User talk:RBot~enwiki/Archive/2007

Flagged
Your bot has been flagged. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  05:35, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Subst vs subst vs subst
In this edit, your bot tries to subst a variable that is called "subst", since subst is one of the templates that should be subst'ed. I don't know whether this behavior has to do with calling that variable (?) "subst" (a bad name in that case) or with a general problem that your bot mistakes a {{{ variable for a {{ template call. Please have a look at this matter and make sure nothing bad happens. Thank you, Kusma (talk) 10:51, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It's because the template "subst" is in the category "user warning templates", which is where the bot get its templates to subst. It doesn't seem to cause any effects though, so should I still change that? (changing that will not subst and of the subst templates also.) --TeckWiz {{sup|Parlate}} Contribs{{sub|@ }} 11:21, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, it should subst {{subst}}, but not {{{{{subst|}}}}} , just like it should subst {{test}} , but not {{{{{test|}}}}} . Kusma (talk) 11:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Bot running wild
Hi there, the bot has been running a little wild resulting into templates been incorrectly subst'ed resulting in helpme not been included in nowiki tabs, which as an obvious result, includes the template in the page and sets off a couple of notifications. I believe an admin has blocked the bot from editing, but can you please fix it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by NigelJ (talk • contribs) 23:35, 30 March 2007 (UTC).
 * In the middle of it already. :) TeckWizBot 23:36, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Watch unicode
The bot seems to have trouble replacing unicode such as Jūryō. (See this edit for an example). Neier 23:55, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Here's another case where something went wrong (not unicode; but, mishandling of the & character, most likely. Neier 23:57, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

You have forgotten the class of warnings without page
I warned a user with, that is, without adding in the page the user had vandalized. (I was getting tired...) Anyhow, the result after your bot "fixed" my forgetting the is not very good. Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3A24.126.93.174&diff=119765390&oldid=119760698. It seems your bot fails on this type of warning every time: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:124.43.228.238&diff=prev&oldid=119765337. I know it's a good idea to add the page, but the bot should be able to handle this big class of cases. Greswik 20:39, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I've already submitted a bug report to AWB on this. It only happens when no parameter is specified. It substs those warnings fine if the article parameter is provided. This actually isn't the fault of the bot. When you use the "subst=subst:" hack (which you're supposed to use), it breaks it, so you have to use regular substing if no parameter is specified. I've asked AWB is they can make it recognize if a parameter is provided. --TeckWiz Parlate Contribs@(Lets go Yankees!) 01:36, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Subst not working quite right for article names
Your bot just subst'ed a bunch of my uw-vandalism messages, but the article titles did not get filled-in in the boilerplate correctly. Matt Gies 21:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * This is current bug, not just for AWB, but for MediaWiki. The same happens in manually substing. If no parameter is specified, that regular subst must be used, not subst=subst:. I have submitted this problem to AWB to see if they can make it so that it can recognize which to use. --TeckWiz Parlate Contribs@(Lets go Yankees!) 02:07, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Messing up my discussion page
Twice I've had to undo damage this thing has done to my discussion page. Macduff 15:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * What is it messing up? I don't see anything wrong in my bot's revisions. --TeckWiz Parlate Contribs@(Lets go Yankees!) 17:06, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Uw subst hiccup
This is a case in which this bot substituted a uw template but ended up leaving a little bit of a mess--I guess it just left the code as-is since a page wasn't given. I just thought I'd leave this note in case you might be able to fix this problem. Thanks, &mdash; Scientizzle 23:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Read the top of this page. :) --TeckWiz Parlate Contribs@(Lets go Yankees!)
 * Sigh. I need a nap. I'll be moving along now... &mdash; Scientizzle 23:50, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * er hey so since we know this doesn't work well could it maybe be like stopped or something from happening over and over and over? Is there some offsetting wondrous boon to the substing that makes it worthwhile to confuse the new editors who are getting such garbled warnings? Thanks... User:scbomber (only bombs in netrek) 19:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * This issue should be fixed. If it's not, tell me (with diffs). RBot 21:46, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Apparently it didn't like the & sign
Messed up here:. Part Deux 18:26, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for showing me. I'll make a bug report. -- TeckWiz is now R Parlate Contribs@(Lets go Yankees!) 21:31, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Fixed. -- TeckWiz is now R Parlate Contribs@(Lets go Yankees!) 19:19, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Still seems to be a problem- broke two more entries at .  Thanks, Clicketyclack 05:06, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Because it's fixed in the next release. 4.0.0.0 should be coming out soon I think. -- TeckWiz is now R Parlate Contribs@(Let's go Yankees!) 11:13, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps the bot should be disabled until the fix is ready, then. Are you tracking the damage?    I just rv'd this one again:  Happy to help you track down and fix damage, if you like. Thanks, Clicketyclack 12:17, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Just add to the user talk page and it will skip the page. RBot 21:51, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, but how about the broken pages we haven't found yet? Clicketyclack 03:48, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think the bot will still recognize them, but there shouldn't be that many more. I'm guess 10-20 more out of over 6,000 the bot has substed. -- TeckWiz is now R Parlate Contribs@(Let's go Yankees!) 00:21, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * R, you should either stop the bot or run it on the newest, alpha version of AWB, since errors, no matter how rare, are still unacceptable. — M ETS 501 (talk) 18:09, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Alpha version updated. About to try it out with bot (at reduced speed). I'm going to remove the deny=RBot from the talk page listed above to make sure it's fixed. -- TeckWiz is now R Parlate Contribs@ (Let's go Yankees!) 02:01, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Seems to have worked. I'll leave the deny=MetsBot off for now too. Clicketyclack 05:59, 12 May 2007 (UTC)