User talk:AmandaNP/DQB/Archives/2011/May

DQB
Hey DQ, great job with your bot. We've been without a UAA bot for ages, so hopefully it will take some of the load of the folks who patrol the log manually. When SoxBot handled the task, it had some way of delaying reports of certain usernames until the user edited. I wonder if you could find a way of doing something similar or ask X! how SoxBot did it? Cheers, HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   16:40, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * It is possible, but as the BRFA said, I want to have this working fully before I insert modifications in the system. I am still debugging current issues. Also, with the bot reporting, I see you blocked User:Firecracker Guy. Unless you have private evidence, that shouldn't be blocked because the filter only searches for "guy" in the username after other text. I imported this old list and I think some need to be modified and reviewed. As a rule of thumb, you might want to actually defer this to an SPI case, because 1) if it's not the guy, then you have blocked the wrong person 2) any other sleepers can be caught. DQ.alt (t)  (e)    18:52, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. And how many people do you know who create an account with "_Guy" and then use said account to immediately create another with the same phrase? HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   18:58, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Ahh...ok. Thanks for the clear up. DQ.alt (t)  (e)    19:07, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Bot
Hi, I was wondering whether you could put your bot onto a regular 7 day cycle?  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  13:26, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * It's possible, but since the toolserver has changed their autorun system, I'm 100% confused on how to set it up. I've asked Stwalkerster, but just waiting for him to reply. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  18:46, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * OK thanks, I've now got the backlogs cleared to the point where it can pick up all pubic vandalism that has got past the hugglers, and working on some other stuff. So it would be great to get it onto a regular cycle.  Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  20:12, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * This is still being ran by people on Toolserver-l mail list. No solutions yet, let me know when you want the runs for now. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  12:18, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

DQB
Hi there DeltaQuad! It appears DeltaQuadBot is re-posting the same user over and over again to UAA/B... it's done it five times, lol. Can something be done about this?  ceran  thor 04:46, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * And now six .  ceran  thor 04:48, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I've blocked it until things are resolved. Cheers, Tiptoety  talk 05:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Understood...don't know exactly why this is happening, but there is now a shutdown link, and some on wiki logging tthat was previously a text file that I think kept crashing things. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  12:11, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I've actually got a feature request. The old bot would put the username it was reporting in its edit summary, allowing a spot check from the watchlist- even if I wasn't paying much attention to UAA, I could still see and get rid of the really bad ones.  Any chance you could add this? Courcelles 09:58, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- DQ  (t)   (e)  12:15, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

UAA Clerk Bot
I've noticed a couple of bot-generated username warnings that seem to have missed being filtered by the whitelist -- one was User:BasementBeauties (false +ve for "semen", but "basement" is whitelisted) and User:Harshith1444 (false +ve for "shit", but "harshit" was whitelisted). Could you possibly check your bot code, to see if whitelist processing is working properly? -- The Anome (talk) 11:42, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm...that is wierd. I will definitley look into this. I can't take a look right now, but should have some time at some point today. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  14:15, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

The bot ignores whitelisted words if they form another phrase as seen here when it reported Scrapdog63 and Jpeacock63. Also could make the bot add a blank line between each report, it's very confusing when there's over 8 reports :S Anyway, keep up the good work DQ! — James (Talk • Contribs) • 1:27pm • 03:27, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

It's still ignoring the whitelist: see here for some I removed by hand. (Note that the "Pareekshit" username is not a bot error; "Pareekshit" wasn't on the whitelist when the bot added that name: I added it to the whitelist subseqently.)-- The Anome (talk) 10:08, 26 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I think SoxBot had a dynamic whitelist, as in words already whitelisted were ignored regardless of whether or not they are part of a larger word/phrase. — James (Talk • Contribs) • 9:54pm • 11:54, 26 April 2011 (UTC)


 * So there was a reason it was still doing it. I didn't have a chance to fix the code/find the problem. I just looked and fixed it. There were two problems. The whitelist word had to be the same as the reported username & it didn't account for upper and lowercase. These are now and uploaded for the next run. --  DQ  (t)   (e)  12:07, 26 April 2011 (UTC)


 * James, just saw your request. Can't look into it today at all, maybe tomorrow morning I can run this fix.  DQ.alt (t)  (e)    17:46, 26 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Ok, thanks DQ :) — James (Talk • Contribs) • 11:39am • 01:39, 27 April 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- DQ  (t)   (e)  12:10, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

2 problems with your bot's reports at WP:UAA/BOT
I found the following problems which need to be dealt with - both found in this edit, for example: עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:21, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) The NOTE is cut off in the middle, at the colon after the word "User".
 * 2) This entry has an ALTERNATE_TARGET flag, so it should be reported at Sockpuppet investigations/SPI/Subpage - Bot reported cases.
 * First I would like to request that if you post here, unless I'm on vacation, I don't need an email too. :)
 * Being an SPI clerk myself, I purposefully left out the SPI subpage flag as I don't know who watches it, and it doesn't report to the main SPI page.
 * The other part is a bug, and on for next upload with James' request above. --  DQ  (t)   (e)  12:31, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ To what I said above. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  23:46, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

DQB at UAA
Hi DeltaQuad. I just happened to notice this edit, and thought I'd mention it looks like your message got cut off (" See 28bytes (talk) 21:33, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thought I fixed.... -- DQ  (t)   (e)  23:32, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

FYI
Username bot blacklisting request. Have a nice day, - file lake shoe 14:13, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Will reply there soon. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  23:33, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Bot run
Hi, I was wondering when your bot was running again?  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  19:04, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Got 1/3 working, will do a manual run for you tonight. Feel free to poke me whenever you want a run done until I can get this stupid thing up. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  23:32, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

DQB URL small typo
Great job on the bot. I noticed today that it posted a notice on a "yourmom" username and the text said to "see WP_U" which of course gives a redlink as it should be WP:U instead. Thought I'd mention it. -- Alexf(talk) 13:45, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * This bot has trouble with wiki links because some of the parser stuff in it is what helps the bot find the actions to take. I think this is a blacklist issue though. --  DQ  (t)   (e)  17:26, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * NP. Sorry about the message on the wrong page. Cheers. -- Alexf(talk) 17:46, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It's all good, I have "banned" Wikilinks till I can get it to work. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  17:52, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

add username to User:DeltaQuad/UAA/Blacklist
I think you should add bot to the blacklist because it could indicate a possible unapproved bot or misleading bot username. Crazymonkey1123 (Jacob) T or M/Sign mine 04:27, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * . Already on the list. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  19:01, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Question about DQB at UAA
The bot is reporting usernames for violations with the rationale "none". this is one example. Not only could DQB find nothing to find objectionable, even as a false positive, I can't find anything at all with that username which would trigger DQB to report it. I understand how DQB could report genuine false positives (like actual surnames with the word "Cock" in them, like recently reported Hancock, and Babcock), but what's up with the rationale "none" for a report. If there's nothing wrong with the name, why is DQB reporting them? Something may need a tweak. -- Jayron  32  04:22, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm...weird, I will look into it, thanks for the flag. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  01:00, 24 May 2011 (UTC)