User talk:AnomieBOT

TFD opening message

Heya, per this original discussion and this Twinkle patch, could you please adjust the bot's TFD daily message to indicate that new nominations should be added to the bottom of the page?

Add new listings at the topbottom of the list with the following formats for deletion and merging respectively

Thanks! Primefac (talk) 09:13, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

 Done Anomie⚔ 01:50, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! Primefac (talk) 09:32, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Per the outcome of this RFC, can this change please be reversed? Apparently our lack of consensus means that new entries need to return to being placed at the top. Thanks. Primefac (talk) 07:10, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Sigh. Done. Anomie⚔ 18:01, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Use Tanzania English categories

Hello, Anomie and AnomieBot,

I go through the dated maintenance categories at the end of the month and noticed that Category:Monthly clean-up category (Use Tanzanian English) counter didn't have a February 2022 category in it. Has AnomieBot stopped creating these monthly category for this subject? If so, we can probably delete the category that use to contain them.

There are a couple of other categories in Category:Counter categories that only contain empty categories that AnomieBot could probably stop creating as well since they remain empty for a month and are just deleted on the first day of the subsequent month (UTC time). Thanks for all of your, and your bot's, help. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:47, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

I found this other empty clean-up category, Category:Monthly clean-up category (Wikipedia pages with to-do lists, unused) counter but it was just created in December. Does AnomieBot create a monthly category for it? If not, this looks like a category creation mistake. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:02, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Empty counter categories usually mean someone tried to create or delete a dated maintenance category and didn't complete all of the necessary steps. For Category:Monthly clean-up category (Use Tanzanian English) counter, that someone was me when I nominated Category:Use Tanzanian English for deletion at CfD. The category can be speedy deleted per G8.

For Category:Monthly clean-up category (Wikipedia pages with to-do lists, unused) counter, that someone was WikiCleanerMan, who added {{parent monthly clean-up category}} to Category:Wikipedia pages with to-do lists, unused on December 3 without performing any of the other required steps to create a dated maintenance category. They reverted themselves on December 24, so the category can now be safely deleted (but it would need a CfD unless the creator G7s it).

I looked at dated maintenance categories with no members (that get created and deleted every month) the previous time you complained about this, and cleaned up a few of them. I will look again when the February monthly deletion happens, but most of them seem to be legitimate rarely-used templates and don't need any action. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:11, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

I looked at the empty dated categories Liz deleted this month. All of them seem to be legitimate sporadically-used maintenance categories, not relics in need of cleaning up. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:34, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

My thanks ..

.. to AnomieBOT and its creator and operator, for rescuing an abandoned named ref which I had created. (And I share your views of the WMF.) Maproom (talk) 19:05, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello

Xoghks Was Blocked in kowiki Because Xoghks Created 3 Sockpupperties.💻HACKER (talk) 09:18, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Not sure what you're looking to get out of this post, as you've posted on a bot's page and it can't do anything about anything. Primefac (talk) 09:40, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

TemplateSubster: Template:Ucfirst has too many transclusions - Fixed

* 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. 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⚡ 19:19, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Marking as fixed rather than removing, because the template was set as subst-only (I'm guessing for use in the Article space) but Jonesey95 added it to Infobox UK place, which does not allow for the template to be subst'ed but still shows up as being transcluded on hundreds of pages (which angers the bot). I've removed the autosubst from the /doc page so this should be cleared up now. Since this isn't just a "simple fix" I figured I'd explain. For the record I'm not opposed to Jonesey's actions here. Primefac (talk) 20:20, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, that's weird. I didn't realize that {{ucfirst}} was a new template and that it was marked as subst-only. I just typed it into a sandbox and it worked, because I vaguely remembered "ucfirst" from somewhere (it's in the documentation for Module:String2). Rather than deal with this mess, I have changed Infobox UK place to use Module:String2 directly. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:42, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

There is a magic word called ucfirst - it's used like this: {{ucfirst:text}} → Text. I would say that it's better to use this form than the template {{ucfirst|text}}. Swpb, why did you make the template - what does it do that the long-established magic word can't do? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:34, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

The templates {{ucfirst}} and {{lcfirst}} set the case of the first alphabetic character in a string, as opposed to the magic word, which only affects the first character regardless of type, which may be a parenthesis or something else that doesn't have case. They could be renamed (*cfirstletter?) to avoid confusion. —swpb^{T • go beyond • bad idea} 20:21, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Bogus category page created

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_DOI_inactive_from_February_2022 was created. The real page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_DOI_inactive_as_of_February_2022 which already exists and they are all listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_DOI_inactive . AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:15, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

As noted in the edit summary of Special:Diff/1070521369, when AnomieBOT creates dated subcategories for categories in Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month it does so by appending "from Month Year" as that's the format every other dated maintenance category uses. Is there a particular reason to use a different naming scheme for that category? Anomie⚔ 23:08, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

No. In fact the new name is more accurate. Just needs CS1/2 modules updated to match. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:50, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Moving of source to talkpage?

Hello, Reffering to this action of the AnomieBOT: I really think that the source of the content (a translation in this case) should be shown on the page itself, not on the talk page. Could you fix that? Timelezz (talk) 15:55, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

The documentation of Template:Translated page specifically indicates that it is to be placed on the talk page. You're free to try to get consensus elsewhere to change this. Anomie⚔ 23:17, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Atlantis the lost empire

the page cited is an unreliable source, so I remove it 189.220.43.130 (talk) 23:09, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

It appears that you figured out the right way to fix the situation in your next edit. Anomie⚔ 23:19, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

TemplateSubster: Template:Dykn has too many transclusions - Fixed

* 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:Theleekycauldron at 2022-02-08T00:04:12Z. 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⚡ 00:21, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Pinging Theleekycauldron: Why should these three templates be automatically substed after existing in their current form for many years? Was there a discussion? What happens when DYK is finally moved out of Template space, as it will eventually be if anyone decides to do the heavy lifting involved? – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:39, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: these templates are used/would be useful in section headings, but when they are, it breaks the anchor in the page history. The anchor doesn't know where to go when you click on it. When it's substituted to just a link, that's fixed. As for a discussion, I've started one at WT:DYK to substitute the existing templates first. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 03:05, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

I've restored this mainly since there are replies. Primefac (talk) 10:38, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

efn errors are reinserted constantly

I understand that the bot has a problem with {{efn tags. Disable it. I have been manually fixing the errors that it introduces, only to have it come back and reintroduce the errors. (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hizb_ut-Tahrir&type=revision&diff=1072601082&oldid=1072561302
is fixed, {{efn|name=definition|group=Note}}
AnomieBOT runs and breaks the page
{{efn|name=definition|reference=group=Note}}
which has to be manually edited to remove the reference= that was inserted.

Perhaps a line could be added to the top of the page, like {{AnomieBOT off}} to flag the page as one that is constantly being broken? Quebec99 (talk) 19:50, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Or you could report the bug and then I could fix it. Even better would have been doing so politely. Anomie⚔ 00:20, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

But demanding to speak to the manager is so much more satisfying... Primefac (talk) 09:25, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

ENOUGH! JUST ENOUGH!

QUIT undoing my reversions I made to your edit on the Mansfield Summit High School page. I told you about a few times in the summary why I reverted your edit, but you just keep reverting my reversion. Here's proof to show you that you're wrong about Principal Brown's job being in February:https://twitter.com/shsprin

I already told an admin about this and requested him/her to lock the page temporarily to prevent further edit warring. NO exceptions! Chidie345 (talk) 01:40, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

It would have been easier to fix the syntax properly than edit war with the bot. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:52, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Okay Chidie345 (talk) 05:52, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Add "User:Thryduulf/R to other wiki" to the ignore list

Wikipedia:Example of a broken redirect has already been added to the ignore list at User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/BrokenRedirectDeleter.pm. Could User:Thryduulf/R to other wiki be added to the ignore list as well? Otherwise, it would always be shown at User:AnomieBOT III/Broken redirects/Userspace. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 06:07, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

If we need an example of a broken attempt at a cross-wiki redirect, why don't we move it to the Wikipedia namespace instead of it being a subpage of some user's page? As for its validity as an example, I see it linked from one discussion in 2013 and one in 2020 (and four discussions including this one about it showing up on reports). Anomie⚔ 13:23, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

OrphanReferenceFixer: Blacklisted orphaned reference in Peanut butter - Fixed

When trying to fix orphaned refs in Peanut butter, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about madehow.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:

• Peanut butter revision 1073653010:
  • Rescued ":1" from rev 1068531319
    Removed in revision 1073653010 by DocWatson42 (talk • contribs • logs) with comment "Cleaned up image placement (to prevent the overrunning of the appendices in wide browser windows) and other matters, including references. I deleted a reference's URL as it is now on the blacklist, and have requested that it be whitelisted ([[MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Archives/2022/03#Request to whitelist madehow.com/Volume-1/Peanut-Butter.html]])." (removed 346/39338 bytes, 1%)

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⚡ 23:06, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Noting for the record that this particular use for this particular page is requested for whitelisting, so once that goes through it will be more clear whether to orphan the refs or restore the original. Primefac (talk) 12:16, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Named ref replaced, marking as fixed. Primefac (talk) 10:54, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

March 2022

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to Sekhmet, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Lone-078 (talk) 16:14, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Lone-078: Don't be ridiculous. The bot was restoring a reference that was removed in error by IAMTiredHello (talk · contribs). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:18, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

@Redrose64: My fault, sorry. My intention was to rollback to the version before IAMTiredHello's last edits, which were already reverted once. Not the first time I mess up with Redwarn. Lone-078 (talk) 16:40, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Biz Markie

Hello. May I ask what Tim Conway's obituary in Variety magazine has to do with Biz Markie (and why it was placed on Biz Markie's article)?—Bde1982 (talk) 17:19, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Long series of problematic edits: Special:Diff/1074419197 resulted in Special:Diff/1074436099, which meant there was no <ref name="variety.com">, so the bot then had to find something similar in Special:Diff/1074489087. Sometimes it grabs the wrong one, particularly when there never was a named reference in the article to start. Primefac (talk) 18:22, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Non-existent page on semiprotection list

User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable has a link to a nonexistent page, Exodus Kashmiri Hindus, but the "request" link correctly goes to Talk:Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus. I'm not sure why this happened, but it was added in steps: [1] the bot adds Exodus of Kashmiri Hinduss (last word misspelled), [2] the bot adds Exodus Kashmiri Hindus, and [3] the bot removes Exodus of Kashmiri Hinduss. 49.198.51.54 (talk) 05:40, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

GIGO. If you check the contents of the talk page at the time, at 2022-03-28 18:00 this edit had indeed put an edit request on the page pointing at "Exodus of Kashmiri Hinduss", by 18:06 this edit had added "Exodus Kashmiri Hindus", and by 20:35 these edits had marked the "Exodus of Kashmiri Hinduss" requests as answered. Anomie⚔ 11:49, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. I didn't know that it was possible for the protected-page-edit templates to refer to anything other than the associated non-talk page, so I didn't think to look at the links on the page. 123.243.102.170 (talk) 01:19, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

TemplateSubster: Template:Link-zh has too many transclusions - Fixed

* 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. 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⚡ 13:51, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

It was in a navbox. I substed it there. All done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:09, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Wrong coloring at EDITREQTable?

Hi, I think that at User:AnomieBOT/EDITREQTable, it has wrongly colored a extended-protected page in red. Red color is only for the fully protected ones, as per the legend at Category:Wikipedia requested edits. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • C • L)} 19:55, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Hmm. Thanks for the report.  Fixed Anomie⚔ 01:03, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi, to me, the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan request still appears in red, despite being only extended-protected. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • C • L)} 04:11, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

D'oh, I forgot to upload the fix. Anomie⚔ 11:15, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Now fixed. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • C • L)} 13:24, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Category this bot uses listed at CfD

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 April 9#Category:Wikipedia requested edits * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:19, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Hopefully, if the change goes through, people can hold off on depopulating the old category until I can get around to updating the bot. I'll need the following parameters for each new category:

• "Tag", replacing "EDITREQ" in CAT:EDITREQ and User:AnomieBOT/EDITREQTable. Even if no redirect actually gets made, I still need the tag for the bot's subpage.
• "Type" for the table header.
• NID component used in the urn links created by the request template (currently "x-wp-requestedit" for EDITREQ), so the table can know the target page without having to parse templates.
  • Note if multiple categories use the same NID, then if both kinds of request are active on a talk page it'll list both requests in each table as it won't be able to tell which request goes with which category.
• Anchor used by the request template (currently "requestedit" for EDITREQ), so the table can try to link to the request.
  • Note if multiple templates use the same anchor and both kinds of request are active on a talk page, people might get confused when the link from one of the tables goes to the "wrong" template.

I'll assume any new categories coming out of that CFD should highlight mainspace like EDITREQ does and should use the same color scheme. Anomie⚔ 21:03, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Sophia Ellis talk page.

Bot templated the page as previously deleted, but the deleted page was a different person with the same name. How to fix this? Just delete the template? Hyperbolick (talk) 09:55, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Yes, that's literally what it says at the top of this page. Anomie⚔ 22:18, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

TFATitleSubpageCreator: Cannot find featured article in Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 18, 2022 - fixed

Help! I can't find the featured article link in Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 18, 2022 in order to populate Template:TFA title/April 18, 2022. Please correct the link or create the template manually. 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 II⚡ 00:00, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

This is related to User talk:FACBot#FACBot recently featured list error. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 06:29, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

I see all the FA blurbs for the past few years have used {{TFAFULL}} to produce a link to the article at the end of the blurb. Instead of continuing to chase the weird markup people decide to use in the FA link, I'll have the bot just look for that template. Anomie⚔ 12:57, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Refs and harvnb

Hi Anomie. I was wondering if AnomieBot was capable of something. As an example in April 2020 AnomieBot rescued this reference. The issue is of course that although the harvnb reference was rescued the accompanying cite was not. I'm thinking trying to save the cite might be more hassle thanks it's worth‡, but could AnomieBot add <!--some text--> to the ref about the page it came from? This would help solving no target errors. - LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 21:08, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

‡ I say this because the cite may or may not exist on the article with the ref and then may or may not exist on the article the ref is being rescued to, which sounds like a nightmare to code for. - LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 21:10, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Since you found the edit, the edit summary Rescuing orphaned refs ("Ilumae2016" from Haplogroup N-M231) tells you where it came from. Given certain edge cases I'd rather not have the bot modify the reference it restores, and probably most of the time the comment would just be clutter anyway.

I agree that trying to parse out the harvnb to find the corresponding cite seems like too much work. OTOH, I could easily enough detect that the ref being copied from another article is a {{harvnb}} and just skip it entirely, leaving it for a human to figure out. Would that be worthwhile? Anomie⚔ 22:43, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Thinking of what's involved in solving each issue I would say leave it as is. Solving the no target issue is easier, as you point out I found the AnomieBot edit. Leaving it as a cite error only means that solving which page it came from manually, something the bot is already very good at. - LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 13:14, 30 April 2022 (UTC)