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I noticed Yobot has been going through many pages to remove "nested=yes" from banners in WPBS, but I can't seem to find the approval for this task. Anomie ⚔ 15:09, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Unlike the above, I'm not worried about the approval, I'm just curious how this removal lets the nesting remain, which I'd like to know how to do StarM 22:57, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
To all: I already replied in my talk page and in Anomie's talk page. Anyway, nested is a useless parameter but other bots already remove it more efficiently as an addition to other jobs. To StarM, now WPBS enables nesting automatically and that;s the reason the parameter can be removed. -- Magioladitis ( talk)
You're making edits to remove "nested=yes" again to no purpose and without approval. Anomie ⚔ 20:20, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
|nested=
to function since very early this year and {{
WPB}}, in its original form, never needed it, why should |nested=
not be removed?
JimCubb (
talk)
01:31, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
|living=
which is absolutely necessary and should have been done when the page was created and is removing the |nested=
if the parameter is there because |nested=
is no longer needed.|living=
would trigger the watchlists. It should serve as a message to the editors that something was wrong with the page they were watching. Unfortunately, from what I have seen, most will merely complain that there are too many changes to articles on their watchlists.Nested does not exist anymore. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:55, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
In edits such as this one, Yobot has worked solely to replace the {{bio}} template redirect with the {{ WPBiography}} target and put line spacing in the template. These edits seem counterproductive per WP:NOTBROKEN's description and seem to be merely fixing a problem which never existed in the first place. Is there any real benefit from these types of edits at all? Sillyfolkboy ( talk) ( edits) WIKIPROJECT ATHLETICS NEEDS YOU! 00:11, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
AFAIK categories of death and births must be the last in the list, because they are least significant. - Altenmann >t 17:13, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. Interesting edit [5], but Category:Year of birth missing (living people) hasn't been added or am I missing something? -- Edcolins ( talk) 12:08, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
This bot is inappropriately trying to shoehorn articles about individuals with Arabic names into the European style of inherited lastname-surnames. Here is an example.
This is extremely inappropriate -- and damaging. Other bots assume that the "listas" parameter can be relied upon -- was place there by a knowledgeable human being. Geo Swan ( talk) 15:51, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
The bot replaced Category:Possibly living people with Category:Year of death missing for two cases of persons born in 1900: Walter Matthews and Charles Richard. There was no source or indication thate these people have died, and the possibly living category remains valid for birthdates of 1887 or later. Dl2000 ( talk) 15:11, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Yobot added Luqman Ali to the Category:Living people even though the article states that Ali died on August 19, 2007. Systems polk ( talk) 20:45, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Why is Yobot replacing lifetime with DEFAULTSORT and categories, is there any consensus for these changes? Martin451 ( talk) 00:09, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
like this one, why not remove the template when there's nothing but other templates? -- NE2 22:09, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Now, AWB provides built-in talk page general fixes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:53, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Your bot has made the following edit without any basis that I can see. Perhaps the bot needs to be stopped until it can be refined to ensure that this does not happen again.-- Mattinbgn\ talk 02:13, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello. Yobot has been changing Category:Date of birth missing to Category:Date of birth missing (living people) on the talk page of subjects in the Category:Possibly living people, e.g. on Jimmy Robertson (footballer born 1910). In such cases, according to the description at Category:Date of birth missing (living people), this is wrong and just Category:Date of birth missing is correct. cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 08:53, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
I 'll do one more run to fix these. They should not be many. Thanks, Yobot ( talk) 08:56, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
This bot has been replacing {{ Lifetime}} templates and has made a mess of a lot of articles, some of them including: Fandy Mochtar, Dominique Jean-Zéphirin, Donald Thobega, Christopher Bryan. -- Big Dom 20:43, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi there I believe you have disputed the neutrality my article about hon.Ali Mirzad. I agree with your findings and did the necessary edits . please remove your Dispute Stamp at your earliest convenience. thank you -- JamshidAwal ( talk) 08:21, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
why are you bypassing {{ WPBS}}? βcommand 03:43, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
PS: Check this one. Moving talk header on the top becomes part of genfixes per WP:TPL. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:19, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Would you consider importing contributions's auto-inheritance matrix into your WP:BIOGRAPHY tagging task? As you can see from User:Xenobot/R#WP:BIOGRAPHY it was applied to over 25,000 articles without incident. It would help keep the size of Category:Unassessed biography articles down. I pasted the relevant portions of the settings to here. Cheers, – xeno talk 15:28, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
You are turning a lot of templates into {{ WikiProjectBanner}} (which does not exist), it should be {{ WikiProjectBanners}}. Gabbe ( talk) 16:30, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Bug fixed for good now. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:55, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
You have added the Template:WPBiography to scores of musical works. Why? -- Michael Bednarek ( talk) 13:12, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
We have to find why this happened. Today I am running only though 18xx's births with Follow redirects off. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:49, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Found and fixed. As it's written in Yobot's page, mistakes can be done due to wrong categorisation. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:52, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
At most 111 articles were affected from that. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:53, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Found and fixed. As it's written in Yobot's page, mistakes can be done due to wrong categorisation. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:52, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
At most 111 articles were affected from that. Do you want me to go and revert? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:53, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:35, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Wrong tags removed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:36, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Found and fixed. As it's written in Yobot's page, mistakes can be done due to wrong categorisation. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:52, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Let's keep the discussion here. At most 111 articles were affected. All part of Category:Johann Strauss II. Do you want me to check and fix? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:55, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Please don't keep writing in my bot's talk page because the problem found and fixed. Now we are in the phase of reverting the affected pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
I've asked Magioladitis/Yobot not to do any other composers as there are probably others that are categorized in a similar way. (In any case no-one needs these Biography Project banners as there is no human backup for them. All they do is take assessments off other banners by bot. They are just spam.) -- Klein zach 14:21, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Wrong tags removed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:36, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, the bot is making unnecessary additions of section headings within {{ archive box}} templates. See this and this for example. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 04:28, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Need help. The bot repeatedly changed Benoît Chamoux's status to being a living person. You can't bring him back from the dead, no matter how hard you try. Qwrk ( talk) 12:54, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Yobot
Why have you filled up my watchlist with a long series of edits such as this one to Talk:Families in the Oireachtas?
As far as I can see, all that you have done here is to remove some unused parameters from a template. Why not just leave them be? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 16:11, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Your bot is doing pointless edits, removing unused parameters from templates: e.g. [8]. Please stop. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 18:05, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
[9] Just bypassing redirect? – xeno talk 19:25, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
More pointless edits, e.g. [12] [13] – xeno talk 20:10, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
[14] redirect is not broken. – xeno talk 15:53, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
The bot is again performing needless edits (such as bypassing the functional template redirect "otheruses4" and replacing "Image:" with "File:" in image transclusions). I'm posting this message to halt these edits. Please refrain from programming your bot in this manner. Thank you. — David Levy 01:28, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Which BRFA pertains to this edit? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 22:52, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
This kind of changes do not (or should not) happen on math pages anymore. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:55, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
It seems to be adding r/n/r/n/r/n to every deadend tag it puts on a page. Katharineamy ( talk) 14:23, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Your bot claims to be working for insects, but it just seems to be adding section headers willy-nilly. Does the bot have approval to do this? It seems like you're just running general fixes without any substantive work. – xeno talk 21:07, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Now AWB provides built-in talk page general fixes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:53, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
A question has come up at WikiProject Musicians about music group tagging, and it was pointed out that your bot does this, or at least did so a year ago. I see an explanation for this is on your bot's user page. Can I presume your bot still does this? Also, we are looking for a rule or decision that this should be done. I found a discussion at BLP from April 2009 ( Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons/Archive 21#Are Groups of Persons Covered?) where consensus seemed to be against it, so if you can provide info about s different place where this was discussed, with a different outcome, we would like to know. Please note: there are no objections to what your bot is doing. It would be best to reply at the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musicians#living=yes for articles about musical groups, but if you respond here instead, I'll pass it on. Thanks. -- A Knight Who Says Ni ( talk) 14:41, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Why is this thing removing expand tags from articles that haven't been expanded? Cases in point Cashis or 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu. Niteshift36 ( talk) 23:27, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:29, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
At present it is tagging vast numbers of biographies of long dead people with a BLP tag. (Also reported on WP:ANI.) Thanks, Mathsci ( talk) 06:55, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
The bot is inserting improper line feeds into the name attribute of ref elements, as illustrated by this edit. The same edit illustrates undocumented changes to accessdate formats. Jc3s5h ( talk) 18:48, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Yo - your bot put a tag on Pindar objecting to ibid, of which there was only once instance, now removed. Can you remove the tag now or is there some other issue? Ta Amphitryoniades ( talk) 22:51, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit you marked Negative binomial distribution/box with an orphan tag. It is linked from Negative binomial distribution (top of the page) using two curly braces. Might want to update the code that identified orphans. 018 ( talk) 15:40, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
In this edit, Yobot tagget an article incorrectly as uncategorized; as a comment at the bottom of the article states, the category listings are deliberately included in the redirects to the article, because the article is about two closely related conference series and it's better for them to show up separately in the category. I don't fault the bot for not recognizing this, but is there some way to prevent it from coming around and doing it again? — David Eppstein ( talk) 18:34, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
{{
bots|deny=Yobot}}
. –
xeno
talk
18:37, 10 May 2010 (UTC)Yobot is adding strings such as r\n\r\n to articles it tags. Make it stop. Abductive ( reasoning) 01:59, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Your talk page is becoming too long with inactive discussions; can {{ archiveme}} be added on the top of the page? -- Gh87 ( talk) 02:24, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
I have been creating articles on World War I flying aces; in the process, I have been leaving the death dates vacant when unknown because that is what I had been advised. Now your bot insists there is a cohort of creaky old geezers creaking about in their 120s. I am manually correcting the problem, and burying them all. I have also decided to ignore prior advice, and add "unknown" under death date. It's going to be a long haul; I probably have a couple hundred articles out there where death date is unknown.
Georgejdorner ( talk) 15:44, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Please stop using this bot on biographies of World War I flying aces. It keeps marking aces as being alive. There are no living World War I aviators left; the few WWI vets left were ground-bound warriors.
I am tired of correcting this bot's errors, and if it continues, I am faced with the prospect of correcting some hundreds of entries because of advice that the death date in the info box should not be filled in if unknown. I repeat, there are hundreds of bios bearing this blank, and your bot will probably eventually find them all.
Georgejdorner ( talk) 13:52, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I answered in my talk page where you left a message. Let me summarise:
I have some info on the tagging on User:Yobot. I don't know if they are enough.
If you have more questions I would be more than happy to help. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 14:24, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello Yobot,
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia using AutoWikiBrowser. Unfortunately, many of these edits, perhaps by mistake, seem to be trivial. The AWB rules indicate that use of the tool should be avoided solely for trivial edits.
With regret, further use of the tool in this manner could result in your right to use it being removed.
AWB now includes many automated skip options, and also the very useful RegExTypoFix, for correcting spelling mistakes. Consider enabling that, and then telling AWB to skip if no typo fixes are made.
You assured us in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 10 that these very trivial edits would be "done only in addition to bot's main tasks", however these 1500 edits seem to do the minor insignificant redirect bypasses all on their own (with a general fix here and there). – xeno talk 13:09, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
I went out for lunch and forgot Yobot running. We are working in re-writing KingbotK. Main problem is that WPBS and WPB are treated differently by KingbotK probably and probably both wrong. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:13, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
I undid your header addition at Talk:Cochlea. Please don't do that. Dicklyon ( talk) 23:39, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
{WikiProjectBanners - Needs one more opening curly brace there. -- 59.95.111.215 ( talk) 13:22, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for reporting. At about 30 pages affected. Fixing now. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:25, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
WikiProjectBannerShell fixes will be added in AWB's genfixes. We are moving them out of the KingbotK Plugin. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:37, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
rev 6714 as first step. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:58, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Plugin has been rewritten + AWB now provides built-in talk page general fixes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:53, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
There's a spelling error in your edit summary, dude: "WikiProhect". Hesperian 13:28, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Yobot has been making insignificant edits such as [18] [19] on talk pages. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:33, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
[20] - broke the collapsing of WikiProjectBanners, inserting an odd header in an purposeful html comment, and make another pointless change. Granted, it made me investigate the more intracate mostly undocumented WikiProjectBannerShell's collapse parameters, but it didn't even do that correctly :\. RN 15:30, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Now, after checking contributions, it's messing up a ton of talk pages using the 1= screwup. It seems to have stopped for now but if it continues will reecommend blocking to an admin. RN 16:12, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
The parameter 1= is fine. The problem is it should be changing WikiProjectBanners with WikiProjectBannerShell with parameter collapsed=yes. This was already reported in my talk page and we (AWB) will fix it. The spirit of theses tests is exactly to find these small errors and prevend them in the future. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:28, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
rev 6813 fixes one of the bugs you reported. No more headers inside html comments. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:38, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Your repeated edits to Talk:History of Bristol are not apptreciated. Talk page headers are only for pages where there likely to be disputes. Please read and understand Template:Talk_header. Banner shells are not needed where there are only two projects. –– Jezhotwells ( talk) 17:25, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that you a lot if pointless edits that are also removing WikiProject importance ratings form WikiProject banners. Please stop this disruptive behavior immediately. — Farix ( t | c) 13:12, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Edits like these really need to stop. Completely. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 21:43, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
The discussion about BD lasted some months! Many editors expressed their opinion on the subject. I was collecting problems on the use of BD for months and recorded tenths of cases. It is/was an in depth consensus. Feel free to open the subject again. My opinion is clear: Categories should be hidden inside templates. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:06, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Your bot made a very weird edit in June. [23]
{{ WPMACAU}} is not equivalent to {{ WikiProject Middle Ages}} - exactly how many templates your bot has messed up, I've no idea, but there should be some. {{ WikiProject Middle AgesCAU}} does not exist.
76.66.193.119 ( talk) 08:19, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Problem has been fixed now. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:19, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Sorry for a rapid block. Please explain why the bot is doing edits which merely (i) tag empty section example?. Materialscientist ( talk) 10:10, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Mag, I'm not sure if you were aware [I'd assume not as I've seen you do it thrice now], but it is generally considered inappropriate to unblock your own bot (as a form of self-unblock) unless the issue has been resolved to the satisfaction of the blocker and/or the community. [Without comment on the present case or whether the block was necessary] – xeno talk 13:22, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Steve Quinn,
this edit shows that you disagree with current consensus on empty sections and you do edits against consensus. Instead of writing here, better use other pages in order to reach a different consensus on empty sections and the corresponding template. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
01:36, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Your bot has been adding empty section tags to sections that have content. What I figure is causing it to think its empty is that the content is encased in <pre> tags. - DJSasso ( talk) 00:04, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Can Yobot not tag but remove empty "See also" or/and "Further reading" sections? Tagging them as "please expand" only attracts spammers. Their names are quite standard. Thanks. Materialscientist ( talk) 07:33, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Yobot is tagging a large number of articles as bio/deceased, many of which are not biographical articles at all. More care should be taken with this kind of automated edit. -- Radagast 3 ( talk) 14:27, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Someone added the Category:New Testament people to all of them which is obviously false. -- Yobot ( talk) 14:31, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
I have blocked this bot indefinitely for repeated and persistent violations of AWB's rules of use and the bot policy. Please do not unblock it yourself. I will submit the block for review at the administrators' noticeboard. – xeno talk 14:37, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
The bot was unblocked at 15:15UTC. These edits are after that: [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 17:45, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Bug fixed in rev 6954.
A resume of the story so far:
In the beginning (some years ago) KingbotK was running fine but at some point nobody was maintaining it and became out-dated. I tried with Yobot to run the plugin and reduce the backlog. During this process we discovered many bugs in the code and many stuff that were out of date. We changed the philosophy of the plugin and moved all extra stuff as talk pages general fixes that weren't introduced before.
I started running with "skip if only general fixes" activated until xeno reported minor edits and you were right. We had general fixes for talk pages but no skip options! We fixed that and moved one. Later we introduced fixes for the banner shells which resulted, at least in the beginning, to a new round of minor edits. This stopped recently after we released a new snapshot.
Instead of using "skip if only general fixes" I decided to use the more convenient (as I thought) "skip if plugin makes no changes" which revealed the recent bug.
I could of course have chosen to have all skip options enabled. This would probably result to less minor fixes and certainly to less bug fixes and improvements.
I would like to thank Reedy and Rjwilmsi for fixing my bug reports almost immediatelly. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:31, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
The bot is again making only trivial changes to articles, not fixing what it claims to be doing. Examples: [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]. This was probably about half of the ones that I randomly sampled. Mr. Z-man 03:19, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
The situation isn't that bad as initially described. Still of course they are some trivial edits and it would be excepeted that all articles above have unclosed external links. Obviously the database scan used by CHECKWIKI at the moment is outdated. The situation will fix in a few days where the new dump will released. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:15, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Some steps to reduce errors:
After the bug fix the fix ratio increased rapidly. Nice catch. Magioladitis ( talk) 12:21, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
COULD YOU PLEASE USE LESS CAPITAL LETTERS IN YOUR EDIT SUMMARY, THIS APPEARS A BIT IRRITATING AND DISRUPTIVE. THANKS Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 00:41, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
This bot has made a mess of my watchlist making a lot of changes to articles that seem totally inconsequential, such as this (picked at random) where it changes a few parameters in an infobox, but makes no change at all to the output, so I have to ask, what is the point? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:06, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
{{{birthdate|{{{birth_date|made compatible}}}}}}
, so there is no need to update the parameter names? –
xeno
talk
16:50, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
|location=
will be misused but anyway). --
Magioladitis (
talk)
17:45, 7 September 2010 (UTC)← I was referring to my comment that iff this template is to be replaced en masse (still wasteful, imo, but if that is what the TFD outcome was...), it should be done in a single edit. Not two edits to accomplish what could be done in one. – xeno talk 17:57, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
FYI as you can see in this diff, your bot removed a named referenced that was used elsewhere in the article: [60]. Luckily another bot was available to clean up [61], but it would be preferable if your bot would handle re-used refs more elegantly in the future as this may not always be the case. – xeno talk 13:26, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
I don't know whether I want to stop Yobot or not, but I think it's on the safe side. At Heather O'Rourke, Yobot accidentally converted a "location" variable in a {{ cite web}} to "birth_place" because the citation variable is nested within {{ infobox actor}} [62]. I've reverted the edit for now since the older variables are still supported. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 17:30, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
The bot appears to be simply changing "Article issues" to "Multiple issues" [63] [64]. I've lost count of how many times I've been here for an issue like this. – xeno talk 17:34, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
|1=
was missing. If I make a plugin run with this missing it will stack. I am adding the missing parameter. There should be many of them though unless someone added many recently. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
15:01, 16 November 2010 (UTC)|blp=
will be handled be general AWB fixes and not the KingbotK plugin which is buggy. This will reduce (and hopefully fix) the problem. The snapshot we released yesterday solves the WPbiography placement. I need some time and all issues will be set. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
15:04, 16 November 2010 (UTC)In this edit Yobot added the tag a&e-work-group=yes to Talk:Valentin Naboth; Valentin Naboth was a mathematician/astrologer/astronomer, not an entertainer. I don't understand why it did that; could it be that somewhere in the text it says Acts of the German Artistennation? The German Artistennation was part of the University of Padua, a college as we would call it where liberal arts students from Germany lived and worked. The liberal arts of course refers to classical Western education in the 7 Liberal arts: grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, astronomy, music and geometry ; it has little or nothing to do with the "Arts" as we currently use the word. JdH ( talk) 10:29, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:Infobox comics creator#"Location" vs "birth_place" - J Greb ( talk) 00:10, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Yobot's editing many church disambiguation articles seems incorrect. The usage of church disambiguation tag was covered in a big discussion involving template-for-discussion and other forums a year or two ago. -- doncram ( talk) 12:55, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Yo, Yo. At http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Demographic_economics&oldid=384451235 with this Edit summary: 20:16, 12 September 2010 Yobot WP:CHECKWIKI error fixes + genfixes, removed stub tag using AWB, there was the problem of inserting an unnecessary space between "pp." (for the admittedly unusual case of 2nd 'p' in an external link, as in the References section:
(The 2nd 'p' in the link was to make it clearer that anyone who linked would be taken to the first page, not necessarily any other.)
Any suggestion as to how to fix a bot to avoid that outcome? Thank you. -- Thomasmeeks ( talk) 10:14, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Edits such as
this must be avoided. Links in the regnum
parameter of {{
Taxobox}} are needed for correct formatting, and must not be removed. Even in other ranks, the selflink is used to (correctly) produce boldface (
example). --
Stemonitis (
talk)
16:56, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
|regnum=
and you started reverting edits that changed |genus=
. Please provide me a link of the consensus or the guideline because I wasn't able to find anything relevant. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
05:59, 28 September 2010 (UTC)This bot needs to immediately stop replacing <em>...</em>
markup with </nowiki>...</nowiki>
(which is rendered at the user end as <i>...</i>
. They are not the same, and serve completely different semantic purposes, and are separate tags for a reason, even if average editors don't bother (there are we non-average editors who do, and fix misuse of semantics-free italics when emphasis is intended). About 99% of the time, if an editor bothered to use <em> they did so for a clear and considered reason (namely genuine emphasis, not simply italicization for typographic conventions, such as book titles), and considered the difference to be important. You need to undo all of the <em>-to-'' changes your bot has made. Changing <i> to '' is just fine, since they are the same thing and we prefer the wikitext version. PS:
Diff as requested. PPS: If your bot is also replacing <strong> with ''' this has to stop and be undone too, for the reason (while conversion of <b> to ''' is okay). —
SMcCandlish
Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ
Contribs.
07:42, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia#Yobot - it's fixing recent changes, but leaving older pages untouched - result is a category mess, and more work for non-bot editors (humans, 1000s of chimps etc). Sf5xeplus ( talk) 18:46, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Persondata with a 1940s birthdate, for an organisation, founded in the 1960s? Fifelfoo ( talk) 10:18, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
G'day Yobot, what's the purpose of this edit? [66] The infobox looks a bit silly without the line break. -- Mkativerata ( talk) 19:17, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you please train whatever it is you use to patrol new pages, to mark those pages as patrolled after it has added it maintenance templates? At the moment all it does is duplicate the patrolling effort. Thanks.-- Kudpung ( talk) 11:24, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
I believe that us editing this page at the same time lead to an edit conflict, and, going of the size of the article now, compared with the size it was after you edited it, I may have wiped out whatever work you have done to the page.
I just thought I'd let you know in case you wanted to revert back to the changes you made, or to do them again.
Thanks,
Ymron ( talk) 16:09, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Why is Yobot adding default sort parameters example that make no actual difference to the sort order? SpinningSpark 15:34, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
greetings: this edit broke some coding on the page. i undid it, but you may want to have a look. Badmachine ( talk) 02:16, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Yobot blanked an article [67]. An indication of a problem perhaps? Jon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.150.119.4 ( talk) 17:45, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Just a note; this edit [68] only replaced a template redirect. In general, AWB edits that only do that violate the AWB terms of use, since they are trivial edits. However, it might be that the philosophy project asked you to do it or something. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 00:56, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, thank you for taking the trouble to run a bot to cover for back end quality assurance lapses that the foundation should address on their end.
However, removing the <br /> line break from a small "See also" section causes a three-portal portal box to overlap the section below. See this diff. It is minor but I'm not sure why you have your bot do those edits. I think if an editor knows that function they likely did it for a good reason. Note, I just rolled back as I intended to replace that manual metric conversion with a {convert} tag) so didn't need the nbsp the bot added. Just some info for you to tweak your bot. Thanks and keep up the good work. Veriss ( talk) 18:31, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I learned a new trick it seems. I wanted to fix my typos above but received a warning that my edit would stop the bot and I didn't want to do that. Cheers, Veriss ( talk) 19:39, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, it would be nice if future edits like this one didn't use a lower case "i" when changing the IMDb template (correct name: {{ IMDb name}}). It's surprisingly jarring, even though the case of the initial character of a template name is ignored by the software. Thanks, — JohnFromPinckney ( talk) 04:31, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm a bit confused as to why the bot is moving everything to WikiProject Biography, when the template goes to WPBiography. It just makes for more work in the end. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 16:27, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Why is your bot going around making useless replacements of a template redirect with the template (e.g. here), and where is the approval for this task? Anomie ⚔ 06:05, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Could you please not move commas occuring after a footnote refs to before the ref, as you did at Paul Robeson? Grammatically both are acceptable practices (so no need for correction) and syntactically it makes more sense to have the commas after the ref, when the refs cover preceding passages ended by the comma. Thank you, Str1977 (talk) 09:44, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Just noticed [69], where Yobot left out a pipe, breaking a template. DuncanHill ( talk) 18:28, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
This edit [70] includes a longstanding AWB bug that leads to extra close braces being added to math markup. Beyond that, I can't see what nontrivial change was supposed to be made there. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 03:23, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
For the help. DavidFarmbrough ( talk) 04:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
I noticed Yobot added an additional WikiProject tag to an article's talk page using AWB. Not sure if this is the best spot to report the problem, but I'm relatively new and this seemed unusual. Here's a link to the diff: [71]
Regards, Aeonx ( talk) 09:37, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
This edit doesn't seem to be doing what the edit summary says, as the only edit moves talkheader to the top. Is this really a useful edit (the wrong summary notwithstanding) for a bot to go around making? If so, it should probably be done only when there are other edits actually being made to the page, imo. Killiondude ( talk) 21:24, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Is there a reason YoBot is tagging stubs "wikify" even if they have as many links as they could conceivably accept? (Example: [72]) -- Avocado ( talk) 19:00, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Press Now has been tagged multiple times for not having sufficient outside resources to prove its notability despite the fact that I keep adding sources. Press Now is not a widely known organization outside of the Netherlands, however the sources used (once translated to Dutch) more than prove the quality of the Non governmental organization. I would like to have the page deletion notification removed from the Press Now wikipedia page and if there is a problem with the notability then would greatly appreciate any suggestions about alternate sources that could work.
Already used a Dutch version of Charity Navigator that lists the history and financial breakdown of the NGO as well as listed a couple articles talking about Press Now's involvement with them, not sure how more notable the organization can be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FPCP ( talk • contribs) 10:58, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Your incorrectly expanding {{ CRWP}} to the Canadian WikiProject tag, which is incorrect. Please correct your AWB script and correct your mistake. CRWP → {{ Canada Roads WikiProject}} -- Admrboltz ( talk) 16:28, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
I'm not convinced that this is really what the bot intended to do. Perhaps you can take a look. Thank you. -- WikHead ( talk) 19:10, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Lots of these in the edits [73] — Carl ( CBM · talk) 11:58, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Out of curiosity why is the attempted de-orphan parameter being removed from articles with the multiple issues template, such as in this edit? Sadads ( talk) 07:42, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Here's an example of an edit where I have no idea what checkwiki issue is being addressed: [74]. The edit replaced a template and deleted a trailing space, but neither of those is a "checkwiki error", right? Similarly [75] — Carl ( CBM · talk) 19:41, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
rev 7498 logic to catch more unbalanced brackets. I still have a list of 3-4 cases than can be fixed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:41, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the numbers in the edit summaries. These two are supposed to be 66, which is something about image captions [79] but the changes don't seem related [80] [81]. I have also seen a bunch of 61s, like [82]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:16, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
( edit conflict) This is true but many of the pages are reported to have more than 1 errors. As soon as I reduce the backlog in a manageable level I can do the custom module and bypass. I keep checking diffs, taking notes and reporting bugs. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:25, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
It also seems to be making a lot of trivial changes again. I looked at 15 random ones from its last 500 edits. Added a pointless defaultsort, and again, and again, moved a category a couple lines, a handful of pointless changes, bypassed a redirect and removed <small> tags, and bypassed some redirects. This is almost a 50% error rate. Mr. Z-man 07:12, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Is this edit useful in any way? Checkwiki does not seem to include this case. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 07:08, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I 'll empty my current list and then re-approach the subject. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:57, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Please do reprogram the bot not to save edits like this [84] [85] (which it is doing a lot), as it spams watchlists and covers up vandalism. Materialscientist ( talk) 10:17, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I just emptied my active list. I'll reprogram to address the issue I am supposed to be fixing (placement of references and punctuation). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:23, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:28, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Created custom module to skip when FixReferenceTags isn't called. It can be found in User:Yobot/Error 61. I'll later do the first part. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:45, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
See here. Cheers, mgiganteus1 ( talk) 22:57, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
The bot is making a mess with edits like this one. I've blocked it for now. Courcelles 04:29, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Why is yobot busy adding pointless {{DEFAULTSORT}}s to scores of articles which clearly don't need them?
I am not persuaded of the merits of bypassing a redirect to a template, but discussions at WT:AWB seem to support that, so I'll not object. But {{DEFAULTSORT}}s which simply restate the pagename are pointless graffiti. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:42, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
See WP:GENFIXES#DEFAULTSORT_insertion_and_fixes_.28SetDefaultSort.29:
NOTE: AWB does not meet all of the (various) rules on DEFAULTSORT on en-wiki; it may not meet all of the rules on other wikis either. It may never be possible to meet all of the rules. An option is provided under the Options menu to turn off all changes/insertion of DEFAULTSORT
Please, just turn it off for future edits ... and remove the graffiti applied so far. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 15:35, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
OK, you have restarted the bot, but not responded. It's rollback time. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:10, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
BrownHairedGirl, calling an trivial addition of a (mostly harmless) {{ DEFAULTSORT}} template vandalism is inappropriate, not to mention is it clearly not. If you expect others to courteously address your concerns, then the onus is on you to AGF and remain civil. Otherwise, you only serve to continue to inflame the situation and foster further non-cooperativeness. Regards, – MuZemike 22:08, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Nowadays, DEFAULTSORT is case-insensitive and AWB/Yobot do not change this anymore. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:58, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
In case you are here about the Expand tag cleanup:
|expand=
from {{
Multiple issues}} if page is a stub {{
expand|section}}
to {{
Expand section}} {{
expand}}
inside section to {{
Expand section}} -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:40, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Tell your bot not to change short references to named references. It is not allowed per MOS policy. ·Maunus·ƛ· 01:00, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
the Yobot's recent edit to G.E.M. has wrecked the article because it changed some perfectly normal ref tags and left some tags invalid. Please don't do this again and change the bot. Pukascape ( talk) 12:25, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Not exactly. Have a look at ref. 11 after the bot edit. The bot moved quotation mark from
name="Yahoo HK Music Artist Profile" (in Chinese)
to
name="Yahoo HK Music Artist Profile (in Chinese)" Materialscientist ( talk) 14:06, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
( YahooBot ( talk) 13:01, 9 June 2011 (UTC))
Hello dear Yobot,
please review Multi-touch. It's looking like user:Alexanderaelberts trys to promote links of his own websides (SEO). I am new on Wiki and don't know how I can deleted this changes from user:Alexanderaelberts.
Sincerely, ( YahooBot ( talk) 13:01, 9 June 2011 (UTC))
I don't think it's fair play to use a name to edit and then say that replies here will 'stop' Yobot. I've reverted your edit on the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final. I'll also leave a calling card @ the other Talk page. And I'll bring all this 'don't edit this page' stuff to the attention of the Editors. Tapered ( talk) 07:01, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Template:otheruses has about 10,000 transclusions, it really shouldn't be randomly orphaned [94] [95]. It looks like the bot was going through a list of these. Would you please go through and have the bot fix them back the way they were? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 18:50, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
The bot is wildly turning This into About, even in quotes and citations. See [96].-- Prosfilaes ( talk) 18:53, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
I want to stop Yobot because I don't understand why article Duo Caron is an orphan. About Wikipedia definition:
I removed orphan tag on the Duo Caron article because it includes more than three related links. Would you explain me clearly what is the problem with this ? Thanks Likeabluesun ( talk) 20:51, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Greetings:
Yobot has removed the underscore from "std::auto_ptr" in C++0x's "Features to be removed or deprecated" section twice now. The underscore needs to remain in the link text.
Is it possible to make Yobot ignore it by turning it into [[std::auto_ptr|std::auto_ptr]]
style link?
Thanks!
Mskfisher (
talk)
14:37, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
I did all the cleanup is supposed to be done. Hopefully the page won't reapear in my to-do list. If you notice further problems please contact me again. Thanks, Magioladitis 15:13, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
The bot should not fix errors, that demonstrate punctuation errors to readers. [97] Is there a way to prevent the bot from autofixing some text in the article? -- hydrox ( talk) 18:38, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
A week later User:Rich Farmbrough let me know of the existence of the template {{ not a typo}}, which is the most effective way to prevent any bot (not just AWB) from autofixing selected passages, and leaves the rest of the article subject to standard autofixes (which are almost always helpful.) So if you are having similiar problems, consider using it.-- hydrox ( talk) 14:16, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Example [98]. Materialscientist ( talk) 09:48, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Yobot's edit are damaging previously-done edits on this page, so this is a heads-up to let you know Yobot will be stopped next time. Thanks! Best, -- Discographer ( talk) 19:54, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Yobot is adding the biography template to the fictional character Huang Rong, the article is clearly categorised as being fictional, something that Yobot is not picking up.-- KTo288 ( talk) 13:37, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
[99] - no significant change. WPBiography has 700,000 transclusions, so going through and replacing them all seems like an exceptional job. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 22:11, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
|priority=
. After a reboot I forgot to reload the plugin. Thanks! And I was wondering why there were so many edits this time. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
22:16, 6 February 2011 (UTC)Why, in the name of God, are you changing every instance of a perfectly functional template based on a minor renaming decision. You've just flooded my watchlist with at least a hundred pointless minor edits and made it significantly more difficult to find the vandalism that's too-often hidden behind them. Rossami (talk) 20:54, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestions on Accredited Crane Operator Certification. The suggestions were followed and now I'm hoping that the pages is up to standards and no longer in need of dead-end and orphan tags. Thanks. Yanbianfan Yanbianfan ( talk) 16:12, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wahoo (SS-238)}}
was changed to
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wahoo (Ss-238)}}
It's even the title of the page -- so it should make sure DEFAULTSORT matches the article title.
Glrx ( talk) 01:57, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Ooops - DEFAULTSORT is wrong - left off the USS Glrx ( talk) 02:00, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Changing the references to date order may be a bit confusing for copyeditors as some think that they are in order of mention. Please do not use auto edits as they mask the reference and make it very difficult for editors to check the references. I have fixed the two you did. :) -- Rskp ( talk) 23:08, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Look at 1st millennium for example. I'm reverting it third time now. 194.143.148.26 ( talk) 14:58, 18 February 2011 (UTC) rev 7608 fixes the bug. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:59, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
This edit [100] [101] shouldn't have happened - what's up?
Also this almost certainly does not have bot approval.
You're not setting a good example here; Yobot has done this before, and you indicated it was an error. You need to change the default settings so that these edits are only saved if someone goes out of their way to save them. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 14:15, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
It's still broken [102]; that may be a manual edit, could you change the edit summary if it is? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 14:25, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Warning_a_plugin_wasn.27t_loaded.3F. I hope this will help. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:12, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Yobot is doing it again
[103]
[104] — Carl (
CBM ·
talk)
12:16, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
The bot is still doing it, after my last edit [108] [109]. Really? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:36, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Let me start over. Remember all I can see is the bot's diffs and edit summaries. I looked at the contribs this morning, and the bot was making trivial edits again. The edit summaries were the same generic summaries as always. I have no way to tell why the bot does what it does, all I can do is look at the diffs and see whether they look right. If they don't, I post here to pause the bot. Bots aer meant to be boring and predicatable; it shouldn't take extra explanation to figure out what's going on with an edit. If I see any actual changes in the diff, I skip over it; I only pointed out the trivial edits here. If the cause of the trivial edits is a bug in the bot, the bug should be fixed. That's why I posted. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:58, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
You need to fix this bug permanently
[111]. It seem like whenever I point it out, you always say it's a bug, but then it happens again, which makes it look like it's intentional. — Carl (
CBM ·
talk)
14:10, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
rev 7716 solves the problem of template redirects not loaded in settings change. This solves one of the problems discussed above. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:34, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Yobot, there are errors in the United States and Canada section of this article.
The sentence "Heating oil is widely used in parts of the United States and Canada where natural gas is not available propane is priced higher." lost the word "or" before propane last December.
The sentence "Where other fuels are not available, it is sometimes referred to as the unit cost per unit (BTU=British thermal unit or BTUH / h per hour), and can be less than other fuels." does not seem to make sense to me, but appears to have been this way since the section was introduced. Any clarification would be appreciated.
Thanks for your working on Wikipedia 96.252.78.148 ( talk) 23:26, 20 February 2011 (UTC)DAB 20 Feb 2011
I mean, this is a completely pointless edit. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:34, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
"We fixed now some more stuff on the unintentional unicodifycation. I am marking this as "resolved". Please re-port if this occurs again. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:38, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
You are bypassing redirects, which is not something which should be done unless it is alongside a more substantial change. But more than that, you are changing people's comments (e.g. [112]). Please revert all these errors. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 19:54, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
I don't know how to get a bot approval revoked, but the next time I see this bot edit a talk page I'm going to find out. Jc3s5h ( talk) 23:21, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
I reverted the one indicated. I don't think they are more. Bot run with svn 7619. In rev 7623, rev 7624, rev 7625, rev 7626, rev 7627, rev 7628 and rev 7629 we did some effort to fix the plugin further. I 'll update my settings file to prevent stupid edits. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 01:01, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Yobot, I've added some additional information and references for the article Arta Musaraj and I removed Template:Multiple issues. I think this article now have the requirements of an article.-- Tufche 20:01, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Yobot,
I am new to wiki and am helping my friend with Michael Zansky page. I see that you put an Orphan tag up. What does that mean?
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.193.59.100 ( talk) 23:39, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit you have changed the spacing around dashes in the titles of references. I would have expected that the spacing in reference titles should not be changed to conform to wiki rules but should be left as it. Keith D ( talk) 23:35, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
This caught my eye, I didn't think AWB's rules allowed for such edits? Nor did the usual bot rules? Ealdgyth - Talk 18:45, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
I just reverted the edit made by YOBOT. I don't use template for citations, but I always follow WP:CITE/ES for formatting. YOBOT moved the brackets on my citations to highlight everything including retrieved date which did not follow WP:CITE/ES format. - Briarfallen ( talk) 06:15, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Would you run Yobot against this article, Arkansas Militia in the Civil War. I added about 70 new references over night and Yobot does a great job of cleaning them up. thanks. Aleutian06 ( talk) 12:15, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
You seem to have cut out my piece on "Yahya"? Is it because you disagree with the contents? Surely it cannot be regarded as just a minor edit,though?
If, however, there is a punctuation problem, then perhaps you could please help me fix it? ... I thought I was following the same format as used elsewhere. It might be best to write to my e-mail address - DLMcN@yahoo.com Regards, DLMcN ( talk) 05:11, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Probably OK now ... maybe the misunderstanding was due to a computer problem here. Sorry to have bothered you !
DLMcN (
talk)
07:24, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, please explain why this edit satisfies AWB Rules of Use, particularly item 4 "Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits such as only adding or removing some white space...". -- Redrose64 ( talk) 11:47, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
as here. The page was in those categories beforehand, and sorted correctly; it is therefore an inconsequential edit. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 14:21, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Jello,
I would like to ask you why you put the article on orphans.
I tried and found as many links in this article. I know that many are in Greek but I do not think this is a problem.
The newspapers here in Greece rarely keep the articles have gone on the Internet. for it kept the newspapers had an article on this person and I just put the link of the newspaper to show that there is this newspaper.
Please show me that there is a problem.
The article about orphans say that two connections may be enough to set a point.
bests regards,
Manolis ma ( talk) 15:40, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
See here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mfwitten ( talk • contribs) 00:06, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
It happened again. :-/ Practice elsewhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mfwitten ( talk • contribs) 13:03, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
In this edit, Yobot replaced the Russian quotation marks « and » with regular ones (""). Why? I haven't found anything in the manual of style regarding this. -- Vladimir ( talk) 11:07, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Yobot made a mistake here adding closing brackets to a long image description. Note that the original closing bracket is still left in what has now become article text. SpinningSpark 06:13, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Yabot. I just added more catagories to Foad Rafii's article. so now there are 7 of them. Could the orphan tag be removed now? is that you who removes that? pishoo ( talk) 21:41, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Please stop changing PF_INET and similar to PF INET. -- Bełamp ( talk) 09:26, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
For Zlatan Ibahimovic, someone edited his biography and said that he is Bosnian-Serb and his father is Bosnian-Serb. That is very wrong. His father is a Bosniak (Bosnian muslim). Sefik is strictly a Bosnian name (his fathers name).
Zlatan comes from Bosnian and Croatian decent and someone changed that up recently. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pasalic12 ( talk • contribs) 23:43, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I have reverted Yobot's efforts, which led to many wrecked references "no text provided" errors, many lines of red error messages. Needs to be checked after application, clearly not safe on autopilot. TSRL ( talk) 10:08, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis -
Yobot is incorrectly removing stubs from articles. Stub status is primarily judged on article text length, yet in edits like this Yobot seems to be using total length including lists and references as a criterion. Grutness... wha? 23:28, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
I have noticed that AWB seems to count text within blockquotes and I am not sure if this is a good thing. I notice this most often when editing Medal of Honor recipient pages where some of the Citations are quite long so even thought the article itself is somewhat stubby AWB tries to remove the stub tag because it appears to be counting the quoted citation text. I have to admit I am not certain about that though and I may be incorrect in that assumption. -- Kumioko ( talk) 16:38, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
In this change [113] Yobot has taken on itself to 'correct' lines of source code, in particular adding extra square brackets around data constructs thinking they are mistyped links. Clearly wrong: could it be made to skip sections wrapped in 'syntaxhighlight' tags as this is?-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 23:41, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Hiding sections wrapped in 'syntaxhighlight' tags is a good suggestion. I'll see what I can do. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:32, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Now we hide syntaxhighlight. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:07, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that Yobot moves punctuation after <ref> tags. That is only correct if there is only one <ref> tag in the sentence, and the punctuation mark is period. In my particular case, Yobot moved commas before the <ref> tag, which doesn't make sense (if you think of the <ref> tag as a parenthetical statement, you'd put the comma after it, just like right now), so I think this could be improved. Also, if there are two or more refs in a sentence, they reference specific parts, so moving the last one after the period is incorrect because it would mean that last <ref> references the whole sentence, when it only references the last few words that happen to be before the final period. Both these examples can be seen at the link I provided.
Sorry if this is not the right place to post feedback about the Yobot. I'm using its talk because because I do want to stop it from editing E-mini, since Yobot seems to be mainly about BLP's. -- Astellix ( talk) 06:54, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Please check this edit. I cited the exact title of the article. This bot changed it! Please don't corrupt my references like this. Please correct it (because if I do, the bot will probably change it again). — Hebrides ( talk) 20:44, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting it. You also removed a reference to French Wikipedia. I like to show where each part of my article comes from. Some facts came from French Wikipedia, so if I cannot use a reference, how should I show where they come from? — Hebrides ( talk) 21:08, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
On this link, he has a "charges" in the infobox and the bot keeps changing "Grand Theft Auto" to "Grand Theft Auto (series)"
It should stay as just Grand Theft Auto. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HugoRain ( talk • contribs) 14:43, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
For making a series of 100% cosmetic changes, such as [114]. Courcelles 17:12, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
It does seem as though this one does broadly cover parameter cleanup tasks which have some level of consensus at places like WP:BOTREQ. The problem with filing a BRFA for every minor task is that it can take a very long time (see the backlog there). It's also not clear that they want to review minor tasks which involve short runs of under 500 or 1000 pages. I for one think it's fine so long as there is some discussion which precedes the task, sufficient time has elapsed for discussion, and there is then consensus to go forward with the task. My personal opinion on the matter. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:30, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
These tasks fail bot policy, in that it fails to follow "does not consume resources unnecessarily". It fails rule 4 of the AWB rules of use which specifically and unequivocally states "Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits" and clarifies that a few sentences later as "an edit that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page is generally considered an insignificant edit." And since you have stated that I do not understand blocking policy, do you? I see five instances in this bot's block log where you, the operator, have unblocked it, despite the could-not-be-clearer provision of MediaWiki:Unblockiptext that "Administrators:[...]you should not unblock your own bot, in the event that it malfunctioned." Further, Yobot 15 states that these minor tasks, if they are permissible at all, must be discussed on WT:BOTREQ, not somewhere out of the way. Given the thousands of pages involved, discussing this somewhere more regular is not a massive burden. Neither can the discussion that was had be read as support for this to be done as a separate run, with no useful, visible work being performed. If you state you won't resume these parameter changes without further consensus- either an uninvolved closing of that RFC, a discussion on WT:BOTREQ, or a BFRA, I'll unblock it so other work can be performed. Courcelles 01:40, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
I don't ask from Courcelles to unblock the bot because I am not convinced they can understand when to block and when not. I ask it from other administrators. I am not willing to play the game of "first block and then discuss" and I am not willing to back off in this disagreement on if I should have done the edits or not.
I admit mistake in my previous method (first bypass redirects and then merge parameters) and I thank Kingpin13 for their advice, but not I don't admit mistake in this one. To all administrators: Don't unblock the bot if you think I understood why I shouldn't update these parameters.
I could have been more polite with Courcelles and I know I am hard against them but this is not personal. I am done with the whole series of blocks which tend to become more and more often. Courcelle's block was only the latest of a series of blocks.
I am also done with the people who assume bad faith, are too sensitive with their watchlists, hate janitorial work, etc. My work i in decreasing the backlog of some routine works. Some people work on increasing it.
Here's my plan on standardisation: User:Magioladitis#Template_standardisation. If you check now all the drama cause on many cases is already over. Check for instance User_talk:Magioladitis/Archive_5#Notes_on_DABlinks. DABlinks were finally merged/simplified. Most of them by other editors and most of them manually. The same for the 99% of the WikiProjects. A lot of people controbuted in the standardisation. Of course, all took 3 times more than the expected time because of unnecessary blocks and drama. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:36, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
I also don't think it is a very good idea to make the same edits [115] with your regular account when the bot is blocked for doing them. AWB rules of use (and BOTPOLICY in general) apply to these kind of edits just as much when made by a bot as when made by a tool-assisted human, as you very well know. Fram ( talk) 06:54, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Armbrust just gave me a wikichicken for these exactly edits because they improved the snooker pages. And this editor spent a lot of time in snooker pages. Most of them had broken images. 100 out 110 edits did more than just what Fram links to. His opinion counts to me more than the editors' who try to stop a job which has consensus because he is the one who has all the snooker pages on his watchlist. If someone wants to apply bot policy for 10 edits done manually by AWB I would be very happy to see this in some discussion. I am quite sure that the people who today complain that some edits should be done along with other they will come tomorrow to complain why some many things are done together. I didn't edit the football player infoboxes because I knew there will be some concerns and I tried to do everything slow. in I won't edit further today because I am done with people thinking they protect the watchlists of other people. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:04, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
WOSlinker added tracking categories to specify the number of pages in need of change. It's clear that if we delay or abandon the project of standardisation these pages will mupltiply by people copying infoboxes from other pages. Keeping the bot blocked only delays the procedure of standardisation making the argument of "waste of resources invalid" since it takes more resources to modify AWB and finish, if ever, the changes in a few years instead of a few days. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:47, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
{{
unblock}}
I disagree with both parts of "Reblock at once if problems continue". Blocking is not necessary when editors are open in discussion and there were no problems. There was a disagreement on the procedure. It's true that a further discussion can help in expanding the task and save edit runs. Keep in mind though that the same task is performed by other from their main accounts. We delayed a week because of this block but at least something good came out of it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:49, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Yobot tagged here the article Indo-Scythians with ibid. Why? I can't see the problem... mabdul 16:58, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Yo, bot! You're changing "birthdate" and "birthplace" to "birth date" and "birth place". Multiple dictionaries agree that these are single words, and I cannot find anything in the MOS to suggest WP treats them as two words. Rivertorch ( talk) 17:46, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
The header says it all. I'm without the block button at the minute, so I'll stop it this way. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:24, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Looks like it ignored the existing Reflist|colwidth=30em|refs= and added an extra Reflist here: diff Lateg ( talk) 01:20, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Thought it might be a bug -- Iae ( talk) 12:18, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, which of the Kray twins did you think was still alive? Ϣere SpielChequers 18:22, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
You might want to check out this odd edit. Might be a bug. MrKIA11 ( talk) 17:01, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I have reverted yobot's "edit" to 3 GB barrier. The edit had no visible differences in the diff, so I reverted the edit as suspicious. The bot also made its edit with a summary of "WP:CHECKWIKI error 61 fixes + general fixes". This is not sufficiently descriptive. Please fix the bot to use plainly readable edit summaries and to not make "edits" that apparently change nothing. Editors are required to provide useful edit summaries, or they can be blocked from editing - I hold bots to the same standard. Jeh ( talk) 05:59, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
The wikipedia page for parkrun has a table showing the start date of a number of sports events. The table is sortable. Yobot removed leading Zeros from the date. So "08 May 2010" became "8 May 2010" Now the date column is no longer sortable in correct time order.
I have reverted the change. If there is a different way to ensure the date column is sortable, then let me know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.98.118 ( talk) 10:11, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for looking into this and applying the rest of the changes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.98.118 ( talk) 10:25, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Be advised, the edits this bot is making is actually removing the death date and death place from the infobox. Might be an issue with the Template:Infobox MLB player. Neonblak talk - 11:35, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Yobot is bypassing the otherpeople2 redirect without doing anything else in the edit. When so many edits in a row relate to the same template it is clear you are inappropriately orphaning it ( what links here). This is not the first time Yobot has done this; if I notice it in the future with a different template, I will block the bot for performing unapproved work. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:19, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Please reverse the yobot changes to scientific method. The p.941 citation is incorrectly given. You can reply on the scientific method Talk page where I noted the error under the heading Yobot. _ Ancheta Wis ( talk) 00:34,u 15 June 2011 (UTC)
I think yobot did it correctly. The p. 941 citation is intact. --
Ancheta Wis (
talk)
10:38, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Which BRFA corresponds to [116]? The edit summary just says "clean up", which is not on its own an approved task. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:03, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
|birth_date=
and/or |death_date=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
05:58, 15 June 2011 (UTC)The [X]HTML elements <em>
and <i>
are not equivalent or synonymous. Same goes for <strong>
and <b>
. If an editor has intentionally used one of the former, it should not be changed to the latter by being changed by this bot to ''
(or '''
) wikimarkup (and certainly not vice versa either). For every 100 times an editor intentionally uses emphasis markup, I would be there are fewer than one whole case of someone doing so accidentally, since the vast majority of editors here do not use HTML markup at all, and the few who do are almost always doing it for a legitimate reason (the only common exception I can think of, based on 5+ years of experience here is people using quick-and-dirty HTML table markup, because wikitables have a rather steep learning curve). —
SMcCandlish
Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ
Contribs.
04:21, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Why is the bot converting lower-case DEFAULTSORTs to upper, e.g. to "Pre-Paid Legal Service" at Pre-paid legal service. That's not even grammatical (we don't capitalize what comes after a hyphen in circumstance like this), even if the rest were capitalized, e.g. because it was a book title or something). I have not been following category sorting for a long time, so I don't know if there's some consensus I missed somewhere to forcibly capitalize everything incorrectly; if anything, it should be the other way around, with everthing being lowercased, otehrwise it's hard to be certain what should or shouldn't be uppercased to get whatever the desired effect is. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 04:21, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Yobot's changing of the "dateofbirth" parameter to "birth_date" in the infobox of, e.g.
William Walton (rugby) has resulted in the output of {{birth date|1874|09|24|df=y}}
to not be displayed in the infobox . Best Regards.
DynamoDegsy (
talk)
10:20, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Yobot is replacing redirects again. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 21:08, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
I looked through the last few contribs briefly and I can't see any of them make a nontrivial change. Instead, it appears that the bot is simply orphaning Template:WP Poland. Therefore, I have blocked the bot. The block message refers to cosmetic changes, which these are, but a second issue is that the bot does not have approval to simply orphan templates in this manner, so the bot was also running an unapproved job.
The block length is set to indefinite at the moment, because we need to find a long-term resolution to the problem of unapproved edits by the bot before restarting it. I do expect that the block will be lifted; as usual, "indefinite" does not mean "infinite". But this is a recurring problem, and the bot has a long block log for the same sort of problem, so I think an indefinite block is in order. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 21:08, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Yobot, I have added several links from other articles to the article ' Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering'. So it would be good if you remove the Orphan tag you placed in that article, as it is not an Orphan article anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.196.162.39 ( talk) 06:57, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey Yobot, please remove orphan tag on Geraldine Arata page. Plenty of links to other articles. Thank you. Thisandthem ( talk) 02:23, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi, please note that your bot's adding of an orphan tag to articles such as sandy anemone is inappropriate. These are animals which fit perfectly well into a biological scheme, and in a classification scheme. This does not make them orphan articles. They are, rather, the leaves at the end of the biological tree of classification.
regards Seascapeza ( talk) 17:53, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Yobot BRFA 21 only applies to templates that have been through TFD. As far as I can tell, Template:Infobox Scientist has been a redirect since 2009, and not at TFD. Also, according to BRFA 21, the edit summary from Yobot must have a link to the deletion discussion. Therefore this edit is not authorized under BRFA 21. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 17:48, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Since Mediawiki 1.17, all category sortkeys are put into uppercase. So there is no need for edits such as [117] now. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 17:50, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Yobot is not correctly removing File:Replace this image male.svg - see this example. DH85868993 ( talk) 01:16, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Dear Yobot,
I notice you have made a change to the Wikipedia site which carries my profile; Sarah Holland, author, actress and singer. Your edit is asking people to "rate" the page. I have checked many other Wikipedia sites and notice very few of them contain this feature. The page was not started by me although I keep a close eye on it, update it when there is a need to do so and notice changes to it very quickly.
As there have been no major changes made to the page over the last year, I cannot help but wonder why you feel there is a need to ask people to "rate" it?
Best wishes,
Sedruol (Sarah Holland) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sedruol ( talk • contribs) 21:51, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Can you please point me to where there is there a consensus that Yobot (BRFA 15) should remove placeholder images? -- Epipelagic ( talk) 01:58, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Please, put a pick on Reagan Pasternak. I don't know how! I choose, this one: http://i2.listal.com/image/2077889/600full-reagan-pasternak.jpg Can u help? Sorry my english, thank u very much! Juliana Keller — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jukeller ( talk • contribs) 07:00, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Please explain to me how citing personal blog entries falls under Wikipedia's "reliable sources". I get that you personally do not like the guy. But your posts on the subjects you cherry-picked are hardly complete or objective. I'm all about honesty and objectivity in dialogue. Please leave biased, incomplete posts out of the Wikipedia arena. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.52.111.6 ( talk) 00:13, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
This edit, [118] to Anna Turner (producer) changed the hyphen in the file File:Anna Turner (1944-1996) in 1983 with Stephen Hill.png to a non-existent image and the file was then tagged as being orphaned. I hope this is one of the few cases of the bot messing this up and that these mistakes will not happen in the future. Aspects ( talk) 00:57, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello Yobot,
Please review Ráv Thomas I have added an additional reference from a noteworthy news source to cite this article. Please review and remove orphan tag if satisfied, thank you.
Regards, Damo1980 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Damo1980 ( talk • contribs) 08:22, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
See here. Some infoboxes require the link formatting. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:58, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
Dear Yobot, Please review Guinea Pigs (film) There are now a number of links to this article. Please review and remove orphan tag if you are satisfied, thank you. Please advise further if you still deem the article to be an orphan.
Many Thanks dearmat —Preceding undated comment added 12:51, 31 July 2011 (UTC).
Thanks for keeping me honest. 16:27, 31 July 2011 (GMT) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dearmat ( talk • contribs)
Sondra Locke was born in 1944. Erikeltic continues to deny all reliable sources by reverting my edits and inserting an incorrect 1947 birthdate for Sondra Locke. See below for proof that Locke was born in 1944.
On 28 May 2011, actress-director Sondra Locke turned 67 according to Yahoo! News [119], ABC News [120], the Associated Press [121] [122], Leigh Valley News [123], and The Boston Globe [124]; this directly correlates to her being born on 28 May 1944. Her birthdate is 28 May 1944 according to MSN movies [125], the Internet Movie Database [126], and the Notable Names Database [127]. Many printed publications erroneously list her birth year as 1947. The Middle Tennessee State University yearbook from 1963 has a photo of her [128] appearing in a production of Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible. If born in 1947, this would make Locke a 16-year-old university student, an unlikely scenario. Locke's age is stated as 45 in this 1989 People magazine article [129], correlating to a 1944 birth year. As of August 2011, Locke is 67 years old according to public records [130] [131], correlating to her being born in 1944.
Please prevent
Erikeltic from further abusing Locke's wikipedia page. Her correct birth year should be on that page, and the correct year is 1944.
PlaceboComp8705 (
talk)
02:28, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Yobot seems lately to be making an awful lot of minor changes to infoboxes, particularly of scientists, which have no effect at all on the visible page ( example). I thought that bots were not supposed to make such edits unless there was something else more substantial that needed doing at the same time. Spinning Spark 12:12, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Dearest Yobot, You seem to be the most recent editor of Ti Freedman's page. As a Registered User I was under the obviously naive impression I was able to make meaningful edits. Could you please explain to me why I am locked out of doing so? Fred Bauer or whomever seems to have been contacted and engaged for his blocking prowess by Mr Freedman, who has 2 daughters by sperm donation, yet of whom he only mentions one in his own edits: Alice Farrow-Pryke. Could you please explain to me, in the name of veracity and truth on Wikipedia pages, how Mr Freedman has managed to keep people from editing a page on his 'biography' of a living person in the name of vandalism when the mention of his second child could hardly be seen as such, especially in light of his own free, public-record admission and disucssion regarding his first-born daughter? I mean it would seem an act of vandalism to the second daughter not to be mentioned, when the first so lovingly was by Tim himself. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dee de Wit ( talk • contribs) 11:21, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
I changed the north american release dates because both ign.com and neoseeker agreed on different dates than what was posted. I also added some information about how the snes version was originally supposed to be based entirely on the second season of the show.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (video game)
Thank you. -- 24.191.0.28 ( talk) 17:16, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Can you watch out a page created by me recently and edit for corrections in it..?? Bethesda Hospital, Ambur is the one which is 86 year old hospital, started in my region by the american christian missionaries. -- BabuOnWiki ( talk) 10:55, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I've undone your edit because I'm in the middle of a major re-edit. I know the refs need some more work and am slowly addressing these problems as I work through the article. As soon as this is complete I will will asking for a second copy edit. Good to see your interest in this article. :) -- Rskp ( talk) 01:35, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
There are several multiple entries in the Camberwell Cemeteries article. Please could you run through and group them? Thanks Nshimbi ( talk) 21:25, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Please avoid inappropriate flagging of fully-featured articles as 'orphan' when inward and outward links do exist. Such unhelpful comments were added to the National Support Teams article and will continue to be removed but it would be even more greatly appreciated if you could avoid use of such 'robotic' scanning where it is evident that a page is being properly maintained. Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hypocaustic ( talk • contribs) 15:52, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
The article DOES have incoming links; the difficulty which you appear to have had in identifying this is perhaps one of the areas where the 'robot' is not working well. Thanks, however, for the helpful assistance you have since provided in converting some links to wikilinks - point noted. Please do avoid further public negative flagging and use the page's talk function if you have further queries or concerns - it is being watched and your input will be responded to constructively. Hypocaustic ( talk) 10:49, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Magioladitis; your intention to be constructive and helpful is acknowledged, but the repeated public posting of tags which nevertheless appear negative can be interpreted as abusive; hence the request above to make positive suggestions or requests for additional editing in the discussion section of the page. Some of the changes you have suggested have been feasible, others not because of the technical nature of the subject matter and the variable quality of some other related Wikipedia pages. These will hopefully improve with time but I will add links will as appropriate to a good understanding of the topic rather than to fulfil an arbitrary numerical target (unless, of course, other informed contributors identify useful content to include first). Please do refrain from 'graffiti' if you wish take a further interest in the page; the system offers more friendly routes to collaboration than this and a good Wikipedian should use them. Hypocaustic ( talk) 20:51, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
In the article List of MS-DOS commands Yobot removed a section title named ":" and changed it to "", so that it no longer showed up in the TOC and was not clickable. This has been reverted but how can we ensure that this won't happen again? -- Matthiaspaul ( talk) 07:09, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
good work! Chocgirl ( talk) 12:35, 1 October 2011 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar |
good work! Chocgirl ( talk) 12:35, 1 October 2011 (UTC) |
Thanks!!!!!!!!!! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:17, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Please check and tweak. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 20:33, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Yobot, I am amazed by this mechanism. Thanks for your contribution to Esther's entry. I have been trying to correct Esther's date of birth, day, month and year -she was born in 1943. Esther Anderson, in fact, would prefer her date of birth not to appear in Wikipedia. Could you advice me on this? One love Gian — Preceding unsigned comment added by Giangodoy ( talk • contribs) 02:53, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
I think that yobot malfunctioned with this edit [134]. It added a recently-removed top level (wikify) tag back on. This is just FYI, not an issue with me. North8000 ( talk) 23:34, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, the bot broke the references section with
this edit. The article uses
list-defined references, in which the <ref>...</ref>
elements are enclosed by a <references>...</references>
pair. In this case the closing </references>
was missing, but instead of adding it, the bot changed the opening <references>
into a single <references />
, which broke the entire refs section. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
22:20, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
rev 7938 will get us on step closer to solve this problem. -- Yobot ( talk) 17:56, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, with
this edit, Yobot broke a citation. The article was using {{
citation/core}}
directly (probably as a result of an incorrect substitution of {{
citation}}
), for which the parameters are mostly propercased, i.e. |Surname1=
etc. Yobot has lowercased all these, and so they are no longer recognised. Whilst doing this, it also moved a category from inside an {{#if:}}
construct to the bottom of the page. As a result, the category, previously conditional, became unconditional, and so the page was incorrectly categorised. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:16, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Here you introduced a grammatical error into the article Private Stock (malt liquor) by adding a full stop after a quote even though there was already a full stop on the left of the quotation mark. Despite this being the only change to the article, you claimed in your edit summary to have made more than 61 corrections. Please explain yourself. ( WP Editor 2011 ( talk) 14:18, 17 January 2012 (UTC))
I saw that your bot changed the {{ commonscat}} to {{ commons category}} and IMHO entirely unneccessary but simply increase the history of minor bot edit. To my knowledge there's no policy or guideline discourage the use of template shortcut (or any redirect link), point me one if I was wrong. -- Sameboat - 同舟 ( talk) 02:38, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
I 'll satisfy your impatience to fix this problem by doing the remaining 990 pages manually and checking each page separately. Thanks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:00, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
I find it completely unfair that I try to reduce/fix this problem by leaving comments in two languages, update awb's source code, write scripts and all you did is to just block my bot to prevent further improvements because you found 4 pages in your watchlist with "insignificant edits". The backlog reached 110,000 pages in less than 3 months because I get little help by individual editors. There is only 1 bot right now doing general maintance and you prefer to block it instead of letting it run and fix the problems as they occur. I hope you noticed that I didn't just ignore the above comments as I never ignore any of the messages left on my bot's page nor my page. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:45, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
It's also still the case that nobody can tell what the bot was trying to do with edits like [137] because of the vague edit summary. At the very least it would be easy to turn off general fixes altogether, so that no change at all is made if whatever problem is being addressed has already been fixed. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 20:39, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
I'll try to explain myself a bit more. I never ignored any comments on my talk page. The discussion in the German wikipedia with the person who takes care for CHECKWIKI globally proves exactly that. I left them some comments in the past. after the comments above I went the discussion further and at the same time I am trying ot get some limited access to the toolserver. Having access there will prevent Yobot from working with outdated lists. This will solve the problems CBM and more others are complaining for. I have much more ideas for improving this but I would like to wait until Wikimania this summer so I have time to discuss my ideas with other editors in person.
On the customised edit summaries: This is difficult for me to do at the moment. I would like to do it but this would mean that I had to load each function of awb, add edit summaries with if...then conditions and keep this thing up-to-date each time the built-in function changes. This caused many bugs in the past while something similar was done by SmackBot in the past. I would prefer if my changes were done in the built-in code so people could run awb without my intervention and the process could continue even if I leave the project at some point. I am trying to publish parts of my scripts so the process is independent from me and is inherited to the project. We have seen wonderful scripts in the past from people who left Wikipedia and now these scripts can't be found.
It's true that right now when I add the number of the error fixed I work the other way round: I load the list of that given error and I expect that is the error which is being fixed. It's in my plans to improve this.
We can disagree for having 1-2% of pages with insignificant edits but I hope nobody can accuse me for not improving awb's functionality and trying to reduce this percentage. I never encouraged mass editing for insignificant purposes only but at the same point never reached the other side of expecting all edits to add/remove content. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:23, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, but you're not answering the question. Please explain, for the benefit of those of us who don't speak German, or examine data dumps, or do anything technical, why it's necessary to make multiple edits replacing a template redirect? Please note, it's now late here, I'm tired and going to bed. If an uninvolved admin feels they want to reverse the block, feel free to do so without discussion from me. An
optimist on the
run!
23:14, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Maybe already fixed, dating back to 15:38, 8 December 2010: [138]
http:BL was AFAICT supposed to be a red link (the service is actually called http:BL, for blacklist, see Project Honeypot; just nobody has written an article yet?). Yobot changed this to http://BL, which isn't a sensible link. Maybe just apply this fix rule when there is at least a dot in the link, or the link equals http://localhost ?
Of course this could be resolved already, as this was over a year ago. -- Chire ( talk) 13:32, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
We both know you shouldn't be making cosmetic changes like this as the only change. - DJSasso ( talk) 20:32, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
This edit [139] does not match any checkwiki error, and the edit summary still is not saying which error is supposed to have been fixed. The "skip on minor edit" option also seems to be turned off. In general, if the bot believes it fixed an error once, the bot should not repeat the edit to the same page for the same reason; if the error was not fixed, the reason needs to be determined manually. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 16:12, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you put a "nobots" on one of the pages, which I thought was very gracious. But it seems like Yobot doesn't pay attention: [143]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 22:35, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Still? - DJSasso ( talk) 19:30, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
And yet again?. - DJSasso ( talk) 12:16, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, unsure what is going on with this edit. You appear to have placed a birth name in the birth date parameter. Keith D ( talk) 21:26, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Problem fixed for this page and I checked hundreds of pages for similar problems. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:09, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
this edit summary is totally misleading. There have been no changes to infoboxes - all that has happened is the change of {{
unreferenced}}
to {{
BLP unsourced}}
, plus removal of a superfluous blank line. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
19:51, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Task completed after edit summary updated. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:10, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, some lists are being mis-tagged as (dead end) and possibly (wikify) as past of the WP:CHECKWIKI error fixes. Sarahj2107 ( talk) 20:40, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Please stop Without having looked at any documentation or the bot's other edits, this is pointless. Please amend it so that it makes more meaningful edits. If I'm mistaken, I apologize for stopping it--please correct me on my talk. Thanks. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 05:07, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
This kind of problems have been fixed in AWB rev8052. Now AWB provides a new skip condition "skip if only cosmetic changes" that checks the page and if the html outcome is the same then the page is skipped. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:42, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Richard_Dawkins&action=historysubmit&diff=481041862&oldid=480810991 Abhishikt ( talk) 18:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
This bot recently blanked the Evolution page. I am assuming this is just a glitch. danielkueh ( talk) 00:13, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Double hyphens have a specific meaning in some programming languages (at least Ada, SQL, and VHDL), replacing them with m-dashes breaks the code: [145]. Maybe skip <syntaxhighlight> and related sections entirely; the rules of typesetting may not apply inside. Rathgemz ( talk) 14:28, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
I've had to correct this same problem twice this year in Eiffel code.
This happened in March. This is not the correct page to report this problem. Try using User talk:Magioladitis. Bug may havev been fixed since then. -- Yobot ( talk) 09:50, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
This also happened in August. Please stop Yobot from replacing double hyphens with m-dashes in Eiffel code. Why is this not the correct page to report this problem? It explicitly says at the top of this page that this is the correct page to stop Yobot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.210.181.170 ( talk) 23:01, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Bug fixed. Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_21#Don.E2.80.99t_replace_double_hyphens_in_Ada.2C_SQL.2C_Eiffel_and_VHDL_source_code -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:44, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
In this edit the bot has done nothing except rearrange the interwiki links out of alphabetical order, with a misleading edit summary as it's fixed no errors and done no general fixes.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 18:20, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Yobot is editing a lot recently, and thus covers up previous edits. It saves a lot of pointless edits, for which regular editors have been blocked in the past. I'll try to sort them by groups:
? Materialscientist ( talk) 04:04, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
This is a sign that database dump is old. I created the list by using the latest db dump. I now added some conditions for whitespace but I don't have any control on the others. I can just abandon this list and wait for the next dump. -- Yobot ( talk) 15:45, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
I have seen numerous trivial edits by Yobot over the last week or two of which [155] and [156] are only the most recent. I see at least two other editors have asked you to desist and this is not the first time this has come up with your bot. This plays utter havoc with people's watchlists, especially those of us who have large ones. Yobot blocked until you indicate this is fixed. Spinning Spark 20:18, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Whitespaces might be a matter of database delays, which are severe these days, but how about such edits? [157] Materialscientist ( talk) 23:02, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Whitespace only fixes stopped a day ago. I wrote above that Bypass redirects only edits haven't be fixed yet. There is a pending request on awb's feature requests page. The program is open source I would like to see someone fixing the problem described here. I can only "fix" the bug be blanking the Template redirects page before resuming Yobot. Would this be satisfactory? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:41, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Stop editing, and discuss your edits, here and on the operator's talk page. Josh Parris 00:13, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Why is the bot adding bannershell on pages with only 2 project banners?
The template clearly shows: "used when more than two and fewer than six banners" ... "assessment bots may change shell templates per this usage guideline"
Thanks
Chaosdruid (
talk)
02:43, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
OK, my mistake, the bot simply changed the shell, rather than adding it.
As a thought, perhaps it could remove it when < 3 banners are there? Chaosdruid ( talk) 02:48, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Could you please explain why the bot saves such edits [160] [161] [162]. Materialscientist ( talk) 23:54, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Those are not allowed per WP:COSMETICBOT. You know this. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 12:54, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
It's CHECKWIKI error fixing. Check User_talk:Magioladitis#AWB_revision_8039. There is a new skip condition called "Skip if cosmetic changes only" now in AWB. The edit you are showing me changes the rendered output since the categories are rendered in a different order. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:11, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
The edit summary is a problem caused by me not running from my laptop which is for service these days. I'll fix this in the next run. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:12, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Note: that is a perfectly good minor edit.
is just wrong. YOBOT fixed the error. Fixing errors is good. I don't know if Yobot is technically permitted this edit, but opposing it is churlish, and a disservice to readers.
Rich
Farmbrough,
19:04, 2 May 2012 (UTC).
Hi there. Why'd the bot do this? 28bytes ( talk) 03:51, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
This kind of problems have been fixed in AWB rev8052. Now AWB provides a new skip condition "skip if only cosmetic changes" that checks the page and if the html outcome is the same then the page is skipped. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:43, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Despite all previous comments and assurances, the bot keeps saving edits like [163] [164]. I also believe edits like [165] [166] [167] [168] [169] [170] [171] are violations of WP:COSMETICBOT, and I only went through a few dozen of recent edits. On range dashes: user:RjwilmsiBot and User:Rjwilmsi are fixing them. Materialscientist ( talk) 23:53, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Re the block notice: it is actually somewhat difficult to tell which edits are permitted because AWB performs such a large number of changes and because the "CHECKWIKI" edit summary is so vague. But of the diffs linked above, these are certainly not approved:
[172]
[173]
[174].
The full list of CHECKWIKI fixes is at [175]. For example, although moving interwikis to the end is a violation of COSMETICBOT, it is also a CHECKWIKI fix (see 51 and 53). BAG approved a very open-ended request for CHECKWIKI edits, so it could be argued that those changes, although they are not needed, are approved as part of CHECKWIKIing. Similarly, replacing HTML <I></I> with wiki code is a CHECKWIKI fix. I think it would be better for BAG to revisit that bot request and limit it to only certain tasks that are unambiguously not cosmetic changes.
However, even if we ignore changes that are CHECKWIKI fixes, the bot is still making unapproved edits, like the ones linked in my first paragraph, and it has been making such edits chronically. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 11:33, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
I think Yobot should be judged after you see edits with new skip condition ("skip if only cosmetic changes") and this skip condition is improved not not by judging the edits that happened before. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:34, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
On "external link"->"external links": The change changes what the page looks like and it is important in printed versions of the pages since we would like all page be closer to perfection whn they are printed. I don't understand why someone to think that other editors are not allowed to fix this.
The whole discussion here is on a wrong base. There are four categories of Yobot's edits that cause controversy:
I think the discussion should be divived in 4 parts instead of me trying to reply in all of these cases and keep getting blocked for a mixture of edits caused by bugs, human errors or by wrong administrator's judge. Each case can be dealt in a different way. A discussion which will try to overcome the problems alltogether will be unproductive. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:01, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
And there is one more thing to be discussed: Which edits of those described aive are allowed to editors and not to bots and mainly why? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:25, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
I just noticed this discussion and thought I would levy my unsolicited opinion. I think that far far too much time is spent on Wikipedia arguing about trivial edits. A bot or editor did a trivial edit, so what. Before my dad died he had a saying, "If you mind the pennies the dollars will mind themselves". This bot minds the pennies and eventhough some editors don't like these trivial edits being done, they do incrementally improve the pedia. Additionally, most of these edits make changes that follow the MOS, so if you don't like what the MOS says, I recommend you start a discussion to change it, not badger the operator of the bot thats doing the work. If the MOS gets chanegd to say that X edit is no longer the standard then AWB and whatever else can be changed.
@the editors arguing about cluttering their watchlists. This is a BS argument. Filling another users watchlists with edits should never ever be a reason to stop a bot or editor from editing. I personally find it quite satisfying that edits are being made to the items on my watchlist, even the little edits like this add up and over time I have seen noticiable differences in the articles development just from bots doing little things over time.
@CBM, to say that an editor can make a cosmetic changes but a bot cannot is both absurd and in contrast to what you have said in other discussions. In fact I believe you stated repeatedly that doing this with a bot was preferred because the users with the affected articles on their watchlists can hide bot edits.
I also noticed something else that I find troubling. It seems like a large percentage of the editors on the list of most active editors are being systematically attacked and run off. Often times by editors who do very few "edits" (although they might be active bot operators or admins they do few edits). Several have already left, Rich is in Arbitration, Yobot and Magio are the current targets and I suspect others will be targetted next. There seems to be a general unfriendliness towards anyone who expends a large amount of effort in large scale editing. Almost as though the community felt like they were being left out or needed to defend why they didn't do more. In general I think too much time is wasted on these discussions.
138.162.8.57 (
talk)
20:07, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
I see a few issues here, though I have my own opinions on them, I set them aside in the hope that we can move forward.
Any reason not to unblock?
Rich
Farmbrough,
09:09, 2 May 2012 (UTC).
such as you did at Sanatoga Union Sunday School. The article did not need to be wikified, it needed to be expanded. Perhaps you haven't noticed that putting tags on pages doesn't work very well. It doesn't either wikify or expand the article. The tag usually just sits there and looks ugly for a few years. If you think an article should be wikified or expanded, just do it! Or read WP:Sofixit, then just do it! End of lecture. Smallbones ( talk) 03:29, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
I have unblocked this bot to allow it to handle WP:BOTREQ#Biography articles without WPBiography tags in good faith. If this bot violates WP:COSMETICBOT again, it should be immediately re-blocked. Anomie ⚔ 15:17, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
Please check it. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 23:23, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
Dear Author/Yobot
My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Wikipedia pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Wikipedia pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Wikipedia and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address recently edited an article on Very Long Chain Acyl CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page (Hydra_Rain) and if interested, please visit my Talk page or e-mail me on nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance. Hydra Rain ( talk) 23:41, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
This edit screwed up the Ireland WikiProject banner. Can you make sure to fix this problem? Is this a one off or a constant issue? Thanks. ww2censor ( talk) 14:40, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for keeping us updated and sorry for the inconvenience as we work through the problem. Here is a list of the articles affected:
I have already fixed a couple. I'll continue to work on why that is happening. Kumioko ( talk) 02:53, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Please look at the cricket biographies updated in the last couple of days. Where a peer-review parm exists it has screwed it all up. ---- Jack | talk page 22:20, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. ---- Jack | talk page 22:04, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
Right, thanks very much for prompt attention. ---- Jack | talk page 22:18, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
I just thought that I should let you know that the bot added the Biography project-banner to the municipality Milow, Germany on 23 July ( [177]). I've reverted it, but you might want to find out why it happened. Cheers, Mentoz86 ( talk) 09:55, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Noticing the current batch of edits is removing a bunch of photos and leaving behind redlinks. There appears to be a problem. Here is an examples: [178] [179] [180]
Might be spaces in the image filename. -- Falcadore ( talk) 13:01, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Just thought I should point
this out to you. The bot may need a little tweaking.
--
WikHead (
talk)
13:03, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks both for the report. The problem is with filenames that that dots in them. Please if you find these problems try to undo the last edit instead of rollbacking. --- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:29, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Fix your robot. It's discarding the captions as it stomps through {{ Infobox automobile}}. I manually fixed Ford Transit bus, but see [181] for another example. Useddenim ( talk) 18:20, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
|caption=
but discarded this change. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
08:09, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
It's having problems with comma too - see [182]. -- Dmitry ( talk• contibs) 18:34, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello -
The template instructions for "infobox military person" has this paragraph
Why is the bot removing what is specifically allowed? JMOprof ( talk) 21:41, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
|image_size=
. To caption use |caption=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
00:34, 31 August 2012 (UTC)The bot is removing the alt text! Is this intentional? MisterBee1966 ( talk) 07:57, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
|image_size=
to set the image size. I fixed it. --
Yobot (
talk)
11:39, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
|image_size=
to the infobox. Give me a page and I can make an example for you. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
13:03, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Bot run completed. -- Yobot ( talk) 13:28, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Have reverted your edit; this chap's deceased. - TB ( talk) 22:02, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
You can't bypass template redirects without making a substantial edit to the page at the same time. [183] — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 18:44, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
When you remove the priority parameter (or any other parameter for what matters) as in [184], please remove the entire line, including the line break. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:52, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Please take a look at these articles. Thank you. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 23:27, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Talk:Richard Hilton My apologies, it was another bot earlier. reverted page back to last good copy. Gtwfan52 ( talk) 15:26, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, spotted this edit moving punctuation before references. It removed a full stop and placed it before the reference but there was a comma there so you end up with a comma followed by a full stop. The comma should have been replaced by the full stop. Keith D ( talk) 09:46, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
IN this change the bot added an {{ Orphan}} tag to an article which does have links, including from articles; not many but it's a pretty obscure topic and a relatively new article. Per the guidelines the tag should only be added to pages with no links.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 14:03, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on this article Stephen Allcroft ( talk) 15:01, 25 September 2012 (UTC)Stephen Allcroft
The article Alternative_cancer_treatments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_cancer_treatments uses term Anticancer plants, but yobot marked the article Anticancer plants like to be orphan 212.122.74.6 (talk) 15:32, 25 September 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.122.74.6 ( talk)
Diff [185]. I'm not sure why the bot is removing these references. Please would you clarify? Keristrasza ( talk) 07:29, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Can you make sure this is not going to reoccur? Please stop "fixing" Robotics banners - is there some particular reason as to why you are doing this? From the approved task list I can see nothing which would cover these edits.
I have fixed them this time, but if there are going to be 30+ every time I will just be undoing.
Thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 14:35, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Now fixed for good. Yobot finished removing nested and I updated my settings file. Sorry for this. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:23, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
This produced four adjacent primes. When this occurs as the result of two italics togglings, these should be removed. Similarly for bolding, obviously. I would prefer for four primes to be ignored on display as being more logical, but... — Quondum 14:20, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Also see this one, where a triple prime was created, producing an improper bold. This one will not be solved by merging tags first. — Quondum 14:38, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
In this change the bot changed jbo:island to jbo:Island, breaking the link. I've fixed it but it seems these should not be 'fixed' without checking them as it's likely they are spelled like that for a reason.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 16:12, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Bug fixed: Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_21#jbo_wiki_is_first-letter_case_sensitive.21. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:09, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
In this page, Yobot has removed the stub tag and added and orphan tag.
Removing the stub tag may be discussed: the article is short, but I am not sure that it deserve expansion. In any case removing stub tags is a matter of judgment, which depend on the subject that should not be made by a robot. In WP:stub you may read: "While very short articles are likely to be stubs, there are some subjects about which very little can be written". IMO, this is the case here.
Adding the orphan tag is a blatant mistake: the article had two incoming links and WP:orphan says: It is recommended to only place the {{ orphan}} tag if the article has ZERO incoming links from other articles. (bolface is not mine)
-- D.Lazard ( talk) 10:51, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
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The Minor barnstar |
Great Work! Nford24 ( Want to have a chat?) 13:44, 12 October 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:47, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
The don't understand this edit of the Fractal dimension article. It seems like it most just switched the order of references. The edit summary cites " WP:CHECKWIKI error 61 fix, References after punctuation per WP:REFPUNC and WP:PAIC using WP:AWB" but there doesn't appear to be any of those. In fact, the previous edit to the article was by me who did exactly that. Could you explain what happened here? Jason Quinn ( talk) 18:48, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
It is likely that your bot have misedited this article deleting a good piece of relevant information. Just now the article is in auful state, it surely needs repair. 46.242.127.221 ( talk) 17:35, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Why does this bot rearrange the order of sequential refs? See this here. All refs are in chronological order of census, consistent with the chronological order of the population figures in the table. Hwy43 ( talk) 04:44, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
I've reverted this bot edit [186] as the contents of the edit does not resemble the edit summary. This means either (a) the edit intended is not actually working; or (b) the edit summary is just plain misleading. Please could you investigate, tweak the bot and give me a debrief on what you found. Hope it helps, — Sladen ( talk) 03:27, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
nanban film article is vandalized persistently again nd again by user:kollyfan by removing links,sources nd statements please help thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.174.9.153 ( talk) 09:02, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
The bot is making incorrect updates to football articles replacing the field 'cityofdeath' with 'birth_place'. This means that it is both overwriting the correct birth place field and failing to display the place of death. Please correct immediately and go back and fix the massive number of errors this has created. Bladeboy1889 ( talk) 19:54, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
It was still making that change at after 19.30 tonight and I've just been back and had to fix a fair number that I happen to have on my watch list so I think one or two is probably a major understatement. Bladeboy1889 ( talk) 20:02, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Fixed all. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 01:36, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
I see that you have edited to show the same cite number on Anthony Mason's book (1). How do i cite the same reference without the javascript automatically going up chronologically?
Tony Walton caymanchess@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonywalt ( talk • contribs) 17:09, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
The page University Bible Fellowship was marked as an orphan. But there is a page that links to this article: Churches That Abuse. Bkarcher ( talk) 15:42, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
What with yobot removing sortkeys, as in this edit? — Stepheng3 ( talk) 18:16, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Do you ever contact involved editors before you come through a page with your bot?? Do you ever look back to see if your 'bot' has screwed up formatting and other items?? -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 18:50, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Matter resolved after thorough discussion. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:01, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Yobot broke a couple of the references in the Baking Pot article. It looks like it got confused by the non-standard quotation marks that were used. See, for example, where it created <ref name="“AweHelmke 05”"/>, which referred to a non-existent reference. Kaldari ( talk) 09:41, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
What is the purpose of this edit? Both changes seem to be cosmetic (and thus against AWB rules). And I can't even see what the second change does. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 18:45, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Running a bot job to capitalize the first letter of a category is somewhat absurd; that should only be done as part of a larger edit, not on its own [188]. In fact it is not even an error, because Mediawiki automatically capitalizes them. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 23:40, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello - The IEEE Smart Grid page has been updated with inbound links; is it possible to get the {{ Orphan}} tag removed?
Thanks!
Mdrozdowski ( talk) 16:52, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for this piece of (unintended) irony about the concept of "fixing one mistake in a thousand articles" in Wikipedia. Incnis Mrsi ( talk) 09:13, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Just was curious if you are checking for the <pre> tags in sections before setting this template on a page. Reason I ask is we had a bot doing this awhile back and they put a huge number of these templates in incorrect places because it didn't notice that the sections did indeed have content but that it was wrapped in pre tags so checkwiki was wrong. Thought I would ask before you got too far into your run since you have already massively spammed my watchlist with these changes. - DJSasso ( talk) 13:33, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Why are you changing dates from "27-2-2012" to "2012-02-27" while the page is clearly marked with {{Use British English|date=January 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2012}}? The Banner talk 13:47, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thank you Yobot for fixing the cracks in Wikipedia. 2nyte ( talk) 10:23, 16 February 2013 (UTC) |
Me and my bot thank you very much! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:44, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Dear Yobot please do not alter the page for Roy Painter any more.
Many Thanks
Roy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greenfingers123 ( talk • contribs) 11:01, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Yobot,
I have a proposal: in the second line of the third paragraph of Rufino_José_Cuervo
maybe you or someone else should erase the word "regimen" and write instead: "rection", or "government", or "grammar government".
It would read as follows:
(Dictionary of Castilian language construction and rection).
Because:
"régimen" is a correct word in the Spanish language, but in English, I have just learned that the correct word or phrase is "rection", or "government".
My source is: Government_(linguistics)
Concerning "grammar government", please keep in mind that my mother tongue is not English, but Spanish, and therefore I do not know if "grammar government" could cause more confusion among readers.
Cordially,
Alejandro Ochoa Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. — 189.162.224.142
Hi, I have added links to the William Helm page from related articles including Helm, California and Fresno, California. Please consider removing the orphan tag you added back in December 2012. Thanks - Greg Henderson ( talk) 09:49, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Just as a gentle reminder. Rich got banned for these [189]. Please don't follow the same path. — Sladen ( talk) 10:46, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, with this edit, Yobot replaced the double round brackets in two correctly-formed expressions with double curly braces, which broke the page. I have made a partial revert. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 18:22, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, if you change |sbn=
to |isbn=
,
as here, please ensure that it has a valid number of digits (10 or 13). If it has 9, as in this case, it can be converted to a valid 10-digit ISBN simply by
prefixing with 0-
--
Redrose64 (
talk)
15:15, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
|isbn=
parameter, it's extremely likely to be a SBN. SBN is merely an older form of ISBN-10; when ISBNs were introduced, existing SBNs were made up to 10 digits with an initial zero - the other digits were unchanged. See also
Template:Cite book#Identifiers. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
16:45, 1 March 2013 (UTC)I am surprised by some recent changes in some articles where your bot has vandalized the name of the Persian Gulf. I have corrected a few that I came across. Can you please stop and explain why? Yours, Kamran the Great ( talk) 20:12, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, saw your bot working on another page, correcting a bunch of formatting things. Can it do the same on the Bjørn Dæhlie article? Thanks! Nje1987 ( talk) 22:31, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Please note that Category:Articles created via the Article Wizard is a hidden maintenance category which does not count toward whether an article is considered "categorized" or not; accordingly, {{ uncategorized}} is not to be removed from articles on the basis of that category's presence. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 06:43, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi , You put {{Orphan|date=March 2013}} on my article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningombam_Bupenda_Meitei , please help me out in removing it and making the article free of orphan.Thanks Donizo ( talk) 13:05, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Yobot, plz help me in removing the tag {{Orphan|date=April 2013}} added by you. I have shown links and references for the article Ningombam Bupenda Meitei . I also had a long discussion with Avoided long back and the article had no problem. Donizo ( talk) 21:02, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
The matter has been resolved . Plz help in removing it. Thanks Donizo ( talk) 21:07, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Your bot seems to be reformatting the England national football team records article incorrectly. There are intended to be footnotes applying to the subheadings and footnotes applying to the detail entries. The bot is relocating the footnotes applying to the subheadings and placing them immediately BEFORE the first of the relevant detail entries. Can you exclude the bot from editing this article? Thanks! Stevew2022 ( talk) 17:08, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, see
this edit. Yobot has altered five instances of {{{ISBN}}}
or {{{ISBN|}}}
to {{{ISBN|date=March 2013}}}
- there are no circumstances in which an absent |ISBN=
parameter may safely be replaced by a month/year. It has also incorrectly altered {{{caption|{{{image_caption|}}}}}}
to {{{caption|{{{caption|}}}}}}
and since I can't be sure of the validity of the rest of the edit, I've reverted the whole thing. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
23:42, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Made some improvements on the referencing format. Thanks for your concern. Should you have some more comments, please let me know. - Patnubaypatnugot ( talk) 14:41, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Stan Bronson, Jr. I am new at this and noticed that the Bot added the term html to the end of my reference links which broke all my links. I went back in and removed the edits and they are now working fine. Please check to see that the links remain stable without the bot breaking them. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mphsmeister ( talk • contribs) 01:47, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Please stop removing the SMALL tags from the Sumerograms (i.e. your recent edit to Land grant to Ḫasardu kudurru). Small caps are the correct way to portray transliterated Sumerograms when they represent Akkadian words. BigEars42 ( talk) 11:26, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Problem solved. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:22, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
The issue of City of Faith Church being a virgin page has now been resolved. Can the message be removed now. Thanks -- Akpantue ( talk) 20:31, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, I meant the issue of City of Faith Church being an orphan article (nor virgin!). Please remove the tag. Thanks. -- Akpantue ( talk) 20:33, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Why was the date changed for the {refimprove} on the reference maint tag on
this edit? --
Alan Liefting (
talk -
contribs)
20:13, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
{{
unreferenced}}
was removed, and a {{
refimprove}}
was added; such tags need dating, so |date=March 2013
was added at the same time. The fact that {{
unreferenced}}
had borne a |date=June 2009
is immaterial. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
20:56, 5 April 2013 (UTC)Why remove this tag? Why was this bot edit approved? Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 09:44, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi,I am unhappy that you reverted all my edits to the double bass section. The picture of the sitting double bass player, for example, was used to illustrate the section on sitting or standing. I did not like your two negatively-toned statements, either, referring to my edits as projectile editing (I take the allusion is to vomiting) and referring to my edits as nonsense. It is good to be polite. Also, rather than do a global, total reversion, why not just revert the things you don't like? OnBeyondZebrax ( talk) 17:27, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi Yobot, thanks for the corrections, just one comment/question, I tried to make all the headings appear on the left for consistency etc, I had to use line /breaks to achieve this, why did you remove these ? Paul Clarence ( talk) 13:10, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I'm CoJaBo. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page List of XML markup languages, because it seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. CoJaBo ( talk) 18:48, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Reverted Edit regarding caption for Senate pic: "Party standings in the Senate without vacancies" - it removed /breaks that make the caption easier to read. Following instructions to request it leave this edit as it is unless good reason for change. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sb101 ( talk • contribs) 07:26, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
this edit caused template issues. ---- Mahanga ( Talk) 18:25, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
As part of this edit Yobot changed -- to —. Because the context was command line options like --delete, this caused syntax errors. Maybe <pre> blocks should be excluded from this task, or pattern " --[^ ]" should be excluded. -- Petteri Aimonen ( talk) 08:46, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Kindly remove the Orphan tag on Vogue Towers page as there are at least three Wikipedia articles ( M. M. Alam Road, Nayyar Ali Dada, Fashion Avenue ) that lead to Vogue Towers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hussnain.wiki ( talk • contribs) 10:26, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogue_Towers Vogue tower]
, which Wikipedia considers to be technically different than an internal wikilink. I changed each of them to [[Vogue Towers]]
so they appear as wikilinks in
Special:WhatLinksHere/Vogue Towers and removed the {{
orphan}} tag. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk)
19:35, 17 April 2013 (UTC)I don't see the point of this edit. Apart from a couple of inconsequential copyedits the bot added a DEFAULTSORT, but one which matches the title of the article and so will do nothing. The edit summary suggests it's fixing the sort key but there was none there to begin with to fix.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 22:50, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello - The Murshidabad College of Engineering and Technology page has been updated with inbound links; is it possible to get the "Orphan" tag removed? Thanks! -- CMAZ ( talk) 05:29, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Bot is replacing invocations of {{ MedlinePlus2}} with {{ MedlinePlusEncyclopedia2}}; see [192]. There are 15-20 articles using MedlinePlus2; I assume you'll want to fix this. TJRC ( talk) 00:54, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Why did Yobot add unnecessary spaces to the Phil Urich article? Spidey 104 13:48, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Added extra text & links to other relevant pages. Thanks for the feedback in developing this page.
Hi, just a quick not to say that we have updated the page and added the links you requested. Please may you now chsck if all is ok for the removal of the statement you placed at the top, thanks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kold_Sweat_Records JonS ( talk) 07:09, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis, would you mind not making edits like this, please? They filling up the watchlists with very minor edits that produce no visible change in read mode. There's no need to add white space between headers, and "see" is easier to type than "further," and not something that needs to be changed. Many thanks, SlimVirgin (talk) 18:49, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Please don't go around cutting the white space below headers either. A lot of editors prefer it (it more closely matches formal style...you would not mash your first para right under your header...you would give it a break like the para to para break). Also, the displayed mode shows a break. Also, it is easier when scanning an article in edit mode to find stuff. All that said, just leave it how the person doing the real work in edit mode wants it. TCO ( talk) 08:13, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello Yobot,
This just a courtesy visit to inform you that I took the liberty to make a slight addition to your article. I hope you'd like my little effort. I'd appreciate your say on this. Best regards. ( MrNiceGuy1113 ( talk) 16:47, 19 June 2013 (UTC))
Thanks for your attention to the structure of the page. It appears that your edit machine is putting spaces in, that my auto ed edits take out. Is that an anomaly or is auto ed supposed to do that? I don't want to waste your time by perpetuating mistakes. Thanks. Keith-264 ( talk) 16:10, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
</br>
in the article. </br>
is an invalid html tag. Yobot replaced it with <br>
. While at the article, Yobot "fixed" other things. Everything you are doing looks fine. Well, actually everything looks so good, you should
nominate
Battle of Morval and
Operation Hush for
Good Article status.
Bgwhite (
talk)
03:53, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Battle_of_Morval&curid=1310199&diff=560925877&oldid=560670560
Thanks for explaining things, there are a few like this recently on pages I've tinkered with. I'm rather shaky on the finer points of editing as most of the things I do are black box - I copy what other editors have been doing and I was concerned that I was making work for the AWB editors. Obviously I'd like to solve markup (?) problems by not making them in the first place. Is there a means for me to use auto ed and not remove the blanks? Thanks for the GA recommendation by the way, my stuff builds on previous editors' work so they're the ones who deserve the credit. I started filling in gaps on the Somme pages while waiting for Messines 1917 as it went through A class review so I want to fill in a few more to B class before I start fine-tuning. I only had a go at Hush because I was prevaricatiing over Guillemont and now I've got no excuse to delay.;O)
Keith-264 (
talk)
07:35, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
Of course, if there is a bot adding and one bot removing empty lines we have to take a look at the problem. -- Yobot ( talk) 09:45, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I've just found this edit performed by Yobot a year ago. As you can see, it has effectively removed WP:CRIC from project scope. I have corrected this talk page but can you please check similar edits on other talk pages at the time and repair any others that are damaged. Thanks. ---- Jack | talk page 04:32, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
With this edit , Yobot added double braces to this citation:
{{cite news |title=Shipping Board lists honor ships |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F5081EFB3F591B7A93C3AB1789D95F438285F9 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 December 1927 |page=51 |subscription=yes}}}}
which produces this:
{{
cite news}}
: Unknown parameter |subscription=
ignored (|url-access=
suggested) (
help)}}
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 12:27, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Yobot recently changed {{
cite web}}
parameters |website=
to |work=
. These two parameters are synonyms and both are legitimate. |website=
should be preferred over |work=
in {{cite web}}
because it is less confusing for novice editors.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 12:11, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
With
this edit yobot continues to improperly replace |website=
in {{
cite web}}
with |work=
.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 15:31, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Fixed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:39, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey, sorry I misunderstood the edit. Ali-al-Bakuvi ( talk) 17:59, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Please see this edit at Propositional calculus. Renaming a subsection ("Related topics") of "See also" to "See also" is not helpful. JRSpriggs ( talk) 00:29, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Why is your bot making edits like this? The removal of the <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]] --> comment? Also you're doing this with AWB. The rules of use clearly state "4.Do not make insignificant or inconsequential edits. An edit that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page is generally considered an insignificant edit". Why are these edits being done? Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 10:53, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I work with Michael Hayman and we are keen to update the information on his page. Can you support?
Rosemontjd ( talk) 14:15, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
Your recent edit to Merthyr Tydfil removed the link to the local map; and also removed the links to Police, Fire, Ambulance etc. The vale for unitary_wales needs to be linked. Twiceuponatime ( talk) 08:32, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
{{
Infobox UK place}}
passes the parameter value through to {{
Infobox UK place/local}}
, which expects a wikilink to be present. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
20:07, 14 August 2013 (UTC)Hello.
The bot's edit here broke several citations, so I undid its edit. The bot came back and put it back, errors and all [193]. It seems to be doing several odd things including adding extra quotation marks to several other citations and changing some Hebrew characters while leaving others alone. I would fix thing manually, but I'm not at all sure what is triggering the bot here. — Elipongo ( Talk contribs) 18:02, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
*Not to sell the captive woman into slavery<ref name=""deuteronomy25">{{Bibleverse||Deuteronomy|21:14.|HE}}</ref>
- notice the extra double quote after name=
. There are actually quite a lot of these, and if these were removed throughout, I think that the bot would cope much better. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
19:07, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Stausifr. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of
your recent contributions to
Corazón Ranchero because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, you can use the
sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on
my talk page. The reverted edit can be found
here.
tausif(
talk)
10:45, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Yobot is making unhelpful edits with regards to defaultsort. [194]. Any defaultsort begining with the year serves no purpose as it performs exactly the same function if the defaultsort was not there. Additionally it creates the idea that articles should be sorted by year number which in a category like Category:2013 in Asia is substantially less than helpful, as all articles than get stacked under "2" essentially unsorted. -- Falcadore ( talk) 02:34, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
One of the tasks Yobot seems to do is the addition of non-breaking spaces between a number and "ft". Why does it not do the same between a number and the "m" for metres? (see this edit for an example). Astronaut ( talk) 22:45, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
Please stop making trivial edits with AWB, such as this one. Please read the rules of use, esp. point 4. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 12:35, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
The description here doesn't seem to match the edit, though the edit looks completely valid. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 20:48, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
My name is Ed Nichols. I created the Nichols-Chancellor's Medal article. It looks like Yobot deleted the part of the article entitled Nichols Humanitarian Fund. Please put this back. Thank you. My email address is: edward.nichols@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.245.48.128 ( talk) 13:01, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Please stop making edits like this one. 1. Bots are not allowed to make edits when all they do is something as trivial as adding a whiteline. 2. The addition of this whiteline is not mandatory, and has been contested upon occasion. Bots should definitely not make contested edits. Debresser ( talk) 19:33, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Buggy page fixed. -- Magioladitis ( talk)
Yobot's code needs to be refined - it has buggered up the formatting on several pages which appeared fine until Yobot was run. For example in Woman Scream International Poetry Festival it says the article is an orphan, while it was full of related links, articles, and references!!!?? what else do I need to add? the article is fine! Tubeth2000 ( talk) 22:56, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
Yobot's code needs to be refined - it has buggered up the formatting on several pages which appeared fine until Yobot was run. I refer specifically to the List of monastic houses in West Sussex it has messed about with. I recommend the bot not be used again until the issue is sorted. JohnArmagh ( talk) 11:39, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Frietjes fixed unclosed small tags and width. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:44, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
Your bots' change to Millwall F.C. is nonsensical, second time now. It's putting the players year of birth when the intention is to show his tenure at the football club. BillyBatty ( talk) 06:17, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
BillyBatty bug fixed. Thanks for contacting. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:41, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I've run into a couple recent Yobot edits that don't seem to have any purpose.
Thanks for reading. —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 18:05, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Why is this bot assessing articles for quality? That is not a robotic function. SteveStrummer ( talk) 16:38, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Pointless edits Edits like this are really pointless and my watchlist has been flooded with literally hundreds of Yobot edits in the past two days (take a look at how many jazz album categories I've created and you'll get an idea). I definitely don't object to adding new banners (i.e. {{ WikiProject Jazz}} on those 200+ categories I created) but just expanding a template's syntax when it works the exact same seems frivolous to me. If you respond here, please use {{ tb}}. Thanks. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 07:33, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Replied to Justin's talk page. Due to buggy plugin, task was abandoned in January 2013. I've been asked to try again. There are improvements but I still see there are problems. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:33, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Redrose64 I found the bug of incorrect substitution and fixed it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:46, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Not sure what is going on with this copy of your user page, but you might want to have a look. Deli nk ( talk) 13:04, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
This Yobot edit [198] obliterated a reference and made nonsense of others. I don't know what's going on here. It may be because the article uses a slightly unusual footnoting system in which the references are included in the reflist and only linked in the main article. I was unaware of this when I added a reference and so put it into the main article in the usual way. But in fact the outcome was that the reference appeared properly on the saved page. The Yobot "correction" screwed it up! Paul B ( talk) 13:44, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
name=
attribute of the <ref>
tag (one was tel
the other tel1
). Yobot was attempting to eliminate that duplication by combining them in a single name; unfortunately, it didn't alter all of the tel
ones to tel1
- this does seem like a bug.Paul B and Redrose64 I asked Rjwilmsi's help. Before the edit in the main text there were two tel and two tel1, in the reflist there was a single tel. So the article is using explicit references and list defined at the same time for the same ref. After the edit in the paragraph there were four tel1, and the tel in the reflist not changed. Hence the list-defined refs error. The article was incorrect before: It's not normal to define a ref in the text and again in the reflist. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:14, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
For talk-page watchers, there's a discussion here asking Magioladitis to remove from AWB the instruction to add blank lines between headings. It's one of the issues that is adding to the unnecessary edits that Yobot is making, so I'm posting a link here for anyone who's interested. SlimVirgin (talk) 16:38, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Regarding your changes in [199], I want to state that
Thanks for your work for wikipedia, --Best regards, Keysanger ( what?) 09:38, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
I've just discovered that I've removed a sortkey for a category default sort several times, and it's always been put back almost immediately by Yobot. It's for the article Maria Theresa of Austria (1801–1855). It keeps sorting it under Austria. It should simply be sorted straight, i.e. under Maria, in most if not all of its categories. Uporządnicki ( talk) 00:56, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi - please see here, the bot removed br's which distorted the table. Thanks. Timeshift ( talk) 08:15, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Yobot,
Thank you for visiting the page, I created it 2 years ago and will update it from time to time, it is an important topic as my PhD is base on that! Thanks for help and reminder!
KSR — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.88.70.11 ( talk) 08:27, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, this edit breaks formatting in the image description. Magic ♪piano 14:14, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
OK, I think I understand about the entries with dates. But now why did Yobot add the Defaultsort I removed from Wilhelm of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken in order to alphabetize it again under Palatinate? I think the mark in there is a minus sign. So it's not supposed to be a problem--or so it was explained to me. I'm doing rather a lot of work to improve these categories, and finding it mindlessly undone just a day or two later. This all came up when I accidentally noticed that I'd made exactly the same change to the same article about three times over a few weeks. Uporządnicki ( talk) 18:34, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello. You're moving article history to below the wikiproject banners but Wikipedia:Talk page layout says they should be the other way about. DrKiernan ( talk) 17:59, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Talk:Alexander McCall Smith had a banner describing and categorizing the page as "Start-class in WikiProject Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants". For some authors this would be appropriate, but there's no evidence of that on the page. The was made by Yobot.
I've removed the banner and noted this on the talk page. -- Thnidu ( talk) 22:38, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Yobot, I'm not clear why you're making the changes that you've made on the prolotherapy article. Perhaps you can explain? It looks like you removed journal article citations without explanation. If you can clarify what you're doing and why, that would be terrific. Thank you. TylerDurden8823 ( talk) 23:06, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
This [200] not only has no references before punctuation but seems to do nothing at all except add a non-visible space and bypass a not-broken redirect.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 01:56, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
It's a bit messy sometimes when the bot changes reference location around punctuations (reference moved to after punctuation) - sometimes the reference is to a part of a sentence and not the whole sentence, and there is no way the bot can really understand if it's the case. Ehsnils ( talk) 18:43, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Lupton family Hi could you please check that references are formatted OK fro the Lupton family page cheers Ted
The bot appears to be doing the opposite, moving references in front of punctuation as in this diff. I asked if there was a change in the guideline at WT:MOS, no reply as yet. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 17:38, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Yobot, I see you changed a hyphen in the name Galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase to an em dash and I am wondering what your reason for doing this was. (Your edit on 21st Aug 2013 : /info/en/?search=Galactose%E2%80%941-phosphate_uridylyltransferase). I had just edited the em dash to a hyphen and decided to check the history of the page, where I found your previous edit from hyphen to em dash. Can you explain to me why you think it should be an em dash? Thanks, MW. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MainsWest ( talk • contribs) 15:35, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
Please check the bot! See the this edit. Sander.v.Ginkel ( talk) 09:55, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Is this really worth a whole edit? I thought there wa a rule somewhere about bots not editing a page unless the change is visible. Rcsprinter (barney) @ 16:44, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
|
hello have a good fun.
Lets have food and drink...:-) Nechlison ( talk) 16:28, 11 January 2014 (UTC) |
Hi. I would like to report a misspelling of the name about the article D. R. Karthikeyan, which I could rectify it only into the main content, but I'm not able to rectify the title. In fact, the correct spelling is D.R. Kaarthikeyan, and not D.R. Karthikeyan, as per his passport details. See if you can do something about it. Hasta la vista amigo! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.50.89 ( talk) 19:27, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
I have asked this editor before to modify the undesired editing of pages using Yobot, and he agreed to see if this could be done.
Editors using automated systems take responsibility for the changes that are made.
In citing references in long articles, if a paragraph or two contain content primarily from one source, but also supporting material from another, it is normal to cite them in that order. Yobot re-orders them numerically, so that if the minor reference was the first to be cited higher up in the article, it now comes first in the later paragraph.
This is highly undesirable, and Magioladitis has not given any reason why s/he thinks it is beneficial. I hoped this had been sorted out amicably and I regret that Magioladitis seems to have ignored a previous understanding. Afterbrunel ( talk) 12:07, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
rev 9932 disables inline template after punctuation feature until subject is clarified further. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:42, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
It seems that the bot doesn't detect persons, e.g. Gottlieb Jäger, Eduard Blösch. Sort should be by last name. -- 签名 sig at 19:26, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, this Yobot edit in the Eleazar Lord article suddenly made the invisible persondata template visible. You might want to take a look at it. -- Mdd ( talk) 10:54, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
Yobot has changed several articles on my watchlist from Deafultsort Grade II* listed buildings in .... to Grade II listed buildings in... English Heritage have separate lists for II* & II with II* being the higher grade (more important) see Listed building.— Rod talk 07:44, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
[201] - changing a date that's inside a quote - David Gerard ( talk) 09:54, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
(diff | hist) . . mb Operation Hardtack I; 18:37 . . (-2) . . Yobot (talk | contribs) (→Tests: WP:CHECKWIKI error fixes using AWB (9979))
(diff | hist) . . mb Operation Flintlock (nuclear test); 18:27 . . (-2) . . Yobot (talk | contribs) (WP:CHECKWIKI error fixes using AWB (9979))
The second page change removed double square brackets from a internal link in an infobox, and another place; I'll be reversing that change.
Elsewhere, but 1, yobot is shuffling references, for (as far as I know) no good reason:
| [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
is changed to
| [6] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
While it probably isn't harmful, it could be shuffling the order of other references which use the same names.
The one exception is that it changes a minus sign into an ndash, which is probably valid.
In article Slavic neopaganism should be
or Ridnoviry[4][5][6], Belarusian: Родноверие/Rodnoverie;
bot changes it for no apperent reason to
or Ridnoviry, [4][5][6] Belarusian: Родноверие/Rodnoverie;
Which makes no sense at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.150.224.186 ( talk) 17:59, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear Sir, I have modified the article according to your demand, please remove this sign: "This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find links tool for suggestions. (March 2014)" Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collecting#Notable_collectors Ante Vranković ( talk) 03:13, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Not sure why you removed the "American Roman Catholics" category when it is sourced she is Catholic and included in the article. Please don't remove this again. XXSNUGGUMSXX ( talk) 14:10, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your contribution. I am a new user. But I want to know how to create a template. Summary, please and not a link to the tutorial. Thanks--- Medara Bassey ( talk) 10:05, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
The bot seems to be just 'fixing' redirects again. Per WP:NOTBROKEN there's no need to do that; certainly not a bot per the rules on making invisible changes.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 10:58, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Changing tocright to TOC right has to do with a newly introduced CHECKWIKI error. Now it is fixed and it does not re-occur. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:10, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
Just reverted Yobot on Matthew Brisbane, it removed superscripts from a section that recreates a grave marker. As a faithful recreation of a marker, I would prefer it doesn't do it again. Anyway to stop it? W C M email 17:54, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
I reverted the bot's edit on this article. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=2006%E2%80%9307_UEFA_Champions_League&diff=605215910&oldid=600051439 The superscripted "TH" in the article is used to refer to Title Holders, it is not an ordinal that needs fixing as per WP:ORDINAL. Please whitelist this and all related Champions League articles as the same nomenclature is used in each.. Little Professor ( talk) 21:05, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
May I ask, why did the bot use the capital letter in the word "monument"? Jan.Kamenicek ( talk) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Jan.Kamenicek:, it's fixed in the next release, thanks for the report. Sorry for the unclear explanation (it's complex)... Some time ago, WikiProject Check Wikipedia was checking capital letters in DEFAULTSORT (error #89 was checking that no capital letters were used inside a word, error #90 was checking that first letter of each word was in capital letters). So when WPCleaner is adding a DEFAULTSORT, it ensured to use capital or small letters were needed, based on whether those checks were active or not. At some point, MediaWiki software was enhanced so that capital or small letters had no influence on sorting order, so #89 and #90 became useless and were deactivated (so WPCleaner didn't enforce anymore capital or small letters). Later, WikiProject Check Wikipedia decided to reuse the error numbers for new kinds of detections, and I didn't think of updating WPCleaner for this particular point. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 18:11, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thank you for editing always! Gamera1123 ( talk) 07:15, 7 May 2014 (UTC) |
Why did Yobot create this page, consisting solely of maintenance tags, 12 hours after the page had been deleted? —Largo Plazo ( talk) 21:59, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
How do you have time to edit that much? Plus, where do you get your facts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1008:B02A:6BBC:3C3D:623E:265:E35E ( talk) 03:25, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
It is about Centre Universitaire JF Champollion.
I am the formal director of this institution.
I want a correction of your english translation of the title. You must speak about "higher education" and not "teaching" please.
Sincerely yours. Hervé PINGAUD (hpingaud@univ-jfc.fr) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.162.154.115 ( talk) 06:55, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Please read the rules of use, esp. point 4 before making anymore pointless edits. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 09:54, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
The first of the three things Yobot "corrected" in this edit was not an error and I've had to revert it. Odds are high that Yobot should not ever be touching anything inside an HTML comment, because it was put there, especially if code or pseudocode, exactly as written, for explicit reasons. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 22:27, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Test that proves that it is not done in general: rev 10191. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:41, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Error occurs only when Auto-tag is activated. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:45, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
SMcCandlish Reported the bug.
Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Autotagger_removes_template_prefix_from_template_parameters. You could always leave a message that something is wrong in my talk page, here or at the AWB bugs' page. I only wrote it as a future reference to help things get faster fixed. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
22:58, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
SMcCandlish you are welcome to bot whenever your thing you should. I am only warning it does. Sometimes people come here to leave general messages or thank me for the bot. I also lever wrote that you should apologise. Please re-read what I wrote. I only adviced you of how to efficient help on bug fixing. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:05, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
{{
clarifyref}}
and {{
clarifyref2}}
(both of which are substituted) are not identical. Why are you setting up a test to exclude various templates and other cases that output stuff in the form "Template:foo
", when a) there's no reason the bot should be removing "Template:
" from such constructions at all (the "remove Template namespace " business seems to be pointless and likely to be destructive), and b) even if there were a valid use for it (maybe fixing cases of {{Template:TemplateName}}
?), anyone at any time can create yet another template with output like that, which automatically means your bot will be "correcting" non-errors again, right? Oh, also, such references to templates are frequently found in other |
parameters, in templates that are not substituted, as well as in <-- HTML comments -->
. If finding and fixing {{Template:TemplateName}}
is the only real purpose of this test, it seems that testing for the string {{Template:
will be enough to isolate this, instead of looking for any occurrence of Template:
inside {{...}}
. I.e., "greedy" grepping is probably not the right course here. I can't really think of a case where the string {{Template:
should ever appear, and if there is one it can be done with {{Tem{{sic|hide=y|plate}}:
to invisibly interrupt the string. —
SMcCandlish ☺
☏
¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼
23:33, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
SMcCandlish thanks for the advice. It should only find and fix {{Template:TemplateName}}
as CHECKWIKI error 1 implies ans exactly as you wrote. It should leave any other Template:
occurrence untouched. I do not know what is wrong still. I'll check it tomorrow since time is already past. I left a message to AWB's bug page too in case someone elese finds where the problem in the code is.
Bgwhite is the page really caught by error 1? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:41, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
\{\{\s*template:
<ref name="SibleySsp" />, sometimes clas
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rev 10192 is a get closer to solve the problem. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:52, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Fixed @
SMcCandlish and
Bgwhite:
rev 10193 fixes the bug. Check also
Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_25#Autotagger_removes_template_prefix_from_template_parameters. Thanks both. It was an important bug since it could alter templates' content. Next AWB release will be probably this weekend. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
06:49, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Another edit that makes no visible change:
-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 22:10, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
On the 2nd page: Bot failed to fix what it is recorded as unbalanced bracket on line 652. Now fixed. I also closed a parentheses. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:10, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
On the 1st page: Bot failed to add defaultsort since page title contains no latin characters. These pages are whitelisted by CHECKWIKI project and not revisited by bots. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:11, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
Just for the record: The 5 May problem has completely been fixed on now. It was caused by a newly introduced CHECKWIKI list. The list/error as been removed completely from CHECKWIKI and not not from Yobot's automated fixing. Thus, it won't re-occur neither by Yobot nor by any other similar bot. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:31, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Most of the bot's contributions today seem to be cosmetic-only, in violation of the bot policy. I hope we are not returning to the problems we have seen with this bot in previous years. As per the comment in the July 2012 block log entry, I have reblocked. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 09:55, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
A few questions:
Sadly, there is a long history of assurances being given that a particular problem is fixed (especially around cosmetic edits) and then it reoccuring again later. There are several threads higher on this page where editors have expressed concern about this. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:10, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
MSGJ I got approved to fix CHECKWIKI errors here: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Yobot_16. It was July 2010. I fix CHECKWIKI errors every day since then. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:15, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
In a series of many edits I think it is natural that sometimes bad things may happen. I always try to go back and fix any mess. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:21, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
MSGJ I'll stop any talk page activity and abandon talk page projects. Can you please unblock so I can perform the mainspace fixes? Other issues seem to have been resolved. I replied above. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:05, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
MSGJ on the 2012 discussion on Bot owner's noticeboard: Since then more bots were approved to perform CHECKWIKI error fixes: BG19bot, MenoBot, Josvebot, etc. FrescoBot expanded its range of fixing. Errors were relisted, many controversial ones were disactivated. We are in a much better state now. Bgwhite's effort to make all lists daily up-to-date remove all the old non-updated list of the past and now we keep better track of the situation. Problems still may occur in newly introduced errors but we reduce them daily. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:53, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
I have to wonder if your bot causes more harm than good. If there are other bots doing these fixes, then why not let them do it? I took a look at Bgwhite's talk page and just one complaint (and its validity is debatable). However on this page and its archives I see constant problems. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 08:44, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Bgwhite, I was hoping some other editors would comment first, but will reply as best I can. The problem is I don't see anything in yours or Magioladitis's replies that addresses any of my points. You are right edit summaries would help but this was raised months if not years ago and is still unfixed. The time lag problem I'm aware of but isn't the problem here: many of the edits are to pages which have been untouched for months or years. Besides if it were just lag then the error rate should be very low, just the odd page with errors that were fixed between the list compilation and bot run, especially as the errors are precisely the sort humans normally miss. Neither of you has addressed the problem with the speed at which the bot runs that I can see.
Magioladitis writes 'effort to fix these has been done' but the problem is the effort has been going on for many years and problems are still occurring, if anything getting worse with the latest run being close to 100% trivial edits to talk pages. As for 'Yobot is not causing damage' this is the matter of perception I mentioned. The attitude with the bot seems to be it doesn't matter if these problems are never fixed, it can keep on running as long as individual edits aren't 'bad'. But they cause problems by their sheer volume, which impacts and sometimes fills up editors' watch lists, making it harder/take more time to spot real edits which need actual responses. This is especially so as many editors now find themselves checking Yobot's edits, either because of missing edit summaries (so you have to check the edit to see what it's done) or because they know from its history or wonder from it's spamming of watchlists whether it's broken (again). And clearly making trivial edits increases its volume of edits to no purpose, sometimes massively so.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 13:49, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
JohnBlackburne the problem with the talk pages is of a different nature. It was a human mistake that I take the full responsibility. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:43, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
There seems to be some doubt over how often these problems occur. The most recent edits can be seen in the bot's contributions but it's hard to find older contributions as you can only filter by month. So I've just looked at my watchlist to capture more information. I set my watchlist to 30 days and mainspace only to generate the list at right; some articles will have changed since but it's fairly representative of what I saw on the day, a long list of edits with identical edit summaries, many of them trivial edits. How many? I just looked at the first ten Yobot edits on that list (the first entry is the last I saw on the day) and the edits are:
So more than half invisble/cosmetic. This is the problem I reported above in #Notbroken which didn't stop the bot (I reported the problem at 11:45 and it kept going for another 3-4 hours) or get a reply at the time. The reply added recently seems to dismiss it as a one-off problem, but as I reported at the time and as the sample above shows it was much worse than that, with about half the edits inappropriate.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 00:30, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
This is a duplicate report. The 5 May problem has already been reported and fixed on the same day. It was caused by a newly introduced CHECKWIKI list. The list/error as been removed completely from CHECKWIKI and not not from Yobot's automated fixing. Thus, it won't re-occur neither by Yobot nor by any other similar bot. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:28, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
These things are fixed by us becoming more careful to check whether a CHECKWIKI error is really fixed by AWB before the not runs on the full list, check for cases that the error is not fixed and update the code on either AWB or CHECKWIKI to avoid false positives. This is not always an easy task. Sometimes we think that an error is fixed 100% by AWB and then we discover that there are many cases it is not. Error #87 (HTML named entities without semicolon) is one of these cases and I think this was the task that Yobot has been running at that day. Till 2013 I've been keeping records of the tasks ran at User:Yobot#Logs but sinc I 've been updating this list manually it is very very difficult to do that and for many months the error list was unchanged so I encountered no problems. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:51, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Would other editors support the following conditions on a possible unblock?
Not adhering to these conditions would result in the bot being reblocked. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 11:52, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Some questions/comments which I think would help. First on the lag issue, what are the metrics of it? I mean in particular how out of date can it be. WP:CHECKWIKI says it "scans newly revised articles on a daily basis" but does that mean the lists are always no more than 24 hours out of date or what? If that's true then lag problems should be a rare, but from memory I think it's lagged more than that in the past. If lag cannot be avoided it should be limited, e.g. to no more than a week. This can easily be checked by looking at the page history to see if it's been changed within the week.
I don't see how limiting it to 1 article every 10 seconds is a problem. There 31 million seconds in a year, so a bot fixing one page every 10 seconds could 'fix' every article on en.wp in 18 months, fix articles that need fixing (how many are there?) in far less. There may be concerns over having it run continuously for longer periods but it shouldn't matter: if it can't be trusted to run for long periods it can't be trusted to run for short periods. Running more slowly means problems will be caught sooner, in terms of number of edits, and will lessen its impact on editors' watch lists.
This may be obvious but I would amend the "do not change the appearance of the page" to allow invisible errors. I mean things like broken HTML, unicode errors like RTL chars which are almost impossible for humans to spot, template issues such as bad/old parameters. Also category problems such as special chars, default sort issues which don't change the page appearance but change how it appears on category pages.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 02:12, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
@ MSGJ and Bgwhite: I propose the following:
This means that bot makes no edits that solely bypass redirects, etc. which is I think what everyone wants from me. This can be done by not making the CHECKWIKI tasks done partially by AWB from my bot account or by doing them manually. We are in a status that the lists have reduced so many of the tasks can be done manually nowadays. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:30, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
@ MSGJ: Bgwhite has not edited for 2.5 days thus making me the only one running on CHECKWIKI problems. Please unblock the bot since there seems that we found a common ground. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 07:26, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
So some evidence that things will improve:
The bot has to be unblocked soon since there was a new request that I accepted to do. Check Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Resurrecting_bot_request_-_bot_to_tag_Category:Physiology_articles. There is no misfunction when the bot does this kind of tasks. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 07:36, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
MSGJ thanks for your advice. I'll follow them while using the bot account in the future. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:35, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
MSGJ More evidence all go right now if you want to check.
MSGJ something else? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:27, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
I reviewed all bot's archives to check whether any old problems could reoccur:
Yobot ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Issues reported have been fixed/resolved. Magioladitis ( talk) 13:48, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Accept reason:
Per request (First time I've ever unblocked a bot). — Daniel Case ( talk) 22:51, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:01, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
After the last events, since all requests are taken after assuming good faith I'll propose the next rules fot WikiProject tagging:
Please help me add more rules or improve the text above. I may also create a very specific wizard to help requests made. 99% of my bot's mess is related to talk page tagging. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 22:17, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
If there are thousands of confirmed pages, will you consider replacing "WP" with "WikiProject"? OccultZone ( Talk)
OTTOMH, for any WP tagging that would involve more than 100 edits, you must require:
-- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 16:37, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Also, a suggestion from the proposer for an automated regression check. For example, this this case, such a suggestion could have been: for every Talk:$1, check if $1 mentions the word "Romania"; if less than 66% match, check for problems. -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 16:40, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
here the bot just bypassed two instances of a redirect. I thought the bot was now making "Absolutely no" edits that do not change how the page looks, including bypassing redirects.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 10:11, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
I don't believe it's not possible to fix this; I can think of two or three ways to do it. One would be to check the date the page was last changed. If it was changed since the list was generated then skip it: mark it for manual checking or just leave it to be caught the next time. In theory if a page is being actively edited this means it's never fixed but a page that has many editors eyes on it will likely be fixed manually.
Another would be to re-run the checklist check on each page as it's loaded, to check it still has the problem it is supposed to have. This will add time but not much: it's only checking one page, and altogether only checking a few thousand pages, not the millions it checked to generate the initial list. Or check the actual diff for what changes have been made. This would also let it include this detail in the edit summary, to improve on the undescriptive one currently used. This too would take more time, but the extra burden could be minimised if combined with a date check so only pages recently changed require additional verification.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 15:27, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
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I noticed Yobot has been going through many pages to remove "nested=yes" from banners in WPBS, but I can't seem to find the approval for this task. Anomie ⚔ 15:09, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Unlike the above, I'm not worried about the approval, I'm just curious how this removal lets the nesting remain, which I'd like to know how to do StarM 22:57, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
To all: I already replied in my talk page and in Anomie's talk page. Anyway, nested is a useless parameter but other bots already remove it more efficiently as an addition to other jobs. To StarM, now WPBS enables nesting automatically and that;s the reason the parameter can be removed. -- Magioladitis ( talk)
You're making edits to remove "nested=yes" again to no purpose and without approval. Anomie ⚔ 20:20, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
|nested=
to function since very early this year and {{
WPB}}, in its original form, never needed it, why should |nested=
not be removed?
JimCubb (
talk)
01:31, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
|living=
which is absolutely necessary and should have been done when the page was created and is removing the |nested=
if the parameter is there because |nested=
is no longer needed.|living=
would trigger the watchlists. It should serve as a message to the editors that something was wrong with the page they were watching. Unfortunately, from what I have seen, most will merely complain that there are too many changes to articles on their watchlists.Nested does not exist anymore. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:55, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
In edits such as this one, Yobot has worked solely to replace the {{bio}} template redirect with the {{ WPBiography}} target and put line spacing in the template. These edits seem counterproductive per WP:NOTBROKEN's description and seem to be merely fixing a problem which never existed in the first place. Is there any real benefit from these types of edits at all? Sillyfolkboy ( talk) ( edits) WIKIPROJECT ATHLETICS NEEDS YOU! 00:11, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
AFAIK categories of death and births must be the last in the list, because they are least significant. - Altenmann >t 17:13, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. Interesting edit [5], but Category:Year of birth missing (living people) hasn't been added or am I missing something? -- Edcolins ( talk) 12:08, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
This bot is inappropriately trying to shoehorn articles about individuals with Arabic names into the European style of inherited lastname-surnames. Here is an example.
This is extremely inappropriate -- and damaging. Other bots assume that the "listas" parameter can be relied upon -- was place there by a knowledgeable human being. Geo Swan ( talk) 15:51, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
The bot replaced Category:Possibly living people with Category:Year of death missing for two cases of persons born in 1900: Walter Matthews and Charles Richard. There was no source or indication thate these people have died, and the possibly living category remains valid for birthdates of 1887 or later. Dl2000 ( talk) 15:11, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Yobot added Luqman Ali to the Category:Living people even though the article states that Ali died on August 19, 2007. Systems polk ( talk) 20:45, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Why is Yobot replacing lifetime with DEFAULTSORT and categories, is there any consensus for these changes? Martin451 ( talk) 00:09, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
like this one, why not remove the template when there's nothing but other templates? -- NE2 22:09, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Now, AWB provides built-in talk page general fixes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:53, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Your bot has made the following edit without any basis that I can see. Perhaps the bot needs to be stopped until it can be refined to ensure that this does not happen again.-- Mattinbgn\ talk 02:13, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello. Yobot has been changing Category:Date of birth missing to Category:Date of birth missing (living people) on the talk page of subjects in the Category:Possibly living people, e.g. on Jimmy Robertson (footballer born 1910). In such cases, according to the description at Category:Date of birth missing (living people), this is wrong and just Category:Date of birth missing is correct. cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 08:53, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
I 'll do one more run to fix these. They should not be many. Thanks, Yobot ( talk) 08:56, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
This bot has been replacing {{ Lifetime}} templates and has made a mess of a lot of articles, some of them including: Fandy Mochtar, Dominique Jean-Zéphirin, Donald Thobega, Christopher Bryan. -- Big Dom 20:43, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi there I believe you have disputed the neutrality my article about hon.Ali Mirzad. I agree with your findings and did the necessary edits . please remove your Dispute Stamp at your earliest convenience. thank you -- JamshidAwal ( talk) 08:21, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
why are you bypassing {{ WPBS}}? βcommand 03:43, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
PS: Check this one. Moving talk header on the top becomes part of genfixes per WP:TPL. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:19, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Would you consider importing contributions's auto-inheritance matrix into your WP:BIOGRAPHY tagging task? As you can see from User:Xenobot/R#WP:BIOGRAPHY it was applied to over 25,000 articles without incident. It would help keep the size of Category:Unassessed biography articles down. I pasted the relevant portions of the settings to here. Cheers, – xeno talk 15:28, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
You are turning a lot of templates into {{ WikiProjectBanner}} (which does not exist), it should be {{ WikiProjectBanners}}. Gabbe ( talk) 16:30, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Bug fixed for good now. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:55, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
You have added the Template:WPBiography to scores of musical works. Why? -- Michael Bednarek ( talk) 13:12, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
We have to find why this happened. Today I am running only though 18xx's births with Follow redirects off. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:49, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Found and fixed. As it's written in Yobot's page, mistakes can be done due to wrong categorisation. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:52, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
At most 111 articles were affected from that. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:53, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Found and fixed. As it's written in Yobot's page, mistakes can be done due to wrong categorisation. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:52, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
At most 111 articles were affected from that. Do you want me to go and revert? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:53, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:35, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Wrong tags removed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:36, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Found and fixed. As it's written in Yobot's page, mistakes can be done due to wrong categorisation. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:52, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Let's keep the discussion here. At most 111 articles were affected. All part of Category:Johann Strauss II. Do you want me to check and fix? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:55, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Please don't keep writing in my bot's talk page because the problem found and fixed. Now we are in the phase of reverting the affected pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
I've asked Magioladitis/Yobot not to do any other composers as there are probably others that are categorized in a similar way. (In any case no-one needs these Biography Project banners as there is no human backup for them. All they do is take assessments off other banners by bot. They are just spam.) -- Klein zach 14:21, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Wrong tags removed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:36, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, the bot is making unnecessary additions of section headings within {{ archive box}} templates. See this and this for example. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 04:28, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Need help. The bot repeatedly changed Benoît Chamoux's status to being a living person. You can't bring him back from the dead, no matter how hard you try. Qwrk ( talk) 12:54, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Yobot
Why have you filled up my watchlist with a long series of edits such as this one to Talk:Families in the Oireachtas?
As far as I can see, all that you have done here is to remove some unused parameters from a template. Why not just leave them be? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 16:11, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Your bot is doing pointless edits, removing unused parameters from templates: e.g. [8]. Please stop. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 18:05, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
[9] Just bypassing redirect? – xeno talk 19:25, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
More pointless edits, e.g. [12] [13] – xeno talk 20:10, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
[14] redirect is not broken. – xeno talk 15:53, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
The bot is again performing needless edits (such as bypassing the functional template redirect "otheruses4" and replacing "Image:" with "File:" in image transclusions). I'm posting this message to halt these edits. Please refrain from programming your bot in this manner. Thank you. — David Levy 01:28, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Which BRFA pertains to this edit? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 22:52, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
This kind of changes do not (or should not) happen on math pages anymore. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:55, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
It seems to be adding r/n/r/n/r/n to every deadend tag it puts on a page. Katharineamy ( talk) 14:23, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Your bot claims to be working for insects, but it just seems to be adding section headers willy-nilly. Does the bot have approval to do this? It seems like you're just running general fixes without any substantive work. – xeno talk 21:07, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Now AWB provides built-in talk page general fixes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:53, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
A question has come up at WikiProject Musicians about music group tagging, and it was pointed out that your bot does this, or at least did so a year ago. I see an explanation for this is on your bot's user page. Can I presume your bot still does this? Also, we are looking for a rule or decision that this should be done. I found a discussion at BLP from April 2009 ( Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons/Archive 21#Are Groups of Persons Covered?) where consensus seemed to be against it, so if you can provide info about s different place where this was discussed, with a different outcome, we would like to know. Please note: there are no objections to what your bot is doing. It would be best to reply at the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musicians#living=yes for articles about musical groups, but if you respond here instead, I'll pass it on. Thanks. -- A Knight Who Says Ni ( talk) 14:41, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Why is this thing removing expand tags from articles that haven't been expanded? Cases in point Cashis or 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu. Niteshift36 ( talk) 23:27, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:29, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
At present it is tagging vast numbers of biographies of long dead people with a BLP tag. (Also reported on WP:ANI.) Thanks, Mathsci ( talk) 06:55, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
The bot is inserting improper line feeds into the name attribute of ref elements, as illustrated by this edit. The same edit illustrates undocumented changes to accessdate formats. Jc3s5h ( talk) 18:48, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Yo - your bot put a tag on Pindar objecting to ibid, of which there was only once instance, now removed. Can you remove the tag now or is there some other issue? Ta Amphitryoniades ( talk) 22:51, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit you marked Negative binomial distribution/box with an orphan tag. It is linked from Negative binomial distribution (top of the page) using two curly braces. Might want to update the code that identified orphans. 018 ( talk) 15:40, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
In this edit, Yobot tagget an article incorrectly as uncategorized; as a comment at the bottom of the article states, the category listings are deliberately included in the redirects to the article, because the article is about two closely related conference series and it's better for them to show up separately in the category. I don't fault the bot for not recognizing this, but is there some way to prevent it from coming around and doing it again? — David Eppstein ( talk) 18:34, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
{{
bots|deny=Yobot}}
. –
xeno
talk
18:37, 10 May 2010 (UTC)Yobot is adding strings such as r\n\r\n to articles it tags. Make it stop. Abductive ( reasoning) 01:59, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Your talk page is becoming too long with inactive discussions; can {{ archiveme}} be added on the top of the page? -- Gh87 ( talk) 02:24, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
I have been creating articles on World War I flying aces; in the process, I have been leaving the death dates vacant when unknown because that is what I had been advised. Now your bot insists there is a cohort of creaky old geezers creaking about in their 120s. I am manually correcting the problem, and burying them all. I have also decided to ignore prior advice, and add "unknown" under death date. It's going to be a long haul; I probably have a couple hundred articles out there where death date is unknown.
Georgejdorner ( talk) 15:44, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Please stop using this bot on biographies of World War I flying aces. It keeps marking aces as being alive. There are no living World War I aviators left; the few WWI vets left were ground-bound warriors.
I am tired of correcting this bot's errors, and if it continues, I am faced with the prospect of correcting some hundreds of entries because of advice that the death date in the info box should not be filled in if unknown. I repeat, there are hundreds of bios bearing this blank, and your bot will probably eventually find them all.
Georgejdorner ( talk) 13:52, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I answered in my talk page where you left a message. Let me summarise:
I have some info on the tagging on User:Yobot. I don't know if they are enough.
If you have more questions I would be more than happy to help. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 14:24, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello Yobot,
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia using AutoWikiBrowser. Unfortunately, many of these edits, perhaps by mistake, seem to be trivial. The AWB rules indicate that use of the tool should be avoided solely for trivial edits.
With regret, further use of the tool in this manner could result in your right to use it being removed.
AWB now includes many automated skip options, and also the very useful RegExTypoFix, for correcting spelling mistakes. Consider enabling that, and then telling AWB to skip if no typo fixes are made.
You assured us in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 10 that these very trivial edits would be "done only in addition to bot's main tasks", however these 1500 edits seem to do the minor insignificant redirect bypasses all on their own (with a general fix here and there). – xeno talk 13:09, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
I went out for lunch and forgot Yobot running. We are working in re-writing KingbotK. Main problem is that WPBS and WPB are treated differently by KingbotK probably and probably both wrong. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:13, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
I undid your header addition at Talk:Cochlea. Please don't do that. Dicklyon ( talk) 23:39, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
{WikiProjectBanners - Needs one more opening curly brace there. -- 59.95.111.215 ( talk) 13:22, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for reporting. At about 30 pages affected. Fixing now. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:25, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
WikiProjectBannerShell fixes will be added in AWB's genfixes. We are moving them out of the KingbotK Plugin. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:37, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
rev 6714 as first step. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:58, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Plugin has been rewritten + AWB now provides built-in talk page general fixes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:53, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
There's a spelling error in your edit summary, dude: "WikiProhect". Hesperian 13:28, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Yobot has been making insignificant edits such as [18] [19] on talk pages. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:33, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
[20] - broke the collapsing of WikiProjectBanners, inserting an odd header in an purposeful html comment, and make another pointless change. Granted, it made me investigate the more intracate mostly undocumented WikiProjectBannerShell's collapse parameters, but it didn't even do that correctly :\. RN 15:30, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Now, after checking contributions, it's messing up a ton of talk pages using the 1= screwup. It seems to have stopped for now but if it continues will reecommend blocking to an admin. RN 16:12, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
The parameter 1= is fine. The problem is it should be changing WikiProjectBanners with WikiProjectBannerShell with parameter collapsed=yes. This was already reported in my talk page and we (AWB) will fix it. The spirit of theses tests is exactly to find these small errors and prevend them in the future. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:28, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
rev 6813 fixes one of the bugs you reported. No more headers inside html comments. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:38, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Your repeated edits to Talk:History of Bristol are not apptreciated. Talk page headers are only for pages where there likely to be disputes. Please read and understand Template:Talk_header. Banner shells are not needed where there are only two projects. –– Jezhotwells ( talk) 17:25, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that you a lot if pointless edits that are also removing WikiProject importance ratings form WikiProject banners. Please stop this disruptive behavior immediately. — Farix ( t | c) 13:12, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Edits like these really need to stop. Completely. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 21:43, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
The discussion about BD lasted some months! Many editors expressed their opinion on the subject. I was collecting problems on the use of BD for months and recorded tenths of cases. It is/was an in depth consensus. Feel free to open the subject again. My opinion is clear: Categories should be hidden inside templates. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:06, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Your bot made a very weird edit in June. [23]
{{ WPMACAU}} is not equivalent to {{ WikiProject Middle Ages}} - exactly how many templates your bot has messed up, I've no idea, but there should be some. {{ WikiProject Middle AgesCAU}} does not exist.
76.66.193.119 ( talk) 08:19, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Problem has been fixed now. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:19, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Sorry for a rapid block. Please explain why the bot is doing edits which merely (i) tag empty section example?. Materialscientist ( talk) 10:10, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Mag, I'm not sure if you were aware [I'd assume not as I've seen you do it thrice now], but it is generally considered inappropriate to unblock your own bot (as a form of self-unblock) unless the issue has been resolved to the satisfaction of the blocker and/or the community. [Without comment on the present case or whether the block was necessary] – xeno talk 13:22, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Steve Quinn,
this edit shows that you disagree with current consensus on empty sections and you do edits against consensus. Instead of writing here, better use other pages in order to reach a different consensus on empty sections and the corresponding template. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
01:36, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Your bot has been adding empty section tags to sections that have content. What I figure is causing it to think its empty is that the content is encased in <pre> tags. - DJSasso ( talk) 00:04, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Can Yobot not tag but remove empty "See also" or/and "Further reading" sections? Tagging them as "please expand" only attracts spammers. Their names are quite standard. Thanks. Materialscientist ( talk) 07:33, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Yobot is tagging a large number of articles as bio/deceased, many of which are not biographical articles at all. More care should be taken with this kind of automated edit. -- Radagast 3 ( talk) 14:27, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Someone added the Category:New Testament people to all of them which is obviously false. -- Yobot ( talk) 14:31, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
I have blocked this bot indefinitely for repeated and persistent violations of AWB's rules of use and the bot policy. Please do not unblock it yourself. I will submit the block for review at the administrators' noticeboard. – xeno talk 14:37, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
The bot was unblocked at 15:15UTC. These edits are after that: [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 17:45, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Bug fixed in rev 6954.
A resume of the story so far:
In the beginning (some years ago) KingbotK was running fine but at some point nobody was maintaining it and became out-dated. I tried with Yobot to run the plugin and reduce the backlog. During this process we discovered many bugs in the code and many stuff that were out of date. We changed the philosophy of the plugin and moved all extra stuff as talk pages general fixes that weren't introduced before.
I started running with "skip if only general fixes" activated until xeno reported minor edits and you were right. We had general fixes for talk pages but no skip options! We fixed that and moved one. Later we introduced fixes for the banner shells which resulted, at least in the beginning, to a new round of minor edits. This stopped recently after we released a new snapshot.
Instead of using "skip if only general fixes" I decided to use the more convenient (as I thought) "skip if plugin makes no changes" which revealed the recent bug.
I could of course have chosen to have all skip options enabled. This would probably result to less minor fixes and certainly to less bug fixes and improvements.
I would like to thank Reedy and Rjwilmsi for fixing my bug reports almost immediatelly. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:31, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
The bot is again making only trivial changes to articles, not fixing what it claims to be doing. Examples: [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]. This was probably about half of the ones that I randomly sampled. Mr. Z-man 03:19, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
The situation isn't that bad as initially described. Still of course they are some trivial edits and it would be excepeted that all articles above have unclosed external links. Obviously the database scan used by CHECKWIKI at the moment is outdated. The situation will fix in a few days where the new dump will released. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:15, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Some steps to reduce errors:
After the bug fix the fix ratio increased rapidly. Nice catch. Magioladitis ( talk) 12:21, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
COULD YOU PLEASE USE LESS CAPITAL LETTERS IN YOUR EDIT SUMMARY, THIS APPEARS A BIT IRRITATING AND DISRUPTIVE. THANKS Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 00:41, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
This bot has made a mess of my watchlist making a lot of changes to articles that seem totally inconsequential, such as this (picked at random) where it changes a few parameters in an infobox, but makes no change at all to the output, so I have to ask, what is the point? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:06, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
{{{birthdate|{{{birth_date|made compatible}}}}}}
, so there is no need to update the parameter names? –
xeno
talk
16:50, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
|location=
will be misused but anyway). --
Magioladitis (
talk)
17:45, 7 September 2010 (UTC)← I was referring to my comment that iff this template is to be replaced en masse (still wasteful, imo, but if that is what the TFD outcome was...), it should be done in a single edit. Not two edits to accomplish what could be done in one. – xeno talk 17:57, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
FYI as you can see in this diff, your bot removed a named referenced that was used elsewhere in the article: [60]. Luckily another bot was available to clean up [61], but it would be preferable if your bot would handle re-used refs more elegantly in the future as this may not always be the case. – xeno talk 13:26, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
I don't know whether I want to stop Yobot or not, but I think it's on the safe side. At Heather O'Rourke, Yobot accidentally converted a "location" variable in a {{ cite web}} to "birth_place" because the citation variable is nested within {{ infobox actor}} [62]. I've reverted the edit for now since the older variables are still supported. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 17:30, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
The bot appears to be simply changing "Article issues" to "Multiple issues" [63] [64]. I've lost count of how many times I've been here for an issue like this. – xeno talk 17:34, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
|1=
was missing. If I make a plugin run with this missing it will stack. I am adding the missing parameter. There should be many of them though unless someone added many recently. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
15:01, 16 November 2010 (UTC)|blp=
will be handled be general AWB fixes and not the KingbotK plugin which is buggy. This will reduce (and hopefully fix) the problem. The snapshot we released yesterday solves the WPbiography placement. I need some time and all issues will be set. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
15:04, 16 November 2010 (UTC)In this edit Yobot added the tag a&e-work-group=yes to Talk:Valentin Naboth; Valentin Naboth was a mathematician/astrologer/astronomer, not an entertainer. I don't understand why it did that; could it be that somewhere in the text it says Acts of the German Artistennation? The German Artistennation was part of the University of Padua, a college as we would call it where liberal arts students from Germany lived and worked. The liberal arts of course refers to classical Western education in the 7 Liberal arts: grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, astronomy, music and geometry ; it has little or nothing to do with the "Arts" as we currently use the word. JdH ( talk) 10:29, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:Infobox comics creator#"Location" vs "birth_place" - J Greb ( talk) 00:10, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Yobot's editing many church disambiguation articles seems incorrect. The usage of church disambiguation tag was covered in a big discussion involving template-for-discussion and other forums a year or two ago. -- doncram ( talk) 12:55, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Yo, Yo. At http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Demographic_economics&oldid=384451235 with this Edit summary: 20:16, 12 September 2010 Yobot WP:CHECKWIKI error fixes + genfixes, removed stub tag using AWB, there was the problem of inserting an unnecessary space between "pp." (for the admittedly unusual case of 2nd 'p' in an external link, as in the References section:
(The 2nd 'p' in the link was to make it clearer that anyone who linked would be taken to the first page, not necessarily any other.)
Any suggestion as to how to fix a bot to avoid that outcome? Thank you. -- Thomasmeeks ( talk) 10:14, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Edits such as
this must be avoided. Links in the regnum
parameter of {{
Taxobox}} are needed for correct formatting, and must not be removed. Even in other ranks, the selflink is used to (correctly) produce boldface (
example). --
Stemonitis (
talk)
16:56, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
|regnum=
and you started reverting edits that changed |genus=
. Please provide me a link of the consensus or the guideline because I wasn't able to find anything relevant. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
05:59, 28 September 2010 (UTC)This bot needs to immediately stop replacing <em>...</em>
markup with </nowiki>...</nowiki>
(which is rendered at the user end as <i>...</i>
. They are not the same, and serve completely different semantic purposes, and are separate tags for a reason, even if average editors don't bother (there are we non-average editors who do, and fix misuse of semantics-free italics when emphasis is intended). About 99% of the time, if an editor bothered to use <em> they did so for a clear and considered reason (namely genuine emphasis, not simply italicization for typographic conventions, such as book titles), and considered the difference to be important. You need to undo all of the <em>-to-'' changes your bot has made. Changing <i> to '' is just fine, since they are the same thing and we prefer the wikitext version. PS:
Diff as requested. PPS: If your bot is also replacing <strong> with ''' this has to stop and be undone too, for the reason (while conversion of <b> to ''' is okay). —
SMcCandlish
Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ
Contribs.
07:42, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia#Yobot - it's fixing recent changes, but leaving older pages untouched - result is a category mess, and more work for non-bot editors (humans, 1000s of chimps etc). Sf5xeplus ( talk) 18:46, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Persondata with a 1940s birthdate, for an organisation, founded in the 1960s? Fifelfoo ( talk) 10:18, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
G'day Yobot, what's the purpose of this edit? [66] The infobox looks a bit silly without the line break. -- Mkativerata ( talk) 19:17, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you please train whatever it is you use to patrol new pages, to mark those pages as patrolled after it has added it maintenance templates? At the moment all it does is duplicate the patrolling effort. Thanks.-- Kudpung ( talk) 11:24, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
I believe that us editing this page at the same time lead to an edit conflict, and, going of the size of the article now, compared with the size it was after you edited it, I may have wiped out whatever work you have done to the page.
I just thought I'd let you know in case you wanted to revert back to the changes you made, or to do them again.
Thanks,
Ymron ( talk) 16:09, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Why is Yobot adding default sort parameters example that make no actual difference to the sort order? SpinningSpark 15:34, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
greetings: this edit broke some coding on the page. i undid it, but you may want to have a look. Badmachine ( talk) 02:16, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Yobot blanked an article [67]. An indication of a problem perhaps? Jon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.150.119.4 ( talk) 17:45, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Just a note; this edit [68] only replaced a template redirect. In general, AWB edits that only do that violate the AWB terms of use, since they are trivial edits. However, it might be that the philosophy project asked you to do it or something. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 00:56, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, thank you for taking the trouble to run a bot to cover for back end quality assurance lapses that the foundation should address on their end.
However, removing the <br /> line break from a small "See also" section causes a three-portal portal box to overlap the section below. See this diff. It is minor but I'm not sure why you have your bot do those edits. I think if an editor knows that function they likely did it for a good reason. Note, I just rolled back as I intended to replace that manual metric conversion with a {convert} tag) so didn't need the nbsp the bot added. Just some info for you to tweak your bot. Thanks and keep up the good work. Veriss ( talk) 18:31, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I learned a new trick it seems. I wanted to fix my typos above but received a warning that my edit would stop the bot and I didn't want to do that. Cheers, Veriss ( talk) 19:39, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, it would be nice if future edits like this one didn't use a lower case "i" when changing the IMDb template (correct name: {{ IMDb name}}). It's surprisingly jarring, even though the case of the initial character of a template name is ignored by the software. Thanks, — JohnFromPinckney ( talk) 04:31, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm a bit confused as to why the bot is moving everything to WikiProject Biography, when the template goes to WPBiography. It just makes for more work in the end. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 16:27, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Why is your bot going around making useless replacements of a template redirect with the template (e.g. here), and where is the approval for this task? Anomie ⚔ 06:05, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Could you please not move commas occuring after a footnote refs to before the ref, as you did at Paul Robeson? Grammatically both are acceptable practices (so no need for correction) and syntactically it makes more sense to have the commas after the ref, when the refs cover preceding passages ended by the comma. Thank you, Str1977 (talk) 09:44, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Just noticed [69], where Yobot left out a pipe, breaking a template. DuncanHill ( talk) 18:28, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
This edit [70] includes a longstanding AWB bug that leads to extra close braces being added to math markup. Beyond that, I can't see what nontrivial change was supposed to be made there. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 03:23, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
For the help. DavidFarmbrough ( talk) 04:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
I noticed Yobot added an additional WikiProject tag to an article's talk page using AWB. Not sure if this is the best spot to report the problem, but I'm relatively new and this seemed unusual. Here's a link to the diff: [71]
Regards, Aeonx ( talk) 09:37, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
This edit doesn't seem to be doing what the edit summary says, as the only edit moves talkheader to the top. Is this really a useful edit (the wrong summary notwithstanding) for a bot to go around making? If so, it should probably be done only when there are other edits actually being made to the page, imo. Killiondude ( talk) 21:24, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Is there a reason YoBot is tagging stubs "wikify" even if they have as many links as they could conceivably accept? (Example: [72]) -- Avocado ( talk) 19:00, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Press Now has been tagged multiple times for not having sufficient outside resources to prove its notability despite the fact that I keep adding sources. Press Now is not a widely known organization outside of the Netherlands, however the sources used (once translated to Dutch) more than prove the quality of the Non governmental organization. I would like to have the page deletion notification removed from the Press Now wikipedia page and if there is a problem with the notability then would greatly appreciate any suggestions about alternate sources that could work.
Already used a Dutch version of Charity Navigator that lists the history and financial breakdown of the NGO as well as listed a couple articles talking about Press Now's involvement with them, not sure how more notable the organization can be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FPCP ( talk • contribs) 10:58, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Your incorrectly expanding {{ CRWP}} to the Canadian WikiProject tag, which is incorrect. Please correct your AWB script and correct your mistake. CRWP → {{ Canada Roads WikiProject}} -- Admrboltz ( talk) 16:28, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
I'm not convinced that this is really what the bot intended to do. Perhaps you can take a look. Thank you. -- WikHead ( talk) 19:10, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Lots of these in the edits [73] — Carl ( CBM · talk) 11:58, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Out of curiosity why is the attempted de-orphan parameter being removed from articles with the multiple issues template, such as in this edit? Sadads ( talk) 07:42, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Here's an example of an edit where I have no idea what checkwiki issue is being addressed: [74]. The edit replaced a template and deleted a trailing space, but neither of those is a "checkwiki error", right? Similarly [75] — Carl ( CBM · talk) 19:41, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
rev 7498 logic to catch more unbalanced brackets. I still have a list of 3-4 cases than can be fixed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:41, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the numbers in the edit summaries. These two are supposed to be 66, which is something about image captions [79] but the changes don't seem related [80] [81]. I have also seen a bunch of 61s, like [82]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:16, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
( edit conflict) This is true but many of the pages are reported to have more than 1 errors. As soon as I reduce the backlog in a manageable level I can do the custom module and bypass. I keep checking diffs, taking notes and reporting bugs. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:25, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
It also seems to be making a lot of trivial changes again. I looked at 15 random ones from its last 500 edits. Added a pointless defaultsort, and again, and again, moved a category a couple lines, a handful of pointless changes, bypassed a redirect and removed <small> tags, and bypassed some redirects. This is almost a 50% error rate. Mr. Z-man 07:12, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Is this edit useful in any way? Checkwiki does not seem to include this case. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 07:08, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I 'll empty my current list and then re-approach the subject. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:57, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Please do reprogram the bot not to save edits like this [84] [85] (which it is doing a lot), as it spams watchlists and covers up vandalism. Materialscientist ( talk) 10:17, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I just emptied my active list. I'll reprogram to address the issue I am supposed to be fixing (placement of references and punctuation). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:23, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:28, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Created custom module to skip when FixReferenceTags isn't called. It can be found in User:Yobot/Error 61. I'll later do the first part. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:45, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
See here. Cheers, mgiganteus1 ( talk) 22:57, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
The bot is making a mess with edits like this one. I've blocked it for now. Courcelles 04:29, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Why is yobot busy adding pointless {{DEFAULTSORT}}s to scores of articles which clearly don't need them?
I am not persuaded of the merits of bypassing a redirect to a template, but discussions at WT:AWB seem to support that, so I'll not object. But {{DEFAULTSORT}}s which simply restate the pagename are pointless graffiti. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:42, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
See WP:GENFIXES#DEFAULTSORT_insertion_and_fixes_.28SetDefaultSort.29:
NOTE: AWB does not meet all of the (various) rules on DEFAULTSORT on en-wiki; it may not meet all of the rules on other wikis either. It may never be possible to meet all of the rules. An option is provided under the Options menu to turn off all changes/insertion of DEFAULTSORT
Please, just turn it off for future edits ... and remove the graffiti applied so far. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 15:35, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
OK, you have restarted the bot, but not responded. It's rollback time. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:10, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
BrownHairedGirl, calling an trivial addition of a (mostly harmless) {{ DEFAULTSORT}} template vandalism is inappropriate, not to mention is it clearly not. If you expect others to courteously address your concerns, then the onus is on you to AGF and remain civil. Otherwise, you only serve to continue to inflame the situation and foster further non-cooperativeness. Regards, – MuZemike 22:08, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Nowadays, DEFAULTSORT is case-insensitive and AWB/Yobot do not change this anymore. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:58, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
In case you are here about the Expand tag cleanup:
|expand=
from {{
Multiple issues}} if page is a stub {{
expand|section}}
to {{
Expand section}} {{
expand}}
inside section to {{
Expand section}} -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:40, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Tell your bot not to change short references to named references. It is not allowed per MOS policy. ·Maunus·ƛ· 01:00, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
the Yobot's recent edit to G.E.M. has wrecked the article because it changed some perfectly normal ref tags and left some tags invalid. Please don't do this again and change the bot. Pukascape ( talk) 12:25, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Not exactly. Have a look at ref. 11 after the bot edit. The bot moved quotation mark from
name="Yahoo HK Music Artist Profile" (in Chinese)
to
name="Yahoo HK Music Artist Profile (in Chinese)" Materialscientist ( talk) 14:06, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
( YahooBot ( talk) 13:01, 9 June 2011 (UTC))
Hello dear Yobot,
please review Multi-touch. It's looking like user:Alexanderaelberts trys to promote links of his own websides (SEO). I am new on Wiki and don't know how I can deleted this changes from user:Alexanderaelberts.
Sincerely, ( YahooBot ( talk) 13:01, 9 June 2011 (UTC))
I don't think it's fair play to use a name to edit and then say that replies here will 'stop' Yobot. I've reverted your edit on the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final. I'll also leave a calling card @ the other Talk page. And I'll bring all this 'don't edit this page' stuff to the attention of the Editors. Tapered ( talk) 07:01, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Template:otheruses has about 10,000 transclusions, it really shouldn't be randomly orphaned [94] [95]. It looks like the bot was going through a list of these. Would you please go through and have the bot fix them back the way they were? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 18:50, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
The bot is wildly turning This into About, even in quotes and citations. See [96].-- Prosfilaes ( talk) 18:53, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
I want to stop Yobot because I don't understand why article Duo Caron is an orphan. About Wikipedia definition:
I removed orphan tag on the Duo Caron article because it includes more than three related links. Would you explain me clearly what is the problem with this ? Thanks Likeabluesun ( talk) 20:51, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Greetings:
Yobot has removed the underscore from "std::auto_ptr" in C++0x's "Features to be removed or deprecated" section twice now. The underscore needs to remain in the link text.
Is it possible to make Yobot ignore it by turning it into [[std::auto_ptr|std::auto_ptr]]
style link?
Thanks!
Mskfisher (
talk)
14:37, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
I did all the cleanup is supposed to be done. Hopefully the page won't reapear in my to-do list. If you notice further problems please contact me again. Thanks, Magioladitis 15:13, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
The bot should not fix errors, that demonstrate punctuation errors to readers. [97] Is there a way to prevent the bot from autofixing some text in the article? -- hydrox ( talk) 18:38, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
A week later User:Rich Farmbrough let me know of the existence of the template {{ not a typo}}, which is the most effective way to prevent any bot (not just AWB) from autofixing selected passages, and leaves the rest of the article subject to standard autofixes (which are almost always helpful.) So if you are having similiar problems, consider using it.-- hydrox ( talk) 14:16, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Example [98]. Materialscientist ( talk) 09:48, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Yobot's edit are damaging previously-done edits on this page, so this is a heads-up to let you know Yobot will be stopped next time. Thanks! Best, -- Discographer ( talk) 19:54, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Yobot is adding the biography template to the fictional character Huang Rong, the article is clearly categorised as being fictional, something that Yobot is not picking up.-- KTo288 ( talk) 13:37, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
[99] - no significant change. WPBiography has 700,000 transclusions, so going through and replacing them all seems like an exceptional job. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 22:11, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
|priority=
. After a reboot I forgot to reload the plugin. Thanks! And I was wondering why there were so many edits this time. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
22:16, 6 February 2011 (UTC)Why, in the name of God, are you changing every instance of a perfectly functional template based on a minor renaming decision. You've just flooded my watchlist with at least a hundred pointless minor edits and made it significantly more difficult to find the vandalism that's too-often hidden behind them. Rossami (talk) 20:54, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestions on Accredited Crane Operator Certification. The suggestions were followed and now I'm hoping that the pages is up to standards and no longer in need of dead-end and orphan tags. Thanks. Yanbianfan Yanbianfan ( talk) 16:12, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wahoo (SS-238)}}
was changed to
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wahoo (Ss-238)}}
It's even the title of the page -- so it should make sure DEFAULTSORT matches the article title.
Glrx ( talk) 01:57, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Ooops - DEFAULTSORT is wrong - left off the USS Glrx ( talk) 02:00, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Changing the references to date order may be a bit confusing for copyeditors as some think that they are in order of mention. Please do not use auto edits as they mask the reference and make it very difficult for editors to check the references. I have fixed the two you did. :) -- Rskp ( talk) 23:08, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Look at 1st millennium for example. I'm reverting it third time now. 194.143.148.26 ( talk) 14:58, 18 February 2011 (UTC) rev 7608 fixes the bug. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:59, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
This edit [100] [101] shouldn't have happened - what's up?
Also this almost certainly does not have bot approval.
You're not setting a good example here; Yobot has done this before, and you indicated it was an error. You need to change the default settings so that these edits are only saved if someone goes out of their way to save them. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 14:15, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
It's still broken [102]; that may be a manual edit, could you change the edit summary if it is? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 14:25, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Warning_a_plugin_wasn.27t_loaded.3F. I hope this will help. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:12, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Yobot is doing it again
[103]
[104] — Carl (
CBM ·
talk)
12:16, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
The bot is still doing it, after my last edit [108] [109]. Really? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:36, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Let me start over. Remember all I can see is the bot's diffs and edit summaries. I looked at the contribs this morning, and the bot was making trivial edits again. The edit summaries were the same generic summaries as always. I have no way to tell why the bot does what it does, all I can do is look at the diffs and see whether they look right. If they don't, I post here to pause the bot. Bots aer meant to be boring and predicatable; it shouldn't take extra explanation to figure out what's going on with an edit. If I see any actual changes in the diff, I skip over it; I only pointed out the trivial edits here. If the cause of the trivial edits is a bug in the bot, the bug should be fixed. That's why I posted. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:58, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
You need to fix this bug permanently
[111]. It seem like whenever I point it out, you always say it's a bug, but then it happens again, which makes it look like it's intentional. — Carl (
CBM ·
talk)
14:10, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
rev 7716 solves the problem of template redirects not loaded in settings change. This solves one of the problems discussed above. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:34, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Yobot, there are errors in the United States and Canada section of this article.
The sentence "Heating oil is widely used in parts of the United States and Canada where natural gas is not available propane is priced higher." lost the word "or" before propane last December.
The sentence "Where other fuels are not available, it is sometimes referred to as the unit cost per unit (BTU=British thermal unit or BTUH / h per hour), and can be less than other fuels." does not seem to make sense to me, but appears to have been this way since the section was introduced. Any clarification would be appreciated.
Thanks for your working on Wikipedia 96.252.78.148 ( talk) 23:26, 20 February 2011 (UTC)DAB 20 Feb 2011
I mean, this is a completely pointless edit. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:34, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
"We fixed now some more stuff on the unintentional unicodifycation. I am marking this as "resolved". Please re-port if this occurs again. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:38, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
You are bypassing redirects, which is not something which should be done unless it is alongside a more substantial change. But more than that, you are changing people's comments (e.g. [112]). Please revert all these errors. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 19:54, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
I don't know how to get a bot approval revoked, but the next time I see this bot edit a talk page I'm going to find out. Jc3s5h ( talk) 23:21, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
I reverted the one indicated. I don't think they are more. Bot run with svn 7619. In rev 7623, rev 7624, rev 7625, rev 7626, rev 7627, rev 7628 and rev 7629 we did some effort to fix the plugin further. I 'll update my settings file to prevent stupid edits. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 01:01, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Yobot, I've added some additional information and references for the article Arta Musaraj and I removed Template:Multiple issues. I think this article now have the requirements of an article.-- Tufche 20:01, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Yobot,
I am new to wiki and am helping my friend with Michael Zansky page. I see that you put an Orphan tag up. What does that mean?
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.193.59.100 ( talk) 23:39, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit you have changed the spacing around dashes in the titles of references. I would have expected that the spacing in reference titles should not be changed to conform to wiki rules but should be left as it. Keith D ( talk) 23:35, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
This caught my eye, I didn't think AWB's rules allowed for such edits? Nor did the usual bot rules? Ealdgyth - Talk 18:45, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
I just reverted the edit made by YOBOT. I don't use template for citations, but I always follow WP:CITE/ES for formatting. YOBOT moved the brackets on my citations to highlight everything including retrieved date which did not follow WP:CITE/ES format. - Briarfallen ( talk) 06:15, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Would you run Yobot against this article, Arkansas Militia in the Civil War. I added about 70 new references over night and Yobot does a great job of cleaning them up. thanks. Aleutian06 ( talk) 12:15, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
You seem to have cut out my piece on "Yahya"? Is it because you disagree with the contents? Surely it cannot be regarded as just a minor edit,though?
If, however, there is a punctuation problem, then perhaps you could please help me fix it? ... I thought I was following the same format as used elsewhere. It might be best to write to my e-mail address - DLMcN@yahoo.com Regards, DLMcN ( talk) 05:11, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Probably OK now ... maybe the misunderstanding was due to a computer problem here. Sorry to have bothered you !
DLMcN (
talk)
07:24, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, please explain why this edit satisfies AWB Rules of Use, particularly item 4 "Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits such as only adding or removing some white space...". -- Redrose64 ( talk) 11:47, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
as here. The page was in those categories beforehand, and sorted correctly; it is therefore an inconsequential edit. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 14:21, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Jello,
I would like to ask you why you put the article on orphans.
I tried and found as many links in this article. I know that many are in Greek but I do not think this is a problem.
The newspapers here in Greece rarely keep the articles have gone on the Internet. for it kept the newspapers had an article on this person and I just put the link of the newspaper to show that there is this newspaper.
Please show me that there is a problem.
The article about orphans say that two connections may be enough to set a point.
bests regards,
Manolis ma ( talk) 15:40, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
See here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mfwitten ( talk • contribs) 00:06, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
It happened again. :-/ Practice elsewhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mfwitten ( talk • contribs) 13:03, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
In this edit, Yobot replaced the Russian quotation marks « and » with regular ones (""). Why? I haven't found anything in the manual of style regarding this. -- Vladimir ( talk) 11:07, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Yobot made a mistake here adding closing brackets to a long image description. Note that the original closing bracket is still left in what has now become article text. SpinningSpark 06:13, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Yabot. I just added more catagories to Foad Rafii's article. so now there are 7 of them. Could the orphan tag be removed now? is that you who removes that? pishoo ( talk) 21:41, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Please stop changing PF_INET and similar to PF INET. -- Bełamp ( talk) 09:26, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
For Zlatan Ibahimovic, someone edited his biography and said that he is Bosnian-Serb and his father is Bosnian-Serb. That is very wrong. His father is a Bosniak (Bosnian muslim). Sefik is strictly a Bosnian name (his fathers name).
Zlatan comes from Bosnian and Croatian decent and someone changed that up recently. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pasalic12 ( talk • contribs) 23:43, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I have reverted Yobot's efforts, which led to many wrecked references "no text provided" errors, many lines of red error messages. Needs to be checked after application, clearly not safe on autopilot. TSRL ( talk) 10:08, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis -
Yobot is incorrectly removing stubs from articles. Stub status is primarily judged on article text length, yet in edits like this Yobot seems to be using total length including lists and references as a criterion. Grutness... wha? 23:28, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
I have noticed that AWB seems to count text within blockquotes and I am not sure if this is a good thing. I notice this most often when editing Medal of Honor recipient pages where some of the Citations are quite long so even thought the article itself is somewhat stubby AWB tries to remove the stub tag because it appears to be counting the quoted citation text. I have to admit I am not certain about that though and I may be incorrect in that assumption. -- Kumioko ( talk) 16:38, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
In this change [113] Yobot has taken on itself to 'correct' lines of source code, in particular adding extra square brackets around data constructs thinking they are mistyped links. Clearly wrong: could it be made to skip sections wrapped in 'syntaxhighlight' tags as this is?-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 23:41, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Hiding sections wrapped in 'syntaxhighlight' tags is a good suggestion. I'll see what I can do. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:32, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Now we hide syntaxhighlight. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:07, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that Yobot moves punctuation after <ref> tags. That is only correct if there is only one <ref> tag in the sentence, and the punctuation mark is period. In my particular case, Yobot moved commas before the <ref> tag, which doesn't make sense (if you think of the <ref> tag as a parenthetical statement, you'd put the comma after it, just like right now), so I think this could be improved. Also, if there are two or more refs in a sentence, they reference specific parts, so moving the last one after the period is incorrect because it would mean that last <ref> references the whole sentence, when it only references the last few words that happen to be before the final period. Both these examples can be seen at the link I provided.
Sorry if this is not the right place to post feedback about the Yobot. I'm using its talk because because I do want to stop it from editing E-mini, since Yobot seems to be mainly about BLP's. -- Astellix ( talk) 06:54, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Please check this edit. I cited the exact title of the article. This bot changed it! Please don't corrupt my references like this. Please correct it (because if I do, the bot will probably change it again). — Hebrides ( talk) 20:44, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting it. You also removed a reference to French Wikipedia. I like to show where each part of my article comes from. Some facts came from French Wikipedia, so if I cannot use a reference, how should I show where they come from? — Hebrides ( talk) 21:08, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
On this link, he has a "charges" in the infobox and the bot keeps changing "Grand Theft Auto" to "Grand Theft Auto (series)"
It should stay as just Grand Theft Auto. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HugoRain ( talk • contribs) 14:43, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
For making a series of 100% cosmetic changes, such as [114]. Courcelles 17:12, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
It does seem as though this one does broadly cover parameter cleanup tasks which have some level of consensus at places like WP:BOTREQ. The problem with filing a BRFA for every minor task is that it can take a very long time (see the backlog there). It's also not clear that they want to review minor tasks which involve short runs of under 500 or 1000 pages. I for one think it's fine so long as there is some discussion which precedes the task, sufficient time has elapsed for discussion, and there is then consensus to go forward with the task. My personal opinion on the matter. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:30, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
These tasks fail bot policy, in that it fails to follow "does not consume resources unnecessarily". It fails rule 4 of the AWB rules of use which specifically and unequivocally states "Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits" and clarifies that a few sentences later as "an edit that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page is generally considered an insignificant edit." And since you have stated that I do not understand blocking policy, do you? I see five instances in this bot's block log where you, the operator, have unblocked it, despite the could-not-be-clearer provision of MediaWiki:Unblockiptext that "Administrators:[...]you should not unblock your own bot, in the event that it malfunctioned." Further, Yobot 15 states that these minor tasks, if they are permissible at all, must be discussed on WT:BOTREQ, not somewhere out of the way. Given the thousands of pages involved, discussing this somewhere more regular is not a massive burden. Neither can the discussion that was had be read as support for this to be done as a separate run, with no useful, visible work being performed. If you state you won't resume these parameter changes without further consensus- either an uninvolved closing of that RFC, a discussion on WT:BOTREQ, or a BFRA, I'll unblock it so other work can be performed. Courcelles 01:40, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
I don't ask from Courcelles to unblock the bot because I am not convinced they can understand when to block and when not. I ask it from other administrators. I am not willing to play the game of "first block and then discuss" and I am not willing to back off in this disagreement on if I should have done the edits or not.
I admit mistake in my previous method (first bypass redirects and then merge parameters) and I thank Kingpin13 for their advice, but not I don't admit mistake in this one. To all administrators: Don't unblock the bot if you think I understood why I shouldn't update these parameters.
I could have been more polite with Courcelles and I know I am hard against them but this is not personal. I am done with the whole series of blocks which tend to become more and more often. Courcelle's block was only the latest of a series of blocks.
I am also done with the people who assume bad faith, are too sensitive with their watchlists, hate janitorial work, etc. My work i in decreasing the backlog of some routine works. Some people work on increasing it.
Here's my plan on standardisation: User:Magioladitis#Template_standardisation. If you check now all the drama cause on many cases is already over. Check for instance User_talk:Magioladitis/Archive_5#Notes_on_DABlinks. DABlinks were finally merged/simplified. Most of them by other editors and most of them manually. The same for the 99% of the WikiProjects. A lot of people controbuted in the standardisation. Of course, all took 3 times more than the expected time because of unnecessary blocks and drama. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:36, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
I also don't think it is a very good idea to make the same edits [115] with your regular account when the bot is blocked for doing them. AWB rules of use (and BOTPOLICY in general) apply to these kind of edits just as much when made by a bot as when made by a tool-assisted human, as you very well know. Fram ( talk) 06:54, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Armbrust just gave me a wikichicken for these exactly edits because they improved the snooker pages. And this editor spent a lot of time in snooker pages. Most of them had broken images. 100 out 110 edits did more than just what Fram links to. His opinion counts to me more than the editors' who try to stop a job which has consensus because he is the one who has all the snooker pages on his watchlist. If someone wants to apply bot policy for 10 edits done manually by AWB I would be very happy to see this in some discussion. I am quite sure that the people who today complain that some edits should be done along with other they will come tomorrow to complain why some many things are done together. I didn't edit the football player infoboxes because I knew there will be some concerns and I tried to do everything slow. in I won't edit further today because I am done with people thinking they protect the watchlists of other people. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:04, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
WOSlinker added tracking categories to specify the number of pages in need of change. It's clear that if we delay or abandon the project of standardisation these pages will mupltiply by people copying infoboxes from other pages. Keeping the bot blocked only delays the procedure of standardisation making the argument of "waste of resources invalid" since it takes more resources to modify AWB and finish, if ever, the changes in a few years instead of a few days. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:47, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
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I disagree with both parts of "Reblock at once if problems continue". Blocking is not necessary when editors are open in discussion and there were no problems. There was a disagreement on the procedure. It's true that a further discussion can help in expanding the task and save edit runs. Keep in mind though that the same task is performed by other from their main accounts. We delayed a week because of this block but at least something good came out of it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:49, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Yobot tagged here the article Indo-Scythians with ibid. Why? I can't see the problem... mabdul 16:58, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Yo, bot! You're changing "birthdate" and "birthplace" to "birth date" and "birth place". Multiple dictionaries agree that these are single words, and I cannot find anything in the MOS to suggest WP treats them as two words. Rivertorch ( talk) 17:46, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
The header says it all. I'm without the block button at the minute, so I'll stop it this way. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:24, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Looks like it ignored the existing Reflist|colwidth=30em|refs= and added an extra Reflist here: diff Lateg ( talk) 01:20, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Thought it might be a bug -- Iae ( talk) 12:18, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, which of the Kray twins did you think was still alive? Ϣere SpielChequers 18:22, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
You might want to check out this odd edit. Might be a bug. MrKIA11 ( talk) 17:01, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I have reverted yobot's "edit" to 3 GB barrier. The edit had no visible differences in the diff, so I reverted the edit as suspicious. The bot also made its edit with a summary of "WP:CHECKWIKI error 61 fixes + general fixes". This is not sufficiently descriptive. Please fix the bot to use plainly readable edit summaries and to not make "edits" that apparently change nothing. Editors are required to provide useful edit summaries, or they can be blocked from editing - I hold bots to the same standard. Jeh ( talk) 05:59, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
The wikipedia page for parkrun has a table showing the start date of a number of sports events. The table is sortable. Yobot removed leading Zeros from the date. So "08 May 2010" became "8 May 2010" Now the date column is no longer sortable in correct time order.
I have reverted the change. If there is a different way to ensure the date column is sortable, then let me know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.98.118 ( talk) 10:11, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for looking into this and applying the rest of the changes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.98.118 ( talk) 10:25, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Be advised, the edits this bot is making is actually removing the death date and death place from the infobox. Might be an issue with the Template:Infobox MLB player. Neonblak talk - 11:35, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Yobot is bypassing the otherpeople2 redirect without doing anything else in the edit. When so many edits in a row relate to the same template it is clear you are inappropriately orphaning it ( what links here). This is not the first time Yobot has done this; if I notice it in the future with a different template, I will block the bot for performing unapproved work. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:19, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Please reverse the yobot changes to scientific method. The p.941 citation is incorrectly given. You can reply on the scientific method Talk page where I noted the error under the heading Yobot. _ Ancheta Wis ( talk) 00:34,u 15 June 2011 (UTC)
I think yobot did it correctly. The p. 941 citation is intact. --
Ancheta Wis (
talk)
10:38, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Which BRFA corresponds to [116]? The edit summary just says "clean up", which is not on its own an approved task. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:03, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
|birth_date=
and/or |death_date=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
05:58, 15 June 2011 (UTC)The [X]HTML elements <em>
and <i>
are not equivalent or synonymous. Same goes for <strong>
and <b>
. If an editor has intentionally used one of the former, it should not be changed to the latter by being changed by this bot to ''
(or '''
) wikimarkup (and certainly not vice versa either). For every 100 times an editor intentionally uses emphasis markup, I would be there are fewer than one whole case of someone doing so accidentally, since the vast majority of editors here do not use HTML markup at all, and the few who do are almost always doing it for a legitimate reason (the only common exception I can think of, based on 5+ years of experience here is people using quick-and-dirty HTML table markup, because wikitables have a rather steep learning curve). —
SMcCandlish
Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ
Contribs.
04:21, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Why is the bot converting lower-case DEFAULTSORTs to upper, e.g. to "Pre-Paid Legal Service" at Pre-paid legal service. That's not even grammatical (we don't capitalize what comes after a hyphen in circumstance like this), even if the rest were capitalized, e.g. because it was a book title or something). I have not been following category sorting for a long time, so I don't know if there's some consensus I missed somewhere to forcibly capitalize everything incorrectly; if anything, it should be the other way around, with everthing being lowercased, otehrwise it's hard to be certain what should or shouldn't be uppercased to get whatever the desired effect is. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 04:21, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Yobot's changing of the "dateofbirth" parameter to "birth_date" in the infobox of, e.g.
William Walton (rugby) has resulted in the output of {{birth date|1874|09|24|df=y}}
to not be displayed in the infobox . Best Regards.
DynamoDegsy (
talk)
10:20, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Yobot is replacing redirects again. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 21:08, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
I looked through the last few contribs briefly and I can't see any of them make a nontrivial change. Instead, it appears that the bot is simply orphaning Template:WP Poland. Therefore, I have blocked the bot. The block message refers to cosmetic changes, which these are, but a second issue is that the bot does not have approval to simply orphan templates in this manner, so the bot was also running an unapproved job.
The block length is set to indefinite at the moment, because we need to find a long-term resolution to the problem of unapproved edits by the bot before restarting it. I do expect that the block will be lifted; as usual, "indefinite" does not mean "infinite". But this is a recurring problem, and the bot has a long block log for the same sort of problem, so I think an indefinite block is in order. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 21:08, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Yobot, I have added several links from other articles to the article ' Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering'. So it would be good if you remove the Orphan tag you placed in that article, as it is not an Orphan article anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.196.162.39 ( talk) 06:57, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey Yobot, please remove orphan tag on Geraldine Arata page. Plenty of links to other articles. Thank you. Thisandthem ( talk) 02:23, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi, please note that your bot's adding of an orphan tag to articles such as sandy anemone is inappropriate. These are animals which fit perfectly well into a biological scheme, and in a classification scheme. This does not make them orphan articles. They are, rather, the leaves at the end of the biological tree of classification.
regards Seascapeza ( talk) 17:53, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Yobot BRFA 21 only applies to templates that have been through TFD. As far as I can tell, Template:Infobox Scientist has been a redirect since 2009, and not at TFD. Also, according to BRFA 21, the edit summary from Yobot must have a link to the deletion discussion. Therefore this edit is not authorized under BRFA 21. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 17:48, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Since Mediawiki 1.17, all category sortkeys are put into uppercase. So there is no need for edits such as [117] now. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 17:50, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Yobot is not correctly removing File:Replace this image male.svg - see this example. DH85868993 ( talk) 01:16, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Dear Yobot,
I notice you have made a change to the Wikipedia site which carries my profile; Sarah Holland, author, actress and singer. Your edit is asking people to "rate" the page. I have checked many other Wikipedia sites and notice very few of them contain this feature. The page was not started by me although I keep a close eye on it, update it when there is a need to do so and notice changes to it very quickly.
As there have been no major changes made to the page over the last year, I cannot help but wonder why you feel there is a need to ask people to "rate" it?
Best wishes,
Sedruol (Sarah Holland) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sedruol ( talk • contribs) 21:51, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Can you please point me to where there is there a consensus that Yobot (BRFA 15) should remove placeholder images? -- Epipelagic ( talk) 01:58, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Please, put a pick on Reagan Pasternak. I don't know how! I choose, this one: http://i2.listal.com/image/2077889/600full-reagan-pasternak.jpg Can u help? Sorry my english, thank u very much! Juliana Keller — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jukeller ( talk • contribs) 07:00, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Please explain to me how citing personal blog entries falls under Wikipedia's "reliable sources". I get that you personally do not like the guy. But your posts on the subjects you cherry-picked are hardly complete or objective. I'm all about honesty and objectivity in dialogue. Please leave biased, incomplete posts out of the Wikipedia arena. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.52.111.6 ( talk) 00:13, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
This edit, [118] to Anna Turner (producer) changed the hyphen in the file File:Anna Turner (1944-1996) in 1983 with Stephen Hill.png to a non-existent image and the file was then tagged as being orphaned. I hope this is one of the few cases of the bot messing this up and that these mistakes will not happen in the future. Aspects ( talk) 00:57, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello Yobot,
Please review Ráv Thomas I have added an additional reference from a noteworthy news source to cite this article. Please review and remove orphan tag if satisfied, thank you.
Regards, Damo1980 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Damo1980 ( talk • contribs) 08:22, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
See here. Some infoboxes require the link formatting. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:58, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
Dear Yobot, Please review Guinea Pigs (film) There are now a number of links to this article. Please review and remove orphan tag if you are satisfied, thank you. Please advise further if you still deem the article to be an orphan.
Many Thanks dearmat —Preceding undated comment added 12:51, 31 July 2011 (UTC).
Thanks for keeping me honest. 16:27, 31 July 2011 (GMT) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dearmat ( talk • contribs)
Sondra Locke was born in 1944. Erikeltic continues to deny all reliable sources by reverting my edits and inserting an incorrect 1947 birthdate for Sondra Locke. See below for proof that Locke was born in 1944.
On 28 May 2011, actress-director Sondra Locke turned 67 according to Yahoo! News [119], ABC News [120], the Associated Press [121] [122], Leigh Valley News [123], and The Boston Globe [124]; this directly correlates to her being born on 28 May 1944. Her birthdate is 28 May 1944 according to MSN movies [125], the Internet Movie Database [126], and the Notable Names Database [127]. Many printed publications erroneously list her birth year as 1947. The Middle Tennessee State University yearbook from 1963 has a photo of her [128] appearing in a production of Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible. If born in 1947, this would make Locke a 16-year-old university student, an unlikely scenario. Locke's age is stated as 45 in this 1989 People magazine article [129], correlating to a 1944 birth year. As of August 2011, Locke is 67 years old according to public records [130] [131], correlating to her being born in 1944.
Please prevent
Erikeltic from further abusing Locke's wikipedia page. Her correct birth year should be on that page, and the correct year is 1944.
PlaceboComp8705 (
talk)
02:28, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Yobot seems lately to be making an awful lot of minor changes to infoboxes, particularly of scientists, which have no effect at all on the visible page ( example). I thought that bots were not supposed to make such edits unless there was something else more substantial that needed doing at the same time. Spinning Spark 12:12, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Dearest Yobot, You seem to be the most recent editor of Ti Freedman's page. As a Registered User I was under the obviously naive impression I was able to make meaningful edits. Could you please explain to me why I am locked out of doing so? Fred Bauer or whomever seems to have been contacted and engaged for his blocking prowess by Mr Freedman, who has 2 daughters by sperm donation, yet of whom he only mentions one in his own edits: Alice Farrow-Pryke. Could you please explain to me, in the name of veracity and truth on Wikipedia pages, how Mr Freedman has managed to keep people from editing a page on his 'biography' of a living person in the name of vandalism when the mention of his second child could hardly be seen as such, especially in light of his own free, public-record admission and disucssion regarding his first-born daughter? I mean it would seem an act of vandalism to the second daughter not to be mentioned, when the first so lovingly was by Tim himself. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dee de Wit ( talk • contribs) 11:21, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
I changed the north american release dates because both ign.com and neoseeker agreed on different dates than what was posted. I also added some information about how the snes version was originally supposed to be based entirely on the second season of the show.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (video game)
Thank you. -- 24.191.0.28 ( talk) 17:16, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Can you watch out a page created by me recently and edit for corrections in it..?? Bethesda Hospital, Ambur is the one which is 86 year old hospital, started in my region by the american christian missionaries. -- BabuOnWiki ( talk) 10:55, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I've undone your edit because I'm in the middle of a major re-edit. I know the refs need some more work and am slowly addressing these problems as I work through the article. As soon as this is complete I will will asking for a second copy edit. Good to see your interest in this article. :) -- Rskp ( talk) 01:35, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
There are several multiple entries in the Camberwell Cemeteries article. Please could you run through and group them? Thanks Nshimbi ( talk) 21:25, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Please avoid inappropriate flagging of fully-featured articles as 'orphan' when inward and outward links do exist. Such unhelpful comments were added to the National Support Teams article and will continue to be removed but it would be even more greatly appreciated if you could avoid use of such 'robotic' scanning where it is evident that a page is being properly maintained. Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hypocaustic ( talk • contribs) 15:52, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
The article DOES have incoming links; the difficulty which you appear to have had in identifying this is perhaps one of the areas where the 'robot' is not working well. Thanks, however, for the helpful assistance you have since provided in converting some links to wikilinks - point noted. Please do avoid further public negative flagging and use the page's talk function if you have further queries or concerns - it is being watched and your input will be responded to constructively. Hypocaustic ( talk) 10:49, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Magioladitis; your intention to be constructive and helpful is acknowledged, but the repeated public posting of tags which nevertheless appear negative can be interpreted as abusive; hence the request above to make positive suggestions or requests for additional editing in the discussion section of the page. Some of the changes you have suggested have been feasible, others not because of the technical nature of the subject matter and the variable quality of some other related Wikipedia pages. These will hopefully improve with time but I will add links will as appropriate to a good understanding of the topic rather than to fulfil an arbitrary numerical target (unless, of course, other informed contributors identify useful content to include first). Please do refrain from 'graffiti' if you wish take a further interest in the page; the system offers more friendly routes to collaboration than this and a good Wikipedian should use them. Hypocaustic ( talk) 20:51, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
In the article List of MS-DOS commands Yobot removed a section title named ":" and changed it to "", so that it no longer showed up in the TOC and was not clickable. This has been reverted but how can we ensure that this won't happen again? -- Matthiaspaul ( talk) 07:09, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
good work! Chocgirl ( talk) 12:35, 1 October 2011 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar |
good work! Chocgirl ( talk) 12:35, 1 October 2011 (UTC) |
Thanks!!!!!!!!!! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:17, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Please check and tweak. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 20:33, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Yobot, I am amazed by this mechanism. Thanks for your contribution to Esther's entry. I have been trying to correct Esther's date of birth, day, month and year -she was born in 1943. Esther Anderson, in fact, would prefer her date of birth not to appear in Wikipedia. Could you advice me on this? One love Gian — Preceding unsigned comment added by Giangodoy ( talk • contribs) 02:53, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
I think that yobot malfunctioned with this edit [134]. It added a recently-removed top level (wikify) tag back on. This is just FYI, not an issue with me. North8000 ( talk) 23:34, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, the bot broke the references section with
this edit. The article uses
list-defined references, in which the <ref>...</ref>
elements are enclosed by a <references>...</references>
pair. In this case the closing </references>
was missing, but instead of adding it, the bot changed the opening <references>
into a single <references />
, which broke the entire refs section. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
22:20, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
rev 7938 will get us on step closer to solve this problem. -- Yobot ( talk) 17:56, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, with
this edit, Yobot broke a citation. The article was using {{
citation/core}}
directly (probably as a result of an incorrect substitution of {{
citation}}
), for which the parameters are mostly propercased, i.e. |Surname1=
etc. Yobot has lowercased all these, and so they are no longer recognised. Whilst doing this, it also moved a category from inside an {{#if:}}
construct to the bottom of the page. As a result, the category, previously conditional, became unconditional, and so the page was incorrectly categorised. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:16, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Here you introduced a grammatical error into the article Private Stock (malt liquor) by adding a full stop after a quote even though there was already a full stop on the left of the quotation mark. Despite this being the only change to the article, you claimed in your edit summary to have made more than 61 corrections. Please explain yourself. ( WP Editor 2011 ( talk) 14:18, 17 January 2012 (UTC))
I saw that your bot changed the {{ commonscat}} to {{ commons category}} and IMHO entirely unneccessary but simply increase the history of minor bot edit. To my knowledge there's no policy or guideline discourage the use of template shortcut (or any redirect link), point me one if I was wrong. -- Sameboat - 同舟 ( talk) 02:38, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
I 'll satisfy your impatience to fix this problem by doing the remaining 990 pages manually and checking each page separately. Thanks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:00, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
I find it completely unfair that I try to reduce/fix this problem by leaving comments in two languages, update awb's source code, write scripts and all you did is to just block my bot to prevent further improvements because you found 4 pages in your watchlist with "insignificant edits". The backlog reached 110,000 pages in less than 3 months because I get little help by individual editors. There is only 1 bot right now doing general maintance and you prefer to block it instead of letting it run and fix the problems as they occur. I hope you noticed that I didn't just ignore the above comments as I never ignore any of the messages left on my bot's page nor my page. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:45, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
It's also still the case that nobody can tell what the bot was trying to do with edits like [137] because of the vague edit summary. At the very least it would be easy to turn off general fixes altogether, so that no change at all is made if whatever problem is being addressed has already been fixed. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 20:39, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
I'll try to explain myself a bit more. I never ignored any comments on my talk page. The discussion in the German wikipedia with the person who takes care for CHECKWIKI globally proves exactly that. I left them some comments in the past. after the comments above I went the discussion further and at the same time I am trying ot get some limited access to the toolserver. Having access there will prevent Yobot from working with outdated lists. This will solve the problems CBM and more others are complaining for. I have much more ideas for improving this but I would like to wait until Wikimania this summer so I have time to discuss my ideas with other editors in person.
On the customised edit summaries: This is difficult for me to do at the moment. I would like to do it but this would mean that I had to load each function of awb, add edit summaries with if...then conditions and keep this thing up-to-date each time the built-in function changes. This caused many bugs in the past while something similar was done by SmackBot in the past. I would prefer if my changes were done in the built-in code so people could run awb without my intervention and the process could continue even if I leave the project at some point. I am trying to publish parts of my scripts so the process is independent from me and is inherited to the project. We have seen wonderful scripts in the past from people who left Wikipedia and now these scripts can't be found.
It's true that right now when I add the number of the error fixed I work the other way round: I load the list of that given error and I expect that is the error which is being fixed. It's in my plans to improve this.
We can disagree for having 1-2% of pages with insignificant edits but I hope nobody can accuse me for not improving awb's functionality and trying to reduce this percentage. I never encouraged mass editing for insignificant purposes only but at the same point never reached the other side of expecting all edits to add/remove content. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:23, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, but you're not answering the question. Please explain, for the benefit of those of us who don't speak German, or examine data dumps, or do anything technical, why it's necessary to make multiple edits replacing a template redirect? Please note, it's now late here, I'm tired and going to bed. If an uninvolved admin feels they want to reverse the block, feel free to do so without discussion from me. An
optimist on the
run!
23:14, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Maybe already fixed, dating back to 15:38, 8 December 2010: [138]
http:BL was AFAICT supposed to be a red link (the service is actually called http:BL, for blacklist, see Project Honeypot; just nobody has written an article yet?). Yobot changed this to http://BL, which isn't a sensible link. Maybe just apply this fix rule when there is at least a dot in the link, or the link equals http://localhost ?
Of course this could be resolved already, as this was over a year ago. -- Chire ( talk) 13:32, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
We both know you shouldn't be making cosmetic changes like this as the only change. - DJSasso ( talk) 20:32, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
This edit [139] does not match any checkwiki error, and the edit summary still is not saying which error is supposed to have been fixed. The "skip on minor edit" option also seems to be turned off. In general, if the bot believes it fixed an error once, the bot should not repeat the edit to the same page for the same reason; if the error was not fixed, the reason needs to be determined manually. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 16:12, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you put a "nobots" on one of the pages, which I thought was very gracious. But it seems like Yobot doesn't pay attention: [143]. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 22:35, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Still? - DJSasso ( talk) 19:30, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
And yet again?. - DJSasso ( talk) 12:16, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, unsure what is going on with this edit. You appear to have placed a birth name in the birth date parameter. Keith D ( talk) 21:26, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Problem fixed for this page and I checked hundreds of pages for similar problems. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:09, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
this edit summary is totally misleading. There have been no changes to infoboxes - all that has happened is the change of {{
unreferenced}}
to {{
BLP unsourced}}
, plus removal of a superfluous blank line. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
19:51, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Task completed after edit summary updated. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:10, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, some lists are being mis-tagged as (dead end) and possibly (wikify) as past of the WP:CHECKWIKI error fixes. Sarahj2107 ( talk) 20:40, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Please stop Without having looked at any documentation or the bot's other edits, this is pointless. Please amend it so that it makes more meaningful edits. If I'm mistaken, I apologize for stopping it--please correct me on my talk. Thanks. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 05:07, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
This kind of problems have been fixed in AWB rev8052. Now AWB provides a new skip condition "skip if only cosmetic changes" that checks the page and if the html outcome is the same then the page is skipped. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:42, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Richard_Dawkins&action=historysubmit&diff=481041862&oldid=480810991 Abhishikt ( talk) 18:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
This bot recently blanked the Evolution page. I am assuming this is just a glitch. danielkueh ( talk) 00:13, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Double hyphens have a specific meaning in some programming languages (at least Ada, SQL, and VHDL), replacing them with m-dashes breaks the code: [145]. Maybe skip <syntaxhighlight> and related sections entirely; the rules of typesetting may not apply inside. Rathgemz ( talk) 14:28, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
I've had to correct this same problem twice this year in Eiffel code.
This happened in March. This is not the correct page to report this problem. Try using User talk:Magioladitis. Bug may havev been fixed since then. -- Yobot ( talk) 09:50, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
This also happened in August. Please stop Yobot from replacing double hyphens with m-dashes in Eiffel code. Why is this not the correct page to report this problem? It explicitly says at the top of this page that this is the correct page to stop Yobot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.210.181.170 ( talk) 23:01, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Bug fixed. Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_21#Don.E2.80.99t_replace_double_hyphens_in_Ada.2C_SQL.2C_Eiffel_and_VHDL_source_code -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:44, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
In this edit the bot has done nothing except rearrange the interwiki links out of alphabetical order, with a misleading edit summary as it's fixed no errors and done no general fixes.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 18:20, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Yobot is editing a lot recently, and thus covers up previous edits. It saves a lot of pointless edits, for which regular editors have been blocked in the past. I'll try to sort them by groups:
? Materialscientist ( talk) 04:04, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
This is a sign that database dump is old. I created the list by using the latest db dump. I now added some conditions for whitespace but I don't have any control on the others. I can just abandon this list and wait for the next dump. -- Yobot ( talk) 15:45, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
I have seen numerous trivial edits by Yobot over the last week or two of which [155] and [156] are only the most recent. I see at least two other editors have asked you to desist and this is not the first time this has come up with your bot. This plays utter havoc with people's watchlists, especially those of us who have large ones. Yobot blocked until you indicate this is fixed. Spinning Spark 20:18, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Whitespaces might be a matter of database delays, which are severe these days, but how about such edits? [157] Materialscientist ( talk) 23:02, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Whitespace only fixes stopped a day ago. I wrote above that Bypass redirects only edits haven't be fixed yet. There is a pending request on awb's feature requests page. The program is open source I would like to see someone fixing the problem described here. I can only "fix" the bug be blanking the Template redirects page before resuming Yobot. Would this be satisfactory? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:41, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Stop editing, and discuss your edits, here and on the operator's talk page. Josh Parris 00:13, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Why is the bot adding bannershell on pages with only 2 project banners?
The template clearly shows: "used when more than two and fewer than six banners" ... "assessment bots may change shell templates per this usage guideline"
Thanks
Chaosdruid (
talk)
02:43, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
OK, my mistake, the bot simply changed the shell, rather than adding it.
As a thought, perhaps it could remove it when < 3 banners are there? Chaosdruid ( talk) 02:48, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Could you please explain why the bot saves such edits [160] [161] [162]. Materialscientist ( talk) 23:54, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Those are not allowed per WP:COSMETICBOT. You know this. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 12:54, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
It's CHECKWIKI error fixing. Check User_talk:Magioladitis#AWB_revision_8039. There is a new skip condition called "Skip if cosmetic changes only" now in AWB. The edit you are showing me changes the rendered output since the categories are rendered in a different order. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:11, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
The edit summary is a problem caused by me not running from my laptop which is for service these days. I'll fix this in the next run. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:12, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Note: that is a perfectly good minor edit.
is just wrong. YOBOT fixed the error. Fixing errors is good. I don't know if Yobot is technically permitted this edit, but opposing it is churlish, and a disservice to readers.
Rich
Farmbrough,
19:04, 2 May 2012 (UTC).
Hi there. Why'd the bot do this? 28bytes ( talk) 03:51, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
This kind of problems have been fixed in AWB rev8052. Now AWB provides a new skip condition "skip if only cosmetic changes" that checks the page and if the html outcome is the same then the page is skipped. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:43, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Despite all previous comments and assurances, the bot keeps saving edits like [163] [164]. I also believe edits like [165] [166] [167] [168] [169] [170] [171] are violations of WP:COSMETICBOT, and I only went through a few dozen of recent edits. On range dashes: user:RjwilmsiBot and User:Rjwilmsi are fixing them. Materialscientist ( talk) 23:53, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Re the block notice: it is actually somewhat difficult to tell which edits are permitted because AWB performs such a large number of changes and because the "CHECKWIKI" edit summary is so vague. But of the diffs linked above, these are certainly not approved:
[172]
[173]
[174].
The full list of CHECKWIKI fixes is at [175]. For example, although moving interwikis to the end is a violation of COSMETICBOT, it is also a CHECKWIKI fix (see 51 and 53). BAG approved a very open-ended request for CHECKWIKI edits, so it could be argued that those changes, although they are not needed, are approved as part of CHECKWIKIing. Similarly, replacing HTML <I></I> with wiki code is a CHECKWIKI fix. I think it would be better for BAG to revisit that bot request and limit it to only certain tasks that are unambiguously not cosmetic changes.
However, even if we ignore changes that are CHECKWIKI fixes, the bot is still making unapproved edits, like the ones linked in my first paragraph, and it has been making such edits chronically. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 11:33, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
I think Yobot should be judged after you see edits with new skip condition ("skip if only cosmetic changes") and this skip condition is improved not not by judging the edits that happened before. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:34, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
On "external link"->"external links": The change changes what the page looks like and it is important in printed versions of the pages since we would like all page be closer to perfection whn they are printed. I don't understand why someone to think that other editors are not allowed to fix this.
The whole discussion here is on a wrong base. There are four categories of Yobot's edits that cause controversy:
I think the discussion should be divived in 4 parts instead of me trying to reply in all of these cases and keep getting blocked for a mixture of edits caused by bugs, human errors or by wrong administrator's judge. Each case can be dealt in a different way. A discussion which will try to overcome the problems alltogether will be unproductive. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:01, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
And there is one more thing to be discussed: Which edits of those described aive are allowed to editors and not to bots and mainly why? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:25, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
I just noticed this discussion and thought I would levy my unsolicited opinion. I think that far far too much time is spent on Wikipedia arguing about trivial edits. A bot or editor did a trivial edit, so what. Before my dad died he had a saying, "If you mind the pennies the dollars will mind themselves". This bot minds the pennies and eventhough some editors don't like these trivial edits being done, they do incrementally improve the pedia. Additionally, most of these edits make changes that follow the MOS, so if you don't like what the MOS says, I recommend you start a discussion to change it, not badger the operator of the bot thats doing the work. If the MOS gets chanegd to say that X edit is no longer the standard then AWB and whatever else can be changed.
@the editors arguing about cluttering their watchlists. This is a BS argument. Filling another users watchlists with edits should never ever be a reason to stop a bot or editor from editing. I personally find it quite satisfying that edits are being made to the items on my watchlist, even the little edits like this add up and over time I have seen noticiable differences in the articles development just from bots doing little things over time.
@CBM, to say that an editor can make a cosmetic changes but a bot cannot is both absurd and in contrast to what you have said in other discussions. In fact I believe you stated repeatedly that doing this with a bot was preferred because the users with the affected articles on their watchlists can hide bot edits.
I also noticed something else that I find troubling. It seems like a large percentage of the editors on the list of most active editors are being systematically attacked and run off. Often times by editors who do very few "edits" (although they might be active bot operators or admins they do few edits). Several have already left, Rich is in Arbitration, Yobot and Magio are the current targets and I suspect others will be targetted next. There seems to be a general unfriendliness towards anyone who expends a large amount of effort in large scale editing. Almost as though the community felt like they were being left out or needed to defend why they didn't do more. In general I think too much time is wasted on these discussions.
138.162.8.57 (
talk)
20:07, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
I see a few issues here, though I have my own opinions on them, I set them aside in the hope that we can move forward.
Any reason not to unblock?
Rich
Farmbrough,
09:09, 2 May 2012 (UTC).
such as you did at Sanatoga Union Sunday School. The article did not need to be wikified, it needed to be expanded. Perhaps you haven't noticed that putting tags on pages doesn't work very well. It doesn't either wikify or expand the article. The tag usually just sits there and looks ugly for a few years. If you think an article should be wikified or expanded, just do it! Or read WP:Sofixit, then just do it! End of lecture. Smallbones ( talk) 03:29, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
I have unblocked this bot to allow it to handle WP:BOTREQ#Biography articles without WPBiography tags in good faith. If this bot violates WP:COSMETICBOT again, it should be immediately re-blocked. Anomie ⚔ 15:17, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
Please check it. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 23:23, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
Dear Author/Yobot
My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Wikipedia pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Wikipedia pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Wikipedia and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address recently edited an article on Very Long Chain Acyl CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page (Hydra_Rain) and if interested, please visit my Talk page or e-mail me on nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance. Hydra Rain ( talk) 23:41, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
This edit screwed up the Ireland WikiProject banner. Can you make sure to fix this problem? Is this a one off or a constant issue? Thanks. ww2censor ( talk) 14:40, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for keeping us updated and sorry for the inconvenience as we work through the problem. Here is a list of the articles affected:
I have already fixed a couple. I'll continue to work on why that is happening. Kumioko ( talk) 02:53, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Please look at the cricket biographies updated in the last couple of days. Where a peer-review parm exists it has screwed it all up. ---- Jack | talk page 22:20, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. ---- Jack | talk page 22:04, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
Right, thanks very much for prompt attention. ---- Jack | talk page 22:18, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
I just thought that I should let you know that the bot added the Biography project-banner to the municipality Milow, Germany on 23 July ( [177]). I've reverted it, but you might want to find out why it happened. Cheers, Mentoz86 ( talk) 09:55, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Noticing the current batch of edits is removing a bunch of photos and leaving behind redlinks. There appears to be a problem. Here is an examples: [178] [179] [180]
Might be spaces in the image filename. -- Falcadore ( talk) 13:01, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Just thought I should point
this out to you. The bot may need a little tweaking.
--
WikHead (
talk)
13:03, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks both for the report. The problem is with filenames that that dots in them. Please if you find these problems try to undo the last edit instead of rollbacking. --- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:29, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Fix your robot. It's discarding the captions as it stomps through {{ Infobox automobile}}. I manually fixed Ford Transit bus, but see [181] for another example. Useddenim ( talk) 18:20, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
|caption=
but discarded this change. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
08:09, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
It's having problems with comma too - see [182]. -- Dmitry ( talk• contibs) 18:34, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello -
The template instructions for "infobox military person" has this paragraph
Why is the bot removing what is specifically allowed? JMOprof ( talk) 21:41, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
|image_size=
. To caption use |caption=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
00:34, 31 August 2012 (UTC)The bot is removing the alt text! Is this intentional? MisterBee1966 ( talk) 07:57, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
|image_size=
to set the image size. I fixed it. --
Yobot (
talk)
11:39, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
|image_size=
to the infobox. Give me a page and I can make an example for you. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
13:03, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Bot run completed. -- Yobot ( talk) 13:28, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Have reverted your edit; this chap's deceased. - TB ( talk) 22:02, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
You can't bypass template redirects without making a substantial edit to the page at the same time. [183] — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 18:44, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
When you remove the priority parameter (or any other parameter for what matters) as in [184], please remove the entire line, including the line break. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:52, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Please take a look at these articles. Thank you. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 23:27, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Talk:Richard Hilton My apologies, it was another bot earlier. reverted page back to last good copy. Gtwfan52 ( talk) 15:26, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, spotted this edit moving punctuation before references. It removed a full stop and placed it before the reference but there was a comma there so you end up with a comma followed by a full stop. The comma should have been replaced by the full stop. Keith D ( talk) 09:46, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
IN this change the bot added an {{ Orphan}} tag to an article which does have links, including from articles; not many but it's a pretty obscure topic and a relatively new article. Per the guidelines the tag should only be added to pages with no links.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 14:03, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on this article Stephen Allcroft ( talk) 15:01, 25 September 2012 (UTC)Stephen Allcroft
The article Alternative_cancer_treatments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_cancer_treatments uses term Anticancer plants, but yobot marked the article Anticancer plants like to be orphan 212.122.74.6 (talk) 15:32, 25 September 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.122.74.6 ( talk)
Diff [185]. I'm not sure why the bot is removing these references. Please would you clarify? Keristrasza ( talk) 07:29, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Can you make sure this is not going to reoccur? Please stop "fixing" Robotics banners - is there some particular reason as to why you are doing this? From the approved task list I can see nothing which would cover these edits.
I have fixed them this time, but if there are going to be 30+ every time I will just be undoing.
Thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 14:35, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Now fixed for good. Yobot finished removing nested and I updated my settings file. Sorry for this. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:23, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
This produced four adjacent primes. When this occurs as the result of two italics togglings, these should be removed. Similarly for bolding, obviously. I would prefer for four primes to be ignored on display as being more logical, but... — Quondum 14:20, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Also see this one, where a triple prime was created, producing an improper bold. This one will not be solved by merging tags first. — Quondum 14:38, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
In this change the bot changed jbo:island to jbo:Island, breaking the link. I've fixed it but it seems these should not be 'fixed' without checking them as it's likely they are spelled like that for a reason.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 16:12, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Bug fixed: Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_21#jbo_wiki_is_first-letter_case_sensitive.21. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:09, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
In this page, Yobot has removed the stub tag and added and orphan tag.
Removing the stub tag may be discussed: the article is short, but I am not sure that it deserve expansion. In any case removing stub tags is a matter of judgment, which depend on the subject that should not be made by a robot. In WP:stub you may read: "While very short articles are likely to be stubs, there are some subjects about which very little can be written". IMO, this is the case here.
Adding the orphan tag is a blatant mistake: the article had two incoming links and WP:orphan says: It is recommended to only place the {{ orphan}} tag if the article has ZERO incoming links from other articles. (bolface is not mine)
-- D.Lazard ( talk) 10:51, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
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The Minor barnstar |
Great Work! Nford24 ( Want to have a chat?) 13:44, 12 October 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:47, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
The don't understand this edit of the Fractal dimension article. It seems like it most just switched the order of references. The edit summary cites " WP:CHECKWIKI error 61 fix, References after punctuation per WP:REFPUNC and WP:PAIC using WP:AWB" but there doesn't appear to be any of those. In fact, the previous edit to the article was by me who did exactly that. Could you explain what happened here? Jason Quinn ( talk) 18:48, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
It is likely that your bot have misedited this article deleting a good piece of relevant information. Just now the article is in auful state, it surely needs repair. 46.242.127.221 ( talk) 17:35, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Why does this bot rearrange the order of sequential refs? See this here. All refs are in chronological order of census, consistent with the chronological order of the population figures in the table. Hwy43 ( talk) 04:44, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
I've reverted this bot edit [186] as the contents of the edit does not resemble the edit summary. This means either (a) the edit intended is not actually working; or (b) the edit summary is just plain misleading. Please could you investigate, tweak the bot and give me a debrief on what you found. Hope it helps, — Sladen ( talk) 03:27, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
nanban film article is vandalized persistently again nd again by user:kollyfan by removing links,sources nd statements please help thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.174.9.153 ( talk) 09:02, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
The bot is making incorrect updates to football articles replacing the field 'cityofdeath' with 'birth_place'. This means that it is both overwriting the correct birth place field and failing to display the place of death. Please correct immediately and go back and fix the massive number of errors this has created. Bladeboy1889 ( talk) 19:54, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
It was still making that change at after 19.30 tonight and I've just been back and had to fix a fair number that I happen to have on my watch list so I think one or two is probably a major understatement. Bladeboy1889 ( talk) 20:02, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Fixed all. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 01:36, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
I see that you have edited to show the same cite number on Anthony Mason's book (1). How do i cite the same reference without the javascript automatically going up chronologically?
Tony Walton caymanchess@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonywalt ( talk • contribs) 17:09, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
The page University Bible Fellowship was marked as an orphan. But there is a page that links to this article: Churches That Abuse. Bkarcher ( talk) 15:42, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
What with yobot removing sortkeys, as in this edit? — Stepheng3 ( talk) 18:16, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Do you ever contact involved editors before you come through a page with your bot?? Do you ever look back to see if your 'bot' has screwed up formatting and other items?? -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 18:50, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Matter resolved after thorough discussion. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:01, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Yobot broke a couple of the references in the Baking Pot article. It looks like it got confused by the non-standard quotation marks that were used. See, for example, where it created <ref name="“AweHelmke 05”"/>, which referred to a non-existent reference. Kaldari ( talk) 09:41, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
What is the purpose of this edit? Both changes seem to be cosmetic (and thus against AWB rules). And I can't even see what the second change does. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 18:45, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Running a bot job to capitalize the first letter of a category is somewhat absurd; that should only be done as part of a larger edit, not on its own [188]. In fact it is not even an error, because Mediawiki automatically capitalizes them. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 23:40, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello - The IEEE Smart Grid page has been updated with inbound links; is it possible to get the {{ Orphan}} tag removed?
Thanks!
Mdrozdowski ( talk) 16:52, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for this piece of (unintended) irony about the concept of "fixing one mistake in a thousand articles" in Wikipedia. Incnis Mrsi ( talk) 09:13, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Just was curious if you are checking for the <pre> tags in sections before setting this template on a page. Reason I ask is we had a bot doing this awhile back and they put a huge number of these templates in incorrect places because it didn't notice that the sections did indeed have content but that it was wrapped in pre tags so checkwiki was wrong. Thought I would ask before you got too far into your run since you have already massively spammed my watchlist with these changes. - DJSasso ( talk) 13:33, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Why are you changing dates from "27-2-2012" to "2012-02-27" while the page is clearly marked with {{Use British English|date=January 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2012}}? The Banner talk 13:47, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thank you Yobot for fixing the cracks in Wikipedia. 2nyte ( talk) 10:23, 16 February 2013 (UTC) |
Me and my bot thank you very much! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:44, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Dear Yobot please do not alter the page for Roy Painter any more.
Many Thanks
Roy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greenfingers123 ( talk • contribs) 11:01, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Yobot,
I have a proposal: in the second line of the third paragraph of Rufino_José_Cuervo
maybe you or someone else should erase the word "regimen" and write instead: "rection", or "government", or "grammar government".
It would read as follows:
(Dictionary of Castilian language construction and rection).
Because:
"régimen" is a correct word in the Spanish language, but in English, I have just learned that the correct word or phrase is "rection", or "government".
My source is: Government_(linguistics)
Concerning "grammar government", please keep in mind that my mother tongue is not English, but Spanish, and therefore I do not know if "grammar government" could cause more confusion among readers.
Cordially,
Alejandro Ochoa Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. — 189.162.224.142
Hi, I have added links to the William Helm page from related articles including Helm, California and Fresno, California. Please consider removing the orphan tag you added back in December 2012. Thanks - Greg Henderson ( talk) 09:49, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Just as a gentle reminder. Rich got banned for these [189]. Please don't follow the same path. — Sladen ( talk) 10:46, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, with this edit, Yobot replaced the double round brackets in two correctly-formed expressions with double curly braces, which broke the page. I have made a partial revert. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 18:22, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, if you change |sbn=
to |isbn=
,
as here, please ensure that it has a valid number of digits (10 or 13). If it has 9, as in this case, it can be converted to a valid 10-digit ISBN simply by
prefixing with 0-
--
Redrose64 (
talk)
15:15, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
|isbn=
parameter, it's extremely likely to be a SBN. SBN is merely an older form of ISBN-10; when ISBNs were introduced, existing SBNs were made up to 10 digits with an initial zero - the other digits were unchanged. See also
Template:Cite book#Identifiers. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
16:45, 1 March 2013 (UTC)I am surprised by some recent changes in some articles where your bot has vandalized the name of the Persian Gulf. I have corrected a few that I came across. Can you please stop and explain why? Yours, Kamran the Great ( talk) 20:12, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, saw your bot working on another page, correcting a bunch of formatting things. Can it do the same on the Bjørn Dæhlie article? Thanks! Nje1987 ( talk) 22:31, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Please note that Category:Articles created via the Article Wizard is a hidden maintenance category which does not count toward whether an article is considered "categorized" or not; accordingly, {{ uncategorized}} is not to be removed from articles on the basis of that category's presence. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 06:43, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi , You put {{Orphan|date=March 2013}} on my article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningombam_Bupenda_Meitei , please help me out in removing it and making the article free of orphan.Thanks Donizo ( talk) 13:05, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Yobot, plz help me in removing the tag {{Orphan|date=April 2013}} added by you. I have shown links and references for the article Ningombam Bupenda Meitei . I also had a long discussion with Avoided long back and the article had no problem. Donizo ( talk) 21:02, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
The matter has been resolved . Plz help in removing it. Thanks Donizo ( talk) 21:07, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Your bot seems to be reformatting the England national football team records article incorrectly. There are intended to be footnotes applying to the subheadings and footnotes applying to the detail entries. The bot is relocating the footnotes applying to the subheadings and placing them immediately BEFORE the first of the relevant detail entries. Can you exclude the bot from editing this article? Thanks! Stevew2022 ( talk) 17:08, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, see
this edit. Yobot has altered five instances of {{{ISBN}}}
or {{{ISBN|}}}
to {{{ISBN|date=March 2013}}}
- there are no circumstances in which an absent |ISBN=
parameter may safely be replaced by a month/year. It has also incorrectly altered {{{caption|{{{image_caption|}}}}}}
to {{{caption|{{{caption|}}}}}}
and since I can't be sure of the validity of the rest of the edit, I've reverted the whole thing. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
23:42, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Made some improvements on the referencing format. Thanks for your concern. Should you have some more comments, please let me know. - Patnubaypatnugot ( talk) 14:41, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Stan Bronson, Jr. I am new at this and noticed that the Bot added the term html to the end of my reference links which broke all my links. I went back in and removed the edits and they are now working fine. Please check to see that the links remain stable without the bot breaking them. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mphsmeister ( talk • contribs) 01:47, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Please stop removing the SMALL tags from the Sumerograms (i.e. your recent edit to Land grant to Ḫasardu kudurru). Small caps are the correct way to portray transliterated Sumerograms when they represent Akkadian words. BigEars42 ( talk) 11:26, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Problem solved. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:22, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
The issue of City of Faith Church being a virgin page has now been resolved. Can the message be removed now. Thanks -- Akpantue ( talk) 20:31, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, I meant the issue of City of Faith Church being an orphan article (nor virgin!). Please remove the tag. Thanks. -- Akpantue ( talk) 20:33, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Why was the date changed for the {refimprove} on the reference maint tag on
this edit? --
Alan Liefting (
talk -
contribs)
20:13, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
{{
unreferenced}}
was removed, and a {{
refimprove}}
was added; such tags need dating, so |date=March 2013
was added at the same time. The fact that {{
unreferenced}}
had borne a |date=June 2009
is immaterial. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
20:56, 5 April 2013 (UTC)Why remove this tag? Why was this bot edit approved? Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 09:44, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi,I am unhappy that you reverted all my edits to the double bass section. The picture of the sitting double bass player, for example, was used to illustrate the section on sitting or standing. I did not like your two negatively-toned statements, either, referring to my edits as projectile editing (I take the allusion is to vomiting) and referring to my edits as nonsense. It is good to be polite. Also, rather than do a global, total reversion, why not just revert the things you don't like? OnBeyondZebrax ( talk) 17:27, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi Yobot, thanks for the corrections, just one comment/question, I tried to make all the headings appear on the left for consistency etc, I had to use line /breaks to achieve this, why did you remove these ? Paul Clarence ( talk) 13:10, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I'm CoJaBo. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page List of XML markup languages, because it seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. CoJaBo ( talk) 18:48, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Reverted Edit regarding caption for Senate pic: "Party standings in the Senate without vacancies" - it removed /breaks that make the caption easier to read. Following instructions to request it leave this edit as it is unless good reason for change. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sb101 ( talk • contribs) 07:26, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
this edit caused template issues. ---- Mahanga ( Talk) 18:25, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
As part of this edit Yobot changed -- to —. Because the context was command line options like --delete, this caused syntax errors. Maybe <pre> blocks should be excluded from this task, or pattern " --[^ ]" should be excluded. -- Petteri Aimonen ( talk) 08:46, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Kindly remove the Orphan tag on Vogue Towers page as there are at least three Wikipedia articles ( M. M. Alam Road, Nayyar Ali Dada, Fashion Avenue ) that lead to Vogue Towers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hussnain.wiki ( talk • contribs) 10:26, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogue_Towers Vogue tower]
, which Wikipedia considers to be technically different than an internal wikilink. I changed each of them to [[Vogue Towers]]
so they appear as wikilinks in
Special:WhatLinksHere/Vogue Towers and removed the {{
orphan}} tag. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk)
19:35, 17 April 2013 (UTC)I don't see the point of this edit. Apart from a couple of inconsequential copyedits the bot added a DEFAULTSORT, but one which matches the title of the article and so will do nothing. The edit summary suggests it's fixing the sort key but there was none there to begin with to fix.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 22:50, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello - The Murshidabad College of Engineering and Technology page has been updated with inbound links; is it possible to get the "Orphan" tag removed? Thanks! -- CMAZ ( talk) 05:29, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Bot is replacing invocations of {{ MedlinePlus2}} with {{ MedlinePlusEncyclopedia2}}; see [192]. There are 15-20 articles using MedlinePlus2; I assume you'll want to fix this. TJRC ( talk) 00:54, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Why did Yobot add unnecessary spaces to the Phil Urich article? Spidey 104 13:48, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Added extra text & links to other relevant pages. Thanks for the feedback in developing this page.
Hi, just a quick not to say that we have updated the page and added the links you requested. Please may you now chsck if all is ok for the removal of the statement you placed at the top, thanks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kold_Sweat_Records JonS ( talk) 07:09, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Magioladitis, would you mind not making edits like this, please? They filling up the watchlists with very minor edits that produce no visible change in read mode. There's no need to add white space between headers, and "see" is easier to type than "further," and not something that needs to be changed. Many thanks, SlimVirgin (talk) 18:49, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Please don't go around cutting the white space below headers either. A lot of editors prefer it (it more closely matches formal style...you would not mash your first para right under your header...you would give it a break like the para to para break). Also, the displayed mode shows a break. Also, it is easier when scanning an article in edit mode to find stuff. All that said, just leave it how the person doing the real work in edit mode wants it. TCO ( talk) 08:13, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello Yobot,
This just a courtesy visit to inform you that I took the liberty to make a slight addition to your article. I hope you'd like my little effort. I'd appreciate your say on this. Best regards. ( MrNiceGuy1113 ( talk) 16:47, 19 June 2013 (UTC))
Thanks for your attention to the structure of the page. It appears that your edit machine is putting spaces in, that my auto ed edits take out. Is that an anomaly or is auto ed supposed to do that? I don't want to waste your time by perpetuating mistakes. Thanks. Keith-264 ( talk) 16:10, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
</br>
in the article. </br>
is an invalid html tag. Yobot replaced it with <br>
. While at the article, Yobot "fixed" other things. Everything you are doing looks fine. Well, actually everything looks so good, you should
nominate
Battle of Morval and
Operation Hush for
Good Article status.
Bgwhite (
talk)
03:53, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Battle_of_Morval&curid=1310199&diff=560925877&oldid=560670560
Thanks for explaining things, there are a few like this recently on pages I've tinkered with. I'm rather shaky on the finer points of editing as most of the things I do are black box - I copy what other editors have been doing and I was concerned that I was making work for the AWB editors. Obviously I'd like to solve markup (?) problems by not making them in the first place. Is there a means for me to use auto ed and not remove the blanks? Thanks for the GA recommendation by the way, my stuff builds on previous editors' work so they're the ones who deserve the credit. I started filling in gaps on the Somme pages while waiting for Messines 1917 as it went through A class review so I want to fill in a few more to B class before I start fine-tuning. I only had a go at Hush because I was prevaricatiing over Guillemont and now I've got no excuse to delay.;O)
Keith-264 (
talk)
07:35, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
Of course, if there is a bot adding and one bot removing empty lines we have to take a look at the problem. -- Yobot ( talk) 09:45, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I've just found this edit performed by Yobot a year ago. As you can see, it has effectively removed WP:CRIC from project scope. I have corrected this talk page but can you please check similar edits on other talk pages at the time and repair any others that are damaged. Thanks. ---- Jack | talk page 04:32, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
With this edit , Yobot added double braces to this citation:
{{cite news |title=Shipping Board lists honor ships |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F5081EFB3F591B7A93C3AB1789D95F438285F9 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 December 1927 |page=51 |subscription=yes}}}}
which produces this:
{{
cite news}}
: Unknown parameter |subscription=
ignored (|url-access=
suggested) (
help)}}
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 12:27, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Yobot recently changed {{
cite web}}
parameters |website=
to |work=
. These two parameters are synonyms and both are legitimate. |website=
should be preferred over |work=
in {{cite web}}
because it is less confusing for novice editors.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 12:11, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
With
this edit yobot continues to improperly replace |website=
in {{
cite web}}
with |work=
.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 15:31, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Fixed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:39, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey, sorry I misunderstood the edit. Ali-al-Bakuvi ( talk) 17:59, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Please see this edit at Propositional calculus. Renaming a subsection ("Related topics") of "See also" to "See also" is not helpful. JRSpriggs ( talk) 00:29, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Why is your bot making edits like this? The removal of the <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]] --> comment? Also you're doing this with AWB. The rules of use clearly state "4.Do not make insignificant or inconsequential edits. An edit that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page is generally considered an insignificant edit". Why are these edits being done? Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 10:53, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I work with Michael Hayman and we are keen to update the information on his page. Can you support?
Rosemontjd ( talk) 14:15, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
Your recent edit to Merthyr Tydfil removed the link to the local map; and also removed the links to Police, Fire, Ambulance etc. The vale for unitary_wales needs to be linked. Twiceuponatime ( talk) 08:32, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
{{
Infobox UK place}}
passes the parameter value through to {{
Infobox UK place/local}}
, which expects a wikilink to be present. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
20:07, 14 August 2013 (UTC)Hello.
The bot's edit here broke several citations, so I undid its edit. The bot came back and put it back, errors and all [193]. It seems to be doing several odd things including adding extra quotation marks to several other citations and changing some Hebrew characters while leaving others alone. I would fix thing manually, but I'm not at all sure what is triggering the bot here. — Elipongo ( Talk contribs) 18:02, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
*Not to sell the captive woman into slavery<ref name=""deuteronomy25">{{Bibleverse||Deuteronomy|21:14.|HE}}</ref>
- notice the extra double quote after name=
. There are actually quite a lot of these, and if these were removed throughout, I think that the bot would cope much better. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
19:07, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Stausifr. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of
your recent contributions to
Corazón Ranchero because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, you can use the
sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on
my talk page. The reverted edit can be found
here.
tausif(
talk)
10:45, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Yobot is making unhelpful edits with regards to defaultsort. [194]. Any defaultsort begining with the year serves no purpose as it performs exactly the same function if the defaultsort was not there. Additionally it creates the idea that articles should be sorted by year number which in a category like Category:2013 in Asia is substantially less than helpful, as all articles than get stacked under "2" essentially unsorted. -- Falcadore ( talk) 02:34, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
One of the tasks Yobot seems to do is the addition of non-breaking spaces between a number and "ft". Why does it not do the same between a number and the "m" for metres? (see this edit for an example). Astronaut ( talk) 22:45, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
Please stop making trivial edits with AWB, such as this one. Please read the rules of use, esp. point 4. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 12:35, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
The description here doesn't seem to match the edit, though the edit looks completely valid. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 20:48, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
My name is Ed Nichols. I created the Nichols-Chancellor's Medal article. It looks like Yobot deleted the part of the article entitled Nichols Humanitarian Fund. Please put this back. Thank you. My email address is: edward.nichols@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.245.48.128 ( talk) 13:01, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Please stop making edits like this one. 1. Bots are not allowed to make edits when all they do is something as trivial as adding a whiteline. 2. The addition of this whiteline is not mandatory, and has been contested upon occasion. Bots should definitely not make contested edits. Debresser ( talk) 19:33, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Buggy page fixed. -- Magioladitis ( talk)
Yobot's code needs to be refined - it has buggered up the formatting on several pages which appeared fine until Yobot was run. For example in Woman Scream International Poetry Festival it says the article is an orphan, while it was full of related links, articles, and references!!!?? what else do I need to add? the article is fine! Tubeth2000 ( talk) 22:56, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
Yobot's code needs to be refined - it has buggered up the formatting on several pages which appeared fine until Yobot was run. I refer specifically to the List of monastic houses in West Sussex it has messed about with. I recommend the bot not be used again until the issue is sorted. JohnArmagh ( talk) 11:39, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Frietjes fixed unclosed small tags and width. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:44, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
Your bots' change to Millwall F.C. is nonsensical, second time now. It's putting the players year of birth when the intention is to show his tenure at the football club. BillyBatty ( talk) 06:17, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
BillyBatty bug fixed. Thanks for contacting. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:41, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I've run into a couple recent Yobot edits that don't seem to have any purpose.
Thanks for reading. —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 18:05, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Why is this bot assessing articles for quality? That is not a robotic function. SteveStrummer ( talk) 16:38, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Pointless edits Edits like this are really pointless and my watchlist has been flooded with literally hundreds of Yobot edits in the past two days (take a look at how many jazz album categories I've created and you'll get an idea). I definitely don't object to adding new banners (i.e. {{ WikiProject Jazz}} on those 200+ categories I created) but just expanding a template's syntax when it works the exact same seems frivolous to me. If you respond here, please use {{ tb}}. Thanks. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 07:33, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Replied to Justin's talk page. Due to buggy plugin, task was abandoned in January 2013. I've been asked to try again. There are improvements but I still see there are problems. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:33, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Redrose64 I found the bug of incorrect substitution and fixed it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:46, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Not sure what is going on with this copy of your user page, but you might want to have a look. Deli nk ( talk) 13:04, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
This Yobot edit [198] obliterated a reference and made nonsense of others. I don't know what's going on here. It may be because the article uses a slightly unusual footnoting system in which the references are included in the reflist and only linked in the main article. I was unaware of this when I added a reference and so put it into the main article in the usual way. But in fact the outcome was that the reference appeared properly on the saved page. The Yobot "correction" screwed it up! Paul B ( talk) 13:44, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
name=
attribute of the <ref>
tag (one was tel
the other tel1
). Yobot was attempting to eliminate that duplication by combining them in a single name; unfortunately, it didn't alter all of the tel
ones to tel1
- this does seem like a bug.Paul B and Redrose64 I asked Rjwilmsi's help. Before the edit in the main text there were two tel and two tel1, in the reflist there was a single tel. So the article is using explicit references and list defined at the same time for the same ref. After the edit in the paragraph there were four tel1, and the tel in the reflist not changed. Hence the list-defined refs error. The article was incorrect before: It's not normal to define a ref in the text and again in the reflist. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:14, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
For talk-page watchers, there's a discussion here asking Magioladitis to remove from AWB the instruction to add blank lines between headings. It's one of the issues that is adding to the unnecessary edits that Yobot is making, so I'm posting a link here for anyone who's interested. SlimVirgin (talk) 16:38, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Regarding your changes in [199], I want to state that
Thanks for your work for wikipedia, --Best regards, Keysanger ( what?) 09:38, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
I've just discovered that I've removed a sortkey for a category default sort several times, and it's always been put back almost immediately by Yobot. It's for the article Maria Theresa of Austria (1801–1855). It keeps sorting it under Austria. It should simply be sorted straight, i.e. under Maria, in most if not all of its categories. Uporządnicki ( talk) 00:56, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi - please see here, the bot removed br's which distorted the table. Thanks. Timeshift ( talk) 08:15, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Yobot,
Thank you for visiting the page, I created it 2 years ago and will update it from time to time, it is an important topic as my PhD is base on that! Thanks for help and reminder!
KSR — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.88.70.11 ( talk) 08:27, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, this edit breaks formatting in the image description. Magic ♪piano 14:14, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
OK, I think I understand about the entries with dates. But now why did Yobot add the Defaultsort I removed from Wilhelm of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken in order to alphabetize it again under Palatinate? I think the mark in there is a minus sign. So it's not supposed to be a problem--or so it was explained to me. I'm doing rather a lot of work to improve these categories, and finding it mindlessly undone just a day or two later. This all came up when I accidentally noticed that I'd made exactly the same change to the same article about three times over a few weeks. Uporządnicki ( talk) 18:34, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello. You're moving article history to below the wikiproject banners but Wikipedia:Talk page layout says they should be the other way about. DrKiernan ( talk) 17:59, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Talk:Alexander McCall Smith had a banner describing and categorizing the page as "Start-class in WikiProject Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants". For some authors this would be appropriate, but there's no evidence of that on the page. The was made by Yobot.
I've removed the banner and noted this on the talk page. -- Thnidu ( talk) 22:38, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Yobot, I'm not clear why you're making the changes that you've made on the prolotherapy article. Perhaps you can explain? It looks like you removed journal article citations without explanation. If you can clarify what you're doing and why, that would be terrific. Thank you. TylerDurden8823 ( talk) 23:06, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
This [200] not only has no references before punctuation but seems to do nothing at all except add a non-visible space and bypass a not-broken redirect.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 01:56, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
It's a bit messy sometimes when the bot changes reference location around punctuations (reference moved to after punctuation) - sometimes the reference is to a part of a sentence and not the whole sentence, and there is no way the bot can really understand if it's the case. Ehsnils ( talk) 18:43, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Lupton family Hi could you please check that references are formatted OK fro the Lupton family page cheers Ted
The bot appears to be doing the opposite, moving references in front of punctuation as in this diff. I asked if there was a change in the guideline at WT:MOS, no reply as yet. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 17:38, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Yobot, I see you changed a hyphen in the name Galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase to an em dash and I am wondering what your reason for doing this was. (Your edit on 21st Aug 2013 : /info/en/?search=Galactose%E2%80%941-phosphate_uridylyltransferase). I had just edited the em dash to a hyphen and decided to check the history of the page, where I found your previous edit from hyphen to em dash. Can you explain to me why you think it should be an em dash? Thanks, MW. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MainsWest ( talk • contribs) 15:35, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
Please check the bot! See the this edit. Sander.v.Ginkel ( talk) 09:55, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Is this really worth a whole edit? I thought there wa a rule somewhere about bots not editing a page unless the change is visible. Rcsprinter (barney) @ 16:44, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
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hello have a good fun.
Lets have food and drink...:-) Nechlison ( talk) 16:28, 11 January 2014 (UTC) |
Hi. I would like to report a misspelling of the name about the article D. R. Karthikeyan, which I could rectify it only into the main content, but I'm not able to rectify the title. In fact, the correct spelling is D.R. Kaarthikeyan, and not D.R. Karthikeyan, as per his passport details. See if you can do something about it. Hasta la vista amigo! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.50.89 ( talk) 19:27, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
I have asked this editor before to modify the undesired editing of pages using Yobot, and he agreed to see if this could be done.
Editors using automated systems take responsibility for the changes that are made.
In citing references in long articles, if a paragraph or two contain content primarily from one source, but also supporting material from another, it is normal to cite them in that order. Yobot re-orders them numerically, so that if the minor reference was the first to be cited higher up in the article, it now comes first in the later paragraph.
This is highly undesirable, and Magioladitis has not given any reason why s/he thinks it is beneficial. I hoped this had been sorted out amicably and I regret that Magioladitis seems to have ignored a previous understanding. Afterbrunel ( talk) 12:07, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
rev 9932 disables inline template after punctuation feature until subject is clarified further. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:42, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
It seems that the bot doesn't detect persons, e.g. Gottlieb Jäger, Eduard Blösch. Sort should be by last name. -- 签名 sig at 19:26, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, this Yobot edit in the Eleazar Lord article suddenly made the invisible persondata template visible. You might want to take a look at it. -- Mdd ( talk) 10:54, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
Yobot has changed several articles on my watchlist from Deafultsort Grade II* listed buildings in .... to Grade II listed buildings in... English Heritage have separate lists for II* & II with II* being the higher grade (more important) see Listed building.— Rod talk 07:44, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
[201] - changing a date that's inside a quote - David Gerard ( talk) 09:54, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
(diff | hist) . . mb Operation Hardtack I; 18:37 . . (-2) . . Yobot (talk | contribs) (→Tests: WP:CHECKWIKI error fixes using AWB (9979))
(diff | hist) . . mb Operation Flintlock (nuclear test); 18:27 . . (-2) . . Yobot (talk | contribs) (WP:CHECKWIKI error fixes using AWB (9979))
The second page change removed double square brackets from a internal link in an infobox, and another place; I'll be reversing that change.
Elsewhere, but 1, yobot is shuffling references, for (as far as I know) no good reason:
| [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
is changed to
| [6] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
While it probably isn't harmful, it could be shuffling the order of other references which use the same names.
The one exception is that it changes a minus sign into an ndash, which is probably valid.
In article Slavic neopaganism should be
or Ridnoviry[4][5][6], Belarusian: Родноверие/Rodnoverie;
bot changes it for no apperent reason to
or Ridnoviry, [4][5][6] Belarusian: Родноверие/Rodnoverie;
Which makes no sense at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.150.224.186 ( talk) 17:59, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear Sir, I have modified the article according to your demand, please remove this sign: "This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find links tool for suggestions. (March 2014)" Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collecting#Notable_collectors Ante Vranković ( talk) 03:13, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Not sure why you removed the "American Roman Catholics" category when it is sourced she is Catholic and included in the article. Please don't remove this again. XXSNUGGUMSXX ( talk) 14:10, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your contribution. I am a new user. But I want to know how to create a template. Summary, please and not a link to the tutorial. Thanks--- Medara Bassey ( talk) 10:05, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
The bot seems to be just 'fixing' redirects again. Per WP:NOTBROKEN there's no need to do that; certainly not a bot per the rules on making invisible changes.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 10:58, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Changing tocright to TOC right has to do with a newly introduced CHECKWIKI error. Now it is fixed and it does not re-occur. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:10, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
Just reverted Yobot on Matthew Brisbane, it removed superscripts from a section that recreates a grave marker. As a faithful recreation of a marker, I would prefer it doesn't do it again. Anyway to stop it? W C M email 17:54, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
I reverted the bot's edit on this article. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=2006%E2%80%9307_UEFA_Champions_League&diff=605215910&oldid=600051439 The superscripted "TH" in the article is used to refer to Title Holders, it is not an ordinal that needs fixing as per WP:ORDINAL. Please whitelist this and all related Champions League articles as the same nomenclature is used in each.. Little Professor ( talk) 21:05, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
May I ask, why did the bot use the capital letter in the word "monument"? Jan.Kamenicek ( talk) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Jan.Kamenicek:, it's fixed in the next release, thanks for the report. Sorry for the unclear explanation (it's complex)... Some time ago, WikiProject Check Wikipedia was checking capital letters in DEFAULTSORT (error #89 was checking that no capital letters were used inside a word, error #90 was checking that first letter of each word was in capital letters). So when WPCleaner is adding a DEFAULTSORT, it ensured to use capital or small letters were needed, based on whether those checks were active or not. At some point, MediaWiki software was enhanced so that capital or small letters had no influence on sorting order, so #89 and #90 became useless and were deactivated (so WPCleaner didn't enforce anymore capital or small letters). Later, WikiProject Check Wikipedia decided to reuse the error numbers for new kinds of detections, and I didn't think of updating WPCleaner for this particular point. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 18:11, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thank you for editing always! Gamera1123 ( talk) 07:15, 7 May 2014 (UTC) |
Why did Yobot create this page, consisting solely of maintenance tags, 12 hours after the page had been deleted? —Largo Plazo ( talk) 21:59, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
How do you have time to edit that much? Plus, where do you get your facts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1008:B02A:6BBC:3C3D:623E:265:E35E ( talk) 03:25, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
It is about Centre Universitaire JF Champollion.
I am the formal director of this institution.
I want a correction of your english translation of the title. You must speak about "higher education" and not "teaching" please.
Sincerely yours. Hervé PINGAUD (hpingaud@univ-jfc.fr) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.162.154.115 ( talk) 06:55, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Please read the rules of use, esp. point 4 before making anymore pointless edits. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 09:54, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
The first of the three things Yobot "corrected" in this edit was not an error and I've had to revert it. Odds are high that Yobot should not ever be touching anything inside an HTML comment, because it was put there, especially if code or pseudocode, exactly as written, for explicit reasons. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 22:27, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Test that proves that it is not done in general: rev 10191. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:41, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Error occurs only when Auto-tag is activated. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:45, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
SMcCandlish Reported the bug.
Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Autotagger_removes_template_prefix_from_template_parameters. You could always leave a message that something is wrong in my talk page, here or at the AWB bugs' page. I only wrote it as a future reference to help things get faster fixed. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
22:58, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
SMcCandlish you are welcome to bot whenever your thing you should. I am only warning it does. Sometimes people come here to leave general messages or thank me for the bot. I also lever wrote that you should apologise. Please re-read what I wrote. I only adviced you of how to efficient help on bug fixing. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:05, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
{{
clarifyref}}
and {{
clarifyref2}}
(both of which are substituted) are not identical. Why are you setting up a test to exclude various templates and other cases that output stuff in the form "Template:foo
", when a) there's no reason the bot should be removing "Template:
" from such constructions at all (the "remove Template namespace " business seems to be pointless and likely to be destructive), and b) even if there were a valid use for it (maybe fixing cases of {{Template:TemplateName}}
?), anyone at any time can create yet another template with output like that, which automatically means your bot will be "correcting" non-errors again, right? Oh, also, such references to templates are frequently found in other |
parameters, in templates that are not substituted, as well as in <-- HTML comments -->
. If finding and fixing {{Template:TemplateName}}
is the only real purpose of this test, it seems that testing for the string {{Template:
will be enough to isolate this, instead of looking for any occurrence of Template:
inside {{...}}
. I.e., "greedy" grepping is probably not the right course here. I can't really think of a case where the string {{Template:
should ever appear, and if there is one it can be done with {{Tem{{sic|hide=y|plate}}:
to invisibly interrupt the string. —
SMcCandlish ☺
☏
¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼
23:33, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
SMcCandlish thanks for the advice. It should only find and fix {{Template:TemplateName}}
as CHECKWIKI error 1 implies ans exactly as you wrote. It should leave any other Template:
occurrence untouched. I do not know what is wrong still. I'll check it tomorrow since time is already past. I left a message to AWB's bug page too in case someone elese finds where the problem in the code is.
Bgwhite is the page really caught by error 1? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:41, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
\{\{\s*template:
<ref name="SibleySsp" />, sometimes clas
Template:TemplateName
" to simply "TemplateName
" in a case that did not match "{{Template:TemplateName}}
" (i.e. a mention of a template rather than a template call). —
SMcCandlish ☺
☏
¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼
00:55, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
rev 10192 is a get closer to solve the problem. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:52, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Fixed @
SMcCandlish and
Bgwhite:
rev 10193 fixes the bug. Check also
Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_25#Autotagger_removes_template_prefix_from_template_parameters. Thanks both. It was an important bug since it could alter templates' content. Next AWB release will be probably this weekend. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
06:49, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Another edit that makes no visible change:
-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 22:10, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
On the 2nd page: Bot failed to fix what it is recorded as unbalanced bracket on line 652. Now fixed. I also closed a parentheses. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:10, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
On the 1st page: Bot failed to add defaultsort since page title contains no latin characters. These pages are whitelisted by CHECKWIKI project and not revisited by bots. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:11, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
Just for the record: The 5 May problem has completely been fixed on now. It was caused by a newly introduced CHECKWIKI list. The list/error as been removed completely from CHECKWIKI and not not from Yobot's automated fixing. Thus, it won't re-occur neither by Yobot nor by any other similar bot. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:31, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Most of the bot's contributions today seem to be cosmetic-only, in violation of the bot policy. I hope we are not returning to the problems we have seen with this bot in previous years. As per the comment in the July 2012 block log entry, I have reblocked. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 09:55, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
A few questions:
Sadly, there is a long history of assurances being given that a particular problem is fixed (especially around cosmetic edits) and then it reoccuring again later. There are several threads higher on this page where editors have expressed concern about this. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:10, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
MSGJ I got approved to fix CHECKWIKI errors here: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Yobot_16. It was July 2010. I fix CHECKWIKI errors every day since then. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:15, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
In a series of many edits I think it is natural that sometimes bad things may happen. I always try to go back and fix any mess. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:21, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
MSGJ I'll stop any talk page activity and abandon talk page projects. Can you please unblock so I can perform the mainspace fixes? Other issues seem to have been resolved. I replied above. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:05, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
MSGJ on the 2012 discussion on Bot owner's noticeboard: Since then more bots were approved to perform CHECKWIKI error fixes: BG19bot, MenoBot, Josvebot, etc. FrescoBot expanded its range of fixing. Errors were relisted, many controversial ones were disactivated. We are in a much better state now. Bgwhite's effort to make all lists daily up-to-date remove all the old non-updated list of the past and now we keep better track of the situation. Problems still may occur in newly introduced errors but we reduce them daily. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:53, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
I have to wonder if your bot causes more harm than good. If there are other bots doing these fixes, then why not let them do it? I took a look at Bgwhite's talk page and just one complaint (and its validity is debatable). However on this page and its archives I see constant problems. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 08:44, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Bgwhite, I was hoping some other editors would comment first, but will reply as best I can. The problem is I don't see anything in yours or Magioladitis's replies that addresses any of my points. You are right edit summaries would help but this was raised months if not years ago and is still unfixed. The time lag problem I'm aware of but isn't the problem here: many of the edits are to pages which have been untouched for months or years. Besides if it were just lag then the error rate should be very low, just the odd page with errors that were fixed between the list compilation and bot run, especially as the errors are precisely the sort humans normally miss. Neither of you has addressed the problem with the speed at which the bot runs that I can see.
Magioladitis writes 'effort to fix these has been done' but the problem is the effort has been going on for many years and problems are still occurring, if anything getting worse with the latest run being close to 100% trivial edits to talk pages. As for 'Yobot is not causing damage' this is the matter of perception I mentioned. The attitude with the bot seems to be it doesn't matter if these problems are never fixed, it can keep on running as long as individual edits aren't 'bad'. But they cause problems by their sheer volume, which impacts and sometimes fills up editors' watch lists, making it harder/take more time to spot real edits which need actual responses. This is especially so as many editors now find themselves checking Yobot's edits, either because of missing edit summaries (so you have to check the edit to see what it's done) or because they know from its history or wonder from it's spamming of watchlists whether it's broken (again). And clearly making trivial edits increases its volume of edits to no purpose, sometimes massively so.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 13:49, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
JohnBlackburne the problem with the talk pages is of a different nature. It was a human mistake that I take the full responsibility. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:43, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
There seems to be some doubt over how often these problems occur. The most recent edits can be seen in the bot's contributions but it's hard to find older contributions as you can only filter by month. So I've just looked at my watchlist to capture more information. I set my watchlist to 30 days and mainspace only to generate the list at right; some articles will have changed since but it's fairly representative of what I saw on the day, a long list of edits with identical edit summaries, many of them trivial edits. How many? I just looked at the first ten Yobot edits on that list (the first entry is the last I saw on the day) and the edits are:
So more than half invisble/cosmetic. This is the problem I reported above in #Notbroken which didn't stop the bot (I reported the problem at 11:45 and it kept going for another 3-4 hours) or get a reply at the time. The reply added recently seems to dismiss it as a one-off problem, but as I reported at the time and as the sample above shows it was much worse than that, with about half the edits inappropriate.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 00:30, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
This is a duplicate report. The 5 May problem has already been reported and fixed on the same day. It was caused by a newly introduced CHECKWIKI list. The list/error as been removed completely from CHECKWIKI and not not from Yobot's automated fixing. Thus, it won't re-occur neither by Yobot nor by any other similar bot. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:28, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
These things are fixed by us becoming more careful to check whether a CHECKWIKI error is really fixed by AWB before the not runs on the full list, check for cases that the error is not fixed and update the code on either AWB or CHECKWIKI to avoid false positives. This is not always an easy task. Sometimes we think that an error is fixed 100% by AWB and then we discover that there are many cases it is not. Error #87 (HTML named entities without semicolon) is one of these cases and I think this was the task that Yobot has been running at that day. Till 2013 I've been keeping records of the tasks ran at User:Yobot#Logs but sinc I 've been updating this list manually it is very very difficult to do that and for many months the error list was unchanged so I encountered no problems. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:51, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Would other editors support the following conditions on a possible unblock?
Not adhering to these conditions would result in the bot being reblocked. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 11:52, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Some questions/comments which I think would help. First on the lag issue, what are the metrics of it? I mean in particular how out of date can it be. WP:CHECKWIKI says it "scans newly revised articles on a daily basis" but does that mean the lists are always no more than 24 hours out of date or what? If that's true then lag problems should be a rare, but from memory I think it's lagged more than that in the past. If lag cannot be avoided it should be limited, e.g. to no more than a week. This can easily be checked by looking at the page history to see if it's been changed within the week.
I don't see how limiting it to 1 article every 10 seconds is a problem. There 31 million seconds in a year, so a bot fixing one page every 10 seconds could 'fix' every article on en.wp in 18 months, fix articles that need fixing (how many are there?) in far less. There may be concerns over having it run continuously for longer periods but it shouldn't matter: if it can't be trusted to run for long periods it can't be trusted to run for short periods. Running more slowly means problems will be caught sooner, in terms of number of edits, and will lessen its impact on editors' watch lists.
This may be obvious but I would amend the "do not change the appearance of the page" to allow invisible errors. I mean things like broken HTML, unicode errors like RTL chars which are almost impossible for humans to spot, template issues such as bad/old parameters. Also category problems such as special chars, default sort issues which don't change the page appearance but change how it appears on category pages.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 02:12, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
@ MSGJ and Bgwhite: I propose the following:
This means that bot makes no edits that solely bypass redirects, etc. which is I think what everyone wants from me. This can be done by not making the CHECKWIKI tasks done partially by AWB from my bot account or by doing them manually. We are in a status that the lists have reduced so many of the tasks can be done manually nowadays. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:30, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
@ MSGJ: Bgwhite has not edited for 2.5 days thus making me the only one running on CHECKWIKI problems. Please unblock the bot since there seems that we found a common ground. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 07:26, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
So some evidence that things will improve:
The bot has to be unblocked soon since there was a new request that I accepted to do. Check Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Resurrecting_bot_request_-_bot_to_tag_Category:Physiology_articles. There is no misfunction when the bot does this kind of tasks. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 07:36, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
MSGJ thanks for your advice. I'll follow them while using the bot account in the future. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:35, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
MSGJ More evidence all go right now if you want to check.
MSGJ something else? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:27, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
I reviewed all bot's archives to check whether any old problems could reoccur:
Yobot ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Issues reported have been fixed/resolved. Magioladitis ( talk) 13:48, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Accept reason:
Per request (First time I've ever unblocked a bot). — Daniel Case ( talk) 22:51, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:01, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
After the last events, since all requests are taken after assuming good faith I'll propose the next rules fot WikiProject tagging:
Please help me add more rules or improve the text above. I may also create a very specific wizard to help requests made. 99% of my bot's mess is related to talk page tagging. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 22:17, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
If there are thousands of confirmed pages, will you consider replacing "WP" with "WikiProject"? OccultZone ( Talk)
OTTOMH, for any WP tagging that would involve more than 100 edits, you must require:
-- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 16:37, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Also, a suggestion from the proposer for an automated regression check. For example, this this case, such a suggestion could have been: for every Talk:$1, check if $1 mentions the word "Romania"; if less than 66% match, check for problems. -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 16:40, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
here the bot just bypassed two instances of a redirect. I thought the bot was now making "Absolutely no" edits that do not change how the page looks, including bypassing redirects.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 10:11, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
I don't believe it's not possible to fix this; I can think of two or three ways to do it. One would be to check the date the page was last changed. If it was changed since the list was generated then skip it: mark it for manual checking or just leave it to be caught the next time. In theory if a page is being actively edited this means it's never fixed but a page that has many editors eyes on it will likely be fixed manually.
Another would be to re-run the checklist check on each page as it's loaded, to check it still has the problem it is supposed to have. This will add time but not much: it's only checking one page, and altogether only checking a few thousand pages, not the millions it checked to generate the initial list. Or check the actual diff for what changes have been made. This would also let it include this detail in the edit summary, to improve on the undescriptive one currently used. This too would take more time, but the extra burden could be minimised if combined with a date check so only pages recently changed require additional verification.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 15:27, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
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was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).LT_48
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help page).LT_40
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).LT_34
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).LT_6
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help page).LT_1
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).