DSisyphBot

Do not add interwiki links to ambiguous-titled categories

I advise updating this bot to prevent edits like this one. jnestorius^(talk) 19:22, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks to warn you, I will modify my script to ignore this kind of pages. --Sisyph (talk) 13:16, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Something wrong

Something wrong with the robot making an edit to the Edmonton Drillers (NASL) article. It keeps changing it for the Italian language to be starting in 1975, but the team didn't start until 1979. Greg Salter (talk) 02:37, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for your message, but actually I think it wasn't a mistake. The Italian page has a paragraph titled Edmonton Drillers (NASL 1975-1982). As I don't speak Italian I don't know why they begin at 1975, but I think the modification by the bot was correct. --Sisyph (talk) 08:42, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Bot adding incorrect interlang links to templates

Diff. Bots should not be adding interlang links to template pages if the documentation has been split to a sub-page. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 11:31, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Problem

I'm not entirely sure that the bot's edit to Riven was something that it should have done. I have taken the liberty of undoing it.

Stratford Shakespeare Festival

The bot persists in adding a link to the article for the City of Stratford on what I assume is the Russian Wikipedia. This article is about the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. -Dhodges (talk) 00:36, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done I modified the russian page. --Sisyph (talk) 07:47, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Gwyn Nicholls

This bot incorrectly links the above page to sv:Gwyn. Please rectify this. Thanks FruitMonkey (talk) 22:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Done, false links deleted manually on other wiki. --Sisyph (talk) 13:26, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Ridley Township, Pennsylvania

Bot adding inappropriate and mispelled link.Malke2010 17:16, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Hello, my bot modify this link [1] because es:Ridley Township have been deleted, and for me the new link es:Municipio de Ridley (Pensilvania) is correct, and history, you can see Ridley Township ha sido trasladado a Municipio de Ridley (Pensilvania). --Sisyph (talk) 16:21, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

2004 enlargement of the European Union

Hi, your bot is incorrectly adding interwikies to 2004 enlargement of the European Union. nl:Toetreding van Bulgarije tot de Europese Unie, fr:Procédure d'adhésion de la Bulgarie à l'Union européenne, ro:Integrarea României în Uniunea Europeană and simple:Accession of Romania to the European Union are not comparable articles. Please override your bot on this. Ron 1987 12:25, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Deciduous

This is equivalent with French caduc, not with French feuillu. The change in link is wrong. --EncycloPetey (talk) 07:46, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Hello EncycloPetey, thanks for your correction. I can explain why bots modify in that way. fr:caduc is an disambiguation page, and en:Deciduous not, so bot ignore the link. But listing other interwikis, bots can find fr:feuillu (introduce around 2006 in some articles like es:Caducifolio which has en:Deciduous too) and thus modifiy a disambiguation page to a real article. --Sisyph (talk) 20:12, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes, this a serious flaw in the way that bots work. I wish people would check the edits made by their bots rather than letting faulty ones run all the time. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:11, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Bargal

I've reverted this edit. Bargal is about a place in Somalia, while vi:Bargal, Karwar is about a place in India. A few days ago, YFdyh-bot (talk · contribs) had done the same thing. Is there some way to flag the page so that the 'bots won't confuse the 2 topics? Thanks. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 14:36, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

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