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Dark Shadows writers

There may be a contradiction about writers. Please Google Ron Sproat Dark Shadows. He was a writer I knew in NYC in the 60's that wrote for DS. His Obit on Wiki. notes he created Barnabas Jones. Would you please investigate and at least consider adding his name to the list of writers.

Thank you, Ron McL

Yobot

Hi,

Just reverted Yobot on Matthew Brisbane, it removed superscripts from a section that recreates a grave marker. As a faithful recreation of a marker, I would prefer it doesn't do it again. Anyway to stop it? W C M_email 17:54, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wee Curry Monster thanks for the report. I notified Bgwhite too and we might find a solution on the problem. Some other editor tried using {{Not a typo}} on a similar situation. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:47, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Added it to the whitelist so we don't check the article anymore. Bgwhite (talk) 17:24, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2006–07 UEFA Champions League

I reverted the bot's edit on this article. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006%E2%80%9307_UEFA_Champions_League&diff=605215910&oldid=600051439 The superscripted "TH" in the article is used to refer to Title Holders, it is not an ordinal that needs fixing as per WP:ORDINAL. Please whitelist this and all related Champions League articles as the same nomenclature is used in each.. Little Professor (talk) 21:05, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I already have fixed the bug. yobot will only fix th in lowercase from now on. I think I had already reverted all by myself two days ago. Thanks for noting. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:48, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Notbroken

Another edit that makes no visible change:

[1]

--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 22:10, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And again. They seem more diverse this time but it's making many changes with no visible effect, e.g. consisting only of bypassing redirects, removing underscores from the left side of links, removing invisible spaces, such as : [2].--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 11:41, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On the 2nd page: Bot failed to fix what it is recorded as unbalanced bracket on line 652. Now fixed. I also closed a parentheses. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:10, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why capital letter?

Resolved

May I ask, why did the bot use the capital letter in the word "monument"? Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV:. -- Magioladitis (talk) 05:45, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the ping, a bug due to the renumbering of CheckWiki errors (old error #90 was about DEFAULTSORT without capital letters at the beginning of words): automatic addition of DEFAULTSORT by WPCleaner checks if #90 is active and capitalize first letters then... --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 06:57, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Jan.Kamenicek: Here is your answer. If I had used AWB, the WPC bug would have not been found :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:19, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I will not even try to pretend that I understand :-) It sounds like some strange newspeak to me :-) Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 08:40, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Jan.Kamenicek: He he. It is a fancy way to say that bug in software found and (will be) fixed :) Thanks for the report! -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:43, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Now I see :-) Thank you. Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 10:05, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Jan.Kamenicek:, it's fixed in the next release, thanks for the report. Sorry for the unclear explanation (it's complex)... Some time ago, WikiProject Check Wikipedia was checking capital letters in DEFAULTSORT (error #89 was checking that no capital letters were used inside a word, error #90 was checking that first letter of each word was in capital letters). So when WPCleaner is adding a DEFAULTSORT, it ensured to use capital or small letters were needed, based on whether those checks were active or not. At some point, MediaWiki software was enhanced so that capital or small letters had no influence on sorting order, so #89 and #90 became useless and were deactivated (so WPCleaner didn't enforce anymore capital or small letters). Later, WikiProject Check Wikipedia decided to reuse the error numbers for new kinds of detections, and I didn't think of updating WPCleaner for this particular point. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 18:11, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for editing always! Gamera1123 (talk) 07:15, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sikhimzuta

Resolved

Why did Yobot create this page, consisting solely of maintenance tags, 12 hours after the page had been deleted? —Largo Plazo (talk) 21:59, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No idea. It should not. Checking it now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:01, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Largoplazo: rev 10108, rev 10109 fix the bug. Thanks for noticing it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:06, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AWB

Please read the rules of use, esp. point 4 before making anymore pointless edits. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 09:54, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So many edits!

How do you have time to edit that much? Plus, where do you get your facts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1008:B02A:6BBC:3C3D:623E:265:E35E (talk) 03:25, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I use WP:CHECKWIKI to get my date the last few years. I also take editors' requests via WP:BOTREQ and some other places. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:56, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Centre Universitaire JF Champollion

It is about Centre Universitaire JF Champollion.

I am the formal director of this institution.

I want a correction of your english translation of the title. You must speak about "higher education" and not "teaching" please.

Sincerely yours. Hervé PINGAUD (hpingaud@univ-jfc.fr) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.162.154.115 (talk) 06:55, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You can WP:Be bold and fix it by yourself. Wikipedia is a Encyclopaedia anyone can edit. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:58, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) However, since you have a conflict of interest, I suggest you use the article's talk page to request the changes you think should be made. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 13:04, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cosmetic edits

Most of the bot's contributions today seem to be cosmetic-only, in violation of the bot policy. I hope we are not returning to the problems we have seen with this bot in previous years. As per the comment in the July 2012 block log entry, I have reblocked. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:55, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

MSGJ article space edit or talk page edits? Btw, just commenting on the talk page stops the bot anyway. -- Magioladitis (talk)

MSGJ tagging plugin was not loaded. Fixed. I wonder why nobody noticed before. I'll probably stop any talk page tagging/editing. I have not performed such edits for a long period of time and settings file needs updating anyway. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:55, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Article space problems

No it doesn't. My comment here didn't stop it. It's impractical to show the relevant contributions by the bot, given the bots edit frequency and WP's limited filtering capabilities but once I noticed it didn't stop the bot I raised it here. More broadly I had noticed it violating the bot policy and AWB policy yet again but given how little difference it seems to make reporting it hadn't bothered.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 11:40, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

JohnBlackburne your reports are of different nature. The bot tries to fix something and fails. So I have to check the page and see what it was not fixed by the bot. MSGJ were caused by a plugin not loaded. Different issues to fix here. Your comment stopped the bot but I found nothing to fix on the current page so I resumed the editing process. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:44, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

JohnBlackburne in order to stop the bot you should comment on the bot's page not just in any page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:45, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

JohnBlackburne in the page you link me the problem is that the page's title has special characters and the bot failed to find a proper DEFAULTSORT for the page. This is a very rare phenomenon when the page contains non-latin characters and has at least one category. -- 11:48, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Btw, I provided a lot of evidence that I did a great effort to solve the problems you remarked. Since that day we updated the whitelists and treated dozens of pages manually to prevent similar problems in the future. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:50, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A few questions:

As far as I recall the bot was unblocked in 2012 to allow it to work on one specific task. Did you ever seek approval to widen its tasks?
The last approved BRFA seems to be November 2012. Do you have approval to work on the current tasks? Can each task be linked to an approved BRFA?
Were you ever granted approval to run WP:CHECKWIKI fixes?

Sadly, there is a long history of assurances being given that a particular problem is fixed (especially around cosmetic edits) and then it reoccuring again later. There are several threads higher on this page where editors have expressed concern about this. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:10, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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 :::{{U|JohnBlackburne}} in the page you link me the problem is that the page's title has special characters and the bot failed to find a proper DEFAULTSORT for the page. This is a very rare phenomenon when the page contains non-latin characters and has at least one category. -- 11:48, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
 ::::Btw, I provided a lot of evidence that I did a great effort to solve the problems you remarked. Since that day we updated the whitelists and treated dozens of pages manually to prevent similar problems in the future. -- [[User:Magioladitis|Magioladitis]] ([[User talk:Magioladitis|talk]]) 11:50, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
+A few questions:
+* As far as I recall the bot was unblocked in 2012 to allow it to work on one specific task. Did you ever seek approval to widen its tasks?
+* The last approved BRFA seems to be November 2012. Do you have approval to work on the current tasks? Can each task be linked to an approved BRFA?
+* Were you ever granted approval to run [[WP:CHECKWIKI]] fixes?
+Sadly, there is a long history of assurances being given that a particular problem is fixed (especially around cosmetic edits) and then it reoccuring again later. There are several threads higher on this page where editors have expressed concern about this. &mdash;&nbsp;Martin <small>([[User:MSGJ|MSGJ]]&nbsp;·&nbsp;[[User talk:MSGJ|talk]])</small> 12:10, 14 May 2014 (UTC)