User talk:Chris G/Archives/2012/November

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Error about number of GARs

Hi Chris! I noticed that your BOT is not getting the right number of reviews done. So far, I've started 36 reviews but there are only 32 showing up. I quickly failed 4 articles (immediately took off the GA template from the talk right after creating the subpage) and this might be the reason for the error, perhaps can you fix this issue? TheSpecialUser ^TSU 22:56, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Responded on WT:GAN --Chris 08:54, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

WP:GA nominations

You Reverted my edits on WP:GA nominations, I Nominated Shahrukh Khan for Good article Is it wrong Please May I Know the reason for reverting the edit Greatuser (talk) 11:33, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Please follow the instructions. You need to add {{subst:GAN|subtopic=Theatre, film and drama articles}} to the top of Talk:Shahrukh Khan --Chris 07:55, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Question regarding my names

Hello,

as I was previously GreatOrangePumpkin, could you merge the numbers together? Regards.--Tomcat (7) 13:33, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

 Done --Chris 06:40, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 23:10, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

User:GA bot/Stats

Hi Chris G.

I don't believe that User:GA bot is updating my statistics at User:GA bot/Stats. This diff (fourth line down) shows no changes for my count between 00:52, 1 October 2012 and 18:51, 7 November 2012.

I'm not sure what triggers an update "signing up to do a review" or "sentencing a nomination", but in that time period:

• I've completed Talk:Arsenic/GA1, Talk:Montpelier railway station/GA1, Talk:History of Brasenose College, Oxford/GA1 and Talk:John Le Mesurier/GA1; but all four /GA_ files were created before that date (so they might not "count");
• I've opened and completed Talk:Stord Bridge/GA1, Talk:General sejm/GA1 and Talk:Itchen Navigation/GA1 (so should "count");
• and, I've opened but not completed Talk:Pyramid of Neferefre/GA1 and Talk:Terri Schiavo case/GA3 (I'm not sure whether they should "count" or not).

Can you check the system for me? Pyrotec (talk) 21:21, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Sorry to add a further comment (or postscript), I went back to a count of 484 at 22:02, 27 August 2012 so only one of those nine reviews seems to have been added to the count - I've not yet found out which one it was. Pyrotec (talk) 21:35, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Sorry about that. It appears that about 280 reviews went "missing" over the period of a few months. I've now updated the table. I'm not entirely sure what has caused this, although I have quite a few hunches. I've made some changes, so hopefully it won't happen again. --Chris 15:23, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Request Bot update

Will you ensure RFC bot updates the two boards I've added to the dashboard. [1] Is this something that would normally happen or do you have to task the bot for each included board. I ask because there are some other boards I'd like to monitor and I want to know the best manner to request they be added. Thank you. My76Strat (talk) 16:59, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

The bot's not designed for WP:AIV and WP:UAA, those aren't notice boards; It would be like trying to add CAT:CSD. If you want something like that, it might be worth creating something like Template:Cratstats for admins. --Chris 15:30, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

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• Hey, Chris. Today I changed the subtopics for the GANs of "Belle," "Singapore Dreaming," and "You Are the One," and now the GA bot's edit summaries are all weird- did I screw something up? If so, sorry! -- Wikipedical (talk) 06:54, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
  • My (educated) guess is that it has something to do with Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Topic lists/Arts, which hasn't been updated. Maybe? -- Wikipedical (talk) 06:58, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
    • The bot is case sensitive. Normally you wouldn't notice this, because when you nominate an article with {{GAN}}, the subtopic parameter is actually changed by {{GA/Subtopic}}, so things like "film", "films", "movies" will all be changed to "Film" when the template substitutes. I've fixed the templates for you. --Chris 07:10, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 11:50, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Question regarding my account name change

Hi, I see that you can't change my name to Minimat because it exists on another wiki. I'm guessing it's on the French one, since it's the name of my French account... Is there a way to fuse them, or at least use the same name considering that I can provide the password of the other one? Thanks in advance, --SuburbanKnight (talk) 14:21, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

I've added a note. Could you please make an edit with your French account confirming that you own it, and then post the diff on the request page. Once the rename is done, you can unify your account using WP:SUL, which will in a sense fuse the two accounts. Note: Don't do anything to unify your account until after the rename has been done. --Chris 03:38, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Done (I hope!). Thanks for your kind help. --SuburbanKnight (talk) 11:01, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

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User:GA bot/Stats

Hi Chris G. Sorry to trouble you again, but I'm back on the same old topic: User:GA bot is still behaving "erratically" in updating User:GA bot/Stats. I opened a review of Military of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at about 21.21 on 16th of Nov and the Bot "saw" that action here, since it updated WP:GAN and the Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Topic lists/History. After that, its next update of the statistics, was for Go Phightins! at 23:42 on 16th Nov here. In total, updating of the list was carried out on 16th Nov for five users typically about fifteen minutes after opening of the relevant review. My count was not updated. I usually transcribe the review template {{Talk:some-article/GA1}} onto the article's talkpage and update the status on "onreview". I've not tried letting the bot do it for me. Could that be why my statistics are not being updated? Pyrotec (talk) 17:06, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Out of curiosity I opened another GAN review but I did not transclude the review template, neither did I change the status to "on review". I let the bot do it. It did both and also updated the stats, so it seems that the "trigger" is either/or transcluding the review template/changing the status to "On Review", not the creation of the {{Talk:some-article/GA1}} page. I'll manually add the "missing review". Pyrotec (talk) 20:38, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Oh, you've been manually changing the status to onreview? That makes a lot more sense now. I'll try and have a fix in the next few days. --Chris 14:52, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

GA bot ignoring passes

I passed an article, The Concert for Bangladesh about 50 minutes to an hour ago, but GA bot appears to have ignored it. Has it crashed or did I do something wrong? Paul MacDermott (talk) 00:14, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

ok, I reverted everything and submitted an identical nomination which has worked. Am I right in thinking GA bot is triggered by a GA List subst command? I completed my first review in Word before I posted it so didn't subst the GA List, whereas I did with the second. Paul MacDermott (talk) 01:05, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

That, is very strange. When checking if an article has been passed, GA bot simply looks for {{GA}} (or a template with currentstatus=GA) on the talkpage. Not quite sure what happened there; I'll have to do some investigating. --Chris 14:52, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Error again

I'm really sorry to trouble you again but this certainly is an issue. This shows my GA reviews to be 58 while actually, I have only done 44 reviews. I don't know what is causing the error, so can you take a look at the problem? Cheers! TheSpecialUser ^TSU 11:26, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

I've manually changed it for the moment (your edit would have worked - except the bot had already started its run before your edit - hence it overwrote it with old data). I have a pretty good idea of why there was a sudden jump in your count, so I'll be working on this in the next few days. Sorry about all of this. --Chris 14:52, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

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