::I think it would be useful to include the removal of headers as well, and I believe it would be fairly simple to include. I know a MySQL query that checks for that would be fairly simple to write, and I assume bot scripts should be similar enough to that be fairly simple, too. I don;t think it's too far outside the scope of the bot to do that, either. Maybe that's just me, though. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]]<sup>[[Help:Installing Japanese character sets|?]]</sup> · <small><font color="blue">[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|投稿]]</font> · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 06:47, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
::I think it would be useful to include the removal of headers as well, and I believe it would be fairly simple to include. I know a MySQL query that checks for that would be fairly simple to write, and I assume bot scripts should be similar enough to that be fairly simple, too. I don;t think it's too far outside the scope of the bot to do that, either. Maybe that's just me, though. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]]<sup>[[Help:Installing Japanese character sets|?]]</sup> · <small><font color="blue">[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|投稿]]</font> · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 06:47, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
==Happy New Year!==
First off, Happy New Year! :) Anyway, [[User:WossOccurring]] has just been blocked after a checkuser confirmed he is a sock of someone who has had multiple other accounts blocked this holiday season. Part of his disruption in addition to sockpuppetry include frivolous renominations of articles for deletion, dishonesty, etc. I am bringing it to your attention as he was the first account to comment at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of unusual personal names (5th nomination)]] after the nomination and looking through the discussion he is indeed unfortunately cited subsequetntly by such editors as [[User:Ks0stm]] with a "per WossOccurring". I am therefore deeply concerned that this account which is one of several we have been playing [[whack a mole]] with the past week or so belonging to the same person has unduly influenced that discussion given when he commented and that at least one editor does indeed cite him as part of the stance to delete. As the discussion was far from unanimous and close enough to a no consensus, I urge you to reconsider and reclose as "no consensus" per [[WP:DENY]] as we absolutely should not allow a discussion to have been influenced by a ban evading sock with a history of bad faith editing. If the account commented last and had no real influence on the discussion that would be one thing, but by commenting first after the nom and being cited by at least one editor, it clearly did influence the discussion and that is something we absolutely cannot allow to stand. By the way, other blocked socks of this user according to checkuser include [[User:VaginicaSeaman]]. Yes, seriously. This is absolutely not the kind of person we want influencing the outcomes of discussions. Really, we have been dealing with this guy's vote-stacking all month. See for example [[User_talk:Spartaz#Vote_stacking]]. Even before the sockpuppetry was initially discovered, he was discussed on ANI for both on and eve off wiki canvassing in AfDs he commented in. As soon as one account is blocked, more just keep popping up or we find some new webforum or talk pages on which one of his socks canvassed. And somehow he is getting around the auto-blocks. Anyway, thank you for your time and consideration and again, Happy New Year! Sincerely, --[[User:A Nobody|A Nobody]]<sup>''[[User talk:A Nobody|My talk]]''</sup> 17:21, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
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Small issue with HBC AIV helperbot
The bot is removing headers incorrectly. You can see examples of this here and here. It should remove the headers for empty sections on that page, however, so if you can modify the bot to not remove headers below a report it's removing, but check if there are two level-3 headers in a row and then remove the top one, that would be awesome. Thanks! ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe21:05, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hmmm. I don't see any reason why this new feature could not be added, it should not adversely effect is current operation. I will look into adding this to the bot before I archive this section. I am likely going to make it simply not remove such headers at all, it is a bit outside the scope of the bot to identify and remove empty headers. Chillum(Need help? Ask me)23:02, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think it would be useful to include the removal of headers as well, and I believe it would be fairly simple to include. I know a MySQL query that checks for that would be fairly simple to write, and I assume bot scripts should be similar enough to that be fairly simple, too. I don;t think it's too far outside the scope of the bot to do that, either. Maybe that's just me, though. ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe06:47, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Happy New Year!
First off, Happy New Year! :) Anyway, User:WossOccurring has just been blocked after a checkuser confirmed he is a sock of someone who has had multiple other accounts blocked this holiday season. Part of his disruption in addition to sockpuppetry include frivolous renominations of articles for deletion, dishonesty, etc. I am bringing it to your attention as he was the first account to comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of unusual personal names (5th nomination) after the nomination and looking through the discussion he is indeed unfortunately cited subsequetntly by such editors as User:Ks0stm with a "per WossOccurring". I am therefore deeply concerned that this account which is one of several we have been playing whack a mole with the past week or so belonging to the same person has unduly influenced that discussion given when he commented and that at least one editor does indeed cite him as part of the stance to delete. As the discussion was far from unanimous and close enough to a no consensus, I urge you to reconsider and reclose as "no consensus" per WP:DENY as we absolutely should not allow a discussion to have been influenced by a ban evading sock with a history of bad faith editing. If the account commented last and had no real influence on the discussion that would be one thing, but by commenting first after the nom and being cited by at least one editor, it clearly did influence the discussion and that is something we absolutely cannot allow to stand. By the way, other blocked socks of this user according to checkuser include User:VaginicaSeaman. Yes, seriously. This is absolutely not the kind of person we want influencing the outcomes of discussions. Really, we have been dealing with this guy's vote-stacking all month. See for example User_talk:Spartaz#Vote_stacking. Even before the sockpuppetry was initially discovered, he was discussed on ANI for both on and eve off wiki canvassing in AfDs he commented in. As soon as one account is blocked, more just keep popping up or we find some new webforum or talk pages on which one of his socks canvassed. And somehow he is getting around the auto-blocks. Anyway, thank you for your time and consideration and again, Happy New Year! Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk17:21, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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