Wherebot

Planetary Artificial Intelligence

Take it easy, wherebot. The reference on planetary artificial intelligence that you are mentioning has nothing to do with planetary artificial intelligence, and therefore can not raise a copyright violation point. This is only a definition. --Anagnostopoulos 13:15, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Crusade (album)

Settle down, wherebot! Please do not delete Crusade (album). If album covers are fair use, surely non plagiarized articles are fair use! --Alcuin 01:14, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry; programming error on my part. WhereBot is still in testing stages (it exits immediately after editing); still I should have taken more precautions. Completely unacceptable on my part. Sorry about this; it will not happen again. I reverted my naughty bot's edit. -- Where 21:17, 11 July 2006 (UTC-4)

WhereBot

Please see the notes at Bot Requests. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:54, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Your bot has been approved, please see the final notes at the WP:RFBOT page. If you think you need a bot flag though, leave me a talk page note. Don't forget to list yourself at Wikipedia:Registered_bots too! — xaosflux ^Talk 04:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Probably should not automatically flag copies from .gov sites

In general, material from the United States Government is not copyrightable. It's probably best not to automatically flag copies from ".gov" domains. --John Nagle 17:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out! The problem should now be fixed. -- Where 18:25, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Source Code

Would you please send me your source code? We really need such robot on persian wikipedia. I'll keep it safe and won't redistribute your code if you don't like. ;-) Hessam 18:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

The code is a tad messy since I coded it in a hurry (which is why I don't advertise it on the userpage), but you are free to get it from User:Wherebot/Source. -- Where 15:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I'll try to run it on Persian wikipedia. :-) Hessam 22:21, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. If you are having any trouble, please ask, and I'll try and help. -- Where 22:53, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Possible error in escape sequence

Hi. I haven't looked through the code yet, but I suspect you may have an error with an escape sequence somewhere (see this edit). Just thought I'd bring it to your attention. Mindmatrix 15:21, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I think the problem is now fixed. -- Where 18:23, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Love this bot...

Hi, just wanted to congratulate you on this bot. I worked today on the list and they were a few non copyvio's but the majority was spot on. Good job! Garion96 (talk) 22:20, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks :) -- Where 01:44, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

For your information, I couldn't find a copyvio on the last three entries.[1]. Garion96 (talk) 16:14, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Suggestion

Could you modify Wherebot to use multiple search engines? Nwwaew 02:05, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Very cool, but could the bot use interesting edit summaries, or at least turn them off? "Wikipedia python library" is not very helpful... --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 11:24, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

props

Well done, you caught a copyvio, reported, and an admin deleted before I got around to locating the exact URL -- Keep up the great work with this bot! :) // Laughing Man 05:30, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion

If you can grab the full page text of the search results, can you run a search for "GFDL" - Wherebot's been coming up w/ a lot of Answers.com WP mirrors lately and it'd be nice to be able to eliminate them :) -- Tawker 16:50, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

• A secondary advantage of Wherebot is that new articles created with text from Wikipedia mirrors might have any number of problems experienced users need to address. Duplicates? Copy and paste page moves? Reposts of deleted content? True they aren't copyvios, but until we have some dedicated system to detect duplication, Wherebot points us to a lot of those types of articles too. --W.marsh 23:15, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 19:53, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Automated message to bot owners

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 05:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Request

I'm concerned at the way that copyright pages often have titles at odds with their function and the description given to readers, its a hangover of old days and would be nice to fix :)

Would it be okay to page-move Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations to Wikipedia:Automated copyvio check requests or similar?

For example:

• User reported checks are on a page called "copyright problems" -- and bot reported checks are on a page called "suspected violations". Both of these pages could be better described by a suitable page move.

There are several examples of this, but Wherebot is the one I want to check first since it's hard wired into a bot. If you are agreeable, feel free to do the page move yourself and modify the shortcut and Template:Copyrightassistanceheader accordingly and let me know? FT2 ^{(Talk | email)} 12:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Suspected Copyright Violations

I am very concerned with you tagging many of my articles as suspected copyright violations. Please xplain where the copyright violations in articles such as Leon Spencer or Mark Whitfield can be found? All I have done is use the most basic of information provided by a specific source. That is called referencing (not "copyright violations"). All of my articles contain references, so go look for yourself to see if copyrights have been violated. (Mind meal 04:44, 24 June 2007 (UTC))

Yeah, I am also confused why the article Dele Olojede was tagged as a copyright vio? It's a two-sentence stub and I wrote both sentences myself. Why did the bot come up with a copyright vio for this? Should I do something different when creating stubs this short? --JayHenry 06:27, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Weird Copyvio

You may want to check out this diff. Wherebot has somehow come up with a copyvio in the article NATO Programming Centre; it thinks it has been copied from the page [2]. Not only does the URL seem unlikely to have anything about the NATO Programming Centre, it no longer exists (I checked it about 10 minutes after it was reported) and gives a 404 error. Not sure what happened here but I thought I'd bring it to your attention. Blair - Speak to me 12:24, 12 August 2007 (UTC)