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This bot has malfunctioned and removed a source I was placing there. 65.163.112.225 06:16, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
The bot just asploded Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science. I've reverted the change and will be monitoring its next few edits and blocking if it continues to break pages. - CHAIRBOY ( ☎) 01:36, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Looks like it flipped out on the Science desk again. :( Arakunem 02:07, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Has the bot forgotten about WP:RD/L? It hasn't been archived in several days. — An gr 06:45, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hate to be a pain, but the Language desk is full again! — An gr 11:00, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Out of curiosity, why doesn't this bot mark its own edits as a "bot edit"? It is because it is not approved? Or maybe because it is only semi-automatic? Killiondude ( talk) 06:00, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure what's going on, but something strange is happening with the date section headers and archiving on the Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics page. -- Tcncv ( talk) 04:08, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Further to my earlier message about corruptions to WP:RD/S at User talk:Ummit#Scsbot issue: parsing snafu, today's corruption [1]. Given that it's now doing multiple corruptions (and with no obviously unusual or hard to parse markup implicated) I think it's best that the bot stop until you get around to beating it back into shape. I'll leave notes on the talk pages of those project pages affected so they know to do stuff manually in the interim. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 00:36, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
The bot seems to have broken the misc desk includes here.
I'd fix it, but I can't quite tell what's been done wrong. APL ( talk) 02:04, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Bot forgot to add new date headers on 6th /7th june -see Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk#Date_headers_going_AWOL.
Thanks. 87.102.17.246 ( talk) 22:39, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Scsbot added headers in wrong order in this edit [2].— Emil J. 10:32, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Just mention, Wikipedia_talk:Help_desk#Archive Chzz ► 01:05, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
See this edit. — teb728 t c 00:57, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
See this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?diff=next&oldid=469217047 – sections are added in wrong order. -- CiaPan ( talk) 09:23, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Hiya. Scsbot has not added date headings to Wikipedia:Help desk for a couple of days. Did we do something to piss it off? (humour) fredgandt 01:29, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
This change: [4]. Maybe as no new questions were asked for two days, or as it took a two day holiday (or both), but to insert headings after questions added on those days, and out of order, was very odd.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 03:31, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
At the help desk, the bot seems to have missed to add the date header for February 22 and thus I added it manually (I accidentally added it in the wrong spot initially). Are there any problems with the bot? Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 15:13, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
What is the purpose of the bot? What does it do? Could you put that on the bot's page? Allen ( talk)
Bot owner might want to take a look at this edit. Spinning Spark 00:21, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
The monthly archives' links on the last daily page of May seem mismatched. See Language RD Archive of May, 31 – it contains this code:
| [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2013|May]] | [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2013|May]] | [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2013|Jul]]
(slightly reordered for better readability). Note the visible contents does not correspond to actual links destinations.
Same error on May, 31 on Maths and Computing, did not check other desks.-- CiaPan ( talk) 05:45, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
For some strange reason, Scsbot has archived January 12th's discussions even they were still active. [5] It did not touch January 9th, 10th or the 11th. There's been no activity in the 9th's discussions since the 9th but it left it on the page. Not sure what's going on here, but I reverted the bot. I am cross-posting this on the Reference Desk talk page and the Scsbot talk page. A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 11:48, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Was wondering why the bot had just added the heading for 29 May already- it usually does it just after midnight UTC, so is 12 hours early. I'm reverting it. Diff is [6]. Joseph2302 ( talk) 10:49, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
The August 7 heading hadn't been added at the Help desk, so I did that. -- 83.255.46.175 ( talk) 09:52, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
The August 8 heading hadn't been added at the Help desk, so I did that. -- 83.255.46.175 ( talk) 07:08, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
your bot needs fixing and the archives as well. 209.53.193.86 ( talk) 03:44, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
When archiving June 2 from Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing the bot grabbed one June 1 thread, too:
and pasted everything together into a single archive page:
Fixed already:
CiaPan ( talk) 06:53, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
You didn't add a fresh date heading to WP:PNT for October 7! Largoplazo ( talk) 16:34, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
. Flooded with them hundreds 07:39, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
It looks like Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics is overdue for archiving old threads. I'm not sure what the criteria are so maybe I'm wrong, but perhaps there's a problem and I thought you ought to know. -- RDBury ( talk) 03:40, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
(credit to Ibn Battuta for bringing up this issue at the Help Desk.) Is this a bug?
Here a thread on the WP:RD/MATHS was archived less than seven hours after a new comment was added. Isn't that a bit too soon? -- Lambiam 07:03, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
Could the bot be modified to remove date headers for dates with no questions? E.g.: here Otherwise, those darn humans will do it, e.g. here. 107.15.157.44 ( talk) 06:24, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
@ Scs Your bot archives the help desk. That's good, but that's not good: it also archives not solved questions (for example, my question "Closing the Media Viewer is impossible?"). Please edit source codes to say like "don't archive not solved questions!" to the bot. RuzDD ( talk) 02:58, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
@ Scs: The Scsbot recently added a new date header to the language reference desk. In doing so, it added the header February 13. Today is only February 12. JIP | Talk 01:29, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
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This bot has malfunctioned and removed a source I was placing there. 65.163.112.225 06:16, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
The bot just asploded Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science. I've reverted the change and will be monitoring its next few edits and blocking if it continues to break pages. - CHAIRBOY ( ☎) 01:36, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Looks like it flipped out on the Science desk again. :( Arakunem 02:07, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Has the bot forgotten about WP:RD/L? It hasn't been archived in several days. — An gr 06:45, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hate to be a pain, but the Language desk is full again! — An gr 11:00, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Out of curiosity, why doesn't this bot mark its own edits as a "bot edit"? It is because it is not approved? Or maybe because it is only semi-automatic? Killiondude ( talk) 06:00, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure what's going on, but something strange is happening with the date section headers and archiving on the Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics page. -- Tcncv ( talk) 04:08, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Further to my earlier message about corruptions to WP:RD/S at User talk:Ummit#Scsbot issue: parsing snafu, today's corruption [1]. Given that it's now doing multiple corruptions (and with no obviously unusual or hard to parse markup implicated) I think it's best that the bot stop until you get around to beating it back into shape. I'll leave notes on the talk pages of those project pages affected so they know to do stuff manually in the interim. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 00:36, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
The bot seems to have broken the misc desk includes here.
I'd fix it, but I can't quite tell what's been done wrong. APL ( talk) 02:04, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Bot forgot to add new date headers on 6th /7th june -see Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk#Date_headers_going_AWOL.
Thanks. 87.102.17.246 ( talk) 22:39, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Scsbot added headers in wrong order in this edit [2].— Emil J. 10:32, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Just mention, Wikipedia_talk:Help_desk#Archive Chzz ► 01:05, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
See this edit. — teb728 t c 00:57, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
See this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?diff=next&oldid=469217047 – sections are added in wrong order. -- CiaPan ( talk) 09:23, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Hiya. Scsbot has not added date headings to Wikipedia:Help desk for a couple of days. Did we do something to piss it off? (humour) fredgandt 01:29, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
This change: [4]. Maybe as no new questions were asked for two days, or as it took a two day holiday (or both), but to insert headings after questions added on those days, and out of order, was very odd.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 03:31, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
At the help desk, the bot seems to have missed to add the date header for February 22 and thus I added it manually (I accidentally added it in the wrong spot initially). Are there any problems with the bot? Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 15:13, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
What is the purpose of the bot? What does it do? Could you put that on the bot's page? Allen ( talk)
Bot owner might want to take a look at this edit. Spinning Spark 00:21, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
The monthly archives' links on the last daily page of May seem mismatched. See Language RD Archive of May, 31 – it contains this code:
| [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2013|May]] | [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2013|May]] | [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2013|Jul]]
(slightly reordered for better readability). Note the visible contents does not correspond to actual links destinations.
Same error on May, 31 on Maths and Computing, did not check other desks.-- CiaPan ( talk) 05:45, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
For some strange reason, Scsbot has archived January 12th's discussions even they were still active. [5] It did not touch January 9th, 10th or the 11th. There's been no activity in the 9th's discussions since the 9th but it left it on the page. Not sure what's going on here, but I reverted the bot. I am cross-posting this on the Reference Desk talk page and the Scsbot talk page. A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 11:48, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Was wondering why the bot had just added the heading for 29 May already- it usually does it just after midnight UTC, so is 12 hours early. I'm reverting it. Diff is [6]. Joseph2302 ( talk) 10:49, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
The August 7 heading hadn't been added at the Help desk, so I did that. -- 83.255.46.175 ( talk) 09:52, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
The August 8 heading hadn't been added at the Help desk, so I did that. -- 83.255.46.175 ( talk) 07:08, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
your bot needs fixing and the archives as well. 209.53.193.86 ( talk) 03:44, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
When archiving June 2 from Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing the bot grabbed one June 1 thread, too:
and pasted everything together into a single archive page:
Fixed already:
CiaPan ( talk) 06:53, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
You didn't add a fresh date heading to WP:PNT for October 7! Largoplazo ( talk) 16:34, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
. Flooded with them hundreds 07:39, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
It looks like Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics is overdue for archiving old threads. I'm not sure what the criteria are so maybe I'm wrong, but perhaps there's a problem and I thought you ought to know. -- RDBury ( talk) 03:40, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
(credit to Ibn Battuta for bringing up this issue at the Help Desk.) Is this a bug?
Here a thread on the WP:RD/MATHS was archived less than seven hours after a new comment was added. Isn't that a bit too soon? -- Lambiam 07:03, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
Could the bot be modified to remove date headers for dates with no questions? E.g.: here Otherwise, those darn humans will do it, e.g. here. 107.15.157.44 ( talk) 06:24, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
@ Scs Your bot archives the help desk. That's good, but that's not good: it also archives not solved questions (for example, my question "Closing the Media Viewer is impossible?"). Please edit source codes to say like "don't archive not solved questions!" to the bot. RuzDD ( talk) 02:58, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
@ Scs: The Scsbot recently added a new date header to the language reference desk. In doing so, it added the header February 13. Today is only February 12. JIP | Talk 01:29, 12 February 2024 (UTC)