User talk:ClueBot Commons/Archives/2007/September

Forgot to warn

Cluebot seems to have forgotten to warn the user after this obvious vandalism. Mr.Z-man 21:13, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

ClueBot does not "forget." It may have not warned the user for a myriad of reasons, the most common being maxlag. The replication lag has been very high recently (last ClueBot reported, it was 30 seconds). There are other reasons, such as being turned off, being blocked, etc. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 21:22, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

timeout

Hello ClueBot.

Here is a second timeout mistake. Regards, —DerHexer (Talk) 21:40, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I am considering listing that page speedy deletion. It no longer serves a purpose as all that information is displayed on IRC anyway. I know exactly why it errors there, but it would take considerable effort to fix. I don't think it is worth it to keep that page. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 21:45, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

That's true. … I didn't know why you're using that page. If you want to let it delete, don't be afraid to ask me. Regards, —DerHexer (Talk) 21:59, 3 September 2007 (UTC) P. S.: Deleted it.

WP:OP reporting

Hi, could you please change ClueBot's code to report suspected open proxies at the top of the list? That's where new entries are supposed to go. Thanks, —Crazytales (o rly?) 01:43, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

 Done. I am sorry about that. I didn't see anywhere on that page saying to report to the top. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 01:51, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the speedy fix. There's not actually anything saying to report at the top, it's just where new reports tend to go, and it's where I and probably other WP:OP members check first. —Crazytales (o rly?) 11:11, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Doubled

Hello ClueBot. ;)

This entry has been doubled. Regards, —DerHexer (Talk) 15:55, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Cluebot, actually there are a lot of doubles ;) [1]. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 22:13, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

I believe this has been fixed. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 22:23, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 22:59, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Criticism

My criticism has been removed from the "Praise" page, which I guess is fair enough. But you have failed to provide a "Criticism" page. If only WP:NPOV applied to bots. Anyway... this bot sucks, it reverts my (perfectly good) edits, and I hope it burns in hell. Thank you and good day -- 86.133.138.146 13:00, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikirage.com

It there a way ClueBot can monitor particluarly the articles brought up at wikirage.com? -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 18:13, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

;)

Good job Robot Clue! ;)

kızılsungur 16:47, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

The Amazing Race

Hey ClueBot, I edited the article to The Amazing Race 1 to disambiguation page, but The Amazing Race has 2 aired versions, the original US and Asian versions. Here's the page for first season of original American version: The Amazing Race 1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.213.225.13 (talk) 07:35, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Link for IP in edit summaries

Look at this edit summary. [2] The "Special:Contributions/" bit could be removed. Just saying -- Kl4m ^{Talk Contrib} 04:05, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

undo

before making stupid undos, please first check the latest version : 17:19, 8 September 2007 91.104.189.15 (Talk) (14,936 bytes) (undo) - you have a brain to think 84.226.126.105 21:16, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Uh, this is a bot, It doesn't know anything but revert. Revert the bot if it's wrong. But bot's don't have brains, keep that in mind. 24.23.177.160 22:49, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

bug

Hi. [3] should not happen. :o) --Thogo (Talk) 01:28, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

cluebot has blanked a page here [4]--AFUSCO 01:29, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Weird. I stopped the bot while I went over everything and everything seems in order. It must have been a random communications problem with Wikipedia. Anyway, I have restarted the bot. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 01:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

ok. Was nothing really serious, of course. ;o) Grtx, --Thogo (Talk) 02:37, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Sadly restarting the bot didn't fix the problem. Happened again here [5]. Maverick Leonhart (Talk | Contribs) 05:17, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

I have added a catch so the bot won't try to post a blank page. If the data to post is empty, it will skip the reversion process. If it happens again, there is some communications problem between ClueBot's server and Wikipedia's servers. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 05:31, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

One here Secretlondon 05:43, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

That's the same one as posted by User:Maverick_Leonhart above. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 05:47, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

You are right, it was reported by someone else and I didn't check who reverted. Secretlondon 05:58, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Damn!

Curses, foiled again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.83.200.85 (talk) 17:59, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

ClueBot not warning properly?

Hi, I noticed that ClueBot seems to skip over some vandals it has reverted and not warn them. See [6], [7], [8], and [9]. Is it just server lag or a problem with the code? --Hdt83 ^Chat 22:38, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Server lag, if the server is lagged more than 10 seconds, ClueBot doesn't warn the user. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 22:59, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Cluebot IV blanked WP:OP

ClueBot_IV blanked WP:OP . I reverted.. there were a lot of server errors happening around that time, I'm guessing it's related. --Versageek 19:55, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

You are correct. Query.php was returning a blank result set. I have already fixed this issue (ClueBot IV will not do anything if it gets a blank result set). Thanks for mentioning it though. If it occurs again, please let me know. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 19:59, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Cluebot IV blanked WP:OP

ClueBot_IV blanked WP:OP . I reverted.. there were a lot of server errors happening around that time, I'm guessing it's related. --Versageek 19:55, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

You are correct. Query.php was returning a blank result set. I have already fixed this issue (ClueBot IV will not do anything if it gets a blank result set). Thanks for mentioning it though. If it occurs again, please let me know. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 19:59, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Tokyo

I did a bold edit for the improvement of the article. It is not Vandalism. Please understand.--Cosc 14:22, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Flag?

Just curious: is there some reason this bot is not flagged? It shows up on my watchlist even when bot edits are hidden. --SB_Johnny | ^PA! 00:40, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

The BAG decided not to flag it. Even when I specifically asked it to be flagged (here), they said no. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 00:44, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Em, mind if I "nominate" your bot then? It's a very nice bot, but I don't necessarily want it "uselessifying" my watchlist :). --SB_Johnny | ^PA! 23:24, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

If you want to ... but where would you nominate the bot? -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 01:21, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Weird

I edited a page, which was really fixing a misquote. Thankfully Cluebot fixed what happened. Half of the page was cutoff!. Any idea why this occurred? The only thing I can think of is the page stopped loading or there was a timeout/cutoff of some sort during the transmission of post values. Jim 06:21, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Help needed

Please revert V on Transportation in Greater Tokyo. I couldn't do it because of the security reason. Thank you. Oda Mari 06:30, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Other editor did it. Sorry to bother you. Oda Mari 06:33, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Templated message left by Cluebot

Can you change the message that the bot leaves on talk pages. I just noticed it leaving "...replacing content with 'a big faggot that will rape your clildren and smells really bad and is a good 4 nuthin nigger'.... Talk pages get indexed by Google and the message along with the persons name in the bots message is probably not something that should be there. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:32, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, how should I do it? It gives a reason for the template so the user and other users can see why the bot reverted the edit. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 16:58, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

How about something like "The following is the log entry regarding this warning: "name of person/article" was changed by 71.30.147.81 (c) (t) replacing content with inappropriate material on 2007-09-22T12:15:22+00:00. Thank you." I don't really see it as a major problem, especially on an IP number. Also after checking the first 50 results of "Bill Clinton" wikipedia I see that Google doesn't even show an editors talk page at all. So it may appear that I was concerned about nothing at all. By the way the bot does excellent work. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Dan Morelle

An article that you have been involved in editing, Dan Morelle, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Morelle. Thank you.--Belteshezzar 20:43, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Issue when partial reverts of multiple vandalism from multiple sources

Hi, I'd like to comment on an issue I just noticed regarding your ClueBot (great bot btw). When inspecting the revert history for Game, I noticed that ClueBot succesfully reverted a page blank, however, this blanking had been preceded by regular vandalsim which remained uncaught for several edits/days (could not find exact edit due to volume of vandalism). Naturally, the original vandalism wasn't reverted since the bot cannot detect this. However, many editors are not often aware that previous vandalism (from a different source) may not be caught (as I have spent most of my morning verifying uncaught vandalism in various small pages). I was wondering if the edit summary from the bot could reflect this possibility by saying something to the effect of "please ensure that any edits before <insert vandal name> were not vandalism edits as well." That way editors inspecting the history may go back and inspect the next-to-last edit. Thank you! --Stux 16:05, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Cluebot 3

Is there any way to make cluebot automatically post the archive in this month's name. Thedjatclubrock :) ^(T/C) 23:26, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Explain, please. I am not sure what you mean. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 23:28, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

AIV reports

ClueBot seems to insert the text that the vandal replaced a page with. Some of this stuff is obscene, so could you please disable this feature for the bot? Thanks, Nishkid64 (talk) 22:10, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

I can. Though, I didn't think Wikipedia was censored. And I think that a reason for listing is better than "Automatically listing User:Example on AIV." Is there any consensus on this? If people don't want the extra information, I will certainly change it.  :) Thanks. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 00:26, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I see no reason to have cluebot include less information. The quoted information provides a solid reason to take action, and wikipedia isn't censored. I totally agree with Cobi. -- Liempt 00:35, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

People can click the contributions to see if it really was vandalism. There's no need to actually post the content at AIV. Wikipedia is not censored, but I don't find this feature too helpful. Also, to make matters worse, I just had to make a request for oversight for one of ClueBot's AIV reports. Nishkid64 (talk) 19:58, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

False Positives

Why is your False Positives page completely dominated by a picture? Has nobody reported a False Positive? It appears to me that your recent reversion of Nsorensen's edits were false positives. Do you get a lot of them? OptimistBen 11:07, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello

If ClueBot reverts my edit and thinks its vandalism does it add me to a white list? OneCoolKid 14:25, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

If ClueBot reverts your edit, it will not revert any edits by you to that same article in a 24 hour period. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 16:19, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi

ClueBot mistook my edits for possible vandalism on the List of notable breast cancer patients according to survival status. On the contrary I was reverting malicious vandalism re Eileen Atkins entry, which was changed by an anonymous user from "British stage actress" to "British lesbian actress". Also, I removed Atossa as the cause of death is disputed and adding some names that are categorized but not yet listified. Wildthyme 18:22, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that. The reason ClueBot reverted you is because you dropped about half the page. If you take a look at your diff, it shows that you removed a ton of names. If you want to go ahead and revert ClueBot, or try your edit again, ClueBot won't revert you. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 18:26, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I saw that for some reason all the names after the letter "C" in the second section had disappeared from the screen, but I wasn't sure how or why, so I saved it, intending to go back and review. It must be this darned Mac I am using intead of my own PV. When I saw that those names had been restored, but without my edits, I checked the history, and wanted to report to you what had happened. I just wanted you to know I would never vandalize a page. It must be this da--ed Mac. Anyway, I fixed everything if you want to review it. Thanks for your vigilance. Wildthyme 18:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC)