User talk:MDP23/Archive9

Copyrighted logos in Mediawiki:Common.js
I see you have made an addition to common.js, but can you please remove the search engine logos and replace them with text because they do not meet our fair use criteria. Fair use can only be used in article space. They are also a bit gaudy when text will do. ( H ) 22:29, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Kingboyk and "vandalism"
I got promoted this morning and went to thank Steve, and also ask his sage advice. He went and set me a test. So I left a note on his talkpage. Nothing to it really, but I shan't unstrike my comment since it makes the jape all the better... LessHeard vanU 23:45, 19 May 2007 (UTC) (ps. I am very serious about WP and sysop, but I leaven my zealousity with humour.)

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Thanks!
If it doesn't do what I want, then oh well :) I've been doing research to make my own in C#, using the IRC server that I had no idea existed. In the process I found AWB, figured what the heck. I'd rather use something that's already made and tested than make my own. If you have anything for me it would be appreciated! Thanks, Wikidan829 21:17, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The program I had is now (due to a change in the API) unable to get the watchlist from the API. I think that 9482 is what needs fixing, but as bugzilla is down at the moment, I don't know :) Martinp23 21:50, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * haha Great. It seems that particular method runs constant queries on the Special:Watchlist page. The way I wanted to do it would take much less of a load, using the IRC server. It has a user in the #en.wikipedia channel that instantly sends a message each time a change is made - universally throughout English Wikipedia, which I thought was cool. It's less work for WP's servers than requesting the page each time, you can get instant notifications, and even watch users. Not that I'm for stalking, but sometimes you run across a user(esp anonymous) that is up to no good and it's helpful to keep an eye on them for a while. ;) Wikidan829 00:16, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Nono - I also plan to use the IRC server for the reasons you outline. The function has been taken off the help page for api.php, but it used to be posssible to list the user's watchlist from there, and then add it to an array in our program, which is then checked against each part of the rc-feed received. Martinp23 06:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow! I was just going to initially retrieve the watch page from the web. It seems that there is no direct API to Wikipedia(I've only been looking a few days), and most tools are simply HTML parsers. ;) I think I might end up starting a project, then. First one will just be a Wikipedia interface, which won't have any particular functionality. Just be able to log in, get your watch list, edit, plug into IRC, etc. Wikidan829 14:43, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Like this - I get the list of pages in the watchlist from this query, and then sit in the irc channel, reporting changes to another irc network (in future, I plan to expand this to a little program which sits in the notification tray, and reports changes) Martinp23 16:34, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Great. If you want help with it let me know. Wikidan829 20:58, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Searchnoresults
You recently removed some of the text on that page. I'm a bit curious as to why and what made it redundant. While that information does exist on Searching, its much easier to use it on the search results page. I've requested that the links to Google, Yahoo, and Windows Live be replaced, please comment. Mr.Z-man  talk ¢ 16:07, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Mr.Z-man  talk ¢ 16:14, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

AWB Bot Code
When you get 5 minutes can you send me on the updated code for AWB bot?

MSN or emails fine :)

Thanks

Reedy Boy 20:53, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Tomorrow? I plan to have lots of free time then, to sort out this and all the other messages here :) Martinp23 20:56, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * What is AWB Bot? --kingboyk 21:01, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The IRC Bot. Thanks Martin :), that'd be fine! Reedy Boy 21:04, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

MartinBot false positive
Hi, I blanked the page Qian Zhijun, closed on AfD as a delete, pending deletion, but this was reverted as vandalism by MartinBot. Not sure what you could do about this as usually such an edit would be vandalism. This is unlikely to occur often. This comment is just a "FYI", not a complaint. --Tony Sidaway 13:03, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm - that shouldn't have happened, as you should be on the bot's "white list" of people not to revert. I'll check when I get back on IRC. Martinp23 09:19, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I'm pretty sure that means we must add MartinBot to the QZ RfAr... Joe 04:21, 20 May 2007 (UTC)


 * It would be a first! :-D --Tony Sidaway 01:13, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Hehe Martinp23 09:19, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

AWB and long pages
Hey Martin. I was wondering if it's possible to retrieve every user talk page via Special:All pages, without crashing AWB and causing something like a database lock. --R Parlate Contribs@ (Let's go Yankees!) 17:25, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi - a database dump would be more sensible, but would be unlikely to be up to date. For UT warnings, I'd suggest instead getting a list of the transclusions for each one, and working off that (you can put more than one template in the "Make list" box if you separate them by a "|".  Thanks, Martinp23 09:25, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

My block
Why was my account blocked. Have never made a rouge edit. My bot was taken by an IP. (Cocoaguy ここがいい contribstalk) 22:28, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes - I became aware of that about 20 minutes after blocking, and unblocked. Thanks, Martinp23 09:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

List categories recursively
In order to tag Golf pages, I'm wondering if it's possible to use as source for awb, not only the main category, but recursively. « Snowolf How can I help?»  01:44, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Spoke to on IRC. Martinp23 09:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Misses vandalism by two parties?
(cur) (last) 14:28, 21 May 2007 MartinBot (Talk | contribs) m (14,754 bytes) (BOT - rv 24.91.219.99 (talk) to last version by 64.119.131.68)

(cur) (last) 14:28, 21 May 2007 24.91.219.99 (Talk) (11,652 bytes) (→Raw scores, scaled scores and percentiles)

(cur) (last) 14:05, 21 May 2007 64.119.131.68 (Talk) (14,754 bytes) (→Structure)

(cur) (last) 14:05, 21 May 2007 64.119.131.68 (Talk) (21,126 bytes) (→Function)

(cur) (last) 14:05, 21 May 2007 64.119.131.68 (Talk) (21,692 bytes) (→Questions)

(cur) (last) 07:51, 20 May 2007 Yodaat (Talk | contribs) (23,196 bytes) (language edits on previous change)

64.119.131.68 clearly vandalized the page by taking out large chunks but I guess it got missed by MartinBot because of even more vandalism 20 mins later by 24.91.219.99?

Or maybe it just doesn't think deleting 8442 bytes by an anon IP address linked to previous vandalism was a good enough reason to revert? Either way... it's something to look into especially considering that the partial revision was probably worse then no revision as it lead to the next person to come along to miss it as well.

(cur) (last) 14:29, 21 May 2007 NawlinWiki (Talk | contribs) m (14,754 bytes) (Reverted edits by 24.91.219.99 (talk) to last version by MartinBot)

(cur) (last) 14:29, 21 May 2007 24.91.219.99 (Talk) (25 bytes) (→Taking the test)

(cur) (last) 14:28, 21 May 2007 MartinBot (Talk | contribs) m (14,754 bytes) (BOT - rv 24.91.219.99 (talk) to last version by 64.119.131.68)


 * Hi - thanks for reporting this bug. It's a known bug, which I hope to fix in the next few months, during which time I'm planning to re-write MartinBot.  This might not ever happen, but I am hoping that it will :) Martinp23 09:28, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

MartinBot reverts .. itself?!


You'll understand me when I say I'm more than a little confused ... Philip Trueman 19:20, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Added later. Oh, hang on! If everything's that close together in the history, it means MB can revert to a bad edit, yes?  Philip Trueman 19:23, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah I've definitely done the same thing. Sometimes the vandals will hit an article more than once sequentially, I'll do a single undo, only to find out that I actually had to go back further. Bot probably saw that its own edit still left some nasty stuff in there. Wikidan829 19:38, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Strange thing there, but I think you've worked it out well - as I mentioned in the topic above, I plan to re-write the bot soon, which will correct this bug. Martinp23 09:29, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Sandbox
Could you set up your sandbox bot to clear this page? The bot that was doing it before, User:Sandbot, appears to be gone. —Centrx→talk &bull; 04:42, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes - I shall sort it out later today (and please, poke me if you don't hear more!). Martinp23 09:30, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

AMA
Cycle is reverting the redirects we did. This is the reason that it should have gone to MfD. Is there anything that could be done at this stage? Æon Insanity Now!  02:07, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It seems that things are working themselves out.... thanks, Martinp23 09:33, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Floorball
MartinBot removed the edit I'd done on Floorball - I had added the medalists from the latest Women's world championship. (As opposed to most sports, Championship medalists don't have a page of their own on floorball.) I don't know how much it matters - someone else later re-added them.
 * My apologies - occasionally the bot does make a bad revert, and it seems that you got hit by one. I'm actively working to reduce the incidence of these :). Thanks, Martinp23 09:33, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

NPWatcher - MediaWiki or just Wikipedia?
Can NPWatcher be used for other MediaWiki systems? —Preceding unsigned comment added by John Roush (talk • contribs)
 * Not at the moment, I'm afraid. I'll spend some time making it possible at some point, and when I do, I'll make a note on WP:NPW. Martinp23 09:34, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

My RfA
Hi Martin. I'd like to thank you for your support of my RfA. It was closed at surprising 75/0/0, so I'm an admin now. Max S em 21:10, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

thats lame
well, sorry to say, but thats a bit lame for me lol joking. cya —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cassi much.LOVEExx (talk • contribs)


 * Hi - thanks for your message, but I don't know what on earth you're talking about. Martinp23 09:17, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFBOT
Your recent bot approvals request has been Speedy. Please see the request page for details. --ST47 Talk 12:08, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

RefDeskBot
RefDeskBot has been editing anon today. Thought you should know. Someguy1221 00:11, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I just noticed it is also failed to actually make the archives, it simply deletes the content from the reference desk and then drops links to the nonexistent archive. Someguy1221 02:51, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, that would be as a result of the loggedout ness (which has, by the by, never happenned before, and I can't for the life of me think why it would happen - we'll see if it happens again tonight, and if it does, I can adjust things to find out what the problem is. Martinp23 09:16, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Is there a way for us to inspect the source code for RDB? --Lambiam Talk  08:37, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Not at the moment - remind me in late June. Martinp23 09:16, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * It did happen again just now (or, rather, it did again not happen). --Lambiam Talk  00:26, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm going to do my best to restore the missing days, but I won't be able to do anything until tomorrow night, so if it gets logged out again tonight, there are going to be two red linked transclusions sitting on the active desks-- VectorPotential Talk 21:54, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

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Special:Contributions/145.97.39.143
From the look of this, it seems that all of your bots, except for have become logged out. In the mean time 145.97.39.143 is doing everything from resetting the sandbox header, to updating the BAG log, and even trying to archive the Reference Desk-- VectorPotential Talk 22:07, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Bot's don't like CAPTCHAs, which seem to be affecting every log in attempt for my bots on the toolserver. Not that BAGBot is not mine, but I have reported the problem to its owner.   I'm going to run RDB from home tonight - that way I know it can login. Martinp23 00:00, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

RefDeskBot clone?
Is there any way that you'd be willing to distribute a compiled version of RefDeskBot's source code to use in the event that becomes non-operational?-- VectorPotential Talk 00:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

The Help Desk
RefDeskBot is doing some very strange things to the help desk, including but not limited to: eating the desk header, and not entering the year parameter on HD Archive header. Is it possible that the version of RefDeskBot that you run from your home computer (as opposed to the version you run off of toolserver) is slightly outdated? That would explain it not recognizing the Archival Start & would also explain the Invalid Time error on the Archive header-- VectorPotential Talk 00:17, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Very possible - in both cases that I've had to run the bot from home, I didn't expect to need to, hence just took the most recent build. Now, did the problems only occur today, or yesterday as well?  In any case, I'll grab the latest version from the toolserver before tomorrow's job.  Thanks, Martinp23 00:48, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * For some reason tonight it skipped the Help Desk entirely, I had to preform a manual archive of that desk-- VectorPotential Talk 00:18, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

ULL revert
The bot reverted [| my edit] to ULL. I was cleaning up vandalism. As both mine and the bot's edits are listed in the same minute, I believe the bot was trying to revert the previous edit, and it was a server error of some sort. Or something...not exactly sure how the bot works. Sam42 03:15, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It looks like the bot might not be cool with "→Replaced page with" in the edit summary :) That's almost always malicious. Wikidan829 03:45, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

How to revert False positive revert by MartinBot?
How do I get the false positive revert by MartinBot to be reverted back? I have listed it in the User:AntiVandalBot/diffs section as well. -Deepraj | Talk 10:08, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * If you undo MartinBot's change it shouldn't revert you twice. Have you tried it? Philip Trueman 10:48, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Warning Template
Whould it be possible for the bot to, when warning a user, check the previous template used, and then use the one above it ie.Someone has already been warned with the last warning being a level 3 warning, it could give a level 4, and so on,and so on.Flubeca (t) 00:35, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Feel you should know
MartinBot's talk page has over 80 headlines on it. Permission to archive? Oh yeah, and how do you archive? Mattbash 00:42, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Questions about Martin Bot
How do you create bot? Your bot made tons of great edits and reverted vandalism a lot. There are many questions I want to ask you:

Does it require a lot of work to make a bot? Who creates all of the edits made in the userpage? How does MartinBot know when it passes 45000? Is there anyway we can know if we pass 45000 edits. LADodgersAngelsfan 01:15, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Koran Vandal
There has been a vandal going through with multiple user names (which are usually fairly quickly blocked) replacing pages, predominantly user and user talk pages, with text from the Koran. Here are a couple of examples: and. Perhaps this M.O. can be added to your anti-vandal bot's parameters? --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - &lt;*&gt; 10:23, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

R Delivery Bot
Please see my reply and question here. Thanks, --R Parlate Contribs@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 21:14, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

You reverted my disambiguations
I made a large number of disambiguations of English to English at List of Pakistani television stations, and you reverted my edits. DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN. --Tkynerd 03:37, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Chill out man. It appears his bot had a hiccup of sorts when reverting the anonymous edit and accidentally knocked out yours instead.  No need to go around screaming bloody murder.  Metros 03:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I perform disambiguation work on a significant scale on a regular basis, and the last thing I need is to have a bot undoing my work, especially a dozen disambiguations on one damn page. I realize that any bot can make mistakes (just like humans can!), but when that happens, it needs to be brought to the attention of the bot operator. That's what I was doing above, and what I wrote hardly comes anywhere near "bloody murder." --Tkynerd 04:25, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * However, civility is a gift, and I do find your message above exceedingly hostile in nature. That said, thanks for letting me know. Martinp23 09:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * The level of civility in my post was consummate with (i.e., inversely proportional to) the level of effort required to repair the mistake. As it should be. --Tkynerd 15:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)


 * You just have to revert, it is not effort at all. The level of civility you show should be directly in line with WP:CIVILITY regardless of circumstances. ( H )  15:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * To begin with, I can hardly be said to have violated WP:CIVILITY, and your suggestion to the contrary is absurd. Additionally, it took a minute to realize that I had previously done these dabs; I had already re-done some of them through other means before I realized that. Then I had to go to the history to be sure that my work had actually been reverted (and that these weren't new links that needed dabbing), and to see where it had been done. It was not simply a matter of reverting. --Tkynerd 15:52, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

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Reply to user:Seicer
Despite the fact she wasn't a "new" user? And that she had a meat/sockpuppet that vandalized Wikipedia pages? Sorry, but if applying the necessary tags to remove unnecessary images and bloat from Wikipedia, and applying the correct templates to their user talk page is construed as biting the new user, then perhaps people should grow some thick skin :p Note that I did not harass the user, call her out on her sockpuppetry, but just did the standard apply the template per what the template calls for.  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 14:22, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm sure you can find it on ANI. I'll pull it up.  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 14:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 *  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 14:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * If you viewed the page, so many templates were applied that someone graciously combined them into one post. My original start were speedy delete the images, and after someone notified me that you could not speedy delete images based upon WP:NOT, which was clearly my error, I submitted them to IFD. Taaa daa!  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 14:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, since you probably want "proof":   Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 14:31, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * *sigh* . Aren't you supposed to be not biting the user and assuming good faith?  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 14:42, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * And I'm fairly certain that the images will result in deletion at IFD as the images are unencyclopedic (per standard), and some were even orphaned; now all are, so it's really a moot point.  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 14:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

All further messages to User talk:Seicer, please! Martinp23 14:44, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * No thanks. I would rather not have more nonsense fill up my user talk page.  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 14:45, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Apologies
Thinking back on the issue, I was probably more harsh than lenient. I should have given the user more feedback on what is appropriate for the images, and in not doing so, I may have caused the loss of a constructive editor for Wikipedia. I am taking full responsibility for that. I am also taking responsibility for my harshness in the replies, but please assume good faith in my edits; they were not meant to detract from Wikipedia or from another editor. I'll e-mail the user and leave an apology note on her talk page. Thanks,  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 15:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

My comment on the Carly images
Hi, I've posted a comment on my talk page  on the issue of image deletions from the user page of Oh yEs itS caRly. I would appreciate it if you take a look and give your input. Happy editing. -- Diletante 02:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

BetacommandBot
I wanted to bring to your attention a disruptive bot that you approved in May, User talk:BetacommandBot. If you visit the Village Pump and his talk page, you will see that this bot is disrupting the community in a negative manner. (Mind meal 10:07, 6 June 2007 (UTC))

RefDeskBot and the Help Desk
RefDeskBot still isn't entering the year parameter for HD Archive header, it also isn't adding date headers after each archive. It may be a good idea to retrieve the most recent build of RefDeskBot from toolserver, as the toolserver version of RefDeskBot seems to be more recent. When you have the time of course-- VectorPotential Talk 14:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Quick Question
Hello. I just have a quick question regarding NPWatcher. How long does it usually take for a user waiting approval to use NPWatcher have to wait before getting accepted or denied? Thank you. Yours truly, Eddie 23:16, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * He's been approved. Reedy Boy 10:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism on "Google Foundation", june 6
Can you please check the page Google Foundation, there has been a vandalism on June 6, I didn't know who to tell,

thank's to all you guys that work tough for wikipedia,

bye,

guzman, italy.
 * The article's been fixed... -- Dark Falls''   talk 10:22, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

So fast, thank you.

Michel Tapié bot edit
Hi; one of your bots decided that Michel Tapié was an actor or filmmaker. On the article's discussion page, your bot added categories "Actors and filmmakers work group articles | Unassessed biography (actors and filmmakers) articles | Unknown-priority biography (actors and filmmakers) articles". As far as can figure out, this is completely wrong. Tapié was not involved in film at all. Can you please explain to me why these categories were added to the Tapié article's talk page? Thanks! MdArtLover
 * Since you haven't replied, and I find no evidence of Tapié's having been an actor or filmmaker, I will now undo the edit made to Talk:Michel Tapié by your bot. MdArtLover 14:28, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

My edit was legit
I had good intentiions with the change I made on the One Tree Hill (TV Series) page because I felt that what was written was confusing and incorrect.

Your bot doesn't need to revert User:HBC RenameClerkBot as it's another bot. I don't know if you have a white list. 81.159.117.48 22:27, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

My RfA
Dear, thank you for you efforts to build consensus on my RfA. As you know, it was unsuccessful. I am not the type of editor to be disheartened by such a result, and have gained much experience.

I will run again, however I am concerned that I may see your name in the same place, for the same reasons. I would greatly appreciate knowing what I could do to earn your support next time.

If you have anything to contribute by way of improvements or comments, please don’t hesitate to tell me. Kind regards, Dfrg.msc 00:34, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Template:Featured article
Your recent edit at Template:Featured article broke the functionality of the link on the star. I'm pretty sure there is a bug involving imagemaps and svgs not playing nicely together. It'd be a good idea to revert this until the problem is fixed. --- RockMFR 03:59, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I've reverted as an interim solution. It appears SVGs don't work with the ImageMap extension. Cheers. --MZMcBride 04:13, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

NPW
Hi, I want use NPWatcher may be it's good for ar.wiki. Please, let me use it. Thanks--OsamaK 11:27, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

RefDeskBot question
Question. When RefDeskBot is creating a new archive page (as for instance page Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 June 9 in this edit]), what would happen if the page exists already (for example, with content  ##REDIRECT Reference desk/Humanities )? The reason I'm asking is that if this does not create a problem for the operation of the bot, such temporary redirects would allow us – although not in a 100% fool-proof manner – to already have links of the form  Reference desk/Archives// </tt> even before the archive page is created. Currently, you can't insert a link to a not-yet-archived thread and have it survive archiving. (See also this issue being raised at Wikipedia talk:Reference desk). --Lambiam Talk 10:59, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi - if there is already content on the page, the bot will simply over write it. I hope this helps :) Martinp23 16:02, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Lambiam Talk  01:26, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Browser timeline not vandalized...
The bot's recent revert of Browser timeline was unnecessary. Bad, bad bot :-) As far as I can fugure out, the previous edit was identified as vandalism, because of the repetitive pattern of the changes – but they were correct and needed. --Fred Bradstadt 07:45, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks MartinBot!
You rock, and make my "job" a lot easier. --Bsayusd 17:24, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Frank R. Wallace mediation: please close?
Hello, I was about to bug you regarding the Frank R. Wallace mediation case, only to find that the other party in the mediation, Bridge &amp; Tunnel, has already been blocked indefinitely for being a sock puppet. Can you please therefore close this case? Thanks! Bi 17:39, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi - I think the case is awaiting both your and B&T's input, so it's a shame that B&T has been led to leave us. Thanks for letting me know, Martinp23 17:49, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

RefDeskBot and the Help Desk
RefDeskBot still isn't entering the year parameter for HD Archive header, it also isn't adding date headers after each archive. It may be a good idea to retrieve the most recent build of RefDeskBot from toolserver, as the toolserver version of RefDeskBot seems to be more recent. When you have the time of course-- VectorPotential Talk 23:22, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

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Source Code
If it's not to much trouble can I have a copy of the source code of np watcher, I want to see if I can get it running on Linux. --<font color="#B22222"><font color="#B44444">L<font color="#B66666">w<font color="#B88888">a r f  Talk! 12:12, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Also can I get MartinBot's SC. Thanks! --<font color="#B22222"><font color="#B44444">L<font color="#B66666">w<font color="#B88888">a r f  Talk! 14:15, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Bot edit of The Vampire Chronicles page.
Changed it from a 31KB page(with plenty of copyrighted content from Anne Rice's website) to a slim and trim version, only to have your bot revert it. Please, if you would, fix.DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC 18:13, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Shutoff Button
The shutoff button only links to the img file. Thedjatclubrock :) 23:47, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

MartinBot
Hello, could you let MartinBot know that it isn't vandalism for an admin to remove a deleted image from an article? Thanks. —Angr 04:18, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism
Hi, your bot recently reverted some vandalism on Primary Education. Unfortunately the vandalism was reverted back with the whole page blanked and "cock" being added. I would hope that you could somehow get this IP adress banned. Thanks.

Sittin' on Top of the World
I transferred an article about the album by LeAnn Rimes from a page called Sittin' on Top of the World to a page called Sittin' on Top of the World (album), to free up 'Sittin' on Top of the World' so it can be used as a re-direct to this song (usually rendered as 'Sittin' on Top of the World' or 'Sitting on Top of the World'). This seems to be sensible as the song, which has numerous cover-versions, is bigger than LeAnn Rimes' album. If I've done this in an incorrect manner, I apologise. No information was deleted; the sum result was that I added one re-direct, so I cannot see how this can be interpreted as vandalism. Ikeshut 01:10, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

RefDeskBot
Is there any chance of you releasing RefDeskBot's source code?-- VectorPotential Talk 11:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

toupee edit
--76.103.12.47 18:44, 17 June 2007 (UTC)--76.103.12.47 18:44, 17 June 2007 (UTC)Hi Martinp23,

I appreciate the anti-vadalism bot, but I reverted the change it made. You can refer to the comment that I left also. Please feel free to contact me again if you want to discuss it further. Thanks.

-BigHeadFred

RefDeskBot and the Help Desk (2)
Are you aware of the fact that RefDeskBot has not archived the Help desk since 00:03, June 14, 2007? --Lambiam Talk 23:58, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Sandbox blanking
This diff wasn't vandalism -- it was blanking a sandbox. &mdash; <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">Music <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Maker  02:51, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

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about my al-Sadr edit...
I concede that it was more than fool-hardy to make such a profane edit, but why is he still alive? Don't people who read his article have a right to know why the US military can't do something about this...uh, wannabe despot?

The User:MartinBot undid a change to the Armaroli_Sim_Racing_World_Cuppage that was not a vandalism. I removed a link that is no longer related to the entry. The link was to the site of a person who raced in the series but who no longer does. That is not vandalism. I did the delete again and it stuck. However, now my IP has a TALK page that uses the word vandalism. Is it possible to have that cleared? I see the point of the bot and all, and that is nice, I just think it erred in this case. Thank you. 70.81.193.194 11:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Stop Reverting Get a Life

Northwich Victoria F.C.
Heya. A while ago you had your bot set to revert the removal of a template transclusion on the above page, but it seems the vandal has returned to substituting a vandalized version of the template and yet the bot does not seem to be picking it up. Could this be looked at, please? Thanks. Cowman109 Talk 01:55, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Bad bot edit
At WP:RD/E. Here's the diff. It took the header off. --zenohockey 03:49, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Norman Vincent Peale
Why are you reverting the Norman Vincent Peale article?--Panzertank123 16:58, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Anon vandalism
This anon is probably  blocked earlier by  for several vandalisms. Both IPs are from Willingboro, NJ. —Lesfer (t/c/@) 19:18, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey there
Hey Martin,

I've tried sending an email through the Wikipedia email system to try to contact you, as you said to email you because you're taking a break right now, but just to let you know here that I've sent you an email. It's about requesting the code for MartinBot, as I mod a wiki that needs a bot for the night when none of the staff are one :) Thanks ~U
 * I second Utopia's request. We both are staff members of the same Wiki, and we would like the code for the antivandalism MartinBot, if you are willing to give it to us. We are in much need of it, and with your help, the vandalism on our wiki might drop down significantly. :) Erebus  00:49, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

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RefDeskBot and the Help Desk
RefDeskBot still isn't entering the year parameter for HD Archive header, it also isn't adding date headers after each archive. It may be a good idea to retrieve the most recent build of RefDeskBot from toolserver, as the toolserver version of RefDeskBot seems to be more recent. When you have the time of course-- VectorPotential Talk 18:42, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.214.88.201 (talk • contribs)
Turn Off Your Bot It is Malfunctiong —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.214.88.201 (talk • contribs)
 * Actually, no, was clearly vandalism, although I suppose it's possible if you're sharing a computer or some form of sharedip that someone else may have made that edit-- VectorPotential Talk 11:29, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

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That's right
That's right is not the next single by Ciara. addicted is because it was said on MTV so I changed it. Cristian-Garcia

You bot is interfering with the merge of the articles.
Hello,

I am working on Routing protocol and list List of routing protocols and your bot is reverting the redirect. It is not Vandialism it is part of the Wiki Project work of computer networking. Please stop your bot from doing this. Thanks! --<span id="" class="plainlinks" style="color:#002bb8">User: (talk • contribs • count) 15:10, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the problems - all seems fixed now. Martinp23 21:32, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Dont understand your reasoning
I dont understand why it cannot be deleted. The article can be deleted without dest. the history. Admins can always see the history can they not? I have had deleted articles come back after deletion review as well as an expired prod come back but they were deleted.

Could you please explain this to me?--<span id="" class="plainlinks" style="color:#002bb8">User: (talk • contribs • count) 21:21, 27 June 2007 (UTC)


 * You are right about the effects of deletion - it only hides the article from editors, leaving admins free to peruse it and its history. The problem is that when we take content from one page to another, we have to ensure that it is correctly attributed to its original authors, and this attribution needs to be readily available for viewing by anyone (hence we use the article histories - the merged to article should have a note mentioning the origin of content in its edit summaries, and the merged from article should remain as a redirect, with history intact).  We do this because the GNU Free Documentation Licence, which Wikipedia is licensed under, requires that all contributors to a work be properly noted and acknowledged.  Hope this helps - Martinp23 21:36, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Infobox Photo Ursula Andress
I received permission from Wikipedia to remove the photo.

Do not revert my edit.

See Ursula Andress Talk Page 87.243.196.167 12:49, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

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Sorry to trouble you about RefDeskBot again, but it seems to have stopped working a few days ago-- VectorPotential Talk 20:18, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I started (again) my manual archiving of the Computing ref desk, so check before restarting the bot if it won't become confused. --cesarb 01:34, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

MartinBotII etc
Hi Martin, I hope the exams went well for you. Since we're now (literally) at the end of June, I was wondering if you'd be able to spend some time working on setting up the bot for 1.0. Also, do you have any news on the toolserver, or do you want me to do some digging on that? I did post a message with Kate. Many thanks, Walkerma 20:13, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Kate says that the new switch has been installed and they are setting up the new server today! Good news! Walkerma 14:51, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

MartinBot
Hey, Martin, add one more to your list of complaints. :) MartinBot reverted this edit.  Was there someway I could have avoided that revert?  Corvus cornix 07:57, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

re dark road

i accept your humble apologies but if you re-read everything the page needs to be deleted.

MartinBot as part of a diploma thesis
Hello Martin,

my name is Robert Gerling and i'm a student of "Mediasystems" at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany (http://www.uni-weimar.de/cms/webis.69.0.html). I have already contacted you via email, but because you didn't answer at all i try it again this way. I'm currently working on my diploma thesis with the baseline of automatic wiki-vandalism detection. Of course i found your bot during my inquest. It would be very pleasing if you could provide me as much information about your bot as your're willing to give. Especially i am interested in the detection rules, because i already have quit similar ideas i think, but i would like to evaluate if the already proper working detection of your bot can be improved some how (may be with well known techniques from the research field of text based information retrieval). I have already studied many vandalism delicts including the resutls of Study1 to build up a taxonomy of wiki-vandalism. With respect to this taxonomy i have builded up a test-corpus including about 900 edit, whereas 300 are vandalism (including data from Study1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Vandalism_studies/Study1)), to test my ideas of automatic vandalism detection. Is there actually something like a test-corpus you were using during the development of the MatinBot? It would be interesting for me to compare my implemtation with yours on my test-corpus or on the corpus you used (if available).

Thank you for your time and hopefully help. I am looking forward to your answer.

Yours --MSSimor 09:15, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Sorry for my bad english.

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Bot Approval BoxCrawler
I have a request pending at the requests for approval page and would like your input (as you are part of the BAG) if it's not too much trouble. I'm glad to answer any questions or concerns you may have. Adam McCormick 23:42, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks to xaosflux I've been able to run a trial of my bot which can be seen here. I have fixed the major problems with the test run (mostly one regular expression) and was hoping to run another test. I'd still appreciate your input. Thanks! Adam McCormick 03:42, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

NPW
Hi Martin. Sorry to nag, but is it possible to approve the next batch of people for the NPWatcher? Many thanks. Recurring dreams 01:02, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

sorry
 * He seems to be away or something.... Approved Reedy Boy 21:21, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

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C#, Martinp23 Style....
if (Martinp23.Status != WikiStatus.Online) Throw new Exception("OMFGZ");

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Orphaned non-free image (Image:Npwatcher.PNG)
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 * I've gone ahead and reverted the tagging, as the image is clearly not orphaned, since it's currently being used in the New Page Watcher instruction page-- VectorPotential Talk 22:32, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

User:DRVBot
Martinp23, any chance of getting this bot actually running? Many of the DRV regulars have stopped contributing much to DRV, and last month we went three weeks without getting the completed days linked in the archives. That sort of hiccup we could avoid if the bot was running. GRBerry 19:34, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Help desk archive
Someone archived the help desk and I can't find where they moved the discussions to. The July page is non-existent. Also, the archive page says you have a bot that is supposed to do it. Maybe the blonde is preventing me from seeing the obvious, but I don't think it was done right. Let me know?! Regards, Lara  Love  T / C  04:30, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

NPWatcher Authorization
How can I become authorized to use NPWatcher? Dancanm 15:03, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Add your name to the approval list - User:Martinp23/NPWatcher/Checkpage Reedy Boy 18:29, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

RefDeskBot
Any chance of reactivating RefDeskBot? He hasnt run since June 27, I had to manually archive ref desks yesterday :( &mdash; Shinhan  &lt;&thinsp; talk &thinsp;&gt; 06:17, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

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Bill Handel
Hey, I saw this article has been fixed by one of your bots, but it's been vandalized again, and I'm not sure how to revert it, otherwise I'd have done it myself. Can you help? Wingnutmax 00:33, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Already been reverted. Reedy Boy 09:27, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

NPWatcher
Can I please get authorization to use NPWatcher? --NeilN 13:19, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * You really should have used the checkpage. Although you are under on edits, i have approved you. Any misuse of the tool, will lead to a revocation of rights to use the tool. Reedy Boy 14:00, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Quite confused
Apparently this "MartinBot" revereted an edit i never made to a band i never heard of. The band is called the " The Shams".

Please sort this out as the " You have new messages" on the top of my wikipedia is very annoying. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.70.39.224 (talk • contribs)
 * Unfortunately due to, the new messages bar is unlikely to go away on its own, since you're an anon. -- VectorPotential Talk 14:18, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

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MartinBot blocked
Hey - your bot was repeatedly reverting edits by User:MadmanBot which were legitimate, and so I have temporarily blocked it. I will unblock it when MadmanBot finishes the edits that were being reverted (should only be 10 minutes or so). ugen64 14:40, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I've whitelisted the user and unblocked the bot - anyone can do this in #vandalism-en-wp by issuing the command "computer wl add user", replacing user with the name. Users need to be voiced in the channel to do this, but there are penty in there who are voiced (so it should be a simple matter of asking one of them to do it if you can't).  Thanks, Martinp23 14:56, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Just on the matter of the block itself - the bot wasn't malfunctioning in that it was reverting the edits (it recognised the mass repetition as vandalism) - it just hadn't been told that MadmanBot was a bot, and hence on our side (all bots are automatically whitelisted, but do need to be added to the bot list manually, in the IRC channel). Thanks, Martinp23 14:58, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

#wikipedia-en-admins
Hello, I would like to have access to this IRC channel. My IRC nick is "Until1is2". I read that you were an op and could give me access, I am an admin. Until ( 1 == 2 )  13:38, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Ask in #wikipedia-en for an invite. Then get auto invite enabled. Reedy Boy 14:21, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * (done (User talk:Until(1 == 2)) Thanks Reedy.  Martinp23 14:24, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

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Revert at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby
Sorry, but I'm not entirely sure why you reverted me there. The revert I made brought back a link removed by an anon user - I assume that s/he was confused by the piping, and it may not seem particularly intuitive, but the article in question deals with how the term public school is defined in the UK, hence why I used the piping the way I did the first time I put it in. Bringing the link back restored a useful definition for readers, so I'm not sure how that can be characterised as 'indiscriminate'. In addition, I removed the use of nicknames - which does not fit with an encyclopaedic tone - and removed duplicate links in the article, particularly where they reoccured in the same paragraph/section. -- Michael Warren | Talk 19:39, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

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I deleted a word and your bot reverted it. That is pretty stupid champ, although so is an anti vandalism bot in general. All you can catch is the swears. Anyway, good luck being a dumbass and totally defeating the purpose of Wikipedia.

NPW
I was wondering if you could approve me for NPW, please? I've been waiting for a little over a week and no one's touched the CheckPage. Thanks, GrooveDog (talk) 02:06, 4 August 2007 (UTC) :)
 * ✅ - by another user :) Cheers, Anthøny  18:52, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Martinbot in a fight
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hi
hello. it said you left me a message thing on my talk page?


 * He didn't -- MartinBot did, and MartinBot's talk page must redirect here. I also put a message on your talk page... the reason being is you're blanking pages and shouldn't. SO don't. We'd like you to be a helpful contributer, but if you persist in this you will end up blocked. Ok? Gscshoyru 13:50, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

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Wai wai
Maybe you would like to go back there in Wai wai because someone edited it and I guess it could be that v word (s)he was doing.--68.115.226.2 16:40, 15 August 2007 (UTC) User:Kushal_one actually, the article is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wai-Wai_%28food%29

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NPW
Can I have approval to use NPW. Thanks, Thedjatclubrock :) (T/C) 11:04, 22 August 2007 (UTC). User:Martinp23/NPWatcher/Checkpage - Add yourself to the request list. Reedy Boy 11:20, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

NPWatcher for .NET 1.1
I wanted to try this under Mono and Wine - do you have a link? - David Gerard 15:53, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I dont actually know why he's got that... Its only built in VS 2005 - so .NET v2... Reedy Boy 18:28, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Might work in a few months, once the mono project fully supports Sys.Win.Forms in .NET 2.0. As I understand, Wine doesn't like .NET either :( Martinp23 23:01, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

unfairly (I think) reverted edit
MartinBot reverted my edit (09:06, 15 July 2007 "comment: add fiddlers to both the "by name" and "by style" listings") to the List of fiddlers. The list is compiled in two lists - by name, and by style. Granted, it's not the best way to do it. I have some plans for making it better some day in the future, but I've had them for months and months....  As it stands, it's important that when a new fiddler is added to the "by name" list it's also added to the "by style" list - so I put comments to that effect in each editable section. It's true that this makes for wikitext that isn't that beautiful to look at, but I don't think it should be considered a problem. --Eitch 16:14, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

I edited the Lord Howe Island Group article because all had was pages an of anti-bush sentence copied over and over. Martin bot reverted my edit (a complete deletion of all the text) as vandalism. Where was the bot the first time around?


 * Both of you seem to have encountered hiccups of the bots. My apologies. Martinp23 23:02, 24 August 2007 (UTC)