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Blocked FrescoBot

I have blocked your user:FrescoBot because it saves results when no substantial changes are made to an article - its most edits look like changing a white space. This does spam page history and watchlists. Please amend. Materialscientist (talk) 03:48, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

I do understand the bot was approved and is doing useful job, but. Is it possible to modify it to not save the changes if it is only one-two whitespace(s)? Materialscientist (talk) 07:26, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Unblocked. A note, extraneous spaces are not a big problem, but spacing errors which break templates are a problem. Materialscientist (talk) 08:12, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Basilicofresco, please keep doing these changes until we empty the backlog in CHECKWIKI. The kind if spacing fixed by your bot is useful. You should run it more often than just once per month. I am tired fixing this stuff manually every day. We probably have to find more CHECKWIKI errors that your bot can fix at the same time. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 17:01, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Bot is breaking things

Please fix this. People are having to clean up after this bot. --Ancheta Wis (talk) 19:13, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Ancheta, thanks, but in our case (the Scientific method wiki), it was okay, and it's just as well that I stop half-embedding "pp." - maybe it could lead to unexpected problems in the future as well. Also it led me to find a previously broken link. I'm getting rid of the half-embeddings of "pp." in all the articles in which I've used them. The Tetrast (talk) 21:05, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, please do. I haven't yet determined what the bot is supposed to achieve, but it inexplicably inserted a bunch of text into the Fencing article [1], which I just plain reverted. Thanks and, er, good luck with whatever it is you're doing. — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 19:51, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

[Re: your messages on my Talk]: Okay, will keep my eye out (as fencers often do...). GL! — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 20:25, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

pp. - no problem

Also posted at my talk page. The Tetrast (talk) 20:52, 27 February 2010 (UTC).

I'm the operator of FrescoBot. I included the exception in order to avoid the pp separation. However the half-linked pp is pretty strange... is it correct? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 20:26, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

I don't know whether it's correct. It was just a nicety, which helped make it a bit clearer that there was a link (especially to readers who have image-downloading turned off, as I sometimes do), especially when the linked page's number itself is a solitary little digit. Since periodic sweeps by bot users are to expected, I decided to put both "p"s outside the link - keep it simple not just for me but for one and all. And you've already gone ahead and incorporated an exception! Well, we're both accommodating. Best bet is that I'm the only person who would be so hair-splitting as to embed half a "pp." in a link, so I'd recommend dis-incorporating the exception. But thank you for the thoughtfulness of incorporating it.

Alternately, I could put "pp." entirely inside the link, but I found that unappealing from a logical standpoint, since it's a link to just one page. But maybe I could do it anyway when the page number is a single digit. Well, whatever. Meanwhile, I've already made the requisite alterations in the Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography article (which had a whole lot of such cases half-embedded "pp."s). I'll get to the other Peirce articles, where there may be cases here and there, but you don't need to wait for me if they're on your itinerary. Incidentally, thanks to your edits I found a link that was already broken, probably because of my own earlier bad editing. Not the first time that somebody's edits have helpfully revealed a pre-existent problem to me. The Tetrast (talk) 20:51, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Bot breaking things again

In List of Nintendo Entertainment System games article bot changed reference in table to title of the game, I undid it. Please check the change that bot made in history. Robixen (talk) 14:57, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, as you can see, the "reference" was actually a fake external link to the article The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt. There is no need to mask a wikilink as an external link. I replaced the wrong link with http://gamefaqs.com/console/snes/home/563505.html. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:21, 28 February 2010 (UTC):

I get it now. But you replaced the wrong link with snes one instead of nes one. I fixed it. Robixen (talk) 17:52, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

thanks

I'm new to wikipedia. Thanks for fixing my link in the tutor page. Ahnie (talk) 19:39, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

"Fixing" links to put the quotes outside the link brackets

I know it's one of this bot's approved functions, but I do not appreciate having links revised such as in this edit. Do you know of a MOS section, or another guideline, that calls for links to be written this way? (It's entirely possible there is such a guideline that I've never been made aware of, but I couldn't find anything about it in a quick look at the MOS.) I have also asked (and explained my objections further) at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Quotation marks when linking to titles. Propaniac (talk) 14:18, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Bot request Sherman Minton and Frank Murphy and James Clark McReynolds

Would you please work your magic on Sherman Minton and Frank Murphy and James Clark McReynolds. Those Supreme Court justices, along with a bunch of others, could use the help. Also, Elijah McCoy is a personal favorite of mine that would benefit. Thanks. Happy editing. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 18:43, 1 March 2010 (UTC) Stan

BTW, thanks for doing Outhouse. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 18:45, 1 March 2010 (UTC) Stan

Breaking <ref>s

Hi, it seems that when your bot encounters an external link to Wikimedia site inside a <ref> tag, it reformats it into an internal link (which is okay) but also encloses it in another <ref>, which breaks the article. See for example this edit, but I encountered more of them. Svick (talk) 17:31, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your message. It should not happen... but if it does than there is a bug. I will investigate the problem. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:37, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Followup: fixed on the same day, 2 articles affected. Thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 13:28, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Wondering about "Lowercase wikilinks to uppercase sections"

Hi, I just noticed FrescoBot's mod of the section link "[[dual number#cycles|cycles]]" to "[[dual number#Cycles|cycles]]". I was wondering whether that shouldn't be "[[Dual number#Cycles|cycles]]", i.o.w. shouldn't the article be upcased as well? Cheers, DVdm (talk) 09:56, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi! There is no need to uppercase also the first letter of the article name because it is not case sensitive (Wikipedia:Linking#Piped links). I mean [[dual number#cycles|cycles]] does not work, but [[dual number#Cycles|cycles]] or [[dual number]] works. Moreover upcasing only the useful letter keeps the code as simple as possible and permits to avoid special cases. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:33, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the information. Keep up the good work! DVdm (talk) 12:54, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Interesting! [[dual number#cycles|cycles]] with the lower case "#cycles" seems to work for me. David Biddulph (talk) 17:16, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

It works only with Internet Explorer. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:07, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Wrong. It works fine in Firefox, too. What doesn't it work with? Gene Nygaard (talk) 16:20, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, this link to the section User talk:Gene Nygaard#query does not work for example with Firefox 3.5.8, Google Chrome 4.0.249, Firefox 3.0.6, Firefox 0.9 and Safari 4.0 for Windows. What kind of Firefox are you using? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:49, 9 March 2010 (UTC) It does not work also with Firefox 1.5 on Windows, Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Windows, Konqueror 4.3 on Ubuntu 9.10 and Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:39, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry--my bad. It doesn't work for me. Don't know what I was thinking of, but I just trued removing the nowiki's here in a preview and it didn't work. Gene Nygaard (talk) 01:44, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

A possible issue with FrescoBot

Hi. I think FrescoBot may have some issues creating false positives for broken section links. The articles Mayer–Vietoris sequence and Borel–Kolmogorov paradox were both tagged for WildBot's help with broken section links, but in both cases WildBot found none (and I found none either). In the first case, the article contained # characters in the "name" of a ref tag (I have since cleaned up these names); in the second case, there were links to other regions on the article (specifically, references whose anchors were created by the "cite book" template). RobHar (talk) 16:07, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. I know, there are few false positives. It is not easy to guess any kind of possible correct (and incorrect) section link. For example <ref name="#Hatcher|Hatcher, p. 149"> has got an odd syntax and had to be replaced. Instead "ref= kol1933" in Borel–Kolmogorov paradox was not recognized due the space after the = sign (now fixed). Thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 16:19, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

I came here to say the same thing: The bot is generating many false positives. A recent example is Kill the Messenger; just one piped section link on the page (List of Castle episodes#ep18), and it works just fine.--ShelfSkewed Talk 21:27, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi! I know, there are some false positives, but it is not easy to account for any possible way to create an anchor. I'm doing my best, but as you can see for example in List of Castle episodes#ep18, there is no section named ep18 neither a standard anchor template like {{anchor}}. No standard html anchor nor a ref with that name: the anchor is generated by the template {{Episode list}} from the parameter episode number. WildBot will remove any false positive box within minutes. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:03, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Now FrescoBot will skip also section links to "ep1", "ep2", ..., "epxx". -- Basilicofresco (msg) 14:14, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your follow-ups. As I told the operator of WildBot, I really appreciate being informed about the broken anchors on pages I watch, so keep up the good work. Cheers! --ShelfSkewed Talk 14:52, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Claimed (Bot: broken section links found)

Could you please explain why you edited Talk:Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's lightweight coxless four and said "(Bot: broken section links found)"? The other bot which your edit summoned found nothing (as there was apparently nothing there to be found). David Biddulph (talk) 12:15, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi! I checked Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's lightweight coxless four and as you can see in section "Repechage", on the row "Rank 2", the wikilink "SA/B" points the section "v". It does not exist, so FrescoBot in the talk page suggested investigation. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 13:15, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Ah, I was confused by the fact that your tag was placed on the talk page, not on the article itself. Wildbot has visited, & updated the talk page again, so where is the result of the whole exercise? David Biddulph (talk) 15:11, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, in this case WildBot was not able to identify the broken link. You may contact WildBot operator. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:19, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Changing links to Wikimedia projects in references

Hi. In reference to This edit... in the rare circumstances where Wikimedia sites are used as references, they should be linked either as bare external links (what was in this article before), normal URLs in citation templates, or using the {{Srlink}} template. So, basically, if there's an inter-Wikimedia link in a reference, it's probably best to just ignore it. SnowFire (talk) 23:12, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi! Why should they be treated differently in ref? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:20, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Because, as noted on the template I linked you to, "Srlink can be used to easily externalise cross-namespace links from article space. WP:WAWI explains why these are undesirable and break on Wikipedia mirrors." And if you click there, you'll see that when Wikipedia itself is being used, "if you link from an article to a specific Wikipedia page, use external link style, so the link will make sense in any context." In other words, a mirror / fork of Wikipedia might want to distinguish between the following two cases:

John Doe was eaten by a giant squid owned by Wikisource.

According to Wikisource, the squid was an anonymous donation that they thought was a harmless guppy, hence they should not be legally liable for the wanton destruction it visited upon San Antonio.<ref>[http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Our_response_to_the_squid_attack]</ref>

The first case, they in general want to make those normal links point to their own personal articles on giant squids and Wikisource. The second case it makes no sense to point the link to their own mirrored article which probably doesn't exist; it's a reference to Wikisource directly, and should remain so no matter what context it is in. SnowFire (talk) 23:37, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

I see... it makes sense. I will try to modify the script in order to account for this exception. Thank you. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:50, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Links to wikisources

Please do not unlink helpful links to wikisource, as you did here. Your edit summary - "links syntax" - was also not correct. Thanks! Awadewit (talk) 21:58, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

It was not unlinked. Is in your opinion "On Fanny Godwin" better than "On Fanny Godwin"? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:14, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

I apologize - it looks like I was a bit too hasty there. The difference is not material to me. Awadewit (talk) 03:27, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

FrescoBot adding WildBot templates

FrescoBot seems to be adding "WildBot, please look at this" templates to a large number of articles. While this has only resulted in discussion ([2], [3]) for physics-related articles, it's caused a complaint [4] from one of the biology project people, including a shutdown of WildBot as an interim measure.

Long story short, please don't mass-call WildBot without discussion and approval from the WikiProjects in question, as this is causing disruption in at least one case. --Christopher Thomas (talk) 19:26, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Agreed with Christopher Thomas. ... Kenosis (talk) 19:30, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Agree. I haven't familiarised myself with the workings of these two bots, but at first glance, it's getting really annoying. -M.Nelson (talk) 23:15, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

I was not aware of the problem. Thank you for pointing it out. I immediately switch off the WildBot tag. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:29, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. This might still be useful functionality, but it's worth discussing with the WikiProjects involved first (perhaps some kind of opt-in scheme for the feature would be best?). --Christopher Thomas (talk) 00:16, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Opt-in scheme sounds a good idea in order to reduce the "watchlist spamming". However if the real problem is the size and/or position of the WildBot box in the talk page, I believe we have in the first place to fix this issue. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 00:58, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up at my page. Of course I could be wrong about any of this, but . . . Yes Basilicofresco, the watchlist issue is negligible to inconsequential-- plenty of bots do their work and it's a normal part of getting that work done to see it played out on the watchlist. The primary problem is the talk page interference. It's unlike an inline template, but rather interferes in the business of maintaining talk pages wiki-wide. Frankly, I don't think the BAG fully contemplated the implications of the last line of the most recent FrescoBot permissions request, i.e. that the end result of the two bots operating together would essentially turn WildBot from an opt-in situation to a mandatory wiki-wide function of placing templates on talk pages in the valuable page maintenance space at the top, where we set the broad context and define issues for countless busy talk pages. Possible solutioins are: turning WildBot's function into that of positioning a new talk thread rather than a template at the top, or at an absolute minimum placing any new templates below the existing templates. Also, a lot of the DAB templates placed by WildBot in response to the FrescoBot mass-requests are useless-- sometimes editors are content to link to a DAB, depending on the context of the wikilink. But I vaguely doubt this situation was fully contemplated when BAG granted the permission on this one. It would be nice to resolve it informally. Thanks for attending to these issues. ... Kenosis (talk) 02:19, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Josh Parris seems to have it covered now, as can be seen in User_talk:Josh_Parris#WildBot_template_clutter. Josh's proposed solution was to move the maintenance templates to below the existing templates used to set the fundamental page context on many of the busier talk pages. ... Kenosis (talk) 04:07, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Clara in Blunderland

Please explain what your bot is complaining about. -- Evertype·✆ 00:46, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi! I checked and it was a false positive. The partial italic section names (like section Humpty Dumpty#In Through the Looking Glass) are not easy to recognize. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 00:56, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

WildBot/tag in namespace 4 and 5

Could I ask that FrescoBot doesn't use WildBot/tag in Wikipedia: or Wikipedia talk: ? WildBot isn't authorized to run over those namespaces and I don't think it would be a good idea to do so. Thanks! Josh Parris 06:29, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Josh! Only 2 pages in ns5 were (assisted) edited. I manually fixed the broken links and removed these tags. I will avoid this ns in future. Are ns6, ns10, ns14 ok? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:35, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

ISBN splits question.

One of the changes that Frescobot made to List of Alpha Phi Omega members was changing ISBN 0313265933 to ISBN ISBN 0-313-26593-3 . Can you let me know where the logic is for the split between the 313 with 26593 is? (to know that it shouldn't split 3132-6593 for example). I know that there are lists available, I'm just curious how it is coded.Naraht (talk) 13:10, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi! Here you will find what you are looking for. Cheers! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:49, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. Doesn't appear that it has much information on Group identifiers other than 0 and 1 (so your tool can't figure out the hyphens on non-english works), but my bet is that 90%+ of the books referenced on the English Language wikipedias are group 0 or 1. Does the Hyphenation on the 13 digit numbers work exactly the same way after the 978 is sliced off? So ISBN 9780313265938 (guessed at the check digit which turned out to be right) would become ISBN 978-0-313-26593-8 and does your tool do that splitting as well?Naraht (talk) 19:02, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the link. It looks like the .py includes enough information to hyphenate just about everything. I noticed from a link in .py script that 979 does have one range assigned to it, I didn't know that. Thank you *very* much for the information!Naraht (talk) 17:12, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

WildBot (again)

Please do not let your bot tag talk pages for WildBot. It's entirely unhelpful. Rklawton (talk) 14:18, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, in the Josh talk page I asked what I had to do and it seems to be positive consensus about tagging (after WildBot box placing rewriting). -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:55, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Maybe it's the wording. Do the talk page messages from wildbot refer to the article or the talk page? If it's the talk page, then it's useless. If it's the article, then that's helpful. The wording, on the tag, though, should be more clear about what it's doing. Rklawton (talk) 14:36, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

It refers to the article. I will tell Josh Parris your suggestion. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:41, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

One bot tagging to call another bot

• I'm not really sure why we have one bot tagging to call another bot. Won't WildBot find the broken link eventually anyway? Alternatively, why doesn't FrescoBot just leave a note about the broken tags, rather than calling another bot to leave a note about the broken tags? Seems inefficient at best. –xeno^talk 14:05, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

This appears to offer us the advantage of having four edits appear on out Watchlists rather than just one or two. Perhaps there are other benefits unknown to me; this one is the only one I've seen so far. — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 14:47, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

There are strong technical reasons for this behaviour. FrescoBot was wrote to find and fix some types of misspelled links. Josh asked me to mark any article FrescoBot was not able to fix, but there are some false positives (FrescoBot was not made for this). It means I cannot place a detailed box as WildBot does. There are things FrescoBot is not able to do and viceversa about WildBot. Please note that rewiting and testing would take days... So: yes there is a reason. However it does not mean we cannot reduce the number of edits per error. For example I could write locally a list of these articles in need of inspection and pass them to Josh. What do you think? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:41, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

This would reduce the impact to peoples' watchlists. Even putting it somewhere in the FrescoBot or WildBot userspace would be better. –xeno^talk 15:43, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Please note you can disable bot edits in your watchlist... however I'll redesign WildBot calling as soon as possible. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:51, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm actually just speaking as devil's advocate here. –xeno^talk 15:52, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Matra logo

Hello, I have tried to insert a logo of Matra company in Matra article but I do not know how to insert pictures into wiki articles. Could you help me and make article about Matra better ? Thank you. The logo may comes from web page: http://auta5p.eu/katalog/matra/matra.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.40.240.88 (talk) 11:10, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Your input is requested

As you have recently edited Andy Martin (American politician), I am writing to request your input at the article talk page, sections Vexed and disputed are the ones which outline the current issue. Many thanks in advance for your time. KillerChihuahua^?!?Advice 21:28, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Bot making inconsistent changes

Frescobot is making inconsistent changes to chemical formulas of minerals, see humite example the bot added a space following a comma within the formula between Mg and Fe, but ignored the second instance between F and OH. The added space is incorrect. I've undone that, but there seem to be a bunch of other instances. Please fix your bot and undo such improper changes to chemical formulas. Vsmith (talk) 20:53, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. I stopped the bot and I will fix the prolem. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:02, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the fixes and other article improvements. Vsmith (talk) 00:04, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Bot is at it again: Cerite and Phillipsite. I've reverted those. Vsmith (talk) 02:14, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Followup: there were few additional rare cases. I created a script to systematically found any affected article. Then I fixed them, and I improved the ability of the script to avoid chemical formulas. It should work better now. Thank you. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:21, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

User:IBen/TB mono 05:01, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

blank talk pages

Hi, when you find a blank talk page there is no reason to delete it, CSD-A3 does not apply to talk pages, and these are allowed to be blank, Often the history has something relevant to the development of the article. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:47, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

You're right, sometimes the history of blank talkpages has something relevant. For this reason I checked it. In my opinion the history of Talk:Sabae, Fukui did not contain anything relevant. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:13, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

It did have a photo request, and a removal, suggestion request satisfied. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:18, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Ok. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:53, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

incorrect edit

The bot made an incorrect edit to rules of chess. Bubba73 ^{(You talkin' to me?)}, 03:33, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Found the bug and fixed. Thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:03, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

FrescoBot breaking template switch

FrescoBot just edited Template:Infobox UK place/police like this and potentially broke a #switch statement. It seems that the regex is catching a broader range of links than you probably intended. Should FrescoBot be excluded from editing templates altogether? — Richardguk (talk) 23:16, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Bug fixed. I run a script in order to find all affected pages and I found only 1 additional page affected. It was a well tested script, but not enough. I will avoid auto mode in templates. Your help was precious, thanks again. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:46, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

FrescoBot task 5 approved for trial

Hi Basilicofresco, just letting you know I've approved this for a short trial, sorry for the waiting time. Please visit WP:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 5 for details. Cheers, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 23:01, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Bot has now been approved. Best, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 21:01, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Happy Basilicofresco's Day!

User:Basilicofresco has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Basilicofresco's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Basilicofresco! Peace, Rlevse 00:02, 13 April 2010 (UTC) A record of your Day will always be kept here.

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Blank talk pages from redirects

These are fine. Deleting them generates a lot of work with very little to gain. Tim Song (talk) 11:52, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

File:Rushcliffe Halt.jpg

I`m confused the page already existed on en.wikipedia.org created by me in 2006 at some point someone uploaded it to commons.wikimedia.org and on the 14 April I added a Category:Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre realised that the image was of the railway and not specific to the Heritage centre so removed the Category. So what did I do wrong to cause the flag blanking page? Regards --palmiped |  Talk  17:59, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

FrescoBot is conflicting with WildBot

Please see the history of this book, beginning with this edit. I followed the directions given by WildBot and corrected them in this edit, and FrescoBot came along afterward in this edit and reverted what I'd done. Now WildBot is complaining about it again. Please work something out so we don't have dueling bots. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 09:27, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. I was not aware of this odd behaviour. I will take appropriate measures to avoid conflits. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 09:40, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Same for this. For technical reasons, there can be nothing between the : and the [[, so markup, quotes, etc., are shoved in the pipe. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 09:53, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

I noticed it, I was not aware of these peculiarities. I will avoid this namespace. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 09:56, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Not a ref

This is a link, not a ref.[5] It's the second time I've reverted this edit. Ty 00:53, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Fixed. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 09:40, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Re: Isang Lakas Page...

FYI, Darna, Captain Barbell, Dyesebel is Licensed By Individuals ok but, when you add it as a group the rival network "must" asked the rival network (GMA 7) to add them & for approval because for example Captain Barbell, GMA 7 will do a remake to the previous version of richard gutirrez which he will reprise also... "until" all are finished, the rival network (GMA 7) will make an assessment of doing an group or by two's for the said superheroes, if the network decides that they will not continue then the rival network (ABS-CBN 2) can add them make a superhero group, thats the reason why the kapamilya network can't released the showing of the show and other problems of the other characters because of schedules, and other things like production Staff... ok? Please, im asking for refraining to add them until approved by the rival station/network... thanks & godspeed.

P.S: (Reverted edits by Basilicofresco (You) or FrescoBot to last revision by Howard the Duck

04:06, 11 April 2010 Howard the Duck (talk | contribs) (3,779 bytes) (→See also: way too many see also links. most of them are linked at the cast and characters section already) —Preceding unsigned comment added by MsGanda (talk • contribs) 11 revisions between 05:58 and 06:18 UTC, 26 apr 2010

Pointless: did you take time to look at FrescoBot edit? The bot added only few missing whitespaces. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 09:40, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Bot error - image map

Hi, your bot made some good changes but ultimately damaged Revision history of Template:The Tribuna of the Uffizi beyond repair. I undid it, but thought you might like to see what happened. Victuallers (talk) 07:18, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

The imagemap was not recognized because it was included without <imagemap></imagemap> tags... I will improve the script in order to avoid this problem. Thanks a lot for reporting! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 09:40, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi, thanks ... I have quite a few image maps in same style. Will it be obvious how to modify the others? other possibility is to check templates are in category "image maps" ... i will have a look when you resolved the issue Victuallers (talk) 14:27, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Well, the main problem was that I was not aware of this exotic alternative syntax for imagemaps: now the bot is able to detect it. The second and least important problem was the mistake it attempted to fix: the wrong commas at the end of the links. I performed a check and Template:The Tribuna of the Uffizi was the only page on en.wikipedia affected by this rare problem. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 16:05, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

RE: Isang Lakas Revisions...

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That's better, sorry for the revisions, some are not correct like the revisions of 79.78.47.48 (whatever), anyway thanks and Please don't do what 79.78.47.48 do/did thanks again, I begging of you thanks....

Bot error

This bot accused me of creating Talk:Arzignano Grifo and then blanking it. I have looked through my contributions and I did not do either. Please correct the bot. It has a very condescending message. Thanks, Xtzou (Talk) 11:39, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi! It was not incorrect, here is the recovered history:

09:00, 1 May 2010 . . FrescoBot (80 bytes) (Bot: blank page meeting G7 criteria for speedy deletion)
16:27, 25 April 2010 . . Xtzou (empty) (remove mistake)
16:26, 25 April 2010 . . Xtzou (14 bytes) (project)    [ {{blp}}{{bio}} ]

As you can see here, when a page is deleted, all edits disappear also from user contributions page. Please note, the bot was not blaming you for anything: there is nothing wrong in what you do. Don't worry. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:27, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Tks for removing the notice --Portal:Yukon/Selected picture/3

I will add to the page today so it does not hapen again,,i am in the middle of upgrading all the Canada portals with modern coding..Moxy (talk) 18:39, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Bad edits

Hi, FrescoBot continually makes edits such as this.

Basically, the reference tag is written as:

• <ref>[[#Cherif (2007)|Cherif (2007)]], p. 345–359.</ref>

However, FrescoBot wrongly tries to fix the (unbroken) section link by changing it to this:

• <ref>[[#Cherif|Cherif (2007)]], p. 345–359.</ref>

As a result, the link to the reference in the bibliography in broken (note the "ref = Cherif (2007)" parameter):

• {{cite book | last = Cherif | first = Antoni | year = 2007 | title = Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Für Einsteiger und Windows-umsteige | language = German | location = [[Baar, Switzerland]] | publisher = Smart Books | isbn = 9783908497738 | ref = Cherif (2007)}}

This is not the first time FrescoBot has done this. I have reverted similar edits at least ten times before on other articles, so something really must be done about it. Thank you. OSX (talk • contributions) 14:58, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Fixed, it was a subtle bug. Next time you will find a mistake, please don't wait bot fix himself: send me a message immediately. Thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:35, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. OSX (talk • contributions) 07:19, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Basilicofresco. You have new messages at Josh Parris's talk page.
Message added 00:58, 6 May 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Josh Parris 00:58, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

List of #anchor problems for WildBot to process

If you have a page with a list of #anchor problems for WildBot to process, put {{User:WildBot/follow}} on it and give me a holler. I'll run some code I've written and see if it works.

Just one page to start with, please. Josh Parris 11:19, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

I've now got an early cut of the code successfully processing. I'll give you a heads-up when things go live. Josh Parris 12:46, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Error report

Hi there. This edit was incorrect and broke the logic of the template. Can you give me any assurance that the bot is not still making edits of this nature? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:43, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Fixed! I traced it back and affected globally 4 pages. Many thanks for reporting! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:52, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Where is the difference?

I would like an explanation of your bot edit of "Masters of War". I can't find any difference between that edit and the previous edit by me.1archie99 (talk) 18:02, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi! There was a space between "Judy Collins" and "#3" within the wikilink. This may cause some problems. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:22, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Fixed wikilink; now it links to the album as the original editor intended. Your bot called attention to the error even though it did not fix it correctly.1archie99 (talk) 14:33, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Need help for a course

hi there,

I am planning to do a course on advergaming. But i am unsure what all should be included in the course content. I am free to design my course outline. Can you help me with the main areas which are being explored these days in advergaming and also if you can provide me with a repository of case studies which can help me in my course.

Thanks alot.

Sincere regards,

Prem Sharma +91 95523 67532 premsharma.in@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.18.118.67 (talk) 10:07, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi! I have absolutely no Knowledge in Advergaming. As you can see my only contribution to the article was a small fix as FrescoBot (automated bot). -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:17, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Re: Sock Puppets?

Correction Im not a sock puppet of Knight Crawler X, we don't have the same name & Emails or something, so it's impossible & I dont know his name... ok? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MsGanda (talk • contribs) 04:26, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

??? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:05, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

This bot broke a wikilink on 126th

Just spotted this edit to 126th. The bot broke the link. I've reverted, but please amend your code before it happens again. Thanks. — Hebrides (talk) 04:45, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your message! I traced back the problem and fixed every article with the same problem (7 edits). -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:46, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Broken bot edits to BrainTeaser

What was it trying to do here? -- Smjg (talk) 17:52, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Block Needed (Broken Bot)

As you can see above, the bot is breaking things... please temp block it and notify owner! R12056 (talk) 18:47, 8 June 2010 (UTC)