User talk:AntiSpamBot/Mar2007

Edits to Mark Bavaro

I'm trying to link a citation to a statement, because another bot keeps reverting it if I dont. Now when I do that, your bot reverts it! Its a football database, I dont understand how this is spam. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by FeloniusP (talk • contribs) 19:52, 1 March 2007 (UTC).

Shadowbot is reverting because you're including a link to example.com in your edits. Take that out and you'll be left alone. Shadow1 (talk) 20:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Example.com? I have no idea what you are talking about. --FeloniusP 20:28, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

This is one of the edits you made. If you'll notice, you inserted example.com into the article, whether you knew it or not. Shadowbot picked this up and reverted. The actual link you were trying to add isn't the reason Shadowbot reverted. Shadow1 (talk) 21:12, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't even see that! Thanks, sorry about the mishap. --FeloniusP 21:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

No problem, it happens to a lot of people. Shadow1 (talk) 22:57, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Angelfire blanket

got called for spam for posting a link to http://www.angelfire.com/80s/newmonkees/ here. Bot seems a bit aggressive to me, but I guess you've heard that enough by now, hopefully this helps your revamp. —Fitch 00:53, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Why is an unofficial site necessary, if you don't mind my asking? Shadow1 (talk) 01:45, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Revert to statistic change

The bot appears to have reverted a valid change to the album sales statistics for the Dixie Chicks album, Taking the Long Way. Here's the revision link: linky. I'm not going to revert the change, though, because I don't know enough about the stats (and someone else will update them next week anyway) --Robertb-dc 16:51, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

It looks like that was triggered by the proboards link on the same line. Shadowbot checks not only added content, but changed content, and it assumes that the entire line was changed. Shadow1 (talk) 20:33, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I'll go ahead and revert back to the original. I wonder if the bot should avoid reverting a link to a possibly-spam site if the old and new links are on the same host? I'm sure the bot is doing much more good than bad, and this is probably an unusual case. --Robertb-dc 22:27, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

NEDM in Coburn (band)

Coburn (band) makes an assertion about an Internet fad called "NEDM". I cited a source for this assertion, which is generally considered reliable among the community in which this fad exists. Shadowbot reverted my edit, even though the domain wiki.ytmnd.com is on English Wikipedia's whitelist. I reverted the reversion, using the <nowiki> tag to avoid creating an external link. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 22:53, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Lewis Sabran

I added a merger proposal tag to Lewis Sabran, whereupon Shadowbot regarded it as spam and reverted it. (Strangely enough, Shadowbot didn't catch the exact same action that I did to Louis de Sabran.) I tried again immediately afterward and succeeded, so undoing the revert isn't necessary. -John Rigali 06:32, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Shadowbot reverted because you accidentally added a link to 'example.com' (see here, after the merge-tag, before Lewis Sabran). It's OK now. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 09:17, 3 March 2007 (UTC)