User talk:RoboMaxCyberSem/Archive2008

This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 19:45, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Automated message to bot owners

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 04:50, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Bot flagged

Hi! This bot account is now flagged. [1] =Nichalp «Talk»= 04:14, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 06:01, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

The Technology Barnstar

		The Technology Barnstar
		This Barnstar is awarded to RoboMaxCyberSem for your removing and replacing adaptabilty in Wikipedia tasks that would be extremely tedious to do manually! --Hu12 (talk) 16:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks for your tireless Bot-efforts. Wikipedia is a better quality project because of hardworking Bots like you!--Hu12 (talk) 16:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Woo-hooo, thank you! I'm touched. But I haven't started removing links yet;) MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 17:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

For past, present and future tasks. Many thanks ;)--Hu12 (talk) 20:24, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned named citations

When RoboMaxCyberSem removes a named citation such as <ref name="refname"> an orphaned named citation can occur if this named citatation is used multiple times. An example of this occured for the following edit to Boeing 747:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boeing_747&oldid=199054955

This resulted in the error:
Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Boe_storyIV

--Dan Dassow (talk) 12:23, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

This problem is already fixed. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 14:50, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

inappropriate use of {{defaultsort}}

This was an inappropriate use of {{defaultsort}}.

IMO it is usually a mistake to try to shoehorn the names of individuals from Muslim cultures into the English style of inherited surnames. They generally don't use them, unless their family moved to the west, or they are from one of the more westernized Muslim cultures.

In this particular case it was far more of a mistake because his name was spelled so differently on various official sources.

Could I ask you to consider not trying to guess at what English-style inherited surname to use for individuals with Arabic names? Geo Swan (talk) 19:26, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

This sorting key was already explicitly set for separate categories, AWB's addition of DEFAULTSORT changed nothing in the way this page was sorted in categories. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 19:40, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

You are assisted by a robot. But you have human judgment. I am going to encourage you again to refrain from trying to shoehorn Arabic names into the English-style inherited surname system. Geo Swan (talk) 20:21, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Once again, I used the sorting key set by other editors of this article. If it stayed there, it must have been correct to some extent. If it wasn't correct, it was fault of someone who added it. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 20:29, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Redirects

Dude, what's the point of this? Hesperian 11:06, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Because recent changes in software broke some redirects. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 11:15, 10 August 2008 (UTC)