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Mistakes by Cydebot while moving categories

Hi Cyde, I found a series of errors when Cydebot moved pages from "Category:Roman Catholic Church in **continent** " to "Category:Catholic Church in Africa" (beginning edit, ending edit). The Discoverer (talk) 14:36, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@The Discoverer, Tavix, and BU Rob13: Oh dear. CydeBot was only doing what it was told, see [1] and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 October 29. I'll get the category pages moved. One of us will then have to use Cat-a lot to split the countries out of Africa. – Fayenatic London 16:09, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Fayenatic london: What about using mass rollback and then just letting the bot run again? I could do that. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 16:11, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What is mass rollback? Is that what I asked for over several months at WP:Bot requests, receiving no response, following which I did 3,000 manual edits to reinstate categories on biographies by year BC? – Fayenatic London 16:31, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ack! My apologies, everyone. That is why you triple check your nomination. BU Rob13, if you could mass rollback, that'd be great! Otherwise, I'll volunteer to do the clean-up. I'm already planning on going the whole category tree to figure out what needs to be moved still. -- Tavix ^(talk) 17:08, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Fayenatic london: That thread was so long I didn't read all parts of it, so sorry if I missed a part that inadvertently caused you more work. Mass rollback is a script that lets you rollback every edit on a current page of contributions. It wouldn't work for undeleting pages, which is what I thought the entirety of that BC thread was about. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 17:12, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I was always afraid that user:Francis Schonken had made the request at BC_births_and_deaths_categorizations so long and convoluted that bot operators would miss the points; that was why I sub-divided it, and also posted Bot_needed_to_reverse_contributions. Despite those efforts, nobody ever suggested mass rollback. It could have helped, but only if it had been suggested early. By the time I did the manual work, it was too late for rollback in most cases, so without a bot to reverse contribs, there was no other option. I don't regret it; I left the categories more accurately populated than they had been originally, and learned a thing or two on the way. – Fayenatic London 21:15, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tx for pinging – as I always thought there was a bot solution. Tx Fayenatic for solving the BC cats nonetheless. --Francis Schonken (talk) 06:33, 9 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Tavix: Alright, mass rollback has done as much as it can. Any categories/articles with intermediate edits won't be rolled back and the mass rollback would have "brought back" the CfD notice on the categories that were subcategories of each of the continents. So, basically, a thorough once-over is needed. I'll try to mobilize AWB to remove all those extra CfD notices. If you could, please focus on doing a once-over of the categories once Cydebot finishes doing its thing. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 17:24, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tavix has done some and I think I have finished the rest. – Fayenatic London 18:06, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to Elihu Yale page

Cyde, I'm not 100% sure if this is the right way to do this so please point me in the right direction if there is a better way...

I filed a Dispute Resolution Request to deal with the continuing and repetitive edits that various users have made to Elihu Yale's nationality. He was an Englishman. America had not been established and nor had Britain - so he could not be "American" nor "British". As precedent, Wikipedia shows Wentworth Miller ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wentworth_Miller ), who was born in the UK but obviously from an American family and living in America, as "American".

One edit was listed as coming from Cydebot - hence this notification.

Thank you. -Kim 99.4.120.135 (talk) 22:44, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

User:Cydebot

Hey, You might want to check on wherever Cydebot is running. It seems to be making many login attempts, and failing. As of writing, it is currently blocked from logging in for 2 days... Please confirm you can login as the bot manually, and potentially restart your script. Bots require an 8 character password now, so you might need to change it. Ping me if you need some more help with it. Reedy (talk) 01:35, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the notice. It started running again without any intervention on my part. I wonder if something was temporarily wrong with WMF Tool Labs, and then someone fixed it? --Cyde Weys 19:54, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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