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I intend to start working on getting STBotI back up and running within the week on new images only, and eventually on all images. To that end, I have created two subpages, User:STBotI/CodeCollaboration and User:STBotI/MessageCollaboration. They are fairly self-explanatory. I'll be uploading the image detection code to the former and heavily commenting it shortly, and I'll put something up on the latter eventually. Suggestions or improvements are welcome to either the page, the talk page, or my user talk. Note that the messages are mostly transcluded, so edits made to those templates will affect all users. Anyone is welcome to participate constructively, I reserve the right to ban anyone from those pages if they are acting inappropriately.

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How can I get the "Hall Hunt" page posted again?

Hey. My name is Hall Hunt. There was a page about me that was deleted earlier this month. I just noticed that it was deleted. I don't know anything about publishing anything about Wikipedia except for looking articles up, so I am amazed that I even found this page to ask you the question. How can I get the page back up? I think it said said something about plagerizm. I didn't create the page to begin with, but rather I think it was an organization I am a part of. Maybe they plagerized there other webpage or something. I am not sure. The bottom line is I would be willing to do anything I need to so the page can be posted again. Please let me know what, if anything I can do. I guess you usually post responses here, so I will check back. Otherwise just email me at HallHunt@comcast.net . Thank you very much! ;o) 67.129.185.89 (talk) 23:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC) Hall Hunt[reply]

Hi there!
Looks like I deleted your article because it was copyrighted material, and we can only use free non-copyrighted text (see at the top left of this page where it says "Wikipedia, the FREE encyclopedia"?) If you do believe that we should have an article about you, you can write a draft, making sure that you can back up your information with links to reputable web sites, and visit WP:AFC for more information. Before you do, please note that we cannot publish your article unless it is written in a neutral way (You can't say "Hall Hunt is the best because he is awesome", you can say "Hall Hunt has won so and so competition in the field of competitive eating," granted, of course, that you have actually won that competition) and contains links to reliable sources, like newspapers or other websites, or even this article, which is what our old article was copied from. You might also want to have a look at WP:COI first, since writing about yourself in a neutral way is often a difficult task - but if you do happen to slip up, there are plenty of eyes around to help out. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 00:21, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tell your bot thanks...

...I totally forgot to add a license to it. Thanks =D <3 Tinkleheimer TALK!! 06:44, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, that is the point of the bot ;) --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 10:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Friendly advice

Hi, just a couple of friendly words, because I'm worried that you may be rubbing some editors the wrong way, and potentially scaring them off from Wikipedia. I think it would be very helpful if both you and your bot provided a little more information about what Wikipedia, and your bot, expect to find at a non-free image page - and to let editors know what it is they've missed out from their rationale.

It is clear from your comments on your talk page that a number of editors feel their images already satisfy the requirements, and that the template messages left by the bot have not made it clear if, or why, this is not the case. Your first replies rarely help them to understand why they are in error; in some cases ("Stop being stupid and fix your image") they are downright rude - especially coming from an administrator.

I'm not sure of the mechanics of your bot, but I suspect you would reduce the number of irate posts to your talk page if your bot's message gave the user clearer instructions, which could perhaps be made more specific according to which of the bot's rules was broken. I'd suggest something along the lines of:


Also, please do read template messages you post on user pages, check they're appropriate (you recently tagged my burgeoning talk page with a message saying "Welcome to Wikipedia!" when a quick glance would have shown you that I'm not exactly new to the site, which didn't exactly make a great first impression) and check that they provide the editor with a clear "next step" through the complex copyright mire. I usually find that editors are more willing to spend their time doing things, such as providing a fair use rationale, if I take a couple of seconds to speak to them helpfully rather than just bombarding them with unhelpful templates.

I hope that that will help to engage editors a little more in the copyright process and encourage them to improve rationales, rather than thinking "sod it, it's not worth it", and leaving useful images to get deleted unnecessarily. Besides, I'm sure you get pretty frustrated wasting your time messaging people telling them why your bot was right and they were wrong - which is clearly the case in the majority of instances! I hope that a more helpful bot message would reduce the number of people requiring such a response.

Anyway, I hope that's of some use.

Smith609 Talk 08:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am cautious about telling users exactly what is wrong with the image, because if they know exactly what the bot saw, they can fix that issue and then not be seen by me again, whereas if the image has many problems that the bot cannot detect, it is preferable to have them fix all of the issues that they can find so they comply with the policy, not with my bot. The problem arises not when they can't find out what the problem is, but when they refuse to read and understand policy, even though the relevant policy is linked from the deletion tag, the warning message, and the bot's talk page. It seems to me that no amount of handholding, short of fixing the image for them, of course, will help. There's an old adage about giving a man a fish... --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 10:45, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, and the assumption on the part of the uploaders that my bot is in error, as evidenced by the section title "fix your bot" is ever so slightly annoying. Perhaps that contributes to the "irate" nature of my responses. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 10:50, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The policy is a mess, and I totally understand that many contributors have trouble following it, especially in a way that makes bots happy. It sounds like you have two ultimately contradictory goals: you want it to be obvious how to follow policy, but you also want it to be non-obvious how to pass your bot's check. But in an ideal world the bot's check would be equivalent with policy. The fact that it's possible to "comply with policy but not with your bot" requires that there is a significant difference between your bot's rules and policy. It's an understandable situation, since the policy is so complex, but it shouldn't be taken as a desirable situation. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 18:39, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aubrey Gibson image and your bot

Well, I guess I'm one of the users the subject of the discussion above. An average user, average editor and - I thought until now - diligent reader of wikipolicies as required. The difficulty with your response just above is that I can't see what your bot saw. Some time back I uploaded an image - Image:AubreyGibsonRosebowlJacket2.JPG - for use in an article I created. It has just been tagged by your bot. Fair enough. Now, if I've read the policies correctly, the justification I've given for the use of the image is adequate. However, I took the point that maybe I've put the justification in the wrong location on the image page. I confess it's a while since I've uploaded an image, so I tried to edit the image info page - and this reminded me that the process is semi-automated. I couldn't work out how to shift the justification for use from its current location to a location next to the link to the particular article (and only article) in which the image is used. I'm taking the tag off, not to be difficult, but because (a) as far as I can see I've complied with WP policy, but more to the point (b) at the moment I'm only visiting the site every couple of weeks and the bot / WP / whatever is only giving me 7 days warning. I'm sure you'll set me on the right track. I have the fish, thanks, but my problem is not understanding your bot's message but in successfully responding to it. Cheers hamiltonstone (talk) 11:58, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fix your bot - restored section

Per [1].

Since you didn't answer, I'm going to ask one more time; please direct me to the 'machine readable' policy on en. Furthermore, how does this affect Image:BanqiaoDamAfterFailure.jpg (hint, it already had a {{Non-free fair use in|Banqiao Dam}} tag and was therefore machine readable).

Let's be really clear here: this image is classic fair-use. It had a rationale. Your bot tagged it because it didn't have a particular template. There is no requirement that this particular template be used on fair-use images. Instead of admitting that you are a lazy bot writer, you first blame the image, then me, then some 'machine readable' policy that makes no difference since the image page already had a machine readable tag.

This was a difficult image to find, and it should not be deleted every couple of years because some bot writer all of the sudden decides there's a particular template that must be used.

If you want this image to use a specific template for fair-use, go ahead and add it. Otherwise revert your edit and fix your bot. --Duk 12:24, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PS. Please show me where your bot was approved to mark for deletion fair-use images With a rationale. --Duk 13:21, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The bot tagged it because the rationale is not complete. Why in the bloody hell do you not realize that? You fail to address the most important point, the lack of a free equivalent - Why must we use this non-free image? Why is there not a free one? You fail to address 10c: There is no mention of the page it is used on. You fail to address 8 to my satisfaction: You say it is an educational use, but why is this particular image the only way to educate readers? --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 18:07, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
A bot may not judge the quality of a fair use rationale. You might challenge that quality, which is fine, but if your bot fails to pick up a fair use rationale, no matter how poor, and tags the image for deletion, I'm going to re-block the bot. --Duk 23:06, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to flag templates

Hi, when you remove images from flag templates such as Template:Country data Réunion, please replace the image with a placeholder instead of nothing. Image:Sin bandera.svg is usually used for this sort of thing. As it is, your change effectively breaks every page that transcludes that template with the region parameter, and the template documentation code certainly offers clues that something is wrong. Thanks — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 15:56, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

STBotI blocked

After reading Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline again, I see that Image:BanqiaoDamAfterFailure.jpg contained both the copyright tag a specific fair use rationale as required. Your bot tagged it for deletion anyway. When this was brought to your attention, you failed to acknowledge the bot's error and attacked myself and the rationale instead. This is unacceptable.

I looked at STBotI's last seventeen edits. It failed to recognize three existing fair-use rationales [2] [3] [4]. Another edit added This image or media is claimed to be used under Wikipedia's policy for non-free content... when the image made no such claim [5]. That's an unacceptable error rate so STBotI has been blocked.

To fix this, I'd suggest a) searching the image page for key words that would indicate a rationale, or b) propose at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline that {{Template:Non-free use rationale}} be required to aid bot work. Didn't think about how to fix the last error, but I'm sure you'll figure it out.

It is not acceptable for your bot to make these errors, but it's even worse when you refuse to acknowledge the errors and attack the messenger or the rationale instead. And it's sure as hell not acceptable for your bot to evaluate the validity of a fair use clam.

I'm not unsympathetic to your work, having processed thousands of copyright violations (before you made your first edit) and done automated work myself. I know what you have to do to fix this and that it isn't very hard. Sofixit.

--Duk 18:00, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is no rationale whatsoever on [6], [7] is not sufficient, and the tagging on this is correct because there is not sufficient information to be sure that there is no copyright info. The rationale on your image is not sufficient. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 18:03, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm going to have to agree with Duk in a few of these cases. Image:Broom by Bundies2.jpg is just a bogus rationale, it's true on that one. But Image:Brother Is To Son.jpg is a decent attempt at writing a rationale by the kind of contributor who hasn't yet passed the bar in wikilawyering. In the cases where there is a rationale but it is not "sufficient" for your bot -- generally based on an out-of-policy requirement that it has to include the literal title of the article -- it's wrong for your bot to go around saying "there's no rationale". There's a rationale, the bot just can't find it.
This is an area that is extremely daunting and confusing to most contributors, and its typical enforcement by bots (using an article title as a proxy for a rationale) only confuses the issue more. We either need better heuristics for criterion 10c, or we need to re-examine the assumption that 10c can be enforced by unassisted bots (remember that many NFCC criteria aren't). One proposal I would make would be to tag images where the bot can't confirm the existence of a valid rationale with a template saying basically that, instead of a deletion template making the bald assertion that "there is no rationale". A person can then check the description, and tag it for deletion or fix it.
Yes, it's a complicated issue. That's a good indication, though, that there isn't a simple automated bot solution. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 18:29, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
May I also suggest adding a link to FUR Templates in your message to get people started. It might make the process easier on unfamiliar editors. Thanks Morphh (talk) 20:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
A category page full of templates? No, nobody but an experienced Wikipedian is going to have any idea what to do with that. I think a better thing to do would be for the message to provide a template for them to fill in and tell them how to add it to the image page. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 21:22, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
True, based on the licensing template, it should be able to recommend a FUR template. Morphh (talk) 21:36, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just want to point out that the argument 'some of these rationales aren't sufficient' doesn't fly. A bot may not judge the quality of a fair use rationale. If it is a poor rationale and the bot misses it, I will re-block the bot. This isn't about how good the rationale is, it's about the bot working or not--Duk 22:55, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wait. You are saying that if the bot tags an image for not having a sufficient rationale, you'll block it? Well, that's the last time I try to follow policy. Make sure that you don't follow any policies in the near future either, I'll be watching you. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 00:41, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I find your behaviour to quite extraordinary for an administrator, and really setting a rather poor example. How many people have you thrown insults at, or tried to intimidate, in the last 24 hours alone? If it wasn't so sad it would be funny. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 00:45, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Less than or equal to the number of people who have thrown insults at me, that's for sure. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 00:50, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And that makes your behaviour acceptable in your eyes does it? --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 00:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It certainly doesn't make your unilateral accusations acceptable. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 00:55, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You let yourself down once again I'm afraid. Why not aspire to be one of the best administrators, instead of spiralling towards becoming one of the worst? --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 00:59, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Or, you could stop harassing ST47, go on with your wiki-life, leave him alone and stop continuing the fight, and you won't risk an uninvolved administrator coming in to take note of the uncivil way you have been treating ST47 on his own talk page?⇒SWATJester Son of the Defender 02:31, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You wikilawyers do make me laugh. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 02:35, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BLPWatchBot/1.2

Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BLPWatchBot/1.2 needs to be logged in! BLPWatchBot (talk) 18:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy ping

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#STBotI --Duk 23:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

STBotI blocked again

I've blocked this bot again. Its accuracy is horrible. It tagged the following images for deletion for not having a fair use rationale, when in fact they did have a rationale [8] [9] [10]. The final link should have been tagged orphaned fair use, not lacking a fair use rationale. How did this bot ever get approved? --Duk

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Your userpage

Come on ST47, I know you're obviously annoyed about the whole situation with Duk, but calling him an idiot on your userpage isn't helping anyone. I've removed it and I think the best thing to do would be to have a short break, think about things and you might be in a better frame of mind when you return. Everyone gets stressed here - things will get better soon. Take care, Ryan Postlethwaite 18:16, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please come back

ST47, you are a vital part of this community and a respected member to at least me. Please consider taking a couple days off and returning refreshed to continue this great endeavor. MBisanz talk 22:44, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed; it's a shame to see you go. I'd recommend taking a break from Wikipedia for a while and thinking the situation over a bit before coming back. Good luck, —paranomiahappy harry's high club 01:14, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to echo MBisanz. I looked things over and all I see is the bot doing exactly what it is supposed to do. Vassyana (talk) 06:21, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to disagree with the above. TAKE A DAMN BREAK. Too much wiki-time is bad :) (especially, in bot-land!) Take a short break, and, come back, with a clearer head :) SQLQuery me! 07:19, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully this cheers you up...

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Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

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Hi, please can you tell me where I can now find this? Robert C Prenic (talk) 14:37, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Well since, you're back, Yessss? dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 10:30, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back

I'm glad to see you're back; I hope you enjoyed you wikibreak. Cheers, —paranomiahappy harry's high club 22:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why was GrandLuxe Rail Deleted? Really makes no sense.

Ok, so I want to know why my new page was deleted by your bot for "implausable typo".

Makes no sense. I thought Wikipedia wanted to encourage contributions from newcomers...looks like you want to scare us off.

Please reinstate.

--User3232 (talk) 17:53, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a user (not me, I just run an automatic bot that told you about it) took your article and removed it, replacing it with something else, and then had the thing he replaced it with deleted. I don't know why he didn't just leave your thing, but you can ask him here. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 18:37, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Really, I'd expect you to know better. I ask that you retract your !vote unless you have a serious reason - the bureaucrats will give it very little leverage anyways, and besides, the nom has retracted his oppose. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 02:57, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There's no need for the snarky "apparently" - you know very well that opposing per nom only because you've always wanted to oppose per a nominator is highly inappropriate. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 12:51, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not to say you should retract your oppose now - the concerns you gave in the latter comment were perfectly valid. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 13:04, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bot to mass-undelete "orphaned talk page redirect"

Thanks for stepping up to the plate on this one. I've replied over on WP:ANI. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 01:11, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See also: Wikipedia:Bot requests#Bot to mass-revert a specific list of deletions. I invited people there to talk about it on the ANI page. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 01:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And I've replied to you. I'm going to get a number of restores from your criteria for all of the mzmcbride deletions since april as well, and will post those stats. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 01:22, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I mentioned this at User talk:AGK#RfArbitration, so I thought I should let you know. Carcharoth (talk) 07:09, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BAGBot

Hey. I know that you did mention to me a few weeks ago that you would send me the code to BAGBot (both on-wiki and IRC versions), was this so I could take over the running of BAGBot or just for backup purposes? I just didn't really understand at the time. Please clarify, thanks. — E ↗TCB 02:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was attempting to ensure that there was a backup, since it seems to have been dying recently. (This morning, for example, it was dead for about 2 hours.) If you are able to, I can get you a copy of everything you need in case it dies again. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 02:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, email it over to me and I'll set it up so it's ready for use. — E ↗TCB 02:15, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera/Article ranking

Hi. Can you possibly re-delete this? If any opera project pages are deleted in error we will see them. This one was not deleted by mistake. Thanks. --Kleinzach 23:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I've re-deleted that page. I also automatically undeleted the following articles from Wikiproject opera - do any of these need to be re-deleted?:
Let me know. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 23:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Are these all redirects? If so they can all be permanently deleted. They serve no useful purpose. Thanks. --Kleinzach 23:54, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very confused on why anyone would want to delete the talk page archive redirects. The page move to rename the archives was in July 2007 and some had existed a year before that. Redirects are cheap, and we have no real way to track off-site linking. -- Ned Scott 05:16, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What would be the point of keeping these redirects? Who would ever use them? (BTW to clarify: I didn't delete them myself - I only discovered them when they were being recreated.) --Kleinzach 07:58, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
"we have no real way to track off-site linking" - that is the reason. Most people only stop to check if links have been made to the page from within Wikipedia, but don't consider the other possibilities, or discount them as not worth it (the wrong attitude in my opinion). This mainly applies to article redirects. Redirects in other namespaces are less important, but it can still apply. Imagine you wrote a blog post and linked to several pages. Here is another example: there may be some archives of AN and ANI that are only linked from the archive templates and nowhere else. If at some future point, someone renamed all the AN and ANI archives (not as silly as it sounds - people are still sporadically renaming the old VfD discussions to put them under the AfD headings), then that could result in redirects that no-one has used inside Wikipedia, but that people could quite possibly have used outside Wikipedia. The same applies to deletion discussions. This does vary according to what the page is, but in my mind there is sufficient doubt that it is best to keep all such redirects unless they are misleading, or if they have only recently been created. If, say, such renaming takes place the same day the initial page was created, then the redirect can be safely deleted. If the page being renamed has existed for weeks, months or years, then it is safest to keep the redirect. If this was being discussed at WP:RfD, the regulars there would tell you the same thing. The problem is that many people (including MZMcBride) bypass WP:RFD. And even the regulars at WP:RFD disagree sometimes. I hope this helps explains things a bit more. Carcharoth (talk) 09:35, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This is a bit above my head but I'm happy to be advised by you. In this case - if I remember correctly - I was leaving a letter space in some archive titles but not in others so I then tried to standardize them, hence creating redirects. --Kleinzach 13:23, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is the restorebot paused?

It's been well over 16 hours since I last checked the process of the deledted-redirect-restorebot and it seems to have stalled. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 19:19, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 19:26, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for running it. It looks like there were a few errors though, and some important articles are still deleted, mostly those with "funny" characters like Template talk:Es-♥, as well as some archives and non-talk-space articles. Re-check MzMcBride's deletion activities for unwanted redlinks for May 31-June 1. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 17:17, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, One of your bots deleted the page I created on ArmorGames. It said that this was because the page had been created and deleted before. I had quite a bit of information on that page. Could you provide me with a copy? Is it possible to undelete it? Thanks KingRyanV —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kingryanv (talk • contribs) 08:28, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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RFRBot's edit summary

Not a bug, but may confuse some users - see User_talk:RFRBot#Rollback bug. xenocidic (talk) 15:50, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 19:05, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
cheers, thanks for the quick response. xenocidic (talk) 19:30, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • RFRBot r broken? (hasn't archived in the last 2 hours) 12:56, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
    Fixed. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 13:31, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Seeing ST47 is taking a wikibreak, he may take some time to reply. ST47, feel free to email me the code if you want me to run it. — E ↗TCB 12:00, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oops, didn't notice the userpage message there. I'll manually archive until it's sorted. ST47, sorry to hear you're having trouble. –xenocidic (talk) 12:01, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All of ST's bots should be considered non-operational at the moment, I'd email him if you are interested in hosting/using the code. MBisanz talk 14:14, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/STBotI/1.2

Bot/WP/EN/ST47/STBotI/1.2 needs to be logged in! 91.198.174.201 (talk) 13:32, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WQJJ-LP Inaccuracies caused by your "Huggle" bot

Hi. I am the general manager of WQJJ-LP and certain inaccuracies have been brought to my attention by one of our listeners. Several of the discrepancies I have been able to correct but, your "Huggle" bot refuses to allow me to include the (true) information that states:

WQJJ-LP is the only FM radio station licensed to Jasper that actually maintains a local studio and operates as a "Live and Local" radio station."

What's with this? (Sorry, I'm NOT a wikipedian but, as the station manager, I think that I should know the facts about my business.)

Thanks in advance. 74.239.244.158 (talk) 00:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Now, I see that (while I was writing you this message) you've managed to label my factual edit as "vandalism". how is it that facts are "vandalism"? If we cannot get the facts correctly labeled, I'd prefer not to have a business that I *own* listed on wikipedia. Must I have a lawyer do this?


74.239.244.158 (talk) 00:54, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize, I obviously can't read. I think I thought you were saying it is the only radio station that was actually 'listened to', not 'licensed'. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 00:59, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No. I would not do that. My point is that *all* (the only) other FM station licensed to Jasper is operated from a studio located in Birmingham which is more than 40 miles away. This may not be a big issue to most but, when there's a tornado tearing through the town, the listeners want to know where to look for local information and not some remotely operated jukebox that isn't really even located in our town.

Thanks for understanding. 74.239.244.158 (talk) 01:06, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]


More WQJJ-LP Inaccuracies caused by your "Huggle" bot

I am almost at wit's end in dealing with your bot. Can you PLEASE help me make this article reflect the correct information? It's referring people to an old (outdated) website and the information is reflecting what the radio staion WAS several month back. I can assure you that it is no longer accurate as I'm sitting inside the station now and it is anything but "silent" as the listing claims. (Such inaccurate claims can also cause us problems with the FCC should someone see it and choose to become a troublemaker.)

I've made all of the appropriate edits but, your bot continues to label my efforts as "vandalism" and to issue all of the accompanying warnings and threats. I can assure you that I am the station owner and, if you wish to verify these claims, you may contact me at (205) 384-6498 which is listed with AT&T as "WQJJ" which *is* the radio station about which this article so inaccurately describes.

Thanks in advance (again), --74.239.244.158 (talk) 01:21, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed again, no idea why it reverted that, I don' recall telling it to... --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 01:23, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No problem! I work with computers all the time and mine (quite frequently) sem to know more how they want thinks to work better than I!!!

Thanks, --74.239.244.158 (talk) 01:48, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey. I have noticed you've 'come back' in a way, did you want me to continue running BAGBot? — E ↗TCB 06:25, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I still do not have the technical means to run it. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 11:00, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dude....

Slow down and stop stealing all my reverts. K? Thanks. :P KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 01:50, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lol! :D - I'm about to head off anyway, good to know someone else is watching.. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 01:51, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
KOS is always watching! ;) KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 01:52, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Since I see in your contribs that you aren't using Huggle, I am obliged to suggest that you look into it. It is full of awesome and speed. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 01:53, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh I do use it, but I still enjoy the challenge of the old fashioned way! (Check a little further into my contrib history and you'll see!) But I too must head off for a while, so other vandal whackers will have to move to the front lines. Cheers. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 01:57, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict with you signing, because huggle is very fast ;) )*waves* --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 01:58, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More reverting legitimate edits with Huggle

From the revisions page of PA Consulting Group, I note the following revision by you. This removed two perfectly legitimate edits unconnected with the edit by Kubanczyk.

Please stop doing this sort of thing. Turn the bot off if you cannot get it to work properly.

  1. (cur) (last) 11:45, 29 June 2008 ST47 (Talk | contribs) m (13,253 bytes) (Reverted edits by Summilux to last version by Kubanczyk (using Huggle)) (undo)
  2. (cur) (last) 11:45, 29 June 2008 Summilux (Talk | contribs) (13,650 bytes) (→PA ventures: Updated for demerger of Ventures June 2008) (undo)
  3. (cur) (last) 11:32, 29 June 2008 Summilux (Talk | contribs) (13,215 bytes) (→Principal offices: - Russian office closed) (undo)
  4. (cur) (last) 20:29, 29 May 2008 Kubanczyk (Talk | contribs) (13,253 bytes) (Undid revision 212706780 by 222.153.41.240 (talk)) (undo)
Those are not refs, they are spam links that better belong in the external links section. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 19:02, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adminstats

I happened to glance at the adminstats page, and I noticed you hadn't updated recently. Is that related to the issues you're having with the bots?--Kubigula (talk) 22:25, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I believe ST47 used a bot-like function to extract those stats from the toolserver database. As he is no longer operating on the toolserver, I do not think this list will be updated, please see http://toolserver.org/~sql/sqlbot.php as a partial replacement. MBisanz talk 22:34, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That's a useful link. Thanks.--Kubigula (talk) 04:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Adminbots. Could you help with the list on the talk page? Carcharoth (talk) 23:05, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Noone else I can think of offhand that isn't there, you seem to have gotten all of the really active ones and the ones I've personally communicated with. I will think about it and see if anyone else comes to mind. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 00:19, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Python

Not sure how experienced you are with that, but I hope you can help. I logged into python, then used the script "interwiki.py -start:Z" Then it just kept going saying "Retrieving special:Allpages from Z namespace 0" for hours. The bot didn't make any edits. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. What? Thanks, « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 22:47, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Never saw anything like that before - make sure you have the most recent svn version, then try filing a bug report m:pywikipedia. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 12:24, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
After you log in, what file do you run (for interwiki)? « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 00:18, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
python interwiki.py -autonomous -start:! --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 12:01, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi ST47. The stats count has been down for a while now...Just thought I would let you know. Kukini háblame aquí 14:12, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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My bot request

Thank you for approving it. In the case of the one recreated article, I'm assuming I should revert my adding of {{oldprodfull}} on its talk page?--Rockfang (talk) 02:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No. It was contested and then eventually deleted at AfD, so the template can probably stay. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 02:46, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

re protection of User talk:Docmartincohen

I have been contacted off-Wiki (obviously) by the above editor. He comments that after he was blocked his unblock request was denied by User:Phil Sandifer, and that he and Phil Sandifer were already in content dispute. He contacted me as I was involved in a discussion with Phil Sandifer at WP:ANI where we discussed Docmartincohen, where the result was that he was blocked - for socking in that instance, although the original discussion was regarding COI.

Docmartincohen has asked me if the protection could be lifted so that he may request review of the original block, and have it reviewed by somebody he was not previously involved with. Under the circumstances I have said I would ask you to review the matter (and that I would inform Phil Sandifer of my action). Since I am certainly aware that Phil Sandifer was requesting advice regarding editing by Docmartincohen and I am certain he would prefer that all processes appear to be as neutrally reviewed as they most assuredly were, I would ask you to consider lifting the protection of the page to allow Docmartincohen another block review request. If you wish, I could do the necessary unprotect. I shall watch this page for your reply. LessHeard vanU (talk) 20:07, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If we really want to go through this I suppose we can. But we've got a user blocked for abusive sockpuppets returning with new abusive sockpuppets days after the last set was blocked, and, when those got blocked, creating another one. I'm not really sure I see the value of this sort of proceduralism. It's handing a microphone to an obvious troll so that said troll can, what? Pointlessly grandstand further?
But whatever causes less drama. Phil Sandifer (talk) 20:37, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. Note a lot of his edits are just ads/publicity for Martin Cohen's books; others are just silly. He seems to be opening new accounts on an almost daily basis and wasting everybody's time. --Philogo 21:24, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
see this at User talk:Phil Sandifer from --99.232.75.237 (talk) 17:11, 31 July 2008 (UTC) (Jeremy Stangroom):-[reply]

If you want to get a sense of just how extensively he and his sock puppets have interfered with the philosophy entries, then check out:


Gettier problem (90.17.7.136: 14:18, 31 May 2008)

Unsolved problems in philosophy (Dremeraldgibb: 22:21, 22 May 2008)

David Hume (Dremeraldgibb: 18:16, 30 May 2008)

John Locke (Dremeraldgibb: 21:28, 31 May 2008)

Thought experiment (Dremeraldgibb: 12:04, 24 May 2008)

Maoism (90.62.219.253: 19:34, 18 June 2008)

101 (number) (Docmartincohen: 20:15, 18 July 2008)


Most of the additions are absurd - one or two are perhaps not quite so absurd.

--Philogo 21:30, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong, because I don't really know how Wiki works, but hasn't the block already been reviewed by ST47? So:

Decline reason: "No actual request for unblock, only disruptive accusations with no evidence. Obvious sockpuppeteer, still creaking socks (see below comment by Phil). Also, note that Phil did not block you, David Gerard did. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 14:16, 30 July 2008 (UTC)"

Also, I should perhaps point out that all of those edits I mention above involve him referencing the work and books of Martin Cohen (i.e., the person he claims to be). --99.232.75.237 (talk) 00:02, 1 August 2008 (UTC) (Jeremy Stangroom)[reply]

He's actively sockpuppeting after a block, appearantly, and he's already had 2 unblock requests, one reviewed by me, another by phil, and there's a third admin who blocked him (phil did not block him, as he alleged). --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 00:39, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough; the point made was that the first reviewer was Phil Sandifer - with whom Docmartincohen was already involved - and that subsequent reviews referred to that, but if the initial unblock request was also subsequently reviewed and found insufficient I think the editor has had a fair crack at it. Cheers. LessHeard vanU (talk) 12:39, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speed minor edits bot

Hello, ST. As per CSD#I8: Images that available at Wikimedia Commons meet speedy deletion policy. We have a heavy used image called Image:Wikisigbutton.png which was used by the signature bot; I want to run my OKBot to replace it with Commons' version, Image:Button sig2.png. Do you think this is OK?--OsamaK 11:36, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bot and edit conflict

Please see this edit. It looks as though the bot got an "edit conflict" message and simply ignored it. OK, it probably don't happen very often but is there a policy on this situation? And is your bot conforming? — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 09:13, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing else the bot is able to do. It doesn't have an edit screen open like you do for the entire time it's modifying a page, it only opens the screen when it's time to save. Therefore there's no way of knowing if someone else edited the page without at least doubling the server load of most bots. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 12:15, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bot message in error

One of your bots left the message below on my talk page?

I don't recall having uploaded the image concerned... Sfan00 IMG (talk) 20:11, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

STBotI

Why did the bot make this edit? — E ↗TCB 21:17, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I finally found a new server - tried to contact you on IRC, guess you didn't see...I started most of the bots back up, but since I gave you BAGBot's account, I can't use that account yet. Ping me on IRC if you see me online. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 01:02, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, ST47. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SoxBot VII 3.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Hot carl

I recently recreated this page, it has been deleted about a dozen times but i didn't try to create an article but rather redirect it to Coprofilia the relevant article on sexual practices involving feces, could you reconsider? I know it was a bot deletion so i see no hard in recreating and hangingon the next speedy if it comes since i wasn't around the last time.MY♥INchile 23:01, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just so you know: My bot neither proposes pages for deletion nor executes the deletion, both of those are done by humans, my bot only advises users that a page has been proposed for deletion. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 23:05, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Plasticbot

Thanks for recently approving Plasticbot. I have one quick and easy question before setting her loose. As it runs using AWB, can I apply the AWB General Fixes along with the approved task? Plasticup T/C 00:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As long as you only make the edit if there's a real change to be made - don't edit an article if the only change is to make general fixes. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 00:49, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The Userpage Fixer Award
Well done for fixing my userpage! Majorly talk 01:51, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

restricted commands

My mask is scream@wikipedia/NonvocalScream NonvocalScream (talk) 19:34, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Done --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 19:51, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know what caused your bot to...

Don't know what caused your bot to send me this message, but if you like, I'll report it as a bug. I don't recall ever having any involvement with the article, so it may be an issue. Doesn't matter to me, but tell me and I'll make it a bug report. Cheers. Thanks for all your hard work. User:Pedant (talk) 01:27, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You actually edited it a while ago to make it into a redirect:
  1. (diff) 19:01, August 18, 2008 . . Latics (Talk | contribs | block) (10 bytes) (Requesting speedy deletion (CSD A7). using TW)
  2. (diff) 18:00, August 18, 2008 . . Snoop God (Talk | contribs | block) (empty) (As totally disrespectful. The page does not need to be Redirected.)
  3. (diff) 05:25, April 22, 2006 . . Pedant (Talk | contribs | block) (redirect to TheFalling Man)
Unfortunately, the bot does not realize that you aren't really the person who wrote the article, so you're the one who gets the message. Sorry - if you'd rather not receive any future messages, I can tell the bot not to send them to you. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 01:40, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CSDWarnBot talk message bug

I found a bug in the warning messages that your bot leaves when the talk page of the editor you are leaving the message to is empty. It adds a "1" to the very top of the talk page. See example. The "1" is not there if the editor already has a talk page like here. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 01:47, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly fixed. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 11:53, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It just did a similar thing to me with this edit. It deleted my message and replaced it with a 1 and its own warning. justinfr (talk) 18:30, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Still broken. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 20:16, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed for real this time... --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 23:42, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Nope, still broken. But instead of 1, it's putting in 2. [11] -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 08:30, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BAGBot and Template:BotTrialComplete

Per this discussion, I've created Template:BotTrialComplete and added it to the BAG Tools list. Do you think it would make sense to have BAGBot recognize it and automatically change the request status from "In trial" to "Trial complete"? Thanks in advance. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 07:45, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure,  Done --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 17:09, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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[12] [13]!! :-o Húsönd 02:24, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't really mean to fullprotect it >.> It's nighttime. I didn't even realize that there was an RFPP, he asked on IRC. I set it to a semiprotect for 12 hours and I've watchlisted it. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 02:39, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Heh, all good. :-) Regards, Húsönd 02:56, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ariel'sCorner

Yo, just letting you know that Ariel is back on WP and has even logged onto IRC. Come on back to her room! GlassCobra 20:55, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Pyeongchang2014.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:Pyeongchang2014.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 05:07, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How can I get the Dotmasters page back up

Hi

There was a page about the artist Dotmasters that was deleted earlier this week. I am passionate about street art and noticed there are a lot of established street artists not mentioned in Wikipedia like Nick Walker, Blek le Rat, Jef Aerosol etc. So I started my first article with Dotmasters. It's my first article and it took me ages to write it and format it and was quite pleased with the end result for a first article. I don't know anything about publishing anything on Wikipedia except for looking articles up, so I am amazed that I even found this page to ask you the question.

How can I get the page back up? I think it said said something about blatant advertising. So how do you make an article informative and not advertising?

I would like to progress and then write articles about other artists as well. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96051FWP (talk • contribs) 09:10, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CSDWarnBot replaces User talk

I couldn't figure out the site you asked us to use to file bot problems, so I apologize. But you should look at this edit of CSDWarnBot (talk · contribs) which replaced the entire talk page. ALTON .ıl 00:40, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a case where user talk was replaced with "26946" and nothing else. According to the edit summary it should be regarding an image (like in Alton's link). PrimeHunter (talk) 02:25, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Page blanking

Hi, I noticed this was blanked - was it a bot malfunction or something? I've restored Page to the last version. JGHowes talk - 23:39, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Page replacement

Your bot removed the rest of the talk page when placing warning - I didn't feel like registering for some wikimedia site jazz. here --TheSeer (TalkˑContribs) 04:24, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bot should check if notice already exists

This was my first encounter with your bot, over at User talk:Dessie123. Don't you think the bot should check first if there is already a notice? It's kind of spammy to double-shot the CSD notice and can confuse users as to what's going on. Rob Banzai (talk) 14:43, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It usually doesn't. I blame urlencoding, and will look into it tomorrow. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 01:04, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Or I'll look into it now. Fixed that bug, my bot wasn't properly decoding certain characters. Now we use the API, and may or may not need to continue looking into it. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 01:58, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Marx greatest Hits album cover

Hey, I loaded the page but somehow I overlooked the licensing line. I tried to go back and put that in but I can't seem to figure out how so I'll just tell you. Here is the page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marx_gh_cover.jpg

The licensing to the cover belongs to either the photographer, the artist, or the record label, in this case, CEMA Special Markets, which is a division of Capitol Records in Canada. This Greatest Hits album (which was an audio recording) was released through Avon back in 1993. The serial number (at least that I think it is) to the CD is S21-17435. Again, I tried to input this information but am not sure how. I'm still fairly new to the wiki. Let me know if there's anything else I can provide you with.Itsmyright (talk) 17:04, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You can enter information for that image by visiting http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Marx_gh_cover.jpg&action=edit and pressing save, just like any other page, but please note that even with that imformation, the image is lacking a copyright tag and use rationale. You also need to add "{{Non-free album cover}}" so that the image is properly categorized (this is necessary according to foundation policy requiring machine-readable categorization of all non-free images) and the rationale, which you can learn about at WP:NFURG. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 17:51, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I did some copy edit work and I think I did what I was supposed to. I went on ahead and deleted that warning thing. To be honest, I'm not sure if that's allowed or not, I'm sure I'll find out. But I think it's done and corrected. Let me know if it is. Thanks.Itsmyright (talk) 18:30, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/1.3.3

Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/1.3.3 needs to be logged in! 24.0.66.109 (talk) 09:00, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BAG bot down?

Seems like BAGBot bot not updating Wikipedia:BAG/Status since 3-4 days. -- Tinu Cherian - 05:12, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How to get the "Beauty Bridge" page posted again?

We wrote the article called "Beauty Bridge" which is a trademark owned company serving and served closed to million customers. People search for this company and want to know more about that. When we were writing this article we inspired from Sephora which has been selling similar products and services and one of Beauty Bridge's competitor. What should we do in order to Beauty Bridge article get relisted? Gerkavun (talk) 16:14, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Can this Bot be made/reqested to also remove pages from a parent catagory (e.g. Category:Ancient Roman saints) as the articles from a list are put in subcatagories (e.g. Category:2nd century Christian saints). --Carlaude (talk) 03:14, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 01:35, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Admin bots

Hello, I have recently had an encounter with an unapproved admin bot, and despite an extremely clear dictate by policy that these bots should be blocked, have been discouraged from doing so. Depending how this situation resolves, I will likely file an arbitration request to hopefully resolve this issue once and for all. You commented on Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Adminbots, stating that you ran an admin bot. To help get an idea of how widespread admin bots are, as well as get a uniform decision, I would like to ask: Do you still operate this bot, and does it operate when you are not present? Please reply on my talk page, thanks, Prodego talk 00:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You don't seriously expect me to come out and admit all my wrongs under threat of arbitration, do you? --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 19:46, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

82.110.0.0/16 -> /28 block change

Were you following this on unblock-en-l, or did Spellcast contact you out of band? Nobody seems to have followed up with the ISP yet, though the block change was what they were ultimately looking for...

Thanks! Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 01:38, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Someone sent me an email about it via Special:Emailuser, it looked like he was just meaning to block the /28 but messed up. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 18:18, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Resolved
 – no Invalid --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 10:32, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, my bot couldn't log in to Vietnamese Wikipedia. Here are the commands: ... 

my($pw)=Perlwikipedia->new();
$pw->{mech}->agent('Bot/WP/VI/Nguyễn Thanh Quang/Qbot');
$pw->set_wiki('vi.wikimedia.org','w');
my($login_status)=$pw->login('botname','pwd');

... Please tell me how to fix this. Thank you. Nguyễn Thanh Quang (talk) 18:51, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What does the bot do, and what do you think it should do? --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 21:26, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Its does the same thing as user:Polbot does: generating articles about organisms from iucnredlist.org. Nguyễn Thanh Quang (talk) 00:40, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You misunderstand. What is it doing that is wrong. Explain the problem and how to reproduce it. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 01:09, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh it sets the host to Vietnamse Wikipedia then does a login, but always fails. However, the login to English Wikipedia always succeeds. Nguyễn Thanh Quang (talk) 02:05, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I mispelled wikimedia instead of wikipedia. Thanks. Nguyễn Thanh Quang (talk) 02:40, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
BTW, my bot could not post articles to Vietnamese WP with a correct charset (ref. this article). Do you have any solution for this? Nguyễn Thanh Quang (talk) 11:53, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In what way does it fail? What error message is displayed? Is the password correct? --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 18:47, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Is does not fail, the password is correct, it succeeds posting articles, but with incorrect Vietnamese text, see [14]. Thank you. Nguyễn Thanh Quang (talk) 03:35, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
So why did you say "my bot couldn't log in to Vietnamese Wikipedia?" no Invalid --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 10:32, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
So can you help me fix the Vietnamese text problem above??? Nguyễn Thanh Quang (talk) 10:46, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/CSDWarnBot/1.3.4

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Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/AfDBot/1.3.4

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Lightbot

There are a lot of questions regarding the approval of Lightbot here: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Lightbot 3, here Wikipedia:Ani#User:Lightmouse and here: Wikipedia:Ani#Mass_De-linking_of_years_by_Lightbot. Given that you approved it, I thought that your input would be helpful. -Chunky Rice (talk) 23:39, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the updated link for Mass_De-linking_of_years_by_Lightbot. Tennis expert (talk) 08:10, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/1.3.4

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Deleted Myst image

Hey there. I noticed you deleted Image:Direbo Age.jpg a while back. Would you be able to restore this image, as it is covered under {{Attribution-Ubisoft}}, so that it can be move to Commons? Please let me know if you have any questions/comments! — OranL (talk) 16:47, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 00:52, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! — OranL (talk) 20:41, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jeff Burgee entry

Jeff Burgee is an extremely respected guitarist and singer songwriter. I've heard him interviewed on the radio here in Los Angeles and was very empassioned by his environmental efforts with alternative fuels. His Carbon Zero Tour is a landmark in alternative fuel travel! I couldn't believe there wasn't a wiki page yet on him, so I made one myself. Please undelete or do not delete my article because I truly feel Jeff Burgee is worthy of inclusion.


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No content in Category:Ghanaian Muslims

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Category:Ghanaian Muslims, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Category:Ghanaian Muslims has been empty for at least four days, and its only content has been links to parent categories. (CSD C1).

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Category:Ghanaian Muslims, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk) 07:20, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If I created it, it had legitimate entries at one time, and it is certainly a category that should exist, so it looks like your bot has collaborated with a vandal. Good work, and thank you. Alex Middleton (talk) 21:49, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Gee, don't you hate the stupid bots that go after you for no good reason? Yeah, I hate them too. If you had read the message that you just pasted, you'd realize that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here. Unfortunately, you article people don't even seem to read what people say. That would explain an awful lot of the behavior that I thought was just plain idiocy, but is really ignorance. Thank you for enlightening me. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 22:11, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/CSDWarnBot/1.3.5

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Saint Categories

Thank you for populating the 6th - 15th century Saint Categories from my lists at User:Carlaude/Sandbox2

Can you for populate the 1th - 5th century Saint Categories from my lists now that those categories exsist-- and remove pages from the Parent as the occur?

This will help me do the remaining sorting that I can. Thank you.--Carlaude (talk) 16:27, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Az Khaneh Ta goor (Album - From Craddle to the Grave)

ST47 ,

I recently posted a comment on your talk page about an article you deteled. "Az Khaneh Ta goor" (Album) I never heard back from you, I just check on your page and noticed you had removed my comments as "vandalism", which is was not. Did you read it comment originally?? here it is again, Can you review and get back to me, this is very important. You removed an article I had added and spent a good amount of time on called "Az khaneh ta goor(Album)" ‎, this was similar to many many other album details on wikipedia which I used to create this page. I don't understand why you deleted without having starting a discussion about it with me or pointing to issues/lines which you didn't agree with but you took a magic wand and brushed it all and deleted it!!! the article was neutral in state and reviewed the facts about the album. I would like to request two things:

1) please proivde links and reasoning for deletion of the article. I don't understand how you analyzsed this review, please provide detetails of your reasoning to me. 2)Please give the code to the article, I don't have a copy of it and would like to correct and resubmit once I discuss with you, thanks

Look forward to hearing from you

(Poeterfan (talk)) —Preceding undated comment was added at 19:52, 11 October 2008 (UTC).[reply]

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