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In [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FAR_Manager&diff=422252687&oldid=421453730 this edit], Yobot replaced the Russian quotation marks « and » with regular ones (""). Why? I haven't found anything in the manual of style regarding this. --[[User:CyberShadow|Vladimir]] ([[User talk:CyberShadow|talk]]) 11:07, 4 April 2011 (UTC) |
In [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FAR_Manager&diff=422252687&oldid=421453730 this edit], Yobot replaced the Russian quotation marks « and » with regular ones (""). Why? I haven't found anything in the manual of style regarding this. --[[User:CyberShadow|Vladimir]] ([[User talk:CyberShadow|talk]]) 11:07, 4 April 2011 (UTC) |
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Yobot made a mistake [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golding_Bird&diff=422613513&oldid=422399865 here] adding closing brackets to a long image description. Note that the original closing bracket is still left in what has now become article text. [[User:Spinningspark|<font style="background:#FFF090;color:#00C000">'''Sp<font style="background:#FFF0A0;color:#80C000">in<font style="color:#C08000">ni</font></font><font style="color:#C00000">ng</font></font><font style="color:#2820F0">Spark'''</font>]] 06:13, 6 April 2011 (UTC) |
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What is this?
I don't think it's fair play to use a name to edit and then say that replies here will 'stop' Yobot. I've reverted your edit on the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final. I'll also leave a calling card @ the other Talk page. And I'll bring all this 'don't edit this page' stuff to the attention of the Editors. Tapered (talk) 07:01, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
- Check what Yobot really did. It only added a date to the tag. It's not Yobot who asked about the citation ("cn" stands for "citation needed") but another editor. Thanks for adding a reference though. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:03, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Otheruses
Template:otheruses has about 10,000 transclusions, it really shouldn't be randomly orphaned [1] [2]. It looks like the bot was going through a list of these. Would you please go through and have the bot fix them back the way they were? — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:50, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
- I forgot to load the module to skip when no dablink is moved. I stopped as soon as I realised. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:15, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
- You got logged out for the last edit - you may want to delete that revision and this one, or I can do it. I've never had an occasion to use revision deletion before. — Carl (CBM · talk) 21:20, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note. I'll do it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:34, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
- You got logged out for the last edit - you may want to delete that revision and this one, or I can do it. I've never had an occasion to use revision deletion before. — Carl (CBM · talk) 21:20, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Turning This into About
The bot is wildly turning This into About, even in quotes and citations. See [3].--Prosfilaes (talk) 18:53, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
- If you see I undid it myself a minute later. It was a single edit. Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:04, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Orphan article?
I want to stop Yobot because I don't understand why article Duo Caron is an orphan. About Wikipedia definition:
- "Orphan: An article with fewer than three incoming links which meet the criteria for linking below"
I removed orphan tag on the Duo Caron article because it includes more than three related links. Would you explain me clearly what is the problem with this ? Thanks Likeabluesun (talk) 20:51, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
- Yes.This page has NO incoming links! So it doesn't matter how many links it includes but how many pages link to it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:57, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
- Likeabluesun, you find links to this article by clicking on Special:WhatLinksHere/Duo_Caron. As you can see, there aren't any links to any regular articles there. The article has blue links going out to other articles—so it's not a dead end—but there are no links in other articles that send readers in to this article. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:48, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
C++0x "auto_ptr"
Greetings:
Yobot has removed the underscore from "std::auto_ptr" in C++0x's "Features to be removed or deprecated" section twice now. The underscore needs to remain in the link text.
Is it possible to make Yobot ignore it by turning it into [[std::auto_ptr|std::auto_ptr]]
style link?
Thanks!
Mskfisher (talk) 14:37, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
I did all the cleanup is supposed to be done. Hopefully the page won't reapear in my to-do list. If you notice further problems please contact me again. Thanks, Magioladitis 15:13, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Yobot incorrectly fixing spelling mistakes
The bot should not fix errors, that demonstrate punctuation errors to readers.[4] Is there a way to prevent the bot from autofixing some text in the article? --hydrox (talk) 18:38, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
- I bet this is the only article with this problem. Maybe we should add {{Nobots}} with deny=AWB in this one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:45, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
- I added a comment between ° and the space.. maybe this helps. --hydrox (talk) 18:48, 21 January 2011 (UTC) That sounds actually a better idea, so I'll go with {{bots}}. Thanks for the help! --hydrox (talk) 18:53, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
- That's very good. The comment helps to understand what is the actual problem. Thanks for contacting! -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:47, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
- I added a comment between ° and the space.. maybe this helps. --hydrox (talk) 18:48, 21 January 2011 (UTC) That sounds actually a better idea, so I'll go with {{bots}}. Thanks for the help! --hydrox (talk) 18:53, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
A week later User:Rich Farmbrough let me know of the existence of the template {{not a typo}}, which is the most effective way to prevent any bot (not just AWB) from autofixing selected passages, and leaves the rest of the article subject to standard autofixes (which are almost always helpful.) So if you are having similiar problems, consider using it.--hydrox (talk) 14:16, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Wrong bio tagging
Example [5]. Materialscientist (talk) 09:48, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. Already reported in my talk page. Now we have to find out how Yobot ended there. I ran in XX-th deaths category in depth 2. This used to be safe. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:40, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- Found it. Instead of replacing my sandbox I just added content to it. I checked all the links for errors. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:58, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Yobot's edit are damaging previously-done edits on this page, so this is a heads-up to let you know Yobot will be stopped next time. Thanks! Best, --Discographer (talk) 19:54, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for contacting me in my talk page. Fixed now after our cooperation. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:30, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Huang Rong
Yobot is adding the biography template to the fictional character Huang Rong, the article is clearly categorised as being fictional, something that Yobot is not picking up.--KTo288 (talk) 13:37, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- Fixed. Removed xxxx births category and tag. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:29, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Redirects
[6] - no significant change. WPBiography has 700,000 transclusions, so going through and replacing them all seems like an exceptional job. — Carl (CBM · talk) 22:11, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
- It should be fixing
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. After a reboot I forgot to reload the plugin. Thanks! And I was wondering why there were so many edits this time. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:16, 6 February 2011 (UTC) - Since this happened to me more than once, I 'll check if I can get AWB to warn if settings file expect plugin to be loaded. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:32, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
{{wi}} --> {{wiktionary redirect}}
Why, in the name of God, are you changing every instance of a perfectly functional template based on a minor renaming decision. You've just flooded my watchlist with at least a hundred pointless minor edits and made it significantly more difficult to find the vandalism that's too-often hidden behind them. Rossami (talk) 20:54, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
- I just updated AWB not to tag these pages. Check this one. I wanted to be sure that no other bots will come to mess the page by adding tags. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:00, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
suggestion for Accredited Crane Operator Certification
Thanks for your suggestions on Accredited Crane Operator Certification. The suggestions were followed and now I'm hoping that the pages is up to standards and no longer in need of dead-end and orphan tags. Thanks. Yanbianfan Yanbianfan (talk) 16:12, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Capitalization error
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wahoo (SS-238)}}
was changed to
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wahoo (Ss-238)}}
It's even the title of the page -- so it should make sure DEFAULTSORT matches the article title.
Glrx (talk) 01:57, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Ooops - DEFAULTSORT is wrong - left off the USS Glrx (talk) 02:00, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
- I think the standard for USS is to leave "USS" out. Moreover, "Ss-238" is due to the defaultsort rules to capitalise ONLY the first letter of each "word". -- 08:36, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Sinai & Palestine campaign page
Changing the references to date order may be a bit confusing for copyeditors as some think that they are in order of mention. Please do not use auto edits as they mask the reference and make it very difficult for editors to check the references. I have fixed the two you did. :) --Rskp (talk) 23:08, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
AWB breaks links to images
Look at 1st millennium for example. I'm reverting it third time now. 194.143.148.26 (talk) 14:58, 18 February 2011 (UTC) rev 7608 fixes the bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:59, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Talk banner
This edit [7] [8] shouldn't have happened - what's up?
Also this almost certainly does not have bot approval.
You're not setting a good example here; Yobot has done this before, and you indicated it was an error. You need to change the default settings so that these edits are only saved if someone goes out of their way to save them. — Carl (CBM · talk) 14:15, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
- I "fixed" the first one by removing some of the crap code. I think we had this fixed in AWB. I 'll check what's happening with the rest. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:18, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
- The problem here is that the currnet bot run is indistinguishable from an intentional run to replace banner redirect and remove "nested" parameters. But Yobot would not have approval to do that. This sort of thing has happened before, and you indicated you forgot to click some button to prevent them from being saved. You need to change the defaults so that this can't happen again.
- This sort of erroneous editing not only violates the bot policy and the AWB rules, it also sends a bad example to editors like Kumioko, who don't realize that the bot is actually breaking the rules, and decide they need to imitate it. — Carl (CBM · talk) 14:21, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
- Just for clarification CBM I am not some novice editor being mentored by Magioladitis on the basics of editing. You are the one who are making up rules for things you do not agree with. In he first edit you gave for his bot he also added a section header to an unsectioned comment (not a minor edit) with the third it removed the deprecated nested parameter which I still contend is allowed and you still, after all the discussions, have failed to prove otherwise. --Kumioko (talk) 15:16, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
- Note: It was a bug in this addition. Header was added inside a table. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:22, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
- Note to both: My estimations say we have 3000-3,500 pages with nested left. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:25, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
- Just for clarification CBM I am not some novice editor being mentored by Magioladitis on the basics of editing. You are the one who are making up rules for things you do not agree with. In he first edit you gave for his bot he also added a section header to an unsectioned comment (not a minor edit) with the third it removed the deprecated nested parameter which I still contend is allowed and you still, after all the discussions, have failed to prove otherwise. --Kumioko (talk) 15:16, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
- This sort of erroneous editing not only violates the bot policy and the AWB rules, it also sends a bad example to editors like Kumioko, who don't realize that the bot is actually breaking the rules, and decide they need to imitate it. — Carl (CBM · talk) 14:21, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
- I didn't run this on purpose. Let me find what's wrong. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:24, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
- I believe you; I'm just pointing out that if another editor was to look through the contribs, they would have no way to tell. Particularly if they were impressionable, they might start doing the same things. There must be some way to change the code so that you have to explicitly enable this sort of edit, rather than having to explicitly disable it. — Carl (CBM · talk) 14:27, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
It's still broken [9]; that may be a manual edit, could you change the edit summary if it is? — Carl (CBM · talk) 14:25, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
- OK. At some point my session broke because of this one which I fixed. Then I tried to fix some missing 1's. Then I started a raw run to get an idea of how many pages still contain "nested". To be continued... -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:32, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
- Anyway. I guess no test runs for now. Still of course the number of pages with nested is very small. I reintroduced the removal in my main tagging settings file to do it additionally to main task. I had removed it thinking there weren't anymore of them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:43, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Warning_a_plugin_wasn.27t_loaded.3F. I hope this will help. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:12, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Errors introduced in Heating Oil article
Yobot, there are errors in the United States and Canada section of this article.
The sentence "Heating oil is widely used in parts of the United States and Canada where natural gas is not available propane is priced higher." lost the word "or" before propane last December.
The sentence "Where other fuels are not available, it is sometimes referred to as the unit cost per unit (BTU=British thermal unit or BTUH / h per hour), and can be less than other fuels." does not seem to make sense to me, but appears to have been this way since the section was introduced. Any clarification would be appreciated.
Thanks for your working on Wikipedia 96.252.78.148 (talk) 23:26, 20 February 2011 (UTC)DAB 20 Feb 2011
More redirects
Yobot is doing it again [10] [11] — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:16, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- I readded nested removal from an old settings file. Maybe this causes the problem. Magioladitis (talk) 12:23, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- This edit [12] just moved a category vertically. This edit [13] did even less. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:21, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- ...which is correct. Categories, then stubs, then interwikis. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:23, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- Except that it's a trivial edit; there's no reason to edit an article just to put the category in another location within the source code, if no actual change is being made. The second edit, though, did nothing except whitespace. So did this one [14].
- Yes. I am doing checkwiki fixes for pages reported to have errors 53|51|64|52|17|37|88|6|26|38|66|57|44|80|86|2|54|45|91. In total there re only 170 pages. It's not worth to load special skip checks for each one. I'll clean the list afterwards. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:27, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- It turns I didn't clean the list from yesterday. This causes the whitespace thing and explains why I run on the same pages. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:29, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- (e/c) But bot approval doesn't work that way. You can't just run random tasks on the bot account, because then nobody can tell whether the bot is doing what it's supposed to do. Imagine you're me and you look at the bot's contribs - I should be able to rely on the bot doing what it's actually approved to do. I know I've previously asked for edit summaries to say what the bot is actually trying to fix. Running unapproved tasks with the same edit summaries is always going to lead to confusion.
- The whitespace thing is an AWB bug; those edits should never ever be saved in bot mode, and the fact that AWB lets them be saved is an error. But the option not to save if only trivial edits are made should always be turned on for Yobot's edits. It's a bot, after all, not a manual editor. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
The bot is still doing it, after my last edit [15] [16]. Really? — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:36, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- Don't you see I rerun in the same list? Continuous messages crashed awb and I had to restart. I already reported that in these cases seems that template redirects don't load correctly. Check my edit summaries and my reasoning in my BRFa for the task. You 'll see what I do is correct. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:39, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- Those last two edits are not correct, certainly. I'm sure you don't have a BRFA to just replace redirects. If running the same list twice breaks the bot, then don't do it, or program the bot not to edit the same page again. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- Here's another one [17] — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:42, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- OK. a list of 167 just finished and I took me 3 times more than the time it usually takes me. The last edits were just follow-ups to previous edit happened like a minute ago. Normally they happen alltogether but I had to change settings files on the fly and restart after my awb programm crashed. -- Magioladitis (talk)
- But the circumstances of the edits don't change whether the edits were correct. The bot is not supposed to be making just redirect replacements or whitespace changes, ever. If changing the settings makes the bot make bad edits, that's a bug in the bot's source code. Really there should be an overall safety switch that aborts these edits before they are made, and that switch should be always on for the bot. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:51, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- OK. a list of 167 just finished and I took me 3 times more than the time it usually takes me. The last edits were just follow-ups to previous edit happened like a minute ago. Normally they happen alltogether but I had to change settings files on the fly and restart after my awb programm crashed. -- Magioladitis (talk)
- Every time a session finished I go back on checkwiki list and check which pages weren't fixed to improve awb's logic or fix manually. I don't understand why you want me to spend more time than that. It's already several hours per day. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:49, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Let me start over. Remember all I can see is the bot's diffs and edit summaries. I looked at the contribs this morning, and the bot was making trivial edits again. The edit summaries were the same generic summaries as always. I have no way to tell why the bot does what it does, all I can do is look at the diffs and see whether they look right. If they don't, I post here to pause the bot. Bots aer meant to be boring and predicatable; it shouldn't take extra explanation to figure out what's going on with an edit. If I see any actual changes in the diff, I skip over it; I only pointed out the trivial edits here. If the cause of the trivial edits is a bug in the bot, the bug should be fixed. That's why I posted. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:58, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- I already (a couple of days ago) left a message to Rjw on the redirects bugs. We fixed the problem in the case of project change but we are still not sure why this happens when settings files switch. On the crash: I 've no clue. Reedy can't duplicate it. I guess because he doesn't get so many reports while running a session. Thanks for the reports. I experimented with many ways to satisfy the need for more detailed edit summaries. I even tried to groups errors and run in smaller groups but it's not worth the effort for small lists. For example: error 45 (interwiki duplication) had only 2 items and yesterday 0. Error 61 (punctuation position) gives 100 per day. I have a specialised edit summary for it and a custom module to skip if not fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:01, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- As long as I can see any nontrivial change in the edit, I just ignore the vanilla edit summary. The only time the summaries are an issue is when I look at an edit and I can't see anything except whitespace, redirects, etc. being changed. If there is anything nontrivial I assume that is what the bot was trying to do. One thing that might be useful in edit summaries is if you do a one-off very small job, to indicate that (e.g. "going back over 176 pages"). There's no way to tell from the summaries now how big the job is, which makes it seem more important to pause the bot, in case it's going to make another 10,000 similar edits. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:12, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- I just want to add that for those who actually work on fixing articles a few minor edits are bound to happen for a variety of reasons and I don't think that a minimal number of these per run is unnaceptable and I would consider them a cost of doing business. Its better to have a few minor edits being made out of hundreds or thousands of edits than to have to do all those edits manually to ensure that zero minor edits are bing done. --Kumioko (talk) 15:30, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- Yobot is a bot; there's no reason it should ever be saving trivial edits, since the code can just not save them. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:48, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- I'm sorry if I don't share the zero minor edit mentality and I do not know how the bot itself is programmed or exactly what it does but as long as the rate of minor edits is relatively low. Say less that 2 or 3% I can live with it. I think that some can be skipped but I think others are more difficult to distinguish as a minor edit. --Kumioko (talk) 15:56, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- If it was not already clear from the ANI that you're not particularly familiar with our general practices on bot and AWB use, you're confirming it now. A 3% error rate in a bot is patently unacceptable. Yobot would have a much lower error rate than that, except for the incidents where it runs long sequences of general fixes. Those incidents are what Magioladitis is working on. But the goal for every bot is to have as low an error rate as possible, and minor edits are not actually so difficult to detect. Each change to the source of an article is made by some line of code in AWB; if certain of those set a "this edit is nontrivial" flag then it's easy to check at the end whether any nontrivial edit was done. — Carl (CBM · talk) 16:06, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- I do understand them and I would appreciate you being a little less insulting. Just because we aren't all programmers and are more interested in improving articles than bickering about minor edits and bot policy doesn't mean we don't understand. Your comment actually shows me that you may understand the bot rules but you don't have a full understanding of how hard it is to program things to fix problems in the articles. When I say a 3% I mean of minor edits not of problems like breaking things or making mistakes. There are problems and there are problems and I am referring to the latter. Its easy to expect a 100% error rate from a bot when you are not the one actually working with article editing bots but for those of use that work closely with article maintenance it isn't as easy and cut and dry as that. There are frequently unexpected formatting differences or problems in the structure that are sometimes difficult to deal with and occassionaly errors are going to happen. I commend Magioladitis on his spending the time to go through them but I also know that most operators probably don't do that. I also think you are oversimplifying the solution by suggesting that a flag can simply be set. Is it possible, yes but using my own code as an example it would add thousands of characters (the only way I know how to program it would probably about 20 or 30 characters per line) cause the code to be much longer, much harder to maintain and much slower to run. Since we aren't talking about using toolserver resources here I think that a minimal minor edit rate is acceptable to the time and effort that would be required to do as you suggest. --Kumioko (talk) 16:31, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- If it was not already clear from the ANI that you're not particularly familiar with our general practices on bot and AWB use, you're confirming it now. A 3% error rate in a bot is patently unacceptable. Yobot would have a much lower error rate than that, except for the incidents where it runs long sequences of general fixes. Those incidents are what Magioladitis is working on. But the goal for every bot is to have as low an error rate as possible, and minor edits are not actually so difficult to detect. Each change to the source of an article is made by some line of code in AWB; if certain of those set a "this edit is nontrivial" flag then it's easy to check at the end whether any nontrivial edit was done. — Carl (CBM · talk) 16:06, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- I'm sorry if I don't share the zero minor edit mentality and I do not know how the bot itself is programmed or exactly what it does but as long as the rate of minor edits is relatively low. Say less that 2 or 3% I can live with it. I think that some can be skipped but I think others are more difficult to distinguish as a minor edit. --Kumioko (talk) 15:56, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- Yobot is a bot; there's no reason it should ever be saving trivial edits, since the code can just not save them. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:48, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- I just want to add that for those who actually work on fixing articles a few minor edits are bound to happen for a variety of reasons and I don't think that a minimal number of these per run is unnaceptable and I would consider them a cost of doing business. Its better to have a few minor edits being made out of hundreds or thousands of edits than to have to do all those edits manually to ensure that zero minor edits are bing done. --Kumioko (talk) 15:30, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
More "nested" removals
You need to fix this bug permanently [18]. It seem like whenever I point it out, you always say it's a bug, but then it happens again, which makes it look like it's intentional. — Carl (CBM · talk) 14:10, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, I'll do. Stay tuned. I don|t encourage these edits though. I ve beem clear with that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:29, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Don't make trivial edits on talk pages please.
I mean, this is a completely pointless edit. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:34, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
- This shouldn't happen at all. I'll look into it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:02, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Stop foolish bot
You are bypassing redirects, which is not something which should be done unless it is alongside a more substantial change. But more than that, you are changing people's comments (e.g. [19]). Please revert all these errors. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:54, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
I don't know how to get a bot approval revoked, but the next time I see this bot edit a talk page I'm going to find out. Jc3s5h (talk) 23:21, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
I reverted the one indicated. I don't think they are more. Bot run with svn 7619. In rev 7623, rev 7624, rev 7625, rev 7626, rev 7627, rev 7628 and rev 7629 we did some effort to fix the plugin further. I 'll update my settings file to prevent stupid edits. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:01, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello
Hello Yobot, I've added some additional information and references for the article Arta Musaraj and I removed Template:Multiple issues. I think this article now have the requirements of an article.--Tufche 20:01, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
- That's nice! -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:52, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
What does ORPHAN page mean?
Hi Yobot,
I am new to wiki and am helping my friend with Michael Zansky page. I see that you put an Orphan tag up. What does that mean?
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.193.59.100 (talk) 23:39, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- Check WP:ORPHAN. It means you have to find pages to link to your page. You need more incoming links. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:39, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Edit error
Hi, in this edit you have changed the spacing around dashes in the titles of references. I would have expected that the spacing in reference titles should not be changed to conform to wiki rules but should be left as it. Keith D (talk) 23:35, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Removing just one blank line...
This caught my eye, I didn't think AWB's rules allowed for such edits? Nor did the usual bot rules? Ealdgyth - Talk 18:45, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
- Hi. Thanks for the heads up. The edit you mentioned (removed only whitespace) happened because someone fixed the problem in the meantime between the list was created and the bot ran. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:53, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Taal Volcano
I just reverted the edit made by YOBOT. I don't use template for citations, but I always follow WP:CITE/ES for formatting. YOBOT moved the brackets on my citations to highlight everything including retrieved date which did not follow WP:CITE/ES format. - Briarfallen (talk) 06:15, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- Please disregard this, It was my fault. I forgot the ending brackets and Yobot corrected them by adding them, only at the end of the citations. I apologize. - Briarfallen (talk) 06:31, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- No problem. Happy editing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:52, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Arkansas Militia in the Civil War
Would you run Yobot against this article, Arkansas Militia in the Civil War. I added about 70 new references over night and Yobot does a great job of cleaning them up. thanks.Aleutian06 (talk) 12:15, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you Sir! Aleutian06 (talk) 21:06, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- You are welcome. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:33, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you Sir! Aleutian06 (talk) 21:06, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Islamic Holy Books
You seem to have cut out my piece on "Yahya"? Is it because you disagree with the contents? Surely it cannot be regarded as just a minor edit,though?
If, however, there is a punctuation problem, then perhaps you could please help me fix it? ... I thought I was following the same format as used elsewhere. It might be best to write to my e-mail address - DLMcN@yahoo.com Regards, DLMcN (talk) 05:11, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Probably OK now ... maybe the misunderstanding was due to a computer problem here. Sorry to have bothered you !
DLMcN (talk) 07:24, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Adding just one blank line...
Hi, please explain why this edit satisfies AWB Rules of Use, particularly item 4 "Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits such as only adding or removing some white space...". --Redrose64 (talk) 11:47, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
- It's not. Probably some leftovers in my list. I checked and there are a few of these edit in the period 10:54-11:01 of that day. After 11:01 things fixed (Notice the change if edit summary). I am working in avoiding these problems in the future. Thanks for report. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:56, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Jello,
I would like to ask you why you put the article on orphans.
I tried and found as many links in this article. I know that many are in Greek but I do not think this is a problem.
The newspapers here in Greece rarely keep the articles have gone on the Internet. for it kept the newspapers had an article on this person and I just put the link of the newspaper to show that there is this newspaper.
Please show me that there is a problem.
The article about orphans say that two connections may be enough to set a point.
bests regards,
Manolis ma (talk) 15:40, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
- Orphan means that there are no incoming link to the page. Check what links to your page. You 'll no pages in mainspace. You have to find some articles that could link to her and create a blue-link on them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:53, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Broken Mathematics: '{' and '}'
See here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mfwitten (talk • contribs) 00:06, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
It happened again. :-/ Practice elsewhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mfwitten (talk • contribs) 13:03, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
- I just saw the above. Could you please make sure that you do not introduce errors into set theory articles? Presumably these edits are done with a bot flag, so that many editors will not see them on their watchlists. I don't know why constructions such as "{{a}, {b}}" are not interpreted as templates but it's clearly the case, and for that kind of article having to use nowiki tags because of a confused bot would be extremely annoying. Thank you. Hans Adler 13:12, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
- I remember I have pointed out this bug in AWB before. AWB needs to have a more intelligent parsing algorithm to avoid thinking these are template invocations; at least it shouldn't blindly add closing braces for templates that don't exist. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:25, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
- Why don't you add the nobots template to the math pages so that AWB and the other bots don't confuse the math calculations with templates. This is not a unique problem with AWB but with other bots as well and I believe it has more to do with the subject matter and its similarities with math formulas and calculations than with the programming of AWB. --Kumioko (talk) 13:52, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
- I remember I have pointed out this bug in AWB before. AWB needs to have a more intelligent parsing algorithm to avoid thinking these are template invocations; at least it shouldn't blindly add closing braces for templates that don't exist. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:25, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Russian quotation marks in Russian references
In this edit, Yobot replaced the Russian quotation marks « and » with regular ones (""). Why? I haven't found anything in the manual of style regarding this. --Vladimir (talk) 11:07, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Inserting closing bracket in long image legend
Yobot made a mistake here adding closing brackets to a long image description. Note that the original closing bracket is still left in what has now become article text. SpinningSpark 06:13, 6 April 2011 (UTC)