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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Anomie (talk | contribs) at 20:11, 4 September 2021 (Undid revision 1042396472 by Stefan2 (talk) - not really necessary to notify the bot about those. If the associated non-en-dash redirect is deleted, the en-dash version will automatically be tagged for G8 (and G6 and G7).). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Small modification request to TemplateTalkRedirectCreator

Hey, could you modify the code in the task TemplateTalkRedirectCreator to use the canonical name of the template {{Redirect category shell}} and also move the tag {{R from remote page}} to a new line as it's easier to read and add other tags. Thanks. Gonnym (talk) 12:45, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Done I also added a blank line between the redirect code and template and started using {{R from remote talk page}}. Anomie 11:44, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Could you also modify the task EnDashRedirectCreator, changing "Redirect shell" to "Redirect category shell" and adding new lines? Gonnym (talk) 10:11, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Anomie 11:18, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A WikiProjectTagger run for Marvel Cinematic Universe task force

Hello. I'd like to request the bot to run its WikiProjectTagger to tag relevant articles for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Marvel Cinematic Universe task force. A run of this bot is being discussed (and supported) here. The run would be for all articles within Category:Marvel Cinematic Universe and Category:Marvel Cinematic Universe drafts to tag the templates {{WikiProject Film}} and/or {{WikiProject Television}} with |mcu=yes. In thinking through this request, I believe there may be some articles, etc. that might not have either of these templates. If that is the case, does the bot have the ability to add full templates? If so, {{WikiProject Film}} should be the one that is added, with the "mcu" parameter. I'm also pinging @Gonnym: who was helping me (and pointed me to this bot) in case they see any issues with the proposals or anything that should be added. If there are any questions, please let me know. I am watching but a ping wouldn't hurt either. Thanks. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 23:28, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also Category:Marvel Cinematic Universe task force and Category:Marvel Cinematic Universe templates. Gonnym (talk) 08:36, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Favre1fan93 and Gonnym: Should classes and/or importance be copied from other banners? Other than that, it looks like I have all the info I'll need. Ping me when the discussion is closed. Anomie 12:00, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Classes yes, as we are just a task force, so we'd take the class designation of either the Film or Television banner as it exists. I'd say importance let's hold off, as we might want to first establish out of our articles what should be defined as what. Anomie as we are running just within our defined categories (and not a wide breadth of them), the discussion has no objections and can be considered closed. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 13:13, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Anomie there wasn't anyone opposing to this in the discussion. Can the bot begin with the tagging? Gonnym (talk) 11:36, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Favre1fan93 and Gonnym: So... There's only 108 pages in all four of those categories. Is that really all you intended? If you wanted "all subcats", please have at least two project members look through the list at User:Anomie/Sandbox8 and confirm that every category actually does have valid articles. You can delete any from the list that don't. Anomie 15:00, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, the intention was all sub-cats and all pages in the sub-cats. We've worked on the category tree over the years so there shouldn't be any page that doesn't belong there. I've sorted the list into two groups, Those that should have the TV template and those that should have the Film template. In both situations just add |mcu=yes. In some situations there might be both templates, that's ok and add the parameter to both. Gonnym (talk) 15:07, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, Gonnym's delineation looks correct for categories that should definitely have the Television template, and those that should definitely have the Film template. As stated, if articles within such categories happen to have both templates, that is fine and both should be tagged. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 23:26, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Favre1fan93 and Gonnym: Started the run. If you spot any problems and need the bot to stop, post to User:AnomieBOT/shutoff/WikiProjectWorker. Anomie 12:32, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Favre1fan93 and Gonnym: Run is complete, including the three additional categories I saw got added to the list on the sandbox page. Anomie 12:20, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Anomie! I saw that the bot continued to tag new pages in a known category so just thought that in case it continues to work behind the scenes, it should know about these. Gonnym (talk) 12:22, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! It all appeared to go as intended. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 18:33, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Anomie. Are you able to do a WikiProjectTagger run that only adds importance? If you can, part of the MCU taskforce parameters, it would be great if you could tag all of the mainspace articles in Category:Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 1) episodes, Category:Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 2) episodes, Category:Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 3) episodes, Category:Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 4) episodes, Category:Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 5) episodes, Category:Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 6) episodes, Category:Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 7) episodes and Category:Agent Carter (TV series) episodes with |mcu-importance=low within the {{WikiProject Television}} template. At the moment they all do not have importance set except for 2 articles, Pilot (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series finale, both of which are "Mid" and should stay as such. Also pinging Gonnym who has been helping me tag other article within the taskforce scope so he is aware of my request. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 16:26, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Giving you another ping @Anomie:. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 15:39, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I've been short of time lately. I'll try to get around to looking at this on the weekend. Anomie 21:50, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, thank you! - Favre1fan93 (talk) 01:42, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Tnx Yeissensura (talk) 19:40, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Good Bot Barnstar!
For helping people, like me, an anon, to date maintenance templates, and other stuff. Good work Anomie!

Also, why Perl dude? Couldn't you just made it from Python or Java? They both have excellent API and extension support. Maybe you could convert it to Python or Java, maybe not Java, but you get what I mean, right?
103.24.107.253 (talk) 09:58, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Why not Perl? It's my go-to language for quick scripts that do things more complex than what's easily doable in Bash. Rewriting it at all would be a big project, and first I'd have to learn Python (which I've never yet gotten around to). Anomie 12:02, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Mistargeted welcome messages.

Hello! I just reverted an edit from this bot to the *wiki* page for "Tropism".

It looks like the bot needs better targeting to limit user welcome messages to user pages.

Edit: Oh. It looks like an IP user added "\{\{hello\}\}" (no backslashes) to the end of the page and the bot replaced the template message with the contents of the template message. Probably should add a condition to limit template replacement for that template to user pages.

211.245.254.29 (talk) 00:45, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, it was not the fault of AnomieBOT, which merely carried out one of its instructions - that all instances of {{hello}} should be altered to {{subst:hello}}. The problem edit was this one. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:16, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Regional railroad because of merger with List of U.S. Class II railroads

I entered {{Db-g7}} on this article and I transferred the content to List of U.S. Class II railroads --109.242.232.159 (talk) 10:37, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Restoration of Cranadium gibbosum

I restored this redirect (monotypic sp.) - my typo: Cranadium gibbosum can be deleted and Cranidium gibbosum is correct - thanks. Roy Bateman (talk) 09:00, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not edit any resourceful information as you apparently did to the article Gujarat Sultanate.

When you edited the article Gujarat Sultanate, you edited the main heading, but you did not edit the origin page, in which you are contrasting two different statements in the article. At least two verifiable sources say the origins of the Sultans were Khatris who converted to Islam. Please also do not edit nor remove any resourceful sources.

Here are some sources about the origins of the Gujarati Sultans' origin[1] [2][3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by GujaratiHistoryinDNA (talkcontribs) 14:06, 11 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Um... GujaratiHistoryinDNA, you're posting at a bot talk page, and Special:Diff/1033078153 is the only edit the bot made (which is just dating a tag). You might want to check the history of the article to figure out who you actually should be talking to. Primefac (talk) 18:54, 11 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Misra, S. C. (Satish Chandra) (1963). The rise of Muslim power in Gujarat; a history of Gujarat from 1298 to 1442. Internet Archive. New York, Asia Pub. House. p. 137. Unlike most other military captains who founded independent Sultanates on the ruins of Sultanate of Delhi, Zafar Khan was not a foreign muslim. He was a convert to Islam from a sect of the Khatris known as Tank. The Khatris were an agrarian people belonging mainly to South Punjab, claiming descent from the Kshatriyas of old.
  2. ^ Kapadia, Aparna (2018). In Praise of Kings: Rajputs, Sultans and Poets in Fifteenth-century Gujarat. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-107-15331-8. Gujarati historian Sikandar does narrate the story of Muzaffar Shah's ancestors having once been Hindus "Tanks" a branch of Khatris who trace their dynasty from the solar god.
  3. ^ Wink, André (1990). Indo-Islamic society: 14th - 15th centuries. BRILL. p. 143. ISBN 978-90-04-13561-1. Zafar Khan Muzaffar, the first independent ruler of Gujarat was not a foreign muslim but a Khatri convert, of a low subdivision called Tank, originally from Southern Punjab.

TemplateSubster: Template:RFPP has too many transclusions

Nota bene* Note that TFD substitutions should now be done via User:AnomieBOT/TFDTemplateSubster rather than by (ab)using TemplateSubster!

In an effort to prevent disruption, I refuse to subst templates that have over 100 transclusions unless they are listed at User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force. Please either edit the template to remove it from Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted, manually subst the existing transclusions, or add it to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force to let me know it is OK to subst them. Possibly added by User:ToBeFree at 2021-07-16T17:39:58Z. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT 17:48, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I will fix this, but it needs testing at the moment ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:52, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
If there is a consensus that subst is appropriate, please update the documentation first; it now expressly states "This template should not be substituted."
The presence of that statement, unless there was a recent discussion that didn't get the docs updated, suggests that there is not a consensus to subst that template. TJRC (talk) 19:09, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
"Recent", well. There is [1], currently at WT:RFPP but soon archived as done, after many years. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:56, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Alright; I'll update the template doc. TJRC (talk) 22:05, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I first thought about replacing all the "tlx" by "tlxs", but Cyberbot I and AnomieBOT handle this well enough, and those who manually use the template will be happier if they can continue to use the known syntax. They definitely can, so I've reverted my documentation change for usage convenience. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:09, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Date parameter issue

Hey ABOT: so here's an obscure one: when you date the {{cn}} tag, and the tag is located within another template, such as infobox, the category created by the added date parameter is misformatted, with a comma separator in the year, such as Category:Articles with unsourced statements from July 2,021 and so the category does not exist.

Here's a diff.

Any ideas? UnitedStatesian (talk) 03:30, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@UnitedStatesian: (talk page stalker) This isn't the bot's fault; the problem is that the {{cn}} is misplaced. According to Template:Infobox settlement/doc#Usage, tags such as these must be placed in one of the "footnotes" fields, not in the data fields. The problem, as you saw, is that any numbers in the data fields are automatically reformatted. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:18, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Got it, thanks. UnitedStatesian (talk) 10:54, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Billy Preston

I do not understand why the Billy Preston cover of Heroes was removed. I am listening to it right now. There is a YouTube video. It’s all over the internet. Why would you remove a specific artist’s cover or a song? Spiel (talk) 01:41, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Spiel: I do not understand why you are blaming AnomieBOT (which is a bot, see the box headed "AnomieBOT is not a human editor.") for an edit that was carried out by Gorpik (talk · contribs). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:16, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I am not blaming anyone. I just needed to understand why a legitimate fact was removed. Spiel (talk) 23:06, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Spiel: You posted on the user talk page of AnomieBOT (talk · contribs), where you wrote Why would you remove a specific artist’s cover or a song? You are clearly blaming AnomieBOT for that removal, yet I have proved that AnomieBOT had nothing to do with it, and that the removal was carried out by Gorpik, whose talk page this is not. I cannot explain why Gorpik removed it; and AnomieBOT is even less able to do so. In short: you're asking on the wrong page. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:35, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I'll be happy to answer any questions at the relevant article Talk page.--Gorpik (talk) 18:18, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This was an honest mistake. I am sorry. In other news, why are you being so rude to me? I made an innocent mistake. Spiel (talk) 04:06, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

AfD erroneously archived on delsort pages

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Height 611 UFO incident (2nd nomination) was erroneously moved to archives on delsort pages with outcome "(unknown)". This has been manually undone. –LaundryPizza03 (d) 12:47, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

EDIT: It happened again. –LaundryPizza03 (d) 17:40, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@LaundryPizza03: Please provide WP:DIFFs of the edits concerned. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:35, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Redrose64: At Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Events only: first archival and archive entry, second archival and archive entry. The diffs at the discussion's other 3 delsorts (Russia, Paranormal, and Aviation) are similar. –LaundryPizza03 (d) 21:09, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
My guess is that there's something unusual about the formatting which happens to match the test that determines if an AfD is closed. The box in 5Q5's first post is certainly uncommon. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:53, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I changed the formatting of that comment to a collapsible and re-enabled the DeletionSortingCleaner task. I will come back if that doesn't fix the issue. –LaundryPizza03 (d) 02:47, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Feel free to correct my posted content as needed to resolve the problem if it persists. The code for the plain div box I used was copied and pasted from Help:Talk_pages#Boxes_–_general. 5Q5| 10:47, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It was that comment. I've updated the bot to look for something more specific to XFD closures. Anomie 12:03, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

NewArticleAFDTagger stopped working

Apparently, NewArticleAFDTagger has stopped working for over a week already. The two most recent talk pages created by that task (including deleted ones) were Talk:2014 Lubbock mayoral election and the deleted page Talk:Amir Shaikh, both of which were created 9 days ago. So, why did the task stopped working, and is there anything one could do to restart the task? GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 03:25, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, jokingly, one could pretend that there is a window that says "NewArticleAFDTagger has stopped working" (or if one is on Windows XP, "NewArticleAFDTagger has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."). GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 03:34, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It's choking when trying to process the creation of (U+FDD0), AnomieBOT's Perl code was converting it to � because U+FDD0 not actually a valid Unicode character. I'm surprised MediaWiki even allows that character, here or in page titles. Anyway, I fixed AnomieBOT to pass through characters like U+FDD0 when that's what it's given. Anomie 04:34, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

OrphanReferenceFixer: Blacklisted orphaned reference in Afghan Americans

When trying to fix orphaned refs in Afghan Americans, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about everyculture.com. This probably means someone didn't properly clean up after themselves when blacklisting the link and removing existing uses, but a human needs to double-check it. The attempted changes were:

You might also use {{subst:User:Anomie/uw-orphans|1=rm diff|2=fix diff}} to let the remover know, if their edit summary indicates they were specifically removing the blacklisted ref. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT 03:02, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

OrphanReferenceFixer: Blacklisted orphaned reference in Sentinel-class cutter

When trying to fix orphaned refs in Sentinel-class cutter, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about seapower-digital.com. This probably means someone didn't properly clean up after themselves when blacklisting the link and removing existing uses, but a human needs to double-check it. The attempted changes were:

You might also use {{subst:User:Anomie/uw-orphans|1=rm diff|2=fix diff}} to let the remover know, if their edit summary indicates they were specifically removing the blacklisted ref. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT 05:34, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

OrphanReferenceFixer: Blacklisted orphaned reference in Hotstar

When trying to fix orphaned refs in Hotstar, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about google.com/amp/. This probably means someone didn't properly clean up after themselves when blacklisting the link and removing existing uses, but a human needs to double-check it. The attempted changes were:

You might also use {{subst:User:Anomie/uw-orphans|1=rm diff|2=fix diff}} to let the remover know, if their edit summary indicates they were specifically removing the blacklisted ref. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT 09:22, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pointless deletions

Hi, would it be possible to give users even 15 minutes to get the main article up before your bot deletes redirects? For example, your bot deleted this page, which I had created to redirect to Anfisa Ageeva, which was created 10 minutes later. Now I have to recreate the redirect (hopefully not in the plural; I haven't had a chance to look at the other ones yet), which is just annoying and pointless. Thanks. -Yupik (talk) 11:59, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Yupik: You created the redirect, then four and a half hours later you created the target article. The obvious and best thing to do would be to create the target article first rather than creating broken redirects in the first place. Anomie 00:42, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies for snapping at you; it was crass of me. :/ -Yupik (talk) 22:11, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

OrphanReferenceFixer: Blacklisted orphaned reference in Bijoynagar

When trying to fix orphaned refs in Bijoynagar, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about census2011.co.in. This probably means someone didn't properly clean up after themselves when blacklisting the link and removing existing uses, but a human needs to double-check it. The attempted changes were:

You might also use {{subst:User:Anomie/uw-orphans|1=rm diff|2=fix diff}} to let the remover know, if their edit summary indicates they were specifically removing the blacklisted ref. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT 22:22, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Odd edit

Your bot seemed a bit confused with this edit [2]. I've undone it for now. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 14:06, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is not the bot's fault, it's the fault of an IP vandalizing the article, and the bot is just doing what it was told to do. * Pppery * it has begun... 16:21, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

OrphanReferenceFixer: Blacklisted orphaned reference in Nanded district

When trying to fix orphaned refs in Nanded district, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about census2011.co.in. This probably means someone didn't properly clean up after themselves when blacklisting the link and removing existing uses, but a human needs to double-check it. The attempted changes were:

You might also use {{subst:User:Anomie/uw-orphans|1=rm diff|2=fix diff}} to let the remover know, if their edit summary indicates they were specifically removing the blacklisted ref. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT 15:54, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]