User talk:AnomieBOT
Anomie is still around, mostly to maintain AnomieBOT. But after the WMF proved that office politics are more important to them than seemingly anything else, and otherwise generally seem more concerned with their own image than substance, Anomie is not engaging in technical work on MediaWiki. |
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Hello, Anomie,
AnomieBOT III should have updated the broken redirect pages but it hasn't in 9 hours. Could you "restart" it? Many thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 18:23, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
Fixing url-inside-ref syntax instead of removing it[edit]
Thank you for your work. It would be helpful if the bot could fix this syntax <ref https://www.swr.de/sport/mehr-sport/leichtathletik/swr-sporthelden-2023-kugelstossen-yemisi-ogunleye-100.html />
as in Special:Diff/1211521503 instead of removing it altogether. Because the original edit was P&G-compliant if not technically correct, but then the bot removed the URL which in effect introduced unsourced statements to a BLP. An easy fix would be to convert it to a bare-url reference that can be filled later. Thanks, --Habst (talk) 14:40, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
- I'll try to look into it when I have a chance. Meanwhile, if someone could determine whether that is a unique mistake or if different editors commonly do that rather than the correct syntax, that would be useful for my prioritization. Anomie⚔ 06:50, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
- It is more unique than common, if last January's "AnomieBOT can't manage to do orphaned refs right" thread at BOTN was any indication (i.e. we would have seen it then as well). Primefac (talk) 08:52, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
Why is the link to a linkedin page an unreliable source? I assume a website could be like that - but on the other hand a website should be a good source of information and confirmation of data. Could I remove the comment in the bio I prepared? thanks Lemonidess (talk) 14:36, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- This is the user talk page for a bot. All AnomieBOT did was add a date to a tag added by some human. If you're referring to Przemysław Krych, that addition was in Special:Diff/1212040660 so you should go ask at User talk:Theroadislong. Anomie⚔ 19:52, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Protection of article[edit]
Asking for protection of the article Paola Cortellesi from non registered recidive vandal who also admitted they are doing it for personal ideological and political beliefs and keeps causing disruption. 151.38.224.195 (talk) 20:14, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) AnomieBOT does not protect pages. You should file a request at WP:RFPP. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:42, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
TFATitleSubpageCreator: Cannot find featured article in Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 12, 2024 - Fixed[edit]
Help! I can't find the featured article link in Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 12, 2024 in order to populate Template:TFA title/May 12, 2024. Please correct the link or create the template manually. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT II⚡ 00:01, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
- Not at all familiar with these templates, so rather than just removing I'm leaving it here for further review. Primefac (talk) 06:24, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
- Two years ago, after getting tired of edge cases when trying to scrape links out of the wikitext, I switched the bot to looking for {{TFAFULL}} which is a lot easier to parse for. In this case I see the {{TFAFULL}} was present originally but was removed in Special:Diff/1215188470 by User:MaranoFan. Looks like I forgot to update the bot's complaint message, and also that I forgot to ever add a check for the day being added to Template:TFA title/data.json. Anomie⚔ 13:10, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
Retrieving named refs from other articles[edit]
Would it be possible to get some information on exactly how this works? In particular, I'd like to understand why it didn't activate for this edit. Further details here. Sunrise (talk) 01:16, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
- At the moment the bot only checks pages linked in edit summaries. I turned off the linked-pages check in July 2023 because it seemed too often to cause false positives when people name a ref based on the newspaper or website. Anomie⚔ 00:31, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply, and I'm glad to hear the edit summary check is active. For the edit I'm asking about (which was in 2019), why does it seem that neither the edit summary check nor the linked-pages check worked correctly? Sunrise (talk) 19:54, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Digging into old on-wiki logs, I find it says "Terminology of alternative medicine: Revision 894510465 is transcluding something too b0rken to fix (Ref contains <ref>), skipping". Due to limitations of the expandtemplates API action (e.g. T235882), the bot can't handle refs inside of refs, for example when {{refn}} is used to contain a
<ref>
. - In 2021 I added support for some templates, including {{refn}} and {{efn}}, so that's not so much of a problem anymore. The bot still doesn't support other templates like {{r}} or {{sfn}} that do more than just add a single ref though. Anomie⚔ 00:30, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- Digging into old on-wiki logs, I find it says "Terminology of alternative medicine: Revision 894510465 is transcluding something too b0rken to fix (Ref contains <ref>), skipping". Due to limitations of the expandtemplates API action (e.g. T235882), the bot can't handle refs inside of refs, for example when {{refn}} is used to contain a
- Thanks for the reply, and I'm glad to hear the edit summary check is active. For the edit I'm asking about (which was in 2019), why does it seem that neither the edit summary check nor the linked-pages check worked correctly? Sunrise (talk) 19:54, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Anna Panagiotopoulou[edit]
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anna_Panagiotopoulou&oldid=1224190278 και oxi Anna Panagiotopoulou 2A02:587:CC0C:1000:A48C:7F4D:6CF8:410F (talk) 10:52, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- You seem confused. You linked to an edit where AnomieBOT added dates to {{citation needed}} tags added by a human editor in a previous edit, which likely means you should talk to that human rather than posting here. Anomie⚔ 11:32, 22 May 2024 (UTC)