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Dear Xeno,

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Thank you so much, and to those who nominated me. Leaving this here for reminder. –xeno^talk

Bot/semi-automated edit question

Hi Xeno, just thought I'd run this by an admin before boldly taking off with this idea - the latest Tech News title was bungled when the mass-message sender sent it out. I've got a semi-automatic (as in, I'm having to verify and click "Save" after every found occurrence) AWB task set up which will fix these. Firstly, is this even needed, and secondly does this need any approval/consensus to do? -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 13:39, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What was wrong with it and how many pages were affected? –xeno^talk 13:41, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It was initially posted missing a leading [, making the link syntax break:

[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/29|Tech News: 2016-29]]

There are 517 subscribers to the newsletter, but not all of these are for the English Wikipedia -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 13:45, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) You will trigger the "new messages" dialog for every user if you clean this up without actually being a bot. The bad section header isn't breaking the rest of the page, and isn't necessary to read the newsletter - so it may not need to be fixed. I have a bot approved to clean up other people's messes that could be run tonight if it is really worth it (ping me). — xaosflux ^Talk 13:57, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Xaosflux: Good point on the new messages notification, perhaps spamming 400-odd people wouldn't make me overly popular.. As you say, it's not needed at all, but given the relatively low number of fixes required, and the ease of the fix, it may be worth using your mess-cleaning bot if you have time :) thanks -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 14:03, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

FYI: I've got a bot job doing a stealthy cleanup, but only for enwiki user talks that are still present, I'm not chasing down all those other projects :D — xaosflux ^Talk 21:34, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A request

Hello Xeno please help me. Please add UTC+5:45 in the list of Template:Time. It is standard time of Nepal. Thanks—Nepali keto62_{Questions?!?!?} 07:57, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Nepali keto62: The procedure is listed there itself — Varun FEB2003 I am Busy 12:06, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@VarunFEB2003: No it isn't when I keep NST as my time zone then error message is displayed.—Nepali keto62_{Questions?!?!?} 12:09, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]