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Proposed deletion of A Bad Goodbye

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Proposed deletion of It's a Little Too Late (Tanya Tucker song)

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AfD nomination of It's a Little Too Late (Tanya Tucker song)

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AfD nomination of A Bad Goodbye

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Source for User:MartinBot4647

Hey,

Do you publicize the source of your AV bot? (And would it work on sites that don't use english?)

-- ffm 21:28, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:HauntedHeart.jpg

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One Step at a Time (Jordin Sparks song)

Hi Martin
I moved the article One Step at a Time (Jordin Sparks song) back to One Step at a Time (song), per the naming guideline – unless you wanted to start an article about a more notable song than the one by Sparks, but I know of none. In particular, the Hüsker Dü song doesn't warrant a standalone article, as far as I can tell. I hope that's OK.
Thanks & Cheers, Amalthea^Talk 18:02, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

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Fair use rationale for Image:LittleBitOfEverything.jpg

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RfD nomination of For You (James Otto song)

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Image copyright problem with Image:TheLostTrailers.jpg

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AfD nomination of 2008 in Hot 100

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Disputed non-free use rationale for Image:Chad Brock Yes.jpg

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Don't You Know You're Beautiful

Please don't redirect non-stubs on songs. If it's just one or two sentences, you could probably get away with a redirect. Don't You Know You're Beautiful is hardly a stub, and despite falling one short of our usual Top 20 threshold, it's established enough notability regardless. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 02:24, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Martin4647/Charts

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Sources

Most of the RPM charts are here, just search by chart type. I don't know how we'd verify the June 2004-onward Canadian country peaks besides sniffing out the individual issues. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 01:39, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

• Oh. Entertainment Weekly, People, back issues of Country Weekly... There're sources, it's just that many of them are print. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 02:16, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Martin4647/Charts (1990s)

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The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy

If a title begins with A, An or The, please don't forget to add a Defaultsort template so that it ignores the A, an or The when it's sorted in a category. It should look like this: {{DEFAULTSORT:Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy}} Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 21:13, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Memorial Drive (Atlanta)

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Proposed deletion of Covington Highway

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Nomination of Mountain Industrial Boulevard for deletion

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Country number-one updates

When you update the article of whichever song is number one on the Billboard charts of a week, please make sure you update the accessdate to the current date in the relevant singlechart template, as it is helpful to other editors. Otherwise it is misleading, as "Setting the World on Fire" did not achieve number one on the Country Airplay chart on October 4. Thank you. Ss112 01:56, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

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Country updates

Hi Martin. I was meaning to say to you, you can update the Country Airplay, Hot Country Songs and List of number-one country singles of 2017 (U.S.) articles with the Country Update information of a week if you'd like. Ss112 02:53, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

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Country articles

Hi, just letting you know that when you update the country number-ones of a week, for example, for "Body Like a Back Road", you don't need to re-add a reference (or ref name) at the end of a template if the song has already been at number one. As the song has already topped the main country chart for 26 weeks now, there's no need to add a note to the country update ref at the end of the Country Songs single chart. It can't go higher than number one, and chart tables don't tell us how long a song has been at number one. The only place a reference would be needed would be if the article uses a succession box, to place next to the date in that. Ss112 23:22, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

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Year-end country charts

Hi. When adding year-end charts sections to pages, make sure you add a weekly charts heading for the table already there to distinguish the types. Also, please match what the singles charts display. These say "US Country Airplay (Billboard) and "US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)" with Billboard in parentheses. Instead, you added "US Billboard Country Airplay". Sure, there's probably not much confusion that this is the same chart as noted above, but it should match for consistency. Thank you. Ss112 07:35, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

December 2017

Thanks for contributing to the article 2018 in country music. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that contributions must be verifiable, by being clearly attributed to reliable sources, preferably using inline citations. Please help by adding more sources to the article you edited, and/or by clarifying how the sources already given support the claims (see here for how to do inline referencing). Thanks! P.S. If you need any help, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia or ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, or just ask me. Thank you. --Jax 0677 (talk) 02:50, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Archive

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Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

• Magioladitis 2 happened, leading to further restrictions on Magioladitis (decision, summary).
• Betacommand 3 was proposed to be amended to lift the indefinite ban on Δ, but was unsuccessful (decision).
• A motion concerning Crosswiki issues (mostly concerning Wikidata) was passed (see discussion).

BAG

• Hersfold was removed from the BAG due to long term inactivity.

BRFAs

We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.

New things

• WP:BOTDICT, a dictionary of common bot-related terms (see discussion).
• 6 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion).
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey happened. Two bot-related proposal passed, #6 deploy Article Alerts to other languages and #10 Commons deletion notification bot, although other entries may affect bots as well.
• Category:Wikipedia bots and its subcategories has had some cleanup. Bot-related pages that were historically important but are no longer of interests can be found in Category:Wikipedia bots (historical)
• The edit summary limit has been increased to 1000 characters (see T6715). If a bot you operate relied on the old truncation limit (255 characters), please review/update your code, as overly long summaries can be disruptive/annoying. If you want to use extra characters to have more information in your edit summary, please do so intelligently.
• You will soon be able to ping users from the edit summary (see T188469). If you wish to use this feature in your bot, please do so intelligently.

Upcoming

• HTML Tidy will be phased out in June 2018, or possibly earlier. This may affect some bots (see FAQ).

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 03:11, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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