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Revision as of 22:38, 2 November 2012
Anomie is still around, mostly to maintain AnomieBOT. But after the WMF proved that office politics are more important to them than seemingly anything else, and otherwise generally seem more concerned with their own image than substance, Anomie is not engaging in technical work on MediaWiki. |
![]() | Despite T360488 asking them not to, Toolforge admins have gone ahead and broken AnomieBOT's scripts. Keeping things running properly will likely require manual intervention until they fix that or give me a usable workaround. |
![]() | This user account is a bot operated by Anomie (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevant request for approval can be seen here. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. |
![]() | Live status for all AnomieBOT tasks is available at Toolforge. |
![]() | Before blocking this bot, please consider disabling the task in question instead (see #Emergency shutoff). If you want to block it anyway, the button to the left will do what you want. |
Documentation
Technical details
AnomieBOT is written in Perl, using a custom API class to access the MediaWiki Action API. It uses SQLite or MySQL for persistent data storage.
In addition to the standard "bot" mode which will only run approved tasks, individual tasks may also be run in a "test" mode that logs proposed edits to the local filesystem instead of actually editing Wikipedia or in an "RFBA trial" mode that will automatically stop after a certain number of edits.
Source code is available at User:AnomieBOT/source. The source may be reused under the same terms as Perl, which is currently available under the GPL and/or the Artistic License; the text of the files posted here on-wiki may also be reused per Wikipedia's licensing for text contributions.
Emergency shutoff
Individual tasks may be stopped by writing any non-whitespace content to various pages under User:AnomieBOT/shutoff/; see the task list below for the specific page corresponding to each task. Many tasks also link the appropriate page from their edit summaries.
Exclusion compliance
This bot is an exclusion compliant bot; see {{bots}} for details.
Bot accounts
AnomieBOT uses multiple accounts for its various tasks:
- AnomieBOT (tasks | contribs) is a general-purpose bot account handling the majority of tasks.
- AnomieBOT II (tasks | contribs) has the template editor flag, and will only run tasks that require rights granted by that group.
- AnomieBOT III (tasks | contribs) is an adminbot.
- MediationBot (tasks | contribs) formerly ran tasks for the now-defunct WP:Mediation Committee.
- MedcabBot (tasks | contribs) formerly ran tasks for the now-defunct WP:Mediation Cabal.
Tasks
- The full list of tasks for all AnomieBOT bots is at User:AnomieBOT/TaskList.
Current
Task | Disable | {{bots}} |
Approval | Description |
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SourceUploader | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2008-08-15 |
Updates the pages under User:AnomieBOT/source to reflect the current source of the bot.
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WatchlistUpdater | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2008-08-15 |
Updates algorithmically-defined "watchlists" (like User:Anomie/uw-templates) when pages are created or deleted. The bot only edits when something actually changes.
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OrphanReferenceFixer | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2008-09-04
Supplemental: |
Applies the following corrections to pages in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting and/or Category:Pages with broken reference names. This is often enough to get them removed from the category.
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IFDCloser | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2008-12-01
Supplemental: |
Peform the following tasks at WP:FFD:
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AFDMergeFromCleaner | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-01-03 |
Remove instances of {{afd-merge from}} where the merge has been completed. Report instances of {{afd-merge from}} where the AFDed page is now a redirect to a different target.
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RandomPagePicker | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-01-14 |
Periodically choose a random article from a category or union/intersection of categories and write it to a page, as instructed by {{User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage}}.
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OnThisDayTagger | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-05-26 |
Process each anniversary article (e.g. Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 31 for 2008-10-31, 2007-10-31, 2006-10-31, and so on) to extract the bolded links and tag the corresponding article talk pages with {{OnThisDay}}.
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TalkTemplateMover | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-07-09
Supplemental: |
Find transclusions of {{translated page}} and other templates documented for talk pages mistakenly placed on article pages, and move them to the corresponding talk page.
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AltLinkTemplateSubster | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-12-13 |
Replace all transclusions of {{cbb link}} or {{cfb link}} where the most specific alternative exists with the specific link, to reduce the #ifexist parserfunction load. Similar templates may be added in the future as needed.
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BAGBot | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-11-17
Supplemental: |
Various BAG-related maintenance tasks:
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CategoryCleaner | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-12-13 |
Remove pages from categories where the page does not meet the page inclusion criteria. For example, Category:Wikipedia redirects is explicitly stated that it shouldn't contain any actual redirects.
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TaskRedirectChecker | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2010-06-16 |
Check the permanent redirects under User:AnomieBOT/req/ to validate the anchor still exists in the target page. If the anchor can be found in an archive subpage, the redirect will be updated. Otherwise, the bot will ask for help on its talk page. Note this doesn't handle {{anchor}} or the like, just TOC headers.
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DeletionSortingCleaner | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2010-07-06
Supplemental: |
Perform certain tasks for WP:WikiProject Deletion sorting:
If necessary, the bot may be kept off a deletion sorting subpage by adding {{bots|optout=AnomieBOT/DeletionSortingCleaner}} to that page.
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ITNCArchiver | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2010-09-10 |
Daily at 0000 UTC:
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AccidentalLangLinkFixer | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2011-01-02 |
Periodically checks pages in Category:Pages automatically checked for incorrect links for categories and language links seemingly in running text, and adds the necessary ":" to make them wikilinks instead.
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TemplateSubster | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2010-10-06 |
Subst templates in Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted. See documentation for details.
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CHUUClerk | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2010-10-26
Supplemental: |
Perform basic clerking tasks at WP:CHU/U.
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TagDater | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2010-12-13
Supplemental: |
Date maintenance tags in articles listed in first-level subcategories of Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month and Category:Wikipedia categories sorted by month.
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ACNClerk | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2011-01-24 |
Update crosslinks on WP:ACN and WT:ACN when content is archived.
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FlagIconRemover | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2011-09-12 |
Remove flag icons from certain infoboxes and layout templates per community consensus.
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NobotsHallOfShame | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2011-09-11 |
Update a list of {{bots}} usage.
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TFDClerk | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2011-11-08 |
Peform the following tasks at WP:TFD:
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PERTableUpdater | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2011-12-04 |
Update User:AnomieBOT/PERTable, User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable, User:AnomieBOT/EPERTable, User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable, User:AnomieBOT/COIREQTable, and User:AnomieBOT/PREQTable.
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ShowByDateSubster | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2012-03-21 |
Replace expired instances of {{show by date}} with the "after" text. Should an instance need to be not substed, use
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NewArticleAFDTagger | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2012-04-15 |
If a new article has been deleted in the past via AFD, add {{old AfD multi}} to its talk page.
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DatedCategoryCreator | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2012-05-30
Supplemental: |
Create needed categories under Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month and Category:Wikipedia categories sorted by month.
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DRVClerk | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2012-08-19 |
Peform the following tasks at WP:DRV:
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TemplateTalkRedirectCreator | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2013-11-05 |
Create redirects for non-existing talk pages of certain pages:
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IMONumberRedirectCreator | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2015-04-07 |
Create redirects for IMO numbers, based on categorization in Category:IMO numbers.
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EnDashRedirectCreator | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2016-03-08
Supplemental: |
Create redirects for articles with titles containing en-dashes from the corresponding title with ASCII hyphens. Update these redirects later as targets change.
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CFDClerk | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2016-11-19 |
Peform the following tasks at WP:CFD:
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CategoryLister | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2017-01-22 |
Copy category membership to pages under User:AnomieBOT/C, based on configuration in User:AnomieBOT/CategoryLister/Categories.
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PeerReviewArchiver | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2017-02-18 |
Archive old requests for Peer Review:
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POTDPageCreator | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2017-02-10 |
Create Template:POTD protected/YYYY-MM-DD two days before the corresponding date, in time for it to be transcluded onto WP:Main Page/Tomorrow.
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TFDTemplateSubster | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2020-02-02 |
Subst templates to implement the results of a deletion discussion, based on listing at User:AnomieBOT/TFDTemplateSubster.
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WikiUninterestingNumbers | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2024-01-28 |
Create a page listing some interesting numbers:
This assumes that all number articles will be at or have a redirect from a title like 42 (number). |
On demand
Task | Disable | {{bots}} |
Approval | Description |
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AutoAssessor2 | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2008-12-07 |
Redirects and disambiguation pages will be automatically assessed with class=redirect/disambig and importance=NA, stubs will be automatically assessed with class=stub if not already assessed, and non-article pages will be automatically assessed with the appropriate class and importance=NA.
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TemplateReplacer15 | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-03-07 |
Replace all transclusions of one template with another (or with several others depending on template parameters, etc), when a template must be renamed. Normally, this will be the result of a TFD, but it could be used for any clear-cut case. It will not be done just to replace a template redirect when the redirect is going to remain.
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TemplateReplacer16 | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-05-03 |
When consensus exists for deprecating external link parameters from an infobox, the bot will go through all transclusions of the infobox, remove the external link parameters, and add the corresponding external link or external link template to the article's External links section if that section does not already contain the corresponding link. An External links section will be created if necessary. Any issues encountered will be logged. Each page will only be processed once (a local database holds the pageids of all successfully-processed pages).
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SafesubstFixer | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2010-05-05 |
Replace
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ReplaceExternalLinks4 | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2011-11-02 |
Replace URL redirector links with direct links to the target URL.
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ReplaceExternalLinks5 | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2011-12-04 |
Add archiveurl for dead or dying links, when an archive can be found at archive.org or webcitation.org, and optionally tag unarchived links with {{dead link}} or a similar template.
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RedirectBypasser | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2012-06-06 |
Bypass redirects in certain limited cases, currently:
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In development
Task | Disable | {{bots}} |
Status | Description |
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SandboxCleaner | Here | ![]() |
On hold |
Clears a sandbox page to predefined content once every 12 hours (at or shortly after 00:00 and 12:00 UTC), and checks once per hour to ensure the header is present on the page. As with User:SoxBot IV, this task takes instruction from User:X!/Sandbots.css.
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BadImageTagger | Here | ![]() |
On hold |
Add {{restricted use}} to files listed at MediaWiki:Bad image list, and remove it from files not listed at that page. |
Awaiting approval
None at this time.
Past
Task | Disable | {{bots}} |
Status | Description |
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TemplateReplacer | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-09-04 |
Replace {{WP MMOG}} (and old redirects) with {{WikiProject Video games}}. Also canonicalizes redirects to {{WikiProject Video games}} on the pages it edits for this reason, since it's editing them anyway.
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TemplateReplacer2 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-09-08 |
Replace {{WikiProject Nintendo}} (and old redirects) with
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TemplateReplacer3 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-09-21 |
Per Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 22#Template:Female adult bio, go through all uses of {{Female adult bio}} to remove the obsolete
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TemplateReplacer4 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-11-01 |
Replace {{WikiProject Neurology}} (and old redirects) with
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AutoAssessor | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-10-30 |
Assess existing {{Physics}} and {{WPAstronomy}} on talk pages of redirect/disambig pages with class=redirect/disambig and importance=NA.
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ReplaceExternalLinks | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-11-12 |
Replace links to the domains w*.allmusic.com with just "allmusic.com", as those other domains no longer function.
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TemplateReplacer5 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-11-25 |
Replace {{Segaproject}} (and old redirects) with
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TemplateReplacer6 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-12-02 |
Convert {{Infobox Aircraft}} in article space to the new {{Infobox Aircraft Begin}}{{Infobox Aircraft Type}} system.
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TemplateReplacer7 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-11-25 |
Replace
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WikiProjectTagger | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2024-01-29 |
Tag articles in specified categories with a WikiProject template. Redirects and disambiguation pages will be automatically assessed with class=redirect/disambig and importance=NA, stubs will be automatically assessed with class=stub, and non-article pages will be automatically assessed with the appropriate class and importance=NA.
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PUICloser | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2016-05-03
Supplemental: |
Peform the following tasks at WP:PUF:
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TemplateReplacer10 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-12-29 |
Replace {{Zeldaproj}} (and redirects) with
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TemplateReplacer11 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2009-01-11 |
For all pages in Category:Film articles using old needs infobox parameter, replace the
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TemplateReplacer12 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2009-01-19 |
Replace
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TemplateReplacer13 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2009-03-29 |
Replace the obsolete
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TemplateReplacer14 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2009-03-26 |
Replace the obsolete
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WikiProjectWorker | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2024-01-29 |
Perform various tasks at the request of the affected WikiProjects:
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PageCreator | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2009-06-20 |
Create redirects from isotopes for WP:WikiProject Elements.
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PageMover | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2009-12-14 |
Move date articles (e.g. February 12, 2005) in Category:Days in 2003 and Category:Days in 2005 from article space to subpages of Portal:Current events.
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PageCreator2 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2010-06-22 |
Create redirects from titles with the correct (but not well supported) Romanian S-comma and/or T-comma diacritics to the existing titles using S-cedilla and/or T-cedilla.
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ArticleCreationGrapher | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2022-01-25 |
Creates a graph showing article creation for a project.
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ReplaceExternalLinks2 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2012-04-04 |
Process pages with geocities.com or oocities.com links to revert oocities.com spam, add archiveurl for geocities cites on archive.org or webcitation.org, change archived geocities links to archive.org or webcitation.org, and tag unarchived geocities links with {{dead link}}.
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EditorReviewArchiver | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2014-05-29 |
Archive reviews at WP:Editor review.
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ReplaceExternalLinks3 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2011-12-28 |
Process pages linking to http://www.nr.nps.gov/:
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TalkTagger | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2013-07-17 |
Tag talk pages with {{Reliable sources for medical articles}} when they meet the criteria laid out by WP:WPMED. |
Withdrawn
Task | Disable | {{bots}} |
Status | Description |
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TemplateReplacer8 | Here | ![]() |
Withdrawn |
Remove {{Catwikiproject}} after Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 November 4#Template:Catwikiproject
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TemplateReplacer9 | Here | ![]() |
Withdrawn |
Update |
Barnstars and other rewards
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The Citation Barnstar | |
As I was busy with some very cumbersome (read: 200kB) merges and forks, these two orphaned reference fixes came after my edits, and I was quite impressed. This is an incredibly useful and robust bot. —Akrabbimtalk 15:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC) |
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The Citation Barnstar | |
Thank you for rescuing my refs! KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 16:34, 9 January 2009 (UTC) |
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The Citation Barnstar | |
Thank you for rescuing my ref! • --MoHasanie (talk) 20:02, 12 June 2009 (UTC) |
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The Citation Rescue Barnstar | |
For tirelessly and expertly rescuing countless orphaned references! — sligocki (talk) 16:43, 7 January 2010 (UTC) |
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The Chicago Barnstar | |
You saved me several hours of ref fixing in my next WP:FAC (Millennium Park) by completing copied refs from other articles. This was quite a time saver and may help salvage WP:CHIFTD.TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:03, 15 June 2010 (UTC) |
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Ukraine Barnstar | |
I hereby award you this Ukraine Barnstar for rescuing tons of references in Ukrainian related articles the past months! — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 22:05, 10 March 2011 (UTC) |
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The Brilliant Idea Barnstar |
Your autofixes for orphaned refs are fabulous! Keep up the great work. Jokestress (talk) 21:43, 18 July 2011 (UTC) |
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Tom thanks you... |
...for fixing all those broken refs in his article. Huzzah! Shearonink (talk) 05:31, 6 August 2011 (UTC) |
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United we stand, divided we fall |
For all your hard work Lotje ツ (talk) 07:55, 15 September 2011 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
Thanks for always doing such a great job finding orphans, undated citation needed templates, etc. I try to catch them at the time, and yet still find you catch some. I'll try harder! Great job at maintaining a quality impression for the readers. CaroleHenson (talk) 18:27, 27 November 2011 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
Thank you for rescuing one of the references in the article List of former Hersheypark attractions. The assistance is always appreciated! Son (talk) 20:21, 17 February 2012 (UTC) |
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Thanks for the good work! Dating tags is very useful - we tend to forget it. Cheers, Edcolins (talk) 22:46, 18 February 2012 (UTC) |
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A small token for you |
I am sending you some RAM as wikilove because food and drink would have been pointless for you and you most probably can't look after kitten so I am making my own to send you. Thank you for fixing citation link on Anil Kumble. I was a minute late. Vyom25 (talk) 14:22, 7 June 2012 (UTC) |
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Drink up! |
Hoping this helps to quench your bot thirst… Congrats on all the hard work ;-) benzband (talk) 12:47, 21 June 2012 (UTC) |
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The Citation Barnstar | |
For rescuing orphaned refs on the Kaiser Tufail article. You got there before me :) Mar4d (talk) 16:10, 25 June 2012 (UTC) |
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The Technical Barnstar |
With compliments! Mootros (talk) 06:43, 29 June 2012 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
Thanks Aldo samulo (talk) 05:52, 2 November 2012 (UTC) |
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Hi! I was going to give AnomieBOT a cookie for fixing the broken ref on SSRI discontinuation syndrome - I would never have known as I just went straight for a single section, but I'm not sure he actually eats cookies. So I decided to give him a glass of motor oil instead; I hope he likes it! (And, for those who think I should have been a bit more environmentally sound, giving a bot a glass of oil is akin to give a human a cookie in terms of healthiness, no? :-) WnC? 15:52, 20 April 2009 (UTC)