User talk:JaGa/Archive 19

DPL tool weirdness
Hi, JaGa. I ran across an edit that used the DPL tool that oddly added some random pieces of text to the article as well as fixing the dab link. Checking other (identical) edits, I saw that it did that on other articles, too, but only intermittently. has gone back and cleaned up those mangled edits, but I wonder if it's affecting other users as well. (We had a brief discussion about this, which is where I learned what tool was being used.) Could you check into this, busy as you are? Thanks. — Gorthian (talk) 16:15, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure that https://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/dab_fix_list.php isn't capable of editing anything. Perhaps the editor followed a link to http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py ? Based on the format of the edit summary, that's what probably did the edit. That tool belongs to User:Dispenser. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:06, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * It does generate a list of links with the word "FIX" next to each one. But you're right, clicking on "FIX" takes you to Dispenser's tool. I got confused. Thanks! — Gorthian (talk) 20:14, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Data strangeness
It appears that the data is strange for a few pages. The DPLbot (seen by edits to pages with >30 incoming links, and seen at the Templates with incoming links page is reporting that there are incoming links to pages that don't have any incoming links (the following pages did have incoming links on Saturday, April 30, but they were all fixed that day: (KIFM, Ain't No Way Around It, Mambong, Battle of Al Mukalla, Marudi, Will Johnson, Michael Miller, Richard Gough (footballer), Locale). There are more pages in that should be in this list, but they have a smaller number of incoming links. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 21:31, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Disambiguation_pages_with_links#False_positives --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:42, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll follow it there. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 18:18, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

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Disambiguation notification template wording
Hi! I'm wondering where the disambiguation notification template text is? I couldn't find it. I was hoping to propose some edits to it as follows:

Disambiguation link notification for May 22
Hi! Thank you for your recent contributions to the encyclopedia! Just so you know, we noticed that when you edited Example, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Example and Example. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. If you want to change the page to link to articles instead of disambiguation pages, these tools can help: It's OK to remove this message. To stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 00:00, 00 Month 0000 (UTC) Read the FAQ* Join us at the DPL WikiProject. I think this seems somewhat friendlier and less confusing. If you don't like it though, that's cool too :) Goldenshimmer (talk) 18:05, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Tool to check for disambiguation links on the page
 * Tool to guide you through finding the articles you intended

State Highway 75 (Karnataka)
Hi The issues in above article (changed balki to bhalki.please review the article again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sangappadyamani (talk • contribs) 02:58, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Pinging User:Sangappadyamani: Hi, the disambiguation notification message is delivered by a bot (computer program); generally no manual review is performed on articles. I checked it though, and there are currently no erroneous disambiguation links on the article you linked above. I hope this helps! :) Goldenshimmer (talk) 06:21, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I hope you don't mind my answering on your talk page, JaGa... Goldenshimmer (talk) 06:24, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

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Ulrich de Maiziere
Hello, i received a message from DPL bot that the word Eastern Front is not exact. That's right. So i tried to make Eastern Front World War II, but it did not succeed, it was in red. Now i added Ostfront. Is this okay? Thank you and greetings --Buchbibliothek (talk) 10:51, 10 June 2016 (UTC) Now it is done by R'B. Greetings--Buchbibliothek (talk) 12:39, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

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Disambiguation link notification for June 18
Thank you for acknowledging the issue and I have fixed the issue. Thank you for the message Srilekha_selva (talk) on my talk page. —Preceding undated comment added 11:48, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Disambiguous note
Hi: Thanks so much for explaining/reminding me about the disambiguous mistake. I'll be more careful in the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cfhosford (talk • contribs) 13:45, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

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A minor request
I have a very minor (I hope) request.

I would love to have a link on the monthly DAB Challenge list that would go straight to that month's manual list of links.

Obviously, this is for convenience only, and is in no way vital to anyone, so if you don't have time, or if it will take more intricate fiddling than is warranted, please don't bother. Thanks. — Gorthian (talk) 19:12, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

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List of schools in India
I'm concerned about a tag on List of schools in India which includes the comment: "This article may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards."

This tag has remained for 18 months amidst many improvements in the article. I now find the tag unhelpful. Can you say whether you think this tag must remain and if so what improvements are contemplated, please. I know the list is incomplete, a work in process, but are there any other specific quality standards that it offends against? If not, shouldn't the tag be removed or replaced by a more precise one? I've checked the talk pages on the article but did not find where they address this.Jzsj (talk) 17:43, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Pazooka
Hello JaGa! Thanks for your message. But I want to learn how can I rename this article (Pazooka) on Wiki. Because someone has created this page under uncorrect name Pazooka. Yhe orijinal name of this tribe is Pazuki. I tried to change, but I didn't. Can you help me please? Greeting. Tarasyani--Tarasyani (talk) 12:41, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

DPL tool: report of edits that fix links to a given dab page?
Hi there, in order to count eligible edits for the monthly DAB challenge leaderboard, your tool seems to track edits that fix links to disambiguation pages. I'm wondering if there's any way to easily get it to list the edits that have fixed links to a given dab page. There's further details in this thread on the project's talk page. It will be appreciated if you could let us know if this task would be feasible. Many thanks! Uanfala (talk) 16:35, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up regarding the disambiguation of IAD. I have fixed it. The entry is orphan at the moment as I am working on a related and longer entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CIM2014 (talk • contribs) 09:40, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

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Disambiguation links cleared in total
talk marked 13 articles to me about disambiguation pages which I understand is operated by you. I have opened all the thirteen articles, checked and corrected the links to the correct pages which I meant. Thank you.

DPL bot on the french wikipedia?
Hi.

I really appreciate DPL bot's work. Do you think it could work on the french wikipedia? It would be very useful! How can I help?

Best,

Trace (talk) 18:07, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

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DAB challenge leaderboard
Hi, I was wondering if there is some key phrase that should be included in the edit summary for it to count towards the challenge. I have fixed about 20 in the last couple of days but my name is not showing. I'm not particularly bothered, just curious. Thanks, AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 05:54, 6 September 2016 (UTC)


 * JaGa isn't on Wikipedia much these days. You might get the question out to more people if you ask at WP:DPL's talk page. AFAIK, nothing special is needed, but the links do need to be on the "official" list; if they were created since August 1, they won't count. — Gorthian (talk) 22:54, 6 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the response . I took care of three that were on the list, namely Hōjō Shigetoki, [{Sakata Station]] and Gujarati. As I said, I'm not particularly fussed, just curious. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 04:30, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

Pardus disambuigation
I forgot specifying the link as you said, Pardus leads to a disambuigation page. I've already noted and edited that and thanks for your overwhelming awareness to common mistakes such as what I made. &#124; Democratics   Talk stat: Open   &#124;  My Guestbook Here  10:06, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

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Re: Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Finlay Press, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Braidwood (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

Have corrected the problem. Thanks. March1310 (talk) 03:17, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks!
Just wanted to say thank you for running DPL bot. (It has detected issues in a couple of my articles.) I also appreciate how polite it is -- I think this is very important. 凰兰时罗 (talk) 15:36, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

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Flagged edits on Fright Fest
Your Bot wrote: "...when you edited Fright Fest, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages La Ronde and Premier Parks...." As to La Ronde, that was unintentional, and has been fixed, thanks! As to Premier Parks, that was intentional. Premier Parks acquired Six Flags, and took its name (the WP article is Six Flags), however, there is still a new company, Premier Parks LLC involved. This is just a summary, and is actually so complicated it took me a week to figure out. I pointed to the disambiguation page as it makes this simpler for a reader to understand. I suppose I could write it out in text. Please suggest best practice. Oddjob84 (talk) 13:55, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

DPL bot
Hi. It looks like DPL bot is having some sort of issue with Richard Gough (footballer). It's not a disambiguation page any more and nothing in article space links there, but the bot keeps adding to it. I think it might have to do with the fact that its talk page redirects to Talk:Richard Gough (disambiguation)? (Come to think of it, that should probably be changed since nothing of consequence links there either.) But anyway, would you mind having a look? Thanks. 786b6364 (talk) 04:44, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I think this was caused by a database error, not by the bot itself, but since the page has now been deleted the point is moot. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:20, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * It's still doing it today. DuncanHill (talk) 22:05, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I strongly suggest you just ignore it. It's not going to be fixed any time soon, since it is the underlying database replication (on https://tools.wikimedia.org) that is broken. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 00:57, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

DPL bot again
The bot says that I added links to a disambiguation page rather than an article. I didn't add the links. I only tagged the article for deletion. No big thing. The bot is only providing a courtesy that it usually gets right. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:56, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Republic street - Villa rundle
Thanks, I'm glad I'm editing the Wikipedia. And about that Republic Street link, I'm sorry for that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mate4Malta (talk • contribs) 10:02, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Possible bot error
Umm... I added a  template to an article and your bot left me a message saying that I linked to the page English, why? Lil Johnny (talk) (contribs) 21:32, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
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Adapting "Articles With Multiple Dablinks" for Bulgarian Wikipedia
Hi, I'm working on the disambiguation stuff on the Bulgarian Wikipedia since about an year. I'm solving the problems by automatically downloading the BG Wiki DB, converting it to MySQL and generating with PHP a wiki table with list of pages that have incorrect links to DAB pages with link to the Dab solver i.e. WikiProject Disambiguation. I saw your tool and I think it will speed up our process a lot. So my question is it possible to adapt it to work with Bulgarian wikipedia as well (I will assist of course) or if this is too much work can you provide me with the code so I can adapt it myself. I already have an account at Wikimedia Tool Labs and I'm a PHP Developer, so it should be pretty easy for me to make it work with our wiki. Regards! --StanProg (talk) 14:54, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

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Dab link template
Hi. I think your DPL Bot left a template on the Bangladesh page. But the link, http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py?page=Bangladesh isn't working from where I am at least. How do I remedy all the disambiguation pages? --Fez Cap 12 (talk) 20:02, 30 July 2017 (UTC)


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 * here it is adding the too many incoming links template to a page with NO incoming links Gurch (talk) 22:41, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

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3rd New Brunswick general election (disambiguation) listed at Redirects for discussion
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Just to say thank you
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DPLbot - Database connection error
Thank you for the very useful bot reports. Today I'm getting a message from templates_with_dab_links and similar pages:

I tried later: same message with a different 10.* IP, so perhaps a dba needs to assist. Hope that helps, Certes (talk) 23:54, 22 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Now working again, thanks. Certes (talk) 10:19, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The page is available but isn't updating. It still contains a list of errors found on 21 September, which have been fixed.  Normally they go away the next day (apart from recurring false positive Campaignbox al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen → Battle of Al Mukalla). Certes (talk) 10:25, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
 * (talk page watcher) See Wikipedia_talk:Disambiguation_pages_with_links. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:29, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I am attempting a fix to the "Battle of Al Mukalla" problem by deleting the existing template, creating a new one with the current content (at Campaignbox al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen since 1992), and changing all the links to point to the new one. If this works, I will merge the old edit history into the new title. If not, I will move the new template back to the old title. bd2412  T 12:03, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

It's stuck again:

Sounds like an administrative problem rather than a bug in the tool itself. Certes (talk) 11:00, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * It's back. Looks like we just have different definitions of "later".  Certes (talk) 17:59, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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Thankyou very much dear sir for your guidelines about Kaante.....Thankyou very much — Preceding unsigned comment added by Devdutt77 (talk • contribs) 11:37, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

mistake in DAB bot message
The bot left a message on my Talk page:
 * ...An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Kissi people, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Lofa ([//dispenser.info.tm/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dablinks.py/Kissi_people check to confirm] | [//dispenser.info.tm/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py/Kissi_people?client=notify fix with Dab solver]). Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. ...

If you look at the page's edit history, you'll see that
 * 1) the dablink I left was to Kono, not Lofa, and
 * 2) it was  by . Please ping me to discuss. --Thnidu (talk) 00:11, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * If you scroll down a bit further in this diff, you'll see that you did add a link to Lofa, as well, which has not (yet) been fixed. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 01:16, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yep, I see it too. It is under the "Notable Kissi people" section, third line from the bottom. bd2412  T 01:41, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Right you are. I obviously missed that one. Liberia has a Lofa County, which has six districts, none of which are named Lofa. So I have to infer that the author/editor who wrote that section confused these two levels of administrative unit, and I've linked to the county page. Thank you for notifying me and for not hassling me about my goof. --Thnidu (talk) 03:07, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Each of the counties has a category, which includes all of the districts in it. (I assume that this is correct, as the pages are all structured the same.) To see if there was a Lofa District in some other county, I went to each county category and searched for Lofa (a quick job once I realized I could paste the string into the search field instead of typing it in each time), and none of them has a Lofa District. The closest is a park called Lofa-(something) Park, which wouldn't count. --Thnidu (talk) 03:27, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Intentional links to disambiguation pages
While working with https://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/disambig_links.php, I found many pages like (ABF (disambiguation) (most of them created by RussBot), which are correctly marked with R to disambiguation page as intentional links to disambiguation pages. I estimate there are thousands of those, cluttering the list and making for a frustrating experience. Can they be excluded from the list, please? &mdash; Sebastian 06:18, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/disambig_links.php?title=ABF_(disambiguation)&count=&limit=50&offset=0&fail=y says "No results for ABF (disambiguation)." Which is as expected, since it is a redirect. I don't see any redirects at all on that list. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 12:37, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I put the wrong link there. (The page lists link targets, rather than the linking pages.) I meant that the list has many pages like ABF, which are in the list because they have one page with the same name plus " (disambiguation)" linking to them - in this case ABF (disambiguation). (The entry for that page currently shows with https://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/disambig_links.php?title=ABF&count=&limit=1&offset=1002, but that will probably change next time the list is recomputed. I see no way to display the actual entry without hard coding an offset which depends on the position in the list.) &mdash; Sebastian 06:16, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ABF does have one incoming link, but it is not ABF (disambiguation) -- it is Merlito Sabillo, which you can see at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere&target=ABF&namespace=0. Redirects aren't counted in compiling the list; and links to targets that include the word "(disambiguation)" aren't counted, either. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 12:23, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Even better, look at https://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/dab_fix_list.php?title=ABF. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 17:37, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your patient explanation, and for nudging me towards the fix list. All is well now. Only, I'm now wondering why I didn't see those other links before; maybe I need my eyes examined. &mdash; Sebastian 23:24, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

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