User talk:DannyS712 bot

November 2018

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "DannyS712 bot", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it contains the suffix "-bot", which is generally reserved for authorized bot accounts. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. If you have been granted authorization for this bot account, feel free to delete this message. Zinnober9 (talk) 06:15, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Zinnober9: This will be a bot account operated by me (DannyS712). For now, it is not approved because I have not being able to create a bot yet. I created this second account per the recommendations given at Help:Creating a bot#Implementation. Please don't block it. --DannyS712 (talk) 16:50, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@DannyS712: I was not under the impression from that article that users created the bot account prior to having a mission, but then I've never thought about creating a bot account for a task and may have misread it. It seems to me that you clearly know to not to use this account until after you have a mission approved, and give that your main account is not questionable, I don't see a reason to report this account as an unapproved bot. I wish you success with your bot process and approval! Zinnober9 (talk) 04:32, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Zinnober9: Thanks! I found out that it was a lot harder to create a basic bot than I thought, so I kind-of gave up (for now), but I don't intend to use the account for anything else. --DannyS712 (talk) 04:38, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Zinnober9: Just FYI I've now officially created a bot. Thanks for not asking for it to be blocked! Also, I intend to redirect this page to my main talk, which would move your comments to one of my archives. I'd like to change the heading to "Bot account name" so that it better reflects the discussion. Would that be okay with you? Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 21:38, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DannyS712: Fine by me! Congrats! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zinnober9 (talk • contribs) 23:14, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mass Message testing

Hey. Just wanted to let you all know that I, your overlord and master, now have mass message sender perms, and wanted to test them out my sending you this message. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 20:14, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Convert categorization to links

What is the purpose of converting categorization to links on draft articles, like this edit here? --Zaurus (talk) 17:55, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Zaurus: See WP:USERNOCAT and WP:DRAFTNOCAT: user subpages that are draft versions of articles should be kept out of content categories and Pages in the draft namespace are not articles, and thus do not belong in content categories. --DannyS712 (talk) 18:06, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is a very useful task I think. Before, people would often just remove the categories from drafts, which was off-putting for new users. Thanks Danny!

It might be worth linking to WP:DRAFTNOCAT in the edit summary, though. – Joe (talk) 09:10, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Joe Roe: The edit summary links to User:DannyS712/DNC bot, which until now was a redirect to the bot's user page. I'll start working on actually making the page now --DannyS712 (talk) 09:16, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Joe Roe:

Done see User:DannyS712/DNC bot --DannyS712 (talk) 09:40, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

BRFA trial message

This is a test mass message to trial Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 8. In the line below, I will include a link to [[DannyS712]] that, for the sake of the trial, is considered to have been an error - the link should have been [[User:DannyS712]]. I will then have my bot fix the error on user talk pages, marking the edit as minor so as to avoid triggering the "new message" notification.

Link: User:DannyS712

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 09:09, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Files tagged to be moved to Commons

Hi DannyS712. I'm just curious as to why your bot is removing {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} templates from various files, particularly files which have been reviewed by a file reviewer as being OK to be moved. There's really no need for Wikipedia to locally host files which are released under a free license or which are within in the public domain for one reason or another; so, they are moved to Common which is more suited for hosting images and because it makes it easier for other Wikimedia projects to use the files. There are some files such as non-free content or Template:PD-ineligible-USonly files which shouldn't be moved, but none of these should be tagged for a move to Commons in the first place. If there's something about the licensing of the files your bot is removing the templates from that it finds is questionable, it might be a good idea post something about this at WP:MCQ to let others know so that they can take a closer look. Files are occasionally licensed incorrectly and sometimes even need to be deleted when their licensing issues cannot be resolved. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:02, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Marchjuly: I was doing it at the request of the person who had added the tags - see Wikipedia:Bot requests#One Shot: Removing Commons eligibility assessment from images reviewed by ShakespeareFan00 --DannyS712 (talk) 18:39, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:19, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Manjaros

Can you check the operation of this BOT on Draft:Manjaros. There were no user categories only Categories placed by the Template:AfC (which I may not have applied correctly. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 22:51, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Djm-leighpark: Yes, I agree that the bug was likely caused by the misapplication of the template. I have replaced the substituted version of the template with a transclusion, ensuring that it is categorized correctly in AfC categories without the bot "fixing" it. If such issues arise in the future, I'll try to code a sanity check in the bot. Thanks for letting me know of the mistake, --DannyS712 (talk) 13:15, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User:Chenthil Vel

At User:Chenthil Vel, the bot has commented out Category:Tamil Nadu Wikipedians, a category specifically intended for user pages. Is this a bot error, or has that category not been set up correctly? -- John of Reading (talk) 08:50, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@John of Reading: Technically, I think it was a bug with a different bot, but I can't verify it now since the edits have been processed. In the future, I can keep an eye an edits that were not made to a user subpage. --DannyS712 (talk) 09:04, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(More) A quick look through this account's contributions shows many other similar edits. Also some edits like this one, adding a colon to a category that is already commented out by HTML comments. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:54, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(More!) OK, I see the problem. For example, Category:Indian Wikipedians is indeed a polluted category, because the article Art of Time Ensemble has been added to it. But the solution is to fix the article, not to edit the user page of every Indian Wikipedian. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:03, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@John of Reading: indeed, that was the bug - I'll screen for 'Wikipedians' in the category name. As for the html comment - I suppose the edit isn't needed, but I don't think there is any harm in it, and I'm not sure how to avoid it... --DannyS712 (talk) 09:06, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@John of Reading: I just rolled back all of the ones to base user pages that were wrong. Lessons learned: Ignore categories with "Wikipedian", "User", or "Wikiproject". Anything else you noticed? --DannyS712 (talk) 09:30, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No -- John of Reading (talk) 09:32, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This problem is still happening, unless it's a different problem. I found and reverted three or four of them just now. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:51, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonesey95: Thanks. I thought I had solved it, but once I realized I hadn't, I made it so that it won't edit any root user page, and instead ask for help (see below) so the Rick F. page has been already fixed for. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 07:01, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Task 11: Help needed, 2019-04-06

DannyS712 bot needs help with task 11 (polluted categories); the following pages appear to be categorized as articles, but weren't automatically fixed because they are root user pages:

Thanks, --DannyS712 bot (talk) 05:18, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]