User talk:Chris G/Archives/2012/March

Topic lists

I guess the Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Topic lists should be updated at some point to match the new WP:GAN page. Also I am not sure if GA bot uses the WP:GA subpages but I have created new ones for Wikipedia:Good articles/Agriculture, food and drink, Wikipedia:Good articles/Art and architecture, Wikipedia:Good articles/Music, Wikipedia:Good articles/Sports and recreation, Wikipedia:Good articles/Theatre, film and drama and Wikipedia:Good articles/Video games. If it uses them to add the {{good article}} icon some updates may be needed for that too. Cheers AIRcorn (talk) 23:01, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

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GA bot down?

Is GA bot down. I just nommed Anthony Davis (basketball) and the bot doesn't seem to have noticed.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:36, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

The Toolserver is have some fairly major issues at the moment, so the bot is very touch and go. I'm hoping that these issues will be resolved soon (within 12-24 hours), otherwise I'm going to look into some temporary alternatives until the issues are resolved. Sorry about that. --Chris 04:04, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

New WP:GA page

Created Wikipedia:Good articles/Warfare as a split from WP:GA/H. Your bot may need updating to reflect this, but I'm not sure. Thanks! —Ed!^(talk) 17:35, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 15:47, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

RfC archived soon after got bot notice

FYI, less than 24 hours. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Carolmooredc&diff=480277504&oldid=479835414 Your notice to me.) (The project talk page is on 7 day cycle which is too short.) Frustrating since I'd spent and hour reading and replying. Will continue discussion on talk page. but FYI. CarolMooreDC 19:08, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, sorry about that. The archiving is of course completely separate from RFCbot. However, I will look into ways this can be avoided (e.g. not sending notifications for RfC's that will expire in the next few days). Thanks for bringing this to my attention. --Chris 09:08, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Proposed mergers/Log/July 2008

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Bug?

Is it a bug in the RFC bot for it to ask me for a comment on an RfC that I created or is this something which is unavoidable? [1]IRWolfie- (talk) 10:19, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, sorry about that. At the moment there are no great solutions to that problem. However I am currently working on some code that makes parsing wikitext a lot easier and more effective. Once that is written, I will be able to resolve this problem properly. Sorry. --Chris 13:04, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Re: User:One bot

Recently (00:00 12 March) removed ongoing MfD discussion User:MargiePearl/sandbox as an archived debate, possibly due to incorrect formatting. Dru of Id (talk) 03:01, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for notifying me of this. The formatting was the problem. I have left the user a message, explaining the problem. --Chris 13:25, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

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Something wrong with the bot..

The bot indiscriminately removed the load from the list including on going RFCs, don't know why... [2] --lTopGunl (talk) 08:05, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, that is rather strange. I will have to look into it further. Thank you for showing me this. --Chris 13:26, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

It also removed Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Indians in Afghanistan‎ from the list [3] just a few days after listing... maybe it's related to that? I saw some long sections included in the RFC summary in other cases in the recent removal.. which ever tripped it. Thanks for responding. --lTopGunl (talk) 13:37, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

I noticed this at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Maths, science, and technology: it yesterday removed all but one of the entries, seemingly not waiting the usual 28 days. It's since added one more new entry but the older entries are still missing. Looking at its contributions the same seemed to happen to all RfC lists about the same time.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 19:50, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

I've fixed the main part of the problem (the problem had to do with how the bot treats expired requests), so that should resolve the problem for the moment. I will however need to look into this further, to determine why the bot removed those rfcs in the first place. --Chris 06:57, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 11:28, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Bzbzbzbzbzb

Could you please fire up AntiAbuseBot to revert these malicious edits? Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

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GA bot down for 18 hours

GA bot has not made an edit to WP:GAC in 18 hours, including an article I promoted to GA a few hours ago.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:01, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

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