User talk:Legoktm/October 2008

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Hi! I see that you were one of the participants in the recent AfD on the article Christianity and Judaism. That AfD recommended (in a snowball result) that the article be merged into Judeo-Christian. However, since the AfD concerns have been raised, most notably

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• The reason the article Judeo-Christian exists, as its own hatnote declares, is specifically to survey the history and use of that word-phrase -- which has its own controversy, and its own tale to tell. (See here where I've set things out in a bit more detail.) That story is a good fit for its own article, and will get completely lost if the contents of Christianity and Judaism get inappropriately dumped on top of it.

Having contacted the closing admin,

Concerns about the proposed merge have also been expressed by

This post is therefore to let you know that that discussion is underway, at Talk:Christianity and Judaism#Overly speedy deletion, with a view to perhaps setting aside the AfD decision.

Of course, some significant issues were raised in the AfD about the article in its present form, so the best way forward is a question that needs some thought. Please feel welcome to come and participate! Jheald (talk) 07:50, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I will comment. Thanks LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 21:21, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Just to let you know that there has been a recent update to the criteria for relisting AFDs. You can see the full details at

Thanks LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 21:20, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello Legoktm,

could you add WikiProject Physics to the AlertBot list? (Page: WikiProject Physics; Banner: Physics) They originally requested the bot, so I'd like to have them in the test phase. --B. Wolterding (talk) 18:23, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

 Done LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 21:19, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi, you mentioned you might look into writing a script to help us with the AfC submissions. Well, it seems we are sticking with this new process so perhaps you could look into this when you have time? Thanks,

Do you know how a non-adminsitrator could get acsess to a deleted page. Could I please see the archives to the dark channel page? User:Zobango

You can contact an administrator at

Xenocidic, or X!. LegoK^ontribsT^alk

M 23:38, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

AAU

reminder notice

A friendly reminder from the Adopt-a-User project =)

Hey there Legoktm! This is a friendly reminder to update your status at Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adoptee's Area/Adopters whenever it is appropriate in order to provide new users with the most up-to-date information on available adopters. Also please note that we will be removing adopters who have not edited in 60 days. If you become active again (and we hope you do!) please feel free to re-add yourself. Cheers!

• Notice delivery by xenobot 14:25, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Just wanted to drop by and leave a note: the Article Alert Bot is working excellently. Thanks much for the tool: it saves loads of time. Lazulilasher (talk) 23:03, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 19:25, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I hope you don't mind me dropping in uninvited. I found you at the Citation cleanup project. You see, the article on Sitakunda Upazila failed an FAC mostly because of cite-format issues (inconsistent format, missing bits of information etc.). I have fixed all the issues raised, but, I feel, an expert hand may be needed to fix further problems. Would you take a look? Please? I, of course will be there to provide any clarification or information necessary. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 13:42, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Legoktm,

The new reference style on the

Sammyknoxg (talk) 19:12, 21 October 2008 (UTC)Sammyknoxg

A bot that checks weekly for broken links sounds like a great idea. Would it be possible for the bot to check all pages that have been tagged by

Thank you for your continued tagging efforts, keep it up! CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 18:36, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello Legoktm,

here's a new version of the bot [1]. There are some wording changes, and the bot may now more often request pages from the live wiki (in connection with GA nominations). But the main change is that the self-service subscription system is now implemented. At the beginning of each bot run, the bot will download subscriptions from Category:ArticleAlertbot subscriptions. These are added to the alertsubscr table; they can be identified as having the "auto_subscription" field set to 1. Existing, manually configured subscriptions will not be modified. This step is included in AlertsBatch, but can also be called individually as org.toolserver.alertbot.SubscriptionBatch.

Project can then subscribe to the article alerts by placing a template, User:ArticleAlertbot/Subscription, onto their project page. This will move the project page to Category:ArticleAlertbot subscriptions, from where the bot will download its subscriptions. At the moment, I have put the subscription template onto one test page, Wikipedia:ArticleAlertbot test page. But once everything works there, we can roll it out to more projects very easily - supposing that we consider the bot stable, of course. --B. Wolterding (talk) 11:01, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Awesome, I have updated the code and crontabbed it to run once a day. LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 00:13, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

It seems to work fine. Also, while some features and improvements are still in discussion/development, perhaps it is a good time now to open the bot for subscription. (Probably that will generate more feedback anyway, and more improvements to implement...) Is it OK for you if we call the bot "productive" now and invite projects to subscribe? I'd write a short message to those that said they're interested on

User:B. Wolterding/Article alerts. --B. Wolterding (talk

) 16:05, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, it seems [2] that you agree... ;-) We won't stop it anyway now, already 4 subscriptions have been added today. --B. Wolterding (talk) 08:42, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

B.Wolterding tells me that since

Just in case, what I was referring to was deleting the manually configured subscription from the database -- something like: DELETE FROM alertsubscr WHERE project="WikiProject Physics"; --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:42, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

This- are you trying to blind the vandals attempting to vandalize your userpage? >^.^< I think I was blinded for a second by all that red, you know :D IceUnshattered ^{[ t ]} 20:55, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

LOL. Changed it to gray :). LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 22:57, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

-sighs with relief- I can now look at your userpage and not be concerned for my eyes, now! >^.^< IceUnshattered ^{[ t ]} 20:45, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi! Regarding this edit, I have moved this wizard-bypass option to the

That's fine. It does make more sense there. :) LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 01:17, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Legoktm,

I noticed that ArticleAlertbot didn't edit this night - is there anything to see in AlertsBatch.log what the reason was? --B. Wolterding (talk) 08:51, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

The toolserver's MySQL database went down *again*. See tools:~legoktm/error.log. LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 00:30, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Hm... the database wasn't exactly down, it seems more like a software bug, probably in the bot code. At the moment, I'm clueless however why it appears now and never before. Will come back to you once I have a solution or workaround. --B. Wolterding (talk) 08:16, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately I was not able to reproduce the problem on my local computer; but then, I'm not running on the same data set. I have prepared a new version of the bot [3] which, among other changes, contains a workaround for the problem (I hope). If the bot still terminates with an error, please post the AlertsBatch.log. Also, the JAR file contains a test batch, org.toolserver.alertbot.DebugBatch; please run this once and post the DebugBatch.log it produces. This should at least show which SQL statement precisely triggers the error message. --B. Wolterding (talk) 12:54, 31 October 2008 (UTC)