User talk:SatyrBot

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SatyrBot is a bot created in PHP. It is run by me, SatyrTN, to help correct some common errors and generally help organize articles for various WikiProjects.

This bot runs in two modes. For some projects, the Bot identifies possible errors, and then I approve or discard each one.

For other projects, I set up a set of parameters and let the bot run in auto mode. Work done in this mode is usually described on the current project page. If the bot has made a mistake, or if there are any problems, leave a message here or on User talk:SatyrTN.
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[edit] ISS and Spain

Why did your bot add a Wikiproject Spain template to the talk page for the International Space Station? Sdsds 20:05, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm. At the time, the article (for no reason I can fathom) was in the Category:Prince of Asturias Award winners, which was part of WikiProject Spain. I'll put a note on the person I coordinated with (EspanaViva) to see if it should still stay there or not. I note, however, that Spain is one of the 15 countries involved, so maybe they'll want to keep the banner there. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 22:22, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Films

Your bot keeps adding the {{Film}} template to articles about actors. The article isn't about a film, nor is it about a character in a film. It doesn't seem that this is being properly applied, or else the wording for the template needs to be changed to reflect that articles on actors or actresses should have the tag, too. (I don't think that's the intent.) Examples are Jon King (porn star), John Davenport (porn star), and Jeremiah Rydell.—Chidom talk  03:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kew Constabulary

Your bot keeps adding (twice in the last two days) the {{LocateMeBot}} template to Kew Constabulary. This isn't a place, it's (as is pretty obvious from the name) a law enforcement agency. Although I'm only aware of it doing it to this article because I happen to be watching it following a recent rewrite, presumably it's doing it to other inappropriate pages as well. Is there at least any way it can be set to not return to re-add templates to pages from which they've been deleted? - iridescenti (talk to me!) 17:24, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] London Outer Orbital Path

The bot has added LocateMe twice to this page recently, but it's inappropriate to have geographical coordinates on an article dealing with a 150 mile walking route! Please exclude this page from the parameters. Thanks, Bencherlite 21:43, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Block

Please note I have blocked this bot for the time being, till the current project is sorted out properly through discussion, in order to prevent unlimited articles being tagged with LocateMe template. It is being discussed at User_talk:SatyrBot/Current_project#What_on_earth_is_this.3F and has also been posted at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#LocateMe_bot. Tyrenius 00:21, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Benefits

It seems that tagging articles pays off: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]. Andy Mabbett 21:27, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I suggest a preferable solution is to make a centralised list of articles needing co-ordinates, so that those skilled in providing them can work through it. Tyrenius 00:57, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
The tag already adds articles to such a category; but doing that alone will not draw in or educate new users and will not attract people with local knowledge. Andy Mabbett 08:52, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I was suggesting a list, not a category. Local knowledge isn't what's needed. It's knowledge of geographical co-ordinates. There is a project for people already. Anyway, I don't think anyone's objecting to a note on the talk page, like other projects. Tyrenius 09:49, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Since when was Crown_Jewels_of_the_United_Kingdom a place? Philip Trueman 18:41, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
From that page "The Crown Jewels have been kept at the Tower of London since 1303". Andy Mabbett 20:42, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
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