User talk:AnomieBOT

Anomieis still around, mostly to maintain AnomieBOT. But after the WMF proved that office politics are more important to them than seemingly anything else, and otherwise generally seem more concerned with their own image than substance, Anomie is not engaging in technical work on MediaWiki.

DespiteT360488asking them not to, Toolforge admins have gone ahead and broken AnomieBOT's scripts. Keeping things running properly will likely require manual intervention until they fix that or give me a usable workaround.

Live statusfor all AnomieBOT tasks is available atToolforge.

Regarding the OrphanReferenceFixer and TagDater, please note:

AnomieBOT isnotan anti-vandal bot, so complaints about AnomieBOT "hiding" or not reverting vandalism are out of place here.
- AnomieBOT's current strategy is "wait 10 minutes to an hour or so to let ClueBot, VoABotII, other anti-vandal bots, or RC Patrollers fix the vandalism". I am open tospecificsuggestions on detecting vandalism, but keep in mind that the false positive rate of any method must be near zero to be useful.
AnomieBOT honors {{inuse}}; please use it if you have excessive edit conflicts.
If the reference errors or undated tags were caused by vandalism, just revert AnomieBOT's edits along with the vandal's. AnomieBOT will not be offended.
If AnomieBOT made a mistake in correcting a reference error or dating a tag, please correct the error by hand and report the URL of the problem diff below. Don't just revert the bot without fixing the error, or AnomieBOT is likely to "fix" it again in the same broken way before I get a chance to fix the bug.
If you have a problem withT11790,please take the issue up there. You will be having the problem with more than just AnomieBOT's edits.

Thank you.

	Regarding deletions, please note:
If you are here because you think AnomieBOT III deleted an article, please check again. AnomieBOT III deletes redirects when someone else deletes the article the redirect pointed to, and you almost certainly want to talk to that person instead.

	Regarding{{old AfD multi}},please note:
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.

Archives

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SFO Int'l Airport Reference problem

Hello and good day. The most recent change I made today (was 15 minutes ago) for SFO was reverted back by you, I was able to get it to the present stats page which is up to date yet Reference #1 stated "2016 cited but not invoked" I dont understand why that appeared there when I deleted that info in the edit window concerning the source. What is there now only goes up to December 2022. Maybe you can change it again so it does go to the most recent data (May 2024 I believe). Im sure this can be fixed. Have a good day.Theairportman33531(talk)15:30, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Reference #1. Not necessary. Source #242 goes to where it should go. Have a good day.Theairportman33531(talk)15:39, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBOT did not revert anything. Your edits leftabig red errorin the article,which AnomieBOT fixed by copying the body of the ref into a<ref name= "stats2016" />you had left behind.Anomie ⚔18:00, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New categories

Why are you creating new maintence categories that are empty. If they aren’t then add the article that falls under that category.JimmyCarterLover1(talk)18:54, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JimmyCarterLover1:Pleasealwayssupply examples of the perceived problem. --Redrose64🌹 (talk)20:40, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was talking aboutCategory:Uncategorized from March 2024.It’s empty though AnomieBOT said it wasn’tJimmyCarterLover1(talk)18:31, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JimmyCarterLover1:It's emptynow,but it probably wasn't at the instant that the category page was created (06:07, 24 July 2024). --Redrose64🌹 (talk)21:05, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Based on recentchanges data, looks like themoveofThe Dream Show 3: Dream( )scapefromDraft:The Dream Show 3: Dream( )scapeactivated a{{Uncategorized|date=March 2024}}that was already in the article. That tag waslater removed.Anomie ⚔21:38, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JimmyCarterLover1:So, between 04:08, 24 July 2024 (UTC) and 19:25, 24 July 2024 (UTC) there was at least one page in the category, justifying its existence. --Redrose64🌹 (talk)23:04, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Without more details, I can only guess at what you're talking about. AnomieBOT creates dated maintenance categories in two cases:

At the end of each month, it creates the categories for the new month. This saves the category temporarily being a redlink when someone adds the first maintenance tag dated with the new month.
If a past dated maintenance category is not empty, AnomieBOT creates it. Sometimes the edit adding a page to the category is reverted, but AnomieBOT can't know that is going to happen.

HTH.Anomie ⚔12:05, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rescuing orphaned refs

Hhi Anomie(BOT). I just wanted to say thanks for the great work you do rescuing orphaned refs. It avoidssomany broken references. Regards.DH85868993(talk)06:45, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CFDClerk seems to be stopped

Title. It did not createtoday's log,nor isWikipedia:Categories for discussion#Discussions awaiting closurebeing updated. (Theshutoff pageis blank.) Is this aphab:T360488issue? Best,House Blaster(talk· he/they)03:13, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like some update or other on Toolforge brought down a bunch of the bot's runners and didn't bring them back up again. Restarted.phab:T360488just makes me have to jump through some extra hoops to do that.Anomie ⚔11:53, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Your work with making all the various things AnomieBOT function properly is appreciated, sincerely:)House Blaster(talk· he/they)12:22, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think this happened again.Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 September 3was created by Twinkle, andWikipedia:Files for discussion/2024 September 3is red at the time of writing.House Blaster(talk• he/they)01:52, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bot restarted.Anomie ⚔11:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be happening again.Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Old unclosed discussionsis not being updated. Best,House Blaster(talk• he/they)19:47, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, restarted. Seems that things somehow just locked up on Toolforge.Anomie ⚔00:59, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stopped again... and apologies for the repeated notes. Your work is appreciated, truly.House Blaster(talk• he/they)00:57, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like the entire bot got f**ked up.ABG(Talk/Report any mistakes here)01:29, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems something on Toolforge took out all the bot's processes. Restarted.Anomie ⚔11:35, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template subster

Looks like the template substing isn't working either, have a few pages that have been autosubst for a few days now that still have transclusions.Primefac(talk)12:38, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, most of AnomieBOT's tasks had fallen victim to the above. I restarted everything that had failed earlier. It'll take a little while for things to catch up, of course.Anomie ⚔12:51, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cool cool. I wasn't sure if the above was an "everything is running" or not. Thanks:-)Primefac(talk)13:07, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TemplateTalkRedirectCreator: Outdated description

The description of the task does not say that redirects are created from talk pages ending in "/styles.css". I originally justadded that myselfbut then I realised that Ishouldn't have done thatso I reverted. Can you please update the description?Nickps(talk)22:28, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DoneAnomie ⚔12:15, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OrphanReferenceFixer

It would be cool if theOrphanReferenceFixercould notify those who introduced the error.Polygnotus(talk)09:57, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In theory it probably could, but I'm skeptical that in practice it would do much good. The bot does notify users (withthis message) who revert the task's fixes, since they're usually confused as to what the bot is doing.Anomie ⚔11:26, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Getting a bot note about putting a link to a dab is one thing, since that's usually an easy fix (and a bot otherwise wouldn't be able to rectify), but since the bot already fixes an orphaned ref I don't really see much point in pointing it out to the user.Primefac(talk)20:22, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Primefac:Yeah what I mean is that the user would get a notification when the botcannotfix the problem (so when a new article is added toCategory:Pages_with_broken_reference_namesand the bot can't fix it). Only downside I can think of is that the bot does not respond immediately but waits for antivandalism bots. Are there any other problems/downsides?Polygnotus(talk)21:27, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing General Note templates

Hi @AnomieBOT,Thank you for fixing a General Note incorrect information template to IP address Talk Page, i warned and revert before you, So if you have a question? Leave me a message on my talk pageRaayaan9911(talk)02:09, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Raayaan9911,AnomieBOT is an automated account and cannot reply. What sort of response are you looking for? All the bot did was subst an auto-subst template.Primefac(talk)12:41, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Primefac,they Can't Reply and Ignored because of bot, i was warned a iP address about incorrect information in their IP address talk page but bot fixed meRaayaan9911(talk)12:47, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Raayaan9911:Do you refer tothis edit?Its edit summary contains two links explaining why thebotmade that edit. See alsoTemplate:Uw-error1,which clearly shows how it should be used in order to avoid the kind of problem that the bot fixed. --Redrose64🌹 (talk)17:56, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Redrose64I seenRaayaan9911(talk)18:53, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 September 3

The bot doesn't seem to have created this today for some reason?2A0E:1D47:9085:D200:44BF:5DD4:E6F2:E78(talk)09:20, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Something on Toolforge seems to have taken out many of the bot's jobs. Bot restarted.Anomie ⚔11:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations

AnomieBOT archived an incompleterequestfromCHUU.I see it was archived because of the{{done}}template, but I've restored the request twice and commented out that template. Even so, the request keeps getting removed. I'd really appreciate it if you could restore it. Thanks! –DreamRimmer(talk)17:45, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DreamRimmer:I think that "commented out that template" is the key here: the bot looks for the string{{done}}and doesn't care if it's in a comment or not (Legobot does something similar withTemplate:Rfc). You need to do something that causes that string to no longer occur. If you don't want to remove it entirely, the best thing to do is to mark it withTemplate:Tlor similar, as in{{done}}.Also, if you revert an editlike this,you must also revert the correspondingedit to the archive(they always go in pairs) -Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations/Completed/57now has three copies of the "Azarctic → Quetzal" request. --Redrose64🌹 (talk)20:22, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response, Redrose64. I am aware that archives always go in pairs, as I regularly archive steward permission requests on Meta and manage archiving in some other venues here as well. I didn't make further edits to fix it because I didn't want to engage in an edit war with the bot, so I thought it would be best for the bot owner to handle it. –DreamRimmer(talk)01:54, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

user:AnomieBOT/SPERTable has stopped working

This table is crucial to my backlog-shredding routine, what happened?ABG(Talk/Report any mistakes here)01:15, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems the same with ITNCArchiver.—Bagumba(talk)04:32, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AlphaBetaGamma:An up to date list may always be found at thebottomofCategory:Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests.That does not depend upon any bots. --Redrose64🌹 (talk)07:27, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems something on Toolforge took out all the bot's processes. Restarted.Anomie ⚔11:35, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:AnomieBOT III

Hello, Anomie,

It looks like this bot has missed some updates. Just checking in to make sure everything is okay.Liz^Read!Talk!07:57, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems something on Toolforge took out all the bot's processes. Restarted.Anomie ⚔11:35, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]