Are you using my regexes to fix font tags with your bot? It seems that it is able to fix a font tag with face wrapping font tags with color... ( example)
Also your bot seems to fix font tags with uppercase A-F in hex colors... Your bot with your safe regexes initially didn't fix font tags like these. Sheep ( talk • he/him) 16:23, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
This edit and and this one introduced div span errors. Not a big deal, I'm about to fix them, but mentioning so that the issue can be potentially corrected in the code for future. Zinnober9 ( talk) 03:16, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
When you get a chance, can you please ask the bot to process font tags in these 500 pages? I am working on clearing Linter errors from all of the Wikipedia Signpost pages. Each of these pages is transcluded in a page in Wikipedia space and a page in Wikipedia talk space, so every error fix removes three errors from the overall list. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 22:01, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
<font>
element is actually deprecated, not “perfectly fine HTML” (and in fact appears nowhere in the current HTML specification). Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible […]. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.. Also:
Warning: Do not use this element. Use the CSS Fonts properties to style text.— 151.132.206.250 ( talk) 18:28, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
I don't mind these talk page changes, but you ( User:ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ) should seriously consider asking MediaWiki devs to prevent users from introducing lint errors in their signature from this point on, and to automatically remove lint errors from pre-existing signatures. That way, these talk page changes can stop for good once the bot is done fixing all old posts. DFlhb ( talk) 07:53, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ, a discussion regarding one of your bot tasks is open at BOTN. Please see the discussion there. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 01:23, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello, hope your 2023 is off to a good start! I see your username in my watchlist quite a bit, so I just wanted to say thanks for the work you do here at English Wikipedia and elsewhere. If you ever do translation work, I'd love to see the entry about me translated for knWiki one day! For now, thanks again and happy editing! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 16:09, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
This is a bit of GIGO that is easily fixed, but if there is a way to prevent the bot from doing it, that would probably help. I've never seen it before, so this might be the only one in 50 million pages. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 02:12, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
This edit went sideways and introduced a misnested span tag. It's a bit of GIGO, but the bot may need a custom pattern for that signature. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 22:15, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
The bot's having some minor issues with Red Sunset's signature here (due to the staggered nestings, I'm betting), and Raaggio's signature here and here (although to be fair, Raaggio's was a junky mess before any fixes).
Mentioning so that the bot can be further improved. Thank you for all your beneficial efforts, Zinnober9 ( talk) 07:01, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
The bot blanked a whole bunch of pages in the last two hours. It is probably not the bot's fault; I have seen this happen with AWB in the past. I have, in good faith, stopped the bot until the problem can be investigated. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:33, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
If you see any easy way to help the bot process these, go ahead. I have no problem cleaning up this GIGO, which is the sort of thing that crops up in maybe one in a thousand bot edits, probably less. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 03:41, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
Good shout on Special:Diff/1138968290, glad to see that dead weight dropping off our list! Primefac ( talk) 11:12, 16 February 2023 (UTC) |
Hello, ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ,
Thank for clearing out old maintenance categories that had been lingering around for a decade or longer. And it seemed like it only took you about an hour to take care of all of their contents! You're a whiz! Thanks again. Liz Read! Talk! 06:49, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
I have been steadily tidying high-priority errors on pages in the Talk, Wikipedia, User, and User talk spaces, most of the time clearing them of Linter errors other than font tags. It might be worth feeding the pages in my Contributions to the bot, as long as they meet these criteria: (1) they are in one of the above namespaces, (2) my edit summary contains the word "Linter", and (3) the pages were edited in February. Thanks for keeping your bot running; it's making a huge difference in the Linter count. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 05:40, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed your bot attemped to fix center tags in section headers like this. This is actually a very bad fix per MOS:HEAD which says not to use template transclusions. The correct fix would be to remove the center as that isn't how section headers should be used anyways. Could you revert those changes? Gonnym ( talk) 10:23, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
The bot appears to be paused after working non-stop for weeks. When it is done having a cookie, it might want to resume checking the alphabetical list of User Talk pages starting with User talk:Sp..., which it put on hold while working on some more interesting patterns. Keep up the great work! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 18:19, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
I am looking through the tidy font link error list, and I'm finding many errors that your bot could have fixed. Is another run through User space on your to-do list? – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:44, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing— List of acting chief justices of Sri Lanka—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Snickers2686 ( talk) 22:53, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello, user with non-English characters on the English Wikipedia. I don't even know what to call you. In my head, I just think of you as "Mr. Squiggles" because your username just looks like a bunch of squiggly lines to me.
You might remember me as the editor that has loudly complained about how annoying and useless I find your bot that fixes lint errors. I even started an RFC to determine consensus on whether your bot is in violation of WP:COSMETICBOT. Sadly, there wasn't consensus, so I decided to crawl back into my hole and shut up. I went through the trouble of hiding your bot's edits from my watchlist, in the hopes that I could minimize the annoyance caused by your fixing of trivial cosmetic non-issues on ancient pages that no human will likely ever view again for the remainder of human civilization as we know it. But today I opened my watchlist, and I find more lint error edits on some of my ancient user talk page archives. How is that possible if I've already hidden your bot's edits? Well, it appears that now you're making lint error edits from your main account, not your bot account. And you're not flagging them as bot edits anymore.
Why are you doing this? And why did you choose my user talk page archives as the target of your annoying edits? Are you trying to annoy me on purpose?
If these edits are automated, it's likely that they are in violation of WP:MEATBOT. I would ask that you stop immediately, or explain why you're making bot edits from your main account. —ScottyWong— 20:15, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
If my math is right, one bot run could fix at least two percent of all remaining Linter errors. Interested? I know that you and your bot have been quiet for a while, but I thought this might spark your curiosity. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:59, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I work for Nikola Bedingfield's management company, and I saw you had the latest edit to her page ( /info/en/?search=Nikola_Rachelle ). Could you please make sure that her name reads as just "Nikola Bedingfield" on the headline section of the page? I'm new to wiki, please contact me if you have any questions. Thanks! JacksonLong ( talk) 19:02, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I just wanted to come by and leave some gratitude. Maintaining a bot at this scale requires an enormous amount of dedication, precision and perseverance. And because of stress and things in life, you may feel burnt out by the work, having to take a temporary break, or even an indefinite break. And that is perfectly fine. I just wanted to let you know that many people, including me, deeply appreciate the work you have put in on Wikipedia. You have made Wikipedia a better place. You are awesome. 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 14:55, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Among the most valuable editorial work performed by WPians is referred to as "gnoming". Thank you for what you do. DFlhb ( talk) 14:32, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Scottywong and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. As threaded discussion is not permitted on most arbitration pages, please ensure that you make all comments in your own section only. Additionally, the guide to arbitration and the Arbitration Committee's procedures may be of use.
Thanks,
Filed per the ANI thread. ― "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk) 23:49, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
For all of your linting. I'm sorry you're dealing with all the stuff you're dealing with... CLYDE TALK TO ME/ STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 22:31, 5 June 2023 (UTC) |
{{
unblock|Your reason here ~~~~}}
. Note that anything you post in your unblock request will be public, so you may alternatively use the
Unblock Ticket Request System to submit an appeal if it contains information that must be private.Oh my... this'll make the ARBCOM case even more confusing. Or? Nythar ( 💬- 🍀) 20:25, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
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20:40, 6 June 2023 (UTC)The edits of a bot are considered to be, by extension, the edits of the editor responsible for the bot. As a result, should a bot operator be blocked, any bot attributed to them may also be blocked for the same duration as that of the blocked editor.– Jonesey95 ( talk) 14:11, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:User gom-Latn-N indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:37, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:User gom-Latn indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 07:45, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
The arbitration case Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong has now closed, and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
For the Arbitration Committee, – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 19:24, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently-filed request for clarification or amendment from the Arbitration Committee. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment#Clarification request: Scottywong and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the Wikipedia:Arbitration guide may be of use.
Thanks, -Lemonaka 14:11, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
Are you using my regexes to fix font tags with your bot? It seems that it is able to fix a font tag with face wrapping font tags with color... ( example)
Also your bot seems to fix font tags with uppercase A-F in hex colors... Your bot with your safe regexes initially didn't fix font tags like these. Sheep ( talk • he/him) 16:23, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
This edit and and this one introduced div span errors. Not a big deal, I'm about to fix them, but mentioning so that the issue can be potentially corrected in the code for future. Zinnober9 ( talk) 03:16, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
When you get a chance, can you please ask the bot to process font tags in these 500 pages? I am working on clearing Linter errors from all of the Wikipedia Signpost pages. Each of these pages is transcluded in a page in Wikipedia space and a page in Wikipedia talk space, so every error fix removes three errors from the overall list. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 22:01, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
<font>
element is actually deprecated, not “perfectly fine HTML” (and in fact appears nowhere in the current HTML specification). Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible […]. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.. Also:
Warning: Do not use this element. Use the CSS Fonts properties to style text.— 151.132.206.250 ( talk) 18:28, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
I don't mind these talk page changes, but you ( User:ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ) should seriously consider asking MediaWiki devs to prevent users from introducing lint errors in their signature from this point on, and to automatically remove lint errors from pre-existing signatures. That way, these talk page changes can stop for good once the bot is done fixing all old posts. DFlhb ( talk) 07:53, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ, a discussion regarding one of your bot tasks is open at BOTN. Please see the discussion there. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 01:23, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello, hope your 2023 is off to a good start! I see your username in my watchlist quite a bit, so I just wanted to say thanks for the work you do here at English Wikipedia and elsewhere. If you ever do translation work, I'd love to see the entry about me translated for knWiki one day! For now, thanks again and happy editing! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 16:09, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
This is a bit of GIGO that is easily fixed, but if there is a way to prevent the bot from doing it, that would probably help. I've never seen it before, so this might be the only one in 50 million pages. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 02:12, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
This edit went sideways and introduced a misnested span tag. It's a bit of GIGO, but the bot may need a custom pattern for that signature. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 22:15, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
The bot's having some minor issues with Red Sunset's signature here (due to the staggered nestings, I'm betting), and Raaggio's signature here and here (although to be fair, Raaggio's was a junky mess before any fixes).
Mentioning so that the bot can be further improved. Thank you for all your beneficial efforts, Zinnober9 ( talk) 07:01, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
The bot blanked a whole bunch of pages in the last two hours. It is probably not the bot's fault; I have seen this happen with AWB in the past. I have, in good faith, stopped the bot until the problem can be investigated. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:33, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
If you see any easy way to help the bot process these, go ahead. I have no problem cleaning up this GIGO, which is the sort of thing that crops up in maybe one in a thousand bot edits, probably less. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 03:41, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
Good shout on Special:Diff/1138968290, glad to see that dead weight dropping off our list! Primefac ( talk) 11:12, 16 February 2023 (UTC) |
Hello, ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ,
Thank for clearing out old maintenance categories that had been lingering around for a decade or longer. And it seemed like it only took you about an hour to take care of all of their contents! You're a whiz! Thanks again. Liz Read! Talk! 06:49, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
I have been steadily tidying high-priority errors on pages in the Talk, Wikipedia, User, and User talk spaces, most of the time clearing them of Linter errors other than font tags. It might be worth feeding the pages in my Contributions to the bot, as long as they meet these criteria: (1) they are in one of the above namespaces, (2) my edit summary contains the word "Linter", and (3) the pages were edited in February. Thanks for keeping your bot running; it's making a huge difference in the Linter count. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 05:40, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed your bot attemped to fix center tags in section headers like this. This is actually a very bad fix per MOS:HEAD which says not to use template transclusions. The correct fix would be to remove the center as that isn't how section headers should be used anyways. Could you revert those changes? Gonnym ( talk) 10:23, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
The bot appears to be paused after working non-stop for weeks. When it is done having a cookie, it might want to resume checking the alphabetical list of User Talk pages starting with User talk:Sp..., which it put on hold while working on some more interesting patterns. Keep up the great work! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 18:19, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
I am looking through the tidy font link error list, and I'm finding many errors that your bot could have fixed. Is another run through User space on your to-do list? – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:44, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing— List of acting chief justices of Sri Lanka—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Snickers2686 ( talk) 22:53, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello, user with non-English characters on the English Wikipedia. I don't even know what to call you. In my head, I just think of you as "Mr. Squiggles" because your username just looks like a bunch of squiggly lines to me.
You might remember me as the editor that has loudly complained about how annoying and useless I find your bot that fixes lint errors. I even started an RFC to determine consensus on whether your bot is in violation of WP:COSMETICBOT. Sadly, there wasn't consensus, so I decided to crawl back into my hole and shut up. I went through the trouble of hiding your bot's edits from my watchlist, in the hopes that I could minimize the annoyance caused by your fixing of trivial cosmetic non-issues on ancient pages that no human will likely ever view again for the remainder of human civilization as we know it. But today I opened my watchlist, and I find more lint error edits on some of my ancient user talk page archives. How is that possible if I've already hidden your bot's edits? Well, it appears that now you're making lint error edits from your main account, not your bot account. And you're not flagging them as bot edits anymore.
Why are you doing this? And why did you choose my user talk page archives as the target of your annoying edits? Are you trying to annoy me on purpose?
If these edits are automated, it's likely that they are in violation of WP:MEATBOT. I would ask that you stop immediately, or explain why you're making bot edits from your main account. —ScottyWong— 20:15, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
If my math is right, one bot run could fix at least two percent of all remaining Linter errors. Interested? I know that you and your bot have been quiet for a while, but I thought this might spark your curiosity. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:59, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I work for Nikola Bedingfield's management company, and I saw you had the latest edit to her page ( /info/en/?search=Nikola_Rachelle ). Could you please make sure that her name reads as just "Nikola Bedingfield" on the headline section of the page? I'm new to wiki, please contact me if you have any questions. Thanks! JacksonLong ( talk) 19:02, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I just wanted to come by and leave some gratitude. Maintaining a bot at this scale requires an enormous amount of dedication, precision and perseverance. And because of stress and things in life, you may feel burnt out by the work, having to take a temporary break, or even an indefinite break. And that is perfectly fine. I just wanted to let you know that many people, including me, deeply appreciate the work you have put in on Wikipedia. You have made Wikipedia a better place. You are awesome. 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 14:55, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Among the most valuable editorial work performed by WPians is referred to as "gnoming". Thank you for what you do. DFlhb ( talk) 14:32, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Scottywong and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. As threaded discussion is not permitted on most arbitration pages, please ensure that you make all comments in your own section only. Additionally, the guide to arbitration and the Arbitration Committee's procedures may be of use.
Thanks,
Filed per the ANI thread. ― "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk) 23:49, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
For all of your linting. I'm sorry you're dealing with all the stuff you're dealing with... CLYDE TALK TO ME/ STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 22:31, 5 June 2023 (UTC) |
{{
unblock|Your reason here ~~~~}}
. Note that anything you post in your unblock request will be public, so you may alternatively use the
Unblock Ticket Request System to submit an appeal if it contains information that must be private.Oh my... this'll make the ARBCOM case even more confusing. Or? Nythar ( 💬- 🍀) 20:25, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
t
c
20:40, 6 June 2023 (UTC)The edits of a bot are considered to be, by extension, the edits of the editor responsible for the bot. As a result, should a bot operator be blocked, any bot attributed to them may also be blocked for the same duration as that of the blocked editor.– Jonesey95 ( talk) 14:11, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:User gom-Latn-N indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:37, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:User gom-Latn indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 07:45, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
The arbitration case Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong has now closed, and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
For the Arbitration Committee, – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 19:24, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
You are involved in a recently-filed request for clarification or amendment from the Arbitration Committee. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment#Clarification request: Scottywong and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the Wikipedia:Arbitration guide may be of use.
Thanks, -Lemonaka 14:11, 21 July 2023 (UTC)