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The AvicBot has been redirecting the terms on the right side of the bulleted list at Talk:Extrinsic_extensor_muscles_of_the_hand#Bigger_list to "extrinsic extensor muscles of the hand". A user has gone around removing 11 articles and redirecting them to some new page. Would it be possible to configure your bot to ignore double redirects for these particular articles? Currently it isn't a double, but if the user does this again, the bot replaces them, and unfortunately when we restore the removed articles, the bot doesn't correct it by restoring the redirect to where it originally pointed.
I am wondering, in regard to bot codes, would there be some way to enhance the code to recognize situations like this (maybe via reading history or recording its own actions) where it can reverse a redirect alteration after a page it changed (which at one point pointed to a redirect page) would have no longer pointed to one after it gets restored?
Having the same issue with EmausBot so will direct them here, maybe you guys could compare notes? Y12J ( talk) 22:24, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Just bringing to your attention that AvicBot changed two redirects for the Calgary light rail network to go to the Edmonton system's page. The redirects are Calgary lrt and Ctrain. The original target was C-Train, AvicBot changed it to Edmonton Transit System. C-Train is not a redirect. vıd ıoman 22:56, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
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With this edit Osamu Tezuka was vandalised to redirect to Osama bin Laden. You may want to have your bot delay edits of redirects such as Tezuka (see diff) in the future. – Allen4 names 13:16, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Please see Osama Tezuka &action=history. Amiko mi bezonegas vian helpon. Bv. respondi al http://test.wikipedia.org/?curid=42#CZCZ kiamaniere (en irc-o ktp.) mi povas atingi vin. Antauxdankon! Amike Gangleri · לערי ריינהארט· T· m: Th· T· email me· 08:43, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed your bot fixing a double-redirect, and then searched a bit more and see you have > 70K local edits, > 200K global edits, Global Rollback, two local Sysop rights, [1] and run a Global Bot. Hence I could nominate you for Adminship if you want to start doing Sysop things over here, too? It Is Me Here t / c 15:37, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
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, although on the subject of your user page, you might want to clean it up a bit. I don't just mean the pictures/whatever (nothing wrong with showing a bit of personality), but more the fact that it is confusing in places (e.g. do you have a degree in Theology or Computer Science?). Once you've filled in your
page, feel free to transclude it yourself. Good luck!
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Nyttend ( talk) 15:03, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
I haven't discussed it with anyone on Spanish wikipedia yet, so I'd need to get it approved, but I was wondering if it would be possible to create a bot that can check for pages in a category on English Wikipedia that have spanish interwiki links and add the Spanish Wikipedia page to its corresponding category. For example I just created es:Categoría:Videos de YouTube, I would like to go through Category:YouTube videos and find pages like Nyan Cat which has an interwiki link to Spanish Wikipedia and add it. (I just did that one manually, but there are 156 pages in the category. I have created others too. If that can't be created, or they won't approve it on Spanish Wikipedia, is there a way to create something that will list all of the pages that have interwikilinks in a category for me? Ryan Vesey Review me! 20:24, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
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AWB is incredibly amazing, thank you for teaching me how to use it Ryan Vesey Review me! 06:28, 28 May 2012 (UTC) |
I have a list of pages at User:Ryan Vesey/Pages in categories. Can you please create a list of the Spanish wikipedia pages that these correspond to? Ryan Vesey Review me! 06:50, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Thrashing (computer science) had interwiki to russian ru:Компьютерный сленг (this is real story, not just an example), which means "Computer slang" and this terms are not related completedly. The russian article had interwiki to english one, too. So, 26 May UTC I removed en->ru interwiki. But I didn't remove ru->en interwiki, because I'm too lazy and I hoped some interwiki bot will remove ru->en interwiki. But instead, your bot didn't remove ru->en interwiki and moreover 28 May 2:34 UTC it added en->ru interwiki again! So, it is bug in your bot. Please, fix it. If someone removes interwiki, it means that this interwiki is wrong, so any bot should not add it again and it should remove reverse-interwiki.
But this was only part of the problem. The real life is even worse: Thrashing (computer science) had the following interwikies: cv, de, (en), es, fr, gl, ja, pt, ru, th, uk. I read this articles (thanks to google translate) and understand, that (I'm sure):
Moreover, all this articles have interwikies to each other (thanks to interwiki bots, dammit). So, they are complete graph. 26 May I not only removed en->ru interwiki, but also all other wrong interwikies (en->cv, en->fr, en->uk). 28 May 2:34 UTC your bot added this interwikies back. But instead, it had to split this complete graph to two connected components, i. e. two complete graphs: de-en-es-gl-ja-pt-th and cv-fr-ru-uk.
Also, the bot should correctly work in any case, for example, somebody changed en->ru interwiki and now it points to another article (bot should reconstruct complete graphs). Safinaskar ( talk) 12:23, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Avicennasis, I'm sorry to say that I have closed your RFA as unsuccessful, with a final tally of 67/34/6. Despite your apparently sound technical work, I felt that there was very consolidated opinion in the opposition section concerning your content contributions, with ultimately no overriding consensus to support you contributing in an administrative role here. I hope that you found the feedback constructive and valuable. Best, WilliamH ( talk) 12:30, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm sorry to hear that you RFA failed. I don't see how lack of content contributions would make you a bad admin. → B music ian 02:33, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
After the question was raised during your RFA, I'm surprised the matter was not pursued further. Under WP:NFCC #9, nonfree content may not be displayed outside article space, even if it meets "fair use" requirements of copyright law. I believe you should remove the material involved promptly. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz ( talk) 18:08, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
I agree with Mr Wolfowitz. I also think that the quote is too long to be fair-use. -- Dianna ( talk) 00:36, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
The article Joseph_(name) has a wrong link to the French Wikipedia: fr:József instead of fr:Joseph. I've fixed it, but your bot changed it back. Please fix it and tell AvicBot that József is the Hungarian form of the name! ;) Thx! – Insane.kismanO ( talk) 11:02, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
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For fixing the sort in the "area" column in List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte. Thanks. Albacore ( talk) 04:19, 30 May 2012 (UTC) |
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Hi, You said on the help page: "... removed external links that were not needed and added some tags. That article definitely needs some references, though". In fact those inline ELs you removed were in effect clumsily formatted references - Red Pepper website lists him as Political Correspondent, Bread and Roses page shows him shortlisted. I've fixed up the page. Pam D 22:31, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Your bot, AvicBot has allready made 20 test edits. Please stop running the bot temporarily on is.wikipedia while I review your bots edits.-- Snaevar ( talk) 11:02, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I think that that bug in your bot is actually Pywikimedia bug (you are using this bot, right?). So, I posted the bug here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3532712&group_id=93107&atid=603138 Safinaskar ( talk) 10:09, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
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I'd like to protect a couple of seldom-used pages from having their double-redirects "fixed" by your bot. Is there a tag which the bot will respect? —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 21:37, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
{{
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nobots}} though, as there are other bots that fix double-redirects.
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ennasis @ 00:05, 18 Sivan 5772 /
00:05, 8 June 2012 (UTC)How to move a file without leaving a redirect ? eg [2] regards-- Dℬig Xray 05:53, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Dear Avicennasis,
My name is Gordon Mueller-Seitz and my colleague, Leonhard Dobusch, and I are currently engaged in a research project relating to the Wikimedia Strategy Process that took place in 2009-2010. Our key interest is to explore how this strategy process actually unfolded.
In this connection, we started with interviewing WM personnel and promoters such as Eugene Kim in a first step. By now we want to broaden our insights in a second step and we would like to kindly inquire if it was possible to make a short telephone interview with you concerning the WM strategy process? If yes, we would very appreciate it if you could suggest a date/time that would suit you and the telephone number we could reach you from April onwards.
Thank you very much for a brief reply. We look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes, Gordon and Leonhard
-- Dr. Gordon Mueller-Seitz Freie Universitaet Berlin, Chair for Inter-firm Cooperation School of Business & Economics, Dept of Management Boltzmannstrasse 20, 14195 Berlin (Germany) Tel.: ++49 30 838 56359, Fax: ++49 30 838 56808 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.204.155.37 ( talk) 20:32, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
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A25 Bridge still has that pesky double redirect. Olivier Charbonneau Bridge should be the final title. Peter Horn User talk 22:47, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Would it be conceivable for a Bot to be created that lists "Backlog priorities". I am thinking of something based on page view statistics. For example Firefighting averages around 250 views a day (usually more) and it has 3 tags on it. I'm sure there are similar articles with even more average daily views. Would it be possible for a bot to take page view information for a 30 day period divide that number by 30 and add and remove articles with maintenance tags to a page like Wikipedia:Articles with maintenance tags receiving over 1000 views a day, Wikipedia:Articles with maintenance tags receiving over 500 views a day, and Wikipedia:Articles with maintenance tags receiving over 100 views a day? It wouldn't be necessary for the bot to remove the pages if it was done manually. Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:50, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
So why would you unilaterally change a category in a block message I left on a user's page? I'm sure you know changing others' talk page contributions is almost always wrong. You seem to be doing it a heck of a lot. Toddst1 ( talk) 02:33, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hi. Is there a way to prevent edits such as this? I guess the issue was caused by this bit of vandalism. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 05:26, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
The error is corrected. Thanks for letting me know. -- Dcirovic ( talk) 02:49, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, you recently declined my page due to a lack of notability and unverifiable references. The artist in question is signed to and has released two albums through Atlantic Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, and much of my information was cited through AllMusic.com, one of the leading music review/database sites on the internet. The group's soundtrack work was cited through IMDB and Wikipedia itself, and even if the group were not signed to a major label, I believe that this work alone would qualify them for inclusion. All of this information is available in the draft I submitted, and I would greatly appreciate it if you took a second look at the article. Thank you.
63.116.153.127 ( talk) 19:04, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Avicennasis,
I noticed that you made an edit to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_engine
I work for FindTheBest, a company listed on that page. FindTheBest was blacklisted from Wikipedia a few years ago for adding a page while the company was still very young. Now that the site has grown to 10M visitors a month, I am attempting to get FindTheBest removed from the blacklist.
I appealed to this page, but was denied by ~Amatulić: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#FindTheBest.com
Amatrulic told me I need to find a trusted editor to make an appeal to have the FindTheBest page restored. Can you help me out? Feel free to contact me at evanthomas1(at)gmail(dot)com
Thanks!
Evan ( talk) 21:00, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Err, it doesn't fail WP:NMUSIC since the band has signed at Warner... I have the helpee in #wikipedia-en-help. Please rethink your decision. (maybe d|v| would be more correct). mabdul 17:37, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
I've updated the albums. What other references need work? Besides the major label (and soundtrack work) what else is needed to demonstrate notability? 63.116.153.127 ( talk) 19:00, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Could you make a note on AvicBot's page that shows editors that they can fix an incorrectly added interwiki link by hiding it in a hidden comment? See Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Request: "Bad link" advice for interwiki bots and Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Bots adding incorrect interwiki? As a comment, it appears that advice given at User talk:Avicennasis/MainArchive/2012Q2#Your bot puts interwikies wrong actually doesn't work in some situations. It would be great if AvicBot could provide some amount of advice in the edit summary as well or at least point towards the advice on the bot's user page. Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:20, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
What criteria is the bot using to add interwikis? I just had to spend a few minutes at several wikipedias removing a wrong interwiki which was added to Trumeau mirror and other languages.-- Jordiferrer ( talk) 06:55, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
I just saw that AvicBot is processing category renames. Does AvicBot delete categories after transferring their contents to the renamed categories? If not, I don't think it should be doing Cydebot's task. I disabled AvicBot for CfD until I hear back, though obviously anyone can turn it back on if they desire. Just trying to be cautious about something I haven't seen before.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 07:48, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
{{db-g6|bot=AvicBot|rationale=Empty Category per [[WP:CFD/W|CFD/W]] listing}}
, for example, as it did with
Category:Formula One drivers by constructor teams (I believe). AvicBot was running for exactly
this reason, when Cydebot just seems to die at random.
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Hi, I received a rejection for my article on "The Leprecaun Monthly" cartoon magazine. I used a couple of Wikipedia articles as reference that both reference the magazine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fitzpatrick_%28cartoonist%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fergus_O%27Hea
and I also included two other website references and the "Dictionary of Irish Artists", a book that is an encyclopedia of Irish Artists through the last two centuries which I was actually able to check out at a library and read (which is more than the other writers probably did for their articles because it's a very difficult book to find!). So in closing, I thought 5 references would be sufficient for this title. Can you tell me what I'm lacking? I have artwork too, but I can't upload it since my status is not high enough yet.
Thanks! 15:11, 18 July 2012 (UTC) LKruczek ( talk) LKruczek ( talk) 15:08, 18 July 2012 (UTC) "Lisa Kruczek, June 30, 2012" — Preceding unsigned comment added by LKruczek ( talk • contribs) 20:18, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
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