User talk:Betacommand/20091001

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Feature request
About http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/cgi-bin/compare : Is it possible to get a "must have this user" switch in that? That is, I don't care whether A, B, and C are editing an article, unless D is also editing that page. Also, would be it be trivial to provide a count of users along with the count of edits to each page? It would expand the "combined edits : 25" line to "combined edits : 25, combined users: 4". WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:37, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm testing the first part now, I'll let you know if it works. As for the second part shouldn't be that hard. βcommand 02:07, 7 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. This tool makes the SPI report much quicker to type up.  Feel free to have a look if you want see what I'm currently doing with it.  We're currently at 53 socks, so having some sort of auto-filter would be really helpful.   WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:07, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * My web based interface seems to be acting up, but I can run that query for you if you let me know what you need. βcommand 18:34, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Checkuser just found and killed a bunch of accounts, so I'm okay for now, but I'll keep your offer in mind. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:56, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Task
These are really old errors but you might want to run a query and find similar:. (missing pipe) –xenotalk 13:31, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * If I can get a few spare minutes I'll see what I can do. βcommand 18:34, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ βcommand 15:08, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Cheers, appreciate it! –xenotalk 15:22, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

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re: Bots/Requests for approval/LSG1-Bot
I'm aware of that policy thanks :). I didn't think we are very strict on that, so I didn't see a problem with approving the bot before the userpage was created, but I'm currently in dialogue with the op, helping them to create the bot's userpage. And if they weren't/aren't able to make sure the userpage meets the requirements, then I will happily create it for them. Either way, I'll make sure the end userpage is fine. Best - Kingpin13 (talk) 19:20, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Chad Dukes
You might be interested in this ongoing ANI thread on this subject. -  NeutralHomer •  Talk  • 05:21, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

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