User talk:Tim1357/Archive 7

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Archive 5

Afghan girl's photo

Hi, Tim. I'm Pablo Zeta from Argentina. I would like to know how you uploaded the photo and how it was labelled to be "fair use", because I want to upload it to the Spanish WP's version of the article. Thanks for your attention.--Pablozeta (talk) 15:56, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Removing images in my userspace?

DASHbot removed several images from a gallery on my user page showing off my vectorizational achievements. Don't I have a right to show them, off, or is it arguably illegal? —Preceding signed comment added by Nicky Nouse (talk • contribs • wikia) 04:55, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Yanker

Thanks for the tip. For now, I still prefer the slower CatScan because the HTML output is more convenient to perform systematic cleanup. Cheers, Pichpich (talk) 11:19, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

File size reducing backlogged

Hi Tim, Category:Non-free_Wikipedia_file_size_reduction_request is up to 88 files, and DASHbot stopped resizing on April 19. Thought I'd let you know. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 07:39, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

HotArticleBot ampersand problem

Hey Tim, I figured out the problem with the ampersands in the HotArticleBot. The problem is that the ampersands in your XML data are not escaped correctly for XML. XML doesn't recognise most named HTML entities[1] so you have to use the numeric version instead. For example & instead of &. Let me know if you get a chance to fix this any time soon. Thanks! Kaldari (talk) 03:25, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Hey Tim, I guess you're on Wikibreak. Just wanted to let you know that I can get BAG approval for my bot until this is fixed, so please let me know as soon as you're able to get to it. Thanks! Kaldari (talk) 22:22, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi Kaldari. Just so you know, XML syntax does work for " & ", " < " and "> "[2]. I'll tell it to replace these, however, with the numbered character references. --Tim

For some reason the PHP XML parser doesn't like them. Might be a bug on PHP's end. Anyway, thanks for changing it! It is much appreciated. Sorry to interrupt your wikibreak! Kaldari (talk) 23:43, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Mcdonald Elementary School for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mcdonald Elementary School is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mcdonald Elementary School until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 06:31, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

BAGBot: Your bot request DASHBot 16

Someone has marked Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DASHBot 16 as needing your input. Please visit that page to reply to the requests. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 05:09, 4 May 2011 (UTC) To opt out of these notifications, place {{bots|optout=operatorassistanceneeded}} anywhere on this page.

BAGBot: Your bot request DASHBot 19

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DASHBot 19

Hi Tim. I've marked Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DASHBot 19 as expired. Please see the request page for details. Thanks, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 10:23, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Block

Please explain this edit which the bot repeated. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 07:24, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Without ever written a bot or seen the code, I'm guessing that it is due to the extreme lag on the toolserver at the moment and the fact that the article was moved back and forth from main to userspace. The toolserver cached version was probably the cross-namespace redirect version. When the lag problem is fixed the bot should be unblocked - but maybe some code needs to be added to auto disable it if the replag is excessive. The-Pope (talk) 16:10, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Pope, that's the first time I have seen anyone admit that the toolserver is crawling at the moment - I am suffering with my own stuff. But I make it a 34 hour replag! — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 20:44, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Not to budge in, but is this lag why the Wikiproject Watchlists are running about 7 hours behind? –Fredddie ™ 22:27, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Yes, something is going wrong with the toolserver's copy of the database. [3]. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.251.17.178 (talk) 02:49, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Stridulum EP

May I ask you to sort this out, or explain what the problem was/is? -- Evermore2 (talk) 15:34, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

RE Bot

wait, so the admin can change a normal page without any discussion, but i'm not allowed to put stuff on my own page? (which are not even raunchy, rude or bad taste) please next time let your bot tell me before it makes any sudden changes, it is extremely rude to do that to one's own user page Sclera2 (talk) 11:41, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Image removed while drafting

I am only using images which appear on Wikipedia. I am careful to only use images already on Wikipedia due to just such examples of very strange obsessive deletions in the past.

I am drafting an article for Main Space.

Why is the image not removed from the main space article Love Is..., but is removed from my article?

Please also refer to the letter about this type of edit from the Chairman of Wikipedia this month,here, and ensuing discussion here.

I obviously need more info on the "not free use" category and how this article already has permission to show the image - how is that permission shown up? I can't see it documented.

If anyone would like to help out with editing/reading/feedback instead of just deleting, I'd really appreciate people giving this draft article the once-over and leaving some constructive feedback

Thanks. Geoffjw1978 (talk) 22:43, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Technically, non-free images should not be used at all on wikipedia, but some very limited exemptions apply. This requires a specific statement on the image's page as to why the non-free image is the only possibly image to use. This is unlikely to be possibly in your case as many images are possibly used in your article. Tim just runs a bot that upholds policy - he doesn't set the policy. As for your article - looks at first glance too essay-like and not completey encyclopedic, but it isn't my usual area of editing.The-Pope (talk) 23:51, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

I see. 'nuff said. Still a lot to learn. Thanks for having a look at the article. Currently yoyoing between people asking for more content, then others interpreting additions as an essay/advert/guide. Geoffjw1978 (talk) 19:26, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Bypassing redirects in navigational templates?

Does DASHBOT still work to WP:bypass redirects in navigational templates? I think it used to do that....? Set theorist (talk) 22:26, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Your Common's custom skin page

Hello there, I noticed your custom JavaScript page on Commons. Maybe you wanted to use it for Vector skin, but you started the subpage with User:Tim1357/Vector.js, which is wrong. All custom skin sub-pages should start with lower case character, like "User:Tim1357/vector.js". Just to let you if you want to change it. Thanks! — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 09:29, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Hiya!

Hi! I'm one of the unreferenced BLP referencing gang, and was wondering what the process was for getting, perhaps, another run of user watchlist notices for folks who'd authored unreferenced BLPs? We're closing in on finally finishing off the backlog, down under 5,000 left, figured this might help us work through the final slog. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 17:11, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

image removed

RE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Artie04/WasteZero

i reposted it, using the appropriate licensing info i believe. it's a logo that i've been given permission -- by the corporation -- to use for this purpose. is this satisfactory? Artie04 (talk) 20:54, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Just leaving a comment here so no-body is confused, the logo in question was just green and blue text, eligible for trademark but not copyright (see {{PD-text}}), so I tagged it as such. A copyrighted image cannot be used in userspace without verification from the company, but that image cannot be copyrighted, any more than they can prevent me from typing "WasteZero". ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 05:24, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

This error probably won't happen again, but until I have time to sit down and review the code, I slapped a {{bots}} template on the page to keep DASHBot from going near it. [4] Thanks! Tim 1357 ^talk 11:27, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Silly bot

Hi, just wanted to point out this, I marked a logo as PD-text and used it in a template, but didn't notice that the author's template still marked it as non-free. I fixed this, but your bot must have had the image logged and still removed it. Perhaps the bot can check for a non-free tag by the time it makes the edit? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding... ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 05:24, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

The list of files to remove is generated 6 hours before it runs, so that explains why it did that. It probably wouldn't do it again, but I'm too lazy to test it right now, so I slapped a {{bots}} template on the page to tell DASHBot to stay away from the page. Thanks, Tim 1357 ^talk 11:25, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

P.S. Thanks for reminding me. I have to rewrite this task so that its not so latent.

Tim 1357 ^talk 11:25, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

It is honestly better to be over-cautious and remove non-free content, it's just that I was getting close to my 3RR on that template! If there is one thing I've learned from movies, it's don't argue with bots. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 15:44, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:-164260894A Night to Remember VideoCover.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:-164260894A Night to Remember VideoCover.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright and licensing status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can verify that it has an acceptable license status and a verifiable source. Please add this information by editing the image description page. You may refer to the image use policy to learn what files you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. The page on copyright tags may help you to find the correct tag to use for your file. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please also check any other files you may have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Eeekster (talk) 03:02, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

I fixed this one for you. — Mudwater^(Talk) 03:09, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:A VideoCover Japan.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:A VideoCover Japan.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright and licensing status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can verify that it has an acceptable license status and a verifiable source. Please add this information by editing the image description page. You may refer to the image use policy to learn what files you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. The page on copyright tags may help you to find the correct tag to use for your file. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please also check any other files you may have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Eeekster (talk) 03:04, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

I fixed this one too. — Mudwater^(Talk) 03:13, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:45 Minutes from Hollywood VideoCover.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:45 Minutes from Hollywood VideoCover.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude2 (talk) 05:11, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

File names

Please do not add numbers to file names, f. ex. File:1259135144591896294Andy Warhol's Bad VideoCover.png --> File:Andy Warhol's Bad VideoCover.png . feydey (talk) 09:49, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

You are right sir. I did not know about that particular guideline. I requested the Filemover right and I'll get to work renaming my files if/when I get it. Thanks. Tim 1357 ^talk

File:Kit body amber stripes.svg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Kit body amber stripes.svg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. mabdul 10:45, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

File moves

Please note that with nonfree files you need to correct the filename in the article they are used in, and CSD the file redirect under G6. Alpha Quadrant ^talk 18:12, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks :) Tim 1357 ^talk 18:22, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Im moving them right now, then I'll fix the file links, then I'll CSD the old pages.Tim 1357 ^talk 18:40, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

I think I'm done now. Thanks for your help! Tim 1357 ^talk 19:50, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

No problem, glad to help. Alpha Quadrant ^talk 05:19, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:A Problem with Fear VideoCover.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:A Problem with Fear VideoCover.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 09:21, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:A Place to Grow VideoCover.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:A Place to Grow VideoCover.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 09:47, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

AlbumBot

Greetings, Tim1357. It looks like you wrote the AlbumBot variation of DASHBot. On the bot's user page, it says, "Too buggy to run; project stalled." I was wondering if you would be able to work on AlbumBot some more. Over in WikiProject Albums, some of us are pretty eager to have a bot move the album reviews from the "Infobox album" template to the "Album ratings" template. That's what AlbumBot was doing, a while ago, before it was turned off. At the time I believe there was also not complete agreement on exactly what the specs for this should be. But, like I said, we'd like it a lot of AlbumBot could do this work, and I'm sure we'd collaborate on exactly what the specs should be. If you could do this, then great, and if not, can you help us find someone who can? If you reply here, I will see what you say, but the best would be if you could join in our discussion about all this. It's at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums#Album reviews. Thanks. — Mudwater^(Talk) 23:29, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Hello. In case you're interested, there's now a request for a similar bot, at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 42#Moving reviews out of Infobox Albums. — Mudwater^(Talk) 23:27, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Bot error

Please see User:Tenmei#Orphaned non-free image File:Hatoyama mainichi cropped.jpg. I have removed the orphan tag from the file description page.

Please note that this fair use image is plainly in use in the infobox at Iichirō Hatoyama. --Tenmei (talk) 18:44, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

TAG ORPHANED FAIR USE IMAGES = MISTAKE

bondieu papam ki lan ciel la min pitit ou wa ki la, map may taim agenou poum man dayw padon, amen!

Hey Tim well mon maysag don't loose faith, bondieu papa his watching us. moin soti loin, comment nou yeah! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yon ayi cyien (talk • contribs) 19:19, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

What? Tim 1357 ^talk 22:00, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Dash Bot error

Dashbor removed non-free images from my page when I was using it as a userspace draft.-Breawycker (talk to me!) 18:34, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

DASHbot (non-)error

Hi, yr bot posted on my wall to notify me an album cover i had uploaded was orphaned, and later i saw that you had apologised and removed the post as an error. Just thought i'd tell you that, as far as i know, the bot was originally correct: a vandal had inserted some rubbish into the picture's file name on the only page it featured on, meaning that it actually was orphaned. Being tipped off by yr bot allowed me to go and fix not only the vandalism to that article, but also to another one the vandal had hit, as well as leaving them their first test2 talk page warning. So basically, thanks, and keep up the good work! tomasz. 22:17, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

The bot went through one cycle where it screwed up (my fault). It had a second system (de-tagging non-orphans) that went through and fixed the errant tags. However, there were still a bunch of messages left on talk pages that were wrong. To avert the torrent of messages here, I reverted them en masse. I'm glad, however, for your vigilance! Good work. --Tim 1357 ^talk 21:16, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

DASHbot tagging for deletion files already tagged

Another bot already did it: diff.--Muhandes (talk) 07:57, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Yep. That error happened. I reverted all the user talk page notifications, but figured it wasn't worst thing in the world for one batch of files to be doubly tagged. Thanks though! Tim 1357 ^talk 21:09, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Yes, another DASHBot error...

The bot posted a CSD notice on my talk page when I wasn't the page creator. And also per the amount of complaints about DASHBot in the past 48 hours, I'm gonna shut him down. Island Monkey ^{talk the talk} 14:39, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

The bot uses the Wikipedia SQL database to find redirects from the article space to the user-space. The user it messages is the user that has the earliest, non-deleted revision on the page. For some reason this was you, but because I'm not an administrator (and therefore I can't see the revision history) I can't tell with certainty why exactly. Thanks for the heads up though. Tim 1357 ^talk 21:12, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Template:CatTrack

What is the purpose of this template? Gurch (talk) 13:38, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Its a template that is "watched" by my tool. CatTrack takes daily counts of the populations of categories (tagged with the template) and logs them, so that people can track their population over time. Here is an example for Category:All unreferenced BLPs. If you want me to choose a different way of tracking categories, feel free to request it. Cheers. --Tim 1357 ^talk 16:12, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

No, that seems like a legitimate way of tracking them. It would be nice if the template page explained what it did, though, since at the moment it's not clear to anyone who isn't aware of your tool. I'd add an explanation myself, but should probably check with you first that doing so (within <noinclude> tags) won't break anything. Thanks Gurch (talk) 07:37, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Done Tim 1357 ^talk 00:50, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

DASHBot error

The bot just tagged File:Pac-10-Uniform-UCLA-2006-2008.png for unused non-free deletion, but it's used on 2006 UCLA Bruins football team, 2007 UCLA Bruins football team and 2008 UCLA Bruins football team so I'm not sure why it got tagged. --Kevin W./Talk•CFB uniforms/Talk 18:51, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Stupid mistake on my part. Everything should be fixed now, and every mistagged image should be restored by now. Thanks for your patience.

Tim 1357 ^talk 00:51, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Moving album reviews - possible special case?

Hi, thanks for your work on DASHBot for this! Just thought I'd alert you to this edit at Barely Real - the reviews had already been moved but (slip up on my part!) the reviews parameter was still in the infobox, so there ended up being two review boxes instead of one. It's possible this is a special case but might be worth noting (it could just be a case of putting in a case where if no reviews are present in the infobox, the parameter is just deleted, but I'll leave that for someone else to decide!). Thanks, --Amkilpatrick (talk) 17:09, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Fixed: The bot will now ignore empty review sections. Tim 1357 ^talk 16:37, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Composing an answer to your question

Tim, let me compose a structured answer to your question. I will probably ask for the moon and then you will tell me what is possible.TCO (talk) 04:23, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Sounds good. Just leave a message here when you're ready. Tim 1357 ^talk 16:43, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Album bot is running amok

Hi, Tim1357. In the current test batch, the album bot continued well past 500 articles, so I tried to shut it off, but it looks like it's still editing articles. Can you shut it off for now? Thanks. — Mudwater^(Talk) 23:48, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Did you shut it off? Shortly after the post above, it stopped editing articles. — Mudwater^(Talk) 23:52, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

I just forced it to shut off. It did 1433. I didn't actually test the emergency shutoff function. It was incredibly silly of me. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Tim 1357 ^talk 23:55, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Ha ha, thanks! Well, now we've got a bigger test batch. So it's an even better test of the bot. :-|) — Mudwater^(Talk) 23:59, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Album ratings error

When the bot moved a link for Allmusic, that was in the allmusic template, it only moved the first portion of the template, thus giving a bad ref. Here is an example. It left us with " [{{Allmusic Allmusic review] " instead of " {{Allmusic |class=album |id=r470487 |label= |accessdate=January 02 2011 |pure_url=yes }} ". Otherwise, it looks like it worked pretty good! Thanks! MrMoustacheMM (talk) 02:34, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

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And we cannot use File:Selcuklu.gif in infobox because of Non-free media use. We don't use it even in the article Great Seljuq Empire because it is ahistorical. Tour bot　made mistakes repeatedly. Thank you. Takabeg (talk) 06:06, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, but fair use policy ([5]) stipulates that each image marked as "Fair Use" must be used in "at least one article". According to the file links section of your image's page, it is not currently used in any page. Tim 1357 ^talk 23:03, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Your bot is broke

These two files were tagged for deletion, both have a fair-use rationales and both are in use. And your bot page has no way to turn it off. File:Bill Janklow Arrest Affidavit.jpg File:Bill Janklow Arrest Affidavit Page Two.jpg 7mike5000 (talk) 11:20, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry but according to the file links sections ([6] and [7]) neither image is being used. Tim 1357 ^talk 22:54, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

My error: they were on the page, somebody who knows more that everybody else decided it was 'overkill' I beg to differ so I put them back. Thanks for replying, and um, your bot's not broke.7mike5000 (talk) 22:58, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Watchlist is Down

Another bot of yours is broken; The one for Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject New York City Public Transportation. Could you fix that one? ----DanTD (talk) 03:11, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Fixed now. Tim 1357 ^talk 13:18, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

File:Marseille Siegfried1.jpg

A bot tagged this as orphan, but technically all it has is a sparsely filled rationale template, as opposed to an obvious 'Non-free' license on it? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 17:25, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

The bot recognizes a file as being 'non free' if it is in the hidden category Category:All non-free media. This file in particular is in that category. Tim 1357 ^talk 17:37, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 17:40, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	I, Kaldari, hereby award Tim1357 The Technical Barnstar for his tireless work developing useful tools and bots. Kaldari (talk) 23:40, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

DASHbot

Hi Tim. i have been recived a messege from DASHBot he removed some files from my user page cause they was non free so can i use Akon first pic instead of that pls reply.Adi21124 (talk) 11:44, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

DASHBot adding whitespace

I don't think a bot should be adding unnecessary whitespace, such as after bullets, like here. However, it added a blank line between the DEFAULTSORT and the categories, which is wrong. McLerristarr | Mclay1 05:08, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

These fixes are part of pywikipedia's "cosmetic fixes". They are fixes that are meant to be "safe" for bots to preform without human oversight. Also, as I've gathered, they don't alter the display of the article whatsoever. The MOS does not say explicitly wether bullets should be followed by spaces, but in its example it does follow the bullets with a space. I can't find any MOS material concerning the placement/format of the DEFAULTSORT magic word. Can you help me out? Tim 1357 ^talk 23:35, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

No, the edits do not usually affect the appearance of the page; however, whitespace after bullets is unnecessary and not something a bot should be doing since there is no consensus that there should be whitespace there. I can't find a specific quote to say there should not be a blank line after the DEFAULTSORT but I know it is general consensus that there shouldn't. Pretty much every article on Wikipedia does not have the blank line and WP:AWB and other bots remove it. McLerristarr | Mclay1 04:28, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Album ratings

Any progress? –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 13:57, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Confused

Your bot is removing things from a draft version of Bleeding Kansas I placed in my userspace for rewriting. I've no idea why that is happening, but the template it slapped on me said to report errors here, so here I am. L H M 05:10, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Fair-Use Resize Bot

Resolved

Did you stop running this bot? I don't see the Bot making contributions for the past one week. --Sreejith K (talk) 05:13, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

It appears that it is now running. It went dark on that function from 24 June though 6 July, but ran twice on 6 July. There are images from before 6 July that still need to be resized, but I say we give it a few days to straighten out, in light of the recent developments. Sven Manguard Wha? 21:32, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Looks like it skipped the 7th. Since there are 100 items in the category, I'm gonna go chip it down a bit manually. Sven Manguard Wha? 04:44, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

I responded at WP:BOTREQ. ([8]) Tim 1357 ^talk 03:03, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

DASHBot

Hi, I noticed the default message that your bot leaves on talk pages states "I am a bot, and will therefore not be able to answer your questions." Would you mind putting a little blurb about {{help me}}, so that new unfamiliar users might be able to ask questions if they have them? Thanks. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 15:31, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Sure. I changed the message for Orphaned Images ([9]) and for Misplaced Fair use Images ([10]). Feel free to alter the templates in any way you see fit.

Tim 1357 ^talk 03:15, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Re. DASHBot message

The page in question is a draft version of an article. I've had a look at the bot's logs, and such image removals from user sandboxes seem commonplace: is that genuinely in the spirit of the policy? If not, is there any DASHBot-Go-Away template (à la NOINDEX) / can it be made to ignore userspace pages which are similar in content to mainspace pages / can it be made to ignore Sysops? Thanks. It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 08:07, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Well technically yes. You can put on the page and the bot will ignore it. However, I'm pretty sure that the only exceptions to the NFCC#9 policy are the pages in Category:Wikipedia non-free content criteria exemptions (which the bot respects). Tim 1357 ^talk 23:35, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

MindMeister logo

Hi Tim, I just got a notice that the MindMeister logo is schedule for deletion as it is orphaned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MindMeister_logo.png It is actually in use at the MindMeister page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindMeister How do I go about correcting/updating this? Thanks in advance, Dan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dtnyc383 (talk • contribs) 09:44, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

The problem was that the image was not showing up on the page. This was due to a malformed Infobox. I went ahead and fixed the article. The bot should come along and remove the tag within the hour. Thanks! Tim 1357 ^talk 23:45, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Marking unsuitable new pages as patrolled

DashBot is marking pages as patrolled that should be tagged for CSD: 21:36, 19 February 2010 DASHBot (talk | contribs | block) marked Pathfinder.gr patrolled ‎ --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:04, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

The bot patrols new pages that are marked for CSD or AFD. That way they can be removed from the Special:NewPages feed. Tim 1357 ^talk 13:49, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I obviously wrote my message in a hurry. What I meant was, the bot is marking pages as patrolled i.e.: OK for inclusion, when they are inappropriate and need to be tagged for deletion or other attention. Because the bot is tagging them as patrolled, they are no longer highlighted in the Special:NewPages feed, and will not be checked by patrollers. I only catch these errors because I am patrolling the work of the patrollers. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:31, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Tim said that the bot only automatically marks pages as patrolled if they are already marked for deletion (I don't know if that is accurate or not, but I'd tend to assume it is since he, you know, programmed the bot and all). –Drilnoth (T/C) 20:10, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Then he is not aware of the glitch. It would not have come to light if I hadn't bee checking the work of the NPPers and the page patrol logs. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:19, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

But the page you mentioned was tagged for CSD; the person who tagged it later removed the tag. The bot would appear to have accurately checked the page history. –Drilnoth (T/C) 22:06, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

DashBOT tagging wrong user

I come back from my wikibreak and I find a message of Dashbot saying that I had a N-F I in my userspace, well, I did but it was on my talk page, and an IP added it. Well, it said not to do it. I feel like if I'm a newcomer again. Well, short story short, I would like it if it left a message to the talk page to who added the picture or other media, not the userspace that it is in. ~~EBE123~~ ^talk_Contribs 22:51, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

WikiProjects by size

Thanks for making the database report. I shared it with the WikiProject Council and a couple editors think the numbers may not include the more complex WikiProject templates and redirects. Could you comment over there? Thanks again. -Mabeenot (talk) 00:28, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

I responded at WT:DBR Tim 1357 ^talk 14:47, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi, this is user JohannaAnn. I received a note that a speedy deletion was placed on the page I was working on, "Bernstein & Andriulli." I'm relatively new to Wikipedia and couldn't figure out how to move something from live back into draft, hence why I screwed up the redirect. Can you explain to me how to do that so that I don't mess this up again? The page will be going live soon. Thanks JohannaAnn (talk) 23:42, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Abum task

Looks like DASHbot is moving album reviews into the main article body, but not checking if the article has a corresponding References section to display the refs. I don't know that it rises to the level of needing to hit the shutoff button or anything (especially since I just picked up on this, well after the fact, on a bunch of articles), but it would make my reflist-maintenance life easier if you could get the bot to either skip articles that don't already have a reflist, or add the reflist when it does the review-moving if there's not already one. Any chance you could implement either of those? A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 14:46, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that the bot (right now, at least) skips articles without a reference section. If there is a <ref> tag, a {{reflist}} template, or a <references/> tag, the bot assumes that there is already a reflist present. Tim 1357 ^talk 23:48, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Can you link me to one of these cases? Tim 1357 ^talk 23:49, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Ahhh, I see what it is. It's not that DASHbot is failing to skip articles that don't have any reflists at all; it looks like it's that it doesn't know to skip articles where there's a reflist|group, but no regular reflist. this is the one that I came across. The article had a reflist for a particular ref group, but not a general reflist. Ditto for this one. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 13:30, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Ok, the bot now requires either a {{reflist}} or a <references/>, and a <ref> tag alone will no longer cut it. Thanks for the heads up! Tim 1357 ^talk 02:14, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks! A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 03:59, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Change list for WikiProject Kansas

Question #1 - Have you created a "Hot Articles for WikiProject" page for every USA state, like the following? http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py?template=WikiProject+Computing

Question #2 - Has anyone created a change list for "WikiProject Kansas"?

Question #3 - If someone hasn't requested one for Kansas, then please create one for me.

Question #4 - If you have created one for other states, then where do I find the list? Please link to a page that has a link to it. I wanted to know where other states are putting their links.

Question #5 - Do you have any options to tweak the output?

Thanks in advance! • Sbmeirow • Talk • 05:11, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Error message

I use the WikiProject watchlist utility and came across this set of error messages (unformatted copy of text).

<class '_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError'> Python 2.7.1: /opt/ts/python/2.7/bin/python
Sun Jul 24 01:26:54 2011 

A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.

 /home/tim1357/public_html/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py in () 
    413         print '</div><div id="footer">©2010 Tim1357 | The %s results above took %s seconds to generate%s.<div style="clear:both; margin-top:.5em; text-align:center;"><a href="http://toolserver.org/" target="_self"><img src="http://toolserver.org/images/wikimedia-toolserver-button.png" style="border:0" /></a></div>'%(str(r),str(time()-now)[:5], lag)
 
    414 
 
    415 
 
=>  416 maint()
 
    417 print'</html>'
 
maint = <function maint> 
 /home/tim1357/public_html/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py in maint() 
    363         for g in query:
 
    364                 if 1:    
 
=>  365                         db.query(g)
 
    366              #   except:
 
    367              #           error('A Database error occured. Please try at a later time, or if possible, with a lower limit.')
 
global db = <_mysql.connection open to 'enwiki-p.userdb.toolserver.org' at 81196cc>, db.query = <built-in method query of Connection object>, g = 'insert into u_tim1357.tempnum\nselect /* LIMIT:1... and a.page_namespace=0 where t.page_namespace=1;' 

<class '_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError'>: (1290, 'The MySQL server is running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement') 
      args = (1290, 'The MySQL server is running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement') 
      message = ''

VI_WS ^talk 01:32, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

I tried it a couple more times, and it eventually went away. VI_WS ^talk

Recreation of list, if possible

If you've noticed your image-resize bot's been a bit busy the last couple of weeks :) - I've completed through User:ImageResizeBot/List1 (warning-big, c. 9600 lines), which was a bit old (2008) - and am wondering how to recreate something like this - a list of oversized non-free images? Any help you might be able to give would be appreciated - and thanks for all the wonderful bot work Skier Dude (talk) 04:36, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Navbox redirect stopped 4 months ago?

The navbox redirect bypassing feature of DashBOT was suspended by a user 4 months ago and has not been resumed since. I have to manually review redirects now. Why? Also, is the number on User:DASHBot/Navbox Details#How many redirects will DASHBot fix.3F an edit count or an upper limit on edits? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 12:47, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

I agree with Train2104's question, and I don't understand why you reverted your own edit, readding the stop after you removed it. Can someone please explain what's going on here? Set theorist (talk) 05:10, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

The bot seems to have stopped performing this task on June 3, 2010. The last edit was this one. Anyone know why? Set theorist (talk) 05:33, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

I reverted my own edit because I saw an entry on this talk page from the same user that stopped it with an explanation. But the operator of the bot never responded to that complaint. And why did it stop on June 3 2010? The stop request was sent March 29 2011. So it seems that the seemingly random number of edits listed was a hard maximum. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 16:11, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

I don't understand. Wasn't the bot simply implementing the guideline at WP:BRINT? If the problem is with the "exceptions to the exception" as indicated there, then maybe those exceptions can be programmed into the bot - such as avoiding cases where the redirect is tagged with {{R with possibilities}} (or other similar templates, if there are any). -Set theorist (talk) 17:30, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

File:Billie Holiday LP.jpg

DASHBot has tagged File:Billie Holiday LP.jpg as unused twice in the past two days, although it is used in Billie Holiday (album) and hasn't been removed at any point. January (talk) 08:57, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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Suggest amending the bot message

In particular, remove "In the future, please refrain from adding fair-use files to your user-space drafts or your talk page". A novice might and should get offended by that they are blamed for a mistake they haven't made (like in this case when someone posted a non-free image on my talk). Materialscientist (talk) 05:09, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Dashbot worn out?

G'day Tim, Did the Dashbot get tired from all the album edits and needed a rest? The UBLP run didn't happen today. We're almost there... under 1900 to go! The-Pope (talk) 14:58, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Ditto for the image resize bot- 275+ images currently in the queue. Skier Dude (talk) 02:55, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Looks like all bot tasks that rely on the toolserver database aren't working. :/ Tim 1357 ^talk 12:35, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Looks like they may have renamed the database server I was using. I'm not sure though. In any case, I moved all my bot tasks to a new server that should be working fine. Tim 1357 ^talk 13:18, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:The Way Ahead VideoCover.jpeg

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Please let's keep the dash

Dear Tim, The Bot changed the title og one of of my pages, The Bridge - (dash) Stage of the Arts to The Bridge — (hyphen) Stage of the Arts, and since no one looking for The Bridge - Stage of the Arts will ever type a hyphen instead of the smaller dash the Redirect notice on the page will always be in evidence and I would greatly prefer the simplicity of having no such notice. I have tried to undo ths Bot's work to no avail. Thanks for considering this. Mx96 06:30, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:The Radio Pirates VideoCover.jpeg

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Spaces in headers

I see that your bot puts spaces in headers. i.e. it changes ==xxx== to == xxx ==.
There is another bot that removes them. i.e. it changes == xxx == to ==xxx==.
Personally, I couldn't care less. But I am forced to admit that I this find this highly amusing. (Yes, I know, "small things amuse small minds".)
I'm somewhat embarassed to admit that I would be fascinated to read your rationale for putting them back in.
Cheers, OpinionFreeZone (talk) 13:16, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Just a Talk Page Stalker chiming in here. I, personally, prefer unspaced headers (I'm a coder and programmer, and seeing extra spaces around what amounts to HTML <h#> tags is painful), but I think it is something which probably shouldn't be handled by bots. It doesn't really matter one way or another, and I've seen several people comment about such automated changes (from this bot and others) and what the point of them is. –Drilnoth (T/C) 16:20, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi Tim, are you going to reply, or should I remove this page from my watchlist? OpinionFreeZone (talk) 12:27, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi OFZ. I turned the cosmetic_changes module off, so the bot will no longer do any cosmetic changes. Therefore, the problem of spacing headers should no longer be one. Thanks for the feedback (and sorry for belated relpy)

Tim 1357 ^talk 12:30, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

And just as a reply to your question as to why the bot changed these: I have no freakin' clue. The function that changed the spacing is included in the pywikipedia library (the library I use to interface with Wikipedia), so I'd have to ask the perosn(s) that wrote it. Tim 1357 ^talk 12:33, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

LOL! Thanks for the good humoured and comprehensive reply. (Most appreciated!) Cheers, OpinionFreeZone (talk) 12:38, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Film posters

Nice work on adding all those posters! Lugnuts (talk) 09:17, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

No problem. Tim 1357 ^talk 12:34, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Album bot reprise

Hi Tim, I think everybody is pretty happy with the last batch that DASHbot ran on the album reviews. If you could get that going again that would be great—I hope it isn't too much trouble for you to give it a shove. Thanks —Akrabbim^talk 12:01, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

I think everybody is really happy with the last batch. It seems to me that there was an outstanding issue with the "general cleanup" stuff, where the bot was enforcing one parameter per line in the infobox, and that wasn't working perfectly. I'd like to suggest that the bot be changed, to not do any general cleanup of the infobox or the rest of the article. Just have the bot move the album ratings from the infobox to the album ratings template. That's the part that everyone wants to have happen, and is really focused on, and that part seems to be working really well. Once all the ratings have been moved, the bot optionally could be enhanced or changed further to do general cleanup of the infobox or the articles, or not. In other words, I think the best approach now is to really focus on the main task of moving the ratings, without letting the other stuff slow us down. Just my two cents. — Mudwater^(Talk) 13:00, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Another run would be great. Unfortunately, Tim seems to be somewhat inactive (over a week since his last edit). :( –Drilnoth (T/C) 13:15, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Hey Tim. It looks like the album ratings bot updated a big batch of articles last night. That's great. I've spot checked a few of the updates and they seem good to me. Looks like you're going with the suggestion of having the bot only move the ratings, so that's cool. — Mudwater^(Talk) 12:49, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Yep, sorry (again) for the delay. I had it set to do 5,000 but it looks like the toolserver had a network blip so it died before finishing. I'll restart it and do another 1,000 for good measure. Thanks for your patience!

Tim 1357 ^talk 14—:18, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Great, thanks! I've started a new talk page section for editors to leave feedback on the bot's work, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums#Album ratings bot. Let's see what people say about this batch. I'll check some more updates myself when I get a chance. So far everything looks perfect. Although here are two really minor suggestions for your consideration: (1) The bot is already saying in its edit summary whether it added the album ratings template after the infobox or to the Reception section. Could it also mention in the edit summary if it had to add a References section for the footnotes? (2) In the edit summary it says Common Fixes Applied, but that could be left out since we're skipping the common fixes. Anyway, thanks again. — Mudwater^(Talk) 01:45, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

I see that the bot did another batch of 1,000 this morning, and without mentioning common fixes. Everything is looking really good. — Mudwater^(Talk) 00:33, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Looks like the album ratings bot has been humming along quite nicely since yesterday morning, so I've guess you've "set the bot free" to do its thing. Everything looks great. — Mudwater^(Talk) 11:19, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

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Dealt with. Tim 1357 ^talk 01:57, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_J1_(Y-DNA)#Distribution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_J1_(Y-DNA)#Distribution The above page uses the image still on this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Distribution_Haplogroup_J1_Y-DNA.jpg I have made the case that this image is not allowed by policy myself. I removed it from the Haplogroup J1(Y-DNA) page several times only to be reverted. I was keeping a copy of the map on my user page. Help me understand how it can be used in an article, yet not used in a copy of the article? JohnLloydScharf (talk) 05:19, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

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File:The-Deconsumptionists.jpg

Your bot removed the image link and I reversed the edit. The image is copyrighted but the article User:Ncacosta/EIDIA is actually for the owners of the picture and I'm allowed/asked to use it. Nono (talk) 08:39, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

The policy on "non-free" images is pretty stringent. Any image marked as "non-free" or "fair use" cannot be used anywhere else but articles. The image must be released under free license in order to be used in a user sub page. However, because you moved the page to the article space, the bot should no longer be in your hair. Happy editing! Tim 1357 ^talk 01:51, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

DASHBot resizing album and single covers

DASHBot recently reduced the size of the album cover File:Frederica von Stade - Mahler Songs - Album Cover.jpg to 406px×393px, and I had noticed it doing the same to another album cover some months ago. I was just wondering why DASHBot does not reduce the size of album covers to "no more than 300px on at least one side" per Template:Infobox album? memphisto 19:49, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Originally I set out to do just that, but I decided that it would be better to go a bit above that just to avoid over-reducing the image. The logic (now) is that the image will be resized so that ImageHeight x ImageWidth = 160,000 or some number close to that. Tim 1357 ^talk 01:59, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

But the Template:Infobox album guidelines are 300px, and the majority of album covers are resident in that template. So, could DASHBot resize album covers to 300px, or ignore album covers altogether. memphisto 09:03, 9 August 2011 (UTC).

Maybe resize them to 350? That should avoid any over-reduction. –Drilnoth (T/C) 13:14, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

I not really sure what you mean by "over-reduction" - a 300px wide image is more than adequate to identify an album cover. Also, Template:Infobox album displays album covers with a width of 220px (the default thumbnail width), and the maximum thumbnail width available is 300px, so an image larger than that is not necessary. memphisto 09:25, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

I see DASHBot is still resizing album covers to larger than 300px. memphisto 17:20, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

DASHBot is continuing to resize album covers to 400px: File:Harry Connick Jr Come By Me.jpg, and the same with singles (which I should have included in my original point): File:Hard-Fi - Tied Up Too Tight.jpg. memphisto 10:56, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

File:The-Deconsumptionists.jpg

Your bot removed the image link and I reversed the edit. The image is copyrighted but the article User:Ncacosta/EIDIA is actually for the owners of the picture and I'm allowed/asked to use it. Nono (talk) 08:39, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

The policy on "non-free" images is pretty stringent. Any image marked as "non-free" or "fair use" cannot be used anywhere else but articles. The image must be released under free license in order to be used in a user sub page. However, because you moved the page to the article space, the bot should no longer be in your hair. Happy editing! Tim 1357 ^talk 01:51, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Question

Just wondering why Dashbot hasnt done the NFCC9 enforcement recently. The count is over 170 violations. ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 16:55, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Incorrect Orphan Claim

Your bot claims that my image has been orphaned, but it has not. It has been replaced by a higher resolution image at the same address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transdimensional_TMNT.jpeg and is still linked to at least one article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdimensional_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles WildElf (talk) 21:29, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

What are they doing to the toolserver?

G'day Tim, DASHBot's UBLP list generation has been off for a couple of days again. Are they mucking around with the toolserver again? Cheers The-Pope (talk) 01:24, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Yeah they changed the databases around. Should be fixed now. Tim 1357 ^talk 03:30, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

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When an album rating is in parens, remove the parens. [11] and [12] are two examples of this problem, where the bot made the "source" column of {{Album ratings}} be "Allmusic (" rather than "Allmusic". –Drilnoth (T/C) 17:26, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

National Archives Logo

Hi Tim,

Dashbot is very efficiently removing our logo from our new Glamwiki page. Obviously we're happy for the logo to be used there, where it's appropriate, but I can see it's slightly awkward with its fair use status. Not sure if it's the bot, page or image that needs tweaking to make sure the logo can stay up. Could you advise me? --Mr impossible (talk) 10:40, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure what should be done here. In the meantime, place the following on the page to keep DASHBot from editing it:

{{Bots|deny=DASHBot}}.

I left a message over at WP:MCQ to see how we should procede. Tim 1357 ^talk 01:46, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Tim, duly added. Just let me know if we need to do anything else. --Mr impossible (talk) 11:08, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

They said that it probably would be suitable to use {{Pd-text}} ([13]) so I went ahead and changed that on the file's page ([14]). Hopefully that's good with you. Tim 1357 ^talk 20:26, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

In fact I've just checked with a colleague and our logo is a registered trademark and so the one to use would be {{Trademark}}. I'm not sure if that creates more problems(!) but that's the template that should be used. --Mr impossible (talk) 09:03, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

William Conselman

File:Ellacinders12630.jpg is an example of William Conselman's writing, but the bot's reduction is so extreme that the file can no longer serve that function. Pepso2 (talk) 10:59, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

George Wunder

Note my confusion with File:Terrypirates081769.jpg. While I was rescaling File:Terrypirates081769.jpg, I was unaware that the bot was also rescaling. So I reverted to the bot's rescaling. Pepso2 (talk) 11:40, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Her Night of Romance FilmPoster.jpeg

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Orphaned non-free image File:Bull's Eye FilmPoster.jpeg

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DASHBot resizing album and single covers

DASHBot recently reduced the size of the album cover File:Frederica von Stade - Mahler Songs - Album Cover.jpg to 406px×393px, and I had noticed it doing the same to another album cover some months ago. I was just wondering why DASHBot does not reduce the size of album covers to "no more than 300px on at least one side" per Template:Infobox album? memphisto 19:49, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Originally I set out to do just that, but I decided that it would be better to go a bit above that just to avoid over-reducing the image. The logic (now) is that the image will be resized so that ImageHeight x ImageWidth = 160,000 or some number close to that. Tim 1357 ^talk 01:59, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

But the Template:Infobox album guidelines are 300px, and the majority of album covers are resident in that template. So, could DASHBot resize album covers to 300px, or ignore album covers altogether. memphisto 09:03, 9 August 2011 (UTC).

Maybe resize them to 350? That should avoid any over-reduction. –Drilnoth (T/C) 13:14, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

I not really sure what you mean by "over-reduction" - a 300px wide image is more than adequate to identify an album cover. Also, Template:Infobox album displays album covers with a width of 220px (the default thumbnail width), and the maximum thumbnail width available is 300px, so an image larger than that is not necessary. memphisto 09:25, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

I see DASHBot is still resizing album covers to larger than 300px. memphisto 17:20, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

DASHBot is continuing to resize album covers to 400px: File:Harry Connick Jr Come By Me.jpg, and the same with singles (which I should have included in my original point): File:Hard-Fi - Tied Up Too Tight.jpg. memphisto 10:56, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

DASHBot resizing album and single covers

DASHBot recently reduced the size of the album cover File:Frederica von Stade - Mahler Songs - Album Cover.jpg to 406px×393px, and I had noticed it doing the same to another album cover some months ago. I was just wondering why DASHBot does not reduce the size of album covers to "no more than 300px on at least one side" per Template:Infobox album? memphisto 19:49, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Originally I set out to do just that, but I decided that it would be better to go a bit above that just to avoid over-reducing the image. The logic (now) is that the image will be resized so that ImageHeight x ImageWidth = 160,000 or some number close to that. Tim 1357 ^talk 01:59, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

But the Template:Infobox album guidelines are 300px, and the majority of album covers are resident in that template. So, could DASHBot resize album covers to 300px, or ignore album covers altogether. memphisto 09:03, 9 August 2011 (UTC).

Maybe resize them to 350? That should avoid any over-reduction. –Drilnoth (T/C) 13:14, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

I not really sure what you mean by "over-reduction" - a 300px wide image is more than adequate to identify an album cover. Also, Template:Infobox album displays album covers with a width of 220px (the default thumbnail width), and the maximum thumbnail width available is 300px, so an image larger than that is not necessary. memphisto 09:25, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

I see DASHBot is still resizing album covers to larger than 300px. memphisto 17:20, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

DASHBot is continuing to resize album covers to 400px: File:Harry Connick Jr Come By Me.jpg, and the same with singles (which I should have included in my original point): File:Hard-Fi - Tied Up Too Tight.jpg. memphisto 10:56, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:To Sir, with Love VideoCover.jpeg

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Vandalism caused bot to trigger

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File:Marilyn Manson - Unkillable Monster.ogg and File:Marilyn Manson - WOW.ogg

For some inexplicable reason, User:Salgado96 removed these files from the article The High End of Low. I have since reverted these edits. -Red marquis (talk) 06:17, 17 August 2011 (UTC)