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stupid robots

This robot replaced a {{License review}} with a {{Flickrreview}}. The robot was wrong to do so. Geo Swan (talk) 19:52, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Name-calling is NOT OKAY, even if against a robot. Your argument is faulty: the there is no indication that the "source"'s license apply to image linked in its comments. The linked image is private collection --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 23:26, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

• The robot is disobey Asimov's first law - robots do what humans tell them to.

If you are claiming that an inaccurately applied flickr license can over-ride that any image that is over 150 years old is in the public domain then I believe it is you who are mistaken.

A flickr contributor who owns a copy of a 150 year old photo can't claim they own the intellectual property rights to that image, even if they own the only remaining copy.

A flickr contributor who owns a copy of a 150 year old photo, who made it available under a bogus license, on flickr, hasn't removed its public domain status, simply because he or she marks it as a private image. Geo Swan (talk) 16:29, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

motd, potd?

What's that? --Palosirkka (talk) 17:35, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Picture of the day and media of the day. // Eatcha (talk) 04:50, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Human review requests are not bot review requests

Please do not do things like this where users specifically request human review for cases that obviously require human review. It is sabotage. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:19, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

If you don't want a bot review you gotta ask a human, but don't add templates. There's a backlog. And the template you added is too vague. // Eatcha (talk) 04:50, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Yet another bug

It seems that the bot screws up {{YouTubeReview}} and {{From YouTube}}: Special:Diff/418262913. --jdx ^Re: 13:07, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

 fixed //Eatcha (talk) 02:42, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Removal of license templates

@Eatcha: EatchaBot has removed license templates from file pages and generally caused disruption to other pages: 1 2 3. You must more closely monitor and test your bot and you must clean up any damage caused by your bot. https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/44933 may be helpful in doing so, but you should check for damage in other areas. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 16:54, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting. All of three problems were reported before and solved. Most importanly I stopped adding description for older potd/motds, that was way too problematic. -- Eatcha (talk) 04:41, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

@Eatcha: I am glad that you have fixed the code, but that does nothing for the pages that your bot has damaged. You are responsible for every action your bot takes: that includes repairing damage when things go wrong. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 18:49, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

 Done // Eatcha (talk) 04:46, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Files requiring license review sorted by user name

Why are pages that were in Category:Files requiring license review sorted by user name not updated anymore? Lymantria (talk) 18:41, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Long story, but I will try to restart it by end of this week. An will probably optimize to update the page once in a day. // Eatcha (talk) 08:40, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! Lymantria (talk) 15:06, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Creating a page when there's only 1 file to be reviewed seems too much

User:EatchaBot/Files-requiring-license-review-sorted-list is a great tool, but I dont think it's necessary to create so many pages when some users only uploaded a few files. I suggest having a threshold of 5 or 10. Only when unreviewed files by a user go over the threshold should a page be created.--RZuo (talk) 13:25, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

It is free and harmless. I don't see any reason to introduce any threshold. //Eatcha (talk) 13:54, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

It creates lots of junk pages. A page is useful only if a substantial amount of files are pending review.--RZuo (talk) 10:48, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Department of Redundancy Department

Thanks for your tool, makes License Review more fun. However, some pages list the same file multiple times, here, for example, is User:EatchaBot/Files-requiring-license-review-gallery-uploaded-by/Tbhotch:

<p style="border-top: 2px solid #000;border-bottom: 2px solid #000;background-color: #6f6e6d ;color:#ffffff" align="center">→ Sorted list available at [[User:EatchaBot/Files-requiring-license-review-sorted-list|<span style="color:#ffffff">'''User:EatchaBot/Files-requiring-license-review-sorted-list'''</span>]].</p>
<gallery showfilename=yes>
File:Cuitzeo - David Lach.jpg|1
File:Tlatilco - David Lach.jpg|2
File:Paisaje cálido1.jpg|3
File:Paisaje frío1.jpg|4
File:Cuitzeo - David Lach.jpg|5
File:Tlatilco - David Lach.jpg|6
File:Paisaje cálido1.jpg|7
File:Paisaje frío1.jpg|8
</gallery>

--GRuban (talk) 20:43, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258036 // Eatcha (talk) 17:17, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

OK, there's a bug in an underlying method you're using but can't you run a sort and uniq over the generated file names, to get rid of the duplicates? I just looked at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EatchaBot/Files-requiring-license-review-gallery-uploaded-by/Europe_V and it has maybe 4 copies of every file, making it harder to review. Not impossible, mind, it's still useful that your bot is sorting them by user, and I thank you for that, just could be even better. --GRuban (talk) 13:19, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

I know I am too late but I didn't had the time to check my watch-list or probably missed this thread. Sorry!

I will fix this issue soon. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! -- Eatcha (talk) 09:24, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Adding language descriptions that have been created while the file was MOTD

Please take a look at File:Europe from Space in 4K.webm, you will notice that there is no Russian language description. However, you can see that I have provided that description Template:Motd/2020-09-08 (ru). I, however, did it while the file was already on the main page. It is great that your bot gets to work before the file is protected, but it would be nice if it would have a second run after the file is unprotected, since we should encourage people to provide translations. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 19:00, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

• I don't know if changes are being made, but today your bot has skipped File:Aplausos en pamplona (23-03-2020) 2.webm. Unless there was a reason for that? ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 05:49, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
  • Ok, today once again the bot didn't deal with MOTD. I see also that the operator has semi-retired, and I guess this means that it is unlikely that it'll get fixed soon. Sad. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 03:53, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Dear bot, I see that you are back. Is there a reason why two days were skipped? Should I spend time and do that work by hand or will you catch up? ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 15:42, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

@Gone_Postal, IMO Commons:Auto-protected files/wikipedia/zh page didn't allowed the bot to edit the file. I don't know why Chinese wikipedians want a single file for more than one day on the Main Page. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! -- Eatcha (talk) 09:20, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Dude let the bot be, please. 41.114.190.106 03:04, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

MOTD Notification

Hi, Is the bot down? I didn't get the MOTD Notification for today, i.e. Commons:Media of the day#12 (File:Lucille Hegamin - Getting Old Blues.mp3). Thanks, Yann (talk) 09:16, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Wrong MOTD tag

In [1], it seems that the bot tagged the wrong file. It is a fascist hymn but the template text mentions a film, not a song, and with a different title. Pere prlpz (talk) 21:52, 8 December 2023 (UTC)