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FrescoBot Better source tag

Why does FrescoBot tag with {{Better source|reason=per WP:CIRCULAR}} when there is a more accurate tag where the link actually takes you to the proper section in V: {{Circular reference}}? – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 00:55, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You are right. Updated! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:08, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Don't break the streak — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matroesjka (talk • contribs) 16:53, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

??? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:57, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Macedonia is Greek

Macedonia is a Greek region. It was and ancient Kingdom and a region of Greece for so many years. History can't change — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:A202:3F00:8F2:5017:DFC:8245 (talk) 18:56, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I see... so what? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 19:00, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Brigham Young Family Cemetery" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Harrison v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Here I Come (Britney Spears') listed at Redirects for discussion

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Ramakrishna mission

It was 1st located on river bank opposite1st stage water works and school complex.Then it moved to kambala tank shore and later shifts to its present place on Korukunda road

It’s 1st location was opposite water works and school complex on river bund. 2nd is present Ayakar Bhavan. Now it is on Korukunna road. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2401:4900:18f1:1c83:358b:42ad:e214:bf7 (talk • contribs)

I see... feel free to correct it. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:57, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Invisibile"

Hi, I noticed that in summaries like this, your bot writes "invisibile", not "invisible", which is the English version :-) Eman 235/talk 21:29, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Eman235: opsss... thanks!! :) -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:53, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Query

G'day. I've noticed that FrescoBot is removing alt text from images in galleries. See this for an example. I don't think this is appropriate, as it removes functionality intended to help with accessibility. Can you explain why it is doing this? Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:57, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Peacemaker67! Well, as far as I know the parameters "alt1", "alt2", "alt3", "alt4", etc are not valid and therefore are not used by the browser. Moreover it is the very first time I notice these invalid parameters and for this reason the script did not even try to convert them to a valid parameter name. You can revert the edit and rename these parameter "alt". -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:52, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Shopping malls in India

Hello There, May I know why the "List of shopping malls in India" my edits have been not accepted ? These malls have been opened and running. I have also shared their websites(relevant websites). Please May I know the reason?

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunilkullu (talk • contribs)

@Sunilkullu: I was not involved in that edit. You should contact User:Ajf773. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 13:05, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

File:Conventional 18-wheeler truck diagram.svg

can U contact the author of the picture, and ask to add fairings and skirts please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.218.1.77 (talk • contribs)

Well I could, but... I have no idea of what you're talking about. I suggest you to contact him directly. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:56, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Brand factory wiki

Also started in indore, madhya Pradesh — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:E78D:69EF:DE6C:BD4B:5E10:9206 (talk) 08:45, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry but I completely failed to understand what you are asking. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:56, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

Thank you for your bot FrescoBot. —⁠andrybak (talk) 10:07, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!! :) -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:56, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot is removing working code

FrescoBot is removing "|page=#" as in the example below and leaving the message Bot: galleries with misplaced invisible characters despite not containing any:

<gallery>
File:Manuscript of a Mongolian Sūtra WDL8912.pdf|Mongolian [[sutra]] manuscript, 19th century|page=3
</gallery>

NiluXC (talk) 23:04, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I will fix it! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:31, 14 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Janet Jackson fans are called J Tribe

Janet Jackson fans are called J Tribe. You dont even have Janet Jackson listed on that list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:642:C002:B6CD:BD9C:BDE4:5BB4:92 (talk) 04:28, 14 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

??? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:57, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

First commercial oil well in us not in pa

1819 in mcreary county ky along the cumberland river according to spectrum news. 0600 4 jul 19

Thanks

Carney jackson Richmond ky — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.37.221.20 (talk) 10:05, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

??? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:17, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bots Newsletter, August 2019

Bots Newsletter, August 2019

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Imcorrect Information

The portion of Riddick Bowe's Fight History is incorrect see excerpt below followed by more Correct Information.

" On December 13, 2008, with the help of new manager Bob Bain, Bowe, 41, returned to the ring for the first time in over three and a half years on the undercard of the Wladimir Klitschko versus Hasim Rahman world heavyweight title bout in Mannheim, Germany and won an eight-round unanimous decision over Gene Pukall."

Myself Joseph D Duncan and my partner Herbert Smith both living and working in Mannheim Germany were the actual Managers Responsible for Riddick's Lisesing and training in Mannheim Germany! I have a News clipping of a German Artical proving that we not Bob Bain were in fact his Managers. Shortly after his win at sap arena in Mannheim Riddick and his wife and little girl that we had flown to Germany for his fight returned to the USA and unbeknownst tonus Riddicks wife had approached the Klitschko k2 management and told them to pay them direct and not Herb and Myself. You can contact the Klitschko camp and they can verify that we were in fact the Managers and trainers of Riddick Bowe. Its bad enough he ripped us off at the very least get the story correct. If you send me a good email I can email you a few pictures Proving my information. My contact info is jddjdd007@gmail.com and my phone number is 8324976744...

Respectfully

Joseph D Duncan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C56:7800:3087:C96D:3904:EC15:234E (talk) 12:47, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Riddick Bowe. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. Feel free to modify the article with proper souces. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 14:10, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:K-Way concern

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FrescoBot removing self link

Hi, in this edit frescobot has removed a self link - perfectly logical & reasonable in the vast majority of cases. In this case however the table is transposed on another page Electoral_results_for_the_district_of_Upper_Hunter#1910_by-election which is where the link is intended to be displayed, one of the exceptions to WP:SELFLINK. Any suggestions on how I edit the page so that the link remains for the transclusion without being removed by the bot? Just to be clear I am not criticising the bot nor asking that its rules be changed, I just want to know a workaround to avoid it as I have been creating quite a few of by-election pages with this style. Cheers --Find bruce (talk) 09:32, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:K-Way

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Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority

Please add Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA)in the list.Someone has removed it. Sai Krishna bonda (talk) 20:37, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't understand why you were writing me. I suggest you to talk about this issue within the article discussion page. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:45, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

How bo you cope

How are things going with you Donna dudley (talk) 01:15, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Actually not bad. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:45, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Circular references" and articles about Wikipedia

Please do not add "circular references" tags to articles discussing Wikipedia and using Wikipedia as a primary source, which is explicitly allowed per WP:CIRC, as your bot did here. Maybe don't add it to any article in any subcategory of Category:Wikipedia? —Kusma (t·c) 16:27, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Added to the exceptions. Thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:39, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Frescobot error

Hey, Frescobot made an error here: [1]. There was an extra opening tag. Jerod Lycett (talk) 01:30, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Another error (accidental bolding) introduced in Pleomorphism (microbiology) by [2]. Espresso Addict (talk) 06:56, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing out the issue. I will try to catch that problems in the articles... -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:38, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry !!!

I want to return the article for the Turkey Cup, however, in one of the edits, I was confused and now I cannot return the information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gasforth-2021 (talk • contribs) 10:11, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please write. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gasforth-2021 (talk • contribs) 10:13, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not block me for this error — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gasforth-2021 (talk • contribs) 10:19, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I was not in front of the screen and I was not involved in that article in any way. Moreover I couldn't block you since I'm not an administrator on en.wiki... so I'm not sure about the reason you were writing to me. In any case the problem seems solved now. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:38, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Wide Open Spaces (short flim)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wide Open Spaces (short flim). Since you had some involvement with the Wide Open Spaces (short flim) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:12, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

meteorites

Thank you for quality articles about meteorites such as Fukang (meteorite), and their template, for Widmanstätten pattern, for running the FrescoBot, for believing in civility and assuming good faith, - user with a refreshing name and user page image, repeating (from 10 years ago): you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2380 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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"King Kong(novel)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"CPU (heart…)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"CPU (heart...)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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hi Basilico.

Hi basilico. Thanks for the changes on Francesco Carrozzo. There has been a discussion whether or not the page should be deleted, I believe it’s well set up now after your changes as well and would love to know if you like it. Thank you Serotonine69 (talk) 04:06, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wayback Machine links

In Special:Diff/959700176, FrescoBot changed:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070828233650/https:///

(This quote contains the entire URL that was in the article.)

The bot removed one of the slashes on the end. Considering that the three slashes are not near the start of the URL, I’m not sure what triggered the bot to make this change, nor why the bot removed one slash rather than two slashes. I assume the bot is specifically programmed to recognise Wayback Machine URLs, in which case, perhaps it should also recognise invalid Wayback Machine URLs.

I have now fixed the article, but you might like to take a look at how the bot handles these. Brianjd (talk) 05:26, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks. I will check if there cases that it could be harmful and I will try to improve it. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 08:31, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Peg Entwistle

Hi, Does the circular reference notation re the Steely Dan song "Peg" mean the ref is less than adequate? Should I seek out better source? Thank you! Jameszerukjr (talk) 21:21, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Moscow Academy for Tourism, Hotel and Catering Business" (under the goverment of Moscow)" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Moscow Academy for Tourism, Hotel and Catering Business" (under the goverment of Moscow). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 9#Moscow Academy for Tourism, Hotel and Catering Business" (under the goverment of Moscow) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 10:54, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Hello I am an Italian user and I don't know if my page seems copied of google Traslate----Dany 09:17, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

@Dany1000: Ciao! Anch'io sono italiano. Ho dato un'aggiustatina a The Series of Last e direi che per il momento ci può stare. Nel corso del tempo i madrelingua la sistemeranno meglio. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 14:07, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

FrescotBot error

Hi. I think this edit was a false positive. The "Chatuchak–Queen Sirikit–Wachirabenchathat park complex" is a park complex consisting of the three individual linked parks, so the word park shouldn't be included in the link to Wachirabenchathat Park. I'm not sure how the bot works, but it seems that constructs like "thinhorn and bighorn sheep" would also result in similar false positives. --Paul_012 (talk) 15:48, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Paul 012: There was actually a filter to block this kind of questionable cases, but it was pretty simple. Now I improved it greatly and the accuracy should be much better. Thanks for pointing it out! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 08:04, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bot malfunction

Hi Basilicofresco! This is somewhat an edge case, but I came across some unwanted behavior from Frescobot. The behavior relates to two colleges, Pomona College and Pitzer College, that have joint athletic teams. I therefore set them up a little while ago so that the athletics section for Pomona's page would be transcluded to Pitzer's via an excerpt, so that they would remain synced. For the first sentence, I used this code: The school's varsity athletic teams compete in conjunction with <noinclude>[[Pitzer College]]</noinclude><includeonly>[[Pomona College]]</includeonly> (another consortium member) (so that at Pitzer's page it says the teams compete with Pomona). When Frescobot came through, it removed the wikilink around Pomona, presumably since it assumed that a self-link must be an error. Is this part of WP:GENFIXES? Could the code be modified to specify that self-links within includeonly tags are not necessarily errors? Thanks for helping me sort this out. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 20:22, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This kind of transclusions in the article namespace are somewhat odd and unexpected... In any case I just disabled the self-link check to stay on the safe side (this kind of transclusions are not easy detect in any possible case). -- Basilicofresco (msg) 01:10, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

More articles are now using transclusion. There have always been a few, but {{Excerpt}} is more flexible than the built-in section transclusion and is opening new possibilities. Certes (talk) 11:01, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot 12

Thanks for all the good work, especially FrescoBot task 12 which is making some very welcome improvements.

I wonder if there is scope for finding cases which would change the link target, such as brown [[trout]] → [[brown trout]]. Editing these could go very wrong if done thoughtlessly and so should not be automated, but I suspect that your code could easily be modified to find and list cases for human consideration. As well as making vague but acceptable links more specific, it could fix a number of plausible but wrong links such as Jacob Murphy scored a goal. There used to be a tool which did something similar, but I can no longer find it; I think it got left behind in the Toolforge move. Certes (talk) 23:24, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Certes: Hi! No, the bot won't change the link target. When two links are fused, then the most specific link will be preserved. No new links will be automatically "guessed". The basic idea at the moment is to cover the cases that can be safely fixed in an automated way. However I guess that in the future I could create a script capable of double checking the article list and create a list of plausible better links. Then this list could be manually inspected and a collection of human approved fixes could be included in a future version of the original script. It should be feasible. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:04, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot concern

Hey, just wanted to bring to your attention that in the course of doing its job, FrescoBot is accidentally running over some driver pages in WikiProject NASCAR and consolidating links that normally stay separated. As best described in this diff, normally links to both the season and the race are kept. It's a load of piping but I guess it's what the project has been doing since longer than I've been around. I don't know if there's a filter you can add to exclude editing driver pages or WikiProject NASCAR pages in general or if it's a case of manual reverts being the best option. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks, Willsome429 (say hey or see my edits!) 01:24, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Willsome429: I see... Ok, no problem, to stay on the safe side I will exclude any page with the word "NASCAR". Thank you for letting me know! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:22, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sea of blue

Hi Balisicofresco. Part of this edit caused MOS:SOB so I've reverted that part of it. Thanks --Northernhenge (talk) 13:52, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bot task 12

Hi, I just came across the following edit [3] by Frescobot. It changed [[Thal Desert|Thal]] dessert to [[Thal desert]]. I see that as an improvement, and probably a large number of similar edits are improvements as well, but I don't think this sort of task should be handled by an automated process. It's not difficult to imagine all kinds of situations where the link has a good reason to be the way it is. For example in something like The photograph was taken in either the [[Cholistan desert|Cholistan]] or the [[Thal Desert|Thal]] desert it's arguably clearer if the word "desert" isn't part of the link. Also, in long lists of linked entities, the link scope in each case could have deliberately been restricted for better link focus. – Uanfala (talk) 17:47, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Uanfala: I agree. Actually the bot should skip most of these special cases. However keep in mind that such a consolidated link is more understandable: clicking on "Thal" will I land on the administrative subdivision or the desert? Thal desert is clearer. In any case if you will encounter one questionable edit, please let me know. Thanks! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:06, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And here's a real-life example of this hypothetical case: [4]. – Uanfala (talk) 18:16, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've just had a look at a dozen or so recent edits by the bot, and there are a few edits that definitely shouldn't have been done: like here [5], where the bot completely changed what was linked, or here [6], where the bot created a single red link that overwrote the earlier sequence of a less specific blue link + more specific red link. – Uanfala (talk) 17:56, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It did't change the link. The link was already present... -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:06, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the original text definitely needed attention, but the bot did change the link: from [[English language|English]] [[Teaching English as a foreign language|education]] in [[education in Taiwan|Taiwan]] to [[English language|English]] [[education in Taiwan]]. The original text was trying, admittedly not very elegantly, to provide links for both "English education" and for "education in Taiwan", and after the bot's edit only the second one remained. – Uanfala (talk) 18:13, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the bot should ignore cases where the link it would retain is red. And if you can get the bot to change dessert to desert in the right places, I'll be very impressed! Certes (talk) 18:11, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And here's one case where an edit results in a change of scope of a modifier: [7]. The meaning of the sentence is that evil can be defined as either the opposite or the absence of good, but the bot's merging of the link made it appear (at least at first sight) as though it's a juxtaposition of "absence of good" vs. "the opposite" (rather than "opposite of good" vs. "absence of good"). This is not likely to confuse readers, but definitely breaks the flow of the prose. – Uanfala (talk) 18:09, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the red link does not seem a common occurrence and if the author decided to create a red link... who knows, maybe there is a reason. :) (WP:REDYES)

Burying a link to Teaching English as a foreign language below "education" is an example of really really bad piping... we cannot expect a great solution by an automated program. In any case the result is a way better then the starting point. We should keep the links as simple as possible (WP:NOPIPE).

The case "Absence of good" is totally different. It is actually a good example... I have to meditate over it. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:31, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the problem with the relink was not that the bot preserved it, but that it removed the blue link that anchored it. And as for the education example, my own personal preference would be for simplicity as well – I would have simply unlinked everything there. But the bot still made a bad situation slightly worse: if links are to be there at all, then a simplification that keeps both specific links is better than one that arbitrarily discards one. I'd go for something like [[Teaching English as a foreign language|English education]] in [[education in Taiwan|Taiwan]].
On a broader note, from the 15 or so random edits I've had a look at, the bot had made a lot of bad links good, it had made some bad links worse, and it had made a few good links bad. I don't know, I find it a bit surprising that this task is being done by a bot in the first place. There's too much context, too many possible exceptions to the rules. – Uanfala (talk) 18:55, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think this bot makes Wikipedia any more annoying than it already was. Some editors spend hours carefully constructing sentences and links, only to find someone else, or in this case a bot, comes along and undermines it by changing the nuances of the meaning or (when it's a human) just trashing the punctuation or whatever. Such is life on Wikipedia. The answer is to watch any text you care about and keep an eye on what people and bots do to it. If they just change it a bit and it's fairly inconsequential then I wouldn't discourage anyone by undoing it but if they've broken something or made the meaning uncertain or wrong, that's what revert is for. A great many edits make improvements, so we should assume good faith and sufficient literacy. --Northernhenge (talk) 20:45, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering if we need some sort of protective enclosure along the lines of {{not a typo}} that could be put around the rare cases that are better left without this bot's attention, but I suppose {{bots|deny=...}} is adequate. Certes (talk) 21:06, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Link specificity?

Hi! Further to the above: your bot is going round making "link specificity" edits that as far as I can see are not covered by Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking#Link specificity. If someone wants to link separately to the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania in the phrase "Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania" (as at Helen Boaden‎), what policy reason prevents them from doing so? If someone links the Charolais cattle breed as at Limousin cattle, why do you think it necessary to include the disambiguatory "cattle" in the link? Would you kindly either post a link to the consensus for such changes, or stop making them until such consensus is achieved? Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:18, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Coming here for the same thing. This edit at First Battle of Newtonia was later reversed by Lieutcoluseng. Since these edits lack consensus, I don't think the bot should be making them. Hog Farm _Bacon 14:55, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidstone#Radio_and_television

Hi, I made some changes to the Maidstone page to highlight there is a new Maidstone Radio station as there is now not any local radio stations other than the Maidstone Community Radio, please can you help with my revision, this is the first time I've edited a Wiki Page, — Preceding unsigned comment added by WeAreMaidstone (talk • contribs) 14:02, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Denying FrescoBot

I'm going to have to set {{bots|deny=FrescoBot}} on any plant list I create until it stops inserting spaces in the wrong places. See this edit. Superscripts (and symbols that function as superscripts) after a link that support that link in some way are never separated by a space from the link. - Dank (push to talk) 20:25, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oops ... I see that FrescoBot isn't listed at Category:Wikipedia bots which are exclusion compliant. If the bot doesn't accept denial requests and repeatedly makes that mistake, I'll have to ask for the bot to be shut down. - Dank (push to talk) 20:32, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Aargh, good catch, Dank! I've already set {{bots|deny=AWB,FrescoBot}} on several pages. However, I don't think the bot needs to be shut down, as it hasn't edited since 17 August. I'm assuming that that's because Basilicofresco is rethinking strategy a bit. Making it exclusion-compliant would be a good first step, I think, BF. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:01, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed on all of that. - Dank (push to talk) 21:04, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Dank: Would it help to create a template such as {{Species or genus|Cyperus|imbecillis}} to display Genus species in blue if the article exists and Genus species * (or even Genus species) if not? Then the list would update automatically when a species article is created (or deleted). The coding might be a simplified copy of {{ill}}, which performs a similar task. It would need a couple of optional parameters to link, say, Viola redlinkii to the genus rather than the musical instrument, but such links would need to be piped anyway. Certes (talk) 21:29, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you're willing to do the coding on this, then please ask at WT:PLANTS to see if there's interest in that feature. - Dank (push to talk) 21:35, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Dank: Of course it is exclusion compliant. In any case the exclusion is not needed since I can easily add exceptions for this peculiar kind of wikilinks. Consider that it's a pretty old fix and nobody ever complained about it... but I can solve the problem. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:34, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 22:34, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Stuffuser update ww2 to ww3

your wrong about the ww2 stuffuser update ww2 to ww3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.55.11.96 (talk) 19:00, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

??? I don't think so. ;) -- Basilicofresco (msg) 16:04, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Samuel Eto'o Fils

I notice that there's a mistake in the number of uefa champions league titles that Samuel Eto'o won. He won four titles but you recorded 3(1 with real Madrid,2 with Barcelona and 1 with Inter Milan). He met the criteria for winning the title as he was in the 27 man squad that won the title in 2000 and played 3 matches for them,totaling 53 minutes. I suggest you make the correction so that people won't be misled. Thanks Emmy jhayy (talk) 02:06, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Samuel Eto'o. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. @Emmy jhayy: feel free to modify the article with proper souces. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:59, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Help?

i need help 12:21, 25 August 2020 (UTC)12:21, 25 August 2020 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:CA:4302:ACE0:3C25:D46D:1FF9:2D18 (talk)

How can I help you? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:59, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Samuel Eto'o Fils

How am I going to do that? I need the steps to take. Thanks in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emmy jhayy (talk • contribs) 16:05, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Emmy jhayy: I suggest you to ask it on Talk:Samuel Eto'o page. It's the best way. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 16:58, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting error after link cleanup

Hi. I've just removed a couple of ' characters from before links in List of African animals extinct in the Holocene, where they were added by your bot during cleanup. Thought you might like to know. Robin S (talk) 22:46, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"39 Boo" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect 39 Boo. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 September 14#39 Boo until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 17:30, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of descriptive plant epithets (I–Z)

The problem is that my watchlist is set up to screen out bot edits. I guess i'll try putting bot edits back in my watchlist, but if it becomes burdensome, then we'll have to go back to denying bot edits in my Featured Lists. The Featured Content processes are, in some ways, incompatible with the bot-centric approach to editing Wikipedia. (Bottom line: it's not your fault or my fault, but the FC processes don't work if we're not respectful of the general idea that reviewers should have a say.) I'll keep an eye on my lists and let you know if there's a bot problem. - Dank (push to talk) 17:15, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Links to draft articles

Hi Basilicofresco - FrescoBot is creating links to draft articles, by amending ELs to WP, as here and here - as such links contravene MOS:DRAFTNOLINK could it be trained to delete them instead? - Best wishes - Arjayay (talk) 10:47, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Arjayay: Hi! Actually the bot is not creating these links, it is just removing their disguise. The links were already present and active... maybe the links are now just more visible and it is not necessarily a bad thing. Talking about a deletion on sight, well it does not sound easy for an automated software... just look at your first example. Moreover at the moment I'm not authorized for such a task and so I would have to fill a new WP:BRFA. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:00, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK - I know the bot "is just removing their disguise" as I said "creating links to draft articles, by amending ELs to WP" - I suggested these should be prevented at the edit filter noticeboard which led to agreement at Wikipedia:Edit filter/Requested that such links should be automatically prevented, but no-one has, so-far, implemented it - Arjayay (talk) 18:22, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Arjayay: Ok, sorry for the misunderstanding. In any case that would mean that I will be forced to leave these ELs to draft ns alone. If you want to filter links to draft ns, then I suggest to filter the external link style as well. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 08:05, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The fact that bots create such links when articles are moved from main-space to draft-space was raised, and it was agreed that they can easily be excluded - whether this would cover your bot as well, I don't know. You may wish to comment at Wikipedia:Edit filter/Requested as the initial discussion has been archived. - Arjayay (talk) 09:15, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have now added a brief comment to that thread - you may wish to amplify/improve my explanation - Arjayay (talk) 09:46, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:K-Way

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Hi Basilicofresco, thank you for pointing out the circular reference in the draft: Origins Science. I have now fixed that, so is the draft ready for publication now? Thank you, Philandrews04 Philandrews04 (talk) 01:59, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bot activity - space after italics

Good morning. I noticed you had deployed one of your BOTs on an article Pi Delta Nu, back on 4 Nov 2020.

You changed this line:

Its motto, as cited soon after WWII, was: "Victory Through Foresight." ^[1]

by removing the space between the closing "end italics" markup just prior to the reference. Thus rendering:

Its motto, as cited soon after WWII, was: "Victory Through Foresight."^[1]

For readability, I disagree with this specific change. When set without that space, the letters that end the prior text are kerned quite close to the start of the reference superscript, and readability is compromised. I think it preferable that in all instances like this, we suppress this BOT change. Perhaps the BOT should be programmed to add such a space where this occurs.

Has this come up before, with any relevant discussion? I didn't see any. Jax MN (talk) 16:51, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

^ ^a ^b test

@Jax MN: I added it to the exceptions. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:50, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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"The Netherlands National Holidays," listed at Redirects for discussion

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You mentioned wrong District for Baba Jaimal Singh ji

Baba Jaimal Singh was born in Ghoman village of District Gurdaspur Punjab India Kalsighomanvi (talk) 02:55, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Baba Jaimal Singh was born at Village Ghoman pin code 143514 and Situated in District Gurdaspur of Punjab india — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kalsighomanvi (talk • contribs) 03:02, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I see... you are free to correct it, this is Wikipedia. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:07, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bot and scores

Is it possible to prevent the bot checking syntax within <score> tags (ex. here)? Lilypond is currently disabled, and while there is a temporary solution to keep the previously written scores available, and there is some progress on the task to re-enable it, any changes to a score disable display of it, so it would be best if this could not happen again for the time being. Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 01:41, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@RandomCanadian: Fixed, thanks! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 13:34, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot on Paradise (disambiguation)

This edit by your bot appears to be an error. My correction here. Just letting you know.--Commander Keane (talk) 04:14, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there was a mistake and the bot noticed it. It was just not able to fix it by itself. Pointing out a problem is better than nothing in these cases. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 13:39, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted comment about Adolf Hitler having lived in Spring Hill, Augusta County, VA

Your bot added "Adolf Hitler once lived here" to the Spring Hill, Virginia page which is located in rural Augusta County, VA. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:151:c300:ddc0:d836:b341:29b4:7e07 (talk • contribs)

No, it doesn't. Look at the history. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:07, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

removed blacklisted url

I noticed that you removed some Kickstater links. Hi, can you point me to the wikipedia page where blacklisted urls are listed (I can't find it). Thanks Sciencefish (talk) 19:07, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Sciencefish: the original request was here: MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/October_2020#Crowdfunders. The actual filter is here: MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. You can read more about these filters here: Wikipedia:Spam-blacklisting. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:37, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Does this mean any links added before the blacklisting need to be removed manually? Sciencefish (talk) 09:16, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Sciencefish: No, but some links were added after the blacklisting using a small misspelling in order to fool the filter. (es. extra "l" at the beginning, extra "|" in the middle, extra ":" after http, etc.) Some simple misspellings can be detected and fixed by bots like FrescoBot (my bot). It's quite annoying because as soon the bot try to save the page it is blocked by the filter and the processing will be halted. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 19:47, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot and Rosalía (singer)

[8] ← I think this edit broke the formatting by writing three apostrophes in a row. --Moscow Connection (talk) 14:02, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing out and fixing it. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 19:47, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Hampe - please look

Hi, Could you please check my first englisch article, please? I´made it in German Wikipedia and let translate it professional by a friend for free. But I got in trouble with the new technic. Many greetings and thaks.Monna RyMonna Ry (talk) 08:19, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:46, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: Thank you so much!! :) -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:21, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bugs in FrescoBot maybe

Okay, I do not have any bugs, but here is a list of all pages that blocked the bot. You might want to look at what your bot would do to these pages, and why it was blocked. I have done this for a bot that I work on and found quite a few bugs that no one ever reported to me or anyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AnomieBOT/Nobots_Hall_of_Shame/ AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:16, 16 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Space after comma in pages parameter of a cite template

In this edit to the Cedar waxwing article, Fresco bot added a space after a comma separating non-sequential pages. I don't see that this is supported by the documentation for |pages=, which makes no mention of a space being needed (at least in the documentation that I looked at). In this case, this particular parameter used a non-standard external link for the previous page. () Perhaps that was involved in the bot's decision. Or maybe not. In any case, I don't think a bot should be adding such pages to this parameter. Jason Quinn (talk) 01:11, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Seeking for help editing an article

Hello Ser Amantio di Nicolao I am a student who is new to Wikipedia. One of my courses consists in editing and updating the Kirindy Forest Wikipedia page, I saw that you edited the Kirindy Mitea National Park page and was wondering if you would be able to provide me with some feedback and help me improve it.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marie Salichon (talk • contribs) 01:51, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:K-Way

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"LiFe" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Circular reference

My removal of {{circular reference}} for the Wikipedia citation on COinS was reverted by FrescoBot. This citation seems legitimate, because it's documenting something about Wikipedia itself. Is there a better markup for this or is this a bug or am I missing something? -- Beland (talk) 01:42, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Beland: Sorry for the delay in this reply. The edit was immediately fixed and a new exception was added. Thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:10, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, great; thanks! -- Beland (talk) 12:51, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

not published yet

I put one draft of FastStream Technologies that is not published yet. and I can't find any issue please provide me Information where I get issues facing for Publish fastStream Draft — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sahil22111997 (talk • contribs)

Important: Need to Publish as soon as possible if all circumstances as per Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sahil22111997 (talk • contribs)

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Draft:FastStream Technologies. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. Actually I'm not sure how I can help you. Did you check Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)? @Sahil22111997: -- Basilicofresco (msg) 20:44, 3 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fivizzano

The map does not show the Location of Fivizzano. It shows the middle off the Atlantic Ocean. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.40.27.252 (talk • contribs)

Strange, it works properly to me. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:32, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot

Hello, Basilicofresco,

I regularly check FrescoBot's contributions to Drafts as I keep tracking of expiring drafts, CSD G13s. And I noticed that the bot has made few edits in the Draft space since July, just 6 edits since July 29, 2021. I don't know how this bot works, how it is assigned edits to make but I just wondered if there were changes made or any problems that caused it to stay out of Draft space. It just stopped rather abruptly in July so I thought I'd check in with you. It's not necessarily a problem as most drafts do not become articles in main space but I was just curious about it. Thanks for any answer you can provide. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:27, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Basilicofresco,

I see that you are back, checking in on Wikipedia, but you haven't responded to my query. FrescoBot did a lot of editing in the Draft space and that has basically ceased at the old rate of activity in July. What has changed? Are there problems now that aren't getting fixed? Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:25, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Basilicofresco,

Since you aren't replying, maybe you could just give me a link to where this might have been discussed, that would be great. Happy holidays. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:51, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Liz:! Sorry for the looooong delay in the answer! Well actually this year was a really busy time for me and I had been forced in an almost complete wikipause. I reduced as well the number of edits on ns0. During the upcoming vacations I will finally update the pc and the bot suite in order to come back to work as I used to do. Thanks for writing. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:22, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I understand you taking a WikiBreak but I didn't know that bots were paused then as well. I hope you were able to take care of off-Wiki life and that you are having a pleasant New Years! We'll see FrescoBot back at work among the drafts when it happens! Take care, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:07, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Y 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (N2 3 denied, ? 3 withdrawn, and 2 expired).

September 2019

Y Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · N2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · ? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

Y OAbot 3, DannyS712 bot 47, Pathbot 2, PearBOT 2, DannyS712 bot 59, DannyS712 bot 62, HasteurBot 14, PearBOT 4, WOSlinkerBot 4, MilHistBot 5
Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill: TAnthony pointed out that reFill 2's bug reports were going unanswered; creator Zhaofeng Li had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, Curb Safe Charmer had taken up the mantle, saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!"

November 2019

Y BHGbot 4, YiFeiBot 2, DannyS712 bot III 64 · ? PearBOT
Old bots do new tricks: DannyS712 bot III 64 prowled redirects, YiFeiBot 2 archived GoCE requests, and BHGbot 4 removed links to portals deleted at MfD (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator BrownHairedGirl's request).

December 2019

Y DemonDays64 Bot, DannyS712 bot III 66, Bot1058 6, Monkbot 15, MilHistBot 6, PearBOT 5, DannyS712 bot IV 65 · N2 SportsStatsBot · Xinbenlv bot, SteveBot 8
Redirects to be autopatrolled: A RfC took place at WP:NPP, closing with unanimous consensus that new redirects should be automatically marked as patrolled by bot. DannyS712 wasted no time, and submitted DannyS712 bot III 66 the next day; it passed two days after that.
200,000 bios get short descs: Along a similar vein, Bot1058 6 was approved to remove disambiguation pages from Category:Monitored short pages and a new bot (DemonDays64 Bot) changed lots of http links to https using JavaScript Wiki Browser. One particularly neat task, PearBOT 5, automatically generated short descriptions for more than 200,000 biographies.

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
Will reFill ever get fixed?
What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Bots Newsletter, January 2022

BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.

Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.

Overall
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 BRFAs. Of these, Y 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with N2 8 denied, ? 2 withdrawn, and 2 expired).

January 2020

Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.

Y ST47Bot, Seppi333Bot, Qbugbot 4 · N2 PkbwcgsBot 25, PkbwcgsBot 26
A new Pywikibot release dropped support for Python 3.4, and it was expected that support for Python 2.7 would be removed in coming updates. Toolforge itself planned to drop Python 2 support in 2022.
Two new bots dropped in January 2020: ST47Bot, the successor to STBot, and Seppi333Bot, whose task was to perform a weekly update of four "massive" wikitables for WikiProject Molecular Biology.
Cydebot, an adminbot operated by Cyde since 2006, was blocked after going berserk on categories that hadn't yet been CfD'd.

February 2020

Y AnomieBOT 78, Cewbot 2, DannyS712 bot 67, DannyS712 bot III 63, PearBOT 6, DemonDays64 Bot 2 · N2 PearBOT
On February 1, some concerns were raised about ListeriaBot performing "nonsense" edits. Semi-active operator Magnus Manske (who originally coded the Phase II software|precursor of MediaWiki) was pinged. Meanwhile, the bot was temporarily blocked for several hours until the issue was diagnosed and resolved.
On February 18, ST47Bot got into a tussle with Amalthea (bot), and had to be partially-blocked from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview.

March 2020

Y MajavahBot, SDZeroBot, TheSandBot 6, TheSandBot 7, Bitbotje, FACBot 6, TheSandBot 8, Qbugbot 5, Cewbot 3, SDZeroBot 2, PrimeBOT 31, WikiCleanerBot 12 · AntiCompositeBot
In March, a long discussion was started at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy by Skdb about the troubling trend of bots "expiring" without explanation after their owners became inactive. This can happen for a variety of reasons -- API changes break code, hosting providers' software updates break code, hosting accounts lapse, software changes make bots' edits unnecessary, and policy changes make bots' edits unwanted. The most promising solution seemed to be Toolforge hosting (although it has some problems of its own, like the occasional necessity of refactoring code).
Some of the twelve bot tasks approved this month were TheSandBot 6 (removing blocked users from Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues), and TheSandBot 7 (removing unblocked users from Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for promotional user names). SDZeroBot 2 was approved to refine geographic stub tags. New bots approved this month were MajavahBot (to patrol WP:EFFPR), SDZeroBot (to merge stub tags), and Bitbotje (fixing DISPLAYTITLE modifications, DEFAULTSORT errors and broken behavior switches in draftspace).

April 2020

Y TheSandBot 9, BHGbot 5, DannyS712 bot 69, SDZeroBot 3, ST47ProxyBot, WugBot 4, SDZeroBot 4, DatBot 10, WikiCleanerBot 11, WikiCleanerBot 13, WikiCleanerBot 14, AntiCompositeBot 2, Cewbot 4 · N2 DaedanBot 1 · Creffbot
A discussion on the bot noticeboard, "Re-examination of ListeriaBot", was started by Barkeep49, who pointed out repeated operation outside the scope of its BRFA (i.e. editing pages in mainspace, and adding non-free images to others). Some said it was doing good work, and others said it was operating beyond its remit. It was blocked on April 10; the next day it was unblocked, reblocked from article space, reblocked "for specified non-editing actions", unblocked, and indeffed. The next week, several safeguards were implemented in its code by Magnus; the bot was allowed to roam free once more on April 18.
ST47ProxyBot joined the stable in April, after a BRFA started in December was finally completed. As an adminbot, it was authorized to block IP addresses belonging to open proxies, public VPN services, and web hosts. New tasks approved for existing bots included BHGbot 5 (diffusing categories), TheSandBot 9 (taking over some tasks from the inactive RonBot), and WugBot 4 (updating data at {{Interactive COVID-19 maps}}). Also, DatBot 10 was approved to scale down non-free SVGs — I didn't even know that was a thing.
A discussion at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy was started by Thryduulf about whether WP:BOTCOMM should explicitly specify that bot operators must be responsive to concerns raised on English Wikipedia specifically (as opposed to Phabricator, SourceForge, Toolforge, et cetera). Eventually, the policy was amended to its current form:

Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via unified login, like a talk page at Commons or at Italian Wikipedia could also be acceptable [...] External sites like Phabricator or GitHub (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise anonymity) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.

May 2020

Y MajavahBot 3, DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, Dreamy Jazz Bot 4, QEDKbot, William Avery Bot 2, DannyS712 bot 68, PrimeBOT 32, TheSandBot 10, Bot1058 7, BHGbot 6, EaglesBot 2, Cewbot 5, WikiCleanerBot 17 · N2 MDanielsBot, PhuzBot 3, Gedimon · ? PearBOT 7
MajavahBot 3, an impressively meta bot task, was approved this month for maintaining a list of bots running on the English Wikipedia. The page, located at User:MajavahBot/Bot status report, is updated every 24 hours; it contains a list of all accounts with the bot flag, as well as their operator, edit count, last activity date, last edit date, last logged action date, user groups and block status.
Other approvals for this month were William Avery Bot 2 (processing redirects in {{R from scientific name}}), DannyS712 bot 68 (allowing users to schedule bot reminders for themselves), TheSandBot 10 (removing blocked/locked users from Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices), Bot1058 7 (updating Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests/Permalink), Dreamy Jazz Bot 4 (adding {{WikiProject Biography|living=no}} to talk pages where their associated article is in a year of death category), and QEDKbot (deleting and nominating empty categories).
General syntax fixing tasks were approved for DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, PrimeBOT 32, BHGbot 6, Cewbot 5, and EaglesBot 2, as well as WikiCleanerBot 15, 16, and 17.
Seven bots who fell below activity requirements (with neither the bots nor their operators having any edits or logged actions in two years) had their bot flags removed. They were NekoBot, Robert SkyBot, DASHBotAV, VoxelBot, JackieBot, ReferenceBot, and CensusBot.
On May 12, EmausBot was blocked.

June 2020

Y QEDKbot 2, AnomieBOT 79, WOSlinkerBot 6, Yapperbot 2, Yapperbot, AnomieBOT 80, Dreamy Jazz Bot 5, WikiCleanerBot 18, HasteurBot 15, MusikBot II 4, NoSandboxesHere · N2 RedWarn · ? Seppi333Bot 2
In July 2017, Headbomb made a proposal that a section of the Wikipedia:Dashboard be devoted to bots and technical issues. In November 2019, Lua code was written superseding Legobot's tasks on that page, and operator Legoktm was asked to stop them so that the new code could be deployed. After no response to pings, a partial-block of Legobot for the dashboard was proposed. Some months later, on June 16, Headbomb said: "A full block serves nothing. A partial block solves all current issues [...] Just fucking do it. It's been 3 years now." The next day, however, Legoktm disabled the task, and the dashboard was successfully refactored.
On June 7, RexxS blocked Citation bot for disruptive editing, saying it was "still removing links after request to stop". A couple weeks later, a discussion on the bots noticeboard was opened, saying "it is a widely-used and useful bot, but it has one of the longest block logs for any recently-operating bot on Wikipedia". While its last BRFA approval was in 2011, its code and functionality had changed dramatically since then, and AntiCompositeNumber requested that BAG require a new BRFA. Maintainer AManWithNoPlan responded that most blocks were from years ago (when it lacked a proper test suite), and problems since then had mostly been one-off errors (like a June 2019 incident in which a LTA had "weaponized" the bot to harass editors).
David Tornheim opened a discussion about whether bots based on closed-source code should be permitted, and proposed that they not. He cited a recent case in which a maintainer had said "I can only suppose that the code that is available on GitHub is not the actual code that was running on [the bot]". Some disagreed: Naypta said that "I like free software as much as the next person, and I strongly believe that bot operators should make their bot code public, but I don't think it should be that they must do so".
Two new bots had their first BRFAs approved: Yapperbot, to replace Legobot for handling the Feedback Request Service, and NoSandboxesHere, to remove {{user sandbox}} from articles in draftspace using Category:Non-userspace pages using User sandbox.

Conclusion

What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project?
What's the deal with all those book links that InternetArchiveBot is adding to articles?
Should we keep using Gerrit for MediaWiki?
What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits?

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome back!

Hello, Basilicofresco,

I see you are not editing much but I ran into FrescoBot and see that it is back to making page corrections! Glad to have it back at work, thanks very much! Maybe you will return one day, too? ;-) Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:15, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot modification

Hi Basilicofreso, I just want mention that here, where the "]" and the "l" were accidentally interchanged, FrescoBot was not able to correct this. I have no idea whether the bot can be enhanced to handle such cases – otherwise I agree with your opinion from 13:39, 28 February 2021 above: "Pointing out a problem is better than nothing in these cases". --Cyfal (talk) 16:01, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reformating poetry

Is there a way to stop your bot from repeatedly removing the stanza spacing of a poem as it did in Through a Glass Darkly (poem)? It doesn't make sense to read this material in one long paragraph chunk which the bot implements. - Abovfold (talk) 06:25, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Abovfold: Hi! In order to properly space a poem I suggest you to use instead the tag <poem> ... </poem>. In this way everything will be easier and you will not be forced to introduce multiple empty lines. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:09, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion: Turning interwiki external links into interlanguage links

Hi Basilicofresco, I have a suggestion for FrescoBot: Instead of this modification, woudn't that be better? (It seems I am the first suggesting this, if not, my apologies – I've found only this.) --Cyfal (talk) 15:22, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery duplicate fix ignores page selection

FrescoBot's edit Special:Diff/1092788858 is problematic. The bot noticed that File:William Blake, a critical essay (Swinburne).pdf is mentioned twice in one of the galleries and deleted one of the mentions. However, the bot did not account for the fact that those two mentions are intentional, because one of them has a selector |page=2. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:11, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery example

Bot removed an example of gallery code from Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Formatting and illustrating articles/Adding images. How could the example be restored in a suitable way? --Geniac (talk) 21:55, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed! (at the time) -- Basilicofresco (msg) 20:03, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Frescobot

Hi,

Frescobot keeps adding spaces after commas in numbers at Kaktovik numerals (within a few weeks of being reverted).

— kwami (talk) 08:41, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed! Thanks for letting me know that! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 20:02, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery Removal

Hi, Just noticed that the Gallery has been emptied by Frescobot on the Covered Bridge page. It says 'Bot: galleries syntax and minor changes' in the edit summary but I can't see how fixing gallery syntax should result in no images. 203.97.79.53 (talk) 19:15, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well on the first line there was <gallery class="center": it was missing the closing >. It was not a minor issue and the bot did not find the content of such gallery. I proper fixed the problem. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 20:01, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

PhotosByZo

How can I get a wiki page for PhotosByZo ? 2601:483:4D80:3780:0:0:0:F4C2 (talk) 01:27, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The man hazrat umar very strong person

Tell hight and voice loin 39.34.181.99 (talk) 01:08, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure about the meaning of this message... -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:48, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Infobox changes

Why are the Infobox changes with spaces, ex. Special:Diff/1149372720? Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 23:42, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Dušan Kreheľ: Hi! Actually for example between +421 and 51 there is not a normal space: it's a special character called 'NO-BREAK SPACE' (U+00A0). It should not be used, especially within an infobox. You can use this webpage to check the characters. --Basilicofresco (msg) 11:46, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

Precious
Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:29, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"POSE ()" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect POSE () has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 April 20 § POSE () until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 03:27, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bot edit at Pak Mong

This edit didn't work out well. Resulting formatting ends up in a display issue. I have reverted the bot edit. Thanks. Underwaterbuffalo (talk) 08:14, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Same thing happened again. I have undone the edit again. Underwaterbuffalo (talk) 05:32, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Now I understood the root of the problem. I suggested the solution here. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:18, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot made an error

At Ophelia Records (diff 1174865008) · • SUM1 • · (talk) 01:02, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Frescobot

I feel it is not appropriate that it edits drafts on the cusp of being winnowed out with G13. While this does no active harm, I think you might consider filtering these out from action. It may be easier to eliminate Draft space from the bot's processing, though its tasks are useful for an active draft. You may wish to ask for the opinions of others. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 06:34, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Came here to say the above. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 23:09, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Timtrent: @Rotideypoc41352: Hi! This request sounds a bit strange to me... but I probably failed to grasp the matter, so please help me to understand the problem. Are you asking me to stop the bot from improving the drafts articles just because some of them are actually abandoned drafts that are going to be deleted? You know, this will prevent the bot from fixing problems on the active drafts and you agree it is a useful activity. Did I understand correctly? How could avoiding some correct edits on probably soon to be deleted pages worth more than this useful activity on active drafts? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:39, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The WP:G13 counter should count down from the last human edit. Problem is that Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned drafts or AfC submissions is automatically populated after a draft with the AfC template has no edits whatsoever for six months, although this also does apply if the only edits are bot edits. Bot-edited drafts would need to be manually tagged with {{db-g13}} or {{db-afc}}.

The rest of this reply is just my opinion: I looked at Special:Diff/1175926678 and wondered (genuinely, not as a rhetorical question) if it was worth potentially having to manually tag Draft:Trevor Martin four months from now. Did that link syntax problem make an AfC review, a draft's main purpose, difficult to do? If we waited to do that improvement for when the draft were published to mainspace, how big of a problem would that be?

A discussion best solicited from a wider group of people than just me or even just Timtrent and me. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 13:22, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I apologise. While it was clear to me, I was intimately involved. I am thus unsurprised I failed to convey my meaning to you. Let me try in bullets:

unedited and unsubmitted drafts "expire" after 6 months untouched by human editing. They become eligible for CSD G13.
I was/am concerned that a BOT edit may be treated as a qualifying edit which defers the G13 availability for six months from that date, not from any prior human edit.
It can be argued that this is the problem of the designer(s) and coder(s) of the script that populates Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned drafts or AfC submissions, and they may have handled this already
Even with that argument, elegant coding for your own bot would probably incorporate a test "Is this approaching it's six month eligibility for G13? If so ignore this draft."

I think that encapsulates it.

----

Now, the argument, if any, for skipping the Draft namespace:

Many drafts do not see the light of day. Their possible outcomes are
- Acceptance
- Rejection
- Being Declined (often enough for the creator to lose interest, thus becoming eligible in due course for G13)
It is probably only worth allowing your bot to edit accepted drafts (and other unprocessed articles)
It might be valid to ask your bot to process new accepted Drafts (and other new articles) as a higher priority than the remainder of article space

There is a "bang for the buck" decision that you will make here. Is it worth it? Your call, but I think I've explained it better 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 13:47, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Rotideypoc41352 I forgot to ping you. Did I get it right, above? 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 13:50, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Timtrent: @Rotideypoc41352: Ohhh... I see. I did not consider the problem with the 6 months counter. Ok. I could overcome the problem just running the usual scripts really _every_ month: in this way all the fixes would be done within one month from the edit that introduced the problem that the bot is trying to fix. However recently I have been less consistent with this interval... and likely for this reason you noticed the issue. Oh well, in this case I will remove the draft namespace from all the scripts that are running on the dumpfile. Maybe I will keep it just on the scripts that are running on the recently edited pages. This should avoid any problem. Thank you for pointing it out! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:22, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like a decent solution. I must have described it correctly (or at least far better!) the second time! 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:15, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Justin Raisen Music Producer

Hi, this bot has repeatedly deleted information off of Justin Raisen's wiki page as I have been updating it daily on Justin's behalf and trying to maintain the version Justin wants. I get specific instructions from Justin himself as to what to leave and take from his wiki page. I have the most up to date and factual information possible. Please stop editing the page, I'm not sure why this happens? Thanks!

Ashleybear8 (talk) 14:38, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Message

You said if I notice any mistakes send you a message. How do I send you a message? I visited mtarfa school after the date you said it had closed down and relocated and it was very much a boys school years after your quote 82.37.199.47 (talk) 02:35, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Notification of rare mistake

Special:Diff/1241018882: the bot seems to format the text on the article in a way the rest of the sentence after the first link was all in bold. Perhaps the coding may be modified carefully so similar mistakes of this kind won't happen again. That would have been caused by someone writing the wrong amount of apostrophes to format wikilinks in italics while piping. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 16:02, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! It's not actually easy to fix it because the mistake is already present in the article before the bot edit. It's just not visible due a strange, and not easily understandable, behaviour of the Wikimedia parser. When the bot simplify the syntax, then the problem becomes visible. I will try again to find a pattern in this parser behaviour in order to detect and fix the original mistake... -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:21, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Countries & Unrecognized States

Can you make 200 countries in the article. Because add the original 195 then add Kosovo, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Crimea, and Western Sahara. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NinjaMiura (talk • contribs) 11:32, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[Gopher1952-1] test

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