User talk:Thehelpfulone/Archive/July 2012

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Magician vandal
Could you please take a look at this. I'm pretty sure I'm right here but not 100% and the guy has been doing it to other articles as well. -- Kangaroo  powah  21:20, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 July 2012

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Article Feedback newsletter
Hey all!

So, big news this week - on Tuesday, we ramped up to 5 percent of articles :). There's been a lot more feedback (pardon the pun) as I'm sure you've noticed, and to try and help we've scheduled a large number of office hours sessions, including one this evening at 22:00 UTC in the channel, and another at  01:00 UTC for the aussies amongst us :). I hope to see some of you there - if any of you can't make it but have any questions, I'm always happy to help.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:45, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

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Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, June 2012
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Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, June 2012
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Possible problem with the bot
I came across some strange edits by the bot here, where it has attempted to add a reflist 7 times without success. I've seen lots of times where it has added a reflist, but whatever has happened to the page can't be solved by this, and it doesn't try again. I've not seen this behavior before, is it something new or a bug?Sarahj2107 (talk) 18:57, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Sarah, apologies for the delay in responding, I appear to have missed this message. That is very peculiar behavior, I'll check if there have been any other problems with the edits. Thanks for letting me know about it! The  Helpful  One  11:45, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

DRN-wizard-loader
Hi!

Could you fix [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=504339896 this]? Helder 22:55, 26 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Just as a note, I replied to this on the Village Pump in this diff. The  Helpful  One  11:45, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Thehelpfulbot adds reflists to dab pages
Hi, a suggestion for improvement:

Disambiguation pages should never have references, and thus should never have s.

Would it be possible to change Thehelpfulbot's behavior so that instead of adding a References section to a dab page, it instead just flags the page in some way? Thanks, NapoliRoma (talk) 22:00, 13 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Napoli. Do you have an example of where Thehelpfulbot was adding references to a dab page? I know that they shouldn't have references and I'm not so sure it could be tweaked easily to flag a dab page that has reference on it, but perhaps it's a problem with a particular user or group of users adding references to them? The  Helpful  One  11:45, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * This was the particular edit I noticed.
 * Perhaps the bot could add (which in turn could be added to Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup? Alternatively, it could drop a note on the disambiguation project talk page whenever it encounters such a thing.
 * I'm not totally clear on whether either of these ideas are kosher or useful, but the "category" idea seems more appropriate if there are lots of such pages, the "drop a note" idea might be better if only the occasional page turns up. Thanks! NapoliRoma (talk) 21:20, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for your help with #wikimedia-e3
Very cool of you. Thanks! --Ori.livneh (talk) 17:53, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You are most welcome! :-) The  Helpful  One  19:16, 31 July 2012 (UTC)