User talk:DumbBOT

Q&A about unprotection

One of the functions of DumbBOT is to remove protection templates from non-protected pages. Since this function is the one that leads to more questions and complaints, I have written a FAQ about it.

Q1: Why did you unprotect page X?

A1: I didn't; the bot is not an administrator, so it cannot protect or unprotect pages;

Q2: But the history says "removing a protection template etc."!

A2: A protection template is a colored box or a small lock image at the top of the article; it does not by itself make the page protected; protection and unprotection is done via a form that looks like this, and the edit summary looks like (Unprotected Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting/Protect: NAS unprotect test).

Q3: Who did unprotect the page, then?

A3: Most likely, the page had an expiring protection (see the "expire" field in the form above), and the expiration date has passed; it could also be that an administrator unprotected the page but they forgot to remove the tag;

Q4: How can I have the page protected again?

A4: See Wikipedia:Requests for page protection; note, however, that pages are generally not protected just because they get a couple of vandal edits; see Wikipedia:Protection policy for details;

Q5: I know the page is unprotected, but I want the protection template back on it!

A5: While there is no specific policy against that, I believe this is generally considered wrong unless there is a good reason for doing that; anyway, if there is some reason for doing that, you can do it by yourself (as the page is unprotected and can therefore be edited); add <nowiki></nowiki> after the template, on the same line, and the bot won't remove the template again; some other editor, possibly me, may remove it nevertheless

Q6: I am one other editor who wants to remove such a template nevertheless; is there a list of pages where the bot didn't remove a template because of tags <nowiki></nowiki> on the same line?

A6: Sure: User:DumbBOT/NotRemoved; note that sometimes there is a reason for a protection template being included in a non-protected page, such as showing how the template looks.

Category:Wikipedia files with no non-free use rationale as of 7 January 2010, etc.

DumbBOT created Category:Wikipedia files with no non-free use rationale as of 7 January 2010 (and 8, and 9, and 10...) with a link to Category:Images with no fair use rationale. That category has a note saying that it should be empty, and that the correct category is Category:Wikipedia files with no non-free use rationale - Eastmain (talk) 02:50, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reporting. It's fixed now, so that the subcategories that will be created from now on will have the new category. Anyway, the initial text of these can be changed, since it is in Template:Images_with_no_fair_use_rationale_subcat_starter and similar (see User:DumbBOT/CatCreate for the list). Tizio 14:28, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Subpage creation

DumbBOT seems to have stopped creating and listing subpages recently, I noticed as RfD had not had subpages done since the 26th, and it appears the bot hasn't made any more subpages for anything since that date. Hope this helps, --Taelus (talk) 10:19, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what happened, but a manual run seemed to run fine. Thanks for reporting. Tizio 14:27, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PRODSUM not updating?

Seems to have been well over 12 hours. Jclemens (talk) 21:56, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Same here. It now restarted working fine. Perhaps the problem was a misalignment between system and hardware clock (so that the computer woke up at a time different than the cron time). Thanks for reporting, anyway. Tizio 14:28, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The DumbBot is a DumbBot

Ford Power Stroke engine had it's protection removed and needs protection badly.--Dana60Cummins (talk) 15:43, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Nomen omen? Please take a look at the manual. Tizio 13:03, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PRODSUM down

is the bot down? prodsum is not updating. 65.94.253.16 (talk) 05:22, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think the new prodblp process may have broken it? I agree that it does not seem to be working. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:19, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The problem was with the way the bot saves pages, and in particular the login part. I however took the opportunity to better deal with the new prodblp template. Everything should be fine now.Tizio 15:01, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing this! —David Eppstein (talk) 05:05, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your're welcome. I guess all other functions are working fine... Tizio 13:13, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Adding protection templates

Hello, could DumbBOT be programed to add protection templates to protected pages? --The High Fin Sperm Whale 01:03, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not for write-protected page, because it doesn't have admin privileges. It could do so for semi-protected and move-protected pages, but I don't think this is really worth the effort: most of these pages are protected just for a fixed amount of time, so that the problem will solve itself eventually (the case of protection templates on non-proteceted pages is different, as these pages might otherwise retail the template for a long time). Tizio 15:46, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think that would be a good idea to add protection templates, because it is for a fixed amount of time, it would show that the page is protected. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 03:25, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yes, it could be useful. It's just that I do not consider it worth the time I can now afford to spend on Wikipedia. Again, the problem is, in most cases, that the protecting adiministrator adds the protection template but then forget to remove it at expiry time. The opposite case is much rarer. Tizio 10:38, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I frequently find that protected articles are not templated if they are time-limited, and sometimes if they are indefinite. Maybe it's the type of articles I view, but it seems that way to me. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 02:06, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You may then consider requesting such a bot at Wikipedia:Bot requests. Tizio 13:10, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category creation

Category:Possibly unfree files from 2010 April 27 did not exist, so I created it a few minutes ago. Could you please do a manual category creation run? Eastmain (talk • contribs) 10:32, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reporting. Should be fixed now. Tizio 12:26, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DumbBOT not adding new days at Redirects for Discussion

It's been done manually for the past few days since the bot seems to be down. --Taelus (talk) 09:04, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted the old cookies. Let's check this back tomorrow. Tizio 17:38, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not the only problem, apparently. The computer wasn't programming the wakeup time properly. I think this one is fixed now.Tizio 12:39, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Screwing up at AfD

See DumbBOT's incorrect "correction" at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carrie Borzillo and my evidentiary response to it. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 19:13, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Replied there! Tizio 10:53, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II on the PC

The reliable source is here. And on Wookieepedia they tell that the PC version will be developed by Aspyr. 84.86.199.99 (talk) 14:51, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Creating wrong categories

DumbBOT is creating categories like Category:Wikipedia files on Wikimedia Commons as of 1 July 2010 when it should create Category:Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons as of 1 July 2010 instead. It also seems to be feeding a wrong date format to {{Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons starter}}. Derlay (talk) 22:18, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I remember, the bot should create bot categories, as they contain different objects.

PS. wait, I see that the first categories are always empty. I removed them from the creation list, then. Please report if you see any more problem like that. (As for the template, please check with the person that created them.) Tizio 15:50, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Both the Starter tempalte for "same name " and "with a different name" since a few weeks now rely on th 6th parameter, which according to your CatCreate page is the same as %D (ie. "13 July 2010"). The template does {{blabla|6={{subst:#time:Y-m-d|13 July 2010}}}}. But as you can see in this revision, it caused an error. After some trial-and-error I traced the bug to the face that DumbBOT uses underscores in the %D string (ending up as {{blabla|6={{subst:#time:Y-m-d|13_July_2010}}}}) which is an invalid date and crashes the template. Can you pass parameter 6 as the date without underscores ? If that is for some reason not possible, I'll change the templates to use the {1}, {2} and {4} parameter instead. Krinkle (talk) 20:11, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I could change the parameter, but I am afraid that could break something else. Since I'm not much around these days, I'd prefer not to change anything if not strictly necessary, so please put in place any workaround you think would solve the problem. Thanks. Tizio 10:20, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Could you at least set DumbBOT to create the "Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons as of..." categories? The date format issue is almost purely cosmetic; it's more important that the categories get created at all. Derlay (talk) 16:47, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Request for help

I require your help in correcting Pakistani actress Zeba's wikipedia. Its wrongly given that she married only once whereas reliable sources easily prove that she married thrice. Secondly famous actor Waheed Murad's downfall because of her marriage with actor Mohammad Ali which is also not true but when I tried to correct it Active Banana didnt let me do that. Can you help me in this regard because Waheed Murad is the greatest actor of Pakistan and this statement is hurting his fans a lot. Thanks.Wisdom24 (talk) 20:54, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nominations not fully corrected

These edits left the deletion discussions in a state whereby the daily AfD log didn't have links to the AfD discussion pages. Phil Bridger (talk) 00:07, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reporting. That was kind of a transient problem.Tizio 10:42, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Prod

Just to let you know that I have made some changes to Template:Prod. The main difference is that the separate parameters time/day/month/year will no longer be used. These have been replaced by a single timestamp parameter. Hopefully this will not affect the bot's operation. — Martin (MSGJ . talk) 21:15, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I renamed this template yesterday and the bot does not seem to be picking up the new entries. (They are listed under "failed to parse".) Please could you update the bot so that it recognises the new names (Template:Proposed deletion and Template:Proposed deletion/dated). Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience. — Martin (MSGJ . talk) 12:39, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is VERY DEFINITELY ba-roken. Can we roll back the changes to the PROD template and re-subst so we can get this working again? Jclemens (talk) 21:36, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Right, this is a true mess for anyone dealing with these articles. As no attention has been paid to this, I shall revert them myself tomorrow until they can be fixed. DGG ( talk ) 11:01, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, everybody: due to some personal problems I've not been able to take care of all this as I should. I hope I can fix at least the more urgent problems next week. For the rest, I'm pretty sure I'll have the necessary time in September. Tizio 16:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The problem should be fixed now. There are a couple of templates that remain in the "failed to parse" section, but I do not think they are really a problem. What I did was to convert, during processing of the pages, the new template into the old one, so that both should be dealt with correctly by the bot. Please report if you see any problem with the list. Tizio 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not running?

I noticed the bot stopped running on September 7. Anyone have any idea why that is? — ξ^xplicit 02:04, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A kind of trivial problem: a network cable with a broken connector. This one should be fixed for all now. I have not been around much during the last couple of months, but I can now follow the bot operations.Tizio 15:52, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Royal College Colombo

I have noticed at a certain no registered user is attempting to make changers to the article Royal College Colombo there is indication that this could be a start of a edit war. Could you please have a look at the article on advice on the best cause of action. Thx Cossde (talk) 05:41, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• • His/her editing as moved to Royal College, List of Royal College Colombo alumni where I see that constant reverting, he/she may be engaged in a edit war.Cossde (talk) 05:45, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Request

Would it be a bother to ask DumbBOT to create the categories for Category:Wikipedia files with no copyright tag and Category:Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons? I've been creating these manually for a while now, and since the bot already creates all the other maintenance categories at Template:CSD/Subcategories, I thought it would make sense if created all of them, instead of most. — ξ^xplicit 19:44, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done! Please check if everything is ok. Tizio 18:32, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Everything looks great! Thanks so much. — ξ^xplicit 18:41, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bot stopped Category creations

Hello. It appears that the bot stoppped creating it's daily categories about 4 days ago, with the last creations being for Nov 2 categories. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=100&contribs=user&target=DumbBOT&namespace=14 for detail. --After Midnight ^0001 21:49, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, indeed. The computer where the bot runs crashed on Friday. Fortunatly, the bot is programmed to create cats for three days in advance, so the effect of the crash on cat creation was limited. I have made some changes in the hardware configuration to try to avoid a new crash. Tizio 19:26, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bother, but did it crash again? It appears that the bot has not had any edits for approx 36 hours. --After Midnight ^0001 01:25, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it did it again. As usual, more or less at worst possibile time. Anyway, category creation is always done with an advance of three days at least. The most severe problem is the prod summary, which should be as up-to-date as possibile. I hope to solve the problem (in some way) by the end of the week. Tizio 13:14, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SpeedyMaintanceCat

Can DumbBot add {{SpeedyMaintanceCat}} to all of the temporary CSD cats it creates? For some reason, it's only doing it with commons images, but it would be helpful for disputed fair use, replaceable fair use, orphaned fair use, fair use w/o rationale, files needing editor assistance, files with no source, files with no copyright, and prods. Among other reasons, it prefills the field when clicking the "delete" tab. :) Magog the Ogre (talk) 03:57, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, tried on Template:Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status subcategory starter. If it works fine, I'll add it to the other substarter templates tomorrow. Tizio 18:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done: Category:Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status as of 19 November 2010. I think the use of the template is correct, right? Tizio 12:33, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. Magog the Ogre (talk) 22:58, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I added it to most of the cats.Tizio 11:49, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Wood (conductor)

Hi. Your bot reported an incomplete action with the creation of this AfD. I see this problem has been reported before. This is most likely a malfunction of Twinkle. perhaps you could take this up with the Twinke people as not every editor knows much about bots and template programming. Thanks.--Kudpung (talk) 02:45, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This could be, but I don't know if fixing that would be worth the effort. I mean, as far as I can see the problem (if it a Twinkle problem) is limited to very few cases, I don't know if fixing is worth the effort, given that these cases will be taken care by DumbBOT. Tizio 12:29, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On my wiki

How do I add this bot to my wiki? --128.107.239.233 (talk) 01:32, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but it is quite specific to wikipedia. I have no plan to make it a general program, something useful for every wiki based on mediawiki. Tizio 13:29, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PRODSUM

Is the bot down? I noticed that PRODSUM was not updated, and then checked contributions, which also halted at the same time. 64.229.103.44 (talk) 05:55, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Where are you, DumbBOT? I had to create Category:Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons as of 6 January 2011 myself... Logan _Talk ^Contributions 15:32, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the bot took a vacation... I think I will have to update the operating system at some point: the problem appears to be with the PC wakening from suspension. Anyway, the bot is back to operation. Tizio 14:00, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Logan _Talk ^Contributions 20:34, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete AfD system

When the bot updates User:DumbBOT/IncompleteAfD, it apparently is no longer updating the AfD log to transclude the untrancluded nominations. Is this deliberate? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 01:38, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for not noticing your message... That function of the bot is run manually, because I have to check the result for strange error that a program cannot detect. I was a bit busy, so did not do that for a while.Tizio 11:47, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not running

Sorry to bother, but I think the bot has not run for 2-3 days now. --After Midnight ^0001 15:25, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Move protected articles?

Just curious if DumbBOT is also able to handle move-protected tags, as well? And, if not, would it be difficult to implement? In this diff, DumbBOT correctly removed {{pp-semi-blp}} tag, however it left a {{pp-move-indef}}. I checked the logs and the page is not (nor has it ever been) move-protected. :) ^Avic_ennasis @ 18:24, 3 Adar I 5771 / 7 February 2011 (UTC)

PRODSUM again

Prodsum is broken again. User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary#Failed_to_parse. --Closedmouth (talk) 19:18, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It appears to still be broken, or otherwise not properly parsing a lot of PRODs. Jclemens (talk) 00:25, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reporting. Something subtle changed in the way wikimedia returns the article text, and I didn't notice until now. Fortunately it was an easy fix. Please drop me an email if the bot behaves strangely, in the future.Tizio 13:08, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrectly Formatted AfD Header

I know that the malformed AfD header where the {{subst:FULLPAGENAME}} is not actually substed has been reported before, but I noticed that the problem always occurs when the page name has a '_' (underscore) in it. Could the bot just replace any '_' with ' ' before submitting the page? MrKIA11 (talk) 12:24, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't seem to make any difference, unfortunately. Tizio 12:44, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Too bad, I thought I finally figured it out. It's just so random... MrKIA11 (talk) 12:48, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanking you

Hi DumbBOT I appreciate the work you have done, fixing general errors of Swami Nigamananda. Thanks very much.

Dcmpuri (talk) 06:32, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! Tizio 18:25, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bot at CP

Hello, we are having problems with bots at WP:CP. VWBot has been down and Zorglbot is blocked (which usually creates CP listings). In addition, DumbBOT used to create the page for the day's new listing. It has to be done manually now [1]. Is there a reason it stopped? Also, could your bot create the new entry page each day, like Zorglbot did? See example at history bottom here. Thanks for the help.--NortyNort (Holla) 12:33, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Using DumbBOT for DYK?

Hi Tizio,

WP:DYK recently adopted a system similar to AfD, whereby new nominations are created on subpages and those subpages are then transcluded at a main page T:TDYK. I was wondering if DumbBOT could do a similar task there as I think it does now for AfDs: scanning for subpages that have been created and not yet transcluded.

The only big difference between the DYK and AFD systems I'm aware of is that at DYK it's not so straightforward to decide which section (i.e., which date) a nomination subpage should be transcluded under, and often requires a human touch; thus, rather than transcluding the page itself, it would be sufficient if DumbBOT left a template message to the nominator (the creator of the subpage) explaining that s/he needs to transclude the page. If this is possible, I could draft the message for you and then you could feed it to the robot.

Anyway, I don't know if it's easy or difficult to get the bot to do this. I was hoping it might be trivial since the bot already does it (I think) at AfD. But if it would actually be a big pain to set up, then don't feel obligated to do it; it's not something that we need urgently.

Best, rʨanaɢ (talk) 18:31, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I can't do this now, and the afd function of the bot is actually not fully automated. What you are asking for is however a lot simpler, so I could give it a try when I can. Send me another email in the middle of September (provided you didn't find another bot to do that in the meantime). Tizio 00:50, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. There is another guy who does a lot of bot tasks for DYK so I'll check with him and see if he can do it easily--I just figured I'd check here first before asking someone else to reinvent the wheel. If he can, you might be off the hook ;). If not, I'll hit you up in September. Best, rʨanaɢ (talk) 05:47, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Slash

can partially block the slash's page again? The are again vandalized with ...thanks --93.45.140.22 (talk) 21:48, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This bot doesn't handle protecting pages. You can try posting at WP:Requests for page protection or leaving a message at User talk:Philippe, the administrator who protected the article before. rʨanaɢ (talk) 00:03, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A cheeseburger for you!

Cheeseburgers are good for you. Lord EDITS (talk) 17:35, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Down?

I note PRODSUM isn't being updated.... --joe decker^talk to me 04:33, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It seems DumbBOT hasn't edited since 00:28 on the 5th, and its operator user:Tizio hasn't contributed since August. I've contacted them by email to alert them to the situation. Thryduulf (talk) 18:10, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reporting, and for the mail as well. I checked the wiki at the beginning of the week, and nothing was wrong at that time. The problem was with the script actually performing the edits, so it affected all of the bot's functions. It should be fiexed now. Tizio 01:03, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User:DumbBOT/IncompleteAfD

User:DumbBOT/IncompleteAfD hasn't been updated for nearly 4 months now. What's happening? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 04:01, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've noticed a lot of wonky AfD's lately, and offered to run a bot to fix them here. If this task is no longer running on DumbBOT, I'm happy to take over. —SW— ^babble 23:02, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Down again

DumbBOT hasn't updated since 4/26. I find its updates of User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary to be very helpful, so it would be good if it could be set back up on its feet again. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:57, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Besides, categories (e.g. Category:Wikipedia files with no copyright tag as of 2 May 2012) haven't been created on Wikipedia or Commons for the past few days. Would you be able to look into this? --Stefan2 (talk) 22:11, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be back up again as of a week ago. Thanks again for being a useful bot! —David Eppstein (talk) 06:47, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why you have name "DumbBOT"?

You try to insult self or your programmer give you an insult name? ;-) Anyway, should picked a good name which not insult of you're self. --B767-500 (talk) 01:39, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mujeeb Zafar Anwar Hameedi is a great page of Wikipedia

Prof.Dr.Mujeeb Zafar Anwar Hameedi is reliable called Father Of Pakistani Children Literature.Prof Hamidi is avery noted and hard working teacher and children writer also.The Wikipedia Encyclopedia compiled a great,awasome research thesis on Mujeeb Zafar Anwar Hameedi first time,ascension high most rating w.r.to content,writing and all possible reliable references.It is a great effort of wiki team(Editors).Thanks edi, thanks Wiki! Hi! dear DumbBOT Plz further improve it....plz... cheers :)

References Father Of Children Literature

• http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jfjIC4wmECsJ:www.funnyarabicjokes.easteuroland.com/showweb-163.dhtml+Prof.Mujeeb+Zafar+Anwar+Hameedi+is+father+of+children+Literature&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=pk
• http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:n_uHpN6d9UsJ:urdunews.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/urdu-newspapers-kashmir-news-kashmir-observer-urdu-news-papers-links/+Prof.Mujeeb+Zafar+Anwar+Hameedi+is+father+of+children+Literature&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=pk

--111.119.185.173 (talk) 04:02, 4 October 2012 (UTC) Elinor Lyon Jr 47[reply]

page protected

Your edits on List of Mr. Young episodes has been reverted. the page has been protected again. I requested protection again and it was protected. thanks.WP Editor 2012 (talk) 16:44, 11 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please Do Not Edit User's Sandboxs!

The user Andwhy1's sandbox (my sandbox) was edited at 02:23, 23 December 2012‎ and your reason is "removing a protection template from a non-protected page" whether there is a coped source from a another article or every thing on my sandbox goes against Wikipedia rules, as the sign reads "It serves as a testing spot and page development space for the user and is not an encyclopedia article." you do not have the right to go and edit my sandbox and delete my work please don't edit my sand box or any other users sandbox's again! (Andwhy1 (talk) 10:17, 24 December 2012 (UTC))[reply]

Dueling bots

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marion_Bartoli&diff=next&oldid=564287530 ClueBot applied the template, shortly after. Is this by designed/desired behavior between the bots?Wzrd1 (talk) 02:11, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ProdSummary

User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary doesn't appear to have been updated for the past five days or so (since Aug. 28). I'm guessing this is related to the http/https switchover; that seems to have broken a lot of bots. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:55, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Until they adapt. Then, Wiki has a choice to change certs as the bot is adapted or find a solution. Six of one, half dozen of the other for neophytes, fatality for the initiated. Or, ignore it whilst the train runs over us all. No matter what, it's major suckage all around.Wzrd1 (talk) 06:00, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A solution to this is essential, or the only possible way to go might be to suspend the prod process, as it can not be intelligently used without a bot such as this. DGG ( talk ) 18:03, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete removal

Hi, with this edit, DumbBOT correctly removed the {{pp-protected}} but it didn't remove the {{pp-move-indef}} which was similarly inapplicable - the page has never been protected either for editing or moving. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:01, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Another instance. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:09, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A request

Hi, could I ask you not to remove the protected template from User:SlimVirgin/FGM? I'm working on drafts there that I add to Female genital mutilation. It's a very minor issue, but having the template removed means I have to keep remembering to add it, or make it invisible/visible, so it adds to the nuisance factor. Having the template on a user subpage has no effect on anything (that I know of), so I'm hoping you can leave it while I work on the drafts. I'll remove it once I've got a completed draft in place. I've also left this message on User talk:Tizio. Many thanks, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 16:13, 21 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

da Vinci Barnstar

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		DumbBOT, you're pretty smart! Thanks for catching bogus protection templates. Jason Quinn (talk) 01:03, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Admin dashboards

What's on the admin dashboard pages that makes them end up at User:DumbBOT/NotRemoved? I can't find any incorrect protection templates or categories transcluded anywhere in them. Jackmcbarn (talk) 04:15, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That page was listed a couple of days ago, but I didn't had time to check it. Anyway, I see the problem is moot now.Tizio 16:35, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The same issue has now arisen on Wikipedia:Template messages/Maintenance. The page isn't in any incorrect categories, but it's still getting listed. Jackmcbarn (talk) 15:46, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The bot doesn't trust categories, it checks the pages that transclude the protection templates. Wikipedia:Template messages/Maintenance does. I agree this page shouldn't be considered as "having an incorrect protection template", yet User:DumbBOT/NotRemoved is mostly a log page of the bot run. As such, it should be derived from the bot internal data as simply as possible. Tizio 15:27, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If that's the case, why's it gone now? [2] Jackmcbarn (talk) 02:46, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Page listed under NotRemoved even though it was removed

DumbBOT removed the protection template from Bad Girls Club (season 12), but it listed it at User:DumbBOT/NotRemoved anyway. It did the same thing for most of the other edits in that run. Jackmcbarn (talk) 16:00, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reporting. I did some tests this week, the problem may be due to this. I suspect two instances of the bot run at more or less the same time, and the second one didn't find anything to remove so it listed all the pages. I don't this this will occur again, as the problem was generated from a manual run of the bot. Tizio 16:33, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of automated file description generation

Your upload of File:ArbComm2006History.png or contribution to its description is noted, and thanks (even if belatedly) for your contribution. In order to help make better use of the media, an attempt has been made by an automated process to identify and add certain information to the media's description page.

This notification is placed on your talk page because a bot has identified you either as the uploader of the file, or as a contributor to its metadata. It would be appreciated if you could carefully review the information the bot added. To opt out of these notifications, please follow the instructions here. Thanks! Message delivered by Theo's Little Bot (opt-out) 12:14, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Stop

: This is your last warning. You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove a protection from a page, as you did with this edit to Cesaro. Abir 07:43, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Misunderstanding anden rectified has be. Issue was another user reverting this user's edits. My apologies, DumbBOT. Warning revoked. Abir 07:53, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

PRODSUM broken

Something is terribly wrong in this edit. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:55, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Back to normal again. So whether it was just a temporary glitch or whether you fixed something, thanks. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:15, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Issues

Okay, not sure where to begin:

1. Okay, let me first thank you for your work in making Wikipedia better. Please don't take the following personally.
2. I suggest you archive this talk page. It is very long!
3. Why do you have DumbBOT unprotect pages? Let "Lowercase Sigmabot" handle unprotecting duties, it already does protecting duties. Makes for a better page history symmetry!
4. Please change the message, it is probably the cause for a lot of confusion: it currently says "removing a protection template from a non-protected page". Either the message or the info page should probably - as the very first thing - say "the bot probably only removed protection templates from a page whose protection recently auto-expired, or from a page recently made unprotected".
5. Currently your Q&A is in three places: On DumbBOT's user page, here on the talk page, and on the info link. I think that is two places too many.
CapnZapp (talk) 14:27, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

3. DumbBOT doesn't unprotect pages. It removes the templates from pages that are already unprotected.

4. Isn't that kind of obvious? That seems to make it more wordy without adding any more information.

Jackmcbarn (talk) 14:40, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DumbBOT's services on hiwkipedia

Hey there! I was wondering if User:DumbBOT could lend its services to hiwiki. Most of the pp templates here have been imported from enwiki, and hence, we wouldn't require any but (maybe) minor changes in your present working code. With this I aim to solve hi:श्रेणी:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates.

Regards, Shubhamkanodia (talk) 12:35, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Zielfahrzeug 68

hello, i tried to protect Zielfahrzeug 68, You removed this protection i add. Please have a look at this ther is a user who now is not regristet and with differen IP s who always redirect dis page, i think it is all the same person because iff you have a closer look he attakks only the same 3 pages.

can you help and protect this page against anonmy vandalism? Thank you FFA P-16 (talk) 10:49, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bug — bot added wrong date subpage

See this diff. � (talk) 11:43, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• (talk page stalker) @Tizio: DumbBOT is adding subpages to the WP:RFD page a day earlier than it is supposed to. For example, the diff provided above by Ï¿½ is one of a few examples of when the bot has done this lately. Also, the bot recently added the subpage for August 26 when the day went from August 24 to August 25. Steel1943 (talk) 01:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 December 4

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Speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 December 10

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This kitten looks like Comet

Spc10K wants you to promise not to edit his user page again.

Spc10K (talk) 01:47, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

March 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "DumbBOT", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it contains the word "dumb" in it. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. I know this is a bot that has been editing Wikipedia since a long time, but the fact that the username contains the word "dumb" in it can be disruptive. ToonLucas22 (talk) 17:40, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

PSA LEGAL STATUS

The University of Management Sciences I.S.S.E.A. sa is a free university and private, non-political and non-denominational with legal personality recognized under dell'art.52 the Swiss Civil Code, founded in April of 1987. Its activities include teaching at tertiary level, and gives academic degrees in virtue of the right to freedom of science and economic freedom enshrined in Articles 20 and 27 of the Federal Constitution Switzerland. And 'recognized by national law as belonging to the university sector regulated by the Swiss Federal Law on the promotion and coordination of the Swiss university sector (LPSU entry into force January 1, 2015. It offers courses leading to the achievement of three-year degrees, advanced degrees, Master's Degree, as well as PhD programs - PhD, who as conferred by an institution of higher education under national law, apply for recognition in Europe under the Convention in Lisbon in 1997. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.2.179.179 (talk) 09:06, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Request to make a minor change of how DumbBOT creates the RFD subpages

Tizio, I have a request for a minor change to be added to the way that the Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion pages are created. I would like the page creations to also include a link to itself built into the section header the bot creates on the page that contains the day's date. Here's the story why:

With the help of another editor, I recently performed edits onto the highly-used RFD template {{Rfd2}} that resulted in potentially complicating the way which non-tech savvy administrators close these discussions. You probably know this, but each substitution or transition of {{Rfd2}} contains a series of links that can be clicked to either auto generate a "keep" result, or direct the administrator to the delete page to delete the redirect. Well, for the links, in this edit, I made it so that the links (including the new "retarget" link) no longer substituted the current name of the page when it was substituted, but rather leave the {{FULLPAGENAME}} function live and not transcluded; this was done so that if by chance the discussion is relisted, the edit notices on these links will automatically display the new page instead of the previous page which the discussion was posted. However, doing this came with the cost of no longer being able to click these links directly from the Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion page since doing so would break the edit notices since {{FULLPAGENAME}} would the return that page name instead of the full name of the subpage.

...And this is the reason I'm requesting this change with how DumbBOT creates the RFD pages. Having a circular link in the section header (probably by making DumbBOT do something like replacing how it creates section headers from ===MONTH DAY=== to ===[[{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}|MONTH DAY]]===) will be helpful for editors/administrators trying to close discussions who have trouble finding subpages. (Also, pinging Wbm1058 who designed the way to unlink {{Rfd2}}'s links when transcluded on WP:RFD directly, and pinging Cyberpower678 who once upon a time volunteered to have a bot who would pick up the task of creating WP:RFD subpages in the event DumbBOT went down.) Steel1943 (talk) 00:23, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I volunteered? Can you link me to that, because I don't remember. If I offered, then of course the offer still holds, but is DUMBbot down?--^cyberpower_Chat:Online 00:45, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• @Cyberpower678: See User talk:Tizio#DumbBOT not posting new date subpages onto WP:RFD. But no, DumbBOT is currently working fine. Steel1943 (talk) 01:35, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  8:38 pm, 30 November 2013, Saturday (1 year, 5 months, 17 days ago) (UTC -5), would explain why I can't remember that. :p

This change would be really straighforward to do, but I see that Steel1943 is now retired from Wikipedia. Can someone confirm that the RfD subpage creation still needs this change?Tizio 18:26, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• @Tizio: Yes, this change is still necessary. Steel1943 (talk) 00:25, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bots

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IP editing

There seems to be some random posting on PRODSUM by 151.100.59.194. Is that the bot logged out? —SpacemanSpiff 18:29, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

dew yiu luv Solent,?!!!!

Am jus askn if yiu lyk silento or is juz tht u guyz r wrkn tgthr?!!!!! Ratie Ramz (talk) 06:23, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Wikipedia files with unknown source as of date" categories

The bot appears to create the "Wikipedia files with unknown source as of date" categories with {{subst:Wikipedia the files with unknown source subcategory starter}} and then edits those categories to put {{subst:Wikipedia the files with unknown source subcategory starter nogallery}}. There are links to the oldids before putting __NOGALLERY__ on the categories. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 01:57, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect category creations

This bot is incorrectly taking some categories by misposting some templates, see Category:Wikipedia files with no copyright tag as of 5 April 2016 and Category:Wikipedia files with no copyright tag as of 6 April 2016 for examples. It seems to be limited to the "files with no copyright tag" categories. It looks like the bot creator is no longer active but perhaps another editor can help resolve this problem. Liz ^Read! Talk! 15:18, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

PUF categories

Moved to Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Incorrect category creations

This bot may get blocked!

Please view discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#DumbBot is causing problems. Thank you, Oiyarbepsy (talk) 00:21, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the discussion is Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Incorrect category creations. Thanks, Oiyarbepsy (talk) 00:26, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Casper the Friendly Ghost in film

Why are you trying to keep Casper the Friendly Ghost in film unprotected ? DonJakes (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:24, 14 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Daily copyright violation subpages, wrong date

Hi! DumbBot seems to be in a muddle. It's started (resumed?) adding CorenSearchBot results to the daily copyvio listings at WP:CP, which would be useful if CorenSearchBot was running (it isn't). But DumbBot is mistakenly changing the date of the listing when it edits, as for example here, and that's a nuisance. Could I ask you to either fix that, or ask the bot to stop this task? While I'm here, may I ask if your bot could:

• create the daily subpages, which is currently being done manually, as here
• add those daily pages to Wikipedia:Copyright problems#Older than 7 days after about … seven days.

That would be most helpful. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 07:42, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

BLPPRODs gone from WP:PRODSUM

The recent updates to WP:PRODSUM have not included any BLPPRODs. But there are plenty in Category:BLP articles proposed for deletion to be listed. Is there a problem that needs fixing? --David Eppstein (talk) 05:54, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently either it got fixed or was a temporary glitch, because they're back now. --David Eppstein (talk) 00:56, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Tizio: They appear to be missing again. Optimist on the run (talk) 22:55, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reporting this. It was a problem with the bot not loading the entire category, and should be fixed now. Tizio 18:33, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've updated {{Prod blp/dated}} to use the same syntax as {{Proposed deletion/dated}} (i.e. timestamp, no month day year). This may be affecting the bot. — Train2104 (t  o c) 19:39, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This will simplify parsing, after the article previously tagged are all deleted or untagged. For the moment, the bot parses both ways of tagging. The large number of "date mismatch" articles is due to the changes in the template, I believe this cannot be avoided, but articles tagged after the change will not have this problem. Tizio 15:25, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Transformers Tables

Could you help me make a brand new table on the Angry Birds Transformers page? You seem like a worthy experienced moderator, so how could I do it without someone perceiving me as trying to "wreck" the page? I really need your help.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CCA8:CF79:8951:566B:9C3A:78D0 (talk) 01:41, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 November 28

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 November 28, a page which you created or substantially contributed to (or which is in your userspace), has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 November 28 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 November 28 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. - CHAMPION ^(talk) (contributions) (logs) 02:31, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sachin Joab

Sachin Joab's DOB doesn't seem to be validated. Poorly sourced references do not display his DOB. RD 07:48, 12 January 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ReachDaniel (talk • contribs)

There is little point in leaving a message for a robot, it cannot respond. Suggest that you read the reference provided as the response has come directly from Joab himself, I suggest that you also read WP:RS because the reference provided (from the Herald Sun) is correctly referenced. Any further questions, the correct place to take this is the article talk page. Thanks.--5 albert square (talk) 14:38, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Lordship of Biscay.

Please see the article (Talk). The editor is Asqueladd with titere accounts. He lies.

Thank you--85.84.115.9 (talk) 14:27, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	thanks Intake47 (talk) 23:56, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 April 10

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 April 10, a page which you created or substantially contributed to (or which is in your userspace), has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 April 10 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 April 10 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Si Trew (talk) 10:26, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks bubba!

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Thanks a lot for all the tedious work you do without any help from Tizio. —usernamekiran(talk) 11:23, 4 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

---

I also wanted to apologise for calling you dumb. But you know I was joking, right? See you around —usernamekiran(talk) 11:23, 4 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DumbBOTs categories

Hi, DumbBOT creates the empty sub-cats of Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files a few days in advance. Could I suggest that it adds the magic word __NOGALLERY__ to the end of the text it puts in - like I have done to Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files as of 11 September 2017? We are only supposed to show non-free images in articles, other non-free cats already have the magic word installed e.g. Category:Wikipedia non-free file size reduction requests. Thanks Ronhjones ^(Talk) 17:29, 12 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ronhjones, see WP:NFEXMP. Categories in Category:Wikipedia non-free content criteria exemptions are exempted from WP:NFCC#9. The main Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files category is exempted, so it seems that the intention is that F5 candidates are to be shown on category pages. Maybe the exemption category should have been added to the dated categories instead of the main category. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:03, 12 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There you go, you learn something everyday. Mind you with Wikipedia, there is so much to learn... Ronhjones ^(Talk) 21:47, 12 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bot creating maintenance categories after date has expired

Please see Category:Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons as of 11 November 2017, created moments after I deleted it as the day had passed and it was empty. This bot should not be creating pages like this where they are unpopulated and the day has passed already, making it extremely unlikely it will ever be populated again. Thanks, VegaDark (talk) 01:35, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Let's try with just "only create categories for the current and following days" and see if it breaks anything. Tizio 09:00, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect dates in RFD headers?

Just a heads up that the last batch of daily RFD log pages that DumbBOT created seem to have the incorrect dates in the header. It seems to have began with the November 23rd entry. [3] Hope this can be fixed soon. ---- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 01:26, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Plot reveled of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhh includes technical details and scene breakdown

here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhh this page was created by someone.As we are the producers of the film, we know the importance of film and the details which should not be reveled before public release. here you can film our website www.amdavadfilms.com and this mail id [e-mail] there, to prove that we are the producers of the film.In feature film some characters make important presence and which should be enjoyable by the public who spends money to watch film in theaters. Dhh film is selected in more than 15 film festival worldwide, in that case we have sent each festivals details about film and from there someone leaked our detailed plot which is wrong.We have invested money for betterment of cinema, thus we would keep making this kind of other films and for that it requires some money.After releasing publicly the film will earn some money only if people enjoy any film.So you are requested to remove this details of plot which include character doll.

we need to remove this as soon as possible. To their surprise, they receive reply and gifts. The magician tells them to teach all things they need to study to a small doll which in turn will help them with that education in examinations. The boys teach the doll in turns and eventually their results improves.

Above plot clearly include scene breakdown and technical detail.

Thanks and kindly contact to [e-mail] for any information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amdavad Films (talk • contribs) 13:32, 25 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

replace the non edit on Miss Global's page please

Hi. You removed a feature on a page to no longer have a lock on it. It is our business wikipedia page. Miss Global. Unfortunately, a former, seasonal employee has been posting over and over that she is the founder and CEO of the company. She had written some very hurtful lies about the company owner Van Pham. You can view the lies in the posts under "Women of pageant unite" on January 14th and 15th. She also has been putting that our current queen was fired. That is also not true. She is upset about her employment and went on a mission to hurt the owner in any way. She has been creating accounts, posting, then deleting the account and leaving the incorrect and hurtful information. Can you please put bock the lock on the page to the current info as of your last post on it showing Van Pham as creator. Also not not allow the text of Barbara Vitorelli being dismissed or fired. This has hurt her as well. You can view all correct info on our pageant website www.missglobal.com or email us through the website or to me specifically at [e-mail] There is a court lawsuit in process and there was an injunction put in place on 12/14/2018. This means she can no longer associate with Mis Global in any way. Still she continues to make fake accounts. Putting a freeze on the page would help tremendously. Please let me know if you have any questions. Mgoleader — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mgoleader (talk • contribs) 03:21, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why remove Pp-vandalism when it autodetects protection level?

Template:Pp-vandalism says that it "will automatically detect the edit protection level of a page and adjust its appearance and categorization accordingly (showing full or semi-protection, temporary or indefinite, etc.). This template will not be visible on pages that are not protected". In that case, why does this bot remove it? In cases where vandalism is frequent and the page needs re-protecting, this means that someone has to re-add the template. --David Biddulph (talk) 00:54, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

WWE 2K20

Hi DumbBOT , Do you think there will be a 2k20 this year. I don't I think 2K will just give us a WWE SmackDown! Here Comes The Pain remake.Just wanted to know your thoughts on it.😀 Tag-Mod 13 (talk) 04:47, 25 July 2019 (UTC) Tag-Mod 13 (talk) 04:53, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Category:Wikipedia files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons as of 29 July 2019

The page Category:Wikipedia files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons as of 29 July 2019 has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done for the following reason:

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Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 09:11, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I know this is a bot but

I do want to say thanks for explaining why you deleted the argument for the Jesus redirects. It makes me happy to know I do have more time to argue. 71.34.25.253 (talk) 00:31, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DumbBOT not transcluding today's log at RfD

DumbBOT normally transcludes the log subpages at the WP:RFD page. This has not happened yet today, so another user has done that manually. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:03, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• DumbBOT hasn't been creating new RfD subpages recently either. Is something going on with the bot? (I'm sure Tizio watches this page, but pinging then just in case.) Steel1943 (talk) 19:04, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Per Tizio's userpage, I have emailed them. — J947 ^(user | cont | ess), at 04:25, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for notifying me about the problem. Should be fixed now. Tizio 11:12, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 1 June 2020

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 2 June 2020

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 31 May 2020

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 4 June 2020

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 7 June 2020

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 8 June 2020

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 9 June 2020

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Bot seems to be missing subpages of WP:RfD

It completely forgot to transclude for 13 August and 14 August - I had to do it manually for both subpages. Airbornemihir (talk) 15:37, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• I have emailed Tizio. — J947 ‡ ^message ⁓ edits 21:35, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • ...And I've created the daily subpages up until September 4 for now. Steel1943 (talk) 00:07, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Down?

Bot hasn't edited for a couple of days now. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:10, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files as of 12 June 2021

The page Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files as of 12 June 2021 has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done for the following reason:

F5: Unused non-free media file for more than 7 days

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Liz ^Read! Talk! 00:00, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

New York Mets

Add the missing tag protection on the New York Mets article because it came back as indefinitely. 174.197.143.93 (talk) 21:18, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello?

I'm not sure who checks this talk page but DumbBOT missed a regularly scheduled update to User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary. Thought I should let someone know. Thanks. Liz ^Read! Talk! 05:44, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like it skipped regular updates at 5:10 UTC and 23:10 UTC, at least for the past day. Liz ^Read! Talk! 23:17, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it now looks like DumbBOT is updating this list every 6 hours and you've cut out the extra updates. Makes sense. Liz ^Read! Talk! 17:27, 15 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Arabeyes up for deletion

• Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
• Arabeyes (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs|google) AfD discussion

You previously participated in the AFD for this article. WP:Link rot is not a reason to delete. Open source publisher trying to aid Arab language users with their computers etc. It was established in early 2001 by a number of Arab Linux enthusiasts. Trying to find sources is hampered by the presumed language of sources. It is a systemic bias in Wikipedia. Arabic language speakers needed. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:34, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of The Amara Sulya Freedom Movement for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Amara Sulya Freedom Movement is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Amara Sulya Freedom Movement until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

c, f and u

Just out of curiousity, what do [c], [f] and [u] signify in the edit summaries of User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary? — Voice of Clam 10:40, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's the hardware the bot runs on. As you may see, [u] is not much stable...Tizio 19:59, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary

Hello, Bot operators,

This page was supposed to update about 1-2 hours ago and didn't. The page used to update much more frequently, like 6 or 7 times a day but now I believe it's 4 times a day. But the bot skipped the last update. Thanks! Liz ^Read! Talk! 08:08, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be a network problem. Thanks for pointing this out. Tizio 15:29, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! It's nice to know someone is watching this page. Liz ^Read! Talk! 05:35, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, again, Tizio,

It looks like DumbBOT hasn't updated its PROD summary since this morning (at least morning on my time). Another system problem? Thanks. Liz ^Read! Talk! 00:17, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a network problem again. Fortunately, they occur quite rarely, and this time is was also show (skipped just the morning updates). Tizio 22:43, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Tizio,

Another skipped DumbBOT PROD summary at 23:33 UTC. I've encountered glitches with several other bots this week but until today, DumbBOT has been very reliable. Thanks for any help you can supply. Liz ^Read! Talk! 01:04, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like DumbBOT is just skipping issuing this update at this time. If you could get it back on its schedule, that would be awesome. It's helpful as it comes at the end of a business day, UTC time. Liz ^Read! Talk! 02:03, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. Maybe not this night, but I will add an extra run just before the end of the day. Tizio 07:52, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, Tizio, I appreciate that you keep watch over this User talk page and bot operations. Liz ^Read! Talk! 22:36, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, again, Tizio,

Once again, DumbBOT has stopped updating this page as of about 10 hours ago. Thanks for any help you can offer! Liz ^Read! Talk! 05:35, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And again, no regular updates to User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary today, Tizio. Any help you can supply? Liz ^Read! Talk! 23:59, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was keeping an eye on the bot, and noticed some lack of updates. Fortunately, it was still running, even if at half its normal frequency. It should all be solved by now. Tizio 17:20, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request new article

Ramkripalyadvg Can you create a page and add it to Wikipedia You can get the material from here Draft:Ramkripalyadavge Muskang375 (talk) 04:04, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Really not the place. Tizio 18:53, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Strange edit to ProdSummary page

Hello, Tizio,

DumbBOT made a strange update right here that removed all formatting from this page. It is really odd and even though I know you aren't really active on the project right now, I hope you, or a friendly talk page stalker, can look into this so the page will continue to update without any problems. Thank you. Liz ^Read! Talk! 18:51, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Eliza Dickson

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The page Eliza Dickson has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seemed to be unambiguous advertising which only promoted a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to have been fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. UtherSRG (talk) 17:28, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of protecting template.

The page Zee Keralam is added with protecting template but it is an unprotected page. I think it can be removed. Can you please remove the template? 120.61.82.146 (talk) 11:44, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Odd behavior

Hi, DumbBOT has been acting strange over at User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary. Yesterday, it removed large chunks of the listed PRODs only to restore them in the next update. It did so again today. I did a quick spot check and no mass removal of PRODs took place. Any idea what's going on, Tizio? ✗plicit 13:55, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Disk full, probably. Let's check the next updates. Tizio 16:21, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]