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another false positive

please see my revert. Maybe add this page to a whitelist/ignore list... mabdul 16:39, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm .. I would strongly suggest to use the ISO standard '@example.com' for email address examples, that one is already ignored. Would that not be a better solution? --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:55, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
No since the article is explaining different email addresses... mabdul 20:33, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

False Positive

Hi, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tab_Two&oldid=462729004 was uncalled for. I re-reverted to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tab_Two&oldid=462729890 - Please note that their Facebook and twitter accounts are currently the only official "web sites" of Tab Two., so the links should stay, as per Wikipedia:EL#Links_normally_to_be_avoided: 

Links normally to be avoided
Except for a link to an official page of the article's subject, one should generally avoid
[...]
10. Links to social networking sites (such as Myspace and Facebook)[...]

-- 188.105.123.98 (talk) 13:18, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! That is why the bot suggests to revert it when it makes such mistakes. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:27, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

logo change

Hi, i work at MIBT and the logo on the MIBT wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Institute_of_Business_and_Technology) is incorrect and needs to be updated. I am not sure how to do this.

can you help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mibtnavitas (talk • contribs) 04:55, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think you will need to upload a new image. See Special:Upload and Wikipedia:Upload. I hope this helps. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:54, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP:UWTEST update

Hi XLinkBot – or, more accurately, all human XLinkBot talk page lurkers... :)

Just giving you a heads-up about the latest update on our template testing. Please peruse when you have a minute. Thanks! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 05:19, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Any complaints so far? --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:55, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Whim

guys guys so much work goes in those edits and then they are wiped out by somebody-s or machines whim. you will loose lots of contributors this way i am very discouraged as it hapens again and again. maybe you will write it all by yourself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.237.107.98 (talk) 22:02, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your remark, and for your contributions. I think the remark left by the bot on your talkpage tells you what to do next, and that is also what you did. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:56, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bot malfunctions on article title with Vietnamese character

Twice now, this bot has tried to revert a change to Tết and wound up creating a new page at Tết. Known bug? Melchoir (talk) 04:35, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Curious, normally it just fails on those. I will try and have a look again. Thanks for the remark! --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:57, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Beachgolf

Hi! Sorry for my inappropiate link! I would like to ask you why the page Beachgolf was proposed to deletion. Do you think I can d something to improve it? I read on 2nd of December it could be delete. Could you help me please?--Bgsa (talk) 11:50, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yes .. you could have addressed the concerns. You still have a chance, maybe you could rewrite it in your userspace as User:Bgsa/Beachgolf, and when you think it is fine, ask for a review. Thanks! --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:59, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo! The article Salton that I'm making is related to the article it:Selton that already exist. I've saved the article before have finished it, I'm sorry. --Lorenzo Cini (talk) 20:21, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Selton

Excuse me for my error, I've just modified the article according to the rules. Please don't delete it. --Lorenzo Cini (talk) 20:44, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Incoterms Wikipage

Have added a link to the Incoterms page and it's removed by the XLinkBot I think this was not correct because the webste that I have added is a nice extra to the Wikipage. Website that I am trying to link is www.Incoterms2010.tk.

Signed :Ted Eilers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ted Eilers (talk • contribs) 14:32, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Link to an extra Web site has been removed (by mistake?) by XLinkBot although this is no SPAM at all (well, I don't think so?).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_of_Scotland

Reverting link addition(s) by 194.254.163.15

Can you kindly double check? Thanks and regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.244.55.231 (talk) 22:22, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Most Interesting Man in the World

Hello, I am hoping that you could overcheck the section (Popular Culture) that I created for The Most Interesting Man in the World. I understand why you took down the link, but I did not think it was necessary to delete the Popular Culture section of the article. It is completely accurate and gives the reader more information behind the impact the advertisement had on popular culture. I was also going to add more information in that section, such as about "The World's Most Interesting Analyst". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdogk (talk • contribs) 20:47, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot seems to be programmed to remove youtube external links--well they are all external links. The problem is, your bot is doing it blindly. In the case of List of world records in masters athletics‎, it has removed video documentation of the world records. This is privately shot, non-commercial footage. I didn't shoot it, I don't know who did. But I had to revert your bot, as did the original poster after the bot came back. I do know there was no exclusivity on shooting the event, no TV contract. As the wikipedia credentialed reporter at this particular event, I do know more than the average person about this situation, but the point is, your bot isn't and doesn't. So please reconfigure your bot to stop removing youtube links. They are not universally spam. Your programming on a bot needs to take care of universally recognized problems, not to do destructive work, even in a relatively small percentage of its edits. Two bad edits are two too much. Trackinfo (talk) 09:55, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am not connected with the bot, but I noticed your comment. I have not checked the links you mention but am happy to accept your statement that they are encyclopedic and helpful. However, the bot is indispensible—check Special:Contributions/XLinkBot to see that it reverts a lot of dubious link additions. As you saw, the bot leaves a friendly message on the user's talk page and invites the user to undo the bot. The bot is not perfect, and there are occasionally problems, but it has enormous support from the many editors who work to reduce occurrences of spam in Wikipedia. New users often add inappropriate links (e.g., not encyclopedic, promotional, copyvios), and the bot is essential to keep these under control. It's rather unusual for an article to include links to youtube videos. Johnuniq (talk) 10:26, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

baby; bathwater

In edits like this, your bot removes not only the suspect external link (in this case, it's actually fine, but that's not why I'm writing), but also good content. Can you fix your bot so it removes the links in question, and doesn't revert edits with multiple changes, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:44, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please see User:XLinkBot/FAQ. It turns out that many edits that add inappropriate links are best totally reverted, although there are cases such as the one you mention where it would have been better to do things differently. Discussions on this in the past have established that the current behavior is best, overall, and the problems that occur are easily fixed. Johnuniq (talk) 00:59, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hopefully this behavior has been fixed, but I just ran across a really bad example from June 2010 at [1] in an article that I just had undeleted/userfied. Four extensive good faith edits were reverted and I don't even know which URL the bot thought was spam. That's the same kind of behavior that gets a person furious with human deletionists, and a bot doesn't deserve as much consideration. Wnt (talk) 15:13, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

December 2011

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Evacuate (band), did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Ramaksoud2000 (talk) 12:56, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bot reverts two edits when only one contains an email

Please correct this malfunction. --JonathonSimister (talk) 01:22, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Fantage Wiki

Hi, you removed the link I added (The Fantage Wiki!) on Fantage. The link was the official wiki of the website. It was made by the betas(The first users of Fantage), for information of the site. That was not needed to be removed. Please add the link back. Thank You. My User Page My talk page 17:19, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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