User talk:Lightdarkness/Aug 2006

First off, thanks for the excellent ARV tool. Extremely handy. Unfortunately, today I ran into a minor bug as seen here. [1] I was trying to note that I had already blatantvandal warned an account. I had mistakeningly thought that ARV would escape out the template syntax. Perhaps it needs to escape out commands? -- Gogo Dodo 00:20, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Found another possible bug. This vandal got reported multiple times at once [2] [3] [4]. My report with ARV came in second, but ARV didn't notice the first report nor the bot report. -- Gogo Dodo 04:42, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happened again. First report and my report. Could it be that other report is using the IPVandal template? Looking over the code, it looks like ARV looks for only '{{vandal|' + vandal + '}}', when it should be doing a regular expression search like '/{{(?:IP)?vandal|' + vandal + '}}/i'? My JavaScript is a little rusty. -- Gogo Dodo 05:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking care of LDBot :) He'll be back Sunday to resume his duties.

PS: Your username change confused the hell out of me! --lightdarkness ^(talk) 15:02, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry; I didn't mean to emulate your signature. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 15:29, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe I subconsciously knew your signature looked like this when I created it. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 15:30, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if suggestions for this bot ought to be made here or on the LDBot talk page, or if the LDBot even generates the message I'm about to refer to, but I've decided to ask here. I noticed lately that a lot of AfD nominations are ending up at the top of the list, instead of at the bottom. I know in a lot of places it says to add new nominations to the bottom, but this request is often not heeded (or seen, purhaps). One place it might be useful is the editing page for the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log. When someone opens the link to the editing page for the deletion log, one will see <!-- Add new entries below this line -->. Purhaps a more useful message would be <!-- Add new entries at the bottom of the list below this line -->, or something to that effect. Thanks for your thoughts on this. Agent 86 01:49, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd suggest that the line be changed to <-- Add new entries to the bottom of this page --> Kimchi.sg 14:09, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There's a system variable, CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN, that LDBot uses in the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/current page. For some reason, starting about three days ago, that variable now returns <august-gen> instead of August, creating bad page links. I've fixed this in a number of places, by replacing with CURRENTMONTHNAME, which works fine. I've fixed this page, but when the day rolls over in 11 hours, it will need fixing again. Can you fix the source LDBot uses here? (And while you're at it, I endorse Kinchi's suggestion. Currently we have newbies adding at the top, more experienced editors at the bottom, so placement ends up quite random.) Fan-1967 13:02, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I don't know if you're already aware of this, but when I use your script to report IPs, it uses the {{

Well, for some reason, the two edit counters don't match up on their output. I ran the two counts simultaneously, I didn't make any edits while both were running, and they keep giving different results. I've double-checked everything that I could, and the "duplicate edits" functions of Flcelloguy's Tool are matching everything appropriately... since they were double-checked with Interiot's Tool3 back when it was online, I have to imagine that Essjay's counter has a bug... especially since I'm completely sure I've made exactly 17 edits to the Portal talk: namespace. Just telling you, so you can check your code... (by the way, the editcounts have been inflated to take into account this edit, if that helps.) Titoxd^(?!?) 06:19, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hello. the text in the "Current discussions" section should be changed. imo there should not be an "add a new entry" link, but a pointer to the section below "how to list pages for deletion". if you just click the "add a new entry" link and do the obvious thing (copy/paste the last line to make a new line), the results are *not* what you expect; instead of a new entry in e.g. [5] you just get a broken link. i tried clicking on the link and filling some text in, but that didn't work either -- only when i found the section on the three-step process did things work. i'm not the first to make this mistake; i saw that a couple of others had done the same and gotten the same weirdness on the [6] page. Benwing 07:51, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

even better would be something like the "wizards" in ms windows, i.e. a link that takes you to a series of pages that automatically steps through the process, rather than requiring you to manually follow all the steps; otherwise it's too easy (esp. for newbies!) to fuck this process up. Benwing 07:55, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

BTW you won't see the breakage i mentioned above, because it got fixed a few minutes later by the respective people who followed the wrong process; so i suspect the same mistakes i made are being made over and over by others, and then fixed over and over again the same way i ultimately figured things out. Benwing 07:57, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article has been recreated again (for the third time). Please consider a speedy delete and a block of the user for 3RR violations (by recreating the article and 4 removals of speedy tag). The user is User:Wstaylor. I suspect this is a vandal-only account. Thanks -- Chris Lester ^talk 18:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen more than a few edit summaries with ARV attached -- looks like a wonderful idea, I'll have to look into trying it. I do have one minor idea for improving it: is there a way for it to distinguish between named and IP vandals, and then use the {{

Concerning Cleanup of the High School Musical

Until you are able to specify exactly what needs to be fixed, the article will remain without a cleanup tag. I believe it is within Wikipedia's quality standards. That you stated the sections are to long and unnecessary is not a help. Please clarify your statements in the talk page (or my talk page) before adding the tag again.

Thank you,

Rpgsimmaster 23:20, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've been contacting Voice of All for some fixes to the rollback/etc. scripts, and he told me that you wrote ARV and the little report tag. Is there a way to make it so usernames with spaces in them are given underscores instead of pluses and is there a way to write the script as so IP editors are tagged with {{

Are you sure the {{

IPvandal}} was added? I just reported an IP and it used {{vandal}}. Ryūlóng 21:44, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply

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What's new/fixed? :)--Andeh 23:21, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What+about+the+plus+bug?--Andeh 23:36, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]