User talk:Anomie

Happy First Edit Day!
 Happy First Edit Day! Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, Finch (talk) 12:17, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Bot late to create FFD logs?
We've gotten one user creating FFD logs before your AnomieBOT recently because your bot seems apparently late to create FFD logs automatically. What can you do about the bot and that user? George Ho (talk) 20:02, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
 * AnomieBOT does not appear to have been late, when I check the logs it's first checking the new day's page at 23:00 UTC the day before as usual, just in time for the new day to start (see for example the creation of Files for discussion/2024 May 22). Kys5g for some reason created Files for discussion/2024 May 23 at 09:07 UTC the day before, Files for discussion/2024 May 24 at 10:55 UTC the day before, Files for discussion/2024 May 25 at 12:15 UTC the day before, and Files for discussion/2024 May 26 at 03:17 UTC the day before. And he did Files for discussion/2024 May 27 and Files for discussion/2024 May 28 at the same time, several days early.As for what can I do about the user, I can ping him and ask why he's creating them so much ahead of time. I see you already tried at User talk:Kys5g but got a somewhat confused response. I also see on his user page that he has a "This user comes from Vietnam" user box, so perhaps part of it is that he's thinking in UTC+07:00 time? Although he's still been doing it early even for that timezone. Anomie⚔ 23:10, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

RfC format
Regarding Wikipedia talk:Bot policy: note as per, RfCs should start with a short, neutral statement ending with a timestamp, so Legobot can copy it to the various lists of RfCs. isaacl (talk) 02:29, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I'll try to keep that in mind for the future, but I'd rather not go back and reformat it now. Is there another option to make Legobot happy? Anomie⚔ 02:33, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I inserted a datestamp after the question, hopefully that's good enough. Anomie⚔ 02:44, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Legobot tries to copy everything up to the first timestamp. I don't remember the exact maximum number of characters it will copy, but if it's longer than that, another editor such as Redrose64 might come along and decide on a short summary for you. So my suggestion is to start with a brief sentence or two with a following timestamp, so you can control what editors who use the lists and the notification service will see. isaacl (talk) 02:55, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * And how would Redrose64 do that? In some undocumented but useful manner, or by reformatting the RFC itself in a manner that I'd think breaks the flow of it? Anomie⚔ 03:00, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Without going back to look through their contributions, I believe by doing something like copying your question to the top of the RfC and adding a timestamp at the end. But the point is doing it yourself will forestall getting into a dispute with what someone else does (since even the RfC introductory text is subject to consensus agreement, with English Wikipedia's decision-making traditions). isaacl (talk) 03:05, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * The statement - as amended - is briefer, but it's still not neutral: after removal of the  tags, the third paragraph (beginning "Personally I'm ...") is the most obvious. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:59, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Looks like I guessed right, the answer was "break the actual RFC to make the bot-list look slightly nicer". Sigh. Anomie⚔ 23:41, 10 July 2024 (UTC)