User talk:Rich Smith/Archive40

I tried editing the murusade wikipage but the ClueBot re-directed it to the hawiye page
April 2017[edit source]

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Hello Rich Smith,

I hope your well. Above is the message I received from ClueBot NG after I tried editing wikipedia.org/wiki/murusade (which someone set to automatically direct to the wikipedia.org/wiki/hawiye page) stopping it from redirecting it to the hawiye article and editing the page but the Bot keeps undoing my work.

The murusade article is supposed to be a STAND OUT article that members of the public can benefit from; the page should NOT be directed to another page.

Can you please make the wikipedia.org/wiki/murusade an independent article page and so I will be able to make the appropriate edits

Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by AwAqoonyahan (talk • contribs) 20:48, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

You've got mail!
— k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 13:24, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

i did not make these changes!!!
This is the second time I've received a message from Wikipedia to the effect that I have made some sort of editorial change to a page. I have done NO editing on Wikipedia!!! What gives? How could anyone use my computer or IP address or whatever to do so? Or are you just confusing my address for a similar one? I am not computer-sophisticated, and am really, really concerned that someone is using my identity.

Please advise. My email address is lynndellahoward@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.58.142.171 (talk) 15:16, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

How can i write an article or something else ??
Helloo can anybody help me please!!!??? Mouna bella (talk) 17:43, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Could You please check This revert - possible Phishing attempt
Hello Rich,

could you please check this revert by your "cluebot":

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sang-O-class_submarine&action=history

I have tried to disable a link that seems to point to a faked(?) google login page. I suspect this could be a phishing attempt to collect login credentials from unsuspecting users.

Maybe you could report the link to somebody at wikipedia that could check or deal with these things?

Thank you very much!

2.245.67.112 (talk) 20:58, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Prody Parrot Page Edit False Positive
If I am not wrong, I supposse that you are the creator of ClueBot. I am reporting a false positive of a page that I edited: Prody Parrot. Today, I edited again the Prody Parrot page, and just when I finished the edit, ClueBot immediately undone my edit, and I just got upset about it. False Positive report page wasn't working, so I just came over here. Please take this false positive report.

Thank you.

- JJ1013

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Fix on a page
'''Hi User:Rich Smith, can you add some info to Maiorana article please, and the links might have to be removed, I don't want to make mistakes on article, but I'm fair sure you can help, thanks if you can.--Theo Mandela (talk) 22:35, 24 April 2017 (UTC) '''

ClueBot NG; Last 24 hours
Hi, A few hours ago, for a couple of hours, i didnt see much of his activity in the articles related to JFK. There were blatant vandalism on articles of JFK's assassination, and JFK's article as well. During the same time period there was vandalism on the article of Watergaten Scandal. Usually, Clue reverts such edits in from seconds to tens of seconds. But that time, he wasnt around. Maybe was skow, or maybe he couldnt identify the edits as vandal, i dont know. I got a lot curious, and decided to contact Clue's caretaker directly. Is he okay? And I apologise for picking up on your brain. Thanks a lot. Cheers :-) — usernamekiran (talk)  22:47, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

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