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==Undo unexplained page moves==

Alex, can you help me undo the mess that user {{U|Saisagione}} has created and that I just compounded? The editor moved ] to ]. I submitted a technical request at ] to reverse that move. The editor then also moved ] to ] (note that this target contains a somewhat different spelling). I attempted to undo the latter move, but have now inadvertently moved it to ] instead, and cannot overwrite the existing page ] which contained a redirect. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;">]</span> <sup>] </sup> 05:30, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
:(P.S - There are no actual Misplaced Pages user accounts named "Dr. Sagi Sathyanarayana" or "Dr. Sagi Satyanarayana". I'm really not clear on what the editor is trying to accomplish with these moves; perhaps an attempt at publishing an autobiography without understanding the difference between userspace and mainspace.) <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;">]</span> <sup>] </sup> 05:37, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
:: I think I have done what you have asked: moved the mainspace talk page to the user talk page without leaving redirects. ] (]) 05:48, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
:::Thanks, Alex. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;">]</span> <sup>] </sup> 14:04, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

== ] ==

Hey Alex, in 2006 you deleted this page, saying "nn-web". Do you mind taking another look and seeing if this article was about the journal ''Traditio'' (), or about something else? Thanks, --] (]) 03:10, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
: It was about the Catholic website, traditio.com, which, as far as I see, is a different thing.--] (]) 18:42, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
:: Thanks, {{u|Ymblanter}}. I agree that it looks completely different. --] (]) 20:08, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
:: I have not changed my opinion about the catholic site. If you are talking about https://traditio.wiki/ if sobeone could demonstrate that is passes ] I certainly have nothing against creating the article ] (]) 00:37, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

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== Помощь ==

Здравствуйте. Прошу Вашей помощи. Взгляните пожалуйста на эти статьи: ], ], ]. Первая статья имеет статус хорошей в русской Википедии (дословный перевод); статья о Орловском - маленький стаб, где вкратце описана его биография (значимая персона); третья статья является переводом из русской Википедии, где статья существует уже более 10 лет и была признана значимой. Пожалуйста, окажите помощь! Спасибо! ] (]) 15:46, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

I guess this comes from a currently permabanned {{user|Namerst}} for the benefits of the non-Russian readers here is my understanding of the situation. A user translated from ru-wiki the article about one of the Russian largest air ticket aggregators ] and wrote or translated two related stabs. On ru-wiki the article was graded as Good article, but here it was considered a spam. I guess this is the difference is because of the expected readership. Most of users from Russia either use this aggregator or consider to use it and so they have some interest to its history and features, 99% of en-wiki readers do not and will not use it but very well aware of SEO efforts to promote internet sales. The company is certainly not the largest in Russia. The notability is only supported by Russian sources, etc. Thus, a large article about a hardly notable for the readers of en-wiki subject looks like spam and handled correspondingly. As the author so far has shown only interest to this company some sort of a Conflict of Interests cannot be excluded also.

Here are the questions:
: Should we put some efforts and salvage the article or is it inherently not-notable?
: The user looks like he or she could make positive contributions. Should I try to negotiate unbanning for him (maybe with the promise not to edit articles related to aviasales.ru?

Let's first discuss it here because I might be unaware of some important details ] (]) 01:35, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, you recently locked the article of ] as there was an intensive edit war. Now the Belarusian nationalists are fighting yet another edit war against recognized Wikipedians at the article of ]: '''Onel5969''' (), '''Elmidae''' (), and myself all expressed a clear opinion that it should be a redirect page because this article is worthless alone and is just another duplication of the article of the ]. However, user Лобачев Владимир persistently fights an edit war with me and other Wikipedians there. By the way, the same user Лобачев Владимир is also pushing exactly the same thing at the article of ], which I recently created as a redirect page, so it needs protection too in order to avoid an edit war. Best regards, -- ] (]) 15:26, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
**Seems to be already taken care of. ] (]) 04:05, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
***{{ping|Alex Bakharev}} I suggest locking ] once again as Belarusian Лобачев Владимир, already known for edit warring, is persistently reinserting unrelated information and images of unrelated horse riders (], ], etc.) to the section "Grand Duchy of Lithuania" (e.g. , ), so I think yet another edit war begins in this article. -- ] (]) 18:24, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

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== Same IP, diff article ==

I saw you semi protected Douglas Tottle. Same IP has now followed me to the Great Purge article .<small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">]</span></small> 02:14, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

:your not being a good Volunteer<!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) </small>

::Well the IP is blocked at the moment, so no action is needed at the moment ] (]) 02:40, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
:: {{Ping| Volunteer Marek}} BTW The IP disrupting ] ] is different from the one disrupting ] ] (]) 02:51, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
:::They’re back with yet another. Article needs semi protecting. .<small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">]</span></small> 03:04, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
::: Done ] (]) 06:22, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

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== Help with coding ==

Hello, I've never done coding in my life but I'd like to add some topics at ], page that you created. I did two changes , I imagine the first one is correct but I don't know about the second one. I'd also like to add several topics relevant for Romania: Aromanian(s), Vlach(s), Megleno-Romanian(s), Istro-Romanian(s) and Morlach(s). These are all Eastern Romance peoples related to Romanians that aren't really included in any other WikiProject or alert page. I hope you can help me out with this. Thanks in advance. ] ] ] 20:04, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
**The new page classification is now done by InceptionBot operated by ] but the syntaxes of the rule pages is the same. I was trying to accomodate your request by , I saw you currectly added a rule for Transilvania yourself. Let's wait for possible abnormalities in the next few cycles of the bot, otherwise the mission is accomplished ] (]) 00:20, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
:::Thank you for the help. I did again some changes to add all the templates that there are for the Balkan Romance languages (Romanian, Moldovan, two for Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian) and also to add Transnistria and all alternate names. These are the last I pretend to do. Are they correct? . ] ] ] 09:18, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
::::Looks good to me ] (]) 03:10, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

== He's at it again ==
- ] (]) 11:10, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
*Blocked for 1 week ] (]) 13:42, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
::Once again.- - ] (]) 13:44, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
::: I month ] (]) 00:40, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

== Request regarding your full protection of ] ==
Hi there. I'm wondering why full protection was applied on ] today. Looking through the history, it appears that after semi-protection expired on 2 June 2021, that an IP made two . I think that the article is likely a magnet for anonymous IP trolls, but I'm wondering why this sort of disruption would justify prohibiting, say, ] from making edits to the page until 11 June 2021. There was certainly a lot of disruption on the page by more experienced between its creation on 23 May and the end of May, though it appears to have subsided by the end of the month. I'm wondering if you would be willing to lower the protection level on the page to extended-confirmed, in light of the nature of more recent disruption. — ] (]) 01:42, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
*{{Ping|Mikehawk10}} It was my mistake, I have used TW automatic tool and selected semiprotection but for some reason the tool appliyed full protection. I hope I have fixed it now ] (]) 03:04, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, this is a notice that I exercised ] and removed the notability tag from ]. I realize that there was no link to this google scholar, which I have added now. In my view it is a clear-cut pass of ] based on his high citation metrics in peer-reviewed scholarly publications. If you feel like I'm in the wrong, feel free to reinsert the tag and we can continue the discussion on the article's talk page. Cheers! ]] 08:13, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
*It is OK with me still I would prefer for a researcher not a list of the positions held nor a list of publications but a single notable result: e.g. discovered a principle later named after him or invent a method, etc. ] (]) 09:33, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

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I gave him a final warning. I am still not sure if it is trolling or newbish incompetence. I assumed the later so gave him one more chance. ] (]) 02:33, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
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<span style="font-size:125%">'''Overall'''</span><br />
* Between September and December 2019, there were 33 ]s. Of these, {{yeac}} 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful ({{nayd}} 3 denied, {{idkc}} 3 withdrawn, and ] 2 expired).

<span style="font-size:125%">'''September 2019'''</span>
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<span style="font-size:125%">'''December 2019'''</span>
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== Bots Newsletter, January 2022 ==

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Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Misplaced Pages's ''Bots Newsletter'', your source for all things ]. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Misplaced Pages's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.

Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost ''two'' years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.

<span style="font-size:150%">'''Overall'''</span><br />
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 ]s. Of these, {{yeac}} 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with {{nayd}} 8 denied, {{idkc}} 2 withdrawn, and ] 2 expired).

<span style="font-size:125%">'''January 2020'''</span>
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* {{yeac}} ], ], ] · {{nayd}} ], ]
*A new ] release dropped support for ], and it was expected that support for ] would be removed in coming updates. ] itself planned to drop Python 2 support in 2022.
*Two new bots dropped in January 2020: ], the successor to ], and ], whose task was to perform a weekly update of four "massive" wikitables for ].
*], an ] operated by ] since 2006, was ] after going berserk on categories that hadn't yet been ]'d.

<span style="font-size:125%">'''February 2020'''</span>
]
* {{yeac}} ], ], ], ], ], ] · {{nayd}} ]
*On February 1, some ] were raised about ] performing "nonsense" edits. Semi-active operator ] (who originally coded the ] of ]) was pinged. Meanwhile, the bot was temporarily <span class="plainlinks"></span> for several hours until the issue was diagnosed and resolved.
*On February 18, ] got into a <span class="plainlinks"></span> with ], and had to be partially-blocked from ].

<span style="font-size:125%">'''March 2020'''</span>
* {{yeac}} ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] ·] ]
* In March, a long ] was started at ] by ] about the troubling trend of bots "expiring" without explanation after their owners became inactive. This can happen for a variety of reasons -- ] changes break code, hosting providers' software updates break code, hosting accounts lapse, software changes make bots' edits unnecessary, and policy changes make bots' edits unwanted. The most promising solution seemed to be ] hosting (although it has some problems of its own, like the occasional necessity of refactoring code).
* Some of the twelve bot tasks approved this month were ] (removing blocked users from ]), and ] (removing ''unblocked'' users from ]). ] was approved to refine geographic stub tags. New bots approved this month were ] (to patrol ]), ] (to merge stub tags), and ] (fixing DISPLAYTITLE modifications, DEFAULTSORT errors and broken behavior switches in ]).
<span style="font-size:125%">'''April 2020'''</span>
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* {{yeac}} ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] · {{nayd}} ] ·] ]
*A ] on the bot noticeboard, "Re-examination of ListeriaBot", was started by ], who pointed out repeated operation outside the scope of its BRFA (i.e. editing pages in mainspace, and adding ] to others). Some said it was doing good work, and others said it was operating beyond its remit. It was <span class="plainlinks"></span> on April 10; the next day it was unblocked, reblocked from article space, reblocked "for specified non-editing actions", unblocked, and indeffed. The next week, several ] were implemented in its code by Magnus; the bot was allowed to roam free once more on April 18.
*] joined the stable in April, after a BRFA started in December was finally completed. As an adminbot, it was authorized to block ]es belonging to ], public ]s, and ]s. New tasks approved for existing bots included ] (] categories), ] (taking over some tasks from the inactive ]), and ] (updating data at {{tl|Interactive COVID-19 maps}}). Also, ] was approved to scale down non-free ]s — I didn't even know that was a thing.
* A ] at ] was started by ] about whether ] should explicitly specify that bot operators must be responsive to concerns raised on English Misplaced Pages specifically (as opposed to ], ], ], et cetera). Eventually, the policy was amended to its ]:
:<blockquote>Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Misplaced Pages. Pages reachable via ], like a talk page at ] or at ] could also be acceptable External sites like ] or ] (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise ]) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.</blockquote>

<span style="font-size:125%">'''May 2020'''</span>
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* {{yeac}} ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] · {{nayd}} ], ], ] · {{idkc}} ]
*], an impressively meta bot task, was approved this month for maintaining a list of bots running on the English Misplaced Pages. The page, located at ], is updated every 24 hours; it contains a list of all accounts with the bot flag, as well as their operator, edit count, last activity date, last edit date, last logged action date, user groups and block status.
*Other approvals for this month were ] (processing redirects in {{tl|R from scientific name}}), ] (allowing users to schedule bot reminders for themselves), ] (removing blocked/locked users from ]), ] (updating ]), ] (adding <nowiki>{{</nowiki>]|living=no<nowiki>}}</nowiki> to talk pages where their associated article is in a year of death category), and ] (deleting and nominating empty categories).
*General syntax fixing tasks were approved for ], ], ], ], ], and ], as well as ] ], ], and ].
*Seven bots who fell below ] (with neither the bots nor their operators having any edits or logged actions in two years) had their bot flags removed. They were ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].
*On May 12, ] was ].

<span style="font-size:125%">'''June 2020'''</span>
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* {{yeac}} ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] · {{nayd}} ] · {{idkc}} ]
*In July 2017, ] made a ] that a section of the ] be devoted to bots and technical issues. In November 2019, ] code was written superseding ]'s tasks on that page, and operator ] was asked to stop them so that the new code could be deployed. After no response to pings, a ] of Legobot for the dashboard was proposed. Some months later, on June 16, Headbomb said: "A full block serves nothing. A partial block solves all current issues Just fucking do it. It's been 3 years now." The next day, however, Legoktm disabled the task, and the dashboard was successfully refactored.
*On June 7, ] blocked ] for ], saying it was "still removing links after request to stop". A couple weeks later, a ] was opened, saying "it is a widely-used and useful bot, but it has one of the longest block logs for any recently-operating bot on Misplaced Pages". While its last BRFA approval was in 2011, its code and functionality had changed dramatically since then, and ] requested that BAG require a new BRFA. Maintainer ] responded that most blocks were from years ago (when it lacked a proper ]), and problems since then had mostly been one-off errors (like a ] in which a ] had "weaponized" the bot to harass editors).
*] opened a discussion about ], and proposed that they not. He cited a recent case in which a maintainer had said "I can only suppose that the code that is available on GitHub is not the actual code that was running on ". Some disagreed: ] said that "I like free software as much as the next person, and I strongly believe that bot operators should make their bot code public, but I don't think it should be that they must do so".
*Two new bots had their first BRFAs approved: ], to replace ] for handling the ], and ], to remove {{tl|user sandbox}} from articles in draftspace using ].

<span style="font-size:150%">'''Conclusion'''</span><br />
* What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?
:*Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project?
:*What's the deal with all those book links that ] is adding to articles?
:*Should we keep using Gerrit for MediaWiki?
:*What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits?
These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 ''Bots Newsletter''. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... <span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">''']'''×''']'''</span> 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
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