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"adding date headers" deletes content
[edit]Specifically today, as seen on the reference desk for the pages on the topics Computing, Science, Mathematics and Miscellaneous, but also on page Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English. (The links are for the differences between revisions.) ‑‑Lambiam 10:05, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Lambiam: Yes. But all cleaned up now, I think. See User talk:Scsbot#Blank line cleanup at WP:PNT. —scs (talk) 12:09, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
Some really old reference desk templates you apparently had something to do with
[edit]Hi, so there's a new speedy deletion criterion for old user subpages of users with no edits outside their userspace, CSD U6, and the subpages of User:Clask have gotten caught up in it and were tagged by CSD U6 Bot. You seem to have had some sort of hand in the relevant discussion around these templates (see this thread). I removed the deletion tags for now but any comments you might have to add to this relevant discussion would be appreciated. Graham87 (talk) 15:54, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
- @Graham87: Wow. That was a long, long time ago.
- I'm impressed (and flattered!) that you managed to find that very old WT:RD thread.
- Those templates were a fine idea, but they never got formally adopted, and they're completely forgotten, not ever being used (to my knowledge), so deleting them is just about unquestionably the right thing to do, especially since they're lurking privately off under a long-gone user's page.
- I'll ping the current reference desk talk page, but I doubt there'll be any pushback.
- (Thanks for the trip down memory lane, though!) —scs (talk) 21:09, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
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Bad scsbot edit
[edit]Something wa seriously off in Special:Diff/1335746197 this edit. ‑‑Lambiam 00:13, 31 January 2026 (UTC)
- @Lambiam: Yipes. You are certainly right. Investigating. —scs (talk) 00:33, 31 January 2026 (UTC)
- (@Lambiam: And in the meantime, thanks for reverting. —scs (talk) 00:35, 31 January 2026 (UTC))
Bot edit of Computing Reference Data, 30 July
[edit]Please take a quick look. I think that the bot accidentally hid the entire Computing Reference Desk because it was archiving a thread that had been hatted, and removed the {{hab}} and the hidden content but left the {{hat}} in place. I think that I made the correct edit by deleting the top of the hat. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:49, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Robert McClenon: Looks good. Thanks. The bot looks pretty exclusively at == headers, and has no awareness of something that might exist above one, like the {{hat}} tag in this situation. I guess it doesn't happen more often because people usually put the {{hat}} inside the section, underneath the == header.
- I copied the {{hat}} you deleted to the archive, to join the {{hab}} that the bot had already propagated there. —scs (talk) 01:01, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- Yes. The hat was misplaced, and we know that sometimes malformed data causes bots to malfunction. If the type of malformation of the data is relatively rare and the damage can be undone by a human, it is not worth designing the bot to deal correctly with it. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:39, 30 July 2026 (UTC)