User talk:WinBot/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Welcome!

Hello, WinBot, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Vaniac 17:45, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Unblock

unblock request removed. Get approval for your bot before running it. User:Zoe|^(talk) 18:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

What is this bot doing, anyway

Why did this bot just make an irrelevant and useless substitution of a utility template on my talk page? And especially why doesn't it mark its edits as minor? Kelly Martin (talk) 16:50, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

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- It might be doing everything you told it, but it is still "irrelevant and useless," not to mention intensely annoying. Every wikipedian with Barnstars on their talk pages got a flag up as if they had new messages, but the change your bot made was so minor, it was impossible to see without checking the edit history. Next time, try not to be such a geek. Most wikipedians do not care what colour the border of their barnstars are.Superbo 02:18, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Strange transclusion

In this edit, the {{lifetime}} template was replaced with the actual text of the template. But, since the template had conditionals inside it, it made quite a mess imho.

Instead of

[[Category:1917 births|Fairbrother, Jack]]
[[Category:1999 deaths|Fairbrother, Jack]]

it ended up as

{{{11917|[[Category:1917 births|Fairbrother, Jack]]}}}
{{Ifndef|1917|[[Category:Year of birth unknown|Fairbrother, Jack]]}}
{{{21999|[[Category:1999 deaths|Fairbrother, Jack]]}}}
{{Ifndef|1999|[[Category:Living people|Fairbrother, Jack]]}}

Can you modify your bot to parse the conditionals, or else to refrain from replacing text in templates that use them? Neier 03:10, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

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Unicodifying breaks on non-BMP characters

Third AWB bot I've found that breaks non-BMP characters. See Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 8#AWB_bots_are_breaking_non-BMP_articles EdC 04:33, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

unicodifying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UTF-16%2FUCS-2&diff=72488141&oldid=70189200d

your bot tried to convert a non-bmp character and broke it in the process. Please fix this or stop "unicodifying" asap. Plugwash 02:18, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

This isn't the first time either; see User_talk:WinBot/Archive_1#Unicodifying_breaks_on_non-BMP_characters. EdC 03:09, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

If you check the archive, it refers to a page (Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 8#AWB_bots_are_breaking_non-BMP_articles) which says the bug is fixed, I was operating under that reassurance. For now I'll suspend operating WinBot and report this situation to the AWB talk page and see if this is another bug. --WinHunter ^(talk) 03:39, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

More than Unicodifying

As you can see in the "line 7" section of this diff, your bot ate the "#" following "&" in the explanation of the format of numeric character references. I've fixed the article, but I would appreciate if you would also fix your bot. It had no reason to touch those if it was merely "Unicodifying". —mjb 13:52, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Unicodifying Chinese characters

_ _ I'm sure i don't understand the issues behind your unicodifying efforts, and i also am convinced that many occurences of Chinese characters in en: should simply be removed. Nevertheless, it seems to me that there is some harm involved in that particular area of unicodifying, bcz it deprives the average reader of the possibility of looking up a character (outside WP) via its numeric representation. (I believe they are illiterate in Chinese & lack knowledge of how to retrieve the numerics from the unicodified characters. Oh, you can paste it into the Go/Search pane, and read the resulting URL, can't you? But the world is full of Web users who've no idea that there's ever a reason to read the URL of a page you've already reached.)
_ _ I hope you'll weigh whether numeric versions of unicode characters that aren't understood by the average college grad are special cases that should be left alone. (Non-Latin representations of letters and words are the cases i've thot of, and i'm far from deciding that e.g. integration and summation signs and ring-molecule symbols are also special cases.) And if you care to make one, i'd welcome any response you offer that i can grasp in 5 minutes w/o doing research.
_ _ Even tho i don't understand your project, i

doubt i need to,

assume it is beneficial in the predominant cases, and

appreciate your undertaking the work.

Thanks for that, and your attention (since by now you've obviously taken the time to read this!).
--Jerzy•t 15:58, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

korean poets

when this bot edited the list of Korean Language Poets, it botCHed it. The changes make the list inconsistent. I don't know what system it used to change the spellings, but I think the changes should be removed. Kdammers 13:51, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't think your bot should have altered the Christopher Chacon page since I nominated it for deletion. WilliamC24 00:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Table (HTML)

This Bot has done WRONG EDITING in the Table (HTML) article, then further wrong editing by other users, now, the article is massed up. Please STOP any further future editing in that page, each code there are, for a reason, not for an un-smart bot to edit. Thanks. ~Tarikash 18:04, 29 September 2006 (UTC).

Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go

This bot tried to Unicodeify the exclamation marks in the Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go article but only succeeded in messing up the tables. I was originally the one who changed the Unicode exclamation marks to ! because the Unicode exclamation marks were producing a seperate cell instead of showing correctly inside the tables. Please stop further editing on that page, as the non-Unicode exclamation marks are used for a reason. Thanks. --Poochy 20:48, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

User talk:72.70.123.126

Just a little note, at the page linked above, WinBot managed to subst only two of the three warning templates present. I subst'd the last one, but I thought you should know, in case it's an error in coding. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia!--Vox Rationis 23:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 19:54, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

What are you on about I've never experimented with Wikipedia—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.141.2.159 (talk • contribs) 14:27, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Emergency Stop

I hope this stops the bot (I'll update in a sec) --NigelJ ^{talk SIMPLE} 02:05, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

It does, what's wrong? --WinHunter ^(talk) 02:05, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Incorrect subst's example I'm actually removing the welcome's from IP pages, (as normally IPs are dynamic) --NigelJ ^{talk SIMPLE} 02:11, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I also just noticed it too. I think this maybe a bug of AWB and I am going to report it now. --WinHunter ^(talk) 02:19, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Ahhh, AWB, I've noticed that before, just a FYI, me and bjelleklang have cleaned up most of the messed up subst's (We only realised before they started spamming #wikipedia-bootcamp on Freenode) --NigelJ ^{talk SIMPLE} 02:25, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, I am going to suspend running this bot until I heard from the bug fix. --WinHunter ^(talk) 02:31, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for taking swift action of stopping the bot, and sorry about the vagueness of the first message, I was just concerntrating on stopping the bot and limiting the number of affected pages. Great to see another responsible bot owner! --NigelJ ^{talk SIMPLE} 02:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC)