User talk:COIBot

COIBot uses an algorithm to calculate overlap between a username and the link added, and between a username and the pagename a user has added a link to, and reports when the overlap exceeds a certain threshold. Please note that the algorithm is not perfect, and probably never will be perfect. Your appearance on that list does not mean that you have a conflict of interest, all cases will be judged individually by a human editor, and, when necessery, acted upon.

If you feel that your name is wrongly on the COI reports list because of an unfortunate overlap between your username and a certain link or text, please ask for whitelisting by starting a new subject here, or notify my maintainer Dirk Beetstra by starting a new subject here. For a better answer please include some specific 'diffs' of your edits (you can copy the link from the report page).

Also note that this is the talkpage of a bot. Although some people will have this page on their watchlist, answering may take some time. If you want a quicker response, make your case at WT:WPSPAM or WP:COIN.

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Tony Mobily from Free Software Magazine again...

Hi,

OK, you said "give it a few weeks"... so here I am, a few weeks later :-D I was just wondering if Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwremagazine.com) was off COIBot. I know it doesn't really matter. However, I feel a little weird about our site being considered "spammy" in any way...

Bye!

Tony Mobily 11:20, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll remove it from the monitor list. As we are watching the linkwatchers, 'spamming' (and I use this word in the wikipedia definition) will show anyway. I will assume good faith here, and hope that the involved accounts will add contents to the wikipedia. Hope this helps. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 11:42, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot! Tony Mobily 13:34, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Technology Barnstar

		The Technology Barnstar
		This Barnstar is awarded to COIBot for identifying conflicts of interest on Wikipedia! ----Hu12 12:26, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:31, 28 July 2007 (UTC) (on behalf of User:COIBot)[reply]

Huh?

My name was on the "Myspace profile spam" thingy. Any idea why? jj137^Talk 23:25, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, nevermind, I know why now. When I reverted an edit, I didn't pay close attention and it went back to a Myspace page. jj137 23:32, 20 August 2007 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jj137 (talk • contribs).

AVRS ←→ Ant Wars

Hello. Got 27% for editing Ant Wars article (Report #348 on 2007-08-12). There's no COI on it in my username, because the latter is based on my initials. ;-) --AVRS 21:36, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

27% is pretty low, but I whitelisted your username against Ant Wars. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 08:33, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just thought you'd like to know about another false positive, so you might find a partial fix for that somehow. Thanks. --AVRS 08:48, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot not linking categories properly

FYI: [1]. Carcharoth 17:15, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm .. still. I will have a look. It should add a colon before it. Thanks for the notification that it is still wrong. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 08:34, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I hope that I solved that now. Thanks again! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:55, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]