User talk:Tim1357/Archive 6

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User:DASHBot/Vandalsim/Requests? DMacks (talk) 05:54, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Here there already were two warnings from today at level1 and level2, but the bot then added a new level1 for the next warning. DMacks (talk) 05:57, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

DASHBot did not recognize <!--uw-create-->, fixed (for all warning templates). Thanks Tim1357 ^talk 11:21, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for running the bot! DMacks (talk) 12:16, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

DASHbot appears to be configured to revert any use of the term "gays", or at least the replacement of other text with this term, even when used as a legitimate reference to homosexuality [1]. I suggest that the criteria for reversion be narrowed. Peter Karlsen (talk) 01:46, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the new DASHBot functionality to automatically recover deadlinks from the Internet Archive! I just wanted to note one issue in the handling of links to anchors within larger documents. E.g. this diff. The original URL was:

www.ops.gov.ph/indonesia2001/backgrounder.htm#THE%20FILIPINOS

I think what we want in this case is to direct the reader to the same anchor on the archived page:

web.archive.org/web/20080415024743/http%3A//www.ops.gov.ph/indonesia2001/backgrounder.htm#THE%20FILIPINOS

Instead of percent-encoding the anchor and passing it, which sends the user to the top of the document rather than the desired anchor.

web.archive.org/web/20080415024743/http%3A//www.ops.gov.ph/indonesia2001/backgrounder.htm%23THE%2520FILIPINOS

Thanks, cab (call) 01:12, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

 Done And thanks. Tim1357 ^talk 01:48, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Wow, this is something I hadn't considered. Pays to read talk pages. Thanks to U:cab. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 12:12, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi, your bot had tagged File:First Matangi Korea.jpg, which is already up for deletion at WP:FFD and tagged as such. Is it possible for the bot to recognise existing deletion tags and skip over it? Lcmortensen (mailbox) 09:04, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

YFixed. Tim1357 ^talk 22:08, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Tim, I was wondering if DASHBot could do one more UBLP related list - a list of UBLPs that aren't in any of the other lists. I currently do this in AWB by comparing the Category:All unreferenced BLPs against the summation of 5 pages that have all 700 odd WikiProject/Cats from the DASHBot UBLP work listed. - Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Unreferenced BLPs, Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/UBLPs by music, Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/UBLPs by sport, Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/UBLPs by region]] and Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/UBLPs by other WikiProjects. I don't know anything about the detail of how DASHBot compiles its daily lists, but if it does step through every project each day, then could it compile a temporary list of all articles that are being tracked on any of the lists, and then compare that against the UBLP cat? Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/UBLPs without WikiProjects would be a good place to dump out the list. Of course if you think of a more efficient way of doing it (make a duplicate table of the Cat:UBLP and delete articles as you find them in WikiProject lists - just have to make sure you "use" all 730 lists, not just the 80-130 that are changed each day. I've just done a manual comparison and got about 200 articles, so it isn't going to be a huge list. Would be very useful, as I find AWB tends to not always retrieve the latest data for some reason. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 14:57, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Sure, do you want me to include articles in Category: Biography articles of living people? Most of the results are from that. Tim1357 ^talk 22:08, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

By the way, I ran it and saved the results [2]. Any special formatting you want? Tim1357 ^talk 00:51, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

That's fine as it is. Thanks a lot, means I can help out even without access to AWB. Can/will this be updated daily along with the other UBLP runs, or is it a separate run? The-Pope (talk) 04:39, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

It runs on a separate run around 2AM New York time. As to avoid a BRFA, the bot saves to its own user space. You can transclude the list from here: User:DASHBot/Unwatched BLPs. Tim1357 ^talk 22:34, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

I tried to respond yesterday, but it failed for some reason. I was going to say well done, it's great, but today's update wiped the lot! Any idea what happened? The-Pope (talk) 12:39, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Nope, but I re-wrote the query and it seems to work now. Tim1357 ^talk 00:30, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

It failed again yesterday, Tim. How does the query actually work? Which list/links does it use for the comparison? If you want a 2nd opinion, you could email me the code to have a look.The-Pope (talk) 23:36, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

When the affected pages are categories or files, the Report Generator link to them in the format [[File:example]] instead of [[:File:example]]. This results in the addition of the page User:DASHBot/False Postive Reports to categories or the transclusion of images into it. Is there a way to fix this? Sole Soul (talk) 00:57, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

 Done. Tim1357 ^talk 21:59, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I've had to undo one of DASHBot's edits. It got confused by reference 1 at Pain which contains both a "[URL title]" link and a "cite book". This DASHBot edit introduced a "cite error" by tacking the archiveurl parameter onto the "cite book". I suspect this won't be easy to fix... -- John of Reading (talk) 13:12, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks John. Thankfully, the cite templates dump the erroneous instances into a maintenance category (Category:Articles with broken citations). That means at least all errors can be found and fixed (eventually). For the bot task, I am working on a simple patch to make sure this doesn't happen again. Regards, Tim1357 ^talk 22:03, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi, (since you're rarely on IRC when I am) a question about checking dead links. Did you use GET or HEAD for your requests to see if link is 404? I tried HEAD but it fails to redirect then and some 404 pages auto-redirect to root page, sitemap or somewhere. The problem is some sites redirect to new location of the page, so in essence 404 redirects to live, and failing to follow the redirect would create a false 404 detection. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 12:05, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I tried HEAD aswell, but cold know get it to work for similar reasons. As of now I have resorted to using the slower GET request scheme. Tim1357 ^talk 02:18, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Doe DashBot avoid replacing redirects with possibilities? I'm trying to cut down on the usage of the bots template outside user-space - and Dash is one of the targets - I can fix up the redirects and liberate the pages if so. Rich Farmbrough, 05:26, 18 September 2010 (UTC).

I would appreciate your input at User:Terra Novus/Pending Changes Compromise. My latest proposal extends to bots and I'd like to know how much utility you see in such an idea. Thanks. —UncleDouggie (talk) 03:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Is it possible to change the edit summaries that DASHBot uses? The word "shutoff" looks like it's part of the File name, and it confused me a couple of times when I first saw it.  :) It's probably not a big deal, but if it's an easy fix, would you consider it? Everard Proudfoot (talk) 05:55, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

File:Lester James Peries.jpg file is free copy wright use. --Wipeouting (talk) 05:57, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

It would be great if wikiproject_watchlist could be enhanced to list the size of each diff. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:54, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi, the automobile watchlist is including articles from both the automobile and film WikiProjects. I can't work out why. Thanks OSX (talk • contributions) 05:55, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

The DASHBot claims that the File:Pittsburgh Power.jpg is orphaned. It is not and is used in the article Pittsburgh Power. Thanks. --Pennsylvania Penguin (talk) 14:17, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

The bot claims this file is orphaned. However, it is currently in use on the Audio Secrecy page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by John Holmes II (talk • contribs) 04:59, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

where rev_user_text="%s" and rev_deleted=0;'''%uname.replace('"','\\"'))

You shouldn't use this syntax. Or if you're going to use it, you ought to use a proper escape function, like MySQLdb.escape_string(). The proper way (as far as I'm aware, at least) is to use tuple syntax:

where rev_user_text=%s and rev_deleted=0;''' , uname)

This should automatically escape everything for you cleanly. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:46, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

See the edit it made here. The image was already tagged, and is an orphan because it was removed from an article in the process of disputing its fair-use validity. Is double-tagging it in that way intended behaviour? Wenttomowameadow (talk) 11:18, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

This may be due to the recent change I made here. I'll switch it back if it's causing problems. See here for more info. —Soap— 13:15, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't think it could be due to the change I made, because I didn't do it until several hours after that edit. But if I did somehow cause this or any other problem, I will do what it takes to fix it. Please let me know. —Soap— 13:44, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

		The Invisible Barnstar
		For your help "behind the scenes" generating the worklist for Xenobot's WikiProject banner Shelling task via the toolserver, please accept this as a small token of my appreciation. –xenotalk 14:38, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. Tim1357 ^talk 02:46, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

It reverted edits here. Apologies for not using the reporting system, but either it's not working or I wasnt able to figure out how to use it. Also, it looks like Master of Tiggers has already reported it here so this is moot. —Soap— 13:14, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks soap. The reporting tool is down right now because the log file is corrupted. I'm working on getting it up again. Tim1357 ^talk 02:55, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Now that User:DASHBot/Unwatched BLPs is working well, firstly thank you and well done on getting rid of whatever caused the blanking issue before. Can you now change when it runs to be just after the UBLP DASHBot list generation runs at about 0500-0600 UTC, as I'm finding that there are often quite a few newly tagged UBLPs that get added to the list only because they were tagged between 0500 UTC when the DASHBot UBLP lists are compiled and 2000 UTC when this task has been running. Also, any articles that get added to a Project in this time don't drop off the list for two days. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 16:11, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

As DASHBotAV runs with reviewer rights, perhaps you can clear up some confusion here: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Should bots ever have reviewer rights?. –xeno^talk 16:11, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

 Done [3] Tim1357 ^talk 03:03, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

It is currently in my user space until I develop enough other articles to make it less of an orphan. The article is on a company and the picture is their logo, used w/permission of the company. Therefore there is no reason to have the image removed. Why does your bot keep deleting it? It shouldn't under wiki's guidelines.

Jgerdom (talk) 18:00, 4 October 2010 (UTC) jgerdom 10/4/10

Edit: sorry for the tone. It's just annoying having to un-tag it every day. Jgerdom (talk) 15:23, 5 October 2010 (UTC)Jgerdom —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jgerdom (talk • contribs) 18:01, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Fair use images can only be used in article space. Your userspace draft is not an article yet, it is not in article space, therefore the image is not used under fair use criteria. The image is copyrighted by the company, there is no explicit verifiable permission given by the company to use this image on WP and in userspace. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 15:49, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

It claims images I had were non- free, but yet they've been here for years under major articles:

• Pokemon
• Sim City 4
• Diary of a Wimpy kid cover
  

actually, the last two wern't here for over 5 years, but were here for a while. I was going to change the images anyway, but I don't know if the bot is functioning properly.

This Is Mocha2007!

Can you please help fix my userpage? Now I can't get my boxes to function properly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mocha2007 (talk • contribs) 14:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

The images weren't removed, they were just removed from your user page. You can't have images used under a fair-use rational on your user page because it's no longer "fair use", it's just "I want them". They can only legally be used to illustrate a point in an article; as meaningless decorations on your user page you're causing copyright issues for Wikipedia. As a side note: your signature is obnoxious. Wenttomowameadow (talk) 14:36, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

WP:FAIRUSE. Copyrighted images can only be used under "fair use" in article space. Also, WP:SIGNATURES. You are not allowed images in signatures. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 15:05, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Hey, Tim1357. WikiProject Films is planning a bot to go through their articles and cleanup a whole bunch of stuff. It would be best if the bot creator has some knowledge of film articles, templates and categories and as you are the only other bot owner is also a WikiProject Films participant (me being the other but this beyond my skill level), I thought I'd ask if you would be willing to write the bot. The discussion can be found here. - Kollision (talk) 09:26, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi. I understand that you own DASHBot, correct? So I'll tell you this...

About the message that the VSU logo, I checked the Visayas State University wikipage and it turns out that someone put a deleted png format logo while mine is a jpg format logo that's why DASHBot send me a message telling me that my uploaded logo was orphaned. So i put the jpg logo back in. Hope I cleared it all up. Thank you.

RNAlonto (talk) 09:23, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Hello, Tim1357. You have new messages at Newportm's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Need I say more? The instructions say you're the one to turn it back on. Or maybe an administrator knows how to do it. mechamind90 22:36, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

I believe it was unjust for the picutres to be removed. I believe that I put the pictures there to help better illustrate the article. Railer-man (talk) 23:20, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

		Anti-vandalism bot operator's barnstar
		For creating and maintaining DASHBotAV to fight against those who have too much spare time and too little clue. Keep up the good (bot)work! —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 17:48, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

This isn't really serious enough to shut the bot down for, but I just wanted to let you know apparently the bot is tagging orphan images and notifying the uploader even if someone's already done that (see for example [4] where it added an additional orphan tag even though I already tagged it, and [5] where it re-notified the uploader). Not sure if there's a function in to check whether an image is already tagged or an uploader already notified, but perhaps a check could be done for that? Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 07:39, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Did you mean to post your message on User:Mono's talk page? PrincessofLlyr ^{royal court} 02:59, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Haha. Yup. Tim1357 ^talk 03:02, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, and are you sure it was Mono you wanted to warn? He hasn't even edited the page to which you linked. PrincessofLlyr ^{royal court} 03:05, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Dripping Flame's userpage says that the account is a sock of Mono's. Tim1357 ^talk 03:10, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Ah, my bad. I thought I knew all his alternates....sorry to bother you. PrincessofLlyr ^{royal court} 03:14, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

It wasn't me that put it there. — Rlevse • Talk • 09:34, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Dear Tim,

I hope your day is going well. I work for a company called Cymax Stores Inc. We are looking to broaden our online presence as an e-commerce company and improve company awareness with our customers. I recently uploaded a Wiki page named Cymax Office (one of our website address names) and had my team filling out all the info today. We noticed that the page was put for deletion by a bot you are running. I would like to ask the reason this page is being removed from Wikipedia and what I can do to get it up and running again.

Appreciate the help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.183.17.201 (talk) 22:56, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Why was my image of Harry Kalas' autograph removed by your bot, then orphaned? I own the autograph, as it was in a hand-written letter that Kalas had personally sent to me, and I claim fair use and grant permission as I am the owner of that image. My belief is that I obtained ownership of that particular example of his signature from the time his letter was placed in my postal mailbox in 2004.

Kalas was not selfish in sharing his autograph, signing at any time anywhere for anyone who took their time to ask him, and, as a very humble man, he was extremely grateful to his fans that they thought highly enough of him to ask him for an autograph. That's why I feel so strongly that his signature should be included in the article about him.

I have tried to restore the autograph, without success. Please help! Thanks...Bill S. (talk) 01:55, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

I continue to get the same message posted by your bot every day about this signature - I would like it restored if possible, and for your bot to stop trying to label this signature. See reasons above. Bill S. (talk) 11:48, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Tim, hope you are well, I was wondering if you would be willing to dust Botlaf off for a couple of extra runs related to the Unreferenced BLP project?

1. We have Wikipedia's tenth anniversary coming up early next year and some people would like to clear the UBLP baclog by then. If I could get a "celebrity" message for Dashbot to deliver to the projects would you be willing to deliver it?
2. The last Dashbot run to the article authors omitted any author who had received a message in January, but many of these authors are going to be among the authors of the thousands of old unreferenced BLPs that have been identified this summer. Would you be willing to send a Dashbot reminder to these editors, especially where the list of articles would be different to the one you sent in January.

Also if you are or know a Python coder, Olaf Davies is retiring so I need someone to takeover from user:Botlaf

Regards ϢereSpielChequers 17:04, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi,

I noticed that your bot left a message for me (here) about the impending deletion of orphaned fair use image File:Zucaritascamera.jpg.

Apparently, although your bot notified me (as the most recent modifier of the image), it did *not* notify the original uploader (see Alx_91's talk history).

It would make sense to alter your bot to *also* notify the original uploader of the image as well, as they likely have at least as much interest in it as others do. Ubcule (talk) 11:00, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

You should also make sure that bots don't try to contact the dead! Neilm has a recent message (August 2010) about Unreferenced BLPs - not much he can do about it since he died four years ago! Can you program that Bot to not post on user talk pages with the Deceased Wikipedian template on them? Digifiend (talk) 13:56, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi. DASHbot had a false positive with the file En-derin-g-files.png[6]. The image is in use on an Incubator page at Wikipedia:Article Incubator/En Derin. I tried to shut down the bot, but the page User:DASHBot/F5 is protected. I've gone ahead and undone the bot edit[7] to the file. Thanks.     Eclipsed   ¤     09:02, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

And again.. DASHbot had a false positive on the exact same file. As the bot owner is not responding, we request any admin to immediately turn off this bot, and have the owner redo the logic before turning it back on.     Eclipsed   ¤     08:12, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

I have posted a request for a temporary shutdown of DASHBot on Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#DASHbot_ongoing_false_positives_in_Article_Incubator.     Eclipsed   ¤     08:21, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

I would guess that because it isn't in mainspace, but in Wikipedia: namespace, the non-free use licensing does not allow it to be shown. The problem is with the file and it's location, not with Dashbot. You'll have to get the article back into mainspace to use it.The-Pope (talk) 08:55, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

While this may be valid for most non-mainspace pages, I put forward that it is not valid, and indeed very unhelpful, in regards to Wikipedia:Article Incubator. The whole idea of the Article Incubator is to work on pages outside of the mainspace, in preparation to be moved into mainspace when ready. Having files tagged for deletion, with the only basis being they exist within the Article Incubator, is Not Good. It is detrimental, unhelpful, and distracting to incubation editors trying to build up good articles.     Eclipsed   ¤     09:04, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Well you'll just have to work within the LAW, which is what the non-free use policies are based on. Use a placeholder, graduate the article, replace it with the real image. Solved. The-Pope (talk) 09:24, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Suggest all interested parties go to mediation: Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-10-30/Images in Article Incubator Thanks.     Eclipsed   ¤     09:50, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Could you refresh WP:Mistagged BLP cleanup once more, please? Gigs (talk) 02:54, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I notice DASHBot still notifies the user only when there is a non-free file in their user space. The bot should be able to figure out like ClueBot or XLinkBot who added the image and refrain from notifying the user when they didn't add it. mechamind90 14:02, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I just received some messages from DASHbot about: File:AcesHigh Brooke 01.jpg, File:AcesHighBrooke 02.jpg, File:AcesHigh WWI F2b4.jpg and File:AcesHigh Blade 03.jpeg. The messages erroneously stated that the images were orphaned, however this is not the case - each one is in use by the article on Aces High (video game). I'm not sure whether the bot is going to delete those images or not, but if so would you please remove them from the deletion queue, as the bot is incorrect. ResPublicae (talk) 12:29, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

[8]. This image was posted on my talk page as part of the notification of a TFA blurb, for an article a fair-use rationale has been made. Malleus Fatuorum 05:32, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

[9] An image I uploaded, [10], the bot falsely claims that it is orphaned and that it will be removed if I don't find it an article. Please see for your self, it is used in the Weeds (TV series) article. :) ATC ^{. Talk} 05:51, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

People tend to make many more errors than bots. File:Weeds_logo.png is used in the article, not the file you uploaded. The-Pope (talk) 06:41, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Hello there! Ummmm...your bot seems to have mistakenly deemed my file File:Get back up.jpg and orphan. It is used in the Get Back Up (tobyMac song) article. I check the file in the infobox, and it is the one I uploaded. Master Frederique (talk) 14:28, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Again people make mistakes, not correctly programmed bots. Check the article AND file history. The article was changed for a few hours, removing the file from display. A few hours later, it was reverted. And guess what, when that happened, the bot took the deletion tag off the file. IT WORKS, OK. If it tags your file, then there is, or was at the time, a problem. Look at your file and article. Forget about the bot. The-Pope (talk) 16:01, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Tim, can i know how to get the watchlist for [[Category : Roads in India]] ? Thanks in advance --naveenpf (talk) 04:50, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Is there a way to transclude your toolserver tool at [11] to be incorporated into Template:WikiProject Star Trek changes, so that it displays on the project's main page? Thanks, --Funandtrvl (talk) 05:19, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Wouldnt the NG be covered by the search on ClueBot?—Soap— 01:27, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I just noticed a Dashbot message (I think it was about using non-free images in Userspace) where part of the message is "However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia". IMHO, this is poorly worded and could be confusing. Perhaps it would be better phrased as "However, please note that non-free images for which a free replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia"? Some guy (talk) 01:45, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi. I would like to run the F5 bot in Malayalam Wikipedia and tag all unused non-free images. Can you please give technical guidance? --Sreejith K (talk) 12:06, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

The DaVinci Barnstar

I hereby award you, Tim1357, the DaVinci Barnstar for creating the amazing vandal-fighting ClueBot NG. It seems to always revert vandalism within two seconds! If I had a nickel for everytime it beat me to the revert... Excellent work! :) --Meaghan [talk] ≈ 00:43, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Would you mind using {{subst:User:Tim1357/PROD|...}} rather than {{User:Tim1357/PROD|...}}? The reason is that it is causing your page to appear in Wikipedia:Database reports/Transplanted user templates if it is not substituted. Thanks! 134.253.26.6 (talk) 23:41, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

G'day Tim, It seems that the bot run that you setup here has stopped. It would be greatly appreciated if you could restart it. If you could also change the time it runs to approx 0600 GMT, that would stop it finding a bunch of articles that were tagged after the other DASHbot UBLP run is done at 0500 GMT. Thanks. The-Pope (talk) 14:26, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi Tim, I don't know why your bot removed these images:

Figural representation of Indiana 100x100px|Bust of Colonel Richard Owen Pedestal of missing bust of Robert Dale Owen They are all licensed to be in the public domain. Please return them.

Thanks, --RichardMcCoy (talk) 05:09, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi Tim. Why is DASHbot marking new pages as 'patrolled' when they should be up for speedy deletion? is there something I don't understand? --Kudpung (talk) 15:30, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Hello, Tim: This morning when I logged on I was greeted with a distinctly cold message that said, in full, "Removing fair use file(s), per WP:NFCC#9". Frankly, it is really annoying to receive what I call "bureaucratese" from a place (WP) that could really be a lot friendlier. I just don't understand why folks around here can't be a little more pleasant. (And I wonder how I can design a page if I can't have the graphic on the page while I am laying it out). For a joint with no rules, there are certainly a lot of rules, aren't there? Sincerely (and a little ticked because I haven't had my coffee yet), your pal, GeorgeLouis (talk) 15:55, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Could you refresh WP:Mistagged BLP cleanup, please? Gigs (talk) 16:31, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

ϢereSpielChequers is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Xmas, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec10/Balloon}} to your friends' talk pages.

I wanted to use the badges of Leamington F.C. and Coventry City F.C. on my user page:

As you can see though, the images were removed by DASHBot. Is there any way of keeping the images? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edd of Mercia (talk • contribs) 09:51, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

I've left a note here relating to the Megafauna vandal. I'm so glad to see there are others working on this irritating issue. -Thibbs (talk) 02:30, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year
to you and your family.

May your day be filled with
pleasant surprises.
Link to Image

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Sumsum2010 (talk) at 04:14, 20 December 2010 (UTC).

About an hour ago, I was able to view Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Biography, but now I am having difficulty in repeating the process. A few months ago, I was having difficulty in viewing it, so I refrained from adding it to WP:XWA and WP:XWT at that time. I am guessing that the size of the WikiProject (the number of articles on that watchlist) is what is causing problems. Please investigate and solve the problem(s), if you can. (Your talk page is on my watchlist, and I will watch here for a reply or replies.)
—Wavelength (talk) 01:50, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

You are correct. The way the tool works (right now, at least) is pull all the pages in a single wikiproject, hold them in memory, and check them against the recent changes list. This means, at present, that the size of the wikiproject will affect how long the query takes to run. I have a secondary query that works well with large projects, all you have to do is add &q=2 to the url. It's depreciated, but it should be fine to use for now. Tim1357 ^talk 04:16, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I have made the following revisions.

• Wikipedia:List of WikiProject watchlists (alphabetical) WP:XWA
• Wikipedia:List of WikiProject watchlists (topical) WP:XWT
• Wikipedia:Citizendium workgroups, Wikipedia WikiProjects, and watchlists WP:CZWPW
• Wikipedia talk:Citizendium workgroups, Wikipedia WikiProjects, and watchlists
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography WP:BIOG

(I assume that you meant deprecated, and not depreciated.)

—Wavelength (talk) 20:05, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

	The Mistagged BLP Cleanup Barnstar
	This barnstar does not cite any references or sources.[1][2][3] For your work with mistagged BLPs, thank you! The list is now empty with your help. Gigs (talk) 05:42, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Useful :) Could you add the namespace sort functionality? For example, I'd like to see recent project-related talk page discussions only. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 16:55, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Your bot tagged File:ACESHIGHII.jpg as an orphaned fair-use. Apparently this was because the page it was on was moved the day before. Marcus Qwertyus 00:41, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading File:IUPUCLogo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Hugahoody (talk) 18:55, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading File:Helium logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Hugahoody (talk) 19:59, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello Tim! Please see my response at Wikipedia:Bot requests#.22Hot articles.22 bot for Wikiprojects. Thanks! Kaldari (talk) 22:47, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

After running for months without a hiccup, it seems to have stopped today, on a record-breaking day (over 700 UBLPs done in a day). Any idea why? Happy new year, by the way... hope you had a good festive season! Regards, The-Pope (talk) 06:01, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

They just update the toolserver to run on solaris. Ill check to see if I can get it to run. Thanks for the heads up and Happy New Year to you too. Tim1357 ^talk 06:04, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello, Tim1357/Archive 6! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 20:47, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

No thank you. --Tim1357 ^talk 23:10, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Tim, I am working on fr.wp. I try to use my bot using pywikipedia. I saw you marked patrolled pages with your bot, so maybe you can help me. For sport project, I would like to list (no more, users will check manually) unpatrolled pages, so not necessary in recent pages. Is it possible to know when a page is unpatrolled with its last revision? If not, I would like to list sport pages in recent pages which are not patrolled, how do? site.recentchanges(rcprop='patrolled') doesn't work. Thanks --Sisyph (talk) 21:45, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

There is a manual for the mediawaiki api here. You can get a list of new, unpatrolled, articles by querying this url, but you must be logged and have the patroller right in order to see the results. If you want to fetch these results with an automated process, you must send cookies along with the request. I use pywikipedia, which has a simple function to do this (but there are many other simple libraries that work as well). Tim1357 ^talk 22:50, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Ok, thank you, I will try it. --Sisyph (talk) 06:04, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Tim, I'd like to be able to use your new sock tool, but can't get the graph to display. It also makes the browser crash. I've tried it with Firefox and Internet Explorer, and it was the same with both. I'm using Windows Vista, and the computer has 6 GB RAM. Is there something I can do my end to make it work? SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 23:39, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

I am still trying to find a way to make these graphs less CPU intensive. I think the best way to get a graph right now is to get the raw CSV data and make the scatterplot in excel. You can download the CSV data by going to http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/cgi-bin/UserGraph/UserCsv.py?u1=<USER ONE>&u2=<USER TWO>. Just so I can try and improve the tool, which two users were you comparing? Tim1357 ^talk 03:54, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Tim, thanks. I'm afraid I'd have no idea how to make the graph myself using the raw data, and it would probably be wise for me not to say which users I was comparing. :) Suffice to say, I think your tool will be very helpful, so I wish you all the best with your work on it. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 05:14, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

{{GLNF|File:...}} at least leaves a hint to the reader/viewer that there is an image there that needs assistance. It is less inconvenient for others than the way your bot is presently set.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 08:57, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Tim1357, I noticed this note and I'm wondering if it's possible to tweak your bot not to leave a note if it finds an images at sbupages of User:Multichill/Free uploads ? multichill (talk) 10:57, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

As to keep from bombing user talk pages, the bot only leaves one message per user. So you should be all set. Tim1357 ^talk 22:32, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello, I just became aware that my image at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_is_on_Fire has been removed. I thought I'd covered all bases to prevent this from happening. But rest assured, this image does indeed belong on this page (I am the photographer/own the copyright; it is the band's official press photo; there is no replacement for the image, etc.) The page is currently preventing me from reuploading the image. Can this be fixed so I can restore it to my client's page? Thank you! MaraRobinson (talk) 21:52, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Tim1357, I noticed DASHbot resized this image to 400x400. But according to Template:Infobox_album#Cover, non-free images for album covers should be no larger than 300 pixels on any side. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 18:41, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Yep. 400px was chosen as a reasonable compromise, because 300px may have been too much of a reduction (reducing the resolution to a point where the image is useless). This reminds me that I should probably run this again sometime. Tim1357 ^talk 12:13, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Heya. I'm a person.

HIGH SOCKS! Diamond rosegem (talk) 17:54, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Haha. Ok. Tim1357 ^talk 12:10, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your participation in this years fundraiser/contribution team effort. It's the first time we've ever tried doing anything like this combined, and it worked really well. We look forward to your help next year! Regards, ⇒DanRosenthal (WMF) 08:56, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

I looked at the german article. A GA can be made of this one in English. So i removed your PROD. Bearian (talk) 18:52, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Tim, I've noticed that Dashbot hasn't been removing CSD F5 tags from images that are back in use lately (Seems the last such edit was 7 January) Any chance of this feature coming back? Courcelles 03:30, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. We recently moved to a new server and I forgot to check to see if this was still working. It's up now and should run every hour from here on out. Tim1357 ^talk 12:09, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks... makes life easier, this feature does :) Courcelles 07:38, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

No problem. . Tim1357 ^talk 16:57, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Tim. Can you explain how DashBot can patrol inadequate articles such as Sudarshana Model School as suitable for the encyclopedia? See: Tag filter:

• 16:30, 19 September 2010 DASHBot (talk | contribs) marked Sudarshana Model School patrolled
  ‎

--Kudpung (talk) 07:34, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

I believe DashBot is set to patrol all articles submitted to a deletion process. It marked the article patrolled at 09:30 19 September, two minutes after it had been Been PRODDED]. Now, since prods can be removed by original authors, I'm not sure this is actually a good idea... Courcelles 07:37, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, solved. It did not resurface on my watchlist until today. My error was in not looking back far enough (nearly 5 months) in the history, but I had to suffer a long and unneccesary lecture a few moments ago from an admin as if I were a noob! Your comment is valid about the 2 minutes, because one of our main problems is that angry creators just remove maintenance templates without a care for policy or guidelines.--Kudpung (talk) 08:16, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes, the idea was to take articles off the NewPages list if they were CSD'ed, AFD'ed, or PROD'ed. It's been a while since I thought about this, and I think I'll spend a few minutes cleaning up the code. Thanks for the message. -- Tim1357 ^talk 17:02, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi! I noted that Dashbot tagged a fair use image as an orphan diff less than three hours after the image was removed from its article by an anon in a content dispute diff. I think that's a tad quick, don't you? People have to eat, bathe, and sleep as well as other aspects of life outside of Wikipedia. I wouldn't like to see useful images getting deleted because some anon knocked it off the article while I was busy with real life! Is there a way to get the bot to give an (at least) 24 hour grace period maybe? Thanks! --Ashanda (talk) 07:45, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Ashanda. Thank you for the message. I have received that same complaint a few times before, and until now I haven't really been able to think of a way to prevent this. The problem is that there is no easy way to tell when an image was removed, without going through tons of revisions checking to see when it was removed. To get around this, I think I could have the bot check once if a file is used, then check again in 24 hours to see if it is still unused. Only after the second check would it tag the file as orphaned. Sound good? Tim1357 ^talk 16:55, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

I threw down some notes about your new report here. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:34, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

I wanted to make sure you saw this as well. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:06, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

• http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py?template=
• Man you kept that one hidden! What a great tool and wish I knew about it before. ;) Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 23:23, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Haha, thanks. I've been a bit timid about self-promoting. Tell me here if you think of any features that you'd like to see added. Tim1357 ^talk 16:59, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Include talk page edits! Include talk page edits! Include talk page edits! Include talk page edits! Include talk page edits! An awesome feature would be to include talk pages edits by default. :) Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 00:31, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

It would it good also if it could maintain the secure .i.e if you came to it from https://secure.wikimedia.org then it would link to pages on (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki) rather then (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki). Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 04:10, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm curious as to where you are getting the information you are currently adding to articles? Because this edit is completely wrong. In fact, it is about 200 miles away wrong. Are you running some kind of bot for this? Heiro 03:21, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Nope. I was, however, testing out a script to find coordinates for articles. The script checks google maps for coordinates, asks me if they are correct, and adds them to the article. I was checking that they were correct, but only on the state level. (I saw this was in Kentucky and thought it was correct). Google maps thought Adam's Site was Adams Street, which is where the error came from. I think, because of this error, I cannot trust Google Maps as much as I have been. Thanks for the heads up. Tim1357 ^talk 03:40, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

I randomly checked 3 or so others, and they seemed ok, although the ones outside the US I wouldn't swear to knowing for sure. But even if only 1 in 10 ends up being wrong, you're doing so many that it could add up to a significant number after awhile. You're system may work well for sites inside populated urban areas with street numbers, names, and etc, but maybe remove rural areas/archaeological sites/similar listings? I like it that you're figuring out a way to add this info, I'm just worried it could add incorrect data that may never be checked again for its accuracy.Heiro 03:53, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

I have recently started a WebCiteBOT Replacement Task Force to help coordinate an effort to get a new WebCiteBOT to combat WP:LINKROT. Last November 2010, you were working on this issue and had made some progress. I would like to cordially invite you to give your input on the software part of this project as well as other parts, if you are interested. Thanks. - Hydroxonium (H₃O⁺) 16:43, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

I added this page to Category:Inactive Wikipedia bots since it is disabled. I wasn't sure if this was okay or not so I just wanted to check with you if that's alright to do. -- œ^™ 09:10, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Nice tool, and I've been using it a lot to pick up vandalism etc. You have a tickbox for "Hide IP Edits" (actually "Edtis" though!). In my experience it is the IP edits that are most worth checking - any chance of another option to hide non-IP edits? AllyD (talk) 12:19, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Done. Nice idea. Tim1357 ^talk 04:10, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

• Thanks - it's been useful already! AllyD (talk) 11:41, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

This could be a useful tool for members of WikiProjects. Would it be feasible to include a filter for custom parameters (e.g. like those for the different categoies/systems within {{WikiProject Computing}} )? I've been searching for a tool that could be used for a project which doesn't have its own banner template - it uses that of its parent project. I've found nothing more suitable under either WP:COUNT or Toolserver/Projects. Thanks. --trevj 13:59, 8 February 2011 (UTC) (And this is the other place I looked at.) --trevj (talk) 15:13, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Could you have a look at this thread and especially this diff? It looks as if DASHBot lost track of which tags were at the top of the file; the edit summary doesn't match the edit it actually made. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:23, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Are both now at trial completed status. Rich Farmbrough, 01:02, 6 February 2011 (UTC).

Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 06:32, 8 February 2011 (UTC).

There was actually quite a bit of controversy about the movie, and the soldier Jimmy Massey who may or may not have lied or exaggerated. I would appreciate assistance if you could help me with this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Freelance-writer-editor (talk • contribs) 01:27, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Having DASHBot "bypass" redirects which redirect to sections and subtopics [12] is not too helpful. WP:R#NOTBROKEN states under Exceptions: "There are exceptions to this exception: where a redirect represents a distinct sub-topic within a larger article and is not merely a variant name, it is preferable to leave the redirect in the template." Bypassing such redirects also tends to lead to link breakage later. Redirects are easy to find and update when an anchor or section is renamed while direct section links from templates and other pages are not. I guess that this was something that no one thought of during the DASHBot 12 BRFA but you should probably add an exception to the code you are using to exclude bypassing these type of redirects. --Tothwolf (talk) 15:54, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

 Done. Redirects that link to section headers are not used. Tim1357 ^talk 02:01, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

I just saw that Gunther Eysenbach of WebCitation.org raised the reward for a working WevCiteBot to $535.00. Please refer to the bounty board and the related discussion. You can find Gunther's email address here. Best regards. - Hydroxonium (H₃O⁺) 20:45, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi. I noticed this edit of yours. I guess this is done by Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DASHBot 11. Here are some questions:

• What is is |deadurl=? It's not mentioned in the BRFA and I don't see it in the manual of {{cite web}}. It causes WP:AWB to alert for invalid parameter.
• Why not use the {{dead link}} as you write in the BRFA?
• If the archiveaurl is alive why have this extra parameter?

Thanks! -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:48, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

I use the same parameter, I use it when archiving a link to state whether or not the original link is still valid. (preemptive checking and archiving) ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 22:03, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

This parameter isn't even documented. Should we document it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:37, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

It needs fully implemented in the template too, something that has made many users head's explode, so that it does not display the archive link if deadurl=no . ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 13:57, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I think your bot has made a mistake with File:KochiLogo.png. I am not sure how to turn it off. Could you help me out with this? ashwinikalantri ^talk 07:42, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I think your bot has made a mistake with File:KochiLogo.png. I am not sure how to turn it off. Could you help me out with this? ashwinikalantri ^talk 07:42, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Tim. Nice bot! I would like to request you add a specific handler for NFCC found in user sandbox space... removal is obviously fine, but how about a customized message stating that the bot cleaned up the sandbox? Thanks! //Blaxthos ( t / c ) 19:26, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm Jdu46. I am trying to illustate an article I am writing on this Scottish Missionary who died in 1937, with a photo of Laws taken in, I think, 1930. You recently deleted the image. I have permission from Edinburgh University Library to use the photo which they confirm is already in the public domain (it is over 80 years old). I have uploaded it again but I still can't get it to appear in my draft article. What can I do to make it appear? Thanks (Jdu46 (talk) 21:11, 20 February 2011 (UTC))

whatever the hell the student bot crap is, cut it out. none of the crap on here is ever considered usable anyway, all schools and universities never allow this as a credible reference, so before you delete my shit ASK or let me know... don't allow people to write a biography and then delete it because of your credit bull... i freaking wrote the facts about the biography, then again it is my fiance and it is all over the internet... google it... idiots i swear — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leanndrisc (talk • contribs)

Template:WikiProject Christianity (T:WPC) has multiple other projects listed on that template as task forces, some of which also have their own stand alone templates, such as Template:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement (T:WPLDSM). Currently I'm able to use your Wikiproject Watchlist tool to see article talk pages tagged with T:WPLDSM; however the articles tagged with T:WPC that also include wp:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement (wp:WPLDSM) as a task force option are only visible intermixed with all of the rest of the wp:WikiProject Christianity (wp:WPC) articles. Since wp:WPC covers such a broad range and large number of articles, wp:WPLDSM articles are nearly invisible in the wider fray within your tool.

Is there a way to make all articles appear that are either tagged with T:WPLDSM or with T:WPC + wp:WPLDSM task force option when using this or some other query?

The reason I ask is User:John Carter and others are advocating a gradual replacement all T:WPLDSM with T:WPC (see here & here for more details), so there are some articles using one template & some the other. After thinking that thru, besides my own personal preference (which is irrelevant), one of the major reasons I would not like this to happen is that your Wikiproject Watchlist tool could no longer be used to to see what is happening with articles tagged as specifically relevant to wp:WPLDSM; how ever if your tool can separate out wp:WPLDSM articles tagged either way, this wouldn't be a valid issue.

I assume that there could be issues with other tools or process that rely on T:WPLDSM being used to identify an article with that WikiProject (maybe including WP 1.0?), but I really don't understand the dependencies on WikiProject templates to find out & explain as I'm being asked to on the project talk page. Is there anywhere that explains what tools/processes rely on a WikiProject's template in order to work? -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 20:32, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

		Bot Operator's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to you for the work on WikiProject Watchlist. I find it very usefull. Keep up the good work!

^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 11:37, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Tim1357 ^talk 21:28, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Tim. I was working on a proposed merge of Under_the_Sheets in my sandbox. Dashbot deleted an image that is in the original article; that's fine by me, but if the image is bad, shouldn't it be deleted from Under_the_Sheets as well as User:Simon Dodd/Sandbox/Lights which simply copies the former?- Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 13:56, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

As the notice on your talk page said..."non-free files are not allowed in user or talk space." They may be OK in mainspace, if they have the right rationale (needs a human to check), but are not allowed under any circumstances in userspace.The-Pope (talk) 14:16, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

The Dashbot UBLP task didn't run today - does the bot need a restart or does it think under 10000 is good enough! The-Pope (talk) 09:18, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

I had just done a lot of work to the {{American folklore}} Navbox, and frankly I was not looking forward to the next task of checking all the links and defeating the many redirects I suspected. Thank you beyond words for DB and its defeat of the redirects with this edit!  — Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  21:06, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Your welcome! Tim1357 ^talk 01:06, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Bypassing redirects is useful when the template is transcluded in the linked page, so that the link becomes a bolding. But when it's not, it's pointless. I've rolled back a couple of these: [13] [14] Please make the bot check if there's actually any benefit to its change. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 15:25, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

I agree that this is a bad action. Many of these redirects are that way so that when the articles are created the links are already in place. Removing these redirects means extra work trying to figure out where these links are when the articles are created. Please refrain from changing these. Redirects are cheap and not errors. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:30, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Bot stopped. Sorry I restarted it. I actually had forgotten why I had turned it off in the first place (because of a complaint similar to yours) and I restarted it yesterday. Please accept my apology, and tell me if I can help make navbox links more effective. Tim1357 ^talk 00:03, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

I don't understand. If it's "pointless", then why is it so big a deal that you must change it back, and come here to chastise the bot? And maybe it's not pointless. Maybe at some point the Navbox will be added to the pages, and then the redirect will need to be defeated. I came here to praise DB for defeating a ton of redirects in another template, and here I find editors putting DB down for pointless defeats of redirects in templates. I agree that it's pointless to defeat redirects in other media, but not in these templates. It's always a good idea, in my opinion.  — Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  21:06, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

By the way, the bot only changes links if the template is used in the article linked. So if Navbox has a link to Redirect, and the Navbox is used in the target of that Redirect, then the bot will change it. Otherwise it ignores it. Tim1357 ^talk

I suppose that's a very good "point", so that those who believe it to be "pointless" to defeat redirects that are not linked will get their wish. And since your bot will come and defeat a redirect if the Navbox is added to an associated article, then I suppose everyone's happy. It still would be nice to get an answer from those who think that defeating all redirects in a template is "pointless". They don't seem to have a response. Anyway, thank you again for the great work by your bot!  — Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  04:25, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi Tim, I got an "internal server error" when I tried the hot articles feature. Can you please check? — Ganeshk (talk) 22:34, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! (should be fixed) Tim1357 ^talk 01:05, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

It was fixed. Thanks. — Ganeshk (talk) 02:15, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

The main page seems to still be throwing errors. Kaldari (talk) 03:06, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Also, there might possibly be a bug with ampersands in the XML data[15], although this could be on my end. Unfortunately, the article isn't listed anymore, so I can't check where the error originated from :( Kaldari (talk) 03:15, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Do you un-xmlescape the fields? Because the tool changes '&' to '&amp;'. Tim1357 ^talk 19:33, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, everything seems to look good on your end. For some reason my script is completely losing the ampersand right away, though, so I'm not sure how to fix it. (Otherwise I would just do an html_entity_decode() on it.) Here's the source code if you have a chance to take a look. The ampersand is already missing by the time it's put in the $title variable. Kaldari (talk) 08:46, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Hey, every time I try and access the WikiProject watch-list script, this errorr occurs:

<class '_mysql_exceptions.ProgrammingError'>	Python 2.7.1: /opt/ts/python/2.7/bin/python
Wed Mar 9 20:52:57 2011
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.

 /home/tim1357/public_html/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py in ()
    428         print '</div><div id="footer">©2010 Tim1357 | The %s results above took %s seconds to generate%s.<div style="clear:both; margin-top:.5em; text-align:center;"><a href="http://toolserver.org/" target="_self"><img src="http://toolserver.org/images/wikimedia-toolserver-button.png" style="border:0" /></a></div>'%(str(r),str(time()-now)[:5], lag)
    429 
    430 
=>  431 maint()
    432 print'</html>'
maint = <function maint>
 /home/tim1357/public_html/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py in maint()
    317                 return
    318         
=>  319         (l,r)=hit(template='%s%s'%('Category:' if cat else '',template) )
    320         if not q and order.lower()=='asc':
    321                 q=1
l undefined, r undefined, global hit = <function hit>, template = 'WikiProject Surrey', cat = 0
 /home/tim1357/public_html/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py in hit(p=False, template='WikiProject Surrey')
    188         file('log','w').write(str(l))
    189         bd = connect(db='enwiki_p', host="enwiki-p.db.toolserver.org", read_default_file="/home/tim1357/.my.cnf")
=>  190         bd.query('select hit,count from u_tim1357.wikiproject where template=%s;'%format(template))
    191         r = bd.use_result().fetch_row(0)
    192         if r == ():
bd = <_mysql.connection open to 'enwiki-p.db.toolserver.org' at 845095c>, bd.query = <built-in method query of Connection object>, global format = <function <lambda>>, template = 'WikiProject Surrey'
<class '_mysql_exceptions.ProgrammingError'>: (1146, "Table 'u_tim1357.wikiproject' doesn't exist") 
      args = (1146, "Table 'u_tim1357.wikiproject' doesn't exist") 
      message = ''

Hope its not to serious!! Thanks Glanis^Talk 20:57, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

I get a similar error when I try to access the London Wikiproject watchlist. Grim²³★ 02:27, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. It took me a few days to get to this, but it's all fixed now. I'm using a different database server that shouldn't have this problem. Tim1357 ^talk 02:58, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

I am VERY confused by Wikipedia's definition of "Fair Trade" as it pertains to photographs (I even tried reading the Wikipedia article on "Fair Trade" as well -- no better). All I know is that the owner of the photograph I posted assured me via email that the photograph is NOT copyrighted and he explicitly gave me permission to use it (I have the email to prove it). But the "Bot" removed the photograph. Perhaps I categorized the photograph incorrectly, but the baffling explanation provided by the guidelines reduced picking the right categorization of this photograph a guessing game. How should I categorize this photograph when I try uploading it again? Thank you, Nolabob (talk) 01:34, 15 March 2011 (UTC)NolaBob (a relatively new Wikipedian) PS: The guidelines for posting on this talk page are not the most transparent in the world either.

Back on Feb 8, Dashbot replaced some links to redirects in this template with direct connections. This task doesn't seem to be listed on the bot's page as one of its functions, and it's a problem - those redirects are there intentionally (and in many other US county navboxes too), in order to have a central point for links like these that refer to subheadings within other articles, instead of having a potentailly fragile subheading link in each navbox. Why is the bot making these changes and how do I stop it? Colonies Chris (talk) 22:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

After a great deal of searching, I've found what appears to be the switchoff page for this bot and stopped it. Colonies Chris (talk) 12:50, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Another reason to stop this bot is that it destroys the benefit of having 'redirects with possibilities'. For example, in Template:Van Buren County, Michigan, it changed [[Lacota, Michigan|Lacota]] to [[Geneva Township, Van Buren County, Michigan|Lacota]], bypassing the redirect from Lacota, Michigan to Geneva Township, Van Buren County, Michigan, which is a larger area that includes Lacota. The benefit of leaving the redirect in place is that it allows someone to come along later and expand Lacota, Michigan into a full article without having to change the template. It seems to me this function of the bot needs to be either removed or much more tightly limited in its scope. Colonies Chris (talk) 14:38, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

This is really useful! I see that aspects of my query may have been previously discussed.[1] [2] But if the answer's there, I've missed it or misunderstood.

Do you know if it would be possible to generate a watchlist for WP:WikiProject RISC OS? This is technically (I believe) a task force under WP:WikiProject Computing.

• The Project does not use its own banner template, so on Toolserver its articles are listed within WikiProject Computing.
• Could/should we perhaps use Categories to generate a list instead?

Thanks. --trevj (talk) 12:25, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi. I just logged in after a year or more and noticed that your bot deleted an ogg file that I had created and attached to a page for the song. It's a little annoying to put in the time and effort only to find out that someone deleted the page and now that file is gone instead of being put onto the album page or used somewhere. eldavojohn (talk) 22:16, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

I noticed that there were a lot of vandals on your bot's userpage saying he was &@*. You have to report those guys. Should I protect your bot's userpage?--Tepigisthe498th (talk to me!) 12:00, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

According to your bot's contrib log, your bot hasn't been resizing fair use images lately. I'll cull the backlog when I can, but is it possible to get Dash back online? Sven Manguard Wha? 06:24, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

 Done. I re-wrote it to be more robust. It should work from now on. Tim1357 ^talk 02:05, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. By the way I assume it ignores requests it can't handle, and I assume that it can't handle sound files (or if it could, it wouldn't know what to cut). I'll stop by occasionally to get the SVGs and clean out the other stuff the bot can't handle (I've see SVGs from time to time and even a MIDI in there once.) I'll let you know again if something goes wrong. If this incident is any indication, that letting you know will involved posting to four different pages in veiled panic :D ... well anyways, thanks again. Sven Manguard Wha? 03:53, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I was swinging by about the same thing. I helped reduce the backlog in the last couple of days since there were files in there from March 30 onward; sounds like it's probably under control. I too will help keep an eye out for OGG files. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 00:48, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

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