User talk:Drini
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[edit] Drinibot
I've archived the page. Just wanted to let you people know that I've debugged the bot so it won't shuffle categories around within a page. -- Drini 13:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
- The main problem I saw was that the bot was messing up table syntax when removing categories. It ended up leaving the table close tag (
|}) on the end of the preceding line instead of the beginning of the line as required, which broken dozens of user pages. Just wanted to point out what the actual problem was since I wasn't sure from this note if you had fixed that specifically. Mike Dillon 04:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)- I thought the problem was caused since I left out the -inplace parameter (so it shuffled categories around), if that's what happened it's indeed a very serious bug, but not my bot's one but the whole m:Pywikipedibot framework. You should comment them about it. -- Drini 21:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- The specific script I used from that framework is m:Category.py -- Drini 21:31, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Category:The J.B.'s members
I just noticed (I don't watchlist) that this was created by Drinibot from the old category I created, Category:James Brown instrumentalists, evidently with the consensus of the interested parties on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. My question is, does this leave Bernard Odum, who played bass on most of Brown's classic 60s recordings but never performed with The J.B.'s in the 70s (or The J.B. Horns in later decades), irreparably out in the cold? Or is it permissible to massage the category description somehow to include him? Would appreciate a response.
Nice bot you created, by the way. It seems very useful. InnocuousPseudonym 19:38, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- I really don't know about individual entries. I just get my task list from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working but I don't participate on the specific debates. I suppose you'd be better asking people involved in editing such topics. Sorry :), I just don't know what to advise you. -- Drini 21:27, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WhisperNumber.com deletion
Hello Drini, You deleted an article titled WhisperNumber.com on 21:45, 29 May 2006 . I looked in history and and elsewhere but couldn't find why. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. john
- It was marked with Proposed deletionfor 5 days and noone objected. I happened to be doing the janitorial work that day and performed the deletion. I didn't do it by will, again, I was just doing the clean up work of the day. -- Drini 05:43, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
