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Please fix

Hello, I see that you are speedily removing the category "Japanese vegetables." However, as you have done in the past, you are doing so in an automated manner, and without much thought, i.e. you have not replaced the category with the "Japanese cuisine" category. Please go back and do so, thanks. Badagnani 04:03, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I see you have done the same for "Chinese vegetables"; you've removed the cats without replacing with "Chinese cuisine." This is again a poor manner of editing, and a waste of bandwidth (and your time), because you have to now go back and replace them. Please try to give these kinds of massive edits some thought before doing them because it can ruin a lot of hard work and make navigation for those interested in Asian cuisine very, very difficult, thanks. Badagnani 04:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

It's very perplexing that you continue on doing other projects rather than addressing this. I see that you have also removed the category "Japanese sea vegetables" and not replaced it, as a normal non-automated editor would do as a matter of course, with the category "Sea vegetables." Again, your automated version of editing creates havoc for those of us who try to maintain cuisine articles. I hope by your failure to respond to these problems you've caused that you don't expect those of us who have created and maintain these articles to sweep up behind you for these dozens, if not hundreds of articles. That's just not right. Badagnani 04:12, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Please see here. It was decided by the closing admin not to replace the deleted categories with anything else. --Cyde Weys 04:12, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

What you are doing is unacceptable. You cannot expect editors who work on cuisine articles to sweep up after you. Please fix what you have broken first, rather than moving on to other projects. It does not make logical sense to not replace the Chinese vegetables cat with a "Chinese cuisine" cat, the same with the "Japanese vegetables" cat and the "Japanese sea vegetables" cat with "Sea vegetables." Please fix this immediately. Badagnani 04:14, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Do you know how the CFD process works? You're complaining to the wrong person right now. --Cyde Weys 04:19, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I do. I also know that what you are doing is extremely improper, and is going to create dozens of hours of needless work on the part of those of us who must now--by hand--go through and replace all the Chinese and Japanese vegetables into the "Chinese cuisine" and "Japanese cuisine" categories. You should not have done what you did and you need to rectify this situation immediately. You simply cannot sweep through hundreds of articles in such a manner and add so much needless labor to other editors' workloads. Badagnani 04:23, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

You seem to be continuing to have your bot do other edits while the huge chaos you've created in the Asian cuisine articles remains. Please take care of repairing the damage you've done first, before moving on to other projects. It would be greatly appreciated by those of us who attempt to maintain Asian cuisine articles, and who do not have access to bots. Many thanks. Badagnani 04:33, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Not an ideal approach

There does not seem to have been any actual discussion of the proposed upmerger(s) of templates. I personally have a particular interest in {{non-free govt-logo}} (formerly {{govt-logo}}), and believe that it clearly conveys important information about the nature of any fair use claim for such content. Before making mass automated runs of this sort, it would be greatly appreciated if you would seek a bit more community input. If there has been such input and I have simply missed it, please accept my apologies. Thanks for your work in helping to keep Misplaced Pages free. Cheers, -- Visviva 07:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

1,000,000th edit party?

Are you planning for your impending 1,000,000th edit party? Can we run a sweepstake on when you will get there? :-) Carcharoth 15:06, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

I noticed your bot was renaming this. However I ask you to stop because the template not only added categorization, it added essential info on the copyright holder. This change doesn't appear to be discussed on the page you link to in the edit summary. -N 02:15, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Recategorisation

Hi. Before turning your bot loose, could you please ensure that any categories to which it is reasigning articles actually exist first? You seem to be putting the cart before the horse. Pyrope 17:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Why are people complaining about this? This is how pyWikipediabot works. It moves the articles over and then the category text. That's the way it's always been and there are significant reasons against modifying this functionality — so get used to it? --Cyde Weys 14:24, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Bots should think

Instead of retagging all Scoutlogo tags with "Non-free logo" why didn't you rename scoutlogo "non-free scoutlogo" or even better put a notice on that template's talk page first so we'd know what was going on and you wouldn't create a mess?? Rlevse 11:42, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

We don't need a separate template for Scouting logos. They're still just logos, and are governed by all of the same kinds of restrictions against use of non-free content. --Cyde Weys 14:25, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree with the restrictions- that is not the issue; it would appear that no one actually looked at {{Scoutlogo}}. It would have been apparent (it is documented on the page) that the template used parameters to place logos into proper categories for ease of management. When {{Scoutlogo|BSAMB}} was changed to {{Non-free logo|BSAMB}}, it added a category called BSAMB (the redlink there should have been an alert) and removed it from Category:Boy Scouts of America merit badges. If we had been forewarned on the talk page, we would have understood what was going on and checked to see what was needed to make this work properly. I know we can't be the only ones using a template in this manner, since it was copied from a template in the Military History project. We have renamed the template to {{Non-free Scoutlogo}} and updated the included categories. Now we are reworking the hundreds of images to get them back into the proper categories. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 17:25, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Confusion concerning Image:EvansCountySeal.jpg

Recently, Cydebot switched the tag for Image:EvansCountySeal.jpg from Seal to non-free logo. I have since checked the Misplaced Pages:Non-free content/templates page and, though I do see Seal mentioned, I do not see any mention of it being done away with and changed to non-free logo. Furthermore, the definitions for each are:

Seal - This logo is an official seal of a government or one of its government agencies, and may be subject to copyright, trademark, and/or other restrictions on its reproduction, especially in commercial contexts. The copyright is likely held by the government or agency in question. It is believed that the use of images of seals.

Logo - This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark.

The Evans County seal image is obviously the official seal of a (local) government and not a "logo of an organization, item or event". Is there a change in the status of the logos Seal and non-free logo that I'm not seeing? If so, could you explain it to me, please. If not, I think the tag should go back to Seal as it is, in my opinion, the correct one. Thanks in advance. Reb 12:24, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Governments are organizations. Anyway, just modify the text of {{Non-free logo}} to make it more inclusive. A lot of non-free content tags are being upmerged because they merely talk about different kinds of content, while not actually dealing with any different kind of non-free content use. --Cyde Weys 14:30, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan ending.png

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If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Misplaced Pages page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Ejfetters 04:58, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Moving Category:Dipodoid rodents to Category:Dipodidae

Surely one person advocating for Dipodidae and another opposing that means "no consensus". This newer category, Dipodidae, is not consistent with the structure of other rodent categories. --Aranae 15:36, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Table bug

I noticed a small bug in the way the bot handle whitespace removal. Since the |} characters need to be on a newline it broken the nested tables when transcluded. —Dispenser 06:54, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Fictional characters who can fly

I have nominated Category:Fictional characters who can fly (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. HalJor 20:29, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Floody

You're a bit floody, aren't you? El_C 16:21, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

History

You changed the category name "History of Britain" to "History of the British Isles". There was no consensus and discussion was live. Please revert the edit. (Sarah777 18:42, 18 October 2007 (UTC))

CfD nomination of Category:Celebrity Fit Club participants

I have nominated Category:Celebrity Fit Club participants (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Number1spygirl 12:23, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

City?

Hello Cydebot! Are you sure all these people are from the state of Rio? Lulu Margarida 15:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

No content in Category:The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers episodes

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Category:The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers episodes, by another Misplaced Pages user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Category:The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers episodes has been empty for at least four days, and its only content has been links to parent categories. (CSD C1).

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Category:The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers episodes, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. CSDWarnBot 01:00, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Category:Robot Chicken

Leaving a category — Category:Robot Chicken episodes — orphaned is much, much worse than an eponymously named category Category:Robot Chicken. Cburnett 19:20, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Century edits

Your bot, so far, as moved the articles from Category:Centuries of the future, but not the subcategories. (I've got some changes to make in the century categories, as per the silence in Misplaced Pages Talk:WikiProject Time, so I might take care of those at the same time.) — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 03:02, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Replacement of "Korean ingredients" cat

Hello, I see that you are speedily removing the category "Korean fruits." However, as you have done in the past, you are doing so in an automated manner, and without much thought, i.e. you have not replaced the category with the "Korean ingredients" category, as really does need to be done so our users are able to navigate properly ("Korean fruits" was a subcat of "Korean ingredients." Please go back and do so, as with your automated bot it should be quite easy to do so. Thanks. Badagnani (talk) 16:56, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Your attention to this will be greatly appreciated by the WP community, thanks. Badagnani (talk) 18:36, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

I hope you'll take care of this promptly, thank you. Badagnani (talk) 04:17, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Prince Edward Island

As you have shown an interest in creating/editing articles about Prince Edward Island, you are cordially invited to join WikiProject Prince Edward Island which has newly been created. SriMesh | talk 04:22, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Category People from ...

Hello Cyde, I agree, I don't like these categories: People from ..... They are chauvinistic, subjective, worth a discussion. The user never adds something to the content, he is only interested in filling his categories. Taksen (talk) 08:44, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Wikipedian pilots

Image tag

Hello! Please stop changing the tag for Image:Seal of Freetown, Massachusetts.gif. Town seals are not subject to copyright. The 'seal' tag may not be the best option, but the 'non-free logo' tag is an incorrect option. Sahasrahla (talk) 23:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello again. I have reverted your edit once again. Please stop changing this tag. The tag you are using is incorrect. Sahasrahla (talk) 03:34, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

This is becoming tiresome. Please stop changing the tag. Town seals are not subject to copyright. Sahasrahla (talk) 06:14, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Oh My Goddess! episodes

I have nominated Category:Oh My Goddess! episodes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. TTN (talk) 01:31, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Brewing (beer)

Atlantic Puffin

domesticated animal? I think not. Jimfbleak (talk) 19:50, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

George Sorocold

I note that you have included George Sorocold in people from Lancashire. It would seem that his father came from Lancashire, but he was born and lived in Derby. Chevin (talk) 15:03, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Slow down

Whoa. El_C 15:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

This bot's a screw-up

It moved a bunch of attractions that are NOT IN ORLANDO to a category visitor attractions in Orlando. This is an encyclopedia not an ignorance spreader. Greater Orlando is a MUCH better choice of wording, idiots. Miamiboyzinhere (talk) 00:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

February 2008

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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Misplaced Pages, as you did to Universal Studios Florida. Your edits appeared to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.--Snowman Guy (talk) 16:21, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing, such as the edit you made to Universal Studios Florida. If your vandalism continues, you will be blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. --Snowman Guy (talk) 16:23, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Misplaced Pages, as you did at Universal Studios Florida. --Snowman Guy (talk) 00:04, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Christian LGBT people

Fair use rationale for Image:CM3b.jpg

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Renaming of List of Malayalam film actors

I saw your proposal for renaming the 'List of Malayalam film actors' to 'List of Malayali film actors'. I must say that the proposed name is not proper. In the list the 'Malayalam film' is an adjective for 'actors'. The list consist of many non-Malayali actors also. I hope you will look in to this. Salih (talk) 13:31, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Alleged brutality by the New York City Police Department

CfD nomination of Category:Aircraft manufacturers of the Soviet Union and Russia

AfD nomination of Larry Kane

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AfD nomination of Taourirt

An article that you have been involved in editing, Taourirt, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Taourirt. Thank you. NewAtThis (talk) 21:32, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:People convicted of sex crimes

I have nominated Category:People convicted of sex crimes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Mattisse (Talk) 22:27, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Is this finished?

I noticed that Category:Companies of Russia by city still has a CFD tag on it. I was going to remove it; but, I wasn't sure if the bot was still referencing it for some unfinished task or whatever. Neier (talk) 10:26, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Children's museums in New York City

I have nominated Category:Children's museums in New York City (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. TRAVELLINGCARI_{Tell me yours} 19:07, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Sri Lanka Navy ships

Category:Sri Lanka Navy ships, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Bellhalla (talk) 14:08, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Fritz Shurmur

Hello, I have seen some of your contributions on various subjects and I extend my congratulations on your fine work. I am looking for someone to give suggestions on how to better my Fritz Shurmur article. Comments on the article will suffice. Thank you for your contributions to Misplaced Pages.Alexp34 (talk) 17:37, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Sugarland (band) members

CfD nomination of Category:Mayhem (band) albums

Germans of Polish descent

This move (of. e.g Chodowiecki) is simply almost vandalism. Chodowiecki was Pole (and German), not German of Polish descent. This ignores a long and hot discussion on his talk page and I would call insensitive at least. Szopen (talk) 14:49, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Query

I need help renaming about 200 articles. Doing this by hand would take me all day.

Can your bot rename articles, or be adapted to do so?

If so, please contact me.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 22:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Redundant categories

Your bot moved a category to an already extant category. See this diff Raul654 (talk) 19:42, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

English Australians

I don't know what the recent change is about but the latest edits have contributed to the nonsense in this article (see talk page). Because of the wide coloniisation of Australia by the English, the majority of Australians are at least in part of English descent. Even thhe mmajority of Aboriginal Australians are probably in part of English descent.

However, the article now lists Australians of English descent, not as a subcategory of Australians, but as a separate ethnic group from Australians of unknown descennt??!! What absolute nonsense!

The thing that defines nationality in most Australians of British descent (and Dutch and German descent) is where they were born. If they were born in Australia or migrated as children, they almost never call themselves English/Irish//Dutch etc Australians. They simply call themselves Australians. English Australians are people who were born in England, not people like me whose family opened a biscuit factory to feed the gold miners in 1851, ran a hay and corn store in 1901 and built Warragamba Dam in 1951. I am certainly English by descent, as well as Irish, Scottish, Dutch and Spanish. Australians of other ethnic backgrounds (Italian, Greek, Turkish, Macedonian, Croatian, Chinese, Vietnamese) are more likely to identify as Somethingorother-Australian, eg ABC (Australian-born Chinese).

Whoever you are, behind this bot, this stuff needs fixing!

Amandajm (talk) 14:35, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Dutch poeple of Namibian descent

CfD nomination of Category:Russian and Soviet ambassadors to the United Nations

CFD

The related Category:Communal cities, towns and villages in Israel has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page.

--Soman (talk) 15:45, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Space Marine Chapters

I have nominated Category:Space Marine Chapters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 04:33, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:BlackHawk (band) albums

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