User talk:Chris G/Archives/2012/May

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 04:13, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Probably not your bot's fault

Hi, Chris. Could you take a look at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Wikipedia_policies_and_guidelines? I'm not technically adept enough (or, to be honest, awake enough) to figure it out, let alone fix it, but there seem to be some oddities involving template coding and closure notices. Thanks. Rivertorch (talk) 17:40, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, fixed --Chris 03:13, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Cool. Was that all it was? Hmm.... Rivertorch (talk) 04:16, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 00:11, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Bot requests

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GA bot is erratic

Why is GA bot (talk · contribs) operating so erratically. It quite often gives the same message multiple updates in a row now.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm not ignoring you; I hope to be able to fix this later this week. The basic problem is GA bot needs a complete overhaul, because at the moment even small things, like a different order of parameters in {{GA nominee}} are causing problems. --Chris 11:52, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Ok, rewrite complete. This should fix those problems, and the bot should now fail a bit more safely if it hits into other problems. I've done quite a lot of testing, so hopefully it should just run smoothly, however this was almost a complete rewrite, so if you see anything broken please do notifiy me. --Chris 06:46, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Sig fixed

Thanks for your report about my signature. I used the pipe templated and update Talk:Krrish. Some people have really fancy signatures, so I didn't think mine would cause any problems. Is there anywhere that shows syntax rules? BollyJeff | talk 13:15, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

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GA Bot

Hi, the bot appears to be down for the last 12 hours or so. Jezhotwells (talk) 11:34, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

I believe that it is also failing to recognise the status=onhold parameter in the GAN template. Jezhotwells (talk) 11:48, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

It ran a few times earlier today but has been inactive since 17:00 or thereabouts. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:09, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

The bot has lost the ability to pick up on both the "onhold" and "2ndopinion" status parameters, and treats them as simple "onreview", both on the GAN and GANR pages. Also, as noted above, it's running at erratic intervals; as I write this, it last ran just over 50 minutes ago, at 00:20 UTC. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:14, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Sorry about that; both of those issues should be resolved now. --Chris 12:09, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

They are resolved, but other things are occurring: nominations are appearing and disappearing from one bot run to the next, on hold reviews have the reviewer name disappearing and being replaced with Example, and then reappearing on the next run... The bot appears to be unsteady, with many changes happening with each run, even though the data from the talk pages for these nominations remains unchanged. There may still be some bugs to wring out from your recent rewrite. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:01, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 22:26, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)

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The RFC bot, on its latest trip to my talk page, deleted all the headers and notices from the page. How can I stop it from doing this?  Liam987  06:26, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

That appears to have been a momentary glitch due to a Wikipedia server error. Seems to be resolved now. Equazcion ^(talk) 10:12, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

RFC bot (ii)

The bot deleted the RFC template [1] from Talk:Brian Camelio, although we haven't received any comment... Do you have any suggestion to help us obtaining some comments? Thanks --Edcolins (talk) 13:59, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

You could just re-post a new RFC tag. I noticed this discussion myself but honestly was too lazy to figure out what it was about. I think it might help if you attempted to summarize the dispute succinctly under the RFC next time to help draw interest, rather than relying on people taking it upon themselves to read all the drafts and previous discussion. Equazcion ^(talk) 14:09, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I have just re-posted a new tag. The dispute is in fact summarized... see: "Three sections, each entitled "Patent dispute", are proposed above for inclusion in the articles Brian Camelio, ArtistShare, and Kickstarter respectively, either as a new section or to replace an existing section. Is the content of these sections relevant to the articles? If so, does the content meet our core Wikipedia policies?" --Edcolins (talk) 14:31, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

I saw that, however that summary doesn't really present what the disagreement is about. One would have to read through each draft and locate the differences to determine that, or read through the previous discussions. It would help to spoonfeed viewers the actual points of contention that caused the three draft proposals to be necessary. Equazcion ^(talk) 14:39, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

The disagreement is really about whether the three sections belong to the three articles. That's basically all. If you think the sections belong to the articles, then please state so on the talk page, so that we can move on and work on improving the articles themselves. Dealing with a single-purpose account (see [2]) is not an easy task I have to say... --Edcolins (talk) 16:44, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

The bot uses timestamps to decide when an rfc is expired. If you want the bot to stop removing the template, simply change the timestamp (i.e. remove your old sig, and sign again). Or just start a new thread. --Chris 17:10, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the tip. --Edcolins (talk) 17:23, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 02:28, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

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Not sure what is up with this review by example (talk · contribs). Does it have something to do with the old review page being delted? AIRcorn (talk) 06:05, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes, fixed. The status was still set to "onreview". --Chris 07:35, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

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Redlinks at Wikipedia:Dashboard/Requests for comment

It appears that RFC bot (talk · contribs) is maintaining redlinks at Wikipedia:Dashboard/Requests for comment again. (See diff) Please check to see what is causing it and if you can correct the problem. – Allen4names 15:17, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

The linked page was deleted per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John F. Ashton and then userfied at User talk:John J. Bulten/John F. Ashton. – Allen4names 14:00, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Fixed. Sorry about the delay. --Chris 10:19, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. – Allen4names 18:01, 28 May 2012 (UTC)