Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2025 January 19#Creating a bot

{{Atop|1=User is bocked. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:30, 19 January 2025 (UTC)}}

How to add more Portals? 2toneq (talk) 19:37, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

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Hello, I have a trival WP:RTP hangup. I can't find the source of 63.98.140.237's comment that appears in this page creation, which is sourced from this page. Leaving a message in case any WikiWizards know a quick method to search historical WP other than Special:Search (no result for me other than the copied destination). (Were IP contributions not recorded in Sep '03?) Tule-hog (talk) 02:24, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

:{{ping|Tule-hog}} If you click [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Talk%3AInductive+reasoning View logs for this page] in the page history then it shows a deletion in 2006. As an administrator I can see the deleted edits which include the edit by the IP. BoNoMoJo copy-pasted and redirected Talk:Inductive reasoning in 2003. The copy was later moved back to the original title. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:11, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

If a request is too complicated or I'm not familiar enough with the topic, should I respond letting them know this, or should I just ignore the request and wait for (and if) someone else to answer? Wikieditor662 (talk) 05:41, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

:Generally best to ignore such requests. When pages are protected, they are often for very good reasons and you don’t want to bypass that protection without good cause. TiggerJay (talk) 05:46, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Is there a dedicated AN or other board for requesting deletion of specific edits (not related to personal information, just vandalism)? Would I just go straight to WP:AIV? Asking in context of looking to wipe the ES of a decade old single-edit account's "contribution". Tule-hog (talk) 09:22, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

:I'm curious as to how you found that edit that's over 11 years old. 331dot (talk) 09:25, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

::[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Example_needed/sandbox&action=history Testing] on that page, but this is just a specific example I had on hand of a question I've had come up before. Tule-hog (talk) 09:29, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

::(ec)The edit was blanked shortly after it was made, and there's nothing there that needs a WP:REVDEL. Meters (talk) 09:31, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

:::REVDEL was what I was failing to recall, thanks. WP:CRD basically addresses my question. Tule-hog (talk) 09:39, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

::Vandalism simply gets deleted. AIV is for reporting persistent vandals for blocks. Meters (talk) 09:33, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

I edited the short description of Lambda-CDM model, but the page continues to show the old short description. What is overriding the explicit short description? rblv (talk) 13:43, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

: {{Ping|Rublov}} Try WP:PURGE. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:23, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

::Didn't work. rblv (talk) 16:48, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

:::That's a weird one. The short description that you added is visible to me, but above it is a short description that isn't formatted like anything I've seen before. It has an edit function to its right, which brings up a pop-up editing window. The source for it doesn't appear in the wikitext, so I can't figure out where it's coming from. Schazjmd (talk) 17:04, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

:It's because it transcludes the lead section of Axis of evil (cosmology). —Cryptic 17:09, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

::Well spotted. That was exactly it.

::For future reference, putting the short description of Axis of evil (cosmology) in {{mono|}} didn't work, but creating a named section excluding the short description and transcluding that at Lambda-CDM model did. rblv (talk) 19:14, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

(I am deliberately not linking to the page in question as this question involves G10/RD2 content)

I have come across a userpage made recently. The person wrote an attack page as their userpage and then blanked it. A check through the history shows no content worth saving. Is it still eligible for G10 or should it be RevDell'ed instead? QwertyForest (talk) 14:41, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

:If you don't want to link to the page, I suggest that you follow WP:REVDELREQUEST and request either G10 or RD2, then the responding admin can decide. TSventon (talk) 15:13, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

::I've now resolved the issue. QwertyForest (talk) 06:34, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Per WP:URLACCESS, "{{tq|Links inserted by named identifiers are presumed to lie behind a paywall or registration barrier}}" in which case it should be indicated when there is free access. However, I don't see a URL access indicator for ProQuest. Typically, I'd add ProQuest using the ID parameter and :Template:ProQuest. I noticed that the template documentation says "{{tq|the access status of the linked document is not reflected in the |url-access= parameter}}", which I assumed meant that there was no way of indicating the access level within the template. I added the parameter to the ProQuest template for the first source cited at Forest 404 and it seems to have worked fine. Did I add it correctly? Is this the correct way to indicate the access level of a ProQuest URL? TipsyElephant (talk) 18:15, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Let's say I want to create a bot. Initially I would work only within my own userspace, while learning how to do it. I know the basics of programming (cycles, if statements, boolean logic, etc), but where would I add the code to make the account do those automated actions? Cambalachero (talk) 18:20, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

:Hello, @Cambalachero. Please see WP:Bots, and the pages linked from there. ColinFine (talk) 21:06, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

::I did, I haven't found the info, so I'm asking here Cambalachero (talk) 02:58, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

:::Try Help:Creating a bot. The same policies apply regardless of where you intend to use the bot. Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:45, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

{{atop|1=Already at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Edward Myer. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:51, 20 January 2025 (UTC)}}

I reported I'm being cyber bullied. by certain admin, and now my sandbox Is being targeted for deletion. Guess my point is proven. Edward Myer (talk) 22:45, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

:Your sandbox was nominated for speedy deletion because it's duplicating the draft you had restored after the article was deleted. Work on the draft version. Schazjmd (talk) 22:47, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

::Tha draft was 9years and would have had to be done from scratch. So I started a fresh more improved article. Edward Myer (talk) 23:33, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

:::Do it in the Draft:Bruse Wane location. There is no need to make a third draft location; you're already using two. - UtherSRG (talk) 23:36, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

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I was recently given access to Newspapers.com but I only have the free subscription which means I can't clip pages. Did I do something wrong? TheTechie@enwiki (she/they {{pipe}} talk) 22:53, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

:Apparently the user who reviewed was Nikkimaria. TheTechie@enwiki (she/they {{pipe}} talk) 22:54, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

::{{ping|TheTechie}} It has to be processed by Newspapers.com which might take a week or two. Nikkimaria (talk) 22:56, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

:::@TheTechie My application took about 5 working days after it was approved by a WP editor. You'll get an email from newspapers.com and will find that your account there has had the "subscriber" content added, which is the key part you'll want. Once you have that, you can go straight to their website, you don't have to go via the Wikipedia library. Mike Turnbull (talk) 18:34, 20 January 2025 (UTC)