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Blocked FrescoBot

I have blocked your user:FrescoBot because it saves results when no substantial changes are made to an article - its most edits look like changing a white space. This does spam page history and watchlists. Please amend. Materialscientist (talk) 03:48, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I do understand the bot was approved and is doing useful job, but. Is it possible to modify it to not save the changes if it is only one-two whitespace(s)? Materialscientist (talk) 07:26, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unblocked. A note, extraneous spaces are not a big problem, but spacing errors which break templates are a problem. Materialscientist (talk) 08:12, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Basilicofresco, please keep doing these changes until we empty the backlog in CHECKWIKI. The kind if spacing fixed by your bot is useful. You should run it more often than just once per month. I am tired fixing this stuff manually every day. We probably have to find more CHECKWIKI errors that your bot can fix at the same time. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 17:01, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bot is breaking things

Please fix this. People are having to clean up after this bot. --Ancheta Wis (talk) 19:13, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ancheta, thanks, but in our case (the Scientific method wiki), it was okay, and it's just as well that I stop half-embedding "pp." - maybe it could lead to unexpected problems in the future as well. Also it led me to find a previously broken link. I'm getting rid of the half-embeddings of "pp." in all the articles in which I've used them. The Tetrast (talk) 21:05, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, please do. I haven't yet determined what the bot is supposed to achieve, but it inexplicably inserted a bunch of text into the Fencing article [1], which I just plain reverted. Thanks and, er, good luck with whatever it is you're doing. — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 19:51, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

[Re: your messages on my Talk]: Okay, will keep my eye out (as fencers often do...). GL! — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 20:25, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

pp. - no problem

Also posted at my talk page. The Tetrast (talk) 20:52, 27 February 2010 (UTC).[reply]

I'm the operator of FrescoBot. I included the exception in order to avoid the pp separation. However the half-linked pp is pretty strange... is it correct? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 20:26, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know whether it's correct. It was just a nicety, which helped make it a bit clearer that there was a link (especially to readers who have image-downloading turned off, as I sometimes do), especially when the linked page's number itself is a solitary little digit. Since periodic sweeps by bot users are to expected, I decided to put both "p"s outside the link - keep it simple not just for me but for one and all. And you've already gone ahead and incorporated an exception! Well, we're both accommodating. Best bet is that I'm the only person who would be so hair-splitting as to embed half a "pp." in a link, so I'd recommend dis-incorporating the exception. But thank you for the thoughtfulness of incorporating it.

Alternately, I could put "pp." entirely inside the link, but I found that unappealing from a logical standpoint, since it's a link to just one page. But maybe I could do it anyway when the page number is a single digit. Well, whatever. Meanwhile, I've already made the requisite alterations in the Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography article (which had a whole lot of ~~such cases~~ half-embedded "pp."s). I'll get to the other Peirce articles, where there may be cases here and there, but you don't need to wait for me if they're on your itinerary. Incidentally, thanks to your edits I found a link that was already broken, probably because of my own earlier bad editing. Not the first time that somebody's edits have helpfully revealed a pre-existent problem to me. The Tetrast (talk) 20:51, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bot breaking things again

In List of Nintendo Entertainment System games article bot changed reference in table to title of the game, I undid it. Please check the change that bot made in history. Robixen (talk) 14:57, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, as you can see, the "reference" was actually a fake external link to the article The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt. There is no need to mask a wikilink as an external link. I replaced the wrong link with http://gamefaqs.com/console/snes/home/563505.html. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:21, 28 February 2010 (UTC):[reply]

I get it now. But you replaced the wrong link with snes one instead of nes one. I fixed it. Robixen (talk) 17:52, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

thanks

I'm new to wikipedia. Thanks for fixing my link in the tutor page. Ahnie (talk) 19:39, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Fixing" links to put the quotes outside the link brackets

I know it's one of this bot's approved functions, but I do not appreciate having links revised such as in this edit. Do you know of a MOS section, or another guideline, that calls for links to be written this way? (It's entirely possible there is such a guideline that I've never been made aware of, but I couldn't find anything about it in a quick look at the MOS.) I have also asked (and explained my objections further) at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Quotation marks when linking to titles. Propaniac (talk) 14:18, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bot request Sherman Minton and Frank Murphy and James Clark McReynolds

Would you please work your magic on Sherman Minton and Frank Murphy and James Clark McReynolds. Those Supreme Court justices, along with a bunch of others, could use the help. Also, Elijah McCoy is a personal favorite of mine that would benefit. Thanks. Happy editing. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 18:43, 1 March 2010 (UTC) Stan[reply]

BTW, thanks for doing Outhouse. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 18:45, 1 March 2010 (UTC) Stan[reply]

Breaking <ref>s

Hi, it seems that when your bot encounters an external link to Wikimedia site inside a <ref> tag, it reformats it into an internal link (which is okay) but also encloses it in another <ref>, which breaks the article. See for example this edit, but I encountered more of them. Svick (talk) 17:31, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for your message. It should not happen... but if it does than there is a bug. I will investigate the problem. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:37, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Followup: fixed on the same day, 2 articles affected. Thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 13:28, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wondering about "Lowercase wikilinks to uppercase sections"

Hi, I just noticed FrescoBot's mod of the section link "[[dual number#cycles|cycles]]" to "[[dual number#Cycles|cycles]]". I was wondering whether that shouldn't be "[[Dual number#Cycles|cycles]]", i.o.w. shouldn't the article be upcased as well? Cheers, DVdm (talk) 09:56, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! There is no need to uppercase also the first letter of the article name because it is not case sensitive (Wikipedia:Linking#Piped links). I mean [[dual number#cycles|cycles]] does not work, but [[dual number#Cycles|cycles]] or [[dual number]] works. Moreover upcasing only the useful letter keeps the code as simple as possible and permits to avoid special cases. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:33, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks for the information. Keep up the good work! DVdm (talk) 12:54, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting! [[dual number#cycles|cycles]] with the lower case "#cycles" seems to work for me. David Biddulph (talk) 17:16, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It works only with Internet Explorer. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:07, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong. It works fine in Firefox, too. What doesn't it work with? Gene Nygaard (talk) 16:20, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this link to the section User talk:Gene Nygaard#query does not work for example with Firefox 3.5.8, Google Chrome 4.0.249, Firefox 3.0.6, Firefox 0.9 and Safari 4.0 for Windows. What kind of Firefox are you using? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:49, 9 March 2010 (UTC) It does not work also with Firefox 1.5 on Windows, Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Windows, Konqueror 4.3 on Ubuntu 9.10 and Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:39, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry--my bad. It doesn't work for me. Don't know what I was thinking of, but I just trued removing the nowiki's here in a preview and it didn't work. Gene Nygaard (talk) 01:44, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A possible issue with FrescoBot

Hi. I think FrescoBot may have some issues creating false positives for broken section links. The articles Mayer–Vietoris sequence and Borel–Kolmogorov paradox were both tagged for WildBot's help with broken section links, but in both cases WildBot found none (and I found none either). In the first case, the article contained # characters in the "name" of a ref tag (I have since cleaned up these names); in the second case, there were links to other regions on the article (specifically, references whose anchors were created by the "cite book" template). RobHar (talk) 16:07, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your message. I know, there are few false positives. It is not easy to guess any kind of possible correct (and incorrect) section link. For example <ref name="#Hatcher|Hatcher, p. 149"> has got an odd syntax and had to be replaced. Instead "ref= kol1933" in Borel–Kolmogorov paradox was not recognized due the space after the = sign (now fixed). Thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 16:19, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I came here to say the same thing: The bot is generating many false positives. A recent example is Kill the Messenger; just one piped section link on the page (List of Castle episodes#ep18), and it works just fine.--ShelfSkewed Talk 21:27, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I know, there are some false positives, but it is not easy to account for any possible way to create an anchor. I'm doing my best, but as you can see for example in List of Castle episodes#ep18, there is no section named ep18 neither a standard anchor template like {{anchor}}. No standard html anchor nor a ref with that name: the anchor is generated by the template {{Episode list}} from the parameter episode number. WildBot will remove any false positive box within minutes. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:03, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Now FrescoBot will skip also section links to "ep1", "ep2", ..., "epxx". -- Basilicofresco (msg) 14:14, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your follow-ups. As I told the operator of WildBot, I really appreciate being informed about the broken anchors on pages I watch, so keep up the good work. Cheers! --ShelfSkewed Talk 14:52, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Claimed (Bot: broken section links found)

Could you please explain why you edited Talk:Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's lightweight coxless four and said "(Bot: broken section links found)"? The other bot which your edit summoned found nothing (as there was apparently nothing there to be found). David Biddulph (talk) 12:15, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I checked Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's lightweight coxless four and as you can see in section "Repechage", on the row "Rank 2", the wikilink "SA/B" points the section "v". It does not exist, so FrescoBot in the talk page suggested investigation. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 13:15, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I was confused by the fact that your tag was placed on the talk page, not on the article itself. Wildbot has visited, & updated the talk page again, so where is the result of the whole exercise? David Biddulph (talk) 15:11, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in this case WildBot was not able to identify the broken link. You may contact WildBot operator. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:19, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Changing links to Wikimedia projects in references

Hi. In reference to This edit... in the rare circumstances where Wikimedia sites are used as references, they should be linked either as bare external links (what was in this article before), normal URLs in citation templates, or using the {{Srlink}} template. So, basically, if there's an inter-Wikimedia link in a reference, it's probably best to just ignore it. SnowFire (talk) 23:12, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Why should they be treated differently in ref? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:20, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Because, as noted on the template I linked you to, "Srlink can be used to easily externalise cross-namespace links from article space. WP:WAWI explains why these are undesirable and break on Wikipedia mirrors." And if you click there, you'll see that when Wikipedia itself is being used, "if you link from an article to a specific Wikipedia page, use external link style, so the link will make sense in any context." In other words, a mirror / fork of Wikipedia might want to distinguish between the following two cases:

John Doe was eaten by a giant squid owned by Wikisource.

According to Wikisource, the squid was an anonymous donation that they thought was a harmless guppy, hence they should not be legally liable for the wanton destruction it visited upon San Antonio.<ref>[http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Our_response_to_the_squid_attack]</ref>

The first case, they in general want to make those normal links point to their own personal articles on giant squids and Wikisource. The second case it makes no sense to point the link to their own mirrored article which probably doesn't exist; it's a reference to Wikisource directly, and should remain so no matter what context it is in. SnowFire (talk) 23:37, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see... it makes sense. I will try to modify the script in order to account for this exception. Thank you. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:50, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Links to wikisources

Please do not unlink helpful links to wikisource, as you did here. Your edit summary - "links syntax" - was also not correct. Thanks! Awadewit (talk) 21:58, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It was not unlinked. Is in your opinion "On Fanny Godwin" better than "On Fanny Godwin"? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:14, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize - it looks like I was a bit too hasty there. The difference is not material to me. Awadewit (talk) 03:27, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot adding WildBot templates

FrescoBot seems to be adding "WildBot, please look at this" templates to a large number of articles. While this has only resulted in discussion ([2], [3]) for physics-related articles, it's caused a complaint [4] from one of the biology project people, including a shutdown of WildBot as an interim measure.

Long story short, please don't mass-call WildBot without discussion and approval from the WikiProjects in question, as this is causing disruption in at least one case. --Christopher Thomas (talk) 19:26, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed with Christopher Thomas. ... Kenosis (talk) 19:30, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. I haven't familiarised myself with the workings of these two bots, but at first glance, it's getting really annoying. -M.Nelson (talk) 23:15, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was not aware of the problem. Thank you for pointing it out. I immediately switch off the WildBot tag. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:29, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. This might still be useful functionality, but it's worth discussing with the WikiProjects involved first (perhaps some kind of opt-in scheme for the feature would be best?). --Christopher Thomas (talk) 00:16, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Opt-in scheme sounds a good idea in order to reduce the "watchlist spamming". However if the real problem is the size and/or position of the WildBot box in the talk page, I believe we have in the first place to fix this issue. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 00:58, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up at my page. Of course I could be wrong about any of this, but . . . Yes Basilicofresco, the watchlist issue is negligible to inconsequential-- plenty of bots do their work and it's a normal part of getting that work done to see it played out on the watchlist. The primary problem is the talk page interference. It's unlike an inline template, but rather interferes in the business of maintaining talk pages wiki-wide. Frankly, I don't think the BAG fully contemplated the implications of the last line of the most recent FrescoBot permissions request, i.e. that the end result of the two bots operating together would essentially turn WildBot from an opt-in situation to a mandatory wiki-wide function of placing templates on talk pages in the valuable page maintenance space at the top, where we set the broad context and define issues for countless busy talk pages. Possible solutioins are: turning WildBot's function into that of positioning a new talk thread rather than a template at the top, or at an absolute minimum placing any new templates below the existing templates. Also, a lot of the DAB templates placed by WildBot in response to the FrescoBot mass-requests are useless-- sometimes editors are content to link to a DAB, depending on the context of the wikilink. But I vaguely doubt this situation was fully contemplated when BAG granted the permission on this one. It would be nice to resolve it informally. Thanks for attending to these issues. ... Kenosis (talk) 02:19, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Josh Parris seems to have it covered now, as can be seen in User_talk:Josh_Parris#WildBot_template_clutter. Josh's proposed solution was to move the maintenance templates to below the existing templates used to set the fundamental page context on many of the busier talk pages. ... Kenosis (talk) 04:07, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Clara in Blunderland

Please explain what your bot is complaining about. -- Evertype·✆ 00:46, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I checked and it was a false positive. The partial italic section names (like section Humpty Dumpty#In Through the Looking Glass) are not easy to recognize. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 00:56, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WildBot/tag in namespace 4 and 5

Could I ask that FrescoBot doesn't use WildBot/tag in Wikipedia: or Wikipedia talk: ? WildBot isn't authorized to run over those namespaces and I don't think it would be a good idea to do so. Thanks! Josh Parris 06:29, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Josh! Only 2 pages in ns5 were (assisted) edited. I manually fixed the broken links and removed these tags. I will avoid this ns in future. Are ns6, ns10, ns14 ok? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:35, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ISBN splits question.

One of the changes that Frescobot made to List of Alpha Phi Omega members was changing ISBN 0313265933 to ISBN ISBN 0-313-26593-3 . Can you let me know where the logic is for the split between the 313 with 26593 is? (to know that it shouldn't split 3132-6593 for example). I know that there are lists available, I'm just curious how it is coded.Naraht (talk) 13:10, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Here you will find what you are looking for. Cheers! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:49, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Doesn't appear that it has much information on Group identifiers other than 0 and 1 (so your tool can't figure out the hyphens on non-english works), but my bet is that 90%+ of the books referenced on the English Language wikipedias are group 0 or 1. Does the Hyphenation on the 13 digit numbers work exactly the same way after the 978 is sliced off? So ISBN 9780313265938 (guessed at the check digit which turned out to be right) would become ISBN 978-0-313-26593-8 and does your tool do that splitting as well?Naraht (talk) 19:02, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the link. It looks like the .py includes enough information to hyphenate just about everything. I noticed from a link in .py script that 979 does have one range assigned to it, I didn't know that. Thank you *very* much for the information!Naraht (talk) 17:12, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WildBot (again)

Please do not let your bot tag talk pages for WildBot. It's entirely unhelpful. Rklawton (talk) 14:18, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in the Josh talk page I asked what I had to do and it seems to be positive consensus about tagging (after WildBot box placing rewriting). -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:55, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it's the wording. Do the talk page messages from wildbot refer to the article or the talk page? If it's the talk page, then it's useless. If it's the article, then that's helpful. The wording, on the tag, though, should be more clear about what it's doing. Rklawton (talk) 14:36, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It refers to the article. I will tell Josh Parris your suggestion. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:41, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One bot tagging to call another bot

I'm not really sure why we have one bot tagging to call another bot. Won't WildBot find the broken link eventually anyway? Alternatively, why doesn't FrescoBot just leave a note about the broken tags, rather than calling another bot to leave a note about the broken tags? Seems inefficient at best. –xeno^talk 14:05, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to offer us the advantage of having four edits appear on out Watchlists rather than just one or two. Perhaps there are other benefits unknown to me; this one is the only one I've seen so far. — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 14:47, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are strong technical reasons for this behaviour. FrescoBot was wrote to find and fix some types of misspelled links. Josh asked me to mark any article FrescoBot was not able to fix, but there are some false positives (FrescoBot was not made for this). It means I cannot place a detailed box as WildBot does. There are things FrescoBot is not able to do and viceversa about WildBot. Please note that rewiting and testing would take days... So: yes there is a reason. However it does not mean we cannot reduce the number of edits per error. For example I could write locally a list of these articles in need of inspection and pass them to Josh. What do you think? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:41, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This would reduce the impact to peoples' watchlists. Even putting it somewhere in the FrescoBot or WildBot userspace would be better. –xeno^talk 15:43, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please note you can disable bot edits in your watchlist... however I'll redesign WildBot calling as soon as possible. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:51, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm actually just speaking as devil's advocate here. –xeno^talk 15:52, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Matra logo

Hello, I have tried to insert a logo of Matra company in Matra article but I do not know how to insert pictures into wiki articles. Could you help me and make article about Matra better ? Thank you. The logo may comes from web page: http://auta5p.eu/katalog/matra/matra.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.40.240.88 (talk) 11:10, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your input is requested

As you have recently edited Andy Martin (American politician), I am writing to request your input at the article talk page, sections Vexed and disputed are the ones which outline the current issue. Many thanks in advance for your time. KillerChihuahua^?!?Advice 21:28, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Andy Martin (American politician). My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:49, 23 October 2010 (CET)

Bot making inconsistent changes

Frescobot is making inconsistent changes to chemical formulas of minerals, see humite example the bot added a space following a comma within the formula between Mg and Fe, but ignored the second instance between F and OH. The added space is incorrect. I've undone that, but there seem to be a bunch of other instances. Please fix your bot and undo such improper changes to chemical formulas. Vsmith (talk) 20:53, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your message. I stopped the bot and I will fix the prolem. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:02, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the fixes and other article improvements. Vsmith (talk) 00:04, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bot is at it again: Cerite and Phillipsite. I've reverted those. Vsmith (talk) 02:14, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Followup: there were few additional rare cases. I created a script to systematically found any affected article. Then I fixed them, and I improved the ability of the script to avoid chemical formulas. It should work better now. Thank you. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:21, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

{{User:IBen/TB}} mono 05:01, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

blank talk pages

Hi, when you find a blank talk page there is no reason to delete it, CSD-A3 does not apply to talk pages, and these are allowed to be blank, Often the history has something relevant to the development of the article. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:47, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, sometimes the history of blank talkpages has something relevant. For this reason I checked it. In my opinion the history of Talk:Sabae, Fukui did not contain anything relevant. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:13, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It did have a photo request, and a removal, suggestion request satisfied. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:18, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:53, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

incorrect edit

The bot made an incorrect edit to rules of chess. Bubba73 ^{(You talkin' to me?)}, 03:33, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Found the bug and fixed. Thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:03, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot breaking template switch

FrescoBot just edited Template:Infobox UK place/police like this and potentially broke a #switch statement. It seems that the regex is catching a broader range of links than you probably intended. Should FrescoBot be excluded from editing templates altogether? — Richardguk (talk) 23:16, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bug fixed. I run a script in order to find all affected pages and I found only 1 additional page affected. It was a well tested script, but not enough. I will avoid auto mode in templates. Your help was precious, thanks again. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:46, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot task 5 approved for trial

Hi Basilicofresco, just letting you know I've approved this for a short trial, sorry for the waiting time. Please visit WP:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 5 for details. Cheers, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 23:01, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bot has now been approved. Best, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 21:01, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Basilicofresco's Day!

User:Basilicofresco has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Basilicofresco's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Basilicofresco!

Peace,
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00:02, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:02, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Blank talk pages from redirects

These are fine. Deleting them generates a lot of work with very little to gain. Tim Song (talk) 11:52, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Rushcliffe Halt.jpg

I`m confused the page already existed on en.wikipedia.org created by me in 2006 at some point someone uploaded it to commons.wikimedia.org and on the 14 April I added a Category:Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre realised that the image was of the railway and not specific to the Heritage centre so removed the Category. So what did I do wrong to cause the flag blanking page? Regards --palmiped | Talk 17:59, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot is conflicting with WildBot

Please see the history of this book, beginning with this edit. I followed the directions given by WildBot and corrected them in this edit, and FrescoBot came along afterward in this edit and reverted what I'd done. Now WildBot is complaining about it again. Please work something out so we don't have dueling bots. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 09:27, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I was not aware of this odd behaviour. I will take appropriate measures to avoid conflits. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 09:40, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Same for this. For technical reasons, there can be nothing between the : and the [[, so markup, quotes, etc., are shoved in the pipe. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 09:53, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed it, I was not aware of these peculiarities. I will avoid this namespace. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 09:56, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not a ref

This is a link, not a ref.[5] It's the second time I've reverted this edit. Ty 00:53, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 09:40, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Isang Lakas Page...

FYI, Darna, Captain Barbell, Dyesebel is Licensed By Individuals ok but, when you add it as a group the rival network "must" asked the rival network (GMA 7) to add them & for approval because for example Captain Barbell, GMA 7 will do a remake to the previous version of richard gutirrez which he will reprise also... "until" all are finished, the rival network (GMA 7) will make an assessment of doing an group or by two's for the said superheroes, if the network decides that they will not continue then the rival network (ABS-CBN 2) can add them make a superhero group, thats the reason why the kapamilya network can't released the showing of the show and other problems of the other characters because of schedules, and other things like production Staff... ok? Please, im asking for refraining to add them until approved by the rival station/network... thanks & godspeed.

P.S: (Reverted edits by Basilicofresco (You) or FrescoBot to last revision by Howard the Duck

04:06, 11 April 2010 Howard the Duck (talk | contribs) (3,779 bytes) (→See also: way too many see also links. most of them are linked at the cast and characters section already) —Preceding unsigned comment added by MsGanda (talk • contribs) 11 revisions between 05:58 and 06:18 UTC, 26 apr 2010

Pointless: did you take time to look at FrescoBot edit? The bot added only few missing whitespaces. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 09:40, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bot error - image map

Hi, your bot made some good changes but ultimately damaged Revision history of Template:The Tribuna of the Uffizi beyond repair. I undid it, but thought you might like to see what happened. Victuallers (talk) 07:18, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The imagemap was not recognized because it was included without <imagemap></imagemap> tags... I will improve the script in order to avoid this problem. Thanks a lot for reporting! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 09:40, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks ... I have quite a few image maps in same style. Will it be obvious how to modify the others? other possibility is to check templates are in category "image maps" ... i will have a look when you resolved the issue Victuallers (talk) 14:27, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the main problem was that I was not aware of this exotic alternative syntax for imagemaps: now the bot is able to detect it. The second and least important problem was the mistake it attempted to fix: the wrong commas at the end of the links. I performed a check and Template:The Tribuna of the Uffizi was the only page on en.wikipedia affected by this rare problem. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 16:05, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Isang Lakas Revisions...

That's better, sorry for the revisions, some are not correct like the revisions of 79.78.47.48 (whatever), anyway thanks and Please don't do what 79.78.47.48 do/did thanks again, I begging of you thanks....

Bot error

This bot accused me of creating Talk:Arzignano Grifo and then blanking it. I have looked through my contributions and I did not do either. Please correct the bot. It has a very condescending message. Thanks, Xtzou (Talk) 11:39, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! It was not incorrect, here is the recovered history:

09:00, 1 May 2010 . . FrescoBot (80 bytes) (Bot: blank page meeting G7 criteria for speedy deletion)
16:27, 25 April 2010 . . Xtzou (empty) (remove mistake)
16:26, 25 April 2010 . . Xtzou (14 bytes) (project)    [ {{blp}}{{bio}} ]

As you can see here, when a page is deleted, all edits disappear also from user contributions page. Please note, the bot was not blaming you for anything: there is nothing wrong in what you do. Don't worry. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:27, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tks for removing the notice --Portal:Yukon/Selected picture/3

I will add to the page today so it does not hapen again,,i am in the middle of upgrading all the Canada portals with modern coding..Moxy (talk) 18:39, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bad edits

Hi, FrescoBot continually makes edits such as this.

Basically, the reference tag is written as:

<ref>[[#Cherif (2007)|Cherif (2007)]], p. 345–359.</ref>

However, FrescoBot wrongly tries to fix the (unbroken) section link by changing it to this:

<ref>[[#Cherif|Cherif (2007)]], p. 345–359.</ref>

As a result, the link to the reference in the bibliography in broken (note the "ref = Cherif (2007)" parameter):

{{cite book | last = Cherif | first = Antoni | year = 2007 | title = Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Für Einsteiger und Windows-umsteige | language = German | location = [[Baar, Switzerland]] | publisher = Smart Books | isbn = 9783908497738 | ref = Cherif (2007)}}

This is not the first time FrescoBot has done this. I have reverted similar edits at least ten times before on other articles, so something really must be done about it. Thank you. OSX (talk • contributions) 14:58, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, it was a subtle bug. Next time you will find a mistake, please don't wait bot fix himself: send me a message immediately. Thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:35, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. OSX (talk • contributions) 07:19, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Basilicofresco. You have new messages at Josh Parris's talk page.
Message added 00:58, 6 May 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Josh Parris 00:58, 6 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of #anchor problems for WildBot to process

If you have a page with a list of #anchor problems for WildBot to process, put {{User:WildBot/follow}} on it and give me a holler. I'll run some code I've written and see if it works.

Just one page to start with, please. Josh Parris 11:19, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've now got an early cut of the code successfully processing. I'll give you a heads-up when things go live. Josh Parris 12:46, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Error report

Hi there. This edit was incorrect and broke the logic of the template. Can you give me any assurance that the bot is not still making edits of this nature? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:43, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed! I traced it back and affected globally 4 pages. Many thanks for reporting! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:52, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the difference?

I would like an explanation of your bot edit of "Masters of War". I can't find any difference between that edit and the previous edit by me.1archie99 (talk) 18:02, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! There was a space between "Judy Collins" and "#3" within the wikilink. This may cause some problems. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:22, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed wikilink; now it links to the album as the original editor intended. Your bot called attention to the error even though it did not fix it correctly.1archie99 (talk) 14:33, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Need help for a course

hi there,

I am planning to do a course on advergaming. But i am unsure what all should be included in the course content. I am free to design my course outline. Can you help me with the main areas which are being explored these days in advergaming and also if you can provide me with a repository of case studies which can help me in my course.

Thanks alot.

Sincere regards,

Prem Sharma +91 95523 67532 premsharma.in@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.18.118.67 (talk) 10:07, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Advergaming. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:17, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Sock Puppets?

Correction Im not a sock puppet of Knight Crawler X, we don't have the same name & Emails or something, so it's impossible & I dont know his name... ok? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MsGanda (talk • contribs) 04:26, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

??? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:05, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This bot broke a wikilink on 126th

Just spotted this edit to 126th. The bot broke the link. I've reverted, but please amend your code before it happens again. Thanks. — Hebrides (talk) 04:45, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your message! I traced back the problem and fixed every article with the same problem (7 edits). -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:46, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Broken bot edits to BrainTeaser

What was it trying to do here? -- Smjg (talk) 17:52, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Or what was it trying to do here or here? Spidey104^contribs 20:45, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Both those seem legit? Don't need to pipe links if the title of the article is the same as the link. Rehevkor ✉ 20:52, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Block Needed (Broken Bot)

{{adminhelp}} As you can see above, the bot is breaking things... please temp block it and notify owner! R12056 (talk) 18:47, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked FrescoBot

I have blocked your user:FrescoBot because it's breaking links (see above). Ronhjones ^(Talk) 19:27, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot was not breaking links. As you can see the Spidey104 claim is unfounded: both edits are correct and fall within the scope of Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 2. The bug reported by Smjg is the same reported on 7 June 2010 (4:45 UTC) by Hebrides. This bug was fixed on the same day (about 10:00 UTC) and affected just 8 pages. I answered Smjg in his talkpage. Please unblock FrescoBot as soon as possible, thanks. (I'm not able to write on your talkpage because the block affected also the ip... imho it's not a good idea.) -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:27, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you could add some sort of "Stop the Bot" routine than admins can action - Some sort of css page with "enable:true"? Ronhjones ^(Talk) 12:14, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

{{adminhelp}} Basilicofresco (msg) 00:20, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You confirm that the issue raised by Smjg is fixed? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:37, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I fixed it on monday morning. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 00:40, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've unblocked it then. Might I suggest you reply here in as timely-a-manner as possible to further questions about the bot to prevent the appearance that's it's going mad and you're not doing anything ;). Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:16, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As you can see I usually do it... but with Smjg I forgot it. :-/ Thanks! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 01:19, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WMAQ Former on air talent list

Hello BaSilicofresco

I was wondering if I could get your opinion in my favor. On the WMAQ former personalites, editors keep deleting all the names posted and I don't feel it is right. You had made some adjustments to the industry jargon on that page and I respected and agreed with your decision. I was wondering if you could write a statement in favor of the 98.223.95.42 edits posted on the village link on the discussion page. The person took a lot of time and effort into the list. We just need a few more in our favor and the edits will be reverted back to the way it should. Or if you just want to revert it back yourself. Ask any other editors you know if they could sign it too. Thanks so much--TVFAN24 (talk) 17:43, 19 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by TVFAN24 (talk • contribs)

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page WMAQ-TV. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:49, 23 October 2010 (CET)

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 05:08, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

University Park Airport Advert Tag

Good Evening,

I was curious to see what the rationale was for tagging University Park Airport as an advertisement? Geo (talk) 06:04, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I guess you have to ask to Mickeyreiss: please take a look at the page history. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:41, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Useful

Was this such a useful edit for a bot? Debresser (talk) 18:53, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is actually a byproduct of the section fixing script. I chose to not discard it because it makes a cleaner and more consistent wikitext. Moreover the suggested syntax (Wikipedia:Piped link) does not contain any extra whitespace. Anyway, if you really feel it is not an improvement of the article, I can drop it. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:02, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree it is an improvement. But it should not be the only edit of a bot. Our botpolicy doesn't think bots should be making such trivial edits. It's not worth the edit. Debresser (talk) 22:49, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, no problem. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:20, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Punctuation

I don't think a bot should be making edits like this. How does the bot know whether or not the punctuation is part of the originally quoted material? It didn't even change the link syntax or spacing at all, although that's what the edit summary claims! --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:00, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, first of all consider it moves the punctuation only in when it founds a wikilink like "[[Missouri Compromise]]." It's not a regular quote, it's a quoted wikilink followed by a punctuation: if punctuation belong to the "quote" then it should be within the wikilink. If punctuation does not belong to the quote then it should be outside "". About the edit summary you're right. However this correction is part of a pretty large group of corrections about the "way" links are inserted: syntax, position, spacing, redundancy. Grouping them together I'm able to perform the least possible number of edits, however I have to use a less specific edit summary. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:41, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Punctuation around quotes

The bot is changing text that looks like

  xxxx."

into text that looks like

  xxxx".

But English punctuation rules say that the original is correct.Robomanx (talk) 07:48, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm astonished... I was not aware of this english rule. I will immediately suspend this correction. Many thanks for pointing it out! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:43, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that's the exact same rule I was just going to mention, which is why I just reverted the bot's latest edit to List of X-Men members. DeadpoolRP (talk) 16:03, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:LQ; your bot was doing it correctly for the most part. The only place I'm aware that xxxx." is the only acceptable form is the United States. The only problem is distinguishing an article that's written in American English from all the rest. Radiopathy •talk• 19:39, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That so-called "rule no. 1" in grammarbook.com, cited by Robomanx above, is completely wrong, at least in British and International English (except in the special case of newspaper writing, and Wikipedia is not a newspaper). The change your bot made in the first place was in fact correct. -- Alarics (talk) 12:08, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Bibleref2c

See edit summary here: [6] TJRC (talk) 03:31, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 04:05, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bad edit

Maybe you've already compensated for this sort of thing, but this was a bad edit to metric tensor. Best, 74.98.44.203 (talk) 13:08, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I will take care of the problem. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:31, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alan Beer

Hi, just wondering why you made this edit [7]. The link would be better going to the league table. Regards.Eldumpo (talk) 19:30, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! As you can see there is no "Fourth Division2" section in 1976–77 Football League. It was a mistake so the bot changed [[1976–77 Football League#Fourth Division2|1976-77]] in [[1976–77 Football League#Fourth Division|1976-77]]. In order to link the second "Fourth Division" section you had to write instead [[1976–77 Football League#Fourth Division 2]] (note the space). Basilicofresco (msg) 13:42, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot misplacing punctuation again

I have the same objection as User talk:Basilicofresco#"Fixing" links to put the quotes outside the link brackets above.

Concerning the FrescoBot Edit at http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Henrich&diff=372444273&oldid=370332291, the "fix" goes from:

(A): Faculty profile, to

(B): Faculty profile,

IMO moving the comma to after the bracket, like (B) (with the comma after the "blank" square signalling the end of the external link) resembles the non-standard punctuation of a footnote number coming before the punctuation, like:

(C): [8], not like:

(D): ,[9]

But standard practice is for the footnote to come after punctuation, like (D). So, (B) from the Bot is deviating farther from standard practice as to footnote-like placement. For that reason, I urge discontinuing use of the Bot at least until the problem is fixed. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 23:33, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see, however we have to take into account three important facts:

The comma does not belong to the link;
it is an external link, not a footnote;
footnotes are different because the whole link is after the punctuation, here the punctuation was in the middle of the link.

Basilicofresco (msg) 14:11, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Regrettably, I overstated my point for the example above. The same Bot did not move punctuation of "Selected publications" outside the ext. link rectangle-icon (& properly so from my argument above), on which see Joseph Henrich#Selected publications.

Please allow me to make a milder point as applicable to Ext. links sections. Putting the comma before the rectangle-icon that signals an ext. link allows the reader to see the comma right after the word preceding -- normal practice. That's what the reader expects. Having the ext. link icon rectangle come right after the word introduces an unnecessary break before the comma. If the reader clicks the rectangle-icon, it is similar to a fn. link in the text: the reader ends up at the link, just as clicking the fn. number in the text takes the reader to the fn. So, there is a welcome parellism between the icon and the fn. number. And there is arguably no reason to treat them differently. Thanks for your response above. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 16:05, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

hey, do you see what's going on at YPA's page?

Hey Fresco, some nationalistic idiot changed the section 'dissolving YPA' at the Yugoslav People's Army article, replacing your true text with some evil untrue nationalistic trash. Can you do something abouth this? Thanks -:))and Regards;173.183.96.125 (talk) 07:14, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The text was not "mine". My bot performed only a small link fix. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 14:13, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lowercasing section links

How were these edits [10][11] by Frescobot meant to fix anything? SpinningSpark 21:30, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bug fixed! Thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:30, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Frescobot

Can you direct me to the discussion that lead to Frescobot tagging blank talk pages where Wildbot was the only editor? Like here. I'm not clear on why this is needed. Kuru (talk) 23:37, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 5, but most of all you can check Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (G7). -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:29, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm quite familiar with G7, and I don't see a discussion about deleting article talk pages at the bot approval. Just seems like it is creating work when a blank talk page suffices. Kuru (talk) 11:29, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As you can see at the top of the bot approval page the first 3 examples are about talk pages. Anyway, if you feel G7 should not include ns1 pages, please start a discussion in the proper page. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 14:47, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to links at List of Baroque composers

A substantial number of links on this page to other wikis have been altered by FrescoBot and I'm not sure the result is desirable.

Next to redlink entries in this list I had deliberately added links to other wikis in external link format in order to produce compact, autonumbered references, for example:

Vincenzo Ugolini (c. 1580–1638) [12]
Bellerofonte Castaldi (c. 1581–1649) [13]

Now changed to:

Vincenzo Ugolini (c. 1580–1638) it:Vincenzo Ugolini
Bellerofonte Castaldi (c. 1581–1649) it:Bellerofonte Castaldi

I could reformat to footnotes or something, but think the original style suited the context better. Would a revert be contrary to Wikipedia style? Is there some other solution? I would welcome your advice before going further. (RT) (talk) 10:47, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Now similarly applied to List of Classical era composers‎ too. (RT) (talk) 14:06, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see. Well usually interwiki links should looks like interwiki links and as you can see at Wikipedia:Interlanguage links#Inline interlanguage links the same apply also to interlanguage links. I'm not sure what is the best style for these pages, but in my opinion something like...

Vincenzo Ugolini (c. 1580–1638) (it:Vincenzo Ugolini)

...does not look bad. Anyway, maybe you can post your question here. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:25, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for getting back to me. Yes, I agree small format links don't look too bad. I'll go with that for now. (RT) (talk) 16:00, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Frescobot changes a link in the wrong way when running on the "Bounded variation" entry

Hello, I am writing you just to say that when applied to the entry Bounded variation, Frescobot changes a correct link i.e. [[Lp_space#Lp spaces|<math>L^1(\Omega)</math> norm]] to a wrong one [[Lp_space#lp spaces|<math>L^1(\Omega)</math> norm]]. It has operated this change two times, as you can see from the history of the entry, but the first time I did not gave importance to it, so only reverted its edit. Now I have slightly changed the link ([[Lp space#Lp spaces|<math>L^1(\Omega)</math> norm]] is the new form) hoping that the problem disappears, and I also decided to tell you the story. I hope you'll be able to patch it. Best regards Daniele.tampieri (talk) 21:04, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bug corretto, grazie per la segnalazione! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:53, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Di nulla, caro connazionale! :D Daniele.tampieri (talk) 07:05, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

benjavan netrayana (เนตรายน)

โปรดพิจารณาด้วยค่ะ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.24.127.4 (talk) 05:21, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page File:RoyalPAD.jpg. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:49, 23 October 2010 (CET)

Affilin

Hi! Just to let you know I reverted one of FrescoBot's edits edit because it seemed to be counterproductive. Thanks --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 18:40, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I will exclude these special cases. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

More on syntax fixes

Check this one. You could re-adjust the code to catch more syntax consolidations. This would help with http://toolserver.org/~sk/cgi-bin/checkwiki/checkwiki.cgi?project=enwiki&view=only&id=64 -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:27, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean for example to replace [[steel guitar|steel guitarist]] with [[steel guitar]]ist? Sure, but is there in your opinion consensus for a complete cleanup? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:34, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pretty sure. WP:AWB fixes this stuff for ages and there is a WP:CHECKWIKI list to find and fix these links too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:11, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

CHECKWIKI error 64. User:Yobot fixes this already. I am asking for FresctoBot to do it additionally to this bot since I think your bot is faster than mine. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:30, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re:inglese o quasi

Ciao. Ti rispondo qui, dato che su it.wiki sono bloccato per un mese. Riguardo a quello che mi hai scritto, provvedo a diminuire il en-3, e eliminare il messaggio ad Henrik. Un caro saluto, Dr Claudio ^{segnali radio} 11:44, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Da questo messaggio ad Henrik puoi notare sopratutto che alcune lingue che parlo me le sono completamente inventate. ho eliminato l'uso spropositato di faccine, e completamente neutralizzato le stupidaggini che scrivevo... Un caro saluto, Dr Claudio ^{segnali radio} 11:51, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sono doc da sloggato. Perché non m'hai risposto???--Dr Claudio (talk)

Ok grazie, ma non è che ti ho risposto in malo modo ? In quel caso, scusami ;) ci si vede su wikipedia il 22 Dicembre, perché... ho evaso il blocco !, Saluti da Dr Claudio ^{segnali radio} 17:12, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Be', devo confessarti una cosa Caro il mio basilico (domani mi faccio un pesto ;) però non mi viene voglia di scherzare...), anzi una storia. Tutto è stato bello sin dall'inizio, anzi, in Luglio e Agosto erano i miei mesi preferiti, sopratutto di come erano fertili... e belli. Ho notato sin da Luglio Francisco Loviglio, e da quando ho collaborato con lui le cose sono calate immediatamente. Ti faccio un ordine cronologico:

Il 31 Agosto vedo Francisco;
Dieci giorni a ridere e a scherzare;
Lo contattò un certo "tikary" che successivamente finì nei problematici, e così dissi una cosa così: "Lo conosco tikary, è amico di francisco" e quella frase che ha fatto traboccare il vaso proprio per la sfortuna di incontrare "dome" prima ero autonomo, poi mi sono gasato troppo con francisco. L'ho inserito nel mio vocabolario: Francisco adesso per me vuol dire "Fine di un impero, distruzione assoluta". Dome è quello che mi ha segnalato nei UP.
Supero il limite dell'esagerato poiché mi sento più forte con francisco, e succede il contrario, gli UP.

E così che successe :'( Gli UP sono stati per me come una grande pugnalata al cuore, per questo voglio dirti chi è che ho collaborato, aiutato delle voci.

Bonty, numero uno e grande collaboratore del progetto guerra, spero continui così;
Dr Zimbu, primo amministratore conosciuto, poche chiacchiere e molti fatti;
Roberto Mura, sempre calmo e paziente, grande fan di astronomia, e grande costruttore di portali;
Franz Liszt, grandissimo utente, pezzo di pane veramente. l'unica cosa che mi ha dispiaciuto è che non mi ha assolutamente difeso negli UP, per questo mi sono dispiaciuto;
Riotforlife, evvero, mi voleva infinitare, ma lui nasconde una grande persona. E' lui che mi ha fatto scoprire il progetto guerra;
Pigr8, anche lui bravo, coordinatore del progetto guerra, ma nonostante le numerose traduzione non mi ha assegnato neanche una barnstar;
Zayats, sembrerebbe un gran pelandrone nel non correggermi le traduzioni, ma una cosa che mi ha fatto innervosire che ha avuto una barnstar neanche era registrato;
Treecharlie, grande utente, sopratutto nel gran bel lavoro fatto nel progetto aviazione, perché mi sono piaciuti. Però, quando si tratta di rimproverare, è il numero uno.
Henrykus, mi ha incolpato nelle traduzioni dicendo che le avevo fatte con il traduttore, ma non ci davo tanto retta, perché...
Gnumarcoo, mi ha sempre incitato anche su irc, e accettato i suoi consigli, e mi ha sempre risollevato il morale;
Basilikofresco, non ho avuto tanto a che fare con te, ma adesso mi sei sembrato un grande.
Gregorovius, in genere sembrerebbe malvagio perché penserebbe che io sia un vandal troll, ma in genere è un tenerone se ci sono utentesse o admin.
Gac, anche lui fa' un buon lavoro, ma mi fa' arrabbiare tanto il fatto che blocchi senza motivo a volte, e che rollbacki senza motivo solo perché è un vandalo oppure openproxy, ma fa un buonissimo lavoro.
Vituzzu, (o Vito) grande fiuto per i sp;

Be', non li ho catalogati tutti, ma come l'impero ha una sua fine, io do' un grande addio a tutti, un po' con dispiacere :'| Sob... be', è stato una bella esperienza, e il mio cognome è "ASARO" mai rilevato fin da prima. Un grande addio basilico, sappi che ho sempre voluto bene a tutti... Dr Claudio ^{segnali radio} 19:31, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

NONO tranquillo tanto qualche volta editerò da IP. Dr Claudio ^{segnali radio} 05:33, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pipe links

A couple edits today ruined pipe links: [14] & [15]. This first letter following a "#" should be capitalized. Please do not not change these letters to lower case. —Ute in DC (talk) 20:26, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bug fixed! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:09, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

More http syntax fix

You may be interested to fix http:http:// cases too. It was reported in my talk page that there exist of them some out there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:32, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I will add it along with few variations. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:03, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Uttara Kannada/ Dayanand Nadkarni

Mr. Dayanand Nadkarni was an apponted clerk at Kanara Welfare Trust. It's mentioned in the writeup as the founder. Mr. Dinakar Desai was the founder who hired Nadkarni to take care of the books. Dayananad Nadkarni's participation in the Independence of India is not true. Only the correct information in the artical is that he was a member of the state essembly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.235.239.247 (talk) 13:49, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

?? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 16:44, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Uttara Kannada district. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:49, 23 October 2010 (CET)

Your bot is making unnecessary edits

It just unnecessarily edited the C shell article to "fix" links to return code. If it's not working properly, maybe you shouldn't run it against pages you don't personally read and check. Msnicki (talk) 08:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Hmm, I would think someone so educated about programming would provide a more precise description of the problem. I for one, can't see what the complaint here is.

If you mean that FrescoBot converted [[Return_code|return code]] to [[return code]], then I don't see what the issue is; I would make that change manually when I saw it myself. But maybe it did something else, and I just can't see it. In which case, Basilicofresco might not see it either, unless you provide better clues. What exactly is the problem? Respectfully, — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 09:54, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, IMHO it was not unnecessary (useless piping is forbidden, the fix is part of the Check Wiki project, the source text is more readable and errors are spotted easier). Anyway I wonder how much useful do you consider "reverting an unnecessary edit". ;) -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:40, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You got it backwards. The unnecessary edit changed [[return code]] to [[Return_code|return code]]. I undid it and now he's redone it again! This isn't even an article Basilicofresco even contributes to. Why is his 'bot' running around scribbling on work other people are trying to do? It makes no sense and makes even less sense that when his bot's stupid change has been reverted that he'll go back to insist restoring it again. I have just undone it once more. Do it again and he'll have an edit war you will not not win. Keep your fingers off an article someone's working on unless you have something meaningful to contribute, please. Right now, you're just posting graphitti. Please stop. Msnicki (talk) 15:03, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Are you serious, or just rather confused?

The article (which is open for editing by anybody) "began" here, with [[Return_code|return code]] in two places.
Then the bot came, and changed the piped links to [[return code]]. The change was meant to be helpful, and had to go through an approval process before it did it.
Then you changed it back to [[Return_code|return code]], calling the previous revision an "idiot bot edit". Before doing so, you stormed in here to suggest that the bot is defective.
The bot operator then read your complaint, adjusted the formatting of my interjection, studied the situation, and manually repeated the change FrescoBot had made, presumably because he saw it as a helpful change.
You then reverted again, but not before posting here to threaten an edit war and inappropriately claim ownership of the article.

I recommend you reserve your bluster and threats until you're sure you've got the sequence of edits correct. Then, if you're really sure you are right about what links the article should have, you should ... still keep the threats to yourself. But I assume you're just confused, so take another look (and a few deep breaths). — JohnFromPinckney (talk)

I apologize. I totally misread the edit. I had written that section originally and, certainly, when I wrote it, it was not my intent to have that superfluous text in the link. I probably just screwed up as I went through checking that every link mapped to an actual page. So I saw what I expected to see and I went off half-cocked. Please accept my apology. This is not the behavior I like to see in me. I will restore the change the bot suggested, which I agree (and should have immediately agreed) was correct. Msnicki (talk) 16:50, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's what I figured. It just didn't make sense, and while it might have been great fun to belittle and insult you, there's always the chance that I'm the one who's missing something. And boy, I hate when that happens, after I've gone to great efforts to correct somebody else. Not, uh, not that that's ever happened to me, of course.

— JohnFromPinckney (talk) 20:35, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Girgenti

Ciao Basilicofresco,qualche mese fa,ho scritto la voce Francesco Mucci,ma sicuramente ho fatto qualche errore nella traduzione.Sono a Londra,per motivi di lavoro,ma da poco.Parlo discretamente l'inglese ma ho qualche problema nello scriverlo.Mi daresti una mano.Grazie--Gir (talk) 14:06, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot making edits contrary to Wiki Bot policy

Hi, I continuously find edits like this [16], which simply change [[Link|links]] into [[link]]s, a change which seems completely useless and has no implications for templates or other things.
I read in Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Cosmetic_changes that "Cosmetic changes should only be applied when there is a substantial change to make at the same time."
So I ask you: is it correct that your Bot make such edits, overcrowding page histories? --GianniG46 (talk) 23:52, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I understand this one is borderline, however there was a discussion and the task was specifically approved. It is a one-time run in order to cleanup a bit. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:50, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nevertheless, you see there is a contrast to be resolved between the discussion you refer to and the official Wikipedia Bot policy. --GianniG46 (talk) 10:56, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the real matter is to evaluate if it's a cosmetic change or not. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:48, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Girgenti

Grazie,sei molto gentile.--Gir (talk) 13:48, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Miniature changes

Hi! Although I support your minor fix task, even though it is arguably cosmetic most of the time, some recent edits seem to fall outside that. I am pretty sure changes like these are not approved by any of your BRFAs. Regards. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 21:35, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, they are missing spaces between words and they actually change the aspect of the page. The second one was approved in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/FrescoBot_2:

[http://www.google.it link]something --> [http://www.google.it link] something = linksomething--> link something

The first one is similar, however you are right, I forgot to ask the approval for it. I will avoid edits where this fix is the only fix applied. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:18, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a space between a comma and a word being the only change to the page? As I said, I'm not against even small general fixes, but this seemed excessive. In any case, I'm not going to take this anywhere further and will leave it up to your discretion. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 23:28, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation

Just curious. What did FrescoBot do here exactly? I can't see any change. Slightsmile (talk) 00:48, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Add a space after comma, i.e., between "[[BAE Systems]]," and "[[CHROMA ATE Inc]]". — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 00:52, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Assistance

Dear friend One of my articleLionel Wendt is nominated to copy right violations. I re wrote few times, but it is not work. I really appreciate if you can assist me to protect this article.--Wipeouting (talk) 04:23, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot issue

I have noticed several edits like [17] on my watchlist lately. That particular change to piped links is not actually a syntax issue (and does not appear to be covered by the FrescoBot BRFA). There's no need to make just that change to an article; it just litters watchlists without changing the appearance of the article at all. I realize this edit fixes a self-link as well, but I have seen edits recently that only changed the piped links, like [18] — Carl (CBM · talk) 01:13, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it is actually covered by Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 7 and it was specifically requested to me. Before BRFA, I asked for comments about this proposal and there was no objections. However this is the second complain about the "cosmeticness" of this replacement and I could reconsider it... -- Basilicofresco (msg) 08:39, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you will. This morning I have several more on my watchlist, like [19]. I don't object if you do then when you are also fixing some actually broken link (the things in the original BRFA) but some things in BRFA 7 are not actually problems that warrant fixing on their own. There has been more attention lately to the issue of automated edits that just reformat the code in some way without actually changing the article. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:41, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As soon as we reduce the current backlog on that and we finish another task to create redirects of plurals (another bot/editor is running that already), the complains will redce since the number of these edits will reduce drastically. -- Magioladitis (talk) 04:43, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing something that didn't need fixing

This edit summary seems misleading [20]. The link was working fine, the change appears to have changed nothing except bypass an existing redirect which as we all know is not supposed to be the only edit made to a page.--Crossmr (talk) 23:34, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the matter is a bit more complex: the link was working, but it was not fine. As you can see, there was a section wikilink to "Game misconduct#Match penalty", but Game misconduct is a redirect and points to a different section: Penalty (ice hockey)#Game misconduct penalty. This conflict is undesirable and has to be fixed. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 20:47, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Salem, Connecticut

Hello, the bot is adding extraneous commas... please see Category:Salem, Connecticut. It's done likewise with Ledyard, Griswold, Franklin, Lisbon, & Sprague. Can you please revert and stop it from going through the other 175 Connecticut town categories? Thanks, Markvs88 (talk) 18:21, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I checked, but I don't see any new comma. As you can see, there was a comma within the wikilink and FrescoBot moved it out. Am I missing something? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 20:47, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that, I must have been on a cut & paste binge when I made those cats and didn't see that I did have the comma in there! Best, Markvs88 (talk) 20:58, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilinks

Can you please train your bot to ignore wikilinks? dif Thank you. -- WikHead (talk) 05:33, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I checked and there was nothing wrong with the bot edit. There was a link like this [21] and the best option is to convert it into a wikilink and then put into a note. If reflist is missing, someone will soon add it. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:56, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the prompt reply. I guess the point I was trying to make, is that wikilinks should not be used as references. If they were trimmed back to wiki-markup style links without being nested within a ref tag, that would be perfect. -- WikHead (talk) 06:06, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well the problem with the conversion of a link like "[22]" at the end of the sentence (looking like a reference, used as reference) is that I cannot replace it with a simple wikilink because then I would "insert" an extraneous word between two sentences. The bot is not able to judge the usefulness of a reference, so it has to preserve them. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 08:28, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fully understood. It is too bad however, that some edits (such as the example I've provided above) still require some sort of human involvement after the fact. From my own experience, I feel that most of the time when wikilinks are added in full URL form, they are done so mainly by inexperienced contributors who haven't yet mastered the art of wiki-markup when casually cross-linking between articles. The few that I see who intentionally reference to other wiki-articles are usually not aware that such referencing is considered invaluable to the project, and usually stop doing it once someone brings it to their attention. On the other hand, I assume that some may think it's perfectly acceptable to keep doing it if that's what they see the bots doing (newbie see/newbie do). Don't get me wrong though, as I do have a great appreciation for all the good your bot does, and it's not my intention to complain as much as it is to throw fresh ideas and a bit of POV your way. Perhaps this is something that you could keep in the back of your mind, and maybe try to work into the routine sometime in the future if/when you ever see an opportunity or convenient way to do so. Thanks for your time, and happy botting. -- WikHead (talk) 15:15, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Backlinks in imagemaps

Backlinks in imagemaps apparently must not be removed, it breaks the imagemap. See this. GregorB (talk) 23:29, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, I will exclude imagemaps also on this second script (they're already excluded on the main one). -- Basilicofresco (msg) 08:28, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Taxobox

In case you wonder what t do with Taxobox, this edit shows the solution. Soon we add the same feature in AWB. Selflinks inside Taxobox must be in bold. I encourage people to use the standard wikibold instead of the wikilink but until now hundreds of articles use the old method and people keep copying this method. -- Magioladitis (talk) 04:45, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 08:28, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It turns that Taxobox specifications don't allow this trick. :( We 'll have too skip changes in Taxobox until someone fixes its code. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:30, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Frescobot: dealing with angle brackets

I think Frescobot should not replace the HTML entities [ and ] and with "[" and "]" as it did here — it broke the wikilink. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 06:00, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. I'll take care of it. Thanks! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:49, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GIRGENTI

Caro Basilicofresco,grazie per la tua attenzione verso la voce Francesco Mucci,spero di recarti fastidio.Ciao--Gir (talk) 11:23, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you're going to edit any more pages regarding Tarlac, kindly send it to me first for editing, as much as I would like to thank you for posting, I find obvious errors in your grammar, please don't take this the wrong way. I'm not an editor for just sitting around. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FromTarlac (talk • contribs) 08:51, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ciao Basilicofresco,buon 2011.Hai avuto la possibilità di rivedere la voce Francesco Mucci ? scusa la scocciatura !!Grazie--Gir (talk) 20:56, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

bot mistake? three links to italian version of the page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Slaty-breasted_Tinamou&diff=prev&oldid=403176338 ★NealMcB★ (talk) 02:20, 11 January 2011 (UTC) (ah but I see it has been stopped for a while....)[reply]

Fixes to WP:LDR

Hello,

Please note that merging all the LDR citations together into an unmanageable blob really does not help us editors at all; quite the contrary. I'm referring to this edit. Per WP:LDR:

Any blank lines placed between the citations in a reflist will make no difference to the download size or output format of an article. Thus, for ease of editing and article maintenance, it can be helpful to separate the citations using a blank line between each cite.

If you could manage to modify the bot so that it avoids unnecessarily contracting the LDR's in this manner, it would be appreciated. Thank you.—RJH (talk) 19:59, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto with this edit.—RJH (talk) 23:08, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I will immediately take care of it. Thanks for pointing it out. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 00:07, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! That is appreciated.—RJH (talk) 16:51, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

link syntax

FrescoBot did one of its usual edits to Kilogram, like this one, where it converted [[meter per second squared|meter per second squared]] to [[meter per second squared]] on the premise that the latter points to a redirect page that, in turn, takes the reader to the correct page. Unfortunately, anytime there is a redirect, this wording is at the top of the page: “(Redirected from Meter per second squared)”. I think this is unnecessary, ugly, and looks like an error was made (a link that wasn’t updated after an article was moved) that had to be corrected.

I’m sure there was some discussion (now perhaps located in Village Pump Archive 6,626,208) where coders and programers and developers who are interested in ultra-tight code that fully exploits the behind-the-scenes capabilities of Wikipedia’s server engines—as well as those interested in saving the Wikimedia foundation 0.000000001¢ of server space—who have discussed the subject of links and redirects and think this aspect of FrescoBot is cool-beans. But I wasn’t part of that discussion. I occasionally receive reactions from long-timers who write something like (*sigh*) This was discussed [by all of six editors who hang out endlessly] at the Pump and the consensus [by four of the six of us] was that this was an indisputably Good Idea©™® and you should think the same way. I’m sure there are scores, if not hundreds, of other editors who don’t even know of the venues where bot operators hang out, have never heard of Village Pump, and don’t like links being un-piped in a fashion that makes the target page a re-direct.

In my view, redirects pages are primarily of value to fix old links made before an article was moved (renamed), and for common misspellings manually typed into the Search field by readers. I don’t think it looks at all good for a reader to click a link and be taken to a page that has “(Redirected from…)” at the top; it looks like an error was made.

I’m not requesting that you revise the way FrescoBot operates. I would, however, appreciate it if you can advise if there is a {no-bot} tag or magic word or something that will prevent FrescoBot from working its magic on the Kilogram article. Failing that, is there a convenient, built-in facility that allows you to just tell FrescoBot to avoid Kilogram? 16:51, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, I wish to help you... but I'm not sure to understand what is the problem. FrescoBot changed for example [[meter per second squared|meter per second squared]] in [[meter per second squared]] because, as you can read here, this kind of piped link is discuraged by Wikipedia's guidelines. Most of all, please note that both links point the very same page (eg. meter per second squared vs. meter per second squared). -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:47, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The guideline doesn’t address this situation. The stated purpose at WP:Piped link is as follows: It is generally not good practice to pipe links simply to avoid redirects. The number of links to a redirect page can be a useful gauge of when it would be helpful to spin off a subtopic of an article into its own page. (my underlining)

The underlined objective (determining when a subtopic needs to be made) isn’t an issue here since it is a spelling-related issue and there is already a redirect page. I just don’t know how I could have better explained my concern in my above post. As I wrote there, I understand the reader is taken to the same article. As I also wrote, This wording is at the top of the page: “(Redirected from Meter per second squared)”. I think this is unnecessary, ugly, and looks like an error was made (a link that wasn’t updated after an article was moved) that had to be corrected. Is there a way to keep FrescoBot from wading into Kilogram? Greg L (talk) 18:07, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot did not make any edit in order to improve (or avoid) the use of redirects. Are you able to read a page history? Nevertheless there is nothing wrong or shameful with redirects and remember that you should not "fix" links to redirects that are not broken. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 19:50, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Now, don’t start getting emotional and squirt out sideways with BOLD exclamations and combative tone such as “Are you able to read…” This is a collaborative writing environment and I was using nothing other than calm plain-speak above and don’t look forward to having to deal with an editor who challenges whether I have the ability to read a page history.

Yes, I can read history files. And I did, too, in this case. FrescoBot certainly did too make an edit that I am talking about. It is this one, which I had provided in my first post here. As you can see, the accompanying edit summary is “(Bot: links syntax)”. And the result was to create this link: meter per second squared, which—if you click on it—takes one to the correct page but with a redirect notice at the top, which looks poor and sloppy in my opinion. It is not how I want articles I work on to operate.

I see from the provided link that one “should not "fix" links to redirects that are not broken”. It further states that doing so “can actually be detrimental”. Just how in the world is piping a link so that A) an article consistently uses one dialect, which WP:MOS recommends, and B) to avoid a redirect statement across the top, “detrimental” in any way, shape, or form?? In fact, there is zero—zip—harm in piping; the properly piped link avoids having what amounts to an error adviso placed at the top and nothing else.

Now, please try to keep a cool head with your answer. Also, you might also flat answer a question I’ve now asked twice and am here asking for a third time: Is there a tag or magic word I can place in the article to keep your bot from operating there or is there a way you can program your bot to avoid the Kilogram article? Greg L (talk) 23:09, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

So please read the history: are you able to explain why in the 16 January revision of the page, before the FrescoBot edit, the link was already linking the same page? Nevertheless "meter" is just a common alternative spelling and not a mistake: there is no shame in a redirection. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 01:57, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, now we’re going in circles. That’s going to end. All the information you need is in the article’s history file. “Metre” is indeed another spelling, but not in American-dialect English. When I last left it, the article was in this state of affairs and had things correct and consistent; the article was written consistently in one English dialect (*sound of audience gasp*) and all links routed the reader to articles with no redirects (*sound of audience gasp*). That’s good, tidy practice and is what all authors should strive for. Things got screwed up because an I.P. editor (from Canada: go figure) came in and changed things to a mix of American and British dialect (meter to metre, ∆ edit here) in a series of six edits. Then User:Martinv misinterpreted what was going on, changed things some more, and then undid his edits. Now…

The first major contributor to that article consistently used American English and, per WP:MOS, the use of a particular dialect should be consistent.

Yes, I know there is “no shame” in redirection. Nothing I wrote above suggests that’s my concern, yet you’ve mentioned that twice now, which comes across at minimum as patronizing, and at worst as baiting with a “Well, there’s no shame and I’m gonna keep doing whatever I want to.” My above posts could not possibly be clearer that I think redirects look like sloppy work—simply because that’s precisely what causes redirects in many cases. We actually have specialist editors who run about creating redirects for common misspellings. It speaks to the shortcomings of working in a collaborative writing environment where 6th graders get to join in. Contrary to WP:Redirects, there is absolutely nothing “detrimental” to piping links to achieve dialect consistency and to ensure the reader is taken straight to the proper article; nothing at all. I asked you to point out a downside to the practice and you declined to answer or were unable to.

I’ve asked you politely now three times about whether there is a no-bot tag I could put in the article to ward off your bot and you’ve ducked the question three times. I am loathe to ask you again since you seem to actually relish conflict—partly borne from not reading, parsing, and fully understanding what others write. So why not just put the Kilogram article on your “avoid” list so we don’t have to cross paths again? Wikipedia is a big place and I’m sure you can find plenty of things to improve without going to a fully mature article where all the ‘i’s have been dotted and all the ‘T’s crossed just so we can start pissing in each other’s corn flakes. Greg L (talk) 03:28, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I simply do not understand how a no-bot marker in Kilogram could help you in your anti-sloppiness campaign. It would not prevent ip or users from change metre in meter. FrescoBot did not change the target of any link, it simply clean the syntax in order to better spot linking errors... so it should help you too. Preventing bots from edit an important article for no reason is a very bad idea. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:27, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I would have had an issue had your bot changed [[metre per second squared|meter per second squared]] to [[metre per second squared]], but that was not apparently the case. The change is no more, no less, one of the general fixes of AWB. The change is totally neutral as I do not see that either the underlying link or the displayed text were changed in any way, but does simplify the display in edit mode. OTOH, one might query a change from[[metre per second squared|meter per second squared]] to [[meter per second squared]], as it appears Greg is doing – hypothetical here, I know. Although Greg may consider it sloppy, I see this would be a legitimate and rather appropriate use of redirect to deal with national varieties of English. During my gnoming, I often have cause to change spelling variants. And it does not upset me not to see the piping changed, knowing that the target link would still lead to where it was desired. On balance, I think that eliminating the pipe (i.e. relying on a 'sloppy' redirect) is preferable as it reduces screen clutter in edit mode. --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 03:41, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Greetings, want to know who you are, I do frequent editsto the KEMU page and noticed that you too do the same. can we exchange emails? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.204.170.50 (talk) 09:56, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Kenya Methodist University. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 13:26, 28 January 2011 (CET)

I need you help

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengkuang_Titi the coordinate above the ifo box of this seems overlapped, Idk how to solve it...I hope you can help me with this... Gracias! :)

Syam Ahmedarino 11:22, 31 January 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Syam Ahmed (talk • contribs)

Done! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:28, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Frescobot and Commons categories

The bot is adding these boxes to several Michigan highway articles. Two issues are at work here. One is that many of these categories hold single photos. Two is that if all of the photos are already in the article, the category was intentionally not added to the article. I've only ever added the boxes when there are more images for that subject than what the article can hold. Such automated editing though has brought to my attention all of the articles who have categories that don't need them, so I can have the categories deleted on Commons. Imzadi 1979 → 08:38, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In my humble opinion there is nothing wrong with placing {{Commons cat}} when there are no additional images on Commons. First of all the number of (well categorized) images on Commons is going to grow, secondly the link can be useful to editors in order to 1)spot new pictures, 2)easily find the correct category where upload new contents, 3)help Commons users to process uncategorized images. I would keep both the category and the template. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:49, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Frescobot and Commons categories -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:44, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

your "humble opinion" is a apparently a single person's opinion. It does not reflect the consensus opinion of multiple editors. Your 'bot just modified an article on my watchlist to add a commons category that contains only the two pictures that are already in the article. I do not agree that your addition enhances the article. If the Commons category ever does get new images, then perhaps the link may enhance the article, but until this happens, the link detracts from the article. Your secondary goal of "alerting editors that new images are available" would be better served by having your 'bot place a notification on the article's talk page. So far, nobody except you appears to support your position, so consensus is against you. Please stop your 'bot until this has been discused. -Arch dude (talk) 02:26, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As you can see in the Bot owners' noticeboard, consensus is not clear (I mean there is no consensus even about your opinion). Your suggestion about user notifications (every contributor?) about new pictures on Commons is not practical and would be a mess. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:01, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I made no suggestion that you modify user talk pages. I suggested that you modifu article talk pages. I recognize that there in no consensus for my opinion, but I'm not the one who is running a 'bot the modifies articles: you are. Therefore it is incumbent upon you to seek and gain consensus, not me. -Arch dude (talk) 15:18, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just a quick note. Could the BOT use {{Commons category}} rather than {{Commons cat}} which is a redirect to the former. It is correct in the edit summary. Just saves having two edits to each article when AWB and others that go round replacing {{Commons cat}} get to the article. Thanks Keith D (talk) 13:07, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:43, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The bot also seems to be linking to Commons categories that don't actually have anything in them, which seems rather pointless (e.g. [23]) Modest Genius ^talk 19:28, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in this case the problem is not with the bot, but with the empty category that has should be deleted. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:08, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Ambassador Program is looking for new Online Ambassadors

Hi Basil! Since you've been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, I wanted to let you know about the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, and specifically the role of Online Ambassador. We're looking for friendly Wikipedians who are good at reviewing articles and giving feedback to serve as mentors for students who are assigned to write for Wikipedia in their classes.

If that sounds like you and you're interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors during the current term, which started in January and goes through early May. If that's something you want to do, please apply!

You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE. The main things we're looking for in Online Ambassadors are friendliness, regular activity (since mentorship is a commitment that spans several months), and the ability to give detailed, substantive feedback on articles (both short new articles, and longer, more mature ones).

I hope to hear from you soon.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:41, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for calling you a 'bot

I'm very sorry for over-reacting like that. I just saw the new link and assumed that it was the 'bot. I think the "inline" link is a much better idea, and I will not remove it. Incidentally, I am not wandering around removing your links indiscriminately, I just happen to have been working on this article. -Arch dude (talk) 18:07, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The bot changed a link to a reference

Just FYI, last October the FrescoBot changed [24] a link in San Gabriel Valley to a reference, making a weird incomplete sentence. It's O.K. now. TresÁrboles (talk) 17:52, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It should never occur... I'll fix it as soon as possible, thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:28, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Section link fix actually breaking things

Edits by the bot like this actually break the link. The reference in the Works cited section is using "Hyde" as the tag, not "hyde", so when your bot has gone through and changed it to all lower case, the link in the References section no longer works to the full reference in the Works cited section. Imzadi 1979 → 22:34, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The problem was with different refs with the same name (one capitalized / one uncapitalized). It is quite confusing and it is in general not a good idea. I fixed the article. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:15, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Except that there aren't different refs. There's only one footnote to the Hyde book (for which you just renamed in the <ref> tag. The bot has done similar stuff to M-35 (Michigan highway) like this edit. Please look into the causes, as I'm sure I'm not the only one that uses all lowercase reference names consistently. Such edits that break the page by an automated editing process need to be corrected, especially when it's impacting Featured Articles. Imzadi 1979 → 23:05, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

*checking* -- Basilicofresco (msg) 08:51, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to expand Frescobot 6

Hey. What do you think about adding {{commonscat}} to the pages of villages in England where the category also existing on commons? Good idea? Bad idea? Most are well populated from teh ever expanding Geograph project on commons. I have drawn up a fairly good list of qualifying articles (~13,500) here. Regards, - Jarry1250 ^{[Who? Discuss.]} 19:47, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent news :) Just to save you the bother, my list represents the intersection of (articles categorised as villages in England on en.wp) and (categories categorised as villages in england on commons). Because of their policy of mimicking en.wp names, and because they were mostly created by bot, so would be perfectly accurate, I reckon it represents about 99% accuracy or more. Regards, - Jarry1250 ^{[Who? Discuss.]} 17:39, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I put the list back again. At least, I think it's the same list :) - Jarry1250 ^{[Who? Discuss.]} 21:08, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot: remove WildBot tag after fixing section links?

Thank you for all your good work in fixing section links with FrescoBot. May I suggest a possible enhancement? In some cases, such as 115 (number), WildBot had tagged the talk page with {{WildBot/m04}} to list the broken section links in Category:Pages containing links with bad anchors. Do you think it would be useful and possible for FrescoBot to remove this tag automatically whenever it fixes the last broken section link(s) on a page? I do not think that WildBot will recheck the page and remove the tags itself, because its owner (Josh Parris) seems to be inactive. Certes (talk) 22:34, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Uhmm... I will try to contact Josh Parris. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:19, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Stefano Mucci

Ciao Basilicofresco,potresti darmi una mano a correggere la voce Francesco Mucci Grazie tante.--Gir (talk) 19:28, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Appena riesco cerco di occuparmene. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:39, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bad bot edit at {{cite arxiv}}

See [25]. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 00:07, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I will skip it. Thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:19, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Edit on Tomomi Nishimoto

Can you tell me what the bot was trying to do here. Personally, I don't see any changes on line 16 and line 36. Plus the only difference I can tell on line 25 is the removal of line feeds between ref tags, which, on my opinion, just made the source code difficult to read. If it's OK with you I would like to "undo" the edit. RUGGER (talk) 03:14, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Undo between <references>...</references> (it was a special case, now excluded). The main correction was a missing space between [[Osaka]],[[Japan]]. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 19:25, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. RUGGER (talk) 01:24, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Adding hyphens to ISBNs

I noticed your bot is adding hyphens to ISBNs. As far as I am aware there is no consensus for this at the present time, and many good reasons not to do it, so I believe you should disable this feature. --Robert.Allen (talk) 20:20, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Uhm... well, I took a look at Wikipedia talk:ISBN and at the present I believe there is still enough consensus... Moreover the ISBN standard ~~include~~ require hyphenation [26], so for sure it is not a "mistake". However consensus is not immutable, so I will skip this correction for a while and I will keep an eye on Wikipedia talk:ISBN in order to record any change in the wind. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:25, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oakland Athletics

Hi there. Was there a reason for removing the reflist from Oakland Athletics? Just curious. Happy editing! — KV5 • Talk • 23:34, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes there was, but I removed the wrong one. :) Thanks for fixing. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:54, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

sahara smith

i am sahara smith's cousin

will you help me make her wiki article better? 66.68.99.162 (talk) 04:42, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Sahara Smith. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:12, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

IOW

FWIW, there seems to be some nationalist(?) pride going on here, and I wouldn't be surprised if my reversion gets re-reverted. Probably, if I don't get back to it, it wouldn't be bad to have IOW redirect to Isle of Wight, and just put a header there to IOW (disambiguation) which could serve as the real disambig. -- 146.115.187.76 (talk) 08:30, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Thank you for the feedback on the "The Ladies Auxiliary of the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers" on April 5th, 2011. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andy Q26 (talk • contribs) 17:57, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

BAGBot: Your bot request FrescoBot 10

Someone has marked Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 10 as needing your input. Please visit that page to reply to the requests. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 23:20, 19 June 2011 (UTC) To opt out of these notifications, place {{bots|optout=operatorassistanceneeded}} anywhere on this page.[reply]

List of Ancient Greek temples

It had the inuse tag up. Your bot nearly cost me all my metric/feet conversions which all had to be individually calculated, because the format included a "x". Grrr! Amandajm (talk) 06:49, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry... you could discard my edit in order to save your work. Anyway I will skip inuse tagged pages. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:56, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Section links

I'm not sure what happened here but the links were/are working before the bot changed them. If you look at the first line it changed, the first link is to Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando, the top of the article. The next link was a piped link, [[Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando#C-46A|C46A-45CU]] (Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando#C-46A) which the bot changed to [[Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando#C-46|C46A-45CU]] (Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando#C-46). I had already made this edit to the target article so that the section links would work. The bot made all the links direct to the top of the target article. I suspect that the bot isn't seeing the {{visible anchor}} in the target. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 16:05, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The problem was the not so common template {{visible anchor}}. I did not take it into account. I will fix the problem as soon as possible. Thank you for pointing it out. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:56, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I thought that might be it. There is also the other {{anchor}}. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 23:57, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Freddie Highmore mockumentary

From what I understood by the note you left at the bottom of Freddie Highmore, you have met him: how have you done?? He is one of my favourite actors, and I do envy you so much! A part these interjections, I would like to learn more about his mockumentary: is it available somewhere? Who did it? PS. Have you ever managed to find his movie Master Harold... and the boys? I'm looking for it DESPERATELY but I cannot find it anywhere! Thanks in advance for everything Giacomo Bosio (sorry, I dont know how to use electronic signature) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Giacomo J.K. (talk • contribs) 18:49, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Freddie Highmore. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:12, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ops, silly me, you're right. =) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Giacomo J.K. (talk • contribs) 10:04, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hi Basilicofresco,

Just to let you know, I responded to your question on my talk page. Zaereth (talk) 18:36, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Position of reflist

Hi, with this edit, FrescoBot placed the References section and {{reflist}} in the wrong place. Per MOS:APPENDIX, it should be after the See also section, not before it. --Redrose64 (talk) 00:49, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, thank you for pointing it out. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:37, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hraschina (meteorite)

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Hraschina (meteorite), and it appears to be a substantial copy of http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2005/October/Accretion_Desk.htm.

It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.

If substantial content is duplicated and it is not public domain or available under a compatible license, it will be deleted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. You may use such publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.) CorenSearchBot (talk) 18:24, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

So... did everything CorenSearchBot was able to find in both pages were the words "hraschina is an iron meteorite"? LoL! Fix that roboot! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:37, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That's an interesting article... I'd like to expand it and perhaps rearrange it a bit and nominate it for WP:DYK - how about it? GregorB (talk) 14:07, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Very good! The article is in solid shape already. Regarding references, have you seen Google Books? Nice stuff there. I'm a bit busy at the moment, but I'm going to visit the article by tomorrow evening hopefully. GregorB (talk) 20:42, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

More expansion to come tomorrow. GregorB (talk) 18:52, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article will appear on the main page tomorrow 14:39 GMT. GregorB (talk) 08:14, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Hraschina meteorite

On 28 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hraschina meteorite, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the fall of the Hraschina meteorite in 1751 was the first witnessed fall of an iron meteorite? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks from the DYK project Victuallers (talk) 14:28, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It was a pleasure! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:12, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution link in images

The purpose of giving the full url in a link in the attribution of an image, such as the one (of many) you removed here, is that is the form that can easily be used by an external party reusing the image. The internal wikilink format will not work outside Wikipedia. Spinning Spark 19:50, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I see. Ok, I will skip this kind of links. However I'm not sure this would make any difference in order to be properly linked... I mean the only difference will be in the source text, the final page will be identical (eg. copy and pasting the attribution in Word creates the same hyperlink to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Spinningspark, the url seen from the browser is the same, etc). Do you expect that someone will click edit and then copy the source text of the attribution? Why? For example the template {{cc-by-sa-3.0}} does not work outside wikipedia... In my opinion a full url hidden in the source text is useless. I would prefer to add a note like "If possible please make a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Spinningspark". -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:22, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure I understand your point but in any case it does not matter whether or not the format could be better. The bottom line is that the attribution I have provided is part of the licence which allows Wikipedia to use the image. Wikipedia has no right to alter the licence without my permission. Wikipedia's alternatives are to ask me to provide a new licence or to reject the licence as unacceptable and delete the image. Tinkering with the licence is a breach of copyright and not allowed. Spinning Spark 19:08, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Anyway, did you noticed that everybody uses simple wikilinks within their attributions? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:12, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lavi123

Dear Sir:

I have noticed a user has added a virus to my user name. I can't edit using my user name. What can I do?

Lavi123 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.236.9.103 (talk) 19:23, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:12, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Order of sections

Regarding this edit, references sections are placed after see also sections, not before; see WP:LAYOUT. Spinning Spark 01:05, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is a known issue. The script was fixed, but I still had no time to trace back any affected article. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 14:29, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot UTF-8 support

Hi. I noticed in this diff that FrescoBot didn't realize that Ć is the uppercase of ć, and that Đ is the uppercase of đ. The Mediawiki engine, however, does know that. Maybe you could share some code and add that extra feature? :) --Joy [shallot] (talk) 07:38, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, I should consider also these letters. I will implement it as soon as possible. The code... well is nothing special: it's just a collection of simple regular expressions. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 19:09, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Updated! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:47, 15 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Piping and capitalising

Hi. I notice this change by FrescoBot piped to articles, seemingly purely so that it can capitalise the first letter of the link. Is there any reason for this?

Yaris678 (talk) 12:10, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it is actually removing the unnecessary piping and capitalization per Wikipedia:Piped link#When not to use. Useless piping is considered a middle priority issue by checkwiki project. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 19:07, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yeah. I could have sworn the diff was the other way around when I looked at it before. :-/

My mistake.

Yaris678 (talk) 11:30, 15 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Trivial white space edits.

I don't know if there's something I'm missing, but edits like [27] seems to be completely trivial. The bot shouldn't be making those. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:11, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, some hours ago I add few additional checks and I did not expect so many wrong spaces. It was a test run in order to evaluate if it was a feasible approach, but they are too many trivial edits. I made a test run instead a simulation because nevertheless they are mistakes, so it is not a big problem. I will move the trivial corrections to my custom mix of cosmetic changes. I'm going to keep just non-trivial missing spaces fixes like these. You opinion is always welcome. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:19, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Possible AfD of dominant group articles

If you will not get upset and leave WP I will nominate all of the dominant group articles for deletion. They really need some input from other editors. I have a feeling that the concept is notable and they will survive the process. BigJim707 (talk) 23:06, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hitler's moustache

Hey Fresco, you keep messing with Hitler's moustache! :) Here again here. Can Hitler be added to the do not touch list? Green Cardamom (talk) 16:43, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I can add the toothbrush moustache to the esclusion list, but in my opinion it is better to avoid such a fake external link in order to get an embedded citation look. For example in this way the destination of these links is clear (see Wikipedia:EGG) and you can see the broken link on the Charlie Chaplin image. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:23, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

An elegant solution, thank you! Green Cardamom (talk) 16:39, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Better edit summary for Frescobot

I noticed you previously linked to a "details" page in the edit summary, but no longer do. Is there a reason for this? See also Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#General notice to bot owners about edit summaries? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:16, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I just made five edits without that link in the edit summary. :) Full story: I was exploring a new bunch of misspellings and I used a special script. I did not expect to make any edit so I did not take care of the link in the edit summary. Nevertheless one problem was so rare that I fixed it manually (replace.py edit mode) since I was not going to include a fix for it in any regular task. I read that general notice to bot owners and fully agree: two years ago I stressed this issue in the it.wiki bot policy. I try to be as much informative as possible (while appling as much corrections at once as possible). When you have any suggestion feel free to write me. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:03, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2010 Territory data incorrect in "State Population" page

The US Census has released the official 2010 population for the territories and it should be updated on this page.

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/2010_census/cb11-cn177.html

American Samoa - 55,519

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/2010_census/cb11-cn179.html

Guam - 159,358

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/2010_census/cb11-cn178.html

Northern Marianas - 53,883

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/2010_census/cb11-cn180.html

Virgin Islands 106,405

So... why did you write to me? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:51, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect link formatting

Hey, Basilicofresco...

Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Domenico_Flabanico&action=historysubmit&diff=451618111&oldid=450588853

In order to fix it, I did: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Domenico_Flabanico&diff=prev&oldid=451806112

JHMM13^(Disc) 06:58, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well it was a mistake, it was not worse after FrescoBot edit, and it was not fixed after your edit. Here is the correct syntax. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:51, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle

I don't know why the italicss were not preserved in this edit but it didn't work. Spinning Spark 16:56, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It sounds quite odd... anyway your fix is the best solution. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:23, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WAWI

Per WP:WAWI external links are often used in reference to other wikis. See for example DDL intercettazioni. Rich Farmbrough, 00:49, 12 October 2011 (UTC).[reply]

Done: added to the exclusion list. I already try to skip any page talking about Wikipedia itself. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 16:30, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ruining Wrestling event pages.

in regards to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_Loaded:_In_Your_House

please STOP changing things like "pedigree" into " Double Underhook Facebuster, which he calls Pedigree". If you want to troll, please do it on a wrestling forum. Many people read wikipedia and it's much better (and less trolling) to just put the word pedigree with a link to the glossary of wrestling terms.

I know its your bot doing it and that doesnt mean its you personally, but you are contributing to a negative experience on wikipedia, so can you please fix the bot or the articles instead of ruining them?

thankyou

203.144.10.198 (talk) 16:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Fully Loaded: In Your House. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. So please calm down. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:11, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Template:User in Puducherry/doc

You recently used FrescoBot to alter the documentation of a number of templates like Template:User in Puducherry/doc. You changed the statement "|title=the [[Union Territory]] of [[Puducherry|'''Puducherry''']]" to "|title=the [[Union Territory]] of '''[[Puducherry]]'''". These two statements are not always equivalent, such as when used in "for the '''users in {{{title|}}}'''." Please try to be more careful. Yours aye, Buaidh 13:53, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot article limitation

Just to let you know, your bot is editing closed DYK noms as well as sandboxes. Perhaps you could prevent it from editing in those areas? violet/riga _^[talk] 05:56, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, added to the exclusion list. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 04:16, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Boldface in Uir/fdoc

DO NOT LET FrescoBot CHANGE STATEMENTS LIKE |title=the [[Union Territory]] of [[Puducherry|'''Puducherry''']] TO |title=the [[Union Territory]] of '''[[Puducherry]]'''. THESE STATEMENTS ARE NOT EQUIVALENT. PLEASE SEE Template:User from Puducherry. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE, PLEASE SEE ME. PLEASE TRY TO BE MORE DISCERNING. Yours aye, Buaidh 15:10, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok ok... calm down. Added to exclusion list. However, are you able to make me an example where it caused any harm or change? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 04:19, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the first line of documentation for Template:User from Puducherry for an example. Yours aye, Buaidh 14:25, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I checked and the mistake is to use there a bold typeface. There is absolutely no need to use it and, as you can see, it also creates minor problems. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 19:48, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nevertheless, this type of change may cause problems elsewhere. Yours aye, Buaidh 00:00, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

??? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:35, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Commas in citations

I think that when there is a citation which involved "pp. 123,135" it is a mistake to put a space in like this "pp. 123, 135". Now this may be a personal choice, but it is a question of aesthetics and I do not think a bot should go around changing from one to the other.

Also it raises the question if the added space us going to be put in should not be non-breaking space?

Here are some examples from some of the pages I have created in the last few days that the bot changes presumably all of them in less than a minutes:

-- PBS (talk) 23:24, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was hoping that you would not only read it but respond to it! -- PBS (talk) 12:13, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(!) Well, in my opinion 12 hours without a reply is not a long delay for a non-urgent issue. I also had to sleep here at UTC+1. Moreover it is not an instant-reply, I have to check among similar cases and Wikipedia rules. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:39, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

True, but you responded in the next section at "07:18, 22 October 2011 (UTC)" which was 8 hours after I posted my first comment here and five hours before I posted my second comment. This was not the first time you bot has done this to pages I watch and I will be altering some others in a similar way in the near future (6 down 114 to go) to use a similar format so whether it is a "non-urgent issue" is a matter of opinion. So now we are past the formalities can you please comment on my first posting to your page. -- PBS (talk) 05:56, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As I told you this is not an easy reply. I guessed that a reply "you're wrong, I'm right" would not be well received, so I'm doing a bit of research about this topic. It is not an urgent issue simply because the bot is stopped and there are no articles with something that has to be repaired. So please be patience, no articles with that problem will be altered in the meantime. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 09:26, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As I suspected it is not a matter of aesthetics. I asked the opinion of other Wikipedia users here and here and they all agree that between two page numbers after the comma is needed a space. One of them explained the absence of a specific rule in Wikipedia as "Common sense and a very elementary knowledge of English are all that are needed. Some things are so obvious that they are not in the canon of MoS". Moreover, as you can see, "123,135" is ambiguous because it actually looks like a number above one hundred thousand. As you can see there are enough reasons and consensus to fix this small problem. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 19:53, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User template documentation

Please restore the following documentation templates to their original state. Your FrescoBot edits have disrupted the continuity between these documentation templates and their target templates. This is done to facilitate maintenance.

You cause more problems than any other editor I have encountered. Please make sure your edits do not adversely affect templates or their documentation. Thanks, Buaidh 00:25, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Uhmm... I'm not sure a mistake like a "double boldface usually not shown due a bug within Wikimedia software" is something we have to preserve in order to keep some kind of aesthetic similitude along the arguments of two different templates ({{Uir/adoc}} and {{Uir/fdoc}}). Wikimedia software behaviour could change in the future and this minor problem fixed. Moreover your are talking about maintenance: are you really going to change these templates again after their creation? Please reconsider your request. I mean: in my opinion it make absolutely no sense to deliberately reintroduce within these templates a mistake. Nevertheless if you really feel that my edits are a serious problem to your routine maintenance and disrupt the beauty of your code... well I can reintroduce the broken syntax for you. Ps. Another way: we could preserve this aesthetic continuity avoiding any mistake simply removing the boldface from the first line of {{Uir/fdoc}} like you did in {{Uir/adoc}}. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:18, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I maintain over 2000 templates, primarily by myself. See Template:MG/1. Anything you can do to make it a little easier will be appreciated. Yours aye, Buaidh 22:37, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:30, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please Improve this

Its very poor presentation about Kaim Khanis and our Great Dada Gee Maharaj of Rajputana Prince Nawab Kaim Khani...

We have to improve this presentation text about KaimKhani/Kayamkhani or Qaimkhani. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaimkhani http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kaimkhani http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayamkhani

Nawab Kaim Khan - UK Kaim Khani Author/Researcher/Historian +44740 586 2002 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.241.132 (talk) 23:04, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Additions in Wiki entry of South Mumbai under heading Acronym

Sir, Being a novice (this my 2nd attempt, first one was adding marathi translation ref at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moxham ), i draw your attention towards the additions made by me in WIKI entry of "South Mumbai" at HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Mumbaiunder under sub-heading "Acronym". Kindly peruse the same and let me know your suggestions if any. Yours Sincerely, Suneelji (talk) 06:36, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Shia Islam

This was correct. Ahadith is the plural of hadith. Of course it should have been piped [[Hadith|ahadith]]. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 20:48, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the correct syntax was actually [[hadith|ahadith]] (ahadith) and not a[[hadith]] (ahadith, note the unlinked 'a'). -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:06, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Vlad the Impaler

I've noticed that you tagged two dead links on this wiki page. They are not dead links, the pages are simply unavable because they have been placed in an incorrect format that the server cant handle. http://www.exploringromania.com/vlad-tepes-dracula.html I have done my best to fix these links and correct this error. 68.10.188.179 (talk) 06:04, 8 December 2011 (UTC) " original message found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:RafikiSykes[reply]

I'm sending you a copy of this message because I noticed your bot made an edit and failed to fix the dead links. I thought you might be interested. History : "(cur | prev) 22:58, 23 November 2011‎ FrescoBot (talk | contribs)‎ m (53,353 bytes) (Bot: link syntax/spacing) (undo) " 68.10.188.179 (talk) 06:04, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well it just tries to fix syntax problems. It does not perform a check on the target of external links. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 13:44, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge discussion for Murray-2 Hydroelectric Power Station

An article that you have been involved in editing, Murray-2 Hydroelectric Power Station , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Rangasyd (talk) 13:02, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User warning template

I had put it on first and forgot to tell you that. I'm sorry for any confusion.

--Thebirdlover (talk) 23:17, 20 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

John Henry Devereux

Would you tweak the citations, please. Thank you. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:26, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of magic museums

List of magic museums please tweak the citations. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:30, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Link sugg

Hello, Can you help me? I want to edit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Passions First, with the name of all guests and links. How to put links to external articles? Some of the guests here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fundamentalbase/draft4

second with the name of the guests and selected composers and links See how it's getting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fundamentalbase/draft

Do you have any suggestions? thank you,

fundamentalbase Fundamentalbase (talk) 14:31, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge discussion for Pontoon fenders

The article Pontoon fenders has been proposed for a merge. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. 842U (talk) 13:34, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Francis Bacon

Thank you so much for the structural corrections in the article about Francis Bacon!

Greetings from Brazil — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danilloclm (talk • contribs) 00:36, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Additive synthesis

FrescoBot recently made minor changes (diff) to the Additive Synthesis article. I'd like to discuss one change. In the timeline table, on the rightmost column "DOB and AFB appear in <ref>" got changed to "DOB and AFB appear in<ref>". The original notation is intended as a shorthand for "DOB and AFB appear in The New Sound of Music<ref>". The title is omitted to keep the table compact. Removing the space between "in" and "<ref>" changed the meaning of the sentence. Other articles might have something similar such as "(see also <ref>", which should be handled similarly. I could not find instructions in Manual of Style on how to write things like these, so maybe you have a suggestion or can change the bot so that it does not remove the space. Olli Niemitalo (talk) 09:48, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The best way to keep a special space before the <ref> is to use " <ref>". Another solution in my opinion is use something real before the note number, eg: "...appear in note<ref>..." -- Basilicofresco (msg) 20:45, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Would &#32; work? Olli Niemitalo (talk) 23:38, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sure,   works. Nevertheless consider "note<ref>...", in my opinion it is easier to understand. I suggest you to can ask for an opinion in Help talk:Footnotes.-- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:51, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FrescoBot error at Double Trigger

Bot change Horse breeding to Horse Breeds in the Double Trigger article.[28] This is change incorrect- and there are hundreds of similar articles. No more of these please! Best wishes. Tigerboy1966 16:57, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi! Not exactly, the bot's actually changing Horse#breeding to Horse#Breeds because it is a section wikilink and, as you can see, there is no section called "breeding" in Horse article. Since Horse#breeding does not exist I suggest to replace these links with Horse breeding. What do you think? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:41, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your prompt reply. I see what happened now. The original text had a mistake in it. It had Horse#breeding|dam when it should have read Horse breeding#Terminology|dam. And as I wrote the article it's my mistake. Hopefully there aren't too many more like that. Tigerboy1966 18:38, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi gang, I accidentally came by this while looking to post on Tigerboy's page. You all may benefit from knowing that we also have Glossary of equestrian terms handy for wikilinking certain weird horsey words that don't have their own article, and for finding weird horsey words that DO. It also includes a list of all the other horse glossary lists (including a list of horse racing terms, FYI). Hope this helps and if you need any help, drop me a message or one at WPEQ's talk page any time! Montanabw^(talk) 23:00, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi FrescoBot could help me so that they don't delete my page, I have made a mistake nad errors, please, thanks.

Due to unfortunate errors in the wikipedia page Alejandro Correa Rueda, want to delete. All this for wrong interpretation of the meaning that said: "This article is an orphan, as few or no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; suggestions may be available. (February 2012)". In a very arbitrary denunciation his said was an autobiography. It's just a humble biography of a great biologist in Chile. Incorrect changes that were made same day and Señor Daniel Case is nominating me to delete my page. Not delete the page, please help. Always I've contribute to wikipedia(2 years).

Best regards,

Alejandro — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alejandro Correa Rueda (talk • contribs) 22:45, 22 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.21.76.111 (talk) [reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Alejandro Correa Rueda. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 16:46, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Rev. John Brown - Facebook

Just looking to see who posted info on Rev. John Brown 1763-1842. This is my great x 4 grandfather. Would like to know how and where you got this info, are you related, etc. Keri McDaniel redheadedlassie@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.197.50.207 (talk) 23:32, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page John Brown (educator). My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:38, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WP:COSMETICBOT

Please don't do edits like this. They serve no real purpose. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:42, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also, this could use some logic-tweaking (aka [29]). Likewise for [30]. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:40, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Here there was a missing space in "highest order,[[Writing of Principia". Well, I can avoid this fix... but in my opinion a missing space after a coma is still a mistake. Isn't it? The encoded link was not fully converted because the script still do not decode hebrew alphabet. With logic-tweaking what do you mean? Improving the number of decoded alphabets? Ps. Your converted link in History of Palestine is broken. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:55, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh I see it now. Stupid software not highlighting things. Nevermind then. By curiousity, what is different in the two headers? I'm comparing both version in the edit window and I can't find anything different. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 12:01, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The changes to the two headers instead were pretty cosmetic: there were some trailing spaces at the end of the line. Header cleanup and few others simple cosmetic checks (not from cosmetic_changes.py) are performed only after a substantial edit. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:42, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Removing trailing spaces from headers is more than cosmetic. There is a bug in MediaWiki 1.19 where if you edit a section which has one or more trailing spaces on the header line, the edit summary is not pre-filled. Removing the trailing spaces will fix this for the next edit to that section. It was noted at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 97#Sections sporadically absent from edit summaries and one month on, the promised bugfix is still not live. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:53, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Uh... thank you for pointing it out! Nevertheless, I guess there is no need for a massive bot correction, right? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 08:58, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't bother starting a fresh bot task just to clean up trailing spaces on headers, but I think that your bot should fix these if it's going to be fixing something else. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:54, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki 1.20 was rolled out not long after 18:00 UTC today, and that seems to have fixed the bug to which I referred above. So, it can drop down your priority list. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:33, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting Vandalism

Article Khetran has been vandalised and I cant find the last sensible version of it in its history pages. Can you please have a look at it. Thanks OmerKhetran (talk) 20:58, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Commons link from disambig

Frescobot keeps adding a commons link from a disambiguation page http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Whitemoor&diff=488771549&oldid=486087973 - the link is wrong.. Oranjblud (talk) 16:05, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Woops... Thank you! I will immediately fix this problem. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:45, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Correcting links in templates

Hi! Regarding this edit -- the bot really shouldn't be fixing templates without supervision (at least not all of the cases). There are perfectly good cases when it is appropriate to have something that may be incorrect in articles. I believe the task was implied to be approved for mainspace. If you think this happens very rarely, and too many templates will go unfixed if you disable it, I can change brackets to html entity counter-parts. Cheers. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 12:42, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It is a very well tested script... but templates sometimes contain some unexpected patterns. I added the above template in the exclusion list and I will come back to supervised mode for template namespace. Thank you. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:53, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

it:Tiro del giavellotto

Ciao Basilicofresco. Beh, se guardi bene non è detto che «In effetti le cose stanno così» come hai ipotizzato. Qui lo spiego bene. In estrema sintesi:

Ho portato fonti (Enciclopedia Treccani, Enciclopedia dello Sport) a sostegno della correttazza del lemma "Lancio del giavellotto".
Il contrario non è stato fatto.
È stato detto che il "throw" inglese (riferito ai tre lanci: giavellotto, martello e disco), fosse riferito anche a peso. Ma non è vero perché si dice "shot put".
FIDAL, CONI, Gazzetta dello Sport e RAI da sempre nei loro almanacchi, nelle trasmissioni o nei loro articoli parlano di "lancio del giavellotto". Idem per i tabellini di tutte le gare nazionali.
Se vai al lemma it:giavellotto, spiega chiaramente che dalla notte dei tempi questa è una it:lancia (arma), e come tale si...lancia appunto, non si tira.

Insomma più scarsi sono gli argomenti a sostegno di "tiro del giavellotto". La "presunzione" con cui è stato deciso AUTONOMAMENTE (senza consultre la comunità), lo spostamento del lemma e di decine e decine di voci che stavano lì da 8 anni (fegandosene pure di sistemare i redirect), è fastidiosa. Ti prego di rivalutare alla luce di queste mie osservazioni. --Kasper2006 (talk) 07:14, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Non ho mai scritto che "In effetti le cose stanno così". -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:00, 5 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

posta ricevuta

Che si desidera di refirimento user wikipedia commons:Lumentzaspi? As per today some changes have been done by you in my page. AM I CORRECT ABOUT IT? Que me puede explicar sobre algun cambio en mi pagina de usuario Lumentzaspi, agradeceria cualquier explicación. Sincerelly. Cordiali saluti de Lumentzaspi. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.7.250.126 (talk) 18:26, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You will find the explanation in your talkpage on Commons: [31] -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:00, 5 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Santa Teresa Gallura

Ciao, secondo me non sono ridondanti. Populated places established in 1808 indica che da quell'anno (1808) è iniziata la costruzione e hanno cominciato a viverci delle famiglie. 1821 establishments in Italy e States and territories established in 1821 indicano che in quell'anno (1821) è nato ufficialmente il Comune di Santa Teresa come ente amministrativo territoriale. Ciao, --Felisopus (talk) 06:08, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Si tratta di una sovracategorizzazione. "States and territories established in xxxx" poi non è fatto per i comuni, ma per entità territoriali più significative come stati, ducati, regioni, ecc. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:50, 5 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Continuo a non capire con cosa sia ridondante 1821 establishments in Italy, si tratta di una categorizzazione geografica e non per tipologia. States and territories established in xxxx è intenzionalmente vaga, il Comune è un ente territoriale e anche la voce italiana dice Un territorio è un'area definita o delimitata che include porzioni di suolo o di acque, considerata di solito un possedimento [...] di un'istituzione". Se esistesse una categoria più specifica sarei felice di usarla, ma non essendoci fino alla sua creazione possono stare anche lì. --Felisopus (talk) 11:19, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ma se non ci sono nemmeno queste informazioni nella voce, come si fa anche solo a capirne il significato? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:21, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request

Can you fix these redirects?

Redeye (film), Red Eye (Korean film) → Red Eye (South Korean film): Will redirect the former to Red eye
Red Eye (film) → Red Eye (American film): Will redirect to Red eye
Macau TV → TDM Ou Mun: Wrong name. Will redirect to Media of Macau
O Broadcasting System → OBS (South Korean broadcaster): Wrong name. Please delete the former after fix is done.
Georgian Public Broadcasting → Georgian Public Broadcaster: New English name
1TV (Georgian TV channel) → First Channel (Georgian TV channel): Wrong English name.
2TV (Georgia) → Second Channel (Georgian TV channel): Wrong English name.

JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 07:57, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done, I suggest to keep O Broadcasting System because there is no need to delete it and it is useful for the page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/O Broadcasting System. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:17, 15 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Joychandi Pahar

Please don't change anything from my article ,or else you will be blocked from editing.I am the owner of this article. from User:abitoby

In view of that comment, also those that you made at Talk:Shyamal Kumar Sen; Talk:Joychandi Pahar; Talk:Acting President of India; and Talk:Acting President of India (again) - please see WP:OWN. Also, you should not WP:THREATEN somebody who is operating within Wikipedia rules. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:43, 21 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Abitoby, nobody will block me or anybodyelse for the above reason because on Wikipedia nobody owns an article. Please read carefully the page Wikipedia:Ownership of articles. Neverless if you find any substantial or technical problem in my edits, please let me know. Thanks. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:46, 21 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Could you take a look at said users page, especially interesting are User_talk:Abitoby#Pranab_Mukherjee. User_talk:Abitoby#Indian_presidential_election.2C_2012 and User_talk:Abitoby#Article_ownership. He's at repeated warnings and I offered to assist but he still continues. Most of his edits are revrted or need to be. hink he needs a block to tell him to step back.Lihaas (talk) 21:59, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And right now hes back to it on the Indian prez election page after all the warning and not a hint of discussion

Hes quite easily due for an ANI blockLihaas (talk) 00:44, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Okey done at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Abitoby.27s_disregard_and_continued_.22vandalism.22 Lihaas (talk) 01:17, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Misplaced invisible LTR marks

I would like to add this feauture in AutoWikiBroswer. So, can you please tell me: Do you remove this character in en.wiki from every place or just from categories? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:16, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I'm removing this characters from categories link, images link and wikilinks. Here are the regex I'm using:

(u"\.([Jj][Pp][Ee]?[Gg]|[Oo][Gg][Vv]|[Ss][Vv][Gg]|[Pp][Nn][Gg]|[Gg][Ii][Ff]) *\u200E+(?!\w)", ur'.\1'),
(u"\.([Jj][Pp][Ee]?[Gg]|[Oo][Gg][Vv]|[Ss][Vv][Gg]|[Pp][Nn][Gg]|[Gg][Ii][Ff])\u200E+", ur'.\1'),
(u"\[\[[Cc]ategor(y|ia):([^\[\]\u200E]*)\u200E+(?!\u200E)([^\[\]]*)(\]\]|\|)", ur'[[Categor\1:\2\3\4'),
(u"\[\[\u200E([^\[\]\r\n]+)(\]\]|\|)", ur'[[\1\2'),
(u"\[\[([^\[\]\r\n\u200E]+)\u200E+(\]\]|\|)", ur'[[\1\2'),
(u"\[\[\u200E([^\[\]\r\n]+)(\]\]|\|)", ur'[[\1\2'),
(u"\[\[([^\[\]\r\n\u200E]+)\u200E+(\]\]|\|)", ur'[[\1\2'),

Basilicofresco (msg) 21:00, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notable exception: Scrabble letter distributions -- Basilicofresco (msg) 13:34, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this list. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:34, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

CHECKWIKI asks all &#FEFF; or &#200E; or &#200B; to be removed. Maybe you could expand your logic? I already removed all these 3 invisible characters from 6,000 pages. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:41, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bot incorrectly removes bold formatting from album name in chronology

In the chronology section of the infobox for an album's article, the name of the album itself should have both italic and bold formatting. Sometimes editors (myself included) incorrectly add the bold formatting by wikilinking the album's name instead of using three extra quotes on either side of it. Unfortunately ‎FrescoBot only partly fixes the problem, leaving the album title italic, but not bold — see this edit (which I have already fixed) http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=In_the_Spotlight&curid=33208674&diff=503895485&oldid=503364779

To fix the problem properly, the bot needs to add extra quotes when it deletes the square brackets. It should probably act in the same way whenever it does this fix because similar formatting is needed for all chronologies, so in all cases the boldness is more likely to be intended than unintentional — Peter Loader (talk) 12:08, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 13:35, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

bot

Thanks for having your bot catch the problem with a hyperlink in the Casey Neistat article. (But unfortunately, the fix applied was a little imperfect.) Bwrs (talk) 16:21, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Organizing a cluttered reflist: Need your help

Dear Basilicofresco,

I'm currently editing the "Aitken Spence" wikipedia page and need help organizing the reference list. At the moment, all the references are clustered together. I want to separate the referencing into following sections: History, Corporate Governance,and Hotels. So that readers can easily identify which references that relate to similar content. I'm also hoping to add more content in the future on different areas, so if you could advise me on how this could be done, I would most appreciate it.

Thanks,

Adheesha — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adheesha88 (talk • contribs) 04:16, 29 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! You will find at Wikipedia:Notes#Grouping footnotes what you have to know in order to group footnotes. Good editing! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:33, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

External link with line break

I wonder if your bot fixes or could fix also External link with line break. CHECKWIKI produces a list which can be found here: http://toolserver.org/~sk/cgi-bin/checkwiki/checkwiki.cgi?project=enwiki&view=only&id=80 -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:37, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Architectural education in the United Kingdom

Your Revision 20:46, 10 August 2012 to Architectural education in the United Kingdom destroyed the source citation. Qexigator (talk) 22:42, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I checked my edit and I'm not able to find any problem with it. Actually you removed the link to the source.

The text was: <ref>[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Paul_George_Konody]</ref> and therefore the footnote looked like this "[32]", pretty obscure
FrescoBot converted the link to the standard interwiki syntax: <ref>[[s:Author:Paul George Konody]]</ref> and the footnote became "s:Author:Paul George Konody" (please note that here you are able to see with the s: that the link points Wikisource)
Then you removed the footnote and replaced it with: "(so described at the page of wikisource for Paul_George_Konody)".

I'm going to revert your edit in order to restore the link to Wikisource. Moreover there are wrong underscores and Wikisource is not capitalized. If you feel I'm missing something in your remark, please feel free to write me again. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 14:03, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Basilicofresco for that explanation. I do not see that your expansion of the footnote helps a reader, who if actually interested would have to make the link to see what it is supposed to mean. I have therefore reinserted the explicit words in the text, together with the ref. as you propose. Can we leave it at that? Qexigator (talk) 20:25, 11 August 2012 (UTC) (repetition removed Qexigator (talk) 21:37, 11 August 2012 (UTC))[reply]

Ok. I just removed underscores in Paul_George_Konody and moved the footnote within the brackets. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:17, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's neater. Also, the Wikisource link offers further links to Bordone and Donatello, and to the Who's Who and portrait refs for Konody, which may be useful for an inquiring reader. Qexigator (talk) 07:24, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot is damaging articles

See, for example:

diff of Dieter Thomas Heck

This is a user reverting your bot's edit. The bot is tightening up adjacent ref tags, which is fine in prose, but is quite inappropriate in Help:Footnotes#List-defined_references, where they are usually spaced out a bit for readability. Please fix this as soon as possible. Br'er Rabbit (talk) 09:12, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:56, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Grossman

I note that you once before fixed an incorrect edit by FrescoBot to the Grossman disambiguation page. It did it again :) [33] I've undone it now. -- Limulus (talk) 08:43, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for pointing it out. Fixed using a much more reliable method: zero-width joiner character (&zwj;). -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:46, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, thanks for fixing that! I also learned something new :) -- Limulus (talk) 06:01, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Stub

A page named "Dudhra" is a stub with non-reliable sources and un-cited details, which reflects personal advertisment for the clan referred in the article. A speedy deletion tag has been added but later removed by an editor, may be the author of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.220.215.13 (talk) 16:20, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Dudhra. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 07:56, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Loket iron

Hi, would you care to check the info on Elbogen (meteorite) for me please, once you deal with the subject. There is a "Per natif" in the infobox that I can't understand. It's about checking, maybe improving the article, as you see fit. Unfortunately, not many people feel interested in improvements nowadays. Thanks ! Krenakarore ^TK 13:39, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Frankie Fleming/Wikipedia

Wikipedia says you published or contributed to an article on boxer Frankie Fleming. He is (unfortunately) an osbcure figure and I was curious where you got the information. Fleming is also my great uncle, and the fact that his championship belt is still in the possession of the family (my uncle) is little known, even within my family. 170.222.100.210 (talk) 13:43, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Frankie Fleming. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. Please contact instead TJKnows. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 13:53, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

union city ca page

Basilicofresco do you alot edits for union city calfornia Wikipedia i like you add some update things to page Logancolt2011 (talk) 15:32, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Attention please

Hi! As you can see in the page history I was not involved in the development of the page Union City, California. My only contribution was just a small correction as FrescoBot, an automated bot. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 16:28, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	This barnstar is awarded to recognize particularly fine contributions to Wikipedi Kirananils (talk) 06:46, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!! :) -- Basilicofresco (msg) 16:38, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Filippo/Felipe

Hi. Another user in es:WP has noted a mistake in an interwiki. In spanish exist es:Felipe, who may link with en:Philip (name); however, bots link it with en:Filippo, but already exist es:Filippo. So, interwiki are interchange :), but when someone try to fix it the bot replace then again. Can you check this, please? Thanks. --Ganímedes (talk) 00:00, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's a mess... it is not easy to fix because every language has to be fixed in order to create different groups of articles: all the translations of Filippo, all the translations of Felipe, and so on. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 16:38, 22 August 2012 (UTC) My bot does not work on interwikies, you could ask some help to an interwiki bot operator: they probably know how fix it in the proper way. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 16:41, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard/Archive 7#Request: "Bad link" advice for interwiki bots. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:32, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hill 70 edit

I looked at you recent edit but found it difficult to see what had been edited at times. An example is </ref> where there is a coloured bar after the > on the edit summary or a square coloured block. Is there somewhere on Wiki which explains things like this? I noticed too that Predicted fire was changed to predicted. Does it follow that you don't necessarily have to do a [[ ]] with any capital letters for it to work without a |(lower case) ? ThanksKeith-264 (talk) 18:24, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Assuming that you are referring to this edit, most of it is removal of superfluous spaces, either at the ends of lines or where two spaces had been used when one would have done. The change of [[Predicted fire|predicted fire]] to [[predicted fire]] is, as you surmise, because the case of the first letter is unimportant: see Help:Link#Wikilinks where it states "The link target is case-sensitive except for the first character ..." --Redrose64 (talk) 19:37, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that's most helpful. I've occasionally seen an errant double space (usually done by me). When there's a letterbox with a minus sign does that mean that there was a double space at the end of a line of text then? Thanks for the link too.Keith-264 (talk) 08:46, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! You can see the removed spaces within the letterbox: they are highlighted in yellow. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:02, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Not sure what you mean by "a letterbox with a minus sign"; but there is an explanation of page diffs at Help:Diff. Text removed is shown on the left with an orange background, and at this edit I see several cases where there is an orange background but no text over that background, such as in the middle of a line "15 August to 25 August 1917" or at the end of a line "p. 297</ref> ". These orange rectangles with no text indiacte positions where spaces were removed. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:12, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There are a couple of empty narrow rectangles with a + and a - sign. In some big rectangles with chunks of text there is a black outline also with + and - but I can't see an amendment. Obviously when someone edits things I have written, I look so I can learn from them but as usual when I look for a wiki guide it's useless; only the ones recommended by other people help (they usually assume too much knowledge to be helpful to me). Anyway, thanks for replying, I've learnt something already.;O)Keith-264 (talk) 00:02, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In that edit the bot removed also several trailing spaces at the end of the line. Take a look after the last full stop within the letterboxes. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:20, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see. Will you be running it over the other Passchendaele pages?Keith-264 (talk) 07:23, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I checked that pages: no changes were necessary at the moment. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 23:39, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All of them? ThanksKeith-264 (talk) 10:56, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well all the articles about Category:Battles of the Western Front (World War I). -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:22, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Closing parenthesis

FYI, User:FrescoBot has twice made the same error edit at Anthony Henday Drive in the last 10 days. Note how the closing parenthesis is after the second wikilink. See here. Can the bot be fixed from doing this again? Hwy43 (talk) 03:55, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing it out! I replaced the above link with a new solution that in my opinion it's even better and more specific. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:22, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No runs this month?

Frescobot didn't run this month. Something happened? We need you around :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:57, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry, I'm back. ;) -- Basilicofresco (msg) 22:48, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks! I took the liberty to add you here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia#Bots. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:08, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]