User talk:Yobot

Yobot on United States Presidential Election, 2016

Can YoBot be adjusted so it does not reorder the sources on the United States Presidential Election, 2016 article?

The article is structured with a series of sources attached to each person, the sources are supposed to be sorts oldest to newest. YoBot changes the order which requires manual correction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ObieGrad (talk • contribs) 15:14, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @ObieGrad: You can prevent Yobot (and other AWB bots and human users) from reordering the sources by adding a comment between the references. GoingBatty (talk) 02:17, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

@GoingBatty: Thank you. There are hundreds of sources on that page. Is there any way to do it with one action?ObieGrad (talk) 14:26, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

@ObieGrad: Try this:

1. Open your favorite text editor program (e.g. Windows Notepad)
2. Load United States presidential election, 2016 and click "Edit source"
3. Select all the text and click Copy
4. Paste the text in the text editor
5. Use the find and replace functionality to find </ref><ref and replace it with something like </ref><!--references listed oldest to newest--><ref
6. Select all the text in the text editor and click Copy
7. Paste the text into the Wikipedia article and save

Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 16:36, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Agile software development

Hi, yobot attempted to correct something on the page for Agile software development which unfortunately replaced the whole page with an odd message saying something about revision #0 not found. I reverted that change, and all is good, however am concerned why that happened and what to do if it does it again (re. editor rules of repeated undo). Thanks. Davidjcmorris  Talk  11:28, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Davidjcmorris I can't see/spot the problem you report. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

I reversed the change, as it initially appeared as a mistake or potential vandalism, so that might mean all trace of it disappeared. When I looked at what yobot was trying to change, it appeared to have something to do with the embedded 'fancy' double quotation marks that were in a URL I added ... however the URL does not work if we replace them with anything else (I tried plain double quotation marks, as well as URLencoded versions, to no avail). Happy to take advice on it though. Davidjcmorris  Talk  04:13, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Davidjcmorris: If you saved the incorrect change, providing the exact diff would be helpful. If you haven't yet figured out how to add the URL properly, providing the exact URL would be helpful. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:06, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

These revision #0 errors have been coming up a lot lately, several of them were reported to WP:VPT, see for instance Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 136#Article disappeared without being deleted. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:34, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Fractions

Resolved

There is no improvement whatsoever in "correcting" fraction syntax to remove < small > tags and leaving the overlarge and line-ruining current < sup > and < sub > formatting. Either remove the "service" from your bot or use the bot to emend fractions into uses of the still large but much better-formatted {{frac}} template. — LlywelynII 10:01, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. -- Yobot (talk) 08:39, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Alessandro Esseno date

Hello Yobot, I need your precious help . Example : http://www.youreporter.it/foto_Alessandro_Esseno_-_La_legge_del_continuo_mutamento . How should you lay out ? Thank you very much . --Brainstorm76 (talk) 08:38, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Vanished website

Resolved

I recently modified some municipalities in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, Germany, that use the template {{Infobox German location}}. E.g., Sellerich. After my modifications, Yobot modified the article again: diff. However, after Yobot's modifications, the website is not any longer displayed in the infobox: my version where the website is displayed at the end of the infobox, Yobot's version without website. It seems that is is a problem with the lower case w of website. --Cyfal (talk) 22:12, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Cyfal don't revert anything. I ll fix it right away! -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:26, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Cyfal Fixed! Check now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:28, 19 April 2015 (UTC)