User talk:XLinkBot

During WikiConfrence North America, an editor spoke about the deleterious effect that having all of a day's editing reverting had on a group of editors they were affiliated with. It's not clear to me that the benefits you claim are made by this decision outweigh the BITEing impact it has. Is there any data to support this design decision? Thanks, Barkeep49 (talk) 13:59, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

:Only reverting to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hyderabad_House&oldid=1247450235 this] would have left the rest of the crap added by this spammer (and the first, then unreverted, edit was a broken edit in itself). Was easier to find than an editor who had 'all of a day's editing revert[ed]', the latter being nearly impossible with the bot settings. I am curious to see the edit you are talking about. Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 15:59, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

::This was done in a large setting and so I was not able to follow-up with the comment. In fact it took me reaching out to a number of people to even figure out that this was likely XLinkBot that was being discussed. The specific mention was attempts around use of GoodReads links if that is of any help. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:51, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

:::I will first pile on (you got the worst of me, I was curious if I could find any of the edits of the type that you mention - something where someone utterly new was editing for a long time (but not long enough) and have all reverted.

:::* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Q4OS&oldid=1244449482 This] would have left the rest of the crap added by this spammer.

:::* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anant_Ambani&oldid=1244494593 This] is another one which would not have been reverted on this edit, but only on a later one.

:::* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lil_Durk&oldid=1244753320 This one (damaged the picture)] but would not have been reverted.

:::* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noelia_Artigas&diff=prev&oldid=1244917083 Or this].

:::* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russell_Gordon&diff=prev&oldid=1244957539&unhide=1 This] one is nice, reverting one edit would have left the copyvio (though that is not for XLinkBot to decide, it was nice that it did an attempt to remove all instead of leaving it; IMHO the XLinkBot and edit of JalenBarks should not have been revdelled).

:::* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EKool&oldid=1245323819&unhide=1 another copyvio that is not reverted].

:::* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gurgaon_district&oldid=1245347776 broke the references in the first edit (which they did not manage to repair in subsequent ones)].

:::(and I am not listing everything there where I think first edits are bad quality; Note this is a good chunk out of about a month worth of reverting, I'm giving up further){{pb}}But with that list, there are indeed edits where a full revert would be excessive, but I've encountered just a couple ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spaghettification&diff=prev&oldid=1245377520 this is one]){{pb}}XLinkBot has not reverted goodreads edits in years, and I cannot find it on the revertlist (or blacklist). So no, I do not think that it was XLinkBot at all. With WikiConference the last 3 days, they were either talking about something else, or something from long long ago. So this basically was some vague discussion of someone who was lightly disgruntled because 'look what those bad Wikipedians (or one of their bots) did to me!' Thanks for the exercise, I'll remember that the choice of reverting all edits is actually a good thing, Wikipedia would be worse if we did not. Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 17:26, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

::::This was not something that happened at the WikiConfrence. It was instead part of a complaint to members of the Board of the WMF about ways Wikipedia is unfriendly to newcomers, especially new comers from groups under represented on English Wikipedia. Barkeep49 (talk) 17:36, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

:::::Then I know enough. This was not XLinkBot. Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 18:33, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Re: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3A80.42.207.226&diff=1251596327&oldid=1251579679]. This bot is badly programmed. It should not be reverting links that are within a {{tl|copyvio-revdel}} template, as this is achieving the exact opposite of what it is approved for. It was lucky that [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Banaras_Hindu_University&diff=1251597595&oldid=1251590093 someone else spotted this] after a copyvio was restored to the article in question by the bot. 80.42.207.226 (talk) 10:43, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Dear XLinkBot,

After a long and in fact positive correspondence with 1AmNobody24, and despite promises, the entry on me remains drastically mutilated of ALL my 'Works', I am still trying to "talk" to a WIKI editor. People who go to WIKIPEDIA have been getting back to me disappointed. I offered 1AmNobdy24 - and indeed he accepted and received - a full list of 'Works', with no comments, ALL PUBLISHED works, that need no references, they are references. I did not not get any assistance, and my WIKI entry looks miserable.

I do kindly expect a WIKI-worthy response, and I was elected "Top Scholar" by ScholarGPS recently, otherwise five time recipient of awards... But in the WIKI entry, I am a scholar with NO Works and no other information. It looks strange.

Thanks,

Seta B. Dadoyan Seta dadoyan (talk) 18:32, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello, @Versageek and @Beetstra-- I'm clearing up some syntax errors, and have run across this bot's userpage/talk page due to the HTML5-incompatible misnesting error that is occurring. I've fixed this issue here on the bot's talk page ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AXLinkBot&diff=1262023509&oldid=1254574389 diff]), but the bot's userpage has full protection and I have only EC access. Would one of you be willing to make the same adjustment over there to clear the misnested issue, and replace the use of the obsolete center tag?

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Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning, try [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:XLinkBot/Settings&action=edit changing its settings]. It can also be shut off there in a server-friendly way.

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If you have any questions, I'm happy to chat. Thanks, Zinnober9 (talk) 06:14, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

:@Zinnober9 {{done}}! Thanks (it also reminded me to put that on the other bots) Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 18:53, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

::Thank you so much! Zinnober9 (talk) 20:06, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

source for ararat operation it was kurdish victory :Jwaideh, Wadie (June 19, 2006) (in English). The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 081563093X.

Nuri, İhsan (1992). Ihsan Nuri Pasha, La Révolte de L'Agridagh.. Published in Geneva in 1985. In Turkish: Mount Ararat Rebellion, Med Basımevi, Istanbul.. https://books.google.com/books?id=8NmzmAEACAAJ.

Karaca, Emin (September 15, 2003) (in Turkish). Ağrı Eteklerinde İsyan Bir Kürt Ayaklanmasının Anatomisi. ISBN 9789758658374.

Olson, Robert (July 1, 1989). The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880–1925. ISBN 0292720858. 185.84.70.133 (talk) 11:53, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

My recent edit got reverted, where I just made a reference to the official site of a publisher (links: tobooks.shop-pro.jp/?pid=180844487), which is in accordance with WP:EL. I took the chance to look over the regular expression revert list and figured that \b[_\-0-9a-z]+\.shop\b is to blame for reverting any link that contains the word ".shop". I think what was probably intended, was to remove any domain name *ending* with .shop, which is not the case here. Anyways, please remove that expression (or fix XLinkBot)! 2003:E6:C72D:D900:86BC:220E:30BB:B52D (talk) 23:48, 28 January 2025 (UTC)