User talk:Wherebot

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Contents 1 Crusade (album) 2 WhereBot 3 Probably should not automatically flag copies from .gov sites 4 Source Code 5 Possible error in escape sequence 6 Love this bot... 7 Suggestion 8 Edit summaries

[edit] Crusade (album)

Settle down, wherebot! Please do not delete Crusade (album). If album covers are fair use, surely non plagiarized articles are fair use! --Alcuin 01:14, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry; programming error on my part. WhereBot is still in testing stages (it exits immediately after editing); still I should have taken more precautions. Completely unacceptable on my part. Sorry about this; it will not happen again. I reverted my naughty bot's edit. -- Where 21:17, 11 July 2006 (UTC-4)

[edit] WhereBot

Please see the notes at Bot Requests. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:54, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Your bot has been approved, please see the final notes at the WP:RFBOT page. If you think you need a bot flag though, leave me a talk page note. Don't forget to list yourself at Wikipedia:Registered_bots too! — xaosflux ^Talk 04:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Probably should not automatically flag copies from .gov sites

In general, material from the United States Government is not copyrightable. It's probably best not to automatically flag copies from ".gov" domains. --John Nagle 17:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out! The problem should now be fixed. -- Where 18:25, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Source Code

Would you please send me your source code? We really need such robot on persian wikipedia. I'll keep it safe and won't redistribute your code if you don't like. ;-) Hessam 18:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

The code is a tad messy since I coded it in a hurry (which is why I don't advertise it on the userpage), but you are free to get it from User:Wherebot/Source. -- Where 15:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I'll try to run it on Persian wikipedia. :-) Hessam 22:21, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. If you are having any trouble, please ask, and I'll try and help. -- Where 22:53, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible error in escape sequence

Hi. I haven't looked through the code yet, but I suspect you may have an error with an escape sequence somewhere (see this edit). Just thought I'd bring it to your attention. Mindmatrix 15:21, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I think the problem is now fixed. -- Where 18:23, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Love this bot...

Hi, just wanted to congratulate you on this bot. I worked today on the list and they were a few non copyvio's but the majority was spot on. Good job! Garion96 (talk) 22:20, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks :) -- Where 01:44, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

For your information, I couldn't find a copyvio on the last three entries.[1]. Garion96 (talk) 16:14, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion

Could you modify Wherebot to use multiple search engines? Nwwaew 02:05, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summaries

Very cool, but could the bot use interesting edit summaries, or at least turn them off? "Wikipedia python library" is not very helpful... --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 11:24, 16 October 2006 (UTC)