User talk:Siebrand

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Carbide Saws

Hello, My name is Willy Goellner and I’m the inventor of the carbide billet saw and developer of many other carbide saws. I am now semi-retired and get frequent calls from people who want information on carbide saws, which is why I wrote the history in Wikipedia to make it for everyone available. I used the pictures, which are my property, to show the different saws. Is there any reason, why they cannot be published?

Best regards, Willy Goellner

Hi Willy. This is Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia. See Commons:Licensing for possible reasons why a file you uploaded my have been removed. Possible warnings may have been posted on your user talk page. Siebrand 18:07, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Category:Stained glass windows of war memorials in Germany

Die obige und alle entsprechenden cat sind falsch, denn die Fenster befinden sich nicht in war memorials, sondern in Kirchen und werden als de:Kriegsfenster bezeichnet. Der bot produziert sehr viel Mist.--Reinhardhauke (talk) 15:55, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Please read the page header. There is nothing I can personally do for you. Siebrand 18:08, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Commons Delinker error. Unclear where to report this.

File:A naked female in front of clothed males.jpg was deleted per Commons:Deletion requests/File:A naked female in front of clothed males.jpg, but it was not removed from the English Wikipedia article w:Clothed make, naked female [1].

I originally posted this at Commons:Adminstrators' noticeboard#Commons Delinker error, where I was direct by the both's en.wikipedia user page. From there I was directed to it's user page here, from there to its page on Meta and thence to here. Please could you make it clearer where such messages are to go (I apologise if I still haven't found the right location). Thryduulf (talk) 17:39, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

The bot is less than perfect, and the answer to deletions is "just fix it manually". Both bot operators that undertake tasks are no longer actively upgrading their code, so at the moment, that is the best answer. I will look to see if we can capture some of that in the appropriate guidance pages.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:11, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

STOP!

'Demolished' really doesn't have the same meaning as 'destroyed'. Please stop making this change using User:SieBot. Mike Peel (talk) 22:22, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

This reminds me: SieBot is often involved in some of these no-time-for-public-discussion category deletions some active users are fond of, in which they claim a category is "empty and unused" less than an hour after it had large numbers of files in it. The demolished/destroyed thing reminded me of it. I know that one can go search two page histories at once and track it down, but it would be nice if SieBot would put the name of who caused an emptying/deletion/category move in the edit summary, so we know who has forgotten the difference between "No controversial name changes" and "I don't see any complaints on my own talk page when it's harder to find me". --Closeapple (talk) 02:37, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Please read the page header. There is nothing I can personally do for you. Siebrand 18:05, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Siebrand, there is some value in the suggestion that for a category move/rename that the admin who ordered a specific rename is annotated in the edit summary that the bot undertakes. I think that this would keep some of the noisy people knocking on your door about SieBot if there was a wikilink to the admin.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:12, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

I am not capable to make changes to the code to fulfil that feature request. Siebrand 11:06, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker suggestion

Hello,
I often clean up after Commons Delinker after it does edits like this one here, which left an empty paragraph in the article that needs to be cleaned up. Would it be possible to add logic where the bot checks if the [[File]] tag is the only text on the line (ignoring whitespace), and if so removes the whole line where the [[File]] tag appears -- plus the preciding empty line (ignoring whitspace) in case the removed line was preceded and followed by an empty line (ignoring whitspace)? Such logic would eliminate the need for cleanup :) --hydrox (talk) 17:46, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

That part of CommonsDelinker is operated by Bryan (talk · contribs), so that suggestion would be better there. Siebrand operates SieBot which is the category mover/relocator.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:15, 20 May 2013 (UTC)