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Citations in astronomical templates

Why is AnomieBOT moving citations out of astronomical templates? The information there (particular distance) is hard to determine and therefore it's important to know which source the information is coming from. -- Elphion (talk) 23:05, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Since you didn't provide any links, I can only guess what is happening: AnomieBOT isn't removing any references, just moving the body of the named ref from an instance of the named ref inside a template parameter to a different instance of the named ref that is elsewhere in the article. Anomie⚔ 00:48, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, you're right; the edit involved two refs and I didn't look carefully enough to realize that neither had been deleted. Sorry for the bother. -- Elphion (talk) 05:00, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Anomie, I'm wondering if this edit is the same situation. If so, you may want to exclude {{reflist}} from templates that the bot rescues citations from. That'd be a mess, otherwise. — Huntster (t @ c) 19:05, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

... Yeah, that's no good. Will do momentarily. Anomie⚔ 21:52, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable

The bot INSISTS on using the wrong colour for a title blacklisted page, which according to Template:Edit protected/color legend should be yellow, but any attempt to correct make it come back and attack you. Please fix this. Here is the diff. EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 02:44, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Amending a bot-updated page is pointless because when the bot next arrives to update the page, it ignores what is already there and replaces the whole of the content with what it believes to be correct. The effect of this is that any changes by humans are put back to how they were - this is an effective anti-vandalism measure. --Redrose64 (talk) 08:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The miscoloring is now fixed, the bot should update the table in a few minutes. Anomie⚔ 12:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Timing

Please can AnomieBOT use a longer delay before adding dates to {{fact}} templates? Every time I add one to an article I'm editing, I end up edit conflicting with this bot. :-( Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:05, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Mike Peel: Do what I do - add a |date= with the same edit. That way, the bot won't need to clean up after you. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:14, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
True, I do that when I remember to do so. ;-) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:56, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
In addition, most dated maintenance templates have been converted to use Module:Unsubst in such a way that substing them will result in a dated transclusion: {{subst:fact}} ⇒ {{Citation needed|date=March 2015}} Anomie⚔ 21:34, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Addition to User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable without an edit

User talk:Carriearchdale/anti-vandal (an unprotected talk page of a blocked user) was added to the User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable at 2015-03-31 04:29 however the page has not been edited since 22:33, 15 June 2014‎. I can momentarily glimpse the semi-protected edit request header box as the page loads. I assume this is transcluded from somewhere else - but cannot work out where or, more importantly, how to remove it. - Arjayay (talk) 08:56, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Arjayay: User talk:Carriearchdale/anti-vandal transcludes a lot of pages, most of which are either frequently updated or are fully dynamic. I would go with your theory that the SPER was transcluded from somewhere else. I've WP:NULLEDITed the user talk page, let's see if it falls out of the SPERtable. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:18, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Redrose64 I'm afraid that didn't work, the table has updated several times in the hour + since your nul-edit.
I'm a bit confused (nothing new there) - if it is being transcluded, then shouldn't wherever it is transcluded from, also appear on the list?
As the editor was indeffed on 10 July 2014, a simple solution is to delete the talk page, but I don't know if that is "acceptable", or if anyone is still using that page as a "dashboard" ? - Arjayay (talk) 10:36, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It's the transclusion of {{Admin dashboard|newadmin=yes}} which transcludes {{Admin dashboard/rfarfp|1=}} which transcludes {{Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed|dash=yes}} --Redrose64 (talk) 11:05, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Arjayay: Fixed with this edit. I should have looked in Category:Non-talk pages requesting an edit to a protected page first. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:13, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Redrose64 - Thanks - that did work - I didn't know the Category:Non-talk pages requesting an edit to a protected page page even existed - Arjayay (talk) 11:24, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Problem?

Hello! Today I created some new articles and I added templates that refers to the Greek Wikpedia because, those articles are translation from there. This bot keeps removing those templates so I' m asking for help. Am I doing something wrong or it's bot's fault? Thanks!Postscriptum123 (talk) 14:48, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

{{Translated page}} goes on the article's talk page, not the article itself. You'll probably find that AnomieBOT added the template to the articles' talk pages at the same time it removed it from the article. Anomie⚔ 16:25, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ok!Thanks!Postscriptum123 (talk) 07:49, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProjectTagger run #3 for women writers

Hi Anomie. We're ready for the next WikiProjectTagger run at WikiProject Women writers. The discussion approving the categories can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women writers#New categories within the scope of this WikiProject (#3) for the next project banner bot run. The categories we'd like to run are in the collapsed box New categories within the scope of this WikiProject (#3). As before, please copy class from other projects' banners. Thanks! --Rosiestep (talk) 16:41, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bot started. Anomie⚔ 01:40, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! --Rosiestep (talk) 03:04, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Looks to be done already. 131 edits made. Anomie⚔ 22:25, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WLAC citation needed tag

Thanks for dating the tag which I added todayRudy2alan 16:56, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Citation Barnstar
AnomieBOT is wonderful — Saeed (Talk) 10:35, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Frozen

As of this message, AnomieBOT has not made any edits in 9 hours. Stickee (talk) 11:23, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I came here to say the same thing after noticing ITN did not have a new section added last night. --ThaddeusB (talk) 20:10, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I hadn't noticed this thread at the time, but I did notice the bot was stuck yesterday and killed/restarted its jobs at about 2015-04-20T00:10Z. Anomie⚔ 10:31, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bot edit

Hi, I noticed that the bot made this edit, which left the second instance of this reference hanging. I doubt this is that common an occurrence, but perhaps it could be fixed anyway? Thanks, Neøn (talk) 20:06, 19 April 2015 (UTC).[reply]

Well, the second instance was already hanging. "name==foo" isn't valid so it was already being ignored. If it's reasonably common that people make that mistake I could add a rule to fix it, but if it's a one-off error it's probably not worth it. Anomie⚔ 13:28, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Error by Bot

Please take a look at the following edit by your bot: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AReference_desk%2FMiscellaneous&type=revision&diff=660493194&oldid=660491863

Your bot appears to have misspelled the name of an editor in doing what may have been a template substitution. (I didn't think that that bot signed unsigned posts.) Robert McClenon (talk) 00:17, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't sign unsigned posts. In this case, it merely substituted an instance of {{unsigned}} placed by someone else. jcgoble3 (talk) 04:06, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Robert McClenon: Yes, the bot replaced {{unsigned|Russel.mo}} with {{subst:unsigned|Russel.mo}}. The bot doesn't check the validity of the template parameters, so the error was on the part of the person who originally added {{unsigned|Russel.mo}} - which according to these edits, was Medeis (talk · contribs). I'm puzzled why they did that, since the "unsigned" post had actually been signed correctly. --Redrose64 (talk) 08:34, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
And there is no User:Russel.mo, only User:Russell.mo. Does that mean that User:Medeis misspelled the name? Robert McClenon (talk) 15:26, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
That's what I meant by "check the validity". If a user feeds incorrect data into a template (in this case, one half of the double "l" was missing), and the template doesn't verify that it's been fed a bad value, it certainly isn't the responsibility of AnomieBOT to verify it. To do so would mean not just that the bot should be programmed with a list of all templates which should be substituted (as it presently is), but also that it should be programmed with a list of valid parameters for each substitutable template, and valid values for those parameters. It's simply not practical. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:35, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I apparently inadvertently misspelt the name, but corrected it when I noticed the error. μηδείς (talk) 16:15, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Should I be concerned, cause I'm kind of -- Mr. Prophet (talk) 18:44, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Russell.mo: I don't think you did anything wrong - it was Medeis (talk · contribs) re-signing one of your posts and getting your name wrong. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:15, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Okay thanks. -- Mr. Prophet (talk) 19:03, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

SPERTable - no update in 36hrs

The SPERTable has not been updated in 36 hours, while it is usually updates every 5 minutes. Stickee (talk) 02:00, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, should be fixed now. Anomie⚔ 21:19, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

CHUUClerk: Addition to error message

Clerk note: The requested username "Moor" is not registered locally, but is reserved for a global account. If you own the global account, please ensure you have included a confirmation link. If you do not own the global account, this may preclude renaming. AnomieBOT⚡ 15:35, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Dear Anomie: could we add, before the signature "Requests for usurpation of global usernames with significant attachments on other projects must be made at meta:Steward requests/Username changes."

Unrelated question: In case Legoktm doesn't have time to fix Legobot, how difficult would it be to re-purpose AnomieBOT to clerk CHU/S also? I am also considering a unified page to house both simple and usurpation requests, given the push to move most requests to the interface and steady decline in requests to the separate venues. Do you have the cycles for either of these possible bot requests? –xenotalk 14:19, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Message adjusted. Are local renames still even possible now that SUL is finally globalized? I thought our local process would have closed down. Anomie⚔ 11:30, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Local usurp page is being maintained at least until global usurpation policy is made (and probably beyond depending on how restrictive that policy ends up); Simple is being maintained for users who do not have email addresses and can't use the interface and for appeals and other complex filings. Renames are filed locally; done globally. At some future time we may direct users to m:SRUC for complex requests but this writer, at least, is not yet comfortable shuttering local venues. –xenotalk 12:12, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Redirection for Nazipenis page

The page Nazipenis used to redirect to Anal Gestapo page which got deleted previously, but it is functioning again. So, we should restore the redirection. Rockunion(talk) — Preceding undated comment added 00:21, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

... What an awful band name. But undeleted, pending the outcome of the AfD anyway. Anomie⚔ 14:43, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bug?

Hi. Are you aware of this one? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:46, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not a bug. {{year}} redirects to {{year needed}}, which should be dated. For that matter, that template should probably be using {{year missing}} instead (if it uses a template at all), which again should be dated. (on second thought, maybe not {{year missing}}; what exactly is that template for?)
To prevent AnomieBOT from dating the embedded template, the template itself should take a date parameter which it passes to the embedded template's |date=, and be added to User:AnomieBOT/Dating rules to tell the bot when and how to date it. {{weather box}} might serve as a decent example. Anomie⚔ 21:56, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

removal of neutrality dispute

Why does the Bot remove neutrality disputes at the Cultural Marxism page [1]?

I can assure you my dispute is in good faith and I'm trying to work with the other main editor there to resolve it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Second Dark (talk • contribs) 19:40, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Second Dark: It didn't. It added the dates that you had omitted: [2]; [3]. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:59, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oops. Misread pages history and confused Bot with the human editor who did remove them. Sorry new. Thanks for helping.Second Dark (talk) 21:02, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProjectTagger run for women scientists

Hi Anomie. WikiProject Women scientists is interested in a WikiProjectTagger run. The list of categories and approval for them are here. We'd like to have the article class auto-assessed. If possible, we'd also like to add |s&a-work-group=yes to the WikiProject Biography banner. Thank you, gobonobo + c 20:39, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bot started. Anomie⚔ 15:56, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
And done. Anomie⚔ 21:35, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so very much Anomie. gobonobo + c 23:36, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Recently bot decimated my page;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cocaine_analogues

@ ref # five it says "Cite error: The named reference Singh was invoked but never defined (see the help page)."

But it is defined just the same as every other linked instance of it! The same name in the code and all.

AnomieBOT (talk | contribs)‎ came through and took out all of the citations, and I undid the revision, and now that one won't show right. It was fine before. The strange thing, is, that in the history of the article, it still shows that as having a cite error, when it didn't used to.

Please help fix the trail of destruction wrought by your bot. Nagelfar (talk)

(talk page stalker) Sounds like it's related the the problem at Template talk:Refn#Refn references getting sent to the bottom of the page? --Redrose64 (talk) 18:59, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The only edit by AnomieBOT on that page didn't remove anything, it just moved the actual text of one reference from one usage to another. And fixed the error in the process. Anomie⚔ 08:08, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A beer for you!

Thanks, bot. Faceless Enemy (talk) 01:31, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction of Cite errors

Hi. Despite the good work it does, this bot has been creating "Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page)." on pages and adding those pages to Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting, for example in this edit, by changing "#tag:ref" to "refn" indiscriminately. @Gadget850: you have been doing the same thing with AWB, for example in these three edits. I don't know why these are interpreted as Cite errors, perhaps there is a bug in refn or MediaWiki. My partial manual reverts (leaving alone other changes from "#tag:ref" to "refn") have masked the problem on those three pages.   — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 02:26, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBOT does not change {{#tag:ref}} to {{refn}}, nor does the AnomieBOT edit you link show anything of the sort, nor do I see any reference errors in the AnomieBOT edit you link. Personally I don't much see the point of {{refn}} over {{#tag:ref}}, it saves a whole 4 characters. Anomie⚔ 23:30, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As of

I notice the bot is "fixing" calls to {{as of}} (e.g.). It's not the bot's fault but what really needs fixing is the absurd template syntax. {{as of|12 May 2015}} is perfectly readable, {{as of|2015|5|12}} is not. Of course, the place to bring it up is at the template talk page but if consensus is reached to prefer the readable version, how would the bot think about reversing this kind of edit? Jimp 17:25, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBOT II - missing TFA templates

Hello, cleaning up some other FAC-problems, I noticed that AnomieBOT II didn't create Template:TFA title/May 27, 2015 on 21 May for article Menominee Tribe v. United States and Template:TFA title/May 31, 2015 on 25 May for O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165. I am not really sure, what those templates do exactly in the great scheme of FAC/TFA processing, but wanted to leave you a note for checking (maybe just a problem with last-minute TFAs or belated updates of the article status?). Would it be OK to create those 2 templates manually in such cases? GermanJoe (talk) 12:03, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first wasn't recognized because Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 27, 2015 erroneously has the comma inside of the bolding. The second wasn't recognized because the {{lang}} template confused the bot, and could have been fixed by either moving the template inside the piped link or by moving the bolding inside the template's value. Anomie⚔ 21:12, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thank you for looking into those cases. GermanJoe (talk) 21:56, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hands off construction please (bot, not you!)

Kindly call your little rottweiler bot off of List of music software while under construction. Human editors know (and respect) that wiki's policy is to give editors and creators time to get an article going via under construction, but this bot is vandalizing the article while it's just being written! You need to rewrite its code so it respects the under construction protocol. It's slam on links misses that this is a list and some tech topics are so new that links can only be external, however, they are minimal proportionately even at this early stage of creation. Thanks! Pdecalculus (talk) 03:43, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

All AnomieBOT did was date a maintenance tag, no harm there. Calm down. Dating a maintenance tag is not vandalism. There are No angry Mastodons. Weegeerunner (talk) 03:46, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Perfectly calm, and in fact was trying a lame attempt at humor, it is just inappropriate and rude to start tagging articles in the middle of their creation, thanks.Pdecalculus (talk) 15:32, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
An admin suggested I simply move the body links to references and the bot will back off, so I'll do that. THAT is helpful advice rather than just quoting rules or talking down to editors or minimizing their questions.Pdecalculus (talk) 15:41, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Done, see article's talk page, I removed all the external links and made the notable ones references instead, per the link policy.Pdecalculus (talk) 15:59, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, Weegee, while I have you, is it possible/permissible to link to a category in an article? I'm trying to do so in the lead in paragraph to exclude devices and instruments (ie selection criteria) with embedded software, but it doesn't work to just bracket the categories (see last sentence of the intro para). Thanks. Pdecalculus (talk) 16:12, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Put a colon before the category if you want to link to it (e.g. [[:Category:Articles]]). --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 16:31, 4 June 2015 (UTC) (talk page watcher)[reply]
Very cool, thanks! If more folks were like you I guarantee there would be more women editors on wiki like me, which I guess is an objective! Pdecalculus (talk) 16:57, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Pdecalculus: I think you are misunderstanding. No bot tagged your article. The {{LinkFarm}} tag was added by an anonymous IP editor in this edit. All the bot did was add a date to the tag. However, for future reference, if you're in the middle of creating an article and don't want it tagged, it might be better to do so either in the Draft: namespace or as a userspace draft. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 16:29, 4 June 2015 (UTC) (talk page watcher)[reply]
Wow, thanks so much for explaining! I don't mind tags at all, I just like explanations of why on the article talk so I can correct or undo, depending on validity of challenge. In this case I read a bunch of stuff about link farms, and moved the links to references. I also now understand what this bot actually did, thanks again! Wish I could send you a star but I guess only admins do that. --Jeanie @ Pdecalculus (talk) 16:54, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Pdecalculus: Anybody can send a barnstar. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:02, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks so much, sent them a peacemaker one!

AnomieBOT (talk · contribs) and Adrien D. Pouliot

Hello, your bot has made yesterday a change in the article Adrien D. Pouliot. It moved the template {{translated page}} to the talk page. However, the article is considered unsourced by two users and will probably be deleted. I don't know if it's the bot's fault, the user's or mine, but I still sent a message to the concerned people. Cordially, Ĉiuĵaŭde Discuss 15:51, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Ĉiuĵaŭde: the template's documentation states that it is to be placed on the talk page. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:31, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
I hardly ever give out barnstars, but I think it's time you were recognized for your hard work. Cheers. —cyberpowerChat:Online 18:42, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This star is for both youy and the bot.—cyberpowerChat:Online 18:42, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Anomie⚔ 19:16, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

MedComClerk issues

I'm the current MedCom Chairperson, we have had a malformed filing:

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/My Edits were removed from the Francis Drake and Nova Albion page

which I think may be blocking the listing of a subsequently filed case on the Requests for Mediation page:

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Eurofighter Typhoon 2

Could you advise or fix? If the malformed filing needs to be deleted, I'd ask you to do it (I'm not an administrator) and I'll advise the filer to refile. Please drop a note here if that's needed, as I'm watching this page. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 13:26, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The problem with Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Eurofighter Typhoon 2 is that it's in Category:Requests for mediation rejected requests, so the bot added it to Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Rejected cases. The malformed case shouldn't cause problems for any other cases, although someone should probably either fix it or delete it anyway; fixing it should be as simple as adding }} at the end. Anomie⚔ 11:10, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ukrainian State Academy of Arts

  • Hi.

Yesterday I open page Ukrainian State Academy of Arts with redirect to non-opened page The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. I created it only today. Sorry, work tightened, the bot had to come first. Can I open redirect page again? — Elena Elk 12:10, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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