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AFD notification

Can you show me where Erwin85bot was approved to make notices of AFDs?—Kww(talk) 01:30, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

That's Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Erwin85Bot 8. Why? --Erwin (talk) 09:23, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Couldn't find it when I went looking for it, and would have objected to it if I had known it was up for discussion. I generally don't nominate article creators, and don't think it's a good idea to do so. Is there a way for me to mark the AFD so that your bot will ignore it?—Kww(talk) 02:15, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

At the moment there isn't, but could you explain why you think it's not a good idea? --Erwin (talk) 08:00, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

not on

This is wholly untowards. Please stop. Gwen Gale (talk) 03:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

You can stop my bot from editing your talk page by adding {{bots|deny=Erwin85Bot}} to your talk page. --Erwin (talk) 08:00, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

That's not what I meant. Gwen Gale (talk) 13:09, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Then please elaborate. --Erwin (talk) 19:50, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Re:Articles for deletion/Shirley, Squirrely and Melvin LIVE

Please don’t delete my article Shirley, Squirrely and Melvin: LIVE. I have reliable third-party sources for the article, albeit in book form and not websites. The dramatis personae derives from an article in the 2nd edition of Rolling Stone Album Guide and it was the first cross-artist mashup album. Besides, the story of Chipmunk Punk is incomplete without it.--What about a squirrel? (talk) 21:18, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

I see you also left a comment at Articles for deletion/Shirley, Squirrely and Melvin LIVE. The sysop closing this debate will take that into account. I don't have any influence on the outcome. --Erwin (talk) 09:40, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Erwin85Bot

I received a message saying Erwin85Bot had moved File:Kohl's.png to Wikimedia Commons. You should be aware that in the USA at least, this is only a fair use image, and not without copyright. Your bot, unfortunately, screwed up. --naryathegreat | (talk) 00:49, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

I assume you're talking about Commons:Image:Kohl's.png, right? Apparently, they consider it public domain as it is plain text. For the record, the image was moved by John Bot II and this move was approved by MBisanz. My bot only notified you of this move to Commons. --Erwin (talk) 07:34, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't see how somebody actually approved this (since it is obviously not public domain), but I was only telling you as a courtesy because I thought your bot had messed up. I honestly couldn't care less whether it stays on Commons or not. Cheers -- naryathegreat | (talk) 22:20, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		The Barnstar of Diligence may be awarded in recognition of a combination of extraordinary scrutiny, precision and community service. This barnstar is awareded to Erwin, for his incredible User:Erwin85Bot, which we had requested. This bot will help countless editors, especially new editors, by alerting them to an article being deleted. Thank you. Ikip (talk) 21:13, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Two burning questions:

1. Sir, could you post the coding of User:Erwin85Bot on the User:Erwin85Bot page?
   That way if you stop editing wikipedia and the bot stops working, we don't have to reinvent the wheel, as you did, because the last editor stop editing after the bot stopped working.
   Also, I would also be interested in learning how you actually programmed User:Erwin85Bot. I have been self-teaching myself python and other languages, and it would be inspiring to see the coding.
2. A few other editors and I had always dreamed of alerting every person who had made signifigant edits to the article also.
   I know there are tools like http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl which list every editor who has ever edited the page and the number of edits of each editor on a page. Illustrating that extracting this information is possible.
   I know it is technically possible to make such a bot...but have no idea how...would you be interested?

Thank you again kind sir. Ikip (talk) 21:22, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I appreciate it. 1) I've committed the source code to my SVN repository. An online viewer of the repository can be found at fisheye.toolserver.org. At the moment this file is not yet shown in that viewer, but it should appear soon. 2) The bot actually already notifies all authors with more than 5 non-minor edits. Trouble is that it uses the toolserver's replicated database to do so, but that the toolserver has been having some problems these last few days. I'll probably rewrite my bot a bit to in that case only notify the first author as it hasn't been running now at all. --Erwin (talk) 11:51, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Please not that the bot uses User:Erwin/AfDNote as a template for the messages it leaves. It can easily be edited and improvements are always welcome. --Erwin (talk) 11:55, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

The da Vinci Barnstar

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		I am honored to present The da Vinci Barnstar Erwin, for creation and implementation of the User:Erwin85Bot requested by the ARS. This bot will improve Wikipedia by its tactful alert to editors, especially newcomers. Nice job! MichaelQSchmidt (talk) 22:19, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

• The bot is a great achievement. Thank you for your time and effort in creating it. Dream Focus 22:57, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks as well. I appreciate it. --Erwin (talk) 11:51, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Please stop your bot from pestering me

It's becoming really annoying to get message after message on my talk page from your bot. Please get it to stop. I have no problem with moving all my out-of-copyright pics from Wikipedia to Wikicommons, and in fact I appreciate the fact that it's being done. Since I don't object and don't care to know that it's being done, could you please have it stop? And thanks for your efforts. -- Noroton (talk) 20:48, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. --Erwin (talk) 21:32, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. -- Noroton (talk) 21:53, 12 August 2009 (UTC)