User talk:AnomieBOT

Anomie is still around, mostly to maintain AnomieBOT. But after the WMF proved that office politics are more important to them than seemingly anything else, and otherwise generally seem more concerned with their own image than substance, Anomie is not engaging in technical work on MediaWiki.

Despite T360488 asking them not to, Toolforge admins have gone ahead and broken AnomieBOT's scripts. Keeping things running properly will likely require manual intervention until they fix that or give me a usable workaround.

Live status for all AnomieBOT tasks is available at Toolforge.

Regarding the OrphanReferenceFixer and TagDater, please note:

AnomieBOT is not an anti-vandal bot, so complaints about AnomieBOT "hiding" or not reverting vandalism are out of place here.
- AnomieBOT's current strategy is "wait 10 minutes to an hour or so to let ClueBot, VoABotII, other anti-vandal bots, or RC Patrollers fix the vandalism". I am open to specific suggestions on detecting vandalism, but keep in mind that the false positive rate of any method must be near zero to be useful.
AnomieBOT honors {{inuse}}; please use it if you have excessive edit conflicts.
If the reference errors or undated tags were caused by vandalism, just revert AnomieBOT's edits along with the vandal's. AnomieBOT will not be offended.
If AnomieBOT made a mistake in correcting a reference error or dating a tag, please correct the error by hand and report the URL of the problem diff below. Don't just revert the bot without fixing the error, or AnomieBOT is likely to "fix" it again in the same broken way before I get a chance to fix the bug.
If you have a problem with T11790, please take the issue up there. You will be having the problem with more than just AnomieBOT's edits.

Thank you.

	Regarding deletions, please note:
If you are here because you think AnomieBOT III deleted an article, please check again. AnomieBOT III deletes redirects when someone else deletes the article the redirect pointed to, and you almost certainly want to talk to that person instead.

	Regarding {{old AfD multi}}, please note:
If you are here because AnomieBOT added {{old AfD multi}} to an article when the old AfD was about a different person with the same name, just remove it. The bot has no way to tell whether it's the same person or a different one.

Before requesting a WikiProjectTagger run, please read the following:

The bot can easily handle multiple projects at a time: Everything below can be specified on a per-project basis. If there is significant overlap (e.g. articles in Category:Physicists are likely in the scope of both WP:WikiProject Physics and WP:WikiProject Biography), please consider requesting tagging for all the projects at once.

The terms of the bot's approval require that each WikiProject involved approve the list of categories to be processed. In your request, please link to the discussion on each wikiproject's talk page showing this approval. If you do not do this, I will have to post at the talk pages myself and wait a week for replies. That discussion should address all of the following points:

Specify which categories to process. Including "all subcategories" is possible, but in general is no longer done.
Certain pages will be auto-assessed for class and importance. If any of the below is not acceptable, specify how it should be changed (e.g. "Do not set importance", "Just tag, do not assess", or "Ignore the page, don't even tag it"). In all cases, if it looks like the specified class is not supported by your project's banner I will use class=NA instead.
- Article redirects will be auto-assessed as class=redirect and importance=NA.
- Articles in Category:All disambiguation pages will be auto-assessed as class=disambig and importance=NA.
- Articles in any category ending in "stubs" will be auto-assessed as class=stub, unless they are already assessed as something else by your project.
- All other articles will be tagged with no assessment. This can be turned off, if for some reason you only want stubs, redirects, disambiguation pages, and/or non-article pages tagged.
- Non-article pages will be assessed with the appropriate class (e.g. "category", "template", "image") and importance=NA. Action (and class) may be specified per namespace. Note this is not necessary for {{WPBannerMeta}}-based banners, as the assessment is done automatically there.
The bot can canonicalize redirects to the project banner, for example replacing {{cvgproj}} with {{WikiProject Video games}}. This will only be done if the page is going to be edited anyway, it will not be the only reason for editing the page. If you want this done, say so.
The bot can add arbitrary extra parameters to the template, based on categories, page contents, talk page categories, or talk page contents. For example, it can add task force parameters, and it can do things like "Add living=yes if it is in Category:Living people, or living=no if it is in Category:XXXX deaths/executions, Category:XXXXs deaths/executions, Category:XXth century deaths/executions, Category:XXth millennium BC deaths, or Category:Date/Year of death missing/unknown". If you want any extra parameters set, specify what they are and under what conditions to add them. If you want the bot to remove existing parameters under certain conditions, that can be done too.
The bot can also skip individual articles, based on categories, page contents, talk page categories, or talk page contents. For example, if WikiProject Foo wanted all articles in Category:Foo tagged unless they were also in Category:Bar or tagged by WikiProject Baz, that can easily be done.

Thank you.

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No Article

I have noticed that you have added a news channel in recent edit but this news channel has no article and the link was not matching or Dead link. Nnn edits (talk) 11:19, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Nnn edits: It would be useful if you would link the specific article (or, better, the specific edit) you're complaining about. Note that AnomieBOT is a bot, not a human editor. It likely did not "add a news channel".

I'm guessing you're complaining about this edit to List of television channels in Pakistan that you recently reverted. If that is the case, you are confused. In this edit you removed an entry that included the definition of a reference tag, leaving a big red error in the article here. AnomieBOT simply copied the removed reference definition to a different instance of the reference to resolve the error. Anomie ⚔ 14:12, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Anomie in the top we mentioned that only add article that has own article in Wikipedia English but I revert your edit because there was no article that name. Nnn edits (talk) 14:26, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Nnn edits: You still seem to be extremely confused. I didn't make any edits at all, and the bot's edit was completely not as you assert. Please review the situation more carefully. Anomie ⚔ 15:17, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Anomie Thanks Nnn edits (talk) 16:18, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Many tasks are "error" or "Pod missing" yet again

* Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:36, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Restarted. Seems like Tool Labs has had a lot of database restarts lately. Anomie ⚔ 11:36, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to have broken again. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:55, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Restarted. Anomie ⚔ 11:44, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like several tasks are still broken or have broken again... The broken ones last ran at around 17:30. Liu1126 (talk) 22:39, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Broke again. Toolforge has apparently been having a lot of database issues lately, and AnomieBOT seems particularly sensitive to them. Anomie ⚔ 23:30, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A little appreciation today

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Spread the goodness of nuts and bolts by adding {{subst:Nuts and bolts for you}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!

GabberFlasted (talk) 13:36, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Problem?

The bot did this edit and now the page has a problem on the maintenance tag. I attempted to fix it but I just thought I would leave this here and hope to get information. LuxembourgLover (talk) 19:29, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not the bot's fault. You added {{cleanup}} without providing a reason as you are required to do. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 19:30, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I just saw that. Sorry. This is my first time using maintenance tags. LuxembourgLover (talk) 19:32, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

OrphanReferenceFixer: Help on reversion - Fixed

Hi there! I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. Recently, you reverted my fix to Dolly Parton singles discography.

If you did this because the references should be removed from the article, you have misunderstood the situation. Most likely, the article originally contained both <ref name="foo">...</ref> and one or more <ref name="foo"/> referring to it. Someone then removed the <ref name="foo">...</ref> but left the <ref name="foo"/>, which results in a big red error in the article. I replaced one of the remaining <ref name="foo"/> with a copy of the <ref name="foo">...</ref>; I did not re-insert the reference to where it was deleted, I just replaced one of the remaining instances. What you need to do to fix it is to make sure you remove all instances of the named reference so as to not leave any big red error.

If you reverted because I made an actual mistake, please be sure to also correct any reference errors in the page so I won't come back and make the same mistake again. Also, please post an error report at User talk:AnomieBOT so my operator can fix me! If the error is so urgent that I need to be stopped, also post a message at User:AnomieBOT/shutoff/OrphanReferenceFixer. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 20:28, 17 November 2023 (UTC) If you do not wish to receive this message in the future, add {{bots|optout=AnomieBOT-OrphanReferenceFixer}} to your talk page.[reply]

I've fixed the broken markup on that page so the bot stops edit warring with itself, but you should probably make the bot fail better in that situation. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:31, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Huh, that's a weird one. I've added some code tied to the above warning where if the bot is going to warn itself like this, it'll complain here and not make the edit to the article. Anomie ⚔ 02:03, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Block removal from articles

Hi, can you please remove the block from Cigarette and Princess Peach articles, please? I don't see any use or reason to keep them locked. 151.18.227.150 (talk) 10:33, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBOT lacks the user rights necessary to do that, even if it was a human and wanted to. You should take your request to WP:RFPP. Anomie ⚔ 15:08, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

IP is an LTA anyway, reblocked. -- ferret (talk) 22:01, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Review and supervision for use of abusive vandalism on the page

Hi Dear @AnomieBOT, I am writing to you so that you can please monitor the page of the Colombian beauty queen Luz Adriana López, which is constantly being vandalized by the user @Sciencefish. You can review from the first edition how many reliable sources this user has deleted, he also puts meaningless codes, such as height, eye color, hair color and information that are in the few links that are still alive and others that he deleted, He also eliminated information about predecessors and successors in the pageantry journey such as Miss Universe Colombia and Miss Earth Colombia.

This user @Sciencefish has also been seen vandalizing other biographies of beauty queens from different nations, including candidates for Miss Earth, Miss World and Miss Universe, please try to block this user or put security on the page. I would greatly appreciate an analysis and prompt solution to this problem. Thanks U!!. 200.118.145.115 (talk) 04:31, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Jews in the Civil Rights movement - factual accuracy is disputed

Hey, I saw you added this template. To which part do you refer? Is it regarding Jewish immigration to the United States? Homerethegreat (talk) 09:56, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Homerethegreat: This is the wrong page for your question, as this software robot only added a date to the tag that was added in the previous edit. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:45, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ah I did not realize AnomieBOT is an actual bot :). Homerethegreat (talk) 11:39, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, it's against policy for an account to be named like "bot" without it being an actual bot. Anomie ⚔ 12:40, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate banners

Hi Anomie, your bot is filling up Category:Pages using WikiProject banner shell with duplicate banner templates when it substitutes templates. For example this edit introduced three separate WikiProject Africa templates. It would be nicer to do this, but I know that may be rather difficult to code! Any suggestions? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:12, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That task substitutes templates that a human has put into Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted. It doesn't know anything about the templates beyond that, it's up to humans to be sure that the templates should be substed and that they do so cleanly.

In that case, it seems that in the previous edit someone used User:Evad37/rater to add several templates that all are bot-substed to Template:WikiProject Africa. Perhaps that script should avoid doing that in the first place? Anomie ⚔ 13:56, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm with Anomie on this one - if Rater is letting people add multiple subst-only wrappers (or really, for that matter, any wrapper templates) then Rater should be changed to avoid that; someone adding three task forces of the Africa project should be adding them as task forces of Africa, not as three separate wrappers. Primefac (talk) 01:53, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"answered" field

I've made an edit as requested at Talk:Bromine#add_to_History, but I haven't changed the "answered=" field from "No" to "Yes" because I can't find it. This is odd, I've always managed it in the past. Maproom (talk) 18:15, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've marked it as answered. This has nothing to do with the bot. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:25, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Pppery.

I used to answer occasional requests at User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable, and set the "answered" field to "yes". Today, I failed to find an "answered" field, and reported it where the "talk" tab at User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable took me: this page. I'm still puzzled. Maproom (talk) 18:40, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) @Maproom: Not all protected edit request tags are added with a blank |answered= parameter - if it's absent, you merely need to add either |answered=yes or the shorter form |ans=yes. In both cases, the yes may itself be shortened to y. Anyway, will you be joining us on 21 Jan? --Redrose64 🦌 (talk) 22:03, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Salon and Daily Kos are deprecated

Restoring them is AGAINST WIKIPEDIA POLICY. 107.10.129.126 (talk) 14:15, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]