User talk:ClueBot Commons/Archives/2012/May

ClueBot III incorrectly changing links to archived content
Hi, ClueBot III linked to the wrong AN archive in its edits to Talk:North Africa and User talk:Graham87/Archive 19. In both cases, it tried to link to a non-existent section at Administrators' noticeboard/Archive234 called "Histmerge needs fixing". The section actually exists at archive 228. I've fixed the links manually, but this bug is quite concerning. Graham 87 14:57, 30 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Perhaps the bugg occurred because there is a section called "Histmerge" in archive 234. Graham 87 15:03, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

More strange archive behavior
As I mentioned in this thread CBIII has copied the entire talk page of Thomas Jefferson into Archive 17. I've reverted the edit as it would likely lead to infinite archive pages as I pointed out here and another user pointed out here. In the case of Thomas Jefferson, the bot code was in the correct area so this wasn't caused by misplacement. Brad (talk) 22:33, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

And again after I tried to repair the previous one. Brad (talk) 07:45, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Rich, can you apply this patch? That should fix it.  -- Cobi(t&#124;c&#124;b) 10:14, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * And again. I guess I'll just revert until it's fixed...one day. Brad (talk) 04:16, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep alive. Brad (talk) 05:11, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Some random things found in CBIII's contribs this morning: Looks like an ongoing runaway. Brad (talk) 12:00, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * User talk:Takamaxa/Archives/2011/January/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April
 * User:ClueBot III/Indices/User talk:Jokkmokks-Goran/Archives/2012/February/Archives/2012/March/Archives/2012/March/Archives/2012/April
 * User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/User talk:Jokkmokks-Goran/Archives/2012/February/Archives/2012/March/Archives/2012/March/Archives/2012/April
 * User talk:Takamaxa/Archives/2011/January/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April
 * User:ClueBot III/Detailed Indices/User talk:Takamaxa/Archives/2011/January/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April
 * User:ClueBot III/Detailed Indices/User talk:Takamaxa/Archives/2011/January/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April
 * User:ClueBot III/Indices/User talk:Takamaxa/Archives/2011/January/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April
 * User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/User talk:Takamaxa/Archives/2011/January/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April
 * User:Almithra/sandbox/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012
 * User:Almithra/sandbox/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012
 * User:ClueBot III/Detailed Indices/User:Almithra/sandbox/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012
 * User:ClueBot III/Indices/User:Almithra/sandbox/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012
 * User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/User:Almithra/sandbox/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012/Archives/ 2012

Reversion of changes to article "Soil"
The bot correctly reverted the changes that amounted to vandalism but failed to restore the links to the half dozen images. Is there a fix other than to search those out and re-edit the page?

thanks much Zedshort (talk) 01:25, 2 May 2012 (UTC)


 * This problem has nothing to do with ClueBot NG; the difference between the edit before the vandalism and ClueBot NG's edit is absolutely nothing, as it should be. If there is a problem with displaying a page, purging the server cache often helps. Otherwise go to the technical village pump, but it might help to be more specific about the problem that you're experiencing. Graham 87 01:40, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Seamus (dog) article
The ClueBot NG has reversed some ridiculous edits to the Seamus (dog) article that involve comments about Barack Obama eating dog. I commend the bot for doing a good job, but I wondered how it worked. How does it know to remove this specific material? Debbie W. 04:52, 6 May 2012 (UTC)


 * User:ClueBot_NG. → Σ  τ  c . 05:47, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Debbie W. 20:34, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Request adding keywords for certain articles
I've noticed the same type of vandalism on certain pages. Is there a process to request adding keywords to give CB a hint that the article was vandalized? Fasttimes68 (talk) 23:28, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Support for welcomevandal?
I patrol for vandalism in the new users log, and I often warn first-time vandalists with. I've also seen how ClueBot NG escalates its warnings based on what's on the talk page of the user it's warning; could it treat as a level one vandalism warning? That way, the four warning system for vandalism still works. David1217 (talk) 01:34, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Add the standard vandal1 comment to welcomevandal, and ClueBot NG will honor it.   should work so long as it is actually subst'd along with everything else.  See uw-vand1 for an example.  -- Cobi(t&#124;c&#124;b) 01:37, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm. I use Twinkle to warn vandals, wonder if I could get support for the  comment. I'll probably have to ask the Twinkle folks about that. Thanks Cobi! David1217 (talk) 01:44, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

User:ClueBot NG has been blocked
You have been blocked temporarily from editing because I am an idiot. Sorry about that, I hope we can continue to be friends. - Running On Brains (talk) 17:01, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm Sorry
Hey, it's User: 174.54.231.32 The edits 'I' made were actually edits that my brother added. The one to the French Armed Forces was meant to be a joke by him, not me. Also, the page that was submitted for creation he submitted as a Wikipedia page on himself. He was also the one editing Taxation in the United States. I would be more likely to edit any pages on LEGO. I'm sorry for the trouble. I'll also be sending this message to Excirial. Though he uses the same ISP as myself, so he may have done so on his own computer. Either way, I'm sorry. 174.54.231.32 (talk) 02:59, 10 May 2012 (UTC)174.54.231.32

A barnstar for you!
/censor

First-sale doctrine
False positive:. I hope someone's monitoring the talk page; the page to report false positives is broken. TJRC (talk) 00:59, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It's working now - Running On Brains (talk) 02:14, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

ClueBot III talk page archive
G'day, ClueBot III has archived this page: Talk:Kokoda Track campaign, based on my request. It doesn't appear to have included a link to the new archive on the talk page though. I notice that it has done so on this page, though: Talk:31st Test and Evaluation Squadron. The mark up code looks the same to me when I compare those two pages, though. Have I done something wrong? Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 09:51, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It seems to have fixed itself now. Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 20:21, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
/censor

Cluebot reverting copyright blanking
Hi. :) Would it be possible to have Cluebot not revert edits like this, where an IP replaces content with a copyright template? I don't know if exceptions of that sort can be built in or if he did something wrong with the template so an existing exception didn't trigger. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:12, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

False positive on Rebecca Gayheart
Another false positive:. (Reporting tool remains broken: it finds wrong Cluebot edit and captcha fails even when entered correctly.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by TJRC (talk • contribs) 20:48, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Filtering Obama birther vandalism?
Hi. Would it be feasible to have ClueBot NG watch pages like Natural-born-citizen clause and Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories for people who change the text to say that Barack Obama was born in Kenya? (For example, [ this] and [ this] recent activity.) If so, how would I go about bringing this suggestion to the right people's attention? I really did try looking for a "submit suggestion" link somewhere, but without success, so I hope posting the question here on the bot's talk page will be acceptable (and, if necessary, forgiven). Thanks. — Rich wales 06:41, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Not sure about doing it with ClueBot, but you may want to see if an Edit Filter would work for the situation. Monty  845  06:46, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Someone please turn off this stupid bot
thanks --67.5.158.162 (talk) 18:47, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I just read the 'report false positive' instructions --- you've got to be fucking kidding, I'm not going jump through hoops because the bot owner is too fucking lazy to read its talk page. --67.5.158.162 (talk) 19:11, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Ambox warning pn.svg|25px|alt=|link=]] It looks like you bumped into a false positive. Did you know reporting these helps ClueBot to not make the same mistake again? So, why not report a false positive at the Report Interface – it's really easy to do! Thank you. - Damian Zaremba (talk • contribs) 19:13, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I have undone the edit. I have also noticed that the report was made at http://report.cluebot.cluenet.org/?page=View&id=1081167  Hazard-SJ  ✈   03:23, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Report edit issue
I've fixed a bug in the bot, the older edits in the database are slowly being updated. ~45k done, around ~20k left. Until then any edits will display the wrong info or "Unknown" on some fields - reports are still being saved, however. 92.25.176.122 (talk) 14:38, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Yoshi Vandalism
The Yoshi article is being vandalized by /v/ (the 4chan game board).

Just fyi

Oct13 (talk) 22:33, 17 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Appropriate actions have been taken. Thanks for the notice, but this is not the best place to place such reports (the bot can't read them).  Hazard-SJ  ✈   03:25, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * In future, this should be reported to WP:AIV (if you want to report someone) or WP:RFPP (if you want the page locked)--5 albert square (talk) 19:04, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Please
hello you warned me about changing christopher nolan page but in the talk page of christopher nolan i suggested an edit ,could you please change christopher nolan as british-American because he not full english he is half american too he himself stated that in here http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YNwbDraJnSAJ:www.guardian.co.uk/film/2002/aug/27/features+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=in please change his nationality as british-american please — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.163.210.107 (talk) 06:15, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Ambox warning pn.svg|25px|alt=|link=]] It looks like you bumped into a false positive. Did you know reporting these helps ClueBot to not make the same mistake again? So, why not report a false positive at the Report Interface – it's really easy to do! Thank you. 92.25.176.122 (talk) 18:48, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

More and more strange archive behavior
Again with CBIII the long term problem outlined earlier this month and in months prior is happening again. Brad (talk) 22:06, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

keep alive Brad (talk) 15:28, 16 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Talk:Arrow Air Flight 1285 seemes to be bitten by the same bug. I have now deleted all the created archives bar one but there must be a underlying problem. I had a similar case a few weeks ago. Agathoclea (talk) 19:20, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I didn't see any reason why that page needed bot archiving to begin with. Most of the talk was from 3-4 years ago. I disabled bot archiving for that page. Brad (talk) 20:54, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Since no answers are being supplied here I've posted a thread at the Bot Owners Noticeboard. Brad (talk) 20:54, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * This should now be fixed. 92.25.176.122 (talk) 10:54, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * So far so good. Thanks. Brad (talk) 01:18, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Please check the info before sending a warning

 * [[Image:Ambox warning pn.svg|25px|alt=|link=]] It looks like you bumped into a false positive. Did you know reporting these helps ClueBot to not make the same mistake again? So, why not report a false positive at the Report Interface – it's really easy to do! Thank you. 92.25.176.122 (talk) 18:49, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
 * No, this was deliberate induction of errors. Good catch by clue bot. -- lTopGunl (talk) 21:12, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Next What's In
Kindly check the supporting references. Noq only suggested that the matter is lifted from the references so this time i have put my own words only quoting a word or two putting them in the inverted commas. What is the problem now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Santasharma (talk • contribs) 03:56, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Crashed report site and empty IDs
Impossible to report a false positive because: 62.147.24.151 (talk) 21:19, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The site http://report.cluebot.cluenet.org/ crashes with "Warning: mysql_connect: Host 'i-000000b0.pmtpa.wmflabs' is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts' in /mnt/public_html/damian/includes/header.php on line 14 Error. Could not connect to database."
 * Anyway there's no "(ID)" to report but just an empty "" instead, for this revert http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ICU&diff=493719626&oldid=493719618

62.147.24.151 (talk) 22:08, 21 May 2012 (UTC) Riley Huntley (talk) No talkback needed; I'll temporarily watch here. 16:52, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Same deal with false positive http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trigger_finger&diff=493730816&oldid=493730800
 * Same deal with a false positive here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2012_Sana%27a_bombing&diff=prev&oldid=493846743
 * This is due to some IO issues we've been having with labs (which causes mysql to do weird things and fails inserts etc). Working on adding some debug code. 89.242.244.53 (talk) 21:41, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Minor glitch in bot edit summary
Just a minor thing, but when reverting, the edit summary left by ClueBot NG contains a (seemingly) useless character string, namely two parentheses  as can be seen here. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 10:40, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * This is due to some IO issues we've been having with labs (which causes mysql to do weird things and fails inserts etc). Working on adding some debug code. 89.242.244.53 (talk) 21:41, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

False Positive
Thanks for all your work, Khazar2 (talk) 15:23, 23 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I think you would normally report such a false positive via, which is linked to in the first blue box on this page. However, the link currently seems to be broken. You could drop Cobi or Crispy1989 a message on their talk pages, but I don't know how active they are lately. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 15:36, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Annnd fixed... hopefully we killed the IO issues for now so MySQL will stop playing up. - Damian Zaremba (talk • contribs) 15:41, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Error when attempting to review dataset
I've been trying to get onto http://review.cluebot.org/ but it just tells me Error: Server Error The server encountered an error and could not complete your request. If the problem persists, please report your problem and mention this error message and the query that caused it. with my tab being labeled "500 Server Error" I'm very out of my depth here, and am not even sure how to report it after I've followed the link. (Jonathanfu (talk) 19:36, 20 May 2012 (UTC))
 * I've alerted Damian to this--5 albert square (talk) 22:00, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Great! Thanks. (Jonathanfu (talk) 17:43, 21 May 2012 (UTC))
 * I believe this is a quota issue, don't have access to the app engine admin page to confirm it right now however. 89.242.244.53 (talk) 21:42, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It would be great if we could get the review interface onto a more stable footing. There is a backlog of edits to review, and people willing to review them, but we just can't get in at the moment. Wish I could help technically; unfortunately, constructive encouragement is all I got. – Wdchk (talk) 01:34, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm going to have a discussion with Cobi to see if 1. I can get access to the the App Engine adminpage and 2. If I can put some money into more bandwidth so the interface can stay up - Rich (MTCD) T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 13:45, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

False positive
The link for reporting false positives is broken. So I'm reporting one here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CrossFit&diff=next&oldid=493440597

It is actually a good revert, in that it improved the article, but the edit was made in good faith, and was not vandalism.

Rracecarr (talk) 20:03, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Then it's not a false positive.— cyberpower Chat Online  20:05, 22 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Let's think this through. Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism, by definition. Therefore, in an ideal world, an anti-vandal bot would not label it as vandalism and revert it. If the bot does treat a good-faith edit as vandalism, even though it might be misguided, willfully against consensus, or disruptive, then that would be a false positive. I think. – Wdchk (talk) 01:50, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It's not a false positive of the edit made has no place there. It labels every thing as "possible vandalism".  Anything that gets reverted that should not have gotten reverted is a false positive.— cyberpower  Chat Limited Access  10:04, 24 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Are you saying that ClueBot NG should intentionally revert poor-quality good-faith edits? That would appear not to be consistent with its BRFA, which states its function as "Vandalism detection and reverting ...". The bot's documentation states: "A false positive is when an edit that is not vandalism is incorrectly classified as vandalism." – Wdchk (talk) 13:05, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Little Rock Nine
Can you take a look at Little Rock Nine‎. There have been several changes to the article in the last week that look like vandalism to me. This page is normally heavily pattrolled but I think it's gotten a little out of hand. Thanks! Aleutian06 (talk) 14:57, 23 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello, and thank you for raising your concerns. Unfortunately, ClueBot NG is not built to act upon individual reports of vandalism in progress. Also, it's not an admin, and therefore it's unable to perform necessary admin actions in response. However, in this case, it looks like another editor has done a good job of reverting unconstructive edits by IP 213.143.122.77, who was then blocked by an admin. I think this means that all the vandalism has been taken care of, but if you can see any that others have missed, please take a look at WP:Vandalism for more information about how you can help. Thanks! – Wdchk (talk) 01:18, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

archives deleted by ClueBot III
I saw that Cluebot III has somehow deleted comments from my archive here and also at the index. Is there a way to fix this back to normal ? I would be glad to know what caused this, so that this does not gets repeated. (Please refer to see the log of where it went wrong, i am still clueless as to why it removed content from the archive. hoping to get it fixed) --  Ð ℬig  XЯaɣ  10:22, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
/censor

For ClueBot NG

Protocol for incrementing warnings?
Hi, is there a protocol for incrementing warnings, please? I was surprised that the 2nd warning here was not escalated. TerriersFan (talk) 20:26, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * WP:Talk page stalker here: those warnings were two weeks apart on a shared IP, no point in escalating as it is extremely likely not to be the same person editing. - Running On Brains (talk) 20:27, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Revertathon
Hey Cluebot! You want to have a vandalism revertathon, where the one of us who reverts the most vandalism in 24 hours wins? Legolover26 (talk) 19:40, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Strong Oppose it will needlessly supprt reckless unnecessary reverts and would most likely be followed by a WARNathon, TEMPLATEathon and even BLOCKathon. Besides in case you are not aware, this is a wp:BOT not a real user. --Ð ℬig XЯaɣ  07:25, 31 May 2012 (UTC)