User talk:EdwardsBot

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The technical administration of the bot is handled by MZMcBride.

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Religious Crap

Keep your religious drivel off my user page.

HighBeam messages

All the HighBeam messages left an unclosed <sup> tag on the talk pages. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 07:43, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Huge f-up by me. I must have clipped the closing tag when I removed the timestamp from my signature which I copied and pasted. I am new to AWB but I do have it. Can you give me a quick run-down of how to use it to add the sup on each talk page? Also, I understand removing my access; hopefully once I fix this and show I can be more careful in the future I can have it again. Cheers, Ocaasi^{t | c} 12:01, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I have AWB open and I added the find-replace text. But I'm having trouble loading the correct list. It's all of the talk pages here: User:Ocaasi/Highbeamapproved. How do I go through them? Ocaasi^{t | c} 12:29, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For your source, select "links on page (only bluelinks)", and enter User:Ocaasi/Highbeamapproved in the "links on" field. That should load the pages up, pretty straightforward find and replace after that. Make sure you don't edit pages which have already been fixed (e.g. here), but not a huge deal if you do. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 13:07, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. Doing it now. I'll keep an eye out for already fixed pages--would a double closing sup tag do any harm, aside from being an unneeded edit? Ocaasi^{t | c} 13:10, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not unless there is already an open sup tag elsewhere, in which case you would be closing that one early. Highly unlikely on a user talk page, so not really something to worry too much about. If you do come across a case like this where there are two replacements but you only need to keep one, you can double click on the replacement to cancel in the diff window, and AWB will lose the one you double clicked on, but keep the others. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 13:16, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Phew. I got some help from rcsprinter. We made a few duplicate fixes, which means double closing sup tags. From my brief testing and what you've said they're harmless. Thanks for keeping an eye on this. Will check the message more closely next time. Cheers, Ocaasi^{t | c} 17:10, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for not getting back sooner. Thanks for clearing up. By the way, I have no objections to you being re-added to the access list at some point in the future. I think you will have learnt from this the importance of thoroughly checking everything first when using bots, as you don't get a chance to after it's started, and also your response to the problem (cleaning it up quickly and effectively) demonstrates a good sense of responsibility. So don't feel too bad about the mess up :). If you want access again in the future, feel free to re-request at User talk:EdwardsBot/Access list (but you may want to link to this, for transparency) or ask me directly. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 22:19, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Request to use the bot

Hi--I was wondering if someone could please help me use EdwardsBot to advertise this event, Wikipedia:Meetup/Women at Princeton Edit-a-thon. Thanks Undead q 14:59, 24 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Undead q (talk • contribs)

Hi. Would you like to run the delivery yourself or have me do it? If you'd like to have me do it, I'll need the subject line, message text, and a list of targets. If you'd like to do it yourself, you'll need an admin to add you to the access list. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:43, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Grovelling for bot delivery of newsletter

Oh, great and auspicious one, whose praises are sung throughout the land. This poor wretch seeks to impose on your magnificent generosity to perhaps do him a favor for which he would owe your magnificent self for the rest of his worthless life. If you could see fit, in your magnaminence, to deliver Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Outreach/May 2012 to the people listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Outreach in the "Subscriptions" section, he would sing your praises to all who would hear him.

(OK, maybe I overdid that a little. But your assistance would be greatly appreciated.) John Carter (talk) 19:55, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, just a little. ;-)

I made a few changes to the message and told the bot to start.

If you want to do the link-only deliveries, that'll be a separate run. Add yourself to the access list and have at it. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:11, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Smithsonian Institution Archives edit-a-thon delivery

Hi! I was hoping someone who works with this bot could deliver an invitation for me: Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 32 - it's at the top of the page (the header). It'd be awesome to have it sent out to this list: Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Invite/List. I hope this is the right place to request help with this. I'm not the most savvy when it comes to things like this. Thanks everyone :) Sarah (talk) 15:06, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, it'll run in a minute or two. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:38, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :) Sarah (talk) 21:42, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

HighBeam 3

I'd like to message 45 users about the latest round of HighBeam accounts. The last message went well. Any objections to another run? Ocaasi^{t | c} 21:10, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Who are you asking? --MZMcBride (talk) 01:59, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I guess Kingpin, since he was the one who I checked in with the other two for. I would just go ahead and do it, but my first run had a little html hangup that resulted in 4 hours of AWB fixes. Second run was fine. If there's no objection, I'll just go ahead with it like last time. Ocaasi^{t | c} 02:21, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Since I'm on the approved list and I'm using the same text as last time, I'm going to go ahead and send out the messages. Cheers, Ocaasi^{t | c} 21:54, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delivery at talk page, despite {{nobots}} in place

Hi. Could you please advise me if EdwardsBot is {{nobots}} compliant please? It delivered on my talk page in the early hours of this morning, despite my page being marked with the nobots keyword. If it isn't compliant, is there any way to opt out of deliveries from it please? Cat in the Hat | To the Thinga-ma-jigger | Whistle for Things 1 and 2 14:45, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]