Alph Bot

My main wiki is Portuguese wikipedia, so it would be better for you tu put your questions on my master here on en.wp or for more fast answer, on pt wikipedia

Problem

The bot seems to be removing valid interwikis from Set Indexes to dabs such as here.

Is there a fix?

- J Greb (talk) 15:04, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

It is also a bit worring that it is removing proper "redirect avoiding" section links such as here.

- J Greb (talk) 15:18, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

In spider woman case, it removed the iw to disambiguation pages, when the proper iw should be direct into the correct page. In the second case, it removed interwiki to a page segment, and with that, it presents two interwikis to the same english page, that's why it was removed. Alchimista (talk) 11:19, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

In case 1 - the English page is a form of a disambiguation, serving the exact same function as the interwiki pages pointed to. To try and point to a specific version of the character - the only "full" articles on those other Wikis - it to play favorites.

In case 2 - I am unclear as to your reasoning. The links to the Italian and Portuguese Wikis are not relevant. Just that the material covered by the by the English page is covered by that full section on the German page. It is unlikely that the German Wiki will split that section off. Or ar you suggesting that the interwiki link point to a redirect?

- J Greb (talk) 12:13, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Ok, let me make a more deep explanation.

In case 1, the desambiguation page is Spider Woman (disambiguation) wich has the interwiki for those pages that where removed from Spider-Woman, the Spider Woman (disambiguation) and so the bot removed duplicated connections to that page.

In case 2, the german page is not the correspondent one to the english, because one is about the planet, and another about the character, and once more, the Bizarro page in German already has the iw to the english correct page, Bizarro. Diferent pages covering diferent themes must have diferent interwikis. Alchimista (talk) 13:11, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

hrm... And can you point me to the rationalization that one, and only one, English language page can point to any given page in another language's Wiki?

The reason being, there are cases where a topic in one language is covered more deeply than in another. Taking Spider-Woman within Marvel Comics for example. On the English Wiki that topic is covered fairly deeply over 6 pages - the set index and the 5 character articles - It is quite possible that on some of the other Wikis that same topic is covered by only 1 or 2 pages. In cases where all 5 characters are covered on a single page, all 6 of the English pages would logically point to that one page, even if the reciprical link just points to the English set index.

And that is a similar case for Bizaro World - the topic is covered with in a specific section on the German page for the character. Without a redirect, the most logical place for the English article to point to is that specific section. To prevent that linkage is to esentially say "The German Wiki really doesn't cover it."

- J Greb (talk) 22:40, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Greb, i'm not sayng that the bot where ok in those edits, i was explaining what probably "he was thinking". I belive those where isolated incidents, even because he had corrected similar edits, like this or this. In superwoman case, has i said, he provably identify one has an article and another as a desambiguation, and interpreted it has diferent articles. Cheking his edits it seems that are isolated edits, even because in the last days he's editing in a safer mode, so it should not repeat. Alchimista (talk) 10:07, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Mexico & Guatemala

The bot repeatedly places a wikilink to eo:Santiago Atitlán (komunumo) on Santiago Atitlán. The eo-wiki article is a Mexican city. Santiago Atitlán is in Guatemala. This should stop asap. TravelAuthor (talk) 08:04, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

March 2010

Your edit to Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom has been reverted, and it looks as if you need to correct your software. David Biddulph (talk) 07:01, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Error

Your bot erroneously removed interwiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin&diff=329933882&oldid=329103272 Please make sure to fix the bug. --Sapeli (talk) 14:46, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

hu:Claustrophobia - Claustrophobia

Pls stop the bot from reinstalling the wrong link again. The hungarian lemma is only about the Bee Gees' single, not about the disease. Tahnks :) --Trofobi (talk) 07:40, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

March 2011

Please stop. Continuing to remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Wikipedia:Book sources, without resolving the problem that the template refers to may be considered disruptive editing. Further edits of this type may result in your being blocked from editing Wikipedia. ––虞海 (Yú Hǎi) ✍ 12:43, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

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