User talk:Legobot/2016

Legobot behaving strangely
Hello there, I just received a message of Legobot on my talk page according to which the article Sheshi failed its GA review, when in fact the article passed both GA and FA on November 15 and December 5 2015, respectively, as can be seen here. Any idea what's going on?&#32;Iry-Hor (talk) 10:39, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Am I passing GAs wrong?
Whenever I pass a GA, Legobot removes it from WP:GAC as "maintenance". But for other people it says "Passed by ". How come it doesn't do that for me? I did it exactly the same as one of the people for which it worked. (Also, my review count isn't going up...) --  numbermaniac  ( talk ) 07:18, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

MFD relistings
Hi, I've asked this at Village pump (technical)/Archive 143 as well but it looks like this is the third request here (2013, 2014) but is there a way to actually relist discussions at MFD without the bot organizing discussions by the first date? Is there something that could be added like the "View log" changes that AFD discussions have? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:57, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
 * No, I don't think there is. You could fudge the initial timestamp I suppose. Legoktm (talk) 11:36, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * We tried that with Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Abeiku Okai/Senya Beraku Akumase Festival with the top time-stamp but it's still sorting by the first date. Is it looking at the actual creation date for the page? There's no way for us to fudge that. - Ricky81682 (talk) 22:43, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok, this is weird now. Here, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Abhay pratap singh mirzapur was properly moved to the 31st bu the festival is again back on the 9th. Was using small helping? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:30, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Legobot addition
Heya, could you take a peek at the discussion here: [] regarding people commenting in the articlespace of wp:rfc, rather than in the article itself? super &beta;&epsilon;&epsilon; cat 04:00, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Message
Varaha Upanishad is rpomoted to GA. But I am not getting this approval message on my talk page. It has been a problem even with my earlier approved GA. Can you kindly solve this problem and leave a message on my talk page. Thanks.-- Nvvchar . 02:36, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

MFD archives
I have no idea why it's doing this but the bot insists on putting back a red-linked MFD discussion. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Chriswperkins53/Oak Hill High School ( Elmer, Louisiana) with the screwy extra space in the front but the bot keeps trying to "fix" it with a red linked version. Minor issue as I highly, highly, highly doubt anyone will ever care. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:28, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Legobot
Thanks for being one of the wheels that keeps WP moving, Legobot :). A short request - would it be possible, in your alerts when a GA begins to be reviewed, to provide a link to the actual GA in the notice? Looking forward to your reply, --Tom (LT) (talk) 01:03, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Defense against faulty close
You might want to update Legobot to check if the first thing after the RFC template is an {{archive, especially when Legobot sees that it is reprocessing an existing RFC. This close resulted in this impressive mess. I'm surprised this issue hasn't come up before, considering how simple the mistake was. Alsee (talk) 00:39, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Regarding Dashboard/Editorial noticeboards
Just a heads-up, Non-free content review has been completely shut down. I noticed that Dashboard/Editorial noticeboards includes a list of active discussions that Legobot maintains. Since the bot maintains that page, I would imagine that if I removed it, Legobot would replace that section. Anyways, just wanted to let you know that the NFCR section can/should be removed since the board is now marked as historical. Steel1943 (talk) 00:51, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Adding rfcid to templates that are not rfc
Hi, with, Legobot added a rfcid to templates that relate to closed RfCs, not new ones. is related. -- Red rose64 (talk) 18:08, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
 * , it's done it again ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&diff=prev&oldid=708638205], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&diff=prev&oldid=708638211], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Unsorted&diff=prev&oldid=708638293], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Dashboard/Requests_for_comment&diff=prev&oldid=708638418]) - please stop the bot from doing that. -- Red rose64 (talk) 21:34, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Digging deeper, it seems that Legobot is merely looking for the string  and ignoring what follows, and is also processing the template even when it's wrapped in . Examples: [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Debbie_Does_Dallas&diff=704884564&oldid=704884522] (first one of the two); [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Debbie_Does_Dallas&diff=704889424&oldid=704886032] -- Red rose64 (talk) 21:41, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Greetings. At least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been or will be reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. -- Red rose64 (talk) 00:09, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I responded on WP:BON. Legoktm (talk) 07:25, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Legobot seems to have gone bonkers
at Requests for comment/Politics, government, and law. --OpenFuture (talk) 09:12, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
 * an can't be disabled by commenting it out as was done by  in, it needs to be changed to something that doesn't begin   . -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:00, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ? -- Red rose64 (talk) 17:39, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Yup, thanks. --OpenFuture (talk) 18:10, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Maitreyi
Legobot says this article failed WP:GA review. That's not what the review says. It says it passed. FYI, there are two separate GA reviews on the talk page, so maybe that is the source of confusion. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 12:40, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * This is Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations, see also Bot owners' noticeboard. -- Red rose64 (talk) 13:03, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Will go there.  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 13:15, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Old bug
probably an old/fixed bug, but just I cleaned up [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Encyclopedia_of_Aesthetics&diff=prev&oldid=518658656][//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Encyclopedia_of_Aesthetics&diff=prev&oldid=518658685][//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Encyclopedia_of_Aesthetics&diff=prev&oldid=518658718]. Frietjes (talk) 15:17, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Legobot is notifying users about RfC's that are already closed.
Legobot messaged me to comment on an RfC here which was closed about an hour before Legobot messaged me about it. Is this just lag in the system or something bigger? Cheers,  Davidbuddy9   Talk  04:31, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
 * RfCs normally run thirty days. This one was closed early - almost 29 days 12 hours early to be exact - by in.
 * AFAIK Legobot builds a table of all open RfCs, removes the template from those that are more than 30 days old, adds a rfcid parameter to all  templates that don't already have one, and updates the RfC listings. Once a day it also sends out messages about open RfCs to user talk pages. This obviously doesn't happen in an instant, and so the messages sent to users are based on data that might have been collected some time earlier. Edits relevant to the RfC in question include:
 * Dr.K. initiated the RfC at Talk:Engineering at
 * Legobot added rfcid to Talk:Engineering at
 * Legobot listed it on Requests for comment/Maths, science, and technology at
 * Legobot linked it from Dashboard/Requests for comment at
 * Dr.K. closed the RfC at
 * Legobot sent messages to four users at [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Legobot&offset=20160323042500&limit=4 04:24, 23 March 2016]
 * Legobot delisted the RfC from Requests for comment/Maths, science, and technology at
 * Legobot unlinked it from Dashboard/Requests for comment at
 * Clearly the edits of 04:24, 23 March 2016 were based on data collected prior to 03:40, 23 March 2016, but probably no more than one hour earlier, since Legobot normally updates RfC listings once an hour. -- Red rose64 (talk) 18:17, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Request for comment
I keep getting messages to comment on Videos from Legobot. i do not understand the message or how and on what to comment. T A Francis (talk) 15:17, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Legobot undoing relists at MfD
Legobot just undid several relistings I performed at MfD (diff). What can be done to prevent this from occurring? North America1000 17:05, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * N.b. After undoing the Legobot edit, I added to the MfD entries. Not sure if this will prevent the above from occurring or not. North America1000 17:32, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Same thing happened again (diff). Holding off on relisting until this is resolved. North America1000 18:55, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * This is a long-term problem, see User talk:Legobot/2016 and Village pump (technical)/Archive 143. -- Red rose64 (talk) 21:39, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Bummer. The thing is, I've already reverted, but it keeps dumping the relists, so it's a vicious circle to continue correcting this matter. Don't feel like fighting the script at this point, because the script will always win unless this is corrected. North America1000 21:52, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Pinging here to request input. North America1000 22:03, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Aka Lolipop (talk) 22:29, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Category:AfD debates (Web or Internet)
I noticed that Legobot updates Dashboard/Relisted AfD debates several times daily. I do not know if it affects the operation of the bot, but I want to make you aware that one of the AfD categories has been renamed (see diff). -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:05, 11 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Ping. :) By the way, Legobot appears to be reversing attempts to manually update the category link (see diff). -- Black Falcon (talk) 20:24, 31 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Why was the category renamed? Legoktm (talk) 22:35, 31 January 2016 (UTC)


 * It was renamed in order to fix a capitalization error in the original title, following this discussion at Categories for discussion. -- Black Falcon (talk) 06:10, 1 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Pinging once more, to stop the archive-bot; please address at your leisure. -- Black Falcon (talk) 15:37, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Being asked to comment on RfCs I'm already involved with
Hi. I'm trying out the RfC notifications and of three I've received (on my talk), I posted on, and commented on another a week before. Would it be possible to have Legobot think about the RfCs it suggests a little more carefully before notifying, please? fredgandt 09:54, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Join Hands
Can someone explained to me this edit and why my nomination for GA was reverted by this bot ? Carliertwo (talk) 23:38, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Because that page is bot-maintained. You need to follow the instructions linked from Good article nominations. -- Red rose64 (talk) 23:52, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

LInked to nonexistant page at WP:PUF
Legobot created a link to Possibly unfree files/2016 April 19, a page that has never existing, at WP:PUF, in this edit. It's probably best to shut down all the PUF related tasks at this point, since PUF is closed. Thanks, Oiyarbepsy (talk) 03:55, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Just did it again: Oiyarbepsy (talk) 01:58, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Dashboard/Editorial noticeboards
Can the bot be changed so that it doesn't add Non-free content review to Dashboard/Editorial noticeboards anymore? Thanks! Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:14, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Legobot doesn't seem to be updating WP:GAN
Legoktm, the Legobot has stopped doing the various GA tasks; the last successful update was at 17:21, 12 May 2016 (UTC), about 11 hours ago. I did some changes to article talk pages that would have caused one added entry and one changed nomination entry, but neither was updated; I ultimately hand-edited the page myself. The added entry was subsequently picked up for review, but that hasn't been picked up by the bot either.

I hope you can get the GA portion of the bot restarted soon. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:23, 13 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you; it looks like the bot started doing GA tasks again at 13:37 UTC. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:48, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Legobot doesn't seem to be updating RfCs
Template:Rfc says: Within an hour or two after the edit has been saved, a bot known as Legobot will add an |rfcid= parameter to the template, and will also add the discussion to the lists of RfCs that are indicated by the topic area

But the template was added to this Rfc with this edit and nothing happened. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:52, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
 * See User talk:Legoktm. -- Red rose64 (talk) 23:28, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Legobot cannot handle 2 new RfCs at once on a page?
Special:Diff/722217645. The bot tagged two separated RfCs with the same ID, and added the earlier RfC to the appropriate pages. I've removed the ID from the later RfC, assuming that Legobot will come back and make a new tag. — Andy W. ( talk  · ctb) 19:54, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * The bot can handle multiple RfCs on the same page; the situation here is that two were started in the same hour, with the same RfC categories, both templates were . If one of them had been, or if at least one hour had elapsed between their creations, it would have worked as expected. Your last assumption is correct: if you remove a rfcid, then Legobot will allocate a fresh one and suitably update the listing pages. -- Red rose64 (talk) 22:30, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Bot removed RfC template early
Not sure why the bot removed the RfC template here, the discussion is not over yet. Isn't the time given to RfCs usually 30 days? nyuszika7h (talk) 13:47, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 May 2016 plus 30 days is 31 May 2016. See also my posts at Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Archive.is RFC 4. -- Red rose64 (talk) 11:01, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

The BOT has failed an article I have passed
Please see this BOT failing an article which I have passed in Talk:W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season. Please to investigate this error by the BOT. Thank you. Regards,  Naz &#124;  talk  &#124;  contribs  19:42, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Archive indexes
Hi there, I notice that you seem to have stopped updating the archive indexes of talk pages (one example is at the MOS talk page where the last update was in October 2015). Are archive indexes not maintained any more? Thanks! Uanfala (talk) 09:15, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Early archival of MFD entry
Legobot keeps archiving an entry from WP:MFD. The discussion was just opened, with no responses yet; there’s no way it should be considered archived. If any action is taken, please be aware that I’m adding bots on that entry because I don’t know what else to do. Please remove it when appropriate. Thanks. —67.14.236.50 (talk) 19:14, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * It doesn't "archive" it, it removes it, because the page Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:WTFPL/Archive 4 doesn't exist. -- Red rose64 (talk) 20:52, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * No, it was removing it because it was in the wrong namespace. It has been moved to the correct title since then. nyuszika7h (talk) 21:25, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Please check the deletion log and the timestamps before making such assertions. Thank you. —67.14.236.50 (talk) 14:58, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Tennessee Aquarium
Your bot got it wrong. It passed. Wikipedia:Good article nominations‎; 10:41. . (-123)‎ . . ‎Legobot (talk | contribs)‎ (Failed Tennessee Aquarium On review Operation Infinite Reach by Kabahaly) [rollback] Thanks. 16:09, 30 July 2016 (UTC) <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 20:04, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

Closing a RfC after the it has expired
Am I allowed to close the RfC after it has expired and Logobot has removed the template ? Tnguyen4321 (talk) 15:28, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Legobot never closes RfCs. Once thirty days have elapsed from the first timestamp that follows the template (in this case 07:31, 22 July 2016), Legobot removes the  template, and also removes the entry from each of the sections of WP:RFC/A where it had been listed . Re-adding the  template - as  did  - is ineffective because the 30-day period has already passed and Legobot will merely remove it again.
 * Closure - that is, evaluating the various points and summarising these to determine an outcome - is beyond the abilities of any bot and so is necessarily a human task. More information at WP:RFCEND. -- Red rose64 (talk) 22:50, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks.Tnguyen4321 (talk) 22:07, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Late invitatation to RFC parties
Hi, Mister Lego. I am wondering why you always seem to submit my input for RFC's after the discussion seems to be over already. Is there any way to notify me in a more timely manner? Thanx very much. Costatitanica (talk) 19:51, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Screwed up when 2 RFCs got posted at the same time
See and. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:46, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * This is a known problem. The solution is to remove the rfcid parameter from one (not both) of the templates,, this forces Legobot to  for the rfc from which the rfcid has been removed; this also  to the RfC listing page(s). The prevention is to make sure that no more than one  that lacks an rfcid is added to a given discussion page at once, and to ensure that Legobot has added an rfcid to that before you add the next . -- Red rose64 (talk) 12:32, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Legobot down
Legobot will be down for a few hours. Legoktm (talk) 15:19, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Legoktm, it's been over a day and a half. Any idea of when you think it might be back up? Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:32, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * +1. Me like Legobot. Me need Legobot. &#8213; Mandruss   &#9742;  08:16, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * The rest of Wikipedia is waiting. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 03:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * GA Cup 2016–2017 is on run. The GA nominations page needs constant update for smooth functioning of the contest. Hope the bot will be back soon and wish you all the best in bringing it back. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk &bull;&#32;mail) 05:29, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay, everything should be up and running again. I was rotating the password for the account, and that took longer than I hoped due to IRL obligations. Legoktm (talk) 20:25, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Functioning error
Recently the bot performed wrongly while closing a GA nomination. Actually Sam Manekshaw passed the GA review (3rd nomination) and listed warfare good article by the reviewer. Please see the review page and talk page of the article. But the bot notified that the review failed on my talk page, and also the good article top-icon was not added the article. Kindly look into the issue. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk &bull;&#32;mail) 04:05, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Reposting link to deleted GA review
The editor who nominated Mother Teresa for GA also mistakenly created the review page for it. The review page was then deleted, but Legobot doesn't seem to recognize the deletion -- it posted the "on review" notice, and when I deleted the notice, it reposted it. What do we need to do? --RL0919 (talk) 16:20, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection policy RfC
You are receiving this notification because you participated in a past RfC related to the use of extended confirmed protection levels. There is currently a discussion ongoing about two specific use cases of extended confirmed protection. You are invited to participate. ~ Rob 13 <sup style="margin-left:-1.0ex;">Talk (sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:31, 22 December 2016 (UTC))

Merry, merry!
From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 02:52, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Is it down or is it just me
Legobot hasn't updated the Good Articles for the past several hours...still showing GA's as nominees. Here's to hoping Legobot's not on a holiday break... Shearonink (talk) 08:37, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Any chance for an update...
On Requests for undeletion/Archive index? Very helpful page. Thanks, VegaDark (talk) 07:29, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Regarding GA nomination of Mother Teresa
I have been informed that my article has being going under review but I see no signs of review even after 7 days of nomination please do the needful asap-- ✝iѵ ɛɳ  २२४० †ลℓк †๏ мэ 09:38, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This question has been addressed at Teahouse/Questions. Cordless Larry (talk) 13:35, 30 December 2016 (UTC)