User talk:Tim1357

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If you are here about a message on your talk page
I encourage you to turn off the bot and leave your concern. Its much easier to re-start the bot then to un-do a list of edits

Bot deleting

Your bot deleted Abc32newsat10.jpg saying it was orphaned, but it was clearly being used by WNCF. It also did that to Mlsplayoffs.jpg, even thought it was being used by MLS Cup Playoffs. Whats the deal? Revzzz (talk) 23:23, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

My bot is not an adminbot, so it cannot actually delete anything. However, it seemes that an admin deleted File:Abc32newsat10.jpg because it was lacking a fair use rational. The second image, Mlsplayoffs.jpg, was deleted because it was not being used in any article, and had not been for 7 days. Tim1357 ^talk 22:58, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Subtle differences

Hi. There are subtle differences between these three pairs of files.

• File:Can Navy shoulder VAdm.png & File:Can Navy shoulder VAdm2.png
• File:Can Navy shoulder RAdm.png & File:Can Navy shoulder RAdm2.png
• File:Can Navy shoulder Cdre.png & File:Can Navy shoulder Cdre2.png

I'm trying to determine if the differences are important, and if so, which ones are "right", and which ones are "wrong".
Your bot has correctly identified that only one of each pair is currently in use.
I agree that one of each pair needs to be deleted.
The current problem is, I don't yet know which ones.
When I have so determined, I will place "{{db-g7}}" on the others.
In the interim, if you don't mind, I'll remove your bot's tags. Are you OK with that plan?
Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:22, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Is there some way you or I can stop your bot looking at those 3 files? Pdfpdf (talk) 15:21, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

PBSKIDS

Hello Tim1357, thank you for your contributions on articles related to PBS Kids. I'd like to invite you to become a part of Wikipedia:WikiProject PBSKids, a WikiProject aimed at improving the quality of PBS Kids articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page for more information. Thanks!

DASHBot: wrong deadlinks

I just corrected two deadlink tags added by DASHBot to very much alive websites, on Candy Shop and Confessions on a Dance Floor after which I turned it off to be on the safe side. They were both from two weeks ago (13 June 2010). I had a look at changes list around that time and unfortunately the bot was very busy creating dead links, all of which seemed wrong to me. Seems like there will be a lot of work undoing it all, let me know if I can help. --Muhandes (talk) 08:51, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that was an error that happened a few times. It is not a huge deal, but I am working on a way to fix it. The reason is that a few websites (mtv.com, nytimes.com) regect the python user agent by raising an error 404. This means that any time I use a script to test the links, they appear to be dead while they really aren´t. I could fake a user agent (make the bot appear like Safari, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox) but that seems to me to be a bit sneaky. Anyways, thanks for your vigelance and your patience. I´l ping you if I come up with a solution. --Tim1357 ^talk 22:36, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Reply to the DASHBot Recieved

I just found that the image File:Asin Pokkiri.jpg which was uploaded by me was orphaned and removed from the article with out any genuine reason. I included all the details and suitable copyright tags already in the image summary when I uploaded it and I also quoted the reason to include the image in the article. I re-added the image. The most interesting fact is that the image was removed by a user because he felt the image as strange. (talk) 13:16, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Mass tag of R from shortcut

Hrm, looks like I just missed you. I replied to your post here. And just wanted you to know that I fully support that task. I just wish I could've seen that earlier, my watchlist is so clogged it's backed up for weeks! I really need to do a major clean of it but it would take too long and a total wipe would be too drastic (I don't want to risk losing some of the older pages I watchlisted.. so was wondering, do you know of any scripts or tools that organize the pages on my watchlist according to the date of *MY* last edit to them? But anyways I'm rambling on..) So apparently all the members at WikiProject Redirect have stopped paying attention to it (in fact this general project-wide apathy towards Maintenance WikiProjects really disappoints me, but, yet again I digress..) so I'm hoping that when you return, if you'll consider resubmitting your bot request and letting me know about it on my talk page? Thanks. I better get some sleep now.. this coffee is terrible! ;) -- œ^™ 18:26, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Re: Orphaned non-free media (File:Somersault_logomark_and_logotype.gif)

Tim: I'm writing because a bot turned off the logo I uploaded. I don't understand why. I work for Somersault and have the necessary authorization to upload it.

I have also written to Melesse the following message. Melesse: The Somersault logo that I uploaded is not intended to be orphaned. It is connected to the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikiloonwater/Somersault_Group that I've written in my User space. I'm new at this and thought I was following instructions by first creating the article in my User space, then ask an editor for approval to move it into the Main space. Can you do that? Thanks. Wikiloonwater (talk) 02:50, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

All I'd like to do is properly write this article and post it with the logo. But I'm getting more confused. Can you help me? Thanks. Wikiloonwater (talk) 11:13, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Re: Orphaned non-free image File:Colton Harris-Moore.jpg

Hi! I got the following message from your bot about an image I uploaded. The bot said that it was going to delete the image because it was an orphaned image and not being used in any articles, but the image is currently being used in Colton Harris-Moore and that is clearly evident in the 'file links' subsection of the image description, as well as by going to the article itself. So I shut off your bot because it most definitely isn't working properly. WTF? (talk) 06:39, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

The Message

⚠ Thanks for uploading File:Colton Harris-Moore.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). PLEASE NOTE: I am a bot, and will therefore not be able to answer your questions. I will remove the request for deletion if the file is used in an article once again. If you receive this notice after the image is deleted, and you want to restore the image, click here to file an un-delete request. To opt out of these bot messages, add {{bots|deny=DASHBot}} to your talk page. If you believe the bot has made an error, please turn it off here and leave a message on my owner's talk page. Thank you. DASHBot (talk) 05:30, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Hey WTF, the second bullet point in the message says that the bot will remove the request for deletion if/when the image is used in the article space once again. The bot did so here. Hope that clears things up. Tim1357 ^talk 22:27, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. However, the image is currently orphaned again because of an eager Wikilawyer eager to impose his view on things. It would help if the image wasn't automatically deleted by a bot while the dispute is occurring. WTF? (talk) 01:14, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

The bot is not an admin, therefore it cannot delete the image. It places the request for deletion and an checks back every hour to see if the image is still orphaned. After 7 days, if the image is still orphaned, an admin or adminbot can delete the image. Tim1357 ^talk 14:31, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Filter 342

Hello Tim. Currently 99% of edits to the main space will be tested against the condition "old_wikitext rlike" including very long pages. Adding an "Old page size" condition (say: Old page size < 200 ) will make the filter skip most of the edits before that. Sole Soul (talk) 15:31, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

I agree, I dont like the filter very much, but I added your suggestion. Tim1357 ^talk 18:25, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

A legitimnate question was asked abou the details of this edit to the filter at Wikipedia talk:Edit filter#Filter 342, namely why you used added_lines and old_wikitext (the match for added_lines is removed_lines, and the match for old_wikitext is new_wikitext). עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:22, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

You have new messages (last change).

—fetch·comms 21:40, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Replied there. —fetch·comms 23:56, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Replied there again. —fetch·comms 00:04, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

And again. —fetch·comms 00:34, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Filter 320

Your changes to filter 320 prevented all user talk page edits site-wide for 14 minutes. There's a queue at Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Reports. Thought you should know. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 09:50, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Oh shit. I am so so so so sorry. Damn. Tim1357 ^talk 12:09, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Re: thanks

No problem. I wish I could do things on Wikipedia all day instead of having to go into work. —Soap— 23:55, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Dashbot question

Why is this being treated by your bot as non-free? It looks fine, but I don't speak images very well. Hobit (talk) 14:56, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

It was tagged as non free. Because it is no longer, the bot should not treat it as such anymore. Tim1357 ^talk 19:26, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I'd looked at the history and didn't think it was tagged as non-free the day the report happened. Guess I missed something. Hobit (talk) 23:29, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Jim Newman BLP

Hi. I got a message from your bot telling me I had started a page with a biography of a living person. The "Jim Newman" page I created years ago was for the astronaut. Now it seems to point to an actor I'm not familiar with, and there isn't a pointer to a Jim Newman disambiguation page. Your bot asks me to update references on this page, which would not be appropriate for me to do. SkyDot (talk) 04:46, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Somebody had changed the subject of your article. I think I've got it fixed now and Jim Newman is now a dab page with the astronaut one of the links. Sorry for any inconvenience, and thanks for bringing this to our attention. ϢereSpielChequers 15:39, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

New Dashbot run plz

Hi Tim, I know we discussed in the past doing a repeat of January's Dashbot run to authors of uBLPs. The hickup we hit before was agreeing where to point queries to, We've now created Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/Authors of uBLPs for this and if you are still willing would like to do a run to the authors of uBLPs. ϢereSpielChequers 15:12, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Sure. I have to re-run the query when I get home, so itll be 2+ weeks. Cheers. Tim1357 ^talk 17:07, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

 Done ~8000 users messaged. Poke me again when you want another run. Tim1357 ^talk 17:11, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Dashbot warning

Hi Tim, I shut-off Dashbot because it told me a file that I uploaded was orphaned, but I was not the one who uploaded the file I just reverted some vandalism on it. Check my talk page for the message if you need it. Regards, Bobby122 Contact Me (C) 16:01, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Yep, thats by design. Technically, because you reverted to the previous version of the image, you are the most recent uploader. This is because oftentime, the newest versions are diffrent from the old. In your case, it is identical, but the bot (and the mediawiki software) label you as the uploader. Tim1357 ^talk 19:09, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

AI engine on CSD pages

Instead of cluttering up AN, I figured it'd be easier to ask you here. I'm now intrigued about your vandal-page identification routine. I'm curious any details you'd be willing to share about what you're working on. I might be interested in doing something similar. Shadowjams (talk) 18:34, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Ok. I am using the CRM114_(program) baysian filter engine. This engine is what popular email clients use to dynamically filter spam. I tried using this engine with parsing for vandalism edits, but passing differences in text is not what the engine was designed for, so it worked poorer than I had hoped. It was good, but not good enough to be trusted with a revert button. Since the program is written in C, and I am most comfortable in Python, I used a wrapper to interface to it. What was the "something simillar" that you were planning? Tim1357 ^talk 18:52, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. I'm interested in doing something similar with some projects I've been working on in perl, and thankfully, there's a wrapper for that too. The something similar are programs that flag for recent changes that are possible introductions of factual errors. While that program works on the diffs (including redline and blackline portions; I don't think edit filter can do that), I'm interested in extending it more broadly. While that might not have a direct application to what I'm doing (like you said, diffs are too small sometimes) I'd like to tinker with one. Shadowjams (talk) 21:36, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Question

Was wondering if you could make this File:KSMJ logo2.gif a redirect? The image is still on there for some reason. The image is on File:KSMJ logo.jpg, so this should be a redirect to that, I'm guessing. If you could do that, then that would be cool. If there was something I messed up on, let me know. Just think it should be a redirect, since this is the same image. Thanks. (JoeCool950 (talk) 22:25, 21 July 2010 (UTC))

It seems the image has been deleted. Hopefully thats good for you. Cheers, --Tim1357 ^talk 22:51, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Manfred_Mann

An article that you have been involved in editing, Manfred_Mann , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. KoshVorlonNaluboutes,Aeria Gloris 17:03, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

One minor, automated edit almost a year ago does not qualify me to discuss merging this article. Tim1357 ^talk 22:48, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Strange results in unreferenced BLP run

Hi, yesterday's run on Wikiproject India's unreferenced BLP list has dropped nearly 500 articles. They are still unreferenced, but somehow dashbot has missed them.--Sodabottle (talk) 03:42, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, that is weird. As I am away from my main computer right now, I cannot do much to fix it. However, I checked the bots log for this task and it appears there was no error on my end. It could have been some weird, random error on the database side. Ill keep my eye on that page, but my guess is that the page will fix itself tonight. Thanks for the heades up, Tim1357 ^talk 08:54, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

It occurs when the project's template is moved - in this case from {{WP India}} to {{WikiProject India}}. It can take up to a week to be fixed - see Bodybuilding, Football, BBCPhillipines etc for other occurrences. No idea why it happens .The-Pope (talk) 12:18, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

In any case, there is nothing that I can do to fix it at the moment. Tim1357 ^talk 21:04, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

xeno-shell

Could I bother you for the code used to generate http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/Static/xeno-shell ? Thanks! –xeno^talk 04:18, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

I actually never saved it, so I threw this together. Its slow, so be patient. Ping me w questions. --Tim1357 ^talk 23:21, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

D'oh =) I have toolserver access now (yay), so I was going to run it =], but if you've already set it going that's cool. Thanks! –xeno^talk 23:58, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

I havent started it, but I can. Ill let it run through tonight and check on it tomorrow morning. --Tim1357 ^talk 00:05, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Did it stall out? –xeno^talk 20:15, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Oh, yea it did. Restarted it with error logging turned on, so I can see what happened. Tim1357 ^talk 13:43, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. –xeno^talk 13:43, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

 Done. Tim1357 ^talk 02:01, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Braggin' in Brass: The Immortal 1938 Year

Dashbot keeps alerting me that the File:Braggin' in Brass.jpg is orphaned but it is in use in the above article HELP!!! DISEman (talk) 05:58, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Yea, that happens sometimes. There isnt anything I can do to prevent this error, as it is on the databases end of things. However, I have reverted the bots tagging action, and forced the bot to ignore this file by adding a {{bots}} template. Cheers, Tim1357 ^talk 22:47, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

software logo on user page in userbox

hi your bot removed an image from my userpage which was not a draft or a talkpage. it is part of a userbox. i could be mistaken but i thought that it could be used in conjunction with identification purposes, based on the licensing for that image currently used on the software's article. i removed the tag. hope that won't be a problem.
Designsbyd (talk • global contribs • email) 11:12, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Dashbot run to Projects

Hi Tim, we have an interesting little report at Wikipedia:Database reports/Living people on EN wiki who are dead on other wikis. I was wondering if you could use the bot and tables you use to tell projects about uBLPs, to also tell them about any of these that are relevant. I'd be happy to supply a talkpage for the queries. ϢereSpielChequers 15:25, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Great idea. I'll play around with that tonight. --Tim1357 ^talk 22:04, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

I ran it last night, and it appears 22 wikirojects got alerts that a uBLP may be dead. (See this for an example). Now that I have the concept down, what do you want for a format? Tim1357 ^talk 13:31, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Tim. I think it would need to be a separate page to the uBLPs as most of these articles are not actually unreferenced. I would suggest a /Death anomalies subpage with a note to the project talkpage the first time there is a hit. If so I'd be happy to draft some wordings and to say the bot is doing it at my request - so hopefully the feedback comes my way not yours. ϢereSpielChequers 17:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Code

Im working on a python based wikitext tool, and I know you have the code from Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DASHBot 11 for tagging links in text as dead. (Im not looking for archived copies just the ability to tag them as dead) If you could lend me a hand I give you my thanks. ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 00:22, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Which bits did you need? Tim1357 ^talk 16:59, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

basically the parts that look for dead links and adds {{dead link}}. ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 18:17, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

How do You Make a Bot?

Hi, How do you make a bot? Can you make one for me please? Regards, Beamer103 21:50, 6 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Beamer103 (talk • contribs)

Well, it depends on what you want to do with your bot. I suggest taking a look at AWB, a program that requires no computer programming skills. Alternatively, you could leave a message at WP:BOTREQ to see if you can get someone to write your bot for you. However, before running a bot, you must get approval from the bot approvals group by filing a request at WP:BRFA. Good luck-- Tim1357 ^talk 17:07, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

psp

i feel that the link http://pspportals.freeiz.com/ should be added to the psp page as this website is a custom homebrew for the psp but every time it is added immediately it has been removed —Preceding unsigned comment added by Liamallan (talk • contribs) 09:38, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Hey Liam, I'm glad you've taken an interest in improving wikipedia's articles on Sony's Play Station Portable. Your link, it seems, does not appear to meet what is laid out at WP:EL. If I were you, I would try and improve wikpeida's resources on the PSP in other ways. A good place to start would be to take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games, to see what is on their to-do list. Thanks, and message me with any other questions you may have, Tim1357 ^talk 13:37, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

I approve.

Wikipedia should always have at least two regular anti-vandal bots running so that if one goes down, the other can continue.

• But I notice there have been no level 5 reports yet in the contributions. Is it programmed to report to AIV/TB2? mechamind90 02:04, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes it is, but each time that it was appropriate to, there have been little bugs that make the bot abort the reporting process. Tim1357 ^talk 22:27, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

P.S. - Is there a particular reason that DASHBot only posts once at a time on a user's talk page about non-free images? I think it's a higher priority reminder than that of SineBot. I think DASHBot should be permitted to post the non-free reminder more than once. mechamind90 03:07, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes, because I personally would be annoyed to hell if a stupid bot left me 15 messages about how I wasn't supposed to put that fair-use logo in my userspace draft. Tim1357 ^talk 22:27, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Re: Orphaned non-free image File:333 Green Jelly.jpg and File:Saltsweatsugar.jpg

DASHBot reported that my images File:333 Green Jelly.jpg and File:Saltsweatsugar.jpg are currently orphaned, but, to this date, they are still beng used in the 333 (album) and Bleed American (song) articles respectively. I don't know why it lists them as orphaned if they're still in use in said articles? What's going on?Gen. Quon (talk) 16:27, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

File:333 Green Jelly.jpg

• This file was removed (essentially) from 333 (album) when a user caused an error in the infobox. [1].
• The bot tagged it as orphaned, as it was not actually being displayed on the album article.
• The image was restored to the album's article 2 days later when another user reverted the errant edit that removed the image in the first place.
• The bot removed the orphaned tag, 1 hour after the image was restored in the article. Tim1357 ^talk 22:37, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

File:Saltsweatsugar.jpg

• This file was removed from the article Bleed American (song), thereby becoming orphaned.
• The bot tagged it as such.
• The file was restored to the aforementioned article.
• The bot removed the request for deletion.

Hope that clears things up. Tim1357 ^talk 22:38, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

My non-free image is used in an ANI that is not yet closed

I did not turn off your bot but I do want to suggest a slight change to its programming, if possible. I took a screenshot of a Google-ad-filled page of a commercial website as part of a debate about whether or not the site shows ads. If you agree this is a legitimate use for a non-free image, maybe you could ask your bot to check ANIs as well as article space to see if an image is in use? betsythedevine (talk) 11:32, 17 August 2010 (UTC)\

To keep the bot away while the discussion is being carried out, put on the page. Remember to remove the template after the discussion has ended. Tim1357 ^talk 14:46, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

OK thanks, I did exactly that. I have another question -- would I be able to host the link on my userpage or is that against policy? The image is a screencapture of a page that did not have an assertion of copyright anywhere on it. betsythedevine (talk) 16:45, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

I'd ask at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions if I were you. They know their copyright stuff pretty well. Tim1357 ^talk 16:50, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Typo in bot's edit summary

Hi, just thought I'd point out that DASHBot's edit summary here (and likely in all similar notifications) contained a typo. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 00:07, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

 Fixed (Thanks). Tim1357 ^talk 19:28, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Something that should probably be fixed.

DASHBot notified a user not to add any non-free images to their own userpage when actually someone else added it. The message should probably be changed (as it might not have been to a user's own space where they added non-free images) and the user to notify should probably be the one who adds the image. mechamind90 05:23, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

While I don't right now have the time to change the bot to notify the adding user, changing the message is much easier. You can change the message any way you'd like. The message template is here. Thanks, Tim1357 ^talk 03:13, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

re: Apologies

No problem at all.--BelindaEdgeworth (talk) 10:21, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Citing

HELLO!! Hey, thanks to have signalised me the problem with the page... I have now cited a page from the Rome's University where Enrico Arbarello works. It is ok or should I cite a different and (to say the truth) a more reliable source?? Thanks Danieldoz (talk) 14:58, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi Danieldoz, thanks for adding that. University sites are useful for confirming that an academic really exists, but we would also like third party references - not all academics are notable, but if he is being discussed in journals etc then that would establish his notability. So I've amended the tag to reflect that we have a primary source. ϢereSpielChequers 15:59, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Picture Deletion

Hi, I am new to using Wikipedia and I thought that I had correctly followed the steps to add a picture. Apparently I haven't, so I would like to ask you if you would be willing to tell the correct steps to follow as I do not completely understand why my picture is deleted. There is a photograph from the same series of books already registered in the Wikipedia files so I would assume just from that alone that the photo by Drew Struzan would be acceptable, if it really isn't could you please also explain why? Thank You. I mean all of these sentences with respect so please do not take it the wrong way. ;)Morphingsmurf (talk) 16:40, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Sure. This particular image (File:Personnage-ferus-olin-2.jpg) is what we call a fair use image. That means that it is not released under a free licensee, but we use it because it qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Because we are using it with "fair use", we must obey a few restrictions on the image (see Wikipedia:Non-free content). One of those restrictions requires that the image must be used in (and only in) articles. As your image is not used in any article, it is listed for deletion. Once it is used in an article, the bot will automatically remove the request for deletion. Therefore, I'd try and find a suitable place to put that Image, in the article-space. Hope that clears things up. Tim1357 ^talk 03:09, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Does that still count even if the article is still being written? Because I have not added links and everything else yet because I am not finished writing the article. peace Morphingsmurf (talk) 23:02, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Re: Stop letting your bot edit my user page

Tim1357, in the future can you please do not edit my user page??!!! I know you DASHBot did it, but I've put a notice in the bottom of my user page stating that you can look at it, and I don't want anyone editing it. I will revert the edits if anyone edits my user page. Understand? Thanks. -> Challisrussia (talk) 17:45, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The bot is editing your page because you are displaying a non-free image (that is probably replaceable) therein. –xeno^talk 16:46, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Will work on Mike Padden article

Your bot brought to my attention that the Mike Padden article has not source cited; I will remedy this as quickly as I can, I promise. Thank you. ProfessorPaul (talk) 22:49, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Awesome. Thanks for taking the time. Tim1357 ^talk 03:03, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Zihuatanejo

I saw some strange behavior here. The bot reverted an edit on the 18th. I still saw the old version on the 19th. I edited the page, and saved it with no change. Then I saw it correctly, but there is no record of my edit. Any ideas what's going on? BollyJeff || talk 02:39, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

tools:~tim1357/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py

Hey Tim. I really like this new tool. However, I wanted to see if it counted redirects of something, so I tested with {{WPCALIFORNIA}}. It gave me a message saying "{{WPCALIFORNIA}} redirects to {{WikiProject California}}, {{WikiProject California}} used instead." Does this mean it included uses of WPCALIFORNIA? I'm just curious. Also, you might want to change the link's color that directs people to your talk page for bug/feedback report. The unclicked link color almost blends in perfectly with the background box's color. One more thing I noticed was that it took ~35 seconds for it to load recent changes for articles using {{BLP}} on the talk page. That seems like quite a large difference to the ~5 seconds it takes for WP California. Killiondude (talk) 06:45, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Hey Killiondude. Thanks so much for taking some time to respond to my plea for feedback.

When you received that message, all template redirects were included in the query.

I will get on changing the link color right now (I didn't notice it before because the link displays as purple for me).

Really large projects take a long time to return results, but I found a different query that will work better.

Thanks, and all other feedback is greatly appreciated. Tim1357 ^talk 14:45, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Killiondude, I have a second query that works well for really big wikiprojects . Just append &q=2 to the url and it will use the new query. Here is the watch list for {{BLP}} using the new query. Tim1357 ^talk 17:03, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Toolserver tool security issues

http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py?template=WikiProject+California%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%22Brandon%20sucks%22%29%3C/script%3E

tswiki:Tool considerations#Security explains some of this. --MZMcBride (talk) 06:48, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Fixed and thanks. Tim1357 ^talk 14:49, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		For making the WikiProject Watchlist tool. This will be brilliant for projects. Mr.Kennedy1 talk 14:26, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

PS. Im helping out with the lists and spreading it around for each WikiProject. Mr.Kennedy1 ^talk 14:26, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

I'm glad you like it. Tim1357 ^talk 22:50, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Fantastic contribution! LunarLander // talk // 02:41, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Watchlist

Hi Tim, Is it possible to add a watchlist for talk pages tagged with the project template? This will be useful to monitor any discussion that was started on individual talk pages. — Ganeshk (talk) 21:51, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind me butting in. Tim1357 could probably come up with a better one but I knocked a quick 'talk pages watchlist' for the rugby league project using "Category:WikiProject Rugby league articles" in Related Changes: [2]. I found it was better to use the category rather than the related template. LunarLander // talk // 22:20, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

In any case  Done. Tim1357 ^talk 22:41, 25 August 2010 (UTC)