User talk:Coren/Archives/2014/March

INVEA-TECH

Hello, you were involved in an AfD discussion back in 2011. I was patrolling new pages and noticed the page has been recreated, I'm not sure how to compare the two to see if they're significantly different. Would you mind helping out? Thanks! Chris Moore (talk) 19:28, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

CorenSearchBot not substing some talk page messages

CorenSearchBot is not substing various talk page messages (example), resulting in replies to these notifications being diverted to the templates themselves -- note where the edit link of User talk:Phaisalnoman#BizzTrax points -- and some confused newbies. MER-C 13:01, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, my fail. I did a fix to remove obsolete A/B testing wrong. Should be fixed, now. — Coren ^(talk) 13:13, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

This bot needs checking

Per this edit. Clearly different articles but the bot appears not to be capable of picking up the year differentiation. I'm also not sure why it was potentially considered a 'copyvio'... Timeshift (talk) 05:32, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Because roughly 98% of the non-numbers text was identical; this is hardly "clearly different". It obviously is a copy albeit, in this case, a legitimate one. The vast majority of those hits (page identical or almost identical to another) are cut-and-paste attempts are rename which are an issue that needs addressing; no bot could guess at the rare legitimate one.

It's considered a copyvio in the general case because copying most/all of a page to another breaks attribution and is a copyright violation.  :-) — Coren ^(talk) 13:07, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Well then, I must say i'm glad this bot wasn't around when I created most Australian and South Australian election articles like Australian federal election, 1910 and Australian federal election, 1913, South Australian state election, 1910 and South Australian state election, 1912 etc :) Timeshift (talk) 13:17, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Heh. It's possible to whitelist you if you often make articles of the sort so that the bot trusts you to know what you're doing if you expect to be making a lot more of those. :-) — Coren ^(talk) 13:22, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm not doing the current ones that brought me to your page, I did the above ones years and years ago, and I don't expect to do any in the foreseeable future. A pity about the lack of veracity in the bot for other editors though. Timeshift (talk) 13:40, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Bot messages

Hello :). Your bot catches several Wikipedia's mirrors around (such as http://en.cyclopaedia.net and http://www.digplanet.com/wiki/)), they should be put in a "no check list", probably. Cheers. --Karlfritz (talk) 23:15, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

ASN-209 has been redirected to Aisheng ASN-209

Aisheng ASN-209 includes more info and ASN-209 has been redirected to Aisheng ASN-209. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by XdeLaTorre (talk • contribs) 00:10, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Talking, talking, talking...

The bot leaves copyvio messages on

• an article, and
• on a contributor's talk page,

but not on article talk page. Instead, I'd like to suggest that it

1. does the former, but moves the most verbose part of its message to article talk, and
2. only leaves very short notes at
   • the contributors' talk page and
   • at the article itself.

It's really hard to collaborate when a big fat red banner is in a place different from the article talk page, where a discussion would normally belong.

It's also obnoxious to place templates on talk pages of contributors (see: Clogged talk pages), and a quick short line pointing to relevant discussion or notice elsewhere is enough.

—Gryllida (talk) 09:45, 14 March 2014 (UTC)