User talk:RonaldB
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[edit] RonaldBot blocked
FYI, I have blocked your RonaldBot (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) account. You should read the relevant automated bot policy at WP:BOT which, among other things, requires approval and a bot flag for automated accounts. This block was in response to this notification at WP:AN. —Wknight94 (talk) 09:46, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
- This appears to be a strict application of a rule that by applying it actually harms Wikipedia instead of protecting it. Trigger happy, IMO. Cheers! Siebrand 16:52, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
- Are you also RonaldB-nl? Regardless, how do you figure that everyone else has to get their bots approved but this one is an exception? —Wknight94 (talk) 17:25, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
- No. I am not nl:User:RonaldB. I am User:Siebrand, as can be seen from my signature. As you can see from the edits of the bot, the bot has recognised open proxies minutes before humans identified vandalism from the IP adresses. It appears to be a very valuable addition to en.wp, as it has been to nl.wp and he.wp for almost a year. All edits by the user/bot have been benign, not made rapidly and not bad in any way. Block and post, not even at the indicated home wiki of the user this talk apge belongs to is not really nice, I think. You appear to have a different opinion. Cheers! Siebrand 18:28, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
- I've unblocked the bot as it's been approved for trial at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RonaldBot. No one's objected to the bot - there are bot approval checks because they are a sensible precaution. -- zzuuzz (talk) 22:52, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
- No. I am not nl:User:RonaldB. I am User:Siebrand, as can be seen from my signature. As you can see from the edits of the bot, the bot has recognised open proxies minutes before humans identified vandalism from the IP adresses. It appears to be a very valuable addition to en.wp, as it has been to nl.wp and he.wp for almost a year. All edits by the user/bot have been benign, not made rapidly and not bad in any way. Block and post, not even at the indicated home wiki of the user this talk apge belongs to is not really nice, I think. You appear to have a different opinion. Cheers! Siebrand 18:28, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
- Are you also RonaldB-nl? Regardless, how do you figure that everyone else has to get their bots approved but this one is an exception? —Wknight94 (talk) 17:25, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks, the bot will resume operation soon. - Rgds RonaldB-nl 23:32, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your bot request
Hi RonaldB-nl I wanted to let you know that Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RonaldBot is labeled as needing your comment. Please visit the above link to reply to the requests. Thanks! --BAGBotTalk 10:15, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] STOP YOUR BOT!
It is running without a bot flag. Please stop and wait for official approval. — E talkbots 10:18, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Source for bot
I would like to have the source for your bot so that I can use it on [1]. Is there a way I can download it? ffm 16:20, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Firefoxman,
- The reporting on en:w (and many other wikis) is accomplished by a program that is part of a much bigger system, including a daily maintained database (which I keep proprietary for obvious reasons). See here for some background info (not entirely up-to-date, but still providing a good overview of the system).
- Key to the reporting/monitoring part is an irc feed. I don't know whether laptop.org avails that facility. If yes, it might be feasible to monitor laptop.org as well. - Rgds RonaldB-nl (talk) 16:54, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:BLIP
A tag has been placed on Template:BLIP requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).
Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:40, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Blocking bot
I'm told you have a tor blocking bot. I'm an admin around here and would be interested in running it on en-wiki on an approved bot account. Can you communicate details like what sort of interface it has, etc? I would then write a WP:BRFA and a WP:RFA for it. MBisanz talk 17:44, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Matthew,
- Yes that's right. See here for a (somewhat outdated) explanation on the whole thing I'm running. Pre-emptive blocking is what I'm doing on w:nl and w:he (the latter by invitation). Besides TOR, I'm also blocking some other categories of open proxies. Btw, that proces also includes unblocking if the IP appears no open proxy anymore for a certain period of time.
- Another bit of the whole system is monitoring some ten wiki's. Look here for the w:en results. That page also provides links to other wiki's.
- Some other wiki's also pre-emptively block TOR, but mine only blocks exit nodes if such IP's appear to behave so for some time. That prevents blocking the IP's of individuals just trying TOR or IP's that are dynamic (and my statistics have shown that there are numerous).
- I've been involved earlier in a WP:BRFA, see [2], but if you read the discussion later on, there appeared to be some resistance.
- Nevertheless, if you think a new attempt is feasible, I'm happy to cooperate. - Rgds RonaldB (talk) 00:47, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
