User talk:Chris G/Archives/2012/April

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The Signpost: 02 April 2012

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RfC Tags


Please be aware when someone readds a rfc after the 30 days, assume that they want to extend the rfc.Curb Chain (talk) 14:05, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * It is not possible for the bot to detect that (ok, it is possible, but it is not feasible atm). Extended. -- Chris 05:26, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Attention needed on simplewiki
Hi Chris, I'm hoping you're still around... Some recent changes I made to the markup of simple:Wikipedia:Introduction has caused some issues with your bot. Please take a look at this edit your bot makes. Note that I merged the Please leave this line alone template into the /Content subpage, and deleted the template. Could you please modify your bot's script to match these changes? Osiris (talk) 13:25, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. -- Chris 05:48, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Osiris (talk) 21:18, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Curious edit
just made a very curious edit.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:41, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. It was caused by this. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. While it would be possible to make the bot ignore GA tags on subpages, that might also create it's own problems (e.g. pages like Talk:AC/DC). -- Chris 06:46, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

From the help desk
Could you help with the question about the RFC bot, here? -- John of Reading (talk) 06:51, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Very long
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Bad bot-driven deletion
User:Yet Another Redirect Cleanup Bot deleted Baltimore Colts (1953–1983) because the target to which it pointed did not exist. But that target was just a fairly recent change, and the previous target does exist. In addition, the page has >50 inbound links. So the deletion was per-policy but a poor solution. Seems like the bot is highly susceptible to all sorts of false positives that lead to deletion rather than a well-considered solution. At a minimum, would be better to defer ones with inbound links for human intervention instead of blindly deleting--likely someone could figure out an intelligent place to redirect so that those links resolve to...something. DMacks (talk) 13:44, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Wow, that's a pretty unfair statement to make. Certainly I will agree that, that deletion wasn't the best solution to that particular page, however, I actually put in quite a lot of thought into writing the bot, to make sure that only pages that should be deleted are deleted. I think this is reflected in User:Yet Another Redirect Cleanup Bot/SkippedRedirects which shows pages that the bot would have deleted in the last run, but did not quite satisfy the bot's criteria, and hence the bot skipped them. I have however made two changes:

Hopefully this addresses your concerns. -- Chris 17:09, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Firstly, the bot will ignore any pages with 10 or more inbound links. That is a good suggestion, and thank you for bringing it up.
 * Secondly, the bot currently ignores pages that redirect to a page that was deleted in the last 12-hours. I'm not sure why I originally chose 12 hours, but that obviously is not long enough. I've now changed 12 hours to 72 hours.
 * Thanks! Sorry if I came across harshly...this was the first time I saw this bot in action (this specific instance popped up on my watchlist), my brain wandered to what could be made to happen as I understood the underlying logic. So first, I didn't know anything about the triggering logic (and thanks again for addressing that). I think there might still be some beans in the can though...will email you today/tomorrow if I can figure out a potential situation. DMacks (talk) 19:58, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 April 2012

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Please comment on Template talk:Infobox film
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Feedback request service issue
Hello! Please see Wikipedia talk:Feedback request service. Thanks! —David Levy 20:22, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Dashboard/Requests for comment
Please check if is maintaining the redlinks at Dashboard/Requests for comment. Thank you in advance. – Allen4names 04:37, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on User talk:Jasper Deng/IPv6
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The Signpost: 16 April 2012

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Abuse Filter on the Article Feedback Tool
Hey there :). You're being contacted because you're an edit filter manager, At the moment, we're developing Version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool, which you may or may not have heard about. If you haven't; for the first time, this will involve a free-text box where readers can submit comments :). Obviously, there's going to be junk, and we want to minimise that junk. To do so, we're working the Abuse Filter into the tool.

For this to work, we need people to write and maintain filters. I'd be very grateful if you could take a look at the discussion here and the attached docs, and comment and contribute! Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 18:10, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 23 April 2012

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Feedback request service issue
Hello! Please see Wikipedia talk:Feedback request service. Thanks! Note: I'm reposting this message because it was automatically archived during a period of inactivity (so I don't know whether you saw it). —David Levy 00:07, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Responded there. Sorry about the long delay. -- Chris 12:39, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Indentation
Hi,

Any thoughts on why the RFC bot isn't picking up on this page? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 09:13, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The bot had some down time due to server issues, it's now running smoothly again. -- Chris 06:21, 28 April 2012 (UTC)