User talk:Mathbot

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u looks funny
LOL!!!!!!

Sorry, had to get that out of my system. Good job on your contributions Mathbot; I hope you get artificial intelligence when it's invented. -Amarkov moo! 03:35, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

filling in redlinks
I certainly hope this edit is not typical of Mathbot's filling in of redlinks in the math section. Michael Hardy (talk) 23:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Good bot, bad owner. You are right, I misread that one (hopefully it is an exception). Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 05:31, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2008 January 19
The mathbot has just counted the open discussions in this log down to zero, but that isn't correct. --Tikiwont (talk) 10:04, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

RfA stats
The bot posted the wrong users stats to Coppertwig's RfA here and here, thought you ought to know. Adam McCormick (talk) 01:09, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * This fixed it. The bot did not expect "User11" there. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:32, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Strange issue. Thanks for the quick response. Adam McCormick (talk) 03:28, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion.
I see Mathbot compiles the tables of article status at WikiProject Physics.

Right now it links to articles according to either quality or importance. Could it be modified to link to a specific quality and importance? For example, if I'm interested in improved stubs of high importance, I can either click on High (35 of 366 are of stub-class) or on stubs (35 of 3787 are high importance). Or if I want to assess the quality of low-importance articles, I'd have to go through at best 488 low-importance article rather than 14.

I can explain more if that was not clear. Thank you.Headbomb (ταλκ · κοντριβς) 07:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I think you are referring to User:WP 1.0 bot rather than mathbot. The feature you request is not supported. I am quite pressed for time recently, and can't implement it, I am also not sure how crucial it is. If you wish, you can try requesting this feature at WT:1.0/I and see if somebody would be willing to implement it. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Another counting issue at RFA
Hey Oleg, we have another RFA that tripped Mathbot up. The edit count was posted to the talk page of Requests for adminship/Arienh4 here, but appears entirely blank. Wannabe Kate returns results here, so it doesn't look like a mis-spelled username. Thought I'd give you a heads up. Thanks! UltraExactZZ Claims~ Evidence 19:15, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll look into this quite soon. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:42, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem, nor urgency; thanks for having a look. Best, UltraExactZZ Claims~ Evidence 13:02, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * w3m was missing on the wp:toolserver. Replacing that with the lynx web browser fixed the issue. Thanks for pointing this out! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 14:47, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Talk:List of statistics topics
Can you help me figure out why this list is soooooo long? Talk:List of statistics topics Thanks&mdash;G716  &lt;T·C&gt; 17:57, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Edit summary
Something's wrong with this tool:


 * http://www.toolserver.org/~mathbot/cgi-bin/wp/rfa/edit_summary.cgi?user=Fyslee&lang=en

It consistently shows my minor edit summaries at 79-80%, which isn't true. I have my preferences set to warn me if I forget an edit summary, so I always do it, and have done it for a long time. -- Fyslee / talk 06:06, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Arbcom Elections 2008
Good afternoon, Oleg. It's a slow day for me today, so I'm running through my checklist of Arbcom Election items for next month's voting. I know Mathbot has updated voting data for the last three elections, and I wanted to check and see if you planned to run it again this time around. If that's the case, is there any assistance I can provide in formatting vote pages / setting up templates / etc? Thanks in advance, UltraExactZZ Claims~ Evidence 18:12, 4 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Cross posting to your talk as well - thought that's where I was. See also WP:TWWPK. UltraExactZZ Claims~ Evidence 18:13, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

No content in Category:Unassessed-Class Geography of Canada articles
Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Category:Unassessed-Class Geography of Canada articles, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Category:Unassessed-Class Geography of Canada articles has been empty for at least four days, and its only content has been links to parent categories. (CSD C1). To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Category:Unassessed-Class Geography of Canada articles, please affix the template to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that '''this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here''' CSDWarnBot (talk) 22:11, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

AfD pages header
What about:  

instead of the current:  Looks better IMO. MrKIA11 (talk) 23:18, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Photo-tagging?
Hi: I've been going through and adding pictures to mathematician bio articles. It would help a lot if a bot could go through all mathematician articles and put a tag on the ones that don't have any photos on them. Then I could use the lists over at Pages needing attention/Mathematics/Lists to identify pages instead of going through them manually. Is this possible? Thanks, Ray (talk) 15:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

List of mathematics articles (0–9)
attention, someone moved the article from 0-9 to 0–9, now you're making your changes to the redirect page --134.34.224.102 (talk) 12:35, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_mathematics_articles_(0%E2%80%939)&action=history
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_mathematics_articles_(0-9)&action=history

Missing daily update?
Did mathbot miss its most recent daily update of the list of mathematics articles pages? Michael Hardy (talk) 02:30, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Question about Mathbot tool
Out of curiosity, I ran the mathbot tool on myself, and got the following output: "83% for major edits and 0% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 0 minor edits in the article namespace." Is there something I'm not understanding about how the tool works? By far most of my edits are marked minor, and I usually put at least something in the edit summary – so the 0% for 0 minor edits isn't clear to me. /ninly(talk) 18:44, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Please STOP adding redundant disambig links
Please STOP adding redundant disambig links to lists of mathematics articles. bd2412 T 15:54, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/List of mathematics articles
Can you get your bot to not add the Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/List of mathematics XX articles to article categories. See this as an example. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 05:25, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I replied on my talk page. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 06:29, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

categories.......
I just edited generalized quaternion interpolation. It bore the following three category tags but did not appear in the list of mathematics articles: (I added Category:Applied mathematics, so maybe it will now get added to the list.) I don't recall whether it's this bot or Jitse's that handles this. It seems to me that things in those three categories should appear on the list. Michael Hardy (talk) 16:00, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Category:Quaternions
 * Category:Interpolation
 * Category:Rotation in three dimensions

Articles for deletion/Old/Open AfDs
You keep deleting the recently added WP:AFDOLD from the shortcut box  Purpleback pack  89  ≈≈≈≈  03:59, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Articles for deletion/Log/2012 April 1
Articles for deletion/Log/2012 April 1, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 April 1 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Articles for deletion/Log/2012 April 1 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 02:14, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old/Open AfDs
Is it possible to modify mathbot so that its post at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old/Open AfDs doesn't erase the noinclude template as in this? Thanks. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 10:03, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. Sorry for the delay. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:16, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 10:18, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, further to the above, please note that is not valid - the slash is misplaced, and it should read  -- Red rose64 (talk) 14:39, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I've found that the same invalid code is found in Articles for deletion/Old. -- Red rose64 (talk) 18:12, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Indexer for other wikiprojects?
Would it be difficult to adapt Mathbot to index articles for other wikiprojects? RockMagnetist (talk) 02:54, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Old
The bot keeps showing that there are no open AfDs. That is inaccurate. Please fix p  b  p  01:45, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I believe that the bot runs on Toolserver. If that is the case, then Toolserver has been having a lot of problems for almost a year now. -- Red rose64 (talk) 12:40, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Changes to mathlists
There have been no new dates under User:Mathbot/Changes to mathlists since June 17. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 19:11, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Page moves
When a page is moved, the log will show "Removed Old title (is a redirect to New title)" and "Added New title". GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 19:01, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Afd closure not picked up
I'm not sure if this is a Mathbot problem or a Tools Server problem, or something else, but the Afd at Articles for deletion/Ousmane Sow was closed on 27 September 2015, but it still appears on the open list at Articles for deletion, under "Old discussions", 27 September. --Bejnar (talk) 03:06, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, now I see the problem, the closure wasn't properly done with "subst" the template. --Bejnar (talk) 03:19, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Bot linking to page with the wrong language
Hi,

The bot added a link to Articles for deletion/Log/2015 Oktober 1 on Articles for deletion/Old. Something must have gotten messed up somehow. Calathan (talk) 17:28, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * That would be . -- Red rose64 (talk) 11:13, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Badly bugged
This bot has too serious bugs. It has been flooding the page history of WP:ADD with useless edits, and introducing junk links (links to AfD log pages with mispelled month names). I cleaned up a lot of these only for the bot to introduce even more of it. Please fix the issues urgently. 103.6.159.82 (talk)


 * The bot has been running without problems for years and there were no code changes for months. I don't know what triggered that, I will take a look in about 12 hours. It seems it stopped touching ADD for now. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:49, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I bet some server settings made it think in German for a short while. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:52, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I could not reproduce the bug. I put a fix, the code is now explicitly enforcing that the locale be C, so it can't become German anymore. At least that's the hope, can't for sure without testing. Let's watch over this. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 06:07, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Oleg, the bot has also created these 10 log pages with mispelled month names. 103.6.159.78 (talk) 14:29, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I have marked those 10 pages for speedy deletion under G6. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 15:23, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I cannot locate those pages to figure out when they were made. Maybe the issue is still there. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:34, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

List of mathematicians (A)
Why List of mathematicians (A) can not be in ?SoSivr (talk) 11:22, 9 December 2015 (UTC) SoSivr (talk) 11:22, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Why? The article could also be in a subcategory of the aforementioned category.SoSivr (talk) 16:26, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Website not found
The website http://www.toolserver.org/~mathbot/wp/rfa/edit_summary.html says that it is not found. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 01:34, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Toolserver has been down for eighteen months now. Permanently. It's not coming back. -- Red rose64 (talk) 12:21, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Unar for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Unar is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Unar until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Boleyn (talk) 15:40, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Why did you notify a bot, and not, the true creator of this article? -- Red rose64 (talk) 21:00, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

, I hadn't seen that it was a bot, I used Twinkle. Thanks for spotting it, Boleyn (talk) 10:30, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Silence for more than a week.
User:Mathbot/Changes to mathlists hasn't been updates in more than a week. Have there been no changes? Michael Hardy (talk) 00:14, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

This time it's five days so far
User:Mathbot/Changes to mathlists is now at five days with no edits. Michael Hardy (talk) 15:50, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 * . . . and next time this gets updated with new articles I will copy the list over to Wikipedia talk:Wikiproject Mathematics with a link to User:Mathbot/Changes to mathlists and a reminder to everyone that that resource exists. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:40, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Malfunction
At WP:OLD Mathbot keeps adding a discussion that has been relisted.  J 947  23:15, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I think that the problem here is that when  it, they added it to Articles for deletion/Log/2017 March 10 but didn't remove it from Articles for deletion/Log/2017 March 2, so it was open in two places.  should fix it. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 23:58, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks !  J 947  00:00, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Philippe Michel
We have two articles Philippe Michel and Philippe Michel (economist), on two different people both of whom have a plausible claim to be listed as mathematicians. MathBot seems to believe that there can be only one, and every day or two has been switching which one it includes in List of mathematicians (M) (see recent changes there). Can this be fixed, please? —David Eppstein (talk) 03:21, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Send it to WP:LAME. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 09:27, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:59, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
 * It's still happening, by the way. Is there any hope of fixing it? (I care because it spams my notifications every time it happens.) —David Eppstein (talk) 03:35, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The botop is, who hasn't edited since 8 April 2017. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 22:49, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, I just became aware of this. Still waiting for Mathbot to achieve sentience, or at least read his own talk page. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:47, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Alisa_Krylova
At WP:OLD, the bot seems to be missing that this discussion has been closed. Landscape repton (talk) 15:11, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Sweep getting categories?
User:Mathbot/Recent changes recently had Categories:1978 Births added to it (except without the colon) Not sure what can be done to keep it from adding cats.Naraht (talk) 19:53, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
 * It was actually Category:1978 births. may be relevant. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 11:19, 12 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanx, wierd edit.Naraht (talk) 12:03, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Bot wars
See this edit. It caused Twinkle to fail on automatic posting of the next AfD nomination because it put the new item on the same line as &lt;!-- Add new entries to the TOP of the following list -->. Solution: the Mathbot initialisation of a new AfD day should end with a newline code. (Also Twinkle could be changed to look for the "add new entries" without including the new line code.) &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 10:03, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

"Bill Gowers" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Bill Gowers. Since you had some involvement with the Bill Gowers redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 10:26, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

"Hypersine" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Hypersine. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 3 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 17:48, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Missing Old AFD updates
The Articles for deletion/Old/Open AfDs has not been updating with dates from days in the current month of October. Can this be fixed?4meter4 (talk) 18:03, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Writing on bot owner's page would have given a faster response. Now looking into it. Mathbot (talk) 23:43, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

"Well-poised" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Well-poised and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 July 23 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 1234qwer1234qwer4 11:17, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

"Abstract vector" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abstract_vector&redirect=no Abstract vector] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. Hildeoc (talk) 00:57, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Mathbot's tool (for edit summary usage) broken
https://mathbot.toolforge.org/wp/rfa/edit_summary.html seems to be malfunctional; using it just downloads you a copy of the script's source code as a .cgi file instead of producing search results. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  23:15, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

"Punctured plane" listed at Redirects for discussion
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