User talk:DannyS712 bot/Archive 1

November 2018
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "DannyS712 bot", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it contains the suffix "-bot", which is generally reserved for authorized bot accounts. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. If you have been granted authorization for this bot account, feel free to delete this message. Zinnober9 (talk) 06:15, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * This will be a bot account operated by me (DannyS712). For now, it is not approved because I have not being able to create a bot yet. I created this second account per the recommendations given at Help:Creating a bot. Please don't block it. --DannyS712 (talk) 16:50, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I was not under the impression from that article that users created the bot account prior to having a mission, but then I've never thought about creating a bot account for a task and may have misread it. It seems to me that you clearly know to not to use this account until after you have a mission approved, and give that your main account is not questionable, I don't see a reason to report this account as an unapproved bot. I wish you success with your bot process and approval! Zinnober9 (talk) 04:32, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I found out that it was a lot harder to create a basic bot than I thought, so I kind-of gave up (for now), but I don't intend to use the account for anything else. --DannyS712 (talk) 04:38, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Just FYI I've now officially created a bot. Thanks for not asking for it to be blocked! Also, I intend to redirect this page to my main talk, which would move your comments to one of my archives. I'd like to change the heading to "Bot account name" so that it better reflects the discussion. Would that be okay with you? Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 21:38, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Fine by me! Congrats! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zinnober9 (talk • contribs) 23:14, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Mass Message testing
Hey. Just wanted to let you all know that I, your overlord and master, now have mass message sender perms, and wanted to test them out my sending you this message. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 20:14, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Convert categorization to links
What is the purpose of converting categorization to links on draft articles, like this edit | here? --Zaurus (talk) 17:55, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * See WP:USERNOCAT and WP:DRAFTNOCAT: user subpages that are draft versions of articles should be kept out of content categories and Pages in the draft namespace are not articles, and thus do not belong in content categories. --DannyS712 (talk) 18:06, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * This is a very useful task I think. Before, people would often just remove the categories from drafts, which was off-putting for new users. Thanks Danny!
 * It might be worth linking to WP:DRAFTNOCAT in the edit summary, though. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 09:10, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
 * The edit summary links to User:DannyS712/DNC bot, which until now was a redirect to the bot's user page. I'll start working on actually making the page now --DannyS712 (talk) 09:16, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ see User:DannyS712/DNC bot --DannyS712 (talk) 09:40, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

BRFA trial message
This is a test mass message to trial Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 8. In the line below, I will include a link to  that, for the sake of the trial, is considered to have been an error - the link should have been. I will then have my bot fix the error on user talk pages, marking the edit as minor so as to avoid triggering the "new message" notification.

Link: User:DannyS712

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 09:09, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Files tagged to be moved to Commons
Hi. I'm just curious as to why your bot is removing Copy to Wikimedia Commons templates from various files, particularly files which have been reviewed by a file reviewer as being OK to be moved. There's really no need for Wikipedia to locally host files which are released under a free license or which are within in the public domain for one reason or another; so, they are moved to Common which is more suited for hosting images and because it makes it easier for other Wikimedia projects to use the files. There are some files such as non-free content or Template:PD-ineligible-USonly files which shouldn't be moved, but none of these should be tagged for a move to Commons in the first place. If there's something about the licensing of the files your bot is removing the templates from that it finds is questionable, it might be a good idea post something about this at WP:MCQ to let others know so that they can take a closer look. Files are occasionally licensed incorrectly and sometimes even need to be deleted when their licensing issues cannot be resolved. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:02, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I was doing it at the request of the person who had added the tags - see Bot requests --DannyS712 (talk) 18:39, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:19, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Manjaros
Can you check the operation of this BOT on Draft:Manjaros. There were no user categories only Categories placed by the Template:AfC (which I may not have applied correctly. Thankyou.  Djm-leighpark (talk) 22:51, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree that the bug was likely caused by the misapplication of the template. I have replaced the substituted version of the template with a transclusion, ensuring that it is categorized correctly in AfC categories without the bot "fixing" it. If such issues arise in the future, I'll try to code a sanity check in the bot. Thanks for letting me know of the mistake, --DannyS712 (talk) 13:15, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

User:Chenthil Vel
At User:Chenthil Vel, the bot has commented out Category:Tamil Nadu Wikipedians, a category specifically intended for user pages. Is this a bot error, or has that category not been set up correctly? -- John of Reading (talk) 08:50, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Technically, I think it was a bug with a different bot, but I can't verify it now since the edits have been processed. In the future, I can keep an eye an edits that were not made to a user subpage. --DannyS712 (talk) 09:04, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

(More) A quick look through this account's contributions shows many other similar edits. Also some edits like [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:The_C_of_E/AFC&diff=prev&oldid=888768299 this one], adding a colon to a category that is already commented out by HTML comments. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:54, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

(More!) OK, I see the problem. For example, Category:Indian Wikipedians is indeed a polluted category, because the article Art of Time Ensemble has been added to it. But the solution is to fix the article, not to edit the user page of every Indian Wikipedian. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:03, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * indeed, that was the bug - I'll screen for 'Wikipedians' in the category name. As for the html comment - I suppose the edit isn't needed, but I don't think there is any harm in it, and I'm not sure how to avoid it... --DannyS712 (talk) 09:06, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I just rolled back all of the ones to base user pages that were wrong. Lessons learned: Ignore categories with "Wikipedian", "User", or "Wikiproject". Anything else you noticed? --DannyS712 (talk) 09:30, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * No -- John of Reading (talk) 09:32, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * This problem is still happening, unless it's a different problem. I found and reverted three or four of them just now. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:51, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I thought I had solved it, but once I realized I hadn't, I made it so that it won't edit any root user page, and instead ask for help (see below) so the Rick F. page has been already fixed for. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 07:01, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

These pages are probably possibly still affected. Please check and revert as needed:


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 * User:Kwakelee
 * User:Maikejonne
 * User:Alimirzo
 * User:Hovhannes85
 * User:Plzbread
 * User:Ruiabg
 * User:Tanderson1963
 * User:Photographytours.in

I found these by looking for Task 11 current revisions in the bot's contribution history. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:32, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I had already rolled back the mistakes that I saw, but I went through and checked all of these - all were proper (the user page was a draft that was categorized as an article) but thanks for the list. --DannyS712 (talk) 07:43, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Task 11: Help needed, 2019-04-06
DannyS712 bot needs help with task 11 (polluted categories); the following pages appear to be categorized as articles, but weren't automatically fixed because they are root user pages:


 * User:Axan Khan
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 * User:CatonMA2
 * User:Munganan
 * User:Marcus Cyron
 * User:Ckcoxon
 * User:Rosietayl0r98
 * User:Axan Khan
 * User:Adhitupadhyay7
 * User:AnneAB
 * User:Brabim Bhandari
 * User:Frivolous Consultant
 * User:HiddenIP
 * User:Hjk321
 * User:Lilian89
 * User:Loskit
 * User:Lucamodena
 * User:MechaChrist
 * User:Mgl 6866
 * User:Miroslav Kovač
 * User:MNapolitano
 * User:Nabin K. Sapkota
 * User:Nana23887
 * User:NataliaLaczko
 * User:Pokepal101
 * User:Shuniya
 * User:Utkarsh1992
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 * User:Wikipuser777
 * User:محمد اللويمي
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 * User:Jaffer Sadique KB KVT
 * User:JackAndrewIreland1997
 * User:Jay smillie
 * User:JT07.01
 * User:Lachlan Carr
 * User:Leviowen12
 * User:Rhysward10
 * User:TheXIIIinUSA
 * User:Jaffer Sadique KB KVT
 * User:TheWord2K14
 * User:台北人
 * User:JUANDI321
 * User:Steverelei
 * User:Jameslopez04
 * User:JúliaBC
 * User:Burton60
 * User:Joggy223
 * User:Nabs
 * User:Naznazem
 * User:Str1fe13
 * User:Tick Tock41
 * User:The Home League
 * User:Jeremy Foo
 * User:Qwerty number1
 * User:Macapaka
 * User:Robloxian56
 * User:Imtiyaz Prince 1
 * User:Maulana Sikander Warsi
 * User:Syed mohsin pasha qadri
 * User:Addacat
 * User:Counterpart0
 * User:Crosstemplejay
 * User:Fabant
 * User:KevLeMalade
 * User:Masterv88
 * User:N87Pedia
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 * User:Railway6Dcoal2housed
 * User:Vijayakumar chinni rathod
 * User:Philippe rostan
 * User:Starboyxolabel
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 * User:The Stray Dog
 * User:David Gullentops
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 * User:Moi Unique
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 * User:PICQUART
 * User:Philippe rostan
 * User:Sheoran Ravinder
 * User:Singer imran khan
 * User:Sultan-ratrout
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 * User:Thomas Santillo
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 * User:Charlielovesyou
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 * User:Jeremy Foo
 * User:Ckcoxon
 * User:Omeadhbh

Thanks, --DannyS712 bot (talk) 05:18, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Task 11: Help needed, 2019-04-11
DannyS712 bot needs help with task 11 (polluted categories); the following pages appear to be categorized as articles, but weren't automatically fixed because they are root user pages:


 * User:Chhaya GoshAdak
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 * User:Shivanshuy96
 * User:Marcus Cyron
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 * User:Rosietayl0r98
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 * User:Axan Khan
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 * User:AaronSurtees
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 * User:AaronSurtees
 * User:Adhitupadhyay7
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 * User:Brabim Bhandari
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 * User:HiddenIP
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 * User:Lilian89
 * User:Loskit
 * User:Lucamodena
 * User:MechaChrist
 * User:Mgl 6866
 * User:Miroslav Kovač
 * User:MNapolitano
 * User:Nabin K. Sapkota
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 * User:NataliaLaczko
 * User:Pokepal101
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 * User:Shivanshuy96
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 * User:Maulana Sikander Warsi
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 * User:Counterpart0
 * User:Crosstemplejay
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 * User:KevLeMalade
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 * User:Vijayakumar chinni rathod
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 * User:Philippe rostan
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 * User:Charlielovesyou
 * User:Praneet.gundepalli
 * User:Noisy
 * User:Jeremy Foo
 * User:Omeadhbh
 * User:Mannytool

Thanks, --DannyS712 bot (talk) 04:32, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Task 11: Help needed, 2019-04-12
DannyS712 bot needs help with task 11 (polluted categories); the following pages appear to be categorized as articles, but weren't automatically fixed because they are root user pages:


 * User:Foreverstocks
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 * User:Foreverstocks
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 * User:MechaChrist
 * User:Mgl 6866
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 * User:Nabin K. Sapkota
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 * User:Ersiddharthmishra
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Thanks, --DannyS712 bot (talk) 03:32, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Category deletion
I'm puzzled as to why you deleted the category of "living people" for Katie Hurley. There was a duplicate category in her article, "members of the Alaska House of Representatives" which was correct to remove. However, Katie is still alive, and turned 98 last month. I didn't restore it, because there is perhaps something I don't understand. Thanks. Activist (talk) 06:01, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Before I made the edit, the categories were:


 * As you can see, the living people category is included twice. I only removed 1 instance of it. --DannyS712 (talk) 06:02, 28 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I stand corrected. Thanks very much. Activist (talk) 06:05, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Michael Tubbs edit
Good day DannyS712 bot, I noticed you made an edit regarding the article and the deletion of the mayor's order number. In case you are wondering where I had got the number of 82, I used this article from Stockton's local newspaper, The Record:

https://www.recordnet.com/article/20041205/a_opinion/312059953

In this article, there is a list of all mayors in the City of Stockton. Do note, since the article was written in 2004, it goes up to Gary Podesto, which the article says he was Stockton's 78th Mayor at the time. Four more mayors had already passed Podesto as of 2019, these being Edward Chavez (79th), Ann Johnston (80th), Anthony Silva (81st), and Michael Tubbs (82nd).

Please review the article to understand my justification. Thank you.

Mr Ugale (talk) 15:30, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Are you sure the bot made this edit? --DannyS712 (talk) 19:59, 6 May 2019 (UTC)



As shown here, this would be me evidence.

Mr Ugale (talk) 04:20, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * the actual edit the bot made was this. The photo shows 3 edits made after the bot --DannyS712 (talk) 04:44, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Ah, my apologies. I found the editor who made the edit. Thank you though!

Mr Ugale (talk) 05:29, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia bots using JavaScript
I noticed Category:Wikipedia bots using JavaScript was created for this bot, which is a child of Category:Wikipedia bots by framework. JavaScript is a language, not a framework. The closest applicable category here would be Category:Wikipedia bots with Javascript source code published, which I think is true for your bot. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  05:04, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
 * thanks - I've recategorized the bot and tagged the old category for speedy deletion. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:22, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * thanks --DannyS712 (talk) 20:22, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Category:McClure Twins Draft Page
Thank you for editing the Categories for the McClure Twins Draft page. Initially, I thought you were suggesting I should take it out but after fully reading, I realized you've already adjusted it. I'm going to put it back just as you found it. I'm still very new to Wiki but thank you for your adjustment! — Preceding unsigned comment added by LaWr123 (talk • contribs) 21:57, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * No problem --DannyS712 (talk) 22:13, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hi Danny2712.....Thank you for the page review, much appreciated.--Bonnielou2013 (talk) 10:36, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * no problem --DannyS712 (talk) 10:37, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Translating in my sandbox

 * Thanks for turning off the categories of the page I am translating in my sandbox and sorry to have been a bother. :)
 * --2019OutlaweD (talk) 06:24, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
 * no problem --DannyS712 (talk) 08:41, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the Category changes

 * No problem --DannyS712 (talk) 20:13, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Is it necessary?
Is this edit (or this) necessary? There was no category on the page since it was wrapped with a main other, so WP:USERNOCAT does not apply. On the other hand, it creates much potential problems if one does not notice it when syncing back to main. --Muhandes (talk) 22:23, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * it was categorized in multiple non-draft categories (in this case template categories), which is why it showed up as "polluting" the categories. The bot simply tries to fix the pollution. In this case, the category probably came from a different template. I'll look into adding an exception to that, sorry DannyS712 (talk) 22:33, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I see. I think the bot may be going at this the wrong way. Template categorization is usually done in documentation page, which is transcluded to the template page. Thus the pollution wasn't in fact corrected, the origin was the doc file. I now removed it manually. --Muhandes (talk) 09:57, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the Category changes
Hi Danny2712.....Thank you for the Draft category changed. Thanks a lot Sukh.editor (talk) 18:04, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 * No problem --DannyS712 (talk) 19:35, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Can your bot do page moves?
Danny, I've been working on implementing the RFC to take "The" out of song and album disambiguators, and find that there are more to do than I want to do by hand. See this quarry querry: https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/38862 which shows 2815 article results (and I have a short whitelist of 14 exceptions for "(The The ...)" and "(The 1975 ...)" per the RFC.  See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Music.  Let me know if your bot skills could help.  Actually, we might want to move redirects, too, in the cases where they are listed in relevant categories. Dicklyon (talk) 02:03, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * do you want me to file a BRFA? I'm not going to move redirects, since that would either require suppression of the redirect (without a good justification) or would create a double redirect DannyS712 (talk) 05:27, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Since my message to you, I got some pushback at Administrators'_noticeboard. Let's make sure that settles down first, then yes, a bot request.  Re the redirects, we can discuss later how best to handle them. Dicklyon (talk) 14:51, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * It looks like that's settled down, but maybe best to wait and be sure. In the meantime, at least 3 of us have moved lots manually to test the waters, and found no pushback. But the query shows way too many to do by hand.  I haven't heard any great ideas for new exceptions. Dicklyon (talk) 04:56, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * OK, that archived to here with no action and not much indication of anyone agreeing with the complaint. So, can you help me figure out how to automate or semi-automate these fixes?  I update the quarry query to exclude the whitelisted bands. Dicklyon (talk) 04:06, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you.
Thank you DannyS712 for turning off the categories in my sandbox. Always forget to do that. Ogmany (talk) 21:56, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * no problem DannyS712 (talk) 22:49, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Bot glitch
G'day Danny, the bot added the Maritime task force to a Milhist banner that already had a Maritime task force field here. Can you ensure that the code looks for a pre-existing field before adding another? Thanks for your work on this. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:54, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
 * thanks for catching that; I already finished (I think) with task 62, but for the future I can look; it just adds a lot more complexity to check each alias for the parameters. Maybe a different task would be to remove all empty or unrecognized parameters from the template? --DannyS712 (talk) 06:57, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Also, about your revert at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Kaiman-class_torpedo_boat&diff=next&oldid=922142592&diffmode=source - now the page isn't tagged; the parameter was empty. I've filled it in there, but if you undid any more can you make sure that the task force is still added? DannyS712 (talk) 06:58, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Task 27 disabling draft categories as well?
Hello. In edits such as these: and, is there a reason "Category:Sony's Marvel Universe drafts" doesn't survive the filter like "Category:Drafts about media and drama" does? Is that a property of the category itself? Just asking since if I restore that particular draft category, is it going to get removed by the bot again later? Thanks! -2pou (talk) 22:29, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

One more thing, I guess. Should the categories within the {Draft categories| } template get filtered by the bot? See this edit: -2pou (talk) 22:39, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree that the category should pass the filter - I'll take a look DannyS712 (talk) 23:57, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
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Atlantic306 (talk) 22:22, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks --DannyS712 (talk) 06:27, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

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I have unreviewed a page you curated
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Utopes (talk) 05:30, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * ? You then marked it as reviewed (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=1931+Academy+Award)... DannyS712 (talk) 05:57, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Purely a mistake, sorry. I didn't mean to unpatrol the redirect. I can't help the automated message. Utopes (talk) 04:15, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Draft categories
At Special:Diff/932656558, the bot added leading ':' to the categories, even though they were wrapped in Draft categories. —[ Alan M 1 (talk) ]— 04:10, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
 * The bot goes based off of Category:AfC submissions with categories - I'll try to fix the template that controls the categorization DannyS712 (talk) 04:46, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It was because the draft categories include the default sort within it, so the module (Module:AFC submission catcheck) thought that the end of the default sort declaration was the end of the draft categories template, and that the following categories were real DannyS712 (talk) 04:48, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks – I remember not being sure at the time whether to put it in the wrapper or not. I'll try to remember for the future. I wonder if there are other instances where braces (I assume that was the problem) might be part of a cat, like maybe some use of magic words. —[  Alan M 1 (talk) ]— 04:53, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅, Draft:David B. Axelrod has the edit reverted and is no longer in the category, see Special:Diff/932782470 DannyS712 (talk) 04:54, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

DannyS712 bot III context question
Hi DannyS712. I recently found that DannyS712 bot III had patrolled some of the redirects I had added in the past few months, whereas these such had normally been patrolled by another WP editor.

Is there a link on your page that explains how this works? How did I get pointed to a bot rather than a human editor?

Thanks. N2e (talk) 20:30, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * redirects that can be uncontroversially patrolled because they follow a certain pattern are patrolled by bot. See User:DannyS712 bot III/rules for a breakdown of the different rules that can cause a redirect to be patrolled DannyS712 (talk) 00:09, 30 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks, DannyS712, that was exactly what I needed to know in order to research things. I found that my name has recently been added to the whitelist for editors who do this sort of redirect creation by Rosguil.  That makes sense; but I had not previously known that.
 * Thanks for taking the time to develop bots that make Wikipedia a better place for all persons on the globe! N2e (talk) 03:35, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
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Arthistorian1977 (talk) 10:00, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I have re-reviewed the page in my individual capacity as a new page reviewer (i.e. not just because I think the bot was right) - but can you explain why you unreviewed it? DannyS712 (talk) 10:23, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi DannyS712, I think it's a usual glitch when we both wanted review it at the same time and mine was recorded as "unreview". I didn't intend to unreview it in the first place. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 11:46, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
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Arthistorian1977 (talk) 20:46, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
 * The bot has automatically patrolled it again - is there a reason that I should add code to skip it? DannyS712 (talk) 21:02, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
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Arthistorian1977 (talk) 18:47, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
 * the bot automatically marked it as reviewed again - is there a reason that I should add code to skip it? DannyS712 (talk) 19:03, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

BEPO
Hi! The bot has automatically reviewed BEPO, which was created as a redirect to BÉPO. Looks reasonable, no? The thing is, BÉPO is only one of the meanings of "BEPO" (the others are listed at the dab page Bepo, so this redirect shouldn't really have been automatically given the pass, but instead reviewed by a human editor and retargeted to the dab page. I don't know if this is an isolated case, or an example of a type that we might see more of down the line (in the latter case, that would mean wading into WP:CONTEXTBOT territory). – Uanfala (talk) 14:50, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * because the only difference was capitalization, it was automatically patrolled. Thanks for catching it DannyS712 (talk) 17:13, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
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Arthistorian1977 (talk) 20:52, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
 * the bot will automatically mark it as reviewed again - is there a reason I should add code to skip it? DannyS712 (talk) 20:55, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
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Arthistorian1977 (talk) 22:05, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I have rereviewed it in my individual capacity as a new page reviewer; if I hadn't, the bot would have automatically reviewed it again; is there a reason you unreviewed it? DannyS712 (talk) 22:14, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Your bot
Speaking as someone who knows nothing about bots, I was wondering whether your bot had the capability of changing citations. The task I had in mind involves hundreds of articles whose main source has a specific format and a seven digit "site" number. This format has been changed to a different format with the same site number. Replacing the dead urls manually is difficult as both old and new are pdf files, with no link to the organisation's main site. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:28, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't think I'd be a able to do that automatically, sorry DannyS712 (talk) 23:25, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Review request
Hello Danny, Hope you are well.

I saw that you have been reviewing my articles for quite some time. Could please review Kere Basadi?

Thanks a lot. Pratyk321 (talk) 13:42, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * This is a bot that only reviews redirects under limited circumstances DannyS712 (talk) 23:24, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you reviewed
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Draft: Winstanley Estate
Hi Danny, on my "Draft: Winstanley Estate" page I've deleted the "see also" section at the bottom of the page, in response to your comment "Disable the categories on this page while it is still a draft, per WP:DRAFTNOCAT". If this is not what you meant, can I please have some more specific details for what you were referring to? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kip1234 (talk • contribs) 01:25, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The bot made the edits that were needed DannyS712 (talk) 11:27, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

== tag with, but was for some reason unable to replace the leading   from the source title the result is equal to the destination title. In this case, thats because the two titles are the same though, so it probably shouldn't have been patrolled. I won't need a BRFA to stop patrolling this case so when I get around to updating the bot in a few weeks I'll be sure to exclude these cases DannyS712 (talk) 22:45, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Redirect patrol mistake
The bot thinks that 1234qwer1234qwer4 created bipartiteness, when in reality I did. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 20:36, 2 May 2024 (UTC)


 * It looks like this was caused by 1234... editing it right after you did, hopefully it was just a fluke --DannyS712 (talk) 05:41, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Disabling categories already disabled
Special:diff/1223794452 incorrectly disabled categories that were already disabled by being in a section. Geraldo Perez (talk) 14:59, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Likewise: Andy Dingley (talk) 21:41, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Andy Dingley should be fixed now, see last section below --DannyS712 (talk) 05:36, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Task 69
Can you have task 69, removing do not archive tags from closed DRN cases, make edits marked as bot edits please?

Pinging you because there's a couple sections you haven't responded to here. Thanks, Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 03:05, 20 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the pinging - the edits should already be marked as bot edits, but if they aren't I can take a look in a few days DannyS712 (talk) 03:16, 20 May 2024 (UTC)