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Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. BRFA activity by month Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever. Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020. Overall In the first half of 2020, there were 71 BRFAs. Of these, Y 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with N2 8 denied, ? 2 withdrawn, and 2 expired). January 2020 Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore. Y ST47Bot, Seppi333Bot, Qbugbot 4 · N2 PkbwcgsBot 25, PkbwcgsBot 26 A new Pywikibot release dropped support for Python 3.4, and it was expected that support for Python 2.7 would be removed in coming updates. Toolforge itself planned to drop Python 2 support in 2022. Two new bots dropped in January 2020: ST47Bot, the successor to STBot, and Seppi333Bot, whose task was to perform a weekly update of four "massive" wikitables for WikiProject Molecular Biology. Cydebot, an adminbot operated by Cyde since 2006, was blocked after going berserk on categories that hadn't yet been CfD'd. February 2020 Y AnomieBOT 78, Cewbot 2, DannyS712 bot 67, DannyS712 bot III 63, PearBOT 6, DemonDays64 Bot 2 · N2 PearBOT On February 1, some concerns were raised about ListeriaBot performing "nonsense" edits. Semi-active operator Magnus Manske (who originally coded the Phase II software|precursor of MediaWiki) was pinged. Meanwhile, the bot was temporarily blocked for several hours until the issue was diagnosed and resolved. On February 18, ST47Bot got into a tussle with Amalthea (bot), and had to be partially-blocked from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview. March 2020 Y MajavahBot, SDZeroBot, TheSandBot 6, TheSandBot 7, Bitbotje, FACBot 6, TheSandBot 8, Qbugbot 5, Cewbot 3, SDZeroBot 2, PrimeBOT 31, WikiCleanerBot 12 · AntiCompositeBot In March, a long discussion was started at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy by Skdb about the troubling trend of bots "expiring" without explanation after their owners became inactive. This can happen for a variety of reasons -- API changes break code, hosting providers' software updates break code, hosting accounts lapse, software changes make bots' edits unnecessary, and policy changes make bots' edits unwanted. The most promising solution seemed to be Toolforge hosting (although it has some problems of its own, like the occasional necessity of refactoring code). Some of the twelve bot tasks approved this month were TheSandBot 6 (removing blocked users from Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues), and TheSandBot 7 (removing unblocked users from Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for promotional user names). SDZeroBot 2 was approved to refine geographic stub tags. New bots approved this month were MajavahBot (to patrol WP:EFFPR), SDZeroBot (to merge stub tags), and Bitbotje (fixing DISPLAYTITLE modifications, DEFAULTSORT errors and broken behavior switches in draftspace). April 2020 Y TheSandBot 9, BHGbot 5, DannyS712 bot 69, SDZeroBot 3, ST47ProxyBot, WugBot 4, SDZeroBot 4, DatBot 10, WikiCleanerBot 11, WikiCleanerBot 13, WikiCleanerBot 14, AntiCompositeBot 2, Cewbot 4 · N2 DaedanBot 1 · Creffbot A discussion on the bot noticeboard, "Re-examination of ListeriaBot", was started by Barkeep49, who pointed out repeated operation outside the scope of its BRFA (i.e. editing pages in mainspace, and adding non-free images to others). Some said it was doing good work, and others said it was operating beyond its remit. It was blocked on April 10; the next day it was unblocked, reblocked from article space, reblocked "for specified non-editing actions", unblocked, and indeffed. The next week, several safeguards were implemented in its code by Magnus; the bot was allowed to roam free once more on April 18. ST47ProxyBot joined the stable in April, after a BRFA started in December was finally completed. As an adminbot, it was authorized to block IP addresses belonging to open proxies, public VPN services, and web hosts. New tasks approved for existing bots included BHGbot 5 ( diffusing categories), TheSandBot 9 (taking over some tasks from the inactive RonBot), and WugBot 4 (updating data at {{ Interactive COVID-19 maps}}). Also, DatBot 10 was approved to scale down non-free SVGs — I didn't even know that was a thing. A discussion at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy was started by Thryduulf about whether WP:BOTCOMM should explicitly specify that bot operators must be responsive to concerns raised on English Wikipedia specifically (as opposed to Phabricator, SourceForge, Toolforge, et cetera). Eventually, the policy was amended to its current form: Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via unified login, like a talk page at Commons or at Italian Wikipedia could also be acceptable [...] External sites like Phabricator or GitHub (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise anonymity) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it. May 2020 Y MajavahBot 3, DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, Dreamy Jazz Bot 4, QEDKbot, William Avery Bot 2, DannyS712 bot 68, PrimeBOT 32, TheSandBot 10, Bot1058 7, BHGbot 6, EaglesBot 2, Cewbot 5, WikiCleanerBot 17 · N2 MDanielsBot, PhuzBot 3, Gedimon · ? PearBOT 7 MajavahBot 3, an impressively meta bot task, was approved this month for maintaining a list of bots running on the English Wikipedia. The page, located at User:MajavahBot/Bot status report, is updated every 24 hours; it contains a list of all accounts with the bot flag, as well as their operator, edit count, last activity date, last edit date, last logged action date, user groups and block status. Other approvals for this month were William Avery Bot 2 (processing redirects in {{ R from scientific name}}), DannyS712 bot 68 (allowing users to schedule bot reminders for themselves), TheSandBot 10 (removing blocked/locked users from Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices), Bot1058 7 (updating Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests/Permalink), Dreamy Jazz Bot 4 (adding {{ WikiProject Biography|living=no}} to talk pages where their associated article is in a year of death category), and QEDKbot (deleting and nominating empty categories). General syntax fixing tasks were approved for DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, PrimeBOT 32, BHGbot 6, Cewbot 5, and EaglesBot 2, as well as WikiCleanerBot 15, 16, and 17. Seven bots who fell below activity requirements (with neither the bots nor their operators having any edits or logged actions in two years) had their bot flags removed. They were NekoBot, Robert SkyBot, DASHBotAV, VoxelBot, JackieBot, ReferenceBot, and CensusBot. On May 12, EmausBot was blocked. June 2020 Y QEDKbot 2, AnomieBOT 79, WOSlinkerBot 6, Yapperbot 2, Yapperbot, AnomieBOT 80, Dreamy Jazz Bot 5, WikiCleanerBot 18, HasteurBot 15, MusikBot II 4, NoSandboxesHere · N2 RedWarn · ? Seppi333Bot 2 In July 2017, Headbomb made a proposal that a section of the Wikipedia:Dashboard be devoted to bots and technical issues. In November 2019, Lua code was written superseding Legobot's tasks on that page, and operator Legoktm was asked to stop them so that the new code could be deployed. After no response to pings, a partial-block of Legobot for the dashboard was proposed. Some months later, on June 16, Headbomb said: "A full block serves nothing. A partial block solves all current issues [...] Just fucking do it. It's been 3 years now." The next day, however, Legoktm disabled the task, and the dashboard was successfully refactored. On June 7, RexxS blocked Citation bot for disruptive editing, saying it was "still removing links after request to stop". A couple weeks later, a discussion on the bots noticeboard was opened, saying "it is a widely-used and useful bot, but it has one of the longest block logs for any recently-operating bot on Wikipedia". While its last BRFA approval was in 2011, its code and functionality had changed dramatically since then, and AntiCompositeNumber requested that BAG require a new BRFA. Maintainer AManWithNoPlan responded that most blocks were from years ago (when it lacked a proper test suite), and problems since then had mostly been one-off errors (like a June 2019 incident in which a LTA had "weaponized" the bot to harass editors). David Tornheim opened a discussion about whether bots based on closed-source code should be permitted, and proposed that they not. He cited a recent case in which a maintainer had said "I can only suppose that the code that is available on GitHub is not the actual code that was running on [the bot]". Some disagreed: Naypta said that "I like free software as much as the next person, and I strongly believe that bot operators should make their bot code public, but I don't think it should be that they must do so". Two new bots had their first BRFAs approved: Yapperbot, to replace Legobot for handling the Feedback Request Service, and NoSandboxesHere, to remove {{ user sandbox}} from articles in draftspace using Category:Non-userspace pages using User sandbox. Conclusion What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers? Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project? What's the deal with all those book links that InternetArchiveBot is adding to articles? Should we keep using Gerrit for MediaWiki? What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits? These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out! Signing off... jp× g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.)

Hello sir, i have a question: How do we change article names? I need to change it for my article -- LebaneseFascist ( talk) 19:36, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

@ LebaneseFascist: Please ask me again if you create a new account with a more appropriate username. Thank you. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 21:09, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE Phil Simms Is Real ( talk) 23:30, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
• The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

• Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
• The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
• A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

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This is with respect to the article on author Faraaz Kazi. I see that it has been nominated for deletion.

I just wanted to draw attention to the fact that there are sufficient news coverages to collaborate and sustain the statements in the article. I also saw that someone had written that the article is written in the form of an advertisement where in reality, most of what has been written has come in the media, most of which are leading media houses in the country. The author in question is a two-time national award winner (both awards cited) and has a movie being made on his first book (again cited).

If we can do anything to prevent this erroneous nomination, please do let us know. Request your help in this. Thank you. Far303 ( talk) 05:44, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

@ Far303: You can make any arguments for keeping the article at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Faraaz Kazi (2nd nomination), so long as they are based in policy. Also, please note Conflict of interest.  ―  Qwerfjkl talk 07:09, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

hello how old is marty jannetty? -- Vsp audiosss ( talk) 09:57, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

@ Vsp audiosss: Please refer to the Wikipedia:Reference desk for inquires not related to Wikipedia, or see Marty Jannetty. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 16:32, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

how make page -- NinjaSlice0 ( talk) 18:46, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing!  ―  Qwerfjkl talk 19:02, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi Qwerfjkl - the above is appearing as created by you in the main article space on Page Curation, I think you must have meant it for somwhere else, please take a look. Happy editing Josey Wales ^Parley 20:36, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

@ Joseywales1961: Thanks, fixed. The AFCRC script is malfunctioning again (@ Enterprisey). ―  Qwerfjkl talk 20:48, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

What is the actual benefit of your bot changing capitalisation of short descriptions? Yes it complies with a MOS thing, but it also seems like a series of pointless, cosmetic edits that don't actually benefit the encyclopedia. Joseph 2302 ( talk) 00:10, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

(I replied on your talk because I didn't notice this.) ―  Qwerfjkl talk 07:10, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

I was looking to install a userscript ( User:SoledadKabocha/copySectionLink.js) and clicked on the page for the script to see that it was blank. I went in the history and saw that you added some malformed text to the page and then just blanked it. Is there supposed to be something here? Did you do this by accident? I think this page should probably be deleted if it has no reason to exist, and just confuses anyone who would try to use it. ―  Levi_OP ^Talk 19:54, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, fixed. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 20:34, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

It's not an alternative name for the committee itself, but rather is rapidly becoming a popular phrase associated with the committee and its work (or lack thereof according to Republicans) because of the recent RNC resolution that falsely said Capitol rioters were engaging in "legitimate political discourse". 2601:18C:8B82:9E0:0:0:0:AFF6 ( talk) 22:55, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

It doesn't seem to be mentioned in the target. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 07:08, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello on 12 November 2021 as instructed by yourselves i uploaded into the sandbox the final part of the information.

Then submitted the information

I even checked with someone if I had done this correctly and was told yes.

I waited for three months and no one responded to the information in the sandbox

So today 12 February 2022 I finally decided to give it a go and upload the information manually.

I had previously downloaded and read all the help you have suggested and turned the information into a biography.

I reread the information and removed some wording and made sure it was the best I could do.

I see you have removed several days hard work and I am really disappointed.

I was really carefully to give references for everything mentioned in the information and it has taken me months to do.

Sadly I can do no more.

If anyone our there is willing to help me with MOS? Please let me know

All this information is genuinely correct and sadly seems like it will not be told. ACA64sjs ( talk) 21:19, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

@ ACA64sjs: I've given a stab at fixing the issues. Most notably, please reference after the statement e.g.
The sky is blue, ^[1] and sometimes cloudy. ^[2]
Finally, I didn't revert you, @ Theroadislong did. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 22:29, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on 2017 Crunchyroll Anime Awards (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 12:36, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on 2018 Crunchyroll Anime Awards (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 12:37, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on 2019 Crunchyroll Anime Awards (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 12:37, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on 2020 Crunchyroll Anime Awards (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 12:38, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

hi there! I just received a notification that a page I tried to publish for Steven Watson was a duplicate, however the other page should be expired. Could you consider my new draft rather than the old? thank you! Atilden212 ( talk) 18:55, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

hello, i need information about Novak Djokovic -- Sanghavi Ray ( talk) 09:40, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

@ Sanghavi Ray: WHAAOE; see Novak Djokovic. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 11:08, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

• AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
• The template {{ db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{ db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

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Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE 2A04:4A43:4BBF:E342:0:0:1014:47D4 ( talk) 13:31, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

For returning jokes to people that can give it out but not take it back. Hypocrites

19:11, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Qwerfjkl. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Yaar Na Bichray, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot ( talk) 18:01, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

As I look through the lower-case SD category, it occurs to me that it might be easier for you, if you want to check the bot's edits for false positives, to send the bot batches of SDs that all start with the same word. There are thousands of SDs that start with " species" (749 articles), "genus" (113), "type" (139), "village" (225), "town", "district", "city", "river", "mountain", "municipality", "election", "artist" (89), and "railway" (211). – Jonesey95 ( talk) 06:15, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Here's a better search link. I see that you did some of these, and it does make inspecting the edit summaries much easier. FYI, I have fixed short description first-letter-casing in two templates over the past few days, which dropped about 1,400 pages out of the category. I also just limited the categorization to article space, since it doesn't make sense to mess with Drafts and User sandboxes; that will drop a little over 1,000 pages from the category. At the same time, articles continue to trickle in to the category as they are edited by humans and bots or reparsed by the job queue. That process will probably take multiple months. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 05:23, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

@ Jonesey95: I recommend using incategory:"Pages with lower-case short description" e.g. incategory:"Pages with lower-case short description" insource:/[Ss]hort description\|(wiki[mp]edia|season|list)/ so the searches don't timeout. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 18:04, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

@ Jonesey95: I would appreciate if you could make a big list (or search query) for shortdescs that I can run without checking. Happy editing! ―  Qwerfjkl talk 18:56, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Here are 2,400 articles to keep the bot occupied. The search query is at the top of the page. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 20:47, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

And here are another 1,700 articles. When you get done with those, ping me and I will browse the category again. Right now, 25% of the results are in these two searches, so I can't see new terms very well. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 21:12, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll try to run these within a day. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 21:24, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Here are 858 more. It's getting more difficult to find words with more than 10 or 20 instances. After this run, I should be able to give you a list sorted by the content of the short description, which should make it easier to inspect the edits. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:01, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

It's no problem inspecting the edits, it just takes a while to go through all of them. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 17:05, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

And 569 more. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:16, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

@ Jonesey95:  Done ―  Qwerfjkl talk 20:11, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

The bot got to short descriptions starting with "a " before I could. The "a " should generally be removed, not capitalized, per SDFORMAT. I just fixed all of the "the " and "this " SDs that I could find. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 14:47, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

I know, I removed roughly 3000 of them a while ago. I tend to just let the bot capitalise the short description, and only stop it if it's a false positive i.e. it actively makes the short description worse. So I just let the bot do bbc → Bbc and ai → Ai - anything else is outside the task's scope, and these should probably be fixed separately. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 14:58, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Nice job with the bot! Articles continue to trickle in to the category. I am attempting to force the issue by null-editing about 600 articles, maybe as many as 1,000. If you check back in a hour or so, you should see a new batch of articles for the bot to work on. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 19:21, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

The category is up to 600+ articles again as the job queue null-edits pages that somehow are not found by insource searches. It probably needs a bot run about once a week. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 20:28, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

No problem. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 20:30, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

 Done @ Jonesey95. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 21:16, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello,

User:Freshacconci has reverted all of my alterations on Screen Printing, I understand and accept that I shouldn't have used our reference page for the list of Suppliers that supply PVC and Phthalate inks - This is a big part of who we are and we have a page dedicated to information on this - realistically it was a good citation source as we are an authority on it. However that's fine.

However the fact he's removed all edits seems reactive.

February 2022

By all means roll back my link to our website - which was a list of Phthalate and PVC Free ink suppliers - which of note we use only Rutland and we do so through a Regional Supplier in New Zealand called uniscreen. However I get the sentiment.

However why would you remove the other citations, none of these are even remotely related to us but were pertinent in terms of the article requests for citation. Having been involved in garment screen printing for 18 years, you are also missing some reasonably important information on this article.

Garment printing inks Section

Four-colour process or the CMYK colour model "This processes utilises halftones" - this is a massive part of CMYK printing, and which I linked back to the appropriate Wiki article.

Water-based dye (ink) - This section doesn't even exist and is an entirely different ink to water-based ink. As opposed to a thicker Plastisol Alternative this (ink) arrives concentrate which is mixed into a printing paste (thickener) to allow Screen Printing, this process is best used on light garments and as the dye is in the fibers themselves is often used for dish cloths, napkins and the like. This is similar to traditional textile printing.

Plastisol - Your description is literally incorrect without this. "except in the case of low cure inks[10]."

Again your automation section is poorly lacking. And on top this these are all pertinent citations, I have purposely avoided linking to specific brands which we may use here.

Automation Section -- Megabuffalo ( talk) 01:24, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

@ Megabuffalo: This should be taken up with @ Freshacconci, either in their talk page, or on the talk page of Screen printing (which I see you have done). Please remember to ping users with the {{ Ping}} template, to notify them of a discussion. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 07:12, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
• A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news

• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. ( T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. ( T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. ( T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
• The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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why my name is not in wikipedia -- Vivekpatel2131 ( talk) 09:57, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

@ Vivekpatel2131: If you are asking why there is not a wikipedia article about you, it may because you do not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. ―  Qwerfjkl talk 16:36, 3 March 2022 (UTC)