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Permission

Hi! Please give use permission of SineBot for Azerbaijani Wikipedia.--Neriman2003 (talk) 15:58, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

SineBot for Russian Wikipedia

Hello! Tell me please, is it possible to include your bot in Russian Wikipedia? And if you can do it, then we have two questions:)

1. Is it possible to do not substitute templates.
2. We have a user group for people that are authorised to close discussions at Articles for deletion pages. Can your bot support adding a special template to their messages if they are closing a discussion?

Thanks! Iniquity (talk) 23:55, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

SineBot disfunction: signing an unsigned post, but with an incorrect username

Here a new user called 1731kt posts and forgets to sign. Immediately thereafter, SineBot signs their post, but with an incorrect name (signing as "Jazzilisterwiki", a non-registered username). WP:CHU has no "Jazzilisterwiki" in the archives, so this looks like a mistake... Or am I missing something? Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 20:25, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Tigraan: Jazzilisterwiki was renamed to 1731kt. The rename was carried out by the unblocking admin based on the user's unblock request. — JJMC89 (T·C) 22:01, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Any chance of having 10 mins of your time

Hi,

I am looking into some financial variations (not to do with wiki) and I was hoping you could give me 10 mins of your time to explain to me what may or may not be achievable for BOTS at our current level of technology or coding (language). I am not in the field of coding or anything of that sort but would be interested to know what could or could not be achieved with our current understanding. If you could contact me the questions that I have I would rather speak to you on a one to one basis if possible.

Thanks

Dannyboys75 (talk) 22:29, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

SineBot not working

Hi Slakr. Any idea why SineBot hasn't been working for a couple of days? Cordless Larry (talk) 22:05, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

@Cordless Larry: It's back. Thanks for the heads up =) --slakr^\ talk / 01:55, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. We really feel its absence at the Teahouse when it's down! Cordless Larry (talk) 06:18, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

SineBot not working is a good thing., The bot sucks. Deactivate it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.21.198.85 (talk) 00:26, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

I am unable to edit, but only at school?

Hello Slakr, I was unfortunately banned by you some months ago, however I have only not been able to make contributions while I am at school, whereas anywhere else I can edit.

I was wondering if this is because of not something I have done, but rather a ban on a specific IP network.

Please let me know what you think, and I ask if you would be able to unban me if this is the case.

Cheers,

DaBestMonEva — Preceding unsigned comment added by DaBestMonEva (talk • contribs) 15:07, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

@DaBestMonEva: School blocks are usually anonymous-only, which means you should be able to edit while logged in to your account. If this block isn't anonymous-only for some reason (it's possible I accidentally ticked the wrong button or there's really bad abuse), when you're at your school log out and follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Appealing_a_block#Requesting_to_be_unblocked (i.e., visit the IP's talk page at Special:MyTalk when logged out and make use of the {{unblock}} template to summon someone another admin to help to "make the block anonymous-only," which will let you edit despite the block, as long as you then log in). --slakr^\ talk / 06:49, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

@Slakr: Ok! Thank you for the quick response :)

DaBestMonEva (talk) 17:01, 19 May 2018 (UTC) DaBestMonEva

Sinebot not signing my talk page

Why is SInebot not autosigning my talk page? The template is added to it. --Tyw7  (☎ Contact me! • Contributions) 15:42, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks for making a neat bot to sign all the things careless people leave unsigned.

Adenmck (talk) 06:41, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

SineBot signed a comment that was actually already signed

Hello. I moved a misplaced comment from a subpage onto the main talk page. This triggered SineBot to helpfully add my signature to the comment. However, the comment was already fully signed, albeit in two pieces: the user had appended their linked username and user talk page, and then someone--actually, SineBot himself!--placed a {{undated}} template after it for a timestamp. Shouldn't SineBot figure this out? I didn't write any of the comment myself, so it was a good thing I went back and checked the edit or I would've been credited with the whole thing. 2600:8800:1880:91E:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26 (talk) 19:35, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:40, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

if you're going to do a signing bot, make the damn thing wait 10 minutes to allow interim edits to be made without confusion and editing conflicts

better yet, don't do a sign bot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.113.161.104 (talk) 20:01, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

SignBot miss-signed

Not sure if this is important or not. This signature should have been LnZ3VpVeWh$Fs (talk · contribs). Instead SignBot signed Plaasjapie (talk · contribs), which is not registered. I don't have any Plaasjapie signatures on my talk page except for that one which I fixed to LnZ3VpVeWh$Fs. Not sure what happened. I haven't seen that before. Thanks for maintaining the 'bot! Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 05:36, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

@Jim1138: If you look at the user talk page history you will see that the user was subsequently renamed, but SignBot got it right at the time. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:40, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! Didn't think of that! Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 17:39, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

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Sinebot down?

Just noticed that SineBot has not made any edits this month. Can somebody give it a prod? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 14:15, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: Sorry, it's back. --slakr^\ talk / 08:55, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

👍 Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 09:24, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 6th issue of the Bots Newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

• Nothing particular important happened. Those who care already know, those who don't know wouldn't care. The curious can dig ARBCOM archives themselves.

BAG

• There were no changes in BAG membership since the last Bots Newsletter. Headbomb went from semi-active to active.
• In the last 3 months, only 3 BAG members have closed requests - help is needed with the backlog.

BOTREQs and BRFAs

As of writing, we have...

• 24 active BOTREQs, please help if you can!
• 5 open BRFAs and 3 BRFAs in need of BAG attention (see live status).
• 54 approved bot tasks since the start of 2018. Of note, Community Tech bot 5 (the #10 Wish on the 2017 Community Survey) was approved to notify users concerning problematic images and files from Wikimedia Commons.

Also

• If you're a bot operator that can help with Tidy/Linter error cleanup (see discussion, discussion), please file a BRFA!
• 8 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion, discussion, discussion).

Discussions

These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.

• Use of tags by bots – Exploring the use of a new 'bot' tag.
• Mass page moves – Bot policy question/clarification about mass moves.
• Creation of redirects – Bot policy question/clarification about the creation of redirects.
• Guidance on disruptive use of semi–automated tools? – Related to meatbots (see also MOS discussion, which resulted in small addition to MOS:VAR).
• Discussion concerning WP:BOTFLAG/WP:RC – A reminder that bots should use the bot flag when it makes sense to use it (see also VPT discussion and CREATEBOT update).
• Out of curiosity... (to all bot operators) – BotPasswords vs OAuth usage amongst bot operators.
• Introducing Toolhub – Toolhub is looking for feedback.

New things

• {{Automated tools}}, a new template linking to user-activated tools and scripts has been created. It can be used in articles previews, and can be placed on any non-mainspace page/template (e.g. {{Draft article}}) to provide convenient links to editors.
• AWB 5.10.0.0 is out, after nearly 20 months without updates. If you run an old version, you will be prompted to install the new version automatically. See the changelog for what's new. Note that the next version will require .NET Framework 4.5. Many thanks to Reedy and the AWB team.
• BotWatch, "a listing of editors that have made >2 edits per minute [without] a bot flag", is being developed by SQL (see discussion).
• Massive updates and improvements have been made to Citation bot in the past few months (see discussions, discussions, discussions). You can activate the bot here, amongst other methods.
• HTML Tidy has been phased out (see Tech News #28).
• {{Newbot}} has been reorganized a bit (diff). In particular, it links to previously approved BRFAs (see discussion).
• Wikipedia:Bots#See also has been reorganized a bit (diff).
• The bot dictionary has two new entries, context bot and context-sensitive edit.
• The bot request header has been updated to include better guidance (see discussion).
• The subcategories of Category:Wikipedia bot requests for approval have been sorted in a consistent manner to make past BRFAs easier to find.

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 15:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

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Why no signature?

Any idea why SineBot didn't sign this thread? -- RoySmith (talk) 14:54, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Is Signbot ignoring the Teahouse?

The bot seems to be very slow to sign Teahouse posts, is there a problem or is it simply too busy? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:25, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Why is your bot literally everywhere?

Example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by REDsEngineer (talk • contribs) 18:57, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Subpages of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log is a member of Category:Non-talk pages with subpages that are automatically signed but the subpages are not being signed, e.g. [1], [2] and [3]. Thryduulf (talk) 08:58, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

SineBot for Russian Wikipedia

Hi Kurt. We have consensus in Russian Wikipedia that we want to have a signing bot. Can your bot work on other Wikipedias? Thanks, Alexei Kopylov (talk) 19:25, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

I'm not Slakr, but he hasn't edited since August. I doubt he will reply soon. Felicia (talk) 00:05, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Not running

SineBot doesn't seem to have run in the past three and a half hours or so. Any reason? --David Biddulph (talk) 16:57, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

@David Biddulph: It hasn't run since yesterday now. Last time I was aware of this happening, the bot had fallen over and needed restarting. However Slakr hasn't edited since mid-August so its unlikely they are aware that it needs doing. I'm not sure if anyone else can? Thryduulf (talk) 23:00, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

I've sent them an email, but their userpage says they don't always regularly respond to them so we'll see. They do say they're sometimes on IRC though, so someone who is familiar with that (I'm not at all) might want to look for them there. Thryduulf (talk) 23:09, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

@Thryduulf and David Biddulph: It should be back up now. Thanks for the heads up, and sorry about the delay. =) --slakr^\ talk / 01:36, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Why did you block me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teaspillingsis (talk • contribs) 10:43, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

It looks like the bot died again and isn't signing. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 01:02, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: Back up again. Ever since this whole bot session migration thing it's been a minor pain at times. I'll add some real monitoring here when I get a chance. --slakr^\ talk / 02:26, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Failure to explain

Moved from User talk:ProcseeBot

This bot is not explaining why IPs are being blocked! Can't it just leave the appropriate message? — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  23:39, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

@Mr. Guye: it uses {{blocked proxy}} for all its block messages, which anyone attempting to edit will see. --slakr^\ talk / 20:37, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

• It doesn't expand when you try to edit blocked talk pages, etc.. It just shows {{blocked proxy}}. An unlinked plaintext template name is not a block message. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  21:28, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

@Mr. Guye: ...then it's likely not a ProcseeBot block or you encountered a MediaWiki bug/caching issue, as I'm pretty certain its block messages are rendering correctly; I just checked. If you point me to the IP in question, I can take a closer look. --slakr^\ talk / 21:59, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

• Is it creating or editing talk pages by substituting the message? I don't think it is. An example is User talk:46.247.128.234. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  22:09, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

@Mr. Guye: No, it doesn't create talk pages for its blocks due to volume + bad signal-to-noise ratio. What you see when you visit User talk:46.247.128.234 is normal (the block message isn't substituted in log entries themselves, which is basically what the red "this user is currently blocked" box is—a one-row log entry). If you were to try to actually use one of the proxies and edit a page, you would see the actual, transcluded message once it appears within MediaWiki:Blockedtext. --slakr^\ talk / 22:49, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

False

I’ve never once stated I don’t like Japanese people so get your facts right...there shirt wasn’t made to celebrate the bombing FACT it like the rest of the text on the shirt was and is about Korean liberation FACT the original photo doesn’t have a swastika on it FACT the photo was edited by an anti fan FACT Other Koreans have warn this FACT Rupert grint was just there wearing a massive bomb T-shirt and nothing was said FACT the stylist and magazine who organised said photoshoot aswell as the boys apologised FACT the companies that have been ordered to pay Korean victims are also sponsoring the music show to which not just bts but other artists have been cancelled for FACT the far right party that keeps pushing this uses natzi flags themselves FACT this is issue was addressed cleared up and resolved years ago FACT Statethefacts86 (talk) 07:33, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@Statethefacts86: I have no idea what you're talking about. Best I can guess is you encountered a computer program I created called User:SineBot. --slakr^\ talk / 16:03, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

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Talkback

Hello, Slakr. You have new messages at SineBot's talk page.
Message added 15:42, 28 November 2018 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 15:42, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Question

How long does it usually take for sine-bot to detect and auto-sign an unsigned comment? Can the times vary and by how much? Thanks - wolf 05:32, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Thewolfchild, Slakr says in the section above: There's already a delay of about a minute or so on most pages eligible for signing., but for the pages listed on User:SineBot/HighPriority there isn't a delay. Galobtter (pingó mió) 06:04, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

So typically, after an unsigned post is saved, it only takes the bot a minute to detect and sign it? The reason I ask is because I noticed a comment had gone unsigned for over 4 hours, so I was curious if that was typical, a sign of a problem, or if perhaps the bot was down for maintenance tonight? Thanks - wolf 06:16, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Thewolfchild, probably Sinebot couldn't detect that the post needed signing and so didn't sign it to avoid false positives: see User:SineBot#Where_SineBot_does_it Galobtter (pingó mió) 06:25, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Ok then... Thanks - wolf 06:28, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Proxy list probably being used by a troll

[4] was probably being used by a troll on the reference desks. They were putting in loads of questions copying questions from reddit each one with a different ip. Suggested at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Request_for_semi-protection that Procsee was probably the appropriate boot to have a look at it. Dmcq (talk) 18:20, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

I found this by putting in a few of the ips being used in quote marks in a single query to google. Dmcq (talk) 18:24, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

In fact there seem t be a few open proxy lists about. Are we actually using one at all? They seem to also have a system for removing them eventually if the open proxy is removed. Dmcq (talk) 10:11, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

@Dmcq: Thanks for the heads up; I've added the main blog. --slakr^\ talk / 20:51, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

SineBot might be doing more harm than good

SineBot is too quick to sign comments which are clearly vandalism. In this example, SineBot waited less than one minute to sign vandalism. It is much harder for recent changes patrollers to revert vandalism when SineBot has made the last change.– Gilliam (talk) 18:12, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

SineBot signed each one of this serial vandal's posts.[5] Why can't SineBot revert instead of seal in vandalism.– Gilliam (talk) 17:01, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Had this at WP:ANI today. It's a pain in the arse when it gets in the way of rollback. Can't the bot just wait 30 seconds? As it was, I had to select a revision and use the slow "restore this revision process", which risks the IP hopping and the revert failing, hence making the vandalism persist for even longer. A time delay would be great. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 15:41, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Sinebot delay?

Hi Slakr. This has been raised at Sinebot's talk page already, but I thought I'd mention it here, too. When Sinebot does its job and signs an IP post, it has the unintended effect of preventing rollback. Thus when an LTA uses IPs to hit a number of talk pages (as is currently happening), admins and oversighters are seriously hobbled in their ability to respond. Is it technically possible to introduce a delay of a few minutes between the unsigned edit and the bot-added signature? This would allow quick vandalism patrol to step in before that happened. Best, Vanamonde (talk) 04:42, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Vanamonde93, a delay seems a reasonable idea and would seem feasible; what one could for now is put {{bots|deny = Sinebot}} on the ref desks and teahouse which would prevent signing Sinebot from signing comments on those pages which I'd think would be quite helpful when those pages aren't protected. Galobtter (pingó mió) 07:31, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

@Vanamonde93: There's already a delay of about a minute or so on most pages eligible for signing. I can remove the refdesks from User:SineBot/HighPriority. Twinkle also has SineBot whitelisted so that it skips over it when vandalism-marked rollbacks are issued. There's also very basic vandalism detection in SineBot, but since the revisions have been getting oversighted as opposed to just revdeled, I have no idea if there's any good pattern to figure out. Also, I'm updating ProcseeBot slowly to include some of these (as well as rescan old-and-detected ips, which several of those seem to be). --slakr^\ talk / 23:53, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. The edits have been oversighted because they are libelous stuff, but disguised to remove words that might be flagged by basic filters. I don't know the first thing about stopping this (and I cannot share specifics of the content, obviously) but perhaps there is helpful stuff in filter 796. The issue is not with twinkle rollback, which works okay from a page history, but with actual rollback, which can be used directly from user contribution history but cannot be used after signatures have been added by sinebot. That's why I was wondering about a delay. I don't know the history of any discussion about this, but it seems to me that even a ten-minute delay on a user talk page isn't a big deal, but could help significantly with vandalism patrol. Thoughts? Vanamonde (talk) 07:01, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

I'm sorta concerned that someone seems to have decided admins shouldn't be able to see libellous stuff. I suddenly feel so inadequate and presumed-idiotic / incapable of rational evaluation of facts. I suppose, then, there's not much I can do to help here, neither from an edit-filter standpoint or a bot-programming standpoint. As far as the delay goes, 1 minute has usually been enough for the last decade or so, given the speed of anti-vandal patrollers and the proportional infrequency of talk-page vandalism compared to legitimately-unsigned posts. I can look into increasing it, but 1 minute's usually been the sweet spot to avoid edit conflicts with people who quick-edit their post to add a signature. It's also kept the high-priority list relatively maintenance-free. Also, it looks like there's probably some benefit to an IP rate limit as well, where if an IP is posting to talk pages quickly, it'll stop signing their posts altogether. Without proper tuning, this starts getting into pound-of-prevention-for-ounce-of-cure territory, but there's probably a reasonable limit. --slakr^\ talk / 00:04, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

I'm sorry you feel that way, Slakr; I assure you it's because of a legal requirement, and is nothing to do with your personal integrity. Indeed if you applied for oversight permissions I see no reason why they would not be granted. This request stemmed from a discussion on the oversight mailing list, where such an increase was suggested as a temporary measure to deal with recent disruption. If it's feasible, I'd be grateful if you looked into implementing it. Vanamonde (talk) 01:54, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

In any case, I've removed the refdesk from high-priority as a quick measure. --slakr^\ talk / 20:53, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, every little bit helps. Vanamonde (talk) 21:14, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

So a little more info on why it's 1 minute: there are edits like this right before this (separated by basically a minute or two); ditto with [6] and [7]; [8] and [9]; etc... these are just within the last day or so. It happens a lot, regardless of baseline page traffic. When the bot was originally developed, same-page edit-conflict auto-merging in Mediawiki was meh. I'm not sure if that's still the case, but it'd require more extensive experimentation. In general, too, the bot's also reluctant to try to make an edit when there's been an intermediate one to avoid accidentally deleting something someone added / modified. Long story short, I'm hesitant to mess with the delay/edit-conflict resolution code too much, and I feel like it might make more sense to work on updating ProcseeBot a bit more so these guys are less of an issue overall. --slakr^\ talk / 02:39, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Well, I cannot, of course, compel you; but I will say that there's been discussion on the oversight list of asking you to disable sinebot until this blows over, because of how much delay it introduces. Have a look through Sinebot's contributions over the last two weeks for some idea of how widespread the problem is. Introducing a delay seemed like a better solution. Alternatively, is it possible to disable it (or delay it) only for a certain namespace? Doing either of those for the user talk space would help considerably. Vanamonde (talk) 03:11, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

I was in favor of this as well, but I think the other filters recently put in place have done a good job of limiting the attacks and we've been largely quiet on this front for a day or so, so maybe it's not so urgent at the moment? ~ Amory (u • t • c) 13:35, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Proxy list still being used

I saw a whole lot of rubbish being deleted on the reference desks again today and tried the first two ips I saw in quotes to google "95.141.132.138" 178.213.0.207" and again it comes up that proxy list server list and lots of others with both of them in it. If some automatic proxy list banner that worked with those lists and enabled or disabled those separate from any list in Wikipedia it would save a lot of bother. Dmcq (talk) 13:48, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Bug

Sinebot made this edit incorrectly. [10] Thanks, RhinosF1 (talk) 20:59, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

@RhinosF1: You added a comment as another user (or it saw that you did). If you do a proper WP:UNDO or just add your comment at the same time as restoring the block of text, it will understand what you're doing (either via edit summary or your own comment addition) and ignore it. --slakr^\ talk / 21:06, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Signo bot chico está roto

¿Puedes arreglarlo? Firma a un chico bot porque él sigue firmando mis comentarios sin mi permiso. por favor, arregla. 2600:1700:DFD1:1A40:2D2A:4F09:F69C:4738 (talk) 05:21, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Unsigned post

[11] I forgot to sign, a moment later, I tweaked my comment, and the bot didn't do anything. Is this probably a case of the editing being complicated that the bot isn't sure what to do, or is it a genuine mistake? No big deal, of course; if this weren't the case, and if it weren't down for maintenance, I thought you might want to know. Nyttend (talk) 00:13, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

If it sees templates, it skips signing altogether. --slakr^\ talk / 21:37, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

ProcseeBot smacking proxy editors

You operate user:ProcseeBot which blocks Wikimedia user accounts which are editing from a proxy and contrary to our rules on doing this.

I am a coordinator in meta:University of Virginia/Machine learning to predict Wikimedia user blocks, a research project examining past blocks and seeking to predict accounts which are not blocked but might need one.

In looking at recent blocks, something has changed in ProcseeBot's recent behavior in that it has begun to issue many more blocks than it did in the past. I am writing to ask for more information.

1. Do you already have public documentation available anywhere about how ProcseeBot identifies proxy editors?
2. What changed recently that excited ProcseeBot to issue so many blocks in the past few months?
3. Would you be willing to have a brief voice or video chat with the research team here? The potential benefit to you is that if you can talk, then I can type the conversation, and will adapt that to journalism about ProcseeBot in The Signpost. If it is too much trouble to meet live, then thanks anyway. I understand your schedule is stretched lately. I am still interested in writing a little up if there is anything interesting to say about recent changes with ProcseeBot.

Thanks for any response you can give.

Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:42, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

It was actually a bit behind for a while. As sites it monitors died off, it had less to check. I recently added more, as proxied abuse made enough of a noticeable uptick that it was affecting the activity of another of my bots (SineBot), which is usually a sign of problems anyway. Also, if proxies are increasing overall, it's usually a sign of a malware boom. I've seen things like that like, too. --slakr^\ talk / 05:34, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

SineBot not running

SineBot has apparently not run since 0612 UTC this morning. Could you give it a gentle kick, please? --David Biddulph (talk) 23:13, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

It should be back --slakr^\ talk / 05:27, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

I see SineBot in that list ;) - Happy 2019! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:06, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

SineBot

Hi. I was wondering if it was possible to enable SineBot on a specific page to sign user's comments, even if in general the user's comments aren't signed? Like on my talk pages, I have repeatedly ([12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]) signed other users' comments for them, so that I could use WP:REPLYLINK to ping them. Is there something I can do to have all edits to my talk page signed, irrespective of if the user is too experienced to have the comments signed by default? Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:25, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Remove Wikipedia:New contributors' help page from high priority list

Hi slakr, would you remove Wikipedia:New contributors' help page from Sinebot’s High Priotity List? It’s been a redirect since December 2017 (no edits since then) and not a lot of edits have been made in recent times. It seems like the page doesn’t need to be on the list. Thanks! PorkchopGMX (talk with me - what i've done) 21:43, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Bot functions

Is this Template:Unblock-bot part of ProsceeBots functions? It is up for deletion ~ R.T.G 08:10, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Blockage and dog products

Originally I was going to ask why is been blocked, but it seems you've just blocked the vpn I sometimes use. Which is good cos I behave..

On my other matter, I went to the page for a village near me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%83ule%C8%99ti,_Prahova (which supposedly has an oak tree grown from an acorn that Yuri Gagarin took with him - it's a dubious claim) but the only link, about tombs, redirects to a dog product page and I don't know how to fix it.

Can you look at it please? John Decker NZ (talk) 20:27, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

SineBot's down

SineBot hasn't made any edits this month. Is she on Wikibreak? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular

Administrators must secure their accounts The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised. Use strong, unique passwords for your Wikipedia account and associated email Change your password now if your Wikipedia account password or email password is reused on another website, exposed, or weak Enable two-factor authentication now for improved security

View additional information

Why have I received this message? All administrators are receiving it. What prompted you to send this message? Recently, several Wikipedia admin accounts were compromised. The admin accounts were desysopped on an emergency basis. In the past, the Committee often resysopped admin accounts as a matter of course once the admin was back in control of their account. The committee has updated its guidelines. Admins may now be required to undergo a fresh Request for Adminship (RfA) after losing control of their account. What do I need to do? Only to follow the instructions in this message. Check that your password is unique (not reused across sites). Check that your password is strong (not simple or guessable). Enable Two-factor authentication (2FA), if you can, to create a second hurdle for attackers. How can I find out more about two-factor authentication (2FA)? You can find out more about 2FA at m:2FA.

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:44, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Indonesian Bot/Administrator

Hello, I was just wondering if there is any bot or specific admin which watches over wikipedia related to Indonesian's articles? Because some of them are outdated & I'm afraid if I do any editing there wont be any correction or observer towards that page. Cheers & thanks mate. Basduhncxmaoiwuoeiyoqisn (talk) 07:58, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

You can join WikiProject Indonesia.--Auric talk 13:12, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Bot in other wikipedias

A bot like yours would be very useful on other wikipedias as well. Can you work at the portuguese wikipedia as well? Or can I get another bot like this in the factory it is produced? And by the way, why not make the source code public? This is a project (wikipedia) where everything is free for use! Bageense (talk) 10:59, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

I came here to ask about the same thing. I'm the member of Albanian Wikiquote but both, Wikiquote and Wikipedia, could benefit from that bot. In fact, at our internet age, auto-signing should be a function enabled by MediaWiki, without needing a bot to look after for it but since that's not the case, is there any way we could have SineBot at other Wiki-s too? - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:03, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

I also asked him to add the bot to the ckb wiki. He is sadly inactive these days, and alas the source code for the bot is not available either.--▸ ‎épine _talk♬ 18:43, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

SineBot down

Hi Slakr. Any ideas why SineBot hasn't been working for the past few weeks, and when it might be up again? The Teahouse is always in need of SineBot's services! Cordless Larry (talk) 16:54, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

I miss SineBot. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:18, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

@Cordless Larry and ToBeFree: Looks like the operator is on Wikibreak. Any idea where should we raise this issue? Masum Reza^📞 09:34, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

@Cordless Larry and ToBeFree: It should be back. --slakr^\ talk / 23:18, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Yay, thank you very much! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:53, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks dude. Masum Reza^📞 07:51, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Excellent. Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 09:58, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Attack Ramon

I left a note on the talk page of the user but he has removed it so I am leaving it here instead. What I wrote in response to your suggestion that he agree to a one year topic ban is as follows:

I really think that is a bad idea. The sockmaster here had two separate accounts (NoCal100 and Canadian Monkey) indefinitely banned from the Arab-Israeli topic area in the Judea/Samaria vs West Bank arbitration case and has been socking around those bans since, yes that is over ten years and upwards of 40 accounts doing nothing but evading that ban. Im not even sure that an admin can downgrade that indefinite topic ban to a single year anyway. Beyond that, the user has repeatedly used his socks to harass other users, see for example Bad Dryer's actions with Malik Shabazz and Nishidani (I can pull the ANI archive links if youd like), and that sock, Bad Dryer, is currently community banned per this AN unblocking discussion which found a well established consensus for his indefinite blocking. And that was even before he was determined to be a ban-evading sockpuppet.

Thanks, nableezy - 23:57, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:17, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:11, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Interesting case for your bot

Hi, please check this diff, the damage on June 28 (an unterminated <!-- … comment) was obscured by your bot. Maybe you could avoid this by a dummy <!-- --> comment before the unsigned text. –84.46.53.150 (talk) 05:04, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

User:1hitsmusic

FYI it is yet another sock puppet of Alex9777777. --jdx ^Re: 00:57, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

User:Andrew.moorewiki may be just another one. --Denniss (talk) 06:04, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

You've got mail!

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SineBot inactive

Hi slakr, SineBot seems to be down again. :( ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:50, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, August 2019

Bots Newsletter, August 2019

Greetings!

Here is the 7th issue of the Bots Newsletter, a lot happened since last year's newsletter! You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

• Nothing of note happened. Just like we like it.

BAG

• Several (1 + 12 = 13) users have been retired/resigned from the BAG due to inactivity, per our new activity requirements (discussion).

BAG members are expected to be active on Wikipedia to have their finger on the pulse of the community. After two years without any bot-related activity (such as posting on bot-related pages, posting on a bot's talk page, or operating a bot), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice. Retired members can re-apply for BAG membership as normal if they wish to rejoin the BAG.

• Two BAG members retired
  • Madman (talk · contribs) retired.
  • BU Rob13 (talk · contribs) vanished and retired.
• Three new BAG members have been voted in, welcome to the BAG!
  • Primefac (talk · contribs) joined on 2018-12-12 (RfBAG). Primefac operates PrimeBOT (talk · contribs) which does a plethora of tasks.
  • TheSandDoctor (talk · contribs) joined on 2019-01-21 (RfBAG). TheSandDoctor operates several bots including DeprecatedFixerBot (talk · contribs).
  • Enterprisey (talk · contribs) joined on 2019-08-07 (RfBAG). Enterprisey operates EnterpriseyBot (talk · contribs), which does a plethora of tasks, RemindMeBot (talk · contribs) which posts reminders, and codes several scripts.

We thank former members for their service and wish Madman a happy retirement. We note that Madman and BU Rob13 were not inactive and could resume their BAG positions if they so wished, should their retirements happens to be temporary.

BOTDICT

Two new entries feature in the bots dictionary

• Editor-hostile wikitext – describes wikitext structuring that is editor hostile, even if it renders correctly
• Spectrum of usefulness – describes how tasks are deemed useful or not

BOTPOL

• Activity requirements: BAG members now have an activity requirement. The requirements are very light, one only needs to be involved in a bot-related area at some point within the last two years. For purpose of meeting these requirements, discussing a bot-related matter anywhere on Wikipedia counts, as does operating a bot (RFC).
• Copyvio flag: Bot accounts may be additionally marked by a bureaucrat upon BAG request as being in the "copyviobot" user group on Wikipedia. This flag allows using the API to add metadata to edits for use in the New pages feed (discussion). There is currently 1 bot using this functionality.
• Mass creation: The restriction on mass-creation (semi-automated or automated) was extended from articles, to all content-pages. There are subtleties, but content here broadly means whatever a reader could land on when browsing the mainspace in normal circumstances (e.g. Mainspace, Books, most Categories, Portals, ...). There is also a warning that WP:MEATBOT still applies in other areas (e.g. Redirects, Wikipedia namespace, Help, maintenance categories, ...) not explicitely covered by WP:MASSCREATION.

BOTREQs and BRFAs

As of writing, we have...

• 20 active BOTREQs, please help if you can!
• 14 open BRFAs and 1 BRFA in need of BAG attention (see live status).
• In 2018, 96 bot task were approved. An AWB search shows approximately 29 were withdrawn/expired, and 6 were denied.
• Since the start of 2019, 97 bot task were approved. Logs show 15 were withdrawn/expired, and 15 were denied.
• 10 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion). 5 other bots have been deflagged per operator requests or similar (see discussion).

New things

• All bot-related discussion pages now have a centralized and searchable archive box (see discussion). Discussions are searchable per noticeboard, or globally.
• {{Bot}} now supports |status=expired (see discussion). This led to the deletion of Category:Indefinitely blocked Wikipedia bots as useless (see discussion).
• WP:BOTREQ now mentions WP:SCRIPTREQ and WP:AWBTASKS as alternatives to bot requests.
• The bot creation guide now mentions bot flags, and two new languages Awk and MATLAB. Other minor tweaks have been made.
• AAlertBot has received major code updates. In particular, WP:AALERTS will now report splits, mergers, and AFC submissions.
• Citation bot has received several updates (User talk:Citation bot/Archive 10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17). In particular, the bot stopped the automated removal of |publisher= from {{cite journal}}, and stopped the automated addition of CiteSeerX links, and now uses OAuth to authenticate those who make requests of the bot.

Other discussions

These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.

• Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Adminbots requests page
• Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Double-redirect tagging (2019)
• Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Long and Winding Road to Parsoid
• Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Bot-like user scripts
• Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#WP:URLREQ
• Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Wikipedia:Bots/Status
• Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group#Minimum edits
• Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Minor update to WP:BOTISSUE
• Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Semi-automated Portal creation
• Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Clarification on "Bots operated by multiple users"
• Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Bots triggered by multiple users
• Wikipedia talk:Bots#How to use Special:ApiFeatureUsage

See also the latest discussions at the bot noticeboard.

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 17:24, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

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SineBot on strike?

The SineBot (talk · contribs) has not made any edits since 2019 Jul 25. What has happened.? — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 17:06, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

+1. If Slakr isn't around, who else can look at this? — JFG ^talk 08:06, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

It would be nice to have more people to maintain SineBot. Everytime slakr slacks off, SineBot goes to sleep mode. Masum Reza^📞 09:59, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

@RHaworth, JFG, Masumrezarock100, and ToBeFree: Sorry guys; it's back. There were a bunch of sales, which means work ramps up disproportionately. I'll add some monitoring to reduce the likelihood of this happening. --slakr^\ talk / 05:23, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Glad to hear it. :) Masum Reza^📞 05:25, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Many thanks! — JFG ^talk 10:53, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the fix and the notification. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:06, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Pp-create

Template:Pp-create has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 18:45, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Toi muon thay doi

Tai Sao lai chan dia chi ip cua toi ? Pham Phi Sang (talk) 06:43, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

SineBot on SqWiki

Hello, Slakr! :) I'm an admin on the Albanian Wikipedia and I tend to look after the tech side of the project. I saw SineBot's work in action and thought our community could also benefit from it. Is it possible to make it work in our project too? - Klein Muçi (talk) 13:57, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Autonomous administrative division (Request editing and modifications to table and frame)

Please edit and edit the table and frame of the autonomous administrative area in the space provided. Editing is difficult Request modifications in the space provided.

@211.179.124.107: Please consider placing {{Edit semi-protected}} on the talk page you're requesting a change for; it is more likely to be implemented by someone more active. --slakr^\ talk / 23:46, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Sine Bot has stopped adding sign warning on user talk pages.

That bot is supposed to warn people who forget to sign three times in one day. I tested it, and it doesn't seem to work. I also see three or more unsigned comments for the same user on their contributions multiple times, but there is no following warning, either.Lurking shadow (talk) 19:39, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

I did some more research and this seems to be the last warning post by the bot, and this seems to be the first instance of a third post after that occasion; at that time that feature has ceased to work. I couldn't find any further warnings for the following three years.Lurking shadow (talk) 20:03, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

@Lurking shadow: Ooo, yes, that seems odd. Not sure why, but I'll look into it. ---slakr^\ talk / 23:47, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

RfC about the MEK targeting civilians in the lede

Hi Slakr, thank you for closing the RfC about the MEK targeting civilians in the lede. I have a question about your closing remarks: Since there aren't any sources that conclude that the MEK targeted civilians, and since "analyzing sources and arriving at conclusions is usually not the job of the lead", then should such a major and yet uncertain claim be mentioned in the lede of the article? The body of the article allows for space to discuss this in better detail, but since there isn't a definite conclusion about whether the MEK targeted civilians or not, wouldn't putting this in the lede cause more problems than solve them? Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 09:29, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

@Stefka Bulgaria: I'm not sure in this instance, but usually the lead should, in ideally embodying brevity, be especially avoidant of covering things with undue weight, while at the same time it should be strict in preserving a neutral point of view. How or if that applies here is probably more of a question/discussion for the article's talk page. --slakr^\ talk / 00:01, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the Talk page discussions about this have led nowhere (hence this RfC, which apparently has also led to nowhere). Is there any other viable option to sort this out? Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 10:57, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Cat Stevens.

It is highly inappropriate to use a bot to revert an article to a non-NPOV state.

If you want to discuss the edits I have posted sample texts to the talk page and that is the proper place to engage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tanila001 (talk • contribs) 23:13, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

@Tanila001: You have me confused with my bot, SineBot (talk · contribs), who signed a thing you said on a talk page (something you should be doing yourself). To find the person who modified the article's content, go to the article and use the page history. --slakr^\ talk / 00:08, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Signing is neither necessary nor required, so I don't need your bot signing anything on my behalf. I won't sign this either to prove that point. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tanila001 (talk • contribs) 15:29, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Tanila001 (talk · contribs) Ah yes, thanks for reminding me to ensure my bot annoys people with {{tilde}} warnings every 3rd time. There was a bug reported earlier about that. Cheers --slakr^\ talk / 20:53, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Question about Talkpage monitoring

Hi Slakr,

We have a couple of unsigned comments (mine, mostly) over at Talk:Progressive Senate Group that I was leaving up to SineBot, but the bot hasn't found them. Does it only run once a day, or is it down?

Cheers, --Doug Mehus T·C 22:08, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Experienced editors are ignored by SineBot by default, but there is a choice available to opt back in. --David Biddulph (talk) 23:13, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Oh, really, I think I became updated to extendedconfirmed in June or July (something like that), but I thought SineBot still signed even for admins. Is there a way we can force SineBot to sign for anyone on a specific page (i.e., by adding that category)?--Doug Mehus T·C 23:16, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 election voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:06, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ST47ProxyBot

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ST47ProxyBot. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:36, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

SineBot out of action again

SineBot hasn't been running since 06:20 UTC yesterday morning. --David Biddulph (talk) 14:19, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Bump - still not running. <rant>This is why I don't like closed source software. Please consider making the source available under an open-source license (doesn't have to be GNU) so we don't have to repeatedly nag you.</rant> Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:05, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

(+1) - Please release the code, under an open-source license. ∯WBG^converse 17:09, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

superfluous action of SineBot

→ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:List_of_MacGyver_(2016_TV_series)_episodes&diff=929725145&oldid=929725026

Why inserts SineBot an additional signature? I only added one more line to my own edit. 94.221.124.56 (talk) 20:40, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Happy new year, hope the month s coming on well as it s? Just to say thank you. JayX1 (talk) 00:18, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Simple question

Hi there. My question is pretty simple. Is it possible to implement this bot in other Wikipedias? If it's possible then how to do it? Regards.--SirEdimon (talk) 04:12, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

You've got mail

Hello, Slakr. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. Martin Urbanec (talk) 23:23, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Unblocked range

Hi Slakr, I hope today finds you well!

I've unblocked this range today, per a concern I received from an editor offwiki. From what I can tell, it was owned by a webhosting company at one time, but isn't anymore - and is now owned by a british ISP. If you believe that it is still a webhost, please re-block it, and drop me a line. I hope you don't mind - it appears that you're more or less inactive these days. SQL^{Query me!} 21:31, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for making Sinebot

Sinebot is extremely useful so thanks for making him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.127.59.173 (talk) 13:55, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

SineBot out of action again

SineBot seems to have been out of action since 06:00 UTC this morning. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:45, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

ProcseeBot Blocked 78.141.203.40

your ProcseeBot blocked several (including 78.141.203.40) for open proxy, right? Abdullah Al Manjur (talk) 14:18, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Several IPs, sorry if I forgot it. Abdullah Al Manjur (talk) 14:18, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

SineBot in arwiki

Hello Kurt, is it possible to run SineBot in Arabic Wikipedia? --Alaa :)..! 16:27, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

I'm new here

Moved to User talk:TheDragonFire300 § I'm new here

 – Doing this to avoid page clutter here. Sorry if this wasn't what you wanted, slakr. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). This message was left at 19:03, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi , I just joined Wikipedia . What advice would u give me on how to not look like a creep on Wikipedia Mafufu (talk) 10:03, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

@Mafufu: (talk page stalker) Try the Wikipedia Adventure first, so you can get an understanding as to how Wikipedia works. After that (or if you've already done it), the Teahouse is also a good contact point. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). This message was left at 18:35, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

@TheDragonFire300 thank you so much for the advice, I'm definitely going to check your suggestions out. although the thought of editing pages on Wikipedia gives me CRAZY anxiety , did u feel the same when u first joined ? Mafufu (talk) 18:52, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

@Mafufu: (talk page stalker) I'm going to refer you to my own talk page to avoid cluttering this one (click the link above). Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). This message was left at 19:03, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Out of action

SineBot seems to be out of action again, apparently for the last 24 hours or so. --David Biddulph (talk) 19:19, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

@David Biddulph: Sorry; for some reason I didn't get the text message that it died. Back now. Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 01:28, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Zyklon B

As the protection is gonna expire today, can you pls protect this article ecp indef as for Arbitration Committee WWII/Poland sanctions so it should be extended confirmed protected also due to the user who is responsible is still active. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.220.77.128 (talk) 07:07, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

@153.220.77.128: Sure... it falls under the topic and looks like one of the same people who were hitting the other pages I just protected was "visiting" that one too. I would, however, recommend directing further requests to WP:RFPP, though, to get results more reliably (I might not always be here; my schedule's been a little chaotic). --slakr^\ talk / 07:20, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:50, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Ooo, thank you =) *tries to chew on it*... hmm... not all that tasty, but pretty! :P --slakr^\ talk / 07:21, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

... thanks to the photographer ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:37, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

@slakr please tell those people to stop giving me warnings I don’t know MinnieDoreen (talk) 15:50, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

SineBot broken?

Hi Slakr, hope you're well :)

SineBot (talk · contribs) appears to be broken. It's not edited in five days, and the number of unsigned comments on my talk page is showing it

Any idea what's up with it?

Cheers, Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 22:33, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

@Naypta: Hey, sorry, there was a bug; it didn't detect it got logged out but also knew it couldn't grab a correct edit token... anyway, it should be back. --slakr^\ talk / 06:53, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

protection

can you protect Amon Göth and Warsaw Uprising as they both again being hit while it also falls on AE sanction. 63.227.77.72 (talk) 10:24, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Including the Kraków Ghetto, this will probably stopped them as most of them are locked by other admins, thanks for taking care of it. 63.227.77.72 (talk) 10:47, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

@63.227.77.72:  Done, but note that using WP:RFPP is probably more reliable, particularly since I'm not always around. --slakr^\ talk / 10:55, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Request review of closure at Disk storage

k. --slakr^\ talk / 10:56, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Pepper2801

No change in behaviour I'm afraid. Can you deal with him, or do I need to file another AN3 report? Thanks, William M. Connolley (talk) 09:00, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

I’m asking for an unblock of 35.174.0.0/16

This is the Wifi for Amtrak. Or at the very least the Northeast Regional. Trillfendi (talk) 22:22, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

@Trillfendi: Probably going to need to be more specific. 35.174.0.0/16 is definitely an AWS block (most specifically, 35.168.0.0/13 is the main block), and for Amtrak (or more likely their internet provider) to be routing all of their outbound traffic through some sort of proxy on AWS seems odd and expensive (but not unheard of). Do you happen to have any specific IP addresses that could be looked into? Also keep in mind we're more than happy to grant WP:IPBE for established editors, so if you do find yourself impeded by the block, it's not a big deal. --slakr^\ talk / 09:25, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

I'm requesting unblock because i didn't realize Wikipedia terms in that time (2 years ago or maybe even more) and now i want to contribute in terms of use of Wikipedia to make the world a better place :) thanks Sambassari (talk) 09:07, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

3 Questions

Hi Kurt, Sorry for taking your time by asking these 3 questions, but I really need help to figure out my next steps. It is my first time writing something touchy here in English wiki and as my first attempt, it turned out to be not that great. So here are my questions and I appreciate your help in advance:

1- I have proposed a lead for the article suicide methods in its talking page and a user helped me create a discussion here in wiki's med project to gain users' attention to take part in the discussion. Now my question is what could be my next steps if not enough users take part in the discussion? Does that meant that I have to hold back on my idea and leave the discussion or is there any other steps I can take if I still feel my point is right or if the discussion does not reach an agreement? Because what has happened now is that I believe the neutrality of the article is violated greatly. The article should be about suicide methods, but some users have put information about suicide prevention methods in it at the beginning. My point is that suicide prevention already has its own independent article and if they want, they can even create an article about suicide prevention methods.

2- A user in the talk page is using unfriendly and disrespectful language by calling people "under-informed". I kindly suggested the user that such language can violate Wikipedia:civility and is unfriendly. Now my question is if the user continues addressing people like this, what could be my next steps? Is informing an admin like you enough or should I create an incident report in the administrator's noticeboard?

3- I also feel that the user, by using vague and ambiguous language, tries to disrespect my nationality and events happening in my country of origin. Now, this latter is very difficult to prove as the user is using indirect language and I want to assume good faith, but I have some strong evidence that the user is doing this. My question is what can/should I do in these situations, where the person indirectly bashes me but because he/she uses indirect and vague language, it makes it hard to prove and he/she can easily get away without hearing an answer. Now, I'm not saying that it's that important to always answer in these situations, but because this has happened to me so many times after my immigration, it really bothers me sitting quiet and saying nothing. I can use their method and answer indirectly with vague language, but that's not how my personality is. I prefer brave and yet, polite, direct and front talking. So, knowing your answer not only helps me here in wiki, but also in my personal life. What would you personally do in these situations?

Please ping me so I can read your answer. Sorry if it is too much and thanks in advance.Poorya0014 (talk) 05:54, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

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May I have the source code of your sinebot so that I could customize it for my home bnwp, please? You may email me if you don't want to publish publicly. Nokib Sarkar ^Poke 14:42, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Requested feature for sinebot

As an experienced editor, I occasionally forget to sign. Just as frequently, I do re-factoring or other edits that should NOT be signed by a bot.

It would be nice if sinebot had an opt-in "notify only" feature where it would put a note on my talk page, email me, use the "ping" mechanism, update a page of my choosing in my userspace which is presumably on my watchlist, or otherwise remind me that I forgot to sign a particular edit. If it was intentional, no harm done. If it was unintentional, then I would be thankful for the reminder to go back and sign it. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 02:34, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

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Hi, and thanks for the bot. Please consider linking Wikipedian in the first sentence to give the page further exposure to mainly new editors. Thanks! (tempted not to sign this note, but will) Randy Kryn (talk) 23:57, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

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Could you please exclude your bot from interfering with my work? Cheers Hockeycatcat (talk) 05:56, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

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Out of action for a couple of days. David Biddulph (talk) 14:26, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

@David Biddulph:  Done --slakr^\ talk / 15:46, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

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Can you please revive it? Thanks. --I dream of horses (Contribs) Please notify me after replying off my talk page. Thank you. 18:17, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

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Post-signing

As a new editor I often forget to sign comments in talk pages, but I am also aware enough of this problem and I do rare enough edits to remember to sign them before other comments and usually at most a couple of hours later. I sometimes edited again to add the signature before other comment, recently even by replacing the bot's signature when they were faster than me, which didn't seem like a best practice. I believe I will still forget to sign comments a lot in the future and was wondering what is the best course of action when you realize you forgot to sign or to prevent this from happening. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Personuser (talk • contribs) 05:38, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I make a habit of previewing my post. You can "force" this by setting the "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary (or the default undo summary)" then getting into the habit of "edit, preview and check for signature, add edit summary, preview, publish changes." If you forget and jump straight to "publish changes" without adding the edit summary, it will kick you back to the editing screen, which is a good reminder to check your signature.

By the way, I'm also guilty of this, which is why I usually go back and read what my post look like after I publish it. I usually "beat the bot" to signing. Replacing the bot's signature with your own is okay, but if someone has replied already consider doing a "double edit" to back-date "your signature" to the original time. Just be sure to explain what you are doing in the edit summary. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 14:02, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

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I've re-created Todd Fitch; he's now been hired as an interim head coach and would definitely pass GNG, if he didn't already in 2011. I agree that the original deletion was valid :). Best, Mackensen (talk) 20:33, 29 November 2020 (UTC)