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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)

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Hi there- I wonder if you would be able to add to this discussion to explain what we need to do to make a change to the GAC page without upsetting the bot. Thanks! J Milburn (talk) 21:33, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

name change Στέλιος Τ.

But I have an account there, which is Στέλιος Τ.. What do you mean "there is no global account registered for Στέλιος Τ.?" Stellakis (talk) 10:31, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 00:06, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:ChaserWar.svg

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Theobot 20 close

Your close of Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 20 on the basis of a personal view of what you think NFC policy ought to be, rather than the standards adopted by the community, and overwhelmingly confirmed eg in the RfCs cited at Wikipedia:NFC#cite_note-2 is completely out of order.

If you believe the community has got it wrong here, then try to get consensus to change the understood interpretation of policy. You should note that many of those who spoke up for this bot -- Masem, Quadell, Stefan, Sfan00 -- are active enforcers in this area, and are by no means "liberals". They made it clear that in their opinion the bot was only going to be used in cases that were not controversial in terms of the understood ratified community interpretation of the policy. It was not for you to place a personally-held opinion ahead of the settled view of the community, and a close on that basis was not appropriate.

I therefore call on you to withdraw your close and turn it into a !vote; or, alternatively, advise on the formal process for seeking review of a mis-closed discussion. Jheald (talk) 12:37, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

The correct place for such a review is WT:BRFA. --Chris 12:59, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

FYI, a thread is now also running at WT:NFC discussing aspects of the close: WT:NFC#Status_of_pre-filled_FUR_templates Jheald (talk) 01:05, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I've also started a thread here to discuss the close itself. --Chris 04:00, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Chris. I know this was a long time ago, but I'd just like to apologize for causing trouble with my bot almost two years ago. Kudu ^~I/O~ 21:09, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Oh no need to apologise, you didn't cause any trouble. --Chris 09:55, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

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I've got an idea: when the bot transcludes a GA review, should it also post a notification to the GA nominator's talk page? Not all GA reviewers do this, or do this in a timely fashion, and it seems like a pretty straightforward and simple thing to do. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 21:15, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

That sounds like a good idea to me. I've created a thread, just to give people a chance to object or offer suggestions. --Chris 10:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 09:32, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

CHUS auto signing

Doesn't seem to be fixed. MB had to mark several of my completed requests done after a few hours, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple&diff=564444584&oldid=564430446 –xeno^talk 13:49, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Fixed. --Chris 14:01, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

No problem. Do you think you could bump up the time a bit from an hour? (Even if only for me) –xeno^talk 14:04, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Up meaning down right? :P I've changed it to ten minutes. Is that good? --Chris 14:11, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Of course! When doesn't up mean down?! Thanks :) [10 is good for me since I want the bot to always mark mine done but it might be a little quick for other crats-not sure. Maybe 15-20?] –xeno^talk 14:14, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Well, I'll keep it at 10 for the moment, and then see if anyone notices/objects. --Chris 14:21, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 18:15, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Oskar Schindler

Hi Chris. I nominated Oskar Schindler for GA at 23:56 on 18 July, and the nomination still has not appeared at WP:GAN. Can you please check this out for me and see what's happening? Thank you very much. -- Diannaa (talk) 03:37, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

GA doesn't go at the top

According to {{good article}}, the template is supposed to be placed at the bottom of the article, not the top. -- ^t numbermaniac ^c 11:55, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

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Hi. I don't know if its just temporary but I think that the GA Bot is down at Wikipedia:Good article nominations. GamerPro64 15:36, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

• (talk page stalker) I don't think it's down at the moment - I can see an edit from 20 minutes ago. That said, it hasn't updated that page today. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 16:20, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

• Is it possible that the new programming (to alert nominators when a review begins) disrupted the standard programming to update WP:GAN? I nominated United States Bill of Rights seven hours ago without it showing up on that page. Thanks as always for your work on this, Chris G. We never appreciate things like GA Bot enough until they're momentarily malfunctioning. -- Khazar2 (talk) 17:46, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

• I'm having problems too; I nominated Schindler yesterday and still no joy (see above). -- Diannaa (talk) 19:04, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Should be  Fixed now. --Chris 09:08, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Chris. -- Khazar2 (talk) 11:05, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 21:58, 25 July 2013 (UTC)