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[edit] New Cats at Good article

Hi Chris. I think it is safe to assume that we can add new categories to the GAN page. The easiest way would probably be to add {{subst:GAN|subtopic=Songs}}, {{subst:GAN|subtopic=Albums}} and {{subst:GAN|subtopic=Episodes}} to the bot. Music and Theatre, film and drama could then default to the "Other" section. I will create the new categories and sort the current nominations manually when everything is ready. Let me know if I can help in any other way. AIRcorn (talk) 23:57, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Ok, I've made the updates and it seems to be working. Once most of the items in "Theatre, film and drama" have been recategorised, all you need to do is remove the section heading, and those will then be categorised under "Miscellaneous" --Chris 16:49, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for taking that on. Is it possible to change the arrangement of the categories slightly. "Albums" and "Songs" would fit in better as sub-categories of "Music" and "Episodes" would fit in better under "Theatre, film and drama". I have made an example in the history of the GAN page here. Sorry for the inconvenience. AIRcorn (talk) 23:51, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks again for all your work. I changed the name of the "other" section headings on theWP:GA page in response to some comments. It doesn't appeared to have caused any problems yet, the bot has run a few times, but thought I should check to make sure it won't screw anything up. Revert back if you need to. AIRcorn (talk) 11:25, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Question about my BRFA

Thanks for starting the trial period and I'll get to work on that. Before I do I wanted to clarify #4. Did you approve the task for the all 8 items or one in specific? Based on your comment I'm not completely clear and I wanted to make sure before I started. --Kumioko (talk) 18:05, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I approved for all 8. --Chris 05:26, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Greetings Chris, I just wanted to drop you a note that I completed the trial edits for those bot tasks. Please let me know if you need me to do anythign else. --Kumioko (talk) 01:48, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Use of the 'hlist' class

I was wondering if you are going to have RFC bot use the 'hlist' class. See example below.

|list1=<nowiki/>
<ul class="hlist">
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 3
</ul>

Please see if this can be done with or without the nowiki tag. – Allen4names 05:40, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, you're going to have to be more specific where you think it should be used? At the moment I haven't seen any problems with the page layout --Chris 16:24, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

I am concerned because the use of {{Dot}} is depreciated. {{Flatlist}} could also be used. – Allen4names 16:45, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Bot malfunction?

See this. Thought you'd like to know. J Milburn (talk) 16:24, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I've recently made a few changes, so I'll be keeping an eye on it. But please do report anything else strange it does. --Chris 16:32, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Tony raises an interesting point here; does the bot mind that two subsections are named the same thing? J Milburn (talk) 17:03, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Glitch

I'm attempting a simple name change but the bot doesn't recognize my name [diff] for some reason. It thinks I logged in as [[User:Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden|]], with a / & # 3 9 ; / and a /|/ , instead of User:Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden.--Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden (talk) 23:02, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Please comment on Template talk:Article for deletion

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The bot serves its master well. →Σ τ c. 05:05, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

The RfC was removed; it's better to wait for now, rather than reposting it in the "AfD template does not suffice" section of the Template talk:Article for deletion page. People don't seem interested in modifying the AfD template at this time. There wasn't much productive discussion there. Northamerica1000^(talk) 08:03, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

[edit] RFC bot is edit-warring at Talk:Demi Moore

It's insisting that the RfC is expired and removing the template, despite the fact that the debate is not yet over. (This was also brought up at the village pump.) Since it's your bot, you probably ought to do something about it. elektrik SHOOS (talk) 08:39, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Seconding that motion. --Tenebrae (talk) 14:33, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Would {{Bots|deny=RFC bot}} work? – Allen4names 16:01, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

No, it is not {{bots}} complaint. Resolved, and can we please keep the discussion centralised at Wikipedia:VPM#Out.2C_damn_bot.21. --Chris 16:39, 26 January 2012 (UTC)