User talk:ClueBot Commons/Archives/2009/April

Excellent bot!

I highly commend Cobi (t·c) and his Cluebot, for reverting the vandalism of the article Dynasty Warriors 6 caused by IP 76.113.156.37. Your Cluebot restored 11,289 characters erased from the article. Well done! And thank you for helping to make Wikipedia a better encyclopedia! -BlueCaper (talk) 19:59, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

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I have not edited anything I got messages for. Why do I get messages saying I have? I don't even have an account.

When you're editing anonymously, you run the risk of sharing your IP address with someone else. So if someone was vandalizing an article on the same IP as you, you end up getting the warnings and messages about the edits. All of this can be avoided if you create an account for yourself. --Whip it! ^{Now whip it good!} 22:13, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

You've Made a Mistake

I recently received a warning for deleting 15,383 characters on the Hurricane Katrina page. Strangely, I have niether edited the page or even visited it. I've also asked and found that the 3 other people who use my computer have done no such thing. I can only think that there's some fault in the system somewhere and I suggest you sort it out before anyone else is falsely accussed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.151.171.166 (talk) 21:32, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Have you seen the note at the bottom of your talk page?

"Some IP addresses change periodically, and may be shared by several users. If you are an IP user, you may create an account or log in to avoid future confusion with other IP users. Registering also hides your IP address."

On 23 March 2008 someone made an edit from the ip address that is currently assigned to your computer, which is not to say that same address was assigned to your computer at the time. Cheers, BEVE (talk)  21:58, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the clue, ClueBot!

I love you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.101.91.137 (talk) 03:48, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

the use of my IP address

Hello ClueBot whoever you are. I must assure you that I wasn't the person who wrote fuck u bitch on the Raja Yoga page from my IP address. This sort of thing has happened a few times to me (I'm not a nutter, honest). Is this something that happens a lot in Wikipedia - wikivandals 'hijacking' other people's IP addresses and getting them told off by The Guardians? 78.151.89.40 (talk)

Image linking bug?

When ClueBot reverts vandalism from the File: namespace, the "log entry" part of the warning it leaves contains a direct link to the image, without a colon: [1]. I assume this is a bug because ClueBot correctly inserts the colon (performs a colonoscopy?) for the File: link earlier in the warning. -kotra (talk) 00:20, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

 Done -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 19:52, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! -kotra (talk) 04:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

User:ClueBot_III/Run

Shouldn't this page be protected so only admins can edit it? It says on the ClueBot III userpage that 'Administrators' can edit it - Nz26 | Talk | Contribs | Email 09:55, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Capital letters

Hi, I have a question/proposal. Does ClueBot perform some kind of check on sentence capitalisation? Many vandals write sentences (4/5 words) with small letters. An example (hand-reverted) here. I hope this can help. I've also seen here, but I didn't manage to register on Cluenet. --CristianCantoro (talk) 17:29, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I meant the Anti-Vandal ClueBot, of course. --CristianCantoro (talk) 17:32, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Scope

ClueBot always beats me when I see in WP:VF that a user has blanked the page. But that is only for Articles. I also see quite a few (often very large) talk pages blanked and I've never seen any ClueBot action (I just reverted one talk page, and it was three minutes after the vandal edit). Maybe the scope of ClueBot should include Talk pages?  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:31, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Naturally I mean Article Talk pages - not user talk pages.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 23:10, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

False Positive 657824

The word "sucks" appears in the name of the anti-ticket scalping campaign. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.99.236.55 (talk) 01:01, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Reporting False Positives as a non-authenticated user

Hello. I had a false positive with ClueBot. (ID: 661113)diff . When I went to the page to log the false positive, the page is locked to non-authenticated users. I prefer to stay relatively anonymous, and not create an account. Is there another place I should file this false positive? 63.226.254.147 (talk) 18:50, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Whoops...

While I realize you're a bot, I wanted to apologize for my mistake on the Soundwave page, I didn't mean to delete stuff, I'm on my Wii, because I do not have a computer...I assume it cut the text off because it couldn't handle the...well, text...I harbor no ill will towards Soundwave, he's in fact my favorite anything, ever...I merely wished to add that thing with the superior, and the inferior, and blah blah blah.....If THAT'S what ACTUALLY got this revert and my Wii's annoying habits are not involved in this, then I'm an idiot...Word....And I now realize I may be unable to sign my IP because.....I....Kind of don't remember it.....Which sort of makes this irrelevant....Sorry? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.24.239.169 (talk) 10:25, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

M-1 Grand Prix

Hey, I just got hit by your bot editing M-1 Grand Prix. I can't actually say its a false positive since I was undoing an edit which had removed vandalism. Anyway, the point was to undo the original vandalism edit before it properly since the intermediate edit had only removed the vandalism without re-adding the removed information. I would add the original info back in manually, except I don't know the syntax for table formating like it had originally been done in. Could you revert it back to the last unvandalized version from december? Thanks! 123.222.137.153 (talk) 10:36, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Unable to report false positive

My edit (respective undo of delete) of article List of people excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church was reported (false!) positive for "minor change with obscenities". There is word "rape" because it is about of excommunication mother of rape victim. I tried to report false positive, but page User:ClueBot/FalsePositives is non-editable for me (I am logged in) and link click here is not working. Cluebot edit ID that I claim false positive is 664464, diff of changes of edit I was undoing is here [2]. Please, help me to report false positive and get my edit back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Waeland (talk • contribs) 09:07, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Nice one

Nice one, Cluebot![3] I mean, not to demean all of the good work the bot does, but surely redirecting a featured article should set off some vandalism heuristic? Petropoxy (Lithoderm Proxy) (talk) 07:55, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

WP:CHU/U

What's going on here? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:38, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

I fixed it. Someone broke Template:Usurp. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 10:40, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Junk entries in archive index

I'm seeing nothing but junk in the archive index box. I've tried various settings for the ArchiveThis template even based it on the one used by the ClueBot itself but it's still fowled up. Any ideas?--RadioFan (talk) 13:06, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Never mind, it fixed itself. Also didn't realize I could fix it myself but editing my talk page and looking at the list of transcluded pages at the bottom revealed that nice to know tidbit.--RadioFan (talk) 12:26, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Congrats on making the 1,000,000 mark

ClueBot recently passed 1,000,000 edits, the 4th username to do so. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:54, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

BUGSAS Spor

but there are two same articles!

ABB Bugsaş S.K. and BUGSAS Spor

and in BUGSAS Spor are not enough iformation

(SALGINHO (talk) 14:42, 17 April 2009 (UTC))

Possible bug

On Cluebot's reports it says that "The user made a minor change by adding !!!", but the user acually did more that that.--Abce2 (talk) 23:09, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Possible use in Turkish Wikipedia?

Hi. I'm user of a Pywiki bot in Turkish Wikipedia, but I'm not familiar with programming :(. Is it posible to translate ClueBot antivandalism to another language (Turkish for example) via a new bad word list? Can you please reply vi tr:User:Khutuck page? Thanks. Khutuck Bot (talk) 16:32, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Sowwy... --208.59.134.79 (talk) 02:21, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Changing the name of an article

The article that exists on the Wikipedia on the english language that is called Nehaj Castle is not corect! This article talks of a building that is called Fortress Nehaj!

A Castle is a building in wich royal familys have lived and ruled, and a Fortress is a building that was used by different military organisations for defense or for conquests! The Rortress Nehaj was used by Uskoci for defense of the town of Senj and its surroundings!

Therefor the title of this article should be changed!

I would appreciate it if you would change it!

--The Nerd from Earth (talk) 14:29, 20 April 2009. (CEST)

Duplicate sections. Bug?

Why did Cluebot add a new section for the month on User talk:Masterman93? April 2009 existed already.--Oneiros (talk) 14:15, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

False Positive (676861) & sorry for this in advance

Sorry for putting this here but the the reporting a false postive feature isn't working for me. The UNDO (or the OLDID maybe?) in question (I think) is 285112827 HERE?. Upon reflection, I'm thinking a list of legislative output by Sen. Joe Biden being put on his Political positions of Joe Biden page wasn't exactly the most logical place to put it I guess. Still my intent was only to add to the overall history of Joe Biden's Senate career not to vndalize, disrupt or anything along those lines. I see now that unregistered users aren't allowed to contribute to Biden's main page so even though I am tempted to undo it back, I'll leave it alone and let those "in charge" either move it to Biden's main page or just let it go waste being deleted from the main content forever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.237.233.52 (talk) 23:18, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Who owns this Bot? it is faulty.

Does anyone still own this bot? User:ClueBot/FalsePositives claims it has been down since October 2008...hardly a notice that can be removed by someone other than the person who replaced the hard-drive on the server. Could that be updated by some such person? The top link for reporting a false positive persistently shows Cannot Find Server error. Does the link still point to the dead server? The bot is clearly still working, so maybe it should be linked back to the correct current location? KoolerStill (talk) 08:23, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

• It seems the bot stopped working earlier today. --Ixfd64 (talk) 02:15, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

"False negative" from a week ago

Check out 204.14.13.220 (contribs) from April 16. ClueBot caught the really blatant vandalism of Pacific Beach, San Diego, California, but the more random changes to United States Naval Computing Machine Laboratory were missed. Having been a victim of both ClueBot and WP:FALSEPOS in the past (under other IPs), I thought I'd document this failure-to-detect case as an FYI. While the phrase "doesnt like girls" is a warning flag for the USNCML changes, perhaps the real lesson to be learned here is that if vandalism by an IP gets detected, ClueBot could heuristically scrutinize that IPs other recent contributions more closely. 72.244.200.185 (talk) 01:22, 24 April 2009 (UTC).