User talk:ChristieBot

Enhancement request for ChristieBot, sir:
When the bot goes to an article talk page to add the edit "Transcluding GA review", may it also check for older, out of date transclusions on the same page and remove them? Otherwise, two GA reviews might appear on the talk page at the same time, when certainly only the most recent one is relevant. (Even Lowercase sigmabot III will archive everything--except the transcluded, irrelevant GA review.) For an example, see the Revision history of Talk:Chris Rock–Will Smith slapping incident. Thank you for considering this. Prhartcom (talk) 12:02, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Seems reasonable, though I wonder if some editors might disagree -- e.g. if a failed GA is still transcluded, should that be left for the new reviewer to looks at? This is not something I can do soon, but will add it to the list.  I'll probably check at WT:GAN to be sure everyone agrees it's a good idea, if/when I get to it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 12:40, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

And one more: When ChristieBot adds the GA icon, may it not mark it as a "minor" edit? It is a monumental edit! Prhartcom (talk) 12:31, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * That should be easy; will try to get to it in the next couple of weeks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:40, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Mike; and may I again say it has been good since ChristieBot took over managing the GA pages. Prhartcom (talk) 22:29, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Bug report: order of items
The bot puts as a first line of an article; still, according to MOS:LAYOUT, "  " should be after , DISPLAYTITLE and Hatnotes. Please consider improving the bot the following way: finding an offset from the start of the article, i.e. finding a value GA_OFFSET which is a max value of the four of the following: and putting the not at the beginning but a position of that value GA_OFFSET. You can use the other way to improve the bot to be compliant with the MOS:LAYOUT. Thank you! Maxim Masiutin (talk) 19:12, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * 0
 * 1) DISPLAYTITLE
 * 2) Hatnotes
 * 1) Hatnotes
 * Hi -- thanks; I agree this should be fixed but I don't know when I'll get to it. I've been working on the bot this week so I might be able to fit it in. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 22:28, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Do you have the bot on Github? Maybe other people could contribute. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 10:21, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't; I've never used it though I should probably figure out how. Until I do I'm afraid it's just me maintaining the code. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 10:26, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The citation bot is developed this way: https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot
 * However, if you manage to maintain alone, than it is good and no code sharing is useful.
 * Probably, at this point, just putting the "good article" after "short description" and "DISPLAYTITLE" should cover most cases. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 11:51, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * it should now be fixed for those two cases. I haven't come up with a reliable way to identify the hatnotes so the template will still be inserted before those where they exist. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 14:11, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Mike Christie Short article and display title probably cover 95 percent cases or more, Thank you! Maxim Masiutin (talk) 16:56, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

After user space renaming
I can find my reviews GA stats after I was renamed. What do I do since the bot has changed the my names at where it do be; the question is why is my stat showing wrongly? Safari Scribe Edits! Talk! 07:56, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * When you change your username the bot will follow a redirect from the old username if there is one; there is not in this case so the bot didn't know that Otuọcha was now SafariScribe. Your nominations have been edited to correct the problem -- e..g BlueMoonset fixed your nomination of Lalita Tademy.  The review statistics are wrong because the bot still doesn't know that Otuọcha's statistics should now be attributed to SafariScribe.  To fix that you just need to let me know, which you've done.  I'll add your usernames to the list the bot keeps of user name changes and it should be corrected the next time the bot runs. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 09:54, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

GAs nominations count
My issue is pretty simple, I have brought 5 articles to GA and the bot is only counting 4. What can I do about it? Thanks.  The Blue  Rider   14:20, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * See here -- the bot thinks you've made six nominations. For the GAN page it only counts successful nominations, so four seems to be the right number.  Is there another nomination the bot is missing? Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 15:01, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the reply, yes it is missing Resplendent quetzal.  The Blue  Rider  Postal horn icon.svg 18:34, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh, now that I see, I made the nomination with a previous username, maybe it is that.  The Blue  Rider  Postal horn icon.svg 18:36, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's under your old username. I assume you'd like to have that credited to you instead?  I'll connect the two names in the database this evening and leave you a note when it's done. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 19:27, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Redlink talkpage on GAN
Hi Mike, just a note that User talk:MemeGod27 has been deleted, so I'm not sure how ChristieBot will interact with it. There are a couple of user name moves going on here, so thought worth letting you know.

Best, CMD (talk) 05:54, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note! I will have to look at this later, but so long as any nominations are changed to the new name there should be no errors.  I can connect the old and new user names on request.  What's the new user's name? Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 13:15, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I've updated the only nomination to the new name. There's no GA nomination under the old name, so I think everything should be fine now. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 16:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, apologies I didn't reply in time. I had a look at the nomination and was unsure about changing a custom signature myself. Best, CMD (talk) 02:14, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Well, the bot does its best to parse weird signatures, but it doesn't actually care about them -- all it wants is to find a page link that looks like "User: ". So if you ever need to reset a nominator in a nomination template, just putting in the usual   will always work. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 02:24, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Self-inflicted errors
ChristieBot is transcluding some non-existent reviews and then complaining about it, not sure why as the process to reset those seemed normal and the pages were deleted hours before. CMD (talk) 01:57, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * As far as I can tell the pages were deleted after the reset, so when ChristieBot ran it could see the page existed. Looking at the code I'm not certain what it does when the old nomination exists, the status parameter has changed, and the new status is blank, but it evidently decided transclusion was necessary.  I have debugging turned off for those paths, so I can't be sure of the details, but generally if the bot sees a review page exists, and it's referenced by the nomination template, it will usually want to transclude it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 08:47, 2 July 2024 (UTC)