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Misuse of warnings
[edit]In future please don't leave warnings on the talk pages of responsible editors such as myself for reverting vandalism and enforcing policies. Afterwriting (talk) 17:39, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
re: "Analysis of results"
[edit]Oliver gave a good answer, but as an FYI, the research documentation for the VisualEditor test is public and has a pretty clear list of the research questions plus metrics. I think that might answer your question. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 19:07, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello there,
It seems that your bot SDPatrolBot has asked for speedy deletion of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arun_Budhathoki. I kindly request to avert the decision as it's about an emerging Nepali poet from Nepal and all the sources are genuine. Please help instead to improve it. Thank you very much
regards Daniel Song 10:27, 27 June 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dansong22 (talk • contribs)
- Seems this has been dealt with - Kingpin13 (talk) 00:07, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| For making User:SDPatrolBot, back online after a bit of a hiatus. Excellent bot, saves a lot of work. Also, SDPatrolBot's talk page is very surreal... Howicus (talk) 01:11, 29 June 2013 (UTC) |
- Thanks Howicus. Hopefully should be able to keep the bot running slightly more consistently now. Haha, yes I should probably archive those year old messages - Kingpin13 (talk) 00:07, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
User:SDPatrolBot - minor issue
[edit]Hi, I closed the deletion discussion for Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester as a delete with the creation of a redirect (due to legal issues with the Duke's title, we're discussing whether the redirect is appropriate). I created Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester with a soft redirect as part of my closure of the deletion discussion and all was well, until it was improperly tagged by a relatively new editor. I tried to remove the CSD tag as the page is a result of a deletion discussion and speedy deletion is inappropriate, but was reverted by your bot and warned, this happened again (I assumed the bot wouldn't revert me a second time, but it did). I considered disabling the bot at this point, as it was interfering with part of the closure of an AfD, but decided against it, instead choosing to protect the page in order to prevent SDPatrolBot from making an edit. I realise this is a most unusual set of circumstances, but I thought I would raise it here for a couple of reasons, mainly to let you know in case there are errors that leave you a little confused, and also to see if there are ways to avoid adding back CSD templates on redirects created as a result of an AfD. Apologies if all of that is gibberish, it's late and I'm tired, just ask if you need to know more. Cheers, Nick (talk) 23:12, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Nick. Generally in this kind of case my advice is simply to sit tight and wait for someone else to remove the tag, and not worry too much about it in the meantime. However, this particular scenario is actually quite common, so the bot does have a check to restrict it from replacing CSD templates removed by the creator of the page, if the page was created as the result of a page move (leaving a redirect behind). In this case, I see that you actually originally deleted the page without leaving a redirect, and then manually placed a soft redirect on the article. I assume that was in order to use a soft redirect instead of a normal one (although I'm not quite sure why you opted for that?) but in the future leaving a redirect behind during the deletion process would prevent this issue. - Kingpin13 (talk) 00:07, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
- The page had a bit of an unusual history, there's a question hanging over whether we should call Alexander the 13th Duke and during the AfD, the page was moved by someone else from Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester to Alexander Montagu, which was the page with all the history that I deleted, the redirect was moved to 13th Duke of Manchester as that has the history stemming from the page move and at one point I considered that the more likely page to survive. The current soft redirect at Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester is intended to be a temporary measure whilst a decision is made and if necessary, templates and succession boxes are updated. Yes, I'm slightly regretting closing the AfD. Nick (talk) 08:58, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
- Haha, sounds a little complicated. This is why "housekeeping" moves scare me ;) - Kingpin13 (talk) 19:55, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
- The page had a bit of an unusual history, there's a question hanging over whether we should call Alexander the 13th Duke and during the AfD, the page was moved by someone else from Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester to Alexander Montagu, which was the page with all the history that I deleted, the redirect was moved to 13th Duke of Manchester as that has the history stemming from the page move and at one point I considered that the more likely page to survive. The current soft redirect at Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester is intended to be a temporary measure whilst a decision is made and if necessary, templates and succession boxes are updated. Yes, I'm slightly regretting closing the AfD. Nick (talk) 08:58, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for SDPatrolBot
[edit]Hey.. I today only found about SDPatrolBot while doing some NPP. It's excellent and saves effort to keep track of users removing CSD tag from articles created by themselves. Thanks for bring it online again.--Vigyanitalkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 09:19, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks Vigyani, glad you like it - Kingpin13 (talk) 03:34, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
WikiAlerter Talkback
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KingpinBot doesn't archive "Requests for permissions" requests
[edit]Hi. It appears that your bot does not archive WP:RFPERM. Please check it. Thanks. Zyma (talk) 20:38, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads up. I was on holiday though, so the bot has been running now since I got back. Cheers, - Kingpin13 (talk) 09:23, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
Request for attention
[edit]You're listed as an active member of the Bot Approvals Group. I would like to draw your attention to the outstanding WP:BRFA requests (including requests that are specificly flagging as need BAG attention). Please take a few minutes out of your busy schedule and take a look at the open requests. Thank you Hasteur (talk) 18:12, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Kingpin13! Once again, there are quite a few Requests for bot approval that are awaiting BAG assistance. Would you be willing to look at some of these? Thanks in advance! GoingBatty (talk) 23:15, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
Thanks
[edit]I'm stopped to do whitespace editing. Vanquisher (talk) 11:19, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Need assistance with citation on a page
[edit]Hello
First, I still owe you a response on Dr. Allan Schore's work - please give me more time as I am trying to get past a term of grad school.
My reason for writing this is because I have run into a snag with proper citation syntax. Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prontosil I added information regarding the usage of Prontosil in the United States and had two references. The link seemed to work fine but the book did not. The book's APA Style cite is: Chandler, C.A. (1950). Famous Men of Medicine. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
I'm not exactly sure how to "embed" the source. I needed more time to read through the help pages but its 3am here and I need to go.
Could you please double-check this page for me and let me know it is all right. I'll then go back and see what you did for my reference. I kept looking for an add 'reference footnote' link or something to that affect. I am spoiled with EndNote, I guess.
THANK YOU!!!! - vaw — Preceding unsigned comment added by Weechva (talk • contribs) 06:53, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Talkback
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Talkback
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Re adding Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Template editor the bot's list of permission request pages to archive. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 22:10, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
- ^Seconded :) I came to request the same thing. We've got a new permission page at WP:PERM for template editor. Thanks in advance Kingpin13. equazcion → 20:26, 18 Oct 2013 (UTC)
- Just saw the first archiving -- Thanks :) equazcion → 01:35, 19 Oct 2013 (UTC)
- No problem, thanks both for the heads up on the new right. - Kingpin13 (talk) 01:37, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
New REFBot
[edit]There is a suggestion on Wikipedia:Bot requests#New REFBot for a new REFBot working as DPL bot and BracketBot do. I beg politely for consideration. Please leave a comment if you wish. Maybe you could work on it like you did it with other projects? That would be fine. Thanks a lot in anticipation. -- Frze (talk · contribs) 10:27, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
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[edit]I have received a message and a threat from this user (bot?) for alleged vandalism dating back to 2009. The vandalism is on pages I haven't even read, let alone edited. I certainly wasn't on this IP back then. Kindly fix your defective bot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.208.229 (talk) 08:07, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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A barnstar for you!
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Request for WikiAlerter Permissions
[edit]Hi Kingpin13. I think that WikiAlerter is pretty nifty and I would like to try it out. Could I participate in the beta? Thanks, -24Talk 22:26, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
Request to use WikiAlerter
[edit]Hello Kingpin13 I am interested in patrolling new pages with WikiAlerter tool, can you please grant me permission. Thank you. —Sadat (Masssly)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:14, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Glitch in archiving permission requests
[edit]Please see WP:PERM/RV. User:Armbrust has noted that KingpinBot removed some requests but didn't put them in the archive. The above bot action was on 26 September. The last day on which KingpinBot put anything in the archives is 19 September. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 15:13, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
Request to use WikiAlerter
[edit]Hi...I would like to try out WikiAlerter in new page patrolling. Thanks.Rijin Talk 10:51, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
ListManBot
[edit]Hi Kingpin, noticed that ListManBot hasn't alphabetised the MediaWiki:Bad image list for a while? Regards, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:05, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Callanecc, thanks for the prod. I think the bot is still running, there's just nothing to fix on the page (it is still alphabetical). - Kingpin13 (talk) 17:39, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
KingpinBot
[edit]This bot stopped running on 2 November. Any updates as to why or when it will or if it will be fixed? Manually archiving at WP:PERM is going to suck. Thanks — MusikAnimal talk 16:46, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
- Hi, the bot is still going strong, just slightly less regularly (especially over the week). I might post the source code at some point if things get too bad, but for the time being I'm still managing to run it (I think) sufficiently. - Kingpin13 (talk) 19:36, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
Ian Thomas Morrow
[edit]Hi, Re. 19:22, 20 February 2010 Kingpin13 (talk | contribs) deleted page Sir Ian Morrow (G3: Vandalism). I was going to create this page and found your details. I find it odd that any page about this individual would have been deleted. I would appreciate receiving further info and perhaps a copy of the page as it existed prior to deletion. Thanks Graemp (talk) 13:05, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
SDPatrolBot
[edit]Hi Kingpin,
Noyster asked on the bot requests board about SDPatrolBot and whether it, or something like it, could be revived. If you can't or don't want to take on the job yourself I'll happily do so, but it's only right that I ask you first! – Reticulated Spline (t • c) 12:05, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
Would you nudge KingpinBot to restart archiving at WP:PERM? Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 17:03, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
Huggle message
[edit]Hey Kingpin13! You are receiving this message because you are subscribed at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members#Beta_testers
I have recently launched a new downloads for beta testers that contains nightly builds of huggle, eg. versions that are built every day from our master branch and contains latest huggle. These builds are currently provided only for Windows and Ubuntu. You can find them here: http://huggle.wmflabs.org/builds/
Please keep in mind that these don't have any automatic updates and if you download and start using nightly build, you will need to update it yourself! So don't get yourself to running old version, it's possible to install both stable and nightly huggle, which is what I suggest.
Keep the bug reports coming to phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=Huggle Many thanks! Petrb (talk) 09:52, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
WikiAlerter Comment
[edit]Hello Kingpin13, I work on WP:NPP very often and also use STiki for vandalism. Request approval for WikiAlerter as it will help me in monitoring WP:NPP and will also increase the speed. Kindly consider. Thanks Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 10:59, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Request to use WikiAlerter
[edit]Hello Kingpin13, I patrol the new pages and the recent changes. The wikiAlerter can help me doing my job quickly and covering more articles. Please grant me permission to use it. Thanks. --- Mahensingha (Talk) "Thanx n Regards" 14:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Hey i want to offer my help support and contribution with monitoring and moderating Wikipedia , and i believe Wikialerter Can help me do it better and more efficiently , thank you --NikeThyrsus (talk) 15:00, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
KingpinBot not working?
[edit]Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KingpinBot 3 indicates that you got a bot that clears blocked users from [[ Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues]] and perhaps some similar categories, but these categories are chock full of indefinitely blocked users. Could you get this bot working again, please? Further discussion at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive269#Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues Oiyarbepsy (talk) 14:43, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Warning I Received
[edit]Hello Kingpin13,
I recently received a warning for supposedly writing profanity on the page of Brian Eno. I had never heard of Brian Eno before, and certainly never edited the page about him. I'm not sure how you detect profanity and issue your warnings, but it is apparently flawed. I don't much appreciate receiving warnings for things I haven't done, and I am sure that most other people wouldn't either, so please amend your methods to prevent this happening in the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.163.182.119 (talk) 14:39, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
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PERM archiving source code
[edit]Taking you up on the offer to port your code to Ruby, if you're still okay with it! Please send via Special:EmailUser/MusikAnimal or however you prefer. I have my own ideas for development approach but want to be consistent with yours as it's rock solid and is rarely if ever glitchy :) Many thanks — MusikAnimal talk 02:03, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
KingpinBot
[edit]Hi Kingpin, I see the KingpinBot hasn't archived Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage for quite a while. I've tried to make sure they're all consistent - but it's giving an error... any chance you could look at it? WormTT(talk) 08:55, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
- @Worm That Turned: It's complaining about the comment in the "Bots" section, which I added as I observed a user add a request incorrectly. The "Users" section has this same comment, but I guess the bot checks only for that and thinks the "Bots" comment is an actual request. Anyway, it shouldn't stop it from archiving, I believe the bot is simply not running at the moment. As Kingpin knows I've been working on MusikBot to take over archiving, and it's ready to go but awaiting trial. Not sure how long before a trial will be approved, so if Kingpin you do get this message please give your bot a go! Many thanks — MusikAnimal talk 20:36, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
- The trail has been approved. I'm going to give my bot a spin! Hope it works as good as yours does! :) — MusikAnimal talk 00:14, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Nosubjectline
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Request to use WikiAlerter
[edit]Hello Kingpin13 I am interested in patrolling new pages with WikiAlerter tool, can you please grant me permission. Thank you. —Mmhuang (Mmhuang)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:55, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Kingpin13, do you plan on resurrecting any of ListManBot's tasks? If not - does it still need to hold +sysop access? (or even +bot if it is going in to retirement). — xaosflux Talk 05:30, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
- Hopefully some of it's tasks will shortly be taken over by another bot (Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_permissions#New_bot_task_for_AWB_pages), feel free to desysop, I can always request resysop if I do in some distant future revive it. Not much point removing the bot flag to be honest. - Kingpin13 (talk) 16:03, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
WikiAlerter Request
[edit]After reading the description of WikiAlerter, I am interested in giving it a try. Here's my CSD log if you want to look at it. Thanks, Gluons12 ☢|☕ 01:01, 8 November 2016 (UTC).
Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
[edit]Hi Kingpin13.
A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.
It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.
If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
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- A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
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- When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
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- The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.
Obituaries
- JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
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File:Puppet Star Gradient Bars.png listed for discussion
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Bots Newsletter, April 2017
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Greetings! The BAG Newsletter is now the Bots Newsletter, per discussion. As such, we've subscribed all bot operators to the newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
Magioladitis ARBCOM case has closed. The remedies of the case include:
We currently have 27 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!
There are multiple ongoing discussions surrounding bot-related matters. In particular:
Several new things are around:
Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know! Thank you! edited by:Headbomb 11:35, 12 April 2017 (UTC) (You can unsubscribe from future newsletters by removing your name from this list.) | |
Oversight and identity swapping oddity
[edit]Hello Kingpin13. Since you seem to be the one who applied recent oversight at Talk:Electromagnetic hypersensitivity, it is possible that you could also help for my request at User talk:Julia W#Electromagnetic hypersensitivity talk page. Thank you, —PaleoNeonate - 02:49, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
- This issue is now resolved. Thank you, —PaleoNeonate - 08:22, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
- And, I noticed that you have a nice nickname, I have a guitar that is also named that way, the Godin Kingpin
. Farewell, —PaleoNeonate - 09:12, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, July 2017
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Greetings! Here is the 4th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are now members of the BAG (see RfBAG/BU Rob13 and RfBAG/Cyberpower678 3). BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are both administrators; the former operates BU RoBOT which does a plethora of tasks, while the latter operates Cyberbot I (which replaces old bots), Cyberbot II (which does many different things), and InternetArchiveBot which combats link rot. Welcome to the BAG!
We currently have 12 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!
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About your block
[edit]I rethought about the block you issued to me. I think it was complete nonsense to block me when I was not making new comments but instead was trying to fix an already written comment my me. Please reconsder to be more careful next time. This though came to me while reading Milgram experiment. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:11, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Magioladitis, I understand that you feel more slack should have been given to you since you were only modifying comments you already made rather than adding new ones. This is exactly what I did in this case, I gave you a final warning about participating in that discussion, when you then went on to modify a previous comment you made, instead of blocking immediately for continuing after my warning, I decided to give you a second warning in which I made it clear I intended such modifications of comments to be covered by my warning, as I thought perhaps this wasn't clear to you the first time I warned (hence why you continued to violate the ban despite the warning). You then went on to make further modifications to comments despite being explicitly warned about it. It should be obvious that modifying your comments still constitutes participation in the discussion and hence would be restricted by your ban, but I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt anyway in the form of a second warning, a courtesy which you then expended. I don't really see the relevance to the Milgram experiment myself, but perhaps that is open to interpretation. All the best - Kingpin13 (talk) 15:11, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
- In the Milgram experiment, people caused serious injury and distress to others obeying to instructions (see policies) they were given. I think the rules are here to serve the community to cooperate within a healthy environment. It is my belief that reworking my comments was serving that. On the other hand, the block did not. Best, Magioladitis (talk) 15:10, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
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Pawns lol
[edit]Hi Kingpin. I had the pleasure recently of receiving a barnstar for my reviewing of new pages in the past year, and just now I realised the superimposed image is that of two pawns. Is the choice of pawns acerbic wit on your part? Or am I just being tetchy. Either way I appreciate the accolade . MarkDask 17:02, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
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| I appreciate your kind words in the AN/I discussion regarding the inappropriate removal of my NPP rights. It is nice to know there is at least one person out there who realizes this site can only work if we follow the rules, rather than make them up in a capricious manner. And Adoil Descended (talk) 14:55, 2 April 2018 (UTC) |
- Haha, not quite what I'm saying, but thanks. I would caution you against too much wikilawyering, as someone else mentioned at AN/I. It's easy with all the rules that exist on Wikipedia to forget that at the end of the day, they are just what people have written down about what they think is the right way to do things, and they can be trumped by what the community decides is the best way to handle a particular case. All the best anyway, - Kingpin13 (talk) 15:04, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- Well, then perhaps we need a few people who are willing to speak out and remind folks that there is a difference between following clearly specified laws and making up rules as you go along. It is no wonder why so many people sour on Wikipedia and cease contributing, not to mention why there are several sites devoted solely to highlighting the many, many faults of the site and its participants. And Adoil Descended (talk) 15:13, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
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BRFA activity by month Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots. Overall
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[edit]Could you elaborate here? I feel I've been going out of my way to remain civil and issue-focused. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:48, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
- Honestly, I think @Headbomb has done a great job maintaining demeanor there, particularly given the kb's of text, and threats lobbed at them. SQLQuery Me! 18:01, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
- I felt that the whole dumb-as-a-brick-no-context-mindless-automaton comment is needless, it sets the wrong tone to talk about it like that. But obviously I appreciate you taking the time to actually deal with the BRfA. I'm not sure there were threats lobbed at Headbomb? But agree that the aspersions that Headbomb might be acting in bad faith were also uncalled for. - Kingpin13 (talk) 22:23, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
- Probably the multiple threats of 'escalation', and calling for my de-BAG-ing. As for the 'dumb-as-a-brick-no-context-mindless-automaton' thing, I disagree that it sets the wrong tone. Bots are mindless automatons, they're utterly dumb, and unable to determine context and nuance. In the words of Ron Schmelzer,
It's understandable then, that people like to connect the idea of intelligence to automation, because automation is also about the idea of replacing human labor with machines. However, they're completely separate ideas. Automation is all about repetitive tasks and focusing on efficiency over variability. But intelligence is not about those things. Intelligence is about responding to the environment and all the variables and changes that happen. When we think someone is intelligent, we don't remark how wonderful their automation is. We ascribe all the positive traits of intelligence to being able to "think things through" and be "creative" about addressing a problem or having "intuition" or "insight" into how something should be done. We don't ascribe any of these concepts - intuition, insight, creativity, thoughtfulness, and adaptation - to the ideas of automation. Automation is not intelligent. It's dumb. - "Sorry, but your bots are stupid." Forbes.com
- Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:29, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
- Seems to me that you're also reframing the issue here, the point is that the language is inflammatory and over the top, not about if it's factual to say that machines can't possess intelligence. Even if we did reduce the argument to if the statement is factual or not, I don't think it's fair to say bots have no context. At the end of the day, if you wanted to illustrate the actual point you were making that the program as it existed wasn't able to apply the same context-sensitive reasoning about if the tag removal was correct as was being used in the defence of the edit, I think you could have come up with a better analogy than a brick. - Kingpin13 (talk) 23:08, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
- Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:29, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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"fix disambig link"
[edit]You recently removed (disambiguation)
from the link at the top of Golden Slippers. My understanding is that when a link to a diambiguation page is intentional, as in a hatnote, then they are supposed to have (disambiguation)
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note.) Was I not correct? Or did you mistakenly remove it? – Scyrme (talk) 21:09, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Scyrme: Hey, according to WP:HOWTODAB you're correct. I only updated the link because for some reason the (disambiguation) link showed up as a red link to me, or perhaps I am just going colour blind! I'll change to back to make use of the redirect. - Kingpin13 (talk) 10:51, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
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