User talk:XLinkBot

This is the talkpage of XLinkBot (formerly SquelchBot), a bot designed to revert spamming, or other edits that introduce external links which do not comply with our external links guideline, or with the policy 'What wikipedia is not' (not a repository of links section). Please leave new comments here by clicking this link If your additions were reverted by XLinkBot, please take time to review our external links & spam guidelines, and take note that Wikipedia is not a repository of links, nor a directory. If you feel your addition was within those policies and guidelines and are Reliable and Verifiable, you may undo the changes made by XLinkBot. Questions are welcome, however this talk page is for civil discussion and is not a complaints department.

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Not added references

Crazy bot :) my change's diff is [1] Correct settings, please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.76.116.39 (talk) 16:04, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

references

The other two links I added as references were from reputable newspapers and thus serve as a good source of information. Why were they deleted? Thanks.

- Alfonso129

Sophie Aldred page reverted?

I dont see how this is classed as spam, I only linked to the facebook group as a source.

Bad Manners

the band Bad Manner's official site is closed and the link is not-working, when i tried to add a link to their official myspace page i got a rejection

RE:Revision history of Love Boat (study tour)

Good work on your part in the effort to eliminate extraneous links. However in this particular case you did not do your research or check in depth. The friendster loveboat2000 site is an alumni site for Taiwan studytour participants like some of the others. If you look and read closely to the message board there are testimonials to the tour's impact and there is absolutely no spam nor is it used for advertising. It is further evidence of the many people who had a significant cultural experience when going to Taiwan on the tour. To delete such a link is to show a cultural insensitivity and an obtuse racial blindness to significance of these networking sites to the Overseas Chinese Community. Please continue your efforts to reduce spam and porn links on Wiki, but please also leave well meaning and appropriate links to sites such as these alone. Thank you.

Cruella De VIlle

Regarding the alteration of this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Cruella_de_Ville&diff=205995108&oldid=205995092)

The CDV Wikipedia page is the ONLY up to date information site for the band...!

I included the list for videos availble on YouTube as factual information (as well as showing what few video performances of the band have survived)... and the link to facebook was only added so fans had a chance of contacting each other - again there are not many CDV sites on the internet.

So I don't understand why these have been edited... especially the video list

PLUS you've reverted to a version the contains a link to the CDV "Stage 6" webpage... Stage6 has closed down so the link was removed.

James (a CDV fan in contact with Philomena & Colum Muinzer of CDV)

What's wrong with my edits?

I added an external link to Maajid Nawaaz's and Ed Hussain's blog - the link is relevant. Why was it revereted??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Javk (talk • contribs) 23:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

You added an external link to a blogspot. Links to blogs are only OK when they are the official blog of the subject of the page, which is here not the case. Hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 19:29, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Dirk, that is not the policy, from WP:EL "Links to blogs and personal web pages, except those written by a recognized authority" are normally to be avoided. That gives considerably greater flexibiity than you specified. Any blog may be used if there is a particular good reason & it isnt being used for spam.Agreed, 95% or so of the blogs added here are improper, but the tolerance is not quite as narrow as you say. DGG (talk) 22:11, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

You are right, David, my mistake (your description is also what the bot leaves on the talkpage after reverting blogs). Here, a blogspot was added to the external links section; though it may be that a whole blogspot not written by the subject of the page is relevant for the subject of the page, I do believe it may only be a few posts on that specific blogspot. If the bot and I are both mistaken, then please revert the bot. It should not revert you twice in a row. Hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 13:41, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

The external blogsite review of the theology of this page is clearly substantive, relevant and contributes. Please advise in light of the above actual policy why this site is still excluded? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jak54 (talk • contribs) 20:50, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Bad Editing

I recently tried to edit a page and did it incorrectly, my apologies.66.210.5.90 (talk) 17:37, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

over zealous deletion

1. You are reversing edits if any part of them is adding a myspace link. This is deleting good material also. e.g. [2]

2. We have no absolute rule against linking to myspace if that's where a subjects official page is. WP:EL says "normally to be avoided" not always prohibited. Are you doing this automatically, or is a human looking at what you are doing? DGG (talk) 22:08, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Re 1. Yes, it reverses all edits by the editor (can be changed in the settings), it is impossible to parse out only the link, that is too prone to leaving garbage, as there are too many ways of inserting external links.

Re 2. Indeed, therefore the bot can be reverted, it only reverts once, it does not revert to other antivandalism bots, it obeys 3RR, it only reverts unestablished and IP editors (except when whitelisted), and it does not block itself (I hope the admins reviewing on AIV do check before blocking after bot-reports), etc. etc. Rules here should have a pretty low error rate, but there will always be errors (and therefore the built-in safety features; if there are indeed too many errors, then the rule should be removed). All reversions are mentioned on IRC, and there are quite often people watching (unfortunately there are not enough people watching the link addition feeds, as opposed to the recent edits patrollers (though they probably also remove quite some unwanted links). --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:35, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

My bad

I was unaware of the Youtube thing, sorry.72.0.36.36 (talk) 04:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Eagle Claw

I do not see anything wrong with what I did but thanks anyway if I did do something wrong. --86.41.91.199 (talk) 20:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Your ridiculous note on my talk page

Hey! I never even added any links to Demi Lovato! I think something got to your head or maybe you're dumb, but I did not add ANY LINK to the Demi Lovato article! I think that it was stupid and unfair to leave a ridiculous note like that on my talk page. I don't even care if you still think I changed the Demi article. i just don't want you to leave messages like that on my talk page again. DemiLovato15 (talk) 01:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

You edited a myspace.com link that was already there (btw: either of those link formats work for her site.. the longer one redirects to the shorter one).. It's good that the bot reverted you though. When you made those two edits, it seems you inadvertently removed some wiki-markup which broke the page formatting. --Versageek 02:05, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

You shouldn't be butting in on conversations that don't even involve you! This is between me and XLinkbot, not you! Mind your own business! DemiLovato15 (talk) 21:04, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Please, stay calm. It actually has everything to do with Versageek. XLinkBot is, as the name suggests, a bot that is run by Versageek. Any problems with the bot should be forwarded to him. Paragon12321 (talk) 21:16, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey! Mind your own business next time! This doesn't concern you. DemiLovato15 (talk) 21:21, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I do have to agree with you. You didn't add a link, you just fixed one. I don't know specifically how this bot works, but it probably just reverts any myspace links. Just remember, this is a bot, and there are false positives. Just stay calm next time. You can remove the warning if you want. Paragon12321 (talk) 21:42, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for agreeing with me! By the way, I removed the warning just now. The warning practically filled up my entire talk page! Again thank you! DemiLovato15 (talk) 22:42, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Just keep a cool head and you'll find that people are more helpful. Paragon12321 (talk) 23:59, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't get it. Demi, were you expecting the bot to reply? Enigma ^message 00:04, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

I guess this isn't the only bot... Enigma ^message 00:06, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

It is also possible that Demi didn't know that they were automatic bots or just someone that has "bot" in there name. Paragon12321 (talk) 00:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey! Don't talk about me behind my back! DemiLovato15 (talk) 01:36, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

See User:DemiLovato15 and Category: Wikipedia sockpuppets of Kristy22. DemiLovato15 is now indefinitely blocked. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:27, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Jerry Cornelius edit

Hi - I've just edited the Jerry Cornelius page, and my edits were removed because of having myspace page links. I am in one of the bands referred to, and this was a preliminary action to me putting on a page about our band..... I've just read the conflict of interest page.... I've contributed to other wikis, so I'm used to NPOV policies, which hopefully should be evident from this initial edit - can you do a page about your own band, if you restrict yourself accordingly? (please reply on my talk page if possible!) --The Space Banana (talk) 13:07, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

replied on user's talk page --Versageek 18:19, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Random, spurious "1" in the automated user talk message

The bot is leaving a random, spurious "1" in the automated user talk messages. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 06:19, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Can you give me an example(-diff), I may have mistyped something, but I don't see it anywhere?? Thanks!! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 22:08, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Found it, an error in my perlwikipedia library (returns "1" when the page is empty) .. repaired, thanks for notifying me of this! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 09:20, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Leona Lewis Edit

It has been confirmed both on her my space & her site that she's filming a new video, it's not on wikipedia so i added it with the factual reference, why did you remove it? Could you add it yourself then please, thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MusicAngel16 (talk • contribs) 08:11, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Allen Raymond

Hello talk people. I have a (civil!) question.

It relates to the Allen Raymond page. I added two links to video in which Raymond is interviewed. Both were automatically rejected. In the one case, it is on youtube. I am the creator of the video on youtube (also posted on Viddler.com) and own the rights to it and think that it is relevant to the Raymond page.

Raymond is known for breaking the law in an election in 2002, and he wrote a book about it, and this video is him talking about the book, American politics, and election laws. Raymond is going to be speaking to the US Congress this week, and I think people who miss that and/or hear about him on the news will find the video of him on youtube (and a second video piece on him, on the Velvet Revolution site) relevant to who he is and what he has to say about American political election process.

Is it possible to have these videos posted? Or is this not acceptable? I'm not sure that the auto-rejection, in this case, is helping support wikipedia. But then again I am new to wiki and while I have read all the relevant support pages, I am a new person to wiki policy.

Wikiliterary (talk) 16:57, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Youtube videos are in the large majority of the cases a problem, but there is legit use. The bot is used to notify new and unestablished editors of that. If however, you believe an external link you added is appropriate (in line with the policies WP:NOT#REPOSITORY, WP:NOT#SOAPBOX, WP:NOT#DIRECTORY (and more in WP:NOT), WP:COPYRIGHT, and the guidelines WP:EL, WP:SPAM, WP:COI and other policies and guidelines), then you can revert the bot, it will not revert twice in a row (though the bot operators will be notified off-wiki). Hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 09:12, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks to this bot for the quick reversion to Pat Burrell. It's quite a nice touch to have all these bots revert things that would take us all a while to find. Thanks! KV5 (talk) 20:10, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

High Rollers

I wasn't trying to vandalize High Rollers. I was adding links so that interested people could see the pilot episode of the Wink Martindale series. Where's the harm in that? --24.106.53.166 (talk) 02:44, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

We are writing an encyclopedia here, not a linkfarm and not an internet directory. Hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:59, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

video about color revolution

It is a documentary movie. The sound track is in Japanese, the subtitle is in Chinese. If you know either language, you should know the reason I add this to external link. However, I don't care too much.--70.79.204.95 (talk) 15:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

If you really believe it is appropriate (see the policies and guidelines cited in the warning on your talkpage for concerns), then you can undo the reversion by the bot, it will not revert you again. Hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:29, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Love the welcome, but...

...you need reprogramming. I was repairing damage that someone else had done to the Fouke article. 65.163.115.254 (talk) 04:56, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Heh, sorry, that indeed happens, and is impossible to detect. You can just revert the bot, it will not revert twice in a row, I'll remove the warning on your talkpage. --Beetstra (public) (Dirk Beetstra^{T C} on public computers) 09:51, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

external link not working

Sorry for my total lack of Wiki experience! Thanks for following revision (BOT - Notifying 213.174.185.143 of reverted changes to Sonic Belligeranza (first warning)) I noticed the external link to myspace doesn't work because of a mistake in the url: an / more at the end of the url. Can you remove it or is better that I do myself? Thanks again!