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STBotI bug[edit]![]() ![]() Can you please fix your bot to stop treating images tagged with the {{Non-free Wikimedia logo}} template as fair-use images? (They belong to the Wikimedia Foundation.) I previously brought the issue to your attention in reference to a message left on my talk page when I updated a sister project icon used on the main page, but the bot just did this (over the course of seven consecutive messages) when I updated all of the sister project icons. Please also remove my name from User:STBotI/Notified users (as all eight warnings stemmed from this bug). Thank you. —David Levy 23:34, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
CSDWarnBot Warning for pages tagged by users[edit]![]() ![]() This annoys me, I'm sure you've put effort into this, but I tag a page, copy the warning, go to the users page, click edit, paste the warning, and save, what do I find? The bot has already warned the user: sure maybe not a bad thing to have a bot doing this job for us. But: I think this is a bad thing because, should the user want to ask someone for help about the tagging of "their" page (as they often do), where do they go? To the bots talkpage? here? But you've already told them NOT to come here, new users generally aren't experinced enough to know to check the page history to see who tagged it, and the bot just makes it hard to find a way to the talkpage of an actual user to help the creator, once the page is deleted, they can't. Cheers SpitfireTally-ho! 21:46, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
uh, I (and I suspect?) nor Arx Fortis can code that. As this is your bot, please do consider coding that yourself. Please take a look at Wikipedia:BON#Problem_bot_.28CSDWarnBot.29 and leave further comments there, thankyou SpitfireTally-ho! 05:20, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
If you've quite finished throwing insults around, you may realise that as you are a bot owner, if a complaint comes up on the Bot owner's noticeboard about one of your bots, you have an obligation to respond, five users have agreed that it would be a good idea to put a delay (or make some other modifications) on the bot from the time that a page is tagged, rather then just doing 15 minutes scans. Please try and stay civil as you explain to me why you can't get on and fix your bot, instead of telling everyone else that its their problem and they should fix it, this is your bot, thus your problem, and thus you need to fix it. Thank you for your time SpitfireTally-ho! 14:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia Signpost — 2 March 2009[edit]This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 9, which includes these articles:
Delivered by §hepBot (Disable) at 20:06, 2 March 2009 (UTC) Nathowal, Ludhiana district, Punjab, India[edit]To explain my G7 here, the author created an identical article at Nathowal (which I'm still trying to edit so that it doesn't look so terrible, but anyway), without actually moving it. Since I didn't consider that title to be a particularly plausible redirect or search term, I tagged it as G7. Then the user blanked the page and left a comment that he had "moved" it, but of course he didn't (new account). I can tag it with something else I guess, I just didn't think R3 was appropriate. §FreeRangeFrog 03:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Flying Brands[edit]You have just deleted a page I was working on, giving the reason "blatent advertising". I did not create the page, and was fully aware that someone had merely copied and pasted promotional text from the companies website, and, I was in the process of editing that page to fit within the guidelines. Had you looked you would have seen that the page was being worked on just a few hours before you deleted it. You should have left a message for me in the page discussion, rather than delete it. Please communicate with me, before deleting any pages I am working on. Please, undelete the page.Danrok (talk) 13:49, 5 March 2009 (UTC) Hey. I'm a little confused - it doesn't seem that either Tangotango's or SQL's RfA reports are back up - is there something I am missing as to what has superseded it? — neuro(talk) 14:02, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
User:ST47/RFA[edit]I took the liberty of restoring it because (despite your claim that there is "Not much point keeping this around") 100s of people still use it. Kingturtle (talk) 14:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC) Regarding: User:ST47/AfD[edit]Your subpage has more than 5000 revisions, so no normal admin will be able to delete it. Cheers. Lectonar (talk) 15:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC) AfD nomination of Mark Blaxill[edit]SUPERSWEET deletion[edit]Hello. I was editing the SUPERSWEET entry after months of trying to figure out why it got deleted in the first place. Yesterday I began compiling references for it and doing research on the magazine. Unfortunately, you deleted it before i could complete the edits. Is there somewhere to store the page while I'm working on it? The original page was deleted and I was trying to make it better. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.133.7.142 (talk) 22:01, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
update for ARSbot[edit]Could you update User:ARSBot? I was away when we were in process of deciding on a new category name, and it was them implemented. Could ARS pull from Category:Articles tagged for deletion and rescue to do it's work? -- Banjeboi 17:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
On another note[edit]I'm looking at a new bot function that would post a "So you tagged an article for rescue" - type tag to those who added {{rescue}}. Is this a logical/do-able function of this bot or should I look to asking for one? -- Banjeboi 01:26, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia Signpost — 9 March 2009[edit]This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 10, which includes these articles:
Delivered by §hepBot (Disable) at 00:56, 10 March 2009 (UTC) You just approved my trial but I need a change[edit]Unfortunately, it appears I should have requested fully automatic mode for the trial for my bot. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/MandelBot. Thanks for approving it in manual mode. I have made changes to the request to reflect this change and as such it is not the request you approved, so I consider it unapproved and waiting someone's consideration. Is there some template I should put back on the page to indicate this? Thanks -J JMesserly (talk) 19:15, 12 March 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost — 16 March 2009
Delivered by §hepBot (Disable) at 00:00, 17 March 2009 (UTC) ![]() ![]() Your bot seems not to recognize the above as a valid FUR. See also Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#User:STBotI.2C a bot against fair use. best, –xeno (talk) 15:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
User:ARSBot[edit]![]() ![]() As you know, User:ARSBot adds articles tagged for rescue {{rescue}} to the talk page of WP:ARS, the problem is that these entries are never removed. For example, there are 86 articles listed now, but only 33 articles which actually have the template currently. Is there anyway the bot can also remove sections for a talk page when {{rescue}} is removed from the pages? Ikip (talk) 14:46, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Revisit to ARSBot[edit]Actually I have been manually removing items so "these entries are never removed" is mistaken. If the bot is to be utilized in this way then we have a subpage at Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron/Current articles subpage where removed from currently listed articles can be moved. They should not be deleted or auto-archived as this list is the only record we have of most of our work. -- Banjeboi 02:50, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
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For your amazing Ocean County College images. Thanks! MBisanz talk 23:13, 8 April 2009 (UTC) |
- Thanks to you too! ST47 (talk) 23:19, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Minnesota Historical Society images
[edit]Mnhs (talk · contribs), a representative of the Minnesota Historical Society, has been uploading images that the Society has copyrighted. They have been tagging these images with {{Non-free Minnesota Historical Society image}} and citing a fair-use rationale in each article for which they are uploading the images. Meanwhile, STBotI has been tagging these images and saying that they're potential copyright violations.
I left a question at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#Minnesota Historical Society images about this. I'm also asking you because I'm wondering if the code for STBotI specifically looks for a fair use template and a cited article, and if it just doesn't recognize {{Non-free Minnesota Historical Society image}}. Based on the way I'm reading their disclaimer and their responses at User talk:Mnhs, it seems like they're applying the tag correctly and that they are indeed uploading their images correctly. Let me know if this is a fix to the bot or a more complicated issue that needs to be discussed elsewhere. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 22:44, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
- Looks like I wasn't expecting the copyright tag itself to take up more than one line. I've updated the tagging rule. ST47 (talk) 22:55, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
- And released image tester version 0.2.6 with the updated code and a new test to make sure this bug doesn't come back. ST47 (talk) 23:04, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
- Cool. Thanks for fixing this. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 23:30, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
: 13 April 2009
[edit]- License update: Licensing vote begins
- News and notes: WMF petitions Obama, longer AFDs, UK meeting, and more
- Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Color
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 16:57, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
User:BAGBot and minor edits on UT pages
[edit]Please have User:BAGBot not mark its edits as minor when leaving messages on user talk pages. When the bot flag is combined with the minor flag, it suppresses the nice orange bar. –xeno (talk) 18:02, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
- Bump. –xeno talk 12:59, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
- Surely this can't be a tough fix? –xeno talk 19:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for fixing that. best, –xeno talk 19:22, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
- Surely this can't be a tough fix? –xeno talk 19:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Bot request
[edit]Hello Saint 47 (as I like to think of you). So... remember Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot 11? You still interested? – Quadell (talk) 23:25, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
- Hello! Um - are you looking for me to do something about that BRFA, or actually write a bot to perform that task? ST47 (talk) 02:27, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
- I appear to be confused. Um... maybe I meant a different botreq. I'll look into it. Until then, ignore me. – Quadell (talk) 12:02, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
- Ah, you were the trial approver, not the approvee. Mystery solved! Final verdict: nevermind. – Quadell (talk) 16:23, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
FT Wikicup scoring
[edit]YOu gave me 10 points for my Featured Topic, but it should be 50 because the instructions clearly say "10 points per article in topic" and my topic has 5 articles. — Rlevse • Talk • 10:18, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
- Because the instructions clearly state that you should list each individual article in the topic, as well as the topic itself, to gain credit. The bot is, sadly, not sentient. ST47 (talk) 02:45, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I lol'd. Sorry for the confusion Rlevse. GARDEN 09:15, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
- Ah so, ok I'll go fix it. Dumb me never saw the instructions -;) — Rlevse • Talk • 10:09, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
- That's OK, I never realized that we actually had instructions either. Some clever person must have read my mind and figured out what the bot expected, and actually written it down. ST47 (talk) 12:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
- Ah so, ok I'll go fix it. Dumb me never saw the instructions -;) — Rlevse • Talk • 10:09, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I lol'd. Sorry for the confusion Rlevse. GARDEN 09:15, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
About
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[edit]Hi there.
Your bot sent me and
did not have a license.
I forgot to add one, and was forced to add a license template to both of them to prevent those missing colors
being deleted.
Toothy7465 (talk) 00:34, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of User talk:128.252.121.153
[edit]
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}}
on the top of the page and leave a note on [[Talk:User talk:128.252.121.153|the article's talk page]] explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.
For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. 128.252.121.153 (talk) 20:52, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Wikipages in need
[edit]Wikipedia is strictly buisness (mostly) so I am sending you this message for Wikipages in need.
Plain White T's, Edward Wong, David Turnbull, Columbia Revolt, Year of the Lash and Jheri Curls Have improved, but still needs a lot of help. --RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210 16:23, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
PHASE 2 Thomas Latimer Matt Bai are better articles now.
-Stubs-
Hans Raastad-- an article I created
Pea enation mosaic virus The Grays (band) Gingivectomy Michael Curtis Tom Karsch This stub is getting better, but needs more work. Professor Mike Donovan --RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210 16:21, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Spread the word!--RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210 14:14, 8 November 2008 (UTC)--RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210 00:00, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, I dodn't mean for it to be spam, I have just sent this message to lots of people before, adding and subtracting and revising it and I don't really care about all the dates there, but apparently you do. You are the first user (other than me) to suggest it was spam. once I apologised to a user in advance if it was spam, and he said don't worry bout it Sorry! --RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210 23:03, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/2.2.1
[edit]Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/2.2.1 needs to be logged in! 24.0.68.110 (talk) 00:58, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
User:STBotI error
[edit]It looks like STBotI has a minor error when it reports fair use disputes. See its edit to User talk:StutterTalk. It's adding an extra "}" to the heading. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 05:22, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
- Whoops! Looks like I was a little overzealous with the } key! I'll go check it out on my laptop and see where the issue is. ST47 (talk) 15:51, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
- Issue was in a template, fixed here. ST47 (talk) 15:51, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
User:ST47/notagr again
[edit]Following up to this conversation, it seems a number of the older taggings using User:ST47/notagr (like File:Sausman cross 09.jpg, File:Max keiser on a london bus.jpg) were put into red-linked categories like Category:Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status as of 12 January 2009. I think there was a switch in the category naming sometime and the bot may have missed that. You can see from the category tracker that a number of old images are in some weird limbo. Would you mind just going through and tagging them again, resetting the clock so to speak? That or a F4 CSD tag. I think that should take care of them. Thanks. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 01:45, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
- Re-tagging of images is in work. ST47 (talk) 02:30, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks. MiszaBot should be busy removing a lot of lines from the tracker next time around. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:16, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
: 27 April 2009
[edit]- Book reviews: Reviews of Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia
- News and notes: Usability study, Wiki Loves Art, and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia Art dispute, and brief headlines
- WikiProject report: Interview on WikiProject Final Fantasy
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot II (talk) at 04:52, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Interested in creating another bot?
[edit]I know you were involved in making the User:ARSBot would you be interested in:
I will watch your talk page and have watched the bot request talk page. Thanks. Ikip (talk) 00:23, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
- If you are not interested, do you know any tech savy editors who would be able to reinvent the wheel and create a bot which contacts the creator of an Afd? I say "reinvent the wheel" because one editor already created this bot and had it approved already:
- Ikip (talk) 08:00, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
BAGBot looks to be offline. It hasn't updated WP:BAG/Status in over two days. Thanks, The Earwig (Talk | Contributions) 17:03, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
- Never mind, it's working now. The Earwig (Talk | Contributions) 22:12, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
AIV Report
[edit]IP:78.47.79.140 has been reported to AIV for making changes to your user space. Just wanted to give you a heads up in case it is you editing logged out. Hiberniantears (talk) 15:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Ok, how do I remove the tags you mention? I'll gladly do so if I know how.
Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/ARSBot/2.2.1
[edit]Bot/WP/EN/ST47/ARSBot/2.2.1 needs to be logged in! 68.82.224.172 (talk) 15:07, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Typo
[edit]Hi ST47. I just saw a post from STBotI and noticed a typo. If you look at the post at the bottom of User talk:Kriskodai, you will see a reference to an "image escription page", which I think is probably a typo ;-) [[Sam Korn]] (smoddy) 22:37, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
IRC
[edit]I've been trying to ask you some NPBB-related questions on IRC - are you busy? DS (talk) 19:11, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
: 11 May 2009
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimania 2010, usability project, link rot, and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Quote hoax replicated in traditional media, and more
- Dispatches: WikiProject Birds reaches an FA milestone
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Michael Jackson
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 22:26, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
ARSbot tweaks
[edit]Hi ST47! More tweaks for ARSBot.
1. First off, we have it so when the {{rescue}} tag is removed from an item it is moved from the current article page to the subpage. Sadly there continues to be some edit warring resulting in multiple removing and relisting the XfD discussion. As a solution can we make it so this listing is moved to the subpage when the XfD discussion is closed/archived instead - I think this will lessen the disruption overall.
2. Secondly, tagged items are presented in the order they have the rescue tag added to them. Instead I think it would be more helpful to list them chronologically by the date they are sent to XfD. In theory this would move items that have less time before the close of discussion towards the top of the list. Obviously this won't be foolproof as not every discussion is exactly seven days but in general I think this will help pre-organize some of the work. We would then add a subsection for each date and sort each listing under the XfD created date. It may make sense to add a line of text for each listing - Nominated for deletion discussion May 5, 2009. or similar.
Are these do-able? As always thanks in advance and let me know what help I can offer to assist. -- Banjeboi 23:12, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
- Any update? Also ARSBot has been removing one multiple AfD prematurely. This wasn't an issue before - what's up. -- Banjeboi 18:28, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Galactus Edit War Mediation
[edit]Hi. I'm trying to mediate an edit war over the Galactus article here. Can you chime in with your two cents? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 23:59, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Umm thats a test account of mine. Please notify the next time you take action on it. Cheers,¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 00:05, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
: 18 May 2009
[edit]- From the editor: Writers needed
- Special report: WikiChemists and Chemical Abstracts announce collaboration
- Special report: Embassies sponsor article-writing contests in three languages
- News and notes: Wiki Loves Arts winners, Wikimania Conference Japan, and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Arbitrator blogs, French government edits, brief headlines
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Opera
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 13:36, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Robot status for your robot at svwiki_p
[edit]Hello! The bot status for your bot sv:User:STBot at the swedish Wikipedia has been revoked due to inactivity. This is for security reasons. If/when you activate your bot again, please drop a note to anyone of our bureaucrats or at Wikipedia:Robotansökan and the robot status will be restored. --MagnusA (talk) 18:40, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
: 25 May 2009
[edit]- License update: Licensing vote results announced, resolution passed
- News and notes: New board member, flagged revisions, Eurovision interviews
- Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia: threat or menace?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject LGBT studies
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 04:13, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
ARSBot improvement request
[edit][1] could have a more descriptive edit summary. If not too time consuming, could you add a clarification like "Adding or removing one or more recently listed articles - Added 0 Removed 2?" I hate to beg work that I could probably do myself, and feel free to say "no, too hard," but it would be really useful. Thanks for any efforts! If you don't have the time, is the source available, and I could just send you a patch? Hipocrite (talk) 17:06, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Error with ST47/2.2.0
[edit]ST47/2.2.0 needs to be logged in! 92.10.66.227 (talk) 12:05, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
WikiCup
[edit]If you could come into the WikiCup channel tonight or tomorrow, I'd like to update you with WikiCup information for round 3. iMatthew : Chat 23:11, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
- On a related note, if you're about before 23:59 UTC, can you please update the final scores manually (if you can?) Thanks. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 22:13, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
- I'll need to talk to you on IRC again, if you are around. iMatthew : Chat 22:21, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
- Err, cutting it close here. Round is supposed to end in 15 minutes. :( iMatthew : Chat 23:46, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
- I'll need to talk to you on IRC again, if you are around. iMatthew : Chat 22:21, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
: 1 June 2009
[edit]- From the editor: Browsing the archives
- Book review: Review of The Future of the Internet
- Scientology: End of Scientology arbitration brings blocks, media coverage
- News and notes: Picture of the Year, Wikipedia's first logo, Board elections, and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Tamil Wikipedia, Internet Watch Foundation, and more
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 23:03, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
WikiCup bot malfunction
[edit]For some reason your bot has given everyone a bunch of featured credits and other funnies, and may have removed Mitchazenia from Pool A. Please could you try to remedy this, thanks! weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 20:48, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
- Mitchazenia has returned but with the featured credits bug again. Sorry to bug you. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 08:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
- I mentioned that on IRC, but apparently no one listened. Will go fix it. ST47 (talk) 02:14, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
- Apparently iMatthew fixed that a few hours ago. Yay :) ST47 (talk) 02:15, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
ARSbot help?
[edit]Do you think you may have some time for some tweaks? -- Banjeboi 06:01, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/2.2.2
[edit]Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/2.2.2 needs to be logged in! 69.242.11.169 (talk) 02:22, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/AfDBot/2.2.2
[edit]Bot/WP/EN/ST47/AfDBot/2.2.2 needs to be logged in! 69.242.11.169 (talk) 02:24, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/CSDWarnBot/2.2.2
[edit]Bot/WP/EN/ST47/CSDWarnBot/2.2.2 needs to be logged in! 69.242.11.169 (talk) 15:54, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
The deleted Angola Horror page
[edit]Hello. I wanted to submit a message because I needed help with something. According to the deletion log on the page "The Angola Horror", it mentions you deleted it due to a copyvio. I'm interested in doing a new article on the wreck (if this is what the previous article was), and I wished to know, if it isn't too much trouble: what got the article canned and what source(s) were involved in the copyvio? Thanks! Hurricane Angel Saki (talk) 21:50, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
: 15 June 2009
[edit]- Book review :Review of Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes
- News and notes: License update, Google Translate, GLAM conference, Paid editing
- Wikipedia in the news: In the Google News, London Review of Books, and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemistry
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 12:19, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
: 22 June 2009
[edit]- Special report:Study of vandalism survival times
- News and notes: Wikizine, video editing, milestones
- Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia impacts town's reputation, assorted blogging
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:29, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/ARSBot/2.2.2
[edit]Bot/WP/EN/ST47/ARSBot/2.2.2 needs to be logged in! 69.242.11.169 (talk) 22:30, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
: 29 June 2009
[edit]- News and notes: Jackson's death, new data center, more
- Wikipedia in the news: Google News Support, Wired editor plagiarizes Wikipedia, Rohde's kidnapping, Michael Jackson
- Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 02:36, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
: 6 July 2009
[edit]- News and notes: Commons grant, license change, new chapters, usability and more
- Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia and kidnapping, new comedy series
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Food and Drink
- Features and admins: Approved this week
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:38, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Error with Bot/WP/EN/Daniel/MediationBot1/1.2
[edit]Bot/WP/EN/Daniel/MediationBot1/1.2 needs to be logged in! 91.198.174.201 (talk) 09:27, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Durova's handicap
[edit]Hey ST47. Would you mind removing Durova's handicap in the WikiCup? iMatthew talk at 17:27, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
- Sure. It will be done as of the next update. ST47 (talk) 15:21, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Account creation system
[edit]ST47, thank you for your interest in helping users creating accounts. Your request has been approved. I advise you to read WP:ACCG before you use the system.
At this time, you are allowed to create up to six accounts per day. You won't be able to create an account with a similar name to that of another user. However, if you have reached the limit frequently, you can request the account creator permission at WP:RPE.
Again, thanks for your interest in the account creation system. Join us on IRC at wikipedia-en-accounts and subscribe to the mailing list by going here. Willking1979 (talk) 15:49, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
DEFAULTSORT
[edit]Please take a look at WP:NAMESORT, particularly the sub-section WP:MCSTJR, particularly "accented letters and ligatures should be replaced by their unaccented or separated counterparts".
Also, disambiguation terms (such as "SPD") are normally omitted from sort keys. In particular, in biographies, putting a disambiguation term after the family name causes a disruptive mis-sorting. Studerby (talk) 18:53, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
- oh, and most of the articles you are creating are for living people, any chance you could add Category:Living people as you add the article, when appropriate? Studerby (talk) 19:01, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
- Oops, I wasn't aware of the issues with disambiguation terms - there was one word I was told to ignore, because it was merely a rank, however I wasn't aware of anything else, however I only added, not changed defaultsort keys, so nothing that was working is now broken. I couldn't find a simple way to remove the diacritics. ST47 (talk) 20:37, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
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WikiCup ends in two hours
[edit]Hey ST47, can you do the last and final round 3 update at 23:59 (UTC) tonight. The round is over today. Next time your around on IRC (within the next two days) I'll let you know what's going on during round 4. iMatthew talk at 22:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
- Please turn the bot off. It's still running, and the round is over. iMatthew talk at 10:44, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Youngmoneyfan1 account
[edit]I noticed that you happened to create the account user:Youngmoneyfan1, the second suspected sockpuppet of user:Bigweezyfan1, a user who consistently uploaded bogus album covers for the upcoming Lil Wayne album Rebirth. How and why did you do that? --Andrewlp1991 (talk) 21:50, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, would you oblige me by removing me from this tally page as I have withdrawn from the election? Thanks. Stifle (talk) 17:05, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
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Pwn Article
[edit]Why is the Pwn article still locked after two years? I had intended to add the following
There also an alternative form "own", derived from the original lineage of the word<ref name=omgpwned> [http://www.omgpwned.net/history.php]</ref>. The internet mockumentary series [[Pure Pwnage]] ([http://www.purepwnage.com/ site]), is notable for using this pronunciation.
as I felt it was worthy of mention considering the increasing usage of the word. It is finding its way increasingly into the spoken word.
I'll add on a general note that it's very frustrating to find such forgotten locks still in place years after their implementation. This may seem a trivial article, but I have found it on many important ones as well. It would be nice for locks to have a sunset clause of some description. ObsessiveMathsFreak (talk) 11:06, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
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Your bot is still running, and the elections are over.
[edit]Would you mind turning the bot off for the CU/OS elections? They've ended. iMatthew talk at 02:37, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
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WikiCup scoring
[edit]I have a question about the scoring system in the Wikipedia:WikiCup. Is it a bot that does it? Can the bot be used to score another contest? I'm thinking of setting one up for Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation to promote participation and camaraderie. Would I have to set it up exactly like the WikiCup or can I request a few differences? Thanks for any help you can give. - Trevor MacInnis contribs 03:56, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
- It's bot-run. All that is really necessary is that you decide how to score it, and I then write up a bot configuration for that. I am however going to be quite busy and not necessarily in the possession of internet access for the next few days owing to a college move-in, but I will look at this when I get a chance. ST47 (talk) 05:58, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
- Does your college move-in have something to do with your bot not running for the WikiCup? :/ iMatthew talk at 22:03, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you for your help. The scoring is very similar to the WikiCup. DYK, ITN, GAN, FAC and other Featured Content (minus Feature Portal) are exactly the same. I've not added mainspace edits because without a bot it would be too difficult to score by hand, but if your bot was to score it, it would be the same as WikiCup, except the only edits to count would be those on pages in the Aviation Projects Scope, i.e. talk page tagged with {{WPAVIATION}}. I've also added points for creating an article (so 5 points for creating an article and putting {{WPAVIATION}} on its talk page). Also .1 points for assessing an article (changing |class= to |class=anything ) and .1 points for completing the B-Class checklist in the {{WPAVIATION}} banner. If the last two are too difficult to code I'd be fine with dropping them. The contest page is at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Aviation/Contest#Scoring if you want to take a look. It's all set up just like WikiCup, with submissions pages and scorecard all set up the same way. Thanks again, for any help you can give. - Trevor MacInnis contribs 22:11, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- Also, could the scoring be done by bot in conjuction with manual scores? I could hand score the assess and b-class checklists part (if it's too hard to code) and the bot could do the rest. Or would the bot override any edits I made to the score page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Contest/History/2009)? - Trevor MacInnis contribs 16:56, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you for your help. The scoring is very similar to the WikiCup. DYK, ITN, GAN, FAC and other Featured Content (minus Feature Portal) are exactly the same. I've not added mainspace edits because without a bot it would be too difficult to score by hand, but if your bot was to score it, it would be the same as WikiCup, except the only edits to count would be those on pages in the Aviation Projects Scope, i.e. talk page tagged with {{WPAVIATION}}. I've also added points for creating an article (so 5 points for creating an article and putting {{WPAVIATION}} on its talk page). Also .1 points for assessing an article (changing |class= to |class=anything ) and .1 points for completing the B-Class checklist in the {{WPAVIATION}} banner. If the last two are too difficult to code I'd be fine with dropping them. The contest page is at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Aviation/Contest#Scoring if you want to take a look. It's all set up just like WikiCup, with submissions pages and scorecard all set up the same way. Thanks again, for any help you can give. - Trevor MacInnis contribs 22:11, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- Does your college move-in have something to do with your bot not running for the WikiCup? :/ iMatthew talk at 22:03, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Bot broken?
[edit]ARSBot seems to not be working? Can it be turned back on? -- Banjeboi 09:37, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
(BAG)Bot down again
[edit]It seems. Posted on bot and operator pages. Rich Farmbrough, 09:09, 27 August 2009 (UTC).
- WikiCup bot is off too. Where'd you go? ... iMatthew talk • take my poll at 21:43, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
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Edits by User:210.5.53.22
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User:CupPup
[edit]I note you indeffed CupPup. I've just done the same for Wingman 09 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), primarily based on the self-confession on his talk page. I don't know who the editor is a sockpuppet of though. If my actions here were incorrect please let me know, I'm still a new admin. Mjroots (talk) 06:31, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
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Replace Article on SPX Corporation
[edit]I would like to create a page on SPX Corporation but see that one had been previously created and deleted. How do I ensure I don't duplicate that article or the problems it had that caused it to be deleted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ceebs59 (talk • contribs) 18:00, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
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