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Now no aids to find links

Now that Dabsolver is no longer provided and the text scan function no longer highlights in blue it is far too time consuming to search for disambiguation links as the only way to do it now is to manually scan masses of text. If these functions are restored please advise and I can once again disambiguate my articles. Samrong01 (talk) 13:34, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

I'm thinking of restoring the links, I'm just a little wary of getting pulled into whatever politics are happening between Dispenser and the WMF. I'll probably restore them soon. --JaGatalk 02:39, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

You've sent me several messages saying I added "Disambiguation links" when I've edited pages -- but I have not added any of the links you've messaged me about. I don't understand why you keep sending me messages about actions I have not taken... Newchaz64 (talk) 17:44, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Newchaz64: You posted a similar comment on this page last weekend, and I took the time then to provide you a link to your own edit, showing that you did in fact add the link that the bot said you did. Do we really need to go through that exercise again? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:16, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
I really ought to make a tool that makes it easy to get the link for the diff of the dab link introduced by a given user. Maybe next month, when class lets out. --JaGatalk 02:39, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

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I am really thankful to you for appreciating me and please also guide me in future. Thanks.

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DPLbot Monthly Challenge

I have been trying to access the monthly challenge page for some hours and getting the following error:

"Database connection error. Please try again later.

Access denied for user 'p50380g50692'@'10.68.16.28' (using password: YES)

Database connection error: Access denied for user 'p50380g50692'@'10.68.16.28' (using password: YES)"

Possible to apply fixes to it and get it back working?

  • (talk page stalker) All tools hosted on http://tools.wmflabs.org seem to be suffering from this problem. We need to wait for the system admins to fix it. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 09:45, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Your message re 124 Squadron

Thanks for your message re disambiguation. To be honest as I hardly ever do editing and am not familiar with it, I don't really understand what is meant, but I hope what I've done is ok. Geoffhl (talk) 12:19, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
I know it's been around for some time, but DPLbot really is helpful. S Philbrick(Talk) 12:06, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Matthew Richardson

Hello JaGa / Mabelina here I've uploaded an article about Matthew Richardson (barrister) who is an elected Alderman of the City of London, who before long is to be Lord Mayor. Not sure why article has been deleted since it concerns a public figure? Looking forward to hearing - many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mabelina (talk • contribs)

  • (talk page stalker) Not sure why Mabelina has chosen to write to you! I have decided that Matthew Richardson probably is notable but Mabelina seems to be having a remarkable amount of difficulty getting his head round the concept of independent references. So anything you can do to help at User:Mabelina/sandbox would be gratefully received. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 10:56, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

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DPL Bot false positive

Hi,

User:DPL bot made a false positive and tagged a page it shouldn't have.

I contacted User:DPL bot, but the person who replied said he isn't responsible for DPL bot's edits. Someone said you are. (I don't understand why, and sorry if you're the wrong person, but I just want to get this bug fixed...)

The page is G̃. The edit by DPL bot is: [1].

The problem is that DPL bot thinks there's loads of redirects and DABs in the article, but there are actually none. There are a load of redirects and DABs in a template which the article includes.

So:

  • DPL bot shouldn't be tagging that page
  • DPL bot maybe should tag the template, or leave a talk page comment, or something

Can you fix DPL bot so it doesn't tag such pages in the future?

(And, do you know of any centralised channels where contributors can complain about bots misbehaving? This isn't the first time I've gotten the run around when trying to get a malfunctioning bot fixed. If I'm ignoring proper complaint procedure, it would be great if someone could correct me.) Gronky (talk) 18:01, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Can you fix this or tell me who I should be contacting about this? Thanks. Gronky (talk) 20:11, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Few Sections Has Been Removed

Hi, there! Thanks for your message. However, I noticed that few sections of the information has been removed. Was it removed by you? If yes, may I know what is the reason, please.

Hope to hear from you.

Thank you.

Regards, (Miamelynda) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miamelynda Yan (talk • contribs) 13:17, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

DPL bot malfunctioning?

Why did DPL bot create Template messages/Cleanup, Template messages/Cleanup/sandbox, and Enquire/sandbox? These are all in the mainspace. Is the bot malfunctioning? Piguy101 (talk) 23:08, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Nitrous oxide

I made some days ago a ref of your bot's problem. Additional question. I guess only specialists can answer.--Dartelaar [write me!] 13:01, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

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DPL Bot

[2] I removed a few, but the remainder are other redirect pages that people directed to this disambig. Enigmamsg 23:19, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Lloret de Mar

Hello JaGa

Your bot DPL alerting me for disambiguation situations in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloret_de_Mar

I edit references and I hope this situation just solved. Thanks and sorry for any inconvenience --Lamontse (talk) 11:02, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Did Thomas Fortune Ryan collect Chinese art? Where is his Chinese Art Collection? Did he associate with Loo Chingtsai ( C. T. Loo)?

Hi I read the entry on Thomas Fortune Ryan with interest. Did Thomas Fortune Ryan collect Chinese art? Where is his Chinese Art Collection? Did he associate with Loo Chingtsai ( C. T. Loo)? Best, Ernie Please email me at ernieyehnj@gmail — Preceding unsigned comment added by 鄂鲵叶 (talk • contribs) 01:58, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

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DPL bot

I know you're not around here that much, but I'm wondering if you (or someone with access - maybe R'n'B or BD2412) can kick the DPL bot. It hasn't updated the recently added list today, and the rest of the DPL reports haven't run today either (the leader board hourly update has missed the last two as well - I don't care about the board, but figured I'd mention it since that's a task that it's missed). -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 21:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

I've been kicking all day. I may have sprained a toe. :-( but I don't really know what's wrong. Most of these problems are intermittent, but it seems to be getting worse. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 23:57, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Booooo on Labs! :) I'll just continue on Today's Dablink Report for now. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 01:00, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Who's running this bot? Or who can fix it?

User:JaGa hasn't replied to my bug report from three weeks ago, despite me bumping my question twice.

The post just above this one mentions that R'n'B and BD2412 have access to fix the bot. Is that correct? Can one of you two fix the problem I mentioned?

(The current situation of bots doing whatever they want without any accountability is really quite annoying. As a human editor, I'm feeling like a second class citizen here.) Gronky (talk) 11:18, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

  • Templates to be used in mainspace pages should not have direct disambiguation links. If the intent is to link to a disambiguation page, they should follow WP:INTDABLINK. Human editors are in no better a position than the bot in knowing the source of links. We can see which pages have the most links, and must invest time in checking to see if these can be fixed. bd2412 T 13:24, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
  • Sorry for the late reply, but I'm not around much these days, and school is starting up again to boot. The problem, as BD2412 said, is that you'd included a template with TONS of disambigs. The page included the template, the template brought in a ton of disambig links, so the tag got placed. This is normally not a problem because we've managed to correct all disambig links in templates, so this can only happen when someone creates/edits a template with a ton of disambigs.
I'm not sure I'd call this behavior a bug. The page does transclude the template, after all, and tagging a template would likely be disastrous, given all the different styles of template. So this is the best way to get the links in the template fixed, which I see resolved your problem. --JaGatalk 01:21, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

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Khdeir

There are issues in the Talk page to article Kidnapping and murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, not the least of which is POV (esp. inclusion of unrelated material). One particular editor seems to be trying to hijack this article, even deciding he can remove material from reliable sources. He is trying to enlist support from an Israeli moderator,[3] so for the sake of balance in the discussion, I think someone from a different POV should weigh in as well. Peleio Aquiles (talk) 07:35, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you

User:DPL bot is just gibberish to those who have not already learned the intricacies of Wiki. But thank you for the note on Topaz. I have fixed it. Henry Townsend 14:45, 18 September 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Henrytow (talk • contribs)

Thank you from me, too

Thanks for the message about my edit. Thanks for this bot which is of help to me as well as to the encyclopedia -- I can't imagine anyone being stupid enough to opt out of this valuable service. --Hordaland (talk) 11:46, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Shaun Foist page

Greetings - a request has been made to delete the existing Wikipedia page for Shaun Foist. As his management, we were going through the proper steps to create a Wikipedia page with verifiable links and accurate information, which is currently under review by Wikipedia. In the meantime, this poorly generated page was put up by someone not affiliated with Shaun Foist or breaking benjamin riddled with incomplete information and inaccuracies - as you will see by doing page comparisons. Your kind consideration is greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiTruthTime (talk • contribs) 14:35, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

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DPL Bot notice

The DPL bot sent me a message, noting that I had added a disambiguation link to the "Canadian English" article...which I hadn't. All I did was remove a single (verifiably innaccurate) sentence from that page page. That's it. Checking the page history shows a massive number of changes, but I made only one of them. Wassup wit that?Anmccaff (talk) 18:30, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Anmccaff: Your edit to Canadian English added 7,984 characters to the length of the article, so I find it difficult to believe that all you did was delete one sentence. Is it possible you did something other than what you intended to do? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:31, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
Sure, that's the beauty, so to speak, of an opaque kluge of an editing system; it is quite easy to do something unintentionally, but I'm damned if I can see what happened; there isn't a nearby article like those changes, at least that I saw.Anmccaff (talk) 16:18, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

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Thank You

Thanks for spotting my disambiguation error. I had intended 'Roman Catholic' and ended up with 'Roman'. Now fixed. I appreciate your help. Dskirk (talk) 12:08, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Articles With Multiple Dablinks

Something has gone wrong with the bot maintaining the page "Articles With Multiple Dablinks". It looks like he misses many fixed articles. Unclear what happens exactly, but for instance Age of Empires and Corfu (regional unit) were already fixed around 20/21 September. Can you take a look into it? The Banner talk 23:17, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

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Another uncats issue

There's a new problem at the untagged uncategorized articles toolserver list which I wanted to bring to your attention — even with a replication lag of zero, the toolserver has now picked back up every single article, all the way back to May, that is tagged and is in one of the dated by-month subcategories, and is also failing to drop newly-tagged articles as well. I'm not 100% sure of how the toolserver is actually programmed to determine whether an article is tagged or not, but based on the timing I believe that this is the result of a recent CFD discussion which changed the way the categorization project categories are structured: Category:Category needed and Category:Uncategorized pages have been merged so that all the dated "Uncategorized from..." subcategories are now sitting directly in Category:Uncategorized pages, instead of having Category:Category needed sitting between them — and the undated "all uncategorized pages" master category is now called Category:All uncategorized pages instead.

So my best guess would be that the bot is programmed to compare its initial list to Category:Category needed to determine which ones are already tagged, and is thus picking everything back up because that category's now empty — so if that's indeed the case, you'll need to update the bot to reflect the new change (or figure out what else is going on if my guess is wrong). Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 18:07, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

This still needs to be fixed, as the situation is becoming unmanageable. Bearcat (talk) 04:43, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
This situation has officially crossed over into the realm of the absolutely unacceptable and intolerable, and I'm frankly about ready to rip somebody's head off and feed it to the alligators. I realize you haven't been around all that much lately — is there any way at all that you could give somebody backup rights to modify the toolserver bot so that somebody can get it fixed in your absence? Bearcat (talk) 02:37, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

404s from Articles with Multiple Dablinks

Hi,

You might be aware of this already, but all the "FIX" links from your tool go to pages of the form https://tools.wmflabs.org/dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py?page=400_metres which are 404s. I haven't got a clue what the right link is, but hopefully they can be fixed.

Many thanks for your DPL bot — it's been very helpful to me.

User:GKFXtalk 17:33, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

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DPL bot problem at Brian Bennett

Please see User talk:DPL bot#Malfunction at Brian Bennett. —BarrelProof (talk) 10:55, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for October 18

Hi, thanks for the (Bot) message on my talk page about re-direct to Crystal Palace. I'm afraid I don't really understand what, if anything, I got wrong here. IIRC I added a note to the list of disused circuits that Crystal Palace Circuit was still in use, once a year & added it to the list of sprint circuits. I do not recall seeing or doing anything involving re-directs at all, which TBH is something I also don't know very much about. Can you clarify so as to avoid any future probs. Thanks. Regards. Eagleash (talk) 10:42, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Update. Figured out what was wrong....should have got that right. :P Ignore message. Thanks. Eagleash (talk) 00:32, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

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How to become an adminstrator, please reply. I am wanted to good contribute on wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rayaz4536 (talk • contribs) 16:23, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Need your support

Hi Buddy, i am new to Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links & wish to contribute in this project. Please check my recent contributions which i have done manually & through Wikipedia:WPCleaner & suggest me if they were right & needs any improvements.( !dea4u  12:13, 14 November 2014 (UTC))

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Link to

Back in 2011 you used to provide a link to Dab solver, but some time in December 2011 you stopped.

I found the inclusion of the link useful. Why did you stop including it? -- PBS (talk) 17:33, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

An expanded bot role

When you have a chance, could you offer your input on the discussion at Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_62#User talk bot for certain bad disambiguation edits? Thanks, —Swpbtalk 23:16, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Is there someone who speaks Italian ?

Sorry but I don't speak english perfect. Do you speak italian? --Charliewolf79 (talk) 10:47, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks very much for DPL bot! What a useful creature it is! Cheers, Basie (talk) 16:21, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

I want to join the thanks. This is a very positive and useful feature. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:28, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

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hi

i have fix now on list of turkic dynastys and countries its okey now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mehmeett21 (talk • contribs) 10:52, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

DPL Bot.

Thank you. Your DPL bot is rather useful!Name Omitted (talk) 04:35, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

DPL

Thank you for giving me much education on Disambiguation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gramalow (talk • contribs) 13:24, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

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Your bot uncovered disambiguation links in some of my recent edits. Very smart! I appreciate the time you must have put in to develop and maintain it. Dkoper (talk) 21:16, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

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DPL bot

Could your DPL bot have a language selection in order to scann others wikipedia ?. I'm specially interesting in a "List of disambiguation pages with links" from the catalan wikipedia. Could you, please, provide me ?. --Amadalvarez (talk) 06:53, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks so much Jaga

I have been working in my spare time mostly on the cardiology related entries. Unfortunately there is a lot of work to be done and i am not great at editing The good news are that i speak fluently 5 languages and in a few years i will retire.

Continue the great work

Francesco Santoni — Preceding unsigned comment added by Francionyc (talk • contribs) 17:09, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

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Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!!

Hello JaGa, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2015.
Happy editing,
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Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

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JaGa

Thank you. I didn't know I'd done that, and in fact I'm not quite sure what you mean. Is there anything I need to do to reverse this disambiguation link ?

Regards

Ndstead (talk) 15:01, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi JaGa, in the same line as User:Amadalvarez (13 December 2014), I would like to know if the DPL bot could be available for the Spanish Wikipedia.

Best regards,

15:48, 29 December 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marianorico2 (talk • contribs)

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Disambiguation

Hello, JaGa. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.—  !dea4u  11:39, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 Done I've converted the pages to go to dispenser's website. Let me know if I've missed anything. --JaGatalk 04:28, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Thank you JaGa for directing relevant pages to dispenser's website. It is now working perfectly fine. You are genius and have reduced my workload.( !dea4u  04:53, 3 January 2015 (UTC))

Adopter

Hi my friend! I ask you to be my adopter. Can you do it for me?Hananeh.M.h (talk) 11:17, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

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Hi JaGa - I work for a non-profit theatre in Manhattan which is interested in using your New River Gorge image in promotional materials. Could you let me know how to get in contact with you. All the best, Kyle — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quee1797 (talk • contribs) 22:23, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

You have my permission, but please credit me. --JaGatalk 06:12, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Siddha

Kindly make siddha a disambiguation link, as many different pages use work siddha like Siddha (Hinduism) (current), Siddha, Janakpur, Siddha (Jainism), Siddha medicine, Siddha Yoga & many more.talk 04:06, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the help

Hi. This is anzukiller - I think you left me a message a few hours ago today asking me to rectify what sense of the word 'straight' I meant with the correct link on a page I edited - Fit (2010 film). Looked at the disambiguation page for the word - did not realize there was so many meanings! Have now corrected straight to link to 'heterosexual'. Thanks for notifying me, it helps to have a reminder for those small things I miss.

Anzukiller (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 10:09, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

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DPL bot

Just wanted to say that I absolutely LOVE your bot!!!! Saved me so many times. Thanks a ton! --Zackmann08 (talk) 17:18, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Apology

Hello!i am aGastya and I found that DPL bot is operated by you! I am really really sorry that by mistake, i added link to a Disambiguation page! It is all my fault as i thought I would watch the page on 1st February but unfortunately my internet provider was unavailable. Will fix the link just now. By the way thank you to inform me! aGastya 17:56, 2 February 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AgastyaC (talk • contribs)

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New toolserver problem

For some reason I can't identify, the latest run on the Untagged Uncats list is picking up a bunch of pages that it shouldn't be; this time, it's pages that are in Template:, User:, User talk: or Wikipedia: namespace, and mostly pertaining to bots and other technical issues — and one of them is even a redlink which has never actually existed in the first place, yet is still sitting on the list for some reason nonetheless. As usual, there appears to be no other viable way to make them drop from the list at my end, so you'll need to do some coding adjustments again. The pages at issue are:

  1. Template:Cratstats
  2. Template:RfA tally
  3. User talk:108.69.192.159
  4. User talk:Fatemi127
  5. User talk:War wizard90
  6. User:ClueBot III/Detailed Indices/!Viva Nueva!
  7. User:ClueBot III/Detailed Indices/Talk:HIV/AIDS/Archive 11
  8. User:ClueBot III/Detailed Indices/User talk:Jazzeur/archive4
  9. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:Antidepressant
  10. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:Benito Mussolini
  11. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:Caligula (film)
  12. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:Mircea Eliade
  13. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:Pakistan-administered Kashmir
  14. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:Sokal affair
  15. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:United States Constitution
  16. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Encyclopaedia Britannica
  17. User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:Aqua regia
  18. User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:Benito Mussolini
  19. User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:Caligula (film)
  20. User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:Olbers' paradox
  21. User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:Pakistan-administered Kashmir
  22. User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:Sokal affair
  23. User:Cyberbot I/Status
  24. User:Cyberbot I/adminrights-admins.js
  25. User:Cyberbot II/Status
  26. User:Cyberbot Trial Bot/Status
  27. User:Cyberpower678/RfX Report
  28. User:Cyberpower678/Tally
  29. User:GA bot/Stats
  30. User:VeblenBot/C/Good article nominees
  31. User:VeblenBot/C/January 2015 peer reviews
  32. Wikipedia:Dashboard/Help noticeboards
  33. Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy/Article alerts
  34. Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia/Article alerts
  35. Wikipedia:WikiProject New York Yankees/Article alerts
  36. Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia/Science and education in Russia task force/Article alerts
  37. Wikipedia:WikiProject Serbia/Article alerts

- Bearcat (talk) 20:58, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

  • This is odd. I grabbed one at random and checked it in the enwiki_p database on Tool Labs, and it (Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy/Article alerts) only exists in namespaces 4 and 5. No way that should show up in my reports. I'm going to wait until tomorrow to see if this clears up on its own. If not, I'll dig deeper. --JaGatalk 21:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
For what it's worth, there's a deletion discussion pertaining to User talk:Fatemi127, in which there's been other evidence raised that some part of Wikipedia's server architecture does seem to think that page is sitting in articlespace instead of usertalkspace — if you start typing "User talk" in the search box, it's the one and only page that immediately comes up as an autocomplete option while you're still in the middle of the word "talk", before you've even begun to type the actual name of any actual user. So there's a database corruption issue somewhere, even if neither of us have been able to actually identify it yet. Bearcat (talk) 19:21, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
We do have some corrupt data. Look at what I just found.
> select * from enwiki_p.page where page_id=45227381\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
           page_id: 45227381
    page_namespace: 0
        page_title: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Anatomy/Article_alerts
 page_restrictions:
      page_counter: 0
  page_is_redirect: 0
       page_is_new: 1
       page_random: 0.412627455356
      page_touched: 20150207154319
page_links_updated: 20150203232203
       page_latest: 644378189
          page_len: 5072
page_content_model: wikitext
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
Since it's in namespace=0, it's considered an article with Wikipedia: in its title. Bad. I did a query for articles (namespace=0) with titles starting with "Wikipedia:" and got 35 results. So this is the problem. But who cleans it up? --JaGatalk 00:56, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
And by clean it up, I mean delete. The result seen above doesn't correspond to the page in WikiProject Anatomy. It's just trash in the database. --JaGatalk 01:10, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
I've got no idea how to get it fixed at the server level. It could be raised at a technical forum like Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) or as a bug report, but I've no idea how long it would take the technical gurus to fix that (or if it's even fixable at all.) I suspect it's a relatively new problem, however, since (a) this never happened before, (b) the Fatemi talk page was first created in early January this year, (c) the nonexistent IP talk page pertains to a user whose sole Wikipedia edit was on January 27 of this year. Unfortunately, I suspect you may end up having to do one of two things at your end rather than waiting for a server fix.
  1. If the toolserver isn't already programmed to directly exclude pages in those namespaces, but is simply relying on the assumption that pages in those namespaces would never get into its batch in the first place, then you might have to code those namespaces into the programming as exclusions.
  2. If it is already programmed to directly exclude pages in those namespaces but these are still getting through anyway, then the full page titles might have to be individually hardcoded as manual exclusions.
I do sometimes wish I knew anything at all about programming, so I could contribute to actually fixing these problems when they arise... Bearcat (talk) 05:51, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
It looks like this issue has been raised at Wikipedia:Village_pump (technical)#API namespace issue / page reported existing in two namespaces, but no one has offered any explanation yet. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:17, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

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Disambig updates not finishing

Hi, JaGa. I noticed that the disambig update didn't finish yesterday afternoon or this morning. I tried running late_dab_procs.php several times today, and every time it crashes after create_results_list() with the message "ERROR: CALL dab13_store_results(): MySQL server has gone away." Usually these MySQL server errors are intermittent, but this one seems to be occurring repeatedly at the same point in the script. I can't find anything particularly relevant in any of the logs. Is there anything you can see that might explain it? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:14, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Still no luck. As an experiment, I tried commenting out everything in dab13_store_results() except for the "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS" statements, and still got the same error message. So my belief is that the database problem is occurring before that process gets called. However, that doesn't really tell me very much. It would be great if you had a chance to look in to this. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 17:13, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
I'm swamped right now, but I'll try to take a look this weekend. --JaGatalk 02:20, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. Out of desperation, I commented out the line in dab_procs.php that calls create_results_list(), and that allowed the rest of the tasks to complete. But this is not a great solution since it disables some functions of the bot. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:44, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

wasted reference

Hi. In "Maya Maize God", the third reference under "References" has been interfered with in such a way that it no longer shows the title of Taube's article ('The Classic Maya Maize God: A Reappraisal'). The thing is too complicated for me to solve. Could you help out here? Thanks!Retal (talk) 13:23, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Dab-solver bot back!

Thank you for getting this back into operation - it is such a time and energy saver!!!!Parkwells (talk) 22:16, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

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Louis, duc Decazes

Hi JaGa: the article about Louis, duc Decazes was created under the incorrect appellation of Louis, duc de Decazes - how to correct? Many thanks indeed. M Mabelina (talk) 01:57, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

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Cloud Computing Comparison

Hello, recently added more information to the page Cloud computing comparison further to which got a message saying that there was a Dablink with a note that This section may be confusing for the reader. TO address this have added and modified the section of the page. Can you please tell me a. have i do it correctly? b. can that note of confusing to reader be removed? - please help.Parmarvishalb (talk) 09:41, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

I cleared up the disambig for you, but I didn't place the "confusing to the reader" tag, so I'm not sure what that was about. --JaGatalk 16:08, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the DPL Bot Note

It's really appreciated. I would likely never have noticed I'd linked to the disambiguation page by accident.Carl Henderson (talk) 23:05, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Missed conversation

Hello JaGa, it seems you missed a conversation about a suggestion for DPL bot, which now got archived at User talk:DPL bot/Archive 6#Disambiguate "we" → "this bot". (I wish I had a bot to write this for me. ;-) — Sebastian 05:15, 18 February 2015 (UTC)    (I stopped watching this page. If you would like to continue the talk, please do so here and ping me.)

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City of Refuge (Abigail Washburn album)

Hey! Can You Change City of Refuge into City of Refuge? National Names 2000 (talk) 10:14, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

I'd say Cities of Refuge is going to win out per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, but you can give it a shot at WP:RM. --JaGatalk 16:26, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Actually, I think (maybe) they were just asking you to fix the link they added to Abigail Washburn, which I've done. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:09, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you very much for catching the Amazon disembiguation (sp) on our Dorian Awards page! :)

Much appreciated. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blurbadeeblurb (talk • contribs) 23:30, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

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Re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:RRawpower#Disambiguation_link_notification_for_March_26

"Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Gang of Four (band), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Sara Lee (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles."

YES, this has ALWAYS been a most peculiar shortcoming of Wikipedia, especially at this late date.

While I am certainly prepared to concede that I could and should have thought of the likelihood that the particular link in question, Sara Lee, would have at least one more obvious reference to the well-known brand name, the site frankly puts the onus ENTIRELY on users to second-guess whether variations of a given link may, in fact, exist. Unless, that is, by some remote chance my latest version 7.1.4 of Safari browser running on Mac OS 10.9.5 is possibly failing to invoke some Javascript or other means of automatically cueing a drop-down menu by which users would logically be alerted to such variations and thereby given the blatant option to select the appropriate one for the edit at hand.

RRawpower (talk) 09:42, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

What do you mean now with this grumpy reply? The Banner talk 11:43, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

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Protection at Nike, Inc.

Would you consider lifting the semi-protection at Nike, Inc.? It's been almost four years since you protected it indefinitely. Pending changes could work as a step down if you're still concerned about vandalism. Conifer (talk) 21:20, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

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