Please note, I requested not to receive this news letter some time ago yet it is still being delivered to me. Thanks. - Lee Stanley (talk) 20:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
I apologize for my actions: I asked for your services before consulting the rest of my task force. I have now left a message at our talk page explaining my idea, and I will reproduce it here for your convenience:
Request for bot assistance with tagging project
I thought it may be a good idea to use a bot (SatyrBot) to help improve the efficiency of our tagging and assessing operation of articles within our scope. However, I made the mistake of requesting the bot's services before discussing the idea with the task force. First of all, I want to apologize to you guys for doing that. Secondly, I would like to know your take on the idea. Here is the original request post I made for the bot a few days ago:
WikiProject Football/USA and Canada task force - This WikiProject is currently tagging articles within its scope. All articles in Category:Soccer in the United States (and all of its subcategories) need to be tagged with ((Football|USA=yes)). Some of the work has already been done manually, but I am interested in increasing the Project's efficiency, and I thought SatyrBot might be the perfect solution. I would be very grateful if you could accommodate this request, but if it is not possible for whatever reason, I completely understand. Thank you! TFCforever (talk) 17:13, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you in advance for your feedback. TFCforever (talk) 02:45, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
I will contact you again when I receive feedback from another member of the task force. TFCforever (talk) 02:53, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Satyrbot added extra copies of two templates on this edit. For your information. Gimmetrow 01:27, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, perhaps Henry George Smith and lots of others should not be tagged this way ? can you please fix this error - ta - Peripitus (Talk) 09:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Your bot seems to have misread the odd placement of RPA templates before the first heading of a talk page, and deleted some innocent content, in this edit. --McGeddon (talk) 09:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
G'day SatyrBot. Just thought I'd mention that I just created Category:Flora naturalised in Western Australia and have been busy populating it. I see this as one of those few categories whose contents should not be tagged into WP:AUS. If you really think it should be, I won't argue. I'm just letting you know so that you will stop and think about this one, rather than doing it on autopilot. Hesperian 05:09, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to point out to you that your bot removed the talk header from the Northern Illinois University shooting talk page when it added the Chicago project header. Not sure if this is a bug or not in the bot but this is a heavily edited article and the talk header should not have been removed when adding the new Chicago header. will381796 (talk) 15:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Dear SatyrBot, I am about to revert your addition of the WP Australia template to all talk pages that already had the WP Banksia template on it, as the WP Banksia template already handles WP Australia tagging. Hesperian 06:02, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
The bot appears to be malfunctioning somewhat. When adding ((WP Australia)) to "Reginald Hugh Hickling", it choked over the ((ArticleHistory)) template and left behind "||||||||||action2link=Talk:Reginald Hugh Hickling#GA Sweeps (kept)|||||". — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 14:12, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
When you have a moment, could you explain the WP:AUS part of this edit?--Rockfang (talk) 16:32, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Greetings bot/bot owner.
The text '((WP Australia |class=Stub |importance=))
' has been added to a large number of Talk: pages, for no apparent reason (that I've been able to track down). The edit summary given is 'SatyrBot adding WP:AUS WikiProject banner (S42)
'. I noticed this originally via Talk:Freestyler (song); a pop song by a Finnish band. —Sladen (talk) 23:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
[1] [2] This needs to be fixed before you do any more tagging jobs. [3] [4] The bot is also adding "nested" templates that aren't nested. [5] And this duplicated two templates back in February. This leads me to believe the bot has been making errors for a long time.
Bot is clearly malfunctioning, and should not make any further edits except to debug these problems. Gimmetrow 22:45, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
I undid the edit this bot made to Talk:Pisonia brunoniana because it made no sense and it broke the 'Did You Know' notification template. Edit summary was (SatyrBot adding WP:AUS WikiProject banner (s3u). Kahuroa (talk) 11:26, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
PLEASE HELP!! I changed and greatly improved the staff listed for WTVC to one that matches many other TV stations, and this person: 67.161.231.25, keeps changing it to include station personnel as "employees." No TV station entry lists "EMPLOYEES," only station personalities and on-air talent. Please warn him or her not to change what we have improved, and revert the WTVC article on Current Personalities to what I last changed it to. Csneed (talk) 04:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
See: Image:OyoIle plan bw.jpg in Commons Jurema Oliveira (talk) 20:19, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
I added Category:WikiProject tagging bots to User:SatyrBot. thanks. Okip 02:00, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
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