User talk:Anomie

FWIW, I didn't mean my GEOLINK question to be turned into a wasteful discussion about another topic. Thanks for closing. GoodDay (talk) 14:00, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Too bad User:Gawaon decided they'd rather continue to argue over the other RFC after all. Anomie⚔ 00:51, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

The good thing is that by continuing the discussion we arrived at a MOS-compatible solution that hadn't been considered before. Gawaon (talk) 03:02, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Looks to me like people are still debating it there, despite that being a poor venue for anything besides "which parts should be linked". Anomie⚔ 13:22, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi Anomie, I noticed you blocked temporary account ~2026-36650-8 (talk · contribs) - thanks for that. Just as a heads up, this has been ongoing for a while at Expo 2025 pavilions, Expo 2025, Tech World pavilion, and other articles since at least July of last year. I've heavily contributed to two of these articles, or else I'd take administrative action myself, but just putting this out there in case you needed some context. – Epicgenius (talk) 23:52, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for page protection might be a good place to ask. I'm not familiar with those articles to quickly evaluate the disruption there. Anomie⚔ 00:31, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Anomie,

I just came across this bot which I wasn't aware of before. Is there any way you could program it to post a notification on the User talk page of the page creator for every user page it tags for speedy deletion? I realize that the editors who create CSD U6-eligible pages are considered to be inactive but should they ever return, a notice on their User talk page would at least alert them that one of their user pages was likely deleted. It's similar to what is done with User:DreamRimmer bot II and CSD G13s. Thank you for considering my request. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:50, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

The difference between G13 and U6 is, as you noted, that the users with U6-able pages have not done anything outside of their userspace, while users creating G13-able pages have at least managed to find draftspace. Very likely most of these users are long gone and talk page messages would be pointless. If the community at large wants those messages posted anyway, I can add it, but absent evidence of that I'm going to decline. Anomie⚔ 03:53, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Okay, well, I appreciate your thoughtful explanation. I missed the entire discussion on the new "U" criteria when it occurred last year so it helps to understand a bit more about what editors were aiming for when they created it. Much appreciated. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:03, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Would you consider a task to remove "#google_vignette" from URLs in pages a WP:COSMETICEDIT? I hope you know that is enters our wiki pages from when users copy links after they read a webpage with Adsense vignette? Vanderwaalforces (talk) 15:49, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

That would be a change to the rendering of a page, specifically the target of a link, so it would pass WP:COSMETICEDIT. Whether people think removing this from 7000 articles is good or a flood of watchlists is a separate question. We do have prior art in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 17; it might be better to see if User:Primefac would want to add it to that task so as to combine edits if a page has both types of Google-related URLs in it. Anomie⚔ 17:58, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

@Primefac can you add it? Does it require a separate BRFA for PrimeBOT? I think you should add it to your bot though.

Thanks Anomie for mentioning that task. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 18:27, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

The way the task is set up I can just ping BAG to add additional utms to it. Primefac (talk) 10:57, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

I was also planning on requesting for this to be a global bot task, as it appears to be all over Wikimedia wikis. What do you think?

I already have a working code and was taking steps at Global bots already. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 05:48, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Global bots are almost entirely separate from English Wikipedia bots. Our Wikipedia:Global rights policy#Global bots requires local approval for any bot (except interwiki link updating bots, which may be mostly obsolete since interwiki links are maintained on Wikidata now) to operate here. Anomie⚔ 12:58, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, I am well aware of WP:GLOBALBOTS; I want Primefac to add this task to PrimeBOT especially seeing that a global bot doesn't operate on enwiki and a handful of others listed in the opt-out global bot wikiset. But seeing that the same issues persist on other wikis, maybe I'd go with a global bot, but then I am still thinking, especially as I've figured out that most of the wikis which have much of the issue are opt-out global bot wikis, which means I may need to follow their local wiki bot approval process. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 13:20, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

I mistakenly created a new category (Category:Use_Indian_English_from_march_2026); I thought it didn't exist. Please remove/delete it.

KnowMosaic 23:10, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Done. FYI, next time you can put {{db-g7}} on such a page. Anomie⚔ 01:13, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks!

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KnowMosaic 17:29, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Regarding User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable, is it possible for you to have your awesome bot to ignore the testcases that are currently being populated by Module talk:Protected edit request/testcases? Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:59, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Note that User:UmbyUmbreon reverted these testcases but perhaps this could be fixed on your end so the testcases can be restored? Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 04:35, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

@Zackmann08 Better solution! I was unaware that there is a demo parameter which suppresses categorization, so I've self-reverted my removal and included this parameter. No categories, so hopefully this doesn't interfere with the bot! 🤞 Umby 🌕🐶 (talk) 06:44, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Looks like using |demo= worked. Anomie⚔ 11:16, 15 April 2026 (UTC)