User talk:BernsteinBot/Archive 2

Linked miscapitalizations linking
Is there a reason why Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations links directly to the erroneous page, landing a user on the page it redirects to, rather than the much more useful way Database reports/Linked misspellings takes the user to a list of pages that link to the erroneous page? I'm guessing that you simply forgot to update dbr link when you started reporting the miscapitalizations. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  00:13, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Mandarax. I think your guess is correct. This issue is now fixed with this edit. You're welcome to edit any time to fix bugs like this. :-)  --MZMcBride (talk) 21:11, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, MZMcBride! (I didn't consider it a bug, because that way did have a distinct advantage: one could hover over an entry and see what it redirects to without having to click on it.) M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  21:38, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh, hah. All right. We could always link twice. Or we could include the text of the target in the report. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:13, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Whatever you want to do is fine, but it's probably okay as is, with the change you made. The majority of these redirects are straightforward and obvious, so the "advantage" I mentioned isn't really much of one. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  22:44, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Database reports/Articles containing links to the user space
Recently, I've been developing a more refined version of this query. The current version has too many false positives caused by maintenance templates and user page links on biographies of Wikipedia editors.

Currently, I just have an SQL query, but it will be straightforward to convert it into a script like the the configuration page. My version runs in >1 second <1 second on a Wikipedia database replicate, so I was hoping it might run hourly rather than weekly.

How would I go about getting that updated? Would the best path forward be to revise the configuration page and send a pull request on GitHub? Retro ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 03:01, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Retro. Yep, a pull request on GitHub would be great! I believe the relevant file is . (I'm not exactly sure what greater than 1 second means, but I'm sure it's fine.) --MZMcBride (talk) 17:14, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Typo: I meant less than 1 second... Retro  ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 18:03, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Database reports/Indefinitely semi-protected redirects
It seems your bot has stopped updating all the pages on Database reports/Indefinitely semi-protected redirects despite it being a monthly update. Was this planned or is it bugged?  Anarchyte ( talk  &#124;  work )  12:00, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Anarchyte. It looks like that report is supposed to update weekly. The report is no longer updating due to the "logging_userindex.log_comment" database table column no longer being available in the database replica (cf.  and ). It's likely a trivial fix if you want to take a stab at it. :-) It's kind of a shame that Special:ProtectedPages doesn't seem to be able to provide the equivalent functionality of this database report. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:16, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * How would that be fixed? Does every instance of log_comment need to be removed from the query?

 Anarchyte ( talk  &#124;  work )  09:21, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Do you think the "Reason" table column should be removed from the report? --MZMcBride (talk) 07:13, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Bot no longer updating list of editors by number of edits
Heads up, the list of editors by number of edits has not updated in several days. Thanks, Jusdafax (talk) 09:20, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Not since 3 June, so that's three days it's missed. This is unusual; I haven't seen the bot take more than a day off since I've been checking the page. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 02:25, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * It hasn't updated the Empty Categories list in a few days either. Liz Read! Talk! 15:14, 11 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi! List of Wikipedians by number of edits should be fixed now.
 * is broken due to an encoding issue, sigh. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:22, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Now fixed. --MZMcBride (talk) 00:51, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
 * If I haven't said it recently, thank you, MZMcBride! I check this list daily and it helps us keep categories filled and useful and redundant, unused categories deleted. Liz Read! Talk! 01:10, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm glad the report is useful. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 05:14, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Actually, with this edit the bot massively omits links to the users. Please fix this. Trackinfo (talk) 09:22, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Uncategorized categories
I've been working on the categorisation of companies, and I've come across several uncategorized categories, such as Category:Pioneer Corporation, Category:Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company and Category:Creative Technology Limited but none of them appeared on Database reports/Uncategorized categories. is there an explanation for that? Rathfelder (talk) 21:08, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Rathfelder. My guess is that "uncategorized" strictly means "not categorized in any category, including hidden categories." Both of the categories you mention were categorized in "hidden" categories prior to your edits. Do you think we should change the report's criteria? --MZMcBride (talk) 21:06, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I had vaguely thought I might go through some of the uncategorised ones, and hidden categories arent much help to navigation, so yes, I think wider criteria would be helpful. Rathfelder (talk) 21:10, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Rathfelder. I've been updating this report a bit. If you have any thoughts, please share! --MZMcBride (talk) 23:39, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * That looks much more usable. Perhaps you should tell the rest of the categorisation cabal! Rathfelder (talk) 09:55, 21 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much. The latest run is almost entirely empty categories.  Would it be possible to take them out? Rathfelder (talk) 21:21, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * No problem. Yep, I'm working on cleaning that up. It will likely take the rest of the week. MediaWiki has the concept of hidden categories (marked with ) and expected empty categories (marked with  ). The English Wikipedia has additional concepts such as Category:Wikipedia soft redirected categories, which generally use the  template. This template should automatically add the   magic word to pages that use the template as of November 2018. However this change did not fully propagate to all the pages using the template. That's what I'm trying to clean up currently.
 * Really, though, the report should probably not care whether a category has members since it's focused on uncategorized categories and not unused categories. Previously I was excluding all pages (or subcategories, rather) that are in Category:Wikipedia soft redirected categories, but this makes the report English Wikipedia-specific. I switched to excluding all categories that are expected to be unused, which is more generic, but due to the failed propagation, that change flooded the report with categories such as Category:Road accident deaths in Fiji. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:16, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * No rush. I'm very grateful for this.  It sheds light on neglected areas. Rathfelder (talk) 23:16, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Its not run for a while. Is there a problem? Rathfelder (talk) 11:53, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Database reports/Unused templates
Hi, MZMcBride,

Database reports/Unused templates last updated on June 3. Thanks, Mackensen (talk) 12:18, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * "Does he still have the eye on his talk page?" "Yes, yes he does. Nice."
 * Yeah, there's no denying the facts, that report definitely hasn't been updated recently. It's another casualty of "revision.rev_user_text" going away. Thanks for the heads-up, the issue is likely fixed now. That report should update again in the next few hours.
 * We should maybe re-evaluate how useful the current report is, particularly its handling of template redirects. If you have any thoughts, please share. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:15, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Many thanks! I can't speak for anyone else, but I've found it useful hunting down random templates which need to be refactored into adjacent stations modules. Mackensen (talk) 23:38, 9 September 2019 (UTC) Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.

Discussion at Village pump (technical)
You are invited to join the discussion at Village pump (technical).

Can you kindly see the above linked discussion regarding the lack of updates to the "Polluted categories" database report that is asking about? Thanks! Doug Mehus T · C  00:44, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Invited to join the discussion, oh my. --MZMcBride (talk) 07:27, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Database reports/Unused templates
Hi. Database reports/Unused templates is a very helpful database report. However, it would be good if the bot only picked up on unused templates and not unused template redirects. This is because template redirects are unused most of the time and it would be more helpful if the bot only picked up unused templates so that me and others editors can find which templates are unused and decide which ones to put to good use and which ones to send to TfD. Thanks. Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:06, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Pkbwcgs. Yeah, people have complained about this for years. We should probably just have and . --MZMcBride (talk) 05:33, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Oddness
, there's been some oddness at Database reports/Linked misspellings. For at least a few days, the report has been including entries from the previous day, as well as current ones. For example, the May 4 report included Senior_adviser. A few hours after that was posted, I edited the redirect from R from misspelling to R from alternative spelling, so any links to that redirect should not appear in future linked misspelling reports, but it did show up in the May 5 report. Every day, entries appear that I had taken care of the previous day, although they have no new links. I'm guessing that this is a database issue rather than a problem with the bot, but I was wondering if you have any input on the matter. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  01:29, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Mandarax. Yeah, replag is fucked right now for s1, where the English Wikipedia's replicas live. A bit of quick research points to T249188 as the potential culprit. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:14, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. I hope the situation improves soon. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  06:24, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Database reports/Empty categories
Hi, MZMcBride,

This report has been incredibly consistent over the summer. Almost like clock-work, around 6 pm PST (or 0100 UTC), this report gets posted. It's been unbelievably reliable. But, tonight it is late. No big deal, maybe there is a lag in the system, or something like that. But I thought I would post a note in case it terms out to be part of a bigger issue. Many thanks for having such a consistent report! It makes our job easier. Liz Read! Talk! 02:09, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Liz. There's a short explanation here: . The issue seems to have now been resolved and I manually re-ran the report. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:11, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for being so responsive, MZMcBride. Liz Read! Talk! 00:17, 10 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi, MZMcBride,
 * It looks like Database reports/Empty categories didn't update yesterday. BernsteinBot is otherwise active, so I'm not sure what the glitch is. It's been months now with no problems at all! Liz Read! Talk! 19:47, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
 * It is occasionally skipping updating. I've found this happening with another maintenance bot over the past week. Not sure what the issue is. Liz Read! Talk! 02:21, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * if a report is skipped again, feel free to ping me and I can trigger it manually DannyS712 (talk) 03:17, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, DannyS712, but there seems to be a problem with the bot.
 * Typically, once an empty category appearing on the list has been tagged CSD C1, it doesn't appear on future lists. But now, empty categories that have been tagged, continue appearing on the list. It's just a glitch but it should be fixed when it's possible to do so. But thanks for rerunning the bot. Liz Read! Talk! 16:21, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Liz. Regarding empty categories being misreported, it's likely due to replication lag for s1, where the English Wikipedia's replicas live, which is currently much higher than usual. Replication lag generally occurs when there's sustained higher load and/or ongoing maintenance. These same causes can impact the report's daily update. On May 3 and 5, 2020, for example, the script raised a "Lost connection to MySQL server during query" error, which typically means a long-running query was terminated. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:32, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * MZMcBride, Database reports/Empty categories hasn't updated for a few days now. Has WikiMedia figured out their bot issues? There are problems with several of the ones I usually rely on. Liz Read! Talk! 00:48, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * And, again, it's been four days, it would be nice if this could be run daily like they other pages. Thanks! Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 13:42, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Bot appears not to be creating uncategorized categories report
The last update to Database reports/Uncategorized categories was at "9:19 am, 21 March 2020, Saturday (3 months, 21 days ago) (UTC−4)". Could this be looked at with a determination of wether this function of the Bot can be restored / restarted? This is the topic of a comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized ... I'll note there momentarliy that I've put a note on this page. Thanks. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:19, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Database reports/Empty categories
Hi, MZMcBride,

It looks like Bernstein Bot has stopped updating this page. I know of two other bots, AdminStats bot and AnomieBOT III, that also stopped functioning properly a couple of days ago. Trouble in San Francisco? Switches get flipped off? Code changed? Thanks! Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 00:30, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , replication lag is over four days right now due to maintenance; that's probably the cause. See this Village Pump discussion for links to phabricator and server status. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 14:59, 1 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, once again,
 * According to the page history, the bot has updated this page about an hour ago. But it didn't remove categories that are no longer empty and categories that have been tagged as empty and will be subject to deletion in 7 days. Usually either of these outcomes results in a category being removed from the list but that didn't happened.
 * Typically, the problem is that the bot doesn't run but this time it ran but didn't do its job very well so I'm stumped. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 02:04, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * There was some replication lag for a while. I'll see if I can prod the bot manually now thats its gone down a bit DannyS712 (talk) 02:09, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The issue is that the bot did run, but as noted on the report page, the data is as of "11:20, 14 September 2020 (UTC)" which is the most recent data available on the replicas. Checking via  DannyS712 (talk) 02:51, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * And it didn't run yesterday. Seems like the past few months have been challenging for a number of bot operations/operators, not just this one. Just bringing it to y'all's attention. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 20:59, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * @Liz see https://replag.toolforge.org/ - the data is 57 hours stale. It is running, it just has nothing to update, because of replication lag. See T238966 DannyS712 (talk) 21:12, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I really appreciate the links but it's like trying to read Cantonese. Thank you for following up on my post and providing an explanation though. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 03:40, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

, you can ignore almost all of it and still get an idea of what's happening. Look under databases for, then look at the column on the right: that's the number of hours, minutes, and seconds the database has fallen behind. It's started catching up. When I began this message, it was up to 70 hours and 8 minutes. I got distracted for a few minutes, and now it's only 69 hours and 6 minutes. Hurrah. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 13:04, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
 * There doesn't seem to be a lag any more but this database report hasn't been updated in a couple of days. Any ideas? Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 14:37, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Looks like everything is back to normal. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 02:09, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Database reports/Potential biographies of living people (2)
Could you make the bot count categories like as categories by death year? Thanks. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 16:10, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi 1234qwer1234qwer4. Yeah, I suppose, tho I'm not sure it's a great idea to remove categories such as 1986 deaths in favor of categories such as 1986 suicides. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:01, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, I guess this is under discussion: User talk:Marcocapelle, User talk:Treehouse.poet. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 07:43, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks for those links. The discussion is a bit scattered at the moment, so I left a note over here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:People_by_year&oldid=1004557012#Removing_tags>. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:08, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Database reports/Uncategorized categories
Hey, MZMcBride,

First time I've posted that it's not about empty categories! I just noticed this page, which your bot used to update, isn't updating any longer. There's another message about it on your talk page but I thought I'd ask again. Hope all is well with you these days. Thanks. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 22:06, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Unused templates report not updating
Pretty much heading - the report hasn't updated since the 1st, and it's supposed to do so weekly. Any idea why? Elli (talk &#124; contribs) 06:20, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Elli. The March 8, 2021 run of the report encountered an exception, pasted below. The March 15, 2021 run of the report was successful tho. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:18, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Wikilink usernames in "users by # of edits" lists?
Hello friend. Thanks for creating this bot and maintaining those lists. Just a suggestion... maybe consider wikilinking the usernames on pages such as List of Wikipedians by number of edits/1–1000. It would be useful for my user highlighter script, it would be useful for the gadget that crosses out blocked users, and it would be useful for clicking on the person to view their profile and their contribs. My suggestion would be a piped link, such as. Thanks for considering. – Novem Linguae (talk) 21:09, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

List of Wikipedians by number of edits/Age
Hey, MZMcBride,

I was browsing through the BernsteinBot's contribution page and came across this page. I thought, "Huh? What's this list?" and found it blank. And despite daily updates, it's been blank for a while. So, either some code needs fixing or this is a task that BernsteinBot can be relieved of doing.

Hope all is well with you! Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 01:06, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Liz. That page is intended to just output the "age" of the list. The page intentionally only contains a timestamp&mdash;no part of the actual list&mdash;that then is used in the main report description text to show when the page was last updated. That is, we do  over at <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits&action=edit>. Hope this helps. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:30, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, I'll take your technical knowledge over my limited perception of usefulness.
 * By the way, any chance BernsteinBot could run Database reports/Tagged redirect misspellings? It hasn't been updated in a couple of years. I don't work much with redirects but I was looking at the many ways article titles are misspelled and it was stunning to see how many are accepted as valid redirects. Thanks! Hope you are well! Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 00:17, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

WP:1000
Could you add an indicator to List of Wikipedians by number of edits/1–1000 to show if the user is blocked please? Preferably only if it's indef, but that may be tricky. Example: is banned for sockpuppetry. Guy (help! - typo?) 00:37, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Replacing the usernames with [Placeholder] might be simpler (a one-time change, rather than repeated checks) and more neutral. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 05:39, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Guy. This page has historically been pretty controversial, so I'm generally hesitant to touch it. What kind of indefinitely blocked indicator would you like? There aren't any scarlet letter concerns? :-)
 * We previously linked the user name if the user was recently active, but that was somewhat non-obvious and the feature eventually broke. Maybe another table column like "Status" would make sense, which could show whether the user is indefinitely blocked and/or the date of their most recent edit? I'm not sure. Maybe a good topic for the talk page. --MZMcBride (talk) 07:20, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * If you have the right gadgets enabled, links to the userpages of currently-blocked users will automatically be displayed with strikethrough. This seems like a can of worms (bordering on rubbernecking), but if all the users had page links, it'd be easy to see who was blocked and who wasn't. jp×g 03:05, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Database reports/Empty categories
Hello, again, MZMcBride,

Had a strange report tonight, typically, BernsteinBot removes any empty category from its updated list that has been tagged for deletion. But it didn't tonight. The current list contains categories that I tagged for CSD C1 speedy deletion 12 hours ago. Not a disaster, to be sure, but curious. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 01:12, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * After inquiring about problems I had with another bot, I was told there was a 20 hour replication lag which might be the cause of this glitch. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 03:33, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Replag's down to nothing right now, so if that's the cause, the bot should be able to catch up soon. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 00:10, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles containing links to the user space
It seems that the bot was including articles with the bare urls template because the template contained a link to reFill documentation on a user page (User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill). I changed the link on the template to a pre-existing shortcut (WP:REFILL), so the next report should be considerably shorter. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 11:30, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Database reports/Orphaned talk subpages
Hello, MZMcBride,

I'm not sure why this report was discontinued because the past few days I've found it very useful. There are 1,182 orphaned talk subpages listed which, for some reason, don't show up on the nightly Database reports/Orphaned talk pages. I've been deleting Portal talk pages which should have been deleted when the Portals were deleted back in 2019. I'm not sure if Twinkle was used but Twinkle has a bug where it deletes redirects but doesn't delete redirect talk pages so that might have happened here.

Any way, I'm slowly working down this list, from the end to the beginning, but I'm sure there are new pages that would show up if the report was rerun. Any chance this could be run on a nightly or weekly basis? I know that I'd be checking it regularly. Thanks for considering this request. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 03:20, 11 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello, MZMcBride,
 * I didn't realize until today that Bernstein Bot has started updating this list on a weekly basis. Thank you! It's shrunk down from a list of 1000+ pages to a much smaller list. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 23:22, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Database reports/Untagged biographies of living people
Hey MZMcBride, I noticed this page wasn't updated last night. Could you run the update a few hours later than usual, or should I probably expect that it won't run until next week? L EPRICAVARK ( talk ) 13:31, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Lepricavark. We can adjust report update frequencies as needed. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 04:28, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Database reports/Unused templates
Per my own big-brain thoughts which I've just had -- and a talk page section I just found where other people had the idea several days ago -- it seems like it'd be pretty simple to allow this DBR to filter redirects. My thinking is that it'd probably be fairly straightforward to include a column in the table denoting redirect status for the page, or failing that, the length of the page, i.e. everything below a certain threshold would almost certainly be a redirect. Where can I find the code that's running to generate these reports? I want to poke around and see if I can figure anything out. jp×g 15:45, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I've found the repository, but I don't see anything about unused templates in the general or enwiki directories. Am I a bozo or are they in some weird other place? jp×g 15:49, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see, they're in... reports and not dbreps2. Oh well. jp×g 15:50, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi jpxg. I looked into this again in October 2021 and replied here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bot_requests&diff=prev&oldid=1049800796#Unused_Templates_reports>. Tho it feels like nobody really likes the current compromise. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:37, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Bot Request: Single Author
Hi I was pointed here for a request I posted regarding a database report on the Database Reports talkpage. Should Database reports/Blank single-author pages exclude namespaces 2,3,118,119? Also it appears there is an extra colon being added to category pages so they are unclickable. Signed, I Am Chaos (talk) 01:38, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi I Am Chaos. I don't think we should exclude those namespaces from that report. The extra colon is probably a bug from my edit to . --MZMcBride (talk) 04:33, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
 * IAmChaos: Pinging the new username. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:44, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken WikiProject templates
Hi - regarding Database reports/Broken WikiProject templates, in  BernsteinBot added a working link (row 2 of the table) but in  it altered one character to four question marks, breaking the link. Any idea why? -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:30, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi Redrose64. It looks like we're running both the Python version and the Rust version of the report. The Python version seemingly has a bug with emojis. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:29, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Database reports/Articles with the most redirects tweak
Could the bot remove the underscores in that listing in the future, like so? Thanks. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:38, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi Headbomb. Sure, done in <https://github.com/mzmcbride/database-reports/pull/33>. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:20, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Group renamed
"Oversight" is now "suppress", appearing unfiltered at WP:WBE. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:22, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * ToBeFree - . See diff. ;-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:59, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh. :D Thanks! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 10:56, 6 April 2022 (UTC)