User talk:BetacommandBot/20060829

Speed
Why are you editing so fast? You don't have a botflag, you should only be making edits every 30 seconds or so. --Rory096 04:32, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Unnecessary edits to templates
This bot is adding "subst:" to template notices within comments, including here. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 04:55, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Nowiki
Your bot needs to respect nowiki tags such as here. &mdash; RevRagnarok  Talk Contrib 13:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Also
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAdam1213%2Farchive2&diff=64990338&oldid=47651113

==== became ==== - will it do it to this page? -- A dam1213 Talk + 02:12, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Edit summary
I disagree with part of your bot's edit summaries:


 * {{impostor-m => {{subst:Impostor-m
 * {{attackuser-m => {{subst:attackuser-m

Can you place }} after {{impostor-m, {{attackuser-m, {{subst:Impostor-m, and {{subst:Impostor-m next time. We want exact summaries that the bot's editing. -- ADNghiem501 01:50, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Recent subst:
Your bot is subst'ing a bunch of templates, such as and  which specifically say on them not to subst them. I don't know the complete reasoning behind this, but I'm unhappy that a bot is doing a mass of them, without comment that I can see. I'm going to block the bot and spam this to your talk page. Sorry, Mak (talk)  06:19, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Forget it, it seems to have stopped for whatever reason. Mak (talk)  06:20, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Done reverting substed WoW, Milk, and JtV templates by the bot to revisions of all user pages containing unsubsted specialised block templates. I looked at the bot's contribs, as it did substing bunch of templates so far---the bot won't be aware of not to subst specialised block templates (for whatever reasons). -- ADNghiem501 07:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Template:Sockpuppet
Why are you substing Template:Sockpuppet? Please reply at Template talk:Sockpuppet. —Quarl (talk) 2006-07-29 23:59Z 

Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment Categories
Please don't touch categories such as Category:A-Class KLF articles. They are used by Mathbot to generate Wikipedia 1.0 assessments. Such a category may be empty for a long time but it is still needed. --kingboyk 08:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Redlinked category
What's the deal with ? The new cat doesn't exist. --SPUI (T - C) 00:39, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Bot malfunctioning
It is giving incorrect edit summaries, all of which are "In the": .

Will get admin to block. MER-C 07:52, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Please knock off the adding of Project Ancient Egypt template
They are being added to articles that have very little do with ancient egypt per se, but are rather more modern orders and books. Please limit the project to the stated subject. Thanks. &mdash;Hanuman Das 06:21, 25 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree that the bot is too inclusive. It added History of Africa tot the Project Ancient Egypt. Although Egypt, as a part of Africa, is relevant to African history this does not cause the whole history of Africa to fall into the scope of an Egyptologist wikiproject. On what grounds was that article included? &mdash; mark &#9998; 14:55, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Why is Template:albumcover being subst'd? AFIAK, no other image copyright tag is subst'd, and WP:SUBST does not recommend substing it like the edit summary shows. Does the bot grab the text of WP:SUBST and look for instances of foo for what to subst? It seems silly to go make 40k edits just to subst this template. Kotepho 03:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Bot edit to lifetime template
Can you modify the bot code so that conditional text is not put into the article body? This edit is one example where the subst: has made the article much harder to understand (replace one easy to understand template with four, some of which have unrelated terms). Neier 04:14, 27 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I would try to rectify the fact that lifetime contains parser functions, with the fact that WP:SUBST before making any more edits, because it is likely to stir up more people than just me. I am all for reducing templates (see my string of edits relating to the nft and fc templates); but, the parsed templates are excluded for a reason. Neier 04:49, 27 August 2006 (UTC)


 * It is still fairly easy to subst this template, but use regular expressions, rather than a simple subst:. Martin 13:44, 27 August 2006 (UTC)