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AFC Sandbox
'''Re. Articles for creation/AFC sandbox'''

Hi there. had the quite groovy idea of making an AFC sandbox; so I've had a go at setting it up.

Can we make Soxbot clear it, please, as it does the others?

Header, I think is,



In addition...well, I imagine I've done things wrong, so please feel free to fix, etc.

Cheers,  Chzz  ► 03:49, 1 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Regarding our conversation on IRC, I did attempt to request this action through bugzilla. The request was declined here leaving this talkpage request intact. I do understand your time constraints and will kindly await any response. Thank you for considering this request. Kind regards.  My 76 Strat  15:11, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Apparently I wasn't clear enough. I meant User:X!/Bugs. ( X! ·  talk )  · @679  · 15:18, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * My misunderstanding. I have corrected this request to the location you provided. Best.  My 76 Strat  17:17, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Your RFA votes tool
Hi X! it seems your tools could not parse over 30 of my RFA votes O.o, could it have anything to do with my signature? Cheers, —  Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм •  Champagne?  •  12:01pm  • 02:00, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * No, it just means that you edited it without voting (e.g. discussion section, nomming, asking a question) ( X! ·  talk )  · @140  · 02:21, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I voted in all of them and made some comments. —  Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм •  Champagne?  •  6:12pm  • 08:12, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

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ANI
What did yo mean by "Bot operators are expacted to respond to concerns about their bots, and instead, he has reverted them as "vandalism"." I only just saw this. Rich Farmbrough, 15:34, 5 October 2010 (UTC).

Apparent bug
Rich Farmbrough, 17:29, 5 October 2010 (UTC).
 * http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/editsummary/index.php?name=Femto+Bot&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia

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Sockpuppet investigations/Supriyya
Don't forget to check if the accounts are stale before endorsing. ;-) Cheers! Tiptoety  talk 18:45, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Huh, I thought I saw some non-stale accounts in there. C'est la vie. ( X! ·  talk )  · @919  · 21:03, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

RFA Tally/report is down
Eh ^ – xeno talk 20:13, 12 October 2010 (UTC)


 * ? – xeno talk 13:44, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It was working for a while there, I thought. ( X! ·  talk )  · @615  · 13:46, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It hasn't updated since 07:00, 12 Oct. As a side note, why don't we make WP:RFXR dependent on the tally? The "time left" can use time functions rather than needing to be updated manually, and the S/O/N count can come from the tally. Then RFXR only needs to be updated when an RFA is added or removed, or has duplicate votes. – xeno talk 13:49, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Problem solved. When Keepscases removed the oppose (good move, I thought), he forgot to readd the #. ( X! ·  talk )  · @618  · 13:50, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Gotcha. I'll watch for that in future. – xeno talk 13:51, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

SoxBot UAA
Apparently the bot is still reporting usernames with WAIT_TILL_EDIT that have no edits. See this, for example. ~  Nerdy Science Dude  22:40, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Here's another one. ~  Nerdy Science Dude  23:56, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Known bug. Known bug for almost a year. Known bug that I have spent countless hours on with no avail. ( X! ·  talk )  · @099  · 01:22, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Soxbot on WP:UAAB
Has Soxbot failed on this task? Or have users been very good lately and not created any naughty names? —  Tivedshambo   (t/c) 18:48, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not exactly sure what's going on, but either way, I'm in the middle of a rewrite of the bot that should be up and running in a few days. ( X! ·  talk )  · @830  · 18:55, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

tweaking the nipple
Was wondering if you could remove "nipple" from the list of verboten words that are reported to UAA as violations. We have had several lengthy discussions on the subject and there was a strong consensus that "nipple" is not offensive to the average person. Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive572, Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive573 and Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive637 are three of the relevant conversations. As you can see in all cases the block was overturned and the blocking admin chastised. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:49, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm about to head off, but it's at User:SoxBot/UAA/Blacklist. ( X! ·  talk )  · @830  · 18:54, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ Beeblebrox (talk) 19:14, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Twelve users with "nipple" in their name have been blocked this year after making at least one edit: Sacredrightnipple, Crabnipples, Peperoninipples, Sizzlenipples, Ondinenipple, Fishy.nipple, Hairynipple111, Bolognanipples4all, Urdadsleftnipple, Austinnipples, Nipplenipplenipple, Trish touched my nipples, Mcdobblenipple, Pippilongnipples, and Mynipplehunter69.  It does seem that at least 1/3 of the users with these names are vandals even if 2/3 aren't.  (I excluded from the list those users who were blocked before they made any edits, since we wouldn't know what their intentions were.) While I agree we shouldn't block a name like that on sight, it may be a sign of an account to keep a watch for (I recently added "boobs" to the list for the same reason.)  —  Soap  —  19:23, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * If their edits are a problem, they can and should be blocked for that, not their username. Since the bot can't see any context when it makes a report, it was probably causing more problems than it was solving by reporting these. I'm pretty sure at least two of the three cases linked above stemmed from bot reports. The first one in particular was a very long and very confrontational discussion that almost ended up before ArbCom and/or a desysop conversation for the blocking admin. In the interest of avoiding that in the future I really think it is best to let the edits of such users speak for themselves instead of casting suspicion on them because they used the name of a body part in their username. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:10, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Sometimes it's worth reporting, for example "Trish touched my nipples" is worth blocking based on the name alone. Why not re-add it, but with a comment warning admins to be cautious? - Kingpin13 (talk) 20:16, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I really, really, think the interest of drama reduction outweighs any harm posed by some user making an edit or two before being blocked, but if you guys insist on re-adding it with a warning I won't make a big deal out of it. I have no idea how to do that myself so someone with bot-fu will need to handle it. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:25, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Well it's just a suggestion as a compromise between removing completely and having in normally, I don't really have an opinion. If you do add it, should just be ;nipple:HOMOGLYPH,NOTE(COMMENTGOESHERE),WAIT_TILL_EDIT or use LOW_CONFIDENCE, although I'm not sure that would be sufficient. - Kingpin13 (talk) 20:32, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I won't add it back either unless there's consensus from other users to do so. On a tangent, UAA/Bot seems to be down as of about 07:00 GMT on Oct 14.  I suspect it might have something to do with the Recent Changes revamp that also broke Huggle, but I want to point it out even so in case there is something else that needs to be done to fix it.   —  Soap  —  12:41, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, in response to the bot being down, if it relies on the IRC Recent Changes feed, you are probably going to have to make it so that the bot does not rely on diffs coming from a specific nickname, because they're planning on splitting the work of displaying the feed among several different bots, or at least that's what I gathered when I talked to the devs. The entire network is read-only anyways, only the RC bots can post in the channels, so there really is no need for the bot to rely on a specific nickname. The Thing //  Talk  //  Contribs  12:57, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It's never used the "rc" nickname, it's just parsed every message sent to the channel. That wasnt' the cause of the breakage. ( X! ·  talk )  · @075  · 00:48, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

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pages tool
Hi X! It would be great if you could publish the source of your pages tool as I’m interested in your approach. Maybe you can just duplicate the file(s) as *.phps? Best regards, --Ireas ask! 14:30, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

The WikiProject Tropical Cyclones Newsletter#32B
--Anirudh Emani (talk) 10:13, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

How to opt out?
Hi, I'd like to opt out of the edit counter. I created the opt in page some time ago, and now can't figure out how to opt out. Can you delete for me? Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 00:21, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Simply request deletion. I've done it for you. ( X! ·  talk )  · @075  · 00:47, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Page History Statistics not working
Sorry for not using the bug reporter, but I don't have (and don't want to have) a google account. Your tool Page History Statistics is responding very slowly right now. All responses only contain error messages (DBError...). It's easy to reproduce, because it happens always... Thanks for the tool, I like it a lot. --ACNiklas (talk) 16:48, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Seems to be up again... Thanks. --ACNiklas (talk) 15:40, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

nubio
will it ever work? <font face="Century Gothic"> THE M O  NO  ™ 01:18, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Depends how much you pay it. ( X! ·  talk )  · @105  · 01:30, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * ??? <font face="Century Gothic"> THE M O  NO  ™ 03:55, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * If you pay it less than minimum wage, it won't work. Right? All puns aside, it'll be a while, it's on the backburner now, unfortunately. It needs a rewrite; I wrote it when I was still learning symfony, so it's all messed up. ( X! ·  talk )  · @488  · 10:42, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

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Bot problem
I don't have a Google account so I am posting here. SoxBot is causing a problem (breaking the page), I have reverted it twice, last diff is here:. Nimbus <font style="color:#2F4F4F;">(Cumulus <font style="color:#708090;">nimbus <font style="color:#D3D3D3;">floats by)   00:09, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll look into it. In the meantime, placing nobots on the page should get it to stop for now. ( X! ·  talk )  · @069  · 00:39, 29 October 2010 (UTC)