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22:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

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16:51, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

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00:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Checkwiki down

Hi! It seems that the Checkwiki tool is down (503 Service unavailable). Are you working on it? Regards, Doc Taxon (talk) 10:30, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

20:04, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

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Nomination of Deepak P Shukla for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Deepak P Shukla is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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New Articles page for Methodism work group

I'd like to request that the bot have a new article list for Methodism as I'm trying to revive the task force. I would transclude it at /new articles. I can't figure out what it wants with rules and the like though. Jerod Lycett (talk) 09:25, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

@Jerodlycett:  Done --Bamyers99 (talk) 22:45, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

21:19, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

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need some help

Hi @Bamyers99:. thanks for your help recently, with my efforts to get WikiProject Council moving again. I appreciate your willingness to list ypour name there as one of the active members. I really need your help and input. My efforts are in jeopardy of being reversed or diverted if I don't get some supportive input. could you please let me know if you are available to do so? I really appreciate it. please ping me when you reply. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 03:19, 15 January 2020 (UTC) BAMYERS, filmography WAS NOT COMPLETED, in full when you put the categories and references etc. back, and was only completed only to the 2010 season, in this as the actress had credits until 2018 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.43.229.8 (talk) 02:56, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

19:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

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18:52, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi. Would it be possible to disregard the word "Grand" when it is followed by "Prix"? --kingboyk (talk) 09:23, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Also, is there any whitelist to add an article to/will the bot start ignoring an article at some point?
I ask because Charles Montier entered Grand prix; his Best finish according to the infobox was (a lowly) 14th; Bugatti is a famous marque; great is inside a quote from Henry Ford; important is inside a quote; yes, the article has a Notes section; the word numerous is used so as to not pin down an exact number as pre-war Grand Prix racing records are not 100% accurate; prestigious is the word used in the cited article; report (not sure why this scores 10?) is used to refer to contemporary reports; and the most is inside a quotation :) --kingboyk (talk) 09:50, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
@Kingboyk: Articles only stay on the list for 14 days. Grand Prix has now been excluded. --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:46, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
Ah, great. Thank you very much. --kingboyk (talk) 06:23, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

20:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi Bamyers99: I've drafted an article on this young achiever, I wanted you to have a look on it :)

quantumdots-x 06:35, 7 February 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quantumdots-X (talkcontribs)

19:10, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Battle of San Martino

Hi Bamyers this battle has been fought during the Italian unification in 19 century. It has got nothing to do with the Republic of Florence or Venice or the 15 century. Italian unification was driven by the Kingdom of Sardinia which became Kingdom of Italy --Maxmarwiki (talk) 22:34, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

@Maxmarwiki: 1) You removed all of the categories without replacing them with suitable replacements. 2) Before Paptistellaldo modified the page on April 4, 2019, the page talked about 2 battles with this name for which the categories were correct. --Bamyers99 (talk) 22:41, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

20:59, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Cleanup listings for renamed project

Hi, I find User:CleanupWorklistBot's cleanup listings very helpful.

Do you know if it is possible to update project tags and the bot when a project is renamed? E.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities is now Wikipedia:WikiProject Higher Education. TSventon (talk) 14:17, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

@TSventon: If Category:Universities articles by quality gets renamed, I will update the cleanup listing. Regarding the project tags, Moxy has offered to help with that here. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:50, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
Thanks I had missed Moxy's post and have now replied to it. TSventon (talk) 16:50, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

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00:35, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi! Seems that the bot has stopped working yesterday in the middle of updating at User:AlexNewArtBot/KosovoSearchResult (which is just at K (for Kosovo) alphabetically). Regards, Jovanmilic97 (talk) 15:44, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

@Jovanmilic97: Thanks for reporting this. The job failed inexplicably. I have restarted it. --Bamyers99 (talk) 16:25, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

TemplateParametersTool documentation and name standardisation

Hi.

I'd seen your TemplateParametersTool tool on templates with TemplateData (due to the template {{Template error report}}), but it was extremely hard to understand its full functionality until I'd gained some experience with it. This was made much worse by that horrible template (which you did not create or edit): I'm currently initiating discussions on clarifying the content of that template and renaming it (which is another matter to this), but I'd noticed that your documentation page for this tool was fairly small, and I wanted to suggest that I help expand it like I have done at mw:Help:TemplateData (previous). For example, I would include an outline of how to interpret the data on each page, what each link does, etc. I can start this in a sandbox on my user page. Let me know if this is okay or if you wish to coordinate the effort.

I'd also like to propose that the name be standardised to either TemplateParametersTool or Template Parameters tool; this would make it easier when referring to the tool by one name in other templates like {{Template error report}}. Personally, I prefer TemplateParametersTool, as it's in line with TemplateData, TemplateWizard, VisualEditor, WikiEditor, etc. DePiep is suggesting a rename of the tool itself to a more specific name, but until that is done, if it is done, I'd like to know your preference between these two names.

A third point is a question: I noticed that your Transclusion reporting section notes that your tool does not show non-main or non-file namespace transclusions and does not show indirect transclusions. I'm under the the belief that this is the entire reason your tool shows far fewer transclusions than the TemplateCount tool. However, your documentation page states this fact in a bullet point as if it's a separate point without an explanation. Is that explanation the entire reason? If so, I would move this out of the bullet point.

A fourth and final point is to do with the functionality of TemplateParametersTool. Understandably, when a parameter (like "date") has more than 50 unique values, it becomes too much to show in the table. Your tool provides a link for users to view every article using the template using that parameter, but it does not provide a link to list every value used for that parameter. Can this be added, like the other lists? If not, there is an existing URL that provides similar functionality. To show all articles using a template with a specific value of the "date" parameter, you can just visit https://bambots.brucemyers.com/TemplateParam.php?action=valuelinks&wiki=enwiki&template=Cleanup&param=date&value=February+2020 (<-- note the date at the end). I propose, if possible, that a search box and link be added next to the date parameter (or even all parameters with >50 values) that allows the user to enter a month and year (or other value), which the tool can then insert into this URL at this location.

Thank you. · • SUM1 • · (talk) 21:22, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

@SUM1:
1) Documentation page update: Feel free to update.
2) Tool name change: No preference.
3) Transclusion reporting: The bullet points are part of the example for {{BS-map}}.
4) > 50 values: The values are not recorded after 50 are found by the extractor program. That is too much data to change the program to record it. Your sample link only works because the extractor doesn't know there are going to be > 50 values until it actually sees 51 values. At that point it stops recording pages with each value. So your link is only a partial list. For a couple of dozen templates, no value lists are ever recorded due the sheer number of template uses. The list is available at blacklist (GitHub).
--Bamyers99 (talk) 00:33, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

17:14, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Coordinates

I keep seeing you in my watchlist because you keep adding coordinates to so many articles I'm watching, and I just wanted to thank you for this work. Where possible, I am following to add infoboxes, maps, etc. Not sure how you're electing to blitz, but if you happen to tackle the Oregon articles with missing coordinates, I'll be following along closely there as well. Thanks again! ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:45, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

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