User talk:XLinkBot

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This is the talkpage of XLinkBot (formerly SquelchBot), a bot designed to revert spamming, or other edits that introduce external links which do not comply with our external links guideline, or with the policy 'What wikipedia is not' (not a repository of links section). Please leave new comments here by clicking this link If your additions were reverted by XLinkBot, please take time to review our external links & spam guidelines, and take note that Wikipedia is not a repository of links, a directory, nor a place to promote your own work. If you feel your addition was within those policies and guidelines and are Reliable and Verifiable, and do not violate Copyright, you may undo the changes made by XLinkBot. Questions are welcome, however this talk page is for civil discussion and is not a complaints department.

FAQs: Why is my external link addition reverted? Why did the bot revert all my edits, and not only the one where I added an external link?

Barry Blue

Hi, you reverted my edit to Barry Blue, claiming that I had added additional links. If you kindly manually review my edit, you will see that I did NOT add any additional links. All I actually did was amend existing citation links to 'https' SSL secure URLs, along with formatting to comply with British English encylopaedic grammar, etc. I therefore consider your edit unconstructive, and have thus reverted it. Kind regards. 78.32.143.113 (talk) 21:48, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

My apologies, that is a strange case. You replaced all links to discogs.com to Discogs.com, which to the bot seems like you removed discogs.com and added Discogs.com. This is the first time I see this happening. You did the right thing, just revert the bot, it is programmed not to re-revert. Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 05:46, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Incorrect reversion

Hello. In this edit, XLinkBot reverted lots of subsequent edits, but did not revert the edit which added the url it is complaining about. There is a tag saying "manual edit", not sure what the implications of that are, but the bot should check in any case that it is:

• removing the url it is complaining about
• not reverting any other edits

I have reverted this change. --Mirokado (talk) 21:55, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Mirokado, I have to check the logs on this one. The bot checks (twice) whether the last editor is the one to be reverted, it looks here like it got it all wrong. Thanks for checking! Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 05:31, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

I am making systematic improvements to Wiki sites on Chinese film history, not spamming

The Wiki bot has detected that I have added external links to multiple pages related to early Chinese films. I request that the bot stop reverting these edits, which improve the pages. These improvements are the result of recently-published academic research and translations that are directly related to these films, including English-subtitled translations of the films themselves. External links are necessary for this purpose. It is not helpful to Wiki readers if the Wiki bot prevents them from linking to freely accessible translated copies of the films, or related media and articles. A reply would be appreciated, so that this ongoing work is not interrupted again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.102.87.75 (talk) 18:03, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

No, this linkfarming and sending people to youtube channels is not improving the page. We are not writing an internet directory. Please stop adding inline external links, and linkfarms of youtube links. Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 05:44, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

The Edit Summary is garbled when username contains Simplified Chinese characters

See Special:Diff/978528393. The revert itself is correct. ネイ (talk) 13:56, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

ネイ, yeah, the bot still has issues here and there with 'special' characters. I will try and have a look again one of these days. Thanks! Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 05:10, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

2016 World Series

Hi, I made an edit to the 2016/2019 MLB World Series Pages Aswell As The 2016 Chicago Cubs Page And Possibly The 2019 Washington Nationals Page Placing A Link To Show The Investigation Of Them Cheating And Was Considered Inappropriate This Link Is A Proof Link To This Story Involving These Teams Please Fix And Place Back On Pages Thank You. Alexlazaro (talk) 04:09, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Alexlazaro, Yes, no need for twitter references, they are here just a redirect. Please fix your edits. Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 05:09, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Henry Price III

Hello! I have no idea what I'm doing and wanted to add information to my uncle's Wikipedia page (Henry Price III, tenor). How do I do that without it getting immediately deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JenWheel08 (talk • contribs) 19:31, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

JenWheel08, thanks for your remark. We don’t link to youtube like that, we are not a directory for youtube. Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 17:18, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Taylor Swift

Oh, i understood your message. Speak now sold more than 6, 7 million copies worldwide and i think that people should know it. So if you could find a link with those informations you can feel free to add them! Greetings Boxing Day 29 (talk) 14:47, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Sad times

We've literally reached the era where Wikipedia is literally patrolled by deletionist bots, mindlessly removing content and data with zero functional awareness.

This bot and all the other deletion bots should not exist.

- 64.187.160.52 (talk) 19:01, 28 September 2020 (UTC)