User talk:CanisRufus/Archive

Kamal Jumblatt
Is French language all that is meant in his receiving a "French" diploma from the Lazarus Fathers. I didn't change that part because I thought that it meant that he had met the requirments for a hish schoo (lycee) diploma, the equivaltent of one offered in France, implying more than the French language, and the same year met the requirments for the Lebanese High school diploma (presumably conducted in Arabic) as well. I understand that the brighter students in former French colonies were educated not just in the French language, but in the entire French tradition. You may well know better that I, especially if your familiarity with Lebanon extends beyond having a Lebanese neighbour. Do you have good reason to think that French-language is all that is meant here?

Rlquall 12:28, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * If I find that the surrounding text refers to educational studies, I will default to French language. There is no French studies page like there is for English studies. In this case however, it probably should not have been changed to French language. You might want to reword the paragraph so it's not ambiguous. RedWolf 06:49, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

FAA
Thanks for disambiguating FAA in so many places! Nice work. – Quadell (talk) (help)  11:50, Oct 2, 2004 (UTC)


 * No problem, it's made a lot easier with bot code. RedWolf 06:50, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

CPU
Thanks for the acronym expansion of the CPU link all over the 'pedia -- I have been doing this manually for a year and a half, so I certainly appreciated it! Sigh... Sooner rather than later, I'll have to learn how to write Wikipedia Bots myself; an army of small automated nitpickers (*fade in The Imperial March*, played at a high pitch) -- the thought of it gives the control freak in me a warm fuzzy feeling :) --Wernher 13:43, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * No problem. I'm using the Python Wikipedia Robot Framework with a pre-supplied script so as long as you can run Python, therre is no need to write your own script to do it. I've done a lot of manual stuff like this in the past but using a bot is a lot less tedious. RedWolf 16:10, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)


 * Aha. I plan on installing FreeBSD "RSN", so I guess that will be unproblematic. Also: could you puh-lease give RAM and ROM the same treatment as CPU? I think there are a lot of those where people have just inserted the acronyms. Generally, of course, the fields of computing and telecom are full of such links. --Wernher 16:45, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * RAM and ROM have been completed. RedWolf 21:27, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

Bacteria Bacterium
It's cool that you're converting bacteria links to bacterium, but i don't really see the point.

Doesn't it just make editing slightly more complicated? The fact that so many pages use bacteria as a link says more about the title of that article than anything else.

What's wrong with the tiny (Redirected from Bacteria) message under the title?

I'm not dissing, just wondering why.

Tristanb 21:04, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * heavy duty redirect page RedWolf 06:33, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Chemical Warfare
You've done some work on chemical warfare, so I thought you might be interested to know that I've nominated it to Featured article candidates. I was hoping you would take a look at what we've done, and maybe help me perfect the article into something that we can all be truly proud of. -- ClockworkSoul 02:12, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Well, this bot disambiguated a few things but hardly what I would consider a noteworthy contribution. I personally do not have an intense interest in the subject but it is a worthy topic (although it's underlying subject is a sad commentary on human behavior). Good luck with your FAC nomination. RedWolf 04:12, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

African-American
Redwolf, please stop this bot. It is making improper corrections. See my points at Talk:Bankhead.&mdash; Ford 00:48, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)


 * You should add your comments to the talk page for African-American. That page does not currently exist. RedWolf 03:12, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)

I do not know how or why that would resolve the issue. You have just changed &mdash; what, hundreds? &mdash; of pages with this automated program, and all of those instances were placed by users who believed that the hyphenated form was correct for one reason or other. Does that not seem problematic to you? Ford 12:13, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)


 * As was stated on the bots talk page, most of these changes were rolled back on January 2, 2005. RedWolf 09:17, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)

Mammalia -> Mammal
I'd rethink this move as it could conceivably be inappropriate at a future date. There's no disambiguation, you're just undoing a redirect. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 08:40, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Mammalia has been a redirect for almost 2&frac12; years. RedWolf 08:50, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * What, exactly, does that have to do with anything? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 10:04, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)

Suggestion about bot's edit summary
By doing massive changes your bot makes it more difficult to track anon vandals in the watchlist. Can you add to the bot's edit summary that the previous edit was made by an anon? Mikkalai 08:14, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * The bot has no idea if the previous edit was made by an anon. If I am doing disambiguation (you will see "RedWolf" in the edit summary), I'm running the bot semi-automatically where I look at each article myself. I don't believe the pywikipedia bot framework currently has any code to check the history for anon edits. RedWolf 09:14, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)

A mistake...
Hi, RedWolf. Your bot made this edit to Help Desk, removing something fairly important (well, maybe not in the scheme of things, but it could potentially be important.  Can you make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen (and, incidentally, why did it?). Smoddy (t) (e) 18:38, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi. It appears that the interwiki links were at the top of the page so the bot moved them to the bottom. I'm using the Pywikipedia bot framework which I didn't write. The only real change that the bot intended to do was move the article to Category:Wikipedia help from Category:Help. First time that it has ever run into this type of issue before with the bot. RedWolf 19:47, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I meant something else. It deleted the  text from inside  >  .  Is there a reason for this? Smoddy (t) (e) 19:51, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I noticed that when I compared the changes. Looks like a bug in the bot code as it apparently doesn't check for categories being inside &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;, which I guess is technically allowed but is not the correct way of referring to categories (to do that, one normally puts a leading colon). Categories belong at the bottom of an article so the bot code will move any it finds out of place to there. Out of the thousands of categories changes the bot has done, this is probably the first time this issue has come up. I'll file a bug for the framework and see what the developers have to say about it. RedWolf 00:16, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Submitted as Bug 1157513. RedWolf 00:25, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Another mistake
The bot moved the category Abkhazian political particles to "Political parties in Abkhazian", which makes no sense. Could you please fix this up? Ambi 03:49, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Actually, no this is not a mistake. Consensus on WP:CFD was to rename all subcats of Category:Political parties by nationality. There is also a notice on latter page to that effect. RedWolf 05:24, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

The name of the country is apparently "Abkhazia". Pearle will fix shortly. Thanks for cleaning up Sri Lanka, BTW. -- Beland 02:04, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah ok. I misunderstood what Ambi was saying. RedWolf 02:18, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

Category: Stanford University people
What happened to this category? And all the people in it? hydnjo talk 14:22, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It was deleted after consensus reached on WP:CFD. RedWolf 17:26, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

re: Category:Italian-American businessmen
Hi, I noticed the bot is removing people from Category:Italian-American businessmen and adding them to Category:U.S. businesspeople. However, they are not being added to Category:Italian-Americans. Is there a reason for this? Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo 19:50, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The bot can only do a move to one category. RedWolf 03:09, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * This conversion then causes a loss of information. Unless the bot will make a second pass, this requires manual correction.  Will you do this, or should I review the bot's changes and make the corrections?  Thanks.  --ChrisRuvolo 20:21, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The bot does not have sufficient "smarts" to make such a second pass. Feel free to review the bots changes and manually make corrections. I just thought it was more useful to move them to an occupational category rather than an ethical group category. RedWolf 03:48, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for correcting on my band page. Good screen name too :) Redwolf24 (Talk) 3 July 2005 06:09 (UTC)

Cinema &rarr; Film actors
Hi, thanks for the bot assistance. Is there anyway to have CanisRufus keep the alphabetic name sorting portion.. ie, or do we have to re-edit all of them. Oh, I just seen you did that particular one. Thanks for the help again. <> Who ? &iquest; ? 8 July 2005 17:42 (UTC)
 * Yea, I noticed this myself after monitoring the bots changes. There seems to be a bug in the bot code where it doesn't keep the category sort key. I have manually applied the sort key to all the articles the bot changed. I have stopped the bot from making further changes and looks like another bot will need to continue this task due to a technical issue in trying to fix the problem. RedWolf July 8, 2005 18:32 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the earlier assistance though, some is better than none ;).  <> Who ? &iquest; ?  9 July 2005 06:41 (UTC)

Monica Vitti
When it's fixed, will it find her? (general curiosity) Wyss 9 July 2005 18:17 (UTC)
 * No, because she wasn't in the old category. I have manually added the article to the category. RedWolf July 9, 2005 18:52 (UTC)

ABC dab
Thanks for helping out on ABC disambiguations -- Chris 18:57, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

decat
Thanks for decatting defunct musical groups, I wasn't looking forward to doing that manually. --fvw *  00:34, September 5, 2005 (UTC)


 * No problem. Takes me about 15 seconds to get the bot going to perform this type of task. RedWolf 05:14, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Error moving HTML comments.
See . &mdash; Jeandré, 2005-09-06t11:55z
 * This is very likely a bug in the pywikipediabot script (which I did not develop). I have seen a similar problem when a category is commented out. RedWolf 00:31, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

Bot request
Hi RedWolf, I have another bot request that I'm hoping you would be willing accommodate.

All of the affected articles are in the various subcategories of

The phrase:

Political biography from the Library of Parliament

Should be changed to:

Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament

If you feel that you could help out with this, thank you in advance for your assistance! Regards, Fawcett5 19:22, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

errant bot edit?
Hi - This edit looks odd to me. In addition to removing the article from the category (per the edit summary), it changes a category and changes an interwiki link. Are either of these other changes intended, or is this just some weird bug in the script? Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:16, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * That is strange. First time I have ever seen the script change an interwiki link. Something must have really confused it (perhaps the HTML comment?). Only the removal from the Cities in North America category was intended, the other changes should be reverted. Thanks for pointing out the problem. I didn't write the script so I'll have to look into getting it changed. RedWolf 22:33, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Flower
Your bot is "dab" by completely taking out the link. Im not sure if thats dab more of dewikifying. Job E  6   02:55, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The bot is not automated when it chooses the actual replacement, that is under my control. I sometimes remove the link entirely because it does not follow the Make only links relevant to the context guidelines. RedWolf 03:29, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

This bot
How does it work? How did you manage to program it, Redwolf? I don't get it. --Anittas 00:18, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * There isn't a lot for me to program. I use the Pywikipediabot framework which does the vast majority of the work. RedWolf 02:04, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

bot on the loose
Apparently on a recent run to change "Category:Wikipedia feature" refs to "Category:Wikipedia features", the bot had a side effect of moving other text that looked like category wikicode to the bottom. Unfortunately, this is wrong if the "wikicode" was under "nowiki" tags, as in this bot edit:  That one I repaired. Maybe other pages should be checked for damage. -R. S. Shaw 06:02, 1 November 2005 (UTC)


 * This is the same bug I reported on March 6, 2005 (See "A Mistake..."). RedWolf 09:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Talk page
No need to fix dabs on talk pages. violet/riga (t) 21:17, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Bot must stop editing talk pages: It's improper for a human being to correct someone else's comments, I then definitely do not appreciate an automated procedure to act as such. Whatever I signed, is my text. By changing that text without stating such in that text, as the responsible person for the bot, you commit forgery. For all clarity, the bot's edit really did improve my comment in a way I would have written it if I had taken proper care at the time; still it is not right to make such changes. — SomeHuman 10 Sep2006 06:50-08:01 (UTC)


 * The procedure is not fully automated. Disambiguation still requires a human to make the choice. RedWolf 09:33, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

The Morning Post

 * Am unable to move Morning Post to The Morning Post.
 * That's because the latter is REDIRECTED to the former.
 * You visited the cite recently - could you fix this problem?
 * Thanks. ---Ludvikus 03:23, 14 September 2006 (UTC)


 * This is a bot account without admin privileges. I don't have time right now but I can take a look at it later today. RedWolf 06:49, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Automated message to bot owners
As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Bot Policy: "Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds." Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 00:44, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation cast members
An editor has nominated List of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation cast members, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. Jayden54Bot 18:15, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Juanita Millender-McDonald
Hi CanisRufus,

Why did you remove the Category:Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority sisters on April 12, 2007 from Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald's page? On her official website she states that she is a member of the sorority.

http://millender-mcdonald.house.gov/HoR/CA37/Biography/Bio+2.htm

Jsmith212 23:25, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


 * The category was listified to List of Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters as per CFD. RedWolf 15:47, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Removal of Saki Nakajima (seiyuu from the category of Bleach cast members
Why did you remove Saki Nakajima from the category of Bleach cast members? It clearly stated on the page that she did a voice for one of the characters of that series. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ChaosAkita (talk • contribs) 23:34, May 2, 2007 (UTC)


 * The category was listified to List of Bleach cast members as per CFD. RedWolf 06:56, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

List of Northern Exposure cast members
Please list the people in alphabetical order by last name. Chinese3126 23:37, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * This was already in progress when you posted to the talk page. RedWolf 00:11, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

List of All About Me cast members
A template has been added to the article List of All About Me cast members, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with db-author. Moonriddengirl 12:55, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

List of Xenosaga cast members
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Grandmaster (chess)
Thanks for taking on the task of fixing links to the disambig page that should instead be to Grandmaster (chess). There are a lot of them, and I'm embarrassed to see that I created some of the imprecise links myself even though I know better and usually get it right. Quale 22:55, 31 October 2007 (UTC)


 * No problem. I might have created a few imprecise links myself in the past. I don't follow chess as much as I used to but still a fascinating game. I found Short's comment about getting rid of titles altogether interesting. Don't think it needs to be that extreme but I think FIDE needs to take a serious look at GM qualifications. RedWolf 00:54, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Fischer Article
Some people are removing my 3rd party, sourced information from the Bobby Fischer article. I invite you to examine this sourced material, and see why it belongs.

First, please download this file, which is the audio from an online Interview that was on the chess.fm radio broadcast in October 1996:

http://www.GothicChess.com/radio.wma.zip

Decompress the file, and listen to it with Windows Media Player, or some other audio player that supports the stream format. The fact that you can download this file from a website owned by  Ed Trice has no bearing on its true source, namely, the ICC chess.fm internet radio channel. They only archive their broadcasts for one calendar year, and Trice requested a copy of it in exchange for being on the program. Clearly that is the voice of Dan Heisman, who does the broadcast. His ICC handle is "PhillyTutor" and he can confirm that Trice was on the show to discuss the sourced material that is being cited here.

There is no way this was a "rumor" if so many people were involved.

Next, take a look at this YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54I8wqm2NeE

Note that it is from a company that supplies interviews with individuals from a variety of backgrounds. There is no link between Ed Trice, Gothic Chess, and the news agency that performed this interview. Their YouTube account is:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheInterviewpoint

It is clear that this is 3rd party sourced material.

Also, take a look at the interview itself. Karpov's signature on the contract to play Fischer is right there. No rumor. Properly sourced.

This material belongs.

Clearly Trice was in Iceland, if you looked at the images that are linked from the blog:

http://www.gothicchess.com/images/iceland/alexis_ed_streetsign.jpg

And here is Grandmaster Fridrik Olafsson, longtime friend of Fischer's examining the new Gothic Chess pieces:

http://www.gothicchess.com/images/iceland/Fridrik_pieces.jpg

The plastic pieces are from the set Ed Trice sells online, the wooden pieces are designed by the House of Staunton:

http://www.houseofstaunton.com/gothicchess.html

Frank Camaratta, owner of the HouseOfStaunton.com, was on the Iceland trip to showcase his wooden pieces for Fischer's approval. Here is a photo showing Olafsson, Alexis Skye, Frank Camaratta, and Ed Trice all together in Iceland in a meeeting:

http://www.gothicchess.com/images/iceland/news_meeting.jpg

His phone number is listed on his website as (256) 858-8070 and their email address is sales@houseofstaunton.com

You can contact them to confirm that Frank was there, and the purpose was for Fischer to approve his Gothic Chess set for use in the match with Karpov.

There is plenty of 3rd party sourced material that supports the fact that the match was well underway, and Fischer was just being Fischer and backed out. This was not a rumor. This is fact. And Wikipedia was founded on the premise that factual, sourced material can be included in articles.

ChessHistorian 18:41, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

List of Cowboy Bebop voice actors
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List of Rumic World cast members
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article List of Rumic World cast members, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you agree with the deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add  to the top of List of Rumic World cast members. --Eruhildo (talk) 04:50, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Query
I need help renaming about 200 articles. Doing this by hand would take me all day.

Can your bot rename articles, or be adapted to do so?

If so, please contact me.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 22:27, 16 June 2008 (UTC)