User talk:AnomieBOT

Anomie is still around, mostly to maintain AnomieBOT. But after the WMF proved that office politics are more important to them than seemingly anything else, and otherwise generally seem more concerned with their own image than substance, Anomie is not engaging in technical work on MediaWiki.

Despite T360488 asking them not to, Toolforge admins have gone ahead and broken AnomieBOT's scripts. Keeping things running properly will likely require manual intervention until they fix that or give me a usable workaround.

Live status for all AnomieBOT tasks is available at Toolforge.

Regarding the OrphanReferenceFixer and TagDater, please note:

AnomieBOT is not an anti-vandal bot, so complaints about AnomieBOT "hiding" or not reverting vandalism are out of place here.
- AnomieBOT's current strategy is "wait 10 minutes to an hour or so to let ClueBot, VoABotII, other anti-vandal bots, or RC Patrollers fix the vandalism". I am open to specific suggestions on detecting vandalism, but keep in mind that the false positive rate of any method must be near zero to be useful.
AnomieBOT honors {{inuse}}; please use it if you have excessive edit conflicts.
If the reference errors or undated tags were caused by vandalism, just revert AnomieBOT's edits along with the vandal's. AnomieBOT will not be offended.
If AnomieBOT made a mistake in correcting a reference error or dating a tag, please correct the error by hand and report the URL of the problem diff below. Don't just revert the bot without fixing the error, or AnomieBOT is likely to "fix" it again in the same broken way before I get a chance to fix the bug.
If you have a problem with T11790, please take the issue up there. You will be having the problem with more than just AnomieBOT's edits.

Thank you.

	Regarding deletions, please note:
If you are here because you think AnomieBOT III deleted an article, please check again. AnomieBOT III deletes redirects when someone else deletes the article the redirect pointed to, and you almost certainly want to talk to that person instead.

	Regarding {{old AfD multi}}, please note:
If you are here because AnomieBOT added {{old AfD multi}} to an article when the old AfD was about a different person with the same name, just remove it. The bot has no way to tell whether it's the same person or a different one.

Archives

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I don't know which bot I should be listening to at Ceviche

So, Cewbot posted this notice of a broken anchor on the talk page several months ago. I noticed it today and after some fumbling around, I was pretty sure I'd removed what was broken, which was fine because there was another ref for the same sentence. However, AnomieBOT "rescued" it with the next edit [1]. I'm starting to feel like either I may have completely misunderstood the situaion, or one or the other of the bots has it wrong... Pinging @Kanashimi: as maintainer of the other bot. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 18:38, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You removed the instance of <ref name="Benson p. 78"> that defined the reference with the bad link, but you left an instance of <ref name="Benson p. 78" /> behind which results in a big red error in the references section. AnomieBOT fixed that by copying the ref body into the <ref name="Benson p. 78" /> you had left behind. If you remove all the instances of the ref from the article, you should be good. Anomie ⚔ 20:30, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, that makes sense. Tbhanks for the reply. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 15:31, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SFO Int'l Airport Reference problem

Hello and good day. The most recent change I made today (was 15 minutes ago) for SFO was reverted back by you, I was able to get it to the present stats page which is up to date yet Reference #1 stated "2016 cited but not invoked" I dont understand why that appeared there when I deleted that info in the edit window concerning the source. What is there now only goes up to December 2022. Maybe you can change it again so it does go to the most recent data (May 2024 I believe). Im sure this can be fixed. Have a good day.Theairportman33531 (talk) 15:30, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Reference #1. Not necessary. Source #242 goes to where it should go. Have a good day.Theairportman33531 (talk) 15:39, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBOT did not revert anything. Your edits left a big red error in the article, which AnomieBOT fixed by copying the body of the ref into a <ref name="stats2016" /> you had left behind. Anomie ⚔ 18:00, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New categories

Why are you creating new maintence categories that are empty. If they aren’t then add the article that falls under that category. JimmyCarterLover1 (talk) 18:54, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JimmyCarterLover1: Please always supply examples of the perceived problem. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:40, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was talking about Category:Uncategorized from March 2024. It’s empty though AnomieBOT said it wasn’t JimmyCarterLover1 (talk) 18:31, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JimmyCarterLover1: It's empty now, but it probably wasn't at the instant that the category page was created (06:07, 24 July 2024). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:05, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Based on recentchanges data, looks like the move of The Dream Show 3: Dream( )scape from Draft:The Dream Show 3: Dream( )scape activated a {{Uncategorized|date=March 2024}} that was already in the article. That tag was later removed. Anomie ⚔ 21:38, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JimmyCarterLover1: So, between 04:08, 24 July 2024 (UTC) and 19:25, 24 July 2024 (UTC) there was at least one page in the category, justifying its existence. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:04, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Without more details, I can only guess at what you're talking about. AnomieBOT creates dated maintenance categories in two cases:

At the end of each month, it creates the categories for the new month. This saves the category temporarily being a redlink when someone adds the first maintenance tag dated with the new month.
If a past dated maintenance category is not empty, AnomieBOT creates it. Sometimes the edit adding a page to the category is reverted, but AnomieBOT can't know that is going to happen.

HTH. Anomie ⚔ 12:05, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rescuing orphaned refs

Hhi Anomie(BOT). I just wanted to say thanks for the great work you do rescuing orphaned refs. It avoids so many broken references. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 06:45, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CFDClerk seems to be stopped

Title. It did not create today's log, nor is Wikipedia:Categories for discussion#Discussions awaiting closure being updated. (The shutoff page is blank.) Is this a phab:T360488 issue? Best, House Blaster (talk · he/they) 03:13, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like some update or other on Toolforge brought down a bunch of the bot's runners and didn't bring them back up again. Restarted. phab:T360488 just makes me have to jump through some extra hoops to do that. Anomie ⚔ 11:53, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Your work with making all the various things AnomieBOT function properly is appreciated, sincerely :) House Blaster (talk · he/they) 12:22, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think this happened again. Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 September 3 was created by Twinkle, and Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2024 September 3 is red at the time of writing. House Blaster (talk • he/they) 01:52, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bot restarted. Anomie ⚔ 11:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be happening again. Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Old unclosed discussions is not being updated. Best, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 19:47, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, restarted. Seems that things somehow just locked up on Toolforge. Anomie ⚔ 00:59, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stopped again... and apologies for the repeated notes. Your work is appreciated, truly. House Blaster (talk • he/they) 00:57, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like the entire bot got f**ked up. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 01:29, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems something on Toolforge took out all the bot's processes. Restarted. Anomie ⚔ 11:35, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template subster

Looks like the template substing isn't working either, have a few pages that have been autosubst for a few days now that still have transclusions. Primefac (talk) 12:38, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, most of AnomieBOT's tasks had fallen victim to the above. I restarted everything that had failed earlier. It'll take a little while for things to catch up, of course. Anomie ⚔ 12:51, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cool cool. I wasn't sure if the above was an "everything is running" or not. Thanks :-) Primefac (talk) 13:07, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TemplateTalkRedirectCreator: Outdated description

The description of the task does not say that redirects are created from talk pages ending in "/styles.css". I originally just added that myself but then I realised that I shouldn't have done that so I reverted. Can you please update the description? Nickps (talk) 22:28, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Anomie ⚔ 12:15, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OrphanReferenceFixer

It would be cool if the OrphanReferenceFixer could notify those who introduced the error. Polygnotus (talk) 09:57, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In theory it probably could, but I'm skeptical that in practice it would do much good. The bot does notify users (with this message) who revert the task's fixes, since they're usually confused as to what the bot is doing. Anomie ⚔ 11:26, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Getting a bot note about putting a link to a dab is one thing, since that's usually an easy fix (and a bot otherwise wouldn't be able to rectify), but since the bot already fixes an orphaned ref I don't really see much point in pointing it out to the user. Primefac (talk) 20:22, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Primefac: Yeah what I mean is that the user would get a notification when the bot cannot fix the problem (so when a new article is added to Category:Pages_with_broken_reference_names and the bot can't fix it). Only downside I can think of is that the bot does not respond immediately but waits for antivandalism bots. Are there any other problems/downsides? Polygnotus (talk) 21:27, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing General Note templates

Hi @AnomieBOT, Thank you for fixing a General Note incorrect information template to IP address Talk Page, i warned and revert before you, So if you have a question? Leave me a message on my talk page Raayaan9911 (talk) 02:09, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Raayaan9911, AnomieBOT is an automated account and cannot reply. What sort of response are you looking for? All the bot did was subst an auto-subst template. Primefac (talk) 12:41, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Primefac, they Can't Reply and Ignored because of bot, i was warned a iP address about incorrect information in their IP address talk page but bot fixed me Raayaan9911 (talk) 12:47, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Raayaan9911: Do you refer to this edit? Its edit summary contains two links explaining why the bot made that edit. See also Template:Uw-error1, which clearly shows how it should be used in order to avoid the kind of problem that the bot fixed. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:56, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Redrose64 I seen Raayaan9911 (talk) 18:53, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 September 3

The bot doesn't seem to have created this today for some reason? 2A0E:1D47:9085:D200:44BF:5DD4:E6F2:E78 (talk) 09:20, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Something on Toolforge seems to have taken out many of the bot's jobs. Bot restarted. Anomie ⚔ 11:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations

AnomieBOT archived an incomplete request from CHUU. I see it was archived because of the {{done}} template, but I've restored the request twice and commented out that template. Even so, the request keeps getting removed. I'd really appreciate it if you could restore it. Thanks! – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:45, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DreamRimmer: I think that "commented out that template" is the key here: the bot looks for the string {{done}} and doesn't care if it's in a comment or not (Legobot does something similar with Template:Rfc). You need to do something that causes that string to no longer occur. If you don't want to remove it entirely, the best thing to do is to mark it with Template:Tl or similar, as in {{done}}. Also, if you revert an edit like this, you must also revert the corresponding edit to the archive (they always go in pairs) - Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations/Completed/57 now has three copies of the "Azarctic → Quetzal" request. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:22, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response, Redrose64. I am aware that archives always go in pairs, as I regularly archive steward permission requests on Meta and manage archiving in some other venues here as well. I didn't make further edits to fix it because I didn't want to engage in an edit war with the bot, so I thought it would be best for the bot owner to handle it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:54, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

user:AnomieBOT/SPERTable has stopped working

This table is crucial to my backlog-shredding routine, what happened? ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 01:15, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems the same with ITNCArchiver.—Bagumba (talk) 04:32, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AlphaBetaGamma: An up to date list may always be found at the bottom of Category:Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests. That does not depend upon any bots. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:27, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems something on Toolforge took out all the bot's processes. Restarted. Anomie ⚔ 11:35, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:AnomieBOT III

Hello, Anomie,

It looks like this bot has missed some updates. Just checking in to make sure everything is okay. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:57, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems something on Toolforge took out all the bot's processes. Restarted. Anomie ⚔ 11:35, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]