User talk:Xiong Chiamiov/Archive 2008 April

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GO TO HELL ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!

I appreciate your concern with my lifestyle. However, I am quite comfortable doing what I am doing now, so I think I will keep it that way. Thanks. Xiong Chiamiov ::contact:: ^help! 08:14, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is Xcbot authorized?

Xcbot (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) appears to be an unauthorized bot. There is a task request which was denied, but according to its Special:Contributions/Xcbot, it's performing the task anyways. Can you please clarify if this bot is approved or not? The task has been denied, so you should not be running it without approval. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 18:04, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, well, there are multiple things that need to be addressed, I guess.

Nope, Xcbot's not approved for any task.
What you see in the contributions is not actually what I asked for approval for. I ran across a request from another user to convert and upload a bunch of images from a site, so I wrote a bash script to convert them and upload them using upload.py. When I was testing the previous functionality (the one I was requesting the bot flag for), I was logged in under that account, so I didn't bother changing the account I was logged into.
I've since started uploading said images to commons (and actually giving them license tags), so I'll be moving these ones off of here soon anyway.

I guess I didn't think about what account I should be logged in as, or in fact whether or not I need a bot flag for what I was doing. It seems like there's a lot of people who run bots on normal accounts with or without flags, people who run separate bot accounts with or without flags, and a whole lot of confusion. And, though I'm uploading images not manually, I've looked at them all and set the license and stuff, so... Do you suppose I should request a bot flag over at commons? Xiong Chiamiov ::contact:: ^help! 21:37, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and on more thought (and reading through the commons bot page), I'm thinking that I shouldn't get flagged over there, since it states that the bot flag is for users who are trusted to upload. Since I don't have the kind of policy knowledge that I should have to consider myself "trusted", I think I'd rather keep my uploads in recent changes, so that someone can notify me when I'm screwing something up! Xiong Chiamiov ::contact:: ^help! 03:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you're doing both Commons and here, it'd be best to request approval on both there and here. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 03:11, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps I wasn't clear in all of that mess I wrote above. I'm not actually uploading images here, just to commons. I was uploading them here, then realized that commons was a better choice, so that's where I'm upping things now. From what I read on the commons bot page and its talk page, a bot flag is not required for running a bot; rather it is a sign of trust, which I don't really think I should have yet. Xiong Chiamiov ::contact:: ^help! 03:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]