Sisyph

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Problem with bot

I hope you appreciate the irony: [1]. Every page in Category:Non-talk pages that are automatically signed will no doubt be the same. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 16:11, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Interlanguage links

These articles have quite out-of-order interlanguage links. Maybe, you could walk through all of them and correct it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctilucales

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctiluca

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctiluca

etc.

Help with writing a bot code

Hello. I've seen you created a bot that interwikies articles in English Wikipedia and another Wikipedia language. I wanted to create a similar bot that will insert transwikis between English and Tagalog Wikipedia. Mind if I ask you how to do it? Thanks.--JL 09 _^q?c 12:26, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

interwiki

Hello Sisyph, thank you for the message. "Je ne parle pas beaucoup de francais", as they say, mais une quantite suffisante pour (a?) ajouter les (des?) liens interwikis.

I noticed you are running a bot, and that it recently added a bunch of links to es: that I added to en: (ici). I have wanted to ask an interwiki bot owner if there is an option to "follow my edits" so that a bot adds them to the other wikipedias. There is no use adding the links manually to more than one wikipedia when a bot can, in principle, do the rest. The category links seem especially unlikely, or slow, to be picked up by bots. Le temps perdu (talk) 05:57, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

This is excellent: [2]. It makes a big difference to whether I consider my linking worthwhile, knowing that it is propagating to other wikis. Thanks. Le temps perdu (talk) 06:15, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Sisyph, could you point your bot at my recent interwiki additions once again? Thanks, Le temps perdu (talk) 08:32, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup

I noticed you or your bot redirected categorization of an article I initiated. It moved Lloyd (Bud) Winter from "Category:Track and field athletics coaches" to "Category:American track and field coaches" which was, I guess, appropriate since the previous category only has other categories now (someone has altered it, perhaps your bot). The problem is, now in its new category, Winter is now not listed alphabetically by his last name W, but by his first L. Since this is an automatically generated page, there is no way to correct it. It appears to be the only such case on the page, but should be corrected by someone with that power, perhaps by you since you caused the change to that category in the first place. Trackinfo (talk) 02:51, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Slime molds

What makes you think that a single species of Slime Mold (Fuligo) is equivalent with an article about the group Slime Molds la:Gymnomycota? That is a mistake. Please correct it. I am quite sure that if I will correct it manually, your bot will come along and recreate the mistake (I have seen enough of that). Thanks for your attention. Taka (talk) 07:46, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Summer olympics venues

Hi Sisyph

If you think that a category is incorrectly named, please do not just create a new category and move all the articles to it. There is a process for renaming categories, at WP:CFD, whereby editors can discuss the proposed change and try to reach a consensus.

It appears that you emptied several categories relating to Summer olympics venues, and then blanked the category pages. I have opened a CFD discussion with the proposal that all changes should be reverted as an out-of-process move: see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 February 3#Summer_olympics_venues. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:52, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

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20-20 Vision - un défi du Pays de Galles

Un grand merci pour l'ajout d'informations sur le Challange! Cependant, nous ne pouvons cocher si l'information a été ajoutée à partir d'aujourd'hui. Je suis vraiment désolé que ce n'était pas clair. J'ai maintenant ajouté une phrase ci-dessus la table. Texte minimum nécessaire: 2000 octets de texte. Merci - et, encore une fois - je m'excuse de ne pas faire clairement. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 12:39, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Awww! How so kind! Many thanks! my heart sings like a linnet when people say nice things! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 14:55, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

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