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RE: Disambiguation link notification for September 15
Hi! To avoid links pointing to the desambiguation pages in Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, German Wikipedia have a desambiguations detector. es:Wikipedia:Detector de desambiguaciones.

I don't know English good, I propose you that you create the desambiguations detector in the English Wikipedia.--Vivaelcelta {discusión &middot; &#32; contributions} 13:04, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the suggestion, but I think Anomie's Link Classifier has it covered. -- Ja Ga  talk 02:42, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

opinion
John Brunner (CEO) is being deleted. What do you think? I think he is not a career politician so trying to delete it because he's a minor politican is not right. He was a CEO of a large company, not a local plumbing company or local landscaper, but a company with sales of about half a billion per year. True, not a multinational giant, like Exxon or Apple, but not a small fry, like AAA Tree Service of Amarillo, TX or ABC Shoe Shine Stand of Broome, WA, Australia. Auchansa (talk) 03:39, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for September 17
Hi,

Under OR I meant the State of Oregon, but it has not turned out so. I have cleaned.

Thanks for your note.

Yours faithfully,--Magularia (talk) 14:57, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

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Stand-alone page
I intended to reference this page, as I needed to make a reference to Stand-alone novel, for which there is not page. If I need to create this page, I can easily do so. Bill Pollard (talk) 12:31, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * That seems useful. Or, you could just unlink "stand-alone". I think it would be reasonable to expect people to understand the meaning. -- Ja Ga  talk 16:50, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Disambiguation
I joined this project, as I make use of disambiguation pages and would like to help fix incorrect links and learn how to always fix my own errors. I will read the guidelines for these pages. Bill Pollard (talk) 20:49, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Fantastic! If you have any questions, please let me know! I look forward to seeing you around. Cheers, -- Ja Ga  talk 22:03, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for September 29 - Railway turntable
Hi and thanks for the heads-up re: the link pointing to the disambiguation page instead of the article I wanted to link to! I fixed it and it now points to the intended article. I remember wanting to do several things with that link and I'm afraid I got distracted by a shiny thing. Oh, well... :-)  Thanks again!  NorthCoastReader (talk) 20:47, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for giving me a smile, I needed that. Cheers. :) -- Ja Ga  talk 22:04, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
 * You're most welcome! NorthCoastReader (talk) 07:21, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

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Database reports
Hi. Did you mean to make a revert at Database reports? --MZMcBride (talk) 05:52, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I did not. Thanks for the heads up. Wiki-ing on the iPad can be annoying, Safari shifts the page (and its links) at the last second. That isn't the first time I've accidentally undid someone's edit but it's the first time I've overlooked it. -- Ja Ga  talk 05:58, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Aye, iPads + rollback links are a bit dangerous. :-) Thanks for the quick fix. --MZMcBride (talk) 15:32, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for October 6
Yeah sorry about that. I eventually fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out and keeping wikipedia free of issues. Springyboy (talk) 23:50, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

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Please tell your bot not to add templates to articles which have a construction template at the top. It causes edit conflicts when trying to save changes. Kraxler (talk) 14:14, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

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Possible exception to the DPL bot
Hi there, whilst doing some dab fixing, I came across a dab marked with dab needed dn template, but the link was incorrect - it wasn't the most likely dab page. I didn't know enough about the topic to solve which article was actually correct, so I changed the dab page, but left the dn tag in place. Do you think that your bot could detect if the dab already has a dn tag after it, and hence is known to be a dab that is hard to solve, and not notify the editor about it? Other than that little annoyance, it's a really great bot. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 12:16, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of 1929 Graham Paige DC Phaeton


The article 1929 Graham Paige DC Phaeton has been proposed for deletion. The proposed-deletion notice added to the article should explain why.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.

Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 16:36, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Trysull
Thanks DPLbot owner. I've repaired the 2 links. Norman is now Norman and Roman is Roman. Must stop editing at 4am ;-) Cheers Keomike (talk) 14:33, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks from me also. When I went to correct the Legend of the Dragon link (I'd originally simply changed a lower case d to capital) on the Kix! (TV channel) page, the dab solver told me there was another link on the page that also needed fixing. Both now link to the TV series pages instead of the disambig ones. Digifiend (talk) 20:34, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Steve Geller
Hey, I think you can unlock the Steven Geller page. Did/do you work for him? There's no reason to lock it, so please unlock it. It's ridiculous that some insignificant clown like that would have a protected page. You previously deleted my comment because I used a word, common amongst my peers, for being "offensive." I find your censorship far more offensive than anything I could possibly say on Wikipedia in a request to have his page open for editing. 24.17.209.236 (talk) 07:09, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

And if I may add, deleting my previous request to you for being offensive doesn't absolve you of your responsibility for unlocking the Steven Geller page. Did you read my post, and think, "Wait, this guy used a term that is offensive to me! Therefore, what he has to say should be disregarded." ? 24.17.209.236 (talk) 07:18, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * All I did was change the page protection to accommodate changes in Wikipedia protection policy. I have no idea what you're talking about on the deleted content. Given your belligerent behavior here, though, I'm not even tempted to unlock that page. -- Ja Ga  talk 17:53, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

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Followup RFC to WP:RFC/AAT now in community feedback phase
Hello. As a participant in Requests for comment/Abortion article titles, you may wish to register an opinion on its followup RFC, Requests for comment/Abortion advocacy movement coverage, which is now in its community feedback phase. Please note that WP:RFC/AAMC is not simply a repeat of WP:RFC/AAT, and is attempting to achieve better results by asking a more narrowly-focused, policy-based question of the community. Assumptions based on the previous RFC should be discarded before participation, particularly the assumption that Wikipedia has or inherently needs to have articles covering generalized perspective on each side of abortion advocacy, and that what we are trying to do is come up with labels for that. Thanks! —chaos5023 20:28, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Toolserver
After spending most of August in a state of extremely high replication lag, the toolserver briefly got back to normal in early September — however, for the past 19 days, even though the replication lag has officially been at zero the untagged uncats list is not updating at all. No matter how many times I click on the update button, it just cycles endlessly without actually updating or picking up any new articles (or even updating how long ago the page was "last updated", which is still at 19 days even though I've probably hit the update button at least once every single day since.) I don't know if the problem is with the toolserver itself or with the untagged uncats tool, but I thought you should know because whatever the problem is it obviously needs to be fixed. Bearcat (talk) 10:07, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I had no idea this was happening. Thanks for letting me know - I'll check it out. Cheers, -- Ja Ga  talk 17:33, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅. Tricky one. Please let me know if this happens again. Cheers, -- Ja Ga  talk 04:55, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It's doing the same thing again today. It worked well for a couple of days, but today it just won't actually update despite a replag of only a couple of minutes. Bearcat (talk) 15:05, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It was the same problem. I have a ugly hack in place that shuts the script down if someone hits Update or Regenerate too many times at once. If I don't do that, someone could knock down all my Toolserver apps by tying up a database connection with each click. Problem is, the shutdown doesn't get cleared unless I manually take care of it. I know I need to code a better solution but I haven't got to it - and it hasn't been a problem until now. If this persists I'll have to look into it. -- Ja Ga  talk 17:39, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Again, it's now been five days since I've been able to generate any list at all... Bearcat (talk) 21:55, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Got it. Someone is pounding that script. I'm going to have to code something better. Thanks for your patience. -- Ja Ga  talk 00:43, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Just for the record, based on your explanation I wonder if the actual problem may have been that for some reason the database connections weren't closing properly when they stopped being active -- because typically what would happen is that I'd hit the button, it would cycle and cycle and cycle and cycle for ten minutes or so without actually pulling any results in, and then after it finally stopped and the page went back to resting state I'd try again. Certainly most of the time I'm the only person on Wikipedia who actually works with that tool on anything approaching a daily basis, so if there was a problem it was more than likely connected directly to me -- but that's the only explanation I can think of that might have resulted in me personally overloading the script, because that's certainly the closest I ever came to "pounding" the button.

It's also worth noting that as I initially mentioned, this problem only began after the toolserver went through a phase of extremely high replag (I think it was up to two weeks at one point) that lasted for most of August. Although I'm not familiar with all the details, my understanding is that something was changed on the Wikipedia server which the toolserver couldn't cope with and so the toolserver had to be reprogrammed to catch up -- so since your hack never caused problems until after that issue was fixed, I wonder if maybe there was a new compatibility problem with whatever was changed at that time. Bearcat (talk) 14:02, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree with your compatibility problem theory. I've just deployed a new version of the script that should be more robust - I've added code for it to eventually clean up after itself when the problem occurs. Let's hope this one works better; you shouldn't see a script refuse to update for more than 10 minutes now. Thanks for your patience in all this. -- Ja Ga  talk 15:08, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Top 500 List
Some articles, like Ibrox disaster and Nampally among others, are still being carried on the list despite being cleared.

Can you please look into this?

Thank you.

Ulric1313 (talk) 22:20, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Please see Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 23:11, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Hum. I'm going to assume this is the cause of the behavior Bearcat reported above as well. I'm going to stop the bots for now. Russ, think we should stop the daily updates as well? (Aside: why do they always screw up Toolserver at the end of the month? I don't want another knackered contest...) -- Ja Ga  talk 01:47, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd say keep the daily updates going. It seems to still be working for the most part, although there are some obvious false positives (and almost certainly some false negatives that we aren't aware of).  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:06, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

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Article Titles
I thought it was needed to add the "[[" sign when a Link is created which it is created. Also, Having the page in Black Text is quite boring, It is good to link something up on a page. I sometimes have stopped that and others have done it for me.

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V8 Disambiguation
Hello. I don't know if you noticed, but I had already once changed the page from redirecting to V8 engine to V8(disambig). Once my change was reverted, I put a topic in the discussion page. Nobody replied, so I assumed nobody else had an opinion. I am leaving the page as-is for now, but I would like to know why you believe the page should redirect to V8 engine. Thanks. Bookster451 (talk) 16:14, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

How to disable DPL bot
Hey, JaGa. Okay, so I would like DPL bot to stop pinging my talk page whenever I accidentally post a disambig link. However, when I clicked the opt-out instructions link, it just redirected me to the bot's talk page. So I ask you, the bot's operator, how do I stop receiving messages from DPL bot? Thanks for your help. -- TC N7  JM  17:03, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
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 * This will only block DPL bot and no other bots. -- Ja Ga  talk 17:15, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for helping on the ESPN college basketball announcers section. I worked hard to update their current announce lineup. Hope you are pleased. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harryjunior1000 (talk • contribs) 17:57, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

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Reference errors
thanks very much for setting-up user notifications for ambiguous links. i've been fixing reference errors e.g. errors such as this which created an error in ref 96. do you think it would be possible/a good idea to set up notifications for this kind of error and other kinds of error? perhaps someone has suggested this before? Tom B (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

V8 Disambiguation (again).
Hi! I noticed you didn't respond to me the last time I left this message. I would just like to know why you think that V8 should redirect to V8 engine instead of the disambig page. Bookster451 (talk) 21:06, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

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Summer of Love
Reversions reverted again and reported again.

A) I am not new to Wikipedia I have been editing articles for over ten years now.

B) I am an accomplished music and entertainment author currently 72 years old and recently celebrated by 50th year in the field.

C) I find it effronterous to come back after working on a page for two days straight to find it all erased by people who were either A) not born when the events took place or B) not having been to either one or both as I have been.

D) Numerous administrative forums within Wikipedia state that any article heretofore deemed as dry and stodgy-sounding may be rewritten into a more `chatty' style in order to appeal to a wider audience.

The page in question has already been reported to the administration for Page Protection as well as under Edit Wars.

Further interference will also be reverted and reported as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.131.182.86 (talk) 01:40, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for helping disamibuate the amazon.com link from amazon-Pr4ever (talk) 18:01, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

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Just an enquiry as to why you have edited/deleted my edits? I have in fact researched my contributions. I look forward to your reply. Michaeltv79 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaeltv79 (talk • contribs) 15:27, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

DPL bot
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Toolserver again, different problem
Looks like the previous problem is behaving normally now...except that now there's a new problem (or rather a new twist on issues that we've seen before) cropping up.

So the basic problem here is that some quirky stuff which happened in August is suddenly polluting the uncats list for some reason. Bearcat (talk) 20:50, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) There are currently 40 articles stuck on the list which were deleted in August, and have never been recreated since, but which won't drop from the list no matter what I do to resolve them (recreate, tag, categorize, redelete, etc.) These articles are Ajk college, Alice Chesley, Application to electrical networks, Audesi, Bab-e-khyber, Basic Skill Charter Mark, Basic definitions and background, Cactuq, Computer Assisted Farming System, Costarrica's Next Top Model, Top Boy, Costarrica's Next Top Model, Top Boy, Cycle 1, Costarrica's Next Top Model, Top Boy, Cycle 2, David Munir, Demonstrating Size (dimension), Effective resistances and Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator, Giorgos Litsas, Illuminati NSA Web Hoax, Jorge Luke, Kamal Al Hajj, Lawrence Huang, Luxury Lounge FM, National Distance Learning Week, On determinant identities, Otago Country R.F.U., Project string game, Redland Liedertafel, Shawnee rivera, ShiningHub.com, St.Michael, Yorktown, Stathis tsevas, TEEKARMAFI, Tamika newhouse, Terminal Bliss, The square root of the minus Laplacian, Thomas Lacey, Torreslfchero/common.css, Up against, Varun Grover, Vincotto Salentino and Ziad abdeen. A similar problem cropped up once before, and as I recall you ended up having to hardcode the titles in question directly into the bot programming as manual exclusions -- but I worry that if we don't find and fix the problem at its real root, then I'm going to have to keep coming to you over and over again with new lists of deleted articles to exclude, and I think we'd both rather avoid having to do all that extra work day after day.
 * 2) As well, in the past two days there have been somewhere between 50 and 100 articles which went through the old blank-and-revert and/or page move problems, again back in August. However, this time the standard fix, saving a null or minor edit to the article, didn't drop the articles from the list -- instead, I've been forced in every case to actually delete and then restore the pages to get them off the uncats list (except for one page where I wasn't able to do so as the page had more than 5,000 edits in its history and thus couldn't be deleted without steward privilages, but I did manage to drop that title by replacing the categories with an uncat tag and then restoring the categories.) If you need to see the specific titles that were involved, you can look at my deletion logs; any title which I've deleted in the past two days with the edit summary "temporary deletion to fix a system bug; will recreate momentarily", and then restored shortly afterward, was suffering from either this problem or the next one I'm about to mention.
 * 3) Problem #2 is also now extending to redirects, with several titles which were redirected to other articles in the same time frame also showing up on the current generation of the list -- and again, the only way to get such titles off the list has been to delete and then restore them. Again, there's one special case, Prarie Point, Texas, which is a redirect that still refuses to drop even though I've deleted and restored it twice and tried adding it to.
 * Looks like Toolserver is having problems again. I may have to shut down the scripts for a while. I'll let you know. -- Ja Ga  talk 01:48, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The good news is today's version of the list didn't pick up any new deleted pages (although all of the same 40 titles that I mentioned before are still stuck on the list), so that may turn out to have been just a one time thing. It did pick up two new redirects, but they both behaved properly when I tried to resolve them. Bearcat (talk) 16:06, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Just to let you know, as of today the toolserver list hasn't picked up any new problems since that list I posted earlier. It is still catching redirects sometimes, but deleting and then undeleting those titles has succeeded in dropping them. The same 41 articles that I listed in my post above are still stuck on the list, however. My workaround for the time being has been to keep a text file of those titles, and then do a list comparison against the new daily list so that I can filter those articles out before I actually start running the batch — but since it appears to be a one-time problem, I guess you may as well just hardcode those titles into the bot as manual exclusions if and when you get a chance. Bearcat (talk) 23:45, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Same list of articles (the 40 in item #1 above and Prarie Point, Texas) are all still stuck on the toolserver list as of December 1. Would really be helpful if you could hardcode them as exclusions soon, because it's a real pain in the butt to still have to work around them after a full month. Bearcat (talk) 09:34, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Haim and Hayat
Hi JaGa, your bot told me that I can't link a disambiguation page to another one, however, this article is of the few exceptions, as it's important to disambiguate another word within. Thanks. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 12:11, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

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Disambiguation link notice
Hi Thanks for your message about the disambiguation link in my editing of the "Aggie MacKenzie" page. Since your last message, I have made a special effort not to do this by using the link I've put in place and, if it's wrong, then I remove the link. I was sure that I had done that for the National Students Union but obviously not and I apologize.

Please can you tell me why some users insert disambiguated links but they stay in place? And am I right to leave such links in place?

Regards Julie (ceeforcat) <^:^> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ceeforcat (talk • contribs) 17:38, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

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URLs using characters that break the URL notification
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Anders Svesson (footballer) fixed
Thank you for the headsup! I've just corrected the link for Anders Svensson (footballer), the one born in 1976 in the 2002 FIFA World Cup Qualifier (UEFA) page.Ren90270 (talk) 03:25, 18 December 2012 (UTC)Ren90270

your bot's behaviour is improper
please take him down — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.218.144.18 (talk) 17:58, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

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Newtown High School
I received a notification for Newtown High School (Connecticut) related to linking a disambiguation link of Blue Ribbon Award on the page. Unfortunately that page is now Protected and I am not able to correct this issue. Djharrity (talk) 00:10, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
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Your bot
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Antimicrobial copper-alloy touch surfaces - disambiguations have been corrected
Thank you for the recent notice about disambiguations. They have been corrected. Enviromet (talk) 19:46, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

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nba commentators page
Thanks. But, I kind of messed up the page. Anyway we can fix it back with the new information that I helped with? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harryjunior1000 (talk • contribs) 21:42, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

A notice for those who left old links
Greetings! Please let me know what you think of my proposal at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links Cheers! bd2412 T 19:36, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

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Hi, Thanks for the guiding.Mydreamsparrow (talk) 13:51, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

DaB bot and servitors
Hi JaGa. Just to note that I shouldn't have been notified about adding  to a page, because it's not a link to servitors as the bot seems to think, but to servitor. Thanks, - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 11:29, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello, Jarry1250. No doubt you meant to type " ", but the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Trinity_College,_Oxford&diff=530999899&oldid=530948440 diff] shows that you actually typed " ".  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:41, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, quite right. I do apologise. Must be going mad in my young age. - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 15:57, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. But I really messed up one NBA Broadcasters page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harryjunior1000 (talk • contribs) 15:26, 5 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Hello. I just got to your page on Padang of Sudan. I have also come to know that there is an ethnic group by the same name in Indonesia. Since you have written an article on the ethnic group, I wanted to know what you discovered during your research on these ethnic groups. I would also like to request you to take a look at the work I have done on the Padang page.


 * Kindest regards


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Euthyneura myrtilli
Thanks for your note. I will look into the matter and see what I can do! Osborne 19:26, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

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One of your Uncat lists
Hey JaGa! Just a quick question about one of your toolserver generated lists. Should the list containing pages that are uncategorised but have no uncat tag contain pages which has been deleted? :) I have recently recovered and fixed all of my bots and noticed the list containing several non existent pages.  ·Add§hore·  <sup style="color:black;">T alk T o M e ! 21:15, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Also it would be great to know if you still had the code for the untagged orphan list generation too!  ·Add§hore·  <sup style="color:black;">T alk T o M e ! 14:45, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

I hope the same standards
The same situation is also Wikipedia article: African nations at the FIFA World Cup. This is why there alright, but not here? There is no need to apply a double standard. This page useful, informative and interesting to ask the football public. Wikipedia does not have the required page. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.38.223.233 (talk) 09:46, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing out the disambiguation error on the article South American nations at the FIFA World Cup. I have fixed the disambiguation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.38.223.233 (talk) 09:02, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

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Huh?
Is "Templates with disambiguation links" broken or do we really have no templates to fix? That sounds rather amazing! <span style="font-family:'Old English Text MT',serif;color:green">The Banner <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 23:20, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation links bot
Your bot has left this message on my talkpage. I'm not sure if I've mentioned this to you previously, but when material containing a link is moved or merged, your bot sends a message to the person who moved the material, even though they didn't create the link. Is it possible to add some code to your bot to look for edit summaries that contain key words, such as "move" or "split" or "merge".  SilkTork  <sup style="color:#347C2C;">✔Tea time  14:50, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I like that idea. I'll incorporate some (but it'll be a while, I'm swamped right now). -- Ja Ga  talk 21:48, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

It's been a while
Hi all, sorry for my extended absence. I'm a father now, and that, along with a family tragedy and my return to college, has conspired to take almost all of my time/energy. I have to go into semi-retirement for a while, but I don't want to let everything we've worked for go by the wayside. I'll try to be more responsive in the future, but there will necessarily be big gaps. I just wanted to let you know I'm still around.

BTW, concerning the issues with DPL bot recreating deleted pages just to place a dablinks template (which, I'd like to point out, is due to imperfect replication on Toolserver's part, not a problem with the bot), I have an idea for a fix, but it will be a while before I have a chance to implement it. If it works, I'll apply the same solution to a similar problem Bearcat has reported for uncategorized articles.

Hopefully I'll be able to come by more often in the future.

Cheers, -- Ja Ga  talk 21:46, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * BTW if the reports or bot are having any major problems could ppl let me know? Thanks, -- Ja Ga  talk 21:50, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I am sorry to hear that you've had some bad goings on, but I'm so glad you are back - and just in time! I am offering fabulous cash prizes for next months disambig project. Okay, not so fabulous, but I'm testing the waters to see if I can stir broader community interest and so forth. By the way, please check out my proposal linked about halfway up the page to send a disambig fixing request to authors of longstanding links. Hope things continue getting better! bd2412  T 01:48, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm also glad to see that you are here. FYI, although you might already have noted it, there were a number of comments posted both here and on User talk:DPL bot while you were away that got archived due to age, so when you have time you might want to scroll through the archives.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:19, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

I know what I put
I know what I put Chevrolet SS in the page Juan Pablo Montoya, and I did that because that's the car that Chevrolet is going to be using during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series from the 2013 season onward.

But, thanks anyways,

HotMAN0199 00:58, 29 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by HotMAN0199 (talk • contribs)
 * But which Chevrolet SS? Click on the link -- there are four different cars listed there!  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 01:02, 29 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I meant to put the 2013 one, sorry, my fault.


 * Thanks,


 * HotMAN0199 01:16, 29 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by HotMAN0199 (talk • contribs)

Aura Sonic
Hey all of the links have been corrected — Preceding unsigned comment added by JLurie12 (talk • contribs) 16:27, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

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Disambiguation
I have received three automated messages from you (I think) and it's beginning to put me off bothering with Wikipedia and some of irs rather silly pettiness more approporiate to the bureaucracy of the former Soviet Union.

Each of the links I made in my article amendments were intended - not unintended.

From: a rather fed up historian who can spend his time moree wisely than on petty things that interest Wiki people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lestermay (talk • contribs) 00:56, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
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Redirects for discussion
Greetings! Since you have previously edited Arabia, you might be interested in the discussion at Redirects for discussion. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:27, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

I made no such link
you have written me about a link and I have made no such link. _ _ _ _ 83d40m (talk) 01:19, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * You added the wikilink in this edit. See the 'In popular culture' section. VernoWhitney (talk) 01:29, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

I apologize, it was in an interim edit -- that you must have corrected already. Thanks for the note. _ _ _ _ 83d40m (talk) 01:31, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

nice page did like ti needs more o it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.98.173.149 (talk) 19:20, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

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Disambiguous IL in my edit
Hi. Your bot alerted me to a disabiguous link in my edit. It called my attention to this problem: Thomas Hampson. Sorry to cause a problem. How can I fix this?Hammerdrill (talk) 17:56, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Praise!
Thanks for your message, sorry i have forgotten that SPlit has different meanings but I corrected now — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ldaniel77 (talk • contribs) 16:49, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

DPL bot errors
Since you're back (at least somewhat), could you please look into some errors which were reported at User talk:DPL bot but never responded to? In particular, the bot picked up one of these three edits as adding a DAB link (bot msg), when none of them did. Likewise, it thought or  added one (bot msg). Also, this edit (bot msg). VernoWhitney (talk) 16:39, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I've seen those errors and I must say I'm not sure of the cause. Perhaps something is wrong with the regex I use to identify hatnotes. Figuring it out will take some time, and I doubt I'll be able to do it this semester. If it becomes a real problem, we'll have to shut down the bot for a while. -- Ja Ga  talk 00:10, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting back to me. It doesn't seem to be that common, given that the vast majority of the messages left for you are about legitimate dab-links. If you can send me the regular expressions which you're using I'd be more than happy to look over them and see if I can figure out what's matching that shouldn't be. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:08, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * All my stuff is in a group project called dpl. If you can get a Toolserver account, I'll happily add you to the group. It would be easier to work on through Toolserver because I have a few debugging features. Interested? -- Ja Ga  talk 17:09, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. I've gone ahead and requested a toolserver account. VernoWhitney (talk) 17:43, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

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List of Freeways length
A tag has been placed on List of Freeways length, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo, or other unlikely search term.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you believe that there is a reason to keep the redirect, you can request that administrators wait a while before deleting it. To do this, affix the template   to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Rybec (talk) 06:15, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

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Dablink notification
While wikifying an article, I created two links to dab pages b/c I didn't know (and didn't have the patience to check to see if it was obvious) which of those who used a common name was intended. I marked the links with dn. Links thusly marked should probably be ignored by the bot, since the editor is thereby indicating that he or she is aware of the dablink, but is not in a position to fix it him- or herself. (Not watching here.) ~ MD Otley (talk) 06:38, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

(Sigh), the neverending drama.
Greetings, old friend. I hope you are well. I have a few requests.

First, there is a contentious discussion of our recurring problems with math dabs at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics. I am thinking that the solution may be to set up a sort of mini-DPL project just for the math specialists, with their own monthly report of mathdabs with the most incoming links, math articles containing disambig links, and the like. How much work would it take to set something like that up?

Second, can we set up a bot which will go through the articles with the oldest "disambiguation needed" tags, determine which editor added the link in the first place, and drop a note on that editor's page asking them to fix it?

Cheers! bd2412 T 17:42, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The mathdab contest would unfortunately be quite a bit of work and I just don't have the time these days. But doesn't dispenser do some category-related things with Dab Solver? That could be something, at least.
 * Regarding the "oldest dablink creator" bot, I considered that some time ago but it quickly became apparent that it would be almost impossible to get reliable data. Page moves and merges would be especially problematic - when you try to build a true history of an article it becomes crazy unmanageable very quickly, and of course any single mistake is met with torches and pitchforks. So I had to shelve that project. -- Ja Ga  talk 21:15, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * No problem. Maybe I can get the math people to figure out a mathdab fix for themselves. As for the oldest dablinks, the June 2011 group is small enough to do manually, at least. bd2412  T 02:55, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Monthly list to 1000?
Do you think it is time to expand the DAB Challenge to 1000 pages for March? If you give me the green light, I will make sure to update the Daily Disambig script at the end of the month. Best wishes, R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:04, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I can do that easily enough. I'll drop a line here when it's done (so you'll know if I've forgotten and can give me a nudge). Cheers, -- Ja Ga  talk 21:09, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Nudge. :-)  If I'm going to make this change on my end, I need to do it before I go to bed tonight....  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:39, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks for being patient. It was an easy fix, but I had to review everything to make sure I wasn't missing something - here's hoping... -- Ja Ga  talk 00:45, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I know what you mean. After triple-checking for "500"'s in my script, I did what I should have done in the first place and made it so now all I have to do is change one constant at the top of the file....  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 01:20, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

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The Tudors
Hello, thank you for drawing my attention to the disambiguation links in the Plot summary. I have now edited these so that they all work. Ivankinsman (talk) 08:30, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Corrected HTML on DPL Bot's talk page
I noticed raw HTML tags in the source DPL Bot's talk page. Wikipedia doesn't appear to correct this, so consequently as a web developer I thought I'd offer some friendly advice to avoid the use of center tags. They are obsolete as of HTML5 and will soon no longer work in modern browsers. Centering is for CSS. Wikipedia does have a center template, or in the case of bot's user page, you could use the title parameter of the divbox template. I'm still a relatively new contributor to Wikipedia so do please correct me if such usage is in fact acceptable. Thanks! MusikAnimal (talk) 19:51, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, MusikAnimal, friendly talk page stalker here. :-)  It looks like the changes you made did no harm, so I'm sure JaGa won't have a problem with them.  But, technically, they were not necessary.  Wikipedia pages aren't written in HTML, but in wikitext, which has its own syntax and its own tags. Some of these happen to be identical to HTML tags, but some (like  ) are not.  The MediaWiki internal parser translates the wikitext into HTML, and it can handle a  tag any way its programmers choose.  So the question isn't whether that tag is valid HTML, but whether it's valid wikitext.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:53, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Right you are. I appreciate any help I can get. :) -- Ja Ga  talk 00:54, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Good to know! However, using Chrome's web inspector, I can see that center tags are in fact being generated. This is AFTER I made the changes... so apparently the MeadiaWiki parser is a bit outdated. As aforementioned, I centered the text using the title parameter of the divbox template, this will generate center tags, where the center template correctly uses CSS. Interesting! Not much you can really do unless you want to strictly stick to the center template (or write your own DIV with added styling). Lastly, the parser must surely translate wiki-specific tags and keep any HTML tags intact? With exception of script tags of course, or anything else worth restricting for security reasons. Sorry I'm going off on a nerd tangent, this is all very interesting to me, however irrelevant it is. Thanks you for the info! — MusikAnimal (talk) 21:14, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 February newsletter
Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:
 * , primarily for an array of warship GAs.
 * , primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
 * , due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with, this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:
 * , whose Portal:Massachusetts is the first featured portal this year. The featured portal process is one of the less well-known featured processes, and featured portals have traditionally had little impact on WikiCup scores.
 * , whose Mycena aurantiomarginata was the first featured article this year.
 * and, who both claimed points for articles in the Major League Baseball tie-breakers topic, the first topic points in the competition.
 * , who claimed for the first full good topic with the Casting Crowns studio albums topic.

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by : did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 01:28, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Question about DPL bot
Hello JaGa, I am a bot owner at Thai Wikipedia. I would like to notify users by bot like yours. However, I found that a bot with botflag has "nominornewtalk" right, and that means the orange bar will not appear to those users. Does your bot behave in this way? Thank you :-) --Nullzero (talk) 13:55, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually, I'd never heard of that flag. I wouldn't use it anyways. People wouldn't know they'd been messaged! It would ruin the purpose. -- Ja Ga  talk 01:56, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the answer. ;) --Nullzero (talk) 04:20, 8 March 2013 (UTC)