User talk:Yobot

Theory TK of Visual Proportions

Yobot, I would like you to read the new version of The Theory TK of Visual Proportions. Thanks --EspaisNT (talk) 17:43, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	good work! Chocgirl (talk) 12:35, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	good work! Chocgirl (talk) 12:35, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!!!!!!!!!! -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:17, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Bill Smith (fell runner)

Please check and tweak. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:33, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Jade Starr photo

Please do not change out Jade Starr photo with strange blooper photo. Phantomcowboy (talk) 21:45, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Esther Anderson's birth date

Hi Yobot, I am amazed by this mechanism. Thanks for your contribution to Esther's entry. I have been trying to correct Esther's date of birth, day, month and year -she was born in 1943. Esther Anderson, in fact, would prefer her date of birth not to appear in Wikipedia. Could you advice me on this? One love Gian — Preceding unsigned comment added by Giangodoy (talk • contribs) 02:53, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Talk:Charles Baron (baseball)

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St. David

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I think that yobot malfunctioned

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I think that yobot malfunctioned with this edit [1]. It added a recently-removed top level (wikify) tag back on. This is just FYI, not an issue with me. North8000 (talk) 23:34, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

The page is not wikified. It lacks internal links. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:45, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Refs section damage

Hi, the bot broke the references section with this edit. The article uses list-defined references, in which the <ref>...</ref> elements are enclosed by a <references>...</references> pair. In this case the closing </references> was missing, but instead of adding it, the bot changed the opening <references> into a single <references />, which broke the entire refs section. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:20, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing it. I'll report the bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:42, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

rev 7938 will get us on step closer to solve this problem. -- Yobot (talk) 17:56, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

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Improper move of category

Hi, with this edit, Yobot broke a citation. The article was using {{citation/core}} directly (probably as a result of an incorrect substitution of {{citation}}), for which the parameters are mostly propercased, i.e. |Surname1= etc. Yobot has lowercased all these, and so they are no longer recognised. Whilst doing this, it also moved a category from inside an {{#if:}} construct to the bottom of the page. As a result, the category, previously conditional, became unconditional, and so the page was incorrectly categorised. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:16, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Grammatical error

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Here you introduced a grammatical error into the article Private Stock (malt liquor) by adding a full stop after a quote even though there was already a full stop on the left of the quotation mark. Despite this being the only change to the article, you claimed in your edit summary to have made more than 61 corrections. Please explain yourself. (WP Editor 2011 (talk) 14:18, 17 January 2012 (UTC))

Yobot didn't add any full stop. It only moved the existing one before the references. Thus, it didn't introduce any error but it made the pre-existed error visible. 61 is the number of the error fixed in the list of WP:CHECKWIKI. Yobot didn't fix 61 errors but error number 61. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:43, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Unneccessary de-shortcut edit

I saw that your bot changed the {{commonscat}} to {{commons category}} and IMHO entirely unneccessary but simply increase the history of minor bot edit. To my knowledge there's no policy or guideline discourage the use of template shortcut (or any redirect link), point me one if I was wrong. -- Sameboat - 同舟 (talk) 02:38, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Agree, see WP:NOTBROKEN. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:50, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Edits like [2], where no other changes are made, are completely unnecessary and violate the rules of AWB. Please fix the bot before continuing, or it will have to be blocked as malfunctioning.  An optimist on the run! 17:24, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

I have already de:Benutzer_Diskussion:Stefan_Kühn/Check_Wikipedia#Obtain_all_queries_of_an_error asked for newest database dump. Thinking of other ways to reduce the problem. Creating skip conditions for such a small portion of pages whose rendered version is not affected will slow us down and needs extra programming work which I can't do at the moment. I am less than 1000 pages before I narrow my current list to zero. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:44, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

If your bot cannot handle the problem, it shouldn't be running.  An optimist on the run! 17:47, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Blocked, for [3]. I suggest fixing your bot, then going back for reapproval, as I see it has already been blocked multiple times for the same offence.  An optimist on the run! 17:51, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

We discussed this before. I hope you get some time to read the previous discussions. How exactly you suggest that this edit is excluded from being saved and why you think it should be excluded? -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:53, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

More: Do you have a method that I get latest dumps from the toolserver?-- Yobot (talk) 17:55, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

I 'll satisfy your impatience to fix this problem by doing the remaining 990 pages manually and checking each page separately. Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:00, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:AWB#Rules of use #4: "Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits such as only adding or removing some white space, moving a stub tag, converting some HTML to Unicode, removing underscores from piped links, bypassing a redirect [my emphasis], or something equally trivial". To put you bot into context, I ran AWB manually last night on all items in my watchlist. I set it to skip minor changes only. Hence all the pages in my watchlist should have not needed any further AWB fixes. Yet since I ran that, Yobot has made insignificant changes to four of those articles.  An optimist on the run! 18:01, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect edit in 2010 for http:BL

Maybe already fixed, dating back to 15:38, 8 December 2010: [4]

http:BL was AFAICT supposed to be a red link (the service is actually called http:BL, for blacklist, see Project Honeypot; just nobody has written an article yet?). Yobot changed this to http://BL, which isn't a sensible link. Maybe just apply this fix rule when there is at least a dot in the link, or the link equals http://localhost ?

Of course this could be resolved already, as this was over a year ago. --Chire (talk) 13:32, 22 January 2012 (UTC)