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.

Regarding the OrphanReferenceFixer, please note:

AnomieBOT is not an anti-vandal bot, so complaints about AnomieBOT not reverting vandalism are out of place here.
- AnomieBOT's current strategy is "wait 5 minutes 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 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, 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 bug 9790, please take the issue up there. You will be having the problem with more than just AnomieBOT's edits.

Thank you.

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.

Archives

Index 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
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Broken references

Is fixing broken references one of the tasks that the bot can't do temporarily? I ask because I've been on a wikibreak, and found that the number of broken references had doubled from 225 to 450. Is there a timeframe when the bot will be able to resume this task? I've started fixing some, but every fix takes anywhere from 2-15 minutes, and there are just too many of them. Debresser (talk) 00:29, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, unfortunately it is. As soon as someone syncs r53304, I will be able to re-enable the task. In fact, if you happen to notice that this API query returns zero results (like this) you can feel free to blank User:AnomieBOT/shutoff/OrphanReferenceFixer yourself. Anomie ⚔ 02:42, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm really sorry to hear that. Your bot , together with SmackBot is one of the most usefull maintenance bots in article mainspace. Hope he'll be back in action soon. About the technical detailes you mentioned... sorry, but that is worse than Latin. Debresser (talk) 16:46, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the bottom line is "Bug the people with appropriate access to sync r53304"; which basically means that you're asking them to make the software changes in r53304 take effect immediately here on enwiki. Anomie ⚔ 19:16, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am really pissed off at them for this, but the link above doesn't open anything for me. Please bug them hard for me. Debresser (talk) 00:23, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I tried, but they ignored me. Anomie ⚔ 02:39, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Robot for WikiProject Gastropods

Hello, finally you can run this task from March 2009: Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 26#Robot for WikiProject Gastropods. After three months of announcing at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gastropods#Bot task waiting for approving as you recommended User talk:Snek01#Re: Your email, the User:Invertzoo finally agreed User talk:Snek01#Your bot request. Thanks. --Snek01 (talk) 20:45, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And others in the project will also agree if this is needed, just let me know. Invertzoo (talk) 21:51, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To recap, the task request was as follows:

Articles with {{taxobox|classis=Gastropoda}} should have the talk page tagged with {{WikiProject Gastropods}}.
Articles tagged with {{WikiProject Gastropods}} and lacking a "needs-photo" parameter should have that parameter set depending on whether the "image" or "image2" parameters in the taxobox are non-empty.
Articles tagged with {{WikiProject Gastropods|needs-photo=yes}} should have that parameter set to "no" if the "image" or "image2" parameters in the taxobox are non-empty.
Articles tagged with {{WikiProject Gastropods}} should be auto-assessed as follows:
- class=Stub if no class is specified.
- Articles with names ending in "idae" and with the taxobox "familia" field filled and with none of the "genus", "subgenus", or "binomial" fields filled should be auto-assessed as importance=High if no importance is specified.
- Articles with any of the taxobox "genus", "subgenus", or "binomial" fields filled should be auto-assessed as importance=Low if no importance is specified.

It would be best to bring that to the project's talk page to get other editors to look it over and "sign off" on it, particularly item #4. Anomie ⚔ 02:43, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK. To other articles than above can be added just a text "importance=" {{WikiProject Gastropods|importance=}} and we will assess it by hand more easily later. ;) --Snek01 (talk) 10:57, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am in agreement with all these suggestions, including #4. Invertzoo (talk) 17:28, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Motorcycling WikiProject

Is it possible that one of your bots can tag all the project articles as stub-class which have the motorcycling stub {{Motorcycle-stub}} in the articles for our recently formed assessment department? I estimate about 500+ articles use the stub. The talk pages that are already (mainly incompletely) tagged use the {{Motorcycling}} project banner. If you are not the best person to deal with this, please advise me. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 01:43, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bot parameter for {{adminbacklog}}

I notice that this bot automatically adds and removes the {{adminbacklog}} template from WP:FFD (and possibly other pages). I recently suggested to User:Harej (owner of User:RFC bot) that a parameter be added to the {{adminbacklog}} template to say it is updated by a bot as the message "Please remove this notice when the backlog is cleared." doesn't make much sense when a bot is doing the updating, so now use of the bot=name parameter produces the message "This notice is automatically updated by name (talk) and will no longer be displayed when the backlog is cleared". The template documentation has been updated. I'm not sure exactly how the process works on WP:FFD but thought I'd inform you of this change in case you considered it appropiate for your bot to use. Dpmuk (talk) 10:38, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. Anomie ⚔ 11:39, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is the API finally fixed?

It seems so. I'm going to restart the stopped tasks, let me know if anyone sees any problems. Anomie ⚔ 20:44, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Any idea on when you'll be able to run the project tagging? -Optigan13 (talk) 22:02, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong Fix to Pittsburgh mayoral election, xxxx

Unfortunately, the bot has no way to know that and in most cases that fix is correct. The best thing to do is to just fix the problem. Anomie ⚔ 03:56, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IFDCloser: Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2009 August 25 is broken - Fixed

Help! A section in Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2009 August 25 contains the "is_closed" regex but not at the beginning of the section. Probably someone put the {{ffd top}} before a section header instead of after. Anyway, I can't do anything to that page until someone fixes it. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 20:09, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

These edits should have fixed it if I understood the instructions correctly. -Optigan13 (talk) 20:53, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It worked Anomie ⚔ 22:42, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Over-conscientious bot

You might want to have a look at this.[1] The Bot seems to have duplicated the text unnecessarily. It might have got confused because I copied the refs from Sérvulo Gutiérrez to Doris Gibson, where I found, after saving, that the link was already in use with the ref name "BBC" which I changed to "collyns", and the Bot came after me! Ty 02:34, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Because you said "<ref name=collyns/>" instead of "<ref name=collyns>", both MediaWiki and the bot saw an orphaned reference followed by some random text rather than the ref you intended. Anomie ⚔ 13:31, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bot broke references

The bot just broke just about every reference I have in List of Oklahoma Sooners in the NFL Draft (here). It uses the new list-defined references function of {{reflist}} and I guess the bot doesn't like references inside of a template. Probably something that needs to be addressed.↔NMajdan•talk 04:35, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It did it again and left a message on my talk page. I'm going to disable this function of the bot.↔NMajdan•talk 15:20, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, I see it has already been disabled. Thank you.↔NMajdan•talk 15:21, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It should be fixed now, feel free to stop it if it does it again. Anomie ⚔ 18:00, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IFDCloser: Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2009 September 20 is broken - fixed

Help! A section in Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2009 September 20 contains the "is_closed" regex but not at the beginning of the section. Probably someone put the {{ffd top}} before a section header instead of after. Anyway, I can't do anything to that page until someone fixes it. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 18:08, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think this edit by Beeblebrox should have fixed it. -Optigan13 (talk) 19:51, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IFDCloser: Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2009 September 20 is broken -fixed

Help! A section in Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2009 September 20 contains the "is_closed" regex but not at the beginning of the section. Probably someone put the {{ffd top}} before a section header instead of after. Anyway, I can't do anything to that page until someone fixes it. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 03:02, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

fixed. -Optigan13 (talk) 03:57, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rescuing orphaned reference - renamed and converted from bare

Here (Line 14) I converted a bare URL used as a named reference to {{cite web}} with a different name. I forgot to change other instances of the named reference to the new name (this is why I love your bot). AnomieBOT then rescued the orphaned reference name by restoring the bare reference from the previous version. Would it be possible to arrange for the bot to check the url= parameter or otherwise recognize a renamed and tweaked reference? Many thanks for your bot regardless, - 2/0 (cont.) 14:22, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rescuing orphaned references - List-defined references in a group

Hi, on the article William Stanley (Victorian inventor), the references in group "akpan" are all defined within the reflist (as per Wikipedia:Footnotes#List-defined_references). The bot left the references which were not in a group (i.e. all the others, which are also List-defined), but the group ones were all re-inserted (meaning that the full reference was both at the first occurrence and in the reflist!). Just thought I'd let you know, as this seems like a bug in the bot.

Regards, -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 19:03, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm... Apparently the new "list defined refs" feature lets the list-defined refs have their group be implicitly defined. Since the bot didn't know this any more than I did until just now, it saw "<ref name="akpan-12">Akpan p. 12</ref>" as being in the default group rather than in the group named "akpan". Should be fixed now, if you see the same error after the timestamp of this post please let me know. Anomie ⚔ 04:03, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Status of WikiProject tagging requests

Do you know if you'll be able to restart the WikiProject tagging runs anytime soon? Also, what script/font support should I have for the last character in your signature? -Optigan13 (talk) 21:45, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I've been dealing with personal issues and a bit of general wikiburnout after it took them 2 and a half months to fix the one issue. I started yesterday looking over the page to see which requests still needed attention, hopefully I can manage to get started on them today.

I don't know which fonts might have it, it's a part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block in Unicode. Anomie ⚔ 12:59, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, totally understandable as that wait was driving me nuts, while trying to juggle various other crap. If you would like I can just float my request over to the general WP:Bot requests pool to see if someone else can handle it. -Optigan13 (talk) 22:07, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I'm just doing the final testing now before turning the bot loose on your request. (I decided I needed a wikibreak this weekend) Anomie ⚔ 00:36, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Doing... Post here to stop the bot if something goes wrong. Anomie ⚔ 01:11, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done Also, BTW, it seems at least DejaVu Sans contains the character in question. Anomie ⚔ 02:00, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. -Optigan13 (talk) 05:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed that there are still about 500 or so pages transcluding {{SFBAProject}}. Do you think you could make another pass with the bot? -Optigan13 (talk) 10:00, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see where I screwed up: all the other bits of the request applied only to article space, so I forgot the merging needed to be done in other spaces too. Anomie ⚔ 12:55, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done There seems to be 3 transclusions left, 1 looks like a testing page and the other two someone has the template included in a discussion section. Anomie ⚔ 18:32, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit conflicts

To reduce edit conflicts, could the bot avoid editing articles tagged with 'underconstruction'? Thanks, Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 10:02, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OrphanReferenceFixer already does avoid articles tagged {{inuse}}. But underconstruction is intended to be in place for several days, and specifically says "You are welcome to assist in its construction by editing it as well." Why should that not apply to bots? Anomie ⚔ 02:43, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, fair point. In an unrelated question, could you tell me how you get the bug-reporting message to appear on your talk page? I'd find it useful for my own bots. Thanks, Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 03:00, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You mean the edit notice? It's at User talk:AnomieBOT/Editnotice; create a similar "/Editnotice" subpage of your bot's talkpage to do the same. Anomie ⚔ 13:12, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redlink in bot edit summary

The request link for your bot's SFBAProject edits is a redlink. Can you redirect it to whatever page the request was on? — RockMFR 02:59, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

D'oh! I had the page ready to be saved, then my browser crashed and I forgot about it. Sorry. Anomie ⚔ 11:17, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Monarchy of Canada

Your bot has been causing a nuisance at Monarchy of Canada: Instead of fixing refs, it is destroying notes. Please regard the status quo before your bot's intervention: [2], and the result following [3]. I don't believe the notes are formatted incorrectly, as they appear normally at the foot of the page; so, I suspect the fault lies in your bot. But, please let me know if I'm wrong in this take! Cheers. --Ħ MIESIANIACAL 17:40, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's certainly something wrong there, I've stopped the bot until I can sort it out. Thanks for the notification! Anomie ⚔ 18:32, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Should be fixed now, let me know if it happens again. Anomie ⚔ 20:14, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Energy run

I noticed that articles in [[Category:Coal County, Oklahoma]] have been added the WP: Energy, though they aren't related to that WikiProject. There are just a few articles in the category and removing them from the WikiProject isn't difficult, but there may be other unrelated categories that were caught that had "Coal" or something similar in their titles. Just wanted to give a heads up. Narthring (talk • contribs) 04:41, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Can't imagine how this category staid in the list after a number of checks run by several people. Of course this category is not in the scope of the WP:Energy. Beagel (talk) 14:30, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're back again?

So your back again to fixing reference error, I see. And boy, am I happy with that! I was shocked to see how fast new broken references show up. Now that we are back to normal figures again in Category:Pages with broken reference names, I am trying to eliminate the last few instances. A few a day. In the last half hour I saw 5 new broken references! Debresser (talk) 21:32, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they finally applied the fix to the bug that was preventing the bot from running. Anomie ⚔ 23:55, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See also Category_talk:Pages_with_broken_reference_names#Last_ten. I couldn't help myself trying to fix more and more of them, now that we are so close, and that post is the result. Debresser (talk) 21:28, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

1963-64 Television Schedule

I was trying to add a more complete reference than what was supplied. Thanks to you I'll have to try again tomorrow. Please refrain from interfering.97.120.137.22 (talk) 05:35, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Do you realize you're talking to an automated process, and that you have not specified just what your problem is? Anomie ⚔ 11:19, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for writing and running this bot. I can't tell you how often I've seen it identify and even correct reference errors. This project is better because of your participation. Will Beback talk 08:42, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the kind words! Anomie ⚔ 15:19, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

thank you

Thank you for this wonderful bot; it caught my carless mistake on The Concert and got it just right! — Robert Greer (talk) 20:56, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I also want to add a thank you. You are a very intelligent bot. It's high time we raise the standard for our human material as well. Dc76\^talk 22:02, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I know you're probably getting embarrassed by all this, but I just wanted to add that OrphanReferenceFixer is the best feature I've ever seen from a bot. It's spared my carelessness on at least three occasions so far, and has doubtless saved countless hundreds of positive contributions from being lost due to a small but significant mistake. Well done! WFCforLife (talk) 16:41, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, no, I like having my work appreciated. Thanks, all of you, for the kind words! Anomie ⚔ 19:04, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh bot, thank you for coming back from the unfortunate break you were given for a few months back. I missed you something terrible. I'm glad to see that you are not taking a vacation like your owner. You don't deserve it after your long rest this year. But I hope s/he is enjoyed one all the same. --Slp1 (talk) 02:28, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

help with a deleted file

I loaded a file File:EE Berkeley 1968.JPG onto wikipedia, marking it not-free and noting it was copyright but that I had received permission to put it up on wikipedia. nevertheless someone marked it as possibly UNFREE and deleted it from my article (or it got screened out because tagged?). I see from the Possibly Unfree listing that you have added a note that unless there is another reason the listing will be deleted and the image kept. Do I need to do anything now to keep my image? Will the image be automatically restored in my article? (Sorry for these q's - am a relatively novice wikipedia user). Would appreciate reply to my talk, which I hope will happen with the box here, {{Talkback|DuncanCraig1949}} thanks! DuncanCraig1949 (talk) 10:39, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It seems Verbal screwed up. WP:PUI is for files that the uploader claims are free but someone doubts it. Your file is clearly claimed as non-free, so PUI isn't the place for it. Most likely an admin will come along and close the discussion for that reason; Verbal may or may not take it to WP:FFD if that was his original intention. Anomie ⚔ 12:41, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Automatic or per request?

This a great tool, I would like to know if it is completely automatic, that is it will crawl every wiki page and fix orphan links or is it that it should be requested which pages to fix. In that case I would like to know how could I set it up and use it. Thanks. --HappyInGeneral (talk) 23:44, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The OrphanReferenceFixer is automatic. Things are set up so citation errors put the page into Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting and/or Category:Pages with broken reference names (see Help:Cite errors for details on that). The bot periodically checks those categories and fixes what it can; obviously, sometimes the errors require human judgment to fix. Anomie ⚔ 01:09, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see, thank you! --HappyInGeneral (talk) 08:16, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gary Allan article vandalism repair

You did and re-did your edits to the Gary Allan[[Link title]] article in the middle of vandalism repair. I have solicited for help on the vandalism that was done in numerous anonymous earlier edits. The repairs to vandalism are in progress.Wikibones (talk) 20:30, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Err, do you realize you're talking to an automated process? Anomie ⚔ 22:19, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed

Any reason why the bot didn't do this one as well? Debresser (talk) 19:49, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See Talk:Madras State#Orphaned references in Madras State; the bot found two different candidates for "Swarna", one using "date" and one using "year". Since the bot can't determine that those result in the same output, it posted on the talk page for a human to figure it out. Anomie ⚔ 03:24, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see. And I didn't even notice that. Sometimes it is a blessing to be a fallible human. :) Debresser (talk) 07:30, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thread of interest

You should probably be aware of Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Register_of_Historic_Places#User:AnomieBOT, if you aren't already. --ThaddeusB (talk) 02:56, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Too bad people have to be needlessly reactionary instead of just asking me about it. BTW, AnomieBOT doesn't actually try to combine identical references; the change in question is slightly different, see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 3 for details. Anomie ⚔ 03:38, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Avatar 2009 film references

Is correcting citation style, such as the style on the page Avatar (2009 film), one of the tasks of this bot? Flash Man999 (talk) 13:26, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, it is not. At a quick glance, I'm not even sure what the problem is. Anomie ⚔ 13:42, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

template renaming request

Is this the right place to ask about renaming template transclusions?

We have a template {{IPAr}} for transcribing pronunciations; nearly all of the 30k+ transclusions are automated transcriptions of Polish, using the |pl switch. It's hard to maintain these because they go beyond what AWB can handle. The template is now deprecated, and I'd like to move all transclusions with the pl switch, {{IPAr|pl|, to {{IPAc-pl}}. Then I can go in manually or with AWB and mop up any remaining transclusions of IPAr.

If you spell out the relevant parameters for me so I don't screw up s.t. basic, I could do it myself, and maybe save you some time.

Thanks, kwami (talk) 01:21, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, AnomieBOT can do that. I'll need a link to the discussion that led to the deprecation for the bot's edit summary, though. Anomie ⚔ 02:41, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is Template talk:IPAc-pl good enough? User:Kotniski (who created the template) & I discussed this, but I can't find where. (He marked it deprecated here. I'll leave a note on his talk page.

In case I wasn't clear, we'd like the pl switch removed when the move is made, which is why a simple redirect wouldn't work. kwami (talk) 03:18, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any actual discussion there, just your note at the bottom of the page. Slightly more useful is the discussion I see at User talk:Kwamikagami#IPA-pl, combined with the fact that it has been deprecated since October 19 and no one has cared. Anomie ⚔ 05:52, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't remember where we discussed it either (on our user talk pages?), but certainly IPAr is exclusively my work, and I'm in favour of its being deprecated in favour of IPAc-pl (which provides exactly the same result anyway), so I don't see that there can be any objection.--Kotniski (talk) 13:52, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I'll run it per WP:SILENCE as no one but the creators cared to comment in the month since it was deprecated, with an edit summary "Replacing {{IPAr|pl}} with {{IPAc-pl}} per request. Errors or discussion? Post a note here to stop the bot." If anyone does object, I'll stop the bot until a more in-depth discussion takes place. Anomie ⚔ 15:06, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, You might also want to let User:Chris G know, as he's been doing some of these replacements (just so he knows he doesn't have to do any more).--Kotniski (talk) 15:12, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I added a 'never mind!' note to my reminder on his page. (The original request is archived.) kwami (talk) 21:40, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! 25,000 done already. Please make a note here when you're done, so I can clean up anything left behind. kwami (talk) 01:18, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bot failed to fix mistake

FYI, the bot failed to fix a mistake where I forgot "name=" in the ref. See here. The "fix" it applied made things worse. Colin°^Talk 21:17, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rescuing orphaned refs

Really cool feature, nice work! --kingboyk (talk) 19:00, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded. This has just rescued a reference I had carefully created and which had then got inadvertently removed. Very clever! Thincat (talk) 21:28, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]