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Ladsgroup, I notice that your Dexbot was active again last night, making this change here at 19:47, 19 December 2016, with an edit summary of "Bot: Fixing formatting per user request". At first glance it looks purely cosmetic, but I wanted to check - could you confirm what the substantive change was, as it isn't obvious to me, which user had requested it, and which BAG-authorised task this was running under? Many thanks, Hchc2009 ( talk) 08:41, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
Thanks Doc. Ladsgroup: am I right then to think that:
BTW, there already is a gadgetuser script for this (multiline refs -> oneline refs), I simply can't remember the title. Will try to find over holidays. --
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importScript("User:Ladsgroup/RefCleaner.js")
To your common.js Ladsgroup overleg 03:29, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi Doc James. I don't understand the request from WP:WPMED to change references from many lines to a single line. In this edit, it seems like the previous version was significantly easier to read and edit, at least as wikitext. Is there a benefit to smushing all the text into a single line? -- MZMcBride ( talk) 02:45, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
<ref>...</ref>
construct. --
Redrose64 (
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09:53, 30 December 2016 (UTC)The relevant guideline is WP:CITEVAR, which applies both the the appearance of references and the coding style used to achieve them. If an article uses multi-line template formatting, it should not be converted to single-line, and the reverse change should also not be made. These things are decided on an article-by-article basis. In particular, the multiline vs. single line issue is a longstanding area of disagreement, with some editors preferring one and some preferring the other. Unless WP:CITE requires single-line citations, it is inappropriate for an editor to go around converting articles based on their preference for one version or the other. This would never be approved as a bot task. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 17:36, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
A few years ago JSTOR deprecated the SICI interface. So, all these links.jstor.org links now point to a www.jstor.org/stable/##### url. Could Dexbot convert these (This would require a query to jstor, so that might be beyond its ability). If not you, then do you know a better bot? FYI: a very small number of the SICI codes end up pointing to more than one article, and those would have to be fixed by hand (not bot). Here a link to all 2500 articles https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Search&limit=5000&offset=0&profile=default&search=insource%3A%22links.jstor.org%22&searchToken=9lhyhyxuh8ihv6tka6n9o8m3l Here is an example edit https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=United_States_Senate&type=revision&diff=758116808&oldid=758085404 AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 16:04, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
I wonder if you could take over Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 26 and do this such as this one and this one. I can provide you a full list. The naming is set by MOS:SECTIONS. It's 100% uncontroversial and 3 bots in the past were approved to do it. Since DexBot already does section header fixes maybe it's time to pass this task there and run it on daily basis. The task can standardize the following sections:
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:43, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
My search is for things like insource:/== *Weblinks *==/. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:38, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:45, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Ladsgroup, edits such as this seem to violate COSMETICBOT. They make no difference to the reader, and there is no consensus to use only templates to display official websites. WP:ELOFFICIAL says: "Use of the template {{ official website}} is optional."
Is there any benefit to adding a template? SarahSV (talk) 22:21, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
@ Xaosflux:I don't think so, I was asked to do this so I thought there is a bigger plan and I can help out. I'm not aware of the details. @ SlimVirgin: There has been a plan to migrate such data to Wikidata. So later we remove the argument (like Template:Commons category) and use the data in Wikidata instead. It would make these data usable across all other projects (all languages and projects like Wikiquote, etc.). So this is minor change in English Wikipedia but a rather big one for others. Ladsgroup overleg 00:11, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Ladsgroup, I see you've resumed the task. Please stop. SarahSV (talk) 15:10, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikidata Phase 2 (May 2013). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:46, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
Your BRFA, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Dexbot 11 has been approved. Please see the final closing notes. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 05:00, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
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They point to over a dozen articles, since SICI is technically a search. But, these pages has one that your bot missed.
/info/en/?search=Extinction (This one is within a quote strangely)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Johannes_Brahms&action=edit (this one redirects to doi, and not a stable)
One more /info/en/?search=Decimal
AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 15:35, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Do you think you could similarly convert these http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1068720901&SrchMode=2&sid=1&Fmt=6&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1246568407&clientId=17862 to the more stable http://search.proquest.com/docview/222244908/ URL (Some of them have /fulltextPDF on the end) AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 02:57, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
JSTOR has had so many interfaces over the years. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 15:59, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Great job on the Samuel Adams (beer) page Acosta94 ( talk) 15:34, 21 March 2017 (UTC) |
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Could you clarify what this approval seeks to accomplish? Does it produce any rendered change on the page? Does it change any categorization, etc.? I'm not seeing any consensus discussion supporting the task. ~ Rob13 Talk 14:26, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Rob continues their wikihounding against bots and their owners. Be careful, Rob is a person who already wrote that the will everything to stop bots from editing. Rob already harassed bot owners. They obviously know about the discussion about this task already. Its only another of their tricks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:44, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
I believe you've been busy, Ladsgroup, but could you comment on this when you have a chance? Thanks. ~ Rob13 Talk 17:21, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
I have just closed the discussion regarding Dexbot's Task 6, with the outcome that this task is no longer approved. You are welcome to re-file a BRFA for the task, and/or start a community discussion to determine if an {{ official website}} template should be used in preference to a standard external link. If you have any questions please let me know. Primefac ( talk) 13:05, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
FYI. With an automated edit of the Hayao Miyazaki article the following was deleted in its entirety: [[de:Fukushima Tesuji|Tetsuji Fukushima]]. Thus, not only (Bot: Cleaning up old interwiki links) but deleting the named individual completely from the article in the process as well. That was probably not the objective of this DexBot operation. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Hayao_Miyazaki&diff=prev&oldid=784249422 Verso.Sciolto ( talk) 09:33, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
The solution is Mediawiki to disactivate interwiki links completely. :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:48, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
Your Dexbot made a correction to the headings on the Cheyenne Frontier Days article citing WP:MOSHEAD. I went and read that section and could not find anything in it to support the change. However, I did find this guideline instead that very clearly backs up the change: WP:BADHEAD. This source lays out clearly, with visual aids, that headings need to be used sequentially, without skipping any as I did in the article. Just thought you'd like to know. Thanks. dawnleelynn (talk) 16:39, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, where is the request concerning this user rename? The user name is a single character, which in Opera 36 displays as a plain rectangle. Potential problems like that were brought up some six months earlier at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 151#Emoji usernames. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 10:16, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
This bot mangled a url in Hermsdorf-Klosterlausnitz station "(WP:CHECKWIKI error fix. Section heading problem. Violates WP:MOSHEAD.)". Please bring it under control.-- Grahame ( talk) 10:55, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi, appears to be a problem with the BOT fixing section headers. In this edit it picked the = sign that is part of a reference template and thought that it was a heading. I have reverted the change. Keith D ( talk) 12:59, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
I fixed manually. --
Magioladitis (
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18:00, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello, it is maybe possible that the Bot fixing makes errors with the Section Heading on the year pages. It fixed the = sign that is reverted from four to three = signs. I have changed this, because it is maybe a Section Heading problem. Also it said: "Violates WP:MOSHEAD". Please can you bring this BOT error under control. Peters01 ( talk) 11:40, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
== Events ==
which is level 2. A level 2 heading cannot be followed by a level 4 heading like ==== Byzantine Empire ====
since this causes
accessibility problems. A level 2 heading may be followed only by a level 2 or level 3 heading; a level 4 heading may only be preceded by a level 3, 4, 5 or 6 heading. --
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18:03, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
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Sincere thanks for your help! Porteclefs ( talk) 15:29, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello Ladsgroup,
thanks for correcting the Heading. Each day something new to learn here on Wikipedia. I do not want to bother you with this, but maybe you can help me, this morning I worked on that page addding more text. When I saved it, I had to click again - and all my work from about two hours was not saved! How can that happen and why? I really try to give that page there some shape so that the tag will be eventually removed. I hope you can help me. Thank you in advance. Best to you, Laramie1960 Laramie1960 ( talk) 11:21, 14 August 2017 (UTC) |
Sigh. I was trying to track down how a large hole was punched in an article and "no one noticed". It turns out Dexbot was helping 'hide' the vandalism.
'Vandal' came in and did bad things to article Names of China with these edits. Another user then tried to revert those edits, but got only some of them, resulting in section headers being deleted.
A half day later Dexbot came in and 'fixed' things, thus hiding much of the obvious disturbance in the force. And the result is that the damage, the text removal, is still present in the article. The vandalism was made permanent.
A cautionary tale here, and another example of why bot actions unreviewed are always going to cause problems, even if the continued pleading is made that the rates are 'low'. Shenme ( talk) 23:27, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi, would you be willing to add me as a maintainer to the checkwiki tool? Per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia#Future of the project?, there does not appear to be anybody maintaining it and the enwiki and frwiki jobs are in infinite loops for 2 months. Bgwhite has left Wikipedia and Magioladitis is taking a wikibreak. I am leaving the same message for Tim Landscheidt. I am an experienced developer and run several bots/tools. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 00:27, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi Ladsgroup, Is it possible to create as for changed descriptions, a watchlist for labels and another one for Also known as in Arabic. And finally one for the three of them. Thank you very much. That tool needs to be populated for all languages. If you want you can also translate the content (Username: مستخدم / Edit summary : ملخص التعديل / Editnumber : فارق التعديل) -- Helmoony ( talk) 18:24, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
Have a look at the history of Hennepin (shipwreck). Dexbot changed the header, but doesn't fix the error. Perhaps you could improve Dexbot. Regards -- GünniX ( talk) 12:03, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
Looks great guys. Tons of information, sourced well. I was hard pressed to find anything to recommend you do as it is already so well done. However, I suggest you slightly alter the history section. specifically the part before the United Nations section. I think it could be improved by adding citations within the paragraph and not just at the end. I think after the "says Lutfullah" would be a prime spot to cite Lutfullah. I would consider either losing or altering the line "although it was hindered powerless by the growing rise of Hitlers military power." It kind of doesn't fit and is a bit off topic. If you decide to keep it I would make "Hitlers" possessive as well. In addition I think there are a few more opportune spots to insert a link to another wiki article. You guys have been killing it with those already but I think there are even more you could do. I would add a link to the UNODA page, for example. Maybe for DPRK as well. You guys are doing great.
Here are those links I recommended in case you want them:
/info/en/?search=United_Nations_Office_for_Disarmament_Affairs
/info/en/?search=North_Korea — Preceding
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Hi Ladsgroup.
How do I stop Dexbot messing around with the article List of former cantons of France !? Please see the history for my attempts to-date. Regards. Eno Lirpa ( talk) 11:27, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
I note that Dexbot is misspelling 'aligning' in revision descriptions, such as here. PriceDL ( talk) 01:58, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
I reverted your bot's because it broke the reference formatting. Please avoid edits inside references. They are not hadings and they break the reference formatting. Pkbwcgs ( talk) 19:45, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
<ref>
tag or not. You should move it to the previous line.
Ladsgroup
overleg
23:52, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
"example". 14 February 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
would work but {{cite web|url
==
http://www.wikipedia.org%7Ctitle==example%7Cdate=14 February 2018|access-date=14 February 2018}}
wouldn't work.
If we look at the code, the correct reference coding used {{cite web|url
=http://www.wikipedia.org|title=example|date=14 February 2018|access-date=14 February 2018}} and the incorrect reference coding used {{cite web|url
==http://www.wikipedia.org|title==example|date=14 February 2018|access-date=14 February 2018}}. This is what Dexbot is doing. It is adding == when the = is at the beginning of the line. It is Okay because we all make mistakes and
AGF is important to make sure they don't happen again. Thanks.
Pkbwcgs (
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15:12, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
To me this is a clear case GIGO and it's so rare that I can't adjust a complex script to get around this problem. I think a BAG member should chime in and comment. Ladsgroup overleg 00:27, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Edit comments left by Dexbot could be worded less harshly. Words like "error" and "violates" are a bit bitey.
Instead of WP:CHECKWIKI error fix. Section heading problem. Violates WP:MOSHEAD.)
How about: Updating section header to sentence case per WP:MOSHEAD
instead?
-- MadeYourReadThis ( talk) 13:00, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
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Dexbot helped me by removing unnecessary '==' tags from a generally clueless user I've been working with for a while. Thank you, you magnificent dork! Double Plus Ungood ( talk) 06:02, 2 March 2018 (UTC) |
Hi! I hope I found the owner of this tool :-) First of all: It is fine!
But there is one small issue: When a user changes the title of a entity to something useful, like "London" to "Paris" you will not recognize this on the page. Since the column "Entity title" shows the same information ("Paris") like the column "Edit summary" which would show "Changed label in de: Paris". I think, it would a good idea to show in "Entity Title" the label before that change was done (in my Example "London"). -- Wurgl ( talk) 13:19, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi there, Ladsgroup I saw that you are an ambassador for fa on meta and I was wondering if you could help me with something. We have a globally locked sock who created a lot of self-promo and potential hoaxes. One of the socks heavily edited fa:مجید_موقر on fa.wp and created Majid Movaghar on en. It was prodded as the sources don't appear to make any mention of this individual but since it's written in Farsi, I don't feel confident enough in translation to make a declaration one way or another. The same source is used on the fa article which again, was heavily edited by پریسا دارک لگ and on en by Jaleh B. Could you possibly shed some light on this? The master in this case is Parissa Official. Thanks! CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 14:31, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, it seems like Dexbot has a problem fixing the section structure of this list. It manages the level 3 and level 4 headers in the "A"-related sections just fine, but stops before doing similar fixes to the level 3 header "B" and all following sections (see edit history). Could you have a look at this situation please? Thank you in advance. GermanJoe ( talk) 10:05, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
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With kind regards, Kippenvlees1 ( talk) 19:23, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed you've just renamed an account I blocked earlier today for a promotional username, being Newcastle Art Gallery. Their choice of new username is NagAus ( talk · contribs). The username policy is clear that usernames should not be related to a "real-world" group or organization and should identify as being a single editor, not a group. I feel this choice of new username is still in violation of the username policy and should not be considered acceptable. -- Longhair\ talk 06:15, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
I read the guidelines on naming conventions, and I'm just trying to find a middle ground in terms of a naming convention that does not represent me, but also does not overtly denote the organisation I work for, which is local government owned and funded. I'm coming from a professional position where my employer owns the copyright of anything produced by me as an employee - so the words I write aren't necessarily my own point of view and they are not owned by me. I don't mind what my username is, but I don't think it is appropriate that it use my personal name in any way. 202.43.81.3 ( talk) 07:03, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the extra info particularly on disclosures. Being new to this platform it can be hard to navigate 202.43.81.3 ( talk) 23:17, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I just noticed that you renamed user Nagualdesign in Renamed user g5r8c5h8j5g2f55v5h2h5g5d2s2c5b5. Does it make sense? For instance, on it.wiki we'll directly block such a quite vandalic username. -- Ruthven ( msg) 13:12, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I just saw that a section of my edit violated WP:MOSHEAD. Would you be able to suggest what needs to be corrected as I cannot see anything wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Gustaveflaubert ( talk) 18:12, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks a lot for your edit. But the adjective "non-violent" is extremely important in that context, as it is at the center of Farhad's activities. Best — Preceding unsigned comment added by SohrabeSalek ( talk • contribs) 22:34, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
Please see recent history of Minim (unit) where the bot has made unconstructive edits.---- Ehrenkater ( talk) 12:37, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Your October 1 edit to Supply management (Canada) has unintentionally added an extra = to the <ref name=="thestar> I have reverted the most recent edit and previous edits <ref name="thestar" Your edit summary: "(WP:CHECKWIKI error fix. Section heading problem. Violates WP:MOSHEAD.)" Oceanflynn ( talk) 15:07, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi Amir,
Nice to meet you, a Wikipedian. I didn't expect my name in [ "Ladsgroup/spam"]. What's up with that? Is that something bad?
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Hi Ladsgroup, Greetings. I have noticed that you have redirect User:Samuel JJ to User:ApollyonX - see HERE]. May I know the reason of the redirect as the user has requested for CVUA program on my talk page. Thank you. CASSIOPEIA( talk) 15:56, 16 April 2019 (UTC) Hey, I didn't redirect it, I moved the user (as a global renamer) due to the user request Ladsgroup overleg 20:58, 16 April 2019 (UTC)