User talk:BattyBot/Archive7

improper fixes

See this diff. Your bot created junk from junk. In this case, the numeric values assigned to |volume= and |issue= are the same except that |volume= includes the numero character. It appears that the source does not specify a volume (can't really tell because the actual article is not archived). Perhaps it is best to skip cases like these:

|volume=№ 3 |issue=3

—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:28, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Request new article

Ramkripalyadvg Can you create a page and add it to Wikipedia You can get the material from here Draft:Ramkripalyadavge Muskang375 (talk) 03:58, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@Muskang375: No, this bot is not authorized to create articles. Please read the banner at the top of this page. GoingBatty (talk) 04:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Can the bot de-orphan articles in a specific list

I've generated and validated a list of 1731 non-orphans tagged as orphan, at Quarry 81875. These articles have one inlink from a "List of XXXX" article. Can the bot de-orphan? ☆ Bri (talk) 20:51, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

@Bri: No, because the functionality in AWB's general fixes "Removes {{Orphan}} if article has more than 2 incoming links". That's why I use this query. GoingBatty (talk) 20:57, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Not a problem, I can feed AWB (JWB) my list and at least it's semi-automated from there. ☆ Bri (talk) 21:08, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

@Bri: I just removed the tag from the 29 articles in the query above. GoingBatty (talk) 21:22, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Problem with Batty Bot

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T362293

Hello, GoingBatty,

I've recently run into a problem caused by this bot that has never happened in the past. What Batty Bot is doing is posting maintenance templates/message right in the middle of an AFD tag. I only realized this when closing AFD discussions and let's just say that it really messes up the closure. XFDcloser doesn't know how to handle a broken-up AFD tag on an article so these closures have to be closed manually. If you want a for instance, you can look at Granite Rock Co. 10 but it's happened 3 or 4 times in the past few days. Any idea why this is happening? Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:05, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

@Liz: Thanks for letting me know. I'm not sure if it's a change to AWB's general fixes or a change with the AfD template or its comments. I'll file an AWB bug and see what the developers have to say. GoingBatty (talk) 01:49, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages

Hi, I'm still coming across loads of pages where your bot added a duplicate {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} banner in 2015. One example: [1]. Is there any way you can search for these and remove all the duplicates? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:40, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

@MSGJ: Hi there! Thank you for alerting me to this problem. Category:Pages using WikiProject banner shell with duplicate banner templates is empty, so I used PetScan to find all talk pages with {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} and without {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and found over 129,000 pages. I've got AWB preparsing the list, and I will fix the appropriate pages. Thanks again! GoingBatty (talk) 02:04, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

All the ones I have found were in Category:Pages using WikiProject banner shell with duplicate banner templates but it is populating slowly and only a few per day are added. There are only 450 pages without banner shells, so I don't think you will find any in there — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:40, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

@MSGJ: Category:WikiProject banners without banner shells also seems to be populating slowly. I'll keep working on cleaning up the pages. Note there I am also fixing some pages that my bot never edited, such as Talk:United Football League (disambiguation). GoingBatty (talk) 17:56, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Okay thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:39, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

@MSGJ: All done! GoingBatty (talk) 01:29, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Cheers! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:46, 7 October 2024 (UTC)