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My sandbox

May I know why you edit my sandbox while I am still editing it, before I have released it to the article level? This causes my to have to go over all my edits since my last save. Jzsj (talk) 21:22, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Jzsj, I assume you are referring to this edit, which did nothing more than substitute {{lien web}} with it's English-Wikipedia counterpart {{cite web}}. Your subsequent edit to "replace what was lost" had almost nothing to do with that edit. Bot accounts work automatically, and this particular task (substituting templates) is done regularly whenever specific templates are used. If you encountered an edit conflict, that is unfortunate, but even though it's your sandbox it's not "protected" from anyone else editing.
For future reference, if you do not want bots to edit a page while you are working on it, please place {{nobots}} on the page, but please remember to remove it when you move/copy the draft to the Article space. Primefac (talk) 13:36, 13 September 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)
Thanks for the explanation and advice. You must know that when the bot kicks in while I am editing the article it's not easy at all for me to recover all my edits, and I usually only save after every several minutes of editing. I haven't had this happen much before, but will consider using the nobots thing in the future. Jzsj (talk) 15:33, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to Admin confidence survey

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(talk page stalker) This is wonderful! I'm sure we'd all like to know AnomieBOT's opinions. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:39, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
@SPoore (WMF): There's not much point in asking AnomieBOT (or, in this case, probably AnomieBOT III) for its opinions. Anomie⚔ 13:59, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
I guess I can be relieved that AnomieBOT didn't sign up . Thanks for pointing it out, I fix in case I recycle the list. SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 14:08, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Karen Carpenter

I ended up almost edit-warring with AnomieBOT because this diff had the same citation to a Guardian news piece about her, that was defined as <ref name="Guardian"> in two separate places. Attempting to resolve all references to the source, leaving just one definition in place, cause both of us to get royally confused. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:43, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

It looks like you got confused by the fact that someone commented out (using HTML <!-- ... --> comments) the "death_cause" parameter in the infobox, which had included a copy of that reference. Since it's commented out, neither MediaWiki nor AnomieBOT sees it. Anomie⚔ 19:17, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates archiving

When archiving In the news Candidates, your bot is adding code as below: 

== September 13 ==
{{cot|[[Portal:Current events/2017 September 13]]}}
{|{{Portal:Current events/2017 September 13}}
{{cob}}

Could the {| be obmitted as it is the cause of some of the table lint errors at Special:LintErrors/deletable-table-tag? -- WOSlinker (talk) 12:56, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

I wonder whether the resulting changes to the output HTML would matter to anyone. Specifically, those are:
  1. The addition of role="presentation" style="display:table; width:100%; background-color:#cef2e0; border-spacing:0; font-weight:bold;box-sizing:border-box;" class="plainlinks" from the <table>
  2. The addition of divs like <div id="2017_September_13"></div>
  3. The loss of some empty rows.
Visually, #1 results in a slight border. #2 adds anchors. Meh, let's try it and see if anyone notices. Anomie⚔ 22:10, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Vyaghra Gotra

Thanks for Editing. Can u again Review my Article Vyaghra Gotra. I did not find the article in google, do we need to do anything to appear in the google search? It's Very Important for Hindu Religions. Please help me. Singh1995virat (talk) 08:12, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Singh1995virat, AnomieBOT is an automated account, and thus has no ability to patrol new pages. The page has not been reviewed by a Patroller, but when it is reviewed it will appear on Google. Primefac (talk) 11:47, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
thanks for help Orgideee (talk) 15:15, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Dear AnomieBOT, I do not know exactly how the talk page works, but thanks if you want to help. How can I help you on the page of the Fond de dotation? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonds_de_dotation_de_l%E2%80%99ICOM) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Orgideee (talk • contribs) 15:18, 17 August 2017 (UTC))

Orgideee, unfortunately AnomieBOT is an automated bot account, and has no brain of its own. It merely put a date tag on the {{COI}} template that had been added to the page. It was Shev123 who added the template, so you are welcome to go to User talk:Shev123 and ask them for assistance. Primefac (talk) 15:45, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Bot malfunctioning

  • It keeps replacing this bad link:<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ҫengel|first1=Yunus A.|last2=Boles|first2=Michael A.|title=Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach|date=2006|publisher=McGrawHill|isbn=9780072884951|page=925|edition=Fifth|url=http://www.mhprofessional.com/product.php?isbn=0077366743}}</ref>

The link is in the Propane article, section: "Energy content". The link takes the user to a dead page. Now the bot is reverting my reverts. I'll leave the bad link there for now. I'm tired of fighting with a Bot. :-) → Pocketthis (talk) 21:09, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

You deleted one use of the reference but left others in the article. But deleting the reference seems to be incorrect anyway, since the reference to the book would be valid even if that particular website no longer works. But I also note that the reference you attempted to remove from Propane is not the one you pasted above, and all the links in the one you did remove appear to be valid. Anomie⚔ 15:40, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Template Книга

Hello! There is a problem with template Книга substitution: in this Russian template, parameter страниц means a total number of pages, but it is substituted by English page which means a referenced page, and instead страница should be replaced to page (while страницы correctly redirects to pages). I believe that the English template has no appropriate parameter, so it should be just forgotten. SmesharikiAreTheBest (talk) 22:48, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

You should bring that up on the template's talk page. The bot doesn't do anything special, it just substs the existing template. Anomie⚔ 22:17, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

User:AnomieBOT/docs/AccidentalLangLinkFixer

* Q: How can I stop this bot from editing my comments?

Template maintenance

Hi,

Anomiebot attempts to insert date parameters to the {{use dmy dates}} and {{use mdy dates}} templates where the recognised date parameter is absent. I have just noticed that the bot inserts dates even where the date parameter is present but the syntax is incorrect, thereby causing a number of related errors. Could you perhaps tweak the bot code so that the syntax errors are picked up and eliminated when inserting dates? Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 21:00, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

The bot does account for some errors. But there's no way it can sanely do anything about "true" or "dateWee 2013". I think it should be safe to extend its fixes to account for things like "date April 2016" though. Anomie⚔ 00:18, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

AnomieBOT causing duplicate reference definition problem

AnomieBOT continues to cause duplicate ref def errors. The most recent was this edit in the Blue Bloods (TV series) article. By "rescuing" the definition, the definition becomes duplicated and causes an error. The definition actually comes from a transcluded article source. Because AnomieBOT choses to ignore alternate sources (templates, transclusions, ...) for refdefs, it ends up causing duplicate reference definition errors.

This isn't the first time I've reported this problem. Can AnomieBOT disable this feature, or parse templates and inclusions so that it won't undo correct work of other editors? -- Mikeblas (talk) 23:32, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

There is no error in the revision you link. The error was introduced in the following edit. Anomie⚔ 00:16, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
I see that the other time you complained about this sort of thing, one of your examples was the same thing: AnomieBOT's edit was correct at the time and a subsequent edit caused a duplicate ref error. The other example was fixed. Anomie⚔ 00:23, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Fixing page headers at WP:CFD

When AnombieBOT fixes page headers at WP:CFD's daily log pages, as in this case, would it also be possible to remove the following line of hidden text usually located at the bottom of the page?

<!-- Please add the newest nominations to the top -->

Thank you, -- Black Falcon (talk) 00:09, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Err, in the diff you link AnomieBOT is already doing that. Anomie⚔ 17:18, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
Well, that's awkward. :) I don't know why, but another instance of the same hidden text was left in (see this version immediately following the bot's edit, and scroll to the 'Category:Buddhist terrorism' section), and that's what I saw. -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:32, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Ah. The bot removes the comment when it's at the bottom of the page. But if someone manages to put the comment where it's not at the bottom of the page, as in that case, then the bot won't remove it. Anomie⚔ 21:09, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Got it, thanks for explaining. It's a hidden comment so I suppose there's no harm if it stays in those situations. -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:43, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Bot disrupts me, how to prevent it showing up?

Many times when I'm editing an article and I use the template "citation needed" the bot appears at a random time while I'm editing so it creates and edit conflict which I have to resolve by copying all the things I was editing and pasting them again or by having to start over again. How do I prevent this? I put the date in the template like this (see source code): October2017. Is that wrong? How am I supposed to write it if so? Thanks! Thinker78 (talk) 15:30, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Thinker78, the date parameter in templates like {{citation needed}} is in the "Month Year" format, so if you were adding a template today it would be {{citation needed|date=October 2017}}. Primefac (talk) 16:14, 30 October 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)
@Thinker78: In this edit, I see you added {{Citation needed|date={{October}} {{2017}}}} rather than {{Citation needed|date=October 2017}}. Leave out the extraneous braces. Anomie⚔ 17:22, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
I used the visual editor so when I select the "citation needed" template and click on "add template" I fill out the field of "month and year" which appears with {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} so I assumed that I had to substitute what is inside the braces with the month and the year and leave the braces be. In short I don't know then how to fill out the template using the visual editor. Thinker78 (talk) 04:48, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Thinker78, if you see {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} that's all you have to do. CURRENTMONTHNAME is the template that returns the current month, and by subst'ing it you replace the template call with the actual value. In other words, if you're using VE to insert the citation needed template, you don't need to do anything else! Primefac (talk) 12:47, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
What I now did was to put month and year and delete the braces, is that how is it done in the visual editor? Thinker78 (talk) 21:49, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Thinker78, that works too. Primefac (talk) 12:32, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Ninni Cassarà

I added more sources, I hope is enough — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlie Foxtrot66 (talk • contribs) 20:43, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Charlie Foxtrot66, AnomieBOT is an automated account that cannot respond to your points. Indeed, it was just updating a template. It looks like you've already contacted usernamekiran; they are the best person to talk to regarding your page. Primefac (talk) 22:56, 1 November 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

Adding unsourced content on Karl Tilleman

Information icon Please do not add or change content without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you.

Nick Bravin competed in the Olympics, and also clerked for the Supreme Court. This information can be seen on Nick Bravin's page, and is sourced. Please stop adding poorly sourced material. Judicial Historian (talk) 02:50, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Judicial Historian, I think you have the wrong account. Not only is AnomieBOT an automated account that cannot reply to you, it actually added a source in its edit to the page. Primefac (talk) 03:12, 12 November 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

Another duplicate ref tag edit

AnomieBOT has made another edit that causes a duplicate ref tag error:

-- Mikeblas (talk) 16:10, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

The bot was getting confused because the reference generated by {{singlechart}} explicitly specified an empty group. Updated the bot to handle that sort of thing. Anomie⚔ 03:39, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Bot is changing ref names that must not be changed

Both O'Connell2016 and O'Connell2013 were changed to O. Now the citation states "Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "O" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page)." The bot edit was on 20:46, 27 October 2017. QuackGuru (talk) 14:50, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Reverted archiving

I just reverted a deletion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Military. Please see my edit comment.--Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 22:22, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

And I've reverted you since both were closed as delete. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:35, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

OrphanReferenceFixer: Blacklisted orphaned reference in Rajkumar (actor) - Fixed

When trying to fix orphaned refs in Rajkumar (actor), MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about newkannada.com. This probably means someone didn't properly clean up after themselves when blacklisting the link and removing existing uses, but a human needs to double-check it. The attempted changes were:

You might also use {{subst:User:Anomie/uw-orphans|1=rm diff|2=fix diff}} to let the remover know, if their edit summary indicates they were specifically removing the blacklisted ref. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 20:54, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

 Fixed I repaired my oversight here. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:24, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

TaskRedirectChecker: Broken task redirects - fixed

When linking to discussions from an edit summary, we use redirects under User:AnomieBOT/req/ so the links don't die when the discussion is archived. The following redirect pages seem to have become invalid, and I can't find an archive subpage to automatically update them with. Please fix them manually. Thanks.

AnomieBOT⚡ 09:03, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Maybe I'm not entirely sure how this task works, but the redirect seems to be pointing to the proper location. What's "broken"? Primefac (talk) 18:30, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
Probably something changed that affects how it's handling the template in the header on the target page, so the bot doesn't recognize it anymore. I'll have to look into the code. Anomie⚔ 01:52, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Changing | to {{pipe}} etc.

I thought to report in case somewhere is a bug (or maybe the wikitext generated by the Beta Translation Tool just had something amiss) as the bot made a bit of a mess when substituting Finnish reference templates to English ones on Independence Day Reception (in Finland) - see [1]. Andsam (talk) 22:48, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Andsam, it's the template that's a mess. From looking at the code, and what the bot transcluded, it's a GIGO situation. I've updated the template so that it should work properly in the future. Primefac (talk) 00:01, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

When creating Mennonite Church (1725-2002) for existing redirect Mennonite Church (1725–2002) (which targets Mennonite Church USA#(General Assembly) Mennonite Church (MC)), AnomieBOT dropped the section link from the target, making Mennonite Church (1725-2002) target Mennonite Church USA instead of the appropriate section within that article. AnomieBOT's edit. Cheers,—Ketil Trout (<><!) 20:11, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Good suggestion, I'll update the bot to copy fragments when bypassing double redirects. Anomie⚔ 14:58, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

What is the design logic behind deletion of name = userEnteredTag?

If one is expanding an article and intends to use a reference twice or more, why should the bot remove the userEnteredTag that an editor chose to type in? Rhadow (talk) 00:58, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

The bot does not do that. Chances are you made some sort of syntax error that made it unrecognizable to the bot as an attempt at "name = userEnteredTag", or you got confused and it wasn't actually the bot that made the edit. Since you didn't bother to link to the edit in question, I can't guess better than that. Anomie⚔ 03:50, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

TemplateSubster: Template:Nwft has too many transclusions - fixed

In an effort to prevent disruption, I refuse to subst templates that have over 100 transclusions unless they are listed at User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force. Please either edit the template to remove it from Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted, manually subst the existing transclusions, or add it to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force to let me know it is OK to subst them. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 09:09, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

@Enterprisey and Jkudlick: I don't think this template will subst neatly. Are you sure your edits to the documentation are correct? -- John of Reading (talk) 10:24, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
@Enterprisey and John of Reading: I've commented removed {{subst only}} and added {{nosubst}} to the documentation until the template can be rewritten like {{nfa}} and {{nft}}. — Jkudlick ⚓ t ⚓ c ⚓ s 00:43, 3 January 2018 (UTC); 02:46, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Bot caused ref error

In fixing one ref error, the bot caused another. [2] --Auric talk 22:23, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

TemplateSubster: Template:Nfa has too many transclusions - fixed

In an effort to prevent disruption, I refuse to subst templates that have over 100 transclusions unless they are listed at User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force. Please either edit the template to remove it from Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted, manually subst the existing transclusions, or add it to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force to let me know it is OK to subst them. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 10:11, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

I have started working on substituting {{nfa}} in all the articles listed here, as it seems easier to do that than to seek consensus, but I would appreciate any help that anyone else can provide. — Jkudlick ⚓ t ⚓ c ⚓ s 06:43, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
​ I've added it to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force to force the bot to substitute it. Jc86035 (talk) 13:00, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
​ Thank you. It now only shows 17 transclusions, so it may be ok to remove it. — Jkudlick ⚓ t ⚓ c ⚓ s 00:23, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 2018 BWF World Tour (Level 2-4)

Hello AnomieBOT,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged 2018 BWF World Tour (Level 2-4) for deletion in response to your request.

If you didn't intend to make such a request and don't want the article to be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Xx236 (talk) 12:55, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

User:Primefac removed this section with comment "bot didn't G7 a page...."; I'm undoing that and writing this explanation because that's not entirely accurate.
When creating redirects for en-dash titles, AnomieBOT sort of does preemptively G7 the page. More specifically, it applies {{User:AnomieBOT/Auto-G8}} to the page, which nominates the page for G8 if the intended target of the redirect gets deleted. The reasoning it uses points out that G6 or G7 could apply too, if for some reason the deleting admin isn't comfortable with the G8 rationale. I had the bot start doing this after a few RfD discussions where people didn't think any speedy criterion would apply.
But in this situation, it doesn't look like that's what happened. Instead User:Bromalayan blanked the page, then User:Xx236 came along and either incorrectly assumed Bromalayan's blanking validly triggered G7 or saw the bot's template and applied {{speedy deletion-author request}} using a script that made it look that way, including the automated notice that started this section. Then User:RHaworth deleted it as a G7, hopefully after checking the history and finding the bot's note rather than relying on the apparently invalid application of {{speedy deletion-author request}}, but the deletion reason supplied in the log doesn't reflect that.
In the end the article was correctly deleted, although the "paper trail" makes it look like an invalid G7. Whether it was an actual invalid G7 deletion that happened to be a valid deletion for other reasons, or just people going ahead with script-default reasons after verifying that it was in fact a valid deletion for other reasons, I can't tell. Anomie⚔ 14:28, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Date format in oldafd tagging

Hello, I just noticed that the bot added an oldafd template to Talk:Brain fart, but it is missing the comma between the day and the year (e.g. April 29 2008 instead of April 29, 2008). It would be good if this could be fixed. Graham87 02:41, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Fixed. Anomie⚔ 22:52, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Your signature

Please be aware that your signature uses deprecated <font> tags, which are causing Obsolete HTML tags lint errors.

You are encouraged to change

[[User:AnomieBOT|AnomieBOT]][[User talk:AnomieBOT|<font color="#888800">⚡</font>]] : AnomieBOT⚡

to

[[User:AnomieBOT|AnomieBOT]][[User talk:AnomieBOT|<span style="color: #888800;">⚡</span>]] : AnomieBOT⚡

Respectfully, Anomalocaris (talk) 07:58, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

@Anomie: I have put similar notices on hundreds of user talk pages. Most users are cooperating and removing obsolete font tags from their signatures. I see from your edit of 02:05, 15 December 2017 of Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2017 December 7 that you have not updated your signature to remove the lint. Will you please take care of this, and ping me when you have done so?—Anomalocaris (talk) 11:40, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for updating your signature! Anomalocaris (talk) 22:25, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Adding nonessential "cn" tags to the lead

Isn't it kind of a crap shoot to add {{citation needed}} tags to the Lead automatically? If the page was correctly constructed, then the lead should be a summary of material already properly sourced in the body, and placing the tags would be a mistake, as it was in the case of Sexual objectification which was tagged recently. And it if wasn't, it would be very difficult for a bot to determine that. Seems to me that bots should avoid citation-tagging the lead. Mathglot (talk) 05:48, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

@Mathglot: Please check again. AnomieBOT only added the current date to a maintenance tag added by another editor in a previous edit. — JJMC89 (T·C) 07:19, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
Yep, my bad; I misread the diff. All is well, sorry for the bother. Mathglot (talk) 07:34, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Malformed template calls (from an April 2017 run)

FYI I found some malformed template calls, created from a run ~9 months ago. I went through the January 2018 data dump and found/fixed ~160, which should be the vast majority, if not all, of them. Just thought you'd want to know ffr.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:47, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

It wasn't anything specifically to do with the bot. One of the bot's functions is generically substing templates, and someone had such a template set up in a way that substed incorrectly. They had thought they fixed all the bad substitutions, but apparently they missed some. Anomie⚔ 16:52, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Re: removal of closed AfDs from DelSort lists

Will the bot automatically remove closed discussions from the new category Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Finance? I was advised to go here by the WP:Delsorting crew. Thanks, L3X1 Become a New Page Patroller! (distænt write) 20:49, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Special:Diff/821818618 added it to the place the bot looks for deletion sorting pages to archive, so the bot should archive closed AfDs there. Anomie⚔ 15:40, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
Thank you so much! L3X1 Become a New Page Patroller! (distænt write) 17:28, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Less inclusive

Please tell the bot to stop creating "Category:Articles that would benefit from a more inclusive perspective from …". See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2017 June 7#Template:Inclusivity. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 17:26, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

You did that when you deleted Category:Articles that would benefit from a more inclusive perspective, which removed it from Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month.
Also, BTW, you missed deleting Category:Monthly clean-up category (Articles that would benefit from a more inclusive perspective) counter. I got it. Anomie⚔ 20:44, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing back your changes which I reverted to revert 3 changes done by IPs.

Hi, Thanks for Bringing back your changes you made, by fixing date. I was engaged. as I was about to inform you at the time when I revert back to last version done by JTP. My puropse of writing this is to inform you that why I did this so you brought it back your change as per your opinion you gave "date maintenance tags". Thanks. CK (talk) 07:21, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

You can check articke history of editing for what I'm talking about. CK (talk) 07:22, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

CK, not sure what your point is here. This account is a bot account, which means it doesn't read or respond to messages. It was merely (automatically) dating an improperly-formatted {{cn}} template. Primefac (talk) 14:44, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Date to date

I was under the impression that AnomieBOT changed "Date=" to "date=" when it comes across it, but with this edit it just appended "date=February 2018" to "Date=February 2018". If my impression is correct then something has gone wrong (or there is something I'm not seeing), if my impression is incorrect then please take this an enhancement request. Thryduulf (talk) 19:13, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

How commonly do people write "Date="? Anomie⚔ 19:40, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
It's not the first time I've done it, but I don't know how common it is in general. The normal search is case insensitive and I'm not awake enough to figure out how to do a regex search for it. I'll take a look tomorrow if nobody beats me to it. Thryduulf (talk) 01:41, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
I made an attempt, but when searching with regex it's either not specific enough and times out or it's too specific and gets zero hits. Either way, I didn't find anything. Primefac (talk) 19:33, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Just for fun, I scanned the Jan 20 dump for \{\{\s*[Oo]rphan\s*\|\s*Date\s*= and found 0 results.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  04:21, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, I thought I was just failing with the regex search, although it's not just the Orphan template but any template that takes a date parameter. Thryduulf (talk) 16:08, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your edit to [3], [4], and [5]

@AnomieBOT: @Anomie: It's bots like this that help us correct things. The only problem is that the thanking button is only for (human users?), And I couldn't find your account number, so I couldn't do that either. Additionally, I tried using diff number, and it said "Bots can't be thanked". That's why I came here. It's sometimes bthe little things that make a big difference. :) I'm seriously gonna suggest this to the phabricator soon. Sincerely, User: Zanygenius(talk page) 18:15, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

13 February,2018

Hello!!! I am a wikipedian editor from Pakistan.A user Yamaguchi remove some information and pictures from the article of Lulusar Lake, Sangla Hill and Malam Jabba.When I re-add this information and pictures, he blockes me.Please re-add this information and pictures to the articles.I shall be very thankful to you for this. User:Shoaib74444 (talk) 13 February, 2018 —Preceding undated comment added 10:38, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Archiving error

The bot seems to have made an error prematurely archiving a discussion [6]. — Editør (talk) 13:35, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Someone put <div class="boilerplate afd vfd xfd-closed" in the page, which makes the bot think that the discussion is closed. Anomie⚔ 01:14, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Apologies, I copy and pasted code without checking it. Szzuk (talk) 06:55, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

History of rail transport in Great Britain

Why have you deleted the maintenance tag { { citation needed } }? The sentence marked is not referenced and, on face value, is somewhat exagerated. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 08:21, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

@Murgatroyd49: (talk page stalker) AnomieBOT did not delete the maintenance tag. It merely added the date parameter. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:04, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Doh! misread it, clot! Murgatroyd49 (talk) 09:27, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Duplicate date tag

I couldn't find a github or other way to report bugs so I'll just leave this here. Your bot seems to be duplicating already existing date tags, see here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SansC (talk • contribs) 17:28, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

SansC, the bot isn't duplicating tags, it's dating tags. It's doing exactly what it should. Primefac (talk) 17:30, 27 February 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

Edit request not being removed from SPERTable

The current version of User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable still has the edit request at Talk:Gun control, even though that request was closed. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 23:20, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

The page is still in Category:Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests, presumably due to job queue lag. I've done a purge (via the API) with forced link update, which removed it from the category, so the bot should remove it from the page momentarily. Anomie⚔ 23:26, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

reversing edits without reason

This is the second time you reversed sound edits on the United States presidential election, 2020 article without reasons why. I gave an explanation for each of my edits. Mostly that the links did not confirm the reason for the false information. Bunco man (talk) 01:04, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

  • You wrote the following and I don't know how to fix it.

Hi there! I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. Recently, you reverted one of my fixes.

If you did this because the references should be removed from the article, you have misunderstood the situation. Most likely, the article originally contained both <ref name="foo">...</ref> and one or more <ref name="foo"/> referring to it. Someone then removed the <ref name="foo">...</ref> but left the <ref name="foo"/>, which results in a big red error in the article. I replaced one of the remaining <ref name="foo"/> with a copy of the <ref name="foo">...</ref>; I did not re-insert the reference to where it was deleted, I just replaced one of the remaining instances. What you need to do to fix it is to make sure you remove all instances of the named reference so as to not leave any big red error.

If you reverted because I made an actual mistake, please be sure to also correct any reference errors in the page so I won't come back and make the same mistake again. Also, please post an error report at User talk:AnomieBOT so my operator can fix me! If the error is so urgent that I need to be stopped, also post a message at User:AnomieBOT/shutoff/OrphanReferenceFixer. Thanks! Bunco man (talk) 01:38, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Bunco man, there is no error, the bot is doing exactly what it should. Based on these edits it looks like you figured it out too. When you removed the original named refs you didn't remove the other callings of that ref. The bot was simply restoring the orphaned refs. As a minor note, I've put <nowiki>...</nowiki> tags around your <ref>...</ref> tags, since I'm pretty sure how it's supposed to be displayed. Out of curiosity, where was that text posted? I don't see any edits by the bot on your talk page. Primefac (talk) 02:42, 7 March 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)
Bunco man probably got it linked from the edit summary of Special:Diff/829151693 or Special:Diff/829165929. The bot didn't post to the user's talk page recently because User talk:Bunco man#OrphanReferenceFixer: Help on reversion was still present on the page since 2012, and the bot doesn't repost if the same section title is already on the page. Anomie⚔ 02:56, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Template:AfDb

I don't get the point of this substition of {{AfDb}}. Not only is it inconsistent to substitute the footer template and not the header, but it also makes it more complicated to remove when the discussion is finally closed. Because of the way these templates are used, the transclusion is only going to be there for a very short time in any case. If they really need to be substituted, it should say so in the administrator instructions. SpinningSpark 20:59, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

The issue is that {{AfDb}} is also the companion template to {{Afd top}}, which should be substed. This is potentially the downside of having one generic "bottom" template for a host of specific tops, but maybe that means that there should be some sort of {{AfDhb}} for the "hold bottom" that wouldn't be auto-subst. Primefac (talk) 21:41, 6 March 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)
That's not correct. The companion template is {{AfDh}}, not {{AfD top}}. The administrator instructions clearly indicate not to substitute these templates. As I said above, substituting makes no sense. I have also just noticed that {{AfDb}} was redirected fairly recently to {{AfD bottom}} without explanation. It is that redirection that seems to have caused the problem, so the solution would seem to be to revert that edit (no need for {{AfDhb}}. Do you agree? SpinningSpark 10:32, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
If the redirect was not in place, you would be correct. I've reverted the redirect. Primefac (talk) 13:31, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
I went ahead and changed the wording of it to match {{AfDh}}, rather than being a copy of an old version of {{afd bottom}} which might have been behind the mistaken redirection. I also replaced a few existing uses of the template to incorrectly match {{afd top}}. Anomie⚔ 13:59, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

OrphanReferenceFixer: Blacklisted orphaned reference in West Memphis Three - fixed

When trying to fix orphaned refs in West Memphis Three, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about dpdlaw.com. This probably means someone didn't properly clean up after themselves when blacklisting the link and removing existing uses, but a human needs to double-check it. The attempted changes were:

You might also use {{subst:User:Anomie/uw-orphans|1=rm diff|2=fix diff}} to let the remover know, if their edit summary indicates they were specifically removing the blacklisted ref. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 19:02, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, Mr. Bot :). Edited too hastily - fixed now. GermanJoe (talk) 21:03, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

A goat for you!

Thanks for helping on Pete Halat.

Trish pt7 (talk) (talk) 18:36, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Modules for deletion

Bot needs to handle |module=Module: in the tfd links template; it keeps closing my nomination for Module:External links 2 because Template:External links 2 doesn't exist. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 18:56, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Fixed. Anomie⚔ 12:05, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

TFDClerk: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 April 7 is broken - fixed

Help! A section in Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 April 7 contains the "is_closed" regex but not at the beginning of the section. Probably someone put the {{tfd top}} before a section header instead of after. Anyway, I can't do anything to that page until someone fixes it. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 13:09, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

I don't think this can be fixed, since it's under review. Maybe have the bot ignore any time <noinclude>{{Delrev}}</noinclude> is used? Primefac (talk) 13:16, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
The bot handles {{Delrevxfd}}. Special:Diff/837108239 should have fixed it. Anomie⚔ 21:02, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Ah, cool, thanks. Learn something new every day. Primefac (talk) 12:47, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Draft: Third Rock Adventures

please republish this page as it has been deleted wrongly. thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ozar77 (talk • contribs) 10:56, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Ozar77, there were some weird edits made, I've restored the page. Primefac (talk) 15:49, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

thank you so much Ozar77 (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Schöma

I thank you for deleting Schöma which should have been called a "stub". You created red link in Kárahnjúkar light railway. Please see de: Schöma which could be translated. Peter Horn User talk 17:17, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Make that Rail transport in Iceland#Kárahnjúkar light railway Peter Horn User talk 17:21, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Peter Horn, not sure you're posting at the right place? This is a bot page, and it cannot respond. Primefac (talk) 15:49, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
It is for now Draft:Schöma Peter Horn User talk 21:51, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Peter Horn, as I said, I'm pretty sure you're not in the right place. The only thing the bot did on that page was put a date on maintenance tags. Primefac (talk) 23:28, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
You are right. Peter Horn User talk 23:40, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Lemon-rumped tanager

recently created article species was already directed in a week but was deleted??? Spaceabon (talk) 09:15, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Spaceabon, it was deleted as a creation by a sockpuppet. Also, this is a bot page, so you're unlikely to get a response from AnomieBOT. Primefac (talk) 11:17, 7 May 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)
More specifically, the draft page was moved to Lemon-rumped tanager on May 1, leaving a redirect at the draft title. Then Lemon-rumped tanager was deleted on May 6. AnomieBOT later deleted the broken redirect at the draft title. Anomie⚔ 11:22, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Bot error

@Anomie: Something went wrong here: [7]. Kaldari (talk) 20:42, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I think this is one for Pppery (talk · contribs) to look at, since he marked {{Grc}} as subst-only. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:52, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
Wait, but I didn't add |auto=yes. I was never intending for the bot to subst it, just for the doc to show "subst only" as the box rather than hardcoded words. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 21:19, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
At least I understand. The template was directly in Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted since November 2017, and somehow only me adding "subst only" made the bot tick. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 21:21, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
A human tried to put the template into Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted. Apparently some job queue bug or something resulted in the template itself never actually being put into the category until Pppery's edit 6 months later, at which point the bot started doing what it was instructed to do. Anomie⚔ 00:20, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Dating maintenance tag error?

Please see recent edits to Spontaneous human combustion article. An inquest was due to take place in March 2018 and Tisquesusa wanted to draw my attention to the fact that there has not been an update since then, so appended the tag {{update needed|date=May 2018}}

This showed up in the text as: ...an inquest was called to further examine the circumstances of his death (due in March 2018).[28][29][needs update]

Your bot came along and changed the tag to {{update needed|2018|5}}

This tag doesn't show up in the text at all: ...an inquest was called to further examine the circumstances of his death (due in March 2018).[28][29]

Is this intentional? It doesn't seem very productive because no-one can see that the tag exists unless they check the edit history.

I reverted the first bot edit but of course the bot came around and made the same change again! So now I'm appealing to you directly. Thanks, Rodney Baggins (talk) 11:20, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

The bot is working properly. {{Update after}} does not take a |date= parameter. It takes the date (as year, month, and day numbers) after which an update is expected to be needed. See its documentation for details. Anomie⚔ 12:12, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
Thank you. I think it was the after bit that got me stumped. So I changed it from {{update needed|2018|5}} to {{update needed|2018|4}} and it now appears because April is gone. Rodney Baggins (talk) 13:11, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
What you should probably do there is use {{update inline}} or {{update inline span}}. And probably someone should replace anything currently using {{update needed}} to directly use {{update after}} and then change that redirect to point to {{update inline}}. Anomie⚔ 17:10, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

OrphanReferenceFixer: Blacklisted orphaned reference in Anjum Rehmani - Fixed

When trying to fix orphaned refs in Anjum Rehmani, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about 000webhostapp.com. This probably means someone didn't properly clean up after themselves when blacklisting the link and removing existing uses, but a human needs to double-check it. The attempted changes were:

You might also use {{subst:User:Anomie/uw-orphans|1=rm diff|2=fix diff}} to let the remover know, if their edit summary indicates they were specifically removing the blacklisted ref. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 10:40, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

I don't understand what this means. FloridaArmy (talk) 11:06, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
It means when you removed a named reference, you didn't remove all instances of that reference (e.g. you didn't get the <ref name=":1" />) Primefac (talk) 12:53, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

As of parameters – very low priority

Hello, AnomieBot! You made an edit changing {{As of|April 17, 2018}} → {{As of|2018|4|17}}. That's really pretty neat! However, that ended up displaying 17 April 2018 instead of "April 17, 2018". I also prefer dmy dates but the MOS says not to arbitrarily change established styles like that. So, in cases like this, you have to add an extra parameter |df=US to get mdy dates. Hope this helps in your future editing, AnomieBot! Oh, here is a diff link though the article may be renamed. – Reidgreg (talk) 13:51, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Adding |df=US when appropriate is a good idea. I'll do that. Anomie⚔ 07:35, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

CHUUClerk closer opt-in

Hi Anomie, I am 1997kB, I am a global renamer and want to opt in for automatically marking Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations requests Done. Thank you in advance! ‐‐1997kB (talk) 14:50, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

 Done Galobtter (pingó mió) 14:57, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Possible Error

AfD discussion (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jasmine Directory) archived before it's closure. I mean it was closed as keep but reopened due to non-admin closure WP:NACD. Because the closure was reverted the bot got a bit confused. Any chance of being relisted in some form on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Websites? Robertgombos (talk) 05:16, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Robertgombos, I know Anomie will be able to comment more, but the discussion was re-opened a fortnight after it was initially closed. Also, the bot doesn't add the AFDs (just archives them), so I don't even think there's anything to tweak in the bot code; the delsort will have to be re-added to the list manually. Primefac (talk) 15:32, 25 May 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)
If it's really necessary, just remove it from the archive and put it back on the main deletion sorting page. Anomie⚔ 15:37, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
@Primefac:, @Anomie:: I was just curious if it was an error or not. :) Thanks for clarifying this! Robertgombos (talk) 08:32, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Why is the bot doing this?

I keep undoing it, but it just goes and puts it back... [[8]] can you look into it?--Jayron32 02:14, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Intended category links are typically placed by themselves on a line, as was fixed for you in this edit. See also User:AnomieBOT/docs/AccidentalLangLinkFixer#What to do if AnomieBOT adds a colon where it shouldn't? on the page the bot links in its edit summary. Anomie⚔ 12:20, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Bot error?

Can't use shut off button, but the bot didn't archive 21-day old AfD in Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/United States of America, please fix, thanks! Hhkohh (talk) 01:16, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Why would you want to shut it off when it's not breaking anything. Anyway, I fixed the listing for you so the bot should archive it the next time it runs the task. Anomie⚔ 11:19, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
Yes, thanks. Hhkohh (talk) 11:24, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Suggested change in wording

Hello bot,

I am a human, and I noticed that when you write a message on a page, you start with "I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors", and you continue to write almost as if you were a human; only in the end of the message can the reader see that you are in fact a robot. Now don't get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a robot, you robots are awesome, but for some reason some of us like to know from the beginning whether we speak to another human or a robot. It's just a human thing, you know. So, to make us even happier with your excellent work, I would kindly suggest that you start your messages by introducing yourself, for instance by saying "I am a bot that check pages listed in…". Thanks in advance, happy continued botting, and may you always have all the electricity, memory, and CPU time you can ever dream of. --Jhertel (talk) 17:43, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

OrphanReferenceFixer: Blacklisted orphaned reference in Dorina Lepp - Fixed

When trying to fix orphaned refs in Dorina Lepp, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about angelopedia.com. This probably means someone didn't properly clean up after themselves when blacklisting the link and removing existing uses, but a human needs to double-check it. The attempted changes were:

  • Dorina Lepp revision 844784537:
    • Rescued "mehungary2015b" from rev 806004969
      Removed in revision 844784537 by Jytdog (talk • contribs • logs) with comment "angelopedia is not reliable per https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard&oldid=844757855#Angelopedia" (removed 272/4166 bytes, 7%)

You might also use {{subst:User:Anomie/uw-orphans|1=rm diff|2=fix diff}} to let the remover know, if their edit summary indicates they were specifically removing the blacklisted ref. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 06:21, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Fixed. Bots are so nice to each other! Jytdog (talk) 15:04, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

User:AnomieBOT/PERTable

For some reason Walter Maddox has been stuck on this page for several days now. Cheers — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:41, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

@MSGJ: (talk page stalker) It's gone now. My null edit at Talk:Walter Maddox may have helped. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:09, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Yes, the null edit almost certainly fixed it. Anomie⚔ 02:11, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

for ever ? Minas12345 (talk) 10:32, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Game Boy family

Can you edit the Game Boy family#Game Paks page? --2600:1:C43D:F59E:71FF:6BB:2C3E:D497 (talk) 23:53, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

AnomieBOT is a bot, and thus cannot reply to this post or edit the page you've requested. Might be worth asking at the Teahouse. Primefac (talk) 00:23, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

TemplateSubster: Template:Webbref has too many transclusions

In an effort to prevent disruption, I refuse to subst templates that have over 100 transclusions unless they are listed at User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force. Please either edit the template to remove it from Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted, manually subst the existing transclusions, or add it to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force to let me know it is OK to subst them. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 04:32, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

Pinging Wikid77, who made the change - I see you've converted the template from a redirect into an actual template - does it work, and should it be substituted? Primefac (talk) 00:24, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
I just saw this thread. The Template:Webbref works, and lists all parameter names in the documentation section, but I haven't tested the wp:subst yet for accuracy. There are only 236 pages using it so far, and most forgot to reset name {webbref} as {cite web}, but need other punctuation fixes when edited. The Swedish Wikipedia had a massive creation of pages, now over 3.5 million in svwiki, which I think were mostly obscure species pages, using perhaps 1-2 {webbref} per page, so I see no need to subst them in that minor usage, despite the potential cross-wiki creation of thousands of such pages. I am worried that translating Dutch cites might be more important at this point, such as {{Citeer web}} where Dutch "taal=" is language (I think) and users need a template to translate the Dutch parameter names. -Wikid77 (talk) 15:15, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Qatar

Why bot do not archive this page Hhkohh (talk) 04:31, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Now archived Hhkohh (talk) 01:52, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Oops

I was trying to test something against my local wiki, and through a misconfiguration accidentally ran it with AnomieBOT's live configuration for enwiki. This created two accounts User:T199393.15314052009808 and User:T199393.15314051749799. Sorry for the confusion. Anomie⚔ 14:22, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Xinyuan Real Estate edit

Hi, this edit to Xinyuan Real Estate was not correct - introduced an extraneous reference rather than simply adding another quotation mark. I took a look at the log and didn't see any similar issues recently so didn't shut off the feature, but it seems that the "<ref name="foo> → <ref name="foo">" feature was in this case superseded by the "Copy content for orphaned named refs from linked articles", whereas it should be the opposite. Cheers, Λυδαcιτγ 02:28, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

<ref name="Forbes"> and <ref name="forbes"> are not the same reference, regardless of whether the parameter is quoted or not. Anomie⚔ 12:51, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Long or short citations

I cannot help wondering what's the point of replacing long citations with short citations when the short version omits important bibliographic information such as the name of the publisher and the year of publication, (as has happened twice now on the article Iraqi art)? Obviously, these omisssions are like the proverbial "red rag to a bull" to the members of the tag team who will be poised to swoop on the incomplete reference tagging it with Year? Publisher? BronHiggs (talk) 08:03, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

AnomieBOT does not do anything of the sort. Anomie⚔ 20:02, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
In fact, AnomieBOT really does so such things as occured here and in two previous edits, which miraculously have disappeared from the edit history. Clearly the publisher's name and year of publication have been removed, and AnomieBOT calls this "rescuing orphaned refs." It remains unclear how the deletion of valuable information can be called a "rescue." BronHiggs (talk) 00:56, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
BronHiggs, better double-check that. In your previous edit you changed <ref name="Wijdan, A. p.166">Wijdan, A. (ed.), ''Contemporary Art From The Islamic World,'' p.166</ref> into <ref>Wijdan, A. (ed.), ''Contemporary Art From The Islamic World,''Scorpion, 1989, p.166</ref>, which cause the other instance of <ref name="Wijdan, A. p.166"> to not work. Don't believe me? Scroll down and see the bright red "Cite error: The named reference Wijdan, A. p.166 was invoked but never defined" message. The bot finds and fixes "orphaned" references like this. Nothing more, nothing less.
In other words, the bot is doing exactly what it should be doing. Primefac (talk) 01:10, 15 July 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)
Well, if the bot solves one problem by contributing to a different problem (incomplete references), then I'd say that we have something to worry about. BronHiggs (talk) 02:10, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
We're talking past each other. You broke something on the page, and the bot fixed it. It doesn't know that you made a mistake. If you don't want the bot "fixing things that aren't broken", then don't break them. Primefac (talk) 02:19, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
So, if I understand you correctly, the basic principles of what information to include in a citation (e.g. for books, include publisher name and year of publication - see WP:CITEHOW only apply to editors, but not to bots. BronHiggs (talk) 04:55, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
To answer your question directly, "no".
However, that is about as far from what actually happened that it's completely irrelevant. You broke a named reference call. The bot fixed it. End of story. The bot wasn't trying to "force" a reference style or "encourage" use of one specific reference style. It was merely fixing the process of re-using named references described here. Primefac (talk) 12:45, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

Complete list template

The bot made a series of edits similar to this on a number of list articles yesterday, removing a parameter from the {{Complete list}} template. I went through and undid the bot edits, but it appears to have done them all over again. Just wondering why the removal of information? Thx. Mlaffs (talk) 20:11, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

It seems Special:Diff/850231885 changed the behavior of {{complete list}} so it no longer accepts a full date for |1=. Thus the page was being put into an invalid category Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements from May 18, 2018, which attracted AnomieBOT to fix things. Anomie⚔ 22:44, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks — I've tapped the user who made that edit on the shoulder to learn more. I don't pretend to understand template coding, so I don't want to revert it or try to fix it myself without some context. Mlaffs (talk) 01:54, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

"Month name and year - passed to the fact template if unsourced"

Please don't. SLBedit (talk) 21:37, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

No reason not to. It fixes miscategorization if the template is unsourced, and doesn't hurt anything if it isn't. Note the bot only edits the page is something there actually does need dating. Anomie⚔ 01:45, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
The problem is that there are sources in {{Fb si footer}}, {{Fb cs footer}} and {{Fb disc footer 3}}. SLBedit (talk) 12:44, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

How did you know Sailor Moon is a Part of Hasbro?

How did you know that Sailor Moon Is licensed by Hasbro? Only DiC Formerly licensed it, And now DHX Media & Viz Media. Is it really true, because you need to source it.PascalMuganyizi (talk) 13:24, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

You seem to be confused. AnomieBOT is not a human editor, it is a computer program that makes certain edits that would be tedious for humans to do. I can only guess that you're referring to Special:Diff/852068482, which as you can see there was made by someone editing from IP 139.194.201.123, not by AnomieBOT. Anomie⚔ 16:34, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Feature request for the edit-request tables

It would be great if the edit-request tables showed if something is cascade-protected. This would particularly help with the template-protected table, since a couple of the requests are full-protected despite the table indicating that they're template-protected. The checks shouldn't be that expensive, since they're only being run on a few pages at a time, and even fewer if the results of the check are cached. Thanks for all the work you've put into the bots! Enterprisey (talk!) 04:24, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Err, it already does. There are three showing it right now on the PERTable page: Template:Mid-importance, Template:-Class, and Template:Low-importance. I don't see any pages recently on TPERTable that are cascade-protected. Anomie⚔ 11:46, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Jesse Bogner

Hi, why was my article deleted? I conformed to all the guidelines regarding references to establish notability and 'Paid Editor' talk page with all the information mentioned. Some guidance would help, thanks, Vinvibes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vinvibes (talk • contribs) 08:03, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

If you're referring to Jesse Bogner, it was moved to Draft:Jesse Bogner. I have no idea why you're asking here, AnomieBOT had nothing to do with it. Anomie⚔ 20:53, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Old error (missed { and }) in subst of redr -> redirect category shell

Hello! Found an edit which was made over a year ago, but I still wanted to notify you about this small error. To see what's broken, click Next edit to see my fix. (There's a { and } missing around the final word.) --Treetear (talk) 13:07, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

See User talk:AnomieBOT/Archive 9#Errors after substituting Redr, and pinging User:Primefac. Anomie⚔ 13:33, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
Oh thanks, I only found this section of the same archive number when searching the archives, which was about the template but not the error I think. --Treetear (talk) 13:51, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
As I said the last time this popped up, I went through and I thought I fixed all errors of the type you mention. I still find no instances of that error, but if anyone wants to make a list of pages that still have it I'm happy to fix them. Primefac (talk) 14:40, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Regarding OR Tag

Hello Anomie,

I have added some references in the section. Can we remove the tag?--Wikishagnik (talk) 15:59, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

You should ask the person who added it in Special:Diff/435669348. I don't know anything about it, but do watch out for Wikipedia:Citogenesis. Anomie⚔ 11:27, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating from October 1996

This was an interesting category AnomieBOT created. 😂 It was as a result of this. Not an issue at all, but I'm surprised the bot would create cleanup categories predating the existence of Wikipedia. ℯxplicit 00:08, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating is special in that way. I forget why (AnomieBOT's ChangeLog says it was done in 2012). I'd guess at some point someone must have used {{update after}} with a particularly outdated source or something like that. Anomie⚔ 02:09, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Question about "Category, Articles needing additional categories"

Greetings, I have noticed at Category:Articles needing additional categories appears to not be adding new articles to current month of August 2018. Prior months were 200+ articles each month. Half-way thru August now & it shows only 42 articles. Wondering why so few articles? Regards, — JoeHebda • (talk) 16:24, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Did people stop adding {{More categories}}? AnomieBOT doesn't have anything to do with adding articles to the category. Anomie⚔ 17:39, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Articles have {{improve categories|date=August 2018}} tag. In the template docs it shows 27 redirects. Wow! Guess I'm confused by the sudden drastic reduction for this tag. Wondering if better articles are being written? So the tag is just not being used? — JoeHebda • (talk) 20:13, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

一只小猫送给您！

Thank you for rescuing reference link for 2018–19 Villarreal CF season!

— Phenolla ⚫️🔵  10:26, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

OrphanReferenceFixer: Blacklisted orphaned reference in MoveOn

When trying to fix orphaned refs in MoveOn, MediaWiki's spam blacklist complained about avaaz.org. This probably means someone didn't properly clean up after themselves when blacklisting the link and removing existing uses, but a human needs to double-check it. The attempted changes were:

You might also use {{subst:User:Anomie/uw-orphans|1=rm diff|2=fix diff}} to let the remover know, if their edit summary indicates they were specifically removing the blacklisted ref. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 14:34, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

As of template dates

Not sure if this is a bug with you or the previous editor, but check out the edit done on Murder Ballads concerning {{as of}}. --Nessie (talk) 14:44, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Nope, it's a GIGO issue. No param named |Year= so the bot filled in the date. Primefac (talk) 02:01, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Edit

If I edit Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/Archives so it would be easier to read like this (I don't know how to change the width), would that broke the bot? Hddty. (talk) 08:04, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

It wouldn't break the bot, but the bot would overwrite your edit. Anomie⚔ 19:09, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

CAT:EDITREQ (PERTable Updater) Error 28-SEP-2018

The Bot is registering an error with this task. FYI  Spintendo  09:51, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

UPDATE: The issue appears to be resolved and the Bot reports its status on this task as OK. Thank you  Spintendo  21:56, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Strange article identification

On the table for semi-protected edit requests [9], the bot correctly linked the edit request (Talk:Bigg Boss (Hindi TV series)#editsemiprotected), but linked a different article (Bigg Boss), listing it as not protected (which is correct for Bigg Boss) and showing the protection log for Bigg Boss. There was a move, but it was over a month ago and well before the edit request. LittlePuppers (talk) 23:54, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @LittlePuppers: The first parameter to {{edit semi-protected}} is the name of the page to be edited. In this edit, the person making the edit somehow set this to "Big Boss", and the bot correctly worked out that it was not protected. -- John of Reading (talk) 03:22, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
Ah, thanks John of Reading. I'm not sure how I missed that, I should have looked into that more. To be quite honest from what I saw I didn't expect much from the complete lack of content. Thanks again. LittlePuppers (talk) 04:38, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Sarah Pearce

Hello Anomie! AnomieBOT added a reference to a previous speedy delete decision to the page I created for Sarah Pearce. I've checked the discussion on this and the speedy deletion was for a different person called Sarah Pearce who appears to be based in Auckland. I've created a page for Sarah Pearce based in Southampton. Is it appropriate for me to remove that section on the talk page or could you? (I haven't left a comment on a talk page before and I'm not sure I know how to sign. Apologies if this doesn't work...) Clio987 (talk) 18:39, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Clio987 Yes per the notice on the top on the top of the talk page: If you are here because AnomieBOT added {{old AfD multi}} to an article when the old AfD was about a different person with the same name, just remove it. The bot has no way to tell whether it's the same person or a different one. Galobtter (pingó mió) 18:44, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Galobtter Thank you - the notice didn't appear on the page but I'll just go ahead and delete the olf AfD note. Much appreciated! Clio987 (talk) 18:51, 5 October 2018 (UTC)Clio987
Galobtter Sorry - I now know you mean this talk page and not the Sarah Pearce one. I didn't know it was referred to as 'old AfD multi' so didn't spot at the top of this page. Thanks again! Clio987 (talk) 18:53, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Creating red linked redirects

I'm probably missing something really obvious but on 1 October the bot created this redirect. But the actual article was not created until 6 October. Why does it appear that a red linked redirect was created? CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 01:06, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

@CambridgeBayWeather: The article was created on 1 October according to the creation log. It has been moved, cut and paste moved, and histmerged since. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:29, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. I knew I was missing ssomething. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:51, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Pulled a ref with the same name from a different page?

Just wondering if this is a bug or something but in this edit the bot "rescued" an "orphaned reference" from a completely different page because they were both named "2.02"? TheDoctorWho (talk) 01:57, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

It's intended behavior when the reference name can't be found anywhere in the article's own history, approved in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 6. The theory is that people copy content between related articles, so if exactly one linked article has a reference of the same name it's reasonably likely it was copied in that manner. It does skip certain vague reference names, including the ":1" style used as a default by VE.
In this case, it found the link in the edit summary of this edit. If the bot got it wrong, feel free to remove or replace it. Anomie⚔ 12:52, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
Got it, thanks for the explanation. TheDoctorWho (talk) 04:05, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Strange edit summary

Normally the bracketed part is not there: [10] Modernponderer (talk) 16:47, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

The bracketed part means it was processed because it's transcluded from another page. "BRFA55" references WP:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 55. Anomie⚔ 19:00, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
Ah, I did guess that. It was the transclusion part I had no idea about, and didn't think to look into. Maybe the transclusion thing should be made clearer than referencing a request for approval though, especially when the bot doesn't normally do that in its edit summaries? Modernponderer (talk) 10:40, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
On the other hand, how many people actually care about how AnomieBOT decided to process the page? Anomie⚔ 00:48, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Robert Spillane

Article is about Robert Spillane, and American Football player, not the actor who's page was previously deleted. The current page, Robert Spillane, is an American Football linebacker who recently appeared in a National Football League game for the Tennessee Titans, making him notable per WP:NGRIDIRON. Best, GPL93 (talk) 00:20, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

To quote the notice at the top of this page and included in the editnotice:

If you are here because AnomieBOT added {{old AfD multi}} to an article when the old AfD was about a different person with the same name, just remove it. The bot has no way to tell whether it's the same person or a different one.

Anomie⚔ 12:29, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

TemplateSubster removed a transclusion of deleted template with an incorrect edit summary (apparently)

Special:Diff/863634224 had a confusing or plain misleading edit summary, although this was a result of Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 April 7#Template:Incomplete. 84.250.17.211 (talk) 20:03, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Someone made the template subst to nothing and then had the bot subst it. While the end result was a bit confusing, there was no bot issue there. Anomie⚔ 17:40, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

TemplateSubster: Template:Webbref has too many transclusions

In an effort to prevent disruption, I refuse to subst templates that have over 100 transclusions unless they are listed at User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force. Please either edit the template to remove it from Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted, manually subst the existing transclusions, or add it to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force to let me know it is OK to subst them. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 02:28, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Removed auto subst. Galobtter (pingó mió) 11:17, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
It's been added to force subst. Galobtter (pingó mió) 12:10, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Appears to completely screw-up template

Hi, appears to be multiple problems with this change. I have reverted for now. Keith D (talk) 17:41, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Looks like GIGO to me. The template is doing something weird to have different output when substed versus non-substed, and it looks like the substed version is weird and somewhat broken (e.g. the deadurl bit and general differences in rendering) on top of some weirdness in that particular invocation (such as using both |titel= and |title=). Anomie⚔ 23:55, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Needs to change months

Hi, another problem with this edit leaving with an invalid date error. The BOT needs to capitalise the month in the dates of the substituted templates. Keith D (talk) 18:09, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Keith D: This is down to the coding of the template. As far as I can see, it is coded to change "september" to "September" when called but not when substed. Wikid77 (talk · contribs) may be able to comment. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:51, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
  • Fixing Webbref for subst: I am fixing Template:Webbref to generate same output when wp:subst'ed, such as deadurl=yes (not "yesyes"). Sorry I had forgotten Bots which run subst'ed cites, so I had imagined users would check output when "carefully" hand-substing the other-language cites. -Wikid77 (talk) 00:29, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
  • Fixed Webbref to subst IABot duplicate parameters: @Keith D and John of Reading: OK, I have fixed Webbref to handle AnomieBot IABot duplicate parameters, such as added "accessdate=" will skip Swedish equivalent "hämtdatum=" date. Likewise "archiveurl=" or "archivedate=" (as added by IABot) will skip Swedish "arkivurl=" or "arkivdatum=" as being overridden by IABot's generated equivalent parameters. I generally dislike the tactic where some parameters will auto-eclipse others, but these Bot updates are overwhelming, and so Webbref will attempt to autofix for duplicates, by treating AnomieBot IABot data as being more recent than the Swedish data parameters. Beware these Bots (such as User:InternetArchiveBot) can generate hundreds and hundreds of cite errors per month, or per week, because of the "robot reasoning" as when automobile robots in the 1980s had "robots painting robots". It goes with the territory, that our templates must be strengthened to become "bot-tolerant" to autofix cites which have peculiar parameters. Also, I am upgrading Webbref to subst Swedish month names translated to English, such as "juni" to "June" or "september" to "September". -Wikid77 (talk) 02:29, corrected 19:07, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Add R template with TemplateTalkRedirectCreator

Would you consider having AnomieBOT add {{R from remote page}} when creating redirects under the TemplateTalkRedirectCreator task? --Bsherr (talk) 01:52, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Should we worry about flooding Category:Redirects from remote talk pages with doc subpages so any human-applied members are lost in the flood? Anomie⚔ 11:41, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Good question. Based on the documentation, no. Certainly to the extent the purpose of the project is to categorize redirects between printworthy and unprintworthy, the automated versus manual distinction wouldn't be relevant. The redirect template could always be edited to put the standard template subpages into a subcategory for convenience of categorization, but again, it seems to me that the distinction is one of classification by purpose or target and not by whether automatically or manually created. --Bsherr (talk) 12:15, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Category:Unreviewed new articles

Please disable this bot from making new month categories beginning with Category:Unreviewed new articles as Template:New unreviewed article is going to be deleted. Thanks. Pkbwcgs (talk) 17:24, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

The bot creates monthly subcategories for categories that are in Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month. Delete Category:Unreviewed new articles or remove it from that category and the bot won't find it anymore. Anomie⚔ 00:15, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Mike Chang (Fitness Trainer)

what was the reason for the page being deleted?

manunited20 19;31,08 November 2018 (UTC)

Manunited20, because an admin deleted Mike Chang (fitness trainer) and page name you provide redirects to Mike Chang (fitness trainer) Hhkohh (talk) 08:37, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
And at the top of this page, you can see why bot deleted redirect. Hhkohh (talk) 08:39, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

@ Hhkohh do you know why the page was deleted? am not great with Wikipedia but I did create that page years ago.

Thank you manunited20 19;45,08 November 2018 (UTC)

Manunited20 Deletion log on Mike Chang (fitness trainer) says: 04:36, 14 August 2018 Cullen328 (talk | contribs) deleted page Mike Chang (fitness trainer) (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion. The content is overtly promotional and utterly unacceptable for the encyclopedia in its current state.)
If you have more question on why Mike Chang (fitness trainer) deleted, please contact Cullen328 directly. Hhkohh (talk) 09:06, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Fixing reference errors in Influence of French on English

Have a look at Special:Diff/869959035/869966828 in Influence of French on English. Manually fixed in Special:Diff/870101855/870101993. Sam Sailor 11:29, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

I know there might be a fix for that, but it definitely looks like a GIGO situation. Primefac (talk) 16:22, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Error caused by vandalism

I don't know if there's any way to prevent this sort of error caused by vandalism, but I'm posting it in case there is. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 18:33, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

TemplateSubster: Template:WikiProject Massachusetts has too many transclusions - Fixed

In an effort to prevent disruption, I refuse to subst templates that have over 100 transclusions unless they are listed at User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force. Please either edit the template to remove it from Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted, manually subst the existing transclusions, or add it to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force to let me know it is OK to subst them. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 17:43, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Pinging GoingBatty (talk · contribs) -- John of Reading (talk) 20:40, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
@John of Reading: I copied the code from Template:WikiProject Texas to Template:WikiProject Massachusetts.
@Anomie: User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force is protected so I can't follow the directions to edit it. Please ping me if there's anything else you would like me to do. GoingBatty (talk) 20:53, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Done. Primefac (talk) 02:29, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Lucian B. Page

Hi! I get the reason for having the page deleted but I require the information back I.e. content of the article and, although reassured that it would be saved even if delete, there is no way I could retrieve the content! Any suggestions, please?

I look forward to your response! Lucian Balog Gelu Lucian Balog (talk) 06:43, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Try Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion. Anomie⚔ 13:03, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Udit Narayan

Hi! Please correct this page as it is semi protected don't know why . Udit Narayan is a Nepalese playback singer please review it . He later took citizenship of India too but he is a Nepali by origin . Correction needed . False article is published ! [1] [2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.34.22.68 (talk) 16:58, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ https://www.culturalindia.net/indian-music/indian-singers/udit-narayan.html
  2. ^ https://www.filmibeat.com/celebs/udit-narayan/biography.html
AnomieBOT is a computer program that does simple, repetitive tasks that would be tedious for humans to take care of. You'd do better to raise your issue on the article's talk page. Anomie⚔ 18:37, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Welcome message

I don't need a bot to put a welcome message on my talk page when I already did it.124.150.106.67 (talk) 07:11, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Then it's a good think AnomieBOT didn't put one there. It just substed the {{welcome}} for you, per the community consensus that that template should always be substituted. Anomie⚔ 12:29, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Your bot is creating the "big red error".

Please stop your bot from "fixing" a non-existent "error" at Gullah. Diff:. Thanks. Carlstak (talk) 05:55, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Looks like someone else already fixed your broken wikitext in Special:Diff/873810132. Anomie⚔ 14:19, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for adding and changing my edits you are doing a good job Breakroute (talk) 15:56, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

TemplateSubster: Wikipedia:Teahouse/Invitation has too many transclusions - Fixed

In an effort to prevent disruption, I refuse to subst templates that have over 100 transclusions unless they are listed at User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force. Please either edit the template to remove it from Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted, manually subst the existing transclusions, or add it to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force to let me know it is OK to subst them. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 22:05, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Pinging Dreamy Jazz (talk · contribs) -- John of Reading (talk) 08:48, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
I reverted addition to auto-substitute; the page has 52000 transclusions so discussion should be had before substing. Galobtter (pingó mió) 08:57, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
@Galobtter: Hello. I feel that there is consensus for this due to Wikipedia_talk:Teahouse#Substing_Wikipedia:Teahouse/AfC_Invitation_and_Wikipedia:Teahouse/Invitation. I do, on reflection, think that I should have waited for the RfC to be closed, so support your reversion until the RfC is closed (or if it closes as to not substitute). Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 13:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
🤦. RfC not RfA. I guess my brain can't handle how similar they look. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 21:05, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
I didn't know about that RfC, but yeah, you can wait for some more participation in that one; and if there are any scripts that post the teahouse invite without substing they should be updated. Galobtter (pingó mió) 13:47, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Request

Can you please review this Wikipedia page? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:ODEM — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeff at ODEM (talk • contribs) 07:59, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Jeff at ODEM, this is a bot page, which means it cannot (and will not) be doing anything other than what it is programmed to do. As far as asking for a draft review - please be patient, as there are about 1300 other submissions awaiting review; they will all be seen to eventually. Primefac (talk) 22:48, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Dumilisai Soundararajan / Tamilisai Soundararajan

The bot seems to have messed up an entry by adding | [[:Dumilisai Soundararajan]] ([[Talk:Tamilisai Soundararajan#editsemiprotected|request]]) (a nonexistent page Dumilisai Soundararajan) to User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable.-- Flooded with them hundreds 09:34, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

I see nothing that the bot did wrong there. It was reflecting a seemingly bogus "request" added at Special:PermaLink/875833794#Semi-protected edit request on 29 December 2018. Anomie⚔ 20:42, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:BAG/Status

Your bot hasn't updated Wikipedia:BAG/Status for over 24 hours. Do you know what is going on with your bot? Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:27, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

See #BAGBot: WP:BAG cannot be processed above. Headbomb broke it with Special:Diff/875781639. Anomie⚔ 20:38, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Your bot has now updated it. Thanks and happy new year. Pkbwcgs (talk) 21:17, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

BAGBot: WP:BAG cannot be processed - Fixed

I could not find the Member List table in WP:BAG, which means either someone changed the wikitext or someone vandalized the page. Either fix it back to the old layout, or update me to find the new version. Thanks. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 23:45, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Apparently it doesn't handle a level 3 header vs a level 2 header. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:59, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
That's right, it doesn't. Anomie⚔ 20:42, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Could you tweak it to handle an arbitrary level? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:53, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
In the meantime, I've restored it to its original lvl-2 header so as not to cause too much panic to botops that have a reliance on the tool. Primefac (talk) 21:13, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Personally I think it works better to have the member list at level 2 rather than as a subsection of "membership". But I've updated the bot now. Anomie⚔ 19:31, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Block the user

Block the IP address 2409:4072:6317:af5:b9b7:61d8:da06:afe1 this user add and remove irrevolent content and causes the caste violence.so please block the IP address.sample edit [11],[12],[13]

CategoryCleaner.pm/metadata - wording

Hi Anomie. Recently, I semi-boldly rephrased the wording of this task description, here, because imo it was poorly phrased. Today, the bot reverted me when “Updating published sources”， leading me to suspect that this wording is embedded somewhere else, and only copied to this page. If you wouldn't mind relooking at the wording of the talk, I'd be grateful. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 00:30, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

It comes from the bot's source code, which is mirrored at User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/CategoryCleaner.pm. IMO the current wording is slightly unusual but not incorrect. Anomie⚔ 17:39, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Also, I think that User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/PERTableUpdater.pm/metadata should include User:AnomieBOT/IPERTable, which it currently doesn't. --DannyS712 (talk) 05:33, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

DRVClerk

Please take a look at DRVClerk. Old discussions aren't getting archived. M!y guess is there's a misformed header or something which is confusing the pattern matcher. Thanks. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:54, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

I don't see anything out of the ordinary at WP:DRV. Non-empty pages from the past seven days are listed at WP:DRV#Active discussions, non-empty pages from 7–14 days ago are listed at WP:DRV#Recent discussions, and pages with all closed discussion have had their headers removed as expected. Looking at the history of Wikipedia:Deletion review/Recent I see Dec 17 stayed around a bit longer than expected thanks to a missing {{subst:DRV bottom}} that was finally added in Special:Diff/877259449. What problem are you seeing? Anomie⚔ 02:03, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
It was WP:Deletion review/Log/2018 December 17 that was the problem, but I see it's finally been processed, so I guess things are working. Thanks for looking at it. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:13, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

List of Bulbophyllum species

Hello AnomieBOT,

Could you please explain to someone from another planet (me!) the problem with List of Bulbophyllum species that you noted on its Talk page? When I click on the first part of each note (eg. Bulbophyllum boonjee) I am taken to the article where I see the WCSP reference. When I click on the WCSP reference, I see the listing. When I click on the italicised link in your note (eg. Bulbophyllum boonjee) I see the same WCSP listing. I'm keen to make any fixes but need a bit more help working out what's needed. Gderrin (talk) 22:47, 10 January 2019 (UTC) (and watching)

(talk page stalker) @Gderrin: In this edit you added a reference named "WCSP" but didn't define it. Sometimes when this happens, the bot can find the same reference name, say, "New York Times 24 May 2003" in a linked article, and the bot makes a good guess that the definition from that article can be safely copied to the article that lacks it. In this case the bot found dozens of different references all named "WCSP" and couldn't safely copy any of them; since each one is about a single species, I think that's correct. The fix is to dig out the page at the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families that has the list of Bulbophyllum species, and add that to your list article as the reference for your lead section. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:33, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello @John of Reading: That was indeed careless of me. Thanks hugely for your help. I hope the problem is sorted now. Gderrin (talk) 08:30, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

bug

Hi, there seems to be a bug: The bot produces sssue instead of issue see here. Best regards and many thanks for the bot. Minihaa (talk) 20:15, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Minihaa: The bug was not in the bot code, but in the definition of the {{Literatur}} template. I've corrected the template and fixed up the handful of pages that were affected. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:57, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
@John of Reading Thank you very much, it is admired! Minihaa (talk) 08:52, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Bypass redirect for DatedCategoryCreator

Hi Anomie. Template:Monthly clean up category has been renamed to Template:Monthly clean-up category. Could you update AnomieBOT's DatedCategoryCreator to bypass the redirect, please? --Bsherr (talk) 02:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Sigh, silly pointless renames.  Done Anomie⚔ 20:44, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Thanks! --Bsherr (talk) 02:58, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

I added two sections in this article, referencing to a blog by Dawn Turner. I often quote Ms Turner due to her style and sober content. I did not see anything promotional in it. Your Bot added the comment "promotional source". Can I remove that comment? ScienceGuard (talk) 13:38, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

AnomieBOT did not add the tag, it just dated it. The tag was added in the previous edit by Billhpike, you should ask him on his talk page or on the article's talk page. Anomie⚔ 22:40, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
thanks! ScienceGuard (talk) 18:02, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Bug related to hidden text

See diff. Thanks, -- Black Falcon (talk) 21:22, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

There's no bot bug there. Espngeek screwed up the --> in this edit, causing a fair bit of the page to be included in the header-comment. You did the right thing by undoing the bot and fixing it. Anomie⚔ 23:35, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
OK, thanks for clarifying. -- Black Falcon (talk) 01:05, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

The BOT has restricted access to the article "Gaudiya Mission"

Anomie, please help. I created 6 Dec. 2018 a new article Gaudiya Mission, but your User:AnomieBOT to the page Talk:Gaudiya Mission added a template stating that an article with the same title was deleted in 2010 (old AfD multi|date1 = June 8, 2010 |result1 = deleted |page1 = Gaudiya Mission). I already deleted the template as erroneous (there's the same organisation, but fully new text), but the article is still not displayed in Google search engine. DayakSibiriak (talk) 08:37, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, it's because the article hasn't been reviewed. Now all well. DayakSibiriak (talk) 00:22, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Edit to the article 2R (group)

You(bot) have recently made some changes in the article 2R (group). I have removed some of them as they comes to the category of Template programming element which is part of Check Wikipedia project. If you think the edit done by me is not allowed, please do revert my edit. The only reason why I removed the script was because of the reason that it contained the line #invoke:Check for unknown parameters which I guess calls the module Module:Check for unknown parameters. If my edit was not correct, the only reason I need to state is that I don't have much experience as you have.Adithyak1997 (talk) 18:27, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Adithyak1997: Your edit was correct. For a short while, there was an error in the template {{Infobox Chinese-language singer and actor}}, causing junk to be left in some articles. Thank you for fixing this one. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:30, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Yup, that was my fault. I realized the issue and thought I had removed all of the stray #invoke code, but I guess I missed one. Thanks for taking care of it. Primefac (talk) 14:37, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Task modification

Hello Anomie. I noticed that AnomieBOT automatically creates talk page redirects when certain remote pages are created.[14][15] Could you modify that tasking to have the bot create these redirects with the inclusion of a redirect categorization template as well? In the following manner:

#REDIRECT [[(Target page name)]]

{{R from remote page}}

This will increase the utility of the created page, support the efforts of WikiProject Redirect, and be greatly appreciated. Thank you.--John Cline (talk) 07:21, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Makes sense, done with {{Rcat shell|{{R from remote page}}}}. Anomie⚔ 12:25, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

TemplateSubster: Template:Polytonic has too many transclusions - fixed

In an effort to prevent disruption, I refuse to subst templates that have over 100 transclusions unless they are listed at User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force. Please either edit the template to remove it from Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted, manually subst the existing transclusions, or add it to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force to let me know it is OK to subst them. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 06:28, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Courtesy ping Pppery (talk · contribs) -- John of Reading (talk) 07:22, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
This was acted upon anyway for some reason. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 12:53, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
Pppery, Why not add it to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force? Hhkohh (talk) 12:54, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
My guess is that the "some reason" is that a human editor removed enough of the transclusions to bring it under the 100-transclusion mark. For example, these 6 edits shortly before AnomieBOT started processing it might have brought the total from 102 down to 96, which would allow AnomieBOT to proceed. The bot's logs tell me it substed 90 pages, and there are currently 6 left according to [16]. Anomie⚔ 13:39, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
Yep, I substed (or removed, in at least one case of inappropriate use) the transclusions in mainspace, which probably brought the count below 100. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:14, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Enhancement request

Hi there, could you update the protection classifier for User:....../.json pages to show they are "fully protected" (as shown in Special:PermaLink/882805795 on User:AnomieBOT/PERTable) as they can only be edited by admins and the named account. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xaosflux (talk • contribs) 15:02, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

 Done Anomie⚔ 22:48, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Missing log page

For some reason 8 February does not show up in Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion#Discussions_awaiting_closure while on 8 February there are quite a few open discussions. Any idea what might cause the problem? Marcocapelle (talk) 09:07, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Marcocapelle, I think the CFDClerk task is down now. Also, the bot did not remove new nomination header in yesterday CfD log Hhkohh (talk) 09:31, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
@Hhkohh and Marcocapelle: its also not working on WP:ITN/C - I have disabled the task since on its last attempt it removed the old content but didn't actually archive it --DannyS712 (talk) 09:38, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Question regarding AnomieBot not working on templates

Do you have any idea why AnomieBot stopped working on {{WikiProject Jamaica}}, {{WikiProject Muslim scholars}} (and also {{Chess position}} which it started but stopped)? --Gonnym (talk) 13:16, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Toolforge is having issues. Looks like T216208 is the task for it. Anomie⚔ 21:12, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

A few TfDClerk suggestions

  1. AnomieBOT should say "Module does not exist" rather than "Template does not exist" when closing a discussion for a non-existent module.
  2. AnomieBOT should handle the case of a template (or, more commonly, module) being moved without leaving a redirect.

See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 January 19 for an example of both cases. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 03:22, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

I don't see any modules on that page, nor anything that's obviously been renamed. Anomie⚔ 23:20, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
@Anomie: Sorry, I meant Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 February 19#Module:WikiProject_Central_America/convert, it must still have been January in my brain. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 02:27, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 Done I'll have it treat the move-without-redirect case much like a deletion, closing the discussion as something like Moved withour redirect with comment "Userfying per TfD" by Pppery (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). It'll have the same 1 hour delay before closing, to give the admin a chance to close it with something more specific. Anomie⚔ 12:47, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
May I ask why User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/TFDClerk.pm hasn't been updated? {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Looks like another Toolforge hiccup, the "deploy new version" jobs kicked off when I push to AnomieBOT's git repo apparently can't be scheduled to run. I'll kick things manually. Anomie⚔ 23:28, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Bot not substing Wikipedia:TWA/Invite

It still has several hundred transclusions despite being listed on the force list and categorized. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 00:27, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

@Pppery: I think its because of the namespace that the template is in - other than {{WP:TWA/InviteTW}}, {{WP:TWA/Invite}} is the only non-template "template" to substitute... --DannyS712 (talk) 01:15, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
(edit conflict) Looks like it's not substing transclusions that look like {{WP:TWA/Invite}}, only {{Wikipedia:TWA/Invite}}. I should have the bot's generic "fetch redirects to" method pretend that namespace aliases are redirects. Anomie⚔ 01:17, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

@Anomie: That doesn't seem to have worked: the bot finished a TemplateSubster run and substituted Wikipedia:TWA/InviteTW but still isn't substing Wikipedia:TWA/Invite. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 02:55, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Hmm. Let's try clearing the bot's cache of "I already tried to subst Wikipedia:TWA/Invite on this revid". Anomie⚔ 13:48, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
That seems to have done it. Anomie⚔ 22:15, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Submit

Hi sir...help me to submit seyed hasan aghamiri article — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arman Aryamehr (talk • contribs) 21:14, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

CHUS clerking functionality?

Anomie: I might be mis-remembering but does AnomieBOT have the ability to clerk CHUS? –xenotalk 00:52, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

I don't think I ever implemented it. If there are details as to what exactly would be needed, I'll probably have some time next week to implement it if it's needed. Anomie⚔ 22:38, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
I think I was thinking of Chris G Bot. Cyberpower678 could you let us know your thoughts - whether you'll be able to get the CHUS clerk back up and running soon or would you prefer Anomie modified AnomieBOT to do the job? –xenotalk 14:17, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
Anomie: I think Cyberpower678 does not have cycles to repair this task. @K6ka and 1997kB: if you guys had the ideal CHUS bot, what would it do? –xenotalk 18:28, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
An ideal CHUS bot would probably do what it currently does now... except I'd probably also like the bot to be able to check for AntiSpoof conflicts (that would be very useful). —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 18:40, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
@Xeno: Note an overview of what the current bot does (particularly in comparison to what AnomieBOT already does at CHUU) would also be helpful. Anomie⚔ 23:11, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
Anomie: Does this help at all? User:Chris G Bot 3/Source Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Chris G Bot 3 (3rd Request) ? @K6ka and 1997kB: I'm a bit indisposed at the minute, if you could help Anomie with the question above and any other questions, that would be most helpful and hopefully pay dividends in your ongoing CHUS efforts. –xenotalk 15:15, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
Currently the CHUS bot does the following:
  • Checks requests made at CHUS for the following:
    • If the requested username already exists (by checking Special:CentralAuth). If it already exists and has made no edits, it will also provide a link to WP:CHUU.
    • If the requested username contains any characters that cannot be used in usernames (per Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)#Restrictions_on_usernames)
    • If the requested username is the same as the current username
    • If the requested username is the same as the current username, except for the first letter of the username being in lowercase (in which case it will make the recommendation that users use {{lowercase title}} on their userpages and change their signatures to reflect their preferences)
    • If the requested username is the same as the current username, except for underscores in place of spaces
    • If the current username does not appear to exist
    • If the requesting user had already made a request on CHUS that no human clerk or renamer has responded to
    • If the user who made the request is different from the current username used in the request
    • Checks the global rename log to see if the request was already done by a renamer who had forgotten to mark it as {{Done}}, and mark it as done appropriately.
  • If it doesn't find any issues, the bot leaves a message on the request saying that no technical issues were found (removing the bot message causes the bot to check it again).
  • The bot archives requests marked as done 24 hours after they've been processed, and archives requests marked as {{Not done}} 48 hours after the template was added, to the appropriate archive pages. Completed requests are added to incremental archives (e.g. Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple/Archive237) while rejected requests are organized by month (e.g. Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple/Unfulfilled/2019/January). The bot creates a new incremental archive page for completed requests when the archive pages reach about 75,000 bytes in size. The bot also checks to see if it was a global renamer or steward that marked the request as {{Not done}} (it won't archive requests if anyone else adds the template).
Off the top of my head, this is what the current bot does. Of course, if possible, the bot can definitely be improved to better handle the changes to the rename process. Two things that will be of great help to renamers (and requesters) on the page is if the bot could:
  1. Check for AntiSpoof conflicts with the requested username.
  2. Check for any previous rename log entries from the requesting user.
These aren't hardline issues that would for sure prevent a rename from occurring, but it will help if a bot could make note of them. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 16:25, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
Also if bot automatically notifies on user talk page (using Template:CHU note, which we do manually now) on conflicts on requests, it will be helpful for requesters as many of requests goes to not done without response. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 17:55, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
@Anomie: ‐‐1997kB (talk) 12:14, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Minor edit request table suggestion

I suggest that the bot wraps the "count" in <section begin="count" /> ... <section end="count" /> (see WP:LST for a description of what those tags do) tags on the edit request tables, to make the count machine-readable. I currently have three edit requests open at Template talk:Protected page text, which is confusing the navbox into thinking there are two fewer requests than there actually are, and this would fix that. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 20:46, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

To be clear, that would mean implementing this edit. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 22:08, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
LST uses somewhat ugly syntax. But whatever,  Done Anomie⚔ 22:27, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

SourceUploader: Please fix Template:Editnotices/Group/User:AnomieBOT/shutoff - fixed

To display the proper editnotice on shutoff pages for the AnomieBOT bot User:AnomieBOT, please ensure that Template:Editnotices/Group/User:AnomieBOT/shutoff contains the following text: 

{{ombox
| type = delete
| image = [[File:Shutdown button.svg|40px|link={{fullurl:Special:Block|wpTarget=AnomieBOT&wpExpiry=indefinite&wpHardBlock=1&wpAutoBlock=0&wpCreateAccount=0&wpReason=other&wpReason-other=Bot%20malfunctioning:%20}}|Emergency block button]]
| text = To disable the task {{SUBPAGENAME}}, enter your reasoning in this page. If the task is currently running, the bot may make one more edit before noticing that it has been shut off, but rest assured it ''will'' notice.
}}
{{ombox
| text = To re-enable the task, blank the page.
}}

Thanks. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 00:40, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Apparently, making bold improvements to pages related to bots isn't allowed. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 00:45, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
@Pppery: I like your change! I just had to copy it to the rest of the bot accounts' edit notices and update the bot to check the new version. Anomie⚔ 00:56, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

TfDClerk is too exclusion-compliant

I just excluded the bot from Wikipedia:Templates for discussion, and now it isn't updating Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Old unclosed discussions even though a discussion was closed. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 21:58, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, that'll happen. Don't exclude the bot. Anomie⚔ 01:08, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
@Anomie:, per WT:TFD#Page Size Exceeded, can you update bot code like CFDClerk: updating discussion section with a wikilink instead of transclusion. Thanks, Hhkohh (talk) 07:23, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
@Hhkohh and Pppery: You don't seem to have things structured like CFD though. And looking at the linked discussion, it's not clear you've even reached a final decision, versus but if the mass TfD goes closed, we should back to previous version.
My best guess at what you might want at the current moment would be for the bot to stop editing WP:TFD#Current discussions entirely, and to update WP:TFD#Old discussions with basically what it posts to WP:CFD/AC#Discussions awaiting closure currently. Or you might instead want to create Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Awaiting closure exactly like CFD has, so the bot doesn't have to edit WP:TFD itself at all. Anomie⚔ 22:38, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

I choose option C: code up a Lua module that synthesizes the table at WP:TFD#Old discussions from Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Old unclosed discussions and cuts the number of bot edits in half. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 22:48, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

@Hhkohh and Anomie: Coded at Module:Sandbox/pppery/summarize page. Using CfD as an example:

and that requires no bot updates beyond those already happening to the "/Old unclosed discussions" page. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 23:31, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

*shrug* Sure. I'll have the bot stop editing WP:TFD entirely then. Anomie⚔ 00:34, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Behold the end of the era of bots and the beginning of the era of Lua! {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 01:02, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

@Anomie: I proposed using the same Lua module for CfD, and got one two users in support and no opposition in two days, so could you have the bot stop editing Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Awaiting closure as well. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 01:54, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

 Done Anomie⚔ 02:27, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Two and a half years ago ...

May I point out that the documentation for the AccidentalLangLinkFixer task still refers to the old category name, which has now been renamed and is a redirect. Pppery 20:54, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

You may. I'll try to remember to fix that next time I update it. Anomie⚔ 20:56, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

This still hasn't been fixed. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 00:24, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

 Done Anomie⚔ 02:27, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
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