User talk:SuggestBot

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If you're looking for recommendations, please go to User:SuggestBot/Requests.

Feedback on recommendations is welcome below. I move older feedback to User:SuggestBot/FeedbackArchive every so often. Thanks for caring enough to leave a note. -- ForteTuba 11:19, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] What fun, but no feedback yet

Actually really well done, my list. I'm impressed by the importance of the articles listed and by the bot with articles that intrigue me, but not ones I'd considered editing.

Only two articles were articles I had, considered editing, or even visited on Wikipedia, the one on the Hari Rud, one of the major water sheds of Afghanistan, which I'm reading about right now, and the one on Poison Oak which I'm currently reading a major technical treatise on.

There were a couple of geographical stubs based on my interest in walnuts (Walnut Grove) which it would be hard to care less about. But I wouldn't adjust the bot on this because sometimes a geographical naming is from a major plant in the region. Jamaica walnut was clever and worth the laugh--Haitian music and walnuts = Jamaica Walnut, a plant completely unrelated to walnuts or Haiti, but it's a Euphorbs, so I'm game.

Of the other 30 articles the majority are of very high importance for an encyclopedia, and the poor level of some of the articles is disappointing. I am going to edit all of them to some degree, except maybe the Dale Brown book.

A few were surprising.

Eels? My marine biology background is in pretty much everything but fish. However, I can tell by the terminology in the article that someone made a much-needed effort to include good information about the order, but didn't have sufficient background knowledge to interpret the nomenclature. This I can fix with a bit of reading about eels in current technical reviews, and I can probably get the necessary diagrams to compare eels to other fish in their fins and reproductive systems. I'll also look at the eel life history article.

I know I got British Plant Communities (series of books) because I use British spellings in all of my plant articles from reading 19th century natural histories. Never heard of this series as I don't study Britain's vegetation, but I will check them out at the library--maybe it's the British equivalent of the Jepson Manual or Ornduff.

Never heard of Dale Brown, but it looks like the perfect gutt-buster fluff for my off-classics reading cycles. On this one, I'll probably just thank you for giving me an author to supplement my Michael Crichton, Clive Cussler and Robin Cook books. Maybe I'll write about it, but there are more important literary classics that need articles, so I doubt it. I can't for the life of my figure out how the bot picked this one based on my Wikipedia activities, but I do have a major connection with the book, which I won't share. Does the bot read minds?

I'd never even heard of the Afrotheria, but am interested in elephants, lemurs, and flying foxes, so I'll take a stab at it. The article is in sad shape.

Central Contra Costa Sanitary District is pretty obscure--it's an area I'm interested in, although not on Wikipedia, so I'm surprised. I can make it a worth-while article, though, and will check the related sanitary district articles.

Other than two bombs, the Walnut Grove articles, an excellent variety of articles, some people, major plant articles that I did not know were in serious need of attention, some obscure areas, but all in all articles that I personally am concerned about their quality and can readily fix. Oh, and the Dale Brown, I'm going to get one of his today.

Good job. I think this bot could do a good job providing interested editors with important articles to work on. I think it's better than my original idea of a bot that allowed me to get a random article in an area I selected, simply because it weighed articles with different needs and provided some really important encyclopedia articles that need major work. KP Botany 15:54, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed feedback and the praise for its ability. Not everyone gets as good results but I'm glad you did. As for recommending random articles in a specific category, that's not such a bad plan. I'm sure SuggestBot would be a lot better if it explicitly considered category membership and activity when making recommendations, and it would be curious which strategy would generate more editing activity: random but in a known category of interest, or personalized but across the whole of Wikipedia. It's on the list of "things I've been meaning to do but, well, haven't actually done yet" for a while. :) -- ForteTuba 00:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Penis panic?

Seriously, is this really something that I would be interested in? I'm not even sure how the conclusion was come to that I'd be interested in that article. Perhaps all of those "PENIS!" edits I've reverted with VP2? o.õ thadius856talk 07:23, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Probably not -- it doesn't look at the actual edit contents, just the articles that you edit. Also, it was in the "add sources" category, which has (relatively) few articles to choose from when recommending work, so you'd expect it to do a worse job there. Or maybe SuggestBot is just a randy little bugger. Thanks for the note, sorry you got that bit of weirdness. -- ForteTuba 00:10, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Avoid by category?

I've used SuggestBot before and been very impressed with it. It's very comics-heavy in its suggestions to me: reasonably so, since probably the majority of my edits are in comics articles. Trouble is, I have pretty much moved away from comics editing altogether, and am looking at a very different group of topics. My question is, would it be possible (I'm not a computer-literate person, I have no idea how hard this is) to add an "exclude category" box to the Bot? That way I could ask for suggestions "excluding Category:Comics", and get only articles that don't fall within than category. Otherwise, i'll need to wait for another few thousand edits before it becomes seriously useful to me again. There must be many other people in a similar position to myself who this feature would be useful for. Cheers for your time. Vizjim 07:01, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Letting people give a better expression of their interests is the number one way I'd like to make SuggestBot better as a useful tool. I'm not sure excluding categories is the best way to do it -- usually people are more interested in asking for articles in a specific category or set of categories -- but the general idea of "leave out articles that contain X" could be pretty powerful for avoiding obscenity, keeping the text-based recommender from getting all excited about one particular word, and similar issues. Thanks for the note. -- ForteTuba 00:13, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Editing my suggestions

I like editing the suggestions SuggestBot provides (like with notes to self). But I don't like the fact that doing so alerts me to a new message, which is essentially notification of an unsigned edit on my talk page that looks like this —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Keesiewonder (talk • contribs) 00:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC). The following also appears in the edit summary:(Keesiewonder didn't sign: "- →Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot - "). Is there a way to shut this notification off? Keesiewonder 00:24, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

That was an edit by HagermanBot, which watches for unsigned edits on talk pages and signs them. Its behaviour has recently been changed, though; it now ignores a user's edits to their own talk page, so this should no longer happen – Gurch 05:40, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note on that, I was wondering whether SuggestBot was doing something wrong. -- ForteTuba 00:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yeah, this didn't work for me (But it could for you!)

Yeah, out of the 34 articles, there was one I already knew I would like to edit, and four are interesting-ish to me. The main thing that stood in the way of a sucessful suggestion was that I attempted a few months back to disambig Sonic the Hedgehog links; I'm not really interested in Sonic, but I figured I would at least understand that subject. And Sonic articles filled the suggestion--along with some political articles (?) and articles related to Yum! Brands—which I think I edited before the summer (it's now December). Well, it was worth a shot, and I may end up editing some of these.

Thank you SuggestBot (and ForteTuba!)! —ScouterSig 15:44, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. It does have a tendency to get wrapped around the axle, especially when there is a large set of articles that link to each other or a word that appears in just a small set of articles. Hopefully you did wind up editing a few, and it was useful... -- ForteTuba 00:18, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hmmm... first glance doesn't look so good...

Thanks for running the suggestions. At first glance, the articles don't really seem to be in line for my interests. I'll follow the rabbit trail and see what can be done on them.

It looks like some people have had success with the bot, so I encourage you to continue! --Paul McDonald 03:33, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry it didn't work out so well for you. Any hypotheses on how it got confused for your interests? -- ForteTuba 00:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions and Feedback

Here's my results, and appropriate feedback...

Stubs
Bihar Vikas Party

I cannot make any connection to this. Perhaps my minor edits on the jewellery page with spelling corrections, vandalism, and removing Indian company additions had something to do with it?

Valley of the Damned (Demo)

Good stuff!

Findings

Related to the jewellery article. I changed all instances of "jewelry" to "jewellery", and reverted things. Perhaps something that could differentiate "minor" edits from major edits?

Jelly Jam

This is okay, however I know nothing about it. A band related to a band I like.

Andy Strachan

This is okay too, I just have no idea about how to proceed.

Extension of the Wish

I know nothing about this, but maybe edits I've made which involve power metal and progressive metal have something to do with it.

Platypus (band)

This is okay as well, although I know nothing about it.

Bizzar

Haha, this is nearly an insult; but nah, I've never made any edits even related to this.

Erriapo (moon)

Maybe my reversions and spelling corrections to the Saturn article; I know nothing about it, only minor edits.

Gerry Lindgren

I can honestly make no connection here. I know nothing about Americans, let alone American sports.

Thunderstone (band)

Very good! I'm in the process of fixing up this.

Mabool

Didn't even know this was a band. I'm not sure what could cause this to be suggested.

Grisoft

No idea why this was suggested either.

Martin Lopez

Good stuff; although I'm not sure how to proceed.

Henrik Klingenberg

Good stuff; although I'm not sure how to proceed.

MullMuzzler

Another band that's related to a band I like, but know nothing about. Same as above.

Paaliaq (moon)

Same as Erriapo.

Always & Forever

Don't know how this appeared, I'm not into country music or anything.

Per Wiberg

Good stuff, but I'm not sure how to proceed.
Cleanup
EditPlus

Maybe the same as Grisoft? I'm not sure how this appeared.

Jordan Rudess

Good stuff!

Drilling and threading

No idea how this appeared.

Merge
Points of Authority

Never did anything related to Linkin Park or nu-metal.

Load (album)

This is good, although I disagree with the merge.

Tellum

Never heard of this before.

Add Sources
Kevin Moore

Good stuff, I'll do this soon.

Jaska Raatikainen

Same as above.

Jason Newsted

Same as above.

Wikify
EZ-Street

Seems an okay suggestion; just I've never heard of it before.

Smoking cessation

Never made anything related to this.

Costa Maya

Never heard of it or anything related.

Expand
United States Federal Witness Protection Program

I know nothing about the United States, nor about the law. No idea what I did for this.

Presents G.H.E.T.T.O. Stories

No idea about this either, never made edits even related to it.

Congo River

Same as above.

Basically, what I'm wondering is if it's possible to differentiate noted minor edits, from edits that aren't checked with the minor edit. That way, checking the minor edit checkbox would be more useful, and it would help differentiate from simple spelling corrections and vandalism reversion, from actual article editing. That's about all, this has gotten me more into editing Wikipedia, thanks. --Dayn 09:40, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

That is a lot of detailed feedback. Looks like it hit for you about 1/3 of the time, which is probably "good enough" -- and I'm glad a) that you did a fair amount of editing and b) that it encouraged you to be more of a contributor. That was its original purpose in life and although I think more power users play with it for fun than newer folks use it, it's good to hear that it helps some people out that way. As for minor edits, I've been ignoring them for some people and not ignoring them for others for a while now. Initial experiments suggested that ignoring minor edits makes no difference, although I've got a lot more data now that I should sit down and analyze. Thanks for the note. -- ForteTuba 00:21, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mostly very helpful, but a couple really far-out suggestions

Um, well I usually correct typos, occasionally contribute a stub or two on science, and also correct some misinformation on music pages sometimes. So, I was unpleasantly surprised when ejaculation showed up on my suggest page. I never, ever go near sexual pages, so I deleted that from my talk page. None, by any stretch of the imagination, of my edits even could have been linked to anything remotely close to something slightly sexual, so... I have no clue where that came from. Happy8 03:07, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that. This happens to other people too; SuggestBot I think has a tendency to recommend articles that are edited more often than others, and sexual topics probably tend to get edited more often by the Beavis crowd. Weirdly, it was the text recommendation strategy that gave you the article in question, and it's not affected by popularity. So I have no clue either. Sorry again. -- ForteTuba 00:27, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Excellent work

I am surprised that this wonderful work was done by a machine (although not 100% accurate). Of 34 articles, I didn't like 2 which are: Videos of Osama bin Laden and Wapedia.

--Meno25 04:46, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Nice, glad that it was almost all reasonasble stuff for you. :) -- ForteTuba 00:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Not bad

Not bad but maybe a bit more variety would be nice I ended up with about half the suggestions being singles, albums or band members from the band Nightwish. Maybe you can set it up so that if it comes up with music related articles it picks some articles in the same genres but unrelated to each other. Also I don't get why it was Ejaculation suggested I checked my list of edits in case I fixed a typo or something and I can't figure out how your bot came up with this. Rainer1 07:22, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, some of the algorithms get captured by pages that link to each other a lot, or pages that are often edited. Unfortunately, Ejaculation falls into that category and it had a work-needed tag on it, so it became prone to being suggested. -- ForteTuba 00:44, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

I signed up for SuggestBot and it worked. My name is still on the list. Is that ok and will I keep getting suggestions? WikiMan53 T/C e@ 21:19, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Please respond here!

Responded on your talk page, but the short answer is: no, no current way to be a regular subscriber. I want to put in code that keeps it from recommending the same article over and over first. -- ForteTuba 00:31, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles

Please contact me if you thinnk there are articles I can edit. Thank you! --Shaericell Talker to Name Game 01:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I just added your name to the requests list and you'll get some suggestions next time it runs. Thanks for being interested. -- ForteTuba 00:32, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] im in

please contact me if u think i can edit some articles. thanks Znsga 20:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I put your name on the list of requests and it'll send some next time I run it. Thanks for being interested. -- ForteTuba 00:33, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hmm

Most of the articles I liked, but some of them seemed really out there, when I'd never done any articles in that field. Mrmoocow 23:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

It has to stretch sometimes, especially for kinds of work with relatively few articles (the ones on the right side of the list). Hope it was at least somewhat useful for you, thanks for the note. -- ForteTuba 00:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My list...

Well, most of the articles seem very interesting, but then I saw Fart and Playboy! I have no interest in that, and I have no idea how that got into my list. Hehe, that was funny. :-) AndonicO Talk | Sign Here 15:11, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Apparently, SuggestBot is a bit of a cad -- other people get these kind of "fun" suggestions too. It has a habit of recommending articles that are more often edited because of how its algorithms work, and the Beavis crowd tends to edit those a lot. Glad you found it funny, though, rather than annoying. :) -- ForteTuba 00:40, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:SuggestBot/Requests

Foundby (talk • contribs) has been adding people to User:SuggestBot/Requests. As far as it's been without the knowledge of the people who he's been adding (I wasn't asked or informed, I can't speak for the other people however.) Here's the diffs: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

It's not a big deal I guess (I don't realy mind getting the suggustion from the bot)... it could be a problem at some point. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 20:16, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I was surprised at receiving that message. The suggestions were very accurate, but I was iffed at being added without my knowledge. Fvasconcellos 17:13, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Okay, thanks for the note, and sorry that you got suggestions shoved at you. I was wondering why there was a "please run the suggestions" note from said user and now I know why. Any thoughts on how to keep similar problems from happening, besides scanning edits? -- ForteTuba 00:37, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Really, it would make sense to prevent users from adding anybody other than themselves to the list - but I guess there's no wiki mechanism to impose such a constraint.--Niels Ø (noe) 15:03, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions needed

I want to edit articles based on my previous edits. Thank you, ---Lazylaces-Helping Wikipedians since.. um.. for almost a year! Lazylaces (talk • contribs 21:47, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I added your name to the requests page and it'll generate some next time it runs; thanks for checking in. -- ForteTuba 00:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RCP

What if you're an RCP and SuggestBot checks your recent RVVs instead? Cheers to 2007! User:Sp3000 02:00, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Then alas, it will probably give you random crap of the most controversial kind. Although, it does try to ignore edits marked rv. -- ForteTuba 18:28, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] last 500 only?

On the User:SuggestBot/Requests page it says:

Example:
User:ForteTuba
will grab ForteTuba's (up to 500) most recent edits and make suggestions based on them.

I was wondering if this bot still limits itself to 500 or if that range has been improved. I just posted a request on that page, but I'm worried that I should have done so sooner, as few if any of my last 500 edits were actually related to the content of articles I'm interested in. I think it would be more meaningful if it looked at all edits and disregarded pages that a user has only edited once or twice. — CharlotteWebb 11:30, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

The idea of grabbing the full profile and deciding what are the "important" edits would be fun -- that's an interesting problem in recommender systems in general. It probably isn't as easy as focusing on articles that someone edits more than once, though. For instance, I bet there is serial vandalism of articles, for instance, that one person might revert many times. But I don't know. The "right" thing to do, probably, is let people specify their interests more directly (but this is more costly to do than just listing your username). It's on my "to-do" list. -- ForteTuba 18:30, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Weight similar (minor) edits less?

As you mention in "last 500 only?", the idea of what constitutes an "important" edit needs some work. SuggestBot's recommendations for me were mostly tornado-related articles, due to the fact that I recently spent a lot of time disambiguating the three Palm Sunday tornados by hand, which meant I was touching a lot of tornado-related articles. (Funny enough, it's true that I probably should go through and copyedit all those miscapitalized tornado articles, but I was hoping for more variety in the suggestions!)

One easy solution to this problem would be to ignore or downweight "minor" edits. Or maybe you already do that, but a large quantity of related minor edits can outweigh a few scattered major edits? A trickier solution would be to look for and ignore edits that only change one or two words, or add a template, even if they're not "minor". I mention templates because two more of SuggestBot's suggestions were Live.com and Windows Live Local, due to the fact that I tagged a lot of Windows Live stubs for {{merge}} a while back.

I strongly urge you not to let people specify their interests more directly; if they knew their editing pattern already, they wouldn't need SuggestBot! ;) The surprise is part of the fun. --Quuxplusone 20:14, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good bot, but...

Some of them are absolutely off-topic to my interest. My interests are gaming, environmental science, and anime. However, it suggested some singers that I never heard of. I did an edit on my school before, and it recommends me to fix up some other school's stub topic. It is quite unreasonable for me to add more contents without going to those school, isn't it?

Overall, I'll give it 8.5 out of 10. Keep up your good work!

OhanaUnited 00:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SuggestBot works great!

Most of the articles SuggestBot suggested interest me. In the immortal words of Peppy Hare, "Good job, keep up the good work!" Psycho Kirby 21:40, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] You are getting better

I must say that I am pleased this time more than the last time. I didn't like only 6 of 34 articles you suggested. I liked all the articles in the Stubs section.

--Meno25 01:24, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pro bug catcher's feedback

Stubs
Ditrysia
Castniidae
Leptocircini
Green-veined White
Acrylic fiber
Not my type.
Pieter Cramer
Red Admiral
Ocellus
Tineidae
Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly
Brimstone (butterfly)
Silver-spotted Skipper
Microlepidoptera
Instar
Jake Burns
I don't see the link with me.
Papilioninae
Emerald Swallowtail
Dingy Skipper
Two-tailed Swallowtail
Cleanup
Misfiring behavior
Yes! very interesting.
Gia Carangi
Nope (supermodel? no link to me...)
Liping Zhang
Nope (soprano, no link either!)
Merge
Thin-film optics
Nope
Soggy biscuit
Didn't even know this existed... I'll go to bed having learned something... but, not my type of article at all.
Contact tension
Nope
Add Sources
Wasp
Definitely!
Pawpaw
Yeah
Vignale
Not even close, not funny either... just wrong
Wikify
Lindane
Insecticide that's the link, but I don't like insecticides... I like Insects
Egg (biology)
Yes
Smoking fetishism
Didn't even know this existed... I'll go to bed having learned something... but, not my type of article at all.
Expand
Flea
Yes
Blomer's Rivulet
Yup
Praying mantis
Very true

Generally good, I'll definitely edit the Misfiring behavior in the cleanup section. Maybe add references to Wasp. The "funny-sex-linked" suggestions came up for me too. Hope my feedback helps; any questions and I'll try to answer. Thanks a lot ! Pro bug catcher (talk • contribs). 17:37, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Overall, not too shabby, but a suggestion

I'm not sure where articles like Fart and FahrenHYPE 9/11 came from, but otherwise fairly on the mark. Here's what I noticed, though, looking through the suggestions: since I do lots of editing to the Halo (video game series), lots of the links like the HALO trust and Halo (medicine) are related to halo, insofar as a non-disambig term. so if suggestbot could differentiate between these, that would make it a lot better. Dåvid Fuchs (talk / contribs) 02:21, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other name spaces

Hello, SuggestBot. Thank you for the suggestions but can't you recommend articles in other name spaces. I am sure that your caretaker can arrange that. --Meno25 06:59, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is this thing on? *tap tap tap*

Hi! I added my name a few days ago, but I've not heard anything. Is the bot running? Thanks! --SilverhandTalk 16:49, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

It kinda looks like there is going to be backlog of users wanting suggestions, It will probably fix itself by the end of the month. mickyfitz13 Talk 09:50, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, I was ill. -- ForteTuba 02:54, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
No Prob. mickyfitz13 Talk 19:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Multiple suggestions?

I posted myself once for suggestions; the results were very mixed - which of course is exactly what they should be. As far as I can see, I was de-listed once I'd got my first batch of suggestions. Could the list at User:SuggestBot/Requests be divided into two, one for people wanting suggestions once only (so they'd have to re-list themselves manually for more), and one for people wanting suggestions every week for the next three months, say, at the end of which the bot should drop a note on their talk pages reminding them to re-list themselves if they still want suggestions? --Niels Ø (noe) 09:47, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:49, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Done, I believe. -- ForteTuba 21:53, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automated message to bot owners

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 05:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough, thanks for the note. I've always been exceedingly cautious in both my editing rates and page request rates, I figure there are plenty of people who want to get at the pie. -- ForteTuba 21:53, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bad

SuggestBot told me this and it is absolutely unsatisfactory. Only some Argentina-related and greek-related, but the rest is totally useless to me: Prince (musician) (I suppose because I edit Bowie-related articles some times), Playboy (???), Ejaculation (because reverting vandalism??), Zorbas... Nope... Maybe SuggestBot needs to read userboxes. --Neigel von Teighen 08:47, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Not trivial to read userboxes, it turns out. It does have a tendency to get controverial/oft-reverted pages. It also doesn't have as many things to choose from in the non-stub categories so it tries. Sorry it didn't work so well for you. -- ForteTuba 05:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good

Mine worked just fine :-) Ideas on how to improve wikipedia's idea of the Kansas area, as well as some videogame related articles. For the most part, I like it. ----Steve 21:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Sweet, glad you got an up on the up and down rollercoaster that is SuggestBot. -- ForteTuba 05:51, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Make it give new ones

Make it so that you can do something to get an updated list, if you complete yours and want some more then you can sign your name somewhere or do something.Supergeo 15:25, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

There's a place for requesting periodic suggestions if you want to sign up there. It's a nasty kludge (smarter distribution would be better) but it'll have to do for now. -- ForteTuba 05:43, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meh

I was not too impressed with my suggestions: an awful lot of colors resulting from one recent visit, though granted I did fix up the wording in some; state parks because of NW Hawaiian Island's prompted by a Cousteau documentary; no chemistry (maybe DOT 5) or sci-fi despite many edits. I definitely agree with the "read user boxes to get a clue". I do acknowledge though, that coming up with good recommendations for someone with my apparently varied edit history is non-trivial. I read lots of random things, and will generally edit boldly, but the things I really care for don't necessarily coincide with this. --Belg4mit 05:04, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

As stated above, reading userboxes is a non-trivial endeavor (though there are a few people here doing some related work around them, and maybe I'll be able to use some of that eventually). Grabbing all the links on one's user page might be a reasonable compromise -- people sometimes list their main contributions there. I'd really like if there were a handy way for people to give their interests because, as you say, when there's a wide range it's hard to make good coherent suggestions, and it would probably do a lot better if people could just say "use these articles to represent my interests". -- ForteTuba 05:50, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More suggestions

Can you sign up for the suggestions more than one time? - PatricknoddyTALK (reply here)|HISTORY 19:52, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Yep. There's also a place for requesting periodic suggestions if you want to sign up there. -- ForteTuba 05:43, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recommended

I highly recommend it. It works well and is a great idea. Try it! Bloddyfriday 21:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] pretty cool

The only ones which seemed out of the blue were Jean-Michel Saive, Allan Cutler and Lloyd Cutler. I assume that these were picked because I'd edited Ivor Cutler and Jean-Michel Basquiat. They may have similar names but they aren't really related at all. --Rider kabuto 10:09, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good recommendations, but many unrelated to my interests

While the suggestions were very relevant to my edits, what I found was that after adding an external link to an etymology site, the majority of my suggestions were etymology-related, and while I had recently started three bird-related articles, I only received a few bird related suggestions. Australian Raven 18:55, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles marked as "needing work"

This should be an option that you can turn off. You should also be able to get a selection of articles for you to edit that have not been specifically marked as stubs or otherwise needing work. -Mike Payne 15:32, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Contributing

I would like to contribute to pages that have lots of typos. Do you know of any? --Yummie 18:35, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions for WikiProjects

You could do suggestions for WikiProjects. I'm not sure how this would work, but you could at least go through the pages associated with each one, and pick some random pages of the appropriate type for merging, etc.

Also, I've worked on 3 things. First, I worked on some fashion articles, then some guitar articles, and now I'm working on Wikipedia:WikiProject Calvinism related articles. If there was some way to say "show me things that I might be interested in that are related to this". For example, if I picked Calvinism, you could do your suggestions for me as per normal, but then winnow them to remove ones that aren't related to Calvinism in some way (even if it's indirect).

Ideas...  :)

-- TimNelson 12:56, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Very relevant, but with some bugs (?)

The suggestion were very good, but:

  • The bot listed List of modern weapons by country as a stub, although it is not. The article consists of many sections with very little text - that's why the bot thought it to be a stub. However, there are no stub tags, and it is a list, it should have little text.
  • Leap of Faith (film) was categorised as 'In need of clean-up', but it is not (however, the article could have been cleaned by someone else).

But this is not much - the bot is excellent, thank you very much for it! --Alexander Iwaschkin 07:44, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Poor Jobjörn

Although your edit summary when listing me among the users that can't receive suggestiongs, I'm wondering if you are aware of why User:Trödel was able to receive suggestions when I'm not? Please don't consider it whining, I'm just curious. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 13:53, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help me

You are the person that can help me be better and I could use the helpSonicrules2 21:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)Sonicrules2

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