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Senior Editor II

Cyberbot I approaching "3 strikes"

Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C. Don't know what's gotten into it. Favonian (talk) 22:36, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Exhibit D! If our colleague's fix doesn't work, we'll have to pull the plug. Favonian (talk) 22:48, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Looks like we're back to normal. Kudos to Suffusion of Yellow! Favonian (talk) 23:00, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Favonian, Ah, yes, I should've suspected that's what was causing problems. RfPPbot is an older design and checks for section headers based on pairs of == or ===. —CYBERPOWER (Happy Thanksgiving) 14:01, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Special:Diff/990556814

Probably because I used {{Done|Done.}} instead of just {{Done}}. If it's easy and not time consuming can you please fix? If it's not then I'll use just {{Done}} from next time. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 05:32, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

CptViraj, It's a low priority problem for me right now as I have a lot of other stuff on my plate. —CYBERPOWER (Happy Thanksgiving) 14:02, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Blocked

Though technically I'm not, IABot says I am when I tried to use it. Why? --Kailash29792 (talk) 05:28, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) I just found out that I was also blocked by IABot. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 05:30, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

me 2 probably a bug10:40, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Kailash29792, the interface does not claim you are blocked. If you are receiving this message, it must be coming from the MW API itself. Are you pblocked? —CYBERPOWER (Happy Thanksgiving) 14:04, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Cyberpower678, it works now. Kailash29792 (talk) 16:01, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Same here, with error that says "Analysis error: blocked: You have been blocked from editing." — YoungForever^(talk) 02:04, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Archive bot

Hi, I've got a question regarding the archive bot (which I assume you are running?). Does it archive all links used in any page? I recently had the impression some links were not saved in the archive. --Shoeper (talk) 15:34, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	For creating Internet Archive Bot. I dream of horses (Contribs) Please notify me after replying off my talk page. Thank you. 07:36, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

IABot request

Hello! Is it possible to use the bot to modify broken detected weblinks? Example: broken link: http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=10800093 new address: https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=10800093

I have started to do it by hand, but there are still over 100 links left. Or is there another bot that can do this? Salzmandel (talk) 19:03, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Salzmandel, IABot can't do that but you can make requests at WP:URLREQ to move broken URLS. --GreenC 21:25, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Green, thanks for the information. WP:URLREQ is only for EN? I am from DE. But in EN is the same problem. I will make a request. Salzmandel (talk) 00:00, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Done. The discussion can be archived.Salzmandel (talk) 10:56, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Thom Brooks

Hi and Merry Christmas! Could you please look at the recent edits on Thom Brooks. I don't want to get into an Edit War, but looking at the IPs it looks like the recent undo's have been coming from Durham University/Durham so a higher likelihood this is WP:OR. My concern is that the page is made to look like an academic CV, with the main reason for keeping the edits is that they are cited in Google Scholar and the academic's personal website. Thanks for your time! Nicnote^{say hello!}_contribs 23:29, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Nicnote, I'm not really sure if I'm the best person to help with this, but I don't see any need for the list of books. To my knowledge we do report on what books a given notable author has written in their lifetime, but only if the works themselves are notable as well. But I could be totally wrong here. —CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 03:43, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Cyberpower I agree, thanks! Nicnote^{say hello!}_contribs 11:40, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

External links section

Why did the bot make this edit? The URL was working, but why was the bot editing the contents of the ==External links== section at all? WP:EL says that dead links get removed, not replaced with archived copies. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:15, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

WhatamIdoing, IABot never removes, that’s for the user to decide. All IABot does is to make sure that anything clickable actually loads meaningful content. —CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 01:03, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

The link works now, and it probably wasn't broken then. (It's a major cancer charity.) Why didn't it just leave the link alone? WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:20, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

WhatamIdoing, it likely thought the link was dead. The issues with false positives are being investigated. —CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 04:45, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

In the meantime, can you make the bot not edit anything after the ==External links== section at all? Regardless of whether the link is dead, we almost never want archived links in that section. Archive links are occasionally appropriate for WP:ELOFFICIAL links (e.g., using the {{official website}} template), but as a general rule, they're inappropriate and should be left alone for human removal. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:28, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

WhatamIdoing, the bot does not distinguish what section it is editing in and adding that is not something that can be easily done given the nature of the bot. —CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 18:43, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Can you restrict it to editing within ref tags? WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:20, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

WhatamIdoing, I can, but there’s consensus to edit outside them too at the moment. If this consensus has changed among the community I will be happy to restrict it to ref tags. —CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 19:25, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

I don't want to create difficult work for you, but I do want to stop edits like this, which replaced a dead link with a useless archive page. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:17, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot small wording update on trwiki

Hi Cyberpower678. Could you please change the "deadurl" values on trwiki/Turkish Wikipedia from "ölüurl=yes" and "ölüurl=no" to "ölüurl=evet" and "ölüurl=hayır"? Yes=Evet / No=Hayır in Turkish; we're trying to standardize all parameters on trwiki. Thanks in advance! --Khutuck (talk) 06:00, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Khutuck, yes I can. Ideally I wanted the have the bot read your CS1 module, but you guys localized all of the variable names for some reason. —CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 14:02, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Wrong InternetArchiveBot edit on arwiki

Hello Cyberpower678, hope you are doing well. Can you please review this edit? InternetArchiveBot replaced a redirect with full content of another article on 14 October 2020! Can we check if there's any similer wrong edits? Thanks in advance --Alaa :)..! 21:39, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Per mw-removed-redirect the bot only made this wrong edit on 14 Oct 2020 --Alaa :)..! 21:43, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

علاء, this issue needs to be reported to GreenC as his bot was doing this. —CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 00:04, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Cyberpower678, Thanks --Alaa :)..! 14:51, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

bot job

Hi, I submitted this job on 4 december but since then nothing happend. --আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 20:39, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Does bot un-mark revived links ?

Hi, I have updated a dead link here Special:Diff/993042277 but I haven't removed the {{Dead link}} template, apparently inserted by the InternetArchiveBot. Is the bot going to notice the new URL is valid and remove the notice, or should I do that when updating the link? --CiaPan (talk) 19:19, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
P.S.
Feel free to answer at my talk page or here, if you prefer – I started to watch your talk. CiaPan (talk)

InternetArchiveBot bugs and incidents

Hi Cyberpower678, I wanted to make you aware of phab:T269605 and phab:T269773. Warm regards. --[evolutionoftheuniverse] ^@enwiki 17:01, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Cyberbot I on Meta-Wiki

Hi there, and Merry Christmas for you too. The bot keeps adding translation tags to m:Meta:Sandbox incorrectly (previous report). Would it be possible for the bot not to do that? Thanks! Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 19:23, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello again. Not sure if the config has changed but User:Cyberbot I/Run/Meta-daily and User:Cyberbot I/Run/Meta-cont are bot set to "disable" but the bot keeps doing those tasks over there. Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 19:33, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

MarcoAurelio, I will have to take a look, but my time is about as short in supply as the new RTX GPUs are right now. —CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 19:02, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

blocked?

I last used the iabot tool on December 7th. It worked fine. Today I tried to archive the references on a page, and was told I was blocked from editing.

I didn't see anything helpful in the FAQ. What would have triggered this block? Geo Swan (talk) 23:05, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

@Geo Swan: I had the same thing happen, so I'm assuming it's a bug.--Alexandra^IDV 23:21, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Geo Swan, I need exact screenshots of the error message. —CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 19:01, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

It was working again, the next day. Geo Swan (talk) 19:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Wishlist

Did anyone tell you about the request at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Bots_and_gadgets/InternetArchiveBot_for_Wikidata ? WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:44, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

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I tried to queue the bot to fix some articles with lots of dead links, didn't work.

I got this:

"The action you are trying to perform requires the submitbotjobs permission."

What did I do wrong? Is there any way to fix this? --Iloveparrots (talk) 16:27, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello!

Just wanted to say a quick hello, remember to ping me when replying! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vamsi20 (talk • contribs) 19:52, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

IAbot kawiki

Hello Cyberpower678, I just saw that this bot leaves a message on the talk pages of articles about replacing url addresses in the sources, we would not want to see such messages on the talk pages, the description of edits in the summary is enough. Can you disable this bot feature in the Georgian Wikipedia? Kindly, --Mehman 97 23:15, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

What does this mean?

Hey, I see a fish in the corner of every user page, why?? Calicopenguin1112 (talk) 18:43, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

playa acina

Buenas tardes

La playa de la bahía se denomina Playa Acina, porque se caracteriza por ser la última de las 7 playas con arena fina del centro del Golfo San Jorge. Esta playa es muy concurrida por vecinos tanto de Rada Tilly, Comodoro Rivadavia y Caleta Olivia, en la primavera y en el verano suele ser muy concurrida para pasar tardes a la luz del sol.

Adjunto link del articulo donde se explica por que se llama playa acina y no Alsina

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%ADa_del_Fondo

Por favor, solicito se le cambie el nombre de alcina por el de acina, ya que los habitante y lugareños la conocemos como tal y cualquier persona que lea el articulo https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playa_Alsina,va a pensar que la playa se llama de una forma, cuando se la llama de otra.

gracias

--200.80.227.226 (talk) 20:04, 30 December 2020 (UTC)ramiro--200.80.227.226 (talk) 20:04, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot

The bot marks archive-url's of defensenews.com as url-status=live when they're in fact dead (false negative). It may be because they look to be live to the bot while in fact they only shows "load more" on the page instead of the article. https://i.imgur.com/ifwYY3a.png all defensenews links that it changed status for need to be checked and restored also remove unnecessary access-date if the link is dead and archived. I noted this in the article Saab JAS 39 Gripen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 919181512a (talk • contribs) 22:04, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

One other thing i wonder about is how do i mark a link so this bot ignores it if a link is still alive but the information need to be from the archive-url because that information are removed from the page that's live? I don't find access-date to be good solution when it could be marked as dead and show the right information when you click the link.

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Seven years!

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Threads on wikidata

Please see d:User talk:Cyberpower678#CUs in AdminStats regarding Cyberbot on wikidata. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 03:22, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Unblock request

I was blocked from using the IABotManagementConsole tool. Please unblock me. In reviewing why I was blocked I came to the conclusion that the doc I was archiving had not yet reached the public domain status. I should have checked the date and. I apologize for that. It was not my intention. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 20:50, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

The Eloquent Peasant, You are not blocked. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:49, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Cyberbot sandbox: Not inserting the header

The cyber bot is not reinserting the header every time it clears the sandbox. Is this intended? ThatIPEditor (talk) 04:14, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

ThatIPEditor, I don't know. I haven't touched the code operating it in years.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:50, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Oh, found the issue, apparently, lower sigma bot 2 is supposed to reinsert the header, while cyberbot clears it. Seems like it is doing it in the wrong order tho. Any chance you could change it up a bit so it also re inserts the header?ThatIPEditor (talk) 22:55, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

RfPP vandalism

I had to revert two good edits by Cyberbot I on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection in order to revert previous disruptive edits by an IP. Please can you check that I've not broken anything? Thanks, Certes (talk) 10:35, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard § Cyberbot II reported at AIV

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard § Cyberbot II reported at AIV. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:17, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Cyberbot adding duplicate templates

Example: [1]]; note that {{pp-pc1}} is a redirect to {{pp-pc}}--Ymblanter (talk) 19:39, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Same or similar problem found in Germany national football team article, first here shortly followed by this. I believe this change should be done in one step instead of two so as to not confuse editors about Cyberbot II's intent. Cordially, History DMZ ^{(talk)+(ping)} 03:10, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

I have seen the same problem when reviewing pending changes - at first I thought that the bot had made no mistake, but seeing this I would also like to attest to this problem. See this diff, which shows the same problem: [2]. Also, I would like to report this diff where Cyberbot removed {{pp-pc1}} even though per the logs. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 20:17, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

P,TO 19104, I rebooted the VM it's on. It appears to be affecting all tasks of both bots. Looks like a transient network issue here. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:55, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Stuck bot at metawiki

Hello, I just gave your bot a 31 hrs long block at metawiki, because it's apparently malfunctioning – it made over 500 edits at [3] with no apparent reason. Could you please fix that issue? Thanks, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 23:27, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Martin Urbanec, I rebooted the VM. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:56, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Cyberbot II blanking

Just to let you know, Cyberbot II blanked America's Next Top Model (season 22) here. —Bruce1ee^talk 14:03, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Ditto Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone page was blanked ("Removing Pp-pc1. Page is not protected"). Esowteric + Talk + Breadcrumbs 18:35, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Cyberpower678, I've gone ahead and blocked Cyberbot II per this issue. Let me know when you think it's resolved, and I'll be happy to lift the block. It's a little bizarre because according to User:Cyberbot II/Run/PC, it seems like the pending changes task shouldn't be running. Mz7 (talk) 19:16, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Mz7, I rebooted the VM. Appears to be some sort of transient issue affecting all tasks of both bots. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:57, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Could you please also check on Cyberbot I. It keeps blanking ([4] [5]), edit warring with itself ([6] [7]), and making many more edits than usual. I don't think this is normal for the bot. Sro23 (talk) 06:24, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Sro23, I rebooted the VM. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:56, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Name clash

Hello cyberpower678, I'm AskBot . As you have commented here that my proposed username is already taken. So where can I request for another one, which is probably not taken. Can I request on the same page by removing my old request and adding a new one or should I want until those requests are archieved by any bot. Thank you. AskBot (talk) 05:40, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

AskBot, I have not commented anywhere regarding your name, but your username is a violation of our policy. If you have requested a taken name, you can either request to usurp it, provided the target is inactive and hasn't made any significant contribution, or just file a new request. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:59, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Bot

Please fix a bot that is stuck in a loop. Masti (talk) 15:57, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Users N-Z missing from requests for unblock report

Hi - is there a problem with Cyberbot I at the moment? User:Cyberbot I/Requests for unblock report only seems to be listing users from Category:Requests for unblock from A-M, ignoring the second half of the alphabet. — O Still Small Voice of Clam 13:35, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Voice of Clam, I have no idea why it's doing that. Honestly, I wouldn't mind if some tasks were taken off of my hands as InternetArchiveBot demands most of my time. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:03, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

I quite understand. I'd offer to help, but my knowledge of bot programming is roughly equal to my cat's knowledge of sub-atomic physics . — O Still Small Voice of Clam 17:28, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Template:Cratstats

On Template:Cratstats, Cyberbot I can't make up its mind over how many RfAs we have presently and so it's been reverting itself several times a minute for a while now, at least since yesterday. I've disabled the task for now. Maxim_(talk) 14:08, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Cyberbot at RfPP

Hey Cyber, long time no see! Any idea why Cyberbot keeps pinging me at RfPP to tell me I haven't protected a page when I have? Latest example here. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:51, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Can you please restore a deletion discussion that Cyberbot vanished?

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T273003

Cyberbot's diff seems to have blanked a deletion discussion. Also the link on Cathy Tie that used to go to the not-yet-closed deletion discussion now goes to a blank page. Hoping you can fix this--thanks! HouseOfChange (talk) 14:31, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Never mind, the problem got fixed. Nothing to see here, maybe just my own mistake. HouseOfChange (talk) 15:11, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Internet Archive Bot: "urlmorto = yes" on Italian Wikipedia

Hi! I'd like to thank you very much for your work on Wikipedia and with the Internet Archive Bot. However, there's a think I would like to point out: when the bot finds a link which is no longer valid, the link displays in the "deadurl" field, "urlmorto = yes" instead of "urlmorto = sì". There are no problems with "urlmorto = no" since "no" has the same meaning in italian and in english. Would you be so kind to fix it? --Marcodpat (talk) 13:38, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Also, when IABot is activated manually, it leaves "deadurl" instead of "urlmorto", as you can see here. --Marcodpat (talk) 15:50, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Marcodpat, IABot reads the configuration found at it:Module:Citazione/Configurazione. Because the values for DeadURL are not explicitly found anywhere in the primary module or the configuration, it will default to English values. In addition to that, the bot is reading your DeadURL value in the configuration, so it will use deadurl as the default when no dead url parameter is defined in the template, as that is the first value defined in the configuration. To use urlmorto, I would suggest changing the DeadURL array in the module configuration to have it come first in the list instead. That is, all you need to do is change Line 94 to

['DeadURL'] = {'urlmorto', 'deadurl'},

and the bot will adjust to that. You can also define additional keywords in the keywords segment. IABot will read the 'live', 'dead', 'bot: unknown', 'usurped', and 'unfit' keywords and apply them to the configuration. See Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration#L-587 for those examples. You will need to citation_config.keywords in your version. I would do it myself, but I do not have permission to alter that page. —CYBERPOWER (Around) 17:42, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot: "url-access" in Polish Wikipedia

There is no argument "url-access" implemented in any citation template in Polish Wikipedia. However the bot is inserting this in articles ie. [8]. There is a category in plwiki, which collects citation templates with incorrect arguments. The category should be empty. There is a few items per week, but they are fixed immediately. However recently is was flooded with a lot of articles. Please stop adding any arguments, which are not supported in templates. Avaliable list you can find in templatedata provided in template documentation pages. The only template with corresponding argument to url-access is pl:Template:Cytuj and argument dostęp, but this need values in Polish. They are collected in pl:Module:Cytuj/dostęp as index in table choice. Paweł Ziemian (talk) 20:46, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Now fixed. -- GreenC 21:07, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

ArchiveBot false negative

Archive bot falsely claims that Variety links are working when they are 404 dead.[9] (This is a false negative, rather than a false positives. Also your reporting tools require a login.) Variety.com has a lot of dead links[10] that return 404. (Seems something to do with changing from or to a Wordpress based site and many links were broken in the process. In many cases the same articles can be found eleswhere on the site, but a bot providing an archive copy would be better than editors having to try and find the moved page.) There is another 404 page and if you get that version the link is more likely to be really dead. -- 109.78.199.136 (talk) 15:04, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Be that as it may, I checked the Wayback Machine and the Frank Langella/Transformers article was archived there, as were the rest of the Variety/404 articles, see [11]. Shearonink (talk) 16:46, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Possibly the bot is wiser than us? I've checked a link from the first page linked:

https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007075.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

and it actually ends with 404. Same result for the link with additional parameters removed:

https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007075.html

However the link truncated to an article ID only:

https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007075

resolves to:

https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/frank-langella-set-for-wall-street-2-1118007075/
Frank Langella set for ‘Wall Street 2’

which seems to be precisely what the original link was meant to point to. Is it possible the bot did discover it, but forgot to put a resulting link to an article...? --CiaPan (talk) 17:41, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

[P.S. this comment was in reply to the comment from Shearonink. The comment from CiaPan was inserted later for no apparent reason]

I'm not sure what you are trying to say. I'm pointing out a specific failure in the bot because it might represent a general failure of ArchiveBot to correctly identify dead links (perhaps because Variety or others aren't serving up properly/strictly formatted 404 error messages). I know archive copies are available (in most cases) and I know I could add an archive copy manually. The links were dead, I tagged them, I was expecting the a bot would automatically add archive links and save me or any other editor from having to do it manually. Instead a bot incorrectly claimed the pages were not dead (a false negative) and removed the dead link tag entirely.

At worst I expected the bot to change the dead link/404 tag to "fix-attempted" but I did not expect it to remove the 404 tag when the link was and clearly still is dead. -- 109.78.199.136 (talk) 00:38, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

IABot (v2.0.8) has now twice wrongly removed the template {{Dead link}} for this link at Hotel Chelsea. Why would it do that? Can it be taught to stop that? (I've now replaced that dead link with a working one.) -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 04:29, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

IABot behavior seems strange to me too Michael but 404 error messages do not always follow the standards and it can be surprisingly difficult for programs to figure out. In some ways I'm pleasantly surprised that the various bots work at all.

Cyberpower678, as you may have noticed from the above comments inserted by CiaPan, it is often (but not always) possible to fix the broken Variety links and get redirected to the right working page. If someone wants to make a bot or script that is clever enough and reliable enough to fix the broken and out of date Variety links that would be great but it seems CiaPan should bring that up as a separate question. I'm not asking for anything that complicated.

All I'm asking for is that IABot not incorrectly remove broken link tags from Variety references please. Thanks in advance. -- 109.79.165.0 (talk) 21:02, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

[109.78.199.136 You are clearly wrong. My comment has been inserted earlier but you deleted it for no apparent reason. --CiaPan (talk) 20:15, 23 January 2021 (UTC)]

Hmm, that is weird, seems I did knock out your edit, it wasn't intentional. Not sure how that happened at all.

Checking to see if live articles are available is a whole other question (and it can usually be answered using a search engine if that's what you want to spend your time doing). I just want InternetArchiveBot to add archives. -- 109.76.200.10 (talk) 22:06, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Another example of IABot claiming that Variety.com URLs are working when they are 404.[12] -- 109.76.200.10 (talk) 22:39, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taichung Time Square CBD

Hi Cyberpower678. Would you help with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taichung Time Square CBD, where Cyberbot I has made a series of edits to unsuccessfully try to transclude the AfD? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 11:16, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)  Done P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 03:10, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, P,TO 19104 (talk · contribs), for fixing the relisting! Cunard (talk) 02:58, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Additional problem on pl.wiki

I had to block IABot on pl.wiki. Turning it on via console did not work and bot continued to operate for the next few minutes until I blocked it. There is also a discussion going at pl.wiki about some of the edits that IABot made since it started operating:

1. Just changing http to https – Is it possible to avoid making an edit when it is only supposed to add 2-3 characters?
2. Destroying good and working citations
3. Adding books to citation without getting permission for this kind of edits – Is it possible to configure the bot to make this kind of edits only after getting the permission at Village Pump?

Thank you! Nadzik (talk) 08:58, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Nadzik, changing http to https is an important aspect to internet security. I would high advise against disabling this feature of the bot. Even if it is a minor change, it's a major one in terms of security. Your second link confuses me, the edit was good. The link it fixed was bad. What's the problem here? For the third one, did we not request permission to do this? We filed for permission in the approval process as can be seen here. The bot is approved to link to books of book references, so I'm not sure why this is a problem. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:48, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Cyberpower678, 1. I will let you know what the community decides, some people are not keen supporters of that. I totally agree with you. 2. It did fix one link, but it destroyed another one. Look at the bottom of the page and see the errors for yourself (citation no. 3). 3. I see, I was referencing to a Village Pump post from 2017, I can see that you got the approval for linking books to sources. Some people are opposing that because they are worried about the copyright (As I understand there are no copyright violations at Internet Archive?) and that it would be better if bot linked to WorldCat, not a scan of the book somewhere online. I will keep you updated on that. Nadzik (talk) 17:55, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Nadzik, For number 2, I see there are multiple definitions of the same reference, but the bot only modified one, causing the error to be thrown. It's a very rare bug, one I have not been able to fix at this time due to technical limitations. For number 3, as I am not a lawyer, I cannot talk about if it is or isn't a copyright violation with any authority. However the digital library, which is where these scans are coming from, uses a process called controlled digital lending which allows Internet Archive to loan out a copy of the book digitally as long as they own the physical copy of the book and do not loan out said physical copy. If the digital library owns two copies, two digital copies can be leant out. The digital copies automatically self-destruct after the checkout period elapses and the book is considered checked in once again. It's a modernized version of how physical libraries loan out their books. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:26, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Duplicate of url-archive

Please configure your bot InternetArchiveBot to do not add the Wayback template on cites that already was using archive params in eswiki. It is redundant and cause duplicate information. See this edit. The bot adds {{Wayback}}, but the same data and the same display information was generated by the |urlarchivo= (or |archive-url=) and |fechaarchivo= (or |archive-date=) params used in the cites. I do not want to think about how many hundreds or thousands of articles may be duplicating the same message. Sshould stop doing that and fix how many cases it has duplicated. -- Leoncastro (talk) 16:05, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

There was a cfg problem related to the template "Cita diccionario" that should be fixed now. -- GreenC 21:36, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Is not only related to "Cita diccionario"; see here the same problem with "cite news"; here with "cita libro"; here with "cite web"... and over and over again with all templates. It is a problem that is being over-repeated. Sorry but, if the problem continues and is not solved soon, I will request the bot to be temporarily blocked in eswiki. -- Leoncastro (talk) 14:02, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

The bot is currently stopped (or will soon). -- GreenC 16:39, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

However, hours later the bot still has not stopped, and keeps repeating archived links. In the meantime, you can start thinking not only about how to fix the bot so that it does not repeat the information in the future, but also how to fix hundreds or thousands articles where the bot has already duplicated the information. -- Leoncastro (talk) 23:56, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

It was stopped. A different problem was found. It was fixed. The bot was restarted. The edit you linked was 9 hours ago, before the bot was stopped or fixed. -- GreenC 00:45, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

I do not know why you consider it a different problem. The bot was creating double archived links, and there were multiple citations left with that double link (traces of the same problem). If the bot is no longer producing errors, it is good that it is continuing its work (and I am grateful that it has been fixed and is still working properly), but... what is going to be done to fix the problem where the double link was already generated? -- Leoncastro (talk) 20:11, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Cyberbot I block on Wikidata

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T273003

Hi Cyberpower678,

Your bot seems to malfuctioning on Wikidata. It keeps looping over and over many times in a day. I therefor have blocked the bot. If you have fixed the bot, please let me or another admin know so I can unblock it.

Thanks in advance, --Wiki13 (talk) 21:35, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Adding to this, it seems your bot seems to have a problem globally. I blocked it on Meta too for the same reason and a quick glance at Simple English Wikipedia reveals the same issue. Please take a look at this. --Wiki13 (talk) 21:40, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Cyberbot I edit summary

Hey Cyberpower. This edit looks like the bot is using its edit summary as the section title by mistake? — The Earwig ^talk 06:31, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Cyberbot I blanking

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T273003

Dear Cyberpower678,

cyberbot I emptied Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple [13]. Same seems to have happened yesterdag [14]. I have reverted. Could you have a look. Thank you!

Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 12:58, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

This has been happening for a while now. Please take a look into the issue. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 00:08, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Reverted second blank within a day. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 13:24, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Another 3 blankings in the last 24 hours. Cabayi (talk) 09:52, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

and again, that's 10 times it's blanked the page in the last 5 or 6 days - I've disabled it. Cabayi (talk) 20:37, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Cabayi, it's not following that page where you disabled. new blank after disable. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 02:51, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Blocked & reported at AN...

Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.--Cabayi (talk) 09:50, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Analysis error: You have been blocked from editing.

When I just tried to run the InternetArchiveBot on a couple pages on the English Wikipedia, I got the following message:

Analysis error:

blocked: You have been blocked from editing.

Any idea what this means, or how to resolve it? Thanks! --Usernameunique (talk) 16:41, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Whatever the issue was, it seems to have resolved itself; I'm able to run the bot again. Cheers, --Usernameunique (talk) 03:28, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Cyberbot I

Cyberbot I clerked Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple#Hey now, you're an editor → MC-123 as if the user's name were "Hey now" stopping before the comma.

My previous request about the bot's handling of "Newname" got archived without any response - User talk:Cyberpower678/Archive 74#Newname. Regards, Cabayi (talk) 09:46, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Cabayi, I'll take a look when I can, but it's a low priority for me right now. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:59, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Also, it clerked User:Aron alexis cubas jara as a non-existent user. Cabayi (talk) 21:04, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Cabayi, because it doesn't actually exist on this wiki. —CYBERPOWER (Around) 16:50, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

The account had 2 edits to WP:CHUS at the time of clerking - Special:Permalink/989544298#Aron alexis cubas jara → AlbeyroBamBam and the malformed section above. It definitely existed. Cabayi (talk) 18:37, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Cyberbot

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T273003

Hi. I'm not very technical, but I think I'm right that Cyberbot normally updates the Cratstats template that populates at WP:BN. At some point, it's stopped working. Can you take a look please? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:22, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Am I asking in the wrong place? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 17:05, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Dweller, apologies if you've already seen this, but Cyberbot is currently malfunctioning and has been blocked (see the above section). I'm not sure of the current status of a fix. — The Earwig ^talk 06:27, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

The Earwig, a fix is in progress. —CYBERPOWER (Around) 12:54, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Ah, OK, thanks both. Good luck with the fix. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 19:29, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Discussion at phab:T269831

 You are invited to join the discussion at phab:T269831. IABot job queue has been stuck for a long time. By the way, did you know? Alcremie's 1000th edit was made very close to the 20th anniversary day of Wikipedia. 14:37, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Bot request: Add archive links for suntuubi.com

Suntuubi.com shut down last June. Is it possible to search and add archive links for these [15] with InternetArchiveBot? 87.95.206.253 (talk) 14:19, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

This has been set to dead in the IABot database, and queued to run. -- GreenC 18:01, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! 87.95.206.253 (talk) 13:44, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

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