User talk:Bluebot/Archive Oct 06

Do not "unicodify" mathematics articles!
This is now your second notice. The Wikipedia mathematicians have decided repeatedly and overwhelmingly that it is a BAD IDEA to automatically change entities to unicode in mathematics articles. Please immediately stop your bot from doing this.

If you have any suggestions about a general solution so this doesn't happen again in a few weeks or a few months (with another bot), please let us know at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics. It's highly annoying that we have to stop this again and again. It is even more annoying that I am notifying you a second time for the same bot. STOP IT NOW.

Do not bother arguing with me here. Post any complaints to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics. But before you do, I suggest you sift through the archives of that page to see prior discussions. --KSmrqT 16:37, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I have been specifically ignoring maths articles since your last notice, that one was a mistake. I don't intend to argue with anyone anywhere. Martin 16:40, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Much appreciated. I'm not anti-bot, nor anti-Unicode, nor anti-Martin. There are a number of factors that influenced our decision, with the interplay between TeX markup and wiki markup being of special interest to mathematicians. --KSmrqT 16:55, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Suit symbols
Another case of changing an existing mistake to a different mistake... At Beer card, Bluebot changed "&amp;diams;" to "♦". Both out of consideration for people without unicode support and to easily get the right suit colors, the bridge project created templates such as Ds which displays as. I'll take care of the one that you just edited, but would appreciate if you could use the template in the future when you see these codes. Matchups 04:05, 30 September 2006 (UTC)


 * At some point I might go through and change all relevant articles to use the new template (which has the positive side affect that is colours the suits correctly as well. Martin 14:00, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Alejandro González Iñárritu
I just wanted to point out to you that changing 11& seems at first a good idea if you look at the source text, but leads to someting like this 11'901 September 11''.


 * Someone mentioned this already, but I archived this talk page. I have fixed this problem so it won't happen again. Previously I thought &#x27; was an illegal character in a page title. Martin 14:00, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Western States Hockey League
I feel that I have made enough corrections to the site listed above. So with your permission I would like to remove the template you put on that site. Thanks John R G 18:19, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

The Plant Cell
That article had been vandalized (external link, category replaced by nonsense) and Bluebot tagged it with Uncategorized. Checking the most recent edit is often a good idea. Rl 07:47, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Flash Remembrance
Just posting a remembrance, as it is 2 years since the legend of ball Antoine "Flash" Howard died of a brain tumour. There was surely never a quicker baller, and never will be another like him. "Flash", always in the memory. Check out his page or mine to post your condolences. Andrew 09:53, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

bot request
could you please unleash your bot to replace ArB, Ar, ArL and friends with lang per Template_talk:ArB? (replace with ...,  with ...,  with ... etc. introducing separate templates for bold/large/etc. script is among the worst ideas I have seen so far on Wikipedia. dab (&#5839;) 11:41, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Please stop, there are valid reasons to use those templates, and no discussion has been done to depracate them. -- Jeff3000 18:19, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * sorry about that, I thought the matter was self-evident. dab (&#5839;) 18:30, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Aside from which is the best template to use (which is debatable), the original template had a link to the Arabic alphabet, which is now missing in all the pages that were changed. I was wondering if it is possible to undo the changes, or at least put the link to the alphabet back in.  -- Jeff3000 21:41, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Ethan Allen
You changed the Ethan Allen (disambiguation) on 22-Aug-6, replacing a disambig tag with a hndis tag.


 * 1) It already had a hndis tag
 * 2) Because it contains links to non-People articles, it seems like the disambig tag was more appropriate than hndis anyway
 * BigrTex 15:54, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Slight change request
I notice you're using Bluebot to update linkless to include the date, can you add the redirect template orphan to the replacements? Articles with that template currently are getting left in the unsorted Category:Orphaned articles. Thanks. --W.marsh 19:22, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey. I'm new to Wiki editing, so thanks for making my first ever article a little more presentable.  ViperBlade   Talk!! 19:35, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Removal of in Business activity monitoring
Hi, the bot removed the when updating an  to  in this edit. Was this intentional or a bug in the bot? I've readded it for the time being. --S.K. 18:46, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I removed it because that article is too long to be a stub. Martin 19:00, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I assumed the bot was working unattended. Or does it have a length criterium? --S.K. 07:52, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Reverted
From

"'You piece of trash'"

to original. Zero tolerence on vandalism - even of users/bots.

--ReviewDude 16:37, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Please explain your bot to me
Is this just an account in which you use AWB?

Or have you done something special with AWB to automate it more than usual?

You haven't completely automated it have you?

If so, how?

If this is just the account you run AWB on, why call it a bot? AWB's article explicitly states that it isn't a bot.

If you are using AWB personally (and not automated), what procedures have you developed?

What do you use it for?

Okay, that should be enough questions for now.  Th e Tr ans hu man ist     07:42, 23 October 2006 (UTC)