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MilHistBot and Devon County War Memorial

I was idly browsing when I noticed that MilHistBot seems to have missed a few steps in closing the ACR for Devon County War Memorial. It made eight edits closing the ACR before, but only six for that one. Courtesy ping for @Hawkeye7: so he can look into the technical stuff. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:58, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Bot was having troubling figuring out who the nominator was. Normally, the nominator card looks like this:

:<small>''Nominator(s): [[User:Kges1901|Kges1901]] ([[User talk:Kges1901|talk]])''</small>

but this one looked like this:

<small>''Nominator(s):'' [[User:HJ Mitchell|<font color="Teal" face="Tahoma">'''HJ&nbsp;Mitchell'''</font>]] &#124; [[User talk:HJ Mitchell|<font color="Navy" face= "Times New Roman">Penny for your thoughts? </font>]]</small>

The misplaced pair of quotes was all it took for the Bot to throw its hands up in the air. I have enhanced the bot's error reporting, made its parsing of the nominator card more permissive, and run the script to complete closing the nomination. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:42, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Hawkeye7: There is a similar issue with closing of Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/List of National Defence Academy alumni, it missed of the steps, such as; A-class medal eligibility tracking, article alerts December 2016 etc. Please check for the error. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 10:19, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Same problem, but in this case it read:

<small>''Nominator(s): {{u|Krishna Chaitanya Velaga}}''</small>

Told the Bot to accept this format. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:29, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Military Historian of the Year

		The WikiProject Barnstar
		For "... saving us and our fingers from the agony of a 45-60 minute manual closure of A-Class reviews", I have the honor of presenting you with this WikiProject Barnstar. For the Military history WikiProject, TomStar81 (Talk) 09:33, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Hawkeye7: Rather like Spock, your bot has no pride which can swell for having earned the barnstar, so you'll have to play the role of Captain Kirk and be proud for its achievement :) TomStar81 (Talk) 09:33, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of GANs from Template:WPMILHIST Announcements

G'day Hawkeye7, the bot seems to have removed all the GANs. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 01:21, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. There was a problem on 23 March. Kirill Lokshin restored the template, and then the Bot edit was okay on 24 March. I'll keep an eye on it. The Bot actually regenerates the whole list every time, although it looks like it is doing a regular add/remove edit. It may have been one of those transient "database down" errors, and I may have to teach the Bot how to handle them. Hawkeye7 (talk) 05:35, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Bot error report said: "Server has reported lag above the configure max_lag value of 5 value after 1 attempt(s). Last reported lag was - Waiting for 10.64.16.76: 30.858206033707 seconds lagged." So the error was a transient one. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:21, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		The Military history A-Class medal
		On behalf of the Military History I am pround to present the A-Class medal for SMS Zähringen, SMS Braunschweig, and SMS Elsass MilHistBot (talk) 02:13, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 :Hmm. There was a problem on 23 March. {{u|Kirill Lokshin}} restored the template, and then the Bot edit was okay on 24 March. I'll keep an eye on it. The Bot actually regenerates the whole list every time, although it looks like it is doing a regular add/remove edit. It may have been one of those transient "database down" errors, and I may have to teach the Bot how to handle them. [[User:Hawkeye7|Hawkeye7]] ([[User talk:Hawkeye7|talk]]) 05:35, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 ::The Bot error report said: "Server has reported lag above the configure max_lag value of 5 value after 1 attempt(s). Last reported lag was - Waiting for 10.64.16.76: 30.858206033707 seconds lagged."  So the error was a transient one. [[User:Hawkeye7|Hawkeye7]] ([[User talk:Hawkeye7|talk]]) 23:21, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
+==Congratulations from the Military History Project==
+{| style="border: 2px solid lightsteelblue; background-color: whitesmoke;"
+|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;" | [[Image:WPMH ACR.PNG|90px]]
+|rowspan="2" |
+|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" |&ensp;'''The ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Awards#A-Class_medals|Military history A-Class medal]]'''''&ensp;
+|-
+|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid lightsteelblue;" | On behalf of the Military History I am pround to present the A-Class medal for [[SMS Zähringen]], [[SMS Braunschweig]], and [[SMS Elsass]] [[User:MilHistBot|MilHistBot]] ([[User talk:MilHistBot#top|talk]]) 02:13, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
+|}