User talk:AnomieBOT

Anomie is still around, mostly to maintain AnomieBOT. But after the WMF proved that office politics are more important to them than seemingly anything else, and otherwise generally seem more concerned with their own image than substance, Anomie is not engaging in technical work on MediaWiki.

Despite T360488 asking them not to, Toolforge admins have gone ahead and broken AnomieBOT's scripts. Keeping things running properly will likely require manual intervention until they fix that or give me a usable workaround.

Live status for all AnomieBOT tasks is available at Toolforge.

Regarding the OrphanReferenceFixer and TagDater, please note:

AnomieBOT is not an anti-vandal bot, so complaints about AnomieBOT "hiding" or not reverting vandalism are out of place here.
- AnomieBOT's current strategy is "wait 10 minutes to an hour or so to let ClueBot, VoABotII, other anti-vandal bots, or RC Patrollers fix the vandalism". I am open to specific suggestions on detecting vandalism, but keep in mind that the false positive rate of any method must be near zero to be useful.
AnomieBOT honors {{inuse}}; please use it if you have excessive edit conflicts.
If the reference errors or undated tags were caused by vandalism, just revert AnomieBOT's edits along with the vandal's. AnomieBOT will not be offended.
If AnomieBOT made a mistake in correcting a reference error or dating a tag, please correct the error by hand and report the URL of the problem diff below. Don't just revert the bot without fixing the error, or AnomieBOT is likely to "fix" it again in the same broken way before I get a chance to fix the bug.
If you have a problem with T11790, please take the issue up there. You will be having the problem with more than just AnomieBOT's edits.

Thank you.

	Regarding deletions, please note:
If you are here because you think AnomieBOT III deleted an article, please check again. AnomieBOT III deletes redirects when someone else deletes the article the redirect pointed to, and you almost certainly want to talk to that person instead.

	Regarding {{old AfD multi}}, please note:
If you are here because AnomieBOT added {{old AfD multi}} to an article when the old AfD was about a different person with the same name, just remove it. The bot has no way to tell whether it's the same person or a different one.

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Restart needed[edit]

https://iw.toolforge.org/anomiebot is showing most tasks as "pod missing". * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:22, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I also noticed that User:AnomieBOT III/Broken redirects hasn't updated since about 02:00 UTC February 6th. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:58, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Restarted. Anomie ⚔ 22:58, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pod missing is showing again — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 04:51, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Restarted. Anomie ⚔ 12:16, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

thanks bot[edit]

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-🐦DrWho42👻 06:09, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Liberia[edit]

Hi all, does anyone know why the bot hasn't started archiving from here please? I've edited the code so it mirrors Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Botswana, which does archive, but the closed discussions are still lingering. Can anyone see something that I can't that's causing it not to happen? Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:36, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you add it to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Compact? Anomie ⚔ 12:53, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I had no idea that that would be what the bot works off. Thanks! Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:54, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:AnomieBOT III[edit]

Hello, Anomie,

AnomieBOT III should have updated the broken redirect pages but it hasn't in 9 hours. Could you "restart" it? Many thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:23, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Anomie ⚔ 21:14, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing url-inside-ref syntax instead of removing it[edit]

Thank you for your work. It would be helpful if the bot could fix this syntax <ref https://www.swr.de/sport/mehr-sport/leichtathletik/swr-sporthelden-2023-kugelstossen-yemisi-ogunleye-100.html /> as in Special:Diff/1211521503 instead of removing it altogether. Because the original edit was P&G-compliant if not technically correct, but then the bot removed the URL which in effect introduced unsourced statements to a BLP. An easy fix would be to convert it to a bare-url reference that can be filled later. Thanks, --Habst (talk) 14:40, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try to look into it when I have a chance. Meanwhile, if someone could determine whether that is a unique mistake or if different editors commonly do that rather than the correct syntax, that would be useful for my prioritization. Anomie ⚔ 06:50, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is more unique than common, if last January's "AnomieBOT can't manage to do orphaned refs right" thread at BOTN was any indication (i.e. we would have seen it then as well). Primefac (talk) 08:52, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Unreliable source?[edit]

Why is the link to a linkedin page an unreliable source? I assume a website could be like that - but on the other hand a website should be a good source of information and confirmation of data. Could I remove the comment in the bio I prepared? thanks Lemonidess (talk) 14:36, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is the user talk page for a bot. All AnomieBOT did was add a date to a tag added by some human. If you're referring to Przemysław Krych, that addition was in Special:Diff/1212040660 so you should go ask at User talk:Theroadislong. Anomie ⚔ 19:52, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Protection of article[edit]

Asking for protection of the article Paola Cortellesi from non registered recidive vandal who also admitted they are doing it for personal ideological and political beliefs and keeps causing disruption. 151.38.224.195 (talk) 20:14, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) AnomieBOT does not protect pages. You should file a request at WP:RFPP. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:42, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TFATitleSubpageCreator: Cannot find featured article in Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 12, 2024 - Fixed[edit]

Help! I can't find the featured article link in Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 12, 2024 in order to populate Template:TFA title/May 12, 2024. Please correct the link or create the template manually. When you have fixed this issue, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. I will repost the notice if the page is still broken or is re-broken. Thanks! AnomieBOT II ⚡ 00:01, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not at all familiar with these templates, so rather than just removing I'm leaving it here for further review. Primefac (talk) 06:24, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Two years ago, after getting tired of edge cases when trying to scrape links out of the wikitext, I switched the bot to looking for {{TFAFULL}} which is a lot easier to parse for. In this case I see the {{TFAFULL}} was present originally but was removed in Special:Diff/1215188470 by User:MaranoFan. Looks like I forgot to update the bot's complaint message, and also that I forgot to ever add a check for the day being added to Template:TFA title/data.json. Anomie ⚔ 13:10, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]