User talk:ST47/Archive13

ST47's talk page, archive 13

This is an archive of discussions past. Please do not edit this page, and instead visit User talk:ST47 if you want to leave me a comment.

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ARSbot
User:ARSBot doesn't seem to be working. Is there something that needs to be fixed? -- Banje boi 02:09, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, it looks like it was instead an open reference which masked all the other entries. This then would be a bug instead. Is there a way to address that? -- Banje boi  00:28, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Of course. I'll throw a thingy into the bot to tell it to terminate the summary any time it sees a &lt; . --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs (st47) 01:37, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Coolio. Thank you! -- Banje b<font color="#CC0000">oi  16:35, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

CSD Warn Bot too quick !!
Hi. I was attempting to go through the CSD procedure for an article, and had placed the 'db-xxxx' tag on the article. I had just placed the warning notice on the authors talk page, when I was informed of an edit conflict as your bot had added a warning for me. I'm not using Twinkle or any automated process, so it's slower, but the delay between tagging the article itself and getting the edit conflict was < 30 seconds. This then leads me to a problem - do I just stop adding messages to a user's talk page because the bot will tag them ? If there's any possibility that the bot may not catch the article (or not in a reasonable time), then I should, but obviously I don't want to go throught he process if it's being made redundant by the bot. Any thoughts ? CultureDrone (talk) 08:16, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Bot runs every 30 minutes or so. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs (st47) 11:39, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

The Starlims Page you commented about
I wrote a comment as instructed on the Starlims page. Just wanted to make sure you see it and hopefully you can help me in some way. Here is what I wrote in response to your comment:

Yes, I did write this page on behalf of Starlims. Starlims is a Nasdaq traded company and I believe that this by itself warrants a Wikipedia presence. This article is written in a very impartial manner. I intend to write more pages for Wikipedia that are unrelated to Starlims. Choosing the user name Starlims was just pure inexperience on my part. I thought it would be symbolic to use this user name so I can always remember the first post I wrote. Please remove the warnings on the page or advise otherwise. I only have good intentions and understand very well the concept and the importance of Wikipedia. Thanks... --Starlims (talk) 14:11, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Editnotice
I've moved your Editnotice from MediaWiki:Editnotice-3-ST47 to User talk:ST47/Editnotice. In the User: and User_talk: namespaces a special subpage /Editnotice (case sensitive) can be used instead of filling up the mediawiki space. I've left this page full protected, but you may want to remove that if you don't think it will be a vandal target. Thank you, — xaosflux  <sup style="color:#00FF00;">Talk  03:46, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

CSDWarnBot destroyed existing talk page comments
In this edit, it seems to have replaced the page with the warning instead of adding the warning to the page.&mdash;Kww(talk) 20:42, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

CSDWarnBot image size issue
It missed the size parameter, causing the image to be (by default) displayed at 620px × 620px. Any ideas? <font face="Trebuchet MS">&mdash; neuro(talk) 15:45, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

It fills most of the page Alio The Fool 16:52, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

whoops, I see people talking about it above. It looks crazy. Sorry for the extra section Alio The Fool 16:53, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Needs moar emergency shutoff. <font face="Trebuchet MS">&mdash; neuro(talk) 17:35, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Just a thought....
I noticed that your bot's talk page notice includes a link to WP:WMD and I got to thinking that new users might think that means "weapons of mass destruction" (what "WMD" normally stands for off-wiki). Perhaps it would be wise to have it link to WP:WWMPD instead? It's not a big deal, but I think it may cause some unnecessary confusion to new users. (on the other hand, maybe they'll be more likely actually read the page thinking there's some way they can retaliate to whoever deleted their page. hmm... :P ) Thingg <sup style="color:#33ff00;">&#8853; <sup style="color:#ff0033;">&#8855;  03:49, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Good catch, I've changed the link. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs (st47) 02:27, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Signpost updated for November 17, 2008 and before.
Because the Signpost hasn't been sent in a while, to save space, I've condensed all seven issues that were not sent into this archive. Only the three issues from November are below.

You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot (talk) 10:42, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

restoring image
Hello, these images - one of which was deleted by you as the fu rationale was invalid, th other was ophaned - I would now like to use again. would it be possible for you to restore them, please? I would like to fix the rationale too. Image:Betty.jpg & Image:Bettyturpin.jpg Many thanks --<font face="Vivaldi"><font color="#DC143C">GunGagdin Moan 17:55, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Done by east718. ST47 20:05, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Assume this was in error?
– <font color="#E45E05">iride <font color="#C1118C">scent  01:09, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, sorry. I didn't even see an edit conflict. ST47 01:12, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * No worries… – <font color="#E45E05">iride <font color="#C1118C">scent 01:24, 1 December 2008 (UTC) 

ArbCom vote
I checked my edit numbers before I voted on the checker provided and it said I had enough before the appropriate date to vote. Please check again. If that checker is providing erroneous information, it should be removed. Mervyn Emrys (talk) 23:22, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * The checker is actually worthless - it tells you your edits to date, the requirement is to have 150 by november 1st. ST47 (talk) 00:29, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * ST47, can you please check again? I went in and checked the contribs of  by hand, and by my count, he does meet the standard, with 208 edits prior to November 1st. Is it only counting certain namespaces? --Elonka 03:33, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It has to be in the article space, I believe. Fritzpoll (talk) 09:53, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * This user has (by my count) 83 article space edits before Nov 1 Fritzpoll (talk) 09:59, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Let me see if I have this right: Are you telling me I wasted all the time I spent reviewing all these candidates statements and answers to questions because the account checker Wikipedia posted on the main ArbCom elections page is defective? Do you have ANY idea how long that took? Do you understand what "Mickey Mouse" means in this context? Mervyn Emrys (talk) 14:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * To keep discussion threads together, I recommend that this be continued at WT:ACE2008. --Elonka 18:34, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

I checked wannabe kate, I have more than enough
Wannabe kate shows edits by month and says I have plenty of mainspace edits.--Ipatrol (talk) 01:11, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Your 150th mainspace edit wasn't until November 21. ST47 (talk) 01:21, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Report request
Hi ST47, among all the wonderful data-gathering tools that you have, do you have anything that could issue a report on "inactive" voters who just emerged to vote in the elections? There's currently a discussion at WP:AN about some editors who emerged from mothballs (one who had been inactive for over a year!) just to vote, and there are concerns about canvassing and sockpuppetry. It would be really helpful if we could see a report that showed of all the voters, which ones hadn't participated anywhere else on the project in months, and where those voters were voting. Can you think of any easy way to present that data? Thanks, --Elonka 04:17, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I was looking at this yesterday and I think it should be possible. Bot's running right now to get the data, I'mm post it once it's done. ST47 (talk) 11:29, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I only found 24 users who didn't make any edits before the election and after November 15. Here's the list:

Majorly NOK on AnthonyQBachler last edit before elections 2008-10-14T21:19:21Z Terence NOK on AnthonyQBachler last edit before elections 2008-11-01T10:02:43Z Mww113 NOK on AnthonyQBachler last edit before elections 2008-11-14T20:50:37Z Toffile NOK on Carcharoth last edit before elections 2008-09-03T00:22:57Z ATren NOK on Carcharoth last edit before elections 2008-11-09T19:05:07Z CreazySuit NOK on Carcharoth last edit before elections 2008-10-10T03:40:12Z Zereshk NOK on Carcharoth last edit before elections 2008-10-28T20:27:02Z Naerii NOK on Carcharoth last edit before elections 2008-10-19T19:50:51Z Skinwalker NOK on Carcharoth last edit before elections 2008-11-11T22:58:56Z Node ue NOK on Carcharoth last edit before elections 2008-11-14T21:29:39Z PseudoOne NOK on Casliber last edit before elections 2008-10-21T11:07:23Z Neokamek NOK on Casliber last edit before elections 2008-08-24T03:01:22Z MagneticFlux NOK on Casliber last edit before elections 2008-07-29T22:27:24Z Bunchofgrapes NOK on Charles Matthews last edit before elections 2008-10-09T21:20:04Z Coredesat NOK on Cool Hand Luke last edit before elections 2008-05-05T04:57:46Z 6SJ7 NOK on Cool Hand Luke last edit before elections 2008-10-16T10:51:01Z Samir NOK on Jayvdb last edit before elections 2007-10-29T19:55:11Z Armatura NOK on Jayvdb last edit before elections 2008-10-15T22:02:09Z Lakinekaki NOK on Jehochman last edit before elections 2008-09-22T22:19:54Z Yamakiri NOK on Kmweber last edit before elections 2008-11-02T00:30:03Z Glacier Wolf NOK on Kmweber last edit before elections 2008-11-04T18:01:42Z Marcsin NOK on Kmweber last edit before elections 2008-10-15T15:22:08Z Rockero NOK on Rlevse last edit before elections 2008-11-12T07:55:39Z Reneeholle NOK on Rlevse last edit before elections 2008-11-13T12:25:10Z
 * ST47 (talk) 11:42, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thank you! Can you put those in user format, with sub "**" lines on who they voted for or against? Thanks, --Elonka 17:39, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm getting anecdotal evidence that the above list isn't quite complete. For example, it didn't catch:
 * (no edits since July)
 * (no edits since June)
 * Could you please check again? Thanks, --Elonka 17:46, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Both of those users have since had their votes removed, and were not checked. ST47 (talk) 20:20, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, well would it be possible to get the report of anyone who's even trying to vote? I had assumed you were checking all signatures on the page, since the "Naerii" one above technically wasn't made by  but by the new account instead. --Elonka 20:47, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Image request
Hi, it's me again. :) On your fantastic graph Image:ACE2008.jpg, which I am now using on my User:Elonka/ACE2008 page, I see that Caspian Blue at one point uploaded a slightly different version that had bolder colors, and also lined up the names with the actual lines. Would this be easy for you to emulate, or if we want those colors, would it be something that Caspian needs to do manually each time? --Elonka 18:13, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Not something I can easily do. ST47 (talk) 18:57, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

indenting
Just had that pointed out to me - fixing it.--Tznkai (talk) 03:29, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Just FYI - its not a mainspace edit problem per se.--Tznkai (talk) 03:31, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Feature request for CSDWarnBot
CSDWarnBot just edited my talk page with a deletion tag warning, and that is fine - it was very useful :-). It would be better if the edit summary included a link to the section created (a "→") so users can quickly navigate to the section created.

On another issue, I don't really understand your comment on this talk page "ATTENTION! IF YOU ARE REPORTING AN ISSUE WITH ONE OF MY BOTS... Visit /dev/null...Don't come back." If you mean you don't care/want comments on bots, you could possibly make that more explicit, or direct people to a subpage where others, like me, will help answer questions for you.--Commander Keane (talk) 09:07, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Re:ArbCom vote
Hi - thanks for the notice. I had registered on October 18, but misunderstood the second criteria. Thanks for making the correction, <font color="orange" face="Verdana">Shiva <font color="blue" face="cursive">(Visnu)  17:50, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Missing candidate
I think you've missed a candidate off the 13:31, 6 December 2008 version of Image:ACE2008.jpg. Carcharoth (talk) 18:54, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, a few have dropped off. It used to be showing 12 candidates, but now it's only showing 10.  I'd thought it was the "top" 10 candidates, but it's not listing  at all, and he's currently at #8 according to your other data. --Elonka 18:58, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * That's odd. I'll fix it when I update the graph, which I shall do now. ST47 (talk) 01:35, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Graph colors
Hello, ST47. Thank you for sharing the good info with the community, but could you use bolder colors than the current neutral colors in order to clearly distinguish candidates? Thanks.--Caspian blue 02:25, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * No, that's not really possible with ms excel without manually changing every candidate's color every time, which is annoying. ST47 (talk) 02:41, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Would it be possible to publish the data you use to generate the chart? That would allow others to fiddle with the colours if they wanted to. It's getting the data from the bot-updated pages that is difficult for most people. Once they have the basic data, most people can fiddle in Excel to their heart's content. Carcharoth (talk) 14:52, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * User:ST47/ACEraw. 340 kB, tab-separated. ST47 (talk) 15:18, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Wouldn't be right for me to do a graph, but I hope someone else does, and that you keep updating your one if no-one else does one in customised colours. I have seen other requests for stats, but some are purely for my own interest, so I'll do those myself. Carcharoth (talk) 17:31, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Updated again. ST47 (talk) 02:46, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Arbcom voting table
Hi ST, thanks for taking the trouble to design a table for the election.

I'm just wondering though, is there any reason why the table listing defaults to percentages rather than aggregate votes? If I'm not mistaken, Jimbo's usual practice is to promote those users who get the most aggregate votes, in which case (for example) Vassyana will miss out, since although he has a better percentage his aggregate is well below that of some other candidates. Gatoclass (talk) 05:38, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe he said he'll look at both, but (discussions from WT:ACE support this) in the past appointments have been the top people by %. ST47 (talk) 11:40, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * WT:ACE2008 discussions include this one about this very issue. Carcharoth (talk) 01:33, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * IMO net support is a better yardstick, and I've added my opinion in that regard to the thread in question. Gatoclass (talk) 09:11, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

ST47's email address?
Hiya. I've an email thread sitting in my inbox that I want to forward to you. Could you drop a note to to allow me to add your address to my contacts list, and subsequently send you the thread?

The matter is regarding, an editor who has voted but has no suffrage; only some of his votes have been indented, and I was hoping you could nuke his contributions with your vote delisting tool

Thanks, AGK 16:46, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * ALL of his votes were indented before he continued his reign of disruption earlier today, which should have earned him a preventative block before he managed to disrupt another 4 candidacies by posting his votes there. I've sen my script after them AGAIN and will leave a talk message. You can email me at EN.WP.ST47@gmail.com. ST47 (talk) 19:24, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Great; thanks for your assistance.
 * Will load you onto my contacts list in the event that I am ever in need of your polymathic knowledge and technical wizardry. ;-)
 * AGK 19:39, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * To be clear, I have been actively encouraging to put comments on the vote pages, since that was my understanding of the compromise at WT:ACE2008.  He knows that his votes don't count numerically, but his commentary is still allowed.  Let's not accuse him of being disruptive. --Elonka 19:46, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * And I'm asking him to add a #: so that other people don't have to go around cleaning up after him. He knows they don't count numerically, so he shouldn't be having them counted. ST47 (talk) 19:58, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Isn't it kind of extreme to threaten a new editor with a block, because he's using a "#" instead of "#:"? Let's just indent for him and not worry about it. --Elonka 20:02, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Please see comments of UltraExactZZ on Eligibility at ACE2008, and stop threatening me. Mervyn Emrys (talk) 20:24, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

User:ST47/ACE 2008
I have something similar here. Do I have your permission to carry on with it? -- Dylan 620  Contribs Sign! 13:41, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Why would you need my permission? ST47 (talk) 13:49, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't want to be accused of plagiarism. -- Dylan 620  Contribs Sign! 13:51, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't worry about it... ST47 (talk) 14:06, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

The bot-generated report
I left a comment at User talk:ST47/ACEE. My comment on the main page got wiped out by the update. I think some of them could be easily fixed - eg. add a link to Rspeer's user page for the one that appears to have no user. Carcharoth (talk) 18:18, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:AliceBlue; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px;" class="plainlinks">

<sub style="color:red;">David <sup style="color:cornflowerblue;">WS <sub style="color:lime;">(contribs)  is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy holidays! <sub style="color:red;">David <sup style="color:cornflowerblue;">WS <sub style="color:lime;">(contribs)  19:46, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Teh votebot
Hi ST, can you bump up the update frequency for the ACE2008 bot to every two or three minutes? (And fer gawd's sake, don't go eat a sandwich or anything right now! :) Franamax (talk) 23:46, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Changed to every minute. ST47 (talk) 23:48, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar time

 * Thanks :) ST47 (talk) 00:12, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * OTOH, in fixing my additions of newlines, as, e.g., here&mdash;they followed from some less-than-careful copy-and-pasting, and I thank you for paying more attention than did I&mdash;you called me by my name; surliness is, I don't think you'd mind my saying, a quality that has been imputed to you from time to time, and I must confess that I was a bit disappointed to find that you didn't call me an idiot. Please try harder next time.  :) Joe 19:50, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

More thanks
For keeping tally of the ArbCom votes. I am sure you know how much EVERYONE appreciates it, I just wanted to thank you personally. Slrubenstein  |  Talk 00:11, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) ST47 (talk) 00:12, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Roger that. Well done and thanks for your efforts. Even if that bot was incorrectly NOT reporting Bishzilla's tallies. :) ++Lar: t/c 00:14, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I couldn't agree more with the others on this page. Your work with the ArbCom elections was very much appreciated. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 00:16, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Anon blocks
Hey -- are you intending to be doing those IP blocks with talk page editing disabled? That's normally only done if someone has a history of talk page abuse. Thanks, NawlinWiki (talk) 21:02, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Not intentionally, Huggle must be doing it automatically, or it's the MediaWiki default... ST47 (talk) 21:03, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Superscript text

Happy 's Day!
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it.<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 01:50, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

User:judyrenouf
This edit by is actually Ok as it does point to an official website of Anna Wallner. This editor appears to be connected to Anna Wallner and her partner and was apparently just trying to update the articles she edited. Fred Talk 02:17, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Re your block of Judyrenouf
Hey ST47, User talk:Judyrenouf has appealed your block of her and I'm rather confused by what has happened there and why she has been blocked. I see she had several "vandal" warnings on her page which she says she didn't see them until after she was blocked, but I really don't understand why her edits were deemed "vandalism" in the first place, ie "intentional unconstructive edits" and I was hoping you could explain? She has a conflict of interest but I believe she is well intentioned. I don't think those edits were vandalism as defined by policy and I would like to unblock her under an agreement that she will abide by COI and discuss her edits with other users as necessary. I also don't understand why you disabled her ability to edit her own talk page? I would appreciate your advice on this matter. Cheers, Sarah 02:22, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Just to let you know, I've unblocked Judyrenouf. It seems rather apparent that there has been some misunderstandings and I think it's probably best for all concerned if I simply unblock her and give her some careful guidance rather than take it to ANi or whatever. I hope that's okay with you. Cheers, Sarah 02:53, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * We editconflicted. I reviewed the edits and left a comment on her talk page. ST47 (talk) 02:59, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that, ST47. Much appreciated. :) I have given her similar advice by email and have offered her further assistance if need be. I will try to keep on eye on things in case there are any further concerns. Thanks again. :) Sarah 03:13, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

talkin' to a bot...
Your bot took a dump on my talk, and although I thoroughly enjoy talking to a bot... Anyway, the page ref'd wasn't my page - I'm the one who reverted the vandal move and left the stupid redir there so the vandal couldn't repeat the nonsense w/out getting it deleted. I don't give a rip about that redir - just thought you might educate your bot 'bout leaving a dump on admin talk pages. Am I grippin', naw, keep up the good work. Cheers, Vsmith (talk) 00:53, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Chloroform entry vandalized again
and it was just after you (or was it a bot you run?) undid a previous vandalism. I undid them, hope I did it right... Benbradley (talk) 01:06, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me! ST47 (talk) 01:11, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

WikiCup
Might I ask why? I'm sure it's a demo for something, or something... <font color=#33cccc>Garden. 13:39, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Working on an automatic updater, wanted to show the sample data to iMatthew on IRC. ST47 (talk) 14:47, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

socks
There are a large number of Bambifan101 talk talk pages that need to be deleted for the same reason as the user talk pages you're deleting now. Please consider this. 68.220.175.142 (talk) 01:24, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Having finally finished my pass, it's time for bed, but I will have a look at those in the morning. Thanks! ST47 (talk) 02:16, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

User:STBotI/BADUSER
Would it be possible to add a NOINDEX and an explanation of the page's purpose at the top, or could it cause problems for the bot? — Snigbrook 16:28, 26 December 2008 (UTC)


 * That could not cause any problems, the bot would simply overwrite it the next time it saved a dump. ST47 (talk) 18:19, 26 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, then it wouldn't be very helpful, would it? —David Levy 22:04, 27 December 2008 (UTC)


 * That was my point. ST47 (talk) 23:10, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

What is this page? Gwen Gale (talk) 21:42, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

I, too, came here to ask what this page is and why my user name appears on it (which I was just advised of by an anonymous editor). I see no explanation on your bot's user and talk pages. —David Levy 22:04, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

I see that DragonflySixtyseven just moved the page to User:STBotI/LEFT-NOTE-FOR-USER. Am I to understand that you (via your bot) have been deeming someone a "bad user" whenever your bot has notified that individual of an image that wasn't properly tagged?

Incidentally, the notification that I received was invalid; it pertained to a Wikimedia logo (properly tagged with Template:Non-free Wikimedia logo, protected and used on the main page), which obviously does not require a fair use rationale. —David Levy 22:20, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

User:STBotI/BADUSER is still up (I think because the bot updated it). Gwen Gale (talk) 22:25, 27 December 2008 (UTC)


 * DragonflySixtyseven reverted the data dump. It seems to me that the redirect should be deleted (so that it eventually will stop appearing via search engines) and protected against creation (to prevent the bot from recreating it while we wait for its code to be updated).  —David Levy 22:43, 27 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I've done so. If anyone feels that these actions were inappropriate for any reason, please feel free to undo them or request that they be undone.  —David Levy 22:47, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

You all couldn't manage to wait for 50 minutes for me to get back online before you moved the page, twice, and deleted it, and blocked the bot for doing its job? ST47 (talk) 23:10, 27 December 2008 (UTC)


 * 1. I see that you referred to our (or possibly just my) actions as "vandalism" in the [permanent and public] page restoration log. Does that stem from the same assumption of bad faith that led you to publicly label numerous users (including me) "bad"?
 * 2. I don't see a second page move (aside from yours).
 * 3. I wasn't aware that DragonflySixtyseven had blocked the bot. While I viewed deletion/protection of the redirect as a better solution (because I didn't want the bot's other tasks to be interrupted), I see no justification for the above indignation.  After all, your bot was essentially defaming editors.
 * 4. You haven't re-deleted the User:STBotI/BADUSER redirect, which will continue to appear via search engines (thereby implying that the users listed are "bad"). I would re-delete it myself, but I don't want to be accused of further "vandalism."  —David Levy 23:26, 27 December 2008 (UTC)r


 * The redirect needs to stay until code changes are allowed to propagate. If I have not deleted it within a week, you may feel free to remind me then. ST47 (talk) 23:36, 27 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay. Now can you please explain...
 * ...why you used that page title in the first place?
 * ...why you labeled my intervention (a good-faith attempt to halt the above incident in a manner that would prevent your bot from being blocked) "vandalism" in a permanent, public log? —David Levy 23:47, 27 December 2008 (UTC)


 * That page title was used because the page was the data dump file for the badusers subroutine, which identifies potential malicious or clueless uploaders (those who have been warned by the bot more than 10 times, and are listed there with a number greater than 10 next to their name) and reports them to an IRC channel. It is also used for customised warnings every 5 uploads or so reminding the user that they might be blocked if they cause too much of a ruckus. ST47 (talk) 00:20, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * And it didn't occur to you that this would result in all of the listed account names (irrespective of how many times warnings had been issued) appearing on a public page (likely to turn up via Google searches and the like) that appeared to label the associated editors "bad users" (without any explanation)?
 * This leads me to the question of why you used that name for the subroutine. Do you really believe that it's reasonable to label a user "bad" because a [fallible] bot has warned him/her more than ten times?  And why is the user then reported to an IRC channel (instead of an on-wiki page)?
 * I await your explanation of why you labeled my good-faith intervention "vandalism" in a permanent, public log. —David Levy 00:56, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Then you've made a mistake and have strayed from WP:NPA. If you don't fix this now, it's going to stir up even more worries. The page should be deleted straight off, the bot shouldn't be run until it no longer needs this page. Gwen Gale (talk) 00:23, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Bullshit. The bot shall continue to run until someone manages to find a problem with the bot, and then I will fix it and the bot will run again. The existence of a redirect is not causing any harm. ST47 (talk) 00:25, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Now you've strayed from WP:CIVIL. User:STBotI/BADUSER is a sweeping personal attack on many users. Personal attacks aren't allowed and are blockable. I plan on deleting and protecting the page if you don't do it yourself. Gwen Gale (talk) 00:28, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I will have you reverted and reported to ANI if you do so. Doing so will disrupt the operation of the bot. A simple redirect existing for another few days is doing no harm. There's even a nice notice on top of the new page in case someone decides to take offense. ST47 (talk) 00:30, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The notice at the top of User:STBotI/WARNEDUSERS is both a personal attack and uncivil. Please reword it, thanks. Gwen Gale (talk) 00:35, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Done. ST47 (talk) 00:39, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Phrases and words such as overly sensitive users and meddling are uncivil, personal attacks on those who have commented here. Please remove the personal attacks. Gwen Gale (talk) 00:43, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Seriously, ST47, I don't understand why you're lashing out like this. —David Levy 00:56, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Please see Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. —David Levy 04:08, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

STBotI using a non-existant template
STBotI seems to be tagging images with a non-existant template: notagr, for example. --Carnildo (talk) 01:03, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I noticed that this morning. I was tweaking some of the warnings last night, I think I introduced a typo, it's fixed. ST47 (talk) 01:10, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Redirect of Benjamin farmer
Hello! My name is Gopal81. you made this edit to my talk page. However, I just moved the page. I knew it was not going to last. Just informing you. Gopal81 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:47, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

A more benign problem
Thanks for dealing with the BADUSERS thing. Now, in the process, I've noticed a more benign problem that you may want to fix, although on the other hand it may not actually affect anything.

You've got encoding errors in the list of usernames on User:STBotI/Notified users. It seems that you read UTF-8 off of Wikipedia, treat it as Latin-1, and then submit those Latin-1 strings back to your log on Wikipedia, where they show up as UTF-8 gibberish. Whatever your bot is supposed to do with its list of notified users, it may not be working correctly for users with accented characters in their name. rspεεr (talk) 20:36, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Well aware of the UTF issues with the bot. The bug appears more or less on its own every time we do anything significant and then it gets fixed, those users there are probably pretty old from one of the periods when the bot was running on a bad version of the module. ST47 (talk) 20:58, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Gotland flag
A year ago, you removed the link from Template:Country data Gotland to a non-free image. The image has now been replaced by a GFDL version, so I have restored the link for the games variant only. The only use I have found is in International Island Games Association. Please feel free to revert (and purge) the template if you disagree. Certes (talk) 22:00, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks fine, thanks! ST47 (talk) 00:58, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks for looking. Certes (talk) 00:59, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Suevisiot.jpg
Hi. Your bot said about copyright status to Suevisiot.jpg. I can tell you, the name in the middle, titled Andrew Racklyeft, is ME. This is no word of a lie. That is the unofficial album cover for "Suevisito", a song I hope to release in 2009. So that picture is totally mine. It does not need the tag on it. Thanks. Koshoes (talk) 18:12, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
Dear ST47,

Wishing you a happy new year, and very best wishes for 2009. Whether we were friends or not in the past year, I hope 2009 will be better for us both.

Kind regards,

 Majorly  talk  21:24, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Big thank you for the little "The Victorious Opposition" book cover hoo-hah


Hi, ST47. Big thank you for all your help and guidance with the fair use non-free image hoo-hah. As per WP:Marsupial Mole I must consequently award you the extremely rare Southern-Marsupial-Mole-Shaped Barnstar of guidance with the fair use non-free image hoo-hah (pictured there in its natural sandy habitat). Shirt58 (talk) 13:35, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

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CSD of canoeing category
Thanks for reminding me of this. This should have been done last month, but I forgot. I put in a db-author as well to help it along. Chris (talk) 23:31, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Bot request
This bot request may interest you. It is very similar to the WikiCup that your bot is updating. Would appreciate if you can add your comments to the bot request page. Thanks, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 03:34, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

beautifultorneValley.jpg
Hi. I have been trying to get this self taken photo of the building I am compiling a history of approved. I have tried numerous ways by reading the guidelines and still am unsuccessful. Its name is the Joseph T. St. Lawrence Center in Hillburn, NY and I am a staff member there. It had been used on our town website previously. I would like to release the photo to the wikipedia public with limited protection (basically no one says there building is ours). Looking for some aid in this process if you can. Thanks.Saintstaff (talk) 01:47, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I've added the necessary tag. Thanks, ST47 (talk) 11:28, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Error with Bot/WP/EN/Daniel/MediationBot1/1.2
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User talk:Encyclopediaofalabama
Hi, why delete User talk:Encyclopediaofalabama? This was a useful record of Wikipedians' responses to a new editor who was facing difficulty in contributing. DuncanHill (talk) 11:48, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Pages such as that one are deleted after a period of time, usually at least three months for no-longer-active sockpuppets and sockpuppeteers. This is done to keep the old transclusions of templates to a minimum, as they serve no use on a blocked user's talk page, and because the page is no longer needed after the user has had a reasonable time to contest their indefinite block. ST47 (talk) 20:00, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * As I recall it contained useful discussion which should be preserved. DuncanHill (talk) 20:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * All I see are a COI notice, a username block notice, a welcome, a sockpuppet notice, and some brief discussion as to whether the user's contributions are welcome and on the merits of a specific link they added (less than 5 comments, nothing really to write home about.) ST47 (talk) 20:09, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Forget it. Can't be bothered any more. DuncanHill (talk) 20:11, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I would agree with DuncanHill here. That was a case where a new Wikipedian of evidently GF was very nearly tarred and feathered for an honest mistake. It wasn't just the regular troll-swatting. I hope we didn't scare them off permanently, but the page is gone now and I can't recall the username they were permitted(!) to retain. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:10, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure three months is sufficient time to allow, before deleting the user page of a blocked user. If the page is going to be deleted while the user remains blocked, at the least a note should be placed on the page indicating that the account is blocked, to prevent confusion. Otherwise, editors ending up at the page via links from other pages and their edit histories may not be aware that the account has been blocked and is no longer active. Is there a policy or guideline that authorizes and governs deletion of old user pages? If not, there should be. --Srleffler (talk) 01:10, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Brendo619RulzBest
I noticed the following entry in the logs: "(Deletion log); 06:43 . . ST47 (Talk | contribs) deleted "User talk:Brendo619RulzBest" (Temporary page, too old)"

How can the user talk page have been too old? That user account was just created a month ago. Deleting the talk page was confusing. I put a vandalism warning there today, because I noticed that the account's contribution history contained a lot of vandalism and it did not appear that anyone had warned the user to stop. In fact, it was just that you had prematurely deleted the talk page. If you undelete the page, feel free to just overwrite the warning I left there today. I presume the deleted page must contain a record of other warnings.--Srleffler (talk) 00:18, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

ok
Maybe by next election. Alio The Fool 21:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Chee kufta
I noticed you removed my Chee kufta 5 points for DYK. Yes, I haven't had the talk page notice yet, but you can look on the main page and see it's there.-- King Bedford I <sup style="color:green;">Seek his grace  00:35, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Um, no, I didn't. ST47 (talk) 00:47, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

BHUMIKA FILM FESTIVAL
why my article BHUMIKA FILM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is been deleted by an server...

its and amature level festival organised by the student...

if any doubt plz refer to this link

http://www.shemaroo.com/corporate/?pgtype=press_details&id=204 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ranjit186 (talk • contribs) 05:06, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Mfdbot
Hi, have you given any thought to reviving Mfdbot? I'm getting tired of maintaining the page by hand. Thanks,--Aervanath talks like a <b style="color:green;">mover</b>, but not a shaker 19:32, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Last time I tried, it was blocked over two lines of whitespace. The page you're looking for is WP:BOTREQ. ST47 (talk) 03:34, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

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strange edit
Hi -- this was a pretty strange edit for an administrator to make, since the result was to partially undo a vandalism-fix. Maybe you're working a bit too fast? Regards, Looie496 (talk) 02:23, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Meh. Huggle weirdness. A small price to pay for such gain. (Especially the hagger stuff ). Honestly, fix it and ignore. ST47 (talk) 02:34, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Sathya Sai article - inappropriate images notice issue
Hi. The Sathya Sai Baba article is one of the very sensitive controversial article which went through 2 arbitrations and many of the pro sai and anti editors were banned to let other NPOV editors to contribute and improve it. After arbitration this article was maintained pretty well till January 07 2009. From January 08th 2009 a new user http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:White_adept - hardcore anti sai activitist has taken over this article. His agenda is very clear from the talk page where he compares SaiBaba to Osama Bin Laden. He has completely rewritten the article in an anti sai perspective in a matter of 10 days. Just on Jan 12th 2009 he made 35 edits to the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sathya_Sai_Baba&dir=prev&offset=20090111045336&action=history. The article which had been maintained for the past 21/2 years is completely rewritten in a matter of 10 days in the most negative perspective and does not have single positive incident about Sathya Sai Baba. He has also added offending images which are against criteria for non-free content. You had also added a comment in his talk page to remove those images. So far I have added 2 warning messages. Inspite of removing those images he still keeps adding them. How can this be stopped!!. Can something be done to stop this?. If he still continues to add those images after the 3rd warning can he be blocked?. Please advice.Thanks. RadiantEnergy 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I have reported the pic at the WP:BLP noticeboard. Andries (talk) 23:43, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

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Comment on CSDWarnBot
According to the documentation, disabling the CSDWarnBot for a page is as simple as adding: to the page. Is there a reason why the bot doesn't recognize the nobots template too? &eta;oian  &Dagger;orever &eta;ew &Dagger;rontiers  05:54, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I asked on the template page for inclusion of the comment prior to asking you here. Also, the nobots question would also ideally include other variations of the template related to CSDWarnBot, such as, or   &eta;oian   &Dagger;orever &eta;ew &Dagger;rontiers  05:59, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The bot will pay attention to "{nobots" on a userpage and skip that page. Any other features of the exclusion standard are not supported. Whether you have nobots or, the bot will ignore the page. ST47 (talk) 19:22, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

CSDWarnBot too enthusiastic
The bot left me a notice to let me know that Mistress Fortune has been CSD (redirect to a deleted article). Since I agree with the deletion (as I'm the one who AfDed the original article), I removed the notice as read. Six minutes later, the bot reposted the notice which I again removed. Twenty minutes later, it was back again with the same notice. I removed yet again, and six minutes later... Does it not have any way to know it already left a message on an article? -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 01:50, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It does. The log saving must have been messed up when I moved it to windows. ST47 (talk) 02:26, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Note about your bot
I left a note on the bot's talk page here. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:42, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

United Studios of Self Defense
ΚΈΓΓΆΜ ₡₢₡$

I Heard You keep the copies of the deleted articles. I would like to see the article of United studios of Self Defense Please. I dont thinks this is asking to undelete i would just like to see it again. I think thats an okay signature. Can you email me @ mjfan2389@yahoo.com
 * Sure, will do. ST47 (talk) 16:36, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

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WikiCup FP points
Durova has offered to have her FP points docked to 15 to encourage competition. Would this be possible for the bot to implement? Thanks, <font color=#000000>Garden. 21:51, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm trying to justify adding a feature like this. I'll see what I can do... ST47 (talk) 01:30, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Cheers :D While you're at it, could you have a look at User:Garden/WikiCup/Submissions/Catalan?  His points aren't being counted.  Thanks again (and sorry to pester you), <font color=#33cccc>Garden . 20:41, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Both are now ✅ ST47 (talk) 02:16, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks ever so much :D Garden : <font style="color:#accC10;background:#cccc33;"> Chat 19:55, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

My Uploaded Photo
Pardon me, your operated bot, STBotI gave a speedy deletion tag on my uploaded file File:Majalah Tempo (Februari 1999).jpg. I was imported it from id.wikipedia.org, please check it out. <font face="Copperplate Gothic Bold" color="#191970">C H J L Discuss 10:34, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! Thanks for importing this image. We probably do things a little differently than id.wiki, so what works there doesn't necessarily work here. Looks like you've got everything you need except for a non-free use rationale, describing the image's use here. The specific requirements, along with a template to help you out, it at WP:NFURG. ST47 (talk) 02:05, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh i see. I just imported from the id.wikipedia, so i don't know about the use rationale, the User:Meursault2004 scanned it. If you have enough time, please ask him. Cheers! <font face="Copperplate Gothic Bold" color="#191970">C H J L Discuss 06:41, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

your bot CSDWarnBot
Hello, I recently put a speedy on what appears to be a copyright violation. I was in the process of putting a notification on the user's talkpage who uploaded the image but was unable to do so because of an edit conflict; your bot beat me to the punch. I respect the fact that your bot will notify users when other users fail to do so but perhaps you might consider giving me a little more time to put the notification up? I appreciate you considering this, thanks. <font color="#DCDCDC">Na <font color="A9A9A9">uf ana  :  talk  00:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

WarnBot deleting messages
CSDWarnBot blanked this user's talk page before adding its own message. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:59, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks like an isolated incident - a bad GET, where the API decides it doesn't want to do what it's supposed to. I'll turn on local debugging, just to be sure. ST47 (talk) 17:02, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Bot did it again at User talk:CAFAirpower. – ukexpat (talk) 18:59, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the report, because my logs didn't catch anything. I'll write a safety check into the code. ST47 (talk) 20:31, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Another bot error:CSDWarnBot
CSDWarnBot placed this CSD warning on the talk page on my Bot, when my bot had done nothing else than WikiProject Tagged on the article talk page ( not an article contributor/creator). Kindly look. Thanks -- <em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000"> Tinu  <em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000">Cherian  - 11:02, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Delta waves
Just noticed your bot put a message on my talk page regarding speedy deletion of Delta waves. I've no idea what that page had on it and pretty certain I did not create the article or edit it. Please can you explain how you came up with my user id for this article? Muntfish (talk) 16:34, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Jim Killock undeletion
As you are listed in Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles, I would be very grateful if you would userfy Jim Killock (that I created in 2005) to User:Joeblakesley/Jim Killock. I wasn't notified of its deletion at the time, but did agree that the subject lacked notability. However, I now think the subject is more notable, so would like to improve the article in my user space to demonstrate this, before moving it to the main namespace. &mdash;Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib 03:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure. Done. ST47 (talk) 19:02, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

CUOS elections
Do you have a tool available to check voter eligibility?--Tznkai (talk) 06:14, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Only locally, I have a script for it. I'll start posting the reports when I see issues. ST47 (talk) 11:26, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks.--Tznkai (talk) 14:04, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Regional Science High School for Region III
Regional Science High School for Region III is not a nonsense because I'm still patrolling that article against vandalism. Please, cancel the CSD. I hope that it will not continue the CSD unless I'm watching that article. Thank you! GPI-MediaWiki Union (talk) 09:12, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Please
CSD is needed for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teknologi_Industri_Pertanian_Angkatan_2005 - when they add the educational institution ads (they are literally) it seems to be some game - I have left a basic indonesian message for 'get lost' but politely, i hope you are able to do a csd - the point of translation of ads for tech colleges seems to be pointless at the mo considering how few active eds at the indonesian project there are - cheers

I havent checked either the web or wp in to see if its a lift or not SatuSuro 10:22, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you or whoever did it SatuSuro 14:13, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

RE:Duplicate File:WhiteHeart1970.png Bot notice
There image does not meet F1. It was/is not an unused image or other media file that is a redundant copy, in the same file format and same or lower quality/resolution,. The was a mis-tag. Please restore. (CC: OrangeMike) Soundvisions1 (talk) 13:43, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Why is it necessary to have two copies of the same image in different file formats, when the jpg one that already exists isn't even used anywhere? ST47 (talk) 13:51, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Exactly. The original was upped by me last year and is used (Well, was until it was incorrectly deleted) so the one uploaded yesterday (the jpg) does not need to be here. Soundvisions1 (talk) 15:54, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

User:ST47/CUOS 2009
I didn't want to edit that myself, but do you think you could put a hatnote at the top pointing back to the CU/OS elections themselves? If that will mess up any pages where the results are transcluded or otherwise be difficult, don't worry about it (But using the back button is so hard!). Thanks for making the results list! Protonk (talk) 15:59, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

CSDWarnBot user talk page editing error, blanked page!
Per this diff [] CSDWArnBot blanked SIX recent warnings off of a users talk page, in order to issue a single new warning, that duplicated 1 of the pre-existing warnings.

Leaving new message = Good.

Issuing duplicate warning = Not so good.

Blanking page first. = BAD.

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Don't ever apologize
ST47, whatever you do, don't ever apologize for your mistakes or the tone of your messages to others. Never. You rule! Mervyn Emrys (talk) 02:23, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

I moved to another admin. thanks (DeSauer (talk) 11:17, 12 February 2009 (UTC))

Question about my fairly stupid idea
I was looking at User:ST47/CUOS 2009 just now, and I'm just curious. My dumb idea here, with that simple formula for weighting results based on the averages... how hard would that be to bot up, or stick out at the end? I'm curious to see if my formula sort of works through two elections, since I 538'd the AC elections based on the data in your AC09 table. :P <span style="color:#0D670D; font-family:Georgia, Helvetica;">rootology ( C )( T ) 06:26, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/CSDWarnBot/2.0.1
Bot/WP/EN/ST47/CSDWarnBot/2.0.1 needs to be logged in! 24.0.68.110 (talk) 09:27, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Portal edits in the Wikicup
Hi, would it be possible for you to add portal edits to the mainspace edits counted by the bot for WikiCup points? I raised the question here, and there was a good amount of support for the idea. The judges said on IRC that they were happy for the edits to be added. J Milburn (talk) 11:16, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * (I'm just checking that you've read this by triggering the range bar of death) <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:blue">Den <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:red">dodge  Talk Contribs 22:51, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah. I did it. ST47 (talk) 23:08, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That's great, thanks. Is it counting all portal edits since the start date, or just the latest batch each update? (While we're on that question, if the latter, wouldn't deleted edits still be counted, as long as there was at least one update between the edit and the deletion?) J Milburn (talk) 00:46, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

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Mustard Bath (film)
Hi, I'm sorry that I kept making changes to the article, I'm new here and I find a lot of this stuff confusing. I think I got the hang of sandbox now so that I won't be making so many corrections to the actual articles that I hope to write. Besides the issue of the article containing spam (which I hope you now see that it does not) is there anything else I need to change to keep the article? Thanks for all of your help! Sandra Okland

Content gets deleted on CSD of User Talk pages
Often, spammers will put their spam on their talk page in addition to or instead of in an article. I typically use Twinkle to mark pages for CSD. A bug reported in Twinkle, which has been resolved, was that the warning placed on the talk page would obliterate the spam. It seems your bot is doing the same thing. --Tckma (talk) 17:02, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

User:ST47/RFA
This is your 3rr warning. (seriously, what on earth)... oh, and thanks for maintaining the table whilst Tango and SQLBot are off in the Bahamas. <font face="Trebuchet MS">&mdash; <font color="#5A3696">neuro <font color="#5A3696">(talk) 02:35, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * You may consider this your 'cease and desist all idiocy' warning. Edit warring with a bot never ends well. ;) I'll update the code to strip out links, thanks for the message, ST47 (talk) 19:56, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

BAGBot
Just cos I'm curious, where does it get its list of BAG members? Some bots seems to be in a trial without being edited by one, so I guess something's up. (I'm referring to BAG Status, btw). Cheers, - Jarry1250 (t, c) 14:41, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * From WP:BAG, but it ignores members listed as inactive, I think. No. The code says that any members in the active or inactive section are considered bag, former are not. ST47 (talk) 19:58, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Madia Gond
I had received a post on my discussion page that there was a deletion warning for Madia Gond. I checked the page there is no such warning now. What does that mean??? Yogesh Khandke (talk) 03:47, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Huh?
It seems you just blocked yourself for vandalism twice. Is everything all right with your account? Is there sleep deprivation or an amusing story behind this? rspεεr (talk) 06:44, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Testing the block function of MediaWiki::Bot. Someone had reported that it didn't work. They were obviously mistaken :) ST47 (talk) 00:55, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Your RFA bot
In Mfield's section, you keep on adding 1 to the oppose part. He has no opposes in the RFA. Malfunction? I had to revert this twice. <font face="Verdana"> Simon KSK  20:14, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Why do you people insist on revert-warring with a bot? ST47 (talk) 20:25, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Overly optimistic assumption on your part
Hmmmm. What makes you think admins won't edit war with a bot? --barneca (talk) 22:00, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Error with Bot/WP/EN/ST47/BAGBota/2.0.1
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Steward election statistics
Could you stop updating m:User:ST47/SE 2009? Now elections are finished.--Kwj2772 (talk) 14:54, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Steward elections

 * Thanks for your vote, for or against, and your constructive comments. Apteva (talk) 14:04, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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Delivered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  at 22:05, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

User:ST47/notagr
Hello, a number of the images tagged with User:ST47/notagr are showing in the non-existant categories called "Images with a rationale but unknown copyright status" (for example Category:Images with a rationale but unknown copyright status as of 31 December 2008 and Category:Images with a rationale but unknown copyright status as of 16 February 2009). Could you please retag them? Thanks. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:15, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * ST47 (talk) 20:04, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

BAGBot malfunctioning
This is clearly broken. Please fix it and any pages it left messages on. Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:35, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * ST47 (talk) 19:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Heroes template help please
Just want to make sure I am not doing something against the rules. I have been trying to clean up the Heroes character articles and make them more encylopedic and save in-universe detail for the Heroes wiki. For years I have seen a wikilink template on Star Trek character pages to a Star Trek wiki so I figured that will provide the link to the Heroes wiki so viewers can go there for in-universe info. The template was maked spam by another user. I don't get it, why would the Heroes wikilink be spam but not the Star Trek wikilink? I copied the info. right from the Star Trek wikilink template too Template:Memoryalpha and pasted it to the page for the new template I created Template:Heroeswiki so these 2 templates are identical... did I screw something up here? Some of the pages even had links to the wikilink such as the Sylar page, so it was just adding the template instead. Why is this wrong? Also, I know you didn't delete the template and the other user nominate it to the bot, just wanted to get an admin's advice and saw u operated the bot so wanted to ask you. So just looking for admin advice here, I did read the notice you posted above and thats not what I am looking for, please advise, thank you. Ejfetters (talk) 05:54, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * They're just looking for you to use Template:Heroes Wiki rather than Template:Heroeswiki article, since the two are identical, no reason to keep both. ST47 (talk) 13:31, 4 March 2009 (UTC)