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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 211#Toolforge tool/bot to send email notifications

I noticed this and your post at BOTN. I wouldn't mind working on this. — Qwerfjkl talk 21:11, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent! Primefac (talk) 08:12, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've written most of the code for this, just waiting on phab:T361367 to be resolved. I'm also going skiing for a week (starting today), so I'll try to get this done around the end of next week. — Qwerfjkl talk 10:03, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the update! Primefac (talk) 12:41, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Could you provide an example of what the emails would look like (my email address is qwerfjklwikipedia@gmail.com, if you want to forward one to me)? Are multiple changes on the same page grouped together? Would you only want emails for edits, or also for log actions, category changes, etc.? — Qwerfjkl talk 13:25, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Forwarded. Primefac (talk) 13:42, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, unfortunately filtering edits has the same problem as filtering for bots (hopefully will be fixed sometime soon, but who knows). — Qwerfjkl talk 13:51, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Blargh... thanks for checking though. Primefac (talk) 17:11, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think it would be pretty easy to email for every edit made by a bot to a page on your watchlist (I could do a quick & dirty fix of treating editors with "bot" in their username as bots); wolud that be alright? It would send multiple emails if there are multiple bot edits to the same page, and I don't think I can check whether you've viewed the page or not (apparently the watchlist feed doesn't care either way). — Qwerfjkl talk 18:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Parentheses removals

Hey, just a heads up that your edits like this one are causing red links in the categories. EvergreenFir (talk) 17:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Super. Thanks. Primefac (talk) 17:56, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

Guideline and policy news

An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

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The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

piping in interlanguage link

I have explained my rationale for the explicit piping at ill talk page. Your feedback is welcomed. Fabrickator (talk) 17:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, have it on my watchlist, haven't had a chance to read through it yet. Will do so at some point. Primefac (talk) 17:51, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting I have not replied there, as others have done so and made (more or less) the same argument I would have. Primefac (talk) 12:13, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Diagnostic criteria of multiple sclerosis

Hello, you just reverted my deletion request and I want to explain my intention to you: the redirect behind Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis stores a history that another user wanted to keep - even though its contents are already merged into the multiple sclerosis diagnosis article. My primary idea is to move that history to Diagnostic criteria for MS to move the multiple sclerosis diagnosis to diagnosis of multiple sclerosis afterwards. That way we could keep the history of diagnosis of multiple sclerosis for now and can possibly decide later what exactly we will do with it. Tobiasi0 (talk) 07:22, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify, the name of the article should be Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis but it exists at a different location. Is this correct? Primefac (talk) 07:27, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly, that's what this is all about. Tobiasi0 (talk) 07:30, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SWAP is the more appropriate action then.

Done. Primefac (talk) 07:33, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know that this template exists. Thank you very much, it was a pleasure to meet you :) Tobiasi0 (talk) 07:39, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AFI Templates

Thanks for closing Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 March 20#AFI templates. However, as this was a recently created template and previous consensus was to delete, shouldn't a "no consensus" outcome result in the status quo? i.e. there is no consensus to re-create the template? --wooden superman 12:50, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. I hate to admit it but I did not notice that the template names had changed and since everything at the older discussion was redlinked I assumed these were just missed the first time around. I will revert for the moment and re-read the related discussions. Thanks. Primefac (talk) 12:56, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Keep !voters seem to be both in the majority and on the side of the film angels. Keeping seems a valid close, but your no consensus to delete seems like the least that can be decided given the editor's comments. Remember, the older discussed deletion was in 2012, 12 years ago, and these are valid new navbox which, as you aptly decided, have no consensus to delete. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:17, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

6 "keep" !votes against 7 "delete" !votes is not numerically in the majority. --wooden superman 13:55, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

true, my mistake. Just that the Keep reasons seem to overwhelm the "I don't like it" delete comments. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:08, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Primefac: Thanks for re-opening, I'm still surprised that this was not speedied in the first place. --wooden superman 13:46, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Primefac - did you get another chance to look at this? --wooden superman 08:54, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nope. Primefac (talk) 09:13, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Television seasons

Could you please be more careful when doing "clean up post move" on TV season articles that have been moved from "Such and Such (season 1)" format to "Such and Such season 1"? The thing is that the page move affects the page, but didn't change the page's eponymous category — but if you do an indiscriminate search-and-replace on the season number in the page's text, it also changes the category and thus moves the page from the category that actually exists to a non-existent redlink (e.g. from Category:Brooklyn Nine-Nine (season 1) episodes to Category:Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 1 episodes — and on the last two runs of redlinked category cleanup, I've literally had to fix several dozen of these.

So when you're doing that cleanup job, it's really important that you take greater care not to mess up the "(season #) episodes" category in the process. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 14:16, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, my apologies. Primefac (talk) 17:36, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed Decision

Hi Primefac, in the open Conflict of interest management arbitration case, a remedy or finding of fact has been proposed which relates to you. Please review this decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Amortias (T)(C) 19:13, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PrimeBOT 44

Hi, something went wrong in 1217197913 where you removed a visible pipe character (not a whitespace) from a table cell in the middle of the article (not in shortdesc). – MwGamera (talk) 14:56, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well that's odd... I'll double-check everything before I run it again. Thanks. Primefac (talk) 14:59, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Similarly, this edit removed a slash from the short description at Thin space. Tea2min (talk) 06:11, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well that's a weird one... thanks. Primefac (talk) 06:24, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Prachi, Gujarat

no idea if i'm reading this right, but it looks like you intervened on Talk:Prachi, Gujarat in the past to remove some edits. the same user is back, now with an account, and, i imagine, now adding the same edits again [1] [2]. 81.187.192.168 (talk) 16:13, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, sorted. Primefac (talk) 16:25, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

you're a star! thank you!

the user that added the text also added the same text to their user page, albeit with the contact information (if that's what was being scrubbed out?) in Gujarati numerals. i have no idea if that's important too. 81.187.192.168 (talk) 16:55, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I did wonder about that. I saw the lack of western numbers and assumed they had (rightfully) figured out that's what the issue was. I'll take care of it. Thanks again. Primefac (talk) 17:06, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template questions

Hi Primefac. Would you mind taking a look at {{di-missing article links}} and {{di-missing some article links}}? There are two parameters (|date= and |articles=) that probably should be filled by those using these templates, but neither parameter is mentioned on the templates' documetation pages. The |date= parameter seems to add files tagged with these templates to Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files, which is used by file reviewers and bots to check on files with WP:NFCCE issues, while the |articles= parameter allows those tagging files to or those trying to cleanup such files to identify the exact article or articles not complying with WP:NFCC#10c. I've always used these parameters when using these template, but just noticed there's nothing mentioned about them of the files' documentation pages. I'm not sure if that's intentional or just an oversight; so, I thought I'd ask someone else to take a look. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:43, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the documentation for each template could definitely be expanded; just having places the image in dated subcategories doesn't say how it does this, i.e. that it needs a date parameter to be passed to it. Primefac (talk) 11:33, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for giving these a look. I see if I can figure out how to enhance their respective documentation pages a bit. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:28, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants/Old Requests

Hello, Primefac,

I realize you have a lot of responsibilities on Wikipedia and this one is probably way, way down on your list of priorities but is there any way this page can be brought up to date? I was looking for when a certain editor received AFC permissions and this page was where I directed since they didn't come up on the search feature. But the table only goes to February 2023 so it is a year out of date. And then, when I clicked on some names, they were actually requests from February 2024, not 2023 so I'm not sure how those wires got crossed. This definitely seems like a task that could be delegated to some AFC helper who is knowledgeable about tables and updating them (which is definitely not me!). But since on the Participants page, editors are directed to go to this one page, it seems like it should be kept up to date as much as possible. Yes, it's not urgent but I do think it's important when trying to get background information on an editor one has questions about. Many thanks for any help you can supply. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Liz, meanwhile, this may help you search. I have only one edit, so presumably, I was given the right a short time after I made that request. If you're looking about Shewasafairy, they have zero edits there. So, they didn't request to join AFC. Another way to get AFC is to get NPR, which can be veiwed from their user rights log. It shows that they were granted NPR here, the same day that their AFC log started populating. Best, — Usedtobecool ☎️ 06:35, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is up to date. I just borked a number. Primefac (talk) 07:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Handing in my mop

Hi, Primefac! I want to post a request to resign as an administrator. No great problem or anything, it's just that I haven't been very active in recent years and have taken almost no adminship actions. When I do post it is in articles, and I intend to keep doing that, but I've almost forgotten how to be an administrator. That is why I am posting here: I think there is a board where I should formally request to have my mop withdrawn, but I can't remember where it is. Directions please? Thanks! --MelanieN MelanieN (talk) 19:59, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:BN is the place to make such requests. Primefac (talk) 20:12, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --MelanieN (talk) 19:59, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]