Fako85

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Bot approval

Have you reviewed the steps needed for bot approvals? See WP:BRFA - generally usernames ending in bot are blocked unless they're approved bots, and since this account has no history at all (and has a slightly peculiar name) it will receive additional scrutiny. Can you point to another account on a WMF project? Acroterion (talk) 21:29, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

I'm not so sure if this is the way that people "talk" to one another through Wikipedia, but I hope it works. I'm busy applying for bot approval for a project that I work on together with a friend. But we're halfway and did not complete the process. It's strange however that this discussion takes place on my real account and not on the bot account. My user does not end with "Bot". Did you place it on the wrong talk page by accident? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki Feed Bot (talk • contribs) 20:41, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Yes, you've got it right. I was referring to the bot account you created, and I wanted to make sure you understood the process for approval. Based on what I see you have it all in hand, and I have no further concerns. Let me know if you need any help. Acroterion (talk) 23:34, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Talk page formatting

Hi! I thought I'd bring this quick note up here because it's unrelated to your request for bot approval. Usually, in Wikipedia discussions, if you're responding to someone you indent your comment below theirs. There are guides at WP:THREAD and WP:INDENT. (Apologies if you know about this already.) Thanks! Enterprisey (talk!) 20:38, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Ok, that's super useful. Thanks for your patience, I'm still new to most of the etiquette. Fako85 (talk) 20:50, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

No problem. We were all inexperienced once. Enterprisey (talk!) 21:17, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Non-free image use

Hi Fako85. I'm not sure wether you're using a bot or adding image manually, but can you please check the image files you're adding to User:Fako85/feed. Non-free images are only allowed to be used in the article namespace per WP:NFCC#9, which means they cannot be used on any of your user subpages. -- Marchjuly (talk) 09:44, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi @Marchjuly:. I am indeed using a bot and it is using the API and only selects the free page images. I've looked up the page in the API and it indicates the image that you changed as "page_image_free". Click here for api data indicating it as a free image. I don't really know what is going on, but willing to help if you need any. Fako85 (talk) 17:52, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

The last file I removed from the feed was File:Odin_lloyd.jpg, which is licensed as {{Non-free fair use}}. Sometimes a Commons file exist under the same name as the non-free and that is the file the bot wants to add; there is, however, no c:File:Odin_lloyd.jpg in this case. I'm not sure how to read the API link you've provided above; however, in the link I'm looking at it says "page_image", not "page_image_free". Is there a way to verify/correct that API informaton? -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:37, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

The API response changed now from free to non-free. I guess that's good news. It means the API is not really broken. I've asked the tech mailing list how they explain the difference between the API and the file information. So far no response, but I get those emails with a bit of delay. I'll keep you posted. I am the feed bot maintainer by the way. It is in a testing phase. I'll think about how the bot can prevent infringement. Thanks for all the feedback. Fako85 (talk) 21:54, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

No problem and thank you for checking further into this. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:57, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi @Marchjuly:. It looks like the image in question was not using a proper template for Non-free fair use. It copied some HTML, but not the proper template probably, although I didn't go too deep into that. When TheDJ changed the file to use the template the API picked it up immediately as a non-free image. So it's good to use such templates where appropriate instead of just adding a rationale in text without a template. Your addition after TheDJ was fine for the API as well. I'm asking if there is a bot that you can use to fix image uses in a semi-automised way. That could save you a lot of work when bots got confused like mine did. Although I'm not sure if you are comfortable with using bots. Fako85 (talk) 18:04, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

I'm not aware of a bot that does this type of thing. Perhaps good places to ask about this would be at WT:NFCC, WP:MCQ or even possibly WP:WPT. Maybe someone good with templates can create such a thing if one doesn't currently exist. FWIW, I changed the tempalte for that file because it seem inappropriate, I did not even think that it might have any impact on API information. However, if it did resolve the problem, then maybe the same thing would work with other files with the same issue. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:42, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

@Marchjuly: just for completeness of this thread. There is indeed no tool to update image references automatically. I'll work on a way to update all feeds created by my bot so that copyright incidents like above can be handled easily even if thousands of pages use the feed. Changing the file templates did update the information in the API. So it's good to add correct templates just for that purpose. Fako85 (talk) 12:03, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard

I raised a concern about your bot at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Bots without apparent benefit. Fram (talk) 07:56, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

Inactive bot notice

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