User talk:Cyberpower678

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Senior Editor II

—CYBERPOWER (Happy 2025)
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• Hello!! I am Cyberpower678. I am an administrator on Wikipedia. Despite that, I'm still your run of the mill user here on Wikipedia.
• I specialize in bot work and tools, but I lurk around RfPP, AfD, AIV, and AN/I, as well as RfA. If you have any questions in those areas, please feel free to ask. :-)
• For InternetArchiveBot matters specifically, please see meta:InternetArchiveBot/Problem for common issues or meta:User talk:InternetArchiveBot to leave a message
• I also serve as a mailing list moderator and account creator over at the Account Creation Center. If you have any questions regarding an account I created for you, or the process itself, feel free to email the WP:ACC team or me personally.
• At current I have helped to create accounts for 2512 different users and renamed 793 other users.
• Disputes or discussions that appear to have ended or is disputed will be archived.

All the best.—cyberpower

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Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update

No current discussions. Recent RfAs, recent RfBs: (successful, unsuccessful)

Talk:Michael Greger#Request for comments on SBM source and WP:ANRFC

Hi Cyberpower678. Thank you for your very detailed close of the contentious RfC Talk:Michael Greger#Request for comments on SBM source! I hope that you continue closing discussions at WP:ANRFC if you have the time and inclination. WP:ANRFC needs closers who are willing to write meticulous closes of RfCs that are very difficult to close. Thank you again! Cunard (talk) 05:56, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

I'll work on knocking one out every few days. I'm looking at the next one already.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:28, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

I'll work on knocking one out every few days Er, you do know what "knock one out" means? Disgusting..... Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:44, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Erm...I do now. That wasn't what I meant though. :/—CYBERPOWER (Around) 13:16, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Front end on X tools

The front end on X tools' appears to go to the wrong place. If I browse to http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/ and type in my username, I get redirected to http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Ritchie333&project=en.wikipedia.org which is blank. There's another link, http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/index.php?name=Ritchie333&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia which does work. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:44, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Both links seem work and go to the same page.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:23, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Embedded dead link templates

See this cite. Caused by a {{dead link}} embedded inside a cite template. I can't recall if this is a known and/or fixed problem. I'll need to add this to WM to correct, and go back and discover the old ones. -- GreenC 19:06, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, forgot I already reported this and will follow up there. -- GreenC 00:20, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

It's likely because the template isn't listed in the config page. If it's not listed, it won't get acknowledged.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:21, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Yes that's it, they are all rare templates like cite court. WM will now catch them and the old ones are fixed. -- GreenC 01:17, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Cyberbot warning section headers

Hi. Cyberbot appears to be inserting text intended for the edit summary into section headers when placing warnings on non-IP user talk pages (example). --Paul_012 (talk) 20:47, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

That's funny, I'm not sure if that's a framework issue, or Cyberbot's. I'll have to investigate.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:23, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

RfX Report Problem

As a heads up, for some reason Cyberbot cleared the entire page of the RfX Report about 3 hours ago. Also, congratulations on the successful RfA! Inks.LWC (talk) 23:56, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

I gave it a kick. If this happens again, you can simply transclude and RfA that's been closed long enough until the bot updates the page and remove it again. That will fix your problem. Thanks for the congrats.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:24, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Good to know; I thought about doing that, but I was worried there might be a deeper problem and didn't want to do that without knowing that I wouldn't be making something worse. Inks.LWC (talk) 00:27, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

It's Wikipedia, the worst that happens is the bot some how completely throws some junk into the page which can be reverted. The bot can easily be disabled by most users using the run page.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:30, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Bot archiving of RfPP

Hasn't been active since midnight, server time: https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection&action=history Samsara (talk) 07:24, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

I was going to ask about this too. Is User:cyberbot I taking a nap? We miss cute his little clerkly self. --MelanieN (talk) 22:22, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Looking at the bot's userpage, and the RfX Reporter, it appears to have gone down entirely, but the execution node itself appears to still be functional. I'll reboot it in a sec.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 01:07, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

So the NFS maintenance ended up completely screwing up the exec node. File permissions were and a whole bunch of bot files got deleted. I have restored them from my backup and the bot is booting back up.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 01:43, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

I'm SO glad you know how to do this stuff! --MelanieN (talk) 04:20, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot bug

I went to IABOT Management Interface, entered my e-mail, and created an account. Then I was on the Report a bug page. At this point I was faced with more gobbledygook regarding Phabricator and false positives and it is more than I can bear for the problem I am trying to report, so I am reporting it here. Please see my comments at Talk:Chico Unified School District#External links modified. Reiterated here, you should not supply archive URLs for templates {{URL}} and {{Official website}} and when the text explaining an external link indicates it's something along the lines of a current official page. You should supply archive URLs only for fact references. One principle that might be right most of the time is, don't find archive URLs outside of <ref>s. Please reply here and ping me.—Anomalocaris (talk) 08:19, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

@Anomalocaris: The report a bug page is clearly written. Just follow the instructions, and you'll be golden. As for the bug you reported, there's an update in progress that will have the bot disregard URLs inside templates. As for handling non-references, there's consensus to do so, so I'm not going to disable non-reference checking.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 01:59, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Bot_for_category_history_merges

First task for Cyberbot III? 103.6.159.72 (talk) 12:24, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DASL51984

Keeps removing parts of the discussion on the talk for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DASL51984 without any sort of consultation or explanation. As far as I can gather they're not an admin or anything official, just some user. -124.188.232.125 (talk) 01:37, 21 January 2017 (UTC)