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EdoBot Problem

Could you please fix EdoBot to not add the incorrect "Aramis (Künstler)" German link to the "aramis" article? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aramis&diff=435675345&oldid=prev -- 50.46.67.26 (talk) 04:16, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi there. The bot was adding the link because it was still present on other language wikis (for example, Italian and Spanish), so the bot was copying the link from those wikis. I've gone ahead and manually removed the link from all other-language wikis, so the bot should not add the link anymore now. Let me know if there's any problems. - EdoDodo ^talk 08:26, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

It seems to be caught in a loop because EdoBot seems to have added the link again to both the Italian and the English pages. -- Ccady (talk) 04:17, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Whoops, it looks like I'd forgot to remove the link from one wiki, so the EdoBot (and other iw bots on other wikis), went ahead and put the German link back on all the pages. Should be removed for good now... Let me know if the bot misbehaves again. - EdoDodo ^talk 07:42, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

MessageDeliveryBot

Hi EdoDodo, there seems to be something wrong with your bot. One, when I was trying to make a request, it didn't redirect me to confirm it, and I'm not sure how. Then each time I either verify or delete one, it says "User is blocked", which I don't know what it is regarding to. --Nascar1996 (talk • contribs) 20:23, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Should all be fixed now. Apologies for the inconvenience. - EdoDodo ^talk 07:42, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again, but I wanted to run the bot earlier today, and it never ran. Looks like more problems. --Nascar1996 (talk • contribs) 01:48, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

I'll look into it later today. - EdoDodo ^talk 08:26, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Looks like this is an issue with cronsub (a command I use to add the bot to a list of things that should be run as soon as server resources are available when you press the Run bot option) not working due to a missing configuration file. I've filed a bug report so the Toolserver admins can sort out the problem, and in the meantime I've done a bit of a workaround so the bot should be working again. Let me know if there's any problems. - EdoDodo ^talk 08:40, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Er- so is the bot currently down? Swarm ^X 01:49, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Um... It shouldn't be, no. It's having so many problems, though, that it wouldn't surprise me if it was. - EdoDodo ^talk 07:50, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Your request is running now, by the way. - EdoDodo ^talk 07:54, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Yep, just wanted to know if problems would postpone the request, but I see that it has been completed. Regards, Swarm ^X 18:42, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

User:DodoBot

I just noticed this is a brand new bot (according to revision history). Can you give me any indication as to how often you will run it? Just wondering how long I can expect the process to take. Thanks! --TimL (talk) 09:33, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi there! I didn't notice that there were requests waiting. I'm going through them now. I'm traveling, so will work through them slowly since I only have Internet access in evening, probably at one a day or so. They all be done in a few days, though. - EdoDodo ^talk 15:25, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

please dont tag all National Monuments as PAREAS

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I see you have tagged List of U.S. National Monuments as part of wp:PAREAS and have tagged of them individually. Please do not tag all listed National Monuments as that. There are a good number of National Monuments that are urban and/or otherwise not at all natural. National does not equal Natural. --doncram 03:31, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello! As far as I know the bot was not tagging any new articles, it was simply adding ratings to already tagged articles. In the process, it was also converting outdated templates such as {{Messagebox protected areas}} (which now redirect to the new template) to the new template {{WikiProject Protected areas}}. Could you show me an example of a place where the bot added the tag when it wasn't already there? The code to the bot is fairly new, so it's possible that there are still some bugs. Should it be necessary, I can untag pages that are not relevant to the project manually, or possibly automatically, depending on the amount of articles affected. I apologize for the inconvenience, and have placed the bot on hold (will not be running any more tasks) until this issue is resolved. - EdoDodo ^talk 03:11, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Going to resume operation of the bot since I haven't found any issue with the edits, and specific problematic edits have not been pointed out to me. - EdoDodo ^talk 12:14, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Why was this article tagged?

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I saw your bot tagged Out of the Dark (2010 novel) for WP:WikiProject Horror. The tag says "This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool because one or more other projects use this class." I do not understand why this article was tagged, nor do I understand the explanation sentence. Could you please help me? And yes, I write because I think the tag was added incorrectly. Debresser (talk) 13:07, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm not the bot owner, but did you bother to look at the edit summary? This was tagged per the above request because it is in the Vampire Novels category. --TimL (talk) 13:21, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I did indeed have a good look at the editsummary. And found it less than informative. Just because it is about vampires, is no reason to label it as horror. I have read it, and wouldn't call it horror. Note that nowhere does the article say it is horror, nor is it in a category with the word horror. Where should I raise this issue? Debresser (talk) 13:36, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict) The bot is working on behalf of User:Jj98, that would be the place, he specified Vampire Novels to be tagged this way. --TimL (talk) 13:41, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. Incorrectly in my opinion. I asked him to comment here, and will await his reply. Debresser (talk) 13:54, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello. The bot is working on behalf of WP:HORROR tagging all articles in this category list. It looks like the specific article you linked was tagged because it belongs to Category:Vampire novels, which is on the category list. If you believe that article was tagged incorrectly, feel free to remove the tag. The other articles in the category all seem fairly relevant to the project, so I'll leave the category on the list for the moment. - EdoDodo ^talk 14:01, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

It's about these friendly vampires, who save the world. Find it hard to consider it horror. Nor does the article give any indication it should be considered horror, apart from the fact of it featuring vampires. As I said above, I've asked User:Jj98 to comment here also. Debresser (talk) 14:08, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I misspoke above. To say the bot was working on behalf of User:Jj98 was simply wrong. So I have probably directed you away from the right place to bring up the issue, WP:HORROR. My apologies. --TimL (talk) 14:29, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

I agree that the article should not have been tagged. The bot is not perfect - it simply works on a list of categories in which most of the articles are relevant to the WikiProject. Anyone is more than welcome to un-tag articles that are not relevant. I've gone ahead and untagged the one we are discussing. - EdoDodo ^talk 14:36, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

MDB login

Can't seem to login! Toolserver issue probably... –xeno^talk 16:46, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Hmm... Strange. It's working fine for me, probably an issue with your TUSC login. Anyway, I've approved you request and started up the bot. - EdoDodo ^talk 16:51, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Hmm - I tried to trick the bot into saying "delivered on behalf of Bureaucrats" - did that bit not work? [no need to amend the existing deliveries, just wondering for future] –xeno^talk 16:55, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Well, I removed that from the options because the bot currently adds WikiProject before it automatically, so it would have said "delivered on behalf of WikiProject Bureaucrats", which of course doesn't exist. I made it that way since I'd always imagined it as an option for WikiProjects, and didn't think of it being used like this. I suppose I could change it, but I think it's better to leave it like this, since people often fill out the form without putting WikiProject in front, and it's nice that the bot fixes that for them. - EdoDodo ^talk 17:22, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Gotcha. Didn't know the bot had error-correction there. –xeno^talk 17:24, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Talk:11th Reconnaissance Squadron

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Why did Nevada and Las Vegas get removed? Please stop taking these incorrect actions. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:27, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

My apologies. The bot was mis-configured and was working on {{WikiProject Nevada}} instead of {{WikiProject Nebraska}} as intended. Thank you for reverting the bot's erroneous edits. - EdoDodo ^talk 19:52, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Talk:432d Wing

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Why did you change the assessment from C to start? Vegaswikian (talk) 18:31, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

As above, my apologies for the misconfiguration of the bot and thank you for reverting its edits. - EdoDodo ^talk 19:52, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Question about the bot

I was going to submit a requst for your bot to assess some articles but I'm not sure if its capable of the task so I thought I would ask. Several US related wikiprojects are going to be supported by WikiProject United States. Here is a summery of the task that needs to be done:

1. If the article contains both the WikiProject US banner and the WikiProject Banner of the project being supported by WPUS then remove the supported banner and add the applicable parameters to the WPUS banner (WV=yes and WV-importance=X for West Virginia for example, were X=the importance contained in the supported projects banner)
2. If the article does not contain the WPUS banner then replace the existing WikiProject banner with the banner for WikiProject US and the applicable parameter for the other project (WV=yes and WV-importance=X for West Virginia for example, were X=the importance contained in the supported projects banner).

Please let me know if you this is something that can be done. We currently have 4 projects with more being added in the future. --Kumioko (talk) 19:53, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Most of this functionality already exists in the bot, although the bot only supports un-tagging/replacing one project at a time (so, the bot would have to be run four times). This shouldn't be an issue, since it's unlikely that any of the articles will be tagged by multiple projects that you support (and, even if they are, it would simply result in the bot doing two edits - nothing major).

The inheriting of importance from the project being untagged is not currently possible, but it shouldn't be too difficult to add it to the bot. Feel free to go ahead and submit the request - if I take a bit longer than I usually do it's because I need to add that code to the bot, but I will get round to it.

Make sure you outline what projects need to be untagged, and what taskforce should be tagged when un-tagging them (you'll probably want to use the comments section for this, since it's quite unusual and the requests form itself isn't well-adapted to this situation). - EdoDodo ^talk 21:16, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick reply. So it seems like there is a little snag a sizeable chunk of the articles will have more than one project associated (such as Governors, Government, Us State Legislators, etc). However, if I create a project subpage of the articles in the project (West Virginia for example) that do not have the WPUS banner already and then you could do those and I can go ahead and do the ones that already have both banners. That would reduce the amount of tagging I have to do manually from 8000-9000 down to less than 500. Does this seem ok to you? I will of course provide links to the project page discussion and justification for the request. --Kumioko (talk) 00:33, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Ah, if that's the case I can also add code to un-tag multiple projects. It's no problem at all - I simply did not think it would be necessary, since in the example you previously gave (West Virginia), that did not seem to be necessary. By the way, there's no need to submit a request on the page, since this request is so different from the normal ones that most of the information there would be of little or no use.

I do still need to ask you about inheritance and automatic stubbing, though. Could you take a look at User:DodoBot/Process and tell me which inheritance style you would like to use (if you would like the bot to inherit ratings, that is) and if you would like auto-stubbing based on stub tags and/or length. Lastly, I still need the list of projects that you are supporting and their corresponding parameter on the main assessment banner.

One last question: This will just be a one-off run, right? Because if it is, then I can just make the required changes to the code in a separate file without saving them in the main code (since it's unlikely that they will be needed in other situations).

Thank you for your help, and apologies for all the questions: This request is quite an unusual one, so I want to make sure everything goes smoothly. - EdoDodo ^talk 02:46, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

• Thanks again. To answer the one off question first. There are a couple projects currently (West Virginia and South Carolina) but there may be others in the future so you might want to hang onto the code somewhere in case we need it again.
• Thank you for letting me know that a request was not needed
• Regarding the assessment process. If possible it would be best of the bot could apply the existing assessment to the new banner: For example:
  

{{WikiProject West Virginia|class=start|importance=low}}
would be replaced with
{{WikiProject United States|class=start|importance=low|WV=yes|WV-importance=low}}

• If the article already contains the US template with another project, for example:
  

{{WikiProject United States|class=start|importance=low|USSL=yes|USSL-importance=low}}
then it could apply the WV (or other project) at the end of the US banner string like this
{{WikiProject United States|class=start|importance=low|USSL=yes|USSL-importance=low|WV=yes|WV-importance=[whatever the importance is for the West Virginia project]}}

• I think the option for inherit ratings from other projects would be useful too if it didn't already have an assessment and I would also agree that it can skip adding the |auto=inherit for if the rating is an indisputable one (Disambig, List, FL, GA, or FA).
• If you take a look at Template:WikiProject United States it gives the full list of parameters supported by the template currently including the supported projects.
• The 2 projects I need help with currently are South Carolina (3,483 articles) and West Virgnia (5,174 articles). There are several others though that may be added in the future though

I hope this helps and thank you for your help. --Kumioko (talk) 14:26, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my questions, it should all be possible (with a bit more coding, but that's not an issue). I've almost got everything I need to get started, just one tiny point you didn't address: Would you like articles below a certain length and/or containing a stub tag to be marked as stubs (assuming the article isn't already assessed by one of the projects you support, in which case it will use the existing rating)?

It will probably be a week or two before I run this request, since I need to add the required code to the bot, as well as test it to make sure the bot will work as planned, and I can't get started on that for another few days since I'm traveling. I hope that's not an issue.

In the meantime, perhaps you could start a thread on the WikiProject's talk page to check that everyone is fine with this? I'd like to be sure there is consensus for this before I go ahead and start the bot, and couldn't I find a discussion about this on the WikiProject's talk page (maybe I missed it, if such a discussion does exist please link it to me). - EdoDodo ^talk 23:55, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

No problem on the 2 weeks thing. The discussions have already been started on both project pages. Feel free to take a look and let me know if you need me to add anything to them to clarify the intent. On the Stub question, I would say yes if the article contains a stub tag or is below a certain size (not sure what that would be though) then feel free to tag it if its not already tagged. I'm not overly worried about that at the moment though so if its much more work don't worry about it. I think what I might do is start a discussion to do a one time run for the whole WPUS project and then we can get them all at once rather than piecemeal project by project. --Kumioko (talk) 00:03, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Alright. I'll go with 1500 characters for the size below which articles should be marked as stub, since that's usually a fairly safe bet (some projects use up to 2500, but that results in far more incorrect tagging). It's no work at all to do that, since it's already part of the bot's code. I also agree that it would be much better to go all the projects at once. Let me know if there's consensus for that. - EdoDodo ^talk 00:22, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Okay, so I've started work on the code and as I was working on it thought of another question. For choosing the class to give the article: I assume you would want the class of the projects you support to have priority over both auto-stub and inheriting from other projects, correct? Also, what about if two projects you support assess the article with a different class, how should the bot proceed? Should it use the highest one, the lowest, or simply leave it blank? - EdoDodo ^talk 17:43, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Good questions, for the first you are correct I would like the projects to have the priority. As for the second I think that the liklihood that there will be duelling projects is remote. The only supported projects that have not currently been included is West Virginia and South Carolina and I would think that the number of articles with both woul dbe small. As a general rule though I would say take the lowest grade. Its better to undershoot the assessment IMO than to give it to high of a grade automatically. --Kumioko (talk) 18:42, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, I'll keep working on the code and let you know when it's done. - EdoDodo ^talk 01:35, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Great thanks I really appreciate it. --Kumioko (talk) 01:42, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, here's a sample edit: [1] - the code is done, although there'll probably be some bugs or unexpected situations, so I'll be sure to keep it strictly supervised during the start of the run. By the way, have you discussed running it for all projects at once? Would definitely make things easier. - EdoDodo ^talk 17:01, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. That looks pretty good although I think it would be better if the core class and importance parameter preceded the parameters for the supported project. Have you tried it with an article that already contains another project yet to make sure it adds back the additional parameters? I haven't talked about running it through all the projects yet. I will start a discussion on the WPUS page momentarily with a comment to each of the other projects to comment there. I will also include a blurb about it in the monthly newsletter which I will be sending out in the next few days. --Kumioko (talk) 17:17, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

ok I created the discussion here. You might want to take a look and make sure I appropriately described the bot actions just in case I misunderstood. --Kumioko (talk) 18:39, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, I've changed it so that the task-force parameter is added after the other ones. Yup, I've tested it when there's already a task-force present, here's a sample edit: [2] - EdoDodo ^talk 21:08, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, since the discussion has been going on for a week without any objections, looks like the project members are fine with it. I'll start the bot now, if that's fine with you?

Thats awesome thanks, were already working on several more. They are American Old West, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming but the discussions are still pending on a couple of those. Thanks again for all the help. --Kumioko (talk) 19:51, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, for the moment I'll run it on these. It's working slowly under supervision for the moment. - EdoDodo ^talk 20:09, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

No problem take your time...I just appreciate the help. --Kumioko (talk) 20:17, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Letting it pick up speed now, since with the exception of one error that I caught and fixed, the bot is going fine. Will keep supervising it for a bit. - EdoDodo ^talk 20:29, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Looks like things are going fairly smoothly. I haven't noticed any more malfunctions, although I've only been spot-checking and haven't reviewed every single edit made by the bot. It should be done with the South Carolina and West Virginia articles later today. When you've got consensus from the other WikiProjects to do the same thing, let me know and I'll do it for the other projects as well. - EdoDodo ^talk 14:20, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. I also spot checked a few and I didn't see anything either. IMO its fine if there are a few snags, we can work through those. I will let you know on the others. There should be a couple that can go soon. I will leave you links to the discussions so you can make the decision if its meets consensus and if its been there long enough. --Kumioko (talk) 14:26, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, sounds good. - EdoDodo ^talk 14:36, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Per our discussion above. Here are two that are good to go with links to the appropriate discussions.

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject American Old West#Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States - Been open since July 6th with support from members. Just a note on this one that it hasn't been added to the WPUS template. I added the project in the sandbox and requested admin action were still waiting.
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States presidential elections#Suggestion for this project to be supported by WikiProject United States - Been open since June 21 and none of the members have left any negative comments in that time.

Assessment run.

• I think we can also go ahead and do the assessment run soon too. There hasn't been any complaints yet and I doubt there will be but we should proabably give it a little more time. Since your the bot operator and have experience with how long we should wait for comments I will let you decide when you are comfortable to run it.

The below projects were recently added to the United States template by someone who feels they are inactive or semiactive. I left messages on all the project pages and contacted every active member of each project around August 3rd - 5th for their input but most of the editors are passive members of the projects only. Since many of these projects have had almost no activity on the talk pages with regards to any discussions left there we may not see much activity and it may just end up being a waiting game to give them a chance to make comments if they want too.

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arizona#Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States - Seems to be 3 supports so far
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Colorado#Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States - No comments so far
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Idaho#Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States - Only one resoponse and that was from a non project member in support.
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Nebraska#Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States - 1 support so far
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Mexico#Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States - 4 supports/no preference so far
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wyoming#Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States - Got a couple supports so far and no negative comments

There may be another group of projects including a few more states in the next month or 2 but after that we should be done. Please let me know if you have any questions and thanks again for all the help. --Kumioko (talk) 14:54, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, once South Carolina and West Virginia are done I'll look through these discussions and if I see consensus (or silence for more than a week, in which case I'll assume consensus). I've stopped the bot due to an issue which occurs when the bot works in the non-article namespace whereby the old project would not be untagged. I'm looking into it now and will start the bot again once it's fixed. Once the run is done I'll have it go back to the pages that it missed in order to untag them and mark them with the task force. - EdoDodo ^talk 14:59, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Okay, issue should be fixed. Starting bot up again now and having it go through the old pages that it missed (categories mostly) first and then continue the run. - EdoDodo ^talk 15:08, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, the bot has finished running but there's still a few articles tagged with West Virginia and South Carolina (looks like about 150 in total). Most of them are pages that probably shouldn't have been tagged (user pages, wikipedia pages, and redirects) which is why the bot skipped them. How would you like to proceed with those? Shall I leave them to be manually reviewed? - EdoDodo ^talk 13:14, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Yeah its fine I can review those. Thanks again for the help. --Kumioko (talk) 13:15, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Just wanted to add a note but since WPUS accepts the class of redirect, if you can tag redirects as such that would be great. --Kumioko (talk) 13:24, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, I'll have it tag redirects as such in the future instead of skipping them. - EdoDodo ^talk 17:44, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Cool thanks, I finished out the West Virginia and South Carolina ones. --Kumioko (talk) 19:27, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, I'll wait a couple of days so that if anyone has any complaints about this run, or noticed any mistakes that I missed, they can report them before I get started on the other projects. - EdoDodo ^talk 19:30, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

By the way, you might want to delete the two templates, or redirect them to Template:WikiProject United States, while they're unused so that people won't use them accidentally. - EdoDodo ^talk 11:21, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, looks like there's no objections, so I'm ready to run this as soon as an admin takes care of your edit request, the bot is ready to go. I've got it ready to run on all the projects you listed above. - EdoDodo ^talk 12:56, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Oh wow great thanks. Lemme see if I can get someone to take action on that. --Kumioko (talk) 13:24, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Ok its done you should be good to go now. Please let me know if you need me to do anything else. --Kumioko (talk) 14:47, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, thank you. Starting up the bot on the rest of the projects now. - EdoDodo ^talk 15:27, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Bot had a few issues with projects using multi-line settings. Should be sorted now but keeping bot under supervision for the moment. - EdoDodo ^talk 15:52, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

It seems to also be having a problem with replacing the wrong projects. It looks like it has replaced some WikiProject Nevada articles with Nebraska which is a 2 sided problem because thats not one of the projects being supported at the moment and we shouldn't be converting it to Nebraska. --Kumioko (talk) 18:51, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Uh oh. Bot is stopped. I'll investigate and manually revert where needed. Busy now but I'll take a look and sort it out later today. - EdoDodo ^talk 19:06, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

The error was a mistake in my configuration of the bot. Apologies for my mistake. I've identified the 40 affected pages and will get to work on reverting the ones that haven't already been reverted by somebody else. Once I've done that, would you be okay with me starting up the bot again (properly configured, this time!)? - EdoDodo ^talk 21:26, 12 August 2011

Nevermind, looks like they were all taken care of by Vegaswikian - many thanks to him, and apologies once again for my misconfiguration of the bot. - EdoDodo ^talk 19:30, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of it. --Kumioko (talk) 19:43, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Are you fine with me resuming operation of the bot now? - EdoDodo ^talk 14:10, 13 August 2011

Yeah it should be fine. --Kumioko (talk) 12:15, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Okay, restarting it now. - EdoDodo ^talk 12:17, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

The bot was having a problem whereby it wouldn't find (and therefore wouldn't remove) the old template if it used underscores instead of spaces in the name. This is fixed now, and I'm having the bot run through all the pages it did before to replace all the ones it previously missed. That means it will be editing slowly for a bit, since most of the pages it looks at will be fine. - EdoDodo ^talk 12:51, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for letting me know. --Kumioko (talk) 13:10, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Should be done. Let me know if you notice any issues. - EdoDodo ^talk 12:16, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Thats awesome thanks again for the help. --Kumioko (talk) 12:58, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

A couple more possibilities for your bot

I don't want to overtax your bot or burn you out so feel free to decline this request but I was wondering if you would be interested in a couple more tasks for your bot. Here are a couple that I would like to look at doing in the future if your interested.

• There are a number of articles relating to United States or one of the supported projects and I was wondering if you could add the banner to those.

- For example this list has articles that contain US in the title but are not tagged as US (I have several other lists as well). Many are redrects, some are not.

- In the case of the redirects, if possible I would like to tag the redirect as redirect and if necessary add the banner to the article that redirect points to. If not possible no big deal.

• Would you still be willing to do the assessment run through the WikiProject United States/Supported projects articles?

Thanks again for all your help. --Kumioko (talk) 16:02, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Yup, I'm definitely interested in doing more work for the project. Probably better if we wait a couple of days to give people time to report issues that they have with the bot's edits, though. Also, I noticed that the bot still missed some articles, so there's still some finishing touches to do to the previous run. - EdoDodo ^talk 16:21, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Great thanks, no problem on the wait. There seems to be some late comments to a couple of the projects we just added so I am working on those as well. Do you want me to start a discussion on the projects talk page to gather comments about the above possibilities? --Kumioko (talk) 16:35, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

If you mean asking each individual project - I wouldn't think it necessary for the assessment run, and as for the tagging of articles since you won't be tagging them with a specific project no reason to discuss it with the individual projects. Definitely start a discussion on the main project's talk page, though. - EdoDodo ^talk 16:46, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

No not each project but I will put it on the WPUS project. Thanks. --Kumioko (talk) 17:01, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Regarding the articles that the bot missed. If you take a look at this category Category:United States articles with deprecated tags I think you should catch most of them. --Kumioko (talk) 20:06, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Texas Revolution

The Texas RevolutionTexas_Revolution was "botted" to change from "American Old West" to "US Old West." The 1836 Revolution was of Mexico, not the US; so American was correct and US is not.--cregil (talk) 16:07, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Hello there. WikiProject American Old West agreed to be supported by WikiProject United States in this discussion since so many of their articles were also relevant to WikiProject United States. As part of this transition, the template was switched to {{WikiProject United States}} with the |USOldwest=yes parameter to show that although the project is being supported by WikiProject United States, the most relevant project to it is WikiProject American Old West. The project retains its name of WikiProject American Old West, and despite the parameter being named US, the project wishes to cover all of the American Old West. - EdoDodo ^talk 16:18, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

DodoBot edit summaries

Could you please take a look at Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#General notice to bot owners about edit summaries and see if the suggestions might apply to your bot? Feel free to add your own suggestions and comments there too. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:03, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Concerns about the code used in the WelcomerBot's welcome message

I recentely left some notices on a user talk page recently welcomed by WelcomerBot. Because of the code used in the welcome message, there appears to be open templates causing the subsequent messages to be too difficult to read. See User talk:Dtmarc. I tried to fix the problem, but the code in the welcome message was too complex for me to identify the problem... Singularity42 (talk) 14:12, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm looking into this. I'll let you know when I've figured out the problem. - EdoDodo ^talk 19:32, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Delivery request

Please see User talk:Xeno#Delivery request. CT Cooper · talk 13:34, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

I've un-deleted your request and started up the bot and it is delivering the messages now. I'm not quite sure what happened before and why it was deleted, and unfortunately I can't find out because logs of the bot's operation are not kept. - EdoDodo ^talk 15:07, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Re: Note about File:Boat in Florida Keys.jpg

In that case, I'm sorry. I misjudged your choice of theme based on the nomination description. Still as you have said it is not one of your best images. Jakubhal (talk) 19:57, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

No problem. As I said, I'm not particularly pleased with how that image came out, so I'm not going to ask for a review. - EdoDodo ^talk 20:03, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Approval to use MessageDeliveryBot

Hi EdoDodo, Can you please approve me to use the MessageDeliveryBot? My TUSC account is Ganeshk. — Ganeshk (talk) 01:02, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Done. Please be very careful with the bot. I recommend you make a test run to familiarize yourself with the settings and make sure you are filling everything out correctly before doing an actual delivery run. - EdoDodo ^talk 05:24, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User talk:Seo.bidur

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A tag has been placed on User talk:Seo.bidur, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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Run MDB

Not sure if you got my email or just happened to come back today serendipitously, but please run MDB if you get a chance. Thanks! –xeno^talk 15:19, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi there! Yup, I did get your message and both DodoBot and MDB are working through requests at the moment. By the way, how come you couldn't run MDB? You're an approved user, so if you login with your TUSC information, you should be able to run it (unless some kind of severe malfunction had occurred). - EdoDodo ^talk 16:00, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Oh, I did not notice that 'run bot' button before. Next time I will try that =) –xeno^talk 16:03, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Yup, if you press that the bot should run all approved requests pretty soon (it might not be instantaneous because it waits for one of the Toolserver servers to have idle time, to avoid using resources during peak periods). Also, the bot checks once a day, shortly after midnight, for any approved requests to run. - EdoDodo ^talk 16:10, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Is the bot now waiting for a good window to run my request? Because it's gone from the 'waiting' and bot seems to be sleeping again. . . –xeno^talk 16:43, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

It's running now :). - EdoDodo ^talk 16:48, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

So was I being impatient or did it need a good kick? –xeno^talk 16:50, 3 October 2011 (UTC) P.S.

It had flagged the request as running, but then I had to stop it because of an issue with another request. When I restarted it, I flagged the other request as needing to be run again, but forgot to flag yours. - EdoDodo ^talk 16:54, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Regarding the idea of including a link, how is the offset calculated? The starts looks like a timestamp, but not entirely sure. - EdoDodo ^talk 16:59, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, 'tis a timestamp (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS). This is the timestamp for the most recent run: [3] –xeno^talk 17:04, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Alright, done - EdoDodo ^talk 17:36, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Very cool! Thanks, –xeno^talk 17:37, 3 October 2011 (UTC)