User talk:AntiVandalBot/Jun06

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This bot reverted changes I made to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelton_High_School_%28Connecticut%29

That page needs to be cleaned up or deleted because it does not match wikipedia standards.

Please get back to me asap thanks 69.0.24.40

done, in the future, please don't blank articles, just tag them with {{cleanup}}, {{stub}}, or if you must {{db|reason}} without actually removing the content, thanks--64.12.116.6 19:55, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

also, AntiVandalBot is ... a bot, it can't actually talk to you--64.12.116.6 19:56, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Who's the asshole responsible for this bot?

Just asking. --SpinyNorman 23:54, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cyde and Tawker, it's a joint venture, why do you ask?--172.148.254.250 00:12, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Ouch, that's an unfair answer. Actually, Joshbuddy is the one who wrote the bot, Tawker and I just host it (and I've made some incredibly minor bugfixes). --Cyde↔Weys 03:48, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

World Cup

In view of AVB's preference for the United States men's soccer team, would the bot be disinclined to revert an edit to Jorge Larrionda to the effect that Larrionda cost the US the match against Italy, viz., Jorge Larrionda is a football referee from Uruguay, best known for being an incompetent dolt who essentially ensured that, should the US side reach the second round, they will face Brazil, to whom they will likely lose, for which Larrionda ought to be drawn and quartered? I think that's a fairly NPOV summary... Joe 04:21, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, the bot doesn't pick sides, we haven't coded it to prefer anyone (or Tawkerbot2 would be murdering a few NHL refs pages atm) :) -- Tawker 04:32, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, cf. the giant header at the top of the page... (redundant much, Joe?) Joe 05:31, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rumold

See intervention on my talk page: article 'Rumold' + its talk page moved to 'Saint Rumbold' - see the latter article's talk page; for the moment leaving 'Rumold' though I hereby suggest to delete the article (not much content; links to it were all referring to the saint and were updated). Please verify and remove auto-created comment [and related answer] from my talk page, thank you. -- SomeHuman 2006-06-15 17:55 (UTC)

I would like some help with renaming an article (unless it should not need to survive): 'Saint Rumold of Malines' in two distinct ways: 1. Malines is a French word that had been used in English during a limited period; now Mechelen (about 13 times more on advanced Google search in English language); 2. Here too it seems best to insert the "b" in the saint's name (for it is much more common in English and it is a fair common ground between Rombout and Rumold(us).

Please note: The initiator and only author (besides my edits) of the 'Rumold' article thanked me for its move to 'Saint Rumbold' on the latter's talk page. -- SomeHuman 2006-06-15 21:19 (UTC)

Sorry for being unclear, I just spotted my above typo (now corrected in the 2006-06-15 17:55 UTC text) in the name of the article that I had originally intended to still remain as disambiguity page [thus except 'For ... see ...' wiping its content, invoking AntiVandalBot before I could even finish the whole setup], but then considered unneeded an therefore asked here above to delete. Please note that I also suggest utter deletion of 'Saint Rumold of Malines', there is no other to distinguish him from and I can't find this as some standard phrase for Saint Rumbold either. -- SomeHuman2006-06-18 01:54 (UTC)

So do you want Rumold to be a disambig page err? -- Tawker 07:19, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For a few saints, the main article is on "Firstname", for most on "Saint Firstname"; in the latter case most often the "Firstname" is a disambiguity page (not always: may be a redirect, or may not exist e.g. Neot for Saint Neot).

Then there are redirection pages on "St. Firstname" and for alternative names "Saint Firstname2", "St. Firstname2".

3 possibilities are open for 'Saint Rumbold':

Disambiguity for 'Rumold', 'Rumbold' and redirect for 'Rumoldus', 'Rombout' and 'Rombaut' to 'Saint Rumbold',
Redirect for 'Rumold', 'Rumbold', 'Rumoldus', 'Rombout' and 'Rombaut' to 'Saint Rumbold',
None of the above 5 firstname pages would exist. For the moment, only the one on 'Rumold' does.

Since the 2nd person now on 'Rumold', 'Rumold Mercator' is not known by the firstname only (even the famous father is known by the family name) and his article is a stub unlikely to be much expanded, there should not be any mentioning of him either on a disambiguity page or as 'For ... see ...'. So, just as there was no 'Rumbold' page so far, I assume one might DELETE the 'Rumold' page. These pages could at any time become created (there are several Rumbolds but not on Wikipedia) when the need arises.

The only other reasonable option (and after checking nearly all saints known by a firstname without suffix, I assume this may be best) is the 2nd possibility, thus 'Rumold' becoming redirect to 'Saint Rumbold' and create the 4 alternative names as redirect pages as well. I can do that, but I leave it up to you to do this for 'Rumold' (which still has a lengthy html source) for I do not want another AntiVandalBot intervention.

There is also still an article 'Saint Rumold of Malines' but the saint was never known that way: There is only one 'Saint Rumold of Malines' on the web, with a link under 'Saint Rumold', the 'of Malines' is even in that single article not part of the name. Thus, please DELETE the 'Saint Rumold of Malines' page.

SomeHuman 2006-06-19 12:45 (UTC)

Aircraft carrier

why is your pic so big?63.23.82.33 20:50, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dude ... that is sooooo not an aircraft carrier. Like, seriously, that's a battleship. It doesn't even look anything remotely like an aircraft carrier. --Cyde↔Weys 20:52, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry! It just took so long for the pic to load that I thought the iowa must have been an aircraft carrier. So why is it so big?63.23.82.33 20:54, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
btw, what's operation Operation Enduring Encyclopedia?

740 pixels really isn't that big. That's not even half the width of my screen. And Operation Enduring Encyclopedia ... it's a secret op, I can't tell you more. --Cyde↔Weys 20:59, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can I add praise to the bottom of Antivandalbot's page similar to this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tawkerbot2

Sure, go right ahead ... --Cyde↔Weys 21:44, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like AVB missed one

Ah, they're usually pretty accurate, but I caught AWB making a small mistake, tonight -- an IP user removed some vandalism on the Egypt article, and AVB reverted back to the vandalized article. This diff in particular is important, but I imagine it would be useful to go both forward and back a few edits. Anyway, just letting you know. Luna Santin 08:14, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, if it didn't trigger it the first time chances are the bot won't revert past it again. A feature to list high risk pages is in the works, eventually it will come :) -- Tawker 01:44, 21 June 2006 (UTC)`[reply]

This is a pretty awesome bot

Thanks for setting it up. Some of the pages I'm watching have been vandalised with hate speech, and this bot has reverted the edits, restoring them to their proper state. I'm new here, and I don't know how to nominate anyone for a barnstar yet, but if I did, I would gladly nominate the three of you. Wandering Star 19:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

U suck!

You are the worst robot ever! We should replace u with R2 or threepio! 67.72.98.84 01:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is that a complaint or constructive critisism? TheJC ^Talk_{Contributions} 01:31, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Both obviously--152.163.100.6 20:19, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AVB error

Hi! Normally AVB is very helpful but I was just reverted for reverting clear vandalism, and I'm wondering if something in my edit summary triggered the bot. An anon vandalized Penny Arcade by replacing its text with the text from English language and an insulting remark that the makers of Penny Arcade should learn English. I reverted to the last good version, with edit summary "rvv to last by CyberSkull. Not funny." AVB immediately reverted me.

Was it my saying "not funny" which triggered the bot, or is content from English language on some sort of protection-list, and it thought I was removing content? Just curious, as I would like to avoid triggering the bot in the future. Thanks, Kasreyn 15:09, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AVB has now reverted me once more. Am I on some sort of vandals-list in its memory, or does it auto-revert anyone who reverts it? Please fix pronto. Kasreyn 15:10, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed manually, taking a look -- Tawker 15:22, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Tawker! Kasreyn 15:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AVB thinks I'm a vandal

I removed the text from category:Breast cancer survivors, and was torpedoed by AVB just like User:Tawkerbot2 did. Please alter the bot's programming to allow this, and please also fix any other of your bots with the same flaw. Thanks!--Mike Selinker 19:14, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Got the same symptom at Category:Danseurs :-( --Hhielscher 22:53, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot should be more gay-friendly ;-)

An anon user removed a gay site from Israel now the bot wound let it be restored. --TheYmode 22:05, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Israel reverts

I'm tempted to leave {{3RR}}. The bot is reverting some good-faith edits at Israel.[1]. Jkelly 21:57, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trust me, its a bot, it really doesn't understand 3RR :) -- Tawker 18:10, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]