User talk:ST47/Archive4

3557:(I Spy Forum - TV (Robert Culp, Bill Cosby) Our Forum is the premiere site for all relevant and current news and discussion topics relating to the subject of the 60s TV Show "I SPY." Our site has been active daily for the past 8 years. We have been consultants on the new "I SPY" Book and on the "I SPY" CD and a particpant in SPYFEST. We are NOT a typical message board, but the active participant in keeping the spirit of "I SPY" alive. We are in touch with production staff, writers, etc. from the show. Our site (as an "external link" was deleted the other day on both pages - I thought this was done in error and re-added our site, to find that it is gone again today. PLEASE check our site!!! Please do not dismiss the valuable and relevant content we offer because the word FORUM is in our title. We should be included on Knowledge, as we are the most current and actively contributing site for information on "I SPY" available out there - and it's a disservice to your readers, if we are not included on these two pages. We've been a part of these Knowledge pages for so long, please help us get re-instated. Thank you, Tatia Loring Tatia Loring 04:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC) 6433: 378:"You've been here for months, made thousands of edits, and devoted hundreds of hours to Knowledge without pay or and tangible reward. Above you said why you wanted to be an admin, but why do you want to be a Wikipedian? What was your motivation for joining, and for staying?" This question has helped me decide whether I want to oppose or support a Wikipedian. I wonder if we should add it to the standard questions? - 214: 3777:

be one of the 3 or so message boards which actually have substantive discussion of the television program. The Bad Girls links section still contains links to other message boards with less substantive discussions (including a link to a message board which isn't even about the show!), and other sites which are specific to a single character. So what makes this link different such that it had to be deleted?

6412:, so it goes into a loop constantly adding the name, since it thinks that the request still needs to be archived. Maybe a good way to solve this problem would be for the bot to check if the username is already listed on the log (in any capitalisation) and only add the name if it's not already there. This would also be useful to prevent problems where both a human editor and the bot add the name to the list. 6099:

that up on the weekend when I return. That way when I get the account for the server, you could possibly help me transfer it and get it all running. If that is too hard or you can't, dont worry as there is no reason to keep it non-running for a little while as its not that urgent. Also, could you give me a few specs on the bot itself (programming language, suggested name, etc). I would like to call it

3274: 1174: 6491:. Much discussion has gone into the topic a while back (don't remember the exact pages though, sorry) and it was decided the bot would go against our main objective which is to improve the community, not post automatic wishes, especially when the wishes are just templates. I've posted this at the talks of both Extranet and ST47, I suggest discussion continues on ST47's page. + 5585:

give you the right to remove it from my user page. Do all the "frowning" you like on my talk page (might I suggest that you use an emoticon for the purpose?), but please do not edit my user page again. The rule says that it is to be "avoided", not removed. Please follow the rule and avoid looking at my user page and it will cease to bother you. Have a nice day! :-)

4945:, no standardised template is used for similar accounts; instead a statement of what it's similar to and a brief summary of that account is placed underneath the request. These requests won't need to be archived since they can be handled as normal, but only by an administrator, so they can just sit around on the page for a bit longer. 2687:. But this interwiki is total wrong. In german wikipedia this interwiki Hanga (Sprache) means an article for an african language and in english wikipedia this article is part of hindu history. So can there be more than only a mistake...maybe a chaotic bot or a vandal bot. I write you, because i just elect an admin from the adminlist. 5638: 5226:) which seems a little weird to me since Walloon is spoken mainly in Belgium and in a very small area of the French Ardennes. Therefore I wonder whether Walloon actually needs to be included in the Wikiproject France or whether this article has met some criterions that made it available for this project. -- 6019:

article, and the bot may or may not be able to show you how enter a calculation which would be appropriate to that equation on a calculator or give an actual example. As I said before, it would be nice if it did result in this theory 'bot' but if it didn't I would appreciate the thought you put in to

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Hey yeah; its me Arjun. I was wondering if you would like to give RFA another shot; from my view you are an experienced spam/vandal fighter (like me :D) and you have improved greatly since you last RFA's. You are civil and that was a problem in the past. I am not going to create another subpage since

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Could you write a bot that could collect the types of information that we are discussing on the vandalism study page? Given the fact that most of the current volunteers at don't know how to write a program for a bot, could you explain to us what would be easy to create and what would be difficult to

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is taken, but you can name it. Something like EventBot or equivalent. I'm off on holidays now, so I will probably return to find the bot making some edits, which will be a good sign. I have requested for a toolserver account, that should require approval which I will do when I come back. Many thanks

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I had started by drafting an email to Knowledge asking for its permission to grant a link only to detect no suitable addressee. Can you please tell me what's wrong with the added links? Beats me? Please feel free to scan the site cited in the deleted edits and satisfy yourself. Look like spam?

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Why was the link to the Helen & Nikki message board removed from the Bad Girls link section? I re-read the Knowledge external link guidelines, and none of the categories of prohibited links pertains in this case. I'm not the person who added that link in the first place, but it does happen to

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Thanks for your response ST47, but please re-read the following. Our I SPY FORUM is NOT a casual message board. We are the main source for all current news about this 60s show. We have been around for 8 years, and have served as consultants on the new I SPY Book and on the I SPY CD. We are in touch

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makes clear that only the first word of a heading, and any proper nouns, should be capitalized, so that edit is correct. Adding the DEFAULTSORT seems constructive to me, as it prevents accidental mis-sorting of the article subject in newly added categories. So I think that edit makes perfect sense.

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Yes, I'm aware of the extremely silly dispute. I'm also aware that the section is not new, and that you are not the first person to go around editing other user's user pages based on it. I am also aware that the last person to do so was reprimanded. It is "frowned upon", not forbidden, and doesn't

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I saw you proclaiming yourself as 3rd in the Wikipediholic Test. I checked over your contributions, and you seem to be a positive contributor, and from this, your score seemed believeable. However, I found out that the highest possible score is about 1038670, which is significantly lower than what

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page that deals with conflicts of interest, as the founder of that website, we'd prefer that you try to contribute to areas in which you are not directly involved. Also, the page really doesn't seem to offer further information for readers. The page has been added to a list of links that require a

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The deleted external link in question isn't a scam, isn't to sell anything, and isn't to promote anyone. Nor is it designed to impress search engines. The only purpose is to enhance understanding by augmenting topically pertinent articles. World-class research institutions already link to it.

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says, Spamda is a multi-wiki anti-spam program to assist users in identifying and reverting spam. It takes the feed from the LinkWatcher bot in all the anti-spam channels (such as #wikipedia-en-spam, and #wikipedia-swm-spam) through another bot that distributes all the new links added to Knowledge

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As I am going off on holidays very soon, could you possibly set it all up for me on your own toolserver account and get it trialling perhaps with a bot flag under my username? I know this is a big favour, but it would be much appreciated. I have just requested a toolserver account and will follow

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That's great! Do you think it would be possible to get the bot to ignore requests to register the account 'USERNAME' as that usually indicates that the form hasn't been filled in properly, and those requests would need to be dealt with by hand. Also, completed requests are archived by month, e.g.

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I am currently running Windows, so is there any way you can get it to run on a Windows-based machine? If not, how do I run the bot? Otherwise, I could run it on the toolserver if things get to that stage, right?. I am going on a WikiBreak from around 11am UTC until Saturday, so if you want to

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It is my regretful task to inform you that your recent request for adminship failed to achieve consensus to promote, and has been closed. Please do not be discouraged, continue to make outstanding contributions to Knowledge, and consider requesting adminship again in the future. You may find

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It isn't a vandal-ist-list, and I really don't see why you would care that your name is there, it contains the names of everyone that edited since the 27th, when I started it, and doing a username check for every edit would be a pain on server resources. I'm finished with it for now anyway.

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All eight edits were quickly deleted. The added links were to a unique compilation of twenty years of government-level expertise geared to need-to-know end-users likely interested in each of the eight topics. But, I gather that someone or something has determined the additions to be spam.

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When a diff of a new link addition is received from the bot, it is displayed to the user and the user will have the option to revert, revert and warn with warnings like "spam1", or just leave it. If it detects previous warnings on the user talk, you will also get the option to do a "spam+1"

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Hi, STBoT has tagged and edited the article I wrote on Mitchell's Rainforest Snail. I tried to fix it and made edits as suggested (i.e. intro formatting etc.), but I'm only new here and may well have missed a few things! Would you mind checking for me to see if it is OK now? Cheers

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It's a discussion site, where people talk to other people about stuff. It had been spammed, so it's automatically removed now, and it's against policy, so all the links were removed. You should discuss the link with other editors, and then add it, if there is a consensus to do so.

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Note: At the time of this writing (19 February 2007) there is no public release of Spamda, and all URLs mentioned on this page will likely not work. Extremely limited testing is underway and development work is continuing. For more information, please visit #Spamda on freenode.

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In addition, another reason why at the moment there appers to be no chance of your RfA being passed is because you are demonstrating you do not understand a key Knowledge Policy - how can you be expected to understand the more complicated and/or less high-profile ones, such as

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As far as I'm aware, the only way to find out if a username is similar to another account is to attempt to create an account under that name. Unfortunately, you are only told about the similarity if you fill in the captcha, which would hinder the bot being able to do this. On

5569:. IAR requires that the rules prevent you from improving the wiki, however some slack is given to this wording as long as your edits either reflect consensus or improve the wiki. Please make the necessary edits to your userpage so it abides with community consensus! Thanks, 6080:(also replying via email)Well, the bot is written in Perl, and uses the Perlwikipedia framework, which, for reasons I have not had time to determine yet, will not work on windows. I do have a toolserver account, so that would be an option, or you can ask for one, however a 4964:

When the bot removes a name as "already exists", does that meanit was recently created or was created anytime? I'm asking because users that request a name that already exists may not know and simply removing their request doesn't seem like the best way to deal with this.

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If you find this page on any site other than Knowledge, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated, and that the user this page belongs to may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Knowledge itself. The original page is located at

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Help! Today I thought I had finally mastered all pertinent rules and procedures to accomplish what Knowledge classifies as no more than a "minor" edit to existing articles (i.e., addition of an external link). I did so for eight carefully selected articles to no avail.

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Yes, I have been putting subst: in front of templates since I recieved a comment about a week ago. You must of caught one mistake of mine, to which I didn't put it on, but I do put subst: in front of templates already, as you will see in my contributions if you look.

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Yeah, I like that one. I have thought that we need to change the standard questions for a while anyway, they're getting boring and everyone knows what voters want to see, perhaps I'll bring it up on the RfA talk page once I read a few more responses, unless you will.

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If there's anything you can't fill in, don't worry about it. Also, we have a few WikiProjects that choose a topic and clean up articles relating to it. You can let them know that your article exists by adding {{WikiProject Gastropods}} to the article's talk page,

3445:, for example, although I can guess that it's because that article contains non-noteworthy things. (However, there are many more links just like it on that page, provided mostly as a reference, so I still don't really see why this one in particular was removed.) 5523:, which, in my opinion, would require some sort of special circumstances to add to a userpage. I apologize for the accidental collateral, but I do not intend to restore the part that I haven't restored, and I ask that you do not do so either. 4916:

Apparently it is an administrator privledge to be able to create accounts that regular users are not allowed to create (i.e. usernames that are too similar to existing usernames). I'm not an administrator, but that's how I understand it.

4459:. The new template, if used properly, should make it a hell of a lot easier for your bot to archive the requests. I'm changing some of the new requests to the preloaded format, and I'd be interested in your comment. Thanks for your help! 1738:

Hello - The European Library gives access to the combined resources of Europe's national libraries. In the El Cid wiki you removed a link to a valuable resource of this library gateway, to be exact to the 14th century El Cid codex (1245:

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The deleted page on the squidward vandal is well, deleted, you're better off asking someone who was around last year about that. I do not ever member hearing about pisschrist, but based on the thing on wikitruth, I would say there was.

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has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four

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Hi ST47. I am aware that you have a bot known as STBot that is capable at removing or changing categories. I was wondering if your bot is able to categorize bird articles according to the countries they are native to? For example:

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2342. 13:42, March 2, 2007 ?Milka Canic (hist) ? ?Vanjagenije (Talk | contribs) (?Created page with 'Milka Canic (Serbian: Milka Canic or ????? ?????) s the supervisor of the ultra-popular Serbian [[TV Quiz "Slagalica" (formerly

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Thanks; can you make it add the name to the correct day and above the {{Knowledge:Request an account/Footer|April|2007}} bit as well (but skip it entirely if the name is already on the list)? Sorry to keep on bothering you! :-)

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Doesn't look like the community wants it that much, so I reckon it won't go ahead. Perhaps I could possibly be sent the the source code files of it because I am really want to see how it would have worked. Many thanks,

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of not denying those requests outright, but having administrators review them to determine if the existing account is that of an active user. Could you have the bot stop removing "too close" requests for now? Thanks,

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ST, I have decided that I can't continue on wikipedia. I am going to leave for good. I hope this doesn't make a big impact, but I have to do it. I hope you can help make a difference here, and good luck. Farewell --

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Thanks for your thoughtful and prompt assistance. I'll try to engage on the Talk page or one or more of the Knowledge articles thought most relevant. Before I do, please help me understand what you mean by:

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has closed successfully (79/0/1), so it appears that I am now an administrator. Thanks very much for your vote of confidence. If there's anything I can ever do to help, please don't hesitate to let me know.

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I'm not sure this is the correct venue for this comment, but maybe you can help. I posted an essay I wrote, and it's listed as a possible copyright infringement. I came across the notice at this location:

3466:. Sorry about the summary, I usually use one, not sure how that slipped through. As for the other links, we were only cleaning up invisionfree, we will keep our eyes open for other spammed sites though :D 2899: 240:

Thanks for pearing down the list. I've been meaning to get around to approvals for some time, but I never seem to be on a computer that won't die from loading all the contribs. Anyway, you're approved.

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I'd need some sort of reference to use. Given a list of pages and a list of categories, I can do this with perlwikipedia, simply by saying if ($ content=~m/USA|US|United States/i) {$ editor-: -->

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Just so you know it is kind of poor form to leave highly experienced Knowledge editors automated responses. While it can be a bit time consuming I would suggest writing something out. Cheers.

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Your support was unanimous so as an admin I've archived the debate and appointed you to BAG. If you or anyone else wish to get crat confirmation that's fine but it won't change the result :)

4456: 5690:? There was never any consensus to do that. The only consensus that was arrived at was to politely request users to remove such things on their own which I see you've never done. Thanks. 4485: 3349:

Hi ST, any more info on the message you left on my talk? I religiously do a subst on warning templates. which one did I miss? Just want to make sure it isn't a tool button I used. --

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evenly among users. This means that if 5 Spamda users are watching the english spam feed, user #1 will only get 1 in 5 messages. User #2 will get a different message, still 1 in 5, etc...

6103:. I have created the account and I will send you the credentials (username/password) soon via email if you wish to run it from today on your server until about Saturday. Kind regards, 5715:

Hi St47, Please check that you've configured the NTP clock you are using for STBOT correctly on #WikiCast as it appears to have drifted considerably (by as much as 10 mins currently)

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Hi! I wanted to give you a friendly reminder of a newer addition to policy. Due to the reversion on your userpage, I'm sure that you weren't aware of it, it's a rather new addition.

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As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from

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I posted the request, let me know if I misinterpreted anything. Also, consider if you would like to run it, so you can run it when you need to instead of on a strict schedule.

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Scheduled sounds fine to me, but I'd be more than willing to host it if you ever want. It looks like most users are following the new format, so that should be of some help.

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you had posted. Although I can't say this for sure, but I suspect cheating, which your score will be reverted. Please discuss this matter at the project's talkpage, or on my

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If my engagement with others is successful, will there be something blocking addition of an external link to my website? If so, what must I or they do about it? Thanks!

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Our website has been listed as an "external link" on Knowledge since I believe 2005 for both the "I SPY" (TV Show category) and on the "ROBERT CULP" pages. I SPY Forum -

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I support you in your RFA. Don't do anything stupid though. Stay calm. I've seen a lot of RFAs blow not by people not being eligible, but by them acting hotheadedly.

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IFWikipedia's purpose is to help disseminate infomation about a topic, then our site should definitely be included for current and relevant information on "I SPY" ....

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I wanted to add some things to the page on Marcello Mastroianni since I think it is rather sparse. Why were my things removed? Do I need citations for everything?

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Could you please look at the history of 203.122.237.74? This IP address just hit the Ford site and it appears this individual has a long history of causing problems.

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Could you stop the bot? It seems to be malfunctioning. When it removes a request for an account that already exists, it also deletes part of the next request, like

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Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a

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Another consensus principle was that straight removing them on the pages of inactive users (users who hadn't edited in months) was completely acceptable as well.

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Me and this other user got into an edit war, and he finally provided proof for his statement. But the bot keeps reverting the photobucket picture I tried to post.

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Is it possible for the bot to send e-mails? If so, it could e-mail the requester to tell them that the username has been taken by using the address they specify.

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Hi Arjun! I was going to email you sometime this week regarding your offer, and I'd now be glad to accept your nomination! Thank you for your offer and support!

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should probably be posted - I'll do it around 6PM UTC, after I set up a stream for wikicast, unless you do it first. Mabye we can get it to work under windows.

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to dates in April. I replaced the nine that I saw, but you might want to review your contribution history to be sure that you didn't make any other mistakes. --

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The bot was sadly declined. From most of the comments, they look like they need a prior community discussion. Do you think you could start a discussion at the

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the source and some installation instructions, that should be fine, but I do want to get it running soon (on my Windows computer, if possible). Many thanks,

3894: 2453:. Someone removed it (correctly), but then someone put it back. Now, the bot just updated the link to the French wikipedia article that is redirected from 1435:

Knowledge:Guide to requests for adminship helpful in deciding when to consider running again. If I can be of any help to you, please do not hesitate to ask.

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I noticed someone said something last night, but I was tired, so I just told it to not remove anything, I'll look at the things it removed just to be sure.

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Well, you need to be registered for 4 days before being able to create articles, but in order to do it, first go to any page and look at the url - it says

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Ok, thanks for that. I really appreciate it. I am off now to a great vacation and will be back on Saturday. Good luck with the BRFA and trials. Farewell!

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have new messages, these fake boxes are extremely irritating and a waste of my time. A thank you isn't enough AFAIC, so please accept this barnstar! :) --

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Hey I just tried out AWB. I guess I know what u want. What I am asking for is to automatically replace category such as Category: Fauna of Indonesia from

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Although you answerd my question about the squidward vandal you dident answer if thare was a pisschrist vandal and how severe the squidward vandal was?--

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Okay, I'll let your score stand per the talk page. And you won't get the elephants. But the other two fake scorers will. Check the current revision of

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Ok, thanks so much for this. It's much appreciated. So, you're right to run it for a while until I return from holidays and get my toolserver account?

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In fact, it would be even better if you could get the bot to add a comment to the request, stating what the account is similar to, if that's possible.

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As far as I can see, the only interwikis it removes are ones that go to non-existent pages. Either way, this is something that should be discussed on

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Thank you so much for helping rid Knowledge of the hellishly annoying fake "you have messages" boxes. For an active editor like myself, who regularly

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to vandalize; just thought I'd let you know since you're listed as the contact there. It seems an administrator has blocked the IP for six months. --

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It seems to have gone the other way now, and recently it hasn't been adding any names at all to the log, but it is removing them from the main page.

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There was an error in the link - but in order to work it you need the tool installed in your monobook, easier to use the stats on the RfA talk page.

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Thanks for creating this bot! Can you not remove requests that are similar to existing accounts, please? They can be created but only by an admin.

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I don't think AWB counts stub categories as categories, since the page still is not in the proper categories, and is just listed for maintenance.

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It surely could, if there was consensus to, however a welcoming bot has been rejected before - this is a smaller group however. Mabye post on

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with many of the production staff of the program. AND we HAVE BEEN linked to this Knowledge page (and the one for ROBERT CULP) since 2005!!

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When using certain template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use

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Your account request bot has gone wrong, i think, it appears to have added the same name to the archive tens of times, please fix. Thanks.

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To whom is an apology extended? From where is permission granted? Is the deleted link now on some blacklist? If so, how to delete it?

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1207). This link adds very relevant information on El Cid... sorry but I like to know your argumentation why you deleted this link. Thanks.

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It doesn't look like the approval is going too good. Do you think it will pass? Also, you might want to follow up further comments at the

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was cut off. Due to a previous task, The bot was configured improperly and assumed that the page it was sent to was meant to be edited.

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I'll be honest, the last two users completely borked it. We'll keep playing with it and see if we can get a better template name than

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Hi - when you've got a minute, could you add me to the list of BAG-ers used by the bot? It's a great too - thanks for creating it :)

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Of not having your bot subst the bit that tells people what template somebody used, like this:

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This particular one was linking to their Knowledge namespace, which isn't an article page, and so the bot didn't like it. Sorry!

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Please use an edit summary when removing specific information from articles. That would be useful. I don't see why you removed

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It means that it's been created, but not by a user. If the IP (or a ~~~~) were added to the template, I could post to the IP.

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I received an email from Comcast - my ISP - reporting some type of abuse, I cannot start anything up until that is resolved.

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If it helps, I've noticed that this problem usually occurs when the bot is unable for some reason to remove the request from

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I wish to have the approval withdrawn, I would like to scrap it. I can't write good bots, sorry. 18:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

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Hello, I have realized right now (and a little late) that STBot has placed a "Wikiproject France" on this discussion page (

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Uh-oh, not the elephants ;) Yeah sure, if you need/want anything, just let me know. (I wonder how patrick got 50 million?)

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Impossible - the bot was only archiving requests that an editor said was too close, not actually determining this itself.

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revert on sight by a bot. You aren't blocked right now, so you're free to contribute. As for adding the link, I'd try the

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for lots if information. As an animal, you pretty much want to comy and paste this and fill in as many spaces as you can.

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If it's used properly and consistently, it would be great! I'm going to look for the archiving system if there is one.

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when closing BRFAs. This lets bureaucrats know that it needs the flag and keeps the approvals page shorter. Also do

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Can you explain why you tagged this article with AWB? As far as I can tell, it never existed before you tagged it. -

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It looks like the bot doesn't enjoy archiving username requests with question marks (?) in them... This might help.

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I am the author, I researched the content for a lecture series, and I allowed it to be published to the web site:

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Well I am a bot illiterate. I don't understand what kind of source u required. Haha. But nevertheless you can try.

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for the benefit of Tatia Loring. I have directed her to discuss the matter on that talk page as well. Thanks. --

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Apologies for the formatting issues in previous issues. This only recently became a problem due to a change in

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It doesn't look too good. Do you think it will pass? Also, you might want to follow up further comments at the

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You probably missed one a few months ago, don't worry about it, all the tools do it properly, to my knowledge.

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Please note, I blocked your bot for 1 min to try to trigger a reading here, autoblocker was disabled though. —

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It looks like STBot thought that the article was not a stub, probably because of the length, sorry about that.

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is policy, current practice is not. Go right ahead and remove the rest of the links to forums if you want to.

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No problem, I've linked it to a few more articles, but it looks like you did a good job yourself. You can use

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I am not a bot. Avoid personal attacks. That was 4 months ago. Provide a diff. And why don't you revert it?

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You've been approved to use VandalSniper. Please let me know if you have any problems getting it working. --

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I am now back from a very relaxing vacation, could you please tell me whats going on with the bot? Cheers!

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The Knowledge community generally frowns upon simulating the MediaWiki interface, and it should be avoided.

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Would it be possible to check whether the account was created by an existing user? I tried changing it to

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They're still not going in under the right day. Could you take another look, please? Thanks very much.

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If you want me to, I'll be able to run the bot during its downtime (having a linux box always-on now).

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It is a link to a message board. "Substantive discussion" doesn't contribute anything to the wiki, and

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Looks like a standard IP, not an ISP's proxy server. If you notice them vandalizing again, give them a

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to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, please use the

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hello there :-) how are articles submitted after being written? is this even the right place to ask?

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Well, I don't see how it would be able to do this - unfortunately, bots aren't all that intelligent.

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Not really a vandalism. But the bot is removing a whole bunch of interwiki links that are legit. --

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The second bit violates the guideline I linked to in the edit summary. I restored the first bit.

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Thanks very much for the clarification. I deleted all the other links to message boards/forums.

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to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --

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It isn't being operated, I ran one dry test. This conversation should DEFINITELY be going on at

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it is generally accepted among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow

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Hello, thank you for responding to my thoughts on a new bot, to show you what I mean...look at

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blacklisted it within a bot, shadowbot, you should ask him and give a link to the discussions.

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also removed such duplicates. Please fix your bot so it only adds the name to the list once.

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OK, easy enough. What are the criteria for archiving? (perhaps we can use a template such as

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Sign your posts properly please, using a timestamp, and also indent them so I don't have to.

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please send your real-name, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to

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Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with Knowledge. Your test worked, and it has been

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for the Interiot - it takes you to the program, not the results? the edit at the end maybe?

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Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Disambiguation#CC_templates_now_redirect_to_.7B.7Bdisambig.7D.7D

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is an example where the bot failed to recognise that the task had bee withdrawn. Thanks,

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Ok, thanks, I will try to contact the admin again, but I don't think I ever got a reply.

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In german Hanga (Sprache) means an african language and here it is part of hindu history.

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Go ahead, I won't accept right away, let me get my answers in first though. (15 seconds)

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No, I mean to say, how do they record it - is a template used that the bot can archive?

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to signify completion?) For the template, how about "PUT YOUR USERNAME AND EMAIL HERE"?

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was the first person to top him, and then it was me who topped him. Now it's your turn.

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although the two articles are unrelated (happend four times). The English interwiki for

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revert&warn, which will warn the user one warning higher than their current warning.

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This is an archive of discussions past. Please do not edit this page, and instead visit

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Hi ST47... When are you able to resumes function re playlsit techine guy for WikiCast?

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Students in Western Civilization course find editing Knowledge frustrating, rewarding

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Hi, I blocked STBot, it made an empty page, maybe more?, which only consisted of the

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OK, I will. I am also going to write a short statement, so give me 30 minutes or so.

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which says "adding template" and in fact removes a template, which I had just added.

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There is no copyright infringement, and I don't know how to get the notice removed.

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SMTP tested and implemented, I'm on the CC for now just to make sure it's working.

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The page has been added to a list of links that require a revert on sight by a bot.

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is complete. I think the tools will aid both me and the encyclopedia. Feel free to

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WikiWorld comic: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"

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I'm not involved in the BDC so I won't start a discussion, but you can go ahead.

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I managed to stop it adding that username by removing the relevant request from

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Is there any way the bot could add a welcome template to new user's talk pages?

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Hi ST47, I set up a proposal to added the I Spy Forum link to the I Spy article

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OK, code deleted. How do administrators register that the name is "Too Close"?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Anga&diff=95286020&oldid=92890904

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Whoops - archiving fixed. Also, if the username is "USERNAME", it will skip.

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is removing requests that are "too close" to existing user names. There is a

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Thanks for the lightning fast response :). Does the bot currently recognise

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You sent me that message. Could you please clarify on what it means? Thanks!

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I just need something like a list of birds, I suppose a category would work.

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for the current month, rather than /Log. Thanks, and keep up the good work!

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P.S. You will get the elephants! That is, if the score you posted are fake.

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Oh i see. There are many different lists of species of birds. For example:

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Leak last year likely to produce changes for handling next board election

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No problem ST47. I had to dig a bit to find it myself! It can be found

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On your RFA you mentioned Spamda. How do I get it and what does it do?--

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if you feel like familiarizing yourself with this user's editing style.

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edits which only move a pre-existing stub template below the categories

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Association of Members' Advocates' deletion debate yields no consensus

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Why did you remove my User:Trampton/Gag?And my "This user loves you"?

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The WikiProject MMO Newsletter is ready to be posted. It is available

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Good morning sir. Thanks for your contributions! As an encyclopedia,

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under Knowledge:Bots/Requests_for_approval from March 2006. Cheers,

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for the most recent discussion about this matter. Much appreciated!

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OK: When I copy/pasted the log into notepad, the trailing accent on

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on my talk page, or if you think I'm misbehaving I'm always open to

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Bandwidth or other? If it's bandwidth then we can move the stream.

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as they are saying to propose it to the Village pump. Many thanks,

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as they are saying to propose it to the Village pump. Many thanks,

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News and notes: Knowledge television mention makes news, milestones

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Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add

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