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Your GA nomination of The Chosen (TV series)[edit]

The article The Chosen (TV series) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:The Chosen (TV series) and Talk:The Chosen (TV series)/GA2 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of David Fuchs -- David Fuchs (talk) 14:42, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Pages using infobox film with nonstandard dates[edit]

If your bot needs a new challenge, Category:Pages using infobox film with nonstandard dates. Gonnym (talk) 15:28, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gonnym: Certainly! I think I can put something together that would take a bite out of that. ButlerBlog (talk) 16:17, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It didn't take much to put together an initial bot for this. It can format single dates and should be able to clean up around half of the existing maintenance category. My expectation is that while running, I'll monitor for entries that the regex doesn't apply and see if we can address any additional entries.

ButlerBlog (talk) 17:31, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nice! I'll also keep watch and see if I find any strange edits. Gonnym (talk) 19:09, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gonnym: While we're waiting on bot task approval, I'm wondering if you might refine the maintenance category a little bit. While I was doing a test run on the bot, I notice the category includes some of the following:

Empty |released=
|released= containing only a comment (i.e. )
at least a couple entries had no |released= parameter included in the infobox

ButlerBlog (talk) 16:20, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, currently the category is also capturing instances where the date is also missing as that should be added. I might move that to a different category if you think that's better. Gonnym (talk) 20:01, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It might be good to have those excluded just to have a more accurate number. But that's just a personal preference. It won't make a difference for the bot task either way. (In other words, only do it if you think there's a benefit and I'll go along with that.) ButlerBlog (talk) 20:23, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category split. Gonnym (talk) 18:04, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can I have your expertise?[edit]

Hi, could you tell me what caused you to revert these edits?
Someone asked a question about one edit at ANI (which is the wrong place to ask questions but, eh) and that edit was made by a similar IP who even edited one of the articles you reverted (the first one they edited): Special:Contributions/50.49.98.45.
There was also a previous IP that was blocked for disruptive editing (for 31 hours), who edited one of the other articles they edited, but I don't really understand, what is it that I should be watching out for in their edits? – 2804:F14:80C8:4701:3C07:6F36:D6F6:97FF (talk) 22:44, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is part of a range of IPs that has a pattern of problematic and disruptive editing. The issues for these IPs generally are excessive "see also" links (too much overlap or too broad), oversimplification of language, unnecessary links in article text, never uses edit summaries, and doesn't communicate via talk pages. Those things by themselves don't necessarily warrant broad-based reversion, and ordinarily, reverting those types of edits would involve some type of communication with the editor involved. However, in this particular case, the editor already knows this, doesn't communicate with other editors, and seems to just not care. ButlerBlog (talk) 11:43, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]