User talk:DatGuy/Archives/2025/February

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).

Administrator changes

• Arcticocean
• Wugapodes

Euryalus

CheckUser changes

• Firefly
• L235

Oversighter changes

• Firefly
• Guerillero
• L235
• Moneytrees

Technical news

• Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
• A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

Howdy DatGuy, I hope all is well. My name is Matt and I'm a graduate student researcher at Northwestern. Recently I've posted to the BAG IRC chat and the User Bots/Scripts Noticeboard soliciting feedback on research cases that I have selected for a research project. You can find more information about our research on our meta page. Given that we are looking at WMF feature deployments' impact on user bots and scripts operation, we really value the bot community's perspectives on how we are thinking about these events.

I'm sure that you're quite busy, and I completely understand if you do not have the time. Given your experiences operating DatBot, I just wanted to reach out and see if you had any thoughts that you may be willing to share on our characterizations of these feature deployments. Any information you share will not be included in any research reports, I'm just curious to know your thoughts on how we are framing these events.

Thank you Ggonnemm (talk) 05:33, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Could DatBot 12 please be told not to notify indefinitely blocked users like USer talk:BrownHairedGirl. Thanks. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:33, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

I remember this was mentioned to Fastily once, and they replied with blocks being indefinite and not infinite, and it is better that they receive a notification (any talk page watchers can also respond to it) than it be deleted invisibly to the creator. The better question is why didn't it respect the {{bots}}, and the answer to that is because it seems to use the |optout parameter in place of |deny. I hadn't heard of this parameter prior, but will look into adding it to the bot (FastilyBot used to skip every page with the template, regardless of its arguments), and in the meanwhile also recommend adding |deny=all if so desired. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 12:59, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

This is still happening. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:53, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Should be resolved. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 18:41, 23 February 2025 (UTC)