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If you're here because you want SuggestBot to send you suggestions, please see the instructions at the top of User:SuggestBot. We offer both subscription services and the possibility of receiving a single set of suggestions.
Feedback on recommendations, ideas for new features, questions about how SuggestBot works, or anything else related to SuggestBot are all examples of topics welcome below. A bot moves older feedback to the archives regularly, there is also an archive in User:SuggestBot/FeedbackArchive. Thanks for stopping by to let us you what you think! Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 11:07, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
Opentask[edit]
Greetings, SuggestBot. You haven't updated {{Opentask}} the past few days. Is everything okay? Coming back soon? Hope all is well. Take care. --PFHLai (talk) 00:55, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
- Hey PFHLai, great to hear from you! Thanks for letting me know that SuggestBot wasn't feeling well. I try to keep an eye on it, but somehow lost track of its updates. Since you got in touch I was able to go check out what was happening and get the bot back to making its normal updates. Thanks again! Regards, Nettrom (talk) 04:11, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
- Hello, SuggestBot and Nettrom. The {{Opentask}} somehow got protected by MusikAnimal. It looks like the protection is getting in the Bot's way. Just an FYI at this point. I hope you can overcome this protection. Good Luck! Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 01:07, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
Can't stop getting suggestions[edit]
SuggestBot keeps putting suggestions on my page and I don't have any templates on my page. I would have set this up around ten years ago, so I don't know if the process would have been different back then and therefore needs a different way to stop. Can someone help me with this? Ryan Vesey 00:20, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Ryan Vesey: Yes, I'm happy to help you out with this! Sorry that this has been happening, I can totally understand that this must be confusing. It took me a few minutes to figure it out too. The userbox was on this page with your userboxes. Because the bot expects folks to be able to have these collections of userboxes on a subpage (for transcluding it on their user page) it's not supposed to put the suggestions there (we did have a problem with that for a little while, though) so they just show up on your talk page instead, seemingly out of nowhere. I went ahead and deleted it there, and now no longer find any reference to SuggestBot's templates from any of your pages. Please do let me know if it somehow shows up again, and I'll look further into it. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 02:38, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Nettrom: Thank you so much! I was guessing it was on a subpage somewhere, but couldn't even remember what subpages I had, it's been so long and I've only recently returned for minor corrections here and there. I went ahead and deleted all of those userboxes as I'm not transcluding it onto my user page anymore. Thanks! Ryan Vesey 16:38, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Ryan Vesey: I often use the "all pages with prefix" search tool for this. It can be found by following the "Special pages" link on the left sidebar of any Wikipedia page. To the issue of your subpages, I prefilled this search query in user space with your username followed by a slash. Hopefully that will help. Happy editing! – voidxor 18:55, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Nettrom: Thank you so much! I was guessing it was on a subpage somewhere, but couldn't even remember what subpages I had, it's been so long and I've only recently returned for minor corrections here and there. I went ahead and deleted all of those userboxes as I'm not transcluding it onto my user page anymore. Thanks! Ryan Vesey 16:38, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
Disagree with Suggestbot[edit]
I disagree with a suggestion given by suggestbot. I think a merger would be too clunky and a redirect is more appropriate. I have left notes on the talk pages of source and destination pages, but can I take this disagreement to the general page on proposed mergers? If so, can I have a date for the suggestion to find the proposed merger? The list of proposed merges is long. Thank you. Nellas Galadhon (talk) 17:50, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
Bot Help[edit]
Hi Nettrom and your wonderful bot. I had received SB suggestions for some time before removing it from my Talk while I was going to be offline for a while and didn't need the suggestions. When I came back, I re-added the code, but the Bot hasn't come back. Is there something new I should change? I don't think anything else about the page has changed since the Bot's last visit. Thanks! Star Mississippi 18:04, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
- Hi @Star Mississippi, thank you for the kind words and for using SuggestBot! I'm sorry that the bot hasn't been working the way you'd expected. Looking into the issue I noticed that the configuration template was also on User talk:Star Mississippi/Archive 2, so the bot's been dutifully posting suggestions there every month over the past year. I removed it in this edit and verified that there aren't any other archived talk pages it's on, so the template on your talk page should now be the only one. SuggestBot should stop by again in 3 days and post them to your talk page, in the meantime there's a reasonably fresh set of suggestions at the bottom of that talk page archive. I hope this helps, let me know if things aren't working and I'll do my best to figure out why it isn't! Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 17:42, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you! On top of my lost suggestions, I also learned an important lesson: archives don't get auto watched. I'll work through the ones the Bot left, and it look forward to its return to my Talk. Thanks again for solution and quick response. Star Mississippi 19:30, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks again Nettrom. Happy to confirm the Bot returned. Star Mississippi 23:28, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
Suggestions have stopped[edit]
Hi @Nettrom:, How are you doing? The bot is not suggesting pages anymore to me since last month. I have set my frequency to two weeks. I should have been suggested 2-3 times in that period. Would you be able to look into that? Regards--Chanaka L (talk) 11:34, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
- Hi @Chanakal: I'm doing well, thanks! Sorry to hear SuggestBot hasn't been sending you suggestions as you expected. I looked into it, and what's happening is that we stop sending them because SuggestBot's suggestion post is fairly substantial, and your talk page is large (more than 256kB). We put this in place to not keep posting and create very large pages. If you archive or delete some of the old SuggestBot posts to your talk page, the bot should stop by again a few hours later.
- Thanks for bringing this up, because I've previously been working on using a different approach that doesn't result in such a large post on people's pages. This is a good motivator to spend some time on that again to make it happen! Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 22:39, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
not working[edit]
Hi, I put the template on my User Talk page. And nothing happens. My User Talk page is showing nothing. Did I do something wrong?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Stanj1992
--Stanj1992 (talk) 17:54, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
- Hi @Stanj1992, thanks for trying out SuggestBot! Looks like you did everything right, it just took a few minutes for the suggestions to arrive? There might be some cleanup needed on our end, so I'll look into that next time I do some maintenance work. Thanks again for trying it out, and let me know if you have other questions. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 22:49, 2 November 2021 (UTC)