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If you're here because you want SuggestBot to send you suggestions, please see the instructions at the top of User:SuggestBot. We offer both subscription services and the possibility of receiving a single set of suggestions.

Feedback on recommendations, ideas for new features, questions about how SuggestBot works, or anything else related to SuggestBot are all examples of topics welcome below. A bot moves older feedback to the archives regularly, there is also an archive in User:SuggestBot/FeedbackArchive. Thanks for stopping by to let us you what you think! Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 11:07, 25 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestbot repeatedly suggesting same articles again and again. Is there anything to do to fix it? Okoslavia (talk) 05:07, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestbot should have been suggesting me edits once a month, but it just doesn't, ever since I added the userbox. Clone commando sev (talk) 04:50, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It hasn't come to me in about a month and it looks like it hasn't left user talk notes in a bit. Any ideas? Thanks! Star Mississippi 03:06, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Star Mississippi: Thanks for reporting this! The bot did indeed have a little hiccup, which I’ve taken care of. I’ll keep a close eye on it over the weekend, hopefully you’ll have some more suggestions within the next day. Thanks again, Nettrom (talk) 15:28, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, as always, for the quick response. Star Mississippi 15:47, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again @Star Mississippi! Looks like there are more issues with SuggestBot at the moment, so what I hoped was an easy fix requires more investigation. I’m unsure when I’ll be able to get that work done, but it’ll be on the top of my mind, and so I hope it’ll be relatively soon. Wanted to at least let you know that I’m aware that it’s not working like it should. Sorry about the delays! Regards, Nettrom (talk) 20:48, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for this update @Nettrom. Best of luck troubleshooting but absolutely no rush. Plenty of content to keep us all busy. :D Have a good evening. Star Mississippi 01:33, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Bot Came Back! Thanks as always for all your work @Nettrom Star Mississippi 02:24, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply

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@Star Mississippi: You’re welcome, and thanks again for reporting it so I could look into the problem and find a way to fix it! Looks like there are some changes coming on the server side so there might be some more hiccups before the year is over, but they should hopefully be more short lived. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 17:36, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Morten. I have an enhancement request that has grown out of a specific use case I became aware of recently: a productive 20-year editor managed to get T-banned on a contentious topic, and is frazzled and tempted to disengage entirely. I'd like to provide some positive feedback, along with very specific suggestions on what to do now, and that's where Suggestbot comes in, but I need an enhancement to make it work in this case. I thought I was going to have to propose "suggest by category or project", but I see that you already have that, which makes this proposal easier to describe, and, I hope, easy to implement.

It is this: you've already got the Project and Category access and parsing done, so I propose to add the inverse of that: specify (only) the projects and categories you want to exclude. A simple UX that occurs to me is this:

• {{User:SuggestBot/suggest|-World War I|-World War II}}
• {{User:SuggestBot/suggest|-Category:World War I|-Category:World War II}}

That UX is just the first thing I thought of; maybe you'll think of a better one. A possible downside of this approach, is that the + and - values probably can't be mixed; what would be the interpretation of this, for example:

• {{User:SuggestBot/suggest|-World War I|Spanish–American War}} ?

Perhaps there would have to be a param-combo restriction of: "use either positive or negative param values, but not both".

While pondering this, my first thought was actually a more complex system of "weights", where you could either maximize or minimize topics by category or project, something like this:

• {{User:SuggestBot/suggest|World War I:-10|World War II:+3}}

where this would mean: suppress 100% of WW1 articles, and weight WW2 articles by an additional 30% over baseline. This is kind of an "extra credit" option and it's maybe more work than it's worth, but would be a nice way to turn the binary param values that are there now, into a set of dials instead. I'd skip this, unless it's particularly easy to do.

All I really need for my use case is a way to negatively target a topic area by Project/Category in order to keep a valuable editor around who is T-banned in one topic. I have a feeling this could be super useful to any T-banned editor, and if it were made available, ought to be linked right in the notice template that advises an editor of their T-ban. I look forward to your thoughts on this. Mathglot (talk) 04:04, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. If you need a live user test bed for any changes, feel free to use my User talk page, or create a subpage in my space if you need to run it a lot. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 04:10, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

SuggestBot is broken, again. The first and last suggestion I got from them was 6 days ago. Roasted (talk) 23:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reporting this! I took a look and restarted it so one-time requests should work correctly, and I also checked our logs and saw that subscribers get them as they should. It looks like things are working at the moment. I’ll keep monitoring it, but please let me know if you ask for suggestions and don’t get them. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 16:59, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I requested SuggestBot to suggest me articles yesterday by adding {{User:SuggestBot/suggest}} on my talk page but it hasn't suggested me any yet. GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 18:03, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm having the same issue. I used the automated feature though. ~ JackTheSecond (talk) 09:55, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JackTheSecond: what is that? GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 18:06, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, well, 'automated' is perhaps overstating it a little. The page Wikipedia:Teahouse/Suggestions lets you 'create' the post on your talk page through a neat little interface. JackTheSecond (talk) 18:49, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reporting this @JackTheSecond and @GoldenBootWizard276! I’ve restarted the bot and it looks like both of you got a set of suggestions now. The bot crashed again shortly afterwards, so I’ll keep digging to figure out where it’s broken. Thanks again for reporting it and using SuggestBot! Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 20:10, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Update SuggestBot has finally suggested some articles for me to edit. GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 20:00, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]