User talk:Magister Mathematicae

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I'm human. I perform several hundred actions each day. Once in a while I make a mistake, I apologize for them. If you tell me in a calm way where I'm mistaken, I'll fix it.

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Charles R Matthews wrote:'

(...) In other words, discretion in Arbish is read as saying that pro-active admins are the first, second and probably third lines of defence of the project. It is much better to have them out there doing their best, and taking away the mop-and-bucket from a very few, than doing up the constraints ever tighter, because it is felt that this pre-empts misuse of admin powers.(...)

ARCHIVE

Drinibot

I've archived the page. Just wanted to let you people know that I've debugged the bot so it won't shuffle categories around within a page. -- Drini 13:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The main problem I saw was that the bot was messing up table syntax when removing categories. It ended up leaving the table close tag (|}) on the end of the preceding line instead of the beginning of the line as required, which broken dozens of user pages. Just wanted to point out what the actual problem was since I wasn't sure from this note if you had fixed that specifically. Mike Dillon 04:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the problem was caused since I left out the -inplace parameter (so it shuffled categories around), if that's what happened it's indeed a very serious bug, but not my bot's one but the whole m:Pywikipedibot framework. You should comment them about it. -- Drini 21:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The specific script I used from that framework is m:Category.py -- Drini 21:31, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Drini. I came here to point out that your bot did some serious damage to several of our cryptography templates. Especially to this one: Template:User WikiProject Cryptography. I hope the fix you mention above solves it. You should not let a bot automatically edit pages, you as a human should visually check each bot change before letting the bot save it. Now I have to manually check all the edits your bot done to our project... :((

--David Göthberg 14:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:The J.B.'s members

I just noticed (I don't watchlist) that this was created by Drinibot from the old category I created, Category:James Brown instrumentalists, evidently with the consensus of the interested parties on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. My question is, does this leave Bernard Odum, who played bass on most of Brown's classic 60s recordings but never performed with The J.B.'s in the 70s (or The J.B. Horns in later decades), irreparably out in the cold? Or is it permissible to massage the category description somehow to include him? Would appreciate a response.

Nice bot you created, by the way. It seems very useful. InnocuousPseudonym 19:38, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I really don't know about individual entries. I just get my task list from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working but I don't participate on the specific debates. I suppose you'd be better asking people involved in editing such topics. Sorry :), I just don't know what to advise you. -- Drini 21:27, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WhisperNumber.com deletion

Hello Drini, You deleted an article titled WhisperNumber.com on 21:45, 29 May 2006 . I looked in history and and elsewhere but couldn't find why. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. john

It was marked with Proposed deletionfor 5 days and noone objected. I happened to be doing the janitorial work that day and performed the deletion. I didn't do it by will, again, I was just doing the clean up work of the day. -- Drini 05:43, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hehe

Nice job :D Yonatan ^talk 05:39, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fluenceopedia

Actually, it is. Did you not visit the link? [1] If you do a Randompage there, chances are that the page was written by Fluence. I would have no issue with that (we have other Wikipedias which are like that), except that Fluence gives herself a level of nah-1 (more appropriately, according to language codes convention, nci-1). I guess you see no problem with that. Note that the person who has the second most edits, User:Glenn, has claimed a similar level of Nahuatl abilities and is responsible mostly for number pages. The only user who comes close in edits to either of the two of them is Ricardo_gs, but he has over 200 edits less than either of them, but it's really not important either as he also lists a level of nah-1.

So again, I tell you, it is the Fluenceopedia. --07:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

CBOTB GA

For Drinibot:

	Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Chicago Collaboration of the Week
1930–31 Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team is the current Chicago COTW You were a contributing editor to Chicago Board of Trade Building during its tenure as CHICOTW. It has successfully achieved Good article status thanks in part to your efforts. See its GA review and help us raise it towards the featured article classification level. Recall that during its tenure as CHICOTW we built this page from scratch. See our CHICOTW Improvement History. Note our good articles.
Contributing editors:AKeen, ChicagoPimp, Drinibot, Elkman, ILike2BeAnonymous, Shsilver, SmackBot, TheQuandry, TonyTheTiger.
	Good Article

TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 17:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikispecies

All set buddy :-) --lightdarkness^(talk) 17:17, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]