User talk:CanisRufus

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Contents 1 Kamal Jumblatt 2 FAA 3 CPU 4 Bacteria Bacterium 5 Chemical Warfare 6 African-American 7 Mammalia -> Mammal 8 Suggestion about bot's edit summary 9 A mistake... 10 Another mistake 11 Category: Stanford University people 12 re: Category:Italian-American businessmen 13 Thanks 14 Cinema → Film actors 14.1 Monica Vitti 15 ABC dab 16 decat 17 Error moving HTML comments. 18 Bot request 19 errant bot edit? 20 Flower 21 This bot 22 bot on the loose 23 Talk page 24 The Morning Post

[edit] Kamal Jumblatt

Is French language all that is meant in his receiving a "French" diploma from the Lazarus Fathers. I didn't change that part because I thought that it meant that he had met the requirments for a hish schoo (lycee) diploma, the equivaltent of one offered in France, implying more than the French language, and the same year met the requirments for the Lebanese High school diploma (presumably conducted in Arabic) as well. I understand that the brighter students in former French colonies were educated not just in the French language, but in the entire French tradition. You may well know better that I, especially if your familiarity with Lebanon extends beyond having a Lebanese neighbour. Do you have good reason to think that French-language is all that is meant here?

Rlquall 12:28, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

If I find that the surrounding text refers to educational studies, I will default to French language. There is no French studies page like there is for English studies. In this case however, it probably should not have been changed to French language. You might want to reword the paragraph so it's not ambiguous. RedWolf 06:49, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] FAA

Thanks for disambiguating FAA in so many places! Nice work. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 11:50, Oct 2, 2004 (UTC)

No problem, it's made a lot easier with bot code. RedWolf 06:50, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] CPU

Thanks for the acronym expansion of the CPU link all over the 'pedia -- I have been doing this manually for a year and a half, so I certainly appreciated it! Sigh... Sooner rather than later, I'll have to learn how to write Wikipedia Bots myself; an army of small automated nitpickers (*fade in The Imperial March*, played at a high pitch) -- the thought of it gives the control freak in me a warm fuzzy feeling :) --Wernher 13:43, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No problem. I'm using the Python Wikipedia Robot Framework with a pre-supplied script so as long as you can run Python, therre is no need to write your own script to do it. I've done a lot of manual stuff like this in the past but using a bot is a lot less tedious. RedWolf 16:10, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

Aha. I plan on installing FreeBSD "RSN", so I guess that will be unproblematic. Also: could you puh-lease give RAM and ROM the same treatment as CPU? I think there are a lot of those where people have just inserted the acronyms. Generally, of course, the fields of computing and telecom are full of such links. --Wernher 16:45, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

RAM and ROM have been completed. RedWolf 21:27, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Bacteria Bacterium

It's cool that you're converting bacteria links to bacterium, but i don't really see the point.

Doesn't it just make editing slightly more complicated? The fact that so many pages use bacteria as a link says more about the title of that article than anything else.

What's wrong with the tiny (Redirected from Bacteria) message under the title?

I'm not dissing, just wondering why.

Tristanb 21:04, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

heavy duty redirect page RedWolf 06:33, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Chemical Warfare

You've done some work on chemical warfare, so I thought you might be interested to know that I've nominated it to Featured article candidates. I was hoping you would take a look at what we've done, and maybe help me perfect the article into something that we can all be truly proud of. -- ClockworkSoul 02:12, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Well, this bot disambiguated a few things but hardly what I would consider a noteworthy contribution. I personally do not have an intense interest in the subject but it is a worthy topic (although it's underlying subject is a sad commentary on human behavior). Good luck with your FAC nomination. RedWolf 04:12, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] African-American

Redwolf, please stop this bot. It is making improper corrections. See my points at Talk:Bankhead.
— Ford 00:48, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)

You should add your comments to the talk page for African-American. That page does not currently exist. RedWolf 03:12, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)

I do not know how or why that would resolve the issue. You have just changed — what, hundreds? — of pages with this automated program, and all of those instances were placed by users who believed that the hyphenated form was correct for one reason or other. Does that not seem problematic to you? Ford 12:13, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)

As was stated on the bots talk page, most of these changes were rolled back on January 2, 2005. RedWolf 09:17, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mammalia -> Mammal

I'd rethink this move as it could conceivably be inappropriate at a future date. There's no disambiguation, you're just undoing a redirect. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 08:40, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)

Mammalia has been a redirect for almost 2½ years. RedWolf 08:50, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)

What, exactly, does that have to do with anything? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 10:04, Jan 2, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion about bot's edit summary

By doing massive changes your bot makes it more difficult to track anon vandals in the watchlist. Can you add to the bot's edit summary that the previous edit was made by an anon? Mikkalai 08:14, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The bot has no idea if the previous edit was made by an anon. If I am doing disambiguation (you will see "RedWolf" in the edit summary), I'm running the bot semi-automatically where I look at each article myself. I don't believe the pywikipedia bot framework currently has any code to check the history for anon edits. RedWolf 09:14, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] A mistake...

Hi, RedWolf. Your bot made this edit to [1] Wikipedia:Help Desk, removing something fairly important (well, maybe not in the scheme of things, but it could potentially be important. Can you make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen (and, incidentally, why did it?). Smoddy (t) (e) 18:38, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi. It appears that the interwiki links were at the top of the page so the bot moved them to the bottom. I'm using the Pywikipedia bot framework which I didn't write. The only real change that the bot intended to do was move the article to Category:Wikipedia help from Category:Help. First time that it has ever run into this type of issue before with the bot. RedWolf 19:47, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant something else. It deleted the [[Category:Dune]] text from inside <nowiki>>[[Category:Dune]]</nowiki>. Is there a reason for this? Smoddy (t) (e) 19:51, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I noticed that when I compared the changes. Looks like a bug in the bot code as it apparently doesn't check for categories being inside <nowiki></nowiki>, which I guess is technically allowed but is not the correct way of referring to categories (to do that, one normally puts a leading colon). Categories belong at the bottom of an article so the bot code will move any it finds out of place to there. Out of the thousands of categories changes the bot has done, this is probably the first time this issue has come up. I'll file a bug for the framework and see what the developers have to say about it. RedWolf 00:16, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Submitted as Bug 1157513. RedWolf 00:25, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Another mistake

The bot moved the category Abkhazian political particles to "Political parties in Abkhazian", which makes no sense. Could you please fix this up? Ambi 03:49, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Actually, no this is not a mistake. Consensus on WP:CFD was to rename all subcats of Category:Political parties by nationality. There is also a notice on latter page to that effect. RedWolf 05:24, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

The name of the country is apparently "Abkhazia". Pearle will fix shortly. Thanks for cleaning up Sri Lanka, BTW. -- Beland 02:04, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ah ok. I misunderstood what Ambi was saying. RedWolf 02:18, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category: Stanford University people

What happened to this category? And all the people in it? hydnjo talk 14:22, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It was deleted after consensus reached on WP:CFD. RedWolf 17:26, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] re: Category:Italian-American businessmen

Hi, I noticed the bot is removing people from Category:Italian-American businessmen and adding them to Category:U.S. businesspeople. However, they are not being added to Category:Italian-Americans. Is there a reason for this? Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo 19:50, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The bot can only do a move to one category. RedWolf 03:09, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

This conversion then causes a loss of information. Unless the bot will make a second pass, this requires manual correction. Will you do this, or should I review the bot's changes and make the corrections? Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo 20:21, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The bot does not have sufficient "smarts" to make such a second pass. Feel free to review the bots changes and manually make corrections. I just thought it was more useful to move them to an occupational category rather than an ethical group category. RedWolf 03:48, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for correcting on my band page. Good screen name too :) Redwolf24 (Talk) 3 July 2005 06:09 (UTC)

[edit] Cinema → Film actors

Hi, thanks for the bot assistance. Is there anyway to have CanisRufus keep the alphabetic name sorting portion.. ie [[Category:Film actors|Bledel, Alexis]], or do we have to re-edit all of them. Oh, I just seen you did that particular one. Thanks for the help again. <>Who?¿? 8 July 2005 17:42 (UTC)

Yea, I noticed this myself after monitoring the bots changes. There seems to be a bug in the bot code where it doesn't keep the category sort key. I have manually applied the sort key to all the articles the bot changed. I have stopped the bot from making further changes and looks like another bot will need to continue this task due to a technical issue in trying to fix the problem. RedWolf July 8, 2005 18:32 (UTC)

I appreciate the earlier assistance though, some is better than none ;). <>Who?¿? 9 July 2005 06:41 (UTC)

[edit] Monica Vitti

When it's fixed, will it find her? (general curiosity) Wyss 9 July 2005 18:17 (UTC)

No, because she wasn't in the old category. I have manually added the article to the category. RedWolf July 9, 2005 18:52 (UTC)

[edit] ABC dab

Thanks for helping out on ABC disambiguations -- Chris 18:57, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] decat

Thanks for decatting defunct musical groups, I wasn't looking forward to doing that manually. --fvw* 00:34, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

No problem. Takes me about 15 seconds to get the bot going to perform this type of task. RedWolf 05:14, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Error moving HTML comments.

See [2]. — Jeandré, 2005-09-06t11:55z

This is very likely a bug in the pywikipediabot script (which I did not develop). I have seen a similar problem when a category is commented out. RedWolf 00:31, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bot request

Hi RedWolf, I have another bot request that I'm hoping you would be willing accommodate.

All of the affected articles are in the various subcategories of [[Category:Canadian legislators]]

The phrase:

Political biography from the Library of Parliament

Should be changed to:

Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament

If you feel that you could help out with this, thank you in advance for your assistance! Regards, Fawcett5 19:22, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] errant bot edit?

Hi - This edit looks odd to me. In addition to removing the article from the category (per the edit summary), it changes a category and changes an interwiki link. Are either of these other changes intended, or is this just some weird bug in the script? Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:16, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

That is strange. First time I have ever seen the script change an interwiki link. Something must have really confused it (perhaps the HTML comment?). Only the removal from the Cities in North America category was intended, the other changes should be reverted. Thanks for pointing out the problem. I didn't write the script so I'll have to look into getting it changed. RedWolf 22:33, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Flower

Your bot is "dab" by completely taking out the link. Im not sure if thats dab more of dewikifying. JobE6 Image:Peru flag large.png 02:55, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

• The bot is not automated when it chooses the actual replacement, that is under my control. I sometimes remove the link entirely because it does not follow the Make only links relevant to the context guidelines. RedWolf 03:29, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] This bot

How does it work? How did you manage to program it, Redwolf? I don't get it. --Anittas 00:18, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

There isn't a lot for me to program. I use the Pywikipediabot framework which does the vast majority of the work. RedWolf 02:04, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] bot on the loose

Apparently on a recent run to change "Category:Wikipedia feature" refs to "Category:Wikipedia features", the bot had a side effect of moving other text that looked like category wikicode to the bottom. Unfortunately, this is wrong if the "wikicode" was under "nowiki" tags, as in this bot edit: [3] That one I repaired. Maybe other pages should be checked for damage. -R. S. Shaw 06:02, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

• This is the same bug I reported on March 6, 2005 (See "A Mistake..."). RedWolf 09:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk page

No need to fix dabs on talk pages. violet/riga (t) 21:17, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Bot must stop editing talk pages: It's improper for a human being to correct someone else's comments, I then definitely do not appreciate an automated procedure to act as such. Whatever I signed, is my text. By changing that text without stating such in that text, as the responsible person for the bot, you commit forgery. For all clarity, the bot's edit really did improve my comment in a way I would have written it if I had taken proper care at the time; still it is not right to make such changes. — SomeHuman 10 Sep 2006 06:50-08:01 (UTC)

• The procedure is not fully automated. Disambiguation still requires a human to make the choice. RedWolf 09:33, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Morning Post

• Am unable to move Morning Post to The Morning Post.
• That's because the latter is REDIRECTED to the former.
• You visited the cite recently - could you fix this problem?

Thanks. ---Ludvikus 03:23, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

• This is a bot account without admin privileges. I don't have time right now but I can take a look at it later today. RedWolf 06:49, 14 September 2006 (UTC)