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Threads in this subheader shall not be archived because my botservant will be confused by this fake timestamp. –xeno 04:20, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

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WP:INDIANA assessment

Hello! Sorry I missed you RfB, I would totally supported that! I wish they would allow cavassing. But then again I am radical! haha!

I think that we can go ahead and try to auto assess WP:INDIANA article with Xenobot whenever you feel up to it. I do have a couple question, it looks like you use one or more assessments from other articles to determine the assessment your bot will make. I would like to only take an assessment if at least two projects have already rated it. If, for example, Project A assessess as stub and Project B assesses as Start, will you apply a Start, Stub, or no class to the article? (Stubwould seem like the correct awnser to me)

Also, is there a paremeter you will add to the project template that will cause it to go into a category or inform the viewer that it was assessed automtatically? User:Betacommandbot (RIP) used to do something like this as I recall, but hunting through the difs I can't find it. So maybe I imagined it. I know it at least put a note on the talk page. If no such paremeter exists, could the bot at minimum add a category on the talk pages where you make an assessment. Something like Category:Auto assessed Indiana articles? I just think that at some point it will be benficial for humans eyes to manually check things, and also to make sure the reader knows it is an auto assessment.

No hurry on anything, and if you are busy I totally understand. Thanks Xeno! —Charles Edward  14:48, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

• Sure, I can instruct the bot to only tag where at least two projects have rated it.
• Thus far, I've just been not tagging in even strength disagreements.
  • What I'll do is generate a report of the disagreements and you can look them over and confirm you want me to tag as the lower class.
• I can use auto=XX where XX is the rating and I can sort out your banner to put them in the category and provide a note about it.
• Do you want me to run the 'default importance' as well? Should I use "autoimport=yes" for the param?

I'll try to start this task in the next couple days. –xeno 14:56, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes you can run the default importance as well. About half our categories are assigned one now, other half are too complex. I think the importance paremeter is less important, it is really more of an internal thing, but adding a paremter for that would be fine too. In all reality we only have a pretty small core of articles of major importance, and they are already defined as such. —Charles Edward  15:06, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

If you looking for an automated alert system to let you know about assessment changes, check out the Version 1.0 Editorial Team's Assessment Bot... You can set up an automated alert system like we use at WP:Micronations, (see it here)... There's no way to flag it as auto assessed, but you at least will know what changes were made to the assessment... Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but just my attempt to help... - Adolphus79 (talk) 15:02, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

That could be useful, I will take a look at it. Our projects primary problem is manpower. There is only about four of us who are regularly active within the project. Anything we can do to help with that is a good thing. —Charles Edward  15:06, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello again. Reywas hasn't responded, so I would say go ahead with the tagging of quality and importance. I think less than half the articles you tag will be able to take a default importance anyway, and in those cases the importance is pretty well clear cut. I personally don't care one way or the other, anything that cuts down on manual work is good though in my book. :) —Charles Edward  12:18, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Chicago tagging

Pknkly (talk · contribs) has added several cats to WP:CHIBOTCATS. Could you rerun the bot over these cats to check for new articles.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:41, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Sure, after I complete the Indiana request above. –xeno 16:37, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Do you want me to inherit assessments at the same time? –xeno 16:55, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes please, if it is not too much trouble.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 17:05, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Where are we in the queue?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:53, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Right behind Indiana.Been slacking, I know ;> –xeno 14:54, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to try and get to this soon. By Sunday I hope. Note I found a handful of articles in CHIBOTCATS that really oughtn't be (mostly looks like sandboxes, should go thru and 'nowiki' the mainspace categories). –xeno 14:39, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Some of those are Chicago articles people are working on or that were userfied after an ADF deletion. Maybe we should leave those alone so that when the article is moved to the mainspace we will see it right away. Thoughts welcome though on problems with this approach.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:58, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

That's fine as long as they are being actively edited, but if they haven't been edited in a long while, the mainspace cats should be nowiki'd. (User:RMelon/Sandbox, for example, hasn't been edited by the owner since March). –xeno 15:00, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

I guess Pknkly may have a system for handling these. What is going on with the tagging update.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 07:17, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Hoping to get to it this weekend. See WP:CHIBOTCATS/LOG for a sneak peek. –xeno 15:16, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

My Next Misplaced Pages Landmark... sort of

I just created my first page. Or, I would have done, had that page not already existed and I hadn't noticed. D'oh! Regardless, I thought you might want to have a look, see how I did (and then hit me with a trout for messing up): here it is and here is the talk page I would have created. Here is the actual page. I like mine better (and I'm totally not biased). --Thejadefalcon_{The bird's seeds} 12:26, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

You should merge them... –xeno 17:22, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Prepare for an inane question. What and how? --Thejadefalcon_{The bird's seeds} 10:00, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Take whatever useful information already exists at Fable III, merge it with your sandbox, then copy the sandbox over the article. –xeno 16:16, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Ah, you mean manually. I thought you meant the merge feature, and I have no clue how that works. At all. I don't even use it on Microsoft Word. --Thejadefalcon_{The bird's seeds} 10:07, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

In the process of doing it. Hopefully, I should be able to do it this afternoon. So I presume you liked my attempt to create a page? --Thejadefalcon_{The bird's seeds} 10:10, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

You really need to be quick on the draw to be the one who gets that first edit for a newly announced game. –xeno 12:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

The last I'd heard, the page had been deleted and when I first got the idea of creating it myself, I was offline for a while, so I never got to check. I'm currently in the process of checking my links. --Thejadefalcon_{The bird's seeds} 15:40, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Done. Fable III is now different. --Thejadefalcon_{The bird's seeds} 16:06, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

553 more words and you might've qualified for DYK =) (five-fold expansion) –xeno 16:10, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

What are the DYK things anyway? I've never found one, just heard of them. But I presume they're good? --Thejadefalcon_{The bird's seeds} 10:17, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

See WP:DYK, and WP:DYKAR. Essentially it's an incentive for editors to expand new stubs, by giving them a chance to have a small segment of their article appear on the main page. By the way, excellent work on Fable III. (Though I enjoyed the previous two, I wonder if Molyneux's games ever live up to his claims. He keeps setting us up for disappointment!) BlazerKnight (talk) 11:25, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

So, basically, mini-barnstars? Darn. If only I had more information (or there was more of the old article to incorporate). :P Thanks for the compliment. I alternate between general maintenance on articles to massive edits that rewrite the whole thing. There is no explanation for or pattern to these decisions. As for Molyneux, personally, I think it's a good thing that he has such high ambitions. In my view, it's always better to have stupidly high ambitions, even beyond the engine's limitations, and make the best game you can rather than have set your sights on the attainable and likely make a mediocre game. After all, a lot of Fable I's promised features appeared in Fable II. Therefore, it'll likely continue through the series. To which I say, go Molyneux! --Thejadefalcon_{The bird's seeds} 15:41, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Please block

Greetings Xeno, Earlier this month you blocked User talk:66.76.157.90. This user has since made further vandal edits. Please block. Thank you.--Technopat (talk) 15:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done, 1 week. –xeno 15:33, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

And another one...

Greetings Xeno - Please block User talk:87.36.4.7. This user has received 2 strongly-worded warnings from users who are not admins and I suspect that he/she is daring 'em to block... Thank you.--Technopat (talk) 13:31, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Another week. –xeno 13:41, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry

Just came here to say I made a mistake and only checked the date of that warning now... sorry, I feel quite embarrassed for overlooking it. Thanks for your prompt message to me. Saira92 (talk) 18:08, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Don't sweat it - it happens. –xeno 18:09, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Thank you!

		The Adoption Barnstar
		This barnstar is for your outstanding niceness in adopting me. Thank you! You've guided me through the confusing early stages and answered my incessant questions. You're awesome! BlazerKnight (talk) 01:14, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Hey thanks! They weren't incessant, really. Happy to help =) –xeno 01:16, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

What about my questions? :P --Thejadefalcon_{The bird's seeds} 10:19, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

They're fine too...Except this one ^ ;p –xeno 19:01, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

rollback

Can you disable my rollback rights till the sp thing is solved ,please ? (I'm really confused )NotedGrant Talk 05:34, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't think that's really necessary at this point. Do you have a little brother or something with whom you maintain a healthy sibling rivalry? You appear to be a constructive user and I would like to believe that you wouldn't have bothered with the tomfoolery of the Sv account. –xeno 13:04, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

yes I have a brother he's 14 ,he's not interested in wp it possibly can't be him.I use different places to sign in to my account (college,work,or any place where I can obtain a connection (open wireless networks) ) .I'm not an sp,I spend most of time here reverting vandalism ,being accused(confirmed) of being an sp is rather disheartning --117.97.31.118 (talk) 19:15, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, I guess just keep your nose clean and hopefully this will just blow over. –xeno 19:17, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

locking Gamdhi

Gandhi is featured today as a Google Doodle bc today is the day he died. Locking his page until 2010 is ludicrous. At most lock it for 3days-1week. 70.108.113.76 (talk) 13:08, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Unprotected, but if it is vandalized heavily I will need to re-protect. –xeno 13:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Reprotected. Too much schoolboy vandalism. –xeno 15:14, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

A few days should be enough protection. He would have been 140 today, if still alive of course!. This is just another happy birthday vandalism. --RegentsPark (sticks and stones) 15:22, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

This page has been a constant target of school-boy vandalism, birthday or otherwise. The article was indefinitely semi-protected until I came to it on Feb 19, 2009. I've found these "high school subjects" are perennial targets. I don't have the time nor the knowledge of the subject to babysit anonymous edits, if you want to unprotect or reduce the length, you have my blessing. –xeno 15:29, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

I'll give it a shot next week. Gandhi would have wanted us to try! :-) --RegentsPark (sticks and stones) 22:51, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

80kb @ an/i

High five-digits in green sure attracts attention. Cheers, Jack Merridew 14:42, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

No doubt... Half expected an ASCII goatse =) –xeno 14:47, 2 October 2009 (UTC)