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AfD nomination of Stowe middle school
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HRWiki
Are you an admin/b'crat or developer there? Dreamy §  03:38, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * No. Soxred93 03:41, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Bots
Hello. If your bot was programmed with C# in Windows and you're ready to help me make my own bot for other wiki-projects please contact me. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 00:53, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, no. I use Python, using pywikipedia. If you are looking for someone to try to help you make a bot, no matter what language, python is my reccomendation. Soxred93 has a boring sig 03:32, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, Python seems to be the most popular programming language for bots here. I wonder if I should bother learn a new programming language just for bot-making. The examples I've seen of it make me think it's not very user-friendly, or Python-beginner-friendly and it doesn't score high here. But I'll think about it. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 10:10, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * There are a lot of starter scripts around. Soxred93 has a boring sig 21:11, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Template:Archive box
I didn't think those were supposed to be substituted. Could you confirm, and revert your bot, if they shouldn't be.

They cannot properly be maintained if substituted. &mdash; Arthur Rubin | (talk) 06:59, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't think the archive box is supposed to be subst'd either, and I was coming here to stop the bot as well. Please clarify if possible. Dekimasu よ! 07:06, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Please stop subst'ing! —Pengo 07:26, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


 * The bot was blocked at the time of the first message here. Give him an opportunity to respond. Dekimasu よ! 07:31, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I blocked the bot, and didn't return here to note that fact. &mdash; Arthur Rubin |  (talk) 08:17, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

And now please re-run the bot and reverse all the edits it made to the archive box. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 10:03, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I too am confused, why Should Archive box be substed? It is not noted as such in the template documentation. --— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk  -  12:19, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


 * It can't be substed because it uses ParserFunctions. anemone  |  projectors  12:27, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I am trying to do a bunch of these manually, because the job is getting more difficult over time; some pages like Talk:Eleanor Roosevelt, Talk:Human, Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not, Talk:Vagina, and Talk:Indo-Greek Kingdom were edited to include new comments since the substitution, and I'm not fixing the ones like that myself. Dekimasu よ! 12:52, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I apologize for all the mistakes I made. This is my first bot, and it says on WP:SUBST to subst those. Soxred93 has a boring sig 15:03, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


 * WP:SUBST says otheriwse. This template should not be subst'd at all. It just makes a mess of things. -- Reaper  X  15:28, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


 * If this is resolved, I'll unblock. Please confirm.  &mdash; Arthur Rubin |  (talk) 15:33, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Axem Titanium just removed archivebox (the previous version of this template which DID require subst'ing) from the list of templates that should be substituted. Whether the bot is going to stop, I don't know, but it has been undoing it's edits. -- Reaper  X  15:35, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict) It seems so. It was a misunderstanding, and have been removed. Thank you for helping me. :) Soxred93 has a boring sig 15:37, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Uh, is there a way you can program your bot to undo all it's edits that did this? I'm getting too tired to undo them all myself. -- Reaper  X  16:18, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, nevermind. I'm almost done. -- Reaper  X  16:21, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, I think 95% of it has been reverted. -- Reaper  X  16:59, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Would you mind fixing the five talk pages I mentioned above? I did ~100 myself that were just reversions, but these aren't. Dekimasu よ! 05:10, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes? No? Dekimasu よ! 11:34, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I already have. Soxred93 has a boring sig 19:28, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * No, the ones I mentioned are still subst'd. Sorry to bother you; at this point it would have been faster for me to do it myself, I suppose. Dekimasu よ! 02:54, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Err...
 * Three of the five aren't fixed. (I won't be commenting about it here anymore.) Dekimasu よ! 04:15, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

hiding bot edits
Soxbot edits continue to show up even when I try to hide bot edits. This is, as you may imagine, most annoying. john k (talk) 07:03, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * On the bot's user page it notes that it doesn't have a bot tag yet. Dekimasu よ! 07:17, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Are we sure it is a bot? Because the other username showing up for this talk page to me (in addition to SoxBot) is Soxred93.
 * Yes. I have redirected the talk page to my own page so users wondering about the bot will come here, where I can reply quicker. Soxred93 has a boring sig 01:18, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: Tireless Contributions
Thank You! -- Reaper  X  04:39, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Bot complaint
Could I please request 2 changes to the bot. Both are in relation to it's behaviour on this page
 * 1) Please do not have it stick orphan tags on soft redirects.  They are useless and pointless on them.
 * 2) Please do something so that the bot will no longer edit war over it's changes.  If someone is reverting the bot, the bot should not continue to make the same change over and over like it has been doing on the linked page. TexasAndroid (talk) 19:12, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Regarding the first one, it has only changed pages if it does not include {{wi|. However, it found one with {{tl|wi}}, so because there is no {{wi|, it changed it. The only way to fix that is to replace all instances of {{tl|wi}} with {{wi|} }. About the second one, I do not know how this can be fixed. I am unsure if this is even possible to be fixed. A possibility may be to add {{tl|nobots}} on the page. But that would clutter pages. So I don't know how this can be fixed effectively. Soxred93 has a boring sig 19:19, 21 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Same problem on Attract, and this one is indeed a "wi" template. This has got to be fixed, one way or another.  As for how to avoid edit warring, if you want I can direct you to the original programmer for the anti-vandalism bots.  Those do not edit war over their changes.  I suspect they do something like checking the last several edits, seeing if the bot has already made the edit in question, and aborting the edit if it turns out that the bot previously made the same edit, and was reverted. - TexasAndroid (talk) 19:23, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I was referring to Attract. The reason it added the template on Attract, and nothing else is because all of them use something like {{wi|a word}} . However, Attract only has {{wi}} . If I programmed to skip pages that contain {{wi, it would skip pages with other templates, such as the WikiProject templates. Also, most, if not all of the anti vandalism bots do not use python. Cluebot uses PHP, VoABot II uses Java and Javascript. If any other python bots checked for this, I would like to get the code. Soxred93 has a boring sig 21:03, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks to ST47, I have fixed a stupid error with the {{tl|wi}} thing. I still need help with the edit histories, though. Soxred93 has a boring sig 21:10, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

BAG followup
Please see WP:BN regarding a bot you recently approved, you may have more actions to perform. — xaosflux  Talk  01:34, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * It appears that it has been solved. I am not a bureaucrat, and cannot do the one task left. Soxred93 has a boring sig 16:17, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFBOT
Please see Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval/BOTarate. Thank you, — xaosflux  Talk  01:03, 25 November 2007 (UTC)