User talk:Legobot/2016

Legobot behaving strangely

Hello there, I just received a message of Legobot on my talk page according to which the article Sheshi failed its GA review, when in fact the article passed both GA and FA on November 15 and December 5 2015, respectively, as can be seen here. Any idea what's going on? Iry-Hor (talk) 10:39, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Am I passing GAs wrong?

Whenever I pass a GA, Legobot removes it from WP:GAC as "maintenance". But for other people it says "Passed <article> by <user>". How come it doesn't do that for me? I did it exactly the same as one of the people for which it worked. (Also, my review count isn't going up...) -- numbermaniac (talk) 07:18, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

MFD relistings

Hi, I've asked this at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 143#Relisting MFD discussions as well but it looks like this is the third request here (2013, 2014) but is there a way to actually relist discussions at MFD without the bot organizing discussions by the first date? Is there something that could be added like the "View log" changes that AFD discussions have? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:57, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

No, I don't think there is. You could fudge the initial timestamp I suppose. Legoktm (talk) 11:36, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

We tried that with Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Abeiku Okai/Senya Beraku Akumase Festival with the top time-stamp but it's still sorting by the first date. Is it looking at the actual creation date for the page? There's no way for us to fudge that. - Ricky81682 (talk) 22:43, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Ok, this is weird now. Here, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Abhay pratap singh mirzapur was properly moved to the 31st bu the festival is again back on the 9th. Was using small helping? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:30, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Legobot addition

Heya, could you take a peek at the discussion here: [[1]] regarding people commenting in the articlespace of wp:rfc, rather than in the article itself?  superβεεcat  04:00, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Message

Varaha Upanishad is rpomoted to GA. But I am not getting this approval message on my talk page. It has been a problem even with my earlier approved GA. Can you kindly solve this problem and leave a message on my talk page. Thanks.--Nvvchar. 02:36, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

MFD archives

I have no idea why it's doing this but the bot insists on putting back a red-linked MFD discussion. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Chriswperkins53/Oak Hill High School ( Elmer, Louisiana) with the screwy extra space in the front but the bot keeps trying to "fix" it with a red linked version. Minor issue as I highly, highly, highly doubt anyone will ever care. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:28, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Legobot

Thanks for being one of the wheels that keeps WP moving, Legobot :). A short request - would it be possible, in your alerts when a GA begins to be reviewed, to provide a link to the actual GA in the notice? Looking forward to your reply, --Tom (LT) (talk) 01:03, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Defense against faulty close

You might want to update Legobot to check if the first thing after the RFC template is an {{archive, especially when Legobot sees that it is reprocessing an existing RFC. This close resulted in this impressive mess. I'm surprised this issue hasn't come up before, considering how simple the mistake was. Alsee (talk) 00:39, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Regarding Wikipedia:Dashboard/Editorial noticeboards

@Legoktm: Just a heads-up, Wikipedia:Non-free content review has been completely shut down. I noticed that Wikipedia:Dashboard/Editorial noticeboards includes a list of active discussions that Legobot maintains. Since the bot maintains that page, I would imagine that if I removed it, Legobot would replace that section. Anyways, just wanted to let you know that the NFCR section can/should be removed since the board is now marked as historical. Steel1943 (talk) 00:51, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Adding rfcid to templates that are not rfc

Hi, with these two edits, Legobot added a |rfcid= to templates that relate to closed RfCs, not new ones. this edit is related. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:08, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Legoktm, it's done it again ([2], [3], [4], [5]) - please stop the bot from doing that. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:34, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Digging deeper, it seems that Legobot is merely looking for the string {{rfc and ignoring what follows, and is also processing the template even when it's wrapped in <nowiki>...</nowiki>. Examples: [6] (first one of the two); [7] --Redrose64 (talk) 21:41, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Greetings. At least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been or will be reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. These are not RfCs --Redrose64 (talk) 00:09, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

I responded on WP:BON. Legoktm (talk) 07:25, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Legobot seems to have gone bonkers

at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Politics, government, and law. --OpenFuture (talk) 09:12, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

@OpenFuture: an {{rfc}} can't be disabled by commenting it out as was done by Izno (talk · contribs) in this edit, it needs to be changed to something that doesn't begin {{rfc like this. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:00, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

@OpenFuture: Looking better now? --Redrose64 (talk) 17:39, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Yup, thanks. --OpenFuture (talk) 18:10, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Maitreyi

Legobot says this article failed WP:GA review. That's not what the review says. It says it passed. FYI, there are two separate GA reviews on the talk page, so maybe that is the source of confusion. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:40, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @7&6=thirteen: This is Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations#Legobot error?, see also Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Legobot error: Good article nominations. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:03, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. Will go there. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:15, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Old bug

probably an old/fixed bug, but just I cleaned up [8][9][10]. Frietjes (talk) 15:17, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Legobot is notifying users about RfC's that are already closed.

Legobot messaged me to comment on an RfC here which was closed about an hour before Legobot messaged me about it. Is this just lag in the system or something bigger? Cheers, Davidbuddy9 Talk  04:31, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Davidbuddy9: RfCs normally run thirty days. This one was closed early - almost 29 days 12 hours early to be exact - by Dr.K. (talk · contribs) in this edit.

AFAIK Legobot builds a table of all open RfCs, removes the {{rfc}} template from those that are more than 30 days old, adds a |rfcid= parameter to all {{rfc}} templates that don't already have one, and updates the RfC listings. Once a day it also sends out messages about open RfCs to user talk pages. This obviously doesn't happen in an instant, and so the messages sent to users are based on data that might have been collected some time earlier. Edits relevant to the RfC in question include:

• Dr.K. initiated the RfC at Talk:Engineering at 15:35, 22 March 2016
• Legobot added |rfcid= to Talk:Engineering at 16:01, 22 March 2016
• Legobot listed it on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Maths, science, and technology at 16:01, 22 March 2016
• Legobot linked it from Wikipedia:Dashboard/Requests for comment at 16:01, 22 March 2016
• Dr.K. closed the RfC at 03:40, 23 March 2016
• Legobot sent messages to four users at 04:24, 23 March 2016
• Legobot delisted the RfC from Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Maths, science, and technology at 05:01, 23 March 2016
• Legobot unlinked it from Wikipedia:Dashboard/Requests for comment at 05:01, 23 March 2016

Clearly the edits of 04:24, 23 March 2016 were based on data collected prior to 03:40, 23 March 2016, but probably no more than one hour earlier, since Legobot normally updates RfC listings once an hour. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:17, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Request for comment

I keep getting messages to comment on Videos from Legobot. i do not understand the message or how and on what to comment. T A Francis (talk) 15:17, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Legobot undoing relists at MfD

Legobot just undid several relistings I performed at MfD (diff). What can be done to prevent this from occurring? North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:05, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

• N.b. After undoing the Legobot edit, I added <!-- Relisted --> to the MfD entries. Not sure if this will prevent the above from occurring or not. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:32, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
• Same thing happened again (diff). Holding off on relisting until this is resolved. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:55, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Northamerica1000: This is a long-term problem, see User talk:Legobot/2016#MFD relistings and Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 143#Relisting MFD discussions. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:39, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Bummer. The thing is, I've already reverted, but it keeps dumping the relists, so it's a vicious circle to continue correcting this matter. Don't feel like fighting the script at this point, because the script will always win unless this is corrected. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:52, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Pinging @Legoktm: here to request input. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:03, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Aka Lolipop (talk) 22:29, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Category:AfD debates (Web or Internet)

I noticed that Legobot updates Wikipedia:Dashboard/Relisted AfD debates several times daily. I do not know if it affects the operation of the bot, but I want to make you aware that one of the AfD categories has been renamed (see diff). -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 03:05, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Ping. :) By the way, Legobot appears to be reversing attempts to manually update the category link (see diff). -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 20:24, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Why was the category renamed? Legoktm (talk) 22:35, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

It was renamed in order to fix a capitalization error in the original title, following this discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 06:10, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Pinging once more, to stop the archive-bot; please address at your leisure. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 15:37, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Being asked to comment on RfCs I'm already involved with

Hi. I'm trying out the RfC notifications and of three I've received (on my talk), I posted on, and commented on another a week before. Would it be possible to have Legobot think about the RfCs it suggests a little more carefully before notifying, please? fredgandt 09:54, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Join Hands

Can someone explained to me this edit and why my nomination for GA was reverted by this bot ? Carliertwo (talk) 23:38, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

@Carliertwo: Because that page is bot-maintained. You need to follow the instructions linked from Wikipedia:Good article nominations#Nominations. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:52, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

LInked to nonexistant page at WP:PUF

Legobot created a link to Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2016 April 19, a page that has never existing, at WP:PUF, in this edit. It's probably best to shut down all the PUF related tasks at this point, since PUF is closed. Thanks, Oiyarbepsy (talk) 03:55, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

• Just did it again: [11] Oiyarbepsy (talk) 01:58, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Dashboard/Editorial noticeboards

Can the bot be changed so that it doesn't add Non-free content review to Wikipedia:Dashboard/Editorial noticeboards anymore? Thanks! Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:14, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Legobot doesn't seem to be updating WP:GAN

Legoktm, the Legobot has stopped doing the various GA tasks; the last successful update was at 17:21, 12 May 2016 (UTC), about 11 hours ago. I did some changes to article talk pages that would have caused one added entry and one changed nomination entry, but neither was updated; I ultimately hand-edited the page myself. The added entry was subsequently picked up for review, but that hasn't been picked up by the bot either.

I hope you can get the GA portion of the bot restarted soon. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:23, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Thank you; it looks like the bot started doing GA tasks again at 13:37 UTC. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:48, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Legobot doesn't seem to be updating RfCs

Template:Rfc says: Within an hour or two after the edit has been saved, a bot known as Legobot will add an |rfcid= parameter to the template, and will also add the discussion to the lists of RfCs that are indicated by the topic area

But the template was added to this Rfc with this edit and nothing happened. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:52, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7: See User talk:Legoktm#Legobot partial stop. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:28, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Legobot cannot handle 2 new RfCs at once on a page?

Special:Diff/722217645. The bot tagged two separated RfCs with the same ID, and added the earlier RfC to the appropriate pages. I've removed the ID from the later RfC, assuming that Legobot will come back and make a new tag. — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 19:54, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

The bot can handle multiple RfCs on the same page; the situation here is that two were started in the same hour, with the same RfC categories, both templates were {{rfc|policy|prop}}. If one of them had been {{rfc|prop|policy}}, or if at least one hour had elapsed between their creations, it would have worked as expected. Your last assumption is correct: if you remove a |rfcid=, then Legobot will allocate a fresh one and suitably update the listing pages. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:30, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Bot removed RfC template early

Not sure why the bot removed the RfC template here, the discussion is not over yet. Isn't the time given to RfCs usually 30 days? nyuszika7h (talk) 13:47, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

@Nyuszika7H: 1 May 2016 plus 30 days is 31 May 2016. See also my posts at Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Archive.is RFC 4. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:01, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

The BOT has failed an article I have passed

Please see this BOT failing an article which I have passed in Talk:W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season. Please to investigate this error by the BOT. Thank you. Regards, Naz | talk | contribs 19:42, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Archive indexes

Hi there, I notice that you seem to have stopped updating the archive indexes of talk pages (one example is at the MOS talk page where the last update was in October 2015). Are archive indexes not maintained any more? Thanks! Uanfala (talk) 09:15, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Early archival of MFD entry

Legobot keeps archiving an entry from WP:MFD. The discussion was just opened, with no responses yet; there’s no way it should be considered archived. If any action is taken, please be aware that I’m adding {{bots}} on that entry because I don’t know what else to do. Please remove it when appropriate. Thanks. —67.14.236.50 (talk) 19:14, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

It doesn't "archive" it, it removes it, because the page Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:WTFPL/Archive 4 doesn't exist. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:52, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

@Redrose64: No, it was removing it because it was in the wrong namespace. It has been moved to the correct title since then. nyuszika7h (talk) 21:25, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Please check the deletion log and the timestamps before making such assertions. Thank you. —67.14.236.50 (talk) 14:58, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Tennessee Aquarium

Your bot got it wrong. It passed.
Wikipedia:Good article nominations‎; 10:41 . . (-123)‎ . . ‎Legobot (talk | contribs)‎ (Failed Tennessee Aquarium On review Operation Infinite Reach by Kabahaly) [rollback]
Thanks. 16:09, 30 July 2016 (UTC) 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:04, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

Closing a RfC after the it has expired

Am I allowed to close the RfC after it has expired and Logobot has removed the template [12]? Tnguyen4321 (talk) 15:28, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

@Tnguyen4321: Legobot never closes RfCs. Once thirty days have elapsed from the first timestamp that follows the {{rfc}} template (in this case 07:31, 22 July 2016), Legobot removes the {{rfc}} template (example), and also removes the entry from each of the sections of WP:RFC/A where it had been listed (example). Re-adding the {{rfc}} template - as Dino nam (talk · contribs) did here - is ineffective because the 30-day period has already passed and Legobot will merely remove it again.

Closure - that is, evaluating the various points and summarising these to determine an outcome - is beyond the abilities of any bot and so is necessarily a human task. More information at WP:RFCEND. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:50, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks.Tnguyen4321 (talk) 22:07, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Late invitatation to RFC parties

Hi, Mister Lego. I am wondering why you always seem to submit my input for RFC's after the discussion seems to be over already. Is there any way to notify me in a more timely manner? Thanx very much. Costatitanica (talk) 19:51, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Screwed up when 2 RFCs got posted at the same time

See [13] and [14]. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:46, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

@Headbomb: This is a known problem. The solution is to remove the |rfcid= parameter from one (not both) of the {{rfc}} templates, like this, this forces Legobot to issue a new unique rfcid for the rfc from which the rfcid has been removed; this also forces a fix to the RfC listing page(s). The prevention is to make sure that no more than one {{rfc}} that lacks an |rfcid= is added to a given discussion page at once, and to ensure that Legobot has added an rfcid to that before you add the next {{rfc}}. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:32, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Legobot down

Legobot will be down for a few hours. Legoktm (talk) 15:19, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Legoktm, it's been over a day and a half. Any idea of when you think it might be back up? Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:32, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

+1. Me like Legobot. Me need Legobot. ―Mandruss ☎ 08:16, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

The rest of Wikipedia is waiting. Chris Troutman (talk) 03:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

@Legoktm: GA Cup 2016–2017 is on run. The GA nominations page needs constant update for smooth functioning of the contest. Hope the bot will be back soon and wish you all the best in bringing it back. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 05:29, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay, everything should be up and running again. I was rotating the password for the account, and that took longer than I hoped due to IRL obligations. Legoktm (talk) 20:25, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Functioning error

Recently the bot performed wrongly while closing a GA nomination. Actually Sam Manekshaw passed the GA review (3rd nomination) and listed warfare good article by the reviewer. Please see the review page and talk page of the article. But the bot notified that the review failed on my talk page, and also the good article top-icon was not added the article. Kindly look into the issue. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 04:05, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Reposting link to deleted GA review

The editor who nominated Mother Teresa for GA also mistakenly created the review page for it. The review page was then deleted, but Legobot doesn't seem to recognize the deletion -- it posted the "on review" notice, and when I deleted the notice, it reposted it. What do we need to do? --RL0919 (talk) 16:20, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection policy RfC

You are receiving this notification because you participated in a past RfC related to the use of extended confirmed protection levels. There is currently a discussion ongoing about two specific use cases of extended confirmed protection. You are invited to participate. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk (sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:31, 22 December 2016 (UTC))

Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 02:52, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Is it down or is it just me

Legobot hasn't updated the Good Articles for the past several hours...still showing GA's as nominees. Here's to hoping Legobot's not on a holiday break... Shearonink (talk) 08:37, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Any chance for an update...

On Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion/Archive index? Very helpful page. Thanks, VegaDark (talk) 07:29, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Regarding GA nomination of Mother Teresa

I have been informed that my article has being going under review but I see no signs of review even after 7 days of nomination please do the needful asap--✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 09:38, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Note: This question has been addressed at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Regarding GA. Cordless Larry (talk) 13:35, 30 December 2016 (UTC)