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If you've got the time, do you think you could throw together a ] navbox that we could throw at the bottom of the Tech bowl game articles? You're a lot better at box syntax than I, and I think it'd be a good thing to have to connect all 21 (and counting) Virginia Tech bowl game articles we'll have when I move beyond the keystone article. That, and it'd look really nice on the Featured Topic page one of these days. :) If you're too busy, I can try to tackle it; just let me know. Thanks! ] (]) 00:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
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:Done. See {{tl|Virginia Tech bowl games}}. --] (]) 02:32, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
::Looks pretty snazzy. Nice work, and thanks! ] (]) 04:18, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Oh, I forgot... do you have any pictures that could be used for some of the older bowl game articles? I'll be asking on TSL eventually, I'm sure, but you're the guy on the spot, and if you have any, it'd be really helpful. I think I've got a few of the Insight Bowl, but I'll have to dig for them. ] (]) 05:37, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
:No - didn't have a camera at any bowl other than the CFA bowl in 06. --] (]) 15:07, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


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B-bot seems to be still looking for {{tl|OTRS pending}}, which was renamed to {{tl|permission pending}} a while ago. The result of this is the bot whining regularly at ]. Could you fix this please? Thanks. ] ] 23:38, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi B. I have a question about the way things work around here that I wanted to ask. How long does an article have to be tagged as sounding like a personal essay before it can be deleted (as in the case of the article on ])? I tried to clean up the intro but it is so poorly written that I'm not sure if it can be salvaged. What is typically done in such cases? I am not necessarily interested in rewriting the article myself, but something has to be done about it. Thanks for your help. ] (]) 02:15, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
: I thought I had fixed that years ago ... but the problem is it would date the tag correctly (if needed), but then not find the dated tag. --] (]) 13:07, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
:Those "maintenance tags" are not a part of the deletion process. ], for example, goes back three years. Those tags are basically just messages that say "someone else should take care of this problem". I'm going to go ahead and nominate it for deletion. There will be a link to a discussion page at the top once I'm done. See ] for more information on nominating something for deletion. --] (]) 02:32, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


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Hi - could you comment on ] please. You added the site to the blacklist but there seems to be nothing in the way of logging or other request that I can see. Thanks --] <b><sup><small><span style="color:#90F">]</span></small></sup></b> 08:05, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
:This is obviously a spammy non-notable blog with a very high ad/content ratio. There is a massive effort to spam a particular group of fansites - see ] for a list of ones I have seen. All of these appear to be owned by the same person/company/whatever. The Tyrod site does not appear related to the rest of these, but I still don't think we should have it here. It doesn't meet our external link policy and actual content is lacking. One of the "articles" is just a link to buy fatheads with an affiliate ID (ie, advertising disguised as an article). One of them is selling "Fire Jim Weaver" t-shirts. (No serious source of Tech information would promote such a thing. Jim Weaver is unquestionably one of the best ADs in the country, TSL trolling notwithstanding.) Three of them are links to youtube videos. This is just a spam site and absolutely should not be permitted here. --] (]) 15:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
::Thanks a lot - I've closed it --] <b><sup><small><span style="color:#90F">]</span></small></sup></b> 16:31, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


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Hello, your bot marked an imaged I'd uploaded for deletion. I fully understand you may be absent for a while -- a cursory review of my own talk and contributions says I'm away much more often then you are, so I fully agree there are things more important in life than Misplaced Pages. However, because of the short timeline your bot acts on, and because you might not respond for a while, and because there's apparently no oversight on what your bot is doing, and because it doesn't follow the chain of where an image is used, I raised the issue where you suggested to on the bot talk page: "Please ask at WP:HELPDESK. That page is monitored and will get you a rapid response." I made a new section/discussion at ]. ] (]) 03:10, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
:{{ping|Banaticus}} it looks like your question was answered there. Non-free images are not permitted in templates or article drafts. The bot will tag those as orphaned. If you are drafting an article, you can put a placeholder image in there until the article is ready to move to the mainspace. Then you can upload the image as the very last thing when you are ready to promote the article. If you need to have a non-free image in the infobox, then make a parameter for "image" and fill in the parameter from the article. --] (]) 12:25, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

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OTRS task broken

B-bot seems to be still looking for {{OTRS pending}}, which was renamed to {{permission pending}} a while ago. The result of this is the bot whining regularly at User:B-bot/Event log. Could you fix this please? Thanks. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:38, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

I thought I had fixed that years ago ... but the problem is it would date the tag correctly (if needed), but then not find the dated tag. --B (talk) 13:07, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you for your message. Please see WP:3O for a process for requesting a third opinion. Unfortunately I do not have the time to devote to this at the moment. --B (talk) 21:32, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

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B-bot needs to check templates which use images and what links there

Hello, your bot marked an imaged I'd uploaded for deletion. I fully understand you may be absent for a while -- a cursory review of my own talk and contributions says I'm away much more often then you are, so I fully agree there are things more important in life than Misplaced Pages. However, because of the short timeline your bot acts on, and because you might not respond for a while, and because there's apparently no oversight on what your bot is doing, and because it doesn't follow the chain of where an image is used, I raised the issue where you suggested to on the bot talk page: "Please ask at WP:HELPDESK. That page is monitored and will get you a rapid response." I made a new section/discussion at Misplaced Pages:Help_desk#Bot_is_marking_images_for_deletion_because_of_non-use,_but_isn't_following_the_full_chain,_and_there's_not_a_great_way_to_chat_about_it. Banaticus (talk) 03:10, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

@Banaticus: it looks like your question was answered there. Non-free images are not permitted in templates or article drafts. The bot will tag those as orphaned. If you are drafting an article, you can put a placeholder image in there until the article is ready to move to the mainspace. Then you can upload the image as the very last thing when you are ready to promote the article. If you need to have a non-free image in the infobox, then make a parameter for "image" and fill in the parameter from the article. --B (talk) 12:25, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

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