jim and the soapdish 17:10, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
I am puzzled why you declined to move this article back to its status quo following a controversial move. Please can you move things back to the point where we can initiate a sensible article move discussion? 10mmsocket ( talk) 10:51, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
Please look at /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/IconEditorMaster where I am seeing a very odd pattern of editing, enough to say SPI, but not enough to know which master to suggest FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 21:35, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, I hope you are having a good day. Just thought we would let you know BareRefBot is ready for another trial. There is no rush; Wikipedia is a volunteer effort. Whenever you are ready, its there. I also placed the BAG assistance needed template so someone else could potentially look at it as well. Rlink2 ( talk) 00:13, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
You should revoke access to their talk page as well. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:41, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
Reverted part of your change here. I assumed that part was unintentional. If not let me know. Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 19:44, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
![]() |
Thanks for adding the AWB for me. I appreciate it. ♥ Th78blue ( talk)♥ 20:18, 22 March 2022 (UTC) |
Why did you delete Chris (Christopher G.) Hollins? That was purely revenge and is entirely unprofessional. ChristaJwl ( talk) 23:54, 22 March 2022 (UTC)ChristaJwl
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
ChristaJwl (
talk)
00:07, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I do not see an issue with the question you have deleted, can you please clarify what is wrong with said question so I do not make the same mistake in the future? (I have autism, some "Obvious" things arent quite obvious to me) PerryPerryD Talk To Me 14:39, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, i saw you made this edit (long time ago), and i would like to know if you can make of use a bot to change all the different version of indoor hard court to be just like the one you made there, which is still the actual better one by far. I think there are more than a thousand links interested, going back in time to past atp, wta, itf tournaments' pages. -- 82.49.125.173 ( talk) 17:40, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
![]() |
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
Thank you for your help. I was perplexed. And having that formatting error on the wiki schools' projects was like having someone key the paint on your new Cadillac. And seeing what you fixed makes my participation a Duh or D'oh! moment. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 19:54, 23 March 2022 (UTC) |
The reasons why he gave him fast deleted to the Karen Rojo article are not justified, is not an attack and is strongly based on evidence (she is an international fugitive, and she was condemned by Chilean justice fraud to the treasury), and there are Copyright no violation. Please undone the deletion. Fitmoos ( talk) 17:06, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
I was looking at this page, which I previously commented on using AFCH and was intending to review, and it seems you did something to the history. I don't really understand the state of the page or your edit comment, so in case something went wrong, could you have a look at it and maybe add an explainer?
Thanks! — Charles Stewart (talk) 16:16, 25 March 2022 (UTC)