Hello SatyrTN and your friendly bot! Could you change your bot to add the LGBT template as {{LGBTProject|class=}} instead of {{LGBTProject}}? That would make adding the class easier for us here human types. Thanks! --Tiger MarcROAR! 02:42, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet was added into the WikiProject LGBT studies by this bot. FYI, I'm removing this classification as the important thing about Jean-Yves Thibaudet is that he is a pianist and I'd rather see his article improved by pianists than flamboyant homosexuals who just fill the article with details about his clothing... (Consider this self irony, I'm gay myself.)--Wormsie 17:36, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
I looked her up - apparently it was a one-off. She's currently married to a man, and I couldn't find anything saying she was bisexual, so I removed the tag. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I thought I should bring it to your attention that this bot tagged the talk page of Victor Salva with the LGBT template. Salva is a film director who is a convicted child molester. You might want to make some changes to your bot to avoid this in the future.--Jersey Devil 08:40, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed the recent addition of your bots LGBT banner to two 19th/early 20th century music hall performers. I also noticed that both had been categorised Transgender and transsexual people (Vesta Tilley and Hetty King). There is a long tradition in the British theatre of actors transcending gender stereotypes - one of the reasons for this is that the performer is given greater latitude for parody and satire with the audience (a parallel is that of a performer playing drunk). This cross dressing tradition applies equally to males and females, with females usually performing more 'serious roles' and males tending more to pastiche.
There appears to be a conflation of the roles these actors played and their sexual orientation (maybe someone read Tipping the Velvet too often). That, I think would have the danger of reducing the focus of your project. There is an issue for exploration here - why is it acceptable to UK audiences (including children), and a niche cabaret act in the states; why does the audience give the character greater latitude? But ultimately, playing Coriolanus, doesn't make me a serial killer.
All the best Kbthompson 09:06, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi. It has not been easy keeping up with human vandals, dealing with a bot is beyond my abilities. Can you please deal with this, reverse all the deletions, or substantiate them? If you respond, please do so on my talk page, so I can see it. Thanks, Haiduc 18:43, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Your bot has just added the Wikiproject Spain tag to this article. However Perpignan is in France not Spain. I don't if it is possible to refine your bot, but the Northern part of Catalonia is in France and this kind of error is likely to reoccur.GordyB 14:53, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Your bot tagged all articles in this category as belonging to the Spain Wikiproject. Could you undo this? Many of the category members should probably not be assigned to the Spain project, like William II, German Emperor. Thank you, Kusma (è¨è«) 08:29, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Your last bot edit was reverted. I don´t really know why, because your stub made sense to me.--Tresckow 18:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand (talk ⢠contribs ⢠Bot) 19:47, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
"Steb"-class.[1] See ya! =) â coelacan talk â 02:35, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:
Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.
Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 04:53, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Why did you add the LGBTProject category to Charles Rust-Tierney? Harksaw 12:51, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
The Most High Grand Magnificent and Glorious Barnstar of National Merit-Spain is hereby awarded to SatyrBot for service above and beyond the call of duty, for an excellent inaugural effort by a bot, and for only need an extra shot of WD-40 to keep on keeping on! ¡Muchas gracias! EspanaViva 21:24, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I notice you removed Prokosch from the Gay Writer's category in the Frederic Prokosch article. Prokosch was definitely gay, and it's common knowledge that he was gay. However, he lived in a time when people weren't openly gay. It is necessary to remove him from the category? Griot 18:32, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Why did your bot add a Wikiproject Spain template to the talk page for the International Space Station? Sdsds 20:05, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Your bot keeps adding the {{Film}} template to articles about actors. The article isn't about a film, nor is it about a character in a film. It doesn't seem that this is being properly applied, or else the wording for the template needs to be changed to reflect that articles on actors or actresses should have the tag, too. (I don't think that's the intent.) Examples are Jon King (porn star), John Davenport (porn star), and Jeremiah Rydell.—Chidom talk 03:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Your bot keeps adding (twice in the last two days) the {{LocateMeBot}} template to Kew Constabulary. This isn't a place, it's (as is pretty obvious from the name) a law enforcement agency. Although I'm only aware of it doing it to this article because I happen to be watching it following a recent rewrite, presumably it's doing it to other inappropriate pages as well. Is there at least any way it can be set to not return to re-add templates to pages from which they've been deleted? - iridescenti (talk to me!) 17:24, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
The bot has added LocateMe twice to this page recently, but it's inappropriate to have geographical coordinates on an article dealing with a 150 mile walking route! Please exclude this page from the parameters. Thanks, Bencherlite 21:43, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Please note I have blocked this bot for the time being, till the current project is sorted out properly through discussion, in order to prevent unlimited articles being tagged with LocateMe template. It is being discussed at User_talk:SatyrBot/Current_project#What_on_earth_is_this.3F and has also been posted at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#LocateMe_bot. Tyrenius 00:21, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
It seems that tagging articles pays off: [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. Andy Mabbett 21:27, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I was suggesting a list, not a category. Local knowledge isn't what's needed. It's knowledge of geographical co-ordinates. There is a project for people already. Anyway, I don't think anyone's objecting to a note on the talk page, like other projects. Tyrenius 09:49, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Have you been able to reverse the effects of the LocateMe exercise, to remove the template from the article space and add it to the talk space. note that a) there is no consensus on Template talk:LocateMe for inclusion of the tag on the article space; and AFAIK your bots were given permission to add to the talk page only. --Tagishsimon (talk)
Hey, love the List (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject LGBT studies/to do full list) but I'm wondering if you can somehow program the bot to break it into actual sections rather than just separated with bold headings. As it is very long, it would be easier to navigate down to Articles to Clean Up, for example, by using the Table of Contents. TAnthony 03:20, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
When adding the Chicago Project tags, make sure that you are adding them to the banner shell as was established to minimize the amount of room that is taken up as was the case with Mary Stanisia. Thanks!--Kranar drogin 14:28, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Please stop adding the Project Chicago tag to the Ella Cara Deloria page. She only spent a short time there and is not normally identified with the city. Vizjim 06:40, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Further Debate at User_talk:Vizjim & User_talk:TonyTheTiger. This is the only complainant out of the 7000 pages you have tagged for me. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 18:40, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
In this edition: [10]. Grzegorz Wysocki 10:23, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
What is VERY frusterating, is the bot does not recognize that groups are shelled in a talk page, so I have to go in and insert the project that the bot has added into the shell. Is there a way to do this the first time, rather than having to do the same action twice? I have seen this happen on multiple articles now. Just want to know before I spend my time fixing them. Thanks much for the info!--Kranar drogin 03:18, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed that the bot is categorizing articles in Category:Chicago Great Western Railway and Chicago and North Western Railway as being part of the Chicago WikiProject. Some of those categorizations may be legitimate (like Twin Cities 400, which actually went between Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul), while others (like Cannon Valley Trail) aren't anywhere near Chicago. The same goes for Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway, which went nowhere near Chicago. (In fact, it never got to St. Louis either. It reached Peoria and that's as close as it got.) What's more, after an editor removed Talk:Cannon Valley Trail from the category once, the bot added it again, and I then removed it again. Is there a way to prevent the bot from adding {{ChicagoWikiProject}} back to an article once it's been removed? For example, checking the history to see if SatyrBot has already been there. That would prevent some frustration. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 04:21, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
The following page is supposed ot pick up only entries tagged as being related to the paranormal. However, all of the entries in the Afd category are actually LGBT pages, not paranormal pages. - perfectblue 13:59, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't suppose your edit summary could be more explicit, saying what tag it's adding? —RuakhTALK 15:57, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Satyr, we have a question about your bot: if we ask you to place a tag on a particular category, will it also add the tag to all subcategories? (Reason is, we want to tag some articles on in a cat but not in its subcats.) Thanks, --Zvika 13:13, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Greetings! I noticed your bot re-added the Alabama WikiProject tag to Francis Ernest Lloyd. I removed the tag previously because Lloyd only taught at an Alabama institution for a short time and doesn't seem to fall within the scope of that WikiProject. If I were to remove the tag again, will the bot re-add it because it meets search criteria? How could we modify the criteria so it doesn't come up on a search again? Cheers, --Rkitko (talk) 12:06, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Greetings SatyrTN, the discussion has closed on the Logic categories. We have eliminated everything which raised any known concern. This is the list of categories to untag, and the new list of categories to tag. Let me know if this is okay. I am sorry for all the controversy. Thank you enormously for this service. Gregbard 00:31, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
I have recently been working on a banner for the philosophy project with fields. {{User:Gregbard/Sandbox/philtemplate}} Perhaps the logic tag would be more productive as a philosophy tag with the logic field. It would save time doing it now rather than undo it later. In the end the tag: '''{{philosophy|field=logic}}''' will serve our needs. Any thoughts? Gregbard 15:21, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Is there any reason why the bot has blanked Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal/To do list full?
I was wondering if you noticed my recent comments on the WikiProject Chicago Talk page regarding the questionable inclusion of Virginia Secretary of Finance Jody Wagner in WikiProject Chicago, which was tagged by SatyrBot. If you would like to read them for further information, my comments relating to this matter can be found under the heading "Jody Wagner" on the aforementioned WikiProject Chicago Talk page. --TommyBoy 23:32, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
This change is controversial and has been reverted a number of times previously. Please don't simply continue to revert this, and exclude the article from future runs. Christopher Parham (talk) 23:50, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
If SatyrBot/Maintenance logs was created by the bot, it looks like something needs to be fixed. User:SatyrBot/Maintenance logs already exists or I would have moved it there myself. Hellosandimas 04:59, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
The last update to Template:WikiProjectBannerShell/Cleanup project SB seems to have listed every article that already has a banner shell and not those in need of one. Woodym555 13:02, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey there, your tagging articles that have already been tagged, such as at Talk:Allan Miller House.IvoShandor 09:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Actually, the bot mad it through the numbers, As, and some of the Bs.--Kranar drogin 23:00, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
The discussion page for Stanley Fish does not need or warrant a template for WP Chicago. First, he is neither a native or a resident of the city of Chicago. Second, he is no longer employed by UIC, and hasn't been for a couple of years now. Third, the article itself mentions Chicago in passing, and is not directly related to Chicago in any way other than the aforementioned fact. The template should be removed accordingly. Ryecatcher773 16:22, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks much for the indications of the bot's errors. I'm currently in a major re-write of the bot's code, so all automated projects and processes have been taken off line and are not active. If you need a particular task done, it's probably better to address your needs to WP:BOTREQ. Thanks! -- User:SatyrTN 17:30, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Ahoy, Satyrbot still seems to be double tagging. Or maybe you only just shut it down? [11]. The Parsnip! 03:44, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
It looks like you are pretty busy! Do you think I should place a request at bot requests? I think there is a big enough job with WP:PHILO that if I have someone else do Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Aesthetics, there will still be plenty left. OR... perhaps you are doing a stellar re-write which is worth waiting for? Just let me know what the outlook is. Be well, Greg Bard 22:11, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Have a look [12]. In an old unsigned post that SineBot added a signature line to, SatyrBot removed an em dash and dropped in a question mark. The Parsnip! 20:09, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Regarding this edit... I'm not sure what the connection is, but it definitely deserves some kind of explanation. Chicago isn't even mentioned on Alan Alda's page. What does he have to do with the WikiProject and why is the article being watched by this bot? PaulC/T+ 03:11, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
[cross-posted from WP:BOTREQ] Perhaps I didn't qualify my request well enough. I wasn't suggesting we needed to change [[One-day international|ODI]] to [[One Day international|ODI]] becasue that is unnecessary, per WP:R2D -- "ODI" is a valid abbreviation to display. I was talking specifically of unpiped links. —Moondyne 01:48, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
SatyrBot just added some geoboxes to some towns (such as Metcalf, Illinois and Kansas, Illinois), and there are at least two issues: it added "XXX" to the area code field and "XXXXX" to the ZIP code field; and more significantly, the red dot on the locator map is off -- for example, Metcalf is shown as being over the state line in Indiana. Omnedon (talk) 19:23, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
There has been a fix for the maps [14]. If you get a chance, could you run that bot to change the map settings as soon as you can. Also, is there any ways we can figure out which cities have infoboxes, which have the old geobox, and which have that chicago template by chance? Maybe make a list of them or something? Can the bot do something like that? Let me know so we can get ready to change those all over also. Thanks!--Kranar drogin (talk) 01:11, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
I would say no, simply because I think some were moved to Commons, and then removed from that category here. I would say the safest (not easiest though) would be go to through all the cities.--Kranar drogin (talk) 23:59, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Kranar - was time to break this into a new section. I dropped off a list of the cities/towns/villages in Illinois that are using an Infobox on your talk page. To your other questions:
Caroig would be the guy to contact. He works the most with making the geoboxes work properly.--Kranar drogin 15:47, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
This bot recently added Criticism of Hugo Chavez to WikiProject Judaism [15] This was done without any consensus from the participants in the project or even notification to them that it would be done. The only imaginable pretext for inclusion of Chavez there is that he's reputed to have made some antisemitic remarks, but WikiProject Judaism specifically excludes antisemitism from its scope. This resulted in editors exchanging a number of messages trying to figure out how it came to be placed there and whether there was any consensus for it.
I suspect this is not the first or only time something like this has happened, as I've seen some dubious additions to WikiProjects such as this and this (note that the main George Morrison article can now be found at George Morrison (director, acting teacher). Mr. Morrison was born in Evanston, IL and attended the University of Chicago, but the bulk of his notable work has been done on the east coast and in New York City. I doubt whether any of the participants in WikiProject Chicago even know that he's been added to their project. In my view, the addition of pages to WikiProjects by a bot without the knowledge or consensus of the projects' participants is dubious at best and quite likely creating a huge cleanup job for project participants trying to wade through a sea of pages that have nothing to do with their projects and delete those tags.
I haven't looked deeply into this bot's edit history yet (I intend to), but I suspect I'm going to find a lot more of this. I also suspect I'm going to end up asking that this bot's operations, or at least its operations with regard to WikiProjects, be suspended until a satisfactory solution can be devised.
By the way, if a human editor sees that a page has been added to a WikiProject in error and deletes it, I certainly hope this bot won't come along and re-add it. Just hoping against hope, I guess. --Steven J. Anderson 01:47, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi SatyrN, this is in response to a request I made earlier on WP:BOTREQ. WikiProject Video games currently has a huge number of tedious maintenance tasks that could better be handled by a bot. I'm not sure if SatyrBot can do all of these, but any of them would greatly alleviate some project member's work. The project is quite active, therefore these tasks are mostly maintenance tasks. The following is currently done manually:
User:Krator (t c) 14:12, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
