User talk:ClueBot Commons/Archives/2008/March

Thank you...
GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 23:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Anyád!
semmi baj nem volt azzal a redirekttel! legalább néznéd meg, mit írtam! sok szerencsét a fordításhoz... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.66.151.248 (talk) 13:48, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

False positive page down
How to report false positives like this : 262021, if the page is down?

Your bot made me waste 10 minutes of my life, thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.250.19.61 (talk) 11:01, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Incandescent light bulb error
Due to a large amount of vandalism from multiple IP users on the Incandescent light bulb article, this bot ended up blanking the article with this edit. Another IP user did restore the article, but I thought I should report the error. -JWGreen (talk) 03:44, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * If you look closely at the diffs, you'll find that one IP blanked the page, then another IP added vandalism, so ClueBot removed the second IP's vandalism, revealing the first's blank vandalism. No error occurred. Calvin 1998   Talk   Contribs  05:21, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

How do you work
I need some help and hopefully somone can make it easy for me. How do these bots work and how is it that they can identify vandalism within seconds and automatically revert it. For example on a sportsmen page if someone made a single edit saying Joe 'Bad' Blogs, will this be reverted? Or is it only the easily identifiable vandalism like swear words, rubbish. Roadrunnerz45 (talk) 00:07, 7 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Cobi programmed these bots to identify vandalism using several heuristics. Bots are able to do this because they are scripts run on the computer and not a human, being able to identify and revert vandalism fast :).  Pseudo  One  00:14, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * ClueBot uses the following heuristics - pagereplace, pageblank, smallchange(obscenities),smallchange(exclamation), massdelete, massadd, smallchange(censor). Hope that helps. You can also see this   Calvin 1998   Talk   Contribs  08:29, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

reporting an incorrect
revert-- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 08:21, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

ClueBot archiving protected talk pages
User talk:Party is protected to stop abuse of the unblock template. It is marked for archival by ClueBot. But because it's protected, ClueBot is putting copies of each day's threads onto the archive page without being able to remove them from the talk page itself. I tried to remove the code but that removed the archive links as well. Is there a way to stop it trying to archive protected pages, and/or a template parameter which cancels archiving without removing the links? Please reply on my talk page as I will not be checking back here. Stifle (talk) 11:11, 9 March 2008 (UTC)


 * That should stop it, However, cluebot should probably check to see if the page is protected... Eventually, when it gets big enough, it'll cause problems... SQL Query me!  11:20, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia archive bots
Could you please add  to the ClueBot III userpage? Thanks :)  Equazcion •✗/C • 08:35, 9 Mar 2008 (UTC)
 * I've done this. Stifle (talk) (trivial vote) 17:12, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks -  Equazcion •✗/C • 13:04, 10 Mar 2008 (UTC)

Could ClueBot be adapted to report repeat vandals better?
Hi there, ClueBot has just left a warning on this page. The IP address had been blocked 6 times already. Could ClueBot be adapted to look at the editor's block log and if the editor is a repeat vandal then to report it? I think the benefits would outweigh the false positives. Nunquam Dormio (talk) 12:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Systole (medicine)
I have not edited the above article, but you have warned me for doing so, check my history and contributions, this is false. Diamonddannyboy (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 07:41, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Question about TOR
I did a TOR check on user:88.84.144.193. It said that this was a TOR exit node. Does that mean that it is an open proxy? Is this proper? You did some type of check and found no proxy. Am I mis-reading something? DanaUllmanTalk 18:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It seems the bot is having problems reading whether or not it's tor from the queries made to the TOR blacklists. If it IS tor, then it will still list it as "no proxy", but will say it is tor when you look at the DNSBLs in the report. Calvin 1998  Talk   Contribs  01:52, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

False Negative
Article section deletion occurred before genuine editing by CptCutLess was done, then further vandalism occurred before it was caught by ClueBot. But ClueBot only restored to the last edit by CptCutLess, thus missing the vandalism that occurred earlier. revert ID: 273263 Mdoc7 (talk) 20:11, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It happens. There was an editing race.  CptCutLess undid a vandal's edit to Keith Green just after, but almost simultaneously with, the vandal's second bad edit.  The second edit wasn't reverted by anyone, and when the vandal made a third bad edit ClueBot only reverted as far back as CptCutLess's version.  To cope with this, ClueBot would need to be able to identify which edits were pure reversions and of what (CptCutLess didn't use a standard edit summary saying what he had undone), and probably only those by trusted reverters (rollbackers and above?), and look past them in the history when deciding where to revert back to.  That might be possible, but it wouldn't be simple to program, and it would slow ClueBot down, because it wouldn't be able to use rollback. Philip Trueman (talk) 12:27, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Bot stopped working
ClueBot seems to have stopped working at around 07:36 this morning. Philip Trueman (talk) 12:01, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Jasmine 'Jazz' Summers
An editor has nominated Jasmine 'Jazz' Summers, 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. BJBot (talk) 12:59, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Suspected Copyright Violations - date breaks
I tried to break up WP:SCV by adding date breaks to the page but the bot removed them when it cleaned the redlinks out. Is there anyway to prevent this? When multiple editors are trying to work through the backlog it's much nicer to be able to start half way down the page so you don't waste time duplicating efforts. Thanks.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 17:27, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Tiny Pop
Sorry I just wanted to cheer myself up.--86.45.156.62 (talk) 13:04, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Bot is haywire!


This shows that the bot is screwed! Insteaf of setting up articles, it's posting internal links. --Lolipod (talk) 03:18, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Stupid
Another editor has added the  template to the article Stupid, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also What Wikipedia is not and Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the  template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 14:00, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Heworth Grange Comprehensive school
An editor has nominated Heworth Grange Comprehensive school, 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. BJBot (talk) 21:59, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Slight bot error on article creation
Cobi, ClueBotII messed us slightly in creating 18119 Braude. Dropped in some square bracketted but blank fields - perhaps a data error ? - Peripitus (Talk) 09:04, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I've found similar errors in:

10106 Lergrav 10246 Frankenwald 10247 Amphiaraos 10810 Lejsturojr 17242 Leslieyoung 17919 Licandro 18079 Lion-Stoppato 18100 Lebreton 18151 Licchelli 22905 Liciniotoso 3443 Leetsungdao 7720 Lepaute 7970 Lichtenberg 8081 Leopardi 8436 Leucopsis 8754 Leucorodia 8971 Leucocephala 8976 Leucura 9504 Lionel 10438 Ludolph 11239 Marcgraf 120141 Lucaslara 12275 Marcelgoffin 12464 Manhattan 13225 Manfredi 13249 Marcallen 17899 Mariacristina 3844 Lujiaxi 39336 Mariacapria 43841 Marcustacitus 4583 Lugo 6236 Mallard 7688 Lothar 7723 Lugger 8636 Malvina 9694 Lycomedes 9697 Louwman 10506 Rydberg 10638 McGlothlin 10647 Meesters 12973 Melanthios 16888 Michaelbarber 17033 Rusty 19633 Rusjan 24603 Mekistheus 3648 Raffinetti 38541 Rustichelli 4073 Ruianzhongxue 5886 Rutger 7260 Metelli 7906 Melanchton 7971 Meckbach 8191 Mersenne 8398 Rubbia 8587 Ruficollis 8592 Rubetra 9683 Rambaldo 9797 Raes I add that it's a small number compared to the thousands which have been correctly created. I list them here so that it can be easier to fix in the aftermath. It's a good (bot) job. Cenarium (talk) 22:17, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Name error
The name of Freimut Börngen, abbreviated F. Börngen, has been incorrectly spelled F. B�rngen, because of the unusual ö. You probably know a quick way to fix this, they are listed here. Cenarium (talk) 22:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I have corrected a number of errors and created redirects. But this one is present in too many articles. Cenarium (talk) 23:18, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Please Stop.
Leave my edits alone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.229.154.168 (talk) 21:26, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid that's not quite possible, as your edits are quite obviously vandalism. Calvin 1998 (t-c) 22:02, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

More heuristics
Can ClueBot detect an article that had its contents all enclosed in a comment tag? Alexius08 (talk) 14:39, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Lynette Boggs McDonald article
Why do this ClueBot keep on changing this article. This is a article about a non-important person that has a warrant. Do you have to mention her? What I'm saying is that you don't have to have this article. It's not really important. No one looks at it that much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.224.91.171 (talk) 04:17, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * This appears to be a relatively well-sourced article about a local politician who was involved in a scandal. She was noteworthy enough to be covered in the news, which suggests she's probably noteworthy enough for inclusion in an encyclopedia.  Vandalism or page blanking is not an appropriate protest against someone you don't like.  Scott Roy Atwood (talk) 17:29, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Tom Chilton (game developer)
An editor has nominated Tom Chilton (game developer), 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. BJBot (talk) 07:59, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The bot reverted vandalism by others. Basketball  110  Go Longhorns! 21:40, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Valence electron
Another editor has added the  template to the article Valence electron, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also What Wikipedia is not and Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the  template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 18:01, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

small bug
This edit seems to have removed the headers from the page, disabling the helperbot... Not sure if it was an oddity or a bug. Peace. undefinedUntil 18:31, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Barnstable High School Marching Band
Thanks for fixing that, thats the second time that it's had to be fixed. Kevin Rutherford 20:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Island Records edit
I just got a message from you saying I made an unhelpful edit on that page.

Not to my knowledge I didn't... perhaps someone's been using my computer without permission, I'm not sure. Either way I apologise for any inconvenience, I don't even know what the edit was.

So yes, sorry for whatever edit was made from this address, I'll try and watch who's using this computer from now on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.55.68 (talk) 20:53, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Duplicate section header
For some reason ClueBot generated a duplicate section header in User_talk:68.4.164.179. Not sure why. The original header appeared ok. Other that this one glitch, ClueBot is great. It seems to catch all the obvious edits made by those all-caps, vulgarity-using, exclamation-loving vandals. -- Tcncv (talk) 02:35, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

AIV Bug
ClueBot removed the Header (diff) -- Chris  05:42, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Typo in bot generated article
The article 5731 Zeus has a typo in the bot generated text. The text contains the following Apollo [NEO] which is obviously in error (I think it should link to Apollo asteroid). Just thought I'd pass this along. I'll fix the ones like this I find but the bot should be corrected to prevent the addition of further mistakes. -AndrewBuck (talk) 19:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

The article 5751 Zao has a similar error, it contains the text Amor [NEO] which should link to Amor asteroid. Also, both of these article templates (and others as well probably) should include the articles in their respective categories to save the work of humans having to categorize them in the future. -AndrewBuck (talk) 19:50, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

&hearts; —Preceding unsigned comment added by Funareallthecats (talk • contribs) 20:51, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

ElgooG
Another editor has added the  template to the article ElgooG, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also What Wikipedia is not and Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the  template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 04:00, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Al Jolson vandalism
Why call vandalism this blatant "possible?" That only invites more such acts throughout Wiki. If it was pure without-a-doubt vandalism, is there a censure action? Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 06:29, 31 March 2008 (UTC)Wikiwatcher1