User talk:Legobot/2020

Crystal Gayle
Hello! I nominated the page Crystal Gayle as a good article nominee 2 days ago and it has yet to appear on the nominations page. ChrisTofu11961 (talk) 16:15, 6 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Still waiting for a response. Anyone there? ChrisTofu11961 (talk) 01:15, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I the  to the top. First, it isn't a WikiProject banner so doesn't belong inside ; second, WP:TALKORDER says to put it first; third, I suspect that Legobot expects the talk page to be laid out in a particular way and may have been confused by the unusual placement. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 09:12, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for getting back to me! I simply thought the banner needed to be at the top of the various contents below...didn't realize it needed to be at the very top. Thanks for the clarification! ChrisTofu11961 (talk) 16:25, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, it, anyhow. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:07, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Bot updating of dashboards
Please see the bottom of Wikipedia talk:Dashboard; I made a request to turn off that bot task because it was superseded by a Lua module, which has not been responded to. * Pppery * it has begun... 22:15, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Duplicate MfD
Hello Legobot. Please pass on my thanks to your herder for all the good work. However, you seem to be repeatedly adding duplicates of Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Toy portals, which just closed, to Miscellany for deletion‎‎. Certes (talk) 12:08, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I can't be certain, but I think that the problem may be the sheer length of the closing summary added by - it's of the order of 3,800 bytes. Over at the RfC system, it is known that Legobot has trouble with long RfC statements, and the tipping point for RfCs is around 2,000 bytes. This may be the same problem. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 20:50, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, shiver me timbers! I'll go cut it down.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  22:03, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Done. PS: I had also noticed that the bot re-listed it as active. I think it may have actually been caused by my adding and signing (i.e., re-timestamping) with a comment about where it had been userspaced to. I integrated that into into the close itself, which I about cut in half.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  22:19, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

GA question
I nominated an article for GA that was passed [i.e., ]. However, Legobot writes on my talk page that the nomination has failed, therefore, the article has not been listed as a good article. Can anyone enlighten me as to why this is? KyleJoan talk 04:35, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I expect it's the presence of the, there is plenty on this problem in the archives of this page. Try converting that (and the  directly above) into . -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 07:38, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Happened again with Solo diving., could you clarify your suggestion above? &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 06:21, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Talk:Solo diving has two instances of . Use instead of those and the . -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 23:20, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * , I think same case. Can you follow this. Dey subrata (talk) 04:42, 18 February 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm coming to this talk page with the same error. Wouldn't the best solution be to detect the latest instance of the GA template? czar  03:45, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Bot not transposing all RfCs properly
it looks like Legobot may have a bug somewhere that is preventing it from properly transposing an RfC I just started, as it added only the page title, not the RfC itself, to HIST, POL, and BIO. Or maybe I just messed something up in formatting the RfC. Could you let me know what's going on? Thanks for your assistance. Kindly, Sdkb (talk) 07:10, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I at the RfC concerned. There is more in the archives of this page.
 * Also, edits are pointless, since they will merely be overwritten: see the editnotice displayed when you made that edit. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 20:31, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help, . Some documentation about what specific limits Legobot has, or even a talk page notice from Legobot when a limit is exceeded, might be useful; I'll add a bit at WP:RfC, but they could probably go elsewhere as well. Sdkb (talk) 21:15, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
 * We haven't determined a specific limit: the point where it fails is not consistent. I am not in a position to amend Legobot - all I can do is monitor the various RfC listings for empty entries and inform the RfC that it isn't being listed correctly ; in that example post, I used the figure 2,000 because the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Ronald_Reagan&action=history&offset=20200306060000&limit=1 actual added size] was 2,323 bytes, and I rounded it down to the nearest 500, that being a useful figure without being overprecise, as we don't want to tell people "you can go up to this exact length, but no further". In other similar posts, I've used figures that were, sometimes much higher - in at least one case, the figure I gave was 6,000 bytes. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 00:05, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

3 Diacritic bugs
Legobot has wrongly marked as failed the GA of Surya Namaskār, displaying the "interesting" heading on my talk page "Your GA nomination of Surya Namask?r". I deleted the thing and it has been reinserted! We can ask to have the bot stopped, but before we do that, I thought I'd ask if you can fix the problem(s):

1) it should respect diacritic marks in article titles (yes, we can argue later about whether they are a good idea);

2) it should not as a consequence mark GANs as failed when they aren't;

3) it should not keep reinserting such messages when users rightly delete them.

Good luck with those. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:28, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Legobot can't handle diacritics in page titles - this is a known problem, and there are several threads on the matter in the archives of this page. As for getting Legobot amended, this is unlikely to happen. For well over a year now, Legoktm has been asking for a volunteer to take over the various functions of Legobot, but nobody has come forward. If you stop the bot, a number of processes that are working perfectly well will fail, and there will be complaints. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 14:46, 17 March 2020 (UTC)


 * So it's half-broken and can't be mended. And if someone pushes the stop button nobody will be able to restart it? Frightening. Like the world's economy, it seems. Thanks for giving an answer. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:19, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Category:Songs with music by M.I.A. (rapper) has been nominated for renaming
Category:Songs with music by M.I.A. (rapper), which you created, has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. ｖａｐｏｒｇａｚｅ💬 (please ping on reply) 11:38, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Good article
Template:Good article says "This template should be placed at the bottom of the article before the defaultsort and categories." Please follow what the template recommends. -- 109.78.221.22 (talk) 21:38, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Erroneous RFC edit
It's pulled in my response to the RFC, which is in a h4, and rendered it as bold - this is clearly incorrect - David Gerard (talk) 12:52, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
 * See WP:RFCST in particular "Sign the statement with either  (name, time and date) or   (just the time and date)." and WP:RFCBRIEF in particular "Legobot will copy the markup of your statement (from the end of the rfc tag through the first timestamp) to the list of active RfCs.". Apparently you didn't conclude the statement with a timestamp. As regards the conversion of the h4 to bold - this is an example of the "complex formatting" mentioned at WP:RFCBRIEF, and Legobot trying to fix it up: if a heading (of any level) were to be copied verbatim to the RfC listing, it would compromise the listing page. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 22:40, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I saw Legobot fixed it with a timestamp - I'll be sure whatever I write in future RFCs ends in a timestamp ;-) - David Gerard (talk) 23:03, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
 * No,, it was . Legobot has no means for identifying the end of the statement other than a valid timestamp. So if the timestamp is absent, it doesn't know where the statement ends - and so cannot know the correct position to add a timestamp. So it doesn't add one at all. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 23:12, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Baltimore City College logo.png
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 02:34, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Can't copy some characters with diacritics
For RfC listing, Legobot couldn't properly copy the article name and  due to the last character of the talk page title Talk:Battle of Huế. — MarkH21talk 10:01, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * And :( — MarkH21talk 10:02, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * This is a known problem, see for example above. The fix is to create a redirect, see . As for your edits to Requests for comment/History and geography - they were pointless, since it's a bot-built page. When you edited the page, you will have been shown this message. If anybody (other than Legobot itself) edits the page, Legobot will rebuild the page based upon what it knows to be correct. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 19:56, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Doh think think that this issue is long-term enough that creating a redirect for diacritics be mentioned in the WP:RFCST instructions (in the bit about long prompts) until it’s resolved? — MarkH21talk 05:47, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * It happens rarely enough (twelve instances since November 2017) that I spot and fix it within a few hours; I also haven't yet determined exactly which are the problem characters, given such a small sample. The ones that I am certain of are: Δ ō ʻ ș Ż İ ā ć ế -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 15:53, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Erroneous reversion
Removed RFC countdown temp from article tp rfc discussion with this-  Harsh  22:19, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The template is rarely used - so rarely, in fact, that when it does get used, it causes problems. The last time that I came across it was in October 2016. It's best avoided. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 16:18, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh ohk. The purpose of the temp seems useful I think. Will avoid it though. Thanks. -  Harsh  17:30, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Triggering an archive index
I'm attempting to get the archive index at Talk:Henry VIII rebuilt. Does Legobot still run Task 15? Wikiacc (¶) 21:11, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm having the same problem, at Template talk:Christianity sidebar/Archive index, any news if the bot is running or not? Funandtrvl (talk) 19:44, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * To find out if the bot is running or not, click User contributions in the left sidebar. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 15:59, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It looks like the last time that it ran an /archive index was back in February see. How do we find out if it can be started up again? Thanks, Funandtrvl (talk) 23:04, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

New WikiProject article tagging
Hi there, would it be possible to automate Phoenicia-related articles with the wikiproject template? TY in advance ~ Elias Z. (talkallam) 11:08, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * what exactly do you mean by "automate Phoenicia-related articles with the wikiproject template"? -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 18:27, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi I think AlexNewArtBot can help with, no worries ~ Elias Z. (talkallam) 18:49, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * It sounds like you want a WikiProject tagging run. Please request these at WP:BOTREQ but be prepared to supply an explicit list of pages or categories, don't ask for "and all subcategories", because that always leads to problems. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 19:10, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Legobot is broken: not updating GAN since 8 September
(t &#183; c)  buidhe  07:06, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * See related discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations (t &#183; c)  buidhe  07:07, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

MfD archiving issue
There seems to be an issue with Legobot at Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates/September 2020. As you can see, it has duplicated its archive links to various MfDs multiple times over the past few days. Mz7 (talk) 00:55, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Good article nominations: Revision history
At WP:GAN, the bot seems to have doubled my review count for no reason, I am not sure what the problem is. Footlessmouse (talk) 07:29, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * This may mean a malformed template, possibly lacking one or more parameters such as status. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 22:37, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Buggy stale RfC removal?
I'm trying to restore an RFC template to an unfinished RfC at Wikipedia talk:Stub, but Legobot keeps removing it even after I forced a change in its ID. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 05:13, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Do you mean [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Stub&action=history&offset=20201104102000&limit=10 these edits]? Legobot doesn't know (or care) if an RfC is "unfinished" or not, all it knows is that the RfC began at 19:54, 29 July 2020 (UTC) so the thirty days expired more than two months ago, see WP:RFC. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 00:24, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Erroneous GA failure?
Hi, I just reverted this edit that Legobot made. It said that SS Choctaw failed its GA review, but when I looked at the current revision of Talk:SS Choctaw/GA2, the reviewer had clearly left the article on hold and even said it was close to passing. Could Legobot have been confused by the fact that the article once failed GA two years ago? Armadillo pteryx  05:53, 8 December 2020 (UTC)