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Edit warring

Suggestion originally posted here

Please could you update the code of your bot so it will add the RM banner just once to each page, for a particular move discussion. Then if it is removed by a human editor, the bot will not edit war. I think this may be the simplest way to avoid many of the problems documented on this page. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:49, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Checking the edit history of pages to see if the bot has previously been reverted is something that could be done, though coding for that isn't a quick 'n easy task. I view this as checking for symptoms. For example you could watch for fuel leaks on the launchpad (symptom) and abort the launch upon detection, but you'll still want to find and fix the source of the leak before restarting the countdown. If this was life and death task I would surely do that, but resources are stretched thin around here, so just keeping this on the back burner for now. – wbm1058 (talk) 21:31, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
This incident has convinced me that I need to bump up the priority of this task; seems I'll never plug all the holes enabling the bot to edit-war as users will always find another way. This is my next significant task, as soon as I make time for it. – wbm1058 (talk) 19:11, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

mw:API:Revisions documents the API for getting the content of pages, including the page history (all revisions). The framework's getpage function sets rvlimit=1 which limits the server to providing only the latest revision. Replacing this with rvend= specifying a timestamp with a sufficient window to detect the same previous edit that was subsequently reverted will enable the framework to stop apps from edit warring. Not sure what the default timestamp should be (1 day, 1 week?) but the RM app could specify the timestamp of the edit that started the RM. – wbm1058 (talk) 15:45, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

RMCD bot

RMCD bot is having some kind of episode at Twin Towers. Just FYI. Station1 (talk) 17:48, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Users always ignore rules per WP:IAR and find a way.
I spent some more time thinking about how to do this. Most of the time after the bot gets (getpage) a page it decides that it does not need to POST an update. So getpage just the latest revision is fine.
There's only a need to check for previous bot edits to a page AFTER it has decided it should POST, i.e. edit a page.
Only then call a new function to get an array of previous editors and edit times (no need to get previous content, I don't think) and check whether the bot was a recent editor, especially with multiple recent edits.
This new function will often be called just after nobots has made sure the bot is allowed to edit the page.
Now just need a solid, uninterrupted chunk of time to focus on coding this. – wbm1058 (talk) 02:38, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
 Fixed to prevent the "Twin Towers friendly-fire war" with bot version 8.40. The bot is limited to a maximum of three recent edits to sync modified notices of move discussions on a page. – wbm1058 (talk) 13:42, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

What happens to RMCD bot?

Moved from User talk:wbm1058

Sorry, but I don't think it works any more, see Special:Contributions/RMCD_bot. NmWTfs85lXusaybq (talk) 14:07, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Facepalm Facepalm – I started working on adding a new function to the bot's framework yesterday, and that function had a syntax error (a missing ".") and then I wasn't paying attention because I hadn't yet coded anything to actually call the function. Sorry about that, and thanks for the heads-up. I've been multi-tasking and working reducing on another backlog so far this morning. Need my coffee to kick in before I get back to coding. – wbm1058 (talk) 14:20, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

George Papadopoulos

Hi, wbm1058. A user started an RM at Talk:George Papadopoulos and another that affects the page at Talk:Georgios Papadopoulos. This has led to RMCD bot, well.... see here and here. Is there anything that can be done to stop this, other than closing a discussion? – Muboshgu (talk) 15:58, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Belated reply. After becoming aware of this, I cleared out 202 junk bot edits to the George Papadopoulos (junk bot edit dump) and 198 junk bot edits to the Talk:George Papadopoulos (junk bot edit dump). I'm frustrated that after putting a lot of work time into addressing the issues reported previously and making several fixes to address them, my v 7.33 fix of 9 June 2020 didn't address all the remaining scenarios. Also still open is implementing a more robust backup to catch unaddressed issues by making the bot stop #Edit warring. – wbm1058 (talk) 19:45, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
 Fixed by bot version 7.60 – wbm1058 (talk) 18:42, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
OK, the v 8.41 fix would have stopped the bot's edit-warring here, if the v 7.60 fix hadn't been implemented. – wbm1058 (talk) 23:09, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Bot edit warring with itself

On Ba'ath Party (disambiguation), Talk:Ba'ath Party (disambiguation), and the talk pages affected by my multi-move request at Template talk:G13 soon/styles.css. Not sure what's causing it. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:32, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

TemplateStyles

The bot cannot place notices on CSS pages; I see this error message:
Invalid selector list at line 1 character 1.
Invalid selector list at line 2 character 1.
Then since there's no notice on the pages; the bot assumes that the discussions have closed and thus removes the templates from the talk pages of the others in this multi-move request.
So, as with Lua modules, CSS pages are special cases that need special handling. Hmm, I see Wikipedia:TemplateStyles – I need to familiarize myself with that.
I've made some code changes to accommodate this usage, but still need to make more. Working on it. – wbm1058 (talk) 14:54, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
Bot version 7.41 added a check to catch requests to move CSS pages, and handle them in a similar way as requests to move Lua modules. I'm not sure whether there's anything more I need to do here. – wbm1058 (talk) 15:01, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
This page history indicates the issue continued after I posted my "working on it" message and the warring didn't stop until 4:39, 22 October 2020 which was 5 minutes after the RM at User talk:SDZeroBot/G13 soon/styles.css closed. – wbm1058 (talk) 15:32, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
OK, the v 8.41 fix would have stopped the bot's edit-warring here. Not sure about how well the bot may handle future requests to move CSS pages, but I'm dropping this from my to-do list and will deal with any new CSS page-move issues as they may happen in the future. Really, these moves are borderline out-of-scope for RM. – wbm1058 (talk) 23:43, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Ba'ath Party

Ba'ath Party (disambiguation) and Talk:Ba'ath Party (disambiguation) each have hundreds of deleted edits (I buried them to remove the clutter in the page histories) dating from 11:06, 16-Oct-2020. This problem persisted for over three days before I was notified here.

The bot's edit warring started after the 10:48, 16 October 2020 procedural close and persisted until my 21:00, 19 October 2020 edit, which was the second procedural close. – wbm1058 (talk) 17:57, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

The v 8.40 and v 8.41 fixes would have put an end to the Ba'ath Party edit war. – wbm1058 (talk) 23:54, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Dozens of bot edits

Hey, can you take a look at what the bot's doing at Illegal immigrant population of the United States? Looks like it's stuck in some sort of loop. –dlthewave ☎ 12:09, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

Update: I added a Bot Deny template to the article and talk page. Feel free to remove it when the issue is resolved. –dlthewave ☎ 12:50, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

@Dlthewave: This is because Showiecz (talk · contribs) started two parallel discussions about the same proposed move, contrary to WP:MULTI and one or two other guidelines. I've procedurally closed Talk:Illegal immigrant population of the United States#Requested move 28 September 2021 (which was initiated at 03:32, 28 September 2021 (UTC)), and left Talk:Illegal immigration to the United States#Requested move 18 September 2021 (initiated 19:07, 18 September 2021 (UTC)) to run normally. I also reverted your bot deny to allow RMCD bot to tidy up. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:58, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
In fairness to Showiecz – they removed it from the multi-move while in-progress but that removal was reverted. Per WP:TALK#REVISE making changes to your RM after others have !voted, without everyone on board with your changes, is asking for trouble. This started out as a single-page move request, so THIS EDIT that converted it to a multi-move after someone had already voted in support of the single-page request is a definite NO-NO!! – wbm1058 (talk) 15:04, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
 Fixed by bot version 7.57 – this should have been caught and flagged as a malformed request and next time this scenario happens it will be. – wbm1058 (talk) 17:42, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
The edit-warring (now seen in the Undocumented immigrant population of the United States page history) would have been stopped by the v 8.40 fix, before bot version 7.57 was installed. – wbm1058 (talk) 00:07, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
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