SmackBot messed up at Herbert Henry Dow High School -- blanked the page! -- Orlady ( talk) 16:26, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
I can't figure out why 73 of the monthly clean up categories for December are showing up at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. Since your bot works with the categories, I was wondering you had an idea as to why they're showing up. — ξ xplicit 19:43, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
This edit and this edit to {{splitsection}} tags added a date as usual but removed a redlinked proposed article title. This resulted in the discussion talkpage link being misidentified as the proposed target page [1] [2]. I manually corrected it. — AjaxSmack 02:18, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
[X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 02:19, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
The bot has made this edit twice; breaking the afd-merge-to template. Courcelles 00:40, 29 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 00:46, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Looking at the 25 most recent SmackBot edits (Goatse.cx to Brighton railway station), there are seven that only consist of removing an empty line from the page. I don't believe that this is what the bot is supposed to do. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]. Fram ( talk) 07:56, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Btw:
|date=november 2010
to |date=November 2010
.
Femto Bot recreated Category:Statements with common sense issues again. What to do? -- Bsherr ( talk) 15:14, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
The progress box for Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements is showing a negative number for the undated line. Any idea why or how to fix it? -- Bsherr ( talk) 18:51, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot is rearranging references again. [14] [15] I undid these edits once, thinking maybe it was just bad settings yesterday, and the bot made the same broken edits today. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 17:41, 29 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 17:53, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I had noticed that you changed to Capitalization on Cite on the references on Van Morrison article on Sept 28, 2010. I started using the Capitalization form myself but in the meantime, I have not found any other instances of the capital letter being used. If it shouldn't be this way will you change it back? Thanks so much. Agadant ( talk) 15:52, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
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I've undone this edit by Femto Bot, as it looked like an error. Fram ( talk) 10:13, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
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Richard, Why is Smackbot removing Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit as it did here? Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 02:48, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
long ago, you commented on my edit to ace doubles. writing to yo about a huge problem for me with wiki: it appears (see url below) that people are repackaging wiki content and selling it. I personally, am not going to do one darn thing for wiki if this is allowed; that is my personal bottom line - do you have a feeling ? if you agree, "we" - the people who don't like this - need to speak up, or wiki really will die regars Cinnamon colbert ( talk) 19:01, 30 November 2010 (UTC) http://www.amazon.com/Zeta-Potential-Lambert-M-Surhone/dp/6131060002/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291143235&sr=1-5
The bot is repeatedly asking for cites and references on the List of Aircraft, which is not right. You shouldn't be putting references on wikipages that are merely lists of other wikipages. Is there any way to turn this darn thing off in that application??? -- Raymondwinn ( talk) 08:22, 1 December 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 08:32, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Please stop editing my page. They took out everything at the bottom, which is not advertising, just general information.
Thanks.
Cast Management
[X] copied from
User talk:SmackBot by
Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 16:51, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Working the Mongol invasion of Europe... I just removed a ton-a-bunch of unref taggings in 1229- 1242 and likely one or two more around the 1730- 1740 period of the Conejohela War. Just so happens you made this edit about the same time as the person who'd tagged these summation (ALMANAC?) pages (and reminding me of your miserable existence! lol), so what's the skinny. Looks to me like that was an organized effort given his summation, and that a bot or AWB was employed.
Logic in my head says these pages make no sense to have local cites-- they provide links to detailed articles, not wordy explanations. Cites would make maintaining them a whole lot of trouble, vice a quick hit and run edit to update the year's details. Being summaries... I think someone's BOT ought to make sure they all be current untagged... and if necessary untag them as I was and will continue to do. if and when.
Note the balanced reaction and sentiment conveyed oh so diplomatically in my boilerplate following: <g> <x!--{{unreferenced|date=November 2009}} summary page dum dum, see linked pages for cites --->
Nice to see ya again. // Fra nkB 14:27, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Please send the bot to Oliver Hazard Perry and Three hares. Thank you for your help on Barber's pole. Thank you and happy editing. 7&6=thirteen ( talk) 19:55, 15 November 2010 (UTC) Stan
Hi, I want to run a bot on huwiki which adds dates to the maintenance tags, like your bot does it here. Can you tell me if it is a pywikipedia script or not? Can you upload it for me? Thanks, -- Deni42 ( talk) 20:21, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
(copied by RF)
OK, let's try and wrap up some recommendations:
On a related issue, it's not clear to me how redirects get into the AWB list. There is an unsatisfactory discussion here. Anyone? PS It would be good to see Smackbot up and running again, if you can sort out the coding to ensure it behaves in a manner consistent with the editing restriction. Rd232 talk 18:41, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I currently have a BRFA open at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KarlsenBot 6 for dating maintenance tags, in which your input has been requested. Is this a task you intend to continue running? Peter Karlsen ( talk) 23:32, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, just letting you know that although you declined a PROD from this page, it's been speedied since, and again blatantly recreated. I've done all the possible WP:BEFORE and found this subject to be a non-notable career starter. and I've put a new CSD on it. If you don't agree, feel free to decline it, but it will still probably have to go to AfD. Cheers, -- Kudpung ( talk) 10:24, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
I have a question about a bot but Im not sure if its possible or if it already exists. Since FEMTO bot seems to have similar logic I thought I would ask you. I have recently stumbled across a few articles in the last few days that fall under WikiProject US but have unanswered comments. The problem as I see it is that its nearly impossible to actively monitor every article in WPUS manually. Here is my idea: Would it be possible to make a bot that would, once a week or so scan through the list of articles and drop a note on the talk page for WPUS with something like "The following articles for this project have unanswered comments older than 10 days". I think 10 days is a reasonable time to give for folks to answer. If they havent anseered it by then they probably won't IMO. Im not sure how many comments that might be but it might actually be necessary to list them in a subpage and then link that to the talk page. Any ideas? Thanks -- Kumioko ( talk) 22:21, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Regardining the information at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Test_Squadron ... our squadron graphic has changed. How do I get a new graphic update on the page? Ronald J. Martwick 17th Test Squadron Space Innovation and Development Center 719-567-6134 ronald.martwick of schriever.af.mil —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.31.3.196 ( talk) 17:31, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed that some articles seem to have the wrong number of days left in Category:BLP articles proposed for deletion by days left. It looks like articles that had the BLPPROD template added today are currently showing up as having 1 day left. Since I think you were the one who created that categorization, I wanted to let you know so hopefully you can fix whatever isn't working. Calathan ( talk) 22:13, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Rich, please take a look here. I don't see the list, only this date stamp: 05:06, 01 December 2010 (UTC) I tried to fix it, but I don't think it's supposed to work that way. -- Brangifer ( talk) 23:22, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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Where did you get your information from when you previously edited the OFWGKTA discography i.e. Free Sweatshirt, The Sweaty Martian, Wolfpack etc.? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Howl5 ( talk • contribs) 14:29, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
There is a section in the above article headed 'Root cause analysis'. Since RCA is a technical term, I changed this to ' Root cause analysis' so that there was a page link available to the 'Root cause analysis' wikipedia page by clicking the section heading. Smackbot has removed the page link and returned the heading to just being plain text. Can you help me understand the benefit of that please? My understanding of wikipedia guidelines is that links to other pages should be used.
Any help is much appreciated.
Best regards, Socheid ( talk) 19:09, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Cheers Rich,
Socheid ( talk) 23:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
rev 7446 discounts persondata from wikify evaluation. This fixes the problem with unnecessary wikify tags in stubs. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:40, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
For the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii/Recent changes/Page2, nothing on there relates to Hawaii. It's totally about Wikiproject Texas. The most recent activity on there was a move by you. Do you think maybe it needs to be moved to WikiProject Texas? Maile66 ( talk) 13:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Yet again Fram succeeds in getting SmackBot blocked. Congratulations.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:55, 8 December 2010 (UTC).
rev 7451: Removes dated even if first digit is zero + removed comma between month and year. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:47, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Clearly this business with the editing restrictions isn't working. See WP:AN. Rd232 talk 00:54, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
An ANI section concerning your actions has been started at WP:ANI#WP:POINT violations through AWB by User:Rich Farmbrough. Fram ( talk) 08:07, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Rich, am I going nuts, or are you here doing a template redirect which isn't on the AWB standard list? Rd232 talk 01:31, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Um, why are you using AWB on your main account when you have Smackbot? [16] Rd232 talk 14:14, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Checked the last ten edits of tonight, and again two of them are unnecessary and unwanted bot edits: this and this. Fram ( talk) 09:15, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
And again: here. Fram ( talk) 08:11, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
This is a completely different thing, go and look again.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:02, 9 December 2010 (UTC).
AWB Rule 4 is "Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits." The community has imposed editing restrictions essentially to require Rich to respect this rule, and it is becoming increasingly tiresome that Rich is seemingly unable to cut out the unwanted edits (or parts of edits) from his Smackbot code and AWB use. His enormously prolific contributions are much valued, I just don't understand why it continues to be an issue so long after it was agreed what should happen. There have been some ambiguities and misunderstandings in discussing the precise applicability of restrictions, but those have been handled, and we're left with no obvious reason for the failure to fix a basically straightforward problem. Rd232 talk 21:02, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
As far as I understand many Smackbot's settings are like that in order to add and fix some difficult dated tags cases. I have a suggestion that probably will reduce the problem: Smackbot can first run in the list of undated tags only with built-in general fixes and then rerun to the remaining list with its customised settings. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for getting back to me. Sorry about the e-mail issues. I wanted to know if you would "follow" a new Dermatology and Dermatopathology forum proposal I am working on. Also, perhaps you could vote as to which questions you consider on/off topic? In general, I have enjoyed collaborating with you on Wikipedia, and would love to have you following this project as well. Thoughts? --- My Core Competency is Competency ( talk) 22:19, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I've attempted to restart the AN discussion to focus on the long-term substantive issue. I urge you to be as helpful as you can there in explaining the concrete and practical difficulties you face in respecting the editing restrictions, and in coming up with solutions if you can.
On the Fram/Geoswan thing - I can't do any better than quote Fifelfoo in that thread: "You appear to be particularly combative at the moment Rich, considered taking a cup of tea?" You appear to have lost perspective on Fram and his actions for the moment, and I urge you to be mature enough to recognise that and act accordingly until this passes (compare being mature enough not to drive when drunk).
Rd232
talk 13:16, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
There was nothing wrong with Fram's remark, and no good can come of pursuing it further. Rich, please strike your accusation, and Fram, just let it go.
Rd232
talk 20:48, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Category:All articles with unsourced statements, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Magioladitis ( talk) 13:15, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
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There are several templates up for CSD at CSD, such as Template:ISO 3166 code Saint Kitts And Nevis
Are you fine with the deletion? I'm happy to do it, but wanted to make sure.-- SPhilbrick T 20:58, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
{{
ISO 3166 code|Saint Kitts And Nevis}}
=> KN. This means we can get the code from a country field. More: we can do this:This mean we can to some extent canonicalize place names up to level 2.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:09, 9 December 2010 (UTC).
In case you did not notice. The BLP issues refer to the Guantanamo detainees. Please do not re-add the information. IQinn ( talk) 00:40, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
I reverted you. You should not -re-revert without cause.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:16, 12 December 2010 (UTC).
Hi, your automated AWB tool made to the fully-protected article Libertarianism without any discussion, removing a large swath of sourced content and tagging the edit as "minor". This is a highly contentious article; administrators should not be making unilateral major changes. I recommend you revert yourself. If your AWB tool is failing to recognize full protection, please refrain from using it. Thanks. ~ Amatulić ( talk) 16:47, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
I thought you weren't going to do stuff like this anymore? [19] – xeno talk 21:36, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Uh no. A couple of mis-clicks are quite reasonable. And I have always done most of the non-main space stuff manually. There are a zillion bots dating tags on articles - I've done maybe a couple hundred articles today just as preliminary testing.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:58, 16 December 2010 (UTC).
So why are you dropping by to express these concerns? Were you disturbed to encounter a capital R? Or just lacking other things to do that peruse my contribs?
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:54, 16 December 2010 (UTC).
Hello Rich, I see that you're an administrator and that you make a lot of bot-assisted "general fixes", but I must ask: why did you decide to edit two of my sandbox pages like this and this? These are my personal pages, clearly marked with the "Userspace Draft" template. SteveStrummer ( talk) 03:32, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Where to do I find it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:30, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Any list? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:48, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Rich. In addition to there being no mention of WPBiography and WPMILHIST in the lists here are some of the things I noticed on the list that I think should be changed: I changed these (and some others) to point to the correct project page rather than a redirect
I added to the list I have and I recommend adding them to you
I was going to give you a list of the changes I made but I noticed you were pinned down by friendly fire so I created a page under my user name ( User:Kumioko/Talkpage) for the WikiProject Banner cleanup talk page edits. Im not sure if you derived the list manually or mined it somehow but as I make changes to my list I will update this page as well. I have also been adding comments about when I changed it and basically what I did (but I didnt for the first couple days). Please feel free to use or modify this list so that we can all benefit from enhancements we all find and make. If you dont have time or whataver just drop a note on my talk page about the change you want me to make andn Ill do it as soon as I can. My XML skills are minimal so I usually just append to the bottom and then resort when I pull it into AWB rather than trying to find where it fits alphabetically. Here are a few of the things that I have been modifying as I find them:
I actually perform a couple hundred other edits (like deleting empty unused fields (not things like priority or class but empty taskforces and the like), fixing parameters that say things like +, -, _, etc instead of =, adding listas if missing, changing listas title to listas key) but I cut those out for the sake of not mising things up. If you think I should inlcude these as well please let me know. -- Kumioko ( talk) 04:20, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
{{ WikiProject_________Bacon|
{{WikiProject Eggs
{{ WikiProject Black pudding
becomes
{{WikiProject Bacon|
{{WikiProject Eggs
{{WikiProject Black pudding
Although perhaps removing the trailing space tampering would be good in those cases. In fact I can produce a smarter XML now, with a little effort.
Rich
Farmbrough, 08:53, 18 November 2010 (UTC).
Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. -- Kumioko ( talk) 18:30, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Cu-sect. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Cu-sect redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Kumioko ( talk) 05:47, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, Rich, I have probably come to the wrong place for this one, but as you are part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography, maybe you can help me. I have been trying to find an online reliable source(s) to confirm and enhance the death details for Mr. Hilliard for months and months, without success. I asked on the article's talk page, and got some information (after a lengthy time period) but it still did not seem to get me anywhere. I am hoping to find something to better conclude his article, before I suffer the same fate as him ! Feel free to redirect me, if you are busy, or think somewhere else is more equipped for such a plea, from this miserable little pleader. Cheers,
Derek R Bullamore ( talk) 20:43, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Rich, I know that you identify as a generalist, an inveterate "fixer" and copy editor as you say, so I thought I'd seek your input on this-- I've put together what should be a significant step in bringing the PepsiCo article up from its present rating of Start-/C-class status (ratings differed from one wikiproject to the next) towards an eventual goal of it meeting good article standards. This has been a complex subject matter to tackle, but I thought it to be worthwhile in the interest of building the encyclopedia (and making for one fewer low-graded Top-Importance article). If you have an inclination, might you be able to weigh in on this discussion: Talk:PepsiCo#Thoughts_on_revision? Happy holidays, Jeff Bedford ( talk) 15:40, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Rich: Altering {{
reflist}}
→{{
Reflist}}
is a "cosmetic change to wikicode". Could I remind you that per
Wikipedia:Editing restrictions#Rich Farmbrough you are indefinitely restricted from doing this. Please comply. —
Sladen (
talk) 22:59, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
I am done verifying the talk page templates and I converted it from individual find and replaces to a C module. There are pluses and minues to doing this but I think its an improvement. For me it seems to work about twice the previous speed but it may be different for you. I added the code that I think you would be interested in here. A couple notes:
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:13, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Blocked 48 hours for blatant violation of Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Mass_article_creation. [22]. Honestly, do you think policy doesn't apply to you just because it's inconvenient for you? Rd232 talk 13:45, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
The above discussion I believe conflates a number of dimensions:
- "Automation" - this is a continuum from, if you will, typing, through pop-up suggestions, java-script search and replace, browser based spell checking, manual edits where the whole change (or most) is automated but the commit is manual, batch processes, continuous processes to automatic on-wiki processes (cat counters etc.).
- "Simplicity" simple edits are not necessarily candidates for automation, nor are they necessarily automated.
- "Speed" the assumption is that fast editing is automated, slow editing is manual. Personally I prefer not to wait between manual edits, automted edits can happen while I'm doing something else (like sleeping).
- "Volume" not all automated tasks are high volume - notably daily updates, this is typical of FemtoBot - one of its tasks started at about 1 page per month. Similarly I manually tagged several thousand maps GFDL (because there was no AWB in those days) and did many thousands of AWB assisted album clean-ups (I forget which part I couldn't automate at the time).
- "Application" You can make automated edits with Firefox and manual edits with AWB - and it can be a sensible choice of application.
For these reasons the apparently attractive idea that you have a main account, and an AWB account (and a bot account) doesn't really fly. Yes I have User:Megaphone Duck - I'm not sure if it has AWB approval - but that was just to put a thumb in a dike, while I tried (and failed) to write the encyclopedia. Rich Farmbrough, 01:55, 17 December 2010 (UTC).
I don't suppose any ill intent in RD232's part. Those who jump up and down pointing, and singing "Ooh he broke a rule! Ooh he broke a rule!" receive a slightly less charitable view. However the net result is less articles get fixed, including the articles/disambiguation pages in question. I actually laughed when I tried to edit
Ofcom a few seconds ago - it's not really my loss that there's a misplaced capital. Also the discussions I am involved with will lack the benefit of my counsel, which would doubtless be ignored anyway. For example BOTPOL now covers human edits, assisted or not. Effectively BAG now runs Wikipedia - which I'm sure is not the intention - however it is fairly harmless, exchanging one set of absentee landlords for another.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:32, 18 December 2010 (UTC).
This is going to sound like a strange question but here goes. I wrote some code to replace various WikiProject redirects to the actual template: see here. My question is in regards to dealing with casing. I know that using regex I can put [Xx] to look for upper and lower case of letter X (X being whatever letter). Is there a way that you know of to make this so all of the whole group is case insensitive rather than having to designate each one individually? Thanks. -- Kumioko ( talk) 01:19, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
I have just had to do the reverse with all my redirect stuff, because REFLIST => Reflist was picking up reflist and causing the imminent death of the universe.
Rich
Farmbrough, 07:04, 18 December 2010 (UTC).
Can someone look at
this rather strange reversion. The edit summary suggests that a real example is somehow wrong. I don't know what Fram's problem is exactly, but there clearly is one.
Rich
Farmbrough, 05:29, 19 December 2010 (UTC).
OK nevermind I'll go to the page itself presently. More important is the blanket revert, instead of just the bit he takes issue with.
Rich
Farmbrough, 14:43, 19 December 2010 (UTC).
Could you implement my idea?
http://m.jguk.org/2010/11/wikipedia-auto-link-article.html
Now3d ( talk) 20:18, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
It is actually rather rare for these not to be linked in a complete graph. There are many robots roaming the interwikis and adding the (usually) appropriate links. The hope is, though, that technical improvements will allow a single link from each language version to a central repository of links, this will save millions of edits per year.
Simple Wikipedia has been around for a long time, and is a very Good Thing.
Rich Farmbrough.
13 December 2010 10:34
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Farmbrough, 02:32, 12 November 2015 (UTC).
Rich farmbrough was that you, if so sorry mate but i thought that was a new user being unconstructive-- Lerdthenerd ( talk) 09:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
I've blocked this account (bot?) for blanking pages. Nakon 21:51, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
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Dear Editor,
You recently added a few flags to the HyperOffice page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperoffice. I had consulted with you way back on 23rd April 2009 even before I set up the page. I had referenced a number of entries in the same domain (online collaboration) before setting up the page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebEx, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box.net, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoho, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Desktop, and had it vetted by a number of editors and users before it went live. The article is exactly the same in tone as these other articles. Please reconsider your edits in light of the above. wikiliscious ( talk) 13:29, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
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My reasoning can be found in Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Smackbot_and_Rich_Farmbrough. I recommend that SmackBot doesn't go right way to make hundreds of edits since the discussion is still active and maybe its code needs reviewing. Unblock enables SmckBot to do a small number of edits to demonstrate it new build, do test runs for it spending bot requests and perform other tasks if any. I suggest Rich to use the latest version of AWB, simplify SmackBot's code by removing parts now done by main AWB and/or using custom modules. I also suggest that a "How it works" is written so other editors can make suggestions to improve performance. I also suggest Rich to get in contact with Anomie so we don't have double-runs and find a solution for the cryptic template redirects (wfy, cn, etc.) which I also think have to be bypassed (and AWB bypasses them too). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:39, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Rich, I'll say the same thing to you as I say at any unblock request or ANI posting: please make a case for yourself, and help us to understand the history, in as few words as possible, but with the most clarification possible, using diffs, paraphrases, etc. We can't decide until we know the whole history. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 00:56, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Also, Rich, I see you mentioned something about re-writing this in perl. I strongly encourage you to do so, if we could get this into a "proper" programming language, it would make life so much easier :) - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 12:54, 22 December 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 01:51, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
As of rev 7500:
The latter fixes the problem of double-runs in many biography pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:18, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello, sir, I'm a new user and I don't know how to start... anything. Could you help? SpaceDiver221 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:15, 22 December 2010 (UTC).
The edit summaries are not appropriate or intelligable Active Banana (bananaphone 01:21, 23 December 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 01:24, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Can you please edit User:SmackBot#Tasks_and_authorisations and make clear(er) which tasks are one-off, inactive, still active? I am losing track.
I asked MSGJ to unblock SmackBot. The blocking reason isn't valid anymore. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:08, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
The dating of the Use DMY template goes wrong in your AWB edits, returning Use dmy dates from {{subst:currentmonthname}} {{subst:currentyear}}, e.g. here, here and here. Fram ( talk) 12:55, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Please if you have time and you know anything to it (I have seen that you have made edits in the article area which owns relations on it --- e.g. you have made the article: The Lord of the Rings (1955 radio series)) , please look on the article Audio theatre, somebody placed a erase discussion on it. after we have had a merge discussion. It would be interesting what you would say to the merge and the delete discussion. And possibly it could help to contact other people that they should help also. )-: Merry Xmas -- Soenke Rahn ( talk) 14:31, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
As I've told you time and again there are reasons we have processes in place to approve these kinds of task, rather than immediately creating hundreds of pages using an untested method. For example, scroll down this page which you created a couple of seconds ago, and you should notice a rather obvious problem with it. I suggest you go through your creations and review them properly, and in future you review them (and get them peer reviewed) before you start putting them into the main space. I hate to be blunt, but what will it take for you to actually start following bot policy - which the majority of the time is good practice and makes sense? - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 07:25, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
I think "peer review" would be a little over the top. However it all seems academic now.
Rich
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You seem to try to fix DEFAULTSORT invalid entries but... you don't. Check [25] and many others where the comma was missing. :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:56, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Yes the purpose of the exercise was to look at some 29,000 people articles with no comma in the DEFAULTSORT. Unfortunately I became so paranoid about he editing restriction that that got rather left by the wayside. I'm not sure that the comma is actually a good idea, I fear much hinges on the human name sorting decisions being made based on the paper, or at leas human targeted, methods of keying sorts.
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Not sure if you knew or if there is anything that can be done about it but I have noticed in almost every case when the WikiProject Banner template contains punctuation or diactratics it breaks. Two example are WikiProject Pokemon and WikiProject Children's literature. In both cases and others like them your script stopped after it got to Pok and Children. -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:31, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
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SmackBot messed up at Herbert Henry Dow High School -- blanked the page! -- Orlady ( talk) 16:26, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
I can't figure out why 73 of the monthly clean up categories for December are showing up at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. Since your bot works with the categories, I was wondering you had an idea as to why they're showing up. — ξ xplicit 19:43, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
This edit and this edit to {{splitsection}} tags added a date as usual but removed a redlinked proposed article title. This resulted in the discussion talkpage link being misidentified as the proposed target page [1] [2]. I manually corrected it. — AjaxSmack 02:18, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
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The bot has made this edit twice; breaking the afd-merge-to template. Courcelles 00:40, 29 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 00:46, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Looking at the 25 most recent SmackBot edits (Goatse.cx to Brighton railway station), there are seven that only consist of removing an empty line from the page. I don't believe that this is what the bot is supposed to do. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]. Fram ( talk) 07:56, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Btw:
|date=november 2010
to |date=November 2010
.
Femto Bot recreated Category:Statements with common sense issues again. What to do? -- Bsherr ( talk) 15:14, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
The progress box for Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements is showing a negative number for the undated line. Any idea why or how to fix it? -- Bsherr ( talk) 18:51, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
SmackBot is rearranging references again. [14] [15] I undid these edits once, thinking maybe it was just bad settings yesterday, and the bot made the same broken edits today. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 17:41, 29 November 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 17:53, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I had noticed that you changed to Capitalization on Cite on the references on Van Morrison article on Sept 28, 2010. I started using the Capitalization form myself but in the meantime, I have not found any other instances of the capital letter being used. If it shouldn't be this way will you change it back? Thanks so much. Agadant ( talk) 15:52, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
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Richard, Why is Smackbot removing Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit as it did here? Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 02:48, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
long ago, you commented on my edit to ace doubles. writing to yo about a huge problem for me with wiki: it appears (see url below) that people are repackaging wiki content and selling it. I personally, am not going to do one darn thing for wiki if this is allowed; that is my personal bottom line - do you have a feeling ? if you agree, "we" - the people who don't like this - need to speak up, or wiki really will die regars Cinnamon colbert ( talk) 19:01, 30 November 2010 (UTC) http://www.amazon.com/Zeta-Potential-Lambert-M-Surhone/dp/6131060002/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291143235&sr=1-5
The bot is repeatedly asking for cites and references on the List of Aircraft, which is not right. You shouldn't be putting references on wikipages that are merely lists of other wikipages. Is there any way to turn this darn thing off in that application??? -- Raymondwinn ( talk) 08:22, 1 December 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 08:32, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Please stop editing my page. They took out everything at the bottom, which is not advertising, just general information.
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Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 16:51, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Working the Mongol invasion of Europe... I just removed a ton-a-bunch of unref taggings in 1229- 1242 and likely one or two more around the 1730- 1740 period of the Conejohela War. Just so happens you made this edit about the same time as the person who'd tagged these summation (ALMANAC?) pages (and reminding me of your miserable existence! lol), so what's the skinny. Looks to me like that was an organized effort given his summation, and that a bot or AWB was employed.
Logic in my head says these pages make no sense to have local cites-- they provide links to detailed articles, not wordy explanations. Cites would make maintaining them a whole lot of trouble, vice a quick hit and run edit to update the year's details. Being summaries... I think someone's BOT ought to make sure they all be current untagged... and if necessary untag them as I was and will continue to do. if and when.
Note the balanced reaction and sentiment conveyed oh so diplomatically in my boilerplate following: <g> <x!--{{unreferenced|date=November 2009}} summary page dum dum, see linked pages for cites --->
Nice to see ya again. // Fra nkB 14:27, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Please send the bot to Oliver Hazard Perry and Three hares. Thank you for your help on Barber's pole. Thank you and happy editing. 7&6=thirteen ( talk) 19:55, 15 November 2010 (UTC) Stan
Hi, I want to run a bot on huwiki which adds dates to the maintenance tags, like your bot does it here. Can you tell me if it is a pywikipedia script or not? Can you upload it for me? Thanks, -- Deni42 ( talk) 20:21, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
(copied by RF)
OK, let's try and wrap up some recommendations:
On a related issue, it's not clear to me how redirects get into the AWB list. There is an unsatisfactory discussion here. Anyone? PS It would be good to see Smackbot up and running again, if you can sort out the coding to ensure it behaves in a manner consistent with the editing restriction. Rd232 talk 18:41, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I currently have a BRFA open at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KarlsenBot 6 for dating maintenance tags, in which your input has been requested. Is this a task you intend to continue running? Peter Karlsen ( talk) 23:32, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich, just letting you know that although you declined a PROD from this page, it's been speedied since, and again blatantly recreated. I've done all the possible WP:BEFORE and found this subject to be a non-notable career starter. and I've put a new CSD on it. If you don't agree, feel free to decline it, but it will still probably have to go to AfD. Cheers, -- Kudpung ( talk) 10:24, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
I have a question about a bot but Im not sure if its possible or if it already exists. Since FEMTO bot seems to have similar logic I thought I would ask you. I have recently stumbled across a few articles in the last few days that fall under WikiProject US but have unanswered comments. The problem as I see it is that its nearly impossible to actively monitor every article in WPUS manually. Here is my idea: Would it be possible to make a bot that would, once a week or so scan through the list of articles and drop a note on the talk page for WPUS with something like "The following articles for this project have unanswered comments older than 10 days". I think 10 days is a reasonable time to give for folks to answer. If they havent anseered it by then they probably won't IMO. Im not sure how many comments that might be but it might actually be necessary to list them in a subpage and then link that to the talk page. Any ideas? Thanks -- Kumioko ( talk) 22:21, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Regardining the information at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Test_Squadron ... our squadron graphic has changed. How do I get a new graphic update on the page? Ronald J. Martwick 17th Test Squadron Space Innovation and Development Center 719-567-6134 ronald.martwick of schriever.af.mil —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.31.3.196 ( talk) 17:31, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed that some articles seem to have the wrong number of days left in Category:BLP articles proposed for deletion by days left. It looks like articles that had the BLPPROD template added today are currently showing up as having 1 day left. Since I think you were the one who created that categorization, I wanted to let you know so hopefully you can fix whatever isn't working. Calathan ( talk) 22:13, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Rich, please take a look here. I don't see the list, only this date stamp: 05:06, 01 December 2010 (UTC) I tried to fix it, but I don't think it's supposed to work that way. -- Brangifer ( talk) 23:22, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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Where did you get your information from when you previously edited the OFWGKTA discography i.e. Free Sweatshirt, The Sweaty Martian, Wolfpack etc.? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Howl5 ( talk • contribs) 14:29, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rich,
There is a section in the above article headed 'Root cause analysis'. Since RCA is a technical term, I changed this to ' Root cause analysis' so that there was a page link available to the 'Root cause analysis' wikipedia page by clicking the section heading. Smackbot has removed the page link and returned the heading to just being plain text. Can you help me understand the benefit of that please? My understanding of wikipedia guidelines is that links to other pages should be used.
Any help is much appreciated.
Best regards, Socheid ( talk) 19:09, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Cheers Rich,
Socheid ( talk) 23:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
rev 7446 discounts persondata from wikify evaluation. This fixes the problem with unnecessary wikify tags in stubs. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:40, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
For the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii/Recent changes/Page2, nothing on there relates to Hawaii. It's totally about Wikiproject Texas. The most recent activity on there was a move by you. Do you think maybe it needs to be moved to WikiProject Texas? Maile66 ( talk) 13:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Yet again Fram succeeds in getting SmackBot blocked. Congratulations.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:55, 8 December 2010 (UTC).
rev 7451: Removes dated even if first digit is zero + removed comma between month and year. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:47, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Clearly this business with the editing restrictions isn't working. See WP:AN. Rd232 talk 00:54, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
An ANI section concerning your actions has been started at WP:ANI#WP:POINT violations through AWB by User:Rich Farmbrough. Fram ( talk) 08:07, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Rich, am I going nuts, or are you here doing a template redirect which isn't on the AWB standard list? Rd232 talk 01:31, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Um, why are you using AWB on your main account when you have Smackbot? [16] Rd232 talk 14:14, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Checked the last ten edits of tonight, and again two of them are unnecessary and unwanted bot edits: this and this. Fram ( talk) 09:15, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
And again: here. Fram ( talk) 08:11, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
This is a completely different thing, go and look again.
Rich
Farmbrough, 00:02, 9 December 2010 (UTC).
AWB Rule 4 is "Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits." The community has imposed editing restrictions essentially to require Rich to respect this rule, and it is becoming increasingly tiresome that Rich is seemingly unable to cut out the unwanted edits (or parts of edits) from his Smackbot code and AWB use. His enormously prolific contributions are much valued, I just don't understand why it continues to be an issue so long after it was agreed what should happen. There have been some ambiguities and misunderstandings in discussing the precise applicability of restrictions, but those have been handled, and we're left with no obvious reason for the failure to fix a basically straightforward problem. Rd232 talk 21:02, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
As far as I understand many Smackbot's settings are like that in order to add and fix some difficult dated tags cases. I have a suggestion that probably will reduce the problem: Smackbot can first run in the list of undated tags only with built-in general fixes and then rerun to the remaining list with its customised settings. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for getting back to me. Sorry about the e-mail issues. I wanted to know if you would "follow" a new Dermatology and Dermatopathology forum proposal I am working on. Also, perhaps you could vote as to which questions you consider on/off topic? In general, I have enjoyed collaborating with you on Wikipedia, and would love to have you following this project as well. Thoughts? --- My Core Competency is Competency ( talk) 22:19, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I've attempted to restart the AN discussion to focus on the long-term substantive issue. I urge you to be as helpful as you can there in explaining the concrete and practical difficulties you face in respecting the editing restrictions, and in coming up with solutions if you can.
On the Fram/Geoswan thing - I can't do any better than quote Fifelfoo in that thread: "You appear to be particularly combative at the moment Rich, considered taking a cup of tea?" You appear to have lost perspective on Fram and his actions for the moment, and I urge you to be mature enough to recognise that and act accordingly until this passes (compare being mature enough not to drive when drunk).
Rd232
talk 13:16, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
There was nothing wrong with Fram's remark, and no good can come of pursuing it further. Rich, please strike your accusation, and Fram, just let it go.
Rd232
talk 20:48, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
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There are several templates up for CSD at CSD, such as Template:ISO 3166 code Saint Kitts And Nevis
Are you fine with the deletion? I'm happy to do it, but wanted to make sure.-- SPhilbrick T 20:58, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
{{
ISO 3166 code|Saint Kitts And Nevis}}
=> KN. This means we can get the code from a country field. More: we can do this:This mean we can to some extent canonicalize place names up to level 2.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:09, 9 December 2010 (UTC).
In case you did not notice. The BLP issues refer to the Guantanamo detainees. Please do not re-add the information. IQinn ( talk) 00:40, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
I reverted you. You should not -re-revert without cause.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:16, 12 December 2010 (UTC).
Hi, your automated AWB tool made to the fully-protected article Libertarianism without any discussion, removing a large swath of sourced content and tagging the edit as "minor". This is a highly contentious article; administrators should not be making unilateral major changes. I recommend you revert yourself. If your AWB tool is failing to recognize full protection, please refrain from using it. Thanks. ~ Amatulić ( talk) 16:47, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
I thought you weren't going to do stuff like this anymore? [19] – xeno talk 21:36, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Uh no. A couple of mis-clicks are quite reasonable. And I have always done most of the non-main space stuff manually. There are a zillion bots dating tags on articles - I've done maybe a couple hundred articles today just as preliminary testing.
Rich
Farmbrough, 21:58, 16 December 2010 (UTC).
So why are you dropping by to express these concerns? Were you disturbed to encounter a capital R? Or just lacking other things to do that peruse my contribs?
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:54, 16 December 2010 (UTC).
Hello Rich, I see that you're an administrator and that you make a lot of bot-assisted "general fixes", but I must ask: why did you decide to edit two of my sandbox pages like this and this? These are my personal pages, clearly marked with the "Userspace Draft" template. SteveStrummer ( talk) 03:32, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Where to do I find it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:30, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Any list? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:48, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Rich. In addition to there being no mention of WPBiography and WPMILHIST in the lists here are some of the things I noticed on the list that I think should be changed: I changed these (and some others) to point to the correct project page rather than a redirect
I added to the list I have and I recommend adding them to you
I was going to give you a list of the changes I made but I noticed you were pinned down by friendly fire so I created a page under my user name ( User:Kumioko/Talkpage) for the WikiProject Banner cleanup talk page edits. Im not sure if you derived the list manually or mined it somehow but as I make changes to my list I will update this page as well. I have also been adding comments about when I changed it and basically what I did (but I didnt for the first couple days). Please feel free to use or modify this list so that we can all benefit from enhancements we all find and make. If you dont have time or whataver just drop a note on my talk page about the change you want me to make andn Ill do it as soon as I can. My XML skills are minimal so I usually just append to the bottom and then resort when I pull it into AWB rather than trying to find where it fits alphabetically. Here are a few of the things that I have been modifying as I find them:
I actually perform a couple hundred other edits (like deleting empty unused fields (not things like priority or class but empty taskforces and the like), fixing parameters that say things like +, -, _, etc instead of =, adding listas if missing, changing listas title to listas key) but I cut those out for the sake of not mising things up. If you think I should inlcude these as well please let me know. -- Kumioko ( talk) 04:20, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
{{ WikiProject_________Bacon|
{{WikiProject Eggs
{{ WikiProject Black pudding
becomes
{{WikiProject Bacon|
{{WikiProject Eggs
{{WikiProject Black pudding
Although perhaps removing the trailing space tampering would be good in those cases. In fact I can produce a smarter XML now, with a little effort.
Rich
Farmbrough, 08:53, 18 November 2010 (UTC).
Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. -- Kumioko ( talk) 18:30, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Cu-sect. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Cu-sect redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Kumioko ( talk) 05:47, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, Rich, I have probably come to the wrong place for this one, but as you are part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography, maybe you can help me. I have been trying to find an online reliable source(s) to confirm and enhance the death details for Mr. Hilliard for months and months, without success. I asked on the article's talk page, and got some information (after a lengthy time period) but it still did not seem to get me anywhere. I am hoping to find something to better conclude his article, before I suffer the same fate as him ! Feel free to redirect me, if you are busy, or think somewhere else is more equipped for such a plea, from this miserable little pleader. Cheers,
Derek R Bullamore ( talk) 20:43, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Rich, I know that you identify as a generalist, an inveterate "fixer" and copy editor as you say, so I thought I'd seek your input on this-- I've put together what should be a significant step in bringing the PepsiCo article up from its present rating of Start-/C-class status (ratings differed from one wikiproject to the next) towards an eventual goal of it meeting good article standards. This has been a complex subject matter to tackle, but I thought it to be worthwhile in the interest of building the encyclopedia (and making for one fewer low-graded Top-Importance article). If you have an inclination, might you be able to weigh in on this discussion: Talk:PepsiCo#Thoughts_on_revision? Happy holidays, Jeff Bedford ( talk) 15:40, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Rich: Altering {{
reflist}}
→{{
Reflist}}
is a "cosmetic change to wikicode". Could I remind you that per
Wikipedia:Editing restrictions#Rich Farmbrough you are indefinitely restricted from doing this. Please comply. —
Sladen (
talk) 22:59, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
I am done verifying the talk page templates and I converted it from individual find and replaces to a C module. There are pluses and minues to doing this but I think its an improvement. For me it seems to work about twice the previous speed but it may be different for you. I added the code that I think you would be interested in here. A couple notes:
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:13, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Blocked 48 hours for blatant violation of Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Mass_article_creation. [22]. Honestly, do you think policy doesn't apply to you just because it's inconvenient for you? Rd232 talk 13:45, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
The above discussion I believe conflates a number of dimensions:
- "Automation" - this is a continuum from, if you will, typing, through pop-up suggestions, java-script search and replace, browser based spell checking, manual edits where the whole change (or most) is automated but the commit is manual, batch processes, continuous processes to automatic on-wiki processes (cat counters etc.).
- "Simplicity" simple edits are not necessarily candidates for automation, nor are they necessarily automated.
- "Speed" the assumption is that fast editing is automated, slow editing is manual. Personally I prefer not to wait between manual edits, automted edits can happen while I'm doing something else (like sleeping).
- "Volume" not all automated tasks are high volume - notably daily updates, this is typical of FemtoBot - one of its tasks started at about 1 page per month. Similarly I manually tagged several thousand maps GFDL (because there was no AWB in those days) and did many thousands of AWB assisted album clean-ups (I forget which part I couldn't automate at the time).
- "Application" You can make automated edits with Firefox and manual edits with AWB - and it can be a sensible choice of application.
For these reasons the apparently attractive idea that you have a main account, and an AWB account (and a bot account) doesn't really fly. Yes I have User:Megaphone Duck - I'm not sure if it has AWB approval - but that was just to put a thumb in a dike, while I tried (and failed) to write the encyclopedia. Rich Farmbrough, 01:55, 17 December 2010 (UTC).
I don't suppose any ill intent in RD232's part. Those who jump up and down pointing, and singing "Ooh he broke a rule! Ooh he broke a rule!" receive a slightly less charitable view. However the net result is less articles get fixed, including the articles/disambiguation pages in question. I actually laughed when I tried to edit
Ofcom a few seconds ago - it's not really my loss that there's a misplaced capital. Also the discussions I am involved with will lack the benefit of my counsel, which would doubtless be ignored anyway. For example BOTPOL now covers human edits, assisted or not. Effectively BAG now runs Wikipedia - which I'm sure is not the intention - however it is fairly harmless, exchanging one set of absentee landlords for another.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:32, 18 December 2010 (UTC).
This is going to sound like a strange question but here goes. I wrote some code to replace various WikiProject redirects to the actual template: see here. My question is in regards to dealing with casing. I know that using regex I can put [Xx] to look for upper and lower case of letter X (X being whatever letter). Is there a way that you know of to make this so all of the whole group is case insensitive rather than having to designate each one individually? Thanks. -- Kumioko ( talk) 01:19, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
I have just had to do the reverse with all my redirect stuff, because REFLIST => Reflist was picking up reflist and causing the imminent death of the universe.
Rich
Farmbrough, 07:04, 18 December 2010 (UTC).
Can someone look at
this rather strange reversion. The edit summary suggests that a real example is somehow wrong. I don't know what Fram's problem is exactly, but there clearly is one.
Rich
Farmbrough, 05:29, 19 December 2010 (UTC).
OK nevermind I'll go to the page itself presently. More important is the blanket revert, instead of just the bit he takes issue with.
Rich
Farmbrough, 14:43, 19 December 2010 (UTC).
Could you implement my idea?
http://m.jguk.org/2010/11/wikipedia-auto-link-article.html
Now3d ( talk) 20:18, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
It is actually rather rare for these not to be linked in a complete graph. There are many robots roaming the interwikis and adding the (usually) appropriate links. The hope is, though, that technical improvements will allow a single link from each language version to a central repository of links, this will save millions of edits per year.
Simple Wikipedia has been around for a long time, and is a very Good Thing.
Rich Farmbrough.
13 December 2010 10:34
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Your comments would be very welcome there. Sandstein 12:42, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. The thread is Curious actions of User:Megaphone Duck. Doc talk 23:26, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Note: this was a bug where the correct change was displayed but a blank page was written. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 02:32, 12 November 2015 (UTC).
Rich farmbrough was that you, if so sorry mate but i thought that was a new user being unconstructive-- Lerdthenerd ( talk) 09:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
I've blocked this account (bot?) for blanking pages. Nakon 21:51, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
This is your only warning. If you remove or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. — Farix ( t | c) 22:39, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Curious actions of User:Megaphone Duck. Thank you. — Farix ( t | c) 22:47, 22 December 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:Megaphone Duck by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 00:31, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Dear Editor,
You recently added a few flags to the HyperOffice page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperoffice. I had consulted with you way back on 23rd April 2009 even before I set up the page. I had referenced a number of entries in the same domain (online collaboration) before setting up the page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebEx, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box.net, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoho, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Desktop, and had it vetted by a number of editors and users before it went live. The article is exactly the same in tone as these other articles. Please reconsider your edits in light of the above. wikiliscious ( talk) 13:29, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough/Archive ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Build 586 should address outstanding concerns
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The bot operator is currently blocked for violations of bot policy. Once they are unblocked, they should request unblock of this bot by explaining what the concerns were and how exactly they were addressed. Sandstein 13:59, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
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Rich Farmbrough/Archive ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Concerns were
Accept reason:
My reasoning can be found in Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Smackbot_and_Rich_Farmbrough. I recommend that SmackBot doesn't go right way to make hundreds of edits since the discussion is still active and maybe its code needs reviewing. Unblock enables SmckBot to do a small number of edits to demonstrate it new build, do test runs for it spending bot requests and perform other tasks if any. I suggest Rich to use the latest version of AWB, simplify SmackBot's code by removing parts now done by main AWB and/or using custom modules. I also suggest that a "How it works" is written so other editors can make suggestions to improve performance. I also suggest Rich to get in contact with Anomie so we don't have double-runs and find a solution for the cryptic template redirects (wfy, cn, etc.) which I also think have to be bypassed (and AWB bypasses them too). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:39, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Rich, I'll say the same thing to you as I say at any unblock request or ANI posting: please make a case for yourself, and help us to understand the history, in as few words as possible, but with the most clarification possible, using diffs, paraphrases, etc. We can't decide until we know the whole history. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 00:56, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Also, Rich, I see you mentioned something about re-writing this in perl. I strongly encourage you to do so, if we could get this into a "proper" programming language, it would make life so much easier :) - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 12:54, 22 December 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 01:51, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
As of rev 7500:
The latter fixes the problem of double-runs in many biography pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:18, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello, sir, I'm a new user and I don't know how to start... anything. Could you help? SpaceDiver221 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:15, 22 December 2010 (UTC).
The edit summaries are not appropriate or intelligable Active Banana (bananaphone 01:21, 23 December 2010 (UTC) [X] copied from User talk:SmackBot by Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world) 01:24, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Can you please edit User:SmackBot#Tasks_and_authorisations and make clear(er) which tasks are one-off, inactive, still active? I am losing track.
I asked MSGJ to unblock SmackBot. The blocking reason isn't valid anymore. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:08, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
The dating of the Use DMY template goes wrong in your AWB edits, returning Use dmy dates from {{subst:currentmonthname}} {{subst:currentyear}}, e.g. here, here and here. Fram ( talk) 12:55, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Please if you have time and you know anything to it (I have seen that you have made edits in the article area which owns relations on it --- e.g. you have made the article: The Lord of the Rings (1955 radio series)) , please look on the article Audio theatre, somebody placed a erase discussion on it. after we have had a merge discussion. It would be interesting what you would say to the merge and the delete discussion. And possibly it could help to contact other people that they should help also. )-: Merry Xmas -- Soenke Rahn ( talk) 14:31, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
As I've told you time and again there are reasons we have processes in place to approve these kinds of task, rather than immediately creating hundreds of pages using an untested method. For example, scroll down this page which you created a couple of seconds ago, and you should notice a rather obvious problem with it. I suggest you go through your creations and review them properly, and in future you review them (and get them peer reviewed) before you start putting them into the main space. I hate to be blunt, but what will it take for you to actually start following bot policy - which the majority of the time is good practice and makes sense? - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 07:25, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
I think "peer review" would be a little over the top. However it all seems academic now.
Rich
Farmbrough, 17:13, 17 December 2010 (UTC).
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A process argument has opened on this page, to which you have contributed. Your comments are requested. The discussion is here (duplicated to all editors of this page) Xyl 54 ( talk) 01:23, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
You seem to try to fix DEFAULTSORT invalid entries but... you don't. Check [25] and many others where the comma was missing. :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:56, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Yes the purpose of the exercise was to look at some 29,000 people articles with no comma in the DEFAULTSORT. Unfortunately I became so paranoid about he editing restriction that that got rather left by the wayside. I'm not sure that the comma is actually a good idea, I fear much hinges on the human name sorting decisions being made based on the paper, or at leas human targeted, methods of keying sorts.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:33, 21 December 2010 (UTC).
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Happy Holidays! |
Dear Rich Farmbrough, Best wishes to you and your family this holiday season, whether you are celebrating Christmas or a different holiday. It's a special time of the year for almost everyone, and there's always a reason to spread the holiday spirit! ;) Love, -- Meaghan [talk] ≈ 15:22, 22 December 2010 (UTC) |
Thanks much! Am off to do the templates, etc. We hope ( talk) 22:31, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
Not sure if you knew or if there is anything that can be done about it but I have noticed in almost every case when the WikiProject Banner template contains punctuation or diactratics it breaks. Two example are WikiProject Pokemon and WikiProject Children's literature. In both cases and others like them your script stopped after it got to Pok and Children. -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:31, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Category:All articles to be expanded, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Magioladitis ( talk) 12:40, 13 December 2010 (UTC)