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Arin Hanson

This article has been sent to deletion review. Please join the undelete discussion there. Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2013 March 25 Also note the last state of the article, it changed greatly since you first nominated it. Do you believe the interviews he did with reliable sources, which were found, count towards his notability? Dream Focus 22:42, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Question & recommended bot fix

In this edit [1] I see the bot simply lobbing off a decimal place. But shouldn't it be rounding up or down? Can you fix? Thanks. – S. Rich (talk) 00:23, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

This was actually specifically in the bot request and later in its RFBA. I'm assuming that the rounding is very negligible when we get to the precisions that the bot is working with. I can stop the bot if you'd like and make it round (but that would be next week). --Alan^(T)(E) 00:29, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

I don't think earthquakes will occur as Alanbot shifts world coordinates about in the wrong direction, but rounding is the proper way to do this in terms of data presentation. (In fact, I believe the exact location of places constantly shift with continental drift, the tides, and magical spells.) The requesters, et. al, just got too excited about this over-precision issue and did not consider what truncating meant v. rounding. I do recommend stopping and making the adjustment. You're the bot-master – do what you think best. And thanks for the bot creation! – S. Rich (talk) 00:40, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

I'll stop it now. Thanks. --Alan^(T)(E) 00:45, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Ahhh! I feel so much safer now. Turns out my dizziness was the wine, not coordinates shifting beneath my feet. Thanks again, Alan. – S. Rich (talk) 00:48, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

 Already fixed. I'll restart it soon. There's thousands to go so I thank you for catching me very early. --Alan^(T)(E) 02:26, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

How does this coordinate change make any sense?

This changed the latitude to 2 decimals but leaves the longitude at 3 decimal places??? --MarsRover (talk) 06:51, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

I suspect I may know why. I'll stop the bot for now until later when I can resolve it. (But even if not, I have to be honest and say that your headline and number of question marks had me thinking that there was actually a serious malfunction, lol, when I'd call the overwhelming majority of it's ~1900 edits fine.) --Alan^(T)(E) 08:24, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Another needed fix?

Please take a look at this Project talkpage comment: [2] – S. Rich (talk) 14:45, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

This is a bug. I tried to stop the bot, but unfortunately I don't have the necessary privileges. Help! —Stepheng3 (talk) 21:30, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

What? The bot has been shut down since very early this morning. More than 12 hours ago. --Alan^(T)(E) 21:48, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Finally at a computer. I shut down the bot way before this comment was even left, per this other comment. Probably would've killed it even earlier if I didn't accidentally fall asleep on my couch last night. I'll have to take a look at both things after this weekend. Fortunately for everybody involved, these are the extreme minority of edits . --Alan^(T)(E) 22:07, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your cooperation.—Stepheng3 (talk) 22:09, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

How many places are too precise?

The USCG Light Lists specify the location of lights to 3 decimal places of seconds. A second is about 100 feet or 30 meters of latitude, so three decimal places is about an inch or 3cm. That's clearly within the capabilities of modern surveying, so it's probably a good number. It's more precision than most users of WP:EN will require, but why should we be changing the official position to one that is less precise? . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs) 22:15, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind but I'm going to direct you over to the conversation currently going on at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates#Over-precise coordinates - things of the past?. I'll also refer them to your comment, but the conversation will probably remain there. --Alan^(T)(E) 22:25, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

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Bots Newsletter, April 2017

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Since you've been inactive for a while, I've removed you from the subscription list. Feel free to re-add yourself to the newsletter if you become active again though. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:46, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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Hello Ikseevon, one or more of your bots are scheduled for deauthorized due to inactivity. Please see Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Inactive_bots_May_2017 if you would like to retain your bot's status. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 15:11, 29 May 2017 (UTC)