Wikipedia:Bot requests

For the policy on bot requirements, see WP:BOTREQUIRE.

This is a page for requesting tasks to be done by bots per the bot policy. This is an appropriate place to put ideas for uncontroversial bot tasks, to get early feedback on ideas for bot tasks (controversial or not), and to seek bot operators for bot tasks. Consensus-building discussions requiring large community input (such as request for comments) should normally be held at WP:VPPROP or other relevant pages (such as a WikiProject's talk page).

You can check the "Commonly Requested Bots" box above to see if a suitable bot already exists for the task you have in mind. If you have a question about a particular bot, contact the bot operator directly via their talk page or the bot's talk page. If a bot is acting improperly, follow the guidance outlined in WP:BOTISSUE. For broader issues and general discussion about bots, see the bot noticeboard.

Before making a request, please see the list of frequently denied bots, either because they are too complicated to program, or do not have consensus from the Wikipedia community. If you are requesting that a template (such as a WikiProject banner) is added to all pages in a particular category, please be careful to check the category tree for any unwanted subcategories. It is best to give a complete list of categories that should be worked through individually, rather than one category to be analyzed recursively (see example difference).

Alternatives to bot requests

• WP:AWBREQ, for simple tasks that involve a handful of articles and/or only needs to be done once (e.g. adding a category to a few articles).
• WP:URLREQ, for tasks involving changing or updating URLs to prevent link rot (specialized bots deal with this).
• WP:SQLREQ, for tasks which might be solved with an SQL query (e.g. compiling a list of articles according to certain criteria).
• WP:TEMPREQ, to request a new template written in wiki code or Lua.
• WP:SCRIPTREQ, to request a new user script. Many useful scripts already exist, see Wikipedia:User scripts/List.
• WP:CITEBOTREQ, to request a new feature for WP:Citation bot, a user-initiated bot that fixes citations.

Note to bot operators: The {{BOTREQ}} template can be used to give common responses, and make it easier to keep track of the task's current status. If you complete a request, note that you did with {{BOTREQ|done}}, and archive the request after a few days (WP:1CA is useful here).

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#	Bot request	Status	💬	👥	🙋 Last editor	🕒 (UTC)	🤖 Last botop editor	🕒 (UTC)
1	Automatic NOGALLERY keyword for categories containing non-free files (again)		18	8	LaundryPizza03	2024-07-11 20:57	Legoktm	2024-06-24 01:34
2	Can we have an AIV feed a bot posts on IRC?		8	3	Legoktm	2024-06-21 18:24	Legoktm	2024-06-21 18:24
3	Bot to update match reports to cite template	BRFA filed	14	5	Yoblyblob	2024-06-20 21:21	Mdann52	2024-06-20 21:11
4	Bot to mass tag California State University sports seasons	Doing...	5	4	Frostly	2024-06-10 17:05	Headbomb	2024-06-09 17:28
5	Clear Category:Unlinked Wikidata redirects		9	6	Wikiwerner	2024-07-13 14:04	DreamRimmer	2024-04-21 03:28
6	Fixing stub tag placement on new articles	Not a good task for a bot.	5	4	Tom.Reding	2024-07-16 08:10	Tom.Reding	2024-07-16 08:10
7	Bot to change citations to list defined references	Not a good task for a bot.	3	2	Apoptheosis	2024-06-09 17:44	Headbomb	2024-06-09 16:56
8	Adding Facility IDs to AM/FM/LPFM station data	BRFA filed	11	3	Mdann52	2024-07-06 12:36	Mdann52	2024-07-06 12:36
9	Tagging women's basketball article talk pages with project tags	BRFA filed	15	4	Hmlarson	2024-07-18 17:13	Usernamekiran	2024-07-18 17:10
10	Friendly support for Draft categories – feedback request	Redundant	2	2	Mdann52	2024-07-11 19:47	Mdann52	2024-07-11 19:47
11	Adding links to previous TFDs		7	4	Qwerfjkl	2024-06-20 18:02	Qwerfjkl	2024-06-20 18:02
12	Bot that condenses identical references	Coding...	11	5	Polygnotus	2024-07-17 12:30	Headbomb	2024-06-18 00:34
13	Convert external links within {{Music ratings}} to refs		2	2	Mdann52	2024-06-23 10:11	Mdann52	2024-06-23 10:11
14	Stat.kg ---> Stat.gov.kg		2	2	DreamRimmer	2024-06-23 09:21	DreamRimmer	2024-06-23 09:21
15	Add constituency numbers to Indian assembly constituency boxes		3	2	C1MM	2024-06-25 03:59	Primefac	2024-06-25 00:27

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Romanian orthography

Hello again,

some months (or even years?) ago, I requested a mass-move and following orthography check allover the Romanian topics: Şş and Ţţ (with cedilla) are wrong, Șș and Țț (with diacritic comma) are correct. I don't remember who did it finally, but it was done.

I now see several "cedilla-s" and "cedilla-t" coming again: Could please somebody (or even the same who did it in the past) check the whole category (including the category itself) Category:Communes of Ştefan Vodă district?

Thank you (and a happy new year)! —[ˈjøːˌmaˑ] 11:09, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

It appears that your previous request was done by Vacation9's VoxelBot. GoingBatty (talk) 01:15, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

This task was not done completely. Every few days i rename pages with wrong diacritics into correct ones. XXN (talk) 12:04, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Can someone please effectively prevent the bots from archiving this section? Thanx! —[ˈjøːˌmaˑ] 13:32, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

I've done it with my sig timestamp: Rcsprinter (Gimme a message) @ 22:00, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Obviously, that didn't work either... :( —[ˈjøːˌmaˑ] 13:31, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

* non-automatic anti archive line * —[ˈjøːˌmaˑ] 12:33, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
* non-automatic anti archive line * —[ˈjøːˌmaˑ] 11:51, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
* non-automatic anti archive line * —[ˈjøːˌmaˑ] 15:39, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

What exactly do you want the bot to do? There were some moving requests in the past, but not much happened due to the opposition of some in the en.wp community, so you might want to search for support first.--Strainu (talk) 15:22, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Add Navboxs

Add this templates, each one in its articles.

• Template:Municipalities in Alicante
• Template:Municipalities in Castellón
• Template:Municipalities in Valencia
• Template:Municipalities in Girona
• Template:Municipalities in Lleida
• Template:Municipalities in Tarragona
• Template:Municipalities in Ciudad Real
• Template:Municipalities in Cuenca
• Template:Municipalities in Las Palmas
• Template:Municipalities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• Template:Municipalities in La Rioja
• Template:Municipalities in Segovia

--Vivaelcelta {talk  · contributions} 07:30, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I will get this sorted tomorrow. Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (converse) @ 23:55, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

I am striking through them as each one is completed. Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (talk) @ 16:29, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Dispute resolution noticeboard

Over at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard we have accrued an ad-hock combination of scripts and templates, assisted by EarwigBot and MiszaBot. In particular, we seem to be asking The Earwig for a lot. He has been very responsive and has been great about our constant stream of requests, but rather than dumping more and more on him I am wondering whether someone who is really good at automation has the time and inclination to do a proper job of re-engineering all of our DRN automation tools from top to bottom. If we manage to get a smooth-running system working, other noticeboards might be interested in using the same system. Is anyone interested in working on this?

(Previous request: Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 56#Dispute resolution noticeboard, User talk:Hasteur/Archive 8#DRNBot) --Guy Macon (talk) 17:33, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

I would second this request. Despite The Earwig's laudable efforts and full cooperation, the system for categorizing [the status of a DRN thread: open, in progress, stale etc.] and archiving threads still has glitches.-- — Keithbob • Talk • 16:30, 20 March 2014 (UTC)-- — Keithbob • Talk • 18:00, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

And often the bot 'forgets' to notify people on the user talk page that they have been listed as a party in a DRN case. If the DRN coordinator gives a warning or asks for clarification, or if a participant prematurely comments in the discussion section, the case is listed as OPEN when it clearly is not an open case.-- — Keithbob • Talk • 18:00, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

For whoever might be interested, by "do a proper job of re-engineering all of our DRN automation tools", I am talking about both a form or forms plus a bot, and someone who has the time to work with the DRN volunteers to get the details right. Here are a couple of examples of what I am talking about:

Let's say someone has a dispute about the content of First law of holes. We have a form for filing a case, but it allows the filer to enter "First law of holes" "Wikipedia talk:First law of holes", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_rule_of_holes" "irst law of ho", etc. Only the first one gives us working pagelinks. The form shouldn't let the user enter something that isn't an article in mainspace. Likewise, right now you can file a case with nobody as a party to the dispute. The form shouldn't allow that.

Right now, if someone has an old notice from a previous DRN case on their talk page, the bot doesn't notify them. The bot also won't let a volunteer make a comment without being listed as the volunteer who takes the case.

In other words, what we need is a new filing form and a new bot, both optimized for this task. I would also very much like it to be adaptable so that we can offer a version to WP:3RRNB or WP:AIAV. If we are smart about this, we can convince other editors to use the tool and thus automate multiple noticeboards and other dispute resolution venues.

I realize that this is quite ambitious compared to your average bot request, but the benefits would be huge. --Guy Macon (talk) 17:03, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Sigh.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] --Guy Macon (talk) 07:54, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Grumble.[8] --Guy Macon (talk) 01:20, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

(Sound of Crickets...) --Guy Macon (talk) 02:32, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi, I'm alive. — Earwig ^talk 04:24, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Good to hear from you. First, let me once again emphasize that the combination of Earwigbot and the script at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/request have been extremely helpful and that your work is very much appreciated. I have heard the same sentiment from other DRN volunteers. That being said, if you look at the thread above you will see some legitimate areas where we can do better, especially in the script that allows malformed requests to be posted. So, am I correct in my belief that asking you to do a proper job of re-engineering all of our DRN automation tools from top to bottom would be dumping more and more on you? On the one hand, I don't want to offend by asking elsewhere, but on the other hand I don't want to offend by asking too much of you. --Guy Macon (talk) 04:59, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Redoing DRN from scratch isn't something I'm comfortable with, particularly since it's not a project I'm personally involved in, and writing code for projects I'm not personally involved in is how we got into this mess in the first place. The bit about malformed request titles is pretty far removed from EarwigBot's area of functionality (unless you want the bot to fix bad titles, but that's going to run into other problems), so I'd rather not handle it myself. You have identified two specific areas that I think I can look into, which are the missing notifications and the ability for a volunteer to make edits without "opening" a case. I find the latter to be a bit nitpicky given DRN's informal nature, but who am I to talk? If you'd like, we could stop the bot from changing cases from 'new' to 'open' and require volunteers do it, but I don't know if this would be very helpful. As for the former, I'd rather the bot accidentally not notify someone rather than cause someone to be notified twice, which is why it's fairly conservative. It's always been my understanding that the filer is expected to leave notifications, and the bot only acts as a safeguard in case they forget. In order to improve it, we would need a more foolproof way of determining whether someone has been notified, and I've been unable to come up with a good system for that which also takes into account custom notifications that don't use the substituted template – unless, as noted previously, we're okay with double-notifications (and that prospect makes me very uncomfortable). Any other issues the bot has are either things I'm unaware of, or are a result of mutual misunderstanding regarding how the bot works (like the confusion over the meaning of 'needassist' a couple months ago). — Earwig ^talk 06:57, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

So, is anyone here willing to volunteer to do a proper job of re-engineering all of our DRN automation tools from top to bottom? --Guy Macon (talk) 16:51, 27 March 2014‎ (UTC)

Earwig has given a pretty substantial response about why he doesn't think re-doing DRN from scratch is a good use of (his) time. It would be helpful of why you think a "re-engineering from top to bottom" is necessary so prospective bot ops know the challenges and expectations before taking up the task; right now there's just an open-ended request, of which the scope is still unclear. Legoktm (talk) 18:04, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Ok, let me try to summarize:

• DRN is a busy place and there are multiple cases in various stages of development at any given time. We have very few active volunteers and we are constantly on the verge of a backlog. DRN is also (in my opinion) a crucial gear in the WP machine (along with other DR forums) as conflict is the inevitable side effect of the WP collaboration model. A complex forum with a high workload and few volunteers means we need to be efficiently supported by automation. While we are very grateful for the automation afforded us thus far, the current automation has several problems and deficiencies and counteracting these deficiencies via manual examination and manipulation is time consuming and unproductive. For this reason, we need an appropriate technical person to review the entire automation set up at DRN and make fixes, revisions and upgrades. Earwig has been most helpful, but outlining isolated concerns via discussion and consensus on the DRN talk page has been slow and ineffective. A band aid approach to this problem is not working. What we need is someone who will work with DRN volunteers such as Guy Macon and myself, in a focused way, to a) review all current automation procedures and forms, b) ID and fix current problems and deficiencies, c) add additional features to further automate the DRN process.
• This is by no means an exhaustive list. But my summary of the current problems would be:
  • Case summary chart-- Automated status changes are sometimes inaccurate and/or misleading.
    • IN PROGRESS triggers prematurely
    • CLOSED Embedded instructions to volunteers regarding manually changing the status to CLOSED should be clarified
    • Each status' markup 'code' should match the actual displayed status ie markup of NEEDASSIST yields a status of NEEDS ATTENTION and OPEN yields IN PROGRES
    • NEEDS ATTENTION and STALE were also triggering prematurely but this may have been remedied as I think Earwig removed "the logic that checks for cases being a certain number of days old...... [to] get rid of the bot's tendency to modify case statuses against volunteers' wishes"
  • Case notifications-- User talk page notices are inconsistent.
  • Filing form -- Needs improvement and expansion. It does not require a URL to prior discussion and allows editors to open a case without crucial information. It needs to be expanded to include a place for administrative comments so the case status is not prematurely changed to OPEN.

-- — Keithbob • Talk • 16:56, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

A follow up note........ It seems that despite possible recent changes ot the status settings, they are still cumbersome and misleading. There are too many types of status and they are confusing. For example right now (3:50 UTC) the summary chart lists cases as: New, Stale, In Progress, Need Assist. While the individual cases themselves have their status listed as: New Discussion, Dispute Inactive, Discussion In Progress, Needs Attention. Furthermore: the two cases labeled as Needs Assist/Needs Attention are ongoing cases in progress and are mislabeled. Likewise one cases listed as In Progress has yet to be opened by a moderator. -- — Keithbob • Talk • 03:59, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Pages with missing references list

I suggest a bot to work through the 6,300-odd pages in Category:Pages with missing references list to insert a References section heading (if not present) and the {{reflist}} template, ignoring the pages mentioned on the category page, the operation to be repeated at stated intervals. It looks from the description as though User:JamietwBot would have done this but is shown on its page as inactive: Noyster (talk), 13:40, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

According to User:Magioladitis/AWB_and_CHECKWIKI, it appears that Xqbot does this task. GoingBatty (talk) 13:47, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

There are only some 300 articles in this category, the rest are (mainly) portal subpages which don't need a reference list (they are transcluded unto a page where there is a reference list). Most of the 300 articles currently in the cat seem to be caused by a language template which has a reference to display on articles. Fram (talk)

Pages with an apparent missing reflist aren't always best fixed by adding one. If there is a <ref> with no balancing </ref>, that will also throw the error "", even if there is a {{reflist}} or <references /> later on. That </ref> might be missing by accident; or it might be present as a typo e.g. </reg>; or the page may have been vandalised. Each case needs to be considered in relation to its recent editing history. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:14, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

It looks like Helpful Pixie Bot used to do this sort of edit, FWIW. The bot's owner appears to be blocked.

A longer version of Redrose64's explanation is at Help:Cite_errors/Cite_error_refs_without_references. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:35, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

The bot owner's block expires in a little less than three hours, but their ban on the use of bots is for life, so don't expect Helpful Pixie Bot (talk · contribs) to ever be reactivated. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:17, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Easy roulettebot

Is there anyone who can make a bot that will bet on different colors in roulette? For example when winning it changes to betting on black and if loses it just doubles the bet on the same color. xoxo — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.210.30.233 (talk) 16:34, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Ah, a Martingale. How would that help to build the encyclopedia? --Redrose64 (talk) 17:12, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

While we're at it, my back itches right where I can't reach it. If someone can make a bot to scratch my back for me, it will give me more time to focus on fixing disambiguation links, thereby helping to build the encyclopedia. Shoulder rubs would also be great. Cheers bd2412 T 17:18, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Page archiving for Televisionwithoutpity.com links

The website Television Without Pity is going to be shutting down next week (they aren't clear on the exact steps, how long the content will remain), and about 500 mainspace articles use it for references for primarily television episode reviews. (My list from AWB is: User:Masem/TWOP pages). While most of the recaps are archived at Archive.org, the way TWOP paginates it stories means only the first page of these reviews/recaps are archived, and I don't immediately see any way to alter the URL to get then entire recap in one shot. Of course, the ideal route would be to have a bot run though the list of articles using televisionwithoutpity.com links and archive those links, but because of this pagination, it would require 1) figuring out how many pages there is (fortunately, the url for a specific page is simply to get) and 2) submitting each of those pages to an archive. I've altered the TV project to this issue as they might provide more suggestions here. --MASEM (t) 21:53, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Remove {{Please check ISBN}} from |isbn= in CS1 citations

At some point, a helpful bot or human editor inserted the {{Please check ISBN}} template within the |isbn= parameter in citations in a thousand or so (somewhere between hundreds and two thousand) articles. This addition may have been a helpful maintenance tag at one time, but now it interferes with displaying and fixing ISBNs in citations, as documented on the template's documentation page.

Can someone please use a bot or AWB or other means to run through Category:Pages with ISBN errors and remove all instances of {{Please check ISBN}} from the |isbn= parameter in citations? This will make it easier for human editors to clean up the articles in the category. There are about 6,600 articles in the category.

As a side note, it is likely that many of the articles edited by the bot will remain in Category:Pages with ISBN errors, since CS1 citations contain code that checks |isbn= for valid values.

A sample article that shows what this template does to citations is Theleis I Den Theleis. Thanks in advance. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:53, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

You just need to move the {{Please check ISBN}} to be outside the {{cite book}} but still be inside the <ref>...</ref>, like this. --Redrose64 (talk) 08:40, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

You could do that, but since the CS1 module code checks the ISBN, I don't think the "please check" template is needed at all. The template is still useful in locations where the ISBN is used outside of CS1 citations. – Jonesey95 (talk)

project honeypot

i need to have a bot for filling up my all entries in my project honeypot,its my college project and so i need that to show the demo to my professors

Repeat request DYK notification bot

Please note that when Matty.007 listed the request below on Feb 23, it was responded to by Ceradon on March 2. This editor's contributions page show he did no other edits since that time except to archive his talk pages on March 6, and previously had not edited since July 2013. Can someone else please program the bot we need described below? — Maile (talk) 13:55, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK noting bot

OK, we recently had a RFC on the way things worked at Did you know, here, and the thing which gained consensus was a bot to notify people when others had nominated their article for DYK, see here. There have been a few issues recently over article creators not liking hooks, or not wanting their articles nominated, which could be helped if they were aware that there was a discussion about the nomination which they could contribute to. Thanks, Matty.007 11:22, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

To help any potential bot creator to understand what is now in place, and what we need:

• Instructions for nominating an individual article at DYK are at Template talk:Did you know. The instructions take the editor to a pre-programmed template where they fill in the blanks and "Save". That produces a template, such as this one I created today:

Template:Did you know nominations/Ljubica Acevska You can see from this template that I am "Nominated by", and the "Created by" is another editor. The nominator then transcludes to newly created template to "Template talk:Did you know" under the appropriate section date heading. I also transcluded this particular template on the creator's talk page. You can go there to see how it looks.

• In some cases, the nominator and creator are the same person, so we have no problem in that situation.
• In some cases, it is like the one I created above. In other cases, the nominator is also one of multiple creators listed.

There is no DYK process in place to notify anyone their article has been nominated. Article creators often prefer to be notified, and issues sometime arise in the review process that only the article creator can answer. The discussion Matty has lniked above suggests it should be done automatically by a bot. Can a bot be created that can detect if anyone listed as "Created by" on the DYK nomination template is other than the "Nominated by", and can that bot then transclude the nomination template to their talk page(s). — Maile (talk) 21:09, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Coding... -ceradon ^talk_contribs 02:06, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Ceradon when you get the coding done and, I assume it has to be approved as a bot, would you please post a message at WT:DYK so the DYK folks know this is operational? Thanks for your help on this. — Maile (talk) 23:21, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

@Maile66: Have you attempted to get in contact with the volunteer who took it before? Getting really irritated with the "We need a bot to do this, why isn't anybody paying attention to us" loops that are hapening here. Hasteur (talk) 14:09, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Well, I did ping the volunteer right above your post. There was no response. And had the editor been continually editing, I might have made more tries. But this editor seems to have departed Wikipedia, and was otherwise not active on WP for over 6 months previously. I'm sorry this irritates you. But aren't you irritated at the wrong person? How about volunteer editors who verbally commit and then don't do anything? It's a little irritating on this side also.— Maile (talk) 14:17, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

@Maile66 Yes, I'm working on your task. If you want to track my progress, go here to GitHub. But the coding is coming along well. No worries. I should have a bot task filed by Monday. --ceradon ^talk_contribs 22:30, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. — Maile (talk) 13:44, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

@Maile66 If the creator of the article hasn't edited in a full year or is an IP address, would it be acceptable to not notify them? Thanks, --ceradon (talk • contribs) 22:02, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Ceradon, I have placed an inquiry at WT:DYK for admins to respond here. It occurs to me that there is a need to be selective, but I don't know how best to answer your question. The short of this is that only an editor who has really made substantive contributions. But how do you determine that? And in the case of recent Good Articles that get nominated for DYK, only the person who nominated it for a Good Article needs to be notified. But I think you need a more seasoned opinion here than I can give you.— Maile (talk) 22:21, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

(Not an admin, but a long-time DYKer.) In my opinion, you should not notify the article creator if they haven't worked on it recently. More importantly, you should not be looking at the article's history at all. Assuming the nominations are done correctly, the only users who should be notified are those who made significant contributions to the recent creation or expansion and are named in {{DYKmake}}s in the nomination template. If there's a {{DYKnom}}, then it's not a self-nomination, and all users with a DYKmake could be notified. If there's no DYKnom, it's a self-nom, and any users with a DYKmake other than the nominator could be notified. The nominator may most easily be determined by checking the nomination template's history to see who created it. The DYKmake syntax is {{DYKmake|article title|user name}}, with an optional subpage parameter at the end. There should be a way to opt out, so, for example, people who collaborate on articles won't be irritated with unwanted notifications. It would be great if the bot could check to see if the nominator has already notified other user(s), but maybe that's asking for too much. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 23:37, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Ceradon, in regards to your IP question, it would be handled as Mandarax has suggested handling the others. Nominations have been made by registered users, when the creator was an IP address. When filling out the nomination template, there is a space for the nominator to list who created/expanded the article. That's probably the space you should draw that information from. If it lists in that space ONLY the same person who has filled out the template, then no notification is needed. If any name is listed there other than the person filling out the template, that editor should be notified. Taking into consideration what Mandarax suggested about an "opt out".— Maile (talk) 00:15, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Can someone fix Cydebot?

Cydebot (talk · contribs) keeps replacing my template {{DVD}} with a licensing template, but it is claiming Wikipedia:Non-free content/templates which has been marked historical since 2012, and has been unused since 2008. There's no reason for this to still be actively replacing templates, since everything will have been fixed years ago. Further, {{DVD}} isn't even listed as a template needing replacement on that page. -- 70.24.250.235 (talk) 04:33, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Request to change some external links to connect.afi.com as result of site reorganisation

afi (afi.com) have reorganised their website. Links in the form connect.afi.com no longer work. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch&limit=500&offset=0&target=http%3A%2F%2Fconnect.afi.com there are 210 results. Some are personal pages or talk pages, which don't need to be changed, but all links on main wiki pages should be re-pointed:

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/100Movies.pdf?docID=281 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/100Movies.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/10top10.pdf?docID=361 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/TOP10.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/Movies_ballot_06.pdf?docID=141 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/Movies_ballot_06.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/TOP10.pdf -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/TOP10.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/TOP10.pdf?docID=441 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/TOP10.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/cheers100.pdf -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/cheers100.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/cheers100.pdf?docID=202 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/cheers100.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/cheers300.pdf?docID=201 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/cheers300.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/handv100.pdf?docID=246 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/handv100.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/handv400.pdf?docID=245 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/handv400.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/laughs100.pdf?docID=252 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs100.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/laughs500.pdf?docID=251 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs500.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/movies100.pdf?docID=264 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/movies100.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/movies400.pdf?docID=263 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/movies400.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/passions100.pdf?docID=248l -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/passions100.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/quotes100.pdf?docID=242 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/quotes100.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/quotes400.pdf?docID=205 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/quotes400.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/scores250.pdf?docID=221 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/scores250.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/scores250.pdf?docID=22 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/scores250.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/songs100.pdf?docID+244 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/songs100.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/songs100.pdf?docID=244 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/songs100.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/songs400.pdf?docID=243 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/songs400.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/stars50.pdf?docID=262 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/stars50.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/stars500.pdf?docID=261 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/stars500.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/thrills100.pdf?docID=250 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/thrills100.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/thrills400.pdf?docID=249 -> http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/thrills400.pdf

http://connect.afi.com/site/PageServer?pagename=100YearsList -> is the wrong link anyway, needs to be manually remapped to the right target

http://connect.afi.com/site/PageServer?pagename=micro_100landing -> is the wrong link anyway, needs to be manually remapped to the right target

http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/10top10.pdf?docID=381&AddInterest=1781 could be changed to http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/TOP10.pdf, but the former lists all the nominations (I think) whereas the latter only lists the winners.

Manolan1 (talk) 21:17, 31 March 2014 (UTC)