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Is MFDBot malfunctioning? I noticed you reverted one of its edits when I was going to whitelist it in huggle, but I wanted to make sure it is running ok before I do that. Thingg ⊕ ⊗ 18:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
I asked a couple questions at your RfBAG. Dragons flight ( talk) 23:48, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, but, given the chance of future double redirection, I don't think it's a bad idea. Also, I think I saw a WikiProject somewhere about reducing redirection. Sardanaphalus ( talk) 12:48, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
When using get_pages_in_category; I get the error: Can't call method "decoded_content" without a package or object reference at Perlwikipedia.pm line 513. I've tried fixing it myself, but no luck. Any ideas? — paranomia (formerly tim.bounceback) a door? 23:10, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
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Paranomia, is the error happening on these lines of Perlwikipedia.pm? my @pages; my $res = $self->_get( $category, 'view' ); unless ($res) { return 1; } my $content = $res->decoded_content; If so, I am not getting the same error when I run it. Could you check what type of reference the $res variable is? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:47, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
while ( $res = $self->{mech}->follow_link( text => 'next 200' ) && ref($res) eq 'HTTP::Response' && $res->is_success ) { sleep 1; #Cheap hack to make sure we don't bog down the server $content = $self->{mech}->decoded_content();— paranomia (formerly tim.bounceback) a door? 14:14, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
This diff fixes it for me: --- lib/Perlwikipedia.pm (revision 135) +++ lib/Perlwikipedia.pm (working copy) @@ -508,9 +508,9 @@ push @pages, $1; } } - while ( $res = $self->{mech}->follow_link( text => 'next 200' ) && ref($res) eq 'HTTP::Response' && $res->is_success ) { + while ( ($res = $self->{mech}->follow_link( text => 'next 200' )) && ref($res) eq 'HTTP::Response' && $res->is_success) { sleep 1; #Cheap hack to make sure we don't bog down the server - $content = $self->{mech}->decoded_content(); + $content = $res->decoded_content(); if ($content=~/<div id=\"mw-subcategories\">/i) { $content=~s/.+<div id=\"mw-subcategories\">//is; — Carl ( CBM · talk) 18:07, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 06:35, 10 May 2008 (UTC) Hi, I've just signed up for WP:WikiProject on closed proxies as was wondering whether is project is still active and whether you are still an active member. Atyndall93 | talk 01:06, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
OK, here I am trying to resolve a bunch of images, across a bunch of wikis, that were wrongly put on commons and need to be FUR'ed onto en:wiki, see here. So I try to do the first one, to establish the fix procedure, and I get bot-templated within six minutes here. Now I have no intention of joining the ranks of the image-screamers nor the bot-screamers, but I do have a few comments:
Hello. I noticed you had cleaned up some problems with the image on the Atlantis: The Lost Empire article, and I hoped you could help me clean up a mess I have just caused there. I uploaded a movie poster for a different Atlantis movie, Atlantis (1913 film) but unfortunately called it the same name as the one that was already on the Altlantis: The Lost Empire article. I've tried to undo the mistake, but was unable. How can I revert that article back to its original and correct form? And the picture also? Thanks CactusWriter ( talk) 09:51, 13 May 2008 (UTC) Okay... nevermind... I'm an idiot, but improving. I figured out how to work it and it's fixed now. Sorry to clutter up your page with this nonsense. Please delete CactusWriter ( talk) 11:29, 13 May 2008 (UTC) You have sent me a notice that the image of Ms. Pinter which I upload must be removed immediately. I was given the image by the public relations department, Ms. Lisa Lugassi, of As the World Turns, Proctor and Gamble Productions for use in disseminating information about Ms. Pinter's involvement with the Oral Cancer Foundation, and about her public efforts to raise awareness of this disease. I have uploaded the image within the parameters of the agreement with the aforementioned individuals and organizations. Your bot and the removal of this image is wrong. Brian Hill, bhill@oralcancerfoundation.org —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hilllaguna ( talk • contribs) 02:47, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 09:37, 15 May 2008 (UTC) Hello, I am the admin for tibettruth.com which is the website for Independent Tibet Network . One of our team (Wiki username=Zhiji) recently posted A Wiki entry about our organisation called 'Tibet campaign', which was deleted or frozen as it was claimed to be in copyright violation. Please explain how we, as originators and owners of tibettruth/independent tibet network, can be inviolation of our own copyrighted material or name? Secondly if the objection is based upon using the term 'Tibet campaign' well that is exactly what we are engaged in, it is a perfectly appropriate adjective and not in nay sense a misappropriaton of 'free tibet campaign'. Had we wished to do so we would have used the phrase 'campaign free tibet'. Would you therefore please reinstore our entry. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tibettruth ( talk • contribs) 12:02, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I received a notice that my two new pages were deleted for being redirects "from an implausible typo". But they are true words, for a true company. www.americanorientexpress.com and www.grandluxerail. And, the company is even referenced in this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Orient_Express#Privately_run_trains_using_the_name Can you undelete them? -- User3232 ( talk) 03:24, 16 May 2008 (UTC) You've had an issue with page protection before, and you promised not to use your tools in that way again. Dare I suggest it's not a good idea for you to be protecting WP:BAG on a version you prefer? rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 05:40, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello - I found a notice that a page I started work on was to be deleted. This is the FAQ project. I guess is because there was no content there, and I have been working to get it ready, so I was sort of early in creating the Wikipedia page. Can this be reinstated later once I have the content ready to go ? Dineshbareja ( talk) 22:34, 17 May 2008 (UTC)Dineshbareja
You can probably change [ http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ann_coulter&diff=prev&oldid=213304829 diff the edit summary] to note that the bot is no longer on trial. - Rjd0060 ( talk) 19:31, 18 May 2008 (UTC) Just wanted to let you know that the password for STBot is available on FishEye subversion at the toolserver—I'm not going to give any links to be on the safe side, but you may wish to remove it from the source code. Cheers, — paranomia happy harry's high club 20:43, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
I have blocked STBotI for the time being, as it appears to be marking images which are clearly released to the public domain for speedy deletion. Please review all of STBotI's recent edits and correct any that are erroneous. It would be very unfortunate for us to lose public domain images for no reason. Kaldari ( talk) 17:34, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm confused. You removed it with no edit summary. Enigma message 00:17, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I am exceedingly unhappy that you saw fit to snow close my RfA. It may indeed only have snowball's chance in Hell of passing, but you ought to have done me the courtesy of asking what my feelings were on the matter. -- Malleus Fatuorum ( talk) 00:27, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure what ImageBacklogBot was supposed to do in this series of edits, but the net result is clearly incorrect. -- Carnildo ( talk) 19:52, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Your bot tagged Image:BanqiaoDamAfterFailure.jpg as having no fair use rationale. It does. Revert the edit and fix your bot. -- Duk 21:02, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I think I understand now; your bot looks for templates such as Template:Non-free use rationale. Templates are not required for fair use images. Fix your bot. -- Duk 00:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
This article was only a few hours old before it was deleted. It is required to ensure that articles on bookkeeping can make reference to bookkeeping associations and their purpose. It will also avoid a situation where people keep adding bookkeeping associations to the main bookkeeping articles and make it unreadable and long. -- NilssonDenver ( talk) 10:59, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey. My name is Hall Hunt. There was a page about me that was deleted earlier this month. I just noticed that it was deleted. I don't know anything about publishing anything about Wikipedia except for looking articles up, so I am amazed that I even found this page to ask you the question. How can I get the page back up? I think it said said something about plagerizm. I didn't create the page to begin with, but rather I think it was an organization I am a part of. Maybe they plagerized there other webpage or something. I am not sure. The bottom line is I would be willing to do anything I need to so the page can be posted again. Please let me know what, if anything I can do. I guess you usually post responses here, so I will check back. Otherwise just email me at HallHunt@comcast.net . Thank you very much! ;o) 67.129.185.89 ( talk) 23:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC) Hall Hunt
...I totally forgot to add a license to it. Thanks =D <3 Tinkleheimer TALK!! 06:44, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, just a couple of friendly words, because I'm worried that you may be rubbing some editors the wrong way, and potentially scaring them off from Wikipedia. I think it would be very helpful if both you and your bot provided a little more information about what Wikipedia, and your bot, expect to find at a non-free image page - and to let editors know what it is they've missed out from their rationale. It is clear from your comments on your talk page that a number of editors feel their images already satisfy the requirements, and that the template messages left by the bot have not made it clear if, or why, this is not the case. Your first replies rarely help them to understand why they are in error; in some cases ("Stop being stupid and fix your image") they are downright rude - especially coming from an administrator. I'm not sure of the mechanics of your bot, but I suspect you would reduce the number of irate posts to your talk page if your bot's message gave the user clearer instructions, which could perhaps be made more specific according to which of the bot's rules was broken. I'd suggest something along the lines of:
Also, please do read template messages you post on user pages, check they're appropriate (you recently tagged my burgeoning talk page with a message saying "Welcome to Wikipedia!" when a quick glance would have shown you that I'm not exactly new to the site, which didn't exactly make a great first impression) and check that they provide the editor with a clear "next step" through the complex copyright mire. I usually find that editors are more willing to spend their time doing things, such as providing a fair use rationale, if I take a couple of seconds to speak to them helpfully rather than just bombarding them with unhelpful templates. I hope that that will help to engage editors a little more in the copyright process and encourage them to improve rationales, rather than thinking "sod it, it's not worth it", and leaving useful images to get deleted unnecessarily. Besides, I'm sure you get pretty frustrated wasting your time messaging people telling them why your bot was right and they were wrong - which is clearly the case in the majority of instances! I hope that a more helpful bot message would reduce the number of people requiring such a response. Anyway, I hope that's of some use. Smith609 Talk 08:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Well, I guess I'm one of the users the subject of the discussion above. An average user, average editor and - I thought until now - diligent reader of wikipolicies as required. The difficulty with your response just above is that I can't see what your bot saw. Some time back I uploaded an image - Image:AubreyGibsonRosebowlJacket2.JPG - for use in an article I created. It has just been tagged by your bot. Fair enough. Now, if I've read the policies correctly, the justification I've given for the use of the image is adequate. However, I took the point that maybe I've put the justification in the wrong location on the image page. I confess it's a while since I've uploaded an image, so I tried to edit the image info page - and this reminded me that the process is semi-automated. I couldn't work out how to shift the justification for use from its current location to a location next to the link to the particular article (and only article) in which the image is used. I'm taking the tag off, not to be difficult, but because (a) as far as I can see I've complied with WP policy, but more to the point (b) at the moment I'm only visiting the site every couple of weeks and the bot / WP / whatever is only giving me 7 days warning. I'm sure you'll set me on the right track. I have the fish, thanks, but my problem is not understanding your bot's message but in successfully responding to it. Cheers hamiltonstone ( talk) 11:58, 22 May 2008 (UTC) Per [3]. Since you didn't answer, I'm going to ask one more time; please direct me to the 'machine readable' policy on en. Furthermore, how does this affect Image:BanqiaoDamAfterFailure.jpg (hint, it already had a {{Non-free fair use in|Banqiao Dam}} tag and was therefore machine readable). Let's be really clear here: this image is classic fair-use. It had a rationale. Your bot tagged it because it didn't have a particular template. There is no requirement that this particular template be used on fair-use images. Instead of admitting that you are a lazy bot writer, you first blame the image, then me, then some 'machine readable' policy that makes no difference since the image page already had a machine readable tag. This was a difficult image to find, and it should not be deleted every couple of years because some bot writer all of the sudden decides there's a particular template that must be used. If you want this image to use a specific template for fair-use, go ahead and add it. Otherwise revert your edit and fix your bot. -- Duk 12:24, 22 May 2008 (UTC) PS. Please show me where your bot was approved to mark for deletion fair-use images With a rationale. -- Duk 13:21, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, when you remove images from flag templates such as
Template:Country data Réunion, please replace the image with a placeholder instead of nothing.
Image:Sin bandera.svg is usually used for this sort of thing. As it is, your change effectively breaks every page that transcludes that template with the After reading Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline again, I see that Image:BanqiaoDamAfterFailure.jpg contained both the copyright tag a specific fair use rationale as required. Your bot tagged it for deletion anyway. When this was brought to your attention, you failed to acknowledge the bot's error and attacked myself and the rationale instead. This is unacceptable. I looked at STBotI's last seventeen edits. It failed to recognize three existing fair-use rationales [4] [5] [6]. Another edit added This image or media is claimed to be used under Wikipedia's policy for non-free content... when the image made no such claim [7]. That's an unacceptable error rate so STBotI has been blocked. To fix this, I'd suggest a) searching the image page for key words that would indicate a rationale, or b) propose at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline that {{ Template:Non-free use rationale}} be required to aid bot work. Didn't think about how to fix the last error, but I'm sure you'll figure it out. It is not acceptable for your bot to make these errors, but it's even worse when you refuse to acknowledge the errors and attack the messenger or the rationale instead. And it's sure as hell not acceptable for your bot to evaluate the validity of a fair use clam. I'm not unsympathetic to your work, having processed thousands of copyright violations (before you made your first edit) and done automated work myself. I know what you have to do to fix this and that it isn't very hard. Sofixit. -- Duk 18:00, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Just want to point out that the argument 'some of these rationales aren't sufficient' doesn't fly. A bot may not judge the quality of a fair use rationale. If it is a poor rationale and the bot misses it, I will re-block the bot. This isn't about how good the rationale is, it's about the bot working or not-- Duk 22:55, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BLPWatchBot/1.2 needs to be logged in! BLPWatchBot ( talk) 18:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC) Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#STBotI -- Duk 23:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC) I've blocked this bot again. Its accuracy is horrible. It tagged the following images for deletion for not having a fair use rationale, when in fact they did have a rationale [10] [11] [12]. The final link should have been tagged orphaned fair use, not lacking a fair use rationale. How did this bot ever get approved? -- Duk You have been paged because a user has reported a high level of vandalism and you are listed as a contact. This is an automatically generated message. If problems occur, please contact User:nathanww. Come on ST47, I know you're obviously annoyed about the whole situation with Duk, but calling him an idiot on your userpage isn't helping anyone. I've removed it and I think the best thing to do would be to have a short break, think about things and you might be in a better frame of mind when you return. Everyone gets stressed here - things will get better soon. Take care, Ryan Postlethwaite 18:16, 23 May 2008 (UTC) ST47, you are a vital part of this community and a respected member to at least me. Please consider taking a couple days off and returning refreshed to continue this great endeavor. MBisanz talk 22:44, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
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I'm glad to see you're back; I hope you enjoyed you wikibreak. Cheers, — paranomia happy harry's high club 22:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC) Ok, so I want to know why my new page was deleted by your bot for "implausable typo". Makes no sense. I thought Wikipedia wanted to encourage contributions from newcomers...looks like you want to scare us off. Please reinstate. -- User3232 ( talk) 17:53, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 07:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC) Really, I'd expect you to know better. I ask that you retract your !vote unless you have a serious reason - the bureaucrats will give it very little leverage anyways, and besides, the nom has retracted his oppose. Nousernamesleft copper, not wood 02:57, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for stepping up to the plate on this one. I've replied over on WP:ANI. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 01:11, 3 June 2008 (UTC) See also: Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 43#Bot to mass-revert a specific list of deletions. I invited people there to talk about it on the ANI page. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 01:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I mentioned this at User talk:AGK#RfArbitration, so I thought I should let you know. Carcharoth ( talk) 07:09, 4 June 2008 (UTC) Hey. I know that you did mention to me a few weeks ago that you would send me the code to BAGBot (both on-wiki and IRC versions), was this so I could take over the running of BAGBot or just for backup purposes? I just didn't really understand at the time. Please clarify, thanks. — E ↗ T C B 02:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Can you possibly re-delete this? If any opera project pages are deleted in error we will see them. This one was not deleted by mistake. Thanks. -- Klein zach 23:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm very confused on why anyone would want to delete the talk page archive redirects. The page move to rename the archives was in July 2007 and some had existed a year before that. Redirects are cheap, and we have no real way to track off-site linking. -- Ned Scott 05:16, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
It's been well over 16 hours since I last checked the process of the deledted-redirect-restorebot and it seems to have stalled. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 19:19, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, One of your bots deleted the page I created on ArmorGames. It said that this was because the page had been created and deleted before. I had quite a bit of information on that page. Could you provide me with a copy? Is it possible to undelete it? Thanks KingRyanV —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kingryanv ( talk • contribs) 08:28, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 06:37, 15 June 2008 (UTC) Not a bug, but may confuse some users - see User_talk:RFRBot#Rollback bug. xenocidic ( talk) 15:50, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Bot/WP/EN/ST47/STBotI/1.2 needs to be logged in! 91.198.174.201 ( talk) 13:32, 19 June 2008 (UTC) Hi. I am the general manager of WQJJ-LP and certain inaccuracies have been brought to my attention by one of our listeners. Several of the discrepancies I have been able to correct but, your "Huggle" bot refuses to allow me to include the (true) information that states: WQJJ-LP is the only FM radio station licensed to Jasper that actually maintains a local studio and operates as a "Live and Local" radio station." What's with this? (Sorry, I'm NOT a wikipedian but, as the station manager, I think that I should know the facts about my business.) Thanks in advance. 74.239.244.158 ( talk) 00:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC) Now, I see that (while I was writing you this message) you've managed to label my factual edit as "vandalism". how is it that facts are "vandalism"? If we cannot get the facts correctly labeled, I'd prefer not to have a business that I *own* listed on wikipedia. Must I have a lawyer do this?
Thanks for understanding. 74.239.244.158 ( talk) 01:06, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I am almost at wit's end in dealing with your bot. Can you PLEASE help me make this article reflect the correct information? It's referring people to an old (outdated) website and the information is reflecting what the radio staion WAS several month back. I can assure you that it is no longer accurate as I'm sitting inside the station now and it is anything but "silent" as the listing claims. (Such inaccurate claims can also cause us problems with the FCC should someone see it and choose to become a troublemaker.) I've made all of the appropriate edits but, your bot continues to label my efforts as "vandalism" and to issue all of the accompanying warnings and threats. I can assure you that I am the station owner and, if you wish to verify these claims, you may contact me at (205) 384-6498 which is listed with AT&T as "WQJJ" which *is* the radio station about which this article so inaccurately describes. Thanks in advance (again), -- 74.239.244.158 ( talk) 01:21, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, -- 74.239.244.158 ( talk) 01:48, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 08:16, 27 June 2008 (UTC) Hey. I have noticed you've 'come back' in a way, did you want me to continue running BAGBot? — E ↗ T C B 06:25, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Slow down and stop stealing all my reverts. K? Thanks. :P KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 01:50, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
From the revisions page of PA Consulting Group, I note the following revision by you. This removed two perfectly legitimate edits unconnected with the edit by Kubanczyk. Please stop doing this sort of thing. Turn the bot off if you cannot get it to work properly.
I happened to glance at the adminstats page, and I noticed you hadn't updated recently. Is that related to the issues you're having with the bots?-- Kubigula ( talk) 22:25, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
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Not sure how experienced you are with that, but I hope you can help. I logged into python, then used the script "interwiki.py -start:Z" Then it just kept going saying "Retrieving special:Allpages from Z namespace 0" for hours. The bot didn't make any edits. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. What? Thanks, « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 22:47, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 09:36, 13 July 2008 (UTC) Hi ST47. The stats count has been down for a while now...Just thought I would let you know. Kukini háblame aquí 14:12, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 06:24, 27 July 2008 (UTC) Thank you for approving it. In the case of the one recreated article, I'm assuming I should revert my adding of {{ oldprodfull}} on its talk page?-- Rockfang ( talk) 02:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
re protection of User talk:DocmartincohenI have been contacted off-Wiki (obviously) by the above editor. He comments that after he was blocked his unblock request was denied by User:Phil Sandifer, and that he and Phil Sandifer were already in content dispute. He contacted me as I was involved in a discussion with Phil Sandifer at WP:ANI where we discussed Docmartincohen, where the result was that he was blocked - for socking in that instance, although the original discussion was regarding COI. Docmartincohen has asked me if the protection could be lifted so that he may request review of the original block, and have it reviewed by somebody he was not previously involved with. Under the circumstances I have said I would ask you to review the matter (and that I would inform Phil Sandifer of my action). Since I am certainly aware that Phil Sandifer was requesting advice regarding editing by Docmartincohen and I am certain he would prefer that all processes appear to be as neutrally reviewed as they most assuredly were, I would ask you to consider lifting the protection of the page to allow Docmartincohen another block review request. If you wish, I could do the necessary unprotect. I shall watch this page for your reply. LessHeard vanU ( talk) 20:07, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
--Philogo 21:30, 31 July 2008 (UTC) I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong, because I don't really know how Wiki works, but hasn't the block already been reviewed by ST47? So:
Also, I should perhaps point out that all of those edits I mention above involve him referencing the work and books of Martin Cohen (i.e., the person he claims to be). -- 99.232.75.237 ( talk) 00:02, 1 August 2008 (UTC) (Jeremy Stangroom)
Hello, ST. As per CSD#I8: Images that available at Wikimedia Commons meet speedy deletion policy. We have a heavy used image called Image:Wikisigbutton.png which was used by the signature bot; I want to run my OKBot to replace it with Commons' version, Image:Button sig2.png. Do you think this is OK?-- O sama K 11:36, 4 August 2008 (UTC) Please see this edit. It looks as though the bot got an "edit conflict" message and simply ignored it. OK, it probably don't happen very often but is there a policy on this situation? And is your bot conforming? — RHaworth ( Talk | contribs) 09:13, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
One of your bots left the message below on my talk page? I don't recall having uploaded the image concerned... Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 20:11, 5 August 2008 (UTC) Why did the bot make this edit? — E ↗ T C B 21:17, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
![]() You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. I recently recreated this page, it has been deleted about a dozen times but i didn't try to create an article but rather redirect it to Coprofilia the relevant article on sexual practices involving feces, could you reconsider? I know it was a bot deletion so i see no hard in recreating and hangingon the next speedy if it comes since i wasn't around the last time. MY♥INchile 23:01, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for recently approving Plasticbot. I have one quick and easy question before setting her loose. As it runs using AWB, can I apply the AWB General Fixes along with the approved task? Plasticup T/ C 00:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
My mask is scream@wikipedia/NonvocalScream NonvocalScream ( talk) 19:34, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Don't know what caused your bot to send me this message, but if you like, I'll report it as a bug. I don't recall ever having any involvement with the article, so it may be an issue. Doesn't matter to me, but tell me and I'll make it a bug report. Cheers. Thanks for all your hard work. User:Pedant ( talk) 01:27, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
I found a bug in the warning messages that your bot leaves when the talk page of the editor you are leaving the message to is empty. It adds a "1" to the very top of the talk page. See example. The "1" is not there if the editor already has a talk page like here. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 01:47, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
BAGBot and Template:BotTrialCompletePer this discussion, I've created Template:BotTrialComplete and added it to the BAG Tools list. Do you think it would make sense to have BAGBot recognize it and automatically change the request status from "In trial" to "Trial complete"? Thanks in advance. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 07:45, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry I haven't been sending this over the past few weeks. Ralbot ( talk) 06:01, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
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If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot ( talk) 05:07, 25 August 2008 (UTC) Hi There was a page about the artist Dotmasters that was deleted earlier this week. I am passionate about street art and noticed there are a lot of established street artists not mentioned in Wikipedia like Nick Walker, Blek le Rat, Jef Aerosol etc. So I started my first article with Dotmasters. It's my first article and it took me ages to write it and format it and was quite pleased with the end result for a first article. I don't know anything about publishing anything on Wikipedia except for looking articles up, so I am amazed that I even found this page to ask you the question. How can I get the page back up? I think it said said something about blatant advertising. So how do you make an article informative and not advertising? I would like to progress and then write articles about other artists as well. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96051FWP ( talk • contribs) 09:10, 26 August 2008 (UTC) I couldn't figure out the site you asked us to use to file bot problems, so I apologize. But you should look at this edit of CSDWarnBot ( talk · contribs) which replaced the entire talk page. ALTON .ıl 00:40, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Page blankingHi, I noticed this was blanked - was it a bot malfunction or something? I've restored Page to the last version. JGHowes talk - 23:39, 29 August 2008 (UTC) Page replacementYour bot removed the rest of the talk page when placing warning - I didn't feel like registering for some wikimedia site jazz. here -- TheSeer ( Talkˑ Contribs) 04:24, 1 September 2008 (UTC) This was my first encounter with your bot, over at User talk:Dessie123. Don't you think the bot should check first if there is already a notice? It's kind of spammy to double-shot the CSD notice and can confuse users as to what's going on. Rob Banzai ( talk) 14:43, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I loaded the page but somehow I overlooked the licensing line. I tried to go back and put that in but I can't seem to figure out how so I'll just tell you. Here is the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marx_gh_cover.jpg The licensing to the cover belongs to either the photographer, the artist, or the record label, in this case, CEMA Special Markets, which is a division of Capitol Records in Canada. This Greatest Hits album (which was an audio recording) was released through Avon back in 1993. The serial number (at least that I think it is) to the CD is S21-17435. Again, I tried to input this information but am not sure how. I'm still fairly new to the wiki. Let me know if there's anything else I can provide you with. Itsmyright ( talk) 17:04, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/1.3.3 needs to be logged in! 24.0.66.109 ( talk) 09:00, 3 September 2008 (UTC) Seems like BAGBot bot not updating Wikipedia:BAG/Status since 3-4 days. -- Tinu Cherian - 05:12, 4 September 2008 (UTC) We wrote the article called "Beauty Bridge" which is a trademark owned company serving and served closed to million customers. People search for this company and want to know more about that. When we were writing this article we inspired from Sephora which has been selling similar products and services and one of Beauty Bridge's competitor. What should we do in order to Beauty Bridge article get relisted? Gerkavun ( talk) 16:14, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
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Hello, I have recently had an encounter with an unapproved admin bot, and despite an extremely clear dictate by policy that these bots should be blocked, have been discouraged from doing so. Depending how this situation resolves, I will likely file an arbitration request to hopefully resolve this issue once and for all. You commented on Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Adminbots, stating that you ran an admin bot. To help get an idea of how widespread admin bots are, as well as get a uniform decision, I would like to ask: Do you still operate this bot, and does it operate when you are not present? Please reply on my talk page, thanks, Prodego talk 00:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Were you following this on unblock-en-l, or did Spellcast contact you out of band? Nobody seems to have followed up with the ISP yet, though the block change was what they were ultimately looking for... Thanks! Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 01:38, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
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There are a lot of questions regarding the approval of Lightbot here: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Lightbot 3, here Wikipedia:Ani#User:Lightmouse and here: Wikipedia:Ani#Mass_De-linking_of_years_by_Lightbot. Given that you approved it, I thought that your input would be helpful. - Chunky Rice ( talk) 23:39, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for populating the 6th - 15th century Saint Categories from my lists at User:Carlaude/Sandbox2 Can you for populate the 1th - 5th century Saint Categories from my lists now that those categories exsist-- and remove pages from the Parent Category:Ancient Roman saints as the occur? This will help me do the remaining sorting that I can. Thank you.-- Carlaude ( talk) 16:27, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I have to say I'm a bit puzzled what is the benefit in thousands of edits like this just to replace a user signature. It could've stayed a red link. — AlexSm 16:40, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I have a question. I hope that you will see this since I do not know what /dev/null means and I think that as an admin you did not really mean to insinuate that if I have a problem with your bot I should not come here to ask about it. But maybe I am wrong and you are really saying that. My problem is that yesterday I uploaded an image and chose the wrong copyright justification. Your bot already got rid of the image before I had a chance to fix it. I think...truth is, in the past when I have made a mistake someone would leave a message on my talk page telling me that I had 7 days to fix the problem. In fact, someone did this for another image that I uploaded yesterday that I chose the wrong cr thing for. but I cannot find the image that your bot got to, and no message was left for me so that I could fix it. Is this some new policy? Or is it just that your bot has gone wonky? can you direct me to the image so that I can fix the permissions on it? thanks. (I don't live here, so please give me a whole day to respond) Also, maybe you know how I can change the permissions here? I don't see how to get back the the original section list. The images are both made by me (into .jpgs) from works by an artist who gives her complete permission to use in any way on the wiki. I made the mistake of choosing the educational purposes one because I thought that's what wiki was. when the thing came back with the red banner I did not read until it was too late -- I thought the red was just a bold design choice. sorry. Saudade7 05:30, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
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Is MFDBot malfunctioning? I noticed you reverted one of its edits when I was going to whitelist it in huggle, but I wanted to make sure it is running ok before I do that. Thingg ⊕ ⊗ 18:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
I asked a couple questions at your RfBAG. Dragons flight ( talk) 23:48, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, but, given the chance of future double redirection, I don't think it's a bad idea. Also, I think I saw a WikiProject somewhere about reducing redirection. Sardanaphalus ( talk) 12:48, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
When using get_pages_in_category; I get the error: Can't call method "decoded_content" without a package or object reference at Perlwikipedia.pm line 513. I've tried fixing it myself, but no luck. Any ideas? — paranomia (formerly tim.bounceback) a door? 23:10, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
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Paranomia, is the error happening on these lines of Perlwikipedia.pm? my @pages; my $res = $self->_get( $category, 'view' ); unless ($res) { return 1; } my $content = $res->decoded_content; If so, I am not getting the same error when I run it. Could you check what type of reference the $res variable is? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:47, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
while ( $res = $self->{mech}->follow_link( text => 'next 200' ) && ref($res) eq 'HTTP::Response' && $res->is_success ) { sleep 1; #Cheap hack to make sure we don't bog down the server $content = $self->{mech}->decoded_content();— paranomia (formerly tim.bounceback) a door? 14:14, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
This diff fixes it for me: --- lib/Perlwikipedia.pm (revision 135) +++ lib/Perlwikipedia.pm (working copy) @@ -508,9 +508,9 @@ push @pages, $1; } } - while ( $res = $self->{mech}->follow_link( text => 'next 200' ) && ref($res) eq 'HTTP::Response' && $res->is_success ) { + while ( ($res = $self->{mech}->follow_link( text => 'next 200' )) && ref($res) eq 'HTTP::Response' && $res->is_success) { sleep 1; #Cheap hack to make sure we don't bog down the server - $content = $self->{mech}->decoded_content(); + $content = $res->decoded_content(); if ($content=~/<div id=\"mw-subcategories\">/i) { $content=~s/.+<div id=\"mw-subcategories\">//is; — Carl ( CBM · talk) 18:07, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 06:35, 10 May 2008 (UTC) Hi, I've just signed up for WP:WikiProject on closed proxies as was wondering whether is project is still active and whether you are still an active member. Atyndall93 | talk 01:06, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
OK, here I am trying to resolve a bunch of images, across a bunch of wikis, that were wrongly put on commons and need to be FUR'ed onto en:wiki, see here. So I try to do the first one, to establish the fix procedure, and I get bot-templated within six minutes here. Now I have no intention of joining the ranks of the image-screamers nor the bot-screamers, but I do have a few comments:
Hello. I noticed you had cleaned up some problems with the image on the Atlantis: The Lost Empire article, and I hoped you could help me clean up a mess I have just caused there. I uploaded a movie poster for a different Atlantis movie, Atlantis (1913 film) but unfortunately called it the same name as the one that was already on the Altlantis: The Lost Empire article. I've tried to undo the mistake, but was unable. How can I revert that article back to its original and correct form? And the picture also? Thanks CactusWriter ( talk) 09:51, 13 May 2008 (UTC) Okay... nevermind... I'm an idiot, but improving. I figured out how to work it and it's fixed now. Sorry to clutter up your page with this nonsense. Please delete CactusWriter ( talk) 11:29, 13 May 2008 (UTC) You have sent me a notice that the image of Ms. Pinter which I upload must be removed immediately. I was given the image by the public relations department, Ms. Lisa Lugassi, of As the World Turns, Proctor and Gamble Productions for use in disseminating information about Ms. Pinter's involvement with the Oral Cancer Foundation, and about her public efforts to raise awareness of this disease. I have uploaded the image within the parameters of the agreement with the aforementioned individuals and organizations. Your bot and the removal of this image is wrong. Brian Hill, bhill@oralcancerfoundation.org —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hilllaguna ( talk • contribs) 02:47, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 09:37, 15 May 2008 (UTC) Hello, I am the admin for tibettruth.com which is the website for Independent Tibet Network . One of our team (Wiki username=Zhiji) recently posted A Wiki entry about our organisation called 'Tibet campaign', which was deleted or frozen as it was claimed to be in copyright violation. Please explain how we, as originators and owners of tibettruth/independent tibet network, can be inviolation of our own copyrighted material or name? Secondly if the objection is based upon using the term 'Tibet campaign' well that is exactly what we are engaged in, it is a perfectly appropriate adjective and not in nay sense a misappropriaton of 'free tibet campaign'. Had we wished to do so we would have used the phrase 'campaign free tibet'. Would you therefore please reinstore our entry. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tibettruth ( talk • contribs) 12:02, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I received a notice that my two new pages were deleted for being redirects "from an implausible typo". But they are true words, for a true company. www.americanorientexpress.com and www.grandluxerail. And, the company is even referenced in this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Orient_Express#Privately_run_trains_using_the_name Can you undelete them? -- User3232 ( talk) 03:24, 16 May 2008 (UTC) You've had an issue with page protection before, and you promised not to use your tools in that way again. Dare I suggest it's not a good idea for you to be protecting WP:BAG on a version you prefer? rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 05:40, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello - I found a notice that a page I started work on was to be deleted. This is the FAQ project. I guess is because there was no content there, and I have been working to get it ready, so I was sort of early in creating the Wikipedia page. Can this be reinstated later once I have the content ready to go ? Dineshbareja ( talk) 22:34, 17 May 2008 (UTC)Dineshbareja
You can probably change [ http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ann_coulter&diff=prev&oldid=213304829 diff the edit summary] to note that the bot is no longer on trial. - Rjd0060 ( talk) 19:31, 18 May 2008 (UTC) Just wanted to let you know that the password for STBot is available on FishEye subversion at the toolserver—I'm not going to give any links to be on the safe side, but you may wish to remove it from the source code. Cheers, — paranomia happy harry's high club 20:43, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
I have blocked STBotI for the time being, as it appears to be marking images which are clearly released to the public domain for speedy deletion. Please review all of STBotI's recent edits and correct any that are erroneous. It would be very unfortunate for us to lose public domain images for no reason. Kaldari ( talk) 17:34, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm confused. You removed it with no edit summary. Enigma message 00:17, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I am exceedingly unhappy that you saw fit to snow close my RfA. It may indeed only have snowball's chance in Hell of passing, but you ought to have done me the courtesy of asking what my feelings were on the matter. -- Malleus Fatuorum ( talk) 00:27, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure what ImageBacklogBot was supposed to do in this series of edits, but the net result is clearly incorrect. -- Carnildo ( talk) 19:52, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Your bot tagged Image:BanqiaoDamAfterFailure.jpg as having no fair use rationale. It does. Revert the edit and fix your bot. -- Duk 21:02, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I think I understand now; your bot looks for templates such as Template:Non-free use rationale. Templates are not required for fair use images. Fix your bot. -- Duk 00:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
This article was only a few hours old before it was deleted. It is required to ensure that articles on bookkeeping can make reference to bookkeeping associations and their purpose. It will also avoid a situation where people keep adding bookkeeping associations to the main bookkeeping articles and make it unreadable and long. -- NilssonDenver ( talk) 10:59, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey. My name is Hall Hunt. There was a page about me that was deleted earlier this month. I just noticed that it was deleted. I don't know anything about publishing anything about Wikipedia except for looking articles up, so I am amazed that I even found this page to ask you the question. How can I get the page back up? I think it said said something about plagerizm. I didn't create the page to begin with, but rather I think it was an organization I am a part of. Maybe they plagerized there other webpage or something. I am not sure. The bottom line is I would be willing to do anything I need to so the page can be posted again. Please let me know what, if anything I can do. I guess you usually post responses here, so I will check back. Otherwise just email me at HallHunt@comcast.net . Thank you very much! ;o) 67.129.185.89 ( talk) 23:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC) Hall Hunt
...I totally forgot to add a license to it. Thanks =D <3 Tinkleheimer TALK!! 06:44, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, just a couple of friendly words, because I'm worried that you may be rubbing some editors the wrong way, and potentially scaring them off from Wikipedia. I think it would be very helpful if both you and your bot provided a little more information about what Wikipedia, and your bot, expect to find at a non-free image page - and to let editors know what it is they've missed out from their rationale. It is clear from your comments on your talk page that a number of editors feel their images already satisfy the requirements, and that the template messages left by the bot have not made it clear if, or why, this is not the case. Your first replies rarely help them to understand why they are in error; in some cases ("Stop being stupid and fix your image") they are downright rude - especially coming from an administrator. I'm not sure of the mechanics of your bot, but I suspect you would reduce the number of irate posts to your talk page if your bot's message gave the user clearer instructions, which could perhaps be made more specific according to which of the bot's rules was broken. I'd suggest something along the lines of:
Also, please do read template messages you post on user pages, check they're appropriate (you recently tagged my burgeoning talk page with a message saying "Welcome to Wikipedia!" when a quick glance would have shown you that I'm not exactly new to the site, which didn't exactly make a great first impression) and check that they provide the editor with a clear "next step" through the complex copyright mire. I usually find that editors are more willing to spend their time doing things, such as providing a fair use rationale, if I take a couple of seconds to speak to them helpfully rather than just bombarding them with unhelpful templates. I hope that that will help to engage editors a little more in the copyright process and encourage them to improve rationales, rather than thinking "sod it, it's not worth it", and leaving useful images to get deleted unnecessarily. Besides, I'm sure you get pretty frustrated wasting your time messaging people telling them why your bot was right and they were wrong - which is clearly the case in the majority of instances! I hope that a more helpful bot message would reduce the number of people requiring such a response. Anyway, I hope that's of some use. Smith609 Talk 08:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Well, I guess I'm one of the users the subject of the discussion above. An average user, average editor and - I thought until now - diligent reader of wikipolicies as required. The difficulty with your response just above is that I can't see what your bot saw. Some time back I uploaded an image - Image:AubreyGibsonRosebowlJacket2.JPG - for use in an article I created. It has just been tagged by your bot. Fair enough. Now, if I've read the policies correctly, the justification I've given for the use of the image is adequate. However, I took the point that maybe I've put the justification in the wrong location on the image page. I confess it's a while since I've uploaded an image, so I tried to edit the image info page - and this reminded me that the process is semi-automated. I couldn't work out how to shift the justification for use from its current location to a location next to the link to the particular article (and only article) in which the image is used. I'm taking the tag off, not to be difficult, but because (a) as far as I can see I've complied with WP policy, but more to the point (b) at the moment I'm only visiting the site every couple of weeks and the bot / WP / whatever is only giving me 7 days warning. I'm sure you'll set me on the right track. I have the fish, thanks, but my problem is not understanding your bot's message but in successfully responding to it. Cheers hamiltonstone ( talk) 11:58, 22 May 2008 (UTC) Per [3]. Since you didn't answer, I'm going to ask one more time; please direct me to the 'machine readable' policy on en. Furthermore, how does this affect Image:BanqiaoDamAfterFailure.jpg (hint, it already had a {{Non-free fair use in|Banqiao Dam}} tag and was therefore machine readable). Let's be really clear here: this image is classic fair-use. It had a rationale. Your bot tagged it because it didn't have a particular template. There is no requirement that this particular template be used on fair-use images. Instead of admitting that you are a lazy bot writer, you first blame the image, then me, then some 'machine readable' policy that makes no difference since the image page already had a machine readable tag. This was a difficult image to find, and it should not be deleted every couple of years because some bot writer all of the sudden decides there's a particular template that must be used. If you want this image to use a specific template for fair-use, go ahead and add it. Otherwise revert your edit and fix your bot. -- Duk 12:24, 22 May 2008 (UTC) PS. Please show me where your bot was approved to mark for deletion fair-use images With a rationale. -- Duk 13:21, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, when you remove images from flag templates such as
Template:Country data Réunion, please replace the image with a placeholder instead of nothing.
Image:Sin bandera.svg is usually used for this sort of thing. As it is, your change effectively breaks every page that transcludes that template with the After reading Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline again, I see that Image:BanqiaoDamAfterFailure.jpg contained both the copyright tag a specific fair use rationale as required. Your bot tagged it for deletion anyway. When this was brought to your attention, you failed to acknowledge the bot's error and attacked myself and the rationale instead. This is unacceptable. I looked at STBotI's last seventeen edits. It failed to recognize three existing fair-use rationales [4] [5] [6]. Another edit added This image or media is claimed to be used under Wikipedia's policy for non-free content... when the image made no such claim [7]. That's an unacceptable error rate so STBotI has been blocked. To fix this, I'd suggest a) searching the image page for key words that would indicate a rationale, or b) propose at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline that {{ Template:Non-free use rationale}} be required to aid bot work. Didn't think about how to fix the last error, but I'm sure you'll figure it out. It is not acceptable for your bot to make these errors, but it's even worse when you refuse to acknowledge the errors and attack the messenger or the rationale instead. And it's sure as hell not acceptable for your bot to evaluate the validity of a fair use clam. I'm not unsympathetic to your work, having processed thousands of copyright violations (before you made your first edit) and done automated work myself. I know what you have to do to fix this and that it isn't very hard. Sofixit. -- Duk 18:00, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Just want to point out that the argument 'some of these rationales aren't sufficient' doesn't fly. A bot may not judge the quality of a fair use rationale. If it is a poor rationale and the bot misses it, I will re-block the bot. This isn't about how good the rationale is, it's about the bot working or not-- Duk 22:55, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BLPWatchBot/1.2 needs to be logged in! BLPWatchBot ( talk) 18:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC) Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#STBotI -- Duk 23:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC) I've blocked this bot again. Its accuracy is horrible. It tagged the following images for deletion for not having a fair use rationale, when in fact they did have a rationale [10] [11] [12]. The final link should have been tagged orphaned fair use, not lacking a fair use rationale. How did this bot ever get approved? -- Duk You have been paged because a user has reported a high level of vandalism and you are listed as a contact. This is an automatically generated message. If problems occur, please contact User:nathanww. Come on ST47, I know you're obviously annoyed about the whole situation with Duk, but calling him an idiot on your userpage isn't helping anyone. I've removed it and I think the best thing to do would be to have a short break, think about things and you might be in a better frame of mind when you return. Everyone gets stressed here - things will get better soon. Take care, Ryan Postlethwaite 18:16, 23 May 2008 (UTC) ST47, you are a vital part of this community and a respected member to at least me. Please consider taking a couple days off and returning refreshed to continue this great endeavor. MBisanz talk 22:44, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
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I'm glad to see you're back; I hope you enjoyed you wikibreak. Cheers, — paranomia happy harry's high club 22:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC) Ok, so I want to know why my new page was deleted by your bot for "implausable typo". Makes no sense. I thought Wikipedia wanted to encourage contributions from newcomers...looks like you want to scare us off. Please reinstate. -- User3232 ( talk) 17:53, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for stepping up to the plate on this one. I've replied over on WP:ANI. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 01:11, 3 June 2008 (UTC) See also: Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 43#Bot to mass-revert a specific list of deletions. I invited people there to talk about it on the ANI page. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 01:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I mentioned this at User talk:AGK#RfArbitration, so I thought I should let you know. Carcharoth ( talk) 07:09, 4 June 2008 (UTC) Hey. I know that you did mention to me a few weeks ago that you would send me the code to BAGBot (both on-wiki and IRC versions), was this so I could take over the running of BAGBot or just for backup purposes? I just didn't really understand at the time. Please clarify, thanks. — E ↗ T C B 02:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Can you possibly re-delete this? If any opera project pages are deleted in error we will see them. This one was not deleted by mistake. Thanks. -- Klein zach 23:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm very confused on why anyone would want to delete the talk page archive redirects. The page move to rename the archives was in July 2007 and some had existed a year before that. Redirects are cheap, and we have no real way to track off-site linking. -- Ned Scott 05:16, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
It's been well over 16 hours since I last checked the process of the deledted-redirect-restorebot and it seems to have stalled. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 19:19, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, One of your bots deleted the page I created on ArmorGames. It said that this was because the page had been created and deleted before. I had quite a bit of information on that page. Could you provide me with a copy? Is it possible to undelete it? Thanks KingRyanV —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kingryanv ( talk • contribs) 08:28, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
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Bot/WP/EN/ST47/STBotI/1.2 needs to be logged in! 91.198.174.201 ( talk) 13:32, 19 June 2008 (UTC) Hi. I am the general manager of WQJJ-LP and certain inaccuracies have been brought to my attention by one of our listeners. Several of the discrepancies I have been able to correct but, your "Huggle" bot refuses to allow me to include the (true) information that states: WQJJ-LP is the only FM radio station licensed to Jasper that actually maintains a local studio and operates as a "Live and Local" radio station." What's with this? (Sorry, I'm NOT a wikipedian but, as the station manager, I think that I should know the facts about my business.) Thanks in advance. 74.239.244.158 ( talk) 00:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC) Now, I see that (while I was writing you this message) you've managed to label my factual edit as "vandalism". how is it that facts are "vandalism"? If we cannot get the facts correctly labeled, I'd prefer not to have a business that I *own* listed on wikipedia. Must I have a lawyer do this?
Thanks for understanding. 74.239.244.158 ( talk) 01:06, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I am almost at wit's end in dealing with your bot. Can you PLEASE help me make this article reflect the correct information? It's referring people to an old (outdated) website and the information is reflecting what the radio staion WAS several month back. I can assure you that it is no longer accurate as I'm sitting inside the station now and it is anything but "silent" as the listing claims. (Such inaccurate claims can also cause us problems with the FCC should someone see it and choose to become a troublemaker.) I've made all of the appropriate edits but, your bot continues to label my efforts as "vandalism" and to issue all of the accompanying warnings and threats. I can assure you that I am the station owner and, if you wish to verify these claims, you may contact me at (205) 384-6498 which is listed with AT&T as "WQJJ" which *is* the radio station about which this article so inaccurately describes. Thanks in advance (again), -- 74.239.244.158 ( talk) 01:21, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, -- 74.239.244.158 ( talk) 01:48, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 08:16, 27 June 2008 (UTC) Hey. I have noticed you've 'come back' in a way, did you want me to continue running BAGBot? — E ↗ T C B 06:25, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Slow down and stop stealing all my reverts. K? Thanks. :P KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 01:50, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
From the revisions page of PA Consulting Group, I note the following revision by you. This removed two perfectly legitimate edits unconnected with the edit by Kubanczyk. Please stop doing this sort of thing. Turn the bot off if you cannot get it to work properly.
I happened to glance at the adminstats page, and I noticed you hadn't updated recently. Is that related to the issues you're having with the bots?-- Kubigula ( talk) 22:25, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 04:11, 4 July 2008 (UTC) Please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Adminbots. Could you help with the list on the talk page? Carcharoth ( talk) 23:05, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Not sure how experienced you are with that, but I hope you can help. I logged into python, then used the script "interwiki.py -start:Z" Then it just kept going saying "Retrieving special:Allpages from Z namespace 0" for hours. The bot didn't make any edits. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. What? Thanks, « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 22:47, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 09:36, 13 July 2008 (UTC) Hi ST47. The stats count has been down for a while now...Just thought I would let you know. Kukini háblame aquí 14:12, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 06:24, 27 July 2008 (UTC) Thank you for approving it. In the case of the one recreated article, I'm assuming I should revert my adding of {{ oldprodfull}} on its talk page?-- Rockfang ( talk) 02:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
re protection of User talk:DocmartincohenI have been contacted off-Wiki (obviously) by the above editor. He comments that after he was blocked his unblock request was denied by User:Phil Sandifer, and that he and Phil Sandifer were already in content dispute. He contacted me as I was involved in a discussion with Phil Sandifer at WP:ANI where we discussed Docmartincohen, where the result was that he was blocked - for socking in that instance, although the original discussion was regarding COI. Docmartincohen has asked me if the protection could be lifted so that he may request review of the original block, and have it reviewed by somebody he was not previously involved with. Under the circumstances I have said I would ask you to review the matter (and that I would inform Phil Sandifer of my action). Since I am certainly aware that Phil Sandifer was requesting advice regarding editing by Docmartincohen and I am certain he would prefer that all processes appear to be as neutrally reviewed as they most assuredly were, I would ask you to consider lifting the protection of the page to allow Docmartincohen another block review request. If you wish, I could do the necessary unprotect. I shall watch this page for your reply. LessHeard vanU ( talk) 20:07, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
--Philogo 21:30, 31 July 2008 (UTC) I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong, because I don't really know how Wiki works, but hasn't the block already been reviewed by ST47? So:
Also, I should perhaps point out that all of those edits I mention above involve him referencing the work and books of Martin Cohen (i.e., the person he claims to be). -- 99.232.75.237 ( talk) 00:02, 1 August 2008 (UTC) (Jeremy Stangroom)
Hello, ST. As per CSD#I8: Images that available at Wikimedia Commons meet speedy deletion policy. We have a heavy used image called Image:Wikisigbutton.png which was used by the signature bot; I want to run my OKBot to replace it with Commons' version, Image:Button sig2.png. Do you think this is OK?-- O sama K 11:36, 4 August 2008 (UTC) Please see this edit. It looks as though the bot got an "edit conflict" message and simply ignored it. OK, it probably don't happen very often but is there a policy on this situation? And is your bot conforming? — RHaworth ( Talk | contribs) 09:13, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
One of your bots left the message below on my talk page? I don't recall having uploaded the image concerned... Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 20:11, 5 August 2008 (UTC) Why did the bot make this edit? — E ↗ T C B 21:17, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
![]() You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. I recently recreated this page, it has been deleted about a dozen times but i didn't try to create an article but rather redirect it to Coprofilia the relevant article on sexual practices involving feces, could you reconsider? I know it was a bot deletion so i see no hard in recreating and hangingon the next speedy if it comes since i wasn't around the last time. MY♥INchile 23:01, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for recently approving Plasticbot. I have one quick and easy question before setting her loose. As it runs using AWB, can I apply the AWB General Fixes along with the approved task? Plasticup T/ C 00:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
My mask is scream@wikipedia/NonvocalScream NonvocalScream ( talk) 19:34, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Don't know what caused your bot to send me this message, but if you like, I'll report it as a bug. I don't recall ever having any involvement with the article, so it may be an issue. Doesn't matter to me, but tell me and I'll make it a bug report. Cheers. Thanks for all your hard work. User:Pedant ( talk) 01:27, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
I found a bug in the warning messages that your bot leaves when the talk page of the editor you are leaving the message to is empty. It adds a "1" to the very top of the talk page. See example. The "1" is not there if the editor already has a talk page like here. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 01:47, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
BAGBot and Template:BotTrialCompletePer this discussion, I've created Template:BotTrialComplete and added it to the BAG Tools list. Do you think it would make sense to have BAGBot recognize it and automatically change the request status from "In trial" to "Trial complete"? Thanks in advance. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 07:45, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry I haven't been sending this over the past few weeks. Ralbot ( talk) 06:01, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
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Yo, just letting you know that Ariel is back on WP and has even logged onto IRC. Come on back to her room! Glass Cobra 20:55, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot ( talk) 05:07, 25 August 2008 (UTC) Hi There was a page about the artist Dotmasters that was deleted earlier this week. I am passionate about street art and noticed there are a lot of established street artists not mentioned in Wikipedia like Nick Walker, Blek le Rat, Jef Aerosol etc. So I started my first article with Dotmasters. It's my first article and it took me ages to write it and format it and was quite pleased with the end result for a first article. I don't know anything about publishing anything on Wikipedia except for looking articles up, so I am amazed that I even found this page to ask you the question. How can I get the page back up? I think it said said something about blatant advertising. So how do you make an article informative and not advertising? I would like to progress and then write articles about other artists as well. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96051FWP ( talk • contribs) 09:10, 26 August 2008 (UTC) I couldn't figure out the site you asked us to use to file bot problems, so I apologize. But you should look at this edit of CSDWarnBot ( talk · contribs) which replaced the entire talk page. ALTON .ıl 00:40, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Page blankingHi, I noticed this was blanked - was it a bot malfunction or something? I've restored Page to the last version. JGHowes talk - 23:39, 29 August 2008 (UTC) Page replacementYour bot removed the rest of the talk page when placing warning - I didn't feel like registering for some wikimedia site jazz. here -- TheSeer ( Talkˑ Contribs) 04:24, 1 September 2008 (UTC) This was my first encounter with your bot, over at User talk:Dessie123. Don't you think the bot should check first if there is already a notice? It's kind of spammy to double-shot the CSD notice and can confuse users as to what's going on. Rob Banzai ( talk) 14:43, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I loaded the page but somehow I overlooked the licensing line. I tried to go back and put that in but I can't seem to figure out how so I'll just tell you. Here is the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marx_gh_cover.jpg The licensing to the cover belongs to either the photographer, the artist, or the record label, in this case, CEMA Special Markets, which is a division of Capitol Records in Canada. This Greatest Hits album (which was an audio recording) was released through Avon back in 1993. The serial number (at least that I think it is) to the CD is S21-17435. Again, I tried to input this information but am not sure how. I'm still fairly new to the wiki. Let me know if there's anything else I can provide you with. Itsmyright ( talk) 17:04, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/1.3.3 needs to be logged in! 24.0.66.109 ( talk) 09:00, 3 September 2008 (UTC) Seems like BAGBot bot not updating Wikipedia:BAG/Status since 3-4 days. -- Tinu Cherian - 05:12, 4 September 2008 (UTC) We wrote the article called "Beauty Bridge" which is a trademark owned company serving and served closed to million customers. People search for this company and want to know more about that. When we were writing this article we inspired from Sephora which has been selling similar products and services and one of Beauty Bridge's competitor. What should we do in order to Beauty Bridge article get relisted? Gerkavun ( talk) 16:14, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 21:28, 10 September 2008 (UTC) Can this Bot be made/reqested to also remove pages from a parent catagory (e.g. Category:Ancient Roman saints) as the articles from a list are put in subcatagories (e.g. Category:2nd century Christian saints). -- Carlaude ( talk) 03:14, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I have recently had an encounter with an unapproved admin bot, and despite an extremely clear dictate by policy that these bots should be blocked, have been discouraged from doing so. Depending how this situation resolves, I will likely file an arbitration request to hopefully resolve this issue once and for all. You commented on Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Adminbots, stating that you ran an admin bot. To help get an idea of how widespread admin bots are, as well as get a uniform decision, I would like to ask: Do you still operate this bot, and does it operate when you are not present? Please reply on my talk page, thanks, Prodego talk 00:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Were you following this on unblock-en-l, or did Spellcast contact you out of band? Nobody seems to have followed up with the ISP yet, though the block change was what they were ultimately looking for... Thanks! Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 01:38, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot ( talk) 05:20, 21 September 2008 (UTC) ![]() ![]() Hello, my bot couldn't log in to Vietnamese Wikipedia. Here are the commands: ... my($pw)=Perlwikipedia->new(); $pw->{mech}->agent('Bot/WP/VI/Nguyễn Thanh Quang/Qbot'); $pw->set_wiki('vi.wikimedia.org','w'); my($login_status)=$pw->login('botname','pwd'); ... Please tell me how to fix this. Thank you. Nguyễn Thanh Quang ( talk) 18:51, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
There are a lot of questions regarding the approval of Lightbot here: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Lightbot 3, here Wikipedia:Ani#User:Lightmouse and here: Wikipedia:Ani#Mass_De-linking_of_years_by_Lightbot. Given that you approved it, I thought that your input would be helpful. - Chunky Rice ( talk) 23:39, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
No content in Category:Ghanaian Muslims![]() To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Category:Ghanaian Muslims, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot ( talk) 07:20, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for populating the 6th - 15th century Saint Categories from my lists at User:Carlaude/Sandbox2 Can you for populate the 1th - 5th century Saint Categories from my lists now that those categories exsist-- and remove pages from the Parent Category:Ancient Roman saints as the occur? This will help me do the remaining sorting that I can. Thank you.-- Carlaude ( talk) 16:27, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I have to say I'm a bit puzzled what is the benefit in thousands of edits like this just to replace a user signature. It could've stayed a red link. — AlexSm 16:40, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I have a question. I hope that you will see this since I do not know what /dev/null means and I think that as an admin you did not really mean to insinuate that if I have a problem with your bot I should not come here to ask about it. But maybe I am wrong and you are really saying that. My problem is that yesterday I uploaded an image and chose the wrong copyright justification. Your bot already got rid of the image before I had a chance to fix it. I think...truth is, in the past when I have made a mistake someone would leave a message on my talk page telling me that I had 7 days to fix the problem. In fact, someone did this for another image that I uploaded yesterday that I chose the wrong cr thing for. but I cannot find the image that your bot got to, and no message was left for me so that I could fix it. Is this some new policy? Or is it just that your bot has gone wonky? can you direct me to the image so that I can fix the permissions on it? thanks. (I don't live here, so please give me a whole day to respond) Also, maybe you know how I can change the permissions here? I don't see how to get back the the original section list. The images are both made by me (into .jpgs) from works by an artist who gives her complete permission to use in any way on the wiki. I made the mistake of choosing the educational purposes one because I thought that's what wiki was. when the thing came back with the red banner I did not read until it was too late -- I thought the red was just a bold design choice. sorry. Saudade7 05:30, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
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