User talk:BetacommandBot

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Contents 1 Substituting redirect categories. 2 Tagging trains article talk pages 3 Direct Support Professional 4 My user page? 5 Why was article removed from category? 6 Incorrectly Removing Categories 7 Please stop 8 Please don't edit my user page. 9 School Templates 10 Curves For Women 11 Kalashnikov Rifles 12 International Union for Quaternary Research 13 Category number introductions 14 Why is this bot replacing "Nobr" template with a much longer syntax? 15 What are you doing? 16 Tagging WP India 17 Removing category not redlined 18 Category tag 19 Bot for templates 20 Replacing CopyrightedFreeUse with PD-release 21 incorrect substitution 22 In Use and Underconstruction tags 23 Playboy Special Editions Models Category 24 law enforcement wikiproject 25 WP:ARCH

[edit] Substituting redirect categories.

Do you have a link to where this was decided? This is news to me, and seems like a bad idea on the face of things. SnowFire 03:54, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree with SnowFire--please don't do that unless there is a consensus. Wmahan. 04:07, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Likewise, this is a pretty drastic change happening without any clear consensus. WP:SUBST, which is what seems to be being provided as justification, says "Template substitution is a permanent change that removes functionality; it should generally be avoided without a good reason." and certainly doesn't include redirects on the list of templates that should be substituted as far as I can tell.  — JVinocur (talk • contribs) 10:00, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

There is discussion of the issue at WT:R; it looks like the change may be a good idea, but I think it's important not to be hasty. Wmahan. 16:34, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I also quote WP:SUBST. "Substituting en masse — editing thousands of articles with bots — slows down the site and wastes server resources unnecessarily." Robert A.West (Talk) 02:42, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging trains article talk pages

There are serious problems with the tagging of talk pages with {{TrainsWikiProject}}. This bot is double-tagging many articles, and is adding the Subways=yes flag to any article which is in a child or grandchild category of Cat:Rapid transit, which is not always accurate (SEPTA Regional Rail stations fall under this, for instance, and those are commuter rail, not rapid transit.) Tagging seems to have stopped for now; it should not resume until a more sophisticated tagging algorithm has been written. --CComMack (t•c) 13:34, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I second the comment from CComMack. In addition to the double-tagging problem, many of the New York City Subway articles were tagged incorrectly. They should have been tagged {{TrainsWikiProject|NYCS=yes}}, not {{TrainsWikiProject|Subway=yes}}. Perhaps we can use your bot to reverse the damage? In addition, please please exercise more due diligence before launching such edits in the future. Marc Shepherd 14:39, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I also agree with the above. Once I'm allowed to use AWB, or write a bot by hand, I can help in correcting the problem. -- Selmo ^(talk) 22:31, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Direct Support Professional

BetacommandBot (talk • contribs)
(Robot: Removing from Category:Allied health professions)
Hi,
Just an FYI DSPs are certified and thereby considered an allied health profession just as CNA's, and medical assistants. This is a new move to improve the quality of care. So, please re-consider placing the category back. PEACETalkAbout 19:12, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Please note the reason for the removal of Category:Allied health professions was because the category does not exist. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 06:35, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My user page?

Why did you remove Category:Wikipedians who drink tea from my user page? -- RoySmith (talk) 13:22, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

The reason that my bot removed the category was a WP:CFD ruling that the category should be deleted Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 13:36, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why was article removed from category?

Why was the article Rickmansworth (Church Street) railway station removed from the disused railway stations category? It's about as disused as it gets! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mr jrt (talk • contribs).

the reason that the category was removed is because the category does not exist Category:Disused railway stations is a red link and thus does not exist. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 02:24, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Incorrectly Removing Categories

The bot appears to be incorrectly removing categories. See 2 comments above. Also removed Category:Places of worship in Sydney, from Category:Religion in Sydney.

I am going to stop the bot until you answer these queries. 99of9 02:31, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I am stopping the bot until you answer these queries.99of9 02:31, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

My bot was not incorrectly removing categories, and I have responded to every message that was left on my bots talk page I resond on the users talkpage, the reason that Category:Religion in Sydney does not exist that is why its a red link. Pages should not contain redlink categorys please feel free to do ahead and create it but my bot was only removing redlinks for categories that dont exist. If you have any other issues or comments please feel free to leave a message on my talkpage. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 13:35, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please stop

Could you stop the bot, please? It is trying to rename a category to a name that already exists, and in so doing, has mixed two categories up. Many thanks, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 18:48, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please don't edit my user page.

Please put my user page, user:msh210, on this bot's blacklist (or whatever it's called) so that it will not edit it. It has ruined it in the past. Thanks.—msh210℠ 21:50, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] School Templates

I noticed several times that some High Schools in Virginia templates are done in HTML and not a school template. Im not sure if that is correct or not can you take a look and see if any need corection. Thanks. John R G 07:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Curves For Women

You keep removing the resistance training categoryCategory:Resistance training from Curves For Women and I'm not sure why. Curves uses resistance training and does not use weights. This is a correct category for this entry. I am reverting to the previous entry to keept the category. Maniwar 18:08, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

let me make a note that Category:Resistance training does not exist, that is why it was removed please feel free to create the page but at the moment it does not exist (Note redlink)Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 18:28, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Done...thanks! Maniwar 19:06, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kalashnikov Rifles

Your bot just removed basically all of the Kalashnikov-type rifles from the category "List of weapons influenced by the Kalashnikov design". I suggest that something be done about this little 'glitch'.

This bot removed the "satellite navigation" cat from the StarFire (navigation system) page. StarFire is most certainly a satellite navigation system. Maury 18:59, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I am not having bot problems Category:Satellite navigation(redlink) does not exist. That is the reason for the removal please feel free to create the category and repopulate it. 19:04, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Silly bot, you removed all the weapons from "List of weapons influenced by the Kalashnikov design." The list points to the correct weapons, but the weapons dont point back to the list. Beerslurpy 04:38, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] International Union for Quaternary Research

Why did you remove the Category:Quaternary from the article International Union for Quaternary Research? Bejnar 20:27, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category number introductions

Please stop whatever you are doing. You are not creating categories, you are creating articles which I and other administrators are deleting because they have no context. Why are you trying to create these categories? Whatever reason there is, please make sure you are actually making categories. Academic Challenger 21:29, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why is this bot replacing "Nobr" template with a much longer syntax?

Is this supposed to be an improvement? -MarsRover 03:25, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Ditto this? What is the bot trying to do? -- ALoan (Talk) 10:07, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Will you please stop editing my user page. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:16, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What are you doing?

Why are you substing oldmfd? It clearly says on the template's page that it should not be substed, and is not listed on WP:SUBST. --Rory096 12:42, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging WP India

Hello Beta, Thanks for helping out tagging India-related pages with the banner. Can I request you to use the Plugin (generic project template) that will automatially add class=Stub and needs-infobox parameters please? Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 19:19, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

No, the plugin doesn't automatically add needs-infobox, as it would need to examine the article to do that. Needs-infobox is for use in "manual assessments" mode. --kingboyk 21:33, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Your bot seems to be tagging random articles (Apadana, Darius I of Persia) as India or Egypt related. This doesn't seem to be very useful. dab (ᛏ) 20:23, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Darius I of Persia is in the category Category:Pharaohs of the Achaemenid dynasty of Egypt. That would be why, I imagine. AWB-based bots generally get their article lists from categories. --kingboyk 21:33, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

STOP! There's no need to have all the Indian cinema articles tagged for the India project. We don't need all the films, actors, actresses, etc. tagged. The bot also attacked the chador article, presumably because it had for some reason been categorized as Indian clothing. So far as I can tell, chador is a Persian term, chaderi is the Afghan (Dari) term, and hence might have been used by some Urdu speakers in what is now Pakistan. But I believe that the term commonly used in India is burqa. The chador article had been categorized as Iranian, Persian, Afghan, Pakistani, and Indian. So India gets to claim it? I removed the Indian clothing category, to prevent any more such imperialistic exercises.

When something is categorized as relating to India in some way, that doesn't mean that it automagically falls under the purview of the Indian project. Stop the bot and revert the edits. This is a mess. Zora 04:39, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Dear bot, you are tagging some articles minutely related to India as part of WikiProject India. Please STOP. Thank you. --Ragib 04:53, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

it may make sense to use a bot to tag articles in certain hand-selected categories (but then, if the tag is equivalent to the category, what do we need the tag for, in the first place?? just browse by category. These wikiproject templates only make sense as a token that the article has been reviewed, by a human!). To let your bot run wild and tag all articles, recursively in some category's subcategories is an extremely bad idea, and it can cause a lot of damage. dab (ᛏ) 07:33, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing category not redlined

Why are you removing the category Architectural glossary from articles and leaving them without a category? Even if they belong in a subcategory of that category it would be better to leave them there and correct them manually than to leave them homeless. -THB 18:49, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Okay, but why are you leaving them without a category? Could you please address the second issue?

Your bot should at least tag them as uncategorized. It would have been easier to recategorize the articles if they were still grouped together. -THB 19:45, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category tag

Please consider {{LepidopteraTalk}} in place of ArthropodTalk for butterfly related articles. Shyamal 03:41, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bot for templates

I will accept like a bot with my thanks. How I can take, How I can use? Thanks in advance. Regards. Must^TC 16:47, 24 November 2006 (UTC) --

• I have no any list at this moment. But I can supply when I prepare a list.
• I have some questions about bot;
  • Is it work also to insert cat to articles, If I supply list of articles?
  • When I supply list of cats, and if some articles(which have this template already)under any cat, will there be double template?

Regards. Must^TC 17:01, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Replacing CopyrightedFreeUse with PD-release

Why is the bot changing Template:CopyrightedFreeUse with Template:PD-release? These are not at all equivalent. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ (AMA) 18:37, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

One of my photos was recently converted that way. Honestly I don't care and would have changed that one if asked, but I'm the only one who can release my copyright into the PD. AndroidCat 22:34, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Same complaint here on Image:GordonHaddonClark.jpg, but in this case, the copyright owner is not me and did not release it into PD. I am changing it back. --Flex (talk|contribs) 20:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] incorrect substitution

You know, I have to say that it jerks my chain that we have to put special code on every page where somebody's bot is not supposed to substitute the templates. Everybody decides to write their own bot to "fix" things and we're ending up with pages with multiple "don't touch me" codes.

Well, at least I should give you credit for having an exclude code. That's more than some of the bot writers have done. <end rant> Rossami (talk) 04:42, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In Use and Underconstruction tags

This bot just removed the tag from Samuel Foote stating that the article had not been updated in the past three days. This is in error, I had just done some work on the article a few minutes prior. Please see that this is fixed. Cheers! *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 15:46, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Playboy Special Editions Models Category

Hello BetacommentBot,

Why was this category removed ?

I found it useful to see who had been a modelled in the Playboy Special Editions.

I would be grateful if you will reply.

Thank you

--Whohe! 18:47, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] law enforcement wikiproject

Hey,

I was wondering if I could request a slight tweaking of what this bot does for the law enforcement wikiproject. I have no idea if this is the place to make this request, OR if I should do it on the users talk page, or on the bot request page (though the bot already does work for us).

If this is the right place, I was just wondering if the bot could automatically rate as stub class articles it has banner'd/are already banner'd as articles in the law enforcement wikiproject, which have stub templates. --SGGH 12:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I have come across a number of articles with stub templates, for example Alexander Robertson, which were not automatically rated by the bot as stub class. Have I explained myself poorly somewhere? I hope things can be fixed as soon as possible, many thanks for your efforts, apologies if I caused a mix up.--SGGH 20:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I havent started this task yet, it is next on the list BetacommandBot 20:23, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Is it possible that the bot is set just to rate as stub class articles that have a law enforcement stub template? I was hoping that it would rate these articles as stub class that have any form of stub template.Oh, sorry! Glad to hear it wasnt cause something had gone wrong. Kind Regards, SGGH

[edit] WP:ARCH

Hello and thanks for tackling the project to add the {{Architecture}} tags with assessments to stub articles. What is the second parameter "auto=yes" designed to do? We will be adding an importance variable in the template in the near future (as the second parameter…?) --Dogears (talk • contribs) 20:19, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

The auto=yes is a flag that is commonly used for banners, If you want I can add the importance= flag nowBetacommandBot 20:24, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

What does it do to banners, specifically? If the auto=yes parameter is the second, do I need to design the template to accept the third parameter as the importance? It goes fast, thank you. Dogears 04:35, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Dont worry about it the auto=yes will be ignored, It is used for templates that bots add saying that a bot was the one that tagged the article. 20:49, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok, great. Is there any way to program the bot to find {{Good}} and {{Featured}} on talk pages and add the appropriate class tag? Am interested in the importance flag, but haven't figured out yet how to write the code for the template (without all the bells and whistles). Any Wiki resources you can recommend for this? When you offered to add importance, did you mean to operate the bot to tag this, or offering to add the code the the {{Architecture}} project banner template? Appreciate the help. Dogears 05:46, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I could have the bot tag the importance= if you need. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 06:20, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

How will the bot figure out the level of importance for each of the articles? —Dogears 15:31, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

It would tag importance=NA Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 06:11, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Can it do importance= (null)? Otherwise many articles are not NA. One large group of articles are all NA – the years "in architecture" and the related categories. There are hundreds of these pages. Also, can it run through all the articles that include a particular template and insert the flag importance=Top? The templates are {{Archhistory}} and {{Regional-arch}}. P.S. importance is engaged in the template now. —Dogears 07:31, 10 December 2006 (UTC)