User talk:JJMC89/Archives/2022/November

No active admins for December 2022

Hello, are you (or your bot) sure about that? At least Dbenbenn seems to qualify for next month's desysoppings under criterion 1. Graham87 02:30, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Pinging Xaosflux whose edit alerted me to this. Also wow re Wikipedia:Inactive administrators/2023 ... Graham87 02:34, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

@Graham87: xaosflux's edit is what caused the bot to not report any. I removed that section to let the bot do its thing, and now we have five. — JJMC89 03:06, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Yeah ... also Xaosflux I'm not sure if you realised that your edit was before 00:00 (UTC), hence the mixup. From a proudly stubborn holdout against daylight saving time ... Graham87 03:41, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Ah, my goof - sorry, yes, it actually wasn't a DST issue locally - I just saw Wikipedia:Inactive administrators/2023 update and didn't actually check the time! — xaosflux ^Talk 09:37, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Bot

Hello, JJMC89, Your bot seems to have added unwanted text to this page (below the map): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zerendi&oldid=771354971

I am aware that this was 5 years ago and somebody has most likely informed you of this by now, but this is just in case, as, at least on the page I looked at, it has gone unnoticed for that period of time. I don't know much about bots, but it seems someone has put some kind of code in to generate this text, presumably targeted towards the bot users themselves.

I apologize for my calling you a vandal before, as I, not knowing about bots at all, assumed that you yourself edited the page to add the text. It has since been deleted by an admin, but even if it wasn't, I would have deleted it myself. Greeny908 (talk) 15:06, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

@Greeny908, it was in added Zerendi (Diff 514176858), not by the bot. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:35, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

NFCC#10c problems related to multiple uses of same file in same article

Sorry for not replying sooner regarding User talk:JJMC89/Archives/2022/October#JJMC89 bot question. It would be great if there was a way for a bot to find stuff like this. I only stumbled upon that by accident. I know there's a toolforge site for "pages with excessive nfcc", but that didn't seem to pick up the Philadelphia KiXX because it was just two files. The non-free use of those files dates back to December 2009 and it doesn't look like anyone else noticed the problem until I found it a few minutes ago. If a bot isn't an efficient way to find this type of thing, perhaps there's somehow a way to "search" for it using some type of syntax. Is it possible to create a maintenance category for articles which have multiple uses of the same non-free file? If that could be done, then someone could work off that and check for 10c problems. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:52, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

I think the only efficient way to search for stuff like that would be to use the database dumps, which I (still) don't have any experience with. — JJMC89 03:01, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

I have no idea what a "database dump" is so I guess I'm even less experienced than you are when it comes to that. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:52, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

There's information about them at WP:DUMPS. — JJMC89 22:44, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Deleted Portal (Portal:Victoria)

Hello JJMC89,

I'm interested in recreating Portal:Victoria (about the Australian state) that was deleted by an MfD discussion in 2019 (link here). As the deleting admin, I wanted to ask you if you believe this is a good idea or not. If I created it, I would be happy to fully maintain it and make it good quality.

I look forward to hearing your feedback. Thanks, echidnaLives - talk - edits 06:05, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Given past discussions on portals, the MfD, and DRV, I don't think it is a good idea. — JJMC89 22:53, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

UTRS RUB

Hi. UTRS this seems to be collateral damage from a rangeblock. You're the blocking admin; can I unblock? All the best, Miniapolis 23:28, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

I am not the original blocking admin and am no longer the current one either. The two ranges that I reblocked with the reason specified in the appeal were (and still are) anon. only blocked, so there would be no collateral for a logged-in user. — JJMC89 06:07, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Another example of automation fail

So someone adds coordinates to an article they're starting. Later someone modifies those coordinates (wrongly) but adds the note <!-- Coords not verified -->. Much later auto-stomp comes along and stamps these coordinates as *golden* by deleting the embedded comments as extraneous. Foo. Shenme (talk) 02:27, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Whining about it 6 years later isn't going to change anything. You continuing to guess isn't helping the situation. — JJMC89 03:33, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

AIFB Flag

The flag of All India Forward Bloc I included in Next Indian General election is derived from wikipedia. So why you deleted it? XYZ 250706 (talk) 03:08, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

I didn't. Did you read the edit summary and the pages linked in it? — JJMC89 03:33, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

JJMC89 bot: no second notifications for this month re inactive admins

Hello, the subject line says it all, I guess ... could this have anything to do with what happened re the list earlier this month? Graham87 09:01, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, Graham. It is unrelated to the issue earlier this month. I wasn't able to figure out why, but it hadn't run at all since the 20th. — JJMC89 10:01, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Don't understand what this bot is doing

Want to know more? read policy pages. Want a discussion - see my talk page Victuallers (talk) 23:45, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

I assume you are talking about Special:Diff/1122950786. That has nothing to do with anything on your talk page. The message on your talk page is about a different image that was removed by an IP. — JJMC89 23:59, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

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Photos uploaded by PlanespotterA320

Hi! You probably aren't familiar with my work, but I contribute to Central Asia and USSR-related topics, as I am from this part of the world. I noticed that you deleted several fair-use photos solely because they were uploaded by PlanespotterA320. Do you think you could restore the photos of Zulfiya, Hamroqul Tursunqulov, Alla Anarov and others? Her contributions on Soviet-related content are solid, and as such it seems to me that mass deleting all of her contributions was a bit of an overkill. Thanks! Nataev ^talk 13:46, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi. No, I won't undelete work by someone banned by the community. — JJMC89 02:52, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Cheers mate

Thanks for creating my account. I'll do my best not to make trouble. After all, I'm here to chew ass and kick bubblegum, and I'm all out of ass.... or is that the other way around? GeneralHamster (talk) 22:04, 30 November 2022 (UTC)