User talk:ListasBot/Archives/2009/September

Another problem regarding WPBiography
I'm a bit late here with this gripe, but edits like this are not good. The project's A-Class department may be inactive, but the A-Class parameter should have been retained for future reference. As the relevent categories have since been deleted, it will now be necessary to recreate and repopulate them. PC78 (talk) 16:16, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I have just notoced that the talk page of Kurt Schuschnigg was blanked by whatever you did to it on 28 June 2009. I have now restored the page as I am certain it wasn't your intention to delete the page history. 3ig-350125 (talk) 10:28, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That wasn't the bot, it was an IP vandal blanking the page on 8 March. PC78 (talk) 10:43, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late reply. The bot is designed to remove any parameters that aren't supported by the template.  A-Class is one of them.  This should probably be replaced with class=A instead.   Mikaey,  Devil's advocate  19:13, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The parameter is supported by the template. That's the problem. I've repopulated the categories, but this shouldn't happen again. PC78 (talk) 19:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Would you mind updating the documentation then? There's no mention of it in there anywhere.   Mikaey,  Devil's advocate  19:34, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I've added the A-Class paramater to the documentation. What exactly is the bot doing when you say it's "designed to remove any parameters that aren't supported by the template"? PC78 (talk) 19:50, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I've got a list of the parameters hardcoded into the bot. They were taken from WPBiography's documentation.  Anything that's not in the list gets dropped.  (However, if the bot can make a reasonable determination that a parameter is not supported because it is a spelling error, it will correct it.)   Mikaey,  Devil's advocate  19:53, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * What about importance, baronets-work-group and military-task-force? These are accepted by the banner as alternatives to priority, peerage-work-group and military-work-group respectively, so they shouldn't be removed either. nested on the other hand is fully deprecated, so your bot can safely remove that if it isn't doing so already. PC78 (talk) 20:15, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The bot is already programmed to change importance over to priority. baronets-work-group is recognized by the bot (if you look, it's on the list).  And I'll add in to have the bot change military-task-force over to military-work-group.   Mikaey,  Devil's advocate  20:23, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Cheers! FYI, the banner is due for an update in the near future and there will almost certainly be some changes with regard to parameters. If I can think on, I'll let you know here when it happens. PC78 (talk) 20:30, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated, thanks!  Mikaey,  Devil's advocate  20:36, 12 September 2009 (UTC)