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I'm an administrator, which means I can delete, undelete, protect, and unprotect pages, edit protected pages, review the text of deleted pages, block and unblock users, and close AfD, CfD, TfD, RfD, MfD, and DR debates. If you need any of these tasks done, or require assistance with a backlog, leave a comment. If you disagree with an action I made, require assistance with bots, need information from a database query, or require assistance in any other area, leave a message on my talk page. For information about me, see my user page. If the icon on the top right of these pages is green, you can also contact me very quickly via IRC. I am ST47 on the Freenode network, and can also be found in #wikipedia. (If the icon is yellow, I'm probably working on a backlog somewhere, but I'm still available.)

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Contents STBotI bug Resolved: Fixed ST47 (talk) 21:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC) Can you please fix your bot to stop treating images tagged with the {{Non-free Wikimedia logo}} template as fair-use images? (They belong to the Wikimedia Foundation.) I previously brought the issue to your attention in reference to a message left on my talk page when I updated a sister project icon used on the main page, but the bot just did this (over the course of seven consecutive messages) when I updated all of the sister project icons. Please also remove my name from User:STBotI/Notified users (as all eight warnings stemmed from this bug). Thank you. —David Levy 23:34, 21 February 2009 (UTC) Hello? —David Levy 21:00, 25 February 2009 (UTC) Fixed in 0.2.3. ST47 (talk) 21:14, 25 February 2009 (UTC) Thanks, but my name has not yet been removed from User:STBotI/Notified users. —David Levy 03:15, 27 February 2009 (UTC) Hello? —David Levy 06:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC) That page means nothing at all, don't worry about its contents. ST47 (talk) 13:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC) When contacting him, you should include diffs or links to archives of your talk page for any warnings that STBotI has placed there. If he finds that the number listed here is incorrect, or that the bot has sent you a warning due to a bug, he will adjust this page accordingly. You've included that advice since December. I went to the trouble of following the requested procedure, and you refuse to honor your end? Please don't respond by removing that text and reiterating that I shouldn't care about your list. Just do what you promised the community. Thank you. —David Levy 20:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC) The community SHOULDN'T care. That page is long, and I don't feel like loading it. I also am not really in the best of moods to be dealing with whiny users, but I hereby and henceforth give you my permission and blessing to go do it yourself, granted that you agree to stop your strange stalker-esque fixation on that page and on my obviously lacking life. If you'd like to email me a shipping address, I'll have a contract written up, signed in blood, witnessed by an officer of the court, and shipped to you, authorizing you to edit that page. Just stop being petty and irritating over what shouldn't matter to you. ST47 (talk) 20:48, 4 March 2009 (UTC) 1. I'm behaving in a "stalker-esque" manner by following the procedure that you prescribe? I don't appreciate the above personal attacks. 2. Are you saying that the bot won't reinsert my name with the next data dump? If so, I didn't realize that. —David Levy 21:21, 4 March 2009 (UTC) Crap. You're actually right. I need to hack together a way to do it without loading that monstrosity in firefox though. ST47 (talk) 21:26, 4 March 2009 (UTC) Fixed Congratulations, you are now the only user in the list with a value of '0'. ST47 (talk) 21:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC) Please remove my name entirely. Thank you. —David Levy 21:39, 4 March 2009 (UTC) I had figured that your continued persistence here wasn't due to any actual needs but rather due to your rather annoying desire to cause as much trouble for other users as you possibly can. A 0 on that page means zero. The bot has never warned you, according to that page. Rather than continue on your merry way like a user with a legitimate concern would, you need to continue making demands and imposing your will upon others. Please cease your trolling. In fact, please do the same as I asked Spitfire to do below. Stop leaving messages on this topic. Anything left here that continues to frustrate me will be ignored or removed. ST47 (talk) 22:17, 4 March 2009 (UTC) I've replied via e-mail. —David Levy 22:39, 4 March 2009 (UTC) CSDWarnBot Warning for pages tagged by users Resolved: Won't fix ST47 (talk) 17:42, 4 March 2009 (UTC) This annoys me, I'm sure you've put effort into this, but I tag a page, copy the warning, go to the users page, click edit, paste the warning, and save, what do I find? The bot has already warned the user: sure maybe not a bad thing to have a bot doing this job for us. But: I think this is a bad thing because, should the user want to ask someone for help about the tagging of "their" page (as they often do), where do they go? To the bots talkpage? here? But you've already told them NOT to come here, new users generally aren't experinced enough to know to check the page history to see who tagged it, and the bot just makes it hard to find a way to the talkpage of an actual user to help the creator, once the page is deleted, they can't. Cheers SpitfireTally-ho! 21:46, 26 February 2009 (UTC) I agree. This "warning" system is very annoying. Before I can even place a warning on a user's page you've already gone and auto-posted one. This isn't your place to do so, so soon after the tag has been placed. Many (most?) users on Wikipedia are not script jockeys. They do not utilize tools that automate the process of posting comments when tagging an article for speedy deletion. I would kindly request that you cease and desist from this activity or else find a way to alter the behavior of your bot so that it does not interfere or step on the efforts of other users. ++Arx Fortis (talk) 18:03, 28 February 2009 (UTC) Yes, I also agree with Fortis, that maybe it would be a good idea to put a delay on the bot, or just stop it all together, sorry, SpitfireTally-ho! 21:41, 28 February 2009 (UTC) Please note a somewhat related discussion at Wikipedia:BON#Problem_bot_.28CSDWarnBot.29. –xeno (talk) 17:21, 2 March 2009 (UTC) can you visit this discussion and let us know where the opt-out is for users receiving messages, or for messages being left on behalf of users, or both? and if it's the former, is it possible for users to opt out of the latter? –xeno (talk) 21:18, 3 March 2009 (UTC) The bot does not attempt to determine which user added the CSD tag. ST47 (talk) 22:08, 3 March 2009 (UTC) Would it be possible to program the ability for users to opt-out of the bot's watchful eye, i.e. those users that are complaining that it has a tendency to preempt their more personal hand-written notes? –xeno (talk) 22:15, 3 March 2009 (UTC) If someone would like to submit a patch to CSDWarnBot.pl which will improve its page creator detection algorithm and add the ability to identify the user who added the tag, for opt-out purposes, then I would certainly commit that patch. I will provide links to the current versions of my scripts in an addendum to this message shortly, once I work out how to upload them. ST47 (talk) 23:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC) CSDWarnBot v1.0.0 (temporary link) ST47 (talk) 00:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC) By the way, if anyone actually is interested in this enough to go and code a patch, and this isn't (as I suspect it is) just a few users complaining about an isolated issue, then that person may also want to (in a separate patch, if possible) have the bot wait 15 minutes before leaving a message. The bot already only runs every 10-15 minutes, but that apparently isn't enough for some users. ST47 (talk) 02:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC) uh, I (and I suspect?) nor Arx Fortis can code that. As this is your bot, please do consider coding that yourself. Please take a look at Wikipedia:BON#Problem_bot_.28CSDWarnBot.29 and leave further comments there, thankyou SpitfireTally-ho! 05:20, 4 March 2009 (UTC) I don't see the point right now in wasting my time trying to figure out how to do that, and cover edge cases, and deal with people who do stupid things. It's really not something I feel like doing. This is a wiki, though, and if someone would like to step up and make themselves useful, rather than just running about and being annoying, I'm willing to accept their work. I'll reply here, thank you, because it's one less idiotic noticeboard I need to keep track of. ST47 (talk) 13:29, 4 March 2009 (UTC) If you've quite finished throwing insults around, you may realise that as you are a bot owner, if a complaint comes up on the Bot owner's noticeboard about one of your bots, you have an obligation to respond, five users have agreed that it would be a good idea to put a delay (or make some other modifications) on the bot from the time that a page is tagged, rather then just doing 15 minutes scans. Please try and stay civil as you explain to me why you can't get on and fix your bot, instead of telling everyone else that its their problem and they should fix it, this is your bot, thus your problem, and thus you need to fix it. Thank you for your time SpitfireTally-ho! 14:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC) Won't fix ST47 (talk) 17:42, 4 March 2009 (UTC) This is really simple fix, we both know it. If you are incapable or unwilling of writing a simple time check yourself, the bot needs to be stopped and somebody who can should run it. BJTalk 20:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC) It really isn't. I don't even know how my current craptastic history parsing works, but it's mostly trial and error that got it as far as it is. I hear that some people have issues with it talking to the wrong user, but I suspect that it's usually a case where there was a pagemove or someone forgot that they edited a page. Date parsing annoys me, and I really don't feel like bothering to go figure out how to do it again. Bot works fine as it is. If a user really intends to add their own message, all they need to do is replace the bot's message. ST47 (talk) 20:51, 4 March 2009 (UTC) Actually, There are enough complaints to justify one saying it doesn't work fine as it is. Take note of the people around you. Cheers SpitfireTally-ho! 20:54, 4 March 2009 (UTC) I am taking note of them, and I am noting that they don't appear to have a valid point. Please stop leaving messages here, User:Spitfire, you're frustrating me. Future frustration will probably result in me ignoring or removing your messages. ST47 (talk) 20:56, 4 March 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost — 2 March 2009 This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 9, which includes these articles: Books extension enabled News and notes: Stewards, Wikimania bids, and more Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia's role in journalism, Smarter Wikipedia, Skittles Dispatches: WikiProject Ships Featured topic and Good topics Wikiproject report: WikiProject Norse History and Culture Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations Features and admins: Approved this week Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Delivered by §hepBot (Disable) at 20:06, 2 March 2009 (UTC) Nathowal, Ludhiana district, Punjab, India To explain my G7 here, the author created an identical article at Nathowal (which I'm still trying to edit so that it doesn't look so terrible, but anyway), without actually moving it. Since I didn't consider that title to be a particularly plausible redirect or search term, I tagged it as G7. Then the user blanked the page and left a comment that he had "moved" it, but of course he didn't (new account). I can tag it with something else I guess, I just didn't think R3 was appropriate. §FreeRangeFrog 03:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC) Y Done I have deleted the page - thanks! ST47 (talk) 03:17, 5 March 2009 (UTC) Thank you! Sorry if that was a bit weird :) §FreeRangeFrog 03:19, 5 March 2009 (UTC) Flying Brands You have just deleted a page I was working on, giving the reason "blatent advertising". I did not create the page, and was fully aware that someone had merely copied and pasted promotional text from the companies website, and, I was in the process of editing that page to fit within the guidelines. Had you looked you would have seen that the page was being worked on just a few hours before you deleted it. You should have left a message for me in the page discussion, rather than delete it. Please communicate with me, before deleting any pages I am working on. Please, undelete the page.Danrok (talk) 13:49, 5 March 2009 (UTC) User:ST47/RFA Hey. I'm a little confused - it doesn't seem that either Tangotango's or SQL's RfA reports are back up - is there something I am missing as to what has superseded it? — neuro(talk) 14:02, 5 March 2009 (UTC) Seconded. :) Verbal chat 14:38, 5 March 2009 (UTC) Thirded. Is there another centralized template which shows the current requests? Baccyak4H (Yak!) 14:41, 5 March 2009 (UTC) If you don't want to run it, could you pass the source to me? I'd be happy to. — neuro(talk) 13:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC) User:ST47/RFA I took the liberty of restoring it because (despite your claim that there is "Not much point keeping this around") 100s of people still use it. Kingturtle (talk) 14:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC) Regarding: User:ST47/AfD Your subpage has more than 5000 revisions, so no normal admin will be able to delete it. Cheers. Lectonar (talk) 15:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC) AfD nomination of Mark Blaxill An article that you have been involved in editing, Mark Blaxill, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Blaxill. Thank you. Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Edcolins (talk) 20:36, 6 March 2009 (UTC) SUPERSWEET deletion Hello. I was editing the SUPERSWEET entry after months of trying to figure out why it got deleted in the first place. Yesterday I began compiling references for it and doing research on the magazine. Unfortunately, you deleted it before i could complete the edits. Is there somewhere to store the page while I'm working on it? The original page was deleted and I was trying to make it better. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.133.7.142 (talk) 22:01, 6 March 2009 (UTC) Yeah. If you create an account, you gain a number of benefits, including a 'userspace' - a part of the wiki dedicated to your rough drafts and personal notes. While anyone can read and improve this area, it's held to weaker standards than the actual encyclopedia, so you can work on your article there, and only make it an actual article when it's done. Once you've created an account, let me know so I can make a copy of the page you were working on, and I'll give you a link. Then, once you're done, you or any user can help you move it into the encyclopedia. Thanks, ST47 (talk) 05:28, 7 March 2009 (UTC) update for ARSbot Could you update User:ARSBot? I was away when we were in process of deciding on a new category name, and it was them implemented. Could ARS pull from Category:Articles tagged for deletion and rescue to do it's work? -- Banjeboi 17:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC) Oops, I thought I wasn't even supposed to be running that anymore. I've changed the category, and I've also improved the bot's ability to detect the first line of text. ST47 (talk) 17:45, 7 March 2009 (UTC) lol. No problem. Why did you think you weren't suppose to run it though? -- Banjeboi 18:56, 7 March 2009 (UTC) No idea. ST47 (talk) 19:17, 7 March 2009 (UTC) Could you check it again? It hasn't seemed to do much in the past coupla days? -- Banjeboi 13:23, 10 March 2009 (UTC) Odd, it works when I run it manually. I'll try to fix the crontab, it's supposed to run every half hour. ST47 (talk) 23:13, 10 March 2009 (UTC) Cheers for that, let me know if I can do anything to help. -- Banjeboi 01:26, 11 March 2009 (UTC) On another note I'm looking at a new bot function that would post a "So you tagged an article for rescue" - type tag to those who added {{rescue}}. Is this a logical/do-able function of this bot or should I look to asking for one? -- Banjeboi 01:26, 11 March 2009 (UTC) Probably wouldn't be a problem. I'll need to put this on hold for a bit though, as I don't have time to code it at this moment. ST47 (talk) 18:20, 11 March 2009 (UTC) This was pre-emptive actually. I'm still figuring out what the new tag should look like and do so no rush at all. -- Banjeboi 20:07, 11 March 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost — 9 March 2009 This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 10, which includes these articles: News and notes: Commons, conferences, and more Wikipedia in the news: Politics, more politics, and more Dispatches: 100 Featured sounds milestone Wikiproject report: WikiProject Christianity Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations Features and admins: Approved this week Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Delivered by §hepBot (Disable) at 00:56, 10 March 2009 (UTC) You just approved my trial but I need a change Unfortunately, it appears I should have requested fully automatic mode for the trial for my bot. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/MandelBot. Thanks for approving it in manual mode. I have made changes to the request to reflect this change and as such it is not the request you approved, so I consider it unapproved and waiting someone's consideration. Is there some template I should put back on the page to indicate this? Thanks -J JMesserly (talk) 19:15, 12 March 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost — 16 March 2009 Unsubscribe · Single-page · Full edition »   — 16 March 2009 News and notes: License update, Commons cartoons, films milestone, and more Wikipedia in the news: Manufactured scandal, Wikipedia assignments, and more Dispatches: New FAC and FAR appointments Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Delivered by §hepBot (Disable) at 00:00, 17 March 2009 (UTC) Template:Film screenshot fur Resolved: Fixed ST47 (talk) 01:53, 24 March 2009 (UTC) Your bot seems not to recognize the above as a valid FUR. See also Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#User:STBotI.2C a bot against fair use. best, –xeno (talk) 15:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC) Y Done ST47 (talk) 01:53, 24 March 2009 (UTC) Thanks. –xeno (talk) 01:57, 24 March 2009 (UTC) User:ARSBot Resolved: Fixed ST47 (talk) 01:53, 24 March 2009 (UTC) As you know, User:ARSBot adds articles tagged for rescue {{rescue}} to the talk page of WP:ARS, the problem is that these entries are never removed. For example, there are 86 articles listed now, but only 33 articles which actually have the template currently. Is there anyway the bot can also remove sections for a talk page when {{rescue}} is removed from the pages? Ikip (talk) 14:46, 23 March 2009 (UTC) Y Done ST47 (talk) 01:53, 24 March 2009 (UTC) Revisit to ARSBot Actually I have been manually removing items so "these entries are never removed" is mistaken. If the bot is to be utilized in this way then we have a subpage at Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron/Current articles subpage where removed from currently listed articles can be moved. They should not be deleted or auto-archived as this list is the only record we have of most of our work. -- Banjeboi 02:50, 24 March 2009 (UTC) I believe I have implemented this correctly, please review the latest contribs. ST47 (talk) 21:22, 24 March 2009 (UTC) Sorry for the cross-purposes posts here but thank you for tweaking this. It seems to be working fine. -- Banjeboi 02:22, 25 March 2009 (UTC) Thank you ben and ST47. Wow: Wikipedia:Article_Rescue_Squadron/Current_articles_subpage that is awesome. Is the coding for this public, I would love to see the coding for this bot. Thanks St47. Ikip (talk) 04:12, 25 March 2009 (UTC) What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar This Barnstar is awarded to St47, for his brilliant technical work on wikipedia. Your work is a real asset to wikipedia, thank you. Ikip (talk) 04:12, 25 March 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 23 March 2009 From the editor: Reviewing books for the Signpost Special report: Abuse Filter is enabled News and notes: Flaggedrevs, copyright project, fundraising reports, and more Wikipedia in the news: Alternatives, IWF threats, and more Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 04:38, 24 March 2009 (UTC) Deletion of castellers de Vilafranca Hi ST47! I have just seen that you have deleted the article about Castellers de Vilafranca. My name is Pere Sola Claver and I am member of the council of Intrernational relation fo this association. I can prove it by visiting this link : http://www.castellersdevilafranca.cat/index.asp?carpeta=presentacio&web=consells&tipus=htm&m=1 . The set of artciles in Wikipedia was an idea from me. We have now translated the catalan article in several languages, among which english. Once thsia rtcile was done, we took teh decision to integrate the text of the artcile in the website of the association. so it is not a copyright infraction but the other way round !!!! In any case, we castellers de Vilafranca have the copyright of what we write in the artciel and the photos. I understand your concerns but I would like in teh future you consult us first before deleting the article. can you put back the article please ? Or let us know if you have any comments. Thanks in advance ! 94.42.104.97 (talk) 12:23, 24 March 2009 (UTC)Pere Solà Claver94.42.104.97 (talk) 12:23, 24 March 2009 (UTC) (user Castellersvilafranca in Wikipedia) Deletion of article Castellers de Vilafranca (sorry, I was not logged in the previous message) Hi ST47! I have just seen that you have deleted the article about Castellers de Vilafranca. My name is Pere Sola Claver and I am member of the council of Intrernational relation fo this association. I can prove it by visiting this link : http://www.castellersdevilafranca.cat/index.asp?carpeta=presentacio&web=consells&tipus=htm&m=1 . The set of artciles in Wikipedia was an idea from me. We have now translated the catalan article in several languages, among which english. Once thsia rtcile was done, we took teh decision to integrate the text of the artcile in the website of the association. so it is not a copyright infraction but the other way round !!!! In any case, we castellers de Vilafranca have the copyright of what we write in the artciel and the photos. I understand your concerns but I would like in teh future you consult us first before deleting the article. can you put back the article please ? Or let us know if you have any comments. Thanks in advance ! Castellersvilafranca (talk) 13:21, 24 March 2009 (UTC) Changing t-ball to tennis Hi, saw this edit on my watchlist and thought I should follow up. Robot-assisted disambiguation of "t-ball" to "tennis" is incorrect. As you can see at the disambiguation page, T Ball can mean three different things, and in this case, I assume it meant Tee Ball. I've never heard of t-ball meaning tennis and Australians don't play tetherball, so tee ball is the only logical disambiguation for the term in an Australian article. Thanks, Somno (talk) 02:30, 29 March 2009 (UTC) And this one is at a baseball field, so it's probably also tee ball. Regards, Somno (talk) 02:32, 29 March 2009 (UTC) Unwarranted warning I received a message regarding copyrighted content http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BAS_logo.jpg I've uploaded a file with a very similar file name, which is a completely different picture. The one your bot detected as infringing has nothing to do with my upload and it's a completely different image. ---Cantaloupe2 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cantaloupe2 (talk • contribs) 16:14, 31 March 2009 (UTC) That message is from LAST YEAR. It was correct when the message was posted. The image has long since been deleted. ST47 (talk) 18:00, 31 March 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 30 March 2009 From the editor: Follow the Signpost with RSS and Twitter Special report: Community weighs license update News and notes: End of Encarta, flagged revisions poll, new image donation, and more Wikipedia in the news: Censorship, social media in schools, and more Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations Features and admins: Approved this week Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 20:36, 31 March 2009 (UTC) Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/CSDWarnBot/2.2.1 Bot/WP/EN/ST47/CSDWarnBot/2.2.1 needs to be logged in! 24.0.68.110 (talk) 21:31, 1 April 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 6 April 2009 Special report: Interactive OpenStreetMap features in development News and notes: Statistics, Wikipedia research and more Wikipedia in the news: Wikia Search abandoned, university plagiarism, and more Dispatches: New FAC and FAR nomination process WikiProject report: WikiProject China Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 19:46, 6 April 2009 (UTC) Possible STBotI bug? I pinged you on IRC, but I don't think you were there. I'm not sure how it happened, but I thought I'd let you know about this edit, which was clearly in error. When checking the bot's contributions, I also noticed this double warn and this five times warn. J Milburn (talk) 10:57, 7 April 2009 (UTC) I fixed the first issue, but didn't tell you because I got caught up in trying to debug the other one. I believe I patched it, but I'm still looking to see if I got all the bugs out. ST47 (talk) 23:19, 8 April 2009 (UTC) Barnstar The Photographer's Barnstar For your amazing Ocean County College images. Thanks! MBisanz talk 23:13, 8 April 2009 (UTC) Thanks to you too! ST47 (talk) 23:19, 8 April 2009 (UTC) Minnesota Historical Society images Mnhs (talk · contribs), a representative of the Minnesota Historical Society, has been uploading images that the Society has copyrighted. They have been tagging these images with {{Non-free Minnesota Historical Society image}} and citing a fair-use rationale in each article for which they are uploading the images. Meanwhile, STBotI has been tagging these images and saying that they're potential copyright violations. I left a question at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#Minnesota Historical Society images about this. I'm also asking you because I'm wondering if the code for STBotI specifically looks for a fair use template and a cited article, and if it just doesn't recognize {{Non-free Minnesota Historical Society image}}. Based on the way I'm reading their disclaimer and their responses at User talk:Mnhs, it seems like they're applying the tag correctly and that they are indeed uploading their images correctly. Let me know if this is a fix to the bot or a more complicated issue that needs to be discussed elsewhere. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 22:44, 10 April 2009 (UTC) Looks like I wasn't expecting the copyright tag itself to take up more than one line. I've updated the tagging rule. ST47 (talk) 22:55, 10 April 2009 (UTC) And released image tester version 0.2.6 with the updated code and a new test to make sure this bug doesn't come back. ST47 (talk) 23:04, 10 April 2009 (UTC) Cool. Thanks for fixing this. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 23:30, 10 April 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 13 April 2009 License update: Licensing vote begins News and notes: WMF petitions Obama, longer AFDs, UK meeting, and more Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism WikiProject report: WikiProject Color Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations Features and admins: Approved this week Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 16:57, 13 April 2009 (UTC) User:BAGBot and minor edits on UT pages Please have User:BAGBot not mark its edits as minor when leaving messages on user talk pages. When the bot flag is combined with the minor flag, it suppresses the nice orange bar. –xeno (talk) 18:02, 13 April 2009 (UTC) Bump. –xeno talk 12:59, 28 April 2009 (UTC) Surely this can't be a tough fix? –xeno talk 19:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC) Thanks for fixing that. best, –xeno talk 19:22, 15 May 2009 (UTC) Bot request Hello Saint 47 (as I like to think of you). So... remember Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot 11? You still interested? – Quadell (talk) 23:25, 15 April 2009 (UTC) Hello! Um - are you looking for me to do something about that BRFA, or actually write a bot to perform that task? ST47 (talk) 02:27, 16 April 2009 (UTC) I appear to be confused. Um... maybe I meant a different botreq. I'll look into it. Until then, ignore me. – Quadell (talk) 12:02, 16 April 2009 (UTC) Ah, you were the trial approver, not the approvee. Mystery solved! Final verdict: nevermind. – Quadell (talk) 16:23, 16 April 2009 (UTC) FT Wikicup scoring YOu gave me 10 points for my Featured Topic, but it should be 50 because the instructions clearly say "10 points per article in topic" and my topic has 5 articles. — Rlevse • Talk • 10:18, 16 April 2009 (UTC) Because the instructions clearly state that you should list each individual article in the topic, as well as the topic itself, to gain credit. The bot is, sadly, not sentient. ST47 (talk) 02:45, 17 April 2009 (UTC) Sorry, but I lol'd. Sorry for the confusion Rlevse.  GARDEN  09:15, 17 April 2009 (UTC) Ah so, ok I'll go fix it. Dumb me never saw the instructions -;) — Rlevse • Talk • 10:09, 17 April 2009 (UTC) That's OK, I never realized that we actually had instructions either. Some clever person must have read my mind and figured out what the bot expected, and actually written it down. ST47 (talk) 12:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC) About and ... Hi there. Your bot sent me and did not have a license. I forgot to add one, and was forced to add a license template to both of them to prevent those missing colors being deleted. Toothy7465 (talk) 00:34, 21 April 2009 (UTC) Speedy deletion of User talk:128.252.121.153 A tag has been placed on User talk:128.252.121.153, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason: G8: the only content is a speedy-deletion warning for a long-deleted page. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on [[Talk:User talk:128.252.121.153|the article's talk page]] explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines. For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. 128.252.121.153 (talk) 20:52, 21 April 2009 (UTC) Wikipages in need Wikipedia is strictly buisness (mostly) so I am sending you this message for Wikipages in need. Plain White T's, Edward Wong, David Turnbull, Columbia Revolt, Year of the Lash and Jheri Curls Have improved, but still needs a lot of help. --RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210    16:23, 2 March 2009 (UTC) PHASE 2 Thomas Latimer Matt Bai are better articles now. -Stubs- David Garrow Nell Irvin Painter Hans Raastad-- an article I created Pea enation mosaic virus The Grays (band) Gingivectomy Michael Curtis Tom Karsch This stub is getting better, but needs more work. Professor Mike Donovan --RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210    16:21, 2 March 2009 (UTC) Spread the word!--RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210    14:14, 8 November 2008 (UTC) --RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210    00:00, 22 April 2009 (UTC) Sorry, I dodn't mean for it to be spam, I have just sent this message to lots of people before, adding and subtracting and revising it and I don't really care about all the dates there, but apparently you do. You are the first user (other than me) to suggest it was spam. once I apologised to a user in advance if it was spam, and he said don't worry bout it Sorry! --RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210    23:03, 24 April 2009 (UTC) Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/2.2.1 Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/2.2.1 needs to be logged in! 24.0.68.110 (talk) 00:58, 24 April 2009 (UTC) User:STBotI error It looks like STBotI has a minor error when it reports fair use disputes. See its edit to User talk:StutterTalk. It's adding an extra "}" to the heading. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 05:22, 25 April 2009 (UTC) Whoops! Looks like I was a little overzealous with the } key! I'll go check it out on my laptop and see where the issue is. ST47 (talk) 15:51, 25 April 2009 (UTC) Issue was in a template, fixed here. ST47 (talk) 15:51, 25 April 2009 (UTC) User:ST47/notagr again Following up to this conversation, it seems a number of the older taggings using User:ST47/notagr (like File:Sausman cross 09.jpg, File:Max keiser on a london bus.jpg) were put into red-linked categories like Category:Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status as of 12 January 2009. I think there was a switch in the category naming sometime and the bot may have missed that. You can see from the category tracker that a number of old images are in some weird limbo. Would you mind just going through and tagging them again, resetting the clock so to speak? That or a F4 CSD tag. I think that should take care of them. Thanks. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 01:45, 27 April 2009 (UTC) Re-tagging of images is in work. ST47 (talk) 02:30, 27 April 2009 (UTC) Thanks. MiszaBot should be busy removing a lot of lines from the tracker next time around. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:16, 27 April 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 27 April 2009 Book reviews: Reviews of Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia News and notes: Usability study, Wiki Loves Art, and more Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia Art dispute, and brief headlines WikiProject report: Interview on WikiProject Final Fantasy Features and admins: Approved this week Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delivered by SoxBot II (talk) at 04:52, 29 April 2009 (UTC) Interested in creating another bot? I know you were involved in making the User:ARSBot would you be interested in: Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Possible_for_bot_to_notify_creator_and_contributors_of_AfD.3F I will watch your talk page and have watched the bot request talk page. Thanks. Ikip (talk) 00:23, 3 May 2009 (UTC) If you are not interested, do you know any tech savy editors who would be able to reinvent the wheel and create a bot which contacts the creator of an Afd? I say "reinvent the wheel" because one editor already created this bot and had it approved already: Possible for bot to notify creator and contributors of AfD? Ikip (talk) 08:00, 3 May 2009 (UTC) BAGBot BAGBot looks to be offline. It hasn't updated WP:BAG/Status in over two days. Thanks, The Earwig (Talk | Contributions) 17:03, 3 May 2009 (UTC) Never mind, it's working now. The Earwig (Talk | Contributions) 22:12, 3 May 2009 (UTC) AIV Report IP:78.47.79.140 has been reported to AIV for making changes to your user space. Just wanted to give you a heads up in case it is you editing logged out. Hiberniantears (talk) 15:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC) Ok, how do I remove the tags you mention? I'll gladly do so if I know how. Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/ARSBot/2.2.1 Bot/WP/EN/ST47/ARSBot/2.2.1 needs to be logged in! 68.82.224.172 (talk) 15:07, 9 May 2009 (UTC) Typo Hi ST47. I just saw a post from STBotI and noticed a typo. If you look at the post at the bottom of User talk:Kriskodai, you will see a reference to an "image escription page", which I think is probably a typo ;-) [[Sam Korn]] (smoddy) 22:37, 9 May 2009 (UTC) IRC I've been trying to ask you some NPBB-related questions on IRC - are you busy? DS (talk) 19:11, 11 May 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 11 May 2009 News and notes: Wikimania 2010, usability project, link rot, and more Wikipedia in the news: Quote hoax replicated in traditional media, and more Dispatches: WikiProject Birds reaches an FA milestone WikiProject report: WikiProject Michael Jackson Features and admins: Approved this week Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 22:26, 11 May 2009 (UTC) ARSbot tweaks Hi ST47! More tweaks for ARSBot. 1. First off, we have it so when the {{rescue}} tag is removed from an item it is moved from the current article page to the subpage. Sadly there continues to be some edit warring resulting in multiple removing and relisting the XfD discussion. As a solution can we make it so this listing is moved to the subpage when the XfD discussion is closed/archived instead - I think this will lessen the disruption overall. 2. Secondly, tagged items are presented in the order they have the rescue tag added to them. Instead I think it would be more helpful to list them chronologically by the date they are sent to XfD. In theory this would move items that have less time before the close of discussion towards the top of the list. Obviously this won't be foolproof as not every discussion is exactly seven days but in general I think this will help pre-organize some of the work. We would then add a subsection for each date and sort each listing under the XfD created date. It may make sense to add a line of text for each listing - Nominated for deletion discussion May 5, 2009. or similar. Are these do-able? As always thanks in advance and let me know what help I can offer to assist. -- Banjeboi 23:12, 16 May 2009 (UTC) Any update? Also ARSBot has been removing one multiple AfD prematurely. This wasn't an issue before - what's up. -- Banjeboi 18:28, 26 May 2009 (UTC) Galactus Edit War Mediation Hi. I'm trying to mediate an edit war over the Galactus article here. Can you chime in with your two cents? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 23:59, 17 May 2009 (UTC) User:PPGtest Umm thats a test account of mine. Please notify the next time you take action on it. Cheers,¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 00:05, 18 May 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 18 May 2009 From the editor: Writers needed Special report: WikiChemists and Chemical Abstracts announce collaboration Special report: Embassies sponsor article-writing contests in three languages News and notes: Wiki Loves Arts winners, Wikimania Conference Japan, and more Wikipedia in the news: Arbitrator blogs, French government edits, brief headlines WikiProject report: WikiProject Opera Features and admins: Approved this week Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 13:36, 19 May 2009 (UTC) Robot status for your robot at svwiki_p Hello! The bot status for your bot sv:User:STBot at the swedish Wikipedia has been revoked due to inactivity. This is for security reasons. If/when you activate your bot again, please drop a note to anyone of our bureaucrats or at Wikipedia:Robotansökan and the robot status will be restored. --MagnusA (talk) 18:40, 21 May 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 25 May 2009 License update: Licensing vote results announced, resolution passed News and notes: New board member, flagged revisions, Eurovision interviews Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia: threat or menace? WikiProject report: WikiProject LGBT studies Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations Features and admins: Approved this week Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 04:13, 26 May 2009 (UTC) ARSBot improvement request [1] could have a more descriptive edit summary. If not too time consuming, could you add a clarification like "Adding or removing one or more recently listed articles - Added 0 Removed 2?" I hate to beg work that I could probably do myself, and feel free to say "no, too hard," but it would be really useful. Thanks for any efforts! If you don't have the time, is the source available, and I could just send you a patch? Hipocrite (talk) 17:06, 26 May 2009 (UTC) Error with ST47/2.2.0 ST47/2.2.0 needs to be logged in! 92.10.66.227 (talk) 12:05, 27 May 2009 (UTC) WikiCup If you could come into the WikiCup channel tonight or tomorrow, I'd like to update you with WikiCup information for round 3.  iMatthew :  Chat  23:11, 29 May 2009 (UTC) On a related note, if you're about before 23:59 UTC, can you please update the final scores manually (if you can?) Thanks. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 22:13, 30 May 2009 (UTC) I'll need to talk to you on IRC again, if you are around.  iMatthew :  Chat  22:21, 30 May 2009 (UTC) Err, cutting it close here. Round is supposed to end in 15 minutes. :(  iMatthew :  Chat  23:46, 30 May 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 1 June 2009 From the editor: Browsing the archives Book review: Review of The Future of the Internet Scientology: End of Scientology arbitration brings blocks, media coverage News and notes: Picture of the Year, Wikipedia's first logo, Board elections, and more Wikipedia in the news: Tamil Wikipedia, Internet Watch Foundation, and more Features and admins: Approved this week Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 23:03, 1 June 2009 (UTC) WikiCup bot malfunction For some reason your bot has given everyone a bunch of featured credits and other funnies, and may have removed Mitchazenia from Pool A. Please could you try to remedy this, thanks! weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 20:48, 2 June 2009 (UTC) Mitchazenia has returned but with the featured credits bug again. Sorry to bug you. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 08:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC) I mentioned that on IRC, but apparently no one listened. Will go fix it. ST47 (talk) 02:14, 4 June 2009 (UTC) Apparently iMatthew fixed that a few hours ago. Yay :) ST47 (talk) 02:15, 4 June 2009 (UTC) ARSbot help? Do you think you may have some time for some tweaks? -- Banjeboi 06:01, 6 June 2009 (UTC) Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/2.2.2 Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/2.2.2 needs to be logged in! 69.242.11.169 (talk) 02:22, 11 June 2009 (UTC) Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/AfDBot/2.2.2 Bot/WP/EN/ST47/AfDBot/2.2.2 needs to be logged in! 69.242.11.169 (talk) 02:24, 11 June 2009 (UTC) Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/CSDWarnBot/2.2.2 Bot/WP/EN/ST47/CSDWarnBot/2.2.2 needs to be logged in! 69.242.11.169 (talk) 15:54, 12 June 2009 (UTC) The deleted Angola Horror page Hello. I wanted to submit a message because I needed help with something. According to the deletion log on the page "The Angola Horror", it mentions you deleted it due to a copyvio. I'm interested in doing a new article on the wreck (if this is what the previous article was), and I wished to know, if it isn't too much trouble: what got the article canned and what source(s) were involved in the copyvio? Thanks! Hurricane Angel Saki (talk) 21:50, 12 June 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 15 June 2009 Book review :Review of Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes News and notes: License update, Google Translate, GLAM conference, Paid editing Wikipedia in the news: In the Google News, London Review of Books, and more WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemistry Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations Features and admins: Approved this week Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 12:19, 16 June 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 22 June 2009 Special report:Study of vandalism survival times News and notes: Wikizine, video editing, milestones Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia impacts town's reputation, assorted blogging Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations Features and admins: Approved this week Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:29, 23 June 2009 (UTC) Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/ARSBot/2.2.2 Bot/WP/EN/ST47/ARSBot/2.2.2 needs to be logged in! 69.242.11.169 (talk) 22:30, 25 June 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 29 June 2009 News and notes: Jackson's death, new data center, more Wikipedia in the news: Google News Support, Wired editor plagiarizes Wikipedia, Rohde's kidnapping, Michael Jackson Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations Features and admins: Approved this week Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 02:36, 30 June 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 6 July 2009 News and notes: Commons grant, license change, new chapters, usability and more Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia and kidnapping, new comedy series WikiProject report: WikiProject Food and Drink Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 03:38, 9 July 2009 (UTC) Error with Bot/WP/EN/Daniel/MediationBot1/1.2 Bot/WP/EN/Daniel/MediationBot1/1.2 needs to be logged in! 91.198.174.201 (talk) 09:27, 16 July 2009 (UTC) Durova's handicap Hey ST47. Would you mind removing Durova's handicap in the WikiCup? iMatthew talk at 17:27, 19 July 2009 (UTC) Sure. It will be done as of the next update. ST47 (talk) 15:21, 20 July 2009 (UTC) Account creation system ST47, thank you for your interest in helping users creating accounts. Your request has been approved. I advise you to read WP:ACCG before you use the system. At this time, you are allowed to create up to six accounts per day. You won't be able to create an account with a similar name to that of another user. However, if you have reached the limit frequently, you can request the account creator permission at WP:RPE. Again, thanks for your interest in the account creation system. Join us on IRC at wikipedia-en-accounts and subscribe to the mailing list by going here. Willking1979 (talk) 15:49, 24 July 2009 (UTC) DEFAULTSORT Please take a look at WP:NAMESORT, particularly the sub-section WP:MCSTJR, particularly "accented letters and ligatures should be replaced by their unaccented or separated counterparts". Also, disambiguation terms (such as "SPD") are normally omitted from sort keys. In particular, in biographies, putting a disambiguation term after the family name causes a disruptive mis-sorting. Studerby (talk) 18:53, 24 July 2009 (UTC) oh, and most of the articles you are creating are for living people, any chance you could add Category:Living people as you add the article, when appropriate? Studerby (talk) 19:01, 24 July 2009 (UTC) Oops, I wasn't aware of the issues with disambiguation terms - there was one word I was told to ignore, because it was merely a rank, however I wasn't aware of anything else, however I only added, not changed defaultsort keys, so nothing that was working is now broken. I couldn't find a simple way to remove the diacritics. ST47 (talk) 20:37, 24 July 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 27 July 2009 From the editor: Welcome to the build-your-own edition of the Signpost Board elections: Board of Trustees elections draw 18 candidates for 3 seats Wiki-Conference: Wikimedians and others gather for Wiki-Conference New York Wikipedia Academy: Volunteers lead Wikipedia Academy at National Institutes of Health News and notes: Things that happened in the Wikimedia world Wikipedia in the news: Assorted news coverage of Wikipedia Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations WikiProject report: WikiProject Oregon Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delivered by -- Tinu Cherian BOT - 13:04, 28 July 2009 (UTC) WikiCup ends in two hours Hey ST47, can you do the last and final round 3 update at 23:59 (UTC) tonight. The round is over today. Next time your around on IRC (within the next two days) I'll let you know what's going on during round 4. iMatthew talk at 22:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC) Please turn the bot off. It's still running, and the round is over. iMatthew talk at 10:44, 30 July 2009 (UTC) Youngmoneyfan1 account I noticed that you happened to create the account user:Youngmoneyfan1, the second suspected sockpuppet of user:Bigweezyfan1, a user who consistently uploaded bogus album covers for the upcoming Lil Wayne album Rebirth. How and why did you do that? --Andrewlp1991 (talk) 21:50, 30 July 2009 (UTC) Vandalism alert You have been paged because a user has reported a high level of vandalism and you are listed as a contact. Alexius08 (talk) 11:18, 1 August 2009 (UTC) This is an automatically generated message. If problems occur, please contact User:nathanww. User:ST47/CUOS 2009 Hi, would you oblige me by removing me from this tally page as I have withdrawn from the election? Thanks. Stifle (talk) 17:05, 1 August 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 3 August 2009 News and notes: WMF elections, strategy wiki, museum partnerships, and much more Wikipedia in the news: Dispute over Rorschach test images, and more Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 06:20, 4 August 2009 (UTC) Pwn Article Why is the Pwn article still locked after two years? I had intended to add the following There also an alternative form "own", derived from the original lineage of the word<ref name=omgpwned> [http://www.omgpwned.net/history.php]</ref>. The internet mockumentary series [[Pure Pwnage]] ([http://www.purepwnage.com/ site]), is notable for using this pronunciation. as I felt it was worthy of mention considering the increasing usage of the word. It is finding its way increasingly into the spoken word. I'll add on a general note that it's very frustrating to find such forgotten locks still in place years after their implementation. This may seem a trivial article, but I have found it on many important ones as well. It would be nice for locks to have a sunset clause of some description. ObsessiveMathsFreak (talk) 11:06, 4 August 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 10 August 2009 Special story: Tropenmuseum to host partnered exhibit with Wikimedia community News and notes: Tech news, strategic planning, BLP task force, and more Wikipedia in the news: Shrinking community, GLAM-Wiki, and more Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 05:43, 11 August 2009 (UTC) Your bot is still running, and the elections are over. Would you mind turning the bot off for the CU/OS elections? They've ended. iMatthew talk at 02:37, 12 August 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Signpost: 17 August 2009 From the editor: Where should the Signpost go from here? Radio review: Review of Bigipedia radio series News and notes: Three million articles, Chen, Walsh and Klein win board election, and more Wikipedia in the news: Reports of Wikipedia's imminent death greatly exaggerated, and more Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 04:19, 18 August 2009 (UTC) WikiCup scoring I have a question about the scoring system in the Wikipedia:WikiCup. Is it a bot that does it? Can the bot be used to score another contest? I'm thinking of setting one up for Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation to promote participation and camaraderie. Would I have to set it up exactly like the WikiCup or can I request a few differences? Thanks for any help you can give. - Trevor MacInnis contribs 03:56, 20 August 2009 (UTC) It's bot-run. All that is really necessary is that you decide how to score it, and I then write up a bot configuration for that. I am however going to be quite busy and not necessarily in the possession of internet access for the next few days owing to a college move-in, but I will look at this when I get a chance. ST47 (talk) 05:58, 21 August 2009 (UTC) Does your college move-in have something to do with your bot not running for the WikiCup? :/ iMatthew talk at 22:03, 22 August 2009 (UTC) Thank you for your help. The scoring is very similar to the WikiCup. DYK, ITN, GAN, FAC and other Featured Content (minus Feature Portal) are exactly the same. I've not added mainspace edits because without a bot it would be too difficult to score by hand, but if your bot was to score it, it would be the same as WikiCup, except the only edits to count would be those on pages in the Aviation Projects Scope, i.e. talk page tagged with {{WPAVIATION}}. I've also added points for creating an article (so 5 points for creating an article and putting {{WPAVIATION}} on its talk page). Also .1 points for assessing an article (changing |class= to |class=anything ) and .1 points for completing the B-Class checklist in the {{WPAVIATION}} banner. If the last two are too difficult to code I'd be fine with dropping them. The contest page is at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Aviation/Contest#Scoring if you want to take a look. It's all set up just like WikiCup, with submissions pages and scorecard all set up the same way. Thanks again, for any help you can give. - Trevor MacInnis contribs 22:11, 23 August 2009 (UTC) Also, could the scoring be done by bot in conjuction with manual scores? I could hand score the assess and b-class checklists part (if it's too hard to code) and the bot could do the rest. Or would the bot override any edits I made to the score page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Contest/History/2009)? - Trevor MacInnis contribs 16:56, 24 August 2009 (UTC) Bot broken? ARSBot seems to not be working? Can it be turned back on? -- Banjeboi 09:37, 25 August 2009 (UTC) (BAG)Bot down again It seems. Posted on bot and operator pages. Rich Farmbrough, 09:09, 27 August 2009 (UTC). WikiCup bot is off too. Where'd you go? ... iMatthew talk • take my poll at 21:43, 27 August 2009 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 21 September 2009 From the editor: Call for opinion pieces News and notes: Footnotes updated, WMF office and jobs, Strategic Planning and more Wikipedia in the news: Wales everywhere, participation statistics, and more Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations WikiProject report: WikiProject Video games Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 23:56, 22 September 2009 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 28 September 2009 Opinion essay: White Barbarian Localisation improvements: LocalisationUpdate has gone live Office hours: Sue Gardner answers questions from community News and notes: Vibber resigns, Staff office hours, Flagged Revs, new research and more Wikipedia in the news: Stunting of growth, Polanski protected and more Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations WikiProject report: WikiProject National Register of Historic Places Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 02:51, 30 September 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Mr.Z-bot 8 Hi there ST47, there's a [[current BRfA up for Mr.Z-bot to take over from USer:BAGBot. If you have any input it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks - Kingpin13 (talk) 05:35, 3 October 2009 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 5 October 2009 New talk pages: LiquidThreads in Beta Sockpuppet scandal: The Law affair News and notes: Article Incubator, Wikipedians take Manhattan, new features in testing, and much more Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia used by UN, strange AFDs, iPhone reality Discussion report: Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations WikiProject report: New developments at the Military history WikiProject Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 05:25, 6 October 2009 (UTC) Edits by User:210.5.53.22 Some of your user pages have been edited by anonymous User:210.5.53.22. I'm the owner of a server with static IP address 210.5.53.22, but I'm not sure how this IP address has been attributed to these edits. Please let me know if there is any further way I can help. Kiwipete (talk) 04:29, 10 October 2009 (UTC) User:CupPup I note you indeffed CupPup. I've just done the same for Wingman 09 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log), primarily based on the self-confession on his talk page. I don't know who the editor is a sockpuppet of though. If my actions here were incorrect please let me know, I'm still a new admin. 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If you consider it more appropriate, I will start a deletion review. I have read your warning, but the deletion review page begs us to start the discussion here. I understand that the main reason for the deletion was lack of relevance of the term. This is by no means the case as of today, as you can readily check in google: I got almost 2.5 million hits. The term is used by all scientists all over the world. People come to wikipedia to understand and read a serious discussion about it and find nothing. 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Cheers Ash (talk) 21:35, 16 February 2010 (UTC) No. I was trying to revert several edits by the same person and forgot how, and you beat me to it and I broke everything. Oops. ST47 (talk) 21:36, 16 February 2010 (UTC) Error? You huggled this. Was that an accident? Or is "TACO!!!" encyclopedic content?--Ipatrol (talk) 02:51, 17 February 2010 (UTC) Huggle really seems to enjoy reverting the wrong revision >.> ST47 (talk) 02:52, 17 February 2010 (UTC) Wait. I've never edited that page? 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If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.--The Evil IP address (talk) 17:11, 4 March 2010 (UTC) Please comment Please see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_March_4#Category:Images_with_a_rationale_but_unknown_copyright_status, where a category was nominated for deletion, and I proposed to delete a whole bunch of related things which were once created by you. 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I have been using it with some success for transferring numeric data from the French/Italian Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia. Normally I use WP:AWB, but as far as I can tell, WP:AWB can't do this (yet). Thanks to you and your co-authors for the great code. 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Now that I have space, I'll be able to have my Linux laptop running 24/7 whatever bots. I'm assuming the community has clotted up around the holes left by the bots I used to run, or simply decided that they weren't needed. If this isn't the case, please let me know. I have all my old code and would love a good project. I also have all the stuff I used for the live election bots, if there's any circumstance for those, don't hesitate to let me know. I have a new developer who has already in the past 24 hours done an incredible amount of work on MediaWiki::Bot, and I'm hoping to have a finally updated version out soon. As usual, you can get that from the svn at code.google.com/p/perlwikipedia or from the CPAN - look for MediaWiki::Bot. We'll be using the plugin system I prototyped last year more liberally - admin functions are being forked off, so if you need them, all you need to do is install MediaWiki::Bot::Plugin::Admin from your CPAN client. All your bots using MediaWiki::Bot will automatically import from any plugins you have installed, but if you will never need something (like the steward election library, which no one needs ;) ) you don't need to install it. I'll probably be crossposting this or something like it to the Bot Owner's Noticeboard, or whatever the closest thing is if it's changed since I've been gone. Please don't hesitate to contact me with requests for my old bots to start running again or for their code to be posted. ST47 (talk) 05:07, 13 May 2010 (UTC) Motto of the Day Hi there, ST47! Thought you might be interested in Motto of the Day, a collaborative (and totally voluntary) effort by a group of Wikipedians to create original, inspirational mottos. Have a good motto idea? Share it here, comment on some of the mottos there or just pass this message onto your friends. MOTD Needs Your Help! Delivered By –pjoef (talk • contribs) 12:32, 13 May 2010 (UTC) ANI notice A toolsever IP has been indef blocked, probably due to one of your AIV bots editing while logged out. Pcap ping 07:05, 16 May 2010 (UTC) I do not have and have not had for over a year access to the toolserver. ST47 (talk) 16:13, 16 May 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 17 May 2010 News and notes: Backstage at the British Museum In the news: In the news WikiProject report: WikiProject Essays Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 19:34, 18 May 2010 (UTC) Inactive bot in ru.wiki Hello! You are the owner of the inactive bot in ru.wiki. Now we are discussing such inactive bots and if you have any comments - you are welcome. If you have any questions, please ask there or on my userpage in home wiki Rubin16 (talk) 10:25, 23 May 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 24 May 2010 News and notes: New puzzle globe, feature for admins, Israel's "Wikipedia Bill", unsourced bios declining WikiProject report: WikiProject Saints Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 04:26, 27 May 2010 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost: 31 May 2010 Photography: Making money with free photos News and notes: Wikimedians at Maker Faire, brief news WikiProject report: WikiProject Zoo Features and admins: Approved this week Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · EdwardsBot (talk) 22:41, 1 June 2010 (UTC) Revision to Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri articles I noticed that you have revised either Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri or Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire. I intend to revise those articles following the Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines. There are more details on the discussion pages of those articles. I'd be interested in any comments you have. It would be best if your comments were on the discussion pages of the two articles. Thank you. 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Yes, my source for most of the Bill Phillips article was from the National Academy but I also used some DuPont stories, having never met the guy. I have stripped the page down to nothing but facts, removing most adjectives and adverbs. If I say he went to such-and-such university or the title of a paper was so-and-so just as in the NAS article, how is that copyright infringment? Am I supposed to make up information? Or start with his death and go backwards? 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It says the user was blocked for abuse of multiple accounts, etc., but the user page indicates a new name and contributions resolve to active member User:Charles Edward. Is this a blocked user or something else? Flowanda | Talk 10:47, 18 July 2011 (UTC) I have no idea. I wasn't the original blocking admin, I just tweaked block settings, but it looks like Charles Edward is admitting to abusing multiple accounts. If any other admins who blocked him are active, they may have insight, or try AN/I with a link to the sockpuppet case. ST47 (talk) 06:32, 20 July 2011 (UTC) Ahh, I think I got it. this may be more enlightening. The user changed usernames, and then the old username was taken over by a vandal, who presumably chose that username in a (failed ;) ) attempt to trick us into blocking a legitimate user. I didn't realize that username changes left the old username open to squatting, that really shouldn't happen, but I'm sure someone fixed that within the two years since it happened. Hope this clears things up, ST47 (talk) 06:35, 20 July 2011 (UTC) The Signpost: 18 July 2011 News and notes: WMF Annual plan; Article Feedback tool; university outreach; brief news In the news: Fine art; surreptitious sanitation; the politics of kyriarchic marginalization; brief news WikiProject report: Earn $$$ free pharm4cy WORK FROM HOME replica watches ViAgRa!!! 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Could you double-check this block, please? I see one possibly accidental page-blanking, and no other problematic edits. --jpgordon::==( o ) 04:51, 3 August 2011 (UTC) Hey, ST47. I tried getting in touch with you on IRC just now since you appeared to be online, but didn't get a response. Regarding your block of this user, I took a look at their contributions and it appears they've got a long history of useful edits to the project (link), including some just minutes before the page blanking. They requested unblocking, claiming that the blanking was an accident, and I couldn't find anything to lead to any belief otherwise. I accepted their request for that reason, and because an indefinite block for a single page blanking seemed excessive in any event - especially for an established editor. If you feel this was inappropriate, please let me know. Hersfold (t/a/c) 05:07, 3 August 2011 (UTC) Revert Hi ST47, I just thought I should let you know I half-reverted an edit you made recently; see User_talk:Porcellio for why. Cheers, Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 08:56, 3 August 2011 (UTC) Hpcomarc You should re-do his block summary as a spammer, because he's questioning being listed as a vandal.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 02:28, 5 August 2011 (UTC) 4 (Beyoncé Knowles album) Why are you reverting everything on that page? Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 05:36, 5 August 2011 (UTC) consider this your last warning, if you continue reverting you will be reported to admins. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 05:38, 5 August 2011 (UTC) When you log in you will see this Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 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Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Calliopejen1 (talk) 09:29, 31 December 2011 (UTC) Pierius Magnus Hi ST47, I was wondering why you blocked Pierius Magnus. Happy New Year. Lotje ツ (talk) 09:47, 2 January 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 02 January 2012 Interview: The Gardner interview News and notes: Things bubbling along as Wikimedians enjoy their holidays WikiProject report: Where are they now? 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My dissertation project has been approved both by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Oregon, and by the Research Committee at the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information on the project on my meta page. Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to hearing from you to set up a time to chat. Thank you very much. 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This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students. So a few things about the interviews: Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes. Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.) All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so. All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time. The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly. Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead. If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you. Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you. Sincerely, Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC) Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 20:53, 15 February 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 20 February 2012 Special report: The plight of the new page patrollers News and notes: Fundraiser row continues, new director of engineering Discussion report: Discussion on copyrighted files from non-US relation states WikiProject report: WikiProject Poland Featured content: The best of the week Arbitration report: Civility enforcement closed, proposed decision in TimidGuy, two cases remain open Technology report: Major strands of development cycle coalesce as 1.19 is deployed to first wikis Read this Signpost in full Single-page Unsubscribe EdwardsBot (talk) 23:45, 20 February 2012 (UTC)