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Blue Mountain Ballads

Hello Madman,

I created both pages, "Blue Mountain Ballads" and "Blue Mountain ballads" and I would prefer the second one ballads with a small 'b' to be deleted. I created the second one because it is correct to capitalize the word Ballads since it's part of the name of the song cycle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikhailcsc (talk • contribs) 01:31, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

DGG (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) would probably be a better person to talk to about this since he deleted Blue Mountain Ballads. Thanks, — madman 17:37, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Keys n' Krates

Hello Madman,

Thank you for noticing this mistake. Unfortunatly http://embracepresents.com/event/keys-n-krates-thugli/ copied this information/text from the Keys n' Krates official website.

Is it considered copied if the text originally belongs to me? How can I make sure that Wikipedia members dont assume my text is copied; but that their text was copied from me?

Thank you for your help! --Daveweisz (talk) 17:43, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials; in short, you'll either have to place a text release on your Web site or e-mail a permissions statement to permissions-en at wikimedia.org. This process is necessary to protect your own intellectual property rights. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, — madman 17:58, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Hydra (album)

Hey Madman,

I'm actually wondering if this article (Hydra (album)) is good or relevant enough. It's about Within Temptation's upcoming sixth album. If it's irrelevant and should be deleted, I understand. If it's relevant but should be edited, feel free to do that.

Greetings, Ruurd Woltring (talk), Friday, November 11, 2013, 14:31

 Note: Moved to Hydra (Within Temptation album) — madman 02:32, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Inactive administrators

Just a note, I hope Madmanbot is ready to change over to a new year today, as it will update and should go from Wikipedia:Inactive administrators/2013 to Wikipedia:Inactive administrators/2014. Regards, — Moe Epsilon 12:43, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Didn't see this message in time, but I'm happy to see that my habitually defensive code seems to have handled the turnover with grace and panache. — madman 01:27, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Possible copy vio

Hi I have inserted the correct citation for my article Ministry of Commerce and Supplies (Nepal). So could you please remove the tag . Thanks Ashishlohorung (talk) 14:54, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

A citation doesn't remove the fact that the contents of that article are practically copied and pasted from the identified Web site. Now, I'm not sure that the list is subject to copyright; the facts themselves may not be, but the expression of those facts may be, so I'll leave that up to the WP:SCV volunteers (I haven't been doing that work for a while and wouldn't want to screw it up or step on any toes, hope you understand). It may simply benefit from a paraphrase of the list and some additional content regarding the ministry (significant events? news mentions?). Thanks, — madman 01:45, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Chakra: The Invincible

Hey Madman,

You have performed a web search and think that the page which I created has copyrighted information. Please check out the page's talk page [1] . I'm Kanhakris and my talk page is https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User_talk:Kanhakris — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kanhakris (talk • contribs) 13:29, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

A cursory glance doesn't show me that there are any structural or substantive similarities to the identified Web site, at least anymore; no worries. Thanks, — madman 01:48, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Edo Japan restaurnt

Pleas approve i accedentily made talk page pleasapprove of it i never copy right please reply please a — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tristan.andrade.136 (talk • contribs) 17:40, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Looks like this was taken care of by RHaworth (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). Thanks, — madman 01:49, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

File:Altensteig-pt.png listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Altensteig-pt.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 22:44, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Wow, that's a blast from the past. Probably from an article I translated that doesn't exist anymore. No objections to the deletion; if it's used in any articles on DE, it's probably on Commons by now anyway. Thanks, — madman 01:50, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

But that's my original content

Hi MadmanBot. I created a musician page for Lady Daisey (that's me) and I was flagged for copy/pasting MY OWN original content. I originally wrote the biography used on my official site, on my record label info, on press releases, etc. Am I not allowed to copy my own content? And now the page is deleted entirely? Booo. Daiseykat (talk) 13:47, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

If you wish to contribute content to Wikipedia that has been previously published elsewhere on the Web, you must follow the procedure outlined at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. This procedure is in place for the protection of your own intellectual property rights. Please note, however, that following this procedure does not preempt any other criteria for deletion of a Wikipedia article. Given that you are the subject of the article and this is generally considered to be a conflict of interest, you may want to wait for a third party to write their own article from a neutral point of view, which can serve you a lot better in the long run. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, — madman 02:59, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Have some pie!

just becasue Mrkokobro (talk) 22:24, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! — madman 03:00, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

NLM public domain content

Hi. Concerning this edit, please note that this article contains a {{tl|NLM content}} → {{NLM content}} I would appreciate if you would put any new article that contains a {{NLM content}} template on the bots "white list". Thanks. Boghog (talk) 20:10, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done — madman 03:03, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

License checks?

Hi, edits like this one have been tagging articles as copyvios that have been copied from openly licensed sources that actually allow such copying. Does your bot check the licensing of the source in any way? That would be very helpful. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 17:44, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

The bot can't actually read source material and determine licensing, though I'm going to be looking to add some licensing heuristics in the next version. It relies on a whitelist of sources and of licensing tags to determine whether an article should be exempted from its checks. When it comes to PLoSWiki, I don't think the source material was licensed appropriately though. It was licensed under CC-BY 2.5, and we require that source material be CC-BY-SA, which requires that all derivative works be released under the same license. So I don't feel I can add PLoSWiki to the whitelist at this time. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, — madman 03:08, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Ok what?

Your bot tagged this on having part of the article copied from myfigurecollection.net! I mean seriously, someone in that site copied some info on the List of Jewelpet characters onto that site a long time ago before I decided to divide the article to several sections. I had to rewrite that CERTAIN section, and it is a pain in the butt. Your bot needs to be shut down.--BlackGaia02 (talkpage if you dare) (talk) 06:27, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

That tag was actually valid but for a different reason than the bot noted. The source material was from another Wikipedia article and you copied and pasted it without any attribution to the original contributors. This is a licensing violation. Please see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thanks, — madman 03:11, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Cut-and-paste moves

Hi Madman,

It seems MadmanBot detects attempted cut-and-paste moves, which is good. However I'm not sure the actions it takes are appropriate. Earlier a user attempted to move Heung Kong Group to HeungKong Group by copying and pasting. MadmanBot told the user that this was fine and that the user should continue to edit the newly created article. I'm worried that might just cause confusion. In fact, if the move is appropriate, the newly-created page should be G6'd to make way for a clean move of the original page. If not, the new page should be deleted. In either case, the user should confine their edits to the old version of the page, and request admin intervention if necessary. Does that make sense? (The case I gave as an example is no longer an issue since in this instance another editor decided that the new article should be turned into a redirect to the old one).

—Noiratsi (talk) 15:11, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

I'm confused. The template doesn't say that copying within Wikipedia was fine; it indicated that it was not fine, but could be made fine by supplying the proper attribution, which is correct per Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. MadmanBot uses this template for any amount of source material copied within Wikipedia, not just cut-and-paste moves. Am I misreading either Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia or the template? Thanks, — madman 03:17, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Spam blacklist

I just noticed that MadmanBot is bashing the spam blacklist log trying to tag articles (it is at it at this very moment). It seems to be trying to save while the site the copyvio is from is on the spam-blacklist. Would it be possible to

1. detect that it fails to save due to the spam blacklist
2. adapt the link to a non-working link (e.g. encapsulating it in <nowiki>), and try to save again?

The logs become somewhat useless with 100s of Madmanbot attempts in a minute span. I think that some of the sites it is using are blacklisted for abuse, but also some for hosting copyvios themselves.

Thanks! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 07:27, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Spam blacklist

I just noticed that MadmanBot is bashing the spam blacklist log trying to tag articles (it is at it at this very moment). It seems to be trying to save while the site the copyvio is from is on the spam-blacklist. Would it be possible to

1. detect that it fails to save due to the spam blacklist
2. adapt the link to a non-working link (e.g. encapsulating it in <nowiki>), and try to save again?

The logs become somewhat useless with 100s of Madmanbot attempts in a minute span. I think that some of the sites it is using are blacklisted for abuse, but also some for hosting copyvios themselves.

Thanks! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 07:27, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Ping! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:59, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 13:43, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

(copied from AN) Sorry Beetstra, I'm bad at replying in a timely fashion to messages on my talk page even when I do read them. I did read your first and bounced the bot as soon as I woke up. I have done so again this morning. I thought I had fixed the looping condition in the code I inherited from Coren, but apparently not. I also have the bot monitored with Nagios to see when it gets stuck, but sometimes emails either don't get sent or are received in the wrong order making me think the service is still in OK state. I'll take a look at the code again once I get home today; since it's the holidays I actually have some time for once. Thanks for the report and reminder. Cheers, — madman 14:46, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Please do. I'll retract the AN post (don't worry, now that I know that you are working on it I will not block the bot, it was merely a nuisance). Going through 12000 hits is unhealthy, also for the bot, it spends 2 hours and 22 minutes doing nothing while it can do something more useful.  ;-). Hope you can resolve the problem (tag the page with a disabled link after you run into the blacklist)! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 15:04, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about the bot being a nuisance (though oddly when I go to the spam blacklist I can't see it, maybe there are different filters on mobile?). Yeah, I agree it's a serious problem; while it uses the maxlag parameter to make sure it's not overloading the servers, it's still editing WAY too fast for my liking and as you say it's inhibiting operation. :( (Sigh. I hate Perl. I can't wait until my Java rewrite passes all unit tests.) — madman 15:09, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Don't worry about it being a nuisance (it is not breaking anything) - as long as it gets resolved. Try the link that I posted on AN - that one has a specific time in the link that shows the bot 'in action' a couple of days ago. this shows the last case, from the 4th log-item down (you need to be an admin to see these logs) - otherwise:

• 10:58, 27 December 2013 ... (talk | contribs | block) caused a spam blacklist hit on ... by attempting to add http:// azpress.no-ip..
• 10:37, 27 December 2013 MadmanBot (talk | contribs | block) caused a spam blacklist hit on Sri N Ch Krishnamacharyulu, by attempting to add http:// www.indianetzone.com http:// www.indianetzone.com.
• 10:37, 27 December 2013 MadmanBot (talk | contribs | block) caused a spam blacklist hit on Sri N Ch Krishnamacharyulu, by attempting to add http:// www.indianetzone.com http:// www.indianetzone.com.
• 10:37, 27 December 2013 MadmanBot (talk | contribs | block) caused a spam blacklist hit on Sri N Ch Krishnamacharyulu, by attempting to add http:// www.indianetzone.com http:// www.indianetzone.com.
• 10:36, 27 December 2013 MadmanBot (talk | contribs | block) caused a spam blacklist hit on Sri N Ch Krishnamacharyulu, by attempting to add http:// www.indianetzone.com http:// www.indianetzone.com.

...

• 07:54, 27 December 2013 MadmanBot (talk | contribs | block) caused a spam blacklist hit on Sri N Ch Krishnamacharyulu, by attempting to add http:// www.indianetzone.com http:// www.indianetzone.com.
• 07:54, 27 December 2013 MadmanBot (talk | contribs | block) caused a spam blacklist hit on Sri N Ch Krishnamacharyulu, by attempting to add http:// www.indianetzone.com http:// www.indianetzone.com.
• 07:53, 27 December 2013 ... (talk | contribs | block) caused a spam blacklist hit on ... by attempting to add http:// bit.ly.

(links split with a space after the http:// so they do not trigger the blacklist).

Heh, I like perl (but I don't have any time to do programming at the moment).

It would even be fine if the bot just runs through a list, tries once and then goes to the next, but it seems to keep hanging on one page and hence not tagging the next ones. If it would just try once, fail and go on, then it would be just one page that it 'misses' (though you would find them in your logs maybe), but almost 100 attempts a minute is crazy - I would certainly slow down the retry-rate to once every 5 minutes (noticing a fail, sleeping for some time, retry - maybe it was an edit-conflict or similar so a retry is worth it). --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 15:41, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Oh, I thought that the bot had been hitting the wall a lot more recently before I bounced it (or it died, it does that too eventually as a totally-intentional self-limitation ;)). Gotcha. — madman 15:47, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Hey, you're right, this was already two days ago .. sorry for the rush :-D. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:00, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

@Beetstra: – The bot acted up again today, but I caught it as soon as Nagios reported the task hadn't performed any new checks in a while, and with the debugging information I added, I think I've caught the bad loop in the original code. Hopefully this is taken care of. Thanks for your help and Happy New Year! — madman 05:25, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Yep, it hit the same page again when I reran it and moved on instead of bashing the log some more. Obviously I'll want to add the nowiki soon (hopefully I can do that this week) but in the meantime it isn't inconveniencing administrators. — madman 05:27, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Good work, Madman. Yes, sometimes it is a matter of waiting for a bug to re-occur and 'catch it in the act'. Also a Happy 2014 to you, and thanks for the hard work! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 05:39, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Note

I courtesy blanked a post in your archives at the behest of an OTRS complainant. See 2014011310009528 for reference. -- John Reaves 21:11, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. — madman 03:07, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Copyright question relating to this bot

See Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#use of Dictionary of National Biography. Mangoe (talk) 13:37, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Looks like MadmanBot's current behavior is correct. If the article is tagged with {{DNB}}, it will not be tagged by MadmanBot since the source described by {{DNB}} is the public domain, per the referenced media copyright question. Please let me know if you have any further concerns. Thanks, — madman 03:56, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Regarding issue of Coping from Baripada page

That info on Baripada page is also provided by me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki GSD (talk • contribs) 14:51, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Looks like Karan1974 (talk · contribs) reverted all material that may have been copyrighted and the article is in a stable state; please let me know if you have any further concerns. Thanks, — madman 03:59, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Shahid.net

Hi :)

I have referenced the text to the link, as it is the description of Shahid.net as a VOD portal

Happy new year, I hope this helps. --Issa.younis (talk) 13:13, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

The Big Show (1961 film) Hello, Savolya, and thank you for your contributions! An article you worked on The Big Show (1961 film), appears to be directly copied from http://www.moviefone.com/movie/the-big-show/1053014/main

No, used the Wikipedia template and added info from IMDb, Allmovie and TCM with tef from Allmovie and NY times. The "Moviefone" has no insight to the movie.

I'm watching the movie now on FXM. Savolya (talk) 16:35, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Looks like this issue has been cleared up by MER-C (talk · contribs). All of the sites you mention above contain copyrighted material. Plot summaries must be written in your own words. Thanks, — madman 04:00, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Cambridge University Library's Janus catalogue

MadmanBot marked a new article of mine (Harold Smedley) as a copyright violation against a page in Cambridge University Library's Janus database. In fact I'd written the article without reference to or awareness of that page, because all the information is available elsewhere; the wording is similar because the same information is being presented. But that's not why I'm here. I'm curious to know why a copyright violation was claimed. The referenced page is a catalogue page pointing to an interview paper in Churchill College's British Diplomatic Oral History Programme: it has no copyright notice, and the Janus page on the programme claims copyright of the papers but not of the catalogue pages. So why did MadmanBot think there was a copyright violation? Stanning (talk) 17:50, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

The content was structurally and substantially similar to the content on the referenced page, and the page doesn't have to have a copyright notice to be subject to copyright; per the Berne Convention, the authors of all published and unpublished works (including those published on the Internet) benefit from copyright. My apologies if the bot's determination was a false positive. Please let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks, — madman 04:04, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

The WIIW article by John de Norrona

Thanks, the article is now fixed and should be corresponding to Wkipedia standards User John de Norrona — Preceding unsigned comment added by John de Norrona (talk • contribs) 12:15, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Dear colleague, I am a real Wikipedia beginner, concentrating on issues of the BRICS countries and the current changes in the world system. I have alerted user Leitner 99, who wrote the main chapters of the article on Professor Kazimierz Laski, the long-term director of the WIIW, asking him to help me out on the subject. I hope that this is ok. My messages read as follows: John de Norrona (talk) 08:33, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

User John de Norrona, dear colleague Leitner 99, has created an article on the WIIW. Wikipedia has a difficult computer grammar and many other complicated rules, and I am afraid my draft is not really very good, but I saw that you wrote the main chapters of the magnificent article on Professor Kazimier Laski, (i.e. the long-term director of the WIIW) so perhaps you could help me in creating a better Wikipedia entry on the important work of the WIIW. John de Norrona (talk) 08:33, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Currently (as of January 3rd, 2014) I left the following remark on the talk page of my draft

==On the article and why the contention by colleague Madmanbot is not correct== What he says might have been correct for the first version of the article. The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies is just too important to be left out from Wikipedia, however, and my new draft could become the start-up for a better article. There is by the way a magnificent Wikipedia entry already on Professor Kazimierz Laski, the former Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) director. I will contact the main editors of the article asking them to continue my work. The Global Think Tank to Go Report ranks the WIIW among the most important economic think tanks in the world and certainly in Europe, and a good entry on the subject would be worthwhile. User John de NorronaJohn de Norrona (talk) 08:33, 3 January 2014 (UTC)''

 Note: Article speedily deleted by Wizardman (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) as unambiguous copyright infringement (even in its revised state). If you have any questions or concerns, please contact him. Thanks, — madman 04:08, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

New URL for OgreBot's old version filemover

Hello. I've identified you as a user who has previously used OgreBot's old version filemover. Please note the new URL: toollabs:magog/oldver.php. Thanks. Magog the Ogre (t • c) 23:40, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Will do! Thanks, — madman 04:08, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Bentonville Public Library

While there are some similarities to the source page, i think this is a case of a non-copyrightable list of facts, in an obvious (chronological) order, with no significant copying of actual expression, which means there is no copyright infringement here. I don't know if the bot can be adjusted to detected this kind of false positive. As an AfC draft, there is no talk page to comment on. DES ^(talk) 07:08, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

I respectfully disagree; I think the article is much too structurally and substantially similar to the referenced Web page. But I don't disagree enough to G12 it. It's a judgment call for you. Thanks, — madman 01:57, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

2014 FC Seoul season

Yes, 2014 FC Seoul season is similar to 2013 FC Seoul season, But please wait more, Preseason match and training reulsts will update. Transfer results also update soon. 2014 Season will start February. Footwiks (talk) 03:34, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

MadmanBot flagged the creation of 2014 FC Seoul season because it was a copy-and-paste of 2013 FC Seoul season at the time, not merely similar. I know you changed it later, but when copying within Wikipedia, it is important to reference the earlier page in your edit summary; as it is, other contributors to 2013 FC Seoul season have not been credited within 2014 FC Seoul season's history. Please let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks, — madman 17:50, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

MadmanBot error

MadmanBot seems to have reported the same inactive administrators twice and reported February under January. The error can be seen here. The inactive administrators for February need to be warned still since it seemingly missed them. Regards, — Moe Epsilon 03:49, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Uh oh! I don't know what happened! Possibly there were no inactive administrators falling within the new time period, but it shouldn't have done anything with the last time period because the links to those administrators' user pages were already on the page. I'll take a look at this first thing in the morning; in the meantime, Happy New Year! — madman 06:39, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Turns out there were new administrators to report, including one that would have been desysopped this round had it been reported (but it was skipped over for some reason). I've went ahead and prepared the next report manually, notified them and e-mailed them. Hopefully this doesn't interfere with the bot updating it. Regards, — Moe Epsilon 07:25, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

So I disabled all inactive-admins tasks (except removal of admins who have resumed activity) until I could diagnose what happened. Looks like the report was generated correctly and then the bot got a malformed response when it tried to post it. The notify task works by taking and working on the most recent section, assuming the report task worked correctly. I've added a check to make sure notifications are never sent more than once; hopefully, this should not happen again. I'll run the notify2 task imminently. Thanks, — madman 03:11, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

DAMN it, I accidentally jsubbed the notify1 task instead of notify1.test and it looks like the new assertion didn't kill the script like it was supposed to. So everyone from this month got their first notification again... however, it would have been time for the notify2 task anyhow. I don't think this is a disaster. I'm thinking I'm going to run notify2, comment out the e-mail action so no one gets duplicate e-mails, but they correctly get the "imminent" instead of "pending" notification on their talk page. Sigh, here's hoping for a better run shortly... — madman 03:22, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Oi, well, if it doesn't go off as planned a second time. Let me know, and I can just manually do the report and notifications manually. :) Regards, — Moe Epsilon 03:46, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank God, looks like the modified second round went as planned and the new check was tested successfully in User:MadmanBot/Sandbox (second mock notification succeeded the first time, failed the second time). So all should go well henceforth, knock on wood. — madman 03:51, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Looks good! It did notify someone who had returned though (Hadal). At least the report is better. Regards, — Moe Epsilon 04:03, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Ah, damn, forgot to run the update job before triggering notify2 manually. That won't happen when it's automatically scheduled. Apologies, — madman 04:06, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Hey Madman: see the recent bot edit to the inactivity report? It forgot to report the next month. Regards, — Moe Epsilon 06:06, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Damn it. No error this time; it looks like cron just didn't kick off the job like it was supposed to, though it's been kicking off the job to update the report. The behavior of this host is getting a bit annoying. I've kicked off the job manually so it should update soon. Thanks, Moe Epsilon. — madman 17:53, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

MadmanBot/manual results list

Been trying out the copyright detection program (User:MadmanBot/manual). Seems very useful but may I suggest you clear the results list at intervals, so users can see their shiny new results as soon as they emerge, without scrolling down a long way? Or better, arrange for the results to be displayed in reverse date order. With thanks Noyster (talk) 21:18, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Good idea. Will clear it out when I remember (other users can do it too) and I'll look at modifying it to prepend rather than append. Thanks! — madman 02:11, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Tennis records of the Open Era - Women's Singles

Hi and thanks for your comments the article was not copied from the source you have quoted I had been working on it here User:Navops47/sandbox4, I also created this article back in December Overall tennis records – Men's Singles, the article has been created for continuity in tennis records --Navops47 (talk) 12:56, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

My edits on the mens article can be found here https://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Contributors.php?wikilang=en&wikifam=.wiki.x.io&grouped=on&page=Tennis_records_of_the_Open_Era_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_Singles 172 edits in total since April last year. --Navops47 (talk) 13:07, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry for the false positive; Cyclopaedia is a Wikipedia mirror, it would appear, and Wizardman added it to the bot's whitelist today (thanks!). Thanks, — madman 16:29, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Bethesda classification

Hello MadmanBot, The Bethesda classification is public as air, water, waves, snow... ;-) patho (talk) 11:00, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Apologies for the false positive in that case. PathologyOutlines.com, Inc. erroneously claims copyright so I can't whitelist that site. If more excerpts from the Bethesda classification are going to be uploaded and there's a statement somewhere that the classification is in the public domain, then we can add that information to a template that will be whitelisted by the bot. Thanks, — madman 16:37, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

VA-94 (U.S. Navy)

I removed your tag and commented on the article's talk page. The article clearly states that the text is in the public domain, through the {{DANAS}} template, which is a fairly new one. Maybe your Bot ought to start looking for it. Lou Sander (talk) 18:26, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

MadmanBot request

Can you please set MadmanBot to replace {{Messagebox glaciers}} with {{WikiProject Glaciers}}. After that is done, could you set MetsBot to run through Category:Glaciers and place the template on the articles that don't already have it? Thank you. --evrik ^(talk) 23:36, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

I'm afraid I currently don't have the bandwidth to take on additional bot requests; I haven't even been able to fulfill the requests to which I have committed yet. Wikipedia:Bot requests would be the best place for these requests. Thanks, — madman 16:31, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

• thanks! --evrik ^(talk) 03:28, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

VA-95 (U.S. Navy)

I removed your tag and commented on the article's talk page. The article clearly states that the text is in the public domain, through the {{DANAS}} template, which is a fairly new one. Maybe your Bot ought to start looking for it. The Bot keeps finding bogus copyright violations by going to online sales sites. The sales sites are well known to pick up text from anywhere that will help them describe and sell their stuff. Lou Sander (talk) 19:46, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

I have added this template to the bot's whitelist. Thanks, — madman 03:40, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval

There is a backlog at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and therefore it would be nice if you, as a member of the Bot Approvals Group, could take a look at some of them. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:06, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

I'll do my best. I don't anticipate being able to look at requests except on weekends, however; I'm working 60-70 hours/week during the week on a huge project due in two weeks. — madman 03:49, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for recover the page GT Advanced Technologies

Kekoukele (talk) 15:33, 24 February 2014 (UTC)Thanks a lot for your consideration about the copyright of the information. I think the contents you may believe I had copied from the webset you provided are lead part and Products part. However, these two parts reference from Yahoo Finance and Google Finance, which are public information instead of copyrighted information. As this article is about an well-known company and may be helpful for many readers, I sincerely hope you can recover this deleted article. Besides, I also provided some other basic information about the company, could you just delete uncertain content?

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval

[[User:neshini83|neshini83]my articles return to tamil. how to proceed? — Preceding undated comment added 03:18, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User talk:CoronaMonroe

User talk:CoronaMonroe, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:CoronaMonroe and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User talk:CoronaMonroe during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 15:43, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Untitled message

Got your Message about H K Institute of Management and Research and H K Institute of Management Studies and Research I jus done a mistake in entering title of the page. A correct title is H K Institute of Management Studies and Research — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shwetal.khopkar (talk • contribs) 07:43, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Inactive administrators/2014

The bot doesn't seem to have done this month's batch. Please investigate, thanks! –xeno^talk 18:25, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

I don't know why that report has refused to run via cron since I moved from Toolserver to Labs. I'll run it manually today and set a reminder for myself until I can get it fixed. My apologies for the inconvenience, — madman 22:15, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

No bother. Thanks! –xeno^talk 22:37, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

How often...

...does the bot search for copyvios? I am just a little curious. (t) Josve05a (c) 22:58, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Upon creation and upon demand at User:MadmanBot/manual. Cheers! — madman 00:52, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

The queue at User:MadmanBot/manual doesn't appear to have been processed this past week: Noyster (talk), 17:08, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, it's been running on new articles all this time but doesn't seem to be processing that queue anymore unless I restart it. I'm looking into it; thanks for the report. — madman 22:34, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Cheju’s T’amnaguk kingdom

I will improve more about the copyedit and write on my own. Thank's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ADHZ07111989 (talk • contribs) 19:07, 27 March 2014 (UTC)‎

MadmanBot

Hi! It seems to me that MadmanBot may have gone on holiday, as it doesn't seem to have done much copyvio-suspecting since about 8 April. Is there any chance that it could be persuaded to return to the workplace any time soon? Its suspicionscontributions are much missed. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:33, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Oh, wow. When the Heartbleed vulnerability was exposed, Wikimedia system administrators upgraded OpenSSL across all instances... and expired all session tokens to prevent the possibility of session hijacking. I didn't think about what that meant for MadmanBot – it's been happily running all this time, just unable to edit. ... whoops. Thanks for pointing this out! — madman 00:37, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Could it be possible to make the bot run on all pending AfC submissions? There are about 2 500+ now, and I'll bet that around 5-10% of them are copyvios. (t) Josve05a (c) 01:00, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

On all what? If you mean all articles, the bot does not have approval to do that, unfortunately. Personally, I think your estimate of 5-10% seems low. But when copyvios have been in articles for a longer duration of time than in a new article, it requires more resources and more time than WP:SCV typically has to clean up the history. The best thing to do is just clean up anything you may happen to find, trust that others will do so as well, and if you see a pattern of violations from one contributor, a WP:CCI case may be warranted. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, — madman 01:05, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

I ment to write "on all pending AfC submissions". I forgot the ':' when adding the link to the category. (t) Josve05a (c) 01:07, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Ah, that might be doable; would certainly cause less disruption though I'm still worried about the increased workload on those handling the reports. I've actually shut down the bot for now, though, since it appears CorenSearchBot is running and this is resulting in duplicate reports (MadmanBot's not supposed to tag a page that's already tagged, but it can still tag if the original contributor speedily removed the tag or there are contention issues). Also, we can't double the amount of search queries being performed with the WMF's Yahoo! BOSS account. :/ I'll be happy to start the bot back up if CSBot goes down and someone pings me. Thanks, — madman 01:21, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

I am not good with code, so I thought I should ask you. If you could add http://sgwiki.com/ to the opt-out(?) code, so it would not tag for that website it would be great since it is CC BY-SA. (t) Josve05a (c) 01:31, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

I have added this site to CorenSearchBot's exclude list and my own. Thanks, — madman 01:34, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Here is another one. (t) Josve05a (c) 17:12, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

I don't see any indication that that site is CC-BY-SA, Josve05a. — madman 21:39, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Actually I see notice on the article pages but the main page says "Contact us for permission requests" and the article pages don't have anything like a /wiki/ prefix to differentiate them from any other pages. I think it also could be argued that the stipulations they've added are CC-BY-SA incompatible, though that makes them in violation of our license, not us in violation of theirs. — madman 21:42, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Madman (missed your reply earlier). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:35, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

BAG assistance needed

Hi Madman! There are quite a few Requests for bot approval that are awaiting BAG assistance. Would you be willing to look at some of these? Thanks in advance! GoingBatty (talk) 23:16, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

I'll try over the weekend; I'm afraid my current workload is such that I'm completely unable to look at them during the week. Thanks, — madman 21:54, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Go, go, go!

CSB hasn't run since the 3 May...you can restart MadmanBot now. (t) Josve05a (c) 15:50, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

I have done so! Cheers, — madman 05:05, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks MadamBot for your worthy suggestion for village Khushpura I am continuously improving it and my main aim is to provide best information about this topic of settlement and will continuously perform my duty as suggested by you. Again Thanks.Rajsector3 (talk) 07:42, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, — madman 00:30, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

List of Episodes in Candy Crush Saga

Thanks MadamBot for informing me. I removed levels so it will not be copied from the websites that you said. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul eva11 (talk • contribs) 10:27, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! — madman 00:30, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

DREAM BOUNCE

Dear Madman, DreamBounce.com is a well known party rentals in California. They provide the same material to Wiki and Merchantcircle.com. The same material can be found on their website. So, there is no copyright issues. Thanks, Ruben Mirakyan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruben mirakyan (talk • contribs) 14:50, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Actually, if the information is published on the company's Web site, the copyright is held by the company; it has not been licensed to Wikipedia. If the company would like to donate the material to Wikipedia, please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, — madman 00:30, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

MadmanBot no longer seems to notify administrators about pending suspensions

See subject. Thanks, –xeno^talk 18:41, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Bollocks. I'll track this down; off the top of my head, it may be a side effect of it having missed notifications last time (because the report and notify1 were too close together and notifications for the previous month are prohibited), them being done manually, and then me updating the config file to do the imminent suspension e-mail a few days after the first of the month. Can't have multiple configurations. Really need to get all of this back on track. >.< — madman 03:01, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

OR I'm an idiot and had too low of a -mem value. I've doubled all of them so they should run a lot more reliably now. I've made a note to run a special job for the imminent suspension notice on the 4th. Thanks, — madman 03:16, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

BRFA approval

Hi! Since I noticed that you are a BAG member who's recently been active, I was wondering if you, as a BAG member, would take a look at a (I hope) noncontroversial BRFA request I just posted at WP:BRFA#APersonBot. Thank you very much! APerson (talk!) 23:26, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Cleanup tag from 2007 removed

Since the consensus now is that cleanup tags without a reason given are not allowed, I removed a tag you placed seven years ago. If you feel this article still needs cleanup, feel free to place the tag there again, but please include a reason this time. Samboy (talk) 19:07, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

MadmanBot/manual not functioning

This process for one-off copyvio check of a single article has not worked since 27 April. Very few users now find their way there (4 since that date), but for the sake of any that do, would you object to a proposed deletion of that subpage? - or is there a plan to reactivate it?: Noyster (talk), 16:19, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:MadmanBot/manual

User:MadmanBot/manual, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:MadmanBot/manual and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:MadmanBot/manual during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. : Noyster (talk), 15:20, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Is MadmanBot involved in sending emails re "The Wikipedia Library Team"?

I've received an email, alegedly from MadmanBot, to the email address I have registered for my Wikipedia account. The sending email address appears to be Madman@toolserver.org, and not any WP address.

Subject is related to my (recently) requested access for one of the limited-access accounts to access JSTOR journal archive to better source Wikipedia articles.

I'm having a bit of trouble assessing if this is a real request, or a phishing attempt. Don't see that MadmanBot has any approved function for this sort of emailing. Can you help me confirm good intent? Cheers. N2e (talk) 03:45, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

The e-mail is legitimate. You can always check this by confirming something such as the following in the headers:

Received: from [2620:0:861:102:7a2b:cbff:fe07:aa89] (port=38394 helo=mw1119.eqiad.wmnet)

	by polonium.wikimedia.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82)

	(envelope-from <madman@toolserver.org>)

Received: from apache by mw1119.eqiad.wmnet with local (Exim 4.76)

	(envelope-from <madman@toolserver.org>)

Cheers, — madman 20:06, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia DC Annual Meeting and more!

Hello, fellow Wikipedian!

I am excited to announce the upcoming Wikimedia DC Annual Meeting at the National Archives! We'll have free lunch, an introduction by Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, and a discussion featuring Ed Summers, the creator of CongressEdits. Join your fellow DC-area Wikipedians on Saturday, October 18 from 12 to 4:30 PM. RSVP today!

Also coming up we have the Human Origins edit-a-thon on October 17 and the WikiSalon on October 22. Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

Best,

James Hare

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End-of-the-year meetups

Hello,

You're invited to the end-of-the-year meetup at Busboys and Poets on Sunday, December 14 at 6 PM. There is Wi-Fi, so bring your computer if you want!

You are also invited to our WikiSalon on Thursday, December 18 at 7 PM.

Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

Best,

James Hare

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Wikipedia:Inactive administrators/2014

Hello, MadmanBot hasn't updated Wikipedia:Inactive administrators/2014 for December, yet, even though it's 7 November. Could you look into this? Also, I've restored User talk:MadmanBot, which was accidentally deleted, and manually archived an old section of your user talk page which wasn't being archived by the bot. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 15:28, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

• Seems not to have done December yet either. –xeno^talk 14:30, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Damn. Thought I'd fixed this last time; verified cron entries were correct and increased virtual memory. Unfortunately I will not be able to fix this until the 7th; I am out of the country and do not have Labs availability (my private key). Sorry, — madman 23:14, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Any chance to look at this yet? And you can please ensure the bot will send the imminent warnings 27 days after the first warning (not the end of the month, as this is too early?). Thanks, –xeno^talk 17:23, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

As you can probably see I've set up the report and sent the initial round of notifications for January 2015. I've set up the "imminent" warning for the 5th of January. I'm going to be keeping an eye on everything to make sure it works out but so far the initial report has been the only job that's been screwing up (offsetting everything else). Cheers, — madman 02:04, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks very much! –xeno^talk 01:07, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

• Could be because of the manual run in mid Dec but it's picking up admins for the February 2015 batch that won't be eligible as yet. –xeno^talk 01:54, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Damn. This used to run so much more smoothly before it moved to Labs. It clearly needs some revamping. It is indeed because of the December run; one config file won't serve both for the proper date on the "imminent warning" coming up and on the January report. I'll fix the January report as soon as I'm at a computer that has my Labs key. I apologize, as ever, for the inconvenience of me not keeping on top of the manual updates needed. Thanks, — madman 04:14, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
    • It's no big deal. Your ongoing efforts are appreciated =) –xeno^talk 05:48, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
  • That was not much fun. The notification job assumes that the top report is the one it should act upon because I've never had overlapping months before; I apologize for the February 2015 admins getting their "imminent" notification. >.< They've been sent out properly to the January 2015 admins, then I reset the master "day" config variable to 1 and ran the daily update, which removed admins from the latest report that "no longer" meet the criteria. I think everything's been sorted out. I also corrected MadmanBot's e-mail address; it stopped working recently because it was still madman@toolserver.org (OOPS). That's why I didn't get the Cc on the "imminent" notification e-mails that would have told me sooner that something was wrong. Whew. — madman 22:54, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Lonsdale House

Please see attribution section for details of CC-BY. Kerry (talk) 07:34, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Centenary Pool Complex

Again, please see attribution section for details of CC-BY. Kerry (talk) 07:34, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Please update your bot to look for these attributions. Or whitelist articles in Category:Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register (please review) as I am rolling out over 1600 of these articles from CC-BY source material. Kerry (talk) 23:25, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

This task of my bot was started unbeknownst to me when a server that was supposed to be shut down was restarted. My current revision of the bot is outdated. I apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks, — madman 23:40, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Kerry (talk) 19:39, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Museum hacks and museum edits

Hello there!

Upcoming events:

• February 6–8: The third annual ArtBytes Hackathon at the Walters Art Museum! This year Wikimedia DC is partnering with the Walters for a hack-a-thon at the intersection of art and technology, and I would like to see Wikimedia well represented.
• February 11: The monthly WikiSalon, same place as usual. RSVP on Meetup or just show up!
• February 15: Wiki Loves Small Museums in Ocean City. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, with support from Wikimedia DC, will be leading a workshop at the Small Museum Association Conference on how they can contribute to Wikipedia. Tons of representatives from GLAM institutions will be present, and we are looking for volunteers. If you would like to help out, check out "Information for Volunteers".

I am also pleased to announce events for Wikimedia DC Black History Month with Howard University and NPR. Details on those events soon.

If you have any questions or have any requests, please email me at james.harewikimediadc.org.

See you there! – James Hare

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MadmanBot and inactive admins

Would it be possible that the bot adds [[Category:Wikipedia inactive administrators|YEAR]] to the end of the yearly subpages by the creation of them? Regards, Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:21, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia DC celebrates Black History Month, and more!

Hello again!

Not even a week ago I sent out a message talking about upcoming events in DC. Guess what? There are more events coming up in February.

First, as a reminder, there is a WikiSalon on February 11 (RSVP here or just show up) and Wiki Loves Small Museums at the Small Museum Association Conference on February 15 (more information here).

Now, I am very pleased to announce:

• Tuesday, February 17 from 10 AM to 3 PM there will be #WikiTurgy at the University of Maryland. Join fellow theatre enthusiasts for a “mass act of public dramaturgy!”
• Thursday, February 19 from 10 AM to 4 PM we are hosting the Howard University Black History Edit-a-Thon. We are working in partnership with the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of African-American and African diasporic history.
• Tuesday, February 24 from 6 PM to 8 PM we have the Black History Month “First Edit” at NPR. Help improve Wikipedia and help others make their first edit to Wikipedia!
• Finally, our monthly dinner meetup is on Saturday, February 28.

There is going to be a lot going on, and I hope you can come to some of the events!

If you have any questions or need any special accommodations, please let me know.

Regards,

James Hare

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