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Notice regarding a user script
Hi. Recently, a request was made for someone to revise the User:Bility/convert24hourtime.js user script. I (DannyS712) took up that challenge, and have fixed the bug with the "thanks" button, fixed the bug regarding blocked users, fixed the bug regarding converting the times when examining a diff, and even added the feature to convert times when looking at logs. I have some more features planned, but I thought that, since you are currently importing Bility's script, you may want to know that a less buggy version is available at User:DannyS712/12Hours. This is intended as a one-time note. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 20:07, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
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I need your help
Please sir, I need your help with User:GreenC/WaybackMedic 2.5. I am trying to fix Dean Ambrose but my potato computer apparently has loading issues and so I need your help. Also, this is random, what are your thoughts on Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia? Which side are you more inclined to? Thanks? ImmortalWizard(chat) 22:07, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
The Sustainability Initiative
Hello GreenC: An invitation for you to check out the Sustainability Initiative, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of the Wikimedia projects. If you're interested, please consider adding your name to the list of supporters, which serves to express and denote the community's support of the initiative. Thanks for your consideration! North America1000 10:28, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
Bot error
Your bot made an error at Talk:Josh White, in this edit - now reverted. I've no idea how or why it happened.... Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:57, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
- Ghmyrtle, hey thanks for the heads up. It did it for 13 pages (fixed). Pretty sure what caused it (fixed) and will keep an eye out. -- GreenC 14:27, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
Bring it back!
Hi GreenC. Please bring back the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cult_films to the way it was, before being categorized by alphabet. that was better and more accessible. thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kayhamed (talk • contribs) 08:31, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
- It's not more accessible. Pages this long cause problems with some browsers or systems, and some people in some countries report they don't work at all. Can't keep making lists longer and longer forever there comes a time they need to be split. -- GreenC 14:49, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
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For your work to ensure that thousands of links to Highbeam remain accessible to editors and readers - thank you! Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 09:54, 20 February 2019 (UTC) |
Broken links to www3.interscience.wiley.com
Is this something you can handle with one of your bots? Nemo 10:59, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
- Nemo, yes will do. -- GreenC 14:34, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks! Nemo 20:01, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
Done -- GreenC 12:58, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
- Much better. I still see some 500 URLs of the kind http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/ (like [1]) which are still broken, any chance for those? (I see they're mostly bare external links, which maybe you left alone intentionally, but also some in cite templates.) Nemo 18:25, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
- Do you have a list of the articles or some example articles? Not finding with URL search. -- GreenC 18:45, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
- Sure. These were the top results of Special:Search/insource:"http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/" for me: special:diff/887209551, special:diff/887209622, special:diff/887209651, special:diff/887209777. Nemo 07:20, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- The bot is a dead link fixer. If it finds a dead link, it adds an
|archiveurl=
if one exists otherwise adds a{{dead link}}
tag. Example. It will never delete the source URL entirely as you did here. Understand this could be done in certain cases because of DOI, but the bot has no way of verifying the content in the|archiveurl=
can be replaced with the content in the DOI. That would be up to manual edits. -- GreenC 13:25, 11 March 2019 (UTC)- Ah, I see now. I thought you were using some normal replace (with replace.py or others) for this case. All the archived URLs are broken too, because they were taken in 2012 or later. URLs like [2] return a 403. Nemo 07:24, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Nemo bis: The URL [3] is located in this article where GreenC bot made this edit which added this archive. Seems ok? -- GreenC 15:00, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
- Not really, that URL will need to be removed as it's redundant with the DOI anyway (and even someone with subscription cannot proceed from that archived URL to the full text). Nemo 15:29, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
- The bot can save dead links or mark them dead is what it did. To do those other things, start a consensus discussion and take the support result to BOTREQ. This isn't the only domain, highbeam.com is dead and has similar redundancy with DOI, do em all at the same time. -- GreenC 16:23, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
- Not really, that URL will need to be removed as it's redundant with the DOI anyway (and even someone with subscription cannot proceed from that archived URL to the full text). Nemo 15:29, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Nemo bis: The URL [3] is located in this article where GreenC bot made this edit which added this archive. Seems ok? -- GreenC 15:00, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
- Ah, I see now. I thought you were using some normal replace (with replace.py or others) for this case. All the archived URLs are broken too, because they were taken in 2012 or later. URLs like [2] return a 403. Nemo 07:24, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
- Also you mentioned something about "mostly bare external links" I'd be interested how to find those, if they were not already converted to archive URLs or had a
{{dead link}}
tag added. -- GreenC 14:44, 11 March 2019 (UTC)- I didn't check that, because I don't think it matters. We're talking of URLs which are complete garbage and don't add any information, don't aid the identification of the target in any way. It's like having links to an URL shortener which died a decade ago and was never archived, or URLs composed of random characters, or C:\ links which were "valid" only on the original editor's computer in the first place. They should just be removed altogether.
- The eventual fix is for someone to search the work by its title, usually manually, but that's done normally by scanning references and bibliography for unlinked/untemplated lines anyway, not by looking for warnings. Nemo 07:24, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
- I understand what you are saying. Unfortunately it's beyond the scope of what the bot was designed or approved for to delete entire domains. Removal of an entire domain because it contains useless information is a subjective call, it would mean in some cases deleting a whole citation even though an archive URL exists and returns some info such as an abstract - if that info is useful or not is WP:CONTEXTBOT. -- GreenC 15:00, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
- The bot is a dead link fixer. If it finds a dead link, it adds an
- Sure. These were the top results of Special:Search/insource:"http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/" for me: special:diff/887209551, special:diff/887209622, special:diff/887209651, special:diff/887209777. Nemo 07:20, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- Do you have a list of the articles or some example articles? Not finding with URL search. -- GreenC 18:45, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
- Much better. I still see some 500 URLs of the kind http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/ (like [1]) which are still broken, any chance for those? (I see they're mostly bare external links, which maybe you left alone intentionally, but also some in cite templates.) Nemo 18:25, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
I found another 3000 or so pages with URLs beginning http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL which, based on a random samples checked with lynx, are all broken... These should be removed as well. Nemo 18:25, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
- Can work in this. Will wait to see what happened with the above first in case there is a code change. -- GreenC 18:45, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks. Nemo 07:20, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- For now I think at a minimum they should be archived or marked dead, since they are dead, and archives do exist with some content (abstract, citation etc). Later on, if there is consensus to selectively (such as a DOI exists) or entirely delete the domain, or some other solution. I've never seen a discussion of this kind before where an entire domain is deleted but would be interested in what happens, it's an interesting question really. -- GreenC 15:00, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks. Nemo 07:20, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
IABot - CAS
hi! IABot indicate domain "research.calacademy.org" as unavailable. Please, edit IABot for replase domain "research.calacademy.org" to "researcharchive.calacademy.org". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mazapura (talk • contribs) 12:10, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
- I tried it out on the links listed here and it doesn't really work. Either way the links are dead. Not sure what would be done. -- GreenC 12:57, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
third opinion
i would need a third opinion on whenever italy should be included as totaliatarian, as most acedemic sources consider italy NOT totalitarian, can you please give a third opinion on Talk:List of totalitarian regimes 83.185.94.196 (talk) 14:54, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
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Reverted edits on Internet Hall of Fame
Dear GreenC,
Can you explain why you revert this edit ?
(actu | diff) 23 mars 2019 à 21:42 GreenC (discussion | contributions) m . . (14 284 octets) +1 135 . . (Reverted edits by Franck.schneider (talk) to last version by GreenC) (annuler | remercier) Balise : Révocation
The chapter "Advisory Board" appears twice in the article. It's obviously a mistake. I do not understand why you have removed my edits. I contribute more on wikipedia in french and little in english. Thank you for your explanation, then, I could delete this duplicate chapter.
Kind regards,
--Franck.schneider (talk) 15:09, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
- You are right, sorry. The diff at first looked like a vandalism. -- GreenC 15:30, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
Your BRFA (12)
Hello GreenC, your recent BRFA (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/GreenC bot 12) has been approved. Please review the closing notes before executing. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 15:10, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Xaosflux and Underlying lk: Thank you, Xaosflux! Ideally, longer term, the data would be kept fresh on Wikidata with another automated process so users will not see a reason to revert back to static in wiki (though they are free to do so for any reason). What do you think of that eh bien, mon prince? -- GreenC 20:20, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
- @GreenC: I already wrote Wikipedia:Uploading metadata to Wikidata to explain the updating process, but it still needs a human to download the Statistik Austria figures and turn them into a csv format that QuickStatements understands; I don't think it can be automated more than that.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 21:00, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
NoRef bot
Hi. I saw this edit you made - what do you mean by "Template filter added"? My point was that if there are citation needed tags, they should probably be removed when tagging the article as unreferenced, not that the article should be skipped. (Though your option is more conservative) - am I misunderstanding your comment? --DannyS712 (talk) 02:10, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
- @DannyS712: In this case you are right it should be removed but the bot has no way to determine it was a stray. I believe evidence of a cite needed tag shows someone has made a critical review of the article, so an automated banner might not be advisable. -- GreenC 16:02, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
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