User talk:Legobot/2015

Brachychiton rupestris
Never edited Brachychiton rupestris, Talk:Brachychiton rupestris/GA1 or the nominators talk pages. What went wrong? -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 01:14, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * What is this in relation to? I see no Legobot posts on your user talk page in the last week. -- Red rose64 (talk) 11:53, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I reviewed Brachychiton rupestris for GA, passed it. Legobot never performed any edits to anything having to do with the review (like alerting the nominators, adding the GA icon, etc.) -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 15:26, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. I read your original post as "I never edited ...", as though Legobot had sent some kind of warning to you, not "Legobot never edited ..." -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:59, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, my bad, I can see why you misunderstood. -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 16:04, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I haven't looked at any of the logs or the code yet, but my guess is that it's because you started the review at 00:25, and passed it 00:36. The bot runs on 20 minute intervals, so at 00:20 and at 00:40. It probably got confused and didn't expect an article to be passed without it ever being in an "in review" state. Legoktm (talk) 19:13, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Ongoing code updates
Hi, I've started porting the PHP scripts Legobot uses into Python. This is mainly so I'll be more comfortable fixing them, and will be able to take advantage of things like mwparserfromhell. Please let me know if you see any problematic changes in the behavior of these scripts or new bugs.

Already converted:
 * noticeboards.php - Updates Dashboard

To do:
 * 1) mfdarchiver.php
 * 2) afdrelists.php
 * 3) frsbot.php
 * 4) rfcbot.php
 * 5) goodarticles.php

Legoktm (talk) 06:49, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

RfC Phineas and Ferb
I am trying to extend an RfC on Talk:Phineas and Ferb (season 4) as we have not come to a consensus. I put a new RfC but you removed it twice saying it had expired. Please do not remove RfC tags when consensus has not been reached. user HH (talk) 03:23, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * You refer to these edits: [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Phineas_and_Ferb_(season_4)&diff=640464759&oldid=640460020 03:00, 1 January 2015‎]; [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Phineas_and_Ferb_(season_4)&diff=640468996&oldid=640468900 04:00, 1 January 2015‎]; [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Phineas_and_Ferb_(season_4)&diff=640473287&oldid=640473285 05:00, 1 January 2015‎]; [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Phineas_and_Ferb_(season_4)&diff=640855933&oldid=640853970 22:00, 3 January 2015]; [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Phineas_and_Ferb_(season_4)&diff=640896560&oldid=640892717 04:00, 4 January 2015]. The bot is working correctly - RfCs run for thirty days, and the bot removes an template if the very next datestamp is more than thirty days ago.
 * The was initially removed after thirty days and 51 minutes with  because the very next datestamp after the  was 01:09, 23 November 2014. Any  template added after that needs the next datestamp to be less than thirty days earlier than the time that the  is added. You removed the original start time with, but since the next datestamp after the  was now 01:57, 23 November 2014, that merely moved the expiry time on from 01:09, 23 December 2014‎ to 01:57, 23 December 2014 - by just 48 minutes, and still in the past. -- Red rose64 (talk) 13:36, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Anomaly
Hi there. I saw with, three GA nominations were removed, but only two appeared in the edit summary - the missing one being for Albert Bonass. The bot also failed to send the usual notification to the GA nominator, or add the button to the successful page. At WikiProject_Football/Article_alerts, two days on, the GA nomination is still showing as active. I wonder if something went wrong? Thanks, C679 15:22, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Indexing talk archives
From the inactive status of Task 15 on User:Legobot (and User_talk:Legobot/2014) I assumed the indexing wasn't happening, but I've since been shown that it is; here, for example. Am I misunderstanding or should Task 15 be shown as "Active"?--SaskatchewanSenator (talk) 07:41, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Multiple mask parameters
When indexing transclusions of User:HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn, could you have the bot recognize mask1, mask2, mask3, ... so that [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AIsrael_and_the_apartheid_analogy&diff=643829512&oldid=642260388 this works]? this will help with removing pages from Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 15:31, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Template removal
Hi, can you tell me what caused Legobot to add the RFC ID and to then remove the template within the same minute? I'm sure the error is mine, but am not sure where I erred. Thank You.--John Cline (talk) 16:57, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The very next timestamp is 04:55, 1 January 2015 (UTC) which is more than thirty days ago. -- Red rose64 (talk) 19:25, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I understand, thank you.--John Cline (talk) 21:49, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * One problem with just signing the template,, is that there is no context when the RfC is listed elsewhere - see for example Requests for comment/Biographies. -- Red rose64 (talk) 22:45, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay, I see what you mean. I'll get this fixed straight away. I suspect a bit more research on my part is in order. Thank you for following up on this, as you did; I appreciate it very much.--John Cline (talk) 01:05, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

No GANotice
I didn't get starting or closing GANotices for Talk:Vainglory (video game)/GA1. Is it me or a bug? czar ⨹   22:43, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
 * , courtesy ping czar ⨹   01:53, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

CGR Int'l
i logged in as CRG Int'l and requested a name change to GK at CRG. you commented twice that i need to log in as "CRG Int'l" and then change the name, which I've done already. I am not sure what is the problem. CRG Int&#39;l (talk) 17:44, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Please don't post to the bot's user page. -- Red rose64 (talk) 11:48, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Changing user name
I'm currently blocked so I can't use my user account so I have to use my ip account. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.48.200.204 (talk) 13:53, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Indexing
Not too long ago Legobot was indexing talk pages. Now it seems that the process has stopped (again). Could you take a look at this? Thanks. --I am  k6ka  Talk to me!   See what I have done  12:26, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Inappropriate Username: (FaZe) (OptIc) DAT PV$$Y MAST3R
Hello. I want to let you know that you say "No problems detected" when a user named (FaZe) (OptIc) DAT PV$$Y MAST3R wanted to change his username here. There's actually a problem within his username as he censored the word, "pussy", a slang term often used for female genitalia. Snowager (talk) 06:08, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

February 2015
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Snowager (talk) 06:21, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Indexing
Does this bot perform indexing of talk page archives? The main page (User:Legobot) says that the function is "inactive", yet it did update the page Talk:Alan Turing/Archive index today (diff). I tried to initiate indexing of my user talk archives (diff), but it didn't work. What's going on?  Vanjagenije  (talk)  12:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Discussion which may interest you at WP:FRS
Please see this discussion relevant to Legobot. SPACKlick (talk) 14:56, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The bot just uses Template:FRS message. I don't have any opinion on the suggested change. Legoktm (talk) 18:49, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Broken bot
or broken instructions. That page says "Please add nominations to the appropriate subtopic below". I did so. Your bot deleted the nomination. Now that I've noticed that, looking at this, it says to place the nomination on the article's talk page. Presumably the bot then maintains the GA nomination page by itself. However, that page only says the instructions are for the NEW REVIEWERS. Presumably, your bot is broken or NEW NOMINATORS is also intended? — Llywelyn II   15:15, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Bizarre edit
Mdrnpndr (talk) 01:00, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

== Missing RfC at this page ==

The instructions at WP:RFC seem to say that adding the RfC to the article's talk page will result in the discussion being listed by Legobot within a day. Am I simply reading the time frame as being too literal (it's been 28 hours) or did I perhaps botch the RfD? - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 04:10, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * The is fine, and Legobot is running; but it hasn't done any RfC tasks (such as assigning a rfcid or updating pages like Requests for comment/Politics, government, and law) since [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Legobot&offset=20150330141500 14:00, 30 March 2015].  may need to stop and restart the bot. -- Red rose64 (talk) 09:08, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

A potential hiatus
Has anyone else noticed that LegoBot seems to be having difficulty with edit summaries on the GAN page? The same two articles have been listed as being on review/hold numerous times today. Hopefully this is known about, but I thought I'd mention it in case it hadn't been picked up. This is Paul (talk) 16:49, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

GA bot/Stats
I took the liberty to convert User:GA bot/Stats into a wikitable mainly as a test. Most probably the bot will overwrite the table. Amy chance that in the future the wikitable is updated instead of the old html syntax? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:15, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid the test has messed up big time - LegoBot keeps deleting the entire table everytime it updates and now all the users on Wikipedia's reviews have been wiped. According to the current stats I'm the only GA reviewer on Wikipedia with 1 review (instead of 186). I tried to fix it by reverting to the previous revision but it has not helped. Does anybody have a solution to fix this? ☠ Jag  uar  ☠ 11:49, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * OMG! I never have thought this could happen. And the bot visited the page too early. I am so so sorry. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:01, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Good article nominations "(Reviews: 4)"
I have seen more than one editor express confusion over the "(Reviews: 4)" entry format on the Good article nominations page. Instead of "Article name (start review) (Reviews: 4) Editor name" it should probably be "Article name (start review) Editor name (Reviews: 4)". Otherwise people are confused and don't understand that the "(Reviews: 4)" refers to the nominating editor, not the nominated article. What do you think? See the most recent discussion at Good_article_help. Cheers. Prhartcom (talk) 02:15, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Formalized complaint
Just what do I need to do to get Legobot to stop leaving me GA-related notices? I do not want them!. I was told a long time ago that the bot would ignore my talk page because I have the code to have it ignored by the defunct GA bot. I've even added Legobot to that template, but I still keep getting notices. Please tell me whatever we need to do to get this rectified.  Imzadi 1979  →   02:29, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Ping. Edits such as this one and the two others that preceded it are not wanted. I watchlist my nominated articles so I do not want gratuitous notices on my talk page that prompt the server to send me an e-mail. Just how do we get this fixed?  Imzadi 1979  →   00:07, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Again, I must ask, how do I stop getting these notifications! I would like an answer. Failure to supply a way to stop these notifications will likely mean that I will completely stop nominating items for Good Article. Aren't bot owners required to be accountable for the actions of their bots and give timely replies?  Imzadi 1979  →   00:46, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Categorization request
Please consider having a category added to the bot update of Dashboard/Help noticeboards, so that the page does not appear in Special:UncategorizedPages. --Slivicon (talk) 23:48, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Bots
You are receiving this message because a technical change may affect a bot, gadget, or user script you have been using. The breaking change involves API calls. This change has been planned for two years. The WMF will start making this change on 30 June 2015. A partial list of affected bots can be seen here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081931.html  This includes all bots that are using pywikibot compat. Some of these bots have already been fixed. However, if you write user scripts or operate a bot that uses the API, then you should check your code, to make sure that it will not break.

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Articles for deletion/Eternal Buddha
Please remove Articles for deletion/Eternal Buddha from Requests for comment/Religion and philosophy. AfDs are not RfCs and listing it at RfC may be seen as improper WP:CANVASSing. Kraxler (talk) 18:26, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
 * beep boop beep boop. Legobot (talk) 18:39, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Translation: Removing the RfC template should fix it the next time the bot runs. Legoktm (talk) 18:39, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I removed the RfC template from the page already, so the removal from the RfC page is automatic, you say. Thanks, then, sorry to bother you, but I'm not that familiar with bot's proceedings. Kraxler (talk) 18:54, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Indexing
What's going on? Although all archives are defined as masks at Talk:World War II, this bot is only indexing the posts at Talk:World War II, and not those in the archives (see: Talk:World War II/Archive Index). What is wrong?  Vanjagenije  (talk)  14:58, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Is there no way you can help?  Vanjagenije   (talk)  10:15, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The archiving function stopped working on 21st June - could you please find out what happened? The last bot index update showed 0 bytes... I'd guess that the amount to be archived was too much and it killed the 'bot! Please can we have our archiving back? Thanks!  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 06:47, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Bot adds two duplicate sects on same page
Please see Bot adds two duplicate sects on same page.

Also posted to bot operator and to Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations.

Hopefully someone can fix this.

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 05:11, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Don't sign posts with anything else than Legobot!
I just saw this. It is a big NO-NO. Never ever sign anything on behalf of somebody else. Have your robot fixed per ASAP. YohanN7 (talk) 12:39, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks (Charas)
Thanks very much for your bots clean-up on the Charas rfc, regards.Twobells''t@lk 19:08, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Bot fails to add GA icons to passed GAs and GANotice templates
Please fix. For now I am manually adding them to passed GAs, and have modified WP:GAI to tell people to add these templates manually. sst✈ 06:13, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * You'll have to provide me some more context on what's broken...can you provide some links to edits you made manually that you expected the bot to do? 2601:646:8301:E297:AEB5:7DFF:FE20:498A (talk) 05:22, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * For example, adding good article templates to articles passed as GAs. I see that Legobot now can post GANotice templates normally. sst✈ 13:57, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * ...okay, can you give me some links like I asked for? 2601:646:8301:E297:AEB5:7DFF:FE20:498A (talk) 19:29, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Bot used to update users on final decision...
Bot used to update users on their user talk pages on final decision by the GA Reviewer (eg congratulating them on a Passed GA, etc).

But I noticed recently for Burnside Burn and others I reviewed that were nominated by that it failed to post an update after the review was all done to User talk:Another Believer.

Any way to fix this?

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:30, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Tawang Monastery
This artcile has been approved as GA. But there is no message about it on my talk page either when its review starts or after its approval. This has happened with all my GANs. Can you kindly rectify this problem.-- Nvvchar . 00:31, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Similar issue, at User_talk:Legobot. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:42, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Code update
Hi, I just updated Legobot to not use  for API requests per T118538. This is mainly an internal change, but has the potential to break a bunch of things. Specifically: GA bot, RfC bot, MfD archiver, AfD relists, and FRS bot. Please let me know if you notice anything out of the ordinary (or just...worse than usual). Legoktm (talk) 07:48, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

RfC listed?
Hello. Talk:Christopher_Monckton,_3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley was. The RfC template seemed to expand at article talk without error. The RfC is open at talk after 6 weeks but it is not listed as an open RfC. I can't find any history of it being listed under the blp or science subpages. Was there some typo in the RfC template such that the Legobot missed it? Please help. Thank you. Hugh (talk) 16:30, 18 November 2015 (UTC) No or  tags on the talk page. Thanks. Hugh (talk) 22:33, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The template isn't supposed to be substed. Legoktm (talk) 22:47, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. So you are saying you suspect the editor started the RfC by added something like but should have done a simple ? Thanks again. Hugh (talk) 23:06, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yep. Legoktm (talk) 23:11, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Season of Doubt image
Hi QuiteUnusual, Although Amazon.com says this is the first edition cover http://www.amazon.com/Season-Doubt-Jon-Cleary/dp/B000J016LS with a publication date of 1st January 1968 it says the same about the HarperCollins hardback - http://www.amazon.com/Season-Doubt-Jon-Cleary/dp/B000J016LS and mass market paperback - http://www.amazon.com/Season-Doubt-Jon-Cleary/dp/B000TYUMUK

Moreover amazon.co.uk has what looks like the same cover as being published in 1990 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Season-Doubt-Jon-Cleary/dp/0006178790

My intention is therefore to remove the publication date from the image caption and then to replace it with either the 1st US (William Morrow) or 1st UK (Collins) cover which will be consistent with the author's earlier works, most of which were first published by Collins/Morrow, I trust that's OK...

Thanks GrahamHardy (talk) 22:38, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Er, did you mean to leave this message for a different bot? Legoktm (talk) 22:48, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Oops, please ignore GrahamHardy (talk) 18:01, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Bot persistence problem
Please see Teahouse/Questions ‎. I added to the talk page in question and Legobot posted yet another RFC notice there after that.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 08:23, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The bot is still spamming me Aparslet (talk) 00:12, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Puzzling edit at WP:VPP
Check out this pair of edits. Is it expected that a) id would be added to rfc top, b) the same to rfc bottom and c) that their values should differ? --Izno (talk) 19:31, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings
To You and Yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:34, 20 December 2015 (UTC)