You've done excellent work with the abusefilter Tim, its much appreciated. Prodego ^talk 02:23, 5 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I am new to wikipedia and was wondering what the Signature restrictions were so I can create a signature. Good bye. --99.235.182.199 (talk) 22:32, 5 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Signatures gives some guidelines on a proper signature. I am unsure however, if anonymous users can have personalized signatures (at least, the signatures that are generated by using ~~~~). Good luck, and ask any/all other questions you have! Tim1357 ^talk 22:54, 5 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help. Also I forgot to sign in, so that IP is me. Good bye and have a good one. --Cpt.Z (talk) 01:04, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The picture was related to an article I was working on. I've since moved the article into public space so I turned off the bot. NRavenel (talk) 02:59, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I was told to add the likely notability of each unreferenced BLP on the figure skating notability page Wikipedia:WikiProject Figure Skating/Unreferenced BLPs. I spent a lot of time going though it and adding the likely notability of each person next to their name. People find this useful so they can start finding references for the skaters who are definitely notable as opposed to ones that may end up being deleted in an AfD anyway. My main concern is that your bot, while updating the page, undid all of my notes. Is there a way to update the page by adding and removing athletes without deleting all the text to the right of the people's name, and can you revert the text next to these athletes names. If not how should I go about doing what I was asked to do so it is compatible with this bot. Thanks --MATThematical (talk) 01:48, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What other projects have done is run two lists - Australia, Rugby union, Cricket, Japan, football all have the automated-only-names list, as well as a manually updated annotated list. I don't have easy access to the links at the moment (I'm editing on my mobile), but you should be able to find them by searching around the project pages. The bot is working so well now on almost 500 projects I really don't think we should risk making such a potentially complicated change.The-Pope (talk) 03:54, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For some examples see:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/DashBot unreferenced BLPs vs Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Unreferenced BLPs
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Japan/Unreferenced_BLPs vs Wikipedia:JA/BIO#Unreferenced_BLPs
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby union articles/Unreferenced BLPs vs Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby union/Unreferenced BLPs
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket articles/Unreferenced BLPs vs Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Unreferenced BLPs
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Football/Unreferenced_BLPs/Full_list vs Wikipedia:WikiProject_Football/Unreferenced_BLPs

You could move your annotated list to Wikipedia:WikiProject Figure Skating/Unreferenced BLPs by notability or similar, but you'll have to work out a way of keeping the lists more or less alligned - the list compare tool in WP:AWB is very good for small scale comparisons - it just gets slow for big comparisons, so were better off leaving that to the bot on the toolserver. The-Pope (talk) 05:43, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like a good solution. While I'm not quite a new comer, I am still in the process of learning the more savvy editing tricks. Is there a way to get access to the code from a previous version of a page without reverting the edit and then changing it back. I guess in the BLP case the bot would change it back anyway if I were to revert it to get access to the old code, but I figure there is a slicker way of doing this (that is less intrusive). Comparing two edits only seems to give access to the code of the differences. --MATThematical (talk) 17:28, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Go into the article history, click the page you want and then click edit i.e. this. Then if you are running Windows for savvy editing tricks you can select by pressing Ctrl-A to select all, Ctrl-C to copy. Create the new page you want and paste with Ctrl-V. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 18:28, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed DASHbot csd tagging an image that had already been tagged. Thought you might like to know. rʨanaɢ (talk) 05:38, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

please turn off the bot and restore the image for page Play On Tour. There is nothing wrong with the usage of image File:CUPlAYON.jpg and it is used correctly under non-free usage. Thank You —Preceding unsigned comment added by Artyem95 (talk • contribs) 14:27, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No Artyem, the image is not being used anywhere, as shown at File:CUPlAYON.jpg#File links. rʨanaɢ (talk) 14:43, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tim, I think this is an excellent tool. However, would it be possible to produce the list as a list of Wikilinks (or URLs) to the pages concerned, so we can get there with just one mouse click? --Kudpung (talk) 02:30, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here ya go. [1] Tim1357 ^talk 02:55, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]