Hi, I'm a bot, so I cannot respond to your questions. However, if you leave a note here, or on the talk page of my owner Hawkeye7, I'm sure he will be able to help you. |
I was idly browsing when I noticed that MilHistBot seems to have missed a few steps in closing the ACR for Devon County War Memorial. It made eight edits closing the ACR before, but only six for that one. Courtesy ping for @ Hawkeye7: so he can look into the technical stuff. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:58, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
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<small>''Nominator(s):'' [[User:HJ Mitchell|<font color="Teal" face="Tahoma">'''HJ Mitchell'''</font>]] | [[User talk:HJ Mitchell|<font color="Navy" face= "Times New Roman">Penny for your thoughts? </font>]]</small>
@ Hawkeye7: There is a similar issue with closing of Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/List of National Defence Academy alumni, it missed of the steps, such as; A-class medal eligibility tracking, article alerts December 2016 etc. Please check for the error. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 10:19, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
<small>''Nominator(s): {{u|Krishna Chaitanya Velaga}}''</small>
The WikiProject Barnstar | ||
For "... saving us and our fingers from the agony of a 45-60 minute manual closure of A-Class reviews", I have the honor of presenting you with this WikiProject Barnstar. For the Military history WikiProject, TomStar81 ( Talk) 09:33, 1 January 2017 (UTC) |
G'day Hawkeye7, the bot seems to have removed all the GANs. Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 01:21, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Hawkeye, not sure what is going on with this edit by the bot...? Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 06:15, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
2018 Military Historian of the Year | ||
As voted by your human underlings within the Military history WikiProject, I hereby award you the WikiProject Barnstar for being nominated for the 2018 Military Historian of the Year Award. Congratulations, and thank you for your botting in 2018. Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 01:18, 31 December 2018 (UTC) |
Hi Hawkeye. The bot seems to have inserted an extra "|" in {{Wikipedia:Featured article tools}} in this edit, causing a duplicate "1" parm error. Of course, that page is not supposed to be edited, so the error wouldn't be seen, but it shows up in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. Davemck ( talk) 16:21, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi Hawkeye, just observed something that could do with a tweak. When posting A-Class crosses to the Project news page, could Milhistbot place the ACCs above the Diamonds? Also, if it could use the ACC file rather than the ACM file for the attendant icon? I've fixed next month's ones. Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 01:36, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
G'day Hawkeye7, it seems Milhistbot is posting Oak Leaves awards to on Project News of the upcoming issue using the wrong image file name? It should be using File:WPMH ACR (Oakleaves).png. Also it seems to be posting them in a strange order, with oak leaves being posted above medals, but with diamonds at the bottom. I assume Nick and Ian have to make these minor adjustments, and I know there aren't major, but it would probably help them if Milhistbot was tweaked. I assume the order should be medals, oakleaves, swords, diamonds, crosses? In the interests of continuous improvement, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 09:15, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
G'day Hawkeye, when Milhistbot awards ACMs etc, would you be able to add a full stop after the list of articles and before the signature is inserted? Thanks mate, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 08:24, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
G'day Hawkeye, I noticed an anomaly in the listing of Sturm's Diamonds on the tally page, it had counted two of the same award (for the same articles) for October 2018, which had Sturm at 15 Diamonds, when he is actually at 14. I've fixed it manually, but just checking that the bot isn't relying on this in any way. I believe Sturm has one more Diamonds before moving to Crosses? Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 10:51, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Bots need kittens too!!!
Coolabahapple (
talk) 07:03, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
Dear Hawkeye7. I noticed two recent ratings by MilHistBot of articles to which I contributed. The articles are Antoine Hamilton and Claud Hamilton, 4th Earl of Abercorn, 17th-century Irish biographies both. It is great to be rated. Both articles were rated class=C|b1=no|b2=yes|b3=yes|b4=yes|b5=yes. The latter was promoted from Start to C-Class. Wonderful! I think automation is the only answer for the backlog on ratings of pre-A level articles. If I understand it right, you wrote this great tool. Thank you very much! You did Wikipedia a great service. Please allow me a question: why did the articles fail the "b1"-test? If I understand it right, "b1" is referencing (why is it called "b1"?). I think both articles are well referenced. "Antoine" has 84 footnotes and 40 sources. "Claud" has 23 footnotes and 13 sources. The sources are mainly books found in Internet Archive. The citations typically are marked in the text using the "sfn" template and the sources are described using the "citation" template in the list under "Notes and references". The "sfn" typically includes a URL and a quote. The "citation" typically gives a full bibliographic description including page numbers (columns and lines if needed) and URLs. What do I do wrong? What should I do to make these articles pass "b1"? With many thanks Johannes Schade ( talk) 11:20, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
A-Class cross for: Liberté-class battleship, Liberté-class battleship, Liberté-class battleship, Liberté-class battleship, and Liberté-class battleship
Hi. Could the bot's user page be updated to include info on the recent B-class checklist task? I had to do quite a bit of digging to find the BRFA and discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators. By the way, where should questions and feedback regarding the bot's B-class assessment be directed? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 07:54, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
There seems to be an error where the bot is truncating talk pages, e.g. Special:Diff/926094324 and Special:Diff/926092712. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 08:04, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
Hey Hawkeye7, Was this a good automatic assessment of this bot? What are the criteria of a B-class? Regards - TheseusHeLl ( talk) 18:01, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi, the bot changed start-class rating to B-class here. The article is a stub and it's already generous to consider it a start-class. Renata ( talk) 22:40, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
A recent edit by this bot of Talk:Mine clearance organization removed most of one of the sections, leaving a partial section heading. See this diff. RockMagnetist( talk) 05:42, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
My successful co-nom for Soviet cruiser Kalinin has been missed by Milhistbot on Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/ACM/Eligibility tracking, which shows two ACRs even though I should be entitled to another if Kalinin were counted. Kges1901 ( talk) 15:30, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I'm just trying to understand MilHistBot's criteria for citations. Francisco Bouligny was rated as C class with only the "referencing and citation" criterion not met for B class. I'm pretty sure every fact/statement in the article is well sourced, using citation tags, to biographies, academic articles, and other reliable sources, so I'm just trying to understand what might be missing. Thanks. Carter ( talk) 15:41, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
G'day Hawkeye, can you release the quarterly reviewing awards run please? Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 22:57, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi Hawkeye, Milhistbot keeps adding Argentinosaurus to the MILHIST Announcements template for FACs. I took a look and couldn't see why this is happening. Any ideas? Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 22:52, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
G'day Hawkeye, just checking that when Parsecboy gets his next ACC (which will be with Oak Leaves), that Milhistbot knows where to post it on Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/ACC? I've created a subsection there in anticipation. Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 01:26, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
For the fourth time, I have corrected this bot's assessment of Hiram "Doc" Jones. The bot assesses the page as failing the project's b1 criterion, claiming that the article is not " suitably referenced, and all major points have appropriate inline citations." — Fourthords | =Λ= | 01:01, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Hawkeye, Milhistbot placed Sturm's awarded ACC in the ACC with Oak leaves section per [1]. Might need a little tweak? Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 04:25, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Hawkeye7, I noticed that Milhistbot is listing some GARs twice. Can this be fixed? Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 00:20, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I am trying to understand why MilHistBot rated Art Tomassetti and Chuck Wilson (pilot) as C class due to citations. In the past, this occurred when a paragraph ended without a reference but that doesn’t seem to be the case here that I can find. Is there a log file that can be reviewed? I think MilHistBot is a great tool. It might be improved by including reasons for failures. Good work automating a tedious process! Skeet Shooter ( talk) 14:33, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Is it possible to prevent this from happening? I don't know if the bot did it because I left one of the criteria empty, but it shouldn't be re-rating articles rated as something other than stub or start-class unless it has very good reasons to do so (and there's only a hundred or so which are not assessed so its not like the backlog is too great at the moment)... RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 16:29, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
The Bot seems to be mis-rating new, stub and start class, articles as C-Class. See Talk:Klewang-class fast attack craft for instance. New article from a relatively new editor, but the article itself is firmly a "Start" at this time:
I suspect something is off here. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 03:41, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
G'day Hawkeye, could you tweak Milhistbot so that it alphabetises the active member list each month when it runs? Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 07:17, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Neither russia, nor biography Staszek Lem ( talk) 04:29, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Is the B1 rating on HMS TB 23 (1907) correct - everything seems to be sourced to reliable sources. Nigel Ish ( talk) 10:22, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
For Ministry of Defence headquarters (Thailand) in this edit. Maybe the bot was thrown of by mention of the neoclassical architectural elements? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 10:36, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I have just created a series of lists on the same lines; List of aerial victories of [Ace name]. I will use List of aerial victories of Kurt Wolff as an example. This bot says it lacks cites, even though cites are given at the top as part of the introduction. It also ignores the fact that the list is complete, as is stated in the intro. Please stop using this bot to misevaluate my lists, as I have included all elements of B Class listing except supporting materials. Georgejdorner ( talk) 19:54, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi,
User:MilHistBot made an to Talk:2011 Helmand Province killing to automatically mark it as C-class. However, the article has passed GAN (as far as I know, the GA status has not been revoked). Is it correct to classify it as C-class in one WikiProject, and GA-class in others? Thanks, It Is Me Here ( talk) 16:42, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
E.g. here and here. The Early Muslim TF does not include modern conflicts. This is even weirder, since the African and Biography TFs have been added as well as the Early Muslim TF, which are all not relevant, but the Balkan TF has not been added. Constantine ✍ 18:04, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
How does the Bot assess for coverage and accuracy. Both elements can be tricky tasks for an editor let alone a bot? GraemeLeggett ( talk) 08:18, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
It seems the bot has a problem with tagging. Currently lots of articles involving Prussia, so belonging to the German task force, are falsely bot-tagged for Russia instead. ... GELongstreet ( talk) 23:48, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
Back in July, MilHistBot assessed Étienne Perier (governor) with only the B1 criteria missing B class. The revision/rewrite of the article has been completed since then and I believe it should meet full B class criteria (if not higher). Could it be reassessed? Or could you flag where additional referencing is required? Thanks. — Carter (Tcr25) ( talk) 17:04, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
Hey Hawkeye, I hope you've been having a safe and relaxing pandemic. Any idea why the MILHIST Bot decided Flor Crombet was a DAB article and not a start class article? I don't want to just revert it to have the bot come back for seconds. -- Molestash ( talk) 00:25, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
The dear Bot must have got it wrong, when it says: Referencing and citation: criterion not met. The fact is, that every paragraph has a citation. Maybe a human person can tell my why the criterion is not fullfilled. As of now, I do not know what to improve in order to reach B-level. As it is now, the MilHistBot is discouraging people to write about military history. This is not the first time either. Creuzbourg ( talk) 18:05, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Not sure what this is about, clearly not B-class and the editor who tagged the project already populated the assessment field. I see there are other similar concerns in sections above. The bot is a good idea but i think you should halt it and fix this unless you already have. Zindor ( talk) 20:41, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
it has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content, which it does. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:54, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
If this article is Start class according to the other WikiProjects it's part of, there's no way whatsoever it's C-class for the military history WikiProject. But the bot has now twice assessed the article as such for no reason I can glean, and reverted my attempts to bring the rating in line with that given for the rest of the WikiProjects. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 04:30, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
I was archiving a talk page when I noted this bot had removed a sizable chunk of discussion content, to the tune of -30+kb. A brief spot check yeilded 3 other such incidents: -47kb, -1.5kb & -2.5kb. These particular incidents took place on 13-14 November 2019. I realize (and hope) that this is something you were already aware of, and have fixed. I just wonder how many other pages were affected, and if there was/is an effort being made to restore all this removed content. (pinging Hawkeye7). Cheers - wolf 03:46, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
In this revision, the banner shows the rating being C, despite the code including |class=start. What causes this discrepancy? The article seemed much more a C than a start, so I edited the code to align with that and the visual presentation, so checking to make sure that is correct. Best, CMD ( talk) 08:46, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
Dear Bot,
Thanks for your classification of this military biography as Start. However, perhaps Liebenberg by now after an update is worthy of the C status? Thanks, Hansmuller ( talk) 12:52, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
I have complained about your MilHisBot (on the talk-page of Dutch States Army) before. I am afraid I now have to protest its assessment of my biographical article Quirijn Maurits Rudolph Ver Huell as "start class" (b1 and b2=no). In the first place I am not ready with the article (with Dutch State Army you waited at least 11 years with assessing it; this time two days!). In the second place: "not enough references?" The bot must be kidding. Take a look yourself. And what about the scope that is lacking? The good man spent most of his career safely away from flying ordnance (except for his bravery in the Battle of Blanc-Nez and Gris-Nez), and I shudder to speculate what he might have done in Ambon to earn his Military Order of William (probably a cancellable offense nowadays). So there is not much heroics to relate. But his main interest is his double career (naval officer and naturalist/illustrator). You won't find that very often. Of course, what I wrote about that came after your bot had already passed with his shot-off-the-hip assessment. Could you please come back after say a month? Out of fairness? Ereunetes ( talk) 06:35, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
Would it be possible to adapt the bot so that if it makes a change following an A-class review,
like so, if a
Template:GA is present could it write | currentstatus = GA
into
Template:Article history? Best,
CMD (
talk) 07:03, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
Yes, it is from this conversation. JASpencer ( talk) 16:53, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
I did an incomplete B-class assessment for Royal fifth the other day using the rater tool. Rater automatically added the B-class assessment parameters (B-Class 1, B-Class 2, etc.). When MilHistBot did its auto-assessment earlier today, it used the other B-class parameters (b1, b2, etc.) and did not detect the B-Class assessment parameters I had put in using rater. Would it be possible to modify the bot to recognize incomplete B-Class assessments using the other parameters? ~ UN6892 t c 14:07, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
Once again I disagree with the bot about its assessment. This complaint concerns Charles Sevin de Quincy which received a stub-class rating. Yes it is extremely short. But it contains all information contained in a reliable biography, is adequately referenced, is not lacking in the field of grammar and spelling. The scope is indeed minimal, but I am not asking for a B-rating. It turns out there are more articles linking to it, than I expected, and it has the same contents as the French article. So what does one have to do to get a C-rating? Ereunetes ( talk) 21:02, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
But this time for my own curiosity. Perhaps you should explain somewhere in layman's terms what technical criteria MILHISTBOT uses to pass or fail the different B-class criteria. Especially since it seems to have changed over time. I.e. I have figured out that it checks for, say, an infobox for one criteria, word and character count for another criteria, and the presence of inline-citations and citation-needed tags for yet another. But nowhere I can find is all this summed up and listed. Happy editing, SilverTiger12 ( talk) 14:13, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
This seems to be one of the few bots that set 'class' values based on analysis. Please consider adding Category:Autoassessment_bots Johnjbarton ( talk) 15:20, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello. In
this edit the bot almost passed
New generation warfare for B-class, except b1=no (referencing/citation). Where can I find the specific issue(s) involved? There have been additional citation improvements since the assessment edit of 00:48, 7 March 2022. Is there a way I can point the bot at an article, with a |verbose=yes
param or something and get it to print out a detailed report? (If not, hint, hint...
.) Thanks,
Mathglot (
talk) 16:31, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
I'm wondering if it's strictly necessary for MilHistBot to assess redirect articles with the new banner as it did
here. Is this a bug?
Schierbecker (
talk) 19:36, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
Milhistbot reassessed Ironclad as C-class after I started an A-class reassessment of that article. Although I quite agree that Ironclad is about C class, can the bot exclude articles undergoing A-class reviews from its run? Schierbecker ( talk) 14:24, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I'm a bot, so I cannot respond to your questions. However, if you leave a note here, or on the talk page of my owner Hawkeye7, I'm sure he will be able to help you. |
I was idly browsing when I noticed that MilHistBot seems to have missed a few steps in closing the ACR for Devon County War Memorial. It made eight edits closing the ACR before, but only six for that one. Courtesy ping for @ Hawkeye7: so he can look into the technical stuff. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:58, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
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<small>''Nominator(s):'' [[User:HJ Mitchell|<font color="Teal" face="Tahoma">'''HJ Mitchell'''</font>]] | [[User talk:HJ Mitchell|<font color="Navy" face= "Times New Roman">Penny for your thoughts? </font>]]</small>
@ Hawkeye7: There is a similar issue with closing of Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/List of National Defence Academy alumni, it missed of the steps, such as; A-class medal eligibility tracking, article alerts December 2016 etc. Please check for the error. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 10:19, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
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The WikiProject Barnstar | ||
For "... saving us and our fingers from the agony of a 45-60 minute manual closure of A-Class reviews", I have the honor of presenting you with this WikiProject Barnstar. For the Military history WikiProject, TomStar81 ( Talk) 09:33, 1 January 2017 (UTC) |
G'day Hawkeye7, the bot seems to have removed all the GANs. Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 01:21, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Hawkeye, not sure what is going on with this edit by the bot...? Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 06:15, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
2018 Military Historian of the Year | ||
As voted by your human underlings within the Military history WikiProject, I hereby award you the WikiProject Barnstar for being nominated for the 2018 Military Historian of the Year Award. Congratulations, and thank you for your botting in 2018. Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 01:18, 31 December 2018 (UTC) |
Hi Hawkeye. The bot seems to have inserted an extra "|" in {{Wikipedia:Featured article tools}} in this edit, causing a duplicate "1" parm error. Of course, that page is not supposed to be edited, so the error wouldn't be seen, but it shows up in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. Davemck ( talk) 16:21, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi Hawkeye, just observed something that could do with a tweak. When posting A-Class crosses to the Project news page, could Milhistbot place the ACCs above the Diamonds? Also, if it could use the ACC file rather than the ACM file for the attendant icon? I've fixed next month's ones. Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 01:36, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
G'day Hawkeye7, it seems Milhistbot is posting Oak Leaves awards to on Project News of the upcoming issue using the wrong image file name? It should be using File:WPMH ACR (Oakleaves).png. Also it seems to be posting them in a strange order, with oak leaves being posted above medals, but with diamonds at the bottom. I assume Nick and Ian have to make these minor adjustments, and I know there aren't major, but it would probably help them if Milhistbot was tweaked. I assume the order should be medals, oakleaves, swords, diamonds, crosses? In the interests of continuous improvement, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 09:15, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
G'day Hawkeye, when Milhistbot awards ACMs etc, would you be able to add a full stop after the list of articles and before the signature is inserted? Thanks mate, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 08:24, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
G'day Hawkeye, I noticed an anomaly in the listing of Sturm's Diamonds on the tally page, it had counted two of the same award (for the same articles) for October 2018, which had Sturm at 15 Diamonds, when he is actually at 14. I've fixed it manually, but just checking that the bot isn't relying on this in any way. I believe Sturm has one more Diamonds before moving to Crosses? Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 10:51, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Bots need kittens too!!!
Coolabahapple (
talk) 07:03, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
Dear Hawkeye7. I noticed two recent ratings by MilHistBot of articles to which I contributed. The articles are Antoine Hamilton and Claud Hamilton, 4th Earl of Abercorn, 17th-century Irish biographies both. It is great to be rated. Both articles were rated class=C|b1=no|b2=yes|b3=yes|b4=yes|b5=yes. The latter was promoted from Start to C-Class. Wonderful! I think automation is the only answer for the backlog on ratings of pre-A level articles. If I understand it right, you wrote this great tool. Thank you very much! You did Wikipedia a great service. Please allow me a question: why did the articles fail the "b1"-test? If I understand it right, "b1" is referencing (why is it called "b1"?). I think both articles are well referenced. "Antoine" has 84 footnotes and 40 sources. "Claud" has 23 footnotes and 13 sources. The sources are mainly books found in Internet Archive. The citations typically are marked in the text using the "sfn" template and the sources are described using the "citation" template in the list under "Notes and references". The "sfn" typically includes a URL and a quote. The "citation" typically gives a full bibliographic description including page numbers (columns and lines if needed) and URLs. What do I do wrong? What should I do to make these articles pass "b1"? With many thanks Johannes Schade ( talk) 11:20, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
A-Class cross for: Liberté-class battleship, Liberté-class battleship, Liberté-class battleship, Liberté-class battleship, and Liberté-class battleship
Hi. Could the bot's user page be updated to include info on the recent B-class checklist task? I had to do quite a bit of digging to find the BRFA and discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators. By the way, where should questions and feedback regarding the bot's B-class assessment be directed? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 07:54, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
There seems to be an error where the bot is truncating talk pages, e.g. Special:Diff/926094324 and Special:Diff/926092712. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 08:04, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
Hey Hawkeye7, Was this a good automatic assessment of this bot? What are the criteria of a B-class? Regards - TheseusHeLl ( talk) 18:01, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi, the bot changed start-class rating to B-class here. The article is a stub and it's already generous to consider it a start-class. Renata ( talk) 22:40, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
A recent edit by this bot of Talk:Mine clearance organization removed most of one of the sections, leaving a partial section heading. See this diff. RockMagnetist( talk) 05:42, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
My successful co-nom for Soviet cruiser Kalinin has been missed by Milhistbot on Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/ACM/Eligibility tracking, which shows two ACRs even though I should be entitled to another if Kalinin were counted. Kges1901 ( talk) 15:30, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I'm just trying to understand MilHistBot's criteria for citations. Francisco Bouligny was rated as C class with only the "referencing and citation" criterion not met for B class. I'm pretty sure every fact/statement in the article is well sourced, using citation tags, to biographies, academic articles, and other reliable sources, so I'm just trying to understand what might be missing. Thanks. Carter ( talk) 15:41, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
G'day Hawkeye, can you release the quarterly reviewing awards run please? Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 22:57, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi Hawkeye, Milhistbot keeps adding Argentinosaurus to the MILHIST Announcements template for FACs. I took a look and couldn't see why this is happening. Any ideas? Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 22:52, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
G'day Hawkeye, just checking that when Parsecboy gets his next ACC (which will be with Oak Leaves), that Milhistbot knows where to post it on Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/ACC? I've created a subsection there in anticipation. Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 01:26, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
For the fourth time, I have corrected this bot's assessment of Hiram "Doc" Jones. The bot assesses the page as failing the project's b1 criterion, claiming that the article is not " suitably referenced, and all major points have appropriate inline citations." — Fourthords | =Λ= | 01:01, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Hawkeye, Milhistbot placed Sturm's awarded ACC in the ACC with Oak leaves section per [1]. Might need a little tweak? Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 04:25, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Hawkeye7, I noticed that Milhistbot is listing some GARs twice. Can this be fixed? Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 00:20, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I am trying to understand why MilHistBot rated Art Tomassetti and Chuck Wilson (pilot) as C class due to citations. In the past, this occurred when a paragraph ended without a reference but that doesn’t seem to be the case here that I can find. Is there a log file that can be reviewed? I think MilHistBot is a great tool. It might be improved by including reasons for failures. Good work automating a tedious process! Skeet Shooter ( talk) 14:33, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Is it possible to prevent this from happening? I don't know if the bot did it because I left one of the criteria empty, but it shouldn't be re-rating articles rated as something other than stub or start-class unless it has very good reasons to do so (and there's only a hundred or so which are not assessed so its not like the backlog is too great at the moment)... RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 16:29, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
The Bot seems to be mis-rating new, stub and start class, articles as C-Class. See Talk:Klewang-class fast attack craft for instance. New article from a relatively new editor, but the article itself is firmly a "Start" at this time:
I suspect something is off here. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 03:41, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
G'day Hawkeye, could you tweak Milhistbot so that it alphabetises the active member list each month when it runs? Cheers, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 07:17, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Neither russia, nor biography Staszek Lem ( talk) 04:29, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Is the B1 rating on HMS TB 23 (1907) correct - everything seems to be sourced to reliable sources. Nigel Ish ( talk) 10:22, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
For Ministry of Defence headquarters (Thailand) in this edit. Maybe the bot was thrown of by mention of the neoclassical architectural elements? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 10:36, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I have just created a series of lists on the same lines; List of aerial victories of [Ace name]. I will use List of aerial victories of Kurt Wolff as an example. This bot says it lacks cites, even though cites are given at the top as part of the introduction. It also ignores the fact that the list is complete, as is stated in the intro. Please stop using this bot to misevaluate my lists, as I have included all elements of B Class listing except supporting materials. Georgejdorner ( talk) 19:54, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi,
User:MilHistBot made an to Talk:2011 Helmand Province killing to automatically mark it as C-class. However, the article has passed GAN (as far as I know, the GA status has not been revoked). Is it correct to classify it as C-class in one WikiProject, and GA-class in others? Thanks, It Is Me Here ( talk) 16:42, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
E.g. here and here. The Early Muslim TF does not include modern conflicts. This is even weirder, since the African and Biography TFs have been added as well as the Early Muslim TF, which are all not relevant, but the Balkan TF has not been added. Constantine ✍ 18:04, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
How does the Bot assess for coverage and accuracy. Both elements can be tricky tasks for an editor let alone a bot? GraemeLeggett ( talk) 08:18, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
It seems the bot has a problem with tagging. Currently lots of articles involving Prussia, so belonging to the German task force, are falsely bot-tagged for Russia instead. ... GELongstreet ( talk) 23:48, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
Back in July, MilHistBot assessed Étienne Perier (governor) with only the B1 criteria missing B class. The revision/rewrite of the article has been completed since then and I believe it should meet full B class criteria (if not higher). Could it be reassessed? Or could you flag where additional referencing is required? Thanks. — Carter (Tcr25) ( talk) 17:04, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
Hey Hawkeye, I hope you've been having a safe and relaxing pandemic. Any idea why the MILHIST Bot decided Flor Crombet was a DAB article and not a start class article? I don't want to just revert it to have the bot come back for seconds. -- Molestash ( talk) 00:25, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
The dear Bot must have got it wrong, when it says: Referencing and citation: criterion not met. The fact is, that every paragraph has a citation. Maybe a human person can tell my why the criterion is not fullfilled. As of now, I do not know what to improve in order to reach B-level. As it is now, the MilHistBot is discouraging people to write about military history. This is not the first time either. Creuzbourg ( talk) 18:05, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Not sure what this is about, clearly not B-class and the editor who tagged the project already populated the assessment field. I see there are other similar concerns in sections above. The bot is a good idea but i think you should halt it and fix this unless you already have. Zindor ( talk) 20:41, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
it has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content, which it does. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:54, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
If this article is Start class according to the other WikiProjects it's part of, there's no way whatsoever it's C-class for the military history WikiProject. But the bot has now twice assessed the article as such for no reason I can glean, and reverted my attempts to bring the rating in line with that given for the rest of the WikiProjects. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 04:30, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
I was archiving a talk page when I noted this bot had removed a sizable chunk of discussion content, to the tune of -30+kb. A brief spot check yeilded 3 other such incidents: -47kb, -1.5kb & -2.5kb. These particular incidents took place on 13-14 November 2019. I realize (and hope) that this is something you were already aware of, and have fixed. I just wonder how many other pages were affected, and if there was/is an effort being made to restore all this removed content. (pinging Hawkeye7). Cheers - wolf 03:46, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
In this revision, the banner shows the rating being C, despite the code including |class=start. What causes this discrepancy? The article seemed much more a C than a start, so I edited the code to align with that and the visual presentation, so checking to make sure that is correct. Best, CMD ( talk) 08:46, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
Dear Bot,
Thanks for your classification of this military biography as Start. However, perhaps Liebenberg by now after an update is worthy of the C status? Thanks, Hansmuller ( talk) 12:52, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
I have complained about your MilHisBot (on the talk-page of Dutch States Army) before. I am afraid I now have to protest its assessment of my biographical article Quirijn Maurits Rudolph Ver Huell as "start class" (b1 and b2=no). In the first place I am not ready with the article (with Dutch State Army you waited at least 11 years with assessing it; this time two days!). In the second place: "not enough references?" The bot must be kidding. Take a look yourself. And what about the scope that is lacking? The good man spent most of his career safely away from flying ordnance (except for his bravery in the Battle of Blanc-Nez and Gris-Nez), and I shudder to speculate what he might have done in Ambon to earn his Military Order of William (probably a cancellable offense nowadays). So there is not much heroics to relate. But his main interest is his double career (naval officer and naturalist/illustrator). You won't find that very often. Of course, what I wrote about that came after your bot had already passed with his shot-off-the-hip assessment. Could you please come back after say a month? Out of fairness? Ereunetes ( talk) 06:35, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
Would it be possible to adapt the bot so that if it makes a change following an A-class review,
like so, if a
Template:GA is present could it write | currentstatus = GA
into
Template:Article history? Best,
CMD (
talk) 07:03, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
Yes, it is from this conversation. JASpencer ( talk) 16:53, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
I did an incomplete B-class assessment for Royal fifth the other day using the rater tool. Rater automatically added the B-class assessment parameters (B-Class 1, B-Class 2, etc.). When MilHistBot did its auto-assessment earlier today, it used the other B-class parameters (b1, b2, etc.) and did not detect the B-Class assessment parameters I had put in using rater. Would it be possible to modify the bot to recognize incomplete B-Class assessments using the other parameters? ~ UN6892 t c 14:07, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
Once again I disagree with the bot about its assessment. This complaint concerns Charles Sevin de Quincy which received a stub-class rating. Yes it is extremely short. But it contains all information contained in a reliable biography, is adequately referenced, is not lacking in the field of grammar and spelling. The scope is indeed minimal, but I am not asking for a B-rating. It turns out there are more articles linking to it, than I expected, and it has the same contents as the French article. So what does one have to do to get a C-rating? Ereunetes ( talk) 21:02, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
But this time for my own curiosity. Perhaps you should explain somewhere in layman's terms what technical criteria MILHISTBOT uses to pass or fail the different B-class criteria. Especially since it seems to have changed over time. I.e. I have figured out that it checks for, say, an infobox for one criteria, word and character count for another criteria, and the presence of inline-citations and citation-needed tags for yet another. But nowhere I can find is all this summed up and listed. Happy editing, SilverTiger12 ( talk) 14:13, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
This seems to be one of the few bots that set 'class' values based on analysis. Please consider adding Category:Autoassessment_bots Johnjbarton ( talk) 15:20, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello. In
this edit the bot almost passed
New generation warfare for B-class, except b1=no (referencing/citation). Where can I find the specific issue(s) involved? There have been additional citation improvements since the assessment edit of 00:48, 7 March 2022. Is there a way I can point the bot at an article, with a |verbose=yes
param or something and get it to print out a detailed report? (If not, hint, hint...
.) Thanks,
Mathglot (
talk) 16:31, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
I'm wondering if it's strictly necessary for MilHistBot to assess redirect articles with the new banner as it did
here. Is this a bug?
Schierbecker (
talk) 19:36, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
Milhistbot reassessed Ironclad as C-class after I started an A-class reassessment of that article. Although I quite agree that Ironclad is about C class, can the bot exclude articles undergoing A-class reviews from its run? Schierbecker ( talk) 14:24, 29 March 2024 (UTC)