I have blocked your user:FrescoBot because it saves results when no substantial changes are made to an article - its most edits look like changing a white space. This does spam page history and watchlists. Please amend. Materialscientist ( talk) 03:48, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Basilicofresco, please keep doing these changes until we empty the backlog in CHECKWIKI. The kind if spacing fixed by your bot is useful. You should run it more often than just once per month. I am tired fixing this stuff manually every day. We probably have to find more CHECKWIKI errors that your bot can fix at the same time. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 17:01, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Please fix this. People are having to clean up after this bot. -- Ancheta Wis ( talk) 19:13, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Yes, please do. I haven't yet determined what the bot is supposed to achieve, but it inexplicably inserted a bunch of text into the Fencing article [1], which I just plain reverted. Thanks and, er, good luck with whatever it is you're doing. — JohnFromPinckney ( talk) 19:51, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Also posted at my talk page. The Tetrast ( talk) 20:52, 27 February 2010 (UTC).
In List of Nintendo Entertainment System games article bot changed reference in table to title of the game, I undid it. Please check the change that bot made in history. Robixen ( talk) 14:57, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
I get it now. But you replaced the wrong link with snes one instead of nes one. I fixed it. Robixen ( talk) 17:52, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
I'm new to wikipedia. Thanks for fixing my link in the tutor page. Ahnie ( talk) 19:39, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
I know it's one of this bot's approved functions, but I do not appreciate having links revised such as in this edit. Do you know of a MOS section, or another guideline, that calls for links to be written this way? (It's entirely possible there is such a guideline that I've never been made aware of, but I couldn't find anything about it in a quick look at the MOS.) I have also asked (and explained my objections further) at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Quotation marks when linking to titles. Propaniac ( talk) 14:18, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Would you please work your magic on Sherman Minton and Frank Murphy and James Clark McReynolds. Those Supreme Court justices, along with a bunch of others, could use the help. Also, Elijah McCoy is a personal favorite of mine that would benefit. Thanks. Happy editing. 7&6=thirteen ( talk) 18:43, 1 March 2010 (UTC) Stan
Hi, it seems that when your bot encounters an external link to Wikimedia site inside a <ref>
tag, it reformats it into an internal link (which is okay) but also encloses it in another <ref>
, which breaks the article. See for example
this edit, but I encountered more of them.
Svick (
talk)
17:31, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I just noticed FrescoBot's mod of the section link "[[dual number#cycles|cycles]]" to "[[dual number#Cycles|cycles]]". I was wondering whether that shouldn't be "[[Dual number#Cycles|cycles]]", i.o.w. shouldn't the article be upcased as well? Cheers, DVdm ( talk) 09:56, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I think FrescoBot may have some issues creating false positives for broken section links. The articles Mayer–Vietoris sequence and Borel–Kolmogorov paradox were both tagged for WildBot's help with broken section links, but in both cases WildBot found none (and I found none either). In the first case, the article contained # characters in the "name" of a ref tag (I have since cleaned up these names); in the second case, there were links to other regions on the article (specifically, references whose anchors were created by the "cite book" template). RobHar ( talk) 16:07, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Could you please explain why you edited Talk:Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's lightweight coxless four and said "(Bot: broken section links found)"? The other bot which your edit summoned found nothing (as there was apparently nothing there to be found). David Biddulph ( talk) 12:15, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi. In reference to This edit... in the rare circumstances where Wikimedia sites are used as references, they should be linked either as bare external links (what was in this article before), normal URLs in citation templates, or using the {{ Srlink}} template. So, basically, if there's an inter-Wikimedia link in a reference, it's probably best to just ignore it. SnowFire ( talk) 23:12, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
Please do not unlink helpful links to wikisource, as you did here. Your edit summary - "links syntax" - was also not correct. Thanks! Awadewit ( talk) 21:58, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
FrescoBot seems to be adding "WildBot, please look at this" templates to a large number of articles. While this has only resulted in discussion ( [2], [3]) for physics-related articles, it's caused a complaint [4] from one of the biology project people, including a shutdown of WildBot as an interim measure.
Long story short, please don't mass-call WildBot without discussion and approval from the WikiProjects in question, as this is causing disruption in at least one case. -- Christopher Thomas ( talk) 19:26, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Josh Parris seems to have it covered now, as can be seen in User_talk:Josh_Parris#WildBot_template_clutter. Josh's proposed solution was to move the maintenance templates to below the existing templates used to set the fundamental page context on many of the busier talk pages. ... Kenosis ( talk) 04:07, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Please explain what your bot is complaining about. -- Evertype· ✆ 00:46, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Could I ask that FrescoBot doesn't use WildBot/tag in Wikipedia: or Wikipedia talk: ? WildBot isn't authorized to run over those namespaces and I don't think it would be a good idea to do so. Thanks! Josh Parris 06:29, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
One of the changes that Frescobot made to List of Alpha Phi Omega members was changing ISBN 0313265933 to ISBN ISBN 0-313-26593-3 . Can you let me know where the logic is for the split between the 313 with 26593 is? (to know that it shouldn't split 3132-6593 for example). I know that there are lists available, I'm just curious how it is coded. Naraht ( talk) 13:10, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Please do not let your bot tag talk pages for WildBot. It's entirely unhelpful. Rklawton ( talk) 14:18, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I have tried to insert a logo of Matra company in Matra article but I do not know how to insert pictures into wiki articles. Could you help me and make article about Matra better ? Thank you. The logo may comes from web page: http://auta5p.eu/katalog/matra/matra.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.40.240.88 ( talk) 11:10, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
As you have recently edited Andy Martin (American politician), I am writing to request your input at the article talk page, sections Vexed and disputed are the ones which outline the current issue. Many thanks in advance for your time. KillerChihuahua ?!? Advice 21:28, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Andy Martin (American politician). My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 17:49, 23 October 2010 (CET) |
Frescobot is making inconsistent changes to chemical formulas of minerals, see humite example the bot added a space following a comma within the formula between Mg and Fe, but ignored the second instance between F and OH. The added space is incorrect. I've undone that, but there seem to be a bunch of other instances. Please fix your bot and undo such improper changes to chemical formulas. Vsmith ( talk) 20:53, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Bot is at it again: Cerite and Phillipsite. I've reverted those. Vsmith ( talk) 02:14, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
{{ User:IBen/TB}} mono 05:01, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, when you find a blank talk page there is no reason to delete it, CSD-A3 does not apply to talk pages, and these are allowed to be blank, Often the history has something relevant to the development of the article. Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 01:47, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
The bot made an incorrect edit to rules of chess. Bubba73 (You talkin' to me?), 03:33, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
FrescoBot just edited
Template:Infobox UK place/police like
this and potentially broke a #switch
statement. It seems that the regex is catching a broader range of links than you probably intended. Should FrescoBot be excluded from editing templates altogether? —
Richardguk (
talk)
23:16, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Basilicofresco, just letting you know I've approved this for a short trial, sorry for the waiting time. Please visit WP:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 5 for details. Cheers, - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 23:01, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
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For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:02, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
These are fine. Deleting them generates a lot of work with very little to gain. Tim Song ( talk) 11:52, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
I`m confused the page already existed on en.wikipedia.org created by me in 2006 at some point someone uploaded it to commons.wikimedia.org and on the 14 April I added a Category:Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre realised that the image was of the railway and not specific to the Heritage centre so removed the Category. So what did I do wrong to cause the flag blanking page? Regards -- palmiped | Talk 17:59, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Please see the history of this book, beginning with this edit. I followed the directions given by WildBot and corrected them in this edit, and FrescoBot came along afterward in this edit and reverted what I'd done. Now WildBot is complaining about it again. Please work something out so we don't have dueling bots. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 09:27, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
This is a link, not a ref. [5] It's the second time I've reverted this edit. Ty 00:53, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
FYI, Darna, Captain Barbell, Dyesebel is Licensed By Individuals ok but, when you add it as a group the rival network "must" asked the rival network (GMA 7) to add them & for approval because for example Captain Barbell, GMA 7 will do a remake to the previous version of richard gutirrez which he will reprise also... "until" all are finished, the rival network (GMA 7) will make an assessment of doing an group or by two's for the said superheroes, if the network decides that they will not continue then the rival network (ABS-CBN 2) can add them make a superhero group, thats the reason why the kapamilya network can't released the showing of the show and other problems of the other characters because of schedules, and other things like production Staff... ok? Please, im asking for refraining to add them until approved by the rival station/network... thanks & godspeed.
P.S: (Reverted edits by Basilicofresco (You) or FrescoBot to last revision by Howard the Duck
04:06, 11 April 2010 Howard the Duck (talk | contribs) (3,779 bytes) (→See also: way too many see also links. most of them are linked at the cast and characters section already) —Preceding unsigned comment added by MsGanda ( talk • contribs) 11 revisions between 05:58 and 06:18 UTC, 26 apr 2010
Hi, your bot made some good changes but ultimately damaged Revision history of Template:The Tribuna of the Uffizi beyond repair. I undid it, but thought you might like to see what happened. Victuallers ( talk) 07:18, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, thanks ... I have quite a few image maps in same style. Will it be obvious how to modify the others? other possibility is to check templates are in category "image maps" ... i will have a look when you resolved the issue Victuallers ( talk) 14:27, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
RE: Isang Lakas Revisions...
That's better, sorry for the revisions, some are not correct like the revisions of 79.78.47.48 (whatever), anyway thanks and Please don't do what 79.78.47.48 do/did thanks again, I begging of you thanks....
This bot accused me of creating Talk:Arzignano Grifo and then blanking it. I have looked through my contributions and I did not do either. Please correct the bot. It has a very condescending message. Thanks, Xtzou ( Talk) 11:39, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
09:00, 1 May 2010 . . FrescoBot (80 bytes) (Bot: blank page meeting G7 criteria for speedy deletion) 16:27, 25 April 2010 . . Xtzou (empty) (remove mistake) 16:26, 25 April 2010 . . Xtzou (14 bytes) (project) [ {{blp}}{{bio}} ]
I will add to the page today so it does not hapen again,,i am in the middle of upgrading all the Canada portals with modern coding.. Moxy ( talk) 18:39, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, FrescoBot continually makes edits such as this.
Basically, the reference tag is written as:
However, FrescoBot wrongly tries to fix the (unbroken) section link by changing it to this:
As a result, the link to the reference in the bibliography in broken (note the "ref = Cherif (2007)" parameter):
This is not the first time FrescoBot has done this. I have reverted similar edits at least ten times before on other articles, so something really must be done about it. Thank you. OSX ( talk • contributions) 14:58, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Josh Parris 00:58, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
If you have a page with a list of #anchor problems for WildBot to process, put {{ User:WildBot/follow}} on it and give me a holler. I'll run some code I've written and see if it works.
Just one page to start with, please. Josh Parris 11:19, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. This edit was incorrect and broke the logic of the template. Can you give me any assurance that the bot is not still making edits of this nature? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:43, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
I would like an explanation of your bot edit of "Masters of War". I can't find any difference between that edit and the previous edit by me. 1archie99 ( talk) 18:02, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
hi there,
I am planning to do a course on advergaming. But i am unsure what all should be included in the course content. I am free to design my course outline. Can you help me with the main areas which are being explored these days in advergaming and also if you can provide me with a repository of case studies which can help me in my course.
Thanks alot.
Sincere regards,
Prem Sharma +91 95523 67532 premsharma.in@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.18.118.67 ( talk) 10:07, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Advergaming. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 10:17, 21 May 2010 (UTC) |
Correction Im not a sock puppet of Knight Crawler X, we don't have the same name & Emails or something, so it's impossible & I dont know his name... ok? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MsGanda ( talk • contribs) 04:26, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Just spotted this edit to 126th. The bot broke the link. I've reverted, but please amend your code before it happens again. Thanks. — Hebrides ( talk) 04:45, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
What was it trying to do here? -- Smjg ( talk) 17:52, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
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As you can see above, the bot is breaking things... please temp block it and notify owner!
R12056 (
talk)
18:47, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I have blocked your user:FrescoBot because it's breaking links (see above). Ronhjones (Talk) 19:27, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
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Basilicofresco (
msg)
00:20, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello BaSilicofresco
I was wondering if I could get your opinion in my favor. On the WMAQ former personalites, editors keep deleting all the names posted and I don't feel it is right. You had made some adjustments to the industry jargon on that page and I respected and agreed with your decision. I was wondering if you could write a statement in favor of the 98.223.95.42 edits posted on the village link on the discussion page. The person took a lot of time and effort into the list. We just need a few more in our favor and the edits will be reverted back to the way it should. Or if you just want to revert it back yourself. Ask any other editors you know if they could sign it too. Thanks so much--TVFAN24 (talk) 17:43, 19 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by TVFAN24 ( talk • contribs)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page WMAQ-TV. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 17:49, 23 October 2010 (CET) |
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.
Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.
When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.
If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles ( talk) 05:08, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Good Evening,
I was curious to see what the rationale was for tagging University Park Airport as an advertisement? Geo ( talk) 06:04, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Was this such a useful edit for a bot? Debresser ( talk) 18:53, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
I don't think a bot should be making edits like this. How does the bot know whether or not the punctuation is part of the originally quoted material? It didn't even change the link syntax or spacing at all, although that's what the edit summary claims! -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 20:00, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
The bot is changing text that looks like
xxxx."
into text that looks like
xxxx".
But English punctuation rules say that the original is correct. Robomanx ( talk) 07:48, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
See edit summary here: [6] TJRC ( talk) 03:31, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Maybe you've already compensated for this sort of thing, but this was a bad edit to metric tensor. Best, 74.98.44.203 ( talk) 13:08, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, just wondering why you made this edit [7]. The link would be better going to the league table. Regards. Eldumpo ( talk) 19:30, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
I have the same objection as User talk:Basilicofresco#"Fixing" links to put the quotes outside the link brackets above.
Concerning the FrescoBot Edit at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Joseph_Henrich&diff=372444273&oldid=370332291, the "fix" goes from:
IMO moving the comma to after the bracket, like (B) (with the comma after the "blank" square signalling the end of the external link) resembles the non-standard punctuation of a footnote number coming before the punctuation, like:
But standard practice is for the footnote to come after punctuation, like (D). So, (B) from the Bot is deviating farther from standard practice as to footnote-like placement. For that reason, I urge discontinuing use of the Bot at least until the problem is fixed. -- Thomasmeeks ( talk) 23:33, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey Fresco, some nationalistic idiot changed the section 'dissolving YPA' at the Yugoslav People's Army article, replacing your true text with some evil untrue nationalistic trash. Can you do something abouth this? Thanks -:))and Regards; 173.183.96.125 ( talk) 07:14, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
How were these edits [10] [11] by Frescobot meant to fix anything? SpinningSpark 21:30, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Can you direct me to the discussion that lead to Frescobot tagging blank talk pages where Wildbot was the only editor? Like here. I'm not clear on why this is needed. Kuru (talk) 23:37, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
A substantial number of links on this page to other wikis have been altered by FrescoBot and I'm not sure the result is desirable.
Next to redlink entries in this list I had deliberately added links to other wikis in external link format in order to produce compact, autonumbered references, for example:
Now changed to:
I could reformat to footnotes or something, but think the original style suited the context better. Would a revert be contrary to Wikipedia style? Is there some other solution? I would welcome your advice before going further. (RT) ( talk) 10:47, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I am writing you just to say that when applied to the entry Bounded variation, Frescobot changes a correct link i.e. [[Lp_space#Lp spaces|<math>L^1(\Omega)</math> norm]] to a wrong one [[Lp_space#lp spaces|<math>L^1(\Omega)</math> norm]]. It has operated this change two times, as you can see from the history of the entry, but the first time I did not gave importance to it, so only reverted its edit. Now I have slightly changed the link ([[Lp space#Lp spaces|<math>L^1(\Omega)</math> norm]] is the new form) hoping that the problem disappears, and I also decided to tell you the story. I hope you'll be able to patch it. Best regards Daniele.tampieri ( talk) 21:04, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
โปรดพิจารณาด้วยค่ะ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.24.127.4 ( talk) 05:21, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page File:RoyalPAD.jpg. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 17:49, 23 October 2010 (CET) |
Hi! Just to let you know I reverted one of FrescoBot's edits edit because it seemed to be counterproductive. Thanks -- ἀνυπόδητος ( talk) 18:40, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Check this one. You could re-adjust the code to catch more syntax consolidations. This would help with http://toolserver.org/~sk/cgi-bin/checkwiki/checkwiki.cgi?project=enwiki&view=only&id=64 -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:27, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Ciao. Ti rispondo qui, dato che su it.wiki sono bloccato per un mese. Riguardo a quello che mi hai scritto, provvedo a diminuire il en-3, e eliminare il messaggio ad Henrik. Un caro saluto, Dr Claudio segnali radio 11:44, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Be', devo confessarti una cosa Caro il mio basilico (domani mi faccio un pesto ;) però non mi viene voglia di scherzare...), anzi una storia. Tutto è stato bello sin dall'inizio, anzi, in Luglio e Agosto erano i miei mesi preferiti, sopratutto di come erano fertili... e belli. Ho notato sin da Luglio Francisco Loviglio, e da quando ho collaborato con lui le cose sono calate immediatamente. Ti faccio un ordine cronologico:
E così che successe :'( Gli UP sono stati per me come una grande pugnalata al cuore, per questo voglio dirti chi è che ho collaborato, aiutato delle voci.
Be', non li ho catalogati tutti, ma come l'impero ha una sua fine, io do' un grande addio a tutti, un po' con dispiacere :'| Sob... be', è stato una bella esperienza, e il mio cognome è "ASARO" mai rilevato fin da prima. Un grande addio basilico, sappi che ho sempre voluto bene a tutti... Dr Claudio segnali radio 19:31, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
A couple edits today ruined pipe links: [14] & [15]. This first letter following a "#" should be capitalized. Please do not not change these letters to lower case. — Ute in DC ( talk) 20:26, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
You may be interested to fix http:http:// cases too. It was reported in my talk page that there exist of them some out there. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:32, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Mr. Dayanand Nadkarni was an apponted clerk at Kanara Welfare Trust. It's mentioned in the writeup as the founder. Mr. Dinakar Desai was the founder who hired Nadkarni to take care of the books. Dayananad Nadkarni's participation in the Independence of India is not true. Only the correct information in the artical is that he was a member of the state essembly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.235.239.247 ( talk) 13:49, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Uttara Kannada district. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 17:49, 23 October 2010 (CET) |
It just unnecessarily edited the C shell article to "fix" links to return code. If it's not working properly, maybe you shouldn't run it against pages you don't personally read and check. Msnicki ( talk) 08:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
[[Return_code|return code]]
in two places.[[return code]]
. The change was meant to be helpful, and had to go through an approval process before it did it.[[Return_code|return code]]
, calling the previous revision an "idiot bot edit". Before doing so, you stormed in here to suggest that the bot is defective.I apologize. I totally misread the edit. I had written that section originally and, certainly, when I wrote it, it was not my intent to have that superfluous text in the link. I probably just screwed up as I went through checking that every link mapped to an actual page. So I saw what I expected to see and I went off half-cocked. Please accept my apology. This is not the behavior I like to see in me. I will restore the change the bot suggested, which I agree (and should have immediately agreed) was correct. Msnicki ( talk) 16:50, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Ciao Basilicofresco,qualche mese fa,ho scritto la voce Francesco Mucci,ma sicuramente ho fatto qualche errore nella traduzione.Sono a Londra,per motivi di lavoro,ma da poco.Parlo discretamente l'inglese ma ho qualche problema nello scriverlo.Mi daresti una mano.Grazie-- Gir ( talk) 14:06, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I continuously find edits like this
[16], which simply change [[Link|links]] into [[link]]s, a change which seems completely useless and has no implications for templates or other things.
I read in
Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Cosmetic_changes that "Cosmetic changes should only be applied when there is a substantial change to make at the same time."
So I ask you: is it correct that your Bot make such edits, overcrowding page histories? --
GianniG46 (
talk)
23:52, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Nevertheless, you see there is a contrast to be resolved between the discussion you refer to and the official Wikipedia Bot policy. -- GianniG46 ( talk) 10:56, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Grazie,sei molto gentile.-- Gir ( talk) 13:48, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Although I support your minor fix task, even though it is arguably cosmetic most of the time, some recent edits seem to fall outside that. I am pretty sure changes like these are not approved by any of your BRFAs. Regards. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 21:35, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Just curious. What did FrescoBot do here exactly? I can't see any change. Slightsmile ( talk) 00:48, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Dear friend One of my article Lionel Wendt is nominated to copy right violations. I re wrote few times, but it is not work. I really appreciate if you can assist me to protect this article.-- Wipeouting ( talk) 04:23, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I have noticed several edits like [17] on my watchlist lately. That particular change to piped links is not actually a syntax issue (and does not appear to be covered by the FrescoBot BRFA). There's no need to make just that change to an article; it just litters watchlists without changing the appearance of the article at all. I realize this edit fixes a self-link as well, but I have seen edits recently that only changed the piped links, like [18] — Carl ( CBM · talk) 01:13, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
This edit summary seems misleading [20]. The link was working fine, the change appears to have changed nothing except bypass an existing redirect which as we all know is not supposed to be the only edit made to a page.-- Crossmr ( talk) 23:34, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, the bot is adding extraneous commas... please see Category:Salem, Connecticut. It's done likewise with Ledyard, Griswold, Franklin, Lisbon, & Sprague. Can you please revert and stop it from going through the other 175 Connecticut town categories? Thanks, Markvs88 ( talk) 18:21, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Can you please train your bot to ignore wikilinks? dif Thank you. -- WikHead ( talk) 05:33, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Backlinks in imagemaps apparently must not be removed, it breaks the imagemap. See this. GregorB ( talk) 23:29, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
In case you wonder what t do with Taxobox, this edit shows the solution. Soon we add the same feature in AWB. Selflinks inside Taxobox must be in bold. I encourage people to use the standard wikibold instead of the wikilink but until now hundreds of articles use the old method and people keep copying this method. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 04:45, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
I think Frescobot should not replace the HTML entities [ and ] and with "[" and "]" as it did here — it broke the wikilink. -- Michael Bednarek ( talk) 06:00, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Caro Basilicofresco,grazie per la tua attenzione verso la voce Francesco Mucci,spero di recarti fastidio.Ciao-- Gir ( talk) 11:23, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
If you're going to edit any more pages regarding Tarlac, kindly send it to me first for editing, as much as I would like to thank you for posting, I find obvious errors in your grammar, please don't take this the wrong way. I'm not an editor for just sitting around. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FromTarlac ( talk • contribs) 08:51, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Ciao Basilicofresco,buon 2011.Hai avuto la possibilità di rivedere la voce Francesco Mucci ? scusa la scocciatura !!Grazie-- Gir ( talk) 20:56, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Slaty-breasted_Tinamou&diff=prev&oldid=403176338 ★NealMcB★ ( talk) 02:20, 11 January 2011 (UTC) (ah but I see it has been stopped for a while....)
Hello,
Please note that merging all the LDR citations together into an unmanageable blob really does not help us editors at all; quite the contrary. I'm referring to this edit. Per WP:LDR:
If you could manage to modify the bot so that it avoids unnecessarily contracting the LDR's in this manner, it would be appreciated. Thank you.— RJH ( talk) 19:59, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
FrescoBot did one of its usual edits to
Kilogram,
like this one, where it converted [[meter per second squared|meter per second squared]]
to [[meter per second squared]]
on the premise that the latter points to a redirect page that, in turn, takes the reader to the correct page. Unfortunately, anytime there is a redirect, this wording is at the top of the page: “(Redirected from
Meter per second squared)”. I think this is unnecessary, ugly, and looks like an error was made (a link that wasn’t updated after an article was moved) that had to be corrected.
I’m sure there was some discussion (now perhaps located in Village Pump Archive 6,626,208) where coders and programers and developers who are interested in ultra-tight code that fully exploits the behind-the-scenes capabilities of Wikipedia’s server engines—as well as those interested in saving the Wikimedia foundation 0.000000001¢ of server space—who have discussed the subject of links and redirects and think this aspect of FrescoBot is cool-beans. But I wasn’t part of that discussion. I occasionally receive reactions from long-timers who write something like (*sigh*) This was discussed [by all of six editors who hang out endlessly] at the Pump and the consensus [by four of the six of us] was that this was an indisputably Good Idea©™® and you should think the same way. I’m sure there are scores, if not hundreds, of other editors who don’t even know of the venues where bot operators hang out, have never heard of Village Pump, and don’t like links being un-piped in a fashion that makes the target page a re-direct.
In my view, redirects pages are primarily of value to fix old links made before an article was moved (renamed), and for common misspellings manually typed into the Search field by readers. I don’t think it looks at all good for a reader to click a link and be taken to a page that has “(Redirected from…)” at the top; it looks like an error was made.
I’m not requesting that you revise the way FrescoBot operates. I would, however, appreciate it if you can advise if there is a {no-bot} tag or magic word or something that will prevent FrescoBot from working its magic on the Kilogram article. Failing that, is there a convenient, built-in facility that allows you to just tell FrescoBot to avoid Kilogram? 16:51, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
The underlined objective (determining when a subtopic needs to be made) isn’t an issue here since it is a spelling-related issue and there is already a redirect page. I just don’t know how I could have better explained my concern in my above post. As I wrote there, I understand the reader is taken to the same article. As I also wrote, This wording is at the top of the page: “(Redirected from Meter per second squared)”. I think this is unnecessary, ugly, and looks like an error was made (a link that wasn’t updated after an article was moved) that had to be corrected. Is there a way to keep FrescoBot from wading into Kilogram? Greg L ( talk) 18:07, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Yes, I can read history files. And I did, too, in this case. FrescoBot certainly did too make an edit that I am talking about. It is this one, which I had provided in my first post here. As you can see, the accompanying edit summary is “(Bot: links syntax)”. And the result was to create this link: meter per second squared, which—if you click on it—takes one to the correct page but with a redirect notice at the top, which looks poor and sloppy in my opinion. It is not how I want articles I work on to operate.
I see from the provided link that one “should not "fix" links to redirects that are not broken”. It further states that doing so “can actually be detrimental”. Just how in the world is piping a link so that A) an article consistently uses one dialect, which WP:MOS recommends, and B) to avoid a redirect statement across the top, “detrimental” in any way, shape, or form?? In fact, there is zero—zip—harm in piping; the properly piped link avoids having what amounts to an error adviso placed at the top and nothing else.
Now, please try to keep a cool head with your answer. Also, you might also flat answer a question I’ve now asked twice and am here asking for a third time: Is there a tag or magic word I can place in the article to keep your bot from operating there or is there a way you can program your bot to avoid the Kilogram article? Greg L ( talk) 23:09, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
The first major contributor to that article consistently used American English and, per WP:MOS, the use of a particular dialect should be consistent.
Yes, I know there is “no shame” in redirection. Nothing I wrote above suggests that’s my concern, yet you’ve mentioned that twice now, which comes across at minimum as patronizing, and at worst as baiting with a “Well, there’s no shame and I’m gonna keep doing whatever I want to.” My above posts could not possibly be clearer that I think redirects look like sloppy work—simply because that’s precisely what causes redirects in many cases. We actually have specialist editors who run about creating redirects for common misspellings. It speaks to the shortcomings of working in a collaborative writing environment where 6th graders get to join in. Contrary to WP:Redirects, there is absolutely nothing “detrimental” to piping links to achieve dialect consistency and to ensure the reader is taken straight to the proper article; nothing at all. I asked you to point out a downside to the practice and you declined to answer or were unable to.
I’ve asked you politely now three times about whether there is a no-bot tag I could put in the article to ward off your bot and you’ve ducked the question three times. I am loathe to ask you again since you seem to actually relish conflict—partly borne from not reading, parsing, and fully understanding what others write. So why not just put the Kilogram article on your “avoid” list so we don’t have to cross paths again? Wikipedia is a big place and I’m sure you can find plenty of things to improve without going to a fully mature article where all the ‘i’s have been dotted and all the ‘T’s crossed just so we can start pissing in each other’s corn flakes. Greg L ( talk) 03:28, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
I simply do not understand how a no-bot marker in Kilogram could help you in your anti-sloppiness campaign. It would not prevent ip or users from change metre in meter. FrescoBot did not change the target of any link, it simply clean the syntax in order to better spot linking errors... so it should help you too. Preventing bots from edit an important article for no reason is a very bad idea. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 11:27, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, want to know who you are, I do frequent editsto the KEMU page and noticed that you too do the same. can we exchange emails? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.204.170.50 ( talk) 09:56, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Kenya Methodist University. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 13:26, 28 January 2011 (CET) |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengkuang_Titi the coordinate above the ifo box of this seems overlapped, Idk how to solve it...I hope you can help me with this... Gracias! :)
Syam Ahmedarino 11:22, 31 January 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Syam Ahmed ( talk • contribs)
The bot is adding these boxes to several Michigan highway articles. Two issues are at work here. One is that many of these categories hold single photos. Two is that if all of the photos are already in the article, the category was intentionally not added to the article. I've only ever added the boxes when there are more images for that subject than what the article can hold. Such automated editing though has brought to my attention all of the articles who have categories that don't need them, so I can have the categories deleted on Commons. Imzadi 1979 → 08:38, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Just a quick note. Could the BOT use {{ Commons category}} rather than {{ Commons cat}} which is a redirect to the former. It is correct in the edit summary. Just saves having two edits to each article when AWB and others that go round replacing {{ Commons cat}} get to the article. Thanks Keith D ( talk) 13:07, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
The bot also seems to be linking to Commons categories that don't actually have anything in them, which seems rather pointless (e.g. [23]) Modest Genius talk 19:28, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Basil! Since you've been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, I wanted to let you know about the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, and specifically the role of Online Ambassador. We're looking for friendly Wikipedians who are good at reviewing articles and giving feedback to serve as mentors for students who are assigned to write for Wikipedia in their classes.
If that sounds like you and you're interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors during the current term, which started in January and goes through early May. If that's something you want to do, please apply!
You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE. The main things we're looking for in Online Ambassadors are friendliness, regular activity (since mentorship is a commitment that spans several months), and the ability to give detailed, substantive feedback on articles (both short new articles, and longer, more mature ones).
I hope to hear from you soon.-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 17:41, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm very sorry for over-reacting like that. I just saw the new link and assumed that it was the 'bot. I think the "inline" link is a much better idea, and I will not remove it. Incidentally, I am not wandering around removing your links indiscriminately, I just happen to have been working on this article. - Arch dude ( talk) 18:07, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Just FYI, last October the FrescoBot changed [24] a link in San Gabriel Valley to a reference, making a weird incomplete sentence. It's O.K. now. TresÁrboles ( talk) 17:52, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Edits by the bot like this actually break the link. The reference in the Works cited section is using "Hyde" as the tag, not "hyde", so when your bot has gone through and changed it to all lower case, the link in the References section no longer works to the full reference in the Works cited section. Imzadi 1979 → 22:34, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey. What do you think about adding {{ commonscat}} to the pages of villages in England where the category also existing on commons? Good idea? Bad idea? Most are well populated from teh ever expanding Geograph project on commons. I have drawn up a fairly good list of qualifying articles (~13,500) here. Regards, - Jarry1250 Who? Discuss. 19:47, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for all your good work in fixing section links with FrescoBot. May I suggest a possible enhancement? In some cases, such as 115 (number), WildBot had tagged the talk page with {{ WildBot/m04}} to list the broken section links in Category:Pages containing links with bad anchors. Do you think it would be useful and possible for FrescoBot to remove this tag automatically whenever it fixes the last broken section link(s) on a page? I do not think that WildBot will recheck the page and remove the tags itself, because its owner ( Josh Parris) seems to be inactive. Certes ( talk) 22:34, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Ciao Basilicofresco,potresti darmi una mano a correggere la voce Francesco Mucci Grazie tante.-- Gir ( talk) 19:28, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
See [25]. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 00:07, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Can you tell me what the bot was trying to do here. Personally, I don't see any changes on line 16 and line 36. Plus the only difference I can tell on line 25 is the removal of line feeds between ref tags, which, on my opinion, just made the source code difficult to read. If it's OK with you I would like to "undo" the edit. RUGGER ( talk) 03:14, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
I noticed your bot is adding hyphens to ISBNs. As far as I am aware there is no consensus for this at the present time, and many good reasons not to do it, so I believe you should disable this feature. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 20:20, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. Was there a reason for removing the reflist from Oakland Athletics? Just curious. Happy editing! — KV5 • Talk • 23:34, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
i am sahara smith's cousin
will you help me make her wiki article better? 66.68.99.162 ( talk) 04:42, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Sahara Smith. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 23:12, 29 June 2011 (UTC) |
FWIW, there seems to be some nationalist(?) pride going on here, and I wouldn't be surprised if my reversion gets re-reverted. Probably, if I don't get back to it, it wouldn't be bad to have IOW redirect to Isle of Wight, and just put a header there to IOW (disambiguation) which could serve as the real disambig. -- 146.115.187.76 ( talk) 08:30, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the feedback on the "The Ladies Auxiliary of the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers" on April 5th, 2011. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andy Q26 ( talk • contribs) 17:57, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Someone has marked Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 10 as needing your input. Please visit that page to reply to the requests. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 23:20, 19 June 2011 (UTC) To opt out of these notifications, place {{bots|optout=operatorassistanceneeded}} anywhere on this page.
It had the inuse tag up. Your bot nearly cost me all my metric/feet conversions which all had to be individually calculated, because the format included a "x". Grrr! Amandajm ( talk) 06:49, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm not sure what happened here but the links were/are working before the bot changed them. If you look at the first line it changed, the first link is to Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando, the top of the article. The next link was a piped link, [[Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando#C-46A|C46A-45CU]] ( Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando#C-46A) which the bot changed to [[Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando#C-46|C46A-45CU]] ( Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando#C-46). I had already made this edit to the target article so that the section links would work. The bot made all the links direct to the top of the target article. I suspect that the bot isn't seeing the {{ visible anchor}} in the target. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather ( talk) 16:05, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
From what I understood by the note you left at the bottom of Freddie Highmore, you have met him: how have you done?? He is one of my favourite actors, and I do envy you so much! A part these interjections, I would like to learn more about his mockumentary: is it available somewhere? Who did it? PS. Have you ever managed to find his movie Master Harold... and the boys? I'm looking for it DESPERATELY but I cannot find it anywhere! Thanks in advance for everything Giacomo Bosio (sorry, I dont know how to use electronic signature) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Giacomo J.K. ( talk • contribs) 18:49, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Freddie Highmore. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 23:12, 29 June 2011 (UTC) |
Ops, silly me, you're right. =) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Giacomo J.K. ( talk • contribs) 10:04, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Basilicofresco,
Just to let you know, I responded to your question on my talk page. Zaereth ( talk) 18:36, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi, with
this edit, FrescoBot placed the References section and {{
reflist}}
in the wrong place. Per
MOS:APPENDIX, it should be after the See also section, not before it. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
00:49, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Hraschina (meteorite), and it appears to be a substantial copy of http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2005/October/Accretion_Desk.htm.
It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.
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![]() | On 28 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hraschina meteorite, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the fall of the Hraschina meteorite in 1751 was the first witnessed fall of an iron meteorite? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Thanks from the DYK project Victuallers ( talk) 14:28, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
It was a pleasure! -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 15:12, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
The purpose of giving the full url in a link in the attribution of an image, such as the one (of many) you removed here, is that is the form that can easily be used by an external party reusing the image. The internal wikilink format will not work outside Wikipedia. Spinning Spark 19:50, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Dear Sir:
I have noticed a user has added a virus to my user name. I can't edit using my user name. What can I do?
Lavi123 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.236.9.103 ( talk) 19:23, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Regarding this edit, references sections are placed after see also sections, not before; see WP:LAYOUT. Spinning Spark 01:05, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed in this diff that FrescoBot didn't realize that Ć is the uppercase of ć, and that Đ is the uppercase of đ. The Mediawiki engine, however, does know that. Maybe you could share some code and add that extra feature? :) -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 07:38, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I notice this change by FrescoBot piped to articles, seemingly purely so that it can capitalise the first letter of the link. Is there any reason for this?
Yaris678 ( talk) 12:10, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
I don't know if there's something I'm missing, but edits like [27] seems to be completely trivial. The bot shouldn't be making those. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:11, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
If you will not get upset and leave WP I will nominate all of the dominant group articles for deletion. They really need some input from other editors. I have a feeling that the concept is notable and they will survive the process. BigJim707 ( talk) 23:06, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Hey Fresco, you keep messing with Hitler's moustache! :) Here again here. Can Hitler be added to the do not touch list? Green Cardamom ( talk) 16:43, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you previously linked to a "details" page in the edit summary, but no longer do. Is there a reason for this? See also Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#General notice to bot owners about edit summaries? Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:16, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
The US Census has released the official 2010 population for the territories and it should be updated on this page.
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/2010_census/cb11-cn177.html
American Samoa - 55,519
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/2010_census/cb11-cn179.html
Guam - 159,358
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/2010_census/cb11-cn178.html
Northern Marianas - 53,883
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/2010_census/cb11-cn180.html
Virgin Islands 106,405
Hey, Basilicofresco...
Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Domenico_Flabanico&action=historysubmit&diff=451618111&oldid=450588853
In order to fix it, I did: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Domenico_Flabanico&diff=prev&oldid=451806112
JHMM13 (Disc) 06:58, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
I don't know why the italicss were not preserved in this edit but it didn't work. Spinning Spark 16:56, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Per
WP:WAWI external links are often used in reference to other wikis. See for example
DDL intercettazioni.
Rich
Farmbrough,
00:49, 12 October 2011 (UTC).
in regards to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_Loaded:_In_Your_House
please STOP changing things like "pedigree" into " Double Underhook Facebuster, which he calls Pedigree". If you want to troll, please do it on a wrestling forum. Many people read wikipedia and it's much better (and less trolling) to just put the word pedigree with a link to the glossary of wrestling terms.
I know its your bot doing it and that doesnt mean its you personally, but you are contributing to a negative experience on wikipedia, so can you please fix the bot or the articles instead of ruining them?
thankyou
203.144.10.198 ( talk) 16:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Fully Loaded: In Your House. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. So please calm down. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 10:11, 16 October 2011 (UTC) |
You recently used FrescoBot to alter the documentation of a number of templates like Template:User in Puducherry/doc. You changed the statement "|title=the [[Union Territory]] of [[Puducherry|'''Puducherry''']]" to "|title=the [[Union Territory]] of '''[[Puducherry]]'''". These two statements are not always equivalent, such as when used in "for the '''users in {{{title|}}}'''." Please try to be more careful. Yours aye, Buaidh 13:53, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Just to let you know, your bot is editing closed DYK noms as well as sandboxes. Perhaps you could prevent it from editing in those areas? violet/riga [talk] 05:56, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
DO NOT LET FrescoBot CHANGE STATEMENTS LIKE |title=the [[Union Territory]] of [[Puducherry|'''Puducherry''']] TO |title=the [[Union Territory]] of '''[[Puducherry]]'''. THESE STATEMENTS ARE NOT EQUIVALENT. PLEASE SEE Template:User from Puducherry. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE, PLEASE SEE ME. PLEASE TRY TO BE MORE DISCERNING. Yours aye, Buaidh 15:10, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
I think that when there is a citation which involved "pp. 123,135" it is a mistake to put a space in like this "pp. 123, 135". Now this may be a personal choice, but it is a question of aesthetics and I do not think a bot should go around changing from one to the other.
Also it raises the question if the added space us going to be put in should not be non-breaking space?
Here are some examples from some of the pages I have created in the last few days that the bot changes presumably all of them in less than a minutes:
-- PBS ( talk) 23:24, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
As I suspected it is not a matter of aesthetics. I asked the opinion of other Wikipedia users here and here and they all agree that between two page numbers after the comma is needed a space. One of them explained the absence of a specific rule in Wikipedia as "Common sense and a very elementary knowledge of English are all that are needed. Some things are so obvious that they are not in the canon of MoS". Moreover, as you can see, "123,135" is ambiguous because it actually looks like a number above one hundred thousand. As you can see there are enough reasons and consensus to fix this small problem. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 19:53, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Please restore the following documentation templates to their original state. Your FrescoBot edits have disrupted the continuity between these documentation templates and their target templates. This is done to facilitate maintenance.
You cause more problems than any other editor I have encountered. Please make sure your edits do not adversely affect templates or their documentation. Thanks, Buaidh 00:25, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Its very poor presentation about Kaim Khanis and our Great Dada Gee Maharaj of Rajputana Prince Nawab Kaim Khani...
We have to improve this presentation text about KaimKhani/Kayamkhani or Qaimkhani. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaimkhani http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kaimkhani http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayamkhani
Nawab Kaim Khan - UK Kaim Khani Author/Researcher/Historian +44740 586 2002 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.241.132 ( talk) 23:04, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Sir, Being a novice (this my 2nd attempt, first one was adding marathi translation ref at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moxham ), i draw your attention towards the additions made by me in WIKI entry of "South Mumbai" at HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Mumbaiunder under sub-heading "Acronym". Kindly peruse the same and let me know your suggestions if any. Yours Sincerely, Suneelji ( talk) 06:36, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
This was correct. Ahadith is the plural of hadith. Of course it should have been piped [[Hadith|ahadith]]. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather ( talk) 20:48, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
I've noticed that you tagged two dead links on this wiki page. They are not dead links, the pages are simply unavable because they have been placed in an incorrect format that the server cant handle. http://www.exploringromania.com/vlad-tepes-dracula.html I have done my best to fix these links and correct this error. 68.10.188.179 ( talk) 06:04, 8 December 2011 (UTC) " original message found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:RafikiSykes
I'm sending you a copy of this message because I noticed your bot made an edit and failed to fix the dead links. I thought you might be interested. History : "(cur | prev) 22:58, 23 November 2011 FrescoBot (talk | contribs) m (53,353 bytes) (Bot: link syntax/spacing) (undo) " 68.10.188.179 ( talk) 06:04, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing,
Murray-2 Hydroelectric Power Station , has been proposed for a
merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going
here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.
Rangasyd (
talk)
13:02, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
I had put it on first and forgot to tell you that. I'm sorry for any confusion.
-- Thebirdlover ( talk) 23:17, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Would you tweak the citations, please. Thank you. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 14:26, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
List of magic museums please tweak the citations. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 14:30, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Can you help me? I want to edit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Passions First, with the name of all guests and links. How to put links to external articles? Some of the guests here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fundamentalbase/draft4
second with the name of the guests and selected composers and links See how it's getting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fundamentalbase/draft
Do you have any suggestions? thank you,
fundamentalbase Fundamentalbase ( talk) 14:31, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
The article
Pontoon fenders has been proposed for a
merge. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going
here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.
842U (
talk)
13:34, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much for the structural corrections in the article about Francis Bacon!
Greetings from Brazil — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danilloclm ( talk • contribs) 00:36, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
FrescoBot recently made minor changes ( diff) to the Additive Synthesis article. I'd like to discuss one change. In the timeline table, on the rightmost column "DOB and AFB appear in <ref>" got changed to "DOB and AFB appear in<ref>". The original notation is intended as a shorthand for "DOB and AFB appear in The New Sound of Music<ref>". The title is omitted to keep the table compact. Removing the space between "in" and "<ref>" changed the meaning of the sentence. Other articles might have something similar such as "(see also <ref>", which should be handled similarly. I could not find instructions in Manual of Style on how to write things like these, so maybe you have a suggestion or can change the bot so that it does not remove the space. Olli Niemitalo ( talk) 09:48, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
&#
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work?
Olli Niemitalo (
talk)
23:38, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Bot change Horse breeding to Horse Breeds in the Double Trigger article. [28] This is change incorrect- and there are hundreds of similar articles. No more of these please! Best wishes. Tigerboy1966 16:57, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Due to unfortunate errors in the wikipedia page Alejandro Correa Rueda, want to delete. All this for wrong interpretation of the meaning that said: "This article is an orphan, as few or no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; suggestions may be available. (February 2012)". In a very arbitrary denunciation his said was an autobiography. It's just a humble biography of a great biologist in Chile. Incorrect changes that were made same day and Señor Daniel Case is nominating me to delete my page. Not delete the page, please help. Always I've contribute to wikipedia(2 years).
Best regards,
Alejandro — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alejandro Correa Rueda ( talk • contribs) 22:45, 22 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.21.76.111 ( talk)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Alejandro Correa Rueda. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 16:46, 27 February 2012 (UTC) |
Just looking to see who posted info on Rev. John Brown 1763-1842. This is my great x 4 grandfather. Would like to know how and where you got this info, are you related, etc. Keri McDaniel redheadedlassie@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.197.50.207 ( talk) 23:32, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page John Brown (educator). My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 18:38, 11 March 2012 (UTC) |
Please don't do edits like this. They serve no real purpose. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:42, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Article Khetran has been vandalised and I cant find the last sensible version of it in its history pages. Can you please have a look at it. Thanks OmerKhetran ( talk) 20:58, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Frescobot keeps adding a commons link from a disambiguation page http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Whitemoor&diff=488771549&oldid=486087973 - the link is wrong.. Oranjblud ( talk) 16:05, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Regarding this edit -- the bot really shouldn't be fixing templates without supervision (at least not all of the cases). There are perfectly good cases when it is appropriate to have something that may be incorrect in articles. I believe the task was implied to be approved for mainspace. If you think this happens very rarely, and too many templates will go unfixed if you disable it, I can change brackets to html entity counter-parts. Cheers. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 12:42, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Ciao Basilicofresco. Beh, se guardi bene non è detto che «In effetti le cose stanno così» come hai ipotizzato. Qui lo spiego bene. In estrema sintesi:
Insomma più scarsi sono gli argomenti a sostegno di "tiro del giavellotto". La "presunzione" con cui è stato deciso AUTONOMAMENTE (senza consultre la comunità), lo spostamento del lemma e di decine e decine di voci che stavano lì da 8 anni (fegandosene pure di sistemare i redirect), è fastidiosa. Ti prego di rivalutare alla luce di queste mie osservazioni. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 07:14, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Che si desidera di refirimento user wikipedia commons:Lumentzaspi? As per today some changes have been done by you in my page. AM I CORRECT ABOUT IT? Que me puede explicar sobre algun cambio en mi pagina de usuario Lumentzaspi, agradeceria cualquier explicación. Sincerelly. Cordiali saluti de Lumentzaspi. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.7.250.126 ( talk) 18:26, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Ciao, secondo me non sono ridondanti. Populated places established in 1808 indica che da quell'anno (1808) è iniziata la costruzione e hanno cominciato a viverci delle famiglie. 1821 establishments in Italy e States and territories established in 1821 indicano che in quell'anno (1821) è nato ufficialmente il Comune di Santa Teresa come ente amministrativo territoriale. Ciao, -- Felisopus ( talk) 06:08, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
Can you fix these redirects?
JSH-alive/ talk/ cont/ mail 07:57, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Please don't change anything from my article ,or else you will be blocked from editing.I am the owner of this article. from User:abitoby
I would like to add this feauture in AutoWikiBroswer. So, can you please tell me: Do you remove this character in en.wiki from every place or just from categories? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:16, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
(u"\.([Jj][Pp][Ee]?[Gg]|[Oo][Gg][Vv]|[Ss][Vv][Gg]|[Pp][Nn][Gg]|[Gg][Ii][Ff]) *\u200E+(?!\w)", ur'.\1'), (u"\.([Jj][Pp][Ee]?[Gg]|[Oo][Gg][Vv]|[Ss][Vv][Gg]|[Pp][Nn][Gg]|[Gg][Ii][Ff])\u200E+", ur'.\1'), (u"\[\[[Cc]ategor(y|ia):([^\[\]\u200E]*)\u200E+(?!\u200E)([^\[\]]*)(\]\]|\|)", ur'[[Categor\1:\2\3\4'), (u"\[\[\u200E([^\[\]\r\n]+)(\]\]|\|)", ur'[[\1\2'), (u"\[\[([^\[\]\r\n\u200E]+)\u200E+(\]\]|\|)", ur'[[\1\2'), (u"\[\[\u200E([^\[\]\r\n]+)(\]\]|\|)", ur'[[\1\2'), (u"\[\[([^\[\]\r\n\u200E]+)\u200E+(\]\]|\|)", ur'[[\1\2'),
CHECKWIKI asks all &#FEFF; or ÈE; or ÈB; to be removed. Maybe you could expand your logic? I already removed all these 3 invisible characters from 6,000 pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:41, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
In the chronology section of the infobox for an album's article, the name of the album itself should have both italic and bold formatting. Sometimes editors (myself included) incorrectly add the bold formatting by wikilinking the album's name instead of using three extra quotes on either side of it. Unfortunately FrescoBot only partly fixes the problem, leaving the album title italic, but not bold — see this edit (which I have already fixed) http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=In_the_Spotlight&curid=33208674&diff=503895485&oldid=503364779
To fix the problem properly, the bot needs to add extra quotes when it deletes the square brackets. It should probably act in the same way whenever it does this fix because similar formatting is needed for all chronologies, so in all cases the boldness is more likely to be intended than unintentional — Peter Loader ( talk) 12:08, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for having your bot catch the problem with a hyperlink in the Casey Neistat article. (But unfortunately, the fix applied was a little imperfect.) Bwrs ( talk) 16:21, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Dear Basilicofresco,
I'm currently editing the "Aitken Spence" wikipedia page and need help organizing the reference list. At the moment, all the references are clustered together. I want to separate the referencing into following sections: History, Corporate Governance,and Hotels. So that readers can easily identify which references that relate to similar content. I'm also hoping to add more content in the future on different areas, so if you could advise me on how this could be done, I would most appreciate it.
Thanks,
Adheesha — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adheesha88 ( talk • contribs) 04:16, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
I wonder if your bot fixes or could fix also External link with line break. CHECKWIKI produces a list which can be found here: http://toolserver.org/~sk/cgi-bin/checkwiki/checkwiki.cgi?project=enwiki&view=only&id=80 -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:37, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Your Revision 20:46, 10 August 2012 to Architectural education in the United Kingdom destroyed the source citation. Qexigator ( talk) 22:42, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you Basilicofresco for that explanation. I do not see that your expansion of the footnote helps a reader, who if actually interested would have to make the link to see what it is supposed to mean. I have therefore reinserted the explicit words in the text, together with the ref. as you propose. Can we leave it at that? Qexigator ( talk) 20:25, 11 August 2012 (UTC) (repetition removed Qexigator ( talk) 21:37, 11 August 2012 (UTC))
Yes, that's neater. Also, the Wikisource link offers further links to Bordone and Donatello, and to the Who's Who and portrait refs for Konody, which may be useful for an inquiring reader. Qexigator ( talk) 07:24, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
See, for example:
This is a user reverting your bot's edit. The bot is tightening up adjacent ref tags, which is fine in prose, but is quite inappropriate in Help:Footnotes#List-defined_references, where they are usually spaced out a bit for readability. Please fix this as soon as possible. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 09:12, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
I note that you once before fixed an incorrect edit by FrescoBot to the Grossman disambiguation page. It did it again :) [33] I've undone it now. -- Limulus ( talk) 08:43, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
A page named "Dudhra" is a stub with non-reliable sources and un-cited details, which reflects personal advertisment for the clan referred in the article. A speedy deletion tag has been added but later removed by an editor, may be the author of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.220.215.13 ( talk) 16:20, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Dudhra. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 07:56, 16 August 2012 (UTC) |
Hi, would you care to check the info on Elbogen (meteorite) for me please, once you deal with the subject. There is a "Per natif" in the infobox that I can't understand. It's about checking, maybe improving the article, as you see fit. Unfortunately, not many people feel interested in improvements nowadays. Thanks ! Krenakarore TK 13:39, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia says you published or contributed to an article on boxer Frankie Fleming. He is (unfortunately) an osbcure figure and I was curious where you got the information. Fleming is also my great uncle, and the fact that his championship belt is still in the possession of the family (my uncle) is little known, even within my family. 170.222.100.210 ( talk) 13:43, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Frankie Fleming. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. Please contact instead TJKnows. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 13:53, 17 August 2012 (UTC) |
Basilicofresco do you alot edits for union city calfornia Wikipedia i like you add some update things to page Logancolt2011 ( talk) 15:32, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Union City, California. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 16:28, 18 August 2012 (UTC) |
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This barnstar is awarded to recognize particularly fine contributions to Wikipedi Kirananils ( talk) 06:46, 20 August 2012 (UTC) |
Hi. Another user in es:WP has noted a mistake in an interwiki. In spanish exist es:Felipe, who may link with en:Philip (name); however, bots link it with en:Filippo, but already exist es:Filippo. So, interwiki are interchange :), but when someone try to fix it the bot replace then again. Can you check this, please? Thanks. -- Ganímedes ( talk) 00:00, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
I looked at you recent edit but found it difficult to see what had been edited at times. An example is </ref> where there is a coloured bar after the > on the edit summary or a square coloured block. Is there somewhere on Wiki which explains things like this? I noticed too that Predicted fire was changed to predicted. Does it follow that you don't necessarily have to do a [[ ]] with any capital letters for it to work without a |(lower case) ? Thanks Keith-264 ( talk) 18:24, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
[[Predicted fire|predicted fire]]
to [[predicted fire]]
is, as you surmise, because the case of the first letter is unimportant: see
Help:Link#Wikilinks where it states "The link target is case-sensitive except for the first character ..." --
Redrose64 (
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19:37, 13 November 2012 (UTC)FYI, User:FrescoBot has twice made the same error edit at Anthony Henday Drive in the last 10 days. Note how the closing parenthesis is after the second wikilink. See here. Can the bot be fixed from doing this again? Hwy43 ( talk) 03:55, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Frescobot didn't run this month. Something happened? We need you around :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:57, 25 December 2012 (UTC)