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Did you stop running this bot? I don't see the Bot making contributions for the past one week. --Sreejith K (talk) 05:13, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that it is now running. It went dark on that function from 24 June though 6 July, but ran twice on 6 July. There are images from before 6 July that still need to be resized, but I say we give it a few days to straighten out, in light of the recent developments. Sven Manguard Wha? 21:32, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it skipped the 7th. Since there are 100 items in the category, I'm gonna go chip it down a bit manually. Sven Manguard Wha? 04:44, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I responded at WP:BOTREQ. ([1]) Tim1357 ^talk 03:03, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I noticed the default message that your bot leaves on talk pages states "I am a bot, and will therefore not be able to answer your questions." Would you mind putting a little blurb about {{help me}}, so that new unfamiliar users might be able to ask questions if they have them? Thanks. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 15:31, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. I changed the message for Orphaned Images ([2]) and for Misplaced Fair use Images ([3]). Feel free to alter the templates in any way you see fit. Tim1357 ^talk 03:15, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The page in question is a draft version of an article. I've had a look at the bot's logs, and such image removals from user sandboxes seem commonplace: is that genuinely in the spirit of the policy? If not, is there any DASHBot-Go-Away template (à la NOINDEX) / can it be made to ignore userspace pages which are similar in content to mainspace pages / can it be made to ignore Sysops? Thanks. It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 08:07, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well technically yes. You can put on the page and the bot will ignore it. However, I'm pretty sure that the only exceptions to the NFCC#9 policy are the pages in Category:Wikipedia non-free content criteria exemptions (which the bot respects). Tim1357 ^talk 23:35, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tim, I just got a notice that the MindMeister logo is schedule for deletion as it is orphaned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MindMeister_logo.png It is actually in use at the MindMeister page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindMeister How do I go about correcting/updating this? Thanks in advance, Dan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dtnyc383 (talk • contribs) 09:44, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The problem was that the image was not showing up on the page. This was due to a malformed Infobox. I went ahead and fixed the article. The bot should come along and remove the tag within the hour. Thanks! Tim1357 ^talk 23:45, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like DASHbot is moving album reviews into the main article body, but not checking if the article has a corresponding References section to display the refs. I don't know that it rises to the level of needing to hit the shutoff button or anything (especially since I just picked up on this, well after the fact, on a bunch of articles), but it would make my reflist-maintenance life easier if you could get the bot to either skip articles that don't already have a reflist, or add the reflist when it does the review-moving if there's not already one. Any chance you could implement either of those? A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 14:46, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure that the bot (right now, at least) skips articles without a reference section. If there is a <ref> tag, a {{reflist}} template, or a <references/> tag, the bot assumes that there is already a reflist present. Tim1357 ^talk 23:48, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you link me to one of these cases? Tim1357 ^talk 23:49, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ahhh, I see what it is. It's not that DASHbot is failing to skip articles that don't have any reflists at all; it looks like it's that it doesn't know to skip articles where there's a reflist|group, but no regular reflist. this is the one that I came across. The article had a reflist for a particular ref group, but not a general reflist. Ditto for this one. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 13:30, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DashBot is marking pages as patrolled that should be tagged for CSD: 21:36, 19 February 2010 DASHBot (talk | contribs | block) marked Pathfinder.gr patrolled ‎ --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:04, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The bot patrols new pages that are marked for CSD or AFD. That way they can be removed from the Special:NewPages feed. Tim1357 ^talk 13:49, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]