User talk:Erwin

Much-deserved yellow rose

Dear Erwin, I believe I speak on behalf of the English Wikipedia community, as well as my fellow election coordinators, in expressing thanks for the scrutineers' hard work in ensuring that the ArbCom election ran smoothly. Because of your contributions, we can have confidence in the election outcome. I wish you an enjoyable end-of-year break! Tony (talk) 14:05, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Um...

Your Bot has nominated an article for deletion, that I did not create. Please refer to my talk page for evidence.--It's my Junior year in High School! (talk) 01:58, 20 December 2009 (UTC)Chris[reply]

Make your bot more efficent

Hey there Erwin I saw that your bot counts the number of pages in a category. I have a trick to ease (some) of the load on the bot. On the next run replace

{{User:Erwin85/CatCount}}<!-- count:Category; ns: -->0<!-- end -->

with

{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Category}}

That template does exactly what the bot does, only it uses the API.

Note you can make it recursive by changing Category into Category|R Thanks! Tim1357 (talk) 22:02, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WP:DELSORT based on infobox?

I see your bot already does some DELSORT work, but only for living people. Have you considered extending your bot to list other types of pages on the deletion sorting queues? The listings should obviously be conservative, i.e. avoid false positives as much as possible, even if that means not listing most articles anywhere. It looks like the best choice for a sorting key is the infobox (rather than categories); e.g. {{infobox software}} rather unambiguously identifies where an article should be listed. The bot only need parse the first few lines in the article. As far as configuration goes, a dictionary mapping infobox types to delsort queue names should follow KISS. Thoughts? (I have decent Python coding skills, and in principle can help, although it looks like you have the delsort code in place already, and the parsing is rather trivial.) Pcap ping 02:47, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What is the cut off?

What is the cut off for AfD notification by your bot? I just saw it notify an editor that hadn't made an edit to the article in question for over 2 years. Is there any criteria or does it just notify everyone who ever edited? Niteshift36 (talk) 02:02, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please Reply to AfD nomination of Indaba Music

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Indaba Music. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Indaba Music. Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate.

Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:09, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Am I speaking with the Editor or not? Is this the correct forum to discuss this issue?

I will edit the page to include reliable and prominent news sources. Recently I have been trying to include information throughout Wikipedia concerning a larger issue, the changes to copyright law and content creation that are undergoing in the music business. Indaba Music has been noted by the Press (look at their page - http://www.indabamusic.com/corporate/press) as the leader in this area of collaboration and content creation using Creative Commons. Like the profiles of any other related business such as Apple, this one is valid and does not warrant deletion. It has been re-created in an attempt to allow the world to access information, like any other posts. I have read the Wikipedia guidelines and feel that I have meet them. Please explain any specific concern. Talkin bout chicken (talk) 14:57, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I removed sections that you might have deemed "promotional". Please refer me to specific sections if this is still a concern.

Thank you Talkin bout chicken (talk) 15:16, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate AfD notification by Erwin85Bot

I noticed that your bot gave a duplicate AfD notification at User talk:Yusei&Atem after I had already notified him of the AfD. I assume it isn't supposed to give a notification when one is already there, so I think it may have a bug. Calathan (talk) 01:52, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This also happened at User talk:Stevvvv4444, although the bot notification happened after the user had removed my own notification from their talk page so perhaps nothing can be done about that. Cordless Larry (talk) 10:18, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's hard to do something about the latter, but Yusei&Atem shouldn't have been notified twice. I'll look into that. Thanks. --Erwin (talk) 11:01, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]