User talk:Mets501

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[edit] Aviation Newsletter delivery

The March 2007 issue of the Aviation WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 16:21, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template replacement

Hello, thank you for your offer. {{AircraftProject}} and {{AirportProject}} need replacing. I don't know if it is possible, but the pages tagged AircraftProject could also have the parameter |Aircraft-project=yes added, and the ones tagged with AirportProject could use |Airports-project=yes. Thanks, Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 19:03, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AWB

The latest commit doesn't build.

The name 'temp' does not exist in the current context
ReplaceSpecial.cs
Line 719
Column 17
WikiFunctions

and

The type or namespace name 'IAWBMainForm' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Main.cs
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AutoWikiBrowser

No idea why.

Also, what do you think about integrating wikidiff2 into AWB? (See [1]) It's the code that generates the diffs. The only problem is that it's written in c++, not c#. Can we "translate" it with that site you told me about to translate the custom module code? That would allow us to generate the diffs locally, saving time for users when using AWB and saving resources. Then we can even eliminate the quick save option from the bots list. —METS501 (talk) 01:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

The ReplaceSpecial.cs error is my fault. I simplified some code i did, but didnt check it compiled. Commited so it compiles now!!. The 2nd error, im not sure... I usually just delete files like that and reupdate if i get errors like that....

That program will do a version of C++, so we could. What does MaxSem have to say? Reedy Boy 01:09, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Snowbot

Hi,

I would like to request a edit rate change for my bot, Snowbot. Can you please tell me what it the procedure for such a thing?

Thanks and happy editing,

Snowolf ^(talk) _CON ^COI - 00:59, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Something like 7-10, I don't know how much exactly. Simply the currently rate of 5/min is slow, since CFD/W is really long many times. And even UCFD, sometimes. You're more expert than me, and you surely know better than me what is the rate that Snowbot need, I think ;-) Snowolf ^(talk) _CON ^COI - 10:54, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User page

So, you're still affiliated with Esperanza? :-) - Anas ^Talk? 11:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] STTWbot

Hi Mets501! There seems to be some mistake perhaps from my side) as I wanted to request a 2nd task for my already existing bot, STTWbot and not a new bot (STTWbot 2). Which is shown in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Bots_in_a_trial_period. Could you please correct it? STTW (talk) 18:01, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] B5 Wikiproject box

Hi Mets. The wikiprojects don't have to userfy their ubxes, according to the migration page. Cheers, Fang Aili ^talk 01:03, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Groovy, thanks. --Fang Aili ^talk 01:16, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AWB / NW557Bot

Hello Mets501. My bot, NW557Bot, was recently approved for user talk template substitution using AWB. I've noticed a little problem while running the bot which doesn't cause any harm but does result in some unnecessary changes. The vandalism templates {{uw-vandalism1}}, etc. have <!-- {{uw-vandalism#}} --> commented at the end so it can be identified which template was used when substituted. When AWB goes to substitute templates on a user page, it doesn't ignore commented out templates, so it ends up changing <!-- {{uw-vandalism#}} --> to <!-- {{subst:uw-vandalism#}} --> if there are any substituted templates on the page which are listed in the list of templates to be substituted. Because they're commented out, it doesn't really make any difference, but it is an unnecessary change. Perhaps a feature could be built into an upcoming version of AWB that would add an option to ignore commented out templates when performing template substitution (or if one already exists, please let me know). Thanks for your time. --Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 04:51, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MetsBot userbox replacement mistake

I'd like to thank you for having your bot fix links to migrated userboxes; I can recall several instances in which it helped on my userpage. However, I noticed one mistake it made on User:SPKx in this edit, where it incorrectly replaced {{user age|24}} with {{user age|:UBX/24}}, certainly not a valid change. Just thought you should know. — Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 05:51, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I forgot to mention: If you respond, please either respond here or copy this section to my talk page. I like to keep conversations together. Thanks! — Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 05:55, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. I've fixed in for the next bot run :-) —METS501 (talk) 05:59, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

No problem! As useful as bots are, I like to catch them when they make mistakes. ;-) — Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 00:41, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot edits to archive

Hi, Mets501. I reverted a few edits that your bot made while migrating userboxes: specifically, its edits to archive pages here, here and here. Since those pages are a record of discussions about the creation of the userboxes, it's not appropriate to change them to the UBX version. For talk page archives, it's usually better to have a redlink than to change someone else's comment.

I didn't check to see whether your bot had made changes to other talk page archives, but you might want to. It's not a huge deal, but it'd be better if your bot didn't edit archive pages like that. Thanks! —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 07:58, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, I kind of disagree, the reason being that if you checked a user's contributions, they would be to the User:UBX/... page, not the Template:User ... page, as the histories were moved. It's also helpful to be able to actually see where the user's edits are, something that you can't find if you're not an admin who can view deleted revisions. What do you think? —METS501 (talk) 16:56, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, you can still see the user's contribution history. I can see your argument, but I tend to think of archive pages as a historical record that shouldn't be changed. I'll ask at Wikipedia talk:How to archive a talk page to see what the general sentiment there is. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 17:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blanking edits on talk page

Hi Mets501, when you have a chance, could you comment on [2] (Editing talk pages). I've left a recommendation on the talk of Trentino-South Tyrol, but I'm guessing the User PhJ responds better to Admin advice. Taalo 16:49, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

• Sorry, didn't realize your were on vacation. I've left the message on another Admin's talk page. Taalo 16:57, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot keeps changing the same link

Mets, would you please take a look at the page history on WP:HAM. MetsBot has changed a template link three times now. This page lists both the old and new locations for the template in question and the bot keeps messing up the listing. The bot really shouldn't try and update the same page multiple times for the same edit. Thanks. --StuffOfInterest 17:56, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. That will help. Didn't mind the change on my user page, but it was really confusing the directory. --StuffOfInterest 19:02, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Migrate my archive?

Hi there,

I noticed what you did with Rfrisbie's userbox archive, and was wondering if you could do the same to mine (if it's not too much work) at User:MiraLuka/Userboxes (a full list is at User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/Alphabetical). I've been out of the userbox "business" for a while now, and I recently asked for a name change, so I thought this would be the ideal time to move them all out. Please let me know if you're willing to do this. —Mira 08:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

No work for me, just my bot. I'll start the work in a couple of days. —METS501 (talk) 17:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! —Mira 21:25, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot Malfunction

This user modified my User page incorrectly.

{{User Monty Python|Monty Python| is a fan of Monty Python}}

was changed to

{{User:UBX/Monty Python|:UBX/Monty Python| is a fan of Monty Python}}

As you can see, the link in the user box was corrupted by the bot. There was a page for "Monty Python", but there is no page for ":UBX/Monty Python".

Same here: [3] --bitterMan.lha 02:51, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Seeing as your bot did this to several hundred pages (at least) I have sent my bot to fix all instances of it that I could find.--Dycedarg ж 03:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User PhJ

Hey Mets, can someone stop PhJ from blanking edits, and doing his line by line censuring? He reported me now for reverting his blanks. o_O Before he reported me for vandalism because I reverted his edits. o_O I don't know what is his agenda.. Taalo 19:41, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] my main page

Some bots went to my main page and made the boxes (firefox user, etc) work better. Thanks bot person owner! Cocopopz2005 04:16, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] South Tyrol

Hi Mets501, on South Tyrol could you maybe help steer us to a solution as well? The polling, to me, is just showing a complete split of opinion. Dare I say there appears to be quite a strong German interest in a page for South Tyrol. I see many people suggest (and I agree as well) to do a split of the article. One article for the province of BZ, and another for the history of the region AA/ST. Anyway, I would rather have an objective interpretation of the talk-page results; so when you have a chance, please take a look over. Really appreciate it! Taalo 01:13, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox stuff

Okay, I've read it, but if it's not policy, then it doesn't stand against someone's good-faith opposition, right? Hey, be bold... but don't be reckless! ;) Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 06:01, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I would think that when it's come under protest, yes, it is mildly reckless. Just mildly (heck, it's userboxes =P)... but still. Do redirects hurt? Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 06:06, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I hear you, but I'm fairly sure (could be wrong!) that "redirects are cheap" is part of some policy or guideline or something. That's all. I think this is just a priorities thing--I think it's kind of important for people to type in {{user 1337-4}} which, to me, seems the most natural name for the template. That's just me, though. I get what you're saying, but I've never seen the harm in userboxes in template space, let alone redirects out of template space. Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 06:14, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geo microformat

Please will you help to implement the Geo microformat in the Coor d template? Thank you. Andy Mabbett 17:19, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please stop your bot from editing my page

I choose to keep deleted templates on my page. Please stop changing them. Jooler 19:32, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nobots

I had Jooler's userpage on my watchlist for an unrelated reason, and I noticed that you added the nobots tag to prevent your bot from editing his userpage. He already had {{bots|deny=DyceBot,MetsBot}} on his userpage before the last edit by MetsBot, which your bot ignored. If your bot is configured to comply with the bots template in the first place (which is the only case under which the nobots tag would work anyway) than this should have stopped your bot from editing his page. I think you should reexamine your bot's exemption code if it's really supposed to be compliant with the tags. If it's running Pywikipedia there's a patch that works perfectly, that's how I got it to work for my bot. On another note, if your bot is fully compliant with the tags I would recommend you put its userpage in Category:Exclusion compliant bots so people know.--Dycedarg ж 20:10, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] motion to close mediation

hello there,

there was a mediation offer quite a while ago concerning the issue of Trentino-South Tyrol. I am happy to announce that the issue has been discussed, voted upon and settled. However the mediation offer still needs to be officially closed. Please take a minute to visit the page Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-10-20 Trentino-South Tyrol and put your signature at the bottom if you agree with the decision, thank you. sincerely Gryffindor 20:31, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

• A very important note. This mediation offer concerned the greater overall naming convention to use in this region, not just the name of the region itself. We came up with a very good compromise for the regional name itself. I for one am still looking forward for Lar to help us out. Taalo 21:29, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] what is he up to now?

Assuming good faith of course. Gryffindor is trying to terminate the overall mediation offer by Lar (please see Lar's talk page for his own confusion). Gryffindor just unilaterally moved Bolzano to Bolzano-Bozen. While I agree with this edit, it goes completely against the move request that was just recently closed. This kind of brings some bad memories to what this fellow did on Trentino-Alto Adige back in 2005. Lastly, and I don't know if it is sour grapes, but he keeps deleting the Trentin-Adesc Aut, which is one of the Ladin names for the region. I'll find Markussep's citations and add them to the page. Yup, assuming good faith! :) Anyway, again really happy to have a neutral admin such as yourself watching things. Taalo 22:01, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the citation, I'm doing that right now. Quite disappointed at this behavior. : \ Taalo 22:22, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the move. Well, the poll for Bozen-Bolzano to Bozen was actually 9 support, 2 oppose. It wasn't perfect consensus, but it was pretty darn close. I actually prefer Bolzano-Bozen above all, because that is what I usually see on signs in the province. However, Gryffindor simply moving the page out of the blue like this just seems pretty flat out wrong. Taalo 22:32, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AWB Updater

Hey, Get your AWB SVN Version updated and have a look :P

Reedy Boy 23:43, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Just commited a version that works. Currently setup to download from my local webserver, with the file link and the filename manually entered

But tested working from the SF Servers, just a bit slower than a local http server ;)

Just need a way to pass it the parameters of the filename and the filepath!!

Reedy Boy 00:37, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for fixing typo's on Ravenloft (D&D module)

Just wanted to say thanks. These are exactly the type of errors that I particularly have problems seeing on something I have worked so long on. They are things easy to spot on somethign you are reading for the first time, but not somethign you have already read dozens of times. Appreciate the imput. -Waza 22:08, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My Bot

Hey! I made a bot request here. I know that you'r e good at AWB, so would you find checking it out? I'm pretty sure this request would be useful because as of this moment, there are over 8,000 unsubsted user warnings! Thanks! --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 00:12, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the approval. However, could you also approve me on the AWB page, as I'm not an admin. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 00:23, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

As I've never had a bot before, how many edits should a trial be? (Please reply here). --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 00:27, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

About 100 should be fine. —METS501 (talk) 00:28, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I also saw another user whose bot's talkpage said the bot will stop if you post here. He was using AWB. Is that automatic, or do I have to enable it somehow? Thanks! --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 00:30, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

If you're using AWB, the bot will stop automatically when the bot's talk page is edited. —METS501 (talk) 00:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know if you're still in. But if you are, can you check the bots contributions. It would be nice to get it approved now so I could keep it running all night. Thanks for all your help. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 02:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, looks good. Keep an eye out for the next version of AWB. When you download it, then you can just run general fixes on the talk pages and the templates will automatically be substituted :-). Just keep running the bot overnight, and I'll formally approve it tomorrow morning. —METS501 (talk) 02:03, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Since right now, it's not flagged and will appear in recent changes, at what rate should I set it to for the night? --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 02:29, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I've filed a request for a flag. You should have it in soon (or maybe a few hours). You might as well run it at about 4 edits/min for now until flagged. —METS501 (talk) 02:35, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hairy Pom (cocktail)

I noticed you deleted my Hairy Pom (cocktail) page that I added because you didnt find me to be a notable expert on the subject of alcoholic beverages. How does a new drink get added to the list of cocktails if they are simply deleted when some admin decides the drink is not credible? Do you know of another name for a Pomegranate and Vodka cocktail?

I just want to clarify: it was not that I didn't consider you notable, but I didn't consider the cocktail notable. If you can find references for the article based on multiple, non-trivial sources, the article can definitely stay. See Wikipedia:Attribution for more information. Thanks. —METS501 (talk) 01:06, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ok, I think I've really had my fill... :(

[4][5] Taalo 23:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

• thanks, i replied on my talk page. Taalo 01:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Migrate my archive? (again)

Hi, I know you said you'd have your bot work on my request, and I don't mean to pester you. I just wanted to be sure you didn't forget, that's all. Thanks again. —Mira 01:25, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Nope, don't worry; I didn't forget :-) —METS501 (talk) 01:29, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Heh, don't mind me, I'm a little forgetful myself, so I just worry that everyone else is like me. :) —Mira 01:43, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

All userboxes moved to User:UBX's space, now the bot is updating transclusions. —METS501 (talk) 02:23, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Great. I noticed when I was cleaning all those boxes out of my watchlist that there's at least one odd one: {{User:UBX/DEUTSCH}} (moved to User:UBX/DEUTSCH) is actually just a redirect to Wikipedia:Userbox migration/Userbox. So transclusions should probably be pointed there. I'll let you know if I find another odd one. —Mira 02:27, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, OK. The bot run is fully automatic, so for now I'll have it migrate it to User:UBX/DEUTSCH and maybe afterwards I'll bypass the redirect. —METS501 (talk) 02:29, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I suppose I should have checked first. —Mira 02:32, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Just to fill you in, the bot says that the estimated finish time is around 3/20/2007 3:27:23 EST, which would be 3/20/2007 07:27:23 UTC. —METS501 (talk) 02:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Neat that it tells you when it'll be done. Thanks for telling me. I did find one other odd one, though. User:UBX/knight redirects to User:Nouly/Userboxes/User knight. And do you think you could migrate User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/Nav as well? —Mira 02:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, it looks like your bot has stopped. I'm not sure if it finished, though, because my name change seems to have gone through around the same time. One thing I do know is that all the userbox pages got moved to my new namespace, so now there are twice as many pages to delete. :( —Mira 06:49, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, it was done migrating as far as it knew, but unfortunately the name change really screwed everything up :-) I'm going to school now, I'll be home later today and will try and fix the rest. —METS501 (talk) 11:06, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to make you do work :-). Do you mind going through the templates listed at Special:Prefixindex/User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/ and marking all of them with no more transclusions for deletion? Thanks. It should be most of them, and at that point it will be much easier for me to see what work I have left. If you could also do the same for Special:Prefixindex/User:Mira/Userboxes/, that would be great. Thanks! (you should do the first ones first because they redirect to the second ones) —METS501 (talk) 21:58, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Certainly. I was just going to ask you what I could do to help. It might take a little while for me to get to them, though, I'm just about to call home. —Mira 22:04, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstars

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		is awarded to MetsBot for constantly substituting templates and many other countless things. Bushcarrot (Talk·Guestbook) 02:03, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		is awarded to Mets501 for creating such a useful bot! Thanks (even though I prefer the Orioles)! Bushcarrot (Talk·Guestbook) 02:03, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

• No problem. You earned it. Bushcarrot (Talk·Guestbook) 02:13, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Thank you for replacing my userboxes to the correct userbox! Thank you, very appreciated.

User:Factual80man

[edit] MetsBot making a bad conversion

MetsBot keeps changing Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/User onemanonewoman. The thing is, this page only contains a link to the user box page, so it shouldn't be replacing it with transclusion even if it wasn't the MfD. Since it is the MfD, it's doubly problematic. I reverted the bot twice, but I suspect this isn't the only MfD page it's changed. —Doug Bell ^talk 16:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Is it possible to automaticaly mark all MfD pages as bot-denied? Newyorkbrad 17:13, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I already have my bot ignore all TfD pages; I forgot about MfD pages. My apologizes. —METS501 (talk) 18:25, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Related userboxen?

It would make sense to move a few or all of my boxes to go along with Mira's archive, as they are related. Could you set your bot to do this? - ∅ (∅), 21:15, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! - ∅ (∅), 00:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Betacommand

All hell has broken loose at User talk:Betacommand and WP:AN or WP:ANI (I forget which), and it seems to be about the link removal task he's just been approved for. He was removing Google links, despite my pointing out to him that Google is an official interwiki link. The result was that citations to newsgroup postings were being zapped (hardly the most reliable source, but that's not the point). Also, he was doing it under his own account not the bot's, which was presumably a mistake.

I thought that the approval came a bit quick as he hadn't adequately answered my question about how he was deciding what was spam or not. Either way, I think we should withdraw task approval or risk having egg on our collective faces; he can always reapply when the process has been streamlined and has community approval.

In Beta's defence he did clean up the mess; this isn't about censure but about recognising that we've got a bot approval wrong. Agree or not? --kingboyk 22:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spelian

Would you mind having a look at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Spelian? --kingboyk 00:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I declined the application, having just realised he's a newbie I gave a conditional approval to, added to your comment that the spell checking isn't ready for automated use. Is that OK? --kingboyk 01:14, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good. —METS501 (talk) 01:14, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Betacommandbot 3

Um, I don't see where the request was withdrawn by betacommand. From what I see Tawker approved it. Can you explain the reasoning behind denying it? Thanks. (please reply on my talk page) —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 00:49, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Due to the huge controversy surrounding Betacommand's removal of external links, I have withdrawn the approval for his bot. I've edited the request to make it clear that I am withdrawing the approval; he is not withdrawing the request. —METS501 (talk) 00:54, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Errm, I don't think this bot is the same thing. I don't understand how the two are related. Why the backlash (as in removing approval for unrelated task)? As far as I understand this bot only edits under WP:WPSPAM space ('WP:WPSPAM/Something'), and is totally unrelated to removal of links. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 00:57, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, clearly he was doing it an automated fashion, and it leaves us looking incompetent if we allow it to continue. Let the dust settle and he can reapply. He should consider himself lucky that's the only consequence, really. --kingboyk 01:06, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I see what you're saying. For me, I have serious issues understanding Betacommand when he writes, and it looks like that task is open ended, almost to the point of "can I do whatever I want with regards to spam?". I don't think it's a good idea to have him be able to do whatever he wants with regards to spam as of now with the whole controversy. If he wants to do any more specific tasks, he can request them again, hopefully trying to write clearer. —METS501 (talk) 01:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Seconded. The point is that WP:BAG needs to appear decisive and on top of the game; whether or not this approval was specifically about what Beta was doing doesn't really matter. It's all part of the same process, a process which the community isn't happy about. As I said, let the dust settle and it can be revisited. For now it's game over. --kingboyk 01:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Kingboyk, yeah I remember the old way we did this, before bag, and I don't recall any serious issues with that way myself. ;). —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 01:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok, there is a clone bot named Vulpinebot, that is running the same task. The task is simply keeping track of links that are checked by anti-spam members. The bot only edits under WP:SPAM space. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VixDaemon 4 is the clone. If the bot operator is not betacommand, is the bot idea acceptable. (it seems to have been determined as that on the original BRFA). —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 01:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Heh. Mets, it's your talk page :) --kingboyk 01:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

The original idea was acceptable, but what was the new request for? —METS501 (talk) 01:15, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VixDaemon 4 is to do the original idea, all edits restrained to WP:WPSPAM space. Only difference is the bot operator. I re-iterate the bot does not edit out of WP:WPSPAM space, and its task does not expand beyond that. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 01:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I have dropped a message to that bot operator about this thread. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 01:20, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Have I explained the tasking well enough? It was already approved once :) —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 01:27, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I wrote a long reply here, but I'm gonna summarise: come back tommorow or when the dust has settled. --kingboyk 01:39, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Thats fine, but I still think this action is a little err... punitive? Regardless its not my bot, so I'm sure betacommand will figure it out :) Though I'm going to be bluntly honest, I fail to see the relevance between what betacommand did today, and this bot request. The bot in the request never did remove any links. In either case I am going to go work on cppwiki (C++ wiki framework), so we can make some C++ bots! —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 01:42, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry. We're technology fans or we wouldn't be on BAG. Tommorow's a new day and we can start again; for now, beta overstepped the mark, his proposal shouldn't have been approved so quickly in the first place; and we have a duty to listen to the community. Punitive? Perhaps, but it wasn't meant to be. Damage limitation was more like it. See you tommorow :) --kingboyk 01:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I got an edit conflict. Probably there's no connection at all between what beta did today and the other bot requests. It is however evening or night in the northern hemisphere and I'm off to bed, so let's sort it out tommorow :) Good luck with the programming. --kingboyk 01:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Why is BAG involved in this? BCbot's third task is purely a statical and record keeping task. BCbot had no part in link removal and wont until a BRFA goes up for that. I left the exact details of the stats out because we are still figuring out what we need as far as stats. as I said before it only edits sub pages. if you want i can give you the code. I think this action was made in bad faith as it has no relation to my personal actions. you should reconsider your choice as that task has been operational for several weeks and there have been ZERO issues. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 02:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

You can certainly disagree with the merits of Mets501's decision if you wish (I don't have a view one way or the other), but to say it was made "in bad faith" is uncivil and not appropriate. Newyorkbrad 02:39, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, but what exactly was that request for? That is, what new was being requested in that task? I will reverse my withdrawal if you can let me know. To respond to your other question about the involvement of the BAG, the bot approvals group is generally responsible for the bots that are currently running on Wikipedia. They do more than approvals, so the name is really misleading. If there are serious bot problems, the blame partly goes to the person who approved the bot. —METS501 (talk) 02:27, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Right, but there are no serious bot problems with that particular tasking. As beta said, there have been 0 complaints. (I'm back as winsock is annoying me :), can't wait to be back on linux. ) —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 02:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Kyra's bot is just a clone because I have internet connection issues (my default connection is 26.4kbs) and hosting a bot on that connection is not a easy task. in regard to what the origional request was as doing linksearches of identified possible spam tracking those linksearch results on a subpage and maintaining that data. that is what is currently operational. I left the exact stats from the task as I was/am hoping to develope other stats also and wanted to be able to incorperate the stats in WP:WPSPAM subpages also without having to file more BRFA's BCbot's task is limited to data collection and recording. Kyra's bot is the exact same but hosted on a better internet connection Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 02:45, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

So if I'm understanding correctly, the new bot request was just to add more data to the spam recording page? What kind of data would that be? —METS501 (talk) 02:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually BCbot has no approval for any of the spam pages. I have been running the bot while awaiting approval. I am asking for that approval. the only other data that might be used it already gets would be just tracking the reports better and figuring out what the data it has means. but as that hasn't been coded Ill settle for getting the current code up. and file a new BRFA for new stats when they arise. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 02:54, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

As far as I understand the tasking, it is the whole idea of the statistics to start with. He has just been running the bot in test mode for quite a while with no complaints. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 02:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot deflagging

I still have open questions in the above section, but see Wikipedia:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard#Another_bot_deflagging. It looks like Betacommandbot has been deflagged as a result of your removal of approval for that tasking. Did you intend to unapprove all of Betacommandbot's tasks? Clarification on that issue would be nice. Thanks. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 17:59, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] For you

		The Userbox Thank You Box
		This Userbox Thank You Box goes to Mets501 for the quick, efficient and effective migration of all userboxes and directory pages formerly at MiraLuka to UBX. Thank you very much for your help. —Mira 23:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

And this is for MetsBot. :)

[edit] Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MetsBot 2

Whatever happened to that? Abandoned? --kingboyk 01:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking of having my plugin add {{Db-botnomain}} to orphaned talk pages it finds. As it does WikiProject tagging false positives should be less. However, there's no point wasting my time. What do you think? Just forget it? --kingboyk 15:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] talkpage substitutions

Would it be possible to mark those minor to avoid the orange bar of death? Agathoclea 08:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Ocobot

has posted diffs and needs a response. --kingboyk 00:32, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Move tab

You know I never saw that before, now I can easily move userboxes but not only that rearrage my userspace (which I had been putting off because I used to copy and paste). Also, on my talk page did you press the "leave this user a comment" button? I wish users would not do that as it screws up my talk page. Your message should have gone under the userbox section. -PatPeter 17:53, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automatic Substing

I though you said auto-substing of templates would be in the next version. I guess now you mean the version after the next version. :) --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 00:21, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

It should be in the new version. You're editing user talk pages with general fixes on, right? I'm going to investigate now. —METS501 (talk) 03:34, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh. I didn't no that. Let me try. And what templates is AWB programmed to subst? (no need to copy to my talk) --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 03:37, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

It substitutes every template in Category:User warning templates as well as all redirects to those templates. You should see the regex I created to do that, it's crazy :-) —METS501 (talk) 03:39, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Simply great! I haven't been doing redirects because it takes too long to make the list and everything.:) --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 03:42, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Enjoy! :-) —METS501 (talk) 03:43, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Question:How come the typos have to be refreshed in AWB but the templates in the Cat don't? Also, how come in this diff only one template is substed yet both are in the user warning templates cat?. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 21:16, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

It's actually not loaded live, but hardcoded into AWB, which is why the list doesn't have the be refreshed. And I've fixed the second error already for the next release :-). Also, in the future, those templates will be substituted using Special:ExpandTemplates so that all the parserfunction and parameter junk doesn't show up. —METS501 (talk) 22:51, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

If it's hardcoded, does that mean that any new templates created between versions aren't substed until the next release? --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 22:54, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

It does, but it's way too hard to get all the redirects and stuff to templates each time AWB loads. —METS501 (talk) 00:01, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

It does what? --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 00:03, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I does "mean that any new templates created between versions aren't substed until the next release". :-). —METS501 (talk) 00:05, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I checked out that special page. If you check "remove comments", then it doesn't show the template name in HTML tags, and if you uncheck it, it makes this: <!-- [[uw-vandalism3]]<!-- WARNING: template loop detected --> --> --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 23:01, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Good call. In the next version it automatically adds the comment when substituting user talk templates and has a checkbox to optionally add the comment when using the regular "subst: templates" interface. —METS501 (talk) 23:54, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

"You should see the regex I created to do that, it's crazy :-)" - Where am I looking? --kingboyk 23:27, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

It's in parsers.cs. —METS501 (talk) 23:39, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

That'll be string legacyWarnings etc etc then... Ugh! I wonder if, with that many templates involved, it ought to be self-updating i.e. grab it's list of templates from the category? --kingboyk 12:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I see the same has been suggested above. Never mind. --kingboyk 12:34, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] userspace -> userspace

Regarding User:UBX....Have a look at this edit[6]. 2 problems; "User:UBX" implys that it is more official (why can't you host them on your own account?) and the UBXs were already hosted on a willing user page. There's no reason to move them, and especially not to a specific account for userbox hosting. Scepia 03:56, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

"I didn't want to host the userboxes in subpages of User:Mets501, for various reasons"
Funny, you never mention these "reasons". The least you could do is make User:Mets502 or something, so at least it doesn't encourage people to put userboxes on a seemingly "official" account (User:UBX). I hope Jimbo deletes the account if he sees it; there is no reason to have such a official-sounding name for any account. Should i put up a little "move your userboxes" thing on my page? I'm certainly not leaving Wikipedia any time soon. If Mira is tired of the userboxes, she shouldn't have put them on her account in the 1st place. It is not your job to collect them, it is up to all of us. Thank you. Scepia 04:12, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I apologize if i was rude. I was not being sarcastic; but recommending a solution that would eliminate any official-sounding account. I am glad to host UBXs on my account, but am opposed to a specific account just for that - guess why? Jimbo's policy. I'm not trying to be brash about policy - it is what it is. Sorry. Scepia 04:42, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

"How would you feel about moving all of the Userboxes that you moved to your userspace to User:UserBox's? McKay 16:06, 5 January 2007 (UTC)"

"Unfortunately, that idea has been vetoed by Jimbo himself. No special purpose accounts for hosting userboxes, it turns out. -GTBacchus(talk) 22:45, 5 January 2007 (UTC)"

Check out discussion here and here. Scepia 05:02, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AWB Approval

I noticed that you have recently approved a plethora of users for AWB, myself included, yet I did not see my name on the Check Page. can I still download and run AWB? ~Steptrip _{You raise me up} 16:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, by the way, could you raise me up? ~Steptrip _{You raise me up} 17:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the review; I do have VandalProof on my hard disk, but the Anti-vandal tool works more efficiently, so I use the latter. ~Steptrip _{You raise me up} 18:53, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

You have a reply by e-mail. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 00:30, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

No need to alert me next time, I have outlook which alerts me :-). Thanks though. —METS501 (talk) 01:13, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Checkpage

How come there has to be an admin section on the AWB checkpage. What does letting the software know the user is an admin do? --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 00:32, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Admins can delete pages in AWB. —METS501 (talk) 01:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

But don't they have a delete tab on the loaded page in the top part anyway? --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 01:15, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

You can't navigate in the AWB browser, so you can't press delete. So it's built into AWB. —METS501 (talk) 01:21, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Mets501, I've tried an admin bot in my wiki, but it doesn't work. Any incompatibility between the two roles in AWB? Snowolf ^(talk) _CON ^COI - 13:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, this feature is under development. It was added for IRCMonitor, to restrict simple users from such things as mass reverts and so on. MaxSem 15:26, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Poke

My BRFA thanks Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 01:06, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:UBX/ISP Adelphia

Adelphia was absorbed by Time Warner and Comcast. I am 'formerly' an adelphia user, this morning I am no longer using Adelphia DNS servers, but Comcast ones. Perhaps you could change it to say "this users ISP was formerly known as Adelphia." I miss my old ISP/Cable operator, so If it could turn into a tribute, that'd be neat. --x1987x^(talk) 15:39, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

made the title clickable

[edit] usage of revert tool

hello there Mets501. I received your message, and as far as I know, I do not remember any Wikipedia rule that states that the revert tool may not be used to what a sysop would consider vandalism or edit-warring. Whether I revert it manually or by tool does not make much of a difference IMO. But if this seems to generate controversy, of which a sysop should abstain, I am willing to revert such edits manually in future, in order to avoid the impression I am abusing the tool. sincerely Gryffindor 20:18, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AutoWikiBrowser

Hi, Thanks for approving me. Can I asked my questions about AWB if I had any problem with it.--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 02:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I downloaded it but when I click on the icon of AutoWikiBrowser encounter with The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). --Sa.vakilian(t-c) 02:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I downloaded it from another mirror but problem hasn't been solved.--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 02:44, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I answered this on your talk page. MaxSem 05:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I've asked you a question on the dev talk page of AWB. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 23:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 23:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Expand_all_for_category_trees

Is it me, or did you not add this before?

Or did it get removed?

Cheers

Reedy Boy 15:55, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Karate User Box

Hi Mets501. I wondered if you'd mind editing your Karate userbox to contain a picture of someone doing karate rather than taekwondo. All the best, Shinji nishizono 12:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Ouch

MetsBot seems to have some trouble with < and >. Rendering them as (I guess?) Unicode or something (?) which, obviously, breaks them: Your bot's edit, Me fixing. Just thought I'd give you a heads up ;-) — Deon555^talk_desk^{sign here!} 23:27, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it's definitely a bug. I've blocked the bot; sorry. Please ensure that {{helpme}} is surrounded by an actual <nowiki></nowiki>, whose <> brackets are not converted into some ASCII(?) code. I'll unblock as soon as you let me know it's fixed. Thanks a lot. Xiner (talk, email) 23:45, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AWB Problem?

Hello, I'd noticed you had used AWB to substitute the welcome template on User talk:82.163.138.202 - unfortunately, it looks like the program is a little messed up. Somehow it replaced the brackets < > in the nowiki codes around {{helpme}} and ~~~~ with HTML character codes, rendering the tags useless and thereby placing a giant helpme template in the middle of the welcome message. Have you noticed this elsewhere? It seems to be a rather serious problem with the program, so I thought I'd make you aware of it, since I'm not sure who else to report the problem to. Thanks. Hersfold ^(talk/work) 23:50, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot substituting welcome templates

When MetsBot substitutes a welcome template, e.g. [7], it also has been substituting the {{helpme}} which breaks up the welcome message and leaves a recurring message on the IRC channel. This could either be fixed by changing the template using some noinclude or HTML markup magic, or perhaps something with the bot. —Centrx→talk • 23:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Since it works fine if I do a normal substitution like {{subst:welcomespam}} it's probably best to have the bot do that rather than whatever direct substitution it is doing. —Centrx→talk • 00:00, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

From one NYC admin to another, no problem. =P (scurries back within my shell) Xiner (talk, email) 00:32, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] catagories

Hi Mets501, is this something that can be fixed now [8]? thank you. Icsunonove 19:01, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah, ok, that makes sense. thank you! Icsunonove 19:09, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] province page

Hi Mets501, one more thing. Could you please keep an eye on or look into what is going on with the Province of Trento move request initiated by Gryffindor? With the individuals who are supporting this move (minus Tridentinus), I smell tit-for-tat behavior (i.e., the ones who fought most against the Trentino-South Tyrol move). An admin blanking an ongoing discussion and then setting up a move request is very dubious in my eyes. Regards, Icsunonove 19:05, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, completely understood. Though it does add something to the process to have someone watch over things and keep people in check. Actually, do you have any recommendations on how we can get this whole thing arbitrated by a neutral party? I still believe everyone has to much bias and baggage at this point. Icsunonove 19:16, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I will do that. I think the only thing that makes sense for a long-term, and most of all correct, solution is to have truly neutral mediators. thanks. Icsunonove 19:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Betacommand

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An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Betacommand. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Betacommand/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Betacommand/Workshop.

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[edit] Leonhard Euler Assessment

Why did you revert my assessment of Leonhard Euler? I can see no significant contribution he has made to Lutheranism, so why Euler is certainly significant to mathematics, I fail to understand how he is of any specific significance to Lutheranism. An expliantion of your reasoning would be most appreciated. jackturner3 19:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

It's OK; these sorts of things do happen. I just through it was rather strange, that's all.jackturner3 19:34, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Way of substing changed?

Was the way AWB auto substs changed in the new version? Something isn't right as you can see on the bug reports page. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 23:57, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanto - better than FA?

This edit made it through 9 months and an FA review before the ultimate fact-checking team noticed a subtle error: the Esperanto wikipedia translation team. It makes me smile. CMummert · talk 00:08, 31 March 2007 (UTC)