User talk:Pearle/archive

Hi, Pearle Wisebot, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy your stay here, in so much as enjoyment is an applicable concept. I was wondering if you would like to upload a picture of yourself – perhaps a section of a screenshot of some sourcecode – to show in Facebook. Thanks,   – Quadell (talk) (help)   23:38, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

Misclasification of CDPs

 * Turn off the bot. It has miscategorized Scotts Corners, New York, whose article was fixed to reflect that it's a CDP.  We don;t need to increase the misinformation in Wikipedia. Nelson Ricardo 11:46, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * It is alo very annoying to see articles with CDP right in the title being categorized as towns. Very sloppy.  THE BOT SHOULD BE TURNED OFF IMMEDIATELY!!! Nelson Ricardo 12:08, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

I have prepared a fix for articles which have CDP in the title but which say in the body that they are towns. Please see Auto-categorization. I have removed any articles with CDP in the title from the list of articles left to categorize, as well.

As for articles which have been edited to more say "census-designated place" instead of town, only those so edited after September 24, 2004 would be improperly classified. I will prepare a list based on a more recent database dump, and post it to the above page shortly, and will make sure these get fixed promptly. There is a proposal on WikiProject Cities, however, to more even more accurately re-classify these as sections or unincorporated areas or whatnot. -- Beland 06:35, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * I have completed an automated scan for all articles edited between 24 Sep 2004 and 06 Nov 2004, where the words "census" and "designated" have appeared in the first 500 characters. This turned up three or four CDPs improperly categorized as towns, but properly identified in the body text, and I fixed them manually.  I will do the same for 06-15 Nov as soon after the latest database dump is finished being analyzed by Pearle. -- Beland 07:12, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Fixes on hold for a week because the Rambot is supposed to implement a massive cleanup of municipal category space. -- Beland 03:04, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

OK, the Rambot should have fixed all this. -- Beland 20:20, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Please avoid making profligate and unnecessary use of resources by making two edits where one will do the job: +-++--+--+-++ +-++--+--+-++ +-++--+--+-++ 245 rows in set (1.05 sec) Jamesday 22:37, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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 * 112114 | 20050110061506 | Pearle      |            0 | Brihadisvara_Temple                 | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110061508 | Pearle      |            0 | Brihadisvara_Temple                 | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110061536 | Pearle      |            0 | Chatrapati_Shivaji_Terminus         | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110061539 | Pearle      |            0 | Chatrapati_Shivaji_Terminus         | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110061603 | Pearle      |            0 | Darjeeling_Himalayan_Railway        | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110061606 | Pearle      |            0 | Darjeeling_Himalayan_Railway        | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110061631 | Pearle      |            0 | Elephanta_Caves                     | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110061634 | Pearle      |            0 | Elephanta_Caves                     | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110061658 | Pearle      |            0 | Ellora_Caves                        | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110061701 | Pearle      |            0 | Ellora_Caves                        | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110061725 | Pearle      |            0 | Fatehpur_Sikri                      | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110061727 | Pearle      |            0 | Fatehpur_Sikri                      | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110061753 | Pearle      |            0 | Hampi                               | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110061756 | Pearle      |            0 | Hampi                               | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110061826 | Pearle      |            0 | Kaziranga_National_Park             | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110062153 | Pearle      |            0 | Kaziranga_National_Park             | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062217 | Pearle      |            0 | Khajuraho                           | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110062220 | Pearle      |            0 | Khajuraho                           | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062247 | Pearle      |            0 | Mahabalipuram                       | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110062250 | Pearle      |            0 | Mahabalipuram                       | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062314 | Pearle      |            0 | Mahabodhi_Temple                    | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110062319 | Pearle      |            0 | Mahabodhi_Temple                    | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062346 | Pearle      |            0 | Pattadakal                          | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110062349 | Pearle      |            0 | Pattadakal                          | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062414 | Pearle      |            0 | Qutub_Minar                         | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110062417 | Pearle      |            0 | Qutub_Minar                         | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062442 | Pearle      |            0 | Sanchi                              | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110062444 | Pearle      |            0 | Sanchi                              | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062512 | Pearle      |            0 | Taj_Mahal                           | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110062515 | Pearle      |            0 | Taj_Mahal                           | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062543 | Pearle      |            0 | Vijayanagara                        | Removed from Category:UN_World_Heritage_Sites_in_India     |
 * 112114 | 20050110062546 | Pearle      |            0 | Vijayanagara                        | Added to Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_India            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062703 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_U.S._state_prisons          | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062707 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_U.S._state_prisons          | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110062735 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Alabama_state_prisons       | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062737 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Alabama_state_prisons       | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110062801 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Alaska_state_prisons        | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062804 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Alaska_state_prisons        | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110062830 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Arizona_state_prisons       | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062835 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Arizona_state_prisons       | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110062859 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Arkansas_state_prisons      | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062901 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Arkansas_state_prisons      | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110062925 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_California_state_prisons    | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062929 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_California_state_prisons    | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110062953 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Colorado_state_prisons      | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110062956 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Colorado_state_prisons      | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063020 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Connecticut_state_prisons   | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063024 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Connecticut_state_prisons   | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063048 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Delaware_state_prisons      | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063052 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Delaware_state_prisons      | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063116 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Florida_state_prisons       | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063119 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Florida_state_prisons       | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063143 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Georgia_state_prisons       | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063147 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Georgia_state_prisons       | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063212 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Hawaii_state_prisons        | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063215 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Hawaii_state_prisons        | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063240 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Idaho_state_prisons         | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063243 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Idaho_state_prisons         | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063307 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Illinois_state_prisons      | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063315 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Illinois_state_prisons      | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063340 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Indiana_state_prisons       | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063344 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Indiana_state_prisons       | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063412 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Iowa_state_prisons          | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063419 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Iowa_state_prisons          | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063446 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Kansas_state_prisons        | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063449 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Kansas_state_prisons        | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063514 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Kentucky_state_prisons      | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063516 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Kentucky_state_prisons      | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063545 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Louisiana_state_prisons     | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063547 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Louisiana_state_prisons     | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063611 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Maine_state_prisons         | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063613 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Maine_state_prisons         | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063637 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Maryland_state_prisons      | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063640 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Maryland_state_prisons      | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063704 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Massachusetts_state_prisons | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063707 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Massachusetts_state_prisons | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063731 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Michigan_state_prisons      | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063734 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Michigan_state_prisons      | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063759 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Minnesota_state_prisons     | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063813 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Minnesota_state_prisons     | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063837 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Mississippi_state_prisons   | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063840 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Mississippi_state_prisons   | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063912 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Missouri_state_prisons      | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063915 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Missouri_state_prisons      | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110063942 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Montana_state_prisons       | Removed from Category:Lists_of_US_state_prisons            |
 * 112114 | 20050110063945 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Montana_state_prisons       | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |
 * 112114 | 20050110122158 | Pearle      |            2 | Pearle/categories-alpha             | Update from database dump 20050107                         |
 * 112114 | 20050110135144 | Pearle      |            0 | List_of_Nebraska_state_prisons      | Added to Category:Lists_of_U.S._state_prisons              |


 * Ah, as it happens, after reading recent discussion on WP:CFD, I was inspired to fix exactly this problem. I recently finished re-writing the category-moving code so now it does this kind of remove-add in one edit instead of two, as requested.  There should be a bunch of edits from today demonstrating this in action.
 * I also added some more sophisticated code to avoid overloading Wikipedia servers with edits; if HTTP POSTs are too slow, it will put the bot to sleep for a little while, and if POSTs fail, it will sleep for 1, 10, and 60 minutes (in sequence) before retrying.-- Beland 06:30, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Null edits
I noticed this edit where Pearle made no substantive changes to the article. Could you re-write the bot so that in cases like this, it doesn't edit the article at all? --Carnildo 04:06, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * That actually is a substantive edit. A bunch of categories are being renamed from "US" to "U.S." because the form with the periods is more consistent with the Manual of Style. -- Beland 06:42, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Ah. All I saw was a re-ordering of the category list.  Sorry about that. --Carnildo 06:58, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Category: Customary units in the United State
Are you sure you didn't mean Customary units in the United States ?? It does look a bit odd - and hasn't been created. Ian Cairns 07:14, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Yes, you are correct...should all be fixed now. Thanks for noticing! -- Beland 08:19, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The name has been fixed and has been populated by just two articles - however, the previous category - that is now posted for deletion - had a dozen members (or so). When will the population be put back to where it was? Until it is repaired, Wikipedia is less than it was. Ian Cairns 14:24, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The missing articles are still pointing to the misspelled category. There were pointing to the previous category. When will these articles be corrected to point to your corrected category? Ian Cairns 21:59, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I was wondering why there were only two articles. I guess I checked Category:US_customary_units but not Category:Customary_units_in_the_United_State, or missed the articles in the latter, or something. User:Aranel seems to have corrected my oversight (thank you!). Sorry about that. -- Beland 22:45, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Destructive bot
Is this bot a good idea? It is renaming categories that are nominated for change, but there doesn't seem to be a record on the WP:CfD page. The cats aren't visible or populated when formed. Also, it is placing the newly formed cats in the incorrect position on the page. Sigh. Noisy | Talk 12:30, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)


 * Could you point to a particular problematic example? There are some timing issues - I first move articles and subcategories for a bunch of cases, then I move the body text over in a second run, which links the new categories into the larger hierarchy.  I only run on categories listed on WP:CFD and approved for deletion, so if there's a category you can't find there, it may have been de-listed or linked on a subpage or something...I should be able to help you find it if you have a particular case in mind. -- Beland 06:38, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sorry: I automatically go into rant mode when I see a bot doing its best to mess up Wikipedia. What I meant to say was ...

The bot didn't seem to have any authority for what it was doing when I looked at CfD. However, I've looked through the history, and see why it's doing what it's doing, now. It might have been preferable to leave the section on the page, with a note, until the activities had been completed.

I also think it would have been better to put the category structure in place first, rather than relying on the bot. I notice that someone else has done a couple of edits to try and tidy things up. I fear I may have caused more harm than good in my attempts to set things right.


 * OK, in the future I will run TRANSFER_TEXT_ACTUALLY before MOVE_CONTENTS. I have changed the text of the note left by the former so that it will be clear to passersby that a bot will take care of the remaining cleanup, so they don't waste time trying to do it themselves or mis-re-categorize things or something. -- Beland 22:45, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that. Noisy | Talk 09:31, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

But most importantly, the bot is going against policy in its placement of categories. Categories should be placed before interwiki links, and not after, as per Interlanguage links and Categorization. Cheers. Noisy | Talk 11:26, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)


 * Oof. I didn't think anyone would actually care about the order here, as long as everything is down at the bottom of the page.  Fixing this behavior is a somewhat complex task, but I guess I can occasionally download http://www.wikimedia.org/langlist and use that to reliably identify interwiki links.   It will take me a while to write and test the code to implement this...I'll post again when it's ready, perhaps this weekend.  I will also whip up something to fix the order in articles where they are already swapped. -- Beland 23:48, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * While you're doing that, would it be possible to somehow flag interwiki links to wikipedias that don't exist? I doubt there are a lot of them, but it's the sort of error that will almost never be noticed. --Carnildo 00:33, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * You may both wish to contact User talk:Andre Engels whose bot User:Robbot works in this area. Noisy | Talk 09:31, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

Category:Polish films
Why did you add the notice to the Category:Polish films? And why didn't you add it to the WP:CFD nor did you explain your views on the talk page? Halibutt 08:00, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)


 * Ah, please check your facts a little more carefully before going non-linear: Category:Films by country was listed on CfD (by Beland, on 15 Jan 2005). "Polish films" is a sub-category of that, which is why it was tagged. In other words, the action was completely appropriate - it's warning people that the category has been listed on CfD. Noel (talk) 19:19, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Category:Welsh sportspeople
Why on Earth did you list this for deletion? You did not say why you think the system doesn't need it on WP:CFD. I'm going to revert it if you do not justify your actions. Are you a bot that is trolling? Dunc|&#9786; 09:38, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Please don't get mad at the bot because the person who listed the category didn't meet the standard you'd like to see in listings! It's the person who listed the category (and Category:Sportspeople by country was listed on CfD, by Beland, on 15 Jan 2005 - "Category:Welsh sportspeople" is a sub-category of that, which is why it was tagged) whom you want to go get cross at! The action of the bot was completely appropriate - it's warning people that the category has been listed on CfD. Noel (talk) 19:28, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, considering that Pearle is a bot operated by Beland and Beland is the one who originally listed the category, it's a bit academic whether the comments go here or on Beland's talk page, although the best place would probably be on the Categories for Deletion page (a further academic point, the proposal is to rename the category rather than simply delete it outright). But in any case, it appears that Dunc was not even aware that Pearle is a bot. I suppose a note at the top of this page would help, as not everyone bothers to look at the main User page. older &ne; wiser 19:39, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)


 * In that particular case, yes; I hadn't realized they were the same person. But the general point remains - people are getting all upset at the bots doing CfD leg-work, but it's generally (there are some exceptions, e.g. taking two edits to change categories, below) the case that the bots are operating just fine, and just doing i) what they were told to do, and ii) things that would be completely acceptable if a person did them. Noel (talk) 22:08, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The debate over how to handle interwiki and category links is posted at Wikipedia talk:Bots. -- Beland 02:28, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Blocked
I've blocked this bot until its owner explains what it is doing. RickK 09:48, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * um, rick, there is actually a detailed explanation on the user page. you would have to argue that it went beyond its certified tasks. dab (&#5839;) 09:55, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Where does it say it's authorized to add cfd headers to tons of categories? RickK 09:58, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * I see. It does not seem to be authorized for this, and it only started doing this yesterday. I suppose it's a bug? dab (&#5839;) 10:03, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I've no opinion on whether the behavior exceeded what the Bot was authorized to do; however, what it was doing is adding the CfD tag to categories that had earlier been nominated for deletion but to which the nominator neglected to add the CfD tag. Seems to be a reasonable use of the bot to do such a tedious task. older &ne; wiser 15:23, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

It still needs to be blocked until the policy violations that I have pointed out above have been resolved. Noisy | Talk 18:43, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

It's my understanding that Pearle is authorized to add CFD tags...I posted at Wikipedia_talk:Bots on 5 Dec 2004 and gave a demonstration of the capability at that time. No one has since objected to the bot doing that, in general, as far as I know. I'll add that to the list of authorized things on the user page, to avoid future confusion. -- Beland 21:43, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

CfD tag added for no apparent reason
Today Pearle added a CfD tag to Category:South African sportspeople, but that category isn't listed on CfD (or anywhere else, according to "what links here"). I've removed the CfD tag, but thought you might like to know it happened in case it's a symptom of a bug. Bryan 09:46, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I think I just found out why; it was due to the proposal for renaming the Category:Sportspeople_by_country tree I take it? I had previously searched for "South African" on the page without success. Restoring the CfD tag with a corrected link. Bryan 09:50, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

"Non-substantive" phrase
Hello, bot. Your edits are great, but your "Non-substantive category/interwiki cleanup" edit message is confusing. "Non-substantive" sounds like a weasel phrase non-bots use to justify deleting another's work. How about "minor" instead? BTW, why not mark your edits as minor? --A D Monroe III 12:18, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * I agree with your suggestion and have implemented it. -- Beland 01:50, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Regretably, the bot is putting an 'interwiki' comment before the category listings. Noisy | Talk 01:32, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)


 * Yup, I noticed that, too. It's a bug, and it should be fixed.  I'm starting a re-cleanup run now. -- Beland 01:50, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

why do you add something to australia, then delete it and your edit summaries make no sense at all. Xtra 02:27, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that; there were a few bugs in the code, one of which was exposed when I accidentally ran the bot twice on the same articles. (It shouldn't have changed anything the second time.)  An extra copy of the "interlanguage" comment got added as a result, and then removed on the third (and hopefully final) pass.  I'll move the detailed description of what is happening to Pearle's user page, which may help people figure out what's going on.  Though hopefully most articles on the cleanup run will only get edited once, and after that, these types of changes will only happen if a larger, more important edit is being made (for which the edit summary should be more specific). -- Beland 02:37, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Chinese --> PRC
The bot has very stupidly moved several categories from Chinese to People Republic of China. This shouldn't be, because not everything Chinese ought to be categorized with PRC! See Chinese cinema, for instance. Mandel 08:21, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops! My bad.  I forgot to check the contents of these categories before I assigned the new name. Sorry about that - these two ("Chinese" cinema and "Chinese" weapons) were just two in a very long list. Pearle will be making remedial moves shortly. Thanks for noticing! -- Beland 20:03, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Jack London probably did not kill himself
The serious scholars currently seem to think that, as Clarice Stasz puts it, it was a "biographical myth" based on a feeling that it was "in character," on a stray remark by George Sterling who was a friend of Jack London but had no direct knowledge of the circumstances of his death, and a very popular and influential but highly slipshod biography by Irving Stone. In addition, people who disapproved of his Socialist politics liked to portray him as having met a bad end.

I'm inclined to think Jack London should not be in that category at all.

Comments? Dpbsmith (talk) 23:51, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

moving pages out of category:sexology
I just wanted to say thanks for moving things out of the category: sexology since that was a specific historical discipline that the pages were not related to. Alison9 08:07, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"The below are interlanguage links."
Why is it necessary to add this? Please stop. Cburnett 17:39, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, some people seem to find it necessary to add tags like this, so I thought there should be a standard form, and it might as well be everywhere. But, since you don't like it, I'll stop adding it.  Similar comments (which are relatively rare) will continue to be removed in order to standardize the style.  -- Beland 02:23, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * The comment doesn't really tell anyone anything about the style, just that they are interwiki links. Now I would assume most people would tend to leave something alone if they don't understand what it is (I've never had a problem of reverting an innocent interwiki links removal).  I think the general article order style is just something to be hashed out by people as they edit (this I do do quite often) and filling up an article with style info.....well, I just don't see it happening. Cburnett 04:40, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Lapu-lapu

 * Why did you remove the interwiki lang. code?--Jondel 05:51, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Didn't know I was talking to a bot. (dumb, dumb......)--Jondel 05:58, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm, there must be a bug in Pearle's cleanup routine. I will investigate and in the meantime turn her off so she doesn't trash the good china. Thanks for noticing! -- Beland 06:05, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wholesale deletion of interwiki links
OK, something has gone horribly wrong, and I'm trying to clean up the mess. See Wikipedia talk:Bots. -- Beland 06:16, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Can you restore the deleted interwiki links, or do they have to be restored one-at-a-time, laboriously, by various editors? --Wetman 08:12, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Most of them have reportedly been restored; I am personally taking care of fixing the rest. -- Beland 02:56, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have found the bug, fixed it, and also fixed all the affected articles. -- Beland 21:10, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wider availability
So Aranel has requested the ability to be able to operate a Pearle clone. Now that some community complaints have been addressed, it may be time to tidy up the code and documentation so it's suitable for sharing.

AllyUnion has posted a proposal for a bot with similar capabilities to be permanently posted somewhere on the web. I may be contributing Pearle's code to this project, which would obviate the need for a "do it yourself" bot release, and this might be less work for me.

I'm already busy with other unrelated requests and responsibilities right now, so we'll see where the AllyUnion project goes, and if it stalls, I'll probably proceed with a simply DIY release. -- Beland 07:53, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * OK, I'm in the process of preparing Pearle for a straightforward public release, since that will be necessary in either case. -- Beland 18:17, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Category:Chinese weapons
Why was this category listed for deletion or renaming? A bot with the ability to list categories for deletion should in my opinion at least be able to specify the reason(s) for the action in either the Edit summary, the category's talk page or at Categories for deletion. I'm not saying this category is perfect, but I wouldn't want it to be deleted without at least one reason, or a new name proposal. I'm removing the message until further notice. Wintran 01:07, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I found the discussion for this one, so I'm putting the tag back. Beland -- can you add a feature to the bot to make SURE that the tag added to category pages links back to something useful about that category?  I might even create a special template when I fix this one.  template:cfr would probably be good enough except that this one is another umbrella rename. --ssd 06:57, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Template created and tested. New umbrella template added to above like this:
 * --ssd 07:08, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I suppose I could do that. It makes life more complicated, but hey. -- Beland 02:37, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Usage?
I found Perle through a link which implied that it is a tool for editors. I don't see how to request that it perform a task. The instructions specify the format of files which contain commands, but not how to present a command file to Pearle. (SEWilco 19:16, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC))
 * Generally, by nominating it on Categories_for_deletion. --ssd 04:43, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

link order in Chalcis
Looking at the article Chalcis, it appears that there are actually two articles there. A category is (properly?) at the end of the first article, before the horizontal rule before the second (two line) article. I feel that the category placement is OK (but others may not agree), and it puts the association of the remaining categories at the end of the article in doubt. Not sure what to do. --ssd 06:44, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Of coures, there's more than one of these. Perhaps most of what is left. One even had typos in a category tag, bet your bot missed that! --ssd 08:17, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Add to the list of comments to delete/replace:
 * (from GAZ)
 * (from Electron)

Pearle is also finding articles with complete duplicated sections, including interwiki links and categories. Since I've now found (and corrected) two such articles, I wonder if it would be worth putting in an algorithm to detect that. I use emacs compare-window to fix it, it should be easy to do it with a bot too. --ssd 17:45, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * should be already covered; I've added .  I've been tagging pages with multiple articles as  .  I suppose one could write an alorithm intentionally designed to detect this type of page.  Certainly a category ordering error is a good indication, and the number of horizontal lines would also be an excellent input.  But that's outside the scope of what I'm doing.  I wouldn't trust an algorithm to tag articles properly without human review.  So "flagged for manual review" seems like the right thing to do.  Unless you were suggesting handling these cases in some other way?   I'm not sure what you are doing exactly with compare-window (finding differences?). -- Beland 23:59, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I wasn't implying you should try to fix split articles with the bot. Actually, I'm not sure what the best way to fix them is myself. I've so far left them alone. The last item are articles where entire sections are duplicated, such as  and the previous edit. I believe a edit conflict / section editing bug causes this. Detecting these should be easy--just look for duplicated section headers, and then do a verbatim text comparison from there. If the whole section is identical, the bot can delete one copy safely. If not, but it is substantially similar, tagging would be helpful for manual repair. At the very least, you could remove duplicate interlanguage/category links before you mangle them and make it dififcult to compare them for identicalness. Making a list of duplicated section names would also be helpful. Or something like that. --ssd 03:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This idea has been posted to Bot requests. -- Beland 05:12, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Scanning for not deleted categories
Did you ever put in functionality to scan Category:Categories for deletion for categories containing template:cfd but not listed in WP:CFD? I just found Category:German botanists which was last edited March 9, but I could not find it listed. If it were listed, I'd vote against deleting it, as it has 51 entries, too many to merge into another category, and it doesn't look spelled wrong, etc... Did we already decide to keep it? I'm sure there's others like that. Let me know if you are not scanning for those, and I'll start working on doing it manually. --ssd 16:10, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * I actually just ran such a scan last night, which is where the "forgotten" deletions in "Delete me" came from. The results were varied and sundry; it will take me a while to figure out what to do with the discrepancies.  "German botanists" is covered under "Botanists by nationality". -- Beland 20:43, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Current activity
Pearle is currently attempting to fix all pages that contain template transclusions that begin with {{msg:. This syntax is depreciated and will reportedly be incompatible with MediaWiki 1.5. The parsing algorithm for doing category/interwiki cleanup is being recycled, to help avoid "fixing" references within nowiki tags, etc. This may result in a small number of minor edits which do nothing more than switch the order of category and interwiki tags. Pearle generally does not make edits of this type unless something else is being changed at the same time because it's seen as too trivial to justify the server load and extra storage space to do this. However, in this case the effect should be negligible. -- Beland 00:28, 23 May 2005 (UTC)


 * A rather mild annoyance: the robot has flagged my talk page as one of the "Articles to check for link ordering." PrimeFan 20:31, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops, it hadn't occurred to me that the current sweep would check user pages and talk pages for compliance with article style guidelines. I'm going through and reverting all those flags right now...sorry about that. -- Beland 01:59, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The sweep has been completed. -- Beland 13:00, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Category:Canadian history
Please stop Pearle from emptying this category and others like it, or better yet revert the deletions. From what I can't see when this cat was ever listed on cfd and it only had a cfr message added two days ago. I strongly disagree with this category being renamed. - SimonP 00:01, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)