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Cyde, I'm not 100% sure if this is the right way to do this so please point me in the right direction if there is a better way...
I filed a Dispute Resolution Request to deal with the continuing and repetitive edits that various users have made to Elihu Yale's nationality. He was an Englishman.
America had not been established and nor had Britain - so he could not be "American" nor "British".
As precedent, Wikipedia shows Wentworth Miller ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wentworth_Miller ), who was born in the UK but obviously from an American family and living in America, as "American".
One edit was listed as coming from Cydebot - hence this notification.
Thank you. -Kim 99.4.120.135 (talk) 22:44, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
Mistakes by Cydebot while moving categories
Hi Cyde, I found a series of errors when Cydebot moved pages from "Category:Roman Catholic Church in **continent** " to "Category:Catholic Church in Africa" (beginning edit, ending edit). The Discoverer (talk) 14:36, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
@Fayenatic london: What about using mass rollback and then just letting the bot run again? I could do that. ~ Rob13Talk 16:11, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
What is mass rollback? Is that what I asked for over several months at WP:Bot requests, receiving no response, following which I did 3,000 manual edits to reinstate categories on biographies by year BC? – FayenaticLondon 16:31, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
Ack! My apologies, everyone. That is why you triple check your nomination. BU Rob13, if you could mass rollback, that'd be great! Otherwise, I'll volunteer to do the clean-up. I'm already planning on going the whole category tree to figure out what needs to be moved still. --Tavix(talk) 17:08, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
@Fayenatic london: That thread was so long I didn't read all parts of it, so sorry if I missed a part that inadvertently caused you more work. Mass rollback is a script that lets you rollback every edit on a current page of contributions. It wouldn't work for undeleting pages, which is what I thought the entirety of that BC thread was about. ~ Rob13Talk 17:12, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
I was always afraid that user:Francis Schonken had made the request at BC_births_and_deaths_categorizations so long and convoluted that bot operators would miss the points; that was why I sub-divided it, and also posted Bot_needed_to_reverse_contributions. Despite those efforts, nobody ever suggested mass rollback. It could have helped, but only if it had been suggested early. By the time I did the manual work, it was too late for rollback in most cases, so without a bot to reverse contribs, there was no other option. I don't regret it; I left the categories more accurately populated than they had been originally, and learned a thing or two on the way. – FayenaticLondon 21:15, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
Tx for pinging – as I always thought there was a bot solution. Tx Fayenatic for solving the BC cats nonetheless. --Francis Schonken (talk) 06:33, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
@Tavix: Alright, mass rollback has done as much as it can. Any categories/articles with intermediate edits won't be rolled back and the mass rollback would have "brought back" the CfD notice on the categories that were subcategories of each of the continents. So, basically, a thorough once-over is needed. I'll try to mobilize AWB to remove all those extra CfD notices. If you could, please focus on doing a once-over of the categories once Cydebot finishes doing its thing. ~ Rob13Talk 17:24, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
Tavix has done some and I think I have finished the rest. – FayenaticLondon 18:06, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hey, You might want to check on wherever Cydebot is running. It seems to be making many login attempts, and failing. As of writing, it is currently blocked from logging in for 2 days... Please confirm you can login as the bot manually, and potentially restart your script. Bots require an 8 character password now, so you might need to change it. Ping me if you need some more help with it. Reedy (talk) 01:35, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for the notice. It started running again without any intervention on my part. I wonder if something was temporarily wrong with WMF Tool Labs, and then someone fixed it? --Cyde Weys 19:54, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
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I emailed Cyde a couple of days ago to say that Cydebot is not processing CFD requests. – FayenaticLondon 22:04, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
The task to run CFD got hung on Tools Lab Grid. So I killed it and restarted it. That's unfortunate that tasks can just hang like that. --Cyde Weys 21:05, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
Recategorisation of ChildLine
ChildLine is not a 'crisis helpline' so Robot - Speedily moving category Helplines to Category:Crisis hotlines per CFDS. is incorrect. ChildLine is a free 24-hour counselling service for children and young people, ie it is available to those who are not in crisis, though that may be the case. Shipsview (talk) 14:08, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi, @Shipsview: this category was nominated by RevelationDirect, here:. The nomination was unopposed, and the rationale was valid for speedy renaming under WP:C2D, so I processed it.
If you think the title Crisis hotline is not the best one, please follow the method at WP:RM to open a discussion on moving it to a better name. – FayenaticLondon 23:41, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
I understand that Category:Visitor attractions in Leicestershire is to be deleted because of a deletion decision. That's up to the folks who take part in these sort of deliberations. However, although Stoney Cove, a flooded quarry used by scuba divers from many parts of the country, could be described as a "visitor attraction", there's no way it could be considered a "tourist attraction". Your bot is unfortunately working on the assumption that the two terms are interchangeable. Clearly they are not. --RexxS (talk) 21:22, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, A BRFA has been opened for task approval for an adminbot to perform history merges related to cut-and-paste category renames performed by another bot. Please see the request here: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Merge bot 2. Questions and comments for the operator are welcome. — xaosfluxTalk 03:39, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
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I checked WP:BRFA and your bot isn't approved for edits like those. The edits will have to be reverted and your bot has to learn to ignore userspace. Please do not run unapproved bot tasks. You can delete the categories, but you are not allowed to remove links to those cats in userspace. I also noticed that your bot is in the hidden category Active Wikipedia bots with no specified BRFA, please fix that. (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 23:09, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
... where a BAG member has dug up the approval for your bot originally. Just so you have the full picture, Cyde. No action required from you at this time, as far as I can tell. ~ Rob13Talk 04:21, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
BAG approval for a different task. But not community consensus for the one I am complaining about. Please stop making these pointless and annoying edits, they are worse than cosmetic edits (which are explicitly disallowed). If you do not then I'll probably have to start an RfC or something. (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 04:37, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
And now Armbrust has that up and running. Well, this is a happy division of tasks. I know that you do give priority to keeping the bot working on the main CFDW page, and that is of course still much appreciated. – FayenaticLondon 09:53, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
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Wrong date in Cydebot summaries
Today Cydebot's edit summaries say Removing category per CFD at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 January 0. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:35, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
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Add User:Cydebot to Category:All Wikipedia bots
Hi Cyde, could you add User:Cydebot to Category:All Wikipedia bots? That category is supposed to be a separate, overarching category that includes "all Wikipedia bots listed by name, regardless of status, purpose or method." I'm trying to make that category complete. Thanks! --Staeiou(talk) 21:30, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
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I emailed you about processing WP:CFDW, as Cydebot seems to have dropped this task at 21:27 yesterday. Sorry if it was my fault for giving it a task where most contents are generated by templates. – FayenaticLondon 06:55, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
This may be helpful: it stopped at a faulty nomination,
Category:Monthly clean up category (Articles with topics of unclear notability) counter to Category:Monthly clean-up category (topics of unclear notability) counter
Would that have affected Cydebot? It moved the category page to a target that was not going to be populated by the templates. – FayenaticLondon 07:52, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
Wm A. Connelly deletion
I am not knowledgeable about bots, nor really an expert on army service awards and ribbons, but Cydebot may have made a mistake. Or I may be all wet.
Cydebot removed category: recipient of bronze star, William A. Connelly, Sergeant Major of the Army. It looks like Connelly did receive the award, so is the category just being eliminated throughout Wikipedia? I don't use the categories feature much, and well may be missing subtleties here. Cats seem to be perpetually being modified, added or eliminated, so I usually don't pay much attention. I was looking at another problem with the article, studying the history, and Cydebot's edit is the most recent edit to the article. I'm sure you have more important things to do, but maybe if you have a moment, you can take a look. rags (talk) 19:21, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
I get it now. Never mind. I read the AfD. "Not definig." I guess not.
I am still looking at the article, as the Career section ends in an incomplete sentence. I'll revert, unless I can see a logical completion. rags (talk) 19:22, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
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By changing "X architecture in New York" to "X architecture in New York (state)", the ambiguity between "New York" meaning New York state and "New York" meaning New York City is being ignored. The articles need to be divided into the proper category. Please stop the bot until this is accomodated. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:26, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
Your bot continues to run, PLEASE STOP IT, its edits are disputed. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:39, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
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Mr. Cyde Why you deletion Category:Indian antihero film and Category:Indian female antihero films sites User:Cydebot (talk), 13:35 5 May 2017 (UTC). please tell your proper answer to me User:Sangavitamilmani, 13:35 5 May 2017 (UTC)
@Sangavitamilmani: You mean Category:Indian antihero films. At that page, the information displayed to you includes:
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